Hey there, You Should Know Better listeners, We have big news to report.
Bad news. First, the woman responsible for this podcast even being a
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we wish her nothing but the best. Thank her for her tireless efforts to
make this show hum She will be sorely missed. Annie, We love you.
Now for the exciting news, the show must go on. We are
in the midst of recording all new episodes with sensational guests, worthy charities,
and a brand new co host and producer, Jackie Gonzalez de Ruthie. She
will be joining the fray as we unveil season three of You Should Know Better
this summer. So sit back, relax and listen to one of our favorite
episodes from yesteryear. Thanks for always sticking with us, and now on with
the show. 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
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. We will meet our very special guests and hear all about what
good 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 the first of four rounds around one
General Knowledge. Thank you for just jumping thinking caps on. I'll introduce you
guys in a bit. I know that's your favorite part, and away we
go. There are eight questions in the General Knowledge round. Here is your
first question. What is the second book in the Chronicles of Narnia series?
We all know The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is the very first
book of the Chronicles of Narnia. What is that very next book? I
know we all probably read it at some point, but that is question number
one. What is the second book in the Chronicles of Narnia book series?
Penned by C. S. Lewis Question number two? What US state is
known as the Land of Enchantment. It's on their license plates, a pretty
distinct license plate, as it were. It's called the land of enchantment?
That is question number two? What US state is the land of enchantment?
Question three? You guys got on lockdown if you're ready for question three and
we could take Yeah, I'm at the end of this round to give you
some more time to wait. When you're let's just pump this out. Yeah.
Notes. If you don't know question number three, here we go.
What female directed the twenty twenty one Marvel movie Eternals? Who is the female
director that directed that film with Angelina Joli and Salma Hayek and Khumel Nanjiani Marvel's
Eternals? That is your third question out of eight in your general knowledge round?
How am I already four for four? There's only been three questions?
It's unbelievable. Smack talk begins. Your piece of shit I love Jeff is
just stewing or playing possible? We'll see pure rage right now? All right,
this one's right up, Jeff Sally go back to your high school chemistry
day is nailed it as he just swallowed some of his own vomit. Question
number four, dead dead serious. I did not take chemistry. I did
not take mistry. I never got to chemistry. What is the periodic table
symbol for the element sodium sodium? What is the periodic table symbol four sodium?
Once again, question number four the halfway point of round one. What
is the periodic table symbol for the element sodium? Question numoo sinko. After
Joseph Stalin died in nineteen fifty three, who succeeded him? Who succeeded Joseph
Stalin? And after he died in nineteen fifty three? Who led the Soviet
Union? After Joseph Stalin? That piece of work? Jesus Wolf? All
right, where were we? Question number six? We're up to question number
six in round one? Who said, and I quote, give a hoot,
don't pollute? Exclamation point end quote. Who was the spokesperson or spokes
thing that said give a hoot, don't pollute. People under the age of
thirty five are probably not liking that question very much. Nope, Nope.
That is for question number six. I don't like it and I'm over thirty
five. Ah, that was question number six. Who said give a hoot
don't pollute? Question number seven is probably my favorite question of the general knowledge
round. John Amos played the adult Kuntakinte and Toby in the miniseries Roots.
He also played the father James Evans on My very favorite sitcom, Growing Up,
Good Times. But what I want to know from you is what character
did John Amos play in Coming to America? Last name will Suffice? John
Amos, very famous character actor. He played the again adult Kuntakinte and Toby
in the mini series Roots by Alex Haley. He played the father in Good
Times, mister James Evans married to Florida Evans. And what was the name
of his character in one of the greatest comedies of the last fifty years,
Coming to America? John Amos? And finally, question number eight, your
final question in round one, your general knowledge round. Clara Barton founded?
What organization? Clara Barton? Clara Barton. If you open a phone book
and pick somebody's name, Clara Barton, very famous in American history, is
founded? What very famous organization? All right, pencils down, Well,
well, we'll go to our answers in just a little bit. But it's
time to meet. Yes, let's delay. Let's meet our guests. Our
first gentleman contestant, you might know him as Archie Cleary on The Marvelous Missus
masl he's a good buddy of mine. We met on a Vantage commercial where
we got to be flown up from LA to Vancouver. First time experiences for
both of us. Correct, yeah, first time for either of us in
the beautiful city of it. We had a great time and we bonded.
Joel Johnstone is here. Thank you, Thank you. It is a pleasure,
it is a privilege. It is great to see you, Joel.
Joel, what charity are you playing for today? I'm playing for the Covenant
House. Uh. For those of you that don't know, Covenant House is
an organization that houses uh the the over four million homeless youth of in this
country alone and provides all the essentials uh, food, shelter, clothing.
But it does so much more than that. It sets them on a path
to hopefully get out of these vicious cycles that that they're on. And if
you, if you care to donate, if you have the resources, there's
no better organization you could give your money too. And if you have the
time, please visit Covenant House dot org. Oh so you're saying my charity
is not as good as yours. So you're saying yours is the best?
I mean, this is a competition from from what I was told, so
by no better, no better, I wasn't aware something wasn't a competition here.
