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Now, you know how they say you should dance as if no one is watching and director, just danced while everyone in the world was watching him on Dancing with the Stars. Later on, we're going to ask him about becoming as one judge put it, the people's princess. Right now it's your turn to compete. Give us a call. The number is one triple eight. Wait, wait, that's one eight eight eight nine two four eight nine two four. Let's welcome our first listener contested. Hi, you're on Weight Weight Don't Tell Me. Hey there, this is Liz calling from Chicago, Illinois. Hey Liz, how are things back in Chicago? It's very cold, Peter. I'm jealous that you're in sunny Phoenix, Arizona. Let's let's back up a little bit. How cold is it there? It's like four degrees, I think. Four degrees. Wow. These people in Arizona didn't even know that was possible. Well, Liz, welcome to the show. Let me introduce you to this week's panel. First up, she's a writer and a comedian who most recently wrote for Clean Slate. It's available on Amazon. It's Shantira Jackson. Hi, Liz. Thank you, Shantira. Next, he is the host of the long running daily podcast, TBTL, as well as the public radio variety show Live Wire, which will be live at Revolution Hall in Portland, Oregon. On December 11th, it's Luke Burbank. Hey there, Liz. And finally, a comedian you can see December 10th and 11th at Dead Crow Comedy in Wilmington, North Carolina, or a New Year's Eve at Good Night's Comedy Club in Raleigh, North Carolina. It's Alonzo Bowden. Hello, Liz. So, Liz, welcome to the show. You're going to play who's also this time, also Slate, filling in for Bill Curtis. This is going to read you three quotations from this week's news. You expected that if you can correctly identify or explain just two of them, you'll win our prize, the voice of anyone you might choose, and your voice mail. Liz, are you ready to do this? Let's do it. Okay, your first quote is the Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, this week. Let's try not to wear slippers and pajamas. With holiday travel coming up, Duffy was telling Americans to stop dressing like slabs while they do what? Wow, they fly. Exactly on airplanes. Sean Duffy, in charge of improving our transportation system, says Americans need to start dressing better on airplanes. This sucks. My only fancy shoes are made of bombs. So, Duffy, apparently, blames this epidemic of terrible behavior we've been seeing on planes on people's sloppy clothes. He is calling for a return to the Golden Age of Air travel, where people dressed up. You could smoke on the plane next to any pregnant lady you liked, and your plane had a one and three chance of being hijacked to Cuba. Which, by the way, might be an upgrade right now. It's true. I don't know if he's flown lately, but I can't fight in a tuxedo. You get on a plane. You gotta be ready for action. Some guys ready to go out and you're like, wait, I gotta take the studs out of my sleeve. Yeah, you don't know what's going on on a plane. If you're on spirit and you're not ready for action, then that's your own fault. You know what I mean? Well, he got the suit to bury him in. He's wearing it right now. It's dangerous up here. People are reclining their seat well over three inches. All I know is that my nicest clothes are my biggest clothes. So, it's like, if you got a big dress on, you got a nice suit on. It's like a lot of clothes, and I don't know if you've been on a plane lately, but my nicest clothes, I'm not going to be able to sit down on Southwest if I got on a nice dress. You know what? You know what? Your nicest clothes dredged through biscoff cookie crumbs. I think I think if five guys get on a plane in suits, everyone's going to be nervous. That's true. That's not so true. What's going on? Who would they transport? What's about to happen? All right, here is your next quote. They want to block out the sun. What could go wrong? That was the headline of the Washington Post about the growing movement to block out the sun, to actually block the sun in order to slow what? Global warming? Global warming, climate change, that's right. You can applaud, not for warming, but because you got it right. A number of billionaires, including Bill Gates, are funding research and projects to block out the sun. A plan endorsed by climate scientists and mad scientists. And speaking as someone who has never seen a single movie, this sounds like a great idea. The technology is called solar geoengineering and it works by injecting reflective particles hiding into the atmosphere, which sends, if it works, the suns raise towards other planets. So it's your problem now, Venus. Are you sure it's not like a giant umbrella that comes out of the top of an island, shaped like a human skull, or Jeff Bezos lives in the eye socket? Because I feel like that's the movie version of this. We're just being ruled by bond villains. I mean, it's amazing. We humans, we are astounding creatures. All we have to do to save our only planet is like build windmills and bicycle more. And we're all like, nah, let's kill the sun. Well, as someone who lived in LA for 40 years from 80 to 2024, and I was there when we had particles blocking out the sun, didn't