'Wait Wait' for Nov. 12, 2022: With Not My Job guest Craig Robinson

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UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: The following program was taped in front of an audience of real, live people.

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BILL KURTIS: From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is WAIT WAIT... DON'T TELL ME, the NPR news quiz. Chris Evans may be the people's sexiest man alive, but I'll always be the Bill-iest (ph). I'm Bill Kurtis, and here is your host at the Studebaker Theater at the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Ill., Peter Sagal.

PETER SAGAL, HOST:

Thank you, Bill. Thanks, everybody.

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SAGAL: Thank you all very much. We have a great show for you today. Later on, we're going to be talking to Craig Robinson, who has starred in a whole bunch of things but is probably best known for playing Darryl the warehouse foreman in "The Office." And he's a little intimidating in that role, and I was a little worried about, like, maybe asking him a stupid question. But then I realized, you can't turn and look at the camera on radio. We want to hear from you, so give us a call. The number is 1-888-WAIT-WAIT. That's 1-888-924-8924. It's time to welcome our first listener contestant.

Hi. You're on WAIT, WAIT... DON'T TELL ME.

FRANKLIN KLEIN: Hi. How's it going?

SAGAL: Not too bad. Who's this?

KLEIN: I'm Franklin Klein (ph) from Kansas City, Mo.

SAGAL: Hey. How are things in Kansas City?

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KLEIN: Hello. They're rainy.

SAGAL: They're rainy.

KLEIN: But pleasant.

SAGAL: Oh, OK. Well, that's nice. That's - and what do you do there?

KLEIN: I work in education. I'm a curriculum director for a group. We go in and out of schools and help some kids get a little more self-confidence, build relationships and just help them grow.

SAGAL: How do you help someone build confidence? I'm asking for myself.

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KLEIN: You just be yourself and let them feel comfortable in their own skin. And that goes a long way, you know, being...

SAGAL: Yeah. Yeah. What else you got?

KLEIN: ...In elementary or high school.

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KLEIN: Yeah.

SAGAL: I thought it'd be...

KLEIN: But I don't know with you.

SAGAL: ...Like, trials of strength or, like, you throw something at their head, and they catch it or something. Not like that, eh?

KLEIN: No, but I'm sure they - you know, I'm sure they would catch it if I...

SAGAL: I'm sure.

KLEIN: ...Give them the self-confidence to do so.

SAGAL: Given the self-confidence. Franklin, welcome to the show. Let me introduce you to our panel this week. First, a comedian and the host of "Breaking Bread With Tom Papa" and whose tickets for his 2023 tour are already on sale at tompapa.com. You have to guess who it is. Yes, you're right. It's Tom Papa.

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TOM PAPA: Hello.

KLEIN: Hi, Tom.

PAPA: Hi.

SAGAL: Next, it's the host of the podcast "Fake The Nation." And you can also see her on Hillary and Chelsea Clinton's brand-new show, "Gutsy," on Apple TV. It's Negin Farsad.

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NEGIN FARSAD: Hey.

KLEIN: Hi, Negin.

FARSAD: Hello.

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SAGAL: And the comedian behind the new music project "Babylon Audio Dynamite" and the music video "Thieves Like Us" on YouTube, it's Brian Babylon.

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KLEIN: Hi, Brian.

BRIAN BABYLON: Hey.

SAGAL: So welcome to the show, Franklin. You know what you're doing. You're playing Who's Bill This Time? That means Bill will read and/or perform for you three quotations from this week's news. Your job - correctly identify or explain two of them. You do that, you win our prize, any voice from our show on your voicemail. You ready to go?

KLEIN: I am.

SAGAL: All right. Let's do it, then. Your first quote is some trenchant analysis by a Republican adviser to an NBC political reporter on Tuesday night.

KURTIS: This sucks.

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SAGAL: What sucked for the Republicans on Tuesday?

KLEIN: The fact that the red wave did not occur as predicted.

SAGAL: Exactly. In the midterms...

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SAGAL: ...The Republicans had practically been cackling in anticipation of the huge blowout in the midterms. But instead, they lost a lot of races they had expected to win. It was the worst Republicans have looked since Steve Bannon.

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SAGAL: Democrats celebrated the fact that they lost the House and maybe the Senate, but by much less than they feared.

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SAGAL: We're No. 2, barely. Really inspired by this, the Phillies are now planning a parade for winning two World Series games.

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SAGAL: Did you guys stay up to watch the returns?

BABYLON: Did I stay up to watch Steve Kornacki in those tight-ass khakis? I don't know.

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SAGAL: Tom, how about you?

PAPA: I live in Los Angeles, so we have that advantage of being three hours ahead of all my family back on the East Coast. And at one point, my mother just said, that's it. I'm going to bed. Text your father if the world's going to be over.

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PAPA: Like, I'll let you know. It was very exciting. It was really cool. I mean, politics, as Joe Biden has taught us, should be boring.

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PAPA: And that's a positive. That is such a great thing, that, you know, you're not there to just antagonize us and scare us. Just do stuff, and then maybe tell us once a month about it. And it was like...

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PAPA: Right?

SAGAL: Now it's not over, even though we all wish it was over, because there has to be a runoff in the Georgia Senate race between Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker. That'll take place in December. That gives Walker one month to father more guests for his victory (ph) party.

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SAGAL: Seriously, he's...

BABYLON: He's good guy.

SAGAL: You know, he can get at least a couple more votes.

BABYLON: You know, I was in Atlanta, like, a week and a half ago. And I was like, man, I want to write, like, a politic ad for the Warnock team where it's just Maury Povich saying, you are the father. You are the father. Like, straight DNA Maury Povich energy.

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SAGAL: All right. So here, Franklin, is your next quote.

KURTIS: It's sick. It's ridiculous levels of wealth.

SAGAL: That was wealth adviser Robert Pagliarini talking about the person in California who won what?

KLEIN: The Powerball lottery.

SAGAL: Yes, the Powerball lottery.

