The Alzo Era begins in Austin!

by asking three questions, who, how, why now?

“If the culture's asking it, we're talking about it.”

At MPR, we stand for your right to be curious and indulge your cultural curiosity. Follow its been a minute wherever you get your podcasts and we'll break down the zeitgeist topics that are filling your feed. From NPR and WBEZ, Chicago, this is wait, wait, don't tell me, the NPR news quiz. I'm the man who, for some reason, thought now was a good time to start a career in public

radio. I'm Alzo Slade and here's your host at the Bass Concert Hall in Austin, Texas, Peter, say go, thank you, Alzo, thank you everybody, it's great to be back in Austin, Texas. We have a fine show for you today, later on, we're going to be talking to Alanna Myers,

Taylor, the most decorated black winter Olympian ever, but first, we are so excited to

inaugurate what cultural historians of the future will refer to as the Alzo era. As we welcome, Alzo Slade as wait waits new official judge and score keeper. Thank you, thank you, thank you so much, it's very exciting, but Alzo, now that you are official, you are able to wheel the awesome power of judging and score heepering. So as you start your reign, what do you want people to know about you?

That I am the most decorated black score keeper in wait wait history.

“So, if you want to be the first contestant of the Alzo era, give us a call, the number”

is one triple eight, wait wait, that's 180, 8, 8, 9, 2, 4, 8, 9, 2, 4. Let's welcome our first listener contestant, hi, Ryan, wait wait, don't tell me. Hi, this is Jenny Stout calling him from Salt Lake City, Utah. Salt Lake City is a fabulous place. Speaking of winter Olympics, what do you do there?

I support graduate students at a local university and I am a busy mom of two kids, but most importantly, I am doing this to honor my late father who introduced me to the show and taught me to love and PR.

Oh, that's so wonderful, it's always lovely to hear, well Jenny it's great to have you

on the show, let me introduce you to our panel this week from Austin, first up a comedian and fashion designer who's new fashion project House Cardi by Michelle Wolfe just dropped it's Brian Babylon.

“Next, one of Vultures comedians you should and will know of 2025, it's Rachel Costa.”

Hi, Jenny, thank you, hi, thank you very much. Most of the hip podcast breaking bread with Tom Poppa, it's Tom Poppa, so Jenny, welcome to the show, you're going to play who's also this time, also Slate is going to read you three quotations from this week's news, if you can correctly identify or explain two of them, you will win our prize, any voice from our show, you might choose for your voice smell.

Are you ready to go? I'm sure hope so, I've been cramming all day. What do you have?

All right, well here is your first quote and as I'm sure you'll recognize from Alzo's

imitation, it is vanilla ice. I don't even vote, so I don't even care, I'll go play for Putin if you want. Warm body vanilla ice was one of the few performers not to drop out of a concert on the national mall celebrating what? America's 250th birthday.

Yes, that's exactly right for their big party on the national mall, the White House proudly announced the lineup of American music icons like vanilla ice and Brett Michaels from the band Poison, seriously, it was like they just wrote down all the names from the Grammys in memoriam real. It's all part of the big festivity game.

The cage match, they've been building this thing on the White House line to have a UFC basically a cage match. That's going to be on Flag Day, which, oh, by the way, what a coincidence is also President Trump's 80th birthday. Let me just say this about that UFC thing, if you look at aerial footage of the White

House, it looks like what they thought the White House was going to look like when the Obama's were there. It looks like breaking bad meth lab house with a construction of the ballroom that you

It looks like Air Force one is also in blocks, it looks like it looks wild. It feels like when you have a house guest and you can't kick them out and the ruining everything and you're like, "We'll just clean it when they're gone." All right, Jenny here is your next quote, "It's about a hot new director in Hollywood." He got his start at age nine, posting videos of himself playing Minecraft.

That was variety magazine talking about 20-year-old Kane Parsons, one of the hot new Hollywood

“directors who got their start making videos for what platform?”

-You too? -You too. -Yes. -You too. The horror movies, backgrounds, made by Mr. Parsons, and Obsession, both made by former YouTubers,

are dominating the box office, they grossed over $100 million on their opening weekend.

It's so wonderful to see theaters filled again with young people, all of whom had to jump up every four minutes to hit the skip ad button on the screen. -That's hard to get people out to the theater these days. -Yeah. -It's hard to get people to the movie theater to play $50 popcorn.

-It's tough. -And yet they have managed it by giving these young filmmakers an opportunity to make real movies. Have you seen these movies or did you follow their careers on YouTube prior? -I haven't seen them, but I have two daughters who are in their early 20s, so I know enough

about them. What do you want to know? [ Laughter ]

“-Did they come home and tell you all about it?”

