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Sunday Puzzle: It Doesn't Take A Know-It-All To Play This Game

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Sunday Puzzle: It Doesn't Take A Know-It-All To Play This Game

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro and New York Times crosswords editor Will Shortz play this week's puzzle with Michael Holmes of North Potomac, Md.

Sunday Puzzle: It Doesn't Take A Know-It-All To Play This Game

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Saturday

Not My Job: Queen's Brian May Gets Quizzed About Dairy Queen
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Not My Job: Queen's Brian May Gets Quizzed About Dairy Queen

The astrophysicist, 3D photography enthusiast and, yes, hall-of-fame rock star answers our questions about DQ — the ice cream and fast food franchise.

Not My Job: Queen's Brian May Gets Quizzed About Dairy Queen

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The Evil Within 2 Puts Gamers Right In The Middle Of A Scary Story

The big-budget video game can be a powerful medium for telling scary stories. To wit: the new survival horror game The Evil Within 2, in which reality itself is open to interpretation. Courtesy of Bethesda Softworks hide caption

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The Evil Within 2 Puts Gamers Right In The Middle Of A Scary Story

The Evil Within 2 is the latest example of how well-designed video games can make the best horror stories. That flitting shadow in the corner or the creaking upstairs? Go on, you can investigate.

Recipes For Reformation: A Menu To Mark Martin Luther

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Recipes For Reformation: A Menu To Mark Martin Luther

To mark the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther nailing his 95 Theses to the cathedral door in Wittenberg, Germany, we offer up a menu for a coffee-and-fellowship hour buffet of indulgences.

Friday

Parental Advisory Spoiler Alert

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Ask Me Another

Parental Advisory Spoiler Alert

Our first two Famepocalypse celebri-testants faced off in a radio-friendly cinematic challenge, naming films from the MPAA's explanation for their ratings.

Parental Advisory Spoiler Alert

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Ask Me Another

Freeway Traffic Report

Brett Gelman and Missi Pyle completed their Ask Me Another trilogy contracts. Plus, Aimee Mann joins us for a performance of "Rollercoasters," a song from her recent album "Mental Illness."

Freeway Traffic Report

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Ask Me Another

Real Or Fake Self-Help Book?

Paul Scheer and D'Arcy Carden took a page out of How to Win Ask Me Another and Influence People for their next quiz, deciding whether self-help book descriptions were real or fake.

Real Or Fake Self-Help Book?

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Star Map

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Ask Me Another

Star Map

For their first Ask Me Another challenge, Pyle and Gelman went on a celebrity sightseeing tour, answering questions about famous people whose names double as geographic places.

Star Map

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Musical Guest: Aimee Mann

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Musical Guest: Aimee Mann

Aimee Mann knows she has a bit of a reputation for writing sad songs. She leaned into the joke with her latest album, whose title, "Mental Illness," was suggested by none other than Jonathan Coulton.

Musical Guest: Aimee Mann

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Sunday

Sunday Puzzle: Read Into It

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Sunday Puzzle: Read Into It

NPR's Melissa Block and Sam Sanders play this week's puzzle with Will Shortz, The New York Times crossword editor and Weekend Edition's Puzzlemaster.

Sunday Puzzle: Read Into It

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Saturday

Not My Job: We Quiz Former Minnesota Viking Alan Page About Actual Vikings
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Not My Job: We Quiz Former Minnesota Viking Alan Page About Actual Vikings

The Hall of Fame defensive tackle turned Minnesota Supreme Court Justice answers three questions about the Scandinavian peoples of 1,000 years ago.

Not My Job: We Quiz Former Minnesota Viking Alan Page About Actual Vikings

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Wednesday