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This message comes from Capeppella University. That spark you feel? That's your drive for more Cappella University's Flex Path Learning format lets you earn your degree at your pace without putting life on pause. Learn more at cappella. edu NPR in WBEZ Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't tellell me. The NPR newews quiz. I'm a household name as long as you're in my household I'm Mos Slay and here's your host at the Stud Baker Theater at the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Illinois, Peter Sagl. Thank you Aler. body We' got a great show you today. Later on, we're going to be talking to indndie, rock icon, Stehven Malcolmist, leader of the band Pavemment. But first, we want to congratulate Alzo Slade on his first month as our official judge and scorekeeper. That means he has lasted longer in the job than five British prime ministers You never know what might happen, so you better call before there's a vote of no confidence. The number is one tri eight wait wait. That's one eight nine, two, four eight nine two four. Let's welcome our first listener contestant. Hi everyone, wait wait,on't tell me. Hi. This is David from Brooklyn. Hey, David from Brooklyn. Can you differentiate yourself? There are a lot of Davids in Brooklyn. U Well, father of two run two haveal marathons and I can see Barclay Center from my house Whoa! That don't really narrow it down. No, it doesn't at all. Yeah. Oh, a marathonning dad in Brooklyn. Yeah, no. Well, David, it is nice to have you on the show. Let me introduce you to our panel this week. First up, she's a comedian whose new standup special, What's her seecret is now available on YouTube. It's Emmy Blotnik. Hello Next, she's a comedian whose special loveove Joy is on Peacock and whose album Yell Joy is on bllonde Medicine. It's Jolle Nicole Johnson. What up, David And making his debut on our pannel. It's a comedian and host of the Downside podcast on Vox. You can see his comedy special, Thief of Joy On YouTube as well, it's Gian Marco Serzi how, how long? Hey David, welcome to the show. You're going to play whoo's Alzo this time? Alzo Slade is going to read you three quotations from this week's news. If you can correctly identify or explain just two of them, you will win our prize Any voice from our show, you might choose for your voicemail, you ready to go I'm ready to go and Alzo, congratulations on one month. You are filling very big shoes at a very big leg turn. I like this guy. Yeah. I like this guy. I know. David, you got three out of three already. need. Well play it, sir. Well played. All right. Your first quote is from a White House spokesperson speaking on Tuesday Ab a body of water gone completely green with algae. The pool is clear and reflecting beautifully What pool was she talking about? He is talking about the reflecting pool? Yes, the reflecting pool on the National Mall In May, the president announced he'd be renovating the reflecting pool, quote, ahead of schedule. And just a month later, it is a fettid mass filled with algae, floating debris, and a few dead ducks. But to be fair, it is ahead of schedule. Trump said the pool had actually been damaged by vandals with knives quote, probably in the dark of night, unquote. And do you know how bad a lie is that even Donald Trump used the word probably? I'm sure you guys have been following this national drama with rap attention. Yeah, I don't know. The dead ducks, it kind of feels like the new Groundhogs day. Like if you find a dead duck around the pool, that means four more years of Tump. Oh God. Yes. Yes. It's funny that he said it was damaged by vandals when there's like video that they drove the motorcade. Yes. This is actually true. Yeah When it was empty, he had his motorcade, which as you know, he's the president. It's a huge thing. dririve into the reflecting pool and down the empty bottom and out. Yeah. I think you should do it while it's full. Yeah Damage to the reflecting pool after this renovation includes holes, cracks, peeling caulk in the seams and long sheets of the supposedly waterproof bottom coating floating to the surface At the end of the week, this is true. they just with all these people coming to gawk at the damage, they just fenced off the entire thing so nobody can see what they're doing to it now. You know we're going to end up with the nation's first above ground reflecting pool I disrespect people who repair pools, but I kind of feel like I could have done a better job. Yeah Yeah. Like just as a person, common sense, like is it that hard? Apparently. Feels like they also haven't addressed the leaky pipes. They went straight to the paint job What about the pipes? There you go. You see right now, you are now qualified. Exactly.. And the algae, which is like just blooming like it's