'Wait Wait' for September 21, 2024: With Not My Job guest Gary Oldman
JENNIFER MILLS, BYLINE: The following program was taped in front of an audience of real, live people.
AYESHA RASCOE: From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is WAIT WAIT... DON'T TELL ME, the NPR news quiz. Hey, there Chicago. I'm Ayesha Rascoe, filling in for Bill Kurtis. And this was supposed to be my day off, but I'm here. And here's your host at the Studebaker Theater at the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Ill., Peter Sagal.
PETER SAGAL, HOST:
Thank you, Ayesha.
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SAGAL: Thank you all so much. We have a great show for you today. Later on, we're going to be talking to the fabulous actor Gary Oldman about his hit spy show "Slow Horses." But first, we are so excited to welcome Ayesha Rascoe to our show.
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SAGAL: She is the host of Weekend Edition Sunday. She's going to be our special guest judge and scorekeeper, filling in for Bill. And I have to ask you, Ayesha, you have one of the most prestigious gigs at NPR News. You host one of the big shows. Why in the world would you ever want to do this?
RASCOE: Well, you know, look, I have three kids, so anything to get out of the house. I just got to get...
SAGAL: I understand.
RASCOE: Yeah (laughter). I needed just some mommy time.
SAGAL: I get that, you know?
RASCOE: (Laughter).
SAGAL: All right. Well, Ayesha, it's great to have you on the show. Out there, you want to be in the show, it's easy. Just give us a call, and you'll win our prize - the voice of anyone you might choose for your voicemail. The number is 1-888-WAIT-WAIT. That's 1-888-924-8924. Let's welcome our first listener contestant. Hi, you're on WAIT WAIT... DON'T TELL ME.
JAMIE: Hi. This is Jamie from Madison, Wis.
SAGAL: Hey, Jamie. How are things in Madison?
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JAMIE: They're awesome.
SAGAL: I am so glad. That is one of my favorite cities in the world, beautiful college town in the center of Wisconsin. What do you do there?
JAMIE: I run the Dane County Farmers' Market, the largest producer-only farmers market in the country.
SAGAL: That is fabulous.
JAMIE: Yeah.
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SAGAL: When you...
PETER GROSZ: There's nothing that's going to get you more crowd applause on NPR than you run a farmers market...
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: Right.
GROSZ: ...From the country.
SAGAL: Yeah.
GROSZ: You can't see this, but everybody here is standing up there.
SAGAL: Yeah.
(LAUGHTER)
KAREN CHEE: They're saluting.
SAGAL: Wow.
GROSZ: People are taking their underwear off and throwing them at the stage. That's not - we're not her.
SAGAL: Yeah.
GROSZ: Relax.
SAGAL: Well, welcome to the show, Jamie. Let me introduce you to our panel this week. First - you just heard him - he's an actor, writer and the director of Francis Ford Coppola's "Megalopolis." It's Peter Grosz.
JAMIE: (Laughter).
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GROSZ: Hi.
SAGAL: Next, he's a comedian-turned-fashion designer who'll be premiering his fall-winter line on October 12 at Chicago Fashion Week. It's the Prince of Bronzeville. It's Brian Babylon.
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SAGAL: And finally, she's a comedian and writer for TV shows like "Late Night With Seth Meyers" and "Pachinko," which is streaming now on Apple TV. It's Karen Chee.
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SAGAL: So you are going to play Who's Ayesha This Time? Ayesha Rascoe, filling in for Bill Kurtis, is going to read 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 voicemail. Are you ready to do this?
JAMIE: Yep.
SAGAL: All right. Your first quote is from New York mayor Eric Adams.
RASCOE: You take out the garbage, you see one run across your feet. You think about it all day.
SAGAL: That was Adams speaking at this week's first-ever national summit to discuss the battle against what?
JAMIE: Rats?
SAGAL: Rats.
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SAGAL: Yes.
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SAGAL: New York City hosted the National Urban Rat Summit this week...
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: ...Joined by delegations from Chicago, Boston, Seattle and other disgusting cities.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: Eric Adams has made battling rats the centerpiece of his time as mayor, proving that rats are the only constituency not currently bribing someone in the Adams administration.
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BRIAN BABYLON: Why would he pick a battle he knows he can't win?
SAGAL: I know.
BABYLON: That's like - you're never going to beat the rats, bro.
GROSZ: Right. Yeah, it's like - and it's me versus the mosquitoes, and I want you to judge me.
BABYLON: Yeah.
GROSZ: At the end of the summer, if you got one mosquito bite, they won.
CHEE: I got to say - as a New Yorker, I feel like it's not the New Yorkers who are, like, trying to get rid of rats. It's actually just very nice of the rats to let us live in their city.
SAGAL: Really?
(LAUGHTER)
GROSZ: You know...
BABYLON: So the one thing about, like, New York life and rats is, like, you almost turn into, like, Michael Jackson videos, 'cause it's always quick.
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BABYLON: Like, you don't say, we got a rat? You know, everything is, like, quick neck motions, like, of your peripheral vision. Like, oh, there's a rat.
GROSZ: And that's why - and everybody's going, (impersonating Michael Jackson) hee hee.
BABYLON: Yeah, 100%.
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SAGAL: The summit invited pest control experts and scientists from across the nation to discuss tips and strategies. It was a really nice little touch. In the sort of classic New York tradition, each visiting expert had a rat waiting in their hotel room for them when they arrived.
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GROSZ: And now I bet all those people are like, can we do this somewhere other than New York City?
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: How about a rat summit where we talk about the rats, but we're in Miami?
GROSZ: That would be nice.
SAGAL: All right. Jamie, for your next quote, here is someone on TikTok gushing about their new, fun pastime.
RASCOE: You get to eat at your desk. You get weekends off. And you get to wear cute little outfits.
SAGAL: That was one of the thousands of young people who are now posting videos just to brag about their what?
JAMIE: I have no idea.
SAGAL: Well, this is - what's strange here is this is the sort of thing we thought young people nowadays hated and would never do. Remember, she said you get to eat at your desk and you get weekends off.
