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2026-08-01
Want a full-bodied vintage with notes of oak? Try meAlzo Slade
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Shane Torres
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 1 Correct: 6
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Tom Papa
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 4
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Joyelle Nicole Johnson
Total: 8
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 3
Who's Alzo This Time?; Panel Questions; Bluff the Listener about cheapskates in the news; Not My Job about crazy sounds; Panel Questions; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: now that wrinkles are back, what's the next fashion trend in the news?
At the end of the Lightning Fill In The Blank round, Alzo Slade said that "Shane (Torres) has one of the greatest comebacks in Wait Wait history". There have been several other instances where panelists have started the Lighting Fill In The Blank segment in third place and correctly answered seven questions to come out the winnner.
On the 2015-05-09 show, Jessie Klein started the Lightning Fill In The Blank segment in third place with zero points, answered seven questions correct, and won with 14 points.
2026-07-25
The air quality may be bad, but the Alzo quality if off the chartsAlzo Slade
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Josh Gondelman
Total: 16
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 7
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Hari Kondabolu
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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Faith Salie
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
- Tyler James Williams Score: 2
Who's Also This Time?; Panel Questions; Bluff the Listener about books in the news; Not My Job about Hollywood A-list Chrises; Panel Questions; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: after the success of "The Odyssey," what will be the next classic piece of literature made into a movie?
There is a common thread between Faith Salie, Matt Damon (from one of the topics from Who's Alzo This Time?), and Jeff Dolvin (Professor of English at Princeton who provided the details of the true story at the end of Bluff the Listener).
2026-07-18
I'll be making this place a judgment-full zoneAlzo Slade
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Alonzo Bodden
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
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Helen Hong
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
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Dulcé Sloan
Total: 9
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 3
- Vicki Peterson Score: 3
Who's Alzo This Time?; Panel Questions; Bluff the Listener about something new in the funeral business; Not My Job about mummies; Panel Questions; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what'll be the big surprise at the World Cup final?
The edited version of the show included four out of Dulcé Sloan's eight Lightning Fill In The Blank questions, in which she answered two correct. When Tom Papa asked how Dulcé did, Alzo Slade said that she answered three correct. The third correct answer would have been from one of the four questions not included for time or content.
2026-07-11
I'm your judge and scorekeeper who recently realized I can just make up the scores and no one noticesAlzo Slade
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First Tied:
Adam Burke
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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First Tied:
Alonzo Bodden
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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Negin Farsad
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
- Jason Narducy Score: 3
Who's Alzo This Time?; Panel Questions; Bluff the Listener about a big storm in the news; Not My Job about agents who go undercover to catch bad guys; Panel Questions; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: after Love Island, what'll be the next big reality show set on an island?
The listener contestant responded with "Seriously? Seriously?" to the first rhyme for the second limerick while everyone else was laughing due to it having to rhyme with "Birkenstock".
2026-07-04
Forget Uncle Sam, I'm the uncle you actually want to hang out withAlzo Slade
- John Cusack Score: 3
- Arden Cho Score: 2
- Aasif Mandvi Score: 2
- Kali Reis Score: 3
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Negin Farsad with the guest host for the 2026-02-14 show with Arden Cho as the Not My Job guest.
The first and second portions of the Panel Questions segment, with questions that were cut for time or content, were from the 2026-06-13 show. The third portion was from the 2026-06-06 show.