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(upbeat music) - From NPR and WBEZ Chicago Business, wait, wait, don't tell me. The NPR news quiz. I'm Alzo Slade, your judge and scorekeeper. And the inspiration for this year's hit couples costume, judge and scorekeeper. (laughing) Now, here's your host, Amila Auditorium in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Peter Sego. - Thank you, Alzo. Thank you, Kalamazoo. (audience cheering) - Thank you all so much. It's great to be back with you. It's just so long. We have a great show later on. Later on, we're gonna be talking to fashion designer Daniel Vasevek Astara Project, one way and a native of this place. But first, we wanna send out a belated shout out to Katie Zacharia, who's recent tenure as White House press secretary was so short, we missed our chance to make fun of her, dude. (audience laughing) So, but we wanna send our respect. So in her honor today, our panelists will be answering all of their questions with absolute gibberish. (laughing) But first, it's your turn to help us lose our job. So give us a call at one triple eight, wait, wait. That's 1-888-924-892-4. Now, let's welcome our first listener contestant. Hi, you're on, wait, wait, don't tell me. - Hi, my name is Shen Huffer, and I live in Houston, Texas. - Hey, Houston. - Ah, but I identify as the Northern Coastal Elite on a two-year midlife crisis here in the South. - Well, wait a minute, you had a midlife crisis, and instead of like buying a sports car, or having an affair with a dummy, young, beautiful thing, you decided to move to Texas? - Oh, I'm a millennial, Peter. I do not have the boomer money for that. (laughing) This is it. - Well, Jen, let me introduce you to our panel this week. First up, it's the comedian you can see performing most nights in New York City somewhere, it's Rachel Coster. - Hi, Jen, how's it going? - Hi, Rachel, nice to see you. - Nice to see you, nice to see you. - Next, she's a writer and comedian who was written for Big Mouth after midnight, and the Saved by the Bell Reboot at Chantera Jackson. - Hi, Drew. - Hey, Chantel. - And an actor and writer who can be seen in the enclaimed improv show Two Square at UCB, New York, and November 4th at 7, it's Peter Gross. (audience applauding) - Hi, Jen. Well, Jen, welcome to the show. You're gonna play Who's Alzo this time? Alzo Slade is gonna read you three quotations from 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 voice smell. Ready to go? - Ready to rock. - All right, your first quote is President Trump. He's stumping for a candidate in Ohio this past week. - He has an ass like a pile of moth. (laughing) - President Trump is cruising throughout the country. (laughing) Doing his best to help the Republicans win what? - Sanits. - Well, give it to you, the midterm elections, yes. - Midterm elections, you know, it's coming up. (audience applauding) The president was in Ohio to support Republicans, Senate candidate John Houston. And for some reason, Trump could not stop talking about Houston's beautiful butt. Well, it makes sense 'cause the question voters are asking about candidates this cycle, even more than whether they can lower prices is, does baby got back? (laughing) Trump seemed to be weirdly into this guy. It was surprising how much he went on about his physique. So while the polls don't look great for his side, Trump himself is apparently doing well in the midterm erections. (laughing) I just saw some pearls being clicked. - I think it's really nice for him to be sexually harassing men. - No, it's really great. It's so nice to see him. - They were like, President Trump, you gotta switch it up. - Yeah, I got it. - I got it, I got it, I got it. - It's so great to see somebody learn something new at his age. - Absolutely, yeah. - It's very tough. - So what, but what is the deal with this guy Houston and Trump's fascination with him? Is he really that caked up, slate, sent an actual reporter to investigate, and this is what they found. And I quote, from what I can tell, he appears to have a totally normal ass. (laughing) - You know, ideally the most insecure man in America and the president should be two different people. - So Donald Trump and the vice president, they're out around the country, but they're campaigning in historically red states and red districts, 'cause basically the polling is so bad for Republicans, things haven't looked this good for Democrats since Hillary Clinton won the presidency in 2016. (laughing) The president, again, he's supposed to be helping candidates win and he is spending time with these rallies, bragging also about how many times he has been asked to take a dementia test. (laughing) Which is a little like bragging about how often police ask you to blow into this little tool. (laughing) - More than one is bad, yeah, basically. - Maybe he's already taking it so many times and forgot. (laughing) - It would be worse if he had been administered the tests seven times and they're like, "I've taken it once and I killed it." The first question in the dementia test is, "Have you done this before?" Here, here, Jen, is your next quote. - Would you trade your face for a sandwich? - That was Gizmodo. There were commenting on a new lawsuit that's been filed. It claims that what is scanning you and storing your data when they deliver your food? - Oh, gosh. Can I get a hint, maybe? - Can you get a hint? Well, remember I said, what is delivering your food? Not who is delivering your food? - Is it a robot? - Yes, a delivery robot. - Yes. - Oh, I don't want