Ira Glass

According to one researcher, quote, I did not think 700,000-year-old poop would smell anymore, but it was intense.

Can you imagine how difficult things were back then?

Like somebody light a match.

We can't.

We've never invented fire.

That's not how smell works.

Like, have you smelled a grandmother?

Bread.

Yes, bread.

Otzi the Iceman is a 5,000-year-old caveman who is so well-preserved, he still has living microbes in his stomach.

And this week, researchers at Italy's Institute for Mummy Studies, which shockingly only sounds like we made it up, announced they had taken those microbes and made sourdough bread out of them.

The scientists say the dough is, quote, very, very good, but I don't care how good bread is if somebody you're sharing it with says, and while we're at it, whose milk is the butter from?

We're talking about American snacks falling behind.

This is what we're talking about.

This is what we're talking about.

Also, how did Vanessa do in our quiz?

Enjoy your summer break.

Now on to our final game, lightning fill in the blank.

Each of our players will have 60 seconds in which to answer as many fill in the blank questions as they can.

Each correct answer now worth two points.