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I'm the man with a voice so smooth you could go curling on it. Mel Curtis and here's your host at the Indiana University auditorium in Bloomington, Indiana Peter. Thank you. Thank you everybody. Thank you. It is great to be here at Indiana University.

“IU, which thanks to their incredible football team, just they just learned a little known secret.”

When you win, the National College Football Championship, the coach gets a new record setting high salary and the rest of you get us. So later on, speaking of athletics, we're going to be talking to a proud who's your alum in multiple Olympic medalists, swimmer, Lily King.

But first, it's your turn to compete, give us a call to one triple rate weight weight.

That's 1 8 8 8 9 2 4 8 9 2 4. Let's welcome our first listener contestant. Hi, you're on weight weight, don't tell me. Hi, I'm Bradley Petric, I'm from Chicago, Illinois. Hey, how are things back in Chicago?

Still very cold. I'm kind of glad to hear that because we're not there. What do you do in our hometown? So for my day job, I'm an enterprise consultant, but for my second gig, I run a local cat rescue here.

“Really? When you say here, do you mean your house?”

No, no, no, I mean our adoption center, okay, all right, all right, well that's very good work. I'm glad you do it. Welcome to the show Bradley.

Let me introduce you to our panel, first a stand up comedian, performing at the Commonwealth

Comedy Club, outside Cincinnati, on April 10th and 11th. And at the DC Improv on the 12th, it's Josh Gumbelman. Hello, thank you for rescuing all those cats. Thank you. Next, she's a contributor to CBS Sunday morning.

It's Faith Sailing. Hi, Bradley. Hello. And a comedian will be at the last factory in Las Vegas's horseshoe casino, March 19th, through

“the 15th, and that hilarity is comedy club in Cleveland, March 20th, and 21st.”

It's a Lanzo Bowdoin. Hello, Bradley, welcome to the show Bradley, you're going to play Who's Bill this time. That, of course, is the game where Bill Curtis reads you three quotations from the week's news. If you correctly identify or explain just two of them, two out of three, you'll win our

prize. Any voice from our show, you might choose for your voice mail. Are you ready to go? Let's do it. Let's do it.

Your first quote is from the President of the United States.

We are the hottest country. That was just some of the good news the President shared during what big speech this week. Oh, that would be the state of the year. It would be, yes, the state of the Union, Tuesday's speech was the longest state of the Union in history, in part because he kept bringing up the special guests, for example, Trump

invited the U.S. men's hockey team into the House Chamber, which was nice. A lot of them hadn't been there since January 6th. That's true. When he said we were, well, he said we are the hottest country in the world. He was just referring to the fact that we've stopped doing anything to protect the climate.

So we are getting there. So we are getting there. I honestly didn't watch. There was no reason for me to watch an old man rambling for like two hours, just making it up as he goes.

Yeah? Well, the other hand, in the world we live in now, there are so few things worth watching live, other than sports, of course, because everything else, everything that happens has been pre-planned, not with him. He could have done anything, right?

That's true. And when he talks, he's not even connected to reality, he's just describing a fantasy that's going on. Even as I'm given a state of Narnia, a dress.

He gave out the congressional medal of honor. He gave out allegiance of merit awards, medals of freedom, purple heart awards, and he gave RFK Junior the Purple Face Award.

“I think this is the first time that the fact checker said, "Well, it'll be easier to just”

try to find something true." Yeah. Let's count all the live, we'll put two things that would true. We'll go with those. All right, Bradley, here is your next quote.

The tribe has spoken. That's the cat phrase from a reality show that amazingly celebrated its 50th season this week. What show? That would be survivor.

Yes, survivor!

It is amazing that they have reached 50 seasons of survivor.

I thought they all starved to death on that island long ago. But it's not surprising to show who's been so successful. Where else can you get to watch a 35-year-old orthodontist poop in the ocean? Wait, so, do we know that math? How many years has it been on?

There's like 10 seasons. It started in like 2002 around there.

“Oh my god, it's been on for a long time, faith.”

Can someone do y'all want to? I still have, I still have a big problem believing it's tough to survive. When the camera crew is eating somewhere. Yeah. I was wondering about that myself.

The sound guy's having lunch. Yeah. Okay, I didn't catch anything today, mind if I stopped by for a BLT off the truck. Yeah.

On the very first episode, broadcast this last week, and this is true, a contestant

tore his ACL and had to drop out, like, yeah, this show really is 50. I wonder who comes up with, like, they're running out of places and things to do with them. You know, different islands and different challenges and this and that and I've heard stories and I just wish they would do it and just do like hood survivor. Yeah.

