PETER SAGAL, HOST:
Right now, panel, as you anticipated, it's time to ask you some questions about the week's news. Paula, former House Speaker John Boehner cleaned up the mess of the budget agreement before he left. But he did leave something for new Speaker Paul Ryan to clean up - what?
PAULA POUNDSTONE: Graffiti on the walls?
SAGAL: Not quite.
PETER GROSZ: Obama sux - S-U-X.
(LAUGHTER)
POUNDSTONE: Oh, was there a smell...
SAGAL: Yes...
POUNDSTONE: ...He left a smell?
SAGAL: ...A terrible smell. The smell of...
POUNDSTONE: Defeat?
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: We'll give it to you. He had to get rid of John Boehner's smell, which was, of course, caused by John Boehner's smoking habit.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
SAGAL: The speaker's office, off the House of Representatives in the capital, smells like an enormous ashtray. This is doubly upsetting for Paul Ryan. As you know, he's a health nut, doesn't like smoking and as one of the youngest members of Congress is really more into vaping.
(LAUGHTER)
AMY DICKINSON: I think Paul Ryan is being a little bit much. He's being a little...
GROSZ: Fastidious.
DICKINSON: ...Demanding.
SAGAL: Yes, he said he's going to bring one of those ionizer-type air fresheners they have - if that doesn't work, just a bunch of those pine tree-shaped air fresheners.
GROSZ: He is such a classic Rage Against the Machine fan.
DICKINSON: Yeah.
GROSZ: You know, I'm going to bring in an ionizer, like...
SAGAL: Wait a minute...
GROSZ: ...The Venn diagram of Paul Ryan and Rage Against the Machine fans is just Paul Ryan...
SAGAL: So he...
GROSZ: That's it, I guess...
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: So he is a fan of the anarchist punk band - punkish band...
GROSZ: Yes, exactly.
SAGAL: ...Rage Against the Machine. Does Rage Against the Machine know this?
GROSZ: They do. I think it became a thing in the 2012 election, when he was the vice presidential candidates. I don't think Ryan went as far as playing their music at rallies and stuff, probably because...
DICKINSON: I heard he's...
GROSZ: ...Mitt Romney's ears would've bled if that happened.
DICKINSON: I think he's forming a quartet there, a Rage Against the Machine quartet...
GROSZ: Oh, I thought you meant, like, a barbershop quartet.
DICKINSON: Yeah, they're going to do those songs in barbershop.
POUNDSTONE: Like Trent Lott used to have?
DICKINSON: Yeah.
SAGAL: Yeah.
POUNDSTONE: Oh, yeah.
DICKINSON: That would be awesome.
POUNDSTONE: That was lovely.
GROSZ: That would be great.
(LAUGHTER)
GROSZ: F you, I won't do what you tell me. (Singing) F you, I won't do what you tell me.
DICKINSON: (Singing) F you, I won't do what you tell me.
POUNDSTONE: (Singing) F you, I won't do what you tell me.
DICKINSON: (Singing) F you...
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "SMELLS LIKE FUNK")
THE BLACK EYED PEAS: Yeah, that's funky. Yeah, that's funky...
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