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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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