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Let's start with an extended version of our interview with actor and comedian Tiffany Hadish from November of twenty twenty five. Peter, ask her, what jobs she took to support herself during her early years? And one answer was a little surprising. An energy producer at Barn Bat Mitzvah's? Yeah I Barba Mitzvah', executive parties, Christmas parties, Hanukah parties, funerals, you name it. A Madja prodduce amazing energy. So wait a minute, you you were kind of a hype woman. You' were like got the crowd hyped up I wouldn't call that a hype woman. What I call it is an energy producer. Okay. Proucer. I got you. I got you. Yeah just I'm just flashing back. You call it a hype womoman? That sound like flavor flav to me? No. No. That's not it. Okay. Amazing. All right, let me try This is make grandma grandpa get up about the chred The energy' so good. They gotta start dancing. All right, So yeah, so like I do, actually. So I'm thinking back many, many years to my own Barmitzvra. This was a very long time ago. and I did not have an energy producer of any kind. And it was a born party, wasn't it? It was pretty dull. It was pretty dull.ater. It's too late now, it's too late now. but It's too late. All right. Throw you a sixty seventh birthday party. We can do that. And thank you for that est. to my age. it crippled me First of all, so if you had been at M Bar Mitvah many years ago, how could you briefly demonstrate how you would have energized the party so it was not the drab synagogue assembly room experience that it was. First, I would go to you and I would go, young Peter, Yes Please take my beautiful brown hand and follow me D. And I would lead you out to the dance floor. Y. I would stand you right next to me and I would say, follow my lead, do whatever I do, okay? And smile the whole time. No matter how it feels, just smile the whole time And I would start with a side to side step clp, right? O your side to side step clp with me? Peter doing it. Thatide p everything. That's what I'm talking about. Here we go op it I am! I am retetroactively, I am very excited and extraordinarily embarrassed. I am like because that's that yeah, that whooa That is a Jewish way It is a. Yeses Peter. I'm gonna be real with you. I've seen Tiffany, she could make a didle spin without spinning. She's got that She just and then it just didlesesome. And you did this for how many years For eleven years. eleven years. Oh wow. That was just it was one, it was one really long Barmet was No, no, I did five hundred. Oh hundred. Oh. Oh my Godd. Oh there are I got flued out. I got flued out. You gotta forget out. Hold on. people fleed out. It's fleed out now. Fleued outed You flew out. I flew out. Were you flew out on a private jute? What No, It was definitely a public transportation. Okay ye. How come for Weiwit don't tell me, we didn't flew her in? I should have I You can't affordty. You can't affordty. I for. All right, I got it That's sadly true, but you recently had your own Botmitzvah, right? It was a few years ago years ago. It was a few years ago. Who did you hire because you have convinced me of the usefulness of this, Did you hire your own energy producer for your Botmitzvah? or did you handle that yourself? I hired the same company that I used to work for, I hired them And we brought in younger, more vibrant energy producers. then and then like Billy Crystal did Mia No Silverman's sister did she you know, officiated my whole Bot Mitzvah. Susan Silverman. like it was the most beautiful, it was beautiful. I want to ask you, one of the things I also learned is that during your years of struggle, you still had ambitions, you knew and you said sometimes in public that you were going to make it, you were going to be big Now that well, you have, you became incredibly famous with Girls tririp and many stuff since then. What is that like the first thing you did when you started making real money I bought a microscope. A microscope Yeah, I bought a three hundred and fifty nine dollars microscope that took pictures of bacteras and I could upload those bacteras to Google and I could find out exactly what it is. For me, okay, so in my mind, it was me developing my relationship with God and just seeing all the things he created. And did you know that some bacteras look just like people? Really I mean, I thought were like were like some of them were like rod shaped and some of them were squiggly, but you're saying that you look. someome of them as ugly as u just ugly. I'm like, Oh God, God, I see what you was doing. This guy's a bacteria like this, right like this Candida. And I know that. And I'm just curious about all this stuff God that's like that's why I like swimming with sharks and stuff. ' you see all the plant lights and animal life down there? And he' just like, look how