Washington insider has been sworn in but he has yet to be confirmed by the island Senate so is 10 years uncertain as N.P.R.'s David Well now reports p.r. Luis he replaces Ricardo. After Street protesters demanded his resignation appear Luis he was sworn in as governor late Friday as demonstrators celebrated in the streets the departure of the man who hand-picked him now former governor Bosio after having served as party because delegate to the u.s. Congress and at a Washington law firm advising a federal financial oversight board that's widely despised here if you're Luis is now promising transparency I have. To be responsive to the. Tenure as governor hangs on a confirmation vote the Puerto Rican Senate is to hold next week he says he'll step aside should he lose that vote they would n.p.r. News San Juan Puerto Rico Congressman Elijah Cummings is inviting President Trump to visit Baltimore after Trump slammed the city in tweets last weekend and again during a rally Thursday night coming spoke at a community event in his congressional district today come to Baltimore do that. Exact come to Baltimore and I promise you you will be welcome I promise you we will give you every bit of hospitality we've got. Cummings of corruption though provides no evidence and describes Baltimore as a rodent infested place where no human being would want to live Cummings is chairman of the House Oversight Committee which has been investigating the trumpet ministration this is n.p.r. From k.q.e.d. News I'm Tiffani Kam Hi The effects of global climate change are far reaching but a new study found that a warming world has had a curious a fact on California's ancient redwood trees. It's making them grow faster here to explain is Sam hotter president of the San Francisco nonprofit save the redwoods league and Sam This news comes from an ongoing study looking at how resilient redwood forests are against climate change and to me it just seems counterintuitive that climate change is actually helping them grow how exactly does this work we found that old growth redwood forest are the real superheroes that would make the perfect marvel movie basic Western more carbon per acre than any other land based ecosystem in the world and that way there are real climate change mitigator and they're growing faster than ever as you mentioned in our recent research it's. Been discovered that it over the last 50 or 60 years the redwood forest is getting more sunlight conducting more photosynthesis pulling more carbon out of the air and growing in fact faster right so this study shows that Redwoods are extremely resilient to climate change but climate change still isn't good for them right well that that's right I mean we've still have a lot of research yet to do and our focus has been for the past several years on the best of what's left of the old growth redwood forest we're now expanding that research into the younger 2nd growth forest to see how that recovering landscape is responding to a changing climate and that's where we're seeing real variations and how the forest is responding to climate change and that informs a lot of our restoration approach where should we invest our restoration funding to help bring back the redwood forest that we've lost grow back the young forest that's trying to recover so that we can build back that climate resilience for a future that was Sam hotter with the Save the redwoods league and I'm Tiffani cam high k.q.e.d. 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The real fun show you later on we're going to be joined by Anthony Anderson star of the sitcom blackish and host of The New to tell the truth but 1st this is Lollapalooza weekend here in Chicago the music festival that happens just a few blocks from my theater so it's a chance to have our 2 different demographics mingling on the streets there the young people buzzed with the beer and the happiness and all the other people monitoring to their parents you know they're out dressed like that. We don't care how you're dressed because we cannot see you give us a call the number is one AAA Wait Wait that's 188-892-4812 extension 4 let's welcome our 1st listener contestant Hi you're on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me Hi It's Joshua from Greenville South Carolina Joshua from Greenville How are you I'm doing quite well I'm glad to hear it what do you do there in in South Carolina hi I'm a college student and I am interning at t.d. Bank you're interning at t.d. Bank do you want to be a banker. Well I majoring in English and history so you tell me yeah. You better hope you can be a banker I guess. You know well welcome to the show Joshua let me introduce you to our panel this week 1st up a comedian performing at hyenas in Dallas August 8th through the 10th and her Netflix special drops August 13th it's idea Rodriguez. Next up a comedian you can see at the robin theater in Lansing Michigan on August 25th it's Mr Adam Burke and I'm. Finally a comedian you can see August 16th in Hyannis Massachusetts at the Cape Cod melody tent and here every week on her very own podcast nobody listens to Paula Poundstone it's Paula Poundstone. Thank God for your coming to our show you're of course are going to play Who's Bill This Time that's how we start the show Bill Kurtis is going to read you 3 quotations from the week's news guess what he's talking about or who he's imitating 2 times out of 3 you'll win our prize the voice of anyone you might choose on your voicemail ready to play I am quite ready I am glad to hear it because here is your 1st quote go easy on the kid that was somebody speaking to Camelot Harris just as the Democratic debate started this week she did not listen to Him Who was it that would be