Just some rich white people drop them into hood with nothing, and let's just see what happens. Yeah. I think there's a great idea. I think they should switch the survivor contestants in the love island contestants one

year. What would happen? What would happen? What would happen? I think the people that thought they were going to spend a period of time eating bugs would

have a wonderful time making out and then the hottest 24-year-olds on earth will die with

a network. Yeah. All right, your last quote is some reactions to the debut of a redesign of a popular line of dolls. Wow.

They all trying to skinny, they're definitely missing the historic appeal. So what dolls got a controversial makeover for their 40th anniversary this year? Oh, I'm not sure. Yeah, not a big consumer of dolls, I take it. No, I'm not.

Well, I'll give you a hint.

“These things go great if you want to have like marriages with your American boy dolls.”

Oh, American girl dolls. American girl dolls, yes. For generations of children, the super-wholesome American girl dolls, each with represented character from a real period in America's history, answer the question, what if a book were a doll?

But the new modern era dolls, American girl dolls are smaller, skinnier and to quote the New York Times to "Yassified." But if you hate the new look, don't worry, cabbage patch kids are just as chubbed out as ever. They're 40 now?

They're 40. The dolls are 40. Survivors, 50. Did they create a new doll named Perry? Perry?

Perry? They're a bit apart. The girls are just, they're into wall Pilates. They have a glassy doll eyes because they're scrolling? Yeah.

No, actually, it's funny because the new dolls, the idea is like these are these characters from Perry's in history if they live today. This is how they dress. And look, which I guess is nice. It would be maybe better if they show, they line of dolls like what the characters were

like at 40, right? Oh, look, Caroline has 12 children and Kirsten died three years ago of the Spanish flu. Isn't it? There's tough times. What I understand by making them smaller and thinner isn't there a whole movement to make

like women look like real women as opposed to the impression of, yeah. That would be for GLP one in his eyes. No. These are ozempican girl dolls. Yes.

There's a change. So for example, and the new dolls, all the skirts are shorter. Kirsten now has cool hip boots and Rebecca now has Mara Logo face.

The cats will be proud, Bradley.

You got them all right. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. Take care, Bradley.

We'll see you back home. Thank you. Bye-bye. Have a good one. [MUSIC PLAYING]

Right now, panel, that is time for you. Okay, answer some questions about this week's news. Alonzo, wearable technology is everywhere. Can track pretty much every health metric imaginable.

“Well, there's a new wearable gadget that can measure how many times you do what?”

Wow. We're not going narrow that down at all. [LAUGHTER] Just going to say, how many times you can do now, you've got to give me something.

I will.

It can detect them even when they're silent, but deadly.

Oh my gosh. How many times you pass gas? Exactly. Technically. Is there anyone--

Very classy way to answer that, Alonzo? Well, we're at a university. I would have just said, you're fat and dead. Let her rip. Well, my question is, is there anyone who doesn't know

or people are just letting it go and not realize it? Oh, wait, that was mine. Wait a minute. I've got to add that one to the list. I'm sure it's almost midnight.

I got to get my farts in there. [LAUGHTER] What number is she? Well, here's the thing.

“Apparently, we'll answer a lot of questions”

about digestive health, and most importantly, answer the question about who dealt it. And it is being called, of course, the Fitbit for Farts, because the Fart Watch, Smart Watch, didn't do well in the focus group.

Sure. You're in the elevator. Yeah. You grew in the elevator. Right?

And then you're like, sorry. I'm trying to keep my numbers up, exactly. Oh, yeah. [MUSIC PLAYING] Coming up, move over, Rick Steves.

Our panelists are the travel gurus. In this week's Bluff The Listener Game, call 1-Trippelate, wait, wait to play. We'll be back in a minute. With more, wait, wait, don't tell me, from MP on.

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Don't forget to tap, follow, so you get every new episode automatically. The US launches a military operation against Iran. Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating eminent threats from the Iranian regime.

On state of the world, we'll 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 K-U-O-W-Focus and the NPR network. [MUSIC PLAYING] From NPR and W-B-E-Z Chicago, this is, wait, wait, don't tell me. NPR news quiz.

I'm Bill Curtis, who you're playing this week with faith. Silly, Josh, Dundalman, and a Lanzo Bowdoin. Man, here I get it, here I host. At the IU, I want to tell you, I've been women to then the Anna Peters, say go.

Thank you so much. [CHEERING AND APPLAUSE] And thank you, everybody. Right now, it's time for the wait, wait, don't tell me. I've left the listener game.

