America's 'fastest-growing internet game show': the host reads proverbs and Dawson Schrader vs Mike ('pocket snickers') guess Solomon (with chapter) or Secular (with country of origin). Rounds: 'don't make a mouse of yourself' — secular Germany; 'a gentle answer turns away wrath' — Solomon, Proverbs 15; 'the heaviest rains fall on the house that leaks most' — secular China; 'do not be quickly provoked in your spirit' — Solomon, Ecclesiastes 7; 'a fool takes no pleasure in understanding' — Solomon, Proverbs 18:2 (the word 'fool' is the tell); 'you can't chew with someone else's teeth' — secular Israel; 'even in laughter, the heart may ache' — Solomon, Proverbs 14:13; 'a bad workman blames his tools' — secular England (Dawson guesses Liverpool and doubles on it); 'a cheerful heart is good medicine' — Solomon, Proverbs 17; 'as a dog returns to its vomit' — Solomon, Proverbs 26. Mike's self-scorekeeping is suspiciously generous; Dawson loses big. A side riff wonders whether any domestic cats appear in the Bible (outside lions).
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