nobody's business, it's unsightly. It might, as I said, might be killing the ducks, but on the other hand, RFK Junior needs it to survive All right David here is your next quote. It is from a sports fan The hydration brakes are BS. But I can get my beers. That fan was one of many people excited to make a run for the concessions during the new hydration breaks during let big sporting events. The World Cup and I bet it was probably a Scottish fan because they drank Bllon and every other city drive. As you right, we discussed that last week. Yeah They' for it It is the World Cup. One thing soccer fans have always been proud of is that their game has no time out. It is just ninety continuous minutes of absolutely nothing happening But for this year's World Cup, supposedly in response to fears about high temperatures, FIFA has for the first time, introduced hydration breaks, a three minute pause in each half, where all the players' mothers run out and give them orange slices I'm not a soccer fan at all, but now I calla football because I'm a British person. I am a fan of men who don't skip leg day. so I have a ch. You got y'all better not skip leg day. John Marco got his dams out right now on the table. I do, I do. I don't I guess we should have these breaks. I don't know why don't call ' them water breaks. in the theater, we call them intermissions.. And I think they're wonderful. Yeah. I mean, they have to run so much in soccer. That's like and they have to hit the ball with their head. I would need a break. As you can tell, this is the least athletic panel that's ever on this show Wh is saying something Do you ever hear the sound of a ball hitting the goalie's hand? You just wanna go like, ow. L imagine a ball hitting your hand like that. Well, that's why they wear the big Mickey mouse gloves, right I don't even know. I don't knowith. Well, I should let you know, since you're not the soccer purists hate this change. Everybody is saying these so called hydration breaks are really just about giving TV another place to sell some ads to which FIFA said, no, we just want our players to hydrate with a cool, refreshing taste of Miller light But if they're making changes for the American World Cup, why not think bigger? fifteen minutes at the end where everybody's allowed to use their hands. I didn't know you couldn't use your hands All right. All right. Joell, there is nothing wrong with not being a sports fan. She's just looking at legs the whole time. Yeah true. I'm not just looking at legs. out I'm also looking at butts All right, David, here's your last quote. It's about a guy who made headlines just for moving a podium this week. He's the only one at Downing Street whose approval rating is rising. That man has become famous because one, he's hot. And two, he comes out to set up the podium whenever who announces their resignation Well, it's really sad that he's more attractive than Kir Starmer, but it's podium guy. Yeah, it's the podium guy, you know abouton him, but of course, he's the guy who shows up to put up the podium whenever a British prime minister resigns, which this week it was Kir Starmer. Yes, the premier of the world's fifth largest economy resigned this week, but all anybody can talk about is hot Podium guy Even the New York Times,' a big story about it. That's right. There have been so many resignations of British prime ministers in the last few years that the hot guy who sets up for the resignation speech has become a celebrity In fact, it is possible that the UK keeps running through new prime ministers because they just want to see more of this guy You know it's crazy though, because I've been living in London and I could tell you guys this that a British ten is like an American six home.. G I don't know, go look this guy up. It's easy to be hot next to Boris Johnson. That's true How so, how did David do in our quiz? My man, David did well, Three out of three. Congratulations, David. Well done Daggy, daggy Thank you David, thans the B. Thank you, thank you. Bye bye.ck Right now panel time for you to answer some questions about this week's news. Joelle, after the TSA kept stopping international travelers trying to bring it home in their carrys Craft has introduced quote, TSA compliant three ounce bottles What? Something disgusting. It was it like cottage cheese or something? No, it's the thing that all the European tourists, foreign tourists have decided is the best thing about American cuisine. What is the best thing about American cuisines? Okay. Craft. Craft makes Cheese. I'll give you a hint. This is even true if you're traveling home, they'll take it away from you even if you're traveling home to the hidden valley Aw, Ranch dressing. Ranch dressing. Wow you've been in Europe, so you've miss this. All the tourists are going nuts for ranch dressing. The soccer players drink it