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PETER SAGAL, HOST:

From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is Wait Wait… Will not Convey to ME, the NPR news quiz. I am Bill Kurtis. We are taking part in this 7 days with Negin Farsad, Mo Rocca and Amy Dickinson. And listed here all over again is your host, a man who just discovered there’s a scaled-down Peter inside of of him…

NEGIN FARSAD: (Laughter).

Monthly bill KURTIS: …And then there’s an even more compact Peter within of that Peter and an even lesser Peter inside of that Peter, Peter Sagal.

SAGAL: Many thanks, Invoice.

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SAGAL: Proper now, it is time for the Wait around Hold out… Never Convey to ME Bluff the Listener match. Connect with 1-888-Wait around-Wait to participate in our sport on the air. Hello, you are on Wait Wait around… Will not Notify ME.

KARA DUNN: Hello. This is Kara Dunn, and I am contacting from a silent corner of Morrisville, Vt., referred to as Mud Town.

SAGAL: Mud Metropolis. So Morrisville, Vt. – a silent corner of Morrisville, Vt. I’m assuming that the relaxation of Morrisville is taking place all the time.

MO ROCCA: Spring split – spring split.

FARSAD: (Laughter).

SAGAL: Why is the area of Morrisville, Vt., that you happen to be in known as Mud City?

DUNN: Nicely, I come to feel like it may possibly be fairly clear, but it is a muddy very little corner that is predominantly a dairy farm region. So it truly is just pretty, quite muddy.

ROCCA: Wow.

FARSAD: So the mud is far more, like, poop-based mostly, like from cows.

DUNN: Definitely. It is really great and super-sticky.

SAGAL: All ideal.

KURTIS: Ooh.

SAGAL: Nicely, welcome to the clearly show, Kara. You are heading to participate in our sport in which you ought to check out to notify fact from fiction. Bill, what is Kara’s subject?

KURTIS: Household sweet residence – far more like house sweeter property.

SAGAL: Since we have all been caught inside, home decorating and renovation is a lot more well-liked than at any time just before. We are basically accomplishing to our houses what we wish we could do to our bodies. Our panelists are going to convey to you about three new tendencies in house layout. Decide the just one who’s telling the fact, and you will win our prize. You completely ready to play?

DUNN: I am tremendous-ready.

SAGAL: Tremendous-prepared – fantastic. Listed here we go. Let’s get started with Mo Rocca.

ROCCA: The coronavirus is no flu, as we’ve all discovered. But a chimney flue, it turns out, has currently become a great way to gain funds. Estimate, “when anyone from the Pentagon named and reported they needed to use my chimney as a missile silo, I was amazed,” suggests Vandi Walker (ph) of Bronxville, N.Y. Yes, to minimize charges, the army is leasing out household chimney flues to use as missile silos. Quote, “we stay in a two-tale colonial, so we could only accommodate a brief-selection cruise.

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ROCCA: But no warhead for us, thank you pretty much. We don’t require that kind of warmth. For this initiative, the navy has partnered with Zillow. Which is how they located Anne (ph) and J.B. Borrus (ph) of Denver, Colo., and a property for just one of these tough-to-position ICBMs.

FARSAD: (Laughter).

ROCCA: We have a roomy property, but I definitely did not feel we could deal with anything more substantial than a Tomahawk, suggests Anne. So when they in fact instructed a laser-guided, nuclear-tipped AGM Hellfire, nicely, let’s just say I went ballistic.

FARSAD: (Laughter).

ROCCA: But then J.B. reminded me that we just experienced our flue lined with higher-density tungsten, so what is actually the worst that can transpire?

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SAGAL: Individuals renovating their chimneys into missile silos. Your subsequent tale of a residence makeover comes from Amy Dickinson.

