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The number is one triple eight wait wait. That's one eight nine two four eight nine two four. Now let's welcome our first listener contestant. Hi everyone, wait wait, don't tell me. Hi, this is Alicia Booker. I'm calling from Cincinnati, Ohio. I love Cincinnati, the Queen City. We've been there only once. I hope to go back. What do you do there? I am a high school social studies teacher. Oh my goodness That is a noble profession. How are the kids doing these days? They're doing pretty good. I mean right now they're on summer breaks, so they're fantastic. That's great . Well, Alicia, welcome to our show. Let me introduce you to our panel this week. First up, it's the writer of the seriously pop culture newsletter for the Washington Post. It's Shane O'Neill. Hello, Alyssa. How are you? Next, she's a comedian and an Emmy nominated TV writer. It's Karen Chee. And finally, an actor and writer you can see in the two man improv show two square at UCB New York on july first, it's Peter Gross. Hello . So Alicia, welcome to the show. You're going to play who's Alzo this time. Also Slade is going to perform for 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 voicemail. You ready to go? You bet. Okay. Your first quote is a visitor from Australia, one of many people currently marveling at America's splendors . I get free refills as many times as I want , bring it on. That person, like many, had come to the United States for what big sporting event ? That would be the World Cup. Yes, the World Cup cup . Social media is filled with visiting soccer fans fascinated by America. They're posting about our wide grocery store aisles, gas stations larger than their parliament buildings . It's really I have to admit it's kind of refreshing to see America through their eyes. I feel proud now of how giant our trucks are and how many flavors of caffe inated beef jerky flavors we have ? I'm just thrilled that people come here and like us. Yeah . I thought that they were gonna either not come or come and just sort of be really upset with us. To be fair, they like our snacks. They're not saying they like us . Yeah . I mean, some people they're praising ranch dressing. They've never had that . Yes, that's true. See, they were like, We got to bring ranch dressing to Italy. Have you seen that? I was like, I think Italy's fine. Yeah, don't no, don't that sounds like what the olive garden is pretty much like ranch dressing in Italy put together. It also sounds like if you bring in' are koala to another count ry, like an invasive species , all the food turns to ramp. Americans are the invasive species of the world. Exactly. The next time you go to Italy, you're going to order lasagna, and it's just going to be like ran stressing all over the place Well, they're being impressed with us. The foreign fans are also really impressing Americans. One Boston bar owner Boston . And they're cheering for the word pan . And he says and remember, this is Boston . He said the Scottish fans there to see the Scottish National Team play drink like no one he's ever seen . He said they literally drank all the liquor he had in his bar . It is truly superhuman when a customer at your bar tells you its last call And I was just like four Scottish guys. It wasn't good. Yeah, it was all right, very good license. Your next quote is about somebody planning their wedding . It would be an era's tour level production. That was an event producer commenting about how who could pull off the wedding. She is reportedly planning to stage at Madison Square Garden It would be none other than Taylor Swift. Who else of course Taylor Swift ? Miss Swift has reportedly reserved Madison Square Garden for her upcoming wedding . Of course, when you think about it, how could anyone start their lives together without a forty five person urinal? I wonder if they elot seating based on how much she likes you. So you're like excited to be invited and then you're up in the nosebleeds I mean it is a little weird when you think about it. Apparently she's going to have a thousand guests, right? And if you could afford to have a thousand of your close friends come to your wedding, why would you do it in one of the only places in the world that can host that many people and still look empty? Yeah. Wait, so it's gonna be a thousand people in a place that holds twenty thousand. Exactly, right. So if you're in a nosebleed, she really hates it . Yeah . When you think about it, okay, Madden Square Garden, she's going to throw a party at Madison Square Garden. Impressive. But anybody can rent Madison Square Garden if you have the cash. She's Taylor Swift. She could do it anywhere. She could have the first wedding in the Strait of Hormuz. I hear that's open now. Yeah, I just well, if it's not , but we know that that costs three hundred billion dollars. Yes. That's true. So Alyssa, your last quote is a text that was sent from a parent to their college aged kid as the kid was going through a taco bell drive through . Are you okay ? Why are you in an alley? So that parent is among the many, many parents who are using their phones to do what with their adult children. Oh, track their location. Yes, exactly right . This week, NPR covered a rising trend in which parents are still tracking their adult children on their phones. They asked if