We ghost some tech bros with David Byrne

0:00Support for this podcast and the following message come from Ali Yon's Travel Insurance. Ready to turn last year's travel dreams into this year's Jet Setting Reality? And all trips annual plan is ready when you are all year long. Learn more at Ali Yon's Travel Insurance.com. From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is Weight-Way Don't Tell Me, the NPR News Quiz. I'm your judge and scorekeeper, Alzo Slade. I'm so judgey, teenage girls ask me for advice. And here's your host at the Studebricker Theater, at the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Illinois, Peter Segal. Thank you, Alzo. Thank you everybody. Thank you all so much. I'm just going to say, I'm not going to shut you down, because I win the audience. I'd be just as excited because we have such a great show for you. Later on, we are going to be talking to David Bern, the legendary musician and artist and founder of Talking Heads in his honor.

1:07After tonight's show, we will be burning down the theater. But we want to talk to your head first, so give us a call. The number is 1-triple-8-weight, that's 1-888-924-892-4. Let's welcome our first listener contestant. Hi, you're on weight weight, don't tell me. Yes, hi. Hi, who's this? Lucy. Lucy, where are you calling from, Lucy? I'm calling from DC, but I'm French from Luxembourg. Oh, wait a minute. If you're French from Luxembourg, doesn't that mean you're Luxembourgian? No, that means I'm an expat. Oh, I see. And what do you do now that you're here in DC? I work for a very big organization that aims to end poverty around the world. Wow. That's pretty great. Any schedule for that, because you're the weighting. Well, we still want to have a job, right? Yeah, exactly. Right. Do it slowly enough that you can get your retirement.

2:12I get that. That's a good strategy. Lucy, it's great to have you. Let me introduce you to our panel today. First up, she's a comedian. You can see most nights performing live somewhere in New York City. It's Rachel Coster. Hi, Lucy. Hi. You're here, hard work. Next, he's a comedian. You can see at Punchline Houston November 5th through the 7th and Punchline Atlanta. November 20th to the 22nd. It's Alonzo Bode. Hello, Lucy. Hello. And now, making his debut on our panel today, he is a New York Times best-selling author, who is pop culture commentary. You can see on HBO, Hulu, and NBC. It is Rob Anderson. Hey, Lucy. Hi. I like your capitalistic approach to poverty. Well, Lucy, welcome to our show. You're going to play Who's Alzo at this time? Alzo Slade right here is going to read you three quotations from this week's news. If you can correctly identify or explain two of them, you will win our prize. Any voice from our show, you might choose for your voice smell.

3:13You ready to go? Yes. Okay, your first quote is from a woman on TikTok. If you see a tech bro run for your life. So the tech bro's may seem to be running the world right now, but it turns out they're having trouble finding what. Oh, I'm going to need a hint. Well, the person who said run for your life from tech bros was a woman. Women? Yes, dates. Yes, dates. Okay. Girlfriends, dates. Spouses partners according to a report in Wired magazine. It is becoming harder and harder for tech bros to find dates. Today's woman are quick to reject them for no other reason, than that they are the worst people on earth. The article says even their gigantic salaries are not enough to overcome sort of the tech bro stigma. Guys, just make up something about how you got all that money. No, no, no, no.

4:13I don't work for Anthropic. I embezzled it all from a children's hospital. But I don't think it's easy for a tech bro to hide his job. That little vest gives it away. That's not a perfect vest. One of these guys, this is true that in order to seem more attractive and nicer to the women he meets, instead of saying he works in tech, he says he works in AI. Dude, no. That's like saying, oh, I'm not a murderer. I'm more of a serial killer. But if he's an AI guy, does he really need a live woman? I mean, isn't that what they're working on, robots to replace them? You may have a point. But I should be in turn down by you, the robot you created. Even the robots like, yeah, dude. I'm just quite a friend. All right. Here, Lucy, is your next quote. It is, Missouri Senator Eric Schmidt, in a hearing on Tuesday.

5:18You will go down in history as a total dirt bag. He was yelling at Jack Smith. That was the special counsel who had investigated whom? You're president? Oh, no, no, no, wait a minute. Don't you dare. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Wait a minute. It may be literally true, but you chose to live here. Yeah, you're missing. Yeah, you're missing. Don't you dare. President Trump. Yes, President Trump. At a televised Senator hearing, Senator Schmidt accused Jack Smith back in 2024 of going to Atlanta to engage in a secret conspiracy against the president. The Senator's proof texts about Smith going to an Atlanta Hawks basketball game on a certain date. Because who doesn't say I'm going to take a secret flight to Atlanta to advance my evil conspiracy. And I'd also like to take in an NBA game while I'm there.

