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'Wait Wait' for June 14, 2025: With Not My Job guest Chris Perfetti

12:30pm June 14, 2025

This week, Wait Wait is live in Chicago with guest host Negin Farsad, special guest Chris Perfetti and panelists Joyelle Nicole Johnson, Alonzo Bodden, and Luke Burbank

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We're all going to die. What now? 'The Life of Chuck' sits with this question

7:00am June 14, 2025

Tom Hiddleston stars in the new adaptation of Stephen King's novella — which is somehow a very sweet film about the inevitable approach of death.

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I played the new Resident Evil — and a whole lot more. Here are my thoughts

5:00am June 14, 2025

The annual Play Days showcase was far more interesting than the reveals themselves.

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'Death at the White Hart': When the publican is found dead, everyone's a suspect

5:22pm June 13, 2025

by Kathryn Fink

NPR's Mary Louise talks with Chris Chibnall, author of Death at the White Hart.

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What if being Mr. 305 was a state of mind?

4:51pm June 13, 2025

by Mia Venkat

Pitbull fans are honoring him the only way they know how: partying till dawn in bald caps and fake goatees.

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These catchy old songs aren't as think as you drunk they are

3:46pm June 13, 2025

People are drinking less these days, but drinking songs never go out of style. The Lomax Archive is dropping a new album of traditional songs this week.

'Buy now, pay later:' a replacement for the millennial lifestyle subsidy?

3:02pm June 13, 2025

The cheap convenience of the "millennial lifestyle subsidy" has gone - does "buy now, pay later" fill in the gaps?

Willie Nelson and Ken Pomeroy make beautiful music for tumultuous times

9:36am June 13, 2025

by Ken Tucker

On Cruel Joke, Pomeroy, age 22, sings with an acoustic twang about farms and cowboys. The 92-year-old Nelson's Oh What a Beautiful World is an album of covers of songs by Rodney Crowell.

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The math in Celine Song's 'Materialists' doesn't add up

7:00am June 13, 2025

The characters in the romantic comedy Materialists, Celine Song's follow-up to Past Lives, see the dating pool in terms of the "market" – people are evaluated by how "competitive" they are and marriage is treated like an equation to be solved.

Did Trump get cheers or jeers at 'Les Mis'? Find out in the quiz

5:00am June 13, 2025

This week brought the celebrity-starved quiz a cornucopia of fun. Were you paying attention?