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get on it and great onion raiser. Yeah. Anyway, we
have qutty shoe for you tonight, especially show tonight, we're
going to be talking about a new hit book I'm
called Monopoly X. Monopoly X fascinating story that marries the
story of the famous game show, the game show, well
game show, yes, but famous boyd game Monopoly and what
it's not in winning World War Two. I think that's
safe to say. Monopoly X and the authors here tonight.
We was going to introduce him as soon as we
introduce the rest of the postse.
Speaker 4: So girls, the game that's helped win World War two?
Speaker 3: Okay, uh that voice you hear, girls, that's you've been
feeling his the high ball week. I'm sure if you're
feeling anything, I'm over vibe this week. That's not good
for us. So hopefully you're sitting down, you're feeling yourself.
You have your big box of clinics, a big box
of wipes, you squeegee and you lou because it's the
very famous one one.
Speaker 4: Hello, everybody, Welcome to the show, and I'm glad to
be here. Mac as always, I don't even know what.
I went to a cool concert this week, Yes, last
week with brother Yeah, I had a great time. Joe
Perry project. Go see him if you can. Awesome Joe.
That's right, Joe Perry from formerly from Aerosmith, well still
with Aerosmith, Yes, and a bunch of other guys from
Stone Temple, Pilots and and elsewhere. Great show, a great
concert at the local Hampton Beach casino, small ven. You
nice sounded great aka fire Trap. No, I shouldn't say that.
I take that off. I look around. You know, it's
funny you should mention that because when I walk in
there and mention this to Joe, your brother was, I
look around and see where the exits are now, how
I am away from front the dixits or doors that
can become an exit.
Speaker 3: That's why. And it turns out there was two doors
that are kind of used for for road from band
gear that can come in, but it's not the main
loading doors a ground level door. I didn't even realize it.
They don't say exit on it, but if they opened
because they opened in oh yeah yeah, that's uh illegal.
And the guy was right beside the bar says, yeah
you can. You know, we'd open these up and you're
out the door when it went. Well, yeah, so you
were the youngest person there. You saw me right. There
was a really mixed crowd.
Speaker 4: I mean, if if you like Aerosmith, okay, there's that
range of people. You like Stone Tiple Pilots when the
nineties is that ranger they're from all over again. It
was a show for all edges, like the Rolling Stones. Yes,
it just brought him in. It was like, well, I
sat beside somebody. We looked like she was eighteen.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, we're gonna move on here. We've had
those problems anyway, Uh thank you. One while I was
training us, also with us here in the studio is
let's see engineer. I always goove this up, Engineer, Producer,
getaway driver, b Killer, what else? That's it? Yeah? Those
five things. It's Uncle Lele, the kiddies spin now Alviro Naldough.
Speaker 5: She's with an intro like that how can I lose
really well, let's count the ways.
Speaker 3: So every time I see a bee, I think of
you all, Yes, me too, I.
Speaker 5: Think you know it's funny. My wife is getting stung
twice this week this week, this week. I haven't got
stung in a couple of years. She just happened to
be at the wrong place at the wrong time. She
walked by one of the hives the other day and
I'll be landed on her because you know, when they're
coming and going from the hive, they're not really paying attention,
and if you're standing in their flight path, they'll bump
right into you. So one hitter and just landed on
her shoulder and walked around a bit, and she felt
the tickle and she went to didn't look, just want
to see.
Speaker 3: What it was.
Speaker 5: Yeah, whacked that one whacked her then h And then
today she was emptying a bird bath, refilling it with
fresh water for the bees for the bees, and she
bird bath wasn't level, so she kind of went down
to the bottom, was trying to level it in the
dirt ye and she put her hand up to grab
it the top and the bees crushed the bee and
it's stung her in the hand.
Speaker 3: You put out water for bees, definitely birds and the bees.
Is that where they came from?
Speaker 5: Well, I tell you that there's so many bees that
the birds don't go near the bird baths because there's
just too much trouble. Yeah, well you know, yeah, but
there's uh yeah, they need water.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they'll they'll go miles to get water. The
the the yeah, the dotted story too of this when
I'm trying to say the connection here is that Al's
honey is like one of the best, you know, the
best honey. Even people that don't know you say that.
So there's something about it is very fresh, very I
don't even know how you got it.
Speaker 5: Two things. One, it's like you say it's fresh because
you know you're local. Usually you get it within a
week of it coming out of the hives. And it's
your local whatever's growing on the island, which would be roses,
mostly beech roses or so it's got to its own
flavor rightly.
Speaker 4: It also seems to help with with allergies with me.
Speaker 5: It does, it can, but again it has to be
very local the way you are right. Yes, it's come
from the same flowers that you're allergic to right, I'm.
Speaker 3: A couple of towns away, but I didn't have any
of your honey this year. But no, I haven't had
any this year, and we probably don't want to get
into great detail what's growing around the property. I mean
the problem next the weather has been horrible the past
three years. So once again, so there's no there's no honey.
Another shell money and not just honey either, but we'll
talk about that off you, no honey honey. Also with
us is our senior international correspondent down there and my
sister's Top West Virginius, which played Steve wants which how.
Speaker 6: Are you great to be here representing tank Top?
Speaker 3: Good? Okay, all right, good one. So he's got his
Carol Channing glasses on again. That's been a weekly thing.
Speaker 6: Hello Dolly see.
Speaker 3: And uh, it looks like he's got a haitut, which
means that he had it reconditioned, one of them.
Speaker 6: I just combed it, that's all.
Speaker 4: That guy never has a hair out of place. It
looks just too perfect, right, way too perfect. Same with
his beard. Never a staying out of place.
Speaker 3: Nothing nothing, So was the when is the festival? Or
has it happened?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 6: No, it hasn't happened yet.
Speaker 3: The big Hfman.
Speaker 6: Festival you're referring to, yes, occurs every third weekend in September.
This year it falls on the twentieth and twenty first.
Sometimes that you say I have to go to the
half to I want to go to the Van Meter
Visitor Festival, which is at the end of September. That's
always the last weekend. Sometimes I'm lucky enough where there's
a weekend in between, but not this year. So I've
got a when I when when.
Speaker 8: The the Van Meter Visitor Festival is coming up, I'm
going to have just a little bit of time to
take down all the stuff I'm putting up in the
area for the Mothman Hay Ride on Saturday night the twentieth,
and uh get a little little bit of rest in
their pack and then head off head west.
Speaker 3: Yes, very busy, busy social calendar, but not the funny
thing about the Mothbean Festival. But we've talked about it,
you know, for years in the show, and then this
year you sent us a picture and you know, I
thought it was a nice little cordial gathering and there's
like thousands of people there right, that's right on the yeah,
is that a cat we're hearing?
Speaker 8: Who No, that's not a cat, but there's a cat
right here.
Speaker 3: Get that thing out of you. So so, how many
people are they expecting switch for this thing?
Speaker 8: I think you know, it falls somewhere between fifteen and
twenty thousand this time for the entire weekend, people just
walking through. It doesn't cost anything except the museum. The
front part of the museum are books, souvenirs, t shirts,
that kind of thing. The back part I think is
four ninety five and of course less for younger kids
or whatever.
Speaker 7: Well worth it, by the way.
Speaker 8: And the only other thing that costs money is that
the hay ride, the Mothman hay Ride.
Speaker 6: We take people into the dreaded tea and tea area.
The Mothman was seen a few times and it's set
up a little bit like a Halloween hay ride. As
we've talked about before. That cost it hasn't gone up.
Speaker 8: It's five dollars, but you got to stand the line
to get your ticket because we take people in.
Speaker 7: There's three of us. There's three trackers, three carts, three
expert tour guides.
Speaker 8: And one doesn't sound like a West Virginian that might
be me and we take you know, go tell about
midnight just bringing you know, bringing people in right and
and you know I'm unloading them bringing them back and
uh did you Yeah, it's a.
Speaker 3: It's a lot of did you did you say that.
Speaker 7: You eighty six percent survive?
Speaker 3: That's a good, right, that's not bad. Did you sell
you had a defibrillator there? Or was that just a joke?
Do you have a defibrillator there on the on site
of the tn T? We we we should have those.
Speaker 8: Uh I went to I remember we're going to a
drive in eons ago where they had these uh you know,
the the corpse grinders, the Undertaker and his pals. Anyway,
they would give you this slip saying that, you know,
a disclaimer that if you die of a heart attack,
they aren't liable ye.
Speaker 6: To scare the young children to death. That would be
a good idea.
Speaker 3: Okay, good idea. Switchy, thanks, thank you, switching for drinks.
My pleasure also with us is no club tonight. He's
took the night after watch the Red Sox. They're playing Okay,
just okay, you're doing okay, yeah, but you'll see we're
hoping for the best. You'll see the crash will come
in September, will be like the Hind the Brick and
the Titanic.
Speaker 4: Wat but you said the crash is going to come
in August, and it hasn't quite. It was teetered on
the edge there for a while. That's like, that's that's
the kind of team it is.
Speaker 3: Also when they took three out of four from the Yankees, right,
yeah they did. Okay, Yeah, that's because the Yankees a
t the top of baseball. But the Yankees are trouble.
They play like a little league team. They throw the
ball around like kids. Anyway, we all look like Chuck
Noblock with the Yips blow. Okay, that Dustin May guy
that we find we have to behave itself because joining
us up there in Wisconsin, Kring the land is a
good friend. Brandy Yanks, Brandy, how are you hi?
Speaker 9: Everybody? I'm great.
Speaker 3: I'm excited to be here bringing some class to the show.
Uh let's see paint the picture for us. Okay.
Speaker 10: I wonder if I could say to Al, yes, a
friend and I made b baths?
Speaker 3: Really be what be?
Speaker 9: What bath? A B bath? We each made a B.
Speaker 3: Bath a B bath where the bees take a bath.
Speaker 9: Yeah for the wonder.
Speaker 10: We went to like secondhand stores and got these really
pretty old dishes and the bees loved them.
Speaker 3: What do they like about them? Yeah, there's no birds.
Speaker 10: You put rocks in it and they can land there.
Kind of it's hot, I mean it gets hot right.
Speaker 6: And they also like the matching towels.
