The Alzo Era begins in Austin!

[MUSIC] >> From NPR and WB Easy Chicago, this is, wait, wait, don't tell me, the NPR news quiz. I'm the man who for some reason thought now was a good time to start a career in public radio. >> [LAUGH] >> I'm Alzo Slade and here's your host at the Bass Concert Hall in Austin, Texas. Peter Segal. >> Thank you, Alzo. >> Thank you everybody, it's great to be back in Austin, Texas. We have a fine show for you today. Later on, we're going to be talking to Alana Myers, Taylor, the most decorated black winter Olympian ever. But first, we are so excited to inaugurate what cultural historians of the future will refer to as the Alzo era. As we welcome Alzo Slade as weight weights new official judge and score keeper. >> Thank you, thank you, thank you Peter, thank you so much. It's very exciting, but Alzo, now that you are official, you are able to wield the awesome power of judging and scoring heepering. So as you start your reign, what do you want people to know about you? >> That I am the most decorated black score keeper in weight weight history. So, if you want to be the first contestant of the Alzo era, give us a call, the number is one triple weight weight that's 1-888-9248-924. Let's welcome our first listener contestant. Hi, Ryan, wait, wait, don't tell me. >> Hi, this is Jenny Stout, calling him from Salt Lake City, Utah. >> Salt Lake City is a fabulous place, speaking of winter Olympics, what do you do there? >> I support graduate students at a local university and I am a busy mom of two kids, but most importantly I am doing this to honor my late father who introduced me to the show and taught me to love NPR. >> Oh, that's so wonderful. >> It's always lovely to hear, well, Jenny, it's great to have you on the show, let me introduce you to our panel this week from Austin. First up a comedian and fashion designer whose new fashion project "House Cardi" by Michelle Wolf just dropped its Brian Babylon. >> [APPLAUSE] >> Next, one of Vultures' comedians you should and will know of 2025, it's Rachel Costa. >> Hi, Jenny, thank you, hi, Bringson. >> And host of the hit podcast "Breaking Bread" with Tom Papa, it's Tom Papa. >> Hi. >> So Jenny, welcome to the show, you're going to play "Who's Alzo?" this time, Alzo Slade is going to read 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 for your voice smell, are you ready to go? >> I sure hope so, I've been cramming all day. >> Well, you have. >> Yeah. >> All right, well here is your first quote and as I'm sure you'll recognize from Alzo's imitation, it is vanilla ice. >> [LAUGH] >> I don't even vote, so I don't even care, I'll go play for Putin if you want. >> [LAUGH] >> Warm body vanilla ice was one of the few performers not to drop out of a concert on the national mall celebrating what? >> America's 250th birthday. >> Yes, that's exactly right for their big party on the national mall. The White House proudly announced a lineup of American music icons like vanilla ice and Brett Michaels from the band Poison. Seriously, it was like they just wrote down all the names from the Grammys in Memorium Real. >> [LAUGH] >> So is this tied to the cage match that's going to happen on the lawn? >> Well, it's all part of the big festivities here. >> That's all part of the cage match, they've been building this thing on the White House lawn to have a UFC. Basically a cage match. >> Yeah. >> That's going to be on Flag Day which, oh, by the way, what a coincidence is also President Trump's 80th birthday. >> Let me just say this about that UFC thing. If you look at aerial footage of the White House, it looks like what they thought the White House was going to look like when the Obama's were there. >> It looks like breaking bad meth lab house, yeah. With the construction of the ballroom that you have seen, it looks like Air Force 1 is also some blocks. It looks wild. It feels like when you have a house guest and you can't kick them out and they're ruining everything. And you're like, we'll just clean it when they're gone. >> Right. >> All right, Jenny here is your next quote. It's about a hot new director in Hollywood. He got his start at age nine posting videos of himself playing Minecraft. >> That was Variety Magazine talking about 20-year-old Kane Parsons, one of the hot new Hollywood directors who got their start making videos for what platform? >> YouTube? >> YouTube, yes. >> Yes, we got it, okay. >> The horror movies, back rooms made by Mr. Parsons and obsession, both made by former YouTubers, are dominating the box office. They grossed over a hundred million dollars on their opening weekend. It's so wonderful to see theaters filled again with young people, all of whom had to jump up every four minutes to hit the skip-ad button on the screen. >> It's hard to get people out to the theater these days. >> Yeah. >> It's hard to get people to the movie theater to buy $50 popcorn, it's tough. >> And yet they have managed it by giving these young filmmakers an opportunity to make real movies. Have you seen any of these movies, or did you follow their careers on YouTube prior? >> I haven't seen them, but I have two daughters who are in their early 20s, so I know enough about them. What do you want to know? >> [LAUGH] >> Did they come home and tell you all about it? >> Yeah, they're really scary. They showed me the trailer for the backroom ones. >> Yes. >> There's a lot of hidden undertones. >> And undertones, okay, that's very hidden. