2:00

He's a great, yes, ander. That's why. That's

2:02

why. He's great. I took

2:05

one class at the Chicago Improv Studio,

2:07

whatever that was. And here we are.

2:09

You learned the key lesson, though. Yes

2:12

and? Is that it? Yeah,

2:15

I just want to see how long Ken

2:17

would leave the pause. But yes, we have

2:19

some very great guests with us today. We're

2:21

excited to introduce. Our first guest is actually

2:23

here in Chicago with us, not in studio

2:25

right now, maybe at a future date, but

2:27

someone local, which is always fun. She didn't

2:29

want to smell the smells. Probably.

2:31

It's probably the smartest play right there. Yeah, don't come

2:33

in here in the sweat lodge, especially for the second

2:36

recording of the day, which means it's even muskier. But

2:38

but yeah, thank you so much for joining

2:40

us. Oakland five supporter on Patreon. Chanel Castaneda.

2:42

How are you, Chanel? Good.

2:45

Hi, guys. How are you?

2:47

Doing awesome. So happy to have you here. Tell

2:50

us a little bit about yourself. Like you said, I am

2:53

from Chicago, born and raised around the

2:55

Chicago, Chicago land area. I

2:57

live here on the north side with

3:00

my husband and our little pup named

3:02

Nala. I

3:04

am a CPA for the state of

3:06

Illinois, and I have been working for

3:09

the Department of Labor for the last

3:11

15 years as a supervisor in the

3:13

fiscal policy unit. Wow,

3:16

that's awesome. Good to have you on here because I have

3:18

some tax problems. Oh, I

3:20

don't do taxes that just my own. That's

3:22

a shame. Yeah. Well, thank

3:24

you so much for being here. And we might

3:26

keep you on speed, though. So I guess just

3:29

be prepared for Matt to give you a call. But

3:32

no, thank you for coming. And you're going to partner with Matt today. Is

3:34

that correct? That's correct. And

3:36

we asked you for a favorite book of yours

3:38

because you belong to a book club. And I

3:40

think you came up with a pretty fun team

3:42

name. So what's your team name going to be?

3:48

I know Matt was throwing around some ideas.

3:51

And I think we settled on the Bell

3:54

jar jar jar binks. I

3:57

don't know how many jars are in there, but I

3:59

believe it's the Bell jar jar. Jar Binks in honor

4:01

of Star Wars Day being

4:03

yesterday or several months ago by the time

4:05

you hear this. Yeah, and they

4:08

just re-released the Phantom Menace as well for

4:10

the anniversary too. So very, very cool name. I'm going to

4:12

partner with Ken today. Jeff's going to score Keep. So what

4:14

do you want to be as a team, Ken? Well,

4:17

following the theme will be the old man in

4:19

the C-3PO. Very

4:22

nice, the old man in the C-3PO. And

4:25

in order to play the game, we need to host

4:27

and we're so excited to welcome back our friend Laura

4:29

coming to us from Massachusetts, Oakland Five supporter on Patreon.

4:31

How are you, Laura? Hi,

4:34

happy to be here. Nice to see everyone. Nice to

4:36

see you again and remind folks at home what you're

4:38

up to. And I know you had some exciting news

4:40

you told us about too. Yeah,

4:43

so my wife and I had

4:45

our first child about a year

4:47

ago exactly. And

4:50

we're busy being moms

4:53

for employment. We are

4:55

professional tutors in the special

4:58

education world. We tutor

5:00

children who need special help

5:02

with reading, mostly dyslexic

5:04

students. And

5:07

yeah, being moms and being tutors

5:09

and owning our own business, it's

5:12

called Fortitude Learning Center here in

5:14

Massachusetts. Yeah, it

5:16

keeps us super busy. It sounds like

5:18

you guys have some high fortitude scores

5:20

of your own. Nice,

5:22

Ken. Well, thank you so much

5:24

for being here. And you're hosting today's game.

5:26

So we have our teams. We just

5:28

need to get the rules read. Any particular

5:31

rules read you'd like, Laura? Let's

5:34

go with Gilbert. Gilbert's popular

5:36

lately. He is very popular lately. Let's hear it,

5:38

Gil. Triviality

5:40

podcast is two rounds

5:43

of 20 questions

5:46

worth 10 points

5:48

apiece. At halftime,

5:50

there's a special swing

5:53

round by this week's

5:55

host. In the

5:57

final round, players win.

8:00

humid door. Don't think it's

8:02

a city though. And if it would be,

8:04

it would be populated by cigars. Yes.

8:06

Yeah. Oh, oh my

8:08

God. That's, uh, Ethan Embry in

8:11

Vegas vacation, but I couldn't tell you the city. I just figured

8:13

out what the proper Georgia was

8:15

anyway. Very obscure and

8:18

amazing that you caught on to

8:20

that. Neil Vegas vacation is a

8:22

guilty pleasure movie of mine. Um,

8:25

yes, Ethan Embry's character has

8:27

a fake ID to get

8:29

into Vegas casinos. Uh,

8:31

and it says he's from

8:34

Yuma, Arizona. Yuma. Okay. No

8:36

Christian bell reference. That's okay.

