Nairobi tens of thousands of Italians rallied in Rome today against racism populism and hate speech N.P.R.'s Sylvia Poggioli reports they call themselves sardines for the way they're packing squares across Italy as part of a rapidly growing grassroots movement Rome's vast sun Giovanni's Square was packed with people young and old holding colorful paper sardines and singing the resistance song better watch out for. The movement's name is going to symbolize civil society strength in numbers like a large school of fish swimming in harmony in a bath see the sardines were born a month ago in opposition to the anti immigrant policies of the right wing party the main theme of the rally was defense of the rights of asylum seekers and the anti fascist pillars of Italy's post-war Constitution Sylvia Poggioli n.p.r. 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You got was impeachment hearings people shouting the same things over and over and never doing anything to change the inevitable outcome and you're thinking to yourself If I want to do that I just have dinner with my parents again. So today believe it or not we are on wait wait we'll do everything we can to avoid impeachment but we want to know what you knew and when you knew it so call us often answer our questions the number is one AAA Wait Wait that's 188-890-4824 now let's welcome our 1st listener contestant Hi you're on Wait Wait Don't Tell me. I better how you do and I'm all right who's this you know my name's Kalik horn and I'm calling from new all. Your name is Tally King Horn and that is correct it's like tally as in Tally Ho Yes And considering I work on a horse farm and quite apropos you. Saw soon a Texas horse farm and people are yelling tally a tally and I'm going out on a fox hunt do you work on a horse farm What do you do there I do whatever needs to be done including shoveling a lot of you know what but you know that's part of it yeah you and I have a lot in common talent. Well welcome to the show tally let me introduce you to the panel this week 1st up it's a contributor to c.b.s. Sunday morning it's face Saley tell me thank you. Next That's an actor and writer who could be seen in the latest season of the marvelous Mrs May's Well it's Peter Grosz I go Yeah thank you and finally a comedian you can see in San Francisco and New Year's Eve at the Sydney Goldstein theater you can hear her every week on our own podcast nobody listens to Paula Poundstone it's Paula Poundstone thank you thank you. So Cali Welcome to the show you're going to play Who's Bill This Time of course Bill is going to recreate for you 3 quotations from the week's news if you can correctly identify or explain just 2 of them you'll win our prize and a voice from our show you might use in your voicemail ready to play I have they are right your 1st quote is a real headline about an election that happened this week Mary. Sat with London's Sun tabloid announcing who's big victory on Thursday and that would be boring Yes Boris Johnson Oh Joe the lovable towheaded from the prime minister sort of a combination of Benny Hill and Mussolini. As well and a huge victory for his party in the u.k. Which means Britain will probably indeed leave the e.u. Which means that. Scotland will probably leave the u.k. And maybe Northern Ireland too and eventually Boris will achieve his dream everybody gets their own little country the size of their house. It seems nuts to us in America that he would win so big he's so goofy but that's his charm people forget his various lies and Affairs and scandals because his hair is messy and this is actually true he has been seen before coming out to do a television appearance intentionally tell sling up his hand and doesn't you know he makes it messy Oh yes it gets him sympathy it's like oh it disbanded parliament but he's just crank he woke up from and now he's also like quite brilliant and very well spoken but like intentionally screws up and I always wonder like what is it like to live in a country where the leader is like secretly smart but actually a complete moron yes but also terribly terribly racist an awful and it is amazing that he I think you know 6 hour a day exactly part of the reason that some analysts say that Boris Johnson pulled out this big victory is because the other choices were so terrible and it was all very confusing we knew their choices were really bad when Mike Bloomberg jumped into the well so what I'm like God He has a better chance over there I think Hello I am here but you know I'm a small Joe trying to connect with the average working man and we're I'm also I want to tell you there I also live in a 50000000 dollar house in New York City hello Iowa 6. What chance do you know if there's like that or you don't have a snowball's chance in hell maybe like you have a Bloomberg chance in Iowa Ok Ok you're open are. You not I mean that's like 1st line of you know. Small Jewish guys today. Started a media empire or whatever but not with. The media to tally your next quote comes from a producer of the Golden Globes every years someone gets left out that's definitely true this