WWDTM: Dionne Warwick

21:04I was wondering what those paint stains were, but I know. That's great. I wonder, you have had such an extraordinary career. We can't even go into it. Is there a moment that stands out for you in your career where you simply like, I cannot believe that a nice young woman from Orange, New Jersey is doing this? Was it, for example, performing for the Queen of England? Was it getting a Lifetime Achievement Grammy? Is there anything that stands out? Yeah. Okay. I actually stopped Sidney Poitier.

21:46I did. I really did. I don't think anybody can blame you for that. I think I speak for America when I say, do tell. I was coming out of a recording session and we were walking down Broadway and all of a sudden I realized I was walking behind Sidney Poitier. And I said, oh my God. And you know, you've seen it in film. I did it. You know, you walk behind somebody and you don't wanting to know that you're walking behind him and then they stop and you stop and you... So he like spins around because it's like someone's following me and you did the thing where you looked away. Oh no, I just happened to be standing here two feet behind you.

22:37No, he stopped at a red light. That's when he turned around and said, young lady, I said, are you talking to me?

22:49You've been following me. Is there a reason? and of course I said I had a complete loss of words and finally I got up the nerve to ask him will you sign this piece of paper for me he said of course I will and he did and I still have that piece of paper

23:18forgive me but did it not occur to you at that moment to say I'm Dionne Warwick perhaps you know me for my many gold records I don't think he would have cared it is amazing that that is the story you chose to tell from your remarkable career and I kind of love it before we get to our little game with you I did want to ask you about something else in addition to everything else you've done you have now been called the queen of twitter you adopted twitter and you are very good at it And I'm sure you, I have no doubt having met you now that you do it yourself. Here are some of your best tweets. We have them here.

24:02Here's one from 2021. I just heard about Leonardo DiCaprio's 25-year rule. His loss, you don't know what you're missing.

24:20And it's true. It is true. Which brings up another topic. I found out you were married once. That ended in the mid-70s. You never married again. What is it like to be out of everybody's league?

24:44I am having the best time. I do, however. I just got to add one more tweet before we move on. This is from 2022 from Ms. Dionne Warwick, the legend. I will be dating Pete Davidson next.

25:04Oh,

25:11why not? He's dating everybody else. I know. Dionne Warwick, it is such an honor to talk to you. and we have asked you here to play a game we're calling Oh, So That's What Friends Are For. That's What Friends Are For. Obviously one of your greatest signature hits, but as great a song as it is, it doesn't cover all the things friends are for. So we're going to ask you three questions about other things that friends do. If you get two right, you'll win a prize for one of our listeners. the voice of anyone they might choose for their voicemail. Bill, who is Dionne Warwick playing for? Teresa Durkin of Kansas City, Missouri.

25:59All right. Are you ready for this? I'm ready. First question. Friends are great for helping you move, and you probably should call your friends rather than a certain real moving company, A, Shattered Glass Movers in Seattle, Washington, B, hernia movers in Milwaukee or C, two guys and no truck movers in Atlanta, Georgia. One of those is real. Well, I don't like the sound of shattered glass at all. I have too many valuable pieces. Of course. Okay, so they're out. Hernia? Yeah, with some of the stuff that I have to move. they would get a hernia. You're right. Hernia movers. They're real. Hernia movers has been helping.

26:52I'm talking about. She does. Hernia movers has been helping people move around Milwaukee since 1975. Here's your next question. Another thing that friends are good for is of course rides to the airport. But it was likely a very bad friend who forgot what that was left at the Dublin airport. was it a a tombstone with the inscription you will always be remembered never forgotten be their friend's car which they left in long-term parking for so long that it cost a hundred thousand dollars to get it out or see their friend who's been living at the airport now for 14 years

27:43I think living there You think So you think that somebody Went to the airport to get their friend Forgot to pick him up And he's just been there for 14 years The audience Alright if you don't think I'm right That's alright

28:01but having spent a little time with you i absolutely respect your confidence here it's what i should have expected but it is actually a the tombstone all right here's your last question the final thing friends are for is being a wingman that is helping you meet dates when you're out together well one such wingman posted his story on reddit he said his friend got divorced was really broken up about it. So he took the divorced friend out to a bar to meet some ladies. And then what happened? A, the bartender recognized his friend and called the police to have him arrested for robbing the place two weeks earlier.

