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Dreams do come true. Later

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to play our game. But

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first, it's your turn. Give us a call

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at 1-888-WAIT-WAIT. That's

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1-888-924-8924. Now,

1:32

let's welcome our first listener contestant. Hi,

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you're on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.

1:37

Hello, my name is Maureen Masters,

1:39

and I am in Lawrence, Kansas. Nice

1:45

to see you, Maureen, or hear from you. Oh,

1:47

what do you do there in Kansas? I'm

1:50

trying to identify as a retired person,

1:53

so I garden, I

1:56

watch birds, I train

1:59

cats. and I'm trying to get squirrels to

2:01

eat out of my hands. Ooh, wow.

2:03

What's easier, training cats are getting squirrels

2:06

to eat out of your hands? You

2:08

neck and neck right now. Ha ha ha ha

2:11

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

2:13

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. All right,

2:15

Maureen, let's introduce you to our panel. First up,

2:17

a writer for Big Mouth, season seven is on

2:20

Netflix now. It's Jantira Jackson.

2:23

Ooh! Ooh! Next,

2:28

the host of the daily podcast

2:30

TBTL and the public radio variety

2:32

show Live Wire, which will be

2:34

live at the Alberta Rose Theater

2:37

in Portland June 6th, Luke Burbank.

2:39

Ooh! Hey,

2:42

Maureen. Ooh! And

2:46

an Emmy-winning writer whose latest

2:48

book, I'll Show Myself Out,

2:50

is available in paperback. It's

2:52

Jesse Klein. Hi, Maureen. Hey,

2:54

Jesse. So when you

2:56

was rockin'... Welcome

2:59

to the show, Maureen. You're going to

3:01

play Who's Bill this time? Bill Curtis

3:03

is going to read you three quotes

3:05

from this week's news. If you can

3:07

correctly identify or explain two of them,

3:09

you'll win our prize. Any

3:11

voice from our show, you choose on

3:13

your voicemail. Are you ready?

3:16

Absolutely. All right. Your

3:19

first quote is from Supreme

3:21

Court Justice Samuel Alito. It

3:24

was done by Mrs. Alito. Ha

3:27

ha ha. Justice

3:30

Alito there was joining

3:32

Senator Bob Menendez in

3:35

what the New York Times this

3:37

week called a time-honored bipartisan political

3:40

strategy, blaming who when

3:42

you get in trouble? The

3:45

wife. Yes, you're right, your wife.

3:50

The hot news trend is blaming your wife. Justice

3:54

Alito, Senator Menendez, that guy in

3:56

the Bible who was the first

3:59

person ever. Everybody

4:02

who's anybody is saying it's

4:05

her fault. The

4:07

strategy is really very useful.

4:09

I can't believe my wife

4:12

gave Peter Segel COVID. I

4:19

think it like wasn't the initial story from

4:22

Alito was his wife decided to do this

4:24

to like hold their neighbor.

4:27

So the wife had had supposedly like an

4:29

argument with the neighbor about politics. This is

4:31

shortly after January 6. And

4:33

so then she had done that to sort of

4:35

like be like in your face. But then two

4:37

days later they found at their beach house, they

4:40

were also flying a crazy ass

4:42

flag from like a whole other different

4:45

conspiracy theory, which really

4:47

torpedoed the idea that this was just kind

4:49

of an across the fence like argument. I

4:51

think that they know what they're doing to

4:53

us all the time. I

4:58

think that it's like when

5:00

toddlers like hide and they think

5:02

you can't see. I just say

5:05

you can't see me. That's

5:10

what's happening. I think that's what our entire

5:12

Supreme Court. I

5:15

got on a road and nobody knows

5:17

you're behind the curtain. We see your

5:20

feet. You're right. See your

5:22

feet. Brett Kavanaugh does not understand object

5:24

permanence. All right,

5:27

Maureen. Here is your next

5:29

quote. My closest

5:31

friends couldn't tell the difference.

5:34

That was an actress angry that an

5:36

AI company used her voice after she

5:38

told them they couldn't who

5:40

was upset. A chatbot was

5:43

imitating her. I want

5:45

to say Scarlett Johansson. Yes,

5:47

Scarlett Johansson. You're

5:52

right, Maureen. Scarlett Johansson, Scarlett Johansson,

5:54

Black Widow, you got it. Are

5:56

you talking to my mom? I'm

6:00

talking to all of our moms. OpenAI,

6:08

which makes chat GPT, stole

6:10

her voice for their catbot.

6:13

It was such a huge scandal,

6:15

no one noticed. They also updated

6:17

their terms and conditions to, quote,

6:19

use all our organs for battery.

