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Chapter 1: Who is hosting the NPR News Quiz live in Orlando?
From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, the NPR News Quiz. I'm Bill Curtis, and today, I'm your Florida man. And here's your host at the Walt Disney Theater at Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in Orlando, Florida, Peter Sagal.
Thank you, Bill. Thank you, everyone. Thank you all so much. We are delighted to be back here in Florida, also known as America, the sneak preview. Later on, we're going to be talking to Mo Wagner. He is the star center for the Orlando Magic, who had to miss almost all this season with an ACL tear.
Sad, but fortunately, his butt remains uninjured, so he'll be able to sit with us and answer our questions. So first, though, remember, you need to limber up a little to avoid injury when you call in to play our games. The number is 1-888-WAIT-WAIT. That's 1-888-924-8924. Let's welcome our first listener contestant. Hi, you're on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. Hello, how are you? I'm well. Who's this?
My name is Kim Holmes, and I'm calling from Chicago. Chicago! I was going to say we miss it not being home, but there was a snowstorm there this week, and we're in Florida, so that's just not true.
But you could have been here on Monday when it was 60 degrees. We've experienced all four seasons this week.
There you go. Well, Kim, welcome to the show. Let me introduce you to our panel this week. First, you've seen him in Star Trek Lower Decks, Loki, and currently he's in Netflix's Man on the Inside. It's Eugene Cordero. Hi. Hi, how are you? Hi. Next, he'll be at Comics Roadhouse at Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut, April 3rd through the 5th, and at the Pittsburgh Improv, April 18th to the 20th.
How are you?
Well, how are you? Good enough.
Kim, welcome to the show. You're going to play Who's Bill this time. Bill Curtis, standing before us, is going to read you three quotations from this week's news. Your job, of course, correctly identify or explain just two of them. Do that, you will win our prize, the voice of your choice from anyone on our show you might like for your own voicemail. You ready to go? Let's go. Let's do it.
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Chapter 2: What happened to astronauts Sonny Williams and Butch Wilmore?
Your first quote is someone with a positive take on being stuck very far from home for nine months. We got a little more time to enjoy the view. That was Sonny Williams, who this week finally got home from where?
The International Space Station.
You're right. Very good, Kim. Thank you. Nine months after they left for a planned eight-day stay on the space station, astronauts Sonny Williams and Butch Wilmore finally made it back to Earth on Tuesday. Everybody was thrilled for their safe return, and the ISS even waived their late checkout fee. Imagine that, they go up for eight days, they're stuck in space for nine months.
That's time enough to have a baby, and I bet a little bundle of joy is gonna burst out of Butch Wilmore's chest cavity any day.
You know, A, they're heroes, and they handled it so amazingly well. You never heard anything but that they were excited to be there. Yes. But I think as Americans, we are prepared, or certainly, well, I mean, people my age and up are prepared for that, for a trip to take a turn where you stay longer than you planned because of Gilligan's Island. We know that the... Yeah, that's true.
It was supposed to be a three-hour tour. A three-hour tour.
Yeah.
And the tiny ship was tossed.
And so... Yeah, that's true. I mean, we Gen Xers were all prepared for that.
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Chapter 3: What new dating advice is making waves?
They're splashed down. This is true. They splashed down and the spaceship was immediately surrounded by this pod of dolphins. It was beautiful. But of course, with Butch and Sonny's luck, they turned out to be the man-eating dolphins. All right, here is your next quote. Spies, state secrets, no second gunman.
That was the New York Times headline about a trove of files declassified and released this week. Files all about what?
The assassination of JFK. That's right.
The JFK files. This week, the JFK files were finally released, and it turns out he was murdered. Did any of you expect anything exciting? Were all of you interested in what secrets would be finally revealed? I'm so glad no brothers got blamed.
We were all sitting back like, oh, this will be the one moment in black history they don't erase.
