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Welcome

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show. Megan, let me introduce you to our panel this week.

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First, it's the host of legends of the hidden temple Sunday nights and the CW it's Christella Alonzo.

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Hey Megan, they're booing for how much you brag about your baby.

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And she's a writer with the guardian us and her new book.

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Tell everyone on this train. I love them.

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It comes out in February. It's made Higgins.

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Welcome

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to

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the

3:06

show. You're going to play who's bill. This time, bill Curtis is going to read the three quotations from this week's news.

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

3:14

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

3:16

You're ready to go. I'm ready.

3:17

Let's do it. Your first quote is from a sports fan who was commenting in the New York times.

3:23

I was so looking forward to seeing some diplomats.

3:26

That was a reaction to the announcement about U S diplomats, boycotting, the upcoming, what the Olympics Has announced a diplomatic boycott of the winter games in Beijing.

3:43

The athletes can still attend, but the delegation of diplomats and government VIP's will be staying home.

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This is so sad for everybody who had trained their whole life to make the tariff negotiating team.

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You

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know,

3:55

Joe

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Biden

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did

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this

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against

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his

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will. He was so looking forward to competing in skeleton.

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Now,

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as

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I

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said,

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the

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U

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S

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athletes,

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all

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the

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teams,

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they

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get

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to

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go

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and

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compete,

4:02

but

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can

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you

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imagine

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how

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devastated

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they

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are

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at

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this

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news? They fought that they were going to go to China and meet Tom Vilsack.

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So that is our big way of showing the Chinese that we take their sort of human rights record.

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Very serious. Exactly. Is not sending some people that they would have had no idea, or actually they're Right.

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Pretty much. Sometimes

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I go to like stores like Walmart and buy everything.

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And I'm like, take that China That's really I'm buying stuff because it was made in your country and that I'm supporting it, but I'm not sending my uncle to the, I

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like those soft body diplomats.

4:52

I'm assuming they should just go to Ireland for the Irish winter Olympics, which is walking to school through the mud, you know, like it's easier.

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It's like making a fire out of bits of yesterday's fire.

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You know, like that's what they could do.

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I just learned in this Olympics, that diplomats go.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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I

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didn't

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even

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know. I had no idea was like, we're going to take it away.

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I'm like, oh, we had it.

5:22

It is complicated because if you, if you don't send the athletes and the athletes are the one that suffer and they've been like working really hard, you know, we boycotted Russia, Right?

5:30

We did. We didn't send anybody to Russia. That was 1980.

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Yeah. That was my year to

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with

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golden

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peanut

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farmer

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There's figure skating. I was going to do both parts.

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It would have been very, it would have been a really upset wind cause that was a summer Olympics.

5:47

That boycott That's

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what, that's what made it such a special skillset.

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And that I was for Megan.

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Megan

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here

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is

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your

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next

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quote. I'll have been repeatedly assured that there was no potty and no rules were broken.

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That was UK prime minister, Boris Johnson reassuring the British public about something that there definitely was one of, and that definitely broke the rules.

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What was it?

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Well,

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we're

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guessing

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Johnson

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insisted

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on

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standing

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under

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the

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mistletoe

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all

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night

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party.

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Actually

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the

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biggest

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political

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scandal

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in

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the

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UK

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in

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decades

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last

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December

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a

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year

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ago,

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when

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the

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rest

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of

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the

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country

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was

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On lockdown and forbidden from gathering together, the staff at 10 Downing street were having not one but two Rawkus secret, illegal Christmas parties, suspicions of this party happening arose.

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When someone leaked a photo of Boris Johnson with his hair combed, they denied it.

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Even as their hands were covered in the grease of a Christmas goose, I feel like Boris always looks like he just got off on like a three-day bender.

6:58

And did the party end, or did it just start?

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Like he looks like he was at a three-day party under a helicopter.

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Why are we having the party here?

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Plus that man always has.

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COVID like he permanently. Huh?

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And this is crazy. This is actually a huge scandal.

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This is the biggest scandal Boris Johnson has ever had.

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And we were talking about a man who literally is not certain how many children he has.

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Then

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they

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felt

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this

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is

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great. They said, well, it was just this spontaneous thing.

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One of our staff members was leaving. And of course we had to give him a toast.

7:37

It really was nothing planned. It's been revealed that at this spontaneous party they had secret Santa it's the most premeditated Christmas thing.

7:48

And the worst thing was that Boris Johnson for his secret Santa gift got a smoking gun.

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All

7:54

right,

7:54

Megan,

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here

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is

7:54

your

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last

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quote. It is from a terrifying report this week in the New York times.

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Zabar's who's running low pick bagel has totally a few days supply lift.

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That was the times reporting on a crisis.

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The city-wide shortage of what groceries, specifically a shortage of something that you get when you get your bagel from places like Zabar's or pick a bagel with cream cheese shortage.

8:26

That's right.

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The

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bad

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news

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is

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New

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York

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is

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facing

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a

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cream

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cheese

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shortage. The good news bagels are healthy.

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Now have as many as you want.

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It's just fat chewy toast.

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Oh

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no. I guess this means we'll all have to eat donuts.

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How sad are you freaked out by this?

8:45

The lack of cream cheese? Yeah, definitely.

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But you know, what I tried to do is put ricotta know ricotta, and that is basically like a looser cream cheese.

8:58

Exactly goes to second base. Exactly.

9:00

It doesn't Believe

9:03

me. It doesn't have the, It doesn't have the, from Memorial code of a cream cheese.

9:07

Anyway, this, this crisis over cream cheese really speaks to something deep in our, in our species.

9:13

The evolutionary need to spackle our food.

9:16

It goes back into the, our ancient history is hunter schmear rivers.

9:23

But you know that, you know, what is a crime in New York?

9:26

If you ask them to take out the bread in the bagel, like in the middle of the bagel, they get so angry at you.

9:32

You know, I saw girls doing it in front of me once before she was like, can you scoop it?

9:37

And the man was like, what do you mean?

9:39

And she was like, scoop it, scoop the bagel, take out the, that insight.

9:44

And so you have like a, just a shining, shallow bread.

9:47

And, and he said, I don't do that.

9:50

And that, she said, well, can you?

9:53

And he said, I can't do that.

9:56

This is fascinating that someone would ask to do that.

9:58

And also that Linda Blair from the extra says, I'm glad she found a line of work for herself.

10:05

And it's a few years bill.

10:07

How did Megan do on our quiz?

10:08

She and her baby got them.

10:11

All right.

10:12

Thank

10:12

you

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so

10:12

much

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for

10:12

playing

10:12

and

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have

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fun

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with

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that

10:19

baby. Bye-bye right now panel, that is time for you to answer some questions about this week's news, Luke late one night, this week, the staff of Finland's prime minister learned that she had had contact with someone who had tested positive for COVID, but they couldn't reach the prime minister to tell her to quarantine.

10:41

Why not?

10:42

Because she was in decline.

10:44

That's right. She was down in D club.

10:48

Yeah. She was at the afters.

10:49

Yeah, she was, she was out until four in the morning partying.

10:53

She was, this is all true.

10:55

She was clubbing till 4:00 AM.

10:57

And she left her work phone at home.

10:59

So she missed the messages where you with her.

11:02

I was, I mean, she is the youngest.

11:06

Was she the youngest world leaders.

11:08

In fact, she's 37. She is 36 years old.

11:11

She is the youngest world leader currently in office.

11:12

Like for instance, this is not going to happen with Joe Biden.

11:15

No, no, but Joe Biden, Joe Biden would, would never have done that.

11:21

He would not have gone out clubbing when he was 36 years old music hadn't been invented yet.

11:29

Wasn't wasn't, wouldn't there be like a gramophone, Like

11:34

I'm just, I'm sorry.

11:36

I'm imagining a DJ up on the stage has got the headphones on one cup on his holding it and the other one he's cranking the vitriol.

11:43

Everyone's waiting for the beat to drop on the flat foot fluky.

11:47

Coming

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up. What's two plus two for the shocking answer.

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12:46

I'm bill Curtis. We're blending this week with Mave Higgins, Luke Burbank and Chris Dela Alonzo.

12:52

And here again is your host at the Harris theater in Chicago, but somehow still stuck on mute.

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Peter

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Peter it's Peter Segall Right

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AAA wait, wait to play a game in the air. How you were on wait, wait.

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Don't tell me.

13:20

This is Spencer and I am calling from the city of St.

13:23

Louis. How are things in St.

13:25

Louis? A wonderful place?

