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‘Wait Wait’ for November 8, 2025: Live in Orange County with Roy Choi

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Chef Roy Choi speaks on stage in Beverly Hills, California

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This week’s show was recorded in Orange County with host Peter Sagal, guest judge and scorekeeper Alzo Slade, Not My Job guest Roy Choi and panelists Karen Chee, Negin Farsad, and Tom Papa. Click the audio link above to hear the whole show.

Who’s Alzo This Time

New York’s Feeling Blue; Junk Food Goes Posh; A Housekeeper with a Catch

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Panel Questions

Guess The Louvre’s Passworduess the Louvre’s Password

Bluff The Listener

Our panelists tell three stories about jobs of the future, only one of which is true.

Not My Job: Chef, author, and food truck revolutionary Roy Choi answers our questions about other types of trucks

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Chef Roy Choi, famous for revolutionizing food trucks, plays our game called, “Food Trucks? Meet these new trucks!” Three questions about different kinds of trucks.

Panel Questions

The GOAT and The Pup; Sweet Pettiness Rewarded

Limericks

Alzo Slade reads three news-related limericks: An Extra Dill Sandwich; Cookies to Be Thankful For; Get Your Lids Straight!

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All the news we couldn’t fit anywhere else

Predictions

Our panelists predict, now that they’ve started selling junk food, what will be the next big change at Whole Foods.

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Zac Brown shares his harrowing childhood story on ‘Love & Fear’

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Zac Brown is best known for celebrating simple pleasures. As his most popular song puts it, all he needs is “a little bit of chicken fried, cold beer on a Friday night, a pair of jeans that fit just right, and the radio on.”

Now, he’s telling a darker story.

The Zac Brown Band’s new album draws partly from Brown’s youth growing up outside Atlanta. “Unless someone knows me very well and is very close to me, I haven’t shared a lot of what drove me into music,” he told Morning Edition.

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Brown recalled that both his mother and stepfather lived with mental illness. “I grew up in a really crazy environment, in and out of battered women’s shelters,” he said. “And as a kid, trying to make sense of that, trying to protect my mom, trying to figure out what the hell is going on in my house or whatever, that drove me into music.”

He left home young. Brown said he was playing coffeehouses at 14 and touring by 17. Those early experiences, he added, helped him find his voice. “It gave me my resilience. It gave me my resolve,” he said. “The level of empathy that I am able to hold, it can be kind of crippling in a way, but I think it really serves me well as an artist. Those were all gifts, but you don’t know them at the time.”

That desire to draw inspiration out of that dark backstory explains the tone of songs like “Butterfly,” his duet with Dolly Parton.

Other songs build on elaborate harmonies, which come from another side of his youth. “I grew up as a choir nerd,” he admitted. “The vocal arrangement for me is always my favorite part.”

Brown said he worked with a 20-piece choir on this album, including the standout track “Animal.”

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“When you can wrap the right story with the right melody with the right harmony … that’s how you get that visceral feeling. That’s how you get the chill bumps,” he said “I long to hear things that really move me.”

“Love & Fear” was released on December 5 — the same day the Zac Brown Band played its first of several concerts at The Sphere, the giant performance space in Las Vegas.

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Kyle Richards Says She’s Dated Since Mauricio Umansky Separation

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Kyle Richards Says She’s Dated Since Mauricio Umansky Separation

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I Date, I’m Just Discreet …
Unlike You, Mauricio!!!

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Here are the 2026 Golden Globe nominations

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Here are the 2026 Golden Globe nominations : NPR



Here are the 2026 Golden Globe nominations Marlon Wayans and Skye P. Marshall presented the nominees for the 83rd Golden Globes this morning. The awards ceremony will be held on Jan. 11, hosted by Nikki Glaser.



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Marlon Wayans and Skye P. Marshall presented the nominees for the 83rd Golden Globes this morning. You can watch the announcement above.

The Golden Globes awards ceremony will be held on Jan. 11, hosted by Nikki Glaser.

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