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

I'm the only man still allowed to wear white after Memorial Day.

Bill Curtis.

And here's your host at the Studebaker Theater in the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Illinois.

Peter Sago.

Thank you, Bill.

Thank you, everybody.

As you know, every summer has an official theme,

so we're taking the week off to wait until this year's theme is announced,

so Bill and I don't get it wrong again.

We were so embarrassed during hot girl summer when Peter and I showed up as lukewarm boys.

So while we wait for the official announcement, we're here to offer you some delightful things we did over the last year or so.

Let's start with an extended

version of our interview with actor and comedian Tiffany Haddish from November of 2025.

Peter asked her, what jobs she took to support herself during her early years? And one answer was a

little surprising. An energy producer at Bar and Bat Mitzvahs? Yeah, Bar-in-Bat-Mitfas?

Yeah, I did Bar-Bat-Mitsfas, executive parties, Christmas parties, Hanukkah parties,

funerals, you name it.

My job produced amazing energy.

So wait a minute, so you were kind of a hype woman?

You were like got the crowd hyped up?

I wouldn't call that a hype woman. What I call it is an energy producer. Okay. I got you. I got you. Yeah, Peter. I'm just, I'm just flashing back. You call it a hype woman? That sounds like flavor flayed to me. No. No, that's not it. Okay. Amazing energy. All right, let me try to... This is my grandma, grandpa get up out the cheer of the energy so good, they got to start dancing. All right, so... Yeah, so, like, I do, actually. So, I'm thinking back many, many years to my own bar mitzvah. This was a very long time ago. And I did not have an energy producer of any kind. And it was a boring party, wasn't it? It was pretty dull. I mean, I'm, honestly. It was pretty dull. So it's too late now, it's too late now. But it's never too late. All right. You can throw you at a 67th birthday party. We can do that. And thank you for that estimate of my age. It

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