JAMIE: Working a 40-hour work week?
SAGAL: Exactly.
CHEE: Yes.
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RASCOE: Yes.
SAGAL: Working an office job.
RASCOE: Yes.
GROSZ: Wow.
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SAGAL: Forget about being an artist or an influencer. Now the coolest thing you can be is an entry-level customer service manager.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: People used to go on about their cool side hustles. Now everybody is bragging about their front hustle.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: One of the so-called corporate girlies on TikTok listed the benefits of an office job as, quote, "get to eat at your desk, listen to music and podcasts. You get weekends off and free coffee." You know who else gets all those benefits? An unemployed person who goes to AA meetings.
(LAUGHTER)
BABYLON: Yeah.
(LAUGHTER)
GROSZ: I think it's also just, like, the Gen Z obsession with, like, making everything nameable and a thing...
BABYLON: Yeah.
GROSZ: ...And a trend. Like, at some point, they're going to be like, hey, I'm just sitting here. I'm doing this cool thing with my lungs, where they squeeze in and air comes out of them. And then I'm like, wait a minute. I need more air in them so I breathe in - #BreathLife. Like...
BABYLON: Breath life, yeah.
GROSZ: Everything has to be, like, named.
SAGAL: Yeah.
GROSZ: And, like, called something.
SAGAL: Oh, God. No...
CHEE: You're just a classic oxygen girlie.
SAGAL: Yeah.
GROSZ: Yeah, oxygen girlie.
SAGAL: No, the respiration challenge was, like, so 2023.
GROSZ: If you fail the respiration challenge, you don't even deserve to live.
(LAUGHTER)
GROSZ: I'm sorry to be mean, but if you can't breathe, you don't deserve to live.
SAGAL: All right. Jamie, your last quote is from an interview that the BBC did.
RASCOE: We're afraid somebody will tell us we smell.
SAGAL: That was an environmentalist joining the growing number of experts who say that what daily habit is unnecessary?
JAMIE: Bathing.
SAGAL: Bathing, yes.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
SAGAL: Exactly right.
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SAGAL: Experts say that there is no actual health benefit to a daily shower, and we only do it because, as you heard, we don't want other people to think we smell. Now, I might be wrong, but doesn't that sound like a good enough reason?
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BABYLON: Who was this expert, Jabba the Hut? You don't need to shower today.
GROSZ: Yeah.
BABYLON: I think this is just the patchouli lobbyists trying to, like...
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: The idea is that you don't need to do it. You especially don't need to clean yourself with soap every day because that actually hurts your healthy biome.
BABYLON: Patchouli BS.
SAGAL: And I keep reading and it's, like, you only need to do it if you sweat excessively, and I'm like, well, I'm out. OK.
(LAUGHTER)
GROSZ: So if you have a day where you don't sweat, you don't really do much, and you're like, I'm not going to see anybody, and no one's going to smell me, then don't shower.
SAGAL: Right, exactly.
CHEE: If you're depressed.
SAGAL: Yeah.
GROSZ: Yeah. Right.
RASCOE: But don't tell anybody you don't shower. Like, keep that to yourself. Keep it to yourself.
GROSZ: I think maybe if you don't shower enough, you won't be able to keep it to your self.
SAGAL: Exactly. No. The new rule...
GROSZ: It'll be very obvious.
SAGAL: You only have to shower if the waves of stink are visibly leaving your body like a mirage, you know?
BABYLON: Like cartoonish stink lines. You know what? Have you noticed that you're much dirtier at hotel towels when you dry off? You're, like, much dirtier? Like, wow.
RASCOE: I've noticed that.
BABYLON: Have you noticed that?
RASCOE: Because they're so white. They're so white.
BABYLON: They're so white and clean.
RASCOE: They're so white.
BABYLON: You're like, Jesus Christ, is this melanin? It's like...
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CHEE: The Peters are like, no, we've never experienced this.
GROSZ: Yeah, I've never had that problem.
SAGAL: Yeah, I don't know what you're talking about.
CHEE: They're like, our towels get even whiter when we're done.
(LAUGHTER)
GROSZ: I love a good hotel towel.
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SAGAL: Ayesha, how did Jamie do on our quiz?
RASCOE: She killed it. She - you know, three out of three.
SAGAL: There you go, Jamie.
RASCOE: Three out of three.
SAGAL: Well done. Thank you so much for playing.
BABYLON: That's funny.
JAMIE: Thank you.
SAGAL: I'll look for you at the farmers market when I am next in Madison during season.
JAMIE: Absolutely.
SAGAL: Bye-bye. Take care.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "SPLISH SPLASH")
BOBBY DARIN: (Singing) Splish, splash, I was taking a bath. Long about a Saturday night. (Yeah). A rub dub just relaxing in the tub, thinking everything was all right.
SAGAL: Right now, panel, it is time for you to answer some questions about this week's news. Brian, the latest dating trend on social media is the 6-6-6 method. A woman, or I guess anyone who uses it will be looking for what?
BABYLON: (Yelling) Damien, I did this for you.
(LAUGHTER)
BABYLON: Well, I mean, is it not?
RASCOE: OK.
SAGAL: It's not the devil. It's not Satan.
BABYLON: It's not the Antichrist?
SAGAL: It's not the Antichrist.
BABYLON: OK. It's 666?
SAGAL: Six-six-six. They refer to six measurements that...
BABYLON: OK.
SAGAL: Rather, I should say three measurements that all have to be at least six.
BABYLON: So six feet tall.
SAGAL: Right.
BABYLON: Six-figure salary.
SAGAL: Right.
BABYLON: Uh-oh.
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SAGAL: Not what Karen wants you to say. Not what Karen wants you to say.
BABYLON: I got two out of three, right?
SAGAL: You got two. You got two. You got the 6 feet tall.
BABYLON: Six feet tall.
SAGAL: You got the six-figure salary.
BABYLON: Six-figure salary.
