Falling in love with an octopus, a dog, and Sally Field

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I'm Alzo Slade, and here's your host at the Student Baker Theater at the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Illinois, Peter Sago. >> Thank you, Alzo, thank you, everybody. Wow, wow, thank you, yes, it is exciting. We have a great show for you today.

Later on, we are going to be joined by the legendary actor, Sally Field. Yes. >> [APPLAUSE] >> Herself, she was just nominated for an Emmy for her role in remarkably bright creatures on Netflix. >> [APPLAUSE]

>> Yes, and fans, okay, this is a movie where she co-stars with an octopus, sadly the Emmys snubbed the octopus. >> [LAUGH] >> We promise to recognize your work, so pick up your phone and give us a call. The number is 1 AAA, wait, wait, wait, that's 1, 888, 924, 892, 4.

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>> Hi, I'm Quincy from Dallas, Texas, but currently living in Austin, Texas. >> Okay, Quincy, you're from Dallas, but you're temporarily located in Austin. What, what made you do that? >> I'm a student at the University of Texas. >> Oh, yeah, yeah.

>> And, and what are you studying, man? >> I'm doing aerospace engineering. >> Are you? >> [APPLAUSE] >> She's going to have a job.

>> [LAUGH] >> Are you, he said, in a way, meant to subtly foreshadow some of the questions we have for you. [LAUGH] >> Well, welcome to our show Quincy, let me introduce you to our panel.

First up, she's an Emmy-nominated writer and comedian at Shantira Jackson.

>> Hi, Quincy. >> How's she doing? >> Next, he's a humorist and founder of Hatch Space Woodworking School and Community Workshop in Bratilber of Vermont. It's Tom Baudet.

>> Hello, Quincy. >> Hi, Tom, and a comedian you can see in Munhall, Pennsylvania on September 25th. Who's podcast is, "Nobody listens to Paul Apponstone. It's Paul Apponstone." It's Quincy.

[APPLAUSE] >> Hi, Paul. How you doing? >> So Quincy, you're going to play who's also this time. Alzo Slade is going to read you three quotations from this week's news.

Your job correctly, identify or explain two of them. You'll win our prize, any voice from our show. You might choose on your voicemail. Are you ready to go? >> Yes, sir.

>> Okay. Here we go, Quincy.

Your first quote is from a NASA investigator.

I think it will be a beautiful creator. That investigator was reacting to news that a rocket crashed this week into what? >> The news. >> Yes, the moon.

[APPLAUSE] >> A space x rocket crashed into the moon after being left in orbit. This happened at a bad time for both of you on Musk's company, SpaceX and Tesla. They're stocks tanked this week, but it is still impressive that even though this happened on the moon, the rocket still managed to take out several pedestrians.

“How does a rocket crash into the moon, I mean, did somebody fall asleep at a switchboard?”

>> No, no, this was a rocket stage, you know, the rocket of state has these big parts segments of the rocket, and this was left in orbit, and it's just been floating out there, and eventually it's path crossed to the path of the moon, and well, you know, when two objects love each other very much. >> Well, this is a question for Quincy, you know, being a scientist engineer.

Now, don't things orbit like 200 miles up, and isn't the moon like further than like 250,000 miles up? I don't think this was an accident, I'm not a conspiracy guy. >> You think so? >> It's hard to hit the moon, there's a lot of math, and hitting it by accident is like

winning the power ball. >> To be fair, it is actually very hard to land a rocket safely on the moon, that's why we don't expect to be able to do it until 57 years ago. >> We've already put the first man on the moon, maybe we want to put the first man in the moon.

>> It's possible, yeah. >> Are all these guys not going to have our crash in their rockets in there? Like now Bazel is going to send like a bigger rocket or a little faster. >> Yeah. >> Yeah.

>> Look at my crater. >> You thought you messed up the moon, why today?

“>> The thing is, we'll remember what Jeff Bazel's rockets look like, they're sort of”

cylinders that bulge out at the top, they're very indicative of something, some concern. I'm just imagining, the image of that crashing, heading into the moon would be like one of those illustrations of how life begins. >> Can you, can you, can you imagine how hard the moon tries to get out of the way?

>> I don't know.

>> Quincy, Quincy for your next quote, here is a citizen of Mexico giving his opinion

on an American burrito chain that just opened there. It's Gringo food for Gringo's.

“So what, American burrito chain just opened their first ever branch in Mexico?”

