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Not My Job: We Quiz Baseball Pitcher Ryan Dempster On Belly Itchers
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Not My Job: We Quiz Baseball Pitcher Ryan Dempster On Belly Itchers

Dempster played for the Cubs for nine seasons before he left to win a World Series with the Boston Red Sox in 2013. He joins us at our show in Chicago's Millennium Park.

Not My Job: We Quiz Baseball Pitcher Ryan Dempster On Belly Itchers

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Friday

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Element In The Room

Dust off that old laminated periodic table in your closet, because we've got a chemistry game! We've replaced two-letter terms with the name of an element with the same chemical symbol.

Element In The Room

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Janeane Garofalo And Lili Taylor: Returning To 'Marvin's Room'

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Janeane Garofalo And Lili Taylor: Returning To 'Marvin's Room'

Janeane Garofalo and Lili Taylor, the stars of the Broadway revival of Marvin's Room, talk about 90s comedy and nostalgia. Then, they guess which of them said a famous line of movie and TV dialogue.

Janeane Garofalo And Lili Taylor: Returning To 'Marvin's Room'

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Broadway? No Way!

If you're eagerly awaiting the musical adaptation of Apocalypse Now...why? In this game, guest musician Julian Velard belts Broadway songs rewritten about movies that would make terrible musicals.

Broadway? No Way!

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Saturday

Not My Job: We Quiz Comedian Bassem Youssef On Tubers
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Not My Job: We Quiz Comedian Bassem Youssef On Tubers

The Egyptian satirist got his start on YouTube, so we're going to see how much he knows about actual tubers. Youssef will answer three questions about potatoes.

Not My Job: We Quiz Comedian Bassem Youssef On Tubers

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Sunday

Not My Job: Aubrey Plaza Gets Quizzed On The Plaza Hotel
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Not My Job: Aubrey Plaza Gets Quizzed On The Plaza Hotel

In Parks and Recreation, Plaza played an intern who hated everybody and everything. In The Little Hours, she plays a nun who hates everybody and everything, so it's nice to see her branching out.

Not My Job: Aubrey Plaza Gets Quizzed On The Plaza Hotel

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Sunday Puzzle: Wehn Wrods Get Rearearngd

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Sunday Puzzle: Wehn Wrods Get Rearearngd

Puzzlemaster Will Shortz challenges Lulu-Garcia Navarro and Patricia Wheeler of Orlando to a challenge involving rearranging letters to make opposite words.

Sunday Puzzle: Wehn Wrods Get Rearearngd

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