We beef with the pontiff and admire the Stanley Cup

Summary

Podcast Summary: "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!"

Episode: We beef with the pontiff and admire the Stanley Cup
Host: Peter Sagal (NPR)
Panelists: Alonzo Bodden, Dulcé Sloan, Adam Burke
Special Guest: Phil Pritchard, Keeper of the Stanley Cup
Date: April 18, 2026

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Episode Overview

This episode delivers another round of sharp, topical comedy as NPR’s Peter Sagal and the panel tackle unusual news from around the world. Highlights include President Trump’s improbable feud with the Pope, AI’s failures as an online doctor, whether you should eat fridge leftovers in an Airbnb, and an exclusive interview with Phil Pritchard, the man responsible for honoring and escorting the Stanley Cup. Listeners play the news quiz and limericks games, while comedians riff on everything from stale Peeps to meowing pilots.

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Key Discussion Points & Segments

1. News Quiz: Jennifer the Lutheran Pastor vs. the Panel

Timestamps: 02:26–09:39

• Presidential 'Beef' with the Pope

  • President Trump criticized the Pope for being "very weak on crime," leading to jokes about whether we want a 'tough on crime' Pope.
  • [02:52] “Apparently, President Trump was upset about the high crime rate in Vatican City as he took on who this week?” – Peter Sagal
  • Panel riffed on the absurdity, referencing Chicago’s Italian heritage and Netflix’s ‘Only Murders in the Conclave’.
  • [03:41] “If you wanted any proof that Donald Trump knows nothing about history, he's starting a beef with an Italian guy from Chicago.” – Alonzo Bodden

• AI Chatbots as Medical Advisors

  • New research: AI chatbots get diagnoses wrong 80% of the time.
  • Alzo tried AI health advice: “Yeah, it told me that I was going through perimenopause." [06:20]
  • Swedish researcher tricked AI with a fake disease; bots spread it anyway.

• Airbnb Leftovers: Would You Eat Them?

  • Guests debate if leftovers in rental fridges are opportunity or gross. Panel jokes about dubious random foods.
  • [08:02] “Well, close in an Airbnb. ...Some people think that's gross. Other people are like, oh, great, free baba ganoush.” – Peter Sagal
  • “If you are gonna make a recipe that calls for nothing but bay leaves, you are in business.” [09:10]

2. Listener Quiz: Cheese Law Changes & Bluff the Listener

Timestamps: 10:05–20:14

• Swiss Cheese Makers Allowed to Add Artificial Holes

  • Law change due to the disappearance of “natural” holes.
  • [10:23] “Thanks to a change in the law in Switzerland, the makers of traditional Swiss cheese will now be able to add artificial what to their cheeses?” – Peter Sagal
  • [11:38] “I love that Switzerland basically sat out World War I and II, but this they finally take a stance.” – Adam Burke

• Bluff the Listener: Missed Opportunities

  • Story 1: Sunken treasure research lost when new owner wipes a computer
  • Story 2: Thief steals $2,000 handbag, discards $2.7 million Fabergé egg [Winner]
  • Story 3: Broadway musical about Babe Ruth becomes New York’s camp classic after being spurned in Boston

3. “Not My Job” Interview: Phil Pritchard, Keeper of the Stanley Cup

Timestamps: 20:14–30:23

• Unique Tradition

  • Only one official Stanley Cup, which is toured around the world by Phil Pritchard for each winning team.
  • [21:47] “...everybody on the team gets an opportunity to take it home, not only the players, the coaches, the trainers, the equipment managers, the staff, everyone gets time with it because it's a team event.” – Phil Pritchard

• How It All Started

  • Pritchard helped conceive the idea to let each team member take the cup home.
  • “I think we've been to 31 countries with it around the world." [23:37]
  • On weirdest things seen: water-skiing, sauna parties, mountain climbing with the cup.

• Refuses to Take a Bribe

  • Many try to buy extra days with the cup.
  • [25:52] “Never taken a bribe.” – Phil Pritchard

• If He Had the Cup for Himself?

  • “I think for me, I would bring it back into my backyard and have an open house and, of course, an open bar.” [26:25]

4. Game Segments & Comedic Highlights

The Trump Dump Rapid Fire Quiz

Timestamps: 32:19–34:45

• Satirical true/false news about Trump’s week, including a faux feud with the Pope, watching UFC with Vanilla Ice, and a dead raccoon penis anecdote from an RFK Jr. biography.

Weird News Roundup

• Pilots meowing and barking over air traffic comms ([35:08])
• Chore-mance: A trend where couples bond by doing housework together.
• Beyond Meat’s new seltzer beverage... with protein ([39:41])
• People who prefer stale Peeps ([40:33])

Lightning Fill in the Blank

Timestamps: 43:03–48:23

• Topical questions cover the war in Iran, Hungary’s political change, air traffic control shaming unprofessional pilots, the moon mission, and Nintendo developers perfecting fart sound effects.

5. Predictions: Future Airbnb News

Timestamps: 49:15–49:35

• “Airbnb on the moon.” – Alonzo Bodden
• “Kid BnB, where you can adopt annoying kids left behind on vacation.” – Dulcé Sloan
• “Air BnBnb: discount flights with Airbnb.” – Adam Burke

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Notable Quotes

• [03:50] “That never ends well.” – Alonzo Bowden on picking fights with Italian guys from Chicago
• [06:20] “Yeah, it told me that I was going through perimenopause.” – Alzo Slade, on AI health advice
• [08:28] “There are certain food items ... like your old vegetable oil, an unusably small amount of pancake mix. If you are gonna make a recipe that calls for nothing but bay leaves, you are in business.” – Peter Sagal
• [21:47] “Everybody on the team gets an opportunity to take [the cup] home ... because it’s a team event.” – Phil Pritchard
• [25:59] “Never taken a bribe.” – Phil Pritchard, on resisting extra payouts from NHL players
• [35:08] “Was it the pilots doing the meowing and barking?” – Adam Burke
• [38:02] “The hot new trend in dating, it’s choremance...” – Peter Sagal

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Memorable Moments

• The entire panel riffing on the idea of a “tough on crime” Pope and pitching “Only Murders in the Conclave” for Netflix. ([04:02])
• AI chatbots inventing a fake illness (Bixonomania) and spreading it – thanks to a prank researcher ([06:26]).
• Phil Pritchard describing some of the wild things hockey players do with the Stanley Cup (sauna parties, jet skiing) ([24:55]).
• The panel’s horror and curiosity about eating crusty, years-old leftover Peeps ([41:12]).
• Pilots meowing and barking over DC air traffic control and the subsequent “shade” from controllers ([35:08]).

