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Also, it's late. It's going to read 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 voice smell. You ready to go? Ready? All right. Your first quote is from

a sports broadcaster. Team USA looks like they've never played soccer before. That was Steve

for all. Talking about how the host country's team got bounced out of what big tournament. The World Cup. That's right. The 2026 FIFA World Cup. Now I know what you're thinking. FIFA, the peace prize people. So US is out. And now we all have left in the tournament or like Argentina and Switzerland and some countries that haven't been bad for the Jews. Now the early rounds of the tournament were full of these great Cinderella stories like Kerasau

and Cape Verde. But now it's just down to the usual soccer powers. The World Cup gets a lot less exciting once it's just the G8. Well, I haven't been watching the World Cup because that requires cable. So I've been watching El Copa Mundial. Oh, yes. That's on Telemundo. And it's way more fun. It's so much more fun than Telemundo. Yeah, it really is. I actually was watching Telemundo broadcast the US game their last game. And I don't understand Spanish very well, especially spoken

that. I didn't know what they were saying. But they're tone. Yeah. As the game went on. I got to the point where I was like, can I speak Spanish now? But then I realized they were just saying words in English. Because they were just going like, "Oh, I'm a molecular honor." And what to do at FN Ryan Reynolds? I've been just absolutely loving it. It's been exciting.

It's been great. It's amazing how many Africans are in Belgium. Like I had no idea.

That was an African paradise. Let's not look into why that is. Oh, no. Many American fans have decided now there are teams out of it to root for really the breakout story of the tournament early in Holland of Norway. Right? Oh, he's got fans. He scored almost as many goals in the

And he is enormous. Everybody, including himself, says he looks like a Viking Shrek. And he has no secret. He posed for a picture in Instagram next to a big guy dressed as Shrek saying

me and my twin brother. That's who he is. And it's not just his looks. He's always

have this goofy expression on his face. Like he scores a goal and he looks and he's like, "Oh, I'm such a stinker." That's the official slogan of the Vikings. Yeah, I know. But also I love the amount that these guys love America. Like I love the people are like Taco Bell. Have you tried this car? It's amazing. Like that. I'm a little bit like I'm proud to be in America. You know what I mean? Every time they discover a waffle house,

I'm just feeling brimming with pride. Yeah. All right. Here is your next quote. It's from a TV show that's airing its season finale this weekend. It's not called friend island. That is a famous catchphrase from what is the most popular TV show in America right now? What is it? Love island. Yes, exactly. Love island. Very good. If you're not familiar with love island,

“how is that possible? It's on no joke every day. And it's the only way to say”

really hot people on TV, except of course for ABC World News Tonight with David Nier.

Basically, if you haven't seen it, beautiful people go to this beautiful tropical island and they

couple up and whoever the audience ultimately votes as the best couple wins. So if you still don't get it, just imagine the movie cast away. But in the end, Tom Hanks and the volleyball hook up. I will say from what I've heard so many of them are about as smart as the volleyball. Yeah. One of the things that's happened this season that's brought attention to the show is these clips that I'm going around of, well, the very attractive contestants, not being very bright. For example,

there's now a famous quote from this season when a woman said this, talking about compromise, she said, "I'm going to come promise with you. We're going to come promise." And people just love this. And this is true. Experts are now looking at the show and they're saying, "This is great. It's helping shine a light on the growing worldwide literacy crisis." Or as they say on the island, lighter acid. I don't know. I feel like I feel like the thumb I'm going to be audience who've

heard a calm promise before. I don't say in their defense, in their defense, they weren't hired for this show based on brains. That's true. You make a point. I mean, yeah, okay. And one other point, somebody said epitome instead of epitome, find somebody else said that their love interest of the moment was a, quote, "a ball of fresh air." I like to think that like this isn't edited show, right? Just present a certain picture of these

people. I like to think what they edit out is them reading like Ulysses to each other. This is all performance art. And we're just catching their worst moments.

“Oh, yes. I mean, the one thing I think it's safe to say about the cast of Love Island,”

they will never know NPR was making fun of it. That's true.

Here you go. Here is your last quote, "Rool 24." Early risers. Keep it down. That was just one of the Washington Post's list of 42 different rules. For how to behave when you go on watch with all of your friends this summer. Oh, man. Traveling? Yeah. Well, I'll give you when you go in vacation with your friends, right? New market data shows that sharing a vacation house with your friends is becoming more popular than ever.

