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Wait, Don't Tell Me. Hi. This

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is Holly, and I'm from Westerville,

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Ohio. Oh, hi,

1:29

Holly. Where's Westerville? What's

1:32

that near? It's

1:34

a Columbus suburb. So north of Columbus.

1:37

Oh, how are you spending your winter there?

1:39

What do you do? It's actually remarkably warm.

1:41

So you can spend a lot

1:44

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1:46

a benefit, that things are warmer now, or do you

1:48

miss the cold? I don't

1:50

know if I'm the right person to ask. I really

1:52

like cold. So it's not Chicago cold,

1:55

but still. All right, Holly, let

1:57

me introduce you to our panel

1:59

first. It's a correspondent for The Daily

2:01

Show, an author of the new book Hello,

2:03

Friends! It's still so Sloan! Next,

2:09

the writer behind the Ask Amy

2:11

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One Good Thing newsletter on Substack.

2:16

It's Amy Dickinson. And

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his newest stand-up special, Vacation Baby,

2:25

is free on YouTube, and he's

2:27

headlining Commonwealth Sanctuary in Dayton, Kentucky,

2:29

June 21 and 22. It's

2:33

Hari Kondabolu! Hey, Nolly! Hi

2:37

there! Welcome to

2:39

the show, Holly. You're going to play Who's

2:41

Bill this time? Bill Curtis is going to

2:43

read you three quotes from this week's news.

2:46

If you can correctly explain two of them,

2:48

you'll win our prize. Any voice

2:50

from our show you choose on your voicemail.

2:53

Are you ready? As ready as I'll

2:55

ever be. Okay, your

2:58

first quote is from the President

3:00

of the United States. LOL.

3:03

Hey, guys. That

3:06

was the caption as Joe

3:08

Biden became the first US President

3:11

to post on what social media

3:13

platform this week? I believe it

3:15

is Instagram. Holly!

3:18

No! Pick

3:20

another one! Think of a

3:22

clock! Pick another one! Oh,

3:27

snap, snap. Alright, how about let

3:29

me give you a hint. Joe Biden

3:31

was more familiar with this as the

3:33

sound a clock makes. Oh,

3:36

a tick tock. There you go. Tick

3:38

tock. You did it! In

3:42

the administration's latest attempt to court

3:44

young voters, President Biden has joined

3:46

Tic-Tac. I get it,

3:48

but if you're trying to get young people

3:50

on your side, maybe don't start by going

3:53

to the place where young people are the

3:55

meanest. It's

3:58

absolutely brilliant, though. It wasn't really the court

4:00

young voters. You see like because he didn't he

4:02

wanted to get rid of Tiktok he wanted to

4:04

ban it right and then young people freaked out

4:06

no don't ban it we love this thing and

4:08

he's like it's a national security threat and they're

4:10

like no I want to dance to ice spice

4:13

and so he did

4:15

the perfect thing which is join the

4:18

thing plus killing it. Brilliant

4:22

no one wants to do it grandpa's

4:24

doing it. I can't wait to

4:26

hear Biden ask did I just write the song

4:28

of the summer and then play Camptown

4:30

races. I'm

4:35

not convinced he's not just AI at this point.

4:39

Nah you could tell he's a lie. He

4:42

keeps blinking. On a platform

4:44

known for dancing Biden just

4:47

got on it and he just stood

4:49

still. Joe

4:52

Biden the man whose TikToks make you think

4:54

your Wi-Fi is down. It's

4:59

genius he's just buffering. He can

5:01

bring buffering back. That's

5:04

what he has to do buffering Biden that's the hashtag.

5:09

Meanwhile Jimmy Carter is posting thirst

5:11

traps for Instagram. He

5:14

is a widower. He

5:23

might be looking. All right Holly your

5:26

next quote is a reporter describing a

5:28

new development in air travel. You go

5:30

to the airport you throw your bag

5:33

on the scale and they say not

5:35

so fast Toots you too. That

5:38

was that was KTLA's

5:41

Andy Reismeyer explaining

5:43

how one airline is going to

5:45

start doing what to passengers before

5:47

they fly. Oh

5:50

I hope it's not way them. It

5:52

is way them. Oh no. Scandinavian

5:56

airline Finn Air has

5:58

announced estimate the

6:00

weight of their airplanes, passengers will

6:02

be asked to step on a

6:04

scale before boarding. I

6:07

don't mind having to weigh myself, but I hate

6:09

when they make me squeeze into that bagsizer. Let's

6:13

be honest here, this is an attack on America.

