Welcome to You Should Know Better with the Mike C. Nelson, the guy
who won't shut up about winning three times on Jeopardy. Welcome, Welcome,
Welcome to You Should Know Better, the trivia podcast that tests your knowledge and
a little bit of your patience. Our goal here is to celebrate the theme
of continuing education. We should always be learning and always be on the prowl
to know better. Now we will meet our Midwestern guests and hear all about
what magnificent causes they are playing for, and shortly crown one of them the
smartest person in the world for one week. But as for right now,
let's jump right into some questions and answers with our first four rounds today,
Round one General Knowledge. The General Knowledge round caps on hoosiers, pencils at
the ready, and away we go. There are eight questions in the General
Knowledge round. Here is question number one, in what world city would you
find Saint Mark's Basilica, the Bridge of Size, and the Grand Canal?
Again for question number one, in what world city would you find Saint Mark's
Basilica, the Bridge of Size, and the Grand Canal? All of those
in what world city? For question number one, how do we feel I'm
good. I feel like I came. I did, I showed up on
time, I got dressed. Here's what's even better is you did get dressed
in that ridiculous suit and bow tie and your Samplegate background. And what you
don't realize is that nobody ever watches this show. The video never goes out.
This is just for us, This is just for us people at home.
One of our contestants, Eric good friend of mine. We went to
the same college, and he is representing that college and university with full full
bluster. He is wearing a Indiana Hoosier's red suit, bow tie, and
shorts basketball shorts yep. And his background is the famous sample gates right off
of Kirkwood Avenue as you enter the campus of IU. We will definitely have
those pictures up for you to peruse so you can get it in your head
when you're listening to this episode, because it's wonderful. All right, are
you ready for question number two? Yeah? Yes, all right. Question
number two goes like this, what twelfth president of these here United States was
nicknamed Old Rough and ready, I'm going to give you a multiple choice.
Breathe a sigh of relief. What twelfth President of the US was nicknamed Old
Rough and Ready? Was it James K. Polk? Was it Zachary Taylor?
Or was it Millard Fillmore? Was it Polk, Taylor or Fillmore that
had the nickname Old Rough and Ready? Number twelve for question number two,
All right, this is right up your alleys. You can't miss this one,
or you're gonna have to, like, you know, take take a
knee and then take a lap. Question number three is your sports question and
the general knowledge round. What four teams faced off against each other in the
most recent NCAA women's basketball Final four? Can you name all four final four
teams and the most recent women's final four? For question number three, I
got that one right. Let's just score that one and then call this whole
thing a dave. We're all still friends. Everybody likes each other so far.
Can question three be worth like one hundred points? Well, there's four
answers, it should be worth four. Ah, all right, question number
four, or we've arrived at question number four. What actress portrayed Karen Cisco
opposite George Clooney in the nineteen ninety nine film Out of Sight. Out of
Sight? But name that actress that played Karen Cisco opposite George Clooney in the
nineteen ninety nine film Out of Sight. Question number five of eight, Sonny
is the mascot for Coco Puffs. What type of animal was Sonny Coco Puffs?
Sonny was the mascot the cartoon mascot for Coco Puffs. What type of
animal? What the hell was Sonny? For question number five? Question number
six, what very wealthy? Media? Mogul got his start as a stand
up comedian and one of the early hosts of that NBC show I think it
was from seventy nine to eighty four was called Real People with Skip Stevenson and
Sarah Percell. Even Peter Billingsley and a bunch of people are on it Fred
Willard. But what very wealthy media Mogul got his start as a stand up
comedian and as one of the hosts of the early eighties NBC show Real People.
He's now worth hundreds of millions of dollars? For question number six,
media Mogul got his start he was a host of that or he was just
he was one of the Yeah, he was one of the hosts on Real
People. He started out as a stand up actor and an actor, but
like that was one of his first gigs and then he kind of became this
media machine that's worth a jillion dollars. All right, we are at question
number seven year penultimate question in the General Knowledge Round. The late Great Dolores
oh Reordan was the lead singer for what band? Dolores oh Reordan nineties band.
We all had the CDs and our CD towers. The late Great Dolores
oh Reordan singer for what great band? They had that one big song,
right, They have a few hits, but yeah, one or two pooge
hits. Yeah, yeah, I know. All right, our final question,
we're here question number eight of eight the General Knowledge Round. Can you
name four of the six space shuttles? There are six space shuttles that had
names. One was a test run just for landing and stuff that they would
throw off a jumbo jet and just see if they could land the thing a
bunch of times. But then there was five that did a bunch of orbiting
the Earth and doing all sorts of stuff. Can you name four of the
six space shuttles? For question number eight? I'm really hoping for the fractional
scoring. Yeah, yeah, yep, there will be fractions for sure in
this round. Pencils down. We will go over our answers in just a
quick second. But it's time to meet my two brothers from Indiana University.
This dude grew up in Saint Louis, MO. He's got a bunch of
great projects. You know him from creating and being one of the producers behind
Carpool Karaoke on Apple Plus and Carpei DM with I don't want to butcher the
day, Wampa Zorita, Wampa Zorita on the Roku channel, Karpei DM and
Carpool Karaoke. My good pal Eric Pankowski is here today. Hello. Are
there applause? Put in for that? Is there a rockus? I feel
like I need some kind of support at that moment. You can follow Eric
on social media and his podcast The Hoosier Hysterics And I'm gonna spell that so
it's at Hoosier and then you take a bunch of the vowels out, so
it's Hoosier h y st r cs. That's Hoosier h y st r cs.
You know how we say it, Mike, we say it's hysterics no
e, no I, but sometimes wah and it still doesn't help. It
doesn't help people find you guys on the twitters or the axes or whatnot.
