Show Details: August 2010
2010-08-07
- First: Faith Salie Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Luke Burbank Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Adam Felber Total Score: 8 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 2)
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 round, but did have fun: Cheese Doodles + Jesus = Cheesus.
2010-08-14
- First: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
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
- First: Kyrie O'Connor Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Tom Bodett Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 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 2
- Tony Shalhoub 1
- Tom Robbins 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.