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"Is Sarah Cohen from Newton, Massachusetts. No. What do you do there in that beautiful suburb a few miles west of here? Well, by day, I am the program manager for a longitudinal research study of maternal and childhood health and by night and weekends. I'm a baker, a grad student. I have a toddler and I work with company one theater in Boston. That's great. But I have to tell you, I was hoping that when you got to by night, you'd say fight crumb. I'll take it though. Sarah, welcome to the show, Bill Curtis is going to read you three news related limericks with the last word or phrase missing from each if you can fill in that last word or phrase correctly on two of the limericks you will be a winner. Here is your first limit. Since hairlines can be too much fuss. A road trip works better for us. We don't pay big bucks, but we traveled deluxe with seats in the big, fancy. Yes, the era of highly expensive luxury bus travel is here. Companies like Napa way and in a great name for a bus company, Jack. How often first class bus rides for the discerning passenger of memes. They've got these live flat sleep pods unlimited snacks and the bold leap over their competitor Greyhound, bathrooms that work. Sometimes. The companies insist on calling these buses they don't say that on the buses, they call them a coach. It's revealing that the fanciest thing they can think of to call a bus is still the worst place to sit on a plane. Where do you get this deluxe coach? Because if you still have to go to the bus station. Yeah, that's kind of gonna kill you. It's gonna kill your we're not parking here. I don't think those belief in port authority if that's what you're asking. Yeah. Hey, I don't care how fancy it is. I will end up sitting next to the guy in work release. Just how it goes. That's how it goes. All right, here is your next limit. The winking was two disconcerting. The governor
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"Jordan, I know Somerville really well. Used to hang out there sometimes. Go to the Davis square cinema. What do you do there? I am a preschool teacher at an outdoor nature school An outdoor nature school? Yeah, we're outside in the wind and snow and hail and rain and everything. Well, I was going to ask because you are in Massachusetts, which famously has intemperate winters. So what do you do with like preschoolers out there in the snow drifts? Yeah, you know, so there's so short, sometimes they can't see them with all the colors. It's such a climb up and slide down and they stay outside down to about 10°. So they're pretty hardy. Wow. I just had this vision. I had this vision of you tying plastic flag poles with orange flags. Like they do with fire hydrants. So they can find them in snowdrifts. They look like a sim. Like in the Sims? The one with a flag over there. Yeah. Very cute, yeah. Well, welcome to the show. You, of course, are going to play the listener limerick challenge. That means that Bill Curtis is going to read for you three news related limericks with the last word or phrase missing from each finish those limericks two or three times you will win our prize the voice of anyone you might choose for your voicemail. You ready to play? I'm ready. All right, here is your first limerick. The pants on the kids who are strutting. Look just like my uncles, the glutton, but it's not that there's zip has to fight for its grip. No, it's hip to undo the top button. Yes. Jordan. According to some hipster writing in The New York Times. Unbuttoned jeans are the latest fashion
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"Limericks, Bill Curtis, of course, will begin them. You have to finish them by filling in the last word or phrase. You ready to do this? Yes, I'm ready. Here we go. Here's your first lemmer. Once the paper is flushed down the bowl, arts and crafts have to pay the hard toll. How can we soldier on now that cardboard is gone? They've removed the Q two from the guys I met a lot. I know it's hard. I'm just going to say it's hard when you're doing it and you're on the spot. It's everybody knows. This game is really hard this whole thing. It is. It's a very difficult. A blank of paper. Oh my God. Peace. Roll, yes. You got it. Wow. Apparently if you save paper bathroom tissue brands are considering removing the cardboard tube from the middle of the roll. This is great for the environment but causing panic among kindergarten teachers everywhere. And anybody who uses binoculars. Exactly. Here's your next lemma. Charles Dickens that overachiever. Found fault in the wines of Geneva. And he'd often bewail his slow sun the male because the van was a bit of a overachiever. We heard overachieve it. First word. Sorry. It's usually women get called this. Oh my God. It's terrible. We can't even use it. Friends with overachiever Geneva, he was a bit of a, guys, I'm having a hard time. It's all right. Well, it's hard when we'll give it to you. It's diva. It's a bit of a diva. Yeah, according
