We've all been there, running around a city, looking for a bathroom, but unable to find one.

Hello.

Do you have a restroom we could use?

A very simple free market solution is that we could just pay to use a bathroom, but we can't.

On the Planet Money podcast, the story of how we once had thousands of pay toilets and why they got banned.

From Planet Money on NPR, wherever you get your podcast.

From NPR on WVEZ Chicago, this is, wait, wait, don't tell me the NPR News Quiz.

Invite me to your Memorial Day picnic. I'll eat your deviled eggs no matter how long

they've been out in the sun. I'm Bill Curtis and here is your host at the Studebaker Theater

and the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Illinois, Peter Sagle. Thank you, Bill. Thanks everybody.

So good to see you all. I am going to be honest with you all.

The year's not even half over, and we are already exhausted.

So inspired by the hit TV show, The White Lotus, we're going to take a week off.

We're going to an exotic retreat, and we're going to work on our wellness.

Oh, no. There's been a murder. Who could have seen this coming?

Well, we try to get to the bottom of this. We've got some soothing treatments for you,

selected from the finest naturally derived radio segments.

First up, actor Josh Gad, the voice of Olaf, the snowman in frozen among many other roles.

He joined us in January to talk about his new memoir.

And congratulations in the book, which I devoured this week.

Was it a little intimidating to write a memoir at the age of 43?

Well, it was just sitting there and typing

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