The news can be disorienting, and it can be really hard to remember how we got here.

That's why we started the ThroughLine podcast.

Every week we take you on a cinematic trip into the past to better understand the present.

Listen now to the ThroughLine podcast from NPR.

From NPR and don't be easy Chicago, this is Weight, Weight, don't tell me the NPR news quiz.

I don't man's play night, anchor man's play.

I'm Bill Curtis, and here is your host at the Studebaker Theatre at the Fine Arts Building

in Chicago, Illinois.

Peter Segal.

Thank you Bill.

Thank you everybody.

Later on, we are going to be talking to one of the most interesting people in America,

Elizabeth Prilagar, who went from being, this is true, Miss Idaho, to being the solicitor

general of the United States, who represents the government in the Supreme Court.

Now fortunately for her, for the talent portion of her beauty competitions, she argued with

the judges.

But now it's your turn to approach the bench by calling one triple eight, wait wait, that's

one, 888-924-8924.

How are you around, wait wait, don't tell me.

Hello, it's Andy from Arden, North Carolina.

Hey Andy, what do you do down there?

So I'm actually a storm chaser who makes documentary films about storms.

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