We ghost some tech bros with David Byrne

from NPR and WBEZ Chicago this is wait wait don't tell me the NPR news quiz I'm your judge and scorekeeper Alzo Slade I'm so judgy teenage girls ask me for advice and here's your host at the Studebaker Theater at the Fine Arts Building in Chicago Illinois Peter Sagal thank you Alzo thank you everybody thank you all so much I'm just gonna say I'm not gonna I'm not gonna shut you down because if I were in the audience I'd be just as excited because we have such a great show for you later on we are going to be talking to David Byrne the legendary musician and artist and founder of Talking Heads in his honor after tonight's show we will be burning down the theater you but we want to talk to your head first so give us a call the number is one triple eight wait wait that's one eight eight eight nine two four eight nine two four let's welcome our first listener contestant hi you're on wait wait don't tell me yes hi hi who's this Lucy Lucy where are you calling from Lucy I'm calling from DC but I'm French from Luxembourg oh wait a minute if you're French from Luxembourg doesn't that mean you're Luxembourgian no that means I'm an expat oh I see and and what do you do now that you're here in DC um I work for a very big organization that aims to end poverty around the world wow that's pretty great any any schedule for that because you've been waiting well we still want to have a job right yeah exactly right do it do it do it but slowly enough that you can you know get to retirement I get that that's a good strategy it works for everybody Lucy it's great to have you let me introduce you to our panel today first up she's a comedian you can see most nights performing live somewhere in New York City it's Rachel Koster hi Lucy hi thank you for your hard work next he's a comedian you can see at Punchline Houston November 5th through the 7th and Punchline Atlanta November 20th to the 22nd it's Alonzo Bowden hello Lucy hello hello , thank you so much for having me and making his debut on our panel today he is a New York Times best-selling author whose pop culture commentary you can see on HBO Hulu and NBC it is Rob Anderson hey Lucy hi I like your capitalistic approach to poverty well Lucy welcome to our show you're going to play who's Alzo this time Alzo Slade right here 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 voicemail you ready to go yes okay your first quote is from a woman on TikTok if you see a tech bro run for your life so the tech bros may seem to be running the world right now but it turns out they're having trouble finding what oh I'm gonna need a hint well the person who said run for your life from tech bros was a woman women yes okay girlfriends dates spouses partners according to a report in Wired magazine it is becoming harder and harder for tech bros to find dates today's women are quick to reject them for no other reason than that they are the worst people on earth the article says even their gigantic salaries are not enough to overcome sort of the tech bro stigma guys just make up for the fact that we need to put up something about how you got all that money no no no no I don't work for Anthropic I embezzled it all from a children's hospital but I don't think I don't think it's easy for a tech bro to hide his job that little that little vest gives it away yeah one of these guys this is true that in order to seem more attractive and nicer to the women he meets instead of saying he works in tech he says he works in AI dude no that's like saying oh I'm not a murderer I'm more of a serial killer but if he's an AI guy does he really need a live woman I mean isn't isn't that what they're working on robots to replace them and you may have a point imagine being turned down by the robot you created even the robots like yeah I just want to be friends yeah all right here Lucy is your next quote it is Missouri Senator Eric Schmidt in a hearing on Tuesday you will go down in history as a total dirtbag he was yelling at Jack Smith that was the special counsel who had investigated whom your president oh no no no don't rub that in wait a minute don't do that wait a minute no no no no no no no wait a minute uh uh it may be little but it's a little bit more than that wait a minute wait a minute literally true but you chose to live here yeah you live here Lucy exactly don't you dare President Trump yes President Trump at a televised Senate hearing Senator Schmidt accused Jack Smith back in 2024 of going to Atlanta to engage in a secret conspiracy against the president the senator's proof texts about Smith going to an Atlanta Hawks basketball game on a certain date because who doesn't say that I'm going to take a secret flight to Atlanta to advance my evil conspiracy and I'd also like to take in an NBA game while I'm there turns out that Senator Schmidt was confusing the Atlanta Hawks with the Iowa Hawkeyes Jack Smith on that date was actually watching Caitlin Clark playing basketball 700 miles away nevertheless Senator Schmidt said that couldn't be true because gotcha