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Is Thanksgiving weekend and if your family is anything like ours you've managed to exhaust every topic of conversation other than politics and you're getting dangerously close to turning your in-laws into a human turducken So in order to forestall disaster fights the rewriting of wills why not spend the next hour with us as we revisit some favorite segments and bring you some things you've never heard before or you can tell your father and logs actually what you think about presidential golf trips your funeral let's start with an interview with a living a while the actress who directed her 1st feature film this year book smart Peter ask her what she's best known for I think you'd probably have but you never know there's time fans everywhere they come out of the woodwork you know I do there's sort of more of the nerdy variety and there are also the most by well the front fans everywhere but I have to say I drinking buddy the movie because yes with our very own just wander and yes and I'm I love it very much and. I have to give it up for the Chicago group group c. Which is really off them and I mean this is great. But. Obviously as we've mentioned you've done some pretty serious Hollywood projects and Joe Swanberg a local filmmaker here in Chicago he's famous for shooting ultra low budget movies he doesn't script them he just says hey guys this is your character sit here I'm turning in the camera go Yeah right yeah and did you enjoy working that way Oh my God I left it at that because we were drunk 100 percent. I tried to emulate it with book smart with less fear because we had young people I said So let's talk about the movie you're this isn't the 1st thing you directed you've done some short films but this is your 1st feature which is very exciting Yeah one of the things I've read is that it's very intimidating to be a movie director because even a low budget movie there's a lot of money there's a lot of people who are all looking to you to be the leader did you have to struggle with that was that tough for you or did you fall naturally into the role I thought pretty naturally into it because I've been on that for 17 years and I was ready to take the reins you know I was ready to be the father so it wasn't too hard I enjoyed that part had you been on sets doing all those other projects you've been doing sitting there the whole time going down that I should be in charge increasingly Yeah. Yeah this movie book smart it's about 2 young women they're about to graduate high school it's also very contemporary If I'm not mistaken it takes place right now the spring of 2019 Yes that's right and you are to me a very young person but you're not that young so did you have to learn stuff about like what high school kids are like now and how they were different when when you were graduating high school yeah basically they're just a lot better now they are much smarter they're much cooler they're much more involved they're much more fluid and I had to learn some of their cooling go because I am 100000 years old and I had to kind of catch up on how they talk and they had cool lingo like for the longest time I didn't know what they meant what they were like. Brad Pitt live on the wire they say but that means our bit so I pass that on to you I'm sorry the word. If I could say like like brought it rad fit Brad Batman Yeah did they ever tell you anything that made you think they were just pulling your leg. When you said they were but they were very very kind to me I have to ask you this is a movie as is given away by the title about 2 rather brainy girls in high school who in fact decide at one point they haven't had enough fun they've been so brainy and working so hard was that what you were like in high school I went to like the ultimate nerd high school just the nerdiest of the nerd and I would one of them and I proud to be but we didn't have fun parties and that everyone else did and I just wasn't made aware but. I had seen the movie about it in order to go to the party yeah I think had everyone paid them to be there. So the movie has come out it's gotten great reviews I hope a lot of people see it let's assume that it is the success that it seems to be to you know what you want to do next are you going to try to do one of those big superhero movies next that seems to be that I mean usually aggression the fun wouldn't that well you've done those big movies you could handle it I could handle it I can handle it on if I had you know good now back and the flat you think I could make it happen but truly you know I will say the statistics are pretty grim for female filmmakers so I say that all of us ladies should step up and start telling stories as much as we possibly can thanks. A review we have in fact asked you here to play a game that we're calling a levy a wild have some Wild Wings. That's right we're going to ask you about Buffalo Wild Wings of the. Casual Dining franchise that was named in your honor by some drunk guys who were really into Cowboys. An alien's. Answer 2 out of 3 questions correctly and you win our prize for one of our listeners the weight waiter of their choice during their voicemail Bill who is a Livia wild playing for each of Denver Colorado All right you ready to do this yes I am all right here's your 1st question though the star of the menu a Buffalo Wild Wings is obviously the wings that's not all they have to offer you could also order which of these at one of their restaurants a one gallon bag of fountain soda for only $799.00 b. a Cocktail called the gin and