Ira Glass
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Yes, agreed.
What do you do here in this fair and fine city?
Well, I'm a mom of an 18-year-old, also a dog and cat mom.
And on Sundays, I'm out on the Chicago River practicing with a dragon boat team.
What is a dragon boat?
That's one of those Chinese boats?
Yeah, yeah, there's 20 people on the boat, and you are paddling as fast as you can to beat another boat if you're in competition.
But it's just really fun, and it's a great time to just enjoy the Chicago River, which not many of us get to do.
That's true, because it killed so many of us.
It's better now.
It's better now.
Vanessa, welcome to the show.
You're going to play our game in which you have to tell truth from fiction.
Alzo, what is Vanessa's topic?
Words of wisdom.
Words of wisdom.
It can be hard to come by.
I mean, you can only eat so many fortune cookies.
This week, we read about somebody who received some game-changing advice at the perfect time.
Our panelists are going to tell you about it.