work too well. In hell those particles and there was a lot involved. I'm scared of any plan that Marjorie Taylor Green would say, that makes sense. Yeah, exactly. Bill Gates, by the way, one of the reasons this is in the news is, Bill Gates has come out as someone who is trying to fund these particular scientific efforts to block the sun after failing in his plan to block the X-team files. So I wonder what their plan is. What are you going to have to pay for sunlight? Because you know that's like they'll block out the sun and like, oh, you want a sunny weekend? Well, that's going to cost you some money. You don't have to be a subscription deal. You don't have the premium plan. You don't keep your sun like that. I'm sorry. I don't think that white people are going to pay for more sun. No. I'm not paying for sun, and I don't think they're going to pay for sun. All right, Jen, here's your last quote. It is from the owner of a new karaoke bar. It's like an Instagram filter for your voice. She was talking about what technology that is now being added to the karaoke experience. Is that going to be auto-tune? It is going to be auto-tune. According to The New York Times, karaoke is going upscale with nicer spaces and lounges, and yes, many of them will provide auto-tune for your singing. Come on, we already have technology to make anybody good at karaoke. It's called Drinking Five Chores Lights. What's going to happen to T-Pain? That's a good question. Oh, but they're going to take his whole thing. No, people are going to be doing his greatest hits in karaoke. It's great. No, the real question is what's going to happen to J-Lo? Oh, don't worry. I'll show J-Lo a B-R-R. Nobody was listening to J-Lo. All right. No, Peter, as someone who agrees with the description of karaoke, is the Japanese revenge for World War II. I have no desire to hear people who can't sing. There are so many people who can sing. I'm going to go ahead and listen to them. You think? Peter, I love you. You're a great guy. You're brilliant. I don't want to hear you sing. I do. No, you don't. I think everyone here does. I think the billion dollar idea with karaoke is not even an auto-tune. It's in editing the song, so it's just the good part. Yeah. Here's a one. I want to hear just a small town girl living in a lonely world, and then cut to the don't stop believing and then get off the stage. Right. I don't need all the in-between stuff. I had no idea how much in-between stuff there was in songs until they invented karaoke. Someone needs to edit the songs into just being like two minutes. Look, that in-between stuff, they call those lyrics. Yeah. There's a word for that. I'm not a training musician. This is the first time hearing of this. By the way, like, this is part of an entire movement to make karaoke more upscale, right? This is true. Some luxury apartment buildings, part of their amenities, a dedicated karaoke room. That would make me move out. Right. I think it was Sean Duffy who said we just have to dress better for karaoke. I think that'll look really improved the experience. Also, how did Liz do in our quiz? She did amazing. Three out of three. There you go, Liz. Congratulations. Thank you guys so much. Thank you. That's Liz has been great to have you stay warm and we'll see you when we're back in Chicago in April. That was good. Bye-bye. Right now, panel, let us time for you to answer some questions about this week's news. Luke at a cabinet meeting this week after blasting the media for claiming he was showing signs of fatigue, President Trump did what? Gently dozed off. He did. He had a little nappy. In the same meeting where he complained the media was unfairly criticizing him for seeming tired, Donald Trump felt asleep a number of times. It's not surprising. No disrespect. The man looks like what if a CPAP machine came to life? I have to say, though, to me, this is what makes him relatable. He goes into cabinet meetings with the confidence I have when I say sure it's a 30, but absolutely, honey, we can start a whole movie right now. I mean, following the sleep at work is a real American thing, too. It really is. Yeah, I mean, I just woke up five minutes ago. To be fair to the president, he does have an absolute good excuse why he's so tired every night this year. When he tries to go to sleep, he's visited by three ghosts, who start by saying, okay, let's try this again. Yeah. Coming up, our panelists approach the bench and our beloved listener game call. One triple eight, wait, wait, wait, wait, we'll be back in a minute with more of, wait, wait, don't tell me from NPO. This message comes from Wise, the app for international people using money around the globe. You can send, spend, and receive an up to 40 currencies with only a few simple taps. Be smart, get Wise. Download the Wise app today or visit Wise.com, TZNC's apply. Support for NPR and the following message come from the William and Flora Hulett Foundation, investing in creative thinkers and problem solvers who help people, communities, and the planet flourish. More information is available at huelet.org. From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is, wait, wait, don't tell me the NPR news quiz. I'm Alzo Slade, we're playing this week with Luke