SAGAL: And this it is a physical attribute, but it's not what Karen is constantly...
BABYLON: I know.
SAGAL: ...Trying to get you to say.
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JAMIE: The listener at home, I'm being so respectful.
SAGAL: I'll give you a hint. This is what you want to see when he takes a shirt off.
CHEE: Whoa.
BABYLON: Oh, six pack.
SAGAL: Right.
BABYLON: Six pack.
GROSZ: Six nipples.
SAGAL: Six feet tall.
BABYLON: Yeah.
RASCOE: Yes.
SAGAL: Six-figure salary. And a six pack.
BABYLON: The thing is, I only have, like, four packs.
SAGAL: Yeah.
BABYLON: And I was like - I'm just kidding. I mean...
SAGAL: I will explain all. The six-six rule has been around for years, but recently, it's having a resurgence as women are trying to be much more specific about what they're looking for in the dating apps.
CHEE: Oh.
SAGAL: It's a very efficient way to streamline the dating process, find your ideal man, and also get catfished.
(LAUGHTER)
GROSZ: It's like, here's the third thing to be superficial about.
SAGAL: Exactly.
BABYLON: So this is a hashtag on the dating apps.
SAGAL: It is.
BABYLON: Like, walks on the beach, looking for 666.
SAGAL: Yep, yep. Right.
BABYLON: But if you're a warlock, you're like, oh, yeah.
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MEGAN BONI: I'm looking for a man in finance, trust fund, 6'5", blue eyes. Finance. trust fund, 6'5". I'm looking for a man in, I'm looking for, I'm looking, I'm looking for, I'm looking for, I'm looking for, I'm looking for a man in finance, trust fund, 6'5"
SAGAL: Coming up, our panel has hit the - in our Bluff The Listener game. Call 1-888-WAIT-WAIT to play. We'll be back in a minute with more of WAIT WAIT... DON'T TELL ME from NPR.
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RASCOE: From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is WAIT WAIT... DON'T TELL ME, the NPR news quiz. I'm Ayesha Rascoe. We're playing this week with Peter Grosz, Brian Babylon and Karen Chee. And here again is your host at the Studebaker Theater in Chicago, Ill., Peter Sagal.
SAGAL: Thanks, Ayesha.
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SAGAL: Thank you so much. Right now, it is time for the WAIT WAIT... DON'T TELL ME Bluff The Listener game. Call 1-888-WAIT-WAIT to play our game on the air, or you can always check out the pinned post on our Instagram page, which is at @WaitWaitNPR, to find all that information. Hi, you're on WAIT WAIT... DON'T TELL ME.
NATALIE: Hi. This is Natalie (ph) from Plainfield, Ill.
SAGAL: Hey, Natalie. How are you?
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NATALIE: I'm good. How are you?
SAGAL: We got some Plainfield fans here in Chicago. What do you do there?
NATALIE: I'm an elementary school teacher.
SAGAL: Yes.
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SAGAL: You've got even more fans of elementary school teachers. Well, welcome to the show, Natalie. You're going to play our game in which you must try to tell truth from fiction. Ayesha, what is Natalie's topic?
RASCOE: It happened at Target.
SAGAL: Who doesn't love Target? You can get anything there. You can get your groceries, your latest fashions. You get your credit card declined. Anyway, this week, we learned about something really unusual that went down at one particular Target store. Our panelists are going to tell you about it. Pick the real one, you'll win the WAIT WAITer of your choice on your voicemail. Are you ready to play?
NATALIE: I'm ready.
SAGAL: All right. First, let's hear from Brian Babylon.
BABYLON: Portland, Maine - Portland's Target store is in damage control after the latest eco-friendly product. The organic, nontoxic vegan bedbug extermination kit led to a full-blown cockroach takeover.
(LAUGHTER)
BABYLON: The kit, priced at $90, came with everything the eco-minded person who wants to get rid of bedbugs needed - essential oils, special natural detergents and, of course, a colony of cockroaches in a hemp burlap pouch. Since cockroaches are the natural predator of bedbugs, the idea is once the bedbugs were gone, the roaches would just leave, right?
(LAUGHTER)
BABYLON: Spoiler - wrong. They didn't leave. Instead, they multiplied in the Target store faster than a kombucha recipe at a Portland potluck.
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BABYLON: Jasper Moonbeam (ph), an elementary teacher, had a close encounter with them in the coffee aisle. I reached for my fair-trade espresso, and then bam, a cockroach runs across my hand. I haven't screamed like that since the farmers market ran out of heirloom tomatoes.
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BABYLON: Target is offering refunds. Pixar is thinking about making this into a movie, and Portland's cockroach population is booming - sustainably, of course.
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SAGAL: The eco-friendly organic bedbug kit led to a cockroach infestation at a target in Portland, Maine. Your next tip to Target comes from Karen Chee.
CHEE: Drivers in Ohio were alarmed on Sunday morning when they saw an SUV driving erratically on the freeway. Eyewitness Justin Kimery told The New York Times that he saw a car going, quote, "all over the road." When Kimery pulled up by the car to investigate himself, he was shocked. He couldn't see anyone behind the wheel. Was it a ghost or a self-driving car? No, it was the scariest thing of all - an 8-year-old girl.
(LAUGHTER)
CHEE: It's true. Neighborhood cameras show a spunky elementary schooler in Bedford, Ohio, leaving home at 7 a.m., hopping into her mom's Nissan Rogue and driving 13 miles to Target with shocking success.
(LAUGHTER)
CHEE: As well as $400 of her parents' money.
(LAUGHTER)
CHEE: And her parents, apparently, didn't even notice she had left the house until two hours later. Police located the girl sitting in the Target's Starbucks, where she was enjoying a Frappuccino...
(LAUGHTER)
CHEE: ...And, I assume, quietly regretting the life choices that led her there.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: An 8-year-old girl takes herself in her parents' car down to the local Target 13 miles away. Your last shopping topic comes from Peter Grosz.
