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Sep. 3, 2005

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HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Chris Mathews

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
• TV Personality and author of the book All the President's Pets, Mo Rocca

Round 1

Who's Carl This Time? (Listen)
A city to get out of; The one man in this country who seemed unaware that the levees in New Orleans might break; One sure sign of a coming energy crisis.

» Music Cue: "Basin Street Blues"
Artist: Louis Armstrong
Composer: Spencer Williams
CD Title: Louis Armstrong Sings the Blues
Label: BMG Music

Opening Panel Round (Listen)
What your mother warned you about is actually true.

» Music Cue: "Open My Eyes"
Artist: The Nazz
Composer: Todd Rundgren
CD Title: Nuggets Compilation
Label: Rhino Music Entertainment


Round 2

Listener Bluff (Listen)
"Frankenfood Mwa-ha-ha-ha." Three stories of science trying, and generally failing, to improve the our grocery store shelves.

» Music Cue: "A Chicken Ain't Nothin' But a Bird"
Artist: Cab Calloway
Composer: Emmet Wallace
CD Title: Diner Mite
Label: Sony Music Entertainment

Not My Job (Listen)
Chris Matthews of MSNBC's Hardball plays a game called, "You're a smidge of Sodium and Potassium, a spoonful of Sugar and a pint of Fluorescent Green Dye." Three questions about the history of Gatorade from a new book, First In Thirst by Darren Rovell.

» Music Cue: "White Lightning"
Artist: Nashville Super Guitars
Composer: J.P. Richardson
CD Title: Country Hit Kit
Label: CMH Records

Round 3

Panel Round Two (Listen)
How to offend the people of the two Dakotas; Hollywood suffers, but it's only fair since we suffered first; A stupid criminal armed for the buffet table.

» Music Cue: "'Long Come a Viper"
Artist: Dan Hicks & Hot Licks
Composer: Dan Hicks
CD Title: Last Train To Hicksville
Label: MCA Records

Who's Carl This Time? (Listen)
A woman says goodbye to Crawford, Texas; Man meets his genetic near-equal; Bye-bye to a famous ankle bracelet.

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

Prediction (Listen)
How will Americans deal with higher gas prices?

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