PETER SAGAL, HOST:
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Right now, panel, time for you to answer some questions about this week's news. Brian, you're probably familiar with Miley Cyrus's hit song "Wrecking Ball."
BRIAN BABYLON: No.
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SAGAL: If I know you, you're watching the video with the sound off, Brian.
BABYLON: No. OK, OK.
SAGAL: OK, anyway. It's the one where she's, like, naked and singing I came in like a wrecking ball. Well, that song was criticized this week - came in for significant criticism from whom?
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BABYLON: It's not Tipper Gore. She doesn't do that anymore.
SAGAL: No.
BABYLON: OK, she's out of that game.
SAGAL: No.
BABYLON: OK. Give me a hint.
SAGAL: Instead of being published in, say, Rolling Stone or a music magazine, this criticism was published in a peer-reviewed journal.
BABYLON: Like a doctor thing? Like other doctors write about?
SAGAL: Yeah, doctors.
BABYLON: Oh, this procedure.
SAGAL: More broadly. Who else wears white coats like doctors?
BABYLON: Psychologically Today?
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BABYLON: I don't know. I - honestly. This is...
: I don't know either.
SAGAL: Tom, you look like you know this. You want to take it?
TOM BODETT: Scientists?
SAGAL: Scientists, yes.
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SAGAL: Scientists.
BABYLON: Oh, man.
BODETT: Newtonian scientists.
SAGAL: Yeah, physicists specifically. Apparently, all the actual science that needs doing has been done because researchers at England's...
BABYLON: Man...
SAGAL: ...University of Leicester decided to find out what would happen if indeed Miley Cyrus were to take the place of a wrecking ball.
: Oh, no.
SAGAL: They determined that a woman of her height and weight would need to be swinging at about 360 miles per hour...
: Oh, dear.
SAGAL: ...In order to bash through the walls of someone's house. Based on this, the researcher concludes, quote, "it is clear that a human being cannot possess the characteristics of a wrecking ball without sustaining significant injury."
: I don't know. I feel like the only thing they may not be taking into account, though, is how dense Miley Cyrus actually is.
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