GROSZ: Best friends, Jennifer Insol (ph) and Leah Gulmi (ph) are managers at the Target at the Cross Gates Mall in Albany, N.Y., and are big Francophiles. After the Olympics in Paris this summer, they had a brainstorm. Everyone jokingly calls Target Tar-zhay (ph), Gulmi told News 32 Albany. So we thought, what if we made our Target totally French? This week, they did just that. Every sign was rewritten in French. The cheese aisle in the grocery section was stocked with stinky blue cheeses, and the employees smoked, were rude to the customers and went on strike every 20 minutes.
(LAUGHTER)
GROSZ: Reaction to the Frenchification varied. Some were downright confused. I had no idea what they were saying. I thought I was having a stroke.
(LAUGHTER).
GROSZ: The biggest negative reaction came not from customers, but from overly patriotic employees at a different store in the mall, who responded by changing the name of their store to Oh Bone Pain (ph) and selling deep-fried, bacon-wrapped hot dogs dipped in nacho cheese, ketchup and whipped cream.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: All right. Something interesting happened at a particular Target location this last week.
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SAGAL: Was it from Brian Babylon, a Target in Portland, Maine, was infested by cockroaches, which came in their new organic bedbug eradication kits? Was it from Karen Chee, a Target in Ohio was visited by an 8-year-old girl who managed to drive their parents' car? Or from Peter Grosz, a Target in upstate New York converted for real into a Tar-zhay? Which of these was the real Target-oriented story in the news we found?
NATALIE: Well, speaking as someone who teaches many 8-year-olds, I'm going to go with Karen's story.
SAGAL: You're going to go with Karen's story, the little girl.
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SAGAL: The audience seems to agree. Well, we actually, to bring you the real story, spoke to the person who covered this for The New York Times.
GINA CHERELUS: An 8-year-old girl was found at the Target without a scratch, just a frappucino in hand and a busted mailbox.
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SAGAL: That was Gina Cherelus, who reported on the tiny shopper's story for the Times. Congratulations, Natalie, you got it right. You earn a point for Karen, but more importantly, you have won our prize, the voice of anyone you might choose for your voicemail.
NATALIE: Thank you so much.
SAGAL: Thank you. Congratulations, and congratulations on all the good work you do.
NATALIE: Thank you.
SAGAL: Take care. Bye.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "LOW RIDER")
WAR: (Singing) All my friends know the low rider.
SAGAL: And now the game we call Not My Job. Decades ago, James Bond established the stereotype of the British spy - handsome, suave, perfectly dressed, with impeccable manners. We're happy to report that is now obsolete.
BABYLON: (Laughter).
SAGAL: The new model MI5 agent is the slovenly, flatulent Jackson Lamb, played by Gary Oldman...
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SAGAL: ...In the hit Apple TV series "Slow Horses." We're delighted to talk to him now. Gary Oldman, welcome to WAIT WAIT... DON'T TELL ME.
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GARY OLDMAN: Thank you.
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SAGAL: So let's start at the beginning. Tell us about your character in the show, Jackson Lamb.
OLDMAN: Jackson Lamb was once a very, very good agent working for, you know, MI5. He - what we see when we meet him in "Slow Horses" is the sort of smoldering embers of a man that was once legendary.
SAGAL: In my view, and I'm - I've been around, and I've seen a lot of great TV, film, theater. I think that Jackson Lamb has the greatest character introduction I have ever seen. When we meet Jackson Lamb, he's having a nap in the office, and he farts himself awake.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: I mean, let's face it. You've done a lot of good work in your career, Gary, but I don't know...
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: ...If you've ever done anything that immediately evocative.
OLDMAN: No. But we do - I never thought I'd see the day where I'm having email exchanges with the director talking about the quality of farts. But because - you know, they - I'm not a method actor, so they have to dub it off.
(LAUGHTER)
OLDMAN: Or, should I say, I'm not a methane actor?
(LAUGHTER)
OLDMAN: Anyway, so I finally - you know, they dub on a sound, and then I'm exchanging emails with the director, saying, you know, it is on a leather seat so that...
(LAUGHTER)
OLDMAN: So it should be more robust.
(LAUGHTER)
BABYLON: That's facts. That's fart facts.
OLDMAN: A fuller sound. And occasionally, I might write, can we make it direct and a little wet around the edges?
(LAUGHTER)
BABYLON: That's hilarious.
SAGAL: I'm imagining - first, I'm a little disappointed to find out it wasn't you farting, but we understand that. It's all CGI these days. We know this.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: And I'm wondering because, let's face it, Jackson Lamb farts a lot in the course of his day. And I'm assuming that they - the sound designers must have, like, a whole file of farts that are chosen from.
CHEE: I was going to ask, is it like...
GROSZ: Fart filing.
CHEE: ...When you have a stand-in, like, you know, if someone doesn't want to do a nude scene, they have a stand-in, is there somebody who is farting in place of you?
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: Yeah. Do you have a colon double?
(LAUGHTER)
GROSZ: And actually, shouldn't that be the person nominated for an Emmy?
(LAUGHTER)
GROSZ: Being a little selfish, Gary.
OLDMAN: No, I'm sure there's somebody in - Karen, to answer your question, I'm sure there's someone in a room...
(LAUGHTER)
GROSZ: Have to be.
SAGAL: And you were nominated for an Emmy. You were there.
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SAGAL: If I'm not mistaken, you were caught up in the great "Shogun" sweep of all the awards, right?
OLDMAN: Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, they were - I think they were nominated for 14, and they won 25.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: Amazing. How do they do that? Did you have a speech ready? I've always wondered about that.
OLDMAN: Yeah, I think it's polite. Yeah.
SAGAL: Yeah. And what do you do with it if you don't get to use it? That's the other question I've always had.
OLDMAN: Well, more recently, my wife has been keeping them and throwing them sort of in a box in the archive, as it were.
SAGAL: How many do you have?
OLDMAN: Well, I've lost a lot.
(LAUGHTER)
OLDMAN: I've got quite a collection.
(LAUGHTER)
GROSZ: It's kind of fascinating, though.
