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HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club and
Choke
This Week's Panelists:
• Charlie Pierce, Boston Globe writer
• Paula Poundstone, comedienne
• Mo Rocca, Daily Show correspondent
Round 1
Who's Carl This Time?
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Another U.S. Business record falls; Which administration is definitely NOT resigning; "We'll be
-hiccup- cruising at 35,000 feet today."
» Music Cue: "Come Fly With Me"
Artist: Frank Sinatra
Composer: Cahn/Van Heusen
CD Title: Come Fly With Me
Label: Capitol Records
Year: 1998
Opening Round
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A Wait, Wait farewell ... unless he gets re-elected from prison; Ken Starr's back and his current case makes us wonder what's under his shirtsleeves; Jesus, Allah, Stalin and the whole gang give their stamp of approval.
» Music Cue: "Personal Jesus"
Artist: Depeche Mode
Composer: Martin Gore
CD Title: Singles: 86-98
Label: Reprise Records
Year: 1998
Round 2
Listener Limerick Challenge
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Medical science looks for answers on the windshield; it's a thousand years old, Anglo
Saxon, and it can be yours; saved by the squeeze bottle.
» Music Cue: "Rescue Me"
Artist: Fontella Bass
Composer: Unlisted
CD Title: Rescued: The Best of Fontella Bass
Label: Unlisted
Year: 1999
Not My Job!
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Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club and Choke plays a game called "You Trashed a Four-billion-dollar Company But at Least You Threw a Heck of a Party." Three questions based on Business 2.0's "101 Dumbest Moments in Business."
» Music Cue: "Wait, Wait... button"
Composer: BJ Lederman
NPR Owned
Round Two
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"What? The grease on your fingers didn't tell you anything?"; OK, now cry for Argentina; a phrase we just wanted to say on National Public Radio.
» Music Cue: "Why Are You Picking on Me"
Artist: Willie Nelson
Composer: Willie Nelson
CD Title: December Days
Label: Delta Entertainment
Year: 1999
Round 3
Who's Carl This Time?
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Not the best time to be asking for a "raise"; an angry American riding into Paris; sing "Bye, Bye Bye"
to the "Rocket Man."
» Music Cue: "Hey Mr Spaceman"
Artist: The Byrds
Composer: Roger McGuinn
CD Title: 20 Tracks from the Boxed Set
Label: Sony Music Entertainment
Year: 1992
Bluff The Listener
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"Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah..." Summer camps in the news.
» Music Cue: "Moon River Cha Cha"
Artist: Henry Mancini
Composer: Mancini/Mercer
CD Title: Martinis With Mancini
Label: BMG Entertainment
Year: 1997
Lightning Fill-In-The-Blank
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All the news we couldn't fit anywhere else.
Panelist Predictions
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What will James Traficant's election slogan be ... from jail.
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