Show full transcript 0:51 Later on, later on, we're going to be talking to fashion designer Daniel Vasavec Estar, 0:56 a project one way and a native of this place. 0:58 But first, we want to send out a belated shout out to Katie Zacharia, 1:02 whose recent tenure as White House press secretary was so short 1:07 We missed our chance to make fun of her, do we? 1:14 So, but we want to send our respect, so in her honor today, our panelists will be answering 1:20 all of their questions with absolute gibberish. 1:25 But first, it's your turn to help us lose our jobs, so give us a call at 1-888-WAIT-WAIT. 1:31 That's 1-888-924-8-924. 1:33 Now let's welcome our first listener contestant. 1:35 Hi, Irine. 1:35 Wait, wait, don't tell me. 1:36 Hi, my name is Shen Koofer and I live in Houston, Texas. 1:40 Hey, Houston! 1:44 I identify as a Northern Coastal Elite on a two-year midlife 1:47 crisis here in the South. 1:48 Well, wait a minute. 1:49 You had a midlife crisis, and instead of buying a sports car 1:52 or having an affair with a dumb, young, beautiful thing, 1:54 you decided to move to Texas? 1:56 Oh, I'm a millennial, Peter. 1:58 I do not have the boomer money for that. 2:00 So this is it. 2:04 Well, Jen, let me introduce you to our panel this week. 2:06 First up, it's the comedian you can see performing most nights in New York City, somewhere. 2:10 It's Rachel Costa. 2:12 Hi, Jen. 2:13 How's it going? 2:14 Hi, Rachel. 2:15 Nice to see you. 2:16 Me too. 2:16 Next, next she's a writer and comedian who was written for Big Mouth after midnight and 2:21 the Saved by the Bell reboot at Shantyra Jackson. 2:24 Hi, Jen. 2:26 Hey, Shantyra. 2:28 And an actor and writer who can be seen in the acclaimed improv show Two Square 2:32 at UCB New York on November 4th, at 7, it's Peter Gross. 2:38 Hi, Jen. 2:40 Well, Jen, welcome to the show. 2:42 You're going to play who's Alzo this time. 2:44 Alzo Slade is going to read you three quotations from this week's news. 2:47 If you can correctly identify or explain just two of them, you will win our prize. 2:50 Any voice from our show you might choose for your voicemail. 2:53 Ready to go? 2:54 Ready to rock. 2:55 All right. 2:55 Your first quote is President Trump, he's stumping for a candidate in Ohio this 3:01 past week. 3:01 like, he has an ass like a pile of muck. 3:07 President Trump is cruising throughout the country, doing his best to help the Republicans 3:15 win what? 3:18 Uh, Senate. 3:19 Well, I'll give it to you, the midterm elections, yes. 3:22 Midterm elections! 3:24 Yeah, you know, it's coming up. 3:26 The President was in Ohio to support Republican Senate candidate John Husted, and for some 3:31 reason Trump could not stop talking about Houston's beautiful butt. 3:37 Well, it makes sense, because the question voters are asking about candidates this cycle 3:42 even more than whether they can lower prices is, does baby got back? 3:49 Trump seemed to be weirdly into this guy. 3:54 It was surprising how much he went on about his physique. 3:58 So while the polls don't look great for his side, Trump himself is apparently doing well in the midterm erections. 4:09 I just saw some pearls being clicked. 4:15 I think it's really nice for him to be sexually harassing men for a change. 4:18 No, it's really great. 4:20 They were like, President Trump, you've got to switch it up. 4:23 He was like, I got it, I got it, I got it. 4:26 It's so great to see somebody learn something new at his age. 4:28 Absolutely. 4:29 It's very tough. 4:31 But what is the deal with this guy, Houston, and Trump's fascination with him? 4:36 Is he really that caked up, slate, sent an actual reporter to investigate, and this 4:41 is what they found, and I quote, from what I can tell, he appears to have a totally 4:45 normal ass. 4:49 You know, ideally the most insecure man in America and the president should be 4:53 two different people. 4:55 So Donald Trump and the vice president, 4:58 they're out around the country, but they're campaigning 5:00 in historically red states and red districts 5:03 because basically the polling is so bad for Republicans. 5:06 Things haven't looked this good for Democrats 5:07 since Hillary Clinton won the presidency in 2016. 5:13 The president, again, he's supposed 5:15 to be helping candidates win, and he is spending time 5:17 at these rallies bragging also about how many times 5:22 he has been asked to take a dementia test, which is a little like bragging about how 5:28 often police ask you to blow into this little tube. 5:32 More than one is bad. 5:34 He's already taken it so many times and forgot. 5:38 It would be worse if he had administered the test seven times and be like, I've taken 5:42 it once and I killed it. 5:44 The first question in the dementia test is, have you done this before? 5:48 Here, here, Jen, is your next quote. 5:52 Would you trade your faith for a sandwich? 5:54 That was Gizmodo. 5:55 They were commenting on a new lawsuit that's been filed. 5:58 It claims that what is scanning you and storing your data when they deliver your food? 6:05 Oh, gosh. 6:07 Can I get a tent, maybe? 6:09 Can you get a tent? 6:09 Well, remember I said what is delivering your food, not who is delivering your food. 6:13 Is it a robot? 6:14 Yes, a delivery robot. 6:16 Yes. 6:17 I really want one of those. 6:18 You do? 6:20 The lawsuit alleges that the robots are secretly taking pictures of you when they drop off 6:25 your food, as well as scanning your body for other kind of data. 6:29 Okay, fine. 6:30 These guys may have a case. 6:31 I would not go near a lawsuit where the only evidence is a picture of what I look like 6:35 on a night I need a robot to bring the food to my house. 