13:28

Oh yeah. You know the other day it was 25 degrees and tomorrow it's going to be 70, you know, the Bidwell It's

13:33

like living in many places in one place.

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It's fabulous. What do you do there and St.

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Louis. Yeah. So I'm an academic advisor, the business school at Washington university Or

13:44

the business students, all rapacious monsters to be, or are they nice?

13:49

Oh, I want to keep my job. All Right.

13:51

Very good.

13:55

Spencer. Welcome to the show. You're going to play our game in which you must try to tell truth from fiction bill, what is Spencer's topic?

14:00

Add it up. Math is important for many reasons and not just for blowing the cover of British spies.

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He said, maths, get him.

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Our

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are

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going

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from

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14:20

You ready to play? I am so ready.

14:23

Let's do it. First. Let's hear from Mave Higgins.

14:27

It is a buzz with a new app called kid count a math app for adults who need help keeping count of their kids and the numbers associated with them.

14:35

Parents who can't do math struggle with many aspects of parenting.

14:38

Try picking up your kids from school without quite knowing how many there are supposed to be.

14:43

Kid count helps keep track of how many kids you have and also tracks the passing of time to Manny.

14:49

15 year old kids are being jammed into strollers and fed mashed sweet potatoes because their parents never quite grasped how many units of time they owned them for at the launch of kid counts and exhausted woman named Doreen Richardson who told reporters.

15:04

This app helped me to understand that I have five children.

15:08

It was a shock for sure, but it explains a lot.

15:12

Plus they are all different.

15:14

Oh, what's that called?

15:16

Yeah. Different ages. So that's interesting.

15:18

All right. I gotta lie down.

15:23

Kid counts a new phone app to help parents keep track of their kids and how many they have.

15:27

That is your next story of pluses and minuses comes from Luke Burbank, America,

15:33

land of the free home of the not particularly great at math, which I know sounds a little harsh, but there is evidence to back that up specifically the story of a and w versus the McDonald's quarter pounder.

15:46

Here's what happened back in the 1980s, the quarter pounder was a huge success.

15:51

So NW decided they'd try to get in on the action, but by actually doing one better, they were gonna introduce the a and w third of a pounder in a random taste test participants even said they liked the a and w burger better.

16:03

So it should have been a runaway hit, right?

16:05

Same price, larger burger.

16:06

Well, not exactly because you see those same taste testers also reported.

16:11

They'd be less likely to buy the one-third pounder than the quarter pounder, because they thought it was smaller flash forward to 2021 and AWS recent announcement that they are trying again, to take on the quarter pounder with their new offering, the a and w three ninths burger that is right.

16:29

Three ninths of a pound, which is a way bigger than a quarter of a pound.

16:33

The burger is a limited time offer, but NW says, if they run out of the three ninths burger, customers can special request a two sixth of a pound burger only in public radio.

16:46

Is that a laugh line

16:48

having

16:48

failed

16:48

with

16:48

their

16:48

one

16:48

third

16:48

pound

16:48

burger,

16:48

because

16:48

three

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is

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less

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than

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has

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gone

16:48

for

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the

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three

16:48

nights

16:48

burger,

16:48

hoping

16:48

that

16:48

will

17:00

work. Your last story of math in the news comes from Castella Alonzo.

17:05

One of the most popular TV game shows in Japan is truth or dare in which contestants just like at your slumber party, get to reveal an embarrassing truth or accepted dare to win a huge prize.

17:17

Kubota Kenta thought he had, it made all he had to do to win $10 million was eat mochi, that small sweet rice snack for 24 hours straight first hour, one mochi, second hour, two mochi, third hour for, oh, you get it right.

17:37

Like so on doubling the number every hour, the first few hours were not a problem.

17:43

He even had a couple extra an hour four because he said he was hungry and ate mochi.

17:48

Wasn't enough by hour 15.

17:51

As he stared at the 16,384 motion piled on a table in front of him, he began to realize his error.

18:01

I should have just told them about that time.

18:04

I forwarded. He was heard to whisper, Right?

18:09

Which

18:09

of

18:09

these

18:09

is

18:09

a

18:09

real

18:09

story

18:09

trouble

18:09

with

18:09

math

18:09

in

18:09

the

18:17

news. Was it from may of the introduction of kid count from Luke Burbank?

18:21

The story of how an W's third pounder burger failed, but there are three ninths burger might do well.

18:27

Or from Christella Alonzo the story of a contestant on a Japanese game show who just didn't realize how big things get when you double them every hour.

18:37

Which of these was the real story of math in the news.

18:43

I think I'm going to have to go with Luke's story because I want it to, You're

18:47

going to go with Luke's story of how people just didn't want a one-third pound burger when they could have a quarter pound burger.

18:53

And they've tried to fix that. That's your choice.

18:55

All right. Well, we spoke to somebody who actually knows a little bit about this whole thing With

19:02

our three night town birder, because three nines it's clearly bigger than one.

19:07

That was Liz Basler. She's the senior director of marketing for a and w restaurants talking about the three ninths pound burger.

19:14

Congratulations to you, Spencer.

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You got it, right? You've heard a point for Luke.

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You have one, our prize, the voice of your choice on your voicemail.

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Thank you so much for playing with us today.

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It

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pleasure

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something.

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we

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Now? But she is a lot who Dan grew up with his family in the south side of Chicago.

19:47

He knew he was a TV comedy writer.

19:49

He wrote for Jimmy Fallon, some others. And when it came time to create his own show, he chose the funniest place.

19:54

He knew the south side of Chicago, the shear and his brother sold Tom co-star in the show south side on HBO max.

20:01

They joined us now, but, and sold Tom.

20:03

Welcome to wait. Wait. Don't tell Let's, let's start by talking about your background.

20:14

You guys grew up on the south side, right?

20:16

I grew up in the south side of Chicago. I in Gresham and one person, one guy, Gresham, I came here to make sure you guys were gonna rep.

20:29

So be sure you want to UNH for college, you got into comedy, right?

20:31

He wrote for Jimmy Fallon, When

20:33

you lived in New York, me and my writing partner, Yala, riddle.

20:37

I lived in New York and wrote for Jimmy.

20:39

We actually got there before the show even started.

20:43

And everybody's like, oh, we have no idea what's going to happen.

20:46

And we looked up a couple of years later, we had some Emmy nominations.

20:48

We were right for president Obama.

20:50

Yeah. I heard that, that famous appearance of president Obama.

20:53

You guys wrote that.

20:56

Yeah, we did. And in fact, here's something I wrote the first pass and I've never told anybody that, but I'm, I'm in a bragging kind of mode.

21:04

Right? Let's Do it.

21:08

That's right. And, and you know, we, we got to meet the president and he couldn't have been more nice and he really wants to have a good time.

21:13

He put In his own stuff. Like, did he improvise?

21:17

I mean, he, you know, he's a natural, there, there are detractors who would say, oh, Bama is a ham.

21:27

So Todd, so he's hot. Y'all catch up with Sultana.

21:31

Shear is out there. He's doing comedy writing.

21:34

What are you doing at this time? I was doing standup comedy in the Midwest for a while.

21:37

I was cracking jokes and making people laugh and busting heads.

21:40

And I went to college, had a couple of kids did do the normal domestic stuff.

21:46

And then I decided to start writing at the urge of my brother and pinned the show south side and send it to my brother.

21:54

And he pinned it and we went past it.

21:56

And next thing you know, we're here. So wait a minute.

21:58

So you're the guy. So time came up with the idea for the show.

22:01

Boom, We're

22:05

bragging.

22:07

Now there's a look for radio.

22:09

The only One that's cool is a look in Bashir's face.

22:12

Right? This reminds Me of back. When I was inventing the iPhone, The

22:18

shows about two guys, one of them you play Soltani who worked for a rental own company spending a lot of time.

22:25

And they got like side hustles upon sign houses and Bashir.

22:27

You play a Chicago cop. I do. Who's not the best cop.

22:30

There's a lot of things about the show that I want to talk to you guys about.

22:33

But one of them is its tone. And I was watching it.

22:35

Cause all this stuff happens and it just gets crazier and crazier and crazier as the show goes on, until stuff is happening.

22:41

Like what?

22:42

And I was like, this is like Seinfeld In

22:46

high praise.

22:49

And I actually In the classic Seinfeld episodes.

22:54

Somebody would do something small and they'd get dumb about it.

22:57

And they would just increase in dumbness Until

22:59

snowball.

