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Later on, we're going to be talking to actor, ed Begley, Jr.

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Who's basically been in everything, but is most famous for his environmental activism, which means when we all go up in flames, he'll at least have the pleasure of telling us.

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Hi, you're on wait, wait, I have theater.

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This is Alex and I'm calling from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh,

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Pennsylvania. One of the most surprisingly beautiful cities I've ever seen.

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We've got lots of great views everywhere around the city.

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And what do you do there? I am an infectious disease epidemiologist at the university of Pittsburgh and also a part-time graduate student in public.

1:37

So you're an epidemiologist studying infectious diseases.

1:39

So not been very busy of late.

1:43

I would imagine it's yeah, it's been interesting past couple of years here.

1:48

W when all of this happened, were you at least able to go to your parents and go see, I told you I shouldn't have been an artist like you wanted out of it.

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And they Were very proud.

1:55

Well, Alex, welcome to our show.

1:58

Let me introduce you to our panel this week. First it's a comedian who's stand up.

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Album parking nights is available in all the music streaming platforms right now.

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It's Emmy Blotnick Next.

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He's a comedian performing November 26th through the 27th at the Arlington Drafthouse in Arlington Virginia.

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It's Alonzo boated.

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Hey, how you doing? Good.

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How are you? And she's a comedian whose new album Paula Poundstone goes to college for one night is now available worldwide on all digital platforms and who will also be performing in Alexandria, Virginia at the Birchmere November 19th to the 21st it's Paula Poundstone.

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Thank you so Much for your work.

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Thank you, Paula. Nice to meet you.

2:42

So Alex, welcome to the show. You're going to play who's bill.

2:44

This time, bill Curtis, of course, is going to read you three quotations from this week's news.

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If you can correctly identify or explain just two of them, you will win our prize.

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Any voice from our show, you might choose on your voicemail.

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You're ready to play. Sounds good. Let's do it.

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Here Is your first quote.

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Although My hands are shaking while writing this, I feel it is time to choose courage over comfort and speak mine.

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I don't need to tell you who that is. It's of course, supermodel Dotson crows, but I will ask you, she's a, one of a slew of celebrities telling the world that her truth is that she is not going to do what exactly.

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She's not going to get vaccinated.

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Yes. The secondary celebrities have figured out a way to get people, including us to talk about them.

3:29

Apparently they all got jealous of the attention that got showered on Nikki Minaj, cousins, friends, testicles, Doosan crows is actually a supermodel.

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She is a former, a Victoria secret angel.

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And if she continues on this path, she might soon be an actual angel, but this week's patient zero for celebrity obtuseness is Aaron Rogers of the green bay Packers.

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A while back when reporters asked if he was vaccinated, he said, quote, I'm immunized on quote, turns out he was lying.

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He thinks the vaccine will endanger him more than it might protect him.

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Is anybody actually surprised?

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I mean, everybody is like, oh my God, Aaron Rogers.

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But yes, of course he's an anti-vaxxer his literal job is to make people catch things.

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Well, I think bigger than being an anti-vaxxer, he's a horrible liar.

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Like just not good at it.

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If you, if you're going to lie to your team in the NFL, at least be prepared for questions.

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You know, I suspect there's going to be some linemen who may not be so happy blocking for Mr.

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Rogers. I think The NFL, the NFL really put him in his place.

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They find him over $14,000 with his $25 million a year salary.

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I don't know how he's going to cover that.

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He's he's he's lucky, you know Alonza cause if he had been kneeling, when he lied, it would have been a lot worse.

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Yeah. Now he's not going to be able to buy a new pair of sneakers and that should set them back.

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Well, listen, the vaccine has big bird on its side.

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Totally set off the Republican party.

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It's very funny what presses their buttons, but, but they are really against imaginary creatures.

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They, they were upset over Mr.

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Potato head. Now we've got big bird.

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I don't know who's next to set them off.

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No, it's true. A big bird was the Provax celebrity who came out this week.

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He told his many young friends that he got vaccinated.

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They should too. And he was immediately accused as you say, of spreading government propaganda and being a communist big bird is according to Sesame street, perennially six years old.

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He's not redistributing private property.

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He's sharing Alex, do you work with, I

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do not work with big bird, but my kids do watch them every week.

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So they are supporters. Okay.

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All right here, Alex is your next.

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I wrote a gallon of milk was a dollar 99.

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Now it's $2 70.

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Then when you buy 12 gallons a week, that's a lot of money.

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That was Krista. Stotler a woman who buys way too much milk telling CNN about the struggles that many Americans are having with what these days inflation.

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It is inflation.

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Inflation is higher right now than it has been in 30 years.

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Experts worry. It's going to affect among many other things.

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Holiday shopping. For example, average costs for Thanksgiving.

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Dinner are up 4% over last year.

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It's going to be 5% when cousin Josh decides he's bringing his new girlfriend at the last minute, come on, Josh am I made a folding chairs.

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Inflation is also what happens when you drink 12 gallons of milk a week.

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Yes. It's like CNN went out to find somebody to talk about inflation.

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And apparently they found somebody who's running an illegal cheese lab in their garage, right?

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That's a lot of milk. Listen,

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when you do your interviews outside of Costco, you get people with 12 gallons of milk.

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They don't mess around in that story.

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That's true. Lactose Tolerance.

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There's this new phenomenon called a meat. Felician have you heard about this as a general rise in the prices of all meats because of yes, of course.

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Supply chain issues. And also because the cows have learned to fight back Nails

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for free meats, lation pills sometimes.

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And I'm like, I'm a woman.

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All right, here is your last quote.

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My grandma and father were by my side, gagging with That

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was an oil heiress, Ivy Getty talking about how happy her family was at her big day.

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And over the top event that was all over the internet this week.

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What was the event? Was it the wedding?

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Yes, the wedding.

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We'll just call it a wedding in the middle of the debate about whether we should tax the rich more Vogue came up with this elaborate searing parody of the wealthy lifestyle, a 10,000 word article about this fancy wedding in San Francisco, guaranteed to make everybody just grab their pitchforks.

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Oh wait.

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It was real. The wedding of Ivy, Getty to some guy who cares.

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He's not rich was the time honored story of boy meets girl, boy marries girl, boy and girls wedding gets a mammoth up and Nancy Pelosi performed the ceremony Way

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to show you are one of the people Nancy going to this billion dollar wedding and just hanging out Gavin Newsome was there too.

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Another, another brilliant move.

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Good thing to Republicans. Won't hold this against them at all.

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When it comes to privilege, It's

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going to have a deep state themed wedding first I'm I'm just at a loss.

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It really was repulsive. I was there.

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I just, you were invited just for one day.

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I was just there for the picnic.

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That's All. There were three nights of blowout parties.

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Custom made designer silk pajamas for the bridesmaids and the bride.

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And this is true. When she came down, the aisle wore a dress covered with fragments of mirrors.

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So the guests could gaze at themselves.

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As she Walked down the aisle, the look was inspired by that moment in my octopus teacher, where the octopus camouflages itself with garbage, it just goes to show money cannot buy you taste, but it can buy you Nancy Pelosi.

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Were you invited to the bachelorette party on Jeff Bezos's spaceship?

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No, no, no.

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I wasn't. You know, I wasn't part of the inner circle.

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I just went to the picnic event.

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Anytime you have a party that the Kardashians say is over the top, you've gone over the top.

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If your own wedding dress slices and dices you down the aisle, you've gotten over the top.

9:46

I wish I wish the Gettys had named one of their daughters, Betty, because I just think Betty Getty would be so much fun to say.

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How About Yeti? Especially if the middle name is spa, That's Betty spaghetti.

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For those of you doing the math at home.

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Yeah. They're still doing the math on buying 12 gallons of milk Bill.

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How did Alex do on our quiz, Alex?

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We salute you.

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He got them. All right. Congratulations, Alex.

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And thank you for the good and essential work that you do.

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Thank you, Peter. Thanks everyone. Take care.

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Panelists. It's now time for a new game.

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We're calling watch in the Thames Thames.

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Of course the river Thames is England's longest river runs straight through the middle of London and Paula, according to a very exciting announcement just this week.

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What's in the Thames sharks.

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Exactly right? Not just sharks but poisonous sharks.

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Oh, I didn't realize they were poisonous. They are poison.

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I'm so glad I warned you before you tried to pet one.

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There are venomous sharks in the river Thames and what's weird is that's apparently a good thing.

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The zoological society of London, just to do a survey of wildlife in that river.

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And they found seahorses and eels and spurdog sharks, which are about two feet long and covered in venomous spines.

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That's why British people have stiff upper lips.

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They've been paralyzed by sharks, but environmentalist's are very excited by the finding as a sign of the rivers recovery.

11:22

Back in 1957, the very polluted river Thames was declared biologically dead, which I think this means these are actually zombie poison sharks.

11:33

Wow. So it was biologically dead.

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And now, so this is good news because it's come to life again.

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Spiky, poison sharks.

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Exactly. If you are a British person and concerned with a wildlife and the Thames, you can say great news.

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There are poisonous sharks, not a sentence that most people would say.

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I just never knew that poisonous sharks existed.

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Like, like you're, you're already a shark and you're like, but now let me add the poison.

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This is wait, wait.

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Don't tell me the NPR news quiz.

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I'm bill Curtis. We're playing this week with Paula Poundstone, Emmy Blotnick and a lunch though.

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And here again is your host.

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The man who just won a CMA award for most beautiful soprano.

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It's Peter Sagan.

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Thank you bill. Right now. It's time for the wait, wait. Don't tell me to listen to game called one triple eight.

