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It is great to be back in beautiful Savannah, a place we love.

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We've only been here two days and all of us are absolutely covered in Spanish moss.

Later on, we're going to be talking to actor D.W. Moffett, a veteran actor most recently seen in one battle after another.

And more importantly, the head of the film and TV department at the Savannah College of Art and Design.

But first, it's your turn to audition. The number to call in and play our games is 1-888-188-924.

Let's welcome our first listener contestant.

Hi, everyone. Wait, wait, don't tell me.

Hi, Peter. This is Colling from Tempermental, Chicago, Illinois.

Oh, yeah.

Okay. What do you do there in our home city?

Well, I'm so glad you asked.

I have a very sexy job working in administration and compliance operations at a health care focused on profit.

Whoa.

Yeah, it's a little bit of weight weight after dark there.

Hang on a second. I need to catch my breath.

Welcome to the show, Claudia.

Let me introduce you to our panel this week.

First up, it's a writer for Clean Slate on Prime.

And Tara Jackson.

Hi, Claudia.

Hi, Shantara.

Next, it's a comedian.

You can see at the Laughing Tap in Milwaukee on April 10th and the 11th.

It's Adam Burke.

Hi, Claudia.

Hi, Adam.

And you can hear her album, Yellow Joy on Blonde Medicine.

And her special love joy is on peacock.

It's Joyelle Nicole Johnson.

Hey, Claudia. I like your voice, girl.

Oh, my God. Thank you so much.

Claudia, you're going to play Who's Alzo this time?

Alzo Slate, filling in for Bill Curtis.

It's going to read you three quotations in this week's news.

If you can correctly identify or explain just two of them, you'll win our prize.

Any voice from our show you might choose for your voicemail.

Are you ready to go?

I'm ready.

All right, let's do it.

Your first quote is First Lady Melania Trump welcoming a guest at an event on Wednesday.

You are my first American-made humanoid guest in the White House.

The first lady was speaking to something that she wants to take over educating our children someday.

What is it?

It is a robot.

It is a robot. Yes.

You better applaud louder.

They will be in charge soon.

Speaking at the White House on Wednesday while standing beside a robot, Melania Trump described a future

where robots teach our children.

She has found her call.

And she Reagan said, say no to drugs.

Michelle Obama said, eat healthy food.

Melania Trump says, death to the human teachers.

The scene, by the way, if you haven't seen it, it's amazing.

It's perfectly staged.

They're all sitting there in the audience and the doors open.

And Melania and the robot together walk in making this big entrance.

And the technology is genuinely impressive.

Both of them looked so like that.

The problem is, if we pay the robots, the way we pay teachers, they will revolt.

This robot is amazing.

I don't know if you saw this robot.

It's amazing.

They can program it to do just about anything except watch the Melania documentary.

It rebels.

It's like one of those Star Trek.

It's like one of those robots in the old Star Trek where they ask it to define Trump.

If there's going to be robot teachers, that implies there's going to be robot substitute teachers.

Instead of your regular cool robot, one of those little delivery ones comes in and just bump it against all the walls while you screw off.

And what happened to those delivery robots in New York was that all the kids beat those robots off.

Actually, there is, believe it or not, actual data showing that young children sometimes feel more comfortable being read to or reading to a robot than a human being.

It's less stressful for them.

So it'll be actually really kind of cute.

A robot teacher sitting there with preschoolers.

Okay kids, now we're going to read Power Down Moon.

All right, very good.

Here is your next quote.

What are they going to broadcast Sunday at eight instead?

That was a fan on Reddit responding with some panic to news that the entire season of what hit ABC reality dating show was canceled just this week.

The Bachelorette.

The Bachelorette.

This is amazing after they take an entire season of the show.

From the Bachelorette meeting old 22 Bachelors in episode one through her picking the eventual winner.

After they did all that video surface of this new Bachelorette throwing chairs at her boyfriend during a fight.

So ABC just canceled the whole season.

It'll never see the light of day.

ABC will lose $80 million in middle age women lost their best excuse to drink wine on Sunday.

Well, as a middle age woman, I would like to say to you all that I made it to the age of 44 and I have never seen an episode of the Bachelorette.

So I feel triumphant.

I feel this should be a reality show about that.

Exactly.

The last survivor.

The now canceled Bachelorette.

Her name is Taylor Frankie Paul and she's a star on another reality show, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.

And her behavior was totally shocking to the Bachelorette producers.

So I guess didn't watch the very first episode of the Mormon Wives show where this is true.

She was arrested.