creative he is. how creative. That could be your last thought just before one of those sharks hit you I know. J right You know, see, here go the thing. Sharks don't really like people like that. That's why they vite them and spit them out because we're too acidic. so as long as I keep drinking soda girl, I' good. Timany Hadish, it is a joy to talk to you, but we have invited you here to play a game And this time we are calling it girls trip Girl strip. You start in girls strip. so we're gonna ask you about comic strips about girls, girl strips. Get it? Yeah answer. Okay I thought this was gonna be something m elth. I'm like I know I know. boy strip. I know. a boy strip cl. I bet you do. But no, I wanted to clarify that's what we're doing. We're a weekend show for famil. Okay, here you go. Okay Eily show.ere we go. So answer two to three questions, right, you win a prize for one of our listeners, Bill, who is Tiffany Hadish playing for? Liz Pattererson of Atlanta, Georgia. All right, here's your first question The most famous girl strip is, of course, Kathy, that long running strip about a single woman with issues. Kathy ended its run in twenty ten, but it left its mark on the comic strip industry. How? A, the strip in which she married her boyfriend, Irving was so bad, the phrase marrying Irving now means ruining your comic strip forever B, whenever a comic strip writer can't think of something for a character to say, they just say A Like Kathy did, or see the highest praise one comic artist can say to another is, I thought I was reading Kathy And two, you're gonna go for B. A comicriict writer can't take of anything for a character to say. They just say A No, I'm afraid it was Marrying Irving. Marrying Irving because people believe that that completely ruined that's like the comic strip equivalent of jumping the shark. Here's your next question. The Barbie doll was in part originally inspired by a German newspaper comic strip called Lily. Who was Lily? the character Lillily? Was she, A, the beautiful wife of an ugly brick layer named Kenneth? B, a quote high end call girl Or C, a beauty pageant winner who became a surgeon, an astronaut, and an Olympic gymnast. Well, I would like it to be C, but I feel like it especially when Barbie came out and all of that and around the time, I will go with A. You're gonna go with the beautiful wife of an ugly brick layer. Wait, wait, what was the second one? Thee second one was that Lily, the character on whom Barbie was partially based was a quote high end call girl. I am more of an escort, yes. Well then I'll go with I'll go with B. You're gonna go with B. Yeah because the way her makeup was and stuff and she always had her boobs out That's right, you have figured it out. That's what Lily was. So Lily was a you got it write Lily was a risque comic for adults in the fifties in Germany, and the company started making dolls of Lily, and the wife of one of the founders of Mattel was in Germany saw one and said, Hey, I can work with that. All right, here's your last question. The comic strip Little Orphan Annie ended its run in twenty ten. What was the adorable orphan's fate in the very last ittle orphan any comic strip was at A. She was being held captive by an Eastern European war criminal. B, she discovered her real parents were the Romanovs, making her heir to the Russian throne. Or see she instantly aged the ninety years that had passed since the first strip and crumbled into dust like Thanos? Very much like Thanos, yes.. What was say again? An again was that she was being held captive by an Eastern European war criminal. Then I'm gonna go with, she got kidnapped And that's how they came with the movie taken That's exactly right. Wow. In fact I believe in the final frame of the final strip, Daddy Warbox is saying into a phone, I have certain skills. No, in the very last trip, Annie, who, by the way, during her life in the comics, was constantly being kidnapped, Annie is being held in Guatemala by a man known as the Butcher of the Balkans And as far as we know, she is still there Okay I'm writing a letter. All right. Bill, how did Tiffany Hadish do in our quiz? Are you kidding? She rewrote the quiz. There's a winner in everything You have You you have brought the energy in this out of. to you told me and you did not exaggerate. again. I'm still going. She's still going. Brian was your advanance man. Tiffany Hadish is an Emmy and Grammy winner. You can see her in her new show, Tiffany Hadish goes off. it is streaming on Pacock now. If it is a quarter as fun as talking to her in real life, it will be amazing. Tiffany Haddish, thank you so much. Thank you for being with us. You the best In case Bye bye. 