“Episode 714: Can A Game Show Lose?”, 2016-07-27 (; backlinks):
David Levinson Wilk: Hi, I’m David Levinson Wilk, and that’s my name.
Smith: And what do you do?
W.: I write for television game shows, which is wonderful and delightful and provides health care, which is also delightful and wonderful.
S.: So when you say you’re a writer for a game show, what does that mean?
…Romer: David gets to work cooking up questions to give the polling company. The polling company does its job.
W.: And it was the only question that we ever wrote where we ever got a response from them saying, is this actually what you want us to be polling? And we said, yes. And the question was—we were going to ask people, ‘have you ever been decapitated?’
S.: But…
W.: They were sure we had made a mistake, and we had not.
S.: As far as David remembers, by the way, 4% of Americans answered that they had been decapitated.
R.: Seems high.
S.: So the producer, Vin, and the question writer, David, and all of these other people get to work creating this new game show from scratch…
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