WWDTM: Kevin O'Leary

From a PR and WVZ Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me The NPR News Quiz. I'm Bill Curtis, and my voice is the only set of pipe-sid America that is not freezing this weekend. And here is your host at the Stuttabaker Theatre at the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Illinois. Peter Sago. Thank you, Bill. Thanks, everybody. We have a great show for you today, and also a useful one. Later on, we're going to be talking to Kevin O'Leary, investor and star of Marty Supreme and Shark Tank. And he will tell us if it's true, the best investment advice to set yourself up for wealth and luxury is to give all of your money to your local NPR station. Right? Right? I think it works because of compound interest. I'm not sure. But first, if you'd like to judge what we're pitching, give us a call. The number is 1-triple-8-wait. That's 1-888-924-8924. Now it's time to welcome our first listener contestant. How you around Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me? Peter, this is Jared from Defiance, Ohio. Defiance, Ohio is a place I've heard of because of its unusual name. Are you, in fact, a group of defiant people? I suppose. I mean, the town was named after a fort from the American Indian Wars. So yeah, there's probably something there, I guess. I think the correct answer to, are you defiant in Defiance, Ohio is no. Well welcome to our show, Jared. Let me introduce you to our panel this week. First up, a comedian. You can see at the wormhole in Savannah, Georgia, March 28th, it's Adam Burke. Hi Jared. Hi Adam. Next, a writer for the TV show Clean Slate, now streaming on Prime, it's Shantira Jackson. Hi Jared. Hi Shantira. And a correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning, our old friend, Mo Rocka, is with us. Hi Jared. Hi. So welcome to the show, Jared. You're going to play 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 will win our prize, any voice from our show. You might choose for your voice, Mel. Are you ready to go? Yes sir. All right, your first quote is from someone speaking last week. We have to have Greenland. Who? As it turns out, this week is not going to have Greenland. President Trump, you know, states of America. That's right, President Trump. On Wednesday morning, Donald Trump charged into the world economic forum in Davos, saying he was not leaving without Greenland. And on Wednesday evening, he left without Greenland. Trump hasn't been this disappointed in an outcome in Europe since World War II. And then, Pat threatened our allies in Europe with military force, steep tariffs and regular visits from JD Vance if they didn't hand over Greenland. But then all of Europe sort of looked at each other and then looked at him and said, no, that's stupid. So Trump left with nothing. And that's the art of the deal. I think he left because isn't the thing that Greenland is icy and Iceland is green? And you know he didn't know. Yeah. He didn't know. Does he think Iceland is worthy all the agents come from? What was strange was the reaction. One of the strongest critics of Trump at Davos was Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. He just ripped Trump apart. Canada. He's like the geopolitical equivalent of when a guy takes his shirt off and you're like, wait, he has abs? I knew you were going to talk about heated rivalry at some point. I know. I don't know. I get the idea of go big or go home. But Greenland is huge. I mean, it's the size of three Texas'. Couldn't have demanded, I don't know, Monaco or Luxembourg or something smaller that maybe they would have given him that. Exactly. But it's what it made because when you fly across the Atlantic, when you come back to America, it means I have time to watch one more movie. That's what Greenland is. That's very important to me. So we should have it. But that was the bad one. Alright, your next quote is from a biologist speaking to the New York Times. Like a bovine, Einstein. She was talking about a particular kind of animal that was observed using tools for the first time. What is that animal? A cow? A cow. A cow in Australia named Veronica shook the world when she was filmed using a stick as a tool which nobody had ever observed in cows before. This is so exciting. In a few years, somebody is going to be eating the smartest hamburger ever made. What was she using the stick to do? She was using it to scratch her own back. The cow was observed picking up a broom and then with its mouth and then turning its head and using it to scratch its nether parts. I really love that. It's the first time it was witnessed. I assume that they do stuff all the time when we're not around. They have the head massage chairs. It's like, like. So as I said, it's so interesting. It's using the broom and it uses the bristles to get certain parts and it can turn it around and use the other end for different parts as per its preference. It's pretty sophisticated stuff, right? It's a new amount. Which other end for