Show Details: August 2010
2010-08-07
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Rank:
First:
Faith Salie
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second:
Luke Burbank
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Third:
Adam Felber
Total: 8
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 2
- Caressa Cameron Score: 0
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about surprising fields of study, Not My Job about the three other Misses: Ms. Pac Man, Miss Cleo and Miss Piggy, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what surprising move will the very, very rich do next?
The chanting of "Luuuuuuke" continues, in which Peter said "they are not booing, Mrs. Burbank, they are not booing" and Luke came back with "there has been some confusion around that". Miss America was booed when she provided a guess for her first question.
This was not Adam Felber's week for the Lightning Fill In The Blank segment, but he did come up with: Cheese Doodles + Jesus = Cheesus.
2010-08-14
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Rank:
First:
Paula Poundstone
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Third:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
- Kristen Schaal Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about changes coming to Las Vegas, Not My Job about the Grateful Dead, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: how will the former JetBlue flight attendant quit his next job?
2010-08-21
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Rank:
First:
Kyrie O'Connor
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second:
Paula Poundstone
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Third:
Tom Bodett
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
Lifestyles of the Rich and Despicable, Bluff the Listener about hard times for the rich, Not My Job about Hetty Green, the Witch of Wall Street, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will cause the next financial crisis?
2010-08-28
- Ice-T Score: 2
- Tony Shalhoub Score: 1
- Tom Robbins Score: 2
The second annual listener's request show, includes: Carl's special effects, Ice-T, Peter's Listener Limerick Challenge intro puns, Tony Shalhoub, Paula Poundstone on faucets and Avatar, Mo Rocca and his answer guessing mashup, public radio pick-up lines and Tom Robbins.
The machine-generated transcript for the eighth segment titled "Mo Stalls: A Musical Tribute" had listed Charlie Pierce as saying "That was that one week he was rabid" when it was Luke Burbank who said that.