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But right now we're expecting your call the number is one AAA Wait Wait that's 188-924-8924 now let's welcome our 1st listener contestant Hi you're on Wait Wait Don't Tell me how you think Erin from Royal and math and he said royal stuff I know Massachusetts well but I don't know royal stemware is now I figured you would say that if you've ever been locked in a way and you don't have any cell phone service then you're really scared that's where you'll find out right. So you're like the Blair witch like you're out there nobody around. Let me introduce you to our panel this week 1st it's a comedian you can see at the Comedy and Magic love him her most of Beach California December 10th and the 11th or at Dr gran's in Grand Rapids Michigan December 19th through the 21st it's Alonzo Bodden. Next a comedian you can see at the Atlanta winery January 23rd her half hour special is now streaming on Netflix its I doubt Rodriguez thank you. And also appearing this weekend on a panel on a radio show with I don't Rodriguez and Alonzo Boden it's Adam Felber. And welcome to the show you're of course going to play Who's Bill This Time Bill Kurtis is going to read you 3 quotations from this week's news if you can correctly identify or explain just 2 of them you'll win our prize any voice from our show you might choose in your voicemail Are you ready to go I'm ready but I'm nervous Don't be nervous Here's your 1st quote Let us begin where our founders began and 1776 that was Nancy Pelosi on Thursday not writing her essay for a.p. History but instead announcing the House of Representatives was going to do what they were going to. Be the president pretty much they're going to write articles of impeachment but close enough they're going to impeach him very good. On Thursday Nancy Pelosi formally announced the house would be drawing up articles of impeachment against the president which is one pundit actually put it guarantees the president is going to have a place in the history books you know because before this the history books just would have read oh yeah from 2016 to 2020 Nothing much happened it was chill. Miss Palosi it was very solemn but her announcement of this momentous event was kind of flat I thought it strange to be a bad speaker when it is literally the name of your job but then she was walking on stage remember this and somebody said you hate the president and she got really angry it was an action movie moment was a meeting like that and she turned back and went back to the podium. And she laid this guy low she said that as a Catholic she doesn't hate anyone unquote because the Catholic church of course is you know is traditionally very loving. To a point. Where he was deemed Yeah but face almost moved. You guys this was my dog when I did. I was going to ask if you guys agree with me that you thought that her her announcement as many of her Sprint scripted announcements tend to be was not that great well it couldn't be at this point because I think everybody was like well didn't we already determine this yeah it's like one season 8 of Game of Thrones you're either watching at this point or you're no that's true you're on board or you're not you know it's like so it's like a car plummeting off a cliff and halfway down somebody says I would like to announce we're going to be striking at a ground. 0 hour it was probably in the end more interesting than the hearing the day before that was when 4 law professors testified before the Judiciary Committee that's a great way to grab the nation's attention law professors that's why chairman Gerry now there's 1st question was Is this going to be on the exam. Your next quote is from Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau you just watched his team's jaws drop to the floor now that was Mr Trudeau speaking when he was caught on camera gossiping with other world leaders making fun of whom. Maybe yes maybe Trump Erin yes. You know it was caught on camera that he apparently didn't notice speaking at a party during the NATO summit he was talking to 3 other world leaders including Boris Johnson and they were making fun of trump they said you know said things like he's always late because of his crazy press conferences his own staff can't believe how Nancy is there was one inaudible phrase but Trudeau seems to be saying I'm sorry I'm Canadian I'm not allowed to be any meaner. Because seriously was this like his idea of trash talk we can help. Set a vote he watches teams jaws drop to the floor try he looks like a basketball and Pillsbury Doughboy had a. Baby before he thinks world affairs is just cheating with another Slovenian model. To put some work into it just. The other thing is that he ran on the other nations in the world are laughing at us yes under Obama and if you look at the president I'll make sure they do so on camera Yeah he did though he got so angry at them laughing in that he's canceled his last events and he flew home a day early on Air Force One He was so upset he even was willing to pay the $200.00 flight change fees. And he would he then he got a set and he called Trudeau quote 2 faced which is accurate one of them is black. And them. And both of them extremely good look at their you know yes. It's hard to get mad at the Canadian races. Because you feel like he really did mean yeah any media and you know he feels bad All right Erin very good here is your last quote I'm a little nervous but excited let's do this that was an actress in