AMY DICKINSON: Hollywood was abuzz this week when George Lucas’ famed visual consequences firm Industrial Light-weight and Magic announced that the studio was about to start their most recent undertaking. Would it be a new “Jurassic Park” motion picture? No. The famous corporation announced that they have been shifting into the design company, generating constructions that they are calling Zoom Rooms. A Zoom Room is a prefabricated six-by-8-foot pod. The firm guarantees that what can make this much more than just a fancy garden get rid of is the software. The entire composition is a screen.

For the duration of virtual health club class, the little ones can be chased by dinosaurs from “Jurassic Park.” Mother can cling out in the snake pit from “Indiana Jones.” Grandma could place herself behind Michael Corleone’s desk though she’s Zooming with her e book club.

Sadly, early versions of the computer software discovered some virtual truth crossover. A prototype temporarily terrorized a San Francisco relatives when the ferocious grizzly bear from the motion picture “The Revenant” Zoom-bombed and appeared to assault newborn Yoda during a young student’s on the internet English class.

FARSAD: (Laughter).

DICKINSON: A spokesperson for the corporation explained, that was a lot more puzzling than a Zack Snyder supercut. We assure it won’t transpire yet again.

SAGAL: Zoom Rooms with technological potential to make your Zoom meetings even a lot more thrilling than they previously are. And your previous story of the best new home trend comes from Negin Farsad.

FARSAD: If I’ve explained it at the time, I’ve explained it a thousand periods – loos have far too numerous walls. That’s why house design fans will be pleased to master about the latest trend in powder space design, open-notion bogs. That is proper – if you’ve got at any time been sitting down on a rest room and wishing you could improved see the breakfast nook or sitting down on a bathroom wishing you could function the TV’s remote command or sitting on a rest room wishing you could have a dialogue with mother in the kitchen, this lavatory is for you.

Robert Nichols of the Boston Trust Realty Team claims it could work if people can reside freely and enjoy it to its full potential. And by full likely, he means smelling up the entire household on those distinctive journeys to the commode.

It could shock some that this author has experienced her reasonable share of open up-idea loos, by which I necessarily mean a single. I experienced one in a resort place. It was my initial excursion to the tropics with my boyfriend at the time. And let us just say that romantic relationship did not previous after that weekend, since if you can not overtly evacuate yourself with a boyfriend you have experienced for only 5 weeks, then David Goldberg (ph) was not intended to be.

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SAGAL: All suitable. One particular of these three matters is the going on factor in residence layout. Is it, from Mo Rocca, chimneys getting converted with the support of the U.S. armed service into missile silos from Amy, men and women putting in substantial-tech Zoom Rooms so that they can have Zoom conferences while in many well-liked films or, from Negin, the open-thought lavatory? Which of these is a real craze in household style and design?

DUNN: Effectively, I am disgusted by the open up-principle rest room a person…

FARSAD: (Laughter).

DUNN: So I seriously hope which is not accurate. I assume Amy’s tale about the Zoom Place is the accurate story.

SAGAL: All correct. You happen to be likely to select Amy’s tale of Lucasfilm making Zoom Rooms that men and women can set up in their properties.

DUNN: Yeah.

SAGAL: Nicely, to convey you the authentic story, we spoke to an individual who is aware of all about it.

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SPENCER BUELL: There was no wall separating the bathroom from the bedroom. So this was what is actually recognised as an open-idea bathroom.

FARSAD: (Laughter).

SAGAL: That was Spencer Buell, the reporter from Boston journal, who let us all know about the new pattern towards, yes, open-thought loos. You picked Amy’s tale, which wins a prize. But in the meantime, you can convenience on your own to know that you you should not have an open-concept bathroom at house.

DUNN: Which is right.

SAGAL: Kara, thank you so a great deal for playing and take treatment.

DUNN: Of course, thank you fellas quite a great deal.

SAGAL: Thank you.

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BRUNO MARS, ANDERSON .PAAK AND SILK SONIC: (Singing) I’mma leave the doorway open up. I’mma depart the doorway open up. I’mma go away the doorway open up, girl. I’mma depart the doorway open up.

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