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"Of real live people. From NPR and WBE Z Chicago, this is wait, wait. Don't tell me the NPR news quiz. Grab your Bros and meet me on the quad. We're playing spike Bill. With me, Bill Curtis. And here's your host, who just realized summer is almost over. So he's last minute power tenning and a pottery kiln. Peter sagal. Thank you Bill now as much fun as it is to have us on your break. We are even more excited to get back to work because now we have live people in the audience and live people on the stage. We're not sure about the backstage crew though. They wear black and never speak. So in order to get yourself psyched up to talk to real people again, we are listening this week to some of our favorite visits with actual humans. For example, in July 2017, we were honored to host maestra, Marin Elsa, then music director of the Baltimore symphony. And one of the four most conductors in America. So I always ask sort of musical geniuses like yourself were you like a musical prodigy? Did you have to be forced to practice the piano or did you love it? No, I was born with a job. My parents were professional musicians. My dad was a violinist and my mom and cellist. And so they needed a pianist. And so they said, oh, let's make one. So I was born with a job and really hated the piano. Hated it. I retired when I was 6. That was that because you didn't like the piano or because you just resented your parents like this is why you were here. Well, how much time do we have now? No, they tricked me into playing violin, and
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"The NPR news quiz. I'm Bill Curtis, and here is your host, who loves to cruise on summer nights with his top down, and the stereo blasting fresh air. Peter sagal. Thank you, Bill. Now that we get to see people again, we're taking some time this week to revel in how great it is to see people. For example, in the suburb of 2017, we went to San Francisco, and got to talk to Lars Ulrich, drummer of the greatest metal band of all time, Metallica. Peter asked him about his first career ambition. So is that true that you grew up playing tennis? That was your first passion, right? Yes, my dad was a professional tennis player, so I grew up on the tennis tour and there aren't many tennis players in Denmark and I was ranked in the top ten in most of the age groups. Right. So when we moved to Los Angeles after I finished school in Denmark, I wasn't ranked in the top ten on the street that I lived on. I love the fact that your birth is a rock and roll legend came out of bitter disappointment. How did you come up with the name Metallica for your band? Well, I came up here actually in the spring of 1981 and ended up at a kegger over on strawberry hill and I met a bunch of really cool San Francisco kids running them most named Ron, and he told me he wanted to start his own fancy, like a hard rock fancy and where he wrote about all his favorite bands. And he asked me whether he should call the fancy Metallica or metal mania. So I suggested that he called it metal mania
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"Paul, Minnesota. So how long is it going to be nice weather there in St. Paul? Another week or so? No, no, we're going to be good right till after Thanksgiving. Oh, really? Wow. Oh yeah. You really love it up there because the rest of us aren't going near that place after September. Chicago's got such great weapons. All right, well, welcome to the show, Brad. Bill Curtis is going to read you three news related limericks with the last word or phrase missing from each. If you can fill in the last word or phrase correctly on two limericks, you are a winner. Here's your first limerick. Once moving through poses, I ground, but this bud makes me feel rubber bone. One billow of weed, I'm a willowy read. I'm relaxing because I am stoned. Yes, good job. Stone Bend and blaze is a new weed themed yoga studio in Brooklyn. Perfect for anyone wanting a yoga studio with a different kind of bad smell. It looks amazing. Almost as much fun as smoking weed and not doing anything else. Do they do at the end you do the dead man's pose or whatever. It's just that the whole class. People are just yeah, of course, people are just like, deep breath in, hold it. Hold it. Hold it. Nice. All right, here's your next limerick. When the leaves start to waft in the breeze, I trounce Woodland nymph one of these. Arboreal ardor makes me compete harder. I win because
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"Peter, Kenneth Bowman, from Livonia, Michigan. Hey, livonian, Michigan. Wait a minute, that's like the Detroit area, right? I think I've heard of it. Yeah, it's right inside the main interstate that goes around the city. Right, okay. And what do you do there? I am a reliability engineer Are you for? I work for Bosch. Look for Bosch. Yeah. My mother in law loves that show. Does she find it reliable? She's on the most reliable shepherd. Okay. Well, Kenneth, welcome to the show, Bill Curtis, of course, is going to reach you three news related limericks with the last word or phrase missing from each, if you can fill in that last word of phrase correctly. And to the limericks, you'll be a winner, ready to go. You ready as ever. Here is your first limit. Without overhead bins where the junk spreads, this flight leaves bang knees. And some clunked heads. But I'm able to sleep because they've