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Wait, wait to play our game on the air. Hi, you are on wait, wait.

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Don't tell me. Hi. This is Ana from Denver, Colorado.

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Oh, great. Well, how are things in Denver getting cold?

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I hope. Yeah,

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they're getting a little colder, but there's still some nice days.

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Well, I'd like it when it gets cold in Denver. Cause then it snows.

13:59

You can go skiing. Do you do all those fun Colorado things that people do to enjoy themselves in that beautiful state?

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No, You

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Don't Just don't I got a dog.

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You got a dog. All right. That's a Colorado thing.

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I appreciate that.

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What, what, what, what kind of dog did you get?

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A German shepherd mix and Being

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a new dog owner. How did you find it? I mean, I know it allows you to like fit into Colorado society.

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Cause you have to bring a dog everywhere.

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I love it. She's the best.

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She just does everything I want to do.

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And I happen to get her. One of those, like best, not like a service best, just like a regular like harness, but people seem to think it's the vest.

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So everywhere I go, they think she's a service dog.

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So I've actually managed to bring her into places without people even questioning it.

14:47

Awesome. Well, it's very nice to have you with us and you're going to our game on which you missed, right?

14:51

To tell truth from fiction bill, what does Anna's topic?

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Let your freak flag fly.

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Our world is full of strange and wonderful things.

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And also a bunch of really strange people.

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This week. We learned about a group of people who were proudly banding together and standing up for their own particular bizarre interest.

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Our panelists are going to tell you about it.

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Pick the one who's telling the truth. You'll win the weight waiter of your choice in your voicemail.

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Ready to give this a try.

15:17

Hell yeah. Hell yeah.

15:19

All right. First let's hear from Emmy Blotnick An

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Indianapolis couple is fighting back after being banned from a hot lunch buffet where they were spotted serving themselves with their bare hands.

15:30

As it turns out, there's more than a handful of people who prefer to eat this way as evidenced by recent uptick of similar incidents at salad bars and grocery store, bulk bins nationwide with some even calling themselves members of this growing movement believed that certain salad bar items simply cannot be picked up with tongs, such as cherry tomatoes, grapes and peeled hard-boiled eggs, a category they call the untangles set of Milwaukee woman no longer allowed in her local whole foods.

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Personally, I reach into the bins because I don't like everything in the trail mix and I shouldn't have to pay for things.

16:09

I don't like others argue that issue in utensils provides extra dimension to mealtimes.

16:15

You don't know sensory pleasure until you've sipped corn chowder through your own cup tans set of van covered in soup.

16:24

The who use their hands to pick up the untangles.

16:27

Your next story of a bunch of weirdos comes from Alonzo Boden.

16:33

Everybody is annoyed by a bird pooping on your freshly washed car hood.

16:37

Everyone that is except a group of artists in Bakersfield, California, who practice a variety of surrealism using Avi-on excretion and art form.

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They call do-do data.

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It began when Dave Ralstons car got dive bomb right after he left the carwash.

16:55

And before he could get mad, he noticed the pattern on his hood looked like the Thomas Gainsborough blue boy painting.

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That gave me an idea.

17:03

He said, what if we encourage the birds to explore their artistic impulses?

17:08

So every Sunday morning, Dave and a group of his friends meet outside the Bakersfield farmer's market to park their freshly washed cars under carefully selected trees and light poles and wait for inspiration to splatter on their hoods.

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The grand prize in their competition will be awarded to a copy of a painting.

17:27

So accurate. A passer-by can recognize it so far.

17:30

No one has one that Lisa Mendez from the Bakersfield times, art section asks, what is the grand prize?

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Anyway, a carwash of course said, Dave provides a fresh canvas for next Sunday.

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The do-do data movement who use birds to make art.

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Your last story of freak spring, loud and proud comes from Paula Poundstone That

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just go together. Peanut butter and jelly movies and popcorn captain and Tenille, toothbrushing and orange juice.

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Wait what?

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Yes. There are people who love to fall brushing their teeth with an orange juice chaser.

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Casey, a 34 year old in Northern Virginia explains for me the minty tangy one, two punch creates such a unique potent flavor.

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Many who enjoy the Denta phrase slash citrus combo identify themselves on social networks.

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They don't claim to find a tasty so much as they appreciate the chemical reaction.

18:32

Perhaps the way a member of a polar bear club known for plunging into icy cold water.

18:37

Doesn't really enjoy freezing their ass off, but relishes the aftermath.

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The part where they're brought warm blankets while they cry and swear.

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They'll never do that again. No word yet.

18:48

On the unlikely social groups, meet ups to eat oysters near septic tank clean-outs it must be in the offing though.

18:56

All right. So there's a group of people out there who are proudly claiming to enjoy something that other people just well don't was it from Emmy, the anti-tank crews who just enjoy using their bare hands to pick up things from salad bars and bulk bins from Alonzo Boden.

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People who want birds to poop on their freshly washed cars for the sake of art or from Paula Poundstone.

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People who actually enjoy and advocate for drinking orange juice right after they brush their teeth.

19:25

Which of these are the people who are coming out of the shadows at last, I

19:29

have a feeling it's the third one, but you guys really like to talk about poop on this show.

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And I want Elanco to get the point.

19:39

I'm going to go with a long story.

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You picked Alonzo's story of the bird poop artist.

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Well, to bring you the correct answer, we spoke to someone who knows something about the real story.

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All of them go out of their way to brush their teeth before drinking orange juice.

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That was Quinn.

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Meyer's a staff writer at Mel magazine and the person who first reported on this phenomenon.

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So as you yourself knew would happen.

20:06

It was Paul who was telling the truth.

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So you did not win, but you earned a point for your guy, your man, Mr.

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Bowden, for telling his story so effectively.

20:16

So congratulations, I guess.

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Thank you, Ana bye-bye.

20:21

Thank you. Bye.

20:27

And now the game where we desperately try to find something that somebody who can do anything can't do, it's called not my job.

20:32

Now, if you've watched TV or movies at all over the past 50 years, chances are you have seen the great ed Begley Jr.

20:39

With over 300 credits on CMDB from best in show to six feet under the better call Saul.

20:44

He is the man you call when you need a character who is dignified, but flustered or maybe flustered, but dignified.

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He's also a devoted environmentalist.

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These days you can see him on CBS is young Sheldon ed Begley, Jr.

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Welcome to wait. Wait. Don't tell me What a joy to actually be talking to you because I believe you were in literally one of the first movies I ever saw the computer that wore tennis shoes With

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Kurt Russell. Yes, I did several of those Kurt Russell Disney movie.

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So here's the thing. I'm not a young man and I've been watching you my whole life as I just established.

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So I asked this question to a lot of performers.

21:26

We get on the show, but in this case I have absolutely no idea what the answer is going to be.

21:30

What do people most recognize you for Probably

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St elsewhere? Cause it lasted the longest.

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It was a 140 some odd shows I believe was definitely six years.

21:39

And I was in all the one episode.

21:41

So it was a good run.

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And then other people like pineapple express people like she devil people love young Sheldon right now it's a very popular show.

21:50

And Mr. Mayor would Ted Danson and I was on better call Saul for several seasons.

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I said, you know the wonderful show. I've been very lucky to still be working after 54 years.

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I don't care if you're selling used cars or in the storm door business, you work over five decades.

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You're pretty damn lucky. I would Agree.

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Can I ask one question? Just re Alonzo anything you want to know all the, Well,

22:12

no, we were talking about this before you have been in every movie ever made, right?

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Yeah. But the question is, do you remember any movie or show that you turned down?

22:23

Have you ever said like, no, I'm not going to do that one and having done so many, do you remember that?

22:29

It didn't turn one down, but I fell asleep at the switch a few times when people and somewhat of very big director gave me a copy of a book, a very famous book and said, I'm going to make this in a movie.

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Would you read it?

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And let me know. If you think you're willing to play this part that he named the part, it was a very big book.

22:49

It was a very big movie. I never got around to reading it.

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I was busy tending my corn and my tomatoes or something.

22:55

I got busy with something in the garden and it became a very successful movie.

22:59

So I've, I've dropped the ball on more than one occasion, Which

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you have to tell us what it is in terms of endearment.

23:06

Jeff. Now let's be clear. I never, I probably wouldn't.

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If I had gone into audition of Jeff, Jeff Daniels came in before, after me, no matter when he came in, I wouldn't have gotten the part.

23:15

Jeff Daniels was better than I could've ever been, but I was offered that maybe I could have played another part in other than that.

23:21

But You know, I wouldn't kick yourself too much about it because Shirley MacLaine was the best choice for the mother.

23:27

And I don't see how you would've gotten that.

23:30

Okay. I have to tell you one great thing about ed Begley.

23:33

When I, when I met ed, we were at an event for heal the bay, which is an environmental organization.

23:41

So we're on, and we're told that an ed, for those who don't know the Los Angeles area, you have to

23:50

The valley is on the other side of some mountains or some Hills, right Hills, the Hollywood Hills.

23:56

And, and so they, they said, well, ed Begley is going to be here, but he's a little delayed cause he's riding his bicycle.

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So

24:03

it

24:03

just

24:03

shamed

24:03

everyone

24:03

at

24:03

the

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event. But she was so funny. She said, you know, I know it's great.

24:13

Everybody thinks it's funny, but ed rode his bike from studio city.

24:16

I walked here from Pasadena.

24:17

Just give me some credit for that.

24:23

I got to ask you about environmental activism, which in many ways when people say ed Begley Jr.

