HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Doug Marlette, cartoonist and author
This Week's Panelists:
Roy Blount Jr., humorist and author of Robert E. Lee
Charlie Pierce, writer for The Boston Globe
Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post Style section reporter
Round 1
Who's Carl This Time?
(Listen)
The mitt hits the fan; taking charge of the situation; preparing for flight in the living room.
» Music Cue: "Let's Get Away From It All"
Artist: Frank Sinatra
Composer: Matt Dennis/Tom Adair
CD Title: Come Fly With Me
Label: Capitol Records
Year: 1998
Panel Questions
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Enemies lists make a comeback; a prominent Russian gets a makeover; sorry, but he looked delicious.
» Music Cue: "The Touch Of Your Lips"
Artist: Bing Crosby
CD Title: 60 Crooner Songs
Label: United Audio Entertainment
Round 2
Listener Bluff
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"Hey, isn't that... nah, it couldn't be." -- three stories of strange celebrity run-ins.
» Music Cue: "Someday My Prince Will Come"
Artist: Adriana Caselotti
Composer: Morey/Churchill
CD Title: Classic Disney, Vol. 1
Label: Disney
Year: 1995
Not My Job!
(Listen)
Kudzu Cartoonist Doug Marlette plays a game called "Try not to spit on the fans as you round the bases" -- three questions about slugger Ted Williams.
Panel Round (Second Round)
(Listen)
Waiting 60 million years for a kiss from the princess; Swedish scientists have good news and bad news about global warming; a new attraction at the Western Idaho Fair.
Round 3
Who's Carl? (Second Round)
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Freedom and Frosties are worth fighting for; a talk-show host weighs in on illicit drug use; Andy Jackson goes pink.
Listener Limerick Challenge
(Listen)
Three poetic odes to our host state, North Carolina.
» Music Cue: "Carolina Moon"
Artist: Kate Smith
Composer: B.Davis/J Burke
CD Title: Kate Smith: God Bless America
Label: Delta Music
Year: 1923
Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank
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All the news we couldn't fit anywhere else.
Panelist Predictions
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The panelists predict what's next now that the Chinese have sent a man into space.
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