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From NPR and W.B.E.C. Chicago, this is wait wait. Don't tell me the NPR News quiz. I'm the man who does quadruple axles with my boys. Bill Curtis and here is your host at the Studymaker Theatre in the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Illinois, Phylligan for Peter Seigle, Nagin, far-side. And thanks, everyone. The Olympics are almost over, which means you no longer have to pretend you understand anything about curling. Our skip got the

rock over the hog line and now we're sweeping in the bonnespeel. If you say so, Bill, and while you put your ice brooms into storage for another four years, we're going to take a trip back to sunny Southern California. We visited in November and interviewed Chef Cookbook author and master of the Food Truck Roy Choi.

“No, I'm no expert, but I think any truck could be a food truck if you leave it up left”

over his in it. That's definitely not true, Bill, but Peter did start by asking Roy if people expect him to show up everywhere with hot food ready to serve. They don't expect me to show up, but on the freeway when we're driving them, they expect us to throw them food. Do they really expect the food to be ready? Yeah. I was about to make a joke, because

it's almost like a reptilian or the essential thing. They start to salivate like

Pavlov's dogs. I was about to make a joke about like them wanting you to throw them a taco at 80 miles an hour, but that I remembered this is LA. They want you to throw them a taco at five miles an hour. If they're lucky, right, exactly. So you grew up in LA. LA boy. We understand that you were like been involved in the food industry from an early age. Is it true your mom kind of got you involved in the business? For example, I heard that your mother

was one of those green women who made her own kimchi and sold it out of the back of a car. Yeah, so food was something that was ingrained and surrounded me my whole life. As an immigrant family and kid, a lot of us grew up within restaurants or stores, markets, and it's just something that kind of blends with your life. You don't know where it starts and where it ends. And for my life specifically, early on, my mom used to make the kimchi in the house. Yeah.

Very much like you would see mothers right now making Pozoleo manudo. Sure, putting it in big degloos and then putting it out on the corner and selling them in styrofoam cups. Yeah. It was the same thing we were doing, but in kimchi jars, but we had a big 1976 Thunderbird and a 19 like set mid late 70s station wagon. So there was a lot of room to store a lot of kimchi. Right. These trucks were huge. And so she would stuff all of them and we would go around.

We would hit up people like at the stop light. Really? It was like a drive-by, but we came to like we would just roll up on the stop and I was the one I was in Shaka and I would roll down my window and then we would just talk to the person at the stop light. So you want to buy some kimchi? And then we would do it. Really? Yeah. How? Yes. How? How was ready to roll at any time, she had she had how old were you when you were doing this? Starting when I was like five. Okay.

Because you could sit in front seats back then. Oh, sure. Yeah, I know.

“That's why most of us were killed, but yes. We're like only once they were killed.”

It was left. Yeah, exactly. So you're five years old. Yes. And were you able to discern who might be interested in the kimchi at five or was just like everybody? Yeah, you know street sales is all about like a, not the con, but it's about. It's like a three-cart month that you know everybody's a customer or a potential customer and it's your job to make them a customer. To convert them into sound. Yeah, but we had something really great. So it was pushing something

light on them. And if they didn't enjoy it, how were they going to find you? Exactly. Yes,

officer, it was a five year old boy in an enormous station wagon selling me kimchi. A big moment in your career is you got fired from this big restaurant and then you as history now celebrates open to food truck. What was the inspiration for it? You know what I really want in my mobile.

“Get fired. But I think that, you know, because I've had time now to reflect and look back and”

I truly believe it was something spiritual. It happened. I do, you know, wasn't like you were walking down the street with some boggogi. You know, God was walking down the street with a taco, you hid each other. You got my boggogi. That would have been really nice if it happened that way. But unfortunately, I had to go through all of these trials and tribulations and from that came the soul of this kogitako. But I think that I had to fail,

I had to have this amnesia and have no other opportunities out there. Now you have how many food trucks out there you're operating and how many restaurants? Can you even kick out? Not that many. Not that. You only have four trucks. We're a company that looks bigger than we are. Right. Yeah. And we have three restaurants. I got two more things for it before we play. Okay. Sure.

