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Howard, what do you do there? I'm

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I'm going to ask you this because

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you to our panel this week Sam

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First up a comedian will be headlining

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be Hollywood Improv Lab for the Netflix

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That Sammy Blottnitz. Max.

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The Comedian. His new album Weaponized

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Embassy is available now and will

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be appearing at the Abbey in

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Fontana, Wisconsin on April nineteenth is

2:39

Adam Ah. Yes as

2:41

as as. A

2:43

comedian and I'll. Say avid motorcyclist who

2:45

will be at the Blue Note Jazz

2:47

Club in Honolulu on May sixteenth. It's

2:49

Alonzo Boat and. I

2:55

don't know if this is. Rigged with I know Sam.

2:58

Do you realize we crossed their so you're

3:00

not on motorcycles and you heard to no

3:02

no no not when I will on the

3:04

same So Sam I can't help you at

3:06

all. Roles:

3:09

man. As

3:11

maybe a first acts we will. Sam welcome to

3:13

the so you're gonna play whose bill this time

3:15

Feel courtesy Gonna redo Three quotations from this week's

3:17

news as you can correctly Adenovirus planes as to

3:19

them your when our prize Any voice from our

3:21

show you my choosing your voicemail Are you ready

3:23

to do it? But. Through it

3:26

all right your first quote is

3:28

the near times predicting what is

3:30

going to happen on Monday anxiety

3:33

meds times And maybe I should

3:35

clarify there were telling us what

3:37

to expect from the Animal Kingdom

3:40

when what happens. Monday.

3:43

Or is it a particular

3:45

celestial event? It's gonna happen

3:47

and cross Texas and often

3:49

hear it might as well

3:51

in my yes it is

3:53

the eclipse Am very unless.

3:55

the boarding to the times monday solar

3:58

eclipse will have strange effects on animals

4:00

cows will return to the barn to

4:02

sleep flamingos will huddle together in fear

4:04

and tortoises will try to mate.

4:08

Now think about that one. How

4:10

long is this eclipse gonna be? I know. The

4:13

guy tortoise is like hey baby the time

4:15

says we got four minutes let's get busy. Do

4:18

you think tortoises are listening to this and going

4:20

what do you mean try to mate? There's

4:24

a lot of tortoises we get it

4:26

right sometimes. Apparently this is true we

4:28

didn't know but science tells us that

4:31

most animals when it gets dark will

4:33

just instinctively start their evening routines during

4:35

the eclipse. Fireflies for example start blinking and

4:37

I will say I'm gonna go read a book

4:39

in bed and just end up looking at my

4:41

phone until I fall asleep. My

4:44

favorite one of these is that spiders will

4:46

start to take down the web that they've

4:48

built because they think the day is over

4:51

and then the eclipse passes and they're like

4:53

oh my god I gotta build another web.

4:56

Imagine them slapping themselves in the

4:58

forehead eight times. I didn't

5:01

know this like a spider will spend all day building a

5:03

web and then like the sun goes down it's like a

5:05

whistle blows and they go oh well and they take down

5:07

the web and they put in their little case and they

5:09

go home to their wife. They have to pack it

5:11

up and then the eclipse passes and the wife

5:13

is like where's the web? So

5:18

I think between daylight savings time

5:20

and now this domestic animals are gonna be

5:22

like the hell are these humans doing? What

5:24

time is it? I'm

5:27

gonna be like why is my menstrual cycle

5:29

synced up with the raccoon population?

5:34

Alright Sam here is your next

5:36

quote. Pause it

5:38

here. Porn mode is getting improvement.

5:41

That was a commenter in the

5:43

Washington Post article reacting to the

5:45

news that what company finally admitted

5:49

to have been lying all these

5:51

years about their quote incognito mode.

5:53

Google. Google.

5:57

Google. Google. Google,

6:00

everybody of course switches over to incognito

6:02

mode in their browser when they don't

6:04

want their online activity to be recorded.

6:07

And on Tuesday, Google admitted in a

6:09

legal settlement that they had been storing

6:11

data on all of those

6:13

searches we thought were

6:16

private. That is not incognito.

6:18

That is actually quite cognito.