24:29

And I'm like, oh yeah, the guy who liked with the electric cars and new bicycles everywhere.

24:32

How do you deal with showing up everywhere covered in sweat?

24:37

Back when I was riding my bike a lot before going to events, like the feel the bay event that Paula alluded to, I would just come with what they call a pannier and you'd take it out.

24:47

It's like a garment bag. And then you carry it into a restroom at the Peterson museum.

24:51

But that's where you are. And you do an Irish shower.

24:54

You get some paper towels or bring a wash box with me.

24:57

I kind of, you know, kind of get at the sink.

25:00

I cleaned up a bit, put on a fresh shirt, fresh under shirt, pressure, top shirt, pants, belt shoes, and go into the event.

25:07

And a lot of people, I did that at the Oscars.

25:10

More than once. A lot of people didn't know I'd come on a bike.

25:13

I was lazy.

25:15

So they tell me, Do

25:17

you ever consider just like, just like pedaling up on the red carpet and says, well, what are you wearing?

25:22

Oh, when you say I

25:25

would paddle up to the red carpet and then the valets would take the bikes the same way they would take a car.

25:29

And they handed me a little ticket and took my bike.

25:31

Pretty funny.

25:34

Can you tell us like the most extreme thing you've ever done for environmental purposes?

25:39

What About the glove compartment?

25:42

Oh, that's true. That was fairly extreme.

25:43

You remember that? Unbelievable.

25:45

I went to an LA county board of supervisors meeting about Lopez canyon landfill in the San Fernando valley where I live from.

25:53

So obviously are testifying on behalf of the neighbors and the homeowners near the landfill that they wanted clothes.

25:59

And I said, look, we don't need another landfill.

26:01

It's possible to make a lot less, press take my trash.

26:03

For instance, at one week's worth of trash would probably fit in my glove compartment.

26:08

I said, and later that day, I believe there's a knock on the door.

26:13

Yes. LA time just sent I take the paper already.

26:15

No, no, no. I'm not trying to sell you the paper.

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I'm reporting the LA times.

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And I'm here to see if one week's worth of your trash will in fact, let it fit in your glove compartment.

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Okay. Have you never done it? So, no. I just said that the meeting, I think it's about a glove compartment is worth.

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And so I said, let's try it.

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I'll go for it. Whatever it is. It's gotta to be what it is.

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So write the story, whatever it is, maybe it's two glove compartments.

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So we went to each room, gathered up all the trash.

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She said, what is trash day here?

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I went into tomorrow. Dammit.

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And I'll go, you got a whole, there's a week's worth.

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She said, I knew that. I wanted to see if you could tell the truth.

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I know it's tomorrow.

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She was good reporters.

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Do the enemy, went to each room and gathered everything up, put it in the glove box.

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And then I'm there with my biking legs, cramming clothes, my feet somehow fit a week's worth of my trash did.

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In fact that the glove compartment was a very funny piece.

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In the times it went actor, cramps for test.

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That's great. Well, ed Begley, Jr.

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It is a delight to talk to you.

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And we have in fact invited you here to play a game.

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We're calling ed Begley Jr.

27:26

Meet B movie senior.

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You've been in so many movies. We had to dig pretty deep to find one you weren't in.

27:32

And we finally did the B-movie starring Jerry Seinfeld as well, a B.

27:37

So we're going to ask you about it. Answer two or three questions correctly.

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You'll want a prize. One of our listeners, the voice of their choice on their voicemail.

27:43

Bill, who is ed Begley Jr.

27:45

Playing for by Hamson of St.

27:47

Paul, Minnesota.

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All right. You ready to do this?

27:50

I'm ready. Here we go.

27:51

The B-movie, which was remember a movie for kids is full of unpredictable moments like which of these a hive where the queen bee is actually a drag queen B be a joke that implies that the human woman played by Renee Zellweger had dated multiple different insects or see a scene where the bee has to land a plane.

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After the pilot and copilot fall unconscious, I

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get to go with Renee Zellweger. That's striking some sort of a core deep in my subconscious might even be part of it.

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I think it's Renee's over your answer Because

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all three of them, that movie is quite a journey.

28:27

All right, the next question, the movie ended up being a bit of a flop, but it remained very popular with some fans.

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How did one person express their personal love for the B movie?

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A a group of students in California wrote choreographed and performed a two and a half hour musical based on the movie B somebody printed out the entire script and hung it on their bedroom wall, or see, according to one report from Netflix over the course of 20 17, 1 viewer watched B-movie 357 times.

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Somehow I'm buying the 357 times.

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I think somebody might've actually done that.

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Somebody did do that. And somebody else printed on a wall and somebody else made a musical out of it.

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Because once again, all three of them were true.

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I'm seeing a trend. Last

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question. The B-movie movie was not the blockbuster people hoped, but it didn't do well enough that a company made one of those mock Buster ripoffs called plan B, designed to feed off the real movies, popularity, which of these was a real review of plan B posted on imdv.com.

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A 10 out of 10.

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Always loved the B-movie, but it wasn't erotic enough for me.

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This fulfilled my fantasy B the acting is so bad in the is so bad and everything is so bad in, oh my God.

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Or see monstrosity wrong vial, unacceptable, icky on satisfactory criminal godawful.

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Crummy, not good.

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It could be all three, but it's definitely the last one.

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So I'm going to go through that Again.

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It was in fact, all three.

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Why can't I see a trend, The

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stock market bill. How did ed Begley Jr.

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Doing our quiz? It is, and always will be the hero of wait, wait.

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Don't tell me he got them off.

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Congratulations. Hey ed Begley Jr.

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Is basically a superstar actor, comedian environmentalist.

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You can see him Thursdays these days on young Sheldon, on CBS ed Begley, Jr.

30:23

What an absolute delight to talk to you. Thank you so much for joining us.

30:26

We are humbled and grateful. Thank you so much Anytime.

30:29

Thank you all.

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Right now panel though, some more questions for you from the week's news.

33:10

Paula Osaka hospital in Japan made a shocking announcement this week after they discovered that ever since the hospital was built 30 years ago, people there have been drinking water from where Gimme

33:24

a minute.

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They're living every dog's dream from the toilet.

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They'd been dressed. They've been drinking toilet water.

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When the hospital was built in 1993, the water watertight incorrectly connected to the toilet water pipes, which is why major plumbing.

33:38

Contractors should never observe, take your kid to work.

33:44

But Japanese toilets are so nice.

33:46

You probably should do.

33:48

Probably actually could be a patient.

33:50

This hospital, the doctors, like I have some bad news and you're like cancer.

33:54

He says, no, no, no. We've all been drinking toilet water for 30 years.

33:57

And you're like, is it too late to choose cancer?

33:59

But Did they, did anybody ever have any ill health Effects?

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No. You see Paula and we knew you'd ask that they didn't attach the water pipes to the bottoms of the toilet.

34:09

If you will. What they did was they used the same water supply that was going into the toilets instead of the water supply they should have used, which was purified for drinking water.

34:18

Right? So they were just drinking the water that was used to flush the toilets, which is why every time they had a drink of water, they didn't have to sit around for three minutes and wait until they could send some more down A

34:28

level of perfume, Toilet

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water. Yeah, exactly. You owed a Twilight.

34:33

Yeah. Just call it. we all we've been drinking ode.

34:36

It's wild that people are happy.

34:38

Exactly. Alonzo, a new app is offering great discounts on carry out food because all of that food is what A

34:45

day old Almost

34:47

I'll give it to you. It is old.

34:49

It's the end of the day leftovers grub hub.

34:55

But all of the restaurants just list the food that they're about to throw out.

34:58

So you can get the food at a huge discount, which makes it a perfect way to get baked goods produce and a virus from that guy at table three, who did not finish all his crimes.

35:09

If you're at the point where you're, you're getting the grab bag of stuff that they don't couldn't sell, the can't get rid of.

35:15

Are you really that lazy that they have to deliberate?

35:18

Come on, get off the couch, get hood a little bit of effort into buying the end of the day muffins.

35:26

I love the dumpster. Divers offended just professionally.

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Like, you know, we put in the effort here, you're using an app.

35:34

No, I'm, I'm fighting off throngs of dabblers for quiche behind this restaurant, Uber

35:42

guy. All right. It's now time for a new game that we are calling.

35:48

Whatever happened to that breeze to left the church, to be with a sexologist who wrote satanic Arabic.

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So a few months ago, we told you about the Spanish Bishop whose love for an alluring author of erotic fiction caused him to leave his church.

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Today. We have an update on that, man. Emmy, what is his new job?

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He scrubs toilets at a six flags.

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That's very specific, very Specific

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just to job I dream of.

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I haven't been following this story.

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So maybe I've

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got a Google alert on it. No, no.

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I'm going to give you a hint. It's a little subtle hint.

36:26

See if you can sort of piece it together from what I'm about to tell you, his customers are those who import pig semen, is he Imports

36:35

or exports her of pigs And

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export her of pig. Semen. That's exactly right.

36:40

That's what he ended up doing. He was working at a company that quoted sports, high quality pig reproductive material to more than 20 countries.

36:47

So it sounds like he has landed on his feet and on the underside of some pigs, what does he do for this company?

36:53

We don't know, but it's worth saying that in that business, labeling the packages and getting the address right.

36:58

Is very, very important. Well,

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that's what, that's what he does in Spain.

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If this were an American story, he would be a politician.

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That's true. He'd be on dancing with the stars.

37:08

Absolutely. Yes. Yes.