Taylor Frankie Paul sounds like she put her name in a reality TV show name.

Does somebody's real name?

Were they tipped off when she handed out the roses?

She kept them in the vase and then just broke them over people's eyes?

Exactly.

Why did they have to cancel the whole show?

If she was the problem, just do it without her.

See what happens when 30 identical men all live together with nothing much to do.

And somehow four of them are named Brad.

Wait, I think that show exists. It's called The Senate.

This is true. Some of the bachelors from the show very upset that their big break into reality TV has now been canceled.

It'll be a race never seen.

They're considering a lawsuit against ABC.

What are they suing for?

Well, they want a single kiss from their true love.

I feel bad. They won't be able to open their gym now.

Is that what they always want to do now?

They always are like gym influencers.

They're always like, I didn't find love, but I did find apps.

Well, now I feel like I've seen the season.

Thank you.

You know what helps you build apps ducking chairs?

All right, here is your last quote.

It's so muddy and disappointing compared to auto.

That was the New York Times reporting that what season, long considered the worst believe it or not,

is now getting a rebrand.

So what season does it turn out people like the least?

And you only have four guesses.

I would think it's spring.

It is spring.

It was surprising to me.

Yes, spring.

You got it right.

But according to the New York Times, Americans just don't like spring.

Well, if you think about it, it makes sense.

There's wildly fluctuating weather.

There's mud.

There's allergies.

And springs only big holiday is the one where you can't have candy if you don't believe in Jesus.

Now, several influencers.

Of course, influencers are doing this.

They're trying to change our minds about spring with the same kind of branding

that other seasons get.

For example, autumn has its own flavor, pumpkin spice, right?

So spring needs one, too.

I'm heading down to Starbucks to get my pollen and sneeze latte.

It seems that you're suggesting that some marketing company whose client is spring.

Yes.

Well, this is what's funny.

The Times went to a marketing consultant.

And they said, let's say your client was spring, what would you do?

How would you market it?

And he said, well, he would, quote, spin spring's brevity into a positive.

So that's the new slogan.

Spring.

It's oversoo.

Spring is your client.

What do those boardroom meetings look like?

It's just like an Alec Baldwin buddy rabbit yelling at you because the numbers are down.

Pretty much.

You know what I think?

I think it is.

I think the Easter Bunny has beef with Santa Claus for quite some time.

And the Easter Bunny is like, we got to do something about this.

Alza, how do Claudia do in our quiz?

Perfectly.

Three out of three.

She is a champion.

Congratulations, Claudia.

Thank you.

Thank you for calling.

Right now, a panel that is time for you to answer some questions about this week's news.

Joyelle, United Airlines, they say they're going to revolutionize air travel

in the new offering for their customers in economy.

Starting next year, instead of separate seats, you and your traveling companions will be able

to reserve your own what?

Sweet.

Not quite.

That's for the people up in the first place.

Okay.

Listen to me.

Okay.

Bathroom.

No.

That would be nice.

Peter, I fly first class.

I don't know what's going on in the back of the airplane.

Reserve your own water bottles.

What?

Do they give you all that back there?

No.

No.

No.

Wait.

What is going on?

It's new and like it.

They just spray us with a hose.

I've heard about it.

Yeah, I know.

Wait.

Oh, seatbelts.

No.

They do give the seatbelts.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

They give you all seatbelts.

No, give me that.

They do provide the fitted sheets.

That's true.

It's a bed?

Yes, they're going to let people reserve beds.

This new offering is called a relaxed row.

The idea is you take your three seats, which you're used to,

and that will convert into a small cot of the same size.

You then get a specially fitted mattress and blankets to create a comfortable bed

to lie down on, especially padded with the hair of every other passenger there.

When I've seen a kid misbehaving on a plane, I thought,

you know what that kid needs is a bed to jump on.

Yeah.

I want to know if somebody's going to have their toes out.

You can tell by the face.

People bring their toes out on airplanes.

They do.

Yes, in the back where we are, they're doing that.

They've done it in first class before.

I had to say something.

Did you really?

Yes, I did.

Is there a better class of toe up there?

No.

No, the toe is a better toe.

Did you say, excuse me, this is first class?

I did.

That's not how we do things here.

Just imagine what broke toes looked like in the past.

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From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, the NPR News Quiz.

I'm Alzo Slade. We're playing this week with joy on Nicole Johnson,

Centera Jackson and Adam Burke.

And here again is your host at the Johnny Mercer Theater in Savannah, Georgia.

Peter Singles.

Thank you.

Thank you Alzo.