Burbank, Alonzo Bowden, and Chantira Jackson, and here again is your host at the Arizona Financial Theater and Phoenix Arizona, Peter Fagel. Thank you, Alzo. Thank you, everybody. Right now, it is time for the wait, wait, don't tell me, bluff the listener game, call one triple eight, wait, wait, to play our game on the air. How you are on, wait, wait, don't tell me. Hi, this is Nick Smith. I'm calling in from Los Alamos, New Mexico. Los Alamos, New Mexico. Dare I ask her what do you do there at that famous place? I am a staff scientist in the nuclear engineering and non-proliferation division. I've lost almost national laboratory. Wait a minute. So you work at Los Alamos National Laboratory, which famously helped make the first atomic bomb, but you work in non-proliferation. That's correct. I work on securing the back end of the fuel cycle for radioactive waste and use nuclear fuel to make sure it's safely and securely disposed. Okay, Nick, could you also hide the codes? For a while. Please. Well, Nick, it is nice to have you with us. You're going to play the game in which you have to tell truth from fiction. Alzo, what is Nick's topic? I object. So you have to get out your gavils this week. We heard about some disorder in a court. Our panel is going to tell you about some courtroom chaos in the news we found this week. Pick the panelists who's telling the truth. You'll win the wait, wait, or up your choice in your voicemail. Are you ready to play? I am indeed. All right, let's first let's hear from Shantira Jackson. Jail House Rock took on a whole new meeting in a Missouri courtroom from the longest serving circuit judge in St. Charles County. Judge Matthew EP Thornhill was forced off the bench because of his uncontrollable enthusiasm for Elvis Presley. According to disciplinary records, Judge Thornhill would often wear plastic Elvis wigs along with his robes. Offer witnesses the chance to swear on an Elvis song instead of the Bible and constantly referencing Elvis songs in his remarks from the bench. Judge Thornhill claimed that he was just trying to add some levity to the proceedings because nothing is better than walking out in handcuffs to a little less conversation, a little more action. The judge loved Elvis so much that he even wrote in his bio that quote, if I just had Elvis's hair, I'd be unstoppable. Well, he doesn't have Elvis's hair and he was stopped. After a six month suspension, he will retire. So like Elvis, he is probably going to have a pretty blue Christmas. A judge forced from the bench only because of his enthusiasm for Elvis Presley, your next courtroom drama comes from Alonzo Bowden. Bill Savoy is an institution in upstate New York and umpire for generations of little league players, which might explain what happened when he went to court with a property dispute according to the Syracuse Post Standard. Mr. Savoy claimed his neighbor built her fence a foot over the property line. The neighbor had a surveyor's map, but Savoy said quote, a blind man could see that that fence is in his garden. It was then that judge Michael Laz began his own line of questioning. Reminding Mr. Savoy he was under oath, the judge asked him about a three-two pitch that bounced in the dirt in a game last summer that Mr. Savoy called a strike. The judge then brought up a three-o pitch in the same game that the batter ducked to avoid yet was also called a strike. And then quote, what about the time you called a runner out at the plate when the ball was still in the air? Mr. Savoy meekly admitted that he may have missed a few calls. The judge stated Mr. Savoy was obviously no expert in what a blind man could see and ruled against him. Over in the gallery the judge's son Michael Laz Jr. starred a Syracuse Jr. Met was observed to pump his fist and say, justice is a bitch, isn't it? An umpire answers to a higher authority in court. Your last discovery phase comes from Luke Burbank. Someone once said, every day the internet picks someone to focus on and your job is to make sure that person is never you. And yet it's now happened twice to Rudy the Bayliffe of Contra Costa, California. First when he was sworn in back in 2023 because you see Rudy is a nine-year-old slightly portly yellow lab. Now that's dog-gone justice the New York Post wrote back in the day. However the headlines were quite different last week when Rudy the Bayliffe was caught up in a bribery scandal. Also involving county prosecutor Daniel Nune who allegedly used Began strips in his pocket to get Rudy to bear his teeth and stare menacingly at witnesses the prosecutor wanted to intimidate. When asked about it Rudy the Bayliffe lowered his head and stared into the middle distance refusing to answer further questions. As of press time he remains on paid leave Alpo and is standing in the corner of the courtroom being so damn pathetic the grand jury almost can't even be mad at him anymore. So here are your stories. Of courtroom shenanigans from Shantira Jackson a judge in Missouri forced off the bench because he just would not stop quoting Elvis Presley from Alonzo. An umpire answers to a judge who was not pleased with his on-field calls or from Luke Burbank. Rudy the Bayliffe a dog bayliffe involved in a bribery scandal which of these is the