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S Mint moobile for details NPR and WBEC Chicago, this is Wait Wait not Tell me the NPR newews quiz. I'm Bill Curtis and here is your host At the Student Baker Theater in the Fine Arts builduilding in Chicago, Peter Seago. Thank you, Bill. Thanks everyone. Thank you so much So we are spending the week preparing for summer, getting a base layer for our tans and working on finally achieving That beach body. Did you know they make suit jackets with matching speedoos? So while we desperately hit the gym, here's some more delightful interviews from the past year to entertain you in October of last year. We all went to Hawaii, where we talked to one of the great living masters of that island's traditional instrument, the ukule. Peter's first question to Taimane How the hell do you pronounce Ykulelele o La Wu Wu L L You got it. How about if you give it the appropriate respectful name and I just continued to screw it up, because that's You know, we could do that for probably like ten to fifteen minutes. We can do that. that That's really great. So you and I mentioned this, started playing in the ukule at a very young age, right? Yes. I started when I was five, and it was just the instrument that I grew up learning how to express myself And I so happen to love classical music, metal music, but it's all played on this instrument. I want to get to that because that's one of the things you're known for You were busking, you were out on the streets. att five you went out with your father? I started actually when I was seven.. more mature. Yeah. But that's a very reasonable age to send your child out onto the street to try to make money. Y. Yes. I had a hard work ethic back in the day. and so I started playing on the streets of Kalakawa Avenue Right, That's the big commercial district in Waiki Ki, with all the big shops on and restaurants tourists walking up and down all night. Exactly, exactly. I loved it. And I kept doing it until the age of thirteen. Wow. And that's where one of the singers from the Don Hoe show saw me playing was on the streets of Waiki Ki And so I got to meet Uncle Don. I like to call him Uncle Don. Sure. I like to call him Uncle Don. Right? Uncle Don. he really, you know, he took me under his wing and, you know, really showed me the ropes of how much it takes to put on a show. And so I was with him for five years until his passing, and he really just introduced me to Waikiki and then from there I started touring all over the world because the ukulea everyone everyone loves ukulea. That's absolutely true. That's absolutely true. So it is true that one of the things you've done is you've really expanded people's understanding of what a ukule can do, and I was hoping you could kind of demonstrate becausecause you're known, for example, for some remarkable covers. You just put out a cover of Jonie Mitch's Big Ya taxi? I did Right. And so is there like anything like people would not expect to hear somebody play really well to a ukulele that you love to play for them? Yes. I'm just going to go ahead and play it. Gohead And for those of you, Yes For those of you listening at home, this could be any of the panelists. You can't see this. Yeah Yeah. All right, here we go Panton I was a little bit rusty, but once I got, I little I thought we were gonna do like smoke on the water or something, but no. something Can you do that? A. Yeah,. Yes, stairay. Wow Well, Taimane, we have asked you here to play a game we're calling mini guitar Met minini golf. So o. You like smaller instruments. We thought we'd ask you about the tiny version of golf, miniature golf. Answer two to three questions correctly, you'll win our prize for one of our listeners. Al who is Taimane playing for Jim Joplin of Lawghton, Oklahoma. All right. All right, Oklahoma. And you know they just love the ukuleum Oklahoma. So here's your first question. Most historians agree that Minitro golf was invented in Scotland in the eighteen sixties for one very specific reason. What was it? A. It was made for women who weren't allowed to play real golf because it was considered improper for them to raise their arms above their shoulders be a local aristocrat said, love the game, but can we do without all that walking or see so a notorious sports gambler could win a bet that he could finish a whole round of golf in half an hour Oh gosh. you know, I'm not much of a walker myself So I would love to say B B B, maybe not the five. No Not the five You know, there's other, you know, I'm just getting this feeling of A? A A A A A A Yeah. Thanks. Apparently, back in Victorian Scotland, you couldn't have ladies scandalizing society by showing their pits. When in doubt go with misogyny. Exactly All right, that was very good. Now back in the early days, mini golf courses used to be different than they are today. How so? Was it A? instead of mechanical obstacles like windmills, children were hired to leap onto the course and swat away your ball Be instead