CARL KASELL, Host:
From NPR and WBEZ-Chicago, this is WAIT WAIT...DON'T TELL ME!, the NPR News quiz. I'm Carl Kasell. We're playing this week with Mo Rocca, Amy Dickinson and Brian Babylon and here again is your host, at the Chase Bank Auditorium in downtown Chicago, Peter Sagal.
PETER SAGAL, Host:
Thank you, Carl.
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SAGAL: Thank you. Thank you so much. In just a minute, Carl leads a raid on the home of the world's number one wanted rhyme in our Listener Limerick Challenge. If you'd like to play, give us a call at 1-888-Wait-Wait. That's 1-888-924- 8924. Right now, Panel, some more questions for you from the week's news.
Brian, while the beeping of an alarm clock is enough to startle most people from a peaceful slumber, there are those that can sleep through anything, which is why engineers have developed a new kind of alarm clock, The Skull, that wakes people up by doing what?
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BRIAN BABYLON: Like an implant or something?
SAGAL: No, no. It's just an alarm clock.
BABYLON: It's an alarm clock.
SAGAL: It's a special one.
BABYLON: A special alarm clock - give me a Peter Sagal hint.
SAGAL: It'll shatter your sleep and your eardrums.
BABYLON: Yeah, I'm going to go ahead and say it's attached to one of those sports...
AMY DICKINSON: Air horn.
BABYLON: Air horns.
SAGAL: Well, the answer is really that it's so loud, it stimulates a sonic boom in your bedroom.
DICKINSON: Oh my.
SAGAL: That loud. So you have trouble waking up, and do you want that to be the least of your problems?
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BABYLON: Do they sell a defibrillator next to that?
SAGAL: There you go.
BABYLON: My gosh.
SAGAL: Designed by an engineer who does not understand people are most likely to buy products they want.
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SAGAL: The Skull starts your day with 113 decibel alarm. If that doesn't rouse you, it clamps on and violently shakes your bed until you're awake.
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SAGAL: Then a robotic arm begins poking you in the face. Still sleeping? The clock squirts you with gravy before releasing a pack of ravenous wolves into your bedroom.
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BABYLON: That's probably in Sky Mall.
SAGAL: Oh yeah.
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BABYLON: You can find that in the Sky Mall. Oh wow.
MO ROCCA: I hate it.
DICKINSON: I've got to get that.
BABYLON: I've got to get that.
DICKINSON: I don't know, why is it that when you're up there, is it you're lightheaded?
BABYLON: yeah.
DICKINSON: You want to buy that crap.
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ROCCA: That's funny.
BABYLON: Yeah, I need more doorstops.
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SAGAL: Mo, this week, the Wall Street Journal reports on an industry that is seeing most of its clientele age, and is launching a full-bore recruiting effort to find young people. What's this industry? And it's not NPR.
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ROCCA: It's seeing most of its employee base?
SAGAL: No, its clientele.
ROCCA: Its clientele is aging and so it's looking to...
SAGAL: Yeah.
ROCCA: Oh gosh, is it like Hanson Cabs or buggies? Is it stagecoaches? Please...
BABYLON: A telegraph operator.
SAGAL: It's part of the hospitality industry. It's very formal. There's no jacket required.
ROCCA: Okay, no bed and breakfast. Oh, is it like the nudist camps.
SAGAL: It is nudist camps, yeah.
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ROCCA: Yuck.
SAGAL: The nudist resort industry is in trouble. Most activities at popular nudist hotspots like Sunsport Gardens in Florida, well now they're geared toward old people. They have activities like Nude Shuffleboard, Count the Wrinkles.
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SAGAL: Pin the Tail on Jerry, Oh my God That's Not His Tail.
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DICKINSON: Whoa.
BABYLON: Connect the Sunspots.
ROCCA: Yeah.
DICKINSON: Oh.
SAGAL: They're running out of people. They're running out of people. You would think nudists would be one group in which it would not be hard to find members.
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DICKINSON: Oh.
SAGAL: But, and this is a big but, nudists...
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SAGAL: Are hoping to change that with youth-oriented festivals like - no kidding - Nudepalooza.
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SAGAL: Events like Reverse Strip Poker Night and terrible ideas like volleyball tournaments. We wish them the best of luck. But the fact the lifestyle appeals to older people makes sense. If you have seen nudists, you know what a gift failing eyesight can be.
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ROCCA: You know, it seems like such a cruel joke that nudist camps and these things always...
DICKINSON: Isn't it weird that they're always like outside?
SAGAL: Isn't that the point?
DICKINSON: Well I feel like they're vulnerable.
SAGAL: Vulnerable to what?
ROCCA: Thorns.
DICKINSON: Ticks.
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ROCCA: Cacti. Vegetation. I mean like there's probably nudist camps in Arizona and the cacti, ow. You know what I mean?
SAGAL: When you have pants on, do you sit on cactuses?
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BABYLON: I'm not going there. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
