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This week on Consider Thus, listen on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts. From NPR and WVEC Chicago, this is, wait, wait, don't tell me the NPR news quiz. I am the anchorman, the anchorman, the anchorman, the anchorman, the anchorman, the anchorman, the anchorman, the anchorman, and here is your host at the San Diego Civic Theatre in San Diego, California, Pierce Seigo. Thank you, Bill. Thank you everybody. Thank you, San Diego.

We have a great structure today because later on, we're going to be talking to a true icon, the man who not only made San Diego great, he kept it classy. That's right. Later on, we're going to be joined by the anchorman, himself, Ron Burgundy. But right now, with your chance to join our action news team, give us a call. The number is 1, Triple 8, wait, wait. That's 1, 8, 8, 8, 8, 9, 2, 4.

Let's welcome our first listener contestant. Hi, you're on, wait, wait, don't tell me.

Hi, this is Ben Johnson from Torne's California. Hey, Ben and Torne's up the coast in the LA area. What do you do there? I am a municipal planner. A municipal planner. You plan out municipalities. I know, it's very exciting work. Yeah. Well, Ben, let me introduce you to our panel this week. First up, a Peabody and a Emmy Award-winning journalist in committee, and it's also slayed. What's up, Ben? How you doing? Do a lot of yourself. No parts of good. Next,

you've seen him and heard him in the good place. Loki, star trek, lower decks, and currently in man on the inside. It's Eugene Cordero. Hey, Ben. Hey, see you. And you can see her in Beverly Hills, California at the Wallace and in Berwick Center for the Performing Arts on June 12. Her podcast is nobody listens to Paul Abonstone. It's Paul Abonstone. Hey, Ben. Okay. So Ben, welcome to the show as is our practice. We're going to start with who's built this time. Bill Curtis is going to read

for you three quotations from this week's news. If you can correctly identify or explain just two of them, you know you'll win our prize. Any voice from our show. You might choose in your voicemail. You're

ready to go? Ready? All right. Your first quote is about somebody who made a state visit this last week.

People have switched them from no kings to okay one king. So that was a journalist quoted in the New Yorker about the reception to who's state visit. King Charles. King Charles. Yes. Charles the third. The president of the United States was absolutely thrilled to host the King for the state visit. They have so much in common. They're both old white men who loved cheating on their wives.

“You know, that's what the fist bump was about, right? At the state dinner that Trump threw”

for the king, the king gave Trump a giant gold bell that said Trump on it to signify that his British friends were only a bell ring away. And it was excited. The president loved it. Melania was thrilled. She tied to the bell around the president's neck. So she knows when he's wandering here. I wonder when they come over from from across the pond. I wonder if they asked like, how long are y'all going to call this New York? And I'm Jersey. Like it's been around for quite a

long time. I think you just call it, you know, well, if we just called it York and Jersey, they'd have to call their places old York and old Jersey. Well, I think that's very America. Yeah. The only part of the whole thing that I saw really, I heard about the speech, but I saw the clip on the internet of Trump pushing, cutting in the receiving line between the queen and King Charles. And they seemed surprised. Really? Because apparently,

“the king's mother hadn't told him that Trump does that. Yeah. Normally, you have to be out on”

the streets to get that kind of rude stuff. That's true. You know, when you're in the roped off section, you generally say. Yeah. But what is true that Queen Elizabeth's presence was there at the dinner. I mean, he's only been King for a short while. Trump even took a moment to ask King Charles.

little fiscity. Yeah. All right. And what was the answer? Apparently, the king, who knew,

“was very funny in his remarks at the state dinner. He, he, it was great. He spared nobody. He's like,”

I see, we're having the classic British dessert tonight, spotted Dick. Oh, wait, that's just Steven Miller. You, I just, you do a good king, Charles. Thank you. Thank you. Yes. All right. Your next quote is from a Los Angeles real estate agent. It was designed, so you don't ever have to leave if you don't

want to. He was talking about one of his new listings with a price of $400 million,

it is the most expensive whatever put on the market in America. It's like a home or mansion. Yes, it is a mansion. Yes, at that price of the better. Oh, yeah. Oh, no. I will say that is not a home. No. It's just one more sign that our revolution is overdue. The journal says that the house is listed at a price that is more than $100 million over the current record for an American home. The mansion has six family bedrooms, ten staff bedrooms, a gym, a chef's kitchen, and a pool. Oh, wait.

