We meet America's robo-teachers and take a nap in coach

We begin with Westmore, a rising star in the Democratic Party.

“You know, you're never gonna win long-term on anger.”

Westmore, Maryland, on the midterms and beyond, you gotta be able to show what an alternative looks like. That's this week on NPR's Newsmakers. Listen, or watch the program on NPR's YouTube channel. From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is "Wait, wait, don't tell me."

The NPR News Quiz, I'm Alzo Slade. The guy they bring in when Bill Curtis is stuck in the TSA line back home. And here's your host at the Johnny Merchant Theatre in Savannah, Georgia. Peter, say, "Go, go, go, go, go." Thank you, everybody. Thank you, Savannah.

Oh, man. It is great. It is great to be back. It is great to be back in beautiful Savannah, a place we love. And I'm happy to say, we have been welcome to As Locals, which is gratifying. We've only been here two days,

and all of us are absolutely covered in Spanish moss. [laughter] Later on, we're gonna be talking to actor DW Muffet, a veteran actor, most recently seen in one battle after another. And more importantly, the head of the film and TV department

at the Savannah College of Art and Design.

But first, it's your turn to audition.

The number to call in and play our games

“is one AAA wait wait, that's 188-1924-8924.”

Let's welcome our first listener contestant. Hi, everyone. Wait, wait, don't tell me. Hi, Peter. This is Colling from Tempremental, Chicago Illinois. Oh, yeah. Okay. What do you do there in our home city?

Well, I'm so glad you asked. I have a very sexy job working in administration and compliance operations at a healthcare focus on profit. Whoa. Yeah, it's a little bit of a wait wait now.

You can start there, hang on a second, you can catch my breath. Welcome to the show, Claudia. Let me introduce you to our panel this week. First up, it's a writer for Clean Slate on Prime. It's Shantira Jackson.

(audience cheering) Hi, Claudia. Nice to meet you. Next, it's a comedian you can see at the laughing tap in the walkie on April 10th and the 11th.

It's Adam Burke. Hi, Claudia. Thank you. (audience cheering)

“And you can hear her out when the yellow joy on blonde medicine.”

And her special love joy is on peacock. It's joy out Nicole Johnson. Hey, Claudia, I like your voice, girl. Oh my gosh, yeah, thank you so much. Claudia, you're gonna play who's also this time?

Also, slave filling in for Bill Curtis is gonna read you three quotations in this week's news. If you can correctly identify or explain just two of them, you'll win our prize. Any voice from our show, you might choose for your voicemail.

Are you ready to go? I'm ready. All right, let's do it.

Your first quote is First Lady Melania Trump.

We'll give you a guest at an event on Wednesday. You are my first American-made humanoid guest in the White House. First Lady was speaking to something that she wants to take over educating our children someday.

What is it? It is a robot. It is a robot, yes. (audience cheering) You better applaud louder.

They will be in charge soon. (audience laughing) Speaking at the White House on Wednesday while standing beside a robot Melania Trump described the future where robots teach our children.

She has found her call. (audience laughing) And she raged and said, say no to drugs. Michelle Obama said, eat healthy food. Melania Trump says, "Death to the human teachers."

(audience laughing) The scene, by the way, I haven't seen it.

It's amazing, it's perfectly staged.

They're all sitting there in the audience and the doors open and Melania and the robot together walk in making this big entrance. And the technology is genuinely impressive. Both of them looked so lifelike.

(audience laughing) (audience laughing) Problem is, if we pay the robots the way we pay teachers they will revolve. (audience laughing)

This robot is a, I don't know if you saw this robot. It's amazing. They can program it to do just about anything except watch the Melania documentary. (audience laughing)

It's like one of those robots in the old Star Trek, where they ask it to define the common resource. (audience laughing) - If there's gonna be robot teachers, that implies it's gonna be robot substitute teachers.

Like instead of your regular, like cool robot, one of those little delivery ones comes in and just bump it against all the balls while you screw off. - Yeah, yeah, what happened to those delivery robots

in New York was that all the kids beat those robot, (audience laughing) Actually, there is, believe it or not, actual data showing that young children sometimes feel more comfortable being read to a reading

to a robot than a human being. It's less stressful for them. So it'll be actually really kind of cute, you know, a robot teacher sitting there with preschoolers.

(audience laughing) All right, very good. Here is your next quote.

“- What are they gonna broadcast Sunday at eight instead?”

That was a fan on Reddit responding with some panic to news that the entire season of what hit ABC reality dating show was canceled just this week. - The Bachelor at-- - The Bachelor at!

(audience cheering) This is amazing, after they take an entire season of the show from the Bachelor at meeting all 22 bachelor's in episode one through her picking the eventual winner. After they did all that video surface

of this new Bachelor at throwing chairs at her boyfriend during a fight. So ABC just canceled the whole season.

It'll never see the light of day.

