From NPR and WBEC Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me The NPR News Quiz.

Hey, worried about the heavy hand of the government?

I got ya, baby.

I'm your bill of rights!

Bill Curtis, and here is your host of An Who Insists the Country's real birthday,

is the day they invented the endless Pust-o-Bole.

Peter Sago, thank you, Bill.

The Fourth of July is a time to reflect on our history, but this week we're not looking back 245 years.

No, we are reveling in the far off days of 16 months ago when we were doing shows in front of actual humans.

In just a month, we're going to be doing it again, and there's so much we've forgotten.

For example, audiences make so many interesting sounds, which ones indicate they're happy.

That's why we are reviewing our notes and getting ready for the big day, when we'll finally see other people again.

Now, we're starting with a man who's an expert on seeing the people he's performing for,

the star of Hamilton on Broadway, Leslie Odom Jr.

Leslie Odom Jr. Welcome to Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.

Thank you so much.

Hamilton, of course, is a phenomenon like I've never seen after a lifetime of enjoying the theater.

How often do you get approached on the street by people who come up and immediately start doing a number from the show with you?

Well, David put it better than anyone I'd ever heard.

He said, outside the stage door on 46th Street, you were a beetle for a block.

It was like once you crossed eight avenue, it gets a little less.

It said that to say, it depends on where I am.

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