one of those. - You do. (laughing) - The lawsuit alleges that the robots are secretly taking pictures of you when they drop off your food as well as scanning your body for other kind of data. Okay, fine. These guys may have a case. I would not go near a lawsuit where the only evidence is a picture of what I look like on a night. I need a robot to bring the food to mind. (laughing) The lawsuits alleges that these robots as they, you know, scoot around are scanning the faces and bodies and taking other data. Not just from people to them they're delivering, but from people they pass on the street, right? And even worse, after they scan your body, they roll away saying, "Juicy." (laughing) - Are these robots the president? (laughing) - What's it, 'cause this is not happening in New York City? - Well, this is in other cities. - This is in other cities? - Well, they're like in New York City, you'd be like, "I got, you can scan this "and then they would take a baseball bat." (laughing) - If you were gonna scan the humans at their peak, I don't know if it's me at 2 a.m. getting Taco Bell. - Yeah. - You don't want that. That's not gonna help the world at all. - Yeah, wait, are they taking pictures though and then blackmailing you? I'll release this. - Are they taking pictures and redeem you? - Well, I guess this isn't your first burrito. (laughing) - Double fetichini Alfredo? - Yeah. - You guys are watching me too. - Yeah. - Although I don't want robots taking the jobs of good, hard, working people. If you wanna scan my body, you've gotta be a warm, blooded man who's making who's trying to make it in America. - And I'm happy to tip 20% for riding 40 minutes in the rain. - That's really nice. - My pleasure. - Yeah. (laughing) All right, Jen, here's your last quote. It is a tip for people who are celebrating Halloween this year. - Feel the carved edges with a thin layer of petroleum jelly. - That was an expert providing a skin care routine for your what? - My pumpkin butt? - Yes, your pumpkin butt. - Yeah, your jack-a-lanterns. They deserve a spa day too, right? An article in Real Simple Magazine recommends a multi-step skin care routine, including a cleansing step, a soaking step, and then sealing your jack-a-lantern with petroleum jelly. - It's along the holes of the eyes. - Yeah, you sort of take petroleum jelly, put it on the cut edges. It's a very elaborate look. If I was willing to do a skincare regime that complicated, I'd be hot. (laughing) - Yeah, Peter, you're melting a little bit. (laughing) - Here's my eyes. - No, no, no. Just that a squirrel got to me. (laughing) - Make me sick. - I feel like we can somehow grant if Palfo is to blend. (laughing) - Apparently, bacteria from the outside of your pumpkin gets into the flesh when you carve it, which is what make jack-a-lanterns rot so quickly. That, and it's a cut-up vegetable you put outside. (laughing) I also had a gen doing our quiz. - Gen made her way to three out of three, perfect score. - Congratulations. (audience cheering) Congratulations, Gen. (audience cheering) - Thank you so much, guys. - Thank you. (laughing) (upbeat music) - Now panel, we have some questions for you about the week's news. - Shantira. - Yes. - This week, the Guardian newspaper hosted a debate on whether or not it is absolutely disgusting to let your cat do what? - Walk on your counter. - Exactly right. - I knew it and I didn't even read the article. (audience cheering) - So, that was a remarkably accurate guess. - Yeah. - Is this something that you and your friends and loved ones have been debating? - I don't. (laughing) Please do not message me about this. - She's gay. (laughing) - Number one, I am a lesbian who doesn't want a cat on my counter. (laughing) Yeah, it's because a lot of people, their cats, [BLANK_AUDIO] They go into their little litter box and then they walk on the counters. Now if that's your vibe, absolutely cool But it's not personally not mine. That's not a joke. That's just who I am. Right. Just something about you. It's pretty hard to be a lesbian looking for someone who doesn't have a cat So I'm not gonna complain too much, but I'll tell you on the radio. What's going on? Okay. All right Well, I hope you find somebody cuz you're not gonna enjoy men anymore than you are Because you should know this you probably don't know this, but men also use the bathroom and then immediately jump on the counter So this they the guardian had this couple and they were deciding whether they should move the cats water bowl to the ground because they actually put it up in the counter That's crazy work. I know and the pro cat on the counter person said quote There are few things as relaxing as the sound of a hydrating cat Unquote, which goes to show that this person has that cat parasite that makes you insane The real solution if you don't want your cat to jump in the counter just tell it you want it to jump on the counter Oh, you know what you could do. Well, I got a great idea Bowl and litter box on the counter you eat on the floor. Yeah cat never goes on the floor even better Bowl litter box on the counter food cat toys in the kitchen. You leave the house Never come back cat apartment. You never enter exactly Coming up our panelists have a hatchet. They just refused to bury in our bluff the listener game called one Triple eight wait wait to play. We'll be back in a minute with more of wayway. Don't tell me from NPR From NPR and WB easy Chicago. This is wait wait. Don't tell me the NPR news quiz. I'm Alzo Slay We're playing this week with Peter Gross Rachel