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Well, until the next update that does it for Whatever

37:14

happened to that breeze to left third church, to be with a sexologist who wrote September, they get erotica.

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Laughter and good fun.

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Hi, you're on. Wait, wait.

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Don't tell me. Hi there I am Soren.

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I'm calling from Laramie, Wyoming, Laramie,

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Wyoming, out there, out there in the great Prairie.

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What are you doing? I

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am currently studying social work and I'm also in our jazz band here.

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That's Pretty cool. What instrument do you play?

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I play the trumpet.

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Yes, I, I have a good time, but Is

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there still, is there still an audience for jazz in Laramie, Wyoming?

38:31

Well, my parents only live about an hour away, so there's And

38:37

the least they show up At

38:41

least a couple of seats get Filled. Well, sorry.

38:43

Welcome to the show. Bill Curtis is going to read you three news-related limericks with the last word or phrase missing from each.

38:48

If you can fill in that last word or phrase correctly in two of the limericks, you will be a winner.

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Ready to play. Absolutely.

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All right, here is your first Limerick.

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I worked from home. Shouldn't come at my loss.

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Let's draw a lines.

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My employer can't cross.

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Once I get off the clock, there's a color I'll block.

39:08

So I can't get a text from my boss.

39:13

Yes. The Portuguese parliament has made it illegal in that country for your boss to text you after work.

39:19

Unfortunately it's still legal before work and during work, they made this law of course, to support a healthier work-life balance.

39:26

But come on, it's not illegal if I'm more of a friend than a boss, right.

39:30

Besides if you think about it, any texts that you get after you get home for the day is technically still before work.

39:38

Yeah. You sound like you're arguing for the boss on that one theater.

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You said, I'm just saying I'm the kind of guy who might need people to pretend to find me funny anytime of the day or night.

39:48

And my staff knows that.

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All

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right,

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very

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good. Here is your next Limerick.

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If I don't get some good rest, your head time, my heart has a pre-med tour dead time, but it keeps a firm beat.

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If I get some good sleep.

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So 10 30 is now my new bed time, Right?

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A study has revealed that the healthiest part you should go to bed between 10 and 11 at night, that particular bedtime maximizes the positive effects of the body's circadian rhythm and minimizes potentially harmful exposure to James cordon.

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The study followed 88,000 people in Britain who answered yes to the question.

40:30

Mind if I watch you sleep and it found a 25% increase in heart disease in people who went to bed after midnight, you'd expect that, right?

40:37

You need to get your sleep, but also a 24% increase among people who went to bed before 10.

40:43

So your doctor might soon prescribe that you have to be less lame.

40:47

What about what time they get up?

40:50

That mean to me, that is a key question.

40:53

Of course. I mean, if you go to bed before nine and you get up at one in the morning, it's not going to do you much good, right?

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I mean, it seems an important question, but apparently that is, that is key 10 and 11 guys.

41:06

I would think the people who stay up past midnight and die early, at least they had a good time.

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You're going to bed.

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If you're going to bed at eight 30 and dying early, you really got robbed in this equation.

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So they just write off everyone who works at night.

41:21

Apparently Like

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touring

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comedians

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are

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all

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for

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a

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reason. You're all doomed, man.

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You're all doomed. All right, here is your last Limerick Though.

41:33

AMC's snacks deserve top scorn.

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They are trying to get a new shop board.

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They think it behooves me to forego the movie and go out to buy greasy opco.

41:48

Exactly right? AMC theaters, opening a handful of kiosks across the country dedicated to selling their popcorn.

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So you can get it without having to go to a movie.

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It's exactly the same movie theater, popcorn recipe we love.

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But now you can wipe your hands on your own furniture.

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And if you make it at home, do you have to pay yourself $11 for the, You

42:08

do. And of course the, you have to, it's only sold in small, medium and large.

42:13

And the small is exactly the same size of the media Above

42:16

ground pool size. If we're really doing I

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there's. So there's a movie theater in Santa Monica that I've walked to sometimes just to get popcorn.

42:27

Really? Yeah. You actually like it.

42:29

I, you know what I do like it, but I also can't watch a movie without popcorn.

42:33

Do you have one of those rules, Paula, where you're not allowed to start eating the popcorn until the movie itself starts?

42:38

No, I started eating right away anyway.

42:40

Yeah. Sometimes I don't even move out of the way for the next customer.

42:43

I just stand there and eat a couple of kernels really?

42:46

Until someone goes, go, would you go?

42:48

Yeah. Bill had a store and doing our quiz.

42:51

He did grades. He got a perfect score actually.

42:55

Well done. Thanks. And you know, enjoy playing for your parents next time.

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43:41

It's time for our final game already. It's lightening fill in the blank.

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Each of our players now has 60 seconds in which to answer as many fill in the blank questions as they can each correct answer.

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Now worth two points. Belle, can you give us the scores?

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He has one. Paula has three and Alonzo has four.

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Wow.

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I only have one.

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Well, Emmy, the good news is because you only have one point.

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That means you do go first. So the clock will start when they begin your first question, fill in the blank on Wednesday, the U S and China made a joint pledge to combat blank.

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Climate change.

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Yes. On Tuesday. Pfizer asked the FDA to approve blank shots for all adults booster.

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Yes. Who's your shots. This week, a member of the group that stormed the blank was sentenced to 41 months in prison.

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Oh, the Capitol. Yes. On Tuesday, the Supreme court of Oklahoma tossed out a ruling calling for Johnson and Johnson to pay $465 million for their part in the blank crisis.

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Opioid

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crisis

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in

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North

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Carolina,

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congressmen

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who

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organized

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an

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anti-vaccine

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rally

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announced

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he'd

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be

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unable

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to

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attend

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because

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he

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blanked

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died

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of

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COVID. Well, he got COVID. He's not dead yet.

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On Tuesday, fast food workers across California blank to demand a better working conditions.

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Protested went on strike.

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They struck, they went on strike on Sunday.

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A concert goer sued Travis Scott and live nation over to the deadly crowd surge at the blank festival Astro world.

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That's right this week, a family in Peru learned that the reason their pet dog run run was having behavioral problems was because blank Is

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a Lama You're so close run runs the dog.

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It turns out as a Fox, the family adopted run, run as a puppy and everything went great at first, but they soon noticed the dog was less interested in playing fetch and were interested in playing eat the neighbor's chickens shortly after discovering that he was a Fox run run, ran, ran away.

45:29

Bill, how did Emmy do on our quiz?

45:33

Darn good. She had six ride for 12 more points.

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I mean she has 13 and the lead All

45:42

right, Paula. You're up next. Fill in the blank.

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According to a new report, almost 1 million children got their first blank this week.

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Ah, COVID shot. Yeah.

45:50

This week in appeals court temporarily halted, the white house is corporate blank mandate a vaccine, right on Tuesday.

45:57

A watchdog group found that Kellyanne Conway and 12 other members of the Trump administration violated the blank act repeatedly hatch.

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Yes. This week passengers that Heathrow airport had to wait to be reunited with her luggage.

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After blank ended up in the carousel instead after A

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oh oh, after A

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rat, no. After dozens of crates of frozen fish ended up on the carousel at an auction this week.

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One of the earliest computers made by blank sold for $400,000 apple, right?

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Despite the worst reviews in the franchise's history, the latest movie in the blank universe topped the box office, Marvel Marvel cinematic universe, and California couple will be able to enjoy the video of the birth of their new baby.

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That was recorded by blank.

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It was recorded by one of those traffic camps, Close

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their own doorbell camera.

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A woman had been having contractions 10 minutes apart.

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The couple lived only five minutes in the hospital and they got cocky.

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She got as far as the car before she realized she was having the baby right there in the front lawn.

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Fortunately their doorbell camera was there to capture the wonderful miracle of life.

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Mom and baby are both fine. And since the doorbell camera was a ring, their Amazon page now says people who had babies in their yard also like bill, how did Paula do on our quiz?

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Welcome back, Paula, you got five, right?

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For 10 more points that gives you a 13 and you are tied with Hemi for the lead.

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All right. How many then does Alonzo need to win this five to win?

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All right, here we go. This is for the game.

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Alonzo on Stephen Miller and Kelly McInerney became the latest Trump allies to be subpoenaed by the blank committee.

47:34

January six. Yes. Following months of debate, president Biden said he would sign the completed blank bill on Monday Infrastructure,

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Right this week, a federal judge overruled, Texas.

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His ban on blank mandates in schools, Mass

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mandates. Yes, for the first time in 20 months, the U S allowed international travelers who are blanked to enter the country vaccinated.

47:54

Right? Colorado man was arrested after he accidentally set his mother's house on fire while trying to blank Senator

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house on fire. No, She was, she was trying to clear out cobwebs with a blowtorch on Wednesday.

48:06

Elon Musk sold around $5 billion worth of blank.

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Stock a Tesla, right on Thursday, NASA announced it would be at least 20, 25 before they landed another astronaut on the blank moon.

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Yes. This week, his senior general from the communist country of Vietnam came under fire.

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After he went to London and blank Drank.

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I don't know. No. I went to London and ate a steak covered in gold, served him by salt bay.

48:33

If you care, the general said he was in the city to visit the grave of Karl Marx.

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And Hey, as long as he's there, why not spit on it?

48:40

The steak, he was filmed eating costs $1,150.

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And

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it

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was

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covered

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in

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24

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karat

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gold

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leaf. After being accused of betraying his communist values, the general promise to make it up to the citizens of Vietnam.

48:51

Just as soon as he finds a knife, sharp enough to cut his leftovers and did 97 million pieces.

