Short Wave - A Short Wave Mad Lib

Episode Date: May 25, 2020

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Back together again, and we're tracking. Okay, somebody has something at noon, right? I do. Okay, all right. Let's do it. Hey, everybody. Maddie Safaya here, the host of Shortwave. And Emily Kwong, Shorewave's reporter.

We are off for Memorial Day, and we're back with a regular episode tomorrow. And in lieu of an episode, Maddie, I've made you something special. Uh-huh. A shortwave-themed Madlib. Of course you have. Let's do it. Oh, yay. So you're ready to play.

Okay. Yeah, I'm going to crush this. I want it to be clear, though, that I don't know what this is. No. So this can't be held against me. We're doing it live. Okay. Okay.

Term of Endearment. Little noodle. You weirdo. Adjective. Fresh. What? I ate salad. Favorite science show.

Ooh. Osmosis Jones, baby. Bring it back. No. That's very classic. That was the cartoon I was allowed to watch. That was the only cartoon you were allowed to watch? Give or take.

Give or take. I think my favorite is, do you remember Zoom, the PBS show? Oh. Do you remember Zoom Sci? I think so. I'm going to send you a YouTube video later. All right. Collective noun for a group of animals.

Murder. No. No, that's too. Gaggle. Gaggle, gaggle. Yeah, murder. It's too much. Madlib would take a different turn.

Adjective. Uh, slimy. What? A verb. A verb. Last one. Think. Gravitate. You pick. Think or gravitate. That's on my brain right now. Think, think, think might fit. Because I'm going to, I'm going to turn it into a present participle. Yeah, I know what that is.

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It will take you approximately seven seconds, depending on your thumb size. Go do it. How did you estimate that? Go on, go do it. No, like, what was your methodology? I really want to know. That's all the time we have, folks.

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