WWDTM: Kara Jackson

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Speaker 1 We have a great show lined up for you today. Our guest later on is going to be Cara Jackson.
She was the youth poet laureate of the United States. She is now an acclaimed singer and songwriter.

Speaker 1 And this is true.

Speaker 1 I coached her T-ball team when she was eight years old.

Speaker 1 So we will talk to her about how my guidance back then led her as far as possible from a career in sports.

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Speaker 6 Hi, this is Matthew Neal from Santee, California.

Speaker 1 Santee, California? What do you do there?

Speaker 6 I am a licensed professional fiduciary, but nobody knows what that means.

Speaker 4 So the short line is,

Speaker 6 I sell dead people's homes.

Speaker 4 Oh, that's much more pleasant. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Is that like a good line at parties?

Speaker 6 Yes,

Speaker 6 especially if you're going for like a sixth cent vibe, you know.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I understand. I understand.
Well, Matthew, welcome to the show. Let me introduce you to the panel.

Speaker 1 First, she's a writer, actress, and comedian who you can see in Vermont at the the Burlington Comedy Club. For two shows this New Year's Eve, it's Joyelle Nicole Johnson.

Speaker 4 Hello.

Speaker 4 Hi, Joel.

Speaker 1 Hello.

Speaker 1 Next, he's an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist and comedian. It's Alzo Slay.

Speaker 7 Welcome, Matthew.

Speaker 4 Hi, Alzo.

Speaker 1 And making her debut on our panel this week, she's a culture writer for Slate, host of the Scam Fluencers podcast, and author of the forthcoming essay collection, Socker Punch. Welcome, Sachi Cole.

Speaker 4 Hi,

Speaker 1 Welcome, Saatchi. Good job.

Speaker 1 Done like a fiduciary, sir. All right, Matthew, you're going to play who's Bill this time.
Bill Curtis is going to read you three quotations from this week's news.

Speaker 1 If you can correctly identify or explain just two of them, you will win our prize, any voice from our show you might choose for your voicemail. You ready to go?

Speaker 6 Peter, do children fight over their parents' inheritances?

Speaker 8 And I will unlock the loaded.

Speaker 9 Lock and loaded.

Speaker 1 All right, Matthew, here's your first quote. It was from a pivotal moment at a big political event this week.

Speaker 3 Gentlemen, the audience can't hear you.

Speaker 10 Your mics are cut.

Speaker 1 That was moderator Margaret Brennan speaking to the participants at what big event this week?

Speaker 6 That would be the vice presidential debate.

Speaker 1 The vice presidential debate, yes.

Speaker 1 Tim Walls and J.D. Vance met on the debate stage Tuesday night, and America, as always, is divided about it.
Some say the debate was boring, while others insist it it was completely irrelevant.

Speaker 1 J.D. Vance lived up to his reputation, appearing calm, sincere, and reasonable while lying all the time.

Speaker 1 Basically, evil Pete Buttigedge.

Speaker 4 Right?

Speaker 1 Right? You see it, don't you? Yeah.

Speaker 1 But Governor Wall seemed incredibly nervous, and he garbled a bunch of easy answers. It was a performance that made Democrats say, any chance we could replace this guy with Kamala Harris too?

Speaker 11 I think the moderator is right. They should have said,

Speaker 11 gentlemen, the audience can't hear you because we're all asleep.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Your mics are muted and we're going to leave them that way.

Speaker 13 Listen, I prefer it to be a little sleepy because the excitement is too much for me. Like I went to Canada, Saatchi's from Canada, y'all.

Speaker 13 And I don't know if y'all ever seen a debate in parliament up there, but they'd be yelling at each other. and they'd be like, shut up, stupid, you're dumb.

Speaker 13 And while that was fun in Canada, I don't want that to happen here.

Speaker 4 Really?

Speaker 11 I mean, they actually shook hands and spoke to each other like human beings.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I was surprised.

Speaker 12 It was strange.

Speaker 4 It made me feel unsafe. Really?

Speaker 7 Well, it was, you know, it was a throwback to the old school, not that because it was boring, it was just two white dudes.

Speaker 4 Exactly.

Speaker 1 That's true.

Speaker 1 You had no one throwing shade just with their facial expressions like Kamala can.

Speaker 1 It wasn't like J.D.

Speaker 11 Vance was like, Walls, you're just now identifying as white.

Speaker 1 I got to say that Governor Walls' performance was criticized, but it did burnish his sort of regular guy, Midwest guy credentials.

Speaker 1 Only a real hunter could have perfected that deer in the headlights look.

Speaker 4 All right.

Speaker 1 Here is your next quote.

Speaker 3 Avoid your pets' names, and no flipping to a random word in the dictionary and using that.

Speaker 1 That was the Washington Post talking about new federal guidelines that will make complicated whats a thing of the past.

Speaker 3 Ooh.

Speaker 1 Can I get a hint, Peter? Yeah, you can still use zeros for O's if you want to be fancy.

Speaker 6 Guidelines for your passwords?

Speaker 1 Yes, passwords. No more complicated passwords.
We're having to change them all the time.

Speaker 1 Or so says the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, which by strange coincidence is my password.

Speaker 15 That sounds like a rule invented by someone trying to get into my email.

Speaker 4 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I just got this email from somebody, and they say the password is going to be simple now.

Speaker 4 Yeah, so I should change everything to password. Right.

Speaker 1 Well, this came from a study of internet security over many, many years.

Speaker 1 It turns out, for example, you've all been told you have to have passwords with lots of special characters and random letters and stuff like that.

