Spirit Airlines, The Book of Mormon, and Grunting

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4.6 • 37.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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This week, Double-EGOT winner Bobby Lopez joins us to talk about the 15th anniversary of Book of Mormon, and panelists Hari Kondabolu, Roxanne Roberts, and Mo Rocca say a tearful farewell to Spirit Airlines

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0:00.0	From NPR at WBEZ Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, the NPR News Quiz.
0:10.6	To answer your question, yes, it did hurt when my voice fell from heaven.
0:27.4	I'm Bill Curtis, and here is your host at the Sudebaker Theater and the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Illinois.
0:28.4	Peter Stegov.
0:29.7	Thank you, Bill.
0:31.5	And thank you, everybody.
0:35.2	We have a great show for you today.
0:37.6	Later on, we're going to be talking to Bobby Lopez,
0:41.6	the composer who wrote the songs for the Book of Mormon and Frozen,
0:45.4	and is an Egot winner twice over,
0:48.6	which means that after he's a wait-weight guest,
0:52.8	he becomes history's first ever we got winner. But first, it's your turn to vie for what must be the least prestigious prize in broadcasting, a voicemail recording from us. Give us a call at 1-3-8-8-8-wait-wait. That's 1-88-9-248-9-24. It's time to welcome our first listener contestant this week. Hi, you're on. Wait, wait, wait, don't tell me.
1:16.3	Hi, Peter. This is Emma Johnson from Redwood City, California. Redwood City, California. Oh, I love that authentic California accent. It's so rare to hear these days. What do you do there?
1:22.5	I run operations for a software company, but more importantly, I am proud parent to two adult,
1:29.7	young adults, and I just have to share that one of them sign me up to be a contestant on
1:33.7	this show, so this is turning out to be an amazing Mother's Day guest.
1:37.6	Oh, how lovely!
1:38.4	Mother's Day!
1:41.6	Great!
1:42.8	That is a lovely thing to hear, and I just want you to understand, we're still not going to go easy on you.
1:50.4	You're going to have to earn this, okay?
1:52.6	Well, welcome to the show, Emma.
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