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it's your turn to call in and play our games. The number is 1-888, wait, wait, that's 1-888, 9-2-489-2-4. Let's welcome our first listener contestant, "Hi, you run, wait, wait, don't tell me." Hi, Peter. Welcome back to California.

Thank you so much, who's calling? My name is Sarah Beth Rothfeld and I'm calling from Woodland Hills, California. Woodland Hills!

“The other California, the Southern California.”

Correct. What do you do there? Well, I'm a retired special education teacher. That's me. You love the little?

Yes? Yes. My love language is baking, so my goal is to make my family and my friends and everybody at coming contact slightly chubby. Right.

And how's that going? It's going pretty well. And by night, I fight crime. Yes. Finally, someone.

I appreciate that. Sarah Beth, welcome to our show. Let me introduce you to our panel.

First, the comedian you can see in his show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, all through

August. It's Shane Torres. Hi. Hello. How are you?

Next, next, the comedian who's album, "Yell, Joy" is on "Blond Medicine," it's "Joyel Nicole Johnson." Hello, Faraday. Hello, Jay. Hi.

And the host of the Breaking Bad Podcast and a maker of a mean loaf of sourdough. It's Tom Poppa. Hi, sir. It's Tom Poppa. Hi.

So, Sarah Beth, welcome to the show. You are going to play "Who's Alzo this time?" Alzo Slade is going to reach you three quotations from this week's news. Your job just correctly identify or explain what he's talking about. Do that.

You win our prize. Any voice from our show on your voicemail. Are you ready to go? Very ready. I can tell.

Here is your first quote. It's from Forbes Magazine. It's our new favorite pastime. Forbes decides like "Fandwell, draft games." What has your past movies, music, and every other form of entertainment, as Americans

favorite thing to do? Ooh. Yikes. Mab and please. Well, I can tell.

Here to pure of heart to engage in this yourself.

“But "Fandwells, draft kings," does that ring any bells?”

I'm too sweet. I'm another hymn. I'm going to bet that you'll be able to figure this out. And "Fandwells, draft kings," and "Fandwells, draft kings."

Last year, American spent $300 billion gambling.

That is more than American spent on movies, arts, music, and museums combined. Yes, even museums. So, let's face it, if art and culture want to stay relevant, we have to bet on it. I, for example, would bet $20 a disus, doesn't make it home. I am not good at gambling.

Are you guys? I went to a Dodger game last night, and my friend is a big gambler. And he gambled on his phone. He had like six bets going into the game. So he's sitting at the game.

He's sitting at the game. He's not on his phone. That he had that Otani was going to get five home runs at the guy from the Mariners. He was going to get two home runs that it was going to be over 11. He's going to be the combined score by halfway through the thing, and the like 10, 11

bets on this thing.

Wow. Is he single?

“He probably will be if he was in $1500, okay?”

Americans bet more than $300 billion on sports.

That breaks down to $1,000 for every adult. But I know if you just front me a couple hundred more, I can win it all back. All right. Sir Beth, is your next quote, and it's about an electric vehicle that made history this week.

It passed the ethyl as the worst automotive flop ever. That was Bloomberg News on the truck that's now officially the worst selling vehicle in history. What is it? Hold on, hold on.

What is it? Oh, oh, the ethyl must truck. Yes, it's the cyber truck. Yes, according to Bloomberg News, cyber truck has eclipsed the Ford ethyl, the legendary ethyl, as the worst selling car ever.

Now, please, please, please do not clap. The vibrations can damage any cyber truck in the parking lot. I got picked up in one in an Uber, and all I can think is, like, what are you doing with your money? This is an insanely obnoxious, suspensive vehicle.

There's no, there's like $100,000. They're very expensive. Yeah. This guy needs to begin seven bucks to take me to a Taco Bell drive through. Yeah.

“And he's not going to be living in here, how are you affording this?”

Cyber truck sales dropped by 48 percent between 2024 and 2025. Or as Tesla put it, sales increased by a staggering negative 48 percent.

The problem is there's no gray area.

Like you see a cyber truck from far away, you get close. It's still a cyber truck, like even the red baseball cap. Like, I saw a guy in a red baseball cap and he was walking towards, and he was like, "Oh, here we go." And then I got close.

