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Panel Round Two

BILL KURTIS, BYLINE: From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is WAIT WAIT ...DON'T TELL ME, the NPR News quiz. I'm Bill Kurtis. We are playing this week with Roy Blount, Jr., Alonzo Bodden and Roxanne Roberts. And here, again, is your host at the Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, Peter Sagal.

PETER SAGAL, HOST:

Thank you. Thank you everybody.

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SAGAL: In just a minute, Bill will honor our hosts here at the University of Michigan by finding a word that rhymes with buckeye. It's the Listener Limerick challenge.

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SAGAL: If you'd like to play, give us a call at 1-888-WAIT-WAIT. That's 1-888-924-8924. Right now, panel, some more questions for you from the week's news. Roxanne, Pope Francis is safely back in Rome after his trip to the U.S., but a Democratic congressman from Pennsylvania made sure he'd have something to remember the pope by. What did he do?

ROXANNE ROBERTS: He went to the lectern and took the glass of water that the pope had...

SAGAL: That's exactly right.

ROBERTS: ...And stole it.

SAGAL: He did. He stole it.

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SAGAL: He boosted it. Congressman Bob Brady of Pennsylvania says as the - soon as the pope took a drink from the water glass during his visit to the capital, he knew what he had to do. He said, quote, "I watched him drink three or four times from the glass, and I said, I'm going to go get that," which is not the first time that drinking has been mixed with a terrible decision. Brady has done this before. He took the glass President Obama drank out of during his inauguration. He has a bathtub filled with the tears of John Boehner.

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SAGAL: Seizes his chance. If you happen to go out to eat with Congressman Bob Brady and you need to go to the bathroom, take your plate with you. This is great

ALONZO BODDEN: If you stole a glass from the pope, wouldn't he just forgive you?

SAGAL: This pope would. Pope Benedict would excommunicate you, but this guy's nice. Roxanne.

ROBERTS: Yes.

SAGAL: As thousands of refugees continue to flood into Europe, many entering Finland are facing a unique problem and they're turning back. They say they can't stay in Finland. Why?

ROBERTS: Does it have anything to do with Helsinki?

SAGAL: If I said yes, what would you then say?

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ROBERTS: I'm thinking saunas. I'm thinking hot blonde girls.

SAGAL: You don't know anything about Helsinki.

ROBERTS: I was in Helsinki for about four hours once, so...

BODDEN: There you go.

SAGAL: And how did you find Helsinki. Did you enjoy yourself?

ROBERTS: Very clean.

SAGAL: Very clean.

ROBERTS: Very clean.

SAGAL: Did you engage in a lot of exciting activities there?

ROBERTS: No, I didn't have time.

SAGAL: OK, so you would say that Helsinki was...

ROBERTS: Boring.

SAGAL: Exactly, that's the problem.

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ROBERTS: Oh.

SAGAL: They are getting - the people are getting to Finland and they're leaving 'cause it's too boring. Said one Iraqi refugee who had just been welcomed into Finland, quote, "you can tell the world I hate Finland. It's too cold, there's no tea, no restaurants, no bars, nobody on the streets," unquote. I mean, sure, Iraq is a horrific deathtrap, but at least there's stuff to do there.

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ROBERTS: These are some picky refugees.

SAGAL: They absolutely are.

ROBERTS: I'm just saying.

BODDEN: Maybe they just don't like this guy.

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BODDEN: Like, really, like nobody's telling him - nobody's telling him, like, hey, tell him there are no bars here.

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SAGAL: That guy's a malcontent. We don't want to drink with him. Now, this refugee, if, presumably, he has a choice, he might want to go to Germany where - and this is true - at least one refugee senator - excuse me - at least one refugee center, they're offering Zumba classes to refugees. It's great. One refugee said, I lost everything I have and four pounds off my hips.

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ROY BLOUNT JR.: When you said refugee senator - refugee senator just then, I thought, oh, we lost one.

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