-Yeah, they're really scary. They showed me the trailer for the backroom ones. -Yes. -There's a lot of hidden undertones. -I'm hidden undertones.

-And I'm serious. -Yeah, yeah, yeah. -The directors of these two films are 26 and 20 years old, that's half the age of Martin's great-saysie, if you add them together. And the director of this movie, Backrooms, he's 20 and the movie is based on this series

of YouTube shorts. He started making when he was 16.

He is a good chance to be the first big Hollywood star to become a has been before he

can legally rent a car. -Wow. -Yeah. -They are talented. I mean, when my daughters -- they just, you know, I've been waiting for this moment to happen.

Because young people are so into the tech, and they're so on top of it, and now they

“can make -- legit films out of it makes perfect sense.”

My daughters, within 30 seconds of taking a picture, are able to take that picture, zoom in on my fat neck, and make that deep picture. -Right. -That's the thing that counts. -Skills.

-That's going to see Hollywood. -Yeah. -Your last quote is an official statement from the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team. -Tarps off. Let's go.

-So tarps off.

It's the hottest thing in Major League Baseball right now when you hear tarps off and you're

in the stands, you are supposed to do what? -Oh, geez. I think they take off their shirt. -You take off their shirts, yeah. -Oh, yeah.

-Of course, taking your shirt off. That's tarps off. What started is a quirky thing, among a few fans, has spread across Major League Baseball with hundreds of fans at each game, piling into sections of bleachers, all taking off their shirts, waving them over their heads.

Some people are praising this trend as being body-positive, as in I am positive you guys should put your shirts back on. -Because I'm being honest with you, this is an opportunity for whatever male sports bra situation. -Yeah. -It was a lot of like white man titties out there.

-Nothing wrong with that, y'all. Because it helped the team win when everybody takes their top off. -Apparently. -Yeah. But that's what happened.

It happened in St. Louis, the Cardinals game, and these guys started doing it, and apparently the Cardinals rallied, and won, and everybody sort of saying, "Oh, is the guy's yelling and taking off their shirts?" -Twinkle. -Twinkle.

-So we're being announced. It was like, "Oh, momentum's shifting out all those arealies, the momentum is shifting." They're picking up some steam. "Oh, there's arealies." After that happened, by the way, the Cardinals manager, this is true, bought out a section

of the bleachers personally, and offered the ticket free to anyone who would come and agreed to take their shirts off. And you know, manager season is going great when he's trying to distract everybody. -With look, naked fans up there! -What are the women fans doing?

-Are they? -Can they do this, too? -To my knowledge, and I'm not sure, a woman have not yet participated in this trend. -Why? -Feminism.

-Feminism needs to step it up, okay? -Yeah, they should do, they don't want the team to win.

-Ziny made her father proud.

Three out of three. -Really? -Ziny. Thank you so much for playing. -Thank you so much, Jenny.

-Thank you so much, Jenny. -Take care.

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

Brian Summer, Blockbuster season is here, and a new study finds movies are more likely to feature a what in them than a woman over 60. -Animal? -Yes, a talking animal. -Yeah.

-According to a new study, Hollywood films are four times as likely to star a talking animal. Then they are to star a woman over 60. People say this is because of sexism and ages, but maybe the talking animals are just more talented. Maybe the reason they cast a giraffe in the new movie about Eleanor Roosevelt is that it

had the best audition. -That joke would have had to be so good for this audience who have gone with you. [ Laughter ] -You were in there, you were in there, you were in there, you were in there. -I just saw a Merrill Street just shaking her head.

[ Laughter ]

-I kind of get it because animals have never asked me when I'm going to have

a child, or told me that I'm getting a little touchy. So, as much as I know that when I'm a 60-plus year old woman, I want to have a job. I know that maybe it's okay. [ Laughter ] -So, you're saying women over 60 are a little judgey on younger women.

-To me, personally, I've experienced that at times, but they also deserve rights. [ Laughter ]

“I love you guys, and I think what you're doing out there is amazing stuff.”

[ Laughter ] -Coming up, don't forget your sunscreen. It's our summer theme to bluff the listener game. Go on, AAA, wait, wait to play. We'll be back in a minute with more.

Wait, wait, don't tell me from NBR. [ Music ] -This week on, consider this. The drama at CBS News, some of the most respected journalists in America say their corporate ownership is bowing to political pressure.

It's intimidation. They've created a climate of fear to make the news organization unwilling to tackle the problem and report to news. -Law times 60 minutes, correspondent Steve Croft, this week on Consider This. Listen on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts. [ Music ]

-From NBR and WBE, easy Chicago. This is, wait, wait, don't tell me the NPR news quiz. I'm Alzo Slay. We're playing this week with Tom Papa, Brian Babylon, and Rachel Costa. And here again is your host at the best concert hall in Austin, Texas.