stacked us too deep, and we lie down all night in our bunk beds. Bunk beds. Bunk beds. Are no longer just for siblings in the brief period before they start loathing each other. Economy passengers on air New Zealand will soon be able to book sleeping sessions in these stacked sleeping pods on the plane. The sessions that you can buy will only last four hours, so everybody in the plane has a chance to use them. So instead of jolting yourself awake in a puddle of your own drool, you'll do it in someone else's. So right after a pandemic, we're going to share sleeping quarters on an airplane. Exactly. What could go wrong? Here is your next limerick. The rings neath my eyes are real deep. Because of the secrets I keep, it's taxing my brain to keep things contained. That's why I will need some more sleep. Sleep, yes. According to a behavioral scientist, keeping secrets can make you sleepy. The idea is that keeping a secret can be isolating and stressful, which leads to fatigue. So, if you're having trouble sleeping, have an affair. It's great news and involves two popular hobbies knowing gossip and being unconscious
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"Well Jeffrey welcome to the show Bill Curtis is going to read you three news related limericks with the last word or phrase missing from each If you can fill in that last word or phrase correctly in two limerick you'll be a winner Ready to play Let's do it Yes indeed Here's your first limber It's the nightmare of air B and B's The buzzing brings me to buying these I've sleep I'm deprived Because I bump in a hive I am roommates with 1 million B yes and Airbnb in Italy is available for the vacation of your dreams if your dream is sleeping in a room with one million BS What The house was either created by a bee enthusiast or abandoned screaming by a normal person And if you show up there it includes several bee themed snacks for visitors so that's honey And honey I guess it'd be too much You can't hide from the bees in the bathroom the house itself though has no bathroom so you have to go to the cottage up the road to hide from DBs in the bathroom So that's a disadvantage But again in the house there are 1 million bees That's the selling point That's the selling point If you ever wanted to take a vacation and the thing is if that was listed in San Francisco the rent would still be $80,000 It would still go a 100,000 over asking Okay here is your next limber I calm down when I'm wrapped up and snug Because cuddles are better than drugs I am feeling at ease when I'm in a tight squeeze I relax when I'm given a hug A hug This week we learned that hugs are a great way to make women feel better in a new study that is sure to keep the people down in HR raking in the overtime for years to come But this is important The benefit of the hugs only help women not men so that male coworker who walks up arms wide and said he's a hugger remember he's doing it for you Now we should say this study only found a significant decrease in stress levels in women.
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"Tell me The NPR news quiz I'm Bill Curtis we are playing this week with Peter gross faith sailing and lacy Moseley And here we get a show host Please ask your doctor if he's right for you Peter sagal Thank you Bill in just a minute Bill sprinkles raiman O cheese on the listener limerick challenge If you'd like to play give us a call at one triple 8 wait wait That's one 8 8 8 9 two four 8 9 two four Right now panel some more questions for you from the week's news Peter this week Prince Charles made a speech promising to improve conditions for the poor of the UK and he did it of course while seated where Some kind of fancy gold toilet or well it was a throne Golden jewel in question It perhaps was not great optics The crazy thing Is that while Prince Charles programs have no chance of actually fixing poverty in the UK he could do it just by selling off the chair What was the context He was just giving a speech He was sort of giving a speech and he was saying well you have these poverty poor people in the UK and in order to alleviate their plight we shall do this And he was like you don't understand This is my ugliest chair I don't This is my crappy prone Yes exactly This is my casual thrown everyone Good evening pause It's I Good evening In light of the very unpleasant reaction to this the palace is announced that the prince's next speech will be given from on top of two milk crates next to a dumpster I like those optics Do you think that people around him are just like yeah no that's good Go ahead go out there and do that Someone has to be behind the camera like yeah and adjust his Gucci tie He's like throwing money into a fireplace Oh I didn't see you there All right Lacey businesses like Casper mattresses and warby Parker eyeglasses have disrupted their respective stayed old industries making them cool and hip Well this week we found out that what industry is next for a kind of millennial makeover Okay we did matches we did poverty very cute now Oh goodness I'm stumped Can I have a little hint Sure you can try out your casket for a hundred days And if you don't like it returns are free Oh we're about to redo the funeral industry.