what? It uses like the hard end for like its flanks and then the softer bristles for its more delicate parts. It sounds really smart until you realize that that barn is where they kept all the back scratchers. I'm a little miff, right? A cow uses the broom to scratch her back. She's a genius. I use a spatula. Everybody is like, that's for food. You are as smart as a cow. That's pretty much. So cows learning how to use tools comes just in the nick of time as RFK Jr. has updated the food pyramid to stress eating a lot of beef. So the next tool cows need to learn to use our pistols. Wow, that's going to make Texas so dangerous. They really need all the cows and all the gum. Yeah. All right. Here is your last quote. It is the New York Post, genuine headline on a sport scandal threatening to overshadow the upcoming winter Olympics. The sport has been rocked by a penis gate. So that's about a scandal where athletes are allegedly cheating to fly further through the air in what Olympics sport? Be like a skiing or ski jumping. Yes, the scandal which the New York Times is calling crotch gate in the London Times calls a gub-wobble on the willy-nicker. It has to do with these skin tight suits. Ski jumpers wear. So any extra fabric on these suits is illegal because it can catch the wind and make the athletes fly further. So when they are measured for their suits, some ski jumpers have tried to make their junk look bigger so they can get away with more fabric. I mean, okay, fine. They're cheating. But you have to sympathize with these guys. You should never be allowed to measure people's penises in a sport where it's that cold. I don't know why people are surprised that a man lied about the size of his junk. I guess the only thing, the novel thing is the reason. Well, it's all the fabric is going to be in that part. Well yeah, that's a place. If you think about it, ski jumpers basically are just flying through the air. As down the shooting and up and then as far as they can go. And any extra fabric acts like the way the flaps of skin on a flying squirrel do. They hold them up in the air. So just a little extra fabric, millimeters of extra fabric can get them meters, a couple of meters of extra distance which could win the competition. Surely you'd have to exaggerate by quite a bit before Bernouille's principle comes to the world. Rocky didn't eat that. If you do it too much, you just fly off over the stands that are never seen again. And this doesn't come up on a doping test? Apparently not. That's the thing because they said, oh my god, there's a cheating scandal in ski jumping. I'm like, how do you cheat at what is basically falling? Is there such a thing as like gravity enhancing drugs? That's where a jet pack. They're all gravity enhancing drugs that are called cheeseburgers. Bill, how did Jared do in our quiz? Jared, we're not going to ask you for the measurements. But you did very well. All three right. Congratulations, Jared. Thank you. Take care. Bye, guys. Bye. Thank you. Right now, panel, that is time for you to answer some questions about this week's news. Adam A. NASA astronaut says her upcoming mission to the moon has an added challenge because she will be flying so far away this time, her husband. She says, is not going to be able to do what, like he usually does. Um, steady. Uh, can I get a clue? Uh, yeah, well, she might have to put labels on everything in the house before she goes. Oh, he won't, oh my god. He wasn't like calling her up and asking her like household questions when she was working for NASA, was it? That's exactly what he was doing. Astronaut, uh, Christina Koch, talking to the New York Times about the mission of the moon, said, quote, it's not like the International Space Station where we can just make a phone call. He's not going to be able to call me and ask where something is in the house. He's going to have to find it. I sympathize with a guy. Imagine forgetting where the spare key is, but the only other person who knows is on the moon. Honey, honey, uh, the top of where it goes in the top drawer, it's not rocket science and I should know. It's, it's obviously much harder to communicate with the spaceship like near the moon than in low earth orbit, but you know there's no obstacle to a husband left home alone. You'll manage. Oh my god, uh, Christina, there's an emergency message arriving from Houston. Where are my reading glasses on earth to you idiot? This actually makes me feel better. I always thought that you know, I wasn't like smart enough to be an astronaut, but I could marry a man who doesn't know where stuff is. That's true. I'm coming up the closest thing NPR gets to sports coverage and our bluff, the listener game called Winthrop a late wait wait to play. We'll be back in a minute with more of Waitway Don't Tell Me from NPR. From NPR and WB Easy Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, the NPR news quiz. I'm Bill Curtis, we are playing this week with Mo Rocka, Shen Tera, Jackson and