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The NPR news quiz, I'm Algo Slay, and even if I wasn't the official judge and scorekeeper, I'd still be judging all of you. Just for the love of the game. And here's your host at the Student Baker Theater at the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Illinois. Peter, Sego!

Thank you, Alzo! Thank you, everybody! Thank you all so very much. I share your enthusiasm because we do have a great show for

you lined up this week, but first, Labor Day has come and gone, summers over, and we just

want to say congrats to all the moms and dads out there who just got your kids back into school. Parents, parents, you can go back to day drinking, teachers, you can go back to night drinking. Later on, SNL, Grayton, comedian Leslie Jones will be playing our games the first. It's your turn. If you'd like to play the numbers, one Triple 8, wait, wait, that's 1, 8, 8, 8, 8, 9, 2, 4.

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“My first listener contestant, hi, you're on "Wait, wait, don't tell me."”

Hi, this is Dudley from National Tennessee. Dudley! How great! I have met a few people named Dudley in my life, but I like to all of them. What do you do there?

I am a research fellow at a local university setting the autoimmune response and pipe on diabetes. Wow! Huge diabetes, fans of the audience. I love that one.

That's great. Well, Dudley, welcome to the show. Let me introduce you to our panel.

First up, it's a comedian and host of the podcast "Fake the Nation."

You can see in the new season of hazardous history with Henry Winkler on Hulu, it's "Nigine Far Saud." Hey! Thank you, Dean. Hi.

Next, an actor and writer who can be seen in the acclaimed improv show "Two Square" at UCB, New York on September 23rd, it's Peter Gross. Hi, Dudley! Hi, Peter. And, Nick King here, debut on our panel this week.

You have seen her on the Netflix as a joke festival, and she'll be headlining. The New York comedy festival later this year. Please welcome. The rainy, we're a saccharac. Hey!

Hey, how you doing? Don't mess this up for me. All right. Dudley, you're going to play Who's Alzo this time? Alzo Slade 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'll do my best.

Here is your first quote.

It's from a review of a new gadget that was unveiled with much fanfare this week. I can't say I've ever wanted to fold my phone in half. That was the independent newspaper talking about the new foldable phone unveiled by whom this week. Well, that'd be Apple.

It would be Apple. Yes. Very good. That would be. On Wednesday, Apple unveiled the iPhone Duo, their new $2,000 foldable phone.

Although we will remind you, any iPhone is foldable if you try hard. Yeah, all you need is $800 or $1,000 for a new voice. Exactly. And there are a lot of advantages to a foldable phone.

“For example, it makes dramatically hanging up on someone much more satisfying, right?”

Oh, yeah. Holding out your phone out, it's unfolded you go, I said, "Good day, sir!" And then you slam it closed, right? Wait, so does that mean when you're taking phone calls, you have this just like keeping thing against your ear?

Yeah. Right, you're holding like a place map next to your head. You're just like this in your book. Yeah, like your just is a full laptop against your ear. Like that's awkward, but I guess, yeah, you can do a dramatic call ending.

The dramatic call and it would be great if they were like, "This is why we're doing it." We just found that people aren't hanging up our phones, dramatic calls. If someone did that to me, I called them right back and asked them, "Did you just fold your phone? It's a little bit like everything old is new again.

Like the way that we all had flip phones, not even that many years ago. They made us not have flip phones and now they're making us have flip phones again. It's like when there's commercials on streamers and you're like, "I seem to remember televisions." Yeah.

Okay. iPhone 20 is going to be like a crank phone and it'll come with its own pigeon to deliver your

Now, the other thing that Apple announced, less fanfare, but actually, I think much more

“important is this new feature on the Apple Watch called "Live Rewind."”

Basically, your watch will be constantly recording everything it hears.

So if you miss something that somebody says, "Your watch will show you a transcript for the last 15 seconds." Oh, it's a transcript. Like on the watch. Yeah, exactly.

