WWDTM: Pedro Pascal

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Speaker 15 We have a great show for you today with special guest star of the Fantastic Four, Pedro Pascal.

Speaker 11 Because this

Speaker 19 because this was the only show he hasn't starred in this year.

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Speaker 26 Hi, this is Caroline from Atlanta, Georgia.

Speaker 28 Nice to hear from you, Caroline.

Speaker 29 How is Atlanta, Georgia this summer?

Speaker 26 Well, not as hot as it's been this past week, but very hot otherwise.

Speaker 8 Sounds like you're delirious.

Speaker 32 Yeah, probably.

Speaker 32 Dehydrated.

Speaker 7 Caroline, let me introduce you to our panel.

Speaker 24 First up, a comedian bringing stand-up to the runway at his Paris Fashion Week Comedy Festival, September 29th to October 5th.

Speaker 36 Say bonjour to Brian Babylon.

Speaker 37 Bonjour.

Speaker 38 Bonjour.

Speaker 39 Next, a comedian and host of the podcast Fake the Nation.

Speaker 25 You can also read her regular column, Hemming and Hawing in the progressive magazine, Nagin Frasad.

Speaker 25 Hey there!

Speaker 25 Hi, Nagine.

Speaker 39 And a humorist whose sub stack is Take Another Piece of My Heart Now, it's Roy Blunt Jr.

Speaker 42 It's good to be here amongst all you folks.

Speaker 19 Welcome to the show, Caroline.

Speaker 40 You're going to play Who's Bill this Time.

Speaker 24 Bill Curtis is going to read you three quotes from this week's news.

Speaker 15 If you can correctly identify or explain two of them, you'll win our prize.

Speaker 24 Any voice from our show, you choose on your voicemail.

Speaker 36 Are you ready?

Speaker 45 Yes.

Speaker 46 Here's your first question.

Speaker 3 We Democrats are fighting back.

Speaker 4 We're leaving.

Speaker 35 That was Democratic Congressman James Tallarico as he fled what state to avoid a redistricting vote?

Speaker 43 Texas. That's right, Texas.

Speaker 48 This week, 50-some Democrats fled Texas and not just for the normal reasons.

Speaker 34 Texas was about to vote to redraw voting maps to give Republicans more House seats, so to prevent the vote from happening, Democrats left the state.

Speaker 35 It's incredibly on brand that the one time Democrats show courage, it still involves running away.

Speaker 5 Are they all staying in one Airbnb?

Speaker 47 I can't wait to pitch my new reality show, The Opposite of Love Island.

Speaker 13 How does it work?

Speaker 7 Like, if they're just gone forever?

Speaker 52 Or like,

Speaker 52 they have to come home at some point?

Speaker 45 It was a two-week session, so they're taking, they're not even taking a full French vacation. They're just doing a two-week session and then coming back the Airbnb.

Speaker 28 Oh, and then the shop will be closed.

Speaker 45 The other fun thing about it is they're getting fined $500 a day that they don't show up to work.

Speaker 45 But the other fun thing about that is they only get paid $600 a month because I guess Texas is really broke, or I don't know what is going on.

Speaker 53 Well, there might be some

Speaker 53 other way for them to make money.

Speaker 53 Yeah. Other than pay, good money.

Speaker 45 Oh, are they like, are they going to other states so they can be strippers and just get some extra cash?

Speaker 12 How does that?

Speaker 28 No, I've seen them.

Speaker 32 That is unanswered.

Speaker 27 All right, Caroline, your next quote is someone complaining about a new trend.

Speaker 3 I've hopped up on painkillers, I'm delirious, and they're like, hey, how'd you like your stay?

Speaker 21 That was a patient talking about the fact that his ear surgeon, like everyone else right now, is asking for a five-star what?

Speaker 45 Yelp review?

Speaker 33 Yes, a rating or a feedback.

Speaker 43 Exactly.

Speaker 41 Good job.

Speaker 7 Everyone from takeout joints to surgeons are asking you to rate the service you received as soon as you walk out the door.

Speaker 43 But I got to tell you, that door, five stars.

Speaker 18 According to the Washington Post, people across the country are experiencing customer feedback survey fatigue, which I'm tired just saying it.

Speaker 6 But everybody does want a review.

Speaker 18 If you stay at an Airbnb, they're always begging you for a review.

Speaker 4 Do you review things?

Speaker 45 Literally never.

Speaker 40 Never.

Speaker 45 The only time I review things when there's like a really cute mom-and-pop shop in my neighborhood and I'm worried about their like ongoing economic survival.

Speaker 45 So I will throw in a review at wherever just to like in that sense.

