We meet America's robo-teachers and take a nap in coach

From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, the NPR News Quiz. I'm Alzo Slade, the guy they bring in when Bill Curtis is stuck in the TSA line back home. And here's your host at the Johnny Mercer Theater in Savannah, Georgia, Peter Sago. Thank you, Alzo. Thank you, everybody. Thank you, Savannah. Oh, man. It is great to be back. It is great to be back in beautiful Savannah, a place we love. And I'm happy to say we have been welcomed as locals, which is gratifying. We've only been here two days, and all of us are absolutely covered in Spanish moss. Later on, we're going to be talking to actor D.W. Moffat, a veteran actor most recently seen in one battle after another, and more importantly, the head of the film and TV department at the Savannah College of Art and Design. But first, it's your turn to audition. The number to call in and play our games is 1-888-WAIT-WAIT. That's 1-888-924-8924. Let's welcome our first listener contestant. Hi, everyone. Wait, wait, don't tell me. Hi, Peter. This is Claudia calling from temperamental Chicago, Illinois. Oh, yeah. Okay. What do you do there in our home city? Well, I'm so glad you asked. I have a very sexy job working in administration and compliance operations at a health care-focused nonprofit. Whoa. Yeah, it's intense. A little bit of wait-wait-after-dark there. Hang on a second. I need to catch my breath. Welcome to the show, Claudia. Let me introduce you to our panel this week. First up, it's a writer for Clean Slate on Prime. It's Shantira Jackson. Hi, Claudia. Hi, Shantira. Next, it's a comedian you can see at the Laughing Tap in Milwaukee on April 10th and the 11th. It's Adam Burke. Hi, Claudia. Hi, Adam. And you can hear her album, Yell Joy, on Blonde. And her special Love Joy is on Peacock. It's Joyelle Nicole Johnson. Hey, Claudia. I like your voice, girl. Oh, my God, Joyelle. Thank you so much. Claudia, you're going to play Who's Alzo this time. Alzo Slade, filling in for Bill Curtis, is going to read you three quotations in this week's news. If you can correctly identify or explain just two of them, you'll win our prize. Any voice from our show you might choose for your voicemail. Are you ready to go? I'm ready. All right. Let's do it. Your first quote is First Lady Melania Trump welcoming a guest. A guest at an event on Wednesday. You are my first American-made humanoid guest in the White House. The First Lady was speaking to something that she wants to take over educating our children someday. What is it? It is a robot. It is a robot. Yes. You better applaud louder. They will be in charge soon. Speaking at the White House on Wednesday while standing beside a robot, Melania Trump described a future where robots teach our children. She has found her cause. Nancy Reagan said, "Say no to drugs." Michelle Obama said, "Eat healthy food." Melania Trump says, "Death to the human teachers." The scene, by the way, if you haven't seen it, it's amazing. It's perfectly staged. They're all sitting there in the audience and the door is open and Melania and the robot together walk in making this big entrance. And the technology is genuinely impressive. Both of them looked so good. They're so lifelike. The problem is if we pay the robots the way we pay teachers, they will revolt. That's true. This robot is amazing. I don't know if you saw this robot. It's amazing. They can program it to do just about anything except watch the Melania documentary. That's the one. It rebels. It draws the line. It's like one of those Star Treks of like, it's like one of those robots in the old Star Trek where they ask it to define it. It finds love. It just shorts out into the movie. If there's going to be robot teachers, that implies there's going to be robot substitute teachers. Yeah. Like, instead of your regular, like, cool robot, one of those little delivery ones comes in and just starts bumping against all the walls while you screw off. Yeah. And what happened to those delivery robots in New York was that all the kids beat those robots up. So. Actually, there is, believe it or not, actual data showing that young children, sometimes, don't have a robot. Young children sometimes feel more comfortable being read to or reading to a robot than a human being. It's less stressful for them. So, it'll be actually really kind of cute, you know, a robot teacher sitting there with preschoolers. Okay, kids, now we're going to read Power Down Moon. All right. Very good. Here is your next quote. What are they going to broadcast Sunday at 8:00 instead? That was a fan on Reddit responding with some panic to news that the entire season of What Hit ABC? Reality Dating Show was canceled just this week. The Bachelorette. The Bachelorette. This is amazing. After they take an entire season of the show, from the Bachelorette meeting all 22 bachelors in Episode 1 through her picking the eventual winner, after they did all that, video surfaced of this new Bachelorette throwing chairs at her boyfriend during a fight. So, ABC just canceled the whole season. It'll never happen again. It'll never see the light of day. ABC will lose $80 million, and middle-aged women lost their best excuse to drink wine on Sunday nights. Well, as a middle-aged woman, I would like to say to you all that I made it to the age of 44, and I have never seen an episode of The Bachelor or The Bachelorette. So, I feel triumphant. I feel there should be a reality show about