Peter, say no. [ Applause ] -Right now, it is time for the wait, wait, don't tell me. Bluff the listener game, call 1. Triple 8, wait, wait to play a game in the air.

Hi, you're on wait, wait, don't tell me. Hi, Peter, this is a Mickey card from Northfield, Minnesota. -Oh, Northfield, I know it well. Home to some great universities, and of course, the Northfield Raid. That's when, if I'm not mistaken, a Jesse James ended his career as an outlaw

by thinking he could take a bunch of gentle minnesotans and got his butt kicked. -Yeah, they celebrate that every September, the defeat of Jesse James Day.

“-I've got it two times, and I've learned you should bring headphones”

because the re-enactments get really loud. -Oh, sure. I just love the idea of like minnesotans, they'll get in their guns. Oh, I guess we're going to have to shoot you now. Oh, yeah, we're going to have to shoot you on the face.

-Anyway, sorry. Mickey, it's great to have you with us. You're going to play the game on which you have to tell truth from fiction. Also, what is Mickey's topic? -A summer twist.

-So summer, of course, has its classic entertainment and leisure time activities going to the beach. I'll fresco dining, sweating through your shirt, even though all you're doing is I'll fresco dining. But this week, we read about a strange little tweak

on a quintessential summer experience. Our panel is going to tell you about it. Pick the one who's telling the truth and win the weight waiter of your choice on your voicemail. Including, by the way, I should say, Bill Curtis.

Are you ready to play? -Yeah, I'm ready.

-All right, first let's hear from Tom Papa.

-Anyone who thinks that using insect repellent will save their summer may want to listen up or better yet stay inside. Research now suggests that the chemical deep, widely used in insect repellents may actually be attracting

the mosquitoes. In other words, the mosquitoes are learning through experience that where there's deep, there's the possibility of a blood meal. What's a blood meal?

You. To a mosquito, you are nothing but a walking, talking bag of blood. Researchers are impressed that mosquitoes can smell deep with their food and still want to eat it.

In the same way that humans can stand alongside

but still go back for seconds.

Turns out that mosquito repellent is actually a mosquito attractant.

“Your next summer surprise comes from Rachel Costa.”

-After last summer's dangerous heat closed pools across the south, a pool supply company in dry creek Texas has taken matters into their own hands. To prevent dehydration amongst swimmers, Susan Daley of Susan's pool solutions

has replaced the water in over 40 public pools with blue gatorade. The idea to fill the pool with blue raspberry flavored electrolytes came to Susan after last summer's heat wave forced the pool to close.

Kids were fainting left and right and they said lifeguard Clayton O'Hara. They were going down like dominoes. It was really stressful but brought a lot of

the lifeguards closer together.

He said smiling at Courtney Smith. There is for sure so chlorine in the water and the gatorade is making everyone really sticky when they get out, but no one was fainting yet this year, said Courtney.

Susan Daley seems unfazed by the potential setbacks of her creation. When asked about her concerns regarding people urinating in the pool, she provided no comment,

but she did scratch your head really after the question was asked. (audience laughing) - Preventing dehydration and swimmers by filling the swimming pools themselves with gatorade,

your last story of a swarve in summer comes from Brian Babylon. Matthew Ryley, an engineer from Redmond, Washington, came to Southern California to get some sun. He left knowing the exact date

his startup would fail. The woman who told him goes by the name of Miss Molly. For the last two summers, Miss Molly has worked from a folding chair near tower 14 reading prophecies

in the summer burns of strangers. The burn tells me something Miss Molly said. Mostly bad things, it's summer. Nobody's burn says great news. Her hits are poly enough.

A peeling shoulder that leads to divorce. A burnt nose, that's a shady contractor on its way. A man with a flawless farmer's tan, you get three words, you already know. A local dermatologist said it's deeply responsible

and also somehow 90% accurate. Miss Molly asked only two things. Respect the burn and apply alo after. But she has one rule. She would not read her own back.

She caught a glimpse of her back in the mirror one time and she quietly said some futures aren't yours to look at. (audience laughs) So, which of these was an unusual twist. We found on a summer standard in the news.

Was it from Tom Papa, the amazing discovery

that all that mosquito repellent we put on actually is attracting the mosquitoes. From Rachel Costa, a woman is devised a way to keep people from getting dehydrated. We'll have to pull by filling the pool itself

with Gatorade or from Brian Babylon. A psychic in Venice Beach, California who can accurately tell your future just from your sunburn.

“Which of these is the story of summer we found in the news?”

I think I'm going to go with the first one. You're going to go with the first one, Tom Story about all that mosquito repellent. Actually attracting the mosquitoes. All right, that's your choice. We spoke to someone who is very familiar with the real story.

