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[MUSIC] >> From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, the NPR News Quiz. One of four body vintage with notes of oak. Try me, Alzo Slay. And here's your host at the Green Music Center's Wild Hall at Sonoma State University, Peter Segold. >> Thank you, thank everybody. >> [APPLAUSE] >> Thank you so much. We are so excited to be here in Sonoma, California. Home of so many great vineyards, but the wine is not the reason we are here. No, the wine is the reason we do a bad job when we are here. >> [LAUGH] >> Later on, we're going to be joined by science writer extraordinaire Mary Roach. But first, it's your turn to call in and play our games. >> The number is one, triple eight, wait, wait, that's one, 888-924-89924. Let's welcome our first listener contestant. Hi, you're on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. >> Hi, Peter, welcome back to California. >> Thank you so much, who's calling? >> My name is Sarah Beth Rothfeld, and I'm calling from Woodland Hills, California. >> Woodland Hills, the other California, the Southern California. >> Correct. >> Yeah, and what do you do there? >> Well, I'm a retired special education teacher. >> That's good. >> We love those, yes? >> Yes, my love language is baking, so my goal is to make my family and my friends and everybody I come in contact, slightly chubby. >> Right, and how's that going? >> It's going pretty well, and by night, I fight crime. >> Yes, finally, someone. >> [LAUGH] >> I appreciate that. Sarah Beth, welcome to our show. Let me introduce you to our panel. First, the comedian you can see in his show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, all through August, did Shane Torres. >> [APPLAUSE] >> How are you? >> How are you? >> Next, the comedian whose album, "Yell, Joy," is on blonde medicine. It's Joy Elle Nicole Johnson. >> Hello, Sarah Beth. >> Hello, Joy Elle. >> And the host of the Breaking Vet podcast and a maker of a mean loaf of sourdough. It's Tom Papa. >> Hi, Sarah. >> Hi. >> [APPLAUSE] >> So Sarah Beth, welcome to the show. You are going to play Whose Alzo, this time Alzo Slade is going to reach you. Three quotations from this week's news. Your job just correctly identify or explain what he's talking about. Do that, you win our prize. Any voice from our show on your voice mail, are you ready to go? >> Very ready. >> I can tell. Here is your first quote, it's from Forbes Magazine. >> It's our new favorite pastime. >> Thanks to sites like Fandall, DraftKings. >> What has surpassed movies, music, and every other form of entertainment as American's favorite thing to do? >> Ooh, yikes. May I have a hint, please? >> Well, I can tell. You're too pure of heart to engage in this yourself. >> [LAUGH] >> But Fandall's DraftKings, does that ring any bells? >> I'm too sweet. I've got another hint. >> I'm gonna bet that you'll be able to figure this out. >> Damn it, yes, damn it. [APPLAUSE] >> Last year, Americans spent $300 billion gambling. That is more than Americans spent on movies, arts, music, and museums combined. Yes, even museums. [LAUGH] So, let's face it, if art and culture want to stay relevant, we have to bet on it. I, for example, would bet $20 Odysseus doesn't make it home. >> [LAUGH] >> I am not good at gambling. >> [LAUGH] >> Are you guys? >> I went to a Dodger game last night, and my friend is a big gambler. >> [LAUGH] >> You're a giant. >> You're a giant territory. >> Yeah, yeah. >> [LAUGH] >> And he gambled on his phone, he had like six bets. >> So he's sitting at the game. >> He's sitting at the game, he's betting on his phone, he had that Otoni was going to get five home runs. That the guy from the Mariners was going to get two home runs, that it was going to be over 11. It was going to be the combined score by halfway through the thing. Now, like 10, 11 bets on this thing. And when we left, his team won, and he was so depressed because he lost like $1,500. >> Wow. >> Wow. >> Time. >> Is he single? >> [LAUGH] >> No. >> Ooh, this is why I'm happy. >> He probably will be if he keeps losing $1,500 a game. >> Yeah, Americans bet more than $300 billion on sports. That breaks down to $1,000 for every adult. But I know if he just front me a couple hundred more I can win it all back. >> [LAUGH] >> All right. >> Here, Sarah Beth, is your next quote, and it's about an electric vehicle that made history this week. >> It passed the Edsel as the worst automotive flop ever. >> That was Bloomberg News on the trucks that's now officially the worst selling vehicle in history. What is, hold on, hold on. [APPLAUSE] What is it? >> Oh, oh, the Elon Musk truck. >> Yeah, I'm going to give it to you. >> Yes, it's the cyber truck. >> I'll make sure I can make sure. >> Yes, according to Bloomberg, the cyber truck has eclipsed the Ford Edsel, the legendary Edsel as the worst selling car ever. >> Now, please, please, please do not clap. The vibrations can damage