You know, I don't get them whatever. You know, maybe I
should have gone to you first. Jeff, Joel john Stone and our next
uh contestant, who they are just butting heads already, which is the second
contestant makes for a great game the other guy. Besides all the work you've
seen them and they're in a podcast. We're going to talk all about your
incredible podcast. Yeah we are second, but I'm gonna I'm gonna go through
my buddy Jeff, my buddy Jeff's stuff. You know him as Josh open
Hole, who just finished up an incredible run on a show that I was
lucky enough to be a part of as Nurse Larry. But Josh was one
of the office drones. What's the opposite of woke Josh? Gosh is asleep.
He just booked this great campaign where he's the spokesperson for Planet Fitness.
You saw that commercial, like all all year so far and hopefully for the
rest of this year. Their podcast that Joel and Jeff do is called Meeting
a Cruise. It's on iHeartRadio. But please welcome my friend Jeff meat him.
Hey buddy, it's meeting Tom Cruise. See our handle is just meeting
Cruise. We couldn't get meeting Tom Cruise. It's and obviously that means he
hasn't listened to our podcast Joel and h Yeah yeah yet yet Joel, Jeff,
I should say, what a chair? What are you playing for today?
Mister meachamwater dot org. I believe everybody needs water. You guys met
in London doing Shakespeare together. We'll get into that story. Sorry, that's
where we do need to correct you at Oxford. Oh that's rights, we
will we will edit that out. That is just discussed. We went to
Oxford to Oxford together. We met at Oxford, just to be clear,
not at that at all. Cambridge, get bent, Cambridge. It's so
great to have you guys here. We're going to talk more about how you
guys met and all that stuff. We're going to talk more about your charities
and the podcast shortly, but let's get into some answers from our robust general
knowledge. Round round one we'll have our first score update. But again,
don't be dismayed or don't be too cock after round one because there's plenty of
trivia after this. Let's go through our answers Round one. Question number one
was what is the second book in the Chronicles of Narnia book series? Joel
Johnstone? What did you put for number one? Prince Caspian? Jeff Meachim,
what did you put? The Lion, the Witch, and the wardrobe?
Two? Electric boogaloo? The correct answer is Prince Caspian. Ah,
Prince Caspian is number two. Then I think it's the Voyage of the Dawn
Trader and the Silver Chair and the Magician's nephew and a bunch of other bullshit.
Prince Caspian is what I was looking for. For number one. It's
one nothing. Don't be a scared meet him question, don't worry? Question
number two? What US state is known as the Land of Enchantment? Jeff?
What did you put for number two? I took a guest with Alaska.
Alaska is a good guest. Joel, what did you put? That's
a great guess? Delaware? Delaware? I was thinking about you guys are
not really close. It's it's closer to us. It's not Arizona. It's
the neighbor to Arizona. That funky New Mexico. At that yellow license plate
that the sun in the middle, cool sun. It is called the Land
of Enchantment. Now you'll never forget New Mexico. That's lies. Yeah.
Question number three, what female directed the twenty twenty one Marvel movie Eternals jj
oscar Winning Chloe's out Jeff Meachim, I'm putting Jane Champion. I don't know.
I discussed one female director that I know, Jane Campion Champion. It's
fine, It's okay. It's just International Women's Day that we're recording this episode
on. All right, right, so yeah, the correct answer from Nomadland
Andy Journals Chloe Jow okay. Question number four chemistry class, Oh, what
is the periodic table symbol for the element sodium? It's not s What is
that symbol? Jeff Meachum, s U s U. Good guess, Joel
Johnstone, what did you put s O, s U or s O It
is neither of those. I had to look this up. If you if
you did take chemistry, I do actually remember this because it was in like
every everything you did in chemistry, sodium is NA NA and you're like,
why is it NA? I had to look it up f you and yeah,
there we go. So I'm gonna give you a little tidbit because I
looked this up and learned this, I'm like, why is it na?
I didn't know that until I looked it up. It's symbol is derived from
the Latin natrium or abbe kick natron, or the Egyptian word entree or natroon,
all which refer to soda or sodium carbonate. I didn't know that,
so all of them had links to this natrium or whatever. I was like,
I didn't know. That's why it's na. Sodium NA. Is your
answer question number five? After Stalin died in nineteen fifty three, who succeeded
him, mister Johnstone Lenin? Lenin is your guest, Jeff Meacham, What
did you put? That's a great guess. I went with the wrong answer,
which is Gorbachev, which I know is not right, but went with
it anyway. One of you was too early, one of you was too
late. It was Nikita Khrushev. Khrushev, mister Khrushchev, thing s sting
bud nick in the air. Yes, thing has a song, So Nikita
Khrushev, I think He's famous for banging a shoe on a podium too.
Nikita Krushev. I don't know much about him, but he succeeded the ahole
Joseph stalin question number six, who said, give a hoot, don't pollute
Jeffrey I went with again Gorbachev A That answer deserves a Splooshe not only did
he have that incredible birthmark, but he hated littering. I mean, literally,
no idea. It was the owl, wasn't it The owl said it?
But he just couldn't Soviet Union together. I mean, I don't think
the owl is the right answer, but it was some owl that said it
was an owl. You almost get like a quarter of a point. Wasn't
it the Hershey's owl, Mikail the owl? No, the cartoon owl?
Hoody, Oh my gosh, so close. Great guesses, jeff I think
you're getting mixed up with the Tutsie. Yeah, that's like mister owl.
