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HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Dr. Andrew Weil
This Week's Panelists:
• Houston Chronicle deputy editor, Kyrie O'Connor
• Writer and performer Adam Felber
• "Ask Amy" advice columnist Amy Dickinson
Round 1
Carl Kassell's Countdown
(Listen)
Carl spins three holiday carols, each of which say something about a top story in the week's news: Who sees you when you're sleeping; knitters sing the Hallelujah Chorus, and the city not so happy to be walking in a winter wonderland.
» Music Cue: "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town"
Artist: Frank Sinatra
Composer: Coots/Gillespie
CD Title: The Columbia Years: The Complete Recordings
Label: Columbia Records
» Music Cue: "Hallelujah Chorus"
Composer: George Friedrich Handel
» Music Cue: "Winter Wonderland"
Artist: Bing Crosby
Composer: Bernard/Smith
CD Title: Bing Crosby Christmas
Label: Capitol Records
» Music Cue: "Jingle Bells"
Artist: Joe Loco Quintet
Composer: James Pierpoint
CD Title: Mambo Santa Mambo
Label: Universal Music
Opening Panel Round
(Listen)
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson's very touchy issue.
» Music Cue: "Touch Me"
Artist: The Doors
Composer: Robby Krieger
CD Title: The Doors Greatest Hits
Label: Warner Bros Records
Round 2
Bluff the Listener
(Listen)
"It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year... Dammit!" -- three stories about someone saving Christmas from grinches across the country.
» Music Cue: "The Man With The Bag"
Artist: Kay Starr
Composer: Taylor/Brooks/Stanley
CD Title: Ultralounge: Christmas Cocktails
Label: Capitol Records
Not My Job
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Actress Kathy Joosten of ABC's Desperate Housewives plays a game called, "Even Tom DeLay Would Whimper and Run Out in Tears" -- three questions about Britain's parliament, where members often get personal and nasty in their oratory.
» Music Cue: "Christmas Medley"
Artist: New Mayfair Orch
Composer: Debroy Somers
CD Title: The Spirit of Xmas Past
Label: ASV Mono
Round 3
Panel Round Two
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Dick Cheney makes his own kind of music; Iraqi soldiers put on a black leotard and get trapped in an imaginary box.
» Music Cue: "Sleigh Ride"
Artist: The Ventures
Composer: Leroy Anderson
CD Title: The Ventures Xmas Album
Label: CEMA Special Markets
Who's Carl This Time?
(Listen)
Breathtaking inanity in the news; the absolute worst day of Sen. Ted Stevens' life; the his-and-his wedding of the week.
» Music Cue: "God Rest Ye Jerry Mandelbaum"
Artist: Jewish Wedding Band
Composer: Leroy Anderson
CD Title: A Child's Hannakuh
Label: Rhino Music Entertainment
Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank
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All the news we couldn't fit anywhere else.
Panelist Predictions
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What newsmaker will find what gift under his or her Christmas tree?
 Take the quiz
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