So I don't just have to hear my parents say they're not proud of me. I can read it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So you don't like someone at Apple was like, "Have you ever wanted to live with a court's denographer?"

How's your chance? Your next quote, Dudley, is someone responding to a new incentive to vote Republican offered by Donald Trump this week. I'm holding out for $25,000. Was negotiating up after Trump offered every American how much this week, if they voted

for Republicans, would that be $5,000? Oh, I see we got some rich people who were bullying that. Right, you cheer for diabetes and you boo for those, as this weird midterm Republican convention that's happening in Dallas on Wednesday night President Trump promised that if the Republicans win the midterms, he will give every American adult $5,000.

Wow, that is two and a half foldable iPhones for it. I would only be into this if he was like, all the money that I've earned from crypto. I've been the White House. I'm just going to give that to people for $5,000. I don't want to give him tax payer money.

“Oh, no, that's not his money, he's the only thing away.”

Oh, it's not all. Okay. Somebody did the math, and $5,000 in turn, yeah, the price tag for this will be $1.2 trillion.

But remember, he is going to recoup that money by never actually paying in.

Oh, also, you know, he's already going to give us like $3,000 from Doge cuts or whatever. He was going to give us like $2,500 from the tariffs or whatever. I mean, he also like $10,000 at this point and he's like, it reminds me of like a roommate I had who like never paid a share of rent on time. But then was always somehow in a visa.

Trump told me he's going to pay up, but he's just going to use car now. So give him a second, you know? So this whole thing is very unusual. There's the first ever national party midterm convention. And they're calling this then because President Trump wanted it to happen.

They're calling it the Trump upalusa, which doesn't sound particularly attractive. But it is better than the other choice they had for the name Burning Vance. All right, Dudley, your last quote is from a viral YouTube video, one of many in the genre.

Never drive without video evidence.

That was a caption touting an increasingly popular technology that we are putting in our cars. What is it? And I get it, you know? You can. They're named for the place that you generally put them in the car.

Dash cams, yes, dash cams. 30% of American drivers now use dash cams whenever they drive. And so many people love to watch the videos that are made from them that experts worry that dash cams are making people drive more recklessly just to go viral.

“That's why I drove straight into that farmer's market for clicks.”

You guys, apparently people love watching dash cams. I'm a pedestrian, so I'm sorry, you pronounced the word target wrong. Now Uber drivers use these dash cams, of course, I'm sure you've seen it. But they turn it around to film the passengers rather than the road ahead. And they say they're doing that for everybody's safety, that's fine.

But I want that to be like a roller coaster where they take a picture of you and then at the end, you get off and you can buy the photo. Wow, look how scared I was. I would be terrified of Uber drivers releasing dash cam footage of me because they'd be like, "This **** will not stop trying to talk to us."

Shut up. I'm like, "Guide, where are you from? Really? So what did your parents do?" I am the worst. Really? These, like, stop harassing me, I'm not my job. I got this carrot in the back of my car. I'm just saying that they're crazy. I was like getting into a chat.

I also had a Dudley doing our quiz. Dudley's a winner. He got three out of three. Congratulations. Yeah, Dudley. Dudley, thank you so much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Right now, panel, it is time for you to answer some questions about this.

Peter, the baby boomers are all in their sixties now.

And according to the Wall Street Journal, a surprising number of them are choosing to move in with whom. Oh, no, they're children?

“No, not their children. They're parents? Yes. What's their parents?”

Wait, who? Old people are moving back in with their real old parents. Older people. We have an audience here of older people. Even older people. It's six-year-olds or six-year-olds. Yeah, they're six-year-olds with 80 and 90-olds. Exactly.

Yeah, it's like, and they move in. They're like living together, usually in retirement homes. Together, it's like we living in your golden years, your glory days as a rebellious teenager. It's like, "Mom, can I borrow the golf cart?" "Where are you going?"

"No, where?" "You were up until nine o'clock. Where were you?" "You'd better be back for dinner at four." This is very sweet. My son is going off to college next year, and I'm like lamenting, losing him. But if I wait for 50 years,

it'll come back, it'll come back. It'll come back together.

