美国国家公共电台 NPR Franchise Rebranding
时间：2019-01-16 作者：英语课 分类：2016年NPR美国国家公共电台11月
play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0007:38repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser 2 to a recent version or update your Flash plugin. JONATHAN COULTON: From NPR and WNYC, coming to you from the Majestic 3 Theatre in Dallas, Texas, it's NPR's hour of puzzles, word games and trivia, ASK ME ANOTHER. I'm Jonathan Coulton. Now here's your host, Ophira Eisenberg.
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OPHIRA EISENBERG, HOST:
Thank you, Jonathan. We have an amazing show for you. Four brilliant contestants 5 are backstage recommending barbecue places to each other waiting to play our nerdy games. But only one will be our big winner. And we are so excited to be here in Dallas. But we always bring a little bit of Brooklyn with us wherever we go. And in this case, it's our special guest.
Actor Brooklyn Decker will be joining us later in the show.
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EISENBERG: I've got to say, I'm especially glad to be here because I'm from Calgary, Alberta, which is kind of like the Dallas of Canada...
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EISENBERG: ...With our beef and our stampede and our oil. But Canadian cowboys are a little bit different than Texas cowboys. For one, instead of 10 gallon hats, they wear 37.85 liter hats. And in Canada when you twirl a lasso over your head, it sounds like this - sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.
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EISENBERG: Let's get things started with our first two contestants. First up, Marcie Verastiqui, you say you have the best job in the world being a grade school librarian.
MARCIE VERASTIQUI: Yes I do.
EISENBERG: All right, why is that the best job in the world?
VERASTIQUI: Well, I still get to be a teacher...
EISENBERG: Yeah.
VERASTIQUI: ...But I don't have to do the grading...
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VERASTIQUI: ...Or the lesson planning. I'm the aunt of the students.
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VERASTIQUI: I keep them for a little bit and then they go away (laughter).
EISENBERG: Your opponent is Etienne Coulonge. You are a technology consultant 6 but pretended to be a spider expert on your friend's talk radio show.
ETIENNE COULONGE: What happened was I went on and we just did theater of the mind and pretended there was spiders crawling all over the studio.
EISENBERG: Yeah.
COULONGE: It ended up going really badly. There were bites. And two weeks later, I came on and pretended to be a snake expert on the same show, and that didn't go well either.
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EISENBERG: Marcie and Etienne, the first of you who wins two of our games will move on to our Final Round at the end of the show. So let's go to our first game. Marcie, if you owned a sports team, what would you name it?
VERASTIQUI: Probably the Austin Tacos.
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EISENBERG: Etienne, if you owned a sports team, what would you name it?
COULONGE: I would put another basketball franchise in Miami and call it the Humidity. And then they'd say, it's not the Heat, it's the Humidity.
EISENBERG: Yeah.
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EISENBERG: So your first game is called a Franchise Rebranding. In this game, we're going to pretend that North American pro 7 sports teams were sold to new owners and each new owner wants to change the team's name by adding one letter to it. Let's go to Jonathan Coulton for an example.
COULTON: Sure. For example, if I said, LensCrafters bought this Texas hockey team and now requires its players to make prolonged eye contact, you would answer the Dallas Stares.
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COULTON: Adding one letter to Dallas' pro hockey team, the Stars.
EISENBERG: So buzz in to answer, and the winner will be one step closer to the Final Round at the end of the show. Here we go. Julian Assange bought a basketball team in Southern California. He hopes to recruit Kobe Bryant to release documents and expose government secrets.
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EISENBERG: Etienne.
COULONGE: The Los Angeles Leakers.
EISENBERG: That's right, yeah.
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COULTON: Tom Brady doubles down on Deflategate and renames this Southern Florida basketball team to celebrate rules infractions.
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COULTON: Marcie.
VERASTIQUI: The Miami Cheat?
COULTON: That's right.
EISENBERG: Yeah.
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EISENBERG: Right? It's not the cheat, it's the chumidity (ph).
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EISENBERG: The American Kennel 8 Club bought a Pennsylvania football team and renamed it to honor a small dog breed.
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EISENBERG: Marcie.
VERASTIQUI: The Philadelphia Beagles.
EISENBERG: Yeah, that's right.
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COULTON: This football team was bought by the metric system.
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COULTON: Bear with me - and moved 2,500 kilometers away from St. Louis. Its name now celebrates a unit of mass.
