PETER SAGAL, HOST:
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Paula.
PAULA POUNDSTONE: Yeah?
SAGAL: North Korea...
POUNDSTONE: You bet you.
SAGAL: ...Has demanded that China stop calling Kim Jong-un, their dear leader, what?
POUNDSTONE: The fat kitty?
SAGAL: Yeah. They've demanding that their - that China, the people of China, stop calling Kim Jong-un fat. In fact, in China, he is known as Kim Fatty III.
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SAGAL: Kim Jong-un, the dictator of North Korea, who until quite recently seemed like the worst-case scenario for a national leader...
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SAGAL: Well, he is big-boned, as his mother might say - if he hadn't put her in a camp. And Chinese people make fun of Kim Jong-un's weight all the time as in, you know, Kim Jong-un is so fat, when he was a baby, he violated the one-child policy by himself.
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SAGAL: Or they say he has more Chins than one of our perfectly normal phonebooks here in China.
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ADAM FELBER: It's amazing how that joke even plays on the mainland.
SAGAL: It really does.
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SAGAL: It's an English pun, but they get it 'cause they're smart, yeah.
FELBER: Actually, the way you say Chin in Chinese is Jones.
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SAGAL: Now, after pressure from North Korea, the government in China has now blocked search results on the internet for that nickname, Kim Fatty III. Citizens there are getting around it though by calling him - and this is for real - Kim Fat Fat Fat.
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FELBER: That's three fats.
SAGAL: Yes. And if that fails, they'll go with Kim Jong-un-Able-to-Put-Down-the-Cinnabon.
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SAGAL: Adam, last week, thousands of Facebook users logged on to find out that the social media site had done what to them.
FELBER: Killed them.
SAGAL: Yes, indeed.
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SAGAL: Thanks to a glitch in Facebook's programming, on Friday of last week, Facebook automatically created touching memorial posts for thousands of their users.
POUNDSTONE: Wow.
SAGAL: The only problem was that all of those people were still alive.
POUNDSTONE: Now, were they accurate? I mean, did they - were they, like - were they accurate eulogy kind of things?
FELBER: Well, the dead part not so much.
SAGAL: No.
POUNDSTONE: OK, but the rest of it. I mean, what I'm saying is, like, if I keel over, does Facebook - do they - is it, like...
SAGAL: It was more of a generic memorial message.
POUNDSTONE: Oh, I see.
FELBER: Really? Mine was that I had a thresher accident.
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POUNDSTONE: But, I mean, wouldn't that be traumatic? Like, if - OK, well, this isn't a good example, but if my kids thought I was dead. Yeah, that's not a good example because...
FELBER: All right, pick a different example.
SAGAL: Yeah, different example.
POUNDSTONE: My son had the nerve to ask me what he got when I died. I said debt.
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POUNDSTONE: And I said, and I want you to have it.
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