That's the guest house. Wow. The main house, this is all true, has its own chef's kitchen and gym plus a spa, a beauty salon, ten family bedrooms, and 13 staff bedrooms, which is a lot of staff bedrooms. I don't know if you're the kind of person who can buy a place like this, you should be careful

about letting the staff outnumber you. I mean, $400 million. That's typical for LA. That's about right.

It doesn't just seem a little tone deaf with everything, you know, with people, you know, housing costs are. Really, you think $400 million is toned up? I kind of, I just feel like everybody's struggling to pay their rent or pay their mortgage and some, you know, if they were a little bit

“more respectful of the trouble the rest of us in, they would have listed it at $3.9999. That's what I think.”

It has every possible amenity, including, and this is true, a working X-ray suite. Wow. Totally, and this is way, way, way, way. Read it. It's working? Yes. Oh, okay. Okay, because in my house,

I have a non-working, just the worst. And I'm just like, what am I doing here? It's weird. I mean,

it's unnecessary. If you have that much money, you should be able to replace your bones with something that doesn't break. I don't have an X-ray suite, but I have a guy who just guesses what's on your inside and sketches it. Yeah. So that's been enough so far. Can you imagine being a guest at this place, and you have such high expectations, and you get into the shower, and the water pressure is trash. All right. Then your last quote, it's the Wall Street Journal again. This time, they're writing

about a new innovation in cars. It increases the risk of backing over something or someone. So, apparently, we're going to enjoy an increased risk of backing over something because what standard feature are the newest cars getting rid of? You're going to hit it. You're going to hit it. Yeah, a lot of makers are all about looking forward, right, not looking behind you. Oh, are they getting rid of your view cameras? No, we need those. In fact, this car will entirely rely on rear view cameras,

because it will not have a, it won't have a back window. It will not have a rear window. Yes, it's gone. Gone by the gone by the hand crank on the front of the car. It's all obsolete. The 2022 poll star for EV, a sitting for five, a 300 mile range and no rear window. This is crazy. I actually, it's not that crazy. I just realized my own car doesn't ever rear window. It's just so focused on my phone while driving. I didn't notice. So, you cannot see out of the back of the car.

If you turn around, it's nothing opaque. Instead, there are, of course, rear facing cameras.

“And instead of a rear view mirror, it is a rear view mirror shaped video display, right?”

It gives you all the advantages of a window. And it could stop working at any moment. They have a little sign on it that says objects are less important than they appear. Bill, how did Ben do in our quiz? Three, up. Kind of soft to a good start. Congratulations,

week's news. Also, there's a new app for fans of scary movies. It warns you just before what happens?

Do you get scared? Exactly. Something scary happens or jump scares. I was just joking. No. The app is called Ben. And you just tell it what you're watching. And when you start the movie, it'll warn you about the jump scares before they happen. It's a great idea, but why is the notification sound someone yelling, "Boom!" And it truly does ruin the whole movie for them. Yeah, well, I mean, apparently this is something that people want as a popular app, but

I'm not a fan of horror movies myself, but isn't the point for those who do that they want to be scared. Yeah, this is like watching the movie with somebody that's seen the movie already,

and they say, "Watch this." I was watching before you said, "Watch this." Yeah.

“This, I could have used this when I was dating. How so?”

They jumped out of the air. I would have my phone, like, by my side, and when I know a scare is about to happen, I just put my arm around the young lady. And then so when she gets scared, I'm already there to support her. Yeah. I'm that kind of nice guy. No, I thought I thought what you meant was, you're like, you're at the date, you're talking, and like the phone lights up and says she's about to tell you she's a Scientologist. Yeah. I mean, that would be a great

app. Yeah, that would be a good app. Yeah, that would be a good app. Praise yourself. Coming up, things are looking up. And our Bluff-The-Liciter game called "One Triple A Weight to Play" will be back in a minute with more. Wait, wait, don't tell me? From NPO.