it was healthy for parents to keep such a close watch when their kids are independent adults. Well, the independent adult children asked, Hey, mom, can I have twenty five dollars? Yeah , I do the reverse, which is I track my parents, but they don't track me. Oh, really? Yeah. Wait, so tell me about this . What are you hoping to like gain from this? Are you hoping to prevent them from doing something? I'm trying to prevent them from partying and doing hard drugs all the time. I will say I've met at least I think your mother. Yes. She's lovely. Even as you said that, I had this image of that scene in the movie aliens , where he's looking at the tracker and it's like, Oh my god, they're inside the wall. There are a lot of benef its to this for the kid and not even if you're lucky enough to have your drug dealer live right next to the public library . I mean, it's weird for the for the kid, especially as they get older , because not only are you at risk of your mom texting you, are you at a strip club ? You're also at risk of your dad texting you. Are you at Flash Dancers? Is Rebecca there ? Or we're both at Flash Dancers . He's pulling his phone and waving . Whoa, whoa . Alzo, how did Alicia do in our quiz? Alicia did fantastically well. Three out of three perfect score. That's great, Alicia. Congratulations . Thank you so much for playing and enjoy your summer off. Thank you so much. Bye. Take care. Bye bye. Alright, panel, now it is time for you to answer some questions about this week's news. Shane, a new study has proven scientifically what everybody has always just known. If you want french fries to taste better , just do what? Eat them . No add more salt no. Fry em harder. No , get someone else to pay for them. No, it doesn't it does involve someone else. Oh, oh, oh, you know if someone else's place? Yes. Steal them. Yeah. Stolen french fries taste better. Subjects in this experiment were served french fri es of their own and then asked to compare the taste of fries that they had taken from somebody else. And they said these stolen fries were crispier, saltier, and overall more enjoyable As for the best fries of all? Just carjack somebody in the driveway . Wow, okay, so seagulls must be so happy. That's exactly right. That's why they do it . That's why they do it. There's a gradation, right? This is true. First, your own fries, they taste fine. Fries someone gave to you taste better . That's true. Fries you stole from someone without their permission tastes better than that. And the tastier fries, again, proven by science, are the product of quote high risk covert taking. I feel this way way. This, this is how I feel about money. Yeah, if you earn it, it's fine. But if you steal it, it's great. Yeah. Especially high risk, like a nice heist. Good heist. That's how Europeans felt about Native American land here. Yeah . Oh wow . Yeah, Spain is five. Have you seen the Americans? Oh my god. Boy . Have they tried this with other foods? Like fries are a particularly easily stolen food. It has like a bisque , you know . That's pick the hardest food to eat scooping. Just imagine like Tom Cruise being lowered from the ceiling on a cable with a spoon . I saw lapping it up like a cat. You know, the best way to steal bisque is with a piece of bread. This is gonna be a good way though. If it was good for other foods, it would be a good way to get kids to eat vegetables. Steal that broccoli off your brother's plate . That's actually so delicious . I can't watch your wall Coming up, our panelists take on our Bluff the Listener game . Find out why I said it like that after the break and call one triple eight waitwait to play. We'll be back in a minute with more Wait ofitw Don't Tell Me from NPR . Support comes from our twenty twenty six lead sponsor of Waitweight Don't Tell 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 on board 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 Mint Mobile. 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Thank you so much Right now it's time for the wait wait, don't tell me Left Listener game call one triple eight wait wait to play any of our games on the air. How are you running Wait wait, don't tell me. Hi, this is Kevin from Plymouth, Massachusetts. Plymouth, Massachusetts There at the State of Cape Cod, what do you do there? I plot accessory dwelling units in people's backyards. Oh, you plot secondary dwelling units in people's backyards. That's exactly it. I didn't understand. I thought you were saying something else with a thick Boston accent and I couldn't understand. Do you build or do you plan? That's really cool. That's really cool. Well, congratulations on that good work. Kevin, 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. Also, what's Kevin's topic? Ah . Aha , not just what Alzo said when he finally found out where we hide the good snacks . That, of course, was also the name of the eighties band whose song Take On Me became a global hit back then. The band made the news this week though for a rather surprising reason. Our panelists are each going to tell you about it, pick the real one and get the weight waiter of your choice on your voicemail. You ready to play? I'm ready. Okay, first up at Shane O'Neill . Remember the music video for Aha's biggest hit take on me? The one where a woman is pulled into a comic book and the animation is