of hitting your ball into the mouth of a fake clown in the last hole, you do it to a real clown Or see, instead of turf, the surfaces were made of goat hair dyed green. You know, I just keep getting these feelings. these feelings.es. the spirit of aloha. You know, I'm gonna go with like the ocean, like the sea. The sea. wise choice being this being Hawaii,es it could sea Died go ha. W was the surface of choice. This was before Astr Turf, of course. lastast question. You can play thousands of mini golf courses around the world, including in some unusual places like which of these. On the lip of a volcano in Stromboli, Italy, with real lava providing some of the obstacles. be four hundred feet underground in an abandoned Transylvanian salt mine Or see on the roof of the second tallest building in Dubai, where if your ball goes out of bounds, it really goes out of bounds Um I'm gonna go with B. I'm go the Chansylvanian salt mine. you're right. Oh Oh It's called Selena Turta, and it's got a whole amusementark down there along in the mini Gulf. It's the most popular underground tourist attraction in the world. What's it called? Selena Turda? No smart remarks, Paula. Alzo, how did Taimane do on our quiz? She's got the vibes, three out of three.. There you go Taimane is a singer songwriter, and one of the world's most celebrated ukulele players for tour dates, head to Taimane dot com slash live. Taimane Tome out everybody. So when we went to Hawaii, we of course took a plane, but champion long distance swimmer Becca Mann saved on baggage fees and swam there. In addition to swimming across the Maui channel and back Becca is a two time national champion than the ten kilometers swim And when she joined us last year, guest host Dagid Forsade Ask her what spending that much time in the water does to a person So You know, what are the things that I thought about like when thinking about these adventures that you go on is that you're in the water for a really Really, really long time So what are some of the weird kind of physical side effects of this kind of swimming So when you're in saltw, youv will start swelling. So like about nine hours in, my nostrils were swollen together. And then when I got out of the water, my uveula was hanging onto the back of my tongue. And I couldn't exore for the rest of the day. It was disgusting. Oh God. this is where I pretend to really know what a Uvul is. But It's but hangs on the back of your throat. got you I sense that this is bad. that this again kind of conjurures to the question of like, why do you do this to yourself? But what is your like what's your big goal now? I mean, you've already done so much. Is there another like a record you want to set? Yeah, so I actually took after that swim, I took five years off of swimming. That was like the last thing that I wanted to do with my career becausecause I just narrowly missed my third Olympic team and I didn't want to end on a failure. So I loveved swimming and I figured, why not just see how long I can love swimming for in one period? And then after that took five years off and I was just really missing swimming. So I got back into it a year ago and then made the national team again after five months of training So I'm. Thank. G did be help here Yeah. so now I'm just kind of taking it six months by six months and seeing what happens from there. And as long as I keep enjoying getting into the pool every day to train, I'm going to keep sticking with it. When you're in the open water, are there people that are Wing you or tracking you in some ways, not you're not completely by yourself, right Yeah, so there was a kayak that was probably like five to ten feet away from me the whole time, and then a boat that would stay like two hundred meters ahead. And then every like twenty minutes I'd swim up to the boat and my mom was actually on the boat and she was violently seasick the whole time. She was not happy. never doing this again. and she'd throw me a feed. We call them feeds. They're basically just like liquid fuel like a gatorated with like some sort of energy gel melted into it. So yeah, I wasn't fully alone, even though I couldn't touch the boat. noobody was allowed to touch me because then you're disqualified if that happens. But there were people nearby. I need help or anything. Okay, so there are people nearby. My question is, what's the most incredible thing you've seen in the open ocean? because I won't be going I need to live vicariously through you. I think I've seen three sharks and I really love sharks. All of them were it was two black tipped reef sharks and then one white tipped reef shark. And I think that they're just such beautiful creatures. All of them were like very peaceful and I love I love all the animals. They're probably surprised to see you. Yeah Oh yeah, have a They have a real reputation