>> It is Chipotle. Is Chipotle, or, as they say, in Mexico, Chipotle? America invading Mexico with Chipotle restaurants really puts the colon in colonized. And there is a chance to see, while the subtle differences between the American version of Mexican food and the authentic version, for example, in Mexico, they also have cyclists

for it. But there, it's made with cane sugar. [ Laughter ] >> So, is this very recent, do we know how it's doing? >> Well, apparently, they open it in the town of Monterey, Mexico, and Northern Mexico, because

it's near the border. There's a lot of American restaurants. People are used to that. It's not Mexican food. They know it's not.

But it's tasty and decent fast food. >> I think they're getting a spaghetti factory franchise for Rome, I think. >> Well, you know, I wouldn't do that because there is a sad history here that they tried

“opening a pizza hut there once, and that's why they joined the other side of Monterey too.”

[ Laughter ] They didn't take it out. All right, Quincy, your last quote is about a new device for new parents. >> Infants survived just fine before infrared, night vision cameras. >> That was the New York Times talking about the new thing that everybody gets after

they get their first baby, what is it?

>> Is it like crib cam, baby cam? >> Yeah, it's like a baby monitor, but not just a baby monitor. The $400 nanot monitor tracks your baby throughout the night on more than a dozen metrics, including their breathing, their movements, they're so-called sleep efficiency, and also, this is true.

It takes a photo of the baby's facial expression whenever a parent walks into the room, and then without being told, it will edit those photos into a montage for you, which is a great way to know which parent the baby likes more. [ Laughter ] >> So, it's a block cam from baby.

>> It really is.

“>> So, it's basically turning the nursery into an ICU.”

>> Pretty much, yeah. >> Like the nurses station got a blue light and a buzzer out there when the blood pressure drops.

>> Yeah, pretty much it covers, it's like it's a hugely forward, finally, a baby monitor

to the Gibbs parent's more things to worry. >> Yeah, yeah. >> I used to, you know, I sleep on the floor, and my dad didn't know that. >> Yeah, you can't fall out of floor, and so when my son was a baby, he also slipped on the floor a lot, and so he was taking a nap one day, just an infant, but I had put

a blanket down on the floor for a minute, it was in the summer. I was wicking the hot, but I put him on the blanket, and then I, you know, I go down stairs and we didn't have things like that. >> No, no. >> And, in a while, I go up to check on him, and he's on the wood floor, and not on the blanket

anymore. And I'm like, oh, it's a story about that, and I move him back, and then I go back down stairs to the little while. I go up to check on him, and he's on the wood floor again, and I see if I had had this camera.

>> Yeah. >> I would have realized how hard he tried to get to the wood floor. Because it was cooler than that damn blanket, he was a baby, but he wasn't a stupid baby. >> Now, this, of course, is AI, and it's connected to the internet where they stole the

data. Many parents are concerned about exposing their babies to so much surveillance, and they're worried about all this data might be used, but Nanette company says, don't worry, your baby loves it. We know because we're looking at him right now.

So, Alzo, how did Quincy do in our quiz? >> She passed with flying colors, three out of three. Congratulations. [ Applause ] >> Thank you.

Thank you, Quincy. Good luck with your studies, and I'm sure your rockets will not crash into anything. >> Thank you so much. Bye-bye. >> Bye-bye.

[ Music ] >> Right now, panel time for you to answer some questions about this week's news. Paula, we know all about the loneliness epidemic, but the Washington Post this week had some advice for making new friends. They say you should just become friends with who?

>> It might be friends with what, and I'll give you a hint.

“The first thing you should do is take down that thing in the field that scares them”

away. >> Oh, birds, crows. >> Crows, yes. Make friends with a crow, everybody. >> Wow, that's your life.

>> That's your life. >> According to the post, more and more people are becoming friends with crows. They give the crows, treats, until the crow learns to start showing up every day. Let me even take it further. They walk around with their new crow friend and their shoulder, which is great.

If you've always aspired to be an omen that whoever sees is about to die.

>> I love crows because they're loyal. If they see somebody do something to you, that becomes their enemy. >> How do you know this? >> Because I'm a millennial. We all love birds.

>> Really? >> Yeah. >> And soon as you turn 35, you've got to go. Go get into birds. >> Really?

>> Yes. >> Wow, you know what? I have an owl in my neighbor's tree that's some night hoot. And I go out and hoot back to it as best I can. I have recording seven.

It's kind of great actually. So you know, he'll do you know.

“And then I wait a second, I go, do you think, do you think the owl likes that?”