6:15

This is a declaration of war. You

6:21

know, it's fine because don't nobody want to go to

6:23

their punk ass, cold ass, blonde ass country anyway.

6:26

You're right. No, that's disrespectful. Listen, you

6:28

want to tell a story. Listen, you want to tell

6:30

us that you ain't got enough money to get some

6:32

strong ass airplane. Yeah. Yeah.

6:35

Shut your airline down. Exactly. Shut your

6:37

airline down because of your airline can't

6:39

handle 10 Americans, baby, you don't deserve to

6:41

be in the sky. Delta

6:46

would never. And

6:48

the audacity to blame us for the problem.

6:51

Maybe planes wouldn't weigh so much if

6:53

they hadn't jammed an extra row of

6:55

seats between every preexisting row of seats.

7:00

Listen, if y'all are doing stuff that's so

7:02

broke, even spirit doesn't do it. Ground your

7:04

airline. Ground your airline. Spirit

7:08

won't even let you bring yourself

7:10

on a plane. I'm getting it.

7:13

It is humiliating. It's crazy to think Amelia

7:16

Earhart would still be alive today if

7:18

she hadn't had that second serving of Cacio Pepe.

7:23

Her plane didn't even have a cap. All

7:27

right, Holly. Your

7:30

last quote is from a woman

7:32

explaining how she fell for her

7:34

husband. He made meatballs and a

7:36

salad. That was someone

7:38

agreeing with a New York Times article

7:40

that you should what on the first

7:42

date? Can

7:46

I have a hint? Can

7:48

you have a hint? What? I

7:51

feel like it's too obvious and I'm scared to

7:53

get it. It's

7:55

just obvious. Holly, what do you think it is? Okay.

7:58

What do you think it is? Okay. cook on the

8:00

first date. There you go. There you

8:02

go. Cook for someone. Just

8:05

what I want in a first date. Hot

8:07

oil and someone holding a knife. A

8:11

lot of people say it's dangerous to go to a

8:13

stranger's house on a first date because you could get

8:16

murdered. Yeah. Come on,

8:18

stop flattering yourselves. No one wants to murder you. Just

8:20

eat the pasta. How do you

8:23

feel about this, Dolce? You've never been a woman. What

8:29

do you mean? Well, Tom, pop up. You

8:36

listen. Yeah. If you don't,

8:38

sir, if you can't afford it, just

8:41

tell me. Just

8:43

tell me. I'll go to an Applebee's.

8:45

I, because listen, if I'm on a podcast,

8:47

I don't want it to be a true crime

8:49

one. The woman who

8:51

said that has never seen an

8:53

episode of Dateline. The woman

8:56

who said that better have a knife in her purse. Yeah.

8:59

There's a knife in my purse, but I'm not going to

9:01

your house on the first, third, fourth, or fifth date. Would

9:03

you invite a guy to your place? No, because

9:05

then he knows where I live. Where

9:08

is a good first date? I'm

9:11

sorry. Witnesses.

9:16

All right, Bill, how did Holly do? She did

9:18

great. Three and O. Good job,

9:21

Holly. Thank you for

9:23

playing, Holly. Thank you so much. Thank

9:25

you so much. Congratulations. All

9:33

right. Right now, panel, we're introducing

9:35

a new game called, have all

9:37

the doors stayed

9:40

on all the

9:42

planes this week?

9:44

We live in a golden age

9:47

where amazing flying machines carry us

9:49

long distances at incredible speeds and

9:51

occasionally keep all their doors attached

9:54

the whole time. For

9:56

one point, Amy, have all the

9:58

doors stayed on all the planes. all the

10:00

planes in america this week uh...