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SAGAL: The largest Powerball prize ever - more than $2 billion. Sales of tickets, because of this, were through the roof, with people who never buy tickets playing the lottery. I myself bought five tickets, increasing my odds from zero\ to 5 times zero.

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SAGAL: And I don't know if anybody - if you guys or if anybody here bought a ticket because between the time you buy the ticket and they announce the winner, which, in this case, was, like, a whole day because there was a screw-up, you start thinking about what you'll do when you win. And you start with like, oh, I'll take care of my friends and I'll take care of my family, and then I'll give the rest to charity. But within, like, an hour you're like, and then I am going to get Aaron Judge for my kid's Little League team.

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PAPA: Yeah. I was thinking, you know, you go through these fantasies, and you have the discussions. Like, would you change? Would you be the same person at all? And I was like - I was telling my wife, there's no way I would change. I mean, we would - we'd be smart. We could handle it. And then I found $10 in my jacket, just because it was cold in LA. It was, like, 60.

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PAPA: And I found $10 in my jacket. I was like, I might leave them all today.

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PAPA: I really got so excited. I was like, yeah, a billion dollars? You'd have to change everything.

SAGAL: Right.

PAPA: You'd have to...

FARSAD: Oh, yeah. Like, I have, like, visions of, like, taking my yacht up to the Studebaker Theater. Like, just right to the lip of the stage.

SAGAL: Sure. Why not?

FARSAD: Like, how do - you know what I mean? You can make anything happen.

SAGAL: Absolutely. Why not? And what's amazing is there's a new billionaire out there, and it could be anybody. Anybody at all. It could be, like, Bernie Sanders, right? (Imitating Bernie Sanders) I would like to revise my prior remarks about billionaires.

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SAGAL: All right. Franklin, for your last quote, here is an official communication from the National Park Service.

KURTIS: Please refrain from licking them.

SAGAL: They're not talking about the park rangers.

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SAGAL: They're talking about what?

KLEIN: That is a good - I think it's a good thing I don't know this, right?

SAGAL: Yeah, it bespeaks you're spending your time well in fruitful pursuits.

KLEIN: What would be a thing you would even...

SAGAL: Let me give you a hint. They're ribbit-looking good.

KLEIN: Oh, the frogs or toads.

SAGAL: The frogs.

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SAGAL: Do not lick the frogs.

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SAGAL: The Sonoran Desert frog, found in Arizona and New Mexico, secretes a poison that is also a powerful hallucinogen when you lick it. So the National Park Service was prompted to issue a warning or perhaps create the next hot, new TikTok challenge.

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SAGAL: This toad is apparently 7 inches long and has large oscillating, multicolored eyes that are meant to attract and entrance their partners.

FARSAD: So hot.

SAGAL: Now that I've described it, I'm kind of toad-curious myself, you know?

FARSAD: Good.

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SAGAL: And it's a little creepy that people are, like, walking around trying to lick frogs. But we're just lucky that that's the animal that turned out to have psychedelic properties. Otherwise, the headlines would be "Another Man Dies Trying To Lick Psychedelic Bear."

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FARSAD: And this - it's actually how I do my tequila shots, you know? Instead of, like, salt on my hand, I just put, like, a toad. Give it a nice lick.

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SAGAL: Yeah.

FARSAD: Do some lime and then a tequila shot.

SAGAL: Another thing nobody thought of - the National Park Service is telling people not to lick the frogs. What if the frogs really like it?

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SAGAL: What if you lick them and they're like, great, great. Now do the other side.

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SAGAL: Bill, How did Franklin do on our quiz?

KURTIS: Well, Franklin won, but he's still thinking about that frog.

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SAGAL: Aren't we all? Franklin, congratulations. You did really well.

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KLEIN: Thank you so much.

SAGAL: Thanks so much for playing.

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SAGAL: Bye-bye, Franklin.

KLEIN: Bye.

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SAGAL: OK, panel, it is time for you to answer some questions about this week's news. Tom, archaeologists have discovered the oldest example of a certain written language ever found carved into an ivory comb thousands of years ago. What is this oldest-known sentence in this language about?

PAPA: Lice checks.

SAGAL: Exactly right.

FARSAD: What?

SAGAL: Lice. It's about lice. It's amazing. Just imagine, 3,000 years ago, in the ancient Middle East, that special someone you've got your eye on gives you a present, an ivory comb. She loves you back. And then you read the inscription. Quote, "may this comb root out of the lice of the hair and beard," unquote.

FARSAD: Oh.

SAGAL: I mean, it's bad enough to have lice, but can you imagine having lice so bad, Your friends have to invent written language to tell you about it?

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BABYLON: I don't know anything about lice, man.

SAGAL: Because you have no hair.

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FARSAD: Have you guys ever had it?

PAPA: No. My both my daughters have had it.

SAGAL: Yeah. My daughters, too.

PAPA: And it becomes a big thing. You got to do the lice check. You bring them outside. And you go through and find the little critters and then make them feel like they're not disgusting.

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PAPA: Even though you're like, get her away from me. Get her off the couch now. No, everybody gets it. She's disgusting.

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THE FLAMING LIPS: (Singing) All those bugs buzzing around.

SAGAL: Coming up, it's a slumber party and 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.

KURTIS: From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, This is WAIT WAIT... DON'T TELL ME, the NPR News quiz. I'm Bill Kurtis. We are playing this week with Tom Papa, Negin Farsad and Brian Babylon. And here again is your host at the Studebaker Theater in Chicago, Ill., Peter Sagal.

SAGAL: Thank you.

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SAGAL: Thank you, everybody. 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. Hi, you're on WAIT WAIT... DON'T TELL ME.

JOE HARDINA: Hey, this is Joe Hardina (ph) from Milwaukee, Wis.

SAGAL: Oh, terrific. How are things up in Milwaukee?

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HARDINA: It's great. I'm not stuck in traffic, and things are good.

SAGAL: And things are great. What do you do there?

HARDINA: It's kind of TBD right now, but, you know, I work from home.