6:25

I offered to let them use my voice free of

6:27

charge. They

6:29

described it as limited interest. I

6:34

was listening to a story about this whole, supposedly

6:36

there's been a huge leap forward

6:38

in these programs in chat GPT and

6:41

how it is that movie, her, the

6:43

person that you're dealing with. They

6:46

said there's a variety of things you can do with the

6:48

voice. You can make it angrier. What

6:53

is the use case for that? I want to

6:55

make it so that the AI chatbot is angrier

6:57

at me. Yes, the answer is a key. I

7:02

haven't done my work today, chat GPT.

7:08

I'm a bad boy. All

7:13

right, Maureen, your last quote is from the

7:15

CEO of a big investment firm. I'll

7:18

drink water. I'll walk around. I'll

7:21

take a little nap. That

7:23

CEO is part of the latest

7:25

trend in executives and A-listers, making

7:28

it through the day without what? Without

7:31

their cell phone. No.

7:34

Or something different. Yes.

7:37

We've narrowed it down to something different. We're

7:39

going to go with something different. This

7:43

is terrible news for businesses here in Seattle. I'll

7:45

give you a hint for it. Starbuck.

7:49

Coffee. Yes, that was my second guess. Coffee,

7:51

right. Yes, I don't

7:53

have anything to do with

7:56

it. That was very hesitant applause from

7:58

Seattle. Coffee,

8:01

everyone is giving up coffee. Mark

8:03

Zuckerberg, Giselle Buncheon, Mark Cuban, and

8:05

your friend who everybody now calls

8:08

Sleepy Dan. The

8:12

Wall Street Journal calls skipping coffee

8:14

the latest humble brag. What

8:16

a weird brag. Can you imagine walking in line

8:18

at Starbucks just to get to the front and

8:21

say, nothing for me, thank you. Well,

8:24

I think that this is pretty wild

8:27

because if I had a billion dollars, I

8:29

wouldn't need any coffee people. I

8:31

know what I could do. I'll

8:33

look at my billion dollars and

8:36

that'll wake me up. I

8:40

do think that if the

8:42

line is more than five people at

8:44

the coffee shop, your new order is

8:46

black coffee. Like, I'm sorry, it

8:48

could be a sign where, like, you know,

8:50

at the train station, it's going click, click,

8:52

click, click, click. It just goes down to

8:54

everyone's ordering black coffee until we get this

8:56

sorted out. Yeah, I love that. It's like

8:58

when someone at a crowded bar is

9:01

like, I'll have the specialty mojito and

9:03

like the bartender has to take out like 60 tools. Don

9:08

their leather vest, get ready for artisanal.

9:10

We have a beer. I

9:13

support everybody doing stuff

9:15

black. I've never felt like more of

9:17

an ally. Allies.

9:22

A white man. Thank you, white

9:24

man. You're welcome. You're welcome, America.

9:29

All right, Bill, how did Maureen do?

9:31

She's going to be running down the

9:33

streets of Lawrence, Kansas City and I

9:35

won, I won, I won. Good job,

9:37

Maureen. Thank

9:43

you for playing and good luck with

9:45

the cat and the squirrel. Panel,

9:53

it's time for you to answer some

9:55

questions about this week's news. Luke,

9:59

listen. Listen to this quote from Bill. Bring

10:02

ya ass! That

10:06

is now the official

10:08

tourism slogan of what state?

10:11

Oh man. Well,

10:14

we can rule out Utah. So

10:20

I got it down to 49. Would

10:22

you like a hint? I

10:25

would love a hint, Tom. Okay. It

10:27

replaces land of 10,000 lakes in your ass. What?

10:31

It's Minnesota? That's right. Minnesota.

10:36

When the Minnesota Timberwolves made it to

10:38

the NBA Western Conference Finals this week,

10:40

commentator Charles Barkley said, I

10:42

haven't been to Minnesota in 20 years. And

10:45

T-Wolves star Anthony Edwards responded,

10:48

Bring ya ass! Then,

10:52

and we fully support this, Minnesota's

10:55

State Tourism Agency immediately adopted

10:58

the slogan and

11:03

bringyass.com now

11:05

redirects you to their website. I

11:09

have to say, personally, I really hope

11:11

this catches on in every state. Just

11:14

think, Virginia is for ass lovers.

11:20

Or my favorite, my favorite, what

11:22

happens in Vegas stays in your

11:24

ass. Medically

11:28

true. I

11:35

think it's pretty good. I mean, Minnesota.

11:38

Right? Why not? That's

11:40

their other slogan. Minnesota,

11:46

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Hi, you're on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me. Hi

15:02

Tom, this is Greg. I'm calling

15:04

from Cordova-Dara, California. Just a

15:06

few freeway exits north of the Golden Gate Bridge

15:09

in Marin County. Oh, that is

15:11

a good part of the country. What do you do there?