real story of Judicial Mayhem. Well I'm really moved by Alonzo's story but I think I'm all shook up for Shantira's Elvis judge. You mean the one about the guy who got into trouble by making unwelcome references to Elvis songs? That's the one I'm going to hide. All right well to bring you the real story we spoke to an expert. Maybe if a school bus driver was into Elvis that's fine but a judge totally inappropriate. That was Steven Lato a lawyer with a YouTube channel Lato's law winging on the Missouri judge who is just a little too Elvis. He congratulations Nick you figured it out you got it right. You're in the point for Shantira just for telling the truth and you have won our prize the voice of anyone you might choose for your voice mail congratulations. Thanks Peter appreciate it. Thank you take care. Goodbye. Bye bye. And now the game we call not my job we were delighted to see our friend Andy Richter on this season of Dancing with the Stars in which he inspired a whole lot of supporters online to call themselves thank you. Thank you. Andies. He and his dance partner Emma Slater lasted far longer than most expected into the competition with Andy being dubbed by the judges the people's princess. We are delighted her highness could join us here on stage in Phoenix and director welcome back to wait wait don't tell me thank you thank you. So and I should say it wasn't the judges it wasn't the judges it was just somebody online started calling me the people's princess okay yeah which is incredibly flattering it really is yeah yeah I'm really I'm hoping for a tiara for Christmas. Why not so I have to ask were you were you dancing with the stars have been around for a while did you always wanted to be on it. No quite the opposite. It always seemed like a terrifying prospect and then I didn't work very much for a little while and it seemed kind of a good idea. Did you seek them out did they call me? No no I got it it was way back in April I got a I got an email from my agent saying you know they've offered you this and I told it for my first instinct was say no and don't tell my wife that they ask. Right like just because you know and and then a minute later I was I felt like I have to do this and so I said yes and then as it got closer I just thought oh I've made it terrible to stay tell tell me about your dance experience and expertise before this all began. I'll just tell it to you in an anecdote that my wife reminded me of when I said yes to dancing with the stars for our wedding my only requirement for our dance was that the song be the shortest one possible. Right because I just I wasn't comfortable I mean I can I can dance so with him it was him to rinse it apart. What was the song was it like the boot up tone from Microsoft Windows? What was it? Brian you know it's done yeah it was just it was my ringtone yeah no you know what oh my god I don't remember you remember Peter how dare you set Andy Richter up that way on national radio listen to this and I'm not oh what a jerk I am so I guess what I'm saying is many other ways I'm an excellent husband just not now and so what was what was the preparation so like you show up I said I've been to the gym I've been doing my cardio yeah you start you start dancing you start you start being taught a routine did you get assigned a partner in your case Emma I was lucky enough to get emis later who is an angel and really an amazingly talented person an amazing choreographer she understood me she understood like how to teach me right because I'm not I don't enjoy being pushed right you know like at the hard line kind of thing I just say F this goodbye so I need to be treated you know and also she's very fun and she also the part of her genius was that she said oh and by the way every day we're going to make two or three tic-tocs uh-huh and I I said okay just because I was saying okay to everything at that point um and she's it's we started doing them I didn't understand them I was saying things like wait we're just doing what someone else has already done we're not doing anything different you just we're not the whatever yeah we're just doing this and she said yeah yeah and I was like well shouldn't we put a twist on she's like no just do it all right and we just do it and I very quickly she's she would point and say look how many views this guy and I'd be like 1.3 million right like that's what and this is that's that number has never been connected to me other than for taxation purposes and and this so I watched a lot of your dances and I'm saying this with complete love and respect as speaking as a man that for good reason has not danced in public for 25 years but it it kind of seemed like your job was to stand still and and watch with amazement while your partner did amazing dance moves sort of around you I I will handy don't let him do you like that but but but and he was the charming part you made a lot of very expressive faces yeah as you watched her yeah yeah yeah no no I do you make it sound like I mean you weren't entirely I moved from one point to the other and there was footwork that I had to remember really yeah yes yes I'm not saying I was great okay but I dance you just with they were we believe there were people online too and say he just