dirtbag there's no such thing as women's basketball so everybody I mean this went viral it was all over the place did you guys see it Rob did you see I saw a clip on TikTok and I think a senator I thought she was saying hot guys so wait a minute so you were talking about the senator Amy Klobuchar who corrected Senator Schmidt and and chimed in said no I don't think he was seeing the Hawks in Atlanta I think he was seeing the Hawkeyes and you heard her but the way she said hot guy and everyone went oh she got him and I went hot guys but I was like on the same page but on a completely different book yeah at that time wasn't Caitlin Clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes like literally the most famous basketball player she was like it wasn't it wasn't hard to look up a reason to be watching the Iowa Hawkeyes yeah they had the the greatest woman's basketball player in the country at the time it seems he would go to that game as opposed to the Atlanta Hawks a team on which you couldn't name one player all right Lucy your last quote is from a woman responding to a debate that broke out this week on the internet about babysitting that's as good as stealing that was one of the many many people who went online this week to say that babysitters should not be paid for the time when they're doing what um holding the baby because this is such a sweet thing to do that's so sentimental oh no that's not that's not it the idea is for the babysitter that you're off the clock as soon as the lullaby ends oh as soon as the baby sleeps yes they believe these people that babysitters should not be paid or not be paid as much just for sitting around while the kids are asleep this week countless people went online to argue about this how much should parents pay for the time when they're sleeping parents pay babysitters once the kids go to sleep the idea is that the babysitter should not get paid for just sitting on the couch watching tv what that's the job so remember okay babysitters under this new rule to make the most money just keep the kids awake until the parents get home actually by any means no necessary that's what i was going to say it'd be you know the babysitter just feed that kid candy can you can you imagine the baby's nodding off and the babysitter like little slaps to the face nope nope i don't have kids but but i have a dog like now like i pay a dog sitter when i you know when i leave and i know my dog sleeps 18 19 hours a day like i know after she feeds and walks and he's done but but i wouldn't not pay her then they just why wouldn't they just leave like all right kid i'm off the clock see you later yeah exactly also how did lucy do on our quiz lucy did great perfect score three out of three congratulations lucy thank you so much for playing and take care right now panel it is time for you to answer some questions about this week's news alonzo question for you alonzo more parents these days want their kids to have the same kind of experience as they had growing up so they're taking their kids to playgrounds that are what? Unsafe? Exactly. Dangerous. This culture of over-protectiveness and obsessions about safety, it's making our kids too soft. Do you realize there are playgrounds nowadays without one single piece of metal to burn your leg on when it's sunny out? Terrible. So parents are taking kids to playgrounds that are designed to be dangerous, like a real one called The Yard in New York City, which has features strewn about it like hammers, a big old empty water tank, and this is true, used wheelchairs for the kids to play with. They get the wheelchairs from the people who used the playground last year and have healed up. Peter. Yes. That's just the projects. You know, when the cop slide went viral, the one in Boston, and then they shut it down the next day. Like, that is pretty safe compared to what things used to be. Yeah, a real slide is made of aluminum. Exactly. So when you slide down in the summer, you leave the skin on the slide. Exactly. Helps the kids molt so they can grow faster. Yeah. Coming up, our panelists find a great parking spot in our Bluff the Listener game called 1-888-WAIT-WAIT-TO-PLAY. We'll be back in a minute with more of Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me from NPR. 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 Alonzo Bowden, Rachel Koster, and Rob Anderson. And here again is your host at the Studebaker Theater in Chicago, Illinois, Peter Sagal. Thank you, Alzo. Thank you, Alzo. Right now, it is time for the Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. Bluff the Listener game called 1-888-WAIT-WAIT-TO-PLAY. Our game in the air. Hi, you are on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. Hi, this is Morgan Overhausen calling in from New Haven, Connecticut. Oh, I love New Haven. Spent many happy times there. What do you do there? I currently am a small animal veterinarian here in downtown New Haven. Oh, okay. How small? Just your cats and dogs. Not smaller than that. Really? Do you have like a minimum size? I have to be