15:13

What do you do there for fun? Well,

15:15

when I'm not in my hot tub, we

15:17

enjoy hiking with the dogs. I feel like the hot

15:19

tub was kind of an

15:22

invitation. Anybody

15:25

from the panel is welcome to join. Oh!

15:28

Not now, not now. We've got a ways to

15:30

go. All right, it's

15:33

nice to have you with us, Greg.

15:35

You're going to play our game in

15:37

which you must try to tell the

15:39

truth from fiction. What's

15:41

the topic, Bill? Stain-blocking

15:43

ceiling paint in the

15:45

news. Much like winning

15:47

a hot dog eating contest, getting stains

15:50

on your ceiling is both disgusting and

15:52

impressive. Stain-blocking

15:56

ceiling paint hit the headlines this week.

16:00

are going to tell you why. Pick the

16:02

one who's telling the truth and you'll win

16:04

the weight waiter of your choice on your

16:06

voicemail. First up

16:09

is Jesse Klein. Brynn Smith

16:11

has long been considered a medical miracle

16:13

by all who know her in her

16:16

close-knit community of Montecito, California. Even

16:18

though she just turned 70 years old she

16:20

appears no older than a fresh-faced 21 year

16:22

old. Brynn has been famously tight-lipped

16:24

about it until this week when on

16:27

the occasion of her 70th birthday she

16:29

gave an interview to the local paper

16:31

in which she finally filled the beans

16:33

or rather the pink. Californians

16:35

are used to rooting out beauty tricks

16:37

that you might not expect says Brynn.