walks around I'm like what do you think dancing is it not synch a paid it walking hey hey Peter you expect me to fly yes I'm being a Peter I really do think if Andy went dressed as nicely as he is he would kick your head but that would I wasn't that part I mean wasn't that part of the appeal of well that there's certainly they've had people on that show who are outright elderly so yeah they're not they're not gonna kill them you know and that they're always this kind of an aspect and I was the oldest person there so yeah I'm not going to be doing a lot of flips and stuff right but I certainly did learn to waltz I learned to cha cha a fox trot you know I pulled off a fox trot so yeah yeah and thank you thank you and I and by the end too I was with each new week's dance I would learn it in one rehearsal it was like I could have the ability to do that I can I can remember yeah wow you learn you sort of learn there's like thank you yeah no because I I would think I thought of it as like between my head and my feet there was no wiring and or it had crusted over or something and at by the time we were finished the wiring was there and I mean I was never I I tried to emulate the real dancers because I would do the dance that we were doing that week and think I really nailed that one I really got it and then we would look because we'd recorded on our phones and I'd look at it on the phone and I'm like look at that old man stomping around waiting in the arms yeah I would I just was like it doesn't when I do it it does not look like the way the dancers you know it's funny how that and I would try to I tried you know in different times to sort of emulate the sort of more sort of fluid movements and it's you know I as I said I was a rhino in a gazelle contest I never going to be a gazelle the people's princess well Andy Richter it is always such a pleasure to have you on our show and as always we'd like you to play a game that this time we are calling gotta dance so given your performance on Dancing With the Stars we thought we'd ask you about somebody who was really good at dancing Jean Kelly answer two or three questions about the legendary song and dance man and you will win a prize for one of our listeners also who is Andy Richter playing for this time firma and berry kittness of press got Arizona not far from locals locals are they here I don't know are you here no no apparently not that big a fan no all right ready here's your first question Jean Kelly went from being a dance instructor in Pittsburgh to one of the biggest movie stars of all time what was among his many secrets of success a custom made motorized tap shoes be pants that were one size too small to accentuate his butt or see whatever the music you heard watching him on screen on set he was always dancing to the same song home on the range I think it's the butt pants you're right yeah and he's never seen him you'd know that's true not only that he have his pants made a little tight you would sometimes make sure his male co-stars pants were a little loose okay Kelly went on after his own career on screen to be a director he directed the movie hello dolly and the star of that film Michael Crawford said that he got the part after Kelly said which of these to him was it a quote you remind me of a young me before I knew how to dance be quote we can shoot somebody with talent from the waist down and edit it in or see quote we're looking for an attractive idiot my wife thinks you're attractive and I think you're an idiot boy I think maybe the third one I think yeah about the wife in the you know this business you know these people that's exactly what he said and he has kind of an attractive idiot in the film so it works out all right last question you can be perfect here Jean Kelly and his wife hosted these massive parties for his famous friends in Beverly Hills and a mainstay of those parties was what a Kelly's toe-tap and punch which was just as it turned out grain alcohol and red food coloring be Kelly challenging any guest there for the first time to a dance off or see a cup-throat version of charades that could last for 24 hours straight it's gotta be charade it is the charade man he's been to his Hollywood parties 24 hours 24 hours with sometimes it was called it was known as the game yeah we're gonna play the game wow yeah true story also how did Andy Richter do in our quiz he danced his way to a perfect score three out of three you did thank you there you go Andy Richter was the people's princess on this year's run of dancing with the stars he is the host of the three questions with Andy Richter podcast which airs Mondays on this serious xm app or wherever you might get your podcast please give it up to our friend Andy Richter thanks so much for being with us thank you thank you thank you so much in just a minute also has a warning for plant lovers everywhere in our listener lemuric challenge call one triple eight wait wait to join us on the air we'll be back in a minute with more of wetweights on tell me from np r from npr and wbe easy chicago this is wait wait don't tell me the npr news quiz i'm out those slayed we're playing this week with lukeburbank alanzo boden and centera jackson and here again is your host at the arizona financial