“It'll be roommate. It's the arrangement for these people saves money, right?”

Because, you know, they're often there for just one apartment in the retirement home. It offers security, obviously, that comes with that kind of facility, lots of activities to do. That said, if you try to sneak your 67-year-old boyfriend into the window, hmm. Because your mom doesn't approve of him, he's gonna break at him.

Yeah, that'll be in a different part of the retirement home. Yeah, you can visit him in the ward, though. Safe word, sciatica. Coming up in absolutely bananas, bluff the listener game, call on Triple A, way, way to play. We'll be back in a minute with more, way, way, don't tell me.

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That's right, because the monkey pressed the button. Spicing stories every week, wherever you get your podcasts. This week on the MPR Politics podcast, the Republican mid-term convention, is basically a two-night MAGA info marshal. He is told voters, "I want you to pretend, please, that I'm on the ballot,

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And here again is your host at the Student Baker Theater in Chicago, Illinois. Peter, Saker, thank you Alzo! Thank you everybody, right now, it's time for the "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me." We'll have to listen to your game, call 1-trivalate, "Wait, wait, wait, to play our game on the air. Hi, you are on "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me."

Hi, this is Beth from Fort Collins, Colorado. Fort Collins, I know where up there in the front range. What do you do there? Yes, it's beautiful. Well, I work in human resources. That's important. You're resourcing humans. Yeah, I say pretty busy between that and going to school for my NVA and raising three boys.

So, I don't have much time for anything else. Well, I'm really glad you made time for us. Thank you so much, Beth.

“You're going to play our game in which you must try to delve truth from fiction.”

Alzo, what is Beth's topic? This is bananas. Bananas are quite possibly the world's most perfect food. They're delicious. They come with their own wrapper. And when the eggplant emoji is unavailable, the banana is there. I panellistly going to tell you about a banana that made the news this week in a surprising way.

Pick the one that's telling the truth and you'll win our prize, the weight waiter of your choice in your voice melody. Ready to play? I'm ready.

All right. First up, that's here from Peter Gross.

This story comes from Middlesboro, England, where 51-year-old Christopher North stormed into a bank, wearing a ski mask and pointed a gun at the tellers. It was a scene right out of one of those gritty guy-rich-y-heist movies, where you can't understand anything anyone's saying. Except Mr. North wasn't holding a gun. He was holding a banana.

"I'm robbing the bank. I'm robbing the bank. Give me the cash."

“We should have said is, "I'm making a fruit salad. I'm making a fruit salad. Give me the mangoes."”

At North's home, police found his laptop three other bananas, and five copies of a novel, North had written called "The Man Who Robbed A Bank With A Banana." About a guy who robs a bank with a banana after writing a book called "The Man Who Robbed A Bank With A Banana." Rumor has a guy-rich-heist planning to buy the rights in cash, Jason Statham, as North, and Danny DeVito, as the banana.

Man, who wrote a novel called "The Man Who Robbed A Bank With A Banana" tries to rob a bank with a banana. Your next bit of banana banter comes from Serenia Weirasekera.

While Europe hinders a never-ending heat wave, one group of local monkeys are making the most of it.

The Wild McCacks of Gibraltar have spent their summer the usual way.

“Going, "Ooh, ah, picking, please off each other."”

And other stuff we think monkeys do. But one monkey has changed the monkey world this week by baking the first ever loaf of banana bread. The monkey who local papers of named Carl, because he looks like a Carl, stole a bullshill of bananas from a store, but couldn't eat them all before they got brown. When he realized his bananas were mushy and gross, he was furious. He threw all the bananas

on the ground and stomped on them. Then he angrily threw some flour he happened to happen there.

Then pelted it with two seagull eggs, mixed it all up and left the mess in a ball on the floor before leaving in a huff. But thanks to the heat wave in Europe, Carl didn't come home to a banana mess. He came home to a banana bread. It's great for the monkey community and horrible for the grocery store. They love stealing from him. The monkey colony on Gibraltar, in Vence Banana Bread for themselves, your last bananas comes from the game far south.