28:38B, the wingman introduced the friend to an attractive woman there who turned out to be the friend's ex. Or C, the friend kept trying the line on the ladies, he's my wingman, but when you and I get married, he'll be our ringman. Oh, I know, yes. Making that face. You can immediately throw out three, I think. Oh, okay. I think it was his ex that he... You think it's that one? Yeah. You're right. That's what happened. He says he was chatting up this woman in the bar. He said, hey, have you met my friend John over here? Yes, she has. Wow. Bill, how did Dionne Warwick do in our quiz? Oh, you know, she got two right.

29:21I forget the third. Yeah. But that's a winner in our game. There you are. Add that to the list. Dionne Warwick is a six-time Grammy winner. She's touring around the globe this year. You can find dates at officialdeonwarwick.com. Dionne Warwick, thank you so much for gracing us with your presence. Give it up for a living legend, everybody.

29:56In just a minute, Bill has a warning about an adorable but deadly menace in our listener Limerick Challenge. Call 1-888-WAIT-WAIT to join us on the air. We'll be back in a minute with more of Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me from NPR.

30:17From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, the NPR News Quiz. I'm Bill Curtis. We are playing this week with Paula Poundstone, Josh Gundelman, and Shantira Jackson. Here again is your host at the Kansas City Music Hall in Kansas City, Missouri.

30:40Peter Seiko. Thank you, Bill. Thanks, everybody. In just a minute, Bill remembers the 21st night of September in our Listener Limerick Challenge game. If you'd like to play, give us a call at 1-888-WAIT-WAIT. That's 1-888-924-8924. Right now, panel, some more questions for you from the week's news. Paula, there was a trend during the pandemic where friends bought homes together to save money. Now, years later, according to the Wall Street Journal, those people are facing what problem?

31:15Selling their homes. Well, not exactly. Eviction. Breaking up. Breaking up with whom? Well, they're breaking up with, they're not sharing the home anymore. Why? They don't get along anymore. Exactly right. It seems like a great idea, right? There's a horrible idea. You can't afford that lake house getaway on your own, but if you buy it with your friends, you can all afford it. Plus, you have to hang out together more, and there's no way Steve's banjo practice will get annoying, and you will absolutely get used to the smell of Monica's hamster. Well, now, many of those people are trying to buy their friends out, or get their friends to buy them out, before the house gets impossible to sell because of the murders that will happen there.

32:05I think I would be one of those people who was hoping to be bought out because if we did this together, you knew I didn't have any money. Right. I can't buy you out. I can barely buy my way in.

32:21Shantira, this week, the World Emoji Awards, which is real, announced next year's most anticipated emoji. What is it? little tacos oh they got that they got that already big tacos oh also it's yet another face we have faces for happiness we have faces to express sadness the image will be one of those faces obviously we're familiar with and it will have like dark circles under its eyes oh depression

33:01Are we talking about what happens to my face or just everybody? Everybody's face. Dark circle, sleep deprived. Yes, exhausted. That is... The exhausted emoji is coming. Yeah, we need that. Right, it looks like all the other faces, but it's frowning and it's got bags under its eyes. That's also depression. It is. You can use it for that, there are no rules. basically it looks like your face after a long zoom meeting and as we all now know during the entire zoom meeting i can't believe it took us this long to get too exhausted exhausted is one of my top five emotions right and we have like it'll be like frowning and blushing for like when someone uh when you send someone a nude picture and they don't respond fast enough or or like smiling with one tear for like when you're watching uh someone get married on tv and you don't want the people you're with to see that you're weeping while you watch them weep.

33:56You might be interested in what other emojis are being introduced next year, so get ready. You're going to get the leafless tree indicating fall, winter. Depression. That's all so important. All depression.

34:10A fingerprint indicating a clue or, to Shintira, depression. Depression, yes. And a purple splatter indicating you just killed Grimace. well then that's where they're looking for the fingerprint they're like dusting for clues yeah it's like like purple splatter fingerprint you know smiley face i got away with murdering grimace bags under the eyes i haven't slept for days i feel so guilty that i murdered grimace coming up it's lightning fill in the blank but first it's the game where you have to listen for the rhyme if you'd like to play on air call to leave a message at 1-888-wait-wait that's 1-888-924-8924 You can always click the Contact Us link on our website, waitwait.npr.org.

34:54You can catch us most weeks back at the Studebaker Theater in Chicago, or come see us in Detroit at the Fox Theater on November 14th. You can also check out the How to Do Everything podcast, where this week Mike and Ian teach you a hiccup cure that once saved my life. Hi, you're on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. Hey, my name's Ryan, and I'm from Atlanta, Georgia. Hey, how are things in Atlanta these days? Trying to stay above water at the moment. Yeah, I know. It's getting a little rainy there. Well, I hope you avoid the worst of it. What do you do there? I'm a CPA. I work as an accounting manager for an insurance company.