that. Exactly. Yes. The last survivor. The now canceled Bachelorette, her name is Taylor Frankie Paul, and she's a star on another reality show, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. And her behavior was totally shocking to the Bachelorette producers who, I guess, didn't watch the very first episode of The Mormon Wives show where, this is true, she was arrested. Taylor Frankie Paul sounds like she put her name in a reality TV show name generator. Right. Is that somebody's real name? Were they tipped off when she handed out the roses? She kept them in the vase and then just broke them over people's heads? Yeah, exactly. Why did they have to cancel the whole show? If she was the problem, just do it without her. See what happens when 30 identical men all live together with nothing much to do, and somehow four of them are named Brad. Wait. I think that that show exists. It's called The Senate. Yeah. This is true. Some of the bachelors from the show are very upset that they're big breakers. Yeah. That their big break into reality TV has now been canceled, will be erased, never seen. They're considering a lawsuit against ABC. What are they suing for? Well, they want a single kiss from their true love. Oh, I feel bad. They won't be able to open their gym now. Is that what they always want to do? They always are like gym influencers. They're always like, "I didn't find love, but I did find abs." Well, now I feel like I've seen the season. Thank you. You know what helps you build abs? Ducking chairs. All right. Here is your last quote. It's so muddy and disappointing compared to autumn. That was the New York Times reporting that what season, long considered the worst, believe it or not, is now getting a rebrand. So what season does it turn out people like the least? And you only have four guesses. I would think it's spring. It is spring. It was surprising to me. Yes, spring. You got it right. But according to the New York Times, Americans just don't like spring. Well, if you think about it, it makes sense. There's wildly fluctuating weather. There's mud. There's allergies. And spring's only big holiday is the one where you can't have candy if you don't believe in Jesus. Now, several influencers, of course, influencers are doing this. They're trying to change our minds about spring with the same kind of branding that other seasons get. For example, autumn has its own flavor. Pumpkin spice, right? So spring needs one, too. Oh, I'm heading down to Starbucks to get my pollen and sneeze latte. It seems that you're suggesting that there's some marketing company whose client is spring. Yes. Well, this is what's funny. The Times went to a marketing consultant, and they said, "Let's say your client was spring. What would you do? How would you market it?" And he said, well, he would, quote, "spin springs for spring." And spring's brevity into a positive. So that's the new slogan. Spring. It's over soon. Yeah, but if spring is your client, what do those boardroom meetings look like? Just like an Alec Baldwin bunny rabbit yelling at you because the numbers are down? Pretty much. You know what I think? I think it is. I think the Easter Bunny has had beef with Santa Claus for quite some time now. And the Easter Bunny's like, "We've got to do something about this." Alza, how did Claudia do in our quiz? How did Claudia do on our quiz? Perfectly. Three out of three. She is a champion. Congratulations, Claudia. Thank you. Thank you for calling. Right now, panel, it is time for you to answer some questions about this week's news. Joyelle, United Airlines, they say they're going to revolutionize air travel with a new offering for their customers in economy. Starting next year, instead of separate seats, you and your traveling companions will be able to reserve your own what? Suite? No, not quite. That's for the people up in the first position. Okay. Listen to me. Okay. Bathroom. No. That would be nice. Peter, I fly first class. I don't know what's going on in the back of the airplane. Um, reserve your own water bottles. Do they give y'all that back there? No, no, no. Wait, why did you tell me y'all? You wouldn't like it. They just spray us with a hose. I've heard about it. Yeah, I know. Wait, oh, seatbelts. They do give us seatbelts. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They give y'all seatbelts back there? No, they do provide the fitted sheets. That's true. It's a bed? Yes, they're going to let people reserve beds. This new offering is called a relax row. And the idea is you take your three seats, which you're used to, and that will convert into a small cot of the same size. You then get a specially fitted mattress and blankets to create a comfortable bed to lie down on, specially padded with the hair of every other passenger there. Whenever I've seen a kid misbehaving on a plane, I thought, you know what that kid needs is a bed to jump on. Yeah. I want to know if somebody's going to have their toes out. You can tell by the face. People bring their toes out on airplanes. Yes, in the back where we are, they're doing that. They've done it in first class before. I had to say something. Did you really? Yes, I did. Is there a better class of toe up there? No. No toes are better toes. Did you say, excuse me, this is first class? I did. That's not how we do things here. Just imagine what broke toes look like in the back. Coming up, you're going to want a second helping of 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 