larger than something? Big enough for us to at least hold. I got this mosquito I need help with. Exactly. Well, welcome to the show, Morgan. You're going to play the game in which you must try to tell truth from fiction. Alzo, what is Morgan's topic? Parking garages around the world. Parking garages are everywhere, and although you may not know it right away, each one is unique as a snowflake. A boring, sad, concrete snowflake. This week, we read about an international parking garage that is shaking things up with an exciting new feature. Our panelists are going to tell you about it, and we're going to tell you about it. We're going to tell you about it. Take the real one and get the waiter of your choice in your voicemail. Are you ready to play? Here I am. Okay. First up, let's hear from Rachel Koster. Business people in France have been arriving earlier to work than ever before since the implementation of new technology in a parking garage in Paris' La Défense financial district. As part of the parking garage's latest renovation, they got rid of all the stairs and added a bunch of fun slides. Employers at Société Générale remarked that their bankers have never shown up so early for work or with so much static electricity. They're not going to be able to see electricity in their hair. The only downside noted stylish businessman Pierre Lefrou was that the slide gave him a wedgie. He did not let that stop him from sliding four times before work and sneaking in a couple rounds during his lunch break. Unlike normal garages where drivers try to park as close to the exit as possible, people have been arriving early and fighting for spots on the top floor so they can ride down the longest slide, which has the most turns. Brooks Brothers is even releasing a brand new wedgie-proof suit just for enjoyers of the slide. You might be wondering how people get back to their cars, and so is the parking garage company. Hope you like crawling. A parking garage in Paris that replaced their stairs with slides to make exiting that much more fun. Your next parking parable comes from Rob Anderson. In Lyon, finding a parking spot is no longer about availability. It's about alignment. Parking operator Stationment Rhone-Lumière has drawn national attention after converting its downtown parking spot to a parking lot. The parking garage is now a functue model. When drivers arrive, they're greeted by a parking intuitive, an attendant who asks them to step out of the car for a reading. The attendant circles the vehicle slowly, sometimes resting a hand on the hood, sometimes simply standing in silence. The vehicle is then directed to one of the almost 1,500 visually identical spots that possess differing energies. Many people believe they drive a sedan, says senior parking intuitive Mathilde Caron, but the car knows. Sometimes it's carrying hatchback energy. It wants to open from the back, and it wants to be honest. The company says it made the switch after noticing that customers stayed longer in the paid-by-hour garage when their spot matched the car's personality. Some customers, however, point out that they stay longer because the vibe reading can take up to two hours. A parking garage. A parking garage in Lyon, France, with Feng Shui experts who help you park your car according to its inner energies. And your last carport report comes from Alonzo Bowden. Are they shooting a cheese commercial? That's the strangest car alarm I've ever heard. Well, if you're in Austria, that car alarm or cheese commercial is part of the latest craze, yodeling in a parking garage. A parking garage offers the same perks as the high mountain, says yodeling teacher Anna-Marie Gucci. I mean, yeah, the views aren't the same and the smells are worse, but it works. And it's really catching on. Students from everywhere love the energy of group yodeling. Jamie Sohn from South Korea joined a class to experience the Austrian culture. Andrea Allen from Buffalo has newfound confidence thanks to yodeling, while her roommate is probably looking for a new roommate. Tom Button, a teacher from New York, says it's like group meditation. He likes walking deep. Deeper and deeper down in the parking lot, singing louder and louder, which sounds like a great way to practice yodeling or how to be the scariest murderer ever. All right. So let's imagine you're driving around Europe and you go into a particular parking garage. Would it be in real life from Rachel, a parking garage in Paris, where slides instead of stairs to make getting out of the garage really fun? From Rob Anderson, a parking garage in Lyon, France, with feng shui experts to help you park your car in the appropriate energetic place. Or from Alonzo Bowden, a parking garage in Austria, which has become a home for yodelers to practice their mountainous art. Which of these is the real parking garage we found out about in the news? This is a tricky one. I'd also love to park in any one of these three, but I think I'm going to have to go with C, the yodeling. You're going to go with the story? You're going to go with the story about the yodeling. Well, to bring you the correct answer, we spoke to an expert on the topic. You know, yodeling gets a bad rap, but I think it would be a wonderful thing to hear in your local parking garage. That was Alice Walla. She's a singer-songwriter and yodeling instructor at the Old Town School of Folk Music here in Chicago, confirming that, yes, it's the parking garage in Austria where all the yodelers are congregating. Congratulations, Morgan. You got it right. You're in to point for a lot. Thank you, Alonzo, just for telling the truth. And you've won our prize, the voice of your choice in your voicemail. Congratulations. