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

I'm the guy who can say anything and make it sound like breaking news.

I've got a license to bill, Bill Curtis.

And here's your host at the Studebaker Theatre in downtown Chicago, Peter Segal.

Thank you, Bill.

Thanks, everybody.

So this year, 2023 marks our 25th anniversary, so we are celebrating by taking a week off

just to look at each other and say, wow, where did all the time go?

And then answer ourselves by playing some of the highlights from the past two and a half decades.

The only thing worse than not remembering what you did with your limited time on Earth

is having recorded evidence of it.

Now, that's unless, of course, you get to talk to absolute legends of American music like

Bonnie Raite.

You joined us in 2012 and told us, he would have if you'd been at it for decades.

There's still nothing more fun than going out on tour.

It's as close to running away with the circus as you can get.

And you know, you don't have to do as many chores as you do when you're at home.

That's true.

As you try it for that reason.

Is anything different now in your 19th time that it was when you started out?

Oh, you know, better hotels and a bit more comfortable bus for starters.

And you know, better organic and a good cooking at the gig.

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