A Trivia Tournament with 3 Coworkers (for 1 Really Dumb Prize)

Summary

Morning Brew Daily: A Trivia Tournament with 3 Coworkers (for 1 Really Dumb Prize)

Date: May 25, 2026
Hosts: Neil Freyman & Toby Howell
Guests/Contestants: Annalisa Cochran, Nikki Mahmoudi, Kyle Haggie

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Episode Overview

On this special Memorial Day edition, the Morning Brew Daily team returns to a popular holiday tradition: the in-house trivia tournament. Hosts Neil and Toby invite three witty, competitive Morning Brew colleagues—Annalisa, Nikki, and Kyle—for five rounds of trivia, battling for what may be the silliest prize in office banter: Toby’s Slack profile picture for a week. The tournament brings together news knowledge, movie reviews, ice cream flavor expertise, World Cup geography, and, in the final twist, a spirited fruit draft. The tone is fast, playful, and peppered with sharp banter.

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Contestants Introduced (01:18–04:28)

• Annalisa Cochran: Instagram video creator; chooses lake over beach—“I really want some tubing… docks and boats are really fun.” (03:37)
• Nikki Mahmoudi: Instagram video creator; favorite BBQ song—It Wasn’t Me by Shaggy, for appropriate cookout denial. (04:02)
• Kyle Haggie: Chief of Staff & podcast super sub; picks hot dog over burger for Memorial Day nostalgia—“You can have a burger anytime, but a hot dog on a holiday feels very special.” (04:41)

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Scoring Overview & Stakes (03:04–03:18)

• Five rounds of trivia
• Prize: Toby changes his Slack profile to the winner's photo (currently a turtle figurine Neil brought from Oaxaca)

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Round 1: News Trivia (05:18–16:32)

Format: Each gets a question; steals in play.

Highlights & Memorable Moments

• AI and Graduation:
  • “Commencement speakers are getting booed by students when they mention what? AI.” – Neil (05:39)
• Kevin O’Leary’s Data Center Feud:
  • “Kevin O’Leary aka Mr. Wonderful.” – Nikki (07:02)
• Dark Boat Stories:
  • “MV Hondius… 11 infected and three died, of what illness?” “Hantavirus.” – Kyle with surprising confidence (07:40)
  • Would they go on the ship? Mixed answers: “We have to ban cruises. Not even about the virus. We just have to ban cruises.” – Kyle (08:12)
• Dua Lipa Sues Samsung: Quick, unanimous agreement (08:32)
• Chipotle Portions:
  • Answer: “Just ask for more.” (09:03)
  • Burrito anecdote: “One of the grossest things I’ve ever seen in my entire life.” – Toby (09:53)
• Japanese Snack Packaging & Oil Shortage:
  • “They’re going to make the packaging black and white.” – Annalisa nails this obscure supply chain Q (10:23)
  • Banter on ‘naphtha’ and depressing candy packaging (11:14, 11:20)
• Savannah Bananas Attendance Record:
  • “Shout out to Kyle Field and the Savannah Bananas”—Kyle self-praises (12:01)
  • Arguments about whether they’re a “real” baseball team and their circus antics. (12:26)
• Best City for College Grads:
  • “It’s Birmingham, Alabama.” – Neil, surprising everyone. “Have you been there?” “Yeah, I love driving…” (14:28)
• Mega LEGO Set:
  • “Minas Tirith.” – Neil stumps the group with a Lord of the Rings reference (15:35)
  • Nikki: “That was a question for boys and there’s only one boy here.” (15:48)

Scores after Round 1

• Annalisa: 4
• Nikki: 1
• Kyle: 2

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Round 2: Letterboxd Movie Reviews (16:32–26:16)

Format: Given weird Letterboxd reviews, name the movie. Steals possible.

Best Quotes & Bits

• “Incredible how Emily Blunt plays a character called Emily whose main characteristic is blunt.”—The Devil Wears Prada (17:06)
• “Imagine being at an orphanage and someone picked a talking mouse over you.”—Stuart Little (18:34)
  • Toby: “Underrated fashion icon. Stuart Little, true.”
• “Just give the kid antidepressants.” – Tricky one; it's Inside Out 2 (19:23)
• “Amy boasts about her lovely small feet. Yet Florence Pugh is a size 8 according to WikiFeet.”—Little Women (20:02)
  • Hilarious WikiFeet tangent
• “When this came out I thought David Hasselhoff was a fictional character created for this movie.”—Spongebob Squarepants: The Movie (21:16)
• “Austin Butler is so bald… more glowing than Edward in Twilight.”—Dune 2 (22:05)
• “This review is another bong hit.”—Parasite, with wordplay on director Bong Joon-ho’s name (23:32)
  • Nikki: “Nikki, a real Bong knower. Thank you.”
• “Divas in long dresses… basically RuPaul’s Drag Race.”—Conclave (24:37)

Scores after Round 2

• Annalisa: 7
• Nikki: 5
• Kyle: 2

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Round 3: Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Flavor Trivia (26:21–35:36)

Format: Given ingredients, name the flavor.

Key Moments

• Kyle becomes an ice cream beast: nails Cherry Garcia, Chunky Monkey, Americone Dream
  • “Y’all should have never let me in the freezer aisle.” – Kyle (28:04)
• “Chocolate ice cream with gooey marshmallow swirls, caramel swirls & fudge fish”—Phish Food (28:23)
• Best meltdown: Contestants can’t identify “Tonight Dough” in a question full of gobs and cookie dough—even after guessing it repeatedly.
  • “It’s the Tonight Dough. You guys are joking. You’re actually kidding me right now.” – Toby losing it (33:19)
• Best fake flavors: Gob Father, Pretzel Logic (unexpected Steely Dan references)
• Judges’ ruling: Order matters—Milk & Cookies not Cookies & Milk (31:54)

Scores after Round 3

• Annalisa & Nikki tie at 7
• Kyle: 5

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Final Round: World Cup Geography Gauntlet (38:00–43:18)

Format: Name a 2026 World Cup team, no repeats, survivor style. Last standing wins 5 points.