6:18Turns out that Senator Schmidt was confusing the Atlanta Hawks with the Iowa Hawks. Jack Smith on that date was actually watching Caitlin Clark playing basketball 700 miles away. Nevertheless, Senator Schmidt said that couldn't be true because gotcha dirt bag, there's no such thing as women's basketball. So everybody, I mean, this went viral. It was all over the place. Did you guys see it, Rob? Did you see it? I saw a clip on TikTok and I think Senator, I thought you were saying hot guys. So wait a minute. So you were talking about the Senator Amy Klobuchar. Yes. Corrected. And Chymna said, no, I don't think he was seeing the Hawks in Atlanta. I think he was seeing the Hawks guys. But the way she said Hawks, I never went, oh, she got him and I went, hot guys. I was like on the same page, but on a completely different book. At that time, wasn't Caitlin Clark and the Iowa Hawks guys like literally the most famous basketball player?

7:24She wasn't hard to look up a reason to be watching the Iowa Hawks guys. They had the greatest woman's basketball player in the country at the time. It seems he would go to that game as opposed to the Atlanta Hawks' team on which you couldn't name one player. Alright, Lucy, your last quote is from a woman responding to a debate that broke out this week on the internet about babysitting. That's as good as stealing. That was one of the many, many people who went online this week to say that babysitters should not be paid for the time when they're doing what? Holding the baby because it's such a sweet thing to do. That's so sentimental. The idea is for the babysitter that you're off the clock as soon as the lullaby ends. Oh, as soon as the baby sleeps.

8:25Yes, they believe these people that babysitters should not be paid or not be paid as much just for sitting around while the kids are asleep. This week countless people went online to argue about this. How much should parents pay babysitters once the kids go to sleep? The idea is that the babysitter should not get paid for just sitting on the couch watching TV. What? That's the job. So remember, okay, babysitters under this new rule to make the most money just keep the kids awake until the parents get home. Actually, by any means necessary. That's why I was going to say, you know the babysitter just feed that kid can. Can you imagine the baby is not known from the babysitter like, those laps to the front? I don't have kids, but I have a dog like now.

9:25Like, I pay a dog sitter when I leave and I know my dog sleeps 18, 19 hours a day. I know after she feeds and walks and he's done, but I wouldn't not pay her. Why wouldn't they just leave? I'm off the clock so you'll later. Exactly. Also, how did Lucy do on our quiz? Lucy did great. Perfect score three out of three. Congratulations, Lucy. Thank you so much for playing and take care. Right now, panel, it is time for you to answer some questions about this week's news. Alonzo, question for you. Alonzo, more parents these days want their kids to have the same kind of experiences they had growing up, so they're taking their kids to playgrounds that are what? Unsafe? Exactly. Dangerous. Yes. Topping those kids off.

10:27This culture of overprotectiveness and obsessions about safety, it's making our kids too soft. Do you realize there are playgrounds nowadays without one single piece of metal to burn your leg on when it's sunny out? Terrible. So parents are taking kids to playgrounds that are designed to be dangerous, like a real one called the yard in New York City, which has features strewn about it like hammers, a big, all-empty water tank, and this is true used wheelchairs for the kids to play with. They get the wheelchairs from the people who used the playground last year and have healed up. Peter, that's just the project. You know when the cop slide went viral that one embossed it, and then they shut it down the next day? That is pretty safe compared to what things used to be. Yeah, real slide is made of aluminum. Exactly. So when you slide down into summer, you leave the skin on the spot. The outlet.

11:27Helps the kids mulch so they can grow faster. Coming up, our panelist find a great parking spot in our bluff-the-listener game called 1-88-Wait-Wait-To-Play. We'll be back in a minute with more of Wait-Wait-Don't-Tell Me from NPR. Stay tuned for the following announcements and messages from our sponsors. This message comes from Aliens Travel Insurance. Everything changes with the seasons, including your travel plans. From Japan's cherry blossoms in the spring to K-Bex Winter Carnival, there's so much you're excited to see. And all trips annual plan lets you embrace it all. With 365 days of travel protection that's ready when you are, you can enjoy every season of travel with peace of mind that's evergreen. Learn more at Aliens Travel Insurance.com. This message comes from IXL. With IXL, you get personalized online learning and teaching solutions that help improve achievement,

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13:29I'm Alzo Slade. We're playing this week with Alonzo Bowden, Rachel Costa and Rob N. And here again is your host at the Studebringer Theater in Chicago, Illinois. Peter Segold. Thank you, Alzo. Right now, it is time for the Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me Bluff, the listener game called. One triple eight, Wait, Wait to Player Game in the Air. How you are on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. Hi, and this is Morgan Overhazen, calling in from New Haven, Connecticut. I love New Haven. Spent many happy times there. What do you do there? I clearly am a small animal, better nary, and hearing downtown New Haven. Okay, how small is there? Just your cats and dogs. You're a smaller than that. Really? Do you have a minimum size? I have to be larger than something. They can offer us, they're least hold. I got this mosquito on the... Exactly. Well, welcome to the show, Morgan. You're going to play the game in which you must write it down truth from fiction. I was orders Morgan's topic. Parking garages around the world.

