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From NPR and WB EZ Chicago, this is, wait, wait, don't tell me, the NPR news quiz. I'm Alzo Slade, and I'll be making this place a judgment full zone. Here's your host at the Suitabaker Theatre at the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Illinois. Tom Papa! Thanks, Alzo. Thanks, everybody. I'm Tom Papa and for Peter Sago, who took the week off

to fulfill one of his lifelong dreams, smoking cigarettes in the woods in Canada. (audience laughing) Later on, we'll be joined by Vicki Peterson, legendary rock guitarist from the Bangles,

but first, did your turn to call in and play our games.

The number is 180, eight, wait, wait. That's 180, eight, nine, two, four, eight, nine, two, four. Now let's welcome our first listener contestant. Hi, you're on wait, wait, don't tell me. Hi, Tom, this is Luke from Memphis, Tennessee.

Hi, Luke, what do you do down there? Well, I guess my official title is Principal of Digital Communication and Experience Solutions for a major sweets and snacks company. Oh, that's a very long title.

(audience laughing)

“Okay, now Luke, let's introduce you to our panel.”

First up, a comedian you can see on Saturday, July 18th at Zainese and Chicago, and July 23rd through the 25th in Houston, Texas, it's Dolce Sloan. (audience cheering)

Hey, hey, hey.

Next, you can see him at the punch line

in Irving, Texas, July 30th through August 1st, and flapper's comedy club in Burbank, August 6th. It's Alonzo Bowdoin. Hello, Luke. (audience cheering)

And a comedian who hosts the public radio trivia the game show, go fact yourself, and the animal mythology podcast framed by fables. It's Helen Hans. Hey.

Hello. (audience cheering) So, welcome to the show, Luke. You're going to play, who's Alzo this time? Alzo Slade is going to read you three quotes

from this week's news. If you can correctly identify or explain two of them, you'll win our prize, any voice from our show, you choose on your voicemail. Are you ready?

- Absolutely. - All right, good luck.

Your first quote is an expert on the today's show,

describing cyclospora, an illness spreading around the U.S. this week. The main symptom rhymes with Diam Maria. (audience laughing)

“The current outbreak of cyclospora is caused by eating what?”

- What is? - Yes, bag, salad, and protein. (audience cheering) Yes, there's an explosive diarrhea outbreak. And heads up, this is one explosion.

You do not look cool walking away from in slow mode. (audience laughing) Epidemiologists warn that the microbes spreads through raw lettuce and berries. One victim blamed the salad he had four days earlier.

If you can remember a salad, you had four days ago. You are already a mess. (audience laughing) - All I gotta say is the last big outbreak was COVID.

And if you think you didn't want someone but COVID over your house. (audience laughing) - Oh, what's the problem with this? - We don't want to do it.

There'll be no visitors now. You can, and you know that the thing is, the guy whose job it was to keep an eye on this, you know, he was fired as part of the doshing. He's the only guy sitting at home just laughing.

Like, yeah, I wasn't necessary, they need me. They, yeah, okay. - This outbreak has really given me an appreciation for the word "explosive." (audience laughing)

Like, it's just so evocative, isn't it? It really, it kind of makes you want to get it. (audience laughing) And just so you know, the explosions start seven days after you eat the produce.

So, yes, America, you already have it. (audience laughing) - But if it's seven days after how you know it was that salad. - Well, you don't, welcome to it. (audience laughing)

- Once you, all right, once you reach the level of explosive, I don't think where it came from if you're a big concern. (audience laughing) - All right, Luke, your next quote about a very prominent

couple sleeping and separate bedrooms. He's determined to have the better bedroom. That's from the new book regime change

“about what couple fighting over who has the better room?”

- Can I have a hint? - Yes, you can. The bedrooms are in the White House. (audience laughing) - That is a great hint.

- Hold on, let's see if he gets it. - Yes, Trump and Melania. (audience laughing) The president and Melania have separate bedrooms. We all figured this.

The only surprising fact is that they're in the same building. (audience laughing) - Which bedrooms are they? Like, it's what's the competition? 'Cause wouldn't he be in the presidential--

- Well, he's president, right?

- Yeah, but there's someone more powerful.

(audience laughing) Melania got the bigger fancier presidential bedroom with all the nice furniture, while Trump sleeps in what is basically the living room next door.