It is true, though, that all of those people who thought there was some conspiracy that was going to get blown open were all very disappointed. There's nothing in all of these thousands of pages about, say, the second shooters on the grassy knoll. It's just useless trivia about how the CIA works.
Basically, 5,000 pages of, like, timesheets and memos and one expense report that says, pay Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Do you want to hear a true thing? There's nothing in this about any conspiracy. Lee Harvey Oswald apparently did act alone. But there is all this stuff about why the CIA should have known what he was up to, including the fact that, and I'm not kidding, he was overheard after he was denied a visa to get into Cuba. He was so angry, he shouted, I'm going to kill Kennedy.
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Chapter 4: How did Moe Wagner start his basketball career in the US?
Chapter 5: What surprising TV appearances were discussed in this episode?
Yeah, but you had that written down on your past. Oh yeah, I had that written down. My question would be, is the expert who wrote this, have they ever been on a date?
Bill, how did Kim do in our quiz? What a score. Three in a row. You won. Congratulations, Kim.
Thank you.
50?
It's called Longeviquest. Oh, 150? Yes, 150. Oh, wow. Wow. That's a magic number. Or, well, I gave it to you because when people claim to be very old, this company checks out their claims. Finally, someone is leading the charge against the scourge plaguing the globe for far too long, people claiming to be super old who are, in fact, only very old.
I mean, why would you say you're saying these stories like on TV when somebody's 108 or 115? Exactly that. So, if somebody just comes to you and says they're 108, you're actually going to go to a company to verify it? Well, that's what they do. Like, who the hell cares?
They fly and they show up like this 106-year-old woman who was chosen as a torchbearer for the Tokyo Olympics. Say, they show up, this company goes out to them and says, prove it.
Yeah.
If somebody's really old and maybe they missed a couple of years, I'd let that go. Once you hit 95, just call it what you want. Yeah. It's not like you're going to get even more of a senior discount. I mean, that's pretty much it. You know what? If you're 105 and you're sharp enough to lie and say 115, I'm going to give it to you. I'm going to be like, wow, okay. Boy, are we different.
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Chapter 6: How did Moe Wagner transition from Germany to the NBA?
B, one day a year when franchisees can sell their own custom Slurpee flavor they develop at home. Or C, one day a year when they hold a 10 minute moment of Slurpness and they just let the machine flow out onto the floor.
I think it's the cookie jar.
Yes, you're right. It's the cookie jar. It could be anything, in fact. It's called Bring Your Own Container Day. And if you're interested, the only rule is it has to fit under the spigot, and it happens on one day. It is July 11th. Get it? 7-11. So get ready, everybody. Wow. Yeah. Here's your next question.
Amazingly, not everyone loves 7-Eleven, like an unhappy former franchise owner in Boston who got back at the company by doing what? A, going into stores and quickly rewiring the hot dog rollers so they spun at 5,000 RPM. B, swapping out an entire shipment of coffee destined for all of the area's stores with decaf. are opening a competing convenience store, which he called 612 across the street.
That is a very petty way of doing that. I would go see. There you go, yeah. He went right for that, and that's what he did.
You open 612, it's open from 6 till 12. It's better. And seven years after he did it, it is still there. All right, here's your last question. 7-Eleven stores are, unfortunately, as we all know, frequent targets of robbers. But at least one Oregon man did not get away with any money when he tried to rob a 7-Eleven with what weapon? A, his fingers, which he held up in the shape of a gun.
B, a pool noodle, which he stiffened by inserting 10 straws from the drink dispenser. Or C, he didn't have a weapon, so he asked the cashier, hey, do you happen to have a baseball bat behind the counter? And if so, could I borrow it? I'm going to go with C here.
I'm going to say that for the audience listening at home, it's a little difficult because there's a whole group of opposing fans in front of him waving things at him to distract him. That was my attempt at a basketball joke. That failed. I apologize. All right, so your choice is C. You're going to go for, you asked the guy, so do you have a baseball bat? Can I borrow it?
That feels, yeah, it feels innocent and smart at the same time.
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