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"Is wait wait don't tell me the NPR news quiz I'm Bill Curtis for playing this week with faith saley actually ray and Maz jobrani And here I get as your host easily among the top ten hosts of the show Neither Sega Thank you Bill and just a minute Bill gets Ryan bunches and we're listening to challenge If you'd like to play give us a call At one triple 8 wait wait that's one 8 8 8 9 two four 8 9 two four Right now panel some more questions for you from the week's news Maz the pandemic has made us forget a lot of things And according to some experts this includes many of us forgetting how to correctly use what Oh gosh correctly use is it a car No How to correctly can you give me a hint Yeah well we've never been sure what some of those little toes do anyway We forgot how to use our feet Exactly right doctors Find more foot related injuries Now the people are getting out and about you know using those two flat things at the end of our legs what are they called again Oh damn Can we just call them like southern hands Podiatrists blame this wave of foot pain and injuries on things like not wearing shoes for two years straight they're trying to put them back on or you know supporting extra pandemic pounds and why the heck were you people needing your sourdough with your feet I mean I thought people were walking for the past Were there people that just not everybody and just lay down on the bed for two years Some people did Yes there were Volunteering We had more issues when I wasn't leaving the apartment as much because you weren't wearing proper support on your feet and my feet were I couldn't get a pedicure for months Oh my gosh Well think about that Like nobody's taking care of their feet And now we're all injuring ourselves and going to these poor podiatrists who have to deal with these horrible extremities that we're putting in front of their face And they must be like what is this A monkey's claw do I make a wish Although I will say I think it has been very liberating for lots and lots of women who are like I'm not putting on heels again Yeah No I gave up I bought a pair of Crocs Come on I'm sure I'm trying I'm just in place That is the international symbol for giving up by a pair of Crocs All right Ashley there's a hot new trend on Instagram gen zers are now dressing like what Very people is not available but it's sort of a cottagecore Is it the cottage That we've been there done that We've moved on from cottagecore Oh man can I get a hint Sure They're all hanging out and posing in their stylish orthopedic shoes The cold and girls like old people Yeah like grandmothers.
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"Wait don't tell me The NPR news quiz I'm Bill Curtis we are playing this week with Maeve Higgins Tom papa and Chris Stella Alonso And here I get as your host He's a sweet child of mine Peter's a thank you Bill In just a minute Bill holds a candle in the cold November rhyme and our listener lemur challenge If you'd like to play give us a call of one triple 8 wait wait That's one 8 8 8 9 two four 8 9 two four but right now a panel some more questions for you from the week's news or to put it another way Welcome to the jungle Maeve this week The New York Times reported on the teenage practice of mask fishing What is mask fishing Oh instead of catfishing Exactly So mask fishing is When you think it's somebody else behind the mask Are you pretending to be somebody else behind the mask I'll give it to you when you're pretending to be more attractive than you are As you say comes from catfishing well except in this case you're not pretending you're you know like say a beautiful young woman you're pretending you're able to grow a real mustache rather than the sad dead caterpillar stuck in your upper lip And this is becoming more obvious the more restrictions are easing So like the guy who is still wearing his mask outside by himself after his third booster in New Zealand Assume he has no teeth Ari has like three rows of them or something His lower teeth in his middle teeth Oh yes I think you would have had that Oh that's so tricky I mean it's already so hard being a teenager I don't know But I guess it's something interesting You know if you have kind of like a dull face like I would say I have like a pretty you know that's why I have a necklace earrings brighten up a dull face If I have the option it's nice to add some color with I don't know like a Monica or a mask or something As a bald guy I don't have a good face or a bad face I just have a lot of face Wait you're not allowed to make bold jokes I am Peter One can make balls I'm gonna be just a slap yourself in the face right now Keep my own name out of my effing mouth Chris Stella congressman Madison Cawthorn got in deep trouble with his Republican Party leaders this week for suggesting that they sometimes do what Orgies and Coke That's exactly right So Cawthorn who's a character said he'd been talking to senior Republican politicians people quote he'd admired his whole life and then all of a sudden you get invited we're going to have a sexual get together at one of our homes you should come And please take it from us at NPR that is exactly how people extend invitations to orgies Sounds like someone got filibustered Now Cawthorn is notorious for making stuff up but still what's amazing is after everything he has done this is what got him in trouble with his party Apparently and this is true a lot of politicians wives started asking them about those late night caucus meetings they were always at And so they got mad at him and he had to backtrack He had to say he made