an ad that made every point you can credibly upset this week it's an ad for what piece of exercise equipment is it that how it's done by it is the pallets on by Harry go to. The sag if you haven't seen it shows a young woman getting a 2500 dollar exercise bike from her husband for Christmas and instead of tearing his head off he's like Ok I guess I do not meet your standards I will try harder she's lucky he didn't go with his 1st idea of a president a tape worm. I did I do you know if you watch everybody is watching her but I think the idea is like she is making a video diary of her year of peloton workouts and the end of the at we see that her husband and her husband and her are watching this Instagram story and they're celebrating her progress from being a ridiculously fit my. Model to being a ridiculously fit hostage to her husband's demands seriously she looks so terrified if she's doing these peloton workouts you expect her to be holding up today's newspaper why she pedals. That if that's the crazy thing about it at the beginning of it she looks fantastic yeah you're already in great shape you know it's not as if men didn't look bad enough Yeah we didn't really need this no hopeless look like even worse yet guys embarrassing us yeah we could be garbage without the peloton. Now the peloton company you should know is standing by the ad they're defending it even though and this is also true their market value dropped nearly a $1000000000.00 since the ad went viral that by the way. Is the 1st time an exercise machine bought it Christmas has caused the loss of anything. But also so how powerful white women are in America really want to make all white liberal feminist say hey we set it down a day that we can all start running they can get this this is a thing though right because they had to give up Soul Cycle because of the support Right right because the owner of the coach is that they're what they might have to ride a bicycle at some point really but look you know for you to find all these women riding bicycles in the traffic splitting up that you know I'm going to invest some money and cookies Nah I think it's of weight gain about that. But oh how did Erin do in our quiz it was perfect 3 for 3 graduations at all. Thanks so much the play. Was. We want to remind ever. When they can join us most weeks right here at the Chase Bank Auditorium in Chicago Illinois for tickets and more information go over to w b easy dot org And you can find a link at our website Wait wait that npr dot org Right now panel time for you to answer some questions about this week's news Alonzo the latest wellness trend sweeping the nation is yet not peloton No it's not. The latest wellness trend sweeping the nation is getting a tan on your what. You're asking the black men I am asking. I don't know. I'm. Peter I don't know what you people are doing. Right so I Ok keep Ok let's see what would you want to tan your bum Yes Yes Not just your bum specifically the area known as the parent. Yes that is something usually only seen by your o.b.-g.y.n. Or your ologist and they call it where the sun don't shine for a reason that's if that was. So what happened was this started when various people on the Internet like wellness influencers like someone called metaphysical Megan and other people who definitely do not vaccinate their children that they started advocating parent me I'm signing basically taking your pants off lying down and pointing your mood right at the sun which is so inconvenient to do with that why why don't you just eat chili peppers like everybody else. But the catch is on air travel is going to be a lot more interesting yeah Attention passengers know we're passing over all if you're. Coming up a podcast actually does some good in our Bluff the Listener game call one 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. . Or is this creaky let's get this creaky whereas if you're one of the millions of Americans who owns a dog you might not know it's breed this one little boy that even said Mommy look at that ladies walking a coyote can a dog d.n.a. 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News quiz I'm Bill Kurtis We're playing this week with alarms Oh Bowden I don't Rodriguez and Adam Felber and here again is your host at the Chase Bank Auditorium in downtown Chicago Peter Sagal thank you thanks everybody you right now this time for the Wait Wait Don't Tell me the Listener game you'd like to play call when triple 8 Wait Wait Hi you're on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me I've written a great delight of Cumberland Rhode Island I'm sorry did you say your name was Greg polite That is correct doesn't that put a certain limitation on you in the way that you can interact socially Well I can tell you something that are better than oh yeah I understand. Well we'll test it out welcome to the show great to have you you're going to play the game in which you must try to tell truth from fiction what is Mr Polite topic Bill save America pod casts don't do a lot of good in the world although they have provided jobs for over 5000. And Guy Raz is this week we heard the story of the way pod cast are actually helping someone Our panelists are going to tell you about it pick the one who's telling the truth and you'll win our prize await waiter of your choice in your voicemail and ready to play I am indeed all right let's 1st hear from Alonzo Boden brothers Matt Marcus and Monroe were each adopted by different families they knew they were adopted but