Speaker 1 No, it turns out that makes your password impossible to remember, which means you'll write it down somewhere, making them vulnerable to the cat burglars who break in and read all your post-its.

Speaker 7 That Google, doesn't Google suggest a password all the time?

Speaker 4 It does, yeah.

Speaker 11 It's like Qbert. I'm aging myself, but it's like

Speaker 11 20 different characters, uppercase, lowercase. Yeah.
And then I just say yes, but then when I go back to that page, it never pops up. Right.

Speaker 1 And then you have to like, you know, hit a cartoon character on the toe with a hammer and just type in what he said.

Speaker 4 It's so awful.

Speaker 1 No, also you won't have to change your password all the time. I mean remember if you work for a company they say now you have to change your password.
It's been two months. You don't have to do it.

Speaker 1 I think that's foolish though because I'm pretty sure the reason I have never been hacked is because I changed my password from Aragorn Rules to Aragorn Rules 1.

Speaker 11 Do you all have the same password for most of your things?

Speaker 4 Why don't you just tell us what your passwords are about everything? I'm just going to write them down

Speaker 4 on the radio. And then we'll confirm what they are.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I won't tell you my password. I will tell you my mother's maiden name.

Speaker 4 Oh, perfect.

Speaker 1 The new guidelines, as a matter of fact, the new guidelines might also do away with those security questions, like your first car or your childhood best friend, so no more forced nostalgic reveries every time you order from Grubhub.

Speaker 13 I think my password is who the hell is Aragon?

Speaker 15 Yeah.

Speaker 1 All right, Matthew, here's your last quote.

Speaker 3 I have a small piece of chicken I don't know what to do with.

Speaker 1 Those were the words of a fry cook speaking to the owner of a restaurant in Manchester, New Hampshire, 50 years ago this month on the day what incredibly popular fast food menu item was born?

Speaker 6 Fried chicken?

Speaker 1 Not fried chicken. Fried chicken goes back further than 50 years.

Speaker 6 Chicken nuggets? Yes.

Speaker 1 Specifically,

Speaker 1 the chicken tender.

Speaker 1 This year marks the 50th anniversary of the birth of the chicken tender. It's the quintessential American cuisine, deep-fried whatever we have lying around.

Speaker 12 Only 50 years?

Speaker 1 Only 50. I know, that's amazing, isn't it?

Speaker 11 I feel like that's something that black folks did thousands of years ago, and then white folks, 50 years ago, they just found it and like, we discovered this.

Speaker 11 Somebody,

Speaker 11 they Christopher Columbus, the chicken tender.

Speaker 1 Yeah, the story goes there was one part of a chicken, the tenderloin, that was completely useless.

Speaker 1 So this inventive chef breaded it and fried it, and the chicken tender was born, joining the Mount Rushmore of breaded chicken hand food, alongside the chicken finger, the chicken nugget, and the whatever your toddler wants to call it.

Speaker 1 Please, Elliot, just eat it. We're late.

Speaker 13 I used to order chicken fingers all the time at restaurants, and my mother told me, you cannot do this on dates when you get older. And I did it on the first date with my boyfriend.

Speaker 13 We've been together five and a half years.

Speaker 4 Really?

Speaker 8 Listen. Is that the key?

Speaker 13 I guess so, Chicken Fingers. He didn't want to pay for the lobster.

Speaker 12 I was about to say that.

Speaker 11 If I went on a first date with a woman and all she wanted was chicken tenders, I'd be like, she is the what?

Speaker 4 I'm like,

Speaker 7 would you like some ranch sauce, barbecue sauce?

Speaker 1 This is true. At the original restaurant, even though they invented this thing, it took a while for the chicken tender to outsell what had been everybody's favorite dish, barbecued lamb, right?

Speaker 1 So if the chicken tender had not been invented, today we'd be going to McDonald's and ordering our kids six-piece McMuttons.

Speaker 1 Bill, how did Matthew do in our quiz?

Speaker 3 Matthew came to play. He got three rights.

Speaker 4 Good. Going.
Well done.

Speaker 1 Thanks so much, Matthew. Take care.

Speaker 4 Thank you for having me.

Speaker 1 Bye-bye.

Speaker 1 Right now, Pandel, it is time for you to answer some questions about this week's news.

Speaker 1 Alzo, this week, the Washington Post tried to explain one of the most mysterious phenomena that we know of, why people fall asleep on the couch, but then cannot seem to do what?

Speaker 1 Sleep in the bed. Exactly right.
You knew exactly what I was talking about. Get up from the couch, say, oh, man, I got to go to sleep.
Go to sleep. You can't fall asleep.

Speaker 1 Because we've all found ourselves waking up from a fast sleep

Speaker 1 on the couch, in front of the TV. And you've gotten into bed to go to sleep.

Speaker 4 And you lie awake for an hour.

Speaker 1 It makes no sense.

Speaker 1 No one is like, oh man, I can't sleep if I'm not sitting upright with my head lolling onto my chest while Netflix just keeps playing episodes, right?

Speaker 1 The Post asked two sleep experts to explain the phenomenon. They offered a bunch of possible reasons.

Speaker 1 First, people who fall asleep on the couch tend to get up, brush their teeth, take out their contacts, take off their makeup, use the bathroom, and by the time they're done with all that, it's morning.

Speaker 11 But I feel like you get the best sleep in places where you're not supposed to sleep.

Speaker 4 School, church, work,

Speaker 7 all those places is the best sleep.

Speaker 11 But in your own bed, not so much.

Speaker 7 Yeah.

Speaker 1 My wife falls asleep on the couch and then I cannot get her to get up. I say, come on, let's go to bed.