any cyber truck in the parking lot. >> [LAUGH] >> I got kicked up in one in an Uber. >> Yeah. >> And all I can think is, what are you doing with your money? >> This is insanely obnoxious, expensive vehicle. There's no, there's like, they're like $100,000. >> They're very expensive, yeah. >> This guy needs to make in seven bucks to take me to a Taco Bell drive-through. >> Yeah, and he's like, are you living in here? How are you affording this? >> Cyber truck sales dropped by 48% between 2024 and 2025. >> [APPLAUSE] >> Or as Tesla put it, sales increased by a staggering negative 48%. >> [LAUGH] >> The problem is there's no gray area. Like you see a cyber truck from far away, you get close, it's still a cyber truck. Like even the red baseball cap, I saw a guy in a red baseball cap and he was walking towards me and was like, here we go. >> And then I got close, I was like, oh Louisville. >> That doesn't happen with the side, nothing happens when you get closer to make you think better. >> No, you get close to the cyber truck and you're like, oh, this a hole drives it. >> [LAUGH] >> I think there may be, I wonder if there are any cyber truck owners in the audience right now. >> [LAUGH] >> And I don't wonder. >> [LAUGH] >> The cross section of cyber truck owners at NPR listen. >> [LAUGH] >> I will say, if that person is here, you are very interesting. >> Yeah, I don't like you, but I want to talk to you. >> All right, Sarah Beth, here's your last quote. >> Crow's feet around the eyes gives you a bit of character. >> That was a dermatologist talking about a new trend of people who were no longer trying to get rid of their what? >> Their wrinkles. >> Exactly right, their wrinkles. >> [APPLAUSE] >> Good news, hagges. >> [LAUGH] >> My wrinkles are in now. >> Yeah. >> Now you're excited, okay. >> [LAUGH] >> More and more people are scaling back on those smoothing treatments like Botox injections, because they want, quote, strategic wrinkles. So right, instead of paying plastic surgeons to get rid of all wrinkles, now they're paying to get carefully chosen, forehead wrinkles, smile lines. Now if you want to achieve the same look at home for free, just get old. >> [LAUGH] >> So wrinkles are hot now. >> Rinkles are hot now. >> That's cool. >> Yeah, I wonder if turkey necks will be next year. >> [LAUGH] >> So about 15 years, I'm going to look like a bull mastiff, so I'll be doing great. >> [LAUGH] >> The problem is people apparently are tired of having their faces frozen, right? By these treatments. A New York dermatologist reduced his own Botox treatments, explaining, quote, letting the top half of my face move more allows me to look more trusted. >> [LAUGH] >> I don't know. >> She might kill me for saying this, but my girlfriend will get it a little bit of Botox in real. And then when her face gets frozen, we just do this game where I go, make the same face as me. And I just see her struggle the whole time. >> Really? >> Yeah, yeah, yeah. >> I met her parents today, they're here. >> That's great. >> [LAUGH] >> They're really nice people. >> You think they're nice, they just couldn't move their face. >> [LAUGH] >> Also, how did Sarabeth do in our quiz? >> Our baking superhero did great, so you got three out of three. >> Congratulations, Sarabeth. >> Nice. >> Thanks for the help. >> Thank you, Sarabeth, take care. >> Bye-bye. >> Bye-bye. [MUSIC] >> Right now, panel, it's time for you to answer some questions about this week's news. Shane, this week we learned about it. new dating trend where singles are making decisions about their love lives, using what? Oh, social media? No, God, no, I'll give you a hint, it's a way of finding out if that new guy really excels. He don't have a job. I know. Spreadsheets. Spreadsheets. Wow, my God. This is a red sheet. What's your journal interview at so-called Love Hackers who claim that organizing data about their dates like physical characteristics, conversation topics, and, of course, red flags into a spreadsheet helps you make sense of your own preferences and ultimately choose who to keep seeing. They enter data, right? A variety of categories after a first date looks, sense of humor, employment status, one for how they treat the server, mean to server, nice to server, makes out with server? I think the spreadsheet is the red flag. Yeah, probably. Yeah, I bet. They're doing spreadsheets of all the characteristics of the guy and the guy's like, "Cept a spreadsheet." No. Wait, I want to hear the end of the story with the server. That was getting pretty juice. Yeah. I had this happen to me once. Did you really? What happened? I found out that two is using numbers instead of Excel and I dumped her. Really? Yes. You didn't approve of her? No. Choice of software platforms. Excel only. Exactly. Coming up, I'd love to listen to a game. Could make your rich, but it probably won't. Call one Triple-Aid, wait, wait, wait to play and we'll be back in a minute with more and