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But right now, it's your chance to join our action news team. Give us a call. The number is 1-888-888-888-8924-8924. Let's welcome our first listener contestant. Hi, you're on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. Hi, this is Ben Johnson from Torrance, California. Hey, Ben and Torrance up the coast in the LA area. What do you do there? I am a municipal planner. A municipal planner. You plan out municipalities. I know. It's very exciting work. Yeah. Yeah. Well, Ben, let me introduce you to our panel this week. First up, a Peabody and an Emmy Award-winning journalist and comedian. It's Alzo Slade. What's up, Ben? How you doing, buddy? Still well on yourself? So far, so good. Next, you've seen him and heard him in The Good Place, Loki, Star Trek, Lower Decks, and currently in Man on the Inside. It's Eugene Cordero. Hey, Ben. How you doing? And you can see her in Beverly Hills, California at the Wallace Ennenberg Center for the Performing Arts on June 12th. Her podcast is Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone. It's Paula Poundstone. Hey, Ben. Hi, Paula. So, Ben, welcome to the show. As is our practice, we're going to start with who's bill this time. Bill Curtis is going to read for you three quotations from this week's news. If you can correctly identify or explain just two of them, you know you'll win our prize. Any voice from our show you might choose in your voicemail. Are you ready to go? Ready. All right. Your first quote is about somebody who made a state visit this last week. People have switched them from no kings to okay one king. So, that was a journalist quoted in The New Yorker about the reception. To whose state visit? King Charles. King Charles, yes. Charles III, the president of the United States was absolutely thrilled to host the king for a state visit. They have so much in common. They're both old white men who loved cheating on their wives. You know that's what the fist bump was about, right? At the state dinner that Trump threw for the king, the king gave Trump a, this is true, a giant gold bell that said Trump on it to signify that his British friends were only a bell ring away. And it was excited. The president loved it. Melania was thrilled. She tied the bell around the president's neck so she knows when he's wandering there. I wonder when, when, when they come over from, from across the pond, I wonder if they ask like how long are y'all going to call this New York and New Jersey? Like it's been around for quite a long time. I think you just call it, you know, well, if we just called it York and Jersey, they'd have to call their places old York and old Jersey. Well, I think that's very American. Yeah. The only part of the whole thing that I saw really, I heard about the speech, but I saw the clip on the internet of Trump pushing, cutting in the receiving line between the queen and King Charles. And they seemed surprised. Really? Because apparently the king's mother hadn't told him that Trump does that. Yeah. Normally you have to be out on the streets to get that kind of rude stuff. That's true. You know, when you're in the roped off section, you're generally safe. Yeah. But what is true that Queen Elizabeth's presence was there at the dinner. I mean, he's only been king for a short while. Trump even took a moment to ask King Charles, remind me, was the dead lady, your wife or your mom? Wow. Oh. San Diego little sensitivity. Yeah. All right. And what was the answer? Apparently the king, who knew, was very funny in his remarks at the state dinner. It was great. He spared nobody. He was like, I see we're having the classic British dessert tonight, spotted dick. Oh, wait, that's just Stephen Miller. You do a good King Charles there. Thank you. Thank you. Yes. All right. Your next quote is from a Los Angeles real estate agent. It was designed so you don't ever have to leave if you don't want to. He was talking about one of his new listings with a price of $400 million. It is the most expensive, whatever put on the market in America. It's like a home or a mansion. Yes, it is a mansion. Yes, at that price, it better be. Oh, yeah. Oh, no. I will say that is not a home. No, it's just one more sign that our revolution is overdue. The journal says that the house is listed at a price that is more than $100 million over the current record for an American home. The mansion has six family bedrooms, 10 staff bedrooms, a gym, a chef's kitchen and a pool. Oh, wait, that's the guest house. Wow. The main house. This is all true. Has its own chef's kitchen and gym plus a spa, a beauty salon, 10 family bedrooms and 13 staff bedrooms, which is a lot of staff bedrooms. I don't know if you're the kind of person who can buy a place like this, you should be careful about letting the staff out number you. I mean, $400 million. That's typical for LA. That's about right. Doesn't it just seem a little tone deaf with everything, you know, with people, you know, housing costs are really, you think $400 million is tone deaf? I kind of, I just feel like everybody's struggling to pay their rent or pay their mortgage and some, you know, if they were a little bit more respectful of the trouble the rest of us and they would have listed it at $399.99. Thank you. That's what I think. It has every possible amenity, including, and this is true, a working x-ray suite. Wow. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Read it. It's working? Yes. Oh, okay. Okay. Because in my house, I have a non-working x-ray. Just the worst. And I'm just like, what am I doing here? It's weird. I mean, it's unnecessary. If you have that much money, you should be able to replace your bones with something that doesn't break. I don't have an x-ray suite, but I have a guy who just guesses what's on your inside and sketches it. Yeah. That's been enough so far. Can you imagine being a guest at this place and you have such high expectations and you get into the shower and the water pressure is trash? All right. Ben, your last quote is the Wall Street Journal again. This time, they're writing about a new innovation in cars. It increases the risk of backing over something or someone. So apparently we're going to enjoy an increased risk of backing over something because what standard feature are the newest cars getting rid of? Do I get a hint? You get a hint. Yeah. Automakers are all about looking forward, right? Not looking behind you. Oh, are they getting rid of rear view cameras? No, we need those. In fact, this car will entirely rely on rear view cameras because it will not have a... It won't have a back window? It will not have a rear window. Yes, it's gone. Gone by the way, the hand crank on the front of the car. It's all obsolete. The 2026 Polestar IV EV is sitting for five, a 300 mile range and no rear window. This is crazy. I actually, it's not that crazy. I just realized my own car doesn't have a rear window. It's just so focused on my phone while driving. I didn't notice. So you cannot see out of the back of the car if you turn around, it's nothing opaque. Instead, there are, of course, rear facing cameras. And instead of a rear view mirror, it is a rear view mirror shaped video display, right? Gives you all the advantages of a window and it could stop working at any moment. They have a little sign on it that says objects are less important than they appear. Bill, how did Ben do in our quiz? Three up. Kind of soft to a good start. Congratulations, Ben. Nice, Ben. Thank you. Right now, panel time for you to answer some questions about this week's news. Also, there's a new app for fans of scary movies. It warns you just before, what happens? You get scared. Exactly. Something scary happens or jump scares. I was just joking. The app is called binge and you just tell it what you're watching and when you start the movie, it'll warn you about the jump scares before they happen. It's a great idea. But why is the notification sound? Someone yelling, boom. I mean, it truly does ruin the whole movie for them. Yeah. Well, I mean, apparently this is something that people want as a popular app, but I'm not a fan of horror movies myself. But isn't the point for those who do that they want to be scared? Yeah. This is like watching a movie with somebody that's seen the movie already and they say, watch this. I was watching before you said, watch this. I could have used this when I was dating. How so? They jumped out at you? Because I would have my phone by my side and when I know what scares about to happen, I just put my arm around the young lady. And then so when she gets scared, I'm already there to support her. Yeah. I'm that kind of nice guy. No, I thought what you meant was you're at the date, you're talking and the phone lights up and says, she's about to tell you she's a Scientologist. Yes. I mean, that would be a great app. Yeah, that would be a good app. Yeah, that would be a good app. Raise yourself. Coming up, things are looking up in our Bluff the Listener game called 1-888-Wait, Wait to Play. We'll be back in a minute with more of Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me from NPR. Hey, before we get back to the show, a quick plug for a very special event. Now, you may have heard Bill Curtis, our judge and scorekeeper, is retiring from Wait, Wait. I still have problems dealing with it, but in Bill's honor, we are hosting a live virtual event on Monday, May 11th and you can join us. Bill and I will talk about his time on Wait, Wait, his career as a legendary Anchorman and we'll be answering your questions about Bill and the show. So to get your invitation, just sign up for NPR Plus and we'll send you a registration link. Signing up is also a great way to support the show and NPR. So just go to plus.npr.org and watch your email. Again, that's plus.npr.org. At the San Diego Civic Theater in San Diego, California, Peter Sago. Thank you, Bill. And thank