35:30Okay. I'm going to ask you this. I grew up with the cliche, the stereotype that accountants are boring. Can you disabuse me of that notion right now? I'm not, but the rest are. that's good throw those other CPAs under the BUS exactly Ryan welcome to the show Bill Curtis is going to read you three news related limericks of course with the last word or phrase missing from each if you can fill in that last word or phrase correctly on just two of the limericks you will be a winner ready to go let's do it here's your first limerick celebrations hit men in the worst way we cannot let loose and let mirth play.

36:15We love, hate, the tension, and gifts cause real tension. We men can get weird on our birthday. Birthday, yes. An investigation by GQ magazine into how men feel about celebrating their birthdays finds that they feel super weird about it. To which their girlfriends reply, I've already said I'd plan it for you. You just have to give me the emails. According to this article, Well, many men feel there's a cultural stigma about asking others to celebrate their birthdays. One man said, quote, I feel like there's something in the male straight culture where after your early 20s, making a big deal of your birthday is a bit cringe.

36:58Unquote. Or if the entire Chili's waitstaff just put a sparkler in your brownie sundae and are coming over to sing, a lot cringe. I'm right there with that. I don't like celebrating. You don't like celebrating your birthday? I don't. And I don't like to open presents. I have three packages on my desk right now. Two were gifts last Christmas. And another one was a gift from, I don't know, three, four years ago. I think I'm obligated to ask you, why not? I just can't open them. I can't. Give them to me. I have to say. Everybody listening. If you want to send Paula a present, direct it to me. We love presents.

37:45Give me stuff. Even stuff I don't want, I want it. Thank you for that. Thank you. I got you. All right. Ryan, here is your next limerick. My thoughts sometimes feel like a threat blitz. But with video games, I'll reset this. To avert mental shocks, I will turn and stack blocks. my doctor says I should play Tetris. Tetris yes researchers in Sweden may have found a mental health miracle patients who focused on a traumatic memory and then played Tetris for just 20 minutes had their number of intrusive thoughts dropped by 86 percent. Wow it's true if 20 minutes of Tetris helps your well-being that much just imagine what 14 hours of playing Candy Crush in the toilet can do for you.

38:36This is true. When I was a little kid, we had just gotten a Nintendo and my dad would stay up really late playing Tetris and I could hear the music through my bedroom door and I would fall asleep to the Tetris music and I would have these dreams every night that I was falling and spinning and spinning and falling. So your trauma is Tetris. So maybe you should play some Tetris. Ryan, here is your last limerick. By the river I was a slow trotter. Till I passed by that fiend in the water. Don't trust the sweet eyes of those furry wet guys. My friends, I've been mauled by an... Wow. Otter. Yes, otter.

39:19Over the past month, there have been increasing reports of otters attacking humans, seemingly without provocation. They've been talking to the whales. Exactly. The orcans are like, guys, you can get them. They're soft inside. It's scary to get ambushed by a wild animal, but did you know that otters will hold hands while they're mauling you? It's so cute! Otters may look friendly, right? But they actually have very sharp teeth and claws. And fun fact, their fur is so thick and dense, it's the perfect hiding spot for a knife. I feel like any cute animal must have some method of attack, right? whether it's claws or poison.

40:04Because they look, to us they look cute. To a bigger animal, I bet they look delicious. So they've got to be able to scrap when the time comes to it. If you were really messed up by an otter, right? Yeah. What would you tell people? Nothing. That's so embarrassing. So embarrassing. An orca? Yeah, that's cool. That's cool. They're doing a remake of West Side Story, and one of the gangs is named the Otters. Did I just slap the tails? Yeah, yeah. All right. Bill, how did Ryan do in our quiz? I don't know how he did it, but he was perfect. Wow. Congratulations, Ryan. Thank you, guys. Thank you.

41:00Now it's time for our final game. Lightning fill in the blank. 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 is worth two points. Bill, can you give us the scores? Josh and Shantira each have two. Paula was hot tonight. She's got three. All right. So, Josh and Shantira, you're tied. Shantira, I'm going to arbitrarily choose you to go first. So, the clock will start when I begin your first question. Fill in the blank. On Thursday, Hurricane Helene made landfall in blank. Florida? Right. Months after being disbarred in New York, former Trump attorney blank was disbarred in D.C.

41:36Julian. Yes. This week, President Zelensky visited the White House to ask for continued aid for the war in blank. Ukraine. Right. On Monday, the FDA approved an at-home blank vaccine. Blue? Yes. While preparing for a house sale, an appraiser opened a dusty file cabinet and found blank inside. Chicken nuggets. One of the first ever copies of the U.S. Constitution. Same thing.