How many licks does it take to gets like? One? Two, three,
three? That's that's mister owl from Tutsie Pops. The one that hated
littering was Woodsy Owl. Woodsy pretty on the nose, but he was the
spokes owl. I guess for not littering. Disagree. I think it was
Gorbachev anyway, Woodsy Owl was the one that said, give a hoot,
don't polut would see Question number seven. John Amos played the adult Kunta Kinte
and Toby and Roots, James Evans the Father on good Times and what character
in coming to America? Joel. If I don't get this, I'm over
eight the Great King of Simunda, the James Jones Father. I no,
I'm not going to give it to you, King Joffy, Jofa or whatever
you're thinking of. Jeff Meachim, what's your guess? McDowell? The correct
answer is Cleo McDowell from McDowell's Restaurants, not McDonald's. They had the Golden
Arcs, not the Golden Arches. Oh god, they wouldn't get sued by
McDonald's. It was Cleo McDowell. Question R eight your final question for round
one. Clara Barton founded what famous organization? Jeff, I think we go
to you on this one. Yeah, I just took a stab and said
the Red Cross. Joel Johnstone, what did you put? Uh you're talking
about Clara Barton? Yeah? Not not well found? The Barton Fink School
for Screenwriting. Ah, that should get a point for I like that or
imagination the correct answer she was a nurse in the Civil War. I did
know she was a nurse and started the American Red God Cross. Jeff,
no, no, I must have known something inside the closer. I think
I must have been somewhere in the back. I must have known that.
Because what's fantastic is after round one. Oh, I got tied. You're
tied at two. I mean I was. I was. I was swinging
too, I was zero for six and I tie. Let's do this ship
gosh two to two after round one with Jeff Meacham and Joel Johnstone. This
is so fun. It's so great to see you guys. We're all playing
for charity, win or lose, but I love a tie game. Going
into round two. Round two. Pop culture grab bag. Pop culture grab
bag. Oh, buddy, pop culture grab bag. It could be anything.
It could be television, it could be film, it could be you
know, sports and other things. This is us, this is us tonight
as we record. It's music. It's a music. Round eight questions in
your second round pop culture grab bag, Here we go, Oh, question
number one, what hip hop Legends had albums entitled King of Rock, Raising
Hell, and Tougher Than Leather. I think I owned all of these on
cassette. What hip hop legends had albums entitled King of Rock, Raising Hell
and Tougher Than Leather? Is question number one and your music pop culture grab
bag. Question number two. Besides Jim Morrison, can you name anybody else
that was in the band The Doors? No, no, we all know,
We all know mister Mojo Risen Jim Morrison, the sexy lead singer of
the Doors. Can you name anybody else that was in that band? Classic
rock band The Doors, an la band many hits. That is your question
for number two. Question number three, this is your sweet spot, This
is hard. What classical composer? Uh oh, what classical composer wrote the
operas The Marriage of Figaro, the Magic Flute, and Don Giovanni, three
of the most popular operas ever. What classical composer wrote those three operas,
The Marriage of Figaro, the Magic Flute, and Don Giovanni? All right?
Question number four? Question number four, who was the lead singer of
the new wave band Blondie? We all know those songs Blondie, Heart of
Glass, Rapture, the tide is high? Who is the lead singer for
the band Blondie? Question number five, Question number five. These are song
titles. The songs Time, the Great Gig in the Sky, Money,
and brain Damage are just a few of the songs off What Epic Classic Rock
album? Time, the Great Gig in the Sky, Money, and brain
Damage are songs off what Epic classic rock album? That is question number five
out of eight in your round two musical pop culture grab bag? Are you
guys hating me right now? I'm still struggling on four. Like, I
know I got it wrong. I know I got her name wrong, and
so I'm just trying to think of, like again, last names, suffice.
That's all you need in any of these questions. A last name will
do, And I'll be very lenient even if you're close. I like to
give people points. We're playing for charity. But again we're tied two to
two going into this round, so it's anyone's game. It's exciting. Question
number six, Question number six, A little jazz question. Charles Mingus,
Jeff, just give it to Jeff, give it to Carls. Mingus was
a talented jazz pianist, but what he was a virtuoso on what other jazz
instrument the one he's kind of knows known for Charles Mingus? What is the
other uh jazz instrument that he's kind of a savant, He's kind of a
wunderkind. He was kind of peerless on this instrument. Question number seven.
Were almost at the halfway point already. Name one of the two backup bands
for mister Elvis Costello. He's had a couple different backup bands, Elvis Costello
and the what he played with one band for a long time and then he
kind of went with another band as his backup band. Name one of the
two backup bands for mister Elvis Costello for question number seven. All right,
finally, question number eight, your final question in the pop culture grab Bag
Round two round of you should know better? What singer had hits with the
songs I fall to pieces Walking after Midnight and Crazy? What singer had hits
with the songs I fall to pieces Walking after Midnight and Crazy? What singer
had hits with the songs I fall to pieces Walking after Midnight and Crazy?
So we kind of went all over the map in the world of music.
For your second round, give these guys a few more moments to come up
with some answers. Pencils down were ready to go over our answers with Joel
Johnstone and Jeff Meacham. Here around o pop culture grab bag. It was
a music round. Question Number one was what hip hop legends had albums titled
King of Rock, Raising Hell and Tougher than Leather. Mister Meachim, I
guess run DMC. Joel Johnstone, what did you put for number one?