Speaker 5: Okay, you know what they really do like is people
swimming pools. The swimming pool have to be careful that
the chlorine, so.
Speaker 3: They love drowning. They're just doing the backstroke in the
swimming pool, right.
Speaker 5: What happens is like the kids splash around in the
pool and spray the water up on the edge. Oh
yeah yeah, and the bees will drink it up off
the cement and kids will step on to be without
seeing it and get stung.
Speaker 3: But they said, you got a swimming pool and your
neighbor he teach you kill the bee.
Speaker 5: But if you're if you're a bee keeper and you
have a neighbor with a swimming pool, yep, it's a
recipe for disaster.
Speaker 3: Really yeah, you'll want to be drink that wine. Why
do I feel that I'm suddenly on n p R
hereol party? Thank you Brady for joining us. We appreciate it.
No hat on tonight, no shades, but you still look divine.
Divine was the word I was looking. Yeah, you look marvelous.
You look divine. Also with us is in his lair,
in his bunka, his hero bug agent X, agent X, thanks.
Speaker 7: For having me. I just want to tell l in Florida.
Speaker 3: Everyone that.
Speaker 7: It isn't just bees that goes into swimming pools, it's
alligator And yeah, yeah, we lived there for three years.
I had to get up in the morning and roast
them out of.
Speaker 3: There right on the microphone.
Speaker 11: There you have to have two arms.
Speaker 3: No, no, we can hear you. Fine, we just want
to hear you clear. How many alligators are in Florida?
Do you know.
Speaker 7: There's five hundred for every.
Speaker 3: How serious? Do you know how many a lot of them?
There are? Lots? Sixty questions? Question is sixteen million? There's
sixteen million alligants. And there's crocodiles down there too, apparently.
Speaker 7: So American crocodile another reason not to work not they're
not really well, they'll throw them out. Crocodiles their American.
Speaker 3: Really there, they're crucodiles.
Speaker 4: Okay, what do you do if there's an alligator in
the swimming pool, who do you call?
Speaker 7: They're all cue. I just picked them up and took
them out of the really yeah you know, yeahpers the snakes.
Speaker 3: We'll do a flower show. Listen. If I had a.
Speaker 7: Swim you're gonna walk up, walk out and shoot them
with my three.
Speaker 3: No, but an alligator wrangler that takes him out of
the pool. Let us call. You have to move on?
Speaker 7: These the little ones that come to the cracks.
Speaker 3: In two hours show that's a hole show. Listen.
Speaker 5: If I had one in my swimming pool, either an
alligator or a snake, I would go and plug in
a toaster and throw it in the pool with them,
and I'd make sure it wasn't a GFI okay, and
then it wouldn't be a problem anymore.
Speaker 3: Sorry, send you let us to al not Max, and
then make a nice parent and then make a sorry.
Speaker 7: But what I do find interesting is you're talking about
hats and shades. Yeah, put on the front of the video. Yes,
wearing hats and shades?
Speaker 3: What okay? Okay, moving on. I think that's a good
pivot point. Uh with us is super literary agent Jim Franklin,
Jim and you know we're going to clamp for him,
because he will put, he will pout and and if
you want me to paint the picture Albert Einstein, right wanism, Yeah,
and this is correct if he was a deadhead too,
the grateful dead is as we mentioned.
Speaker 12: I got this shirt at the dead concert Chicago, Jim.
Speaker 3: I was sending up.
Speaker 4: Professional photos and your bio to the all the film company, saying, hey,
if you need this is the year of theories of relativity.
We talk about it all the time.
Speaker 3: He should have been in Oppenheimer, you know, there you going.
You would have been perfect.
Speaker 4: Spanning the galaxies, and you know Einstein was all about that.
Speaker 3: Yes, this is true.
Speaker 12: The galaxies all exist simultaneously in one place, seventeen thousand dimensions.
Speaker 3: Can I ask you a question, Jim, are you gonna
do that accent all night? So I got to adjust
the microphone. Thank you?
Speaker 12: Not use that accent all only when you're referring to Einstein.
Speaker 3: Also in the studio with us all I'm almost studio
is a good friend and author of Monopoly X, phili
of Bains, and we're gonna for him too. That's okay.
Speaker 13: I'm trying to create the crowd sound.
Speaker 3: That's perfect. Thank you. We need all the help we
can get. Phil, thanks for journey us. I'm delighted. This
is not your first time on the on the radio show. No,
many times on the show, so you have quite a resume.
First of all, you're known as mister Monopoly around the world.
You're the world people in city, you're the world's best
Monopoly player, saying no.
Speaker 13: No, not so much the Morris best Monopoly player, but
the one who seems to know the most about the
game and his history. Oh really, yeah, my grandson beats
me at monopoly. Really, yes, Ald is he? Well, at
the time he was seven beat you. Well, he he
really wanted to learn the game, and so I taught
him the rules and then I said, I'm going to
give you some chips of how to win, okay, thinking
that he would just go right over the top of
his head. But when the game ended, he beat me,
and he beat me soundly. Wow, And I said to him, Leo,
how did you do this? And he just matter of fact,
he said to me, well, you told me what to do.
You just you know that memory.
Speaker 3: You get advice from the best person on.
Speaker 13: Well, in my case, having judged Monopoly championships. Yes, for decades.
I know what all the best players do, Okay, you
know the secrets to winning the game, and so that's
what I passed on to him.
Speaker 3: Now I've never played this, I think i've well, I
played it once. You played once, right. We were at
a party, and I can't really remember exactly everything, but
I know I was the first one out, and then
I went to sleep with something but something. The reason
that you know so much about this is that you
were I worked at Parker Brothers, okay, pot Brothers, and
then now you're The name of the company is Winning Moves, right,
How did that come about?
Speaker 13: Well, Parker Brothers was the maker of Monopoly until it
was acquired by Hasbro. I think that was a nineteen
ninety one And about this four years later, I had
a few other veterans in the industry had an idea
that has Broke liked, and our idea was to start
a specialty game company that would reintroduce the classic edition
of all their famous games Risks, you know, sorry, Boggle,
and Monopoly, of course, and that's worked out very well.
And so Winning Moves is affiliated with Hasbro, the makers
of Monopoly, and when they do have tournaments, which has
not been for some time now. They always call on
me to be the chief judge, so I've stayed close
to the game throughout most of my career.
Speaker 3: And company also makes the Ouigi board. Right.
Speaker 13: Yes, we had a nice show right here in this
very room.
Speaker 3: Very strange one, but yeah, yeah.
Speaker 13: And since then, many strange things have happened that were
predicted that night.
Speaker 3: No, wait, what do you mean it? So let me
just recap. So we had a show here. It was
in October. I think it was a right where we
actually had people can and play the Wigi board of
playing is the right word, and Rue Comedy makes it
and we would comment on what they said and what
I remember. The first one was the two women came
in and they didn't know how should we say it?
Their question was when when we know UFOs really existed,
who's going to tell us? And they they the point
to win to SETI s E t I, which is
the search for extra pressial. What happened? What that was?
They had no SETI YETI. They had no idea and
that and I was right there. That's what they spelled out.
That was really very very weird. So can you tell well, the.
Speaker 13: Other prediction that was made in October of last year
is that we would be together again in August of
this year.
Speaker 3: What happened? I had no idea. Wow, hm, so but
we could do a whole show about the Weiji Bloy.
But real quick, the thing that fascinates me about it
is that you've said that his tree of it is
like in the Korean WAW sales went up. In the
Vietnam War, sales went up because back then they families
really had now not a lot of communication with their troops,
with their you know, sons who were soldiers.
Speaker 13: And they were worried, sick, and they were desperate to
know is my son or my nephew or my boyfriend alive?
Speaker 3: You know, are they okay? So they'd get Ouigi boo
to try to find out. That's right. Wow, that's kind
of uh a sad in way, I guess, but good
for your company.
Speaker 13: Right, Well, this was before the internet. That was the internet,
if you know. Okay, yeah, back then the spirit world. Interesting,
So now you.
Speaker 12: Have the sales should go up now with the Trump
invasion of the United States.
Speaker 3: Well, we don't talk politics on the show. War, So
you've just written this book Monopoly X. Well, you've written
in and it was published, okay, published by who Harper Collins. Wow, okay,
Harper Imprint, big publisher. A good going. You must have
a great agent, do you. Well?
Speaker 13: Ask the man on the screen.
Speaker 3: He knows the agent. You know.
Speaker 11: Guest hosting from Seattle, Washington.
Speaker 3: Is in Seattle tonight. He's going to the Mariner's game.
So we're actually taking up some of his valuable time.
Speaker 13: I've seen the stadium, I've driven past it.
Speaker 3: Really yeah, we could talk about Baseball night too. Of
course we can spent only one other stadium, Dodger Stadium,
other than Fenway Park. And all I can think of
is that this is really kind of small. I always
had Dodger Stadium would be this huge.
Speaker 13: Is it still schubez Ravine or is it yea, Yeah,
I've been to yea yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah. It's Center Valley, Yeah yeah, it's in an odd place.
So anyway, so the book has been published. Tell everyone,
just give people the the tease of what it's about.
Speaker 13: Monopoly had a great use in World War Two, and
it was kept completely secret for forty years. And I'll
explain later on why the secret lasts that long. But
Monopoly's principal role was to doctor the game board and
slip escape aids inside where they couldn't be seen, and
ship these otherwise ordinary looking games into prisoner of war
camps in Germany.
Speaker 3: Through the Red Cross.
Speaker 13: Right now, the Red Cross, that's part of the legend,
but it's not true because the Red Cross was the
principal means of supplementing the diet of the POWs who
otherwise would have starved to death. They were not getting
adequate calories per day from the Germans, so Red Cross
made up the difference, and the people who organized this
secret use of monopoly did not want to take a
chance of messing that up.
Speaker 3: So who did the Germans allow?
Speaker 13: So these games were awe doctored and prepared by two
secret organizations, one in London and one in Washington, and
each of them used fictitious charities to ship the games
in interesting to POWs that were known to be in
that camp. And not only that, the POWs themselves knew
the games were coming.
Speaker 3: That's my next question. So basically the games game they
you know, and the Germans are allowing this because they
can play games to you know, shocked that they allow it.