Highlights

• Rapid-fire correct guesses: Germany, Brazil, Canada, France, Mexico, USA, Spain, Argentina, Senegal, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Uruguay, Netherlands...
• Kyle eliminated for guessing Italy (who famously missed Worlds, again!)—“That’s brutal… canceling my trip to Florence.” (40:27)
• Annalisa out after “Chile” (did not qualify). Nikki rips off more: Ghana, Sweden, Norway—misses on Denmark.
• Niche faves: “Curacao, for the first time ever, smallest country qualified—very fun to root for.” (42:32)
• Vibes check on Team USA: “The vibes are bad going in…” (43:03)

Scores after Final Round

• Nikki: 12
• Annalisa: 8
• Kyle: 5

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Bonus Segment: The Fruit Draft! (44:17–End)

Snake Draft: Build the best team of four fruits. Winner decided by listener votes.

Picks by contestant:

• Nikki: Pomegranate, grapefruit, strawberry, coconut (“Easy pick. Pomegranate. Let’s go.”—45:02)
• Annalisa: Dragon fruit, pineapple, pear (“Is it D’Anjou pear?”), guava. “Started rough but brought it back.” (55:10)
• Kyle: Honeycrisp apple, banana (“victor wembanyama of fruit”), papaya (“enforcer, controversial but needed”), tomato (“jack of all trades, sneaky pick. That’s a championship team”—52:46)
• Toby: Mango, raspberry, blackberry, watermelon (“Could have all been number one.”)
• Neil: Peach, cherry, blueberry, lime (“My team is the best summer drink. All stone fruits and berries. Peach, cherry, blueberry, lime.” – 51:16)

Hilarious arguments and justifications:

• “We play for the name on the back of the jersey… tomato’s on the squad!” – Kyle (52:41)
• Debates over coconut and tomato status (“Is coconut a fruit?” “Some might think it’s a nut.”)
• “No depth.” “First round exit.”—Toby & Kyle banter (52:05)

Draft notables left undrafted: grape, orange, clementine, lychee, kiwi, plum, apricot.

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Memorable Quotes & Banter

• On prizes: “I will change my slack profile picture to a picture of you. Right now it’s a turtle figurine… so this is a pretty big deal.” – Toby (03:04)
• On ice cream knowledge: “This is just testing who’s the least healthy of us three and I’m pulling ahead.” – Kyle (28:53)
• On trivia tension: “You guys are joking. You’re actually kidding me right now. I cannot believe that just happened.” – Toby, on the “Tonight Dough” debacle (33:19)
• On movie reviews: “Another bong hit.” – Letterboxd user; “That’s a play on the director’s name!” – Nikki (23:37)
• On fruit draft strategy: “It’s not about the best players. It’s about building the best team.” – Kyle (49:58)
• On trivia nerdery: “She just watches soccer at work.” – Annalisa, after Nikki sweeps World Cup round (43:52)

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Episode Timestamps & Key Segments

• Contestant Intros: 01:18–04:28
• Round 1: News: 05:18–16:32
• Round 2: Letterboxd Reviews: 16:32–26:16
• Round 3: Ice Cream Flavors: 26:21–35:36
• World Cup Geography Final: 38:00–43:18
• Fruit Draft: 44:17–End (~56:41)

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Final Standings

• Winner: Nikki Mahmoudi (12 points + fruit draft champion)
• Runner-up: Annalisa Cochran (8 points)
• Third: Kyle Haggie (5 points)

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Closing & Call to Action

• Hosts encourage listeners to vote on the best fruit team via YouTube, Spotify, Instagram, or email.
• The episode ends with friendly ribbing about fruit taxonomy, missed picks, and gratitude for good company.

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Summary Takeaway:
This episode is a riotously fun, fast-paced trivia throwdown full of pop culture, sports, food knowledge, and personality. Nikki’s blend of obscure knowledge and ironic wit wins her the trivia crown, with Annalisa and Kyle providing tough competition and lots of laughs. The legendary fruit draft closes out a classic Morning Brew holiday special.

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“Fruit draft is such a good idea. I could draft fruits for hours.” – Kyle Haggie (56:43)

Transcript

[Narrator/Host]

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[Neil]

we will give you the ingredients for a Ben and Jerry's flavor. And you have to name it Banana

[Toby]

Ice Cream with Fudge Chunks and Walnuts.

[Annalisa Cochran]

I'm going to say Tonight Dough.

[Toby]

Incorrect.

[Neil]

Vanilla malt ice cream with peanut fudge Covered pretzels with fudge and peanut Buttery

[Toby]

swirls tonight Dough 2.0 no, it's not

[Neil]

Tonight Vanilla ice cream with a chocolate cookie swirl. Chocolate chip and chocolate chocolate chip cookies.

[Kyle Haggie]

Huh? No one might have been mentioned in answers. I'm gonna go with Tonight Dough.

[Neil]

No. What y' all are obsessed with Tonight Dough?

[Toby]

Caramel and chocolate ice cream with chocolate cookie swirls and gobs of chocolate chip Cookie dough in peanut butter cookie dough.

[Kyle Haggie]

The gob Father Fields of gold.

[Toby]

This is shocking.

[Neil]

How to be Y' all are embarrassing.

[Toby]

It's the Tonight Dough. You guys are joking. You're actually kidding me right now. I cannot believe that just happened.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

That's Tonight Dough.