So this week, the post published there, 42 rules for renting a house with a friend group. Kind of a list that if somebody sent it to you, you would not go in vacation with that. Rule number one is actually don't ever do this. Right. Pretty much.

“No, but many of the rules are obvious, like, you know, agree on your budget before you book a place, right?”

Many of them, though, end up about navigating conflicts that may arise as the group, like, lives together in the house. For example, Rule 23 is the biggest beds go to couples. Sorry, couples. Oh, wait, is there a rule that's like, um, you can hit on your friend's boyfriend, but only once, is that one of the rules? Not one of the ones I read. Maybe that's one of the unwritten rules. Yes. How many of the rules are about the hot tub? 41. No, we're not talking about love island and we moved up.

Thanks so much, y'all. Thanks for the good work. You do here and in the real world. Take care.

Right now, panel, it is time for you to answer some questions about this week's news. Alonzo, Sonna's old boring. Now, there's a new luxury amenity that billionaires are adding to their homes.

“It's a dedicated room where they can go into any time of your experience what?”

Watching poor people try to survive. And my poor people, I mean all of them. Yeah, no, no, they go into a room and they're mentioned. They have a room dedicated to the experience of having what? I'll give you a hint. It's like your own private winter wonderland. Snow? Yes, they're called snow room. The New York Times reported the ultra-rituality of these snow rooms into their mansions. Think of a snow glow, but way bigger.

And instead of a Santa, there's a naked Russian oligarch. The rooms use a variety of snow-making devices and cooling technology to create an active snow fall so that you can enjoy your winter

“pleasures in your house. The highest-end snow rooms come with a window and actors to play poor”

people standing outside, shiver. So Peter, we're in vaguely the same age group, you know, we share memories. We do live in a good old days when you didn't know what billionaires did. Like when you just they had their own world and we lived in a real world and they may have had snow rooms and we were better off not knowing. I mean, I have a snow room. It's called a

hole in the roof, but it's snow. Everything's so romantic. I never have a miss. It's when

treat kiss. I love it so. Coming up, bringing a umbrella to our left-of-listener game called One Triple Eight Way Way To Play will be back in a minute with more of what we don't tell me from NPO.

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Uber X and Uber Pet and now they'll be your career. That reality may be only a few years away, but how is this futuristic travel possible? Find out on shortwave and PR Science Podcast. Listen on the NPO app or wherever you get your podcasts. We're having such a sports summer. The New York mix won the NBA Championship. The World Cup is in full swing and a new season of love Island has brought us back into the villa. On it's been a minute, we talk about how this summer

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say go. Thank you all so much. Right now, it's time for the wait, wait, don't tell me, we've left the listener game, call one, wait, wait, wait, wait to play our game in the air. How you were on wait, wait, don't tell me. I Peter, this is Sarah from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Welcome, thank you. Thank you. Why are you at home? Why are you

here to hear with us? Well, yeah, I did try to get tickets, but this is the second best thing.

It is. Well, I mean, maybe even better because I'm not talking to any of these people. That's true. What do you do here in this fabulous city by the lake? Well, I work as a proud librarian for Milwaukee Public School. Well, it's great to have you with us if not in person.

What is Sarah's topic, how's it? Storms are coming. Who doesn't love a really good storm,

“filling the wind, hearing the thunder, watching the weathermen do a report from the street,”

hoping this time he gets sucked up into returnado. This week we heard about something that was surprising that happened in the middle of a storm. Our panelists are going to tell you about it. Pick the one that's telling the truth. And when the wait, wait, or if your choice in your voice

may not be ready to play, I'm ready to first. Great. First, let's hear from Alonzo Boating.

