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***THIS WEEK'S SHOW WAS RECORDED AT SAM'S TOWN LIVE IN LAS VEGAS
IN ASSOCIATION WITH MEMBER STATION KNPR, LAS VEGAS***
HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Las Vegas Mayor, Oscar Goodman
This Week's Panelists:
• Roy Blount Junior, author and humorist
• Charlie Pierce, Boston Globe writer,
• Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post reporter
Round 1
Who's Carl This Time?
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One man's pathetic whine; the oldie that threatened to stop the U.S. economy; people ... people who don't know the difference between Shakespeare and an internet
e-mail.
» Music Cue: "I'm The Greatest Star"
Artist: Barbra Streisand
Composer: Styne/Merrill
CD Title: "Funny Girl" Original Cast
Label: Capitol Records
Year: 1990
Opening Round
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150,000 reasons the Pentagon is getting ready for war; this week's biggest waste of human DNA.
» Music Cue: "Rubber Ball"
Artist: Bobby Vee
Composer: Schroeder/Orlowski
CD Title: 100 Juke Box Hist of the 50's/60's
Label: Madacy Records
Year: 1998
Round 2
Listener Limerick Challenge
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Three limericks highlighting the lore of Sin City, Las Vegas Nevada.
» Music Cue: "MacArthur Park"
Artist: Liberace
Composer: Jimmy Webb Arr: Emory Gordy
CD Title: Jackpot: The Las Vegas Story
Label: Rhino Records
Year: 1996
Not My Job!
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Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman plays a game called You May Think You're Hot Stuff Now, Friend, But in 1906, You Were The Doormat of the American League. Three questions about the New York Yankees from a new book called The Yankees Century.
» Music Cue: "Heart"
Artist: Russ Brown, etc.
Composer: Adler/Ross
CD Title: "Damn Yankees" Soundtrack
Label: BMG Music
Year: 1990
Panel Round Two
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Bush versus Hussein, live at Caesers; the boy king who resembled a Flintstones character.
» Music Cue: "Flinstone's Theme"
Artist: Unlisted
Composer: Hanna/Barbera/Curtin
CD Title: Toon Tunes
Label: Rhino Entertainment
Year: 2001
Round 3
Who's Carl Part II
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Ducks in reverse; a puck in one hand and a nice handbag in the other; a not so nice goodbye.
» Music Cue: "WWDTM Theme"
Composer: BJ Leiderman
Label: NPR Owned
Bluff The Listener
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What's it worth to you? Three stories about value in the news.
» Music Cue: "You Don't Own Me"
Artist: Lesley Gore
Composer: Madara/White
CD Title: 100 Juke Box Hist of the 50's/60's
Label: Madacy Records
Year: 1998
Lightning Fill-In-The-Blank
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All the news we couldn't fit anywhere else.
Panelist Predictions
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How will war with Iraq be averted?
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