it up Because they don't like when their wife talks to them Don't you understand I have to talk to my wife She's curious about this Maeve as I'm sure you know there are different categories of fun officially And this week The Washington Post investigated type two fun Type one fun in case you were wondering or didn't know is like the obvious fund Let's go down to the beach and have some margaritas or let's hang out and have a nice dinner So in type one fund you're enjoying yourself type two fun you are enjoying some of the elves No It's very different from the type of fun where you're enjoying yourself It's the type of fun where you are Oh like achieving something It's like you're actually just like you're having fun but not in an obvious way But actually later you think that wasn't too bad That's exactly right Type one fun That's what I like just doing something obviously fun dancing if you like to dance going down sitting on the beach surfing whatever But type two fun is the kind of thing that you're doing that you're not necessarily probably not enjoying it in the moment but later on you look back and go man that was great So obvious examples are mountain running a marathon type three fun in case you're wondering isn't fun at all doing things like classifying the different kinds of fun So one person in the post as an example of type two fun is Disneyland because you have to wait in long boring lines and put up with the heat and the crowds but then you get to ride a cool ride When you think about it like most of life is type two fun you have a job it's miserable but it gets you money which gets you drugs and that's fun All right slash somebody's been talking to slash and think she's so cool now Someone's going to sell leather pantsuit Someone's leaving the show for sexy get together Sexy gathering is like type one funds sexy gathering If Madison Cawthorn no fun at all.
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"I'm Bill Curtis And I'm Peter sagal this week Americans finally stopped worrying about their own troubles and turned their attention to the plight of others People who truly were engaged in the struggle for their very lives and wait a minute It costs how much to fill up my F one 50 We'll ask about what really matters apparently plus Alana Myers Taylor the most decorated American Olympic bobsledder ever teaches us how to go down easy and Bill Curtis reminds us that once the world opens up again the groupies will be back Try to learn to live with them We'll ask who really is coming like it or not on our quiz coming up right after this hour's news Line from NPR news in Washington I'm Louise schiavone across Ukraine urban areas are being pounded with artillery and air strikes with a Russian column moving closer to the capital city of Kyiv bombardment has intensified A huge armored column of Russian troops appears to be slowly closing in on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv where air raid warnings sounded this morning Satellite images show Russian rocket launchers apparently trained on the capitol sirens were heard in many other cities across Ukraine from lviv to the west to the northeastern region of sumi as Russian troops pushed forward The BBC's Tim franx is in lviv Much has been made in recent days of the Russian military's underwhelming progress in this war but there's been no let up in the misery for those who happen to stand in Russia's way The Ukrainian president Vladimir zelensky again deplored how few civilians have been able to be evacuated In Melissa there were reports that the mayor has been abducted led away from his office with a bag over his head The city had fallen to the Russians two weeks ago but the mayor of Anne fedorov had been refusing to cooperate with the occupiers The BBC's Tim Frank's reporting from lviv British authorities have issued sanctions against almost 400 Russian legislators as the country's foreign minister says the UK would continue to quote tighten the screw on the Russian economy Willem Marx has more from London British foreign secretary Liz trusts says the UK would continue to target those who were quote complicit in an invasion that she calls both barbaric and illegal The new sanctions hit members of Russia's Duma or parliament who had voted to recognize two rebel held areas of Ukraine Luhansk and Donetsk which provided Russian need of Vladimir Putin with what the UK has called a pretext for invasion The EU announced a similar move several weeks ago and critics say British authorities have moved too slowly to punish Russia's elite Prime minister Boris Johnson's office would not say how many Russian lawmakers had assets in the UK but would soon announce a separate ban on luxury exports to Russia For NPR news I'm villa Marx in London The Pfizer BioNTech vaccine remains moderately effective at protecting children against catching the COVID omicron variant according to new research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention NPR's rob Stein has that story The CDC study involved more than 1300 children virginity ages of 5 and 15 It found the vaccine cuts the risk that kids ages 5 to 11 will get infected with Oklahoma by 31% and reduces the chances that kids ages 12 to 15 will catch the virus by 59% The study also finds that vaccinated children spend less time sick in bed if they catch the virus than unvaccinated children and miss less school The researchers caution however that fascinated kids are also more likely to wear masks which could have skewed the findings Rob Stein and PR news This is NPR news in Washington After another volatile week of trading Wall Street once again lost ground markets