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Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

WWDTM: Natasha Rothwell

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

NPR

Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.635.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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This week, special guest Natasha Rothwell joins panelists Hari Kondabolu, Joyelle Nicole Johnson, and Peter Grosz

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0:00.0

Support for NPR, and the following message come from Yarl and Pamela Mohn, thanking the people who make public radio great every day and also those who listen.

0:14.1

From NPR and only be easy, Chicago, this is wait, wait, don't tell me. The NPR News Quiz. I'm the voice so peanut

0:23.3

buttery it comes in chunky and smooth. I'm Bill Curtis. Here's your host at the Studebaker

0:32.0

Theater at the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Illinois. Peter Seigal. Thank you so much, Bill.

0:37.2

Thank you, everybody. Good to see you

0:39.3

again. We do have a great share for you today. Later on, we're going to be talking to one of the stars of

0:44.7

the White Lotus, Natasha Rothwell, who plays Belinda now to refresh your memory. She's not the one

0:50.7

who committed murder or the other murder or money laundering or adultery. She just does

0:55.8

a little blackmail, which on that show makes her a saint. We want to know what you've been up to

1:01.4

behind the scenes, so give us a call. The number is 1-3-8-8-8-8-8-8-2-4. That's 1-88-9-24. Now let's welcome

1:08.0

our first listener contestant this week. Hi, you're on. Wait, wait, wait, don't tell me.

1:11.3

Hi, I'm Chris Shone, and I live on a farm near Cedar Rapids, Iowa. That's fabulous. So you're

1:17.3

actually in an Iowa farm. You know, I remember vividly the first time I ever went to Iowa many,

1:23.7

many years ago, and seeing a farm and thinking, oh my gosh, every time I saw a farm

1:28.6

when I was a kid looking at a picture book, I was looking at that. So you live in like the perfect

1:34.5

farm, right? It is. It is. It's like Grant Wood country here. Very, very picturesque. Right. And you just

1:40.8

stand in front of it all day holding a pitchffork. Yeah, yeah, me and my pastor.

1:46.2

Me and my wife.

1:47.0

Okay, very good, very good.

1:49.2

Well, Chris, welcome to the show.

1:50.5

Let me introduce you to our panel this week.

1:52.4

First, she's a comedian headlining at the DC Improb July 11th through the 13th.

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