Adam Burke. And here I get as your host at the Studebaker Theatre in Chicago Illinois, Peter Sigol. Thank you, Bill. Thank you, everybody. Right now it's time for the Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, bluff the listener game called Winthrop a late wait wait to play our game on the air. How are you around Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me? Hi, this is Rebecca calling from New York City. Hey, how are things in New York? Oh, you know, calm, peaceful, and peaceful. Yeah, things are always. Yeah, I often go to New York City from a meditative retreats. What do you do there? Yes. I am a clinical social worker. Right, and since nobody in New York has any problems, I'm sure you have a lot of free time. Absolutely. No drama, no nothing. Yep. I envy you, your plastic existence. Well, Rebecca, welcome to our show. You're going to play the game in which you must try to tell truth from fiction. Bill, what's Rebecca's topic? Something new in stadium. So stadiums, of course, are always being updated doing new things to keep fans happy, new concessions, new luxury boxes, pretending that last game against the Rams ended in a tie. This week, one stadiums special feature made the news, and our panelists are going to tell you about it. Pick the one who's telling the truth, and you'll win the weight-weighter of your choice and your voicemail. Ready to play? No. Let's go out. You don't want to wait that long, but yeah, let's do it anyway. Let's do it. Let's hear from Adam Burke. It was one of the most viral moments of 2025, a kiss cam at a cold-play concert, pan to a couple in the balcony, seemingly uncovering a clandestine affair between a CEO and his employee. While the moment united many in glee and shardonfroid, the situation nonetheless struck terror into would-be adulterers the world over. Fear not says Umberto Faluci, head of operations at the 80,000-seat, Stadio Del Mondo in Milan, we have a lot of very important patrons at our events, he explains, who want to be among the crowd while maintaining a certain level of anonymity for themselves and their ahem guests. It is for just such a purpose that Faluci created the now infamous Dancing with Disgression program, where for a fee, fans can attend rock shows and games with whomever they like, safe in the knowledge that the wandering eye of the kiss cam won't elite on their particular pecadillos. Faluci acknowledges he owes the new revenue stream to cold-play. If I ever saw Chris Martin, I would kiss him, he explains, and I wouldn't care who saw. A stadium in Milan offers kiss cam proof seating, your next arena add-on comes from Shantir or Jackson. It's no secret that Americans have a reputation for eating large amounts of food, especially at a sporting event. There's something about watching people in peak physical fitness that makes you want a giant pretzel dipped in cheese. But the owners of the Spectrum Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina are changing that. Soon you can get the weight loss drug ozimpic while watching a Hornets game. Just come by the Spectrum Stadium ozimpic lounge where a doctor stands ready to prescribe it, and certified nurse practitioners will inject it in a clean sterile environment. Because ozimpic isn't immediately effective, the stadium is offering fans who get their first shot 50% off any stadium meal, as one last delicious treat before the weight loss drug robs them of all of their joy. The offering is boosting season ticket sales because fans must come back once a week for a shot. And they're even selling new snacks for their new snatched fans, like olives and one cube of cheese, all for the affordable stadium price of about $40. An ozimpic lounge where you can get your ozimpic in Charlotte. Your last sports facility feature comes from Mo'Raca. A little ditty about a shack and a fan. First, he was John Cougar, then John Cougar Mellon Camp, then John Mellon Camp. But he's always been a Hoosier's football fan. Even when Indiana University's football team was a joke, which it was for a long time, Mellon Camp and his mall burrow reds were there. His loyalty was rewarded when the school built the Heartland Rocker and self-described anti-social guy, his own small wooden shack way up high on top of the stadium. Not exactly a luxury box, no bathroom even, but the perfect spot from which he could watch games and indulge his favorite vice. I set up there, nobody bothers me, and I can smoke. Mellon Camp said, not that the actual players fully appreciate their number one fan said lineman, braid, lynch. His songs aren't necessarily ones that would get you like super hyped. What do you mean? How do you not get hyped up to lyrics like, I was born in a small town and I live in a small town, probably die in a small town. Here are your choices. Let's say you're a well-traveled sports fan. You could go maybe to Mellon and enjoy seating with a special friend that is guaranteed not to show up on the KISS camp. That was from Adam Burke