they didn't know they had brothers they may have never known were it not for the pod cast Pit Bull Rescue. Pit Bull Rescue share stories of pit bulls being rescued from owners who can't handle them podcast host Tony Ableman says pit bulls have a terrible reputation but can be great pets Marcus Bragg's heard the pod cast was moved by the stories of dogs who were unwanted as he had been and decided to adopt a pitbull himself from a shelter in Chicago and he bought the pit a pink collar He's a sweetheart and it seemed right I don't know why he said it seems his brothers Matt in Boise and Munroe in Fresno heard the same podcast and were similarly touched each of them adopted pit bulls because they too felt unwanted and each of them for reasons they couldn't quite explain but their pits pink fuzzy collars all 3 men sent photos of themselves in their new dogs to Tony Ableman the host of Pitbull Rescue and he said people do that all the time but 3 men who look alike each accessorizing their pits and paint that doesn't happen Tony mention a strange coincidence on his part Cass So each of the brothers got in touch and Tony connected them to each other and hosted them on the show now listeners agreed as never been an episode like the pink pit power party. Meanwhile geneticists are trying to figure out what inherited trait makes a person want to put their pit bull in pink. The pit bull rescue pod cast reunite 3 separated brothers. Your next story of a pod cast saving the world comes from Aida Rodriguez. Kelly Manley had a problem that's ammonium Marilyn resident have planted 300 bulbs in her yard hoping for a wonderful display in the spring and almost as soon as they were in the ground squirrels were digging them up she tried everything mulch plastic sheeting even waiting behind cover and throwing rocks at them the squirrels ran away laughing usually with a bulb in their mouth. Then one day as she was helplessly watching the squirrels wreaked havoc her Bluetooth head phones gave out and the Joe Rogan pod cast started playing through her phones speakers the squirrels instantly scattered she turned it off waited until they returned turned it on again once again squirrel panic. I had no idea Joe Rogan had such an effect on path and vermin. She now has a speaker thought up in her garden playing Joe Rogan 24th that and the squirrels are they really hate it she said it's specially the one where he gets stoned with Elon Musk. Going Rogue and podcasters out to be good at keeping squirrels away from a woman's garden in Maryland and your last story of the world's most self-indulgent medium finally indulging others comes from Adam Felber if you've ever explored the world podcast you know that when you download one of the 1st time you're almost guaranteed to hear 2 things one of course is smug self-indulgence but 2 is ads for mattresses which seems like a sound reasoning on the part of the mattress industry as in if they're listening to this they must have trouble sleeping but according to this week's Wall Street Journal thanks to the new plethora of mattress delivery companies and their incredibly generous return policies a new beast has appeared among podcasts listeners the never ending free trial sleeper Yes by stringing together all those 100 day trial periods and returning to Max's right before the deadline and surprising millennial to have figured out how to sleep on the cheap for instance take care and beer a 31 year old software architect he says he managed to test drive 5 free matches over a 15 month period after he said he realized quote You could literally do this and never pay for a mattress and to paraphrase Jeff Goldblum interesting part he was so preoccupied with whether or not he could he never stop to ask himself if he should Mr Beer is not alone in this pursuit hopping from bed to bed is a thing again but not in a fun way used. But someone out there is paying for these matches for the past 3 years online mattress companies have been springing up at a rate of 50 per year and anyone who's ever spent time with an actual mattress salesman can tell you walk and to be fair to the schemers taking advantage of a free trial period is not a crime if you want to go to jail over a mattress you're going to have to do it the old fashioned way by cutting off the tag. All right. So a podcast or podcasts did someone or someones some good was it from Alonzo Boden how a pit rescue pod cast reunited 3 brothers who had never known each other but all have the same enthusiasm for pink fuzzy collars I know Rodriguez a woman who was able to save her garden by scaring away the squirrels with the Joe Rogan podcast Or from Adam Felber scores of people who figured out a way to get a free bed forever by just using those free mattress trial periods offered on so many podcasts which of these is the real story that we found in the news well they also implausible but I'm going to go with what they're going to go with Adam story about people getting free mattresses. Well to bring you the correct answer we spoke to someone connected with the real story. Gamed the system a little bit turning to their mattresses getting a. Different but there you go I was. Fond of the head of customer experience that tough to needle mattress company talking about all those mattress trial superstars Congratulations Greg you got it right Adam was telling the truth you've earned a point for him and you've earned our prize the voice of anyone you might choose in your voicemail Well done thank you thank. You. And