All right, just as the Fourth of July fireworks for Sag Harbor ended last weekend, chaos ensued. A violent storm hit, trees were falling, debris was flying, people were panicked and running for cover. But pity the poor souls who ran to lay Bilbo K, neither they nor the storm had reservations, and no one was getting past the host. The well-known Sag Harbor French restaurant did not let people in, despite 80 mile per hour winds and emergency alerts blaring. No reservation,

no shelter. I mean, they weren't even adhering to the dress code. It clearly states no soaking wet people. And an ironic, almost historical twist, people turned away from the French restaurant,

found shelter in a nearby American hotel. No word yet on weather futures storms with more

advance notice will be allowed at the Bilbo K. A fancy restaurant in Sag Harbor won't let people in to take shelter from the storm because you see they hadn't made a reservation. Your next-tempo's tale comes from the Geen Farsal. The movie Shawshank Redemption has inspired many things like prison escapes and parodies. It's even inspired me to lay on my couch and watch it again for the 40th time. The most surprising of all is tourism to the Ohio State Reformatory

Prison Mansfield where the movie was filled. This date your granddaddy's prison, this is a tourist destination. Members of the Shawshank Forever fan club were scheduled to do their annual walk along the Shawshank Trail this past weekend, but considered canceling because of the extreme weather forecast in Mansfield. But then they thought no, let's lean in. They went full reenactment. It was already raining when they met at the Mansfield sewer tunnels. They smeared their faces with mud to look like they had

just emerged from poop. Then they started the walk with that famous moment where Tim Robbins raises his hands to the skies. He's pounded by rain, but this time they experienced the full epiphany with actual rain and thunder and down trees and actually was super dangerous. But they all carried suits. They had stuffed in plastic bags all the way to the 711 where they changed and toasted

with a hot dog in the end. Heavy drops of climate change never felt so good. Shawshank Redemption fans.

Use the happy accident of a storm to recreate the movie accurately. Your last story of stormy weather comes from Adam Burke. Every year the National Society of Benjamin Franklin reenactors meet up to diligently recreate one of the famous polymaths many achievements. One time they gathered for a mass recital on a glass harmonium, another saw a group trip to Paris to just be real messy bitches. But this year the society descended on Franklin's adopted home town of Philadelphia to

commemorate the 275th anniversary of the founding fathers groundbreaking electric kite experiment with even the weather cooperating to produce a fierce lightning storm on the required day. It was an absolute disaster which is to say it worked a little too well. Says Kurt Wopner, one of the several poor Richards to be partially electrocuted that day. While the real

“Franklin and his son conducted their kite and key study from the relative safety of a shed,”

many of the 200 counterfeit Benjamin's through their kites while completely exposed to the elements and either received nasty shocks or injured themselves falling. It's a good thing a lot of them were wearing rubber crops at the time. Says local ER doctors Samantha Webb or it could have been worse. Although I wish they hadn't insisted on staying in character while I was trying to treat them. All right, one of these things happened recently in a storm that made the news. Was it from

Alonzo Bowden, a fence of restaurant in Sag Harbor, New York refused to let people into shelter them from the storm because they simply hadn't called to head to reserve a table. From begin far side, Shaw Shank Redemption fans used the accident of a storm to just recreate that magical moment of Tim Robbins escape from the prison or from Adam Burke, Benjamin Franklin reenactors do two good job reenacting his experiments flying a kite in a thunder storm which one was the real

“story we found of the news. Well, I think Peter the one that's probably most believable is A.”

Is A, that's me. A for Alonzo in this case, his story of the best number. Yes.

They wouldn't let people in. They were like, do you have a reservation? They let people outside

with 80 mile parallel waves.

“We were right. That was Mara Siggler. Senior reporter from New York Post talking about the”

reservations being required during the storm out in Sag Harbor. Congratulations, Sarah. You got it right. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for allowing us to tell him the truth in an entertaining way. You want our prize, the voice of anyone. You might choose for your voice mail. Thank you so much for playing with us today. Thank you. Take care. And now the game we call not my job. A lot of famous musicians started young, but when Jason

Narducey was playing with his first punk band in clubs all over Chicago, he was 11 years old.

In the short time that's passed since then, he's collaborated with Bob Mold, Superchunk, Eddie Vetter, and many others, plus his own project split single. And most recently, he's

“been touring the world with actor Michael Shannon as they perform REM albums in their entirety.”

