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Chapter 1: What is 'Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me' about?
From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, the NPR News Quiz. I'm the voice so peanut buttery it comes in chunky and smooth. I'm Bill Curtis. And here's your host at the Studebaker Theatre at the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Illinois, Peter Sagal.
Thank you so much, Bill. Thank you, everybody. Good to see you again. Thank you. We do have a great show for you today. Later on, we're going to be talking to one of the stars of The White Lotus, Natasha Rothwell, who plays Belinda. Now, to refresh your memory, she's not the one who committed murder or the other murder or money laundering or adultery.
She just does a little blackmail, which on that show makes her a saint. We want to know what you've been up to behind the scenes, so give us a call. The number is 1-888-WAIT-WAIT. That's 1-888-924-8924. Now let's welcome our first listener contestant this week. Hi, you're on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. Hi, I'm Chris Schoen, and I live on a farm near Cedar Rapids, Iowa. That's fabulous.
So you're actually in an Iowa farm. You know, I remember vividly the first time I ever went to Iowa many, many years ago and seeing a farm and thinking, oh my gosh, every time I saw a farm when I was a kid looking at a picture book, I was looking at that. So you live in like the perfect farm, right?
It is. It is. It's like Grant Wood country here. Very, very picturesque.
Right. And you just stand in front of it all day holding a pitchfork.
Yeah, yeah. Me and my pitchfork and my wife.
Okay. Very good. Very good. Well, Chris, welcome to the show. Let me introduce you to our panel this week. First, she's a comedian headlining at the DC Improv July 11th through the 13th. It's Joelle Nicole Johnson.
Hello. Hello. Howdy. Howdy? Ooh.
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Chapter 2: Who is Natasha Rothwell and what is her role in 'The White Lotus'?
Exactly.
You know, all you have to do is just put that green suit on, and he's going to look a lot like that Grinch. Right, yeah. He's got the same kind of body type and face.
How do you explain to a child that they're not getting that many presents this year? Like, what do you say? Like, sorry, kids, the North Pole got hit with tariffs. Yeah. All the elves got deported.
Yeah, all the, like, children's books at Christmas are going to be like, there's something called a supply chain. Yeah.
I've never been happier to be the only person on this stage without kids.
All right, Chris, here is your next quote. Go, evil girl boss, go. That was somebody quoted in Vulture, one of many, many people commenting this week about the 24-year-old girlfriend of what 73-year-old football coach?
That would be Bill Belichick.
It would be. I think we can say that all America is captivated by this May, December, but it's December 1932 romance of famously grumpy football coach Bill Belichick and his much, much younger girlfriend, Jordan Hudson, which it's so sad for her. She's just 24. She's wasting her DiCaprio years.
You know, for a guy who's like a professional football coach and has won, what, six Super Bowls? Yes. It's pretty ironic that he's getting played so hard.
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Chapter 3: How did Natasha Rothwell transition from writing to acting?
I think it's love. Do you really? I do, because what 24-year-old isn't attracted to a dad bod and jowls? He wishes he had a dad bod.
He's got a grandpa bod.
Oh, I love it. I'm obsessed with this situation. I don't know if anyone has ever looked into her eyes, but you shouldn't because she looks really evil. She looks like if Ursula and Maleficent had a baby. I don't know.
Everybody's so cynical about this relationship. Oh, she's too controlling. She just wants him for his money. I mean, what has happened to us? Is it so hard to believe someone might want to be with Bill Belichick for the sex? Yeah. Their story blew up this week after she kept trying to control a CBS Sunday morning interview. Like, she is his boss, which maybe she is.
She now calls herself the COO of Belichick Productions. And she's applied for trademarks on phrases like the Belichick way. And she says this new company will experience rapid growth next year when she can finally legally rent a car.
Can't she just be an influencer like every other 24-year-old? Why does she have to glom on to grandpa and take all his money?
Well, she is an influencer. She is. She's just influencing one very special person. Remember, he's 73. She's 24. To put that in perspective, their age gap itself is AARP eligible.
She also isn't a good COO because he asked the question of like, you know, where'd you guys meet? And she was like, we're not answering that question. And I was like, okay, it's given. High class hooker. Yeah. But... That's very generous.
For me, you need to have a stock answer, because I met my boyfriend at a funeral, and I don't tell anyone that will listen, so I would think she would actually have a stock answer for that, you know?
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Chapter 4: What was the experience like filming 'The White Lotus' during COVID?
Yes! What just happened?
All right, so this is what happened. I just want you all to know this. I said Worm, and of course these days everybody thinks of RFK Jr., but instead we got JFK Jr., who, as far as we know, has never had a worm. These are the newest trend among guys who are trying to show how competitive and with it and world-beating they are, is they're all getting up at 4 a.m. That's the answer.
All the real entrepreneur types are bragging about getting up at 4. They're doing it thanks to viral videos, testosterone-fueled competition with each other, and mountains of cocaine.
I just love that I found out I have something in common with an Iowa farmer. Really? We're not on TikTok. Yeah, you have no idea. Yeah. If alpha males are doing that, if I was a man, I would be a beta cuck.
Yes. Me too. They're claiming they're alphas, but here's the thing. If they're waking up at 4 a.m., that means they're probably going to bed at 8 p.m. Oh, who's a baby now? Oh, you're
Well, actually, that's true because one of the things that started this trend was this viral TikTok that went around when this influencer posted his routine for 4 a.m. He says, quote, sin lives late at night. So he goes to bed early, right? There's no one to tempt you at 4 a.m. because no one's awake except, well, damn, when did garbage men get so sexy? Right.
Except all the people who have been doing cocaine all night long are awake and flying.
Yeah, and most stand-up comedians.
Bill, how did Chris do in our quiz? His answer on number three was so much better than ours. Let's declare him a winner with three and O. There you are.
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Chapter 5: What insights does Natasha Rothwell share about her comedic journey?
Fresh off from proving that atmospheric diffraction spikes cause the moon to hit your eye like a big pizza pie. The Max Planck scientists have just completed extensive experiments into how to create the perfect plate of cacio e pepe pasta.
While the actual science is difficult to communicate to you lay people, suffice it to say that this is the first research project to ever make somebody say, hey, who put meatballs in the particle collider? Wait, this is in Germany, though? Well, the institute is based in Germany, but it was a collaboration of scientists from all over the world.
Yeah, when the Germans and Italians collaborate with the Japanese there, also?
I'm on board. Sounds like a party.
The physicist's pasta technique involves using heat to supersaturate starch into water, then entering a black hole, but leaving the Parmesan cheese behind on Earth so it ages while we remain young.
You know, the people at the Velveeta Institute have been doing wonderful, wonderful work with pasta for years. I recommend giving them a try.
Okay. Well, you know. No, I'm glad this got done, because if there's one person I trust to make great Italian food, it is a German physicist. Right.
You will enjoy this. Bon appetito.
When you're here, you are family.
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