Same? That's exactly what I got the correct answer. Hit it, Run
run d MC. It's trick to rock around, to rock around. That's
right on time. It's trick. Yes, incredible. I have a couple
of those titles on a vinyl that they re released. So good, so
much. Playing Christmas in Hollis for for for my son, this this past
Christmas and fantastic. Question number two toughye for you guys. Besides Jim Morrison,
can you name another member of the Doors, mister Johnstone? Okay,
I don't have a fucking clue, but I feel like I should get extra
credit because I can name two of the the actors who played them in the
movie Bell Killmore, at Val Kilmer and Frank Wayley. I like Killmore better.
Ye, like I was looking at something in Vegas, the guy who
does his Vegas show and Frank Whaey, I feel like I should get some
credis. That's great Frank Whaley, great character actor. Jeff Meacham, what
did you put for number two? Uh? You said I could just go
with last name, so I went with Smith. That's a great guess,
it is not correct. I like the strategy though, strategy Smith Robertson Johnson.
I believe I know the instruments. John Densmore is the guy that's always
forgotten. No one remembers John Densmore, like even I think people and his
family forget that he was in the doors. He was the drummer I believe
on the doors Robbie Kreeger. Robbie Kreeger was their lead guitarist, and Raymond
zerk was the guy with the glasses that played the organ and also played the
bass parts with his feet, so he was kind of the keyboardist. And
basically they didn't really have a bass player. So raymn Zeric is probably the
most famous besides Jim Morrison. So you have ray man Zak, Robbi Kreeger
or John Densmore for those playing at home. What great eighties kind of sci
fi action awesomeness movie opens with people are strange, the doors, people are
strange. The whole opening sequence of what eighties film that we all saw.
I'll give you a hint that Corey Haym and Corey Feldman were in the movie.
Oh oh yeah, the Lost Boys. The Lost Boys. People are
strange, the opening sequence. I like you taking over hosting duties a little
bit there. I just wanted to just say, hey, if it's a
game, if this was eighties movies, I think I think I get my
ass Anonymy, Jeff, Jeff, would I loved it? That's fantastic.
Always jump in question number three? What classical composer wrote the operas The Marriage
of Figuro, The Magic Flute and Don Giovanni Jeff, I'm not even sure
if I'm saying this name right. And it was a guest Chopin Chopin jo
Japan, Frederick was. He was friends with Val Kilmore, Gilmore, Frederic
Choppin, Henry Chapin, Joel Johnstone. What did you put for number three?
The answer is Wolf being Amadeus Mozart. The correct answer is the goat
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. That answer deserves a huzza, famous for writing those three.
They're Italian. But you know, if you're right, you got to
do it in Italian. So I thought it was I thought it was a
little harder than that. It is Mozart. It is Mozart. I didn't
go too deep, you know, for a classical music question. Chopin The
only thing I know. If you ever are watching Jeopardy and they say anything
about a Polish composer, it is Frederic Chopin, just say Chopin. You'll
be right ninety nine point nine percent of the time. Frederick Chopin is Polish
Jeopardy. Just a little clue for all of all those playing at home.
Question number four, who was the lead singer of the new wave band Blood?
Who are we up to? I think it's Joel's go this time?
Yeah? Easy? Blondie, Blondie, Blondie, Cheryl Blondie, Jeff,
What did you put? I don't know. I said Janis Joplin, which
is completely wrong. Her name. You've probably heard this name. I would
think you've heard this name. Her name was Debbie Harry, Debbie Harry or
Deborah Harry. What was her name, you would think Bondy. She had
blonde hair, so growing up I thought her name was just Blondie. It's
like, no, I'm guessing somebody called her Blondie at some point in her
life, in which case my answer is not entirely wrong. So again I'm
gonna get correct point point. I'll go point two. I'll go point too.
Sure, give yourselves point. Let's keep my own score here. The
answer for number four was Debbie Harry. Question five, the song's time,
the Great, Gig in the Sky, Money and brain Damage are songs off
what epic classic rock album? Jeff the Wall Great Joel Johnstone, what did
you put Dark Side of the Moon? You both picked Pink Floyd albums.
It is the Pink Floyd album. The correct answer is Dark Side of the
Moon. Wow, now he's up to Dark Side of the Moon is answer
question number six. Charles Mingus was a talented jazz pianist, but was a
virtuo So on what other instrument? Joel Total guest clarinet? Clarinet? Just
like Benny Goodman. Jeff Meacham, what did you put when trumpet? Both
great guesses both used a ton in the music of jazz. He was a
bass player. He was a bass double bass player. Charles Mingus Another.
If you again, if you listen to music on whatever, you listen to
Apple Music or Spotify or whatever, you listen to CDs, cassettes, reel
to reels, Charles Mingus worth a listen. The dude is a is a
freak in a good way. On the base question number seven, named one
of the two backup bands for mister Elvis Costello. Jeff, uh, Well,
this is obviously right. The EA Street Band, Elvis Costello in the
EA Street Band. He stole them from the boss Joel Never know, I
mean they needed money. Somebody did tell me this one time, and I
forgot it, but I just remembered that Elvis Costello's backup band was the Backstreet
Boys. Ah, the EAS Street Band and the Backstreet Boys came to me
both very lovely, imaginative answers, but not correct. Not correct. The
two that you could have chosen from are Elvis Costello and the Attractions. I
think that was the band that he kind of came up with his first like
five or six album, Elvis Costello in the Attractions, and then later in
his career he had the Impostors so you either had the Attractions or Elvis Costello
and the Impostors. That's the one that somebody told me and it went in
one year. And yeah, Mike, where are we on worst contestants ever?
