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March 9, 2002


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Mr. Mapother

Photo: John Clifford



HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Actor William Mapother, currently appearing in In The Bedroom

This Week's Panelists:

Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post Style Section Reporter
•Mo Rocca, Correspondent for Comedy Central's The Daily Show
•Charlie Pierce, Esquire Magazine's and Only a Game

Round 1


Who's Carl This Time? (Listen with Real Audio)
Backstage sparring on late night TV; one man finally says goodbye; an amateur songwriter gets a dishearteningly bad review.

Opening Round (Listen with Real Audio)
President Bush waves in vain; A psy-ops coup by al Qaeda troops; and When Sleaze Attacks!

Round 2

Listener Limerick Challenge (Listen with Real Audio)
A questionable banking strategy; a revolution in condiments; the secret to uncovering tax fraud.

Not My Job! (Listen with Real Audio)
Actor William Mapother plays, "You've Got 2.3 Children and a Little More Than Half a Car." Three questions taken from the Statistical Abstract of the United States.

Round Two (Listen with Real Audio)
A shocking but nutritious revelation in the Koran; arrested for wielding snacks; and a nutty beach hazard.

Round 3

Who's Carl Part II (Listen with Real Audio)
A top secret pinochle club; the final report we didn't need to read; Oops, he did it again ... an Englishman adds to his list of gaffes.

Bluff the Listener (Listen with Real Audio)
Celebration time, come on! Let's Celebrate!

Lightning Fill-In-The-Blank (Listen with Real Audio)
All the news we couldn't fit anywhere else

Panelist Predictions (Listen with Real Audio)
How will the Ted Koppel-David Letterman controversy play out?

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