Grayson Fielder is a PhD in food sciences at Cornell University. He's a serious student but got sucked into a world of food science that came out of a well-worn joke that if you place a banana peel just so in the path of an unsuspecting protagonist, they'll slip and fall on there but talks in dramatic and hilarious fashion. Like a true food science door, he wondered, is a banana really that slippery? So we went about testing the banana peel against other slippery food and turns out

the mango apple and neckdream peels smoked the banana. Well, these many years was it just actors making banana peel seem more slippery than they actually are. His butt cheeks bruised. He was determined to engineer a more slippery banana. In a lab creation that would make European non-GMO standards blush, he engineered the slime banana, hopefully a working title. Even peeling the banana is a challenge because the peel emanates a fine mist of goo. It's pretty gross actually. But Grayson

is helping there's a market in Hollywood for his creation and not just in the minions movies. All right, bananas made the news. Was it which of these stories from Peter Gross, a man who wrote a novel called "How to Rob a Bank with the Banana" actually attempted to rob a bank with a banana. From a sereney was it that the monkeys of Gibraltar figured out themselves how to make banana bread from over ripe bananas or from the game far saw to scientists to actually figuring out how to

“make a truly slippery banana peel. Which of these are the real stories we found in the news?”

I am leaning towards the last one. All right, you're going to choose the game story well to bring you the news we spoke to an authority on bananas. Honestly, bananas are a good choice. But if the gun part doesn't work, you could smack them over the head with the graffiti. Yeah, that was a Brian Batritch is the Grower and owner of Batritch family farms talking about using a banana to rob a bank. Which apparently is not a good idea. As you

have no doubt figured out, you were fooled by I thought McGean's very convincing story of the bank. I was done it too many. She's done it too many back and you don't need to feel. Thank you. It's I want to now make you an engineered banana that's extra slimy. Yeah, I want to make it real for you. You look for everybody. It will be Christmas gift this year. Thank you so much for playing with us, Beth. Thank you. Bye bye. And now the game we call not my job. From almost the beginning of her stand-up career,

Leslie Jones was every comedian's favorite comedian, which is why Chris Rock personally recommended

to her coming up and is the host of the new show "Rost My Rental" on HDTV. She joins us now.

Leslie Jones, welcome to Wait Wait Don't Tell Me. Yes, they just see you. So I want to start with your origin story. You were a basketball star in college and your stand-up career started when you won the funniest person on campus competition. How did that happen? It caught a lot of state to have this community center has all the hardies and you know where people can come shopping on this stuff and we were walking through and there was like a little billboard

that said, "Hey, sign up for the funniest person on campus contest." And my friend was like, "Yo,

“you should do that." And I was like, "What? I am not a comedian." You know, I'm, you know,”

Richard Pryer. You know, we'll be going with those the comedians. I'm just silly. She was like, "No, girl, yo ass is funny." And I was like, "All right, I went to class. She went to class and then we met back at my house." And she was like, "Girl, I signed you off for the contest." Really? And I was like, "Why would you do that? I just told you I'm not a comedian, but I wasn't really mad, mad at her." And I was just like, "So what am I going to do?" She was like,

"Just get up and start talking because you stupid." And I was like, "Hey, that's not how it would work." So I put like, I remember this, 10 minutes set together and I performed it for all my friends. Because your friends are the hardest to make love. So I performed it for my friends. And they laughed, but boy did they have notes. Exactly. But it was, it was, and I went up and I won the contest. And well, and here we are. So yeah, a couple questions. How did your friend know that you were

“funny? You were a basketball player. Were you like, making people crack up in the court?”