Speaker 11: They wanted to.
Speaker 12: Keep the soldiers happy and digging tunnels.
Speaker 3: Right and so.
Speaker 13: And furthermore, there was another advantage that we had as allies,
as small as it was, and that is that Germany
is probably the most dedicated game playing culture in the world.
The Germans really believe in the value of games, and
so for them to have monopoly games or or checkers
or whatever it might be coming into the prisoner camps
were considered to be fine items to allow in.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's amazing.
Speaker 13: As you'll see later, when I opened up, I brought
with me the replica game board, the authentic replica game
board of what these look like. Yes, there was no
way that the German censors. At the Warlogger, which was
the building at the beginning of the camp where all
packages were carefully inspected, there was no way they could
ever detect what was inside. And they didn't have in
those days X ray machines right, Yes, sure, if they did,
they could have detected the metal objects on the inside.
Speaker 3: So you're pow and just as a what the dream
is thing is going to be a distraction, good word
for it. So these monopoly games arrive right now and
in the mountain Monopoly game itself. You know, you take
off the top and there's like stuff that need that
you would need if you were planning to escape or whatever.
Speaker 13: Right, I'm going to show you this in a moment,
but yes, it's you would have to just pierce the
game label and start ripping the label off to expose
the compartments where the secret escape gates had been placed.
Speaker 3: So how did the POWs know in the first place
to start looking at them?
Speaker 13: Well, this is another fascinating, generally unknown feature of the
nut feature. So much but fact about the war, Every
tenth airman in both the US and in England was
trained to be what was called a code user, and
the theory was that at least one code user would
probably be captured and interned At each of the roughly
one hundred stalogs in Germany pow camps. A code user
was taught how to incorporate a secret message in an
ordinary letter sent home. Okay, okay, So there was a
procedure where every so many words within the letter, you
extract that word and you put them all together and
you got a communication.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 13: Now, the code users were all part of a master list.
So if I as a code user, am on that list,
and I write a letter home. All letters had to
go through the General Post Office in New York and
then they were dispersed to their final destination. But there
were women who had been hired in the GPO who
reviewed every single letter, and if they saw a code
user's name in the return address, they put it aside
into a box, and at the end of the day,
all the letters in that box were shipped down to
Washington the sea, where the secret Organization would steam them
open to extract the secret message, then seal them up
again and ship them to whether they were supposed or
send them to wherever they were supposed to be.
Speaker 4: I'm fascinated by these And then and then, of course
the reverse was true.
Speaker 13: A letter seemingly innocent from home would be sent to
the code user and the message would say, you know,
look for Monopoly games in about six weeks time. Yeah, yeah,
three coming, one loaded. Okay, that was my other question.
So how many Monopoly games were loaded and how many weren't?
Typically at least two ordinary undoctored James were a company
the one that was loaded.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, yeah.
Speaker 13: And by the way, the name Monopoly X was the
nickname that the secret organizations gave to the loaded games. Okay,
the ordinary games that a company that were known as
Monopoly V, and the V stood for Vanilla. Okay, all right, okay,
So Monopoly X was actually the loaded games that had
the escape aids inside.
Speaker 3: So who made Monopoly at the time was a poc'm Brothers.
Speaker 13: Yes, in England, it was the John Waddington Company under
license from Parker It. Well, yeah, Waddington's was, but Parker No.
As a matter of fact, I was at Parker. And
this is one reason why I wrote this book. It's
because in nineteen eighty five I was working at Parker
Brothers when the Monopoly Secret was released in England and
the general manager of the John Waddington Company that made
Monopoly came to Parker Brothers for his summer business meeting,
and he was bursting with enthusiasm to tell me and
the president of the company this great secret. He said,
I can finally tell you what my father did.
Speaker 3: During the war.
Speaker 13: He loaded these games at my company, the Waddington Company,
and they were sent to pow camps, et cetera, et cetera.
And so this was a total revelation to the president,
who was the grandson of the founder. Wow, and he said,
we never knew a thing about this. And you know,
Victor Watson from the Waddington Company was rather stunned because
his firm, for many reasons, was in on it and
actually did the doctoring. But in America, the Pentagon that
oversaw this project was so concerned that it might be
leaked to the Germans that they decided not to involve
Parker Brothers or anybody outside of the small cadre that
was actually responsible for getting these games to pow Camp.
So what they did was they hired a chemist who
determined to solve it to lift the label off of
existing games, so they had to put another step in there,
and they did the doctoring. So Parker Brothers, unlike Waddington's,
never knew that their game was going to war.
Speaker 3: Wow. That's amazing. It's amazing. They kept it secret and.
Speaker 13: Not only did it survive for forty years, the reason
why it was kept a secret for that period of
time is that immediately upon the end of World War Two,
there was great fear that the next war would happen
quickly with Russia.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and if in fact.
Speaker 13: The Russians decided to overrun Germany, and you know the
rest of Western Europe Monopoly would have been used again
to help the next round of pods because we knew
for a fact the Germans never caught on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 13: So that's why for forty years at State Secret.
Speaker 3: So we're talking to Philo Baines, who is the author
of Monopoly X. Fascinating story World War two where they
sent Monopoly games to the lpow's and the Germans never
found out that one in three of them. Actually, if
you'd lifted the label off, you would see underneath it
was a one of the things having to do with
escape plans and so on.
Speaker 13: I'm going to show you right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so this is the just tell us what this is.
Speaker 13: Okay, what I have before me is what appears to
be an ordinary Monopoly game board from nineteen forty three
on the outside, and when I opened it up, you
can see that it looks just like a Monopoly game
on the inside. Okay, okay, but underneath this label, now
this label is purposely not glue down. But if I
open this up, there's the escape aids.
Speaker 10: Wow.
Speaker 3: Look at this. This is so wow? And what was
what are we looking at?
Speaker 13: Okay, first, I should say to your audience that I
purposely did not show this to you beforehand. Okay, right,
so your reaction is fresh firs. And what you're looking
at is a series of seven compartments eight compartments, pardon me,
that have been carefully carved to precise sizes and then
filled with specific escape aids. So in the first compartment
on the right we have German Deutsch marks. The reason
for the money, of course, is pretty obvious. You either
bribe guards or more importantly, you buy train tickets. So
if you escaped, your first objective was to get to
a train station, because you were told you have basically
twenty four hours to get out of the local area. Yes,
that's about how long they could hide the other POWs
could hide your disappearance, so you had to get out
of the area via train. Secondly, there is a compass
in the lower left hand corner, and I'm actually going
to give you this ana can you help me out here?
So this is an real working compass from World War two,
exactly like the one that would have been not only
placed in this game, but every airman had one of these,
sewing into his uniform.
Speaker 3: Fill loveling life and there is with us tonight. Thank you. Anna. Okay,
I don't know how to use accompassed.
Speaker 13: Well, north is important on accompass, I'll tell you that.
Speaker 3: So the board itself, I mean, what's the thickness of that, Well,
that's the actual cut.
Speaker 13: The actual thickness of a monopoly board in World War
Two was a lot thicker than this.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 13: Our game boards today are eighty points, which is pretty chinsey,
you know, the eighty points. It is eighty thousands, you know,
or eight eight thousands of an inch, eight thousand eighty
the board, which is less than a tent. But the
World War two boards were one hundred and twenty point,
which is about an eighth of an inch, So you
could go down almost an eighth of an inch, you know.
But everything had to be low profile. So you see here,
for example, this all blade is a axle blade.
Speaker 3: Okay, it's like the Stooges.
Speaker 13: What you do is youtach a wooden handle, which is
no big deal, okay, And now you can use this
to cut your way through its Wow.
Speaker 3: It's pretty sharp. Wow, okay.
Speaker 4: And there's no weapon in there or anything, no no weapon.
Can you can you hold that board up a little
bit to Yeah, here we go, just to throw a zoom.
Friends can see it.
Speaker 3: It's it's it's like if you just took the label
off the top of the Game one. They've actually kinved
into the board. These little pockets expertly.
Speaker 13: Experts, but they had to be precisely the right depth
and dimensions so that the board would still be flat
and you couldn't run your hand over the label and
feel bumps. Right right, This is one of the coolest things.
This is called a gigly saw. This is a long
sir rated wire and again you would attach wooden handles
on the end. Its main purpose back then was a
bone saw. This is what surgeons used to cut through bones.
Speaker 3: Okay, but this will.
Speaker 13: Cut right through barbed wire, or it will cut through
steel bars.
Speaker 3: Wow, cut through somebody's neck, and I guess you could.
I mean, you.
Speaker 13: Don't really want to rub your finger too tightly acust
the serrations on the outside. Yeah, yeah, So this was
a very effective.
Speaker 3: Looks like a thin piece of a fishing It does.
Speaker 13: Except it's it's not smooth. It's very rough on the outside,
and it's a saw. So no matter how and how
you orient it, you're always engaging some of the teeth
thought it.
Speaker 3: Oh right, yeah, well that's ingenious yep.
Speaker 13: And then and it's going to show you this as well.
This is probably the piece of resistance. This is a
map printed on silk of Germany. It's about fourteen inches
by eighteen inches and mac is unfolding the one now
that I brought that's separate from the wild lookouts?
Speaker 3: Is this insane that someone went ahead and did this.
Speaker 13: Now you know why this was printed on silk? And
by the way, this is why the John Waddington Company
was asked to doctor the monopoly games that they were making.
It's because they were one of England's greatest printers and
they had mastered the art of printing on silk. Every
airman who went on a mission had one of these
also sewn into his uniform.
Speaker 3: Oh is that really okay? Now? Why silk?
Speaker 13: There's three reasons for it. One, it doesn't deteriorate in
water like paper wood, so if you splash down somewheres,
the map is still going to be okay. Two, it
doesn't lose the printing on the fold lines, which you
know a paper map in time detail. And thirdly, it
doesn't rustle.
Speaker 3: You're like if.
Speaker 13: You're at night in the woods or whatnot and you
want to consult your map, you're not going to give
away your location to passing you know, guards or who
are searchers you know.
Speaker 3: Looking for you. They really had the head screwed on
straight back. That's like thinking of every little detail was amazing. Yep,
so it should be a movie about that. Well, we're hoping.