48:57

Wasn't that an appetizer at the Getty wedding?

48:59

It probably, Well,

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bill

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did

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Alonzo

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do

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well

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enough

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to

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win

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So hot. He had six, right?

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12 more points. That means with 16.

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He is the champion this week.

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I would like to dedicate this one to Anna from Denver.

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Thank you for the point. And you, you just turned the tide on this.

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You tossed it to you, man. And you ran with it on brow coming up.

49:28

Our panelists predict. Now the Thanksgiving has gotten so expensive.

49:31

What will people eat to save money this year?

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Now panel. What will people be eating to save money at Thanksgiving this year?

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I mean Blotnick Instead of Turkey, they'll eat Crow, All

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the stone baked Stuffed

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dust bunnies, And

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Alonzo boating. It will save money this year by eating last year's turducken Any

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of that happens? Well, that's scared about it on wait, wait.

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Don't tell me. Thank you, bill Curtis.

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Thanks also to Alonzo Bowden, Emmy Blotnick and Paula Poundstone.

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Thanks to all of you for listening. I am Peter Sagel.

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We are going to see you. We will.

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That's 1 8 8 8 9 2 4 8 9 2 4. Hi, you're on wait, wait, I have Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of the most surprisingly beautiful cities I've ever seen. We've got lots of great views everywhere around the city. And what do you do there? I am an infectious disease epidemiologist at the university of Pittsburgh and also a part-time graduate student in public. So you're an epidemiologist studying infectious diseases. So not been very busy of late. I would imagine it's yeah, it's been interesting past couple of years here. W when all of this happened, were you at least able to go to your parents and go see, I told you I shouldn't have been an artist like you wanted out of it. And they Were very proud. Well, Alex, welcome to our show. Let me introduce you to our panel this week. First it's a comedian who's stand up. Album parking nights is available in all the music streaming platforms right Next. He's a comedian performing November 26th through the 27th at the Arlington Drafthouse in Arlington Virginia. It's Alonzo boated. Hey, how you doing? Good. How are you? And she's a comedian whose new album Paula Poundstone goes to college for one night is now available worldwide on all digital platforms and who will also be performing in Alexandria, Virginia at the Birchmere November 19th to the 21st it's Paula Poundstone. Thank you so Much for your work. Thank you, Paula. Nice to meet you. So Alex, welcome to the show. You're going to play who's bill. This time, bill Curtis, of course, is going to read you three quotations from this week's news. If you can correctly identify or explain just two of them, you will win our prize. Any voice from our show, you might choose on your voicemail. You're ready to play. Sounds good. Let's do it. Here Is your first quote. Although My hands are shaking while writing this, I feel it is time to choose courage over comfort and speak mine. I don't need to tell you who that is. It's of course, supermodel Dotson crows, but I will ask you, she's a, one of a slew of celebrities telling the world that her truth is that she is not going to do what exactly. She's not going to get vaccinated. Yes. The secondary celebrities have figured out a way to get people, including us to talk about them. Apparently they all got jealous of the attention that got showered on Nikki Minaj, cousins, friends, testicles, Doosan crows is actually a supermodel. She is a former, a Victoria secret angel. And if she continues on this path, she might soon be an actual angel, but this week's patient zero for celebrity obtuseness is Aaron Rogers of the green bay Packers. A while back when reporters asked if he was vaccinated, he said, quote, I'm immunized on quote, turns out he was lying. He thinks the vaccine will endanger him more than it might protect him. Is anybody actually surprised? I mean, everybody is like, oh my God, Aaron Rogers. But yes, of course he's an anti-vaxxer his literal job is to make people catch things. Well, I think bigger than being an anti-vaxxer, he's a horrible liar. Like just not good at it. If you, if you're going to lie to your team in the NFL, at least be prepared for questions. You know, I suspect there's going to be some linemen who may not be so happy blocking for Mr. Rogers. I think The NFL, the NFL really put him in his place. They find him over $14,000 with his $25 million a year salary. I don't know how he's going to cover that. He's he's he's lucky, you know Alonza cause if he had been kneeling, when he lied, it would have been a lot worse. Yeah. Now he's not going to be able to buy a new pair of sneakers and that should set them back. Well, listen, the vaccine has big bird on its side. Totally set off the Republican party. It's very funny what presses their buttons, but, but they are really against imaginary creatures. They, they were upset over Mr. Potato head. Now we've got big bird. I don't know who's next to set them off. No, it's true. A big bird was the Provax celebrity who came out this week. He told his many young friends that he got vaccinated. They should too. And he was immediately accused as you say, of spreading government propaganda and being a communist big bird is according to Sesame street, perennially six years old. He's not redistributing private property. He's sharing Alex, do you work with, I do not work with big bird, but my kids do watch them every week. So they are supporters. Okay. All right here, Alex is your next. I wrote a gallon of milk was a dollar 99. Now it's $2 70. Then when you buy 12 gallons a week, that's a lot of money. That was Krista. Stotler a woman who buys way too much milk telling CNN about the struggles that many Americans are having with what these days inflation. It is inflation. Inflation is higher right now than it has been in 30 years. Experts worry. It's going to affect among many other things. Holiday shopping. For example, average costs for Thanksgiving. Dinner are up 4% over last year. It's going to be 5% when cousin Josh decides he's bringing his new girlfriend at the last minute, come on, Josh am I made a folding chairs. Inflation is also what happens when you drink 12 gallons of milk a week. Yes. It's like CNN went out to find somebody to talk about inflation. And apparently they found somebody who's running an illegal cheese lab in their garage, right? That's a lot of milk. Listen, when you do your interviews outside of Costco, you get people with 12 gallons of milk. They don't mess around in that story. That's true. Lactose Tolerance. There's this new phenomenon called a meat. Felician have you heard about this as a general rise in the prices of all meats because of yes, of course. Supply chain issues. And also because the cows have learned to fight back Nails for free meats, lation pills sometimes. And I'm like, I'm a woman. All right, here is your last quote. My grandma and father were by my side, gagging with That was an oil heiress, Ivy Getty talking about how happy her family was at her big day. And over the top event that was all over the internet this week. What was the event? Was it the wedding? Yes, the wedding. We'll just call it a wedding in the middle of the debate about whether we should tax the rich more Vogue came up with this elaborate searing parody of the wealthy lifestyle, a 10,000 word article about this fancy wedding in San Francisco, guaranteed to make everybody just grab their pitchforks. Oh wait. It was real. The wedding of Ivy, Getty to some guy who cares. He's not rich was the time honored story of boy meets girl, boy marries girl, boy and girls wedding gets a mammoth up and Nancy Pelosi performed the ceremony Way to show you are one of the people Nancy going to this billion dollar wedding and just hanging out Gavin Newsome was there too. Another, another brilliant move. Good thing to Republicans. Won't hold this against them at all. When it comes to privilege, It's going to have a deep state themed wedding first I'm I'm just at a loss. It really was repulsive. I was there. I just, you were invited just for one day. I was just there for the picnic. That's All. There were three nights of blowout parties. Custom made designer silk pajamas for the bridesmaids and the bride. And this is true. When she came down, the aisle wore a dress covered with fragments of mirrors. So the guests could gaze at themselves. As she Walked down the aisle, the look was inspired by that moment in my octopus teacher, where the octopus camouflages itself with garbage, it just goes to show money cannot buy you taste, but it can buy you Nancy Pelosi. Were you invited to the bachelorette party on Jeff Bezos's spaceship? No, no, no. I wasn't. You know, I wasn't part of the inner circle. I just went to the picnic event. Anytime you have a party that the Kardashians say is over the top, you've gone over the top. If your own wedding dress slices and dices you down the aisle, you've gotten over the top. I wish I wish the Gettys had named one of their daughters, Betty, because I just think Betty Getty would be so much fun to say. How About Yeti? Especially if the middle name is spa, That's Betty spaghetti. For those of you doing the math at home. Yeah. They're still doing the math on buying 12 gallons of milk Bill. How did Alex do on our quiz, Alex? We salute you. He got them. All right. Congratulations, Alex. And thank you for the good and essential work that you do. Thank you, Peter. Thanks everyone. Take care. Panelists. It's now time for a new game. We're calling watch in the Thames Thames. Of course the river Thames is England's longest river runs straight through the middle of London and Paula, according to a very exciting announcement just this week. What's in the Thames sharks. Exactly right? Not just sharks but poisonous sharks. Oh, I didn't realize they were poisonous. They are poison. I'm so glad I warned you before you tried to pet one. There are venomous sharks in the river Thames and what's weird is that's apparently a good thing. The zoological society of London, just to do a survey of wildlife in that river. And they found seahorses and eels and spurdog sharks, which are about two feet long and covered in venomous spines. That's why British people have stiff upper lips. They've been paralyzed by sharks, but environmentalist's are very excited by the finding as a sign of the rivers recovery. Back in 1957, the very polluted river Thames was declared biologically dead, which I think this means these are actually zombie poison