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Dec. 18, 2004

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HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Steve Inskeep and Renée Montagne

This Week's Panelists:

• Writer and performer Adam Felber
• Humorist and author of the new book I Am the Cat, Don't Forget That, Roy Blount, Jr.
• Writer and journalist Sue Ellicott


Round 1

Who's Carl This Time? (Listen)
When extramarital affairs are multi- tasking; The government may be ready to unleash hell at 30,000 feet; Tom Wolfe needs Sex Ed.

Opening Panel Round (Listen)
We'd hate to see what these three got if they REALLY screwed up; What the TSA is good at, and what they're not good at; A German pensioner falls for the siren's song.

Round 2

Bluff the Listener Game (Listen)
The New Contraband: Three tales about illegal trade. (See the real story.)

Not My Job! (Listen)
The new hosts of Morning Edition, Steve Inskeep and Renee Montagne, stay up late to play a game called, "You'll Be Able To Make Belgian Waffles In Your Sleep." Three questions about the Kitchen of the Future, as imagined in the 1950s, from a new book titled, Atomic Kitchen.

WWDTM Mail Bag (Listen)
We respond to letters about escalators, chickens, and the tiniest American Idol: Clay Aiken.

Round 3

Who's Carl? (Round Two) (Listen)
President Bush warns Americans: Powerball is NOT an investment choice; Bad prison poetry; Can it be a sports strike if nobody notices?

Limerick Challenge (Listen)
New Yorkers, for once, get the bird; Keeping abreast of a BIG product recall; China's latest bragging right.

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

Panelist Predictions (Listen)
What career path will Bernard Kerik take now that he's no longer up for Homeland Security Secretary?

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