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WWDTM: David Oyelowo

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

NPR

Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.635.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Actor David Oyelowo joins panelists Faith Salie, Helen Hong, and Tom Bodett to talk being mistaken for MLK, how a crush led to his acting career, and more.

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0:00.0

This message comes from NPR sponsor Sony Pictures Classics, presenting Freud's last session.

0:07.0

Anthony Hopkins is Sigmund Freud and Matthew Good is CS Lewis in Freud's last session, now playing only in theaters.

0:17.0

From NPR and W.B. E.Z. Chicago, this is, wait, don't tell me the NPR News Quiz.

0:26.8

Don't go out in the cold. Stay inside and curl up in front of my voice.

0:32.0

I'm Bill Curtis and here is your host at the Studebaker Theater of the

0:38.1

Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Illinois. Peter Seagal.

0:41.6

Thank you, Bill. Thank you, Bill. Thank you, Bill.

0:43.0

Thank you everybody.

0:45.0

Thank you so much.

0:46.0

We have such a good show lined up for you today.

0:48.0

I do not want to wait any longer to start it because later on we are going to be talking to the brilliant actor

0:54.3

David O'Yellowo, who is probably most well known for playing Martin Luther King in

1:00.6

the movie Selma.

1:02.6

And for that movie he says, he gained 30 pounds

1:06.3

and shaved his hair back to make it look like he was balding.

1:10.9

Which by strange coincidence is exactly what I had to do to get this job.

1:17.0

You can call us just as you are though. We can't see you. The number is 1

1:25.2

AAA. Wait wait wait that's 1 888 924 8.

1:28.6

Let's welcome our first listener contestant. Hi you're wrong wait wait. Don't tell me.

1:31.8

Hi this is Jody Ricardo from Highland Park, New Jersey. Hey, okay. We got some fans of either you personally or New Jersey in general. I don't know. What do you do there in Highland Park?

1:44.1

I work for a nonprofit HIV service organization. That's very good. That could be

1:50.9

stressful. What do you do to relax? Well I have two kids.

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