in WBEZ Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, the NPR News Quiz. I'm Alzo Slade. We're playing this week with Joyelle Nicole Johnson, Shantira Jackson, and Adam Burke. And here's. Here again is your host at the Johnny Mercer Theater in Savannah, Georgia, Peter Sagal. Thank you. Thank you, Alzo. Thanks, everybody. Right now, it's time for the Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me Bluff the Listener game called 1-888-WAIT-WAIT-TO-PLAY our game on the air. Hi, you're on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. Hey, I'm Owen from Ames, Iowa. Hey, Owen from Ames, Iowa, home of Iowa State. What do you do there? Well, I actually go to Iowa State. I'm doing engineering. Oh, that's great. That's cool. What kind of engineering? What kind of engineering are you going to do? Oh, I'm doing mechanical right now. Okay. So, are you by any chance going to be building robots? Oh, that's certainly the plan if I don't get out of my classes. Yeah. Just remember, make sure when you're building the robots that they be best. I'll make sure of that. Well, welcome to the show. It's great to have you with us. You're going to play the game in which you have to tell truth from fiction. Alzo, what is it? What is Owen's topic? Amuse my boosh. Everybody loves the world. Can you say that? Apparently, you can. On the radio? Amazing. I haven't even met your boosh. Fine dining, of course, is the wonderful culture where you go to restaurants and secretly look up words from the menu on your phone so the waiter doesn't think you're an idiot. Our panelists are going to tell you about a hot new dining destination. The foodies are flocking to pick the one who's telling you the truth. You'll win the weight-waiter of your choice in your voicemail. Are you ready to play? Oh, yeah. All right. First, let's hear from Joyelle Nicole Johnson. Necessity is the mother of invention, said Katie Dickinson, the mother of the new viral eatery in Lake Odessa, Michigan. Katie, the mom of triplets, was at her wit's end feeding them when they came of age to masticate. Shocker, they only eat nuggets. But while chicken nuggets are delicious, they are nutritious. Then the idea popped in her head like the light bulb. In her childhood easy-bake oven, she started making everything in the shape of nuggets. Turns out her kids will eat anything if it's mashed up, breaded, fried, and in the shape of a dinosaur. After successfully catering her kids' eighth birthday party with a plethora of pocket-sized bites, the food truck, Nothing But Nuggets, was born. And the restaurant is a huge success with kids and adults alike. Yes, chicken dippers abound, but the menu also boasts favorites like return of the mac and cheese. And for the adults, the lobster bisque nuggets are cool. I've always said, if there's a restaurant that made food my kids wanted to eat, I would smash through the walls to get there, said a patron waiting patiently in line with his offspring. Nothing But Nuggets, where all the food comes in the shape of nuggets. Your next food fable comes from Adam Burke. When fancy eatery Les Maisons d'Etre opened up in San Francisco's Embarcadero district last year, it was an instant hit with local tech pros and crypto bros. Wealthy clientele flocked to eat pricey dishes such as Brainstorm stew and startup sliders, which boasted exotic ingredients that promised to boost both the intellectual and athletic prowess of the area's most voracious executives. But this week, Maison's proprietor and head chef, Delaney Robars, revealed that what her clientele were eating were just sloppy joes and pureed Lunchables. *laughter* It was all an elaborate project to prove that rich people will pay for anything as long as it's expensive. While she thought her big reveal would end the restaurant's popularity, it backfired. Her most faithful customers refused to believe it. "Uh, I think I know grass-fed Argentinian veal when I taste it," says Maison regular and venture capitalist Vance Headley. In fact, the more Robars persists with the idea, the more popular her establishment seems to be. People are nuts for our expensive seafood. "I'm not gonna eat a seafood dish abalone mousse," she says. "Even when I tell them it's actually just abalone sandwich mashed up with some cat food. Just goes to show these crypto dudes will swallow anything." *laughter* A restaurant in San Francisco that serves fake gourmet food to the crypto bros even after they are told that it's fake. Your last restaurant recap comes from Shantira Jackson. *laughter* The rest of the foodies are all heading to central Massachusetts town Amherst for chef-made cuisine that is both superb and served by ladies wearing hairnets. That's because the bistro that Michelin somehow forgot is the UMass Dining Hall. Their food is so good that people in the surrounding area have started taking their dates there. And apparently, girls actually like doing that. The days of the freshman 15 are gone and the freshman 55 is closer than ever before. *laughter* We're blessed with food from a former chef from the Ritz Carlton and a former paratrooper. No matter who's in the kitchen, they like to go all out for these kids, especially on holidays, whether it's Diwali, the Lunar New Year, or the Super Bowl, which is, according to them, also a holiday. But the biggest celebration is on Halloween when they serve over 15,000 lobsters to sexy Frankensteins all over campus. So, if you have a house full of picky