Speaker 13: In this little package is an ordinary razor blade. But
this razor blade is magnetized, so if you suspend this
on a thread, it'll point north. Now, who would ever
suspect that?
Speaker 1: Not me?
Speaker 13: And then there's other documents in here, a variety of
documents that are very important because in Germany during the war,
you literally could not go out of your local area
unless you had papers. Oh yeah, and if you wanted
to buy food, you needed papers. Anything you wanted to
buy you had to have the right document. So preparing
the documents and putting them in the in the game
board was essential. And in addition, sometimes it was just
blank paper because if you had the right paper. They're
generally speaking, were artists or printers inside of these pow
camps among the population who could precisely forge a document
provided the paper was the right type. Wow, wow, Okay, amazing,
And so that's basically the essential of it. A map, compass, money,
saw blades, and documents.
Speaker 3: So no one ever got caught on one of these things.
Speaker 13: Never, And at the end of the war, both the
British and the Americans who ran these organizations were told
destroy everything. We don't want any evidence lying around in
the event we have to use this again.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 13: Really, yeah, that's why none of these are extent.
Speaker 3: That's amazing.
Speaker 13: Anything that was left over was literally burned. And I
can tell you from my own long research into this
topic that you can't find the files on these two
organizations because they faithfully burned everything and their eyewitnessed that
I have you know, read about who actually saw the
process of destroying the evidence. If you go to the
National Archives, you'll find three files on this secret organization
known as MIS X, which stands for Military Intelligence Service X.
But those files actually are miss MISS file. They have
nothing to do with what's going on here. So literally,
the only way that this story could have been dug
up and told is the fact that I had, through
good fortune, found five people over a course of thirty
five years who knew it firsthand or secondhand.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yes, right orange.
Speaker 13: Yeah, so at least I had, you know, the bird's
eye view on it. Yeah, and I managed to, you know,
get everything I could from these folks before they died.
The other thing that's very interesting and.
Speaker 3: Sad is that.
Speaker 13: Now forty years went by, everybody who was ever, whoever
was affected or benefited from this project had to sign
the Official Secrets Act. So if you were an escaper
and you made it out of a Pow camp and
with the help of an escape line, you got back
to England, the first thing you would do when they
debriefed you was to have you sign the Pledge of security.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, now the main.
Speaker 11: Reason something, can you explain escape line?
Speaker 3: Yes, I'll do that right now. Thanks you.
Speaker 13: So I mentioned how important it was to get away
from the pow camp by train, but you had to
have a destination, and your destination was generally to get
to the border of France or in the France and
then locate a member of one of the principal escape
lines that were organized to help POWs make the trip
the rest of the way to the Spanish border or
to the coast of Normandy. There were several lines, but
three of them were the most significant, and they were
manned by mainly young women, because I don't think it's
that well known that virtually every young man in France
after the subjugation by the Germans was shipped to Germany
to work the factories because all the German men were
at the front line, mainly in Russia.
Speaker 3: So the girls. So there were mainly girls.
Speaker 13: There were some you know, incapacitated men or other men
who had some excuse, but for the most part, the
escape line workers were young women, and they artfully knew
how to get you into ordinary clothing, how to maneuver youth,
usually by train to Paris and then down to you know,
some town near the Pyrenees, where they would turn you
over to a Spanish guide who would take you over
the Pyrenees, which was no easy task really, and then
get you to a council and from there you could
get back to England.
Speaker 11: So, like James Coburn in The Great Escape.
Speaker 3: Yeah exactly.
Speaker 13: And to put this in perspective, the escape line workers
literally risked their lives. And one of the principal stories
within Monopoly X is about a notorious trader who betrayed
the Escape Lines a guy named Harold Cole. And Harold
Cole was a con artist who managed to get himself
into the Royal Army, was shipped to France, got caught
in the flight to him. Actually, he was in military
prison when the German Flitzgreen began and when they freed him,
instead of joining his fellow you know, soldiers rushing to Dunkirk,
he went the other way. And eventually he betrayed the
escape Lines that he was working for for quite a
while and revealed the names of many of the members.
Speaker 3: All of of course disappeared, all right.
Speaker 13: So to put a final tally on this, we believe
pretty accurately actually that fifteen and ninety six POWs successfully escaped.
That was called hitting a home run. Look, you got
out of prison camp, you made it back to England.
It's a home run. Eleven thousand total escaped, but you
can see most of them were recaptured. For every escaper
who successfully got back to England, one escape line worker
lost their lives.
Speaker 3: Wow, oh man, what a sacrifice when you think the sacrifice. Yeah,
and the.
Speaker 7: Stories of the escape We having read the book from
cover to cover and we're taking notes Yeah. Being a
reviewer for the Historical Novel Society, I've got to tell
you you found the absolute best villain.
Speaker 3: Yeah, litter me, yes.
Speaker 7: Villain, This best villain in literary history. This guy was
so despicable.
Speaker 3: You can play him in the movie.
Speaker 13: There not only was, but there was something charming about him,
which is how he got away with so much. And
let me just encapsulate this. So he's a con artist
and a terrible part of London who ends up in
the gal A Lot. Then he flees London before the war,
joins the ri I'm not the Royal Army, cons his
way into it, gets promoted to sergeant, goes to France,
defects in France during the Blitzkreek for a while helps
the escape lines. Then he betrays them because the Germans
are onto him. Meanwhile, he's fleeced his wife he marries there,
he fleeces his wife's aunts. I mean, it's just the
most terrible thing.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 13: But then when D Day occurs and he is evacuated
from the headquarters of the SS where he's living, and
they go into southern Germany, he manages to ingratiate himself
to the American Army and gets signed into the American Army.
Speaker 3: Wow, can't be that bad.
Speaker 13: And he's once again recaptured. He's finally discovered. He is recaptured,
and he manages to wrangle his way out of captivity
and he survives the entire war. His fate is not
determined until nineteen forty six. And that's all in the book.
Speaker 3: Here became a hedge funk guy or something.
Speaker 7: You just proved this guy in history.
Speaker 3: Unbelievable.
Speaker 13: So, Phil, by the way, why is he in the book.
He's in the book because he had an affection for
the Monopoly game and he identified with the top hat token.
Speaker 3: Now why was that.
Speaker 13: It's because he was born in poverty. He always aspired
to be rich like the gentleman that he was conning.
And so to to him, you know what token is
most evocative of wealth, it's the top popet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure. So there's a there's a number of
surprises in the book. We can say, right, very much so.
And you can get it on Amazon. Yeah, obviously that's.
Speaker 13: Doing very well on Amazon. It's gotten I'm very glad
to say that it's gotten great reviews on the Wall
Streets Journal and The Washington Post.
Speaker 3: Tuesday. Yeah, those Left days liked it. Okay, well listen,
we're gonna give well. Also the New York Post too,
so okay, it bounced out. Philip Bains want Monopoly X.
Thanks for coming. You're going to hang around for military trivia, right,
I'm hoping to play. Okay, So well that was very good,
Thank you, Phil.
Speaker 13: And by the way, let me just say one thing
before you run. That's the highlight of Monopoly during the war.
But it was also used by other geniuses to create
a secret code to communicate with the dissident KGB agent,
so it had a second use. And the other thing
is a lot of spies use Monopoly imagery for their
cover names. And why was that all not very special?
It's because when the Wars started, Monopoly was only three
years old. I mean, this was the cultural phenomena of
the time. I like to use the analogy of Monopoly
then was the Star Wars of say nineteen seventy eight,
seventy nine. You know, it's just there was everywhere in
the binocular and that's why Monopoly had these uses.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Nice, We're going to clap for you again, Phil,
because very interesting.
Speaker 13: Well, I like switch in his background.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, does that say monotony?
Speaker 7: No, monopoly monotony it It doesn't catch enough of that,
so sometimes it doesn't capture the whole image. Right, it
got the monopoly part.
Speaker 3: That's good.
Speaker 7: Just be glad Phil, he doesn't have a wreck in
the background.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, not yet. Well we will. We saw that,
so it's time to take a break and we will
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on the conversation. Okay, Jim, Okay, you're listening to.
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some before black right into the show's over. Okay, it's
been a long show, but it's been a good one anyway.
We in the opening stagment, we talked to author Philip
Baines about his his new book, Great Book on Monopoly Xile.
The game Monopoly helped win World War Two. And now
he's hung around and we're gonna play military trivial. Let's
clamp for ourselves before I introduce everybody very quickly the
posse Uh here is the very famous one one oney, okay,
switches here done and my sister's tank top West Virginia.
I am embarrassed sing that from some people. Switchy, how
are you great to be here?
Speaker 7: You should?
Speaker 6: You should see how embarrassed the guy was who made the.
Speaker 3: Sign okay, also sitting in the kleinal without a microphone.
The way he likes it is be killer producer directly
getaway driver. Though al's given us, he's even us the
peace sign. I think he only has one finger on them.
There's well to be or not to be? That is
the question? Oh wow, wa got two e's on the end.
Glad we didn't go out to the car. Also with
us is no club tonight. He's home watching the Red
Sox win all those Also with us, oh, in the
studio with us is our good friend Spacey Tracy. I
can ever remember her name. We're going to clamp for
her too.
Speaker 9: Because everyone.
Speaker 3: She puts up with us. Thanks for joining us tonight.
Thank you, Tracy. Stacy. I'll just claim get right on
that microphone. Man, Pretend it's an ice cream Can I go?
I don't eat ice cream? You don't? Okay? All right,
Well i'd say something else, but it's a feeling show.
Speaker 17: That one.
Speaker 10: Well.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yes, happy to be here, mister you guys.
Speaker 3: Did you really? Yeah, it's good to know we missed you. Uh.
So we're going to be playing World War two trivia tonight.
Military trivia, I should say, are you any good at that? Yeah? See,
thanks for joining us. Also with us is Brandy X,
a good friend up there in Wisconsin.
Speaker 9: Brandy, Hey, everybody, and hell Brandy.
Speaker 3: Also Agent XES with us, and and you can stop
the chasm letters. They are not married. They both have
the same last name X, like Malcolm. Yeah, but yeah,
like Malcolm.
Speaker 7: But you never know what you're going to come up with,
but it always gets worse.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks for having me took the words.