16:39

We use natural aloe for sunburns, honey

16:42

and chamomile for face masks, things like

16:44

that. So years ago when someone

16:46

on my anti-vax friendster group told me

16:49

they'd heard about using stain protecting sealing

16:51

paint for skin I was all

16:53

ears like you've got my attention. The

16:56

good thing Brynn recounts is that it's affordable and

16:58

you can find it in bulk anywhere paint is

17:00

sold. Brynn recalls once asking

17:02

her local hardware store why they always had

17:05

so much of it. I

17:07

asked doesn't anyone else here buy it and they

17:09

said not really just a few old perds

17:11

here and there. So

17:17

that 70 year old

17:20

sunscreen-sealing paint from Jesse Klein your

17:22

next paint parable comes from Luke

17:25

Burbank. What do you get

17:27

for the person who has everything? An

17:29

indictment in Arizona, a

17:32

$153 million judgment for defamation in Georgia,

17:34

a tenuous relationship with brown

17:36

hair dye. No this guy's already got

17:38

all of that. Rudy

17:40

Giuliani is turning 80 years young

17:42

this month and he's gonna party

17:45

like it's his birthday with celebrations in New York

17:47

and Palm Beach and the

17:49

invite that went out did include

17:51

an Amazon gift registry with things

17:53

that he was asking for. A

17:55

document scanner, a

17:57

podcasting microphone and

17:59

something listed as stain blocking

18:02

ceiling paint, which

18:04

someone has purchased for him. It is

18:07

unclear what Giuliani's exact plans are for

18:09

the paint or how his

18:11

ceilings got so stained, but

18:14

it's safe to assume he'll be blaming it

18:16

on Crooked Hillary or Sleepy Joe, which ironically

18:18

is also the name of a weighted anti-anxiety

18:21

teddy bear that he's requested, still

18:23

available on the list, $49.99. Well,

18:31

that's Rudy Giuliani creepy ceiling paint

18:33

from Luke Burbank. And your last

18:35

story of the scare up there

18:38

comes from Shintira Jackson. Kristen

18:40

Waite is a retired nurse from Des Moines,

18:42

Iowa. She's always been

18:45

a couponer and even made an

18:47

appearance on extreme couponing in the

18:49

90s. After retiring, Kristen

18:51

moved on from coupons and set her

18:54

sights on winning rassals. After much trial

18:56

and error and a little

18:58

bit of luck, Kristen won her first prize,

19:00

a pack of kosher hot dogs from her

19:02

local deli. And boy, was she hooked. Kristen

19:07

got so good at winning, there were

19:09

new prizes showing up on her front

19:11

door every morning. Her husband, Dan, began

19:13

to worry when Kristen started winning rassals

19:15

for things she didn't really need. Kristen

19:17

agreed to go to Raffles Anonymous twice

19:20

a week and things were going great

19:22

until an 18 wheeler full

19:24

of a lifetime supply of stained

19:26

blocking ceiling paint pulled up to

19:28

the house. Even if

19:31

they painted every ceiling in Des Moines, there

19:33

would still be an endless supply. Now,

19:35

Kristen finally learned her lesson and gave

19:37

up on big rassals, though she still

19:39

enters local rassals for donuts and other

19:41

desserts. She calls it

19:43

being California sober. Okay,

19:49

Greg. So you've got the

19:51

70 year old sunscreen ceiling

19:53

paint from Jesse Klein. You've got

19:56

the Rudy Giuliani asking for stained

19:58

blocking ceiling paint for for his

20:00

80th birthday from Luke, and

20:03

Shantira's story about a raffle-addicted woman

20:05

who hit rock bottom by winning

20:08

ceiling paint. Which is the real

20:10

story from this week's news? I

20:13

believe New York's former maker may

20:15

have put something strange on his

20:18

birthday list. All

20:20

right, so your choice is this story

20:22

about Rudy Giuliani. To find out the

20:24

correct answer, we spoke to the reporter

20:26

who broke the real story. On

20:29

Rudy Giuliani's birthday list in Sweden,

20:31

a 55-year-old TV showed your harmonics

20:33

to him in the stain blocking

20:36

ceiling paint. Oh,

20:38

that was Ian Moore of

20:40

Page Six talking about Rudy

20:43

Giuliani's birthday wish list, which

20:45

for reasons best left unknown

20:47

included stain blocking ceiling paint.

20:50

Congratulations, Greg. You got it right. He

20:55

earned a point for Luke Burbank, and you've

20:57

won our prize, the voice of your choice

20:59

on your voicemail. Thank you for playing with

21:01

us, Greg. Thanks, everybody. See

21:04

you in the hot tub. And

21:13

now the game we call Not

21:15

My Job. J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

21:17

is a chef and food writer

21:19

who first found fame creating the

21:21

Food Lab blog for Serious Eats.

21:24

Since then, he started his own YouTube

21:26

channel, wrote a kid's book, and has

21:28

been going restaurant by restaurant on a

21:31

quest to eat all the

21:33

teriyaki in Seattle. There's

21:36

a lot of

21:38

it. J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, welcome

21:40

to Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. Thank

21:43

you for having me.

21:48

Very good to see you. You

21:50

had a very interesting first job

21:52

getting into the restaurant business when you

21:54

were a youngster. What

21:57

was that job? I

21:59

was a knife of the eye. round grill at

22:03

a Mongolian grill, you know, one of those

22:05

places where you... My first job was actually

22:07

prep cook. I got promoted to night at

22:09

the round grill within a month. Really?

22:12

Yeah. How did you rise in the ranks? I

22:15

was mostly related to my

22:17

catching shrimps behind my back skills.

22:20

Nice. Did you have that skill when

22:22

you went in or you just kind of... No, no, no. I

22:25

trained extra-curricularly. I went home. I

22:28

went home. Practice with rocks

22:30

and worms and stuff like that. Very

22:32

impressive. Now, you have

22:35

a really cool bent in your

22:37

food journey in that you have

22:39

a real... You're

22:41

able to be very accessible of showing

22:43

people what it is, but also backing

22:45

up with the science behind food and

22:47

food prep. What

22:49

was your first love? Were

22:52

you a science mind or were you a food mind? Science

22:55

was my first love. My

22:58

first love was Don Herbert, Mr.

23:00

Wizard. Mr. Wizard. I was like about six days

23:02

in every day so I couldn't watch that show

23:04

when I was a little kid. I

23:07

think science communication has always been sort of what

23:09

I've enjoyed. I've enjoyed watching good science communicators and I

23:12

thought, hey, that's the thing I could maybe try and

23:14

do. I don't think you necessarily had to be science,

23:16

but I like science and I like cooking science. Wow.

23:19

How old were you when you were watching Mr. Wizard? Six.

23:22

Six? Yeah. I

23:25

don't know, mid 80s. Your

23:27

parents were impressed. They were like, oh, cool. They

23:29

were asleep. Oh, they were asleep.

23:31

You get up early and watch Mr. Wizard. My

23:36

Winnie the Pooh onesie. Adorable.

23:42

You're a stay at home dad. How many kids do you have?

23:44

I got two. You got two.

23:46

How old do they know? Seven and two and a half.

