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May 26, 2001
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HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Commentator and author of A Year In Van Nuys
Sandra Tsing Loh.
•Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post Style section
•Charlie Pierce, writer for Esquire Magazine
•Adam Felber, writer and performer
Round 1
Who's Carl This Time?
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An extreme punishment for saying goodbye; Florida looks ahead to yet another media frenzy; A Wait Wait Happy 60th birthday to the pride of Hibbing, Minnesota.
Opening Round
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Behind the Music at the US Capitol; The weapon called Who Me?"
Round 2
The Listener Limerick Challenge!
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Singapore loosens a law; California's official plaid, How to shrink your brain at 35,000 feet.
Not My Job!
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Author and Commentator Sandra Tsing Loh plays a game called: Ix-nay on the ord-way. The words that certain magazines have banned from their pages.
Week in Review
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The left hook that hooked England; a surprising way to lower your blood pressure.
Round 3
Who's Carl II (14.4 | 28.8)
Hope for the average student, The Titanic Effect on Hollywood history; England's mummy returns.
Bluff the Listener
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BAD THINGS GONE GOOD. Three previously unrepentantly bad things for which good uses have been found.
Lightning Fill in the Blank
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The rest of the week's news that we can fit.
Panelist Predictions
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How will Republicans get their revenge Senator Jim Jeffords for leaving the party.
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