have been rocked for several weeks by uncertainties about inflation and the global economy as NPR's David gura reports the Dow has closed a negative territory for the 5th consecutive week The NASDAQ fell by three and a half percent and the S&P by 2.9% they're down for the second week in a row President Biden announced a ban on Russian energy including oil and natural gas That's an oil prices sharply higher while national gasoline prices in the U.S. hit a record high not adjusted for inflation Brent crude the international benchmark briefly traded at about a $130 a barrel the highest in 14 years surging energy prices come after data this week showed annual inflation hitting another 40 year high Next week the Federal Reserve will gather for a two day meeting starting on Tuesday fed's expected to start raising interest rates to fight inflation David gura and PR news New York A super yacht owned by a Russian oligarch has been seized at the northern Italian port of Trieste according to the Italian government the 470 foot sailing yacht price tag close to $600 million was the property of Russian billionaire Andrei egorovich melnichenko The Italian government says the German built vessel is the world's biggest sailing yacht Mel nache owns fertilizer producer Euro camp group and a coal company last week Italian police seized villas and yachts from 5 high profile Russians who've been placed on the sanctions less part of the western move to punish.
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"Wait don't tell me the NPR news quiz I'm joking I answer in for Bill Curtis We're playing this week with Joel Kim booster Hari kundo and faith saley and here again is your host at the Fox theater in Atlanta Georgia He's less hot lancer more mylanta Peter sago Thank you Thank you jokey in just a minute He takes you to the end of the galaxy in our listener limber challenge If you'd like to play give us a call at one triple 8 wait wait that's one 8 8 8 9 two four 8 9 two four Right now panel some more questions for you from the week's news Joel if you have been waiting for Apple to shake things up after boring iPhone releases Well Mac rumors that's a website that's all about well Mac rumors They report Apple is working on new technology that will take the iPhone out of your hand and put it where In your brain almost in your eyes Yes Very good Imagine all the functionality of an iPhone but in a high-tech contact lens also imagine when you get dust in there and you start rubbing and blinking and you accidentally send your mom a bunch of nudes Where's all these pictures of mushrooms come from This is a terrible idea Really is Well maybe there's somebody out there who can't wait to try the iPhone or is it both eyes Is it an iPhone We don't know Didn't we already do this with Google glass We did We tried this in Google I mean this is an idea so bad even Google wouldn't pursue it Yeah And yet now apple is up to it And this is great though we have this technology because I personally like a lot of you hate it when I sit down for dinner with my family and everybody who says staring at their phones Now everybody will be just leaning back and drooling What if at some point you think Apple do you think at some point apple is going to pull the it's not compatible with your eyeball anymore So you're going to have to buy a new eyeball They know what they're doing They really do Hurry forget Tylenol Next time you get a headache according to a new study you should try doing what instead to alleviate the discomfort Hey you should drink a lot of water No you should drink a lot of alcohol No Especially not that Okay you should take antidepressants You should breathe No I'll give you a hint Okay it's like oh your headaching migraine coming on get out of that old yearbook and take a look at those jeggings we all had Reminisce Yes That's going to lower your headache That's the idea Thinking about the past will make about the past Specifically trying to think about happy memories the good old days if you will New research shows that reminiscing can actually alleviate headache pain by 10% which is great Who hasn't said oh I wish this headache would alleviate by exactly 10% This.
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"NPR news quiz Kenya hear me Chicago Or do you need another decibel I'm Bill Curtis And here is your host on stage at the Harris theater in Chicago Illinois where he is currently also starring in any As any His Peter sagal Thank you Bill And thanks as well to our actual live audience Here at the Harris theater The Harris theater here millennium park in Chicago It feels like our new home It really does because as Robert Frost said home is the place where when you have to go there they have to take you in because you paid the rental fee Later on we're going to be talking to Sherman dilla Thomas the guy who became a TikTok sensation with his lessons on Chicago history but first we want to know all about where you're from So give us a call the number is one triple 8 Wait wait That's one 8 8 8 9 two four 8 9 two four Let's welcome our first listener contestant Hi you're on wait wait don't tell me Hi there This is Gary Stein from Wesley Chapel Florida Hey Gary welcome to the show What do you do there in Wesley Chapel Florida I am a legislative candidate You're a legislative cannabis activist If I'm not mistaken Florida has not yet legalized cannabis Is that true It's legal but not yet for adult use Yes And would you like to list your elements for us at this time Well that's great because you have better weather but we have weed Gary welcome to the show Let me introduce you to our panel this week First up.