23:49

Seven and two and a half. Oh, that's... Well,

23:51

half of that's great. No, they get better. I

23:58

Find that they improve with age. The. New

24:00

Emperor with a I felt the same way

24:02

of the kids Q when they first show

24:04

up here is is Cuba and one day

24:06

when we can Sigma diner and have a

24:08

conversation it can be really amazing out my

24:10

mom terrible right now yes yes I so

24:13

do you have you balance the and he

24:15

also got a houseboat year and a movie

24:17

studio you can we do and stuff Yeah

24:19

now is easy to get the house vote

24:21

because children in Er in er in the

24:23

real house. Ah yes the children has a

24:25

real how says ac balancing I'm working and

24:27

I could work and trying to work out

24:29

of a kitchen where your home for trying

24:31

to feed a family that includes a seven

24:33

year old and soon afterwards he got a

24:35

little death typical. That really shows how difficult

24:37

children are that you'd rather be on a

24:39

boat rocking back and we're on earth a

24:41

say that that's easier to cook their that

24:43

now I have owners up. you have to

24:45

put your your bowl and the right side

24:47

of the cutting boards or that when you're

24:49

carrots roll off to the spirit ready to.

24:53

You do very cool cool

24:55

cross culture stuff. There's like

24:57

you, you don't have any

24:59

boundaries. It seemed and I grew

25:02

up with Italian American and when I

25:04

saw your video of putting pasta and

25:06

a walk and going to stir fry

25:08

I have to say I got nervous

25:11

and call my grandma. With

25:15

with a suitable for com your cell phone or to

25:17

refer her to see am I allowed to watch this

25:19

video. Kids

25:23

are the like their television show. ah the

25:25

question how as a sort of first season

25:27

of and I thought it would stop Probably

25:30

Yeah I'm as I think it for is

25:32

sort of capturing the feel of what a

25:34

restaurant kitchen is like. Is it become closer

25:37

than anything I've seen in a maybe now

25:39

on one second. Ah I see the of

25:41

food and it necessary I've I've heard the

25:43

second season scurried off. In. about another good

25:46

one for president your that as have you

25:48

seen episode mid seventies in the one at

25:50

home one long shots were it's the pentagon

25:52

building building that that's a that's a field

25:54

like the first yeah it feels like it's

25:56

like a four hour service compressed into a

25:58

twenty minute i'm since oh dammit I'm not going

26:00

for like four hours, but you're also doing it seven days

26:02

a week and you're doing it on like four hours of

26:04

sleep. That's insane. Explain

26:07

to me what the Kenji effect

26:09

is. I don't know. Yes,

26:12

you do. I don't know. I

26:15

like to tell people if I find something good to

26:17

eat and I like to share that and then sometimes

26:20

people go and eat that after. Eat

26:22

that thing after. When I got

26:25

here this morning, I like

26:28

very basic of me Googled good lunch

26:30

in Seattle and your face popped up.

26:33

Did you have me? You

26:37

recommended like a fish

26:39

and chips place that we're going to check out, but

26:41

I just saved it. It was a

26:43

list of 10. I think

26:45

it is and it's on the list. Don't

26:48

go there. I'm going. And

26:52

then I saw that you were the guest and I was

26:54

like, damn, he really knows what he's doing. He

26:57

is number one before Wikipedia. It's you. Should

26:59

we play the game? Yeah. Yeah.

27:02

Let's play the game. Thank you. Jay Kenji

27:04

Lopez Alt. We've

27:12

invited you here to play a game

27:14

we're calling Serious Eats

27:17

Meet Serious Feet. Okay.

27:21

You wrote for Serious Eats, so we

27:24

thought we'd ask you about three different

27:26

people with Serious Eats. Okay.

27:30

Like this, like the kind covered

27:32

by your, your bright sneakers. Yeah.

27:34

The kind in your shoes. Okay. Answer

27:37

two out of three correctly and you'll win

27:39

our prize for one of our

27:41

listeners. Bill, who is Kenji playing

27:43

for? Jessica Castillo of Seattle, Washington.

27:45

All right. Are you ready? I'm

27:48

ready. Okay.

27:51

Here's

27:53

your first question. Okay. Football

27:55

kickers, of course, have very serious

27:57

feet and as we now know...

28:00

really well thought out opinions about

28:03

women in the workplace. What

28:08

did one player for the San

28:10

Diego Chargers say about their team's

28:12

kicker when he was miked up

28:14

on the field? A. I

28:17

just want to pick that little guy up and

28:19

give him a piggyback ride. B.

28:22

Why doesn't he wear his helmet on

28:24

his foot? C.

28:26

What's the name of our kicker? What's

28:36

the one you're supposed to go to if you

28:38

don't know? I'll read the answers again. Yeah, it's

28:40

very clearly C, but read them again. You

28:44

got it. I did. C.

28:46

You're right. C.

28:52

And when he was told it

28:54

was Cameron Dicker, aka Dicker the

28:56

Kicker, he did

28:58

not believe it. Here's

29:05

your next question. Soccer

29:08

players have serious feet. Lee

29:10

Todd, a player in the UK,

29:13

holds the record for getting the

29:15

fastest red card just two seconds

29:17

into a match. What

29:19

did he do to get ejected? A.