14:29Parking garages are everywhere, and although you may not know it right away, each one is unique as a snowflake. A boring, sad, concrete snowflake. This week we read about an international parking garage that is shaking things up with an exciting new feature. Our panelists are going to tell you about it, pick the real one, and get the wait, wait, or of your choice, and you're always smelly. Ready to play? Sure am. Okay, first up, let's hear it from Rachel Costa. Business people in France have been arriving earlier to work than ever before, since the implementation of new technology in a parking garage in Paris, law defense, financial district. As part of the parking garages, ladies' renovation, they got rid of all the stairs and added a bunch of fun slides. Employers at Societé General remarked that their bankers have never shown up so early for work or with so much static electricity in their hair. The only downside noted stylish businessman Pierre Lafrou was that the slide gave him a wedgie. He did not let that stop him from sliding four times before work and sneaking in a couple rounds during his lunch break.

15:31Unlike normal garages where drivers try to park as close to the exit as possible, people have been arriving early and fighting for spots on the top floor so they can ride down the longest slide, which has the most turns. Brooks Brothers is even releasing a brand new wedgie-proof suit just for enjoyers of the slide. You might be wondering how people get back to their cars and so is the parking garage company. Hope you like crawling. A parking garage in Paris that replaced their stairs with slides to make exiting that much more fun. Your next parking parable comes from Rob Anderson. In Leone, finding a parking spot is no longer about availability. It's about alignment. Parking operator Station Mint Rone Lumière has drawn national attention after converting its downtown garage into a fun sway model. When drivers arrive, they're greeted by a parking intuitive an attendant who asks them to step out of the car for a reading. The attendant circles the vehicle slowly, sometimes resting hand on the hood, sometimes simply standing in silence.

16:33The vehicle is then directed to one of the almost 1500 visually identical spots that possess differing energies. Many people believe they drive a sedan, says senior parking intuitive, Malfil de Carone. But the car knows, sometimes it's carrying hatchback energy. It wants to open from the back and it wants to be honest. The company says it made the switch after noticing that customers stayed longer and the paid by hour garage when their spot matched the car's personality. Some customers, however, point out that they stay longer because the vibe reading can take up to two hours. A parking garage. A parking garage in Leone, friends, with Feng Shui experts who help you park your car according to its inner energies. And your last car port report comes from Alonzo Bowden. Are they shooting a cheese commercial? That's the strangest car alarm I've ever heard.

17:34Well, if you're in Austria, that car alarm or cheese commercial is part of the latest craze, yodeling in a parking garage. A parking garage offers the same perks as the high mountains as yodeling teacher Anna Marie Gucci. I mean, yeah, the views aren't the same and the smells are worse. But it works. And it's really catching on. Students from everywhere love the energy of group yodeling. Jamie Sohn from South Korea joined a class to experience the Austrian culture. Andrea Allen from Buffalo has newfound confidence thanks to yodeling, while her roommate is probably looking for a new roommate. Tom Button, the teacher from New York, says it's like group meditation. He likes walking deeper and deeper down in the parking lot, singing louder and louder, which sounds like a great way to practice yodeling or how to be the scariest murderer ever. All right. So lots of magic.

18:35You're driving around Europe and you go into a particular parking garage. Would it be in real life from Rachel, a parking garage in Paris, where it slides instead of stairs to make getting out of the garage really fun? From Rob Anderson, a parking garage in Leole, France, with fun, shui experts to help you park your car in the appropriate energetic place, or from Alonzo Bowdoin, a parking garage in Austria, which has become a home for yodlers to practice their mountainous art. Which of these is the real parking garage we found out about in the news? This is a tricky one. I also love to park in any one of these three, but I think I'm going to have to go with C. You're going to go with the yodeling. Well, to bring you the correct answer, we spoke to an expert on the topic. Yodeling gets a bad rap, but I think it would be a wonderful thing to hear in your local parking garage. That was Alice Wallach, she's a singer-songwriter, and Yodeling instructor at the Old Town School of Folk music here in Chicago, confirming that yes,