you, everybody. Right now, it is time for the Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me Bluff the Listener game called 1-888-Wait, Wait to Play our game in the air. Hi, you are on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. Hi, Peter. This is Tim Borden from Gallup, New Mexico. Gallup, New Mexico. What do you do there? I work for the National Forest Foundation. I do forest restoration and reforestation. And in my spare time, I travel around and I sing with a sea shanty band called the Strongback. You sing in a sea shanty band? The Southwest is known for its flash flooding, so you need to be ready. That's true. I see your point. Very good. Well, welcome to the show, Tim. You're going to play our game in which you have to tell truth from fiction. Bill, what is Tim's topic? A terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. We all have bad days. You get dumped. You lose your job. You're in the Epstein files telling him how you got dumped and lost your job. But sometimes something bad can turn into a good thing. This week, we heard about somebody whose bad day ended up with a surprising silver lining. Our panelists are going to tell you about it. Pick the one who's telling the truth and you'll win the Wait, Waiter of your choice on your voicemail. Are you ready to play? I am. Let's do it. All right. First, let's hear from Eugene Cordero. In December, New York Giants kicker Young Ho Ko ran up to kick a field goal at the Monday night football game against the New England Patriots and instead of the ball kicked the turf right in front of it. It was instantly deemed one of the most embarrassing kicks in NFL history. And Ko was cut from the team a few weeks later. So it was pretty bad for him, but ultimately good for a fan. One marked tooth hacker watching from home. He replayed the slapstick kick multiple times and laughed so hard he had a seizure. A feat every comedian dreams of. Luckily, Mr. Tooth Hacker's wife is a nurse and rushed him to the ER where they discovered a tumor on the left side of his brain. The tumor was swiftly removed and turned out to be benign. So a terrible kick turned out to be a life saving catch. One of the worst kicks in NFL history leads to a fan's tumor getting discovered and removed. Your next story of a silk purse from a sow's ear comes from Paula Poundstone. After an hour long standoff with a passenger who commandeered her drink card and food service tongs before being subdued and duct taped to their seat, flight attendant Phoebe Wayland used her incident recovery time provided by American Airlines to prepare and pitch a reality show to the television networks. We just got the green light from ABC after a huge bidding war, says an overjoyed Wayland. It's like below deck but higher. Each episode the audience sees the struggles between the flight crew and the passengers they have to deal with. There are bloody fights over passengers putting their seat back. There are passengers claiming their steamer trunks are carry-on luggage. There's one episode where a famous violinist is forced to put their violin in the overhead compartment and another passenger releases termites into the compartment. And by the time the plane lands there are termite mounds and violin strings in the overhead compartment but no violin. Plus the purser has a thing for the guy in 3F. A flight attendant's terrible day at work inspires her to create a new reality show about all the terrible days that flight attendants endure. Your last story of a bad day turning good comes from Alzo Slade. This story begins the day that rapper actor LL Kujae woke up to his girlfriend frustrated with him over a constant problem. His ashy lips. His girlfriend looks at him and says are you going to do something about your lips every time we kiss I need a bandaid. He laughs she does it. She breaks up with him because of his dry lips. He grabs a cheap corner store lip balm applies it thick chalky it's like his lips are wearing a sweater he wipes it off and it gets worse so he does what most of us do. He licks his lips again and again and again. He goes to do an on-camera interview every question lick every pause lick every close-up lick but instead of nervous it looks intentional instead of a problem it looks like a move and the next week he has a product meeting they ask him you know what people associate you with right he pauses licks his lips and says yes so he introduces LL Kujae's take a lick lip balm a flavored lip balm that inspires users to constantly lick their lips just like he does this week it officially became a billion-dollar business which is why he's on the cover of this month's fortune magazine on his yacht that he named from ash to cash all right somebody's bad day turned into something good was it from Eugene Cordero how they famously flubbed a kick in the nfl let a man to laugh at it so hard that he ended up getting a tumor discovered from Paula Poundstone a flight attendant whose terrible day