Isaac Mizrahi
Isaac Mizrahi
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Debates We'll Never See Debates We'll Never See: And the world is a colder, darker place for it.

France Up In Smoke: Feds raid Chong Glass.

France Duct Tape: The nefarious duct tape cartel has bamboozled us again.

Free State Project Free State Project: Libertarians plan a state to call their very own.



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March 1, 2003


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HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi

This Week's Panelists:

• Charlie Pierce, Boston Globe staff writer
• Sue Ellicott, writer and journalist
• P.J. O'Rourke, humorist and author

Round 1


Who's Carl This Time? (Listen)
Great debates we'll never see; The French -- cowardly, maybe, but less so than the Democrats...; Wait, Wait pays homage to the man who convinced us it was safe to take a bath.

» Music Cue: "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood"
Artist: Mister Rogers
Composer: Fred Rogers
CD Title: Television's Greatest Hits Vol. 2
Label: TVT Records



Opening Round (Listen)
Sucking up for Security Council votes; revolutions in salad dressing and explaining away bad relationships.

» Music Cue: "We Go Together"
Artist: We Go Together
Composer: Jacobs/Casey
CD Title: Grease: Orig. Sndtrk from the Motion Picture
Label: Polydor



Round 2

Bluff the Listener (Listen)
You Do What?: Three new jobs for the millenium.

» Music Cue: "Get a Job"
Artist: The Silhouettes
Composer: The Silhouettes
CD Title: American Graffiti Soundtrack
Label: MCA Records



Not My Job! (Listen)
Fashionista-turned-Oxygen talk show host Isaac Mizrahi plays a game we're calling "You Do it the Chicago Way." Three questions about the underworld of old Chicago.

» Music Cue: "Purple Haze"
Artist: The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Composer: Hendrix
CD Title: Are You Experienced
Label: MCA Records



Round 3

Who's Carl This Time? (Listen)
Innovative ideas in inaugural gifts; now that would make for an interesting award show telecast; a magazine admits its flagship issue is as concept-bare as it is threadbare.

» Music Cue: "Everybody Wants My Fanny"
Artist: Benny Bell
Composer: Benny Bell
CD Title: Dr. Demento 25th Anniversary Collection
Label: Rhino Music Ent.



Listener Limerick Challenge (Listen)
Libertarians look for a homeland; commemorating whatever it was we did in Grenada; with Pentagon credentials in hand, a magazine looks to marry hard news with hard core porn.

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

Panelist Predictions (Listen)
What target will the Justice Department go after next?

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