19:39it's the parking garage in Austria where all the yodlers are congregating. Congratulations, Morgan, you got it right, you're into point for Alonzo, just for telling the truth, and you've won our prize, the voice of your choice and your voice. Congratulations. Thank you so much for Brian Morgan, take care. And now the game we call not my job. Back in the 1970s, David Byrne dropped out of art school, moved to New York and started a band called Talking Heads. In the years since, he has won Grammys, an Oscar. He's been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He won a special Tony Award for his Broadway show, He Is Created Books, and Scores, and Theater pieces, and Artworks, and a new immersive play that is being performed here in Chicago right now, all of which makes you wonder what could he have accomplished if he had just gotten that art degree.

20:43David Byrne, welcome to Weight Weight Don't Tell Me. Thank you, thank you. So, it's great to have you here virtually, because in Chicago people can still see your play, your experience, called Theater of the Mind has been running for months here with the Goodman Theatre. I have been to it, I don't know if you'd even say seen it, I have experienced it, but I can't really explain adequately what it is, can you? I can try a little bit. Okay, I was an audience member, you're given a new identity, and you go through with a group of 16 people, and your friends, your acquaintance, your workmates with an actor, and you go through different rooms, and you experience kind of perceptual illusions and different things that make you doubt

21:48what you're seeing, what you're smelling, what you're tasting, what you're hearing. Yeah, but you skipped, I think, an important detail, which is that actor you mentioned, who leads you and the other members of your small group, is named David. Yeah, you left that out. Do you ever sort of come to snuck into Chicago and just checked on it, come to see it yourself, gone through the experience? Oh, lots of times, yes, yes, I've been a member of the audience. And do people, I'm assuming they must recognize you? Well, maybe they do. Maybe they do, I don't know why, I don't try not to pay attention to that. No, you think you think you're in a group of, you're in a group of, yeah, good. I'm trying to pay attention to how the actor doing. Yeah, is the actor kind of, but, Is he selling, is the actor selling these ideas, is the actor selling this part? I'm just trying to imagine, there's a group of these, you said 16 people going through this thing over the course of about 90 minutes,

22:48and they're also, I'm just imagining, they're all standing there going, is that, is that David Perth? Is that, he looked, does, No, no, no, that's another actor. Exactly, this must be part of the concept. And it's part of the show, yes. Well, I'm thinking of the actor when he sees you like, ****. Oh, boy. Yes, who am I now? Yeah, exactly. I was joking about it earlier, but when you quit art school to move to New York and pursue your own art, and your music, did anybody give you grief? Remember, like, David, you can't quit school, you're going to get your degree. No, quite the opposite. I showed that, I showed a teacher that, the stuff that I was doing the artwork, I was doing, he said, we don't teach that stuff here. Really? Yeah, you should go to New York and try your luck. Really? That was good, that was good advice. Apparently, do you think, do you think that person was really impressed with you and felt you should

23:48put your work on the world? I was just trying to let you down gently. I just couldn't even either one. Yeah, really good luck. Yeah, yeah, you're not going anywhere with this. I'm not going to say that. Even art professors know the degree is pointless. Exactly. Speaking of advice, we heard a story that when you were starting talking heads, the band, starting to perform in downtown stages, CBGBs, Lou Reed himself gave you some fashion advice. Is that true? Well, yeah, yeah, yeah. He looked at me and said, I had really hairy arms at that point. Really hairy. I mean, I've seen photos. Now or not, I don't know where the hair went. But he said, you should never wear short sleeves. Wow. Body shamed you.

24:48Yeah. I guess that explains the suit when you think about it. Yeah. You show American Utopia, which ended up on Broadway, earning you a Tony, featured you and the other performers, including musicians in gray suits, monochrome suits, and bare feet. Back when you were doing American Utopia, did you and your ensemble keep stepping on sharp objects? Actually, we were really lucky. Really? Some of the band and dancers performers said, I know. I'm going to put on some little fake shoes. Really? Back in the... Yeah, we had these little slippers that were colored according to their skin tone. And then I would go up and draw toes. Oh, you want to wear them, huh? Well, they got to look right here.

