The Game Show. If you're not listening . . . we'll just assume your computer's broken

Coming up next Monday, 11/27

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Tournament of Champions!

10 - 11 - Prep Period
11 - 12 - Andrew Springer v. Nathan Holdstein

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Thanks for listening this week. Tune in next week for more fun and games.

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Nate had a great show. We've got ten minutes to go.

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Matt explains how my mom got the correct answer: Lear's Cheers.

Nathan expounds on academics. Somehow he thinks The Game Show brought him to a zen moment.

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Episode 9: Pre-Show

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Check out our interview with Wendy Northcutt, author of "The Darwin Awards"

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Listen to Episode 8 in its entirety

Coming up next Monday, 11/6

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10 AM - Ethan Siegel - GW Senior. IM Sports Supervisor. New England native. Game Show genius? We shall see.

11 AM - Slate Election Special

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Episode 7, in its entirety

If you missed it . . .

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If you missed today's episode, you missed . . .

Rob Fishman and his wife Jackie settling their differences over a game of A-A.

Andrew Aikins adding to his career points total

Matt Saunders finally finding a game that he enjoys . . . 3 years after we first went on the air

Join us next for more trivia and games. This week's episode will be on this website, as well as iTunes.

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Matt explains the finer points of producing . . . then realizes he's on camera

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Our interview with Wendy Northcutt fell through

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Here's what we talk about during commercials. Not much.

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Episode 7: Mid-Show

Coming up next Monday, 10/30

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Rob Fishman, PhD - 10:00 - 11:00 - Director of GW Hillel; all around crazy.

Andrew Aikins, not PhD - 11:00 - 12:00 - Resident point scorer, panelist, and carpenter.

Wendy Northcutt - 11:15 - Author of The Dar win Awards, will join us at 11:15

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Listening to Dr. James Canton's interview, in review

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Episode 6: Pre-Show

Listen to this week's show, 10/16

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10:00 - 10:30
The shows begins about 4 minutes and 15 seconds into the audio clip.

10:30 - 11:00

11:00 - 11:30
Our interview with Dr. Canton begins at 22:51 in this clip

11:30 - 12:00

12:00 - 12:05
The Game Show's so huge we, we can't fit it into our alotted time slot; thus, this extra 5 minutes

If you missed it . . .

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If you missed this week's show, you missed . . . .

Tony Odett upsetting Greenpeace by declaring nothing to be recyclable.

Ari Kahaner joyfully recalling how the sound of the Disney anthem we were playing reminded her of her blissful youth . . . then finding out we were actually playing the anthem from Hogwarts.

Dr. James Canton unabashedly preparing us for the future of PleasureBots. Thanks, Dr. Canton, for scaring us until we cried and making us laugh until we . . . kept crying. His website is http://www.futureguru.com

The podcast of the show will soon be posted on this website. It's still sitting on a server at WRGW studios at the moment. Stay tuned for more . . .or add this site to your RSS feed for the latest updates.

See you next week.

Coming up next Monday, 10/16

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Tony Odett - 10:00 - Grad Assistant for Intramural Sports

Arielle Kahaner - 11:00 - Game Show panelist. Director of the play "Wit" produced by Generic Theatre

Dr. James Canton - 11:15 - Global futurist, social scientist, author, and sought-after business advisor. His latest book is entitled The Extreme Future.

Listen to Episode 4

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10:00 - 10:30
Theme song begins about 1 minute and 10 seconds into broadcast.

10:30 - 11:00

11:00 - 11:30

11:30 - 12:00

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Have a great week. Thanks for listening.

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Curtis does his Man of La Mancha dance during the commercial break. There is no logical explanation for it.

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After Andrew's first game

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Julia during the show

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Episode 4: Before Julia plays the game.

Coming up next Monday, 10/9

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Our guests for this Monday include . . .

Julia Moss

Andrew Springer

An In-Studio Performance by Ken Oak Band

Join us for our usual panoply of random trivia, TV Theme songs, and current events quizzes.
Mondays, from 10 - Noon. Or, available on iTunes.

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The Game Show will be off this week for Yom Kippur.
Tune in next week for more guests, games, and trivia.

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Thanks for listening. Have a great week.

The answer to our TV Theme song trivia before the last break was "Six Feet Under."

If you missed Episode 3, you missed . . .

Julia Moss reminding us that she is awesome as she traversed the difficult world of TV themes.
Brandon Nedwik scoring more points than Julia in a touching actions-speak-louder-than words moment.
James Sullivan teaching us about the importance of Jeans in pop culture and their symbolic place in the world of rebellion. Followed by Brandon removing his jeans in an attempt to avoid being considered an outcast.

Happy Banned Books Week! If you missed this episode, we'll post it on iTunes as soon as I figure out how to get it off our archive machine.

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Backstage with Brandon

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Julia talks about her love for Harry Potter and the West Wing.

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Episode 3: Pre-Show. Matt wants it on the record that he resents this video

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Here's a clip from Episode 2. It's our interview with Charlie Pierce. It's also availabe on iTunes.

Coming up next Monday, 9/25

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Guest: James Sullivan

James is the author of Jeans: A Cultural History of an American Icon

Plus our usual array of games, trivia, irrelevant facts, and current events. Tune in.

Episode 2: Review

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If you missed today's episode, you missed:
Cap'n Meryl's tales of flight, including a stint in a Russian prison cell. Check out her website at http://www.fromthecockpit.com If you order her book there, you get a discount and an autograph.
Charlie Pierce, America's premier witticist. Charlie's book, Moving the Chains: Tom Brady and the Pursuit of Everything hits vendors by November 1.
Witticist, the first word invented on The Game Show
Arielle Kahaner acing the musical theater quiz, yet not knowing "Bravo" was part of the military phonetic alphabet.
Andrew Akins playing coy about his Parts of a House knowledge but then knowing every question from stucco to staples.

Check back (update: Thursday) and we'll hopefully have the entire episode posted online.
For now, feel free to persue the video clips below. Some are brief interviews, others are entire segments. Remember, you can't hear what's in our headphones, but we swear there are voices in there. Really.

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Andrew sums up his Game Show experience.

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We ask Andrew about his carpentry skills.

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Ari is our current season's top scorer. See what she has to say.

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Arielle plays "The Military Alphabet" Game.
She finished with 10.5 points.

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Episode 2 Pre Show

Coming up next Monday, 9/18

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Guest: Charlie Pierce.

Charlie is a Boston Globe columnist and a frequent contributor to NPR, including the acclaimed, beloved, and justifiably-adored-to-a-cultish-fever-pitch . . . Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.

Guest: Captain Meryl Getline
Cap'n Meryl is a retired airline pilot and good friend of WRGW Radio. She is the author of "The World at my Feet" and helms From the Cockpit, a collection of anecdotes, FAQs, and more from her years of piloting.

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Episode 1: After Show

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Episode 1: Meeting Molly

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Episode 1: Mid-Show

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Episode 1: Pre-Show