for being peaceful. Sos those ones in particular. Ive met some nice ones. Well, so speaking of like fish, have you ever like had a relationship with a fish in the style of my octopus teacher? I can't say that I have I mean, are you open to that? You what? I'm open to everything. We'll see. We'll do where life takes me. Do you ever like swim in a hotel pool and just like casually do laps but also smoke everybody and show off? Definitely. def Depending on what kind of mood I'm in. Oh, Becca man. Well, we've actually asked you here to play a game We're calling. Thanks for joining us So you know all. Oh no, I' right. You know all about open water. So we're gonna ask you about Closed water, Aquariums. Answer two out of three questions correctly and you'll win our prize for one of our listeners, the voice of any of us on their voicemail. Bill, who is Becca playing for? Ryan Campbell of Houston, Texas. Allright All right, I won't letay you down, Ryan. H Here's your first question. The San Antonio Aquarium has a touch tank which can provide guests with unique experiences like which of these. Is it A, an archer fish spitting water directly into your boyfriend's eye Is it be an octopus grabbing your six year old by the arm and trying to climb out of the tank to get the rest of her? Or is it C the C you handle a lionfish sting challenge I'm gonna say C just because I don't know if the aquarium would be able to get away with the first yo Oh, it is B. they got away with an octop. Grabbing a kid Don't worry Don't worry. the kid is fine. And it only took three adults armed with ice packs to make the ocopus let go. All right, here's your next question. The San Antonio Aquarium had another situation in twenty eighteen O sharks went missing Fortunately, they were able to track it down quickly because security footage showed what? Was it A? onene shark was hiding on the bottom of its tank while another shark buried it in the sand? Was it B the shark jumping a barrier into the Beluga whale tank where it was now playing with the whale like they were best friends Or was it see? two people lifting the shark out of its tank, putting it in a baby stroller and walking out of the aquarium. Okay, I feel like it could be any of these three things. Okay C seems like it would be the most fun, so I'm gonna go with C. You're right, it is. Oh my gosh. Thisice recovered the shark from the guy who wanted it for the quote extensive aquarium habitat in his garage. I really see a lot of myself in that guy. All right, here's your last question. According to a twenty seventeen interview, when the sharks at one aquarium wouldn't mate The staff solve the issue by doing what Was it A? piping salt and peppas push it into the enclosure? I. Was it B putting jasmine oil into their water as an aphrodisiac? Or was it C putting lipstick on the female shark? What is Okay, what's the audience thinking Okay Okay, I can't say no to that then. it has to be a. Oh my Godd, that's right Thisit is a cross species sexy song. What did Beccaa do on our quiz? Well, she did swim a very long way. So we're gonna call her a winner, two out of three. Yeah. call the audience the true winner though. Well, Becca Mann is a champion, open water swimmer, and a writer. 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Everybody is surprised by how low I can go But I'm gonna be honest with you, I hope our panelists are spending their week off studying the news because apparently, some of them haven't figured out that when they appear in our show, I might ask them about it. Here's some of our panelists covering up for their ignorance by being funny. Eugene, don't be alarmed, but this week we assured that your airplane is not actually outdated and old just because it still has what Um No engine No, that would be a problem. No I should be alarm. That it still has no smoking signs. Close. Not only does it have no smoking signs, which it shouldn't have because nobody smokes in airplanes, but it also seems to have still what? Oh, the ash trays Ash trrays. Yeah. People have been seeing ash trays in the laboratories of planes and thinking, o my God, how old is this plane? right? You think, oh no, was this plane built in the sixties? And then you think about how well us people who were built in the sixties are holding together right now and you start to panic. If you can relax, The Washington Post reported this week that the FAA still requires that all airplane bathrooms still have ashrays That way they can guarantee that the dirtiest thing in there is not the toilet seat. Why do they have them? The idea is you're not allowed to smoke on airplanes. and they tell you when know they give the announcement, If you smoke in there's smoke detectors in the bathrooms, if you smoke in there, it's a crime, don't it. But what if somebody does anyway? And they want to make sure