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COULTON: Marcie.
VERASTIQUI: The Los Angeles Grams.
COULTON: That's right.
EISENBERG: Yeah.
COULTON: Well done.
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EISENBERG: Sounds like the softball team for some LA coke dealers 9 but...
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EISENBERG: This West Florida baseball team was bought by a medical imaging company. Now you'll be able to see the players' bones during instant replays.
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EISENBERG: Etienne.
COULONGE: X-rays.
EISENBERG: You got it, yes.
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COULTON: The AFC football team that plays at MetLife Stadium was bought by the American Ballet Theatre. Now players must gracefully 10 leap from one cleat to land on the other. Yeah, take your time. Maybe we should go to our puzzle guru Art Chung for a hint.
EISENBERG: Yeah.
ART CHUNG: Well, the hint for the team is that it plays in East Rutherford, N.J.
COULTON: Right.
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COULTON: Etienne.
COULONGE: The Gliants (ph)?
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EISENBERG: I love The Gliants (ph).
COULTON: That is the most fantastic guess I have ever heard on this show.
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COULTON: It totally sounds like it could be a ballet move. It may very well be.
EISENBERG: The gliants is a ballet move that was created by Etienne Coulonge.
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COULTON: He was a public radio contestant 4.
EISENBERG: And on that very night, he made up a dance.
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COULTON: I'm sorry to report that's not what we're looking for. Marcie, do you know what the answer is? I know, it's shocking.
VERASTIQUI: I do not.
COULTON: Does anybody know what it is or is it just too hard? Yeah, it's the New York Jetes.
VERASTIQUI: I know more about sports than ballet.
COULTON: Yeah, me too, sister.
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EISENBERG: This is your last clue. The Cuban government bought a baseball team in Texas' most populous 11 city and renamed it after Cuba's leader.
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EISENBERG: Etienne.
COULONGE: The Castros, the Houston Castros.
EISENBERG: Yes, you are correct.
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EISENBERG: Puzzle guru Art Chung, how did our contestants do?
CHUNG: We have a tie.
EISENBERG: Oh.
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CHUNG: Here we go with a tie breaker. Hands on your buzzers 12. An association of deli owners buys the local Queens baseball team to advertise their cold cuts.
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CHUNG: Marcie.
VERASTIQUI: The Meats.
CHUNG: That is correct.
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CHUNG: Congratulations, Marcie, you're one step closer to the final round.
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- Catering in the schools is run on a franchise basis.学校餐饮服务以特许权经营。
- The United States granted the franchise to women in 1920.美国于1920年给妇女以参政权。
- View edits in a web browser.在浏览器中看编辑的效果。
- I think my browser has a list of shareware links.我想在浏览器中会有一系列的共享软件链接。
- In the distance rose the majestic Alps.远处耸立着雄伟的阿尔卑斯山。
- He looks majestic in uniform.他穿上军装显得很威风。
- The company will furnish each contestant with a free ticket.公司将为每个参赛者免费提供一张票。
- The personal appearance and interview of the contestant is another count.参加比赛者的个人仪表和谈话也是一项。
- The competition attracted over 500 contestants representing 8 different countries. 这次比赛吸引了代表8个不同国家的500多名参赛者。
- Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency. 两位候选人最终成为总统职位竞争者。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He is a consultant on law affairs to the mayor.他是市长的一个法律顾问。
- Originally,Gar had agreed to come up as a consultant.原来，加尔只答应来充当我们的顾问。
- The two debating teams argued the question pro and con.辩论的两组从赞成与反对两方面辩这一问题。
- Are you pro or con nuclear disarmament?你是赞成还是反对核裁军？
- Sporting dogs should be kept out of doors in a kennel.猎狗应该养在户外的狗窝中。
- Rescued dogs are housed in a standard kennel block.获救的狗被装在一个标准的犬舍里。
- There was fast bidding between private collectors and dealers. 私人收藏家和交易商急速竞相喊价。
- The police were corrupt and were operating in collusion with the drug dealers. 警察腐败，与那伙毒品贩子内外勾结。
- She sank gracefully down onto a cushion at his feet. 她优雅地坐到他脚旁的垫子上。
- The new coats blouse gracefully above the hip line. 新外套在臀围线上优美地打着褶皱。
- London is the most populous area of Britain.伦敦是英国人口最稠密的地区。
- China is the most populous developing country in the world.中国是世界上人口最多的发展中国家。