SAGAL: You work from home. You're hanging out. You're doing those fun Milwaukee things.

HARDINA: You know it.

SAGAL: Milwaukee is, like, really one of the great...

HARDINA: Yeah.

SAGAL: ...Hanging out cities. There's bars in every corner, you know, just people hanging out. I like it. Well, welcome to the show, Joe. You're going to play the game in which you have to tell truth from fiction. Bill, what is Joe's topic?

KURTIS: I am over this sleepover.

SAGAL: Sleepovers, we remember them. You sleep on the floor. You eat too much pizza. You fall asleep at 4 a.m. Well, what could go wrong? Well, our panelists are going to tell you about one sleepover that happened somewhere in the world that went very wrong. Pick the one who's telling the truth, and you'll win the WAIT WAITer of your choice on your voicemail. Are you ready to play?

HARDINA: I am ready.

SAGAL: OK. First, let's hear from Tom Papa.

PAPA: Sydney, Australia's Taronga Zoo invited guests for a sleepover as part of their roar-and-snore experience, featuring intimate animal encounters, safari-style accommodations, and delicious food. But for a while, it seemed the food might actually be the guests themselves. Five lions - one adult and four cubs - were observed in a small area outside of their main exhibit. Zoo officials woke the snoring guests, told them to get out of their tents, put down their s'mores, and run for their lives.

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PAPA: The guests suddenly realized this wasn't a VIP experience, but that the roar-and-snore might be turning into bite-and-die.

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PAPA: It makes one think that unless you're a wild animal, maybe sleeping in a zoo isn't a great idea. And what's so bad about sleeping in your own bed anyway? Are wives so annoyed by their husbands' sleep apnea machines that they're willing to pitch a tent in a lion's den?

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PAPA: The answer is yes.

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SAGAL: A fun sleepover for families at a zoo in Australia ends in terror when the lions get out of their enclosure. Your next story of a slumber party shenanigan comes from Brian Babylon.

BABYLON: The show "Young Rock," a television sitcom based upon the life of professional wrestler and actor Dwayne Johnson, was weeks behind due to the writers' inability to capture the essence of pro wrestlers. So show creator and executive producer Nahnatchka Khan had an idea - a camping retreat in Joshua Tree with staff writers and surprise visits by impersonators playing the legends of wrestling, who were told to be as authentic as possible. Everything was going great. And when Randy Savage appeared out of the darkness, the writers were thrilled. But then, Hulk Hogan ran into the camp and hit Savage in the head with a box of graham crackers. The Undertaker leaped onto the campfire and grabbed a flaming log and went after some skinny writer from Harvard.

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BABYLON: The Junkyard Dog hit Stone Cold Steve Austin with a Coors party ball. And that had been the evening's only refreshments, and things went down from there. But Ms. Khan is happy. She says she's sure the writers got a real sense of what pro wrestling is like, and she's looking forward to seeing their scripts once she can find out where they all have been hiding.

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SAGAL: The writers for "Young Rock" - about the pro wrestler The Rock - get a little frightened when some pro wrestler impersonators raid their sleepover. Your last story of a you-snooze-you-lose delivery comes from Negin Farsad.

FARSAD: The New Life Congregation, an evangelical church in Phoenix, Ariz., wanted something different for their annual overnight Bible retreat. So instead of booking the DoubleTree in Mesa, like usual, they turned to the Zuni Meditation and Retreat Center in Tucson. But something strange happened. About an hour into dinner, this jolly gang of hardcore Christians started tripping balls.

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FARSAD: Apparently, the staff of the center got their retreats confused and accidentally dosed them with ayahuasca.

(LAUGHTER)

FARSAD: That explains the church group's confusion when dinner started with a weird dirt-tasting tea and why the group kept treating the resident shaman like a waiter. Ayahuasca trips are notable for how much crying, vomiting and pooping is involved. So what ensued was the spirit of the Lord entering the congregates and then quickly exiting violently.

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FARSAD: Someone on the staff figured out the mix-up when they saw a congregant vomit and then say, my brother is gay, and I'm actually OK with it.

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FARSAD: Turns out the experience really was healing for the New Life Church congregants especially since HBO is optioning the story for its next season of "White Lotus" (ph).

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SAGAL: All right. You've got three stories of a sleepover gone wrong - from Tom Papa, a sleepover for families in Australia at a zoo where the lions got out and everybody had to flee for their lives, from Brian, the writers for "Young Rock," the show about The Rock, try to find out what pro wrestling is really like and get a little bit too close a look, or from Negin, a church group gets dosed with ayahuasca, the ancient American hallucinogen, and has perhaps not the best time at their sleepover. Which of these was the real story we found in the news?

HARDINA: This is a tough one. I think - I'm a lover of the movie "Jurassic Park," so I think I'm going to have to go with the first story.

SAGAL: So your choice is Tom's story about the sleepover at the zoo interrupted by lions. Well, to bring you the correct answer, here's someone who reported on that real story.

LEWIS JACKSON: Around, like, 6:30 in the morning, the zoo noticed that the lions were not in their enclosure and had walked out of their enclosure 'cause of a fault in the fence.

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SAGAL: That was reporter Lewis Jackson, who covered the story about lions escaping during a sleepover at the Taronga Zoo. You got it right. You picked Tom's story. He was telling the truth. You earned a point for him, and you won our prize, the voice of anyone you might care for on your voicemail. Congratulations. You did a great job.

PAPA: Nice.

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HARDINA: Thank you.

SAGAL: Well done. Thanks for playing.

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THE TOKENS: (Vocalizing).

SAGAL: And now the game where we reward people who've done a lot by giving them the chance to do very little. Craig Robinson is an actor, comedian and musician who's been in dozens of movies and TV shows and Pizza Hut ads. But he's probably best known for playing Darryl the warehouse foreman on "The Office," who, when you think about it, seems to be the only one that is actually cool at that workplace, which makes us cool by extension. Craig Robinson, welcome to WAIT, WAIT... DON'T TELL ME.

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CRAIG ROBINSON: Thank you. Thank you. A personal dream here.