25:48Yeah, just stay and stay. I don't look like you got bare feet. I wanted to ask you one more thing before we moved to our game. It's famously you are a bicyclist, a bicycle enthusiast, an advocate, and you ride all over New York City on your bicycle. Does anybody like a car or a truck recognize you, just as they're about to run you over and decide not to? You mean the fact that they might recognize me, does that give me some protection? Exactly. They're like, that's some of the bitch I'm going to go, oh, it's David Brick. Let him go. Oh, no, no, no, you can't run over a famous guy. You'll be the guy that ran over a celebrity. Yeah, you can't do that. That for that forever. No. Well, I can't say David what a personal thrill it is for me to talk to you. And there are more thrills ahead because we have asked you here to play a game.

26:49We're calling Talking Hids Meet Walking Dead. Right. That's right. We are going to ask you three questions about the Walking Dead or Zombies. And so two to three questions correctly, you'll win our prize for one of our listeners, the voice of anyone they might choose from our show, also who is David Bern playing for? James Miller of Orlando, Florida. All right, you ready to go? I'm ready. All right. You may not have taken tests because you know, you didn't graduate. So... That's right. It might be new experience for you. Here's your first question. George A. Romero, of course, is the father of the modern zombie movie with his knight of the living dead and its sequels. Before he made his name with the brain eating undead, what was his job? A directing short films for Mr. Rogers' neighborhood. B performing as a street mime in Toronto or C, he was a knight watchman in a mortuary with a lot of time on his hands. Oh, I really tempted to say knight watchman in a mortuary,

27:55but that's probably too good to be true. So I think I have to go with number two. We're going to go with performed as a street mime in Toronto. No, he actually directed short films for Mr. Rogers. Oh, my God. Before this is true, before he made Knight of the Living Dead, Mr. Romero made such films as How Lightbulbs Are Made, and Mr. Rogers gets a ton select to me. Too terrifying films. Absolutely. These two more chances, although Knight of the Living Dead, that early movie made George Romero very famous, it did not make him rich. Why? Why? Well, that's the question. Why? Here are your choices. A. He lost his share of the profits on a beddie made in the 1969 Super Bowl. B. The distributor forgot to put that little circle C copyright mark on the poster, or C. He was successfully sued by the HG bakery company Makers of Living Bread.

29:01I'm going to say the copyright thing, but... You're right. That's what happened. No. It turns out... Oh, I got one. If you don't put that little C mark on something, it's not copyrighted, so anybody from the moment it was released was able to show it for free. Okay. Last question. If you get this right, you win. Since Knight of the Living Dead, of course, created the genre, there have been countless zombie movies, including Which of These? Which of These is Real? A. Zombiever about innocent campers attacked by undead beavers. B. Flight of the Living Dead about zombies on a plane. Or C. Nudist Colony of the Dead. Which is self-explanatory. Which one is real? Which one is real? Which one is real? Which one is real? The first one. Yes. Zombiever is real, but... As you probably guessed, all of them are real.

30:02Those are all zombie movies you can see if you're a completist. Also, how did David Burn do on our quiz? Well, he passed this test. Two out of three. Great. Congratulations. It's all takes. It's all takes. It's all takes. Oh! David Burn. Do I get my degree now? You do, you can't. David Burn is a Grammy-winning musician and one of the founding members of Talking Heads. His interactive theater experience, theater of the mind is happening in Chicago right now. Come and experience it. More information is at theaterofthemindshakago.com. David Burn. What a joy to talk to you. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you. Take care. In just a minute, Alzo raids his grainy's closet in our listener, Limerick Challenge. Call 1-888-8-8 to join us in the air. We'll be back in a minute with more of Weight-Way-Dotelming from NPO.

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32:07With more than 80 career focused master's programs to choose from, and coursework that can be done 100% online, SNHU offers education that fits your life and your goals. Learn more at snhu.edu slash weight. From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is Weight Weight Don't Tell Me, the NPR News Quiz. If you are news quiz, I'm Alzo Slade. We're playing this week with Alonzo Bowden, Rob Anderson and Rachel Costa, and here again is your host at the Student Bricker Theater in Chicago, Illinois, Peter Seigel. Thank you, Alzo. Thank you so much. Thanks everybody. In just a minute, Alzo reads us his journal. It turns out it's just full of lemma-x. It's our listener-limmer challenge. If you'd like to play, give us a call at 1-888-8-8-8-8-8-9-24. Right now, panel, it is time for more questions for you from the week's news. Alonzo Tombstone Pizza, announced they're releasing a special October frozen pizza.