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for playing, Morgan. Take care. And now the game we call Not My Job. Back in the 1970s, David Byrne dropped out of art school, moved to New York, and started a band called Talking Heads. In the years since, he has won Grammys, an Oscar. He's been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He won a special Tony Award for his Broadway show. He has created books and scores and theater pieces and artworks and a new immersive play that is being performed here in Chicago right now. All of which makes you wonder, what could he have accomplished if he had just gotten that art degree? Thank you. David Byrne, welcome to Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Good to be in Chicago virtually. It's great to have you here virtually because in Chicago, people can still see your play, your experience called Theater of the Mind. It's been running for months here with the Goodman Theater. I have been to it. I don't know if you'd even say seen it. I have experienced it. But I can't really explain adequately what it is. Can you? I can try a little bit. Okay. As an audience member, you're given a new identity. And you go through with a group of 16 people. And you're friends, you're acquaintances, you're workmates with an actor. And you go through different rooms and you experience kind of perceptual illusions. and different things that make you doubt what you're seeing, what you're smelling, what you're tasting what you're hearing yeah but you skipped i think an important detail which is that actor you mentioned who leads you and the other members of your small group is named david do you ever sort of come to snuck into chicago and just checked on it come to see it yourself gone through the experience oh lots of times yes yes i've been a member of the audience and and do people i'm assuming they must recognize you well maybe they do maybe they do i don't know i don't try not to pay attention to you think you're in a group yeah because i'm yeah because i'm trying to pay attention to like how's the actor doing yeah is the actor kind of but it's selling the actor selling these ideas you're selling this part i'm just trying to imagine there's a group of you said 16 people going through this thing over the course of about 90 minutes and they're all i'm just imagining they're all standing there going is that is that david pearl is that he looked just no no no that's another actor exactly this must be part of the concept it's part of the show yes exactly i'm thinking of the actor when he sees you like oh boy yes who am i now yeah exactly i i was joking about it earlier but when you quit art school to move to new york and pursue your own art and your music did anybody give you grief remember like david you can't quit school you're gonna get your degree no quite the opposite um i showed the i showed a teacher that the stuff that i was doing the artwork i was doing he said we don't teach that stuff here really you should yeah you should go to new york and try your luck really that was good that was good advice apparently do you think yeah do you think that person was really impressed with you and felt you should put your work on the world it was just trying to let you down gently i guess it could have been either one yeah really good like yeah yeah you're not going anywhere with this you know i'm not gonna i'm not gonna say that no even art professors know the degree is pointless exactly um uh speaking of advice we heard a story that you when you were starting talking heads the band starting to perform in downtown stages cbgbs lou reed himself gave you some fashion advice is that true well yeah yeah yeah he um looked at me and said i had really hairy arms at that point really hairy i mean i've seen photos now or not i don't know where the hair went but they he said you should never wear short sleeves wow body shamed you yeah i guess i guess that explains the suit when you think about it yeah your show american your show american utopia which ended up on broadway earning you a tony featured you and the other performers including musicians in gray suits monochrome suits and bare feet back when you were doing american utopia did you and your ensemble keep stepping on sharp objects uh actually we were really lucky really some some of the band and dancers performers said i know i'm gonna put on some little fake fake shoes