[Neil]

Good morning. On this Memorial Day, Hope been able to spend the weekend with friends or family, preferably next to a body of water. Because of the holiday, today's episode is going to be a little different than typical. Back by popular demand. It's a game show, a format we've run before on holidays. We asked three of our very funny coworkers from around Morning Brew to come on the podcast and answer trivia questions.

[Toby]

Neal always says I give out way too many hints. I just like to see people succeed. It's five rounds of fun. But before we get into it, a word from our sponsor. LinkedIn ads. A bullspin.

[Neil]

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[Toby]

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[Neil]

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[Toby]

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[Neil]

Joining us on the show today are three of the fiercest competitors we could find around the office. They'll play five rounds of trivia and the person with the most points at the end of the will win the grand prize of Toby. What is our prize?

[Toby]

I will change my slack profile picture to a picture of you. And right now it's a picture of a turtle figurine that Neil got me from Oaxaca, Mexico. So this is a pretty big deal. Play hard, folks.

[Neil]

Okay, let's quickly get to know our contestants. First up is Annalise Cochran, who makes very funny, very informative videos for the Morning Brew Instagram. Annalisa. Beach or lake?

[Annalisa Cochran]

Mmm, this might be divisive. I have to go with lake today.

[Kyle Haggie]

Nice.

[Annalisa Cochran]

Yeah.

[Toby]

And why?

[Neil]

Why lake over beach?

[Annalisa Cochran]

I really want some tubing right now. I like that the lake offers shade at certain points during the day. Um, what else do I have? Docks are really fun. Boats are really fun.

[Toby]

Famously, docks can only go into lakes, not into oceans too. Not a lot of sharks.

[Neil]

Next is Nikki Mahmoudi, who also makes very funny, informative videos for the Morning Brew Instagram. Nikki, what is the best song to play at a barbec?

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

I think it wasn't Me by Shaggy.

[Neil]

Incredible song. Yeah, I associate it with barbecuing 100%.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Yeah.

[Toby]

Who overcooked this cheeseburger? It wasn't me. Finally, someone you all know very well. It's Kyle Haggie, Morning Brew's chief of staff, host of the per my last email podcast and MBD super sub. Kyle, Hot dog or burger?

[Kyle Haggie]

Well, first honored to be here, Toby. If we win, it's going to be a profile picture of us. We should get to pick what picture you make your slack. So I'm going to throw that out there. That feels right. I like that answer. Hot dog.

[Toby]

That's all we're getting.

[Kyle Haggie]

It just feels more. It's memorial is coming up on Memorial Day. It feels more fun. You can have a burger anytime. But I think a Memorial Day on a hot dog on a holiday feels very special.

[Toby]

I actually like that take. A lot of hot dogs are not something you eat on a normal daily basis. Burgers are too accessible.

[Kyle Haggie]

Exactly.

[Toby]

I like it. And also not a Lot of sharks when it comes to burgers, too. All right, Neil, we're about to dive in. But I am just saying that I am keeping score today on this whiteboard right here. So this is a very legit operation. So no funny business from you guys. Neil, what is our first round?

[Neil]

Okay, round one is news, which is the reason we all have our jobs so enthusiastic. Get the question correctly, you're going to get one point. If you get the question wrong, the next player in line can steal your question by answering it correctly. If none of you get the question right, we'll tape you all to your desks.

[Kyle Haggie]

Dunk. Take dunk.

[Neil]

Tank. Analisa. First question to you. It's the trend taking over graduation season. Commencement speakers are getting booed by students when they mention what a I. That is correct. The former Google CEO and real and a real estate executive both got roundly booed after mentioning how I was going to disrupt the economy. Perhaps not the smartest strategy when trying to inspire a generation of young people. Did anyone have a good graduation speaker?

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Yes.

[Toby]

Flex on us.

[Neil]

Okay. You don't even remember them.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Yeah, I do. It was Meghan Rapinoe. No. From snl. Superstar Catholic schoolgirl Megan from snl.

[Neil]

Meghan Markle.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Isn't her name Meghan.

[Neil]

Molly Shannon.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Molly Shannon.

[Kyle Haggie]

Molly Shannon.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Molly Shannon. Molly Shannon.

[Toby]

May I flex for one second?

[Neil]

Sure.

[Toby]

John Krasinski. Pretty good. That's pretty good.

[Kyle Haggie]

Solid.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Okay, never mind.

[Toby]

May I not flex there for a second? John Krasinski just kind of just looked at the camera with that knowing glance the entire time he did.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Good news.

[Toby]

All right. Well done, Annalisa. Question two. This one goes to Nikki. Speaking of AI backlash, which Shark Tank judge is locked in a fight with a Utah residents over a massive data center he wants to build?

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Kevin O', Leary, aka Mr.

[Toby]

Wonderful.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Mr. Wonderful.

[Toby]

He's sort of morphing into his character in Marty Supreme. All that is left is to bring Timothee Chalamet out to Utah and spank him.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Yeah. Do you guys know about the boat?

[Neil]

No.

[Toby]

Oh, I do know about the boat, actually.

[Annalisa Cochran]

What's it?

[Toby]

It's a little dark, actually.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Dark?

[Toby]

Maybe you can Google. Just Google Kevin o' Leary boat and you'll see what comes.

[Neil]

Okay, well, question three is also about a dark story about a boat. This one's to Kyle. The cruise ship MV Hondius has arrived in the Netherlands after a nightmare of a trip where 11 people were infected and three people died. Of what illness?

[Kyle Haggie]

Hantavirus.

[Neil]

That is correct. Hantavirus. Wow. We got three for three in the

[Kyle Haggie]

first couple of questions.

[Neil]

Just hold on.

[Kyle Haggie]

You don't want to say this.

[Toby]

This is kiss Jeopardy.

[Neil]

Trust me, the difficulty will ramp up.

