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From NPR and that would be easy Chicago. This is Wait, Wait, Don't tell me the NPR News Quiz. Hey, Easter Bunny, fill those giant ears with my voice. I'm Bill Curtis and here is your host at the Studebaker Theater at the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Illinois. Nagin, Farsad. Bringing in for Peter Sagle, who's on spring break where, instead of a wet t-shirt, he's doing a damp turtleneck contest. But don't worry, we have a great show for you today. We're going to be joined by Olivia Munn, who you can catch on the Apple TV series,

your friends and neighbors, a show that makes the suburbs way sexier than they actually are. But first, it's your turn to make some friends. Give us a call to play our games. The number is 1-888-8-8-8-8-8-24. Now let's welcome our first listener contestant. Hi, you're on. Wait, wait, wait, don't tell me. Hi, Nikki.

My name's Hannah. I'm calling from New York City. Hi, Hannah. What do you do in New York? I am a marine geophysicist. I mean, me too. Well, that's great, too, of us. So what does a marine geophysicist do for fun?

For fun? On the weekends, I like to go out and play Irish fiddle. I do some quilting. Oh, my God. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Same, same, same, same. Well, Hannah, let's introduce you to our panel. First up, she's a comedian and host of the TikTok series, Boy Room.

It's Rachel Koster. Hi, Hannah. You sound like the perfect girl. Next up, she's a comedian who runs the bi-monthly stand-up show, Frankenstein's baby, at Union Hall in Brooklyn. It's Joyelle Nicole Johnson. Hey, Hannah. Come on down to our show at Union Hall, baby. And finally, an actor and writer you can see with John Lutz in the improv show,

Two Square at the UCB Theater in New York City on April 15th. It's Peter Gross. Hello, Hannah. Hi, Peter. All right, Hannah, we're excited to have you here. You're going to play Who's Bill this time. Now, Bill Curtis is going to read you three quotes from this week's news. If you can identify two of them, you'll win our prize, which is any voice from our show on your voicemail.

Are you ready? Sure. Okay. All right. Your first quote is a headline from Astronomy magazine. Artemis II crew fixes toilet can now pee in it. So that toilet will come in handy for the crew who took off for where on Wednesday night? The moon.

That's right. The moon. This week, Artemis II took off on its first mission to the moon in decades. That's right. Little known fact this whole time. we haven't been going to the moon. The launch was actually delayed because the lines at Cape Canaveral TSA were so long.

Oh, my God. It's kind of a sign of how bad things are going on Earth that people are like, yeah, can we figure out what's going on on on the moon? Is that like free? Y'all think they really went? Kim Kardashian over here. I love a good conspiracy theory.

It's one of my favorites that we didn't go to the moon. Well, so this is actually true. So every single previous moon mission, they just left their poop in bags on the lunar surface. It turns out the moon operates by dog owner. Everybody hates rules. Yeah, that sounds like my block.

Like when the snow melts, and you're like, oh, come on. You can't poop in the snow and be like, oh, I bet it won't be there when the snow melts. We have to be grateful that the poop on the ground is on the ground. I mean, we can talk our smack about it, but at least it's where it belongs. That's true. Why do we want to live on the moon when dog poop would be like hitting us in the face?

Yeah, in the face all the time. Well, not with this special toilet. And actually, this mission that they're on is a test run before NASA establishes a base there to mine resources from the moon. But honestly, we can't change the moon. It'll completely mess up my period. All right, well, here's your next quote from someone visiting the Supreme Court on Wednesday. Dumb judges and justices. Who sat in on Supreme Court?

Supreme Court arguments this week? The president. That's right. Now, technically you're booing Hannah for getting the question right, so you're allowed to clap for her. Well, you're right. This week, Donald Trump became the first sitting president to attend oral arguments at the Supreme Court, and we assume the first president to fall asleep during oral arguments at the Supreme Court.

He was just like, I love the Socratic method. I want to hear a lot of people asking questions and peppering somebody with intellectuals. queries. He called them dumb justices. Didn't he nominate most of them? I do that with my friends too. I chose them and I think they're idiots. You said that at your birthday party.