Jason Narducey, welcome to Wait Wait Don't Tell me. Thank you. Okay, fact check. Really true. You're 11 years old and you have a punk band and you're playing in bars. Yeah, I got my first guitar when I was 10 years old. Thank you, mom, and stepped out. And I immediately was captivated by punk rock. This is in 1982. And I locked out and met these kids on my block, who also like punk rock. And we formed a band, Evan Stinson,

verbotin. Well, that's a hard core. With an boom loud. Over the, oh, so you took us seriously. Yeah. I have so many questions like what kind of punk rock songs do with 11 year olds, right? Like raging against the injustice of an eight o'clock

“bedtime? Yeah, I think we only really got their twice. We tried so hard to be punk to keep”

to you. Yeah. Yeah. But our singer Tracy was just this fireball of charisma and she immersed herself in the punk rock community and got us a gig at Cubby Bear. The Cubby Bear, which is a very famous and very famous bar in Chicago, opening up for naked ray gun when I was 11. And I think no one would believe that that happened, but my dad drove me to the gig. Yeah. And he brought one of those 1983 camcorders. And so we did a enormous, enormous thing. Yeah. And he's very on his shoulder.

He videotaped it. Yeah. How could you, once you do that as 11 year old, how could you ever do anything else with your life? Do it better. Yeah. I guess. And famously Dave Grohl of Nirvana and then the food fighter says that it was you and maybe that band that inspired to get him into rock and roll. He entraced here cousins. Right. So he came to Evanston when he was 13 and saw his practice and he's just very sweet to credit us with inspiring him. Right. He's like,

someday I'm going to do that. Well, he made the HBO show Sonic Highway's and interviewed me in Tracy and showed footage from Cubby Bear, my dad got paid. Fine. More than me. I love like what Martin Scresese was to the band. You're dad.

Yeah. And what's I love? So your first launch. So that band for Boaton reunited 40 years after

breaking up. They came to me. Really? My bandmates. Yeah. I can't say they said we heard some festivals might hire us if we were. And I said you guys haven't played music for over 40 years. How are we going to do this? And we don't have enough music to play a festival. And the music that we have, I wrote when I was 11. I just, I didn't, I mean, I loved their enthusiasm and there are some of my closest friends. Tracy, Chris, Zach, and John Aaron. And um,

but I just said, how are we going to do this? And then I said, well, maybe I'll take some time to write new songs while you guys practice. And they were game for it. And I have to say, we played on the main stage of Riot Fest as our, wow. Yeah. And they're like incredibly ancient hook, a lot of fans who were wearing their original verboten merchandise. I've been 1882. I love that you think that we had merchandise. I guess my question is, what are the reasons

a band would break up when you were 11 years old? We broke up when I was 12.

puberty without band drama. So I want to ask you about your latest project. You've done

“so many things. You have been touring, I believe the world, right? You've been Europe and other places”

with Michael Shannon, the actor. Yeah. And you're doing entire Ari ML. Yeah. You started with

their first one, which was murmur, right? And a lot of questions, Michael Shannon, known primarily

as an excellent actor, Chicago guy, when he came to you and said, hey, man, I want to, I'm a singer. I want to do this. You're like, oh God, an actor who thinks he can sing. It's William Chapman. What was your reaction? Golden voice. Yeah. Well, the funny thing is, is that we've been doing this for 10 years in Chicago where Michael would say I'm going to come to town. Can you book a club, put together a band, and we'll play one entire record. And we do that once a year.

We did a pop, Dylan record. We did modern lovers. We did Neil Young Zuma. We did T-Rex. We did so many records like this. But then in 2023, we put an RM record. And it just exploded. I asked Michael,

“if he's ever done a rock tour, he said, no, I said, I think we could do one. You want to do it. He said,”

yeah, keep it short. You know, he's busy guy. Yes. So we, we booked a nine-day tour. And the first two shows were in San Francisco. The third show was in Minneapolis. Great routing on my part. And after the first song in Minneapolis, at first Avenue, we finished the first song ready

or for Europe, and the 1100 people just, you know, this, that thing that you always wish you can

hear. And I have video tape with this. Michael takes a couple of steps back and slowly walks up to the mic and says, holy shit. Wait. Oh, sorry. That's okay. Okay. Do you have video tape or do you dad have video tape? Still out there, still in the beta max. Well, Jason, you're busy. It is a pleasure to talk to you. We have invited you here to play a game. We're calling meet this under cover band. So as we have established, you're great at playing covers. But what

do you know about going under cover? We're going to ask you about agents who go under cover to catch the bad guys. Get two right. You win our prize. One of our listeners, the voice of anyone they might choose for their voicemail, Alza, who is Jason Marducey playing for. Owen Bostwick of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. There you go. Welcome.