at work inspired her to become a reality tv mogul or from Alzo Slade LL Kujae turns his dry lips ending a relationship into a brand and a business which of these was the real story of good coming from bad well I'm not surprised that the giants are going to be given people seizures from how they were playing last year so I'm going to go with Eugene's story about the football fan with tumor you're going to go with Eugene's story about the football kick leading into a amused fan getting checked out when you needed to be well to find out the correct answer we spoke to that real person who benefited from a bad day I hate laughing this kick was expensive but you know what might have been an embarrassing moment to him it literally saved my life that was mark tooth hacker who laughed so hard at that muffed kick it ended up saving his life congratulations Tim you got it right you're in a point for Eugene and you've won our prize the voice of your choice and your voice about congratulations thank you so much for playing thanks everybody and now the game we call not my job there is perhaps nobody who represents the city of San Diego better than the legendary local news anchor Ron Burgundy they agree whose story was told in two hit documentaries anchor man and anchor man two both narrated by our own legendary newsman Bill Curtis we are delighted that mr. Burgundy could join us here on stage Ron Burgundy welcome to wait wait don't tell me thank you Peter thank you so much for having me it's great to be back here I imagine and I think our audience has proved it that when you come back to San Diego where you started your career you get quite a response people must be very excited to see people well I still live down here okay oh yeah I didn't realize condo in Pacific Beach sure uh I got evicted from my town home in Rancho Panasquitos so I'm I'm now you know you know I'm walking around the beach with my metal detector I still work with my my charity which is we're rehabbing dolphins we're trying to keep dolphins to stay in high school right because guess what the dropout rate for dolphins are in high school I wouldn't know 100% really yes wow that's why I see so many dolphins hanging out in the street corners with no games on weekends I have my my sea shanty group you do yes a lot of that going around we go back and forth from here to Gallup New Mexico sure and we have competitions and yeah absolutely things like that so it's a very full rich busy life yeah yeah Bill here your colleague in TV news he famously got his start as a young man when he went on the air in Topeka and warned thousands of people saving their lives about impending tornado all right yeah I'm sure your start as a newsman was something like that can I just say something I I admire Bill Curtis so much you're sure uh you are the gold standard your legendary baritone voice is what I tried to emulate and yet I couldn't hate someone more I've always been so jealous of your task but Bill and I we have had some times together really don't get Bill going on this story of Bill and I Walter Cronkite Angie Dickinson and a flamethrower down at the dog track in Tijuana oh wow that's all I'm gonna give you yeah that's all I'm gonna give you I remember when Bill did that all he said was I'm on assignment I'm on assignment yes yeah now Bill here I know uh having recently read his memoir has it covered some amazing stories he was at Chernobyl one of the first American journalists to go there he covered the fall of Iran were you covering those stories as well um yes well I would uh wait for Bill to file his report and then I you know I'd embellish uh I I didn't get the big assignments no uh when I was a younger man I I remember I reported the Vietnam War was over after one month so uh they didn't give me the big assignments right yeah you went over there came back and said it's going great it's going great yeah now they're looking for you to report on the Iran war yeah exactly yeah that one should be over any day now two weeks two weeks how the TV news business has changed have you had to adapt from your early days here as an anchorman it really it really has uh network news is really down the old toilet yeah um so an applause for network for the demise of network news I'm assuming that's what that's pretty much yeah well I possibly for toilets look I've still or there could be a lot of people who just enjoy a good toilet who doesn't yeah who doesn't I mean when you walk into a bathroom you see a finely sculpted piece of porcelain sure you're like that's a good looking toilet yeah what were we talking about we were talking about you Ron Burgundy legendary anchorman has adapted to the changes in television video news I have I pretty much broadcast my weekly report from my garage sure uh I have a satellite link up uh with my good buddy Elon Starling except he didn't give me access I have star dink yeah which only broadcasts about 500 yards outside of my place the one you bought