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WWDTM: GWAR, Gretchen Whitmer, Josh Gad, Kara Jackson, and Amber Maykut
17 May 2025
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From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, the NPR News Quiz. Invite me to your Memorial Day picnic. I'll eat your deviled eggs no matter how long they've been out in the sun. I'm Bill Curtis, and here is your host at the Studebaker Theatre and the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Illinois, Peter Sagal. Thank you, Bill. Thanks, everybody.
So good to see you all. Um... I am going to be honest with you all. The year's not even half over, and we are already exhausted. So, inspired by the hit TV show, The White Lotus, we're going to take a week off. We're going to an exotic retreat, and we're going to work on our wellness. Oh, no. There's been a murder. Who could have seen this coming? Amen.
While we try to get to the bottom of this, we've got some soothing treatments for you, selected from the finest naturally derived radio segments.
First up, actor Josh Gad, the voice of Olaf, the snowman in Frozen, among many other roles. He joined us in January to talk about his new memoir.
And congratulations on the book, which I devoured this week. Was it a little intimidating to write a memoir at the age of 43?
Well, it was just sitting there and typing all the words was intimidating because I had to come up with them. And, you know, as it started to expand, it just felt like, OK, this may be a story worth telling. And then a publisher paid me and I was like, OK, it is.
Yeah, that'll do it. Now, the question I often ask people like you who've done so many different things is, what do you most recognize for? And you say in the book that you wish you had used a different voice for Olaf the snowman because whenever you're talking in public, children hear you and go insane.
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