on their brakes. It's crazy. I know. They making travel size ranch dressing. Rft has announced travel size bottles of ranch dressing to go through TSA because people are like, oh my go, this American delicacy and they're buying bottles to bring home, but the TSA keeps confiscating the ranch dressing from passengers because technically it's a liquid and you can't have that much liquid. Imagine You're in that situation and you just do what you always do when you have a bottle of water in the TSA lane and you just Oh, shhug it is getting. There' a sticker on it that says lotion? Yeah maybe But imagine being a kid in Europe had to stay home when your dad went to see the World Cup in America and he comes home and you're like, what'd you bring off from your trip? I hope it's a thick dairy product I wan to know what is gonna happen though with all the seized ranch dressing at the TSA checkpoints. likeike this fourth of July, some TSA agent is planning on whipping up a few thousand hut wings and then using his swimming pool as a dipping bowl. It would have more reflecting capacity. Yes, that's true Dont Tes up Coming up our panel step right up to our Bluffs to Listener game call one triple eight. Wait Wait to play. We'll be back in a minute with more, Wait Wait, D't tell me from NBR Support comes from our twenty twenty six lead sponsor of Wightwight Don't tellelle. 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I just finished my PhD and my side hopy lately has been planning my wedding, which is this weekend. Oh my gosh. This weekend That's so exciting. What are you doing talking to us? Shouldn't you be? I don't know, planning things, talking to your bridesmaids, freaking out. I mean, is this is. They've got it handled. It's all planned Well, Mosle tough to you, but it is great to have you with us to play our games. You're going play, in fact, a game where you have to tell truth from fiction. Alza, what is Glenn's topic? Glen, come on down. Game shows, of course, those most revered and important programs that run for years famously, always with handsome hosts Sporting beautiful full heads of hair Well, this week we heard a really amazing story that came from the world of game shows. Our panelists are going to tell you about it, pick the real one and you'll get the weight weaighter of your choice on your voemail.re ready to play? We to do it. Let's do it. firstirst up let's here from Joella Nicole Johson. Sakanel Suos said his wife Asia won big on the only season of the Cambodian game show, Take My wife or my lifeife It was a show that took the contestants on a year long journey that makes sururvivor look like a weekend at the spa ai the clips of the couple working together to complete challenges and master tasks while still managing to love each other, went viral on the internet and they developed a cult following. So what did they do with the winnings? They started a game show based cult called The Guru is Right. We're not the Mins. We got prizes. Their eighty two followers lovingly refer to them as the Chef and the Vanna from Heaven. Every single day is dedicated to a different game show. On Wheel of Fortune Wednesdays, the followers spin the wheel of karma. Family feud Fridays, everyone wears fake mustaches and wins prizes based on their bushiness Saturdays are clothing optional. The followers are sometimes naked, but never afraid When interviewed cult assistant Rainier the Grand Mesa says, it's not that bad as far as cults go. and unlike most cult leaders, Sakineel doesn't pursue the female members. He doesn't even let them kiss his cheeks because he don't want to smear his stage makeup A game show winner starts a call based on game shows, your next story to buzz in on comes from Emmy Blotneick. A new study has found that if a male contestant on Wheel of Fortune refers to his wife with a complimentary adjective, such as my lovely wife or my gorgeous wife, he's three times more likely to stay married to her Men who did not use a complimentary adjective about their wives were three times more likely to get divorced The study was based on six years worth of episodes and it was conducted not by a team of researchers, but by one random guy He watched nearly two thousand episodes of Wheel of Fortune, and that whole time he wasn't even retired. He methodically recorded which men said a nice word about their wives and which did not, and then went and checked their divorce records Wow It sounds like he could really benefit from the company of a fantastic wife Another interesting finding was that the contestants who paid their wives' compliments also won more cash kind words don't need to be reserved for your partner or for when you're on Wheel of forortune Why not offer a complimentary adjective to a colleague and quietly hope for more money And with that, I'll turn it back over to our bewitching