What awesome charity are you playing for today, Sir? I am playing for
JNF, the Jewish National Fund, which is doing a lot of good work
in Israel to help with the fallout of October seventh. And my ex wife
actually was recently in Israel working with the JNF planting trees and rebuilding kibotz's and
getting schools back up and running. They do great work. So that's what
I'm playing for. Fantastic well win or lose. We're happy to make a
donation to the Jewish National Fund in your name. And now it's time to
meet your opponent from the mean streets of Peru, Indiana. He's also part
of the Hoosier Hysterics podcast and he's got a film coming out that he wrote,
directed and stars in. I helped out a little bit, but it's
a movie called Invaders from Proxima B and it's coming out everywhere. It's been
this odyssey for Ward and I to make this film and it's coming out May
thirty first, going to be out on Voodoo. If you have that on
your smart TV. But they're they're kind of changing their name right now,
so it's it might be Voodoo, but it might be Fandango at home.
It's the same thing, Voodoo Fandango at home. Circle your calendars, save
the day. May thirty first, our movie Invaders from Proximum V finally comes
out. But here he is, folks, my pal, my brother Ward
Roberts is here. I couldn't do it without you, guys. That's really
without you, guys. I'm all I have is being on this podcast today.
And I probably wouldn't be on this podcast today if it wasn't for you,
guys. Mike Dobe Modest, you produce the shit out of our movie,
and you have a starring role in which you're magnificent per usual. Hey,
I'm in the movie too. And Eric's voice. If you are really
paying attention with your ears, Eric's voice pops in there for sure. I've
never heard it. I've seen the movie a couple of times. I've never
heard it, but I'm told I'm in it. Even in the trailer.
If you're really paying attention, you can catch a few syllables in the trailer.
But yeah, you you guys, and these projects have been the last
five plus six years of my life. So thank you both. And it's
all led to this today. Can I say something about the movie if I
may? Sure, Thank God, it's really freaking good. I mean,
because you don't want to have a project from a friend that you're like,
you gotta fake it, like you know, and look, I'll be honest.
WARN's made a bunch of movies. Not all of them are my favorite
movies in the world. I'll be honest about that, Thanks Pal. But
we've been We've were honest with each other. But Proxima Bee. I took
my kids to see it. They saw an early cut of it. We
went to the not premiere premiere in LA. The screening of it. My
girlfriend loves it, all the kids love it. It's hilarious, it's clever,
it's awesome. It's an awesome movie. And thank god. I breathed
a huge sigh of relief after seeing it, because I didn't want to have
to fake bullshit around ward for like the next decade. Yeah, you have
to give those like fake fake things of like, huh, you really did
it? You do made a movie. You made a movie. So many
people say they're going to make a movie, but you did no. It's
it's a hysterically smart, fun family movie. I absolutely love it. We
love it too, and we're so excited to finally unleash it after this this
long journey to get it out there. We're very excited again. May thirty
first Invaders from Proxima be so Ward. You could follow him on social media
as well at the Who's Your Hysterics? And you could follow the film at
Invaders from Proxima B. And you can follow Ward just individually at Ward Roberts.
Mister Roberts, what charity are you playing for today? Saint Jude Sat
Jude Children's Hospital been my favorite for a real long time. They do incredible
work. Obviously, just sick children could not break my heart anymore than it
does. And when families can't afford treatment for their kids being sick, I
could not imagine a sadder, more hopeless feeling. Saint Jude has helped countless
childrens in their family at zero cost to the family. And beyond that,
I think something that's overlooked a lot is the great research Saint Jude does.
And they don't just use that for their own patients and families, but they
share that research with the entire world basically just say, hey, we found
this out, use it, create better treatments, better drugs, whatever we
possibly can do to help six children. So yeah, and it's you know,
obviously it's rated super high, like eighty two cents of every dollar goes
directly to the families, And it's got all the hallmarks of what you want
from a great charity. Fantastics. We love Saint Judes and we're happy to
make a donation in your name to Saint Jude's Children's Hospital, Win or lose.
You know the two hoosiers that are here with me today, you know
what great causes they are playing for. But it's time to get back to
the game. Go over our scores for a very interesting general knowledge round.
There were eight questions in the round. Question number one was in what world
city would you find Saint Mark's Basilica? Which I always find funny that there's
just a Saint Mark. It just sounds not fancy at all. Saint Mark's
Basilica, the Bridge of Size and the Grand Canal. Eric, what did
you get for number one? Venice, Venice? Question Mark Ward Roberts,
what did you put for number one? Also Venice. Yes, oh shit,
you both picked that one Venice and Venice. The correct answer is Venice,
Italy boo one for one often really high. I only had to give
the name of the city and not the country. Okay, moving on ah
question number two. What twelfth president of the United States was nicknamed Old rough
and Ready? I gave you a choice. Was it James K. Polk,
Zachary Taylor, or Millard Fillmore? Ward? What did you put?
You know what? I was pretty sure Pillmore didn't fall in the chronological order
of being twelve. I was like, I think it's poker Taylor and Polk.
Just if he did anything rough and Ready, I never heard about it.
I think Taylor was out there probably fighting in like the Midwest against you
know, the indigenous people. Taylor, Taylor, you're going Taylor, Eric,
What did you put for number two? Well? I wrote all three
of them down and then scratched off two of them habby. One I did
not scratch off was Taylor. So I have Zachary Taylor and Zachary Taylor.
Yeah, Old rough and Ready. I think he got his name for fighting
indigenous people in the Second Seminole War, and that would be Zachary Old rough
and ready, Taylor nice God, I was hoping to separate from the pack.
There shot in the dark. There we each had a thirty three chance
on that one. Question number three, What four teams faced off against each
other in the most recent NCAA women's basketball Final four? It was a great
tournament, Eric, could you come up with four? All four? Yukon,
South Carolina, Iowa, NC State got South Carolina, Iowa, Yukon
and NC State board What did you put? I blew it on NC State,
but I got South Carolina, Iowa, and Yukon. You would be
correct, Eric, got all four of them. We got South Carolina four
banker that beat Iowa in the final game. Then you had incredible Yukon and
n the State were there. So Eric gets the whole point. I'll give
war to half point for almost getting there. I got, I got three
fourths. I don't want to do three quarters of a that's gonna be a
disaster. I suck at math, I agree, I agree, good manteo.
