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HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Ira Glass, host of This American Life
This Week's Panelists:
• Charlie Pierce, Boston Globe writer
• Mo Rocca, host of Smoking Gun TV and Today Show contributor
• Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post Style section reporter
Round 1
Who's Carl This Time?
(Listen)
Three flawed predictions in history: Someday they may be smaller than your car; someone underestimates an American treasure; a record company makes the mistake of a lifetime.
» Music Cue: "Love Me Do"
Artist: The Beatles
Composer: Lennon/McCartney
CD Title: Please Please Me
Label: Capitol
Year: 1963
Panel Round
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The panel answers questions about political gossip, rumor and innuendo throughout history: Alexander Hamilton wasn't embezzling, but what he was doing wasn't much better; President Van Buren's yard fetish; Andrew Johnson gets a bit tipsy at a rather important function.
» Music Cue: "Bottle of Wine"
Artist: Leroy Troy
Composer: Tom Paxton
CD Title: The Old Grey Mare
Label: Rounder Records
Year: 2001
Round 2
Listener Bluff
(Listen)
"Don't Believe Everything You Hear, Kids" -- Three stories about an attempt to revise a historical fact we thought was set in stone.
Not My Job!
(Listen)
This American Life host Ira Glass plays "You're the Most Famous
Poet of the Victorian Era!" -- Three multiple choice questions about the forgotten literary figure Martin Tupper.
» Music Cue: "Second Air de Trompette"
Artist: Hannes, Wolfgang, Laubin and Preston
Composer: Charpentier
CD Title: Awake the Trumpets Lofty Sound
Label: Deutsche Grammophone
Round 3
Who's Carl (Second Round)
(Listen)
Three complaints by J. Edgar Hoover, Director for Life of the FBI:
they're nothing more than nice olive oil salesmen, honest; Hoover discloses a
very unlikely enemy of the FBI; the director points out the Great Airstream
Menace.
» Music Cue: "Secret Agent Man"
Artist: Johnny Rivers
Composer: Sloan/Barri
CD Title: Greatest Hits
Label: EMI
Year: 1995
Listener Limerick Challenge
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Three Limericks about famous urban legends: Watch what you flush down the toilet; careful what you say in front of an open mic; the bane of Neiman Marcus' existence.
Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank
(Listen)
Our panelists take on horror movies, inventions and diner slang.
Panelist Predictions
(Listen)
What other historical figure will we find out we've been wrong about all along?
 Take the quiz
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