year when the nominations left out whom. I'm still thinking about Boris Johnson I know it's hard I mean he gets in there it's hard to get him out you just got to be generally true. To give up you give up the people they left out were all the women there were no female nominees for best director no movies nominated that had female directors no Golden Globes if you don't know they're considered the opening of awards season which is just like baseball season it's too long and somewhat predictable and apparently women are not allowed to play. No movies directed by women were nominated for best picture no women were nominated for Best Director most glaringly even the 5 best actress nominees were men. It's also what's great about that is like nobody votes for that like just so people are aware there's really had me further like the Emmys and the Oscars and the Grammys and all the Tonys like you're members of academy you vote you tally the vote someone wins the Hollywood Foreign Press is a bunch of people who get together like who do you think which is why I like Johnny Depp will get like a Golden Globe and you're like Johnny Depp is still I think and it's because they can and they want him to show up at their work so they all they could have done just had somebody look at it and correct make the credit and actually for him it's nobody you know what i'm just for the Hollywood Reporter press it's like for the like you are the American person who works for Le Monde or you work for there should be a goal or something like that so I know to foreign newspapers. And the press and I know more foreign newspapers than there are women who are nominated for the sake of the dam's even nominate Little Women Know Best Picture category would just change the title to little men she would have had a jet exactly tally here is your last quote you know what it's better than waiting 2 hours in the line that was somebody explaining the new trend this Christmas of kids seeing Santa how. Online Yes exactly there. Timing Santa nobody apparently wants to go to a mall to see Santa anymore because nobody wants to go to a mall so more parents are arranging for their kids to talk to Santa via video chat they pay 30 $5.00 to a service called talk to Santa if there is a result we are ripping you off knowing that I have talked to said it's basically a weapon are for your just such a bad idea why I watched some of these on line and the quality of the Santa was let's just say is variable is it below where a mole say it is because that also is a bad idea of someone's like hey there's a stranger once you go sit on his lap like I got a great. No look I live in New York City and I get to take my Jewish children half Jewish children to the real Santa at Macy's and that I mean that's where Santa actually lives that is Santa I have in New York City and I don't take my Jewish child to see seem to quell that your child is missing out so Ok can see it can go yeah I'm going to do it. And I sit on a candle lit candle Oh it's the you talk to Santa the company we've been discussing has hired 300 Santas helpers for this Christmas season between them where exactly 0 pairs of pants because why bother. It's you know it's part of the gig economy so they do it while they're driving for us. Bill how did tally finally do on our quiz Halle whoa she got 2 out of 3 which is a when you graduate. Oh God thank you so much right thank you guys. Right now panel it is time for you to answer some questions about this week's news face over the years Barbie has transformed from a plastic toy into a successful career woman we know this not to be outdone Mattel has introduced a new job. For Barbie's on again off again boyfriend Ken what is his new job. He's her stylist probably no no no wait a minute they're on again off again I don't know nobody told their way I talk to Ken a lot and never mention yeah several Sanderson does can provide a service for her being he provides a service who works in the service industry in the service industry yes. Is it is it is it a modern kind of oh yes did she ever have to answer that question. Technically yes one day I want to last for long term I know they say yes yes yes d.v.d. Per day or no. Can you can you give me I can't even if you are here use your and you're not far from it is exactly the height of the venti as he's serving up he's a brewery Stannis he is a quote career but every since he have tattoo probably well. He's new to stores new toy stores for Christmas but career barista can is actually just a new addition of Mattel's former Dall liberal arts major I'm. Head and beating on him already Ulysses you asked about his styling he comes with faded jeans an apron a man bun and you know yes and a spec script he'd love for you to show to your friend who worked on Everybody Loves Raymond. So you hear that man but he's going to make given him a penis yet known Ok Which is weird because they thought that's weird he doesn't have any genitals and they still found a way to emasculate. But. I'll tell you what maybe if the face times were Santa he can get one but I'm. Sure. It's. From maybe. Coming up with a family that fights together fights and fights and fights it's a sibling rivalry Bluff the Listener game call in AAA Wait wait to play We'll be back in a minute with more of Wait Wait Don't Tell me from n.p.r. . 