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Later on, we're going to be talking to America's favorite poet, Maggie Smith.

But first, I want to say how delighted we are to be here just outside Dayton, Ohio.

And I mean that because between flight delays and cancellations, we almost didn't make it here. It's like Dayton is the birthplace of flight and they've decided no one else can have it. I'm going to recommend that you join us here by phone to play our games. The number is 1 triple eight weight weight. That's 1 88 8 8 9 2 4 8 9 2 4. Let's welcome our first listener contestant.

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Thank you and many more. Well, that's great. Well, welcome to the show aims. Let me introduce you to our panel this week. First up, she is the brains behind the Internet Goldmine Depths of Wikipedia. You can follow her on socials at Depths of Wikipedia. It's Annie Rawarda. Next, he's the host of the Coastal Idiots podcast.

And we'll be appearing at the comedy studio in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on September 12th. The Shane Torres. And he's a correspondent for CBS Sunday morning. It's our old friend, Mo Raka. Hi, James. Hi, Bob. Thank you. So aims, welcome to the show. You're going to start us off with who's also this time. I also slayed. Right here is going to read you three quotations on this week's news. Your job just correctly, identify, explain two of them. Do that. You'll win our prize.

“Any voice from our show. You might choose for your voicemail. Are you ready to go?”

I'm ready. Your first quote then is a sign at a bar in Thailand. Attention soldiers. The beer you deserve is here. The bar put up that sign because what just showed up at a port in Thailand after a record setting nine months at sea with, would that be the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln? It is the USS Abraham Lincoln. Very good. After an unprecedented deployment, the aircraft carrier just finally made port in Pattaya, Thailand. And let me tell you,

there is not a missile on board that can do as much damage as 5,000 sailors who just got their first shore leave in nine months. We've all seen the stories of deteriorating conditions on the ship. The captain said at this point the boat, quote, looks like a dirty car in a parking lot on quote. So the sailors on board are excited to try all the amenities Thailand has to offer like enough food and working restrooms. Boy, that must have been some poopy poop deck.

That poor aircraft carrier, I never thought that an aircraft carrier could have it worse than

the president it was named for. That's true. It's a treated worse. Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how is the crew? There are rules. They can't just go nuts. There are rules for this shore leave. This is true. The sailors are not allowed to go to the red light district in town or for some reason they can't do any jet skiing, right? But they are encouraged to check out the area's museums and religious sites. For example, they can go to

the brand new museum of prostitution. Why are you looking at my life?

prostitution is actually illegal. Everything's illegal. No, even though the King and I,

it's illegal to stage a production of the King and I in Thailand. No, really true. That's not funny. It's just interesting. Right, right? But you can grammatically stage the King and me.

“That's the exception. That's how you get around it. The worst thing, the worst thing you can do in Thailand”

is have a bunch of prostitutes perform the King and I. I just think it's so funny to think that the King and I and prostitution are both in jail. What are you in for? Singing. Yeah. Yeah, and when somebody sings, getting to know you and prison. Yeah, it's not something

you want to hear. Getting to know all about you. No, please, stay away. Here's your gear.

And here is your next quote. We are a culture running full tilt toward little metal spikes. That was a New York Times writer talking about how Americans are all suddenly very comfortable voluntarily getting tricked with what? A backing. It's not actually the only thing they're not doing as vaccines. Now that you mentioned it, but everything else they're getting through what? Yeah, needles. Exactly. Whether it's Botox, wellness, vitamin cocktails, fillers, or simply

go to old heroin. America loves getting shots now. Celebrities, celebrities like Winith Palcho and Harry Styles have led the way by promoting their own wellness injection journeys. You can't argue with the results. Both of them are still alive. But I wonder if it's what celebrity would be the easiest to find a pain on? I'm just wondering. That's the whole challenge, right? Like it's harder.