Like look at all these idiots. I think he went probably to intimidate them. Like, oh, they won't be able to talk smack about me and my dumb ideas if I'm actually sitting in the courtroom. And then all the people that he nominated were like, this idea is really stupid. Yeah, and he probably thought Brad Kavanaugh would go, uh-oh, Trump is here,

or better be more conservative today. Kavanaugh is like, the president's here. Hide your beers, guys. We're not allowed to drink in the Supreme Court if the president's here. Honestly, I think he should have done this like undercover boss style where he's just like wearing a mustache mopping in the corner, like, don't mind me. Do you like working here?

All right. Your last quote is a zookeeper at the National Zoo observing some animal behavior. They should just get down to business. That zookeeper was noting that for the first time ever, two what actually seemed to want to mate. I have no idea. It's not zoo employees. Yeah.

Although, yeah, I'm sure they all have. I want to wait. But here, I'll give you a hint. It's all right there in black and white. Oh, is it the panda? That's right, the pandas. The National Zoo's pandas were spotted flirting this week. This is huge news because pandas are historically lazy and don't care about sex.

They're essentially the opposite of dolphins. The absolute freaks of the animal kingdom. It was interesting because when you said two whats, Hannah was like, I don't want to get canceled. I got no way to do what. Being endangered species must be so hot. But it does feel like a lot of pressure, though. Do you feel like pressure?

You thrive under those circumstances. I like it. Sorry, sorry. That's what I do my best work is when people are watching me. And I have to propagate my species. No, but I love that you're thinking of the panda's kinks. You know what I mean? You have to.

One of them might have the same kink as Brian Nome. We don't know. That was that too? Yeah. I don't know. He'd famously know. The zookeeper do sound like a bit of a creep, though. I'm just going to put that out there.

Well, I'm going to give you a little bit of insight into how panda business is going on right now. The pandas are actually in separate enclosures with a window connecting them. They actually flirt the exact same way humans do. She ignores him while he rubs his giant panda ass on the window. Wait, there are two different... Just like love is blind. Yeah, I was going to say, there are two different glass enclosure, so it sounds like love is blind. Yeah.

Sorry. This is actually true. The window connecting them is called a howdy window. And it honestly, it sounds like my personal nightmare. Like, you're saying that my crush lives next door and can look at me at any time. I like that. Then you can make sure that he's never talking to other girls. That's the one nice part.

No other girl in all of America for him to talk to. But he's like, I don't know, I feel like I'm, I just want to like shop around a little bit, you know. I don't want to get like pinned down to one panda. Like, you got to go to China then, dude. Yeah, he also might be into koalas and brown bears, polar bears. That's all the bears I know. It was like a really impressive list, Joel. Thank you.

Well, the pandas actually won't be allowed to share an enclosure for a couple of years. at which point they will presumably pounce on each other and start going at it ruining multiple field trips. All right, Bill, how did Hannah do? She knows her pandas. Hannah got a perfect score, three and oh. Play in the game. Bye.

Now, panel, I have some questions for you about this week's news. Peter, yes. TNZ is broadening its horizons by no longer just taking pictures. of celebrities. Now they're sending paparazzi to capture photos of who? Lindsay Graham at Disney World. That's right.

Politicians? Politicians. Politicians, members of Congress. TMZ is taking a break from saying a size six woman has let herself go by pivoting to politics. This week, TMZ published a bunch of photos calling out Senator Lindsay

Graham for going to Disney World during the government shutdown even worse. In the photo, he's punching Moana? That's what I saw. I don't know. Did he have on a princess dress? Also, I heard he was wearing a blazer. He was. And also the thing is like, yes, so he's unmarried so he doesn't have kids.

But he was stone cold alone, which I want to know, like, did you ask anybody to go with you? Like, was he like, hey, Mark Warner, Democrat from Virginia, want to reach the across the aisle and go to Disney World with me? Or did he ask some Republican? He could have been like, Pam, Pam, Bonnie, I hear you have some time. Yeah. And they would be like, yeah, our woman playing Maleficent is sick. You want to just, like, jump in and be an evil person? I didn't realize there was something more concerning than a Disney adult is an alone.