So here's your first question. Ready to do this? Yeah. All right. Sometimes under cover operations

are too successful. Like in the case of a group of cops and Detroit who posed as drug buyers in 2017 and then did what? Was it a but so much drugs for themselves? The actual drug using community staged a protest at City Hall. The increased the local drug trade so much Detroit won City of the Year from the National Drug Traffickers Association or see successfully busted another group of undercover cops who were posing as drug dealers. You're so glad that you guys

wrote these for a punk rock musician. I do. Yeah. I'll go and see. You're going to go and see and you're correct. The undercover drug buyers successfully arranged a big buy because he big time drug dealers and then shouted. They're under arrest at the same time the drug dealers shouted. No, you're under arrest. And this is true a fist fight between the two groups of cops and sued. That's very good. Here's your next question. Just last month. Just last month.

Police in Peru pulled off a brilliant undercover sting. Their undercover agents got close enough to a major Narco trafficker to arrest him by disguising themselves as what? The world cup mascots. Be delivery robots or see Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey. I'll go with A. You're right. A. The very good. The cops knew the drug trafficker would be watching the opening game of the world cup so they dressed up two officers as clutch the ball

legal and maple the moose. I'm sure you know those are two of the mascots of the world cup. All right. Here's your last question. Get this. It'll be perfect. A Texas police officer went undercover to investigate a bartender suspected of selling meth and immediately went into

“a challenge. When the bartender asked him, "Are you a cop?" What did he do? Did he ask?”

What is a cop? Anyway, starting a 20 minute phyllosophical room. He said, "Are you a drug dealer?" And when she said, "Yes, arrested her." Or she said, "Yeah, I'm a cop. Here's my microphone holding out his actual microphone." And then asked if she would still sell him drugs and she did.

They do want you to go to see. I go to see. They're right. You're right. It was seen.

I also had a Jason emergency doing her quiz. You did all right because we got them all right. You did really well. Coming back. Jason Narducey is a musician who's about to go on tour with his friend Michael Shannon celebrating the 40th anniversary of REM's Life's Rich Pagent. He's also the author of a funny and charming and short memoir called Mostly the Van. Jason Narducey, thank you so much for

joining us on Whitwaith. Jason Narducey. It doesn't matter whatever you do, don't relax. Find out why.

“And our listener, remember challenge. Go on. Triple eight. Wait, wait.”

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head to the N.P.R. App for all things World Cup from the N.P.R. Network. I am out of sleep. We're playing this week with the Lanzo Bowdoin. Adam Burke and the Game Far Side. And here again is your host at the Riverside Theatre in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Peter, Sago. Thank you so much. I love it. Thank you, everybody. Coming up, Listener is sensitive to Limerick's May want to step away from the show for a few minutes

because pretty soon it will be our Listener, Limerick Challenge. If you'd like to play, give us a call at one AAA wait wait that's 188.9248.924. Right now panel some more questions for you from the week's news. The relationship column lists at the New York Times. This week summed up

“all the best advice that they have gathered over their careers. One useful tip is that you should”

give your romantic partner a list of what? Gifts, a list of the list. Let me give you a hint. Let me give you a hint. Things like the way you tip your ugly hat, the way you loudly gulp your tea. A list of criticism? A list of things they do that turn you off. Yes. A psychologist says that people who do focus on adding things to their experiences between the sheets, but it might be a better idea to remove things that ruin the experience

like using the phrase between the sheets. You know what we had the top of my list? What? Receiving a list. Yeah. I recently, I love my husband. I think he's the best. That's it. Nicky. I honestly don't have very many criticisms of it, but I did share it with him

“like the other day that I think he eats too many apples. All right. It's like we had a moment”

where we all knew that the game was gonna say something critical of her husband. Who you're in this room

anticipated it was going to be that? The idea that a woman of your caliber settled for one of those apples. You could have so much better. It's a fine-defined too many apples. Like, literally it's like five to seven apples a day. Oh my god. Like it's a lie. To sometimes he come home at night, spending a cider. Well, and by the way, those were just the apples I know about.

