We become friends and neighbors with Olivia Munn
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From NPR and WBEC Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, the NPR News Quiz. Hey, Easter Bunny, fill those giant ears with my voice. I'm Bill Curtis, and here is your host at the Studebaker Theatre at the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Illinois, Nagin Farsad.
And thanks, everyone. I'm filling in for Peter Sagal, who's on spring break, where instead of a wet T-shirt, he's doing a damp turtleneck contest. But don't worry. We have a great show for you today. We're going to be joined by Olivia Munn, who you can catch on the Apple TV series Your Friends and Neighbors, a show that makes the suburbs way sexier than they actually are. But first, it's your turn to make some friends. Give us a call to play our games. The number is 1-888-WAIT-WAIT. That's 1-888-924-8924. Now let's welcome our first listener contestant. Hi, you're on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.
Hi, Nikki. My name's Hannah. I'm calling from New York City.
Hi, Hannah. What do you do in New York?
I am a marine geophysicist.
I mean, me too. Well, that's great, two of us. So what does a marine geophysicist do for fun?
For fun. On the weekends, I like to go out and play Irish fiddle. I do some quilting.
Oh, my God. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Same, same, same, same. Well, Hannah, let's introduce you to our panel. First up, she's a comedian and a host of the TikTok series Boy Room. It's Rachel Koster. Hi, Hannah. You sound like the perfect girl. Next up, she's a comedian who runs the bi-monthly stand-up show Frankenstein's Baby at Union Hall in Brooklyn. It's Joyelle Nicole Johnson. Hey, Hannah. Come on down to our show at Union Hall, baby. And finally, an actor and writer you can see with John Lutz in the improv show Two Square at the UCB Theater in New York City on April 15th. It's Peter Gross. Hello, Hannah. Hi, Peter.
Hi.
All right, Hannah, we're excited to have you here. You're going to play Who's Bill this time. Now, Bill Curtis is going to read you three quotes from this week's news. If you can identify two of them, you'll win our prize, which is any voice from our show on your voicemail. Are you ready?
Sure.
All right. Your first quote is a headline from Astronomy magazine.
Artemis II crew fixes toilet, can now pee in it.
So that toilet will come in handy for the crew who took off for where on Wednesday night? The moon. That's right, the moon. So this week, Artemis II took off on its first mission to the moon in decades. That's right. Little known fact. This whole time, we haven't been going to the moon. The launch was actually delayed because the lines at Cape Canaveral TSA were so long. Oh, my God.
It's kind of a sign of how bad things are going on Earth that people are like, yeah, can we figure out what's going on on the moon? Is that, like, free?
Y'all think they really went?
Kim Kardashian over here.
I love a good conspiracy theory. It's one of my favorites that we didn't go to the moon.
Well, so this is actually true. So every single previous moon mission, they just left their poop in bags on the lunar surface. It turns out the moon operates by dog owner everybody hates rules. Yes.
Yeah, that sounds like my block, like when the snow melts. And you're like, oh, come on. You can't poop in the snow and be like, oh, I bet it won't be there when the snow melts.
We have to be grateful that the poop on the ground is on the ground. I mean, we can talk our smack about it, but at least it's where it belongs.
That's true. Why do we want to live on the moon when dog poop would be, like, hitting us in the face?
Yeah, in the face all the time. Well, not with this special toilet. And actually, this mission that they're on is a test run before NASA establishes a base there to mine resources from the moon.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–6:19
2
How did Olivia Munn transition from news reporting to acting?
6:19–7:22
3
What challenges did Olivia face while working with Aaron Sorkin?
7:22–7:49
4
What insights does Olivia share about her role in 'Your Friends and Neighbors'?
7:49–19:13
5
What humorous events unfolded during the Supreme Court discussion?
19:13–35:03
6
How did the panelists react to current news stories?
35:03–41:00
7
What unique games do the panelists play during the episode?
41:00–48:24