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News quiz I'm Bill Kurtis We're playing this week with Paula Poundstone faith Savely and Peter Grosz And here again is your host at the Chase Bank Auditorium in downtown Chicago Peter so I go thank you. Thank you right now it is time for the Wait Wait Don't Tell me the law for the Listener game call one Triple 8 which way to play our game on the air Hi you're on Wait Wait Don't Tell me why Brittany Brittany where you calling from I'm calling from Harborough North Carolina card number oh that's like that's near Chapel Hill right right thanks Apple here and what do you do there I am a child and adolescent psychiatrist Oh my God. You're doing the lord's work you really are. Welcome to the show Brittany you're going to play our game in which you must try to tell truth from fiction what is the topic Bill family feud. You can't choose your family which is why I was denied my application to be the 5th card actually in Sr. But that's also why families fight our panelists are going to tell you about a family rivalry that surfaced in a surprising way this week pick the one who's telling the truth you'll win the voice of your choice on your voicemail Are you ready to play I'm ready to play there are I 1st let's hear from faith sailing over Thanksgiving 35 year old twin sisters Amanda Granger and Katie Tannenbaum were talking about their holiday plans when Amanda said to Katie who recently converted to Judaism before marrying her husband earlier this year it's a shame. You won't be able to decorate with anything fun now that you're Jewish that's what Amanda said but what Katie heard was game on the sisters live side by side in the Gainesville Georgia cul de sac and on December 1st Amanda laced her yard with Christmas lights and put a tree in the window on December 2nd Katie placed an 8 foot Star of David with blazing blue lights beside the Tannenbaum mailbox on December 3rd Amanda arranged a reindeer on her roof on December 4th a massive gold menorah appeared on top of Katie's house on the 5th day of Advent Amanda strong lights on her roof that say Jesus is the reason for the season on the 6 Katie's roof replied in flashing bulbs Jesus was a little Jewish baby. The homeowners association has given up trying to control the holiday arms race and is now asking for donations from the hundreds of folks driving through the cold to Sac every evening where they find the sisters at the end of their driveways Amanda giving away gingerbread crosses and Katie handing out steaming lot because. Thank you arms race between sisters in terms of their holiday decorations in Gainesville Georgia Your next story of brotherly non love comes from Peter Grosz the sibling rivalry story has everything a great drama requires intrigue hidden cameras illegal behavior laboratory testing and of course deer repellant Conservation Officer Mike Wells of new way go County in western Michigan received a claim this week of Hunter harassment which contrary to popular belief is not what's happening the Hunter Biden right now it's it's when hunters ignore animals and go after each other authorities haven't released the names of the men involved but the complainant will call him Brother Number One gave officer Wells photos taken from a hidden kid. Amre of the suspect Brother Number 2 spraying Brother Number One's humping stand with an unknown substance officer Wells visited the site took samples of the mysterious material and bingo it came back positive for every Hunter's worst nightmare deer repellant so far this was shaping up like a gripping episode of c.s.i. Western Michigan the Big 12 and confronted Brother Number 2 with the evidence and he immediately admitted to everything however and in another exciting plot twist Brother Number 2 was also committing the crime an actual misdemeanor of using bait to attract dear to his own stand this is like the equivalent of going to a bar to meet women but you dab on some sophisticated French cologne and you dump a bucket of Axe body spray on your friend's head. No word on whether or not this modern day Cain and Abel have made up but this is sure to be the most awkward Christmas they've ever had. $200.00 in Michigan fighting with deer repellant to repel deer from each other's hunting grounds your last story of family fuss comes from Paula Poundstone twin brothers Abel and Terry Young and joy a shared passion for breeding and showing Yorkshire terriers Abel often travels for his work and when he does so his dogs including his budding champion Winnie have always bunked at Terry's Terry who competes with his promising Elton has raised and trained many a champion himself already most famously perhaps buttons and son of a. Twins of my reputation have enviably close relationships but sometimes after years of feeling interchangeable there is also 4 a deep seated drive on the part of one or