I think we can safely say that mosquitoes are smarter than perhaps some people get in credit for it. That was Nicola Davis. She is a science correspondent at the Guardian talking about mosquitoes. Actually coming to love your bug spray

because it means you're available. Congratulations, Mickey. You got it right. You figured out the Tom was selling the truth. You need to point forward. Tom and of course you have won our prize.

The voice of anyone you may use from our show. Congratulations, Mickey. Thank you. Thank you so much for playing with us today. Bye now. Take care.

Hey, Mickey. [music playing] And now the game we call not my job. A lot of myers Taylor was a star on her collegiate softball team but didn't make the woman's national team.

So she decided, as many ball players do, to move to Bob sledding instead. They're not to be a good choice as over five different winter Olympics. She became the most decorated American Bob sledder ever. She lives now right here in Austin with her family.

We are delighted to welcome her now. A lot of myers Taylor, welcome to Wait Wait. You came out wearing your gold medal.

“You're on stage. Do you like just wear it around wherever you go?”

You know, only when I pull something on my husband, you know, tell me, he's got to take out the garbage or anything that you pull it out. You're like, "Here you go. Pulling a ring. Pulling a ring."

At that time, you were living in Georgia. The other thing that happened since last week spoke to you was that you went on to the 2026 Olympics in Milan, Cortina.

“And Italy and you became the gold medalist in the new sport of Mono Bob, right?”

And I think I speak for all of your fans here in Austin and internationally when I say, "What is a Mono Bob?" So Mono Bob, Bob said is traditionally had the two-person and the four-man discipline. Mono Bob is just a single person in the sled. So we push, run, jump in, and then we're in charge of navigating it all by yourself.

So no help this time. Right? It did it start because people got tired of their teammates on the, they're like, "You know what? I'll get you guys. I'm on a Mono Bob."

I don't even know what's amazing is.

So Bob's sledding has been around for a long time over a century, right? And it took this long to figure out, "Well, maybe just one person could do it themselves." Because we discussed this last time here in the show. Other people either the one pusher or the three depending. All they do is push the sled, which is important.

And then they get in and do nothing. Yep, do nothing. So, preferably. For preferably. They do something something has gone desperately wrong. Yeah. And speaking as a driver, you're happy to be rid of that worry.

Yeah, no backseat drivers. You don't have to worry about anybody. Are you ready to go? It's nothing worse than to like an run that could get you the championship. And like, one of your pusher is like, "Can we stop? I got to use the bath."

Yeah. Just the worst. It's absolutely the worst.

The other thing I found out about you since last we spoke to you is that you were one of the first

elite athletes to compete against, I should say, the first female elite athlete to compete against men in a straightforward company. And a straightforward competition.

“Can you tell me when that happened and what exactly that was?”

Yeah. So, as I mentioned earlier, women have only had two disciplines. There's a two man in the foreman. And women have only been able to compete at the Olympic level in the two person. So, they finally allowed us to compete in the four person. And I was like, "Yes, let's do this.

Let's get another shot to win Olympic medal." And I competed in the foreman discipline actually with my husband. So, I was one of the first. I was the first woman to make the US men's national team in the foreman sled with my husband. A winner.

So, it wasn't just women against men. It was women and men against women and men. It was like whatever makes your people found to be most effective for their team. It could have been a mixture, but it was largely women pilots with a male crew behind them and then competing against men.

Really? So, that's a wow. I'm going to, a lot of stereotypes come to mind. Did the men who were pushing kind of want to drive? No, they were pretty happy for me just to be behind me and just to support me.

And I think it helps when your husband is back there. He's going to keep him in mind. Really? That's right. And I've seen your husband.

He's pretty swollen. He's like the conditioning coach. He doubles as my bodyguard, too. Yes, right.

But that's an amazing date night, though.

Hey, like, hey, let's go ahead and get this metal right quick. You know what I'm saying?

“You go to, you know, that's what I was thinking.”

Like, do you just get dressed in the outfits just for fun? No, but it is a perfect date night. Could you can't bring the kids? So, you know, kids can't be in the sled. So, you know, it's me time.

Is there us time? beef between mono, mono, mono, mono, mono, mono, mono, and like the loose people. Is it like, is it sort of like jets in the sharks like loose versus mono, mono, mono? No, actually, we get along with losers really well, but losers like losers. Yeah, losers like the country club sports and Bob said it's more, more blue colors. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. How do you handle it? So you mentioned you had kids, you and your husband have two kids growing, now raising them here in Austin. In fact, you, is it right that you won one of your gold medals at one Olympics while you were pregnant?