8:38

Yeah. Yeah. That's

8:40

like what David Letterman was that was talking about at

8:42

the Oscars, Yuma and Puma, I think, or

8:44

something. Right. Ken. I

8:47

don't know what you're talking about. Um,

8:49

I know. Almost never. Yes. And Ken

8:51

says no, no, no, no. I don't

8:53

know. Well, most of the

8:55

time I'll yes. And, but if I have just absolutely

8:57

no idea, I can't, you

8:59

know, I can't put myself in the

9:02

same boat. Like my famous, my favorite,

9:04

Liam Neeson, get myself in trouble with

9:06

Ricky Gervais. Knock, knock. We're closed. Yeah.

9:09

Yeah. Ken's, Ken's a no and

9:11

please stop. Please stop. In

9:14

round one, question two in a

9:17

pull of her ear, no matter

9:20

what your age, you can

9:22

binge watch a scripted television

9:24

series with Kristen Wigg, Leslie

9:27

Bibb, Laura Dern, and this

9:29

90 year old comedian

9:31

and six time Emmy winner. What

9:34

is her name? We can like him.

9:37

Neil's really quick on that one. Um,

9:41

so with the tug of the ear, I'm thinking

9:43

it's the lady from

9:46

bewitched whose name I am

9:48

blanking on. Do you have any idea? Oh,

9:52

no. I

9:56

don't know if I'm going to get there. Part

14:00

of my writing trivia is I hope to just

14:02

share a little bit of knowledge of things that

14:04

I learned along the way. Um,

14:06

so I hope it's enjoyable in that sense

14:09

that it's not

14:11

overwhelming with information, but something

14:13

fun to learn. And

14:15

we're checking out the, uh, things to come. Yeah.

14:17

We're checking out the, uh, Paul Revere painting here

14:19

and it is familiar to us. And Paul

14:22

Revere does kind of look like Jack Black. He does. He

14:24

does look like Jack Black a little bit. But

14:27

who could Kyle play? That would, that's what he would want to

14:29

know is how can he get him in? He

14:32

played John Adams or something. I don't know if they were even around the

14:34

same time. I don't know. That's

14:37

really funny. You should be a casting

14:39

director in

14:43

round one, question four in

14:46

college affiliations college

14:49

of the holy cross and

14:51

Worcester, Massachusetts, Georgetown

14:53

university and Washington DC

14:56

and Gonzaga university

14:58

in Spokane, Washington are

15:01

all affiliated with what

15:03

specific Roman Catholic order

15:06

that was founded by St. Ignatius

15:09

of Loyola. All

15:13

right. So they're locked in. Um, any

15:17

first impressions, first thoughts? Well,

15:20

I know Loyola in Chicago is

15:22

a Jesuit school. Okay. And

15:24

so I, I believe that's a religious order.

15:27

I think so too. Um, I believe holy

15:29

crosses too. The only reason I know anything

15:31

about it is because Bill Simmons talks about

15:33

it on his podcast constantly because he went

15:35

there. Um, and I believe that's

15:38

come up before. I'm not sure about Gonzaga, um,

15:41

but Georgetown's very religious school.

15:43

Um, so I think

15:45

we can lock that in. All

15:48

right. So we're going to go with, uh, what

15:50

I kind of know as a old guy club,

15:52

but, uh, Knights of Columbus. And

15:54

the answer is Jesuit. All

15:57

right. Wow. We're

15:59

getting some points. We were due. Yeah,

16:02

you got it right away with

16:04

the Loyola clue. I'm glad its

16:07

proximity to you guys in Chicago

16:09

was somewhat helpful. I

16:11

thought of the question because my brother happened to go

16:13

to Holy Cross. Okay. Hopefully

16:15

I don't get the Knights of Columbus on me now. Is

16:20

that better or worse than having the Shriners

16:22

like drive their go-karts on you or whatever?

16:25

It's slightly, it's only slightly better. They're

16:27

chucking their Vidalia onions at them. Yeah. The

16:31

Shriners send their regards. Can

16:34

you mix up with a rotting onion in his bed? And

16:37

the Fez. It's another Fez hand. Liam Neeson reference

16:39

I was gonna make of like taking one of

16:41

those Marco from Chipoia says good luck. Yeah, whatever.