23:01

And I actually heard that you guys actually had that in mind when you created the show that you wanted to be like a Seinfeld for the south side, is that right?

23:08

You know, we definitely wanted something that moved the way Seinfeld moved in terms of being funny.

23:11

I think sometimes when you deal with, with content, especially black content, there's always this impetus and this need to put something deep into it as if there's like, and I don't mean deep as in our show, doesn't have meaning, but our show doesn't need you to have characters prove they're from the south side because they cry because they're running from bullets.

23:28

You know, we don't have very special episodes where I grabbed me go, Hey brother.

23:32

And

23:32

also

23:32

I,

23:32

as

23:32

an

23:32

actor,

23:32

I'm

23:32

not

23:36

qualified.

23:36

He

23:36

really

23:38

cares. Exactly. So we would say, no, we want something.

23:40

We want people all over the world.

23:42

And especially on the south side to come home and feel lifted up and to let that a Boolean spirit of the show really pervade every morsel announce of who they are as a person and then tell other people about it.

23:53

So they watch much like we're doing right now.

23:56

I understand a bullying, Bullying.

23:58

And I think that's The why, the way he dealt me $5, I wouldn't use that.

24:04

And people finding it more now in this like halfway through the second season.

24:08

Yeah. They're finding it more now because they can bench it.

24:10

What I love is that our show is so joke, dense, that folks kind of have to watch it like two or three times to get everything.

24:16

And then we always try to play jokes in the background.

24:20

There's this one scene where the, sorry, That's

24:24

the effect south side has on Police

24:31

office. And they're like saying, here's what we need to do today.

24:34

It's like gang day or whatever Gang

24:37

Week ganglia. And they're like, oh no, like we're scared of gangs or whatever.

24:40

And then, but on the whiteboard, in the background, there's a list of like the other stuff that they're listing.

24:46

And the one, one item on the list is firemen that we hate.

24:57

Well, Bashir and cell time.

24:58

It is a real joy to meet you in person.

25:00

Thanks for having us.

25:02

We've invited you here today.

25:03

We

25:03

invited

25:03

you

25:03

here

25:03

to

25:03

play

25:03

a

25:07

game. We're calling welcome to the real south side.

25:11

So if you start say at the corner of 75th and Ashland and you head south and you keep heading south, you will eventually reach the Southwest of sides.

25:19

That is Antarctica.

25:21

So we're asking three questions about Antarctica to right.

25:25

Voicemail

25:25

is

25:29

ready. playing for man.

25:33

Let's do this. Jen fried tag of Chicago Here is your first question.

25:42

The first person to reach the south pole was the Norwegian Explorer, wild Ahmanson in 1911 and the tent he set up when he got there has been designated as an official world historic site, even though what a, nobody has any idea where it is, be it melted and dissolved into the ocean seven years ago, or see it is the place where Ahmansons group ate their weakest member.

26:11

Do you think he ate somebody? I think it's a, I'm going to support you and we're going to vote for, do we get to like, do I get to pick three smart women people and ask them, Can

26:22

we phone a friend At

26:24

this point? You just have to ask three smart looking pairs of eyes.

26:26

But These

26:28

guys, these guys you're going to go You're

26:32

right. That's what it was. Nobody has any idea where it is Just

26:37

thought, you know, I read about this before we came.

26:40

Well, he did the research. They think it's like 50 feet beneath the current surface of the ice.

26:44

Maybe over there that way they don't really know. All right.

26:46

Next question. By the time Richard Bird led his 1928 expedition to the south pole and our time is 28.

26:53

And that one, you know that I

26:57

got a Richard Bird shirt at home And

27:01

he let his expedition there in 1928, Antarctica had developed such a reputation for driving men insane in the wild, cold wastes that he brought along.

27:09

What on the trip, a 12 straight jackets be a couch so he could give his men therapy if needed or see three seasonal effective disorder lamps.

27:23

What do you think he said, you're going to go. Should we go? I got to go with straight jacks.

27:25

Hey, I'll support. You let's go. You're right. It was straight jacket.

27:27

I

27:27

don't

27:27

know

27:31

My mom's going to be so proud.

27:34

We'll see if we can make her proud of that last question.

27:36

So currently of course, lots of current expeditions to south pole, but if you wanted to go there, the south pole now on an expedition and you are a doctor.

27:47

Yes. You have to make some preparations before you go, including what a, you have to bring along a lot of sugar pills.

27:53

Cause people get bored and make up reasons to see the doctor.

27:55

Just to have something to do be have your own appendix removed or see stock up on wooden medical instruments.

28:03

Cause your hand sticks. The scalpels in that cold.

28:07

I don't know the honestly that's actually hard, you know?

28:09

Gosh, what's your gut.

28:12

Tell you, let me tell you what, what's your appendix telling you by the way doctors like grilled side, man, I didn't even go to medical school.

28:25

I

28:25

think

28:25

it's

28:25

the,

28:25

I

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think

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it

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was

28:29

Bravo. I think it was the dependency.

28:34

So what's it Going to be? I support I'm going.

28:36

I'm going to, I'm going with the word bro.

28:40

It's fine. You've already worked.

28:41

She was going first to 10 next.

28:44

So Todd is going with the wooden instruments and the winner is Bashir.

28:48

It was in fact A Russian doctor was at the south pole, his own appendix burst.

29:00

And he had to remove it himself.

29:01

The reasons that you speculated no one else to do it.

29:04

So ever since they it in the scene, get it taken care of.

29:07

And before you go, I'm sure he used wooden instruments.

29:09

I'm just saying Phil,

29:12

how did they do on our quiz? They gone where few have gone before I got them.

29:17

All right Guys.

29:23

I got to tell you if you think these guys are funny here, you should see their TV show, but Shirin, Sultan Silvadene star in south side.

29:30

So on HBO max seasons one and season two is out now.

29:33

Watch it, but Shira, thank you so much for joining.

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31:37

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Justin

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32:18

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

32:21

Christella Jenna.

32:23

Ryan is the Texas real estate agent and flew in a private jet to attack the Capitol on January 6th and then bragged after she was caught that you would never go to jail.

32:33

Well, she is about to go to jail in an, a last message to her fans on Tik.

32:38

TOK says that in jail, she hopes to do what She's

32:43

going to lose 30 pounds and do yoga.

32:46

That is correct.

32:47

I

32:47

think

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he

32:47

even

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got

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the

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number,

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her

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goal,

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her

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target

32:56

weight. Correct? So I can tell your team, Jenna, am I right?

33:00

No, but January 6th is my birthday.

33:02

Oh Geez.

33:04

Wait. That was your party.

33:09

Ms. Ryan became famous when she actually livestreamed herself breaking into the Capitol and she has managed to keep up that brass can-do attitude.

33:17

As she prepares to do her 90 day stint in jail, or as she calls it a freedom cleanse.

33:21

So

33:21

like

33:21

I

33:21

said,

33:21

Ryan

33:21

did

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a

33:21

Tik

33:21

TOK

33:21

in

33:21

a

33:21

sports

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bra

33:21

and

33:21

yoga

33:27

pants. And she said she hoped prison will be a kind of spa with armed attendance and a really, really strict curfew.

33:33

She said, this is all real.

33:34

I'm going to be able to work out a lot and do a lot of yoga and detox.

33:38

Hopefully they'll have some protein shakes and some protein bars, unquote.

33:43

She is going to be so disappointed when she finds out the only group fitness class they have is knife fights.

33:51

Well, I can tell you from experience, honey dieting is another form of prison and you got to break out.

33:59

That's definitely the kind of the weight loss system.

34:01

You get a free one. If you buy a MyPillow.

34:04

Yeah.

34:07

Alright. Look on Tuesday.

34:09

The Amazon cloud web servers crashed.

34:12

And in addition to the many businesses and services that were affected by the outage all over the country, what stopped working Amazon?

34:23

Well, Amazon had its own problems. Yes, but we're talking about some other very specific thing or things that stopped working for people.

34:29

Oh, Roomba. Yes.

34:31

The Roombas.

34:33

This explains so much about Randy.

34:35

My Roomba has been acting weird and I thought it was cause I moved apartments and it's hard for kids to adjust to new environments, but it was AWS being down.

34:49

It wasn't, this is what happened. It turns out that just about everything uses Amazon cloud services to access the internet, including your little robot vacuum.

34:57

So people all over the country pulled out their apps, right?

35:00

And they summoned their robot vacuum and nothing happened.

35:03

It's like Roomba, come here and clean up the granola.

35:05

I spilled. I'm afraid I can't do that.

