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Thank you, Bill. Oh, thank you, everybody. Great to see you. Thank you so much. Later on today, we're going to be talking to former Daily Show correspondent Asif Manvi, who left that show in 2017 to star in TV shows and movies and plays in which he didn't have to talk at all about the news. The man has timing. So give us a call before we figure out a way out. The number to call is 1-888-WAIT-WAIT. That's 1-888-924-8924. It's time to welcome our first listener contestant. Hi, you're on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.
Hi, Peter. This is Grace, and I'm calling from Peacham, Vermont.
Peacham, Vermont. I'm going to say that if I wrote like a TV show set in a fictional but charming Vermont town, I'd probably call it Peacham. Is it what I imagine? Is it beautiful and verdant and filled with interesting people, Grace?
You bet it is. It's a beautiful place. It's a hill town about an hour south of Quebec and 20 miles from the nearest Starbucks.
Whoa. Whoa. Well, Grace, let me introduce you to our panel this week. First up, it's the comedian you can see April 9th at Tulalip Casino in Seattle and April 27th through May 3rd at the Comedy Cellar at the Rio in Las Vegas. It's Alonzo Bowden. Hello, Grace. Oh, hello, Alonzo. Next, she's a comedian you can see in Frederick, Maryland on April 17th at the Weinberg Center for the Arts and host of the podcast Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone. It's Paula Poundstone.
Hey, Grace.
Hey, Colin. Love you, girl. Oh, thanks so much. And finally making his debut on our show, it's a comedian whose podcast, Coastal Idiots, can be heard every Tuesday on all the platforms. And you can catch him at the Den Theatre here in Chicago as part of the Windy City Comedy Festival on August 6th. It's Shane Torres. Hi, Grace. How are you? Hi, Shane. Nice to meet you. So, Grace, 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, you might choose for your voicemail. Are you ready to go?
Oh, yeah, I'm ready.
Here we go. Your first quote is about the new trend of people gambling on reality TV.
Is it legal to take a boat to Fiji and watch the finalists on the beach with binoculars?
That was a question the New York Times asked after news that people are now betting on the outcome of what reality show? Oh, gosh, I need a hint. Well, you can also bet on things like how many times Jeff Probst says, come on in, guys.
Survivor?
Survivor, yes.
Yes.
The prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi, they're now taking bets on the outcome of reality shows, meaning someday you might hear a small child say, Daddy had to sell the house because Kayla won The Bachelor.
So Peter, let me ask you. Can I put a bet down now on this show? Sure. Why not? I'm all in on Paula Poundstone. I think really. The odds, man.
You can't get good odds on Paula.
Yeah, if there's some sort of reality show theme during this show, I'm definitely going to be the winner.
Exactly. I'm just going to say, as an experienced gambler from way back, betting on reality shows, reality shows, that's for amateurs. I put $40,000 on young Sheldon dying in a fire. So thanks to these new prediction markets, you can now bet on almost literally anything. The opening box office of the new Avengers movie, you can bet on that. The highest temperature in Des Moines, Iowa next month. There is, this is true, a big bet on Polymarket right now on whether or not Jesus will return by the end of this year.
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