tonic and ranch dressing. Or c. Chicken forearms. Oh my God I I'm just I really hope it's a bag over the back of a bag of fountain soda. That's. All that is that come with Welcome to the bag and some so. Are you choosing that I'm going to get you're right Olivia that's the right. Very good it's good for parties Yes Next question you can catch almost any sport you want on the many T.V.'s at your local Buffalo Wild Wings but at one location in Alabama you can also do what a attend a church service be hunt game in the very big backyard or see have paint ball fights with other customers oh wow. Oh my God. I'm going to go with church you're absolutely right a live view. Of course the church service at this particular Buffalo Wild Wings begins before the restaurant opens you can have beer and wings during service however they encourage you to stick around and enjoy it after the service because the communion wine also come in a bad situation. All right here's your last question you can be perfect in this as you have been in so many other things here's your last question March Madness is the busiest time of. For the Wild Wings right so the restaurant is always looking for ways to make the customers experience even more enjoyable including which of these a they set up booths with sports bookies to help you drop your brackets be an on site therapist for those suffering from actual clinical March Madness. Or see the jewel stool a cool bar stool for men who got the sack to me so they could skip work and watch more games I'm around so much let me go with a unit with a boobs with sports bookies know is actually the jewel stool I heard. And it is even Venus many men schedule of a sec Timmy's around March Madness this is true so they can enjoy the enforced rest in front of the t.v. So why not entice them down the Wild Wings right your marketing genius. Bill how did it live you wild do on our quiz He won 2 out of 3 that's a big. Graduations you should feel good about this I thought great Do I get a lifetime supply of wings I'm hoping I think you should go into your nearest Buffalo Wild Wings and say hello I'm Livia while I would like some wings and see what happens. Ok I want to go do it live in the wilds a new film book Smart is in theaters now go see it it's charming and funny as all get out a living a while thank you so much for joining us and what you are you thank. You so. If there's one thing that our listeners love it's what we've come to call Paula rants that's when Paula Poundstone gets very very exercised about some topic or another that actually has cardio benefits here is a particularly a row because. From earlier this year about a particular n.p.r. News report with guest host Tom Papa there was a n.p.r. Piece one time when Colorado 1st legalized pot they also came up with this really stupid idea to do with thing like that one reason do it was like a pot dispensary you were. Which is just so painfully stupid it's hard to conceptualize but like a vehicle comes and picks up the customer and the n.p.r. Reporter rode around in and they begin and the woman that gets in the car forget her name but Texas and Stamberg No no the client. No it was it you said they go to the 1st dispensary and the woman was so enthusiastically 60 years old so enthusiastic and she goes in for some reason the reporter to go in with her book she comes out they go Well what did you buy and she's like I got this chart clinic at this joint I get this thing like already so much. That you know I'm going to get the car to go to another place and the lady had been very chatty at 1st and now all you hear over the audio the woman laughing uncontrollably. And I thought it was like creepy or like she was like. I think the I want a black girl who insisted they had to disappear on their way to another dispensary and that they had to. Discontinue the trip because she had become incommunicable. I'm. And I have a trip to Colorado coming up before I heard that he said I thought I thought you know maybe I could not take this is legal now and I could do that thing when I went there and I heard that piece and I never. Yet. I don't know. How I feel about the whole we legal thing I live in California and when you used to be you if you smell weed you're like oh I'm someplace cool this is a concert now you know like I'm in a nursing home visiting my grandma. I love. Coming up a never before heard Bluff the Listener game in a visit with singer Alex boy yea that's when we come back on Wait Wait Don't Tell me from n.p.r. . They're on Kristy Lee host of life from here I hope you saved room for an extra slice of mandolin Saulo joined us this week for our show from the Town Hall in New York City we're joined by special guests on the back Maggie Rogers Chris gutted and Sarah DROs. Join us for live from here at noon today on capper a d o 90.9 Sacramento and 91.3 Stockton the dust on your n.p.r. 