SAGAL: I got - I want to confirm that - I am just assuming, and this is not to put down any of your other stuff and all the movies and TV shows you've done before and are doing now, but "The Office" is so magnificently popular. I'm assuming that's what most people associate you with when they happen to run into you.

ROBINSON: I agree. Yes.

SAGAL: Yes.

ROBINSON: You are correct in that.

SAGAL: And is that, like - does that ever, like, be overwhelming that everybody, like, yells Darryl at you in the street or something of that nature?

ROBINSON: No. They do yell other things. They'll just yell, like, hot tub or something.

SAGAL: Yeah.

ROBINSON: But no, it's cool. I know it comes from a place of love. So it's always nice.

SAGAL: That's always good. We were talking about this because we were going over all the roles you've played, from "The Office" to "Hot Tub Time Machine" and "This Is The End" and the movies you made with Seth Rogen. Is there like, a Craig Robinson character that, like, you play? Like, when they need a - what? - that's when they call Craig Robinson.

ROBINSON: I don't know.

PAPA: I do.

ROBINSON: What's up, Papa? Well, let's hear it.

PAPA: I know because he would do this to my kids. We - for some reason, we would run into Craig at the airport a lot because we're comedians running around. And he does in real life what he does in his roles. He rolls up. He looks kind of intimidating, doesn't say much and then says something really funny and gives you that smile, and you fall in love with him. That's Craig Robinson.

SAGAL: I actually - that actually kind of sums it up.

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ROBINSON: (Laughter).

PAPA: Yeah. Yeah.

SAGAL: Right.

PAPA: Now, that being said, he hasn't called me in quite some time.

SAGAL: I understand.

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SAGAL: Now, one thing I got to talk to you about is - because I'm kind of proud - you're from Chicago.

ROBINSON: Yes.

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SAGAL: Grew up here. And you were the - if I'm not mistaken, the son of a music teacher?

ROBINSON: Yeah. My mother taught music. And then I ended up to teaching K-8 music in Indiana and then Chicago.

SAGAL: Oh, wait a minute. So you - I know you're a musician. And we - sometimes, we get to see you play in your various roles, in performances. But you actually taught music to children?

ROBINSON: I was a - I taught kindergarten through 8th grade music.

SAGAL: Really?

ROBINSON: Yes.

SAGAL: You were Mr. Robinson.

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ROBINSON: This is correct.

SAGAL: I hope they're not listening. My music teachers were not so inspiring because they got very frustrated with our utter inability to make music as young children. How did you - did - were you a good one? Did you love that work? Did you go after it?

ROBINSON: Yeah. You know, I - being a music teacher, it was cool because, you know, I would do these programs that had the kids singing in the choir and stuff. So it was nice. And the kids even reach out to me to this day. You know, hey - on social media, it's crazy, right? Hey, Mr. Robinson, you - it's so inspiring to see you, you know, doing your thing. And I always tell them the same thing, every one. I'm like, hey, I'm not your teacher anymore. Please don't contact me.

SAGAL: Yeah.

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SAGAL: You know who I was. But don't you know who I am? Can you explain to me, why do children get taught the recorder, and no one else ever in life is taught the recorder?

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ROBINSON: I wish I could. It was - but it's one of the most simple things to get them going, you know? And it gives you some confidence once you start playing that. You can play that "Mary Had A Little Lamb" - you can figure out you can do that - you know, it unlocks something. So...

SAGAL: Right.

ROBINSON: ...It was kind of - you know, it's that gateway.

SAGAL: And you still play music, right? You have a band.

ROBINSON: Yes. The Nasty Delicious.

SAGAL: The Nasty Delicious. And how would you describe that music?

ROBINSON: We're funk mixed with stank.

SAGAL: You're funk mixed with stank?

ROBINSON: Correct.

SAGAL: All right.

BABYLON: Is that the first time you've ever...

SAGAL: All right. Wait a minute. Now, hang on. You can't see me right now, so maybe you don't know. I'm white. I have no idea what you mean.

(LAUGHTER)

SAGAL: So could you...

ROBINSON: Are you...

SAGAL: Could you explain?

ROBINSON: You just got to come to the show. We got something for everybody.

SAGAL: Really?

BABYLON: I can - can I...

ROBINSON: Yeah, go ahead.

BABYLON: ...Help explain it...

SAGAL: Please.

BABYLON: ...To Peter?

SAGAL: Please.

BABYLON: Like, all right. Imagine you went for a walk. You stepped in some dog stuff, right? And then...

SAGAL: Oh, this is starting...

BABYLON: Hold on. And then you're like this. Like, oh, I smell something. And then you, like, tick your head back and forth. Like, that smells horrible, but I hear the beat.

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BABYLON: Like, when your face is turned up like you smell something stinky but it's a bass line, that's the stank, dog.

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SAGAL: Mr. Robinson, do you agree with Mr. Babylon's characterization?

ROBINSON: He couldn't have said it better.

(LAUGHTER)

SAGAL: Yeah. Do you actually prefer playing music to performing? I mean, as an actor or as a comedian?

ROBINSON: Oh, playing music is - I wish I could just - I would just play in a dark - a piano in a dark room. That's all I want to do.

SAGAL: Wow. That's really cool. I'm kind of impressed. Ah, well, but sadly, you have to be a movie and TV star.

(LAUGHTER)

SAGAL: Well, Craig Robinson, it's a pleasure to talk to you. But we have, in fact, asked you here to play a game that this time we're calling...

KURTIS: You - actor and producer. Me - a free site for classified ads and also hooking up.

SAGAL: Since you're Craig, we're going to ask you three questions about Craigslist, the website where you can sell odd items or services and hit on that woman you saw on the subway last year. Answer two questions correctly and you'll win our prize for one of our listeners - the voice of anyone from our show for their voicemail. Bill, who is Craig Robinson playing for?

KURTIS: Thomas Reynolds (ph) of Dallas, Texas.

SAGAL: All right. You ready to do this, Craig?