SAGAL: You don't just use the same one? You know, don't name your agent. Just say your agent. You can use it for years.
OLDMAN: Oh. Now, what you can do, though, is because you don't win and you don't get to speak it, no one knows. So what you do is, you could dig one out from years ago and just change it.
SAGAL: It's still good.
OLDMAN: 'Cause you go, oh, that was a good one. I never got to say that. That was a - yeah, that was a good one. So let me dig that one out and kind of, like, move a few - it's sort of cut and paste the thing, you know?
GROSZ: As long as you make references to, like, some rights or something of a country that doesn't exist anymore where you're like, the people of Yugoslavia need their...
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: Gary, it is an absolute pleasure to talk to you again. And once again, we have asked you here to play a game, and this time, we are calling it...
RASCOE: The Slowest Horses of All.
SAGAL: You are, of course - star in "Slow Horses," as we have discussed. So we thought we'd ask you about the very slowest horses. That is, hobby horses.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: Hobby horses are, of course, the toy. It's a stick with a horse's head. And people actually ride these hobby horses in competitive events called hobby horsing, where they go around gates and jump over fences and do dressage just like real horses. So we're going to ask you three questions about hobby horsing. Get two of them right, you will win our prize for one of our listeners - the voice of anyone they may choose for their voicemail. Ayesha, who is Gary Oldman playing for?
RASCOE: Martin Oliver (ph) of Los Angeles, Calif.
OLDMAN: OK.
SAGAL: All right. Ready to do this? Have you heard or seen hobby horsing?
OLDMAN: I have seen it. Yeah. It's pretty out there.
SAGAL: It's pretty out there.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: So - now, if you've watched it, and there are many videos online, you can watch them. You'll notice that it's very popular with young girls. But according to Hobby Horse Riders Australia, boys are starting to get interested in the sport, but with a notable change. What is it? A, they prefer hobby war horsing with jousts; B, they make and ride hobby dinosaurs; or C, boys' rules allow them to turn the horses around and pretend the sticks are guns.
(LAUGHTER)
OLDMAN: I'm going to go with jousting.
SAGAL: You're going to go with jousting. That is a natural choice, but it's actually hobby dinosaurs.
OLDMAN: No way.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: Yeah. My 3-year-old, by the way, could have explained this to you, but you still have two more chances, so you're all good here. The very first American hobby horse championships were held just last month in Michigan. And the competitors who came had to deal with some significant obstacles such as which of these? A, due to a quirk in Michigan law, the horses had to be stable and given adequate food and water, even though they are not real...
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: ...B; those who flew there could not bring their hobby horses on board the plane because they could be used as a weapon; or C, the Northern Midwest Alliance for Animal Liberation, which, on the first day of competition, tried to liberate the, quote, "spiritual horses."
(LAUGHTER)
OLDMAN: OK.
(LAUGHTER)
OLDMAN: OK. I'm going to have to go with C.
SAGAL: No, I'm afraid it was B. They could not bring the hobby horses onto the plane because they are essentially 4-foot-long sticks. You could use them as a weapon, so...
OLDMAN: OK. That was the obvious one.
SAGAL: Yeah, I know. That was...
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: Well, you have one more chance here. Let's see what happens. Some competitors use the hobby horse for every event. But, you know, when it's time to retire your loyal hobby horse, don't worry because you can always do what? A, bring them to Lincoln, Mass., where they can live out to the end of their days with other hobby and rocking horses in a grassy kind of pasture; B, just break them in half to create two hobby ponies...
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: ...Or C, send them to a factory to be turned into wood glue.
(LAUGHTER)
OLDMAN: I'm thinking when you're done with the horse...
SAGAL: Yeah.
OLDMAN: ...I'm not saying that you literally turn it into two ponies, but you just snap this thing over your knee and throw it in the bin.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: No, it was actually A.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: Nobody knows...
(APPLAUSE)
SAGAL: Nobody knows who put the first rocking horse in this pasture near Lincoln, Mass., but it has been joined over the years by dozens more hobby horses, rocking horses. So Ayesha...
RASCOE: Yeah.
SAGAL: ...How did...
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: ...Oscar-winning and sometimes, frankly, a little intimidating...
RASCOE: (Laughter) I know.
SAGAL: ...Actor Gary Oldman do in our quiz?
RASCOE: Well, you know, I think that because he has lost a lot, with the Emmys and things like that.
SAGAL: Yeah, yeah.
RASCOE: I think we should give it to him.
SAGAL: I think you're right.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: You know...
RASCOE: Gary's a winner here.
SAGAL: ...If you happen to still have the Emmy speech...
RASCOE: Yes.
SAGAL: ...Handy, you can roll it out now.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: Well, congratulations on this big win. I hope it makes up for everything.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: Gary Oldman is an Oscar-winning actor, and if you have not yet watched him in the show "Slow Horses" on Apple TV, I envy you 'cause you get to start from the beginning. Gary Oldman, thank you so much for joining us on WAIT WAIT... DON'T TELL ME.
OLDMAN: Thank you.
SAGAL: What a pleasure to talk to you again. Take care.
GROSZ: Awesome.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "OLD TOWN ROAD")
BILLY RAY CYRUS: (Singing) Yeah. I'm gonna take my horse through the old town road.
SAGAL: In just a minute, Ayesha introduces you to a very big, very small new international superstar in our Listener Limerick Challenge. Call 1-888-WAIT-WAIT to join us on the air. We'll be back in a minute with more of WAIT WAIT... DON'T TELL ME from NPR.
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)
RASCOE: From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is WAIT WAIT... DON'T TELL ME, the NPR news quiz. I'm Ayesha Rascoe. We're playing this week with Brian Babylon, Peter Grosz and Karen Chee. And here again is your host at the Studebaker Theater in Chicago, Ill., Peter Sagal.
SAGAL: Thank you, Ayesha.