[Kyle Haggie]

I'm feeling a little confident.

[Neil]

Here's the wild part about this ship. It's going to sail again with people in a couple of weeks. It's going to be disinfected, inspected, then head out on a polar cruise. That's price starting at $5,750 per person. Would anyone step foot on this ship?

[Kyle Haggie]

Yes.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Me.

[Toby]

No.

[Kyle Haggie]

We have to ban cruises. Not even about the virus. We just have to ban cruises.

[Toby]

I think they're good. I'm team Cruise as no, honestly, it's a petri dish. Tom Cruise. I'm team Tom Cruise. All right, question for everyone's three for three. This one goes back to Annalisa. Which pop star is suing Samsung for using her face to sell TVs?

[Annalisa Cochran]

Dua lipa.

[Toby]

Or as I like to call her, Du Lapeep. It is a very smart marketing tactic. Dua Lipa could sell garlic to a vampire.

[Neil]

All right, this next one is for Nikki. Question number five. Chipotle CEO recently said that if you want bigger portions, you should do what,

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

like pay more money for them for the.

[Neil]

Not exactly. Kyle. This. This is a steal to you.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Oh, my God.

[Neil]

If you want bigger portions at Chipotle, the CEO said you should just do what?

[Kyle Haggie]

If you want bigger portions at Chipotle, you should order the burrito bowl and ask for double chicken.

[Neil]

That. That works. But that's not what he said. Annalisa, save us ask. All you got to do is ask. That's what he said. He said if you want bigger portions, just ask for more.

[Kyle Haggie]

Simple as that.

[Toby]

Good steal, Annalisa.

[Annalisa Cochran]

What can I say?

[Toby]

I recently saw a guy go into a Chipotle and order a wet burrito, which is zero dry ingredients. So it's pinto beans, black beans, queso sour cream, all three types of salsa. And then he just says, wrap it up. And the Chipotle worker did that. So apparently you can ask them to do almost anything, including more portion sizes and make a wet burrito.

[Neil]

And how was the integrity of the burrito of the tortilla?

[Toby]

It was unbelievable how it contained everything. One of the grossest things I've ever seen in my entire life, though. All right, question six.

[Neil]

To Kyle.

[Toby]

To Kyle. Citing the Iran war, Japanese snack food giant Calvi announced it would make what change to its packaging?

[Kyle Haggie]

Oh, God. It's going to remove oil from the. From the packaging.

[Toby]

It's not. Not Right, but we're not going to give that one to you. So it's still snaps background to Annalisa.

[Annalisa Cochran]

Yeah, they're going to make the packaging black and white.

[Toby]

Oh, my gosh. She's dominating. She's dominating.

[Kyle Haggie]

How are they going to do that, may I ask?

[Neil]

I mean, how are they going to print something in black and white?

[Kyle Haggie]

No, he's saying using less oil.

[Toby]

He's advoc for his own answer.

[Kyle Haggie]

Yeah, we need like, we need like the research team in the background to come back. Like an NBA review and award.

[Toby]

No, we actually are just getting words from our producer, Kyle. Still no point for you, unfortunately. Yeah. The company said it's switching to monochrome packaging for its popular popular shrimp sticks, potato chips and other munchies due to Iran war supply chain disruptions. It blames the change on a shortage of Nafanha.

[Neil]

Nafna Naptha.

[Toby]

Is that the North American treaty? An oil derived product using used in printing ink.

[Kyle Haggie]

I like how you said oil derived there.

[Toby]

Naptha.

[Neil]

Naphtha. We've said it on the podcast a million times.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Napster.

[Neil]

Napster. Naptha.

[Annalisa Cochran]

How depressing to eat candy out of a black and white packaging.

[Toby]

I know it's mostly chips, but I agree. Like, it really does change how consumers walking down the aisle buy their stuff.

[Annalisa Cochran]

And the taste probably.

[Neil]

Annalisa, this is question number seven to you. Which baseball team just set a new attendance record by packing over 102,000 fans into Kyle Field at Texas A and M?

[Annalisa Cochran]

Probably a Texas team. The Texas. I'm going to go with the Atlanta Braves.

[Neil]

Not quite.

[Toby]

Nikki Favorite.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Is it the Astros?

[Neil]

No, this is.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

My God.

[Neil]

This is not a major league baseball team. Kyle. Kyle Haggie. This has happened at Kyle Field, so I expect you to this.

[Kyle Haggie]

Shout out to Kyle Field and shout out to the Savannah Bananas. Here we go. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Point on the board. Sorry, we were.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Loyalty.

[Annalisa Cochran]

Wait, what's their mascot?

[Toby]

We were looking for take the oil out of the baseball stadium. Actually, Kyle.

[Neil]

So I've never seen a game show where someone gave themselves a ding, ding, ding.

[Kyle Haggie]

That's how they got the right answer.

[Neil]

Yes. People seem to have very strong feelings about the Savannah Bananas.

[Toby]

Do you guys like them?

[Kyle Haggie]

I think we put them all on a cruise ship, to be honest.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

You call them a baseball team? It's not what they do.

[Toby]

They date well.

[Neil]

They play baseball, they dance, they sing. They do all types of antics like circus, but it's extremely popular.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

I think it's circus.

[Annalisa Cochran]

They're not. What league are they?

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

They do Pretend baseball. Because it's funny.

[Toby]

Yes.

[Annalisa Cochran]

I don't feel like that question was set up correctly.

[Kyle Haggie]

You've never heard of the Savannah Bananas until now? God, I'm so jealous of you. I wish I forgot everything I know about them.

[Toby]

They're. They are popular. I like that they do flips and catch balls.

[Neil]

It's like, Ben, maybe pretend baseball is more popular than regular baseball.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Yeah.

[Toby]

All right, question eight. Whose turn is it? Neil?