ROBINSON: Let's go.

SAGAL: Yes. Here's your first question. Craigslist is a great place to locate hard-to-find items. For example, a man in Austin was throwing a party, and he advertised that he needed several live ducks so that he could do what? A - greet his guests with a duck on his head and wait to see if they mentioned it. B - at least have somebody attend his party. Or C - have a game where the ducks are strapped onto seats on a model train set wearing origami hats made of money, and guests pay a dollar for a chance to grab a hat off of a duck as they ride by.

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ROBINSON: C. I'm going with C.

SAGAL: Yes, that's right, of course.

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SAGAL: Sounds like fun. I'm sorry I wasn't invited. Next question - Craigslist has inspired...

ROBINSON: No, I've done that before.

SAGAL: Really? Oh, you're a Hollywood guy. The parties you go to must be crazy. Craigslist has inspired many tributes, including which of these? A - a man who made so much money selling used goods on the site, he named each of his three daughters and two sons Craig. B - Craig's Diner, a Craigslist-to-table restaurant in Portland, where the menu depends on what the chef finds available on Craigslist that day. Or C - the "Craigslistlieder," an album of eight Craigslist personal ads set to classical music.

ROBINSON: What - wait, what was C again? I didn't hear it.

SAGAL: C is "Craigslistlieder," an album of eight Craigslist personal ads set to classical music.

ROBINSON: C.

SAGAL: Yes, C again.

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SAGAL: That's right. It's not bad, actually. You can find it online - "Craigslistlieder." Your last question, Craig. Craigslist is a great place to hire help for your odd jobs, which is why a man in Washington state used it to hire what? A - people to appear at his office door and say, it's an emergency, so he could get out of meetings. B - a wingman to stand next to him in bars and encourage him to talk to that girl. Or C - decoys dressed exactly like him so he could escape from his planned armored car robbery.

ROBINSON: What - wait, what's B again?

SAGAL: B is a wingman to stand next to him in bars and encourage him to talk to girls. Or C was decoys dressed exactly like him so he could escape from an armored car robbery.

ROBINSON: B.

SAGAL: You're going to go with B, the wingman. No, I'm afraid it was C.

PAPA: Oh.

SAGAL: And not only was it C, it worked.

PAPA: What?

SAGAL: So this guy dressed up like a road maintenance worker with the vest and the helmet, and he walked up, and he robbed the armored car, and the police came, right? And they found all these guys dressed exactly the same, milling around...

PAPA: Wow.

FARSAD: Wow.

SAGAL: ...Because he said, I'm looking for road construction crew workers. Please dress in your safety gear and be at this intersection at this time.

PAPA: Brilliant.

SAGAL: Amazing. And he got away. And they've never found him. He escaped on an inner tube down a nearby river.

PAPA: Wow. What's really weird is this sounds like a movie that Craig would be in.

SAGAL: Exactly right.

(LAUGHTER)

SAGAL: Bill, how did Craig Robinson do on our quiz?

KURTIS: Two out of 3. And that's a win in this quiz.

SAGAL: Congratulations, Craig.

(APPLAUSE)

SAGAL: Craig Robinson is an actor, comedian and the host of Peacock's "Harlem Globetrotters: Play It Forward." The Globetrotters' U.S. tour begins in December. Craig Robinson, thank you so much for being with us on WAIT WAIT... DON'T TELL ME.

(APPLAUSE)

ROBINSON: Thanks.

KURTIS: Thanks, Craig.

ROBINSON: Hey. I - thank you so much. I love what y'all do, and I hope everyone listening donates to support their local station.

SAGAL: Thank you so much, Craig. Well done. Thank you to Mr. Robinson.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "PUT SOME STANK ON IT")

ALBERT CASTIGLIA: (Singing) Put some stank on it, baby. Put some stank on it, baby. Put some stank on it, baby.

SAGAL: In just a minute, Bill takes a bite out of Bach in our listener limerick challenge game. Call 1-888-WAITWAIT to join us on the air. We'll be back in a minute with more of WAIT WAIT... DON'T TELL ME from NPR.

KURTIS: From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is WAIT WAIT... DON'T TELL ME, the NPR News quiz. I'm Bill Kurtis. We are playing this week with Tom Papa, Brian Babylon and Negin Farsad. And here again is your host at the Studebaker Theater in Chicago, Ill., Peter Sagal.

SAGAL: Thank you, Bill.

(APPLAUSE)

SAGAL: In just a minute, Bill bakes a rhyme-apple (ph) upside-down cake in our Listener Limerick Challenge game. If you'd like to play, give us a call at 1-888-WAIT-WAIT. That's 1-888-924-8924. But right now, panel, time for you to answer some more questions from the week's news. Brian, new research out of Australia finds that octopuses, just like us, sometimes do what to each other? And not that.

(LAUGHTER)

PAPA: Thank you.

BABYLON: Well, I think I know it, but give me...

SAGAL: It's like, oh, no, he's got a seashell. Duck.

BABYLON: They throw things?

SAGAL: Yes. They throw things at each other.

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

BABYLON: There's, like, an "Animal House" food fight down there?

SAGAL: Yeah, sort of kind of. Yeah. Octopuses have been filmed throwing objects at each other, at fish passing by - and this is true - at the research cameras there to film the behavior. And, man, you should see how hard they throw. They got some really great arms.

(LAUGHTER)

BABYLON: So they're, like, jerks?

FARSAD: Yeah, yeah, are they mean? Or...

SAGAL: Yeah, well, that's the thing. The researchers don't know exactly why they throw things at each other. The one hypothesis is that other octopuses are really annoying.

(LAUGHTER)

PAPA: Yeah. You know, when they came out with that documentary about the guy who fell in love with the octopus...

SAGAL: "My Octopus Teacher."

FARSAD: My octopus...

PAPA: Yeah. And my wife was like, you still going to eat octopus? And I was like, yeah. And...

(LAUGHTER)

PAPA: She thought I was cruel, but I always was suspicious. They do seem nasty. And I was, like - whenever I would eat them, I'd be like, you deserve it.