that if somebody does break the law and lights a cigarette in there, they want a safe fireproof place for them put the cigarette besides a trash can, say, full of paper, and you especially don't want them flushing them down the toilet because that blue stuff in there, that's left overver jet fuel Wow. So then what happens to the cocaine that I have in there? Well You can snort that right off the toilet seat Alzo, people are upset About a lot. It's true. Yeah. Actually, I wasn't even a question. I was Pe are upset. No, peopleople are upset in Thailand after a parade there went by this museum full of priceless cultural artifacts And then what happened They broke in and No, no. I'll give you a hand. We don't know why they routed the annual subwoofer celebration parade by the National Museum of Ticks. Oh Yes I grew up in the South and Dews would have these woofers in their cars. Y and they drive by and they rattle every dish, every window in your house. And so they just rattled those artifacts and destroyed them. That's exactly what happened. The loud music from the parade shattered priceless artifacts. The parade celebrates this particular province' unique contributions to Thai culture, including Rod Hay, which is the relatively recent tradition of modifying cars and trucks with, yes, super powerful loudspeakers. Okay, bad enough, but why did the parade also follow those with floats filled with those sopranos singing so high they shattered glass The noise was so loud it knocked several priceless pieces of historical pottery off their shelves onto the floor where they shattered What's the problem? Now there are a bunch more objects and they're much more reasonably priced. Yeah, I was gonna say it. They were priceless before and now they have a price. Exactly. Now we know capitalism. F for a dollar. I think it's great. M destuctive more destructive parades. I want to see like a Macy's Thanksgiving dayay parade where a wind gust makes Snoopy take out the entire metropolitan museum You know what? cl I used to have this picture that I got from a newspaper and I had it on my notebook for the longest time. It was one time at the Macy's Day Parade, you know, they had an underdog inflatable. Yeah. And he had like a menacing look like his eyebrows werees,. And he was pointing Gusta Wind caught it It went like towards the people and the people scattered. Sure. And it was such a great so that's actually I mean, it didn't destroy a museum, But I do feel it's a similar story and that's why I told it. Yeah. ie. According to New York Times, contrary to the popular belief held by many pet owners, all dogs are what?. Uh The popular belief is that they're all lovely, so I would say what are we even asking me for do? All dogs are destined for hell. I'll give you a hint. Maybe it'll narrow it down. These are the creatures that literally chase their own talails So actually they're all really dumb. Yes, dumb. I kn that I knew that about my dog. Yeah, mine too. Mine's very dumb and she's loud about it. Yeah. The New York Times wants you to know your dog is most likely not a genius Which is weird because they're always trying to get my dog to sign up for the worurdle. Opening word gur Josh. Yes, you have a pug. I do. Smart or dumb. Dumb. She's so dumb. We bought her a step So that she can hop up onto the couch because the couch cushion's kind of high, She sits on the step. I'm just like, come on, get me the rest of the leg. I have a pug too. Is your pug smart? No. No, so dumb. so dumb. What does your dog smell like? Your pug smell like she doesn't smell great. Mine has a very distinct smell. I want to know if this is just a pug thing Is it 'cause we've had moments of the Frito smell. Frito ye Yeah. It's all dogs. It's all dog. Yeah, my dog smells like frritos. 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To get your new wireless plan for just fifteen dollars a month, go to mintmobile dot com slash wait. forty five dollars upfront payment required for new customers on first three month plan only, spepeeds slower above forty gigabytes on unlimited plan Taxes and fees extra. restestrictions apply. See Mint mobile for details. And finally, Lucy Dakas is one of the most popular singer songwriters working today, both on her own and with the supergroup boy genius When she joined us in December, I asked her if it was true that she put out her first record as a favor to a friend. Yeah, he had a school project to do. And my friend was working at Reba McIntyre's studio. Yeah. And he was like, no one's scheduled on this Saturday. shouldh we sneak in? And so the whole record, we recorded it in one day or Iillegally. I don't know if it's illeg But without approval. Right. And I guess the first question is, did he get a good grade? I never asked him though. Really He didn't like he didn't fail and have to have you record