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Noteworthy Timestamps

• 02:50 – Trump’s ‘beef’ with the Pope
• 06:20 – Alzo’s perimenopause from ChatGPT
• 08:02 – Eating Airbnb leftovers
• 10:23 – Artificial holes in Swiss cheese
• 20:14 – Intro to Phil Pritchard, Stanley Cup escort
• 23:37 – Stanley Cup’s world tour tradition
• 25:52 – Refusing bribes for extra cup time
• 35:08 – Pilots meowing/barking over the radio
• 38:02 – Choremance trend
• 41:12 – Stale Peeps, the post-Easter treat
• 43:03 – Lightning Fill in the Blank begins
• 49:15 – Predictions for next Airbnb news story

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Summary

Packed with puns, playful news coverage, and pop culture zingers, this episode highlights Wait Wait’s signature blend of comedy and current events. The panel lampoons political absurdities and odd human behaviors (from presidential religio-spats to AI misdiagnosis), while Phil Pritchard gives an inside peek at one of sports’ strangest and most cherished traditions. Listeners join the fun with quiz and limerick answers, while the show closes (as always) with creative predictions for the next great news story.

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This summary captures all relevant, silly, and memorable moments – perfect for anyone who missed the episode or wants the gist of the laughs, debates, and news.

Transcript

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[Alzo Slade]

From NPR in WBEZ Chicago, this is Wait, wait, don't tell Me, the NPR News quiz. I'm the man they bring in when Bill Curtis gets busted for claiming Peter as a dependent. I'm Alzo Slade, and here's your host at the Studebaker Theater at the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Illinois, Peter Sago.

[Peter Sagal]

Thank you, Alzo. Thanks, everyone. Thanks to all of you. Great to see you. We do have a fine show for you today. Later on, we're going to be talking for the first time ever on our show, but to a professional escort. That's right, the man who was paid to escort the Stanley Cup. What did you think I meant? But first, it's your turn to come on and try to check me into the boards. Give us a call. 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.

[Listener/Contestant]

Hi.

[Peter Sagal]

Hi. Who's this?

[Listener/Contestant]

This is Jennifer. I live in Tampa, Florida. I am an ELCA Lutheran pastor. Yeah.

[Peter Sagal]

So I think, and I'm not sure about this, but the one person who was excited about Tampa was also the same person excited about you being a Lutheran. So maybe it's a coincidence. Maybe they're just really happy today. We don't know.

[Listener/Contestant]

Yes.

[Peter Sagal]

Well, Jennifer, welcome to the show. Let me introduce you to our panel this week. First, a comedian who'll be appearing at the White Rabbit Cabaret in Indianapolis, Indiana, on Thursday, April 23rd. It's Adam Burke. Hi. Nice to meet you. Jennifer. Hi.

[Listener/Contestant]

Hi.

[Peter Sagal]

Next up, you can see here April 23rd through the 26th at Rooster T. Feathers in San Jose, California. And May 8th at the Hollywood Improv with the Netflix Is a Joke Festival, it's Dulce Sloan.

[Listener/Contestant]

Hello. Hello, it's me. Amen.

[Peter Sagal]

And a comedian. You can see it. And a comedian you can see at Soboba Casino in San Jacinto, California, April 24th. And the Comedy Cellar in Las Vegas, April 27th through May 3rd. It's Alonzo Bowden.

[Alonzo Bowden]

Hello.

[Listener/Contestant]

Hello.

[Peter Sagal]

So, Jennifer, Reverend Jennifer, welcome to the show. You're going to play who's Alzo this time? Alzo Slade, filling in for Bill Curtis, 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 go? Okay, here is your first quote, Jennifer. It's from the President attacking a new rival this week.

[Alzo Slade]

He's very weak on crime.

[Peter Sagal]

Apparently, President Trump was upset about the high crime rate in Vatican City as he took on who this week?

[Listener/Contestant]

Pope Leo.

[Peter Sagal]

Yes, the Pope. Or to use his technical title, da Pope. Yes, the President got into a beef with the Pope about the war in Iran. But who knew that the Pope was weak on crime? That was surprising. It also raises the question, do we want a tough on crime Pope? Like, he takes your confession, and instead of seven Hail Marys, he gives you the death penalty. And I got to say, if President Trump thinks the Pope is. Is weak on crime, wait till he finds out about the Buddha.

[Alonzo Bowden]

If you wanted any proof that Donald Trump knows nothing about history, he's starting a beef with an Italian guy from Chicago.

[Peter Sagal]

Exactly.

[Alonzo Bowden]

That never ends well.

[Peter Sagal]

It doesn't.

[Listener/Contestant]

And Italian guys from Chicago love beef.

[Peter Sagal]

It's true. It's true. And thinking about it, though. But actually, we thought about it. It'd be cool if the Pope did fight crime.

[Listener/Contestant]

Right?

[Peter Sagal]

It'd be exciting, like coming to Netflix this summer. Only murders in the Conclave.

[Listener/Contestant]

Well, they've already had murders in the Conclave.

[Peter Sagal]

That's true.

[Phil Pritchard]

Yeah.

[Listener/Contestant]

That's how he kept getting new Popes.

[Peter Sagal]

Yeah.

[Adam Burke]

Does Trump think he's weak on crime? Cause last time I was in the Vatican, there was a bunch of guys nailed to wooden everywhere.

[Peter Sagal]

Pope didn't do anything about it. So he starts this beef with the Pope, and then he decides to, like, just, you know, throw some fuel in the fire. He posts a picture of himself as Jesus healing the sick. And when he was criticized for this, he insisted, and this is true. Oh, he's not supposed to be Jesus in the picture. Don't you see? He's a doctor. That's what he said. Because whose doctor doesn't wear flowing white robes and treat you with glowing beams of light emanating from his hand?

[Alonzo Bowden]

Well, that's the Republican health plan right there.

[Peter Sagal]

Yeah, that's all you're gonna get. Jennifer. Here. Jennifer, here is your next quote, okay?

[Alzo Slade]

Just take two aspirin. You'll be fine.

[Peter Sagal]

That advice was given to a patient who is, in fact, suffering a serious medical condition. It was part of a study showing you should not ask what? For medical advice.

[Listener/Contestant]

I'm going to say AI, but perhaps I Need a hint?