ABC will lose $80 million in middle-aged women whilst they're best excuse to drink wine on Sunday. (audience laughing) - Well, as a middle-aged woman, I would like to say to you all that I made it to the age of 44

and I have never seen an episode of the Bachelor on the Bachelor at! - Oh! (audience cheering) - So, I feel like I am fan. - I feel like she'll be a reality show about that.

- Yeah. (audience laughing) - The last survivor. (audience laughing) The now canceled Bachelor at her name is Taylor Frankie Paul and she's a star

on another reality show, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wise. And her behavior was totally shocking to the Bachelor at Producers. So I guess didn't watch the very first episode of the Mormon Wiveshow where this is true.

She was arrested. - Taylor Frankie Paul sounds like she put her name in a reality TV show named general. (audience laughing) - Somebody's real name?

“- Were they tipped off when she handed out the roses?”

She kept them in the vase and then just broke them over people's eyes. (audience laughing) - Why did they have to cancel the whole show? If she was the problem, just do it without her.

See what happens when 30 identical men all lived together with nothing much to do. (audience laughing) And somehow four of them are named Brad. - Wait, I think that that show exists.

It's called the Senate. (audience laughing) Some of them, this is true. Some of the Bachelor's from the show, very upset that their big break into reality TV

has now been canceled.

It'll be erased, never seen.

They're considering a lawsuit against ABC. What are they suing for? Well, they want a single kiss from their true love. (audience laughing) - Oh, I feel bad.

They won't be able to open their gym now. (audience laughing) - Is that what they always wanna do now? - They always are gym influencers. They're always like, "I didn't find love,

but I did find abs." (audience laughing) - Well, now I feel like I've seen the season. (audience laughing) - You know what helps you build abs ducking check?

(audience laughing) All right, here is your last quote. - It's so muddy in disappointing compared to autumn. - That was the New York Times reporting that what season long considered the worst believe it or not

is now getting a rebrand.

“So what season does it turn out people like the least?”

And you only have four guesses.

- I would think it's spring. - It is spring. It was surprising to me. - Yes, spring, you got it right. But according to the New York Times,

Americans just don't like spring. Well, if you think about it, it makes sense. There's wildly fluctuating weather, there's mud, there's allergies, and springs only big holiday as the one

where you can't have candy if you don't believe in Jesus. (audience laughing) Now, several influencers, of course. Influencers are doing this. We're trying to change our minds about spring

with the same kind of branding that other seasons get. For example, autumn has its own flavor, pumpkin spice, right? So spring needs one, too. All I'm heading down to Starbucks to get my pollen and sneeze latte.

(audience laughing) It seems that you're suggesting that some marketing company whose client is spring. - Yes. (audience laughing) - Well, this is what's funny.

The times went to a marketing consultant. And they said, let's say your client was spring. What would you do? How would you market it? And he said, well, he would quote,

"spin spring's brevity into a positive." So that's the new slogan. That's spring. It's over soon. (audience laughing)

If spring is your client, one of those boardroom meetings look like. It's just like an Alec Baldwin bunny rabbit, yelling at you because the numbers are down. (audience laughing)

- You know what I think, I think it is. I think Easter Bunny has beef with Santa Claus for quite some time. (audience laughing) Easter Bunny's like, we gotta do something about that.

(audience laughing) - Also, how do Claudia do in her quiz? - Perfectly, three out of three. She is a champion. - Congratulations, Claudia.

(audience cheering) - Thank you. (upbeat music) - Right now, panel, that is time for you to answer some questions about this week's news.

- Joyele, United Airlines, they say they're gonna revolutionize air travel with a new offering

Starting next year, instead of separate seats, you and your traveling companions will be able to reserve your own what? - Sweet? - Not, not quite.

“That's for the people up in the first place.”

- Okay, listen to me. Okay, bathroom. - No, that would be nice.

- Peter, I find first class.

I don't know what's going on in the back of the night. (audience laughing) - I'm gonna reserve your own water bottles. - What? - Do you think if y'all that back there?

(audience laughing) - No, no, no, wait, what is your job? - It's new and like it, they just spray us with a hole. (audience laughing) - I've heard about it.

- Yeah, I know. - Wait, oh, seatbelts. - No, they do give the seatbelts to them. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, they give the seatbelts to them. - No, they do provide the fitted sheets, that's true.

- It's a bed? - Yes, they're gonna let people reserve beds. This new offering is called a relax row. And the idea is you take your three seats, which you're used to, and that will convert into a small cot of the same size.

You then get a specially fitted mattress and blankets to create a comfortable bed to lie down on, especially padded with the hair of every other passenger there for me. (audience laughing)

- Whenever I've seen a kid miss behaving on a plane, I thought, you know what that kid needs is a bed to jump on. - Yeah. (audience laughing) - I wanna know if somebody's gonna have their toes

now, you can tell by the face. - People, you make their toes out on air please. - Yes, they do. - They do. - They're back where we are, they're doing that.

- They've done it in first class before. - I had to say something, did you really? - Yes I did.

“- What is it, is it a bed or class of tow up there?”

- No, not always on bed at tow.

- Did you say excuse me, this is first class. - I did, that's it. - Not how we do things here. (audience laughing) - Just imagine what broke toes look like in the past.

