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Chapter 1: Who is the special guest on this episode?
Thank you so much, Bill. Thank you, everybody. You're very kind. It's great to see you. We do have a great show for you today. Later on, we're going to be talking to the great actor Sterling K. Brown, who's starring in the new series Paradise. But if you are a fan of that handsome finance guy from This Is Us, well, this is he. But right now, it's all about you. So give us a call 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.
Hi, this is Alexis Breitnacher calling from Cummington, Massachusetts.
Alexis, how are you?
I'm doing very well.
How about you? I am fine. I don't know where Cummington is, and I applaud your ability to just say it without hesitation or shyness. You just said it. What do you do there in Cummington? I did just say it. You just said it. What do you do there in Cummington?
So I'm the mom to 10-year-old twins, which is a thing.
Yeah.
And I run a nonprofit that builds affordable housing and helps small businesses. That's great.
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Chapter 2: What game is being played with listener contestants?
Next, she's a comedian and host of the podcast Fake the Nation, who you can see performing at TED in Vancouver next week. It's Nagin Farsad. And making her debut on our panel, she's an Emmy and Grammy-nominated comedian and host of the podcast Handsome. You can find all her upcoming live shows at tignitaro.com. That's right, it is Tignitaro. from one twin mother to another. Also a twin mother.
Well, welcome to our show, Alexis. You're going to play Who's Bill this time. 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. Any voice from our show that you might choose for your voicemail. Are you ready to go? I'm ready. All right.
For your first quote, here is the President of the United States making a major announcement in the White House Rose Garden.
Chapter 3: What recent event did President Trump announce?
It's such an old-fashioned term, but a beautiful term. Groceries. It says, a bag with different things in it.
That was President Trump on Wednesday explaining why he was slapping what on almost every other country on the globe?
Oh, that would be tariffs.
It would be tariffs. Tariffs. On Wednesday, April 2nd, which he christened Liberation Day, President Trump announced the highest tariffs in history, and the world did not like it. The next day, Thursday, the Wall Street Journal actually ran out of words for how badly the stock market was tanking. It was like, Dow plunges, S&P 500 crumbles, the NASDAQ gets its junk stuck in a zipper. Right?
I'm sure you guys celebrated Liberation Day in the manner of your own families and customs, right?
It's a traditional stuffed turkey in our home. Yes, absolutely.
I continued not paying my taxes.
And we have stuffed tofurkey.
Yeah, of course. Because you are a... Lesbian. Right. Now, this is true. This is absolutely true. The markets cratered so badly in the 24 hours after this tariff announcement that the world's 500 richest people, including, of course, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, lost a combined $200 billion in just one day. But, but, wait a minute. Cat rules. But there was also bad news.
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Chapter 4: How are weather forecasts becoming less accurate?
Yeah, and I feel like weather veins are going to have a real moment.
Yeah.
And varicose veins as well.
Yeah.
I don't know what that means.
I'm putting all my money in veins after the stock market is done crashing. We're really going to, the groundhog is going to take on so much more. It really is true. We're going to be like, I don't know, it's as good as anything else we got.
We have an overworked groundhog over here.
All right, Alexis, your last quote is from DoorDash. Buy now, pay later. So you now instantly take out a loan so you can afford to do what? Get takeout? Yeah, order food delivery. Klarna is a company... Very good, yes. People are excited for you and for the possibility of going into lifelong debt for a sandwich.
Klarna is a company that lets you buy things online, usually expensive items like clothing, maybe, or electronics, and you buy it on credit, and then you pay it back in installments. But now they are partnering with DoorDash... the food delivery company, for all of you who've ever said, you know, this burrito is great, but I just wish it affected my credit score.
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Chapter 5: How can you buy takeout with credit?
I just lie and say that was a great show because I am a total coward. Really?
What do you have to gain when your friend is in a band that plays three times a year and you're like, hey, I've got notes. What do you think they're going to do?
Take the notes. Because they only perform three times a year. He is on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.
He knows jazz.
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From NPR at WBEZ Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, the NPR News Quiz. I'm Bill Curtis. We are playing this week with Nagin Farsad, Josh Gundelman, and Tig Notaro. And here again is your host at the Studebaker Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, Peter Sagal.