somehow like really impressive and really, really bad at the same time ? Well, that woman has a name Bunty Bailey and as, of last week , Bunty Bailey has an Omni fans. After several recent appearances at comic book conventions where she spent hours signing aha singles, Bunty realized that she still had a devoted and very socially awkward fan base . Bunty says that she is actually rather modest . So how does she take on the challenge of adult content? Well , every time things get a little spicy, she activates an AI filter that renders her in this sketchy animated style of the music video . It's a surprise when people subscribe, she said. But most of these super fans love it. I mean, these people are super, super weird And for the few people who are disappointed, who cares ? They'll be gone in a dior y I'm sorry we have to we have to stop all our equipment just shattered. Oh, I can do it again. Oh no. We got it the first time. That was great. Louder? There's no singing in mind. The model who starred is the heroine of the famous music video now on Only Fans where she uses that animated effect to keep things modest your next aha moment comes from Karen Chee . Earlier this year after her beloved grandmother Peggy passed away, twenty eight year old Madeline Michaelson took on the sobering task of cleaning out her grandma's bedroom . Peggy had been a meticulous woman who'd served as treasurer in multiple clubs and kept records of her finances throughout her life. So when Michaelson came across yet another three ring binder, she assumed it to be some more boring tax docum . But she was wrong. Inside, she found something else. Pages and pages of obsessive details about her grandma's celebrity crushes. Said Michaelson lovingly, Oh my god , grandma was a freak . It's true the innocuously plain binder was actually a handwritten log about men like George Clooney and Matthew McConaughey, complete with carefully cut and pasted photos and facts, including their zodiac signs . But even more surprising, the man featured the most eighties band Aha's frontman Morton Harkett, proving that no matter how old you are, you can always be a tween girl with questionable taste. Losing a loved one is difficult for so many reasons, including the fact that you wish you'd asked more questions when they were alive. And this is definitely true for Michaelson, who'd give anything to turn back time and ask, uh, grandma, what the hell ? A woman finds her grandma's file of her favorite hoodies in the hottest of them, the lead singer of Aha , your last story of an Aha anecdote comes from Peter Gross . In the wake of their thrilling NBA championship this week, the New York Knicks revealed an unlikely secret to success. The Aha song Hunting High and Low. The brooding track about the obsessive search for a lost love was their pre game hype song. As their star guard Jayalen Brunson told The New York Post, most teams go with high energy hip hop, but my favorite music that gets psyched to is moody Nordic pop . After they lost game three to the spurs, Brunson knew the team needed a down tempo kick in the pants. So he lit some aromatherapy candles, dimmed the lights, and played them the following lyrics. She's sound asleep and she's sweeter now than the wildest dreams. There's no end to the lengths I'll go hunting high and low . I explained to Cat O,G and, the others that it works pretty well if you just replace she with NBA Championship, said Brunton. It's a trick that worked really well in the nineties when the Chicago Bulls used to sing the Neil Diamond song sweet NBA Championship pop alright . So aha popped up in our feeds this week for one of these reasons was it from Shane, the model from the video Now on ly fans showing off her animated self from Karen She a woman found that her grandmother's meticulous records of hoodies praise the lead singer of Aha as the huddest of them all or from Peter Gross . Turns out the secret to the Knicks Championship was adopting the little known Aha ballad hunting high and low as their fight song. Goodness gracious. Goodness, gracious indeed. You know, I think just because Shane hit the note so perfectly , I might have to go with Shane's story. You've chosen Shane's story. To bring you the correct answer, we spoke to an expert on the real one. There are points in time when people seek again the celebrity crushes they had in their adolescence . That was Chapman University professor and crush researcher , doctor Rebecca Tokachinski talking about Grandma's secret binder . I'm afraid you didn't win our game, but you did earn a point for Shane and I think he deserved one for that proponent . And I will do a recording on your voicemail for free. I know. I can be singing that song, no doubt. I can be the tone even. I will say we've been talking we've been talking about the song all week in our office and now here on stage none of and us but Shane had the guts to actually try to sing it. So there you go. Congratulations, Shane. Thank you so much for calling and playing with us . Bye bye. And now the game we call not my job. Almost as soon as it was published, Carol Claire Burke's novel Yestery was declared the book of the summer The story of a trad wife influencer who has to survive after being transported mysteriously to the eighteen fifties was an instant bestseller. It's already being developed into a movie