host, Peter Segel. Good Thank you, Mamy. Thank you. Study found That men who referred to their wives with a compliment on Wheel of Fortune had more successful marriages than those who referred to their wives without one. Your last contestant is John Marco Azi. Plans for another season of mister Beast's Beast games on Amazon have been put on hold after it was discovered that an episode in season two plagiarized several of the challenges from KGB interrogation techniques The similarities were first spotted by former Soviet foreign intelligence officer Yuri Gorieevsky who remarked at Episode five's grocery store challenge utilized an ultra luminescent exposure technique that was originally designed by the KGB to make people temporarily insane while also remarking that Mr. Beast took it to an extreme that would, quote unquote, never have been allowed in the Soviet Union Since the news broke, dozens of other former KGB have come forward to say the show reminds them why they defected in the first place While the show's future remains in limbo, several of the previous challenges have already been implemented to optimize performance in Amazon warehouses. So here are your choices. We found a news item related to game shows this week. Was it from Jooyelle that there's a cult based on the host success on game shows, from Emmy Blotnik, we heard about a study showing that if you are on Wheel of Fortune And you refer to your wife with a lovely compliment, my beautiful wife, your marriage will be more successful, Or from John Marco Sereesei, a discovery that the Beast games stole many of their most exciting challenges fromrom the KGB, which was the real story we found in the news. I can definitely see Mr. Gast doing something like that, and I'm a huge fan of John Marco, so I'll go with number three Well You have a huge fan Joh Mara That's very nice. I know, Well So you're gonna to choo Jon Marco's story. Well, okay, to bring you the real story, we spoke to an expert Could you imagine your husband going on national television and referring to you simply as his wife instead of his beautiful wife or wonderful wife That was the man himself, Joey on TikTok explaining is detailed analysis of men on Wheel of Forttune mentioning their wives. So as you no doubt have figured out, it was in fact Emmy had the real storm I feel terrible. Well, I feel terrible. You did it to a fan. I. Yeah, I'm sorry. And it really is crazy. Only a man could need a six year study to learn that he needs to compliment his wife Glenn, I'm sry you didntin a prize but you did earn a point for John Morco, so and you said you're a fan, so thank you for the point. Thank you. You are a beautiful caller in E. And let us not also forget you will be a beautiful bride. So congratulations your wedding. Congratulations. Thank you. so soa Hey now the game we call Not My Job, Pitchfork magazine once wrote, quote, what the Beatles were to sixties pop, pavement were to nineties indie rock. That seminal band which influenced so many others was founded in Stockton, California by Stephven Malcolmus and his friends. and thirty years later, he and they are still making music and he's doing it From his new home here in Chicago, Stephen Malcolm is welcome to Wait Wight I feel we need to start with the fact cheheck, W Pavement your band the Beatles of nineties Indie Rock? I don't think so. No. So may only one Beatles. Yeah, I know. but maybe you were the Herman and the Hermits of nineties Iie Rock. And Wh where would you place yourself on the spectrum? Weere the weightweight don't tell me of nineties Indie Rock? Yeah. There you go. I have no idea what that would mean though so five piece. but the band, I mean, what I've heard about Pavement is something that was also once said about the Velvet undernderground. likeike, you know, they didn't have as many listeners as some other bands, but everybody who listened started their own band. Yeah, we yeah, I get a lot of CD's, remember those. CDs, peopleeople are sending you CDs say just at the shows People come up and they go, you influence me? hereere's my. Be it kind of seems like you can do it You hear us It's not particularly like virtuous virtuous. are you're telling me that like the message that people got from your seminal records in the nineties was they listened to paper like, I could do that. Pretty much You know, we have a relationship with tone and tuning and tempo that is loose. loose, loose. Yeah. C we can we go back to the origins you founded the band in Stockton, California you Y. wereere you kind of had a you were sort of a juvenile delinquent, as they used to say? I think it says that on Wikipedia. Yeah. haven't bothered to change that. I don't know. Can you Apparently you can, but the consensus is you should not edit your ownikipedia.' not I mean But it's ridiculous because I know there is something about me like partying on rooftops and high school and it was just one tiny thing of all the terrible things they did. Really? So like Wikipedia, they missed all the other terrible things you did, but for some reason people are talking about party comes. You know what I mean? that bec comes. But the real question is have you changed? