WWDTM: Governor Whitmer
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From NPR and Easy Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, the NPR News Quiz. Take a Michigander at this hunk of man. I'm Bill Curtis, and here is your host at the Fox Theater in Detroit, Michigan, Peter Segal. Thank you, Bill. Thanks, everybody.
It is such a great time to be in Detroit. The Lions are winning. The Tigers made the postseason. Downtown is thriving. We assume, because we don't live here, that it is all due solely to the efforts of Governor Gretchen Whitmer. She seems nice. So later on, we are going to have her here with us on stage so she can take all the credit. But first, we want to hear briefly about where you're from before you answer our questions and play our games. The number to call 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 Charlie from Cleveland, Ohio.
Hi, Charlie. How are you? I'm well. All right.
Love that energy.
All right, it's that fun Midwestern rivalry. We love them. Let me just give you a chance, since you got booed by the Detroit News here, is there anything that you, as a native of Cleveland, would like to say to the people of Detroit in return? And keep it clean.
I'm not originally from here.
It's not his fault!
Well, welcome to the show, Charles. Let me introduce you to our panel this week. First up, he's a comedian whose stand-up special People Pleaser is streaming now. It's Josh Gondelman. Hello. Next, he's a comedian who will be headlining at Big Laugh Comedy in Fort Worth on December 13th and 14th. It's Hari Kondabolu. Hello there. And she is a style reporter for the Washington Post. It's Roxanne Roberts. Hello, hello. So, Charles, welcome to the show. You're going to play Who's Bill this time. Bill Curtis, of course, is going to read for you three quotations from the week's news. Your job, explain or identify just two of them, just two, and you will win our prize, any voice from anyone on our show, for your voicemail. Are you ready to go? Oh, absolutely. Absolutely.
Let's do it then. All right, Charles, Christmas season is almost here. So your first quote is from a review of Netflix's new Christmas movie, Hot Frosty. Do you want to blank a snowman? Hot Frosty, that's its real name, is just one of a new series of holiday movies coming out this season that are surprisingly what? Sexual? Yes! They are sexy Christmas movies. They're coming. Watch them with your kids and it ruins Christmas. Watch them with your parents and it ruins sex. Now, it's a big change because before now, intimacy in holiday movies was just limited to over-the-scarf stuff. But Netflix and other streamers are premiering new Christmas films this year like Hot Frosty, The Merry Gentleman, and Miracle on 69th Street. LAUGHTER
Man, Hollywood's full of it, man. Really? Do you realize the number of years I've pitched sexy Christmas movies? But no, they did not want How the Milf Stole Christmas. They did not want Sex, Actually. Yeah. They did not want Babes in Toyland, same title, different plot. Right.
Or for that matter, Here Comes Santa Claus. Yeah. But Hot Frosty is a real movie, and it is, and I am not kidding, about an incredibly hunky snowman who comes to life. And it's not like the snowman comes to life and he gets jacked. He is jacked as a snowman. To give you an idea, to build this snowman, they needed a carrot, a bunch of pieces of coal, and an eggplant.
I don't like a jacked snowman because regular snowman is my body type. I know. I feel like we're losing representation. You might expect, you know, just the standard three spheres, one on top of each other, but the middle one has abs. Yeah, I don't like that. I also don't like, I feel like this is too Christmas-centered and it's too straight, right? We've got to be more inclusive. Let's do two birds with one stone. I'm pitching a same-sex romance for Hanukkah called Gatel, Gatel, Gatel.
Sexy Hanukkah movies are just obvious. Like, what a miracle. That little bit of oil lasted for eight nights. Your next quote, Charles, is from Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski.
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