“You don't like needles if it's hard to find a pain. Yeah, well, I think you just need to check”

the last issue of people magazine with America's most vascular celebrities. I want to go back to the point about the celebrities are endorsing their own wellness shots. So it's like on brand for Winith Palcho to have like lavender skin shot or whatever. I want to know the trashy word, like the jelly rolled donut cake shot or or like somebody I would take a shot. Somebody Ohio wins what take a shot. All right, here is your last quote. She inspires a lot of girls

because she has 150 careers. That was someone in line at a book signing for a new novel about whom? Oh gosh. I'm going to ask her a hit one more time. Well, she probably had more than 150 careers and you can buy her in any of their costumes. That's definitely Barbie. It is Barbie. Yes,

“Barbie Dream Skate is an instant number one New York Times best seller. It's the first Barbie”

book aimed at young adults, but it has found an audience with lots of regular lame old adults. The book tells what happens when Barbie graduates from Barbie school and is not assigned a job. Right? So instead of being a doctor, Barbie, or a racer, driver, Barbie, she's just failure to launch Barbie. And it's a crisis for her because there's no Barbie Dreamhouse, but there is a Barbie nightmare apartment with a mouse problem. Hey, Barbie, just keep at it and soon you'll end up

on the panel of wait wait don't tell me. But apparently people are like really into this. They're

into Barbie facing real issues. Like, well, she's always had relatable struggles with body image,

like ladies don't you hate it when your head pops off? But the thing is, so there's this kind of nostalgia among adults to read about their childhood icons as adults. And so there are other possibilities. Like, it's finally time for the very depressed caterpillar. A Monday he ate through one leaf in the Tuesday. He didn't feel like he could eat anything. The slinky would spinal stenosis. Can't even get down the steps.

I'm just imagining a slinky having to use one of those little electric chairs going down here. Oh, yeah, you know, when I was your age, I've been able to do that for a while. Five little monkeys jumping on the bed, one fell off and died. This can real foggy. How's a hundred and eight? Do on our quiz. Aims made his father proud. He got three out of three perfect score.

Well done, Aims. I hope that I hope that pleases your father. Thank you, Peter. Thank you, elbow, your honor. Thank you. Take care.

Mo, there's a new dating tactic among young men. They're bragging about it.

“They say that in order to be hudder and more attractive, they stop doing what?”

They stop shouting. They stop shouting. That's right, Mo. This is a new trend by Merley among young men called Farumone Maxim. And the idea, it's genius when you think about it, is if you stop showering, then you can attract people with your natural scent, right? Nothing says mysteriously, but powerfully attractive, like ripples of scent emanating off you, like heat waves off pavement, right?

Dedicated Farumone Maximus don't rely merely on their natural musk. They also are learning how to inflate their colorful throat sex. Can I just say for the listeners that home, there are looks of disgust and dry heaves in the crowded room. It's hot enough. That's it. But also for the listener at home is 90 degrees in here, so everybody's musty. Oh, yeah. Everybody's hooking up tonight.

Okay, pal, with the Farumone Maximus. Yeah, Farumone is put on the air here at the Rose Music Center. So this Farumone Maximus is just not bathing. Yes. Yeah. So this is like when the Uber came out and they're like, it's not taxi. It's right chair. Like they're just kind of, yeah. They're telling us something we already have. Exactly. Wow. The USS Abraham, my God. Can you match in with you? Yeah. That sort of call must be crazy. Everybody's dead and flustered. Let's be. Yeah.

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game. Call one trip late, wait wait to play her game in the air. High you're on wait wait don't tell me. Hi Peter, this is Alex Orbanic from Peoria, Illinois. Do you have a Peoria downstay? What do you do there? I'm actually a freelance software developer, currently looking for more contracts, and it's been my time hiking and doing what we're doing stuff. What are working stuff? Really? That's pretty cool. There might be more future in that because they haven't come up with a chat

about that can do that yet. That's exactly what I've been thinking. Yeah, well welcome to the show, Alex.

“You're going to play our game when you have to tell truth from fiction. How's it? What's Alex's”

topic? Drama at the fruit farm. Who doesn't love going to the fruit farm? Where else can I pay 50% more for apples and have to pick them myself? But this week there was an unusual controversy at the gravely family fruit farm in the United Kingdom. Our panelists are going to dish about it. Pick the real story and get the weight waiter of your choice on your voicemail. Are you ready to play?