(APPLAUSE)
SAGAL: In just a minute, Ayesha gets in a fight with a porcu-rhyme (ph). If you'd like to play, give us a call at 1-888-WAIT-WAIT. That's 1-888-924-8924. Right now, panel, some more questions for you from the week's news. Peter, according to The New York Times this week, there is something that we thought only happened to toddlers, but now we know it happens to adults, too. What is it?
GROSZ: They make in their pants.
(LAUGHTER)
CHEE: Peter, what did you do?
GROSZ: We have meltdowns. We have tantrums.
SAGAL: Yes, tantrums.
GROSZ: Yeah.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
SAGAL: That's the answer.
(APPLAUSE)
SAGAL: Psychologists have suggested that the reason small kids often have temper tantrums in the afternoon is because of, quote, "after-school restraint collapse." The idea is they've been at school, preschool, whatever, behaving all day, following orders. They get home, all that pent-up stress comes pouring out. And adults have the same experience, right? I mean, so, yeah, don't get upset at them. It's just a case of the terrible 32s.
(LAUGHTER)
GROSZ: That is true. After I've behaved so well on this panel, I always go back and trash the dressing room.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: Yeah.
GROSZ: I just curse like crazy.
SAGAL: You know, if you think about it, it makes sense 'cause, you know, adults, what do you do? You go to work, right? You're dealing with crises. You're dealing with stress.
CHEE: Yeah.
SAGAL: You just repress it all. You don't react. Then you go home, and you go directly into family life, and you blow up 'cause you just don't have a moment to just, like, decompress first. And also, because they wanted blueberries, but not these blueberries. I hate these blueberries. Go away.
(LAUGHTER)
GROSZ: Also, alcohol, I think, happens.
SAGAL: Yeah, yeah.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: Brian, this year's hottest aesthetic for decorating your home is being inspired by a certain group of people. Who are they?
BABYLON: Hottest, like the vibe?
SAGAL: Like the vibe. Yeah.
BABYLON: Oh, yeah, yeah.
SAGAL: Aesthetic. The look.
BABYLON: I don't - give me a hint on that.
SAGAL: It's amazing how you can refresh the look in your house when you got the house.
BABYLON: What? Oh, realtors.
SAGAL: No.
BABYLON: No, I don't know. What do you...
SAGAL: When you got the house.
BABYLON: Homeowners? The people who buy a house?
GROSZ: This is a dumb question.
(LAUGHTER)
GROSZ: This is a dumb question. Like, what do you mean? People who have bought homes? Let's just group guess this 'cause we're not...
CHEE: Yeah, yeah. 'Cause it's not homeowners.
BABYLON: Garden gnomes?
(LAUGHTER)
CHEE: Peter...
SAGAL: I'll give a hint. Basically, it's people who have been able to free themselves from the little voice that was holding them back because they got the house, and the little voice had to move back in with his mom.
CHEE: Is it recently divorced people?
SAGAL: It is.
GROSZ: What?
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
SAGAL: It's actually called divorced mom core.
RASCOE: Moms.
CHEE: Oh.
SAGAL: You've heard of cottagecore. Divorced mom core is what this is called.
BABYLON: Divorced dad core is, like, (vocalizing). Nobody wants that.
CHEE: That's so sad.
GROSZ: That's rough.
SAGAL: Yeah. Oh, yeah. You don't want to do divorced dad core.
BABYLON: Yeah. You see that coffee table? Dominos box.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: Divorced mom core, it's all about, apparently, you know, the fact that these women finally get to do exactly what they want, indulge the...
BABYLON: Without a man telling me what to do. OK, got it.
SAGAL: Exactly.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: In divorced mom core, quote, "natural light floods the rooms, and there's a certain peace that comes that - with knowing every item in the house reflects their taste," unquote. Like, they take down that live, laugh, love sign and put up the live, love, who's laughing now?
(LAUGHTER)
GROSZ: Wait a second. If I know most heterosexual couples, the woman is the one who put up the live, laugh, love sign.
BABYLON: Yes.
CHEE: (Laughter).
GROSZ: It wasn't like, oh, man, I got rid of my husband's, like, every - you know, this was a knitting house or whatever.
(LAUGHTER)
GROSZ: Like, those things are put up by women.
CHEE: My husband is like, it's wine o'clock.
(LAUGHTER)
GROSZ: Yeah, exactly. I'll be taking this wine o'clock thing and this ball of yarn.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: Coming up, it's Lightning Fill 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 or leave a message at 1-888-WAIT-WAIT. That's 1-888-924-8924. You can see us most weeks right here at the Studebaker Theater in downtown Chicago. You should also check out this week's edition of our How To Do Everything podcast, featuring the great Tom Hanks, and a fact that will change the way you look at chimpanzees forever. Hi, you're on WAIT WAIT... DON'T TELL ME.
ALEX PILOT: Hi. Alex Pilot (ph) from Knoxville, Tenn.
SAGAL: Hey, how are things in Knoxville, Alex?
PILOT: They're very good.
SAGAL: I'm...
PILOT: Starting to finally feel like fall.
SAGAL: Oh, I'm so glad to hear. Fall is beautiful in Tennessee. What do you do there?
PILOT: I'm a medical writer by day, and I make stained glass on evenings and weekends.
SAGAL: Oh, wow.
CHEE: Wow.
SAGAL: That's incredibly cool. Now, stained glass often is, like, representational. Do you, like, do pictures of something in your stained glass?
PILOT: I pretty much do nature stuff. I like to make flowers and insects and bats and kind of a mix of pretty and creepy and weird things and all of the above.
SAGAL: Well, Alex, welcome to the show. Ayesha Rascoe, right here, is going to read you three news-related limericks with the last word of phrase missing from each. If you can fill in that last word or phrase correctly in two of the limericks, you will be a winner. You ready to go?
PILOT: Sure thing.
SAGAL: Here is your first limerick.
RASCOE: At the zoo, the lines move at a clippo (ph), wave hello, take a pick and then dippo (ph). Moo Deng's rosy cheeks make the visitors shriek. But move on. You can't crowd this young...
PILOT: Hippo.