I like nobody ask you. Nobody asked. Question number four. What
actress portrayed Karen Cisco opposite George Clooney in the nineteen ninety nine film Out of
Site Ward j Loo, j Lo, Jennifer Lopez, Eric, what did
you put same? Yeah before Karen Cisco was a show. Yeah, based
on the Elmore Leonard novel. And I think it was like so early Soderberg
movie. It was j Loo and out of Sight still holds up, still
a fun movie with I forgot how many people were in that movie. So
many? Uh? Question number five, Sonny is the mascot, the cartoon
mascot for cocoa puffs. What type of animal is Sonny? Mister Pankowski rabbit,
rabbit war? Do you agree with Eric? No, but I don't
feel strongly that it's a monkey. But that's what I wrote down, So
we have a rabbit and a monkey. Sonny was always cuckoo for cocoa puffs.
He's a cuckoo bird, cuckoo for cocoa puffs. I'm just thinking,
well, it can't be a toucan because that's fruit loops. So I went
away from birds completely. That's what you had in your mind, No harm,
no foul. You both missed it. Question number six what very wealthy
media mogul got his start as a stand up comedian and one of the hosts
of the early eighties. I think it was seventy nine to eighty four NBC
show that I used to watch all the time, Real People. Did you
come up with a name? Mister Roberts, I didn't. It's blank,
blank slate, Tabila rasa, Eric, what do you put Byron Allen?
Byron Allan, He's worth a lot of money. The correct answer is Byron
Alan Nice. Nice, all Right. We were up to question number seven
in the General Knowledge Round. The late great Dolores oh Riordan was the lead
singer for what band? I gave you the hint. They were kind of
a nineties band that had multiple hits. Eric, what did you come up
with? The Cranberry's Cranberry's ward? What did you put? He might be
right, but I went with Cardigans. Ooh, the Cardigans both in the
same neck of a nape. Yeah. She died way too young. She
died I think in the last decade, but way too young. Dolores or
Riordan was for the Irish rock band the Cranberrys the Cranberryes. That answer deserves
a huzzah damn Like, clearly my brain wanted the right answer, but then
the other part of my brain came in and be like, no, it's
close, but it's not right. We're gonna go with that one. Question
number eight, can you name four of the six space shuttles? Ward Ernest
Roberts, mister Space. Here we go. All right. We got the
Challenger, we got Discovery, and then we went with the Avenger and the
Epicurean. Those both sound great. I wish, yeah, they wish they
were names of ule. They need to rename some of these blame ones with
those names. God bless All right, Eric, what did you put?
I did put Discovery and Challenger. I put Columbia, and I put Apollo
Columbia Columbia. That's right, all right, So here's what we're gonna do.
We're gonna give Eric the full point and we're gonna give Ward a half
point again. So now we're not gonna have any fractions. Let's go over
all of them. Yes, Enterprise was kind of the test shuttle. That's
the one that they would put on the top of a plane and they'd let
it fly and land so they could figure out is this thinking to land?
Okay, So that was Enterprise, and then you have Atlantis, a Challenger,
Columbia, Discovery, and then you have the one that's docked right here
in Los Angeles. That's the Endeavor, the Endeavor, the one that's you
can go see it in LA at that museum right near usc and the Natural
History Museum is the Endeavor. So Apollo is just what names of missions?
Yeah, Apollo was the first mission. Yeah, the Moon missions, you
heard them. After the third one you had Mercury was one, Gemini two,
and then Apollo was the third, the third, the three manned missions.
So it's like one dude Mercury, two dudes Gemini, three dudes Apollo.
Great, I'll remember that so that on our return, Yes, yes,
Tournament of Champions from the Tournament of Champions on the Tournament of Morons.
Yeah, and I will nail that. Yeah, Dinner for schmucks, we
call it. It's a race to the bottom. We have our first scoreboard
update after our general Knowledge round. We have ward Ernest Roberts with four points
and Eric Pankowski with an impressive seven seven to four after one so shocking,
shocking results. Shocking, all right, it's seven to four. Eric's got
the lead for now as we head into round two, which is our pop
culture grab bag Round two. Pop Culture grab Bag Today. In the grab
Bag, we're going to do a category all about the world of podcasts and
podcast doors and podcasting podcast There's eight questions again in this round we're just writing
stuff down again. Question number one of eight in the grab bag name the
three hosts of the podcast SmartLess? Can you name the three famous hosts of
the podcast SmartLess? For question number one? Question number two is name all
of the true crime podcasts? Kidding, I'm kidding, I'm kidding, we
would all be dead. Question number two goes like this, what platform is
the exclusive home for the hit podcasts the Joe Rogan Experience, Call her Daddy
an Armchair Expert with Dax Shepherd. What platform has the exclusive deals with those
three juggernauts in the podcast world? So I'm looking for the platform for number
two for the Joe Rogan Experience Call her Daddy an Armchair Expert with Dax Shepherd.
Question number three, What Seinfeld alum has a podcast called Wiser than Me?
Kind of narrows it down a little bit. What Seinfeld alum has their
own podcast called Wiser than Me? Question mark give you the hint it is
not the soup Nazi, all right? Question number four goes like this.
Who is the founder and CEO of sports and pop culture website The Ringer that
hosts many podcasts, including his own? Question number four, Who is the
founder and CEO of sports and pop culture website The Ringer that hosts many many
podcasts, including his own? For question number four? Question number five,
Back in twenty fourteen, Sarah Konig narrated season one of this podcast investigating the
murder of an eighteen year old student, and still holds the record for most
downloaded podcast ever. So again, for question number five. Back in twenty
fourteen, Sarah Konig narrated season one of this podcast, investigating the murder of
the eighteen year old student of an eighteen year old student, still holds the
record for most downloaded podcast ever. It's in the hundreds of millions of downloads,
just like who's your Hysterics? No, I think we're right up there
at that list, and you should know better. I think we're in the
top three. I think it's this one and then our two podcasts. Yeah,
sure, round out the top three of all time. Question number six
name either of the best selling authors that have popular podcasts. One's called revisionist
History and the other one is called Against the Rules. Can you name either
of the best selling authors that have their own popular podcasts. One's called Revisionist
History and the other one is called against the Rules. Now a little bit
different than question six, Question seven, I'd like to get both of these
answers to get the point. Name the hosts for the long running podcasts Fresh
Air and This American Life? Can you name those two hosts that have been
doing it for decades, the long running podcasts Fresh Air and This American Life?