(audience laughing) Imagine having the sleep in separate rooms because you're so in love, it distracts you from running the country. (audience laughing)

Trump is reportedly obsessed

“with trying to make his bedroom better than Melania's.”

So much so that he starts stealing stuff from other parts of the White House to make his bedroom fancier. This is true. He's taking furniture, lamps, artwork,

and carrying it into the room himself. Imagine being a White House staffer, working an all-nighter, and you see Trump and his pajamas sneaking by holding a bust of FDR. (audience laughing)

- I don't think anyone knew she slept at the White House and didn't-- - Yeah, I'm surprised she's there.

The first term she lived in New York, right?

- Yeah, that's right. - Why is she even in there? - Maybe it's just a piss him off. (audience laughing) My wife and I started sleeping in separate bedrooms.

Like, we don't start off that way. Like, she snores a lot. (audience laughing) So I don't believe on her, right? - Yeah, yeah.

- I'm an angel. - Right, right. - So I'm like a little puppy.

“- But do you, are your, are the separate beds”

in the same room, like leave it to Beaver? (audience laughing) - No, and we start off in the same bed like there's gonna be no problem and then around three o'clock in the morning,

one of us kicks the other one in the shins and leaves in a rage. (audience laughing) - Tom, what I love is after the show airs, and you're sleeping out back with the dog thinking,

you know, I thought the snoring bit was funny. (audience laughing) - And I'm sneaking in, sneaking in, sneaking in down the hallway, stealing stuff from my new room.

(audience laughing) All right, Luke, here's your last quote. Is this the next pumpkin spice? That's the New York Times reporting that what is the next it flavor?

- I'm gonna have to ask for another hint. - Well, I'll give it to you gladly. Just pick up the peel so you don't slip. - Banana? - Yes, banana.

Look around, banana flavor is in everything right now. The trend is red hot while also turning brown. (audience laughing) (audience laughing) - I think you got dulce with that one.

(audience laughing) - There are banana M&M Starbucks, banana cold foam, Duncan banana latte is plus. There's fancy banana protein pottings that have all the coolest people asking, wait.

Am I just eating baby food? (audience laughing) - Can I say on behalf of everybody? Girl, oh! (audience laughing)

Because here's the thing,

banana is like great, right? So like great flavor don't taste like great, great taste like purple. (audience laughing) You go on.

- Banana flavor don't taste like the actual fruit, but banana tastes like yellow. (audience laughing) - Yeah. So we're not dealing with real fruit

since waste is right here. This is real blue raspberry campaign. (audience laughing) You think pumpkin spice was real? Hey, hey, hey, I'm black, I don't know,

not, but no pumpkin. (audience laughing) - I will say it's, I feel like it's audacious of banana to not even need spice. - Oh, right? Like banana was like, you know what?

I can handle this solo. - But banana has been around, but banana has been around so much longer than pumpkin. (audience laughing) You know what I mean?

Banana is like, I got this, I don't know. - Yeah, I'm back. - Just need no help. - Just so you all know Alonzo is sponsored by Chiquita. (audience laughing)

(audience laughing) - That's right baby, I'm getting paid.

- I'm getting that big banana, 20.

- Also, how did Luke do? - Luke did great, three out of three, congratulations. - Nice job Luke! (audience cheering) - Awesome, that's all, all right.

- All right, fun, then watch my music. (audience laughing) - Thanks buddy. (upbeat music) (upbeat music)

- Right now, panel, time for you to answer some questions about this week's new. - Oh, no. - Alonzo, yes, it's pretty hot this summer, but there's a big trend of people saying now is the time

to stop doing what? - Um, air conditioning? - No, she liked a hint. - Yeah, I think so.

“- My secret is I'm sure this is that thing”

to a large degree. - Yeah. - Also, all the time.

- The people, the people who want privacy

when using their phones in public have given up the orderant. - That's right, wearing the orderant. - What better way to be alone on a phone call? (audience laughing)

- Americans are giving up the orderant, and probably the worst week of the year to do that. Most deodorant skippers say they don't need it because they shower a lot, which is true. As long as that means you shower every 15 minutes.

(audience laughing) - There've been days where I've forgotten the orderant. - All right. - Purpose. And I'm just like, my high fives are real low.

