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Dec. 4, 2004

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HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Tony Magaldi, the general manager of South Beach's News Cafe

This Week's Panelists:

• Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post Style section reporter
• Charlie Pierce, Boston Globe writer
• Comedienne Paula Poundstone

This week's show comes to you in a live peformance at The Parker Playhouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.


Round 1

Who's Carl This Time? (Listen)
The Secretary of Primary Colors and Duct Tape gives his notice; Finally someone else's presidential election is disputed; Genius boy becomes H&R Blockhead.

Opening Panel Round (Listen)
Ukraine's Miracle Worker.

Listener Bluff (Listen)
"It's Payback Time, Daddy!" Three stories about kids growing up and exacting revenge.

Not My Job! (Listen)
The general manager of the South Beach hot spot The News Cafe, Tony Magaldi, plays a game called "You were caught canoodling at Le Cirque with Paris Hilton!" Three questions based on a Vanity Fair history of The New York Post gossip section's Page Six.

Second Panel Round (Listen)
Harvard surrenders to Yale.


Round 3

Who's Carl? (Round Two) (Listen)
One man's cold welcome on his first visit up North; A newsman's last hurrah; A Pretty Woman's unique use of nomenclature.

Listener Limerick Challenge (Listen)
How to annoy your neighbors during the holidays; Audrey Tautou can't get a break; An easy way to avoid embarrassing calls.

Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank (Listen)
All the news we couldn't fit anywhere else.

Panelist Predictions (Listen)
Longtime Jeopardy! champ Ken Jennings says he might become a game show host himself, but our panelists predict what he's REALLY going to do now that he's lost.

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