Thanks everybody.

Right now it's time for the Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.

Bluff the listener game call one triple eight.

Wait, wait to play our game in the air.

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Hey, I'm from Ames, Iowa.

Hey, Owen from Ames, Iowa. Home of Iowa State.

What do you do there?

Well, actually go to Iowa State. I'm doing engineering.

Well, that's great. That's cool.

What kind of engineering are you going to do?

I'm doing mechanical right now.

Okay.

So, are you Benny Chan's going to be building robots?

Oh, that's certainly the planning if I...

Don't point it out of my classes.

Yeah, just remember, make sure when you're building the robots that they be best.

Oh, I'm scared of that.

Well, welcome to this show. It's great to have you with us.

You're going to play the game with you. You have to tell truth from fiction.

Alzo, what is Owen's topic?

Amuse my boosh.

Everybody loves the world.

Can you say it out?

Apparently you can.

On the radio?

I haven't even met your boosh.

Fine dining, of course, is the wonderful culture where you go to restaurants

and secretly look up words from the menu and your phone so the waiter

doesn't think you're an idiot.

It's a hot new dining destination that foodies are flocking to.

Pick the one who's telling you the truth.

You'll win the weight waiter if you're choice and you're very smell.

Are you ready to play?

Oh, yeah.

All right, first let's hear from Joyelle Nicole Johnson.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Said Katie Dickinson, the mother of the new viral eatery in Lake Odessa, Michigan.

Katie, the mom of triplets, was at her wits end feeding them when they came

of age to mass decay.

Shocker? They only eat nuggets.

Chicken nuggets are delicious. They are nutritious.

Then the idea popped in her head like the light bulb and her childhood easy bake oven.

She started making everything in the shape of nuggets.

Turns out her kids will eat anything if it's mashed up, breaded, fried,

and in the shape of a dinosaur.

After successfully catering her kids' eighth birthday party with a plethora of

pocket-sized bites, the food truck, nothing but nuggets was bored.

And the restaurant is a huge success with kids and adults alike.

Yes, chicken differs a bound, but the menu also boasts favorites like

return of the mac and cheese.

And for the adults, the lobster biscuits nuggets are called bisky business.

I've always said, if there's a restaurant that made food my kids wanted to eat,

I would smash through the walls to get there,

set a patron waiting patiently and lie with his offspring.

Nothing but nuggets.

Where all the food comes in the shape of nuggets.

Your next food fable comes from Adam Burke.

When fancy eatery, Lemizon Detre, opened up in San Francisco's Embarcadero District

last year, it was an instant hit with local tech pros and crypto bros.

Wealthy clientele flocked to eat pricey dishes such as brain storm stew and

start-up sliders, which boasted exotic ingredients that promised to boost both

the intellectual and athletic prowess of the area's most voracious executives.

But this week, Lemizon's proprietor and head chef Delaney Robars revealed that

what her clientele were eating were just sloppy joes and pureed lunchables.

It was all in the labor project to prove that rich people will pay for anything

as long as it's expensive.

While she thought her big reveal would end the restaurant's popularity,

it backfired.

Her most faithful customers refused to believe it.

I think I know grass-fed Argentinian veal when I taste it,

says Lemizon regular and venture capitalist Vance Headley.

In fact, the more Robars persists with the idea, the more popular

her establishment seems to be.

People are nuts for our expensive seafood dish Abelone Mousse,

she says, even when I tell them it's actually just Abelone sandwich,

mashed up with some cat food.

This goes to show these crypto dudes will swallow anything.

A restaurant in San Francisco that serves fake gourmet food to the crypto bros,

even after they are told that it's fake.

Your last restaurant recap comes from Chintira Jackson.

Sophisticated diners and foodies are all heading to central Massachusetts town,

Amherst, for chef-made cuisine that is both superb and served by ladies wearing hair nets.

That's because the bistro that Michelin somehow forgot is the U-mass dining hall.

Their food is so good that people in the surrounding area have started taking their dates there,

and apparently girls actually like doing that.

The days of the freshman 15 are gone and the freshman 55 is closer than ever before.

The cafeteria has been blessed with food from a former chef from the Rich Carlton

and a former paratrooper.

No matter who's in the kitchen, they like to go all out for these kids,

especially on holidays, whether it's Diwali, the Lunar New Year, or the Super Bowl,

which is, according to them, also a holiday.

But the biggest celebration is on Halloween when they serve over 15,000 lobsters

to sexy Frankenstein's all over campus.

So if you have a health full of picky eaters, you know where to send them for undergrad.