on Tmoo the one I bought on Tmoo yeah I love Tmoo I'm a big Tmoo guy oh gosh just as good eighth of the price right and uh I think that's our jingle just as good eighth of the price but uh so the Burgundy report is out there the Burgundy reports out there I'm still submitting my resumes to local news stations really not getting any any uh nibbles I find that hard to believe uh given given your talent given your you would think so yeah you would think so yeah isn't independent news the thing anyways don't you want to be on that train yes what you said yeah well I do I want to be an independent journalist I don't want to be told what I what to think or what what to do well Ron have you given any thought to to the using the TikToks and the Instagrams for example look that's that's a trend that's going nowhere so well Ron Burgundy maybe you can consider this a job interview because we have in fact invited you here to play a game we're calling Anchorman meet the Anchorman you are of course the second most iconic Anchorman in America so we thought we'd ask you about Anchorman that is sailors and seaman answer two or three questions correctly you'll win our prize one of our listeners the voice of the weight-weighter of their choice for their voicemail bill who is your protege Ron Burgundy playing for Dave Dennis of San Diego California all right Dave Dennis a viewer all right here's your first question we'll start with Ernest Shackleton he was the famed captain who kept his entire crew alive for 18 months after their ship got trapped in ice and and Antarctica turns out among other things he was great at keeping up his crew's morale they held debates and they held singalongs and he let the crew do what was it a hold a weekly vote to update the rankings of who would be eaten first if they ran out of food b think up fun new names for the constellations or c build a big sexy lady snowman well i have been stranded before sure and with a large group and we knew we weren't going to be rescued for a while off the Aleutian islands sure what we didn't realize was that we were we were literally five minutes away from an army base yeah okay but anyway so we had to have that discussion of who we would be i wasn't gonna say it's a they made a list it's gonna say they made a list of who'd be eaten first yes it was actually the big sexy snowman here's your next question rear admiral john d bulkley was a celebrated naval officer he even has a destroyer named after him today but he had an odd habit while he was in command of a naval base back in 1966 what was it was it a he would dress up like a ninja and sneak around the base to test security be he would get around the base on a rowboat mounted on wheels that he would row or see since the navy banned alcohol he would drink fruit juice and then just act drunk well that's the stupidest thing i've ever heard i don't know why i always started every newscast with a with a stiff scotch sure i would guzzle it down like that was the last drop of alcohol i was ever gonna have and i was ready to go yeah sure um i'm gonna say he rode around on a rowboat he rode around on a rowboat no actually he would dress up like a ninja and sneak around and um he never got shot right either security was terrible or more likely the security guards were like oh geez the admirals a ninja again just play along let's do it the time we can't see him yeah all right you still can get one right here all right captain crunch of serial fame has been sailing the seas of breakfast since the 1960s always delicious always the best but in 2013 he faced a scandal people accused captain crunch of what a using child labor to pick crunch berries be violating the embargo on cuba or c not actually holding the rank of captain wow yeah d are you saying d i'm gonna say uh for captain cron if you look on the box it looks like a guy who's willing to cut corners so you're you're gonna go for c i'm gonna go for c that's right he's guilty of stolen honor yes stolen honor indeed according to the number of stripes on his uniform uh he'd been an ensign a lieutenant and a commander but he never wore the four stripes appropriate to a captain until 2024 he'd never get away with that in san diego never no that's right bill how did ron burgundy do in our quiz well he did really well he got one yeah he did hey ron burgundy was the legendary anchor man on san diego's award-winning kv w n news team ron burgundy thank you so much for joining us on wait wait don't tell me in just a minute why you better leave your umbrella at home that's our listener limerick challenge call one triple eight wait wait to join us in the air we'll be back in a minute with more of wait wait don't tell me from npr 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 alzo slade paula poundstone eugene cordero and ron burgundy and here again as your host at the san diego civic theater in san diego california theater say go thank you bill in just a minute bill whispers