6:22

I have no idea what you're talking about. No,

6:24

no, I've never used it. I'm proud of

6:26

all my browsing. Well,

6:29

now we know they're actually watching, we'll

6:31

have to start every Google search for

6:33

something embarrassing with the phrase, my friend

6:35

is wondering. I

6:38

just think it's funny when you're the only person using

6:40

your computer. So you're hiding the activity from the rest

6:42

of your computer, you know what I mean? Like the

6:44

other windows are peeking over the top. Like, what are

6:47

you guys up to? Yeah. Like, never

6:49

you mind amazon.com. This is an entirely different type

6:51

of wish list. The New York Times tab is

6:53

looking over going, how dare you? You

6:56

don't want your secret family's address

6:59

auto-completing. No, that's the worst.

7:01

Now the... We all got one of those.

7:03

Yeah, don't ask me how I know that. You might want

7:05

to slow down on your proud browsing there. Yeah. I

7:10

love this. I have been monogramming

7:12

a lot of things. In

7:16

this settlement, they admitted that part

7:18

of their, shall we say, deception,

7:21

was they had that little

7:24

logo of like

7:26

the spy guy in a fedora

7:28

and glasses and disguise implying that

7:30

it was really anonymous when of

7:32

course we now know it wasn't.

7:34

So according to the settlement, from

7:36

now on, it will be a

7:39

little cartoon Google employee laughing and

7:41

pointing at you. All

7:44

right. Sam, your last quote is

7:46

about a scientific study. They

7:49

had higher levels of smelling cheesy,

7:51

musty, and built like. So

7:54

science has finally

7:56

confirmed what every parent has

7:59

known. forever that

8:01

who smells cheesy, musty,

8:03

and goat-like? Baby?

8:07

No, not babies. They smell good. It's

8:09

just when they sort of ripen a

8:11

few years. Well, I'll give you, all

8:13

those things are still better than Axe

8:15

body spray. Men?

8:20

Not men. But

8:23

yes, men, come on. Well,

8:26

yes, but, we

8:28

don't need to talk about, I'll just give it to

8:30

you, because everyone is teenagers. Teenagers

8:32

have been scientifically proven to

8:35

smell bad. I assume because you

8:37

didn't guess, you've never met one. A

8:41

new actual scientific study has proved

8:43

that, just like we all suspected,

8:45

babies and toddlers smell scientifically nice,

8:49

while teenagers smell, quote, goat-like.

8:52

Okay, that is not ideal, sure,

8:54

but also science, stop smelling random

8:56

teens. What is wrong with you?

9:00

Yeah, whose job was it to smell

9:02

teenagers? You

9:04

went to school, you became a scientist,

9:06

and now. Oh, you're gonna be

9:08

so glad you got that doctorate. Is that

9:10

what school bus drivers are? They're just scientists

9:13

in disguise. They're an

9:15

incognito mode. Exactly. I

9:18

am so glad though, that science has finally given

9:20

teenagers something they can feel

9:22

insecure about, those smug, confident

9:24

bastards. This

9:27

almost sounds insulting to the goats. Yeah.

9:31

You really? You goats smell

9:33

teen-like. But

9:39

no, there isn't. That's your goat. That

9:41

was a bad goat. That was my, that was

9:43

my. It's the insulted goat. I'm sorry, yeah,

9:45

yeah. No, I think it was more indignant. It was okay. Bill,

9:49

how did Sam do in our quiz?

9:51

Two out of three, Sam, that's a

9:53

win right here. Congratulations. Congratulations, Sam. I'll

9:56

take it. Thanks, Ian. I hope you're able to be on

9:58

this dial. Have a great one. You too Sam. Right

10:09

now, panel, it is time for you to

10:12

answer some questions about this week's news. Alonzo,

10:14

as I'm sure you know, there was a

10:16

huge March Madness game last Monday in Albany,

10:18

New York when Caitlin Clark and Iowa defeated

10:20

their rivals in LSU. Yeah, big game, great

10:22

game. But there was a

10:24

scandal when during the game an ESPN

10:28

announcer insulted whom? Angel

10:31

Rees? No, they wouldn't do that. Can

10:34

you give me a hint that they didn't insult

10:36

the player? To be fair, it's no Schenectady. They

10:39

insulted the city? Of Albany, New York.