now the game where people who are rocketing. To the top get snagged on something just for a minute Allie Wang was a working stand up and comedy writer when she did a special for Netflix called Baby cobra that became a sensation in it people saw a 5 foot tall 7 month pregnant woman in a tight dress doing jokes so hilariously filthy that when it was over instead of suggesting something else to watch Netflix was just like do you need a minute to this she hasn't explained memoir out she joins us now Allie why welcome to Wait Wait Don't Tell me. So 1st thing on my right was that is that special which I get everybody was talking about was that the one that sort of picture up and set you off oh yeah I mean the true story that when I warmed up for my special in my hometown San Francisco I did 4 shows a comedy club that was a 400 seater and I could have that lead out so they had to put my pick it up on group bought Oh really and then yet it was so depressing I was pregnant and my friend like I thought maybe you're strong group but I like. You but it's not like a cool thing you. Know and then the moment I knew that my life had changed when I put shows up for sale at the same comedy club and they told out in 2 minutes and went on the secondary market for a 1000 dollars a piece. Wow. I mean I love the special but I was trying to figure out exactly why it became such a sensation do you have any idea what it was. It was funny I'd like to say no no of course agree honey. But I know there's really no no i just because you know that's all right good isn't one I actually sort of looking from what people thought of it and one of the things seemed to be that it was amazing to see a woman talk so Larry Asli graphically about various women's bodily functions Yeah I get like I think I'm always fascinated by how our body constantly but tres mystifies and my dad was a doctor so we always talk about those things very openly we it was never like don't talk about what the dinner table because that was his life I didn't like wasn't who he was an m.p. The olive run. It was a lot more than yes it's also because dealing with you is at the wrong end of the problem with you I and you've written a book called Dear girls it's 2 daughters including the daughter who you were pregnant with during the special right how would you know she's 4 years old and she's very aware that she was the one in the striped dress really and make me her yeah she's like I'm one of tristesse and he's in the cheetah dress right oh yeah and that I did a neck special when you were pregnant with your 2nd daughter Yes And everyone keeps asking me if I'm going to be pregnant for every single stand up special I'm like that is not a sustainable career strategist. I can get pregnant like 9 times and then you know I write in my book too about how there is a lot of guys you know who have some weird resentment and they'll say to me like oh Allie you're so lucky you get all this attention because you're both a female and a minority and I'm like yes because you know historically that's always been the winning combo you know. I'm tired of saying you know you know me I'm your so lucky it had me I'm just another white guy I'm like why don't you be. Better a white guy. Like a more funny guy so you've read this book it's called Dear girls it's got a lot of the claim deservedly so and you say in the introduction that this is a letter to your daughters who are as you just are very young and you say I don't want you to read this to your 21 and then you show what you mean by that by writing very frankly about very adult issues including your own shall we say romantic history and yet you know they're not going to wait till they're 21 to read it you know this right now oh I don't want to think about that all I want to think about is like training and you know picking them not to bite people when stuff like that but. You know the thing that I'm most in there are about that I wrote that I wrote the chapter about how crazy I was in my you made here yeah and I did all the hip terrible things like you know one of the things they did was shoplifting Yeah and I think that's the thing I'm like most embarrassed about you know not all the men I slept with I think I'm like Ok whatever that's fine yeah but it's just it's. Really really like embarrassing and an ethical So that's the thing so how will you handle it if your daughter shoplift and they have the book and they're like a bomb you did it I know my God. I'm. Nightmare right now I'm just focused on keeping them alive guy Ok All right. Ok if we we heard that your address from baby Cobra is in the Smithsonian I still have to send it to them they ask the right man I was like well you can guarantee it and I was like but you know you better than me a pretty face hit me in my forehead. I really you got a cold for it is oh you got a call from the Smithsonian Institution saying we want the dress you wore in your stand up special because it was so amazing and subtle and important and you're like who's paying the shipping. I know you have got that I think Carol. Well Ali while we're delighted to talk to you we've invited you here to play a game we're calling dear girls meet dear girls you wrote a book intended for your daughters as we discussed called Dear girl so we thought we'd ask you 3 questions about dear girls that is goes you know I did warn you Ali answer 2 questions right you'll win a prize one of our listeners Bill who is Alli one playing for Michelle Ryan of Alexandria Virginia