First of all, we live in an age where like all of a sudden everybody's interested in the lives

of chefs. Right. TV shows. You actually were consultant on a movie called "Chef" that your friend just really weird. Yeah, I know. Thank you. And which basically for people who haven't seen it, character play by the director and writer John Fevro basically recapitulates your life sort of kind of sort of kind of what do you think of and there are any of these shows that you like me do you watch the bear for example and say oh my god that's exactly what it is. No, no, no, no.

Yeah, like do you watch Rattitude and go that's exactly what it is. Rattitude is still the bolts here. It really is. It really is. That means that we have all the all the movies TV about chefs

“and restaurants that's the one that no one has taught. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I just realized that's why you”

have the big hat. I got one more thing. This is a point of personal privilege. I found out just recently that you are responsible for my very favorite recipe ever which happens to be in the New York Times cooking app and that is instant ramen with American cheese. Yes. So now that I haven't, I'm going to ask what exactly is American cheese? Do you know? It says it's from the land of process. That's true. The region of process. Yeah, it's it's a terroar in America. Actually,

it sounds like a stoner food and it really does feel like something you would make in the depths, but it's actually what parents feed their kids if you're Korean. Right. Any Korean people? Yeah. It's true. You ain't, you grow up eating that, you're parents get scared. I feel like my parents were like this is unhealthy, but that would be like a treat would be ramen. Yeah, it's our treat.

“Yeah. Our whole life is healthy. Yeah. Yeah. It's the inverse of like growing up in America.”

Everything we eat are shoots and roots and vegetables and pickles and fermented things and dried fish and all these things. And so the ramen with the cheese was like our lucky charms. Lucky charms. Well, I'm just saying this. I'm saying this to people here. Hopefully it will

make the broadcast. You gotta try this. Yes. It's amazing. Well, Roy Choi is a pleasure to talk to you.

We have invited you here to play a game. We're calling food trucks. Meet these new trucks. So you invented the modern food truck as we have discussed. So we're going to ask you three questions about other kinds of trucks. Get two out of three right. You'll win our prize for one of our listeners. The voice of anyone from our show. They might choose also who is Roy Choi playing for. Ryan Santos of Hanford, California. All right.

Ready? First question. Now, the most expensive truck ever made was the Darts Prombron Black Diamond. That is a $7 million custom-built armored SUV made for the most discerning billionaire. One of the early editions of this incredibly high-end luxury truck featured what luxury feature was it a built in parachute in case you ever happened to drive off a cliff. The seats upholstered with leather made from the four skins of whales. We're seeing an entertainment system

you're going to choose Bayer's your final answer. That's right. It's beef. Well, foreskin leather. Although

“they they change that after the outcry. Next question. Next question. Everybody loves fire trucks.”

We all love fire trucks. Sometimes two excess like in which of like which of these people. A baseball Hall of Famer, Rub Wadell, who used to run off the field during games to follow a fire truck if it happened to go by the stadium. The president Louise LaCalle of Uruguay, who insisted on using a fire truck as his presidential limo, or C. Mark Zuckerberg, who likes to drive a custom-made full-size working replica of the play school fire truck he had as a child.

Baseball. You're going to go with B, the president of Uruguay. No, it was actually the baseball player. This is the guy from the early days of baseball, early at the 20th century. He's a great player, but everybody knew that if a fire truck went by the stadium, he would just disappear and run after.

“All right. This is not a problem. You got one right with one to go. If you get this, you'll win. Here we go.”

Every now and then as we all know, a truck on our highways might spill its cargo and cause some pretty serious problems as in which of these cases was it a truck and Kentucky that spilled its entire load of pancake syrup after colliding with the buttermilk

pike over past. B, a truck in Idaho that spilled 20 million bees on the highway,

causing the driver to run for his life, or C, a truck in Oregon that spilled 7,000 pounds of live eels. Oh my god. We got to go see. You're going to go see. You're right, but they're all true. Those all happened. The game is fixed. The game is fixed. Sally and your favorite, though. And by the way, the eels in that truck in Oregon, the one you like, not just eels, but slime eels. Also, how did Chef Roy do in our quiz? He cooked up a win. He did.

