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From NPR on WVEZ Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me the NPR News Quiz. You may know me as the voice of Bill Curtis.

I am Bill Curtis, and here is your host at the Studebaker Theater at the Fine Arts

Building in Chicago, Illinois, Peter Sego.

Thank you, Bill.

I share you your excitement.

We have a great show for you today. Later on, we are going to be

joined live on stage by NASCAR legend Jeff Gordon. It's very exciting. It's a little, you know,

this sort of thing, not what he's used to. So to make him feel more at home halfway through

our conversation, a crew will come out and change all four of his tires.

But first, it's your turn to do a lap with us. Give us a call to play our games. The number is 1-3-8-8-8-8-8-2-4. Let's welcome our first listener contestant. How you were on Wait-Wait,

don't tell me. Hi, this is Lauren Ring, calling from Seattle, Washington. Oh, Seattle, one of my favorite places.

What do you do there in that beautiful place?

I'm a nephrologist or a kidney doctor.

A kidney doctor.

I've always wondered about anybody like yourself who specializes in just one organ, right?

Do you ever get bored and say, man, I wish I could work on something else, just once,

another organ? Well, I would rather just be a, you know, left kidney versus a right kidney,

so even more special. Oh, really? Yeah. Is it gotten to this point? No, no, no. You're wrong

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