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heard Bill Curtis, our judging scorekeeper, is retiring from weight weight. I still have problems dealing with it, but in Bill's honor, we are hosting a live virtual event on Monday, May 11th, and you can join us. Bill and I will talk about his time on the weight weight. His career as a legendary anchor man, and we'll be answering your questions about Bill and the show. So to get your invitation, just sign up for NPR+. And we'll send you a registration link, signing up as also a great

way to support the show and NPR. So just go to plus.mpr.org and watch your email. Again, that's plus.npr.org. From NPR and WBEs, he should go, this is. Wait, wait, don't tell me the NPR news quiz. I'm Bill Curtis, who we are playing this week with Polypound Stone, Eugene Cordero at Alzo's Slade. And here I got his hair host. At the sendy, I go civic theater and sendy, I go California, Peter. Thank you. Thank you, Bill. And thank you, everybody. Right now,

it is time for the wait wait, don't tell me. Bluff the listener game, call one triple eight, wait, wait to play our game in the air. Hi, you are on wait, wait, don't tell me. Hi, Peter, this is Tim Borden from Gallup, New Mexico. Gallup, New Mexico. What do you do there? I work for the National Forest Foundation. I do forest restoration and the forest. Oh, wow, this is a lot of musical. And in my spare time, I travel around and I sing with a

decenty band called the Strong Back. You sing in a sea shanty band? That's true, I see your point,

“very good. Welcome to the show, Tim. You're going to play our game in which you have to tell”

truth from fiction. Bill, what is Tim's topic? A terrible, horrible, no, good, very bad day. We all have bad days. You get dumped. You lose your job. You're in the Epstein files, telling him how you got dumped and lost your job. But sometimes something bad can turn into a good thing. This week, we heard about somebody who's bad day ended up with a surprising silver lining. Our panelists are going to tell you about it. Pick the one that's telling the truth and you'll

win the weight weight of your choice on your voicemail. Are you ready to play? I am. Let's do it.

All right, first, let's hear from Eugene Cordero. In December, New York Giants Kicker,

Young Ho Co, ran up to Kick a field goal at the Monday night football game against the New England Patriots. And instead of the ball, Kick the turf right in front of it. It was instantly deemed one of the most embarrassing kicks in NFL history. And Co was cut from the team a few weeks later. So, it was pretty bad for him, but ultimately good for a fan. One, Mark Tuthacker, watching from home, he replayed the slapstick kick multiple times and laughed so hard. He had a seizure.

the ER where they discovered a tumor on the left side of his brain. The tumor was swiftly

“removed and turned out to be benign. So, a terrible kick turned out to be a life-saving catch.”

One of the worth kicks in NFL history leads to a fan's tumor getting discovered and removed. Your next story of a silk purse from a sows ear comes from Paula Poundstone. After an hour-long stand-off with a passenger who come and deered her drink card and food service tongs before being subdued and duct taped to their seat, flight attendant Phoebe Whalen, used her incident recovery time provided by American Airlines to prepare and pitch a reality show

to the television networks. We just got the green light from ABC after a huge bidding war

says an overjoyed wailant. It's like below deck but higher.

Each episode, the audience sees the struggles between the flight crew and the passengers they have to

“deal with. There are bloody fights over passengers putting their seat back. There are passengers”

claiming their steamer trunks are carry on luggage. There's one episode where famous violinist is forced to put their violin in the overhead compartment and another passenger releases termites into the compartment. And by the time the plane lands, there are termite mounds and violin strings in the overhead compartment but no violin. Plus, the person has a thing for the guy in three F. A flight attendant's terrible day at work inspires her to create a new reality show

about all the terrible days that flight attendants endure. Your last story of a bad day turning good comes from alzo slayed. This story begins the day that the rapper actor L. Kujey woke up to his girlfriend frustrated with him over a constant problem. His assi lips. His girlfriend

“looks at him and says, "Are you going to do something about your lips?" Every time we kiss,”

I need a band-aid. He laughs, she does it. She breaks up with him because of his dry lips. He grabs the cheap corner story lip balm, applies it, thick, chalky. It's like his lips are wearing a sweater. He wipes it off and it gets worse. So he does what most of us do. He licks his lips again and again and again. He goes to doing on-camera interview. Every question, "Lick." Every pause, "Lick." Every close-up, "Lick." But instead of nervous, it looks intentional. Instead of a problem,

it looks like a move. And the next week, he has a product meeting. They ask him, "You know what people associate you with, right? He pauses." Lips his lips and says, "Yes." So he introduces L. L. Kujey's take a lip balm, a flavored lip balm that inspires users to constantly lick their lips just like

he does. This week, it officially became a billion dollar business, which is why he's on the cover