There you go. Chef Roy choice. Newspook is the joy of cooking. Roy, joy. Thank you so much for joining us. On the way, wait, tell me, give it up. For Chef Roy. When we come back, one of our panelists wins the gold medal for lying to you. And the world's most popular backpacker tells us how she met Metallica. That's when we return with more of, wait, wait, don't tell me, from NPR.

The world will bring you the latest on the operation as well as reaction from the region and around the globe. Listen to state of the world on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts. Seattle, 1999. Teen reporters hear a troubling rumor about a beloved teacher. They reported. He later dies. I was one of those students. Now, I'm uncovering what really happened, because people said we killed a man. Listen to adults in the room from KU-O-W-Focus and the NPR network.

From NPR and W-E-E-Z Chicago, this is, wait, wait, don't tell me the NPR notes quiz. I'm Bill Curtis and here is your host at the Student Baker Theater in the Fine Arts Building in Chicago. The Gianfarsad. Thanks, Bill. It's thank you, everyone. The Olympics. The Olympics are almost over, which means Bill can finally stop carrying around that huge torch. The Olympic flame represents the eternal spirit of competition and cooperation among nations. Plus, it's great for

lighting my cigars. He's also cinched my eyebrows a couple of times, but never mind. Stick around

for this bluffed listener game from a recent show featuring Tom Papa, Keren G and me. How you're on wait, wait, don't tell me. Hi, this is Ian Wood, calling in from a grain rap. It's Michigan. Love grain rap. What do you do there? I am a student at Calvin University. What are you studying? Environmental health and conservation. Oh, that's very cool.

What year are you in? I'm a freshman. You're a freshman. Okay. Well, hopefully there will still be some left for you to conserve by the time you graduate. Keep the faith. Well, Ian,

“welcome to this show. You're going to play our game when you must try to tell truth from fiction.”

Also, what is Ian's topic? Jobs of the future. They say that AI is going to take all of our jobs.

Well, we're always going to need artists and crafts people to feed to the robots.

telling the truth and you'll win the weight waiter of your choice in your voicemail. Are you ready to play?

“Or are you ready? All right. First off, let's hear from Karen Chi.”

As AI quickly encroaches on our daily lives and leaves people jobless, there is one career that is surprisingly very secure. The amusement park carny. In fact, you'll probably start seeing them everywhere. AI is replacing waiters, cashiers, and salespeople, but marketing experts know that there's just something magnetic about a carny. That's sketching guy who definitely doesn't want to be working at the carnival, but also is maybe born there? So, they predict all kinds of businesses will now

have designated carnies who will attract consumers and make them feel great about their experiences.

Festival director Stanley Walsh says, "Part of why people love attending carnivals is because they feel so great compared to the staffers who clearly regret every decision of their lives."

“Another advantage, an element of danger, with a carny standing there even using the self-checkout”

at places like Target will have that, "I might die on this tilt-to-world feeling that keeps you young." Carny's soon to be everywhere to provide that creepy, exhilarating feeling while you deal with the machines, your next job of the future comes from Tom Papa. As people worry about AI replacing us, David Rischer, the CEO of Lyft, assured us that our jobs won't be going away, they'll just be changing. As an example, when Lyft starts using robo-taxies to drive people around, that doesn't mean

a job will be eliminated. He floated the idea of a car tender, a human who isn't driving, but sits in the car along with you. Because as we all know, the main reason to book a ride share is for the sharing part. How many times have you been in a car and thought, "Man, I wish I was on that crowded bus right now." Rischer added that the car tender could help with your luggage, make you drinks, and answer questions as the local guy. Because who hasn't been in a ride share with a creepy

driver and thought, "I wish this guy was talking to me more." And also trying to give me some of his alcohol. Rischer also said people will one day add their own self-driving vehicles to Lyft's ride hailing network. Imagine this future. Your car could go out and pick people up as you hail a ride from someone else's car that will come with a stranger who doesn't own a car, but has a drinking problem he'd like to share. AI, there's nothing to worry about. In the future,

your ride share driver will become your ride share car tender. Your last profession preview comes from the game of our song. When you call a 1-800 number, your main goal as a human being is to say agent, agent, at increasing volume levels and with an expanding sense of existential dread.