the other to differentiate themselves from their twin I feel terrible about this now says Terry but I did for a year or so train Abel's dog Winnie to display some negative behaviors that I secretly commanded during the a k c national honor handled Series finals in Orlando Florida to. He must be a hell of a trainer says presiding a k c judge Daisy Billington because as the dogs rounded the show's circle I turned to get my clipboard that Winnie must have flown 10 feet to latch on to the back of my blazer and I had to practically torte to get her off. When it is a smart dog says Terry in a voice with Marvel overcoming his regret who had never had a chance to rehearse in front of a crowd so I wasn't sure that you really would spin and poop every time I sneezed too but she sure did. Although Terry has apologized and paid for the judges blazer as well as reimbursing anyone who lost their hot dog to the dog able doesn't sound ready to forgive he's not sorry he still hasn't told me what the signal is for Winnie to fire herself like a rocket into my stomach with varying degrees of accuracy. All right. One of these stories fraternal frak is was in the news this week was it from Faith Salie 2 sisters in Georgia have an escalating competition over holiday decorations from Peter Grosz 2 hunters in Michigan who resent each other one is caught spring deer repellant and the others hunting stand Or from Paula Poundstone twin dog breeders one who takes vengeance by training the others dog to well misbehave which of these is the real story of sibling rivalry we found in the new year I'm going to go with the boys on their pee their boys and their Yemeni's are substance yes I understand it but you know you're right you are about or say psychologist of adolescence so I guess that makes the most sense to you all right well to be the correct answer we spoke to someone involved with the real story the brother was trying because your are are you going to confirm that. But. That was Conservation Officer Michael Wells with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources he was the one who investigated and burst wide open the case of the sprayed deer repellent Congratulations. You got it right. Here to point you Peter Grosz you want our prize the voice of your choice on your voice mail thank you so much for playing with us today thank you there thank you take care Britney bye bye thanks bye many Thank you. And now the game where we invite on our heroes and make them do something pointedly non-heroic John Doolittle is a relief pitcher for the Washington Nationals and this season he saved game one of the World Series to start his team toward a 7 game victory over the Houston Astros naturally thank you has chosen to celebrate that historic win by doing something even a more challenging talking to an n.p.r. Audience about sports Shonda little welcome to Wait Wait Don't Tell me thank you very much. For the plate as walk in here yeah what is your walk and music my Balkan music is a song by Metallica called for whom the bell tolls. Yeah now I'm just going to say looking back in the season you guys were not favorites to win the World Series early on no we weren't no yeah and did you guys know in your heart that you actually could go all the way or did you yeah yeah we did I mean there's there's a funny thing about about playoff baseball specifically where it's so important that you take the momentum that you have and you're able to capitalize on it and make the most of it and we caught a huge break I don't know if anybody saw in the wild card game where a ball took a really funny hop. Against Milwaukee in the 8th inning and 3 runs scored for us we took the lead and from then on it kind of felt like the baseball gods they finally might have our back you guys seem to really like each other which added to the people of your team is that in fact true yeah it is there really is and it's every once in a while in baseball you get a group of guys. It comes together and you just you just click team chemistry is one of the last things in baseball that we have yet to quantify so we keep track of everything but we just connected it took a little while for us to figure things out in the beginning part of the season we have the 2nd worst record in the National League at the end of May And I think it was because we genuinely liked each other that we didn't you know rip each other's heads off in June or July we were able to to right the ship and stay together yeah and go all the way and did you guys ever get as annoyed with the whole baby shark thing as the rest of the world did. We had fun with it man we had a lot of those we had a lot of those things throughout most of the baby sharks and so one of our one of our outfielders his name was Gerardo Parra he changed his intro song that played when he came up to bat to the baby shark theme song and it was something that he did to kind of change is luck you know you may need to just say we're still for Paula right now I don't know the baby shark there so do you guys know the baby sharks seem. Like you want to lead them in can you do it can