33:09It's pizza that's topped with pepperoni and what? It's a new pizza topping they're adding. Well, it's a topping that comes with this, it's a special Halloween-themed pizza. Candy corn? Yes. You know what's funny? You know what's funny? When I said Halloween and you went right to Candy Corn, all of a sudden I felt so terrible for what your childhood must have been. If I say Halloween and you think of Candy and that's the candy that came to your mind Alonzo. No, because that's the candy that's always in the news. It is? Every Halloween, there's a controversy over Candy Corn. Is it good? Is it bad? What does it taste like? I'm not going to do it corn, this or that. Peter, it may not appear so, but I'm a bit of a news nerd, Peter, believe it or not. After 100 episodes, I thought you might pick up on that. I think, well, it's so it melts, I guess. Well, here's the thing. So you get the pizza. It comes with the pizza, with the pepperoni on it, and a little packet of candy corn.

34:13So the presumably the idea is you bake the pizza, you take it out, you sprinkle the candy corn on it in the manner of... Parmesan. Exactly, or red pepper, except it's candy corn. Have these people eaten food before? That's not going to work. You don't sprinkle candy corn. Those things are heavy. It's more of a placement. The tweezers, yeah. What they do in the fine restaurants. I am not discerning about pizza at all. You could put anything on that. It could be cold, moldy, just kind of scrape off a little piece and it's still good to me. The candy corn sounds amazing. Girl, you are crazy. If I could joke, I don't care. Am I going to get sick, because it's next year? It gives it an extra... Yeah, it's... Rachel's like, it's not moldy, it's just an adorable little fur coat on the pizza. Rachel, this week we heard about a new concept called Attention in Fidelity. It's when people in a relationship neglect their partners and instead spend all their time with what?

35:16Their phone. Exactly right. Oh, it makes me sick to think of... I'm sorry to hear that. There was a pregnant positive. I was expecting to get some kind of confession. No, I don't have a boyfriend to ignore. But if I did, I wouldn't, because what a gift to share your life with someone else. I imagine. And... Hypothetically. Time spent in real life is time that matters. And time spent on your phone is time watching fruits cheat on each other because of AI. I was watching someone ignore their loved one on the bus while I was on my way here and I was thinking about how sad it made me. But that's not interesting to talk about, so I'm sorry I brought it up. I think... Can I bring up a somewhat related question? You may. Why are we still calling them phones? That's a good question. It's like the least use. You know, I saw this whole thing about the new Apple folding phone or whatever. Like $2,000 for a phone.

36:17I'm like, no, $2,000 for a computer that folds up and fits in your pocket. Right. Like, they're not phones anymore. Well, if you call them something else, what would it be and how could you convince people to use that term? My life. My precious. See, Peter, you're trying to slip me into that tech-brow role. Yeah, I know. I'm on to you, Peter. We got a best fitter for you back in the back. Coming up, it's lightning, Philip DeBlanche. But first, it's the game where you have to listen for the rhyme. If you'd like to play on air, call it, leave a message. At 1-triple-late, wait, wait. That's 1-888-924-8924. You can see us most weeks right here at the Studebaker Theater in downtown Chicago. Or you can join us on the road. We'll be in Kalamazoo, Michigan coming up on October 22nd. And in Normal Illinois, on November 12th, for tickets information to all our live events, go to nprpresentz.org. And if you love our show, but you wish it was only about 8 seconds long, you can check us out on our socials at Weight Weight NPR.

37:18Hi, you're on Weight Weight Don't Tell Me. Hi, this is Rachel Sinsen from Goings, Montana. Billings, Montana, a beautiful place. What do you do there? I am a charitable giving specialist at a senior living community. Wow. So you work at a senior living community where seniors live. And your job is to go around and talk with the residents about exactly how they should screw their children by giving their money away. Or, as I like to say, they can disinherit the IRS and make sure that the people who run out of money always have a home with us. Oh, oh. Did you say disinherit, the IRS? Yeah, I think what you mean is the money that you give to charity, you don't have to pay taxes on or an estate tax or anything like that. It's not like the IRS offended you and you're cutting them out of the will. Welcome to the show, Rachel. You, of course, are going to play our listener a little bit of the challenge, which means that Alzo Slade right here is going to perform for you three news related lemurics with the last word of phrase missing from each.

38:22If you can fill in that last word of phrase correctly and two of the lemurics will be a winner. Ready to go? I am. Here's your first lemur. I'm approaching each morsel with dread, eat it plain or enhance it with spread. At this overblown price, I must savor each slice, 60 bucks for a plain loaf of. Bread. Right, the bakery, rye in New York City is going viral for their 60 dollar loaf of, wait for it, rye bread. And it's not even party sized or covered in gold leaf for 60 dollars, a loaf of bread better have a 50 dollar bill stuffed inside. Wow, have you tasted the rye? No, we bought it as an investment. Can you write it off on your taxes? Maybe, I don't know. Well, we have an expert. Can you write off a 60 dollar loaf of bread in your taxes? Probably not. Okay. When I first heard about this, I thought it was a front for the mob because a lot of those businesses pop up in New York.