wait, wait, wait. Don't tell me. From NPR. From NPR, NWBEZ Chicago, this is "Wait, wait, don't tell me the NPR news quiz." I'm Azo Slade. We're playing this week with Tom Papa, Shane Torres, and Joyelle Nicole Johnson. And here again is your host at the Green Music Center at Sonoma State University, Peter Sego. Thank you, Azo. Thank you, everybody. Right now it's time for the "Wait, Wait, don't tell me, I'd love to listen to a game." Call one Triple-Aid, wait, wait to play our game in the air. How are you around? Wait, wait, don't tell me. Hi. I'm Phoebe. Calling in from Denitor, Colorado. Oh, I love Colorado. So I assume you do something very Denver-y, like, I don't know, lead group hikes while drinking craft beer. Yeah. What I really do is walk backwards most of the day, giving tours at two different places here in Denver and Golden. Really? So, what are the places you give tours of, just Dr. Carey I said? One is a candy factory. Can I say the name? It's Hammond. Wow. I actually give tours of candy factory to the five working winners of the Golden Ticket I assume, for whom come to horrible, horrible face. You're living the dream. I am for a sugar addicted person like me. It is absolutely the dream. Yeah. Well, that's great. Well, welcome to the show Phoebe. You're going to play the game in which you must try to tell truth from fiction. Azo, what is Phoebe's topic? Cheapskate alert. There are lots of ways to save money, don't take an Uber, take the bus. When you dine out, just leave without paying the bill. This week, we heard about a new way somebody pinched pennies or a panelist are going to tell you about a pick the one who's telling the truth, you'll win. The weight winner of your choice in your voice mail. Are you ready to play? Oh, I am so ready. I can tell. First, let's hear from Joyelle Nicole Johnson. Couples break up all the time. Devourses is common as seeing your childhood here will live long enough to become a villain. But still, a recent couple's divorce made headlines because the husband was too cheap. Vicky Wong, a Taiwanese businesswoman, can buy things for herself. She's a successful management consultant. Whatever that means. Her husband also matched her gangster as one of the leading real estate agents in the region, which is why when she told him the only thing she wanted for her 40th birthday was a pair of Christian lubricant heels. With their famous towering stilettles and the deep red colored bottoms, she thought it would be a problem, they've got money. While opening the gift that dinner, she was thrilled to see a pair of glossy black heels with blood red souls. It wasn't until she was tapped on the shoulder for leaving red footprints across the stage at a gala that she realized what happened. Her husband had bought a pair of no-name knock-offs and colored the bottoms with Crayola brand red poster paint. When asked for a quote, the ex who shall remain nameless, shamelessly doubled down. I don't care how crazy rich we are. I'm not paying a mortgage note for shoes. The woman gets rid of her husband because he wouldn't pay for the real lubricants just bought knock-offs and painted the bottoms red. Your next saving story comes from Tom Papa. David Sevaldi and two of his friends had been hiking for about seven hours up Montana's tallest mountain on their way to froze to death plateau. When he slipped on a rock and fell. When he rolled over, he realized he had impaled himself on one of his trekking poles. The pole was jutting at an angle out of his armpit and out through his back like a human popsicle. But the scariest part for Mr. Sevaldi was the possibility of having to take a really expensive helicopter ride off the mountain. Rising, he wasn't in pain and there was no blood. He decided to save some money and walk back down the mountain like a horror movie monster who can't be stopped. After about six hours, his friends who thought a helicopter ride would have been really great, started making Shishka Bob jokes. And by the end, they were calling him Bob. By 3.30 pm after trekking about 10 miles, Mr. Sevaldi got to the hospital. They pulled the trekking pole out of him which he kept because, hey, those things ain't cheap. A man doesn't want to pay for a rescue helicopter so he walks down a mountain with a pole completely through him. Your last tightwad tail comes from Shane Torres. Boxer Julio the Cesar Lopez returned to the ring this weekend with a splash. After spending years away from boxing, living lavishly and also eating lavishly, he found himself in a position of being pretty fat and very broke. So when he needed to get his act together for his big return to the ring, he couldn't afford a nutritionist or a coach. He had to do it alone. Lopez spent the week before the fight trying to make way, spending hours and sweatsuits and saunas, but he couldn't drop the pounds. He had to think of something fast. Three times call for desert meshes, Celope had started eating handfuls