Happy Holidays from Short Wave!

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🗓️ 25 December 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Maddie and Emily play a quick game of "Fact or Fiction?" with help from Ariela Zebede, our resident fact-checker. Plus, a little reminder that you can support the show by donating to your local public radio station at donate.npr.org/short. (If you're outside of the U.S., choose a lucky member station!)

Follow Maddie and Emily on Twitter, @maddie_sofia and @emilykwong1234. Email the show at [email protected].

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0:00.0	You're listening to Shortwave from NPR.
0:06.3	Hey Maddie Sophia.
0:07.4	Hey Emily Quam.
0:08.4	Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.
0:10.8	We are off today and we hope that you are relaxing too.
0:14.5	Maybe cozy in your little pajamas somewhere.
0:16.8	If you celebrate Christmas, maybe you're out there opening up some preses.
0:20.7	On Shortwave, there is one gift our show considers priceless.
0:25.4	And that of course is the gift of facts.
0:27.8	The last script we recorded together, I'm not kidding you, had 84 footnotes.
0:33.4	Yeah and honestly we weren't even stretching our legs.
0:35.2	You know it was a little light.
0:36.0	I'll say it. It's a little light.
0:37.0	My goal one day is to have 200 hundo footnotes.
0:42.7	Yeah, you want to make long waves.
0:44.2	I know you.
0:45.4	So today we are hosting a little Shortwave Fact Exchange.
0:51.0	That's right. That's a gift exchange but with facts.
0:54.8	We did this last year. It involved reindeer hooves and mistletoe being a parasite.
1:00.1	But this year we've got a way better idea.
1:02.8	We've invited our colleague and fact checking queen, Ariel Azabidi.
1:07.5	Hiya.
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