A fond farewell to brunch and also humankind

[MUSIC] >> From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is, wait, wait, don't tell me. The NPR News Quiz. I'm Al Goh Slade, your judge and scorekeeper. And I can't help but notice that's two jobs, but I only get one check. >> [LAUGH] >> Well, here's your host at the Student Breaker Theater at the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Illinois. Peter Segal. >> Thank you, Al Goh. >> Thanks, everybody. >> Wow, we do have a great show for you today. Later on, we're going to be talking to the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Ernan Diaz. But first, the US House of Representatives, this is true, just passed a law requiring car manufacturers to include AM radios in all the new cars going forward. That is a true thing, as you might expect, this was very popular with the older members of Congress. In fact, for this vote, Mitch McConnell came back to life. >> [LAUGH] >> There's no law requiring you to call in and play our games. What we hope you do anyway, the number is 1-triple eight, wait, wait, that's 1-888-9248-924. Now let's welcome our first listener contestant. How you around, wait, wait, don't tell me. >> Hi, this is Katie from Nashville, Tennessee. >> Hey, Katie from Nashville, Tennessee. >> [APPLAUSE] >> Can I just play on stereotypes and assume you're in the music business? >> I am not, I am a bartender, so we have to hurry up. >> That is music business adjacent. >> [LAUGH] >> Close enough. >> Yeah, yeah, you're not a musician, but you've thrown a lot of them out of your establishment. >> Yeah, one or two, yeah. >> Yeah, yeah, well, Katie, welcome to the show. Let me introduce you to our panel. First up, she's a writer and comedian who most recently wrote for Clean Slate, which you can see on Prime. Shantira Jackson. >> Hi, Katie. >> [APPLAUSE] >> Next, the comedian whose first collection of essays and drawings, with whom I am well pleased, is now available for pre-order from Kiko Press. It's Adam Burke. Hello, Katie. >> [APPLAUSE] >> Hi. And making her debut on this panel, she's the comedian you can catch on her show. Nervous laughter every month at the Lincoln Lodge right here in Chicago. Please welcome Sam Rocha. >> Hello, hi, Peter. >> [APPLAUSE] >> So, Katie, you're going to play who's Alzo this time. Alzo Slate is going to read for you three quotations from this week's news. If you can correctly identify or explain two of them, you will win our prize. Any voice from our show, you might choose in your voice smell. You ready to go? >> I'm ready. >> All right, here's your first quote. It is an answer we got from Google Gemini. It does not currently have the capability to destroy humanity. >> Now, Gemini is perhaps a little biased here, considering how many humans are sounding the alarm this week that what might destroy humanity? >> That would be artificial intelligence. >> Yes, AI. >> [APPLAUSE] >> It's a little distressing when we asked, Google Gemini, are you going to kill us all? And we got that answer because it's stressed that it doesn't currently have the capability to, and added a little sad face. >> [LAUGH] >> The confusing thing is that the people warning us about AI are the people who are making AI. The CEO of Anthropic is basically like, we got to stop this. Does anybody know anybody at Anthropic? >> [LAUGH] >> Are you worried, guys? >> I am worried about it. I worry about it every time I walk outside and I see those cocoa robots. >> I don't know if we're familiar with those things, but they're the delivery. >> These are the little delivery robots. >> The delivery guys, and they trick you because they look cute at first. They put human faces on them with eyes and mouth and they'll give it a name, too. >> Yeah, yeah. >> Well, they've been doing this thing now, or they do like ethnic names? I saw one named Natasha. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I saw one named Men Latasha, and one named Manuel. And I was like, what are we doing? >> I'm a, yeah. >> What's the deal? >> Yeah, Ron G. You've almost broke my leg. >> I was like, you can't get me wrong. >> I don't know, I was noticing that I think about the ethnic name. Is that better or worse? >> It's worse. >> It shouldn't, it should all be Anglo-Saxonans, right? >> Yeah, it should all be white people that it's weird. >> Because, yeah. >> On the day, you should have to be scared, the cross-traffic, to bring somebody chick below. >> You know what's even worse, they're robots, they're not humans, but somehow the ones with ethnic names are still being paid less. >> Yeah, I know Latasha is working hard. >> And I wasn't supposed to destroy all of us. It was just supposed to destroy musicians. >> Writers, editors, teachers, doctors, lawyers, programmers, and actors. >> I know a few podcasts as it could destroy people. >> Exactly. >> You know, Bill Gates wrote a 6,000 word essay about how AI is going to destroy. I didn't read it. I had ChatTVT summarized it. >> What was it? >> ChatTVT says, Bill says it's going to be fine. >> Yeah. >> Don't worry. All right, Katie, here is your next quote. >> Sports, sports, sports, sports, sports. >> That, as I'm sure you knew, was Sidney Sweeney, the actress and model who appeared in a controversial viral ad for a company that lets you bet on what? >> [LAUGH] >> Oh, I'm going to have to think real hard. I'm guessing sports. >> Yes, sports. >> [APPLAUSE] >> The