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I'm older and wiser and I don't climb on rooftops anymore. Yeah. takeake the elevator like a responsible guy. Do you get recognized by fans in the streets of Chicago? Sometimes. Yeah. More when I go, I mean, if I hang out in front of a record store, you just stand there minding your own business, just tapping your foot Yeah Next to the P section Yeah. Tuning a guitar? T Whar my t shirt? Yeah wear your t shirt. Now you know that also in the Chicago area, Billy Corgan lives in smashing pumpkins And yeah and he famous you famously in one of your songs back in ' ninety four, You called them out, you called out the smashing pumpkins. In a way. In a way. mentioned their name. in a not complimentary way. Not so bad though. Whatould you say? I mean, it's really a nice thing to do to even take the time to mention something. I say so he should have been wow should He should have been flattered by, o, wow, you name checked his band rather than the subsequent mention of waste of time maybe that was They didn't have a pumpin's function, but you know, they do truly have some good songs and I do. What do I mean have you run into Billy down at Pizzeriao, for example? No, you haven't? He's like afraid of You cam Rp. Yeah He lives like in beyond Evanston from what I understand Way, way in the far north. Yeah as well be Wisconsin Yeah know. I know you've dismissed this question before that your rider is your tour riders for rock stars is famously weird. Yours is very straightforward, right? I'm told like do you in fact as far as you go it's only so far as to specify a brand of seelzerwater Well, maybe L Croix, as we say it in France. Yeah, or Montreal or something Yeah, we have a basic writer. I dont I mean, the other guys want towels. Twels I don't use towels. E. You just air dry? I don't sweat that much. Really? Not too much I don't I wouldn't do that on stage. So so it's like just kidding. So yeah, I don't need them, but and they're always black and kind of see what's wrong with that? Well. I don't There's something about a rock and roll towel that it's black. It's not just that black is rock and roll, like heavy metal but also you don't know what's on there on the towel. Who knows when it's not clean, maybe. not even a neat fak. I'd be more scared of a white towel. I dont know. Iess I' swe.. But they're dry when we get them. I don't know. they just I see dust in them or something. It's always dusty back there. Ys is kind of dusty too Wait a the adjectives. Don't Call me Billy Corgan Well, we didn't get your writer, so we didn't prepare. I guys like this the father of Indie Rock is like, yeah, I don't know about those towels. They're un sanitary. That's not the lifestyle I imagine you living. I have to admit That's true. Well, Stephen Malcolmus, it's a pleasure to talk to you and to welcome you to Chicago. We have asked you here to play a game. We're calling. Pavement repairs are underway. So there's another kind of pavement workers, Rad construction crews. Naturally, we're going to ask you three questions about construction. Answer two of three questions correctly. you'll win a prize one of our listeners. Al Stehven Malcolm Paying for. Francis King of Missoula, Montana. All right Ready to do this? Thankes. Yes Recently, road crews in southern England had to dig up a sixty five foot long stretch of road and repair it, which was necessary, but neighbors were not happy with the detour they set up to get around the sixty five foot long stretch of road. Why were they unhappy? Was it A? The detour to repair that was forty one miles around B, the detour was also under construction, meaning people just had to go home. or C, the detour crossed a river at a spot where there wasn't a bridge. Oh man I will say they say Smucks pick three, so I'll do three. You're going to do C the cross the river. Well, I guess you're not a schmuck because it was actually A, the forty one mile detour to avoid the sixty five foot long construction site. They estimated the detour the officials estimated the detour would take drivers about an hour to travel a distance that would normally take two seconds. All right. Here's your next question. When you're done with construction in a neighborhood, the last step, of course, is to put up new street signs. But in Reno, Nevada, the new street signs they put up on Virginia Street, once they finished constructing it, had a problem. What Was at A, they reflected headlights so well, they were blinding drivers. B, they