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Oct. 8, 2005

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HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Author Carl Hiassen

This Week's Panelists:

• Humorist and author of Feet on the Street, Rambles Around New Orleans, Roy Blount, Jr.
• Kyrie O'Connor, deputy editor of the Houston Chronicle
• Comedienne Paula Poundstone

Round 1

Who's Carl This Time? (Listen)
Three quotes about the best person President Bush could find this week.

Opening Panel Round (Listen)
Americans should just give up and binge eat until their stomachs are distended.

» Music Cue: "Fat and 40"
Artist: Joe Williams & Friends
Composer: Delos Records
CD Title: I Just Want To Sing
Label: Delos Records


Round 2

Not My Job (Listen)
Miami Herald columnist and author Carl Hiaasen plays a game called, "You're The Boss From Hell." Three questions about the troubled history of assistants to Hollywood producer Scott Rudin taken from a Wall Street Journal article about them.

» Music Cue: "Miami Vice Theme"
Artist: Jan Hammer
Composer: Jan Hammer
CD Title: 'Miami Vice' The Album
Label: MCA Records

Panel Round Two (Listen)
Alaska gets a slogan that'll have people dying to visit; "Sorry, there's no one named Osama here".

» Music Cue: "Telephone (Won't You Ring)"
Artist: Shelley Fabares
Composer: Barry Mann/Cynthia Weill
CD Title: Best of Shelley Fabares
Label: Rhino Music Entertainment

Round 3

Panel Round Three (Listen)
The word of the week; gasoline that should be allowed to breathe before you pump it; if dogs can play poker, why can't these guys?

» Music Cue: "Four Of Two"
Artist: They Might Be Giants
Composer: John Flansburgh
CD Title: Best of Shelley Fabares
Label: BMI

Who's Carl, Round Two (Listen)
Poetry to a jailbird; he may be in trouble, but his money is clean; one crazy pregnancy.

» Music Cue: "Fujiyama"
Artist: Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks
Composer: John Louis Girton
CD Title: Striking It Rich
Label: MCA Records

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

Prediction (Listen)
What will we learn about Supreme Court nominee, Harriet Miers?

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