of this month's fortune magazine on his yacht that he named from Ash to Cash. All right. Somebody's bad day turned into something good. Was it from Eugene Cordero, how a famously flubbed the kick in the NFL let a man to laugh at it so hard that he ended up getting a tumor discovered? From Paula Poundstone, a flight attendant who's terrible day at work, inspired her to become a reality TV mogul or from Alzo Slade, L. L. Kujey turns his dry lips ending

a relationship into a brand and a business, which of these was the real story of good coming from bad. Well, I'm not surprised that the giant are going to be given people seizures from how they were playing last year, so I'm going to go with Eugene's story about the football family tumor. You're going to go with Eugene's story about the football kick leading to a unused fan getting checked out when you needed to be, well, to find out the correct answer, we spoke to that real

person who benefited from a bad day. He laughs with his kicker's experience, but you know, what might have been an embarrassing moment to hear, it literally saved my life. That was Mark II Thacker who laughed so hard at that month to kick it ended up saving his life. Congratulations, Tim. You got it right. You're in the point for Eugene and you've won our prize of voice of your choice and your voice of no congratulations. Thank you so much for playing.

Thank you, everybody. And now the game we call not my job. There is perhaps nobody who represents the city of San Diego better than the legendary local news anchor Ron Burgundy. They agree whose story was told in two hit documentaries and increment in increment two,

to try to see you on stage. Ron Burgundy, welcome to Wait Wait Don't Tell me.

Thank you, Peter. Thank you so much for having me. It's great to be back here. I imagine, and I think our audience has proved it, that when you come back to San Diego, where you started your career, you get quite a response. People must be very excited to see it. People, well, I still live down here. Okay, oh, yeah, everyone. condo and pacific beach. I got evicted from my town home in Rancho Panisquetus. So I'm now, you know,

I'm walking around the beach with my metal detector. I still work with my charity, which is we're rehabbing dolphins. We're trying to keep dolphins to stay in high school. Right. Because guess what the dropout rate for dolphins are in high school? I wouldn't know.

“100%. Really? Yes. Wow. That's why I see so many dolphins hanging out in the street corners.”

No. And on weekends, I have my, my sea shanty group. You do. Yes. Yes. A lot of that going around. We go back and forth from here to Gal, New Mexico. Sure. And we have competitions. Yeah, absolutely. Thanks like that. So it's a very full-rich busy life. Yeah. Yeah. Bill here, you're colleague in TV news. He, he famously got his start as young man when he went on the air into Pica and warned thousands of people saving their lives

about a impending tornado. That's right. Yeah. I'm sure your start as a newsman was something like that. Can I just say something? I, I, I, I admire Bill Curtis so much. Yes, sure. You are the gold standard. You're legendary baritone voices. What I tried to emulate. And yet,

I couldn't hate someone more. I've always been so jealous of your task. But Bill and I, we have

had some times together. Really? Yes. Yeah. Don't get Bill going on the story of Bill and I, Walter Cronkite, Angie Dickinson, and a flame thrower down at the dog track in Tijuana. Oh, wow. That's, oh, I'm going to give you. Yeah. Oh, I'm going to give you. I remember when Bill did that, all he said was, I'm on assignment. Yeah. Now, Bill here, I know, having recently read his memoir, has, has covered some amazing stories. He was at

Chernobyl, one of the first American, and Chern was to go there. He covered the fall of a ran of, were you covering those stories as well? Um, yes. Well, I would wait for Bill to file his report. And then I, you know, I didn't belish. I didn't get the biggest assignments. No. When I was a younger man, I, I remember I reported the Vietnam War was over after one month. So, uh, they didn't give me the biggest assignment. But yeah, you, you went over there,

came back and said, it's going great. It's going great. Yeah. Now they're looking for you to report on our ran war. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. That one should be over any day now. Two weeks, two weeks, the, uh, the TV news business has changed. Have you had to adapt from your early days here as an increment? It really, it really has. Uh, network news is really down the old toilet. Yeah. Um, so, uh, an applause for network for the device.

“I'm assuming that's what that's pretty much. Yeah. Uh, well, I possibly for toilets.”

Look, I've still, or there could be a lot of people who just enjoy a good toilet. Who doesn't? Yeah, who doesn't? I mean, when you walk into a bathroom, you see a

finally sculpted piece of porcelain. Sure. You're like, that's a good look in toilet. Yeah.