For question number seven. All right, and finally question number eight of
eight in your pop culture grab bag, we're talking podcasts today. Before they
started Crooked media with hit shows like Pod Save America, Love It or Leave
It? And Pod Save the World? Where did hosts Favre, Love It,
Vtor and Fifer work? Where did they work before they started this big
crooked media podcast empire. So, before they started crooked media with hit shows
like Pod Save America, Love It or Leave It, and Pod Save the
World? Where did hosts Favre, Love It, Vtor and Fifer work?
For question number eight? I know this one, Eric, do you?
I don't know. I don't know, is the answer. I'll take it.
I need any any break I can get at this point. Pencils down.
Let's go over your answers for the pop culture grab bag we were talking
podcasts. Question one of eight was named the three hosts of the podcast SmartLess
that was just a juggernaut during the pandemic the Blue up Ward, what did
you get for number one? Bateman, Arnett and Hayes. Bateman, Arnett
and Hayes, Eric, what did you put Jason, Will and Sean.
Yes, we're going to give you points all across the board. It is
Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, and Will Arnett that are the hosts of SmartLess.
Question number two, what platform is the exclusive home for hit podcasts the
Joe Rogan Experience Call her Daddy, an armchair expert with Dax's shepherd. Eric,
I'm going to answer with an asterisk? Okay, Spotify? Okay,
Spotify? Is your guests Ward? What did you put? No asterisk?
Spotify? One of them has an asterisk, the other one does not.
That's what I was going for Spotify. But I want to hear Eric's clarification
here. The Joe Rogan Experience is no longer exclusive to Spotify. They allow
it on the Apple platform. Oh okay, so it was. It wasn't
exclusive for a while and they gave him two hundred million dollars. But as
of right now, great caveat. We need to let our listeners know because
there's gonna be some that listen. They're like, Hey, he's not he's
not just on the Dare I say extra credit? No, now you're grobbling.
I might away extra credit. That would be fair. Yeah, but
I was going for Spotify that paid out those huge sums of money to a
few podcasts for their regarding it. Yeah. Yeah, And then they're like,
and now we're contracting and of almost every other podcast, like Holy Smokes.
Question number three, what Seinfeld alum has a podcast called Wiser than Me
Ward? You know, like something in me really wanted to answer Wayne Knight,
but I figure it's got to be one of the main four. If
it was Seinfeld, I think I would have heard of it. So it's
a one in three shot here, And I just went with Jason Alexander because
I feel like he'd like to talk more than the rest. Jason Alexander,
George Costanza, Eric what did you put for number three? Julia Louis Dreyfus,
Julia Louis Dreyfus, We have no Mike Richard's, no Seinfeld, no
Wayne Knight. One of you is correct, one of you is incorrect.
The correct answer is Julia Louis A. Dreyfus. Haw's that podcast Wiser Than
By Accident? I heard an episode by Accident by Accident, You son of
a bitch. But I'll be honest with you. I'll be totally honest with
you. I had no idea that was the name of the podcast. I
just heard her do an interview with Jane Fonda, and it's great because I
suggest going to get it because one it's Jane Fonda and Julia Louis Dreyfus talking,
which is awesome. But in the middle of it, Julie Weeed Dreyfus
has like some kind of electrical storm at her house and the whole thing shuts
off and she has to like come back and explain why the interview ended in
the middle. It's hilarious. That's crazy, but it's a really good conversation
between those two, you know, just legends of the screen. Yeah,
it's called Wiser than Me. I'm going to check it out. But yeah,
it's Julia Luis Dreyfus for number three, question number four? Who is
the founder and CEO of sports and pop culture website The Ringer that hosts many
podcasts, including his own, Eric Bill Simmons, Bill Simmons Roberts. What
did you get for number four? William Simmons, William or Bill Simmons?
It is Bill Simmons for number For question number five? Back in twenty fourteen,
Sarah Coene you see how do you say her name? I don't know?
Is it Knig? I thought it was k Kanig? She said,
I think I screwed up all the time, so it is Ki. The
wise chat bot is telling us it is k. Yes, Sarah Kanigg,
apologies for screwing up your name when I read the question. Sarah Kenig Kanigg
narrated season one of this podcast, Getting the Murder of an eighteen year old
student still holds the record for the most downloaded podcast ever Ward Cereal Cereal,
Eric Pankowski Cereal Cereal, and Cereal It is Cereal. We'll have any look
up the downloads, like if you could find out, but I think it's
something crazy. It's like four hundred million downloads or something of that podcast three
hundred and forty million. Chatbot said three hundred and forty million for the download
on Cereal. Yeah, three hundred and forty million downloads of Cereal. Question
number six, name either of the best selling authors that have popular podcasts.
One's called Revisionist History and the others called Against the Rules? Eric, what
did you come up with number six? I'm guessing here I went with Malcolm
Gladwell, Malcolm Gladwell, Ward, what did you put? I had the
exact same guess Malcolm Gladwell and Malcolm Gladwell. Malcolm Gladwell does Revisionist Oh History
under Pushkin Enterprises Pushkin Industries, which is his podcast ARM and then Against the
Rules is hosted by the prolific Michael Lewis. Michael Lewis does that podcast Against
the Rules. So Malcolm Gladwell Michael Lewis is what I was going for for
number six, but you both nailed it. And question number seven, can
you name both hosts for the long running pods Fresh Air and This American Life?
