Bad Information

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JONATHAN COULTON, BYLINE: (Singing) I see a red door, and I want it painted black. No colors anymore. I want them to turn black. I see the girls walk by, dressed in their summer clothes. I have to turn my head until my darkness goes. I see a line of cars, and they're all painted black. With flowers and my love, both never to come back. I see people turn their heads and quickly look away. Like a newborn baby, it just happens every day.

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OPHIRA EISENBERG, HOST:

Jonathan Coulton. Now we're going to crown this week's grand champion. Let's bring back, from Just Kidding, Denis Illige-Saucier.

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EISENBERG: From Your Game Show of Shows, Yael Granot.

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EISENBERG: From Cookie Monster Vocals, Lisa Bennett.

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EISENBERG: And from Comparatively Speaking, Amanda Lee Darby.

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EISENBERG: They'll be playing our Ask Me One More final round, led by our puzzle guru, Greg Pliska.

GREG PLISKA, BYLINE: All right, here we go. This game is called Bad Information. In this game, the answers are words, phrases and names that contain the letters B A D in order. The letters may be at the beginning of an answer, the end or in the middle, and they may form their own word or be part of a longer word. For instance, if we said it's the capital of Pakistan, you would say Islamabad. Right?

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PLISKA: You might say Karachi, but then that be wrong for several reasons.

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PLISKA: Now, we're playing this spelling-bee style, so one wrong answer and you're out. You only have a few seconds to give us an answer, and the last person standing will be our ASK ME ANOTHER grand winner. And your prize - Lewis Black has agreed to record a personalized rant-voicemail message for your phone.

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PLISKA: So let's just say I won, and we can all go home because I really want that. It's a great prize. All right, now remember that the letters B A D will appear in order somewhere in every answer. Here we go. Denis.

DENIS ILLIGE-SAUCIER: Yes.

PLISKA: Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are not good, young man in this film.

ILLIGE-SAUCIER: "Bad Boys."

PLISKA: Correct.

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PLISKA: All right, Yael. This is a Lady Gaga hit about a love that's all wrong.

YAEL GRANOT: "Bad Romance."

PLISKA: Correct.

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PLISKA: Lisa, this weaselly animal is the state animal of Wisconsin.

LISA BENNETT: The badger.

PLISKA: Correct.

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PLISKA: Amanda, Cameron Diaz goes back to school to work there, poorly, in this 2011 film.

AMANDA LEE DARBY: "Bad Teacher."

PLISKA: Correct.

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PLISKA: Denis, in this hit song Daniel Powter complains about having a lousy 24 hours.

ILLIGE-SAUCIER: "Bad Day"?

PLISKA: Correct.

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PLISKA: Yael, Jonah Hill and Michael Cera play high school seniors in this 2007 film comedy.

GRANOT: "Superbad."

PLISKA: Correct.

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PLISKA: Lisa, this '80s dance craze from Brazil was associated with short skirts and shaking hips and was nicknamed the forbidden dance.

BENNETT: The lambada.

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PLISKA: The lambada correct. Amanda, this one-named comedian shares the name with the heroic "The Arabian Nights."

DARBY: Sinbad.

PLISKA: Correct.

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PLISKA: Denis. Castoff kids form a baseball team and win over Walter Matthau's cold, cold heart in this 1976 film.

ILLIGE-SAUCIER: "Bad News Bears."

PLISKA: Correct.

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PLISKA: OK, Yael, here we go. This island nation northeast of Trinidad and Tobago is the easternmost island in the Caribbean.

GRANOT: I was going go with Tobago. I don't know.

PLISKA: OK, Lisa, do you know the answer to that one?

BENNETT: No.

PLISKA: All right, Amanda, do you know the answer to that one?

DARBY: Can you say it again? Are you allowed?

PLISKA: Yes, I am. This island nation northeast of Trinidad and Tobago is the easternmost island in the Caribbean.

DARBY: I don't know.

PLISKA: OK, Denis, do you know this one?

ILLIGE-SAUCIER: Barbados?

PLISKA: That is correct.

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EISENBERG: Denis, congratulations.

ILLIGE-SAUCIER: Thank you.

EISENBERG: You're our ASK ME ANOTHER big winner, and you have won a personalized Lewis Black rant.

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LEWIS BLACK: You got a phone?

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BLACK: And it's Denis?

ILLIGE-SAUCIER: Denis, yes.

BLACK: All right. Anything you want me to say because I'm going to - do you want me to be charming?

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ILLIGE-SAUCIER: I share your feelings about soymilk so...

BLACK: Listen, leave a message, OK, after the beat. This is Denis, and I'm busy, and I've got things to do. I don't know why you're bothering me with your nonsense. Make sure you leave a message. You know, I've got a lot of things on my plate right now, and if I don't get back to you, it's only because, well, I'm much more important than you're giving me credit for. And so - and don't text. Really, don't bother me with text. All right? Call me again. OK? Better than that, just leave the message. Make it succinct - OK? - and do it now. I really do care about all of you.

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EISENBERG: Charm, love and rant. Who knew that was possible? Thank you again to Lewis Black.

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EISENBERG: And that's our show. Thank you so much for listening. You can be a puzzle player anytime, anyplace by downloading our podcast from iTunes Stitcher or TuneIn. And you can find us on Facebook or Twitter, just look around for NPR ASK ME ANOTHER. ASK ME ANOTHER's puzzle guru is Greg Pliska.

PLISKA: Hey, my name anagrams to sparkle gig.

EISENBERG: Our house musician is Jonathan Coulton.

COULTON: Thou jolt a cannon.

EISENBERG: Our puzzle editor is Art Chung.

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EISENBERG: With additional puzzle writing by Karen Lury (ph), Josiah Madegan (ph), Brock Main (ph), Mary Tobler and Jay Keith van Stratton (ph). ASK ME ANOTHER's produced by Jesse Baker.

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EISENBERG: And our production partner, WNYC. I'm her ripe begonias.

PLISKA: Ophira Eisenberg.

EISENBERG: And this was ASK ME ANOTHER from NPR. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.