Panel Round One
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Saturday, January 11, 2014
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In The Mood For Meh.
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PETER SAGAL, HOST:
We want to remind everyone that they can join us here most weeks at the Chase Bank Auditorium. For tickets and more information go to wbez.org, or you can find a link at our website, waitwait.npr.org. Right now, panel, time for you to answer some questions about this week's news.
Paula, a new study shows that people will often do what, even when not in the mood for it?
PAULA POUNDSTONE: They will often do what when not in the mood for it?
SAGAL: Can I give you a hint?
POUNDSTONE: Yes, please.
SAGAL: It's like OMG I am so hot for you.
ADAM FELBER: Oh wow.
POUNDSTONE: Have sex?
SAGAL: Well, a sort of more modern technological version of that.
POUNDSTONE: Jump in the Orgasmatron?
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: The OMG was a clue.
POUNDSTONE: Oh, sext.
SAGAL: Yes, sexting.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
(APPLAUSE)
POUNDSTONE: I find that bizarre that people do it even when they are in the mood for it. What would - I don't understand. So you're not talking to the person, and you're not with the person. You're just writing things spelled wrong.
FELBER: Misspelling is optional.
POUNDSTONE: OMG, I'm so into U?
SAGAL: Capital letter U.
POUNDSTONE: Because you don't have time to write a Y and an O. Now I feel bad for Mark Weiner.
SAGAL: Anthony Weiner.
CHARLIE PIERCE: Anthony, because everybody calls him Anthony?
POUNDSTONE: Oh, excuse me, Anthony Weiner was just bored. I just think that if we could've been more stimulating as a nation, he would not have sent pictures of his private parts to women.
SAGAL: Coming up, our panelists give presentations on bad presentations. It's our Bluff the Listener Game. Call 1-888-WAIT-WAIT to play. And Mary Matalin joins us to play Not My Job.
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