were missing the last eye and said Virgina Street. Or C, they read Buckthorne Avenue, which was a street two and a half miles away. I don't know. I mean, two is the funny one. B. That's right. All. It's also the true one, yeah. Yeah We're try to see Ohy, this is great. You got one with one to go. if you get this, you win. Here's your last question. Other types of construction have issues as well. In eighteen sixteen, the US constructed a border fort on Lake Champlain to protect against attacks from British Canada, but the fort had to be demolished. Why? Was it A, they accidentally built the fort on the Canadian side of the border? the commander demanded a wine cellar so big that half the fort one day just sank into it. Or see, the fort was made of birch logs and birch bark is like catnip to moose H I've seen some m notot far from Missoula, Montana, so I really want to do it right for this guy I guess that's a sign I'm gonna say C even though it's by A. Wait a minute. you said C even though it's probably A. Yeah. Yeah. So if it's probably A, wouldn't you wantan to choose A? Yeah ye. It's A, yeah, Okay. Thank you. So how did Stehven do doing our kids? Well're little nudging, he got two out of three. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you.eling him. Stephven Malcolmus is the lead singer and guitarist of Pavean, and you can see them on tour starting in July. Stephven Malcolmus, thank you so much for being on. Thank. Steven up Stven Malcolm In just a minute, Alzo puts on his radiious sweatsuit for our listener Limerick challenge, callall one triple eight Waightweight to join us in the air and We'll be back in a minute with more of weaightwight D't tellellm me from NPR The board comes from our twenty twenty six lead sponsor of weightwight, Don't tellell me. Viking, committed to exploring the world in comfort. Journey through the heart of Europe on an elegant Viking long ship with thoughtful service, destination focused dining and cultural enrichment onbard and on shore. And every Viking voyage is all inclusive with no children and no casinos Discover more at Viking. com This message comes from Fisher Investments. Senior Vice President Michael Hosmar explains the importance of providing a comprehensive approach for clients culture at Fisher Investments, it's about helping. 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If you'd like to play, give us a call one tri eight wait, That's one eight nine two four eight nine two four, right now, panel, though, it is time for you to answer more questions from the week's news. Emmy, a question for you. There's a wonderful old historic house for sale outside Philadelphia, I'll take it. There you are. There's a wonderful old historic house for sale outside Philadelphia buys it will have to live with what gritty? No. That would be an incentive. That would drive up the price. I feel okay. No, I'll give you a hint. Oh no, the redcoats are coming. The redcoats are coming to our yard. L Kure Starmer? Well He does need some placeace to go, I guess No, when I say redcoats, I mean like literal redcoats dressed as British soldiers because they do they come to do a reenactment Revolutionary war reenactment. Exactly right. This nearly two hundred fifty year old house comes with, quote, nine bedrooms, ten fireplaces, ample parking, and this is completely true An unbreakable agreement to let an entire battalion of dads reenact the Battle of Germantown from the Revolutionary War on the front lawn every year. And it will only cost you nine hundred ninety five thousand dollars plus whatever you have to pay to get the hell out of Germantown once a year are the deads. There really is something about the phrase battalion of Dad. that up a little straight. Yeah Joelle, Time Magazine has given us something we could use. Good advice. They have told us the best way to console someone whose sports team just blew a big game is by saying three exact words. What are those three words? Here's a sandwich That's not bad. That would work for me. But that wasn't the three words they suggested. I know what three words I would say. What three words would you say? Suck it up That's pretty good. Does anybody else have a guess? Any book recommendation? No, I think I'll just have to tell you, accccording to Time Magazine, experts, the three words to say to somebody who was crushed by their team blowing it at the last minute is let's zoom out let's zoom out. Your friend just watched the team and he lives and dies by just blew it in the last seconds, he's on his knees weeping. What do you say to comfort him? One psychologist recommends wording it like this. Zoom out a little bit. Let's remember how great the season was. This helps your friend remember all the success that got him to the brink of glory and also helps by immediately giving him something to punch Yeah, it