Oh, yeah, everywhere. We would go to parties. Like, I said I had a lot of time on my hands. And I was a party. And I was party in the Colorado State. Like, my grade point average was 1.7. Yeah, because we was poor, T-E-E-N. Do you understand? So every party I went to, we was like, just wowing out. Like, we would drive to see you, kind of, kind of rather university. party with the capers up. I could tell you some stories. You know, you know, I'm a member of

Kappa Alpha Sight. What? I'm a capersmith. Let's go. Yeah. Yeah. Nobody in here has any idea. I joined the capersmiths because the capers was so fine. They were fine. They were best dancers. We're going to stop and explain it to me. The Kappa is the fraternity that also was a member of, not necessarily the same place at the same time, but it's a fraternity. He was a member of. Yeah. The Kappa sweethearts were the girls who were like, they were like, well, we've been a Kappa hose. I didn't say it. I didn't say it. Sweethearts,

sweet. You've never heard sweethearts as an euphemism. Yeah. Oh yeah. So I want to talk about your new show,

roast my rental. Essentially, as I understand it, you go into people's Airbnb and stuff and insults it savagely. In the way you can. And then when their ego is completely destroyed, somebody else comes in and fixes it. Is that about it? Well, I mean, I wouldn't describe it that way, Peter. Okay. Let's be a little bit more positive. It sounds great. I go in and I love it, Lee. Lovely. Yeah. Their rental sucks. The way you say death trap is so warm. Was it fun when the producers

came to you and said, so for a new show, we want somebody who has the comic chops to make even furniture feel bad about it. Yeah. We thought of you. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I pretty much do that anyway when I go to anyone's hotel. Really? Oh yeah. If I don't like something in your house, I'll be like,

“so why do you have this in your house? Really? I was like, what is this? Like, why is it?”

Okay. That's ugly. Do you like the layout that we have here, too, guys?

Yeah, we said it. When I first came on, I was like, what is this? It's like a cheap

jeopardy. What is this? Yeah. I was like, why is the black guy by the short white guy? What is this boat set up? Can you think of the worst thing you ever saw in one of those places

because I had one where I had a whole beehive in the wall and the master. Yeah. I've had that

“where I rented that out and he literally asked me, he goes, well, the bees wasn't there before.”

You got there with, oh, I got the bees. I brought a whole white guy to the side of the wall, which is like, so high. Like, oh, okay, what there was one property we did where they had carpet in the bathroom and that is against humanity. All right. They need to really put up the clips that of what really happened when I walked in there. They were getting like the safe for TV version. Oh, yeah. I screamed so loud and then I started heaving. I was like, oh,

because can you imagine carpet in the bath? Well, Leslie Jones, it is so much fun to talk to you and we have invited you here to play it.

It is, right? Yes, she's amazing. You know, let's get you. Make sure you guys watch the show

and come see me on tour. Well, we're not done yet. We're not done yet, Leslie. We're not done yet, because we have invited you here to play a game. We're calling. Okay, why you got to get the black man to say. I said the same thing, Leslie. They don't do it. You host roast my rental, but what about ghost my rental? So we're going to ask you about the haunted houses that pop up all over the world, every Halloween answer two out of three questions correctly. You'll win our prize for one of our

“listeners, the voice of anyone. They choose on their voicemail. Also, who is Leslie Jones playing for?”

Twilight Alexander of Irri Colorado. All right. Get two to three right, multiple choice.

Okay. Here we go. Okay. Here's your first question. Out of all the haunted houses,

probably the most famous is the haunted mansion in Disneyland, but over the years employees there have consistently had to deal with visitors who want to do what? Is it A, throw holy water at the animatronic ghosts? B, try to spread their loved ones ashes inside the attractor or C, demand a refund because, quote, "They're not real ghosts." You know what? I'm gonna say C because people are I can't argue with your reasoning, but in fact, it was B. People tried to spread their

loved ones ashes because, you know, if you've ever been on the ride, at the very end, they say,