sharks. Wow. So it was biologically dead. And now, so this is good news because it's come to life again. Spiky, poison sharks. Exactly. If you are a British person and concerned with a wildlife and the Thames, you can say great news. There are poisonous sharks, not a sentence that most people would say. I just never knew that poisonous sharks existed. Like, like you're, you're already a shark and you're like, but now let me add the poison. Coming up. Our panelists, discover a new passion in our bluff. The listener game. Call one triple eight. Wait, wait to play. We'll be back in a minute with more of wait, wait. Don't tell me from NPR. This message comes from NPR sponsor, PenFed credit union offering great rates on financial products for those who were in the military and those who are not discover personal loans and credit cards for budget, flexibility, mortgages to help you compete in today's market and savings accounts and certificates to plan for the future. It's easy to apply. Visit Penn fed.org today to get started to receive any advertised product. You must become a member of PenFed, federally insured by NCUA equal housing lender. Well, season two of the formula, Summerfield pops most respected rapper producer duo breakdown. The method to that magic. He talked to me. It moves me soon as I hear it, They want me to make a raw beet. Ain't want Freddy to go berserk. We can do that on our Watching new episodes at npr.org/the formula From NPR and WBZ Chicago. This is wait, wait. Don't tell me the NPR news quiz. I'm bill Curtis. We're playing this week with Paula Poundstone, Emmy Blotnick and a lunch though. And here again is your host. The man who just won a CMA award for most beautiful soprano. It's Peter Sagan. Thank you bill. Right now. It's time for the wait, wait. Don't tell me to listen to game called one triple eight. Wait, wait to play our game on the air. Hi, you are on wait, wait. Don't tell me. Hi. This is Ana from Denver, Colorado. Oh, great. Well, how are things in Denver getting cold? I hope. Yeah, they're getting a little colder, but there's still some nice days. Well, I'd like it when it gets cold in Denver. Cause then it snows. You can go skiing. Do you do all those fun Colorado things that people do to enjoy themselves in that beautiful state? No, You Don't Just don't I got a dog. You got a dog. All right. That's a Colorado thing. I appreciate that. What, what, what, what kind of dog did you get? A German shepherd mix and Being a new dog owner. How did you find it? I mean, I know it allows you to like fit into Colorado society. Cause you have to bring a dog everywhere. I love it. She's the best. She just does everything I want to do. And I happen to get her. One of those, like best, not like a service best, just like a regular like harness, but people seem to think it's the vest. So everywhere I go, they think she's a service dog. So I've actually managed to bring her into places without people even questioning it. Awesome. Well, it's very nice to have you with us and you're going to our game on which you missed, right? To tell truth from fiction bill, what does Anna's topic? Let your freak flag fly. Our world is full of strange and wonderful things. And also a bunch of really strange people. This week. We learned about a group of people who were proudly banding together and standing up for their own particular bizarre interest. Our panelists are going to tell you about it. Pick the one who's telling the truth. You'll win the weight waiter of your choice in your voicemail. Ready to give this a try. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. All right. First let's hear from Emmy Blotnick An Indianapolis couple is fighting back after being banned from a hot lunch buffet where they were spotted serving themselves with their bare foods. Personally, I reach into the bins because I don't like everything in the trail mix and I shouldn't have to pay for things. I don't like others argue that issue in utensils provides extra dimension to mealtimes. You don't know sensory pleasure until you've sipped corn chowder through your own cup tans set of van covered in soup. untangles. Your next story of a bunch of weirdos comes from Alonzo Boden. Everybody is annoyed by a bird pooping on your freshly washed car hood. Everyone that is except a group of artists in Bakersfield, California, who practice a variety of surrealism using Avi-on excretion and art form. They call do-do data. It began when Dave Ralstons car got dive bomb right after he left the carwash. And before he could get mad, he noticed the pattern on his hood looked like the Thomas Gainsborough blue boy painting. That gave me an idea. He said, what if we encourage the birds to explore their artistic impulses? So every Sunday morning, Dave and a group of his friends meet outside the Bakersfield farmer's market to park their freshly washed cars under carefully selected trees and light poles and wait for inspiration to splatter on their hoods. The grand prize in their competition will be awarded to a copy of a painting. So accurate. A passer-by can recognize it so far. No one has one that Lisa Mendez from the Bakersfield times, art section asks, what is the grand prize? Anyway, a carwash of course said, Dave provides a fresh canvas for next Sunday. The do-do data movement who use birds to make art. Your last story of freak spring, loud and proud comes from Paula Poundstone That just go together. Peanut butter and jelly movies and popcorn captain and Tenille, toothbrushing and orange juice. Wait what? Yes. There are people who love to fall brushing their teeth with an orange juice chaser. Casey, a 34 year old in Northern Virginia explains for me the minty tangy one, two punch creates such a unique potent flavor. Many who enjoy the Denta phrase slash citrus combo identify themselves on social networks. They don't claim to find a tasty so much as they appreciate the chemical reaction. Perhaps the way a member of a polar bear club known for plunging into icy cold water. Doesn't really enjoy freezing their ass off, but relishes the aftermath. The part where they're brought warm blankets while they cry and swear. They'll never do that again. No word yet. On the unlikely social groups, meet ups to eat oysters near septic tank clean-outs it must be in the offing though. All right. So there's a group of people out there who are proudly claiming to enjoy something that other people just well don't was it from Emmy, the anti-tank crews who just enjoy using their bare hands to pick up things from salad bars and bulk bins from Alonzo Boden. People who want birds to poop on their freshly washed cars for the sake of art or from Paula Poundstone. People who actually enjoy and advocate for drinking orange juice right after they brush their teeth. Which of these are the people who are coming out of the shadows at last, I have a feeling it's the third one, but you guys really like to talk about poop on this show. And I want Elanco to get the point. I'm going to go with a long story. You picked Alonzo's story of the bird poop artist. Well, to bring you the correct answer, we spoke to someone who knows something about the real story. All of them go out of their way to brush their teeth before drinking orange juice. That was Quinn. Meyer's a staff writer at Mel magazine and the person who first reported on this phenomenon. So as you yourself knew would happen. It was Paul who was telling the truth. So you did not win, but you earned a point for your guy, your man, Mr. Bowden, for telling his story so effectively. So congratulations, I guess. Thank you, Ana bye-bye. Thank you. Bye. And now the game where we desperately try to find something that somebody who can do anything can't do, it's called not my job. Now, if you've watched TV or movies at all over the past 50 years, chances are you have seen the great ed Begley Jr. With over 300 credits on CMDB from best in show to six feet under the better call Saul. He is the man you call when you need a character who is dignified, but flustered or maybe flustered, but dignified. He's also a devoted environmentalist. These days you can see him on CBS is young Sheldon ed Begley, Jr. Welcome to wait. Wait. Don't tell me What a joy to actually be talking to you because I believe you were in literally one of the first movies I ever saw the computer that wore tennis shoes With Kurt Russell. Yes, I did several of those Kurt Russell Disney movie. So here's the thing. I'm not a young man and I've been watching you my whole life as I just established. So I asked this question to a lot of performers. We get on the show, but in this case I have absolutely no idea what the answer is going to be. What do people most recognize you for Probably St elsewhere? Cause it lasted the longest. It was a 140 some odd shows I believe was definitely six years. And I was in all the one episode. So it was a good run. And then other people like pineapple express people like she devil people love young Sheldon right now it's a very popular show. And Mr. Mayor would Ted Danson and I was on better call Saul for several seasons. I said, you know the wonderful show. I've been very lucky to still be working after 54 years. I don't care if you're selling used cars or in the storm door business, you work over five decades. You're pretty damn lucky. I would Agree. Can I ask one question? Just re Alonzo anything you want to know all the, Well, no, we were talking about this before you have been in every movie ever made, right? Yeah. But the question is, do you remember any movie or show that you turned down? Have you ever said like, no, I'm not going to do that one and having done so many, do you remember that? It didn't turn one down, but I fell asleep at the switch a few times when people and somewhat of very big director gave me a copy of a book, a very famous book and said, I'm going to make this in a movie. Would you read it? And let me know. If you think you're willing to play this part that he named the part, it was a very big book. It was a very big movie. I never got around to reading it. I was busy tending my corn and my tomatoes or something. I got busy with something in the garden and it became a very successful movie. So I've, I've dropped the ball on more than one occasion, Which you have to tell us what it is in terms of endearment. Jeff. Now let's be clear. I never, I probably wouldn't. If I had gone into audition of Jeff, Jeff Daniels came in before, after me, no matter when he came in, I wouldn't have gotten the part. Jeff Daniels was better than I could've ever been, but I was offered that maybe I could have played another part in other than that. But You know, I wouldn't kick yourself too much about it because Shirley MacLaine was the best choice for the mother. And I don't see how you would've gotten that. Okay. I have to tell you one great thing about ed Begley. When I, when I met ed, we were at an event for heal the bay, which is an environmental organization. So we're on, and we're told that an ed, for those who don't know the Los Angeles area, you have to Hills. And, and so they, they said, well, ed Begley is going to be here, but he's a little delayed cause he's riding his bicycle. So it just shamed everyone at the event. But she was so funny. She said, you know, I know it's great. Everybody thinks it's funny, but ed rode his bike from studio city. I walked here from Pasadena. Just give me some credit for that. I got to ask you about environmental activism, which in many ways when people say ed Begley Jr. And I'm like, oh yeah, the guy who liked with the electric cars and new bicycles everywhere. How do you deal with showing up everywhere covered in sweat? Back when I was riding my bike a lot before going to events, like the feel the bay event that Paula alluded to, I would just come with what they