6:42 The lawsuits allege that these robots, as they scoot around, are scanning the faces and 6:47 bodies and taking other data, not just from people to whom they're delivering, but from 6:52 people they pass on the street, right? 6:54 And even worse, after they scan your body, they roll away saying, juicy. 7:00 Are these robots the president? 7:04 What's it? 7:05 Because this is not happening in New York City. 7:08 Well, yeah, this is in other cities. It's in other cities like in New York City 7:11 You'd be like I got you can scan this and then they would take a baseball bat 7:16 If you were gonna scan the humans at their peak, I don't know if it's me at 2 a.m. Getting Taco Bell 7:21 Yeah, you don't want that. That's not gonna help the world at all 7:25 Wait, are they taking pictures though and then blackmailing you like I'll release this 7:30 Are they taking pictures in academia? I guess this isn't your first burrito 7:36 Double fettuccine alfredo. 7:39 You guys are watching me, too. 7:41 I don't want robots taking the jobs of good, hard-working people. 7:47 If you want to scan my body, you've got to be a warm-blooded man who's trying to make 7:52 it in America, and I'm happy to tip 20 percent for riding 40 minutes in the rain. 7:59 That's really nice. 8:00 My pleasure. 8:01 Yeah. 8:01 All right, Jen, here's your last quote. 8:04 It is a tip for people who are celebrating Halloween this year. 8:08 Seal the carved edges with a thin layer of petroleum jelly. 8:13 That was an expert providing a skin care routine for your what? 8:19 My pumpkin butts? 8:21 Yes, your pumpkin butts. 8:23 Yeah, your jack-o'-lanterns. 8:25 They deserve a spa day too, right? 8:29 An article in Real Simple magazine recommends a multi-step skincare routine, including a 8:34 cleansing step, a soaking step, and then sealing your jack-o'-lantern with petroleum 8:39 jelly. 8:41 It's a long... 8:41 Like the holes of the eyes? 8:43 Yeah, you sort of take petroleum jelly, you put it on the cut edges. 8:45 It's very elaborate. 8:47 Look, if I was willing to do a skincare regime that complicated, I'd be hot. 8:54 Yeah, Peter, you do... 8:55 You're melting a little bit from the eyes. 8:58 No, no, no. 8:59 It's just that a squirrel got to me. 9:03 Make me sick. 9:04 I feel like we can somehow, Gwyneth Palfreau, is to blame for this. 9:10 Apparently bacteria from the outside of your pumpkin gets into the flesh when you carve 9:13 it, which is what make jack-o-lanterns rot so quickly, that, and it's a cut-up vegetable 9:17 you put outside and inside. 9:21 Alzo, how did Jen do in our quiz? 9:22 Jen made her way to 3 out of 3, perfect score. 9:25 Congratulations. 9:27 Congratulations, Jen. 9:29 Thank you so much, guys. 9:31 Take care. 9:38 Now, panel, we have some questions for you about the week's news. 9:41 Shantyra, this week, the Guardian newspaper hosted a debate 9:45 on whether or not it is absolutely disgusting to let your cat do what? 9:50 Walk on your counter. 9:51 Exactly right. 9:52 I knew it, and I didn't even read the article. 9:55 So that was a remarkably accurate guess. 9:58 Yeah. 9:58 Is this something that you and your friends and loved ones have been debating? 10:01 I don't... 10:03 Please do not message me about this. 10:04 She's gay. 10:05 Number one, I'm a lesbian who doesn't want a cat on my counter. 10:11 Yeah, it's because like a lot of people, their cats, like, they go into their litter 10:16 box and then they walk on the counters. 10:19 Now if that's your vibe, absolutely cool, but it's personally not mine. 10:22 That's not a joke. That's just who I am. 10:24 Oh, right. Just something about you. 10:26 It's pretty hard to be a lesbian looking for someone who doesn't have a cat. 10:32 So I'm not going to complain too much, but I'll tell you on the radio what's going on. 10:36 Okay. All right. 10:38 Well, I hope you find somebody, because you're not going to enjoy men anymore 10:42 than you are going to enjoy a cat on your counter. 10:45 Yeah, they do whatever. 10:46 Because you should know this. You probably don't know this, 10:48 but men also use the bathroom and then immediately jump on the counter. 10:52 We're pretty disgusting. 10:54 We're just the worst. 10:55 So the Guardian had this couple and they were deciding whether they should move the cat's 11:00 water bowl to the ground because they actually put it up on the counter. 11:02 That's crazy work. 11:03 I know. 11:04 And the pro cat on the counter person said, quote, there are a few things as relaxing 11:08 as the sound of a hydrating cat, unquote, which goes to show that this person has 11:13 that cat parasite that makes you insane. 11:17 The real solution, if you don't want your cat to jump on the counter, just tell it you 11:22 want it to jump on the counter. 11:25 Oh, you know what you could do. 11:26 I got a great idea. 11:27 Bowl and litter box on the counter, you eat on the floor. 11:31 Yeah. 11:31 Cat never goes on the floor. 11:32 Even better. 11:33 Bowl, litter box on the counter, food, cat toys in the kitchen, you leave the house. 11:39 Never come back. 11:40 Cat apartment, you never enter. 11:41 Exactly. 11:49 Coming up, our panelists have a hatchet. 11:51 They just refused to bury in our beloved listener game called 1-888-Wait-Wait-To-Play. 11:55 We'll be back in a minute with more of Wait-Wait-Don't-Tell-Me from NPR. 12:07 Support comes from our 2026 lead sponsor of Wait-Wait-Don't-Tell-Me, Odoo. 12:11 If your business runs on five different apps, 12 browser tabs, and one spreadsheet that 12:16 everyone's afraid to touch, it's probably time for Odoo. 12:20 Odoo is an all-in-one business management software platform. 