ad features a naked Sidney Sweeney holding sports equipment in strategic places and saying the word sports a bunch of times. It's caused backlash from tons of female athletes who say it's demeaning. And it kind of is. It is strange to find myself saying, I expected better from you online Casino. >> [LAUGH] >> I know that people are upset about her being naked and holding things. I'm upset because she really has never played a sport. Because nobody who has ever played softball ever wants to be naked while they're doing it. >> Right, right. >> You're not going to, you're not going to slide home with no pants on. >> You can also tell she doesn't play sports by the way she says the word sports. Like she had never heard it before and doesn't know what any of the objects she's holding are. This is a weird plate, you know? >> Well, it has apparently worked this ad for this Australian sports betting site. Has gotten 50 million views already, and that's fantastic marketing. For a betting website whose name I assume is like footballboobs.com. >> [LAUGH] >> She was like on a basket at one point. >> Yeah, she was sitting on a basket. >> That was physically a basket ball rim. >> You guys, a rim. >> Yeah, a basket ball rim. Because if you don't know sports, you'll think she's just on a basket. [LAUGH] >> We got to be specific about it. >> That's true, sports, sports, sports, sports, sports, sports. All right, Katie, your last quote is a restaurant go. >> We're talking about why a certain weekend tradition has lost its appeal to just about everyone. >> I associated with oversized portions, mediocre food, and an entire afternoon disappearing. >> So what is finally going away? >> Oh gosh, I feel like I should know this serving food for a living, but can I get a hint? >> No more like eggs, Benedict bars, and a menu of bloody marries. >> Crunch? >> Yes, brunch. [APPLAUSE] This week, the Wall Street Journal officially declared the death of brunch. People are tired. >> [LAUGH] >> What are you upset with me because they didn't ease you into that bad news. I didn't start by saying brunch is very ill, we're not quite sure. >> That guy's shocked to it. I'll be right, I was insensitive. >> That guy's name is literally eggs, Benedict, sure. >> So this week, the Wall Street Journal did officially declare the death of brunch. People are tired of waiting in the long lines, they're people want to eat healthier. And then of course, there is the challenge of getting those tankers of holiday saw safely through the straight of hormones. [LAUGH] >> Are you guys brunch fans, will you be? >> I am a brunch fan, but I will say, this is from the Wall Street Journal, which I guess is really known for brunch reviews? >> Yeah. >> I appreciate the source, but I can't take it seriously, I need a blog from a drag queen to tell me that book. >> [LAUGH] >> I need Trixie Mattel to tell me brunch is dead before I believe it. >> I like they're going to start calling it what it is, drunk at two in the afternoon. >> Well that's the thing. >> I also love, I mean, because the big thing that brunches was the bloody Mary bar. >> Yeah, it was so clever, which was just a bartender who's gone. >> We do not want to make you drink. >> Yeah. >> Just do it yourself, it's basically self-checkout for alcohol. >> [LAUGH] >> Also, how do Katie do in our quiz? >> Katie is the winner, she got all of them right. >> Congratulations Katie. >> [APPLAUSE] >> Thank you. >> [APPLAUSE] >> We'll stop by your bar, the next time we're in Nashville. >> We'd love to have you. >> It'd be great, thank you so much Katie, take care. [MUSIC] >> Okay panel, it is time for you to answer some questions about this week's news. Sam, this week we learned about yet another new stress on marriages these days. It's wives having to make sure their husband has what? >> Has the right layout of the kitchen. [LAUGH] You know how they don't, they don't know where anything is. -Yeah. -The husbands. -Yeah. -You hear this. -Yeah, they, you hear this about husbands. We just don't know where anything is. -Okay, I know that's not the answer. -That's not the answer. -But we can ask for a hint, no. -Okay. -Wives and mothers are often arranging play dates for their kids, so. -A friend? -Yes. They're trying to get their husbands' friends. [ Laughter and applause ] If you think about it, it makes sense. If you ever met a friend's husband, and you thought, "Huh, maybe he's really funny when it's just the two of them." [ Laughter ] You're not alone. According to the cut, more and more women are having a hard time socializing their husbands. Apparently, as marriages progress, wives put an extra effort to maintain their friendships, while husbands just find more things to do in the basement. [ Laughter ] -I don't think you needed a study to say that it's hard to be friends with men. [ Laughter ] -That would just be wasted money. [ Laughter ] -So once our colleges put it in addition to things like housekeeping, women also have to take on, quote, "man-keeping," basically managing their husbands' social lives like they were at toddler. So, good news, honey. You're going over to Ryan's house on Friday, and Rebecca said you should bring your iPad. [ Laughter ] -I feel like this is just the wives saying, "Get your ass out of the house." [ Laughter ] Let's go ride our scooters. Let's go ride our bikes. Let's go have a snack. Everybody