eaters, you know where to send them for undergrad. UMass Amherst, a college that's only 90 miles away from Boston. All right. So if you're interested in a fine dining experience, you can go to one of these three places. Was it from Joelle Nicole Johnson, nothing but nuggets, a food truck, and now a restaurant that serves all kinds of food, all in the shape of dinosaur nuggies? From Adam Burke, Les Maisons d'Etre, a fake gourmet, high-tech restaurant for high-tech guys. Or from Shantira Jackson, the finest food in the world. Best dining in all of central Massachusetts, the Dining Hall at UMass Amherst. Which of these is the real story of a dining destination we found in the news? Ooh, I think I'm going to have to go with Adam's story. You're going to go with Adam's story. The restaurant opened specifically for the tastes of tech bros who turned out to be more gullible than even we thought. That's your question. Like the kind of thing an engineer would do, yeah. Yeah, you know, speaking as an engineer, I know you probably have an insight into that. Well, to bring you the correct answer, we spoke to a reporter. Who actually brought this to our attention? The dining halls at UMass had chocolate milk from local farmers' calves. I even saw a Hello Kitty-shaped pizza. That was the Wall Street Journal's Jasmine Lee, who reported on and, of course, dined at the UMass Amherst Dining Hall, which hopefully will be getting its Michelin star sometime soon. I'm so sorry to say, although I'm sure you're right about engineers, you were sadly incorrect in which was the real story. However, you earned a point for Adam. Thank you. For a story that I think we all wish were true. Thank you so much for playing. Take care. Bye-bye. And now the game we call Not My Job. Savannah used to be known for its history and beauty in trees covered with Spanish moss. Now it is just as well known for the Savannah College of Art and Design, which, among other things, has helped make Georgia the Hollywood of the East with the Department of Film and TV there. D.W. Moffat, a movie editor. And TV actor known for Friday Night Lights and, more recently, One Battle After Another, is the chair of that department. He joins us now. D.W. Moffat, welcome to Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. Thank you so much. Great to be here. Great to be here. So you've had a very long career. A very, very long. A very long career. A long and distinguished career. I guess I'm so old. And I was thinking about what of your many roles people might recognize you for. I was guessing Friday Night Lights. Friday Night Lights are the dads. in the airports who stopped me. Switch to Birth are the women in their early 20s who love Switch to Birth. One battle after another. All the racists love you. People run from me. Well, okay, in Friday Night Lights, if I'm not mistaken, you played a dad of one of the high school football players. And I think I can say, this is not a spoiler, a bad dad. I'm the worst dad in the world. The worst dad ever. And the plot was that you're trying to shape your child into the perfect football playing machine, and it goes awry. People take that show very seriously. They're very passionate. Are they still mad at you for ruining that kid's prospects? I sometimes am delighted to appear on worst dads in television history lists. Really, yeah. You know, I tell you, but it's fun because, and I talk to my students about this all the time, when you play a bad guy, you can't think I'm a bad guy. Right. Like, I was just playing a dad who was really invested in his son's future. Yeah. Yeah. Speaking of bad dads, you also appear in the Oscar winner one battle after another as a member of this bizarre, secretive group of racists called the Christmas Adventurers Club. Yes, I do. I have a number of questions about that. Let's start with this one. Yeah. What the hell? I don't know, man. Christmas Adventurers Club? Yeah. When P.T. Anderson calls you up and says, I've got just the role for you. So, when you get that call, Yeah. you go, yes. Of course. I never read the script. Not once. Not once. Just, he's asking you to do it. So, sign him up. There's this insanely bizarre scene with, like, babble speak, like, we gave him a Yankee double Yankee clearance thing. They're shooting on the VistaVision camera, which is like shooting a scene next to a jackhammer. Right. Enormous thing. Enormous thing. They never did any dialogue replacement. There was no looping. So, I said to my wife, I'm not in the movie. They cut that scene. I had never read the script, so I didn't realize that scene is right in the middle of the movie. Right. I said, I'm not in the scene. They cut the scene. And my wife knows the post-production supervisor, and she was like, oh, no, he's in the movie. Right. Yeah. You know, the Christmas Adventurers, that's why winter is my least favorite season. There you go. So, you are now, of course, the chair, of the Department of Film and TV here in Savannah at SCAD. In addition to chairing the department, do you also teach acting, film, TV, production? So, I teach two things primarily, because my faculty is so amazing. I don't want to take these classes away from them. And because I was an actor and still am an actor, I teach a class called Directing the Actor, which is teaching filmmakers how to communicate effectively with that strange animal. Which is the actor. Actually, this is something that I was wondering about, which is, have you had students, even