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Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

Everyone & School

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

NPR

Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.635.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Emma gets ready for a new school year by revisiting lessons from Everyone & Their Mom! We learn how rats help each other, how dolphins say hi to their friends, and what to do if you see someone you know but aren't sure if you should say hi.

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0:00.0

Hi guys and welcome to another glorious episode of Everyone in their Mom, a weekly show

0:09.5

from Whitway Don't Tell Me.

0:11.5

And hey, guess what I'm super pumped about this week?

0:14.8

It's almost time to go back to school!

0:17.6

But before we start a new school year, let's take a listen back and brush up on some of

0:22.1

the lessons we learned last semester in Everyone in their Mom.

0:25.8

Turns out, we actually learned a lot, even though my brain feels super empty.

0:31.4

First things first, let's talk rats.

0:34.4

A few months ago we had a burning question.

0:37.3

We heard about something unbelievable and we wanted to know if it was real.

0:41.5

Luckily, the well-known rodentologist Dr. Bobby Corrigan came on the show to school us.

0:48.1

Bobby, are racking real?

0:49.8

You know, I don't think they're real. I've never met a fellow scientist that says they're real either.

0:56.4

I've dealt with a lot of rats. I've slept in barns with rats.

1:00.4

And I've never seen a rat king where the roll of tails have tied together.

1:04.6

Are they, do you think they're theoretically, it could happen?

1:09.2

Yes, I think where it may have some little bit of science is that rats might have frozen to death

1:16.8

inside a wall someplace and some winter spot and they will, they get together and they do hugger

1:21.9

muggers, it's called huggering muggering, where they all huddled together to share a body wound.

1:26.8

Maybe they died like that and maybe those tails at that point were entangled.

1:32.0

But if they were to get entangled easily like that, it would never survive to the point they are.

1:37.2

You said the term hugger muggering. Is that a scientific term?

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