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From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, the NPR News Quiz. Put on your winter boots, because I'm the voice so smooth you might slip. Filling in for Bill Curtis, I'm Chioki Ianson, and here is your host at the Altria Theater in Richmond, Virginia, Peter Sagal.
Thank you, Chioki. Thank you, everybody. Thank you.
We are so delighted to be back in Richmond with the true mayor of this city, Cherokee Iyanson, filling in just one more time for Bill Curtis. Now, later on, we're going to be talking to two members of the shock metal band GWAR, famed for their costumes and their stunts and their headbanging music. Now, the band was formed by art students and musicians right here in Richmond 40 years ago.
Meaning this band has gone all the way from having dads yell, why are you kids listening to that noise? To dads yelling, hey kids, listen to this noise. But first we want to hear what you're playing, whatever it might be. Give us a call at 1-888-WAIT-WAIT. That's 1-888-924-8924. Let's welcome our first listener contestant. Hi, you are on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.
Hi, Peter. My name is Nick Fish and I'm calling in from Philadelphia. Nick Fish. Nick Fish. That's it.
Not Nick the Fish, who'd be kind of like a notorious gangster, but just Nick Fish. That'd be Jersey. Exactly, just the fish. Well, welcome to the show, Nick. Let me introduce you to our panel this week. First up, a comedian who'll be bringing his cocktail hour comedy show, Shaking with Laughter, to the Kansas City Irish Center in Kansas City, Missouri, on February 20th. That's Adam Burke.
Hi, Nick. Next is a comedian and host of the podcast, Fake the Nation. It's Nagin Farsad. And the Emmy and Peabody Award winning journalist and comedian and host of the new Nat Geo show, What X Does to Your Body. It's Alzo Slade. What's up, Nick? You're going to play Hugh Chiocchi, this time Chiocchi I. Anson of Richmond, Virginia. 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. Are you ready to go? Let's do it. All right, here is your first quote. So, about that asteroid. That was the headline of The Atlantic on the news that a giant asteroid out in space now even has a better chance of doing what? Would that be hitting Earth?
Yes, hitting Earth. Updated calculations from NASA say that the asteroid flying by Earth in 2032, that is going to happen, well, it now has a 1 in 43 chance of hitting Earth. Just last week, we were told the asteroid only had a 1 in 100 chance. So whoever just started having an affair, God saw you. Yeah. Now, NASA is referring to it as a potential, quote, city killer. A city killer.
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Chapter 2: Who are the panelists on this episode?
Or from Alzo Slade, a bad IT guy manages to cancel all the software subscriptions for his company, but the free trials save them $1.2 million? Which one is the real story of big savings?
I think I'm going to go with Adam's story about the beavers.
That would be Adam Burke. Something appeals to you. You think that the story, I'm sorry, you think that the story about the beavers is the tooth. All right.
A whole tooth.
Well, to bring you the correct answer, here's somebody who could speak to that real story.
Environmental experts confirmed that the work was actually better than their original plans, noting that beavers always know best.
That was TikToker at ThatGoodNewsGirl talking about the real story about how beavers did it best in the Czech Republic. Congratulations, Will. You got it right. You earned a point for Adam. You have won our prize, the voice of your choice on your voicemail. Thank you so much for playing with us today. Thank you so much. Thank you so much, Will. Take care. And now the game we call Not My Job.
In 1984, a group of musicians and art students at Virginia Commonwealth University started a new band, kind of as a joke, with players and elaborate costumes and even more elaborate fictional backstories. 40 years later, GWAR is still going strong, playing over-the-top bloody stage shows around the world. We're still based in Richmond, and members Mike Bishop and Mike Dirks join us now.
Dirks and Bishop of GWAR, welcome to Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. Good to be here. Now, for anyone, I mean, it's been 40 years, so everybody should know who you are, but for the few people who don't, can you describe what GWAR is? Because it is absolutely like nothing else I've ever seen or heard.
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