[Neil]

Nikki.

[Toby]

Nikki. A study from ADP found which city to be the best in the United States for recent college graduates to find jobs.

[Kyle Haggie]

Oh,

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

is it like fucking. Oh, I'm not allowed to say a bad word. Sorry. Is it Pittsburgh?

[Toby]

No.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Pennsylvania.

[Toby]

It's not. Right. Nor is it in the right section of the country either. Okay, on to Kyle.

[Kyle Haggie]

Minneapolis, Minnesota. Ding, ding, ding, ding.

[Toby]

D Self, ding. Which is actually minus 4 points in this regard. So, Kyle, negatives. Now, Annalisa, it was not Minneapolis or Pittsburgh. Any idea?

[Annalisa Cochran]

Dallas slash Houston.

[Toby]

Okay, Dallas.

[Kyle Haggie]

They're not even close.

[Neil]

They're very far apart. Texas is big.

[Annalisa Cochran]

Okay, wait, wait. Okay, can I choose one?

[Toby]

Yes, you can choose one of those.

[Annalisa Cochran]

I think it's Houston. I know that Dallas has been growing, but I think I remember hearing Houston.

[Toby]

A clutch answer. Not even close. It's Birmingham, Alabama. What now? Has anyone been there?

[Kyle Haggie]

Just a bunch of jobs on the ground in Alabama.

[Toby]

Neil, tell them why Birmingham is hot right now.

[Neil]

Yeah, Birmingham has a lot of medical jobs. Uab, University of Alabama. Birmingham is kind of a juggernaut there. And I guess, according to this study, it is the best city in the United States for recent college grads to find jobs.

[Toby]

Have you been here?

[Neil]

I've been Birmingham. Yeah.

[Toby]

Bill has been to lots of just the most random.

[Neil]

The most random town.

[Toby]

Loves driving.

[Neil]

I love driving. I don't get to do it here, so I just drive down to Birmingham and I just give them an award for the best city for. For young college grads. Final question, Kyle. Lego unveiled one of its biggest sets ever, containing 8,278 pieces and selling for 650 bucks. What is the structure in the set?

[Kyle Haggie]

That would be the Great Wall of

[Neil]

China, not the Great Wall of China.

[Toby]

Insane LEGO set, though. I like that answer it.

[Neil]

Would China allow that?

[Toby]

I don't know.

[Neil]

Annalisa.

[Annalisa Cochran]

Wait. How many pieces?

[Neil]

8,000, 278. Got it.

[Toby]

Easy.

[Annalisa Cochran]

The Death Star.

[Neil]

Star wars already is a Death Star one. I think it's a little smaller. Okay. Nikki Self.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

It's the World cup trophy.

[Neil]

No, but that'd be cool.

[Toby]

What?

[Neil]

It's you thought you were.

[Toby]

They do have a World cup because

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

they just made it.

[Neil]

Yeah, well, they might have made it, but this is not the massive set. The answer is Minas Tirith. What is that, minister? Is obviously the capital of Gondor and the Lord of the Rings.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Okay, so that was a question for boys, and there's only one boy here.

[Kyle Haggie]

And I didn't even. Not really fair let down my gender.

[Neil]

Women watch the Rings. So this is not the biggest set ever. There are a few that are bigger. We have the Coliseum and the Titanic, which are over 9,000 pieces. Should include the MB hoddiest in there. And the Eiffel Tower is the one with the most pieces. Comes in at 10,001.

[Toby]

I wonder what the one piece is. I guess just the Paris flag on top. Why not make it an even 10,000? All right, you guys did pretty well on the news category. And by you guys, I mean just Annalisa because the scores are. Annalisa has four, Nikki has one.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

That's good.

[Toby]

And Kyle. Self ding. Haggie has two.

[Kyle Haggie]

Self ding. Here we go.

[Toby]

Self ding. All right, so let's move on to round two. The movie review site Letterbox is one of the few authentic corners of the Internet left for this round. We went deep into Letterbox for some of the funniest, strangest reviews left by users. We will give you the review and you have to name the movie that's sick. And once again, steals are in play.

[Neil]

This category is approved by Nikki.

[Toby]

This. This category is sick, as she likes to say. Who is up? Neil, I never remember who just answered all this question.

[Neil]

Let's just go with who has the least amount of points.

[Toby]

All right, Nikki it is.

[Kyle Haggie]

That's savage.

[Toby]

All right, question one, and I'm just reading in the review here. Incredible how Emily Blunt plays a character called Emily, whose main characteristic is Blunt. One of the many visionary elements in this seminal masterpiece.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Devil Wears Prada.

[Toby]

Yes, the original, by the way.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Yeah, I didn't say two.

[Neil]

Did not say let's all take Emily is a blunt. Okay, review number two, Kyle. Whenever I think about getting back together with my ex, I watch this film. Works like a charm.

[Kyle Haggie]

The Avengers.

[Neil]

The Avengers. Annalisa.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Oh. Oh.

[Annalisa Cochran]

Crazy stupid love. Actually, I think that's falling movie.

[Toby]

I like this.

[Neil]

Yeah, I feel like this. This review could work for a lot of movies. It's not that one. Nikki, any idea the Joker? Joker is not correct. The answer. This was a review and I'll treat it once again. And whenever I think about getting back together with my. I Watched this film. Works like a charm. The answer is gone.

[Annalisa Cochran]

Girl.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

That review and the film.

[Toby]

What if the answers were all just Devil? Devil Wears Pride? That would have been good. All right, question number three. We are back to Annalisa. Imagine being at an orphanage and someone picked a talking mouse over you.

[Annalisa Cochran]

Oh, Stuart Little.

[Toby]

Correct. Stuart Little.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Nice.

[Toby]

Imagine having the mouthed before you.