likes. Coming up, our panelists regret buying something they saw on TV. It's our bluff-to-listener game called "One Tribal 8. Wait, wait, wait, to play." We'll be back in a minute. It was more of "Wit, Wait, don't tell me." "Frim and peel." From NPR, N-W-B-E-Z Chicago, this is "Wait, Wait, don't tell me." The NPR news quiz, "I'm Alzo Slade." We're playing this week with Adam Burke, Shentera Jackson, and Sam Rocha. And here again is your host at the Stuttabaker Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, Peter Segal. -Thank you, Alzo. Thank you, everybody. Thank you all. Right now, it's time for the "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me Bluff the Listener Game," called "One Tribal 8. Wait, wait, to play our game in the air." "Hi, you are on "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me." -Howdy. -Howdy, who's this? -This is Christopher Oreshardt from Chicago, Illinois. -Hey! -Hey! -Where do you live? Are you close by? We could wait and come down to do this in person. -I know, it'd be nice. But I'm way up north in Rogers Park. -Okay. What do you do in the greatest city in the world? -I am a singer and voice teacher. -No, really? That is great. -Yeah. -Let me ask you something. -Yeah. -And I'm asking for myself. -Is there anybody who sings so badly, naturally, that you simply could never help them learn to do it correctly? -No, I think everybody can sing well. Just put the little love and training. -That really split the room. Did you know that? Half of the people in here were like, "No, they can't." I was tempted to try to prove you wrong, but these people are having a good time while I ruined it. -Well, it's very nice to have you on the show, Christopher. You're going to play our game in which you have to tell truth from fiction. -Also, what's Christopher's topic? -A scene on TV, unfortunately. -So many things can go wrong when you buy something that's advertised on TV. I ordered a scrub daddy, but it was no more emotionally available than my regular daddy. -Yeah. -Well, this week, television retail giant QVC sold something that required a pretty major apology. Our panelists are going to tell you about it. Pick the real one and get the weight waiter of your choice in your voice mail. Ready to play? -All right. -That's here first from Shantira Jackson. -We are currently in the thick of fall wedding season. So the QVC channel, aka Quality, Value and Convenience, decided to offer a special flower bouquet called the Fall Explosion. The thought being that if you can't make it to a wedding in person, you can still have a blast celebrating the newlyweds by sending them a gift, chock full of dollos, marigolds, and other fall favorites. Each bouquet was meant to knock your socks off. The problem is that all of the delivery people were given a script to recite upon arrival, showing up announcing, "Hey, I got a special explosion in the box for the bride to be." With one delivery guy going as far as saying, "Be careful when you open that, it's the bomb." Needless to say, there were many reports of potential bomb threats throughout suburban neighborhoods. The head honchos at QVC quickly issued an apology stating that when it comes to flowers, sometimes they get it wrong, and to make it up to customers that were affected, they promised that if you call right now in the next 10 minutes, you can get two pairs of jaggings for the price of one. The fall flower explosion freaks out some of its recipients. Your next QV apology comes from Adam Burke. Time was when Halloween decorations were simple. Cute cobwebs made from asbestos and real spiders. But there's been a recent escalation over the top ghostly decor, whether it's giant anatomically correct skeletons, or one of those life-sized motion-activated animatronics which have literally scared the crap out of me. But the latest decoration innovation is less creepy and more well-creepy. Meet Jabber and Jack, an animated talking pumpkin that spits out 40 seasonally-themed quips and different scary songs that passers by. But according to a woman on TikTok, one tune hidden in Jack's repertoire gave her the wrong kind of shivers. The pumpkin starts by explaining how this villainous facade is just because I'm shy, come closer. Before he tells you he'll spoil you with my roasted pumpkin seeds and asks, "How would you like to scream all night?" Apart from being the only recorded instance of a white lady objecting to something pumpkin-related and spicy, the saucy squashy serenade have generated many complaints, prompting apologies from both manufacturer Minescope and TV retailer QVC. The NPR reached out to Jabber and Jack for comment, but his response isn't suitable for broadcast. Jabber and Jack! With dirty singing pumpkin, your last home shopping sorry comes from Sam Rocha. When Shirley Robinson saw blouses for sale during the 10th hour of her QVC marathon, she knew she had to have one. So she used her cell phone to call the number on the screen, and then her house phone rang. She went to pick it up and she was on the other side. After a full minute of going, "Hello, this is Shirley. No, this is Shirley. I want to buy that blouse. No, I want to buy that blouse." She realized that QVC had projected her phone number on the screen. QVC blamed it on a graphics department error, saying the number was right, but the font made the sixes look like fives, confirming, as we'd all