(LAUGHTER)

PAPA: And now I think this confirms it.

SAGAL: Yeah.

FARSAD: Yeah.

SAGAL: If you didn't eat him, he'd just be throwing stuff at you.

PAPA: Yeah.

SAGAL: That's true.

BABYLON: But can I - like, but they're also throwing things under water, so how fast - 'cause it's going to be sort of, like...

FARSAD: It's, like, a gently gliding object.

BABYLON: Yeah.

PAPA: (Laughter).

BABYLON: It's like those other fish are, like, Neo from "The Matrix." Like, oh, OK, octopus. Yeah. Whoa.

(LAUGHTER)

BABYLON: Whoa, OK. I see you throwing stuff. What, you mad?

SAGAL: Negin, if you happen to be stressed out, don't worry. According to The Wall Street Journal, the popular new way to destress and relax is to do what?

FARSAD: It's soap - it's toad-licking.

PAPA: Ooh.

SAGAL: No.

(LAUGHTER)

PAPA: Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum.

FARSAD: Can I get a hint?

SAGAL: Sure. You know, just - it's easy. You just put on loose clothing, put on some soft music, pick up your meditation shovel, and go outside.

FARSAD: Oh, gardening.

SAGAL: No.

FARSAD: Oh.

PAPA: Oh.

SAGAL: Not gardening.

FARSAD: Oh, wait. And you go out...

PETER SAGAL AND NEGIN FARSAD: ...With your shovel, and...

FARSAD: ...You just, like, start digging holes?

SAGAL: That's it. You dig holes.

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

PAPA: Oh.

FARSAD: Wow.

SAGAL: That is it. Digging a hole is apparently a great stress reliever particularly if the thing stressing you out is, where am I going to hide this body?

(LAUGHTER)

FARSAD: Why aren't they also just, like, throwing a seed in there and calling it gardening? You know what I mean? Like, why - what is...

BABYLON: Kind of - they wanted to keep getting...

FARSAD: It's a pointless hole.

BABYLON: Yeah.

SAGAL: Yeah, it's a pointless hole.

FARSAD: Well, somehow, Gwyneth Paltrow is going to make money off of this.

SAGAL: Yeah.

BABYLON: Yeah.

(LAUGHTER)

FARSAD: You know? This is going to be...

BABYLON: Goop.

FARSAD: You're going to get your Goop shovel and...

SAGAL: Only $7,000. Brian, a man in Philadelphia became a local hero because of his feat of doing what every day for 40 days?

BABYLON: Would it be - is it eat one of those sandwiches every day?

SAGAL: He ate something every day.

BABYLON: Give me a hint. Like what?

SAGAL: It was a finger-licking good 40 days.

BABYLON: Wait. KFC every day?

SAGAL: I'll give it to you. He ate a rotisserie chicken every day for 40 days.

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

BABYLON: Hold on a second. That's a feat? (Inaudible).

SAGAL: Yeah, I know. All right.

BABYLON: That ain't no feat.

(LAUGHTER)

SAGAL: I - look.

BABYLON: That is - this guy who (ph)...

SAGAL: I'm not arguing with you. I'm like, wait a minute. Yeah, you ate a chicken a day. This is America, right?

(LAUGHTER)

SAGAL: There are a million divorced guys who eat a rotisserie chicken every night.

(LAUGHTER)

SAGAL: And they still have all the plastic boxes piled by the sink. I mean...

FARSAD: But...

PAPA: (Laughter) Did he kill the chickens first?

SAGAL: He did not kill the chickens.

BABYLON: And that's what I'm saying. If he was going around - like, hey, I'm going to find a chicken.

PAPA: Yeah.

BABYLON: I'm going to kill it.

SAGAL: Yeah.

PAPA: Yeah.

FARSAD: Yeah.

BABYLON: I'm going to (inaudible)...

SAGAL: If he got up every day...

FARSAD: Defenestrate (ph).

BABYLON: If every day he did that for 40 days...

SAGAL: ...And did not know where he would find the live chicken but still had to find one...

BABYLON: In Philly. In Philly.

PAPA: In downtown Philly.

SAGAL: Yeah.

FARSAD: Searching, searching for chickens.

PAPA: Chasing a Philly up those Sylvester Stallone "Rocky" steps.

SAGAL: Yeah.

BABYLON: Yeah. Hey, got one. Like, yeah.

PAPA: Yeah. Breaks its neck (imitating eating noises).

BABYLON: Thank you. And then, he plucked the feathers.

PAPA: No, eats the feathers. If you eat the feathers, the beak and the feet every day...

BABYLON: That's a feat.

FARSAD: That's a feat. That's a feat.

PAPA: That's a feat (laughter).

(SOUNDBITE OF MINUTEMEN SONG, "MY HEART AND THE REAL WORLD")

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. Or click the Contact Us link on our website, waitwait.npr.org. Now, you can come see us here most weeks live at the beautiful Studebaker Theater in downtown Chicago. Or you can see us next week, November 17, in Louisville, Ky., with a must-see panel - Dulce Sloan, Alzo Slade and Paula Poundstone. You can also see us on December 8 and 9 at Carnegie Hall in New York or at the Wait Wait Stand-Up Tour in a city near you. For information and tickets for all of these great shows, go to nprpresents.org.

Hi. You're on WAIT WAIT... DON'T TELL ME.

EMILY: Hi. How are you?

SAGAL: Hi. I'm fine. Who's this?

EMILY: My name's Emily. I'm from a small town just outside Indianapolis, Ind.

SAGAL: Oh, really? OK. I heard of Indianapolis. What do you do there?

EMILY: I am a 911 dispatcher.

SAGAL: No. Really?

(APPLAUSE)

EMILY: Yes.

SAGAL: I don't know that I've ever spoken to one without having to dial 911.

(LAUGHTER)

EMILY: Well, I'm glad that's not how we're meeting.

SAGAL: I know. And I am, too. One of the things I know - because every now and then, you - usually when something terrible has happened, you get to hear 911 tapes, right?