(audience laughing) - Coming up, you're gonna want a second helping of our bluff for the listener game. For a one-triple late, wait, wait, wait to play. We'll be back in a minute with Lauren.

Wait, wait, don't tell me, from NPR. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) - From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is, wait, wait, don't tell me the NPR news quiz.

I'm Alzo Slade, we're playing this week with Joyo Nicole Johnson, Centura Jackson and Adam Burke. And here again is your host at the Johnny Mercer Theater in Savannah, Georgia. Peter, Sago.

- Thank you. - Thank you, Alzo. Thanks everybody. Right now, sorry for the wait, wait, don't tell me. Bluff, the listener game call, one-triple late.

Wait, wait, wait, wait to play our game in the air. How you run, wait, wait, don't tell me. - Hey, I'm a one-triple, from Amy's Iowa. - Hey, Owen from Amy's Iowa home of Iowa State. What do you do there?

- Well, I actually go to Iowa State. I'm doing engineering. - Well, that's great. That's cool. What kind of engineering are you gonna do?

- Oh, I'm doing mechanical right now. - Okay.

“So, are you Benny Chan's going to be building robots?”

- Oh, that's nearly the plan, if I don't-- - What kind of my classes? - Yeah, just remember, make sure when you're building the robots that they be best. (laughing)

- Oh, I'm sure that. - Well, welcome to this show. It's great to have you with us. You're gonna play the game mode, you have to tell truth from fiction.

- Also, what is Owen's topic? - Amuse my boost. - Yes. (laughing) - Everybody loves the boost.

- Can you say that? (laughing) - Apparently, you can. - On the radio? (laughing)

- I haven't even met your boost. (laughing) - Find dining, of course, is the wonderful culture where you go to restaurants and secretly look up words from the menu and your phone,

so the waiter doesn't think you're an idiot. - Our panelists are gonna tell you about a hot new dining destination that foodies are flocking to. Pick the one who's telling you the truth. You'll win the weight weight of your choice

in your voice mail. Are you ready to play? - Oh, yeah. - All right, first let's hear from Joel and Nicole Johnson. - Necessity is the mother of invention.

Said Katie Dickinson, the mother of the new viral eatery at Lake Odessa, Michigan. Katie, the mom of triplets, was at her wits and feeding them when they came of age to master Kate.

Shocker? They only nuggets. But while chicken nuggets are delicious, they are nutritious, then the idea popped in her head like the lightbulb and her childhood easy bake oven.

She started making everything in the shape of nuggets. Turns out her kids will eat anything if it's mashed up, bread it, fried it in the shape of a dinosaur. After successfully catering her kids,

ate birthday party with a plethora of pocket-sized bites, the food truck, nothing but nuggets was bored. And the restaurant is a huge success with kids and Delta Lake. Yes, chicken dimples are bound,

with the many also both favorites, like return of the mac and cheese. And for the adults, the lobster bis nuggets are called bisky business.

I've always said, if there's a restaurant

that made food, my kids wanted to eat, I would smash through the wall to get there, I said a patron waiting patiently in line

Nothing but nuggets were all the food comes

in the shape of nuggets. (audience applauding) Your next food fable comes from Adam Burke. When fancy eatery limizone detra opened up in San Francisco's embarcadero district last year,

it was an instant hit with local tech pros and crypto bros. Walthy clientele flocked to eat pricey dishes such as brainstorm stew and start-up sliders, which boasted exotic ingredients that promised to boost both the intellectual and athletic prowess

of the area's most voracious executives. But this week, Mizone's proprietor and head chef Delaney Robars, revealed that what her clientele were eating, were just sloppy jose and pure aid lunchables. (audience laughing)

It was all in the labor project to prove that rich people will pay for anything as long as it's expensive. While she thought her big reveal would end the restaurant's popularity,

it backfired.

Her most faithful customers refused to believe it.

“I think I know grass-fed Argentinian veal when I taste it,”

says Mizone regular and venture capitalist Vance Headley. In fact, the more Robars persists with the idea, the more popular her establishment seems to be. People are nuts for our expensive seafood dish, Abeloni Moose, she says.

Even when I tell them it's actually just Abeloni sandwich, mashed up with some cat food. It just goes to show these crypto dudes will swallow anything. (audience laughing)

The restaurant is here for this girl. (audience laughing) That serve fake gourmet food to the crypto bros and even after they are told that it's fake. Your last restaurant recap comes from Shenteer, Jackson.

- Suffisticated diners and foodies are all heading to central Massachusetts town Amherst. For chef-made cuisine that it's both superb and served by ladies wearing hernids.

That's because the bistro that Michelin somehow forgot

is the UMass dining hall. Their food is so good that people in the surrounding area have started taking their dates there. And apparently girls actually like doing that. The days of the freshened 15 are gone

“and the freshened 55 is closer than ever before.”

