Panel Round One
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Saturday, September 13, 2014
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Our panelists answer questions about the week's news: Too Big for Your Britches.
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PETER SAGAL, HOST:
We want to remind everyone to join us most weeks right here at the Chase Bank Auditorium in beautiful downtown Chicago. For tickets and more information, just browse on over to wbez.org, or you can find a link at our website, waitwait.npr.org. Now panel, time for you to answer some questions about this week's news. Roxanne, as everyone was talking about, Apple introduced the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus on Tuesday. And The Wall Street Journal in their series Coverage pointed out the phones might be difficult to use by people who have what?
ROXANNE ROBERTS: No fingers.
SAGAL: No.
(LAUGHTER)
ROBERTS: I mean, it would, right.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: It's true. That is a good point.
BRIAN BABYLON: It's true.
ROBERTS: Let's see. Old people who couldn't see the screen very well even though it's a bigger screen.
SAGAL: No. Let's see. Who has this? - hipsters, skinny models.
ROBERTS: Models and hipsters. Of course, I don't hang around too many hipsters.
MOSHE KASHER: Hipsters like to wear pants that are very.
BABYLON: Shmedium.
ROBERTS: Tight.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: Yes. Tight jeans is the answer.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
ROBERTS: Tight jeans so they can't fit them into it.
SAGAL: Right.
ROBERTS: Oh, OK.
SAGAL: The new phones are the larger than the old phone. The iPhone 6 Plus is so big, it comes with a normal sized phone you use as a remote control.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: And leave it to The Wall Street Journal to point out, quote, "some people who favor tighter jeans may have more difficulty fitting it into their pockets," unquote.
KASHER: And you know that The Wall Street Journal has their finger on the pulse of the hipster community.
SAGAL: It's true.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: But I mean - really, I mean, seriously it's The Wall Street Journal. Their readers only wear tight jeans if they accidentally put on a pair that belongs to their 26-year-old trophy wives.
(LAUGHTER)
BABYLON: I'm into the new iPhone because, you know, I think they purposely put something in your iPhone 5 to kind of, like, act gremliny when the announcement comes out.
SAGAL: Yeah.
BABYLON: Did you notice that? You can't do this. You can't open it. Siri starts talking, like, in other accents.
SAGAL: Yeah. Mine starts talking to me like Linda Blair in the exorcist.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: Put me down.
(LAUGHTER)
BABYLON: They know what they're doing.
KASHER: Sorry, Brian, you can afford a new phone.
BABYLON: Wow.
(LAUGHTER)
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