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Hi. You're on. Wait, wait. Don't tell me.

36:12

Hi. This is Kathleen Cleary cook calling from Cheyenne, Wyoming.

36:16

Oh, Kathleen Clary cook. I do like an alliterative person.

36:18

What do you do there in Cheyenne?

36:21

We recently moved here. So I'm not currently working.

36:24

I recently left a local public health agency and my former state.

36:29

Right. And have you learned, have you picked up any Wyoming habits?

36:32

Like, you know, hunting, shooting, wrassling wrestling, rodeoing, whatever they do there.

36:37

Mostly we're trying to cope with the wind, which by the way is In

36:41

Chicago. Wow. Yeah. That's why it's so flat.

36:43

All the Hills got blown down.

36:45

Well, welcome to the show.

36:48

Kathleen, bill Curtis is going to read you three news-related limericks with the last word or phrase missing from each of you can fill in that last word or phrase correctly.

36:54

In two of the limericks, you will be a winner. You ready to play?

36:57

Absolutely. Right here is your first Limerick Westport.

37:01

It's heist is a sad anecdote with one horn and an old man's sheep coat.

37:07

The sad mascot won't do go back and steal two.

37:12

Cause it turns out we stopped all the Very

37:18

good before the army Navy game a week or so ago, army cadets at west point tried to continue the ancient tradition of stealing the Navy's goat mascot, but they swiped the wrong goat.

37:31

They took a retired goat mascot who has arthritis and only one horn and is frankly getting too old for this crap.

37:38

So they went back and they took the two goats currently serving as the Navy mascot, which shouldn't be surprising if there's one thing the military knows how to do.

37:48

If it doesn't work the first time, do it again and harder.

37:52

What

37:52

is

37:52

what

37:52

the

37:52

goat

37:52

mascots

37:52

is

37:52

that

37:52

the

37:52

whole

37:52

story

37:52

with

37:52

the

37:57

Cubs? It means greatest of all time.

37:59

Oh, that's why.

38:02

Right. But I just feel like maybe we shouldn't have goat like actual mask or even if you want to take it this way, why does the Navy have a goat?

38:09

They're kind of shaped like boats, goat boat.

38:15

They

38:15

have

38:15

the

38:15

same

38:18

body. Have you ever seen a goat?

38:20

Here

38:20

is

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your

38:20

next

38:20

Limerick

38:20

to

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prove

38:20

we're

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not

38:29

Running an instance. Scam.

38:30

We'll show that we're giving an Insta down.

38:34

When you see seem addicted, your time gets restricted.

38:38

We warn you to stay off of Instagram.

38:45

Instagram. Yes.

38:45

Instagram

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is

38:45

finally

38:45

adding

38:45

a

38:49

function. We really need a timer that kicks you off Instagram.

38:52

The new take a break tool alerts users.

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When they've been on the app too long and urges them to get off the app.

38:58

It's great. It's supposed to make you feel better.

39:02

Right? And nothing makes you feel fantastic.

39:04

Like being told you have been scrolling through a Mormon mommy bloggers reels for six hours.

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I

39:09

got

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to

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know

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how

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Kayden

39:09

is

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doing

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you've

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on

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Instagram

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minutes

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that

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doesn't

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let

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you

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use

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your

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phone. When you're driving, you should maybe be a bit more graphic about it.

39:30

You know how like steak wrap boxes show like and it should just be a picture of you from below when you're not, you don't realize that when you accidentally turn the camera on, on your phone and then you just look down at that picture.

39:49

Here

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is

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your

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last

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Limerick

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athlete. VAX card works just like a charm.

39:57

I don't get one today.

39:59

What's the harm.

40:00

Well, first there's a shot.

40:03

Well, I'd rather not.

40:06

I think I'll strap on a fake.

40:11

Yes, a fake arm, a man in Italy, trying to get his vaccine card without having to suffer by actually getting a life-saving free vaccine, which will keep him from dying.

40:20

And he showed up.

40:22

This is so clever. He showed up to the clinic with a fake arm in the sleeve of his shirt, a fake arm, which the nurse described as quote cold and gummy.

40:33

The

40:33

skin

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color

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of

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the

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arm

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did

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not

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match

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the

40:33

rest

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of

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the

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person.

40:38

The

40:38

nurse

40:38

immediately

40:38

realized

40:38

what

40:38

was

40:38

going

40:43

on. Accused him of this fake the man swore no it's my real arm.

40:46

And he swore it by detaching it and putting it on a Bible.

40:50

Bill. How did Kathleen doing our quiz? She's the queen of Cheyenne

40:52

right now. All right.

40:55

Thank you so much, Kathleen. Good luck there.

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Now once for a final game, lightning fill in the blank.

41:56

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

42:01

Now worth two points. Bill, can you give us the school I can make has two.

42:05

Christina has two. Luke has four.

42:09

Wow. Wow.

42:11

Yeah. Basically I'm three ninths of the way to Stella and Mave.

42:20

You are in second place together and I will arbitrarily choose Christella to go first.

42:24

So the clock will start when I begin your first question, fill in the blank on Wednesday, the white house announced the 200 million Americans had been blacks.

42:31

Yes, vaccinated on Tuesday.

42:33

The house passed a bill aimed at preventing a government shut down right after he was fired from CNN Harper Collins announced they would no longer publish Blank's book.

42:43

Chris Cuomo, according to a report from us weekly queen Elizabeth has a large and ever expanding blank, broach collection, large and ever expanding ball of old rubber bands on Monday Devin Nunez and as pleased to leave Congress to run blanks.

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Social media started Trump on Thursday.

43:04

The FDA approved Pfizer blank shots for 16 and 17 year olds.

43:08

What do you mean? I don't know. Blank shots, specifically booster shots.

43:11

Yet this week passengers on a flight in Nepal were surprised after the plane landed and they were all asked to blank.

43:17

Bow down, no, as to get out and push the plane to the, oh, it was a Southwest flight.

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The

43:26

spirit

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air

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come

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right

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after

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the

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plane

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apparently

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the

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gate. By pushing on its giant tires.

43:43

Everyone knew something had gone terribly wrong with the pilot shot in the Intercom and said, hello, are there any CrossFit instructors on this bill?

43:54

How did Costella do on our quiz? She got five, right?

43:56

For 10 more points. She does his 12 and has slipped into the lead.

44:01

All right.

44:01

All

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right. May if you're up next, fill in the blank on Tuesday.

44:10

Olof Schultz officially replaced blank as Germany's chancellor.

44:12

Oh, Anglo America.

44:15

Very good to combat the effects of climate change.

44:17

President Biden signed an executive order calling for the government to be blank by 2050, very different carbon neutral following several delays.

44:33

The house passed the $768 billion blank bill on Tuesday.

44:37

The dollar, no defense bill this week and anti canceled cultural conference in the UK was blanked on Monday Medina spirit.

44:50

The horse that won this year is blank died during a routine workout.

44:54

What you're just telling me.

44:55

No, no, no.

45:04

At one, this year's Kentucky Derby this week, the CEO of a mortgage company is apologizing after he ended a zoom call with 900 employees by blanking, blanking on their names.

45:16

No, he ended the call by firing everyone on the call.

45:19

Oh, CEO ended the zoom meeting by saying quote, if you're on this call, your employment here is terminated effective immediately.

45:27

He fired over 10% of his workforce that way.

45:30

And if you think that's bad, just wait to hear how he plans to break up with his girlfriend.

45:36

Bill. How did nave do on our quiz?

45:38

So she had to write four more points.

45:48

She now has six, but Chris Stella still has the lead with 12.

45:53

How many then does Luke need to win for the tie five to win?

45:58

All right, Luke Luke, this is for the game.

46:01

Fill in the blank on Tuesday.

46:03

President Biden met with Latin mere Putin to discuss Russia's military buildup in the border of blank.

46:08

Ukraine on Monday, the department of justice sued the state of blank over their redistricting maps, Texas.

46:14

This week, the Senate approved a resolution against president Biden's blank mandate for large businesses vaccine right on Thursday workers in Buffalo, New York celebrated becoming the first unionized blank employees.