from Shantiru. You could go to Charlotte to watch the Hornets and slip on down to the ozempic lounge to get your shot. Or from Mooraka, there's a little smoking shack put on the top of the stadium in Indiana University just for the use of John Mellon Camp and his cigarettes, which of these the real story of a stadium amenity in the news. I'm going to go with the John Cooper Shaq. You're going to talk about the Mooraka. The John Cooper Mellon Camp Shaq. The John Mellon Camp Shaq at the F. Camp at whatever. All right. Well, to bring you the correct answer, we spoke to the reporter who told us the story of this real stadium special feature. Indiana repaid his generosity by outfitting a little Shaq at the top of the stadium so he can sit up there and have a few cigarettes. Yeah, that was Wall Street Journal's Robert O'Connell talking about the Mellon Camp hot at the Indiana University Stadium. Congratulations, Rebecca. You did get it right. Thank you. You've earned a point for Moe. Thank you. You won our prize. John Mellon Camp has his privacy. Wendy Wins is what I'm saying. Congratulations. So thank you so much. I am happy for you. We are happy to make you happy. Thank you so much. Take care. Bye bye. Bye. And now the game we call Not My Job. Investor Kevin O'Leary has been a shark on Shark Tank since it premiered in 2009. And before that, he was a dragon on the Canadian version of the show, Dragons Den. Now fans of Shark Tank know him as Mr. Wonderful, even though one of his catchphrases is your dead to me. And he just made his movie acting debut in the Oscar nominated film Marty Supreme. We are delighted he joins us now. Kevin O'Leary, welcome to Weight Weight. Don't tell me. Thank you. Thank you very much. I read that you did this show, which is sort of the international version of Shark Tank called Dragons Den. You started that in Canada. And that after the first episode or so, the producer came up to you and told you to be more evil, is that true? Well, the truth about the format started in Japan with Nippon Television almost 25 years ago and it was a show called Begging for Money. You have to admire the frankness there, right? Yes, and it was a translating from Japanese and there were three very wealthy Japanese guys and people came onto the stage, got on their knees and begged for money. Then they took the, they were crying and begging and groveling and it was a huge hit. And then by the time it got to England, somebody said, well, maybe they should have something that people would invest in. And the Japanese version, they just needed money. Well, I think Begging for Money is a great show. What a great day. And for anybody who hasn't been in a hotel room with an hour to kill and hasn't seen Shark Tank, in the show, you and the other sharks or investors are, you've yet pitched on these business ideas, inventions, services, whatever. And you actually, if you choose to invest your own money in these ideas, right? And I'm just wondering, and you're many, many years doing this in Canada and the US, do you have your particular favorite one or maybe one that got away or one that maybe you invested in that kind of didn't work out? Well, let me tell you something. This woman named Anna Skaya comes out and she's six foot four of Soviet descent. She's a Russian model. She's stunning. But she's a biological scientist in DNA research. And she likes cats. So she has a product called base paw. You take a Q-tip and you stick it in a cat where the sun doesn't shine. And then for $29, you send it in for a DNA test and she sends back what foods the cat should be eating based on its DNA history. Cats only have three genres. I had to say it around the set. Nobody wanted to invest in it. I said, you know, Anna, I can buy a new cat for five bucks. Why wouldn't I? $29. And this is, she said, because there's 110 million people in America that have cats. And so anyways, I invested in it because I just, she wouldn't leave unless I get to do that. And that company sold for so much money to a pharmaceutical. So that's an example of just random outcome. It paid for so many of my mistakes. And she married a Canadian lumberjack who's taller than her and they had monstrous children. Can I ask so? Can I ask? Does anybody know how the cats felt about the Q-tips? I was going to say, I just so wish I had seen that episode because it outwarks a six-foot-four Russian model biologist with a Q-tip in one hand, an unhappy cat in the other saying, I'm going to make you rich. You see? This is a think about this. In ancient Egypt, a chocolate point sign means lasted for 33 years. Our U.S. domestic cats, 12 and a half to 14. We kill them with crappy food. Wow. This is so frustrating because I was sticking Q-tips up cats, but it's just recreation. I have to talk to you about Marty Supreme, the Oscar-nominated film, which I saw this week. This is your very first acting role, right? Never done it before. And for those who haven't seen the film and you should, it's quite