When the agent finally comes on the phone, you yell at them. At one point, you stop and say,

"I'm so sorry to get upset. I realize you're just a messenger." And then you continue yelling. This yelling is a time-honored capitalist tradition. But what happens when AI takes over the job of the agent? Where does the yelling go? The boutique staffing agency tech force is prepared for this very moment. They believe a new spate of human jobs will open up in the field of getting yelled at, or GYA for short. These fencing specialists, as they're called, don't fix your problem,

but they do let you yam around about it while making empty threats about leaving a bad review and/or saying stuff like, "I swear to God, I'm changing my cell phone carrier." The agency is also hoping to expand operations to offer an in-person combat experience where you can just punch a representative of your internet service provider right in the gut. All right. Let's say you lose your job to AI. If so, you might be able to get one of these

jobs of the future. Was it from Karen Chi, the universal carnie, bringing that aura to every kind of consumer interaction? From Tom Poppa, the car tender since humans will no longer be needed to drive the cars, or from Degin Farsad, the venting specialist, the person whose job it is, will be to get

“yelled at by people frustrated by the AI. Which of these is a real potential job of the future?”

Everyone loves self-driving cars, so they're going to go with Tom Poppa's.

who was not yet lost his job to an AI to bring you the real story. I don't know how you

“knock a car or a full service bartender seems like the nightmare. Now, that was Riff Richards,”

a bartender at Doer Dive in bedstuy Brooklyn talking about the potential of having car tenders in your ride shares sometime soon. Congratulations Ian, you got it right. You're going to play for Tom, you want our prize. The voice of your choice and your voice melt. Thank you so much for playing. Thanks for having me on. Take care. Bye-bye.

If backpiping was an Olympic sport, our next guest would never leave the podium.

Ali, the pipe, or first picked up the bike pipes when she was a kid. But really blew up when she started posting covers of songs by Iron Maiden and Metallica on TikTok. Peter started by asking what Drew heard to the instrument in the first place. It's actually a nice story. I wanted to ruin my brother's life before he went to college. My stuff that legally adopted me when I was 12 and I got a hyphenated last name,

which carried Duncan with it. That was my new one and I wanted to learn more about my family's heritage and the history I was adopted into. And so I took to good old YouTube and you can imagine what every single Scottish history video on YouTube sounds like. Yes. And so I heard the

bag hives for the first time and I couldn't figure out how they worked just by looking at them.

I just became really obsessed with how they worked. It was the first time I'd seen an instrument so unique. It called to me if you will. I was reading about the bag pipe and it seems like it's such a hard instrument to play that it takes months of practice when you start before you can even play it too. That's actually very true. I played for almost a year on a practice version of the instrument

“before I started playing the full loud bag pipe. But that's why everybody thinks they sound so bad”

is because it's you know, beginners at full volume all the time. Wow. You know, you walk around. You just see so many people practicing the bag pipes at full volume. Yeah. What did your neighbors say?

No, fortunately when you play indoors in just ruin your family's lives, your neighbors can't

hear you too much outside. So I tried to do a lot of my practicing indoors and then I would just more so go outside when I had things polished to to play. And then you became and I love this. You became part of an champion in the youth competitive bag pipe circuit. What a dark world. It really is something. And all I hear about like youth competitive, the global youth competitive bag pipe circuit and all I want to know is what were the parties like? Well, there were actually

a lot of, there was one competitive youth bag pipe band here in the United States and I was in it. But we went over to Scotland and there were the rest of them. Yeah. And do you when you compete to you yell things like, we blow you suck. We had the T-shirts. We didn't yell that though. You didn't. Oh my god. I want to see the dance mama equivalent of like a bag pipe parent. Like, come on my day like you got a, I was just, I was actually thinking like you're the American team,

the one American team you show up to do this competition with all these Scottish teams. This is like a great karate kid-like movie. I didn't really underdog some America co-op. I hope did you kick their asses or whatever the bag pipe equivalent of as kicking it? And we won the world championships. Hey. Oh, here I say, here I say, here I say, here I say, here I say. So, but, and that was great, and quite impressive, but you became famous, you're, you're road to where you are now. Let's say,

started, if I'm right during the pandemic, when you started putting out videos on TikTok and elsewhere,