[Kyle Haggie]

I totally forgot about that movie. It's electric.

[Toby]

Yeah. Underrated fashion icon too. Stuart Little. True tossing fits in that movie.

[Annalisa Cochran]

So many talking animal movies in the 2000s.

[Kyle Haggie]

Yeah, we gotta bring those back.

[Neil]

Bring those back. I feel like every animal

[Toby]

does, but

[Annalisa Cochran]

he plays basketball, which feels like talk very well. Yeah, that feels like talking.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

He talks with the. With his.

[Kyle Haggie]

He talks with his game.

[Annalisa Cochran]

I know a lot of men that don't talk and just shoot.

[Toby]

Talk to this.

[Neil]

Let the record show there's still a lot of movies with animals talking.

[Kyle Haggie]

Yeah, it's not on my radar. I've kind of evolved. Yeah.

[Neil]

Okay, Nikki, this one's for you. For the love of God, just give the kid antidepressants.

[Toby]

Little dark.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

We need to talk about Kevin.

[Toby]

I don't even know that movie. Incorrect.

[Neil]

But maybe we should. Kev. Kyle up. Not up.

[Toby]

Not a bad guess though.

[Annalisa Cochran]

I think this one is the Joker.

[Neil]

It is not the Joker.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Give the kid Joaquin.

[Neil]

The answer. For the love of God, just give this kid antidepressants. Inside out 2.

[Kyle Haggie]

Great movie.

[Toby]

That's a funny one. Voices in the head. All right, on to Kyle. Throughout the movie, Amy boasts about her lovely small feet. Yet Florence Pugh is a size 8 according to WikiFeet.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Oh, come on.

[Kyle Haggie]

Okay. 1. Never been on Wikifeet. Got a hand up. Never. Never even heard of it.

[Toby]

God, that sounds a lot like someone who's been on Wikifeet. Honestly.

[Kyle Haggie]

Is it Wikifeet, the documentary?

[Toby]

Incorrect. But also a great movie.

[Annalisa Cochran]

Annalisa, I believe that is Little Women.

[Toby]

Little Women.

[Neil]

Well done.

[Annalisa Cochran]

I don't want to brag, but maybe I am on Wikifeet. We should get that.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

And maybe a size 8 isn't that big.

[Toby]

Actually, follow up question. Do you self submit to Wikifeet or is that like someone else?

[Annalisa Cochran]

You just post a lot of photos that show your feet.

[Kyle Haggie]

I'm just kidding, Toby. We don't. We wouldn't know the guidelines or rules. Yeah, never even heard of the website.

[Toby]

Okay, I am curious about Wikifeet.

[Neil]

I wonder how many people are on Wikifeet but not Wikipedia. Also like their feed are just so incredible.

[Kyle Haggie]

And who's on TikTok Why would you

[Annalisa Cochran]

post your own photos when you could probably sell them, right?

[Kyle Haggie]

Some people just do it for the love of the game.

[Toby]

I've heard feet there's that you don't want to be on. Actually, wiki feet is all right.

[Kyle Haggie]

This is.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

They find you.

[Kyle Haggie]

This is turning a corner.

[Neil]

We need to move on.

[Toby]

No, that's not a.

[Neil]

Staying in number six to Annalisa. When this came out, I thought that David Hasselhoff was a fictional character created specifically for this movie. And to be quite honest, I'm still not convinced he's real.

[Annalisa Cochran]

This is my favorite movie as a kid. SpongeBob SquarePants the movie.

[Toby]

Well done. I thought the same thing.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Yeah, me too.

[Toby]

I did do when his chest did the thing and back down.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

So cool, man.

[Annalisa Cochran]

I mean, he wrote on the water with it. Yeah, yeah.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

That was not.

[Annalisa Cochran]

That's not possible.

[Toby]

I still try to swim like that. Try to get a lot of speed going. The Hasselhoff. All right. Well done, Nikki. This is to you. Question 7. Austin Butler is so bald. I've never seen anyone be so bald in my life. So moisturized and bald. She was glowing more than Edward in Twilight. What's your Megamind head skincare routine, Elvis boy?

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Okay. Yeah, that would be Dune 2.

[Toby]

Dune Part 2. Yeah, I agree with the sentiment too. There's never been a more bald character in any movie.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

This hell. Just want to squeeze that head. Just want to pop that head right open.

[Neil]

All right.

[Toby]

Crack it open like an egg.

[Neil]

Question number eight to someone with a little more hair than Austin Butler. Kyle Aggie. This review is another bong hit.

[Kyle Haggie]

Wait, the review is another bong hit.

[Toby]

Just sit with that one for a little.

[Neil]

Another bong hit. Another bong hit.

[Kyle Haggie]

Yeah. So a question marker. An exclamation point.

[Neil]

There is no, no, no punctuation.

[Kyle Haggie]

All right, letterboxd. First, work on your grammar. I'm going to go with Pineapple Express.

[Toby]

It's a good guess.

[Kyle Haggie]

Toby keeps giving me good guesses.

[Toby]

You're giving out good guess.

[Neil]

Toby's the most encouraging. I know, I know. He's my game show host.

[Annalisa Cochran]

Annalisa, what is that Seth Rogen movie at the end of the world?

[Kyle Haggie]

Pineapple Express?

[Annalisa Cochran]

No, no, no. At World's End. But I think that's actually the Simon Pegg movie. But I'm gonna say at world's End.

[Toby]

That was a Seth Rogen movie, but incorrect.

[Annalisa Cochran]

What's the Simon Pegg movie?

[Toby]

Shaun of the Dead.

[Neil]

Shaun of the Dead. Shaun of the Ben and many other fun.

[Kyle Haggie]

Wait. Oh, the one with Seth Rogen in the World's ending.