brilliant. I was going to try to describe your character. It's a major character movie, but I figured maybe I'd let you do it. You do it a little more sympathy for us. Yes, it's Milton Rockwell, richest man in America in 1952. Safty called me and said, look, this is Josh Safty who... Yeah, Josh director. And Ronnie Brunstein's the writer. You know, 20 years earlier at the Shutter's Hotel, which is Santa Monica, I got a call from Mark Burnett. And he was casting for Shark Tank and I was working on a show in England. He said, you got to come over and have breakfast with me. I'm casting this new show called Shark Tank and I'm looking for a real A-hole in your it. That's what Mark Brunstein said about you. 20 years later, I'm hearing the same story from Safty. Looking for the A-hole and your it. And I'm starting to think this A-hole thing's really working. Really? So that was their pitch. They said, you're not an actor. Yes, that was their pitch. You want to play this pitch. That was their pitch. So they were all in the reason we do this because we need someone to be a rich A-hole and that's what you are. And Josh said, he went beyond, he said, I want the first frame to tell everybody that's the A-hole. Wow. I felt me even saying anything. I was honored. I thought my goodness. And I said to him, maybe I should embrace this A-hole. Maybe I should be the best A-hole I can be. Wake up in the morning and be proud of my A-holeness because I know with certainty there's light at the end of this fainter. Or if you're a cat, I can't tell you. Whatever. Well, Kevin O'Leary, it is a delight to talk to you and we have invited you here today to play a game we're calling Marty Supreme, Meet Party Supreme. You star in Marty's Supreme as we have said. So we thought we'd ask you about some of the biggest parties of all time. Perhaps, once you've attended, answer two or three questions right. You will win our prize for one of our listeners, Bill, who is Mr. Wonderful himself playing for. Heidi Hudson of San LeBarbera, California. All right. Here is your first question. Here we go. The Vanity Fair Oscar Party has a notoriously strict guest list. But one reporter from the Star tabloid managed to work their way in one year. How? A. Thousands of dollars of plastic surgery to make him look just like Jack Nicholson. B. They brought a pig on a leash and told everyone it was the pig from Babe. Or C. They disguised themselves as a giant Oscar statue and had a friend wheel them into the hall a day early. I think the Oscar wheel them in a day early thing. That sounds good to me. It's brilliant. It's sophisticated, but we made it up. It was really the pig. He brought in a little pig. No, I was going to go pig. Go pig. You screwed me up. OK. It didn't work. Everybody was like, wait a minute. That pig can't talk. All right. You have two more chances here. Here's your next question. The Met Gala's red carpet is always filled with huge stars, but someone stole the show in 2023. Who was it? A. A New York Met's fan, whose Uber driver got confused and dropped him at the Met Gala instead of the stadium. B. Party organizer Anna Winter, who was caught in a hut mic saying, God, I'm so uncomfortable next year in making the theme sweatpants. Or C. A cockroach who walked the runway like he was the guest of honor. I'm going cockroach. As well as you should because that's exactly what it was. Yeah, baby. I'm still in it. I'm still in it. I'm still in it. On the cockroach, walk down the red carpet. Every photographer immediately dropped their were doing and tried to get a picture. It was wearing Balenciaga. I thought it might have been Dolce. No, you never know. Last question, you get this, you win. In 2022, the EU spent half a million dollars to throw a huge virtual party in the Metaverse, right, hoping to engage young people with their policies. One problem though, what was it? A. A manual macro intended and got motion sickness from the VR headset and threw up during his big speech. Be the virtual DJ in the Metaverse glitched out and just kept repeating the first 40 seconds of that chumble womba song. Or C. Only six people showed up. Six people showed up. You're right. A vast, very much. A vast, comforative space in the Metaverse. Listen, there's something about that cacti and anything that's working for me too. Yeah, the six people who did show up at this virtual party had fun, according to one attendee quote, I am here at the gala. I am alone. So Bill, did Kevin O'Leary do as well this, as he seems to do it everything else? Everything else, he got two out of three. That means you're a winner and it'll pay off in 20 years. Well, thank you very much. Yeah, thank you and congratulations on everything. Kevin O'Leary is one of the shark tank sharks. You can see him now in Marty's Supreme. Kevin O'Leary, thank you so much for joining us on Weight Weight Dome Sound. What a pleasure to talk to you. Take care. Thank you. Bye-bye. In just a minute, the rudest thing your house can do in our