From NPR and WB Easy Chicago, this is, wait, wait, don't tell me the NPR news quiz.

I'm the voice Thomas Jefferson heard in his head when he wrote the Declaration of Independence.

Bill Cruz.

And here is your host at the Institute of Baker Theatre in downtown Chicago, Peter Segal.

Thank you, Bill. Thank you, everybody.

You're so kind.

So, this year marks our 25th anniversary on the air, and if you find that hard to believe, try this out.

The year is already half over, and we've barely scratched the surface of our greatest hits.

We need more time, or in retrospect, we should have been less good.

Too late now. Instead, we will try again in as many jewels as we can.

Like this interview from last winter, live at Carnegie Hall, with Mariska Hargote,

who's been playing Captain Benson on Law and Order SVU for almost as long as we've been doing this show.

Captain Benson is a serious, no nonsense, officer of the law.

But the woman who plays her?

Not so much.

Thank you so much.

All right.

I am very excited to be here.

So, I do want to go back and go over your history, because it is extraordinary.

I want to say, I did not know this until recently that you were the child of Hollywood royalty.

That your mother was Jane Mansfield, your father, Mickey Hargote, bodybuilder, and actor, which is amazing.

And I was wondering, with that kind of legacy, were you like always headed toward performance?

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