Smiles an hour as the Earth spins if you look at the eastern sky next month you'll see different stars because the Earth orbits the sun at an incredible 66000 miles an hour but even that speed is nothing compared to the sun's orbital speed around the collective center the sun orbits the galaxy at an incredible 500000 miles an hour and earth and all the other planets are being dragged along with it even at 500000 miles an hour it's a long trip one Galactic Orbit of the sun is called a cosmic year how long is a cosmic year it's 225000000 Earth years since the dinosaurs died we've made less than one 3rd of the trip around the galaxy all of this incredible speed may help you understand something else you might see as you gaze at the stars of the Milky Way someone in your party maybe you will say oh look a falling star those streaks of light in the sky aren't stars they're rocks leftovers from the formation of the solar system the solar system has plenty of them and earth runs over about of 1000 rocks it day at 66000 miles an hour. Most of the meteors to give them their proper names you see tonight will be hitting us because you're sitting and the back of the bus looking out through her rear window of earth at one hour after sunset you won't be in the driver's seat of our planets until just before dawn and that's really the time to look for meteors but you'll see a few in the evening usually evening meteors move quite slowly across the sky since they've come in at a glancing angle as the earth speeds away from them next month is the Percy had meteor shower and I'll tell you all about it on tropical skies a meteor shower isn't made of random rocks it's comet debris the orbital garbage dump of the solar system's messiest inhabitants don't miss And until next week this is Pam Easterling reminding you to look up. From n.p.r. And it will be easy Chicago this is wait wait don't tell me the n.p.r. News quiz it's all right Zack Morris you're saved by the bell. Ok And here is your host at the Chase Bank Auditorium in downtown. Thank you 1st orchestra conductor we've ever had on our show the legendary Marin Alsop I'm going to ask her how she can get a bunch of emotionally fragile ego maniacs to do what they're told just by waving her arms because frankly that's never worked for me. But 1st we want to hear your solo save us a call the number is one AAA to wait wait that intestine Hi you're on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me I've described experiment in Chicago Hey you travel Chicago out thank you yeah well you know for you far from us right now where are you I mean I don't I'm going to come around Ok. Ok I read all the restaurant real close to 0 you know far as you come on down what we know traveling with Phoebe Robinson. I'm going to hope that was a dog of some kind not something out that you're going back to the bucket of all right you're trying to get rich. You know my track of what is going on right now. That's not hard to be quieter but the new cards are going viral. All right. Here we go with a longer time 1st it's a comedian performing with Phoebe Robinson September 5th through the 7th at the Arlington Drafthouse in Arlington Virginia it's Peter de brézé. Next year contributor to c.b.s. Sunday morning it's safe to say Lee thank the co-host of the podcast nobody listens to. Although Poundstone is Adam Felber it's not just as I'm sure you anticipated you're going to play Who's Bill This Time Bill Kurtis is going to read you 3 quotations from the week's news if you can correctly identify or explain just 2 of them you'll win our prize any voice from our show you choose in your voicemail you ready to go I read it all right here is your 1st quote that is outside my part of you that was the answer that somebody gave oh about 100 times on Wednesday almost every question he was asked Who was it that was special counsel Robert Robert Mueller Yes indeed Robert Martin thank you thank you thank you know that moment of the beginning you know will be wank and the Chocolate Factory when Gene Wilder comes out in his this creaky old man and everybody is disappointed and sad and then he does a somersault and everybody cheers well imagine that but instead of the somersault he just kind of daughters around for a deal. That was Wednesday and former special counsel Robert Mueller a man facing his annual prostate exam. Which might explain why he answered certain pointed questions by just turning his head and coughing. But not. Everybody said it was boring that kind of breathless because I was you just you know something was going to happen you didn't want to miss the one moment it did and yet nothing did because liberals have been building him up for 2 years as this Clint Eastwood figure this whole Yeah tough one and no nonsense going to come in and kick ass and take names and in the end he was just like Clint Eastwood who right now is 89 years old. But he said he didn't want to testify knowing that he was in good testify but we all know you read the report because it was not every inmate who truly makes $0.96 a president in the moment Clint Eastwood says I don't want to do that I'm not going to go in there but then he goes in there you write up the bad guys there was none of that there would have been like a little squint and instead of his not nice what we got like Sam The eagle from the mouth thanks. I mean you know God He also reminds me of those what are those the Easter Island had what do they call their names Lola what we're talking about I want to know what yeah but we were going to read about were reported with my. It was a perfectly nice visit with an aging relative that's exactly right. All right Travis Here's your next quote I will disprove that doubt is the doomed stows and like glue studs that with somebody taking office as the new British prime minister who is enemy of all gloomy sisters. Johnson Yes Boris Johnson you work you want. Imagine what it would be like to have your formally powerful and serious country taken over by an incompetent womanizer with terrible hair. Hard to do it is not what. Would happen in Britain this week when Boris Johnson became prime minister look how far the Empire has fallen they are so broken the good news is they're ripe to be colonized. Time to pay back India. That's happened where people who work clowns are now