Call one triple eight, wait, wait to play our game on the air. How you around, wait, wait, don't tell me. Hi, this is Tim Joseph, I'm calling from Greensboro, North Carolina. Greensboro, North Carolina, what do you do there? I spent time with my twin nine-year-old boy.

A lot of parks, a lot of kids related activities, mostly. That's bad. By the way, you have nine-year-old boys. We have, here's about a new medical device. They're just going to love.

[LAUGHTER] Well, Tim, it's really nice to have you in the show. You're going to play our game on which you

“must try to tell truth from fiction, Bill, what is Tim's topic?”

A new travel hack. Everybody loves travel hacks. You can't sleep in hotels, just bring your own pillow. Are you flying spirit airlines? Don't fly spirit.

[LAUGHTER] This week, we heard about a new travel hack to make being on the road a little easier. A panelist, they're going to tell you about it. Pick the one, it's telling the truth.

And you'll win the wait, wait, or of your choice on your voicemail. You ready to go? I'm ready.

All right, first, let's hear from Alonzo Bowden.

Marcus Anderson loves to travel, but hates to pay for it. So he's mastered the crying hack. Marcus, a freelance videographer, does over 200 nights a year at hotels, and city got tired to be in nickel and dime with room charges.

as they learned to cry on cue.

Marcus decided to try it. Turns out he has a gift. Now, whenever he interacts with hotel staff on business trips, he is actively sobbing. I've had charges removed.

I've been given upgrades. Once I got a free room when my card was declined, I just told my maxed out my card on my travel for the kids' game and the kids lost. He almost got caught once.

Just as he was getting his sports tears ready, the desk manager at a Boise Holiday Inn asked how his kid's piano career was going when Marcus remembered he used the piano story there before. (audience laughing)

How do you get through it all by crying, of course. (audience laughing) A frequent traveler who's discovered is simply by crying at the right time, and front of the right people get some all kinds of perks.

Your next travel tip comes from Faith Saley.

“Ever find yourself on the road without enough clean underwear?”

Well, fitness influencer Tara Woodcox has a hack for that, so don't get your knickers in a twist. Actually, do wad up your panties, she says, and shove them into the hotel room coffee maker. You close it, you press brew,

and it puts scorching hot water through it. Woodcox explains on TikTok. You got yourself a cleaner pair of underwear to wear.

You always thought hotel room coffee tasted generally like crap.

(audience laughing) But now, you can really detect the flavor of thong. (audience laughing) She then suggests drying them with the blow dryer, so you're not walking around with fresh brew drip.

(audience laughing) Woodcox's followers can hardly wait for more hacks, like perhaps how to use the coffee creamer as a leave-in conditioner. And if you're really lazy, the ice bucket

as a chamber pot. (audience laughing) - Run out of underwear in the road, just clean your old pair in the coffee pot. What else are you gonna use it for?

“Your last road remedy comes from Josh Gondelman.”

Pet stores across the United States have reported shortages of Xiaomi's fighting fish. After a viral TikTok blew the lid

of a decades-old long haul trucker practice.

Truck drivers don't want you to know this, but when they have to stay up all night, they keep a little fish tank in their cab and let the fish bite their fingers to keep them awake. (audience laughing)

They said, "Doctor points the rewards, God, "and adult man who calls himself that," slash travel influencer. And he was right about the trucker's wanting to keep their secret.

Because now, all the fish are being snapped up by college students trying to pull all nighters during finals. Young adults are calling the trend, finger baiting. (audience laughing)

Either despite or because of how gross it sounds. (audience laughing) I can't find any dang fish anymore. Limited Clemswenson, a career-long hauler. I've had to resort to bite my own hand,

or slather in my fingers and barbecue sauce and enticing a stray dog to do it. (audience laughing) On a brighter note, the possibility of bait fish has caused Swenson to bond more closely

with the one he already has. He even gave his aquatic companion a radio call sign of his very own, Vince Gills. (audience laughing) (audience applauding)

All right, to this week, we learned about a travel hack being offered by someone who is sure as it works. Is it from Alonzo Bowdoin or frequent traveler who says if you can learn to cry on cue,

there's no end to the upgrades you can get? From Faith Saley, if you run out of underwear, just use your hotel coffee pot to clean it. Or from Josh Gonderman, the secret, the truckers have known for years.

You want to stay awake? Put your hand in a bowl with a bait fish. (audience laughing) Which of these is the real travel hack? We learned about this thing.