though I'm sure SCAD is very selective, who just aren't very good at it? And do you ever find yourself having to tell them that? So, here's the thing, like -- That's a yes. Yeah, yeah. Is that how you start the sentence? No, but like, seriously, like, there are people that I know in this business that when I was 25 and I saw them, I was like, "No way." No. Can't be. But, like, because we teach producing, directing, editing, all these different things, you know, someone might say to me, you know, "I really want to be a great cinematographer." And who knows, they might wind up being an incredible editor someday, so -- Right. And, you know, and you can say, "Well, you know, film set's very busy. They also need catering." I have to wonder, though, you've been here in Savannah for how long? Ten years. Okay. Was it hard for a Chicago guy like yourself to adjust? Like, how long after getting here, did you figure out that you say, "Bless your heart" rather than "Go F yourself"? So, my mother is a hillbilly. She's from -- She really is. Yeah. She's from southeastern Kentucky. There y'all. And so, they don't say, "Bless yourself," but they say something similar. So, I kind of had an inkling. What do they say in eastern Kentucky rather than "Bless your heart"? You better watch out. That going key. I'm going key. They get straight to the point. Yeah. That's not so much passive aggressive as -- You should do that when you're -- Good old-fashioned aggressive. You should do that when you're critiquing a student's film. Well, DW Moffat, it is a pleasure to talk to you. We've invited you here to play a game we're calling -- A Bunch of Battles All at Once. So, you were in one battle after another, which is, when you think about it, a manageable way to handle your battles, right? But what if everybody attacked at the same time? So, we're going to ask you three questions about mass melees. Get two right, you'll win a prize for one of our listeners. Also, who is DW Moffat playing for? Hannah Taylor of Savannah, Georgia. Are you ready to do this? I'm ready. Here you go. Okay. First question. At the annual Kerkpenar Festival in western Turkey, fighters come from all over that country to compete in a form of wrestling that has a particular twist. What is it? A, wrestlers' arms are tied behind their back and their legs are tied together. B, not only is poking in the eye allowed, it's the only thing allowed. Or C, all the wrestlers are covered in olive oil to make them more slippery. Ooh. Oh. So, people, the audience, the people are shouting C, olive oil, with a little too much enthusiasm. That's good. They like heated rivalry. Well, that just lets us know Savannah is full of freaks. There used to be a wrestling place in Hollywood that had a lot of hot oil wrestling. Anyway, just because Turkish food is so oil- Redolent of olive oil. Yeah. I'm going to go with C. You're right. It is olive oil. A fact. Olive oil wrestling. Wrestling in Turkey goes back more than 600 years. It's a hallowed tradition. There you are. All right. Here's your next question. You did that well. In the village high in the mountains of Peru, the people there celebrate an event called the Takanaqui every Christmas day. What happens at the Takanaqui? A, everybody tries to beat up everybody else to get them back for slights that happened during the preceding year. B, people attempt to beat a llama in a spitting fight. Or C, it's a giant Christmas-themed martial arts match called Gold, Frankincense, and Murder. I'm going to go with B. You're going to go with B. People attempt to beat a llama. No, it was actually the first one, as the narrator of a documentary about it says, it's like Yom Kippur, but with punching. But if you offended someone at the beginning, what happens? I don't know. You offended someone at the beginning of the year. The anticipation. Oh, yeah. Would be worse than it would be. You've just been winding up for 364 days. All right. This is fine. If you get this last one right, you win. In Florence, Italy, they still play this ancient ball game called Calcio Storico, where players can do anything they like to the opposing player, resulting in all kinds of injuries. But the game was even crazier back when it began in the Middle Ages, because organizers often did what in the Middle Ages? They threw the ball in the middle of a match. A, threw a bucket of knives into the playing area, B, alerted certain players that other certain players had slept with their wives, or B, or rather, C, released live bulls into the arena. Oh, we have a Calcio Storico fan here. Or that's just a woman who's being attacked by a bee. Bee, bee, I see your point. I'm going to go with the bulls. You're right. That's what they did. They don't do that anymore. But they still have this every year. So if you ever want to go see some Italians, beat the living hell out of each other. What's even crazier, those bulls are mad about slights that happened the previous year. Yeah. They're mad about slights that happened in Pamplona. Exactly. I'm going to get him for that. Also, how did DW Moffat do in our quiz? Two out of three, he won that battle. DW Moffat is an actor with a decades-long career in film, TV, and theater, and he is the chair of the film and television program here at the Savannah College of Art and Design. DW Moffat, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you. Thank you. On "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me." Give it up for your very own DW Moffat. It just a minute of push for the tush in our Listener Limerick Challenge. Call 1-888-WAIT-WAIT to join us on the air. 