16:46

In round one question five in lessons

16:50

in genetics. In

16:53

1983 the Nobel Prize for Physiology

16:57

or medicine was won by

16:59

Barbara McClintock who was the

17:01

very first woman to be

17:03

the sole winner of this

17:05

award. 40

17:07

years prior to receiving this award,

17:10

McClintock discovered mobile genetic

17:12

elements or jumping genes

17:14

a finding that

17:16

was considered far too radical for

17:18

its time. It

17:21

was not until well after DNA

17:23

was discovered that other scientists

17:25

gave McClintock the acclaim she

17:28

deserved and she was

17:30

finally recognized during the 1980s. During

17:34

her earliest years of unrecognition,

17:37

it did not help that her own

17:40

Alma mater, a university

17:42

named for the man

17:44

who privately endowed the

17:46

institution after it

17:48

was founded as the land-grant University

17:51

of New York State, would

17:53

not hire a female professor and

17:56

she could not be employed there. What

17:59

is the reason? zero

38:00

for questions one through five

38:02

just as a reminder. So

38:04

for number one we have Boston

38:07

Massachusetts, Sioux Falls,

38:09

South Dakota, Billings

38:11

Montana. Let's say 50. We think

38:16

this one also goes through Chicago but we would have

38:18

all known that if you said it we think it's

38:20

90. And

38:23

it is I-90. You've

38:26

already discussed it it's it's listening

38:30

to Matt and Chanel's reasoning and

38:33

they had the correct reasoning that the

38:36

more north the interstate is the

38:38

higher the number. So I-90 being

38:40

really the highest the

38:43

most northernmost interstate. Number

38:46

two, Asheville, North Carolina, Knoxville,

38:48

Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee. It's gotta

38:51

be 60. We thought somewhere

38:53

in the middle but we

38:55

said 40. It is

38:58

I-40. Number three, New

39:01

Orleans, Louisiana,

39:05

Tallahassee, Florida, Houston,

39:07

Texas. 70. We said

39:10

10. I-10 is correct. That

39:16

is the southernmost interstate

39:18

you can take. We unlocked the formula. And

39:20

we had

39:22

nothing. Number

39:27

four, Denver, Colorado,

39:30

Topeka, Kansas, Indianapolis,

39:32

Indiana. 80. We

39:36

also said 80. Very

39:39

very close. It's I-70.

39:41

And the last interstate

39:43

to end with a

39:46

zero. We have Shreveport,

39:48

Louisiana, Birmingham,

39:50

Alabama, Augusta,

39:52

Georgia. 90. Let me figure

39:56

this was just a little bit north of the 10. We said 20. put

42:00

35 75 and it is it's 75 I think

42:02

we got tired at the end

42:04

having that 55 as your

42:14

marker it's to the east of

42:17

yeah but it it is a

42:19

tiring exercise I appreciate you guys

42:23

having fun with me and playing and

42:26

then number 10 Springfield

42:28

Illinois Jackson Mississippi st. Louis Missouri

42:31

see okay so we haven't gotten

42:33

any of these and I bet

42:35

you think we're not gonna get

42:37

this one but guess what this

42:39

one 55 yes

42:43

I've driven to Springfield multiple times

42:45

from Chicago I even got a

42:48

speeding ticket on it a couple times we

42:51

said 55 I think that's the problem can

42:53

get a speeding ticket on well I actually

42:55

got a ticket on I-90 for being in

42:57

the wrong lane and he just repressed all

42:59

highways ever since

43:01

so yeah

43:03

can't dry 55 on

43:06

55 that's correct I 50 no cuz

43:08

you get run over all right and

43:10

I'm happy to

43:15

say that there has been some

43:17

progress made in this swing ground by both

43:19

teams was a score a little bit more

43:21

than the other taking

43:23

the lead away from the old man in the

43:25

c3po who now sits at 65 points

43:28

is Bell Jar Jar Binks with

43:30

70 so close

43:32

game just following the

43:34

roadmap to success good job in

43:39

around to question one the

43:42

man had elements of

43:44

style Elwyn Brooks spelt

43:48

e l w

43:50

y n space br ook

43:52

s is the

43:55

first and middle name of a

43:57

man whose apparent dislike of those

43:59

names led to him choosing

44:01

to abbreviate the two. He

44:04

must have liked the way his

44:06

abbreviated name looked as

44:08

he later wrote about the art

44:11

of abbreviating along with William Strunk

44:13

Jr. Who

44:15

is this man? We're elected. How

44:19

many E.B.s do you know? Um...

44:24

Well, isn't the author of

44:27

Charlotte's Web E.B. White? Yes,

44:30

I think so. And

44:33

maybe he loved abbreviations written

44:35

in web for

44:38

some pig. I don't know. I

44:40

think E.B. White is probably the

44:42

best we're gonna do here. Yeah,

44:44

it's the best we can do as well. So E.B.

44:46

White. E.B.

44:48

White is correct. He

44:51

wrote children's books, but he also wrote

44:53

Elements of Style, which is basically

45:00

the Hallmark book for if

45:02

you need grammar help. Round

45:06

two, question two. More

45:09

than Coyote's mom. Each

45:13

year, the National Recording Registry at

45:15

the Library of Congress chooses

45:17

25 recordings showcasing

45:20

the range and diversity

45:22

of American recorded sound

45:24

heritage in order

45:26

to increase preservation awareness. Currently,

45:30

there are 600 works

45:32

on the National Recording Registry.

45:36

In 2024, works

45:38

from musicians like Jefferson

45:40

Airplane, Green Day, Benny

45:43

Goodman, Johnny Mathis,

45:45

Blondie, The Cars,

45:48

and Notorious B.I.G. made

45:50

the list. In addition

45:52

to this comedian's 1971 comedy

45:55

album entitled This

45:59

is a recording. Thus

46:02

far, this comedian's album

46:04

is the only comedy

46:06

album by a female

46:08

ever inducted. If

46:10

you have never heard her voice on

46:13

this comedy album, you may

46:15

have heard her voicing the character

46:17

of Miss Frizzle on

46:20

the children's animated show, The

46:22

Magic School Bus from

46:24

1994 to 1997 and The Magic School Bus rides again from 2017 to 2018. Who

46:26

is this

46:35

female comedian? I

46:37

was almost sure you were going to

46:39

tell us that Fountains of Wayne made

46:41

the Library of Congress. But

46:44

we're locked in, yes? Yeah, we're locked in. Basically,

46:49

we're looking for who played Miss Frizzle. That's

46:51

what it boils down to. Yeah.

46:53

She's also a female

46:56

comedian. What's

46:58

the name of that comedian? She

47:01

would, she had an accordion

47:03

with her? I'm not sure if it's

47:05

the same person, but I'm pretty sure

47:07

that Lily Tomlin played. Oh, Lily Tomlin?