we do it yeah all right you know maybe shark do do do do do do baby shark do do do do do don't let it occur to you that it's like a movie star there you go and then it goes on from there it goes on it goes on and on and it was his it was his 2 year old daughter's favorite song he did it's a kind of changes luck and the Nationals fans they totally embraced it and every time he came to make you feel bad about your Metallica song. Telegraphic cover baby shark it was. The book. You just said something that I am actually very curious about you said that he changed his walk up song to maybe start to change his luck yeah I've always read that baseball players and credibly superstitious Yeah and is this true of like do you do things just to make sure. When like you know Wade Boggs always ate chicken and so on and so forth over the course of my career I've I've tried to get away from that and at times that's almost become it's own superstition like I'll do the opposite just so I don't fall into making myself crazy over over some superstitions but I think like in the World Series. When we came back to Houston for game 6 and 7 a lot of us went back and try to remember or in some of our cases looked on social media to see what clothes we wore to the ballpark railing because we want you have uniforms we want you don't. Again not a sports venue just be patient. So they have they have our uniforms your videos in your head of times right they have to tell us what to wear every night when you guys got dressed you what I wore and now you want what outfit are we going to wear tomorrow that was a whole other thing we are baseball car navy blue jerseys became good luck for us in the playoffs you know we have several different uniform combinations but in game 6 and 7. When we came to the series went back to Houston we all went back to make sure that we wore the same stuff to the stadium really. To try to bring ourselves luck because at that point you you really don't want to leave anything to chance on oh you know. You got to pull out all the stops you don't think case you want to be sitting there after the last game 7 the World Series and like you're talking to one of your teammates so Rendon you had to change your shirt yeah yeah say you had broken your ankle at the 6th game and the team won would you. Have broken your other ankle. In order to. Get that lock keeper games out of the 7th game I mean what kind of sacrifices were you want to make for those well you know you you would have probably would have seen how Game 7 was going. I want to ask you about your social media because I follow you in Twitter your shot what is it. Only Shawn Canobie you know that's exactly the kind of player I thought you were Yeah so are you in fact a big Star Wars fan I am a big star What have you yeah I thought maybe you can get a cameo like No a cigar did in Game of Thrones I thought about it and then I you know I after the World Series the p.r. People are like hey you know let us know if there's anything you want to do and I was like I want to go to the premiere and like a like a week later they were like All right how about wait wait don't tell me I'm. Trying to little it is a delight to talk to you but we've invited you here to play a game we're calling and that's what I call 0 save you save baseball games but what does that mean was the game in a well was it last didn't see we're going to ask you 3 questions about real world saves get to write in your win for one of our listeners Bill who is Sean Doolittle playing for the new Simone from Moby allow him all right your 1st question after firefighters rescued a group of his piglets who were caught in a barn fire a farmer in the u.k. Did what to express his thanks to the firemen a wove the messages some piglets into his spider well. Brought the piglets to the firehouse and released them there or see he sent the firefighters sausages made out of the piglet they had saying. Oh no I hope be you hope be that he just released the pigments into the fire so they're yours yeah no it was saying no God was and he got a lot of criticism for this really farmer sat in a farmer said and I quote him this is what we do. This is not an animal sanctuary. I mean that's why they raise the pigs and make them into sausage in. A little little better right next question you can have 2 more chances here in 2012 firefighters and 1st responders. Rushed to a building in China where a woman was on the ledge apparently threatening to jump only to find out what a the woman was actually Tom Cruise filming a scene from Mission Impossible 5 b. She was sitting outside a neighbor's apartment so she could steal her wife I signal or see the woman is just a very realistic gargoyle. I'm going to be you're running a thank you she was still why you wanted me. All right last question if you get this right you win firefighters are always ready to rescue a cat in a tree but that's not all they've been asked to rescue one British fire crew once had to extract what from a tree a 100 cats. Be a cow or see a woman who insisted she was a cat. I'm going to go with b. Again the cow Yeah you're right yes 'd they thank our had fallen down an embankment and ended up in the branches of a tree at the bottom. It happening I doubt that now was secure how we bear the cow was fine then we presume made into hamburger it was easy I know Bill how did Sean do a little do on our quiz 2 strikes out of 3 impossible that means you have won the world say Ok So thank you is a picture for the World Series winning Washington Nationals and does work with the smile foundation more information can be found at s m y a l dot org Sean do a little what a pleasure to talk thank. 