Speaker 45 And I realized like I've never, I don't like do the Uber reviews or the Lyft reviews. And so I might have a really low score and that might explain parts of my life.

Speaker 8 I tend to look at reviews. Like if I'm in a new town and I'm looking for something to eat or a coffee shop, I'll look at the review real quick.

Speaker 41 And

Speaker 58 as much as I want to trust them, I do in the middle of it think, oh, this person, there's something wrong with them.

Speaker 40 Oh, yeah, you can.

Speaker 59 They're spending three paragraphs on the oat milk.

Speaker 43 Why am I listening to them?

Speaker 56 But if they give it four stars, I'll go.

Speaker 60 But

Speaker 60 you can see a Karen in the words.

Speaker 61 You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 63 You can see like a horrible person.

Speaker 36 Yeah, you know.

Speaker 28 And it's funny.

Speaker 43 You can tell when they're the problem.

Speaker 61 You can tell when they're the problem.

Speaker 53 I don't want to get Karen into it, but reviews have not worked in my marriage. We try to.

Speaker 45 Do you guys have like an anonymous box in your bedroom or something?

Speaker 55 Too personal.

Speaker 42 I know who it is.

Speaker 28 All right, Caroline.

Speaker 38 your last quote is from a Danish zoo spokesperson.

Speaker 3 When keeping carnivores, it is necessary to provide them with meat.

Speaker 6 That was someone nonchalantly asking that you donate your what to the zoo.

Speaker 4 Organ.

Speaker 13 I really wish that was the answer.

Speaker 40 I really wish that was the answer.

Speaker 21 I'll give you a clue if you'd like one, Caroline.

Speaker 37 Yes, please.

Speaker 17 Here's your hint.

Speaker 35 Honey, where's Fluffy?

Speaker 12 That's even worse.

Speaker 54 Your pets.

Speaker 11 Yes, that's right, your pets.

Speaker 13 But you got it right, though.

Speaker 5 Stay with me, guys.

Speaker 42 But not young pets.

Speaker 24 A zoo in Denmark is asking people to donate pets as food for the zoo animals.

Speaker 38 Sure, it's a little dark, but you haven't lived until you've seen a Bengal tiger burp up a rhinestone dog collar.

Speaker 45 But wait, this zoo is in Denmark?

Speaker 40 Denmark, yeah.

Speaker 45 Because don't they make Ozempic in Denmark?

Speaker 45 My idea for the zoo, and I'm sure they're listening, is that they put the animals on Ozempic and then they won't need to eat at all.

Speaker 57 Yeah, but then they get that weird face.

Speaker 4 That beat.

Speaker 37 Oh, cows. Yeah, you do get Ozempic face.
That's right.

Speaker 32 You get Ozempic face.

Speaker 24 Well, in response to criticism, a representative from the zoo said it gives the pet a, quote, quieter death than actually going to the slaughterhouse.

Speaker 37 Slaughterhouse.

Speaker 47 That's how Denmark euthanizes their pets?

Speaker 66 Yeah, this is not adding up.

Speaker 12 Papa.

Speaker 59 I think Denmark's got some secrets.

Speaker 53 If you've never seen a seal balance a puppy on his nose.

Speaker 68 Bill, how did Caroline do?

Speaker 4 Caroline knows how to play the game.

Speaker 3 She did a perfect score.

Speaker 36 Good job. Thanks for playing, Caroline.

Speaker 28 You did a great job.

Speaker 26 Thank you.

Speaker 31 Hey, you, we're at the zoo. There is lots to see and do.
Animals from near and far, never

Speaker 31 at the zoo.

Speaker 14 Right now, panel, it's time for you to answer some questions about this week's news.

Speaker 25 Naguin, one couple had the wedding of their dreams, and to pay for it, they simply got a what?

Speaker 4 Oh,

Speaker 45 um, they simply cashed out their Bitcoin.

Speaker 4 No.

Speaker 66 Kidda, kidda.

Speaker 8 Yeah, I'll give you a hint.

Speaker 15 And now it's the flower girl presented by 1-800 Flowers.

Speaker 45 Oh, they got 1-800 Flowers to sponsor their wedding?

Speaker 35 Yeah, they got a corporate sponsor.

Speaker 28 One lucky couple was able to secure Hellman's mayonnaise as their wedding corporate sponsor.

Speaker 6 Just like every little girl's dream of having a wedding you can't leave out in the sun for too long.

Speaker 10 The Hellman's Corporation determined many of the terms of their wedding.

Speaker 47 Things like they had to do it in Vegas, it had to be recorded for promotional purposes, and this is true, the wedding had to be officiated by a life-size mayonnaise jar mascot.