I was like, "Oh, Louisville." That doesn't happen with the site, and nothing happens when you get closer to make you think better. No, you get close to the cyber truck and you're like, "Oh, this a whole drive is it." I think there may be, I wonder if there are any cyber truck owners in the audience, right

now? No. I don't wonder. The cross-section of cyber truck owners in ADP are listed here. I will say if that person is here, you are very interested.

I don't like you, but you got, I want to talk to you. All right, Sarah Beth, here is your last quote, "Crow's feet around the eyes gives you a bit of character." That was a dermatologist talking about a new trend of people who were no longer trying to get rid of their what?

They're wrinkles. They're exactly right, they're wrinkles. Good news, haggs. [LAUGHTER] There are wrinkles, are in, now.

Yeah. Oh, now you're excited, okay. More and more people are scaling back on those smoothing treatments, like Botox injections, because they want, quote, "strategic wrinkles." So right, instead of paying plastic surgeons to get rid of all wrinkles, now they're paying

to get carefully chosen, forehead wrinkles, smile lines.

“Now, if you want to achieve the same look at home for free, just get old.”

So wrinkles are hot now. Rinkles are hot now. That's cool. Yeah. I wonder if turkey necks will be a next year.

I know the hope. There are about 15 years. I'm going to look like a bullmastive, so I'll be doing it for you.

The problem is people apparently are tired of having their faces frozen, right, by these

treatments. A New York dermatologist reduced his own Botox treatments, explaining, quote, "Letting the top half of my face move more allows me to look more trusted." [LAUGHTER] I know.

She might kill me for saying this, but my girlfriend will get it a little bit of Botox and we don't have it. And then when her face gets frozen, we just do this game where I, like, I go, make the same face as me, and I just see her struggle the whole time. Really?

Yeah. Yeah. I met her parents today. They're here. That's great.

They're really nice people. You think they're nice? They just couldn't move their face. Yeah. Also, how did Sarah Beth do in our quiz?

So you got three out of three.

Glad to see Sarah Beth. Nice. Thanks for the help. Thank you, Sarah Beth. Take care.

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“Right now, panel, let us time for you to answer some questions about this week's news.”

Shane, this week, we learned about a new dating trend where singles are making decisions about their love lives using what? What? Good. Wow.

Social media? No. God, no. [LAUGHTER] I'll give you a hint.

It's a way of finding out if that new guy really excels. [LAUGHTER] He don't have a job. I know. [LAUGHTER]

Right now, spreadsheets, spreadsheets. Oh, my God. I got spreadsheets. I'll show you your interview tomorrow. Oh, love hackers who claim that organizing data about their dates like physical characteristics,

conversation topics, and, of course, red flags, and to a spreadsheet helps you make sense of your own preferences,

and ultimately choose who to keep seeing.

They enter data, right? On variety of categories, after a first date looks, sense of humor. Employment status. One, for how they treat the server, mean to server, nice to server, makes out with server.

“I think the spreadsheet is the red flag.”

Yeah, probably. Yeah. Yeah. They're doing spreadsheets of all the characteristics of the guy in the guy's, like, kept a spreadsheet. No.

Wait, I want to hear the end of the story with the server. [LAUGHTER] That's just something I was getting pretty into. You was, yeah. I had this happen to me once.

Did you really? What happened? I found out that two is using numbers instead of Excel, and I don't do it. Really? Yeah.

You didn't approve of her? No. Choices software. Excel only. Exactly.

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>> Hi, I'm Phoebe calling in from Denver, Colorado. >> I love Colorado, I assume you do something very Denvery, like, I don't know, lead group hikes while drinking craft beer. >> Yeah, what I really do is walk backwards most of the day, giving tours at two different places here in Denver and Golden.

>> Really?

“So what are the places you give tours of, just dot a curiosity?”

>> One is a candy factory, can I say the name, it's Hammond? >> Wow, you actually give tours of candy factory to the five working winners of the Golden ticket, I assume, four food comes to horrible, horrible faiths. [LAUGHTER] >> You're living the dream.

>> I am for sure addicted person like me, it is absolutely the dream, yeah. >> Well, that's great. >> Welcome to the show Phoebe, you're going to play the game when we try to tell truth from fiction. Also, what is Phoebe's topic?

