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From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, the NPR News Quiz. I'm the old acquaintance that won't ever be forgot. Bill Curtis. And here's your host at the Studebaker Theater in the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Illinois, Peter Sagal. Thank you, Bill. Thanks, everybody. Thank you.
2024 is finally over, thank goodness, but we're hoping to delay finding out what 2025 has in store by staying in bed with the lights off.
And when that doesn't work, I call up my friends Jack Daniels and Jack Ambien.
While we try to remain blissfully unaware that a new year has even begun, we want to salvage the reputation of the last one a little by bringing you some of the highlights of our show. Let's start with Kristen Kish, who joined us in Milwaukee, where she had just filmed her first season as the new host of Top Chef.
Peter started by asking about her experience as a contestant on the show.
So... Let's jump right in. You won your season of Top Chef after fighting your way through a redemption round. And a big turning point for you in the show was you were all challenged to prepare this seafood specialty in Seattle, the gooey duck. Correct. And I don't know if I will ever recover watching.
Okay, who knows what a gooey duck is? You guys don't? Yes? Yeah, no? It sounds like pate or something? Who knows what a penis is? They look identical. It is not the thing that I wanted to cook and have my first moment dunking the gooey duck in hot water to then remove the... Boar skin? Yes, yes, I'll let you say that. And to slide it off, and that was my first moment, but it was the quickest thing that you could cook in 30 minutes. Wait, so you moiled a... Wow!
Hey!
Beautiful. It's a very easy procedure. You do that, you give it a fountain pen, and you move on.
And I'm very gay, so shocking that I knew what to do with it.
Well, you know, that makes sense. That makes sense, though, that you're like a penis dipping in boiling water.
Because I think that's the advantage you had over the rest of the contestants. Complete emotional detachment. I don't care. I don't care. So now, so you went to the one top chef, hugely popular winner. You've gone on to do a lot of things. And then they called you up and they said, Padma's retiring. We want you to take over the show.
Well, so they didn't even say that. I saw it. anyone that is a fan of the show saw that on Instagram when Padma posted it and it was like, it caught me off guard too. I was like, who's going to take over that job? Not me.
Certainly.
It's probably going to be one of you. You all are very funny and clever and very witty and charming.
I did think it was going to be me. I said, this is awkward.
And it just happened so fast. I got a call. I was flying from Thailand back to New York, and I was in Dubai, and I got a call from my agent, and it just, things started rolling.
And how did you find the, of course, necessary moment at the end of every episode where someone has to go home? Do you use the famous catchphrase, pack your knives and go? Oh.
pack your knives and go is still there and you are top chef is still there they have been there you didn't change it you weren't like off well i did did you pitch your own did you pitch your own the first day i was like maybe what if i do just say go the home yeah but i felt like i was like there's a lot of people i don't want to say that too so i was like you know i'll be nice to everybody so we can't tell you know you are you are a very positive person um
You filmed the next season of Top Chef will take place entirely here in Milwaukee and other areas of Wisconsin. Chefs from all over the country flew here to compete. And how many episodes were there? Are there? I have no idea. You don't. A lot of episodes. No. So, like, 20 episodes. How many of them are entirely about cheese curds?
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