What were we talking about? We were talking about, you won back in the legendary anchor as adapted to the changes in television video news. I have, I pretty much broadcast my weekly report from my garage. Sure. Um, I have a satellite link up with my good buddy Hilon, Star Lake, except he didn't give me X. I have Star Denk. Yeah. Which only broadcast about 500 yards right side of my place. The one you bought on Timo. The boy I bought on Timo. Yeah. I love

“team. I'm a big team. Oh gosh. Oh gosh. Just as good eighth of the price. Right. And uh, I think that's”

our jingle. Just as good. Eight of the price. But uh, so the burgundy report is out there. I'm still submitting my resumes to local news stations. Really? Not getting any any nipples. I find that hard to believe given given your talent given your you think so. Yeah, you would think so. Yeah. Isn't

Well, I do want to be an independent journalist. I don't want to be told what I what to think

“or what what what to do. Well, Ron, have you given any thought to the using the TikToks and the”

Instagrams? For example. That's, that's a trend that's going nowhere. So. Well, Ron Burgundy, maybe you can consider this a job interview because we have in fact invited you here to play a game. We're calling anchor man, meet the anchor man. You are, of course, the second most iconic anchor man in America. So we thought we'd ask you about anchor men that is sailors and semen. Answer two to three questions correctly. You want our prize one of our listeners, the voice of the weight waiter of their

choice for their voicemail. Bill, who is your protege, Ron Burgundy playing for? Dave Dennis have send the echo California. All right. Dave Dennis. A viewer. All right. Here's the first question. We'll start with Ernest Shackleton. He was the famed captain who kept his entire crew alive for

“18 months after their ship got trapped in ice and Antarctica turns out. Among other things,”

he was great at keeping up his cruise morale. They held debates and they held singalongs and he let the crew do what? Was it a hold a weekly vote to update the rankings of who would be eating first if they ran out of food? Be you think up fun new names for the constellations or see build a big sexy lady snowman? Well, I have been stranded before, sir, and with a large group and we knew we were going to be rescued for a while off the illusion islands. What we didn't

realize was we were literally five minutes away from an army base. Anyway, so we had to have that discussion of who we would, I wouldn't say it's A. It's because they made a list of who would beat and first. Yes. No, it was actually the big sexy snowman. Here's your next question. We're Admiral John D. Bulkley was a celebrated naval officer. He even has a destroyer named after him

“today, but he had an odd habit while he was in command of a naval base back in 1966. What was it?”

Was it A? He would dress up like a ninja and sneak around the base to test security. Be he would get around the base on a robot mounted on wheels that he would row or see since the navy banned alcohol, he would drink fruit juice and then just act drunk. Well, that's a stupidest thing I've ever heard.

I don't know why. I always started every newscast with a with a stiff scotch. Sure. I would

guzzle it down like they was the last drop of alcohol I was ever going to have. And I was ready to go. Yeah, sure. I'm going to say he rode around on a robot. He rode around in a robot. No, actually he would dress up like a ninja and sneak around and he never got shot. Right? Either security was terrible or more likely the security guards were like, uh, she's the admiral's a ninja again. Just play along. Better do it.

Don't we can't see him? Yeah. All right. You still can get one right here. All right. Captain Crunch of Serial fame has been sailing the seas of breakfast since the 1960s.

Oh, yeah. Always delicious. Always the best. But in 2013, he faced a scandal.

People accused Captain Crunch of what? A using child labor to pick Crunch berries. Be violating the embargo on Cuba or see not actually holding the rank of Captain. Wow. Yeah. D, are you saying D? I'm going to say for Captain Crunch. If you look on the box, it looks like a guy who's willing to cut corners.

You're going to go for C. I'm going to go for C. That's right. He's guilty of stolen honor. Yes. stolen honor and B. According to the number of stripes on his uniform, uh, he'd been in

Ensign, a lieutenant and a commander, but he never wore the four stripes appropriate to a captain.

Until 2024. He'd never get away with that in San Diego. Never. No, that's right. Bill, how did Ron Burgundy do in our quiz? Well, he did the really well he got one. Yeah. Hey, did you? Ron Burgundy was the legendary Ackerman on San Diego's award-winning KVWN news team. Ron Burgundy. Thank you so much for joining us on Wait wait don't tell me. In just a minute, why you better leave your umbrella at home? That's our listener,

Limerick Challenge call. Went from Wait wait to join us on the air. We'll be back in a minute with more of Wait Wait

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From NPR and WBE's he should go. This is Wait wait don't tell me. The NPR news quiz. I'm Bill Curtis. We are playing this week with

also Slade Paula Poundstone Eugene Cordero and Ron Burgundy. And here you go. Here you go. That's the San Diego Civic Theater in San Diego, California. Callums in your ear. Unfortunately, they're Limericks. If you'd like to play, give us a call. One Triple A, wait wait wait. That's 1, 8, 8, 8, 8, 9, 2, 4. Right now, panel though. Some more questions for you from the weeks news. Also, there's a new amenity for travelers starting soon.