Do you think the owl tells his owl friends like every nice is watch this? Ready? [ Laughter ] >> It's really funny, it's really funny. Here we go.

>> I sent the recording of it to my daughter and she wrote me back, she goes, "Mom, be careful. You don't know what you're saying." [ Laughter ] [ Music ] >> Coming up on our panelists, don't break a leg in our beloved listener game.

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We're playing this week with Tom Baudet, Paula Pawnstone, and Shantira Jackson. And here again is your host at the Student Break at Theater in Chicago, Illinois. Peter, say go. >> Thank you, Alzo. Thank you, everybody.

>> [APPLAUSE] >> Right now, it is time, thank everybody. Right now, it's time for the wait, wait, don't tell me. Blossom, listen to your game. Call one, triple, wait, wait, to play our game on the air.

>> Hi, you're on wait, wait, don't tell me. >> Hey, Peter, this is Dan Blondo from Crow's Aversionia. >> Crow's Aversionia, now I don't know where that is. Where is it? >> It is just outside of Shantua National Park near Charlottesville.

>> Oh, I go, beautiful, I know that area, what do you do there? >> I am a communications consultant. Sounds fancy that it is, it's really not. I put words in other people's mouth. >> Right, it's not like you say to people, just speak a little slower,

and then see eight more, and that sort of thing. >> Yeah, just like that. >> Just like that, okay, well Dan, welcome to this show, it's great to have you.

“You're going to play the game when you must try to tell truth from fiction.”

Also, what is Dan's topic? >> This show must not go on. >> We all know the old adage, the show must go on, at least that's what my producers tell me every week when I hide in the closet again. But this week we heard about a show that did not, in fact, go on.

Our panelists are going to tell you why, pick the real one and you'll get the

weight, weight of your choice, and you're always smelly, ready to play?

>> Yeah. >> First, let's go. >> Okay, that's great. First, let's hear from Tom Baudette. >> In the Green Mountain State, there is a community theater company to fill every empty

grain tall.

sleet, snow, and high water.

But the Essex community player's spring production of Rocky Horror Show has been canceled while still in rehearsals due to the musical director receiving anonymous threatening text messages. That must be hard. You're trying to do your job as a musical director, but you keep getting all these

threatening texts.

“Plus, you have to spend all that time sending the threatening text to yourself.”

That's right, he was texting himself. Once the police discovered the text, he admitted to creating a false account and sending himself threats so he had an excuse to step away from the production instead of the real reason, which is that he hated everyone so much.

He had put up a Facebook post complaining about the cast in crew, and when confronted about

it, he refused to apologize. Rocky Horror Show dead. Passive aggressive conflict avoidance in the arts, sold out shows daily across Vermont and beyond. The production of the Rocky Horror Show, the community theater in Vermont, cancelled

because the music director sent threatening notes to himself because he just couldn't stand the drama. Your next curtain call off is from Shantira Jackson.

“Move over on time, there's a new place to send in the clowns.”

For the past 25 years, clown fest has taken over the streets of Paris, Tennessee. Black clowns, happy clowns, and Bill Skars' guard all came together in one car to celebrate their craft. This year things went a bit of rye when the clown chorus had to cancel their annual clown concert at the clown brunch.

With their makeup on and sheet music and hand, the audience watching was met with silence. When it turned out that everyone who had volunteered for the clown concert was a mime, it dozens of completely silent mimes on stage pretending to sing one onlooker described it as quote, "kind of weird." Organizers of clown fest apologize for the mimes and the uncomfortable silence by squirting

everyone in the face with a little bit of water from a flower. The clown concert at clown fest 2026 ruined because all the clowns who were singing were mimes, your last story of the stage gone silent comes from Paula Poundstone.

“When Long Island fiddler Greg Renell hit a rut in the fiddling business, he had to come”

up with something new, so he adapted with the time, so at least the time 60 years ago when fiddler and the roof came out, he thought, "I'm a fiddler, I should get out of

the roof." He had never seen the musical, he invited everyone he knew, ex-girlfriends,

fiddler friends, fiddler enemies, his mom, he picked the most beautiful roof in town a gorgeous Victorian style house with the perfect turret to purchase upon. When the audience filled in which was surprisingly large considering it was just a guy fiddling, Greg was nervous, but he grabbed his fiddle and crawled up the ladder to get in place.