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah. >> The directors of these two films are 26 and 20 years old. That's half the age of Martin Scorsese if you add them together. >> [LAUGH] >> And the director of this movie, Back Rooms, he's 20. And the movie is based on this series of YouTube shorts he started making when he was 16. He has a good chance to be the first big Hollywood star to become a husband before he can legally rent a car. >> [LAUGH] >> Wow. >> Yeah. >> They are talented. I mean, when my daughters, they just, you know, I've been waiting for this moment to happen. Because young people are so into the tech, and they're so on top of it. >> Yeah. >> And now that they can make legit films out of it makes perfect sense. My daughters within 30 seconds of taking a picture are able to take that picture, zoom in on my fat neck and make that the picture. >> Right. >> [LAUGH] >> That's the thing that counts. >> Skills, mad skills. >> They're going to save Hollywood. >> Yeah. >> Your last quote is an official statement from the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team. Tarps off, let's go. So Tarps off, it's the hottest thing in Major League Baseball right now. When you hear Tarps off and you're in the stands, you are supposed to do what? >> Oh jeez, they take off their shirts. >> They take off their shirts, yes. >> Of course, taking your shirt off, that's Tarps off. What started is a quirky thing, among a few fans has spread across Major League Baseball with hundreds of fans at each game, piling into sections of the bleachers. All taking off their shirts, waving them over their heads. Some people are praising this trend as being body positive. As in, I am positive you guys should put your shirts back on. >> [LAUGH] >> Because I'll be honest with you, this is an opportunity for whatever, male sports bra situation. >> Yeah, it was a lot of like white man titties out there. >> Nothing wrong with that y'all. >> [LAUGH] >> Does it help the team win when everybody takes their top off? >> Apparently, yeah, but that's what happened. It happened in St. Louis, Cardinals game, and these guys started doing it. And apparently the Cardinals rallied and won. And everybody's sort of saying, oh, is the guy's yelling and taking off their shirts? >> Point for it, so the announcer was like, momentum's shifting out all those aerolies. The momentum is shifting, they're picking up some steam, those aerolies. >> After that happened, by the way, the Cardinals manager, this is true, bought out a section of the bleachers personally and offered to take a free to anyone who would come and agree to take their shirts off. And you know, manager season is going great when he's trying to distract everybody. >> With look, naked fans up there. >> What are the women fans doing, can they do this too? >> To my knowledge, and I'm not sure, women have not yet participated in this trend. >> Why? >> Feminism, let's- >> Oh, ah. >> Feminism needs to step it up, okay? >> Okay, so- >> Yeah, they should do, they don't want the team to win. >> [LAUGH] >> Also, how did Jenny do in her quiz? >> Jenny made her father proud, three out of three. >> Congratulations, Jennifer, thank you so much for playing. >> Thank you so much, Jenny. >> Take care. [MUSIC] >> Right now, panel, that is time for you to answer some questions about this week's news. Brian, something like that. The former blockbuster season is here and a new study finds movies are more likely to feature a what in them than a woman over 60? A animal? Yes. A talking animal. According to a new study, Hollywood films are four times as likely to star a talking animal than they are to star a woman over 60. People say this is because of sexism and ageism, but maybe the talking animals are just more talented. I mean, maybe the reason they cast a giraffe in the new movie about Eleanor Roosevelt is that it had the best audition. That joke would have had to be so good for this audience who have gone with you. I think you were in there, you were hanging on. I just saw Merrill Streep just shaking her head. I couldn't get it because animals have never asked me when I'm going to have a child. Or told me that I'm getting a little itchy. So as much as I know that when I'm a 60-plus-year-old woman, I want to have a job, I know that maybe it's okay. So you're saying women over 60 are a little judgy, unyounger women? To me personally, I've experienced that at times, but they also deserve rights. I love you guys, and I think what you're doing out there is amazing. Don't forget your sunscreen. It's our summer themed bluff to listen to a game. Call one, Triple-8, wait, wait, wait, we'll be back in a minute with more of Wait, Wait, don't tell me from NPR. From NPR, NWB Easy Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, don't tell me the NPR news quiz. I'm Alzo Slade. We're playing this week with Tom Papa, Brian Babylon, and Rachel Coster. And here again is your host at the best concert hall in Austin, Texas. Peter Sable! Hey! Thank you, Alzo! Thanks everybody! Right now, it is time for the Wait, Wait, don't tell me bluff to listen to a game. Call one, Triple-8, wait, wait to play a game in the air. Hi, you're on Wait, Wait, don't tell me. Hi, Peter. This is Mickey Kong from Northfield, Minnesota. Oh, Northfield, I