in charge of everything Yes and I wish they were actual clowns because those people at least have time to go off script I would support Johnson if you don't know of London during the 2012 Olympics during which he tried to do it zip line stunt to promote it and famously got stuck dangling from a rope remember those 50 feet above the ground maybe that's why he was finally elected to handle Grex and he knows what it's like to be just stuck there not being able to get out looking like an idiot yes Mr Stink blow but he struck me and maybe because just because I'm reading the Harry Potter series for the 1st time with my children he. Super slither and. Back. I'm just going to say this and you may not get this yet they will he's not so much later on as he's Peter Pettigrew was. Like you said yeah you got our whole theater down the nerd hole right except he somehow got stopped while transforming back from a rat you. Have All right your last quote is from the governor of Puerto Rico. I have not resign him that was an official statement made just one day before he did what. Do you regret you did exactly the same thing I financial crisis in this terrible hurricane with the one thing he could not survive with his own texts in the leak to messages the governor mocked his enemies and disaster victims he made fun of fact people in the disabled which is all bad but then he went after Puerto Rican icon Ricky Martin. And a fat farm will not really did and in the end as you probably saw tens of thousands of people took to the streets of San Juan to demand his ouster led by Ricky Martin Yeah Wanda Yeah yeah it's some you. Really want and this can lead there was somebody could write musicals from Puerto Rico Yeah I know my. Friends are trying to defend himself said he was just blowing off steam in the text that really shouldn't be taken seriously which is what all of us would say if the terrible terrible things we email our friends ever got out oh my lord even the protesters who mass in the streets were like marching while still erasing all their emails but how would you guys fare if all the private messages you had sent your friends your yes my heart I'd be even more on employable. I don't you know it's possible but it's amazing because one of the only good part is this scandal has shown that Puerto Rico is so full of corruption racism and misandry me that maybe now President Trump will recognize it thank you. Then have to travel soon or quit he'll be welcome in Puerto Rico he got to fight for me as a winner and Gonzales is trying to say thank you thank you thank you. We want to remind everybody they can join us most weeks right here at the Chase Bank Auditorium in downtown Chicago Illinois for tickets and. More information just stroll your web surfer over to w.b. Easy dot org Or you can find a link at our website wait wait dot npr dot org Right now panel it is time for you to answer some questions about this week's news p.d. The owners of a giant replica of Noah's Ark and Kentucky have filed a lawsuit against them for failing to cover damage caused to the ark by what water exactly right I am going to work you're going to work on the $510.00 foot long replica ark is part of Kentucky's nowheres Ark Encounter theme park the perfect vacation getaway for families who find Knott's Berry Farm to be a little too racy. The owners say they were inspired to build a replica when God's voice told them to gather up 2 of every animal and charge them $75.00 each for a mission to clear. The park opened in 2016 but was forced to close for a few days right then when the ark and its surrounding area was damaged by and I quote slightly above average rain. Apparently they skipped the part of the Book of Genesis where. I'm going to know Peter what other thing experiences they offered at this point you know his ark adventure I don't have I can't say that I've been anything so I can't say that I did if I did I just believe this is a Creationist a place where you're not like the primary creationist museum which is elsewhere so it doesn't have the 2 figures of a unicorn on a nearby hillside going to welcome me to God for all time I should have made a waterpark for that's true I. Think you stand no. Man's Land. Bring him back from the new movie. You. Coming up on the yellow jersey with more Wait Wait Don't Tell me from n.p.r. 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Wine club God or you. From n.p.r. To be easy squiz I'm Bill Kurtis We're playing this week with Petey the Abruzzi face Aly and Adam Felber her. Be. Here we're getting here almost at the Chase Bank Auditorium in downtown Chicago Peter Sagal thank you so. Much thank you thank you for the Wait Wait Don't Tell Me Bluff the Listener game call one AAA Wait wait to play our game in the air Hi you're on Wait Wait Don't Tell me. John you'll be from New Brunswick New Jersey New Brunswick New Jersey artist want to be sure and see what do you do there I'm going to come up once in your working out or go L'Oreal the skincare products company that would be I'm going to ask you a question and I and I want you to tell me the truth so I see ads especially for skincare products and you lean magazines and there are many aging is going to make you look like this supermodel or maybe that supermodel and it's going to solve all your problems and so on and so forth. Are any of those claims true I mean only it will. If you buy organic products that are. Right thank you. Glad to know you heard from a scientist Well welcome to our show John you're going to play the game in which you must try to tell truth from fiction what is John's topic I'm just here for the chafing. Not so much casual fans a Tour de France is French for tour of friends. But not all of the stars of that bike race are on the bikes Our panelists are going to tell you about an unsung hero somebody who works in the background of that great race pick the real one and you'll win our prize weight waiter of your choice on your voicemail you ready to play yes sir all right 1st let's hear from faith Saley old black and white photos of Tour de France writer show them smoking cigarettes on their bikes their lean Gallic cheeks inhaling the smoke they believed opened the longs it was only 2002 when the tour officially outlawed cigarettes within 100 meters of the route but do you think this has