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July 10, 2004

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HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Tom Hayden

This Week's Panelists:

• Writer and performer Adam Felber
• Comedienne Paula Poundstone
Boston Globe writer Charlie Pierce

Round 1

Who's Carl (Listen)
John Kerry tells a joke; TABLOIDS GONE BAD!; the one-ply governor.

Opening Panel Round (Listen)
Even wackier than the real Village People; the fossil record now includes sansabelts and white shoes.


Round 2

Bluff the Listener (Listen)
"Hey, that's not very Heavy Metal!" The panel tells three stories of Rock stars choosing an Easy Listening way of life.

(See the real story.)

Not My Job! (Listen)
Longtime political activist and author Tom Hayden plays a game called, "Don't Talk To Me, I'm Rocking To 'My Sharona'" -- Three questions about the Walkman on the 25th anniversary of Sony introducing the solipsistic sound system.


Panel Round Two (Listen)
The plague of big box retailers; those terrorists better never try to start a convoy.

Round 3

Mystery Newsmaker Game (Listen)
The panelists try to identify a man who, through no fault of his own, wound up getting into the news this week.

(See the real story.)

Who's Carl This Time, Round 2 (Listen)
The CEO who told the world that everything is OK... reallly... peachy; the angry campaigner; 50 years since a King was born.

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

Panelist Predictions (Listen)
How will John Edwards change the Kerry Campaign?

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