of Taylor Farn's lettuce. The result was explosive. Lopez triumphed with the ring and doing so created the newest diet fat on TikTok, but someone calling it the Ring Walk Pound Drop. He remains one of the great pound for pound fighters of his arrow with this win. He could be in the spring mix for a title shot. All right. Which of the stories of somebody trying to save some money do we find in the news? Was it from Joyelle, a man who lost his wife when he tried to save money by buying fake Lubatons and pinning them red? From Tom Papa, a guy who simply didn't want to shell out for the helicopter, so walked down a mountain with a pole all the way through him, or from Shane Torres, a fighter who managed to lose the weight. He needed to lose simply by eating a lot of bagged lettuce and accepting the results. Which of these is the story of a penny-painter we found in the news? As they call it rather an avid hiker, you better believe the hiker story came across my news feed this week and the pictures are great. Yeah. I'm going with Tom. He chose an obviously Tom's story. But to bring you the correct answer, we spoke to a reporter who covered the real story. He saw one of his trekking poles and then he thought, "I can't see the other one." Well, he realized, "Oh, that thing is sticking out of me." That was Remy Tumor, a reporter at the New York Times talking about that frugal hiker that you knew about. Congratulations, Phoebe. You got it, right? Tom was telling the truth. He gets a point just for doing that. You win our prize for keeping up in the news. Congratulations and thank you so much for playing. Thank you so much. Thank you. And now the game we call Not My Job. Mary Roach is either the funniest science writer in the world or the most scientific comedian. Her books include Stiff. That's about our bodies after we die, bonk on the science of sex, gulp on that ingestive process and her newest, replaceable you is about the efforts to make spare parts for human beings, Mary Roach, welcome to Weight Weight Don't Tell Me. So I have been reading you for decades. I think I've read every one of your books including The Latest and I'm trying to see if there's a theme to your work. I would suggest it might be human bodies and the terrible, awful, no good things that can happen to it. That is exactly right. That's really it. That is it. How did you fall into that specialty? This kind of random, I wrote this column for salon.com back in the day, and that was like a big, it's like an internet magazine, how cool. A couple of them had to do with cadaver research. Right. And an agent contacted me and said, you should think about books and maybe look at which columns were popular and those were popular, and I said you should. you should think about a book, about cadavers. And I thought that's a terrible idea. Sure. Yeah, I mean, that's a little disappointing me, only as a fan of yours, 'cause I wanted to think that it was a lifelong interest of yours, like when you were little, your Barbies would have been an absolute horror show. Would you have done that? Actually? Yes. Actually, I do recall, when I was in first grade, Mary Hewitt gave me a Barbie doll, and I was kind of like, wow, 'cause I liked the little plastic dinosaurs, I wasn't really in the Barbies. So I would pull off the head, and I would say, you have five seconds to get the head back on, or she dies. (laughing) Really? So you were like, you were playing with like weird transplantation themed games, even then. And you know, yes. And you know what, that's actually accurate. If you got it back on. So even you knew. So in other words, if I were to, if something horrible would happen, your head would be just accidentally screwed off. We'd have five seconds to get it back on. Yeah, more or less, give or take. Okay, that's important safety tip for everybody. (laughing) So as long as no one panics, you'll be fine. Yeah, exactly. Breathe, or you can't. (laughing) Your latest, your new book, Replaceable You, it's about replacement parts, the long history of trying to acquire them, make them, grow them. How did you become interested in that? Hmm, well, I had a file folder called Bits and Pieces. (laughing) And I thought, you know, when I'm looking for a new topic, I kind of go back to the file cabinet. Sure. And I was looking in bits and pieces. And I was thinking about fat. Like maybe fat could be something. Sure. And then I call this woman who works in a lab that has to do with fat, but it turns out it's stem cells from fat. I thought, no, stem cells kind of interesting, but then the conversation kind of veered. And she told me she had come across a study by a surgeon who rebuilt a man's penis using his middle finger. And I, of course, pictured the finger, like, removed just as it. Right, sure. (audience laughing) And like able to kind of beckon you. Beckon, yeah. Yeah. Or maybe given the company maybe point and select. Do you know? (audience laughing) Exactly. Exactly. And