Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
From NPR and WBEC Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, the NPR News Quiz. I'm the voice so rich it makes you sign a pre-nut. Bill Curtis is the name, and here is your host at the Studebaker Theatre at the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Illinois, Peter Sagal.
Thank you, Bill. Thank you, everybody. Great to see you. Great to be with you. We do have a great show for you today. Later on, we're going to be talking to the actor Delroy Lindo, star of the movie Sinners and many other great things. But first, this show marks the beginning of our 29th year on the air. Cheers. Cheers. Hard to believe the truth.
And I just wanted to say, first of all, thanks to all of you who are listening for your patience as we continue to try to work out the kinks. And to my father, who is listening to this, I think it's time you accept I am not going to law school.
Chapter 2: How does Delroy Lindo reflect on his acting career?
So you can help us get this 29th year started by calling in to play our games. 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, Peter. This is Dan from Minneapolis. Hey, Dan. I have spent a lot of time in Minneapolis. What do you do there to enjoy yourself?
Oh, what I do there for fun, I like to enjoy the winter skiing and ice skating.
Yep. And I want to point out, having lived in Minnesota, the skiing is the flat kind, right?
Right.
Not the funny.
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Chapter 3: What humorous anecdotes are shared about the New Orleans Saints?
I mean, there are a couple of hills around.
Yes. Well, welcome to the show, Dan. Let me introduce you to our panel this week. First up, her album, Yell Joy, is available on all streaming platforms. It's Joyelle Nicole Johnson. Hi, Dan. Hello. Next, a humorist whose substack is Take Another Little Piece of My Heart Now. It's Roy Blunt Jr. Thank you. And a comedian you can see in Arizona on January 31st at the Fox Theater in Tucson.
It's Paula Poundstone. Hey, Dan. So, Dan, welcome to the show.
Chapter 4: How has the food pyramid evolved in recent discussions?
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 two of them, you will win our prize. Any voice from our show you might choose on your voicemail. Are you ready to go? Absolutely. Okay, here we go.
Your first quote is some stirring patriotic words from our president when he became a wartime leader on Saturday. We're going to get that oil flowing. He really wasn't hiding the reason he ordered the invasion of what country?
That would be Venezuela.
It would be Venezuela. And it was really kind of refreshing. I mean, while previous administrations have disguised their true intentions for various foreign adventures, President Trump, as you heard, came right out and said it, right? It's like they took the slogan, no blood for oil, and put a comma in it.
Chapter 5: What are the latest trends in content creation mentioned?
No blood for oil. Right?
Yeah, no one has ever really called him refreshing before.
Yeah. Well, he's straightforward. I mean, there's a certain honesty and clarity. But speaking of straightforward, one of the things that was so weird about it was they wanted Maduro out. They wanted to get him out of there. And they just went in and got him. They just took him. I mean, whatever happened to like subtlety in international sabotage, right?
I mean, there was like some CIA agent who spent five years trying to seduce him and now look, right? This is also true that to practice the raid, they built an exact replica of President Maduro's mansion in Kentucky and they practiced on it that is currently being torn down and replaced with a scale model of Greenland.
Did they really do that? Did they really practice on a... They really did.
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Chapter 6: How do panelists engage with listener questions?
They built a full-scale replica based on all their intelligence and they just practiced the rate over and over again.
That is so McDonald's.
McDonald's?
When McDonald's wanted to put a McDonald's in Japan for the first time, they said, okay, but you can't block traffic. And so they got this big warehouse, and they practiced building a McDonald's inside the warehouse until they could do it like that. And they were given, like, I think 24 hours or something. They had to learn to build the McDonald's quickly.
Right. Yeah. Is that widely known? Do you think the Pentagon said, okay, guys, we're going to do this McDonald's stuff?
You know, a lot of... You know, a lot of these things are interconnected. Did I tell you this before? Stop me if I told you this before.
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Chapter 7: What unexpected topics arise during the quiz segment?
But did I tell you?
Okay. Anyway.
I think they should have left that house there. A lot of people would like to live there. It's probably a very nice house being a presidential mansion. It would be a little awkward for a while.
I wonder if Trump went in to the fake Maduro house and redid the marble. Because, you know, he's an aesthetics guy.
Yeah, that's true. All right. Here is your next quote. The blueberries are disturbingly large. That was a nutrition expert commenting in the New York Times on the FDA's new version of what very famous chart? The food pyramid.
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Chapter 8: How does the episode conclude with insights from the panelists?
The food pyramid. That's right. It wasn't just like the strangely large blueberries in the New Food Pyramid people were talking about. The New Food Pyramid advises Americans to eat a lot of red meat and whole milk. That's what's on the top, right? Turns out MAGA stands for Make America Gout Again. Mm-hmm.
They want you to eat meat, but it has to come from the side of the road. That's so important.
Exactly, yes. Roadkill only. RFK Jr. did say he was going to overturn federal food policy, and he literally did. They took the old food pyramid, remember that one with the base of the grains and fruits at the bottom and the pointy top, and they literally just turned it upside down. So now it looks less like a food pyramid and more like a food funnel.
You're going to need some help to get all that meat in you, so it's good, though.
Beef tallow. Everybody's into beef tallow. I thought you made candles out of that.
Me too. It looks like you do. What's interesting is they put this out with these new dietary recommendations, and a lot of it was pretty reasonable. Eat fewer processed foods, eat less sugar. Really, from this administration, you would have predicted it would be more like, the only meat you can eat is foie gras, and we need written proof the goose suffered. Right.
I just think leave it up to RFK to recommend a serial killer diet because he looks like he eats raw meat. I think he does. Like, wouldn't you believe that?
Yeah.
Yeah.
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