PETER SAGAL, HOST:
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FAITH SALIE: Oh, that beautiful gold and blue beard off of the King Tut.
SAGAL: Exactly. They broke King Tut's beard off.
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SAGAL: The museum admitted this week that due to negligence, somebody snapped off King Tut's beard - you know, the very famous funeral mask made of solid gold. Either that or Tut did it himself because at 3,000 years old he can no longer pull off the whole hipster thing.
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SAGAL: Report say that the long beard that's attached to the mask was accidentally knocked off last fall by one of the museum's cleaners - one of their cleaners. Was it like, yeah, Todd, tonight I'd like you to do the fourth floor washrooms, the foyer, and give the most celebrated ancient artifact in the world a good once over, why don't you?
ALONZO BODDEN: Do we know where Indiana Jones was when this happened?
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SAGAL: Egyptian newspapers were just outraged with this story with the scathing headline, bird, squiggly line, eyeball, cat.
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SAGAL: PJ, Pope Francis said this week that Catholics do not need to breed like rabbits. Wel, not everybody was happy about this, particularly who?
O'ROURKE: Rabbits.
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SAGAL: Well...
O'ROURKE: Rabbit breeders.
SAGAL: Exactly right. Rabbit breeders.
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SALIE: Even better.
SAGAL: During an hour-long news conference this week, Pope Francis told reporters, quote, "some think that in order to be good Catholics we have to be like rabbits, but no." Unquote. He didn't endorse contraception or anything, of course. He just encouraged Catholic families to, you know, cool it. Maybe binge watch Netflix or something. That's fine. Keep you occupied. Of course, his words offended some, like a man named Erwin Leowsky, president of the German Rabbit Breeders Association, who actually denied rabbits breed like rabbits.
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SAGAL: He actually said - I believe he said this - that you shouldn't say breed like rabbits. Rabbits are actually relatively normal in their reproduction cycles. Mice, he said - mice are the ones who are, like, breeding like - mice are the ones breeding like rabbits. Oh, no. I did it too.
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BODDEN: Hey, Peter.
SAGAL: Yes?
BODDEN: You're about to hear from the mice people.
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O'ROURKE: The mice people are out there in force.
SAGAL: (Imitating mouse) Dear, WAIT WAIT DON'T TELL ME, normally I find your show very amazing but this week...
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BODDEN: OK, now you're going to hear from Disney.
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