Disney Senator is the worst. A Disney Senator. Our panelists get freaky Monday. through Thursday in our Bluff the Listener game. Call 1-88 Wait-W-W-W-W-W-T-W-T-L-E-W-T-Me to play. We'll be back in a minute with more of Way, Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, from NPR. From NPR, and WBEC, Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, the NPR News Quiz. I'm Bill Curtis. We are playing this week with Peter Gross, Joy L. Nicole Johnson and Rachel Custer. And here we get as your host at the Studebaker Theater in Chicago, Illinois, Nagin Farsat.

Thanks, Bill. Now it's time for the Wait, Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, Bluff the listener game. Call 1-88-Wait-Wait-Wait to play our game on air, or check out the pinned post on our Instagram page at Wait, Wait, NPR. Hi, you're on Wait, Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. Hi, this is Eli from Houghton, Michigan. Hi, Eli, what do you do in Michigan? I am studying human factors at Michigan Tech.

Human factors. Human factors. What is that? mean. Yeah, it's kind of how to understand how people think and then how you can design make systems easier for people to use. Oh, okay, so are you going to be the reason like I don't lose my mind scrolling on something that I need to log into? Yeah, exactly, just like that. Thank you in advance. So it's so nice to have you with us, Eli. You're going to play the game where you tell truth from fiction.

What's the topic, Bill? I had a weird four days. A whole lot can happen in just four days. This week, we came across an incredible story that unfolded over the course of four sevenths of a week. Our panelists are going to tell you about it. Pick the one who's telling the truth, and you'll win the wait-waiter of your choice on your voicemail.

Are you ready to play? Yes, I am. Okay, first up, it's Rachel Koster. When Kimberly Whitney arrived at her four-day silent meditation retreat in the Swiss Alps, she looked forward to the time away from her phone. Until right before check-in, she received an incredibly salacious text from her friend Kathy. The text read, girl, you will not believe what happened last night, voice note incoming. But before the voice note came, her phone was taken.

Kimberly tried to clear her mind, but it was impossible. She snuck out to get her phone and listened to the voice note. It went as follows. Hey, Queen, I know you're like in Russia or something, but I ran into Martha who told me I can't anyone, but like anyway, she found out Justin secretly has 10, just when Kimberly was about to find out what Justin has 10 of, a beautiful and scary staffer

found her. What have we here? She said, like Dracula or something. Kimberly's phone was taken again. Instead of enjoying the four-day retreat, she paid $5,000 for, she spent every second trying to find her phone. When reflecting on her time to CNN, Kimberly said, God forbid a woman loves

gossip. And for those wondering, Justin secretly has 10 beta fish. Not worth it. All right. All right, a woman on a four-day-long retreat who can't stop looking for her phone from Rachel Koster. Your next story of 96 hours to remember comes from Joyelle Nicole Johnson. You can do a lot in four days. You can go to Lollapalooza, enjoy a cruise, or have sex with identical twin brothers.

That's what one woman who shall remain anonymous did. In a miraculous feat that I would describe as the MVP of her. hoe phases. Nameless, McNameless sin slept with identical twin brothers in four days and the kicker a child came from this union. Not much is knowing about these four days and how they went down, but boy, did they? All we know is that she likes one twin

more than the other. And now this iconic queen of sexual expression is in court suing to change which twin is listed at the father of the child's birth certificate. However, Lord Justice Stuart Smith, ruled this week that the paternity is not possible to determine because she slept with the brothers in such quick succession. Lord Farquois added, it would be for a lower court to determine which twins should now be granted parental responsibility. And to that I say, yes, queen, yolo, enjoy every twin family gathering going forward. Who knows? They might have a hot cousin.

All right. So a woman who spent four days getting it on with twins and can't tell who the baby daddy is from Joyal Nicole Johnson. Your last story of a quartet of crazy days comes from Peter Gross. 22-year-old Lila Robin was excited on Monday this week when she got her first job out of college at a marketing firm called B-squared. On Tuesday, Lila's second day, she walked into work and found people changing the name on the front door to Harmon Marketing after that company had bought out B-squared that very morning. Lila was a little thrown but determined to make the best out of her first work experience. On Wednesday, her third day, however, Lila showed up to discover the Harmon Marketing Building and been converted to a combination Pizza Hut Taco Bell.