“You'll be able to do what at the airport. Sleep. Oh, people have been doing that for a long time. Can I have a hand please?”

You can, yeah, you can have your hand. Good luck getting your personal bottle of body wash through

security though. Oh, wow. Showers? Yes, you can shower at the airport. That is gross. That is great. There's a lot of

mostly people out there. Yeah, exactly. That's just gross. Some airports, mostly at this point in Europe, are offering a new amenity for arriving passengers. You've landed, you go to the arrival lounge where you can freshen up and take a shower. That's they've just started installing these. Congratulations to that one passenger, whoever it was, who smelled so bad. He inspired a whole new advance in the travel industry. Well, that's the thing. It should be before they depart.

Because that's when you're going to be sitting close next to you. Exactly. Yeah. It should require it. It should make us all go through the shower on a belt like a car wash. Or you know what? Where the light and the ACR are the buttons up there? No. You're just right. Exactly, you push and you get a little-- And they'll be part of the security thing. Make sure you wash your own hair and rinse before washing the hair and rinse it. Can you? Can you imagine going through

TSA and the thing beats and they tell you, excuse me, Mr. Slay, can you come inside? You've been randomized and they just hand you a bottle of soap. Yeah. It's like the airline equivalent of like a friend just offering you a breath. Yeah. Yeah, right. Yeah. Eugene this week, the Washington Post reported on a bold and effective new idea and conservation. You can save endangered species like gorillas

“if we simply give them what? What do they offer in dangerous species? Yes. Other than hope?”

We can't do that. Oh, we can't do that. I'll give you the hard part is teaching the gorillas to sign to their name on the checks. Giving gorillas jobs? No, not jobs. Oh. Do you sign to check to draw money from your bank account? Yes. Give gorillas bank accounts. What? So, a man named Jonathan Ledgard runs a nonprofit that sets up bank accounts for individual animals. I would so like to hit up a gorilla from five to five. You know what's going to happen? People are going to like

go out to lunch with gorillaism and the check comes are all going to be like, oh, wow, I've got so here's how it works. They set up the accounts for the animals and then like when someone provides a gorilla's service like say clearing a path to gorilla, pays that person. But don't get too excited. Gorillas are horrible tippers. I don't know if I like this. Oh, no. Yes,

“discriminatory. You have to be in danger to get a bank account. Can you imagine the species”

that are not in danger that like this is messed up? Yeah. Yes, giraffes have been making

million. You know what I'm saying? They've just been putting it under a mattress.

Yeah, mosquitoes have a Venmo thing now. When you check their Venmo, it's just drop a blood, drop a blood, drop a blood. I'm not even sure I understand it, but I don't want my cats to find out about it. I know that. 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 to leave a message at one triple eight weight weight. If that's

one eight eight eight nine two four eight nine two four. You can catch us most weeks back at the Studio Baker Theater at our home in Chicago, where you can catch us on the road. We will be in Austin, Texas at the Bass Concert Hall in June 4th for tickets and information to all our live events go to NPR Presents.org. Hi, Ron, wait, wait, don't tell me. Hi, this is Marissa calling in from Bellevue,

I'm a lawyer, but right now I'm enjoying my daughter's senior year. I'm on a sabbatical, and she's

“enjoying her senior year before I become an empty nester. Really, so you took off a year of work,”

a sabbatical, just to be with your 17, 18-year-old daughter. That is correct. So her should bring some dates. You know, it's about to say when you told your daughter is your last year, a high school, your senior, you can relax on a fun, and I've decided to stop going to work, so I can be here with you all the time. How did she react? She immediately lobbied for a pet, or maybe a hobby for me. For you, yes, not for her, I understand. Well, welcome to the show,

Marissa. Belle Curtis is going to read you three news related lemurics with the last

word of phrase missing from each of you. You can fill in that last word of phrase correctly and two of the lemurics will be a winner. You ready to play? Absolutely. All right, here's your first