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Good listener limerick challenge if you like to play give us a call at one AAA Wait Wait that's one triple 89248904 right now panel some more questions for you from the week's news Peter on Monday 2 lawyers presented the Democratic and Republican impeachment reports to the House Judiciary Committee and people noticed that the Republican lawyer Steve Castor brought his key essential document. A recyclable. One of those like reusable grocery bag that's exactly right use the reusable grocery bag he walked into the committee ready to defend the president from impeachment with his documents in what turned out to be a fresh market reusable grocery bag which was great because Congress did not charge him the extra $0.10 for those awkward when he like it was asked about high crimes and he pulled out a baguette where we wondered was his briefcase it turns out Congressman Jim Jordan was sitting on it so we could see over the. Briefcases are reusable right there are a little like they're single you. Would like to take the long papers and well that's it for this $300.00 leather shank briefcase of the garbage Meanwhile somebody is like one of his kids or something shopping in there like putting groceries into pre-K. You. Paula a Christmas sweater was recalled this week after complaints about the depiction of Santa doing what lines yes doing lines of coke Wal-Mart was selling Yeah yeah from wall. Mart the Wal-Mart they were selling let us know that's exactly right. Santa sitting in a chair Yeah Santa sitting in a chair for the lines of code says Let it Snow parents were outraged when you think about it it totally makes sense that Santa is doing coke Why else would he always like no go down the chimney. He flies around the world in one night Yeah Yeah God you cannot do that if you're not on cocaine it's about Peter Peter a new study from anthropologists finds that the thing that saved early humans from extinction might have been their ability to handle what. We were immune to fire not. The big meteor they came in it was our ability to do something specifically to handle something. Radioactive spider bites you know to give a hand all the orders were on the rocks in the Stone Age we were Joe we were just drinking alcohol yes our ability to handle alcohol led to our survival but that's the idea as that. The theory of evolution which is that because our bodies could handle even enjoy alcohol we could feed on things like rotting and fermented fruit and thus survive during hard times you see it also explains why early humans were always walking around without pants they were waist. Weight so so people were looking at this fire man yelling fire see this things incredible you know we I eat raw stuff you know what we have to do it. Just like. You know put out a fire order for. Her you know. But it's the idea that like because alcohol Secondly poison Yes So that like we were able to let's yet either always get what we could and what mean they eat the food get the nourishment continue to survive and the problems that we had if we could handle poison Well that particular poison Yeah yeah the. Anthropologist believe that. Alcohol played both a survival and social role all the way back to primitive man it also explains how people could bring themselves to mate with guys with those brow rich I'm God I have another berry and yeah honey I'm trying to kiss you but your browser go to the so I can't get that close to your face that's why people come in at an angle Yeah. Face video games let you pretend to be a soldier or a cowboy a night and now there's a new 1st person video game which gives gamers the chance to play as whom. Presidential candidate. Is it as that a person it is very specifically a person can imagine a hit yeah it's not a 1st person shooter so much as the 1st person savior to be Jesus you get to be Jesus. I am Jesus Christ is a video game in which you play the Messiah the trailer was released this week to make sense that Jesus is the hero of a video game he invented the concept of an extra life. So to play this what you do you are Jesus and you control Jesus through all the greatest hits of the gospels you heal lepers and multiply loaves and fishes don't screw it up and multiply the lepers the company. Is it a Christian company is done with reverence it is absolutely done with reverence it clearly is marketed to people Christians who very much want to experience the Gospels from you think you are Jesus Christ yes yes is the answer but it is a little