[Peter Sagal]

No, you were right. AI chatbots, ChatGPT, everybody's doing it. But they shouldn't. New research says if you give AI chatbots just one or two symptoms of something bothering you, they will fail to give you the right diagnosis 80% of the time either they will, as that one did dismiss a serious disease as nothing or say a minor complaint means you just have days to live. Robots are stealing other robots jobs. Telling me I'm Gonna Die is WebMD's thing.

[Listener/Contestant]

Yes.

[Alonzo Bowden]

The head of Health and Human services is wrong 90% of the time that's true.

[Peter Sagal]

So it's an improvement.

[Alonzo Bowden]

And he's certainly not a doct.

[Adam Burke]

That's right. I mean they're clearly trying to destroy us.

[Peter Sagal]

They're trying. Yes, I know.

[Adam Burke]

They're just like, it'll be fine.

[Peter Sagal]

Have you guys ever done that? I know a lot of people actually use ChatGPT and are very happy with it. Have you ever tried it?

[Alzo Slade]

I used it.

[Peter Sagal]

What'd you do?

[Alzo Slade]

Yeah, I asked it for health advice.

[Peter Sagal]

And what'd you get?

[Alzo Slade]

Yeah, it told me that I was going through perimenopause.

[Peter Sagal]

That's explained the moon swings. Now, of course, the way the chatbots do is they just suck up all the information of the Internet and they use predictive technology to figure out what to say. So this is true. A researcher in Sweden uploaded a fake paper she wrote describing a completely made up illness called bixonomania, including thanks to, and I quote, researchers at Starfleet Academy and funding from the Sideshow Bob foundation in the paper. And sure enough, within a year, chatbots were telling people all over the world that they had Bixon mania. The amazing part, Bixen mania is what the Trump Jesus doctor was curing in that picture.

[Listener/Contestant]

So check. GPT is just a telephone psychic, kind of sorta. They have no information. They have absolutely nothing. So it's just Ms. Cleo?

[Peter Sagal]

Well, sort of, kinda.

[Alonzo Bowden]

Well, no, because ChatGPT does not cost 99 cents a minute.

[Peter Sagal]

That's true. All right, here, Jennifer, is your last quote. Okay.

[Alzo Slade]

Stuff always gets left behind. I didn't have to pay for eggs for a hot minute.

[Peter Sagal]

That was someone quoted in the Washington Post about why they like to eat the food people leave behind.

[Listener/Contestant]

Where, at a restaurant?

[Peter Sagal]

Not at a restaurant. That would be creepy. Walking around waiting for people to leave a table, diving in before the busboy can get there. Yeah, I've done it, but I'm not recommending.

[Listener/Contestant]

Can you give me a hint?

[Peter Sagal]

Yeah. Well, apparently they are supposed to clean between guests, but Sometimes they don't check the fridge.

[Listener/Contestant]

Oh, in a hotel.

[Peter Sagal]

Well, close in an Airbnb. Right. More and more people are booking private vacation rentals. Right. There's a growing debate, as that happens, about whether or not you should eat the leftovers you find in the fridge. Some people think that's gross. Other people are like, oh, great, free baba ganoush. I think,

[Listener/Contestant]

wouldn't it depend on, like, if it's just like, oh, there's a bag of oranges.

[Peter Sagal]

Right.

[Listener/Contestant]

I could see somebody doing that. As opposed to, oh, there's chicken wings and four of them got a bite out of it. Eh?

[Peter Sagal]

Yeah. Actually, you know who apparently eats a lot of it are the owners of the Airbnb. That's part of a, I guess a perk of being a landlord. One guy complained to the Post that his family wouldn't eat the leftovers he brought home from his rental, which he said recently included lobster Mac and cheese. Come on, kids. It's just old cheese and shellfish other people has breathed on. It's. There are certain food items, you know, you're always gonna find in a vacation rental, like your old vegetable oil, an unusably small amount of pancake mix. It's all useless. On the other hand, if you are gonna make a recipe that calls for nothing but bay leaves, you are in business.

[Listener/Contestant]

Yes. Odd spices that don't connect. It's like cinnamon and marjoram. I don't know what I'm supposed to make. Yeah, I can't put this on a chicken. Kind of weird. Cinnamon chicken.

[Alonzo Bowden]

No, you love cinnamon chicken.

[Adam Burke]

You can. And then leave it for the Airbnb owner.

[Peter Sagal]

That'll teach him.

[Adam Burke]

And ruin his night.

[Peter Sagal]

Alzo. Alzo. How did Jennifer do in our quiz?

[Alzo Slade]

She got a perfect score. Three out of three.

[Peter Sagal]

Congratulations, Reverend. Yay.

[Listener/Contestant]

Hallelujah.

[Peter Sagal]

Thanks. Thank you so much for playing.

[Listener/Contestant]

It was very fun.

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[Peter Sagal]

Take care. I'm a hungry man, that's what I

[Phil Pritchard]

am I'm a hungry man that's what I am

[Adam Burke]

A hungry man.

[Peter Sagal]

Right now, panel, it is time for you to answer some questions about this week's news. Alonso, big news in cheese making. Thanks. I know, it's exciting. Thanks to a change in the law in Switzerland, the makers of traditional Swiss cheese will now be able to add artificial what to their cheeses.

[Alonzo Bowden]

Holes.

[Peter Sagal]

Yes, holes. In recent years, holes have started disappearing from traditional Swiss cheese. Something I learned from my holes. Google alert. Turns out

[Adam Burke]

I'm so mad a hole can't disappear. A hole is the disappearance of the thing that the hole is replacing. I'm about to lose my mind.

[Peter Sagal]

Let me attempt to explain. It turns out in traditional Swiss cheese making, the holes in the cheese are caused by tiny particles of hay from the milk barn that gets into the milk. And with modern automatic milking technology, those little particles don't occur, right? So Swiss cheese makers want the holes back, but not from the guy who keeps showing up at the factory saying, I'll do it, no questions asked. So they went to court in Switzerland and won the right to create their own holes artificially. And it's still Swiss cheese. I love that at some point in this saga, somebody pounded his fist in the table and said, get me the best damn cheese lawyer money can buy.

[Adam Burke]

I love that Switzerland basically sat out World War I and II, but this they finally take a stance.

[Peter Sagal]

Yeah, yeah, we gotta get the hold back. Coming up, the pressure is on in this week's Bluff, the listener game called one Triple eight. Wait, Wait to play. We'll be back in a minute with more. Wait, Wait, don't tell me. From npr,

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[Alzo Slade]

From NPR in WBEZ Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me the NPR News Quiz. I am Alzo Slade. We're playing this week with Alonzo Boden, Adam Burke and Dulce Sloan. And here again is your host at the Studebaker Theater in Chicago, Illinois, Peter Sagal.