Koster and Shantira Jackson and here again as your host at Miller Auditorium and Kalamazoo Michigan Peter Segal Thank you, Alzo Thanks everybody So right now at his time for the wait wait don't tell me bluff the listener game called one triple eight wait wait to play Game in the air how you are on wait wait don't tell me. Hi. Hi. Who's this? This is Laura Lang from Mason Michigan. Mason Michigan Apparently Mason has some fans. What do you do there? I'm a special education teacher. Oh good for you You are you are officially immune from my jokes. That's a great thing that you do Well, Laura. It's great to have you with us. You're going to play our game in which you must try to tell truth from fiction Alzo with his Laura's topic good news. There's a rude feud in the news Everybody loves a good feud coke versus Pepsi the sharks versus the jets Kelly Clarkson fighting with that toy bird Well this week we learned about a feud that escalated to newsworthy heights Our panelists are going to tell you about to pick the real one and you'll get the wait waiter of your choice and your voicemail Are you ready to play? Yes All right, Laura your first story comes from Rachel Coster a full-scale confectionery arms race has broken out between the smiths And the Michael families of Berkeley Heights, New Jersey whose homes sit directly across from each other on the usually peaceful cul-de-sac of Cinnamon tree lane Trick or treaters used to get one fun-size candy per house and were totally satisfied That changed when the smiths moved in five years ago The smiths started handing out full-size candy bars and then when the lines to the door became too long They introduced a complicated ticketing system the michael's tried to get the kids back by hiring an actor to play a mummy who pops out of a genuine sarcophagus and hands out free electronic devices It's exhausting and childish set a neighbor and it's all because the adults need to seem like their fun parents I am a fun parent said Mrs. Smith before doing a keg stand in a sexy nurse costume The crisis came last year when mr. Michael's covered all the cars on the street with chocolate syrup and line the pavement with chocolate bars leading to a rat Investation according to the new work star ledger all the kids have opted to just go to a neighboring town where everyone seemed to take Halloween less personally confectionery arms race for trick or treaters In New Jersey your next few to dude that's Peter gross The touring production of the Broadway show wicked is in Minneapolis this month and while the temperature in Minnesota has been dropping inside the theater things are heating up A fierce competition is developed between the women playing Elfaba and Galinda with each actress trying to out-deva the other by deploying more and more vocal gymnastics in the climactic song for good They've been topping each other's high notes and extending their fray "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, The curtain and the rest of the cast came out and bowed. After everyone had left the theater, janitors reported hearing two horse soprano voices weakly singing, "I have been changed for good." A wicked tour gets derailed by a contest between the two leads, your last feud interlude comes from Shantirra Jackson. There are two gas stations located across the street from one another in powder springs, Georgia. A sonoco and an amaco, no relation. And for a long time, the owner of the amaco always made sure his price was five cents lower gallant than the sonoco across the street. This week, Sonoco guy finally had enough and lowered his price too. Prices kept plummeting until the police had to be called when the entire town drove down to the same corner to buy gas for less than a dollar a gallon. The lowest price anyone seen since the beginning of the war on drugs. One customer said, "It feels like Christmas over here, y'all." Another one said, "I call my mama, my sister, and my brother." A third said, "Look at God, baby, look at God." The prices have since gone back up. But for many years into the future, the legend of the day the gas prices fell to something they could afford will be a story the people there will tell during road trips. And they're horse-drawn wagons. [APPLAUSE] So here are your three stories. Which of these was the real food we found out about in the week's news? Was it from Rachel Coster, neighbors in New Jersey going nuts as they tried to top each other to attract trick or treaters? From Peter Gross, the two leads in the wicked tour, refusing to stop singing past each other, even though the show was over, or from Shantira Jackson, a gas station of feud that made gas actually affordable for the people of a small town in Georgia for a short while. Which of these was the real feud in the news? I think I'm going to go with Shantira, the gas prices. You're going to go with Shantira's story about the feuding gas stations. [APPLAUSE] All right, if that's your choice to bring you the real answer, here is a journalistic report. Basically, one gas station's policy was to be five cents lower. So the other station's policy was to match their neighbor's price. So that was a report on WIBC radio regarding the feuding gas stations that resulted in a really good, if temporary deal on gas for the people of Powder Springs, Georgia. Congratulations, Laura. You've got it right. You're in the point for Shantira. You've won our prize, the voice of your choice. In your voice, Mel, thank you so much for playing with us today. Thank you. And thank you so much for doing the good