“of you playing the bag pipes, and they went immediately viral. Do you remember like the first one and”

what your reaction was? Yeah. Well, it all happened by accident. I had all of my gigs canceled because of COVID happened to a lot of musicians and it was really dark time for a lot of people. So I wanted to take to an app or an online platform where none of my friends were so that I could kind of post anonymously but have some kind of encouragement or, you know, people to encourage me to keep doing it. So I posted on TikTok because none of my friends were there. And it backfired immediately,

because I posted one video and that one video got 150,000 views that day, which means that my

limit that. You didn't know that there was this thirst out there for good bag piping.

“The people need what they need. That's true.”

Now, I don't know what the first song was but you became really well known for doing

bagpipe covers or bagpipe versions of songs you would not associate with the bagpipe, including like, uh, uh, uh, enter Sanman by Metallica. Is that right? Yeah, I became really, really invested in transcribing guitar solos for the pipes. Sure. Um, a big thing. So taking all of those big, shreddy guitar solos that are just classic and we love them and either really, really blowing people's minds or ruining these songs for people. Yeah, I posted a medley of a few of their songs,

uh, because I'm the Metallica fan too. Of course. And I posted that on TikTok and kind of went about my day. And then a hate comment came in and it said, bagpipes do not belong in Metallica.

“James would not approve. And this commenter emphasized a seriousness with an angry emoji. Well,”

well, then. I know. He's passionate. And so I left it alone and I let five minutes elapsed and then Metallica was there in the comments. We ended up with it. I love it. From the meetings, the hate comments are they said that this guy doesn't speak for us. They told me to keep doing what I'm doing. Um, and we chatted a little bit in the comments and then this commenter decided to go after them. No, seriously turned on Metallica. No, one guy versus Metallica

and he did not live to tell that. No, I was about to say. You don't do that. Well, Allie, it is a pleasure to talk to you. We have asked you here to play a game. We're calling bagpiper meet piping bag. So you are a master of the bagpipes as we have discussed. So we're going to ask you about people who use piping bags. That is cake decorators. Answer.

“Answer three questions about unusual cakes. Who will win our prize for one of our listeners?”

Bill, who is Allie the Piper playing for? Drew Manning of Denver Colorado. All right. You're

ready to do this Allie? All at you down Drew. Okay. First question, uh, the the show cake box

featured some amazingly realistic cakes over the years that it ran, including which of these. A cake Taylor Swift that can sing four of her biggest hits. The a cake toilet that actually flushed or see a street legal Mazzarotti sports car cake. The flushing. We're going to be. It's the toilet. Yeah. So of course it is. The actual flushing cake toilet was made to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of a local plumbing company. All right. That's very good.

Here's your next question. People often order custom cakes to send a message, right? Like a Louisiana woman who did what in 2017. A instead of leaving her money to any of her children, she just left them a cake saying eat it. B. She sent a cake to the cop. She had tried to bite with the message. Sorry. I tried to bite you or C. She told her husband. She wanted the divorce by smashing him in the face with their wedding cape, which she had kept in the freezer for

that purpose for 12 years. I'm going to have to go with A. I'm afraid it was, I'm sorry. I tried to bite you. The woman had been, she was a college student, she had been over served at a wine tasting and she felt really bad about what she did when a police officer tried to arrest her for public intoxication. All right. Here's your last question. This is okay because if you get this right, you will win. Sometimes people who order custom cakes give the baker a flash drive containing the

image they want on the cake. Now, that method doesn't always work like when which of these actually

happened. A. The baker just drew a frosting picture of the flash drive on the cake. B. The baker took a photograph of the flash drive and printed that onto the cake. Or see the baker decorated the cake with the words happy birthday. The picture is on the flash drive. Wow, they're all really good. All right. Let's go with, let's go with C. This one's for Drew. That's right, but in fact, all of them were. Oh, all of those happen. When people made the mistake