“lemuric. This Egyptian found Greek story is yummy. That's how Homer wound up in his tummy,”

and this corpse inspector found traces of hector on fragments embalmed in a mummy. Yes, remarkable discovery. A page from the Iliad was found in the abdomen of an Egyptian mummy, meaning that either it was stuffed inside this mummy during the mummification process, or this man died from eating the Iliad. Now, papyrus has been found inside mummies before,

but it's always like religious texts. This is like the first time it's been a page just

taken from a book, but of all the books to be buried with, the Iliad is pretty cool, right? Yeah, it's a sophisticated guide wherever this guy was. How embarrassing would it be, for example, to be dug up 2,000 years from now with a copy of like the Da Vinci code inside you?

“I was thinking more like green eggs in hand or something like that. Don't knock green eggs in hand.”

That's a classic. Yes, see, I went with the hardy boys. Exactly. All right, here is your next lemuric. This thunderstorm resets your brain. Get on brothers and walk down the lane. Emotional pain will just wash down the drain when you take a calm walk in the rain. In the rain, yes. You know this living in Washington, according to experts, getting rained on is good for you, and not just because it's literally the most romantic thing

that can happen to someone. It also apparently chemically boosts serotonin in your brain that feeling you have with your jeans or sok through and everything is chafing. That's happiness. I also heard that if you run in the rain, you'll get more wet than if you just walk. All right, that's like a physics, because you're moving more, you're moving through like more volume of water or something. Yes, because I try to run through it and I'm not having fun.

No, and if I walk through it, I feel like I'm really going to have a blast. I can't wait for the next time at rain so I can have a blast being soaking wet. It's the best. Here is your last lemuric. For my workout, I need a fresh spark. I'll run faster if dogs, chase and bark. To avoid indoor stench, I'll do dips on a bench. No more gym. I work out in the heart. Yes, if you don't want to pay for a gym membership, don't worry. The New York Times

says a public park has all the work out equipment you need. They published a list of exercises you can do using a park bench like step ups, tricep dips, and jump ups when you realize what you just sat in. And if there's a monkey bar, you know, monkey bars, or a pull-up bar, you can be the guy who says, "Mind if I work in to a six-year-old." I've seen some adults working out at a park while I'm there with my children. Really? And it looks terrible. How so? Just because the kids are just

having fun and then there's just a grown man sweating very close to us. And we don't need that. One of the exercises at the time suggests is resting. If you can picture it, you're up or back on the seat of a park bench and just doing upward hip thrusts in a public park. In New York City. You just walk in your dog and you just want to sit down. You like, "Hey buddy, can you move that pelvis thrust somewhere?" They'll how to Marissa do in our

quiz. Marissa was perfect. Congratulations on your sabbatical. Well done. Thank you.

seconds of which they answer as many film and the blank questions as they can. Each quick answer

“now with two points. Bill, can you give us the scores? Eugene and Elzo each have three and Paula”

has two. Oh, okay. That happened. No asked silly questions, Paula. It was wrong with it. So Paula, you are in second place behind the two gentlemen. So you'll be up first. The clock will start when they begin your first question, fill in the blank. On Wednesday, the Pentagon

reported that the U.S. had spent over $25 billion on the war with blank. Right. On Monday,

Cole Allen was charged with attempting to assassinate the president last week at the blank. At the White House correspondence, didn't write. This week Jerome Powell held his final meeting as chair of the blank of the Fed. Right, federal reserve. This week, Chanel's newest shoe drew mixed reactions because it's literally just blank. It's a, I don't know. It's just a heel. Oh, just a heel. Just the heel of a shoe, nothing else. Yeah, Tuesday, UPS and Fed X said they would

“return refunded blank payments to their customers. Uh, uh, Terrific. Yeah, power. Terrific. This week,”

the chief of NASA started to push to make a blank a planet again. Uh, Pluto. Yes, this week authorities in Sri Lanka arrested a blank for trying to smuggle 200 pounds of weed into that country. Uh, Elon Musk. No, 22. 22 Buddhist monks. The monks were just getting back from a weekend holiday in Bangkok. monks go to Bangkok for the weekend, apparently. And they told the officers that

arrested them that the $2.5 million worth of weed was a quote to donation to the temple.