starring Anne Hathaway. And we're so excited. Carole Claire Burke is joining us here on what is undoubtedly the NPR news quiz of the summer. Carol Claire Burke, welcome to Wait Don't tell me. Thank you, thank you for having me. It's a pleasure to talk to you I devoured your book this week like millions of other people really enjoyed it. It's a thrill to talk to you. I would summarize the book as trad wife gets traded . That's me. How would you do it? Oh, I think that you're one step ahead of me. I think that's a really, really nice summary. Mine's usually much longer. Oh, really? Because I imagined and I have no idea how it actually happened that when you first came up with the idea it was so simple. It's like what if you took one of these Tradwife influencers who always praises the old way of living and you actually made her do that against her wife? Yeah , I mean, I'd like to sound smarter, but that's exactly what happened. It was that elevator pitch and then it was the title yesteryear. And then I was kind of off to the races. Right. And were you as you came up with that, I know you've been in media and writing about these people, but were you like a fan of these people, the real Tradwife Influencers . You know, I think that I was kind of obsessed with the videos and I didn't get why because like , you know, I have a degree, I'm a working woman, I'm secular, and I was like obsessed with buying a honeybee oven and I didn't understand why. I was like, What's happen ing to me? And so I think because of that, I really decided to start researching the visuals a little bit more because I kept seeing them online. I feel I should ask this . I hope for other people of like mind, what is a honeybee oven ? Okay, I don't exactly know , but it's beautiful. It's great. You have to have one. Yes, if I can pay an artisanal carpenter to make me one from scratch, I think that my life will probably improve. Right. Now, speaking of your life improving, this is an extraordinary story of how your first novel became the subject of a bidding war between publishers and then a bidding war in Hollywood producers even before it was published, which is pretty cool, I have to admit . But I understand you had your share of rejection before that ? I did, yes. I was rejected for about a decade prior to that. Not this particular book, but by other ideas and other book ideas and people are like, yeah, no. Yeah, exactly. I think that it's good to build a healthy healthy skin when you're a writer. And I certainly did so by just applying to everything and always get getting told no . Right. And have you had your limro driver take you around to all those offices and you laugh at them ? No, but I really enjoyed it. I had a few screenshots where I was like, this person's gonna know that this was their email you've been I saw that. You were showing on TV some of the rejections you got because I imagine there was like we don't want you here at Harper Collins where I am the editor . But I mean it must have been a little weird because this is every writer's dream. You're sitting there, you're working this novel and you're saying, Oh my god, the Hollywood's gonna go nuts for this, there'll be a bidding war. In your case there was how weird was that ? Oh Oh, it's it's psychotic. I still don't fully believe it . And I think that's probably a good thing. I think it's probably been a blessing for me that I don't really I've been very dissociative. So that's a problem for my future therapist. Yeah, I say it's like future therapists. Let's talk about the fact you're not in therapy. That's fascinating . I wouldn't have written this book if I was in therapist . I won't get the book in a second, but your character, as I said, the principal character , Natalie is a trad wife influencer The novel has the feel of reality like this must be what it's like to be a tradwife influencer or an influencer. You're not one. How did you find out what their lives are like? Well, a lot of this book is about misinformation. And so part of the without giving any spoilers away , I didn't really take much time to try to em anyone tried wife influencer. It was more just getting into the mind of a woman who doesn't want to be in the world anymore. And that was kind of where I had a jumping off point from. Yeah, I know you had to say that it's not based on anyone for legal reasons, but really who is it? Once we get off this video, just text me on. Okay, okay, that's great. Because apparently there are there's like a lot of people saying, Oh, I think it's this person. Or I think there's like one tried wife influencer who's got a farm just like Natalie does. And she's like, No, it's not me. It's really not me . And which I guess is also flattering that like people are having to deny being your model? Yeah, I don't think anyone would publicly come out and say, yes, I am Natalie. And so that's kind of a nice defensive reflex for my for my book in that way. I say this with all sympathy but maybe I'm not going to ask you the question, but I'll ask how you're dealing with a question. Someone like you who has an amazingly successful, deservedly so debut as a novelist or anything else always gets asked, well, what are you going to do next? Have you come up with a way of dealing with that question? Oh, that's not even the top five of the questions I get asked on this tour. Yeah, I