theater and phoenix arizona peter saygo thank you alzo and just a minute our delicious limericks get three michael limb the stars and our listener lemuric challenge game if you'd like to play or you know just love us give us a call at one triple eight wait wait that's one 888 924 8924 right now panel some more questions for you from the week's news shantera there is a new kind of party to go to where you get together with your friends for a hot night of what watching dancing with the star no i wish here's your hint bring your party dress your outstanding bills in your shoebox of receipts oh um you do your taxes yeah you do paperwork yeah this new trend is paper work parties or as one wall street journal column this calls it admin night this is a party that really tests the age old theory that anything can be fun if you drink enough but if you do drink be careful you don't want to wake up the next morning like oh man what did i deduct last night do you have to do your own paperwork because there's some paperwork i like and some paperwork i don't can we swap what's the paperwork you like um i like feeling out my airport stuff um you do yeah i like to see how many points i can get from stuff on my credit card um so yeah like if there was an option can it's just like a taxation like swingers party pretty much yeah everybody throws their stuff at a fish ball we put our keys in a ball and you do my paperwork exactly the idea you see is like everybody has to do all of this everybody's dealing with credit cards and all accounts and online stuff and it's a pain in the butt so one and everybody get together and you can help each other oh i know the number to talk to a real person at this company swap it i think that's called the office yeah you get together with a group of people and do something unfun until you're done with it no no this is great it's a great way to like you and your friends to support each other you can pull your knowledge and it's a great way to find out which of your friends are drowning in debt look a remark on the new study suggests that children's health will be affected if their mother smells what while she's pregnant is it is this something that uh generally is uh thought to be dangerous or toxic smell that is generally thought to be very uh very lovely as long as you're not a vegetarian ah or kosher again okay bacon yes bacon child's health future wellbeing can be affected if their mother smells bacon while they are pregnant with that child so we know eating bacon is bad now even smelling bacon can change your life the study shows that if the mother only smells bacon her offspring are more likely in life to become obese this is because chemical signals can be transferred to the developing fetus which goes oh yeah first thing i do when i get out of here is get me some of that is is this an American study because if it is i don't think yeah also remember we've also fired a lot of the scientists in this country so it's true also women when you're pregnant i won't i don't know but i do know a lot of people who've been pregnant you only have so much do not take bacon away from coming women they need it really honestly they might kill you if you try alanzo this week we learned about the newest trendy appliance for your home it's a washing machine but it's specifically designed to clean what wow uh not your clothes not your dishes the washing machine for something besides clothes and dishes uh your your pickleball paddle haha be careful this is Arizona most of these people moved here to play more pickleball that's why i said it you got to keep that paddle clean can you give me a share uh the the shampoo and body wash pods are sold rapidly oh to wash your body yes they're human washing machines it's a new invention by a japanese electronics company called Yamada and it looks like a spa bed sort of and it uses micro bubbles and steam mist to provide a full body clean in just 15 minutes of operation it's amazing that only takes 10 minutes longer than a shower think of the time you'll lose this sounds to be like putting you through a car wash yeah yeah right just zip you through which let's all be honest we all dream of right yeah i still do i will say though you know with the relaxing warm water jets and gentle scrubbing it's more like a human laundry machine you know than a dishwasher which means it will be great until it gets to the spin cycle yeah you wash yourself on too hot you come out you're like a child yeah coming up it's lightning fell in 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 and leave a message at one triple eight wait wait that's one eight eight eight nine two four eight nine two four you can see us most weeks at the stutubaker theater in downtown Chicago and come see us on the road we will be in blooming to an Indiana on February 26th for tickets and information to all our live events go to npr presents dot org and if you like our show but not enough to watch it for more than just a few seconds check us out on tiktok at weight weight npr higher on weight weight don't tell me hey this is Katie from Norman Oklahoma hey okay Norman Oklahoma what do you do there for fun in Norman pottery potterie and play with my dog pottery and play with your dogs you throw pots