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Later on, we're gonna be talking to Soltan and Bashir, Salahuddin, creators and stars of the TV show south side, which differs from every other TV show set in Chicago, in that it is actually about Chicagoans rather than attractive Los Angeles actors wearing brand new cubs hats. So we want to hear all about the characters in your hometown, so give us a call. The number is one triple eight. Wait. Wait. That's 18889248924. Let's welcome our first listener contestant. Hi. You are on Wait. Wait. Don't tell me. Hi. This is Megan Stone calling from Columbus, Ohio. Columbus, and what do you do there in that Augusta state capital? I am a stay at home mom, like the best, am a stay at home mom to, like, the best seventh month old. The best. Alright. I'm glad you qualified that. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. Is this is this your first? Yes. Oh, and how are you finding motherhood so far? It's So tiring, but it's so tiring, but it's great. It's the best It really is. It really is. And is there any chance that this baby of yours will be interrupting us during this call? You know, I'm hoping he's good. He's been sleeping through the night, so, you know, knock on wood. I'm sorry. Did you say he's sleeping through the night at seven months? Yes. Oh my gosh. It's great. Alright. You win. Welcome to the show Meghan. Let me introduce you to our panel this week. First, it's host of legends of the Hidden Temple, Sunday nights in the CW. It's Cristela Alonzo. Yay. Bay Ohio. Next, the host of The Daily Podcast TV TL and also the Public Radio Show LiveWire, which will be live at Revolution Hall in Portland, December sixteenth. It's Luke Burbank. Hey, Megan. They're booing for how much you brag about your baby. And she's a writer with the Guardian US in her new book. Tell everyone on this and I love them, comes out in February. It's Maeve Higgins. Hi. Meg, and welcome to show. You're gonna play Who's Bill this time. Bill Curtis is gonna read the three quotations from this week's news. If you can correctly identify explain two of them, you will win our prize, any voice our show you might choose in your voice mail. Are ready to go? Yep. I'm ready. Let's do it. Your first quote is from a sports fan who was commenting in The New York Times. I was so looking forward to seeing some diplomats. That was a reaction to the announcement about US diplomats boycotting the upcoming. What? Oh, the Olympics. The Olympics. Yes. The US has announced a diplomatic boycott. Of the winter games in Beijing. The athletes can still attend, but the delegation of diplomats and government VIPs will be staying home. This is so sad for everybody who had to train their whole life to make the tariff negotiating team. You know, Joe Biden did this against his will. He was so looking forward to competing in skeleton. Now, as I said, the US app fleets to all the teams, they get to go and compete, but can you imagine how devastated they are at this news? They fought that they were going to go to China and meet Tom Vilsack. So that is our big way of showing the Chinese that we take their sort of human rights that is our big way of showing the Chinese that we we take their sort of human rights record very seriously. Yes. Exactly. Is not sending some people that they would have had no idea are actually there. Right. Pretty much. Sometimes I go to like stores like Walmart and buy everything and I'm like, take that China That's really I'm buying stuff because it was made in your country and that I'm supporting it, but I'm not sending my uncle I like those soft body like those, you know, soft bodied diplomats, I'm assuming. They should just go to Ireland for the Irish Winter Olympics, which is and, you know, walking to school through the mud. You know, like, it's easier. It's like making a fire out of bits of yesterday's fire. You know, like, that's what they could do. Right. I just learned in this Olympics that diplomats go. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I I Like, I didn't it's I didn't even know. I had no idea. They were like, we're gonna take it away. I'm like, oh, we had it. It is complicated because if you if you don't send the athletes and the athletes are the one that suffer and they've been, like, working really hard, you know. Yeah. We boy cut it in Russia. Right? We did. We didn't send anybody in Russia. That nineteen eighty. Yeah. That was my year too. Here we go. Yeah. And if we're spooned with gold, of course, in that peanut butter, hair, figure gating. I was gonna do both parts. It would have been very it would have been a really upset win because that was a Summer Olympics. Yeah. Boy God. That's what that's what made it such a special skill set. Yeah. And that I was four. Megan. Alright. Vagan, here is your next quote. I have been repeatedly assured that there are ones no party and no rules who are broken. That was UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson reassuring the British public about something that there definitely was one of and that definitely broke the rules. What was it? As we know it's clear. Well, we're guessing Johnson insisted on standing under the missile tow all night. Oh, what? A part a party. Yes. Yes. So this is actually the biggest political scandal in the UK in decades last December a year ago. When the rest of the country was on lockdown and forbidden from gathering together, the staff at ten Downing Street were having not one but two raucous secret illegal Christmas parties. Suspicions of this party happening arose when someone leaked a photo of Boris Johnson with his hair combed. Oh, they denied it even as their hands were covered in the grease of a Christmas goose. I feel like Boris always looks like he just got off, like, a three day bender. And Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like, you you drove up and you're, like, did the party end or did it just start? Yeah, he looks like he was at a three day party under helicopter. Why are we having the party here? Plus, that man always has COVID. Like, he permit me. And this is This is crazy. This is actually a huge scandal. This is the biggest scandal Boris Johnson has ever had. And we were talking about a man who literally is not certain how many children he has. Okay. Okay? Yeah. Then they felt, this is great. They they said, well, it was just this spontaneous thing. One of our staff members was leaving. And of course we had to give him a and of course, we had to give them a toast. It really is nothing planned. It's been revealed that at the spontaneous party, they had secret Santa gifts. It's the most premeditated Christmas fan. Right? And the worst thing was that Boris Johnson for his Secret Santa gift got a smoking gun. You know? Alright. Meghan, here is your last quote. It is from a terrifying report this week in the New York Times. Zebar is running low. The cab bagel has only few days supply left. That was the Times reporting on a crisis, the citywide shortage of what? Grocery. No. Well, that's specifically a shortage of something that you get when you get your bagel. From places likeze bars or pick a bagel. Green cheese. Green cheese. A green cheese shortage. That's right. The bad news is New York is facing a cream cheese shortage. The good news, bagels are healthy now. Have as many as you want. It's just fat chewy toast. Oh, no. guess this means, well, I'll have to eat donuts. How sad? Are you freaked out buying this? The lack of cream cheese? Yes. Yes, I do. You know what? I try to do is put, you know, Ricotta? Yes, I do. And that is basically, like, a looser cream cheese. No. It's been around. Exactly. It goes to second base. Exactly. It doesn't have his hand towels. And believe me. It doesn't have the boat. It doesn't have the, from Memorial code of a cream It doesn't have the her memorial code of a cream cheese. Anyway, this this crisis over cream cheese really speaks something deep in our in our species, the evolutionary need to speckle our food. It goes back into the our ancient history is hunter shmovers. But you know that you know what is a crime in New York? If you ask them to take out the bread in the bagel like, in the middle of the bagel, they get so angry. you. You know, I saw girls doing it in front of me once before she was like, can you scoop you? No. I saw a girl doing it in front of me once before. She was like, can you scoop it? And the man was like, what do you mean? And she was like, scoop it, scoop the bagel, take out the the inside. And so you have like just a shining shell of bread? Yes. And and he said, I don't do that. And she said, well, can you? And he said, I can't do that. This is fascinating that someone would ask to do that -- Yeah. -- so that Linda Blair from the exterior says he I'm glad you have a line of work for herself. a few years. Bill, how did Megan do in our quiz? Peter, she and her baby got them all right. That's right. Thank you. Thank you so much for playing and Have some of that biggie. Thank you. Bye bye. Right now, panelists it's time for you to answer some questions about week's news. Luke, late one night this week, the Staff of Finland's Prime Minister learned that she had had contact with someone who had tested positive for COVID. But they couldn't reach the prime minister to tell her to quarantine. Why not? Because she was in the club That's right. She was down into club. Yeah. She was at the afters. Yeah. She was she was out until four in the morning partying. She was. This is all true. She was clubbing till four AM and she left her work phone at home, so she missed the messages. Were you with her? You knew yep. Yes. I was. I mean, she is the youngest was she the youngest world leader who's impacted? Thirty She's thirty six years old. She is the youngest world leader currently in office. Like for instance, this is not gonna happen with Joe Biden. No. No. But, maybe, come on Joe Biden. Joe Biden would would never have done that. He would not have gone out clubbing when he was thirty six years old. Music hadn't been invented yet. Wasn't wasn't wouldn't there be like a gramophone? Like, I'm just I'm sorry. I'm imagining a DJ. I was just I'm on this page. He's got the headphone, you know, one couple on his holding and and the other one, he's cranking the troll. Everyone's waiting for the beat to drop on the flat foot flue gee. Coming up, what's two plus two for the shocking answer? Stay tuned in their bluff listener game. One triple eight, wait wait to play. We'll be back in a minute with more of what we don't tell me from NPR. 