That's Amherst, a college that's only 90 miles away from Boston.

All right.

So if you're interested in a fine dining experience,

you can go to one of these three places.

Was it from Joel and Nicole Johnson, nothing but nuggets,

a food truck and now a restaurant that serves all kinds of food,

all in the shape of dinosaur nuggies?

From Adam Burke, Le Manson, Dettra, a fake gourmet,

high-tech restaurant for high-tech guys,

or from Shantira Jackson, the finest dining in all of Central Massachusetts,

the dining hall at UMass Amherst,

which of these is the real story of a dining destination we found in the news.

Ooh, I think I'm going to have to go with Adam's story.

You're going to go with Adam's story.

The restaurant opens specifically for the taste of tech bros

and turned out to be more gullible than even we thought.

I think an engineer would do, yeah.

Speaking as an engineer, I know you probably have an insight into that.

Well, to bring you the correct answer,

we spoke to a reporter who actually brought this to our attention.

The dining halls at UMass, a chocolate milk from local farmers,

cows, eggs off, and Hello Kitty's shape pizza.

That was the Wall Street Journal's Jasmine Lee,

who reported on and of course,

dined at the UMass Amherst dining hall,

which hopefully will be getting its Michelin star.

Sometimes soon, I'm so sorry to say,

although I'm sure you're right about engineers.

We're sadly incorrect in which was the real story.

However, you earned a point for Adam.

Thank you for a story that I think we all wish were true.

Thank you so much for playing.

Take care.

Bye-bye.

And now the game, we call Not My Job.

Savannah used to be known for its history and beauty and trees covered with Spanish moss.

Now it is just as well known for the Savannah College of Art and Design,

which among other things, has helped make Georgia the Hollywood of the East

with the Department of Film and TV.

There, DW Moffett, a movie and TV actor known for Friday night lights

and more recently, one battle after another,

is the chair of that department.

He joins us now.

DW Moffett, welcome to Wait Wait Don't Tell Me.

Thank you so much.

Thank you for being here.

Thank you for being here.

So, see you in a very long career.

A very, very long career.

A very long career.

A long distinguished career.

Just I'm so old.

And I was thinking about what of your many roles people might recognize you for.

I was guessing Friday night lights.

Friday night lights are the dads in the airports who stopped me.

Yeah.

Switched to birth are the women in their early 20s who love switched to birth.

I have one battle after another.

One battle after another.

I love you.

People.

My favorite.

People run from me when they, you know, yeah.

Well, okay, in Friday night lights, if I'm not mistaken,

you played a dad of one of the high school football players.

And I think I can say this is not a spoiler, a bad dad.

I'm the worst dad ever.

The worst dad ever.

And you sort of, the plot was that you're trying to shape your child

into the perfect football playing machine and it goes awry.

People take that show very seriously.

They're very passionate.

Are they still mad at you for ruining that kid's prospects?

I sometimes am delighted to appear on worst dads in television history list.

You know, I tell you it's, but it's fun because,

and I talk to my students about this all the time, you know,

when you play a bad guy, you can't think I'm a bad guy.

Right.

Like, I was just playing a dad who was really invested in his son's future.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Speaking of bad dads, you also appear in the Oscar one battle after another

as a member of this bizarre secretive group of racists

called the Christmas Adventurers Club.

Yes, I do.

I have a number of questions about that.

Yeah.

Let's start with this one.

Yeah.

What the hell?

I don't know.

Christmas Adventurers Club.

When PT Anderson calls you up and says,

I've got just the role for you.

So when you get that call, you go, yes.

Of course.

I never read the script.

Not once.

Not once.

Yeah.

He's asking you to do it.

Sign him up.

There's this insanely bizarre scene with, like, babble speak,

like, yes, we gave him a Yankee double Yankee clearance thing,

burp, burp, burp, burp, burp, burp.

They're shooting on the VistaVision camera,

which is like shooting a scene next to a jackhammer.

Right.

Enormous thing.

Enormous thing.

They never did any dialogue replacement.

There was no looping.

So I said to my wife, I'm not in the movie.

They cut that scene.

I had never read the script.

So I didn't realize that scene is right in the middle of the movie.

Right.

I said, I'm not in the scene.

They cut the scene.

And my wife knows the post-production supervisor.

And she was like, oh, no, he's in the movie.

Right.

Yeah.

You know, the Christmas Adventurers,

that's why winter is my least favorite season.

There you go.

So you are now, of course, the chair of the Department of Film and TV here in Savannah at Scad.

In addition to chairing the department, do you also teach acting, film, TV production?