All right you ready for this a yes you all right here's your 1st question perhaps the most famous female deer of course was Bambi's mother what happened to the young man who way back when provided the voice of Bambi was it a he became a decorated combat Marine who spent his career terrified his secret past would be discovered be he grew up to be famed character actor Charles Bronson or see he was ironically and tragically gored to death by a dear. Oh man while it definitely not be because we would all know about that that's true. I'm going to go with a you know with a that he became a decorated combat Marine Yeah he wore like a quad that it Bambi but wait that's exactly right. Was done a good thing he spent his career in the Marines as a drill sergeant and as a combat vet in Vietnam and he was constantly terrified his fellow Marines would find out about his childhood acting and Sir calling him Major Bambi. Here's your next question as Bambi the movie proved life isn't always kind to dear girls and that was doubly true of the one that ran into Canadian Explorer Frances Wharton way back when why what happened a workman who was toothless killed the deer made dentures out of its teeth and then ate the deer with its own teeth. Yeah the he desperately wanted a dog so he forced it to learn to sit up and fetch or c He married it. Oh man. That's really none of that don't you get a gun or you gonna train a deer at them but they're all right I might actually go would be going with b. He definitely one of the dogs we forced him to learn to fetch yeah now I'm afraid it was actually a woman who is a tough old guy. Very terrible thing to eat an animal with its own teeth. But he did it that would have taught the Marine what bad as you know. That was literally the menace thing ever done in Canada. All right here if you look at the last question right Al you can win it all here we go in October just of this last year in October of 21000 a woman hit a deer with her car in Ohio and police who arrived at the scene had a lot to investigate why a the woman eager to avoid a DUI insisted that the deer had been driving. The they thought the woman was terribly injured but she was just covered in blood for her how when costumes she was going as carry at the prom or see the woman hit the deer after taking a wrong turn into a corner maze and got lost I think it would be your right it's be alright if. They found. The deer the car and this woman covered in blood and they were calling the mts and she was like no no no no I'm fine I'm just carry see like the promising that's what happened but how did Allie want to do on our quiz I'll answer 2 of the 3 correctly which is. For us who would rather listen the. Only Ones new book Dear girls is out now her specials are available on Netflix and you can find out where she's touring at alli Wang dot com alley want thank you so much for joining us Ok. In just a minute we go pew pew pew in our Listener Limerick Challenge got one AAA way to join us on the air 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 I don't run bridges that I'm Felber and Alonzo Boden and here is your host at the Chase Bank Auditorium in downtown Chicago Peter Sagal Oh thank you thank you and just a minute Bill sings they had 7 favorite lyricist Stephen Sondheim in our Listener Limerick Challenge If you'd like to play give us a call one triple 8 Wait Wait that's 188-892-4894 right now panel some more questions for you from the week's news Adam researchers have discovered that at least for women red is the perfect color to wear for what. To a prom no to a funeral no. To Dinner What can you date specifically to a date with a guy named Dave No. First take 1st thing yes. Peter have been married and yes it's been a while after a while and it was like well of course yes I used to wear red dresses on my 1st day I know that's why you're happily married to this day yes yes ladies science says red is the best color to wear on a 1st date and because it's the color of blood it's also a reminder that dating makes you want to die according to The Huffington Post human men are attracted to red instinctually because females naturally flush when they are at their most fertile now I mean it's like 1800 we're trying to repopulate it well no but it's what it is it's related to the fact that as sophisticated as we might think we are we're all still primates who are still operating on basic instincts as it were some of the researchers who discovered this in fact said quote men act like animals in the sexual realm unquote So rather this is good though it means that if you're on a terrible date with a terrible 1st date and you wish you hadn't worn your red dress to impress them rather than asking a friend to text you to get you out of it just throw a stick in hell chasing. I know I mean I thought of my grandmother I don't know really bought many women who are like I wear red today for the guy. When I read these articles and I'm like I think trying to get women murder like that where I read ladies that brings out the animals and the serial killers all run to the yard like to play I'm sure if you're wearing red on your public. Eye Yes. Adam some news from space this week there's a problem in the International Space Station in dire need of a fix both of the stations what are broken microwaves. No toilets Yes toilets both of the limited lift people off things that. Both of the toilets on the international space station broke down this week don't worry official report said all the emergency