Restaurateur Rick Bayless
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April 3, 2004

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HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Restaurateur, and Host of PBS's Mexico-One Plate at a Time, Rick Bayless.

This Week's Panelists:

Boston Globe writer Charlie Pierce.
• Comedienne Paula Poundstone.
• Humorist and author P.J. O'Rourke.


Round 1

Who's Carl This Time? (Listen)
First The View, then a Congressional hearing; someone has doctor's orders to cut down on the schmoozing; and once again the American public can climb around in this lady's head.

» Music Cue: "Green-Eyed Lady"
Artist: Sugarloaf
Composer: Corbetta/Phillips/Riordan
CD Title: Super Hits of the '70s: Vol 3
Label: Rhino Records

Opening Panel Round (Listen)
President Bush gets to bring some help for his Sept. 11 testimony; domestic chores made easier thanks to cottonmouth snakes.

» Music Cue: "Stronger Than Dirt/Ajax Laundry Detergent"
CD Title: TeeVee Tunes: The Commercials
Label: TVT Records


Round 2

Listener Bluff (Listen)
"Thanks a lot, Heloise!" -- Three stories of household hints gone awry.

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Not My Job! (Listen)
Restaurateur, and Host of PBS's Mexico -- One Plate at a Time, Rick Bayless plays a game called "All that money and you can't do anything about your hair?" -- Three questions about the life and times of Donald Trump.

Second Panel Round (Listen)
An Oregon man is ordered to stay away from "Speckles."

» Music Cue: "Born To Be Wild"
Artist: Chickenwolf
Composer: Bonfire
CD Title: Barnyard Beat
Label: Rhino Records


Round 3

Who's Carl? (Second Round) (Listen)
Tyco's Ms. Trial; the luck of the Irish means no Lucky Strikes; the return of Ms. Wardrobe Malfunction.

» Music Cue: "Little Bitty Pretty One"
Artist: Bobby Day
Composer: Byrd
CD Title: 100 Jukebox Hits of the '50s and '60s
Label: Madacy Entertainment

Listener Limerick Challenge (Listen)
Architecture for your health; the case of the missing Pentagon papers; a poetic tribute to the don of Masterpiece Theatre.

» Music Cue: "Masterpiece Theater"
Artist: Bobby Day
Composer: Mouret "Rondeau"
CD Title: Public Television's Greatest Hits
Label: BMG Music

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

Panelist Predictions (Listen)
Dick Cheney recently got an iPod. What songs will the veep download?

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