12:23 Instead of wasting time switching between systems, your business works together in real time. 12:29 ODU gives you one flexible platform built to grow with you. 12:33 Try for free today at odu.com slash wait wait. 12:36 That's oduo.com slash wait wait. 12:39 This message comes from Whole Foods Market. 12:42 Cheers to fall savings at Whole Foods Market, home of higher ingredient standards. 12:46 This Halloween, share chocolates and candies made without that spooky high fructose corn syrup. 12:51 Throwing a party? 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This is Laura Lang from Mason, Michigan. 14:25 Mason, Michigan. Apparently, Mason has some fans. What do you do there? 14:31 I'm a special education teacher. Oh, good for you. You are, you are officially 14:40 immune from my jokes. That's a great thing that you do. 14:44 Well, Laura, it's great to have you with us. You're going to play our game 14:47 in which you must try to tell truth from fiction. 14:49 Also, what is Laura's topic? 14:51 Good news. 14:52 There's a rude feud in the news. 14:55 Everybody loves a good feud, Coke versus Pepsi, the Sharks versus the Jets, Kelly Clarkson 15:00 fighting with that toy bird. 15:03 Well, this week we learned about a feud that escalated to newsworthy heights. 15:07 Our panelists are going to tell you about it. 15:08 Pick the real one and you'll get the weight-waiter of your choice and your voicemail. 15:12 Are you ready to play? 15:13 Yes. 15:13 All right, Laura, your first story comes from Rachel Koster. 15:17 A full-scale confectionary arms race has broken out between the Smiths and the Michael 15:22 families of Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, whose homes sit directly across from each 15:26 other on the usually peaceful cul-de-sac of cinnamon tree lane. 15:30 Trick-or-treaters used to get one fun-sized candy per house and were totally satisfied. 15:35 That changed when the Smiths moved in five years ago. 15:38 The Smiths started handing out full-sized candy bars, and then when the lines 15:41 to the door became too long, they introduced a complicated ticketing system. 15:45 them. 15:45 The Michaels tried to get the kids back by hiring an actor to play a mummy who pops 15:50 out of a genuine sarcophagus and hands out free electronic devices. 15:54 It's exhausting and childish, said a neighbor, and it's all because the adults need to seem 15:58 like their fun parents. 16:00 I am a fun parent, said Mrs. Smith, before doing a keg stand in a sexy nurse costume. 16:06 The crisis came last year when Mr. Michaels covered all the cars on the street with 16:10 chocolate syrup, and lined the pavement with chocolate bars, 16:13 leading to a rat infestation. 16:15 According to the Newark Star Ledger, 16:17 all the kids have opted to just go to a neighboring town 16:20 where everyone seemed to take Halloween less personally. 16:23 Confectionary arms race for trick-or-treaters 16:27 in New Jersey, your next feud dude, that's Peter Gross. 16:32 The touring production of the Broadway show Wicked 16:34 is in Minneapolis this month. 16:35 And while the temperature in Minnesota 16:36 soda has been dropping inside the theater, things are heating up. 16:40 A fierce competition has developed between the women playing Elphaba and Galinda, with 16:44 each actress trying to outdiva the other by deploying more and more vocal gymnastics 16:49 in the climactic song For Good. 16:51 They've been topping each other's high notes and extending their fray-ay-ay-ay-ay-ayses, 16:57 and the normally five-minute song has stretched out to over 20 minutes. 17:02 On Saturday night, the fed-up cast and crew finally took action. 17:05 Just as the song hit the five minute mark, the women's mics cut out, but then they simply sang even louder. 17:11 And when that happened, sandbags that normally rest peacefully, 30 feet overhead, mysteriously crashed down on stage. 17:18 Nevertheless, the singers persisted. 17:20 So the stage managers deployed the nuclear option. 17:23 They turned off the lights, dropped the curtain, and the rest of the cast came out and bowed. 17:27 After everyone had left the theater, janitors reported hearing two horse soprano voices, 17:32 weekly singing I have been changed for good. A wicked tour gets derailed by a 17:44 contest between the two leads. Your last feud interlude comes from Shantyra 17:48 Jackson. There are two gas stations located across the street from one 17:52 another in Powder Springs, Georgia, a Sunoco and a Amaco, no relation. And for 17:58 For a long time, the owner of the Emiko always made sure his price was five cents lower a 18:03 gallon than the Sunako across the street. 18:05 This week, Sonoku guy finally had enough and lowered his price too. 18:10 Prices kept plummeting until the police had to be called when the entire town drove down 18:15 to the same corner to buy gas for less than a dollar a gallon. 18:19 The lowest price anyone's seen since the beginning of the war on drugs. 18:25 One customer said, it feels like Christmas over here, y'all. 18:28 Another one said, I call my mama, my sister, and my brother. 18:33 A third said, look at God, baby, look at God. 18:38 The prices have since gone back up. 18:40 But for many years into the future, the legend of the day, the gas prices fell to 18:45 something they could afford will be a story the people there will tell during road trips 18:49 in their horse-drawn wagons. 