work that you do. Take care. Thank you, guys. And now the game we call not my job. When Daniel Vasevich was growing up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, not far from here, he worked at the Banana Republic at the Woodland Mall. [APPLAUSE] Mall fans. And he must have learned a lot there because he became a fashion designer and a winner of Project Runways All-Star Challenge. He has since founded his own fashion brand, The Kit, and We Are Delighted, to welcome him back home to Western Michigan and to our show. Daniel Vasevich, welcome to "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me." [APPLAUSE] So let's start here. Is my supposition, too? Did you first find your love for fashion working at a Banana Republic at a Grand Rapids Mall? I can't believe-- I mean, you did your research. Anyone who grew up in Grand Rapids, or at least in any small town, knows that especially if you're a closeted, especially if you crave fashion and beauty and excitement, there's only one place to go, which is the Woodland Mall. Yes. And it was three years and a lot of really great memories. Three years? It's a Banana Republic? Yeah, the short, short, short, back story. I was a competitive gymnast for 13 years in Kentwood, retired at 18. And I was going to go to Ohio, state for college. And-- Is that legal here? Kentucky. That's not a good alternative, by the way. And then as a son of a-- mechanic and a secretary, office manager. They said, "That's great, we have no money for you." So I begrudgingly at the time went to community college and started architecture, quickly learned I hated it. I took a sewing course on a whim. And so I loved the fact that I got a job and was working in community college because it gave me the freedom to literally find out what I really wanted to do. And did that experience at Banana Republic help you? 100 percent. When, on Project One Way, they had a Banana Republic themed challenge. And guess who won? I can only imagine. I mean, really, when whoever was, when Tim Gunn or Heidi Klummer whoever was said, you know, and today's challenge we're working with Banana, I'm doing Heidi. It's Heidi. That was my Heidi. My Tim Gunn is different. It's like, our challenge is we're working with Banana Republic. Can you be seen in the background going, "Yes!" I was on the show the first time four days after I graduated from college and it was my very first real job. And I learned later from the producers that they cast me as like the rocker guy. So what? The level. The bad boy. Did you look different? Me doing my side story. Yeah. We need -- I mean they were like, "Oh no, actually I think we know a different category." We need a bad boy. We need a threat. Let's get a former gymnast in the Midwest. It was the Midwest suppression, I was just very, very, and show him. Wow. That guy, he looks so scary. It looks like he could fault over you at a moment. It's like I'm watching Marlon Brando right now. This is incredible. You're season of Project One and then when you came back for the all-stars, that was in the 2000s. Did you, did you create any clothes for the show back in that era that you look back on now and cringe? I think my answer to that is style in general. I think it's more interesting to have personality in the moment than to think about some imaginary problem or feeling you're going to have five years from now. Right. Looking -- I mean that's the great thing about social media is you look back and all of us laugh. We all laugh. I will say on that note, 2005 reality TV is very new to me. So when you have a mental breakdown, there's nowhere to see it on social media. It's only aired on national television. Right. Exactly. The story you told seems to indicate that you discovered your love for fashion almost by accident after you gave up gymnastics. Is that true or were you, like even when you were in high school, it interested in fits and fashion and lots more crafting creativity? Right. So like I had the -- what's that called when you're not an acronym is synonym, but when you're given the most -- I'm the most. You're like -- Oh, I think this is -- You're super linked -- I think it's right, yes. Most artistic. Most artistic, of course. Oh, overall. Yes, yes. And we know what the word artistic means here in the upper neck, yes. I'll say it. Yeah, no, no, I got to. I'm allowed. At least likely to play football at the Ohio State. Yeah. Oh, Lauren's son, he's very artistic. Pretty much, yes. And then I turned into a multi-million dollar empire. Yeah. Great. Yeah. And just the idea that I think back to like all the arts and crafts and the things that like I love to just do. And now here I am again like 20 years later coming back to oversee construction and architecture and design for my parents' house. I don't have an architecture degree. Yeah. I'm not an interior designer, but I'm gay. Right. Well, there you are. So how hard can't it be? Yeah. Yeah. I want to ask Halloween's coming up. People in fashion tend to go big. I know. So what are you thinking about? I'm at an age where comfort is also consideration because there's nothing more ridiculous than wearing a costume that you can't sit down on for the next six hours. Right. I usually resort to disgusting. Zombie, Vampire Zombie, NFL players. Just as long as it's undead. As long as it's undead and I can be disgusting and just dance and sweat and get more disgusting. Correct. And you have probably makeup people that will help you with like the blood and all that kind of stuff. Oh, I mean, let's be honest. Like my circles drag