42:02On Monday, three astronauts successfully returned from the blank. Space station? Yes. Of the astronauts that did return to Earth, blank of them were the ones stranded there by Boeing. Two? No, none of them. Yeah. They're still up there. A 14-year-old boy in the UK was spared prosecution this week because blank. He tweeted, please don't. No. He was spared criminal prosecution because his parents were already really mad at him. The boy was one of over 1 ,200 people arrested in a series of riots in England this summer, but prosecutors decided, quote, the wrath visited on that child by his parents was enough, unquote.

42:46You know, it's one thing to get arrested. It's rougher when your mom says to the police, wait, you're not going to tase him? Give me that. Bill, how did Shantira do in our quiz? Five right, ten more points, total of 12, puts Shantira in the lead. All right. Josh, my friend. All right. Josh, you're up next. Please fill in the blank. On Thursday, Israel rejected a U.S.-backed ceasefire deal with blank. Lebanon. Right. On Tuesday, the Senate passed a bill guaranteeing Donald Trump and Kamala Harris the same level of blank protection as a sitting president. Secret Service? Right. This week, Thailand officially ratified a law legalizing same-sex blank.

43:27Marriage? Right. On Wednesday, a bankruptcy judge approved the auction of InfoWars, the website owned by blank. Alex Jones. Right. This week, United Airlines offered a woman a$50 travel voucher after she complained that her feet were freezing during her flight because of blank. The window was open. Almost a hole in the floor of the plane. On Tuesday, the CDC warned that a new blank variant is now on the rise. COVID? Right. saying that it can't afford their upkeep, a zoo in Finland announced it would return their two blanks to China. Pandas. Right. This week, a woman in Canada is disputing an$8 ,000 bill from Avis contesting the company's claim that she blanked during her three-day car rental.

44:09Smoked in the car? No, that she drove that car 30 ,000 miles. For the rental company's claim to be true that she drove 30 ,000 miles, the woman would have had to drive 400 miles per hour, 24 hours a day for those three straight days. That said,$8 ,000 to drive across the entire world in a rental car seems pretty cheap. Bill, how did Josh do in our quiz? He's coming up hard. Six right, 12 more points, 14. Puts him by two in the lead. All right. And how many, then, does Paula Poundstone need to win? Six to win, Paula. Here you go, Paula. A lot of pressure, though. This is for the game. Fill in the blank.

44:53On Wednesday, Congress approved a spending plan to temporarily avert a blank. Government shutdown. Right. On Monday, Governor Newsom signed a law banning blank at California grocery stores. Plastic. Yeah, plastic bags. Right. This week, striking airplane mechanics rejected a final contract offer from blank. I don't know. Boeing? Yes. On Monday, NFL Hall of Famer Brett Favre revealed he had been diagnosed with blank. Parkinson's. Right. According to a study, one-third of adults suffer from a blank deficiency. Iron. Right. On Thursday, the A's played their final game at the Coliseum in blank. Oakland.

45:28Right. According to the New York Post, new footage suggests that what we have long thought was the Loch Ness Monster is actually blank. Garden host. No, two Loch Ness Monsters. Oh, wow. According again to the New York Post, new footage clearly shows two sea monsters occupying Scotland's Loch Ness at the same time. If that were not shocking enough, the Post also has a new investigative report showing that Bigfoot is actually just three small foots standing on each other's shoulders. Bill, did Paula Poundstone do well enough to win? Six right, 12 more points, total of 15. Gives her the win. Oh, Paula!

46:08There it happens. It's a breakthrough. Coming up, our panelists will predict what will we discover when we land on the mini moon. But first, let me tell you that Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me is a production of NPR and WBEZ Chicago, in association with Urgent Haircut Productions, Doug Berman, Benevolent Overlord. Philip Gotteke writes our limericks. Our public address announcer is Paul Friedman. Our tour manager is Shana Donald. BJ Lederman composed our theme. Our program is produced by Jennifer Mills, Miles Dornbos, and Lillian King. Special thanks to Monica Hickey and Blythe Roberson. Peter Gwynn is president of the Dionne Warwick Fan Club.

46:44Our Vibe curator is Emma Choi. Technical direction is from Lorna White. Her CFO is Colin Miller. Our production manager is Robert Newhouse. Our senior producer is Ian Chilag. And the executive producer of Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me is Mike Danforth. Now, panel, what will we find on the mini-moon? Shantira Jackson. Lots of flags because aliens have already done it. Josh Gombelman. Oh, you think we're going to land on this moon? Wake up, Peter! And Paula Poundstone. Alice Cramden.

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