not for the dogs not yet not yet okay yes welcome to our show Katie also slayed filling in for Bill Curtis is going to read you three news related limits with the last word of phrase missing from each of you can fill in that last word of phrase correctly and two of the limits will be a winner ready to go yep here is your first lemmrack all these houseplants are meant to impress but i'd like to be doing much less fresh water fresh soil and pruning is soil it's raising my levels of stress right turns out that too many plants in your house can stress you out it makes sense plants are great until you get back from a trip and realize oh they don't water themselves while i'm huh researchers at Stanford invited volunteers to do difficult work in rooms with different amounts of houseplants and then noted their level of stress turns out the optimum amount of houseplants is enough to fill 20% of your field of vision if you're seeing plants everywhere you look right you start thinking oh man how the hell am i supposed to put all those plants through plant college and plants taking up a hundred percent of your field of view is very stressful because you realize you blacked out and woke up naked in the woods again you are in the amazon exactly yeah you wouldn't want to live in a greenhouse unless it grown weed that'd be good which case you got a place to hang out yeah yeah all right here is your next lemmrack confused as to what the attack meant the lion pride followed the track sent what the other pride spoke they took as a joke because their roar had a regional and not bent it's a two syllable answer rhymes with tax meant tracks sent act yes there you are scientists have discovered that lion roars have different accents depending on where the lion is from and furthermore they think this might be what the hyenas have been laughing at if you want to hear a great accent me to Scottish lion i think lion roars all sound the same behind you yes exactly you don't worry about where that lion's from that that one of those west side lions buddy all right here is your last lemmrack dogs with underbites look around smugly because they look weird we humans act snugly sleek dogs with much grace are losing first place we all want a dog that is ugly yes ugly dogs are in according to the Wall Street Journal when once high status dogs were like the golden retrievers or afghans now quote at the end of every second leash lurks a rat with an overbite or a pop-eyed goblin unquote which is also why so many vets are saying to dog owners yet don't know how to tell you this but there's really no need to spay your neuter this one the nature's got it covered really the journal described one very currently popular breed the Chinese crested as quote a dog that got left in the microwave so if you really want a dog that's on trend get one that's so ugly other dogs keep calling up and sniffing its face I feel like a cat wrote this this is right up the cat's alley it wants the journalist entirely staffed by cats yes I mean these days maybe so do you compliment someone on how ugly their dog is well they have ugly dogs context they have a ugly dog ugly dog's contest yeah well then I guess you do and how do you suggest that to them hey we really love mr freckles but I see a future for him in ugly dog contests always what you say is you know as long as you love yeah as long as you love your dog it's got such a lovely personality how's all how did Katie do in our quiz she got three out of three perfect score congratulations Katie well done thank you so much for playing bye bye bye now onto our final game let me 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 also can you give us this score of course the Lonzo and Luke are tied up at two with Shantira in the lead with three okay hey Shantira the Shantira stands are excited we'll see how long it lasts all right let's arbitrarily pick a Lonzo to go first you're tied for seconds or here we go the clock will start when they begin your first question fill in the blank a Lonzo on Wednesday the department of Homeland Security began blank raids in Minnesota and Louisiana ice right on Monday Costco sued the U.S. seeking a full refund of President Trump's blanks correct this week heavy rainstorms caused dangerous blanks in Indonesia Thailand and Malaysia flood right and landslides according to meteorological data parts of the U.S. will soon face the blankest weather of the season cold it right this week Zoran Mamdani and the Louvre topped the list for 2025's blanks people in a year no 2025's most mispronounced words on Sunday Leo the 14th arrived in Beirut as part of his first trip abroad since being named blank uh Pope right on Monday one of the last privately owned blank eggs sold for over 30 million dollars at auction Fabricate right this week of politician in Namibia legally changed his name so that he will no longer be called by his birth name blank Namibia no he will no longer be known by his birth name Adolf Hitler Uunona why would you get that up yeah I don't know you're the only one true first of all you get the hotmail account true yeah nobody else is taking that how long did he take him to decide he is a grown man uh Adolf Hitler Uunona who's been part of the government there since 