Betting on a graveyard of Cybertrucks with Mary Roach
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Have you ever been so upset that you can't even think straight? When we're distressed and in high anxiety, we tend to breathe from our chest, which is actually more hyperventilating and is the opposite of relaxing. So we want to breathe from our belly area.
This week on the Life Kit podcast, tips for those painful, stressful moments. Listen to Life Kit on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, the NPR News Quiz. Want a full-bodied vintage with notes of oak? Try me, Alzo Slade. And here's your host at the Green Music Center's Wild Hall at Sonoma State University, Peter Sagal. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. Thank you so much.
Thank you.
We are so excited to be here in Sonoma, California, home of so many great vineyards. But the wine is not the reason we are here. No, the wine is the reason we do a bad job when we are here. Later on, we're going to be joined by science writer extraordinaire Mary Roach. But first, it's your turn to call in and play our games. The number is 1-888-WAIT-WAIT. That's 1-888-924-8924. Let's welcome our first listener contestant. Hi, you're on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.
Hi, Peter. Welcome back to California.
Thank you so much. Who's calling?
My name is Sarah Beth Rothfeld, and I'm calling from Woodland Hills, California. Woodland Hills.
What opening banter and audience setup happens at the Sonoma live show?
The other California, the Southern California.
Correct.
Yeah. What do you do there?
Well, I'm a retired special education teacher.
That's beautiful. We love those, yes.
Yes. My love language is baking, so my goal is to make my family and my friends and everybody I come in contact slightly chubby.
Right. And how's that going?
It's going pretty well.
And by night, I fight crime.
Yes! Finally! Someone! I appreciate that. Sarah Beth, welcome to our show. Let me introduce you to our panel. First, a comedian you can see in his show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival all through August. It's Shane Torres.
Thank you.
How are you? Next, a comedian whose album Yell Joy is on Blonde Medicine. It's Joyelle Nicole Johnson. Hello, Faraday.
Hello, Joyelle.
And the host of the Breaking Bad podcast and a maker of a mean loaf of sourdough, it's Tom Papa. Hi, Faraday. So, Sarabeth, welcome to the show. You are going to play Who's Alzo this time. Alzo Slade is going to read you three quotations from this week's news. Your job, just correctly identify or explain what he's talking about. Do that, you'll win our prize. Any voice from our show on your voicemail. Are you ready to go?
Very ready.
I can tell. Here is your first quote. It's from Forbes magazine. It's our new favorite pastime. Thanks to sites like FanDuel, DraftKings, what has surpassed movies, music, and every other form of entertainment as Americans' favorite thing to do? Ooh, yikes. May I have a hint, please? I can tell. You're too pure of heart to engage in this yourself. But FanDuel, DraftKings, does that ring any bells?
I'm too sweet. Another hint?
I'm going to bet that you'll be able to figure this out.
Oh, gambling.
Gambling, yes, gambling. Thank you. Last year, Americans spent $300 billion gambling. That is more than Americans spent on movies, arts, music, and museums combined. Yes, even museums. So, let's face it, if art and culture want to stay relevant, we have to bet on it. I, for example, would bet $20 Odysseus doesn't make it home. I am not good at gambling. Are you guys? I went to a Dodger game last night, and my friend is a big gambler. You're in Giants territory. Yeah.
Yeah.
And he gambled on his phone. He had like six bets going into this. So he's sitting at the game. He's sitting at the game. He's on his phone. He had that Otani was going to get five home runs, that the guy from the Mariners was going to get two home runs, that it was going to be over 11. It was going to be the combined score by halfway through the thing. And the like 10, 11 bets on this thing. And when we left, his team won, and he was so depressed because he lost like $1,500. Wow.
Tom, is he single?
Is his wife happy? He probably will be if he keeps losing 1500 bucks a game.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:35
2
What opening banter and audience setup happens at the Sonoma live show?
1:35–9:32
3
How does the contestant Who's Alzo game test knowledge of gambling, Cybertruck, and wrinkles?
9:32–18:41
4
What funny Cybertruck facts and sales data are discussed as a news story?
18:41–27:40
5
Why are 'strategic wrinkles' becoming a beauty trend and who is changing Botox habits?
27:40–40:49
6
How did the Bluff the Listener and Cheapskate stories illustrate odd penny-pinching news?
40:49–45:15
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What listener games (Bluff, Limerick Challenge) feature audience callers and viral news limericks?
45:15–50:50