(audience laughing) The cafeteria has been blessed with foods from a former chef from the rich Carlton and a former paratrooper. No matter who's in the kitchen,

they like to go all out for these kids. It's especially on holidays, whether it's doali, the lunar new year, or the Super Bowl, which is according to them, also a holiday.

But the biggest celebration is on Halloween when they serve over 15,000 lobsters to sexy Frankenstein's all over campus. So if you have a helpful of picky eaters, you know where to send them for undergrad.

You mass Amherst. A college that's only 90 miles away from Boston. (audience laughing) All right, so if you're interested in a fine dining experience, you can go to one of these three places.

Was it from Joel, Nicole Johnson? Nothing but nuggets of food truck and now a restaurant that serves all kinds of food all in the shape of dinosaur nuggies. From Adam Burke, they made Zondetra,

a fake gourmet, high-tech restaurant for high-tech guys, or from Shantira Jackson, the finest dining in all of central Massachusetts, the dining hall at UMass Amherst, which of these are the real story

of a dining destination we found in the news.

“Ooh, I think I'm gonna have to go with Adam's story.”

You're gonna go with Adam's story. The restaurant opens specifically for the tastes of tech brews or turned out to be more gullible than even we thought that's your bet. - The thing in engineer would do, yeah.

- Yeah, no. Speaking as an engineer, I know, you probably have an insight into that. Well, to bring you the correct answer, we spoke to a reporter who actually

brought this to our attention. - The dining halls at UMass are chocolate milk from local farmers, cows, eggs on an culinary shape pizza. - That was the Wall Street Journal's Jasmine Lee, who reported on, and of course,

dying at the UMass Amherst, dining hall, which hopefully will be getting its Michelin star. Sometimes soon, I'm so sorry to say, although I'm sure you're right about engineers. (laughing)

We're sadly incorrect in which was the real story. However, you earned a point for Adam. (applause) - Thank you for a story that I think we all wish were true. (laughing)

- Thank you so much for playing. - Take care. Bye bye. (upbeat music) - And now the game we call not my job.

Savannah used to be known for its history, and beauty, and trees covered with Spanish moss. Now it is just as well known for the Savannah College of Art and Design, which among other things, has helped make Georgia the Hollywood of the East

with the Department of Film and TV. There, DWMuffet, a movie and TV actor known for Friday night lights, and more recently, one battle after another, is the chair of that department. He joins us now.

DWMuffet, welcome to Wait wait don't tell me. - Thank you so much. Great to be here, great to be here.

- Very, very long career, long distinguished career.

- Just some so old. - And I was thinking about what of your many roles people might recognize you for. I was guessing Friday night lights. - Friday night lights are the dads in the airports

who stop me. - Yeah. - Switched to birth, are the women in their early 20s who love Switch to birth. - I have one battle after all.

- One battle after another, love you. - People, people, people run for me. - Well, okay, in Friday night lights. - If I'm not mistaken, you played a dad of one of the high school football players.

“And I think I can say, this is not a spoiler, a bad dad.”

- I'm the worst dad ever. - We're a dad ever, and the plot was that you're trying to shape your childhood and the perfect football playing machine and it goes a ride.

People take that show very seriously. - Yeah, very passionate. - Are they still mad at you? For ruining that kid's prospects? - I sometimes am delighted to appear

on worst dads in television history, Lily. (audience laughs) You know, I tell you, but it's fun because, and I talked to my students about this all the time, you know, when you play a bad guy,

you can't think I'm a bad guy. - Right. - Like, I was just playing a dad who was really invested in his son's future. - Yeah.

- Yeah, it's being a bad dad. You also appear in the Oscar winner, one battle after another, as a member of this bizarre secretive group of racists called the Christmas Adventurers Club.

- Yes, I do.

“- I have a number of questions about that.”

Let's start with this one. - Yeah. - What the hell? - I don't know, Christmas Adventurers Club. - Yeah, when PT Anderson calls you up and says,

"I've got just the role for you." - So when you get that call, you go, yes. - Of course.

- I never read the script.

- Not once. - Not once. - He's asking you to do it. - So sign him up. - There's this insanely bizarre scene

with like, babble speak, like, this week gave him a Yankee double Yankee clearance thing. Burma, Burma, Burma, Burma, Burma. They're shooting on the VistaVision camera, which is like shooting a scene next to a jackhammer.

- Right, enormous thing. - enormous thing. They never did any dialogue replacement. There was no looping. So I said to my wife, I'm not in the movie.

They cut that scene. I had never read the script.

“So I didn't realize that scene is right in the middle of moving.”

- Right. - I said I'm not in the scene. They cut the scene. And my wife knows the post-production supervisor and she was like, oh, oh no, he's in the movie.

(laughing) - You know, the Christmas Adventurers. That's why winter is my least favorite. - Yeah, yeah, there you go. - So you are now, of course, the chair

of the Department of Film and TV here in Savannah at Skat. In addition to chairing the department, you also teach acting, film, TV program. - So I teach, I teach two things primarily because my faculty is so amazing.

