Show Details: December 2012
2012-12-01
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                            Rank:
                            First:
                        
                        Adam Felber
                        
                            Total: 13
                        
                        Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
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                            Rank:
                            Second:
                        
                        Brian Babylon
                        
                            Total: 11
                        
                        Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
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                            Rank:
                            Third:
                        
                        Amy Dickinson
                        
                            Total: 10
                        
                        Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 4
- Jake Tapper Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about last week's Macy Thanksgiving Day Parade, Not My Job about Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will President Obama and Mitt Romney do on their next date?
2012-12-08
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                            Rank:
                            First:
                        
                        Adam Felber
                        
                            Total: 16
                        
                        Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 7
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                            Rank:
                            Second:
                        
                        Maz Jobrani
                        
                            Total: 12
                        
                        Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 4
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                            Rank:
                            Third:
                        
                        Paula Poundstone
                        
                            Total: 10
                        
                        Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 4
- Hugh Bonneville Score: 3
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about fathers going all out to impress their kids, Not My Job about TLC show "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo", Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will happen when the world doesn't end on December 21st.
2012-12-15
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                            Rank:
                            First:
                        
                        Tom Bodett
                        
                            Total: 17
                        
                        Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 7
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                            Rank:
                            Second:
                        
                        Luke Burbank
                        
                            Total: 14
                        
                        Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
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                            Third:
                        
                        Jessi Klein
                        
                            Total: 11
                        
                        Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
- Francis Collins Score: 1
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about people spending a lot of money on something, Not My Job about athletes finding new and surprising ways to injure themselves, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what big newsmakers will get for Christmas?
2012-12-22
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                            Rank:
                            First:
                        
                        Roxanne Roberts
                        
                            Total: 15
                        
                        Lightning Start: 5 Correct: 5
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                            Rank:
                            Second:
                        
                        Brian Babylon
                        
                            Total: 12
                        
                        Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
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                            Rank:
                            Third:
                        
                        Bobcat Goldthwait
                        
                            Total: 10
                        
                        Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 4
- Fred Armisen Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about people trying to ruin Christmas, Not My Job about Poynter's list of best/worst journalistic errors of 2012, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will America look like after falling off of the fiscal cliff?
When the listener tried to decide which bluff to choose, the listener mentioned that she didn't want to initially choose Roxanne's bluff as many other listeners have and did not choose the correct bluff. In this case, Roxanne's bluff was the correct one.
2012-12-29
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                            Rank:
                            First:
                        
                        Charlie Pierce
                        
                            Total: 18
                        
                        Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 7
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                            Rank:
                            Second:
                        
                        Tom Bodett
                        
                            Total: 15
                        
                        Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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                            Rank:
                            Third:
                        
                        Jessi Klein
                        
                            Total: 11
                        
                        Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
- Sir Peter Westmacott Score: 2
The Magna Carl-A, Bluff the Listener about political adversaries coming together, Not My Job about strange doings in school halls of power, Tippecanoe And Carl Too, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will finally make Republicans and Democrats come together?
Refer to the show notes from the original show, 2012-08-25, for the Lightning Fill In The Blank segment.
Special topic show with a look at politics, here and abroad, past and present.