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Right now, it's time for the Wait Wait. Don't tell me Bluff the listener game. Call one triple eight Wait Wait. Play. Game in the air. How you were on? Wait. Wait. Don't tell me. Hi, Peter. This is Spencer, and I'm calling from the city of St. Louis, Missouri. How are things in Saint Louis? A wonderful a wonderful place? Oh, yeah. You know, the other day, it was twenty five degrees, and tomorrow it's gonna be seventy. You know the big Bashir It's like living in many places in one place. It's fabulous. Yeah. What do you do there and say those? Yeah. So I'm an academic adviser with business school at Washington University. Are you are the business students all rapacious monsters to be? Or are they nice? Oh, I wanna keep my job. Peter. Alright. Very good. Spencer, welcome to the show you're gonna play our game in which you must try to tell truth from fiction. Bill, what is Spencer's comic? Add it up. Math is important for many reasons and not just for blowing the cover of British spies. He said math. Get him. Our panelists are gonna tell you a story from the news about the importance of knowing your arithmetic, pick the one telling the truth and you win our prize. The whitewater of your choice on your the wait waitrer of your choice on your voice mail. Are you ready to play? I am so ready. Let's do it first. Let's hear from Maeve Higgins. The market is a buzz with a new app called KitKount, a math app for adults who need help, keeping count of their kids and the numbers associated with them. Parents who can't do math struggle with many aspects of parenting. Try picking up your kids from school without quite knowing how many there are supposed to be. Kids count helps keep track of how many kids you have and also tracks the passing of time. The two many fifteen year old kids are being jammed into strollers and fed mass sweet potatoes because their parents never quite grasped how many units of time they owned them for. At the launch of kids account an exhausted woman named Doreen Richardson who told reporters. This app helped me to understand that I have five children. It was a shock for sure, but it explains a lot. Plus, they are all different. Oh, what's that called? Yeah, different ages. So that's interesting. All Alright. I gotta lie down. Kid counts, the new phone app to help parents keep track of their kids, how many they have that is. Your next story of pluses and minuses comes from Luke Burbank. America, land of the free, home of the not particularly great at math, which I know sounds a little harsh. But there is evidence to back that up, specifically the story of A and W versus the McDonald's quarter pounder. Here's what happened. Back in the nineteen eighties, the quarter pounder was a huge success. So A and W decided they'd try to get in on the action. But by actually doing one better, they were gonna introduce the A and W third of a pounder. In a random taste test, participants even said they liked the A and W burger better. So it should have been a runaway hit. Right? Same price, larger burger. Well, Not exactly because you see those same taste testers also reported they'd be less likely to buy the one third pounder than the quarter pounder because they thought it was smaller. FlashForward to twenty twenty one and A and W's recent announcement that they are trying again to take on the quarter pounder with their new offering the a and w, three ninth burger. That is right, three ninths of a pound, which is way bigger than a quarter of a pound. The burger is a limited time offer, but A and W says if they run out of the three nines, burger customers can special request a two sixth of a pound burger. Only in public radio, is that a laugh line? Alright. A and W. Yeah. Having failed with their one third pound burger because three is less than four has gone for the three nights burger hoping that will work. Your last story of math in the news comes from Alonzo. One of the most popular TV game shows in Japan is truth or dare, in which contestants, just like at your slumber party, get to reveal an embarrassing truth or accepted dare to win a huge prize. Kubota Kinta thought he had it made. All he had to do to win ten million dollars was eat mochi, that small sweet rice snack for twenty four hours straight. First hour, one mochi. Second hour, two mochi. Third hour, four. Oh, you get it. Right? Like, so on, doubling the number every hour. The first few hours were not a problem. He even had a couple extra an hour four because he said, he was hungry and ate mochi wasn't enough. By hour fifteen, as he stared at the sixteen thousand three hundred eighty four Motion. Hild on a table in front of him, he began to realize his error. I should have just told them about that time I forwarded he was heard to whisper. Alright. Which of these are the real story of trouble with math in the news? Was it from May of the introduction of KitKat? From Luke Burbank, the story of how A and W's third pounder burger failed, but their three ninth burger might do well. Or From Cristela Alonzo, the story of contestant on a Japanese game show who just didn't realize how big things get when you double them every hour. Which of these is the real story of math and the news? Oh, I I think I'm going to have to go with Luke's story because I want it to, I'm gonna have to go with Luke story because I want it to be true. You're gonna go with Luke's story of how people just didn't want a one third pound burger when they could have a quarter pound burger and they're trying to fix that. That's your choice. Alright. Well, we spoke to somebody who actually knows a little bit about this whole thing. So we just rebranded it with our three night town burger because three nineties are clearly taken in one quarter. That was Liz Bazner. She's the senior director of marketing For a and w restaurants talking about the three ninth pound burger. Congratulations to you, Spencer. You got it right. You've earned a point for Luke. You have one our prize, the voice of your choice, and your voice mail. Thank you so much for playing with us today. It's so much for your dream come true. Oh, it was a pleasure to have you. Take care, Spencer. Thank you. Bye. And now the game where people who do really cool stuff do something, hey, Luke Warren. Hey. Can we come up with another temperature name? Now, Bashir is a lot who didn't grow up with his family in the south side of Chicago. He wrote it as a TV comedy writer. He wrote for Jimmy Fallon, some He wrote for Jimmy Fallon and some others. And when came time to create his own show, he chose the funniest place he knew. The south side of Chicago, Bashir and his brother saw Tom CoStar in the show's south side on HBO Max They join us now, Bashir and Sultam. Welcome to Wait Wait Don't Tom. Thank you. It's a pleasure to be there. So, gosh. Let let's start by talking about your background. You guys grew up on this outside. Right? Yes. You grew up on this outside Chicago in Gresham and one person -- Thank you. -- you. Yeah. One guy feels like right, aggressive. I came here to make sure you guys were put on rep. So be sure you want to UNH for college, you got into comedy, you went you went eighties for college, you got in the comedy writing, you wrote for Jimmy Fowl Roper Jimmie found in New York, lived in New York. Me and my my writing partner at the Allen Riddle. Yep. I lived in New York in Roper Jimmie. We actually got there before the show even started, and everybody's like, oh, we have no idea what's gonna happen. And we looked up a couple years later, we had some Emmy nominations. We were right for president obama. Oh, yeah. I heard that. Yeah. That famous appearance of president Obama -- Well, there's no good news. -- you guys wrote that. Yeah. We did. And in fact, here's something I wrote the first pass, and I've never told anybody that, but I'm I'm in a bragging kind of mode. Right? Let's do it. Let's do it. That's right. That's right. And and, you know, we we got to meet the the president, and he couldn't have been more nice. And he really want to have everyone else. Did he put in his own stuff? Like, did he improvise I mean, he you know, he's a natural. There there are detractors who would say, oh, Obama's a hand. Yeah. Anyway So you just said Sultans. So he's coming up at y'all. So so so so I catch up at Sultan. So his share is out there. He's doing comedy writing. What are you doing this time? I was doing stand up comedy in the Midwest for a while. I was cracking jokes and making people laugh and busting heads. And but I, you know, I went to college, had a couple of kids. Did, you know, did the normal domestic stuff. And then I decided to start writing at the urge of my brother and -- Yeah. -- pinned the shelves outside and send it to my brother and he pinned it and we went past it. And next thing you know, we're here. Wait a minute. So you're the guy, so time it came up with the idea for the show. Boom. There we are. Such with bragging. Now, there's a look for radio light. It's not The only only one. It's cool. There's a look in face. Right? This reminds me of back when I was inventing the eye full. The show the show is about two guys, one of them you play, oltan. Yeah. Who worked for a rent own company. Yeah. Spending a lot of time. And they got, like, side hustles upon side hustles too. And, Bashir. You play a Chicago you play a Chicago cop. I do. Who's not the best cop? A lot of things about the show that I wanna talk to you guys about, but one of them is its tone and I was watching it because all this stuff happens. Mhmm. And it just gets crazier and crazier and crazier as the show goes on until stuff is happening, like, what? And I was like, this is like Seinfeld. In high praise. Well, I'm right. And I actually because you heard it in your first ball. Little science field, sophomore in the classic phone episodes, somebody would do something small, and they'd get dumb about it, and they would