10:03

no all

10:05

the doors have not stayed on all the planes this

10:08

week tom you're right a me they have not

10:14

uh... yeah it happened adore

10:18

fell off a small plane near buffalo new

10:20

york this week the good news

10:22

is it was a single-engine plane with

10:24

only two passengers and it landed safely

10:27

the plane belong to a flight school

10:29

so it's also good that we're giving

10:31

new pilots training in order to do

10:34

when a door inevitably flies off the

10:36

plane on

10:39

the audio recording the pilot says they've

10:41

had an emergency and need to head

10:43

back and the air traffic

10:45

control as what happened and then the

10:47

pilot said oh you know

10:49

the usual i'm

10:55

laughing but i'm very frightened you

10:59

know how like uh... like a flight

11:02

in that exit row you get a little more room and

11:04

it's kind of a prime c there it

11:06

can be i just

11:08

flew here people like oh

11:10

no after you like you

11:14

know when you get the exit rosie and they

11:16

ask you like if you're not willing and able

11:18

at i always opt out like i'm not willing

11:20

or able to because you have to

11:22

say that you can lift the door open and

11:25

i don't want to find out i can't in that

11:27

moment uh... let's

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You're going to play our game in which

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16:27

What's the topic, Bill? Truth

16:29

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16:33

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16:37

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16:58

First up, it's Hari Kondabolu.

17:01

In recent years, we've seen the

17:03

growth of conservative brands like Black

17:06

Rifle Coffee, Patriot Mobile, and No

17:08

Immigrants Turtlenecks Company. Are

17:11

those companies all real? Who knows? But

17:14

now you can buy conservative kombucha at

17:16

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17:19

owner of Right Wing Kombucha, has been

17:21

selling his product for years at farmer's

17:23

markets in Santa Cruz, California, but hid

17:26

his political beliefs. But one

17:28

day something changed. Quote, I got sick

17:30

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17:32

and trying to fit in by saying

17:34

things I don't believe. Things

17:36

like, if only we were more like Sweden.

17:40

Or Hillary Clinton is absolutely not

17:42

a lizard person sent to this

17:44

planet to destroy America. When

17:47

I know she is. Shockingly,

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the popularity of the stand has actually

17:52

not been affected at all. Local

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union organizer and NPR tote bag

17:57

owner Phyllis Gorman said...

18:00

I'm against everything he's about, but he

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makes a good kombucha and I really

18:05

value my guffos. All

18:12

right, that's right wing kombucha from

18:14

Hari Kondabolu. Your next

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story of the organic underground comes

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from Amy Dickinson. What

18:21

started at a farmer's market in

18:23

Alliance, Nebraska ended in

18:25

a courtroom for an unfortunate tourist

18:28

from Connecticut. According

18:30

to depositions, Janet Duvall of Hartford

18:32

picked up a jar of pickled

18:35

prairie plums at the Tenderfoot Farm

18:37

Stand. Are these grown

18:39

on your farm? She asked James Foott, the

18:41

farmer. He said yes they are. Are

18:44

they organic? She asked. Yes,

18:46

he said, we pickle them ourselves. She

18:49

took the jar back to her Airbnb,

18:51

speared a plum and gobbled it down.

18:54

This was no plum, Duvall,

18:57

a vegan, testified. The

18:59

farmer doesn't dispute that. Pickle

19:02

prairie plums are sheep testicles.

19:04

Pickle them beet juice

19:06

and vinegar. I'm

19:09

so disgusted. I can't even think about sheep

19:11

now, Duvall said. I even had to get

19:13

rid of all my sweaters. The

19:15

farmer responded, it's a good thing she

19:18

didn't try our Rocky Mountain oysters or

19:20

meadow muffins. They really are

19:22

an acquired hit. All

19:28

right, that pickled sheep testicles

19:30

from Amy Dickinson. Your

19:33

last Furtive Farm story comes from Dulce

19:35

Sloan. We all know

19:37

about the underwear brand Fruit of the Loon, but

19:39

you never expect someone to take that

19:41

literally. An unnamed farmer

19:44

has gone viral on Facebook for

19:46

hanging his precious watermelons in Lones

19:48

Red. Apparently, panties

19:50

allow the fruit to breathe. And

19:53

using the underwear to hoist the watermelons up

19:56

off the ground removes the risk of rot,

19:58

keeping them fresh. ingenious

20:00

new gardening method or the

20:02

first excuse the farmer could think of when his

20:05

wife saw him dressing up his fruit in penny

20:07

rolls. It's for

20:09

them, not me! He said. One

20:12

user commented, the premise is sound

20:14

but what if the watermelon gets

20:16

a wedgie? Which one do you

20:18

pick? Huh? Huh? Another

20:21

user joked, I feel inferior even the

20:23

watermelon is sexier than me. Upon

20:26

looking at said user someone commented

20:28

yes the watermelon was sexier than

20:30

him. Okay

20:36

Tracy, so you've

20:38

got right-wing kombucha from Hari,

20:41

you've got pickled sheep testicles

20:43

from Amy, and you've

20:45

got fruit covered lingerie or

20:48

lingerie covered fruit. From

20:52

Dulce. As

20:55

horrifying as it is I think I have to go

20:57

with the lingerie fruit. Alright going with

20:59

Dulce and the lingerie covered

21:01

fruit to find out the

21:03

correct answer we spoke to

21:05

someone familiar with the story.