backup diapers were working just fine it sounds like a joke it's not that's what they actually use until they could fix the toilets Well NASA says the crew was prepared for this like they prepared for anything it is true that one of the astronauts was very cranky and in need of a change. Because NASA worked on a fix Mission Control reroute of the I assesses orbit to pass by the nearest Starbucks. You think it's tough to get a plumber and your house that's true. I don't know how much it's going to cost to get $1.00 up to a space station Yeah I've got to bend over and 0 g. To yeah. It's going to do is it g.o.g. When you bend over to your pants lift out they come up yeah. They actually have to design a special seat. Just for that are you a wee card is this year might affect your fast food order there's now a shortage of what. But say it oh yeah well specifically meaning I 35 french fries Yes very good the threat of a national French fry shortage has many consumers terrified that they may have to eat a burger milkshake and apple pie all by themselves like back in the Great Depression . While a week of potato harvest has diminished the nation's supply Fortunately we Americans have prepared by stockpiling french fries in our abdomens for years. And here's the tragic thing we could have avoided this terrible shortage if any person who ever said I'll just have one of your fries was telling the truth. That's so American to have a shortage of a completely unnecessary food like oh yeah the great French fry famine a very rare was there. We had to eat rice. French fries I mean this we've been Table 5 like we just got me started on the white potatoes I don't know I don't actually know yeah I like the script editor I do not want a shortage of those younger healthier I like the bad ones that. I'm upset about sorry I'm aware red dress the make. Rag. Coming up it's Lightning Fill In The Blank but 1st it's the game where you have to listen for the raw and if you like to play on air call it leave a message at one AAA Wait Wait that's 188924894 or click the contact us link on our website that's wait wait at npr dot org There you can find out about attending our weekly live shows right 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 speakers it's out every Wednesday with me and Bill asking you questions all of the comfort of your home or wherever you have your smart speaker it's just like this radio show only now we can hear you. Hi you're on Wait Wait Don't Tell me I didn't mean accountant from beautiful Illinois Skokie Illinois. Is beautiful my wife is from Skokie I love Skokie What do you do there I'm an artist and bread maker I've fired bread baking. Scituate so. You know is that what you are some bread bakers call them a situation. That was a genuinely evil one I don't really want to look you're right. There in the oven are you looking Gregg welcome to there's your money Bill Kurtis is going to read you 3 news related limericks with the last word or phrase missing from each if you can fill in that last word or phrase correctly in 2 of the limericks you will be a winner ready to play I am all right here's your 1st limerick I laid bare my cat lady confession I can't tell if there's love or aggression the moods on his face aren't easy to place and I simply can't read the expression yes expression most people believe that their cats don't have facial expressions just you know resting hate face. But it turns out that cats do it facial expressions they're very expressive it's just that humans can't read them the way we can with say dogs for example depending on its facial expression a cat might be saying I want to kill and eat you. Or it might be expressing your not worth eating. It turns out though that about 17 percent of people are really skilled at reading cat faces understanding their moods and their needs those are the people the cats have agreed to let live after their uprising. They actually spend time trying to figure out cat expression as yes a lot and then if they get the expression right does the cat tell them Oh yeah you're right about that yeah yeah you got it I mean that is the guy. Here. Here is your next limerick though my wiper blades sharp as a razor for my windshield I'm seeing a glacier it won't be a pain to shoot beams at the rain here at Tesla we're mounting a blade there yeah yes indeed very good last week Tesla filed a patent to replace windshield wipers with lasers that instantly target and vaporize raindrops on the windshield. Great news it works on black kids too they sound cool yes they do and they make sense for Teslas interest in driverless cars because you wonder how they're going to make sure all those cars are driving less how about pointing the Viper rising laser directly at the driver. Didn't you have a big problem with throwing rocks through hoops that yeah that was we missed that that happened the week we were off he demonstrated his new electric truck this rhetoric or whatever and he said Let me show you how incredibly strong our windows are unbreakable he said he turned around and threw a rock at the truck and smashed the window yet he did have to lie right next Yesterday he smashed him with a good old fashioned rock but now it's going to bring in a modern laser exacto and was supposed to believe that's going to work a strong enough laser would have taken out that rock. That's true. We were we were wondering if somebody at the factory who really doesn't like him yep yep that intentionally rely Yeah they were going to put