On your podcast? Just? Where are we in the ring? It's
very early in our recording history, but like you guys are right there.
You guys are right there with that right there at the at the bottom,
right there. I just want to make sure we're where were we at?
We're final question question number eight of round two? What singer head hits with
the songs I fall to, pieces, Walking after Midnight and crazy? Mister
Joel Patsy Cline. Patsy Klein is your guest. Jeff Meachen, what did
you put? I did figure it out. It is Patsy Kline. It
is the late great Patsy Kline. What a voice on that lady. I
love her more than most. Patsy Klein is your answer for number eight.
We will get Annie to tally up your scores for pop Culture grab Bag.
We do have a new leader after two rounds, Mister Joel Johnstone has taken
a command six to four lead. Joel, I'm not comfortable with that.
Color would you like on the sweet scoreboard? Oh God, I knew he
was going to go blue. God, he always goes blue. Here we
are. We're at the midway point. Joel Johnstone is leading Jeff Meachum six
to four, two rounds, not comfortably. It's very tight, and we're
heading into our third round, round three, the lightning round, the lightning
round. All right, so since you are trailing mister Meacham sixty four,
you get to pick from the three lightning round categories. First, I didn't
label the categories ABC or one, two three. I had to come up
with something imaginative. These don't have anything to do with the questions or the
answers, but at least something you can pick from. You can pick from
either La gear k Swiss or British Knights La gear k Swiss or British Knights.
Those are the categories you can choose from. K Swiss, because that's
the one that I know at least about. Okay, k Swiss, I
think this is gonna be a good one for you, K Swiss. All
right, you're gonna get twenty seconds to get as many of these as writing.
I'm just shouting things now. Yes, I'll try and keep tabs,
and so will Annie, our producer. So yeah, I just say free
associate, because twenty seconds goes by very quick. Joel, you you can
write stuff down because I'm gonna come to you for your five second rebuttal almost
right after Jeff is done. I'm gonna say the question twice, okay,
and then I'm gonna say go, and then I'm gonna start the clock.
So I need for you to name Stanley Kubrick's last nine films. These are
films that are after the movie Paths of the Glory, that black and white
film with Kirk Douglass. So these are Kubricks. Do I have to name
him in order? Or I just movies Kubrick's last nine films, twenty seconds
on the Clock and Go, Okay, Barry Linden, Eyes Wide Shuts,
The Shining, The Bomb One, The Doctor Strange Love, Barry Linden,
The Shining Dutch. I feel like I'm missing a huge film in there.
Stop. You got four of them already. You got Eyes Wide Shut,
The Shining, Barry Linden, and Doctor Strangelove. Joel, I'm coming to
you for your five second rebuttal. Stanley Kubrick's last nine films and go two
thousand and one, Space out of Sea, Lolita, Full Metal Jacket.
You got three, you got three, you got Full Metal Jacket, two
thousand and one, A Space out of Sea and Lolita. You believe I
ever got two thousand and one. It happens because again it's time as the
one. I can't do the ones that he already got. Correct, you
cannot, you cannot. So you did great though you stole three. Jeff
got four the ones we didn't get to. Let's see, so that's seven
out of the nine. I could see the post one with Douglas or we
miss a whole that was? That was that was Pasitive Glory. What was
the one that shot all in candlelight? That was Barry Lyndon, which Jared
very famously All natural Light shot for Barry Lyndon. We can get Alex and
his four drugs based on the anthem novel Clockwork Orange and then miss I Am
Spartacus. I Am Spartacus. Oh that's why he did direct Spartacus. I
Am Spartacus. He did that after Paths of Glory. No, that's what
I meant with Kirk Douglas, That's what I was thinking. Of yep,
that was great. You guys did great four to three in the Stanley Kubrick
round. Okay, so k Swiss out of commission. No more k Swiss.
So Joel, it's your turn in barrel. You can choose either La
Gear or British Knights. No Fela in this I almost went with Fila.
Let me go, let me go La Gear, La Gear. So British
Knights will go back into the hopper for another game. Okay, La Gear
is your question? All right? This should be a fun one as well.
All right from you. I need the Simpsons supporting cast characters with the
most lines in the first like almost thirty seasons. So it's no one in
the family. It's no Marge, no Homer, no Grandpa, no Bart,
no Les. It's all the ancillary characters the most, the top nine
that had the most lines on the Simpsons. Twenty seconds on the clock,
Joel, and go mister Burns, Smithers, mow aboo u Barne Barney.
God, people are gonna shoot me. Uh stop. You got mister Burns
and most sis Lack. You had a third one that I almost gave you,
but you didn't pronounce the name correctly. So I can only give you
two Joel your five second rebuttal Simpson's supporting cast characters with the most lines,
mister Meacham five seconds on the clock and go Smithers, Smiths, Smitters,
Smickers, Shah Moon. No, Whalen. Smithers was not on this list,
which was very surprising. He was not in the first All the people
he named there were not none of those. Mo. He got burns and
most is like he said, a boo, not a pooh. It's a
pooh boo is from Aladdin. Yeah, so you got Burns and says like.