21:08

So it is common among some gardeners for

21:10

people to try to lift their melons off

21:12

the ground and so it does make a

21:15

certain kind of cute face in the world.

21:19

That was Robin Klein from Neighborspace

21:21

in Urban Land Trust in Chicago

21:23

talking about the melons in lingerie.

21:25

Congratulations Tracy you got it right.

21:30

You earned a point for Dulce and you've

21:33

won our prize the voice of your choice

21:35

on your voicemail. Thank you so much for

21:37

playing with us today. Thank you. Goodbye.

21:39

Bye. And

21:53

now the game we call Not My Job.

21:55

As someone currently doing something that is not

21:58

my job it holds a special place in

22:00

my heart. Corin

22:03

Tucker and Carrie Brownstein formed Slater

22:05

Kinney in 1994 and

22:08

quickly became one of the most celebrated bands

22:10

of the decade. They took

22:12

a break when Carrie co-created Portlandia

22:14

and Corin pursued a career in

22:17

web development and interactive media and

22:19

they reunited to great acclaim

22:21

in 2015

22:23

and just released their new album Little

22:25

Rope. Corin and Carrie welcome

22:27

to Wait Wait Don't Tell Me. Hello.

22:32

Hello. So

22:35

nice to see you. Nice to

22:37

see you guys. Thanks for having us. This is

22:40

very exciting. So how often do you

22:42

correct people on how to say your

22:44

band's name? Carrie? Well

22:46

I think it can go either way. We're fine

22:48

with Slater and we're more

22:51

fine with Slater. It's

22:54

technically we pronounce it Slater but we're

22:56

okay with the sweeters out there. So

22:59

yeah we can we're fine. All right. No

23:01

worries. That's cool. I just want to seem

23:03

cool in front of you because you're both

23:05

super cool. So

23:10

this is your 30th anniversary of

23:13

your band which is amazing. That

23:16

is incredible. What is it like

23:18

going from scrappy newcomers to

23:21

a band who has now influenced

23:23

new generations of bands? I

23:26

think we're happy to be here you know

23:29

at this point and

23:31

I think I think it's

23:33

actually really fun to

23:35

you know meet young musicians

23:38

to exchange ideas and to listen

23:40

to new things. I think you

23:43

know I'll always be curious about what

23:45

other people are doing. Is it weird

23:47

being somebody's influence like do people come

23:49

up to you and say oh you've

23:51

been my favorite band since I was

23:54

eight and and then

23:56

it's like that's really sweet but stop

23:58

talking in years right now. I don't

24:00

think... Does it feel strange? Yeah,

24:02

well, when you said we'd been a band for 30

24:04

years, I wanted to say, yeah, it's so weird we formed

24:06

when we were five. And just

24:09

grateful. Yeah,

24:11

it is amazing. And your new

24:13

album is really so strong. And

24:16

what's it like after all of this

24:19

time and making an album, you've progressed,

24:21

you've evolved. Is it

24:23

easier to work with each other? Is

24:25

it a shorthand? Like, where are you

24:27

at creatively with each other? I

24:30

think there is a shorthand. We have

24:32

an easier time trying out things. I mean,

24:34

I think we're more patient now than maybe

24:36

we were. But then we can just look

24:39

at each other and be like, yeah, that's

24:41

fine, right? We don't need a thing. Yeah,

24:43

we have a little bit of ESP. There's

24:46

kind of a language that we've created

24:49

around Slater to me that makes it easier.

24:51

But if we're ever going to break up, it's

24:53

going to be here on... Wait, wait, don't tell me.