know it well. Come to some great universities and of course the Northfield raid. That's when, if I'm not mistaken, Jesse James ended his career as an outlaw by thinking you could take a bunch of gentle Minnesotans and got his butt kicked. Yeah, they celebrate that every September, the defeat of Jesse James Day. I've gone a few times and I've learned you should bring headphones because the reenactments get really loud. Oh, sure. I just love the idea of like Minnesotans all getting their guns. Oh, I guess we're going to have to shoot you now. Oh yeah, we're going to have to shoot you on the face. Anyway, sorry. Mickey, it's great to have you with us. You're going to play the game in which you have to tell truth from fiction. Also, what is Mickey's topic? A summer twist. So summer, of course, has its classic entertainments and leisure time activities going to the beach. Alfresco dining, sweating through your shirt, even though all you're doing is Alfresco dining. This week we read about a strange little tweak on a quintessential summer experience. Our panel is going to tell you about it. Pick the one who's telling the truth and win the weight weighter of your choice on your voicemail, including, by the way, I should say, Bill Curtis. Are you ready to play? Yeah, I'm ready. All right. First, let's hear from Tom Papa. Anyone who thinks that using insect repellent will save their summer may want to listen up or better yet stay inside. Which now suggests that the chemical deat, widely used in insect repellents, may actually be attracting the mosquitoes. In other words, the mosquitoes are learning through experience that where there's deat, there's the possibility of a blood meal. What's a blood meal? You. To a mosquito, you are nothing but a walking, talking bag of blood. Miscitos are impressed that mosquitoes can smell deat with their food and still want to eat it. In the same way that humans can stand alongside drunk, sweaty tourists at Las Vegas buffet, but still go back for seconds. Turns out that mosquito repellent is actually a mosquito attractant. Your next summer surprise comes from Rachel Coster. After last summer's dangerous heat close pools across the south, a pool supply company in dry creek Texas has taken matters into their own hands. To prevent dehydration among swimmers, Susan Daley of Susan's pool solutions has replaced the water in over 40 public pools with blue gatorade. The idea to fill the pool with blue raspberry flavored electrolytes came to Susan after last summer's heat wave forced the pool to close. Kids were fainting left and right, said lifeguard Clayton O'Hara. They were going down like dominoes. It was really stressful, but brought a lot of the lifeguards closer together. She said smiling at Courtney Smith. There is for sure still chlorine in the water and the gatorade is making everyone really sticky when they get out, but no one was fainted yet this year, said Courtney. Susan Daley seems unfazed by the potential setbacks of her creation. When asked about her concerns regarding people urinating in the pool, she provided no comment, but she did scratch her head and start texting immediately after the question was asked. Having dehydration in swimmers by filling the swimming pools themselves with gatorade, your last story of a swerve in summer comes from Brian Babylon. Matthew Riley, an engineer from Redmond, Washington, came to Southern California to get some sun. He left knowing the exact date his startup would fail. The woman who told him goes by the name of Miss Molly. For the last two summers, Miss Molly has worked from a folding chair near Tower 14 reading prophecies in the sunburned sub strangers. The burn tells me something, Miss Molly said, mostly bad things, it's summer. Nobody's burn says great news. Her hits are piling up, a peeling shoulder that leads to divorce, a burnt nose, that's a shady contractor on its way, a man with a flawless, farmer's tan, you get three words, you already know. A local dermatologist said it's deeply irresponsible and also, somehow, 90% accurate. Miss Molly asked only two things, respect the burn and apply aloe after. But she has one rule, she will not read her own back. She caught a glimpse of her back in the mirror one time and she quietly said some futures aren't yours to look at. So which of these was an unusual twist we found on a summer standard in the news? Was it from Tom Papa, the amazing discovery that all that mosquito repellent we put on actually is attracting the mosquitoes? From Rachel Costa, a woman who's devised a way to keep people from getting dehydrated will out the pool by filling the pool itself with Gatorade or from Brian Babylon, a psychic and Venice Beach, California who can accurately tell your future just from your sunburn. Which of these is the story of summer we found in the news? I think I'm going to go with the first one. You're going to go with the first one, Tom Story about all that mosquito repellent actually attracting the mosquitoes. All right, that's your choice. We spoke to someone who is very familiar with the real story. I think we can safely say that mosquitoes are smarter than perhaps some people get better for them. That was Nicola Davis, she is a science correspondent at the Guardian talking about mosquitoes actually coming to love your bug spray because it means you're