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 Shantira Jackson, Joyelle Nicole Johnson, and Adam Burke. And here again is your host at the Johnny Mercer Theater in Savannah, Georgia, Peter Sagal. Thank you, Alzo Slade. It just a minute, it's one Limerick after another in our Listener Limerick Challenge. If you'd like to play, give us a call at 1-888-WAIT-WAIT-DON'T-TELL-ME. Give us a call at 1-888-WAIT-WAIT. Right now, a panel of some more questions for you from the week's news. This week, the Times profiled an increasingly popular online support group for certain members of the population. Who is it? Online support for certain members? Yes. Is it people who are addicted to support groups? Yes. No, I was trying to figure out how that would work, you know. I'm addicted to introducing myself to strangers. I will say that I myself am a member of this particular group. Is it like something you don't like? It's something for people who are struggling with something, and they're encouraged just to embrace it. Be careful, Adam. Glad this one isn't mine. It's a support group for the Follickly Challenge. For the bald, yes. This Reddit group called rbald, it's entirely dedicated to pushing people to just accept their baldness. The community helps people live their truth, and the truth is you're bald. I like that. You can tell those are bald cheers. And I say this from experience. The only thing worse than losing your hair is pretending you are not losing your hair. Yes, yes. It's like, no, no, guys, I got hair. I wear this fedora all the time because I'm an old-timey newspaper man, see? Do not be afraid to be bald, man. Bald is very sexy, okay? I happen to be bald. Yes, come on, be bald. I love a little cute bald head. Bald is sexy. And I'm gay. And I'm gay, so I really mean it. I wouldn't lie to you. I mean, I would, but I'm not. The subreddit says it's devoted to encouraging members to, quote, embrace bald and strive to make the world a more bald-friendly place, unquote. All right, now. Okay, that's fine. That could work. Or, an idea, we could just make the world less friendly for people with hair. Hey, fur dome. Hey, look at that moss head. Well, I have a question. I have to say that, from my perspective, as announcer-judge, I see the back of Peter's head. Yeah, yeah. And there is some hair back there. A little bit? Yeah, it is rude when you check your appearance in the back of his head. It's terrible. Adam, more and more people are giving up on something. They're realizing it's a time-wasting, unprofitable job. What is it? Well, I know that Gen Z aren't having sex. Is it sex? As a job? As a job. As a job. Listen. Hey, some would say it's the oldest one. Yeah. Can I get a clue? Yeah. Do two random guys still laugh at their own jokes if there's no one to hear them? Oh, oh, please let this be. Is it podcast? Yes, people are walking away from podcasting. Yes, applaud that. People are applauding who made it to see a live taping of what is actually a podcast. Okay. As more and more of the podcasting world is being dominated by just a few shows, many of the other podcasters are realizing that continuing simply isn't worth the time or their money. This is heartbreaking. Without podcasts, where am I supposed to go hear three dudes talk about a movie for two hours longer than the runtime of the movie? I think that we should just take all the microphones from the men and let the girls keep their podcast. Yes. Girls agree. And talk about what? Well, have all the men murder each other and then have all the women do two crime. Podcasts about that. Yeah, exactly. Which is actually a point. One of the problems is so many podcasts are true crime podcasts and we're running out of crimes. We need more murders. Anybody volunteer? If all the men murdered each other, women would not be wasting time on a podcast. They'd be outside running at night. Booty shorts. Coming up, it's lightning fill in the blank, but first it's the game where you have to listen for the rock. If you'd like to play on air, call or leave a message at 1-888-WAIT-WAIT. You can see us most weeks back at the Studebaker Theater in Chicago or catch us on the road. We'll be in Austin, Texas on June 4th. And if you like our show but wish I would stop asking questions all the time, check out our comedy grab bag standup show at the Bell House in Brooklyn, April 24th. Josh Gondelman will be hosting. He'll be joined by our very own Peter Gross and other special guests. Don't miss it. Hi, this is Kelly. I'm Kelly from Wilmington, North Carolina. Wilmington, North Carolina. That's a lovely place. I work for a commercial bank specializing in small business loans. But my most important role is mom to a beautiful 10-month-old named Sam. Oh, wow. A 10-month-old. So you are new to this parenthood thing? I think I'm acing it so far, if I do say so myself. Oh, wow. I see. Yeah. Yeah. You think you're acing it because they can't talk back yet. Well, welcome. I'm ready. Welcome to the show. Welcome to the show, Kelly. Alzo Slade, filling in for Bill Curtis, is going to read 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 just two of the limericks will be a winner. You ready to play? Yes, sir. Here is your first limerick. On red carpets, I cheekily strut, because the slit on my dress is high-cut. It's just a small peak, so it's all very chic. You