29:22

He forgot to put on his shorts before running

29:24

on the field. B.

29:27

After the referee blew the whistle to

29:29

start the game, he said, F

29:32

me, that was loud. Or

29:36

C. Told the player on the other

29:38

team, as soon as the match starts,

29:40

I'm going to punch you, and

29:43

then punched him. I'm

29:49

looking to the person who gave me the right answer last

29:51

time. You got a plant out

29:53

there? I'm going to go

29:55

with B. You're right. Yeah,

29:58

there you go. You got it. Alright,

30:02

you're doing great. Thank you. I

30:05

knew all these dances. I

30:08

watched the news. Last

30:11

question. Maybe the most

30:14

serious pair of feet ever belonged

30:16

to Michael Flatley, Lord of the

30:18

Dance. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.

30:20

But his feet didn't just make him

30:22

millions as a dancer, he also did

30:24

what with them? A. Played

30:27

the drums with Wilton Marsalis' jazz band

30:29

holding the sticks with his toes. B.

30:34

Used them as brushes to make paintings

30:36

on the floor based on the theme

30:38

of the Irish potato famine. Or

30:42

C. Disassembled and reassembled

30:44

a Rolex watch while

30:46

blindfolded. I'm

30:54

gonna go with the painting. That's

30:56

right. It's the feet painting. Fun

31:00

fact, his feet paintings have sold for more

31:02

than $100,000 each. Phil,

31:07

how did Kenji do on our quiz? I

31:09

know somebody, Michael Flatley, is gonna be really

31:11

proud. He got them all right. Bravo.

31:17

Jay Kenji Lopez-Alt is author of

31:19

The Food Lab, and he co-hosts

31:22

the Radio Topia podcast, The Recipe

31:24

with Kenji and Deb. Jay Kenji

31:27

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33:01

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33:03

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33:05

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33:08

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33:11

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33:41

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33:44

Jesse. Yes. We

33:46

have some security systems that sound a loud

33:48

siren and call the police.

33:51

Well a new generation of alarms

33:53

does what to deter robbers? Does

33:56

it spark like a dog? Oh,

34:00

well, I'm patenting that idea, yes. Would you like

34:02

a hint? I would love

34:04

one. Okay. It hurts and

34:07

you'll have to do laundry. Does

34:10

it make a mom? Is

34:14

there one more hint or have I lost this

34:16

point? Paint

34:25

balls, then. It's... Yes, right.

34:27

It suits paint, it does. Yes, it does.

34:30

It shoots intruders with paint balls. The

34:33

$2,000 Paint Cam Eve system uses

34:35

AI to detect if the person

34:37

at the door is a threat

34:39

and if they are, it barrages

34:41

them with paint balls. How could

34:44

this go wrong? This will successfully

34:46

thwart any would-be robber or Girl

34:48

Scout delivering those cookies you would.

34:51

Right. Is this company run by a Macaulay

34:53

Culkin? It's

34:55

a powerful Home Alone vibe. Yes.

34:59

Yes. Yes. This

35:01

week, a woman discovered her husband was

35:03

having an affair after their dog did

35:06

what? The

35:09

dog, the dog,

35:11

like, threw up underwear? Yes,

35:14

ate another woman's underwear. But

35:17

then how is this scene? Come

35:19

with me, I'm going to take you on a ride. Okay. Bring

35:22

it out. It's too often. The

35:25

woman took the dog

35:27

to the vet, who, by the way,

35:29

mentioned, quote, it was my first day.

35:33

The vet said once they showed the

35:35

woman what they had removed from the

35:37

dog's stomach, she immediately

35:40

called the husband, yelled at him, and he

35:42

admitted to the affair. So

35:45

the dog was in trouble, they took it

35:47

in, and now someone's in

35:49

the doghouse because the dog is in the

35:51

ICU. Be

35:54

cool, Dr. Kiljoy. Just say

35:56

it was a dick. You've

36:00

taken the wrong side here, I feel like. Just trying

36:03

to keep it interesting. The

36:05

dynamism of this program. The

36:08

dog is fine, by the way. Plus, while

36:10

they were there at the vet, they were able to

36:12

neuter the husband. So

36:17

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37:08

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37:10

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37:14

is Denver, Colorado? What do you do there? It's good.