18:54 So, here are your three stories. 18:57 Which of these was the real feud we found out about in the week's news, was it? 19:01 From Rachel Koster, neighbors in New Jersey going nuts as they tried to top each other 19:05 to attract trick or treaters. 19:07 From Peter Gross, the two leads in the Wicked Tour, refusing to stop singing past each 19:14 other, even though the show was over. 19:16 Or from Shantyra Jackson, a gas station feud that made gas actually affordable for 19:21 the people of a small town in Georgia for a short while. 19:25 Which of these was the real feud in the news? 19:28 I think I'm going to go with Shantyra, the gas prices. 19:31 You're going to go with Shantyra's story about the computing gas stations. 19:36 All right, if that's your choice, to bring you the real answer, here is a journalistic 19:43 report. 19:45 Basically, one gas station's policy was to be five cents lower, so the other station's 19:50 policy was to match their neighbor's price. 19:53 So that was a report on WIBC radio 19:55 regarding the feuding gas stations 19:57 that resulted in a really good, if temporary, deal 19:59 on gas for the people of Powder Springs, Georgia. 20:01 Congratulations, Laura, you got it right. 20:04 You're in the point for Chantere. 20:05 You've won our prize, the voice of your choice. 20:08 In your voicemail, thank you so much 20:09 for playing with us today. 20:11 Thank you. 20:12 And thank you so much for doing the good work that you do. 20:15 Take care. 20:16 Thanks, everybody. 20:21 And now the game we call Not My Job. 20:23 when Daniel Vasovic was growing up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, not far from here, 20:27 he worked at the Banana Republic at the Woodland Mall. Mall fans. And he must have 20:37 learned a lot there because he became a fashion designer and a winner of 20:41 Project Runway's All-Star Challenge. He has since founded his own fashion brand, 20:45 the kit, and we are delighted to welcome him back home to Western 20:49 Michigan and to our show. Daniel Vasovic, welcome to Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. 20:53 So let's start here. Is my supposition true? Did you first find your love for 21:03 fashion working at a Banana Republic at a Grand Rapids Mall? I can't believe I 21:07 mean you did your research. Anyone who grew up in Grand Rapids or at least in 21:11 any small town knows that, especially if you're closeted, especially if you 21:17 crave fashion and beauty and excitement, there's only one place to go, which is 21:22 the Woodland Mall. The Woodland Mall. Yes. And it was three years and a lot of really 21:28 great memories. Three years? It's been in the Republic? Yeah, the short, short, short 21:33 backstory. I was a competitive gymnast for 13 years in Kentwood, retired at 18, and 21:39 I was going to go to Ohio State for college. Is that legal here? Kentucky. That's not 21:50 a good alternative by the way. And then as a son of a mechanic and a secretary, office 21:57 manager, they said, that's great, we have no money for you. So I begrudgingly at the 22:02 time went to community college and started architecture, quickly learned I hated it. 22:07 I took a sewing course on a whim. And literally that, and so I love the fact that I got a 22:13 job and was working in community college because it gave me the freedom to like 22:16 literally find out what I really wanted to do. 22:18 And did that experience at Banana Republic help you 100% when on Project Runway 22:23 They had a banana Republic themed challenge and guess who won I can only imagine 22:28 I mean really when 22:31 When Tim Gunn or Heidi Klum or whoever it was said, you know and today's challenge we're working with banana 22:38 I'm doing Heidi. It's Heidi. That was my Heidi my Tim Gunn is different. It's like to our challenges are working with Banana Republic 22:44 Can you be seen in the background going? Yes? 22:48 I had, yes, and I was on the show the first time four days after I graduated from college, 22:53 and it was my very first real job, and I learned later from the producers that they cast me 23:00 as like the rocker guy. 23:03 The watchman? 23:04 The rebel. 23:06 The bad boy. 23:08 Did you look different? 23:09 Me? 23:10 Me doing West Side Story? 23:12 Yeah. 23:13 We need... 23:14 And then they were like, um, no, actually I think we know a different category. 23:19 We need a bad boy, we need a threat. 23:21 Let's get a former gymnast in the runway. 23:25 It was the Midwest suppression, I was just very easy and chill. 23:28 Wow, that guy, he looks so scary, it looks like he could vault over you at any moment. 23:32 It looks like I'm watching Mylon Brando right now, this is incredible. 23:37 Your season of Project Runway, and then when you came back for the All Stars, that 23:42 was in the 2000s, did you create any clothes for the show back in that era that you 23:47 look back on now and cringe? 23:49 I think my answer to that is style in general. 23:52 I think it's more interesting to have personality in the moment than to think about some imaginary 23:57 problem or feeling you're going to have five years from now. 24:01 I mean, that's the great thing about social media is you look back and all of us laugh. 24:05 We all laugh. 24:07 I will say on that note, 2005, reality TV is very new to me. 24:11 So when you have a mental breakdown, there's nowhere to see it on social media. 24:16 it's only aired on national television. 24:18 Right, exactly. 24:20 The story you told seems to indicate that you discovered your love for fashion almost by 24:24 accident after you gave up gymnastics. 