So I teach two things primarily because my faculty is so amazing.

I don't want to take these classes away from them.

And because I was an actor and still am an actor,

I teach a class called directing the actor,

which is teaching filmmakers how to communicate effectively with that strange animal,

which is the actor.

Actually, this is something that I was wondering about,

which is, we've you had students, even though I'm sure Scad is very selective,

who just aren't very good at it.

And do you ever find yourself having to tell them that?

So here's the thing.

That's a yes.

Yeah.

Is that how you start descendants?

But seriously, there are people that I know in this business that when I was 25

and I saw them, I was like, no, I can't be.

But because we teach producing, directing, editing, all these different things,

someone might say to me, I really want to be a great cinematographer.

And who knows?

They might wind up being an incredible editor or something.

And you can say, well, you know, film sets are very busy.

They also need catering.

I have to wonder though, you've been here in Savannah for how long?

Ten years.

Okay.

Was it hard for a Chicago guy like yourself to adjust like how long after getting here?

Did you figure out that you say, bless your heart rather than go F for yourself?

So my mother is a hillbilly.

She's from yeah.

She's from southeastern Kentucky.

There y'all are now.

And so they don't say bless yourself, but they say something similar.

So I kind of had an inkling.

What do they say in Eastern Kentucky?

Yeah.

Yeah.

You better watch.

Yeah, that going key.

I will key.

They can start to the point.

Yeah.

There's not so much passive aggressive.

You should do that when you're critiquing a student film.

Well, DW Muffet, it is a pleasure to talk to you.

We've invited you here to play a game.

We're calling a bunch of battles all at once.

So you were in one battle after another, which is when you think about it, a manageable way to handle your battles, right?

But what if everybody attacked at the same time?

So we're going to ask you three questions about mass mellays.

Get too right.

You want a prize for one of our listeners, also who is DW Muffet playing for?

Hannah Taylor of Savannah, Georgia.

Are you ready to do this?

I'm ready.

Here you go.

Okay.

First question.

At the annual Kirk Pinar Festival in Western Turkey, fighters come from all over that country to compete in a form of wrestling.

That has a particular twist.

What is it?

A, wrestlers' arms are tied behind their back and their legs are tied together.

B, not only is poking in the eye allowed, it's the only thing allowed.

Or C, all the wrestlers are covered in olive oil to make them more slippery.

Ooh.

People, the audience and people are shouting C, olive oil.

Right.

Little too much enthusiasm.

They like heated rivalry.

What does it let this know the better?

You know, they're...

There used to be a wrestling place in Hollywood.

It had a lot of hot oil wrestling.

Anyway.

Just because Turkish food is so oil-

Reddellent of oil.

Yeah.

I'm going to go with C.

You're right.

It is olive oil.

The fact.

Olive oil wrestling in Turkey goes back more than 600 years.

It's a hallowed tradition.

There you are.

All right.

Here's your next question.

You did that well.

In the village, high in the mountains of Peru.

The people there celebrate an event called the Tecaniqui every Christmas day.

What happens at the Tecaniqui?

Hey.

Everybody tries to beat up everybody else to get them back for slides that happened during the preceding year.

Be people attempt to beat Alama in a spitting fight.

Or C, it's a giant Christmas themed martial arts match called gold, frankincense, and murder.

I'm going to go with B.

You're going to go with B.

People attempt to beat Alama.

No, it was actually the first one as the narrator of a documentary about it says.

It's like Yom Kapoor but with punching.

But if you offended someone at the beginning of the year, the anticipation will be worse.

You've just been winding up for 364 decades.

All right.

This is fine.

If you get this last one right, you win.

In Florence, Italy.

They still play this ancient ball game called Calcio storico where players can do anything they like to the opposing player,

resulting in all kinds of injuries.

But the game was even crazier back when it began in the Middle Ages because organizers often did what in the middle of a match.

A, through a bucket of knives into the playing area.

B, alerted certain players that other certain players had slept with their wives.

Or B, or rather, C, released live balls into the arena.

Oh, Calcio storico fan here.

Or that's just a woman who's being attacked by a B.

B, B, I see your point.

I'm going to go with the balls.

You're right.

That's what they did.

They don't do that anymore.

But they still have this every year.

If you don't want to go see some Italians beat the living hell out of each other.

What's even crazier?

Those balls are mad about slides that happen to the previous year.

They're mad about slides that happen in Pamplona.

I'm going to get them for that.

Also, how did DW Moffat do in our quiz?

Two out of three won that battle.