The crowd was going nuts, fiddler, fiddler, they were chanting. He started his first song and within seconds went tumbling off the roof, bouncing off the gutter, only to land perfectly, a top, a stabilizing bush. The show was canceled, but since then Greg has actually seen fiddler on the roof, and agrees with the show.

Tradition, without traditions, our lives would be as shaky as a fiddler on the roof. So, these are stories of a show that did not go on, was it from Tombow Dad, a production of the rocky horror show in Vermont, canceled because of the musical director set himself threatening text just to get out of it. From Shantira Jackson, the clown chorus at the clown fest being ruined because all the

clowns who showed up were mimes, or from Paul Apponstone, a fiddler who decided to try being a fiddler on the roof without having ever seen the show, which of these is the real story of a performance that did not happen. OK, so your choice is Tom Story, and to find out the correct answer we spoke to someone who knows a lot about the real story.

The threatening messages were coming from the musical director of the show, the scrumptious radical. That was Ian Curry, the in-turn reporter at seven days, Vermont's independent voice, who absolutely owns the story. Congratulations, Diane.

You did get it right, Tom was telling the truth, but at his own state, we were to point for him. Thank you, Diane. You burned our prize. The voice of anyone who might choose near-voice milk, congratulations, it was generally

a very good time. Thank you very much. Another game where we ask impressive people to do an unimpressive thing, we call it not

If you were going to name the most successful and acclaimed actor around, it would be hard to beat Sally Field, her career has been more than 60 years. She has won two Oscars, three Emmys, so many awards, she has a separate Wikipedia page just for them, and she's got range, who else has played both Gidget and Mary Todd Lincoln. He's up for yet another Emmy for her starring role in remarkably bright creatures on Netflix,

and she joins us now, Sally Field, welcome to Wait Wait Don't Tell Me.

So first of all, congrats on the latest Emmy nomination.

“Did you know that you have a separate Wikipedia page just for your awards?”

No, no, I did not, because I don't oftentimes look for myself. I think that would be just a tiny bit weird if I wanted to Google myself. Yeah, I mean, you've done so many things in your extraordinary career. Does anybody ever come up to you and say, oh gosh, Sally Field, I loved you in whatever it was, and you're like, that's wonderful, and you have no memory of doing it?

No. No. No, it doesn't happen. You remember everything. Not really. I've done such strange things that I would have a hard time remember, but they would not be things that anyone else would remember either. You know, I've done episodic things in the late '60s and early '70s, and you know what,

we're also old now, anybody who watched it is like halfway brain dead at this point. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I'm not, you know, Sally, this part of Poundstone, I'm like, oh, hi. First of all, I have the, you and Lily, and I go to the beginning to bark at a squirrel out there, so, and just ignore him.

Oh, what's the dark's name? My dog's name is Dashal Hammond.

“Wow, do you think that he only really responds to death?”

He responds to Dash, but he responds to Dashal Hammond. He's a great crime writer. He doesn't respond to Dashal Hammond, that's too long a name for a dog. I'm sure Hammond, give over to you right now.

Whenever we have an actor like you, who's had such an extraordinary career, I'm always

wondering what role they're most known for, and usually I can guess. In your case, I would have no idea, is there one thing that keeps coming up, or does it entirely depend on the person on their age, on their interest? All of that, it depends on the person, the Asian, all of that. But I think the thing I'm most surprised about, is the flying nun.

Really? Really? Yeah. Like, I love it. Like young people.

Like, they were like, in their 20s, and they're, you know, teens, and they say, well, I love the flying nun. I think, win. Win? No.

It's hard for me not to want to say, I've done other work, you know, I was a man.

I have to look into it, or not, you know, but, yeah, it's always surprising to me.

I am, I am one of those people you mentioned earlier, who's old enough to actually have watched that when it came out, and it took me a while to realize that I wasn't imagining it. There was this TV show on about this nun, who flew. But I'm dying to know, how did they pitch this show to you?

I would have rather just been a nun with my feet on the ground. Sure. That was scary and painful, and stupid, you just say, you weren't actually flying. How did they make you fly? Why was it painful?

It was painful because it was still the 60s, and they hadn't really upgraded how you can do this. It wasn't a special effects, so it was wires, you know, I had this furnace with wires coming out of the habit, and they would, like, I was on a 50-foot crane, some of the times, and they would fly me into a site of a building, and I'm like, like, by your man,

I'm like trying to, like, go over there from the building, and, you know, that's something I should be doing, you know? So let's talk, I watched Remarkably Bright Creatures, your film on Netflix for which you were nominated for an Emmy, we have fans here, and it's interesting because you play

“a woman whose life is changed by a guardian angel that happens to be an octopus, which means”

you have acted opposite, an octopus, and Daniel Day Lewis, which was more fun.

