Show Details: March 2012
2012-03-03
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Rank:
First Tied:
Luke Burbank
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
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Rank:
First Tied:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Third:
Alonzo Bodden
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
- Alec Baldwin Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about innovations in beauty, Not My Job about other people's brothers, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: with Fox developing a new sitcom about an NPR station, what will the pilot episode be about?
Alec Baldwin called Carl Kasell the "Marlon Brando of public radio".
2012-03-10
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Rank:
First:
Brian Babylon
Total: 16
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second:
Tom Bodett
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Third:
Amy Dickinson
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 4
- Rick Bayless Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about ways to improve your commute, Not My Job about Dr. Seuss, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: where will we see the NFL-style bounty system next?
At the beginning of the show, Peter was lamenting about the show being ignored because it was on radio, Carl responded with "Peter, you slut!". Mostly done as reference to Rush Limbaugh's recent incidents of calling Sandra Fluke a "slut" and a "prostitute".
One of Brian Babylon's Lightning Fill In The Blank questions was discussed during the Not My Job segment and Brian answered the question correctly.
2012-03-17
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Rank:
First:
Faith Salie
Total: 18
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 7
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Rank:
Second:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Third:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 8
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 3
- Joey Burns Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about how St. Patrick's Day has recently helped made the world a little bit better, Not My Job about music from really cold places, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next public resignation?
Note: The show's page on NPR.org has the Bluff the Listener segment listed as "Panel Round Two" (the first of two listed).
The gang had fun with the Who's Carl This Time? listener contestant's name when she introduced herself.
2012-03-24
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Rank:
First Tied:
Jessi Klein
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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Rank:
First Tied:
Tom Bodett
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Third:
Mo Rocca
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
- Ana Gasteyer Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about new ways to improve our bodies, Not My Job about Red Bull and its inventor Chaleo Yoovidhya, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next resurgent toy?
2012-03-31
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Rank:
First:
Paula Poundstone
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Maz Jobrani
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Brian Babylon
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 4
- Carrie Brownstein Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about a life ruined by Justin Bieber, Not My Job about Singapore, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will James Cameron find at the bottom of the ocean?
This show's panel consists of three comedians.
Brian Babylon was able to flex his impressions of President Obama several times during the show. There was a bleep in the transition song between the Listener Limerick Challenge and the Lightning Fill In The Blank segment (the song was Johnny Cash's "A Boy Named Sue [Live]".
Paula finally has won a game outright for the first time since 2010-09-18. Between that time, Paula has tied for first four times: 2011-02-26, 2011-09-10, 2011-09-24 and 2011-10-08.