I thought, he happened to be in Tbilisi, Georgia. Sure. Yeah, I'm like, I'm going. Right. And the surgeon wasn't there, but his receptionist said, you can come in and we can look in on his laptop and he has photographs. And I don't need to describe many of them, but one of them I want to because it was a demonstration of how robust this penis was. And it does, in fact, bend up part way. Does it? Yes. (audience laughing) In a strange place. I'd love to see how this guy texts people. (audience laughing) She better with robust. (audience laughing) And. Dojo, just sit in this one out. (audience laughing) I wrote that down. (audience laughing) How quickly after they describe this, did you find this man? (audience laughing) Well, you only had four fingers. It was probably a good thing about that. (audience laughing) I have to ask, is it true that you once lived every American's dream and almost vomited on Tom Cruise? That is actually true. Really? That is true. I had a very short, short lived and misguided career interviewing celebrities for a parade magazine Sunday. You know, not a high point in the career. (audience laughing) But, and they liked to send me out to do something with this liberty. And Tom Cruise, as you may know, likes to fly. And he had a little like antique biplane. And the thing with those antique biplanes is that it's an open cockpit and the passenger sits in front. And he was doing barrel rolls and hammer heads which we draw, you go all straight up, cut the engine, and then you pull out, right? And he did two of those and I was suddenly very ill. And I thought if I throw up, it goes right back (audience laughing) in his face. Right. And I made it back to the ground with that. Really? Yeah. Was he impressed? (audience applauding) No. He was not impressed. Did he ask you if you wanted to do that? Yeah, it sounds like he was trying. I was, well, you know, what, after the first hammer head, he said, "You're doing great." And I was so excited that I was kind of, and I'm like, "Let's do another one." And then I was like, "Wow." "Green." And you're almost throwing up and you said, "I need to find a career that nauseates me less than that." (audience laughing) Well, Mary Roach, it is a pleasure to talk to you. We've invited you here, though, to play a game we're calling. Bunk, gulp, grunt, meat, zoom, bang, bang. (audience laughing) So you've written the books, "Bunk, gulp, and grunt." So we thought we'd ask you about some other crazy sounds. Get to it if you're right and you will win our prize for one of our listeners. Also, who is Mary Roach playing for? Jonathan Foizbong of San Carlos, California. All right. (audience cheering and applauding) Ready to play? - Here we go, okay. - Also, what's Mary's first sound? Zoom. An Ohio State Senator was attending a Zoom meeting about distracted driving. And he used a fake office background to hide the fact that he was himself at that moment during the meeting, driving. (audience laughing) But he was busted. How was it A, he went through a Wendy's drive-through and placed an order without muting himself. (audience laughing) B, he rear ended another participant in the meeting who was doing exactly the same thing. (audience laughing) Or C, people in office chairs don't normally wear seat belts. (audience laughing) I'm going with C. - You're right. - Yes. (audience applauding) - The other participants noticed that he was wearing a shoulder belt while sitting supposedly at his desk. - Also, what noise is next? - Bang. - So come back, as you know, you wrote a book about it as full of bangs, but the Royal Navy once came under criticism when it was revealed they were doing what to get their sailors ready for the strife of battle. Was it A, they used water balloons instead of hand grenades. B, they told their gunners to shout bang instead of firing off live rounds. Or C, they helped cadets get used to the stress of battle by showing them war movies, but really loudly. (audience laughing) Oh, I'm gonna go with B. - You're gonna go with B that they were told they're gonna just shout bang, you're right. (audience applauding) And training to sailors with low to shell aim the gun and then they don't yell. Bang, people thought it was silly, but it did save the Navy about $5 million though. All right, I'll go one more please. - Bam. - Celebrity chef, Emerald Legasi is known for his catchphrase. - Bam. - Which he does when everybody throws something into the food. He says he came up with bam. For one reason only, what was it? A, everybody misheard him when he was yelling about adding ham to a dish. (laughing) The stuck. B, he was filming at 1.8 episodes a day and screaming bam was the only way to keep everybody awake. Or C, because he couldn't pass the sensors with his prior catchphrase and here's some effin' spices. (audience laughing) - It's either beer, C. - I'm not gonna tell you. - It sounds like an even split. - It does. - Go. - C. - We're