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Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

Kemp Powers

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

NPR

Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.635.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Kemp Powers, Oscar nominee and writer behind "One Night in Miami" and "Soul", plays our Not My Job Game "One Knight in Miami." He is joined by Helen Hong, Roxanne Roberts, and Alonzo Bodden.

Transcript

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0:00.0

From NPR and WBEC Chicago, this is Weight, Weight, Don't Tell Me, the NPR News Quiz. Calm

0:12.3

down. What's all the Hullabilloo about? I'm Bill Curtis and the Hissier host. Both

0:19.8

to this show and multiple Airbnb guests who demanded their money back. These are SIGLE.

0:26.3

Thank you Bill and thanks once again to our fake audience which we are delighted to report

0:31.1

have all been fake vaccinated. Later on we're going to be talking to Kemp Powers who

0:36.7

has been nominated for two different Oscars this year, one for writing, one night in Miami,

0:42.4

one for co-directing Pixar's Soul. He is a true hero of the pandemic, just as we were

0:49.0

running out. He gave us what we needed most, two more things to watch. So don't wait,

0:55.8

give us a call. The number is one triple eight, Weight, Weight, that's one eight eight eight,

0:59.6

nine two four eight nine two four. Let's welcome our first listener contestant. Hi,

1:02.8

you're on Weight, Weight, don't tell me. Hi Peter, this is Jen calling in from Yardley,

1:06.7

Pennsylvania. Yardley, Pennsylvania, where exactly is that Jen? Oh, we're just across

1:11.6

the river from Trenton, New Jersey. Oh, lucky you. Just to be able to wake up in the morning

1:17.0

and see across the mist covered Delaware, the spires of Trenton in the distance. What's

1:23.2

paradise on earth? What do you do there in Yardley? Well, I do corporate due diligence,

1:27.5

which is a fancy way of saying that I basically Facebook stocks, Saudi princes and Russian

1:32.2

old guard. You Facebook stock, Saudi princes and Russian oligarchs? Yeah, so we make sure

1:38.4

that mergers and acquisitions are going to okay and people aren't paying for terrorists

1:43.4

or paying bribes. So just making sure everything's on the up and up. Wait a minute. So you're

1:47.1

like Facebooking with a Russian oligarch and saying, sir, are you in the up and up? And

1:50.9

there is like, duh. And the merger goes through. Well, that'll more than that.

1:55.7

All right. Well, that's the general idea though. Well, welcome to our show, Jen. Let me introduce

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