available. Congratulations, Mickey. You got it right. You figured out that Tom was throwing the truth. You're going to point for Tom and of course you have won our prize, the voice of anyone you may choose from our show. Thank you. Thank you so much for playing with us today. I know. Take care. And now the game we call not my job, Alana Myers Taylor was a star on her collegiate softball team but didn't make the woman's national team so she decided as many ball players do to move to bobsledding instead. Turn out to be a good choice as over five different winter Olympics. She became the most decorated American bobsledder ever. She lives now right here in Austin with her family and we are delighted to welcome her now. Alana Myers Taylor, welcome to weight weight. You came out wearing your gold medal here on stage, do you like just wear it around wherever you go? Not only when I wanted to pull something on my husband, you know, tell me you've got to take out the garbage or anything that you pull it out and you're like, there you go, pulling a rank, pulling a rank. So Alana, we had you on the show in 2022 back in the pandemic. At that time you were living in Georgia. The other thing that happened since last week spoke to you was that you went on to the 2026 Olympics in Milan, Cortina in Italy and you became the gold medalist in the new sport of monobob, right? And I think I speak for all of your fans here in Austin internationally when I say, what is a monobob? So monobob, bobsled has traditionally had the two-person and the four-man disciplines. A monobob is just a single person in the sled. So we push, run, jump in and then we're in charge of navigating it all by ourselves. So no help this time. Right. because people are not. people got tired of their teammates on the, they're like, "You know what, I'll get you guys, "I'm on a monobot that's on you." - What's amazing is some bobsledding has been around for a long time over a century, right? And it took this long to figure out, well, maybe just one person could do it themselves, because we discussed this last time you were in the show, the other people, either the one pusher or the three, depending, all they do is push the sled, which is important, and then they get in and do nothing. - Yep, do nothing. For preferably, they do something, something has gone desperately wrong. And speaking as a driver, you're happy to be rid of that worry? - Yeah, no backseat drivers. You don't have to worry about anybody. - You better go. - It's not the worst thing to like in a run that could get you the championship and like one of your pushers is like, can we stop? I gotta use the bathroom. - Just the worst. - It's absolutely the worst. The other thing I found out about you since last we spoke to you is that you were one of the first elite athletes to compete against, I should say, the first female lead athlete to compete against men in a straightforward competition. Can you tell me when that happened and what exactly that was? - Yeah, so as I mentioned earlier, women have only had two disciplines. There's a two-man and a four-man, and women have only been able to compete at the Olympic level in the two-person. So they finally allowed us to compete in the four-person, and I was like, yes, let's do this. Let's get another shot to win Olympic medal, and I competed in the four-man discipline actually with my husband. So I was one of the first, I was the first woman to make the U.S. men's national team in a four-man slide with my husband. - Oh, wait a minute. So it wasn't just women against men. It was women and men against women and men. It was like whatever mixture people found to be most effective for their team, right? - It could have been a mixture, but it was largely women pilots with a male crew behind them, and then competing against men. - Really? - So that's. - Oh, wow. I'm going to. A lot of stereotypes come to mind. (laughing) Did the men who were pushing kind of want to drive? (laughing) - No, they were pretty happy for me, just to be behind me and just to support me, and I think it helps when your husband's back there. He's going to keep them in mind, so. - Really? - That's right. And I've seen your husband. He's pretty swollen. (laughing) - Yeah, it's like in conditioning coach. - He doubles as my bodyguard too, so yeah. - Yeah, right. - But that's an amazing date night though. - Hey, like, hey, let's go ahead and get this metal right quick, you know what I'm saying? You go to, you know. - That's what I was thinking. Like do you just get dressed in the outfits just for fun? (laughing) - No, but it is the perfect date night 'cause you can't bring the kids. So, you know, the kids can't be in the sled, so, you know, it's me time. - Is there us time? - Is there beef between monobobs and like the loose people? Is it like, is it sort of like the jets in the sharks? Like loose versus monobob, is it? - No, actually, we get along with losers really well, but losers like, losers, yes. Luzers like the country club of sports and Bob said it's more, more blue collar. - More pink collar. - Wait a minute, wait a minute. How do you hold on? (laughing) - Okay. - So, you mentioned you had kids. You and your husband have two kids, we're now raising them here in Austin. In fact, you, is it right that you won one of your gold medals at one Olympics while you were pregnant? - Yes, yep. - Yeah. - Didn't