Bill, how did Ali the Piper do in her quiz? Ali, what do you get two out of three? You have

“what? So you're in our favorite Piper. Congratulations! Ali the Piper is new album. The session”

is out now and you can see her on tour starting in just a little while. More information is that Piper, Ali, dot, com, Ali the Piper. Thank you so much for joining us. I'm wait wait, don't tell me. Give it up for Ali the Piper right there.

When we come back, some brand new never aired before questions for our panelists. Plus,

Cynthia Nixon tells us what being a Miranda really means. That's when we come back with more way way, don't tell me from NPR. From NPR and WBEC Chicago, this is way, wait, don't tell me the NPR news quiz. I'm Bill Curtis and here is your host at these two to make a theater and the fine arts building in Chicago again for a song. Thanks, Bill. We're hosting our own little Olympic

“closing ceremonies this week and when it's done, we'll go back to mainlining the secret lives”

of Mormon wives. The girl that Utah bubble is drama. But before that happens, here are some of our favorite moments with the panel from the past year. Jail according to the Wall Street Journal, the hot new thing that kids want to eat is what? THC gummies. Well, that might solve my son's boredom problem. No, not that. Not vegetables. No, not well. Sometimes they're like seaweed wrappers. Sushi sushi. Yes. According to the Wall Street Journal, young kids everywhere are obsessed with

sushi. It's replacing pizza and nuggets that sort of thing at birthday parties and becoming a staple weeknight dinner, right? Taking your kids out to a sushi restaurant though, it's ridiculous. It's like

my dad always told me we have perfectly good mercury poisoning here at home. What rich children are they

interviewing for this? It is the Wall Street Journal. I mean, maybe. Yeah. Some people think that kids love sushi because quote, it gives them a sense of maturity. It's an adult food, so maybe it makes them feel grown up. That explains why my son likes to have his son and maki with juice boxes filled with scotch. It is true though that my son, five-year-old aforementioned, other than desserts, he eats french fries, hot dogs, pizza, and salmon maki. That's it. Good morning maki. Yep.

Good morning rolls. I was about to call child services until you said the last. Oh, okay.

“Well, yeah, but how do you get it to begin with? You'd given him everything there was to eat?”

Pretty much. I have tried everything. Every single food until he get to the salmon maki. Yeah. I'm suspect of this story. You're in no seriously. I was like saying in my wife. He doesn't like borscht. What are we going to do? Yeah. Well, that will be difficult in the years coming. Yeah. Josh as the AI giant inthropic has been experimenting with AI-powered vending machines.

Oh, yeah. These vending machines can order their own inventory. They can set their own prices interact with customers all without human intervention. And they recently gave one to the Wall Street Journal. Just to try it out. And within days providing vending goods to the Wall Street Journal staff, it did what? Oh, it was hemorrhaging money. It gave it order to a playstation and gave it away. You're right. Yeah. But that's not all. Let me tell you what it did.

The AI vending machine gave away nearly all of its inventory for free. Restocked itself with dog treats, purchased a playstation five for, quote, marketing purposes gave the playstation five away for free, ordered a live fish as a mascot for the newsroom offered to restock itself with pepper spray, stun guns, cigarettes, and underwear became convinced the year was 1962 and it was in the basement of Moscow State University but managed shevets wine, message, and employee there was a stack of cash

waiting for her in the side of the machine. There was a dozen. And ultimately, at the end of the

experiment, lost $2,000. And yet room buzzed the company that's going out of the machine. No. So all that happened, but to our knowledge not one bag of Doritos got caught and that's spirally dispenser thing. So success. That sounds like a delightful machine. When you first started, I'm like, because I don't like the idea of AI at all. I'm not knowing that I could have anticipated. But when I hear that, I'm like, yes, I want one of those. It's just delightful.

