NPR

May 7, 2005

This week's show was recorded live at at The East County Performing Arts Center in El Cajon, Calif.

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HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Georgeanne Irvine, communications manager for the San Diego Zoo

This Week's Panelists:

• Writer and performer Adam Felber
• Comedian Paula Poundstone
• Humorist and author of Feet on the Street, Rambles Around New Orleans, Roy Blount, Jr.

Round 1

Carl Kasell's Countdown (Listen)
Carl spins his selection of wax platters, all of which are related to big stories in the week's news.

» Music Cue: "Stuck In The Middle With You"
Artist: Stealer's Wheel
Composer: Herbert/Newman
CD Title: Have A Nice Decade: '70s Box Set
Label: Rhino Music Entertainment

» Music Cue: "The Birds And The Bees"
Artist: Jewel Akens
Composer: Allen/Brown/Dickerson etc
CD Title: Billboard Top Pop Hits of 1965
Label: Rhino Music Entertainment

» Music Cue: "Lohengrin: Bridal Procession"
Artist: Royal Swedish Opera/Orchestra
Composer: Richard Wagner
CD Title: Wagner: Opera Choruses
Label: Naxos Rights Int'l

» Music Cue: "Wedding March"
Artist: Philadelphia Orchestra/Ormandy
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn
CD Title: The Wedding Album
Label: RCA Ariola

Opening Panel Round (Listen)
When Mexican food attacks.

» Music Cue: "Eat It"
Artist: Weird Al Yankovic
CD Title: Greatest Hits
Label: Volcano Entertainment


Round 2

Not My Job! (Listen)
Georgeanne Irvine of the San Diego Zoo plays a game called, "You Look At Me Funny, I'm Going To Sue" three questions about the strangest work-related lawsuits from an article in the National Law Journal.

» Music Cue: "Got A Bran' New Suit"
Artist: Fred Astaire
Composer: Dietz/Schwartz
CD Title: Fred Astaire at MGM
Label: Rhino Music Entertainment

Panel Round II (Listen)
"2-4-6-8... expletive deleted!", the secret in Napolean's wardrobe; the bandit who needed a makeover.


Round 3

Who's Carl This Time? (Listen)
A new comic sensation; the star has lost his lustre in Sacramento; a scandal you can name in five notes.

Listener Limerick Challenge (Listen)
This must have been a tough theory in the Baldwin household; a new museum in Buenos Aires; is a song still dirty if you don't have to sing the lyrics?

» Music Cue: "Louie Louie"
Artist: The Kingsmen
Composer: Richard Barrie
CD Title: The Kingsmen In Person
Label: Sundazed Records

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

Panelist Predictions (Listen)
What will be the first commercial endorsement deal for the now famous "Runaway Bride" of Duluth, Ga.?

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