Listenerland Rick Challenge. Go on, Triple-8, weight weight to join us on the air. We'll be back in a minute with more of Weight Weight Dome Tell Me from NPR. From NPR and WBZ Chicago, this is Weight Weight Dome Tell Me. The NPR News Quiz. I'm Bill Curtis. We're playing this week with Adam Burke, Mooraka and Shen Tera Jackson. And here I get to your host at the Studebaker Theatre in Illinois. Specifically Chicago, Illinois. Peter Segal. Thank you, Bill. Thanks, Bill. In just a minute, the odds of you winning the Listenerland Rick Challenge are 34-1 on Fandals. Are you ready to prove them wrong? If you'd like to play, give us a call at 1-Triple-8, Weight Weight. That's 1-888-924-8-924. Right now, I'll panel some more questions for you from the week's news. Mo, a new board game has caused some controversy, and it is not longer monopoly. It's a game where players reenact what historical incident? Oh, the Donner Party? No. Although a lack of food does come into it. Well, I was always a big hungry, hungry hippo fan, so that's for my mind when. They reenact something that's very controversial. Moor, I think this answer is about to make me real angry, is it? Yes, it is. It's going to make you angry? Well, not angry. Well, it's going to make you angry. Oh, the Irish Potato Famous. Yes, it is a game in which you can reenact the Irish Potato Famous. Is it like a really skinny Mr. Potato Head? Sorry. By the way, that's just called a French fry. In the new game, the Great Hunger, you play the families of farmers in field hands in Ireland in the 1840s when your main source of food dies out. Not only does it make a game out of the worst disaster in Irish history, the pieces representing individual Irishmen are all adorable leprechauns. Oh, my God. What's the game called? It's called the Great Hunger. And people in Britain created it? Yes, created it. Yeah. I mean, this game already exists. It's called monopoly. One of the ways you can win the game, by the way, is moving your family to America, which makes sense. It's victory because as we know, Irish people who moved to America at that time had it really easy and nothing bad ever happened to them. Shantira, the newest wisdom about having a need-or-home is that we should get rid of our, quote, aspirational clutter. What is aspirational clutter? In aspirational, like a piano? Yeah, something like that. The reason it's called aspirational clutter is because it's the thing you bought for what purpose? Oh, to use it that you never did. Exactly right. I'll give it to you. Yay! We never use, but we bought to pretend that one day our life would be different and we'd be able to do it. According to organizational experts, aspirational clutter is the stuff around our house that highlights, quote, the gap between who we are and who we want to be. It seems like a really poetic way to tell me to throw away my figure skating tights. I feel like I do this with clothes. I could definitely wear that jacket one day. Actually, that's one of the examples. It takes a form of big serving platters for dinner parties you never throw. Blazers for the job you'll never have, and pretty much any and all exercise equipment. What if my aspiration is to be a hoarder? Yes, that's true. You can point. Adam, this week a new study finds that after you go to the gym, your what has ten times more harmful bacteria than a toilet seat? Is it your gym clothes? No. Can I get a clue? We expect that. Yeah, this is why you should always get a manicure immediately after a spare class. Oh, is it like your fingernails? Your fingernails are filthy after a gym workout. According to a new study, we have a high level of bacteria on our fingernails after working out for an hour. Not only can this make you sick, apparently it means I've been working out all wrong. I almost never scratch the weight. You say working out for an hour? Yeah. No worries. Yeah, you're good. Walk out your hands at pristine. I am so clean, you guys. You also recommend again sharing towels or water bottles at the gym. Okay, fine, but how also am I going to make friends at the gym if I'm not borrowing random people's towels? That seems like a suggestion for boys. That seems like season two of heated rivals. Coming up, it's lightning film, 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 1-888-1-888-824-8924. You can see us most weeks right here at the Studebaker Theater in Chicago, and if you are in Chicago looking for a drunker version of Weight Weight, come see our special comedy grab bag live stand-up show March 11th at the Den Theater in Wicker Park. Adam Burke will be hosting along with Alzo Slage, O'Ellen Nicole Johnson, and more for tickets and more information for all of our live events go to NPRPresent.org. Hi, everyone. Why don't you tell me? Hi, this is Kate calling from Seattle and South Carolina. Oh, Salem, South Carolina. My quits are where that is. Where is it? It's where they filmed the N scene of deliverance. Oh, that's sweet. Yeah, but it's pretty close