“I sadly, I think I have to go with the grossest one,”

like the coffee. So your choice is Faith's story. Well, to bring you the correct answer, we spoke to an expert in this particular field. You would be better served washing underwear

in the same blue shampoo if you were in a hotel. Then you are just putting it in the correct. That was Patrick Richardson, aka the laundry guy, (audience laughing) a preeminent laundry influencer, talking about

what you can do that's better than putting your underwear in the coffee maker. Congratulations, you were right. It was, in fact, Faith's story. One point for her.

Thanks. (audience cheering) And we'd want our game. Thank you so much for playing. Oh, dude.

Jake care. ♪ It's time for coffee ♪ ♪ It's time for tea ♪ And now the game where we ask people who have won everything to try one more game.

After dominating National Collegiate Competition

as a swimmer here at Indiana, Lily King went on to win multiple medals at three different Olympics, including two golds, and setting one Olympic record in the best stroke along the way.

(audience cheering) She probably would have, she probably would have won gold last week's Olympics, too, if they'd only let you swim down the Bob's lead track.

We are delighted she is with us. Now Lily King, welcome to Wait wait don't tell me. (audience cheering) It's great to have you here. Now I know now that you still live near here,

here in Bloomington, right? Where you, of course, you went to college after going up not far from here. And I was going to ask if you're still recognized, some of yours after graduation,

when you're walking on campus, but based on the reaction you got, I'm guessing yes?

Yeah, I mean everyone's still wild.

I kind of live a little away from campus now, so I think everybody in my neighborhood kind of recognized me, which is weird when you're trying to take the garbage out with your robot.

But yeah, every once in a while,

“you get a, hey, here, there, and that's how my life is.”

Now, it also, you also train, you still train here at the pool. I have to say, I retired in August. You retired from competitively. But yeah, I'll do it. But yes, I did train there all through my career

and yeah, about 10 years in that pool. Wow, did you enjoy after you graduated, coming back here and getting in the pool with all these younger swimmers and just continuing to kick their ass?

Yes. Oh, yes. Yes. Because you really, you're not that old, but you don't have to be old to really enjoy

beating younger people. It doesn't get over. Yeah, it doesn't get over. When you were growing up, you had a, came from athletic family, your father's a track coach, right?

How did you know, A, that swimming was your sport and B, that you were particularly good at it? Well, I was really bad at everything else. So that was a good giveaway at the beginning. Wait, maybe I'm an Olympic swimmer.

[LAUGHTER] Yeah. Yeah, but I tried Olympic swimming job. You never know. It's the last one I've been waiting to attend.

Did Nasik's career didn't really show up? They did not pay an out. I mean, you know, I was about the size of 14 so I didn't work for me there, so it's okay. I love this story.

I understand that your husband, who was a fellow member of the IU swim team, proposed to you after you had just won a meet or an event. Yes. So I got proposed to Olympic trials.

Oops. And the security to Olympic trials is like really tight. Like, you know, trying to get up on the pool deck. There's guys with like army guys with machine guns, like ready to, it's wild.

Yeah, but guys, this is swimming. It's not that, it's not that deep. You're all wearing bathing suits. Where do they expect you to be hiding a weapon? Exactly.

So I walked down the stairs. And I'm gasping for, you know, I just finished the race. I'm exhausted. And I saw he was on deck. And he was not supposed to be on deck.

And I was like, how'd you get down here? Like, they're going to take you out. Like, what are you doing? I'm murdered 11 security guards. Well, I'm pretty sure he used to be in the CIA,

but we don't have to talk about that. So yeah, so then he proposed right then and there.

“Really? Did he do the classic thing get down to one thing?”

Oh, yeah. Like, he had a swim cap on when he proposed. So this is fun. So I did it because one of my best friends who I trained with here, Annie Laser, she's Olympic bronze medalist from Tokyo Games.

And she was a coach, so she told me she's like, hey, just take your cap off after your race. And I was like, we're very honest with each other. Sometimes to the point where it's not so nice. I was like, if you, just tell me I look awful in my cap.

Like, just tell the truth. And she's like, no, just you've got to trust me. Just take your cap off. So funny. So I got a good friend.

It is. So I get out after my race. I take my cap off and I'm looking in the stands for. And I couldn't see her. I was like, well, the hell. I took it off for nothing.

I know I'm like rolling my eyes before. Did you then hear her voice yelling? You also might want to put on some makeup? Yeah, no, I was too late. It was like, why didn't you tell me to do my nails.

Never do my trials. And there your husband was, and he got down to one knee, and he proposed right there in the deck. There you go, right? Yeah, and do you think he would have proposed

if you had lost? So I was very confident that that wasn't going to happen for myself. He seems, or the losing. Right.

