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

Get over here and shave me. I'm your stubble.

I'm Bill Curtis, and here is your host at the Chase Bank Auditorium in downtown Chicago

Peter Seigal. Thank you, Bill. Thank you everybody.

We're the great show for you today. We're very excited about it. Later on, we're going to be talking to Olympic champion Jim Nist Ali Raceman.

In her new book, she says she started training seriously as a gymnast at the age of five.

That's how much she prepares. So we assume that right now she's in a gym somewhere getting ready for our show,

doing pull-ups while someone peppers her with pointless questions.

We know you've been training hard, so put some chalk on your fingers and dial us out. The number is one triplet weight weight.

That's one, 888-924-8924. Now let's welcome our first listener contestant.

Hi, you're on Weight, Don't Tell Me. Hey there, this is Ethan Buddyansky from Washington, D.C.,

but formerly from active Massachusetts, you're really close to where Ali rides me in this form.

You just say Ethan, but in ski. Buddyansky, yep, that's it.

Okay. And when you interrupted somebody when they were talking as a child, what did people call you?

Ethan.

Well played, Ethan. Well played indeed. Let me welcome you to our show, Ethan.

First up, say hello to an author and performer hosting the Moth Main Stage Show in Washington, D.C., right near you on October 18th. It's Tara Clancy.

Hey, Ken, how are you?

I'm doing great.

Next, the writer for WGN's Man of the People, who will be appearing at the Sportsman's Club in Chicago September 27th,

and at the 6th in Calabasas, California on October 18th, it's Adam Burke.

Hello, hi. And finally, a contributor to CBS Sunday morning and host of Science Goes To The Movies on PBS,

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