SAGAL: Yes.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
SAGAL: The newest international megastar is Moo Deng, a baby pygmy hippo born in a Thai zoo. Her keeper posted some photos of her on Facebook soon after she was born, and she went globally viral so quickly quarterback Aaron Rodgers thinks she's a hoax.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: Moo Deng - the name roughly translates to bouncy pork - is so irresistibly adorable that - this is all true - she has become a makeup influencer. Sephora Thailand put up a picture of her with the tip, wear your blush like a baby hippo.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: Which means, like, just wallow in mud, right? Here, Alex, is your next limerick.
RASCOE: The pilot gets on the air sweet. Will the passengers please take their seat. And do not expose your stinky, gross toes. Please refrain from exposing bare...
PILOT: Oh, feet.
SAGAL: Yes.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
SAGAL: You got the word right and the emotion. People are learning just this week that flying barefoot isn't just something that'll make people glare at you and secretly text about you. It can actually get you kicked off the plane now.
CHEE: Oh.
SAGAL: Except if you're in an exit row. In an emergency, bare feet count as an extra pair of hands.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: So people, like, baring their feet on airplanes have become such a problem that the airlines have had to specify dress requirements as official policies. So, for example, American Airlines policy now prohibits, quote, offensive clothing and bare feet.
GROSZ: Wow.
SAGAL: So if you really want to make flight attendants nuts, just wear offensive shoes and socks. What are they going to do, make you take them off?
(LAUGHTER)
GROSZ: Can they really kick people off planes?
SAGAL: They really can. They now...
GROSZ: Then God bless it.
CHEE: Yeah.
SAGAL: Yeah, I know.
CHEE: Truly.
SAGAL: Finally. Something good in the news, right?
GROSZ: Yeah.
CHEE: Yeah.
RASCOE: But what if you're wearing flip-flops? Does that count if you take your flip-flops off?
BABYLON: Leave them on.
SAGAL: Leave them on.
CHEE: Yeah, keep them on.
RASCOE: You have to leave them on? But your foot's already out.
BABYLON: I've been sitting down, and I've seen toes pop from - it's always, like, out your periphery. It's, like, that's a toe there.
GROSZ: Hello, Brian.
BABYLON: Yeah. It's like that's...
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: All right. Here is your last limerick.
RASCOE: Gastric winds blow our home life apart, so we found a solution that's smart. We go out for a walk and make sure that we talk so my partner can't tell when I...
PILOT: Fart.
RASCOE: Yes.
SAGAL: Yes, indeed.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
SAGAL: Canadian actor, TV host and food blogger Mairlyn Smith is recommending what she calls nightly fart walks with your partner to help maintain healthy blood sugar and unhealthy boundaries. So we all know that walking right after a meal can help regulate your blood sugar. Keep it from spiking. But as Smith says, we eat a lot of fiber, so we have gas, and you fart when you walk. So she and her husband enjoy what they now refer to as their regular fart walks. It's another way just to let your partner of many years know that you have just given up.
(LAUGHTER)
GROSZ: That's what I was thinking.
BABYLON: But that's assuming that your stomach has to be on that cycle. Like, what if it's not, hey, man, I'm just going to wait till you go to bed to let this out? Versus right after you eat in the walk. What if the fart's not ready to leave?
GROSZ: That's why they're perfect partners for each other because they have the same, like, fart cycle.
BABYLON: They're in sync. They're in sync. In sync.
GROSZ: Yeah.
SAGAL: Yeah.
CHEE: Yeah.
GROSZ: That's when you know.
SAGAL: That's when you know.
CHEE: It's true love.
BABYLON: That's when you know it's love.
GROSZ: Yeah, my girlfriend and I have a thing where we're like, oh my God, same thought. We were thinking the same thing. And these people are like, same fart.
BABYLON: Right.
GROSZ: Oh my God, I was farting the same time as you were.
SAGAL: It's actually kind of nice that they do it as a couple, but why do they make their kid come along to keep score?
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: Ayesha, how did Alex do in our quiz?
RASCOE: He did an amazing job - three out of three. Perfect score.
(APPLAUSE)
SAGAL: Well done. Congratulations.
PILOT: Thanks.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "WALKIN' AFTER MIDNIGHT")
PATSY CLINE: (Singing) I go out walking...
(FARTING)
CLINE: (Singing) ...After midnight.
(FARTING)
CLINE: (Singing) Out in the moonlight...
(FARTING)
CLINE: (Singing) ...Just like we used to do.
(FARTING)
CLINE: (Singing) I'm always walking...
(FARTING)
CLINE: (Singing) ...After midnight.
SAGAL: Now, onto 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 is now worth two points. Ayesha, can you give us the scores?
RASCOE: OK. So Peter has three. Brian has two. And Karen has four.
SAGAL: Whoa.
RASCOE: Yes.
(APPLAUSE)
SAGAL: All right. Well, this means, Brian, you're in third place. You're up first. The clock will start when I begin your first question. Fill in the blank. On Tuesday, Israel took credit for the thousands of electronic devices that exploded in blank.
BABYLON: Lebanon.
SAGAL: Right. On Thursday...
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
SAGAL: ...Scientists again linked animals at a market in Wuhan with the early spread of blank.
BABYLON: Coronavirus.
SAGAL: Right.
SAGAL: This week...
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
SAGAL: The Justice Department announced they were seeking over $100 million from the owners of the ship that destroyed the Key Bridge in blank.
BABYLON: Baltimore.
SAGAL: Right. On Tuesday, Senate Republicans blocked a bill that would have guaranteed access nationwide to blank.
BABYLON: IVF.
SAGAL: Yes, in vitro fertilization.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
SAGAL: This week, experts suggested that one effective way to avoid getting microplastics in your brain is to stop blanking.
BABYLON: Cocaine.
SAGAL: No.
(LAUGHTER)
GROSZ: That's what I was thinking.
SAGAL: The answer is breathing.
BABYLON: Oh.
SAGAL: On Tuesday, the harvest supermoon coincided with a partial lunar blank.