39:24I'm not going to name them because they'll kill me. Prestidies. They also at this rye place, they slice them and then they put wet toppings on them and they sit all day. So they're pre-decorated and you get a wet piece of, have you seen this? Have you been here? I've never been to Denmark. That's like typical. That answers that. Yeah, it really does. All right, here is your next lemreck. I've got a wild storm that's internal. When I write it down, it's less infernal. But it makes me feel bleak and someone might peek. So it's time I stop keeping a... Journal. Yes. A cultural reporter at the Washington Post says, journaling might be actually bad for you, which is surprising because it's long been recommended by the wellness industry and the people who like to sit with a hardcover notebook in the middle of a coffee shop and see if anyone notices them.

40:24Now, this writer explained, well, that, of course, keeping a journal you tend to think about when you tend to write things down is hard time. So keeping a journal will just remind you of the darkest periods of your life. But the real danger, she says, is that people might read them. Hold on. Don't we keep journals so they can be read by somebody? Really? I was a kid. I was writing things down so my mom could find it. She would ground me and I'm like, that... Really? I shall pay for this. And I'd leave it somewhere where she could find it. No, isn't it just to kind of get attention? So anyway, this woman thinks maybe you shouldn't keep a journal. Here's your last limit. They're garments so flowy they might drown. It's a new trend with which I'm not quite down. They are giving street cred to what mom wore to bed. They are all heading out in a... Nightcown. Yes, nightcown. They're back. Old, tiny nightcowns within the high lacy knack in the long itchy sleeves are apparently this year's new little black dress.

41:32It's an outfit that says to the world, you boy, buy me the biggest goose you can find at the market. The kids yearn to bed rot. I'm sorry, we can't go over here. I think it's because no one wants to shave their legs. Everyone wants to be bloated, which feels good. I support that. If you're bloated, you've got to let it out. And you should always be ready to go to bed. Right. You're in the club and it's like, well, I'm sleepy. All down. I also, how did Rachel do in our quiz? She did a great three out of three perfect score. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you so much for playing Rachel. Take care. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you. Stay tuned for the following announcements and messages from our sponsors. This message comes from Ali Ann's travel insurance. The kids are with grandma while you're at a resort spawn Italy for your birthday.

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43:35Midi is changing that with virtual care covered by most major insurances. Understand your hormones. Visit joinmidi.com to book your first visit today. 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 quick answer now worth two points. Aalzo, can you give us the score? Of course, Robin Rachel is having two and a Lanzo is blazing in the lead with four. Oh my gosh, how did that happen? Okay, well that means Robin Rachel are tied for second. Rachel, I'm going to arbitrarily pick you two go first. Here we go. The clock will start when they begin your first question fill in the blank. This week health officials said that October is the best month to get the blank shot. COVID. Flow. Oh, a flag of it here. This week a new report shows the Democrats account for the majority of male in blank requests. Voting. Right. This week police and Latvia were called in to break up a fight between blank and blank. Bad guys in the good guys. No, between a badger and a hedgehog.

44:35After multiple reports of injuries, six flags announced they were permanently closing their X to blank. It's a roller coaster. It is, yes. On Monday middle aged basketball star blank made his first appearance as a Philadelphia 76er. I don't know. Oh my god, you're giving me the worst one ever. LeBron James, this week a man who crashed his car into the front of a Texas grocery store explained that he did it because blank. Because he was late to become a black belt. No, he crashed it to the front of a grocery store because he really needed to use the bathroom. I've been there. The man was panicked when he got to the store at 4.30 a.m. and found out it was closed. So he did what any of us in that situation would do. He got back in the car, hit the gas, and crashed right through the front windows. Ending up a really good distance down one aisle toward the back of the grocery store because, you know, if you're going to smash your car through a window to get to the bathroom, why not drive the whole way? I had eat coal I for a summer and I had thoughts like this every single day.

45:38But I, there was not a building that I would not find a way into to use the bathroom when it happens. How many times have you had a coal I? Shut up. Continuous a month. Yeah, tell me again about eating moldy pizzas. They taste good. Oh my god, you guys are so judgmental. Also, how did Rachel do in her quiz? You don't have to say actually. You got three right for six more points total of eight. All right. All right. Rob, you ready to do this? You're up next. This week a group of 100 scientists released a report warning that blank temperatures were rising faster than predicted. A sea level. A row ocean. Ocean temperatures. Yes, on Monday, blanks star ship rocket reached orbit for the first time. Space X? Yes, this week police and Fiji are suspecting an inside job after $10 million worth of cocaine. Stolen. No, it was replaced by $30 worth of flour.