37:16

Weather is kind of crazy out

37:18

here. It's still trying to figure out if

37:21

it's snow season or drought season, I guess. Yeah,

37:24

what should it be? In

37:27

olden times, when

37:29

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37:31

May be like? I

37:34

haven't lived here long enough to tell you. I

37:37

think probably what it is right now. Still

37:39

cold? Is it possible

37:41

it's the curse of Lucifer? The

37:45

weather trouble? The fact that you have

37:47

an 80-foot demonic, anatomically correct blue horse

37:50

by the airport named Lucifer? Did the

37:52

weird stuff start after you erected that

37:54

idol? She just got there,

37:56

Luz. Well,

38:01

welcome to the show, Tiffany. Thank

38:03

you. Bill Curtis is going to read

38:05

you three news-related limericks with the last

38:08

word or phrase missing from each. If

38:10

you can fill in that last word

38:12

or phrase correctly on two limericks, you're

38:14

a winner. Here's

38:17

your first limerick. Saying

38:19

cheers for things assumes that

38:21

odd. Wearing jumpers

38:23

won't make me a fraud. Give

38:26

my accent a break. I am

38:28

not being fake. I've been changed after

38:31

living abroad. Yes.

38:34

You got it. That's right. Abroad.

38:38

You know that dumb little accent your friend

38:40

has when they come back from study abroad?

38:43

It turns out it's real. Linguistics

38:46

has just validated the worst person

38:48

at your college who came back

38:50

from Barcelona. Ibiza. So

38:53

fun to say. Yeah.

38:56

Calgary. Yeah.

38:59

Calgary. That one gets me every

39:02

time. Luke,

39:04

you're not getting the game. All

39:07

right. Here's your next limerick.

39:09

Leaving picnic trash is a grave

39:11

sin, but this box is

39:14

too large to fit in. After

39:16

lunch on the grass next

39:18

to cardboard and glass, my

39:21

used pizza box gets its

39:23

own... Fin? Yeah.

39:27

That's right. Fin. Good. Last

39:31

week, New York's Central Park Conservatory

39:33

installed a new recycling bin just

39:35

for pizza boxes. There's

39:38

never been a trash can so tailored to

39:40

New Yorkers since the one that rented for

39:42

$6,000 a month. The

39:48

new receptacle is tall and square so

39:50

you can stack pizza boxes flat instead

39:52

of having to cram the pizza box

39:54

into a little round hole the same

39:56

way you crammed the pizza slice into

39:58

your face hole. All

40:03

right, here's your last limerick. Young

40:05

men who are not fully grown

40:08

have a sense that makes most

40:10

mortals moan. But

40:12

most body spray heats their

40:14

classmates at bay. So

40:17

they're wearing expensive. Is it

40:20

cologne? Yes, it is. Cologne.

40:25

According to the New York Times,

40:27

luxury cologne is all the rage with

40:30

middle school boys. Apparently,

40:32

they've all moved on from low-to-ax

40:35

body spray to Tom Ford's $300

40:37

tobacco Benile. And

40:42

for the little ones, Chanel numbered this

40:44

many. I

40:52

feel like this middle

40:54

school boys have always been

40:56

on either two ends of the spectrum, where

40:58

you've absolutely never seen deodorant

41:00

a day and then lie, or

41:05

more cologne than any one human

41:07

should ever have on. Yeah,

41:09

I think a lot of teenage boys,

41:12

like, my memory of this was their

41:15

understanding is that they have to use, but

41:17

it's like a single-use bottle. They

41:21

really should just back up and encourage these kids

41:24

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41:26

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41:28

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43:20

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43:22

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43:25

Luke has three. Sh

43:32

and your

43:39

first question. Fill

43:41

in the blank. On

43:43

Thursday, the Justice Department filed an

43:45

antitrust lawsuit against blank. Pick

43:48

a minister. On

43:50

Wednesday, Donald Trump's primary challenger blank

43:52

said she would vote for him.

43:55

Nikki Haley. Right.

43:57

This week, dozens of people were injured after

43:59

several blanks. touched down in Iowa.

44:01

Turnitos. Right. Following

44:04

a fatal helicopter crash, funeral services

44:06

for the president of Blank began

44:08

on Tuesday. Iran. Right.

44:11

After being told by the city that the

44:13

boat in his driveway needed to be behind

44:15

a fence, a man in California built the

44:18

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44:21

then painted it. Right.

44:24

Painted a photo-realistic picture of his boat on

44:26

it. On Monday, seafood

44:29

chain Blank officially filed for

44:31

bankruptcy. A drug officer. Right.

44:34

On Wednesday, Mattel announced that nine

44:36

female athletes would have blank dolls

44:38

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44:40

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44:42

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44:44

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44:46

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44:48

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44:51

cyber truck. A post

44:53

office truck. The

44:57

police were just about to

44:59

pull over the Mustang when the postal

45:01

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45:03

100 miles an hour. Yes,

45:07

she shouldn't have been racing on

45:09

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45:11

post office motto. Neither snow nor

45:14

rain nor heat nor some D-bag

45:16

in a souped-up Mustang will stop

45:18

it. What

45:21

a world. Bill, how did Jesse do?