mean, I'm writing. I'll keep writing long after people aren't reading my book. I mean, I've always been a writer, so yeah, I'm working on my next novel. Right. Is it also going to be like about another internet subculture like this. Yeah, the working title is yesteryear two Natalie in Space. Yeah Well, Carol Clareburg, it is a pleasure to talk to you and we have asked you here to play a game we're calling Yester , meet your book. Your hit novel is called Yester . So we thought we'd ask you about year books. Answer two or a few questions about those wonderful souvenirs of times we would rather not remember and you will win a prize for one of our listeners, the voice of anyone they might choose from our show . Also, who is author Carol Clareburg playing for? Katrina Anderson of Manchester, Massachusetts. All right, you're ready to play . All right, Katrina. I'll try. Here's your first question. When he was nominated for the Supreme Court some years ago, the high school yearbook of Neil Gorsuch came under some scrutiny . Why? A, he was voted by his class most pompous . B, he had jokingly listed himself as a member of the quote fascism forever club . Or C, someone had written in it, have a great summer and overturn Roe V Wave I'm going to go with B fascism forever. That's right. Oh God . And I should say a boy can dream he was making a little joke . As far as we know, there was yeah , there was no as far as we know, there was no fascism forever club at Georgetown Prep in those years. All right , here's your next question. Despite the yearbook club's best efforts, and we know they work hardimes. Somet errors slip through as in which of these, which happened to a Rhode Island school this month, a cover of the yearbook featured a misspelled word school school , be all of the photos in the earbook were of the graduating class of nineteen twenty six or C every single senior was listed as a member of the model railway club. I'm gonna go with A. You're going to go with A. They misspelled the word school. You're right . So that's a patrina. That's a bad type of yes, but in future years, the twenty twenty six year book from Johnston Senior Hi Shuel will be quite valuable . You're doing very well here. Here's your last question . This spring as well , also this spring, parents at an elementary school in Florida complained because their yearbook featured what? Was it a retiring cafeteria lady quoted as saying no more shoveling slop to tots or be a joke picture of the teachers all doing shots in the faculty lounge or see a picture of a toddler flipping the bird This is Florida. It is, yes. So all bets are off . Yeah, this is Florida. So I'm gonna I'm gonna with I'm gonna go with Bee You're going to go with Be a joke picture of the teachers all doing shots in the faculty lounge. I am sure that's happened, but this particular yearbook brought some criticism because it featured a picture of a toddler with her middle finger raised . And here's the best part, it was part of an ad placed by that child's parents. You know, one of those congratulations graduate ads. They thought it was cute . Alzo , how did Carol Burke do in our quiz? She did enough, two out of three, which is good for me. There you go. Carol Clear Burke's best selling book is Yester Carol Clare Burke. Thank you so much for joining us on Wait Don't Tell's a pleasure to talk to you. And thanks for the book . Take care In just a minute, a handbag sixty five million years in the making. That's in our Listener Limerick challenge. But one triple eight wait wait to join us in the air. 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Stay inside for their whole vacation . That's almost right. It's usually an inside activity, but it's nice to do it sometimes by the pool if the light's good. Well the last time they called the police. So wait oh reading? Yes, reading. Yeah vacation packages for people who just want to read . They're offering vacation packages built entirely around quote reading and relaxing. And no one's happier about this trend than your introverted niece who's wondering if she can just read in your office after dinner if that's okay? These packages are aimed at those people who want to go on vacation but they don't, want to go parasailing, thank you. They just want two hours to read by the pool without interruption. Forget sandals, we found the perfect resort for you. It's called Spotty Wi Fi . It's called chairs . This is actually true. My friend Eric, he and his husband have been doing this for years, where they go on two vacations a year, the adventure vacation where they like go parasailing or whatever, and then the reading vacation where they just choose a body of water and read next to it. That sounds amazing. Do you think they're looking for a third? Maybe , but I don't think it's you. What's the thing I'm learning? Do you have a brother or cousin? This is a true story. I once took a book on vacation. Wow. Congratulations. I do. That's always one side . It was this one of the ones you wrote Peter . No, sadly, nobody reads those . No, so what I've been really, really distracted and hadn't really been able to focus on the book. So I took it on vacation. And once I got on vacation, I started I opened it up to where I' leftd off and I said, you know , I've been so spotty about my reading. I can't remember what's going on. I'll