Absolutely. First, let's hear from Shane Torres. The gravely fruit farm weekly farmer's

pastries, Amanda Manplaying guitar with no amplification. All of that came to a halt last weekend

“when two rival vendors had a war for us that turned into the British version of the okay”

career out shootout, but with fresh produce. Alfie Kane, a mild mannered baker, accused Andrew Ruilli of pump a pumpkin vendor of taking his coveted spot in the middle of the market, but the baker wasn't having it. He took a three-day-old baget, which is the hardest thing known to man, and smashed one of Kane's gourds before storming off. hours later, the fight elevated when a giant pumpkin flew through the air and smashed the baker's stand. Taste my orange revenge,

jailed buely. Kane did not know that buely outside of farming extremely large boards was also a well-known British war re-enactor. Such a serious one that he had a functioning replica catacpult in his trailer. Buely sailed pumpkins through the air with vengeance. May him rained over the

“market for close to three hours, with other vendors and patrons ducking for cover and building”

pumpkin bunkers out of what they could find. Finally authorities showed up to stop the chaos,

and for the next week, Ray Wee Farms has announced a new attraction, the Pumpkin Cadible, four pounds of shot. A food fight at the fruit farm. Your next fruit scoop comes from any rower. When farmer Jim and Mrs. farmer Jane at the Gravely Fruit Farm finally finished their annual corn maze design, they were ecstatic. They couldn't wait to fly over it in their tiny plane

and photograph the design from the sky. Their design was of a proud farmer woman holding two blue ribbon melons. It's based off a real event when Jane won the melon contest last year.

So when they flew over the maze in their sessna, they were shocked at what they saw.

She didn't look like a woman with prized melons, the fruit. She looked like a woman with prized melons, the boobs. It was too late to change the corn maze. They could not make it less hot. The press was already there. When they unveiled the aerial photo to the crowd, people were aroused. And I mean shocked when the local reporter Robert Myers asked, "So what's this based on?" And farmer John responded my wife, "Mermers of respect, dude, and hell yeah, spread across the

audience." The fruit farm is now proud of their busty corn woman. And the maze is the most popular one in history with royal air force planes buzzing over constantly. The corn maze at the gravely fruit farm ends up being unintentionally rated. The last story of a farm fresh frenzy comes from Morocco. A carnival ride in the UK is being pillored as a distasteful over its

Titanic themed ride and slide. The ride at gravely fruit farm takes place inside a replica model of the doomed 1912 liner. During each run, the mechanical stern emblazoned with the name Titanic tilts into the air nearly straight up. Riders pling on for dear life before gravity takes its toll and they slide down to a crash map. You know, just like that scene in the movie where passengers slide down the deck to their deaths, somebody must have watched that

and thought, "That looks fun." In fact, visitors do seem to love it. I mean, this ride is no Andrea Snoria. Still, many have taken to the farm's Facebook page to express outrage. So odd to have children's ride themed around one of the worst tragedies in history read one message. The farm had apologized, but has stuck with the ride's name. Why? Said the farm's spokesman, "We're keeping the memory of the Titanic alive and we're not making fun of the dead at all."

“Well, that's what I call a lane-excuse attenia.”

All right, so something happened at the gravely family fruit farm in the United Kingdom. The god of the news this week was it from Shane, a food fight sort of went nuclear in the market place. From any, was it that the corn maze ended up being somewhat licorious? Or from Maraca people are objecting to their new family attraction based on the sinking of the Titanic? Thank you. Which of these do you think is the real story we heard

about this family farm? I'm pretty sure I actually saw a video of kids getting flung down a Titanic ride this week, so I'm going to go with Mo. Okay. Here you go pick Mo's story. Well,

Titanic alive and we're not making fun of the dead at all. I think it's really good that we

“have people as Titanic. There you are. That was Will Campbell Gray. The manager of”

Bravely Food Farm defending the Titanic ride to the BBC, congratulations, Alex. You've got it right here to point from Mo. You've won our prize the voice of your choice in your voicemail. Thank you so much for playing with us today. Thank you, Bradley. Thanks for being with Michael. Take care. And now the game we call Not My Job about a decade ago, perhaps for the

first time ever, a poem became a viral sensation. Good at bones by Maggie Smith was everywhere.

That led to her best-selling memoir. You could make this place beautiful. Since then, she's written another New York Times best-seller, dear writer, advice for the creative life, and she still lives in her hometown in Ohio, near Columbus, Maggie Smith, welcome back to Wait Wait Don't Tell me. Thanks for having us. It was a pleasure to have you. It was nice to see you again. You joined us remotely when we were in Chicago some years ago. I did. Now we're here in your home turf and I'm

wondering we're here in Ohio where you live. Are you a local celebrity? Do you get recognized? No. I need some time. Okay. Yeah, some time. Every once in a while, like at the grocery store at the

“farmers market, or something, someone will pull me aside and say a little something. Like what?”