[Peter Sagal]

Thank you, Alzo. Thank you. Everybody. Thank you, everybody. Right now it is time for the. Wait, wait, don't tell me. Bluff. The listener game. Call one triple eight. Wait, wait. To play our game on the air. Hi, you're on. Wait, wait, don't tell me. Hello?

[Listener/Contestant]

Hello, this is Hannah in Austin.

[Peter Sagal]

Hello, Hannah in Austin, Texas. What do you do there?

[Listener/Contestant]

I am a registered nurse turned private

[Peter Sagal]

practicing licensed massage therapist and end of life doula. So if I were dying for a massage, you would definitely be the person to go to. Exactly.

[Phil Pritchard]

Exactly.

[Peter Sagal]

Well, Hannah, welcome to the show. You're going to play our game in which you must write to tell the truth to from fiction. Also, what is Hannah's topic?

[Alzo Slade]

You blew it.

[Peter Sagal]

As the great philosopher Eminem said, you only get one shot. Do not miss your chance to blow. This week somebody had a chance to do something amazing but came up short. Our panelists are going to tell you about it. Pick the one who's telling the truth and you'll win the wait waiter of your choice in your voicemail. Are you ready to play? I am. You are? Okay. Well, then let's play. Let's start then with Alonzo Boden.

[Alonzo Bowden]

Wannabe influencer Alan Lane bought a computer from Brandon Terrell on Facebook. He deleted the computer's memory, a bunch of math and maps to edit videos of him smoking a cigar for his brand. He figured he'd get rich on millions of views. Now he has videos of him crying at the idea of losing millions of dollars. The former owner of the computer, Brandon Terrell Sr. Spent a lifetime researching the Bermuda Triangle and had it figured out. He had researched wind and water currents, the times and temperatures of when things disappeared. Terrell believes that his research could have led to a fortune in sunken treasure. So Terrell Jr. Sold the computer, thinking all the data was backed up to icloud. But he forgot to pay Apple the $3 monthly fee for extra storage. So it all vanished the day the new owner erased it. Once he realized what had happened, he joined forces with the new owner. Lane smokes his cigars for views while Terrell tries to rebuild his computers from memory so he can make them both rich.

[Peter Sagal]

A man almost acquired the secret to untold riches at the bottom of the Bermuda Triangle, but erased it all. Your next story of a big chance comes from Dulce Sloan.

[Listener/Contestant]

We've all met up with friends after a work event and still had our work stuff with us, like a laptop, a suitcase full of comedy merchants, or a Faberge egg. That's what happened to Rosie Dawson, who was entrusted to show the Faberge egg and matching watch to potential buyers by her employer, the Kraft Whiskey Company. When she was unable to sell the pieces, she did what anyone would do after a hard day at work. She put the egg in her bag and went to the pub. Enter Enzo Conticello, a run of the mill pickpocket who noticed Dawson's $2,000 Givenchy handbag on the floor. So he stole it like he was supposed to. Because who puts a $2,000 bag with a Faberge egg in it on the floor of a bar? Now, what does a petty thief do with a Faberge egg? Well, he's a regular person who doesn't know what it is. So he traded the bag and everything in it for cocaine. He didn't find out the value of his thievery was about $2.7 million until he was in court. Do you know how much cocaine you can buy with $2.7 million now? I have no idea. I'm a good Christian woman, but I'm sure it's a lie.

[Peter Sagal]

A thief steals a purse, takes out the money in cards and throws away the Faberge egg inside. Your last story of somebody coming up short comes from Adam Burke.

[Adam Burke]

It's considered one of the greatest missed opportunities in sports history. Boston Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sells Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees in 1920 for $100,000, ushering in an 84 year World Series drought for the Sox, propelling the Yankees to huge success and making Ruth a baseball legend. It's also a pivotal moment in a new musical about the Bambino and entitled Simply Babe, which began production earlier this year in Boston. That was until Walt Gassman, the play's chief financial backer, dropped into rehearsals and witnessed some of the show's so called hit numbers, such as I'm not throwing away my shot, but I am calling it a whole new World Series and ho ho ho, where the murderers row and decided he had a stinker on his hands. Enter Janice Keller, an aspiring impresario from the Bronx who, upon hearing Gassman complain about the show at a function, offered to buy it from him. All the things he hated, I adored, says Keller. Like when the sick kid flies in on his hospital bed magic. And in a case of life imitating art imitating life, Boston's loss has been New York's gain, with the plague becoming an instant camp classic, off Broadway and quickly making its money back. I guess Boston won't win a Tony anytime soon, groused Gassman.

[Peter Sagal]

All right, these are your three stories of a lost opportunity was it from Alonzo Boden, a guy who bought a computer and erased it before he realized on it was the secret to untold sunken treasure. From Dulce Sloan, a thief who grabbed a purse and threw it away, not realizing he had just thrown away a $2.5 million egg. Inside or from Adam Burke. The story of Babe Ruth being sold from Boston to New York is recapitulated again in a musical about Babe Ruth being sold by Boston to New York. Which of these is the real story of a lost opportunity?

[Phil Pritchard]

Wow.

[Listener/Contestant]

The option I have to pick Dulce seems like.

[Peter Sagal]

Seems like the human thing to do. The human thing to do. Because who would think of banging up a purse that there's a egg inside? All right, you chose Dulce's story. Well, we spoke to a reporter who covered the real story.

[Listener/Contestant]

He takes her given handbag and she realizes, oh, my gosh, my egg has been stolen.

[Peter Sagal]

That was the Telegraph's Warren Sheriff talking about the stolen, not stolen, Fraberge egg in London. Congratulations, Hannah. You got it right. You're deployed for Dulce. You've won our prize. The voice of anyone you might choose for your voicemail. Thank you so much for playing with us today. Take care. And now, the game we call Not My Job. The National Hockey League playoffs begin next week, and the winning team won't get their own version of the Stanley cup, the championship trophy, because there is only one. Each member of the winning team, though, will get to have that one trophy for one day before it goes back on display. And that means somebody has to escort it safely from place to place. And that somebody is Phil Pritchard, a longtime employee of the Hockey hall of Fame and the official guardian of the one and only Stanley Cup. And he joins us now. Phil Pritchard, welcome to. Wait, wait, don't tell me. First, a fact check. Is that correct that hockey is the only major sport that does not give the trophy to the team to keep? They get to hold it up in the air and have it for a while, but then they have to give it back.