10:41

How could you not? Well, that's a

10:43

question. A

10:46

place not even New Yorkers go. It's true, the

10:48

commentators were talking about how Caitlin Clark had told

10:51

her family in town for the tournament that she

10:53

just wanted to stay in her room and focus,

10:55

right? So they should just find something to do

10:57

in Albany. And ESPN's Rebecca

10:59

Lobo said, quote, good luck finding

11:01

something to do in Albany.

11:05

Shame on you, Rebecca Lobo.

11:08

Do you not realize that Albany was

11:10

recently named one of the cities

11:13

in America? Now,

11:17

the best thing was the New York Times, the

11:19

New York Times reported on this terrible snub. And

11:23

I would like to read you the very

11:25

last paragraph of the article. And

11:27

this is all true. Quote,

11:30

with the tournament now in Albany's

11:33

rearview mirror, the city can turn

11:35

its attention to a more pressing

11:37

matter, a mysterious odor plaguing its

11:40

north side, described as a urine

11:43

flatulence combination stench. Those

11:47

would be the teenagers who were in this corner.

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road to hell is paved with good

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our panelists are going to tell you about it pick

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the real one and you'll win the weight waiter of

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your choice of your voice ready to play alright

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first let's hear from alanzo boated derek

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ball when the love of nature has

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carried into adventures around the world his

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friends figured first fifty birthday what

15:36

better than a party on a beautiful

15:38

natural island he to

15:40

island off the coast of seattle sounded

15:42

perfect and it was available in the

15:45

surprisingly affordable price they soon

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found out why angry

15:49

birds the island

15:51

was inhabited by the most territorial

15:54

birds imaginable we began setting

15:56

up a table a couple of these waddled

15:58

up and we toss them some Next

16:00

it was a few more and before we knew

16:03

it we were surrounded and these birds were smart.

16:05

They wouldn't move when you stood still but one

16:08

step and they would rush you. If

16:10

you'd asked me a year ago if I'm scared

16:12

of birds out of laugh, now I respect them.

16:15

To evacuate, the party growers

16:17

threw a bunch of bread towards them and ran

16:19

for the boat. They were scared to death. However,

16:22

Derek thought it was the greatest

16:24

birthday party ever. A

16:30

private island birthday is ruined by angry

16:32

birds. Your next story of the favor that

16:35

fell flat comes from Emmy Blotnik. It

16:37

was a typical morning at the Lower

16:39

Wood Nature Reserve and Wildlife Hospital in

16:41

Cheshire, England when the phone rang. A

16:44

woman had found a sick baby hedgehog on the

16:46

side of the road. She said she

16:48

had spent the night trying to nurse him back to

16:50

health. She'd given him a

16:52

sturdy cardboard box lined with newspaper

16:55

like a special sick hedgehog studio

16:57

apartment. She'd even given

16:59

him a little dish of food hoping that

17:01

a lovingly prepared dinner would help the hoglet

17:03

regain his strength. But when she

17:05

woke up that morning, he hadn't eaten anything at

17:07

all. The woman drove the box over

17:10

to the animal hospital. When the

17:12

hospital manager examined its contents under the

17:14

bright lights and triage, it was unlike

17:16

any baby hedgehog she had ever seen

17:18

because it was not a baby hedgehog.

17:20

It had a fluffy pom-pom that had

17:22

fallen off the top of a wooly

17:24

winter hat. Or

17:28

as this decoration is whimsically called in

17:30

England, a beanie bubble. How

17:34

was this news received by the

17:36

pom-poms sleepless caretaker? Red in

17:38

the face with embarrassment, she took the box and

17:40

drove off. But she obviously meant

17:42

well. She's clearly a lover of

17:44

not just animals but also things. And

17:47

you too should consider adopting a

17:49

beanie bubble today. And

18:01

your last story is some good

18:03

intentions gone bad comes from Adam

18:05

Burke. Hillary Glastner of

18:07

Eugene, Oregon was your usual supportive aunt.

18:09

When her nephew Foley began a career

18:11

in singing and acting, she dutifully attended

18:13

his many performances and cheered him on.