Wow. What do you have on those streets? You think he's hiding apple from you? Do you think he's

Did you find a, do you find a folder on his computer just called Golden Delicious? Adam, this week the New York Times reported in a new dating trend. People who were tired of non-chalance dating are instead trying what they are really calling what? So it's the opposite of non-chalance. It is. Is it like, like, gunned earhead dating? Is it like, you're overthinking it. Highstakes dating. No, the opposite of non-chalance is shut up. Yes,

Sha-la. What's dating? Ladies and gentlemen, what is trend? Yes, it's called Sha-la dating and the idea is, this is crazy. People actually put effort and care into their dating life.

I mean, oh yeah, basically it's dating like your desperate, right? Oh, I'll pick up the check and then

also give you $20. I love you. So no apples. No. No, the New York Times says Sha-la, dating, honestly, they're calling it that, and involves things like being openly into your partner and supporting their career, and the model for this is Taylor and Travis, known for their Sha-la day. He was so, she was so into his career, which is easy. His career is football games.

“Well, quick about Taylor and Travis. The only thing I say, can we all agree that from now on,”

now that she's married, all of her music is going to suck? I'm excited for an era where she can write songs about, like, whatever, brunch, but post it online, like, whatever. You know,

me and like, she can just finally stop talking about it. Instead of writing about boyfriends who

betrayed her, she can write a song about her husband who went ahead and finished the Netflix show without her. I'm fascinated that this, this, there the example for this. So if a guy meets a woman who's a world famous billionaire, he should be interred. No, because I'm single, and if this ever comes up, I've ever met a woman who's a world famous billionaire. I'll be like, you know what? You're interesting. Yeah.

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rhyme. You feel like to play on air, calling leave a message at one trouble. Wait, wait. That's 180, 8, 8, 9, 2, 4, 8, 9, 2, 4. You can catch as most weeks at the Student Baker Theatre in downtown Chicago. And come see us on the road. We'll be at the Rose Music Center in Hubert Heights, Ohio. That's just outside of Dayton. That's September 3rd. For tickets and info to all our live events, go to npripresents.org. Hi, Ron, wait, wait. Don't tell me. Hi, this is

Mary Blair from Monroe, Connecticut. Oh, how are things in Monroe, Connecticut? They are great. I'm so glad. What do you do there? Um, I am a middle school librarian. Oh, my gosh. We're the second school librarian. We've had on this show. And now I think I finally understand who our demographic is. Yeah. I love it. I actually was a literacy specialist before that. And I just finished my first year as a librarian. And we had more than 1,300 more books

checked out this year than in previous years. That's fabulous. If you are a literacy specialist, I know an island where they could use your services. Well, welcome to the show. Mary, also a slate. Of course, it's going to perform for you. Three news related lyrics with the last word are phrased missing from each. If you can fill in that last word or phrase correctly, and two of the lyrics will be a winner. Ready to go? You're in. All right, here's your first

lemric. When I travel, I don't overthink it. I buy souvenir liquor and drink it. Then I keep the shot glass. I've got them in mass. I love to collect a cheap. Trinket. Yes, the Wall Street Journal, this week covered with these songs of people who proudly collect cheap souvenir crap on vacations. Of course, we all buy that stuff. If you don't bring home those cheap tacky souvenirs, how are you supposed to remember what cities are for lovers? People shared with the

journal their collections of collectible mugs and magnets and sculptures made from tiny shells.

It's astonishing how something you will never use and don't actually want

become something you absolutely must have once Pensacola is printed on it.

“I think it's great to have the, especially if you end up having kids. It's great to have those”

and keep them and remind your kids why you're better towards them. Yeah, because that's the place we used to do. Exactly. I had a life before. Yeah. Why, I used to travel all over the world,

smirk in shock. Hey, let me cook, let me cook. All right, podiatris proudly say, work your wall.