[LAUGHTER]

But he was like, well, if you got third,

I thought it'd make you happy. I was like, that was a very kind thought. But I would have said, yes, obviously. I don't think I would have been super happy at the moment when I have it.

So you're saying, and I've met enough really high elite athletes knowing that they all expect to win.

“You all expect to win every time, which is part of the secret.”

And so I imagine that if you hadn't won that day and made the Olympic team, you would have said, yes,

Maybe, maybe.

It was separation to church and stay there, so.

Well, if you expect to win, which is part of what makes you champion, do you get nervous? Did I know you were tired? Did you get nervous? Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

Especially Olympic trials when you go in and the whole point of the meet is you got to be top two. So there's usually a hundred to 150 people in your event and only to make the Olympic team. So pretty much, especially if you're expecting to make it

going into that final, you just got to think, don't mess up. Do competitors talk? Do you talk to me like you said to 150 people? And I'm guessing the top group you expect to win to you guys like Talks Mac to each other before you jump to the pool there.

I do. They didn't like it that way. No, wait a minute. OK. What do you know?

We had read that one of your secrets is you like you seek out your opponent. You play some mind games.

Look at how great he drives today.

Yeah. And I'm like, OK, fine, trash talk. I get it. It's some of the greatest athletes do it.

“But how do you trash talk someone when you're both under water?”

Yeah, you know, in one Olympic final, I did make eye contact with another girl off of a turn. So that was, I think, as close as we get in the water. That was pretty crazy. She'd be an American girl doll.

Thank you. OK. I'll take it. Well, in the swimming world, sorry, Peter. But in the swimming world, you're like out of control.

Like you're talking smack on the block. Are they happy you retired? She's like, yeah, they should be. I was off the rails there for a couple of years. She was the Dennis Rodman of internet.

I take that as a great compliment. She should. Well, yeah. Well, Lily, can we are delighted to talk to you, but we've asked you here to play a game, we're calling.

Well, he can meet these little kings. That's right. We're going to ask you three questions about shark kings. All right. All right.

Two or three questions right about men of less than average heighting when our prize one of our listeners, the voice of anyone they might choose for their voice male bill who is Lily King playing for.

Olivia Trivino and Leo Burton of Bloomington and Indiana. That's a little fan. Are you ready to do this? I'm ready. OK, here we go.

Here's your first question.

For centuries, psychologists have talked about the Napoleonic complex or the idea that short men could be more aggressive or ambitious than taller men. But a 2007 English scientific study disproved it, how did they do that?

Was it A by hitting short men with sticks? And seeing if they got angrier than tall men, B by asking

“shortmen, how much they might enjoy conquering Europe?”

Or see, simply by asking a bunch of shortmen if they were compensating for something. And they all said, no! I'm going to go see. You're going to go see.

Your choices see. They just asked them, and they all yelled, no. That was actually A. No. That was.

What they did, and this is true, is they would wrap men of various heights on the knuckles with sticks, and they noted that shorter men would react with less anger than taller men. Interesting.

Yeah. All right, you two more chances. You get these right, you win. Here we go. It might surprise you who is a short king or was,

as in which of these examples? A, Neil Armstrong, the astronaut, who meant to say that's one step for a small man. [LAUGHTER] B, Joseph Stalin, who was so short, Harry Truman,

used to call him Lil Squirt or see Dwayne the Rock Johnson, who originally wrestled under the nickname "The Pebble." [LAUGHTER] All right, it's not the pebble. I know that.

Hearing B, B sounds good. Yes, it's B. You guys start a life. Give me some lion's CA. [LAUGHTER]

All sounds amazing. I was asking, though, did you rely on the audience

“that your swim means like, how should-- what stroke?”

What should I do? Oh, fast. [LAUGHTER] A little bit. I've been the-- yeah.

Yeah, he's gone a little squirt. All right, last question, if you get this one right, you win. Alan Ladd, a star from the Golden Age of Hollywood, was only five foot six. And to make up for that, the producers of his movies

would do what? A, dig holes for his taller co-stars to stand in. B, put one foot high lifts into all his shoes or C, make sure that every other actor in the entire movie was five foot two or shorter.

They're all saying A. They're all saying A. I feel like I'm really using my phone, a friend. You are. OK, I'll go A.

It was A, yes. Uh-huh. The look at shoes makes make up. So if he was talking to say a taller woman, they would dig a hole in the woman but stand in the hole

and appear shorter. And you're maybe saying, well, wait a minute. Great. OK, a hole. What if the actor had to move during the shot?

They dig a ditch.