I don't wanna take these classes away from them. And because I was an actor and still am an actor, I teach a class called directing the actor, which is teaching filmmakers how to communicate effectively with that strange animal, which is the actor.

- Actually, this is something that I was wondering about, which is, we've you had students, even though Skat is very selective, who just aren't very good at it. And you ever find yourself having to tell them that.

- So here's the thing, like.

(laughing) - That's a yes. - Yeah, yeah. - Is that how you start this sentence? - Like, but like, seriously, like,

there are people that I know in this business that when I was 25 and I saw them, I was like, no, no, can't be. But like, because we teach producing, directing, all these different things, you know,

someone might say to me, you know, I really wanna be a great cinematographer, and who knows, they might wind up being an incredible editor of something. - Right.

And you can say, well, you know, film sets very busy, they also need catering. (laughing) I have to wonder though, you've been here in Savannah for how long, 10 years, okay.

Was it hard for Chicago guy like yourself to adjust, like, how long after getting here? Did you figure out that you say, bless your heart rather than go after yourself? (laughing)

(laughing) So my mother is a hillbilly, she's from South Eastern Kentucky. There ya'll, and so they don't say bless yourself, but they say something similar, so I kind of had an inkling.

- What do they say in Eastern Kentucky? - Yeah, yeah. - Yeah. - You bare watch, yeah, I don't key. (laughing)

I'm don't key.

They get straight to the point. - Yeah, yeah. - There's not too much passive aggressive. - You should do that on your question.

“- You should do that when your critiquing is due to film.”

- Well, DWM often, it is a pleasure to talk to you. We've invited you here to play a game, we're calling a bunch of battles all at once. - So, you were in one battle after another, which is, when you think about it,

a manageable way to handle your battles, right? But what if everybody attacked at the same time? So we're gonna ask you three questions about mass mailings. Get too right, you want a prize for one of our listeners. Also who's DWM often playing for?

- Hanatealer of Savannah, Georgia. (cheering and applause) - Are you ready to do this? - I'm ready. - Here you go.

- Okay.

- First question, at the annual Kirk Pinart Festival

in Western Turkey, fighters come from all over that country to compete in a form of wrestling. That has a particular twist. What is it, A? Wrestlers arms are tied behind their back

and their legs are tied together. B, not only is poking in the eye allowed, it's the only thing allowed. (laughing)

“We're C, all the wrestlers are covered in olive oil”

to make them more slippery. (cheering and applause) (cheering and applause) - People, the audience, the people are shouting, "See, all of them"

- I'm a little too much enthusiasm. (laughing) - They like heated rivalry. (laughing) - What are the lessons, those of them.

- You know, they're... (laughing)

- They're used to be a wrestling place

and Hollywood had a lot of hot oil wrestling. Anyway, just because Turkish food is so oil, - Rettlent of oil. - Yeah, I'm gonna go with say. You're right, it is olive oil, the fact.

(cheering and applause) Olive oil wrestling in Turkey goes back more than 600 years. It's a hollowed tradition. There you are.

All right, here's your next question. You did that well. In the village, high in the mountains of Peru. The people there celebrate an event called the Tecanakui, every Christmas day.

What happens at the Tecanakui? Hey, everybody tries to beat up everybody else to get them back for slights that happened during the preceding year. Be people attempt to beat Alama in a spitting fight.

Or see, it's a giant Christmas theme to Marshall Arts, match called gold, frankincense and murder. (laughing) I'm gonna go with B.

You're gonna go with B, people attempt to beat Alama.

No, it was actually the first one

as the narrator of a documentary about it says, it's like Yum Kapoor, but with Punching. (laughing) But if you offended someone at the beginning of the year, the anticipation will be whining up

for three hundred and sixty four decades. All right, this is fine if you get this last one right, you win. In Florence, Italy, they still play this ancient ball game called Calcio Storico, where players can do anything

they like to the opposing player, resulting in all kinds of injuries. But the game was even crazier. Back when it began in the middle ages, because organizers often did what in the middle of a match.

A, through a bucket of knives into the playing area. (laughing) B, alerted certain players that other certain players had slept with their wives, or B, a rather C, released live bowls into the arena.

(cheering) (laughing) - Oh, we've Calcio Storico fan here. - Or that's just a woman who's being attacked by a B. (laughing)

- B, B, guys at your point. - I'm gonna go with the bowls. - You're right, that's what they did. They don't do that anymore. (cheering)

But they still have this every year, as if everyone goes to see some Italians beat the living hell out of each other. - And what's even crazier, those bowls are mad about slights that happened the previous year.

(laughing) - They're mad about slights that happened in Pample. (laughing) I'm gonna get him for that. Also, how did DWMuffa do in our quiz?

To out of three, he won that battle. (laughing) (cheering) - DWMuffa is an actor with deck as long career in film TV and theater, and he is the chair of the film

and television program here at the Savannah College of Art and Design. DWMuffa, thank you so much for joining us. - Thank you. - Come on, wait, wait, don't tell me.

Give it up. We're very on DWMuffa. (upbeat music) - It just admitted a push for the Tush and our listener, Limer Challenge call,

“one Triple 8, wait, wait, did you hear this on the air?”