But Lila pivoted, put on her best face and attended the training session on how to make crunch wrap Supremes. On Thursday, the fourth day, things really changed when Lila arrived at a workplace, transformed into a Lockheed Martin factory that made AI weapons systems. It's been a little confusing, said Lila, especially since I went to school for marketing. and not manufacturing AI weapons systems, but honestly, I'm just glad to have a job. On her way out of work Thursday night, she saw a truck unloading video games,

bad pizza, and giant mouse costumes. No word if she will be working at Chuckie Cheese tomorrow. Okay. Okay, Eli, so here are your choices. From Rachel Koster, a woman on a four-day-long silent meditation who's unable to spend a single second not looking for her phone when they hit it on her. From Peter Gross, a new graduate goes from working in marketing to pizza to weapons all in four days.

And from Joiel Nicole Johnson, a woman who spent four days getting freaky with twins is unable to tell who's the father of her child. Which one is real? I think it's the twins. All right. And to find out which story is true, we spoke with someone who had some insight into the real story. While you don't know who the father is right now, you know. for sure who the grandmother is. Who the grandmother is?

That was Dr. Nancy Siegel, a psychologist and the director of the Twin Studies Center at California State University Fullerton. Congratulations, Eli. You got it right. You earned a point for Joyelle, and you've won our prize, the voice of your choice on your voicemail.

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call it not my job. I'm always curious about an actor's origin story, and today's guest, Olivia Munn, started as a local news reporter in Oklahoma, went on to host a nerdy gaming show, then became a daily show correspondent, and can now be seen in your friends and neighbors on Apple TV Plus. Olivia Munn, welcome to Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. We said, unlike a lot of actors, you got your start as a local news anchor. How did that happen? You've made my life. That sounds a lot cooler than what I did you. This is your chance to say that that's what happened. We don't know.

We write the Wikipedia page in real time. I agree that. I'm fluent in 18 languages. So I graduated college. I majored in journalism. And I always wanted to get to L.A. And I wanted to be an actor. But my mother's an immigrant.

And so when I told her I wanted to be an actor, it was like, that's insane. We're not doing that. You're going to be a doctoral lawyer. and but then I was like, I just love storytelling. So I was like, what about a journalist? And she's like, well, what exactly is that? So I pointed to like the people on the news.

She's like, oh, okay, okay, that's okay. And so I go there and then she made me a deal. She's like, you know, I'll support you if you want to go to L.A., only if you use your degree for one year. So I worked at this NBC affiliate in Tulsa, and I did the assignment desk. And people who have done journalism or have been in a newsroom, the assignment desk is where you get all the calls. You get people calling in like with complaints or nice things, just everything. But there's also all of these police scanners, which is like the most important thing for you to do.

There's police and fire department, paramedics, and you're supposed to listen to all of them at once and be able to call it out. And I was the absolute worst person at that job. I just sitting there this close to me. I'm sitting at the desk. and I hear nothing and then you just hear a report over there and being like, there's a school bus on fire

at 83rd Street and I was like, there is? I hear somebody else going like, a truck tipped over off the highway on 49th and I'm like, really? Where? And then a year to the day

I went in and I was like, I'm leaving. I'm not going to be staying here anymore and they go, great. But, You're like, a woman who's bad at the assignment desk, leaves town. Really? Where'd you hear that?

He was at 11. What? He did. Oh my gosh. She sounds great. So you, you are famously in the show Newsroom. What was it like to do that kind of like Aaron's work in dialogue?