Speaker 1 Because she knows once she gets into bed, she won't be able to go back to sleep. So you just.

Speaker 4 Because you're there or because of.

Speaker 4 Wait a minute.

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We are playing this week with Joy L. Nicole Johnson, Sachi Cole, and Alzo Slade.

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Speaker 17 Hi, Peter. This is Stacey Ben Dixon in Des Moines, Iowa.

Speaker 1 Hey, Stacey, what do you do there in Des Moines?

Speaker 17 I work at a corporate foundation, and I do community theater for fun and I'm a childless cat lady.

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Speaker 4 God, yes.

Speaker 4 Maintainership. Exactly.

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Bill, what is Stacy's topic?

Speaker 3 What's up with Arthur Schubarth?

Speaker 1 81-year-old Montana rancher Arthur Schubarth made the news this week for a pretty surprising reason, and it's not because he became the first ever literal jolly rancher.

Speaker 1 Our panelists are going to tell you what he did to get in the newspapers this week. Pick the one who's telling the truth about Mr.

Speaker 1 Shoebarth and you will win the weight waiter of your choice on your voicemail. Ready to go?

Speaker 1 I'm ready. First let's hear from Joyelle Nicole Johnson.

Speaker 13 Get the heck off my lawn yelled Arthur Shoebarth for the 21st time as 14 other senior citizens tried to catch up with him at the first annual running of the whippersnappers.

Speaker 13 This event was inspired by his father, Arthur Schubart Sr., who would actually yell at kids to get off his lawn while waving a shotgun.

Speaker 13 Arthur Jr., a retired high school coach and lifelong teacher, realized that kids today were both too well-mannered and also too indolent to ever come over to annoy an old man like him.

Speaker 13 So he came up with a competition which combines, quote, shenanigans, tomfoolery, and devilment.

Speaker 13 He invited local high schoolers to raise money for the right to trespass on his lawn and gather hidden prizes like his prize petunia while he attempts to shoot them with super soakers.

Speaker 18 60 kids instantly signed up.

Speaker 13 But more surprisingly, other senior citizens also wanted to sign up. So now the event has two competitions, Best Pimple Faced Brat and Most Carmudgeonly Old Coop.

Speaker 13 I want this to be my legacy, said Arthur. When I'm gone, I want people to say, that mean old man was really great.

Speaker 1 Arthur Schubart starts the first running of the whipper snappers.

Speaker 1 A competition involving shoeing kids off his lawn. Your next report on this rancher comes from Satchi Cole.

Speaker 15 Arthur Shubarth spent the better part of his life in service to the animals.

Speaker 15 Most of his career had been in husbandry, tending to the horses, the cows, and even the bees on his sprawling Wyoming ranch.

Speaker 15 But in retirement, he wanted to turn his approach to a different kind of husbandry, human husbandry.

Speaker 15 Enter the Love Ranch, an intensive 12-week matchmaking retreat where Shoebarth pairs attendees off until they find the one.

Speaker 15 Part spa and part sleepaway camp, singles work on the ranch and are matched up according to attitude and skill by Shoebarth.

Speaker 15 It's like a singles cruise, except it's landlocked and everything smells like poop.

Speaker 15 There are, surprisingly, a few overlaps between animal and human husbandry. People participants are put into small enclosures to smell and perhaps headbutt each other.

Speaker 15 Potential matches are encouraged to dine from the same troth as if it's a bonding exercise. And of course, if the studs get too frisky, there's always the cattle prod.

Speaker 15 Schubarth says he got the idea for Love Ranch after falling asleep in front of the television and waking up to hour six of a 28-hour Love Island marathon.

Speaker 1 Arthur Schubart has opened the Love Ranch, where he applies his techniques of animal husbandry to humans. Your last Mr.
Shubarth scoop comes from Alzo Slade.

Speaker 11 For many of us, creating the world's largest sheep is just a dream. A fantasy we all yearn for, but we never attempt.

Speaker 11 Until this year, when 81-year-old Montana rancher Arthur Shubarth tried to play God.

Speaker 11 Well, sheep god. The rancher cloned a bunch of different breeds to create his perfect mutant sheep.
Unfortunately, you can't just buy specialized sheep semen at the grocery store.

Speaker 12 So Shubarth and his co-conspirators smuggled sheep tissue and testicles from Kyrgyzstan.

Speaker 11 Now if you think he was creating the perfect giant sheep for cuddling, that's because you're soft. Giant sheep are created for hunting of course.

Speaker 7 The woolly sheep that you would count to sleep were too soft and weak with no horns.

Speaker 11 Plus, they shed when mounted on a trophy wall. So Shubarth set out to Frankenstein a super sheep.
The result was a 300-pound specimen that was sold to hunting facilities around the country.

Speaker 11 Now, for for all of his efforts of international ball smuggling and laboratory sheep creation,

Speaker 12 Shubarth got six months in prison.

Speaker 4 When he told his cellmate what he was in for, the cellmate replied, damn, that was a bad idea.

Speaker 12 So

Speaker 1 I can tell you this much.

Speaker 1 There really is an Arthur Shubarth in Montana. But was he in the news this week for

Speaker 1 from Joyel Nicole Johnson running the first ever running of the whipper snappers with kids invited to try to get on his lawn?

Speaker 1 From Saatchi Cole opening the Love Ranch where animal husbandry is used for people, or from Alzo Slade jailed for illegally creating a Franken sheep.

Speaker 1 Which of these was what Arthur Schubarth really did.

Speaker 17 I am going to go with my instincts and say the super sheep.

