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July 23, 2005

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HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Drew Curtis, proprietor of the Fark.com


This Week's Panelists:

• 'Ask Amy' Advice Columnist Amy Dickinson
Boston Globe writer Charlie Pierce
• TV Personality Mo Rocca

Round 1

Who's Carl This Time? (Listen)
The bland nominee; Hey! Pesky White House Press corps! Look, it's a Supreme Court Nominee!; Beamed Up One Last Time.

» Music Cue: "Star Trek"
Composer: Alexander Courage
CD Title: Television's Greatest Hits
Label: Tee Vee Toons

Opening Panel Round (Listen)
The secret of President Bush's litmus test; Yet another wacky innovation in British education.

» Music Cue: "Six Contary Dances"
Artist: Turtle Mountain Naval Winds
Composer: Peter Schickele
CD Title: Music for an Awful Lot Of Winds and Percussion
Label: Telarc Records


Round 2

Bluff the Listener (Listen)
"Packaging Your Past" Three stories of people trying to cash in on past glory.

» Music Cue: "Disco Inferno"
Artist: The Trammps
Composer: Leroy Green/Tyrone Kersey
CD Title: The Disco Years: Turn the Beat Around
Label: Rhino Music Entertainment

Not My Job (Listen)
Fark.com founder Drew Curtis answers three questions about the recent Real and Possible Nations summitt held at New York's New School University.

» Music Cue: "The Robots"
Artist: Senor Coconut
Composer: Bortas/Hutter/Schneider
CD Title: El Baile Aleman
Label: interGroove


Round 3

Panel Round Two (Listen)
What Not To Wear: White House Edition; Windy City stereotypes come to life; Why Fido's worrying about his monthly minutes.

» Music Cue: "Call Me"
Artist: Blondie
Composer: Moroder/Harry
CD Title: Once More in the Bleach
Label: Chrysalis

Listener Limerick Challenge (Listen)
The produce section just got meaner; The kid with the most frequent flyer miles; Remembering a hero to the Hungry Man.

» Music Cue: "Thinking"
Artist: The Meters
Composer: Nocentelli/Porter/Neville/Modeliste
CD Title: The Meters Anthology
Label: Rhino Music Entertainment

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

Prediction (Listen)
What will be the next distraction created by the White House to deflect attention from Karl Rove?

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