start again from the beginning. But vacation itself was so distracting that I actually didn't get as far in the book as I had on the first attempt So by the end of the vacation, I had read minus seventy five pages of a book, which I thought was impressive . And then you told this story, your wife was like, I'm going on my own vacation next year . Well yes, but that has nothing to do . Karen, a home organization expert, has found that the reason many people can't declutter their homes is that they believe there is such a thing as nice desirable what? Trash. Right. Nice garbage, nice trash, nice clutter. Nice garbage is defined for these purposes as trash that for some reason you think is just too nice to throw out even though you have no use for it, like, you know, really pretty shopping bags from a nice store or like empty glass sauce jars. They'll be useful for something or my shoexesb fromo a particularly expensive brand. You know, you look at that shoebox, you don't need it, but you think, man, there's going to be a day when we do need that shoebox. That hamster can't live forever . Peter, I'm gently panicking . I've got so many nice little glass bottles. Yeah, that's yeah. And I didn't know what to use them for, but they're too nice to throw away so I filled them with cereal. You made a hand throw gun cereal now. Okay, hang on. So yeah, so you have nice bottles. Yes, like what came in the merchant, what kind of bottles were like juice bottles? Juice. They're like juice bottles. What kind of cereal are you fitting in that small little bowl? Well, this is the problem that I bought cereal to put in the Wait a minute. So you were just like So you were like wait a minute. I've got these bottles I have no use for them. I don't want to throw out. You know it would look really decorative if I filled them with fruity pebbles. Yeah listen, you joke this, is my life. Wait a minute, Karen, what do you do with that gorgeous fruity pebbles box? Because you can't throw that away . Coming up, it's lightning fill in the blank, but first it's a game where you have to listen for the rhyme if you'd like to play on air, call or leave a message at one triple eight wait wait. That's one eight nine two four eight nine two four. You can see us mostly right here at the Studio Theater in beautiful downtown Chicago. You can also catch us on the road we'll be at the beautiful Riverside Theater in Milwaukee on july ninth . Thank you , Milwaukee and our Riverside Theater fans, and at the Green Music Center in Sonoma, California on july thirtieth . Thank you. I like every place has its ambassadors. That's wonderful . For tickets and information about all our live events, just go over to npr . org. How are you? Wait, don't tell me. Hey, Peter, this is Andrew calling from Kansas City. Hey, Andrew, how are things in beautiful Kansas City, a place I love? They're great. We've got the World Cup here, so really ? Oh, I didn't realize that. I haven't been noticing the venues. What teams are playing there ? And have you met any of their fans walking around Kansas City ? I haven't met any yet, but I think we have Argentina has stayed here, England stayed here . There's two others that I don't. Algeria's here. So obviously you're a very invested fan . I really am. Yeah. Right, right. Well, welcome to the show. Andrew. Also Slade right here is going to read you three news related limericks but he's going to stop before he finishes. He's going to leave out the last word or phrase. You have to fill that in. If you do that two times out of three, you will win our prize, the voice of anyone you might choose from our show for your voice mail. You ready to go? I'm ready. Here's your first limreck . Growing dinosaur skin needs no pretext , and this great leather bag is a key flex. Our lab grown concoction is now up for auction . It's a purse with the skin from a T rex. Yes, a T Rex This week , a purse made from the recreated skin of a tyrannosaurus rex went up for auction in Europe. Why a T Rex? Because nobody can name even one other dinosaur . And by the way, if you're trying and failing, Barney does not count . Now, you might be thinking, wait, they found a living T rex and immediately killed it to make a purse . That's Balzy. No, what happened was they grew synthesized skin in a lab from some protein found in a T rex fossil and then they took that synthesized skin and made a purse. So if you've ever wondered what was at the gift shop at Jurassic Park , now you know . More like Jurassic Park Avenue, am I right? Oh my god . I actually read about this story ahead of time . Have you seen the purse? I have not myself seen the purse. Well, it looks like a bag made of T Rex skin . And if I'm right, I think it's sold for like a quarter of the asking price. I think they priced it at like six hundred thousand dollars and it sold for like thirty two thousand dollars. Wow. A steel as it were . All right, very good. Here is your next limerick . Though lost teeth and sharp falls make us shake , they are not what jolts most folks awake. What breaks nightly bliss is a slither and his world dreams of a poisonous snake. Snake, yes, according to search data , the thing people all over the world dream about most are snakes. What? And yes, people do google the meaning of their dreams, and it turns out, you look at the data, most often they google Wh doy the