Trump's 'extraordinary' health, self-driving Ubers, and Italians won't have babies.
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Presidential candidate Donald Trump appeared this week on The Dr. Oz Show to brag about his 'astonishingly excellent' health. Our hilarious panel is playing the quiz game - Who Said It: Dr. Oz or Dr. Seuss?
It's that time of the year when the Oxford English Dictionary is updated. Listen to our first ever spelling bee, where we test our panellists on words like 'yogalates' and 'fuhggedaboudit.'
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This week's panel:
- actor and comedian Scott Thompson
- comedian Candy Palmater
- author and broadcaster Tom Howell
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Because News is written and produced by Elizabeth Bowie, David Carroll, Gavin Crawford and Phil Leung, with writing help this week from James Hartnett and Scott Vrooman.