know it at the time. (applause) - The Bob's List have five people. - In a way, there's a fun, there were five person Bob's List. - It was a two person Bob's List, but yeah, it's technically had three people. - Three people. - And I know it's rather difficult to do here in Austin, but have you ever taken your kid's sledding? - Haven't taken him sledding, but the nanny has. Not in Austin, but the name is very loosey. - Oh yeah, that's kind of, very loosey. (laughing) - Luzy and moosey. (laughing) - Well, I can't just be on a normal sled, like I have a Bob's Sled, I can't just be on a radio flyer, that's really. - Really? - Yeah, that's where you could do that. - Yeah, no, I'm not getting behind any sled, I'm not driving. (laughing) - Fair enough. - Do you ever, do you ever get free food if you wear your medal? (laughing) - Well, actually, that, when you were with us before, you told us that when your first gold medal, which was in the, I wanna say the 2010 Olympics, - Right. - You won bronze medal, and you were like, you were so young and hungry, and I guess maybe thinking that was impressive. Remind us if that worked. - It did work. - It did work. - It's got a free frosty at Wendy's. - So it's better. - You're much more established, you're a legend in the sport, a record center. Do you still try that? - Haven't tried it, because I think the stigma with the gold medal is people think you can pay for a meal. So they expect you to pay for a meal, and they expect you to tip well, so no more free food. - Oh yeah, but that gold went on the way real quick. - Oh yeah. - You'll take off the gold, you'll take out the old bronze, so you can get, you know, - Giver, you wear the gym. - So people get off the equipment for you? - That's a good try, but I definitely will try that, 'cause that will be, usually there's a lot of lines. I train in public gyms, train in the local rec club, so there is always a wait for gym equipment, so I definitely need to try that one more. - Well, Alana, it is great to have you with us again, and this time we've asked you here to play a game, we're calling Slider Meat Slider. - So you are a champion of the sliding sports, we thought we'd ask you about the original Slider, White Castle hamburgers. (audience laughs) Answer two to three questions, you will win our prize for one of our listeners, the voice of anyone they may choose in their voicemail, are you ready to play? - Let's go. - All right. - Alana, who is Alana playing for this time? - Crystal Craig, right here in Austin, Texas. (audience cheers and applauds) - That's very exciting. And I just wanna ask, do they know you're competitive, but I also know you're used to routines, would you like to do this competition with your husband crouching behind you? - Yes. - Okay. (audience laughs) He's way better at trivia than I ever. - Okay. - So. - Well, here we go. So, here's your first question. When the first White Castle restaurant opened in Wichita, Kansas, in 1921, the founders wanted to establish with the potential customers a very specific reputation. They wanted to be known as what? A, the most pro monarchy restaurant. (audience laughs) B, the restaurant with the world's smallest food, or C, the most sanitary restaurant in town. - Oh gosh. (audience cheers and applauds) I really haven't been to White Castle in a long time, so I'm gonna go with C. - You're right. - That was the same. (audience cheers and applauds) - This was only a few years after Optins and Clare's book, The Jungle had come out and nobody wanted to eat ground beef. They were afraid of what was in it. So, the white walls and the stainless steel of the White Castles were supposed to assure you of its clemmings. Here's your next question. Once a year, White Castle goals all out to celebrate a particular holiday. Which is at A, in December, they offer the meat menorah where you can get eight sliders. (audience laughs) One for each night, a panaka. (audience laughs) - B, on Valentine's Day, White Castle becomes love castle, a fine dining restaurant compete with tablecloths, candles, and romantic music, with which you can enjoy your meal, or see on Halloween, one in 10 burgers, as a razor blade hidden. (audience laughs) - Well, since I heard a couple of cheers for B, I'm gonna go with B. - That's right, the love castle. This is a huge thing. Tens of thousands of people show up at White Castle for Valentine's Day. You can also get the discounted Sloppy Joe six packs for some reason. Here's your last question. You go for perfect as you have been in pretty much everything else. White Castle has innovated to keep up with modern times, as in which of these. A, thanks to a partnership with Vitamix, you can now get any White Castle burger as a smoothie. (audience laughs) The 100 locations will soon have their burgers flipped by a short-order cook robot named Flippy, (audience laughs) or see their catering to Botox enthusiasts by promising, quote, "We're sure there's botulism in our food." (audience laughs) - All those are real possibilities. (audience laughs) - I will agree that they are possibilities. - Okay. - Um. - Ah. - B. (audience laughs) - You go with B. - Yes. - Flippy the robot. (audience laughs) - Pretty soon, your White Castle burger will be untouched by human hands until it arrives in yours. Also, how did Alana do in our quiz? - She gets a way, way, don't tell me. Go metal. Three out of three. (audience cheers) - Alana Myers-Tailer is a six-time world champion of bounce letter who won gold at this year's Olympic Games in Malana. Alana Myers-Tailer, thank you so much for joining us here on WayV. Thanks, Alana. (audience applauds) (upbeat music) In just a minute, we finally find the hidden valley in our listener, Limerick Challenge. Call one, triple eight, wait, wait, to join us in the air. We'll be back in a minute with more of WayV. Don't tell me, from NPR. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) - From NPR and WBEZ Chicago. This is WayV. Don't tell me the NPR news quiz. I'm Alzo Slade. We're playing this week with Brian Babylon, Tom Popla, and Rachel Costa. And here again is her hope at the best concert mall in Austin, Texas. Peter Sago. - Thank you, Alzo, just a minute. (audience cheers) - We find out if Alzo was lying when he put PhD in Limericks in his resume. (audience laughs) It's our listener, Limerick Challenge. [BLANK_AUDIO] Give us a call at 1-888-888-9248-924. Right now, a panel, some more questions for you from the week's news. Rachel Club Mad is about to open its first ever beach resort in the coast of South Africa, but there's one little problem. They have to figure out a way to keep what away from their guests. Um, the history. [ Laughter ] Yeah. All right. All right. [ Cheers and applause ] That's very funny. You can't min and black your way out of this room. No, no. Sorry. No, no. I'll give you a hint. At this resort, JAWS isn't just a movie night. Charks. Yes, sharks is the answer. Man-eating sharks. This will be the very first club med beach resort on the coast of South Africa, and that's because the coast is home to three different species of man-eating sharks. It also explains the new resort's ad campaign wake up to beach side yoga. Then a surfing lesson. Then survivors have a drink by pool. [ Laughter ] I think that the sharks that are there should be able to stay there and not be pushed away. Well, that's in fact what's going on is they're like, "Okay, these sharks are here trying to open this beach resort." A lot of people saying, "Well, you shouldn't do that." In fact, a lot of people are saying "You should just let the sharks alone." In fact, there is one proposal to put up a shark net, right? But environmentalists say, "No, that doesn't work." Those nets, they just kill other endangered species, and sometimes the sharks get stuck inside the net. Which makes it more angry, right? And so then the sharks are like, "Well, I bet we're basically we're in prison now, but at least the food's good." Yeah. [ Laughter ] They're seeing a club med sign. All you can eat. Yeah, pretty much. [ Laughter ] All the clues are in there. All the clues are in there. Rachel, great news if you're jealous of the Amish. This week, we heard about a new concept where people are encouraged to take a rum springa after what? Um, the. Can you please have a hint? You may. Just college. Sorry, you're saying. College. High school. After college, after high school. No, no, no, that's fairly typical. This is after their first year at their internship. [ Laughter ] No. So you need to take a load off after a second. No. It's after their first thing, but that thing usually ends unexpectedly or not what they wanted it to happen. I divorce. Yes, divorce. You got it. Sorry. A writer in the cut is recommending anyone who is recently divorced to take a divorce rum springa, quote unquote, "Where you do whatever you want for a while after your divorce." It's a groundbreaking idea. People normally are so measured and regular after a divorce. [ Laughter ] I think that the Amish teacher valuable lesson, but it should just be that after a divorce, just turn your own butter. Do something kind of simple, knit all your clothing. You don't have to be a slut at 55. [ Laughter ] You make a bunch of butter for your toes that you bake on your own. [ Laughter ] It's simple, and then your kids won't have their hearts broken again. [ Laughter ] That was deep. That was a beautiful story. That was taking a moment to sort of. It was beautiful. You could think about. To feel for you. Yeah. That was really nice. Yeah. [ Laughter ] But really, they're just slapping a kind of fun label on something we all know people do, and they shouldn't. It's like, "Yeah, you're not taking a sabbatical for personal growth. You just didn't go to work for a year." [ Laughter ] [ Music ] Coming up, it's lightning-feel 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 it, or leave a message. It won't tripple eight. Wait, wait. That's 1-888-924-8-924. You can catch as most weeks back at these two debacle theater in downtown Chicago, or come see us on the road. We'll be at the Riverside Theater in Milwaukee, in July 9th, in its Sonoma County, in Northern California, in July 30th. For tickets and info, to all our live events, go to nprpresents.org. Hi, everyone. Wait, wait, don't tell me. Hi, this is Sebastian, calling for Menden Vermont. Menden Vermont. Okay, what do you do there? I am a student-success advisor at Vermont State University's Castleton campus. And as the 16 days ago, I am a new father. Whoa! [ Cheers and applause ] 16 days? Oh, my gosh. Wow. How do you -- how do you have time to, like, call into radio shows? I have a wonderfully supportive partner in life who knows this is a lifelong dream of mine. And