47:09

Miss Frizzle. At least, I think she

47:12

played in both the original and the

47:14

reboot. I would like to

47:16

have Miss Lily Tomlin. Yeah,

47:19

we think it is Lily Tomlin.

47:24

You're both correct, Lily Tomlin. I

47:28

used to watch The Magic School Bus and

47:31

I had no idea that was her until I did

47:33

research. She's done so much.

47:35

When we're kids, the kid who's freaking out, you're

47:38

like, just grow up, just go on the field

47:40

trip. It's not a big deal. Now as an

47:42

adult, you watch it. You're like, these kids, he's

47:44

watching his ass. He's watching his

47:47

own ass. Maybe you shouldn't go

47:49

into space. Or go into someone's bloodsauce.

47:51

Are there permission

47:54

slips? Not for Ralphie's bowels.

47:57

I mean, Mrs. Frizzle is opening her her

47:59

seat. Polyphyletic.

50:00

Oh no. Is that correct, Laura? That's

50:02

not going to be. It's

50:04

not going to do anything for me. I have no idea.

50:07

Yeah. That I don't know. Because

50:09

they're not like, if it was they had tusks

50:11

or something, horns,

50:16

something like that. Poly

50:19

meaning multiple. But I have no

50:21

idea. So

50:26

for Packy, do we want to say thick? Yeah,

50:29

let's go thick. And

50:31

then polyphyletic. Multiple

50:34

phyletics, I would

50:37

imagine. All right.

50:39

Yeah, we agree on the bonus

50:41

answer there. For the

50:44

original answer, we are also saying thick,

50:46

but ours is with two C's. Right.

50:49

That's why Don Rickles is such a

50:51

good roast community, because he always roasts

50:53

rhinoceros, because they can take it. Yeah.

50:55

You are correct. Thick is

50:57

what Packy is referring to.

51:00

The five-point bonus why

51:04

that term is abandoned

51:06

in taxonomy is

51:08

yes, poly meaning many. And

51:12

really, what it is is a group

51:15

of organisms coming from more

51:17

than one ancestor. So

51:20

poly meaning many, and phyly meaning

51:23

tribe. It's not suitable

51:25

that they're grouped together. They originate

51:27

from different ancestors. Gotcha. All

51:30

right. And round

51:32

two, question four in

51:34

my Tennessee mountain home. According

51:38

to dollywood.com, Dollywood

51:40

parks and resorts are located

51:42

inside this town, which they

51:44

claim is a great location

51:47

for small excursions during your

51:49

Dollywood trip. This

51:51

town located in Tennessee is made

51:53

up of two words. The

51:56

first word shares its name with

51:58

an animal with an animal. Excellent

52:00

sense of direction and for

52:02

thousands of years was trained to

52:05

carry messages over long distances The

52:08

second word of the town shares

52:10

its name with an open furnace

52:12

for heating metal or For

52:15

blacksmiths to then work with

52:17

and form What

52:19

is the name of this two worded

52:21

town? Matt

52:24

I know this Excellent news we are

52:26

locked in all right, so

52:28

it's the second word Forge

52:31

you didn't say Forge in the question, right? I

52:35

Did not say that word That

52:37

could be it because I it made me think of stone

52:39

sweet home, Alabama pigeon Forge doesn't sound very good It doesn't

52:42

sound like a yeah, but like a raven Forge Raven

52:45

oh, I guess Ravens can rock Forge Yeah,

52:49

cuz pigeon made me think of sweet home, Alabama

52:51

her hometown was pigeon hole or pigeon. I can't remember

52:53

now, but I Am

52:56

making my my hand like I'm holding

52:58

an imaginary invisible orb And

53:00

I'm saying Raven Forge Raven Forge sounds cool. I'd

53:02

stay there if I went to Hollywood Stay

53:05

there if you're in Game of Thrones or something.

53:07

Yeah, Jeff has a magic card. I believe we're

53:09

saying Raven Forge So

53:14

I think you said it Ken I think

53:16

it's it's 100%

53:18

that's so lame Not

53:20

everything is always cool. They could have said they could

53:23

have called it Raven Forge and they went with pigeon

53:25

Forge Down

53:27

home, Tennessee pigeon Forge. I should

53:30

have figured Raven

53:34

just in so right pigeon Forge just doesn't

53:36

sound right. It was logical but didn't sound

53:38

right In

53:41

round two question five of the

53:43

category Irish girl

53:45

British vacuum according

53:48

to Publishers Weekly what female

53:51

author wrote the top two

53:53

overall best-selling

53:55

books of 2023

53:58

she also held the top three spots

54:00

in 2022, gaining

54:02

popularity from her book

54:04

talk videos, which

54:07

are TikTok videos that talk

54:09

about all about book talk. We're good.

54:12

You're not playing Jeff. Shut up. Get

54:15

out of here. Her

54:17

books can be considered as adult

54:19

fiction, including romance, thrillers and mysteries.

54:22

Who is the author? Matt,

54:24

I know this. Is it? Can

54:26

I guess? Is it Sarah J. Mass? No,

54:29

it's not. I guess for everything. You just

54:31

love fairy smart man. I do.

54:34

It's but it's very popular. Who have you

54:36

read? Fairy smart man. There's there were multiple

54:38

books around my home that I may or

54:40

may not have proved. Why

54:44

are the pages stuck together? It's

54:48

got a moss book under his bed cheese right behind him. What's

54:53

the answer, Chanel? This

54:55

is Colleen Hoover. Oh,

54:58

like the vacuum. Yeah, the vacuum.