“we have 999 ghosts, but we always have room for one more, and I guess enough people were”

like, "Okay, how about Uncle Ted? I have him right here." All right. Next question, shocktoberfest. It's a seasonal quote, "Scream Park in Pennsylvania," which in 2013 offered an additional terror, if you will, to its haunted house attraction. What was it? A, a quote recurring nightmare room where you'd be required to take a high school history test without having studied for it. B, you and every other visitor are stark naked, or C, an animatronic climate scientist

who delivered short lectures on the effects of global warming. So, it was all of them sound pretty bad. Pretty bad. I would have to say C again, that's a haunted house, scary spooks, werewolves, freaks, vampires, and freaks, freaks. Okay, wait, wait, okay, then wait. What was B again? B was that you and everybody, all the other visitors were all naked. Okay, I'm going to say B. You're right. Yeah. You helped it.

That was sweet. That's the capitol of the capitol. Yeah, it was called the naked and scared challenge, and the park owner said, quote, "The whole idea is to create this vulnerability and get their defenses down on quote." And of course, their pants. Yeah, not in a frame. You bet. That was the theme. Last question, if you get this right, you win. Working at a haunted house is good seasonal employment, of course, but there are risks

for the workers. What happened to an employee at a haunted house in Japan, 2011, was at A. A woman was convinced the employee was the ghost of her dead ex-husband and kept coming back to yell at him. B. An employee scared a visitor so much with his sudden ghostly appearance that the visitor, a black belt and karate broke his jaw with a kick or C. An employee became convinced that he was a ghost, tried to float right through a wall, and broke his nose. Oh my god.

That's it. How's it? How do Leslie Jones doing her quit? Leslie Jones is a winner. Two out of three. Congratulations. Yay! Leslie Jones is the host of "Rost My Rental"

and H.G. TV. And she's on tour soon. Please go see her. She's amazing. Leslie Jones, thank you so much

for joining us on "Rost My Rental" channel. Thank you so much. Bye! Bye! In just a minute, slither into our listener-library challenge called "Wontribulate Weight Weight Jones" on the air. We'll be back in a minute with more of Weight Weight Dots on me. From NPR. This message comes from the center for U.S. voters abroad foundation. All U.S. citizens abroad may request an absentee ballot to vote in the 2021 election.

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Right now, panel, some more questions for you from the week's news. Again, this week, the cut reported on a phenomenon plaguing friended groups across the nation. Apparently, after your gang goes out to dinner together, no one is doing what anymore. "Oh, um, heroin?" They're doing heroin. They're eating heroin. They're eating heroin.

This is a trend. I'm sure this is happening to you. Go with a bunch of people. Yeah. And Jack comes. There's like eight people. You're all your different things. So you say, you'll put it, you'll put it in my credit card. But then something that's supposed to happen is not happening anymore. And what is that thing? Splitting the bill. Well, they're, so they're taking, they're doing that part.

Yes. But then the follow-up doesn't happen. The follow-up, which is. Ask him to use it in the sentence. Like, like, politely, like saying to everybody that you love and appreciate them. No. It's like, it's like, when you say, hey, guys, don't worry about it. I'll put it in my card and then you all can repay me like then mommy. Nobody is paying you back. Oh, that is what the trend. Wow. But also, why isn't that person just go ahead and send

“a text to every thing? Well, that's the thing. You see, here's the thing. Apparently,”

pass some aggression this back, too. Right now. People are picking up Jack saying, here I am. Here's my family. Here's my cell. And then no one is paying back. It's like a thing that has stopped happening. Repayment avoidance, according to New York Magazine, is more common than ever.

The message from your friends is less. I'll get the next one and more. I will never get anything ever.

I'm kind of crazy where I tell people. I'm like, you can't leave the table until you've been about me. And it works. Right. Is that crazy? It doesn't really. Where are you? How are you? How do you enforce this? How do you enforce this? Yeah, I say at the table after I put my card on. I said, I jokingly, I don't know what's getting up until you've been like, I will let go of your throat when I wear my clothes. Why see your body, but I put my hands down.

What's the good thing? It's a problem for everybody because it's your friends, right? Of course. It's embarrassing to let your mind somewhere. You want to be chill, but you also want to have money. Right. It's like, how do you remind someone they owe you money, but in a friendly way?