Ward? So for This American Life I had Ira Glass and for the
other one I had Melissa Ira Glass and then just Melissa. Eric, what
did you want for number seven, I put Ira Glass. That did come
to me? I'm Ira Glass. This is American life. I think it
is. I think her name is Terry. I think that sounds right to
me. Yep, but I don't have the last name Melissa. And then
Terry Cross. Oh, I think that is it. I think I think
that is it. I think that could be it. Is it Terry Gross?
Is it Terry Gross? I'm not sure you got Ira Glass. You
both got Ira Glass, and it is Terry Gross. So this is what
we'll do. Well, what are we going to do here? We'll do
one and a half points for Ward and a full point for Eric. So
like Ward gets a half point for pulling Gross out of his buttthole at the
last second after I gave him Terry. You had nothing until I gave you
Gross. I got a guy or a girl's name you didn't even know.
I said, Terry, are your brain's rotten? I said, Terry,
Yeah, but like Terry boy, Terry girl, Terry Gross. You just
said I had nothing till you said Gross, I gave you the first name.
He wasn't going to give you any extra points for Terry. That's probably
true. This is all subjective to the way I grade your papers. I
want to give a shout out to my brother Russell that always called it a
gross there with Terry Fresh but it is Terry Gross from Fresh Air and Ira
Glass from This American Life. And finally, question number eight before lobbing a
formal protest on the skyest Yes, it's already been logged with our headquarters that
this game is under protest. Question number eight, before they started crooked media
with hit shows like Podsave America, Love It or Leave It, Pod Save
the World, where did hosts Favre, Love It, Vitor and Peiffer work?
Eric? What did you put for number eight? The White House in
it? What are you going to catch up with them? When he keeps
getting lucky with these guesses? What did you put the White House? And
for bonus points the Obama Obama administration. The correct answer was they all did
work for the Obama administration, So if you put that or the White House
or the Executive Branch or whatnot plus five. Though for me forgetting the Obama
Park, you got got a point e. We still got a great game.
At halftime, it is Ward Roberts with eleven and a half points.
Eric Pankowski with fifteen points. It's fifteen to eleven and a half at halftime.
I don't mind losing. I mind losing to Eric. Yes, it
is fifteen to eleven and a half at halftime. We're here with Eric Pankowski.
You can follow him on social media at Hoosier Hysterics. That's at Hoosier
h y St RCS. He's playing for the Jewish National Fund. And we're
here with Ward Ernest Roberts. You could follow him at Ward Roberts and he's
playing for Saint Jude's Children's Hospital. Holy Cow. We're entering round three,
which is the dreaded round three, the lightning round, lightning round ward.
You are trailing at this moment, so you can be the first one to
choose from these three headings, which have nothing to do with the questions nor
the answers. But we're both Hoosiers from Bloomington, Indiana. We all on
to that great university, so we could choose from three of our favorite haunts.
Back in the day, you could choose either Bear's Place, the Bluebird,
or Nick's English Hut where you would sink the Bismarck ward name your poison,
shout out Bears did so much karaoke at Bears shout out Nick's English Hut.
That's where we go to these days when we go back. But you
know, hey, love of my life, watch you're on the stage of
the blue Bird. Some of the fondest memories of my life are from the
Bluebird. We're going to the Bluebird. Blue Bird one of the greatest music
venues of all time. So your Bluebird question goes like this. I'm gonna
say it twice. I'm gonna say, Oh, You're gonna have twenty seconds
to say as many answers as possible. Eric, write some answers down because
I'm coming straight to you with your five second rebuttal, here is your Bluebird
Lightning Round question. I want the nine longest running musicals in Broadway history.
The nine longest running musicals in Broadway history, twenty seconds on the clock and
Ago, Cats Lay, Miss, Phantom, Oklahoma, Hamilton, Wicked,
Uh, Sweeney Todd, Cat's Phantom, Sweeney Todd. What else haven't I
hit? Rent? Rent? It's not gonna be anything goes Uh South Pacific
Lady stop stop stop stop? You got four You got the longest running one
is Phantom still the longest running one is Phantom, and you got number four
Wicked, number five Cats, and number six lay miss you did great.
You got four uh, the longest running musicals, your five second rebuttal Eric
to see if you can steal any five seconds on the clock, nine longest
running musicals in Broadway history, five seconds and ago, Miss Saigon, Carousel,
Chicago, Cabaret, a Vita into the Woods. I think think you
got one for sure. You said Chicago, which is number two? What
were the other ones? You said, Miss Saigon, Carousel, Cabaret,
Chicago, Avita into the Woods. Okay, so you got number two,
so you stole one. It was it was Chicago. So let's go over
the ones we didn't get to. You named a bunch of great musicals,
all of you. You were all around it. A bunch of these that
you mentioned were from like ten through seventeen. Number three, The Lion King,
the Lion King's number three of all time. Number seven a chorus line,
a chorus line, and then number eight was like I was like,
if you guys would have said this, I would have probably given you like
ten points. Was oh Calcutta, Wowran I think it was like previous it
was seventies or eighties. It ran for a long time, and then number
nine surprised me a little bit too. Mama Mia, Mama Mia. The
musical is in the top nine already, but you did very well in the
bluebird question. Eric, it's your turn in the barrel. You could choose
either Bear's Place or Knicks English hut. I'm going next. I'm going next,
going next, So Bear's Place. We'll just go into the hopper for
a future game. I will read the question twice. Sego twenty seconds on
the clock. War got some things down. I'm coming to you with your
rebuttle straight after Eric's twenty seconds. Eric, here's your nixt English hut lightning
round question. I want to know the nine countries with the most military deaths
from World War II World War two military deaths. The countries that had the
most twenty seconds on the clock and go Germany, Russia, Japan, United
States, Italy, j Mean, France, England, Poland. Stop.
You did great. You got one, two, three, four, five,
six, you got six. You got the Soviet Union, Germany,
Japan, the United States, the UK and Italy. There are still three
on the board. Nine countries with the most military deaths from World War two
five second rebuttal Ward and Ago, France, China, Ireland, Scotland,
Portugal, stop Broko. You stole one China number three. That's surprising.