stopped too long from smoking Oh no no my friends this is France . And Tour de da bear his job his Met take is official cigarette extinguisher of the Tour de France he's a stone cold man in a break who stalks the crowd looking for smokers when he sees a lit cigarette he casually places them with spit and douses the burning stick with the sizzle as he swans by earning him the nickname the league club magic Mr Magic Fingers. And you can't miss him to travel with the tour he rides his 964 pujo motor scooter a contraption that so chill rich the cli loud it warns smokers he's coming and therefore leaves a wake of hastily cast off cigarettes didn't I sell. Writes his work every night with a nice person oh and a single gal was called he says nothing call on with the lethal smoke as long as it's a way from Zico us. The official security guard which thank you thank you thank you back story will sure help or comes from Adam Felber the cycling world was stunned last week by the revelation that the venerable Tour de France is the loser is in fact for the past 10 years Tour officials have paid an actor to come in last as a means of encouraging slower racers who may be thinking of giving up now if this sounds like evidence of an overall waning everyone gets a trophy nanny state culture run amok let me assure you that's exactly what this is . It's a good job says New Zealand actor Leon Kreiss who has just exposes this year's 8 loser quote You don't have to train as hard you can have a pint or 2 each night and you make friends with a lot of wonderful funny people whose only scene is being hopeless white because when it comes to cycling but now that the jig is up Grace knows that the gig is over and we can all rest assured that next year's last place finisher will be a real loser for his part Grace expects to return to acting and maybe someday the cycling fund to see if I can improve on that or I'd be just doing what I did this year but for free and with more training and no drinking in fact never mind my going drive thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you that story of the wind beneath the Tour de France as wings comes from Peterborough one of the great traditions of the Tour de France as fans writing encouraging messages for cyclists on the road stuff like gold lance writing the Gallo you don't even need those training wheels found. I'm not but many fans write bad words or draw profane pictures which the tour doesn't want showing up on the t.v. Broadcast it's hard enough to. The people watching their bikes up the hills. So the tour has hired 2 men whose sole job is to drive the course every day and paint over those 30 messages they are called officially a racers says one quote people draw genitals I have no idea why. Because it's funny. Most of the race are just paint over the images but they also let their artistic side show according to The Wall Street Journal one of the racers times larger renderings of the male anatomy into butterflies or Alice I by the way now you know the back story of everyone you meet who has the butterfly tattoo. All right thanks to the beautiful moments happening now in France it is helped along by one of these 3 people is this and takes the cigarettes out of the mouths of the people who might dare to smoke them near the riders from Adam Felber Leon Grice the man whose job it is is to write and come in last so nobody else has to or from t.v. The stories of the guy who go along the course in a race the obscene messages that people might have left for the writers and they don't appear on t.v. Which of these is the real story of the Tour de France has little helper I don't really wish that all of them but I'm going to go to number 3 you know never 3 that's painting a stroke a thank you thank you alright then to bring in the real answer you somebody who knows a lot about the Tour de France the most inappropriate graffiti be out on the road or the fact you thank you thank you thank you for that was Joshua Robinson he is the European sports reporter for The Wall Street Journal they have to do Congratulations you got it right he was sorry thank you for being honest and you want to emphasize the voice of anyone you might choose congratulations thank you for I want to thank you thank you thank you. And now the thing it's called Not My Job Juilliard your own damn orchestra directed to have her with us thank you what Eunice is like yourself I love it you know where my dentist and. So I was born with the job and really hated the piano hated it I retired when I was 6 you. Know with that because you hear well how much time doing that now that nobody but they tricked me into playing violin and I you know for every kid there is a there is a right you must trick and pride of the playing the violin like you are some candy inside this odd wooden object. Was very close because they said architectural image of summer camp and you know with sailing and you and horseback riding somehow horses got to tell you you might have to play and when you have the every day time running. While you are 7 years those only for pleasure the my. What the other activity is like weeping no no if yes we think that the only sport we are allowed to do is ping pong. And so I am awesome at playing part of. It is it true we read that you decided at some point you wanted to be a conductor Well what happened was that after practicing for 5 hours for you know what I was pretty good so I got into Juilliard right after that but I played in the orchestra which I loved and they got some complaints that somebody was trying to lead the whole orchestra from the back of the 2nd violins. And so when it's actually brought you in the take you're going to complain about it broke my you know how do you try to conduct the orchestra from the 2nd violin I think the problem was I was having a really good time yeah I like the timpani guy was really cute back there and I was just having fun and you know I was just was busy and then luckily my dad took me to a concert and I I saw the conductor he came out and he started talking to me talking to the audience talking to me I thought and you know he was really excited and then he started jumping around and conducting and I thought Oh. Nobody's yelling at this guy I could do that but. He's doing the yelling it's exactly and he was sweating a