We'll be back in a minute with more of, wait, wait, don't tell me, from NPR. (upbeat music) - From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is, wait, wait, don't tell me the NPR news quiz.

I'm Alzo Slay. We're playing this week with Shantira Jackson, Joya Nicole Johnson and Adam Burke. And here again is your host, at the Johnny Mercer Theater in Savannah, Georgia.

(audience cheering)

It just admitted it's one Limerick after another.

And our listener, I'm a challenge. If you'd like to play, give us a call and one Triple 8, wait, wait, that's 188-8-9248-924. Right now, I've had some more questions for you from the week's news.

Adam, this week, the Times, Profiled, and increasingly popular online support group for certain members of the population. Who is it? - Online support for certain members?

- Yes. - Is it people who are addicted to support groups? (audience laughing) - Yes. (audience laughing)

No, I'm trying to figure out how that would work, you know. - I'm addicted to introducing myself. - I will say that I myself, I'm a member of this particular group. - Oh, is it like something you don't like?

- It's something for people who are struggling with something, and they're encouraged just to embrace it. - Be careful Adam. - Yeah. (audience laughing)

- Glad this one isn't mine. - I think it's a support group for the fallocally challenge. - For the bald. - Yes. (audience laughing)

- The reddit group called our bald. (audience laughing) It's entirely dedicated to pushing people to just accept their baldness. The community helps people live their truth,

and the truth is your bald.

- I like that. - You can tell those are bald cheers. - And I say this from experience.

“The only thing worse than losing your hair”

is pretending you are not losing your hair. - Yes. - No, no guys. I got here. I wear this fedora all the time,

because I mean, I'm an old timey news paper man. - Oh, nice. - Do not be afraid to be bald men bald is very sexy. - Yes. - Okay.

- I have a lot of tech. - Yes. - Come on, give me bald. I love a lot of people. - You say.

- And I'm gay, so I really mean it. (audience laughing) I wouldn't lie to you. I mean, I would. - But I'm not.

- The subreddit says it's devoted to encouraging members to quote embrace, bald, and strive to make the world a more bald, friendly place. - All right. - Okay, that's fine.

That could work. Or an idea. We could just make the world less friendly for people with hair. (audience laughing)

- Hey, Ferdome. Hey. Look at that moss head. (audience laughing) - Well, I have to say that from my perspective

as a Nelson judge, I see the back of Peter's head. - Yeah. - And there's some hair back there. - A little bit? - It is rude when you check your appearance

in the back of his head. (audience laughing) - Add more and more people are giving up on something. They're realizing is a time-wasting, unprofitable job. What is it?

- Well, I know that Gen Zee aren't having sex. Is it sex? (audience laughing) - As a job? - As a job?

(audience laughing) - Listen. - Hey, someone say it's the oldest one. - Yeah. (audience laughing)

- Can I get a clue? - Yeah, do two random guys

“do laugh at their own jokes if there's no one to hear them?”

- Oh, oh, please, is it podcast? - Yes, people are walking away from the podcast. - Yes, applaud that. (audience applauding) People are applauding, not this way.

- Not this way. - A lot of taping of what is actually a podcast. (audience laughing) As more and more of the podcasting world is being dominated by just a few shows.

Many of the other podcasters are realizing that continuing simply isn't worth the time of their money. This is heartbreaking. Without podcasts, where am I supposed to go

hear three dudes talk about a movie for two hours longer than the runtime of the movie? (audience laughing) - I think that we should just take all the microphones from the men and let the girls keep their podcasts.

- Yes. (audience laughing) - Girls agree. (audience applauding) - And talk about what?

- Well, have all the men murder each other and then have all the women do two crime podcasts about that. - Yeah, exactly. - Exactly. One of the problems is so many podcasts are true.

The crime podcast, we're running out of crimes. We need more murders. Anybody's on here? - If all the men murder each other, women would not be wasting time on a podcast.

They'd be outside running at night. - Yeah. (audience laughing) - Foodie shorts. (audience laughing)

(upbeat music) - Coming up, it's like you fill in the blank,

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- This is Kelly from Moment to North Carolina. - Will me to North Carolina? That's a lovely place, what do you do there? - I worked for a commercial bank specializing in small business loans,

but my most important role is Mom

to a beautiful ten-month-old namesakeam.

So you are new to this parenthood thing? - I think I'm Asian it so far. - If I do think so. - Oh, wow, I see. - Yeah.

- Yeah, you think you're asing it 'cause they can't talk back yet. (laughing) - Well, welcome, ready. - Welcome to the show, Kelly.

Also, Slay, filling it for Bill Curtis, is gonna read you three news related lemrex with the last word of phrase missing for me. If you can fill in that last word of phrase correctly and just two of the lemrex will be a winner.

Ready to play? - Yeah, sir.

- Here is your first lemrex.

- On red carpets, I cheekily struck, 'cause the slit on my dress is high-cut. It's just a small peak, so it's all very chic. You will catch a side glimpse of mine. - But, yes, very good.