Like, oh, I've been through something similar to what you've been through. Thank you for that

book. And then I have to say, I'm sorry. Let me get to the express lane. Yes. It's up because the express lane is for people with 12 issues or less. Because you're poem, the one that became viral in Maryland. Street bread that everybody was quoting. Good bones was about your divorce, which you wrote about in your memoir. And I've heard that you've become kind of of a divorce, do you love? And that people like come to you and they seek you out because I know you've been through

it and then you're wise and seasoned and you have wisdom. Is that the case? Do I seem wise? Well, yeah. You seem relatively wise? I have joked that I've become sort of a divorce whisperer that like people when they're going through a thing. Yeah. We'll slide into my DMs. Like people

don't slide into my DMs for any kind of like fun reason. Right. It's always like, do you know a good

lawyer? Have you been like, how do you sleep at night? Does it get better? I know. I'm a lot of fun of parties. These pickup lines are getting crazy. You're great. Sometimes it works. Divorce, Dula is a kind of fascinating metaphor. I'm just imagining like, I'm getting a contraction. My water broke. What do we do? Bear down. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You do a lot of readings. I do. And I have to ask, do you when you do your readings? Do the classic poet readings

their own work voice? Oh God. You know, because I could not stop for like that, it kindly stop for me. That one. The poet. I mean, we call it poet voice. Do you really? Yeah. It has a thing. I really

“hope I don't. But I worry I do. Really? Yeah. Only because I think I have a certain amount of like”

natural upspeak where I talk and it sounds like I'm asking a question. Yeah. But I'm not asking a question. So that would be my version of poet. Like a up talk. Up talk. Yeah. And so do I. And many great people do? I'm not that for us. Yeah. I'm not does that because I could not stop for death. It's kindly stop for me. Right. Doesn't it make it feel contemporary? I think we should do the rest of the show and that voice. Yeah. I like that. From NPR and WPEC to Congo. I'm also slay.

I've ruined this for every. So your latest book is called Dear Writer. Encouragement for Wisdom Encouragement exercises for writing. You've taught writing for a long time. And I want to know as a teacher of writing. I've been one. I've met a lot. What is your philosophy at feedback? Are you brutally honest? I'm not. No. No. You do the compliment sandwich type of approach. Like well, most of the words are spelled correctly. That's great. Yeah. Yeah. There's text on the page. Yeah.

That's a great head start. I do think the compliment sandwich is helpful. It's not just in the writing classroom. Oh, in life. No. It's just like, you know, with your spouse, grandchildren, anybody, your colleagues. No. I'm a questioner. All right. Well, instead of like concrete feedback, I'm like, um, I would like to know more about this. Can you tell me more about X?

a great one. Why did you think you could waste my time? There's a literacy crisis. I think we're coming courage. Writing poetry even if it's bad. And this is a question. I know this happened to me. This happened to me. This happened to me as a teacher. I'm sure it's happened to you. What do you do when someone who it means the best and is going to do anything you ask is in a work hard,

but they clearly have no talent for it. What do you do? I will be super honest and say I've never

had a student with zero talent. Really? I just don't think that is, that's a thing. Oh, if that

“thought that's what you told them, I'll play over God. You're the first. Look, I've seen a lot of”

garbage in my day. You are a no-table. We are here in your home in Ohio. I have. Is Ohio poetic? Does it inspire your work? Is Ohio poetic folks is Ohio poetic? Peter, you're about to get drunk in the mark on that. Ohio is incredibly poetic. We have amazing poets from Ohio. We have great musicians and songwriters from right here in Dayton, like Bob Pollard and Kim Diel. Yeah. They know if you heard the news, but speaking of Ohioans, Travis and Taylor have bought in. They

got themselves to play up in Cleveland. Have you considered maybe writing a poem of welcome to Ohio? I haven't thought of that, no. Yeah. Well, maybe come up with a one right now. Like a limerick? Yeah, for example, I ask for professional interest. Have you ever written a limerick? No, I have not. I'm not very good at occasional poems. I have to have an idea that comes to me. Really? And how are you with rhyming? Poor. So we couldn't, for example, you couldn't

“like improvise a poem right now. No. I mean, I could. Well, I think I'm not going to.”