Can you say it while walking? Yeah. Was there a lot of like walking? Talk shots. I could. One second. My first scene that you see me, it's a big, long walk-in talk. I remember

my first take, and I speak fast normally. I just, and then you can make me nervous, and I'm like really, really fast talking. And then they cut, and the AD came over and was like, a director just wants you to just talk a little slower. And then I was like, oh, okay,

and then Sorgon pops up, and he was like, no, no, no, no, no, no. He's like, talk faster, talk faster, this is great. Yeah. Like, too slow for Aaron Sorted? Yeah, I know. That's the many sense. And I was like, and he was like, no, he's like it means like I can get her to say more things. This is great. Like he didn't realize that moment that I could talk really fast. And then I was like, am I the only person in the history

of Sorken to be told to slow down Sorkin? And he was like, yes. Well, you're, you're now on friends and neighbors. And John Hamm's character takes to robbing his friends on that show, which made me question, which of your friends or neighbors would you like to rob? Yes. Yeah. So, such a good question. You know, I'm not, when I'm in New York, there are so many more

like cool, rich, artsy people around. And I mean, he's not, he's my friend through my husband. So I just have to say that

when I say, but like, don't be like, oh, she's name dropping because he's not my friend. But I've picked at his house. And like, Steve Martin has like,

like, the best art that you can imagine And like when I go around in his place, I'm like looking, he's explaining stuff. And I'm like, I only know like a few phrases to sound smart or with art. And I go like, oh, I love the use of negative space. There's only one other thing I say. It's really interesting how they collapse three dimensions into two.

I don't know what that means. I heard somebody say it once. No, but you're an actor, so I really bought it. I mean, yeah. Like, you immediately had an answer because you have scoped out that joint. Like, Steve Martin better look out. You are right, because we were over there for the New Year's Eve party. I was like, said to my husband, like, let's go into the office.

I was like, he's got really cool stuff on journal. And he was like, okay, we go in there. But, you know, it's just like, it's like the coolest stuff. Like, it's really, he's just, like, as cool as you think he would be. Like, everything's cool and curated and this. And like the stuff is like right there And I'm like, I can just, I have that thing where I'm just like Like when I used to go to church when I was a kid

I really wanted to just get up and be like, ahah! And so like, oh, close. I'm like eating a kebab like right next to like some like ridiculously expensive painting And I just want to go like that. You want to touch it with your kebab singer? I want to say it. I want to feel what it feels like that. Something else.

It's something. You know what I should go. You can't ask me about that, and I'm just literally. Well, Olivia, mine, we've asked you here to play a game we're calling. Our Friends and Neighbors. You star in the show Your Friends and Neighbors, but what do you know about the NBC sitcom Friends and the Australian soap opera Neighbors? Answer two out of three questions correctly,

and you'll win our prize for one of our listeners, the voice of their choice on their voice. Bill, who is Olivia playing for? Melissa Hosey of Greensboro, North Carolina. All right. All right, well, we'll start with Friends. Here's your first question. The barista at Central Perk, where the friends hung out,

was Gunther, played by James Michael Tyler. Gunther was only supposed to appear in a single episode. But the producers kept him around. Why? Was it A, because Tyler was a huge Knicks fan, so the writers would ask him how to make Joey sounds like a real Knicks fan. Does it B, a network executive thought the way Tyler answered the phone was the funniest thing

in the show? Or was it C, Tyler was the only one who knew how to use the espresso machine? Just so you guys know, B and C sound a lot of light. They're saying E. I need to say banana or cat. Just so you know I believe I do believe they said cat

Nana and Kat sounds a lot of They're saying See? Yeah I feel like that's what they were saying That's right The answer is C Wasn't miming using the espresso machine

But anyway, there it was He actually knew how to use the espresso machine All right, let's just Jump over to neighbors. Here's your next question. In a 2013 episode of Neighbors, bad boy Kyle Channing became temporarily blind after staring directly at an eclipse.

What circumstance led him to look straight at the sun? Was it A, his kidnappers held his eyes open and pointed them at the sun? Was it B, a dog stole his eclipse glasses and ran away with them? Or was it C, he was trying to win $10,000 in an eclipse staring, contest. Okay, the neighbors is a soap opera, right? Yeah, yeah. I'm going to guess it's B. That's right,

it's B. How did you know? The dog stole his glasses and he just looked anyway. So, all right, back to Friends. Lisa Kudrow won an Emmy for playing Phoebe on Friends, but she always had a backup plan ready. In the same year that the show premiered, Kudrow also did what? Was it A, published a study in a neurological journal testing if left-handed people are more likely to get migraines. Was it B, completed an internship at the three Michelin Star Restaurant,

the French Laundry, or was it C, received a patent for a leash that lets you walk five dogs at once? It's A, I can say that one. It's A. That's right. It was A.