“According to Vogue, you should know the new look”

on one way's and red carpets is quote, "Showing off your flank," unquote. You can go for a tasteful peek-a-butt look like Heidi Klum did with sheer panels, highlighting her sidebutt. Go full crack like Chapel Roan,

or for the ultimate fashion statement, do it Leonardo DiCaprio did it the Oscars, just fix the drain under the kitchen sink. (laughing) - In my day, you just ripped your pants.

- Yeah. (laughing) - It's about time, and then makes sense. I mean, what is a butt crack, but your lower cleavage?

(laughing) - You know what? - I've been to it. - Really, you're excited about that. - I've been to it, 'cause I wanna see a bunch

of babies' people's butts. If that's what you're gonna give me, I'll take it. - You ready for it? - Yeah, I'm ready for it. - Is it a fancy word for like, ask cleavage,

'cause like with regular cleavages, there's like, de la ta. - And in Bompa, yeah. - Yeah. - I know, I'm Balkon, don't ask me why I don't wanna laugh.

- You know, a lot of different ways to say it.

“- Yeah, there should be like a French word, you know what I mean?”

- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - All right, here is your next lemric. - When my toddler gets bored and home, we go. At the DIY place, we roam, three rows. He opens our drawers, touches tools, rugs, and more.

I am taking my kid to home. - Deepo. - Deepo, yes, Home Deepo, you've heard of Home Deepo, and that of course, is the mega store popular with boomer dads and millennial lesbians, well.

- Ah! - Hey, you would be correct. - There you are. - Fact-ject truth. Well, this week, people magazine proposed

it's also a great place to bring your board toddler. Here, the power tool, I'll kid, enjoy yourself. You know, you love pressing buttons. - I don't know, this is definitely something that I am into.

- Going just wandering on Home Deepo? - Spending money at Home Deepo. - Yeah. - Just remember, you can only bring your kids there for fun.

If you're not if you're actually going there for something you need, because your child

will just never get over the trauma of seeing you get

that frustrated. - Second, then daddy started shouting, "Does anybody work here?" - Do you really want your kid to be that comfortable at Home Deepo?

You know, 'cause you ask him to do his chores and then he quotes you way over the odds. - It takes whites as long as he said he's gonna do it. - 'Cause you know, we need to rip out the entire wall. - Yeah, we need to do much more.

- You need a new tool for that, no doubt. - All right, here is your last lemric. We sell pit houses and IP O stocks. And we love dermatology, brodox. We don't go out for smokes, but for quick forehead pokes.

On our work breaks, we go get some... - Botox. - Yes, Botox, more and more coworkers are getting Botox together between meetings and like a little outing.

The meeting that they got you after the Botox appointment must be so interesting. I can't tell if the boss liked my proposal. His face is stuck. (laughs) Sometimes it's especially like office retreat,

bonding exercise. There's even a Botox clinic that doubles as a co-working space. The big question is, how do you propose this

“to your co-workers without a being an HR violation?”

(laughs) - I also had to Kelly do in our quiz. Three out of three, perfect school. - Well done Kelly, congratulations. - Thank you, thank you.

- Thanks for calling and playing. - Thanks. - Bye-bye. (upbeat music) - Now, it is time for our final game.

Let me fill in the blank. You two have our players left 60 seconds in which to answer as many fill in the blank questions as they can. Each correct answer is worth two points.

- Also, can you give us the scores? - Absolutely. Joyo and Shantir are not at up at two with Adam and the lead with three. All right, so that means Adam is going last

and to go first, I'll just pick how about Joyo. Here we go. - Yes! (laughs) - Here we go, Joyo, you're up first.

The clock will start, but I begin your first question. Fill in the blank.

On Wednesday, a California jury issued a $6 million

ruling against social media giant blank. - It's to grab. - No, I'm gonna give it to you. - Meta, yeah, they didn't disagree. I'm okay, I had to think about it.

Yes. On Tuesday, the blank raised its maximum

- Oh, the Army.

- Army, and Thursday, the White House announced

that it was pausing strikes on blank until April 6th. - You're armed. - Right, on Monday, a crash caused blank airport to shut down operations from as 24 hours. - The glory end of your city, baby!

(laughs) - Is that correct?

“- It is correct, I think, if you were a little too excited”

about it, but okay. This week, a truck driver in New York ran into a highway overpass, and then immediately blanked. - Peter on the top. - No, he then ran into another one.

- On Thursday, qualification playoffs for the 2026 FIFA blank began. - Football. - Yeah, World Cup, very good. - Yeah.

- This week, police in New York reported that a man robbed six banks in five days, taking in a total of blank dollars. - $29.99. - You're a little bit more, six hundred and five.

- Oh, man, robbed banks and queens, Brooklyn Manhattan, and the Bronx over the course of five days,

but only managed to leave total with $605.