Yes, yep, yep. Did you know at the time? So the Bob's will have five people. In a way, it was a fun, there were some people. It was a two-person Bob's lead, but yeah, technically, you had three people. And I know it's rather difficult to do here in Austin, but have you ever taken your kids sledding? Haven't taken them sledding, but the nanny has. Not in Austin, but the nanny has very loosing. Oh, yeah, it's got very loosing. Loosing emoji.

If I can't just be on a normal sled, like I have a Bob sled, I can't just be on a radio flyer, that's real? Really? Yeah, that's what you could do there. Yeah, no, I'm not getting behind any sled, I'm not driving. Fair enough. Do you ever, do you ever get free food if you wear your medal? Well, actually, when you were with this before, you told us that when you're first gold medal, which was in the, I want to say, the 2010 Olympic? Yes, bronze medal. And you were like, you were so young and hungry, and I guess maybe thinking that was impressive.

It did work. That's got a free frosty at Wendy's.

“So, you're much more established, you're a legend in the sport, a record setter. Do you still try that?”

Haven't tried it because I think the stigma with the gold medal was people think you can pay for a meal. So, they expect you to pay for the gold. They expect you to tip well. So, no more free food. Oh, yeah. Put that. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Take off the gold. Take out the old bronze. So, you can get, you know. Do you ever get free games for people get off the equipment for you? That's a good, good try, but I definitely will try that because that will be. Usually there's a lot of lines. I train in public gyms, train in the local rec club.

So, there is always a weight for gym equipment, so I definitely need to try that.

Not anymore. Well, Alana, it is great to have you with us again. And this time, we've asked you here to play a game we're calling "sletter, meet slider." So, you are a champion of the sliding sports. We thought we'd ask you about the original slider, white castle hamburgers.

And through two to three questions, you will win our prize for one of our listeners. The voice of anyone that may choose in their voice mail, are you ready to play? Let's go. All right. Alzo, who is Alana playing for this time?

Crystal Craig right here in Austin, Texas. That's very exciting. And I just want to ask you to know your competitive, but I also know your used to routines.

“Would you like to do this competition with your husband crouching behind you?”

Yes. Okay. He's way better at trivia than I ever. Okay. So, well, here we go.

So, here's your first question.

When the first white castle restaurant opened in Wichita, Kansas, in 1921, the founders wanted to establish with the potential customers of very specific reputation. They wanted to be known as what? A, the most pro-monarchy restaurant. B, the restaurant with the world's smallest food,

or C, the most sanitary restaurant in town. Oh, gosh. I really haven't been to Wichita for a long time. So, I'm going to go with C. You're right.

That was the same. This was only a few years after updance and clears books.

“The jungle to come out and nobody wanted to eat ground beef.”

They were afraid of what was in it. So, the white walls and the stainless steel of the white castles were supposed to assure you of its claimings. Here's your next question. Once a year, white castle goals all out to celebrate a particular holiday, which is at A in December.

They offer the meat menorah where you can get eight sliders. One for each night of Hanukkah. B, on Valentine's Day, white castle becomes love castle. A fine dining restaurant compete with tablecloths, candles, and romantic music, with which you can enjoy your meal,

or see on Halloween, one in ten burgers has a razor blade hidden. Well, since I heard a couple of tears for B, I'm going to go with B. That's right. I love castle. This is a huge thing.

Tens of thousands of people show up at white castle for Valentine's Day. You can also get the discounted sloppy Joe's six packs for some reason. Here's your last question. You go for perfect as you have been in pretty much everything else. White castle has innovated to keep up with modern times as in which of these.

A, thanks to a partnership with Vitamix, you can now get any white castle burger as a smoothie. [laughter] B, 100 locations will soon have their burgers flipped by a short order cook robot named Flippy, or C, they're catering to Botox enthusiasts by promising quote, "We're sure there's botulism in our food."

[laughter] All those are real possibilities. [laughter] I will agree that they are possibilities. Okay.

Oh. Ah. You go with B. That's Flippy the Robot. Pretty soon your white castle burger will be untouched by human hands.

It's a little bit of a rise in yours. Also, how did Alanna do in our quiz? She gets a weight weight. Don't tell me go metal. Three out of three.

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In just a minute, we finally find the Hidden Valley in our listener,

Limerick Challenge. Call one triple eight weight weight to join us in the air. We'll be back in a minute with more of Whitway Dotaumi from NPR. [music playing] In just a minute, we finally find the Hidden Valley in our listener,

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She reveals Joe Biden's 2024 debate performance was so alarming. Doctors checked him after he got off the stage. I was terrified. I thought, oh my God, what's happening? Is this a stroke?

What is this? Inside the dramatic month that followed, leading to one of the biggest decisions of Biden's presidency to walk away. This week on NewsMakers, you can listen to watch wherever you get your podcasts. [music playing]

From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is Whitway Dotaumi, the NPR News Quiz. I'm Alzo Slade. We're playing this week with Brian Babylon, Tom Poppa, and Rachel Koster.

