What would you think if you saw a robot dog out for a walk in your neighborhood?

What the hell is that? Oh, my God.

This is Basha. She's hanging out with us.

So could they have a medium...

Double takes and how they can change your point of view.

That's on the TED Radio Hour podcast from NPR.

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

I'm the guy whose voice is bigger than John Hancock's signature.

Bill Curtis, and here is your host at the Studebaker Theater in downtown Chicago, Peter Segal.

Thank you, Bill.

Thank you, everybody.

Thank you all so much. This 4th of July,

we are celebrating the 249th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, meaning this is the last year the country can say it's in its 240s.

And let me tell you, once you get to your 250s, it's all downhill, baby.

But before that happens, we party by revisiting some great times with our favorite guest, starting with actor Lauren Graham, who is most famous for playing Lorelei Gilmore

in the beloved TV show,

The Gilmore Girls.

When she joined us in March, Peter started by asking her about her new show, in which

she plays a middle-aged professional forced to work with kids these days.

I have to ask, I watched the first episodes of Z-Suite, and are there actual young people

writing this show?

Because I have to say, not being a young person myself, the young people seem like

...