will catch a side glimpse of my butt. Yes! Very good. According to Vogue, you should know, the new look on runways and red carpets is, quote, showing off your flank, unquote. You can go for a tasteful peek-a-butt look, like Heidi Klum did with sheer panels highlighting her side butt. Go full crack, like Chapel Roan, or for the ultimate fashion statement, do what Leonardo DiCaprio did at the Oscars, just fix the drain under the kitchen sink. In my day, you just ripped your pants. Yeah. It's about time. It makes sense. I mean, what is a. It's a butt crack, but you're lower cleavage. You know what? I'm into it. Really? You're excited about that? I'm into it, because I want to see a bunch of famous people's butts. If that's what you're going to give me, I'll take it. You will. You're ready for it. Yeah. I'm ready for it. Is there a fancy word for, like, ass cleavage? Because, like, with regular cleavage, it's like. Décolletage. And embonpoint. Yeah. And balcon. Don't ask me why I know all these. You know a lot of different ways to say that. Well, there should be, like, a French word, you know what I mean? Bleavage. Clivage. Clivage, yeah. Yeah. Le crack. All right, here is your next limerick. When my toddler gets bored at home, we go. At the DIY place, we roam three roads. He opens our drawers, touches tools, rugs, and more. I am taking my kid to home. Depot. Depot, yes. Home Depot. You've heard of Home Depot. That, of course, is the megastore popular with boomer dads and millennial lesbians. Well. Hey, you would be. You would be correct. There you are. Fact check true. Well, this week, People Magazine proposed it's also a great place to bring your bored toddler. Here's a power tool aisle, kid. Enjoy yourself. I know you love pressing buttons. I don't know. This is definitely something that I am into. Going just wandering on Home Depot? Spending money at Home Depot. Just remember, you can only bring your kids there for fun. If you're not, if you're actually going there for something you need, because your child will just never get over the. Trauma of seeing you get that frustrated. It's like, and then daddy started shouting, "Does anybody work here?" Do you really want your kid to be that comfortable at Home Depot? You know, because you ask him to do his chores, and then he quotes you way over the odds. It takes twice as long as he said he's going to do. Because you know what? We need to rip out the entire wall for him to do my chores. Oh, I need a new tool for that. I've got it. All right. Here is your last limerick. We sell penthouses and IPO stocks. And we love dermatology. We don't go out for smokes, but for quick forehead pokes. On our work breaks, we go get some Botox. Yes, Botox. More and more co-workers are getting Botox together between meetings, like a little outing. The meeting that they go to after the Botox appointment must be so interesting, I can't tell if the boss liked my proposal, his face is stuck. Sometimes it's a special, like, office retreat, a bonding exercise. There's even a Botox clinic that doubles as a co-working space. The big question is, how do you propose this to your co-workers without it being an HR violation? Also, how did Kelly do on our quiz? Three out of three. Perfect score. Well done, Kelly. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks for calling and playing. Thanks. Bye-bye. Now it is 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 is worth two points. Alzo, can you give us the scores? Absolutely. Joyelle and Shantira are knotted up at two, with Adam in the lead with three. All right. So that means Adam is going last. And to go first, I'll just pick, how about Joyelle? Here we go. Yes! Here we go, Joyelle. You're up first. The clock will start whenever you get your first question. Fill in the blank. On Wednesday, a California jury issued a $6 million ruling against social media giant blank. Instagram. No, I'm going to give it to you. Meta. Meta, yeah, they own Instagram. Okay, I had to think about it. Yes. On Tuesday, the blank raised its maximum enlistment age to 42 years old. Oh, the Army. The Army. On Thursday, the White House announced it was pausing strikes on blank until April 6th. Iran. Right. On Monday, a crash caused blank airport to shut down operations for almost 24 hours. - Party in New York City, baby! Is that correct? It is correct. I thought maybe you were a little too excited about it, but okay. This week, a truck driver in New York ran into a highway overpass and then immediately blanked. Peed on himself. No, he then ran into another one. On Thursday, qualification playoffs for the 2026 FIFA blank began. Football. Yeah, World Cup. Very good. This week, police in New York reported that a man robbed six banks in five days, taking in a total of blank dollars. $29.99. No, a little bit more. $605. The man robbed banks in Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and the Bronx over the course of five days, but only managed to leave total with $605. Even worse, that means he's only taking home like $400 after taxes. You know things are bad when the bank doesn't have any money. It's true. Also, how did Joelle do in her quiz? She did pretty well. She got five right for ten more points, which gives her 12 and the lead. That's the most I've ever gotten right. Hi, Peter. You're getting there. You're learning, Grasshopper. You're doing great. Shantira, you're up next. Here we go. Fill in the blank. On Wednesday, another plan to reopen the Department