to Clemson as well as Greenville, South Carolina, which is where I go. I'm sorry. You decided to let me know about your hometown in the short time you have by letting me know that that's where they filmed the end scene of deliverance? I mean, it says all the shirts are in here say pedal faster. I hear banjos. So... It's such a romantic movie. It really is. Well, welcome to the show, Kate. Bill Curtis is going to read you three news-related lemurics with the last word or phrase missing from each. If you can fill in that last word or phrase correctly on two of the lemurics, you'll be a winner. Ready to play? Yeah. Years your first lemurick. There is not much a panda can do. They're more likely to die out than you. But their high fiber diet, we humans, should try it. Yes, people should eat more. Bamboo. Bamboo, the latest superfood being pushed by all the nutrition influencers is bamboo. Hey, maybe pandas aren't so dumb after all. Bamboo apparently has got dense nutritional value. It's rich in protein and gives you 100% of your daily recommended sticks. Imagine how pissed you'd be if you just got on ozempic just as panda body became all the way. Exactly, what a shame. Now, before you immediately go eat that bamboo houseplant you got at IKEA, remember you have to prepare bamboo correctly. You first strip the fibrous exterior, then continuously boil the core to remove the toxins before you eat them. Or if you're a panda, just eat it as is and watch your entire species become endangered because of dumbness. Here is your next lemurick. That old accent where our sounds got lost in, got some duncan but cream filled with frosting. Unlike cliff from that bar, they no longer say, ca, we can't tell if a speaker's from... Baston. Right, according to the Boston Globe, the famous Boston accent is dying out. One reason apparently for the accents to climb is that many adults have intentionally dropped their Boston accents for professional reasons. They're afraid that accent doesn't say, I'm executive material and instead says, I'm about to rob a bank with my little brother. If they're going to drop the Boston accent, they have to drop everything else that goes with it, right? Because it doesn't carry the same weight to say, well, I am wicked smart. How do you like them apples? Do these apples appeal to you? Here's your last lemurick. Windows open and close with a chirp. And a breeze rushes in with a slurp. When the air isn't stale, we can take an inhale. I am giving my house a quick. Yes, right. More and more Americans are taking part in the German tradition of house burping, where you open all your windows to let the fresh air in on a regular basis. It's especially great when you've burned something in the stove or someone in the house is sick or you just want a bird to get inside your apartment. Do you have to slap the back of the house? A little towel or a front lawn? Slapped the back. Sometimes it vomits up your aspirational hoarding. We should point out though if you open the back door, that's not cold-burping. Bill, how did Kate do? How did Kate get all three rights? That part. That's all we have. Congratulations. Congratulations, Kate, and thanks for calling. Bye-bye. It is now time for our final game, Lightning Fill in the blank. Each of our players will 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? Adam has three. He's in the lead. Dishantara has two. Mo has two. Okay, Adam, you are in first place, either two are tied. So let's just pick Shantyra to go first. Here we go. The clock will start when I begin your first question, fill in the blank. On Wednesday, blank launched a new operation in Maine. LLB. No. There's already there. Ice. Thursday, Trump said he had held productive talks with Ukrainian President blank. I can't remember his name, but I hope the best for him. Thank you. I'm sure him is laughing. This is a study found that it could cost over $100 million to rename the Department of Defense blank. The war department? This week, police in Canada, who pulled over a driver for speeding, refused to let him get back on the road because they said his car was blank. Full of parents. No, they said his car was, quote, held together with duct tape and wishful thinking. This week, Sunny Williams, one of the astronauts who was stuck on the blank, announced her retirement. Oh, was it like the ISS? Yes, you stuck on the space station. Last week, anti-ice protesters in Minneapolis located the hotel where agents were staying and blanked. They made a bunch of noise and poured ice and showed them what America's made of. Yeah, I'll give it to you. They played drums outside all night. Protesters in Minneapolis kept coming up with creative ways to interrupt ice activity. You got to wonder how well this works on ice agents, though, being kept awake by drums might actually be a nice change from being kept awake thinking about how your wife hates you. Bill, how'd it stand here, doing our quiz? Oh, well, very good. Three right. Six more points. Total