Bill, how did Olivia do on our quiz? Olivia was perfect. Three right. Olivia Munn is an action. who you can see on Apple TV pluses your friends and neighbors. Season 2 premiered this week. Olivia Munn, thanks so much for joining us. Thank you so much, fun.

Tricks out his new car in the grossest way possible. It's the listener Limerick Challenge. Call 1-88-Wait-Wait to join us on air. We'll be back in a minute with more of Wait-W-W-D-Tel-Me from NPR. From NPR and WBEC Chicago. This is Wait, Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, the NPR News Quiz. I'm Bill Curtis. We are playing this week with Rachel Custer,

Peter Gross, and Joyell, Nicole Johnson. And here again is your host at the Studio Maker Theater in Chicago, Illinois. The Yid Farsat. Thanks for us to just a minute. We're going to absolutely blow your mind with a huge curveball, our listener Limerick Challenge. If you'd like to play, give us a call at 1-888-8-8-8-8-24.

But now, panel, I have more questions from this week's news. Rachel, researchers at Cornell have announced that by manipulating low-frequency sound waves, they have found a revolutionary way to do what? Telling, by getting, um... Yeah. Can I have a hint, please? Yes.

Banana peels really respond to the sound of Al Green. Sexy music makes plants grow. Plants. And just answer. actually. Okay. I'll just tell you, the sound waves can wash fruit. So we've all been praying for a new way to wash fruit.

Obviously, a complicated process that can take up to 10 seconds. These researchers found that if you drunk the fruit in water, inject bubbles in the water, and then add sound, the fruit gets 90% cleaner than just rinsing it. and 100% cleaner than just rubbing it on your shirt. Honestly, who are we all kidding with that? You know? I feel like it's probably good to get all the minerals from the outside of fruits.

Minerals. It's good for your immune system to just be ingesting stuff all the time, even if it's not necessarily what you meant to. I'm con... You wear your shoes on the bed? No, no. No, no.

You wear your shoes on the bed. But they're okay on the couch. Right? Right. How you inject the bubbles? Like with a soda stream? No, what I'm picturing is it like if you want to get yourself extra clean in a, you know, you run a nice bubble bath and then you dunk your head underwater and you just start screaming. And then you're just so clean.

I understand why like the left and the right don't get along. The right is probably like, the left is putting music in the water. And apparently we are. Yeah, of course. Peter, Patreon is an online platform where you can support struggling artists by paying a monthly subscription for exclusive content. So it makes sense that who started a Patreon this week? I would assume like the government or Donald Trump. Here's a hint.

Don't think twice about this answer. Wait, is that a reference to a... Bob Dylan, don't think twice is all right now. Yes, Bob Dylan. Good job. This week. Struggling for CAF? Yeah, struggling artist Bob Dylan.

posted a mysterious message on Instagram promoting his new Patreon page. Fans were shocked when they heard the news, taking to message boards to be like, wait, Bob Dylan knows how to use Instagram? So for just $5 a month, Dylan is offering fans the exclusive content that the legendary songwriter knows they want from him. This is true, a 70-minute essay about Aaron Burr,

read by an AI voice. I'm sorry. I mean, right? I mean, just checking here, but can the Nobel Committee take away someone's prize? Just asking. Did he write it?

And then AI's reading it out loud? Yeah. For 70 minutes. Lid Manuel Miranda's right there. He would read that. Yeah, exactly. It is better than Bob doing it. He'd just be coughing,

abusing up over it take two hours. No, but he's always been like that. Yeah, I feel like he started out as a coughing man. All right, I'll try to make this quick. I saw Bob Dylan with some friends July 4th, 1989 at Tanglewood. And it was four. No, I was, we were at camp. We went to go see him like on a day off when we were counselored.

We were writing down the lists of songs he was playing. And we were kind of far away, but not that far away. And we didn't know the name of one of the songs. And based on what he was saying, we wrote down Chuba Chuba Chau-Saw. That's the name of the song. So he's not the clearest singer. I would like to back up Rachel. It's lightning fill in the blank, but first, it's the game where you have to listen for the rhyme.