Just because you want somebody to give you stun guns and pepper spray. It's just all the things.

most human AI. Yes, right? Because I've never heard of a machine screwing up in the ways that

“that that feels very personal. Yeah, it does. He's spending machine to someone I could really”

talk to and get to know. Well, actually, because that's the thing because the way it works is this is his operate by itself. You get to interact with it through its chatbot, right? And the reporter spent days doing their absolute damnedest to mess around with it, making all these bizarre requests. And it lost its freaking mind. And Thropic says, oh, this is great. We're so grateful that you, reporters of the Wall Street Journal, will able to demonstrate the flaws in our system.

We'll make sure the next version of our AI vending machine can defend itself. It will have guns. And now it's time for a new game that we are calling. It's not you. It's me. This week, the New York Times published a list of the 52 best break-up lines used by or in many cases on their readers who submitted them. We're going to ask you about them in a quick quiz. Get yours right. You got to point me. All right, you're applying? Okay, Paula, this one is for you.

One woman said she got dumped after she watched a movie with her boyfriend of five years.

“Which of these wasn't? Was it A, Wall, E after which he said those robots aren't in love?”

We're not. Or was it B, the sixth sense after which he said, you know how he sees dead people? I think we should see other people. Oh, I would say B. You're going to say B, the sixth sense. No, it was actually Wallie. Wow. Yeah, she compared themselves unfavorably to the robot relationship. Wow. Hurry one for you. A woman named Barbara said her Icelandic boyfriend broke up with her by saying which of these? Was it A? We're just like Bjork's brain. We don't

make any sense. Or B, if you mispronounce the volcano, a F-clio could one more time, we are done.

Both those things are incredible. Yes. I wanted to be A so badly, so I'm going to say A. No,

it was actually B. It was a F-clio could. Once more, that's a F-clio could. What's that spelled? I have no idea. Josh, this one's for you. A woman named Lynn said she knew her boyfriend was going to break up with her when she looked at his computer just by happened stance and saw what? Was it A? He was making a hinge profile for her or B on his calendar for the upcoming Friday. He'd written, quote, "Break up with Lynn." I'm going to go with B. Yes, you're right.

Break up with Lynn. Well, that's it for our first edition of It's Not You. It's me. We urge people not to have healthy relationships so we can do it again. Finally, Cynthia Nixon created one of the most iconic characters of all time when she played Miranda on Sex and the City and obviously yes, I am a Miranda. Then Nixon did it all over again in the sequel show and just like that. But before any of that, she made Broadway history by being the first

person to star in two separate shows that were being performed in two different theaters at the same time. Well, star would be generous. Well, that's insane. Because obviously my roles were confined in some way otherwise I would not be able to have done the first act of one, the second act of the other, and then the third act of the first one again. I just wanted to know how this logistically works. You did the first act, you appeared in the first act of her early, right? Yes. Then you would walk

off stage and like run out the theater door and how far was it to the next one. I would not run. I would change my clothes and I would go. I would walk two blocks away and I would walk through the Edison hotel and then I would wait and then I would go on at the real thing and then I would kill a lot more time and then I would take my curtain call and then I would change again, go back to Hurley Burley and then I would wait until the very last scene which was what with William

“Hurt and I in the very last scene of Hurley Burley which would be I think after 11 o'clock at that point.”

We of course we'll ask you about Sex and the City so you were kind of it's amazing to me that

it was this long ago, 1998 was when Sex and the City went on the air and when you were cast as Miranda did you have any idea what kind of phenomenon it would become? No, I mean there was nothing like it on television but also HBO at that point you know the sopranos hadn't happened they did not do original programming really but by the second season they put us on the cover of Time magazine with a slogan that said who needs a husband and then by that point we weren't just

some here grew up with Sex and the City giving them the idea of the kind of life they should aspire to

“as an independent woman in the city and my question to you is how do you feel about that?”