of eight. Put her in the lead. All right. One second. Moe, you're up next, film a blank. On Friday, a massive blank led to severe conditions in over two dozen states. A massive cold and snowy front. Yes, a winter storm. According to DOJ, court filing is Elon Musk's blank shared sensitive social security data. His dose. Yes, on Thursday, Trump announced he was suing blank for $5 billion for closing his bank accounts after January 6th. Jamie Dimon. Yeah, of JP Morgan. On Monday, the CEO of online retail giant blank blamed tariffs for increased prices. Amazon. Amazon, right. The California fitness company is under investigation after it was discovered that their protein powder was actually blank. Oh, cremated remains. No. No, it was actually just cake mix. According to a new study, stressing about blank can age your heart faster than cardiovascular disease. Stressing about aging, about your health. About money. On Tuesday, officials had to release a warning after beaches in Australia recorded four blank attacks in two days. Sharks attack. This week, Amanda New Jersey was able to escape authorities despite wearing an ankle monitor because he blanked. Oh, because, oh, he removed his ankle. Up there. A panda. No. Should finally decided to become carnivorous. Exactly. And he's like, why do I have these teeth? Let's try it out. No. He attached the ankle monitor to a dog and let it loose. When the man sailed to a pier and caught authorities immediately checked the GPS tracker and his ankle monitor. It didn't take long for cops to realize what had happened and they managed to track the dog down with the help of a local vet. Unfortunately, as soon as officers removed the ankle monitor and set the dog free, it went right out and robbed a liquor store. Bill, how did Mo do on our quiz? Pretty good. Five, right. Ten more points. Tuddle to twelve. Put him in the lead. All right then. So, how many does Adam need to win? At W need five to win. All right. Ready to do this, Adam? Here we go. This is for the game. Fill in the blank. According to a new poll, the majority of Americans say the government is intentionally holding back information from the blank files. Epstein. Right. This week, Michelle Obama said she thinks the US is getting closer to electing a woman as blank. Oh, President. Right. According to the CDC, the blank outbreak in Texas is one of the worst in decades. Right. This week, a self-driving bus being demonstrated on the streets of DC was hit by blank. Another self-driving bus. No, the self-driving bus was hit by a human driven Tesla. On Monday, the Space Weather Prediction Center said they were tracking the largest blank storm in 20 years. Meteor? Solar storm. On Thursday, sinners said a new record for most blank nominations. Oscar nominations. Right. This week, a US aircraft carrier stationed off the coast of Venezuela may have to end its mission early because blank stopped working. The toilets. Exactly right. Since the ship, the $13 billion aircraft carrier was launched in 2023, they've had to call for outside help with the toilets 42 times. Must be so embarrassing for the sailors to have to knock on Venezuela's door and be like, I'm so sorry. But could we invade your bathroom real quick? Bill did add him to well enough to win. If I'm right, ten more points. His total is 13. And yes, this is the answer. You won! Congratulations, Adam! In just a minute, we're going to ask our panelists now that they're using tools how will cows surprise us next. But first, let me tell you that, wait, wait, don't tell me it's a production of NPR and WBEZ Chicago and association with urgent hair-car productions, Doug Berman, Benevolent Overlord. Philip Gautica writes, our lemmrix, our public address announcer is Paul Friedman, our tour manager is Shane a birthday girl Donald. Thanks to the staff and crew at the Student Bakery Theatre, BJ Leader Ben Composer, our theme, our program is produced by Jennifer Mills, Miles Gernboss and Lilian King. Special thanks to Blithe Robertson and Monica Hickey, Peter Gwynn is our malevolent overlord. And a joy is our visual host, technical direction is from Lorna White, her CFO is called the Miller Reproduction Manager. That's Robert Newhouse, our senior producer is Ian Chilock and the executive producer of Weight Weight Don't Tell Me it's Mr. Michael Danforth. Now, panel, what will cows do next? Adam Burke, they'll learn how to make the bee sound and reveal they've actually been booing us this entire time. Mooraka, to combat climate change, they'll begin eating impossible burgers. Shantiria Jackson, they're gonna stop working for Chick-fil-A. And depending on that happens, we're gonna ask you about it on Weight Weight Don't Tell Me. Thank you Bill Curtis, thanks also to Adam Burke, Shantiria Jackson and Mooraka. Thanks to our fabulous audience here at the Student Bakery Theatre, and downtown Chicago. And thanks to all of you for listening wherever you may be, I'm Peter Segel. We'll see you next week. This is NPR.