Speaker 7: It was great to hear from the author about Phil
Abain's fantastic, fantastic book Monopoly.
Speaker 3: Also with us is super Agent Jim Frankel up in
Seattle and go see the Mariners.
Speaker 12: From the West Coast with Jack the the Great Dane.
Speaker 3: Who's you got a dog there? Yeah?
Speaker 12: Oh yes, you can't hear him bark huh, Well he's
very loud here.
Speaker 7: Durham Bulls Baseball Capital.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, you'll get your ass kick wearing that tonight. No,
I'm only kid. Let's see what.
Speaker 11: Happened, Durham Bulls.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're a a team. Terrible movie with the movie,
I mean goodness.
Speaker 13: Yeah, how many minor league teams have a movie after that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true, that's true. That voice you hear only
a single a team at the time. Wow. That voice
you hear is Philip Veines arthri Monopolyes. He's going to
hang around for military Trivia. You're probably gonna win, but
probably going to be embarrassed. And his lovely wife Anna
is here too, Anna, thanks for joining us. Did I
get anybody? Yeah? Okay, So tonight we're gonna be playing
military Trivia. Gonna have two rounds, ten questions each, and
so you're gonna you can if you guess, you're gonna
get it twenty five percent of the time. Not too difficult.
But let's see what happens and then the inner we'll
get one hundred dollars to do it with what they like. Okay,
hopefully they'll donate it to some charity. But we'll see
who wins. So should we start? All right, I'm getting
nods from everybody. Okay, here we go, on with the show,
On with the show. Okay, this shoe. I can take
my shades off of this? Can Tracy also keep school
because you've in the past, You've in the past. What
in the past, darkly I have? Okay, here we go,
I do Okay, first question, First question, the school keepers.
Don't Jim, Phil and Brandy an x X. Now, originally
we were going to do Phil and Jim an x
but then we had a late entry because Brandy apparently
knows a lot about military history. So oh she's going
to be as well. Okay, all right, here we go
question number one. We're ready? Yeah, okay. The pow escape
at Colditz Castle was notable because The pow escape at
cold It's Castle was notable because A it was the
only pow camp that was never breached. B officers built
a glider to attempt escape. See all prisoners escape successfully.
D it was destroyed before liberation. Now I realized that
the question of the first The first question is not right.
Uh the no, the the prison at Cold Coldy's Castle
was notable because called was there a movie meet? Yeah?
What was special about this pow camp? A. It was
the only pow camp never breached. B. Officers built a
glider to attempt to escape from there. See all prisoners
escape successfully. D. It was destroyed before the liberation. I'm
going to go to X very quick on this. I mean, first,
go ahead, X.
Speaker 7: Well. I thought it was famous because they made a
movie about it.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's backwards thinking that, right. No, I don't know
pick A pick A B, C A d.
Speaker 7: Well. I think they made gliders, at least in the movie.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's B. Jim.
Speaker 11: I'm within B.
Speaker 3: I think they made a glider too, Brandy, I'm going
to go with D. D. It was destroyed before liberation.
The reliberation and Phil.
Speaker 13: B and actually there's a picture of it in the
attic of one of the buildings. Was not used prior
to the end of the war, but they were getting close.
Speaker 3: You said B. B. Okay x B. Jim says B.
Speaker 4: Phil Brands and dog does switch get.
Speaker 3: A vote A switch if you want to jump in,
go ahead, switch.
Speaker 6: I was gonna say D but until X said about
the glider in the movie.
Speaker 3: I'm going with B. Okay, it is b.
Speaker 6: Thanks for the hitd X.
Speaker 3: Sorry, Brandy, I'm not smart. Anybody's all right, figure you
to admit it. The answers B officer has built a
glider in an attempt to attempt and escape explanation. Coldness
was supposedly escape proof. It was a castle for high
risk POWs. It became famous for ingenious attempts, including the
construction of a two man glider in the attic that
was never used.
Speaker 13: Yeah, and let me add one thing. The Monopoly X
opens with a successful escape from Coltus Castle.
Speaker 3: So someone did get out. The very first.
Speaker 13: Successful monopoly escaper was from cold.
Speaker 3: Is that right? Yeah? Oh that's excellent.
Speaker 7: Who read that book cover to cover?
Speaker 3: Question number two, Which concentration camp was designed exclusively for women?
Which concentration camp was designed exclusively for women? A? Ravensbrook
B Solar Bar C, Southshausen c bergen Belsen. Okay, so
what concentration camp was designed exclusively for women? Ravensbrook so B,
SOBPO Sessionhausen Sessenhausen, Bergen Belsen. I will go to a
filth on this first one, I think a Robbins Brook.
Speaker 13: And I just wanted to note that one of my
great associates for a lot of my career was a
thirteen year old at Bergen Belsam. Before he was he
and his his wow people from his community were exchanged
for medical supplies and he was shipped to Switzerland.
Speaker 3: Uh, let's see, let's go to X.
Speaker 7: Please save the names again. Your German is the show.
Speaker 3: A Ravensbrook. Okay, we don't. It's a two hour show.
You can't. Okay, yeah, but we gotta said, right, okay,
b sober sob bore.
Speaker 7: How's it spelled? Please spell it?
Speaker 3: S O B I B O R.
Speaker 7: Yeah. I never heard of that one. Go ahead?
Speaker 3: Uh see can you say that? Wonnie Suchsenhausens go ahead
sounds filter sus and like docs and ind Burke and Belsen.
Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, I never heard of the second one. All right,
and I don't know what it is, but A B
C D isn't the second one? B?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Well, the second the second one.
Speaker 7: All the other ones had men.
Speaker 3: See Okay, please Brandy, go ahead, I'm going to go
and see yep, Saschenhausen Okay, switch when jump in.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna go with B for the hell of it.
Speaker 3: Be okay, Jim, A, Hey, Ravensbrook and we got everyone Yeah, Okay,
the answer is a Ravensbrook. Jim said A and Phil said.
Everybody else did not say a. Yeah.
Speaker 13: One of the escape line readers, I mean the leaders
in the Monopoly X was was there and nearly died.
Speaker 3: Ravensbrook, not to Berlin was the only major Nazi camp
built solely for women, holding about one hundred and thirty
thousand prisoners over its existence. Hey, number three, did you
know all these German all these German names? Okay, and
this is the last question about pow camps. Three? What
was unusual about the theren Statt camp compared to others?
What was unusual in the Theren signed Stott camp compere
to others. A It had no gods. B it was
disguised as a model ghetto for propaganda. Ce it only
How's military POWs. B. It was built underground. Hey, what
was unusual about the Theras Signed stat camp compared to others? A?
It had no gods. B it was disguised as a
model ghetto for propaganda reasons C. It only how's military
POWs D. It was built underground, So we'll go to you.
You just want to be first, that's all right. I
don't know the answer to this. When I'm gonna guess B. Okay,
B was disguised as a model ghetto for propaganda purposes.
Speaker 7: X yeah, I kind of understand the German again, but
what was the saying them again? Sorry?
Speaker 3: What was unusual about the Thurrenstein Statt.
Speaker 7: Camp Behrenstein like the Berenstein bears.
Speaker 3: A, it had no gods. B. It was disguised as
a model ghetto for propaganda propaganda reasons, see, it only
housed military po ws D. It was built underground.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna say D. I don't know. I never heard of.
Speaker 3: It, Jim, I'm gonna say C, C and uh who else?
We got Switchy D and Brandy.
Speaker 9: I'm gonna say B. B ghetto ghetto, We.
Speaker 3: Got everyone right? Yes, B is the correct answer. It
was disguised as a model ghetto for propaganda. The Nazi
stage Therensteinstatt as a model camp to deceive Red Cross visitors,
and we was a transit camp to Auschwitz and other exterminations.
Holy go Okay. Number four Which British fighter was most
crucial in the Battle of Britain nineteen forty. Which British
fighter was most crucial in the Battle of Britain nineteen
forty A super Marine spitfire B B the Hurricane, CE
the Glasstic Gladiator and d or D the fairy Well
faery Fuma. Which British fighter Hang on having a fight
here at the entrance. Which British fighter was most crucial
in the Battle of Britain in nineteen forty A super
Marine spitfire B the Hurricane, see the Gloucester Gladiated, D
the faery Fumar. We'll go to Brandy for us.
Speaker 9: I say spitfire, A.
Speaker 3: Spitfire, Jim, I say Hurricane B Hurricane. Phil, I say
Hawker Hurricanes. I think they had the most big number. Yeah,
so b okay u X.
Speaker 7: Hawker Hurricane was the top of the line in nineteen forty.
Speaker 3: Switchy S good fire, good fire. Okay, we got everyone. Yes,
it's the hawk On Hurricane.
Speaker 6: Well wait a minute, I saw I saw the Battle
of Britain.
Speaker 3: Man, Yeah, that was a really bad one. X. Jim
and Phil both all pick the b Well the spitfight
against most of the fame, the rugged and numerous hurricane
actually down woodrom and aircraft during the Battle of Britain.
Speaker 7: Correct.
Speaker 6: Interesting now, I read the screenplay man.
Speaker 3: Okay in that movie.
Speaker 7: I read the Berenstein Bad's book, but it didn't help.
Speaker 3: Here we go number five. What major advantage of the
American P fifty one Mustang over earlier Allied escort fighters?
What was the major advantage of the American P fifty
one Mustang over early Allied escorts? In other words, the
bombers would bomb Germany on a daily basis, and they
would have smaller American fighters escort them so they could
fight off German fighters and not shoot down the bombers.
But for a long time, American escorts couldn't go all
the way to Berlin and back. But the P fifty
one Mustang was the first one to do it. So
why A because it had a greater bomb load. B
the ability to fly long range missions into Germany. See
it had jet propulsion. D it had heavy armor plating.
Was the major advantage of the Mustang over early Allied escorts? X?
Go ahead long range? I think long range? Okay? Switchy
B right, yeah, B B okay? Brandy Jim long range
can be and Phil, but I think you told us
the answer. Yeah, no, I did in the middle of that. Okay,
everyone got that. She switched over her Yes, did it be.
Speaker 7: You not asked me the question first.