I did not know that. Yeah, the other the other two were tough
ones. But you think of the time, You're like, oh, that's
right, number eight European countries, right yougo Slavia, Yeah, Yugoslavias and
Romania and Romania was number nine, so yougo. Slavia and Romania were eight
and nine. But Ward stole one right there, So well done, Ward,
that was an excellent lightning round. You both did very well in the
lightning round. We're tabulating our scorers. We have Ward Roberts with sixteen and
a half. Eric Pankowski holds of the lead with the deuce deuce. It's
twenty two to sixteen and a half. After three we still have anyone's game.
It's twenty two to sixteen and a half. As we enter our fourth
and final round, Round four, the Double Duty. It is the Theato
or double Duty Radcliffe round. We call it the Double Duty because points are
doubled and today we have a very special ten questions instead of nine, so
there are twenty humongous points. Up for grabs. Ward's gonna need it to
stage a comeback. Here. The category in your Double Duty is athletes in
Film. So how we're gonna do this is I'm gonna give you the year
the film came out and a brief synopsis. If you can name the film,
you'll get a point, And if you can name a famous athlete that
was in that same film, you'll get another point. So that's how you
get your two points. This go around, Here we go. Question number
one of ten in the Double Duty. This movie came out in nineteen eighty.
After the crew becomes sick with food poisoning, a Eurotic ex fighter pilot
must safely land a commercial jet full of passengers. Again for question number one.
This came out in nineteen eighty. After the crew becomes sick with food
poisoning, a Eurotic ex fighter pilot must safely land a commercial jet full of
passengers. Name that film and name that famous athlete for number one. All
right, Question number two. This movie came out in nineteen seventy four.
In order to ruin a western town, a corrupt politician appoints a black sheriff
who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary. Name that film and the athlete that's
in that film. From nineteen seventy four. In order to ruin a western
town, a corrupt politician appoints a black sheriff who promptly becomes his most formidable
adversary. Okay, we have arrived at question number three. This film came
out in nineteen ninety eight. That was the year. A basketball player's father
must try to convince him to go to a certain college so he can get
a shorter sentence. Name that film and the athlete in that film. From
nineteen ninety eight, A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go
to a college so he can get a shorter sentence. Question number four is
from two thousand and nine. Two thousand and nine is the year three buddies
wake up from a bachelor party in Las Vegas with no memory of the previous
night and the bachelor missing. They make their way around the city in order
to find their friend before his wedding. Again for question number four from two
thousand and nine, three buddies wake up from a bachelor party in Las Vegas,
with no memory of their previous night, the bachelor missing. They make
their way around the city order to find their friend before his wedding, and
on to question number five. This is from nineteen eighty one. Nineteen eighty
one is the year as Allied POWs prepare for a soccer game against their German
national team to be played in Nazi occupied Paris, the French resistance and British
officers are making plans for the team's escape. Again, this is from nineteen
eighty one, As Allied POWs prepare for a soccer game against the German national
team to be played in Nazi occupied Paris, the French resistance and British officers
are making plans for the team's escape. Name that film and the most famous
athlete from that film for question number five. Question number six a more recent
film. Question number six is from twenty eighteen. Debbie Ocean gathers an all
female crew to attempt an impossible heist at New York City's annual met Gala.
There was actually a bunch of athletes in this one, so you can almost
guess and maybe maybe get one right here again for question number six. Twenty
eighteen, Debbie Ocean gathers an all female crew to attempt an impossible heist at
New York City's annual met Gala named the film and an athlete for question number
six, Where were we? Question seven? Yeah, here we go,
Lucky number sleven, That is not the answer. Question number seven came out
all the way back in nineteen sixty seven. Nineteen sixty seven was the year.
During World War II, A rebellious US Army major is assigned twelve convicted
murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers.
Again for question number seven, This film came out in nineteen sixty seven.
During World War II, A rebellious US Army major has assigned twelve convicted murderers
to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers. And
then there were three. It comes down to these three questions. Question number
eight came out in nineteen eighty seven. A bed ridden Boy's grandfather reads him
the story of a farm boy turned pirate who encounters numerous obstacles, enemies and
allies, and his quest to be reunited with his true love. Ah question
number eight. This came out in nineteen eighty seven. Bed ridden Boy's grandfather
reads him the story of a farm boy turned pirate who encounters numerous obstacles,
enemies and allies, and his quest to be reunited with his true love.
You got a real chance to catch up here. I'm just saying, well,
if that's the case, then I'm probably blowing it. Ah, all
right, here we go. Question number nine came out nineteen ninety eight.
Nineteen ninety eight was the year a man gets a chance to meet up with
his dream girl from high school even though his date with her back then was
a complete disaster. It's a weird synopsis. I might have to give you
a hint on this one because it's so weird. Nineteen ninety eight A man,
I will say, it's a very funny comedic actor that has had his
own show on Fox. A man gets a chance to meet up with his
dreamgirl from high school, even though his date with her back then was a
complete disaster. And by disaster, it's it's one of those like gross out
funny things that we all saw and were like, holy smokes. It's a
memorable scene. All right, we have arrived at your final question in this
round. Athletes in film in the Double Duty. This movie came out nineteen
eighty eight. Incompetent Police Detective Frank Drebin must foil an attempt to assassinate Queen
Elizabeth. I'm sad to be doing it today, Really sad, really again,
Number ten, nineteen eighty eight. Incompetent Police Detective Frank Drebn must foil
an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth the second. All right, pencils down,
let's go over your answers. In a chock full Double duty. We had
ten questions in the Double Duty today. It was athletes in film. You
get a point a piece for naming the film and the athlete in that film.
Question number one was for nineteen eighty After the crew becomes sick with food
poisoning, a neurotic ex fighter pilot must safely land a commercial jet full of
passengers. Eric, what did you get for number one? Airplane? You
like Gladiator movies and Kareem abdul Jabbar airplane and Kareem abdul Jabbar. Ward,
what did you put the same airplane and Kareem abdul Jabbar it is airplane and
Kareem abdul Jabbar Two points apiece for you boys for question number one. Question
number two is nineteen seventy four. In order to ruin a western town,
a corrupt politician appoints a black sheriff who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.