[Phil Pritchard]

Yeah, it's actually a pretty amazing tradition, Peter. The team wins it, obviously, in late June, and they get it for 100 days, which means everybody on the team gets an opportunity to take it home, right? Not only the players, the coaches, the trainers, the equipment managers, the staff, everyone gets time with it because it's a team event.

[Peter Sagal]

Right? And so why. Do you know how that tradition began? Was it like they didn't have the money to make a new trophy every year?

[Phil Pritchard]

Well, you know what? You look at that trophy. It's three feet high. It's 38 pounds. It's pure silver. I think it's beautiful enough. You only want one of them. Nothing against the other sports traditions. They do a great job of it, but none of it is like the Stanley cup, right?

[Alzo Slade]

Yeah. They didn't have the money.

[Peter Sagal]

They didn't have the money. And this has been your job for a long time. You are the guy who brings the cup to the game, who gives it to the winning team, then takes it and brings it to each member of that team. That's your job.

[Phil Pritchard]

Yeah, and it's pretty amazing summer because I only hang out with winners, so it's pretty good.

[Adam Burke]

Please tell me you have that on a T shirt.

[Peter Sagal]

How did you get that job, Phil? What skills did you bring to it?

[Alzo Slade]

When he was little, he said, that's what I want to be when I grow up.

[Phil Pritchard]

Also, I don't think anyone ever says that they want to win it. They want to bring it home to mom and Dad. I didn't plan on bringing it to someone else's mom and dad. That didn't really work out that way. You know what's amazing, though? I took a sports administration course in college, and one thing led to another, and working at the Hockey hall of Fame, the game was evolving. And it became more and more an international sport. More than just North Americans, players from all around the world. So it began the effect of trying to, how do we get this trophy out there to everybody? And yours truly put up his hand and said, why don't we take it round and let everyone celebrate it with

[Peter Sagal]

it for a day?

[Phil Pritchard]

So I think we've been to 31 countries with it around the world.

[Peter Sagal]

Now, wait a minute. You just told me something I hadn't heard, which is that you came up with the idea of every member of the winning team getting it for one day. Well, also.

[Phil Pritchard]

And I did, actually.

[Alzo Slade]

Okay, well, you know what it was? It was like, we gotta figure out a way to get our SkyMiles up.

[Peter Sagal]

So, yeah, so you said, I have an idea. Let's get it out in the world. Let's let every player and other associate of. Of the winning team have it for a day. And then somebody said, well, that's ridiculous. Some idiot would have to pick up the damn thing and fly around the world with it for 100 days. Where are we going to find that fool?

[Phil Pritchard]

Here's the idiot right here.

[Peter Sagal]

All right.

[Phil Pritchard]

Over the years, I was part of a whole team that came up with that idea. And I mean, A little biased here, but I think it's one of the greatest traditions there is in sport because they get the chance to take it home to their hometown and celebrate with their family and friends.

[Peter Sagal]

Okay. We on this show over the years have occasionally mentioned when it's made the news some of the weirder things that the players especially have done with the cup during that precious day when it's in their possession. What are some of the weirdest things you've seen?

[Phil Pritchard]

Wow. We've been. We've been water skiing on sea doos with it. We've been in sauna parties in northern Finland. We've been mountain climbing in the Rocky Mountains.

[Peter Sagal]

Wait a minute. Let's go back. A player says to you, all right, it's my. I'm assuming it's a player. They get a lot of head blows to the head. He says, I'm gonna take the Stanley Cup. I'm gonna tuck it under my arm. I'm gonna get on my se. Do my jet ski type thing, and I'm gonna scoot out across the ocean or lake holding it. And you say, make sure it's got

[Phil Pritchard]

a life jacket on. Water safety is important.

[Peter Sagal]

Okay.

[Alonzo Bowden]

Has anyone ever offered you some cash to keep it a couple extra days or.

[Peter Sagal]

Oh, a lot.

[Phil Pritchard]

A lot of cash. Guys, really? Yeah.

[Peter Sagal]

Has that. I mean, these guys are well paid, so I imagine that they're like, you know, hey, I got some friends who haven't seen it yet. That has happened.

[Phil Pritchard]

It has. You seen the shirt I have on? I'm not well paced.

[Peter Sagal]

Yeah, but you've resisted the temptation.

[Phil Pritchard]

Never taken a bride.

[Peter Sagal]

Let me ask you a question. I know that you played hockey. Well, You're Canadian. It's obvious you played hockey as a young man. You had aspirations. So presumably, like all Canadian kids, you dreamed of the Stanley cup yourself.

[Phil Pritchard]

Yeah.

[Peter Sagal]

And given your job, have you ever imagined or planned what you would do were you to get the cup to yourself, as one of the players or team members do? What would you do, you think, if.

[Phil Pritchard]

If I had the chance to have it for a day, you mean? Yeah, I. I think for me, I would bring it back into my backyard and have an open house and, of course, an open bar.

[Peter Sagal]

Sure.

[Phil Pritchard]

We'd have a party.

[Peter Sagal]

Yeah, why not?

[Adam Burke]

Was anyone else expecting Long walk on the beach?

[Peter Sagal]

Yeah. The hell with them. Well, Phil Pritchard, it's a pleasure to have you here. And we have, in fact, invited you to play a game that we've come up with that we are calling, let's

[Alzo Slade]

go visit the NHL by which we

[Peter Sagal]

mean National Historic landmarks. We're gonna ask you three. Of course, we're gonna ask you three questions about this list of interesting sites that make up the other NHL. And if you get two right, you won our prize for one of our listeners, the voice of any person on our show that might choose for their voicemail. Also, who is Phil Pritchard of the Hockey hall of Fame playing for Sam

[Alzo Slade]

Chang of San Carlos, California.

[Peter Sagal]

All right, so here's your first question.

[Phil Pritchard]

All right, Sam, let's do this.

[Peter Sagal]

Here's your first question. There is a long list you can find at the Department of the Interior website of national historic landmarks around the country. And one of the great things about it is the variety. It's not just old houses and battlefields. The list also includes which of these. A, the birthplace of Saran Wrap, B, the nation's first Claire's Store, or C, the Fresno, California Municipal Sanitary Landfill. Whoa.

[Phil Pritchard]

I'm going with a Saran Wrap.

[Peter Sagal]

You're going to go the birthplace of Saran Wrap.

[Phil Pritchard]

Yes.