“Bill, how does Lily King do in our quiz?”

Six-time Olympic medalists wins the big one. Two out of three on wait, wait, don't tell me. With a lot of help. We get a lot of help. That's all right.

Lily King is a six-time Olympic medalist and legend of who's your athletics, Lily King. Thank you so much for joining us on wait, wait, don't tell him. Thank you. Lily King, have a bottle.

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In just a minute, we finally take pickle ball down

in our listener-limber challenge game. Call one Triple Eight, wait, wait to join us on the air. We'll be back in a minute with more of way, way, way, don't tell me. From NPR. [MUSIC PLAYING]

From NPR, a W.E.C. Chicago. This is, wait, wait, don't tell me the NPR. In those quiz, I'm build Curtis who you're playing this week with Josh Gondolman, Faith Seyley, and the Lanzobugman. And here we go, there's your host.

At the IU, out of Korea, I'm in Bloomington, Indiana, Peter. There you go. Thank you so much, everybody. Thank you.

“Coming up to celebrate the 50th season of Survivor.”

We're going to play the 50,000 season of the listener-limberic challenge. If you'd like to come help celebrate, give us a call, one Triple Eight, wait, wait. That's 1, 8, 8, 8, 9, 2, 4, 8, 9, 2, 4.

But right now, panel, it's time to introduce a new game

that we call, cleaning up the cabin. While President Trump got the attention this week, his cabinet has been busy making news, too. In fact, there's so much of it that we have to go through it all, rapid fire, true false style.

You ready to go? Oh, boy. OK, start with Josh. Josh, true or false, on a recent flight on Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Nome's luxury jet, her closest aide,

Cori Lewandowski, demanded the pilot turn around and go back because Nome had forgotten her phone. False, it was like a blanket. Yes, she had forgotten her favorite blanket. Alonzo, true or false when the pilot wouldn't turn around,

Lewandowski fired him in the middle of the flight. True. Right, faith, true or false.

“The pilot then pointed out that if he was fired,”

there'd be nobody to fly the plane. So Lewandowski had to unfire him. True. Right. Josh, sure false, more recent reports say it wasn't a blanket

at all. It was Nome's quote, "mystery bag" with something in it. So embarrassing, they had to come up with the blanket story instead. I'm just going to vote with my heart and say, I hope it's true.

It is true. Wow. Alonzo, true or false, labor secretary, Lori Chev, as Duraymer, is under investigation for taking luxury vacations at government expense,

drinking during work hours, taking her staff to strip clubs, and having an affair with a member of her security team. Absolutely true. It is true.

Faith, true or false, because of this, her husband, Sean Duraymer, has started spending every day at the labor department just to keep an eye on her. False. Right, it is false.

He has been permanently banned from the department. More sexually harassing female employees there. And that is our cabinet clean out. We'll do it again as soon as the cabinet gets filled up again. [APPLAUSE]

All right, panel, some more questions for you about the rest of the week's news. Faith, there's a new exciting bedtime trend taking what with you to bed. Oh, is it kind of everything?

Yes, it's everything. That's the answer. It's called bed time stacking. Yeah. And it works like this.

You don't want to get out of bed. So you bring all your emotions, your lip mask, your journals, your books, your drinks, and snacks, and stack them all around you in the bed. And you can stay there.

Now, you don't have to bring your mice. They'll show up by themselves when they're going to get round. That sounds like that's stacking just your first department in New York City. It also kind of sounds like depression.

A little bit. It's like, you just don't want to get out of bed. Exactly. But all this stuff, I'm just old school. When I'm the better, I just want to book, good lighting,

my fingers, and a tub of hummus, you know? [LAUGHTER] I don't know if I wanted to know that. [LAUGHTER] I don't know who does these studies.

This is like this is a thing that somebody put themselves on. So even when I go to bed, I like to-- I like to do bedtime stack, I like to put everything

in my bed, so I never have to get a bed.

I have access to all my things. And it went viral, and now it's a trend and people are doing it. You know, it occurs to me. Some people just shouldn't have influence.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah. [CHEERING] You don't need to do that.

Just cut yourself somebody do it and tell you about it.

Yeah. We should be able to take that away from you. Right. We should get-- there should be people that are outflow insersed.

Yes. See that trend taking off. And they go, stop it. Stop it. Yeah, that's called your mom.

[LAUGHTER] Mom just walks in the room. What the hell are you doing? It just makes you put that stuff away. Get your fingers out of the hummus, Peter.

[LAUGHTER] [MUSIC PLAYING] Coming up, it's Lightning fell on the blank.