Those were the top two. So you got the top two. You
didn't get Principal Seymour Skinner, the Principal, Ned Flanders, the neighbor idly
Ho Krusty the clown Crusty was I thought he was later in the in the
Chief Wigham Chief Clancy Wigham, Nice work Toys, Kent Brockman, the Newsman,
Ken and Barney are not in the Uh got Mo? You got Mo
and Monny Burns were the top two. And then the other one that you
guys didn't get was Millhouse Sparts from that was a very fun lightning round.
Our third round out of four, and after three rounds we have mister Joel
Johnstone in the lead eleven to eight over Jeff, I'm not comfortable. Not
comfortable. You shouldn't be comfortable. Shouldn't be comfortable. We're playing with Joel
Johnstone who's playing for the Covenant House, Jeff Meacham who's playing for water dot
Org Great Charities. The podcast is called Meeting Tom Cruise. You can find
it on all the places you find the podcast. Season one is done,
it's in the books. You can listen to it all. You can find
these guys even on Instagram on at Meeting Cruise for that. You can find
these guys on the social media as well. You can find Jeff Meacham on
Instagram at Jeff meechim and then you can find Joel Johnstone on Instagram at at
Joel Johnstone and on Twitter it's at Joel S. Johnstone. Follow these guys.
They're great dudes. They're playing for charity. It's eleven to eight going
into our final round Round four, the Double Duty. It is the fourth
round which is our Theodore Double Duty Radcliffe round. It's called the double Duty
because points are doubled in round four and there are nine questions. So that
means there are eighteen big points. Oh my god, it's on the board.
It might as well be tied. This is it's anybody's game. It's
an eleven to eight. Joel is in the lead. I think you guys
are going to enjoy this, or maybe not. We'll see. The category
is Tom Cruise Sports and Numbers and Numbers and Tom Cruise Sports and Numbers.
There are nine questions in this round. Pencils ready, here we go in
the final round. Question number one, Willy Mays, the say Hey Kid,
and speaking of kids, Ken Griffy Junior wore what similar jersey number?
Willy Mays and Ken Griffy Jr. Wore the same number on their jerseys,
and maybe they wore some other number, like late in their career. It's
like, now, this is the number they're known for. Willy Mays,
the say Hey Kid, and Ken Griffy Junior wore this number. That's your
question for number one. Sweet swinging Ken Griffy Jr. Most perfect swing base
incredible. If he didn't get hurt late in his years, he'd have both
all the numbers, every every record, the records. Question number two in
your Sports and Numbers round. Wimbledon is what number of the Grand Slam events
in a calendar year Wimbledon. That's a layup for mister meacham. Wimbledon is
what number Grand Slam in a calendar year? Where does that show up in
the Literally the only layup so far I've had in this entire the only question
so far where I'm like, definitely if this is you're welcome. If this
entire thing we're tennis, I would lose nine nothing. The rest of the
questions are about Evan Goolagong. So Jeff is going to win. You should
know better. That's a poll question, is a you are so good to
even go to von Lendall. It's crazy. Question number three, Question number
three in your Sports and Numbers Final round, Jackie Joiner Cursey, regarded as
one of the or the best female athletes ever, won medals in both the
long jump and what other track and field event? Jackie Joinner Cursey. Again,
remember the category sports and Numbers. Jackie Joinner Cursey, regarded as one
of the best female athletes ever, won medals in both the long jump and
what other track and field event? All right, Question numero quatro name the
triple Crown events in horse racing. Just named the three races in horse racing
that make up the Triple Crown. For question number four, I will need
all three for you guys to get the two points. Definitely got one.
I definitely got one point. Question number five. This question wouldn't have been
so interesting a number of years ago, but now it is. How many
schools are currently in the Big Ten? How many colleges and universities make up
the Big ten currently? That is your question number five. In the Double
Duty Radcliffe Round, we're heading down the home stretch of this Sports and Numbers
category. Question number six. I like this one a lot. Mario Lemieux
and Yarramir Yager wore jersey numbers that were just two numbers apart. Can you
name those numbers? That's like if I wore number one and one of you
guys wore number three, there are two jersey numbers. They're just two numbers
apart. Can you name both Yarmor Yager and Mario Lemux Pittsburgh Penguin len Can
you name their jersey numbers or so? Yeah? That was question six out
of nine. Yarmar Yagar is still playing hockey. I think he's fifty he's
still playing in the Czech Republic. He's still playing professional hockey, no shit,
and inarguably the greatest mullet. That was question number six. Here is
question number seven. What is the usual par score for an eighteen hole golf
course? What is the usual par score for an eighteen hole golf course?
For question number seven? All right, we're down to our final two questions
in the double duty Radcliffe Rounds Sports and Numbers. Here is question number eight.
Both Dale the Intimidator Earnhart from NASCAR and Miss Diana Tarasi from Yukon and
the WNBA sported what number? Dale Earnhardt and Diana Tarassi both used this number?
It was on Dale Earnhardt's car, Dale Earnhardt Senior, I should say
the Intimidator and Diana Tarassi has worn this number both at Yukon and for that
w WNBA team in Phoenix for many many years. Cane, you might not
notice, but my whole family is diehard Yukon fans, and yet I'm and
huge women's fans, huge, huge, huge fans, and I'm trying a
blank on Trosi's number. That is question number eight. And now we are
entering the final question in round four here it is what color is the number
five pool ball in pocket billiards? It's a solid, it's a solid.
