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Whad'Ya Know? For December 20, 2008

Listen in to the entire two-hour broadcast. Read the timings below to find your favorite segment. Or, you can listen to a specific half-hour of the show: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Problem listening to Real Audio? Get Help!

Hour 1

:00 - The Not Much Office Holiday Party Show at Music Hall on UW-Madison's campus! This party is sanctioned by all religions.

:02 - All the News That Isn't

:07 - Karaoke! Jim volunteered to break the ice with "Who Let the Dogs Out?!" Beth from the audience does Christina Aguilera while Michael does interpretive dance. Don't you wish you'd bought a ticket? Claire thinks she's doing All Star but our tech director keeps booting Wish I Had a Million Dollars. Don't we all? The crowd claps along to Claire's All Star and Maddie finishes it off with Macy Gray. Does she ever! John Wayne Macy!

:23 - John Thulin on piano; Jeff Hamann on bass.

:28 - Michael in the glorious aisles of Music Hall...talks with Bernie from Hebron, IL, who does "as little as possible." Bible discussion ensues with newlyweds Melissa and Gregory who just finished reading The Book of Mormon by Joseph Smith Jr. and Dionetics by L. Ron Hubbard. Ed works for the State. Department of Procreation? Jessica asks, "how many white women over 40 do you...(something)-ck?" PICK! Of course. She was thinking of her Mom, Maryann from Madison.

:39 - The Whad'Ya Know? Quiz, with Cecile on the Four Disclaimers. Catherine plays the quiz because Michael is "worth taking a taxi to get here on time." She's a member of TimeBank (danecountytimebank.org) and hugs the emu as she plays. Catherine is joined by Paul from Little Rock, AR.

:55 - The pouring of the egg nog...

Hour 2

:00 - The Holiday Party at Old Music Hall on UW-Madison's Campus is just getting started.

:01 - Thanks for the Memos... The first Christmas letter took three years to write.

:04 - The Steve Meisner Band plays Forever Christmas.

:08 - And back to the Memos...

:10 - And back to the Steve Meisner Band with What a Merry Christmas This Could Be. Some banter, then Caroling on Christmas Eve. And two brave souls in the audience start the crowd off on a good polka!

:23 - And back to that letter that took 3 years to write. (And read, apparently.)

:25 - "I gotta' get out there," Michael says, going into the audience once again. The egg nog and the polka have gotten to him. Thank goodness for the handrail. Lynn isn't affected by the weather or anything, "thanks to the medication." Jake, her son, confirms his mother has a really good attitude. Rob got the celebrity treatment as he came into Music Hall where the U-Haul was parked. He didn't bring a dish to pass. Chris, who went to Florida State and lives in Tallahassee, doesn't do egg nog, just Everclear! Marilyn from Scotland "can't help it" that she has an accent. Jane from Madison met Marilyn and her husband when she ordered a tea cozy through eBay. Marilyn loves the people here because we're happy, she says. "It's because they're all drunk," Michael says! Margie, also with Jane, is celebrating a birthday. Wollersheim!

:41 - Quiz Two. And the weenies are gone! Wayne from Madison, WI plays with Al from Hugo, OR. Al says he dated himself with some of what he knows. "I dated myself for a couple years," Michael laughed. Hear the groan.

:56 - There's still food for the taking. A polka anyone?

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