Faith Saley
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Yes, Rose Matafeo, our guest, became an accidental supporter of the University of Minnesota, where she wore one of your shirts on her TV special. Is everybody at the University of Minnesota talking about that? Is just the buzz of the campus?
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A doctor performs his own vasectomy as a gift to his wife. Cutting out the middleman, I guess. Your last homespun tale comes from Faith Saley.
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Mean bluey daddy. All right, let me review these do-it-yourself projects, one of which we found in the news. From Hari Kondabolu, an enterprising park ranger at Lincoln's birthplace decides to make it more, you know, national park-like. From Paula Poundstone, a doctor who performed his own vasectomy on himself.
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And from Faith Saley, somebody who tried to be a character from TV on his own and ended up coming up with his own meaner, more effective version. Which of these is the real story of a do-it-yourself project in the news?
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You're going to go with Paula's story about the DIY vasectomy. Well, that's your choice then. To bring you the real answer, we spoke to an expert on this particular act of creation.
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That was Dr. Jugan Cancel, founder of Down There Urology, talking about the DIY vasectomy. Congratulations, Savannah, you got it right. Thank you so much. Take care. And now the game we call Not My Job. When she was in high school in Oakland, California, a young woman named Maya picked the online handle MXM Tune and started posting videos of herself playing the ukulele and began to blow up.
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Right, exactly. But basically what you're saying is you're a PhD plant biology student. You don't talk to anybody.
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Today, she is touring the world performing her own original music with millions of followers on every platform and a new album called Liminal Space MXM Tune. Welcome to Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. This is the most surreal experience I've ever had in my life.
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If I understand correctly, your stage name, your online name, MXM Tune, began because you were a cartoonist as a very young person and you were like posting cartoons, right?
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No. But something was, and I'm told it was the ukulele. Yeah. So you were posting your videos of yourself playing the ukulele. How did you know they were getting popular?
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I do, yeah. Well, welcome to the show, Daniel. Let me introduce you to our panel this week. First, the contributor to CBS Sunday Morning, it's Faith Saley.
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So you just said you blew up in the internet playing music, so you decided to skip college and become a professional musician. Did you like walk into your parents one day and say, guess what, everybody? I'm skipping college, and I'm going to go just be a musician on YouTube.
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Did it get to the point where your parents never wanted to get in the car with you? Oh, God.
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Next, a comedian headlining The Laughing Tap in Milwaukee, March 20th through the 22nd, and at the Gramercy in New York City on May 29th, it's Hari Kondabolu. Hey, Daniel. And you can see her February 8th in Glendale, California, at the Alex Theater, and hear her just about every week on the podcast, and nobody listens to Paula Poundstone. It's Paula Poundstone. Daniel.
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I want to talk a little bit about your music because you've progressed, and I mean no offense to the great ukulele players, but you have progressed far beyond merely playing the ukulele.
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You are writing and performing these beautiful heartfelt songs that actually remind me of like the great torch singers like Dionne Warwick or Peggy Lee or these amazing women who sang these heartfelt songs about heartbreak and stuff. Did you have a particular inspiration? Did you have a sound or a person you were trying to emulate or reach when you started
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I mean, he is just the best. I love him. What's better than that? You're listening to Kermit and you go, you know what else is not easy being? Me. It's not easy being me. I want to sing about that. What I love about your music is it's timeless, but it seems very much for and by your generation, which I guess technically is Gen Z. Am I right about that?
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Like you have this one lyric in one of your songs, one of your love songs that I love, where you talk about, the singer talks about a relationship with this other person, we snap together like Legos. And I was like, that is perfect.
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You actually brought something I was going to ask you, which is one of your songs, Prom Dress, which is a beautiful song about a prom dress and a moment in a life when a woman finds herself wearing one, went viral on TikTok, right? And everybody's posting it with themselves in their prom dresses. Is that kind of fame fun to know that the entire world knows 40 seconds of one of your songs?
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I was about to say, I don't know if it was intentional, but it was smart because just as we will always have Christmas, we will always have sad teenagers at prom season. Yeah.
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Well, Maya, it is enormous fun to talk to you. And we have invited you here to play a game we're calling...
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By which we mean those charming animated mascots that help sell M&M candies. You know, that always make us feel a little weird when we get around to eating them. We're going to ask you three questions about those cartoon candies. If you get two right, you win a prize. One of our listeners, the voice of their choice in their answering machine. Choki, who is Maya playing for?
