Everyone & Mistaken Identity

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

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Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.6 • 35.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Guest hosts Karen Chee and Josh Gondelman dive head first into alternate universes. Plus we get to the bottom of the Masters tournament mistaken identity kerfuffle.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, I'm the inspiration for Dennis the Menace, Karen Chi.
0:08.7	And I'm sent Gingerbread Man Josh Gondelman.
0:11.8	Welcome to everyone in their mom, from Wait Wait Don't Tell Me.
0:15.5	You might notice that neither of us is Emma Choi.
0:18.0	She's off on vacation across the pond.
0:19.8	Hi Emma, or she might say now.
0:22.6	Hip-hip Cheerio Emma.
0:24.0	Yeah well done.
0:25.0	Let's get on with the show.
0:27.3	It was almost time for the 2023 Masters Tournament, a major golf championship, and three-time PGA
0:33.1	tour winner Scott Stallings still had not received his invitation.
0:37.0	What was going on?
0:38.0	Had he been disqualified?
0:39.4	Was someone running the Masters Tournament exacting a slow burn revenge?
0:44.5	Alas, there was a simpler explanation.
0:46.8	His invite ended up in the soft hands of a mild-mannered real estate agent, also named Scott Stallings.
0:53.8	It was a good old-fashioned name mix up.
0:55.8	Okay, so then real estate Scott, Instagram DMed Golf Scott about this, and then kindly
1:01.1	mailed him the invitation.
1:03.2	Golf Scott then posted a screenshot of the exchange online, which also revealed that
1:07.0	not only do they share the same name, but actually their wives also share the same name,
1:12.4	Jennifer Stallings.
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