Was the octopus also a very method, the octopus is always insist on being an octopus even

offset? Oh god, yes, oh my god, yes, all the best actors do, so there you go, that's Daniel, and the dog has decided there's a creature in the house that he's going to, like, barcap, no matter what we do. There are scenes, many scenes in this film, and would you, Sally Field, or Real Human

Being, are interacting with an octopus, fundamentally, the tentacles or your whole tentacles or hold hands, tentacles, and I assume, apparently, this is true, that the octopus was CGI. Is that the case? Hard to train an octopus to do this kind of thing, and their rats are very expensive.

“I think I want to spoil anybody's vision if they haven't seen it, or if they're thinking”

of seeing it, or if they want to see it, but no, it's all in my mind. I suspect she doesn't have a dog. All this time, we haven't seen the dog, she's referred to the dog. She for a minute, he was running back that way. Oh, sure she was, absolutely.

Dasha will hand it the dog. Over here, right now, Dasha will hand it, get over here, and write it down this way. I have to ask one last question before we go to her game. You have done so many things, you have won so many awards, you have played such roles with

such amazing people and directors.

Is there anything left in your bucket list that you still want to do that you haven't done? Well, I'm doing it right now.

“Oh, my gosh, she's good, I'm so scared, I'm so scared.”

Well, Sally Field, it is a dream come true to talk to you. And we haven't invited you here to play a game that we're calling. Meet these remarkably dumb creatures, so you start-- Yeah, you start in the movie remarkably bright creatures, so we thought we'd ask you about some remarkably dumb ones, answer two to three questions about some animals that

will not be getting a Netflix movie made about that many times soon, and you will win a prize for one of our listeners, the voice of anyone that might choose for their voice mail. Also, who is Sally Field playing for? Aaron Piotter and Tethahomes of Hillsburg, California.

All right, you ready to play? Yep. Okay.

Here's your first question.

While looking into which animals had the smallest brains, we were shocked to learn that number four on the list was what animal? A, the Boni-Eard Asfish, B, the twiddling dumb bug, or C, the really slow, Laura's, I'll just say one, yes, that's it, it's the Boni-Eard Asfish. Yes, the Boni-Eard Asfish, the Boni-Eard Asfish weighs as much as three pounds, but its brain

is the size of a pebble. That's true. Here's your next question, ostriches, also not very bright, their eyeballs are each bigger than their brain, and their dumbness is a challenge for ostrich farmers. Why?

A, they routinely get into fights with bushes, thinking they're rival ostriches, be the male ostriches tend to fall in love with their human caretakers because they find them more attractive than female ostriches, or C, not only do they eat pebbles because they look like seeds, they seem to prefer the pebbles. Yes, it sounds like a few relatives of mine, but I'm thinking it's three, that they just

eat pebbles. The audience agrees, but sadly it was two, they tend to fall in love with their

“men's caretakers because, you know, I mean, which would you choose a human or an ostrich?”

They feel the same way. How do you choose a pebble every time? If you get this right, you win, sloths aren't just a slow, they're also dumb. In fact, they often injure themselves by doing what? A, jumping from one tree to another and falling asleep in mid-air, B, trying to take

naps on top of predators, or C, mistaken their own arm for a tree limb, grabbing on, and then falling to the ground. It's a bevy of favorites. It really is. I thought my arm was a tree and just grabbed it.

Yeah, I mean, so that's your choice, you're going to go with C, they grabbed their arm. Please go with it because I have no freaking idea. Well, yes you do, because that's correct. We have been in Durth, we do this, sloths, we live in the jungles of Central and South

the other.

Also, how did Sally feel to do on our quiz?

Out of all the awards she has, this might be the best one. So you got two out of three. Sally Field is an absolutely legendary actor who is up for an Emmy for her latest role in remarkably bright creatures, which is streaming on Netflix now.

“Sally Field, what an absolute joy, will it up for Sally Field?”

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“While it seems like everything is being called a recession indicator these days.”

Yeah, like the box of hamburger helper in my pantry. Or the new Apple Neo book?

Or the resurgence of press on nails or lipstick or no lipstick, I've lost track.

There is only one way to know if these are actual economic warning signs though. Listen to the indicator from planet money on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts. From NPR and WBZ Chicago, this is Wait Wait Don't Tell Me. The NPR News Quiz. I'm Alzo Slade.