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All right. So, here's your first question. For Eminem's 75th anniversary, they released a video showing 360-degree views inside the Eminem mascot's homes, right? One feature of the orange Eminem's house surprised some people. What was it? A, six locks on the front door. B, a tanning bed. Or C, a Robert Mapplethorpe print.
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While it might be ominous, it is true. Apparently, Orange's little quirk is that he's paranoid about being eaten. I can't imagine why. So his apartment has six locks and a monitor showing feeds from nine security cameras. Okay, so here's your next question. You got two more, you can do it.
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So, Daniel, welcome to the show. You're going to play Who's Chayoke? This time, Chayoke Ianson filling in for Bill Curtis is going to read you three quotations from this week's news. If you can correctly identify or explain just two of them, you'll win our prize. Any voice from our show you might choose in your voicemail. You ready to play? Absolutely. All right.
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Before her redesign in 2022, the green M&M was a female with big eyelashes and go-go boots, relatively sexy for a candy. Why was she designed to be sexy? Was it A, because research showed that people get hungrier when they are feeling romantic, B, because of the widely held belief that green M&Ms were an aphrodisiac,
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or C, because of a planned but abandoned ad campaign featuring a passionate love affair between her and the Jolly Green Giant. Wow!
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It is, in fact. Because apparently, certain members of the audience... I'm not saying they're old enough personally, but they might have heard that back in the 70s, that was a widespread rumor that green M&Ms were an aphrodisiac. It was the thing. It really was. All right. That's good. You got one right with one to go. If you get this, you win. Here's your last question.
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M&Ms almost had a live mascot. They asked Kevin Bacon, the actor, to do a commercial where he would dance to the song Footloose from his famous movie in a yellow M&M costume, but he turned them down. Why did he turn them down? Was it A, his agent told him, you're Kevin freaking Bacon, you don't play the yellow M&M, you play the blue M&M.
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B, because he was doing ads for Hormel Bacon and his deal banned him from representing any other food. Or C, because his wife, he said, gets too creeped out by the concept of talking food.
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And you're right. His wife, Kira Sedgwick, said, quote, doesn't like it when food talks and put her foot down about it.
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Your first quote is from the governor of the great state of Louisiana. I hope everyone is safe and warm at home with a big pot of gumbo. What rare weather event are the people of Louisiana dealing with this week?
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This is going to be the best coming out I've ever had. That's great. Mom, Dad, let's go for a ride. Really? No, this time you'll enjoy it. MXM Tune's new album is Liminal Space. It's delightful and moving and beautiful. You can hear her play it on her upcoming world tour. Dates and more information are over, of course, at MXMTune.com. MXM Tune, Maya, thank you so much for joining us.
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What a pleasure to talk to you. Thanks for listening. Thanks for playing. And we'll see you around. Take care. Thank you so much for having me. Bye-bye. Good luck. In just a minute, why you really should check in on all your penguin friends. That's in our listener limerick challenge. Call 1-888-WAIT-WAIT to join us on the air.
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We'll be back in a minute with more of Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me from NPR.
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Thank you, Chioki. Thank you so much. In just a minute, did you know... Did you know every week in America, as many as three limericks go unfinished? You can help in our listener limerick challenge game. If you'd like to play, give us a call at 1-888-WAIT-WAIT. That's 1-888-924-8924. Right now, panel, it is time for you to answer some questions about this week's news.
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Hari, we're all familiar with the concept of safe words. Yes. An article in the New York Post says safe words can also be useful while doing what other activity? Bobbing for apples. That's very specific. I'll give you a hint. You might want to use these safe words when you're involved in risky activities like overseeing mass play dates or bath time. Parenting. Yes, parenting safe words.
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Here's the idea. Say your toddler is having a tantrum. You've been dealing with her all day, and you're about to snap, and you need your partner to take over. Well, you just yell out, Michael Barbaro, or whatever your safe word might be. And the trick here is that your kids are listening, so your safe word can't be something like, I hate them, or you were adopted.
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I was about to say that was more of a threat. Yeah. Faith, there's a new option out there for couples who cannot decide between a big wedding and a small intimate wedding. Some couples are now having what?
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No, that would be the old way of doing it, to compromise.
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Yes, they're having his and hers weddings. An invitee took to a wedding page on Reddit to tell this story. The bride wanted a small wedding, intimate friends, family. The groom wanted a huge wedding with everybody. So they decided, let's have his and hers weddings. It was that or the other really fun option. Realize they're two fundamentally different people.
