Bill Curtis

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2,080 appearances 38 recordings 2 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard 30 May

Bill Curtis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 14 in all, peaking in Jan 2026 with 5.

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Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! · We admire dimes and Aasif Mandvi gives breakup advice · 21 Mar 2026 podcast

Your next New York Minute comes from Shane Torres.

A Swedish death metal band.

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

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

Here are your choices.

Somebody had a memorable trip to New York.

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?

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.

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.

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

All right.

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

But it did cause this German tourist...

intestinal distress.

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.

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

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

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

Thank you.

Take care.

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