really shoes back back in the yeah we had yeah we had these little slippers yeah that were you know colored according to their skin tone and then i would go up and draw toes oh you want to wear them huh well they gotta look right here just stay still look like you got bare feet i i want to ask you about one more thing before we move to our game is famously you are a bicyclist a bicycle enthusiast an advocate and you ride all over new york city on your bicycle does anybody like in a car ever or a truck recognize you just as they're about to run you over and decide not to i mean does yeah the fact that they might recognize me does that give me some protection exactly they're like ah that son of a i'm gonna go oh it's david let him go oh no you can't run over a famous guy you'll be the guy that ran over a celebrity yeah you can't do that forever uh no well i i can't say uh david how what a what a personal thrill it is for me to talk to you and there are more thrills ahead because we have asked you here to play a game we're calling talking heads meet walking deads right that's right we're gonna ask you three questions about the walking dead or zombies answer two to three questions correctly you'll win our prize for one of our listeners the voice of anyone they might choose from our show also who is david byrne playing for james miller of orlando florida all right you ready to go i'm ready all right i mean you may not have taken tests because you know you didn't graduate so that's right might be new might be new experience for you here's your first question george a romero of course is the father of the modern zombie movie with his night of the living dead and its sequels before he made his name with the brain eating undead what was his job a directing short films for mr rogers neighborhood b performing as a street mime in toronto or c he was a night watchman in a mortuary with a lot of time on his hands oh i'd be really tempted to say night watchman in a mortuary but that's probably too good to be true so i think i have to go with number two we're gonna go with performed as a street mime in toronto no he actually directed short films for mr rogers oh my god before this is true before he made night of the living dead mr romero made such films as how light bulbs are made and mr rogers gets a tonsillectomy two terrifying films absolutely there's two more two more chances um although night of the living dead that early movie made george romero very famous it did not make him rich why why that's the question why here's here are your choices a he lost his share of the profits on a bet he made in the 1969 super bowl b the distributor forgot to put that little circle c copyright mark on the poster or c he was successfully sued by the hgc and the hgc and he was sued by the hgc and the bakery company makers of living bread uh i'm gonna say the copyright thing but you're right that's what happened it turns out if if you don't put that little c mark on something it's not copyrighted so anybody from the moment it was released was able to show it for free okay last question if you get this right you win since night of the living dead of course created the genre there have been countless films that have been made by the hgc and the hgc and the hgc and the list of zombie movies, including which of these? Which of these is real? A, Zombiever, about innocent campers attacked by undead beavers. B, Flight of the Living Dead, about zombies on a plane. Or C, Nudist Colony of the Dead, which is self-explanatory. Which one is real? Which one is not real? Which one is real? Which one is real? The first one. Yes, Zombiever is real. But as you probably guessed, all of them are real. Those are all zombie movies. You can see if you're a completist. Also, how did David Byrne do on our quiz? Well, he passed this test. Two out of three. Great. Congratulations. That's all it takes. That's all it takes. David Byrne. Can I get my degree now? You do. You can. You can. David Byrne is a Grammy-winning musician and one of the founding members of Talking Heads. His interactive theater experience, Theater of the Mind, is happening in Chicago right now. Come and experience it. More information is at theaterofthemindchicago.com. David Byrne, what a joy to talk to you. Thank you so much for being here. Take care. In just a minute, Alzo raids his granny's closet. The Listener Limerick Challenge. Call 1-888-WAIT-WAIT to join us in the air. I'm Alzo Slade. We're playing this week with Alonzo Bowden, Rob Anderson, and Rachel Koster. Thank you. Thank you, Alzo. Thank you so much. Thanks, everybody. In just a minute, Alzo reads us his journal. It turns out it's just full of limericks. It's our Listener Limerick Challenge. If you'd like to play, give us a call at 1-888-WAIT-WAIT. That's 1-888-924-8924. Right now, panel, it is time for more questions for you from the week's news. Alonzo, Tombstone Pizza announced they're releasing a and what? It's a new pizza topping they're adding. Well, it's a topping that comes with this. It's a special Halloween-themed