18:16

But after seeing him despondent after

18:18

another round of typically terrible reviews

18:21

for his most recent one man

18:23

review, Humperdink, she was moved to

18:25

act. I thought giving him a little

18:28

boost would be harmless, she explained. So she sent

18:30

her nephew a link to a glowing

18:32

review from one Argyll Grampian, theater

18:34

critic for a website called Limelight

18:36

Oregon. The only problem was that

18:38

both Grampian and the Limelight were

18:40

fictitious. However, her nephew was so

18:42

taken by the rave notice, which

18:44

called his Spanish eyes mambo a

18:46

showstopper for the ages, that he

18:48

wanted to read more of Grampian.

18:50

I ended up writing dozens of

18:52

other reviews for actual shows just

18:54

to maintain the ruse, means Glastner.

18:56

Foley refused to believe either the

18:58

critic or his praise are fake,

19:00

says Glastner, and he's just premiered

19:03

his new opus, Manolo, a light,

19:06

which she has just reviewed, but

19:08

unfortunately for Foley, honestly this time.

19:13

All right, here are your choices of stories

19:17

in which somebody tries to do a good thing, but

19:20

it turns out not to be that

19:22

good. It was the real one

19:24

from Alonzo, friends who decided

19:27

to throw a man a wonderful birthday on

19:29

a private island, not realizing it was infested

19:31

by very angry birds, from Emmy

19:33

Blotnik, a woman who tried to rescue a

19:35

lost hedgehog, only to find out from

19:37

the hedgehog experts that it was in fact just the

19:39

part of a hat, or from Adam,

19:42

an aunt who faked being a theater

19:44

critic in order to make her nephew happy,

19:46

but ended up enduring the worst fate of

19:48

all, becoming a real

19:50

theater critic. Which

19:53

of these is the real story we found in the week's news?

19:56

I'm going to go with any

19:58

story of the week. the pom-pom hedgehog.

20:00

You're gonna go with any pom-pom

20:03

hedgehog or the hedgehog that was a

20:06

pom-pom or the pom-pom slash hedgehog. All

20:08

right, to bring you the real story,

20:11

we spoke to an expert on

20:13

the subject. A well-meaning woman

20:15

found what she thought was

20:17

a baby hedgehog. She kept

20:20

it warm, she gave it food, but

20:22

it was a pom-pom. That was, um,

20:24

that was Jenna Perlick

20:30

from Prickle Pack

20:32

Hedgehogs, a hedgehog

20:35

breeder in Illinois, both explaining what happened

20:37

in the real story and telling me

20:39

what I'll be doing this weekend. But

20:41

the point of

20:44

the story is, is that you have correctly

20:47

chosen Emma's story and that means you have

20:49

won our prize. The voice of anyone you

20:51

might want, plus getting Emmy a point. Congratulations.

20:54

Take care. Take care. And

21:05

now the game we call Not My Job,

21:07

Chris Pine's first movie role was the devilish

21:09

love interest in the Princess Diaries 2, thrilling

21:12

the hearts of every 12-year-old girl in the world.

21:14

And then he went on to play Captain Kirk

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himself, thrilling the heart of me.

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He is now directed and

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co-written his first feature film, Poolman, and

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we are delighted he has joined us

21:25

now. Chris Pine, welcome to Wait, Wait,

21:27

Don't Tell Me. Thank you so much for

21:29

having me. So

21:32

you, you, you did what some successful actors

21:34

do. You wrote and directed your first film.

21:37

And I just have to ask you, as

21:39

a director, what was it like dealing

21:41

with the diva that was your leading

21:43

man, Chris Pine? Oh,

21:47

what a pain in the ass, Peter. Trailer

21:51

size, the

21:53

writer with the white M&Ms, too much.

21:55

It's terrible. It's terrible. No, it was,

21:58

I have to say, But

22:00

the directing and the acting of it, I don't

22:02

know how people will

22:04

view it, but certainly the experience of it

22:06

was pretty joyful. And I had an incredible

22:08

cast, Annette Benning and Danny DeVito and Jennifer

22:10

Jason Lee and a bunch of incredible people.

22:13

The movie is a lot of things, but

22:15

it is also a kind of love letter

22:17

to LA. Unlike a lot

22:19

of people who do what you do and therefore live there, you

22:21

grew up there, right? I grew

22:23

up in LA and my father was on

22:25

a really successful show

22:27

in the late 70s and early 80s called Chips.

22:29

Oh, wow. Right on the floor.