DW Moffat is an actor with decades long career in film TV and theater.

And he is the chair of the Film and Television program here at the Savannah College of Art and Design.

DW Moffat, thank you so much for joining us.

Our way of life don't tell me.

Give it up.

We're very happy to be here Moffat.

It just demanded a push for the Tush in our listener's challenge.

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I'm Alzo Slay.

We're playing this week with Shantira Jackson.

Joelle Nicole Johnson and Adam Burke.

And here again is your host at the Donnie Mercer Theatre in Savannah, Georgia.

Peter Segold.

Thank you, Alzo Slay.

It just abandoned its one lumbaric after another.

And I'll listen to them a challenge.

If you'd like to play, give us a call at 1-888-188-9248-924.

Right now I've had some more questions for you from the week's news.

Adam, this week the times profiled an increasingly popular online support group

for certain members of the population.

Who is it?

Online support for certain members?

Yes.

Is there people who are addicted to support groups?

Yes.

No, I'm trying to figure out how that would work.

I'm addicted to introducing myself to support groups.

I will say that I myself am a member of this particular group.

Is it like something you don't like?

It's something for people who are struggling with something

and they're encouraged just to embrace it.

Be careful, Adam.

Glad this one isn't mine.

It's a support group for the folically challenge.

For the bald, yes.

Oh.

This reddit group called our bald.

It's entirely dedicated to pushing people

to just accept their baldness.

The community helps people live their truth.

And the truth is, you're bald.

I like that.

You can tell those are bald cheers.

And I say this from experience.

The only thing worse than losing your hair is pretending you are not losing your hair.

Yes.

No, no guys, I got hair.

I wear this fedora all the time because I'm an old-timey newspaper man.

See?

Do not be afraid to be bald men.

And bald is very sexy.

Yes.

I love it.

Yes.

Come on.

I give you bald.

I love a lot of bald hair.

And I'm gay.

So I really mean it.

I wouldn't lie to you.

I mean, I would.

But I'm not.

The subreddit says it's devoted to encouraging members to quote,

embrace bald and strive to make the world a more bald friendly place.

All right.

That's fine.

That could work.

Or an idea.

We could just make the world less friendly for people with hair.

Hey, Ferdome.

Hey.

Look at that moss head.

Well, I have to say that from my perspective as announcer judge,

I see the back of Peter's head.

Yeah.

And there is some hair back there.

A little bit.

Yeah.

It is rude when you check your appearance in the back of his head.

Adam, more and more people are giving up on something.

What is it that you're realizing is a time wasting, unprofitable job?

What is it?

Well, I know.

I know that Gen Z aren't having sex.

Is it sex?

As a, as a job?

Let's say.

Hey, someone say it's the oldest one.

Yeah.

Can I get a clue?

Yeah.

Do two random guys still laugh at their own jokes if there's no one to hear them?

Oh, oh, please.

Is it podcast?

Yes, people are walking away from podcasting.

It's not podcasting.

Yes.

Applaud that.

People are applauding.

Not this one though.

Not this one though.

They lie taping off what is actually a podcast.

Okay.

As more and more of the podcasting world is being dominated by just a few shows,

many of the other podcasters are realizing that continuing simply isn't worth the time of their money.

This is heartbreaking.

Without podcast, where am I supposed to go hear three dudes talk about a movie for two hours longer

than the runtime of the movie?

I think that we should just take all the microphones from the men and let the girls keep their podcast.

Yes.

Girls agree.

And talk about what?

Well, have all the men murder each other and then have all the women do two crime podcasts about that.

Exactly.

Exactly.

One of the problems is so many podcast or two crime podcasts, we're running out of crimes.

We need more murders.

If all the men murdered each other, women would not be wasting time on a podcast.

They'd be outside running at night.

Yeah.

What?

Booty shorts.

Booty shorts.

Coming up, it's Lightning Fill in the blank.

But first is the game where you have to listen for the rhyme.

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Higher up, wait, wait, don't tell me.

This is Kelly from Moment in North Carolina.

Moment in North Carolina.

That's a lovely place.

What do you do there?

I work for a commercial bank specializing in small business loans.

But my most important role is mom to a beautiful tematole next to him.

Oh, wow, a 10-month-old.

So you are new to this parenthood thing?

I think I'm aceing it so far, if I do say so much.

Oh, wow, I see.

Yeah.

Yeah, you think you're aceing it because they can't talk back yet.

Welcome to the show, Kelly.

I'll also slide.

Filling in for Bill Curtis is going to read you three News Related Lemrex

with the last word of phrase missing from each.