queens and makeup artists and costume designers. Yeah. I mean, I think that I think like those people's kids have the most elaborate costumes. Like makeup people, hair makeup people, their kids go out and you're like, are you you're like a walking dead cat member right now? Well, Daniel Vasevik, it is a pleasure to talk to you and to have you here at home. But we have asked you here to play a game we're calling Project Runway, Meet Project Tarmac. Let me explain runways, of course, where the planes take off. But we're going to ask you about the Tarmac. That's the area of the airport pavement where everything else happens. Taxi and wait. Get two out of three of these questions right. You'll want a prize for one of our listeners also. Who is Daniel Vasevik playing for? Don McNally of Kalamazoo Miss again. There you are. Okay, bye. Here's your first question. Now, everybody knows when the airplane is sitting at the gate at the on the Tarmac. It's surrounded by support vehicles, you know, the moving bags or the bring on catering, whatever. But last year, our United plane at O'Hare Airport had an extra vehicle sitting next to it that nobody expected. What was it? A, a bucket truck with a painter because the airplane had just been sold to Delta. B, an e-scooter that was rented by a passenger who was running late to the flight and was not going to miss it. Or see the car of a door dash driver who had gotten really lost. I'm going to go with B. You're going to go with the guy in the e-scooters. Like, I'm not going to miss that flight. Got on the scooters, scooted out across the airport, Tarmac, to the plane, banging on the window, like Dustin Hoffman and the graduate. We've all been at the airport. Yeah, okay. It could happen, but it was actually a door dash driver. This guy had gotten an order from somebody who worked at O'Hare, really wanted to get there on time, get a good tip, and he kind of like took a shortcut that got him onto the Tarmac. Sorry, listener. All right. You still have our chances here. Next question, earlier this year, people looked out of the windows of planes at LAX, and many of them were convinced that they could see what, a portal to the underworld. B, Elvis Presley working as a baggage handler. Or C, Gremlins, taking a smoke break. Based solely on my own. Yeah. Elvis Presley working as a baggage handler. When he asks you like that, it's not the right idea. I'm going to go with C. You're going to go with C. You guys, I'm more artistic. I know. I'm not a math. People saw a weird glowing red crack in the Tarmac, because if it were a portal to the upside down and stranger things, that's what a lot of people said on social media. To this day, no one at the airport has explained what it really was. Last question, the airport and niece's friends had to be closed down back in 2000, because the Tarmac had been invaded by what? A, paparazzi desperate to photograph a plane carrying Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise. B, thousands and thousands of snails, or C, workers striking over media cabred being offered at the airport cafeteria. I was going to, I was going to say a, which seems realistic, but anyone who's traveled to France know that you're going to hit a strike quite often. So no offense to any French listeners, but I'm going to go with C. You're going to go with C, the striking over the media of your tone, your tone, Peter. I don't want to hear it. Just say it. I'm saying, you just want to me to tell you the answer, right? Yes. It was the snails. Thousands and thousands of snails have been flooding. This is not my job. Apparently yes. Floods are on the airport brought out all these snails. And once they had to like collect all the snails to get them off the Tarmac, it turned out there were five cubic meters of them. Don't say all like you know what a cubic meter is. Come on. Also, how did Daniel do in our quiz? Well, you know. Also, you look great, by the way. This outfit is fantastic. Thank you so much. You know, sometimes it's just best to focus on fashion. Yeah. And I think Daniel has done a good job of focusing on fashion, so let's not look at the negative. Yeah, I know. Daniel Lawsonic is a fashion designer, a project runway winner and the founder of the kit more information you can find at thekit.com. Daniel Lawsonic, thank you so much for joining us. We wait. Don't tell me. Give it up for your hometown hero. In just a minute, Alzo has bad news for Tony the Tiger and our listener, Limerick Challenge call one triple eight. Wait, wait, wait. To join us on the air, we'll be back in a minute with more of what we 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 Peter Gross, Shantira Jackson and Rachel Costa and here again is your host at Miller Auditorium in Kalamazoo Michigan Peter Segal. >> Thank you, Alzo, in just a minute, Alzo gets past the rhyme stick, which means that only he can speak by reading Limerick's. It's our listener at Limerick's challenge. If you'd like to play, give us a call at 1-888-888-9248-924. Right now, panel, though, it is time for more questions for you from the week's news. Peter, there is a new trend in dating specifically among fitness enthusiasts, along with their height, their age, their likes, their dislikes. They're including what in their dating profile? >> Like, how much you can bench or something like that? >> Not quite. It is a number, but it's not that. >> Oh, gross. Is it there, like, BMI or something? >> Not quite. I'll give you a hand. For example, we'll usually, I'm 60 BPM, but I'll go up to 80 when I get to