(audience laughing) Like down to the waist, you know. (audience laughing) - Is there a difference between not going with yodering and going with yodering that is just made natural?

- Yeah, like, are there crystal rocks? - Yeah. - You're supposed to rub in your pits.

“- Right, and it doesn't have aluminum in it,”

and there's-- - Yeah. - There are some people who don't need the aluminum. - Uh-huh. - And there are some people who should be wrapped in rentals.

(audience laughing) ♪ I'm gonna walk away with all of my sins ♪ ♪ I'm gonna walk away with all of my sins ♪ ♪ Take me to the river ♪ ♪ Take me to town ♪

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That funding, more than a billion dollars, is gone.

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Another takeaway is from Blanche's Senate hearing on Consider This. You can listen on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts. Everyone wants to know if AI is conscious, but consciousness is really hard to define.

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“- What it is like to eat chocolate or to look at the blue sky?”

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(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 Alzo Bowdoin, Helen Hong, and Dolce Sloan.

And here again is your host at the Student Baker Theater in Chicago, Illinois, Tom Papa. (audience cheers) - Thanks Alzo. - Hi, man, man, man, man, man, man.

- Thanks Alzo, right now it's time for the wait. Wait, don't tell me, bluff the listener game. Call 180, wait, wait to play our game on air. Hi, you're on wait, wait, don't tell me. This is Brendan calling from Eggford, or New Hampshire.

- Oh, nice, nice to meet you Brendan. What do you do there in New Hampshire? - I run a hardware and craft store,

and take care of my free cash. - Oh, where do you fly your drones? - Up the river. - What? - I love how we still have my technology,

but it still sounds very New Hampshire. It's like I've got a high tech drone going up the river. (audience laughs) Well, it's nice to have you with us Brendan.

You're going to play our game

“in which you must try and tell truth from fiction.”

What's the topic, Alzo? - Let's put the fun in funeral. (audience laughs)

- Something should never change about funerals.

Nobody wants to go to open casket where they're like, we thought we just show you the legs this time. (audience laughs) But sometimes changes good, and this week we heard about something new in the funeral biz.

Our panelists are going to tell you about it. Pick the one who's telling the truth, and you'll win the weight waiter of your choice on your voicemail. Are you ready to play?

- I'm ready to play. - All right, first up, it's Alonzo Bowdoin. - Remember when Uncle Frank was wrong? Nope, because he had clean memories. When life ends, clean memory service

removes all bad decisions from the internet, compromising club pictures, browser history, that only fans account that you use just that one time. It all goes when you go. Lexi Gardell, who worth the clean memories explains,

even people who are pretty normal in real life have some pretty crazy internet presences. You think Grandma didn't get freaky in her DMs? With clean memories, you'll keep thinking that. There are different packages starting with good guy,

which cleans browser history of adult and gambling websites. Next is, that's not me, which removes any compromising pictures from social media dating sites in the cloud. There's, I didn't say that, which cleans up post-made.

Did you really think those unhinged opinions on who played Disney Princesses out there? Not anymore. Top of the line is the angel package, which is a CIA level cleansing of your digital past.

You'll be harder to find than Jason Bourne. (audience laughing) - That's a new service called Clean Memories that cleans up your internet presence after you died from Alonzo Boden.

Your next story of a celebration of life comes from Hell and Home.

“- Have you ever wanted to meet someone just like you?”

Even after your dead, a new service is offering to pair up two recently deceased strangers with similar interests for by one get one free funeral services. If you think Uncle Jim is the only one who loved his kids and his bowling league, think again.

Bogo forever LLC will search for another recently deceased person who also love their kids and their bowling league. (audience laughing) Bogo forever LLC tries especially hard

to pair people with the same first names

as well as interests. According to one employee, you wouldn't believe how many women named Ruth loved to knit. (audience laughing) The services are a big hit with families.

According to one recent client, we had twice the amount of food at the wake and now grandma can be buried next to someone who also loved WWE. (audience laughing)

(audience applauding) - That was Bogo forever, a service that pairs your loved one with a similar loved one for a combo funeral from Helen Hong. And your last story of an innovation

in internment comes from Dolce Sloan. - Are you known as the drama queen of your family

“who wants to have one last hurrah after you've passed?”

