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Says You! - A Quiz Show for Lovers of Words, Culture, and History

Salty Salute to the Salt City (Rebroadcast)

Says You! - A Quiz Show for Lovers of Words, Culture, and History

Pipit & Finch

Games, Comedy, Leisure

4.6772 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This episode comes from the Palace Theater in Syracuse, NY. Host Richard Sher asks our panel to define avalement and micraner.

Says You! is LIVE in Washington this weekend! Tickets are still available at www.saysyou.net/get-tickets

Host: Richard Sher

Stereo Left: Carolyn Faye Fox, Arnie Reisman, Paula Lyons

Stereo Right: Tony Kahn, Lenore Shannon, Murray Horwitz

Musical Guest: Loren and Mark

Round One: Rules of Etiquette

Round Two - Bluff: avalement

Round Three: Common Threads

Round Four - Bluff: micraner

Round Five: Best Kept Secrets

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to this week's edition of Says You, Public Radio's Game with Words, which harkens back to those golden days in school.

0:09.3

Chewing gum online, I hope you brought enough for everyone.

0:12.9

It's great.

0:14.1

Perhaps no other show in radio knows so well how to hold open the door of knowledge to an intellectual audience.

0:21.2

I think the issue is not whether you should hold it open or not, but at what point do you close it?

0:29.4

Do you notice how Tony hasn't added a lot to this category?

0:34.4

This week, we feature polite conversation about the rules of etiquette, in particular elevator etiquette.

0:42.2

I thought it had something to do with flagellants, and I'm just so happy, but you blame the guy that just got off.

0:48.8

It works for me.

0:50.3

So for the next hour, guard your radio, because, you know, if it fell into the hands of the

0:56.6

communists, says you next.

1:06.4

Greg Porter here. So what's that old adage? If March comes in like a lie and it goes out like a lamb,

1:12.9

then April is truly just around the corner and says you is heading to Seattle. No, we're not on the

1:19.2

lamb. We just want to celebrate spring with audiences who have always been sui generis. Come join us at the table

1:26.0

for some serious wordplay. We even keep score. And for those

1:29.9

of you who would like to turn the tables a bit, come join us on Saturday evening for a queue a day

1:34.6

where you get to ask the questions before the show. If Friday, April 5th, and Saturday the 6th are

1:40.3

already booked, take a look at Sunday for an encore on the other shore in Port Townsend.

1:46.1

Don't get fleeced, head on over to says you.net, where info and tickets are so easy to get.

1:57.6

Hi, Barry Nolan here with a share.

2:07.2

I guess you could call me a tweener now between parenting and grandparenting, I hope.

2:11.7

Time with my kids these days is usually some grown-up travel adventure, but I do remember so well how hard it was to find just the right gift for kids and the joy of finding things that

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