Sheapscape alert, there are lots of ways to save money, don't take an Uber, take the bus. When you die now, just leave without paying the bill. This week, we heard about a new way, somebody pinched pennies, or a panelist, they're going to tell you about it, pick the one that's telling the truth, you'll win, the wait, wait or if you're trusting your voice smell.

Are you ready to play? >> I am so ready.

>> I can tell, first let's hear from Joyel McCull Johnson.

>> Couples break up all the time, divorces as common as seeing your childhood hero live long enough to become a villain, but still, a recent couple's divorce made headlines, because the husband was too cheap, Vicky Wong, a Taiwanese businessman, can buy her things for herself. She's just successful management consultant, whatever that means. Her husband also matched her gangsta as one of the leading real estate agents in the region,

of Christian Luba time heels, with their famous towering stilettos and the deep red colored

“bottoms, she thought it would be a problem, they've got money.”

Now opening the gift that dinner, she was thrilled to see a pair of glossy black heels with blood red souls. It wasn't until she was tapped on the shoulder for leaving red footprints across the stage at a gala, that she realized what happened, her husband had bought a pair of no name knock off and colored the bottoms with crayola, bread, red, oyster paint.

When asked for a quote that asks who shall remain nameless, shamelessly double down, I don't care how crazy rich we are, I'm not paying the mortgage note for shoes. The woman gets rid of her husband because he wouldn't pay for the real Luba tons, just bought knockoffs and painted the bottoms red.

Your next saving story comes from Tom Papa.

David Savaldi and two of his friends had been hiking for about seven hours up Montana's tallest mountain on their way to froze to death plateau, when he slipped on a rock and fell. When he rolled over, he realized he'd impelled himself on one of his trekking poles.

“The pole was jutting at an angle out of his arm pit and out through his back like a human”

popsicle. But the scariest part for Mr. Savaldi was the possibility of having to take a really expensive helicopter ride off the mountain. Realizing he wasn't in pain and there was no blood, he decided to save some money and walk back down the mountain like a horror movie monster who can't be stopped.

After about six hours, his friends who thought a helicopter ride would have been really

great, started making shishkabob jokes.

And by the end, they were calling him Bob. By 330 pm after trekking about 10 miles, Mr. Savaldi got to the hospital. They pulled the trekking pole out of him, which he kept because, hey, those things ain't cheap. And then, doesn't want to pay for a rescue helicopter so he walks down the mountain

with a pole completely through him. Your last tight-wad tail comes from Shane Torres. Boxer Julio the Caesar Lopez returned to the ring this weekend with a splash. Spending years away from boxing living lavishly and also eating lavishly, he found himself in a position of being pretty fat and very broke.

So when he needed to get his act together for his big return to the ring, he couldn't afford a nutritionist or a coach. He had to do it alone. Lopez spent the week before the fight trying to make way, spending hours and sweat suits and saunas, but he couldn't drop the pounds.

He had to think of something fast. Desperate times call for desert measures. The Lopez started eating handfuls of Taylor Farms lettuce. The result was explosive. Lopez triumphed to the ring and doing so created the newest diet fat on TikTok with someone

calling it the Ring Walk pound drop. He rowed mains one of the great pound for pound fighters of his arrow with this win he could be in the spring mix for a title shot.

“Which in the stories of somebody trying to save some money to be fined in the news?”

Was it from Joyeil, a man who lost his wife when he tried to save money by buying fake luba tongs and painting them red? From Tom Papa guy who simply didn't want to shell out for the helicopter so walked down a mountain with a pole all the way through him. From St. Torres, a fighter who managed to lose the weight, he needed to lose simply by

eating a lot of bagged lettuce and accepting the results. Which of these is the story of a penny pitcher we found in the news? As a Colorado and an avid hiker, you better believe the hiker story came across. My news seed this week and the pictures are great. He chose and obviously Tom's story but to bring you the correct answer, we spoke to a reporter

who covered the real story. He saw one of his trekking poles and then he thought, "I can't see the other one." Well he realized, "Oh, that thing is sticking out of me." That was Remi too, but in a report of the New York Times talking about that frugal hiker that you knew about congratulations, Phoebe, you got it right.