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Hi, Peter. This is Katie from Burnsville, Minnesota. Oh, Burnsville, I actually know it. Out there near the Twin Cities, what do you do there? I am the Administrative Manager and Graduate Program Coordinator

for the Department of Pharmaceuticals at the University of Minnesota. And you have a business card, the size of a non-by-eleven sheet of paper, right? Oh, yeah.

I love the Golden Gofers. They're a fine place. Well, welcome to the Show Katie. Bill Curtis is going to read you three news related lyrics with the last word of phrase.

Missing from each of you can fill in that last word of phrase correctly, and two of the lyrics will be a winner. We're ready to play. I'm ready.

Here's your first lemric.

At cross country, my teeth, I am griffing. And the sweaters I make are well fitting. After stitches and purls, through the slopes, I will hurl by powers to ski come from. Knitty?

Right. After winning a silver medal at the recent Winner Olympics Cross Country skier, Ben Ogden credited his success to his hobby of knitting, saying it helps him relax. Isn't it sweet?

He needed something to take his mind off the stress of skiing, but he still wanted to be holding little pole. [LAUGHTER] I see a season two of Heated rivalry with this as a subplot.

“There's something very-- why are you looking at me like that?”

Is it because you're a straight? There's something very sexy about a hot, athlete knitting. So without the thing, like a Heated rivalry about this guy is like, oh, I like to knit. Neither guys like, oh, I like to knit too.

And they said they're in the knit for six episodes. No, it's the knitting guy versus the crocheting guy. Oh, yeah, that's a rivalry. The obviously the crocheting guy, you know. Needlesclacking, and it's also just the expansiveness

of their personality. That's the sound of romance clacking. [LAUGHTER] All right, here is your next lemric. At this age, heavy stones were not hurling.

But on ice, we will set them a twirling. In the house, we score points with our old creaking joints. After Pickleball, we'll take up. Hurling? Curling, yes.

According to Bloomberg News, curling clubs are trying to leverage the excitement of the Olympics to make their sport the new Pickleball. Just like Pickleball, it's easy to learn and fun to play. And of course, there's nothing seniors

like better than walking on ice. [LAUGHTER]

“They call it the devil's shuffleboard, yes.”

Imagine shuffleboard, but you can break your hip at any time. All right, here is your last lemric. We've all heard this warning before G. There aren't enough bees. We need more G. So I'm bringing my queens

to some real swinging scenes. For my bees. [LAUGHTER] Yep. You know, you're really pushing this Minnesota nice right now.

Orgy. Yes, orgy. Oh, gosh. Or is the quality Minnesota a potwark? We know what you're doing.

Yeah, that's right. OK. A B orgy in Belgium. I'm jealous. I can't even score an invite to a C orgy. [LAUGHTER]

So the B orgy is exactly what it sounds like. Thousands of beekeepers bringing an endangered species of bee to Belgium. Just so their bees can get freaky with each other. And that will save the species from extinction.

It's all fun and games. The queen bees, right? That's what it's about. Once they've made it, they go home and establish their own colonies. But when a male bee mates, his penis falls off and he dies.

[LAUGHTER] Bill, how did Katie do in her quiz? Three in a row, Katie's great. Do you want? Well done, Katie.

Thank you. Congratulations. Thank you so much. Thank you for playing. Take care.

You too. [MUSIC PLAYING]

“Now I'm afraid it is time for our final game,”

lightning-filled the blank. Each of our players love 60 seconds of which an answer is many filled with the blank questions as they can. Each correct answer is now worth 2 points. Bill, can you give us the score?

Josh has three, alons who has four, and faith has five. Oh, my goodness. Well, that means we know who's going first. And that would be Josh. The clock will start when I begin your first question,

fill in the blank. On Thursday, Hillary Clinton testified in the congressional investigation into the blank files. Epstein, right, on Monday, a bomb cyclone left several states on the East Coast, dealing with over two feet of blank.

Right?

This week, the White House announced it was withholding $250 million

in blank funds from Minnesota. It's healthcare. Yeah, medical, again. On Tuesday, the US lifted a shelter in place order for Americans in blank.

Mexico? Right. This week, New York Governor Kathy Hockel said, a grandfather would be allowed to keep his personalized license plate that reads blank.

[MUSIC PLAYING] Horny Grandpa. You know? His plate, which he now can use, is P-B-4-W-E-Go. [LAUGHTER]

Oh, it's pretty good. On Monday, researchers said they developed a single vaccine that could protect against cold, flu, and blank. COVID? Yes.

