HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Dan Neil, Pulitzer-winning auto critic
This Week's Panelists:
Washington Post Style section reporter, Roxanne Roberts
Columnist for The Atlantic Monthly, P.J. O'Rourke
TV Personality Mo Rocca
Round 1
Who's Carl This Time?
(Listen)
Bad times on Capitol Hill; A plumbing issue in the news this week; Why loads of dorky white guys were hanging out on the nation's sidewalks.
» Music Cue: "Star Wars Cantina Band"
Artist: Meco
Composer: John Williams
CD Title: Have A Nice Decade: 70's Box Set
Label: Rhino Music Entertainment
Opening Panel Round
(Listen)
Illinois governor finds a new way to say he's doing a bang up job; United Flight attendants find a striking way to protest their labor strife.
» Music Cue: "Come Fly with Me"
Artist: Frank Sinatra
Composer: Cahn/Van Heusen
CD Title: Come Fly With Me
Label: Capitol Records
Round 2
Bluff the Listener (Listen)
After All These Years: Three stories of longstanding incompatibilities being repaired.
(See the true story.)
Not My Job!
(Listen)
Dan Neil, Los Angeles Times automotive writer, plays a game called "And You Thought Gilligan's Island Was Bad..." Three questions about the history of the Pacific Island of Nauru.
Panel Round II (Listen)
How the stegasaurus impressed the ladies.
» Music Cue: "King of the Road"
Artist: Nashville Super Guitars
Composer: Roger Miller
CD Title: Country Hit Kit
Label: CMH Records
Round 3
Who's Carl This Time? (Listen) A neuvo mayor; A new vision for Ground Zero; A newlywed who's letting herself go to pot, which you get to see weekly on your TV.
» Music Cue: "Tell That Girl to Shut Up"
Artist: Nashville Super Guitars
Composer: Holly Beth Vincent
CD Title: Poptopia: Power Pop Hits of the '70s
Label: Rhino Music Entertainment
Listener Limerick Challenge (Listen) How to get a man in one meal; Next time you're on a plane, beware of that guy sleeping soundly
in the seat next to yours; A new market for greeting cards.
Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank (Listen)
All the news we couldn't fit anywhere else.
Panelist Predictions (Listen) What will be the next article that Newsweek is forced to retract?
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