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You and me and all the other northerners were laughing as we looked at New Orleans covered in snow. They warned us the weather would get weird. It has a cold front moved across the south, dumping a record-breaking 10 inches of snow on New Orleans. But the party goes on, right? It always does there on Bourbon Street. You take off your shirt, you get beads and frostbite.
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So each wedding for this particular couple had its own venue, its own wedding planner, and yes, two separate registries.
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Yes. Yes. I think if you, I mean, all right, deciding you're going to have two weddings because you can't agree on what kind of wedding you want to have is one thing. Not inviting the person you're marrying to your wedding, I think is definitely a sign.
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So you have like a main attraction and a sideshow wedding?
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All right. And now it's a game we're going to call No Complaining January. So in honor of No Complaining January, Chioki is going to read each of you a real headline we found in this week's news. You have to say something positive about it. That's the challenge.
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You say something positive about these alarming headlines, you get a point. All right. We're going to start with Faith. Here we go. This headline's for you. Say something positive after you hear it. Your first headline is about something weird that happened with a fresh fish entree.
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Chioki, what do you think? We got it. One point. One point. Okay. All right, Paula, this one is for you.
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Coming up, it's lightning fill in the blank, but first it's the game where you have to listen for the rhyme. If you'd like to play on air, call or leave a message at 1-888-WAIT-WAIT. That's 1-888-924-8924. You can catch us most weeks right here at the Studebaker Theater in beautiful downtown Chicago, or come see us on the road.
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For example, we'll be at the Walt Disney Theater in Orlando, Florida on March 20th. For tickets and information to all our live shows, go to nprpresents.org. Hi, everyone. Wait, wait, don't tell me.
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Austin, one of our very favorite places. What do you do there?
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It's the law. You have to do it. You're not allowed into town unless you're carrying a guitar and your heart on your sleeve.
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That's cool. Well, Kate, welcome to the show. Chioki Ianson is going to read you three news-related limericks with the last word or phrase missing from each. If you can fill in that last word or phrase correctly into the limericks, you'll be a winner. You ready to go?
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Soup, yes! This week, Progresso, the soup company, introduced soup-flavored hard candies called Soup Drops.
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Which they describe as, quote, soup you can suck on. It's big news in my household because my kid has such a soup tooth.
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Divorce. Yes, indeed. Penguins are supposed to be monogamous for life, so everyone is alarmed by a new study showing that a certain population of penguins have a divorce rate between 25 and 50%. I guess a certain flightless bird can stop being so smug at the PTA meetings.
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According to the study, if a reproduction does not go well for a couple of penguins for about a year, penguins will just split up, right? They'll just go their separate ways. I wonder what those fights are like. The male says, sorry, baby, I just need to spread my wings. And the female's like, and do what with them?
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Rust? Rust, yes. 100 medal winners from the Olympics in Paris last summer have complained to the International Olympic Committee that their medals are falling apart. They're flaking away. And these champions shouldn't have the rust medal. That's what you get if you're fourth place.
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I have no idea what you're referring to, Faith. But I mean, can you imagine what's going on in the city right now? All the drunken bachelorette parties staggering into stores to buy everybody emergency Uggs.
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So these medals from Paris that they've been posting photographs have visible signs of obvious crumbling and staining and wear. You may remember when they made these medals, the company that made them announced that they have included in them iron from the Eiffel Tower built into them. So don't worry everybody, it's not the Olympic medals that are falling apart, it's just the Eiffel Tower.
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Bronze, silver, and gold, although the phenomenon seems to be centered on the bronze medals.
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Oh, well, yeah, okay. I can... Yeah, what do you expect? You came in third. You wanted something of quality?
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It's rusted away. So athletes are actually sending the medals back to the committee saying, hey, can I get a new medal that won't fall away? It's obviously the Olympians' fault. It says right in the back of the medal, not dishwasher safe.
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Congratulations, Kate. Well done. Thank you so much. We'll come down and hope to see you on 6th Street next time we're in Austin. Take care.
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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 now worth two points. Joki, can you give us the scores?
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All right, Paula, you are doing particularly well. So we are going to arbitrarily pick Hurry to go first. The clock will start when I begin your first question, Fill in the Blank. On Wednesday, thousands of people in Southern California were evacuated after a new blank started in the area. Fire. Right. After the ceasefire took effect, over 2,000 aid trucks were able to enter blank. Gaza. Right.
