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SEAN DIXON GUMM: Hi, this is Sean from Salem, Mass.

SAGAL: Salem, Mass. I know it well. Salem was in the news this week when Donald Trump called the prosecution of him - or the potential prosecution - a witch hunt and your congressman, Seth Moulton, said, I represent Salem. It's not a witch hunt.


DIXON GUMM: That's pretty true. Salem is pretty much the only town where you can say my mother-in-law rides a broom and people take it as a compliment.

SAGAL: Yeah, I understand. Well, Sean, welcome to the show. Bill Kurtis is going to read for you three news-related limericks with the last word or phrase missing from each. If you can fill in that last word or phrase correctly in two of the limericks you will be a winner. Ready to play?

DIXON GUMM: Since I was born.


SAGAL: Big talker, sir, big talker. Here's your first limerick.

BILL KURTIS: While others are parched and might totter, my app is a fancy tap spotter. Wherever I go, I can find H2O because I've got a subscription for...


SAGAL: Right.



SAGAL: Water. A company called Reefill in Manhattan is offering members-only access to water fountains around the city. Now, you're probably thinking, huh, drinking fountains for some people but not everyone. That Jeff Sessions works quickly. But no...

FAITH SALIE: (Laughter).

SAGAL: ...It's not like that. It's a start-up. For a monthly fee of...


JANELLE JAMES: We start stocking it now.

SAGAL: Yeah. For a monthly fee of $3, you can access 200 fountains around Manhattan. Your smartphone activates the fountain and you drink. But by not paying $3 a month, you can drink from all the other fountains in New York. Subscribers to Reefill will also receive a reusable water bottle which is completely collapsable, which means you'll be able to get it small enough to fit in an average New York apartment.


SAGAL: Here is your next limerick.

KURTIS: I'm a scavenging bird, but I'm cultured. I look pretty and prim, like a sculpture. Dead creatures I take up, but not without makeup. I'm a vain and a looks-obsessed...

DIXON GUMM: Vulture.

SAGAL: Yes, vulture.


SAGAL: Very good, Sean. According to biologists, some vultures in Africa regularly use mud as a form of makeup. They use it to paint their normally white faces red and brown. Now, I know what you're thinking - African birds and blackface. Jeff Sessions gets around. But no.


SAGAL: It's called cosmetic coloration, something animals do to attract mates and conform to the patriarchy's unrealistic standards of beauty.


SAGAL: It's hard enough for vultures. All they do is eat roadkill. Now they have judgy (ph) ornithologists slut-shaming them for putting red mud on their faces.

TOM BODETT: They're probably just compensating for their breath, don't you think?

SAGAL: Yeah.


JAMES: Something literally died inside of them (laughter).


SAGAL: Exactly. OK, Sean, here is your last limerick.

KURTIS: From that fashion and high-end perfumer gang comes a product for which no consumer rang. It's a bent throwing stick with a neat homing trick. Chanel makes a luxury...

DIXON GUMM: Boomerang.



SAGAL: Oh, you had that ready.


SAGAL: Very good. Chanel has created the perfect accessory to go with your Gucci shoes and Versace catapult.


SAGAL: The $2,000 boomerang is made of wood and resin and features the famous Chanel logo in the center.

JAMES: Oh, my God.

SAGAL: It's perfect if you...


SAGAL: It's perfect if you're hunting kangaroos on Rodeo Drive or you just want to throw something at a Kardashian and that will both hurt and impress them.


BODETT: So is this just, like, Chanel - they just have, like, these think sessions where it's like, OK, what can we just, like, put our logo on and charge 2,000 bucks for?

JAMES: Sounds like it.

BODETT: They toss out ideas, you know?

SAGAL: Yeah.

BODETT: Like, cups? No, everybody does cups. You know, it's just - how about a boomerang?

SALIE: Well...

BODETT: Well, I don't - is anybody else doing boomerangs?

SALIE: Tom, they tossed out that idea and it came right back to them.

BODETT: There it is.


SALIE: It was a keeper.

SAGAL: Bill, how did Sean do? Was he, in fact, ready to play?

KURTIS: Three - was he ever. Three out of three, Sean.

SAGAL: Congratulations, Sean.


SAGAL: Bye-bye, Sean. Thanks for playing.

DIXON GUMM: Thanks so much.


CAROLE KING: (Singing) If you want to give your heart, don't be afraid to try. Love is like a boomerang. It comes right back to you. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.