just increase and dumbness the old snowball effect. Right. Yeah. And and And I actually heard that you guys actually had that in mind when you created the show that you wanted to be like a side fell for the south side. Is that right? You know, we definitely wanted something that moved the way side fell moved in terms of being I think sometimes when you deal with with content, especially black content, there's always this impetus and this need to put something deep into it. As if there's, like, And I don't mean deep is in our show doesn't have meaning, but our show doesn't need you to have characters prove they're from the south side because they cry. Right. Right. Because they run it from bullets. You know, we don't have very special episodes where I grabbed. We go, hey, brother, and And also, I as an actor who's not qualified. Do that one more work. He really cares about that. Exactly. So we would say, no, we want something we want people all over the world in especially on this outside to come home and feel lifted up and to, you know, let that a buoyant spirit of the show really pervade every morsel an ounce of who they are as a person. And then tell other people about it. So they watch much like we're doing right now. I understand a bullying, understand. A bullion. A bullion. And I think that's The why, the way he dealt me $5, I wouldn't use right way. He definitely buy thousand. I wouldn't use that. I keep finding it more now. Mhmm. In this, like, halfway through the second season. Yeah. They're finding it more now because they can binge it. What I love is that our show is is so joke dense that folks kinda have to watch it like two or three times to get everything and then we always try to play jokes in the background. Like, there's if there's this one scene where the sorry. I hear that's the effect outside Azul. I mean, not what they're I love it. Yeah. I love it. didn't even get it up to police office and and they're, like, saying, here's what we need to do today. It's, like, gangsta whatever. Gang week. Is that gang week? Yeah. And they're, like, oh, no. Like, we're scared of gangs, whatever. And then But on the whiteboard in the background, there's a list of, like, the other stuff that they're listing. And it's the one one item on the list is fire that we hate you. Chicago is a plus. Hey. You can get to a plus. Yeah. Oh, man. Well, but here in Alonzo, it is a real time to meet you in person. Thanks for having us. Thank you. We have invited you here today. Coming who? We invited you here to play a game. We're calling. Welcome to the real south side. So if you start say at the corner of seventy fifth in Ashland -- Yeah. -- and you head south and you keep heading south -- Uh-huh. -- you will eventually reach the south list sides, that is Antarctica. So we're gonna ask you three questions about it, and I took a good two right and one of the prize. What about the prize? What is it? They're charging me a voicemail. He's ready. Bill who I appreciate your thoughts on playing for. Man, let's do this. Jen Friedag if you should cargo at the door. Alright. Alright. Hey, Jen. Jen. Here is your first question. The first person to reach the South Pole was the Norwegian Explorer Royal Amundson in nineteen eleven. And the tent he set up when he got there has been designated as an official world historic site. Even though what A, nobody has any idea where it is. B, it melted and dissolved into the ocean seven years ago. Mhmm. But where or see. It is the place where Omensons group ate their weakest member. Do you think he ate somebody? I think of I'm going to support you, and we're gonna vote for -- Oh. -- so do we get to like, do I get to pick three smart working people and ask that? Can we phone a friend? Yeah. At this point, you just have to ask three smart looking pairs of eyes. But -- Alright. -- these guys these guys You're gonna go you're gonna go. We're gonna go with this. You're right. That's what it That's what it was. Nobody is on anywhere it is. Just so you know, I read about this before we came. They think they did their research. They think it's like fifty feet beneath the current surface of the ice maybe over there that way. They don't know. All really Alright. There it is. Next question, by the time Richard Bird let his nineteen twenty eight expedition to the South Pole and our time progressed the eight Expedition? That one. You know that. Right? Yeah. Who doesn't wear that? I got a rich bird shirt at home. Yeah. When And he let his expedition there in 1928, Antarctica had developed such a reputation for driving men insane in the wild, cold wastes that he brought he led his expedition there nineteen twenty eight, Antarctica had developed such a reputation for driving men insane in the wild cold wastes that he brought along what on the trip. A, twelve straight jackets, B, a couch so he could give his men therapy if needed. Or see three seasonal effective disorder lamps. What do you think? Gonna go to go ahead. I gotta go with straight jacks. Hey. I'll support you. You're right. It was straight jacks. Yeah. I don't know. My mom's gonna be so proud. We'll see if we can make her proud. Yeah. Last question, trying. So current there, of course, lots of current expeditions to South Pole. Nice. But if you wanted to go there in the south pole now in an expedition and you are a doctor -- Yes. -- you have make some preparations before you go, including what a, you have to bring along a lot of sugar pills because people get bored and make up reasons to see the doctor just have something to do. B, have your own appendix removed. Or c, stock up on wooden medical instruments because your hand sticks to scalpels in that cold. I know the answer is actually hard. Gosh. What should God tell you? I'm gonna say, well, what should your appendix tell you? By the way, doctor, like, wrong side, man. No. They didn't even go to medicine. It's good. It's good. III think it's I think it's bravo. I think it's the appendix thing. They're like that. So what's it gonna be, you know? I I support I'm going I'm going to I'm going with the wood, bro. Alright. Alright. It's fine. It's fine. Very worse. It's what it is. But here's the first sentence. So Tahn is going with the wooden instruments. Alonzo there is Bashir. It was in fact. Oh, right. Oh, wait. And my bad. In nineteen sixty nine. Those may be in six kids want a young dance. A Russian doctor was at the South Pole, his own appendix first, and he had to remove himself. Yeah. Rethinking the reasons that he's back with it. No one else to it. So ever since they it in the scene, get it taken care So everything's made it in the scene. Get it taken care of. You go. I'm sure he used wooden instruments. I'm just kidding. Bill, how did they do in our quest? They've gone where a few have gone before and got them all right. You did? Alright. Just look together. Oh, man. Hey, guys. I gotta tell you if you think these guys are funny here, you should see their TV show. But here in Soloton, Solvadine star in south side. So on HBO Max seasons one and season two is out now. Watch it, Bashir, and see you guys. Thank you so much for joining. Good pleasure. No, bro. Really? 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Jenna Ryan is the Texas real estate agent who flew in a private jet to attack the capital on January sixth and then bragged after she was caught that she would never go to jail. Well, she is about to go to jail. And then the last message to her fans on TikTok She says that in jail, she hopes to do what? She's gonna lose thirty pounds and do yoga. That is correct. Oh my god. I think you even got the number her girl her target weight. Correct? So I can tell your team, Jenna. Am I right? Or No. But January six is my birthday. Right? Jeez. Wait. That was your party. So Miss Ryan became famous when she actually live streamed herself breaking into the capital and she has managed to keep up that brash can do attitude as she prepares to do her ninety day stint in jail or as she calls it a freedom cleanse. So like I said, Ryan did a TikTok in a sports bra in yoga pants and she said she hoped prison will be a kind of spa with armed attendants and a really, really strict curfew. She said, and this is all real. I'm gonna be able to work out a lot and do lot of yoga and detox. Hopefully, they'll have some protein shakes and some protein bars, unquote. She is gonna be so disappointed when she finds out the only group fitness class they have is knife fights. Well, I can tell from experience, honey, dieting is another form of prison. And you've gotta break out. That's definitely the kind of the weight loss system you get free one if you buy my pillow. Yeah. Alright. Look, on Tuesday, the Amazon cloud web servers crashed. And in addition to the many businesses and services that were affected by the outage all over the country, what stopped working. Amazon? Well, Amazon had its own problems. Yes. But we're talking about some other very specific thing or things that stopped working for people. Oh, Roomba? Yes. The Roombas. Oh, communicate. This explains so much about Randy, my Roomba. Who has been acting weird. And I thought it was because I moved apartments and it's hard for kids to adjust to new environments. But it was AWS being down. was. Now this is what happened. It turns out that just about everything uses Amazon cloud services to access the Internet, including your little robot vacuum. So people all over the country pulled out their apps. Right? And they summoned their robot vacuum, and nothing happened. It's like, Roomba, come here and clean up granola ice build. I'm afraid I can't do that, Jonathan. You know what else went down? Smart kitty litter boxes. And the cat What is that? The cat's rolled if the smart cat simulator box, friend of mine has one, what? And the smart catiliter box will tell you through the Internet to your phone wherever you are if your cat just poop. That's because that's we live in the future. But there's another way of finding it and that is breathing the air in your home. Yeah. Coming up, it's lightning fell in the blank, but first it's the game where you have to listen for rhyme. If you'd like to play on air call or leave a message at one triple eight, wait, the rhyme. If you'd like to play