Or are you the peacekeeper who wants to stir up some trouble but doesn't want to face the consequences? Then dark secret is the service for you. For just $500, they'll send them a serious weeping woman to your funeral.

And hopes of creating a level of high drama and curiosity that is only seen in an agatha Christie novel. Heck, you'll borrow yourself, couldn't solve this mystery. A black car will drop off your tragic figure, trapped in professional mourning clothes

and only sharing a heartbroken smile. She answers no questions. Off is no explanation and leaves discreetly in that same black car.

But a nosy aunt or greedy child is always an issue at a funeral.

While dark secrets provides a weeping woman performing in the highest theatrical display of mourning, your family could still be acted like a Tyler Perry movie. (audience applauding) - Okay, Brendan, so you've got clean memories,

a service that cleans up your freaky internet stuff after you died from Alonso Baudin. From Helen Hong, we have Bogo forever,

for like-minded dead people.

And from Dolce Sloan, dark secrets,

“a company that will send a mysterious woman to your funeral.”

Which one is real? - I'm gonna have to go with Dolce and the mysterious woman, that sounds like something that I've heard of before. (audience applauding) All right, and to find out the correct answer,

let's hear from someone who likes the idea of the real story. - To get paid to show up and say nothing is probably the best job an actor could get. (audience applauding) - This is Kaylin Carter, an actor in Chicago,

talking about the mysterious funeral lady's service. Congratulations, Brendan, you've got it right. (audience applauding) - Awesome, thank you very much. And you earned a point for Dolce,

and you won our prize, the voice of your choice, on your voicemail. - Thank you, thank you for having me.

- All right, thank you for playing with us today.

Say goodbye, everybody. - Goodbye, everybody. (audience applauding) (upbeat music) And now the game we call, Not My Job,

our guest, Vicky Peterson, is one of the greatest rock guitarists of all time, and one of the founding members of the Bengals. Their song, Walk Like an Egyptian, was both a number one hit, and the only song I can actually do the dance, too.

(audience laughing) You can see here this summer on tour where there has been John Cousel, Vicky Peterson. Thank you so much for joining us on Wake Wait Don't Tell. (audience applauding)

- Thank you so much for having me. (audience applauding) This is very exciting, thank you so much for being here. - It's very exciting, you look very cool. You look very cool, you've got cool guitars up on the walls.

Does there have to be a guitar behind you? Everywhere you go? - Of course, yes. - You know, it's like the folks that have the bookshelf behind them when they're zoomed calls,

they show how intelligent they are. (audience laughing) This is the musician equivalent of that. - Absolutely. - So Vicky, you've played with two of the most iconic

all female bands, the Bengals, of course, and the Go Go's. The Bengals were originally had a different band name. - We had several, we started off in LA as the bands. We were the colors, the supersonic bands,

and then it was the shorten that we had in Bengals, yeah. - Where were some of the dumb things that people would say about an all female rock band that was kicking ass?

“- Oh, please, yeah, what's it like being an all-girl band?”

What's it like being an all-girl? - I don't know, I don't know. (audience laughing) How would that much experience with the others, though? Yeah, this took, yeah, it was, it was, you know,

is it hard, you know, like everything's hard? - Yeah, yeah, and what was it? So you did the Bengals, but then you also were in the Go Go's for a short time. - Well, yeah, I mean, we were friends with the Go Go's

and I found Charlotte Kathy was pregnant with my ex-boyfriend's baby. (audience laughing) - What? - Yeah!

- Talk about that. - Oh, right, you, I know you wrote that song, was it, was this, I mean, they were married, it's legit, they were married at the time. (audience laughing)

Was this when the band was called the Bengals? (audience laughing) - Postband. (audience laughing) No, but, but, so Charlotte couldn't tour that tour

and she called me up and asked me if I would step in for her, which was just a blast. I had so much fun, it was great to be a side chick, as Janeweed had called me, thick, thick side chick. They were really fun, it was a great experience.

- I have a question, I just recently watched the walk, like an Egyptian video. How did you all get that many New Yorkers

“to walk in the middle of the street doing that dance?”

(audience laughing) - I could still walk in the middle of the street, I don't know if you know that. - Yeah. (audience laughing)

- Do you get any Egyptians that come up to you and be like, really? (audience laughing) - You know. - Your other great song, "Manic Monday"

was written by Prince. Did you interact with Prince a lot? - Oh, yeah, I mean, as much as one can. (audience laughing) - What was that like, did he approach you?