feared, a specific brushstroke is simply too whimsical for a professional setting. For the rest of the day, Shirley fielded calls from people trying to buy a blouse. At first she was annoyed, and then she saw it as a business opportunity. QVC has since apologized for the mix-up, but not before Shirley sold her entire wardrobe. All right, these are your choices from Shantira, the poorly marketed fall explosion floral bouquet, from Adam Burke, the dirty singing pumpkin jabbering jack, or from Sam, because they posted a woman's home phone number as the number to order, she ended up calling herself to buy a blouse. Which of these is the real story of a mistake on a whole shopping channel? I feel like I want to go with the pumpkin. You're going to go with the pumpkin. Great, well, to bring you the real story, what can I say? Listen to this. How would you like to scream all night? I feel good. Right. That was scary. Jabbering jack itself. The pumpkin sold on QVC, singing its freaky little song. Congratulations, Christopher. You got it right. You earned a point for Adam just for telling the truth. You've won our prize, the voice of your choice and your voice mail. Thank you so much for playing with us today. Thank you so much. It's been really fun. It's been great, Christopher. Thank you. And now the game we call Not My Job. A handful of authors, of course, have won a Pulitzer Prize. But as far as we know, there's only one winner who can say their novel is the reason Dua Lepa met her husband. That author is Arnon Diaz, whose new novel "Ply" is out this month and he joins us now. Arnon Diaz, welcome to "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me." So obviously we're going to start with this. It is true, in fact, that Dua Lepa first bonded with her now husband. Over your book trust, right? It is true. It is true. I think it's actually one of the first pictures the exchange was the cover of the book. Because she's well known for her literary enthusiasm. this guy who she had ever said, "Oh, do a leap of what are you reading?" And she said, "Trust." And he said, "Me too." And off they went. But the question, I think that I think the line was, "Oh, we're on the same page." "Oh, whoa, that's some sexy talk right there." "Oh, that is." "I heard it from the man, I heard it from the man himself." And, you know, as a writer, I'm now married, but I was kind of jealous. "Yeah, sure." "Yeah, sure." I mean, okay, so they bonded over your book, but are you sure they both liked it? (audience laughing) There is nothing that brings people more closely together than dislikes. - There you are, true. Either way, you're happy. - They brought the book. - Yeah, it's true. I read this amazing story that I had not known about how your first book came to be published, which is that you send it to a small press nonprofit in Minneapolis, that was basically running a contest, submit your manuscript, and we'll publish the one we like best. Was it like that? - Yeah, that's pretty close. I've been writing my entire life, but I had an extremely hard time getting published. I was published in my late 40s. I was already completely bald. And-- - I'm sorry. What's wrong with that? (audience laughing) - Oh, best. - Peter, he's saying there's hope for you. - Yeah, that's both. - It was true that, thank you. And it was true that the genius could only emerge once he was so hair in the way. (audience laughing) Exactly. So anyway, so it's all gone. - Yeah, so this independent publisher had one day a year of open submissions. I needless to say, did not have an agent, but I was ready and I think they kept it at six or eight hundred submissions, which only took a matter of hours to reach that limit. And I was ready that morning and sent it. And on Fourth of July weekend, I heard back from the publisher and they wanted to publish the book, which was in the distance, which is not my first novel. I have drawers full of manuscripts, but that was the one that got published first. - Wow, yeah, and so people may know that your first published novel was a finalist for the bullet surprise, which is quite extraordinary for a first novel. And one-- (audience applauding) I always like asking this of authors who struggle for a long time before that they were finally discovered for their talent. Do you ever run into the many people who turned you down and sent you rejection notes and smile in a way like? - I do, my favorite moment is when they go, so very nice to meet you. And actually, we've already-- (audience laughing) - I wonder though, since you were able to pursue your art with such passion for what you were doing in isolation just for yourself, is it actually harder now that you're an award-winning acclaimed novelist who everybody expects great things from? - Parts that are harder, but I also know the other side of this of writing in complete solitude and this kind of solipsistic madness of, and keeping going despite the world telling you to please stop. (audience laughing) I think I prefer these challenges to-- - Yes. (audience applauding) - We also read that for all of this writing, including all those novels that didn't get published and now the novels that have been published to acclaim, you've used the same pen for 20 years? - This pen? - That pen. (audience laughing) - It's here, yes, an old professor of mine gave it to me, I wanna say, almost 30 years ago now, I'm 52, so maybe a