55:00

And the president. Yeah, we heard

55:03

books are everywhere. She's a massive success

55:05

right now. We said Colleen Hoover. Colleen

55:09

Hoover is correct. The

55:11

category title

55:13

was inspired because Colleen, and

55:17

if you look up what that name means,

55:19

it means Irish girl or girl. And

55:22

we know the Brits call their vacuums hovers.

55:26

All right. So after the

55:28

first five questions in round two, team

55:30

Bell Jar Jar Banks went perfect, adding

55:33

50 points to their score. And Ken, you're shaking your

55:35

head over there. But old man

55:37

in the C three P.O. did add 40, bringing

55:39

your score up to 105, narrowly

55:41

trailing behind the team at Bell Jar Jar Banks

55:44

with 120. Misa

55:46

so angry. Not

55:50

your best word. I didn't go. I didn't try. I didn't

55:52

go all in on that one. Misa thinks that your impression

55:55

sucks. Around

56:00

to question six the category

56:02

won't be super helpful because

56:05

it's about my best vacation

56:07

ever The

56:09

Wizarding World of Harry Potter

56:11

in Orlando, Florida actually spans

56:13

two separate theme parks Universal

56:16

Studios, Florida and Universal

56:19

Islands of Adventure You

56:21

can travel between the two parks

56:24

and experience the two lands of

56:26

the Wizarding World via the Hogwarts

56:28

Express Where

56:30

are the two train station locations

56:33

where you can get on and

56:35

off the Hogwarts Express? One

56:38

being in Universal Studios and

56:41

the other an islands of adventure

56:45

They're locked in snow you big powder head, you

56:48

know after I read book After

56:51

I read book four I kind of quit and

56:53

I've never seen the movies So but

56:55

I do know one trait Where

56:58

do they initially pick up? Is it nine

57:00

and three fourths? Yeah platform nine and three

57:02

fourths is definitely one of them And

57:06

that is the extent of my Harry

57:08

Potter knowledge more that is the extent

57:10

of mine as well one more That's

57:13

a mr. Potter head, but he's more of

57:15

a mr. Potter from its wonderful life He

57:18

likes keeping people down Potter was my favorite

57:20

show as a kid I

57:22

think I don't know like the

57:24

they get on at the Dumbledore maybe

57:29

The Dumbledore would be a pretty sweet like

57:31

bar name. Yeah, I Don't

57:34

know. I'm trying to think of any like

57:38

Hogwarts Academy. Maybe it's just called or

57:41

something Yeah,

57:43

cuz you would think that's the last

57:46

station that's where it's going right? Yeah,

57:48

so Hogwarts

57:50

Academy and platform three nine and

57:52

three quarters Okay, we

57:54

said platform nine and three

57:57

quarters, correct? Yep, and then

57:59

hogs mead which is where we think they

58:01

go for winter vacation. So,

58:06

yes, Hogsmeade is the

58:09

islands of adventure location. Diagon

58:12

Alley, which is where the

58:15

platform nine and three quarters

58:18

is located in in the

58:20

Harry Potter world within

58:22

the Universal Studio Studio of

58:24

Florida is the other

58:26

location. So I would say. I'll

58:29

give you guys points for that. How about that? How

58:32

about that? Yeah, I don't know where I

58:34

pulled Hogsmeade out of, but it definitely was

58:36

my means for I expiliamos that Hogsmeade from

58:38

somewhere. That's a full points for both. In

58:40

the house. No,

58:42

Matt, you guys only got five, right? I

58:45

don't think we get anything. Nothing. Was that a nothing

58:47

situation? OK. In

58:51

round two, question seven in

58:54

Don't Forget About the Great

58:56

War. The

58:59

Summer Paris Olympics are set to

59:01

begin this July with

59:03

a total of 32 different sports

59:05

to be played and 329

59:08

medals to be awarded. How

59:12

many years has it been

59:14

since Paris last hosted the

59:17

Olympics? As a

59:19

hint, those games were

59:21

the seventh occurrence of the

59:24

modern Olympic games. So

59:27

how many years has it been since

59:30

that last hosting?

59:34

So we estimated that the

59:37

or we thought that the modern

59:39

Olympics started in 1904 because

59:42

2004 was the 100th anniversary in Athens

59:47

and counting seven Olympics from there, we put

59:49

it at 1932. So

59:52

2024 minus 1932 is 92 years. All

59:57

right. Good reasoning. We're just saying 100. makes

1:00:00

sense to us right off the

1:00:02

top. From

1:00:05

my research, the first modern

1:00:07

Olympiad, as we know

1:00:09

it today, was actually held in 1896 in Athens. And

1:00:11

the seventh time it was held, because

1:00:20

they took a break in 1916 because

1:00:22

of the Great War, the seventh

1:00:24

time it was held was 1924. So

1:00:27

it is the 100th anniversary since the

1:00:29

last time it was held in Paris.

1:00:32

Just got to empty your mind sometimes. Oh,

1:00:35

that math for nothing. Just empty your mind. At one point,

1:00:37

Matt said 98, and I was like,

1:00:40

oh, so close, so close. Good poll. But very

1:00:42

good reason it. Zen Ken. Zen Ken?

1:00:44

Yeah, it's because of that. What's that

1:00:46

thing? You're drinking turkey tail? Turkey tail.