Tom was telling the truth, he gets a point just for doing that. You win our prize for keeping up in the news. Congratulations, and thank you so much for playing. Thank you so much. Thank you.

And now the game we call "Not My Job." Mary Roach is either the funniest science writer in the world or the most scientific comedian. Her books include stiff.

process and her newest replaceable you is about the efforts to make spare parts for human

beings. Mary Roach, welcome to "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me." Thank you. So I have been reading you for decades. I think I've read every one of your books, including the latest, and I'm trying to see if

there's a theme to your work. I would suggest it might be human bodies and the terrible, awful, no good things that can happen to it. That is exactly right. That's really it.

How did you fall into that specialty? There's kind of random. I wrote this column for salon.com back in the day when that was like a big news like a internet magazine, how cool. Yeah.

A couple of them had to do with cadaver research, an agent contacted me and said, you

should think about books and maybe like look at which columns were popular and those

“were popular and he said you should think about a book about”

cadavers. I thought that's a terrible. Sure. Yeah. I mean, that's a little disappointing mainly as a fan of yours, because I wanted to think

that it was a lifelong interest of yours, like when you were a little of your barbies would have been an absolute horror show, would you have done that? Actually? Yes. Actually?

I do recall when I was in 1st grade, Mary Hewitt gave me a barbie doll and I was kind of like, well, because I liked the little plastic dinosaurs that was really the barbies. So I would pull off the head and I would say, you have five seconds to get the head back on or she dies. Really?

So you were playing with like your transplantation theme games even then?

And you know, yes. And you know what? That's actually accurate. If you got it back on.

“So even you knew, in other words, if I were to, if something horrible would happen to”

your head would be just accidentally screwed off, we'd have five seconds to get it back on. Yeah, more or less. We've ever taken. Okay.

That's important. Safety temperature, everybody. So as long as no one panics, you'll be fine. Exactly. Breathe.

Or you can't. So your latest, your new book replaceable you, it's about replacement parts, the long history of trying to acquire them, make them grow them. How did you become interested in that? Well, I, I had a file folder called Bits and Pieces.

And I, and I thought, again, when I'm looking for a new topic, I kind of go back to the file tab, and I was looking in Bits and Pieces, and I was thinking about fat, like maybe fat could be something. Sure. And then I call this woman who works in a lab that has to do with fat, but turns out it's

stem cells from fat. And I thought I was stem cells kind of interesting. But then the conversation kind of veered, and she told me she had come across a study by a surgeon who rebuilt a man's penis using his, his middle finger. And I, of course, pictured the finger, like, removed just as this.

Right. Sure. And like, able to kind of back again, yeah. Yeah. Or maybe, given the company maybe point and select, you know.

Exactly. Sure. Exactly. And I thought, I will, and he happened to be in Tiberlisi, Georgia. Sure.

Yeah. I'm like, I'm going. Right. And the surgeon wasn't there, but his receptionist said, you can come in and we can look on his laptop, and he has photographs.

And I don't need to describe many of them, but one of them I want to, because it was a demonstration of how robust this penis was. And it does, in fact, bend up, part way. Doesn't. Yes.

In a strange place. I'd love to see how this guy texts people. You better was robust. It's robust. It's robust.

And, Joe, just sit and he's going out. I wrote that down.

“How quickly after they described this, did you find this man?”

Well, he only had four fingers. I have to ask, is it true that you once lived every American's dream and almost vomited on Tom Cruise? That is actually true. Really?

That is true. I had a very short, short lived and misguided career interviewing celebrities for a parade

And they liked to send me out to do something with this liberty and Tom Cruise, as you may know, likes to fly.

“And he, a little antique by plane, and the thing with those antique by planes is that”

it's an open cockpit, and the passenger sits in front. But he was doing a barrel of rolls, and hammer heads, would you go straight up, cut the inch and pull out, right, and he did do those, and I was suddenly very ill, and I thought if I throw up, it goes right back in his face. And I made it back to the ground with that.

Was he impressed? No. He was not impressed. Did he ask you if you wanted to do that? Yeah, sounds like he was trying.

I was, well, after the first hammer, he said, you're doing great, and I was so excited

that I was kind of, I'm like, don't do another one, and then I was like, green, and you're almost threw up, and he said, I need to find a career that nauseates me less than that. Well, Mary Roach, it is a pleasure to talk to you. We've invited you here, though, to play a game we're calling. Bunk, gulp, grunt, meat, zoom, bang, bang.

