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Panel Round One

PETER SAGAL, HOST:

We want to remind everyone they can join us most weeks back at the Chase Bank Auditorium in downtown Chicago. For tickets and more information, go over to WBEZ.org and you can find a link at our very own website, which, of course, is WAITWAIT.NPR.org. Panel, it is time for you to answer some questions about the week's news. Paula, New York's JFK Airport is getting a new $48 million luxury terminal just for whom?

PAULA POUNDSTONE: Oh, it's just for one person.

SAGAL: Well, not one person, one kind of passenger.

POUNDSTONE: One kind of passenger.

AUDIENCE: (Imitating dog howling).

POUNDSTONE: Oh, for pets, for animals.

(LAUGHTER)

SAGAL: Either that's the answer or they've gone feral.

(LAUGHTER)

SAGAL: Yes, it is the answer - animals, Paula, animals.

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

POUNDSTONE: That was the trapped wolves.

(APPLAUSE)

POUNDSTONE: Wow.

SAGAL: If you thought LaGuardia smelled like old cats and urine, wait...

(LAUGHTER)

SAGAL: ...Till you get a load of the ARK at JFK once it's finished. At the ARK, as it will be called, cats will get luxury lounges. Horses will get air-conditioned stalls. Dogs - this is true - get a bone-shaped pool and flat screen televisions, all presumably turned to the 24-hour squirrel channel.

(LAUGHTER)

ADAM FELBER: Squirrel, squirrel, squirrel.

POUNDSTONE: This is...

FELBER: I love this show. "Squirrel" - my favorite show. Wait, now it's my favorite show.

POUNDSTONE: Is this in the terminal or on the airplane?

SAGAL: No, this is - they're building a whole new terminal just for animals.

FELBER: Yeah because there's much room at JFK.

SAGAL: Yeah. The ARK, as it will be called, will have a special place for penguins to mate - seriously.

FELBER: Wait, I don't even get one of those at the airport.

SAGAL: I know.

(LAUGHTER)

POUNDSTONE: Well, I don't think you should be having sex with penguins.

(LAUGHTER)

POUNDSTONE: I feel very strongly about that.

FELBER: And I feel like you're just trying to suppress my identity right there.

POUNDSTONE: No, after what happened with the flamingos I feel...

(LAUGHTER)

FELBER: That was consensual.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "TALK TO THE ANIMALS")

UNIDENTIFIED ARTIST: (Singing) Whoa, if I could talk to the animals, just imagine it, chattin' with a chimp in chimpanzee. Imagine talking to a tiger, chattin' with a cheetah, what a neat achievement it would be. If we could talk to the animals and learn their languages, maybe take an animal degree, I'd study elephant and eagle...

SAGAL: Coming up, our panelists seek redemption and lie to you. It's our Bluff The Listener game. 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.

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