Speaker 1: Now it's time for the most exciting segment on the radio.
Speaker 1: Others kine.
Speaker 2: The day.
Speaker 1: You can back off that, MICUs Smith. You did you
Speaker 1: leaned in? You leaned in on that one. Ben.
Speaker 3: That's all that for the next three hours.
Speaker 1: Sorry about your luck anyway. What is our dad joke
Speaker 1: of the day?
Speaker 4: Please? Running into stationary objects can be painful. According to
Speaker 4: a recent poll, I like that one.
Speaker 1: I like that one a lot. Okay, what's our word
Speaker 1: of the day? Please?
Speaker 4: Is a verb? Okay?
Speaker 1: Et elate eto late et o late what I E
Speaker 1: T I O l A t E. I have absolutely
Speaker 1: no idea eto late. I'm going to say, what is
Speaker 1: the root eto?
Speaker 3: What the root word is? So I'm going to try
Speaker 3: and make it. Okay, you guess then, doesn't it means
Speaker 3: like you you've lost your mojo, You lost take your
Speaker 3: your strength, your vigor.
Speaker 1: Like you've petered out?
Speaker 4: Kind of this has to do with a plant? Oh, okay,
Speaker 4: I'm going to.
Speaker 1: Say it's to up tank water from the roots.
Speaker 2: Then to cause a plant to whiten or grow pale
Speaker 2: by excluding light.
Speaker 1: Oh, you starve them?
Speaker 2: Another another definition, I really do all right.
Speaker 1: Which famous American novelist worked as a reporter and writer
Speaker 1: for the Kansas City newspaper when he was seventeen years old.
Speaker 1: I feel like this is like a Hunter S. Thompson
Speaker 1: thing here. Maybe let's see here. Oh I am wrong.
Speaker 1: He was earlier than hunterress address.
Speaker 4: Reporter.
Speaker 1: Yes, and I hate his work.
Speaker 4: I'm no, I'm blanking.
Speaker 1: Ernest Hemingway, was it?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: And I don't like Ernest Hemingway. I hate the way
Speaker 1: he writes women. It's it's literally insulting to my gender.
Speaker 1: The way he writes women. I just I don't like it.
Speaker 3: It's like, what's that the Jack Nicholson lives as good
Speaker 3: as it gets?
Speaker 4: How do you write women so well? I think of
Speaker 4: a man in a takeaway reason and accountability. Oh boy,
Speaker 4: that's pretty much.
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 1: Anyway, what is our Jeopardy category?
Speaker 4: Let me channel my best Homer Simpson here.
Speaker 1: Okay, donuts don't.
Speaker 4: Don't what dough? Dough?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: According to legend, this holiday cookie with a manly shape
Speaker 2: was created.
Speaker 1: By Ian What's a gingerbread man?
Speaker 4: Correct? It's just, by the way, no, no dough. That
Speaker 4: one happened to.
Speaker 2: Okay because I was like trying to do things that
Speaker 2: are now that I've roasted my marshmallow. I'll combine it
Speaker 2: with either.
Speaker 1: What's am correct?
Speaker 4: Sir Isaac?
Speaker 2: Could you tell there are apple, strawberry, and fig varieties
Speaker 2: of these?
Speaker 4: Did you get it?
Speaker 2: Then?
Speaker 4: Then? What are Newton the.
Speaker 2: It's the large American cookie company whose cookies are made
Speaker 2: by Elvis.
Speaker 1: What is keeler?
Speaker 4: Correct?
Speaker 2: You can get your own messages put inside these dessert cookies.
Speaker 4: What a fortune cookie?
Speaker 3: That is?
Speaker 4: Here's the m in that one?
Speaker 1: Are my favorite favorite favorites?
Speaker 4: Yummy?
Speaker 1: Like favorite wedding favors? Ever? Were fortune cookies that on
Speaker 1: the inside said it'll probably never last And I thought
Speaker 1: that was the funniest. It actually was a wedding edic
Speaker 1: of a comedian.
Speaker 4: So funny.
Speaker 3: Like I used to there was a Chinese restaurant that
Speaker 3: my mom, who's an immigration attorney, helped immigrate them back
Speaker 3: when I was in high school, and they would make
Speaker 3: their fortune cookies fresh, Oh nice. They would do their
Speaker 3: own type written scripts, so I would slip them a
Speaker 3: couple of bucks. But if I took a date in there,
Speaker 3: you've just met the man of your dreams or you know.
Speaker 3: Put stuff like that inside these scamming.
Speaker 4: On the fortune cookies.
Speaker 2: So see the fortune I got before the inclines unreal. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was perfectly step by step, you will ascend the
Speaker 2: staircase to success.
Speaker 4: Yeah, before I did the incline the.
Speaker 1: Week he was really incline.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: My favorite fortune ever, my dear and now departed friend Dave.
Speaker 1: I loved this guy. He was super awkward and just
Speaker 1: a complete nerd and I adored him. And we go
Speaker 1: out to the Chinese restaurant. He got a Chinese he
Speaker 1: got a fortune cookie, and the fortune was and I
Speaker 1: quote never smell the inside of a hat. And it
Speaker 1: was like, what's of course? Yeah, It's like when I
Speaker 1: say your you know, your dog's feet smell like free Doo's,
Speaker 1: You're gonna act like you're not gonna smell them later,
Speaker 1: But you are. You totally are