meet you. >> Their heart rate? >> Yes. They're resting heart rates. That's what they're including. >> Oh. People are perverts. Now, a very low resting heart rate is an interesting flex, because it could mean you're super physically fit, but it could also mean you're currently in a coma. I don't know what my heart rate is. What's it supposed to be? >> Well, actually, a normal- >> Oh, you're a runner. >> Yeah. >> Here we go. >> Yeah. >> There we go. >> It was waiting for that question. >> A normal resting heart rate is like 80 to 100, but if you're fit, it can be as low as 60 or even 50, but before you use this as an attractant in your profile, you should know who also has low heart rates, old people. So look out, you may end up matching with Rupert Murdoch. >> Is he old or is he formerly alive? He as far as we know is still alive. >> Is he really? >> He really is. >> And it's good for you. >> Yeah. >> I feel like on a dating app, when you, I want somebody to have a good heart. This is not what I mean. >> Exactly. No. Users, apparently, are seeing a lot of these listings of resting heart rates on 18. That is a fitness-oriented dating app in which you swipe right if you like someone and swipe left if you pity the fool. >> Yeah. >> It's only a few gen X's in the crowd. >> I get it. >> Rachel. Question for you. Rachel, earlier this month, a hotel in the United Kingdom held a five-day special retreat for guests who wanted somewhere where they would be finally free to do what without shame or apology. What was it? >> Drink. This is in England? >> This isn't specifically, yes, the island. >> Drink a normal latte. >> Is that not something they do in England without shame? >> Okay. I'll think of a different thing. What is it? Can you just give me another hint, please? >> Well, whoever smelled it, Delta, but whoever Delta, it doesn't matter her. Yes, fart. >> They get a whole hotel room just a five-day retreat at a hotel on the Isle of White. Do they know how the body works that like you're going to go home from this and still need to do that around? You're not like you get the years worth of that. >> Yeah, exactly. >> Mark question is, why are they still ashamed of farting as an adult? >> The pressure of trust? >> This is it. >> Also, people are apparently ashamed, and this woman who's running it wrote a book about not being ashamed of farting, and she had this first of it's kind retreat for people who wanted to come and let go of their shame and embarrassment about it, which is great. But why would anybody check into a hotel no matter how much you wanted to be there when you knew every other guest was there for the same reason? You want to split a room? You got to go, don't get rooms on the top floor here. So what if you meet somebody at that retreat, you go and get married, and then everyone's like, where did you meet? And then you're like, fart camp or something like that? >> Farts. >> Better than saying hinge. >> Yeah, yeah, it's better than 18, I guess. One time when I was in high school, I paid five bucks to go into a room and watch some kid fart like a hundred times. It was a combination of a disgusting thing, a bunch of dumb people, and then a person in the middle who was like, I can make money off of this. >> How much is that in today's dollar? >> It's like 30 years ago, so $5,000. Coming up, it's lightning film, 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 1-888-898-924, you can see us most weeks at the Studebaker Theater, back home in downtown Chicago. You can also catch us in the road. For example, we will be in normal Illinois on November 12th, so for tickets and information for all our live events, go to nprpresent.org. Hi, everyone. Wait, wait, don't tell me. >> Hi. My name is Kristen Schermott-Spina. I'm from Gainesville, Florida. >> Oh, wow. Gainesville. I've been there. >> I'm actually the local NPR affiliate morning edition anchor and a host of a local show. >> No, really. >> [APPLAUSE] >> That means he's going to have to give her a prize to someone else. >> I know. I was about to say, Kristen, that's surprising. I've ever seen you about the NPR executive host Luxury Suite. >> [LAUGH] >> Yeah, definitely. >> Yeah, I'll look for you next time. I'm there. Well, it's great to have you on our air. Welcome to the show. Alzo Slade is going to read you three news related Limerick's with a last word or phrase missing from each. If you can fill in that last word or phrase correctly, until the Limerick's will be a big winner. You ready to play? >> Ready. >> Here is your first Limerick. >> For stackable chips, my tongue tingles. They got posthumous promos and jingles. It might be my turn in a pop top chip earn, and then 200 years of free. >> Pringles? >> Yes, Pringles announced a new campaign this week. It's a contest. One lucky winner will get a personally engraved earn shape, just like a Pringles can. Their ashes could be stored in. >> [LAUGH] >> Cuz they want their food to be associated with a person. >> No, they're just the person. >> This is the way it's a big Pringles fan. When I get the appeal, if I win, I'm demanding they turn my ashes into chips and release me as a limited time flavor. >> [LAUGH] >> Sour cream and sickle. >> I feel like that's the kind of thing that once you pop that you could absolutely stop. >> You're probably good. >> The campaign is called Once You Drop, that's pretty good. >> [LAUGH] >> Sure, funerals could use a little fun, little jokes, but let's just stop right here. I don't want to be talking to the funeral director about my loved one, and he asks