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n'tpr.org. Hi, you're on. Wait, wait, wait, don't tell me. Hi there. This is Ivan from Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Hey, Ivan. What are you doing, Cherry Hill? Well, I'm a retired lawyer and now I'm a full-time musician. Oh, nice. All right. I didn't see that coming. What's your instrument? Clarinette and saxophone, depending on the group I'm playing in. Oh, were you in the marching band, Ivan? I was in the marching band. Me too, baby. Yeah, clarinet, marching band.

Nice. Well, I love that. Welcome to the show, Ivan. Bill Curtis is going to read you three news-related limericks with the last word or phrase missing from each. If you can fill in that last word or phrase correctly on two limericks, you're a winner. Okay, let's go. All right, here's your first limerick.

My smartphone, I'm free to. I frequently check. So from chin to my chest, I'm a wreck. Crags and deep wrinkles are scattered, not sprinkled. All my tech use is aging my... Neck. Yes. That's right.

There's a new part of your body to feel weird about your neck. According to beauty experts, the more you look at your phone, the worst your neck looks. And oh, for the love of God, just let me live. Where are you supposed to find out how to fix your neck if not looking down at your phone? Have you guys ever tried, like, laying down and reading with your hand held up? That's supposedly one of the positions you're supposed to do. That's how you lose a tooth.

Good point. All right. Here's your next limerick. Because I'm not a natural jock, I give muscles a jolt till I squawk. To lift weights, I'm unable. So I strap on some cables. My muscles will get a quick... Stock.

Shock, that's right. The latest fitness trend is a workout where you do body weight exercises, while electricity, quote, zaps your major muscle group simultaneously for 20 minutes. Ooh, I wonder if when you look in the mirror, you can see your skeleton like in a cartoon. But also, for the love of God, just let me live. The shocks are delivered via a, quote,

damp suit covered in electrodes. And by the way, you had me at damp suit. Yeah. What if we already wear a damp suit to the gym? Can we just strap some of our own homemade electrodes to it? That's terrible. Well, and if you don't want to go to the gym, you can get the same workout at home by doing one squat thrust and putting a fork in the socket. Here's your last limerick.

This car's creepy. Don't make me get in. The seats have a sunburn built in. I really abhor the hair and the pores. I am sitting on fake human. Skin. Skin. That's right.

In order to raise awareness about the importance of wearing sunscreen while driving, an Australian company re-opoldered the seats of a Toyota Camry with simulated human skin that gets sunburned and also, for some reason, has hair. So, yeah, this simulated skin burns when exposed to too much sun, which is a good reminder to take care of yourself, I guess. it doesn't matter how great your skin is. Nobody's talking to you when you drive a human skin car. Yeah.

Or if they are, they're not people that you want to talk back to. Hey, I got a car like that. Made it myself. Nice. It's nice to see another person with a skin car driving around. It was a cover-up. A guy who already had a skin car was like, oh, it's for science. I had a plan for this, actually.

Simulated. Yeah, yeah. It's fake stuff. It's all fake. Yeah, no, no, it's to warn people about skin cancer. Skin cancer, yeah. It's definitely why I made it. In a town without mailmen anymore.

Sorry. Bill, how did Ivan do? Ivan got them all right. Congratulations. Good job, Ivan. Thank you, Ivan. Thanks much. Bye, Ivan.

Now on to our final game, Lightning Fill in the Blank. Each player will have 60 seconds to answer as many fill in the blank. questions as they can, each correct answer is worth two points. Bill, can you give us the scores? Do you know, we have a three-way tie. Oh, three-way. Everybody has two.

And we'll have to fight it out to the end. All right, I'm going to randomly select Joyell to go first, so Joyell, the clock will start when I begin your first question, fill in the blank. On Wednesday, President Trump gave a primetime address to talk about the war in blank. Iran. Right. On Monday,

airport wait times dropped significantly, as many blank workers received their first paycheck in over a month. TSA. Right. On Thursday, Trump fired his Attorney General Blank. Pamela Bondi. Right.