[Peter Sagal]

I can imagine what the. The pilgrims would wear as they visited. No, it's actually C, the Fresno, California Municipal Sanitary Landfill on the National Historic Landmark list. It was the first modern landfill in the U.S. here's your next question. One of the newest landmarks Designated in 2024 is the Kentucky Birthplace of Paleontology. In North America, one of the first places where people started discovering fossils of ancient animals. What is it called? A Dinosaur hole, B, Big Bone Lick. Or C, Jurassic Park?

[Phil Pritchard]

I'm gonna go with B.

[Peter Sagal]

You're gonna go with Big Bone Lick. You're right. Oh, wow. Hundreds of years ago, pioneers and others discovered big bones there that were from mastodons and other prehistoric fauna. And also living animals came there to lick salt. So big Bone Lick. All right, here's your last question. If you get this right, you win. So be careful when you search for National Historic Landmarks online, because a Google search using AI told us that what is on the list of National Historic Landmarks? A, Babyland General Hospital, the fake hospital where Cabbage Patch Kids dolls are quote, born, B, a tree Nicolas Cage hit with his car in 1987, or C, a 40 foot high floating head of Daniel Boone. Whoa.

[Phil Pritchard]

I don't think it's Nicolas Cage. I'm gonna go with Cabbage Patch Kids.

[Peter Sagal]

You're right again, Philip.

[Listener/Contestant]

Yeah,

[Peter Sagal]

Bab is a real place in Georgia where you can go and pretend to get a just born Cabbage Patch Kid. But it is not, as far as we can tell, actually on the list of National Historic Landmarks.

[Alonzo Bowden]

It will be now.

[Peter Sagal]

I guess so. Yes. Alzo, how did Phil do in our quiz?

[Alzo Slade]

Phil, you get a weight weight trophy that you can keep for yourself. You're a winner today.

[Peter Sagal]

Yes. Right. Take it home.

[Listener/Contestant]

It's just a tote. B.

[Peter Sagal]

Pritchard is the keeper of the Stanley cup, which you can see teams vie for this year in the NHL playoff start in April 18th. And now you know what's at stake. It'll be exciting for you. Phil Pritchard, thank you so much for joining us on Wait Wait, don't tell me, guys. Thanks for having me. Thank you, Phil. Take care. In just a minute, learn of the secret to squeaky clean romance in our listener limber challenge. Call 1-888-wait-WAIT to join us in the air. We'll be back in a minute with more of Wait wait. Don't tell me from npr.

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[Alzo Slade]

From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, don't tell Me the NPR News quiz. I'm Alzo Slate. We're playing this week with Alonzo Boden, Dulce Sloan and Adam Burke. And here again is your host at the Studebaker Theater in Chicago, Illinois, Peter Sagal.

[Peter Sagal]

Thank you, Alzo, in just a minute. To those of you who like your games easy and your rhymes approximate, it's our Listener Limerick Challenge. If you'd like to play, give us a call. One triple eight. Wait, wait. That's 1-8892. And now, panel, it is time once again for the game we call the Trump Dump. Some weeks, news from the Trump administration comes out faster than you can say 25th amendment. And what we do is we just collect it Round it up in one place and we ask you about it. Rapid fire, true, false style. Get yours right, you get a point. You all ready to play? Yeah. Here we go. Alonzo, true or false? In a sermon at the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth read a Bible verse he said was from the Book of Mark, when actually it was from the Book of Ezekiel.

[Alonzo Bowden]

It was from the book of Pulp Fiction.

[Peter Sagal]

It was. It was from the movie Pulp Fiction. Dulce, true or false? When addressing reporters about the war, Treasury Secretary Scott Besant mistakenly referred to the Strait of Hormuz as the Strait of Vermouth. True. Right. Adam, true or false? A new biography of RFK Jr says he once cut off a dead raccoon's penis on a family vacation to, quote, study it later. True. That is true. Alonzo According to the biography RFK later wrote in his journal, quote, I was standing there cutting the penis out of a road killed raccoon, thinking about how weird some of my family members have turned out to be.

[Alonzo Bowden]

I'm going to go with true.

[Peter Sagal]

You're right again. Dulce, true or false? Donald Trump was criticized for skipping Iran negotiations to watch a UFC fight with Vanilla Ice.

[Listener/Contestant]

True.

[Peter Sagal]

That is true. And Adam, true or false? After the fight, Donald Trump told the winner, you're the toughest fighter I've ever seen. I bet you could beat Iran all by yourself. Unquote, true. No, that is false. He said to the fighter, quote, you could be a model. You look so good. You're too good looking to be a fighter. You're some fighter. You're a beautiful guy,

[Adam Burke]

You know? You know the, the disembodied raccoon penis?

[Peter Sagal]

Yes, I do.

[Adam Burke]

Is that what we're supposed to take instead of Tylenol?

[Peter Sagal]

Probably. And that's it for this week's Trump dump. We'll be back with another edition before youe Know it and before youe Want It. Now panel, some questions about the week's news for you. Adam. Two pilots were scolded this week after air traffic controllers at national airport in D.C. heard what coming over the radio from the cockpit.

[Adam Burke]

It wouldn't by any chance be the sound of, like a cat meowing?

[Peter Sagal]

Yes, indeed. Meowing and barking. Air traffic control in D.C. heard meowing and barking coming from an active cockpit out there on the tarmac. But there were no pets on the airplane. It was the pilots doing the meowing and barking. Air traffic told them they needed to be more professional. And this is true. In reaction, the pilots barked and meowed even more. And things got even worse when the pilots got the zoomies.

[Listener/Contestant]

That's a small space.

[Peter Sagal]

This is recorded. And so the air traffic control was then heard telling the pilots. And this is true. This is why you still fly a regional jet.

[Listener/Contestant]

Dam

[Peter Sagal]

Traffic control. Yes.

[Listener/Contestant]

Man, that is shade.

[Peter Sagal]

That is cold. That is cold.

[Listener/Contestant]

Not the American.

[Alonzo Bowden]

They could have tagged it with Space4Spirit Airlines.

[Peter Sagal]

That's true.

[Listener/Contestant]

The plane only got 30 seats. And we know why.

[Adam Burke]

When, when they said that, did the pilots start growling?