of Blank failed in Congress. Homeland Security. Right. On Tuesday, the House Oversight Committee released video from the closed-door depositions of two of Blank's closest associates. FC. Right. This week, NASA unveiled a proposal to create a permanent base on the blank. The moon. Right. This week, CNN reported the top director at FEMA says that he wants blanked. Stole all the money. No. He says he wants. Teleported to a Waffle House. Hey! I'm going there later, baby. Someday you're just in the mood. That's the first time this administration has done anything that I'm down with. According to experts, increased gas prices are leading to a surge in sales for blanks. Bikes. No electric vehicles on Wednesday. The first trailer for HBO's new adaptation of the Blanky Potter series was released. Harry Potter. Yes, Harry Potter. This week, six-foot-seven Irishman. Six-seven. Six-seven. Irishman, don't eat. This week, six-foot-seven Irishman, Nef Jiwa, became a top football recruit for American colleges, despite the fact that Blank. He has never played that sport in his life. That's exactly right. He has never played football. Every college football program in the U.S. is trying to sign Nef Jiwa, a 20-year-old Irish giant who has never played football. Turns out it actually makes sense. Nef Jiwa caught a. Recruiter's eye while playing rugby, which, if I understand correctly, is a sport that answers the question, what if football, but with punching? What if football with little shorts and they touch each other's butts? Some people have different priorities. All right. Also, how does Shantira do in our quiz? Shantira also got five right for ten more points, and she's now tied for the lead. Very good. All right. How many. I'm kind of throwing now. How many, then, does Adam Burke need to win? Adam needs five to win. All right. Here we go, Adam. This is for the game. Fill in the blank on Wednesday. The season opener with the New York Yankees featured robot blanks. Oh, like pitchers. Like machines that fire balls. No, they're not using pitching machines. They're using robot umpires. This week, OpenAI said they were shutting down Sora, their app that creates AI-generated blanks. Like girlfriends, boyfriends. I was about to say you wish, but I wouldn't say that to you. Videos. On Thursday, the IOC announced a new policy that effectively bans blank athletes from competing in women's events. Transgender. Right. This week, the FDA cited the makers of a product called Blank for not disclosing that it contained an erectile dysfunction drug. What? Who's that? The name of the product that secretly included an erectile dysfunction drug was blank. Was it her chicken nugget store? It was called Boner Bear Honey. On Tuesday, Late Night host Blank said that he is co-writing the next film in the Lord of the Rings franchise. Stephen Colbert. Right. After a four-year break, K-pop superstars Blank released a new album. BTS. Right. This week, a sailor in the French Navy went on a run, posted his results to the app Strava, and accidentally blanked. Started war with Spain. No. He accidentally gave away the top secret. Location of the aircraft carrier he was on. Strava is an app where various amateur athletes can post a workout complete with GPS maps of where they did it, and then other athletes can see and like the post, which is how this French sailor accidentally exposed the location of his aircraft carrier. Even worse, he tagged the post with easy 10K, felt great, here are the nuclear launch codes. Also, did Adam Burke do well enough to win? Nope. He did pretty bad, actually. He only got three right, which gives the championship to Shantira and Joyelle. There you are. In just a minute, we're going to ask our panelists to predict after The Bachelorette what will be the next series to get canceled at the last minute and why. But first, let me tell you all, Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me is a production of NPR and WBEZ Chicago in association with Urgent Aircraft Productions, Doug Berman, Benevolent Overlord, Philip Godica, Reza Lemarex, B.J. Liederman composed our theme. Our program is. Our program is produced by Jennifer Mills, Miles Norenbos, and Lillian King. Special thanks to Blythe Robertson and Monica Hickey. Peter Gwynn is our spring breaker. 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 Sherlock. And the executive producer of Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me is Mr. Mike Danforth. Now, panel, what's the next TV series to get canceled at the last minute? Shantira Jackson. Euphoria, because the way that the world is right now, we don't want to watch Zendaya be sad. Adam Burke. The next season of the kid's show, Bluey, is canceled when the FCC declared that due to equal time rules, there needs to be a show about an angry pit bull called Ready. And Joelle Nicole Johnson. It's a TV show that's been on way too long, and therefore it's run its course, so we cancel it in the United States of America. And if any of that happens, we'll ask you about it on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. Thanks to all of you. Shantira Jackson, Adam Burke, and Joelle Nicole Johnson. Thanks to the staff. And from here, at the Johnny Mercer Theater in Savannah, special thanks to Emily Hacksaw and everyone at GPB. Thanks to our fabulous audience that came out to see us in Savannah. Thanks to all of you for listening, wherever you might be. I'm Peter Sagal. We'll see you next week. This is NPR.