little less actually, but yeah, it's still this pen. - What would happen if you lost it? - So much RAM in my head is devoted to the pen and to that question, what would happen if I lost it? I think I would move over to my second favorite pen, which is, you guys know that I don't have one in the proximity, do you guys know those big pens with four colors? - Oh, yeah. (audience laughing) - I grew up with that. (audience applauding) I think that is the most, the human race is capable of. - Right, when we went to that pen and I love those pens. - That might help your art, 'cause you'd be like, well, this character's getting angry, I guess I'm changing to red. I have one more question for you before we get to our game and that's, as I indicated, one of the things that makes you stand out, I think, as an author of literary fiction, is how different your books are. So your first published novel in the distance is a Western or it's set in the Western United States in those days. As I said, trust is early 20th century New York financiers in Europe, apply, set in the far future, very sort of science fiction-especulative. What's your next genre? Have you considered, for example, Romanticie? (audience laughing) - It's gonna have so many dragons, Peter. (audience laughing) - That's also, that's just a good title, so many dragons. - Yes. - Okay, hear me out. Dragons, but they play hockey. - And, actually, he did rivalry. - Exactly. - Well, Hernández, it is an absolute pleasure to talk to you and we have invited you here to play a game we're calling, you wrote, "Ply." But what do you know about two-ply? (audience laughing) - Yes, your novel is a single-ply, we're gonna ask you about something that, looking for it, it comes in two-ply toilet paper. (audience laughing) - I am determined to lose. (audience laughing) - I think for a writer of your dignity and seriousness, there really is no other acceptable choice. (audience laughing) But we are gonna ask you three questions about toilet paper, get two of those questions right. You want to prize one of our listeners, also who is Hernández playing for. - Peach Works of Forest Park, Illinois. - That's not far from here, so here we go. (audience applauding) - Here's your first question. Toilet paper really took off in the United States over the last 150 years or so. In fact, it was very important for the rise of Sears Robuck Company. How so? Was it A, their first wildly successful product was, quote, "Sears cotton spools for your stool." (audience laughing) B, the founder of the company, Richard Sears, was using an envelope as T.P. and said to himself, "Well, why not mail everything?" Or see, their famous catalogs were widely prized as toilet paper. - I'm gonna go with A. - You're gonna go with A. Sears, remember, he said he wanted to get it wrong. (audience laughing) And I'm going to honor that. Your choice is A, I'm afraid it was C, in fact. (audience applauding) In fact, so many people used it as toilet paper that when they went in the 30s from plain paper to glossy thousands of people wrote into complain. (audience laughing) Here's your second question. The Northern Tissue Company back in 1935 started advertising their new innovation in the space. Toilet paper, that was what? A, ethically sourced. B, lovingly abrasive, or C, splinter free. (audience laughing) - Again, A. It was in fact C, splinter free. (audience laughing) Last question. Some people are serious about their toilet paper, including which of these? A, the late drug lord Pablo Escobar, who had his woven from silk by a private seamstress. B, the New York Jets, who ahead of an NFL game in London shipped over 350 rolls of toilet paper for the team's use. Or see Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who is required by law to use both toilet paper and papillette toilet every time. (audience laughing) - I'm gonna stick with A, you're gonna stick with A. (audience laughing) - No, the real answer was B. The New York Jets, they have been told the British toilet paper was really thin, so they brought their own. (audience laughing) Also, how do more of them? (audience laughing) Leading literary lights of our time. Doing our quiz. - He preserves dignity by doing terribly. (audience laughing) - Zero out of zero. I think, honest to God. (audience applauding) I honestly think that if you had gotten any of those right, I would have been a little disappointed. (audience laughing) So I congratulate you on maintaining your reputation. - Thank you. - I'll fail again, I'll fail better. (audience laughing) - Hernan Diaz is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Trust His New Book, "Ply." It's available for pre-order now. It will blow your mind. Hernan Diaz, thank you so much for joining us. I'm waiting for your time. What a pleasure to talk to you. (audience applauding) Thank you so much. Take care. (upbeat music) In just a minute, Alzo tells you about the most stressful way to relax. That's on our listener-limbric challenge. Go one, triple eight, wait, wait. To join us in the air, we'll be back in a minute. With more of "Wait, Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me." From NPR. