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2022-05-21

NPR DB ID: 1270
Location
Home/Remote Studios
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Let's do this deal all cash, all the ta-Bill
Panelists
Guests
Bluff
Chosen: Tom Papa
Correct: Tom Papa
Description
Who's Bill This Time?, Bluff the Listener about advances in cheese, Bluff the Listener about Utz potato chips, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next fun congressional hearing?
Notes

The show was recorded remotely.

Another instance in which the highest score is equal to the sum of the other two scores.

2022-05-14

NPR DB ID: 1269
Location
Home/Remote Studios
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Hey there, newlyweds. Here comes Pachel-Bill's Canon
Panelists
Guests
Bluff
Chosen: Faith Salie
Correct: Faith Salie
Description
Who's Bill This Time?, Bluff the Listener about about bad apologies, Not My Job about stupid life hacks, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next bonkers thing people will invest in?
Notes

The show was recorded remotely.

Another instance in which the highest score is equal to the sum of the other two scores.

2022-05-07

NPR DB ID: 1268
Location
Home/Remote Studios
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Forget Barcelona. You're going to Bill-bao
Panelists
Guests
Bluff
Chosen: Emmy Blotnick
Correct: Emmy Blotnick
Description
Who's Bill This Time?, Bluff the Listener about improvements at the dentist's office, Not My Job about unions, especially: weddings, engagements and proposals, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be the theme of next year's Met Gala?
Notes

The show was recorded remotely.

2022-04-30

NPR DB ID: 1267
Location
Shea's Buffalo Theatre (Buffalo, NY)
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
I've been to several Super Bowls. I'm Buffalo Bill
Panelists
Guests
Bluff
Chosen: Amy Dickinson
Correct: Amy Dickinson
Description
Who's Bill This Time?, Bluff the Listener about an unusual way to increase productivity, Not My Job about musical earworms, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next thing someone buys for $45 billion?
Notes

While Peter Sagal was clearing up what a billion is in context to the first queston during Who's Bill This Time? to Maeve Higgins (due to the different definition of billion: thousand million vs. million million). During which, Peter referred to Maeve as British. Maeve is Irish.

The listener contestant for the Listener Limerick Challenge segment was also named Maeve Higgins.

Maeve answered "Twitter" for her first Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank question, to which Peter initially said "Yes" but almost immediately switched to "No". The correct answer was Tesla. For Maeve's second Lightning round question, she guessed "Kevin McGraw" and Peter said that he pretended that she said "Kevin McCarthy", which was the correct answer. Peter slipped out the answer while reading Maeve's fourth Lightning round question by saying "old..." instead of "blank-est".

Another instance in which the highest score is equal to the sum of the other two scores.

2022-04-23

NPR DB ID: 1266
Location
Home/Remote Studios
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Hey down there. Look out Bill-ow!
Panelists
Guests
Bluff
Chosen: Maz Jobrani
Correct: Maz Jobrani
Description
Who's Bill This Time?, Bluff the Listener about someone doing something 12,272 times, Not My Job about unscrupulous businesses, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will Netflix do to save itself?
Notes

The show was recorded remotely.

Another instance in which all three of the choices for the third Not My Job question were correct.