This week, Connecticut was the only school whose men and women's teams both made it to the final four of the blank. Oh, March Madness, NCAA somebody, sports ball. Right. This week, a group of thieves in Europe who stole 12 tons of Kit Katz

were publicly praised by Blank. Donald Trump? No, by KitKat, who said the thieves had excellent taste. Nice. This week, police in Michigan are facing criticism after a woman they arrested, handcuffed, and placed in the back of a cruiser was able to blank. Oh, get out of the handcuffs? She was able to wiggle out of the half-open car window and escape without any of the cops noticing.

My girl. The woman who was being arrested for a parole violation was caught on camera, squeezing herself through the cruiser's half-open window, wiggling her way to the ground and making a run for it, as four-carriage. cops stood nearby and not a single one of them noticed. It's just one of those rare cases where I'm like, yeah, you guys should definitely delete the body cam footage because this is embarrassing. Fun fact about me, y'all, I got the only thing dainty about me is my wrists and I could get out of handcuffs. Well, yeah. Nice. Right. All criminal do. Four right. Eight more points. Tuddle to ten. And Joyal is leading.

All right. So that means, Rachel, you're up next. Yes. Fill in the blank. On Tuesday, a federal judge halted construction on Trump's proposed addition to the blank. Ballroom. Right, White House. This week, average blank prices in the U.S. rose above $4 a gallon.

Right. On Wednesday, Russia said it would continue trying to provide blank with oil despite the U.S. blockade. I'm not sure. Cuba. Cuba. Thanks to a hacker, people who called the White House. this week noticed that it came up as blank on their caller ID.

Papa John's. Epstein's Island. Following years of health setbacks, beloved Canadian diva blank announced her return to the stage. Celine beyond. Right. This week, a town in Missouri

complained of a quote, unforgettable odor after a truck spilled 40,000 pounds of blank nearby. Fish. 40,000 pounds of tofu. The spilled tofu who sat for three weeks before cleanup began, blanking the town with an unforgettable and unavoidable stink.

According to the local fire chief, quote, it was probably one of the worst smells I've ever smelled in my life, and I've smelled some nasty stuff. Okay, brag. Bill, how did Rachel do? We're stuck in a loop. Rachel got exactly the same score as Royale. Really?

Yeah, both of them have ten. Thank you. So that leaves you, Peter, fill in the blank. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court ruled that Colorado's ban on blank therapy likely violates the First Amendment. Conversion therapy. Right. On Wednesday, sources reported that private space company, Blank, had filed papers to go public. Yeah, SpaceX?

Right. On Tuesday, the FDA approved the second blank pill for weight loss. Like, was MPEC or something? The GLP-1 pill. GLP, that category, yeah, okay. This week, auctioneers estimated that one. one of Bob Marley's blanks would sell for over $30,000. Old joints.

One of his dreadlocks. Oh, yeah. Following a rollover crash, golf legend Blank pled not guilty to driving under the influence. Tiger Woods. Right. This week, a new study proof that Blank could be classified as a musical instrument. The recorder.

Sorry, second graders. It's already really real. So close. Manez. Manez is a musical instrument. According to a study by Northumbria University, mayonnaise fits the official definition of a musical instrument, something that can produce or modify sound in a controlled and intentional way.

This is revolutionary news for musicians, and marks the first time that you can get sick from listening to music that's been left out too long in the sun. All right, Bill. How did Peter do? Well, in my 12 years here, we have never had a three-way time. You guys are just equally mediocre at this game. Equally yoked.

It's really hard. Coming up, our panelists predict after his visit to the Supreme Court this week what will be the next surprising place. Donald Trump will show up. But first, let me tell you that. Wait, wait, don't tell me. It's a production of NPR and WB. Chicago in association with urgent

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Now panel, where will Trump show up next? Joyell. A gold-plated platinum-clusted prison cell. Rachel in his children's lives. And Peter Gross. Driving down Pennsylvania Avenue and a car. made of human skin. All right, if any of those show up, you're going to hear about them on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.

Doing stand-up at the Lost Church in San Francisco on April 29th, and the Muslims are coming with equally threatening friends. Hope to see you there. In the meantime, thanks to Joyelle Nicole Johnson, Peter Gross, and Rachel Koster. I'm Nguine Farsad, and we'll see you next week. This is NPR.