What is the color of the number five? You probably know what the number
one and the number eight is. Wow, the number five ball. This
is a tough one and your head could explode if you think too much.
What color is the number five ball in pocket billiards? I mean, how
many people are going to actually get this one right? A few really shady
guys that have their own pool to Yeah, yeah, try to hustle you
like Fasted Nelson old fingers over there, Insanza. That is your final question.
Do you guys need any more repeats or do you need more time to
think of your answers? Or should we just go through this? I think
we should just do it all right. I feel like this is really going
to come down to some of these ones that we're not sure about. I'm
very excited. It's eleven to eight going into this. Joel Johnstone's is nothing
that means nothing in a double two questions. If Jeff gets two more questions,
he's going to be That's what's going to happen, all right. He's
going to win by one point, I know it. Here we go.
Question number one, Willie Mays and Ken Griffy Junior wore what similar jersey number?
Joel The answer is twenty four. Jeff Meacham, what did you put
twenty four? The correct answer, Jack Bauer twenty four? Twenty four.
Both Willie Mays and Ken Griffith Junior sported number twenty four. Question number two
Wimbledon is what number Grand Slam event in the calendar year? Jeff Meacham The
third? Joe Johnstone, what did you put it? I did know that
I did nice it is the third. We start in Australia early in the
year, then it goes roll On Garrows, the French Open, Wimbledon,
and then finally, I don't know what I know. Australia is always in
January, but the French is what April, May, May, May,
Yes, May into June usually actually June. Roll On Garrols and the and
Wimbledon are like, strangely very close to each other. I was gonna say,
because Wimbledon's like July, right, that's always always jolly. Fourth,
Yeah, Clay to grass right away, boys, right away, ladies get
to it right away. Awesome, all right? Question number three one.
This one. Jackie Joyner Cursey, regarded as one of the best female athletes
full time, won medals in both the long jump and what other track and
field event Joel one hundred meter dash? One hundred meter dash? Jeff Meachim,
what did you put? I went two hundred meter? You were both
four hundred incorrect? Was it the four hundred sports and numbers? So I
was going for an event that had multiple events within it. They don't do
the the Caathalon. The ladies do the hep Tathlon, which is seven events.
She won many medals really in the hep Tathlon. That's why she's regarded
as one of the greatest female athletes of all time, because they have to
do seven events, and she won multiple medals in the long jump as well
as doing these seven event track and field events. The hepp was a tough
one. It was a tough one, but it's no harm, no follow
You both missed it. So far, everything's staying the same, but it's
getting down to the here we go. Number four named the Triple Crown events
in horse racing Jeff Meacham the Derby Preakness in Belmont Joel Johnstone, do you
agree with that, man, I do agree. It is the Kentucky Derby,
the Preakness, and the Belmont Steaks are the three races that make up
the Triple Crown. Okay, this should be interesting. Question number five?
How many schools are currently part of the Big Ten? Joel, I'm going
fourteen. I'm going fourteen. Oh he's gone fourteen, Jeff Meacham, what
did you put for question five? I have I have thirteen slash fourteen on
my list here, so just to see if we can do something different,
I'm gonna go thirteen. It was the Big Ten for a long time because
they had ten schools in it. Then they added I believe Nebraska and Penn
State came in at the same time, so that made it twelve, and
then recently they added Rutgers and Maryland. There are fourteen teams in the Big
Ten. Oh my gosh, is the lead in sir mountable? Now?
I blew it. I should have stuck with it. I was literally doing
that all of strategy. I was like, uh, who would to keep
thirteen? You wouldn't so lucky. You gotta go ballsy, you gotta go.
They gotta go balls out that Jeff. They did bring in. Yeah,
both Maryland Terrapins and the Rutgers Scarlet Knights both came in together. They're
the last two I believe that have joined the Big ten. Question number six,
Mario Lemu and Yarmar Yager wore jersey numbers that were just two numbers apart.
Can you name both of those jersey numbers? Who are we up?
Who's who's up to go first? Jeff? What do you got? I
put and this is a guest, I put zero in two zero and two.
Joel Johnstone, what did you put? The answer I put is correct
two and four and four. You guys were not close on those. Mario
la ninety nine, Well again you got Wayne Gretzky's great ninety nine. Wayne
Gretzky was ninety nine. You kind of flipped that over. Mario Lemu was
the great sixty six, He was sixty right, Pittsburgh Penguins sixty six.
Mario Lemoux and Yarma Jager was the two numbers higher. He was sixty eight.
Lemieux was sixty six. So sixty six and sixty eight are the numbers
I was looking for. Number six. Question number seven, what is the
usual par score for an eighteen whole golf course Joel seventy two. Jeff Meachum,
Oh, seventy two. It is par Is seventy two. Uh,
question number eight. Both Dale the Intimidator Earnhardt from NASCAR and Diana Tarassi from
Yukon and the WNBA supported what number Jeff eight? Eight? Great guests,
Joel Johnstone, what did you put? Also eight? Right there? Put
eighty? Well, you both got it wrong. It's three. It's three.
It's just three. You weren't far off you did see course three?
