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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, the NPR News Quiz. I'm the man with the voice so smooth you could go curling on that. Bill Curtis. And here's your host at the Indiana University Auditorium in Bloomington, Indiana, Peter Stegall.
Thank you, Bill. Thank you, everybody. Thank you. It is great to be here at Indiana University, IU, which, thanks to their incredible football team, just... They just learned a little known secret. When you win the National College Football Championship, the coach gets a new record-setting high salary, and the rest of you get us.
So later on, speaking of athletics, we're going to be talking to a proud Hoosier alum and multiple Olympic medalist swimmer, Lilly King. But first, it's your turn to compete. Give us a call at 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, I'm Bradley Petrick. I'm from Chicago, Illinois.
Hey, how are things back in Chicago? Still very cold. Very cold. I'm kind of glad to hear that because we're not there. What do you do in our hometown? So for my day job, I'm an enterprise consultant, but for my second gig, I run a local cat rescue here. Really? Yes. When you say here, do you mean your house? No, no, no. I mean at our adoption center. Okay, all right, all right.
Well, that's very good work. I'm glad you do it. Welcome to the show, Bradley. Let me introduce you to our panel. First, a stand-up comedian performing at the Commonwealth Comedy Club outside Cincinnati on April 10th and 11th, and at the DC Improv on the 12th. It's Josh Gondelman. Hello. Hello. Thank you for rescuing all those cats. Thank you. Next, she's a contributor to CBS Sunday Morning.
It's Faith Saling.
Hi, Bradley.
Hello. And a comedian who'll be at the Laugh Factory in Las Vegas' Horseshoe Casino March 19th through the 15th and at Hilarity's Comedy Club in Cleveland March 20th and 21st. It's Alonzo Bowden. Hello, Bradley. Hey, Alonzo. Welcome to the show, Bradley. You're going to play Who's Bill This Time. That, of course, is the game where Bill Curtis reads you three quotations from the week's news.
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Chapter 2: How does Lilly King reflect on her Olympic journey?
We'll put two. There were two things that were true. We'll go with those.
All right, Bradley, here is your next quote. The tribe has spoken. That's the catchphrase from a reality show that amazingly celebrated its 50th season this week. What show? That would be Survivor. Yes, Survivor. It is amazing that they have reached 50 seasons of Survivor. I thought they all starved to death on that island long ago. But it's not surprising the show has been so successful.
Where else can you get to watch a 35-year-old orthodontist poop in the ocean?
Wait, so do we know the math? How many years has it been on? Are there like 10 seasons a year?
I think it started in like 2002, around there. Oh my gosh. It's been on for a long time, Faith.
Can someone, do y'all watch it?
I still have a big problem believing it's tough to survive when the camera crew is eating somewhere. Yeah.
I was wondering about that myself.
The sound guy's having lunch. Okay, I didn't catch anything today. Mind if I stop by for a BLT off the truck?
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Chapter 3: What insights does Lilly King share about competitiveness in sports?
Yes.
Just some rich white people, drop them in the hood with nothing, and let's just see what happens.
I think that's a great idea. I think they should switch the Survivor contestants and the Love Island contestants one year. To see how it goes. What would happen? I think that people that thought they were going to spend a period of time eating bugs would have a wonderful time making out. And then the hottest 24-year-olds on Earth will die within hours. Yes.
All right, your last quote is some reactions to the debut of a redesign of a popular line of dolls.
Wow, they are kind of skinny. They're definitely missing the historic appeal.
So what dolls got a controversial makeover for their 40th anniversary this year? I'm not, sir. Yeah, not a big consumer of dolls, I take it. No, I'm not. Well, I'll give you a hint. These things go great if you want to have marriages with your American boy dolls.
Yes.
Oh, American Girl dolls. American Girl dolls, yes. For generations of children, the super wholesome American Girl dolls, each with represent a character from a real period in America's history, answered the question, what if a book were a doll? But the new modern era dolls, American Girl dolls, are smaller, skinnier, and to quote the New York Times, too yassified.
But if you hate the new look, don't worry. Cabbage Patch Kids are just as chubbed out as ever.
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Chapter 4: How do the panelists react to the latest State of the Union address?
What number are you shooting for? Well, here's the thing. Apparently, it will answer a lot of questions about digestive health and, most importantly, answer the question about who dealt it. And it is being called, of course, the Fitbit for farts because the fart watch, smart watch didn't do well in the focus group.
You're in the elevator. Yeah. You ruin the elevator. Right. And then you're like, sorry, I'm trying to keep my numbers up. Exactly.