poems in your ear unfortunately they're limericks if you'd like to play give us a call or one triple eight wait wait that's one eight eight eight nine two four eight nine two four right now panel though some more questions for you from the week's news alzo there's a new amenity for travelers starting soon you'll now be able to do what at the airport um sleep oh people have been doing that for a long time can i have a hint please yeah you can have your hint uh good luck getting your personal bottle of body wash through security though oh wow shower yes you can shower at the airport that is gross that is great there's a lot of musty people at the exactly that's just gross some airports mostly at this point in europe are offering a new amenity for arriving passengers you land you go to the arrival lounge where you can freshen up and take a shower that they've just started installing these congratulations to that one passenger whoever it was who smelled so bad he inspired a whole new advance in the travel industry well that's the thing it should be before they depart because that's when you're going to be sitting close next to exactly yeah they should require it require they should make us all go through the shower on a belt like a car wash or you know what where the light and the ac are on the buttons up there there's a beat you just right exactly you push yeah and you get a little and they'll and they'll be part of the security thing make sure you wash your own hair and rinse before washing the hair and rinsing somebody with you can you can you imagine going through tsa and the thing beeps and they tell you excuse me mr. slay can you come inside you've been randomized and they just hand you a bottle of soap yeah and point you to the shower it's like the airline equivalent of like a friend just offering you a breath yeah yeah right yeah eugene this week the washington post reported on a bold and effective new idea in conservation you can save endangered species like gorillas if we simply give them what uh what do they offer endangered species yes other than hope um we can't do that oh we can't do that um i'll give you a hint the hard part is teaching the gorillas to sign their name on the checks giving gorillas jobs no not jobs oh you sign a check to draw money from your bank account yes give gorillas bank accounts what what so a man named jonathan ledgard runs a nonprofit that sets up bank accounts for individual animals i would so like to hit up a gorilla for five exactly you know it's gonna happen people are gonna like go out to lunch with gorillas and when the check comes they're all gonna be like oh wow i think i'm so here's how it works they set up the accounts for the animals and then like when someone provides a gorilla a service like say clearing a path the gorilla pays that person but don't get too excited gorillas are horrible tippers how do i don't i don't know if i like this why not it's discriminatory you have to be endangered to get a bank account can you imagine the species that are not endangered like this is messed up yeah yeah giraffes have been making millions you know what i'm saying they've just been putting it under a mattress yeah mosquitoes have a venmo thing now i mean you check their venmo it's just drop of blood drop of blood drop of blood i i'm not i'm not even sure i understand it but i i don't want my cats to find out about it i know that you go i believe that you might know just give the money coming up it's lightning fill the blank but first it's the game where you have to listen for the rhyme if you'd like to play on air call or leave a message at 1-888-888-829-8224 you can catch us most weeks back at the stu de becker theater at our home in chicago or you can catch us on the road we will be in austin texas at the bass concert hall on june 4th for tickets and information to all our live events go to nprpresents.org hi aron wait wait don't tell me hi this is marisa calling in from belview washington belview washington up there near seattle right what do you do there i'm a lawyer but right now i'm enjoying my daughter's senior year i'm on a sabbatical and she's enjoying her senior year before i become an empty nester really so you took off a year of work sabbatical just to be with your 17 to 18 year old daughter that is correct to her she graded some days you know i was about to say when you told your daughter this is your last year of high school you're a senior you can relax enough fun and i've decided to stop going to work so i can be here with you all the time how did she react um she immediately lobbied for a pet or maybe a hobby for you yes not for her i understand well welcome to the show marisa bill curtis is going to read you three news related lemuricks with the last word of phrase missing for me if you can fill in that last word of phrase correctly and two of the lemuricks will be a winner you ready to play absolutely all right here's your first lemurick this egyptian