[Peter Sagal]

Anyway, for those interested in this, the pilots in the story are now available for adoption at your local DC Rescue. 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 1-88-WAIT-WAIT. That's 1-888-924-8924. You can see us most weeks right here at the Studebaker Theater in downtown Chicago or catch us on the Road in Austin, Texas at Bass Concert hall on the 4th of June. And if you like our show but wish it was actually sort of a different show, you can check out our Comedy Grab Bag Stand up show at the Bellhouse in Brooklyn on April 24th. Josh Gondelman will be hosting. He'll be joined by our very own Peter Gross and some exciting special guests. For tickets and information to all our live events, go to nprpresents.org hi. Wait, wait, don't tell me. Hi. Hi, who's this? This is Tracy Clark Johnson. Hello Tracy Clark Johnson. How are you? Where are you calling from? I am calling from Richmond Hill, Georgia. Wow. Where is Richmond Hill? So Richmond hill is about 30 minute

[Adam Burke]

from Savannah, Georgia and I was there

[Peter Sagal]

at the Johnny Mercer Theater recently and saw you guys live. Yeah, that's great. I'm so glad we were there just recently. Had a great time. Well, welcome back I guess then Tracy Alzo Slade is going to read for you 3news related limericks with a last word or phrase missing from each. If you can fill in that last word or phrase correctly and two of the limericks will be a winner. You ready to play? I am ready to play. Let's do it. Here's your first limerick.

[Alzo Slade]

On our dates we get down on all fours. That's because we are scrubbing the floors. We do laundry and shop, clean the windows and mop. We get frisky by doing our chores.

[Peter Sagal]

Yes, chores. The hot new trend in dating, it's choremance where instead of going out, you stay home and do regular housework or daily life chores. Sounds boring. Okay, but have you ever felt the electricity of folding a fitted sheet with somebody? New hands are everywhere. According to one psychologist, having a choremance is a good way to make mundane tasks more exciting. Okay, taxes are a drag, but chaumance your taxes and they become a neurotic adventure. Hey honey, this is Charles Schwab. He just is going to watch.

[Adam Burke]

You know, if you feel electricity with someone while folding laundry, just use one

[Peter Sagal]

of those dryer sheets. It'll take the stairs.

[Listener/Contestant]

Exactly.

[Peter Sagal]

Also you could you.

[Listener/Contestant]

And listen, I might be judged for saying this, but it's giving broke. It's giving broke. Here's the. I'll go. Listen, I love to go on a little, you know, let's go shopping. Like we'll do like a little like run an errand that doesn't consist of me cleaning your. I just got here.

[Adam Burke]

Like, I mean, I've been told sex is a chore before.

[Peter Sagal]

Is that what they mean? Pretty much. I mean, let's face it. People present themselves one way when they're on a date, but you see a different side of them when you're doing chores. You can even create special bonding moments like when the man says, let's take it slow. It's my first time cleaning a bathtub. Here is your next limerick.

[Alzo Slade]

This protein filled energy beltzer is refreshing when temperatures. Sweltzer, the bubbly cold drink comes in yellow and pink. Beyond Meat is now making a seltzer.

[Peter Sagal]

Yes, seltzer. If you love Beyond Burgers and Beyond Chicken, the fake meat, you're the kind of freak who's going to love Beyond Seltzer. The new sparkling beverage contains not only vitamins and electrolytes, but also 10 to 20 grams of pea protein. Incidentally, drink enough of this and you will also pea protein.

[Adam Burke]

I've never been asked, would you like your water medium?

[Listener/Contestant]

I think what happened is it was just like, okay, we've got all this protein that we use to make the fake meat, right? We're not selling the fake meat so we need to make drinks.

[Alzo Slade]

Right.

[Listener/Contestant]

But I think there was some guy was like, well, seltzer's popular. This is like a real crystal Pepsi situation, right? It's like well, seltzer.

[Alzo Slade]

Yeah.

[Alonzo Bowden]

Cause that did so well.

[Peter Sagal]

Exactly.

[Adam Burke]

Is this gonna taste like hot dog water? Because in that case, I'm in.

[Peter Sagal]

All right, here is your last limerick.

[Alzo Slade]

My sweet tooth has one holy grail. It's when seasonal candies on sale Some treats grow a crust that is really a must I prefer to eat peeps that are stale Stale.

[Peter Sagal]

Yes, Easter has come and gone, but according to many candy lovers, this is exactly when you want to eat your leftover peeps. When they are stale. Stale people say the candy is best when the outside has gotten crunchy, but the inside is still soft, just like a real bird.

[Listener/Contestant]

What?

[Peter Sagal]

And if the word stale is kind of throwing you off, one Redditor said quote, calling them aged is much fancier. That's why I always pair my four week old peeps with a 2020 bottle of Nesquik.

[Listener/Contestant]

First of all, peeps is nasty. Second, it's like I've never understood the peep. And you know, now the peep people was like, oh, we could do this other times of the year. So now they got July 4th peeps.

[Adam Burke]

Oh, really?

[Listener/Contestant]

They got. Yeah, they just put it.

[Adam Burke]

Are they called we the pe.

[Listener/Contestant]

Idiots?

[Peter Sagal]

Alzo, how did Tracy do In our

[Alzo Slade]

quiz, you have to pronounce the full name. Tracy Clark Johnson.

[Peter Sagal]

Sorry, Excuse me.

[Alzo Slade]

Got three out of three. She's a winner.

[Peter Sagal]

Thank you. Well done.

[Listener/Contestant]

Thank you, sis.

[Peter Sagal]

Welcome, guys. Love y'. All.

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[Peter Sagal]

Now, on to 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 no, worth two points. Alzo, can you give us the scores?

[Alzo Slade]

Absolutely. Dulce is kicking butt with five points, Alonzo has four, and Adam is pulling up the rear with three.

[Peter Sagal]

Okay. All right, Adam, you're in third place, so you're up first. The clock will start when they begin your first question. Fill in the blank. According to a new poll, only 25% of Americans see the war with blank as a success.

[Adam Burke]

Iran.

[Peter Sagal]

Right. On Sunday, Peter Magyar defeated Victor Orban to become the next prime minister of blank.

[Adam Burke]

Is it Turkey?

[Peter Sagal]

No, it's Hungary. In order to highlight a city's failing infrastructure. A politician in South Africa blanked. Oh,

[Adam Burke]

didn't he, like, take a bath in a pothole or something?

[Peter Sagal]

Yeah, based on what he gave it to, he went snorkeling in a bottle. It was deep enough to snorkel in. This week, soccer fans were outraged over reports that train tickets to see a blank game in New Jersey may cost more than $100.

[Adam Burke]

The World Cup.

[Peter Sagal]

Right. On Tuesday, looks maxing influencer. Blank was admitted to the hospital for an apparent overdose.

[Adam Burke]

I hate that I know this.

[Peter Sagal]

Claviculum. Yes. At an Easter celebration in South Korea, the man playing Jesus who was supposed to be lifted 20ft in the air by a crane at the climax ended up blanking.