pizza. Candy corn? Yes! Whoa. You know what's funny? When I said Halloween and you went right to candy corn, all of a sudden I felt so terrible for what your childhood must have been like. If I say Halloween and you think of candy and that's the candy that came to your mind, Alonzo, no, because that's the candy that's always in the news. It is? Every Halloween there's a controversy over candy corn. Is it good? Is it bad? What does it taste like? It has nothing to do with corn, this or that. Peter, it may not appear so, but I'm a bit of a news nerd, Peter, believe it or not. After a hundred episodes, I thought you might pick up on that. I think, well. So it melts, I guess. Well, here's the thing. So you get the pizza, it comes with the pizza, with the pepperoni on it, and a little. a little packet of candy corn. So presumably the idea is you bake the pizza, you take it out, you sprinkle the candy corn on it in the manner of. Parmesan. Exactly, or red pepper, except it's candy corn. Have these people eaten food before? That's not going to work. You don't sprinkle candy corn. Those things are heavy. It's more of a placement. The tweezers, that's what they do in the fine restaurants. I'm not discerning about pizza at all. You could put anything on that. It could be cold, moldy, just kind of scrape off a little piece and it's still good to me. The candy corn sounds amazing. Girl, you are crazy. If I could dunk. I don't care. Am I going to get sick sitting next to you? It gives it an extra. Yeah, Rachel's like, it's not moldy, it's just an adorable little fur coat on my pizza. Rachel, this week we heard about a new concept called attention infidelity. It's when people in a relationship neglect to pay attention to the pizza. It's when people in a relationship neglect their partners and instead spend all their time with what? Their phone. Exactly right. Oh, it makes me sick to think of. I'm sorry to hear that. There was a pregnant pause there. I was expecting to get some kind of confession. No, I don't have a boyfriend to ignore. But if I did, I wouldn't because what a gift to share your life with someone else, I imagine. Hypothetically. Time spent, in real life is time that matters. And time spent on your phone is time watching fruits cheat on each other because of AI. I was watching someone ignore their loved one on the bus while I was on my way here and I was thinking about how sad it made me. But that's not interesting to talk about, so I'm sorry I brought it up. I think, can I bring up a somewhat related question? You may. Why are we still calling them phones? That's a good question. It's like the least use. You know, I saw this, this whole thing about the new Apple folding phone or whatever. People are like, $2,000 for a phone? I'm like, no, $2,000 for a computer that folds up and fits in your pocket. Right. Like, they're not phones anymore. Well, if you call them something else, what would it be and how could you convince people to use that term? My life. My precious. See, Peter, you're trying to slip me into that tech bro role so I'll never get a date again. I'm on to you, Peter. We got a vest fitted for you back in the day. Coming up, it's lightning fill 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 or leave a message at 1-888-WAIT-WAIT. You can see us most weeks right here at the Studio Baker Theater in downtown Chicago, or you can join us on the road. We'll be in Kalamazoo, Michigan, coming up on October 22nd and in normal Illinois on November 12th. For tickets and information to all our live events, go to nprpresents.org. And if you. You love our show, but you wish it was only about eight seconds long, you can check us out on our socials at WaitWaitNPR. Hi, you're on WaitWait, don't tell me. Hi, this is Rachel Simonson from Billings, Montana. Billings, Montana, a beautiful place. I am a charitable giving specialist at a senior living community. Wow. So you work at a senior living community where seniors live? Seniors live there. And your job is to go around and talk with the residents about exactly how they should screw their children by giving their money away. Or, as I like to say, they can disinherit the IRS and make sure that the people who run out of money always have a home with us. Oh. Did she say disinherit the IRS? Yeah. I think what you mean is the money that you give to charity, you don't have to pay taxes on or an estate tax or anything like that. It's not like the IRS offended you and you're cutting them out of the will. Welcome to the show, Rachel. You, of course, are going to play our listener limerick challenge, which means that Alzo Slade right here is going to perform for you three news-related limericks with the last word or phrase missing from each. If you can fill in that last word or phrase correctly and two of the limericks will be a winner. Ready to go? I am. Here's your first limerick. I'm approaching each morsel with dread. Eat it plain or enhance it with spread. At this overblown price, I must savor each slice. Sixty bucks for a plate. Plain. Loaf of? Bread. Right. The