If you can fill in that last word of phrase correctly

and just two of the lemrex will be a winner.

Are you ready to play?

Yes, sir.

Here is your first lemrex.

On red carpets, I cheekily strut.

Because the slit on my dress is high cut.

It's just a small peak, so it's all very chic.

You will catch a side glimpse of my...

But.

Yes, very good.

According to Vogue, we should know,

the new look on runways and red carpets is, quote,

showing off your flank, unquote.

You can go for a tasteful peek-a-butt look,

like Heidi Klundid with sheer panels, highlighting her side butt.

Go full crack, like Chapel Rowne,

or for the ultimate fashion statement,

do what Leonardo DiCaprio did at the Oscars,

just fix the drain under the kitchen sink.

It might, hey, you just ripped your pants.

Yeah.

It's about time, and it makes sense.

I mean, what is a butt crack, but your lower cleavage?

You know what?

I've been to it.

Really?

I've been to it.

Because I want to see a bunch of famous people's butts.

If that's what you're going to give me, I'll take it.

You're ready for it.

Yeah, I'm ready for it.

Is there a fancy word for, like, ask cleavage?

Because, like, with regular cleavages, it's like...

And in Bonpoin.

Yeah.

I know, I'm Balcon.

Don't ask me why I don't always ask.

You have a lot of different ways to say it.

There should be, like, a French word, you know what I mean?

Cleavage.

Cleavage.

Cleavage.

Yeah.

Yeah, like crack.

All right.

Here is your next limit.

When my toddler gets bored at home, we go.

At the DIY place, we roam three roads.

He opens our drawers, such as tools, rugs, and more.

I am taking my kid to home.

Depot.

Depot.

Yes, Home Depot.

You've heard of Home Depot.

That, of course, is the megastore popular with boomer dads

and plenty of lesbians, well.

Hey!

You would be correct.

There you are.

Fact check, true.

Well, this week, People Magazine proposed it's also a great place

to bring your board toddler.

Here's the Power Tool aisle kid.

Enjoy yourself.

I know you love pressing buttons.

I don't know.

This is definitely something that I am into.

Going just wandering on Home Depot?

Spending money at Home Depot.

Yeah.

Just remember, you can only bring your kids there for fun.

If you're not, if you're actually going there

for something you need, because your child will just never get over

the trauma of seeing you get that frustrated.

It's like, and then Daddy started shouting,

does anybody work here?

Do you really want your kid to be that comfortable at Home Depot?

You know, because you ask him to do his chores,

and then he quotes you way over the odds.

It takes twice as long as he said it.

Because you know what?

We need to rip out the entire wall.

Yeah.

We need to do much more.

I need a new tool for that.

All right.

Where is your last, Limerick?

We sell pit houses and IPO stocks.

And we love dermatology products.

We don't go out for smokes, but for quick forehead poaks.

On our work breaks, we go get some...

Botox.

Yes, Botox.

More and more co-workers are getting Botox together

between meetings, like a little outing.

The meeting that they get to after the Botox appointment

must be so interesting.

I can't tell if a boss liked my proposal.

His face is stuck.

Sometimes it's a special like officer tree

to bonding exercise.

There's even a Botox clinic that doubles

as a co-working space.

The big question is, how do you propose this to your co-workers?

Without it being an HR violation.

I also had to Kelly do in our quiz.

Three out of three.

Perfect score.

Well done, Kelly.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thanks for calling and playing.

Thanks.

Bye-bye.

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Now, it is time for our final game.

Let me fill in the blank.

YouTube our players will have 60 seconds in which to answer

as many fill in the blank questions as they can.

Each correct answer is worth two points.

Also, can you give us the scores?

Absolutely.

Joel and Shantir are knotted up at two

with Adam in the lead with three.

Alright, so that means Adam is going last

and to go first, I'll just pick how about Joel?

Here we go.

Yes!

Here we go, Joel.

You're up first. The clock will start.

Have you got your first question?

Fill in the blank.

On Wednesday, a California jury issued a $6 million

ruling against social media giant blank.

Instagram.

No.

I'm going to give it to you.

Meta.

Meta, yeah, they ain't Instagram.

Okay, I had to think about it.

Yes. On Tuesday, the blank raised its maximum

enlistment age to 42 years old.

Oh, the army.

The army.

On Thursday, the White House announced it was pausing strikes

on blank until April 6th.

Here are.

Right, on Monday, a crash caused blank airport

to shut down operations for almost 24 hours.

LaGuardia, New York City, baby!

