Everyone & Robot Dogs

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

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Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

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🗓️ 13 April 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Writer and comedian Alzo Slade joins Emma to explore the ruins of Pompeii and a robot dog finally finds its calling.

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0:00.0	Coming up, Robot Dogs, the Ruins of Pompeii, and the best songwriter in the world, kind of.
0:09.0	I'm Emma Choi and this is everyone in their mom.
0:12.0	Hi everyone, welcome to everyone in their mom, a weekly show from Wait, Wait, Don't Tell
0:24.7	Me, where we take a break from the news to fall down a little rabbit hole instead.
0:28.5	I'm your host Emma Choi.
0:30.5	This speaker talked to me about how those weird robot dogs who've been seeing on Twitter
0:34.0	finally got their first real job.
0:36.5	And here to talk with us, it's Emmy award-winning writer, chorus-funded for Vice News Tonight,
0:41.0	and the host of the podcast, Cheat, and a man who I think would be amazing in a barbershop
0:45.8	quartet.
0:46.8	It's also slayed!
0:47.8	Hi, also!
0:48.8	I should've been doing what, but they didn't see me, but they didn't see me.
0:51.7	I was right!
0:52.7	What's up Emma?
0:53.7	I'm so glad that you're here to discuss this news, okay?
0:58.2	So you know those robot dogs by boss and dynamics that walk around like actual dogs but have
1:02.6	no actual heads or adorable futures?
1:05.2	It's weird, Emma.
1:06.7	It's weird.
1:07.7	It's too weird for me.
1:09.2	Well, they got their first security job.
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