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) From NPR and WBEZ Chicago. This is "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me." The NPR news quiz. I'm Alzo Slade. We're playing this week. with Adam Burke, Sam Rocha, and Centera Jackson, and here again is your host at the Studebricker Theater in Chicago, Illinois, Peter Seigel. - Thank you, Alzo. (audience cheering) - Just a minute, well, Alzo kept begging us to read some Limericks, and so we finally said fine. That's our listener Limerick challenge coming up. If you'd like to play, give us a call at 1-888-888-928-924. But right now, panel, it is time for you to answer some questions from this week's news. Centera, a new movie has thousands of people theorizing that rather than being enemies, as we have always thought, who might actually be lovers? - The whales and the people with the yachts. - Really, the organ, you're thinking about the orchids and the yachts there. - Oh, wow. - I didn't realize how horny Moby Dick was. (audience laughing) - It's right in the town. - No, like I said. (audience laughing) - It's telling you exactly what's wrong. - When he says, "I stab it," he was talking about exactly the town. - I'll take a hint. I'll take a hint. - You'll take a hint. Well, when you think about it, meat could mean, I'm yours. - Oh, road runner and coyotes. - Exactly right. - They could have a thing for each other. The theory, the theory is that behind it, their long feud is repressed desire. (audience laughing) It makes sense. We all know somebody who's love languages and vils. (laughing) So this new movie is out, Coyote versus Acme, and these old characters are back in the news. And there are thousands of videos speculating about their secret romance on TikTok. This is a fan theory that makes you realize, boy, we are so hungry for heated rivalry season two. (audience laughing) - I've seen this, yeah. It's based on, if you watch those old cartoons, that the road runner never actually hurts Coyote. - Right. - It's Acme that's always hurting him. - So it's just kind of like watching, it's like if your boyfriend's on jackass and you just kind of watch it. (audience laughing) - Yeah. - It's like, look what he's doing. - You mean the road runner could stop this madness at any time. - Yeah, but he's just like, ooh, look at my boy, jump off a bridge. (audience laughing) - I think, I think Wiley Coyote is a tech billionaire. - Mm-hmm. - He can't be chasing the road runner for actual meal 'cause they know me don't his bone. - I think he's a tech billionaire 'cause he's warning us that these machines are gonna kill us. (audience laughing) And we don't listen to him. (audience laughing) - Sam, according to some doctors and dermatologists, who are also doctors in the shower? (audience laughing) In the shower, after you wash yourself, you should then do what? - You should, after you wash yourself. - Yes. - You should throw away the lufa. - No, in fact, you should not throw it away because they want you to. - They want you to get a clue. - Yeah. - You know, they want you to get a clue. - This might be, this study might be have been funded by Big Body Wash because they want you to do what after you've washed yourself. - Wash yourself a second time. - You do! - Yes! (audience cheering) - You got it, well, you got there eventually. We are now told that we need to wash ourselves in the shower completely twice in order to thoroughly clean and nourish your skin experts now recommend double cleansing. Think of your body, if you will, like a dirty Tupperware. You can scrub and rinse once, but the essence of marinara remains. (audience laughing) - I think this is good. I've been to middle school. They need to do it twice. - Yeah, exactly. (audience laughing) - All right, all right. I'll allow a middle school to have you guys. - Yeah, they need to do it twice 'cause when I was there, I don't think they were really doing it once. (audience laughing) - If you want to know the idea is that while the first cleanse removes sweat, sunscreen, and odor of the second quote, restores moisture, supports the skin barrier, or delivers an active ingredient. - Wait, what's the active ingredient at the bellips? You said if there is an active ingredient in the soap. - Oh, is that (beep) - Yeah, exactly. (audience laughing) - Well, if that's in the soap, (audience laughing) if that's in the soap, we're gonna have to wash ourselves three times. - Exactly, just imagining the bottle now with four (beep) (audience laughing) (upbeat music) - Coming up, it's Lightning Film The Blank. But first, it's the game we have to listen for the rhyme. If you'd like to play on air, call or leave a message at one AAA, wait, wait. That's 1-888-9248-924. You can see it's most weeks right here at the Sudabaker Theater in downtown Chicago in the fine arts building and catch us on the road. We'll be in Omaha, Nebraska next week and in Kalamazoo, Michigan on October 22nd for tickets and information to all our live events. Go to nprpresentz.org. Hi, you're on weight weight, don't tell me. - Hi Peter, this is Mary calling from Rio Rancho, New Mexico. - Oh wow, I love hearing about New Mexico 'cause it's one of the two states in these United States I've never been to. But I assume everyone in New Mexico is always outside wearing lots of turquoise. - Yes, there is a lot of turquoise and when it's not 99 degrees and super hot out, we are outside quite a bit. It is at about 6,000 feet where I'm at. So we have pretty cold winters and hot summers. But there are road runners, coyotes, rattlesnakes, lots of wildlife. - Are they in love? (laughing) - I can't see them together, but