1:00:48

Is that vegan? And Reishi and Chaga.

1:00:51

Yeah, it's vegan. Okay. I

1:00:53

think it's just kicking in. That's what's happening. Oh,

1:00:55

it's probably the massive amount of caffeine in this.

1:01:01

In round two, question eight,

1:01:04

and how depressing. In

1:01:07

1993, Mattel acquired

1:01:09

Fisher Price, a company known

1:01:11

for its preschool educational toys.

1:01:14

Fisher Price was originally founded in what

1:01:17

year? The same year

1:01:19

that Ray Charles and Sandra Day

1:01:21

O'Connor were born. Full

1:01:23

points will be given if you're within two

1:01:26

years. You're

1:01:28

looking for the year Fisher

1:01:31

Price was originally founded. All

1:01:34

right. We thought

1:01:36

of a lot of stuff, and now we're locked in. All

1:01:40

right. Have we thought of a lot of stuff, Chanel? I'm

1:01:44

going with the category clue. It's

1:01:46

got to be between 1920s and 1930s. Yeah.

1:01:51

I would lean closer to 1930. Okay.

1:01:54

So late 20s. Yeah. Possibly.

1:01:58

Sandra Day O'Connor was a... appointed under

1:02:03

Reagan and Bush so Set

1:02:05

early 90s. Yeah, she would be and

1:02:07

then probably in her 50s or 60s

1:02:09

around then so that timeline makes sense

1:02:13

Same with Ray Charles. I only know of

1:02:15

Ray Charles as old man Ray Charles, which

1:02:17

takes place in the Late

1:02:19

80s. The only thing you're familiar with him is this

1:02:21

Pepsi commercial Is

1:02:24

his claymation brisk commercial I Forgot

1:02:29

about those claymation brisk commercials Truly

1:02:32

truly terrible thing. We know

1:02:34

I want to harken back to

1:02:36

simpler times of claymation commercials over

1:02:39

AI commercials I'll take it anything the week.

1:02:41

I guess take some more to string back

1:02:43

the raisins raise the rain back the race

1:02:47

Back to the question at hand. I

1:02:49

think what do you want to do like 29? Does that

1:02:51

sound 20? 28

1:02:54

maybe let's you want to do 28 because it's plus or

1:02:56

minus 2 right? Yeah, it gives 26 through 30 Which

1:02:59

is yeah, plus or minus 2. There's

1:03:01

a greatly depressing time so we can

1:03:06

Yeah, we said 1929

1:03:09

because it was certainly greatly

1:03:11

depressing And

1:03:14

full points for both teams the answer is

1:03:17

1930 I know 1929

1:03:20

was the start of the Great Depression. I

1:03:22

couldn't quite Nail it

1:03:24

there So 1930 is

1:03:26

the answer was October the

1:03:29

first full year of it was 1930. That's that's

1:03:32

pretty depressing really

1:03:34

depressing All right,

1:03:36

but a but a good time to

1:03:38

to think of educational toys for youngsters,

1:03:41

I guess in

1:03:44

round two question nine in a state

1:03:47

in Tammy

1:03:51

Baldwin was the first openly gay

1:03:53

politician to be elected to both

1:03:55

the US House and the US

1:03:57

Senate What state

1:03:59

elected? And

1:10:00

Chanel and Laura are both patrons, which

1:10:02

we very much appreciate. Chanel, are you listening to

1:10:04

the bonus episodes at all, like the Crop Drop

1:10:06

and all the other ones we're releasing? I

1:10:09

am. I'm currently working my way. I think I'm

1:10:11

in January of 2023 right now. Yeah,

1:10:14

there's a lot to work through, right? There's

1:10:16

days of content. Days of content. And there's

1:10:18

so much of it that Chanel's actually putting

1:10:20

herself to sleep with it, which is good.

1:10:23

Instead of Ambien, throw us on, and we'll get

1:10:25

you to sleep right away. We'll do the job.

1:10:27

Neil's like Ambien. I'm like Melatonin. Ken's

1:10:30

just a straight bottle of a

1:10:56

brand, a scar, and

1:10:59

hands down. I

1:11:02

did not expect that. It's

1:11:04

dashboard confessional for everyone at home. Wagers

1:11:07

are now locked in, and it looks

1:11:09

like Jar Jar

1:11:11

Binks is feeling bold. They're going 30s all

1:11:13

the way down, going for 300 or nothing.

1:11:17

And we're taking a little bit more conservative.

1:11:19

We're doing 15s all the way down. A

1:11:22

middling bet. So let's get the

1:11:24

questions and see who that's going to pay

1:11:26

off. All

1:11:28

right, here we go. In

1:11:30

a mark, in 1972

1:11:32

at the Munich Olympics, Mark

1:11:36

Spitz became the first athlete

1:11:38

to win seven gold medals

1:11:40

in a single Olympic Games.

1:11:43

His record for most gold medals

1:11:45

at a single Olympics stood until

1:11:48

what year, when broken

1:11:51

by American swimmer Michael Phelps.

1:11:54

I am looking for the exact

1:11:56

year Phelps broke this record that

1:11:58

was set by Spitz. In

1:12:03

a mission, the

1:12:06

mission range, also called

1:12:08

the mission mountains, are

1:12:11

a range of the Rocky Mountains. The

1:12:14

range, which extends some

1:12:16

45 miles, lies

1:12:18

entirely in what U.S.