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"Don't tell me the NPR news quiz I'm Bill Curtis we are playing this week with Chris Stella alang zo Maeve Higgins and Luke Burbank And here we go is your host who burst into tears when he was reunited with his podium It's Peter's Hegel Thank you Bill And it's called a lectern And just a minute Bill gets deep vein boss In our listener limerick challenge game if you'd like to play give us a call when Triple H wait wait That's one triple 8 9 two four 8 9 two four Right now panel some more questions for you from the week's news Chris Stella Jenna Ryan is the Texas real estate agent who flew in a private jet to attack the capitol in January 6th and then bragged after she was caught that she would never go to jail Well she is about to go to jail In an last message to her fans on TikTok she says that in jail she hopes to do what She's going to lose 30 pounds and do yoga That is correct I think you even got the number your target weight correct So I can tell your team Jenna Am I right No but January 6 is my birthday Right Jeez Wait that was your party Miss Ryan became famous when she actually live streamed herself breaking into the capitol and she has managed to keep up that brash can do attitude as she prepares to do her 90 day stint in jail or as she calls it a freedom cleanse So like I said Ryan did a TikTok in a sports bra and yoga pants and she said she hopes prism will be a kind of spa with armed attendants in a really really strict curfew She said and this is all real I'm going to be able to work out a lot and do a lot of yoga and detox Hopefully they'll have some protein shakes and some protein bars She is going to be so disappointed when she finds out the only group fitness class they have is knife fights Well I can tell you from experience honey dieting is another form of prison And you've got to break out.
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"I am sorn I'm calling from Laramie Wyoming Laramie Wyoming out there out there in the great Prairie What do you do there I am currently studying social work And I'm also in our jazz band here That's pretty cool What instrument do you play I play the trumpet Oh Nice Yeah I have a good time but you do Is there still is there still an audience for jazz in Laramie Wyoming Well my parents only live about an hour away So there's at least an audience there At least they show up That's exactly at least a couple of feet to get filled Well sorry and welcome to the show Bill Curtis is going to read you three news related limericks with the last word or phrase missing from each If you can fill in that last word or phrase correctly and two of the limericks will be a winner Ready to play Absolutely All right Here is your first limerick Work from home shouldn't come at my loss Let's draw a line my employer can't cross Once I get off the clock there's a color I'll block So I can't get a text from my boss Yes the Portuguese parliament has made it illegal in that country for your boss to text you after work Unfortunately it's still legal before work and during work They made this law of course to support a healthier work life balance But come on It's not illegal if I'm more of a friend than a boss right Besides if you think about it any text that you get after you get home for the day is technically still before work Yeah You sound like you're arguing for the boss on that one Peter I'm just saying I'm the kind of guy who might need people to pretend to find me funny any time of the day or night and my staff knows that All right very good Here is your next limerick If I don't get some good rest your head time my heart has a premature dead time But it keeps a firm beat if I get some good sleep So ten 30 is now my new bedtime Right.