Uncle Joe Uncle Joe Biden. Was the 2nd round of the Democratic debates this week and despite the efforts of many people doing a lot of work after the 1st round we weren't able to get rid of any of those people . At the Wednesday debate there were 2 Tuesday Wednesday at the Wednesday debate everybody went after Biden and his main response was hey but Obama like to me. Come on that was years ago it's like the old guy who won't stop talking about high school right I was vice quarterback of the football team. And you guys enjoy the debates. And. I take it you did there I did I did I feel bad for Marianne Williamson Yeah because everybody kept tweeting her like affirmation. And they were asking her if she had like stones and candles Yeah they make I always make it sound like Harry Potter go. Back for her you know I didn't watch these. Once but I will say I was shocked to see her on the debate stage for the Democrats and then very impressed in the 1st debate when she said her 1st couple answers were pretty good yeah and by the 3rd the answer that she had worn on. Will happen like that. But she doesn't go for Med Yeah rubs herself against an old old course like the. Conventional wisdom coming out of the Tonight affair was that Joe Biden who is leading by a long way the Democratic polls all he had to do was not screw up and he didn't screw up so the idea was like oh he's doing great except at the very end of it he screwed up his own website right he said go to Joe 30330 when he meant text that I mean it was such a grandfatherly thing to do also although Joe does look like they've got a job $3030.00 if he looks like he'll be running in a 1000 years I know. Your next quote is from some public service that n.p.r. Did sending a message to a specific group of men this week children think you're really really unattractive That was N.P.R.'s Nell Greenfieldboyce talking about a new study that finds men with what facial feature actually scares young children mustaches Oh bigger than that go for the whole face here Piers yes women. Said that the tone of resignation and sadness to use or have a beard I definitely do you know oh Ok yes but the answer is beards a new study finds adults perceive people with beards as stronger and more mature but that young children find them terrifying. So it was single mom for Ok but I. Think they're stronger and more mature. Most adults according to psychological surveys Well I wasn't they didn't serve made me and now. Look at it as part of the study this is part of it they were trying to find out how kids related to people with beards or not so what they did was they took some young kids and they gave them a specially created picture book it's about a mysterious island where the kids were structured to complete quests and they could pick helpers right so they tended to pick clean shaven man for tasks involving cooperation and bearded men for tasks they call for strength and mansplaining this is already too hard. Because nobody to call you know that they've figured out the kids don't like it's terrifying art but they are good people and know there to be yeah but it appeared Yes but they would appear that they are the hirsute are they annoyed by the findings I don't know are you you. Know 1st of all children should find Ben terrified if you see even man very closely should everyone should have a beard Also who wants to be attractive to children and. 'd I. Know I'm so like not a detective like I said I wasn't even thinking out about the fact that you have a beard and I said oh I don't think that they seem mature. People but that wasn't your act and they're not. I mean you don't think it's equipment you're. Here Joshua is your last quote I got the horses in the back horse tack kids attached those are some of the lyrics to the song that has now broken the record for longest run ever at the top of the Billboard charts what is that song with that horrible song Old Town where only you may think it's horrible service in the nation disagrees. To a song by little Miles x. Has been number one in the Billboard charts for 17 consecutive weeks that breaks a record at this rate it will last longer than human civilization. Keeps it in the charts this is true by. Constantly churning out new versions with different collaborators including Billy Ray Cyrus and Lil Wayne the song keeps getting updates we're now at version 13.8 so it doesn't work with the old versions but. You know it will not ever be on the remakes of old Tom wrote mere Pete but a judge the presidential candidate this is true he and little Nas x. Were supposed to do an event together and there Pete said well hey if we're going to be on stage together can I do the song with you and will not said no. He had already done a mix with the 12 year old Mason Ramsey from Nashville so he didn't want another with a yodeling child. According to a campaign rules he would have had to do a rematch with all night until my God. I should say that even though people to judge was turned down there is in fact a growing trend of presidential candidates collaborating with pop stars Bernie Sanders didn't event with Carty b. This week. She He's actually and she's been talking for a while she has a lyric about bloody shoes and you know he heard that I was like I had that do she should meet my put the interest. She did a video on Instagram indoor thing Him Yeah and if it would have been on n.b.c. It would have been one solid beat yeah. Because he was like Ok I think I would say Oh my goodness it was it was interesting Elizabeth Warren also did something with her car to be Yeah I wasn't aware that worries me what Elizabeth Warren to have common I don't see that she also spoke about it what she thought was that she's going to use