found greek stories yummy that's how homer wound up in his tummy and this corpse inspector found traces of hector on fragments embalmed in a mummy yes a remarkable discovery a page from the iliad was found in the abdomen of an egyptian mummy meaning that either it was stuffed inside this mommy during the mummification process or this man died from eating the iliad now papyrus has been found inside mummies before but it's always like religious texts this is like the first time it's been a page just taken from a book but of all the books to be buried with the iliad is pretty cool right yeah sophisticated guy whoever this guy was how embarrassing would it be for example to be dug up 2000 years from now with a copy of like the da Vinci code inside you i was thinking more like green eggs and ham or something like that don't knock green eggs and that's a classic yeah see i went with the hearty boys exactly all right here is your next lemurick this thunderstorm resets your brain get umbrellas and walk down the lane emotional pain will just wash down the drain when you take a calm walk in the rain in the rain yes you'll be you know this living in uh washington according to experts getting rained on is good for you and not just because it's literally the most romantic thing that can happen to someone but also apparently chemically boosts serotonin in your brain that feeling you have wow your genes are soaked through and everything is chafing that's happiness i also heard that if you run in the rain you'll get more wet than if you just walk all right that's like a physics conundrum that's a physics because you're you're moving more you're moving through like more volume of water or something yes because i try to run through it and i'm not having fun no and if i walk through it i feel like i'm really going to have a blast i can't wait for the next time it rains so i can have a blast being soaking wet it's the best here is your last lemurick for my workout i need a fresh spark i'll run faster if dogs chase and bark to avoid indoor stench i'll do dips on a bench no more gym i work out in the park yes if you don't want to pay for a gym membership don't worry the new york times says a public park has all the workout equipment you need they publish the list of exercises you can do using a park bench like step ups tricep dips and jump ups when you realize what you just sat in and if there's a monkey bar you know monkey bars or a pull-up bar you can be the guy who says mind if i work in to a six-year-old i've seen some adults working out at a park while i'm there with my children really and it looks terrible how so just because the kids are just having fun and then there's just a grown man sweating very close to us yeah and we don't need that one of the exercises the time suggests is resting if you can picture it your upper back on the seat of a park bench and just doing upward hip thrusts wow in a public park in new york city can you imagine you just you just want you you walking your dog and you just want to sit down we're like hey buddy can you move that pelvis thrust somewhere else bill how did marissa do in our quiz marissa was perfect congratulations on your sabbatical well done thank you bye bye now it's time to our final game lightning fill in the blank each of our players have 60 seconds in which to answer as many fill in the blank questions as they can each correct answer now with two points bill can you give us the scores eugene and alzo each have three and paula has two okay how did that happen don't ask silly questions paula just roll with it so paula you're are in second place behind the two gentlemen so you'll be up first the clock will start when they begin your first question fill in the blank on wednesday the pentagon reported that the us had spent over 25 billion dollars on the war with blank so far right on monday col allen was charged with attempting to assassinate the president last week at the blank at the white house correspondence dinner right this week gerome powell held his final meeting as chair of the blank of the fed right federal reserve this week chanel's newest shoe drew mixed reactions because it's literally just blank it's a it's a i don't know it's a just a heel oh just a heel just the heel of a shoe nothing else yeah tuesday ups and fedex said they would return refunded blank payments to their customers um uh uh tariff no yell parrot yes this week the chief of nasa started to push to make a blank a planet again uh pluto pluto yes this week authorities in shrillanka arrested blank for trying to smuggle 200 pounds of weed into that country uh ilan musk no 22 22 buddhist monks the monks were just getting back from a weekend holiday in bencock monks go to bankock for the weekend apparently and they told the officers that arrested them that the 2.5 million dollars worth of weed was a quote donation to the temple you know it is you're in the temple the donation plate comes around you're like oh man