Wow. On Thursday, the 2026 NFL blank began in Indianapolis. Combine? Right. This week, a man in Ohio running from the police

was caught after he hit an a curbside trash can until blank. He sneezed, didn't they found it? No, until the garbage truck came along and tried to put in the truck. All right.

Whole thing was caught in video. You can see it. The guy jumps into it, a little while later. Truck pulls up, attaches it to the thing. Machine picks it up.

And the next thing you know, the guy jumps out of it. garbage man is freaked out. The guy starts running away because cops returns out were like right there. He was caught.

In addition to the charges, they were arresting him for. He was fine $10 for being in the recycling bin. And he clearly should have been in the hiding from the police bin.

“Bill, I think Josh, you're pretty well, right?”

Very well. Six, right? 12 more points. Fifth. He is the total.

Very good. Thank you, Bell. Very good, Josh. All right. He wants, though, you were in second place, so it is your turn.

Now, here we go. Fill the blank. On Thursday, nuclear talks between the US and blank began in Geneva. Iran, right. On Tuesday, representative Al Green was escorted out of the blank for protesting.

State of the Union. Right.

Response to last year's multi-million dollar heist, the director of the blank announced

she was resigning. The Louvre. Right. He was charged with a misdemeanor after he filmed himself blanking. Ooh, scooping up the hummus.

No. [LAUGHTER] He filmed himself giving a wildhawk a sip of his buzz balls, alcoholic beverage. [LAUGHTER] I did hear about that.

Yep. According to a new study, forever chemicals may be causing men to blank faster. I don't know. The eye faster? Give it to you.

Age faster, so they die sooner. On Monday, budget airline blank reached a deal that will keep it from going out of business. Spirit? Right.

This week, the infamously unflattering picture of the former Prince Andrew and the back of a police car after his arrest was briefly on display in blank. Everywhere? No.

Yeah. No, but it was framed and displayed briefly at the Louvre.

This is the second time in two months that someone managed to sneak a framed

photo into the Louvre and hang it in the museum's wall until it was found in Louvre. At this time, there is some artistic merit to it. If you haven't seen it, this photo of Andrew really answers the question.

“What if Edvard MOOC's "The Scream" was a painting of an old pedophile?”

[LAUGHTER] Bill, how did Alonzo do in our quiz? Very close, game of five right, 10 more points. 14, just one behind John. All right.

[APPLAUSE] How many then does faith need to win? Five to five. Six to win. Here we go, faith.

This is for the game. On Wednesday, confirmation hearings began for Casey Means, Donald Trump's nominee for blank. Search in general. Right. Following a Supreme Court ruling FedEx sued the Trump administration demanding a blank rebate.

Terrific. Right. This week, the Supreme Court ruled that the postal service could not be sued for intentionally

Mail. Right.

“Thursday, police in New York said they'd arrested a man who they claimed was involved in a”

massive blank fight. No, Mom. Right.

This week, a man in Italy got in trouble with authorities after he trained his dog to blank.

Uh, to, to, to mountaineering. No, to take his trash bags and bring them out in the legally dumped them by the side of the road. Good dog. On Monday, Massa once again delayed their mission to the blank.

To the moon. Right. On Wednesday, Wu Tang, Klan, Lauren Hill, and Joy Division were named as possible nominees to the blank. Rock and roll, Hall of Fame.

Right.

This week, police in the UK were able to apprehend a suspect to jump to the fence and to

a farm as he was running away, but was stopped there by blank. Uh, uh, pigs. No. A herd of llamas. Uh.

Cops. The man was trying to evade police by trespassing onto a farm, but got caught because he was immediately confronted by eight llamas who formed a circle around him and would not let him leave. [LAUGHTER]

I don't know about you, but I'm going to be very disappointed if this does not result in a new cop show called Lama Force. [LAUGHTER] Bill, did Faith do well enough to win? She got six rides for 12 more boyms, with a total of 17.

Faith is this week's winner. [CHEERING AND APPLAUSE] In just a minute, we're going to ask our panelists to predict now that they've done

“American Girl Dolls, what will be the next famous toy to get an update?”

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“Now, panel, what toy is getting the next big update, Alonzo Bowdoin?”

Hot-wield cars will come with Apple CarPlay. Faith Sailing. G-I-J-O is going to become G-I-Brow, and he comes with a rock-sack full of protein powder and a podcast studio. And Josh Gunlman, Micro plastic machines, the toy cars small enough to go straight into your

bloodstream. Well, the funny thing that happens, panel, we're going to ask you about it on wait wait, don't tell me. Thank you so much Bill Curtis. Thanks, Alzo.

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