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Panel Round One

PETER SAGAL, HOST:

Right now, panel it is time for you to answer some questions about this week's news. Roxanne, this week The Washington Post profiled a new business catering to stressed professionals around the world. For a fee, you enter a room and for up to 25 minutes you are free to do what?

ROXANNE ROBERTS: Let's see, you can walk into a room and you can do - stressed professionals - so I'm going to say absolutely nothing.

SAGAL: No, what's the fun of that? You just stand there and stay angry.

ROBERTS: You get to hit things.

SAGAL: Yes, you get to smash things.

(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)

SAGAL: They're called -

(APPLAUSE)

SAGAL: Yes, that's a good idea. There called anger rooms. They give you a helmet, protective eyewear and, your choice, a baseball bat or a sledgehammer. And you go to town on glass bottles and dishes and furniture or a radio playing StoryCorps.

(LAUGHTER)

SAGAL: Stop being so sad.

ROBERTS: Let me ask a practical question...

SAGAL: Please.

ROBERTS: ...Because that's my job. All right, so if you go in there and you get goggles and you get a helmet, did you say?

SAGAL: Yes.

ROBERTS: But if you're smashing plates, shards of broken glass could come and slice you, and you could die, you know, if you hit it wrong. You know, that would be, like, the plate's revenge.

SAGAL: I think - I don't think the problem would be necessarily your death. That's inevitable.

(LAUGHTER)

SAGAL: The problem would be your obituary.

(LAUGHTER)

SAGAL: That's not a way anybody wants to go.

MAZ JOBRANI: Killed by a plate.

SAGAL: Killed by a plate taking vengeance.

JOBRANI: Yeah.

ROBERTS: A jagged plate.

SAGAL: Yeah, murder suicide of crockery.

(LAUGHTER)

ALONZO BODDEN: You talk about you really being stressed over not being able to do anything right.

SAGAL: Yeah, I know.

BODDEN: You go in and you beat a plate to death, and it kills you.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "BREAKIN' DISHES")

RIHANNA: (Singing) I'm breaking dishes up in here, all night. I ain't gon' stop until I see police lights. I'ma fight a man tonight, I'ma fight a man tonight.

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