[Adam Burke]

I saw this. He just kept going.

[Peter Sagal]

Yes. He ended up flying. Flown into the air to the height of a skyscraper. In what might be the most amazing video anybody. Anybody has ever seen. The man playing Jesus at an outdoor event. At the moment of his resurrection, an ascent to heaven starts to ascend from the stage and then pretty much actually goes to heaven. He just keeps going.

[Listener/Contestant]

What was he attached to?

[Peter Sagal]

He was attached to a cable that was being held by. Raised by a.

[Phil Pritchard]

The Lord.

[Peter Sagal]

Yeah, by the Lord.

[Alzo Slade]

And everyone watching thought it was the rapture.

[Peter Sagal]

I promise that if you haven't watched the video, you're watching this and going, well, obviously he can't get. He can't keep going.

[Phil Pritchard]

Higher.

[Peter Sagal]

He goes higher. Past the Artemis crew on the other way. Alzo, how did Adam do in our quiz?

[Alzo Slade]

He got five right for 10 points. Total of 13.

[Peter Sagal]

All right, so, Alonzo, you are up next. Fill in the blank. On Wednesday, Russia conducted a large scale drone strike against blank.

[Alonzo Bowden]

Ukraine.

[Peter Sagal]

Right. According to the irs, this year's average blank refund is higher than last year tax. Right. This week, outbreaks of blank continue to spread throughout the country.

[Alonzo Bowden]

Measles.

[Peter Sagal]

Right. According to a new study, people taking weight loss drug blank reported it dulled their emotions.

[Alonzo Bowden]

The GLP one.

[Peter Sagal]

Yeah. It was epic and the like. This week, Toronto's CN Tower lit up periwinkle blue in honor of blank.

[Alonzo Bowden]

Oh, I don't know. Canada?

[Peter Sagal]

No. In honor of irritable bowel syndrome awareness month.

[Alonzo Bowden]

How did I not know that?

[Peter Sagal]

Clearly you weren't aware of it. On Thursday, health officials in the US Warned of a new blank resistant bacteria vaccine. Well, I'll give it to you. Drug resistant. According to a new study, blank song closely parallels the patterns of human speech.

[Alonzo Bowden]

Bird.

[Peter Sagal]

No whale song. This week, a woman with a knee injury who was promised an empty row on her flight was Surprised to find the seats filled and more surprised when

[Alonzo Bowden]

one of her seatmates Blanked had a bad knee. No.

[Peter Sagal]

Gave her a 30 minute foot massage.

[Alonzo Bowden]

Is that legal?

[Peter Sagal]

Apparently the unexpected extra passenger quote, noticed the woman tending to her hurt knee and insisted that she keep her leg up and begin a 30 plus minute reflexology massage. So the next time you're annoyed when the person next to you in a flight wants to talk, just remember it could be worse. Alzo, how did Alonzo do in our quiz?

[Alzo Slade]

Did all right. He got five right for 10 more points. He has now a total of 14.

[Peter Sagal]

All right, so how many then does Dulce need to win?

[Alzo Slade]

She needs five to win.

[Peter Sagal]

Ok, Dulce, this is for the game. Fill in the blank. On Wednesday, a jury ruled that Live Nation and Blank operated as a monopoly to dominate the ticketing industry.

[Listener/Contestant]

True. What?

[Peter Sagal]

Live Nation and Blank. Another company.

[Listener/Contestant]

Oh, Ticketmaster.

[Peter Sagal]

Right. On Tuesday, the Justice Department moved to dismiss the seditious conspiracy convictions against certain Participants in the Blank Riot.

[Listener/Contestant]

January 6th.

[Peter Sagal]

Right. This week, runners in the recent Milwaukee Marathon were surprised to discover that the designers of the medal they received had blanked.

[Listener/Contestant]

Stolen the medal?

[Peter Sagal]

No. The designers of the medal they received had misspelled the word marathon on it. Following their historic mission to the Blank, the crew of the Artemis II returned home this last week.

[Listener/Contestant]

Moon.

[Peter Sagal]

Yes, this week, the designers of a new Nintendo game said they spent a large part of the nine year development cycle getting Blank just right.

[Listener/Contestant]

Their Ramen recipe?

[Peter Sagal]

No, getting the fart sounds in the game just right. Tomodachi Life Living the dream is this new Cozy Town simulator. Kind of like Animal Crossing, except all the cute animals are just ripping ass all the time. Designers spent years working on the fart sounds, with most programmers worried they weren't cartoonish enough. There's still a little realism left in the final product, though. Anytime your character lets out a fart, they immediately say, that wasn't me. Also, did Dulce do well enough to win?

[Alzo Slade]

No, not really.

[Peter Sagal]

No.

[Alzo Slade]

She got three right for six more points. Total of 11. Which means Alonzo wins.

[Peter Sagal]

Congratulations, Alonzo Bowden, this week's champion. In just a minute, we're going to ask our panelists to predict after all the food left behind and fridges, what'll be the next reason Airbnb is in the news? But first, let me tell you all that. Wait, wait, don't tell me. Is a production of NPR and WBEZ Chicago in association with Urgent Haircut Productions. Doug Berman, Benevolent overlord Philip Ga writes our limericks. Our public address announcer is Paul Friedman. Thanks to the staff and crew at the Studebaker Theater. BJ Ledemann, composer Theme. Our program is produced by Jennifer Mills, Miles Norbaus and Lillian King. Special thanks to Mohamed El Shehi and Monica Hickey. Peter Gwynn is the official guardian of the Wait Wait Cup. Emma Choi is our vibe curator. Technical direction is from Lorna White. Our CFO is Colin Miller. Our production manager is Robert Newhouse. Our senior producer is Ian Chillock. And the executive producer of Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me is Mike Danforth. Now, panel, what's the next big Airbnb story in the news?

[Alonzo Bowden]

Alonzo Bowden, Airbnb on the moon, Dulce

[Listener/Contestant]

Sloan, Kid B and B, where you can adapt Stopped Annoying Kids Left behind on Vacation and Adam Burke.

[Adam Burke]

They'll also start offering discount flights with a new company called Airbnb.

[Alzo Slade]

And if any of that happens, we'll ask you about it on Wait Wait. Don't tell me.

[Peter Sagal]

Thank you, Alvo Slade. Thanks also to Alonzo Bodo and Dulce Sloan. Adam Burke. Thanks to all of you for listening. Thanks to our fabulous audience here at the Studebaker Theater. Great to see you all. I'm Peter Sagal. We'll see you next week. This is npr.

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