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TOM BODETT: After careful consideration and consulting with medical professionals, we'll say the hell with it and eat it anyway.
SAGAL: There you go. Roxanne Roberts.
ROXANNE ROBERTS: Lady Gaga will launch a meat handbag and luggage collection but only one carry-on per person.
SAGAL: And Luke Burbank.
LUKE BURBANK: What was thought to be just figurative will finally become literal. The U.S. borders will be beefed up with giant piles of actual beef.
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BILL KURTIS, BYLINE: And if any of that happens, panel, we'll ask you about it on WAIT WAIT ...DON'T TELL ME.
SAGAL: Thank you, Bill Kurtis. Thanks to Andrew Arganbright and everyone at Iowa Public Radio. Thanks also to Luke Burbank, Roxanne Roberts, Tom Bodett, our fabulous audience here in Des Moines - you are the best.
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SAGAL: Thanks to all of you for listening. I am Peter Sagal. We will see you next week.
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