1:12:20

state. In

1:12:24

a brand, the

1:12:27

1980s and 1990s

1:12:29

saw the release of several

1:12:32

new brands of medications that

1:12:34

would generate huge profits for

1:12:36

pharmaceutical companies. One

1:12:39

brand of these successful medications

1:12:42

is a selective serotonin

1:12:44

reuptake inhibitor medication that

1:12:47

became available in 1991.

1:12:52

This generic name would

1:12:54

become to be known as

1:12:56

sertraline. What

1:12:59

is the U.S. brand name

1:13:02

of this medication? In

1:13:06

a scar, the

1:13:09

themes and relationships in

1:13:12

the 1994 Disney film

1:13:14

The Lion King and

1:13:16

William Shakespeare's full titled

1:13:19

play Hamlet, Prince of

1:13:21

Denmark, are undeniably parallel.

1:13:25

In this parallel, if Simba

1:13:27

represents the character of Hamlet

1:13:31

and Mufasa represents old Hamlet,

1:13:33

the previous king of Denmark,

1:13:37

then what character from the

1:13:39

Shakespeare play would represent Scar

1:13:41

from The Lion King? I

1:13:44

am looking for the name of the

1:13:46

character from the Shakespeare play. And

1:13:50

the last question, and hands

1:13:53

down, the

1:13:56

Grouman Chinese Theatre's for court

1:13:59

in Hollywood. is noted

1:14:01

for having the most famous chunks

1:14:03

of cement in the world due

1:14:06

to its celebrity imprints. In

1:14:09

its history, on March

1:14:11

14th of what year,

1:14:13

the forecourt hosted Shirley

1:14:15

Temple when she placed

1:14:17

her handprints into the

1:14:19

forecourt cement along

1:14:21

with her name and her sweet

1:14:24

message of love to you all.

1:14:27

Shirley Temple was six

1:14:29

years old at the

1:14:31

time. For full

1:14:33

points, what year did this

1:14:36

hands down event take place?

1:14:39

You can give or take one year

1:14:41

for full points. All

1:14:43

right, we have our questions and we'll be right back

1:14:45

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1:16:02

we have 15s all the way down, Jar Jar Binks,

1:16:04

30s all the way down. Good luck, Jar

1:16:07

Jar Binks. All

1:16:09

right, breathe in for luck. In

1:16:12

a mark, we are

1:16:14

looking for the exact year that

1:16:16

Michael Phelps broke Mark Spitz's gold

1:16:19

medal count. What

1:16:23

year? All right, we think it's

1:16:25

Beijing Olympics. So we said 2008.

1:16:31

We weighed your 30 all the way down. You

1:16:34

already said that, but we agree, Beijing 2008. Both

1:16:39

teams are correct, 2008, Beijing

1:16:41

Olympics. In

1:16:44

a mission, we are looking

1:16:46

for the state in which

1:16:48

the mission range of the

1:16:50

Rocky Mountains exists in. Utah,

1:16:53

a lot of religious affiliation in this

1:16:55

state, so maybe the mission mountains are

1:16:57

in Utah. So

1:16:59

we went a little more north and

1:17:02

we were tossing up between Wyoming

1:17:04

and Idaho. We

1:17:06

thought Colorado was too easy of an

1:17:08

answer, so we're just gonna go with

1:17:10

Wyoming again. And

1:17:14

everyone had good thoughts. The answer,

1:17:16

however, is Montana. Ooh. The

1:17:20

answer will never be Wyoming. We're

1:17:22

gonna stop answering that. Beautiful. In

1:17:26

a brand, I'm looking for

1:17:28

the brand name of

1:17:31

the selective serotonin reuptake

1:17:33

inhibitor that has

1:17:35

the generic name of sertraline.

1:17:39

Well, we named a couple

1:17:41

different medications. Lexpro

1:17:43

came up, but ultimately we went with

1:17:45

Xanax. So

1:17:48

we went with the clue on the,

1:17:51

I think it was Happy Pill. So

1:17:54

we said Prozac. And

1:17:59

along the... the right lines,

1:18:01

um, that's the same class

1:18:03

of medication. However, this is

1:18:05

Zoloft. A little happy

1:18:07

circle, right? This is a little for

1:18:09

the rain clouds. Zoloft.

1:18:12

Zoloft. Dr. Zoloft. And

1:18:17

in a scar in the parallel

1:18:20

between Hamlet prince of Denmark and Lion

1:18:22

King, we're looking for the parallel between scar

1:18:24

and that Shakespeare character. I'm

1:18:27

looking for the name. Uh,

1:18:29

we think it's uncle Claudius. And

1:18:33

we says the same thing. Scar is Claudius. And

1:18:38

you both are correct. Claudius, the uncle. So

1:18:44

it all comes down to this. It

1:18:47

comes down to hands down. We're looking for the year in which

1:18:50

a six year old Shirley temple put her

1:18:53

hands into the

1:18:55

cement outside of Gromins, Chinese theater. I'll

1:19:00

give her take one year. So

1:19:02

what year essentially was she six years old?