I'm waiting for that hack me track to pull up and see what happens. (laughing) - Well, Mary, welcome to the show. I also slate is gonna read for you three Limericks with a last word of phrase missing. Your job, of course, try to figure out what that last word of phrase might be. Do that two times out of three. You will be a winner, ready to go? - I'm ready. - Here's your first Limerick. Our park's concert is not allowed riot. It's more zen and it's free. You should try it. When you've listened to Moss, you have no hearing loss. Our huge concert is hours of. - Quiet. - Quiet, yes, the festival of nature listening, we're starting in Finland next month. And that's where you can go and stand in a field and hear the sweet sounds of wind and maybe if you pay for the VIP seats, birds. (audience laughing) They're calling it quiet cella. (laughing) Which is nice. But it sounds like which you'd say to a drunk person who needs to go to sleep after co-chella. Like, it's time for quiet cella. (laughing) - So it's the one concert where instead of someone yelling out free bird, they're like three birds. - Yes, exactly. - And then somebody yelling shut up. (laughing) - Yeah, nothing says concert like being shushed here. (laughing) - Here is your next Limerick. - In May rock, as we run past some cloisters, our snacks leave us clammy and moisture. The way we refuel is borderline cruel. The pit stops are red wine and. - Oysters? - Yes, oysters. (audience applauding) Like every marathon, the marathon de Chateau de Medaque in France has hydration stations every mile or so. But theirs, instead of Gatorade, features nearly 20 different local wines. So you're stopping your drink. You're like, oh great tannins and oaky finish and, oh, notes of electrolytes. Along the way, in addition to the wine, runners can grab pastries and at mile 24, they're waiting for all the runners to come by, a table of raw oysters. This is the perfect race for people who are worried that after a normal marathon, they might not throw up. (audience laughing) This is Marathon is well known. These Marathons and France that have wine at the eight stations and I've always wanted to do it. I was supposed to be doing it at this point in my life is slowly running through France, getting drunk. (laughing) You can just go to France and do that. - That's true. (laughing) All right, very good. Here's your last limerick. - The loud buzz fills some folks with unease. And the pollen cloud might make them sneeze. This farmhouse day spa has a hive as its draw. I'm relaxing on thousands of bees. Yes, bees. (audience applauding) Bees, yes, the bee bed is a new state-of-the-art therapy tool where the patient lies down on a bed that has inside it as many as 600,000 bees. The idea is that the buzzing of all those bees is therapeutic and relaxing, you know, like that relaxing sleep you get right after you realize there's one fly in your room. (audience laughing) - Can we just lay down and listen to Beyonce? (audience laughing) - It feels like a better deal. - I don't understand. Why is this supposed to be therapeutic? - Because the true story is the guy who invented this was going through a hard time himself and he was out in the garden and he was listening to the bees and he realized he listened to the, and he just made him feel better. - So what makes him feel better is to capture a bunch of bees from their home and lay on it? - Yeah, well, it's the home from the bee. - Yeah, it's the sound. - Because which humans famously haven't figured out a way to replicate sound, so. (audience laughing) - Well, we do it in the country with a box fan and it's my favorite. - I also, how did Mary do in our quiz? - Mary's a winner, three out of three, congratulations. (audience cheering) - Thank you so much, Mary, for playing and well done. - Thank you. This has been so much fun, dream come true. - It was fun to have you, take care. (audience cheering) (gentle music) Now on to our final game, Lightning Fill in the Blank. Each of our players left 60 seconds in which to answer as many fill in the blank questions as they can. Each correct answer now worth two points. Alzo, can you give us the scores? Of course, Sam has three, Shantira has three, and Adam has three. All right, well, it's a tie, so whoever does best will win the game. I'm going to arbitrarily pick Shantira to go. First, here we go. The clock will start when I begin your first question, fill in the blank. On Tuesday, representative Thomas Massey called for a vote to impede Secretary of Defense Blank. Um, I don't know right now. James Massey. It's a little late. Yeah, Pete Hanksath, for the first time in three years, the Federal Reserve voted to raise blanks. Right. On Wednesday, blanks said she had not decided whether to run for president again in 2028. Comma? Right. This city of Minneapolis voted to allow driverless cars in their city, but on the condition that they have a blank. Drive. Right. On Tuesday, NASA powered up their new blank for the first time. Uh, Rover? No, space telescope. On Tuesday, health officials warned of that blanks carrying dengue fever. They had reached parts of Florida. Maskey does. Right. This week, a zoo in the UK apologized after their website listed a children's tour of the zoo's dangerous animals as blank. Same. No, as quote, a child predator tour. [laughter] It's tickling. All right. All right. So, so, so they received a lot of