i don't have any cash on me all i've got is this enormous bail here bill how did paula do on our quiz five right good start 10 more points 12 is her total she's in first place all right eugene i'm going to pick you up a trailer to go next okay on the blank according to new data blank prices are the highest they've been in four years oil yeah gas oil prices this week a taco bell employee in florida was accused of pulling a gun on the customers who blanked didn't pay no who asked for a cup for free water then went over to the machine and put soda in it whoa we're all feeling a little guilty aren't we on wednesday health officials warned of a blank outbreak tied to chicken in 13 states oh uh salmonella right on wednesday the flyers beat the penguins to move into round two of the blank playoffs uh the uh um stanley club play out stanley cups yes this week after a 31 day winning streak came to an end jeppardy champion jayme ding saying that he may have finally lost because blank he got tired no because he forgot to pack fresh socks and underwear for the taping jayme ding said that he knew his losing game of jeppardy was going to be a tough one because he forgot to pack socks and underwear when he flew out to la for the taping ding still had an amazing run but it must have been even harder for him because the guy he lost to was only wearing socks and underwear wow man bill how did ujine do in our quiz three right six more points total to nine still trails paula all right and how many then does alzo need to take it five to win all right alzo this is for the game here we go on wednesday the justice department once again indicted former fbi chief blank uh call me call me on monday the mexican government arrested another high-profile blank member cartel right this week the united arab emirates announced he was planning to leave blank on may 1st the liv the the golf tournament no yeah opek they're going to leave opek on monday the white house once again put pressure on abc to fire late night host blank uh jimmy kimmel right this week a french teenager faced jail time for blanking in a public place peeing no licking a straw then putting it back in the dispenser yeah you're like that way for life all right that'll do it on wednesday j craig venter the man who decoded the human blank passed away at the age of 79 uh genome yep after losing saudi arabia as an investor pga competitor blank is at the risk of shutting down yeah i see i was at the head of you you know you were yeah l i live right live liv golf yes this week a woman in massachusetts was convicted for sickening her blank on a group of police trying to perform an eviction uh her pet rabbit no her swarm of bees whoa in 2022 housing advocate rory woods pulled up in her truck to try to stop sheriff's deputies from carrying out an eviction when they wouldn't listen to reason she went to her truck selected one of her hives and released the bees wow one of her hives yeah a bunch sadly she was then arrested for assault with a hilarious weapon bill did also do well enough to win he needed five he got five there you go today's winner congratulations in just a minute we're gonna ask our panelists to predict what will be king charles's favorite souvenir from his trip to america wait wait don't tell me is a production of npr and wbez chicago an association with urgent haircut productions dug burman benevolent overlord philip godica rezzar limricks our public address announcer is paul freedman bj leader been composed our theme our program is produced by jennifer mills myles groenbos and lily and king special thanks to blithe roberson and monica hickey peter gwyn is the comptroller of the city of san diego emma joy is our vibe curator technical direction is from laurna white her cfo is collin miller and with this show we are delighted to welcome to our crew our new operations manager just sira vardak our production manager is robert newhouse our senior producer is ian chilag and the executive producer of wait wait don't tell me is mr michael danforth now panel what will be king charles's favorite souvenir from his trip also slayed paper crown from burger king eugen cardero uh doggie bag from the virginia potluck and paul afonstone he got one of the last cracker barrel t-shirts with the new cancelled logo the lepidia that happens we're gonna ask you about it um wait wait don't tell me so thank you to bill curtis thanks also to alzo slay jude cardero and paul afonstone thanks to carillon satyr and the staff and crew at the san diego civic theater special thanks to heather milne barger and everybody at k pbs here in san diego and thanks all of you for listening wherever you might be i'm peter sagal and bill stay classy san diego so this is npr this message comes from avalera what's it like running a business with avalera no thinking about tax and compliance it's handled calculating filing validating accurately and audit defensively avalera agente tax and compliance with confidence