Speaker 47 Oh my god, that was...

Speaker 66 That's real. That's real.

Speaker 21 What ungodly religious organization ordained that freak?

Speaker 69 I don't know if that was an ordained minister in a mayonnaise

Speaker 4 outfit.

Speaker 61 You need to really think about your relationship with Jesus Christ.

Speaker 64 If you are in a mayonnaise

Speaker 4 suit, you and Jesus ain't right at that moment.

Speaker 53 Jesus put ketchup on everything.

Speaker 12 Everything.

Speaker 53 I can find that in Leviticus.

Speaker 4 You know, that would be awesome.

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Speaker 3 Adam Driver in the news.

Speaker 21 Actor Adam Driver has done it all, delighting everyone from Star Wars nerds to House of Gucci nerds.

Speaker 7 This week he made the news for a surprising reason.

Speaker 49 Our panelists are going to tell you about it.

Speaker 38 Pick the one who's telling the truth and you'll win our prize, the waiter of your choice on your voicemail.

Speaker 6 First up, Nagin Farsal.

Speaker 45 Adam Driver got his start on the Lena Dunham show Girls, where he played a brooding and unemployed, yet somehow still desirable love interest.

Speaker 45 He's had a long career since those days, but it's the role of Adam on Girls that is being used as the main heartthrob on the new video game, Dating Wars.

Speaker 45 This first-person dater game available on the Nintendo Switch is meant to appeal to young women, gamifying the ever-intense battle for the affection of the elusive man-child.

Speaker 45 The unattainable boyfriend at the final level of dating wars is driver's character on girls, which is to say he's tall and handsome, except for sometimes he's also weird looking.

Speaker 45 He looks like he's never washed his hair and it kind of feels like he doesn't live anywhere. His character lobs all kinds of hurdles your way.

Speaker 45 He'll love bomb you with romantic nights out, but only to completely ignore you for weeks. He'll leave a toothbrush at your apartment, but will never invite you to his.

Speaker 45 He'll even introduce you to his mom, but refer to you as a a friend. But don't worry, Adam Driver is the hardest level.

Speaker 45 You get plenty of practice at earlier levels with characters like Aiden from Section the City, Mick Steamy from Grey's Anatomy, and Chuck Bass from Gossip Girl.

Speaker 45 See also literally any 20-something at the bar tonight.

Speaker 75 Okay.

Speaker 24 That's a video game Adam Driver from Nageem Frasad.

Speaker 48 Your next creation of Adam comes from Brian Babylon.

Speaker 58 How does the USDA save cows from being killed by savage gray wolves in Oregon?

Speaker 69 But in a humane way?

Speaker 57 All you need is a drone with loudspeakers to broadcast alarming sounds like fireworks or ACDC's thunderstruck or people arguing.

Speaker 61 One recording is of a fight between Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver from the movie Marriage Story.

Speaker 4 Because nothing scares a wolf more than seeing two people fall out of love.

Speaker 62 The fight scene is the most emotionally volatile moment of the movie.

Speaker 63 Like when Scarlett screams, I can't believe I've known you forever.

Speaker 38 And then Adam yells, every day I wake up with you, I wish you were dead.

Speaker 65 The wolves hear that and they're like, damn, this farm is depressing.

Speaker 66 Let's get out of here.

Speaker 66 great

Speaker 21 that's Adam Driver scaring away wolves from Brian Babylon and your last driver dispatch comes from Roy Blunt Jr.

Speaker 42 What's up with Adam Driver?

Speaker 53 Why is he turning down so many juicy movie roles like the remake of Lassie Fine's Romance in which Driver would have played a Doberman pincher?

Speaker 53 Well, brace yourselves. Adam Driver is taking a hiatus from acting altogether.
Forsaking the flickers?

Speaker 42 For what?

Speaker 4 For golf.

Speaker 53 I've always loved hitting the links, Driver told CNN's Pagin William Et Thong.

Speaker 53 And it's high time I get serious about my game. Not only will he be entering open tournaments, he will introduce his own line of golf wear.

Speaker 42 Why stop with clothes?

Speaker 53 asked William Et Thong.

Speaker 53 Why not design a signature set of clubs? For example, the driver driver.

Speaker 42 Hmm, says driver. That's a thought.

Speaker 20 Okay, Andrew.

Speaker 25 From Nageem Prasad, you've got a video game where Adam Driver in girls is the ultimate bad boy to win over.

Speaker 29 From Brian Babylon, the government scaring away wolves using the famous argument scene from Adam Driver in Marriage Story and from Roy Blunt Jr.

Speaker 21 the Adam Driver driver.

Speaker 72 Which one is real?