so she's making this possible for me. Wow. Wow. That is lovely. Wow. That's a love language. Well, congratulations. Mazel Tov and welcome to the show. Sebastian, you're going to play our Limerick Challenge, Alzo Slade for the first time as our official judge, Squarekeeper. [ Cheers and applause ] And one racist Limerick Reader. He's going to read you three news related Limericks to the last word of phrase, missing your job. Fill that in. Two times out of three. Do that. You will win our prize. Ready to go? All right. Here is your first Limerick. Alzo. To woo buyers for homes, our plot thickens. They see country life their post-quickens. Their interest is spurred with egg-laying birds. We are selling new homes with some chickens. Yes, chickens. Luxury homes are now being sold with chickens and chicken coops included. You can instantly live the Instagram fantasy of gathering your own sustainable eggs from your chickens for breakfast. And then in the afternoon, euthanizing them when they all get bird flu. [ Laughter ] Chickens are fun. Do you have chickens? Have you had chickens? No, I never had chickens. But I grew up in New Jersey. And my dad would take us into the city to see a thing called the Dancing Chicken. And it was in an arcade booth. There would be a chicken in there. And you put a quarter in and they'd play music. The chicken would start to dance. When did you grow up in 1926? [ Laughter ] Come see the Dancing Chicken. That was a fun time for the Papa family until we found out that the quarter actually turned on the music and also electrified the floor. No! Yeah. And we cried all the way home in New Jersey. Yeah. Yeah. Anyone know what that chicken's doing now? [ Laughter ] Not much. Here is your next limbic, Sebastian. There's a calendar room has released, a frog wearing good-looking beasts. With color and stone, they're just acting a role. The models they used are not. Priests? Priests, yes. This week, we were shocked to learn that the guy in the cover of the famous sexy priest calendar on sale and shops all over Rome, Italy, is actually not a priest. He's just a regular guy. Well, he's not regular. He's hot. [ Laughter ] So this calendar and question, you've seen them if you've been to Rome, it's come into the spotlight because people have discovered that several of the 12 priests in it are not actually members of the clergy. It sounds like somebody had the idea, of course, to one hot priest for every month, and they ran out of real ones by the time they got to February. [ Laughter ] But I'm curious on who's into, like, sexy priest calendars? I can tell you exactly who. Tell me. [ Laughter ] A guy just having a job and believing in something is honestly kind of awesome. I think it would be cute to have, like, a mix of hot priests but then, like, fun priests, you know? Yeah. The personality priest. Yeah, like playing baseball or writing a little pony. Yeah. [ Laughter ] All right, Sebastian, here is your last limb wreck. In Europe, they're going to blanch. At our buttermilk soft avalanche, we will shower the blessing of creamy white dressing. We are preaching the gospel of ranch. Ranch, yes, this week. He didn't valley ranch announced. They were hiring two ranch dressing ambassadors, whose job would be to travel around Europe to promote ranch dressing on America's number one cultural export. Be there. This is, as you know, I live in Europe, like, four months out of the year. Every time I go to Europe, I take some swish or sweet blunts and some ranch dressing in my suitcase every time. Because they don't have ranch over there. They don't have ranch, they don't have, like, dairy creamers so I have, like, American poison stuff in my suitcase every time. It's a weird thing to say I live in Europe four months of the year and I love ranch. Yes. Yeah. You're a very interesting character. I'm interested in that. I love ranch dressing. I just worry about when the war with Europe starts and we have to pull our ranch ambassadors from the ranch embassy. I also had it Sebastian doing our quiz. Sebastian, the new father can celebrate because he has a perfect score three out of three. Yeah. Congratulations. Thank you, thank you. Thank you so much for playing Sebastian. Take care. Thank you. It was a dream come true. Bye-bye. Woo-hoo. Bye-bye. Now onto 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 worth two points. Also, can you give us the screen? Sure thing. Rachel and Brian are tied up at two Tom Papa in the lead with three. Okay, so that means Rachel and Brian are tied. Let's say Brian, why don't you go first? Okay, on Thursday several passengers of the cruise ship that had a blank outbreak left quarantine. Hiner virus. Hiner virus, that's right. Following voting on Tuesday, Karen Bass advanced to a run-off in the race for mayor of blank. Off to Angela's. Right, this week at Top and Chicago was called Blanking while on paid medical leave for a knee injury. Um, bike riding. No, going horseback riding, lifting five bales of hey and moving at twelve hundred pound dumpster. I can't believe we didn't get that one. This week the San Antonio's first in New York Knicks faced off in the first two games of the blank finals. NBA finals. Right, on Thursday scientists said intense solar storms may mean that the blanks could be visible from 23 states of solar flares. Yeah, the northern lights will give that to