if I want a regular cremation or a flavor blast. >> [LAUGH] >> This is making me never want to lick the dust off my fingers ever again. >> It really does, it sort of makes you start thinking about that. >> Is the earn in the shape of a Pringles can? >> The earn is in the shape of a Pringles can, but it is like a classic ceramic ring. >> So you won't even be able to get to the ashes at the bottom? >> [LAUGH] >> No, you'll have to shake it and then tilt it up in your mouth, just like the actual Pringles. Just get the last bits, you'll never be able to get it going on at the top. >> Yeah, I'm so stoned to eat my whole brand fire. >> [LAUGH] >> My God, I can't believe it. >> You need some water to cut it, though, if you don't like it. >> All right, here is your next limb record. >> On a brand new Olympic pagoda, my Asanas are meeting a quota. And to pose as I fold as I'm going for gold, they are adding competitive. >> Yoga? >> Yes, the Indian government is pushing for yoga to be included in the 2036 Olympics, which they hope to host. Which at least makes more sense, Olympic yoga than whatever the byathlon is. >> [LAUGH] >> Some people are not behind Olympic yoga, but I think it's worth it just to see what ray gun does with this one. >> [LAUGH] >> It's competitive relaxation. >> Yeah, no, competitive yoga, actually we all know already exists. That's that part before class when the shirtless guy shows off his headstand and you're like, yes, I get it, you're good at this. >> [LAUGH] >> The competitors, and if you're wondering how competitive yoga works, the idea is, the competitors all do certain poses and are judged on their form. Extra points, of course, are awarded for grace, or flair, and going to the grocery store wearing the same pants. >> [LAUGH] >> I could get a goal in Savasana. >> [LAUGH] >> Is that the lying down one? >> Yes. >> [LAUGH] >> Here is your last limb record. Grains with milk are divine and ethereal. Yet the bells this food hears are funerial. It's more than a hunch. Your sulk captain crunch and no one sits down to some- >> Stereial? >> Yes, cereal, the new trend toward healthy eating and wellness has the sales of breakfast cereal plummeting. That's really surprising, it's a food that legally has to have one side frosted. >> [LAUGH] >> Sales are apparently- >> Where are we going to get our frosted? >> I know. Sales are especially low among Gen Z people who did not grow up with the tradition of toys in every box or Saturday morning breakfast food commercials. Take life cereal for instance. People today have no idea how Mikey feels about it. >> [LAUGH] >> I think it's because cereal costs like 12 dollars. >> Yeah, maybe think about that, Kellogg's. They're like, well, what would make the poorest generation of all by our cereal? >> Yeah, Kellogg's is near here. They can hear us because lower the price. >> [LAUGH] >> How so how did Kristen do in our quiz? >> She did a great three out of three, perfect score. >> Congratulations, well done. >> [APPLAUSE] >> Kristen, thank you so much for playing. >> Thank you. [MUSIC] - Now, at this time for our final game, Lightning Fill in the Blank, each of our contestants will have 60 seconds in which to answer as many fill in the blank questions as they can. Each quick answer now with two points. Alzo, can you give us the scores as of now? - Of course, Rachel and Peter are tied up at two, Shantira has the lead at four. - All right, use me. - I'm gonna enjoy it while I can. - Absolutely, all right. That means Rachel and Peter are tied for second. Rachel will start with you, go first. The clock will start when they begin your first question, fill in the blank in response to protests that turned into riots. Several cities in blank announced very curfews. Yes, this week, health officials warned of that blank season, maybe arriving two months early. - Flow. - Yes, with wins reaching 185 miles per hour, super typhoon, Chumpi became the strongest blank of the year so far. - Hurricane. - Yeah, this week, a man who was arrested in Las Vegas for stealing a live flamingo from a casino admitted, he'd had between blank and blank beers before he came. - Oh, it was a lot. - Yes, I'll give it to you. - 22-30 or something. - Yeah, 30-40, okay. - 40 for a new report, daily blank use among parents has risen about 400%. - Quote. - No. - Pot. - Yes. - Naughty, naughty. - During its opening weekend, the new movie about Theranos founder blank became the highest-grossing documentary decades. - Elizabeth Homes is so good. - This week, we heard about a flight that nearly made it an emergency landing because a woman owned board blanked. - Gave birth. - No, a woman on board-- - Togos. - They nearly made it an emergency landing after a woman got trapped in the bathroom. - A flight from Seattle to Newark, this month. - Flight dream. - Real life? - Yes. I love it in there. - A flight from Seattle to Newark this month had to divert to Chicago after a woman couldn't open the bathroom door. The flight attendants couldn't open it either. And they had to do an emergency landing, but she did get out, so they were able to go on to Newark. How did she get out, did they flush her? - Toilet to Newark is basically the same thing. - Yeah, pretty much. - Today, also, how did Rachel do in our quiz? - She did all right, so you got six right for 12 more points, total of 14 and the lead. - All right. (audience applauds) - Easy. Peter, you up next, phone the blank. According to new data, the blank outbreak in Pennsylvania is now the largest in 30 years. - Measles? - Right, on Monday, the