sounds like the psychologist was not a sports fan. No E JoyL this week, dating dot com announced a new job opening, an executive that will provide clients with what specific service Breaking up with people. Exactly right, J. Y The website announced they'll be hiring a quote chief breakup officer who willll be paid three thousand dollars a month to end other people's relationships for them. The ideal candidate will have good people skills, a compassionate nature, and at least a year experience working with drama. Where do I sign up? Really? You'd be good at this? I would absolutely be good at this. Don't you think it would be, you know a drain on your empathy? Do you have to call people up and somehow say hi, I work for dating dot com d and I've been asked by whomever to let you know that they're not interested in seeing you anymore. I'm so sorry. I love that you think I have empathy S I was signed for this in a second. Are you kidding me I'm about the call then what you call it dating. I'm so excited about this. I'm never coming back here again. I'm gonna get this job This is so unethical. You can't play both sides of the market. It's like profitable, but I don't think it's right. Okay. How many women have you ghosted ghosted? Yeah. No, I pay someone to break up with them properly, like a gentleman Breaking up again! Coming up, it's L lightning film in the blank, but first it's the game where you have to listen for the rhym. If you'd like to play on air call, leave a message at one triple eightight weight, That's one eight nine two, four eight nine two four. You can see us most weeks right here at the Studo Baker Theater in downtown Chicago. You can catch us on the road. We'll be at the beautiful Riverside Theater in Milwaukee on july ninth. You won't want to miss that one and at the Rose Music Center just outside Dayton, Ohio on september third. For tickets and information to all our live events go to nPRpresents dot org d How you doing, Waait, don' tell me. Hi, Peter. This is Sharon from Brdenton, Florida. Hey, how are things in Brdenton? What do you do there Oh, lots of sunsets on the beach, meeting with friends. I have also a cat sitting business on the side. You have a cat cat sitting business? Yes. So do the cats come to your house or do you go to theirs? I go to theirs. Wow. What's the most interesting thing you have found rifling through people's drawers when they're not home Oh, Peter, I don't do that, you know. I'm there for about half an hour and that's enough time. Yeah Well, welcome to the show, Sharon. Alzo Slade is going to read you three news related limericks with a last word or phrase missing from each. If you can fill in that last word or phase correctly and into two of limerick,'ll be a winner. you ready to play? ready? Here's your first limerick To make a tough workout more bearable, I bring clothes that are old but still wearable Like a slob, I appear in my gross sweaty gear I go to the gym looking. Oh, terrible? Yes, terrible in recent years. Everybody at the gym has worn fancy exercise clothes, but according to the Guardian, the latest trend among celebrities and fashcionists is wearing crappy old clothes to work out. So now the rest of us can. Finally, I can throw out my sweat wicking tuxedo. This is one of those recession indicators where they're like, it's fashionable that your clothes suck Yeah Exactly. All the hut people are doing it. The look is called Jim Goblin Jyim Goblin. A on, the Gym Goblin, we all know this, is not the person who dresses down for the gym. The Jym Goblin is the guy who is way too comfortable being naked in the locker room I'm curious, Do you guys think about what you wear at the gym, assuming you do go. I try to dress up. have like I have some fancy tank tops that I like to wear. Do you really? I mean I mean mini mouse Mi mouse. I have a mini mouse one. I have a teenage min ninj of Turtles I have yeah, like I like a little flare. What do you think? you't see me? Exactly Are you going to like a toddler gym? That's weird I know, it's very it's fun. I little add a little color. color Here is your next limerick Most people will choose crisp tattoos, but this new kind is just black and blues. The ink under your shirt suggests you've been hurt because it looks like a permanent Br Right. More and more people are getting tattoos resembling stylized bruises because actually we have no idea why they are doing that It's pretty crazy to look at these tattoos are inked in purple, green and yellow to look exactly like halfway healed bruises. It's crazy, and if you're looking for a cheaper, less painful way to get in on the trend, I might suggest riding an e scooter after a couple of beers It sounds like someone screwed up a tattoo and was like, no, it's a new thing. Yeah All right, here's your last limerick. A commute, We'll just quit, said a