And here again is your hope. At the best concert hall in Austin, Texas. Peter, Seigo. He allows us all in just a minute. [applause]

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It'll one trip away, wait, wait, wait. That's 1, 8, 8, 8, 9, 2, 4, right now. A panel, some more questions for you from the week's news. Rachel, club mad is about to open.

It's first ever Beach Resort on the coast of South Africa.

But there's one little problem. They have to figure out a way to keep what away from their guests. On the history. [laughter] Yeah.

All right? All right? [laughter] You can't. You can't hit him black your way out of his room.

Sorry. No, no. I'll give you a hint. At this resort, Jaws isn't just a movie night. Charks.

Yes, sharks. This is the answer. Managing sharks. This will be the very first club mad Beach Resort on the coast of South Africa. And that's because the coast is home to three different species of man-eating sharks.

[laughter] And also explains the new resort's ad campaign wake up to Beach Side Yoga. Then a surfing lesson. Then survivors have a drink by the pool. [laughter]

“I think that the sharks that are there should be able to stay there and not be pushed away.”

Well, that's in fact what's going on is they're like, "Okay, these sharks are here. We're trying to open this Beach Resort. A lot of people saying, "Well, you shouldn't do that." In fact, a lot of people are saying, "You just let the sharks alone." In fact, there is one proposal to put up a shark net, right?

But environmentalists, environmentalists, say, "No, that doesn't work." Those nets, they just kill other endangered species. And sometimes the sharks get stuck inside the net. Which makes it more angry. Right.

And so then the sharks are like, "Well, we're basically we're in prison now."

But at least the food's good. Yeah. They're seeing a club mad sign. Oh, you can eat. Yeah, pretty much.

[laughter] All the clues are included, right? Oh, yeah. Rachel, great news if you're jealous of the omnisch. This week we heard about a new concept where people are encouraged to take a

Rum springer after what? Um, the communities have hinted. You may. You may. You may.

You may. You may. After college. After high school. No, no, no.

That's fairly typical. After you're at their internship. No.

“You need to take a load off after that kind of thing.”

It's after their first thing.

But that thing usually ends unexpectedly or not. Not what they wanted it to happen. I'll get it. Yes, divorce. You got it.

Sorry. A writer in the cut is recommending anyone who is recently divorced to take a divorce Rum springer, quote, unquote, where you do whatever you want. For a while. After your divorce, it's a groundbreaking idea.

People normally are so measured and regular after the divorce. I think that the Amish teacher value will listen, but it should just be that after divorce just turn your own butter. Do's only kind of simple. You're closing.

You don't have to be a slut at 55. You make a bunch of, whatever your toast that you bake on your own. It's simple. And then your kids won't have their hearts broken again. That was beautiful.

That was beautiful. That was beautiful. That was beautiful. You think about it? To feel for you.

Yeah. That was really nice. Yeah. But really, they're just slapping a kind of fun label on something. We all know people do and they shouldn't.

Like, yeah, you're not taking a sabbatical for personal growth. You just didn't go to work for a year. Coming up, it's like you're filling the blank.

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Hi, this is Sebastian, calling from Menden Vermont.

Menden Vermont, okay, what do you do there? I am a Student Success Advisor at Vermont State University's Castleton Campus, and as the 16 days ago, I am a new father. Whoa!

16 days? Oh, my gosh. Wow.

“How do you have time to like call into radio shows?”

I have a wonderfully supportive partner in life who knows this is a life-long dream of mine, and so she's making this possible for me. Wow, that is lovely. Wow.

That's a lovely language. Well, congratulations. Muzzle Tom, and welcome to the show. Sebastian, you're going to play our Limerick Challenge.

Alzo Slade, for the first time, as our official judge,

Squarekeeper. And Limericist, Limerick Reader. He's going to read you three news you laid to Limerick's to the last word of phrase missing. Your job filled that in.

Two times out of three, do that you will win our prize. Ready to go? I'm ready. All right, here is your first Limerick. Alzo?

“To woo buyers for homes, our plot thickens.”

They see country life, their post-quickens. Their interest is spurred with egg-laying birds. We are selling new homes with some chickens. Yes, chickens, luxury homes. Are now being sold with chickens and chicken coops included.

You can instantly live the Instagram fantasy of gathering your own sustainable eggs from your chickens for breakfast. And then in the afternoon, you're denizing them when they all get bird food. [LAUGHTER] Chickens are fun.

Do you have chickens? Have you had chickens?

No, I never had chickens, but I grew up in New Jersey.

