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Lee Smith
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Sep. 17, 2005

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

This Week's Panelists:
Boston Globe writer Charlie Pierce
Washington Post Style section reporter Roxanne Roberts
• Humorist and author of Feet on the Street, Rambles Around New Orleans, Roy Blount, Jr.

Round 1

Who's Carl This Time? (Listen)
Favorite movies are a much safer topic of conversation than say, divisive issues splitting our nation in two; Who said "whoops" this week; George Bush really crosses his legs at the U.N.

» Music Cue: "Four of Two"
Artist: They Might Be Giants
Composer: Linnell/Flansburgh
CD Title: No
Label: Rounder Records

Opening Panel Round (Listen)
Why many states feel left out and rejected.

» Music Cue: "Frosty"
Artist: Clarence Gatemouth Brown
Composer: Albert Collins/Big Bopper
CD Title: Okie Dokie Stomp
Label: Rounder Records


Round 2

Listener Bluff (Listen)
"But You Have to Really Want To Change." Three stories about new methods in self-improvement

» Music Cue: Button
Artist: Disney Orchestra
Composer: Carl Stalling
CD Title: The Carl Stalling Project Vol. 2
Label: Warner Bros. Records

Not My Job (Listen)
Author Lee Smith plays a game called "Nothing Says Class Like A Velvet Painting." Three questions about bad art from The Encyclopedia of Bad Taste by Jane and Michael Stern.

» Music Cue: "Minnie's Yoo Hoo"
Artist: Disney Orchestra
Composer: Carl Stalling/Walt Disney
CD Title: The Carl Stalling Project Vol. 2
Label: Warner Bros. Records

Round 3

Panel, Round Two (Listen)
This year's Passion Of The Christ; a convention cries for someone other than Linda Blair; Bosnians find a symbol they can all agree on.

» Music Cue: "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head"
Artist: Patti Page
Composer: Bacharach/David
CD Title: 16 Most Requested Songs
Label: Columbia

Who's Carl This Time? Part Two (Listen)
Money to solve one man's political problem; the airline that doesn't like flying these days; a pop birth.

» Music Cue: "Lightly Latin"
Artist: Henry Mancini
Composer: Henry Mancini
CD Title: Martinis with Mancini
Label: RCA Records

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

» Music Cue: "I'm Walkin'"
Artist: Fats Domino
Composer: Domino/Bartholomew
CD Title: Lil' Bit of Gold
Label: Rhino Records

Prediction (Listen)
After President Bush, who will be the next high-profile person caught writing a note, and what will it say?

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