- He did, it was sort of, he is very ending manic, as you know, I'm sure. He did, he saw our video for Heroic Takes a Fall, which is often part of our first album, and he approached us with a cassette tape

that had two songs on it, one of which was Manic Monday. - What? - And he just showed up that show sometimes. He would just look over in the wings and, you know, in our road manager,

you're going, "When's I here, I want to play." - She, she, she, yes. - You would crash your shows? - Yes.

- That had to be amazing.

So you got to play alongside Prince's live.

- What was that like?

- Otherworldly, you know, and, especially the first time

he just came out and then we were playing, he just wanted to sing on "Manic Monday" with us throughout the tambourine and saying,

“and I think we did a couple of old rock and belly songs”

or something with him. And I was just literally, "Here's my list, Paul, please." (laughing) - That's amazing. So you played in the band with your sister

and your husband comes from a family band as well called "The Count Sills." Who's family fought more? - Oh, definitely "The Count Sills." (laughing)

- Now, "The Count Sills" were people that don't know was the band that inspired the partridge family. - Mm-hmm. - There's more. There's more.

That is very true. - Yeah. And yeah, and I was a huge council span when I was a kid. So this is like one of those beautiful stories

'cause when I was nine and got that first electric guitar,

I knew that I was going to marry John Calcell. - Really? - Oh. (laughing) - And how did you let him know that?

(laughing) - I kept a secret for a very long time. (laughing) - When you're touring with your husband

“and someone screws up on stage in the middle of a concert,”

what happens, are you kind to each other or can you let each other have it? - Oh, I have a look. (laughing) - Oh, yeah.

- Apparently, I have a look, but it's usually laughter. It's usually usually dissolved in the laughter. - Do you ever say something when you hear your song played out in the wild? - Oh, but one of the first times we had just done a podcast,

we got back in the car, and I turned on the radio, and they were playing one of our songs. They were playing a thousand times. And of course, I thought it was my phone. And I was like, oh, I didn't realize I had a plane.

And I said, no, it's the radio. And I telling you, it was as exciting

as the first time I heard an epic Monday

coming from somebody's car. - Wow. - We were like teenagers, we lost it both of us. (laughing) - That's so exciting.

Well, this is so special for us. Thank you so much for being here. - Thank you. (clapping)

“- All right, Vicki, we've asked you here”

to play a game we're calling, lie down like an Egyptian. (laughing) The bangles had a big hit with walk like an Egyptian. So we thought we'd ask you about Egyptians that lie down.

(laughing) Mummies. (laughing) Get two out of three questions about mummy's right, and you'll win our prize for one of our listeners.

The voice of their choice of their voicemail. Alzo, who is Vicki Peterson playing for? Ali Freeman, the Richmond Virginia. - Okay Ali, there we go. (laughing)

- Can I call my best friend, she's in a story in. (laughing) - Nope, it's too late. (laughing) All right, Vicki, here is your first question.

The mummification process was quite complex and involved the technology we still used today. What is it? A, the spin dryer. (laughing)

B, though silica packets inside food or medicine containers, that say, do not eat, (laughing) or see the tape dispenser. - I'm gonna guess there was a substance

like silica in Egypt. - You're right, B. (laughing) Nice job. (laughing)

Mummifiers put little packets filled with a mineral inside the body to absorb moisture. So mummies are in a way, the original beef jerky. (laughing) (laughing)

Here's your next question. - Oh, I think you're right. - The most famous mummy of all is probably King Tutankhamman but he wasn't a perfect specimen. Why?

A, shortly after he was discovered, his penis broke off and someone stole it. (laughing) B, his right foot wasn't mummified and actually was in pretty good shape.

We're C, though the markings in the tomb describe the solid gold cat statue buried with him. Turns out, it was only gold plated. (laughing) - Come on, it's gotta be the penis one.

(laughing) - All right, let's say A. - You're right, A. (laughing) If there is a curse of the pharaohs,

stealing a mummy's penis is how you get it. (laughing) All right, here's your last question. A study published in 2025 found a surprising thing about unearthed mummies.

What? A, if you soak them in warm water, they turn back into people. (laughing) B, they are magnetic, like a refrigerator door,

(laughing) - To find fantastic. (laughing) - Really good. - Ooh, gosh.

