Falling in love with an octopus, a dog, and Sally Field
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What is the opening premise of this Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me episode?
From NPR and WB Easy Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, the NPR News Quiz. I'm your judge and scorekeeper, classically trained by Judge Judy herself. I'm Alzo Slade and here's your host at the Student Baker Theater at the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Illinois, Peter Sagel. Thank you, Alzo.
Oh, thank you, everybody. Wow. Wow, thank you. Yes, it is exciting. I'm we have a great show for you today. Later on we are going to be joined by the legendary actor Sally Field. Yes. Herself. Uh she was just nominated for an Emmy for her role in Remarkably Bright Creatures on Netflix. We have some fans, okay. This is a movie where she co-stars with an octopus. Sadly the Emmys snubbed the octopus. We promise to recognize your work, so pick up your phone and give us a call. The number is one triple eight wait wait. That's one eight eight eight nine two four eight nine two four. Let's welcome our first listener contestant. Hi you're on. Wait wait, don't tell me.
Hi, I'm Quincy from Dallas, Texas, but currently living in Austin, Texas.
Okay. So you're Quincy, you're from Dallas, but you're temporarily located in Austin. What what what made you do that?
Um I'm a student at the University of Texas.
So what are you studying, may I ask?
I'm doing aerospace engineering.
Are you?
She's gonna have a job.
Are you, he said, in a way meant to subtly foreshadow some of the questions we have for you. Well, welcome to our show, Quincy. Let me introduce you to our panel. First up, she's an Emmy nominated writer and comedian at Shantira Jackson.
Hi, Quincy. Hi, Shantira.
Next, he's a humorist and founder of Hatch Space Woodworking School and Community Workshop in Brattleboro, Vermont. It's Tom Baudette. Hello, Quincy. Hi Tom. And a comedian you can see in Munhall, Pennsylvania, on September twenty-fifth, whose podcast is Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone. It's Paula Poundstone.
Hi Paula. How you doing?
So Quincy, you're gonna play Who's Alzo this time? Alzo Slade is gonna read you three quotations from this week's news. Your job correctly, identify or explain two of them, you'll win our prize. Any voice from our show you might choose on your voicemail. Are you ready to go?
Yes, sir.
Okay. Here we go, Quincy. Your first quote is from a NASA investigator. I think it will be a beautiful crater. That investigator was reacting to news that a rocket crashed this week into what? The moon. Yes, the moon. A space X rocket crashed into the moon after being left in orbit. This happened at a bad time for both of Elon Musk's companies, SpaceX and Tesla. Their stocks tanked this week. But it is still impressive that even though this happened on the moon, the rocket still managed to take out several pedestrians.
How does uh a rocket crash into the moon? I mean, did somebody fall asleep at a switchboard or No, no, this was a rocket stage.
You know, the rockets have stages, these big parts, segments of the rocket, and this was left in orbit and it's just been floating out there, and eventually its path crossed the path of the moon, and well, you know when two objects love each other very much Well uh this is a question for Quincy, now being a scientist engineer.
Um now don't things orbit like two hundred miles up and isn't the moon like further on than like two hundred and fifty thousand miles up?
Like I don't think this was an accident.
I'm not a conspiracy guy. You think somebody had it out for the moon?
How does the listener contestant Quincy get introduced and what is his background?
It's hard to hit the moon. There's a lot of math. Yeah. And hitting it by accident is like winning the powerball. To be fair, it is actually very hard to land a rocket safely on the moon. That's why we don't expect to be able to do it until fifty-seven years ago. Yeah.
We've already put the first man on the moon. Maybe he wants to put the first man in the moon. It's possible, yeah. Are all these tech guys not gonna have to start crashing their rockets in there? Like like now Bezos is gonna send like a bigger rocket or a little faster. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Look at my crater. You thought you messed up the moon, watch me. The thing is, we all remember what Jeff Bezos' rockets look like.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the opening premise of this Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me episode?
0:04–3:58
2
How does the listener contestant Quincy get introduced and what is his background?
3:58–9:23
3
What quirky news story about a rocket crashing into the Moon is discussed?
9:23–18:05
4
How do the panelists react to the bizarre Moon‑crash story and what jokes arise?
18:05–21:00
5
What is the story behind the new Chipotle restaurant opening in Mexico?
21:00–38:12
6
How does the panel’s “Show That Didn’t Go On” game unfold and what are the fake stories?
38:12–52:13