you this week authorities are warning people to not throw their old car batteries in the trash because they keep blanking. They keep exploding. Not quite. They keep making the garbage trucks explode. Oh, the chemicals inside your car battery totally safe. They will not catch fire or explode unless of course you were to squeeze them in a powerful hydraulic press surrounded by a bunch of garbage. So exploding. Also, how did Brian Babylon do in our quiz? He did all right. He got four right for eight points, total of 10 and the lead. All right. Very good. Rachel. Rachel, you're up next on the blank. On Wednesday, the house voted to block the administration from ordering more strikes against blank. Iran. Right on Monday. Trump named a man with no background in intelligence to be the acting director of blank. FBI. CIA. Sob. I don't know. National intelligence director. This week, panlionologist in China discovered another species of blank. Right on Tuesday. And it was said that the $75 billion IPO for private space company blank would be the largest in history. SpaceX. Right. This week a Laskin Senator Dan Sullivan learned he'd be facing off against a man named blank in the Republican primary. Grizzly bear. No, a man whose name is also Dan Sullivan. On Monday, Martin Scorsese faced a backlash after saying he supported the use of blank during pre-production. AI. Right. This week, police in Massachusetts responded to reports of a man in camouflage standing in a lawn holding a bazooka instead found a blank. I'm a kid just doing his own thing. No landscape for holding a leaf blower. Police arrived and he's expecting to find a lunatic waving around the bazooka, but instead found a landscaper just doing his job. It's a crazy mistake to make because everybody knows the best way to get rid of leaves and your driveways to take them out one by one. Also, how did Rachel do in our quiz? She did the exact same thing that Brian Babylon did. For right for eight points, now they're tied with the total of ten each. All right, so how many of them? Oh, this Tom Papa need to win. Tom, just four. That's all you need. Don't say it like that. All right, Tom. This is for the game. Fill in the blank on Tuesday. The Acting Attorney General said the administration had abandoned President Trump's $1.8 billion blank. Slush fund. Right. Anti-weaponization fund. On Thursday, former National Security Advisor Blank pled guilty to mishandling classified documents. Uh, button. Yes, according to a new study. Bumble Blanks. Show problem-solving skills at the level of chimps. Bumble bees, bumble bees, yes. Man, bumble. You better get four. I'm playing. This week, a police detective in South Carolina was fired after he pulled his gun and another officer for blanking. Farding. No, for what? For microwaving fish in the police. It smelled like a fart. On Wednesday, the UN issued a warning about extreme weather caused by a so-called superblank. Uh, I superstorm. Super El Niño, according to a new study, over three-fourths of Americans want to require warning labels on ultra-process blank. Food. Yes, ultra-process foods after participating in a new tradition of jumping into a pool to Andrew Wedding Reception, a recent brind warned other brides to make sure their dress does not blank. Doesn't, um, become see-through. No, doesn't try to drown you. Oh, shall be Crawford and her new husband jumped into the pool at the end of the wedding reception while the guests watched and cheered and then kept cheering for what they really should have realized once too long. How so did Tom Papa do well enough to win? Man, listen. Tom, by the hairs of your chinny chinny, you've got four right for eight more points with it to give you one more point than Brian and Rachel for you in the game. In just a minute, we're going to ask our panelists to predict after tarps off, it'll be the next big thing in baseball stadiums. Wait, wait, don't tell me it's a production of NPR and WBZ Chicago and association with urgent haircut productions, Doug Berman, Ben Evelyn, overlord. Philip Goetheka writes, our Lemrex, our ops manager, is to see our Vardak. BJ leaderman composed our theme, our program is produced by Jennifer Mills, Miles Durinbaus and Rullian King. The special thanks to Miles Durinbaus, also thanks to Mahanada Elshakey this week. Peter Gwynn is deep in the heart of Chicago. Emma Choi is our vibe curator, technical direction to some Lorna Whiter, CFO's Colin Miller, our production manager, that's Robert Newhouse. Our senior producers, Ian Chillog and the executive producer, wait, wait, don't tell me it's Michael Danforth. Now, panel, what'll be the next big trend at baseball stadiums? Rachel Koster. Tushy's out too. Ryan Pavlov. It's going to be gloves off night where people just fight and it's going to be played on the White House lawn. And Tom Papa. Weeners out at the Westminster Dog Show. And if any of that happens, we'll ask you about it on Wait, Wait, don't tell me. Give it up for I was a sling. The new big man on our campus. Thanks also to Brian Babylon, Rachel Koster and Tom Papa. Thanks to the staff and crew at the basketball hall. And special thanks to our friends at KUD here in Austin. Thanks to our fabulous audience who came out to see us in Austin. And thanks to you for listening wherever you might be. A Peter Segal, see you next week back in Chicago. This is NPR.