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Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

We welcome the arrival of fall with our coziest guests!

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 17, 202647 min
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This week on Consider This, an investigation into widespread complaints about sales tactics at mall skincare kiosks led NPR to a company in California. Am I being recorded? Yeah. Okay, delete that and we're not interviewing.

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If you need anything, you can contact our legal department. We investigate a group that supplies mall skincare stores that left customers with thousands of dollars in bills. And listen now on Consider This from NPR.

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From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, the NPR News Quiz. I'm Alzo Slade, the man who sounds like if a cozy sweater could talk. And here's your host at the Student Record Theater in downtown Chicago filling in for Peter Segal.

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