Thank you, Bill. Thanks, everybody. Thank you. Right now, it is time for the Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me Bluff, the listener game. Call 1-888-WAIT-WAIT to play our game in the air, or you can check out the pinned post on our Instagram page. That's at WaitWaitNPR. Hi, you're on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. Hey, this is Jason Laughlin, and I'm calling from Des Moines, Iowa.
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Chapter 6: What is the panelists' advice for attending a friend's bad show?
The dental world is having a cultural moment. After years of Invisalign dominance, patients are finally getting hip to old school braces. And not just any patients, adult patients. That's right, being a metal mouth isn't just for begrudging virgins with pimples anymore. Adults are saying goodbye to plastic mouth trays and clear back brackets in favor of full industrial alloy chompers.
We're also seeing reports of respected adults making their maws festive with colorful brace bands. Green for St. Patrick's Day, red for Valentine's Day, or Labor Day's famous chartreuse. influencers such as Abby Clancy and Charlie James and rappers like Lil Uzi, all names that mean nothing to an NPR audience, are showing off their be-meddled pie holes on social media.
But as always, beware, if two metal mouths make out, they'll both pick up radio signals.
All right, so one of these things... from our teenage years has come back. Is it from Josh Gondelman, the town of Bemidji, Minnesota, where Lovers Lane has been taken over by adults who had to move in with their parents like they were still living there, so why not act that way? From Tig Notaro, a group of residents, starting with long-term roommates.
in a retirement community in Florida who've decided to start mooning anybody who goes by or from Nagin Farsad braces the scourge of so many teenagers being worn proudly by adults. Which of these is the real story of a teenage trend coming back?
You know, all of those being so cringy, I feel a lot better about being a new student at 50 years old. Why not? I've got to go with Tig and the mooning matriarch.
All right. Your choice then is Tig's story. Well, we spoke to someone who had covered this real story.
I remember when I had braces in the eighth grade, and I definitely didn't want them.
That was Tracy Swartz, a journalist from the New York Post, who commented on the story about adults embracing braces. I just got some grilled, so apparently I'm behind. Yeah. So you didn't win. However, you earned a point for Tig in her very first time in the show, which is very exciting for her. All right. Pretty cool. Thank you for that. And thank you so much for playing. This was awesome.
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Chapter 7: What are adults revisiting from their teenage years?
Margaritaville prides itself on being a place where people, quote, 55 and better can, quote, grow old but not up, unquote, and that explains why their monthly newsletter once contained what exciting phrase? A, Bert took over the DJ booth for trap music night. B, party starts at four and ends when you pass out. Or C, look at all the fun our residents had at the QVC watch party.
This one, I'm believing B makes the most sense. The party starts at four and ends whenever.
I'm pretty sure they might have said that at one time, but the one we saw was the fun at the QVC watch party. The line to get in the QVC watch party went down the block. Now, this is all right, because there's one more to go. If you get this right, you win everything. Okay.
Now, the founder, of course, was the late Jimmy Buffett, quite a remarkable guy with a remarkable career, and he found his musical success relatively late in life. In fact, after years of trying and failing to be successful in music, he was just about to quit it and go into what business when he did finally have his first hit record. So, what was he going to be? A, a marijuana smuggler.
B, he was going to go into private equity. Or C, he was going to go into the Catholic priesthood. The audience is all yelling A, Marijuana Smugglers.
I hear them. I hear Chicago Live. I got to go with the crowd, baby. Let's go A. Yes, yes.
He says that... You know, he was living down in Florida, and he was just about to buy a Boston Whaler to bring merchandise to the beach at night when his third album became a big hit, and the Jimmy Buffett we know and love was born. Bill, how did Sterling do on our quiz? Two out of three, she reached paradise.
Sterling K. Brown is an Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor whose new show is Paradise, which you can stream on Hulu now or catch it Mondays on ABC starting April 7th. Sterling K. Brown, what an absolute joy to talk to you. Thank you so much for joining us. You're the best. In just a minute, if you're feeling tired, Bill might send you to jail. It's the Listener Limerick Challenge.
Call 1-888-WAIT-WAIT to join us on the air. We'll be back in a minute with more of Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me from NPR.
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