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News quiz I'm Bill Curtis and here is your host at the Chase Bank Auditorium in Chicago Peter Sagal thank you well thank you everybody you are and how over we went to Salt Lake City to record our 1000th show and if you do 1000 well of course you have to do 1001 so on the 2nd night Bill Kurtis and I joined with panelists Adam Burke Amy Dickinson and Bobcat Goldthwait to try to fool the audience in our bluff game and then we had a remarkable visit with Salt Lake City's own Alex boy a the only former member of the Morgan Tabernacle Choir to become a You Tube star you are right now it's time for the Wait Wait Don't Tell me the last the Listener game call one AAA Wait wait to play our game on the air Hi you're on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me Oh my goodness it's really happening how do you tell. Happening now who's this I have to think yes from Salt Lake City Utah so like so I was like how far away from the actual theater are you right now I'm like oh my. I don't know when my father remind them how they got there he doesn't let that. Wait a minute you're a mile away and we're talking to you yeah at 1st I thought it was going to be one of those the call is coming from inside the house you know. Lady over the cell phone use Twitter so close just come on by we'll wait. Well welcome to the show now Jess you're going to play our game in which you must try to tell truth from fiction what is Jess is topic you know they call me octo pushy. But this week in the news we learned a new word and that word is octo push and no it doesn't mean a doula for octopuses. Panels are going to tell you what it does mean only one of them though is telling the truth pick that one and you'll win our prize the weight waiter of your choice on your voicemail Are you ready to play I'm reading All right 1st let's hear from Adam Burke Tiffany fleet of Plano Texas has always hated October it's not a seasonal affective disorder thing she explains it's just the fact of October the pumpkin spice and hollowing decorations going up right after Labor Day October is just as big a lame reminder that summer is over and the end of the year is rushing toward you freak soon located like minded thinkers online and earlier this year founded October push a grassroots movement aimed at shunting the dreaded 10th month to later in the year . The plan is to add 6 days to both August and September and make October shorter and later explained late the idea seems to be gathering steam a recent change dot org petition espousing the octopus agenda garnered 120000 signatures Dr Jordan Lowery an octopus or from Sacramento sees a scientific rationale for the shift global warming is causing havoc with the traditional abscission and foliage change intrigues so realigning. To reflect that is a better gear he explained Plus remember the Pope Gregory changed the calendar by 10 days and 1582 and he didn't even have a website. While fully acknowledge is the new arrangement will take some getting used to particularly for people born in the latter part of the month she adds it means an extra 2 weeks of May not hearing the monster mash and his c.b.s. It will be work. Force October that. Moment that you know that. Your next story of what octopus might mean comes from Amy Dickinson it's pretty obvious by now that all human and Devore will eventually become an Olympic sport you know sword fighting became fencing and now sinking to the bottom of the pool might become the newest and weirdest sport hoping to compete at the Olympics this new sport is called octo push and next month it will make its debut at the Southeast Asian Games pushes a form of hockey that's played underwater at the bottom of the swimming pool came was developed by the British Royal Marines for underwater training in the 1950 s. And it's called octo push because the name near drowning was already taken. The entire game featuring swimmers and he waited puck happens underwater the players wear Speedos and have little tiny hockey sticks they end their referees surface every few seconds to gulp air I'd explain the scoring system to act to push but no one cares I'll tell you how spectators can watch octo push but they really can't. Version of the. Blade at the bottom of the pole vault holding your breath your last October push or well that's Bobcat Goldthwait. For decades in the small Swedish town of go giant mysterious wooden spatulas have been unearthed and have Flomax the community over their purpose thought to possibly be an ancient farming tool the town's folks would paint the spatulas with bright festive colors and use them to decorate their gardens often hang them in their own homes it wasn't until recently when archaeologist Lars Dahlberg found an ancient parchment in a nearby cave that the real use spatulas was discovered a large tool of the octopus. Bird is believed to have played a main role in the ancient Nordic practice of. And this is when the elders of the clan threw themselves off cliffs in order not to be a burden to their families or the tribe. Lars said I guess sometimes the elders would have 2nd thoughts about hurling themselves in the great abyss. And would start their own back. Then the octopus was used to swell I'm. Like a large geriatric housefly. Said he believed the octopus was also used at the bottom of the cliff to help clean up after which. People have gotten to have removed the pushes from their homes and darn. Black one the town's woman declared it's really a terrible shame because there are namely decorated act and push really made my den come alive. All right well so yes. There is a saying This much we can tell you called octo push is it from Adam Burke a movement to push October back in the year so we can have a little bit more time before we deal with it from Amy Dickinson a weird but a real sport played with a hockey puck at the bottom of a pool while holding your breath or from Bobcat Goldthwait an ancient Nordic implement used as a spatula to push reticent senior citizens off of what. I'm. Going to go with a we're going to go with Adam's story. The audience here likes it if you're going to use Adam story about the people who want to push October back because wouldn't be nice if we didn't have to deal with it yeah all right