22:31

Yeah. We know. We

22:33

know. Oh yeah,

22:36

we just basically got you here so we could talk about your

22:38

father. I know. I've

22:40

had more experiences about people wanting to talk to me because

22:42

of my father than my eagle.

22:46

Wow. We read, and I'm surprised

22:48

if this is true, so I'm interested to

22:50

see if you'll confirm it, that your father

22:52

advised you not to go into the business.

22:56

My father is a workaday

22:59

actor. When I was growing up,

23:01

it was him going out on auditions all the time. I

23:04

think his advice was really born from more

23:06

than anything else, knowing just

23:08

how difficult and how hard our

23:11

business can be, what with rejection

23:13

and the real possibility of struggling

23:15

to make a living. Then

23:18

I remember I was at school and I

23:20

did a play and my

23:23

mother came up to me afterwards and looked at me

23:25

very worriedly and said, are you sure you don't want

23:27

to become a lawyer? I

23:31

said, absolutely not. She said, well, go with

23:34

God. Well that's lovely.

23:36

Did your first big movie role, as I understand it, was

23:39

the male lead in Princess Diaries to a

23:41

royal engagement? Indeed. This

23:43

week, every woman I have met, about

23:46

30 or below, told me that

23:48

it was ... that is the greatest movie

23:50

ever made, or at least they thought

23:52

so when they were in junior high. And

23:55

I'm just wondering if that has been your experience of life,

23:57

that women come up to you and go, oh my God,

23:59

when I was ... Thirteen. You were

24:01

just yet. I'm. So.

24:04

Fortunate to have been given that

24:06

episode where Garry Marshall and I

24:08

have definitely ah I do a

24:10

lot of for girls and women

24:12

across generations. I just wish for

24:15

that role that is. People

24:18

really seem to like that I I

24:20

was just. At. Someone put

24:22

her job. Less

24:25

is if he has eyes,

24:27

my hair, Is

24:29

so uncontrollably remarks. The science I

24:31

noted says i want is a

24:33

sweet fruit or do that Why

24:35

did you do succeed As I

24:37

just assumed, Because the movie is

24:39

so perfectly calibrated to the case

24:41

of young women are my air

24:43

holes. I figure that's just what

24:45

young woman? What they want. An

24:47

incredibly handsome prince who seems you

24:49

know, a little dark and illegal.

24:52

the turns out of a heart

24:54

of gold who has enormous hair.

24:56

part of a he says. It's

24:59

just. So you went from

25:01

The Princess Diaries eventually to

25:03

playing Captain Kirk and be

25:05

fabulous New rebooted Star Trek

25:07

movies. So. How

25:09

much of your performance? Was.

25:12

Based on William Shatner I think

25:14

the biggest threats and Jj ever

25:16

asked me was less chef mississippi.

25:22

So it's so delicious. We fauna

25:24

mean anything from how he. Fits

25:27

in the chair. Sue how he does

25:29

like a double take their many. The

25:32

shatter isms are long and disease and

25:34

they're beautiful, are beautifully crafted so does

25:36

a bit laugh as a bit we

25:38

bought you eat an apple and I

25:40

didn't realize that William Shatner a apples

25:42

in certain ways and so you didn't

25:44

know though that is that. rapidly the

25:46

centre of. Everything.

25:48

Isis is apple. Ask

25:51

ask you one last thing before we get to

25:53

the game which is I don't know if you

25:56

are aware of this but the celebrity magazines. Very

25:58

much enjoy talking about. The Hollywood

26:00

Crysis of yeah Maria you're aware

26:02

of this is is currently you

26:05

Mister Hands were talking about our

26:07

on our what's up chamber. That's.

26:11

A Hollywood Koreans are obviously Mr. Pyne with

26:13

is now Mr. Hims or as Mr. Evans

26:15

in Mr. Pratt and the question was when

26:17

you get together and I imagine when that

26:19

happens it's called the Full Telfer. Oh

26:23

not Christmas And ah,

26:27

I see a half as a was a

26:29

one off. See you as really

26:31

like to the rankings. I don't know if

26:33

you were that like who's number one Chris of

26:35

the moment and I was wondering if you as

26:38

worry about that is really depends on which

26:40

clubhouse for an officer. But

26:42

if for in Los Santos and me that you know

26:44

I think the current reading. I'm.