Well, I think we would all love to hear you try. Rose's arm, Rose. Well, Maggie Smith, it's great to have you back on our show. And this time we have invited you here to play a game we're calling. Oh, no, it's the inverted stop face breaker. So we assume you can win a poach reslam. So we thought we'd ask you about bodyslam. And so you're two to three questions about wrestling moves. You'll win our prize, whatever. Listen, there's also who is Maggie Smith

playing for it. Melissa Groveman of Dayton, Ohio. Here's your first question, the WWE's

Centino Morella had a nearly unstoppable finishing move called the Cobra. What is the Cobra?

“Was it A? He'd wait until his opponent wasn't looking and then bite him in the ankle.”

B, he'd use a snake charmer's flute to hypnotize his opponent. Or C, he'd put a snake sock puppet on his arm, which would become sentient and bite his opponent on the neck. I really want it to be B. You want it to be. But I'm going to go with C. Okay, the sock puppet. Yeah, that's right. Okay, Marella first introduced the Cobra sock puppet in a match against Mick Foley, who had his own fighting sock puppet, Mr. Soko. That was very good. Just a two more.

Here we go. It's common to see foreign objects enter a wrestling ring like you're folding chairs, the occasional ladder. In 2022, Brock Lesnar raised the bar when he won a match by using what? A, a tractor, B, a jackhammer, or C, 25,000 Eminem candies. They're like an A. I'm going to go with tractor. You're right. It was a tractor. He drove in a tractor and he used it to lift up the whole ring,

spilling his opponent out on the ground. Okay. Last question, wrestling is huge in Japan, and if you don't want to watch the typical wrestling match, you can enjoy which of these A, big Kaiju wrestling, with a ring as filled with a miniatures city scape and the wrestlers are all dressed as giant monsters. B, Zen wrestling in which the two combatants meditate in order to see who can

achieve inner peace first. Where C, called American wrestling in which the opponents should at each

other with toy guns. I'm going to go with the Godzilla city scape.

I would be excited about that. Also, how did Maggie Smith do in her quiz? Maggie Smith, you did great.

“Three out of three perfect score. There she is. Well done. Maggie Smith is an award-winning”

Paul and his newest book. Here right here is available now in paperback. She's also the co-host of the podcast. You could make this beautiful with our very own fate, Sally. Maggie Smith, thank you so much. Thank you for joining us again in the way we took time. Thank you. Give it up for Maggie Smith, everybody. In just a minute, Alzo has a wacky solution for anyone feeling burned out at work. That's in our

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And just a minute, Alzo gets crowned as this year's U.S. Limerick Laurie. It's our listener, Limerick Challenge. If you'd like to play, give us a call, the One Triple 8, wait, wait, wait. That's 188.9248.924. Right now, panel, it's time for more from this week's news.

Shane, if this week former congressman George Santos, the first person ever to be expelled

from Congress without being convicted of a crime, achieved another honor, he received the prediction market cowshees, first ever what? He was banned. Right, the first ever lifetime ban. Santos had tweeted that he was looking forward to attending the state of the Indian speech, which drove up the odds on calcium that he would, and then he himself bet that he wouldn't attend, did intend, and he won $17,000. By coincidence, the same day he was banned for life,

a man named Serge Gantos, $120,000, by betting that would happen. Would you like to hear my George Santos story? Please. Not great, but I have an explore friend with whom I am on pretty good terms, and he bought me a cameo for my birthday from George Santos, because George Santos announced, for one, and one time only, I will be doing

cameos, where I say a message to you, and it will never happen again, and because he is a

perhaps pathological liar, I'm not sure, I call it just, he is again and again and again and again, it has lowered the price over and over, so it's a lot less special now, but I do have one, the personalized birthday message from him. What does he say? Happy birthday, Annie. That's it, that's deep. Yes. Do you think it was worth $400? Oh no. You know where he put it, calcium. Yeah, lifetime ban, of course, doesn't mean much to a man who would fake his own death

to get out of an awkward conversation, right? Yeah, that's a load. His next plan is to do am way. Yeah, he's going to sell. Yeah, yeah, really, like, yeah, because it's like, you know when you see somebody driving like a pink marry cake. Yeah, that's a so-so-so. His next plan is to sell boy bands to small towns in the Midwest. Annie, this week, Dyson announced their newest high-tech cleaning innovation for just $500,

“you can now buy a state-of-the-art AI powered camera equipped. What?”