“A white, a white foot bit of cork makes a high-fashioned door. A ballet flat that's also a”

Birkin style. You got it, boy. Birkin stocks. New collaboration with the French ballet, you company Repeto is a hippie ballerina's dream. It's perfect for anyone who loves the ballet, but just wishes you could seal the toes. The collection reimagines Birkin stocks famous sturdy silhouettes with details like

ballet inspired colors and ribbon lacing. It really brings that I'm writing my e-bike to the co-op vibe to classical dance. What scares me about this is when the crocs people find, oh no! That's a month if you were to ride. Here is your last lemric. As my free time is turned to the max, my chill vibe is showing some cracks. As I decompress, my mind starts to stress. I have had too much time to relax. Right, the Washington Post reported new research this week

that shows that relaxing the way we do it these days does not actually make you happier. Right? It makes sense one minute is like, oh, I'm going to be so happy reading in this hammock. And the next minute is like, hello, 9-1-1, I'm stuck in a hammock.

Experts, there are always experts say that we're relaxing wrong by binge watching TV or

scrolling on our phones. Okay, maybe. But what? Try this. If you're binge watching and scrolling

“in your phone at the same time, that's a good time. Also, how did Mary do in our quiz?”

She did great. Three out of three. Congratulations, Mary. Take care. Keep up the good work. Thank you so much. Bye bye. This week on sources and methods, fresh strikes between Iran and the United States is the war back on. What Iran wants is to basically charge a toll or insurance fees to go through the straight of her removes. That may be the way out of this. Plus, President Trump's surprise promise

to Ukraine. Listen now on sources and methods on the MPR app or wherever you get your podcasts. This is Tanya Mosley, co-host of fresh air. From mail in ballots to racial jerrymandering, a lot is at stake for America's free and fair elections. I spoke with journalist Ari Burman about

“what he calls a final blow to the voting rights act. My fear is that we are returning to a”

politics of Jim Crow in the South. Listen to fresh air on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts. Are we doomed? Helps you understand humanity's biggest threats. Prime and change pandemics into their weapons. Stop still hits planets. He said we stand divided we fall. How worried should you actually beat? And what can we do? I'm Ben Bradford. Join me for are we doomed? Harvey and PR network. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.

Now on to our final game, a lightning fill in the blank. Each of our players have 60 seconds in which to answer as many fill in the blank questions as they can. Each correct answer now worth 2 points. Also, can you give us the scores? Absolutely. Adam and Alonzo are tied up at three and the gain has a little work to do with two. All right. So the gain. All right. The gain you're in second place. So you're going to be up first. The clock will start when I begin

your first question fill in the blank. Here we go. On Wednesday, Democratic Senate candidate blank dropped out of the racing. We're in Grand Platinum. Right. This week, the health worker's battling blank in the Democratic Republic of Congo went on strike. Uh, Ebola. Right. This week, the collapsing high rise in blank forced evacuations of other buildings in the neighborhood. Midtown Manhattan. Yes. On Wednesday, federal judge rejected blanks attempt to delay his

five million dollar payment to E.G. in Carroll. Right. This week, a bank manager in South

Korea who stole almost $50,000 from a bank fault was caught even though he covered his tracks by blanking. Uh, peeing on his tracks. No. By replacing the cash, he stole with thick money that had cartoon ducks on it. And Thursday, NASA said it was seeking volunteers for a year long simulated mission to blank. Uh, Jupiter. Mars. Jupiter? On Wednesday, it was announced

Right. This week, two teams in North Carolina were arrested when they were caught breaking

into their school using blank. Um, niche. No, a homemade plasma cannon. According to police, the two teams used to homemade plasma cannon made from metal glass and a propane tank to melt a hole through the school's front door and gain entry to the building. It's a kind of story that makes you say, actually, maybe it's okay to cut funding from STEM education. I also had it in the game doing our quits. It did pretty good. It's got five right for

ten more points with a total of twelve. She's now in the lead. All right. Let me arbitrarily pick a lawn zo to go next here. We go a lawn zo film the blank during the

“NATO summit Trump held a press conference with Ukrainian President Blank. Oh, uh, lynch key. Uh,”

close enough. Zalinsky following a day is long funeral procession blank buried their

supreme leader on Thursday. Around. Right. This week, three more people were charged with vandalizing the blank and Washington, DC. The reflecting pool. Right. On Monday, meteorologist Warren that the super Blank may be worse than predicted. El Nino. Yes, the super El Nino following demand from tourists visiting the US for the World Cup. Blank announced it was offering special VIP tours. Taco Bell. No, Walmart. Under a new FTC ruling owners of

lawn and farm equipment made by Blank will be allowed to repair themselves. John Beard. Right. On Monday, the royal family said that Blank would not stay at Buckingham Palace during his visit to the UK. Oh, uh, Prince Harry. Yes, it's Harry. This week, two teenagers in North Carolina who were driving around shooting BB guns and drinking were arrested when Blank called the cops on them. Grown men driving around with BB guns. No. The two teenagers who were arrested when the