well to bring you the real story we spoke to someone involved in it underwater Auggie is played normally and that can be told and you can there. Underwater are going to be in court that was Mike Helton you the director of the 2019 USA underwater hockey nationals in other words he plays octo push. So I'm so sorry you didn't get it right however you're earned a point for Adam and maybe held Art of Movement so I thought one of the few. And I'm sorry you didn't win but hey you know we're going to be here for another hour one on one of us will record your voicemail I promise you. Thank you so much thank you thank you. Thank. God he should. Get stuff now and now the game where people travel a long way to arrive at a brief moment of silliness it's called Not My Job Alex boy a lives here in Salt Lake City but he was born in London to a Nigerian mother and along the way he has led a boy band sung in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and been a backup dancer for George Michael Yeah fine you might say. Well what's he done that's unusual Well he also personally gave a book of Mormon to Prince Charles How's that it wasn't there it was and then All right Alex boy a welcome to Wait Wait Don't Tell me thank you so much it's not a pleasure to have the rain the more the more I read about you the more I believe you're a fictional character. Because it was so that's true you grew up kind of rough in London yeah I went through the foster care system a lot and everything and then I end up go and ended up at a boarding school really I when I was 11 in the school I went to was moved from whole school and it was like subsidized so all the kids from the hood from the really bad places of of London and broken homes and that kind of stuff and the school the. Look like some out Harry Potter but without the magic of the movement's robots but we would like literally living Harry Potter and the education I got was amazing I found every class but when I would go to get a job in England as soon as I saw the school who moved to school in coming oh yes yes it was you're all you're like a kid from the rough neighborhood yeah I felt like you know the English version of fresh prince from Bel Air. So Alex tell when did you start singing I actually started music when I got kicked out of my house when I was 16 years old from becoming a mum really so yeah this is what I mean I was so Alice you're in England yes I did some guys on bicycles ride up and and talk to you like a how did you like a little bit it's like in America well I used to work in McDonald's I'm going home I'm like sweat and everything what can Donald's name thing I turn up I'm walking to my doorstep I woke up and what did I see to Sister missionary smiling you. Know everything you had to think let me tell you think it was so frickin ha ha I'm . Not saying there's a man up stairs got a sense of humor So anyway I've heard a lot of reasons for converting to Mormonism but that was never been one of them. To be honest so as you say we could be here all day. But eventually you decided to leave London and you came to Salt Lake City yes you are and you join the Morgan Tabernacle Choir Yeah yeah I was there for 8 years my men have this manager in such a hostel right so after I left the choir left about 4 years ago and he said this is how he had publicised made sense Alex boy was the 1st black lead singer of the Mormon Tabernacle. I was going to ask you how in a course of a 100 people how you would stand out but I guess I know. There was 3 there's 3 black guys in the choir when I was in the choir Yeah we school. 3 pieces of licorice in a sea of marshmallows really what what is it like singing in a chorus of 300 people can I tell you when you are singing with 360 people in a spiritual sensing about God telling you man saved my life really really and in a way that you're performing with boy bands prior to that did not oh yeah that's right you are going to that you know you know you had a boy you must be if you mean there are so many like things that only you have done from having a boy band that opened for in sync Yeah and the Backstreet Boys are band The Bachelor boys opened up for us in Cardiff in 1995 I believe and this was when we'd only had one hit and in the back it was came and they were the 1st boy band ever where all the singers could actually sing my group so 4 of us right yeah and only one of us could sing and that was me right so I come into the studio recording all my heart as Mike really and then which you're on stage and not turn all their mikes off. And they would mind everything so was oh my voice but they're amazing dancers No I'm not going to tell you because you can look it up but did I know that did they know that nobody could hear them. Won't know because they sang at the top of their voices. So I just turned the mikes off I told the engineers to turn their mikes off so they didn't know to this they know that we are the best singers in the world. And that and like that's like the opposite of the moment when you're the only one thinking yeah that's right I love the way that you the way you tell your stories like an old general talking about a battle who was that. Part of how can I be lacking for you Do you agree with that I Well Alex boy a we have invited you here to play a game we're calling Meat Boy our d. . The more we talked about you hungrier we got in we realize that's because your name reminded us of Chef Boyardee the very real show. From ledges name to the and more to line of canned pasta products answer 3 questions about Chef Boyardee and his food and you'll win a