Speaker 1 The super sheep, the franken sheep, sheep, the monstrous hybrid sheep

Speaker 1 that haunts all of our dreams. You're choosing Alzo's story.
Well, to bring you the correct answer, we spoke to a reporter covering this important story.

Speaker 20 A Montana rancher got busted for creating giant hybrid sheep to sell hunting hunters for huge amounts of money.

Speaker 1 That was Justine McDaniel, a reporter for the Washington Post, who reported on the real story of good old 81-year-old Arthur Schubarth and his freaky hybrid monster sheep.

Speaker 1 So you won, you were correct. Alzo, in fact, had the real story.
Congratulations. Alzo gets a point for telling the truth.

Speaker 1 And you have won our prize, the voice of anyone you might choose in your voicemail. Congratulations, Stacey.

Speaker 17 I'm so excited. Thank you.

Speaker 4 I'm a super fan. Oh, thank you.

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Speaker 1 And now the game we call Not My Job.

Speaker 1 Kara Jackson grew up not far from here in Oak Park, Illinois, where she started writing poetry in high school, something she became so good at, she was named first Chicago's and then America's youth poet laureate.

Speaker 1 She then started putting her words to her own music and playing at festivals from Pitchfork to Glastonbury. Kara Jackson, welcome to Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.

Speaker 4 Thanks for having me.

Speaker 1 Now,

Speaker 1 I have left off what I think of as one of the most important items on your resume, which is that you were one of the starting players on the Angels, an eight-year-old girls' t-ball team in Oak Park,

Speaker 1 which I coached.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 1 So,

Speaker 1 a little nervous about the answer. What do you remember about

Speaker 1 Coach Sagal on the Angels and being on the Angels?

Speaker 4 You know, not a lot.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 4 It's probably not good because I'm not that old. But,

Speaker 4 you know,

Speaker 8 I still actually have my Angels shirt, like the uniform. I can't fit it anymore, but I still have it.

Speaker 1 So my memory of it was like, you guys were so amazing at coming up with like great cheers for any given situation, and you still didn't know which base to run to when you hit the ball.

Speaker 4 I feel like I did, though.

Speaker 8 I was like one of the good.

Speaker 4 You were.

Speaker 1 I didn't want to cache it in the other players.

Speaker 8 No shade. I guess we have all healed from that moment, I hope.

Speaker 12 But I was pretty good at t-ball.

Speaker 8 I've got to say, I was just really tall. Also, like, I remember it was me and Emma Smith.

Speaker 4 Yes.

Speaker 8 And we were just the tallest people on the team.

Speaker 12 So it was like, obviously, I can hit the ball.

Speaker 8 I feel like some people struggled. Like, there were some people where it was like they were shorter, so they had to, like, you know, lower the T.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 8 But the taller kids, they would make it bigger, and everyone would be like, back up.

Speaker 4 Like.

Speaker 1 There really is no better feeling, I imagine, than coming to bat with the T and all the other.

Speaker 4 I think I'm still chasing that high, honestly.

Speaker 4 Right?

Speaker 1 So you moved from T-ball to poetry and were named the Chicago Youth Poet Laureate while you were still in high school. Do you remember any of those early poems?

Speaker 8 Well, unfortunately for me,

Speaker 8 a part of the Youth Poet Laureate program in the city, every poet laureate is responsible for writing a chat book, so like a mini book of poems.

Speaker 8 So I have, you know, a living archive

Speaker 4 of all the poems I wrote at that time. Right.

Speaker 1 Do you ever go back and look at them? And how do you feel about them?

Speaker 4 I think it's been a minute since since I've looked back at them but I think I have mixed emotions.

Speaker 8 Sometimes it's cringy just because I think that having a living record of things you thought as a teenager would just be cringy probably for everyone here.

Speaker 4 It's all true. It gets very true.
It's chance.

Speaker 8 You know it's also like a chance for me to, I'm trying to do better the older I get to also,

Speaker 8 you know, treat my younger self with care and you know appreciate what I was doing at that age because I think you take for granted a lot.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 1 My advice would be: go to that young girl you once were and give her a snack and a juice box, because it always worked.

Speaker 8 After the game snacks.

Speaker 1 Oh, the best part of T-Ball. Oh, good.

Speaker 4 I can see we're never going to get off that topic.

Speaker 1 You then became, and I remember hearing about this and being very impressed, the national youth poet laureate. Right.
And what kind of, I mean, that sounds like a serious post.

Speaker 1 What kind of obligations, duties, ceremonial, or otherwise come with it?

Speaker 8 Yeah, so when I became the youth poet laureate, the program was still relatively new.

Speaker 8 I was the third one, so I think the program was still kind of establishing itself in terms of what it entails as a role. I think it was still kind of, you know, becoming a real tangible thing.

Speaker 4 Yeah, sure.

Speaker 11 So you were the third one, and there have been plenty since then.

Speaker 7 Yeah. So do you look at the...

Speaker 11 the new ones like, man, y'all got it good. You know, like how

Speaker 8 college athletes are getting paid a lot more now um i don't know i really think i only look at the new ones with admiration because they're younger than me so i just look at people who are younger than me with admiration but um either way i think i would never trade places with someone who's like 19 at this age like no matter what i'm going through yeah

Speaker 4 but

Speaker 4 you're 25 right now yeah okay yeah almost 25 in a couple weeks you're you're not 25 yet

Speaker 4 you're at that age

Speaker 7 She's like, yeah, back in the day when I was just 19.

Speaker 4 24 and a half, man.

Speaker 1 Let's talk about your music.

Speaker 1 So you have a song

Speaker 1 about the various losers you've dated. It's called Head Blues.