[Toby]

Isn't his name Simon Pegg, or am I making that up?

[Annalisa Cochran]

There's Simon Pegg and Seth Rogen.

[Toby]

Simon.

[Neil]

Seth and Simon Cowell.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Simon Cowell, Simon Co. Nikki, you're getting

[Toby]

a lot of time to think about this. For this.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Well, I. I think I knew it from the get go because Bong, it's. It's. It's a play on the director's name.

[Neil]

Correct.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

But now what is the movie?

[Kyle Haggie]

What is he thinking?

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

I'm gonna guess the most popular one on. In. In the commercially popular one. Parasite.

[Neil]

That is correct.

[Kyle Haggie]

Holy

[Neil]

capitalized. So this is Parasite from the director, Bong Joon Ho, and it is, yes, the most commercially successful one. The Academy Award for best picture, and I agree.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Another Bond hit.

[Neil]

What. What are the other bong hits that we should know that are less commercially successful?

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Memories of Murder is one of the best films ever made. I've seen it like 17 times. And the other one, I believe is called Mother, which is very Snow Piercer. Snow piercer.

[Kyle Haggie]

Then there's the one where you take a 2 liter Mountain Dew and you flip it upside down. And

[Toby]

now that one we have to cut from the show. This is a family friendly show, Nikki. A real Bong knower. Thank you.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Thank you.

[Toby]

Number nine. Who is this?

[Neil]

Annalisa.

[Toby]

Annalisa. Divas in long dresses, gossiping with each other, trying to snatch a win. This is basically RuPaul's Drag Race.

[Annalisa Cochran]

Divas in long dresses trying to snatch a win.

[Toby]

Gossip with thinking, gossiping with each other, trying to snatch a win, Gossiping with

[Annalisa Cochran]

each other, trying to snatch it. Secret Lives of Moron Wives, the movie.

[Neil]

I can't wait for that one.

[Toby]

I don't know if it's gonna make it to air considering all that's been going on in the Mormon Wives universe. Nikki.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

And I'm gonna break this down again. Who on earth represents divas more than the Catholic Church? Oh, it's conclave, Nikki.

[Toby]

You're firing me up right now.

[Kyle Haggie]

This is incredible.

[Toby]

This is like you're playing above the rim. I know.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Ball, guys.

[Kyle Haggie]

Oh, my gosh.

[Toby]

Is Conclave absolutely incredible? Remember when we all learned about what conclave was because of conclave and the real Conclave? Yeah, I remember. We did invite the Pope on this show. He said no, so we got Kyle instead.

[Kyle Haggie]

There was another Doom and Westerners.

[Neil]

So this was the second most popular review for Conclave. The first one on letterbox with like 84,000 likes, was most diabolical vape hit of all. Time.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Yeah.

[Neil]

Another iconic scene from that movie, which was a great movie.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Movie.

[Neil]

Toby, we are now at the end of round two.

[Kyle Haggie]

Thank God. So bad at movies.

[Neil]

Yeah. Kyle's ready for that one to be over. What is the scoreboard look like now?

[Toby]

All right, Annalisa still has her nose in front with seven points, but Nikki came on very strong with two extra steals. I feel like we should have ordered two points for some of those. She has five now.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Wow.

[Toby]

Kyle. Non movie. Noah Haggie has two.

[Neil]

All right, round three. Kyle, what is your knowledge of ice cream?

[Kyle Haggie]

Ice cream?

[Neil]

Yeah.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Yeah.

[Kyle Haggie]

Big fan.

[Neil]

Okay.

[Kyle Haggie]

Big fan.

[Neil]

All right.

[Toby]

Maybe.

[Neil]

Maybe. This is your comeback category. It's ice cream season. Whether you're chewer or a liquor cone gal, cone cup guy, you better be brushed up on your flavors. Specifically Ben and Jerry's flavors.

[Kyle Haggie]

Oh, here we go. Come on now. What the hell?

[Neil]

It's a premature ding. In this round, we will give you the ingredients for a Ben and Jerry's flavor, and you have to name it.

[Kyle Haggie]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Neil]

All right, Kyle, we will start with you. Cherry ice cream with cherries.

[Kyle Haggie]

Cherry Garcia flakes.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Are you serious?

[Neil]

Let me finish. Cherry ice cream with cherries and fudge flakes.

[Kyle Haggie]

Cherry Garcia.

[Neil]

That is correct.

[Kyle Haggie]

Nice points on the board.

[Neil]

Ding, ding, ding.

[Kyle Haggie]

Come back. Time. Y' all should have never let me get ice cream.

[Toby]

All right, number two, Annalisa. Banana ice cream with fudge chunks and walnuts.

[Annalisa Cochran]

Oh, is it the monkey one? I'm gonna say tonight, dope, because that's the one that I really know.

[Toby]

All right. Incorrect, Incorrect.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Unfortunately, Nikki, I guess I'll try to steal that. Is it like, Monkey Madness?

[Toby]

What do we do with that?

[Kyle Haggie]

No, it's not the name of the game, Toby.

[Toby]

Nikki, would you like to try again?

[Kyle Haggie]

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

[Neil]

What is going on?

[Toby]

Toby?

[Annalisa Cochran]

Toby's favorite.

[Kyle Haggie]

You can't just say the wrong order.

[Toby]

I'm not gonna lie. Yeah, I think Nikki's my favorite right now, so I'm giving her another chance because of her last bong hits. And I do have money. The prediction market.

[Kyle Haggie]

Let's see. Toby's Poly market.

[Toby]

All right, fine.

[Kyle Haggie]

Pull it up.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Okay. It's all right. Go ahead.

[Kyle Haggie]

Chunky Monkey.

[Toby]

Chunky Monkey.

[Kyle Haggie]

Bang, bang. You should have never let me in the freezer aisle. Come on.

