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Jan. 15, 2005

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HOST: Sitting in this week for Peter Sagal, Brian Unger
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Champion Olympic wrestler, Rulon Gardner

This Week's Panelists:

• TV personality Mo Rocca
• Deputy editor of the Houston Chronicle, Kyrie O'Connor
• Humorist and author, Roy Blount, Jr.

Round 1

Who's Carl (Listen)
The big story of the week from Los Angeles... well Hollywood; Mr. Burns finds his doppelganger; Americans get some common sense advice from the government.

Opening Panel Round (Listen)
Toyota learns that a powerful word isn't always a good name for a power car.

» Music Cue: "See The USA in Your Chevrolet"
Artist: Dinah Shore
Composer: Leon Carr/Leo Corday
CD Title: Hot Rods and Custom Classics
Label: Rhino Entertainment


Round 2

Bluff the Listener (Listen)
When you're in Special Ops, you gotta think outside the box -- three stories of questionable military weapon research.

» Music Cue: "Just One Look"
Artist: Doris Troy
Composer: Gregory Carroll/Doris Payne
CD Title: Soul Spectacular Box
Label: Rhino Entertainment

Not My Job! (Listen)
Olympic Gold medal wrestler Rulon Gardner plays a game called "You're the home of Elvis impersonators and the Liberace Museum" -- three questions about the early days of Las Vegas from the Encyclopedia of Bad Taste.

Panel Round Two (Listen)
Legalized noodling.

» Music Cue: "I Wish I Were A Fish"
Artist: Don Knotts
Composer: Sammy Fain/Harold Adamson
CD Title: 75 Years of Warner Bros.
Label: Rhino Entertainment


Round 3

Second Round of Who's Carl? (Listen)
Bravery on Capitol Hill; anything that packs 400 calories into a 6-ounce cup can't be all bad; another PR coup for Britain's royal family.

Listener Limerick Challenge (Listen)
When the moon isn't a moon; four out of five dentists can be wrong; a Wait Wait tribute to a man who changed baking forever.

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

Panelist Predictions (Listen)
What will we learn was the real reason for Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston's breakup?

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