Wemo, they were in called the cops on them. So the kids called the Wemo and they were like driving around and it shooting their toy guns out the window and people and enjoying what the police called, quote, afternoon libations, but they quickly regretted the decision when the Wemo pulled over and called the cops. What a knark. We're one step away from a Wemo being like, hey,

“that doesn't look like your wife back there with you. Also, how did Alonzo do in our quiz?”

He got six right for 12 more points, which gives him a total of 15 and a lead. All right. So how many of them does Adam Burke be to win it? Six to time, but seven to win. All right, Adam. This is for the game. Fill in the blank. On Wednesday, Trump said that the U.S. is ceasefire with Blank was over Iran right after three weeks former Senate Majority Leader Blank remains hospitalized. Uh, Mitch McConnell. Right.

This week residents in Berlin were shocked when local Blank started leaving free samples. And their mailboxes. It's a squirrel? No, local ketamine dealers. This week, the CDC warned that a mysterious Blank bug was spreading across the U.S. Is it the explosive diarrhea? It is. On Tuesday, space company Blank officially joined the NASDAQ 100. Space X. Right. On Tuesday, the Olympics lifted their suspensions on the team from Blank.

“Russia. Right. With 25 nominations, the pit led the pack for the 2026 Blank awards.”

Ameth. Right. This week, Amanda Scotland was arrested and charged with trying to use Blank as a weapon. Um, his breath. No, a seagull. Witnesses say the man grabbed two seagulls by the legs and then used one to try to hit a passerby. Why grabbed two? Obviously, one was for the crime. The other was for his getaway. Also did Adam do well enough to win? No, he didn't.

I told him, but, but he got six right, which means he's tied with a Lanzo Bowden and they are now coaching. Coach. Coach. Excellent. All right, I guess I'm just a little sick of it. How about the maples? Yeah. In just a minute, we're going to ask our panelists to predict after the love island, what'll be the next hit reality show. But first, let me tell you all,

wait, wait, tell Tomies, the production of NPR and WBEZ should cargo an association with urgent

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Philip, go to corrects our remarks, our public address and answers, Paul Friedman. Our ops manager is just Sierra Vardach. B. David Beaderman composed our theme. Our program is produced by Jennifer Mills Miles Dormos and Lily and King. Special thanks this week to Blive Robertson. Peter Gwyn is Milwaukee's second best. And the choice of five to your eightier technical direction to learn a wider CFO's column. Miller, a production manager as Robert Newhouse, our senior

producers in Sherlock and the executive producer. A wait wait, don't tell me, it's Mr. Michael Danforth. Now, panel, what will be the next great reality show to gain first on? Brain Island where contestants have to successfully explain a law physics before they can have sex with another contestant.

and ignore them while they scroll on their phones. And Adam Burke, what island? A show about

“Trump's legal defense team. And if any of that happens, panel will ask you about it”

on wait, wait, don't tell me. Thank you, Also Slay. Thanks also to Adam Burke, thank you for

sobbing and a lot of love with Bobbi. Thanks to Max Faringer and the entire staff and crew

“here at the Riverside Theater. First of all, thanks to everyone at WM here in Milwaukee.”

Thanks for a fabulous audience here and came up to see us. The beautiful downtown Milwaukee

is got some thanks to all of you for listening at home. I'll be the second one, we'll see you in

“Chicago next week. This is Terry Gross. When I was celebrating my 50th anniversary hosting”

fresh air, I asked my guest, Rossmaster General Jeff Ross, to roast me. Terry Gross, a barely living legend. Still at a listen to fresh air on the NPR app or wherever you get podcasts. Whether you're dedicated to a team, I want to see them win. Rooting for a nation. I'm not even a soccer fan, but I'm just rep in my people or just appreciate the joy the beautiful game inspires. Find the World Cup tab in the NPR app home to all of NPR's coverage on and off the pitch.