24:55

Wait. Asking

24:58

us to play this game and beat each other's teammates

25:01

is very treacherous. So

25:03

we'll call this the divorce maker

25:05

if it goes wrong. A widow

25:07

maker. Corin,

25:10

your voice is so great. Does

25:12

your strong voice come in handy

25:15

as a mother? I

25:18

wish I could say that I didn't have

25:20

to really belt, but I do. I

25:24

really have to get up there and be like, I think?

25:28

Well, to be fair, her daughter is learning how

25:30

to drive. And Corin told

25:32

me about her daughter driving her

25:34

to school, herself to school with Corin in

25:36

the passenger seat. And I thought that sounded

25:38

like hell. True

25:41

hell. They always come so close to

25:43

the mailboxes. They really do. Yeah,

25:46

I really had to like, hum

25:48

my mouth during that car ride. So

25:52

your album's out and everybody loves it. It's really

25:54

fantastic. And you're going to go on tour now,

25:56

right? You're going to head back out on the

25:58

road. Yep. How do

26:00

you approach touring now? How is it different

26:02

from when you toured before? Well,

26:05

we definitely started out in vans,

26:09

vans with just lap belts. So

26:11

that was a while ago. But

26:15

yeah, it's kind of a marathon, and

26:17

we're about to embark on it. But

26:19

the shows are great. As

26:21

you know, from doing this live show that you're doing now,

26:24

so part of it is pretty special. How

26:26

often are the encores real? You

26:33

go back, and everyone's like, oh, they're going to come out

26:35

for an encore, and you just know it. And then

26:38

you come out for an encore, and it's like, yeah, the encore

26:40

we knew was going to happen. How often is it unexpected?

26:44

They want us to play another one. Well,

26:46

I will give credit to Maggie Rogers, the

26:48

singer. I read that she

26:51

said that that was basically the encore with adult

26:53

peek-a-boo. Megan's

26:57

amazing. And

27:00

she's really correct in that assessment,

27:02

I think. You've actually kind of

27:05

gone the opposite direction. In the

27:07

early days, it was very much

27:09

earned. There

27:11

was no planning for

27:13

that. If the crowd kept cheering, you went back

27:15

out. And now I think people write their set

27:17

list with the encore in mind. And we've actually

27:20

kind of stopped doing that, which can be a

27:22

little humbling if you realize, oh, wait, they actually

27:24

don't want us to come back. Ah!

27:31

One more stop. No, we're good. You

27:35

have to be careful. All

27:38

right, Slater Kenny, we've asked you

27:40

here to play a game we're

27:42

calling Knit One Pearl II. Your

27:46

new album is called Little Rope. So

27:48

we thought we'd ask you about even

27:50

littler rope, yarn. Hahaha.

27:58

Brutal. Did you know

28:00

that's what we were gonna do? What

28:05

a pleasant surprise though. All

28:07

right answer two out of three

28:09

questions and you'll win our prize

28:11

for one of our listeners. Bill,

28:14

who is Slater Kinney playing for?

28:16

Robert Sperry from Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.

28:24

All right, here's your first question. Fans

28:27

of knitting have plenty of opportunities

28:29

to enjoy their hobby even

28:31

when they're not actually doing it. Like

28:33

which of these? Norway's

28:36

national broadcaster, NRK, which sometimes

28:39

airs a program called just

28:41

12 hours of knitting. B,

28:45

VR knitting simulator, a game

28:48

for the Oculus Quest that

28:50

lets you feel like you're

28:52

really making a scarf. Or

28:56

C, actual knit podcast where you

28:58

can hear a knitter describe every

29:00

stitch of the project they're making.

29:06

What is the audience saying? I

29:10

would yeah, I mean I you can't

29:12

really see them, but I wouldn't trust them

29:14

so much. No, okay, okay. Corin,

29:18

I think it could be A. Sure.

29:22

We're gonna go we're gonna go with

29:24

Norway's knitting channel. Well, you are

29:27

right. It's A. Norway

29:31

TV has a 12-hour knitting show. It's

29:33

called One Arm of a Sweater. I

29:40

made that part up. Okay,

29:43

here's your next question. You're doing great.