disarming when you start the game and Jesus appears and he goes it's not me. I'm. Coming up it's Lightning Fill In The Blank but 1st it's the game where you have to listen for the rhyme if you. To play on air call leave a message at one triple 8 Wait Wait that's 188-892-4894 or click the contact us link on our website wait wait at npr dot org There you can find out about attending our weekly live shows here at the Chase Bank Auditorium in Chicago and if you want more Wait wait in your week check out the wait wait quiz for your smart speaker it's out every Wednesday with me and Bill asking you questions while mining your personal data for our prophet in amusement Hi you're on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me Hi this is actually from Nashville Ok actually from Nashville which kind of rhymes. I don't know don't tell me you hadn't noticed that before yeah oh yeah oh that's because it doesn't rhyme actually. So you don't feel fully unless of course you lived in nationally. But it's one of those rare 1st sellable Yeah I'm not sure that my boss Peter knows what to write me. Welcome to the show actually do you hear. Bill Kurtis is going to read you 3 news related limericks with the last word or phrase missing from each of you can fill in that last word or phrase correctly in 2 of the limericks you'll be a winner Are you ready to play yes here's your 1st limerick when sons of decay don't appear the doctor will never be near 365 days he is keeping away because our apples stay Chris hole. He added a look at a piece of fresh delicious fruit and thought I wish this was older. Than the cosmic crystal might be the apple for you it's a new strain of Apple it's said to be crispy and tart and can last in your fridge for up to a year but if you want to try a year old Apple right now just head down to the free breakfast at any Holiday Inn Express that. Apples are everywhere like you can get a new apple every day little it's not like Oh that's an apple don't touch it we're only going to get another one a year from now. All right here Ashley is your next limerick playing video games is my plan there's no time for a plate pop or Pam my Christmas meal prop is an easy pop top there's 3 courses all packed in one. Yes it is and yes if you know of the Christmas but wish it were much sadder. Now you can enjoy your holiday meal straight from a can Christmas meal in a can offer is none of the trouble of cooking your spending time with your family and all the joy of feeding yourself as you would a dog. I saw what it looks like I can it's like a chill lotta ness like oh it's like we're getting it's British of course. And it's kind of like it's a layered thing you get like a layer of mashed potatoes and a layer of Turkey on a layer of cranberry sauce all aspic Yeah and on the very bottom is a soggy Christmas card from your aunt with $2.00 yes. All right here is your last limerick that duct tape but Nana I hate it more than 100 grand is what I rate it. Oh sure it is art so I'm playing my part because I was hungry I. Ate it yes you ate it a banana you probably heard this duck tape to a wall sold for $120000.00 at the Art Basel Art Fair in Miami and then someone ate it even worse the banana eater is a performance artist who says he would have eaten it sooner this is true but he just wasn't hungry seriously if he wanted to stay there he should have made it a Red Delicious right knowing what a tough Bill how did actually do in our quiz 3 and oh she's a big winner congratulations and thank you thank you thank you. I'm like do. I like it now onto our final game Lightning Fill In The Blank each of our players will have 60 seconds in which to answer as many fill in the blank questions as they can each correct answer is now worth 2 points Bill can you give us the scores and Peter each have 3 faith as to Ok faith you are in 3rd place the clock will start when I begin your 1st question fill in the blank on Tuesday Democrats in the White House reached an agreement on a trade deal that will replace blank NAFTA right on Wednesday Time magazine named blank their Person of the year gratitude right this week rescue workers in New Zealand continue their search for survivors of an unexpected blank that hit the island on Monday volcano right on Thursday c.n.n. Announced they would host the next blank in Iowa debate right Democratic debate in a ceremony at the Independent fitters carpet store surrounded by friends and family a woman in England married her blank carpet yes she did she battered a rug and named Matt on Wednesday. Disgraced Hollywood producer blank reached a tentative $25000000.00 settlement with his accusers Harvey Weinstein right on Monday the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported that $21000.00 was Alaska's a blanket year. On record hottest Yes a middle school bus in Florida had to be evacuated after the driver was overwhelmed by blank body spray Yes. You ran the family did you know that or do you just assume that I do and I did know that the bus driver was forced to pull over because the smell of Axe Body Spray was so powerful that he thought kids