Speaker 3: Okay. So, with its Rolls Royce Merlin engine, the P
fifty one could escort bombers deep into Germany during the
Tide of the war in nineteen forty four to forty five.
It also had a Now what do you hout Some
Mustangs have them. It's not fun. Drop tanks. Yeah, drop
tanks is why they had.
Speaker 13: But it had room behind the pilot's seat for another
fuel tank. Originally planned, it was supposed to be for
a radio. Yeah, but they replaced it with a fuel
tank and that really made a difference.
Speaker 3: It also got a turbocharged engine. Yeah, so it could
fly higher and therefore saved fuel.
Speaker 7: Well, well, we're waiting. I just wanted. One of the
fun facts from Phil's book is in nineteen forty four,
one fighter, bomber and transport plane was built every six minutes.
That's why I did the math to check fill out.
That means eighty seven thousand and six hundred a year.
Speaker 3: And he's right. I hope. So I was glad that.
Speaker 13: Roosevelt's initial goal was fifty thousand here, which was considered
to be Outlandishah right, yeah, but they got it up
to eighty seven thousand.
Speaker 3: Well that's why we won the law, because we were
able to produce more weapons. That's amazing.
Speaker 1: Really.
Speaker 3: Number six, Number six, Number six, Stacy having fun. Stacy's
I'm glad someone's you can. Yeah, of course, here we go.
Number six. What bizarre weapon I did? Did Winston Churchill
seriously consider in nineteen forty two? What did what bizarre
weapon I did? Did Winston Churchill seriously considerineteen forty two?
A Iceberg aircraft carriers be a giant death ray? Mirror
see a flood of raft rats dropped on Berlin? Deek
catnapoulting tanks onto beaches? Okay, is our weapon that Winston
Churchill seriously considered in nineteen forty two? Iceberg aircraft carriers,
a giant death ray, a flood of rats dropped on Berlin,
or catapulting tanks onto beaches. We'll go to Brandy.
Speaker 9: I think I like see the rats.
Speaker 3: See a flood rat and dropped on Berlin's Jim, I
think a the Iceberg, Iceberg switchy I like the death
ray death right b okay, x.
Speaker 7: Everybody knows Iceberg aircraft carriers.
Speaker 13: And so it's Iceberg. I think they intended to doctor
the waters so it wouldn't mill as early. And by
the way, the Germans were seriously considering that death ray mirror.
Speaker 3: Gotta get right on the microphone.
Speaker 13: Yeah, the Germans were seriously considering the Deathway mirror. And
Churchill was enamored when he was told that they could
possibly make aircraft carriers using doctored water to make ice
that didn't melt as quickly.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, Okay, the correct answer is Iceberg aircraft carriers.
Project have a cut yep propose using giant aircraft carriers
built a piriate ice mixed with woodpulp has proved it feasible,
but it was never built. Okay, so yeah, Iceberg aircraft carriers. Okay,
only three people going there? This some pretty colder that thing.
Huh it is number seven ready? What Soviet tactic made
effective use of the less advanced fighters earlier in the law.
What Soviet tactic made effective use of the less advanced
fighters earlier in the waw A Wolf Act tactics B
ramming attacks see kami Kazi style dives, the mass parachute assaults. Okay,
what Soviet tactic made effective use of the less than
advanced fighters Earlier in the law A wolf pack tactics,
d ramming attacks, seem Chemakazi style dives, the mass parachute assaults.
Let's go to gym.
Speaker 11: I'm gonna say wolf pack, wolf.
Speaker 10: Pack a brandy how about d the mass parachuting?
Speaker 13: Okay, all right, Phil, Well, I'm gonna go with the
ramming attacks because I think the wolf pack tactics referred
to German submarine.
Speaker 3: And switch uh D the mass parachute assaults. Okay, the
answer is what about x x X.
Speaker 7: I never heard this one, but I think because they
were so cheap, probably mass attacks.
Speaker 3: Okay, mass parachute assaults.
Speaker 7: No, what did you say, mass attacks or something?
Speaker 3: Wolf pack at tactics, ramming attacks, chemikaze attacks, mass parachute assaults.
Speaker 7: Oh? Sorry, I guess wolf pack attacks because they were cheap.
Speaker 3: The real answers be ramming attacks and desperation.
Speaker 7: Fill ramming attacks and comic kazi attacks and desperate That's
why that's why I didn't pick that.
Speaker 3: Was going to explain it in desperation. Some Soviet pilots
used it's called tarn deliberate ramming of enemy aircraft, especially
in nineteen forty one to forty two when they were
outclassed by German fighters.
Speaker 7: Wow, okay, and what is the difference between that and
the Kama Kazi attack.
Speaker 13: I think the answer is that the planes were very
sturdy and they could survive if they rammed certain parts
of you know, a German fighter, they could they could
probably lump back the base. Where's the comic casey attacks.
Speaker 7: That's one way, yeah, one way, okay, on that.
Speaker 3: Number eight. The German Emmy one sixty three Comet was
unique because A it was rocket powered. B it was amphibious.
C it had a real mounted propeller. D it was
launched from a catapult. The German Emmy one sixty three
Comet was unique because A it was rocket powered, and
B it was amphibious, amphibious. CE it had a real
mounted propeller. D it launched from a catapult.
Speaker 7: X it was rocket propelled.
Speaker 3: Switchy CE it had a real amount of propeller branding.
Oh hey, it was rocket powered, gym ay and phil
it was a it was rocket powered. The Emmy one
sixty three Common is the only rocket powered fighter to
see combat. It was incredibly fast, but dangerous to its
own pilot pilots in a limited combat use. The way
they did was sorry. There are two chemicals tea Stoff
and st off, I think, and when you put them together,
they created but they're so deadly they would keep them
opposite sides of the base until they had to come together.
I have a question, go ahead.
Speaker 7: Did they ram the other plane or did they comic
the other plane?
Speaker 3: You know what they would do? No, it's not it
it they had a propeller that had a lot of
way to it.
Speaker 7: I'm joking, I know them sixty three.
Speaker 3: That's that's a question.
Speaker 7: Before going back to the.
Speaker 3: Stacy will understand he's from Dorchester. Okay.
Speaker 10: More. I thought Kamakazi was when the pilots would like
fly their plane into a building, into the not into
other planes into.
Speaker 7: How the planes do. What they would think about the
World War two pilots.
Speaker 3: What they would do is they would have these propellers
on I think they're like YAK two's or something, and
they would they would like go up and back of
the German bombers and take off the tail of the bomber. Okay,
that would cause the bomber to crash, and maybe about
half of them might have made it home, you know. Okay,
here you go. Let's see number nine. What made the
British to have in Mosquito unique among World War Two fighters?
What made the British to have in Mosquito unique among
World War Two fighters? A? It was constructed mostly would be.
It had retractable skis for winter operations. See, it carried
nuclear test bombs. It was a single engine interceptor. So
what made the British to have one Mosquito unique among
World War two fighters? A constructed mostly of wood. B
it had retractable skis on it, so it operated in
the winter. B it carried nuclear test bombs. D it
was a single engine interceptor going to go to gym. D.
D it was a single engine interceptor.
Speaker 9: Branding I say A it was mostly of wood.
Speaker 3: I made mostly of wood, switching hey, mostly of wood,
phil A and X.
Speaker 7: Because mister Ross used to be on the show. A.
Speaker 3: Yep, that's right. It's constructed mostly of wood. Nicknamed the
wooden Window, the Mosquito was made largely of plywood, making
it light fast and versatile as a fighter bamba and
he calla sense aircraft. They would go maybe one hundred
and fifty miles per hour, and on the right conditions,
faster than anyone else. So some of them they didn't
even send up with guns because they didn't need them,
because no one could catch them, you know.
Speaker 7: Yeah, And they made several movies about them, very interesting.
Speaker 3: Okay, number ten, number ten and the first round getting
all choked out. So what unusual weapon I did? Did
the Soviets test during the defense of Moscow? Oh boy,
what unusual weapon I did that the Soviets test are
in the defense of Moscow? He hats strapped with bombs
to scare German god dogs, be tanks fitted with giant
flamethrowers see skis strapped with frockets for infantry charges, be
trained beers, beers carrying Molotov cocktails. Okay, what unusual weapon
did the Soviet test during the defense of Moscow? Hey
cats strapped with bombs to skied German god dogs. Be
tanks fitted with I had flown through a towers see
ski strapped with rockets for infantry charges. D trained bears
carrying Molotov cocktails. I'm gonna go to fill.
Speaker 13: Yikes, this one. It's a shot in the dark for
me on this one. And it points out to me
that a lot of people in Russia have trained bears.
So it's a bit of a stretch of me. I
was gonna say b but I'll go.
Speaker 3: With d D trained bears. Okay, switchy Hey hey, cats
strapped with bombs to skid German god dogs ex.
Speaker 7: This is too weird to be true. So it's gonna
be flamethrowers, which was very common with the Americans and
World War Two.
Speaker 18: Okay, all right, Brandy, I would say be also okay,
and Jim, I'm gonna say cats with Okay.
Speaker 3: All right, we got everyone. It's cats strapped the bombs.
Can you believe it? Yes, Soviet engineers tried using the
explosives on cats to disrupt German god dog patrols. The
experiment that made that made Max day. I was to
say the experiment failed and was abandoned.
Speaker 4: So that was called Project Miow.
Speaker 7: So the rest of us, I're supposed to understand what
the communists.
Speaker 6: No, I think it was Project mew mixed.
Speaker 3: There we go afterwards. Wow, that was really bad. Okay,
so that's the first round, I'm going to ask our
school keepers to please tell us how we are.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm well, Tracy is adding up. I'm adding it
up to so she's she's uh. She and I are
adding them up together.
Speaker 3: We got agent X.
Speaker 4: I'm going left to right on my scorecard. Agent X
has three six correct six. Jim has three six seven correct.
Speaker 3: Seven correct. Phil's got all but one correct. Okay. Somehow,
somehow he's rigging the switch.
Speaker 4: Brandy's got four correct, okay, and Switch's got four correct.