29:46

Maniac. C

30:01

internal combustion engine I Think

30:05

it might be what would be full-size

30:08

playgrounds. I think it's that what

30:10

do you offer? I think that's right You're

30:13

right the answer is B There's

30:17

stuff you can swing and jump and

30:19

climb on all knitted. All right, you're

30:21

doing great. Here is your last question

30:24

How do you feel so far you feel strong? I

30:27

feel so good because now We

30:29

have one already. So this is this is

30:31

like a cherry Alright

30:39

there are few celebrities in knitting

30:41

but David Babcock is one of

30:43

them he holds the world record

30:46

for what a Longest

30:48

scarf knit while simultaneously running

30:51

a marathon. Oh my god

30:53

the ugliest homemade Christmas sweater

30:56

See most household

30:58

items covered in cozies.

31:01

I Mean

31:05

it feels like see

31:08

but what do you want? Wait, what

31:10

do we want it to be? Yeah, I'd

31:12

love to see a take place Should we

31:15

go with see Corin it seems weird that

31:17

they would make a quiz at ABC. Does

31:19

that seem like a dangerous place to

31:21

go? I would say it's

31:23

either a C or B. You're right.

31:25

It's a 12

31:42

feet long and Babcock ran the marathon

31:44

in five hours 48 minutes What

31:48

A talent bill, how did Slater Kenny do

31:50

on our quiz? Well, they were right. Two

31:52

out of three is a winner. So Congratulations.

32:00

Any new album little Rope is out

32:02

now! It's fantastic! And their Twenty Twenty

32:04

Four tour starts on February Twenty eighth

32:06

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34:09

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34:38

right now, panel, some more questions for

34:40

you from the week's news. Dulce,

34:43

the singer Tyreese, revealed on Instagram

34:45

this week that his girlfriend dumped

34:48

him because his new album has

34:50

too many songs about what? Okay,

34:53

let's see. Tyreese. So

34:55

his abs are out. He's singing in the rain.

34:58

Fans only talk about a few things. Sex

35:01

time, relationships. You're

35:04

right. You're in the right area. Yeah,

35:06

yeah, yeah. Specifically.

35:09

Another woman. Yes. Other

35:12

women. Not her. His ex?

35:15

Yes. What are you telling

35:17

me? Tyreese

35:20

posted a trailer for a new album.

35:26

Tyreese posted a trailer for his new

35:28

album with the caption, we just broke

35:30

up over some dumb stuff. She

35:33

demanded that I cancel my album because there's

35:35

too many songs about my ex on there.

35:38

F does that mean? I don't

35:40

know, Tyreese. It kind of sounds like she

35:42

told you exactly what she means. How

35:45

did she know that they were about

35:47

the ex? Well, the album is named,

35:50

I Would Leave My Current Girlfriend To Me. I

35:56

can't expect the man to come back. to

36:00

not put his album out.

36:03

But also I feel like she probably

36:05

said something before. So

36:07

he could have added just one song and be like, I'm

36:10

so pretty, it's amazing.

36:15

Right. I mean, in my head that's not Tyree's sound.

36:18

You ever been with someone and they talk

36:20

a little too much about their ex? Doesn't Taylor

36:22

Swift have a whole career out of that? Man,

36:26

this Travis Kelsey album is going to be wild. Amy,

36:35

this week we learned inflation is still

36:37

at higher than expected levels and the

36:39

Wall Street Journal reports it's affecting one

36:41

person more than anyone else. Who

36:44

is paying higher prices than ever?

36:51

I don't know. Is it something like people

36:54

who hire dog sitters or is it

36:56

something off like that?

36:58

No. Would you like a hint? Sure.

37:01

Does it involve the gas pump? No.

37:03

No, no gas pump. Her

37:06

money is not so much going down

37:08

the drain as under the

37:10

kid's pillow. Oh, the

37:12

Tooth Fairy? Yes, the Tooth

37:14

Fairy. The average price kids are

37:16

getting is up 20% year over

37:18

year. It's

37:22

now $6.23 per tooth. No,

37:26

not happening. And some

37:28

parents report their kids are getting one $100

37:30

bill per tooth. Oh

37:33

my God. Now, if that

37:35

seems high, remember those people

37:37

love their children more than

37:39

you do. Wow.

37:42

What happened to... Listen, I understand

37:44

we used to get metal money

37:46

for teeth. What happened

37:49

to a dollar? A hundred dollars?

37:51

That's bananas. Also, he's going to

37:53

eat it. What? I'd pay $6

37:56

A finger. The.