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On Thursday, a federal judge blocked President Trump's order to end birthright blank. Citizenship. Right. According to the Congressional Budget Office, by 2035, the federal blank will jump to $2.7 trillion. Debt. Yeah, deficit. This week, for the first time in the history of the NHL, the outcome of a game was influenced by blank. Who cares? It's hockey. Well... No, some people care very deeply.
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It's the first time, at least in modern memory, snow has come to that city down there on the Gulf of America. Yeah.
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It was a tray of nachos a fan threw into the ice. It distracted the goalie. This weekend, NASA told Skywatchers that six blanks will be visible from Earth at once. Planets. Right. This week, an 84-year-old man in the UK successfully fended off a mugger by repeatedly blanking. Crying. No, by repeatedly hitting him with a pair of jeans.
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The would-be mugger attacked the 84-year-old at a laundromat, so he grabbed the closest thing he had, a pair of jeans, and repeatedly swatted the guy with them. The man was at a huge advantage because he had both a 65-inch reach and a 36-inch inseam.
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Faith, you are up next. Please fill in the blank. On Wednesday, the Trump administration said they were sending 1,500 troops to the blank.
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Right. After announcing a record jump in subscribers, streaming giant blank said it would be raising prices.
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Right. For the first time in a decade, the Ohio State Buckeyes beat Notre Dame to win the blank championship.
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On Tuesday, three top tech firms announced a $500 billion investment focused on the development of blank.
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No, AI. Following the success of spinoff shows like FBI Most Wanted and FBI International, CBS unveiled the newest show in their FBI franchise, Blank.
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On Wednesday, Nepal announced they were increasing the fee to climb blank to $15,000. Mount Everest. Right. On Thursday, Emilia Perez and Wicked led the nominations for the 2025 Blank Awards.
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Yes. This week, a medical journal found a new side effect of the trendy carnivore diet, which involves eating massive amounts of meat, cheese, and butter. It may make your hands blank.
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According to the study, after eight months on this carnivorous diet, a man in Florida had such high levels of cholesterol that it literally started leaking out from his hands. Now, I know what you're wondering. Was it the good cholesterol or the bad cholesterol? It's actually kind of interesting. It was the gross cholesterol. That is gross.
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All right. So then how many does Paula need to pull away and win it all? Five. Five. Here we go, Paula. This is for the game Fill in the Blank. On Tuesday, the White House announced plans to impose steep blanks on goods from China, Mexico, and Canada. Tariffs. Right. According to officials in Georgia, blank flu was found in commercial poultry. Bird flu. Right.
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This week, Thailand formally legalized same-sex blanks. Marriage. Right. On Tuesday, YouTube star Mr. Beast announced he was considering buying social media app Blank. TikTok. Right. This week, an Ohio man who crashed into a fire hydrant asked police to give him a break because blank. He was hot. No, he asked police to give him a break because he'd been drinking.
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On Thursday, scientists warned that coral bleaching in the blank reef had reached catastrophic levels. In the coral reef?
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And Daniel, you will appreciate this. If somebody lives in Minnesota, I live in Chicago, nothing is more fun than watching people in a state that never gets snow trying to deal with snow. It's great. They're out there with like whisk brooms and spatulas.
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It's on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. That's what I meant. On Monday, new data showed that the Earth's magnetic blank was shifting.
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Right. This week, a woman in Indonesia had to call the fire department to free her after her blank got caught in an office chair.
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No, her nose ring. Oh, jeez. In a story that is definitely not, we think, about a woman sniffing furniture, the office worker had to call for help after her nose ring got tangled in the mesh of her office chair. According to the fire chief, quote, the incident wasn't the strangest call we've ever had, which really makes you wonder what other piercings have gotten stuck to chairs.
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Thank you very much. In just a minute, we're going to ask our panelists to predict after we finish No Complaining January, what will be the first complaint heard on February 1st. But first, let me tell you that Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me is a production of NPR and WBEZ Chicago in association with Urgent Haircut Productions. Doug Berman. benevolent overlord. Philip Koticka writes our limericks.
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Our public address announcer is Paul Friedman. Our tour manager is Shana Donald. Thanks to the staff and crew. At the Studebaker Theatre, BJ Lederman composed our theme. Our program is produced by Jennifer Mills, Miles Dornboss, and Lillian King. Special thanks to Biddy Mbizuna and Monica Hickey. Peter Gwynn is our COOL. Emma Choi is our vibe curator, technical directionist from Lorna White.
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Our CFO is Colin Miller, our production manager. That's Robert Newhouse. Special thanks this week to Gary Yak. Our senior producer is Ian Chilock. The executive producer of Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me is Mike Danforth. And now, panel, what will people be complaining about as soon as they are allowed to on February 1st? Hari Kondabolu.
