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Show Details: October 2020
2020-10-03
- First Tied: Jessi Klein 15 (3 / 6)
- First Tied: Maz Jobrani 15 (3 / 6)
- Third: Brian Babylon 12 (2 / 5)
The show was recorded remotely.
Peter Sagal gave a sidenote before the start of the Not My Job segment stating that it was recorded before the news that President Trump had been infected by COVID-19.
Even though Dame Karen Pierce only answered one question correct, Bill Kurtis gave her all 3 points. Peter said that it was a form of diplomatic immunity.
In the version of the show that I pulled from NPR's podcast feed, Jessi Klein's answer to her 8th Lightning round question wasn't heard in the edited version of the show. It went from Peter asking the question, the round-ending gong sound, and then Peter Sagal saying "No, a free grave".
NPR sent out a message to member stations stating that a new audio segment was posted to their portal to corrected the above issue. Hat tip to Gregg Porter at KUOW for providing an update on this.
2020-10-10
- First: Roxanne Roberts 16 (2 / 7)
- Second: Mo Rocca 13 (3 / 5)
- Third: Negin Farsad 12 (2 / 5)
The show was recorded remotely.
2020-10-17
I'm not going to settle in and spend time with you. It's just a Curtis-y visit
- Dan Riskin 2
- Padma Lakshmi 2 *
- Adam Rippon 2
- Sarah Cooper 2
2020-10-24
- First: Peter Grosz 16 (4 / 6)
- Second: Eugene Cordero 9 (3 / 3)
- Third: Maeve Higgins 4 (2 / 1)
The show was recorded remotely.
While Doug Jones was thinking of the answer for his first Not My Job question, there was a cell phone ringing in the background. Doug initially chose "A" for the second Not My Job question, but Peter Sagal and the panel dissuaded him from that choice. Maeve Higgins gave a pretty big nudging hint for "B"; which, Doug chose and it was the correct choice.
Bill Kurtis did a quick yodel while Peter Sagal was explaining the answer for the second limerick and did a little longer one when announcing that the listener had won the round.
Peter Grosz answered his Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank questions with an Italian accent.
2020-10-31
- First: Adam Burke 17 (5 / 6)
- Second: Faith Salie 16 (4 / 6)
- Third: Alonzo Bodden 12 (4 / 4)
The show was recorded remotely.
When Alonzo Bodden read his Bluff the Listener story, he read the units of transfer speed as, "MPS" instead of, "Mbps".
At the time of entering in notes for this show, NPR's show page called the segment after Not My Job, "The Campaign Dump;" while, Bill Kurtis called it, "The Ballot Dump". The latter is used in this show's description.
Another instance where all three choices of the third Not My Job question were correct.