HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Jean Cochran
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Comedian Dylan Moran
This Week's Panelists:
Writer and performer, Adam Felber
Author and humorist, Roy Blount Jr.
Style section reporter for The Washington Post, Roxanne Roberts
Round 1
Who's Jean During the Reagan Era?
(Listen)
A Wait Wait tribute to Ronald Reagan: three quotes from key figures of the Reagan administration.
Opening Panel Round
(Listen)
Bad record keeping in the State Department; Blond, Black, Brown or Kojak; Quawk quawk...
» Music Cue: "Little White Duck"
Artist: Burl Ives
Composer: Burrows/Zaritzky
CD Title: Burl Ives Sings Little White Duck
Label: CBS
Round 2
Listener Bluff
(Listen)
"You Can't Be Too Careful" -- Three stories of things we thought were safe but are actually dangerous.
(See the real story.)
» Music Cue: "Get Ready 4 This"
Artist: 2 Unlimited
Composer: Wilde/De Coster
CD Title: Jock Jams Vol 1
Label: Tommy Boy Records
Not My Job!
(Listen)
Irish comedian Dylan Moran plays our game called "Nothing Satisfies Like a Good Mallow Puff Bar!" -- Three questions about candy taken from the book "Candy Freak" by Steve Almond.
» Music Cue: "Main Title"
Artist: 2 Unlimited
Composer: Leslie Bricusse
CD Title: Willie Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
Panel Round 2
(Listen)
A modest proposal for an easier anthem.
» Music Cue: "The Star Spangled Banner"
Artist: Big League Orchestra
Composer: Smith/Key
CD Title: Baseball: A Film By Ken Burns
Label: Elektra
Round 3
Who's Carl This Time?
(Listen)
Confused diplomats invade Georgia; a musical tribute to the High Priest of Soul; here comes the bootylicious
bride... yet again.
» Music Cue: "(Today I Met) The Boy I'm Going to Marry"
Artist: Darlene Love
Composer: Spector/Powers/Greenwich
CD Title: Best Of Darlene Love
Label: Phil Spector Records
Listener Limerick Challenge (Listen)
A delicious snack at the movies or in the fjord; the headache cures the headache; the Lost Continent is found -- Ole!
Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank
(Listen)
All the news we couldn't fit anywhere else.
Panelist Predictions
(Listen)
We've heard about proposals to put Ronald Reagan's
image on Mount Rushmore and the $10 bill. Our panelists predict some lesser-known tributes to the former president.
Take the quiz
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