another record, did he? Yeah. And that's what Historian is. Yeah, exactly. exactly. That was the second project. Yeah. So that's an amazing story. You started playing guitar, I'm told at twelve years old I would say the correct answer is yes. The correct answer is yes. I like the fact I'm startning out into the quiz aspect. That's good. I'm not very I'm still like not the best at guitar. I feel like guitar at that time was hardly listenable. Really? But you're actually quite an accomplished guitarist. You were on a list of some one of the greatest of all time I saw. Yeah Yeah Do you remember, I'm always curious about this artists like yourself, like what your first songs were like when you first wrote a song, do you remember what it was Um I had a song called Stupid Cupid, which was like Why won't Cupid come to me? I was probably like seven years old. What? you were already like pining for a partner at seven? Yes. Yeah,upid. I mean I also had a song that was about people who are upset when someone cheats on them But it' probably their fault because why would they cheat on you if you weren't hard to be with? Again, I was probably like eight years old. Oh my goodness. Wow. You were eight years old What was happening at your elementary school? I'm glad I don't remember. Yeah You also in your early days before, you recorded that school project and began to become very popular, you worked at a I didn't even know that these still existed within a young person's lifetime, but a photo processing shop in Richmond, where you grew up. Wow. Richond Camera. Richmond Camer. Did that experience inspire any of your writing Well, it was so mindless and it was eight hours a day. and so I would sit and do my like, D d, d d, d d. and then I had a pad of paper and I would write songs and I'd get home And I'd get on the guitar and I'd write like a song a day at that time, which is not Like what I do Anymore. Wow. Have you considered I mean, you seem to be nostalgic for when you were that productive. Have you considered taking on like a mindless day job again just to reignite the creative spirit Yeah, I think you're being funny, but I'm not. I you thought about that I'm ready. ready. You're ready. Sbody somebody hire this woman for drudge work so you can reach the phot the photo counter at Walgreens. I think that's exactly how you dress. Why not? In twenty nineteen, you released a song on certain holidays throughout the year and then put out a record of them all called holidays. And I love this record. How did you decide which holidays to do The real truth is that I had recorded a bunch of things for no reason because it's fun to do. And I was like, when are these going to see the world? And so I realized that some of them had like a holiday aspect. others I kind of could make it up Like dancing in the Dark, we just said that Bruce Springsteen's birthday is a holiday, whichich I stand by. Right. And then like in the air tonight, like that was kind of eerie, so we did it for Halloween. I also wanted to ask, as you say, one of the holidays Bruce Springsteen's birthday, and you do think that's a holiday, you're a big fan, right It was in my house growing up. I mean, it was written that. We had like a big calendar in the kitchen where we'd put like, you know basketball practice, church, Br Springsteeen's birthday. Wow. Please called Please tell me you called it the Sringteeenth. The Springteeenth. genus. crazy callall my dad. I saw a picture of you with Springsteeen. so you didn't meet him, right? Did you tell Did you tell him about the Springsteeen? No. No. I already knew I'm not that like saed when I meet people, but he like is so important to my dad and to me And I showed up at a friend's birthday party and saw him and I was like, I need to go. I'm about to make a fool of myself. And so I was crying at the bar to a friend. I was like, this is weird. And I should go. And so then I turned around and he was right there. And he actually like knew me and knew my music already. So I was just like I think you're the best. I like yeah, and he was very gracious and he kind of he seems to be like the guy that you want him to be, which is not always true. That' always tr. Well, Lucy, Dakas, it is a pleasure to talk to you and we have invited you here to play a game we're calling Boy Genius meeet Boy geneniuses. So your band is called Boy Genius. we're going to ask you three questions about geniuses who are also Boys answer two to threeions G this Okay, you're rolling your eyes. I did warn you earlier it would be dumb. I mean you can like you can mean is opposite of dumb. so Okay. let's go. All right, I appreciate. That was very charitable. Okay. So as I was saying, answer two to three questions correctly and you'll win our prize, one of our listeners, Alza, who is Lucy playing for? Kimberly Ramos of Chicago, Illinois. All right