on the bus might choke the bus was aired out and teams were called in declared everybody safe but officials say it could have been much worse the bus could have been exposed to a middle school or smelled like without any body spray. So it seems like Faith did pretty well pretty well good and have done any better 8 right 16 more points total of 8. All right we picked a coin and Paula has decided to go last that means Peter your next fill in the blank in a report released on Monday the inspector general confirmed that the investigation into blank selection medling was unbiased and justified Russian Radley in a report released on Monday the i.g. Criticized the F.B.I.'s handling of the investigation into blank's election meddling Russia yes after 2 unsuccessful attempts to form a new government blanks parliament announced a 3rd set of elections Israel write on Sunday President Trump said that North Korean leader blank was damaging their special relationship Kim Jong un right to Wisconsin men on their way home from a Packers game were arrested for drunk driving and starting a fistfight over blank over who got to where the only one cheese head in the car no over the show How I Met Your Mother on Thursday NASA announced that they had found water ice just below the surface of blank. The moon Mars on Monday Paul Volcker the former chair of the blank passed away at 92 Chair of chairman of the board chairs the Federal Register Oh Ok Animal control officials in Las Vegas say they have no idea who is responsible for the sudden outbreak of pigeons blanking. Turning into tigers at the same freedom Roy show no. The outbreak of pigeons wearing tiny cowboy hats people started spotting birds wearing tiny red cowboy hats early last week and officials are baffled no want to sure if this is a one man operation of the work of a really bored group of haberdashers either way Animal Control says they're worried about the bird safety that in because if they're wearing the wrong color hat when they walk into the pigeon saloon there might be a gunfight No there's pigeons in loss of a yes people are finding pedo lost why are they lost their pigeons are everywhere in the desert there desert pigeons pigeons following human Well that's my point there. Bill how did Peter do in our quiz He got 4 right 8 more points total of 11 and he trails faith All right how many then does Paula need to win a 14. To win here and here we go policy for the game on Wednesday the House passed a bill authorizing the creation of a 6th branch of the military known as blank space for is right on Monday a federal judge in Texas blocked the White House from using military funds to build a blank wall right this week The Washington Post published documents that showed u.s. Officials had indications that the war in blank was unwinnable Afghan It's right on Monday the World Anti-Doping Agency banned blank from participating in global sports for 4 years Russia right this week a nursing home in the u.k. Fulfilled a residence bucket list when they gave her blank for Christmas. A little clip of Boris Johnson's hair No they gave her exactly what she requested which was quote a stripper with big biceps and a large chest. On Tuesday an appeals court upheld comedian blank's sexual assault conviction because yes best known as the puppet here behind a big bird and Oscar the Grouch blank passed away at 85 This is the depressing question again Carol spinny Yes saying she was annoyed that her husband was going out drinking all the time a woman in the u.k. Blanked. Me know she built a bar for him in her backyard the woman. Spent $25000.00 converting her backyard garden to a pub complete with. Game and a man sitting alone on the corner who's been there like 6 in the morning she says she hopes this will convince her husband to spend less time at the bar and more time drinking in a safer environment at home with their 2 kids. Bill did Paula do well enough to win . 15 however is short. And adolescence they say just a minute we're going to ask our panelists now that Santa is using Face Time to talk to kids what will be the next. Technology But 1st let me tell you that support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations and. Taking a personalized approach to helping clients manage their wealth. Well. Subaru with. Details on the not for profit organizations that it supports. Love It's what makes. Food is designed to help people make. Public. Miles. California. And the executive producer. Is. New technology. Task Rabbit. And unpaid college interns before Peter Grose switched to a self driving sleigh and no wife I enabled a drone that brings him cookies and milk. And Paul about stuff he's coming out with grand theft Santa for he steals everything after he gives it to him and the 2nd part of the game is mixed martial arts with the Grinch. Who. Will upset if there's any of those things we're going to do about it and Wait Wait Don't Tell Thank you Bill Kurtis thanks also to face a really creative process I thought it was pretty thorough to finish what. This is n.p.r. 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