December 14, 2013 - Madison, WI - Monona Terrace

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12.14.2013

A live show from the Monona Terrace in Madison, WI featuring author Jonathan Miles! Plus, a collective Christmas Letter Hotline, your weekly fix of All the News That Isn't, Thanks For the Memos and two hilarious rounds of the Whad'Ya Know? Quiz!

All the News That Isn't - December 14, 2013

Ripping on headlines ripped from the week Michael pokes fun at subjects like:

Carrie Underwood, funeral selfies, hallucinations, Chinese lunar lander, megamillions, Paul Ryan, Pope Francis, new GM CEO and more!

Jonathan Miles

Dear American Airlines author Jonathan Miles chats with Micahel about his latest book Want Not, getting inside your characters heads, Alzhemier's, and more!

Quiz A - December 14, 2013

Michael chats with the bus trip group from Rice Lake, and Jake who manages a UW green house learning about the lab rat of the plant world.
Townsend from Milwaukee makes his way to the bench to pair with Shirley from Pickerington who had her qualfying question by Ron from Hubbard to play the quiz!

Thanks for the Memos! - December 14, 2013

You can't make this stuff up!
Memos from listeners this week cover watered down soap dispensers, and hoarding office supplies.

Annual Christmas Letter

Michael delves into the diminishing amount of holiday letters then reads his very own Hanukkah letter recapping the past year in the Feldman household!
Then he asks listeners to call in and read one line of their letter to compose one massive Christmas letter monstrosity.

Quiz B - December 14, 2013

More from the bus group including 'Tommy Two-Coats,' and farmer's market folks from Portland. Then, we meet a therapeutic harpist who can't prononuce her name (but wants to know where the best bathroom in Madison is "for her husband") and finally an expired cheesemaker. Paul from Hiltonhead,SC long distance dials in to team with Ellen from Lodi to test their general knowledge in the WYK? quiz!