“I remember that great meal we had last week. I keep thinking about it because I haven't”

had the money to buy any food. Peter, there's new research on mosquito bites and how to

them. Instead, you should do one cockroach. I hate advice like this. Don't scratch an edge,

“don't eat when you're hungry. It doesn't make any sense. Don't you should rub up against”

somebody's arm or something like that. Oh, it's not scratching, but it's rubbing in, I don't know. Oh, yeah. That would work out really well if everybody started doing that. Yeah. Hey, no, I'm not, I'm not being weird. I just have a mosquito bite. Yeah, hi. I'm Peter. I'll be done in a minute. I don't move. Don't move. I'll be done in a minute. If you move it ruins it for me. Let's see. It's not scratching. Can I have a hint?

It's mind over mosquito bites. Imagine you're scratching? Exactly. Right. Just think about how much you want to scratch that edge, but don't scratch it. A new study shows that if you think about how itchy your bite is, but you don't scratch it, it will actually heal faster. And if you do that, within 10 minutes, you'll be willing to confess to any crime at all. I thought it was going to be like, hit yourself in the toe with a hammer. Oh, my toe. I forget my mosquito bite. Oh, yeah.

No, the idea is in pain management, the more you direct your metal focus on pain or irritation,

the better your body becomes at reducing the inflammation in that area. It's amazing.

It requires focus and self-control and someone duck-taping oven mitts over your head.

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lemric. Opera's live. There are no extra takes. Steely reptiles will get their big breaks. While the voices get trivial, they must slither and chill. At the met, we're auditioning. Snakes. Snakes? Yes. A new production of the opera, Kosey Fantudi, is set in the 1950s carnival. And of course, you need a snake handler and a snake at a carnival. So the met had open auditions for the role of Snake, aspiring serpents lined up around the block and can

send her, they're all out there practicing nervously their area. Yeah. Oh, you're going to get it. You're so good. If my monologue, this is something from Snake's on a plane. I had to do an acting job with a snake once. You did? Yeah, I made an HBO. I was in a snake episode. I believe it was even called Snake. And I didn't enjoy that. I just didn't enjoy what I felt nervous about being in a room with a snake. Is there an animal

you would have preferred being on set with? Like a cute puppy. Why doesn't the met auditioning cute puppy?

“That's the show I want to see. You have to ask the Italian guy why he didn't write a puppy into his”

opera. Yeah. Yeah. It was Mozart. Oh. I don't know. This Mozart guy sounds like a really crappy writer. Here's your next limit. Well, adult humans can be cookie hogs, leaving K9 companions a gag. If you sit big and shake, then we grow scouts will bake. We are selling some

treats just for dogs. Yes, the girl scouts announced their first ever Girl Scout cookie for dogs.

Before this, the only girl scout cookie for dogs was any girl scout cookie that fell on the ground. Clearly, some of this is not the first girl scout cookie made with bone broth. They're called patch pals. And this is true. They are blueberry muffin flavored. You can eat them, probably.

that heard there's bone broth in the cookies. Yeah. Yeah. They're about to protein marks with some

of the dog scouts scout cookie. If so, it was a joke, Brad. True rape. True guard. All right, Mikhail, here is your last limit. Insect robots are easy to coach and small spaces they calmly approach. Though I'm in a tight spot, I can still get a shot from a needle attached to a rope. Yes, a rope. Great news for disaster victims. A live cockroaches with brain implants can now help deliver life-saving aid to disaster victims by scurrying into the rubble

with medication and giant needles. No thanks, man. Yeah. I'm good. Yeah. I'm going to die. This is true. I mean with brain. So what is that? So scientists figured out a way to put an

implant into the brain of a cockroach that allows a scientist with like a joystick to steer the

“cockroach. Oh my god. If I saw a robotic cockroach coming at me, I think it'd be in hell. Like”

I could think I was already dead. What about the dog again? That's a dog to go in there. I feel like what my takeaway from the story is we've spent way too long talking about AI and literally no time at all talking about these brain altered cockroaches. Also, how did Mikhail do in our quiz? Today is great. Three out of three. She's a champ. Woo! Congratulations Mikhail. Thank you so much. Thank you for having me. Bye bye. Bye.