prize for one of our listeners the voice of anyone they might choose for their voicemail Bill who is the irrepressible Alex boy a playing for Bob friend Holly of New Windsor New York all right you know I think you're ready to do this Ok all right yeah 1st question though it has been popular with generations of kids not everyone is a fan of Chef Boyardee as proven by which of these incidents a before Hurricane Dorian touched ground in the Bahamas the only thing left in supermarkets were cans of Chef Boyardee Elizondo that was home to be a half a ton of an even Chef Boyardee spaghetti was found stuffed into the crawl space behind a junior high cafeteria in Michigan. Or c. When rescuers reached the remains of an airplane crash site in the Himalayas they found signs of cannibalism and 10 unopened can. Boy argued before. I'm going to go for you know for a hurricane during And you're right Alex that's what Thank you. Ok here's your next question what no one thinks of Chef Boyardee as health food it's probably never put anyone's life at risk except for one time when what happened a a grocery worker at a Florida Piggly Wiggly was trapped in a pyramid of Chef Boyardee cans that was built around him while he now. He won a Marine deployed in the Middle East accidentally microwaved a can with a lid on causing a small explosion all these fellow troops ran in with a ram sixteen's or see a woman in China developed aluminum poisoning because she loved Chef Boyardee ravioli so much she would chew on the empty cans Oh oh if we could go for b. Going to go for b. The Marine Yes that's what happens when everybody was fine thank you all. All right last question for you one of the best things about Chef Boyardee is that it's pretty cheap but in 20012. Through Chef Boyardee fans had the chance to spend $300.00 to do what a eat a can of Chef Boyardee ravioli in a cage with professional wrestlers the big show the eat a special customized dish of kickin slop and Joe macaroni as made by renowned chef Thomas Keller or see what renowned chef Thomas Keller be forced to eat a can of can sloppy joe macaroni. And you're all calling for see which involves forcing. One of the most respected chefs in the world see him to eat a bowl of chef or you know see. You really go for saying I want to be adventurous from a guy on a limb go I've got 2 things to say 1st of all it was a Secondly despite the stereotype you're all terrible people. Know it was true that if you've ever wanted to eat chef 40 ravioli in a cage with a professional wrestler the big show you missed your chance it happened back in 2000 Bill how did out sooner quit 2 out of 3 and so we're doing. Our experience as a singer actor and dancer his new album coming to America is on sale now hours boy thank you so much for joining. Us. When we come back we talk to everybody's favorite human being Henry Winkler and a hardened felon Well kind of we'll be back in a minute with more of Wait Wait Don't Tell me from n.p.r. . It's Francis left this week we're spending a serious time with the food world superstar Nigella Lawson to talk about standing up for home cooks in a world dominated by chefs why she has no patience for snobs and why getting better at cooking can make it less fun that's The Splendid Table from 8 pm. 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Have been avoiding our families and helping you avoid yours by distracting everyone with great segments from our recent past we did consider having everybody in America just swap families but there were loads just tickled challenges so we canceled all the busses we had reserved and instead here's some things everybody can agree on for example that Henry Winkler is the nicest man in the universe and he came back to our show last August and Peter asked if people still recognized him as the funds or on his more recent Emmy winning role the acting teacher Gene Kosovo on H.B.O.'s comedy series Barry I don't you know yell out ballet. And people yell out the fonts but I will say I'm wearing jeans right now Ok. Because you know Jane this is a part for the characters that's true they both were you know this one is named Jean the other one wears jeans yes that's very high didn't realize as a through line to your work you know what I did need your interview much less proud of it I know it's great you know taking a break you know my everything every sign that says fire you so amazing. But people still do refer to you as the Fonz even though I absolutely absolutely my wife. But and I think that's wonderful but I don't want to talk about the fun this time I want to talk to you about Gene because you know this role you play in the amazingly good t.v. Show Barry can say those who are not lucky enough to see it and can you describe who Gene is I am a teacher I have great faith spins Yeah and I know we're great because we can pay in cash on Chinese right. And I Keach a young man who came into my class. Has kind of like another job I've only finding out about and he's a an assassin right and he has become like a son right to me Well what's amazing about the show is even given that outlandish premise that he's an assassin who decides he wants to be an actor and forget in acting class it's really quite moving because as you say he does need a father and your character kind of provides that I didn't know that he was a as a couple facts as he was supposed to be right and and then the 2 men who run the show Shawn me as I started to to bring Gina live and they said oh he could also have a heart and so then they combined the 2 the 2 parts of my. Body Right. Down I got to ask