Elizabeth Holmes and Nathan Fielder Keep Us Guessing
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Elizabeth Holmes and Nathan Fielder Keep Us Guessing

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 18, 202643 min

The comedian Nathan Fielder came to fame as the creator and host of the Comedy Central series “Nathan for You.” The show followed Fielder as he devised outrageous schemes, ostensibly with the aim of helping various small businesses. What became clear, though, was that Fielder was less interested in helping business owners generate profits than he was in understanding the people ensnared in his plots. His next project, the HBO series “The Rehearsal,” was a similar offbeat portrait of offbeat people. At the center of both projects is Fielder himself, a documentarian whose motives can sometimes be hard to parse.<...

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Recently, we asked about how you share your New York Times account, and you had a lot to say about New York Times games. I need my own New York Times login because my sister is so much worse at the crossword than I am.

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I discovered that he's already finished connections that day, and I'm like, Jonah, it was my day. It doesn't let us play the same games as each other. I play the stoku. I do the crossword.

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I do the spelling bee. I do the wordle. Please help. The kids want to be able to play Wordle, but with the Wordlebot.

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