EMILY: Yes.

SAGAL: And I've always noticed how incredibly calm you dispatchers are. Is that something you have to train to do?

EMILY: Yeah. I just take a deep breath and realize that I'm in a controlled environment. They're not. So...

SAGAL: Right.

BABYLON: And she's digging holes.

EMILY: Got to keep your calm.

SAGAL: Keep your calm. Well, welcome to the show, Emily. Bill Kurtis is going to read you three news-related limericks with the last word or phrase missing from each. If you can fill in that last word or phrase correctly in two of the limericks, you'll be a winner. Ready to play?

EMILY: I am ready.

SAGAL: Here's your first limerick.

KURTIS: Thomas Edison's hearing's not right, so he crowds the piano real tight. Experiments found that his teeth carry sound, so he'll give the piano a...

EMILY: Bite?

SAGAL: A bite. Yes.

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

SAGAL: A collector...

(APPLAUSE)

SAGAL: ...Recently took possession of an antique piano and noticed that it had some curious marks on it. And it turns out they are Thomas Alva Edison's bite marks. The prolific and apparently somewhat hungry inventor came up with many innovations but sadly never created the gummy piano.

(LAUGHTER)

SAGAL: This is true, though. The real reason was that Edison was hard of hearing. So when the piano was being played for him, he would bite down on various parts so he could hear the music through the vibrations of his teeth. That's how he would do it.

PAPA: What?

SAGAL: And it worked because it's apparently - it's, like, you really get the music inside your head. But can you imagine what it was like to play the piano for Edison? And now Chopin's Piano Concerto No. - what are you doing?

(LAUGHTER)

BABYLON: Wait. So did he, like, invent - like, was that the first pair of headphones, bro?

PAPA: Yeah.

SAGAL: Well, I mean, he hadn't invented headphones, so...

BABYLON: But, I mean, like, that's kind of his version, like...

SAGAL: In a weird way.

FARSAD: And that's why all of our headphones go in our mouths.

SAGAL: Right. Yeah.

(LAUGHTER)

SAGAL: And that's also why he ran through 200 different lightbulb prototypes before finding the one that worked. He kept eating them.

(LAUGHTER)

SAGAL: Here is your next limerick.

KURTIS: We raptors no more shall be flown, so we guess buzzing pests you condone. We nabbed that spyware right out of the air, but no more are we hunting your...

EMILY: Drone.

SAGAL: Drones. Yes.

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

SAGAL: After a five-year trial, Switzerland has announced it will no longer use eagles to hunt drones. They had trained the birds to grab and destroy these drones out of the sky - meaning Switzerland does take sides but only when it's really badass.

(LAUGHTER)

SAGAL: And apparently...

BABYLON: What?

SAGAL: Well, they're ending the program in part because drones have gotten a lot more sophisticated, and it's very - it's much harder for the eagles to catch and kill them. And that's a problem because, according to one expert who apparently has a really dark streak, quote, "if an eagle cannot catch his prey, he may become so frustrated that he picks up something else. And eagle talons are so strong that it can easily pierce a child's head."

(GASPING)

SAGAL: Told you.

PAPA: Whenever my wife is like, why are you still eating eagles?

(LAUGHTER)

SAGAL: Didn't you see that movie about the eagle? It's very nice. Guy falls in love with one.

(LAUGHTER)

SAGAL: All right. Here is your last limerick.

KURTIS: A regular iPhone has no flex, but my case meets top diamond and gold specs. And it features a watch that is Swiss and top-notch. It's my hundred-grand phone case from...

EMILY: Rolex?

SAGAL: Yes, Rolex.

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

SAGAL: A new phone case for jerks has an actual $135,000 Rolex built into the back of it. Oh, good. Your phone can finally tell time.

(LAUGHTER)

SAGAL: The built-in watch has all the features of an actual Rolex, but instead of keeping it for a lifetime to pass down to your children, you can have it for a few weeks before you drop your phone into a toilet.

(LAUGHTER)

SAGAL: The case includes eight diamonds, black titanium casing, three additional dials, and basically says to the world, I'm a season ticket holder, but I only take clients.

FARSAD: But also, that phone case sounds, like, ugly and useless. And it's going to be available at TJ Maxx in like, three weeks.

(LAUGHTER)

BABYLON: That's a knockoff.

PAPA: So trashy.

SAGAL: Bill, how did Emily do on our quiz?

KURTIS: No need to call 911. Emily is perfect.

SAGAL: Congratulations, Emily. Well done.

(APPLAUSE)

EMILY: Thank you very much.

SAGAL: Thanks so much for playing.

EMILY: (Inaudible).

SAGAL: Take care.

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)

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 now can - each correct answer now worth 2 points. Bill, can you give us the scores?

SAGAL: Negin has two, Brian has 2 and Tom has 3.

SAGAL: So, Tom, you're in first place. Negin and Brian are tied for second. I will arbitrarily pick you, Brian, to go first. Here we go. The clock will start when I begin your first question. Fill in the blank. On Wednesday, it was reported that the Senate race in blank would go to a runoff.

BABYLON: Georgia.

SAGAL: Yes.

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

SAGAL: According to a new report, billionaires emit a million times more blank than the average person.

BABYLON: Carbon footprint.

SAGAL: Yeah, greenhouse gases.

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

SAGAL: This week, several advisers for Donald Trump urged him to delay announcing blank.

BABYLON: Do not run for president.

SAGAL: Exactly. On Monday, Al Gore joined United Nations leaders for the blank conference in Egypt.

BABYLON: That is the climate conference.

SAGAL: Yes.

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

SAGAL: Known as COP 27. This week, a man accused of throwing eggs at King Charles has been banned from blanking.

BABYLON: From noodling?

SAGAL: No, from carrying eggs in public. This week, a judge ruled that Infowars founder blank had to pay almost $500 million in additional damages.

BABYLON: Alex Jones.

SAGAL: Right.

