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HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Author Molly Ivins
This Week's Panelists:
• Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post Style section reporter
• Roy Blount Jr., humorist and author of Robert E. Lee
• Paula Poundstone, comedienne
Round 1
Who's Carl This Time?
(Listen)
A roaring fire might not set the mood; squirted by the sun; he's like something out of Madame Tussaud's, only waxier.
» Music Cue: "Eve of Destruction"
Artist: Barry McGuire
Composer: Sloan/Barrie
Panel Questions (First Round)
(Listen)
Our panel plays a game called: "You CANNOT be serious..." where people say remarkable things with a remarkably straight face.
» Music Cue: "Chicken Strut"
Artist: The Meters
Composer: The Meters
CD Title: The Meters Anthology
Label: Rhino
Year: 1995
Round 2
Listener Bluff
(Listen)
"Funny... I don't FEEL any safer..." -- three tales of misguided ideas to keep our enemies at bay.
» Music Cue: "Emergency"
Artist: Nelson Riddle
Composer: Riddle
CD Title: Television's Greatest Hits: In Living Color
Label: TVT
Year: 1996
Not My Job!
(Listen)
Molly Ivins plays a game called "You're that ghost guy in those Buick ads! " -- three questions about Harley Earl, the man who put tail fins on Cadillacs. Why would a Buick guy put tail fins on Cadillacs? They ARE both GM...
Panel Round (Second Round)
(Listen)
An actor has his moment of doubt about playing the son of God.
» Music Cue: "Lightning Strikes"
Artist: Lou Christie
Composer: Christie/Herbert
CD Title: The History of Rock: The 60's Part 5
Label: Collectable Records
Year: 1990
Round 3
This week, instead of limericks, we have an exciting new game called...
You Really Need to Get Out and Live a Little
(Listen)
Sounds a lot like a pledge drive; don't break the chief justice's head; CEOs Gone Wild.
» Music Cue: "It's My Party"
Artist: Lesley Gore
Composer: Weiner/Gold/Gluck
CD Title: Billboard Top Hits: 1963
Label: Rhino
Year: 1994
Who's Carl? (Second Round)
(Listen)
"I will be back many more times, believe me;" a man more slippery than six eels; no time for news conferences when there are French toast fingers to serve.
» Music Cue: "We're in The Money"
Artist: Ginger Rogers w/ Orchestra
Composer: Warren/Dubin
CD Title: Busby Berkeley At Warner Bros.
Label: Rhino
Year: 1995
Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank
(Listen)
All the news we couldn't fit anywhere else.
Panelist Predictions
(Listen)
The panelists predict the effect of this week's geomagnetic storm.
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