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HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Rebecca Brandewine, romance novelist and Wichita resident
This Week's Panelists:
• Charlie Pierce, writer for The Boston Globe
• Sue Ellicott, writer and journalist
• Roy Blount Jr., humorist and author of Robert E. Lee
Round 1
Who's Carl This Time?
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50 million Americans can't be wrong about telemarketing; Egyptian cleaning woman weighs in on Bush's U.N. address; Miss America: gracious in victory.
» Music Cue: "There She Is, Miss America"
Artist: Bernie Wayne
CD Title: Television's Greatest Hits: Black and White Classics
Label: TVT
Year: 1996
Opening Round
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The CDC recommends purposeless wandering; British students can't lose; Italy's alluring office workers.
» Music Cue: "Food, Glorious Food"
Artist: Original Broadway Cast
Composer: Bart
CD Title: Oliver: Original Broadway Cast
Label: BMG
Year: 1989
Round 2
Listener Bluff
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"Mine, mine mine!" -- three stories of a surprising claim to ownership.
Not My Job!
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Novelist Rebecca Brandewine plays a game called "Can't Anybody Play This Here Game?" -- three questions about the 1962 New York Mets.
» Music Cue: "Take Me Out to the Ballgame"
Artist: King Curtis
Composer: Von Tilzer/Norworth
CD Title: Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns
Label: Nonesuch
Year: 1994
Round Two
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If elected, I promise to incur Armageddon; French chefs lobby the pope; study targets squeamish dads to be.
» Music Cue: "Happy Circus"
Artist: Danny Elfman
Composer: Elfman
CD Title: Big Top Pee Wee
Label: Arista
Year: 1988
Round 3
Carl Cassell's Countdown
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Arianna Huffington on the attack; Clark learns a lot in nine days; Barbra Streisand gets bored with... herself.
Listener Limerick Challenge
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Where's Einstein? Ellsworth and Wichita duke it out for top railhead; breakfast food conspiracy theory.
» Music Cue: "Wichita Lineman"
Artist: Glen Campbell
Composer: Jimmy Webb
CD Title: The Very Best of Glenn Campbell
Label: Capitol
Year: 1987
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 telemarketers will do, if the Do Not Call list takes effect.
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