on air, call or leave a message at one triple eight. Wait. Wait. That's 18889248924 or click the contact us link on our website, wait wait dot npr dot org. There you can also find tickets for upcoming shows on January sixth and February 3rd. Of course, if you can't get tickets for January 6th, just storm the doors break Of course, if you can't get tickets for January sixth, just storm the doors, break in. Hi. You're on Wait Wait. Don't tell me. Hi. This is Kathleen Clari Cook calling from Cheyenne White. Oh, Kathleen Clari Cook. I do like an illustrative person. What do you do there Cheyenne? Well, we recently moved here, so I'm not currently working. I recently left a local public health agency in my former state. Right. And have you have you have you picked up any Wyoming habits like you know, hunting, shooting, wrestling, wrestling, rodeoing, whatever they do there. Mostly we're trying to cope with the wind, which by the way, is in Chicago. Wow. Yeah. That's why it's so flat. All the pills got blown down. Mhmm. Well, welcome to the show. Kathleen Bill Curtis is gonna 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 limer, so it'll be a winner. Ready to play? Absolutely. Right. Here is your first limerick. West Point's highest is a sad and a note with one horn and an old man she coke that said mascot won't do. Go back in steel too. Because it turns out, we stuff all the wrong. Go. Go. That's very good. Before the army navy game a week or so ago. Army cadets at West Point tried to continue the ancient tradition of stealing the navy's goat mascot, but they swiped the wrong goat. They took a retired goat mascot who has arthritis and only own horn and then it's frankly getting too old for this crap. So they went back and they took the two goats currently serving as the Navy mascot, which shouldn't be surprising. If there's one thing the military knows how to do, If it doesn't work the first time, do it again and harder. What is with the goat mascot? Is that the whole story with the cubs? Yeah. It means greatest of all time. Oh, that's why. I think so. Yeah. Right. But I just feel like maybe we shouldn't have go, like, act what does that mask? Or even if you wanna take it this way, why does the navy have a goat? They're kind of shaped like boats, Go a goat boat. They have the same body. Have you ever seen a goat? Here is your next Limerick. To prove we're not running an instant scam, will show that we're giving an instedam down. When you see seem addicted, your time gets when you seem addicted to your time gets restricted We warn you to stay off of Instagram. Instagram. Yes. Instagram is finally adding a function. We really need a timer that kicks you off Instagram. The new take a break tool alerts users when they've been on app too long and urges them to get off the app. It's great. It's supposed to make you feel better. Ryan, and nothing makes you feel fantastic. Like being told, you have been scrolling through a Mormon mommy blogger's reels for six hours. I gotta know how Kadant is doing. Exactly. The future activates actually after you've been on Instagram for thirty minutes and will be just as effective as that thing that doesn't let you use your phone when you're driving. They should maybe be a bit more graphic about it. You know how, like, cigarette boxes show -- Yeah. -- like, old. Right. No. This is what you look like when you watch. Actually, no. And it should just be a picture of you from below. Yeah. Like like when you're not you don't realize, like, you're dumb today. When you accidentally turn the camera on on your phone and then you just look down, you're like, that picture. Exactly. Here, is your last limerick, Kathleen. A Vax card works just like a charm. I'll get one today. Watch the harm. Well, first, there's shot. Well, I'd rather not. I think I'll strap on a fake. ARM. Yes. A fake ARM. A man in Italy. Trying to get his vaccine card without having to suffer by actually getting a lifesaving free vaccine, which will keep him from dying. And he showed up, this is so clever. He showed up at the clinic with a fake arm in the sleeve of his shirt. Oh my god. A fake arm, which the nurse described as quote, cold and gummy. And also the skin color of the arm did not match the rest of the person. The nurse immediately realized what was going on, accused him of this fake. The man swore no. It's my real arm, and he swore it by detaching it and putting it on a Bible. Bill, how did Kathleen doing our quiz? She's the queen to shy in right now. Alright. Thank you. Thank you so much, Kathleen. Good luck there. And your new home. Thank you so much. Support for this podcast and the following message comes from Airbnb. If you've ever thought about hosting, you might have a few questions. What's it like? Where do I store my stuff? Is hosting worth it? Now with Ask a Superhost, you can get free one on one help from Airbnb's most experienced hosts. Whether you're curious how to get started or just wondering if it's right for you, you can now ask someone who's already hosting. Learn more at air BNB dot com slash ask a super host. Now on to our final game, lightning film, the blank, each of our players with a sixty seconds in which to answer his many on the blank questions as they can. It's correct answer. Now, worth two points. Bill, can you give us the school? I can. Maeve has Cristela has two. Luke, has four. Wow. Wow. Yeah. Basically, I'm three nighths of the way to wake up. Alright. Cristela and Maeve, you are in second place together, and I will arbitrarily choose, to go first. So the clock will start when they begin your first question. Fill in blanc. On Wednesday, the White House announced the two hundred million Americans had been Blackstone. Yes. Blackstone. On Tuesday, the House passed a bill aimed at preventing government blackout. Oh, shut down. Right. After he was fired from CNN, HarperCollins announced they would no longer publish blank's book Cuomo. Right. According to a report from Us Weekly, Queen Elizabeth has a large and ever expanding blank. Brooch collection. No. A large and ever expanding ball of old rubber bands on Monday, Devin Nunes. And that's plans to leave congress to run blank's social media start up. Trump. Right. On Thursday. The FDA approved Pfizer blank shots for 16 and 17 year the FDA approved Pfizer blanks shots for sixteen and seventeen year olds. What do you mean? I don't I don't know. Blank shots. Oh, it's specifically. Booster shots. Yeah. This week, passengers on a flight in Nepal were surprised after their plane landed, and they were all asked to blank. Bow down? No. As to get out and push the plane to the beach. Oh, it was a Southwest flights. Oh, no, please. This is spirit air. Come out right, you know. After the plane got a flat, apparently, passengers were asked to the plane and then help get it to the gate by pushing on its giant tires Oh my god. Everyone knew something had gone terribly wrong when the pilot shot in the intercom and said, hello, are there any cross fit instructions on this? Bill, how did do in our quiz? She got five right for Ted Moore points. She done his twelve and has slipped into the league. Alright. Alright, Maeve. You're up next, fill in the blank on Tuesday, Olaf Shoal. Officially replaced blank as Germany's chancellor. Oh, Angela Merkel. Yeah. It's very good. The combat, the effects of climate change, President Biden signed an executive order calling for the government to be blank by twenty fifty. Very different. Carbon neutral. Following several delays, the house passed the seven hundred and sixty eight billion dollar blank bill on Tuesday. Dollar. No. Defense bill. This week, an anti cancel culture conference in the UK was blanked. With candles. Yes. On my name, Medina Spirit, the horse that won this year's blank, died during a routine workout. You're just telling me that? No. Like election. No. What? No. It won this year's Kentucky Derby. Oh. This week, the CEO of a mortgage company is apologizing after he ended his Zoom call with nine hundred employees by blanking. BLACKING ON THEIR NAMES. Reporter: NO, HE ENDED THE CALL BY FIRING EVERYONE ON THE CALL. THE CEO ENDED THE Zoom MEETING BY SAYING, QUOTE, you're on this call, your employment here is terminated effective immediately. He fired over ten percent of his workforce that way. And if you think if you think that's bad, Just wait to hear how he plans to break up with his girlfriend. Bill, how did Maeve do on our quits? Well, she had two. Right? Yes. This theory. Because Angela Merkel remember -- Yep. -- no, that's right. Four more points. She don't have six, but still has the lead with twelve. Alright. How many then does Luke need to win? Four to five, five to win. Alright. Impossible. Luke, this is for the game. Fill in the blank. On Tuesday, president Biden met with Vladimir Putin to discuss Russia's military build up on the border of blank. Ukraine. Right. On Monday, the Department of Justice sued the state of blank over their redistricting maps. Texas. Right. This week, the senate approved a resolution against president Biden's blank mandate for large businesses. Vaccine. Right. On Thursday, workers in Buffalo, New York celebrated becoming the unionized blank employees. Starbucks. This week, a man in Oregon was arrested on an outstanding warrant after he Right. This week a man in Oregon was arrested on an outstanding warrant after he blanked. After he tried to illegally redistrict parts of Oregon. After he went into the police station to see if he had any outstanding warrants. On Thursday, NASA announced the discovery of a new blank ten times larger than Jupiter, planet. Right. On Sunday, former senate majority leader in presidential candidate blank passed away at the age of ninety eight. Bob Dole. Right. A man in Germany was awarded workers' comp sanitation for an injury suffered while he was blanking. Checking at the office to see if had any workers' compensation complain. No. He was awarded workers compensation for an injury. He suffered while he was walking from his bedroom to his he suffered while he was walking from his bedroom to his desk. The court determined that since he was working from home, that qualifies as his commute and he was covered. Wow. 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