call a pannier and you'd take it out. It's like a garment bag. And then you carry it into a restroom at the Peterson museum. But that's where you are. And you do an Irish shower. You get some paper towels or bring a wash box with me. I kind of, you know, kind of get at the sink. I cleaned up a bit, put on a fresh shirt, fresh under shirt, pressure, top shirt, pants, belt shoes, and go into the event. And a lot of people, I did that at the Oscars. More than once. A lot of people didn't know I'd come on a bike. I was lazy. So they tell me, Do you ever consider just like, just like pedaling up on the red carpet and says, well, what are you wearing? Oh, when you say I would paddle up to the red carpet and then the valets would take the bikes the same way they would take a car. And they handed me a little ticket and took my bike. Pretty funny. Can you tell us like the most extreme thing you've ever done for environmental purposes? What About the glove compartment? Oh, that's true. That was fairly extreme. You remember that? Unbelievable. I went to an LA county board of supervisors meeting about Lopez canyon landfill in the San Fernando valley where I live from. So obviously are testifying on behalf of the neighbors and the homeowners near the landfill that they wanted clothes. And I said, look, we don't need another landfill. It's possible to make a lot less, press take my trash. For instance, at one week's worth of trash would probably fit in my glove compartment. I said, and later that day, I believe there's a knock on the door. Yes. LA time just sent I take the paper already. No, no, no. I'm not trying to sell you the paper. I'm reporting the LA times. And I'm here to see if one week's worth of your trash will in fact, let it fit in your glove compartment. Okay. Have you never done it? So, no. I just said that the meeting, I think it's about a glove compartment is worth. And so I said, let's try it. I'll go for it. Whatever it is. It's gotta to be what it is. So write the story, whatever it is, maybe it's two glove compartments. So we went to each room, gathered up all the trash. She said, what is trash day here? I went into tomorrow. Dammit. And I'll go, you got a whole, there's a week's worth. She said, I knew that. I wanted to see if you could tell the truth. I know it's tomorrow. She was good reporters. Do the enemy, went to each room and gathered everything up, put it in the glove box. And then I'm there with my biking legs, cramming clothes, my feet somehow fit a week's worth of my trash did. In fact that the glove compartment was a very funny piece. In the times it went actor, cramps for test. That's great. Well, ed Begley, Jr. It is a delight to talk to you. And we have in fact invited you here to play a game. We're calling ed Begley Jr. Meet B movie senior. You've been in so many movies. We had to dig pretty deep to find one you weren't in. And we finally did the B-movie starring Jerry Seinfeld as well, a B. So we're going to ask you about it. Answer two or three questions correctly. You'll want a prize. One of our listeners, the voice of their choice on their voicemail. Bill, who is ed Begley Jr. Playing for by Hamson of St. Paul, Minnesota. All right. You ready to do this? I'm ready. Here we go. The B-movie, which was remember a movie for kids is full of unpredictable moments like which of these a hive where the queen bee is actually a drag queen B be a joke that implies that the human woman played by Renee Zellweger had dated multiple different insects or see a scene where the bee has to land a plane. After the pilot and copilot fall unconscious, I get to go with Renee Zellweger. That's striking some sort of a core deep in my subconscious might even be part of it. I think it's Renee's over your answer Because all three of them, that movie is quite a journey. All right, the next question, the movie ended up being a bit of a flop, but it remained very popular with some fans. How did one person express their personal love for the B movie? A a group of students in California wrote choreographed and performed a two and a half hour musical based on the movie B somebody printed out the entire script and hung it on their bedroom wall, or see, according to one report from Netflix over the course of 20 17, 1 viewer watched B-movie 357 times. Somehow I'm buying the 357 times. I think somebody might've actually done that. Somebody did do that. And somebody else printed on a wall and somebody else made a musical out of it. Because once again, all three of them were true. I'm seeing a trend. Last question. The B-movie movie was not the blockbuster people hoped, but it didn't do well enough that a company made one of those mock Buster ripoffs called plan B, designed to feed off the real movies, popularity, which of these was a real review of plan B posted on imdv.com. A 10 out of 10. Always loved the B-movie, but it wasn't erotic enough for me. This fulfilled my fantasy B the acting is so bad in the is so bad and everything is so bad in, oh my God. Or see monstrosity wrong vial, unacceptable, icky on satisfactory criminal godawful. Crummy, not good. It could be all three, but it's definitely the last one. So I'm going to go through that Again. It was in fact, all three. Why can't I see a trend, The stock market bill. How did ed Begley Jr. Doing our quiz? It is, and always will be the hero of wait, wait. Don't tell me he got them off. Congratulations. Hey ed Begley Jr. Is basically a superstar actor, comedian environmentalist. You can see him Thursdays these days on young Sheldon, on CBS ed Begley, Jr. What an absolute delight to talk to you. Thank you so much for joining us. We are humbled and grateful. Thank you so much Anytime. Thank you all. Just a minute. Bill tucks us all in for a good night's sleep and our listener Limerick challenge fall one triple eight. Wait, wait to join us on the air. We'll be back in a minute with more of wait, wait. Don't tell me from NPR Support for this podcast. And the following message comes from best fiends. When it comes to match three style puzzle games, only one reign, Supreme, best fiends. It's an action packed adventure game and puzzle game rolled into one. So it's no wonder it's got so many, five star reviews. Plus there's new content added all the time. If you're tired of crushing the same old candy, give best fiends a try. 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We're playing this week with Alonzo button, Emmy Blotnick and Paula stone. And here again is your host. A man who just requested. We stopped calling him host at the start, calling him senior manager of out loud words. So here we get as your senior manager of out loud words, it's Peter say go Just a minute. Bill. It gets a new night cream for his fine rhymes and wrinkles and our listener Limerick challenge game. If you'd like to play, give us a call at one triple eight. Wait, wait. That's 1 8 8 8 9 2 4 8 9 2 4. Right now panel though, some more questions for you from the week's news. Paula Osaka hospital in Japan made a shocking announcement this week after they discovered that ever since the hospital was built 30 years ago, people there have been drinking water from where Gimme a minute. They're living every dog's dream from the toilet. They'd been dressed. They've been drinking toilet water. When the hospital was built in 1993, the water watertight incorrectly connected to the toilet water pipes, which is why major plumbing. Contractors should never observe, take your kid to work. But Japanese toilets are so nice. You probably should do. Probably actually could be a patient. This hospital, the doctors, like I have some bad news and you're like cancer. He says, no, no, no. We've all been drinking toilet water for 30 years. And you're like, is it too late to choose cancer? But Did they, did anybody ever have any ill health Effects? No. You see Paula and we knew you'd ask that they didn't attach the water pipes to the bottoms of the toilet. If you will. What they did was they used the same water supply that was going into the toilets instead of the water supply they should have used, which was purified for drinking water. Right? So they were just drinking the water that was used to flush the toilets, which is why every time they had a drink of water, they didn't have to sit around for three minutes and wait until they could send some more down A level of perfume, Toilet water. Yeah, exactly. You owed a Twilight. Yeah. Just call ode. It's wild that people are happy. Exactly. Alonzo, a new app is offering great discounts on carry out food because all of that food is what A day old Almost I'll give it to you. It is old. It's the end of the day leftovers grub hub. But all of the restaurants just list the food that they're about to throw out. So you can get the food at a huge discount, which makes it a perfect way to get baked goods produce and a virus from that guy at table three, who did not finish all his crimes. If you're at the point where you're, you're getting the grab bag of stuff that they don't couldn't sell, the can't get rid of. Are you really that lazy that they have to deliberate? Come on, get off the couch, get hood a little bit of effort into buying the end of the day muffins. I love the dumpster. Divers offended just professionally. Like, you know, we put in the effort here, you're using an app. No, I'm, I'm fighting off throngs of dabblers for quiche behind this restaurant, Uber guy. All right. It's now time for a new game that we are calling. Whatever happened to that breeze to left the church, to be with a sexologist who wrote satanic Arabic. So a few months ago, we told you about the Spanish Bishop whose love for an alluring author of erotic fiction caused him to leave his church. Today. We have an update on that, man. Emmy, what is his new job? He scrubs toilets at a six flags. That's very specific, very Specific just to job I dream of. I haven't been following this story. So maybe I've got a Google alert on it. No, no. I'm going to give you a hint. It's a little subtle hint. See if you can sort of piece it together from what I'm about to tell you, his customers are those who import pig semen, is he Imports or exports her of pigs And export her of pig. Semen. That's exactly right. That's what he ended up doing. He was working at a company that quoted sports, high quality pig reproductive material to more than 20 countries. So it sounds like he has landed on his feet and on the underside of some pigs, what does he do for this company? We don't know, but it's worth saying that in that business, labeling the packages and getting the address right. Is very, very important. Well, that's what, that's what he does in Spain. If this were an American story, he would be a politician. That's true. He'd be on dancing with the stars. Absolutely. Yes. Yes. Well, until the next update that does it for Whatever happened to that breeze to left third church, to be with a sexologist who wrote September, they get erotica. Coming up. It's lightening fill in the blank. But first it's the game where you have to listen for the rhyme. If you'd like to play on air call to leave a message. One triple eight, wait, wait. That's 1 8, 8 8, 9 2 4 8 9 2 4. And if you want to see us live and in person, we will be at the Harris theater in Chicago. Once more on December 9th, tickets are on sale now at wait, wait.npr.org. We promise it will be a super spreader event, but this time we'll be spreading. Laughter and good fun. Hi, you're on. Wait, wait. Don't tell me. Hi there I am Soren. I'm calling from Laramie, Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, out there, out there in the great Prairie. What are you doing? I am currently studying social work and I'm also in our jazz band here. That's Pretty cool. What instrument do you play? I play the trumpet. Yes, I, I have a good time, but