24:26 Is that true, or were you, like, even when you were in high school, interested in fits 24:30 and fashion and looks? 24:32 More crafting creativity, so like I had the, what's that called when you're not 24:38 an acronym, the synonym, the one you're given the most, and the most, thank you 24:43 for that. 24:44 Thank you. 24:45 Yes. 24:45 Most artistic. 24:46 Most art, of course. 24:47 Overall. 24:48 Overall. 24:48 So yes. 24:49 And we know what the word artistic means 24:51 here in the upper midwest. 24:54 I'll say it. 24:55 Yeah. 24:55 No, no. 24:56 I got you. 24:57 Oh. 24:58 I'm allowed. 24:58 At least likely to play football in Ohio State. 25:01 Yeah. 25:02 Oh, Lauren's son. 25:03 He's very artistic. 25:05 Pretty much, yes. 25:06 And they turned it into a multimillion dollar empire. 25:09 Yeah. 25:09 Great, yes. 25:10 Just the idea that I think back to all the arts 25:14 and crafts and the things like I love to just do and now here I am again like 20 25:19 years later coming back to oversee construction and architecture and design 25:23 for my parents house. I don't have an architecture degree. Yeah. I'm not an 25:26 interior designer but I'm gay. Right. Well there you are. So how hard can it be? 25:32 Yeah. I want to ask Halloween's coming up. People in fashion tend to go big. I 25:37 know. So what are you thinking about? I'm at an age where comfort is also 25:41 consideration because there's nothing more ridiculous than wearing a costume that you 25:45 can't sit down on for the next six hours. 25:49 I usually resort to Disgusting, a zombie, a vampire zombie, NFL players, like all of 25:57 that. 25:58 Just as long as it's undead. 26:00 As long as it's undead and I can be Disgusting and just dance and sweat and get out of 26:05 your system. 26:05 You've got more Disgusting. 26:05 Correct. 26:06 And you have probably makeup people that will help you with the blood and all that 26:08 kind of stuff. 26:09 Yeah. 26:09 I mean, let's be honest, like, my circle's drag queens and makeup artists and cosy designers. 26:16 Yeah. 26:16 I mean, I think those people's kids have the most elaborate costumes, like makeup people, 26:21 hair makeup people. 26:22 Their kids go out and you're like, you're like a walking dead cast member right now. 26:26 Well, Daniel Vasovic, it is a pleasure to talk to you and to have you here at home, 26:30 but we have asked you here to play a game we're calling Project Runway Meet Project 26:35 Tarmac. 26:36 Let me explain, runways, of course, are where the planes take off. 26:40 But we're going to ask you about the tarmac. 26:42 That's the area of the airport pavement where everything else happens, where the planes taxi 26:46 and wait. 26:47 Get two out of three of these questions right. 26:49 You'll win a prize for one of our listeners. 26:50 Also, who is Daniel Vosovic playing for? 26:53 Don McNally of Kalamazoo, Michigan. 26:55 There you are, local guy. 27:02 Here's your first question. 27:03 Now, everybody knows when the airplane is sitting at the gate on the tarmac. 27:06 It's surrounded by support vehicles, you know, the moving bags or the bring on catering, whatever 27:10 But last year our united plane at O'Hare Airport had an extra vehicle sitting next to it that nobody expected 27:17 What was it? A, a bucket truck with a painter because the airplane had just been sold to Delta 27:24 B, an e-scooter that was rented by a passenger who was running late to the flight and was not going to miss it 27:30 Or C, the car of a DoorDash driver who had gotten really lost 27:36 I'm gonna go with B. You're gonna go with the guy in the e-scooter 27:39 It's like I'm not gonna miss that flight got on the scooter scooted out across the airport tarmac to the plane 27:44 banging on the window like Dustin 27:48 We've all been at the airport 27:51 It could happen, but it was actually a door-dash driver 27:54 This guy had gotten an order from somebody who worked at O'Hare 27:57 Really wanted to get there on time get a good tip and he kind of like took a shortcut that got him onto the tarmac 28:02 Sorry. 28:03 Sorry, listener. 28:04 All right. 28:05 You still have so many chances here. 28:07 Next question. 28:08 Earlier this year, people looked out of the windows of planes at LAX, and many of them 28:14 were convinced that they could see what, A, a portal to the underworld, B, Elvis Presley 28:20 working as a baggage handler, or C, Gremlins taking a smoke break. 28:31 Based solely on my own. 28:33 Yeah. 28:33 Who, B? 28:33 They think they saw Elvis Presley working as a baggage handler. 28:38 When he asks you like that, it's not the right answer. 28:44 I'm going to go with C. 28:47 You're going to go with C. 28:49 No, it's A. 28:50 No! 28:52 You guys, I'm artistic. 28:54 I know. 28:56 I'm not a mathematician. 28:59 People. 29:00 People saw a weird glowing red crack in the tarmac as if it were a portal to the upside 29:05 down in Stranger Things, that's what a lot of people said on social media. 29:09 To this day no one at the airport has explained what it really was. 29:13 Last question, the airport in Nice, France had to be closed down back in 2000 because 29:19 the tarmac had been invaded by what, a, paparazzi desperate to photograph a plane carrying Nicole 29:25 Kidman and Tom Cruise, b, thousands and thousands of snails, or c, workers striking 29:31 over mediocre bread being offered at the airport cafeteria. 29:36 I was going to say A, which seems realistic, but anyone who's traveled to France know that 29:44 you're going to hit a strike quite often. 