her platform to talk about politics and all the things that people don't want her to talk about and she was like if I end up dead ya know who did it no no. No no no no. No How did you just we're doing our quiz good show sure did Ok and the 3 and 0 is Ok Congratulations. I got the horses it's a bank forced to. Write up a little time for you to answer some questions about this week's news. Adam if you have an Apple device you know that the automated assistant Siri wakes up when it hears the phrase Hey Siri but according to a company whistleblower Siri also wakes up and starts listening when it hears what . If someone has someone and someone out of a factory complaining about the condition you know I'll give you a hand if you want to avoid this everybody needs to go out and get pants with a button flies wait this sound like a zipper Yes the sound of a zipper wakes up Siri Wow it's me having Siri Yes now I just told you that series starts listening when it hears pants on zipped and your 1st thought was so they've heard whole. And then you think a little more know like wait they've also heard oh no no. Apple sends recordings made by Siri to contractors whose job it is to make sure that it's recording what it's supposed to be recording and according to an anonymous whistleblower what they hear is quote discussions between doctors and patients business deals nothing in the criminal dealings sexual encounters and so on unquote. And all that is bad but what business. I began. With people taking their pants off I thank you for taking the meeting gentlemen let's drop trial and talk numbers I love applause how many people are going to go home with your pants in front of your phone. Right here I know right now yeah right. I mean how many people are going to do that. Coming up it's an open and shut case It's our Bluff the Listener game. Play we'll be back in a minute with more Wait Wait Don't Tell me from n.p.r. a Century ago the idea that different races of people have very different qualities was accepted as scientific fact at least by the white scientists to a ranking until an anthropologist began to see the world differently he worked very hard to teach people that that was a product of our own society not of nature a new book about Franz Boas Plus the latest news next time on All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. Join us for all things considered it comes your way at 5 o'clock this afternoon support for k.q.e.d. 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Peter thank you all the way you want that you know that's the way we're going to tell me what the Listener game call one AAA Wait wait to play our game in the air Hi you're on Wait Wait Don't Tell me. Your car hey we're in Utah I love Provo Utah that's great what do you do there I work out an electrocardiogram technician at the hospital Oh really so you're the guys who like finding out how people's hearts are doing that but one right do you ever root for like really interesting heartbeats with the break up the monotony we would never know you. Well welcome to the show don't and you're here to play the game in which you must try to tell truth from fiction Bill what is Dolphins topic tell about her in my dear Sago Everybody loves a mystery who murdered whom. What happened to the lost city of Atlantis why was John Delaney at the debate I. This week a mystery got solved our panelists are going to tell you about it pick the one who's telling the truth and you'll win our prize the weight waiter of your choice on your voicemail Are you ready to play oh yeah you're all right our 1st mystery in that solution comes from Rodrigues the small town of Kashmir Washington was turned upside down by a missing kid Stuart calm a 16 passed his driver's license test took off for his 1st joyride and disappeared when he didn't come home at 1st I didn't worry much because I just assumed he was enjoying our new Chevy Spark his mother Claire told the local news Mrs Komei finally called the police when he didn't show up for dinner because it was chicken pot pie night and Stewart never misses that. The people of Kashmir mobilized to find Stewart looking through woods and fields putting up posters and delivering baked goods to the worried family but it was Jeremiah thin thin a local farmer on his way to pick up some supplies from a store in the neighboring town of Cole's corner who found the boy he pulled up in front of a newly installed roundabout and the intersection of Highway $21.00 Highway 2 well and notice the small red Chevy going around I am. With an agitated young driver apparently Stewart had driven into a roundabout realized he didn't learn about anything like that in driving school and got stuck going round and around in it for 6 hours. Mr Komei was so happy to have a thon back she made an exception and had Popeye night all over again I was trying to get around about having to add. The next tour of a mystery demystified comes from Adam Burke we can all agree. The only thing worse than a make chicken sandwich is a chicken sandwich that someone's already taken a bite out of that was the situation facing an Indianapolis police officer who went to reheat a McDonald's meal at the beginning of his shift only to find someone had prevented it I know I didn't eat it said the officer who identified himself to the local press as d.j. Officer d.j. Immediately went to the McDonald's from whence the Samaj originated and demanded to know which cop 18 malefactor had sabotaged his sandwich a joint investigation was immediately launched by both the golden arches and the boys in blue just in case anyone in Indianapolis was wondering why it was taken so long to find your stolen car and or deliver your McMuffin. Eventually the