you because of the so much of this is said in this acting class did you ever take an acting class and was it like this you know like I had 14 teachers in college in graduate school in drama school I did research and I came across a fact where there was a teacher here in l.a. Who literally forced his students who barely made enough to take his class he made them buy his art. To me like he would paint pictures or whatever and then sell it to his students and I I thought Yes this says everything I need to know about this teacher Wow Do you enjoy that aspect of the character being a little grasping and cruel to you know what I mean I actually never thought of that because when you do when you do an episode you do scene by scene and you concentrate on making that scene perfect and all of a sudden you put all these details together and I watch along with everybody else I don't see it until it's on the air right so you know I don't really am wield I just love going to work you know that's what I want to with that would be loud. Sounds great so it does sound great. You and I'm so proud you won an Emmy for the 1st season yes I did and I was amazed to discover that that was your 1st Emmy you've had a lifetime of television and you've only won this Emmy and I have it on my dining room table. Really is that when you put it on and it's opposite the front door so when the man. Delivers medicine from the pharmacy Yeah. I I pointed out to him. The Emmy. Oh that whole thing and anybody else who could. In the front door I read them through the dining room. I want to ask you something so you were on the show a few years ago in a wonderful time and Paula Poundstone said that she saw you once in public just you know in the way that you do You were we were flying on the same airline on the same plane and she said that she thought to herself There's a happy little fella. So I just going to the fact that I'm sure I don't I think I'm not quite sure what she was referring to but I did want to ask you Do you think that's an accurate description of I I have like 2 words gratitude and tenacity and that's pretty good to me. And gratitude doesn't allow me to be angry along the way thank. You thank you there's always a pleasure to talk to you we've invited you here to play a game that this time we're calling who'll look at the colors so as a Winkler you Winkle But what do you know about things that twinkle stars. When I ask you 3 questions about Twinklers or Stars Get 2 right you'll win our prize for one of our listeners any voice they might like on their voicemail Bill who is our friend Henry Winkler playing for sentiment Taff of Dallas Texas All right Henry you ready to do this yes oh yes we've learned some interesting things about stars since we started venturing into space including which of these a stars can get bored be stars smell like burned steak or see stars they're just like us. Wow. I would have to go with stars are just like gods because I'm a very normal person actually stars they're just like us is a feature in Us magazine The real answer was stars smell like burned state. We didn't know this into the. Really true until astronauts went out into space and space suits and came back and sniffed their spacesuits and felt weirdly hungry because it turns out that stars give off a number of chemicals one of which smells like burnt state why it's true why the smell of space and on Monday sure I never knew that I know. All right these 2 more chances Here's your next question will mean a Fleming classified tens of thousands of stars during her decades long career at the Harvard observatory get for that she had another job what was it a one day the head of the observatory got frustrated with the staff and said My Scottish made could do better he hired her and she did. Be she was a theater critic who said people are boring I want to watch something else or see nobody knows who just showed up one day wearing a silver suit and said I can help you. All right I'm going to ruminate Yes. I'm going to I'm going to. Do with a that she said I'm my Scottish maid could do better you want to write thank. You I want to go undiscovered geniuses who became a brilliant mathematician and astronomer she discovered among other things the horse said nebula she is a hero all right you have one more quote I'm going to hire him but she took that job I know it's a sham last question our son is a star of course for about 30 percent of people staring into the sun will cause sneezing fits what is the scientific name of this reflex a squinty sneezing the soul or so not or see off a sawmill compelling Helio up filmic outburst or ACTU. I'm going to. Go see auto so more compelling Hillier up filmic outburst or at you you're right thank. You. Bill how did Henry Winkler do on our quiz you know Henri 2 out of 3 right is a very good score that means you have one thank you. Thank you. Finally many people love the Netflix t.v. Show Orange Is The New Black but they may not know it's based on the experience of a real person Piper Kerman who really did serve a year in a woman's prison we interviewed Ms Kerman near Cleveland where she had been working teaching writing in Ohio prisons better ask her if the authorities knew her whereabouts I am not on the lam and yeah I've been living here in Ohio for almost 5 years it's been fantastic and. I feel I mean I course believe that everybody knows your story but we should say that the book obviously isn't is a memoir it's it's nonfiction but they took some liberties with the t.v. Series there was a book is a true story and the. Show takes the book