So you've been to Bunk, gulp, and grunt.

“So we thought we'd ask you about some other crazy sounds.”

Get two out of three right, and you will win our prize for one of our listeners, also who is Mary Roach playing for. Jonathan Foizvong of Sen Carlos California. All right. Ready to play?

Here we go. Okay.

Also, what's Mary's first sound?

Zoom! An Ohio State Senator was attending a Zoom meeting about distracted driving, and he used a fake office background to hide the fact that he was himself at that moment during the meeting driving. When he was busted, how was it, A, he went through a Wendy's drive through in place in order

without muting himself. B, he re-rerended another participant in the meeting who was doing exactly the same thing. Or see people in office chairs don't normally wear seat belts. I'm going with C. You're right.

Yes. The other participants noticed that he was wearing a shoulder belt while sitting supposedly at his desk. Also, what noise is next? BANG!

So come back. As you know, you read a book about it as full of bangs, but the Royal Navy once came under criticism when it was revealed, they were doing what to get their sailors ready for the strife of battles. At A, they used water balloons instead of hand grenades.

B, they told their gunners to shout bang instead of firing off live rounds, or see they helped cadets get used to the stress of battle by showing them warm movies, but really loudly. Oh, good, and then go with B. You're going to go with B that they were told they're going to shout bang at your

right. And training to sailors with low-to-shell and the gun and then they don't yell bang.

People thought it was silly, but it did save the Navy about $5 million, though.

All right. How's it? One more please. Bam! Celebrity shift.

Emerald Lagassi is known for his catchphrase. Bam! He does when every throw something into the food. He says he came up with Bam for one reason only. What was it?

A, everybody misheard him when he was yelling about adding Ham to a dish, the stuck.

“B, he was filming at 1.8 episodes a day, and screaming Bam was the only way to keep”

everybody awake, or C, because he couldn't pass the sensors with his prior catchphrase. And here's some effemnspices. It's either beer, C, like an even split. It does. C, we're going to go for C, because he couldn't get away with saying, there's some effemnspices.

He said Bam. No, it was actually. Who is being? It was me. Bam.

Bam. Yeah, he just trying to keep his crew awake by yelling Bam at random moments. Also, how did Mary Rush do in our quits? She did his own bang, Bam of a job, two out of three. Congratulations.

Congratulations. Mary Rush is a best-selling science offer. Her new book is "Replaceable You." You can see her on tour of this fall. More information is at maryroch.net.

Mary Rush. Thank you so much for joining us again, and wait for her. Great to see you. Mary Rush, everybody.

Thank you.

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Thank you, I was really just a minute. Fire up, Fandel, and bet the kids, college fund, and the listener, Limerick, challenge. If you'd like to play, give us a call of one AAA, wait, wait, wait, that's 1, 8, 8, 8, 8, 9, 9, 2, 4. Right now, panel, some questions for you from the week's news. Shane, the governor of a province in Turkey, was ousted from office, after photograph

surfaced of him doing what? I'm going to need a clue. Yeah, well, it's not, I don't know, it's not a crime to love Spandex, and appropriate butt cushioning. It's wearing, what, he was exercising, he was exercising, he was exercising in a big

“doorway, and wearing, I don't exercise, what do you do with him?”

Anybody know? Bike pants. Bike shorts. Yeah. He was forced from office because he was photographed, wearing, bike shorts.

And he should be. Yeah. He was forced out of office, for being caught in public, wearing, skin type, black bike shorts.

If that sounds harsh, just take a second, think of a politician.

First one comes to mind. Now think of him in bike shorts.

“Say, to be fair to the governor, he wasn't fact riding a bike at the time, to be fair”

to everybody else that is no excuse. They got some different standards over there in Turkey, I do. Yeah, photo circulated of him in bike shorts, it became a huge scandal. Some political opponents said, in the Turkish parliament, quote, a governor, cannot wander a city like this.

After his ouster, his supporters were sad to see him go, but they loved to watch him leave. Was he wearing those little clippy shoes? So he made a little clatter noise, way left, and he's very fun. He's currently a very hot fellow, Tom.