Is that correct?

It is correct.

I thought maybe you were a little too excited about it.

This week, a truck driver in New York ran into a highway

overpass and then immediately blanked.

Peter on himself.

No, he then ran into another one.

On Thursday, qualification playoffs for the 2026 FIFA

blank began.

Football.

Yeah, World Cup, very good.

This week, police in New York reported that a man robbed

six banks in five days, taking in a total of blank dollars.

$29.99.

No, a little bit more, $605.

The man robbed banks in Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan,

and the Bronx over the course of five days,

but only managed to leave total with $605.

Even worse, that means he's only taking home

like $400 after tax.

You know things are bad when the bank doesn't have any money.

That's true.

Yeah.

Also, how did Jail do in our quiz?

It did pretty well.

So you got five right for ten more points,

which gives her 12 and the lead.

That's the most I've ever gotten, right, Peter?

You're getting there.

You're learning grasshopper.

You're doing great.

Chantira, you're up next.

Here we go.

Fill in the blank.

On Wednesday, another plan to reopen the Department of

Blank failed in Congress.

Home land security.

Right.

On Tuesday, the House Oversight Committee released video

from the closed-door depositions of two of Blank's

closest associates.

That's see?

Right.

This week, NASA unveiled a proposal to create a permanent

base on the blank.

The moon?

Right.

This week, CNN reported the top director at FEMA says

that he wants blanked.

Stole all the money.

No.

Who says he wants teleported to a waffle house?

Hey!

I'm going down later days.

You see that?

Someday you're just in the mood.

That's the first time this administration has done anything

but I'm down with it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

According to experts, increased gas prices are

leading to a surge in sales for Blanks.

Bikes.

No electric vehicles on Wednesday.

The first trailer for HBO's new adaptation of the

Blanky Potter series was released.

Hello.

Hello.

Oh, Harry Potter.

Yeah, Harry Potter.

This week, six foot seven Irishmen.

Next seven.

Six seven Irishmen.

Don't eat.

This week, six foot seven Irishmen.

Next, you became a top football recruit for American colleges

despite the fact that Blank.

He has never played that sport in his life.

That's exactly right.

He has never played football.

Every college football program in the US is trying to sign

Nath Geowa, a 20-year-old Irish giant who has never played

football.

Turns out it actually makes sense.

Geowa caught a recruiter's eye while playing rugby,

which, if I understand correctly, is a sport that answers the

question, what if football, but with punching?

When a football with little shorts and they touch

others butts.

Some people with different firearms.

That's all right.

Also, how does Shantira do it?

Shantira also got five right for ten more points and she's

now tied for the lead.

Very good.

All right.

How many then?

How many then does Adam Burke need to win?

Adam needs five to win.

All right.

Here we go, Adam.

This is for the Game Film of the Blank on Wednesday.

The season opener with the New York Yankees featured robot

blanks.

Like pictures.

Like machines that fire balls.

Oh, they're not using pitching machines.

They're using robot umpires.

Oh.

This week open AI said they were shutting down Sora, their app

that creates AI-generated blanks.

Like girlfriends, boyfriends.

I was about to say you wish, but I wouldn't say that to

you.

Videos on Thursday, the IOC announced a new policy that effectively

bans blank athletes from competing in women's events.

Transgender.

Right.

This week the FDA cited the makers of a product called

blanks were not disclosing that it contained on a

title dysfunction drug.

What?

Name a product.

And secretly included a erectile dysfunction drug was

blank.

Was that hard chicken nuggets?

No.

It was called boner bear honey.

One Tuesday late night host blank said that he is co-writing

the next film in the Lord of the Rings franchise.

Stephen Cobain.

Right.

After a four-year break, K-pop superstars blank released a new

album.

BTS.

Right.

This week a sailor in the French Navy went on a run, posted

his results to the app Strava and accidentally blanked.

Started war with Spain.

No.

He accidentally gave away the top secret location of the aircraft

carrier.

He was on.

Strava is an app where various amateur athletes can post a

workout complete with GPS maps of where they did it, and

then other athletes can see and like the post, which is how

this French sailor accidentally exposed the location of his

aircraft carrier.

Even worse, he tagged the post with easy 10k, felt great

here are the nuclear launch codes.

Also did Adam Burke do well enough to win?

Nope.

He did pretty bad actually.

He only got three right, which gives the championship to

Santira and Joyelle.

You are.

In just a minute we are going to ask our panelists to

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You're for ya because the way that the world is right now,

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Adam Burke.

The next season of the kid show, Bluey, is cancelled.

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