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June 21, 2003


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This show was recorded at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in association with Oregon Public Broadcasting.

HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Oregonian cartoonist, Jack Ohman

This Week's Panelists:

• Charlie Pierce, Boston Globe writer
• Sue Ellicott, writer and journalist
• Roy Blount Jr., humorist and author of The Penguin Lives Series and a biography of Robert E. Lee

Round 1

Who's Carl This Time? (Listen)
The wasp that begat a redneck; CNN's Tucker Carlson eats his words; Hillary's book is so last week.

» Music Cue: "That Old Black Magic"
Artist: Louis Prima/Keely Smith
Composer: Arlen/Mercer
CD Title: JackPot, The Las Vegas Story
Label: Rhino Records



Panel Round (Listen)
You're never too young to learn about the birds and the bees.

» Music Cue: "The Birds and The Bees"
Artist: Jewel Akens
Composer: Newman
CD Title: Billboard Pop Hits 1965
Label: Rhino Records



Round 2

Bluff the Listener (Listen)
"Even Arthur Andersen Wouldn't Do That"... Three stories about a previously unknown big business scandal.

» Music Cue: "Watermelon Man"
Artist: Mongo Santamaria
Composer: Herbie Hancock
CD Title: Masters Of Jazz: Hit Singles
Label: Rhino Records



Not My Job! (Listen)
Oregonian newspaper cartoonist, Jack Ohman, plays a game called, "Across the Country...in Only Eight Days!" Three questions about the Pony Express from a new book by Christopher Corbett.

» Music Cue: "Pony Express"
Artist: Weissberg/Mandell
Composer: Arr: Eric Weissberg/Marshall Brickman
CD Title: "Dueling Banjos" From Deliverance
Label: Warner Bros Records



Round 3

Panel Round 2 (Listen)
A resounding success over the Pacific; What Bill Clinton's cooking up this time; No more paradigms...no more "blue skying"; the honey thief.

» Music Cue: Button
Artist: Unlisted
Composer: Carl Stallings
CD Title: The Carl Stallings Project
Label: Warner Bros Records



Listener Limerick Challenge (Listen)
Three limericks highlighting three facts about Portland, Oregon...and no, we do not rhyme anything with Nike.

» Music Cue: "The Stripper"
Artist: David Rose and Orch
Composer: David Rose
CD Title: Take It Off, Strip Tease Classics
Label: Rhino Records



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

Panelist Predictions (Listen)
What recipes are the panelists looking forward to trying from the Clinton Presidential Library Cookbook?

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