38:01

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are very theme park orient a new

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39:04

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39:09

Very often. Such as a success

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39:14

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39:16

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39:18

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39:21

missing for me to fill in

39:23

that last word correctly. On to

39:25

out of three and you when.

39:27

Here's your first limerick It and

39:30

humid South Indian vod this mushroom

39:32

since science or God. He.

39:34

Just pulled up shop. Know.

39:36

It's ribosome hops those it

39:38

grew on the size of

39:40

a. Brand.

39:43

New. That's right, frog. The.

39:47

Job Sciences in India have discovered

39:49

a frog with a mushroom growing

39:51

on it's but. this

39:54

is unusual because these kinds of

39:56

mushrooms usually only grow on decaying

39:58

matter which is cool science

40:00

but devastating for the frog.

40:05

Wait so it's it's like

40:07

growing out of his like

40:09

butt. Yeah. How

40:11

does one prepare a frog

40:13

with mushroom on butt? Usually

40:16

olive oil. Sounds like a

40:18

question for the French. All

40:22

right here's your next limerick. When

40:24

I rise from my barber shop's

40:26

chair I'll take home

40:28

what they sweep up down there.

40:32

Once it's twisted and spun I

40:34

will have relaxed fun because I'm

40:36

knitting with yarn made from... Hair.

40:41

Yes you're right. Unfortunately

40:44

you're right. A

40:47

Dutch startup is collecting discarded hair

40:49

from salons and wig factories

40:51

and spinning it into yarn to

40:54

weave into fabric. Imagine

40:56

complementing someone's sweater and they

40:59

say thanks it's Michael. So

41:02

I have a neighbor who did that with

41:04

her she had a collie

41:12

and she combed out the collie

41:14

and whoa spun the

41:17

fur into yarn and

41:19

made things out of

41:21

it. But see why are you acting like nasty because

41:23

that's what sheep wool is. Yeah

41:25

but you can take it off the sheep and you never

41:27

meet the sheep and you just get this sweater and

41:30

then your your neighbor's putting on a sweater and

41:32

the dog's just looking at you like I'm

41:37

cold. I bet before you know

41:39

it some woman in Japan is making a

41:42

playground out of it. All

41:45

right here's your next limerick. We

41:47

trade rings say I do

41:49

and exhale. It's a

41:52

sentence to life without bail. The

41:55

place where we wed hits the

41:57

vibe on the head. the

42:01

of a federal jail.

42:04

Yes, that's right. Jail. Good.

42:08

You can now have

42:10

your wedding at the Eastern State

42:12

Penitentiary in Philadelphia, an

42:15

old abandoned jail famous for

42:17

inventing solitary confinement. Romantic.

42:22

Would you have a wedding there? Would you get married in a jail?

42:25

Would I get married? I'm

42:31

going to need some time. I'll

42:34

give you 10 to 20. Bill,

42:38

how did Nikki do? Well, she did great.

42:40

Got them all right. Three in her own.

42:42

Nikki. Way to go, Nikki.

42:47

Yay, Nikki. Thank you so much for being

42:49

here. Enjoy the rest of your day. Thanks

42:51

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42:53

Nikki, everybody. Bye,

42:55

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44:18

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44:20

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44:22

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44:25

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44:27

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44:29

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44:32

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44:34

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44:36

I begin your first question. Fill

44:38

in the blank. According to a new

44:40

report, Russia can sustain the war in

44:42

blank for three more years. Ukraine. Right.

44:46

On Wednesday, Democrat Tom Swayze

44:48

won the special election to

44:50

replace blank in Congress. George

44:52

Santos. Right. unique Israeli forces

44:54

raided Nassar Hospital in blank.

44:57

Gaza. Right. On

44:59

Wednesday, security experts warned that AI could be

45:01

used to spread misinformation during the 2024 blank.

45:05

Presidential election. Yes. Current

45:08

bachelor, Joey Graziadis, reviewed his recent

45:10

trip to Malta, an island country

45:12

that's been inhabited for nearly 8,000

45:14

years by saying blank. It

45:23

has a kind of old school vibe. On

45:27

Tuesday, a fast moving winter storm led

45:30

New York to have its blankest day

45:32

in two years. Snowiest. Right.

45:35

On Sunday, the Super Bowl became the

45:37

most watched television program since the blank.