26:47

At least forty eight points above. Guys

26:49

which is love Cats is now little.

26:51

have a male a millimeter out or

26:53

through. There may be no, I don't

26:55

see any writer directors on there. so

26:57

you take the cake, never yell There

26:59

you go, Alone.

27:06

Well Chris Pine, We have

27:08

invited you here to play

27:10

a game that we are

27:12

calling. Ah the sense of

27:14

fresh Chris Pine. Not

27:20

only increase our I'm but balsam, vanilla and

27:22

clove. We're going to ask you three questions

27:24

about sir air fresheners. Ready

27:29

to go all rise in a suit, two to

27:31

three questions and your when? Our prize for one

27:33

of our listeners, Bill who is Chris Pine. Cone,

27:37

Pullman, Nebraska. Another.

27:40

member the chris clark or here's a

27:42

first question while air fresheners help mascot

27:44

least thirty percent of the smells and

27:46

that cab you are now writing and

27:48

they can also cause a little bit

27:50

of trouble as him when which of

27:53

these happened a line of human pheromone

27:55

scented fresheners called a spate of terrible

27:57

marriages back in the nineteen nineties B.

28:00

The pine-scented ones have been known

28:02

to attract bears. Or

28:04

C. A school in Baltimore was evacuated

28:06

and hazmat crews were called in thanks

28:08

to the smell of a pumpkin spice

28:10

air freshener. B.

28:14

B. That the pine-scented ones attract

28:16

bears? Yes. Which

28:23

is why you see all those bears chasing the Ubers

28:25

up and down there. Exactly right. It

28:27

happens to Los Angeles all the time. That's absolutely

28:29

true. We get them out of the woods. No,

28:31

I'm afraid it was actually C. The school

28:34

in Baltimore had to be evacuated

28:36

because of the overwhelming effect of

28:39

the pumpkin spice air freshener. Nobody

28:41

died. Five people did go to

28:43

the hospital with pumpkin spice-related trauma. All right. It's

28:46

not a problem. You have two more chances.

28:49

Thanks, Bob. I know. With

28:51

the ubiquity of air fresheners, people are

28:53

demanding changes to cope with them,

28:56

such as which of these? A.

28:59

Febreze being classified as a controlled

29:01

substance by the federal government. B.

29:04

An option in rideshare apps to request a

29:06

car without them. Or C.

29:09

Edible air fresheners to make your farts

29:11

smell nice. I

29:15

desperately want to say C, but I'm

29:17

pretty sure it's B. It

29:19

is B, yes. Many Uber, yes. And

29:21

apparently our audience of B's that Uber

29:23

and Lyft should bring to us, as

29:25

many people would much prefer not to

29:27

have that in their car. It makes

29:29

the worst. It's the worst. It makes

29:31

some people very sad. All right. Just

29:34

the worst. All right. Last one. If

29:36

you get this right, you win. If you're putting on air freshener in

29:39

your car, always use one of those

29:41

little trees. Just do that so

29:44

you don't end up like the man who used

29:46

a spray and had what happened. A.

29:48

He filled the car with so much aerosol

29:50

air freshener that when he then lit a

29:52

cigarette, his car exploded. B.

29:55

When It dried, it became opaque, and all of

29:57

a sudden he couldn't see out the windows. For

30:00

see was absorbed by his skin and

30:02

he spent the rest of his life

30:04

smelling like cinnamon sugar. Now

30:10

between one and two. Right

30:12

to go. Wow, saw was

30:15

why do you. Have

30:24

animals have it in the Uk. League

30:26

he lit a cigarette. The car be

30:28

solid propellant or whatever caught fire. The

30:30

car windows are blown out, nearby buildings

30:32

were damaged but amazingly the driver himself

30:35

I'd only minor injuries I don't know

30:37

how but that's what happened still. hundred

30:39

chris pine to and are clue other

30:41

three Wow what a win. For

30:49

christyne as an actor, writer

30:51

and director. Now his new

30:53

film, Cool Man is coming.

30:55

Out may tenth Chris Pine What a joy

30:57

to thought these some of the whole. Mobile.