Speaker 1 It's pretty scathing, and I'm wondering, what has that done for your social life?

Speaker 8 I don't know, because I think that I am really associated with with like-minded people, so I think it maybe only enhanced it.

Speaker 8 I feel like for people who needed that song, they really, you know, leaned into it. And it's been fun to travel and perform that one in front of many different audiences.
I had to perform at the U.S.

Speaker 8 Ambassador in London,

Speaker 8 and I did that song for the U.S. Ambassador.

Speaker 4 And she was really cool with it.

Speaker 8 I feel like she, you know, may be related, possibly.

Speaker 1 And the response was positive?

Speaker 4 Yeah. Yeah.
Well, they are.

Speaker 4 The ambassador was like, right on, right on, girl.

Speaker 4 Say it, girl. Get up, close.

Speaker 1 Well, Kara Jackson, it is great to talk to you. And we've invited you here to play a game we're calling.

Speaker 3 It's a yes, fun party.

Speaker 1 So you wrote a song called No Fun Party. Yes.
So based on that, we thought we'd ask you about some really fun parties. Answer two to three questions correctly.

Speaker 1 You'll win our prize for for one of our listeners, the voice of anyone they might choose for their voicemail. Bill, who is Kara Jackson playing for?

Speaker 3 Baureen Tarr of Venatic, Massachusetts. There you are.

Speaker 4 All right, ready to apply?

Speaker 8 Okay, yeah.

Speaker 8 Sorry in advance, whoever I'm playing for.

Speaker 4 No,

Speaker 1 I just want you to conjure up the confidence of being a t-ball player and watching the

Speaker 4 fielders

Speaker 1 back up because they can see you getting ready to swing. Here we go.

Speaker 1 First question: the former executive of a company called Tycho was sent to prison back in the day for stealing money from his company to fund his lavish lifestyle, including a 2002 birthday party for his wife, which included which of these?

Speaker 1 A, each guest getting a new Mercedes-Benz in a giant bag as they departed. B, an ice sculpture of Michelangelo's David that dispensed vodka from his little David.

Speaker 1 Or C, a musical background of instrumental versions of U2 songs played during the the cocktail hour by U2.

Speaker 4 Oh my gosh, I don't know. All of that sounds so outrageous.

Speaker 4 But I feel like

Speaker 4 maybe it's B?

Speaker 4 It is B.

Speaker 1 So if you think about it, it's sort of like a spigot, right? The eye sculpture. Anyway.

Speaker 1 Here is your next question. A British woman named Ivy Smalls celebrated her 105th birthday back in 2016.
She only had one request for the party. What was it?

Speaker 1 A, life-size blown-up photos of all her enemies that she had outlived.

Speaker 4 That's what I would want. That's my kind.

Speaker 4 That's what I would want.

Speaker 1 B, hunky firefighters with tattoos. Or C, pot brownies.

Speaker 4 Hmm.

Speaker 8 Even though maybe the last one is the most practical, the first one speaks speaks to me the most, so I'm going to go with A?

Speaker 1 Life-size photos of all the people she had outlived. No, it was actually hunky firefighters with tattoos.
Really?

Speaker 4 Yeah, that's what she wanted.

Speaker 4 That's fair.

Speaker 8 I guess I couldn't really put myself into like her perspective.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and that's what she says. I would like hunky firefighters with tattoos, please.
And so the local fire brigade was like, Will helps.

Speaker 1 They even raised their ladder so they entered the party by climbing up through the second floor window of her old folks' home.

Speaker 4 She was very happy.

Speaker 1 All right, here's your last question. Get this right, you win.
Colleges are known, of course, for huge parties.

Speaker 1 And in 2017, one house party at a college in Maryland became such a rager that what happened?

Speaker 3 A,

Speaker 1 NBA scouts showed up just to recruit from the beer pong games.

Speaker 1 B, when the cops came to bust up their party, their breathalyzers all went off just from the air inside the house.

Speaker 1 Or C, the party became so big it could be seen from space.

Speaker 12 Yeah, I'm gonna go with be sorry in advance to this

Speaker 8 person.

Speaker 4 You're right again.

Speaker 4 Come get me out of the foul. You're right, you're right.

Speaker 1 The air was so thick with alcohol that the breathalyzers on their belts started beeping.

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We are playing this week with Alzo Slade, Saatchi Cole, and Joyelle Nicole Judson.

Speaker 3 And here again is your host at the Studemaker Theater in Chicago, Illinois, Peter Sagal.

Speaker 18 Thank you, Bill.

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Speaker 1 Right now, panel, some more questions for you from the week's news.

Speaker 1 Saatchi, a new psychology study finds that if you want to preserve your reputation as a decent person while still talking about people behind their back, you should make sure you sprinkle your gossip with what?

Speaker 15 I've never gossiped in my life, so this one's really tough for me.

Speaker 11 I don't know, backstage you were saying something about Peter.

Speaker 4 That was between us.

Speaker 15 You have to sprinkle your gossip with compliments.

Speaker 1 You're close, but remember, the person is not there. Oh, okay.
So it's all about, you're speaking about them behind their back.

Speaker 1 It's all about presenting a certain thing, a certain attitude to the person you're gossiping with. So it's like, OMG, did you hear what Jeff did? I hope he's okay.
You're telling people to...

Speaker 15 Oh, you have to sprinkle it with concern.

Speaker 1 Exactly. Concern.

Speaker 4 Oh, I've been doing it wrong. Exactly.
Yeah, I'm going straight for the neck. Exactly.
I'm out of there. Exactly.

Speaker 13 I've been doing that naturally.

Speaker 4 Really?