Exactly. Peter, one day we should show up to this show, this motorcycle show up. Absolutely. We should absolutely do that. And we'll have to find another job.

Tom, Robotics is a company that has marketed AI powered sex robots. But now they have a new model of robot that they say will serve in what other role. Oh, it will, I can't say it. So the robot does something else, and it's going to be put into schools in New York state, because it's going to be a lunch lady, no, a mean custodian.

No, it's right there in front of you, in a school, it's going to be a teacher. Exactly right, assistant teachers, assistant teachers, a robotics company, real robotics insists to this day that there $175,000 female shape robot called Aria is meant for companionship and not for sex.

to deploy another one of its robots called Sally as a teacher's assistant. They say she also a very attractive replica female can answer science and math questions the students might have great, it's like if your calculator had boobs, stop making them attractive, stop making them attractive.

Also we made those in the wrong order, the teacher should have come first.

You think so? Yeah, and look like my dad, I guarantee you, you send a teacher out there, a robot teacher that looks like my dad, no one's going to try anything funny with it. You're asking for trouble. That's true.

Now interestingly, the teaching doll, I'm like the original doll, only costs $57,000, which makes her the most realistic doll yet, the second she went into education, she took a 70% pay card.

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Alan Martin from Long Beach Washington. Long Beach Washington, I didn't know there was a Long Beach in Washington. Where's that? Not many people do. Great of the Oregon border.

“Yeah, about two hours east, west of Portland.”

So the two hours east and west of Portland.

Yeah, something like that.

Something like that. Who's west of Portland? Yes. Polarious. Do you know where you are right now, sir?

Rear out. Sometimes. Alan, welcome to the show. Alzo Slade is going to read you three news related lyrics with the last word of phrase missing from each.

If you can fill in that last word of phrase correctly and two, the lyrics will be a winner. You ready to play? Born ready. Hey. You're the first one.

Once genes were so pre-stressed and ribbed. Now they're made to look like they have slipped.

“Since kids have a taste for exposing their waste, the fly of their genes is it?”

Right, zipped. This summers, it genes are genes that make it look like your fly is down. They're called fold over genes, isn't it? Your grandmother would fold over her grave if she saw you wearing this. But they're called fold over genes because of quote, the sliver of fold in fabric sewn down

at the waist, which is often printed like underwear with tiny flowers or stripes, to give the illusion of a totally open fly. Wow, if only I had a finger penis I could zip it up. Moving on, here's your next lemric. With the soda scent, I like to prep me. a fine cola vanilla can rep me.

I will cover my stink with a cool fountain drink. I will smell like a cold can of. Pepsi, yes, everyone is excited for the release of Pepsi body care products. And by everyone, we mean 13 year old boys and bees. Starting this week, you can buy the Pepsi vanilla.

This slushy body scrub, or the Pepsi wild cherry, body wash, which is quote inspired by Pepsi wild cherry. I love that this is going to get the men who use x-body spray laid. Alright, here's your last lemme, and IKEA, we strive to improve, we'll get out of our flimsy shelf groove, so toss that hex wrench for your foldable bench.

Now our furniture left through A, come on, audience, give me some help here. Can you hear them? Oh, so it rhymes with Improve and groove. And the furniture will last through A, move, move, move, yes, move, move, move, move, move, move. We all know the rituals of moving.

You throw one last party, you package up gently your prize heirlooms, and you throw it. Everything you ever bought from IKEA, because that stuff dissolves when exposed to a slight breeze. Well, IKEA is launching a new line of furniture designed to be sturdy enough for people who

The new line is called Cornstufer, probably.

“In features, built-in handles for carrying, it's made of sturdier materials like solid”

pine and steel, so it can handle the stress of moving, fine, fine. That's not what we need, IKEA. We need you to commit to your bit and give us single use disposable couches.

Does anyone go back to IKEA, or you just go once, build an apartment and realize you're never

going like my favorite restaurant? Yeah. I also, how did Alan do in our quiz? Alan did all right. He got three out of three.

Congratulations. Well done. Congratulations Alan. You've got him. Thank you so much for playing.

Take care, buddy. From the light bulb to the internet, human history has been driven by innovation and shortwave is exploring how the technology of tomorrow will transform our future. Would you write in a flying taxi? Will AI models fight wars?