Speaker 3: Okay. All right, Still anyone's game. All right, we're ready
for round two. Here we go. In nineteen forty, What
unusual weather event helped save the British Army during the
Dunkirk evacuation? Nineteen forty What unusual weather event helped save
the British Army during the dun Correct evacuation. A dense
fog covered the beaches, b unseasonably calm seas, c strong
winds grounded the lufwaffa d A massive rainstorm hid the
troop movements. One unusual weather event helped save the British
Army during the Dunkirk evacuation. A dense fog, b unusually
come seas. C strong winds grounded the loof off or D.
A massive rainstorm hid the troop movements. We'll got X.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna say it sounds like A and D are
the same, but it sounds like fog.
Speaker 3: A dense fog film, A dense fog. Switchy, hey, dense
fog branding. I say A dense fog. Jim, I have
to disagree.
Speaker 11: I say A.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna love doing this. You're all wrong.
Speaker 4: Rainstorm, everybody said A B unseasonably calm seas.
Speaker 3: The English Channel was unusually calm, allowing thousands of civilian
small civilian boats to cross and rescue soldiers during an
Operation Dynamo.
Speaker 7: Okay, the original question again, because I misunderstood, we don't
have time.
Speaker 3: Number two, What unusual weapon did the Soviets deploy against
advancing German tanks in nineteen forty one? What unusual weapon
did the Soviets deploy against advancing.
Speaker 7: I got this one. It's cats. Stupid questions.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, A barry rabbits, oh man, A trained beers
with explosives again, B dogs strapped with mines, C remote
controlled sleds, B balloons carrying bombs. Okay, what unusual weapons.
Did the Soviets deploy against advancing German tanks in nineteen
forty one? A trained beers with explosives B, dogs strapped
with mines, see remote controls, sleds, D, balloons carrying bombs,
go to X, get it out of the way.
Speaker 7: I'm always for us, but given the other answer, it
can only be when dog strapped with.
Speaker 3: Bombs, strapped with bomb switchy, I'm.
Speaker 8: Gonna say D because I don't want any more animals hurt.
Speaker 3: Okay, Brandy, I say D. The balloons, balloons carrying bombs.
Speaker 12: Because there were birthday parties all the time when these
attacks were going on.
Speaker 7: I say D.
Speaker 13: Phil Well, I was going to say D, but I'm thinking, geez,
they have no control over the wind direction, which determines
which way a balloon's going to go. So I like D,
but I think I'm going to have to go with
the dogs.
Speaker 3: Okay, the answer is dogs strapped with mines. Soviets they
trained dogs to run under Germans carrying explosives.
Speaker 7: Man, all right, let's go back to that question before.
Speaker 3: The tactics and the cats.
Speaker 7: Who can tell the cat you go there, and you
go there, and everything you can tell the dog, but
not cats. I'm not buying that whole stupid cat.
Speaker 3: Do you want to go? If you want to leave,
it's fine this What did you have something to do? Therecs?
Speaker 11: They were baiting them with cat food.
Speaker 7: We have fact checked they used lobsters. They would have
been more opay than cats.
Speaker 3: Number three, Are you all right? Are you all right tonight?
XT you okay? Do we have to send over?
Speaker 18: No?
Speaker 7: I'm just taking the truth to power, okay.
Speaker 3: Number three? What unusual delivery system did the British test
for dropping incendiaries on German cities? What unusual delivery system
did the British test for dropping incendiaries on German cities?
A bat bombs, B pigeon delivered explosives? See incendiary bombs
disguised as coal, D parachute delivered tie barrels. Okay, unusual
delivery system the British test did for drop incendiary bombs
on German cities? A bat bombs, B pigeon bombs See
incendiary bombs disguised as coal, D parachute delivered tar barrels.
We're gonna go to phil on this one.
Speaker 13: I think I read Once upon a time bat bombs.
Speaker 3: I'm going with A Okay, A bat bombs switchy.
Speaker 6: I guess it wasn't fed X, So I'm going to
go with C.
Speaker 3: See in cindiary bombs disguised as coal x B pigeons
pigeons branding.
Speaker 9: I think I.
Speaker 10: Heard on your show once that it was bats. So
I'm going bats.
Speaker 3: A Man and Jim, We're going to D D parachute
delivered tie barrels. Okay, very interesting. The answer is C
andcendiary bombs disguised as coal. The s o E, which
was the Special Operations Executive, which is basically the British
seat in the world, is sabotage. End of it right, Okay.
They created coal shaped explosives to be slipped into trains
and furnaces. They caused deva. They caused because devastating secondary
explosions when shoveled into boilers. Wow man man, Yeah, okay, full.
What unusual weapon did the British use to confuse.
Speaker 7: Dream bread box? Go ahead?
Speaker 3: What unusual weapon did the British us to confuse German
U boats in the Atlantic? A explosive sea lions, B,
radio controlled icebergs, CE, inflatable rubbid decoy ships, D fake
floating lights, to simulate convoys. What unusual weapon did the
British use to confuse German U boats in the Atlantic
A explosive sea lions be radio controlled? Iceberg's D Inflatable
rubber decoy ships D fake floating lights to stimulate convoys.
We got a gym for us. Let me say, see
inflatable rubber decoy ships film. I agree with Jim see okay, branding.
Speaker 9: I kind of like D the lights.
Speaker 3: Bake floating lights to simulate convoys x C inflatable rubber decoy.
Speaker 7: Just because there were no cats involved switching.
Speaker 6: See cats were safe this time, right, brand is right?
Speaker 3: D bake floating lights to simulate convoys. The Royal Navy
used lights floated on booies to mimic ships at night,
tricking your boats into wasting torpedoes.
Speaker 16: All right, that's weird.
Speaker 7: I thought you said floating mit, they's not a little funny.
Speaker 3: All right? Here we go Number five and the Siege
of Leningrad. What food sauce did many residents turn out
to turn to out of desperation? Okay? During the Siege
of Leningrad, what food sauce did many residents turn out
turn to out of desperation A eating tree bock b
wallpaper paste in glue, ce, sawdust, bread d all of
the above. Okay, what food source did many residents turn
to out of desperation during the Siege of Leningrad tree bock,
wallpap paste in glue, see sawdust, bread d all the above.
I'm gonna go to X.
Speaker 17: All of the above, A brandy, I see all of
the above, switchy same D, jim y s D all
of the above.
Speaker 3: Phil Okay, yep, the answer is all the above. Starving
residents ate anything available, including wallpaper, paste which contained potato stoch,
sawdust mixed with bread, and tree bike. One that makes
it they didn't the cats. Unbelievable. You don't know that,
You don't. You don't think they ate the cats before
they ate wallpaper.
Speaker 13: I think the pets.
Speaker 7: They blew up all the cats before.
Speaker 3: The one one that reminds me you have to order
your onion soup. Get number six. All right, we're almost over.
What unusual disguise did the Allies use in Italy to
trick the Germans into thinking General Montgomery was in North
Africa before D Day? What unusual disguise did the Allies
use in Italy in Italy to trick the Germs into
thinking General Montgomery was in North Africa before D Day.
General Burnon Montgomery was like the Eyes and Howard the British.
He was in charge of all the British forces. He
a whax statue of him placed in Cairo. Be an
actor impersonating him at public events see radio transmissions faked
in his voice, be a double flown Oh, a double
flown around in a bomber. Okay, so out of the Allies.
Trick the Germans is to thinking that Montgomery was in
North Africa before D Day. And of course if they're
going to have D Day, he would be in England.
He a whax statue of him placed in Cairo. Be
an actor impersonating him at public events see radio transmissions
faked in his voice? Be a double flown around in
a bomber. How could a film?
Speaker 13: Well, originally I picked B, but I think it would
be easier and maybe more effective if it was a
radio transfer.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, switchy see branding c X.
Speaker 7: See the Germans weren't that stupid?
Speaker 3: Why did they lose the WA then, Jim, because the.
Speaker 7: Whole world was say B is for baby Wow, Okay,
I'm sorry, say again, it's interesting.
Speaker 3: Jim is right.
Speaker 13: Oh that was my first answer.
Speaker 3: An act an actor impersonating him at public events. British
intelligence higher than acting.
Speaker 7: Interesting.
Speaker 3: British intelligence they hire M. E. Clifton James to impersonate
Montgomery and Gibraltar and North Africa, convincing the Germans that
the gym was far from the invasion site.
Speaker 4: Wow, that's who's that guy in the movie Patent that impersonated. No,
Jersey Scott did Patton? Who did Montgomery?
Speaker 3: Oh? I don't know. They were always at odds with
each other. Yeah, they hated it. Number seven. What unusual
site greeted American troops liberating Paris in nineteen forty four?
What unusual site greeted American troops liberating Paris in nineteen
forty four? A Nazi troops surrendering in tuxedos. B. A
parade of captured German tanks driven by civilians, CE, the
Eiffel Tower being rigged with explosives. D. A female militia
unit fighting in the streets. What unusual sites greeted the
site greeted American troops liberating Paris in nineteen forty four?
A Nazi troops rendering in tuxedos. B A parade of
captured German tanks driven by civilians. C the Eiffel Tower
rigged with explosives. D A female militia unit fighting in
the streets. So good, a gym. I think C see
the Eiffel Tower rigged with explosives. X.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna say B, but I think C maybe right.
Speaker 3: See Okay, Brandy.
Speaker 9: I see girl power.
Speaker 3: D female militia unit fighting in the streets. Okay, Phil,
we're not gonna go with C. CE okay and SWITCHYD
what O D Okay you say D x T he said,
H the right answer. CE the Eiffel Tower rigged with explosives.
Speaker 7: You're on a podcast, yes.
Speaker 3: Okay, ready. Hitler ordered the Eiffel Tower destroyed and it
was wired with explosives. The German commander of Paris, Brian Kellerherr,
we were on the air. Okay, yeah, I'm sorry, Okay,
let's sadd again. Hitler ordered the Eiffel Tower destroyed and
it was wired with explosives. German commander of Paris, I'm
not going to mention his name, disobeyed and surrendered instead.
So the tower was actually rigged with explosives. Did not
know that? Okay eight? What bizarre spy tool did the OSS,
which was US intelligence developed during World War Two? One
of them? Anyway? What bisig spy tool did the USS
developed during World War Two? A exploding chocolate bars? Yeah,
B poison condoms see a silent pistol disguised as a
cigarette case. D A camera hidden in a shaving brush?