real blast with a bullet proof glass is supposed to be watch what happens to me so imagine if the laser people get loose. And I'm going to skip that demo. All right here is your last limerick since students just know swipes and clicks we teachers are trying new tricks they'll stay off their phones still the birds are full grown to distract them Wilma. Thumb raises. And you know idea great. Right. Now you've already won so I'll give it to you the answer is chicks make them race chicks 12 schools in Indonesia are trying to cut down on screen time for their students by giving them each a baby chicken to take care of can you imagine being one of these teachers suddenly your classroom is full of kids and bird poop you'd be begging them to take their phones back oh God please just watch a video so a baby bird on your desk isn't the distraction in school right I mean I think they should have these kids study cat facial expressions. That you give them something to do yeah thanks concentration Bill how deleted do on our quiz 2 of the 3 is very good for Skokie I can gradually. Well number. 2 to. Now on to our final game Lightning Fill In The Blank each of our players with of 60 seconds in which to answer as many film the blank questions as they can each correct answer is now worth 2 points Bill can you give us the school again idea and add them each have to and guess who has 3. Alonzo All right here we go to you're up 1st here we got my clock will start when I begin your 1st question film blank on Tuesday a federal appeals court in New York ruled that Deutsche Bank must hand over blanks financial records to Congress that's right this week the House voted to rebuke blank for their treatment of millions of weaker Muslims. To show no. Blurt something out anything I know there you go. This week the u.s. Justice Department announced charges against 2 Russians accused of running a cyber criminal organization called blank no. The Russians ran a cyber criminal organization called evil Corp on Thursday a spokesperson for Willie Nelson had to clarify that the musician had not stopped blanking breathing no smoking weed on Tuesday the National Board of Review named Martin Scorsese's movie blank the best film of the year Iris Yes This week a man in London who ordered a new Apple Watch was disappointed when he received a blank instead. Of no a plunger. The man ordered the $350.00 risk phone as an early Christmas gift to himself but when the package arrived all that was inside was a $5.00 plunger worse and he took it to the space station you know how did. You Bill how did I do on our quiz she got 3 right 6 more points total of 8 and for this brief shining moment she's going to be are you going to go after the e.u. . All right Adam you're up next fill in the blank on Tuesday California representative blank pled guilty to misusing campaign funds Duncan Hunter right this week the White House announced plans to tighten work requirements for people who receive blank food stamps write in protest the president proposed pension reform over 30 unions led a massive strike in blank France right just in time for the holidays the t.s.a. Confirmed that it is Ok to have blank in your carry on water an entire roast turkey Oh according to the National Retail Federation this year's blank broke shopping records Black Friday yes the new research shows the head and neck injuries related to blank used are on the rise. So yes thanks to a typo a Christmas parade in Canada promised kids the chance to take pictures with a blank slate and yes. The. Hallmarks of Valley Christmas parade is everything you could want for a winter festival pretty lights hot chocolate and a chance to take pictures with a big red man himself say. Oh. Sure at 1st it may seem a little weird to let your children sit on the lap of the Prince of Darkness but he did promise to get the kids anything they want to for Christmas all they had to do was sign a contract in blood. Bell how did Adam do on our quiz Well Adam always does well 6 right 12 more points total of 14 to push him in the lead very well you. Know how many then does Alonzo need to win 6 after those and here we go fill in the blank Alonzo this is for the game phone records released as part of the impeachment inquiry show ties between g.o.p. Representative blank and Giuliani associate Lev Parness. That's the guy on Tuesday California Senator blank announced she was ending her presidential campaign right after being admitted for a u.t.i. Former president blank was released from the hospital on Wednesday yes the onus football team lost a Mississippi State this weekend after a player was penalized for blanking to celebrate a touchdown dancing no getting down on all fours and pretending to peel like a dog according to it's a game that's you believe that according to a new study use of hair dye and straighteners are linked to a higher risk of blank cancer right this week high school in Florida became the 1st in the world to provide synthetic blanks for students to dissect a frog Yes On Wednesday 1st responders in Missouri were able to help my dog who blank had a heart attack know who had been sucked up into a room but. According to the family this sleeping should sue didn't even notice the room lurking behind it. After police arrived they were able to free the now dander free dog. Who said that she saw her life flash before her eyes and honestly that was way more than she thought there had been. Building. 13. Going. 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