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April 5, 2003


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HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Journalist Jane Scott, the oldest living rock critic.

THIS WEEK'S SHOW WAS RECORDED LIVE AT THE AKRON CIVIC THEATER IN AKRON, OHIO IN ASSOCIATION WITH WKSU

This Week's Panelists:

• Mo Rocca, correspondent for Comedy Central's The Daily Show
• Adam Felber, writer and performer
• Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post Style Section reporter

Round 1


Who's Carl This Time? (Listen)
What America means to me...; The other man the military wants out of Iraq; Carl's version of an iconic protest song.

» Music Cue: "War"
Artist: Edwin Starr
Composer: Whitfield/Strong
CD Title: Motown's Biggest Pop Hits
Label: Motown



Opening Round (Listen)
Mullah Omar's favorite pastime; the scandal at Radio Swaziland.

» Music Cue: "Room With A View"
Artist: Noel Coward
Composer: Coward
CD Title: Noel Coward Album
Label: Columbia



Round 2

Bluff the Listener (Listen)
"My forehead's so tight you can bounce a dime off it." Three stories about plastic surgery gone too far.

Not My Job! (Listen)
The oldest living rock critic, Jane Scott, plays our quiz about the dumbest things done in the world of business during 2002 according to Business 2.0 magazine.

» Music Cue: "Forever Young"
Artist: Bob Dylan
Composer: Bob Dylan
CD Title: Greatest Hits Vol. III
Label: Columbia



Panel Round (Listen)
The Pentagon poet who didn't know it.

» Music Cue: "Newsreel"
Artist: Eddie Adcock
Composer: Eddie Adcock
CD Title: The World's Greatest Bluegrass Pickers
Label: CMH Records



Round 3

Who's Carl This Time? (Listen)
The must-have item in Iraq; When your marriage to Michael Jackson goes bad...; The most essential and annoying high-tech device turns 30.

Listener Limerick Challenge (Listen)
Three limericks about Akron and northeast Ohio.

» Music Cue: "Jocko Homo"
Artist: Devo
Composer: Mothersbaugh
CD Title: Devo Greatest Hits
Label: Warner Brothers



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

Panelist Predictions (Listen)
What will Geraldo do now that he's been asked to leave Iraq?

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