All sound good to me? A exploded I didn't get
poisoned by a condom? Do we really? Anyway? That's mac
after Doc B poison condoms see a silent pistol disguised
as a cigarette case. D A camera hidden in a
shaving brush. I'm going to go to film.
Speaker 13: Well, I think most of the OSS activity was espionage,
so I'm gonna go with D camera hidden in a shaving.
Speaker 3: Bush, camera hidden the shaving brush. Okay, Jim, I'm inclined
to agree with Phil d d Okay X. What was the.
Speaker 7: One about the cigarette case and the weapon?
Speaker 3: A silent pistol disguised as a cigarette case.
Speaker 7: I'll go with that.
Speaker 3: See okay, switchy see and Brandy a chocolate I love
that one. But the answer is see a silent pistol
disguised as a cigarette case. The o S has developed
a clever disguise, cleverly disguised weapons, including pistols hidden in
cigarette cases and pens. There are men for close range assassinations.
Well that's really.
Speaker 6: Come and ladies and gentlemen. I have to leave doing
another show.
Speaker 3: Let's give switch good luck for going.
Speaker 7: Out, going out with the train wreck.
Speaker 4: Night everybody? Okay, Switchy be good, all right, he wasn't winning.
Speaker 3: Nine. What unusual weapon did the British Special Operations Executive
designed to sabotage German industry? What unusual weapon did the
British Special Operations Executive SOE designed to sabotage all of
German industry? A? Oh boy? Okay? A exploding rats B
bombs hidden inside wine bottles, see acid filled pigeons. Don't
take the air on Jassi and D poisoned chocolate bars again? Okay, explode? Okay?
What unusual weapon did the British Special Forces designed to
sabotage all of German industry? A exploding rats B bombs
hidden inside wine bottles, see acid filled pigeons, D poison
chocolate bars. Phil, I'm gonna go to you.
Speaker 13: I'm gonna try a exploding rats, A exploding rats.
Speaker 11: Jim, I am sure it's got to be exploding rats.
Speaker 9: I mean really X.
Speaker 7: At least exploding cats.
Speaker 3: I'll say exploding branding.
Speaker 9: I say the rats.
Speaker 3: The rats, Wow, exploding rats. Rats rule. The Soe packed
dead rats with explosives, intending workers to toss them into
factory furnaces, where they detonate. The plan was discovered before
widespread use, but it forced the Germans to waste time
inspecting furnaces for booby traps. Believable.
Speaker 12: You know it was them turning the Nazis, you know,
motus operandi back on them. That's what they used, you
know in the in the the Reichstag of Hoax exploded
an exploding rat.
Speaker 3: Exploding rats. Okay, here we go, we're at the end. Ten.
What unusual material did German scientists tried to use for
aircraft late in Few aircraft were fuel late in the
war due to shortages. One unusual material did German scientists
tried to use for aircraft fuel laid in the war
due to shortages. A cold dust mixed with water be
liquefied wood see potatoes fermented into alcohol d synthetic oil
made from time and rubber. Okay, what unusual material did
German scientists tried to use for aircraft fuel late in
the water due to shortages, A cold dust mixed with
water be liquified wood. See potatoes fermented into alcohol D
synthetic oil made from time and rubber. I'm gonna go
to gym. See see potatoes fermented into alcohol branding.
Speaker 9: I say the potatoes, see.
Speaker 3: Phil potatoes Okay, n X, I think D D synthetical
oil made of tyro and rubber.
Speaker 12: I'm gonna change my boat to go ahead to potatoes.
Speaker 3: Okay, I think you said that. Okay, the answer is
potatoes fermented into alcohol. Yes, Facing fuel shortages, Germany EXPERI
into a potato based alcohol as a substitute for aviation fuel.
But it never works. Okay, So where are we there?
Scorekeepers at the.
Speaker 4: End of the well, let's see after the second round.
In the first round, Agent X got six and he
added five to his total for a total of eleven. Jim,
he started off with round one in with seven. He
added five to his total for a total of twelve.
Phil Who's a Superstar started round one with nine one
and added five to his total for fourteen. Brandy started
off with four, added four in the second round and
got a total of eight and Switch bailed out seven.
Speaker 3: So Brandy wins, Bill wins, Bill wins.
Speaker 13: All right, let's all right, so I would like to
donate my vast winnings.
Speaker 3: Okay, do you want to hear the bonus question first?
It's worth ten thousand. It's well known that Aldolf Hitler
was Adolph. It's well known that Adolf Hitler was notorious
for suffering from chronic digestive issues, including what his personal
physician called the problem of bona quote colossal flatulence. Yes, okay,
this malady was so extreme Hitler would routinely empty beer,
hal staff meetings, and even entire rally sites tw just
minutes after appearing. What unusual treatment did his doctors prescribed
for this ailment? A A vegetarian only diet with herbal
teas B dozens of daily injections, including bull sperm extract
see heavy doses of morphine and cocaine D all of
the above. Okay, all right, you you know he had
this problem. His doctors prescribed what thought colossal philanthcelence. Ay,
A vegetarian only diet with herbal teas, B, dozens of
daily injections including bull Semen extract, C heavy doses of
morphine and cocaine, D all of the above. I'm going
to go to X.
Speaker 7: Well, he was a vegetarian to begin with, so I
don't think they would have prescribed that. And if they did,
this is anyway. The other two were morphine and what
was the other one?
Speaker 3: Morphine? Cocaine and dozens of heavy doses of morphine and
cocaine is C, B, IS dozens of daily injections including
bull semen extract.
Speaker 7: I don't know what that last one.
Speaker 3: And D was all of the above. All of the
above is D.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but he was a vegetarian to begin with.
Speaker 3: The above, go ahead.
Speaker 7: Whatever.
Speaker 3: The second to the last was heavy doses of morphine. Okay, Brandy,
I went after that all of the above, dozens of
daily That was my point going with the bulle was Okay, Brandy,
I will go with D, D all the above.
Speaker 11: Jim, I want to go with the bull semen.
Speaker 3: Okay, and Phil, I'll try D D. Okay, Well, this
what half of it was, right, okay?
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 3: They the correct answers. Dozens of daily injections, including the
bull sermons Bill, Wow, I can't even say it bull
semen extract. I want to say sermons. Uh. Hitler's personal physician,
doctor Theodora Morale, treated him for severe gas ancestral issues
described as colossal flagelence. Morrow gave him bizarre remedies, including
daily injections of various compounds such as vitamins, simulants, and
even bull semen extract, reflecting both the desperate quackery of
Hitler's medical care. Okay, wow, what when to end on?
So it looks like Phil is the winner. We have
to class for them.
Speaker 13: Thank you very much.
Speaker 7: Wait a minute, did Phil answer bull semen?
Speaker 3: Yes he did.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you're not the winner.
Speaker 11: Let's see answered bumen.
Speaker 3: So that's one hundred dollars to you, Phil, congratulations, Thank you. Okay,
you can do either one or two things. Will they
leave it as our ba tab I donated to a
worthy charity.
Speaker 13: I can't give it to my staff.
Speaker 3: Well you sure you can.
Speaker 13: Charity is my choice.
Speaker 3: Okay. So tonight's charity always as always, his Homes for
our troops. They're an unization that builds homes for our
veterans who are wounded. After nine to eleven and afghan
and Afghanistan and Iraq, and they build these homes for
them that are more suitable to the needs. These are
people who watch limb and whatever, and so there's not
a lot of stays. There's lower kind of space. You've
for us. Talk about them forever on the show Almost right.
Troops gets one hundred dollars. Let's give everyone a hand,
including myself and the timekeepers. You think heros behind the scenes,
and I just want to thank everyone, So Phil, plug
your book one more time. Please Monopoly X.
Speaker 13: Monopoly X play Harper. It's out doing well and you
can find it on apmaals Lin.
Speaker 3: Just fascinating, sure story how the game of Monopoly helped
us win World War two, helped a lot of POWs.
Thanks for joining us. We really appreciate it. Thank you everyone.
I'll just take everyone up, not take everyone off, not really, Phil,
thank you for joining us. Anna, thank you for joining us,
helping up behind the scenes. Still in the corner there
watching porn or something is Elwan Nowlo, thank you Ell
appreciate Itase check it out, honey futures. I thought that, yeah,
and there's never mind X. Thank you for joining us.
We appreciate it. Thank you, Brandy, Thank you as always
for joining us.
Speaker 9: Thank you. It was totally fascinating.
Speaker 1: This is.
Speaker 3: I agree, Jim, thank you for joining us. Hold up
copy of the book.
Speaker 11: Thank you for having me and Brandy. I have a question,
cracking or creaking?
Speaker 9: Cracking?
Speaker 11: Isn't it counting?
Speaker 9: Telligence?
Speaker 11: Counter intuitive?
Speaker 3: But I believe you? Okay, uh, thank you release the
crack and thank you stay.
Speaker 9: Thank you for having me.
Speaker 3: Thank you Stacy for joining us. We appreciate it. Thank
you Stacy as always. What count are you? And Brandy?
Speaker 10: I'm in the north Woods, in the Northwood Northwoods, like.
Speaker 3: What town doesn't want to he he doesn't want to say. Okay, secret,
it's a secret. That's all right.
Speaker 7: I just thought.
Speaker 3: From Kringle.
Speaker 11: We lived in Madison, but we don't live there anymore.
Speaker 3: Madison, Thank you of the University Wisconsin. Right. That's so.
Speaker 4: I was there hanging out with a friend of mine
in nineteen sixty eight. Oh god, Madison was in nineteen
sixty eight. I was in the Great Lakes training in Chicago,
took the train and hung out insane asylum of the
University of Wisconsin, Madison in nineteen sixty eight.
Speaker 3: Wow. So you're one of those hippies. Oh yeah, he
was crazy.
Speaker 7: Yes, so everybody understands paying doesn't mean amy or marine training.
It means Navy training.
Speaker 3: That's right, Navy training. So on that note, I want
to once again thank everyone. And Monopoly X is the
name of the book. Go to Amazon and get it
has great reviews. And uh, this is Mac until you
hear us next time, Well here it is. That time
is up till you hear us next time. Please be safe,
be happy, and bye bye