Show Details: June 1999
1999-06-05
- First: Margo Kaufman Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 3)
Opening Round; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about words from the 1999 National Spelling Bee; Listener Limerick Challenge; Week in Review; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Bluff the Listener about a political figure who's fallen from grace and is back in the public eye; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
The show features the first edition of Who's Carl Race for the White House 2000. The show requested listeners to send in news limericks for the next several shows due to the show's limericist being out.
Instead of the Not My Job questions being multiple choice, Ira Glass had to correctly spell words from the 1999 National Spelling Bee. Charlie Pierce was able to correct spell the first and third words, Margo Kaufman was able to correct spell the second word, while Roxanne Roberts did not write down the correct spelling for the third word. The three words were: palimpsest, nociceptor, and logorrhea.
1999-06-12
- First: Adam Felber Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 3)
- Third: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 9 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 3)
Opening Round; Who's Carl This Time?; Bluff the Listener about an old television show used in a new way; Listener Limerick Challenge: Listener Limerick Edition; Week in Review; Not My Job about tort reform around the world; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will be Oscar Goodman's first official act as mayor of Las Vegas?
The limericks read during the Listener Limerick Challenge segment were sent in by listeners.
All three of the correct answers for the Not My Job segment were "C".
1999-06-19
- First: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 6 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Second: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Adam Felber Total Score: 7 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 3)
Opening Round; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about new words from the Oxford Concise English Dictionary; Listener Limerick Listener Limerick Challenge; Panel Questions; Bluff the Listener about an unusual government denial; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Panelist Predictions: What Al Gore will do next to prove he's not boring?
The Not My Job listener contestant was on the line for the segment and they wanted a t-shirt instead of Carl Kasell recording a greeting for their answering machine.
1999-06-26
- First: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 17 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Sue Ellicott Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 6 / Correct Answers: 3)
Opening Round; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about a unusual new candy debuted at the All Candy Expo; Listener Limerick Challenge; Panel Questions; Bluff the Listener about an attempt to advertise in an unusual place; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Panelist Predictions: What will be the big revelation from the KGB's Kennedy files?