- Crowds chiming in for C.

- Smelling fantastic. Okay, I'll go with that.

“I could say that there'd be herbs and things”

that were buried along with maybe. - Right, right, right. Well, you are-- - No, it's not. It's not C.

- You're right. You're right, it's C. (laughing) (cheering) - I told him you had a saver from herself.

(laughing) - C, you found me? - What else? - Woody, spicy, and sweet. We're the leading descriptions

from what sounded more like a wine tasting than a mummy sniffing exercise. - How's that? How did Vicki do on our quiz? - She did great.

Three out of three. Congratulations, Vicki. (cheering) Nice. (cheering)

Vicki Peterson is on tour where there has been John Calsill.

Their album is long after the fire.

“Vicki Peterson, thank you so much for joining us”

on Vicki Peterson. - Thank you very, thank you so much. (cheering) - In just a minute, your workout just got a lot more delicious in our listener, Blymerick Challenge game.

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In just a minute, even we here at WHY-Y are not safe from the global Limerick's pandemic. If you'd like to play our listener Limerick Challenge, give us a call at 188, WHY-Y. That's 188, 924, 892-4.

But right now, panel, some more questions for you from this week's news. Helen, a new study looking at orangutans, had discovered that the mothers of some animals arranged what for their children.

- A orangutan mothers arrange the bananas. (audience laughing) No, I need a hint. - Okay, here's a hint. The moms presumably negotiate

whose nest, whose providing snacks, who has allergies to what bugs. You would do this with your nephew. You and your sister with your nephew, right? We'll talk to the other mom, right?

Because they'd play dates? - Yes, play dates. (audience cheering) - We did it! (audience laughing)

- And she'll still get a point for that. (audience laughing) - That was rough. (audience laughing) - Play dates?

- The researchers discovered that orangutan moms organize play dates with other moms to build social skills in their children. It's a little different from how we do it. At a bad human play date, someone won't share a toy.

With orangutans, someone's face gets ripped off. (audience laughing) - Who's the Karen-type mom and the orangutan society? - The one with the bank?

- The one with the bank. - The other one's staying here. (audience laughing) Your kid did this, and your kid did that. (audience laughing)

- If your son throws grubs at my son. Why don't you answer me? I would throw him up this jungle. It's significant that the mothers actually arrange these play dates. I mean, you don't often see that,

but it's awkward when the zebra kids are over at the lions and they're like, "So, what do you guys like to eat for a snack?" (audience laughing) Alonzo, this week we learned about the trendy dish

What? Poor people. (audience laughing) They're delirious.

- Finally reach the point they're just eating them.

They just don't care. No, what might it be? I haven't been invited to the Hamptons lately. - You can also get them with a side of fries on every kid's menu.

- Chicken fingers. - That's right, chicken nuggets. - Chicken nuggets.

“- Chicken nuggets, or is the elite call them chicken nougat?”

(audience laughing) - I love it. - According to the New York Times, all the fancy rich people in the Hamptons are, quote, "elevating the experience of chicken nuggets

by serving them at parties with caviar and micro-rattish greens." Said one woman, quote, "It's literally like eating at McDonald's." (audience laughing) - I love when these rich high-end chefs

come up with scams like this, right, is like a man.

You know how much money we can make on chicken nuggets if we just call them something else and then just charge 10 times as much as this is genius. - I wouldn't be able to believe it. - I would have worth more of.

- I would have worth more of. - I would have worth more of. - I would have worth more of. - I would have worth more of. - I would have worth more of.

- I would have worth more of. - I would have worth more of. - Or the star-shaped ones that they have across your... - Oh, wait, wait, come across cocktail weanies. Next summer is gonna be a fortune.

- Style experts are chalking the trend up to nostalgia. You know, the simplicity of those days before you married into money. (audience laughing) - Coming up, it's lightning fill in the blank.

“But first, it's the game where you have to listen for the rhyme.”

