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Bill Curtis

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3022 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

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We admire dimes and Aasif Mandvi gives breakup advice

Your next New York Minute comes from Shane Torres.

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
We admire dimes and Aasif Mandvi gives breakup advice

A Swedish death metal band.

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We admire dimes and Aasif Mandvi gives breakup advice

Ends up entertaining 3,000 dentists at the Javits Center.

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We admire dimes and Aasif Mandvi gives breakup advice

Your last story from the city that never sleeps comes from Paula Poundstone.

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We admire dimes and Aasif Mandvi gives breakup advice

Here are your choices.

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We admire dimes and Aasif Mandvi gives breakup advice

Somebody had a memorable trip to New York.

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We admire dimes and Aasif Mandvi gives breakup advice

Was it from Alonzo, a person who came expecting the worst but received the best, so much so that he told the news about it?

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
We admire dimes and Aasif Mandvi gives breakup advice

From Shane Torres, a Swedish death metal band found itself at the Javits Center, an enormous place filled with dentists, but was a hit anyway.

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We admire dimes and Aasif Mandvi gives breakup advice

or from Paula, a German tourist who came to New York City and Secaucus, New Jersey for the sights at such a terrible time, he sued everybody for $20 million.

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We admire dimes and Aasif Mandvi gives breakup advice

Which of these was the real story we found in the news about a trip to New York City?

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We admire dimes and Aasif Mandvi gives breakup advice

All right.

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We admire dimes and Aasif Mandvi gives breakup advice

Well, to bring you the correct answer, we talked to someone who reported on it.

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We admire dimes and Aasif Mandvi gives breakup advice

But it did cause this German tourist...

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We admire dimes and Aasif Mandvi gives breakup advice

intestinal distress.

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We admire dimes and Aasif Mandvi gives breakup advice

That was Christopher Mogg, a journalist on the Metro desk at the New York Times, talking about that German tourist's tour of the American legal system.

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We admire dimes and Aasif Mandvi gives breakup advice

So what I have to tell you, sir, is that Paula's story was not a hypothetical.

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We admire dimes and Aasif Mandvi gives breakup advice

So you didn't win, but you earned a point for Alonzo for telling a charming story about his own native city.

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We admire dimes and Aasif Mandvi gives breakup advice

Thank you so much for playing, and good luck as you navigate the even weirder things that happen in real life.

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We admire dimes and Aasif Mandvi gives breakup advice

Thank you.

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We admire dimes and Aasif Mandvi gives breakup advice

Take care.