perpetrator of the masticator a misdeed was brought to light none other than officer d.j. Himself the employee took a bite out of the sandwich upon starting his shift police said in the statement he returned nearly 7 hours later having forgotten that he had previously bitten the samurai. The discovery has helped to clear up a number of other investigations that d.j. Has been working on including the curious case of who left the front door open. The mystery of the missing t.v. Remote and the baffling riddle of who used up all the toilet paper. Margins of investigation to see what prankster took a bite out of his own sandwich only discover that it was himself your last story of an egg my answer to comes from Paula Poundstone when Coral Springs Florida resident Nina and Fred Rufio returned home to their 16 year old son after a dinner out on Tuesday night they were shocked to find a gaping hole in the front door chairs were flipped furniture was in disarray the couch cushions were wet and hemorrhaging foam the refrigerator door was swung wide open exposing its collapsed shelves and empty container. I was so angry Nina Rusia said Romeo her son was sitting at the computer when we left and there was an eggplant lasagna a 7 layer depth and a poppy seed but cake in the refrigerator to what a half hours later he was sitting there playing for not or whatever it is the apartment was a war zone and there were empty food containers even under the couch however young Romeo insisted he had done nothing wrong and had no idea what had happened feeling on justly accused Romeo stormed out of the apartment slamming what was left of the front door and saw an 11 foot alligator being wrangled into a Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission vehicle when their neighbor saw the alligator coming out of the front door they immediately called the nuisance alligator hotline authorities are not sure why the mammoth predator broke through the roof ceo's door and ravage their apartment but Romeo his parents were only my don't really surprise that their son never noticed Ok. All right your story. Here one of these was a real mystery that got solved this week was it from what happened to a lost boy in Washington well it turns out he was just stuck in a roundabout for hours from Adam Burke who took a bite out of a cop's hamburger Well it turns out it was the cop and self Or from Paula Poundstone who trashed this house while the teenager was there supposedly playing video games Well it was a large alligator which of these is the real mystery and solution we found out about this week I'm going to do it my man all right well you've chosen Adam story of the cop and the mysterious bite in his sandwich well to bring you the real story we spoke to someone who covered the police department and the MacDonald investigated because of the video and we're. Going to get to. That was. Ok the cover of the hamburger mystery in Indianapolis for USA Today Congratulations dolphin You got it right well be. Very important proud of my. No you then you've won our prize the voice of your choice on your voicemail thank you so much for playing thank you so much this rock Take care it sure does. And now the game where we ask somebody who has better things to do to do something worse it's called Not My Job there are dads and then there are good dads and great dads but the greatest dads are the sitcom dads the ones with crazy loving families who argue but always end up loving each other more in the end and America's reigning sitcom dad right now is Anthony Anderson of the show blackish He's also the host of To tell the truth and he sees a veteran actor comedian stand up is everything Anthony Anderson welcome to Wait Wait Don't Tell me thank you. So much because like you said he does so many things but let's just focus on blackish because there's a huge tradition of like family sitcoms right goes back to God I don't know Father Knows Best and is it like a burden to be right now America's favorite t.v. Dad you know we I just want to get out there we just want to get out there and tell our stories and and have fun doing it and hopefully it resonates with an audience the way that it had for the past 6 years and do you do people like assume you're wise because you play a t.v. Dad no one would ever assume that I'm white. That's it that straight right all right that's fine about black is I want to talk to you about the much more challenging and important thing that you do which is hosting a game show. We hope you know again sure but I'll see you again show with my mother as my sidekick what. What nobody told me this year your mother is your sidekick Yeah my mother is Mama Doris that that's my best my real mother the woman that birthed me right. And it's funny how it came about I would have a sort of celebrity family feud. My mother my sister in law my brother my that's on the show and the 1st price to me in. Polish to my mother where would a good magician pull a rabbit out of. And without hesitation my mother screamed to the heavens. And did so did they did Steve Harvey give her one of those 5 minute long burning looks like the burning last production shut down literally for about 5 minutes right just your own deal with that yet and after the show the producers came over to him and said hey if you can we talk to you about your mother and I think a guy that told you she was a live wire I do it. And they were like No that's just it we want your mother to be on your game show with you to tell the truth and I was like really and they're like yeah what do you think about it I said I think it's great because it gets her off my payroll inputs are on to your. Like you know for the I'm telling you how this works and to tell