Guessing here, vacuum? No, they make a lot of those, this is a new product for them. Wall cleaner. I'll give you a hint. No. It's washing machine. Sorry. It flosses too. Oh, toothbrush. A toothbrush? An AI toothbrush? A $500, AI toothbrush. Dyson's a new camera jet.

I mean, you spend $400 on a centil. I did it. I did it.

“Did you enter X-break up as he was a foolish spender? Yeah, I was complicated.”

Dyson's new camera jet toothbrush costs $500. He uses AI to floss for you as you brush. It connects to your phone so you can live stream the cleaning as it's happening. From inside your mouth, right? It has a variety of useful attachments, but even at that price, it does not come with anyone who would actually want to watch a live stream of the inside of your mouth. But the toothbrush is not just for making the grossest home movies ever. Dyson says that quote,

"The camera jet's gap optical targeting system analyzes 28 live images per second

to identify and target gaps between teeth in real-time," unquote, which it then attacks with targeted jets of water. How lazy are you going to get? You got to hire a toothbrush, too. You're already there. Just do it. It's crazy. What are we doing with this? What are useless inventions? Yeah, I know where I'm at.

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My old meaning list job had me down. Now I'm wearing an upside-down frown. My red nose and big shoes helped me kick off those blues. I have a new lease on life as A. Well, as a clown, yes. The most your channel reports that an increasingly popular solution to career burnout is to go to clown school. They were inspired people who do this by one of the first

“people to think they were losing their mind and work and decided to try clowning. That's how we”

got Pennywise. People say the physicality and playfulness of clown school allows them to explore their feelings and take themselves less seriously. That's true. I just found out my doctor was secretly also a clown and I have stopped taking him seriously. I was in Edinburgh at the fringe festival and I housed with a bunch of clowns. Five of them. Oh my god. It is the most endless sea

of riffing you have ever seen. They are always like playing. I would be up making eggs and it was

the longest morning of my life every day. You can't just sit and do something. Everything is a tool or a toy for these people. It's like, oh, your wooden spoon is also a microphone and you're the egg dj. This is not a good riff. You're the egg dj. It's telling me more about it. But also Richard kind lived with us for three days. Oh wow. Yeah. So I came down the stairs and he just turned him go. Who's up? And he was there in a great town. And it was a big moment for me. That's true.

All right here is your next limit. The petting zoo's goats just had babies. I'll back off though because cuddles might slay me. If they nibble or bite, they'll snuff out my light. It turns out the goats all have. Rabies? Rabies. Yes. You can applaud. Three adorable baby goats at the farm adventures petting zoo in North Carolina tested positive for rabies. Maybe more petting zoo should have a you know a sick animal wild card. We do things a little differently here. One of these

lamas has Ebola. Megan here is your last limit. If I want my whole home to stay perdi, I need space where my clutter can hurt me. This room takes the heat so my house can stay

having a dirty zone or a designated messy area of your home can prevent clutter and

mess from taking over the whole house. You're basically fighting a land war with your own clutter,

“and you have to make some sacrifices. Surrender the hallway closet in order to have strategic control”

of the living room. But this makes sense if you think about it. Instead of trying to keep your whole house clean all the time, just throw the stuff in like one place and the rest of the house can be clean. But that's like that really. It's a slippery slope. You're like that's like, you know, like people have a junk drawer, whatever, and then you're going to like make it a closet. It's making a junk room. Yeah, like this is this is not good. This is one. This is one. It's a

creeping. Yeah, it's going to get bigger and bigger. It's like it started off with like,

oh, I don't know where all of these put all these keys fit to. I'll just put them in this drawer

in the before you know, and you have 80 cats. Also, how did Megan do in our quiz? Megan did great. You got three out of three. Perfect score. Congratulations, Megan. That was well done.