Is there still, is there still an audience for jazz in Laramie, Wyoming? Well, my parents only live about an hour away, so there's And the least they show up At least a couple of seats get Filled. Well, sorry. Welcome to the show. Bill Curtis is going to read you three news-related limericks with the last word or phrase missing from each. If you can fill in that last word or phrase correctly in two of the limericks, you will be a winner. Ready to play. Absolutely. All right, here is your first Limerick. I worked from home. Shouldn't come at my loss. Let's draw a lines. My employer can't cross. Once I get off the clock, there's a color I'll block. So I can't get a text from my boss. Yes. The Portuguese parliament has made it illegal in that country for your boss to text you after work. Unfortunately it's still legal before work and during work, they made this law of course, to support a healthier work-life balance. But come on, it's not illegal if I'm more of a friend than a boss, right. Besides if you think about it, any texts that you get after you get home for the day is technically still before work. Yeah. You sound like you're arguing for the boss on that one theater. You said, I'm just saying I'm the kind of guy who might need people to pretend to find me funny anytime of the day or night. And my staff knows that. All right, very good. Here is your next Limerick. If I don't get some good rest, your head time, my heart has a pre-med tour dead time, but it keeps a firm beat. If I get some good sleep. So 10 30 is now my new bed time, Right? A study has revealed that the healthiest part you should go to bed between 10 and 11 at night, that particular bedtime maximizes the positive effects of the body's circadian rhythm and minimizes potentially harmful exposure to James cordon. The study followed 88,000 people in Britain who answered yes to the question. Mind if I watch you sleep and it found a 25% increase in heart disease in people who went to bed after midnight, you'd expect that, right? You need to get your sleep, but also a 24% increase among people who went to bed before 10. So your doctor might soon prescribe that you have to be less lame. What about what time they get up? That mean to me, that is a key question. Of course. I mean, if you go to bed before nine and you get up at one in the morning, it's not going to do you much good, right? I mean, it seems an important question, but apparently that is, that is key 10 and 11 guys. I would think the people who stay up past midnight and die early, at least they had a good time. You're going to bed. If you're going to bed at eight 30 and dying early, you really got robbed in this equation. So they just write off everyone who works at night. Apparently Like touring comedians are all for a reason. You're all doomed, man. You're all doomed. All right, here is your last Limerick Though. AMC's snacks deserve top scorn. They are trying to get a new shop board. They think it behooves me to forego the movie and go out to buy greasy opco. Exactly right? AMC theaters, opening a handful of kiosks across the country dedicated to selling their popcorn. So you can get it without having to go to a movie. It's exactly the same movie theater, popcorn recipe we love. But now you can wipe your hands on your own furniture. And if you make it at home, do you have to pay yourself $11 for the, You do. And of course the, you have to, it's only sold in small, medium and large. And the small is exactly the same size of the media Above ground pool size. If we're really doing I there's. So there's a movie theater in Santa Monica that I've walked to sometimes just to get popcorn. Really? Yeah. You actually like it. I, you know what I do like it, but I also can't watch a movie without popcorn. Do you have one of those rules, Paula, where you're not allowed to start eating the popcorn until the movie itself starts? No, I started eating right away anyway. Yeah. Sometimes I don't even move out of the way for the next customer. I just stand there and eat a couple of kernels really? Until someone goes, go, would you go? Yeah. Bill had a store and doing our quiz. He did grades. He got a perfect score actually. Well done. Thanks. And you know, enjoy playing for your parents next time. Thank you so much. Take care. Bye-bye This message comes from NPR sponsor capital one, ready for a new ride, but not sure where to start. Try the tool designed to make car shopping and financing easier with capital one auto navigator. You can find a car and get pre-qualified instantly. Then see your real rate and monthly payment without impacting your credit score. It's so simple. You might feel like you're taking the easy way out. That's because you are capital one. What's in your wallet. Terms and conditions apply. Find out more@capitalone.com slash auto navigator. It's time for our final game already. It's lightening fill in the blank. Each of our players now has 60 seconds in which to answer as many fill in the blank questions as they can each correct answer. Now worth two points. Belle, can you give us the scores? He has one. Paula has three and Alonzo has four. Wow. I only have one. Well, Emmy, the good news is because you only have one point. That means you do go first. So the clock will start when they begin your first question, fill in the blank on Wednesday, the U S and China made a joint pledge to combat blank. Climate change. Yes. On Tuesday. Pfizer asked the FDA to approve blank shots for all adults booster. Yes. Who's your shots. This week, a member of the group that stormed the blank was sentenced to 41 months in prison. Oh, the Capitol. Yes. On Tuesday, the Supreme court of Oklahoma tossed out a ruling calling for Johnson and Johnson to pay $465 million for their part in the blank crisis. Opioid crisis in North Carolina, congressmen who organized an anti-vaccine rally announced he'd be unable to attend because he blanked died of COVID. Well, he got COVID. He's not dead yet. On Tuesday, fast food workers across California blank to demand a better working conditions. Protested went on strike. They struck, they went on strike on Sunday. A concert goer sued Travis Scott and live nation over to the deadly crowd surge at the blank festival Astro world. That's right this week, a family in Peru learned that the reason their pet dog run run was having behavioral problems was because blank Is a Lama You're so close run runs the dog. It turns out as a Fox, the family adopted run, run as a puppy and everything went great at first, but they soon noticed the dog was less interested in playing fetch and were interested in playing eat the neighbor's chickens shortly after discovering that he was a Fox run run, ran, ran away. Bill, how did Emmy do on our quiz? Darn good. She had six ride for 12 more All right, Paula. You're up next. Fill in the blank. According to a new report, almost 1 million children got their first blank this week. Ah, COVID shot. Yeah. This week in appeals court temporarily halted, the white house is corporate blank mandate a vaccine, right on Tuesday. A watchdog group found that Kellyanne Conway and 12 other members of the Trump administration violated the blank act repeatedly hatch. Yes. This week passengers that Heathrow airport had to wait to be reunited with her luggage. After blank ended up in the carousel instead after A oh oh, after A rat, no. After dozens of crates of frozen fish ended up on the carousel at an auction this week. One of the earliest computers made by blank sold for $400,000 apple, right? Despite the worst reviews in the franchise's history, the latest movie in the blank universe topped the box office, Marvel Marvel cinematic universe, and California couple will be able to enjoy the video of the birth of their new baby. That was recorded by blank. It was recorded by one of those traffic camps, Close their own doorbell camera. A woman had been having contractions 10 minutes apart. The couple lived only five minutes in the hospital and they got cocky. She got as far as the car before she realized she was having the baby right there in the front lawn. Fortunately their doorbell camera was there to capture the wonderful miracle of life. Mom and baby are both fine. And since the doorbell camera was a ring, their Amazon page now says people who had babies in their yard also like bill, how did Paula do on our quiz? Welcome back, Paula, you got five, right? For 10 more points that gives you a 13 and you are tied with Hemi for the lead. All right. How many then does Alonzo need to win this five to win? All right, here we go. This is for the game. Alonzo on Stephen Miller and Kelly McInerney became the latest Trump allies to be subpoenaed by the blank committee. January six. Yes. Following months of debate, president Biden said he would sign the completed blank bill on Monday Infrastructure, Right this week, a federal judge overruled, Texas. His ban on blank mandates in schools, Mass mandates. Yes, for the first time in 20 months, the U S allowed international travelers who are blanked to enter the country vaccinated. Right? Colorado man was arrested after he accidentally set his mother's house on fire while trying to blank Senator house on fire. No, She was, she was trying to clear out cobwebs with a blowtorch on Wednesday. Elon Musk sold around $5 billion worth of blank. Stock a Tesla, right on Thursday, NASA announced it would be at least 20, 25 before they landed another astronaut on the blank moon. Yes. This week, his senior general from the communist country of Vietnam came under fire. After he went to London and blank Drank. I don't know. No. I went to London and ate a steak covered in gold, served him by salt bay. If you care, the general said he was in the city to visit the grave of Karl Marx. And Hey, as long as he's there, why not spit on it? The steak, he was filmed eating costs $1,150. And it was covered in 24 karat gold leaf. After being accused of betraying his communist values, the general promise to make it up to the citizens of Vietnam. Just as soon as he finds a knife, sharp enough to cut his leftovers and did 97 million pieces. Wasn't that an appetizer at the Getty wedding? It probably, Well, bill did Alonzo do well enough to win So hot. He had six, right? 12 more points. That means with 16. He is the champion this week. I would like to dedicate this one to Anna from Denver. Thank you for the point. And you, you just turned the tide on this. You tossed it to you, man. And you ran with it on brow coming up. Our panelists predict. Now the Thanksgiving has gotten so expensive. What will people eat to save money this year? Wait, wait. Don't tell me he's a production of NPR in WVS in Chicago and association with urgent haircut productions. Doug Berman, benevolent overlord, Phillip go to Coretsa limericks. Our social media superstars, Emma Choi, BJ Lederman composed our theme. Our program is produced by Jennifer Mills. Miles' drone boss, Lillian king and Nancy St. Chap special. Thanks as always to Vinny Thomas. Our wedding planner is Peter Gwinn technical direction. Ism Lorena white. Our CFO is Colin Miller, our production managers, Robert new house, our senior producers, Ian Schelok the executive producer of wait, wait. Don't tell me it's Dame of Michael Danfo. Now panel. What will people be eating to save money at Thanksgiving this year? I mean Blotnick Instead of Turkey, they'll eat Crow, All the stone baked Stuffed dust bunnies, And Alonzo boating. It will save money this year by eating last year's turducken Any of that happens? Well, that's scared about it on wait, wait. Don't tell me. Thank you, bill Curtis. Thanks also to Alonzo Bowden, Emmy Blotnick and Paula Poundstone. Thanks to all of you for listening. I am Peter Sagel. We are going to see you. We will. Next week. 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