45:24

Seven right, 14 more. Bill

45:26

to 16, you're in the lead. Wow.

45:31

Nicely done. All

45:34

right, Shantira, you're up next. Fill

45:36

in the blank. On

45:38

Tuesday, Spain, Norway, and

45:40

Ireland formally recognized Blank's

45:42

statehood. Right. On

45:45

Wednesday, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak

45:47

announced surprise elections in blank.

45:49

The UK? Right.

45:52

On Tuesday, the defense rested in Blank's

45:54

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45:58

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46:00

expected to rise faster than predicted. So

46:03

you love them? Right. While

46:05

responding to a call about a

46:07

car colliding with a moose, an

46:09

ambulance in Canada blanked. He

46:11

had a moose. Right. According

46:15

to a new study, taking blank oil

46:17

supplements may increase risk of

46:19

stroke. Tissue? Right. This

46:22

week, a bill was put before the

46:24

Taiwanese parliament that one member disagreed with.

46:26

And did a man ran away with

46:28

it, and it was cool as hell!

46:30

That's right. Great guess. To

46:35

make sure it didn't pass, he stole

46:37

the bill off the podium and tried

46:39

to run out of the building. Fall

46:41

air. It was

46:44

shocking to see, but don't worry, it could never

46:46

happen in America, because no one in Congress has

46:48

been able to move faster than a brisk walk

46:50

for at least 20 years. Bill,

46:56

how does Shantira do? I can't

46:58

remember this happening, but she got seven

47:00

rights, 14 more points, total of 16

47:02

tied. Tied!

47:05

To Jessie. So

47:09

how many does Luke need to win? Seven.

47:12

Seven. Okay, Luke, this is for the

47:14

game. Fill in the blank. On Thursday,

47:16

the Supreme Court sided with the

47:18

GOP over a redistricting map in

47:20

blank. South Carolina. Right. On

47:23

Wednesday, the White House announced a new round

47:25

of blank debt relief. Student money.

47:28

Right. This week, families

47:30

of students and teachers at Rob

47:32

Elementary School in blank reached a

47:34

$2 million settlement with the city.

47:36

Yuvaldi. Right. On Monday, the

47:38

International Criminal Court announced it was

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seeking an arrest warrant for Israeli

47:43

President Blank. Benjamin Netanyahu.

47:45

Right. This week, world

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champion speed eater Takiro Kobayashi

47:49

announced he was retiring to

47:51

focus on blank. Curing

47:54

his heartburn. Close

47:58

to focus on his gut health. I

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mean, I'm

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getting a... Alright,

48:07

you're making a case. I'm going to go

48:09

for the judgment to bill. Let's go for

48:11

gut help. It's help. Thank you. You're in.

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Thank you. Citing

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slower than average sales, Nissan announced

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it was postponing production on some

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blank vehicles. E.V.s. Right.

48:23

This week, a mariachi band who

48:25

attacked a fire eater to take

48:28

his performance space on a street

48:30

in Mexico regretted their actions after

48:32

the fire eater blanked. Blue

48:35

fire on them. Yes.

48:41

In video captured by security cameras, you can

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see the mariachi band try to force the

48:45

fire eater out of his space

48:47

only to be met by a bunch

48:49

of fireballs. The

48:52

band quickly fled the scene and decided

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to try their luck against...oh no, why

48:56

did they pick the shark juggler? Bill,

49:01

did Luke do well enough to win?

49:04

Well, he got seven right, 14

49:06

more points, and he totals

49:08

17 with a win. In

49:12

just a minute, we'll ask our panelists to

49:14

predict who's going to blame their spouse next.

49:18

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Tell Me is Mike Danforth. Now,

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panel, who's going to

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be the next person to blame their

50:12

spouse? Chantara Jackson.

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Every suburban mom is going to blame

50:17

her husband for making red rocks to

50:19

go bankrupt, because he ate too much

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at Inver Shrimp. Luke Burbank. First

50:28

kicker Harrison Butker will blame his

50:30

wife for letting him think that

50:33

leaving the house and speaking his

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mind was an okay thing for

50:38

a man to do. Jesse Kly.

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Well, Elon Musk isn't married, but if he

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was, he would try to blame the Cybertruck

50:45

design on his wife, but no one would

50:47

believe it because only a man could make

50:49

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And if anything

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all happens, Paul, we'll ask

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Don't Tell Me. Thank you,

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Bill Curtis. Thanks also to Chantara

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