complaints and the zoo apologized. They explained there was an issue with their automated ticketing system, which adds the word child to any ticket purchased for kids 12 and under and they quickly fixed the name of their very popular predator tour. But they really need to be in that lookout for that one guy who demanded a refund. [laughter] Alzo, how to chant here, doing our quiz. She got four right for eight more points, total of 11 and the lead. All right. It's good to be a winning for now. Sam, you ready to do this? We're going to try. Here we go. Sam, you're up next filling the blank. According to new data, Arctic glaciers have lost 12 trillion tons of blank in the past 50 years. Ice caps. Yes, ice. Amid tensions with the US, the EU suggested that blank could become the bloc's first so-called associate member. They'd do a leap up. [laughter] Oh, my God for that. It was Canada. This week, a teacher from a Slovakia leading a high school tour in France dealt with the group of noisy students by blanking. Putting them on a leash. No, by leaving them in France and going back to Slovakia. [laughter] Siding the state's opposition to their merger with Warner Brothers blank threatened to leave California for Tennessee. Paramount. Yes, an pre-recorded video beloved musician blank posthumously accepted a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Americana Music Association. Dolly Parton. The man in Germany was busted after he made $50,000 by blanking. Moona. No, by recycling a single bottle, 177,451 times. Wow. Wow. He was a bit of ingenious engineering and a lot of free time and a German man found a way to deposit one single bottle into a deposit acceptance machine almost two hundred thousand times, getting him around $50,000. And the judge was impressed noting that the man must have "done nothing else every day other than a 10 to this machine." [laughter] I guess the compliment takes the edge off. A conviction is the judge is like, "Well, man, mad props." Also, how did Sam do on our quiz? She got three right for six more points. Total of nine, Centera Stillingly. Okay. [applause] How many then does Adam need to win? Forty-five to win. All right. Here we go, Adam. This is for the game. After he removed Macklemore from his tour for speaking in support of Palestine Blank, also dropped out of Ed Sheeran's tour. Several others supporting him. Yes. Every other band in the tour, including his own backup band. On Tuesday, the House again voted to limit to Blank's war powers and around. The President? Yeah, Donald Trump. Donald Trump. This week, Pennsylvania asked the CDC for help containing their blank out break. Right, according to a new study, 80% of people in China use Blank at least once a week. AI? Yes. This week, Frito Lay came forward and stated that the singular of Doritos is Blank. Doritos? Yes. [laughter] I'm not sure. I'm just going to eat one Doritos. On Thursday, a NASA spacecraft discovered a new crater on the Blank. The Moon. Right. Matthew Rees made history by winning two blank awards for Best Actor in One Night. Emmy. Right. This week, convicted criminals in Berlin were able to remain free for a little longer because the government had forgotten to black. To, I've forgotten to, like, repaint themselves? No, they had forgotten to buy more of the little yellow envelopes they used to send out summonses. [laughter] For weeks, Berlin's judicial system has been short on yellow envelopes, so it wasn't able to send up the notices that tell convicted felons when to report to prison. This is a very German story. [laughter] Alzo did Adam do well enough to win. Yes, he did. He got seven right for fourteen more points. Total of seventeen. [applause] And he is the winner. [applause] We have the lessons. [applause] Coming up, our panelist predict what our restaurant's going to do to bring people back to brunch. But first, let me tell you that, wait, wait, don't tell me. It's a production of NPR and WBZ Chicago, an association with the Urgent Haircut Productions, Doug Burman, Ben Neville, and Torvalort. Philip Goddaker writes our lemrex. Our public address announcers Paul Friedman, our ops manager, Jaseer Vardak, thanks to the staff and crew. At the student-baker theater in the beautiful fine arts building, B.J. leaderman, composer and theme, our program is produced by Jennifer Mills, Dormbasa, and Lillian King. Special thanks this week to Mohannet L. Schaeke, Janie Hoffman, and Dom Bannes. Peter Gwynn is our Peter curator, Emma Choi is our five curator. The technical direction is from Lorna Whitehurst, CFO is called the Miller Reproduction Manager. That's Robert Newhouse, our senior producer is Ian Chilog and the executive producer. A wait wait, don't tell me. It's Mike Danforth. Now, panel, what will restaurants do to get people back? Shantira Jackson. Take protein out of everything, back to empty calories. Sam Rocha. Instead of bottomless memoses, you just have one memosa you really have to make count. And Adam Burke. They will allow you to interrupt bad dates. And if any of that happens, panel will ask you about it on. Wait, wait, don't tell me. Thank you so much, Auzo Slay. Thanks for watching the shoot here, Jackson, Adam Burke. Sam Rocha, thanks for our fabulous audience. You just need to make this dinner. Thanks to all of you for listening wherever you may be. A bit of a second, we'll see you next week in Omaha, Nebraska. is NPR.