SAGAL: So if you were watching the 2017 World Series between the Astros and the Dodgers, actually, you might have noticed some people banging garbage cans in the Houston Astros' dugout.

But the problem wasn't the garbage can. SAGAL: Exactly. DONNA SUMMER: (Singing) She works hard for the money, so hard for the money. Each of our players will have 60 seconds in which to answer as many fill-in-the-blank questions as they can - each correct answer now worth two points. Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! So Democratic voters just before voting begins are now at that moment like at a restaurant where you just turn over the menu to see if there's anything else you can eat. This is Tyler Smith (ph) calling from Wappingers Falls, N.Y. SAGAL: That's one of those places like, you know, Kankakee that I've always heard of because of the fun name. No one wants to eat more chicken - super pigs. SAGAL: In the world. Now, panel, what will Jerry Falwell Jr. do next? She's a cookbook author and home cooking guru.

Bill, can you give us the scores? Your last quote is from former Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia. SAGAL: Next, the humorist who'll be appearing with Maeve Higgins, Jordan Carlos and Erin Jackson at Comics on a Mission April 4 at the Latchis Theater in Brattleboro, Vt., Tom Bodett. He says he didn't. Here is your next quote. Kurtis also contributed a spoken-word introduction to The Dandy Warhols' 2005 album Odditorium or Warlords of Mars.

Kurtis is currently the scorekeeper/announcer for National Public Radio (NPR)'s news comedy/quiz show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, as well as serving as the host of Through the Decades, a documentary-style news magazine seen on CBS/Weigel Broadcasting's digital multicast network, Decades syndicated subchannel. HIGGINS: And Mike Bloomberg is, like, I've got l'escargot (ph). That will go down in the annals of evidence along with O.J. Kurtis was born in Pensacola, Florida, to Wilma Mary Horton (1911–2002) and William A. Kuretich (Croatian: Kuretić), of Croatian origin (1914–2001), a U.S. Marine Corps brigadier general and decorated veteran of World War II. Tyler got 3 and 0. I see. SAGAL: The biggest reaction to the debate among Democrats was a kind of stunned dismay. We're doing a lot of cooking at home these days, learning interesting and exotic techniques for opening cans of Beefaroni. Kurtis's father was a cousin of Frank Kurtis in the Indianapolis 500 Hall of Fame.

Each of our players will have 60 seconds in which to answer as many fill-in-the-blank questions as they can - each correct answer now worth two points. Jessi Klein. Kurtis also contributed a spoken-word introduction to The Dandy Warhols' 2005 album Odditorium or Warlords of Mars. And here is your host, whose cabin fever is getting so … In my opinion, the Paula Poundstone episodes are the best. Hands are super clean. Each of our players will have 60 seconds in which to answer as many fill-in-the-blank questions as they can. You can check out the WAIT WAIT quiz for your smart speaker. Now onto our final game, Lightning Fill In The Blank. But they're also talking about their blocking scheme for the next play. Tyra Banks, supermodel and business woman, joins us along with panelists Luke Burbank, Jessi Klein, and Adam Burke. Bill Kurtis reads three news-related limericks: Iceberg Interference, Super Oinkers and Fancy Dirty Pants.

SAMIN NOSRAT: Thank you for having me. Scott Kurtis was known to have suffered from paranoid schizophrenia since his mid-teens. BODETT: Oh, and then you deduce what happened. It turns out that you have lived a somewhat unusual life for a big-time movie director. BILL KURTIS: In 1912, northern Atlantic, some iceberg was blamed for the panic. She works hard for the money, so you better treat her right. She says he did that. [10][11] La Pietra is a partner with Kurtis in his Kurtis Productions company. And then I would just get different pieces of paper, and write in different pens... HIGGINS: ...You know?

SLOAN: Why aren't we eating them? Bill Kurtis (born William Horton Kuretich; September 21, 1940) is an American television journalist, ... Kurtis appeared on NPR's news quiz show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, filling in for regular announcer Carl Kasell. And do you have sort of high jinks there in Wappingers Falls?

Now onto our final game, Lightning Fill In The Blank. Some of the beef sold comes from cattle raised on Kurtis's ranch in Sedan, Kansas. But there was more malice in flares borealis. And one of the titans in the business is Samantha Bee, former "Daily Show" star and now the host of her own show, "Full Frontal.". [citation needed], On several occasions starting in 2009, Kurtis appeared on NPR's news quiz show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, filling in for regular announcer Carl Kasell. His reporting, along with Ron Yates of the Chicago Tribune, helped persuade President Gerald Ford to pardon her in 1977. Bill, can you give us the scores? At age 16, Kurtis began working as an announcer for KIND, a radio station in Independence. SMITH: It's in the scenic Hudson Valley, about 90 minutes north of New York City. In 1978, his investigative focus unit broke the Agent Orange story, U.S. veterans who were sprayed by the defoliant in Vietnam. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. SAGAL: Parnas is, of course, a, quote, "associate" of Rudy Giuliani - sort of a henchman No. All rights reserved. But if you're rich, you're like, oh, that looks like fun. Grab a spoon. SAGAL: We are all met. But first, it's the game we have to listen for the rhyme. Coming up, it's Lightning Fill In The Blank. They are fertile year-round and real mean, pound for pound. BILL KURTIS: From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is WAIT WAIT... DON'T TELL ME, the NPR news quiz. Copyright 2020 NPR.
Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! You're expected to cheat by the rules. Ooh ice. SAGAL: That's why the No. SAGAL: But during the debate, Sanders said he didn't say any such thing. Severe weather was approaching Topeka, so Kurtis stayed to update some weather reports. BILL KURTIS: From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is WAIT WAIT... DON'T TELL ME, the NPR news quiz. Good. Now, panel, what will be the next big sting? His sister is former Kansas state Senate Majority Whip Jean Schodorf, of Wichita, Kansas.