We're playing this week with Paula Poundstone. I'm Tira Jackson and Tom Boedit and here again is your host at the Stutabek at the Uter and Chicago Illinois Peter Seigle. Thank you, Alzo. Thank you, everybody.

Thank you. In just a minute, Alzo is sure this is that it's rhyme a clock somewhere. It's our listener-limric challenge. If you'd like to play give us a call, a one-triple-late-late-late-late-late-late-late-late-late-late-late-late-late-late-late-late-late-late-late-late-late-late-late-late-late-late-late-late-late-late-late-late-late-late, right now panel, it is time for more questions for you from this week's news. Tom, this week the New York Times published an in-depth, multi-part investigation into

Talentea, Branch, Alotta, they used high-tech equipment and rigorous reporting just to try to explain what? Well, I use the containers for keeping hardware in and they've gotten a little flimsyar, so I think it's the flimsy containers. Well, there's something about the containers, specifically they come in jars and the question is, why are those jars tight? Hard open? Very hard to open, you know, at times, wanted to find out why the jars of Talentea, Alotta, Alotta, Alotta, open.

It's not giving into a carton of ice cream is easy, I mean, you've got to know, it's like, you know, you hear about the mother who picks up a car to save her child, opening ice cream is that same gland, just like the adrenaline, yeah, also Tom has power tools, so it's not a problem for you. Yes, the paper that brought down Harvey Weinstein has turned its attention to figuring out why people can't open their fancy ice cream jars.

“And if you are about to write in to say, "No, no, Peter, it's gelato, that's why your arms are too weak to open a job."”

They actually, this is true to find out why the jars are so hard to open, they put one into a CT scanner. Did it sure it's paper that? I don't know. What if it did, you'd find out that a jar of sorbet is better health insurance than you do? Yeah, more than likely.

You're using a CT scanner, can you imagine you go in and you're like, you need your own diagnosis and they say, "Oh, it has to be, can't do it until next week." There's a cookies and cream using the machine right now. And this was part of the CT scan, which is part of this huge multi-part investigation into the brand's history, and it's decline, and it's current flavors versus past versions. And because it's the New York Times also something to do with polyamory in Brooklyn. And we, and no one can honor the abstinence.

No one. Maybe that's where they are inside a talented jar that no one can open. Should you hear a concert goers this summer, are dealing with a strange and unpleasant new behavior in the crowd, and now artists like Olivia Rodrigo and Noah Connor, among others, have had to publicly ask their fans to stop doing what during their concerts. Be in towel and stand in the front of short doors.

No, but I appreciate that perspective. It's that people are very excited to get places really down front, and they don't want to give up those places for any reason at all.

They're going to the restroom without actually going to the restroom.

Wow, it's a global phenomenon apparently concerts all over the world, people keep pooping on the floor during concerts. Wow, wow, I thought you meant they were diapers, it was a new, I love Beyonce, but not that much. Oh, wow, that's a lot of this month, Olivia Rodrigo said that fans in the front row with her concerts were just doing that rather than go to the bathroom and give out their place by the stage. And other artists started coming forward and saying, yes, it's happening at my shows too. This is rough, the only musicians who should have people pooping their pants at their concerts is the wiggles.

“No one can, doesn't even make any music that you need to do that.”

Woo, fighting over. No, it's music is nice, you could just hold it, you don't. Everybody, everybody, and no concert is so nice, you don't have to do that. They will let you go. They will let you go and look at your place back because they're all very gentle people. They're very kind, I think he's from like a mountain.

Yes, he is. When many musicians are listening right now, if you want to make sure your fans leave to use the bathroom, you just need to say, well, now we're going to play some of our new stuff. Coming up, it's lightning film, the blank, but for it's just the game where you have to listen for the rhyme.

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“Bethesda Merrill is a place I know, what do you do there?”

So, during the school year, I teach Fitzgrade, but seeing as it's summer, I just got back from my honeymoon. Oh, really? Muzzle talk. Congratulations. Thank you. And now that we're back, how are you finding Mary's life?

So, we're so good. We are still married. That's good. If you get through the honeymoon, and you're still married, that is a good sign. Congratulations. Yeah, it tends to be. Well, Lizzie, welcome to the show.

Alzo Slade is going to read for you three news, where they deliver extra the last word of phrase missing from each. If you can fill in that last word of phrase correctly, and two of the lyrics will be a winner. Ready to play?

