Andy MacPhail, President and CEO of the Chicago Cubs
Andy MacPhail, President and CEO of the Chicago Cubs


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April 24, 2004

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HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Chicago Cubs President and CEO Andy MacPhail

This Week's Panelists:

Washington Post Style section reporter, Roxanne Roberts
• Performer and proprietor of Felbers.net, Adam Felber
• Humorist and author, Roy Blount, Jr.


Round 1

Who's Carl This Time? (Listen)
Out of the loop at 1600 Pennsylvania; You can't be a man of the people if you use the word "thrice"; TV's about to lose one of its best pair of legs, and we talk to a friend of the man with the great gams.

» Music Cue: "Hot Legs"
Artist: Rod Stewart
Composer: Grainger/Stewart
CD Title: Greatest Hits
Label: Warner Brothers

Opening Panel Round (Listen)
If the poll were held today, then no one would answer the questions; The well-organized bank robber.

» Music Cue: "Things to Remember"
Artist: Willie Nelson
Composer: W. Nelson
CD Title: December Days
Label: Delta Entertainment


Round 2

Listener Bluff (Listen)
"It's the #1 Spectator Sport in America!" -- Three stories of the creeping NASCAR-ization of our fair nation.

(See the real story.)

» Music Cue: "Dragster"
Artist: Johnny Fortune
CD Title: Hot Rods & Custom Classics
Label: Rhino

Not My Job! (Listen)
Chicago Cubs President and CEO Andy MacPhail plays a game called "If You Have to Explain It, It's Not Funny Anymore" -- Three questions about the history and science of the joke.

» Music Cue: "Make 'Em Laugh"
Artist: Donald O'Connor
Composer: C. Salinger
CD Title: Singin' In The Rain
Label: Turner Entertainment

Second Panel Round (Listen)
Condi Rice's verbal slip.

» Music Cue: "Secret Love"
Artist: Doris Day/Ray Heindorf and Orchestra
Composer: S. Fain, P.F. Webster
CD Title: Doris Day, A Day at the Movies
Label: CBS Records


Round 3

Who's Carl This Time?(Listen)
Wait a minute... do goat herders really shoot poorly? The rental island; The ACLU crusades for a plumber's right to dress like a plumber.

» Music Cue: "Low Rider"
Artist: WAR
Composer: Allen/Brown/Dickerson/Jordan/Miller
Oscar/Scott/Goldstein
CD Title: The Greatest Hits of WAR
Label: TMC Music Inc.

Listener Limerick Challenge (Listen)
Dinosaurs get lonely too; Hermey The Dentist gets the pink slip; a tribute to a man who inspired people to try to be the very best.

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

Panelist Predictions (Listen)
What will we learn from Bob Woodward’s next book?

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