gonna go for C, 'cause he couldn't get away with saying, "There's some effin' spices." So he said, "Bam." No, it was actually-- - It was beat. - It was beat. (audience clapping) - Yeah, he was just trying to keep his crew awake by yelling bam at random moments. Also, how did Mary Rutch do in our quiz? - She did a zoom bang, bam, I'm a job. Two out of three. - Congratulations. (audience clapping) Mary Rutch is the best-selling science author and her new book is Replaceable You. You can see her on tour this fall. More information is at maryrutch.net. MaryRutch, thank you so much for joining us again and we'll wait for you some time. Great to see you. Mary Rutch, everybody. - It's a light. (upbeat music) - And just a minute, the barn door is open in our listener-limmer challenge called One Triple Eight Weight Weight to join us on the air. We'll be back in a minute. It was more of "Wait, Wait, Don'ts, Ami?" From NPR. (upbeat music) - From NPR, NWB Easy Chicago. This is "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me." The NPR news quiz. I'm Alzo Slay. We're playing this week with Joyelle Nicole Johnson, Tom Papa, and Shane Torres. And here again is your host at the Green Music Center at Sonoma State University, Peter Segal. - Thank you, Alzo. Just a minute. Fire up, Fandall, and bet the kids college fun fun. And in the listener limbic challenge, if you'd like to play, give us a call at 1-888-888-9248-924. Right now, panel, some more questions for you from the week's news. Shane, the governor of a province in Turkey, was ousted from office after photograph surfaced of him doing what? I'm gonna need a clue. Well, it's not. I don't know. It's not a crime to love spandex and appropriate butt cushioning. He was exercising what? He was exercising in a bigger way and wearing whatever. I don't exercise. What are you doing to me? Ask Alzo that question. I don't wear them though. He has to do myself respect. Anybody know? Bike pants. Bike shorts. He was forced from office because he was photographed wearing bike shorts. And he should be. Yeah. He was forced out of office for being caught in public wearing skin type black bike shorts. If that sounds harsh, just take a second. Think of a politician. First one comes to mind. Now think of him in bike shorts. See? To be fair to the governor, he wasn't fat riding a bike at the time. To be fair to everybody else, that is no excuse. They got some different standards over there in Turkey as well. They do. Yeah. Photo circulated of him in bike shorts. It became a huge scandal. One political opponent said in the Turkish parliament, "Governor cannot wander a city like this. After his ouster, his supporters were sad to see him go, but they loved to watch him leave." Was he wearing those little clippy shoes? So he made a little clatter noise when he left and his toes were up in the air. That was very funny. He's currently a very hot peloton. Exactly. Peter, one day we just show up to show this bike or show up. Absolutely. We should absolutely do that. And then we'll have to find another job. Think we can go out. Tom, robotics is a company that has marketed AI-powered sex robots. But now they have a new model of robot that they say will serve in what other role. I can't say it. So the robot does something else. Something else. Robot. And it's going to be put into schools in New York State because it's going to be a lunch lady. No. A mean custodian. No. It's right there in front of you. In a school it's going to be a teacher. Exactly right. Assistant teachers, assistant teachers, a robotics company real botics insist to this day that their $175,000 female shaped robot called Arya is meant for companionship and not for sex. But more recently the company struck a deal with a school district in New York State to deploy another one of its robots called Sally as a teacher's assistant. They say she, also a very attractive replica female, can answer science and math questions the students might have. Great. It's like if your calculator had boobs. Stop making them attractive. Also we made those in the wrong order. The teacher should have come first. You think so? Yeah. Yeah and look like my dad. I guarantee you you send a teacher out there, a robot, a teacher that looks like my dad. No one's going to try anything funny with it. You're asking for trouble. That's true. Now interestingly the teaching doll, unlike the original doll, only costs $57,000 which makes her the most realistic doll yet. The second she went into education she took a 70% pay cut. Coming up it's Lighting Film The Blind but first it's the game where you have to listen for the rhyme. If you'd like to play on air call and leave a message at 1-3-8-8-8-8-9-2-4. You can see us most weeks at the Studio Baker Theatre in Chicago and catch us on the road will be at the Rose Music Center outside of Dayton, Ohio in September 3rd in Omaha, Nebraska on September 24th for tickets and info to all our live events go to