Speaker 1 So maybe instead of me explaining the study, you can just give us an example.

Speaker 13 Yeah, because you'll be like, yeah, because you know, she was out there and then that baby wasn't hers, but also that girl's blood pressure is high.

Speaker 4 You know, that's all. Yeah.

Speaker 4 And you're worried about it. You're worried about her blood pressure.

Speaker 4 I've really been doing this wrong.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 4 Let's talk about her blood pressure.

Speaker 1 So this is a real example from the study. Instead of saying quote, Kate is a drunken moron.

Speaker 1 Science, science, say, quote, Kate got really drunk over the weekend. I hope she's okay.

Speaker 12 That's pretty smooth, though.

Speaker 4 Yeah, yeah, that's pretty good. It's pretty smooth.
Yeah, it's really important.

Speaker 1 Joyelle, in a video meant to appeal to female voters, a GOP candidate in Virginia, running for Congress, posed with a wife and three daughters. One problem, though, what?

Speaker 4 Oh, my God.

Speaker 18 Alzheimer, do you know the answer?

Speaker 4 I do know the answer.

Speaker 18 It's pretty good.

Speaker 13 Did you have a fake family?

Speaker 1 Yes, they were not his wife and children.

Speaker 4 They were somebody else's.

Speaker 1 Somebody else's wife and children.

Speaker 4 Unexplained.

Speaker 14 Whose wife and children?

Speaker 1 He doesn't have a wife or children, so he borrowed some. He's trying to, this man is named Derek Anderson.
He's trying to appeal to voters as a family man, right?

Speaker 1 So his campaign video ends with a candidate standing with this lovely woman and three kids, who are, in fact, the family of a close friend of his and they all have smiles that say how long do we have to keep smiling

Speaker 1 and what makes all this even weirder he's not married but he has a fiancé

Speaker 1 and he didn't ask her to pose with him for his campaign ad.

Speaker 7 Well that would have been weird to have two wives in the format.

Speaker 4 Yeah I guess so yeah.

Speaker 1 Depending on the well not in some districts

Speaker 4 I think it's illegal yeah.

Speaker 1 Joyelle, the New York City Council approved a landmark bill this week, finally making birth control free for whom?

Speaker 13 Mayor Eric Adam.

Speaker 4 You should be so lying. I wouldn't put a biome.

Speaker 4 Please.

Speaker 4 Give me a hand.

Speaker 1 It's hard. I mean, the reason you're not thinking of this is because you normally don't think of this.
There are no love scenes in Ratatwee, for example.

Speaker 4 Oh. It is!

Speaker 4 Rats! Rats! Well, that's good.

Speaker 1 Rats are getting birth control for free. New York City, in their effort to eliminate rats and draw attention away from whatever Eric Adams just did,

Speaker 1 will be seeding the streets and gutters with pellets of rat birth control coated in a sweet substance to make it more tempting for the rats to eat. So rat birth control, delicious candy.

Speaker 1 But for humans, it's like, here's an IUD, it's made of knives.

Speaker 15 I think it's good that the rats have more access to birth control than I do.

Speaker 4 I think that makes sense.

Speaker 4 I feel good about that.

Speaker 11 The problem is, it's not consensual, though.

Speaker 4 What do you mean?

Speaker 11 It's, yeah.

Speaker 11 They don't know that they're taking birth control.

Speaker 1 Oh. So you're concerned about, like, what, HIPAA for rats? Yeah, man.

Speaker 1 This isn't fair? It's not fair for rats.

Speaker 11 Because what if there's a female rat that wants to have children and she thinks she's eating candy?

Speaker 13 She's a childless rat lady?

Speaker 1 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, Carla, leave a message at 1888-WAIT-WAIT.

Speaker 1 That's 1-888-924-8924. You can catch us most weeks here at the Studa Baker Theater in Chicago, and we'll be at the Fox Theater in Detroit, Michigan on November 14th.

Speaker 1 And this week, on our sister podcast, How to Do Everything, Mike and Ian help me fulfill a lifelong dream, the one that requires me to dress up as a sausage. Hi, Iron.
Wait, wait, don't tell me.

Speaker 21 Hi, this is Braun. I'm from Chicago.

Speaker 4 Hey, hey, Chicago.

Speaker 1 Hey, what do you do here in the greatest city in the world?

Speaker 21 I'm a sign language interpreter.

Speaker 1 You are? That's great. That's often.
Who do you do that work for?

Speaker 21 All over the city. I do like freelance, so basically I get emails and I show up to where they tell me to go.

Speaker 1 I understand. And what is the best kind of event to interpret in sign language?

Speaker 21 Well, my first degree is in theater tech, so doing like... like theater stuff is really like where I have the most fun.
Yeah.

Speaker 21 But also just anything where like the job goes smoothly smoothly and everybody leaves happy.

Speaker 4 There you are.

Speaker 1 Well, welcome to the show, Bron. Now, Bill Curtis is going to read you three news-related limericks with a last word or phrase missing from each.

Speaker 1 If you can fill in that last word or phrase correctly in two of the limericks, you'll be a winner. You ready to go? Sure.
Here's your first limerick.

Speaker 3 Here's a camouflaged Ford zipping past. Watch.

Speaker 3 I hope Bigfoot is sipping his last scotch. With that truck's overhaul, it's the cryptid's last call.
It's a Bronco designed to hunt

Speaker 1 Sasquatch? Sasquatch, yes. There is a special edition Ford Bronco designed especially for dedicated hunters of Bigfoot.
It's called the Sasquatch Searcher.