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"I'm Bill Curtis and I'm Peter sagal President Biden took office saying he would not alienate her close allies like the last guy did And this week he kept his work Instead he enraged them We'll ask about this latest mid Atlantic rift plus Bowen Yang tells us about life at Saturday Night Live and his efforts to get rid of toxic in community And Bill Curtis tours our new offices Is that a real stripper pole We'll ask what place really had All the amenities on our quiz coming up right after this hour's news Live from NPR news on Barbara Klein President Biden's three and a half $1 trillion spending bill is expected to be on the house floor this week and NPR's Giles Snider reports that's not all on lawmakers agenda Lawmakers have a lot of heavy lifting to do There's a multi $1 trillion spending bill the so called human infrastructure measure that's packed with the President Biden's domestic priorities from child care to climate change meeting this weekend the House budget committee sent it to the floor What Democrats struggling to unite over the scope of the social spending bill house speaker Nancy Pelosi told her fellow Democrats that they must pass it along with a separate smaller and more traditional roads and bridges infrastructure measure Lawmakers will also be working to avert a partial government shutdown at the end of the week in a letter to her colleagues below she wrote that the next few days will be in her words a time of intensity trial Snyder NPR news Voters in Germany cast ballots today in parliamentary elections to determine who will succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel and lead Europe's largest economy NPR's rob schmitz reports as predicted Germany's two largest parties appear to be in a dead heat The first projected results released by national broadcaster ARD put the country's center left social Democrats at 24.9% just two tenths of a percentage point ahead of the center right CDU and CSU While the results are only preliminary they underscore how difficult it will be for the top parties to form a coalition government It's likely Germany's next government will require three party coalition the first in recent memory However it's unclear what form it will take and whether it would be led by social Democrat Chancellor candidate Olaf Schultz or by arm in lache the Chancellor candidate for Merkel's CDU party Rob schmitz and pioneers Berlin Voters in Switzerland approved same sex marriage in a referendum today from Geneva Lisa Schlein reports more than 64% voted for it Backers of Switzerland same sex marriage campaign erupted into jubilant applause and cheers when the results were announced Remember the marriage campaign committee Matthias air had calls the outcome a big achievement and the crowning vote of a 40 year struggle in the country for same sex marriage equality Under the new law same sex couples in Switzerland will be able to jointly adopt children and lesbian couples will be able to access sperm donors Opponents say children conceived by a sperm donor will be deprived of the right to a father For NPR news and Lisa Schlein in Geneva Federal investigators are trying to determine what caused an Amtrak train to derail and Montana yesterday three people were killed 7 are hospitalized This is NPR This is WNYC good afternoon on my own Levinson Long Island's two counties are among the tops in New York State for auto fatalities and officials and safety advocates say increased enforcement can't be the only solution Newsday reports data from the Albany based institute for traffic safety management and research show Suffolk county led the state with a 113 people killed last year and NASA county was third behind queens with 78 Even factors such as excessive speed are considered the overwhelming factor police in both counties are trying to crack down more on reckless driving but safety advocates say roadway design changes need to be made as be part of the solution as well A federal judge has issued a temporary block on a vaccine mandate for New York City public school employees that was to start tomorrow as WNYC Sophia Chang reports the ruling is the latest legal tussle over mayor de Blasio's policy In response to a federal class action lawsuit filed by a group of teachers an appellate judge on Friday issued a temporary stop on the mandate which requires vaccinations for all public school staff with some religious and medical exemptions allowed The ruling comes just three days ahead of the deadline for school employees to show proof of at least one COVID vaccination shot or leave their jobs unless they have an exception to work outside of the school Mayor de Blasio has said requiring vaccinations for public school staff is necessary to keep schools safely open this year The city expects yet another ruling this week upholding the policy and has instructed its school staffers to plan to comply with the mandate Mostly clear skies for tonight with the loaf around 59 and sunny for Monday with a 179 It's 72° and mostly sunny Support for NPR comes from PBS with citizen Hearst American experience explores the life of William Randolph Hearst The powerful media Titan who transform news and American politics beginning tomorrow at 9 eastern on PBS The social isolation has been real y'all We all know that but how do we find ways to move forward together For me I often turn to theater and music and museums even I'm Kyrie and this week on the United States of anxiety We'll talk about the art we've all been taking in From Broadway's return to last weekend's Emmys and all the work that's coming this fall and we'll take your calls What's fed you And how do we consume with intention Listen live tonight at 6 on WNYC The following program was taped before an audience of no one.
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African Leaders Head to China for 3rd Cooperation Summit
"Chinese officials, are welcoming, African leaders to Beijing there arriving for tomorrow's started the forum on China Africa cooperation South African. Foreign minister Lindiwe Sisulu is among those hoping to strengthen a broad range of ties we continue to look to the People's Republic of China, as a trusted development partner with a long term strategic commitment to the African continent which will equally support Africa's need while looking to its own African heads of state. Are hoping to win billions of dollars in Chinese investments. In infrastructure and business deals as. China moves to solidify, its. Foothold on the