We're playing this week with Adam Burke, Peter Grosz and Negin Farsad. We're looking for new meat. JOEL KIM BOOSTER: This is infuriating to me because I had to get my grass stains growing up, like, through blood, sweat and tears, crying as I mowed the lawn for the umpteenth time. If you can correctly identify or explain two of them, you'll win our prize - the voice of anyone you might choose on your voicemail. SLOAN: If we're doing grass-stained jeans, is Gucci also making pizza-stained T-shirts? Bill Kurtis is going to read you three news-related limericks with the last word or phrase missing from each. 1 choice in polls in Iowa is, do you have any specials? Still, props to the iceberg's new PR guy getting this story out there. Now it is time to move on to our final game, Lightning Fill in the Blank. We featured interviews with Will Arnett, Samantha Bee, Karamo Brown, and Barry Sonnenfeld. [7], Kurtis and his wife, Helen, had two children, a daughter and a son. Now onto our final game, Lightning Fill In The Blank. So I should be a... SAGAL: ...Volleyball player. SAGAL: All right. SLOAN: But you still needed somebody being like - at the starboard bow going, ooh, ice. One of these people is going to try to save the world.

Don't Tell Me! PJ O'ROURKE: I don't know, Peter. HIGGINS: I mean, you just find an empty jar of peanut butter next to your bed. That's 1-888-924-8924. All of their fads go back to wanting to look poor. He replaced Kasell on a permanent basis on May 24, 2014. Now, panel, what will be the next thing we find in outer space? JESSI KLEIN: Xanax, Zoloft, tequila. BILL KURTIS: From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is WAIT WAIT... DON'T TELL ME, the NPR news quiz. He was also the host of a number of A&E crime and news documentary shows, including Investigative Reports, American Justice, and Cold Case Files. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "SHE WORKS HARD FOR THE MONEY"). It resulted in the most sweeping changes to the Illinois penal system in its history. Thank you. You can jive, having the time of your life, ooh. And these days, it's a survival technique, so we're looking back at some good times from the recent past. DON'T TELL ME… PAULA POUNDSTONE: My black-and-red short sock. KURTIS: We should have won the bleeping World Series. Bill, can you give us the scores? I'm so excited. You ready to play? A 1972 report by Bill Kurtis while a correspondent for CBS News, Los Angeles, was used as the introduction to Dr. Dre's album Compton. I'm Bill Kurtis.

BURNES: I'm a volleyball coach just across the river at Northern Kentucky University.

And... BODDEN: ...They don't know what to do with them. It's either a bold, new direction in fashion or the designer had a long weekend doing yard work and forgot he was supposed to design new jeans by Monday morning. SAGAL: Your book is amazing. No bangs meant a fastball. [1] Within three months, after seeing his work covering the tornado[citation needed], WBBM-TV in Chicago hired Kurtis and set the stage for a 30-year career with CBS. - the worst of a wild boar... BODDEN: ...And the worst of pigs that are bred to be huge. The experience changed Kurtis's career path from law to broadcast news. MAEVE HIGGINS: All we know is there'll be a second coming. Kurtis has authored three books: On Assignment (1984), Death Penalty on Trial (2004), and Prairie Table Cookbook (2008). And apparently, some of these - as you say - these domestic hogs which have escaped and have been bred to be very large so they have more meat have been breeding with wild boars, which are naturally aggressive. They were probably like, we're an unsinkable boat. Bill Kurtis is the judge and scorekeeper for NPR's Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! KURTIS: Pulled it out of the blue there. Now, panel, what will be the next big reality show? Here's your first limerick. Each correct answer is worth two points. He covered the neighborhood fires that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and again when Robert F. Kennedy was shot. TOM BODETT: Nose hair trimmers. Kurtis narrated nearly 1,000 documentaries, and Kurtis Productions produced nearly 500 for series like The New Explorers on PBS; Investigative Reports and Cold Case Files for the A&E Television Network; and Investigating History for the History Channel. Bill, how did Tyler do on our quiz? is usually recorded in front of a live audience in Chicago at the Chase Auditorium beneath the Chase Tower on Thursday nights. The Northern Lights sank the... SAGAL: ...That the sinking of the Titanic may have been triggered by the Northern Lights. I'm Bill Kurtis. SAGAL: Steyer was explaining why he interrupted Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders having a disagreement after what big event this week? Like, think of how amazing that bacon got to - super bacon.

Copyright © 2020 NPR. I'm Bill Kurtis. DON'T TELL ME… [8][9] He married his partner of 40 years, former Chicago TV news producer Donna La Pietra, on December 13, 2017.
Finally, back in February, we invited back one of our favorite guests, the movie director Barry Sonnenfeld, to tell us about his recently published memoir. Adam Burke. Carl Kasell and Peter Sagal are a humorous team that take the week's news point out the irony, discontinuity, or radicalness. This week, Gucci unveiled their new pair of $1,200 jeans with premade grass stains. See that girl, hands so clean, digging the washing queen. Big Nose and Ear Hair is finished because we just don't care anymore. HIGGINS: (Unintelligible) I figured it out. BURNES: They're usually cheering.