province of blank voted to remain part of Canada. - Oh. - Calgary is in. - Alberta? - Alberta, this week, the UN warned that the world was failing to meet its goals to combat blank. - Climate change. - And on Wednesday, a hazardous chemical leak led to evacuations in blank, it was Ohio somewhere. - Yeah, I'll give it to you, Toledo. This week, a town in Peru elected as its mayor, a candidate named blank, Jeff the Lama. - No, Hitler, Mussolini. (laughing) - This was, tell me, so I don't go there. What is it, Peru? - Yeah, on Wednesday, a new study showed a link between regular tea drinking and lower risk of blank disease. - Cardio Vesca. - Yeah, so on Friday, Apple began selling their new blankable iPhone. - Was stupid foldable duo? - Yes, this week, a man caught at the Miami airport with 30 rare live birds in his underwear, explained to customs officials that they were intended for blank. - Just good old-fashioned loving. (laughing) - Maybe, what he actually said was that the birds who were smuggling were intended for, quote, his own personal use. - Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, come on now. - You should give it to me. - Yeah, you should give it to me, basically. - What do you think he's gonna use those birds for a Peter Segel? - He wants to do so for almost 30 years. - I think he should get that one. - All right, judge and score a keeper. Though the man did not give customs officials any more detail about what he meant, the official report said the man made the claim that the 10 underwear birds were for his own personal use, and then he invoked his right to remain silent. My friend, you did it backwards. (laughing) Also, how did Peter do in our quiz? - He got seven right for 14 more points, total of 16, and he is now on the lead. - All right. (audience applauding) - I'm not gonna do that. - Well, we'll find out the first. Also, how many did Shantirah need to win? - She needs seven to win six heel ties. - All right, you can do that. - All right. - Here we go, Shantirah. This is for the game, fill in the blank. On Tuesday, the blank made his first public appearance after his surgery for lung cancer. - The Pope? - Right on Friday, baseball fans gathered in Milwaukee for the first game of the 2026 blank world series. - Right on Wednesday, social media giant blank was ordered to debate $25 billion for misleading their users about data privacy. - Zuckerberg? - Yeah, Metta, following a visit from a US envoy, a 74-year-old American prisoner was released from blank. - Prison? (laughing) - Where? (laughing) - Go on, Totem. - No, Russia. This week, final screen tests were held for the actor who will replace Daniel Craig as blank. - James Bond. - Yes, on Wednesday, Japan launched a rocket headed for the moons of blank. - Who has moons, Saturn? - Mars does, too, and that's where it's going. This week, the library in California reported that their celebration of the hundredth anniversary of Winnie the Pooh was briefly interrupted by blank. - A rabbit. - No, by an actual bear breaking into the library and stealing some honey. - That's fun. - It is fun. According to the library, the bear broke in just before they opened, wandered into the break room, stole a jar of honey and then left. It's such a sweet way to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of Winnie the Pooh, especially because the real bear also was not wearing any pants. - Was there a sad donkey there, too? - I hope so. - How's O'Ditch and here we do well enough to win? - Well, she got four right for eight more points, total of 12, she did not get enough to catch Peter, which makes him the chump. - There you go. (audience cheering) - Thanks to some liberal scoring keeping, but I would like to share this with Rachel for who I think I really am. - No, no, please. - Coming up, our panelists are gonna predict what's the next thing we'll find out at Delivery Robots are doing in secret. But first, let me tell you all that, wait, wait, don't tell me is a production of NPR and WBEC Chicago and association with urgent haircut productions, Doug Berman, Ben Neville and Overlord, Philip Goethekar writes, our limits, our public address and answer is Paul Friedman, our office manager is Jiseravardak, thanks to the staff and crew here at Miller Auditorium and Avery Special thanks to Stephen Williams, Kim Willis and everyone at WMUK here in Kalamazoo. (audience cheering) - B.J. Letterman composed our theme, our program is produced by Jennifer Mills, Miles Dornboss and Lillian King, Special thanks this week to Blithe Robertson and Adam Burke, Jamie Hoffman and Dom Banyas. Peter Gwynne is our maid of honor and the choice of our vibe curator, Technical Directions from Lorna Weider, CFO's Colin Miller. Our production manager is Robert Newhouse, our senior producer, that's Ian Chilock and the executive producer. - Wait, wait, don't tell me he's Michael Danforth. - Now, panel, what will we find out if those delivery robots are up to Shantira Jackson? - Reboot the golden girls, all robots. (audience laughing) - Rachel Koster. - They're making sourdough. - And Peter Gross, they're cutting open human beings and rubbing petroleum jelly on our holes. (audience laughing) And if any of that happens, panel will ask you about it on, wait, wait, don't tell me. - Thank you, all those slides. Thanks to Shantira Jackson, Rachel Koster, Peter Gross. Thanks for our fabulous audience here in Kalamazoo, Michigan. And thanks to all of you for listening, wherever you may be. Up here in a second, we'll see you next week. (audience cheering) This is NPR.