Hear about the technological frontier every Monday on tech camp, the new series from shortwave. Listen on the Empire app or wherever you get your podcasts. This is Fresh Air's Dave Davies. Renowned classic scholar Emily Wilson made headlines when she called Christopher Nolan's adaptation

of the Odyssey of Bismillir written. It's his style study cost and that doing that absolute best with the script they were given. I talked with Wilson about her scathing critique and so much more. Listen to Fresh Air on the NPR app or wherever you listen to podcasts. Now, while to our final game, Lightning Film, the blank each of our players will have 60 seconds

in which dancer is many fill in the blank questions as they can. Each quick dancer now with two points.

Alzo, can you give us a score?

Absolutely. Tom has a whopping four. Joyo has two in Shane. He's just got one buddy. (audience laughing)

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- She seemed like she had fun. - She got three right for things more points. Total of eight saying it's still in the lead.

“- All right, how many of that does Tom Papa need to win?”

- He needs five to win. - Ready Tom? - I am ready. - Here we go. - It's for the game.

On Wednesday, funeral services were held in South Carolina for Senator Blank. - Lindsey Graham. - Right on Tuesday, a judge blocked Minnesota from implementing a law banning blank markets. - Bad end. - Yeah, prediction mark.

This week, GOP Senate members postponed a key vote in the confirmation of Todd Blank's Trump's new blank. - Attorney General. - During the performance this week, Katy Perry got trapped crowdsurfing in a giant rolling inflatable ball because the fans blanked. - Popter. - No.

It refused to roll her back onto the stage. [ Laughter ] On Thursday, dental researchers said they discovered a way to stop blanks without drilling. - Cavities. This week, people are accusing Canadian politician Bill Oliver of using AI to write his speeches because he said blank halfway through and addressed to the legislature.

[ Laughter ] - Because he said, "I love the Trump." - No.

“You talk for a while and then he said, "Here is a more natural flowing version of that section."”

[ Laughter ] - But we need to let the legislative speech rather than a series of short points. [ Laughter ] - Mr. Oliver read the chat box commentary about this speech out loud, not one, but three separate times throughout the address. You know, it's a boring speech when even the guy who was reading it is not listening.

[ Laughter ] - How's Oda Tom do well enough to win? - Oh, he got four right for eight more points. - Oh. - Total of 12 was mean saying, "He has one of the greatest comeback."

- And wait, wait history. He is the winner. - My big college moment. [ Laughter ] - His in-laws are here. - That's true. - It's all because of what Sally taught him.

[ Laughter ] - Poor Sally. - It doesn't matter if we're going to ask our panelists to predict now that wrinkles are in, what will be the next surprising beauty trend.

But first, let me tell you that wait, wait, don't tell me is a production of NPR and WBEZ.

Chicago and Association with the urgent haircut productions, Doug Berman, Ben Evel and Overlord, Philip Godica writes our lemrics, our public address and answer is Paul Friedman. Our ops manager is just Sierra Vardac. BJ has later been composed of our theme, our program is produced by Jennifer Mills, Miles, Dorbass and Lillian King.

Special thanks to this week to Mahanada El Shaky. Peter Gwyn is our sommelier. Emma Choy is our Vive Curator Technical Directors from Lorna White, her CFO is called the Miller Approduction Manager's Robert Newhouse. I've seen your producers in Chilag and the executive producer,

wait, wait, don't tell me it's Michael Danforth.

“Now, panel, what will be the next big beauty trend?”

Shane Torres. Big butts out. Long-flat ones are in. [laughter] Boy, you're on the call, Johnson.

Mary Vrochis wrote busted largements. [laughter] And Tom Poppa, open-toed crocks that highlight older men's toes. [laughter] And if any of that happens, we'll ask you about it on wait, wait, don't tell me.

Thank you so much, El Shaky. Thanks, El Shaky. For Shane Torres, Jojão, Nicole Johnson, and Tom Poppa. Thanks to the staff and crew here at the Green Music Center. Special thanks to member stations.

KQED, K-A-L-WN-K-R-C-V. Thanks to our fabulous audience again out to see us. It's a no-mic California. And thanks to all of you, wherever you might be, for listening on Peter's Segal, we'll see you next week.

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