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

SAGAL: On Wednesday, Adidas announced they would continue selling blank's shoe designs but would remove his name.

BABYLON: Yeezy.

SAGAL: Yes.

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

SAGAL: This week, we learned that David Lynch agreed to a cameo in...

(SOUNDBITE OF GONG)

SAGAL: ...Steven Spielberg's new movie, but would only do it if Spielberg blanked.

BABYLON: Actually say, action.

SAGAL: No. If Spielberg made sure that there were always Cheetos on set. Spielberg has revealed that Lynch's only demand in exchange for the cameo was on-set Cheetos. Honestly, Spielberg got off easy. Usually Lynch's rider demands potato chips, Utz, the crab flavor, served on a constantly rotated Victrola, and they must scream when I eat them. Bill, how did Brian do on our quiz?

KURTIS: Very well. Six right, 12 more points, total of 14. Brian, you're in the lead.

BABYLON: For now. Let's see. Let's see.

SAGAL: All right. Negin, you're up next.

FARSAD: OK.

SAGAL: Fill in the blank. According to a new report, Twitter has lost over 1 million users since blank's takeover.

FARSAD: Elon Musk.

SAGAL: Yes.

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

SAGAL: On Tuesday, five states passed ballot measures codifying blank rights.

FARSAD: Abortion rights.

SAGAL: Yes.

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

SAGAL: Following a growing outbreak of COVID-19, blank announced a new lockdown affecting 5 million people.

FARSAD: China.

SAGAL: Right.

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

SAGAL: On Wednesday, lawyers for WNBA star blank confirmed she'd been transferred to a Russian penal colony.

FARSAD: Brittney Griner.

SAGAL: That's right.

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

SAGAL: After holding an online poll to determine its name, a new museum in Perth, Australia, will be called blank.

FARSAD: The Perth Australian Museum.

SAGAL: I'm going to give it to you. The answer is the Perth Museum.

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

SAGAL: On Tuesday, Tennessee voted to officially ban all forms of blank in the state.

FARSAD: Guns, I wish.

SAGAL: No, slavery. On Thursday, a new study showed that taking Paxlovid may cut your risk of long blank.

FARSAD: COVID.

SAGAL: Right.

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

SAGAL: This week, a man on the run from the law after defrauding the pandemic relief fund...

(SOUNDBITE OF GONG)

SAGAL: ...Took a vacation to Disney World and ran into blank.

FARSAD: Ted Cruz.

SAGAL: No. He ran into the federal agent who had been trying to catch him.

(LAUGHTER)

SAGAL: A man named Quashon Burton stole around $150,000 in relief funds and then went on the run. We're pretty sure the last place he expected to run into the agent chasing him was in a line at Disney World, but I guess it really is a small world after all.

(LAUGHTER)

SAGAL: Bill, how did Negin do on our quiz?

KURTIS: She tied it up - six right, 12 more points, 14 just like Brian.

SAGAL: There you are. All right. So how many then does Tom need to win?

KURTIS: Six to win.

SAGAL: All right. Here we go, Tom. This is for the game. On Wednesday, officials in the Ukraine said that blank had agreed to withdraw its forces from Kherson.

PAPA: Russia.

SAGAL: Right.

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

SAGAL: In an interview on Election Day, Donald Trump said the GOP should replace blank as Senate leader.

PAPA: McConnell.

SAGAL: Yes.

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

SAGAL: This week, social media giant blank announced it was laying off over 11,000 employees.

PAPA: Metaverse.

SAGAL: Yes.

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

SAGAL: Facebook. On a Thursday, Hurricane Nicole made landfall on blank's East Coast.

PAPA: Florida.

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

SAGAL: Right. This week, a man was banned for life from London's Royal Opera House after he blanked during a performance.

PAPA: Farted.

SAGAL: No, yelled rubbish during a 12-year-old child's solo. On Wednesday, Pfizer completed a three-phase trial for a vaccine combatting the respiratory virus affecting blanks.

PAPA: Children.

SAGAL: Right.

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

SAGAL: This week, a man who stole almost $20,000 from a high-end store was caught after he blanked while trying to escape.

PAPA: Ran into the window.

SAGAL: That's exactly right, although technically it was the glass door. Yes.

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

PAPA: Right.

SAGAL: The robber wound up hitting this door so hard that he knocked himself unconscious. And worse still, the whole thing - grabbing things, running for the door, bang, falling backwards unconscious - was caught on video. It led to the store posting stills from the security footage with the question, have you seen this man? If not, you should. It's hilarious.

(LAUGHTER)

PAPA: It was really funny.

SAGAL: Yeah. Bill, did Tom Papa do well enough to win?

KURTIS: Well, at first, we'd think he'd tied with six right, 12 more points. But his total score is 15. You won, Tom.

PAPA: Oh.

FARSAD: Happy birthday, buddy.

PAPA: Thanks, guys.

FARSAD: Me and Brian engineered it.

KURTIS: It's a birthday present.

SAGAL: Congratulations, Tom, and a happy birthday. We fixed it so you could win.

PAPA: Thank you.

SAGAL: Now, panel, what will the Park Service warn us about next? Brian Babylon.

BABYLON: Beware of two talking bears that steal picnic baskets.

(LAUGHTER)

SAGAL: Negin Farsad.

FARSAD: Uttering the word glamping at a national park will be grounds for arrest by park rangers or at the very least, a very serious eye roll.

SAGAL: And Tom Papa.

PAPA: If the Winnebagos are rockin', don't come a-knockin'.

(LAUGHTER, APPLAUSE)

KURTIS: Well, if any of that happens, panel, we'll ask you about it on WAIT WAIT... DON'T TELL ME.

SAGAL: Thank you so much, Bill Kurtis. Thanks also to Tom Papa, Negin Farsad, Brian Babylon. Thanks to our fabulous audience at the Studebaker Theater.

(APPLAUSE)

SAGAL: Thanks to everybody out there in radio land and podcast world for listening. I'm Peter Sagal. We'll see you next week.

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)

SAGAL: This is NPR. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.