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33:02

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33:05

And just a minute. Bill

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finds a pot of gold at the end

33:10

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33:13

If you'd like to play, give us a call at 1-888-Wait, Wait,

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33:17

we'll find out panel some more questions for you from the week's

33:19

news. Alonzo, a new survey on

33:22

house cleaning habits shows that of all the

33:24

rooms in the house, Americans clean what the

33:26

least? Well, bedroom. No.

33:29

Bathroom? Yes. Yeah,

33:31

no. I was afraid to say

33:33

that first. But it's true. It

33:35

was my first thought. I was like, no, we don't want to

33:38

say that out loud. But I absolutely believe

33:41

that. Yeah. According to the

33:43

survey, Americans not only hate cleaning the bathroom, they

33:45

particularly hate cleaning the shower, which I understand. I

33:47

mean, why do you have to clean the shower?

33:50

I walk out of it. I'm clean. Why

33:52

isn't it? Yeah. Shower

33:54

clean me, not me clean shower. Exactly.

33:58

I'm clean self. Also

34:03

94% of Americans tell guests sorry about the mess

34:05

when they know damn well this is the best

34:08

their house is ever. And

34:13

now for all of you who loved

34:15

our game, did all the

34:17

doors stay on all the planes this

34:19

week? Well,

34:23

they're our fans. We

34:26

are thrilled to announce our new game.

34:29

Did all of the flights from Germany

34:31

make it past England before their toilets

34:33

overflowed into the cabin this week? Emmy,

34:37

yes. Did all

34:39

of the flights from Germany make it

34:41

past England before their toilets overflowed into

34:43

the cabin this week? Well,

34:46

all the signs are pointing to no. It was

34:48

in fact no. Very good,

34:50

Emmy. A

34:53

United Airlines flight from Frankfurt to San Francisco

34:56

barely made it past the Netherlands before they

34:58

had to turn around due to a toilet

35:00

overflowing into the cabin. The

35:02

least surprising part of the story is of course

35:05

the airplane was manufactured by Boeing. This

35:09

is the worst thing a German plane has

35:11

ever done over England. That's true. In

35:15

response to this latest incident, Boeing

35:17

said we needed to use the

35:19

bolts holding the toilet down to

35:22

keep the door from falling out.

35:24

Well, you people never be happy.

35:27

See, I was thinking that would be the one

35:30

time you wish you could open the door in

35:32

flight. Adam,

35:36

this week we lost Linda Bean, a granddaughter

35:38

of LL Bean who died at the age

35:40

of 82. Now, she

35:42

was an innovative businesswoman in her

35:44

own right as she proved when

35:46

she marketed lobster claws under

35:49

what name? Little

35:52

Red Snappy Snaps. Crap

35:55

Tethory? No,

35:59

but... but i really want you to keep coming up jackpot

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told you that now

36:11

i'll tell you she is a part of her

36:13

genius business plan was to sell frozen lobster claws

36:15

under the name lobster

36:18

cutlers yes

36:20

if you always think of cuddling with her yeah

36:24

he considered herself to have a quote gene

36:26

for marketing and said she had

36:28

a way with words which is also she

36:30

came up with her lobster company's slogan it

36:33

stirs your primal senses just to

36:35

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mean you passed up the opportunity

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the the program kelly

37:58

welcome to the show Bill Curtis

38:00

is going to read you three news related limericks with a

38:02

last word or phrase missing from each. If you can fill

38:04

in that last word or phrase correctly on two of the

38:06

limericks, you will be a winner. Ready to play? Yes,

38:09

I'm ready. Here we go. Here is

38:11

your first limerick. At my office

38:13

we're coming to blows, over

38:16

feet that some people expose.

38:19

Some people demand that all sandals

38:21

are banned. They're

38:24

repulsed when they see naked. Toes?

38:28

Toes, yes. Sandals at

38:30

the office. Polarizing issue.

38:33

This week the New York Times

38:35

weighed in. The article described wearing

38:37

open-toed shoes as, quote, exposing toe

38:39

cleavage, which really exposes

38:41

more about the author than anything else.