Well you know women are often coming up to me and saying I moved here because of your show and I do feel a little guilty like it's you know there people have also said that all the unrealistic things that happen on our show the most unrealistic was that there were that many attractive single men just you know anywhere anywhere you walk and I do I do sometimes feel a little responsible that that that women who watch and love the show think that actually they're really

supposed to be wearing high heels 24 hours yeah Casey didn't you say that you grew up watching Sex and the City yes I grew up watching Sex and the City and then I moved to the city so thank you for that how was it how how how how how how how has your real life in New York City

“measured up to premium cable it's honestly I recently watched that episode where Miranda has”

yeah we absolutely have to talk to you about the other HBO show you've been doing which is the guilty age takes place in Victorian in New York also known as no Sex and the City you talked about the the high heels of all your characters we're wearing in Sex and the City so what's more fun the costumes in Sex and the City are the costumes in the guilty age oh my I mean the the corsets are formidable I'm not gonna you know speaking of shoes a number of us you know we have

our little lace-up boots but a few of us wear them particularly few of us of a certain age yeah there's a lot of people in hugs and a lot of people in clogs you mean you mean to tell me if like the camera would have pan down to like and and and eight is feet and that we saw underneath the skirt there'd

be like hugs every time I arrive on set to shoot a scene that is my first question can you see my feet

right well Cynthia Nixon it is a joy to talk to you and we have asked you here to play a game that this time we're calling you're a New York Nixon meet the New York Nicks oh no oh yes

“you grew up in New York still live there so you should be able to handle three questions about”

New York's most beloved and or most disappointing basketball team the New York Nicks answer two or three questions and you will win our prize one of our listeners Bill who is Cynthia Nixon playing for James Lee I've seen the Washington alright here ready well I'm judging from your reaction that you are not perhaps the most avid basketball fan I am not although I will tell you a fun fact that you know Miranda dated Dr Robert Lair Underwood who was the sports doctor

fictionally for the Nicks right means you're like you were practically in the locker room okay

here is your first question when LeBron James was leaving Cleveland the Nicks pulled out all the

stuff to try to convince LeBron James to come to New York and play they even did what A they had Times Square officially renamed LeBron James Square be they sent the actual Broadway cast of Phantom of the Opera to his house in Cleveland to perform for him or see they had Edie Falco and James Gandalfini film a new secret ending to the sopranos just for him what was the middle one middle one was sending the entire Broadway cast of Phantom of the Opera

to his house to welcome Woody what he care would he care I'm gonna go with the first one I'm gonna go with renaming times when LeBron James Square I don't blame you I find this hard to believe too but they had Edie Falco and James Gandalfini film yeah it's it's Tony the I hope this is still available somewhere I have not been able to find it but it has Tony and Carmella soprano trying to find LeBron a nice apartment and yet he went to Miami who knew it okay

you two more chances James Dolan is the owner of the New York Nicks and Madison Square Garden where

technology at Madison Square Garden to do what A identify attractive audience members and make

“sure they're seated court side where the cameras can see them be make sure any couple is legally”

married to each other before showing them on the kiss cam he was a pioneer in that maybe or see find any of the many lawyers suing him and prevent them from entering the building oh number three there yeah

that's right the answer was see James Dolan gets sued a lot okay here's your next question

a New York Times reporter credited what event with loosening the tension in the locker room before a pivotal playoff game against their rivals the Pacers last year was it a quote an epic fart in the locker room b the coach giving all the players popsicles or see the entire team joining in a karaoke performance of Katy Perry's roar I say roar I think since it's so classy that

“that roar is what she calls afar it's that what you're encouraging me that's what I believe”

that's what they call farts in the gilded gilded gilded gilded so did somebody roar all right I don't think it's the popsicles why would that matter let's go with the fart it was of course an epic fart um excellent the New York Times reporter refused to reveal who was responsible for the quote epic fart the broke the tension and led the team to a big win but it is true that Jalen Brunson walked down to the court looking 15 pounds like

“bill how did the legendary Cynthia Nixon do in our quiz a win two out of three the fart”

wins Cynthia Nixon is a Grammy Tony and Emmy winning the performer who you can see on HBO's the gilded age which is streaming right now Cynthia Nixon what an absolute joy to talk to you thank you so much for being with us it's a pleasure thank you for having day care thank you bye bye

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