Speaker 1 It comes with everything you might need for your next Cryptid hunting expedition, including a camo exterior, roof-mounted lights, and of course a really crappy camera so you can show your friends a blurry picture and say, See, I told you.

Speaker 1 I don't like this. You don't, why not?

Speaker 11 It's going to set a precedent.

Speaker 4 We're going to have Elvis,

Speaker 1 Tupac searchers.

Speaker 11 All these car companies are going to come out with cars searching for dead people.

Speaker 1 You're going to have like cars for like, you know, alien invader believers with no roof so they can just be beamed straight at you. Exactly.
All right, here is your next limerick.

Speaker 3 Since bubbles affect Madame's brain, what we'll do to Grand Cruz, a damned shame. It's still a high price, but without any vice, we're removing the booze from

Speaker 8 champagne?

Speaker 1 Yes, champagne. There's a brand new $119 alcohol-free champagne on the market, which is great news for people who love spending money but hate having fun.

Speaker 1 The founders say they created French Bloom non-alcoholic champagne because there are no quote alcohol-free festive and sophisticated beverage options. Okay, root beer literally exists.

Speaker 11 I don't drink, so I don't even know what makes champagne champagne.

Speaker 4 Is it just the

Speaker 4 region? The region. The region of the region, yeah, the region of main.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, it's, you know.

Speaker 15 And also that it's gross.

Speaker 14 Have you got champagne bubbly?

Speaker 1 Yes, champagne is bubbly.

Speaker 12 That's just soda.

Speaker 4 Well, that's the gross part.

Speaker 13 It's wine soda.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's champagne, it's bubbly. It's sparkling wine, as they say.

Speaker 11 It sounds raggedy to me.

Speaker 4 Okay.

Speaker 1 Here is your last limerick.

Speaker 3 At the store, I'm about to explode, because this salad is not up to code. The mixed greens awoke and let out a low croak.
Yes, my salad included a

Speaker 4 toad? A toad, yes.

Speaker 1 A woman in England was surprised when she found a live toad in her prepackaged salad.

Speaker 1 That's what happens when you don't read the label.

Speaker 1 It clearly said, allergen alert manufactured in a facility overrun with with toads.

Speaker 13 Are toads tiny?

Speaker 1 Toads are not necessarily tiny, nor do we know how big this toad was.

Speaker 11 I feel like it don't matter if it's live in my salad, that's a problem.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 4 It's just bonus problems.

Speaker 1 Yeah, if somebody says, imagine, Jayal, if someone screamed, I said, oh my god, there's a toad in my salad, your first question would not be, how big?

Speaker 12 But how big was it?

Speaker 1 Bill, how did Bron do in our quiz?

Speaker 3 Bron is the complete limerick player. Boy, 3-0, quick to it.

Speaker 4 Well done.

Speaker 4 Thank you.

Speaker 1 Thank you, Bron. Thanks for playing.

Speaker 13 Take care.

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Speaker 1 Now on to our final final game, Lightning Fill in the Blank. Each of our players will have 60 seconds in which to answer as many fill-in-the-blank questions as they can.

Speaker 1 Each correct answer now worth two points. Bill, can you give us the scores?

Speaker 3 Toyell and Alzo each have three. Saatchi has two.

Speaker 4 Okay.

Speaker 1 Saatchi, that means you're up first, fill in the blank. As part of her upcoming book tour, CNN says that Blank asked to be paid $250,000 for an interview.

Speaker 4 Melania.

Speaker 1 Yes. This week, over 100 additional people claimed they'd pursue legal action against imprisoned hip-hop mogul Blank.

Speaker 4 Diddy.

Speaker 1 Yes. Known as as Sean Combs as well.
This week, a possible human case of blank flu was reported in Florida. Bird flu? Right.

Speaker 1 This week, a driver in Washington was ticketed for unauthorized use of the carpool lane when he blanked.

Speaker 4 When he merged? I don't know.

Speaker 1 When he dressed up his passenger seat in a plaid shirt,

Speaker 4 tried to blink.

Speaker 18 I can't believe I didn't think of that.

Speaker 1 According to new estimates, Twitter was worth 80% less than it was worth when Blank purchased it.

Speaker 13 When Elon purchased it.

Speaker 1 Yes, for several hours on Monday, over 100,000 Blank customers lost sell service.

Speaker 1 ATT? No, this time it was Verizon. This week a court in Taiwan sided with a son who had sued his mom after she blanked.

Speaker 1 After she died? No, after she threw his comic books away.

Speaker 4 The woman's

Speaker 1 20-year-old son was still living at home and was outraged when he found out his mom had thrown out his entire collection of Attack on Titan comic books.

Speaker 1 The court ordered the mother to pay $160 to the son to replace the comic books, though they did throw out the additional charge of, and we're all out of Doritos.

Speaker 4 Oh, my goodness. And get your ass out the house.
Basically.

Speaker 1 Bill, how did Saatchi do in her first quiz?

Speaker 3 She did well. For right.
Eight more points, total of 10. That's a lead right now.

Speaker 4 Thanks.

Speaker 4 All right. That's a lead.

Speaker 1 I'm going to pick Alzo to go next. Here we go, Alzo.
Fill in the blank. After reaching a tentative wage agreement with employers on Thursday, U.S.
Blank workers agreed to suspend their strike.

Speaker 4 Longshoremen.

Speaker 1 Yeah, port workers. On Tuesday, former President Blank celebrated his 100th birthday.

Speaker 12 Habitat for Humanities President.

Speaker 4 It is.

Speaker 1 In honor of him, I'll give it to you. Jimmy Carter, according to Nielsen estimates, over 43 million people watched the blank on Tuesday.

