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Chapter 1: What does Ron Burgundy say about his career in San Diego?
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From NPR and WBEC Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, the NPR News Quiz. I am the anchorman, the anchor myth, the anchor legend, Bill Curtis. And here is your host at the San Diego Civic Theater in San Diego, California, Peter Sago.
Thank you, Bill. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. Thank you, San Diego. We have a great show for you today because later on, we're going to be talking to a true icon, the man who not only made San Diego great, he kept it classy. That's right. Later on, we're going to be joined by the anchorman himself, Ron Burgundy.
Woo! Woo!
But right now, it's your chance to join our action news team. Give us a call. The number is 1-888-WAIT-WAIT. That's 1-888-924-8924. Let's welcome our first listener contestant. Hi, you're on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. Hi, this is Ben Johnson from Torrance, California. Hey, Ben in Torrance, up the coast in the LA area. What do you do there? I am a municipal planner. A municipal planner.
You plan out municipalities. Yes. I know. It's very exciting work. Yeah, yeah. Well, Ben, let me introduce you to our panel this week. First up, a Peabody and an Emmy award-winning journalist and comedian. It's Alzo Slade. What's up, Ben? How you doing, buddy? Doing well. And yourself? So far, so good.
Next, you've seen him and heard him in The Good Place, Loki, Star Trek, Lower Decks, and currently in Man on the Inside. It's Eugene Cordero. Hey, Ben. Hey, Eugene. What's up? And you can see her in Beverly Hills, California at the Wallace Ennenberg Center for the Performing Arts on June 12th. Her podcast is Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone. It's Paula Poundstone.
Hey, Ben.
So, Ben, welcome to the show, as is our practice. We're going to start with who's Bill this time. Bill Curtis is going to read for you three quotations from this week's news. If you can correctly identify or explain just two of them, you know you'll win our prize. Any voice from our show you might choose in your voicemail. Are you ready to go?
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Chapter 2: How does Ron Burgundy reflect on his relationship with Bill Curtis?
Ready. All right, your first quote is about somebody who made a state visit this last week. People have switched them from no kings to okay, one king. So... That was a journalist quoted in The New Yorker about the reception. To whose state visit? King Charles. King Charles, yes! Charles III. The President of the United States was absolutely thrilled to host the King for a state visit.
They have so much in common. They're both old white men who loved cheating on their wives. LAUGHTER You know that's what the fist bump was about, right? At the state dinner that Trump threw for the king, the king gave Trump a, this is true, a giant gold bell that said Trump on it to signify that his British friends were only a bell ring away. And it was exciting. The president loved it.
Melania was thrilled. She tied the bell around the president's neck so she knows when he's wandering near.
I wonder, when they come over from across the pond, I wonder if they ask, like, how long are y'all going to call this New York and New Jersey? Like, it's been around for quite a long time. I think you just call it, you know.
Well, if we just called it York and Jersey, they'd have to call their places Old York and Old Jersey.
Well, I think that's very American. Yeah.
The only part of the whole thing that I saw, really, I heard about the speech, but I saw the clip on the Internet of Trump pushing, cutting in the receiving line between the queen and King Charles. And they seemed surprised.
Really?
Because apparently the king's mother hadn't told him that Trump does that.
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Chapter 3: What humorous stories does the panel share about their experiences?
Just the worst. And I'm just like, what am I doing here? It's weird. I mean, it's unnecessary. If you have that much money, you should be able to replace your bones with something that doesn't break.
I don't have an x-ray suite, but I have a guy who just guesses what's on your inside and sketches it.
Yeah.
That's been enough so far.
Can you imagine being a guest at this place and you have such high expectations and you get into the shower and the water pressure is trash?
All right. Ben, your last quote is the Wall Street Journal again. This time they're writing about a new innovation in cars.
It increases the risk of backing over something or someone.
So apparently we're going to enjoy an increased risk of backing over something because what standard feature are the newest cars getting rid of? Do I get a hint? You get a hint. Yeah, well, automakers are all about looking forward, right? Not looking behind you. Oh, are they getting rid of rear-view cameras? No, we need those.
In fact, this car will entirely rely on rear-view cameras because it will not have a... It won't have a back window? It will not have a rear window. Yes, it's gone. Gone by the way the hand crank on the front of the car. It's all obsolete. The 2026 Polestar 4 EV is sitting for five, a 300-mile range, and no rear window. This is crazy. Actually, it's not that crazy.
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Chapter 4: What are the funniest moments from the listener quiz segment?
You land, you go to the arrival lounge where you can freshen up and take a shower. They've just started installing these. Congratulations to that one passenger, whoever it was, who smelled so bad he inspired... A whole new advance in the travel industry. Well, that's the thing. It should be before they depart. Because that's when you're going to be sitting close next to... Exactly. Yeah.
They should require it. They should make us all go through the shower on a belt like a car wash.
Or you know what? Where the light and the AC are on the buttons up there, you're just right. Exactly. You push and you get a little.
And they'll be part of the security thing. Make sure you wash your own hair and rinse before washing the hair and rinsing it.
Can you imagine going through TSA and the thing beeps and they tell you, excuse me, Mr. Slade, can you come inside? You've been randomized and they just hand you a bottle of soap. Yeah. And point you to the shower.
It's like the airline equivalent of a friend just offering you a breath mint.
Yeah, right, yeah.
Eugene, this week the Washington Post reported on a bold and effective new idea in conservation. You can save endangered species, like gorillas, if we simply give them what? What do they offer endangered species? Yes. Other than hope? No, we can't do that. Oh, we can't do that. Um... I'll give you a hint. The hard part is teaching the gorillas to sign their name on the checks.
Giving gorillas jobs? No, not jobs. Oh. You sign a check to draw money from your... Bank account? Yes. Give gorillas bank accounts. What? What? So a man named Jonathan Ledgard runs a non-profit that sets up bank accounts for individual animals.
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