bakery rye in New York City is going viral for their $60 loaf of, wait for it, rye bread. And it's not even party-sized or covered in gold leaf. For $60, a loaf of bread better have a $50 bill stuffed inside. Wow. Have you tasted the rye? No. We bought it as an investment. Can you write it off on your taxes? Maybe. I don't know. Well, we have an expert. Can you write off a $60 loaf of bread in your taxes? Probably not. Okay. When I first heard about this, I thought it was a front for the mob because a lot of those businesses pop up in New York. I'm not going to name them because they'll kill me. Gristiti's. But they also, at this rye place, they slice them and then they put wet toppings on them and they sit all day. So they're pre-decorated and you get a wet, wet piece of. Have you seen this? Have you been here? Have you ever been to Denmark? That's like typical. That answers that. Yeah, it really does. All right. Here is your next limerick. I've got a wild storm that's internal. When I write it down, it's less infernal. But it makes me feel bleak and someone might peek. So it's time I stop keeping a. Journal. Yes. A cultural reporter at the Washington Post says, journaling might be actually bad for you, which is surprising because it's long been recommended by the wellness industry and the people who like to sit with a hardcover notebook in the middle of a coffee shop and see if anyone notices them. Now, this writer explained, well, of course, keeping a journal, you think about when you tend to write things down. It's been a hard time. So keeping a journal will just remind you of the darkest periods of your life. But the real danger, she says, is that people might read them. Hold on. Don't we. Keep journals so they can be read by somebody? Really? Like, when I was a kid, I was writing things down so my mom could find it. I was like, she would ground me and I'm like, that. Really? She'll pay for this. Yeah, and then I'd leave it somewhere where she could find it. No, isn't it just till I kind of get attention? So anyway, this woman thinks maybe you shouldn't keep a journal. Here's your last limerick. Their garments so flowy, they might drown. It's a new trend with which I'm not quite down. They are giving street cred to what mom wore to bed. They are all heading out in a. Nightgown. Yes, nightgown. They're back. Old, tiny nightgowns with the end of the high, lacy neck and the long, itchy sleeves are apparently this year's new little black dress. It's an outfit that says to the world, you boy, buy me the biggest goose you can find at the market. The kids yearn to bed rot. I'm sorry, we can't go. I think it's because no one wants to shave their legs. Everyone wants to be bloated, which feels good. I support that, yeah. If you're bloated, you've got to let it out. And you should always be ready to go to bed. Right. You're in the club and it's like, well, I'm sleepy. Also, how did Rachel do in our quiz? She did great. Three out of three, perfect score. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you so much for playing. Thank you, Rachel. Take care. You too. Thanks so much. It is now time for 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. Alzo, can you give us the scores? Of course. Rob and Rachel each have two and Alonzo is blazing in the lead with four. Oh my. Oh my gosh. How did that happen? Okay. Well, that means Rob and Rachel are tied for second. Rachel, I'm going to arbitrarily pick you to go first. Here we go. The clock will start when they begin your first question. Fill in the blank. This week, health officials said that October is the best month to get the blank shot. COVID. Flu. I'll give it to you. This week, a new report shows that Democrats account for the majority of mail-in-blank requests. Voting. Right. This week, police in Latvia were called in to break up a fight between blank and blank. Bad guys and the good guys. No, between a bad and a hedgehog. After multiple reports of injuries, Six Flags announced they were permanently closing their X2 blank. It's a roller coaster. It is, yes. On Monday, middle-aged basketball star blank made his first appearance as a Philadelphia 76er. I don't know. Oh my god, you're giving me the worst ones ever. LeBron James. This week, a man who crashed his car into the front of a Texas grocery store explained that he did it because blank. Because he was late to become a black belt. No, he crashed it through the front of a grocery store because he really needed to use the bathroom. I've been there. The man was panicked when he got to the store at 4 30 a.m. and found out it was closed, so he did what any of us in that situation would do. He got back in the car, hit the gas, and crashed right through the front windows, ending up a really good distance down one aisle toward the back of the grocery store because. You know, if you're going to smash your car through a window to get to the bathroom, why not drive the whole way? I had E. coli for a summer, and I had thoughts like this every single day. There was not a building that I would not find a