Speaker 74 I'm going to go with Brian with the wolf-hazing drone.

Speaker 65 And to find out the correct answer, we spoke to the reporter who broke the real story.

Speaker 32 They played Adam Driver and Star Johansen in Marriage Story, and the wolf hates us.

Speaker 18 That was the Wall Street Journal's Jim Carlton talking about admin drivers scaring the wolves.

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Speaker 24 And now it's time for the game we call Not My Job.

Speaker 6 Pedro Pascal had been a working actor for years

Speaker 27 before becoming an overnight sensation, playing Obern Martel on Game of Thrones.

Speaker 15 Since then, he's starred in everything from the Mandalorian to the Fantastic Four to Your Dreams Every Night.

Speaker 6 And this year, he's up for an Emmy for his role as Joel in HBO's The Last of Us.

Speaker 5 Pedro Pascal, welcome to Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.

Speaker 1 Thank you.

Speaker 53 Thank you for having me.

Speaker 18 It's so great to see you.

Speaker 24 It's really nice to meet you.

Speaker 21 I feel like, we all feel like we know you because you're literally in every movie.

Speaker 1 How do you... I know, I'm sorry about that.

Speaker 52 No, you're making us all very happy.

Speaker 25 You started as an actor actor in New York mainly, right?

Speaker 21 You were a struggling actor in New York?

Speaker 1 Yes. Right.
Yes. That was like the longest role of my life, was strong struggling actor.

Speaker 76 Wow.

Speaker 25 And how, and you must have started getting parts there and you slowly, did you get to do like commercial work, that kind of stuff?

Speaker 1 I mean, I couldn't get arrested, to be honest with you.

Speaker 1 I had like a little bit of a promising start with jobs that were in Los Angeles, actually. But as far as New York was concerned,

Speaker 1 it just

Speaker 43 was a rough go.

Speaker 1 I was a waiter and I was really bad at it.

Speaker 1 But I still didn't have

Speaker 1 the skill to learn something else. And I did eventually learn how to...

Speaker 41 wait tables.

Speaker 1 I became good at it, but boy, it took years.

Speaker 52 What was the struggle

Speaker 8 in waiting tables for you?

Speaker 11 What was the hard part?

Speaker 1 Just the logistical labor of meeting everyone's needs in the right manner.

Speaker 1 Act one, the water, act two, the drink,

Speaker 54 act three,

Speaker 68 upsell,

Speaker 1 you know, like the whole everything and making them feel attended to and respected and everything.

Speaker 1 And I, you know, I desperately didn't want to be there.

Speaker 77 I'm going to be honest with you.

Speaker 61 I've never understood the waiter's journey until that moment, Pedro that was that was beautiful like wow I'm gonna tip more every time like I see what you're doing man

Speaker 24 so at that time what was scarier the world in the last of us or your first apartment in New York

Speaker 1 oh gosh wow

Speaker 4 okay

Speaker 1 yeah exactly I mean you know I thought my apartment was really cute and I

Speaker 1 when I moved out to Brooklyn the only place that I could afford was a tiny little place in Red Hook. And I remember taking a friend of mine to it years, years, years later while I still had the lease.

Speaker 1 And she looked like she was going to cry knowing that I lived there for 12 years. Like she just was dumbfounded.
And it was hilarious. So I don't know, maybe to some people,

Speaker 1 my apartment in Red Hook, Brooklyn,

Speaker 1 but to me, definitely the post-apocalyptic fungal

Speaker 12 nightmare.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Although there was a lot of fungal nightmares in that apartment.

Speaker 24 I was curious, for The Last of Us, which is so brilliant, but I know so many people.

Speaker 36 And Peter is who I'm filling in for today.

Speaker 22 He played The Last of Us on his PlayStation, the video game.

Speaker 24 And he was so moved.

Speaker 57 He talks to me about it, like he's so moved by that game. It really hooked people in a profound way.

Speaker 9 Did you play that game before you start in the adaptation?

Speaker 1 No, I tried.

Speaker 17 I really, really did try.

Speaker 1 I tried. I tried.
And my nephew didn't have the patience.

Speaker 37 So he took the console from me.

Speaker 1 And I was just like, well, then you do it.

Speaker 12 I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 so I just watched watched him play.

Speaker 4 It's his skill.

Speaker 1 It's such a thumb skill.

Speaker 38 I was like, it is.

Speaker 1 You know, I mean, you know, I was just like running in a corner, and I couldn't get out of a corner.

Speaker 69 And you got to like pick up the ladder and you got to, you know, all these things.

Speaker 1 I couldn't figure it out.

Speaker 24 It's funny to think of you going through the script when you get the role and looking like, where's the corner scene?