Ward Roberts is blazing Saddles. I could not think of the athlete, so
I just was like, who's around then that maybe mel Brooks would have thrown
in there, and I went with George the animal Steel, Yes, blazing
saddles and George animal Steel. Eric Pankowski, what did you put? I
put blazing saddles the athlete. I was conflating the guy from the you're saying
with I believe Webster. Oh yeah, Harris, I think is his like
with a K, George George Carris from Webster George. I don't think it's
George. No, I don't think it's George Alex Alex Carris. That's it.
He got it, all right? Are you going to say that you
got that without any help from anybody on this one? So we're gonna give
you each a point. I don't think Eric, I don't think you need
the extra point, even though you pretty much had it. It is blazing
Saddles, And it was the gentleman that played George Poppadopolis on Webster. Yes,
yes, yeah, yeah, I think he earned at least half for
a Caros. But yeah, we'll give Eric two points. Ward one point
because it was Blazing Saddles and it was the guy that played Mango Candy Gram
from Mango. That was Alex Carris. He like punches a horse. It's
one of the crazy knocks the horse out. Yeah, Alex Carris is his
name from Blazing Saddles. Question number three was from nineteen ninety eight. Basketball
player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can
get a shorter sentence. Eric, Again, I feel like I'm conflating here.
Was Denzel Washington in this movie? Possibly? Well again, that doesn't
help me because I'm not sure Denzel is in the movie. I'm about to
mention. I put he got Game with Ray Allen. He got Game Ray
Allen. Ward, what did you put for number three? I put for
the Love of the Game with Ray Allen. Yes, that deserves a splooshe.
I think for the Love of the Game as like a base baseball costner
or something. Yeah, it is Ray Allen and he got Game. Yes,
he plays the character Jesus shuttles Worth or shuttles Worth. I never saw
it, the Spike Lee joint he got game, Ray Allen, Yeah,
and Denzel Denzel. I honestly couldn't remember if Denzel was with what I had
like a mental block. I was, Yeah, that's great, let's keep
moving. It's been the most fun I've had in a long time. Guys.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Question number four from two
thousand and nine, Three buddies wake up from a bachelor party in Las Vegas.
Blah blah blah. Can't you name the film and the athlete Ward Roberts.
Yeah, the Hangover with Mike Tyson. Hangover with Mike Tyson, Eric,
same thing, same thing. That was the layup. That was a
layup in this round, it is the Hangover Mike Tyson. Question number five
nineteen eighty one a little deeper cut as Allied POW's prepare for a soccer game
against the German national team to be played in Nazi occupied Paris. The French
resistance and British officers are making plans for the teams escape. Eric, do
you got anything for question five? No? Was Hogan's Heroes a movie?
I don't know, it's got nothing. I got nothing. What do you
got for number five. I'm virtually one hundred percent shirt and certain this was
a submarine movie, but because it was soccer and German related, I put
dos Boot Yes. And for the athlete I thought also appropriate to the time
was bjorn Borg. Bjorn Borg and dos Boot. I'm gonna give you a
point for doss boot because that's fucking hilarious to me. Just let me have
it, Eric Y, let me have it. When did this turn into
whose line? Is it? Anyway? What's going on here? Bjornborg is
not right? No, that part I was confident in. It's actually a
great film. Uh, Sylvester Stallone is in this film, Michael Kaine.
Michael Kaine is in this film. Nice. The film is called Victory,
and it stars a ton of professional soccer players, including Pele. Pele is
in the film, And it's actually a great kind of World War two sports.
Still just ranked down Pelee. He's literally like the only soccer person I
know exactly. I thought you guys would put it just yeah, from that
era nineteen eighty one, you really overestimated the intelligence level of your two contestants
today. But I do recommend this film Victory nineteen eighty one with Pele,
Michael Kain and Sylvester Stallon, and stallone is like the worst part of the
film. He's He's not good. Question number six is from twenty eighteen DeBie
Ocean gathers an all female crew to attempt an impossible heightst at New York City's
annual met Gala. Ward, what did you put Ocean's thirteen? And I
put, because she's real famous Serena Williams Ocean's thirteen, And Serena Williams,
Eric, what did you put? It's Oceans eight? First of all,
it ain't Oceans thirteen. That was the Al Pacino sequel to the Ocean's franchise.
Okay, Greg, great, just drag it out longer. And as
far as the athlete, I put Sandra Bullock. She used to be a
big field hockey player. She was a huge field hockey player in semi pro
leagues in southern Nevada in the late eighties. Oh my god, you guys
are getting a point a piece. The correct title is Ocean's eight. That
is the all female cast. Serena Williams was one of the athletes in that
film. Here are some other ones. Another tennis star Maria Sharapova is in
that film. Sure, John McEnroe is in that film. And for whatever
reason, like at the time Jets Center, Nick Mangold shows up, which
I found very hilarious that he is in that. That's great. In that
film. Question number seven nineteen sixty seven. During World War Two, a
rebellious US Army major is assigned twelve convicted murderers to train and lead them into
a mass assassination mission of German officers. Eric. I had two choices for
the movie because you said twelve, so I went it could have been twelve
angry men, which I'm pretty sure is a courtroom movie, or Dirty Dozen,
And I went with Dirty Dozen. And I don't have the slightest idea
what athlete, but I'll just go ahead and say, Haley, ah,
he's everywhere. What a story? Back then ward, what did you put?
It was The Dirty Dozen with Jim Brown. It is the Dirty Dozen
with Jim Brown, who was one of the first movies he did after he
quit football. Yeah, the Dirty Dozen with Jim Brown for number seven.