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Thank you, T.O.K. Hanson, doing another fabulous job filling in for our friend Bill Curtis. Thanks also to Hari Kondabolu, Faith Saley, and Paula Poundstone. Thanks to all of you here at the Studio Baker Theater, our home theater. And for the moment of yours, thanks to all of you who are listening wherever you might be. I'm Peter Sagal. We'll see you next week. This is NPR.
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Now, Daniel... Daniel, your next quote is somebody who launched a new social movement for January. Why am I grumbling right now? And is it necessary? So that person, she's based in Belgium, she started this movement which is asking people to not do what for the whole month of January?
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But you are on the right track. Dry January means no wine. This means no whining. Not complaining. Not complaining, yes. Welcome, everybody, to No Complaining January. You've heard of Dry January? Now a social campaign movement out of Belgium and the Netherlands has banned complaining for the entire month.
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It's a great idea, and whoever decided to pair it with the month that I also gave up alcohol, genius.
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Talking behind each other's back strikes me as another sort of subset of complaining, right? Because they're not calling you up and going, hurry, your father, he's so wonderful.
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You know, on the other hand, I mean, it would be a good exercise to just spend one month trying to look on the bright side of whatever happens to you. So you're like, you know, some of these bankruptcy judges, they're really nice. Right? for example. These extra pounds really fill up my pants. Exactly. Now you've got it.
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I've never noticed how interesting the inside roof of an ambulance is now that I can stare at it for a while.
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All right. Here, Daniel, is your last quote. It's called boomerasking. If you do it, stop. Now, that was from a Wall Street Journal article on boomerasking, which is the latest trend in conversation they are noting and condemning. It's boomerang asking. And what that is is when you ask someone a question just so they will do what?
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Exactly. Ask you the same question, right? So, boomer asking is the term that was just invented for asking someone a question, not because you were interested in their answer, but just because you want them to ask you that question so you can tell them what you want to tell them. It was in the Wall Street Journal. Do you guys read that every day, panel?
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Thank you. Great to be with you. We have a fabulous show for you all today. Later on, we're going to be talking to the musician MXM Tune, who has become hugely popular performing her music online. Basically, she is to the internet what Bruce Springsteen is to New Jersey. And we want to hear your hits, so give us a call and play our games. The number is 1-888-WAIT-WAIT. That's 1-888-924-8924.
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There you go. Very good. That's boomer asking. We just demonstrated it.
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Or when your father asks you if you've watched Yellowstone yet.
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That's not exactly it. I'm going to do it anyway. You can say the Wall Street Journal told you it was okay, right?
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It would be weird if you realize your therapist is doing this. And all along... All along, she's just wanted you to ask her about her mother.
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Exactly. Chioki, how did Daniel do on our quiz? Eh, can't complain. Hey! There you go.
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Congratulations, Daniel. Nice work, Daniel. Thank you. Right now, panel, it is time for you to answer some questions about this week's news. Faith, the New York Times offered a new way to experience local culture while traveling. Just do what?
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Yes, a go to McDonald's. A travel writer points out that while Americans usually seek out, you know, these out-of-the-way authentic local cafes in a foreign country, all the people who live there are eating at McDonald's to get away from the tourists at the authentic cafes, right?
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That's what he says. He says it's a great way to meet just normal people who live where you're visiting.
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Very pale skin. No, he points out that they've had McDonald's as long as we've had things like Chinese and Thai restaurants. So why aren't there, why can't we say those restaurants over there are just a part of their culture? Yeah.
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They do. They do. And of course, you know, there are variations in the menus from country to country. In India, it's all vegetarian, for example. Plus, it's so fun to walk in and be like, tell me, here in your country, what does your grimace look like?
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So when you went to science school, you said, I want to do fermentation, but not the fun kind.
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Always a mistake. Well, welcome to the show, Savannah. You're going to play our game in which you have to tell truth from fiction. Shoki, what is Savannah's topic?
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Why have something done well when you could do it yourself instead? Our panelists are going to tell you about somebody who did a surprising do-it-yourself project this week with interesting results. Pick the one who's telling the truth, and you can win the weight-waiter of your choice in your voicemail. Are you ready to play? I'm ready. Let's go. Well, first, let's hear from Hari Kondabolu.
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A park ranger decides that she wants her park to not be quite so boring and gets to work. Your next self-sufficiency story comes from Paula Poundstone.