If you'd like to play on air, call or leave a message at 1-888, wait, wait. That's 1-888-924-8924. We're right here most weeks at the Studebaker Theater in downtown Chicago

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go to mprpresents.org. Hi, you're on wait, wait, don't tell me. - Hi, this is Katie calling from Dallas, Texas. - Oh, nice, nice to meet you, Katie. (audience applauding)

Can you tell me what you do for fun? - Yes, I am a big crossword puzzle and Jigsaw Puzzle Fan, I am hoping to compete in the Jigsaw Puzzle Championships one day. - Whoa, what in those championships,

how many pieces do they, is the average? - It depends on what tear you're in, but between, I think, 500,000. - Wow, you sound like a impure. (audience laughing)

That's why we love you.

“Well, it's nice to have you with us, Katie.”

Welcome to the show. - As a slave, it's going to read you three news-related lyrics with the last word or phrase missing from each. If you can fill in that last word or phrase correctly on two lyrics, you are a winner.

Here's your first limit. - This toy is not just for kids. The ad says so and the putty smell does really slay bro, plus the sensory squish is my fidgety wish. So I've bought an adult can of...

- Flado? - That's right, Flado. (audience applauding) We now have adult Play-Doh. No use sickos, not that kind of adult.

The I'm whimsical kind of adult, which to be fair is even worse than the perverts. (audience laughing) The kids allow you to create realistic looking, intricate floral arrangements.

Can you imagine being the parent of a five year old and being like, no, no, no, no, this is Daddy's Play-Doh. (audience laughing) - It is, it is kind of dangerous when you put the word adult in front of anything.

- Yeah, right. - Yeah, right. - All right, all right, all right, all right. - Like a suit. - Yeah. (audience laughing) (audience laughing) - All right, here's your next limit.

With some cocoa beans taped to my locket. My workouts take off like a rocket. That dark Hershey's smell works like Pavlov's bright bill. I get amped when I'm sniffing some chocolate. - Chocolate?

- That's right, chocolate. (audience applauding) According to Forbes, dark chocolate before a workout could add 18 extra reps.

Finally, combining my two interests, pumping iron

for massive gains and having a little treat. (audience laughing)

for the benefits, sniffing it also works great.

Finally, time to rip poppers at the gym with my boys.

(audience laughing)

“- You think it's like a carrot in front of a horse situation?”

- Wait, you just running, trying to get the chocolate? (audience laughing) All right, here's your last limit. - With inflation, high-fashion can't pay. So we're putting found scraps on display.

We use little pig's tricks, skipping past bricks and sticks. We're making our clothes out of. - Hey. - Yes, there you go. Hey, Chanel's latest runway collection featured

a hat and jacket covered in loose strands of hay. For that, please give me a brain Mr. Wizard look. (audience laughing) - I just have to ask your father, you have daughters. - Yes, sir.

- Your daughter says, "Dad, for my birthday this year, "I want the Chanel hay jacket." - Right. - Do you question that or you just go buy it? - I say, that's ridiculous.

I would, that it's so opulent and disgusting and then I would go get it. (audience laughing) - Because I can't say no, they're my daughters.

“- Well, you're telling like, we have hay at home.”

(audience laughing) She does have a pet rabbit and we do have a ton of hay. (audience laughing) I'll just rub peanut butter on her shoulders and say roll around with your rabbit for a while.

(audience laughing) Alzo, how did Katie do? - She's a weight, weight, limb rig champion, three out of three. - Yeah, yeah.

Congratulations. Thank you for playing Katie. - Thank you so much. - All right, good luck with your puzzles. We can't wait to see you on ESPN.

- Thank you. - Thank you. (audience laughing) (upbeat music) - These days, it feels like the news changes every hour.

Well, NPR has a podcast that does that too. NPR news now brings you a fresh five minute episode, every hour of the day with the latest,

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- Now onto our final game, lightning fill in the blank. Each of our players will have 60 seconds in which to answer as many fill in the blank questions as they can. Each correct answer is worth two points.

Alzo, can you give us the scores? - Absolutely, Alonzo and Dolce are tied up at three with Helen two points. - Ah, what? (laughing)

- No, you got it, you got it.

- All right, Helen, you're in third place.

So you're up first. The clock will start when I begin your first question. Fill in the blank. The US and Iran continued to exchange fire over control of the blank.

- Straight of hormones. - Air quality across the Northeast was at dangerous levels this week due to blanks in Canada. - Wildfires. - Right.

Sam Neil best known for his role of Dr. Alan Grant in the blank movies passed away at the age of 71. - Jurassic Park. - Right.