Speaker 12 Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 54 Going through there and like running in place.

Speaker 24 You've been recognized by so many award committees.

Speaker 38 How did it feel to be named Grinder's 2024 Hottest Man of the Year?

Speaker 38 You

Speaker 32 are

Speaker 3 lying to me.

Speaker 48 You're not aware of this?

Speaker 76 You're lying to me.

Speaker 1 If that is the truth, then

Speaker 1 I need to go.

Speaker 1 Except it's 2025.

Speaker 52 You're probably,

Speaker 40 yeah, the buzz has worn off.

Speaker 12 Oh, man.

Speaker 64 All right.

Speaker 13 All right, Pedro Pascal, we've asked you here to play a game we're calling...

Speaker 3 The Last of Us Weekly.

Speaker 44 You star in HBO's The Last of Us, Us, but what do you know about Us Weekly?

Speaker 6 The celebrity gossip magazine for folks who think People magazine is too literary.

Speaker 52 Answer two out of three questions right, and you'll win our prize for one of our listeners.

Speaker 47 Bill, who is Pedro playing for?

Speaker 3 John Biba of Newmarket, New Hampshire.

Speaker 64 All right.

Speaker 32 All right, you ready to play?

Speaker 1 I'm ready to play.

Speaker 16 Okay, here's your first question.

Speaker 24 Us Weekly is one of the best-selling magazines in the world, but some issues sell better than others.

Speaker 28 According to a former employee, which of these is the kiss of death for an issue of Us Weekly?

Speaker 17 A.

Speaker 24 When the note from the editor at the beginning of the magazine starts with, listen, they can't all be winners.

Speaker 27 B, when the issue includes the rare stars, they're just like us, only much, much better column.

Speaker 24 Or C, when the magazine's cover has a picture of literally any man on it.

Speaker 12 That's too many words.

Speaker 1 Let's do a C.

Speaker 44 C?

Speaker 8 The answer is C.

Speaker 76 You're right.

Speaker 28 According to the employee, having a picture of a man on the cover pretty much guarantees that the magazine will undersell, which is crazy because who doesn't want to know about Kevin Jonas' skincare routine?

Speaker 16 Here's your next question.

Speaker 39 Slate called Us Weekly Celebrity Questionnaire 25 Things You Don't Know About Me, the best magazine feature in all of media.

Speaker 46 As proof, they cited Cher's 2013 profile where she revealed what?

Speaker 24 A, that she's gone by just Cher for so long she's completely forgotten what her last name is.

Speaker 7 B, that all of her imaginary friends growing up were lumberjacks.

Speaker 24 Or C, that the original lyrics for If I Could Turn Back Time were about stopping the JFK assassination.

Speaker 1 I mean, it's got to be B.

Speaker 1 Those were my friends.

Speaker 36 You're right, it was B.

Speaker 65 Cher also revealed that she owns, quote, a large collection of elephants.

Speaker 3 Real ones.

Speaker 53 You can't have a small collection of elephants.

Speaker 4 All right.

Speaker 16 All right, here's your last question.

Speaker 24 Without a doubt, the most popular section in Us Weekly is Stars, They're Just Like Us, where the magazine posts pictures of celebrities doing everyday things with captions including which of these?

Speaker 7 A, they tie their own shoes.

Speaker 6 B, they eat Mexican food.

Speaker 35 Or C, they squint in the sun.

Speaker 1 Lord, I'm allowed to get like help from the audience, right?

Speaker 68 Between A and C.

Speaker 4 What? I said all of them.

Speaker 38 All of them.

Speaker 1 All of them, that they would literally say they eat Mexican food?

Speaker 28 You're right, all of the above.

Speaker 28 But thankfully, though, they don't do all those things at the same time.

Speaker 36 Bill, how did Pedro Pascal do on our quiz?

Speaker 3 Did he do anything better than be a winner?

Speaker 32 Pedro!

Speaker 24 Pedro Pascal is starring in the Fantastic Four, and he's up for an Emmy for HBO's The Last of Us.

Speaker 5 Pedro Pascal, thank you so much for joining us on Wait Wake on Time.

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Speaker 24 Okay, right now, panel, some more questions for you from the week's news.

Speaker 4 Brian,

Speaker 18 this week, the shapewear brand Skims made headlines when they introduced a revolutionary new garment, the shapewear for your what?

Speaker 61 For your like chin and face to uh

Speaker 6 yes your face you're right

Speaker 13 skim's new seamless sculpt face wrap features quote collagen yarns for ultra soft jaw support and looks like a big bandage wrapped around your face it also has velcro fasteners and quote ear slits so you can hear people making fun of you

Speaker 51 okay

Speaker 62 that's so funny that this is my question so i actually had a friend who got like three of these, and I tried it on.