(laughs) - Even worse, that means he's only taking home like 400 after tax. (laughs) - You know things about when the bank doesn't have

any money. (laughs) - Also, how to drill during our quiz. - Did it pretty well? See, you got five right for 10 more points,

which gives her 12 and the lead. - That's the most I've ever got in right, Peter. - You're getting there. - You're a little bit grasshopper. - You're doing great.

- Chantira, you're up next here. We go fill in the blank. On Wednesday, another plan to reopen

“is to Department of Blank, failed in Congress.”

- Homeland Security. - Right, on Tuesday, the House Overside Committee released video from the closed-door depositions of two of Blank's closest associates. - Etsy?

- Right, this week NASA unveiled a proposal to create a permanent base on the blank. - The moon? - Right, this week CNN reported the top-director at FEMA says that he once blanked.

- Stole all the money. - No, he says he once teleported to a waffle house. - Oh! - Yay! - I got another day, is he not?

- Someday you're just in the mood. - That's the first time this administration has done anything that I'm down with. (laughing) - Yeah, yeah.

- According to experts, increased gas prices are leading to a surge in sales for blacks. - Bikes. - No electric vehicles. On Wednesday, the first trailer for HBO's new adaptation

of the Blanky Potter series was released. (laughing) - No, no, no, no. - Yeah, sorry about it. This week six foot seven, Irishman.

- Six, seven. - Six, seven, Irishman. Don't eat. (laughing) - This week six, seven, Irishman.

- That you became a top football recruit for American colleges, despite the fact that Blanky.

- He has never played that sport in his life.

- That's exactly right, he has never played football. Every college football program in the U.S. is trying to sign, "Neph Jua," a 20-year-old Irish giant who is never played football. Turns out it actually makes sense.

Jua caught a recruiter's eye while playing rugby, which if I understand correctly is a sport that answers the question, what if football but with punching? (laughing)

- Whether football with little shorts and they cut together's butts. (laughing) - Some people have different violence, all right? - Also, how does Shantira do it like with her?

- Shantira also got five right for ten more points and she's now tied for the lead. - Very good, all right. (applause) - How many did that kind of go on?

- How many then does Adam Burke need to win? - Adam needs five to win. - All right, here we go, Adam. This is for the game full of life. - Wednesday, the season opener

with the New York Yankees featured robot blanks. Like pictures, like machines that fireballs. They're not using pitching machines, they're using robot umpires. - Oh, this week, open AI said they were shutting down

Sora, their app that creates AI-generated blanks. Like girlfriends, boyfriends, oh. (laughing) I was about to say you wish, but I wouldn't say that to you.

The videos on Thursday, the IOC announced a new policy that effectively bans blank, athletes from competing in women's events. - Transgender. - Right, this week, the FDA cited the makers of a product

called blank for not disclosing that it contained on a rectile dysfunction drug. - What? (laughing) - It ain't even product.

- That's secretly included in a rectile dysfunction drug was blank. - Was it hard-chicken nuggets though? - No, it was called boner bear honey. (laughing)

- On Tuesday, late night host blank said that he is co-writing the next film in the Lord of the Rings franchise. - Stimco Baron. - Right.

- For four-year break, K-Pop superstars blank, released a new album. - BTS. - Right, this week, a sailor in the French Navy went on a run, posted his results to the app, Strava,

and accidentally blanked. - Started war with spade.

“- No, he accidentally gave away the top secret location”

of the aircraft carrier he was on. (laughing) - Strava is an app where various amateur athletes can post a workout complete with GPS maps of where they did it,

and then other athletes can see in like the post, which is how this French sailor accidentally exposed the location of his aircraft carrier.

felt great, here are the nuclear launch codes.

(laughing)

“- How's it, did Adam Burke do well enough to win?”

- Nope. (laughing) - He did pretty bad, actually. (laughing) - The only guy at three right, which gives the championship

to Santira and Joel. - Hey, what? (cheering) - In just a minute, we're gonna ask our panelists to predict after the batch will rat,

“what'll be the next series to get canceled”

after the last minute and why.

But first, let me tell you all,

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Peter Gwen is our spring breaker, Emma Choi is our vibe curator,

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Now, panel, what's the next TV series to get canceled at the last minute? Santira Jackson. - You're for ya, because the way that the world is right now, we don't wanna watch his in-day, I'd be saying.

(laughing) - Adam Burke, the next season of the Kid Show Blueie, is canceled when the FCC is declared that you the equal time rules, and it's a show about an angry pitbull called Ready.

(laughing) - And Joy on the Cold Johnson. - If the TV show has been on way too long and therefore it's run its course, so we can't sleep in the United States of America.

(laughing) - And if any of that happens, we'll ask you about it on wait, wait, don't tell me. - Thank you, I was supposed to say thanks all to Santira, Jackson, Adam, Burke, and Joy on the Cold Johnson, takes the staff from here at the Johnny Mercer Theater in Savannah, special thanks to Emily, Axel and everyone at GPV. Thanks to our fabulous audience, the game out to see us in Savannah. Thanks to all of you for listening wherever you might be.

A Peter Segel will see you next week. (upbeat music) This isn't PR.