The American League shut out the national league for to nothing in baseball's blank game. - The Super Bowl. (laughing) - The All-Star Game.

- Yep. - Christopher Nolan's new film adaptation of the blank open to glowing reviews. - The Odyssey. - Right.

The fossil of a blank named Gus sold for a record 50 million dollars. - A T-Rex. - Right. In Maryland, a man was arrested after attempting

to rob a bank with a stolen blank. - Poop lettuce. (laughing) - Rob the bank with a kitten. - What?

(laughing) - The man stole a kitten from a pet store then ran into the bank across the street. Asked the bank, teller, can you hold this? Give them the kitten while he wrote a note demanding money.

(laughing)

and the description on the website says

“she is always ready for the next adventure.”

(laughing) - Alzo, how many points for Helen? - She's all right, she got five right for 10 more points. Total of 12, she's in the lead now. - Yay!

- Yay! (cheering) - Okay, Dolce, you're up next, fill in the blank. The governor of South Carolina appointed the sister of the late senator blank to serve the remainder of his term.

- Lindsey Graham. - Right. - Complete this New York Post headline. Chuck Schumer appears to blank on Senate floor. - Sleep?

- Chuck Schumer appears to let loose huge fart on Senate floor. (laughing) - Girl, what? - Well, states and the writer's guild of America sued to block the proposed merger of Warner Brothers and blank.

- Paramount? - Right, a Los Angeles TV reporter was praised for continuing her live report even after blank. Did she see something had to happen? Car accident, a chase, a fire.

“- Even after a flying cockroach climbed up her neck.”

(cheering) KTLA's Rachel Manitoff was reporting on the California Heatway. When a flying cockroach, at least two inches long, landed on her shirt, climbed all the way up her neck before jumping onto her microphone and flying away.

(cheering) She kept her composure through back to the studio and then started shaking out her clothes like crazy. We assumed for the rest of the week. (laughing)

Alzo, how did they all say to her? - Yeah. (laughing) She got three right for six more points. Total of nine, hell in the hall is still in the lead. - All right.

(cheering) - All right, we got three right? That feels wrong. - So, Alzo, how many does Alzo need to win? Five to win?

- Ooh, pressure is on. - All right, this is for the game. Fill in the blank.

“Eat Gene Carroll finally received the $5 million”

she was owed after winning a civil lawsuit against blank. - True. - Right. Analysis concluded that damage to the lining of blank was likely due to errors during the installation process.

- The reflecting pool. - Right. The Washington Post fact checking department concluded the hospital photo of blank holding that day's newspaper was genuine.

- Mitch Vakong. - Right. Yeah, right. (laughing) - The FDA approved a new pill that significantly lowers blank levels.

- Collesterol? - Right. A school board in Florida announced it would be instituting a new policy on grade inflation after a student graduated with a GPA of blank.

- Five. - He had an 11.99 GPA. (laughing) - Actor How Williams known for his roles in 227 and Sanford and blank died at age 91.

- Sun? - Right. - What? (laughing) - That was a tough one.

- This Sunday's World Cup final marks the first

in history in which one team star once gave a blank to the other team star. - Uh, wow. (laughing) - A goal?

- Bath. - When Spain's Lameen Yamal was a baby, his family went a raffle for a photo shoot with then new star Lionel Messi. And this adorable photo shoot involved Messi

giving Yamal a bath. Now, he's all grown up and playing Messi in the final. (laughing) Which goes to show you anything can happen when you let a random professional soccer player

lost your baby. (laughing) Alzo did a lot of do well enough to win. Yes he did, he got five right for two more points. Total of 13.

(cheering) Nice job. In just a minute, we'll ask our panelists to predict what'll be the big surprise at this week's World Cup final.

But first, let me tell you that.

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“Now, panel, what's gonna happen at the World Cup final?”

Dolce Sloan. Our gentina loses and messy has to give you a mall another bath. (laughing) A lot is a burden.

Donald Trump is shocked and angered to find out they give the trophy to the winning team and not to him. (laughing) - Cohen Hong.

“- That stadium has to clear out immediately”

to make way for Taylor Swift's Val Renuelo. (laughing) - And if any of that happens, panel will ask you about it on, wait, wait, don't tell me. Thank you, Alzo Slade, thanks also to Dolce Sloan,

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