I'm ready. Here's your first lemric.

Our steakhouse might not have great food, but to seats, many buts, will be glued.

“Our diners all chose to throw off their clothes.”

They're eating their steaks in the nude, right? (bell dings) (bell dings) Class, swaray, steakhouse, in Miami, Florida, said they started their monthly nude dinner service

to attract nude, quote, adventurous customers. Because it is the truly adventurous who will sit down in front of piping hot food with a serrated steak knife and think, boy, I wish my genitals were completely unprotected right now. (audience laughs)

The owner of the restaurant, whatever you think of his motives, says, no, no, no, this is all about the experience for the clientele, because, quote, "Me and my crew were all professionals," unquote.

He's right, it does take a professional to look a naked man straight in the eye and ask any fresh pepper on that. (audience laughs) Come on, be honest, if I go to a steakhouse,

that's not the meat I'm trying to see. There you are. (audience laughs) Also true. (audience laughs)

Why? You know, sometimes I just don't even feel human. (audience laughs) I'm like, none of these activities. I would so not eat naked to begin with

and if I was gonna eat naked, I wouldn't wanna eat naked with other naked eaters. (audience laughs) Also true. Here's your next lemric.

Since my breakfast treats gone, I feel so hurt. I'm so mad, I'm my protest and throw dirt. But then and just shrugged and pulled out the plug. They stopped making that great coffee.

Yogurt. Yes, yogurt. This week, Dan and the yogurt people announced they were discontinuing their coffee-flavored yogurt and people are devastated.

(audience laughs)

Where are my Dan and heads?

Come on now. (audience laughs)

“The reason so few people cheered is because”

the serious fans of Dan and coffee yogurt are out there trying to score the last remaining cases of the stuff which they will keep because yogurt lasts forever. (audience laughs)

Right? See again, I just don't relate to people. (audience laughs) I've had Dan and coffee yogurt. It's not bad.

I feel like the flavor of coffee. I don't like coffee or yogurt. So no. I don't think it would be for you that. Yeah, just put nuts in it and call it quits.

(audience laughs) Here is your last lemric. Well, I see the new movie, well, maybe at this mad name, others won't slay me.

We can bring a few toys and make extra noise. It's the safe place for me and my. Baby? Yes. People with babies are flocking to screenings of the Odyssey

arranged just for them. It's a great way to save money

“and a babysitter still have a night out.”

And what better movie to teach your kid that when Daddy leaves, he is never coming back. (audience laughs) Other theaters that are showing the Odyssey

have tried to ban babies from screenings, but then some guy showed up with this big wooden horse

and he'd never guessed what was in song.

(audience laughs) I guess they are just scraping the bottom of the barrel in terms of trying to get people. How come they don't have naked movie showing at some point? Yeah, yeah.

(audience laughs) I also had a Lizzie doing our quiz. She did a great three out of three congratulations. Congratulations Lizzie, well done. Thank you. This is a big big come true.

(audience laughs) Aim higher Lizzie. (audience laughs) ♪ She's just my baby ♪ ♪ Baby baby ♪

♪ She's all I need ♪ ♪ Baby ♪ ♪ Don't you ever leave me ♪ ♪ She's my baby ♪ ♪ She's my valentine ♪

♪ My valentine ♪ ♪ My valentine ♪ ♪ My valentine ♪ ♪ My valentine ♪ Oh, hey there, I'm Brittany Loose.

I don't know, maybe this is a little out of pocket to say,

“but I think you should listen to my podcast.”

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Follow or subscribe, up first today, wherever you get podcasts. Now, under our final game, Lightning Fill in the blank, each of our players left 60 seconds,

in which to answer is many fill in the blank questions, as they can, each correct answer is now worth two points. I also can give us the score. Of course, Paul has two and Centura and Tom are tired for the lead at three.

Okay, so Paul, that means that you aren't in second place, so that means you're going to go first. The clock will start when I begin your first question, blank. On Tuesday, authorities arrested the man suspected of starting one of the blanks in Washington State.

Fires? Right. On the Wednesday,

space company, blank made 900 million more shares

available to investors. Start something, the musk thing. Yeah, the musk thing. The musk thing, I'll give you to you at SpaceX. A man in Wales was arrested for climbing

to the roof of a hospital and blanking. And yelling, "I'm cured." No, putting on a grim reaper costume and just staring silently at all the patients coming into the hospital.