You know what I mean? You're in the temple. The donation play comes around like, oh, man, I don't have any cash on me. All I've got is this enormous bail here. Bill, how did Paula do on our quiz? Five. Right. Good start. Ten more points. Twelve is their total. She's in first place. All right. Eugene, I'm going to pick you arbitrarily to go next. So I'll follow the blank. According to new

data, blank prices are the highest they've been in four years. Oh, yeah, gas, wheel prices. This week at Taco Bell employee in Florida was accused of pulling a gun on the customers who blanked. Didn't pay. No, who asked for a cup for free water and then went over to the machine and put soda in it. Whoa, we're all feeling a little guilty, aren't we? On Wednesday, health officials warned of a blank outbreak, tying to chicken in 13 states. Oh, uh,

seminar. Right. On Wednesday, the flyers beat the penguins to move into round two of the blank playoffs, uh, the, um, Stanley Cup play. Stanley Cup, this this week after his 31 day winning streak came to an end. Jeopardy champion Jamie Dings saying that he may have finally lost because blank. He got tired? No, because he forgot to pack fresh socks and underwear for the taping. Jamie Dings said that he knew his losing game of jeopardy was going to be a tough one

because he forgot to pack socks and underwear when he flew out to LA for the taping.

Dings still had an amazing rum, but it must have been even harder for him because the guy he

“lost who was only wearing socks and underwear man. Bill, how did Eugene do in our quiz?”

Three right. Six more points. Tuddle to nine. Still trails pull off. All right. And how many then does Alzo need to take it? Five to win. All right. Alzo, this is for the game. Here we go. On Wednesday, the Justice Department, once again, indicted former FBI chief blank. Come on, come on Monday, the Mexican government arrested another high-profile blank member. Cartel. Right. This week, the United Arab Emirates announced it was planning to leave blank on May 1st.

Yeah. L-I-V. The North of California. No. Yeah. The fact they're going to leave back on Monday, the White House, once again put pressure on ABC to fire late night host blank. Jimmy Kimmel. Right. This week, a French teenager faced jail time for blanking in a public place. No, licking a straw, then putting it back in the dispenser. No. You're like a way for life. All right. On Wednesday, J. Craig Venter, the man who decoded the

human blank past away the age of 79. Uh, do you know? Yep. After losing Saudi Arabia as an investor, PGA competitor blank, is that the risk of shutting down? Yeah. I see I was at the head of you. You know, yeah. L-I-V-L-V-L-V. Right. L-V-L-V-L-V-Gov. Yes. This week, a woman in Massachusetts was convicted for sicking her blank on a group of police trying to perform an eviction. Her pet rabbit. No. Her swarm of bees. Whoa. In 2022, housing advocate Rory Woods pulled

up in her truck to try to stop sheriff's deputies from carrying out an eviction when they

bees. One of her hives. Yeah. One of her. Sadly, she was then arrested for assault with a hilarious weapon.

“Bill did also do well enough to win. He needed five. He got five. There you go.”

Today's winner. Congratulations. In just a minute, we're going to ask our panelists to

predict what will be King Charles's favorite souvenir from his trip to America.

Wait, wait. Don't tell me, he's a production of NPR and WBEZ. Chicago and association with

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our public address announcer, is Paul Friedman. BJ, leader in composer and theme, our program is

produced by Jennifer Mills, Miles Dornboss, and Lillian King. Special thanks to Live Robertson and Monica Hickey, Peter Gwen, is the Comptroller of the City of San Diego. Emma Troy is our Vive Curator,

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to welcome to our crew, our new operations manager, Jacira Vardak, our production manager is Robert Newhouse, our senior producer is Ian Chillock and the executive producer of WBEZ. Don't tell me, is Mr. Michael Dandforth. Now, panel, what will be King Charles's favorite souvenir from his trip, also slay, paper crown from Burger King. Eugene Cardero, doggie back from the Virginia Potluck,

and Paula Poundstone. He got one of the last cracker barrel T-shirts with the new canceled logo. So with any of that happen, we're going to ask you about it to wait, wait, don't tell me. So thank you to Bill Curtis, thanks also to Alzo Slay, Eugene Cardero, and Paula Poundstone. Thanks to Carolyn Sander, and the staff and crew at the San Diego Civic Theatre special thanks to Heather Millen-Barger and everybody at KPBS here in San Diego. And thanks to all of you for

listening, wherever you might be, I'm Peter Sagan, Bill. Stay classy, San Diego. This is NPR.