Speaker 76 What?

Speaker 65 How are you going to say it's stupid?

Speaker 62 Because I felt my face felt 16 when I took it off for like two minutes.

Speaker 4 And I'm like, oh man, I feel really, really tight.

Speaker 37 Are you supposed to like sleep on it?

Speaker 1 You're supposed to sleep in it.

Speaker 45 And then you wake up looking hot.

Speaker 37 I didn't say that.

Speaker 66 I didn't say you're looking.

Speaker 50 Oh, you don't walk around town with it on?

Speaker 63 Someone's going to do that. Yeah.

Speaker 28 Would you do it, Nagin?

Speaker 45 I mean, yeah, I'll try, I mean, anything if I'm gonna, if it's gonna keep me hot forever.

Speaker 63 No one said forever.

Speaker 66 Okay.

Speaker 52 How long does it last?

Speaker 4 I don't, I'm gonna be real with you.

Speaker 61 I don't think it does anything.

Speaker 61 Noticeable, but maybe it might keep your face slightly trunked. Just, you know, just muscle, muscle memory energy.
Right. I have no idea what I'm talking about.

Speaker 4 I don't need it.

Speaker 21 Do you know what he's talking about?

Speaker 3 You're looking at me like I've done it.

Speaker 28 Well, you're so beautiful. You're doing something.

Speaker 60 Yeah, he's getting lost in your eyes right now.

Speaker 32 Mageeen

Speaker 40 during a recent WNBA game a baby stunned the crowd during the halftime show crawl race by doing what?

Speaker 45 Oh my god I actually know this one by like taking their first step.

Speaker 11 Yes exactly.

Speaker 37 That was really cute.

Speaker 18 Ten babies lined up on on one end of the court for the halftime crawling race before one baby stood up halfway through and won the race by walking to her mom.

Speaker 14 This was the baby's first steps, which is such an important moment, but also that's cheating.

Speaker 60 I feel, when I saw that, I feel that baby knew it could walk weeks before this.

Speaker 37 Yeah, and it was like holding it. It was holding it.

Speaker 77 It was holding it. Like,

Speaker 77 guess what I'm going to do? Gag, go, go, go.

Speaker 7 And then like, go ahead, mom, sign me up for the crawl race.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 45 I don't know anything about sports, but is it typical for there to be crawl races or is this a WNBA thing that's coming into our lives where now we're including babies into halftime shows because it's a bunch of ladies on the court?

Speaker 62 Yeah, I've never seen that for NBA.

Speaker 60 That's a good, valid point, but still, babies are cute.

Speaker 4 So, right.

Speaker 59 Baby racing dates back to the 1940s, and it's not always about who finishes the race first.

Speaker 10 This is true.

Speaker 29 One time, a baby won for simply being better looking than the others.

Speaker 8 So, yes, having a baby is hard work, but at least it's not the 1940s where your baby loses for being mid.

Speaker 6 Coming up, it's Lightning Fill in the Blank.

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Speaker 78 Hi, this is Mel from Salt Lake City, Utah.

Speaker 48 Hi, Mel.

Speaker 37 Hi.

Speaker 28 How are things in Salt Lake City?

Speaker 78 It's been good. It's been a bit hot, but I saw your guys' show last week in person, so that was great.
Wow.

Speaker 12 Whoa.

Speaker 6 And then you got on the phone.

Speaker 49 It's almost like you know someone.

Speaker 56 Someone did some networking at the live show.

Speaker 24 Well, welcome to the show, Mel.

Speaker 10 Bill Curtis is going to read you three news-related limericks with the last word or phrase missing from each.

Speaker 24 If you can fill in that last word or phrase correctly on two limericks, you are a winner.

Speaker 44 Here's your first limerick.

Speaker 3 In my big white dress, loaded with lace. I'm just trying to eat with some grace.
Do this at our wedding, a divorce we are getting.

Speaker 3 Don't you dare smash that cake in my

Speaker 78 face.

Speaker 36 Yes. Yes, that's right.

Speaker 13 Smashing cake into your new wife's face is the the best way to say, I'm fun.

Speaker 52 I'm whimsical.

Speaker 39 I didn't know makeup takes an hour to do.

Speaker 6 According to the cut, women are traumatized by memories of cake smashing.

Speaker 49 One woman recounts having to change into spare clothes after clawing fondant off of her face.

Speaker 18 Another woman realized afterwards, and this is true, quote, we are going to be together forever, and I'm not going to be happy.

Speaker 21 Roy, did you do that when you got married?