nprpresents.org. Hi my wayways don't tell me. Hey there Peter. Hi who's this? Alan Martin from Long Beach Washington. Long Beach Washington I didn't know there was a Long Beach in Washington. Where's that? Not many people do. Great on the Oregon border. Yeah about two hours east west of Portland. So you're two hours east and west of Portland. Something like that. Some like that. You're always west of Portland. Yes. Polarious. Do you know where you are right now sir? Re-route. Sometime. Re-route. Alan welcome to the show. Alzo Slade is going to read you three news related Limericks with a last word of phrase missing from each. If you can fill in that last word of phrase correctly and two of the Limericks will be a winner. You ready to play? Born ready. Hey. Here's your first Limerick. Once jeans were so pre-stressed and ripped. Now they're made to look like they have slipped. These kids have a taste for exposing their waist. The fly of their jeans is it right zipped? This summer's if jeans are jeans that make it look like your fly is down. They're called fold over jeans, isn't it? Your grandmother would fold over in her grave if she saw you wearing this. They're called fold over jeans because of quote the sliver of fold in fabric sewn down at the waist, which is often printed like underwear with tiny flowers or stripes. You give the illusion of a totally open fly. Wow. If only I had a finger penis I could zip it up. Moving on. Here's your next Limerick. With the soda scent I like to prep me. A fine cola vanilla can rep me. I will cover my stink with a cool fountain drink. I will smell like a cold can of Pepsi. Yes, everyone is excited for the release of Pepsi Body Care products. By everyone we mean 13-year-old boys and beads. Starting this week you can buy the Pepsi vanilla slushy body scrub or the Pepsi Wild Cherry Body Wash, which is quote inspired by Pepsi Wild Cherry. Sticky. I love that this is going to get the men who use Axe Body Spray Laid. Finally. Finally. Alright, here's your last Limerick. At IKEA we strive to improve. We'll get out of our flimsy shelf groove. So toss that hex wrench for your foldable bench. Now our furniture last through A. Come on audience, give me some help here. Can you hear them? No. So it rhymes with improve and groove. And the furniture will last through a move. Move. Yes. Wow. We all know the rituals of moving. You throw one last party, you package up gently, you're prized heirlooms and you throw at everything you ever bought from IKEA because that stuff dissolves when exposed to a slight breeze. Well, IKEA is launching a new line of furniture designed to be sturdy enough for people who move a lot like college students and identity thieves. The new line is called Cornstuffer, probably. It features built in handles for carrying. It's made of sturdier materials like solid pine and steel so it can handle the stress of moving fine fine. That's not what we need, IKEA. We need you to commit to your bit and give us single use disposable couches. Does anyone go back to IKEA or you just go once, build an apartment and realize you're never going? It's my favorite restaurant. Yeah. Also, how did Alan do in our quiz? Alan did all right. He got three out of three. Congratulations. Well done. Congratulations. Congratulations, Alan. You got him. Thank you so much for playing. Take care, everybody. Now to 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 now with two points. Alzo, can you give us a score? Absolutely. Tom has a whopping four. Joyle has two and Shane, he's just got one, buddy. It's a good one now. It's a good one, say. It's a good one. It's a good one. My comeback. That much more traumatic. Exactly. So Shane, you are in third place so you're going to go first. The clock will start when they begin your first question to fill in the blank. On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve voted to keep blanks steady. Right. Right. Interest rates. On Tuesday, Japan deployed thousands of troops to help with rescue and recovery after a powerful blank struck the country. Earthquake, right? For the second time in its history, the Red Cross declared an emergency over. the lack of blank donations. Right on Wednesday NASA confirmed plans to launch the new Nancy Grace Roman Space Blank in August. Rocket Space Telescope. At a government conference this week attendees noticed that the U.S. made map of Africa had mislabeled blank. Most of it? Yes. In fact, pretty much. They've mislabeled literally every country in Africa on the map of Africa. On Thursday, European nations announced a boycott over a FIFA's plan to privatize the blank. World Cup. Right on Thursday, Apple announced a new program that would allow customers to lease the newest blank. iPhone. Right this week a wailing museum in New Bedford is drawing attention after someone posted a one-star review calling it blank. Boring. They called the wailing museum "the worst aquarium ever." It can be confusing