that just she's like sitting next to you my mother is basically the voice of the people she asked the question that people who are at home I think you know they want this celebrity as this woman if I want to know like one episode we have the woman I woman on the show with the longest fingernails you know one of her fingernails was a little more than 4 or 5 feet long and my mother asked the question well the idea . I'm going to I'm going to say here I don't know your mother but I notice a trend in her company. Now that she's a celebrity has a gun to her head like demanding a bigger trailer than yours now or why do men and bigotry want to get paid more than I do she has an entourage she has her own personal weight maker Oh my God. That was the name yes she she's a Bob She is truly a diva we had last. I'm sure the question when you go back to the magician then they can make sure. I don't see any other answer. But I mean I was thinking the same thing but I don't know how to go there not just respect your mother's cleverness for not finishing the interview I. Am sure one of the more yeah absolutely Now we heard that you are a pretty enthusiastic golfer and in fact you've gone off with President Obama what was that like that was one of the best rounds of golf I've ever played. And is Obama a chatty golfer is he one of those serious golfers who just want to hit the ball and get on the course No no he chats with you he talks trash which you. Cannot tell you that he took all of our money and there were. These bags that were dropped where it was crisp Oh Oh my so my for show and our President Obama President Obama doesn't have to mow our lawn off the key to the bar 122230 yard but he would sit straight as an arrow right down the middle of the fairway and he ended up taking money from our career but that's not to say you say he took all of your money you Chris Paul and Michael Phelps have a lot of money that. We do with. President Obama didn't have a problem taking any of you know what it was he like you know so we're going to make this interesting is that was like that just like that's how you're going to play kind of suckered us into a bit now so because we didn't know if we could approach. My dad with the bat so we better amongst ourselves and on the for a while we were to you know Obama would like show you guys are going to be into the back. And. And we were right. Or wrong. I don't know what for you right guy and he commenced with part no. One was allowed to talk to you Anthony but we have invited you here and I hope you were warned about this to play a game that this time we're calling you've been sent down to double leg your initials are a a of course which made us think of double a baseball that is the minor league so we're going to ask you 3 questions about minor league ball answer to correctly you'll win our prize for one of our listeners the voice of anyone they might like in their answer machine Bill who is Anthony Anderson playing for Eric Christiansen of Anaheim California a local Are you ready here I recognize 1st question minor league teams are famous for their promotions right won promotion thought up by the West Virginia Power was stopped before it could happen what was it a animal sacrifice night. Which they were to recreate with a live goat an ancient pagan ritual being a salute to indoor plumbing night in which they would close the bathrooms and ask everyone to use porta potties instead or see Wife Swap night in which everybody had the chance to go home with somebody else. I'm not sure yet and that's definitely why swapping. Your I'm very certain yet you went for the wrong stereotype it's indoor plumbing. They look into plumbing I thought one of the do this because the idea was you really appreciate indoor plumbing when you don't have access to it but the Health Authority shut them down so they were able to see if you can really appreciate someone else's rights if you've been married as long as some of the people where you are. Here's your next question still to chance you can you can still win this something that's never happened before happened at an Atlantic League minor league game just 2 weeks ago what was it a player swung his bat so hard it came around and hit him in. The head so he knocked himself out be a coach was objected from a game for arguing with a robot I'm tired or see a pop fly was caught and carried away by a seagull resulting in the 1st ever bird assisted home run. The baseball quiz for you Matt So I did it sort of write him from here and I can self out o. The audience doesn't like that. I don't know if you can hear Anthony but they're all saying it's b. . We're not sure yet and. I admire you sir but they were right back. Trying out this thing where a robot calls balls and strikes a coach did not like the calls argued and was thrown out by the human Pyar who was monitoring all right you have one more chance to get one right here we go minor league games are known for their shenanigans but one catcher tried something that cost him his job what did he do a he carved a potato to look like a baseball and threw it to trick a runner while holding on to the real ball to tag him out. The he used poison ivy to turn the opposing pitcher into an actual belly itch or. Or see tired of squatting behind the plate he dragged to Barca laundry out there and just sat there and challenge them to make a move. Why. Are you going to have to go on with. The putting you know. To get prepared for now and why you're going to the ball that's exactly right. And I just want to thank you he did this it worked he got the guy out but he was immediately thrown out of the game and his baseball career was over but the base of the potato ball is now preserved in the baseball museum it was such an amazing thing I love it I do to Bill how did Anthony Anderson do it or you know one out of 3 that's Ok ish. Yeah yes. Am pretty Anderson has been nominated for an Emmy for Best Actor in a comedy again for his lead role in A.B.C.'s blackish the new season premieres in September Anthony Anderson what a joy to talk to you thanks for joining us on Wait Wait Don't Tell me. 