29:48 So no offense to any French listeners, but I'm going to go with C. 29:52 You're going to go with C, the striking over the mediocre bread. 29:54 Your tone. 29:55 Your tone, Peter. 29:56 I don't want to hear it. 29:58 Just say it. 29:59 I'm sorry. 29:59 You just want me to tell you the answer. Yes. It was the snails 30:05 Thousands of snails that have been flooding. This is not my job apparently. Yes floods around the airport brought out all these snails and 30:14 Once they had to like collect all the snails to get them off the tarmac it turns out there were five cubic meters of them 30:22 Don't say oh, like you know what a cubic meter is 30:26 Come on 30:29 also how did Daniel do in our quiz well you know also you look great by the way 30:36 this outfit is fantastic thank you so much you know sometimes it's just best to 30:40 focus on fashion yeah and I think Daniel has done a good job of focusing on 30:46 fashion so let's not look at the negative Daniel Vosovic is a fashion 30:55 designer a project runway winner and the founder of the kit more information 30:59 You can find at thekit.com Daniel Vasovic. Thank you so much for joining us 31:08 In just a minute 31:18 Alzo has bad news for Tony the tiger and our listener limmer challenge call one triple late wait wait to join us on the air 31:24 We'll be back in a minute with more of what we don't tell me from NPO 31:32 Stay tuned for the following announcements and messages from our sponsors 31:37 This message comes from Whole Foods Market cheers to fall savings at Whole Foods Market home of hiring 31:43 ingredients standards. This Halloween, shared chocolates and candies made without that spooky 31:48 high-fructose corn syrup. Throwing a party? Make it easy with a berry-chantilly cake ready 31:53 to cook pizza, no antibiotics ever chicken wings, and sushi made fresh daily. Fall gatherings 31:58 never tasted better. Save through November 3rd at Whole Foods Market. 32:03 This message comes from REI Co-op. At REI, they don't just sell outdoor gifts, they 32:08 use them, test them, trust them. 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See the film that The LA Times calls instantly classic. 32:50 Opens only in theaters October 23rd in New York and Los Angeles, nationwide October 30th. 33:07 this week with Peter Gross, Shantyra Jackson, and Rachel Koster. 33:12 And here again is your host at Miller Auditorium in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Peter Sago. 33:20 Thank you, Alzo. 33:21 In just a minute, Alzo gets past the rhyme stick, which means that only he can speak 33:29 by reading limericks. 33:30 It's our listener limerick challenge. 33:31 If you'd like to play, give us a call at 1-888-888-888-924-8924. 33:36 For right now, a panel, though, it is time for more questions 33:39 for you from The Week's News. 33:41 Peter, there is a new trend in dating, 33:44 specifically among fitness enthusiasts. 33:46 Along with their height, their age, their likes, 33:48 their dislikes, they're including what 33:50 in their dating profile? 33:51 Like how much you can bench or something like that? 33:54 Not quite. 33:54 It is a number, but it's not that. 33:56 Oh, gross. 33:57 Is it there like BMI or something? 33:59 Not quite. 33:59 I'll give you a hint. 34:00 For example, well, usually I'm 60 BPM, 34:03 but I'll go up to 80 when I get to meet you. 34:05 They're heart rate? 34:05 Yes, they're resting heart rates! That's what they're including. 34:11 People are perverts. 34:14 Now, a very low resting heart rate is an interesting flex, because it could mean you're super 34:19 physically fit, but it could also mean you're currently in a coma. 34:24 I don't know what my heart rate is. What's it supposed to be? 34:28 Well, actually, a normal... 34:31 Oh, you're a runner. Here we go. 34:34 It was waiting for that question. 34:36 A normal resting heart rate is like 80 to 100. 34:40 But if you're fit, it can be as low as 60 or even 50. 34:44 But before you use this as an attractant in your profile, you should know who also has 34:50 low heart rates, old people. 34:51 So look out, you may end up matching with Rupert Murdoch. 34:57 Is he old or is he formerly alive? 35:00 He, as far as we know, is still alive. 35:03 Is he really? 35:03 He really is. 35:04 Good for you! 35:06 I feel like on a dating app when you, I want somebody to have a good heart, this is not 35:11 what I mean. 35:12 Exactly. 35:13 Users, apparently, are seeing a lot of these listings of resting heart rates on A-team. 35:18 That is a fitness-oriented dating app in which you swipe right if you like someone 35:23 and swipe left if you pity the fool. 35:28 It's only a few GeneXus in the crowd. 35:31 I get it. 35:33 Rachel, question for you. 35:35 Rachel, earlier this month, a hotel in the United Kingdom held a five-day special retreat 35:41 for guests who wanted somewhere where they would be finally free to do what without shame 35:47 or apology. 35:48 What was it? 35:49 Drink. 35:50 This is in England. 35:51 This isn't specifically, yes, the island. 35:52 I'm gonna drink a normal latte. 35:56 Is that not something they do in England? 35:59 Okay, I'll think of a different thing. 36:03 What is it? 36:04 Can you just give me another hint, please? 36:05 Well, whoever smelt it, dealt it, but whoever dealt it, it doesn't matter here. 36:08 Yes, fart. 36:10 They get a whole hotel room just a five day retreat at a hotel on the Isle of Wight. 36:17 Do they know how the body works, that like you're gonna go home from this and still 36:21 You don't need to do that around other people. 