And my dad would take us into the city to see a thing called the Dancing Chicken. And it was in a arcade booth, and there'd be a chicken in there. And you put a quarter in and they'd play music. The chicken would start to dance. When did you grow up?

1926. Oh, come see the Dancing Chicken. That was a fun time for the Papa family. Until we found out that the quarter actually turned on the music and also electrified the floor. No.

Yeah. And we cried all the way home to New Jersey. Yeah. Any one of what that chicken's doing now? Not much.

Here is your next Limerick Sebastian. There's a calendar room has released a frog wearing good-looking beefed with collar and stow. They're just acting a role. The models they used are not. For each priest, yes, this week we were shocked to learn that the guy in the cover of the famous

sexy priest calendar on sale and shops all over Rome, Italy, is actually not a priest. He's just a regular guy. Well, he's not regular. He's hot. So this calendar in question, you've seen them if you've been to Rome.

It's come into the spotlight because people have discovered that several of the 12 priests in it are not actually members of the clergy. It sounds like somebody had the idea. Of course, do one hot priest for every month and they ran out of real ones by the time they got to February.

“But I'm curious on who's into like sexy priest calendars?”

I can tell you exactly who. Tell me. A guy just having a job and believing in something is honestly kind of awesome. I think it would be cute to have like a mix of hot priests but then like fun priests. Yeah.

Like personality priests. Yeah, like playing baseball or writing a little pony. Yeah. All right, Sebastian, here is your last lemric. In Europe, they're going to Blanche at our buttermilk sauce Evelynch.

We will shower the blessing of creamy white dressing. We are preaching the gospel of ranch. Ranch, ranch, yes, this week hit a valley ranch announced that we're hiring a two ranch dressing ambassadors who's job would be to travel around Europe to promote ranch dressing on America's number one cultural export.

Here. This is, as you know, I live in Europe like four months out of the year. Every time I go to Europe, I take some swishish sweet blunts and some ranch dressing in my suitcase. Every time. Because they don't have ranch over there.

They don't have ranch, they don't have dairy creamers. So have like American poison stuff in my suitcase. Every time. It's a weird thing to say, I live in Europe four months of the year and I love ranch.

Yeah. You're a very interesting character. I love ranch dressing.

“I just worry about when the war with Europe starts and we have to pull our ranch”

owners from the ranch embassy. Also, how does Sebastian do in our quiz? Sebastian, the new father can celebrate because he has a perfect score three out of three. Yeah. Congratulations.

Thank you. Thank you so much for playing Sebastian. Take care. Thank you, as a dream come true. Bye-bye.

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This week on Empire's Newsmakers, former First Lady Jill Biden.

She reveals Joe Biden's 2024 debate performance was so alarming. Doctors checked him after he got off the stage. I was terrified. I thought, oh my God, what's happening? Is this a stroke?

What is this? Inside the dramatic month that followed leading to one of the biggest decisions of Biden's presidency to walk away. This week on Newsmakers, you can listen to watch wherever you get your podcasts. Now on to our final game, Lightning Film the Blank, each of our players will have 60 seconds in which they answer as many film the blank questions as they can.

“Each correct answer now with two points.”

Also, can you give us the scores? Sure thing. Rachel and Brian are tied up at two Tom Poppa in the lead with three. Okay. So that means Rachel and Brian are tied.

Let's say Brian wanted you go first. Okay. On Thursday several passengers of the cruise ship that had a blank outbreak left quarantine. Hinerviro. Hinerviro.

Hinerviro is that's right. Following a voting on Tuesday, Karen Bass advanced to a runoff on the race for mayor of Blank. Off Angeles. Right. This week at top in Chicago was called Blank and while on paid medical leave for a knee injury.

Um, bike riding. No, going horseback riding, lifting five bills of hey and moving at 12 in your pound dumpster. I can't believe we didn't get that one. This week, the San Antonio's first in New York. New York next faced off in the first two games of the Blank finals in B.A. Final ride on on Thursday.

Scientists said intense solar storms may mean that the blanks could be visible from 23. Still the slower flares. Yeah. The northern lights will give that to you this week authorities. This week authorities are warning people to not throw their old car batteries in the trash because they keep blanking.

They keep exploding. Not quite. They keep making the garbage trucks explode. Wow. See, the chemicals inside your car battery totally safe.

They will not catch fire or explode unless, of course, you were to squeeze them in a powerful hydraulic press surrounded by a bunch of garbage.

Wow. So exploding. Also, how did Brian Babylon do in our quits? You did all right. You got four right for eight points total of 10 and the lead. All right.

Very good, Rachel. Rachel, you're up next to on the blank. On Wednesday, the house voted to block the administration from ordering more strikes against blank. Iran. Right on Monday, Trump named a man with no background in intelligence to be the acting director of blank. FBI CIA.