at first when you visit the New Bedford wailing museum. There's no way to know it's a museum and not an aquarium other than by reading its name and all the big signs. The man who posted the review must have been disappointed that instead of live whales, there were just old skeletons. The review went viral, but it isn't even the reviewer's first one-star rating. They also said that Fogo de Chao was the worst petting zoo they'd ever been to. How did Chao do in our quiz? Chao actually did all right. He got six right for 12 more points. He has 13 and the lead. Wow. Thanks for throwing in actually. Joielle, you're up next fill in the blank. On Thursday, the US launched a new wave of strikes against targets in blank. Right. According to a new study, taking a daily blank can help curve heavy drinking. Vitamins! No, GLP1 pill. This week Poland is accusing blank of firing a missile into their territory. Israel! No! Not yet. Anyway, Russia. According to new reports arrests by blank at airports are surging. Right. This week, blank announced plans to host a new cooking show. Oh, Martha Stewart. RFK Jr. Roadkill. Everyday. On Monday, Emily Wilson, a translator of the blank criticized Christopher Nolan's movie adaptation. Odyssey. Yes, this week's ESPN announced a deal to produce a last dance style documentary about blank. Michael Jackson. No, LeBron James. This week, a man in Japan who regularly practiced guitar at full volume and his house was shocked when his neighbors banded together and blanked. Jumptent had him arrested. The man in Kyoto was arrested after his neighbors flagged that his seven years of playing guitar had seemingly caused damage to their hearing. According to the police, the man also placed a radio by the window and left it playing 24 hours a day. See, when we say support public radio, this is exactly what we knew. Also, how did Joel do in our quiz? Well, she seemed like she had fun. She got three right for things more points, total of eight. Shane is still in the lead. All right. How many of them does Tom Papa need to win? He needs five to win. Ready, Tom? I am ready. Here we go. This is for the game. On Wednesday, funeral services were held in South Carolina for Senator Blank. Lindsey Graham. Right. On Tuesday, a judge blocked Minnesota from implementing a law banning blank markets. Bending. Yeah, prediction markets. This week, GOP Senate members postponed to key vote in the confirmation of Todd Blanche's Trump's new blank. Attorney general. During performance this week, Katy Perry got trapped crowd surfing in a giant rolling inflatable ball because the fans blanked. Popped her. No. They refused to roll her back onto the stage. On Thursday, dental researchers said they discovered a way to stop blanks without drilling. Cavities. Right. This week, people are accusing Canadian politician Bill Oliver of using AI to write his speeches because he said blank halfway through an address to the legislature. Because he said, I love Trump. No. He talked for a while and then he said, here is a more natural flowing version of that section. That means like the legislative speech rather than a series of short points. Mr. Oliver read the chat bots commentary about the speech out loud, not one, but three separate times throughout the address. You know it's a boring speech when even the guy who was reading it is not listening. Alzo did Tom do well enough to win. Oh, he got four right for eight more points. Total of 12, which means saying has one of the greatest comeback in weight weight history. He is the winner. My big college moment. His in-laws are here. That's true. It's all because of what Sally taught him. Of course, Sally. It doesn't matter. We're going to ask our panelists to predict now that wrinkles are in what will be the next surprising beauty trend. But first, let me tell you that weight weight don't tell me is a production of NPR and WBEZ Chicago. An association with urgent haircut productions. Doug Berman, benevolent overlord. Philip Gaudica writes our lemmricks are public address and answer is Paul Friedman. Our ops manager is just Sierra Vardak. B.J. leader with composed our theme, our program is produced by Jennifer Mills, Miles Norbass and Lillian King. Special thanks this week to Mohamed Elshayki. Peter Gwynn is our Somalia. Emma Choi is our five-girator technical director 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 Weight Weight Don't Tell Me is Michael Danforth. Now, panel, what will be the next big beauty trend? Shane Torres. Big butts out. Long clat ones are in. Royale Nicole Johnson. Mary Roach is robust enlargement. And Tom Papa. Open-toed crocs that highlight older men's toes. And if any of that happens, we'll ask you about it on Weight Weight Don't Tell Me. Thank you so much, Alza Slayki. Thanks also for Shane Torres. Royale Nicole Johnson and Tom Papa. Thanks to the staff and crew here at the Green Music Center. 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