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Panel Round One

PETER SAGAL, HOST:

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Right now, panel, time for you answer some questions about this week's news. Amy.

AMY DICKINSON: Yeah?

SAGAL: You'll enjoy this as an advice columnist.

DICKINSON: OK.

SAGAL: Erik DeVries hadn't seen his sister Josephine in 15 years, so he was both delighted and kind of disturbed when he met her again how?

DICKINSON: It has to be on a date.

SAGAL: It was, but even before the date, he swiped right.

DICKINSON: Oh, Tinder.

SAGAL: Yes, he found her on Tinder.

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

DICKINSON: And, oh, my gosh, but like, did he know it was her on Tinder?

SAGAL: Well, this is what happened. I mean, you never know when Cupid's arrow will strike. The same is true for the crooked spear of Incestro.

(LAUGHTER)

SAGAL: So, you know Tinder, right? It's the thing where the pictures pop up and you swipe left if you don't like them and right if you do. Well, Erik DeVries was scrolling through the potential dates and he saw a woman who looked attractive in a kind of sexually familiar way, and...

(LAUGHTER)

SAGAL: ...Meanwhile, Josephine looking at Tinder - 'cause you both have to swipe right, right - liked what she saw - someone strong but sensitive. A nice cross between, say, her mom and her dad.

(LAUGHTER)

SAGAL: So they both swiped right. Oh, wow, nice person. And they started chatting on Tinder, and they started to realize that things were getting a little too familiar. Wait, you have an Uncle Gary too? Wait, you have the genetic sequence DYS455?

(LAUGHTER)

PETER GROSZ: Wait, you all - you slept on the top bunk? And see, if this were like 400 years ago, they would be British royalty.

SAGAL: This is true.

DICKINSON: So they were actually full bio siblings.

SAGAL: Yeah, who had completely lost touch through some family catastrophe or another.

DICKINSON: Wow, I hope to be hearing from them very soon.

SAGAL: I think so.

(LAUGHTER)

SAGAL: Isn't that - I mean, how long would it take you to get over the huge icky factor when you realized you were attracted to your own sibling?

DICKINSON: It's pretty big, especially thinking about my siblings, frankly.

SAGAL: Oh, yeah.

GROSZ: How could you keep Tinder on your phone after that? You'd just be like - you did this to me, Tinder.

(LAUGHTER)

SAGAL: Well, on the other hand, assuming you only have one sister, from now on, you're safe.

GROSZ: Yeah, that's true.

APARNA NANCHERLA: It should have a filter on dating apps - no siblings please.

GROSZ: Yes. And then you get really desperate.

DICKINSON: Although in Texas...

NANCHERLA: Yeah, yeah.

GROSZ: Oh, it's been a long time.

NANCHERLA: I just need the validation.

GROSZ: Exactly. I just need someone to swipe right already.

SAGAL: Coming up, a Bluff The Listener game about a certain state that's just south of North Dakota. Call 1-888-WAIT-WAIT to play. We'll be back in a minute with more of WAIT WAIT ...DON'T TELL ME from NPR. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.

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