46:38Of course. Of course. On Thursday, online retail giant blank unveiled a complete redesign of their Kindle e-weaters. Amosonic. Right. Following heavy rains that led to flooding this week, residents in a New Jersey town were shocked when they saw blank going down the speeds of their city. The zombieverse. No. But where is the zombieverse? No, a shark. After a nor Easter because flooding across the East Coast several people in a New Jersey town filmed a shark swimming through the town streets. It was even caught swimming up someone's driveway which was scary, but it was even scarier when it got up to their front porch. It was like door dash. Also, how did Rob do in our quiz? He and Rachel are very excited. I'm excited. I'm excited. I'm excited. I'm excited. I'm excited. I'm excited. I'm excited. I'm excited. Rob doing our quiz. He and Rachel are best friends tied up. So how many then does Alonzo need to win? Alonzo.

47:38Two to tie. Three to win. Hey. That's no pressure. That's no pressure. It's no pressure. Here we go. This is for the game Alonzo, filling the blank on Wednesday, White House lawyers returned to court to defend Trump's global blanks. Right. Following a meeting with a White House top tech executive signed a pledge to self-police blank development. AI. Right. This week a Chanel, Deora and Louis Vuitton all held shows during blanks fashion week. Paras. Right. After a judge approved their settlement with 12 states, the merger between Paramount and blank was allowed to proceed. Warner Brothers. Warner Brothers is right. This week a crane collapsed on a house in Florida while it was being used to blank. This is Florida. It could be anything. I don't know. I don't know. Launch allocators. No, while it was being used to remove another crane that had collapsed on the same house. That fits. That fits. On Monday, the FDA warned of a blank outbreak tied to raw cheese. Uh.

48:38Ecoli. Ecoli, yes. An Ecoli outbreak. Yeah. Wow. Arm Tuesday. Fans of backpack were thrilled when he was named the winner of Fat Blank Week. Oh, Fat Bear Week. Right. This week the Guardian newspaper in England warned of that that country is running dangerously low on blank. England running low on, I don't know, sausage. No, England is running low on hunky guys. Organizers of the Mr. England campaign realized they had a problem this week when they noticed the pageant was only 13 days away and only seven guys had signed up. Turns out England only has four hands and men and every single one of them is busy auditioning to be the next James Bond. Also, do it a Lonzo. Do well enough to win. Lonzo kicked ass. Yes. We got six right for 12 more points, total of 16 and the win. Congratulations. Thank you. Coming up, our panel is predict how will the lonely tech bros rehabilitate their romantic image.

49:44But first let me tell you that, wait, wait, don't tell me. It's a production of NPR and WB Easy Chicago and association with urgent hair production, Doug Berman, and Ben Neville and Overlord. Philip Gaudukur, Rice R, Limerick, Sir, Public Address, Announcement, Paul Friedman, or Ops Manager is just C.R.R. Vardak. Thanks to the staff and crew at the Studebaker Theatre, BJ, Leaderman, Composer, and Theme. Our program is produced by Jennifer Mills, Miles Nurembos, and Lilian King. Special thanks this week to Blives Robertson, Gary Yek, Janie Hoffman, and Dom Banyas. Peter Gwynne has a dog. And, my choice, our five curator, Technico Directions from Lorna Whitehars, CFO, is Colin Miller, our production manager is Robert Newhouse, our senior producer is Ian Chilog, and the executive producer. Wait, wait, don't tell me. That's Mike Danforth, now panel. How will tech bros get their Mojo back? Rachel Koster. Who cares? Rob Anderson. They'll finally open up about their feelings on their sub-stack. And Alonzo Bowden. They're going to keep it in-house by ordering AI women from Amazon.

50:44And if any of that happens, panel will ask you, but I don't know, wait, wait, don't tell me. Thank you, Alzo Slade. Thanks also to Rachel Koster. Alonzo Bowden. Thanks to Rob Anderson, Congrats, and a great KG. Thanks to all of you here in the Studebaker Theatre, and everybody out there we're listening wherever you are. A pewter's cycle. We'll see you next week. Cheers. Cheers. This is NPR. Stay tuned for the following announcements and messages from our sponsors. This message comes from NPR sponsor Charles Schwab. Financial decisions can be tricky. Your biases can lead you astray. Financial decoder and original podcasts from Charles Schwab can help. Download the latest episode and subscribe at Schwab.com slash financial decoder. This message comes from Bull and Branch.

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