Speaker 53 Which time?

Speaker 53 No, I know.

Speaker 53 Maybe that's why there were so many of them. I don't know.

Speaker 5 Here's your next limerick.

Speaker 3 I get up at an ungodly hour. A quick bite I just need to devour.

Speaker 3 So as I rinse my grime, I'll be be saving some time. I eat breakfast while taking my

Speaker 45 shower.

Speaker 66 Shower, that's right.

Speaker 40 This week, actor Jessica Beale revealed that she often eats breakfast in the shower in an interview that screams, yes, everything is going great with my husband Justin Timberlake.

Speaker 28 Beale says she does it all.

Speaker 6 Coffee, cereal, even yogurt, or a slice of quiche.

Speaker 63 it may not quiche it makes sense

Speaker 33 hey i have some body scrubs that would go great on toast

Speaker 45 there's certain foods like you're like oh maybe granola i could see that as soon as i said quiche a couple people in the audience threw up in their mouth but even who who wants to put a bunch of wet granola in their mouth well it's not wet I mean like shower no her setup is her spray her setup is she has like a little counter like above the sink I mean I get it and then she's like whoop whoop whoop and then she she comes back in the middle.

Speaker 37 There's still some drippings, like there's drippings that happen.

Speaker 68 Splash.

Speaker 61 It sounds like a lot of wet crumbs. Wet crumbs.

Speaker 37 That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 45 Who wants to have wet granola in their mouth?

Speaker 53 I'm going to have to see her do it before I make it up.

Speaker 76 All right.

Speaker 43 Here's your next limerick.

Speaker 3 Car-cross lovers aren't playing for yucks. Outdoor Shakespeare brings bang for your bucks.
Emotions are bigger for back hose and diggers. See, all of our actors are...

Speaker 4 Um

Speaker 11 trucks. Yes, that's right.

Speaker 37 Trucks.

Speaker 44 In the new production of Romeo and Juliet, every character is played by a vehicle, including city buses, fire trucks, and an ambulance.

Speaker 7 Just the way Shakespeare envisioned.

Speaker 38 This sounds like Shakespeare Pixar Shakespeare or something, right?

Speaker 4 Yeah, it's really impressive.

Speaker 39 I've never honked an iambic pentameter.

Speaker 21 The show has actually been getting really amazing reviews.

Speaker 13 Critics said, quote, I was expecting it to be silly, but it was actually really good.

Speaker 9 And it was really sweet and cute, especially the scene where the cars were, I assume, kissing.

Speaker 3 Bill, how did Mel do on our quiz? Mel got them all right. She's walking away a winner thing.

Speaker 5 Good job, Mel.

Speaker 11 Thanks for playing.

Speaker 37 All right. Bye-bye.

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Speaker 40 Now on to our final game.

Speaker 6 Lightning fill in the blank.

Speaker 27 Each of our players will have 60 seconds in which to answer as many fill-in-the-blank questions as they can.

Speaker 10 Each correct answer is worth two points.

Speaker 24 Bill, can you give us the scores?

Speaker 3 Roy and McGeean each have two.

Speaker 3 Brian has four.

Speaker 47 All right, Rory, I'll choose you to go first.

Speaker 24 The clock will start when I begin your first question.

Speaker 72 Fill-in-the-blank.

Speaker 21 On Wednesday, the Kremlin confirmed that Blank would hold a meeting with U.S.

Speaker 27 officials next week.

Speaker 42 Putin.

Speaker 3 Right.

Speaker 29 On Thursday, Skydance closed their $8 billion acquisition of Blank.

Speaker 53 The White House.

Speaker 64 Paramount.

Speaker 39 This week, a gunfight that broke out between two gangs in the Philippines ended when two of the rival members, Blanked,

Speaker 53 started crying,

Speaker 40 got married.

Speaker 4 Oh.

Speaker 41 On Monday, Skittles announced it would remove artificial blanks from its candies.

Speaker 53 Skittles are going to remove artificial raisins.

Speaker 52 Artificial colors. Oh.

Speaker 27 On Wednesday, Eddie Palmieri, jazz musician and the first Latin artist to win a blank, passed away at 88.

Speaker 53 A Grammy.

Speaker 4 Right.

Speaker 49 This week, a church in Pennsylvania that raffled off a new Corvette is under investigation following accusations that Blank rigged the raffle.

Speaker 53 The preacher.

Speaker 43 Yes, the church pastor.

Speaker 13 St.

Speaker 57 Jude the Apostle Church raised over $500,000 for its charity car raffle, but now investigators are accusing the pastor of rigging the whole thing so that he could win the car.

Speaker 55 Oh, you see.

