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🗓️ 27 May 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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0:00.0 | From NPR and WB Easy Chicago, this is Wake Wake. Don't tell me the NPR news quiz. |
0:11.0 | Poor boy, I'm a Po Man. A Po Anker Man. Bill Curtis and here is your host at the singer, |
0:20.4 | Peter Nolan, Sluizierna. It's Peter Segal. Thank you, Bill. Thanks. Everybody. We are delighted to be back. |
0:33.4 | In New Orleans, later on, we're going to be talking to the actor John Goodman, who, as they might tell you, |
0:41.4 | is not from here, but after 30 years in town, the locals are willing to let him stay. |
0:48.4 | We don't care where you're from or even where you are now. Give us a call. The number is 1-888-888-9248-924. Hi, you are on Weight Weight. Don't tell me. |
0:59.4 | Hi, I'm Maddie from Raleigh, North Carolina. Raleigh, North Carolina. Awesome place. People here are fans. What do you do there? |
1:07.4 | Well, I am a physician assistant and I specialize in fine surgery, but more importantly than that, I have been listening to Weight Weight Don't Tell Me in NPR for over 20 years since I was a kid. |
1:22.4 | And it's a huge thing in my family. We love Weight Weight Don't Tell Me and my mom is going to be so pumped I'm on this show. |
1:28.4 | Really? Wow. You've made it. Congratulations. She raised you right. |
1:36.4 | That's awesome. Well, welcome to the show. Maddie, let me introduce you to our panel this week. First, you can see her hosting Butter Boy Comedy every Monday night in Brooklyn, New York. It's Maeve Higgins. |
1:47.4 | Hi, Maddie. Hi, Maeve. |
1:50.4 | Next, the comedian whose new special vacation baby is available for free on YouTube and will be headlining the Dan Theater in Chicago in June 2nd and 3rd. It's Hari Kandabolu. |
2:00.4 | Hi, Maeve. Hi, Maddie. And he's host of the podcast Mo Bittu-Rerry's Find It Wherever You Get Your Podcast. It's Mo Rocka. Hi, Maddie. |
2:12.4 | So, Maddie, welcome to the show. You're going to play Who's Bill this time? You've been listening to your whole life. You knew that. |
2:18.4 | Bill Curtis is going to read you three quotations from this week's news. If you can correctly identify or explain just two of them, you will win our prize. The voice of anyone you might choose for your voice mail. Long last. Are you ready to play? |
2:29.4 | Absolutely not. But let's do it. |
2:31.4 | All right. Your first quote is a question posed by the Daily Mail this week. Ladies, don't we all want to be Lauren Senchez right now? |
2:43.4 | A columnist was asking that after Lauren Senchez got engaged to what billionaire? Oh my god. I have no idea. |
2:51.4 | What one could say he's still in his Amazon Prime? That's true. Jeff Bezos. Yes. Yes, I'm sorry ladies. gay men and really ambitious and determined straight men. |
3:09.4 | Jeff Bezos is taken. Mr. Bezos apparently proposed his long term girlfriend, Lauren Senchez, on his new $500 million yacht, which is the world's most expensive sailing ship. And at the front of the ship he had designed in Bulfurham. This is true. |
3:26.4 | He installed a wooden sculpture, the figurehead, if you will, of Ms. Senchez as a mermaid. |
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