2004 says his parents gave him the name without understanding the historical significance behind it and now he's happy he will no longer be known as Adolf Hitler Uunona and is excited to run for re-election under his new legal name Adolf Hitler Williams also how did Alonzo do in our quiz did all right he got six right for 12 points which gives him a total of 14 and the lead well done all right Luke you are up next please fill in the blank on Tuesday top US officials met with Vladimir Putin to discuss an end to the war in blank Ukraine right on Thursday the Supreme Court ruled that blank could use their gerrymandered congressional map Texas right this week House Democrats released photos and videos of blanks private island Epstein right on Tuesday the GOP won a special election in blank but by narrower margins than expected Virginia no Tennessee overwhelmed emergency rooms in England are begging people to stop coming to the ER for blank toothbrush lessons no hiccups according to a new report blank consumption is declining globally alcohol right on Friday the first matchups of FIFA's 2026 blank cup were announced world right this week animal control officers were called to a liquor store in Virginia after a raccoon broke in and blanked got drunk and trashed the place pretty much and passed out in the stores bathroom according to animal control the raccoon had somehow managed to get into the store sampled a lot of liquor and then passed out spread-eagled face down on the bathroom floor it was it was really freaking cute it was pretty adorable way cuter than when I do it yeah all right also how did Luke do in our quiz well Luke also got six right for 12 points and now he is tied for the lead with Alonzo all right so then how many does Shantira need to win it all Shantira yeah six to win six all right six to win all right here we go this is for the game fill in the blank on Wednesday GOP representative Elise Stefano questioned the blanks effectiveness as Speaker of the House oh what's his name Johnson yes Mike Johnson on Thursday the Adam Raleigh who oversaw one of the U.S.'s lethal blank strikes oh missile boat strikes yeah the business way yeah on Monday 18t said they were ending their blank initiatives um d i right after a man in China's car started making weird sounds mechanics discovered the noises were caused by blanks there was just a man in there sleeping no 40 pounds of hazelnuts stuffed under the hood for the first time ever the average price of a new blank rose about 50 thousand dollars new cars yes on Wednesday Spotify released the 2025 version of users blanks it's like your Spotify list yeah your Spotify wrap this week a company that makes a device to play sounds like rushing water and bird song to cover up bathroom noises announced their newest sound blank your mother saying she loves you oh their new sound to cover up bathroom sounds is artillery fire the royal flush is a wall mounted device that offers pleasing sounds of nature to cover up whatever else might be happening in there and it now features extra strength sounds including artillery fire this explains for the last time you had a party at your house one of your friends was like hey where's your bathroom i gotta go save private Ryan also did shantira do well enough to win almost you got five right for ten more points a total of 13 just one point side of the fellas and that is how it always just a minute we're gonna ask our panelists to predict what would be the number one song and everybody's Spotify wrapped next year we wait don't tell me it's a production of npr and wb easy Chicago and association with urgent haircut productions duck bournemon benevolent overlord philipp go to cut rights our limb wrecks our public address announced her is Paul freedman our tour manager is Shane a domal thanks to the staff and crew at the Arizona financial theater bj leader been composed our theme our program is produced by gender for mills model storm boss and lily and king special thanks this week to blithe roverson and monika hiki keater guine is our gleeve and a choy is our vibe cheerleader technical direction is from lorna white rcfo is caught in milla reproduction manager is robert new house our senior producers in chillog and the executive producer of right way don't tell me is mr michael danforth now panel looking forward to next year what will be the top song on spotify wrapped shantira jaxson anything beyond say does please give us a three look for bank for some reason hit the road jack and the lanzo boden i don't know what it is but the conservatives will not approve of the song and if we hear any of those songs will ask you about it on wait wait don't tell me thank you so much alzzo slayde thanks also to a lanzo boden shantira jaxson and loop bernick a very special thanks to everyone at kjz z here in phoenix and through a fabulous audience here the garrison financial theater thanks for all the views for listening wherever you might be a peter saggo will be back in chicago next week this is np on support for npr and the following message come from the william and florah hulet foundation investing in creative thinkers and problem solvers who help people communities and the planet flourish more information is available at hulet dot org