On Wednesday, paleontologists in New Mexico identified a new species of blank? Uh, dinosaur? Right. This week a video of the street brawl and Detroit went viral because people noticed that blank

was standing on the sidelines cheering the combatants on. Blank was. Blank was. Blank was Tom Holman. No, the police commissioner of the city of Detroit.

Wow. So, a passerby caught this street fight in video. And right there in the front of the crowd of all workers is the police commissioner of Detroit who cheered and he kind of urged the fighters on,

you know, while wearing his Detroit police hat. When asked why he did not intervene in this rather brutal fight, he said, "And I am not kidding. I did intervene when the guy had had enough."

Wow. That feels very dethroned. That's all school. And Detroit. I also had a poll to do in our quiz.

She got three right for six more points,

All right.

Wow. That's all you'll give me.

Also. He's different. Yeah, you're not one of us anymore. Chantira, I'm going to arbitrarily pick you to go next, fill in the blank.

As more states report outbreaks, RFK Junior said that parents should vaccinate their kids against blank. This week, a Nobel Prize winning computer scientist Warner that humans may soon be unable to outsmart blank.

Right on Thursday, former Senate, majority leader blank, was discharged from the hospital. Oh, goofy McConnell, goofy yes. This week, police in New Jersey, will able to cite 74 drivers for traffic violations

after they had their traffic cops blank. Do they're Joe? No, disguise themselves as trees on the road. On Tuesday, astronomers released the most high resolution images ever taken

of the surface of the blank. Right. According to a new report, the UFC lost $30 million when they staged an event at the blank.

Right. And Arizona, two people are recovering after being shot by a man who was blanking. In the sandwich. No.

He would. They were shot by a man who was demonstrating the safety features of his gun. Do you remember looking at a handgun at a yard sale when the owner came over to show off

“its various safety features while he was doing that?”

He accidentally shot both of them. Wow. Okay. It was an emergency. They were harmed.

They were hurt. They're fine. But I hope they waited a while to call 911. Because if there's ever a time to get somebody to pay the price, you wanted a yard sale.

It is right after you have shot them. I thought it was a bad shot. But if you had bought them with one bullet, you might be kind of good. Also, how did Chantira do an act with?

She did all right. She got five right for ten more points. Total of 13 and the lead. All right then. So how many then does Tom about that need to win? Five to five, six to win.

All right. Here we go Tom. This is for the game on Wednesday. Officials in Iran pushed back on blanks claim that peace talks were underway. True. Right. On Thursday,

Ukraine drone strikes hit two oil refineries deep in blanks territory. Right. The latest movie in the blank franchise

is the fastest movie in history to make half a billion

dollars marble. Oh, this spider ran. Yes, spider ran. On Tuesday, Abdul Al-Siyad won a

“closely watched Democratic primary in blank.”

Michigan. Right. This week a woman in Utah is suspected of not wanting to get married after she was caught blanking the night before her wedding. Um.

Like. I don't know. Leaving down. No attempting to burn down the church where it was supposed to happen.

She shut it just left. It's true. According to a new study, watching too much blank may actually rot your brain.

Like. Phone videos stuff. Yeah. Ruby, basically. And Wednesday, a genetic

company announced it had created a hyperallergenic blank. Oh, um, dog. Right. This week a man who was drowning

in the Yellowstone River was saved by a blank. That was nearby. Oh, the Hoboken Asfish. No.

[ Laughter ] Thomas, they are. They have their moments. No.

“The man who was drowning in the Yellowstone River”

was saved by a teenager who happened to be practicing with his lasso on the river bank. [ Laughter ] The practicing is lasso, you know,

rope and things at the distance. So much that it kind of thinking. He pushed the guy in just to be able to throw a lasso. And as he swept by and pull him to safety,

the kid was of course celebrated for saving this man. But did he have to then hog time? [ Laughter ] What a great story to have.

It was a kid. Tell the rest of your life. Right. Yep. That's what I did.

Also did Tom do well enough to win. He did it. He got six right for two and more points on the 15. And he got the champion. Thank you.

Thank you very much. Just a minute, we're going to ask our panelists to predict after that rocket crashed into it. What will be the next big news

from the moon?

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she will be releasing a moon paramacin. Dumbodette. Elon will abandon his plans for a moon call and he explained he didn't know random rockets and boulders and stuff could just crash down at any time.

And Paul, a fountain. When it hits your eye, it's nothing like a pizza pie of any size.

Happens, Pena will ask you about it on weight weight. Don't tell me. Thank you so much. I was so

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