BABYLON: Eclipse.
SAGAL: Right. On Monday...
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
SAGAL: ...A leading group of pediatricians warned against buying a blank for your kids.
BABYLON: IPad.
SAGAL: No. Trampoline. This week, Australia released data from 2023...
(SOUNDBITE OF GONG)
SAGAL: ...Revealing that nearly half of all airplane noise complaints came from blank.
BABYLON: Didgeridoos.
SAGAL: No. Came from the very same guy.
BABYLON: Oh.
(LAUGHTER)
BABYLON: Oh, yeah. His name is Jackie O'Didgeridoo (ph).
SAGAL: Out of the 51,000 noise complaints called into the Australian Aviation Authority last year, 21,000 came from just one man in Perth, Australia. That means that, on average, he called to complain 59 times a day for an entire year. It's gotten so bad that when you call the 800 number they put up for complaints, the automated message just says, press 1 for Spanish and 2 if this is Jim again.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: Ayesha, how did Brian do in our quiz?
RASCOE: So Brian got five right for 10 more points, and Brian now has 12 points and the lead.
SAGAL: All right.
GROSZ: OK.
SAGAL: Very good, Brian.
(APPLAUSE)
SAGAL: Peter, I believe you are up next.
GROSZ: OK.
SAGAL: Fill in the blank. On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve announced a half-point blank cut.
GROSZ: Interest rates.
SAGAL: Right.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
SAGAL: Three days after a failed assassination attempt, blank held a rally in Michigan.
GROSZ: Trump.
SAGAL: Right. This week...
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
SAGAL: ...The WHO declared blank-resistant infections a global health risk.
GROSZ: Antibiotic.
SAGAL: Right.
BABYLON: Yeah.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
SAGAL: After denying a report detailing shocking comments left on a porn site, Mark Robinson vowed to stay in the race for governor of blank.
GROSZ: Pornville (ph).
(LAUGHTER)
GROSZ: North Carolina.
SAGAL: Right. This week, a beverage maker...
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
SAGAL: In Colombia challenged Coca-Cola's trademark so they could freely sell their own drink, Blank.
GROSZ: Cola-Coca.
SAGAL: No. Close. Coca Pola.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: This week, research that led to the creation of obesity drugs like blank won the Lasker Medical Award.
GROSZ: Ozempic.
SAGAL: Right. This week, the...
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
SAGAL: ...Hottest calendar for 2025 went on sale. It features a year's worth of pictures of cats showing off blank.
GROSZ: Their six packs.
SAGAL: No. Their testicles.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: Now, I know what you're thinking. OK, great. Finally, it's here. But only 12 months of cat testicles? No, no. Don't worry. This is a daily calendar.
(LAUGHTER)
GROSZ: What?
SAGAL: It'll make the perfect gift for anyone looking for a good laugh or hoping to test just how strict their office's HR policies are.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: Ayesha, how did Peter do on our quiz?
RASCOE: So Peter got five right for 10 more points, and so he now has 13, and Karen needs five more to win.
SAGAL: All right then. Karen, this is for the game. Fill in the blank. On Tuesday, a judge denied bail to hip-hop mogul blank.
CHEE: Diddy.
SAGAL: Yes.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
SAGAL: Also known as Sean Combs. According to experts, the Starlink satellites launched by Blank are interfering with astronomical observations.
CHEE: Russia?
SAGAL: No. They're launched by Elon Musk.
CHEE: Oh.
SAGAL: This week, the Teamsters union declined to endorse a candidate for blank.
CHEE: President.
SAGAL: Right. According to...
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
SAGAL: ...A new study, three cups of blank a day, may be good for your heart.
CHEE: Coffee.
SAGAL: Right. This week...
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
SAGAL: ...A state senator in Kentucky is recovering well after he drove blank into blank.
CHEE: A car into a hay bale.
SAGAL: No, a riding lawn mower into a swimming pool.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: This week, police dispatchers in Dover, Del...
(SOUNDBITE OF GONG)
SAGAL: ...Are being praised for their quick actions in helping rescue a sinking boat in blank.
CHEE: The ocean.
(LAUGHTER)
GROSZ: You could have just said the water also.
SAGAL: Yeah.
GROSZ: That would have been even more guaranteed.
CHEE: Am I wrong?
SAGAL: It was actually in Dover, England. When a man saw his brother's boat was sinking in the English Channel, he quickly Googled the phone number for the Dover police, clicked the first result and was connected to a dispatcher 3,500 miles away in Dover, Del.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: Thankfully, the operators acted quickly. They got rescue services dispatched to the sinking ship, and they should arrive sometime within the next two months.
CHEE: (LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: Ayesha, did Karen Chee do well enough to win?
RASCOE: No. Oh.
CHEE: No.
(LAUGHTER)
RASCOE: So Karen got three right for six more points. So with 13 points, Peter is this week's champion.
SAGAL: Well done.
(APPLAUSE)
SAGAL: In just a minute we're going to ask our panelists to predict what will be the big news to come out of the Rat Summit in New York City.
Now, panel, what will be the big news out of the big Rat Summit in New York City? Brian Babylon.
BABYLON: Rats will get a tax break for adopting ninja turtles.
(APPLAUSE)
SAGAL: Karen Chee.
CHEE: We're going to stop giving them grasshoppers.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: And Peter Grosz.
GROSZ: Gary Oldman will unveil his flawless, brilliant plan to turn all the rats into wood glue.
(LAUGHTER)
RASCOE: And if any of that happens, we'll ask you about it on WAIT WAIT... DON'T TELL ME.
SAGAL: Thank you so much. Ayesha Rascoe did such a fabulous job filling Bill Kurtis' impressive shoes. Thanks also to Karen Chee, Brian Babylon and Peter Grosz. Thanks to our fabulous audience here at the Studebaker Theater, each and every one of you. Thanks to everybody who's listening at home or wherever you may be. I'm Peter Sagal. We'll see you next week in Kansas City, Mo.
(APPLAUSE)
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