So I don't know. National Intelligence Director. This week, Panely Intelligence and China, discovered another species of blank. Right on Tuesday, and it was said that the $75 billion IPO for private space company blank would be the largest in history. SpaceX.

Right. This week, a last-consentator Dan Sullivan learned he'd be facing off against a man named blank in the Republican primary. Grizzly bear. No, a man whose name is also Dan Sullivan. On Monday, Martin Scorsese faced a backlash after saying he supported the use of blank during pre-production.

Yeah. Right. This week, police and Massachusetts responded to reports of a man in camouflage standing in a long holding a bazooka instead found blank. Um, the kid just doing his own thing.

No, landscaper holding a leaf floor. Police arrived at the slope. He's expecting to find a lunatic waving around the bazooka, but instead found a landscaper just doing his job.

“It's a crazy mistake to make, because everybody knows the best way to get rid of leaves in your drive ways to take them out one by one.”

Also, how did Rachel do in our quiz? She did the exact same thing that Brian Babylon did. Four writes for eight points. Now they're tied with the total of 10 each. All right.

So how many of that? Uh-oh. This Tom Poppa need to win. That Tom... Just four.

That's all you need. It's all you need, man. Don't say it like that. All you need. All right, Tom.

This is for the game, filming the blank on Tuesday.

Attorney General said the administration had abandoned President Trump's $1.8 billion blank.

Uh, slash button. Right. And I weaponization fund. On Thursday, former National Security Advisor blank pled guilty to miss handling class of documents. Uh, button.

Yes, according to a new study, bubble blanks show problem solving skills at the level of chimps.

Man bubble. You better get four. I'm blank.

“This week, a police detective in South Carolina was fired after he pulled his gun and another officer for blanking.”

Farting. No, but mine.

For microwaving fish in the police.

Great room. It smelled like a fart. On Wednesday, the UN issued a warning about extreme weather caused by a so-called super blank. Uh, I a super storm. Uh, super El Niño, according to a new study, over three force of Americans want to require warning labels on the ultra-process blank.

Food. Yes, ultra-process. Foods after participating in a new tradition of jumping into a pool to enter wedding reception. A reason behind warned other brides to make sure their dress does not blank. Doesn't, um, become see-through.

No, doesn't try to drown you. Oh.

“Shelby Crawford and her new husband jumped into the pool at the end of the wedding reception.”

The guests watching, she shared and then kept cheering for what they really should have realized once too long.

[laughter] How's it? Did Tom pop it too well enough to win? Man, listen. [laughter]

Tom, about the hairs of your chinni chinni. You got four, right? For eight more points, we'll give you one more point than Brian and Rachel. [laughter] And doesn't it, we're going to ask our panelists to predict after tarps off.

It'll be the next big thing in baseball stadiums. Wayway, don't tell me, is a production of NPR and WBEZ Chicago and association with urgent haircut productions, Doug Berman, Benevalent Overlord. Philip Godica writes, "Our lemrex, our ops manager, is to see Revardac." BJ leaderman composed our theme.

Our program is produced by Jennifer Mills, Miles Dornboss and Rulian King. The special thanks to Miles Dornboss, also thanks to Mahanada Alshaky this week. Peter Gwen is deep in the heart of Chicago. How much joy is our vibe curator? Technical Directions on Lorna White or CFO is Colin Miller.

Production manager, that's Robert Newhouse. I've seen your producers in Chillog and the executive producer of Wayway. Don't tell me, it's Michael Danforth. Now, panel, want to be the next big trend at baseball stadiums. Rachel Costa.

Tushies out, too. [laughter] Brian Babylon. It's going to be gloves off night where people just fight and it's going to be played on the White House. [laughter]

And Tom Vapa. Weeners out at the Westminster Dog Show. And if any of that happens, we'll ask you about it on weight. Wait, don't tell me. [cheers and applause]

Give it up for Allison Slay. [cheers and applause] And we'll break mad on my canvas. Thanks all of you, Brian Babylon. Richard Costa and Tom Vapa.

Thanks to the staff and crew, the basketballs are all. And special thanks to our friends at KUD here in Austin. Thanks to our fabulous audience who came out to see us in Austin. [cheers and applause] And thanks to you for listening wherever you might be.

On Peter Segal, see you next week back in Chicago. [cheers and applause] [music playing] This is N.P. on.

This week on N.P. on Newsmakers, former First Lady Jill Biden.

She reveals Joe Biden's 2024 debate performance was so alarming. Doctors checked him after he got off the stage.

“I was terrified. I thought, oh my God, what's happening?”

Is this a stroke? What is this? Inside the dramatic month that followed leading to one of the biggest decisions of Biden's presidency to walk away. This week on Newsmakers, you can listen or watch wherever you get your podcasts.