Speaker 18 Say what you will.

Speaker 24 There's no commandment that says thou shall not do doughnuts in a bitchin' Corvette.

Speaker 18 Bill, how did Roy do?

Speaker 3 Three right, six more points, total of eight. Puts him in the lead.

Speaker 76 All right.

Speaker 72 Okay, Nageen, you're up next.

Speaker 40 All right.

Speaker 21 On Wednesday, a new round of Trump's global blanks went into effect.

Speaker 45 Tariffs. Right.

Speaker 40 After decades of talks, Italy approved construction of what will become the world's longest blank connecting Sicily to the mainland.

Speaker 45 Bridge?

Speaker 4 That's right.

Speaker 10 This week, a tourist in Thailand was arrested after he blanked during a taxi ride.

Speaker 75 Um,

Speaker 45 fell in love.

Speaker 15 Tried to pay the driver with a bag of weed.

Speaker 29 On Monday, it was announced that the streaming app Blank would be absorbed by Disney Plus.

Speaker 4 Hulu? Right.

Speaker 67 This week, search and rescue crews in Canada rushed to help a man they thought was screaming for help, but he was just blanking.

Speaker 45 Um,

Speaker 45 he was just doing laugh therapy.

Speaker 11 Close.

Speaker 57 Singing.

Speaker 29 The search and rescue team included two mounties and a drone and was expanded when people heard what they thought were cries of pain.

Speaker 18 So please, people, think of the first responders before you attempt Lady Gaga's part in shallow.

Speaker 36 Bill, how did Naguin do?

Speaker 3 All right, eight more points. Total to ten puts her in the lead.

Speaker 12 Oh.

Speaker 66 So how many does Brian need to win?

Speaker 3 Three to tie,

Speaker 66 four to win.

Speaker 36 All right.

Speaker 20 You ready, Brian?

Speaker 17 Let's go.

Speaker 72 Okay, fill in the blank.

Speaker 29 On Tuesday, the Gifford fire in blank became the state's largest wildfire of the year.

Speaker 33 California.

Speaker 60 Right.

Speaker 24 On Tuesday, the House Oversight Committee issued almost a dozen subpoenas related to the blank files.

Speaker 60 Epstein files. Right.

Speaker 34 This week, Benjamin Nahu said that Israel intends to take full control of Blank.

Speaker 35 Gaza. Right.

Speaker 7 This week, police in San Francisco seized over 100 canisters of nitrous oxide from people attending Blank.

Speaker 61 The Grateful Dead show.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 65 On Monday, an attorney confirmed that disgraced hip-hop mogul Blank had reached out to the White House for a pardon.

Speaker 61 The diddler, P.

Speaker 40 Diddy Comb.

Speaker 52 That's right.

Speaker 66 The diddler.

Speaker 4 The diddler.

Speaker 10 This week, a woman in Los Angeles was shocked when she went to the hospital for 45 minutes and was charged $8,000 for blank.

Speaker 4 For

Speaker 61 visiting her grandma.

Speaker 57 For parking.

Speaker 77 Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Yeah.

Speaker 73 Apparently, the receipt claimed the woman first parked in the structure in 2022,

Speaker 6 which was later explained as a computer glitch.

Speaker 49 Either way, after just a 45-minute visit to the hospital, the hospital parking structure's automated machine charged her seven thousand eight hundred and twenty nine dollars and let this be a reminder for everyone never park out of network

Speaker 5 bill how did brian do enough of a win

Speaker 3 send back because brian got five right ten more points he wins with 14 nice work

Speaker 21 Congratulations, Brian is this week's champion.

Speaker 49 In just a minute, we'll ask our panelists to predict after that zoo in Denmark, how will zoos get our attention next?

Speaker 6 But first, let me tell you that.

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The executive producer of Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me is Mike Danforth.

Speaker 36 Now, panel, what will zoos do to get our attention next? Brian Babylon.

Speaker 69 They will have a bring your ex to the zoo day.

Speaker 28 The more toxic, the more higher they are on the food chain.

Speaker 47 Nageen Frasad.

Speaker 45 They'll have a swap your kids with an Animal Day because parents also deserve a break.

Speaker 21 Roy Blunt Jr.

Speaker 53 They're doing joint promotions with Zumba.

Speaker 76 Zuzumba.

Speaker 3 Well, if any of that happens right here, panel, we're going to ask you about it. On wait, wait, don't tell me.

Speaker 32 Thank you, Bill Curtis.

Speaker 5 Thanks also to Brian Babylon, Naguin Frasad, and Roy Blunt Jr.

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Speaker 5 I'm Tom Papa, filming it for Peter Sagal, and we'll see you next week.

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