Speaker 7 The debate. Vice President's debate.

Speaker 1 On Tuesday, Claudia Scheinbaum was sworn in as the first female president of Blank.

Speaker 1 Mexico. Wright.
This week, a Florida woman was released from prison after a test confirmed that the meth residue police found in her car turned out to be blank.

Speaker 4 Sugar.

Speaker 1 Dried spaghettios.

Speaker 4 On Tuesday.

Speaker 4 What?

Speaker 1 That's what it was. It was on a spoon.
On Tuesday, the doctor charged in connection with friend star Blank's death pled guilty to distributing ketamine.

Speaker 7 Matthew Perry.

Speaker 1 That's the guy. This week, the New York Times published an explosive report that found many zoo pandas were blank.

Speaker 11 Many zoo pandas

Speaker 2 were disguised as dogs.

Speaker 4 Right.

Speaker 1 Although it's the other way around, I'll give it to you.

Speaker 4 They were dogs disguised as pandas. Yeah.

Speaker 1 The Times says more and more zoos and circuses around the world have been painting dogs and passing them off as pandas.

Speaker 13 Oh, the fluffy, yeah,

Speaker 1 the fluffy dogs. Maybe this is on us.
We probably should have known something was up when the pandas at the zoo got so excited to see us, they wouldn't stop humping our legs.

Speaker 4 Bill, how did Alzo do in our quiz? Very well.

Speaker 3 Six right, 12 more points, 15 is the total that leads.

Speaker 1 So Bill, how many does Joel need to win?

Speaker 3 Six to tie and seven to win.

Speaker 4 Here we go, Joelle.

Speaker 18 You know how I do.

Speaker 4 I'm rooting for you.

Speaker 4 Here we go.

Speaker 1 This is for the game. On Wednesday, new documents related to Blank's January 6th case were unsealed.

Speaker 13 Oh, Charles?

Speaker 1 Yes. On Monday, controversial baseball legend Blank passed away at the age of 83.

Speaker 13 A controversial baseball player? Yes.

Speaker 13 I don't know. Not Duke Mutombo.

Speaker 1 Not, no. No.
No, this was Pete Rose.

Speaker 4 Oh, I've heard of him.

Speaker 1 Yes, this week, millions were left without power after Hurricane Blank swept across the southeast.

Speaker 4 Helene.

Speaker 1 Yes, according to a new report, parents of over 125,000 kindergartners filed for blank exemptions last year. Tax? No vaccine exemptions.

Speaker 4 What?

Speaker 1 This week, a man in Oklahoma was charged with stealing a car so he could get to court in time for his trial for blanking.

Speaker 12 Oh, Jesus.

Speaker 13 Cooking method of spaghetti spoon.

Speaker 1 No, for stealing another car. Thanks to melting glaciers, it was announced that the alpine border between Italy and Blank would soon have to be redrawn.

Speaker 4 Switzerland? Right.

Speaker 4 I know geography.

Speaker 1 On Thursday, NASA bumped two astronauts from the Falcon 9 rocket to make room for those still stuck on the Blank.

Speaker 18 International Space. Yes, Joe.

Speaker 13 Oh, some of y'all be listening.

Speaker 1 This week, hundreds of tourists flock to a small town in Colorado to witness the yearly blank.

Speaker 13 Running of the whipper staffers.

Speaker 1 No, the yearly,

Speaker 1 the yearly tarantula mating season.

Speaker 4 Oh,

Speaker 1 yeah. Tourists from across the country travel to La Junta, Colorado, every year to witness the beauty of tarantula mating season.
Why not?

Speaker 1 It combines everybody's two favorite things, sex and spiders the size of your hand.

Speaker 4 That would terrify me.

Speaker 1 Bill, did Joyelle do well enough to win?

Speaker 3 She got four rights, eight more points. Her 11 means she's number two, and the winner is Alzheimer's.

Speaker 1 In just a minute, we're going to ask our panelists to predict after chicken tenders, what food innovation will we be celebrating the invention of 50 years from today.

Speaker 1 But first, let me tell you that Wait, Wait, Don't Tell me is a production of NPR and WBEZ Chicago in association with Urgent Hair Car Productions Doug Berman, benevolent overlord.

Speaker 1 Philip Godeker writes our limericks. Our public address announcer is Paul Friedman.
Our tour manager is Shane and Donald. Thanks to the staff and crew at the Studa Baker Theater.

Speaker 1 BJ Liberman composed our theme. Our program is produced by Jennifer Mills, Miles Robos, and Lillian King.
Special thanks to Monica Hickey and Blythe Robertson. Peter Gwynn is our Peter Laureate.

Speaker 1 Our vibe curator is Emma Choi. Technical Direction is from Lorna White.
Our CFO is Colin Miller.

Speaker 1 Our production manager is Robert Newhouse, our senior producer is Ian Chillog, and the executive producer of Wait Wait Don't Tell Me is Mike Danforth.

Speaker 1 Now, panel, what food food innovation will we be celebrating 50 years from now? Satchi Cole.

Speaker 15 I think it's going to be those chips that are so spicy they're sending people to the hospital.

Speaker 15 And I think we'll do it as an in-memorial for whoever didn't learn their lesson.

Speaker 1 Joyelle Nicole Johnson.

Speaker 18 Ozepic cut oats.

Speaker 1 The more you eat, the less you want. Alzo Slade.

Speaker 11 To get another celebration, the chicken tender is just going to make us call itself the boneless chicken wing.

Speaker 3 Well, if any of that happens panel, we'll ask you about it on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.

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And thanks to all of you for listening.

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