way into to use the bathroom when it happened. How many times have you had E. coli? Shut up. Continuous. A month. Yeah. Tell me again about eating moldy pizzas. They taste good. Oh my god, you guys are so dumb. Judgmental. Also, how did Rachel do in her quiz? You don't have to say, actually. She got three right for six more points, total of eight. All right. Okay. I'll take them. All right. Rob, you ready to do this? You're up next. Fill in the blank. This week, a group of 100 scientists released a report warning that blank temperatures were rising faster than predicted. Sea level. Ocean. Ocean temperatures, yes. On Monday, blanks starship. A spaceship rocket reached orbit for the first time. SpaceX. Yes. This week, police in Fiji are suspecting an inside job after $10 million worth of cocaine stored in their evidence locker was blanked. Stolen. No, it was replaced by $30 worth of flour. Of course. Of course. On Thursday, online retail giant Blank unveiled a complete redesign of their Kindle e-readers. Amazon. Right. Following heavy rains that led to flooding this week, residents in a New Jersey town were shocked when they saw a new e-reader. They were shocked when they saw a new e-reader. Blank going down the streets of their city. The zombie-verse. No. Beware the zombie-verse. No. A shark. After a nor'easter caused flooding across the east coast, several people in a New Jersey town filmed a shark swimming through the town streets. It was even caught swimming up someone's driveway, which was scary, but it was even scarier when it got up to their front porch and was like, door dash. Also, how did Rob do in our quiz? He and Rachel are best friends. Tied up. So how many, then, does Alonzo need to win? Alonzo, two to tie, three to win. That's still pressure. Here we go. This is for the game, Alonzo. Fill in the blank. On Wednesday, White House lawyers returned to court to defend Trump's global blanks. Paris. Right. Following a meeting with a White House top tech executive signed a pledge to self-police blank development. AI. Right. This week, Chanel, Dior, and Louis Vuitton all held shows during blank's fashion week. Paris. Right. After a judge approved their settlement with 12 states, the merger between Paramount and blank was allowed to proceed. Warner Brothers. Warner Brothers is right. This week, a crane collapsed on a house in Florida while it was being used to blank. This is Florida. It could be anything. I don't know. Launch Gators. No. While it was being used to remove another crane that had collapsed on the same house. That fits. That fits. It really does. On Monday, the FDA warned of a blank outbreak tied to raw cheese. E. coli. E. coli, yes. An E. coli outbreak. Well, wow. On Tuesday, fans of Backpack were thrilled when he was named the winner of Fat Blank Week. Oh, Fat Bear Week. Right. This week, the Guardian newspaper in England warned that that country is running dangerously low on blank. England's running low on, I don't know, sausage? No, England is running low on hunky guys. Organizers of the Mr. England campaign realized they had a problem this week when they noticed the pageant was only 13 days away and only seven guys had signed up. Turns out, England only has four handsome men and every single one of them is busy auditioning to be the next James Bond. Alzo, did Alonzo do well enough to win? Alonzo kicked ass. Yes. He got six right for 12 more points, total of 16, and the win. Congratulations. Coming up, our panelists predict how will the lonely tech bros rehabilitate their romantic image. But first, let me tell you that Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me is a production of NPR and WBEZ, Chicago, in association with Urgent Haircom Productions, Doug Berman and Benevolent Over Lord. Philip Godeker writes our limericks. Our public address announcer is Paul Friedman. Our ops manager is Jasira Vardak. Thanks to the staff and crew at the Studebaker Theatre. BJ Lederman composed our theme. Our program is produced by Jennifer Mills, Miles Nornblass, and Lillian King. Special thanks this week to Blythe Robertson, Gary Yeck, Janie Hoffman, and Dom Banyas. Peter Gwynn has a dog. Emma Choi is our vibe curator. Technical direction is from Lorna White. Our CFO is Colin Miller. Our production manager is Robert Newhouse. Our senior producer is Ian Chilock and the executive producer of Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. That's Mike Danforth. Now, panel, how will tech bros get their mojo back? Rachel Koster. Who cares? Rob Anderson. They'll finally open up about their feelings on their sub stack. And Alonzo Bowden. They're going to keep it in-house by ordering AI women from Amazon. And if any of that happens, panel, we'll ask you about it on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. Thank you, Alzo Slade. Thanks also to Rachel Koster. Alonzo Bowden. Thanks to Rob Anderson. Congrats on a great debut. Thanks to all of you here in the Studebaker Theater and everybody out there listening wherever you are. I'm Peter Sagan. We'll see you next week. This is NPR.