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News case I'm told her this playing this week with all of Poundstone I don't Rob Riggle is so they have emerged and here again is your host at the Chase Bank Auditorium in downtown Chicago Peter Sagal. Thank you Bill we're just a minute Bill remembers that Germany is a rhyme a republic in our Listener Limerick Challenge game if you like to play give us a call one AAA Wait Wait that's 188-892-4812 extension 4 Right now panel some more questions for you from the week's news Paula Fast Company magazine looked into one of the persistent mysteries of office life why no matter what we can't control ourselves in the presence of what. White out. There that's not right. But you're just forcing me to ask you is this a problem that you have that you cannot control yourself in the presence of why don't you start wiping out everything I mean. When I know it's there and so. As not to let me just write about of my after Is that what you do instead of pressing the home button on your phone you just wipe out the screen if you. Know it's not why don't. You give me a hint Well let's see Marie's birthday was just last week so it's probably still good bringing in their cakes or eating the bride and cake eating the free food in the office I get it and yes it just seems as if they're all going to see how. The 3 in the office and if any if you've worked in an office you know that anything edible no matter holder or gross looking will be devoured and from week old birthday cake to that Caribou carcass the vultures are finished. And I according to a psychologist in the Cleveland Clinic the reason we just can't resist this food is in part because office food is free and thus it appeals to our innate desire to get a good deal like yeah that single Eminem has been stepped on so much it's now part of the carpet but it's free private video. How much this study cost. Us the world food and discovery people like free food in case. You've got it solved yet we're getting to know this is not a study this is Fast Company magazine wondering about this question calling up a psychologist getting guesses as to why it's true that is true if you've ever worked in an office I mean the stuff you would never eat even at home you're like oh my god that bagels been out sitting out all day and I can eat that at all because like oh bagel you know usually you cut it in half. And then you go yeah you know everybody has that they'd like to cut the thing in half and then later stroll by and the other half that. I came out here to be a theory to describe that is the theory of the plausibly segmented donut and the idea is like you can eat a hold on up that's terrible for your gain weight but if you cut the don't and you know parts and eat them with a nuff time between them. It doesn't count as eating a hole done by the way the theory of the segment Adama is merry and willing. To lose your little bestseller Yes. I did Jimmy Johns Sonic in the Cheesecake Factory all have foods topping this year's list of what carcinogen. You're clear oh you're close I'm going to give it to you anyway basically medically inadvisable food what. I have not heard. Yet if we magically inadvisable every year I was at a restaurant noticed that because. We lived there was. Well every year you know like a large. I rather know that yes Michael. The Center for Science in the public interest does this every year they announce a list of the worst things you can get at popular restaurants they call the extreme eating awards the the list highlights the worst things you can order for example including the Cheesecake Factory cinnamon roll pancakes which they say are have the equivalent of 2 and a half day's worth of saturated fat or are the same of eating 11 Krispy Kreme donuts. Also featured on the list is Jimmy John's 16 inch giant gargantuan sandwich Chili's 5 Meat big boss burger and Taco Bell's big ass meat sack. So. He made that last one out but if you started salivating seek help. You could make that up yes you are there is no yeah yeah yeah yeah oh yeah I'm sure you give him a year man yeah right you might want to trademark that now I know. Coming up it's Lightning Fill In The Blank but 1st it's the game where you have to listen for the rhyme if you like to play on air call or leave a message of one AAA Wait Wait that's 180-894-8900 extension 48 quickie contact us link on our website that's wait wait that npr dot org There you can find out about attending our weekly live shows right here at the Chase Bank Auditorium in Chicago and our upcoming shows August 29th and 30th at Wolf Trap just outside Washington d.c. 