WWDTM: J. Kenji López-Alt

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Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.6 • 35.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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This week, we're live in Seattle with food genius J. Kenji López-Alt to talk about food, science, food-science, and the magic of Winnie the Pooh onsies. Plus, panelists Shantira Jackson, Luke Burbank, and Jessi Klein pass the blame around.

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0:00.0	On the Ted Radio Hour, linguist Anne Curzan says she gets a lot of complaints about people using the pronoun they to refer to one person.
0:10.0	I sometimes get into arguments with people where they will say to me but it can't be
0:14.8	singular and I will say but it is.
0:17.5	The history behind words causing a lot of debate that's on the Ted Radio Hour from NPR.
0:24.0	From NPR.
0:27.0	From NPR, and W.B.C. Chicago, this is Wait, wait, don't tell me the NVR news quiz. Hey Seattle,
0:36.7	get ready for me, Animal. I'm Bill Curtis. And here is your host at the Paramount Theater in Seattle, Washington.
0:44.8	Filling in for Peter Siegel, it's Tom Papa.
0:48.8	Hi everybody, I'm
0:53.7	I'm Tom Papa and I'm filling in for Peter Siegel and true story I was not
0:58.8	supposed to be here at all today but thanks to some very last-minute unforeseen circumstances, now I'm hosting.
1:07.4	It just goes to show, if you wish hard enough and long enough, a good friend of yours
1:12.0	will get COVID and you can take his job.
1:15.0	Dreams do come true.
1:20.0	Later on, Seattle's own food legend Jay Kenji Lopez Alt will be stopping in to play our
1:27.0	game.
1:28.0	But first, it's your turn.
1:31.0	Give us a call at 1-888, wait-wait. That's 1-88-924. Now let's welcome our first
1:38.8	listener contestant. Hi, you're on wait-wait, don't tell me.
1:42.3	Hello, my name is Maureen. Hi, you're on wait, wait, don't tell me.
1:43.0	Hello, my name is Maureen Masters and I am in Lawrence, Kansas.
1:47.0	Nice to see Maureen or hear from you. What do you do there in Kansas?
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