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You're going to go first. The clock will start when they begin your first question film the blank. On Tuesday, President Trump expanded his trade war with blank. Candida. Right. On Wednesday, space x launched a classified mission for the U.S. Blankforce space. Yes. This week, global blank prices rose above $100 a barrel. To oil. Yes. On Wednesday, the latest storm in the 2020s blank season made landfall in Hawaii. WNBA. No, uh, hurricane. Yes. This week, the head of a venture

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when she asked where that skeleton came from, the doctor said, "No worry, that was just the

“last person that came in here with a severe headache." Also, how did Peter do in our quiz?”

Peter got six right for two and more points, total of 14 and the lead. All right, so for now. For now. So, Rainy, you're up next. Here we go, film the Blank on Tuesday, a former employee and thropic one, there was a 10% chance that Blank will soon destroy humanity. Yes. And Wednesday,

Football. Yes, I got it. And if, according to a new report, this last summer is officially

“the Blankest On Record. Ormiss. Yes, hottest on Monday, thieves managed to steal two”

Renwav paintings from a museum in Blank. Paris. Yeah, friends. This week, Marvel Studios recommended that before seeing the new Avengers movie this fall, audience members need to watch Blank. Marvel, Captain America. No, yes. And 42 hours of all the earlier Avengers and Marvel movies. Okay, let me hear that ding. This is a man in New Hampshire is facing multiple charges after he called 911 to report a fire at his own home and then Blank to win firefighters arrived.

Freaked out. No, stole their fire truck. What? The homeowner and rural New Hampshire reported the fire at his two bedroom house just before sunrise. And when the firefighter showed up, he stole their truck. Listen, you may not approve of this, but find me a better way to trade a two-bedroom house in rural New Hampshire for a new truck. Was there even a fire there that was actually a fire? Oh, he's had to distract the fireman when

“they got there, right? So you can take your truck. Also, how did Serene do in our quiz?”

She got four, right? Eight more points. Total of 10, which means Peter Gross is still in the lead. Oh, right. Four, nine. Okay. He did that. So how many then does negine need to win? Five to tie six to win. All right. Ready negine here we go. Film the Blank on Friday residents of New York City commemorated the anniversary of Blank with seven individual moments of silence. Nine, 11. Right. This week,

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On Wednesday, a man in Singapore pled guilty to scamming people out of $240 million worth of

the cryptocurrency Blank. Bitcoin? Yes, according to a new study, taking a 30 minute brisk walk once it may be just as effective as getting in your 10,000 blanks. Step. Right. This week, an art collector in Los Angeles offered $4,000 at a gallery for a sculpture of a broken vacuum, only to discover Blank. That it worked. No, that it was just a broken vacuum. Genitor. Can you get the gallery? Vacuum breaks. Ah, leaves it in the corner where he thought

it would go unnoticed, but he didn't count on one collector's very sharp and completely un-discerning eye through to the man offered to the gallery $4,000 for the vacuum, which is crazy. It wasn't even a dicing. I also didn't again do well enough to wait. No, but she did do well enough to time because she got far right for ten more points. Total of 14. Hey. Hey. We are back. In this a minute, we're going to ask our panelists to predict after that new iPhone duo.

What will be the next? Surprisingly foldable product on the market. But first, let me tell you

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foldable fidget sheet. Don't be done. Don't be done. Don't be done. No more crying over your queen's eyes bad, okay? It's against the laws of physics. Peter Gross. Ford will announce their new Ford F-150 truck with the slogan "The F is for foldable." And the game for ourselves. Apple is going to not only have the foldable phone, but a foldable laptop because laptops are already fold, but now you can fold them three more times. And if any of that happens,

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