36:23 Not like you can get the year's worth of it. 36:24 Yeah, exactly. 36:25 My question is why are they still ashamed of farting as an adult? 36:29 Well, apparently, this is it. 36:31 Alzo, people are apparently ashamed. 36:35 And this woman who's running it wrote a book about not being ashamed of farting. 36:39 And she had this first of its kind retreat for people who wanted to come and let go 36:43 of their shame and embarrassment about it, which is great. 36:46 But why would anybody check into a hotel, no matter how much you wanted to be there, 36:50 when you knew every other guest was there for the same reason. 36:55 You want to split a room? 36:57 You gotta go, don't get the rooms on the top floor here. 37:03 Also, like, what if you meet somebody at that retreat? 37:06 You go and get married. 37:08 And then everyone's like, where did you meet? 37:10 And then you're like, uh, we just fart camp or something like that. 37:14 Yeah, farts. 37:15 Better than saying hinge. 37:17 Yeah, it's better than A-team. 37:20 One time when I was in high school, I paid five bucks to go into a room and watch some 37:25 kid life a hundred, fart like a hundred times. 37:32 That sounds like a pretty good deal. 37:34 It was a combination of a disgusting thing, a bunch of dumb people and then a person in 37:40 the middle who was like, I can make money off of this. 37:43 How much is that in today's dollars? 37:45 It's like 30 years ago, so $5,000. 37:56 Coming up, it's Lightning Fill in the Blank, but first it's the game where you have to listen 37:59 for the rhyme. 38:00 If you'd like to play on air, call or leave a message at 1-888-WAIT-WAIT, that's 1-888-924-8924. 38:06 You can see us most weeks at the Studebaker Theater back home in downtown Chicago. 38:10 You can also catch us on the road. 38:11 For example, we will be in Normal, Illinois on November 12th, so for tickets and information 38:16 for all our live events. Go to nprpresents.org. Hi, Aaron. Wait, wait. Don't tell me. 38:21 Hi. My name is Kristin Shermont Spina. I'm from Gainesville, Florida. 38:26 Oh, wow. Gainesville. I've been there. What do you do there? 38:29 I'm actually the local NPR affiliate Morning Edition anchor and the host of a local show. 38:35 No, really? 38:41 That means she's going to have to give her prize to someone else. 38:44 I know. I was about to say, Kristin, that's surprising. 38:45 I've never seen you about the NPR Executive Host Luxury Suite. 38:50 Oh, yeah, definitely. 38:52 Yeah, well, I'll look for you next time I'm there. 38:53 Well, it's great to have you on our air. 38:55 Welcome to the show. 38:56 Alzo Slade is going to read you three news-related limericks with a last-word or phrase missing from each 39:00 if you can fill in that last word or phrase correctly until the limericks will be a big winner. 39:05 You ready to apply? 39:06 Ready. 39:07 Here is your first limerick. 39:09 For stackable chips, my tongue tingles. 39:12 They got posthumous promos and jingles. 39:14 It might be my turn in a pop-top chip earn and then 200 years of free 39:21 Pringles, yes Pringles announced a new campaign this week 39:25 It's a contest one lucky winner. We'll get a personally engraved earn 39:31 Shape just like a Pringles can for their ashes to be stored in 39:35 Because they want their food to be associated with a no 39:39 There's a big Pringles fan and I get the appeal if I win I'm demanding they turn my ashes into chips and release me as a limited-time flavor 39:50 Sour cream and sable 39:53 That's the kind of thing that once you pop that you could absolutely stop the campaign is called once you drop 40:03 Sure funerals could use a little fun 40:05 You know little jokes, but let's just stop right here 40:07 I don't want to be talking to the funeral director about my loved one and he asks if I want a regular cremation or a flavor 40:13 Blastic one 40:15 This is making me never want to lick the dust off my fingers ever again. It really does 40:19 It's sort of makes you start thinking about it is the urn in the shape of a Pringles can the urn isn't the shape of a Pringles can 40:24 But it was like a classic ceramic urn. So you won't even be able to get to the ashes at the bottom 40:31 You'll have to shake it 40:35 Let's just get the last bit so everybody does that. 40:37 You'll greatly be able to get what's going on at the top there. 40:39 You're like, I'm so stoned, I eat my whole grandfather. 40:43 Oh my God, I can't believe it. 40:46 You need some water to cut it though. 40:48 All right, here is your next limb record. 40:53 On a brand new Olympic pagoda, my asanas are meeting a quota. 40:58 And to poses, I fold as I'm going for gold. 41:01 They are adding competitive. 41:04 Yoga? 41:04 Yes, the Indian government is pushing for yoga to be included in the 2036 Olympics, 41:11 which they hope to host, which at least makes more sense, Olympic yoga, than whatever the 41:16 biathlon is. 41:18 Some people are not behind Olympic yoga, but I think it's worth it just to see what Ray 41:23 Gunn does with this one. 41:26 It's competitive relaxation. 41:28 Yeah, no competitive yoga, actually we all know already exists. 41:31 That's that part before class when the shirtless guy shows off his headstand 41:34 and you're like, yes, I get it, you're good at this. 41:36 The competitors, and if you're wondering 41:38 how competitive yoga works, the idea is 41:40 the competitors all do certain poses 41:42 and are judged on their form. 41:44 Extra points, of course, are awarded for grace, 41:47 or flair, and going to the grocery store 41:49 wearing the same pants. 