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On impure's wildcard podcast, musicians Sarah Barrellis on being a cryer. My mom is a big cryer too, and she loves to take credit for my crying. My crying is mine. Watch or listen to that wild card conversation on the NPR app, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. Now let's order our final game, Lightning Film, the blank. It's about players who have 60 seconds of which to answer as many films of the blank questions as they can. Each correct answer is

now worth two points. Also, can you give us the score? Of course, saying in any or tied at two

with mole having the lead at three. All right. So, Jane and Annie are tied for second. I'm

going to pick Shane to go first arbitrarily. Here we go. The clock will start when they begin your first question film, the blank. On Tuesday, the US carried out more strikes against targets in blank. Right. On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that construction of the new White House blank could proceed. Right. This week, election officials said they have no time to comply with Trump's proposed rules for mail-in blanking voting. Right. On Wednesday, Golf Superstar Blank took

a plea deal in his DUI case. Kind of what's right. This week, CNN has apologized for a company in coverage of the death of Dolly Parton with a photo of Blank. Oh, God, Loretta Lenz. Oh, a Dolly Parton impersonator. Oh, oh. Tuesday, a 91-year-old man named Dale Saunders began the oldest person to hike the blank. Everest? No, the Appalachian trail on Monday, Tim Cook had his last day as the CEO of Blank Apple. Right. This week, police in Indiana

responding to worried reports of two lions wandering the city, launched a full-scale investigation and found blank. Lions? No, two pigs that people kept mistaking for lion. Oh, Jesus. The owner by Jews reported any missing lions, police took the report seriously and launched a high-tech search utilizing both drones and thermal imaging cameras in the end. Officers were able to put the public's mind at ease saying, "There's nothing to worry about. It's not a lion.

“It's just a pig whose mouth is covered in blood." How's that? How did Shane do in our quiz?”

He got five right for 10 more points giving him a total of 12. All right. All right, Annie, you're up next. Here we go, fill in the blank. On Monday, the UN said that 4,500 people are still unaccounted for after the blanks in China and Nepal. Flood? Right. This week, Wayne Davis was found guilty of ordering the 1996 murder of rapper Blank. Two-pock. Two-pock. Yes. On Wednesday, the US Mint began selling $1 coins with Blank's portrait on them.

Yes. How did you know? This week, a Russian television station aired a congressional election debate even though all six candidates Blank died. No, did not show up for the debate. On Monday, soccer superstar Blank announced he was retiring from Argentina's national team. Yes, messy.

Right. This week, a debate has risen over whether a hiker in New Jersey took a photo of

“Bigfoot or if his just Blank. A pig? No. A chubby, naked old guy. No, bald.”

That was what I was going to say. I know. The figure in the photo that the hiker took in her iPhone camera was hairy and stooped with a prominent gut. People who believe that it's a cryptid are calling it the Syracuse figure, which is the phrase you really don't want to catch on. Yes, person only is a ten, but he's got a real Syracuse figure. That's better than I unit a butt. Yes.

How's Oh, how did Andy do in our quiz? She got five right for ten more points.

Total no 12. She's tied with Shane.

All right, then how many does Mo need to win? Mo. You need five to win, buddy. Mo, this is for the game from the Blank. According to a new poll, only 14% of people are in

“favor of renaming Lake Ontario Blank. Lake America. Right. On Monday, a new study found that”

up to 25% of football players may end up being diagnosed with Blank CTE. Right. On Thursday, feminist icon Blank passed away the age of 92, Glorious Diner. Right. This week, Reese with her spoon revealed that she was once made the form in of a jury because the other jurors Blank. Oh, thought that she had gone to law school because of her legally blonde character. That's exactly right. The convincing performance. On Monday, paleontologists in Africa announced the discovery of

another new Blank. Tinosaur. Yes. This week, a woman in Virginia having a dream about puzzling with acute mouse woke up to find Blank that she was not puzzling with acute mouse. No, that you woke up with a bad hinder mouth. Apparently, after somehow getting into her bedroom, the bat fought her mouth looked like a nice cave and headed on in. Thankfully, after she woke up, her husband caught the bat. Great job. You couldn't have caught the bat before. I'm into your wife's mouth.

Also, did Maudu well enough to win? Yes, he got five right for ten more points total of 13 with his chest hairs out. He is the winner. No pictures, please. Coming up, our band of those predict. Now that we're all fans of needles, what's the next scary thing that we'll all come to love? Wait, wait, don't tell me, is there a production of NPR and WB, Izzy Chicago, and association with the urgent haircut productions, Doug Burman, Benheville, and Overlord.

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and my choice, our vibcurator, technical direction, is from Lorna White, our CFOs, call the Miller, our production manager, his Robert Newhouse, our senior producers, the in July, and the executive producer. Wait, wait, don't tell me, is Mike Danforth. Now, panel, what scary thing will we love next? Shane Torres. When people leave conversations, we will soon be giving catchphrases as we exit, like OH. Oh, hey, suck up. And he rowered up.

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