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And what do you do there I work at the Yale Center promotional and tell it all really well what do you do at the Yale Center for emotional intelligence work we educate you if you want to implement social emotional learning I want to see 12 really Ok trying to make kids more emotionally sort of capable and open and aware Yes well good for you and welcome to the show Rebecca Bill Kurtis is going to read you 3 news related limericks with the last word or phrase missing from each if you can fill in that last word or phrase correctly on 2 of the limericks you'll be a winner you ready to play Yes all right here is your 1st limerick avocado toast will not control me but demand is up it shocks me holy now tacos and chips resort to follow dips they have to use fake guacamole While I'm only yes. They. Are getting more and more expensive and millennial have already taken out 2nd mortgages to afford them as it is so restaurants have started making guacamole without. Through this mock wok is made often with a Mexican squash called Fun to say but just not the same chefs say the flavor is almost identical the only difference is in the texture of the sea does tend to be funnier and runnier because he has a look at a bowl of guacamole and for. You know I wish this was damper. That's why you get that because where they come over they make it right your table so you can tell when they're found they're going to go let me look at Yeah and. Here is your next limerick grab your clubs to the church struck strength break from par with you know if and or but but across that turn slowly the water traps Holy we are going to church to play. But yes Rocker's to be. Outside one day brings the 1000 years old and it has the distinction of being one of the holiest places in England not only is it a church but it is now a church with an indoor mini golf course the course only open recently and clergy around the world are quick to condemn it describing it as an act of desecration but some religious scholars believe the course has a place in the church for example Jesus would be a great golfer he never loses his ball in a water hazard or if he's in a fun mood one hazard. Here is your. Here is your last limerick when I work out get anxious or fret I get stains funky smells and regret so I wear a new fabric that's when I was magic it smells really good when I. Well yes indeed scientists create. Progress period your body odor into a fresh lemony aroma Instead of smelling like an old wet you'll smell like someone who just drowned in lemonade. 2 weeks ago special cotton fibers in the clothes bind with the proteins in your sweat to release a pleasant scent so essentially the grosser you are the better you smell if you think about this this technology could lead to total chaos suddenly tons of b.o. Is a sexy thing to list in your dating profile. And you don't like the idea of actually I didn't do it someone who's constantly conscious of how much I might be smelling because I'm a big sweater I think I'll be nice I think though that you know sometimes what other people think like for example car air freshener which I would rather be in the car with you know vomit and dog waste that the smell of a car air freshener So maybe it's it depends what you think is a pleasant smell is true but on the off chance that it really is a pleasant Alemany pleasant lemony smell I think I might look into such a guy I know you know what I'm a dog waster planet Lollapalooza So that's. Up to the color of the employee and if this takes off we might even get more flavor options pumpkin spice sports bras chocolate mint undershirts banana sentence sweatpants and always be the one weirdo who chooses beef stew yoga pants. Bill how did Rebecca do in our quiz she's emotionally perfect at 3 right congratulations thank you. Right. Now on to our final game Lightning Fill In The Blank each of our players will have 60 seconds in which dancers many from the blank questions as he or she can you trick answer now worth 2 points Bill can you give us the scores I don't know that each have 3 Paula has 2 and. I can. We need more than 60 seconds. Well Paul you are in 3rd place you're up 1st the clock will start when I begin your 1st question fill in the blank on Wednesday Ben Carson defended President Trump's attacks on Representative Elijah Cummings and of the city of buying Yes On Tuesday the White House claimed that blank was stalling a trade deal with the u.s. Until after the 2020 election China yes for the 1st time in a decade the Federal Reserve cut blanks borrowing rate yeah interest rate taken on Wednesday American officials confirmed that the son of al Qaeda leader blank had been killed Osama bin Laden right in 84 year old woman lost for 4 days in the Canadian wilderness demanded blank upon being rescued. No. Cold beer in a hot tub this week Disney World competitor blank announced they're opening a new theme park in Orlando universal Yes a homeowner in Florida declined to press charges that the owner of the Tesla blank . Have a Tesla drove into their living room no one the owner of the Tesla parked in his long took out a charging cord and stole the guy's power for 12 hours. A man said he had no idea how long the Tesla been sitting it was long before he finally noticed it but after calling the police to make sure the car wasn't stolen he decided you just wait for the owners to return when they did they didn't apologize when they did offer to make the man dinner to make up for the inconvenience and then went inside his house and cooked all the food you know his fridge. Bill how did Paula do on our quiz 5 right 10 more points settle to 12 already we have flipped a coin Adam is elected to go 2nd that means that I doubt you're up next film The blank on Thursday the Senate passed a bipartisan blank deal sending it to trump to sign should. Budget Yes. On Wednesday the Trump administration announced it would set up a system to allow Americans to legally import some drugs from blank. Mexico no Canada for a 2nd time in a week blank reportedly launched 2 more short range ballistic missiles North Korea right. After he was bitten by a shark a surfer in Florida and mediately got out of the water and went to blank the back of the bar a new blood test for blank could show signs of the disease decades before the 1st symptoms arise cancer you know I was timers less than a month after winning her 