41:52 I could get a goal in Suvasana. 41:54 You can do that. 41:55 Is that the lying down one? 41:56 Yes. 41:59 Here is your last limerick. 42:01 Grains with milk are divine and ethereal, yet the bells this food hears are funereal. 42:08 It's more than a hunch. 42:09 You're sunk, Captain Crunch, and no one sits down to some cereal. 42:14 Yes, cereal. 42:15 The new trend toward healthy eating and wellness has the sales of breakfast cereal plummeting. 42:21 That's really surprising. 42:22 It's a food that legally has to have one side frosted. 42:26 Sales are apparently... 42:27 Where are we going to get our frosted? 42:29 I know. 42:29 No. 42:30 Sales are especially low among Gen Z people who did not grow up, you know, with the tradition 42:34 of toys in every box or Saturday morning breakfast food commercials. 42:38 Take Life Serial, for instance. 42:40 People today have no idea how Mikey feels about it. 42:44 I think it's because cereal costs like $12.00. 42:48 Yeah, maybe think about that, Kellogg's. 42:51 They're like, what would make the poorest generation of all buy our cereal? 42:55 Yeah, Kellogg's is near here. 42:56 They can hear us. 42:57 Guys, lower the price! 43:00 Alzo, how did Kristin do in our quiz? 43:01 She did a great three out of three perfect score. 43:03 Congratulations! Well done! 43:06 Kristin, thank you so much for playing. 43:09 Thank you. 43:17 Stay tuned for the following announcements and messages from our sponsors. 43:22 This message comes from Whole Foods Market. 43:25 Cheers to fall savings at Whole Foods Market, home of higher ingredient standards. 43:28 This Halloween shared chocolates and candies made without that spooky high-fructose corn syrup. 43:34 Throwing a party? Make it easy with a berry shantilly cake, ready to cook pizza, 43:39 no antibiotics ever chicken wings, and sushi made fresh daily. 43:42 Fall gatherings never tasted better. Save through November 3rd at Whole Foods Market. 43:48 This message comes from REI Co-op. At REI, they don't just sell outdoor gifts, 43:53 they use them, test them, trust them. REI knows what to give this season from joy rides, 43:58 campfire cheers or peak views REI knows what to give the people you love who love to get out there 44:04 because they're out there too. 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The Daily Beast raves 44:41 Now it is time for our final game, lightning fill in the blank, each of our contestants 44:45 will have 60 seconds in which to answer as many fill in the blank questions as they can. 44:49 Each quick answer now with two points. 44:51 Alzo, can you give us the scores as of now? 44:53 Of course, Rachel and Peter are tied up at two. 44:55 Shantara has the lead at four. 44:57 All right. 44:58 Use me. 45:00 I'm going to enjoy it while I can. 45:02 Absolutely. 45:03 All right. 45:03 That means Rachel and Peter are tied for second. 45:06 Rachel will start with you. 45:06 Go first. 45:07 The clock will start when they begin your first question. 45:09 Fill in the blank. 45:10 In response to protests that turned into riots, 45:12 several cities in blank announced temporary curfews. 45:15 This week, health officials warned that blank season 45:18 maybe arriving two months early. 45:20 Flew. 45:20 Yes. 45:21 With winds reaching 185 miles per hour, 45:23 Super Typhoon Chumpy became the strongest blank of the year so far. 45:27 Yeah. 45:27 This week, a man who was arrested in Las Vegas 45:29 for stealing a live flamingo from a casino admitted 45:32 he'd had between blank and blank beers before he came. 45:34 I was a lot. 45:36 Yes, I'll give it to you. 45:36 20 to 30 or so. 45:37 Yeah, 30 to 40. 45:38 Okay. 45:39 According to a new report, 45:40 daily blank use among parents has risen about 400%. 45:45 Cphoam. 45:45 No. 45:46 Pot. 45:46 Not. 45:46 Yes. 45:48 Naughty, naughty. 45:49 During its opening weekend, the new movie about Theranos founder, Blank, became the highest 45:53 grossing documentary in decades. 45:54 Elizabeth Holmes is so good. 45:56 This week we heard about a flight that nearly made it an emergency landing because a woman 45:59 on board blanked. 46:02 Gave birth. 46:03 No. 46:05 A woman on board. 46:06 Togos. 46:07 They nearly made it an emergency landing after a woman got trapped in the bathroom. 46:10 A flight from Seattle to Newark this month. 46:13 My dream. 46:14 Really? 46:15 Yes. 46:15 I love it in there a flight from Seattle to Newark this month had to divert to 46:20 Chicago after a woman couldn't open the bathroom door the flight attendants 46:24 couldn't open it either and they had to do an emergency landing but she did get 46:28 out and so they were able to go on to Newark of this how did she get out to 46:31 the flusher toilet to Newark is basically the same thing hey also how 46:37 did Rachel do in our quiz she did all right she got six right for 12 more 46:41 points total to 14 and the lead. All right. Peter you up next on the blank according to 46:49 new data the blank outbreak in Pennsylvania is now the largest in 30 years. Measles? Right 46:54 on Monday the province of blank voted to remain part of Canada. Oh Alberta? Alberta this week 47:00 the UN warned that the world was failing to meet its goals to combat blank. Climate change. 47:05 Right on Wednesday a hazardous chemical leak led to evacuations in blank. Uh it was Ohio 47:10 I'll give it to you, Toledo, this week a town in Peru elected as its mayor, a candidate 47:14 named Blank, Jeff Thelama, no Hitler Mussolini, and this was a new study showed a link between
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