penises I dream about all appear as snakes ? Turns out that this data regionally sorted out most snake dreams happen in countries with high snake populations. Make sense, right? You're scared of something, it's a source of tension, anxiety, it shows up in your dreams. That's why I'm always dreaming about my biggest fear sitting on something wet on the train . So like, if you're in a country with a lot of snakes, everyone's dreaming of snakes. People most often have bad dreams about snakes. So if you go to the suburbs, everyone's having dreams about golden doodles. You'd expect, right? I did move to LA last year and I have had nightmares about traffic. There you are, I see proving the thing. There you are. Here's your last limerick, Andrew. Our dexterous side is quite deft , while the other one's weak and bereft . And yet when we walk, we will counter the clock. In a crowd we all turn to the . Yes, human beings, it turns out , all every one of us has a natural tendency to turn left, to move in a counterclockwise direction. And scientists have no idea why. When moving in crowds, people veer to the left . Then it's one step to the right . Then you do the time warp, but so the Brits are right when they drive on that side of the street. They were sort of like they were like more in touch with their feelings, which is the first time anybody has ever said that about British . Also, how did Andrew do in our quiz? Three out of three. Great job, Andrew. Congratulations, Andrew. Well done. Thank you, Andrew. You've won our prize, the voice mail of your choice, and a T Rex Purse. No one else wanted it . Thank you for playing Anna. Bye bye. Thanks, Peter. Thank you. Support comes from our twenty twenty six lead sponsor, wait wait, don't tell 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 onboard 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 Mint Mobile. If you're tired of spending hundreds on big w ireless bills, bogus fees, and free perks, Mint Mobile is for you. 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The clock will start when you get your first question, fill in the blank. On Wednesday, Donald Trump signed a peace plan with Blanc. Iran. Right. On Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled that the government cannot ban marijuana users from owning blanks. Paraphnalia? No guns. This week, tropical storm Arthur became the first named storm of the twenty twenty six Atlantic Blank season. Hurricane. Right on Thursday, Blank's presidential center opened here in Chicago. Oh gosh , Obama. You're right. Barack Obama's a new study found roommates , roommates share twenty six percent of their blank with each other. DNA. No mouth bacteria . You don't kiss your room, okay? Live that way. In Argentina's first game at this year's World Cup, soccer superstar Blank scored a hat trick . Leona Messi. Messi indeed. On Wednesday, Tom Holland confirmed he'd married Blank in a private ceremony. Mrs. Holland. No I don't know who he's dating. No, it's she married Zendaya, the actress. This week, a woman in Arizona who was ticketed for going one hundred and eight miles per hour in a sixty five mile per hour zone, explained to believe she was only speeding so she could blank. She was only speeding so that she could get to Tom Holland and Zendaya's wedding . No, she was going that fast so she could make it home in time to watch Love Island . The Arizona Highway Patrol clocked this woman driving one hundred eighty mil and es per hour and they managed to pull her over somehow. And when they did, she said she was only speeding so that she did not miss Love Island. The police charged her with quote criminal speed , that's a real thing, and reminded her the opening credits of Love Island are like forty minutes long. You don't need to rush . Also, how did Peter Gross do in our quiz? He did alright. He got four right for eight more points, which for now puts him in the lead with ten. For now . I'm going to arbitrarily pick Shane to go next. Here we go, Shane Fill in the blank. On Tuesday, the UK announced it was banning kids under sixteen from using blank. Social media. Right on Monday, the FBI said it had thwarted an attack in the blank event held at the White House. The UFC . Right. This week World leaders met in France for the Blank Summit. G seven. Right this week. The four ton elephant brought out to surprise guests at the Texas State Republican Convention blanked during Governor Greg Abbott's keynote speech took a leak all over the convention hall floor. That's right. This week, yum brands announced the sale of struggling pizza chain blank. Oh God, this is gonna break my heart, little Caesars. No pizza hot. Oh, thank God . This week, the tragic ending of a performance of Romeo and Juliette and Turkey was interrupted by blank. Orange cats. Yes, a cat walking onto stage and biting Romeo's hair as he was supposed to be dead . Amazingly, the performers managed to keep it together when the tragic ending of Romeo and Juliette was interrupted by straight a cat getting into the stage and playfully biting the putatively dead Romeo's hair . It's not the cat's fault voice. This is just what the producers get for casting an open can of tuna to play Romeo How's it? How did Chain doing our quiz? He did well. He got five right for ten more points, which gives him a total of thirteen and the lead . All right