bunch, and our office is feeling the crunch. So our plan of attack give them food. They'll come back. We are offering snacks and free. Lunch. Yes, free lunch. More and more companies have hit upon the solution at long last to bring workers back to the office, free lunch It's a refreshing change from the tactic most companies had been using. Come into work or you're fired. Isn't there a saying about free lunches and how there's no such thing as them? Apparently there now is, as long as you come into the office. W. I have found this to be true across all demographics and certainly with myself. the universal appeal of free food. I accepted this job because of free lunch. Yeah Alzo, how did Sharon do in our quiz? She did amazing. Three out of three. Sharon, congratulations.h Sharon, congratulations Thank you. Thanks for calling and playing Thanks you' been great. Bye The board comes from our twenty twenty six lead sponsor, of wait wait, Don't tellell me. Viking, committed to exploring the world in comfort. 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Investing in securities involves the risk of loss. Now it's time for our final game, Lightning Fill in the Blank. E eachach of our players have sixty seconds in which to answer as many fill in the blank questions as they can. Each correct answer now worth two points. Alzo, can you give us the scores? Yes indeed. Emmy and Joell are locked in a tie at two with John Marco in the lead at three. Oh my goodness Okay, so that means that since Emmy and Joelle are tied for second, I'm just going to pick Joelle to go first arbitrarily, the clock will start but they begin your first question, fill in the blank. On Tuesday, all the candidates endorsed by Myir Mam Dani won their primaries in blank. New York on Monday, Iran denied White House claims that it had agreed to let blank monitors into the country Baby monitor. No Nuclear monitors, according to New York Times, newew evidence does suggest that Blanc will hold a wedding ceremony at Madison Square Garden. Taylor Swif. Yes O on Wednesday, the chief of staff, Eric Adams, the former mayor of Blanc, was arrested on corruption charges. New York, baby. Yes. After a truck overturned on the highway near Yellowstone, park rangers are warning visitors to be on the alert for Blanc. Drunk drivers. No, two hundred fifty million escaped bees. Oh On Thursday, Rockstar Games announced that preorders were open for the latest game in the Grand Theft Blank series Y. This week a tenth standoff between a SWT team in Arizona and an armed suspect was interrupted by Blank. The gym goblin? No, not the gym goblin. by a delivery robot driving right through the middle of the scene. SWAT teams out there, they've got their guns, The guy's inside, he's armed. And right in the middle of the standoff comes this delivery robot. Door dash delivery robot, beepep, beepep And they couldn't make it a go away and they couldn't get rid of it. But it actually ended up helping. it went up to the door and said, Look, I'm on your side here. If you let everybody out of the house unharmed, I can guarantee you a bag of lukewarm french fries Also, how did Joelle do in our quiz? She did all right. She got four right for eight more points, total of ten. She is now in the lead. All right I mean, that means you are up next. Here we go, fill in the bllank on Wednesday two back to back earthquakes struck the northern coast of Blank. Venezuela. Right. This week, the US. warned that AI is just months away from being able to launch powerful blank attacks Toilet They're swarming us. No. cyber attacks.n Wednesday, Trump said he wanted the Justice Department to investigate if oil companies are artificially inflating blank prices. Ges. Right. This week, thanks to SpaceX's stock price, Elon Musk became the first ever blank bigig stupid baby The first ever person who had been a trillionaire to become an ex trillionaire. According to sources, Apple will release a foldable blank this September. Phone? Y, foldable iPhone. This week, a Scottish man who went to the doctor for vision problems discovered the reason he was having trouble seeing was because blank He was wearing eye patches. No He was having eye troubles because he kept using a massage gun on his eyeballs.. Doctors were shocked when the man told them that he'd been regularly using the massage gun on his tired eyeballs once a week for at least three months That explained. Several of his symptoms, including his blurred vision as persistent floaters in his vision and the fact that his eyes are now set all the way to the back of his skull That sounds painful. It really does. I'm just trying to imagine the guy going ye. I'm sure this is good for me, Yeah. How so how did Emmy Blotnik doing our quiz? She got three right for six more points, total of eight, Joelle is still in the lead. All right So how many of them