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From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, the NPR News Quiz. I'm Bill Curtis. We are playing this week with Faith Seeley, Josh Gundelman, and Alonzo Bowden. And here again is your host at the IU Auditorium in Bloomington, Indiana, Peter Sagal.
Thank you so much. Thank you. And thank you, everybody. Right now, it is time for the Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me Bluff, the listener game. Call 1-888-WAIT-WAIT to play our game on the air. Hi, you're on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.
Hi, this is Tim Josephs. I'm calling from Greensboro, North Carolina.
Greensboro, North Carolina. What do you do there?
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Chapter 5: What humorous anecdotes emerge from the discussion of the State of the Union?
You ready to go? I'm ready. All right. First, let's hear from Alonzo Bowden.
Marcus Anderson loves to travel but hates to pay for it, so he's mastered the crying hack. Marcus, a freelance videographer, does over 200 nights a year at hotels and said he got tired of being nickel and dimed with room charges. One recent work trip, he filmed an acting class as they learned to cry on cue. Marcus decided to try it. Turns out he has a gift.
Now, whenever he interacts with hotel staff on business trips, he is actively sobbing. I've had charges removed, I've been given upgrades. Once I got a free room when my card was declined, I just told them I maxed out my card on my travel for the kids' game, and the kids lost. He almost got caught once.
Just as he was getting his sports tiers ready, the desk manager at a Boise Holiday Inn asked how his kid's piano career was going when Marcus remembered he'd used the piano story there before. How do you get through it all? By crying, of course.
A frequent traveler who's discovered that simply by crying at the right time in front of the right people gets them all kinds of perks. Your next travel tip comes from Faith Saley.
Ever find yourself on the road without enough clean underwear? Well, fitness influencer Tara Woodcocks has a hack for that, so don't get your knickers in a twist. Actually, do wad up your panties, she says, and shove them into the hotel room coffee maker. You close it, you press brew, and it puts scorching hot water through it, Woodcocks explains on TikTok.
You've got yourself a cleaner pair of underwear to wear. You always thought hotel room coffee tasted generally like crap. But now you can really detect the flavor of thong. She then suggests drying them with the blow dryer so you're not walking around with fresh-brewed drip. Woodcocks' followers can hardly wait for more hacks, like perhaps how to use the coffee creamer as a leave-in conditioner.
And if you're really lazy, the ice bucket as a chamber pot.
Run out of underwear on the road? Just clean your old pair in the coffee pot. What else are you going to use it for? Your last road remedy comes from Josh Gondelman.
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Chapter 6: What travel hacks are discussed during the episode?
That's the answer. It's called bedtime stacking. And it works like this. You don't want to get out of bed, so you bring all your lotions, your lip masks, your journals, your books, your drinks and snacks, and stack them all around you in the bed. And you can stay there. Now, you don't have to bring your mice. They'll show up by themselves within a few hours.
That sounds like not stacking just your first apartment in New York City.
It also kind of sounds like depression.
A little bit.
Because, like, you just don't want to get out of bed.
Exactly. But all this stuff, I'm just old school. When I'm in bed, I just want a book, good lighting, my fingers, and a tub of hummus. You know?
I don't know if I wanted to know that.
I don't know who does these studies. This is like, this is a thing that somebody put themselves on. So when I go to bed, I like to do bedtime stack. I like to put everything in my bed so I never have to go to bed. I have access to all my things. And it went viral and now it's a trend and people are doing it.
You know, it occurs to me, some people just shouldn't have influence.
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Chapter 7: How does the panel engage in light-hearted banter about toys?
Right. This week, a man in California was charged with a misdemeanor after he filmed himself blanking. Ooh, scooping up the hummus. No. No. He filmed himself giving a wild hawk a sip of his Buzz Balls alcoholic beverage.
I did hear about that, yeah.
According to a new study, forever chemicals may be causing men to blank faster.
I don't know, die faster?
I'll give it to you. Age faster so they die sooner. On Monday, budget airline blank reached a deal that will keep it from going out of business. Spirit? Right. This week, the infamously unflattering picture of the former Prince Andrew in the back of a police car after his arrest was briefly on display... In blank.
Everywhere?
No, yeah. No, but it was framed and displayed briefly at the Louvre. This is the second time in two months that someone managed to sneak a framed photo into the Louvre and hang it on the museum's wall until it was found in the Louvre. But this time, there is some artistic merit to it.
If you haven't seen it, this photo of Andrew really answers the question, what if Edvard Munch's The Scream was a painting of an old pedophile?
Bill, how did Alonzo do in our quiz? Very close game. Five right, ten more points. Fourteen, just one behind Josh. All right.
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