45:40

Bachelor? Since the moon

45:42

landing. This week, a

45:44

new water park in Sweden was

45:46

forced to close down after it

45:48

blanked. After

45:52

the toilets overflowed. After

45:55

it somehow, the water park burst

45:57

into flames. No

46:01

one was hurt. No one

46:03

was hurt and while damage is

46:05

extensive, the owners are excited to

46:07

announce their newest venture, Sweden's first

46:09

ever fire park. Phil,

46:16

how did Hari do? Pretty good. Five rights,

46:18

ten more points. His 11 puts

46:21

him in the lead. Okay, Dulce, you're

46:23

up next. Well, Hari got all the

46:25

easy questions. Phil

46:27

in the blank. On Tuesday,

46:30

the GOP-led house impeached Alejandro

46:32

Mayorkas, the secretary of blank.

46:35

Your defense? No. Do you have

46:37

a Homeland Security? Yes. This

46:40

week, photo sharing app Blank announced it

46:43

would no longer recommend political content to

46:45

users. Photo sharing? I don't know,

46:47

Instagram? Yes. This

46:49

week, the CDC said it expected to

46:52

change its isolation guidelines for people with

46:54

blank. COVID? Yes.

46:57

In a dispute over working conditions,

46:59

thousands of ride share employees went

47:02

on a one day blank on

47:04

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47:06

week, a drug dealer in Peru was

47:08

arrested by a cop working undercover dressed

47:10

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47:16

A giant teddy bear. Not fair.

47:20

According to a new study, even

47:23

after quitting, blank impacts your immune

47:25

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47:28

On Tuesday, William Post, the

47:30

creator of breakfast food staple

47:32

Pop Blanks, passed away at

47:34

96. Uh, uh,

47:36

uh, corn pops? No.

47:38

Tell me, tell me. Pop's

47:42

heart. Yes. After

47:45

a man in France spent eight years building an

47:48

Eiffel Tower out of 700,000 matchsticks,

47:52

the Guinness Book of World Records told

47:54

him blank. That he needed

47:56

more. No.

47:59

That the records were not complete. wouldn't

48:01

count because he used the wrong kind

48:03

of matchstick. The

48:06

good news is that after an outpouring

48:09

of support from the matchstick tower building

48:11

community, I guess, Guinness

48:13

reversed their decision saving them

48:16

from being voted world's most

48:18

pedantic world record vote. Bill,

48:20

how did Dil say? Good.

48:22

Six right, 12 more points,

48:24

total of 15 puts her

48:26

in the lead. Dil,

48:29

how many does Amy need to

48:32

win? Six to tie, seven to

48:34

win. Okay

48:37

Amy, this is for the game. Fill

48:39

in the blank. On Thursday, a judge

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ruled that the hush money trial of

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blank would start on March 25th. Right.

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For the first time in almost a decade,

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Jon Stewart returned to host the blank

48:52

on Monday. The Daily Show. Right. On Tuesday,

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the first known death from so-called

48:59

blank pox was recorded. Alaska. Right.

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On Monday, the father who held

49:03

a gender reveal party that sparked

49:05

a blank in California pled guilty.

49:07

Wildfire. Right. This week a man

49:09

was fined after he tried to

49:11

make it through a New York

49:13

City airport with blank in his

49:15

pants. Bowel constrictor. Very good, I'd

49:17

give it to her. Alright, I'll

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give it to her. Three Burmese

49:22

pythons. On

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Wednesday, NASA launched the Odysseus lander

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headed for the blank. Moon. Right.

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On Tuesday, a man in Oregon

49:32

was diagnosed with the blank. The

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plague. Yes, the bubonic plague. This

49:37

week a police officer in Florida resigned

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after his bodycam caught him discharging

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his weapon and yelling, shots

49:44

fired and I'm hit when

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he blanked. When

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he farted. When he

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mistook the sound of an acorn hitting

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the roof of his squad car for

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a gunshot. In

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what is the most embarrassing moment for a

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police officer since that cop in Boston went

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down a slide. The sheriff's

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deputy screamed, rolled on the ground,

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and fired his gun at his

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own vehicle when he mistook a

50:12

falling acorn for gunfire. Bill,

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did Amy do enough to win? Well

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she got these numbers. Seven right,

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14 more points to win. Congratulations.

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In just a minute we'll ask our panelists now

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that he's done TikTok what will be the

50:36

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