38:45

But admittedly it is better than calling it your

38:47

foot crack. It turns

38:50

out, in case you're wondering, that

38:53

wearing sandals at the office depends entirely on

38:55

your feet. Are your feet gross? Do not

38:57

wear sandals. Are your toes

38:59

perfect? And why are you letting your

39:01

coworkers see them for free? As

39:05

someone who has been regularly shamed to wear an

39:07

a pair of sensible brogues to the beach, I

39:10

think the opposite should be true. No sandals

39:12

in the office. Yes, yes, yes. I think

39:14

it's right. Here

39:16

is your next limerick. My

39:19

roof is all busted and tattery,

39:22

any closer, and it would have splattered

39:24

me. Turns out the loud

39:26

crash was the space

39:28

station's trash. They

39:30

just yeeted their old three-ton.

39:32

Oh man,

39:36

this is so much easier when I'm in my car. Isn't it

39:38

Tom? It's so hard to. If

39:40

it's nearby, we will wait. You can go into

39:42

your car, think about it, and

39:44

come back to the phone. You want to do that? We'll

39:47

just hang. Unless your car has died for some

39:49

reason, because you've run out of a certain part

39:51

of the thing. Exactly. Your car

39:53

can't start without it. It comes with pattery.

39:55

It's why I think it's...

39:58

Battery! Nasa

40:02

as is investigating. After what is believed to

40:05

have been a piece of one of the

40:07

batteries that was ejected from the International Space

40:09

Station class to the roof of a Florida

40:11

home said the homeowner quotes and almost hit

40:13

my son. He was two rooms over and

40:16

heard it all. and then he added that

40:18

he was on vacation at the time. So.

40:23

We know what happened here.

40:25

This kid took advantage of

40:27

his parents being away and

40:29

through this huge parties. And

40:32

than the parents came back and is like an unknown added

40:34

that a battery must have fallen. Really

40:37

messed up the kitchen and drank all your vodka.

40:41

Aside from anything else, can we just

40:43

appreciate this rhyme? Because it gives I

40:45

believe the first time that Bill Curtis

40:47

has ever successfully correctly use the phrase

40:50

sneezes. Zoos

40:54

as did we'd make that. Ah,

40:57

So can we safely say that if

40:59

a battery falls from outer space, you

41:01

know it's gonna hit Florida? Or

41:07

I fear is your

41:09

last. slimmer at mid

41:11

April by grown kids

41:13

relaxes. He sighs ninety

41:15

nine and collapses. He's

41:17

it brought to the

41:19

brink. So he goes.

41:21

To a shrink. He. Seeks

41:23

help after filing his.

41:26

Ass. Yeah, sad to. Say.

41:32

That one. In four, then zero

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say. They need a therapist to deal

41:36

with all the stress of filing taxes

41:38

often for the first time in their

41:40

lives, with fifty four percent saying that

41:42

doing their taxes has made them cry.

41:46

This is what happens. When

41:49

you raise your kids like that soft.

41:51

Always giving them

41:54

just participation refund

41:56

express. I would. Be difficult to

41:58

do your taxes when you. Make no money?

42:01

Yeah, that is rather. Either

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an interesting social studies act or somebody

42:06

is is trying to trick their therapist

42:09

into doing their taxes are suffering under

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So confused I don't know what to

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enter online. eighteen of forms and forty

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need. A federal therapist and ascent new

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Do. Bill

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i begin your first question fell in the

44:18

blank on thursday president biden called for an

44:20

immediate ceasefire in blank gaza yes on tuesday

44:22

the minimum wage for over half a million

44:24

fast food workers in blank was raised to

44:26

twenty dollars an hour california this week storm

44:29

system saw blanks touchdown from georgia to illinois

44:32

uh... tornado right on tuesday the patient who

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44:36

able to return home uh...

44:38

with a pig it was a genetically

44:40

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44:42

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44:44

most of the fish no

44:47

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44:54

on wednesday bob eiger successfully fought off

44:56

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44:59

this week this week it was confirmed

45:01

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45:05

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45:08

it was just some guy out for a run the

45:13

people who reported that the bigfoot described

45:15

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45:17

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45:19

right it was a high school cross country

45:21

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45:23

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45:25

promised to stop going for runs in his

45:28

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45:34

did a lot of doing our quick five right ten

45:36

more points total of twelve he's hot

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right add a new are up next on

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the blank on monday work crews started removing

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the first portion of the bridge wreckage in

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blank uh... baltimore right on wednesday the cdc

45:51

confirmed a human case of blanks lew in

45:54

texas avian flu i ever through this week

45:56

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