2nd consecutive World Cup Jill Ellis the coach of the u.s. Women's blank team announced she was stepping down soccer Yes You know this week a truck driver in Colorado avoided getting into it for a broken taillight by replacing it with blank I don't know I don't know I gave her a good bottle of red Gator aid the officer who pulled the truck over says he was impressed with the driver's temporary fix which is just a red Gator Aid bottle duct tape over the broken taillight basically an electrolyte . Like he looks like the man was let off with a warning after agreeing to replace the taillight soon while the marketing department gave her a were given a great idea for their new ad campaign gave her a drink and drive. Well how did I do in our quiz 3 right 6 more points total of 9 you're in the 2nd place all right Adam here. Going to be ready to go in 5 do we only have 5 you will not if you go out and you can do this this is for the game fill in the blank on Tuesday the governor of California signed a law mandating that presidential candidates release their blanks before appearing in the primary ballot tax which right you know on Monday the departing governor of blank selected his proposed success or. Puerto Rico Yes I'm in a Florida arrested for driving under the influence told the arresting officers that he wasn't drinking while driving he was blanking. Classic cocaine No he said he wasn't drinking while driving he was only drinking at stop signs. Florida Monday blank announced that over 100000000 customers had their data breached Facebook no capital 1000 that's what's in your wallet. On a Wednesday the organizers of the embattled 50th anniversary of the blank Music Festival announced it was cancelled what's right and South Carolina thief who stole the Fed. Package off woman's front porch. When they opened it and found a blank. One of those. Fake babies I. Was. Proud of the woman got a notification that her package containing 9. But when she got home the box was missing yet another victim of the. Delivery from houses throughout the neighborhood she notified police who say they're on the lookout for a suspect who is 59 Brown and desiccated and in the. Bill did Adam do well enough to win we have a tie Adam and. That means Paul is no wonder I. Mean. I'm surprised but. Just a minute we'll ask our panel to predict now the little broke the record will be his next big hit but 1st let me tell you that support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations and home instead senior care committed to helping seniors stay in their own homes offering personalized services including personal care meals in nutrition and memory can learn more at home instead dot com slash n.p.r. 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North Highlands Sacramento the time now it's new from the Chicago it's This American Life I'm Ira Glass So one of the people who works in a radio show her brother was going through a rough time and he called her mom kind of panicking and the mom was like you know you just need to stop thinking about the stuff and he's like mom that is not possible and she was like that is totally possible what you have to do is take a bad thought and put it into a box in your head then if you take the box out of your head put it in a cupboard and shut the cupboard. I love the completeness of that it's like the box in the head was not enough right that it made me work for their mom when she was young but then you know I have not extinguished the bad thoughts quite enough I need more I need a cupboard. Next summer producer her brother are visiting her parents she told me the 2 of them are all just like Don't open the cupboards. The Nile usually gets a bad rap apartment lies in your feelings you know inside pretending things never happened these are not signs of psychological help they're signs of his adulthood if you do those things basically you're an adult. Because being a don't mean sucking up getting on with it going to work even if you have a cold because you're an adult. You do your job. And I complaining in fact the days entire show is a defense of not thinking about it of not knowing the defense and short of ignorance we are 3 very different stories you can decide how convincing they are Stay with us. What you don't know Ok so today show was a rerun I just want to say in the intervening years since we made the show I got over my cold incredible right thanks for caring and then this morning I woke up my for something like this I cannot explain this I swear I'm generally a very healthy person anyway the reason that we are rewriting this episode is that the 1st story in the show was made into a film and the national release of the film is this weekend the film is called the fair well I can say this as an outsider and nothing to do with the making of this film we are not investors in this film or anything it's totally wonderful at the end of the Sundance Film Festival this year critics voted the best film that who won who made the film as screenwriter and best director who is the one who did a radio story back before he made the film the stories about her family and it fit into the theme of this episode because it's a very dramatic case study of people not admitting the truth when my grandmother was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer she was given 3 months to live. She was 80 years old and my family for reasons I'll get into in a minute decided not to tell her I was totally against this. When I heard the news I wanted to talk with my grandmother comfort her I want to grieve with her in the way that seems natural when someone you love is dying. But my mom she's the one who called me to give me the bad news quickly inform me that what I wanted.