1:19:06

Uh, we knew that she was big before the start of world

1:19:08

war two and uh, not

1:19:12

physically, not physically. Uh, and she was a

1:19:14

big fan of the, uh, the war two

1:19:17

and uh, physically not physically, uh, and post,

1:19:19

uh, talkies when they, they first started in 1927. So

1:19:23

we said she was born in 29 making her six years old in

1:19:25

1935. Um,

1:19:28

yeah, our math was almost exactly the same. Uh,

1:19:31

we ended up thinking around 1935. 1935

1:19:36

is exactly correct. It

1:19:38

was in March of 1935. So

1:19:41

it turned out, uh, that it was a hard fought game all

1:19:43

the way through, uh, the round of

1:19:45

wagers in the final round. 160

1:19:48

points is the score total for old man in

1:19:50

the C three P O. So they did improve,

1:19:52

but unfortunately it wasn't enough to overcome the 180

1:19:54

points from the team of Bell

1:19:57

Jar Jar Binks, who is this week's.

1:20:00

Cream of the crop. On balance,

1:20:02

off balance, doesn't matter. I'm better

1:20:05

than you are. Great

1:20:07

game, Chanel and Matt. You guys, it

1:20:09

was very close, all game, and you

1:20:11

just edged out with that great wagering

1:20:13

in the final round. Thank

1:20:15

you guys. Yeah, Laura, that was a really

1:20:17

hard game. It was harder than I expected.

1:20:19

When I listened to you guys, it seems

1:20:22

like it's a lot easier, but when you're

1:20:25

on this side of the mic, it's a lot harder. Yeah.

1:20:28

I can assure you that it doesn't matter if you do

1:20:30

this every day. It was a hard game, and I learned

1:20:32

a lot today. Yeah, we learned a ton, and that game

1:20:34

was really well written. We could tell

1:20:36

all the care you put into it, Laura, and all

1:20:39

the research, too, which was fun. A lot of cool

1:20:41

things that we didn't know, and a lot

1:20:43

of things that I think we have to check out.

1:20:45

Obviously, we all have to play croquet while reading a

1:20:47

Colleen Hoover book and talking about the thickness of a

1:20:49

rhinoceros, Jeff. You know what? We

1:20:51

actually got a lot of questions right, but I feel

1:20:54

like we had to dig deep on each question. I

1:20:56

agree. Into the recesses of our minds. Laura made us

1:20:58

work, right? When you were, she's a great tutor, so

1:21:00

she tutored us to learn some things today. We had

1:21:02

to dig deep. But Laura, that was a

1:21:04

great game. Anyone you'd like to give a shout out to, or anything

1:21:07

you'd like to talk about before we let you go today? I

1:21:10

want to thank you all, and I want

1:21:12

to encourage everyone to be a Patreon. It's

1:21:14

really fun listening to all of the episodes,

1:21:16

and you guys do a great job with

1:21:19

your editing and all the care you put

1:21:21

into it, and it's really fun to be

1:21:23

a part of the crop. I

1:21:26

want to give a shout out to my daughter, my

1:21:28

wife. And just as

1:21:30

a new parent, I want to let people know

1:21:32

that if you know any new parents, just check

1:21:34

in with them every once in a while. Make

1:21:37

sure they're doing OK, not pulling their hair out.

1:21:40

And drop off a meal if you can,

1:21:42

or even just a card, just something

1:21:44

so they know they're still part

1:21:47

of the larger community when sometimes

1:21:49

we're just kind of stuck inside

1:21:52

our houses. Great

1:21:54

advice. Thank you. And Chanel, so

1:21:56

nice to meet a fellow Chicagoan, and we'll have

1:21:58

to. have you in the studio or maybe we'll

1:22:00

do another live event or something. But thank you

1:22:02

for joining us today. Anything that you'd like to

1:22:04

say or any shout outs before we let you

1:22:06

go. Sure. Um, thank

1:22:08

you, Laura, for a great game

1:22:10

and congratulations on your new daughter.

1:22:13

Um, also thank you guys. I always

1:22:16

enjoy listening to you as I'm walking

1:22:18

my dog throughout Chicago. Um,

1:22:20

I do want to give a thank you to my

1:22:22

husband, Chris, who, uh, conveniently

1:22:24

left and went to the gym to leave

1:22:27

me with the dog while I do this

1:22:29

recording. And, um,

1:22:32

for anyone who comes and visits

1:22:34

Chicago, and if you like books,

1:22:36

uh, please visit open books. It's

1:22:38

an a very large nonprofit, uh,

1:22:40

bookstore. They have multiple locations, one

1:22:42

in the West loop, one in

1:22:45

Logan square. Um,

1:22:47

and so check them out. They have great

1:22:49

programs after school programs as well as writing

1:22:51

programs. Um, they're open books. So I just

1:22:54

want to give a shout out to my

1:22:56

book club and my trivia

1:22:58

team there. Awesome. Yeah. I

1:23:00

think both of you in our final

1:23:02

shout out as always goes to airwave

1:23:05

media, our network, you can find them

1:23:07

at airwave media.com where you can check

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out other great podcasts, such as the

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in gadget podcast movies that

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made me and noodle. Noodle

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love noodle loaf. Oh, noodle loaf, which

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I don't know if that's a recipe.

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I don't know. Or newer podcast, I think

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to airwave media. We got to make sure

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that look at that. Nice artwork noodle loaf.

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Uh, yeah, it looks great. It's a interactive

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hip hip hip hip hip. Music

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education for kids. Uh, yeah, it looks, sounds

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very cool though. Uh, sorry that I had

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a mini stroke there. Noodle loaf. But,

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and that'll be it for a little loaf noodle up

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there. Yeah. That'll be it for

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today's podcast for Chanel and Laura and Matt

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and Jeff and Neil. My name is Ken

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and that was triviality. you