WWDTM: Kali Reis
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
From NPR and WBZ Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, the NPR News Quiz. I'm the voice so soothing, lullabies listen to me to fall asleep. I'm Bill Curtis, and here's your host at the Studebaker Theatre at the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Illinois, Peter Sagal.
Thank you, Bill. Thank you, everybody. Thank you so much. Thank you. So good to be with you. You do have a great show for today. Later on, we're going to be talking to Kaylee Reese, a champion boxer who seemingly almost overnight became an acclaimed and Emmy-nominated actor starring in HBO's True Detective.
Who is Kali Reis and what are her recent accomplishments?
She's now starring in the upcoming movie Mercy. We assume that she learns her lines by punching them. If you'd like to try your hand at a non-contact competition, give us a call to play our games. That's 1-888-WAIT-WAIT. That's 1-888-924-8924. It's time to welcome our first listener contestant. Hi, you're on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.
Hi, Peter. My name is Benjamin, and I'm calling from Boston, Massachusetts.
Boston?
How does Kali Reis balance boxing and acting?
I spent a lot of time in Boston, one of my favorite places. What do you do there?
Well, I work as a computational chemist at a scientific software and discovery company called Schrodinger.
Typical Boston guy, am I right?
Absolutely.
Yeah, absolutely. That's great. Well, welcome to the show, Benjamin. Let me introduce you to our panel this week. First up, she's host of the TikTok series, Boy Room, found wherever you might watch your short form videos.
What insights does Kali Reis share about her boxing journey?
It's Rachel Koster.
Hey, Benjamin. Hi.
Next up, he's a comedian and co-host of the new podcast, Health Stuff, which is found wherever you get your podcasts. It's Hari Kondabolu. Hello, sir. Hi, Hari. And he is the host of the daily podcast, TBTL, as well as the public radio variety show, Live Wire, which will be live at the Reeser Center for the Arts in Beaverton, Oregon, on January 23rd. It's our old friend, Luke Burbank. Hey there, Benjamin.
What humorous anecdotes arise during the quiz segment?
Hi, Luke. So Benjamin, welcome to the show. 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 just two of them, you will win our prize. Any voice from our show you might choose for your voicemail. Are you ready to go? Yeah, I'm ready. All right. Your first quote is from President Trump responding to a country saying it wanted to remain part of Denmark.
How do the panelists react to current news stories?
That's their problem. Whose problem is it that they don't want to be invaded by the United States?
That would be Greenland.
That would be Greenland. This week, the administration met with the leaders of both Denmark and Greenland and told them, get ready to get liberated. Trump has been obsessed with Greenland for a long time, and we know why. They made Greenland one of the five words he had to remember on his cognitive test.
I don't think I knew Greenland was a real place until about eight months ago.
I don't think the president did either.
Yeah.
What unexpected lessons does Kali Reis learn from her experiences?
That's why neither of us should be trying to take control of the place we only learned existed eight months ago.
Now, people have speculated, and the White House, like, has not been able to deny this, that Trump wants Greenland so badly because it looks so much bigger on flat maps, right, than it actually is. Their Mercator projection is if I needed to tell NPR people about that. Yeah, right, right. We should never, never have given him any of those map of the world placemats. It's oil, right? What is up there? No, there's rare earth minerals. Oh, okay, right.
Which ones?
What predictions do the panelists make about the future of space exploration?
I don't know. He doesn't know. They're rare, though, and they're in the earth. We have to go get them, right?
There's got to be aliens there or something. Like, he knows something.
You think?
Yeah, of course. Why would he be so excited and be keeping it such a secret? Rare minerals? No one's going to look into that. An alien? I would live there if no one else is there and... I haven't thought this one through.
Sorry, guys. Well, pretty much neither has anyone else. You want to be president? Exactly. All right. Very good. Here is your next quote. We will be installing a few bidets in Gracie Mansion.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:04–0:43
2
Who is Kali Reis and what are her recent accomplishments?
0:43–1:07
3
How does Kali Reis balance boxing and acting?
1:07–1:34
4
What insights does Kali Reis share about her boxing journey?
1:34–2:05
5
What humorous anecdotes arise during the quiz segment?
2:05–2:30
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How do the panelists react to current news stories?
2:30–3:11
7
What unexpected lessons does Kali Reis learn from her experiences?
3:11–3:51
8
What predictions do the panelists make about the future of space exploration?
3:51–47:17