Junior is eight? Wasn't junior eight? He was eighty eight? I think
eighty eight. He was the double eight. Maybe he was eight at a
time. But I think I want to be exactly like his dad. So
yeah, literally he always when you hear it, I can picture the three
on his and see Dale Earnhardt's black car with his white threes everywhere. But
yeah, Diana Trossi same thing. It's like you see her. I think
she wore different numbers, maybe in the Olympics, but yeah, three has
been her number for most of her career. I love her. It comes
down to this number nine. What color is the number five ball in pocket
Billiard's Joel I believe it's red red. That is your guest, Jeff Meacham,
did you what did you guess for number nine? Purple? I feel
like that's a later number. Red is the number three ball. Purple is
the number four ball, The number five ball is orange. It's orange,
the two ball, the blue ball is the two ball. Blue ball's two
balls, and number six is green. Number seven was a tough one too.
That was like, I would never get this. Number seven is maroon.
It's a maroon color. I was like, Oh, that's right,
that's tough. So that was a tough one. That Again, you your
brain can play tricks on you and you can see every color with every number,
I think besides eight on that one it is orange. So your final
scores, Jeff meet him with sixteen in our champ for today, mister Joel
Johnstone with twenty one points. Horse shit, Joel Johnstone, you are the
smartest man, smartest person for a week, correct one entire week. Oh
god, and you have bragging rights until the next time you guys. Come
on after Great of Buesday Folks parades. Tuesday starts on Broadway Downtown Way to
beat out a guy who went to a conservatory for college simply because he didn't
want to be educated anymore. You know what I mean? Correct or chemistry
teacher kicked him out of chemistry glass and said, you don't belong here.
Put that in your pipe, Joel. All right, okay, the game
is not over, Joel Johnson, and you are the smartest person in the
world for one week. But we still have to do the final throwdown.
The final throwdown, go head to head. Annie is coming up with her
question. She forgot about this, the fun little thing I get to play
a little bit. At the end of this game, you're you're still the
smartest person in the world. But Annie, Anny, our producer, is
going to share her screen. We're going to come up with a question.
I'm going to read it right now for everyone. Which artists work are the
most stolen in the world? Which artists work are the most stolen in the
world. I will let you think, yeah, write your answer down.
Jeff you can play along, but Joel, you can go first, take
as much time as you need. I can either agree with you. That's
a question. I mean, is artists open to to the world of arts
or or is this specific to painting. We could find out from Annie.
I would assume it's probably Yeah, it's probably an art you're gonna lose who
cares artworks? Artworks? Artworks? So which artists artworks are the most stolen
in the world? And then well, no matter what, if we get
it right or wrong, we're gonna learn a little bit more about this when
Annie reveals the answer, Like more people steal this person's work, like physically
steal it. That's cool. I mean, I know Metallica would say it's
them, but I know that's not the answer. Nabster, you bastards,
Which artists artworks are the most stolen in the world? All Right, you
gotta guess? I do, I do? All Right? Who you're gonna
go? And it's based just on volume, Yep, most stolen. It's
gotta be somebody with a lot of work out there. And from the little
I know, I believe Picasso was an enormous volume of work. So I'm
going with Pablo Picaso, Pablo Picasso. That is a great guess. I
was thinking about him, and I was thinking of, yeah, like one
of the you know, the titans of the art world, like a Picasso
or a van Go or you know, da Vin She because I feel like
all the famous paintings have kind of been stolen before. But I'm thinking maybe
I'm gonna go street art just because people can just like rip that off.
So I'm gonna say I'm gonna go with Banksy just because he's such a hot
thing that people would just be like, I'm gonna chisel this right off of
it fire hydrant or a wall or something. So I'll say, Banksy,
we have Joel Johnstone's guests was Pablo Picasso. I went with Banksy, And
now Hanny will reveal our answer and some tidbits and we'll all learn. Wait.
Wait, Jeff, Jeff, Jeff, I just went to Benchi.
I went to Vinci Leonardo da Vinci. Nice. Let's see who the answer?
Oh, oh, we got it. Mister Joel Johnstone is truly the
smartest person in the world. For more than one week, it is Pablo
Picasso. Now learn and pieces of his works are still missing. Let's let's
let's let's learn about Pablo Picasso. Here more than one thousand of his works
are reported missing. Wow, this is more than twice that of any other
artist. He is thought to have made about fifty thousand artworks during his lifetime,
Joel mentioned that earlier. I knew it was a lot, but I
you know, I thought it was a little over a hunt. Yeah,
cheapest work, cheapest work of Picasso costs around one hundred and twenty thousand dollars
in the most expensive up to one hundred and forty million dollars at the moment,
which we'll just keep going up. That is truly remarkable. Again,
he was so incredible with constantly working for as long as he did. But
that a thousand of his works are still concerned millions have not hundreds of millions
of dollars. Hole, lea cat. Let's start going through people's like crawl
spaces and stuff. Guys. That'll be our that'll be our new gig.
What a great game, you guys. That was so fun. It was
so great to see you guys again. We have Joel Johnstone, he's playing
for the Covenant House. Jeff Meachen was playing for water dot Org. We're
going to be so excited to make a donation in your name to those two
great charities. Oh thanks, what a what a fun what a fun time,
and what a great time to catch up with you guys. Thank you
man, you were just your prints among men and uh and this is a
privilege. I really do a door you buddy, You're awesome. Congratulations on
this pod. I hope it's beyond successful. Thank you so much, so
fun to have you here. And again, one last thing before we let
you go, check out these guys on their podcast meeting Tom Cruise. You
gotta listen to it. It's fantastic and can't wait for season two. All
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