Question number eight was from eighty seven. A bedridden boy's grandfather reads him the
story of a farm boy turned pirate. Blah, blah blah, true love,
Ward, what do you got? Princess Bride with Andre the Giant,
Princess Brian with Andrea the Giant. Eric, what do you got? Oh,
that's the correct answer. Yes, I had this same thing. It
is the Princess Bride where he's wearing a Bears jersey as he's getting told that
story in bed Chicago Bears Jersey. There is the Princess Bride with the Great
Andre the Giant. Question number nine is from ninety eight. A man gets
a chance to meet up with his dream girl from high school, even though
his date with her back then was a complete disaster. Eric, it came
to you. I think it came to both of us at the same time,
or roughly, something about Mary and Brett Favre Fro. Yeah, Award,
what did you put? I put the same thing? It is there
something about Mary? We have a bleeder, We got a bleeder, Franks
and beans, Franks and Franks and beans, Franks and beans. And it
was late in the game you find out that Brett that you've been hearing about
all movie is Brett Favre. Brett Favre from number nine. Question number ten,
nineteen eighty eight incompetent police detective Frank Dreben must foil an attempt to assassinate
Queen Elizabeth. The second ward was The Naked Gun, starring the notorious and
now late O J. Simpson, O J. Simpson, O J.
Simpson and the Naked Gun. Eric, what did you put? Naked gun?
And audios? SoJ audios OJ. You could have also said Reggie Jackson.
Oh, you're right. Just you could have said Jim Palmer. You
could have said Tim McCarver. There's like a bunch of broadcasters that were former
athletes as well. Do you have accepted a naked gun and Enrico Palazzo?
Yes, I would have accepted en Rico Palazzo. One of the greatest scenes
of all times. It is the Naked Gun, And I think most people
would say Oreenthal, James Simpson, O J. Simpson, but Reggie Jackson
I think would be a close second. We are tabulating our scores right now.
Here's your final score ward. You did very well in that round thirty
two and a half points, but you can not catch the juggernaut that was
Eric Pankowski tonight with an insane thirty eight points. I want an immediate rematch
like now. I just want to make sure that this will air like it
will be out there in the world so I can direct people to listen to
me destroy Ward in trivia. I have to tell you this is personally gratifying
for so many reasons, not the least this isn't the Emmys. You don't
give it an accepted speech. Let's just keep the game going. Sorry,
I thought it was Eric Pankowski. You are the smartest person in the world.
For one week. You can follow Eric on social media at Hoo's Your
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out their hilarious Who's Your Hysterics podcast? Jens, That was fantastic. That
was super fun to hang out with you guys for a little bit of time.
But the show is not over. It's time for the final throwdown,
the final throwdown. This is where Annie, our producer, going to come
back in here with our final throwdown question. I'll read it to the world
twice. We could have a little discussion or two, come up with some
answers, and then we're gonna all learn a little something something before all is
through. So Annie, if you are ready, put up the final throwdown
question. Here we go. In what real Midwest city was the Superman comic
book imagined? Don't say, don't say yet? So in what real mid
West city was the Superman comic book imagined? Discuss gentlemen, you seem very
hot to try Ward knows it? I want to say in Iowa? Am
I wrong? You are wrong? Yeah? Okay? Then I got no
idea, Uh Chicago, I don't know. I mean, I guess there's
some clarity that needs to be here in terms of like where did the creator
of Superman come up with Superman? That's how I'm taking it as opposed to
like where Superman landed? But also wasn't Metropolis part of it too? Well?
That's where he ends up, but he lands and he's raised. But
what was the supermanall What does it mean that the Superman comic book was imagined?
Like you think that's smallvill No, I think this is where the creator
of Superman was living and came up with it. This is That's how I
understood it. But it's also because yeah, was he banking it on where
he grew up or a town that he knows of? Because yeah, again
I'm not a comic book guy at all or a superhero person at all.
But yeah, it's like Smallville. Is that is that in Nebraska? Is
that like kind of where it supposedly is? Or when he first lands he
lands in Nebraska or Kansas or something like that? Am I conflating the Wizard
of Oz and Superman? I mean, if you're really asking me, I
do believe Smallville. Smallville is supposed to be in Iowa. I don't know
if I'm mixing that up with Captain Kirk because he's confused. I thought Straton
Kirk's definitely from Iowa. I think Smallville is specifically Iowa. But I could
I could tell you the city I'm pretty sure is the answer whenever you're ready?
Is it not Cleveland? It is Cleveland? Sheboygan? Sheboygan, Wisconsin
All right. Cleveland was my second guest. But you knew this right away.
So that's where what's his name is from? And this is ten points
for me if I get it right. Yes, sure, okay, yeah,
Cleveland? Uh and yeah, what whatever the creator's name is. I
don't think I'm going to come up with that. All right, all right,
what's the answer? Ward? What are we going with? I'm going
with Cleveland, Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, oh Io. Annie, let
us off the hook reveal the answer. We're all going to learn a little
bit about the Superman. Oh yeah, and Cleveland. Let's learn about this.
Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster met at Glenville High School and etched out early
comic strips as teenagers. Superman was initially a villain, but then was revamped
as a good guy with an alien backstory. Siegel and Schuster sold the initial
rights for a mere one hundred and thirty smackrows one hundred and thirty bucks.
Oh my gosh. In the spring of nineteen thirty nine, Superman hit the
stands at number one, and the seventies movie spurs Siegel and Shuster to get
their fair claim back, and DC paid them twenty grand a year at least
gave him something. But still like if they would have held on to that
for a little bit, it could have been a little richer than twenty grand
a year. But yeah, you guys nailed the final throwdown. It was
Cleveland gents and fellow Hoosiers and brothers, it was. It was a pleasure
to have you on the show. We're happy to make those donations to those
two wonderful charities. Continued good health, many successes with the podcast, and
here's to our film doing some good stuff too. That we're all in May
thirty first invaders from Proxim up B. Before we go, could you just
repeat the scores and make sure everybody knows who got what. Well, when
you go ahead and you add my bonus ten points at the end, that
means I won forty two and a half to thirty eight. I think that
the rules of the game are that because you lost, you weren't really participating
in round four. Well we'll call it a tie. I don't think so.
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