puts it in a blender and puts a lot of other ingredients in Yes and isn't that fantastic and fantastic so I knew you were a fan of the t.v. Show I am a fan of this show for sure and all the people all the wonderful people who make it so you're back in prison although now you were doing it as an instructor and so what are you doing I teach true story writing class I teach a class in which students come in and write true stories from their own life essentially a memoir writing class do you ever teach them India of your famous prison recipes they were very interested in the cheesecake recipe actually at the men's facility the women all knew how to do it I was actually amazed to read this in the book that all this cooking went on which I did not think was the thing that happened in prison but yeah it turns out the food and the child was pretty bad yeah the skills of the prisoners are much better the materials are kind of rough to work with right so you do what you can well 1st of all I did notice that you said that in the prison the food is so bad it's. Exercise was one of the few things you could do to spend your time you ended up at least the 1st look I'm pretty great I ran a half marathon when I was in prison that's really boring it is to the time where do you how do you want to have fun in prison you run a half marathon around a quarter mile gravel track Good Lord is a lot of left turn to see. So as you say the child in the food hall was terrible some sort of cooking for yourself how do you make a cheesecake in prison. To make a cheesecake in prison you need a Tupperware bowl you have to have that after purchase it from the commissary or borrow it you make a cross out of either smashed up graham crackers or Oreo depending on your proclivity Hold on hold on I'm writing this now you've got it you need some margarine that you've stolen from the chow hall that is the only stolen ingredient in this recipe which makes it novel and notable. And then for the filling you take those kinds of cheeses that don't have to be refrigerated you need about a half a cup of putting you can usually get some putting somewhere and you sort of beat those things viciously together until they're creamy and then you get a beating on. On the putting and. And you also start to add an entire thing of cream or about yeah right Paul I'm making putting my hands about $8.00 to $10.00 or more is the powdered How do and substitute cream or yes you put that in there the whole container you try not to think about what's what's going it what's in there right and you mix and you mix and then actually what you have is kind of a souping mess right yes well then you take the plastic squeeze lemon and you put I would use really most of the lemon and you start to squeeze that into the mix and it tightens up. I review whatever mysterious things are contained in nondairy creamer but it's remarkably like the texture of a New York cheesecake. And the taste you are in so it seems if you're in prison. You got to get a few networks. Well Piper Kerman it is a pleasure to talk to you we've invited you here to play a game we're calling longer this. Year you were busted and as we've discussed serve time for money laundering which made us wonder how much you know about the more traditional kind of laundering. Answer 2 out of 3 questions about what they call closing laundering the one prize one of our listeners the voice of anyone they might like on our show on their voicemail Bill who is Piper Kerman playing for Sophia Casa of Ohio who's here with her family. Or what do you do there. Yes. Here's your 1st question American pioneers had a very inventive way of dealing with dirty clothes What was it a sticking them in the Old Faithful geyser in Yellowstone waiting for it to erupt the shooting of their laundry with soap shot. Or c. Just standing near a buffalo and blaming the animal for the sting. And I go with Old Faithful you're exactly right I'm. Already going to go that's right they say that with the stick the laundry and the guys are great for to go up the laundry would blow out the air they pick it up and be clean that's what I want to absolutely. That's Weston while he was writing Walden Henry David Thoreau of course shut himself off from civilization that made getting his clothes clean difficult what clever technique did throw used to get his clothes clean during his year living on a coat his clothes in honey and let the bears lick them clean. He used his philosophical insights to convince the clothes to turn away from dirt. Or see you walk the mile into town and had his mom do it for him. It's so easy to see you are yeah yeah. We're her over in the isn't that far out of town they also brought food for him all right last question nowadays things of course and laundry as with everything else it's all high tech astronauts on the International Space Station do their laundry how a bind laser. Be hanging them on a line outside I'm. Loading their dirty laundry. I think it's basically a version of disposable underwear you're exactly right you don't want to. Bring up. Cargo the old laundry in the ship and. You're exactly right Bill had a. Right. Thank you very much. That's it for our special Thanksgiving. Committed to helping homeowners find the right project. Fidelity Investments taking a personalized approach to helping. To preserve. Connections between people and create a. Business . Our senior producer. Thanks to Bill Kurtis. Thanks to all of. This is n.p.r. . From Sacramento State this is Capital Public Radio 90. F. M. And h.d. 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