[Toby]

Kyle is actually gonna dominate this category.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

What the hell?

[Neil]

This next one. This next flavor is for Nikki. I feel like Toby should just give Nikki all the questions because it's going to slip in the answer. Number three is chocolate ice cream with gooey marshmallow swirls. Caramel swirls and fudge. Fish.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Fudge.

[Toby]

Oh, oh, oh.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Fish food.

[Neil]

Fish food is correct. Come on.

[Toby]

I feel like we should have audited that one cuz we did say fish in it. That is we gave half of the answer fish food.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Ph, there we go. This is a farmhouse fish food.

[Toby]

Big fan of fish. I wish I was a fan of fish and could get that joke. Question four to Kyle.

[Kyle Haggie]

Yep.

[Toby]

Vanilla ice cream with fudge covered waffle cone pieces in a caramel swirl.

[Kyle Haggie]

So first I just want to say this is just testing who's the least healthy of us three and I'm pulling ahead. And the answer to this one is. Americone Dream.

[Toby]

Oh my gosh.

[Kyle Haggie]

Bang bang.

[Annalisa Cochran]

This is.

[Toby]

This is really impressive too, category.

[Neil]

We'll see if you can make up some ground.

[Toby]

Yeah.

[Neil]

Question number five to Annalisa. This flavor is vanilla malt ice cream with peanutty fudge covered pretzels with fudge and peanut buttery swirls.

[Annalisa Cochran]

Tonight though.

[Neil]

No, it's not tonight though. Tonight though is my favorite flavor.

[Toby]

That's the only one I noticed.

[Neil]

Afterwards we'll go around and say our favorite flavors, but. But it is not that. I'll say once again, Nikki, for the steel vanilla malt ice cream with peanutty fudge covered pretzels with fudge and peanut buttery swirls.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

I'm going to go. They like to do the music stuff. I'm going to go. Steely Dan hit album Pretzel Logic.

[Neil]

That is. It would be a great.

[Kyle Haggie]

I think we just found a new flavor though.

[Neil]

Logic is sick name.

[Toby]

Yeah.

[Neil]

Shout out Steely Dan. Kyle, I can't read on your face whether you know this or not.

[Kyle Haggie]

I think it's. There comes a time in every man's life where he does not know one of the ice cream answers. And this. The time is now for me, that is. I'm just running out of tonight dough 2.0.

[Neil]

It is not tonight though. I know a lot of people listening to this are like, oh my God, it is chubby hubby.

[Kyle Haggie]

I actually haven't heard of that one.

[Neil]

It also sounds like a Steely Dan.

[Kyle Haggie]

Sounds like.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Does sound like a unreleased Steely Dan pizza.

[Neil]

All right, nobody got any points. No blood on that one.

[Toby]

Number six to

[Neil]

Annalisa.

[Toby]

Annalisa.

[Annalisa Cochran]

I think I just.

[Toby]

Oh, no, no.

[Neil]

It's Nikki. It's Nikki.

[Toby]

Question 6. Chocolate and vanilla ice creams mixed with gobs of chocolate chip cookie dough and fudge brownies.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

So easy. Half baked.

[Toby]

Half baked. Let's go. Yeah, a lot of kind of A bong theme carrying through to the next.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

We smoking cream.

[Neil]

Kyle, back to you. Vanilla ice cream with a chocolate cookie swirl. Chocolate chip and chocolate chocolate chip cookies.

[Kyle Haggie]

Huh? No one might have been mentioned in answers. I'm gonna go with Tonight dough.

[Neil]

No.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

There's one ingredient in Tonight dough that reveals it. Oh, and you'll know.

[Toby]

Don't spoil it. Don't spoil.

[Neil]

But I want to help you guys know this one.

[Annalisa Cochran]

Can you repeat it?

[Kyle Haggie]

I don't remember any other.

[Toby]

I'll say. I think Neil's googling something. Vanilla ice cream with a chocolate cookie swirl. Chocolate chip and chocolate chocolate chip cookies.

[Annalisa Cochran]

Cookie monster.

[Toby]

Nope. Close.

[Neil]

I mean, Nikki, raise your hand. It's to you.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

It's cookies and milk, right?

[Toby]

Oh, no.

[Neil]

Okay, this is really going to test judges metal.

[Toby]

It's milk and cookies. Sorry.

[Kyle Haggie]

Order. Order.

[Toby]

Matter of that. You know, order matters.

[Neil]

Order matters. It's not Jerry's and Ben. It's not Jerry's and Ben. It's Ben and Jerry's. It's not Gamble and Proctor.

[Toby]

No way.

[Kyle Haggie]

It is Johnson and Johnson, though.

[Toby]

Should I give everyone a point?

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

[Kyle Haggie]

All right.

[Toby]

Everyone gets a point. So you guys look like you're doing better.

[Kyle Haggie]

Nice. Points for milk.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Yeah.

[Toby]

Cookies and milk. Milk. I guess. All right, it's on to

[Neil]

Kyle.

[Toby]

I have amnesia.

[Kyle Haggie]

Kyle, please, please be tonight, though.

[Toby]

Caramel and chocolate ice cream with chocolate ch. Chocolate cookie swirls and gobs of chocolate chip cookie dough in peanut butter. Cookie dough.

[Kyle Haggie]

Now you're just naming random gobs.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

They love that word.

[Kyle Haggie]

Yeah, the gob. Father.

[Annalisa Cochran]

That's funny.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

That's good.

[Annalisa Cochran]

Good.

[Toby]

Wow, Kyle, you just come up with that?

[Kyle Haggie]

Yeah.

[Toby]

You just pulled that out of the thin air.

[Kyle Haggie]

Yeah.

[Toby]

Not right. All right. Anna, Lisa.

[Annalisa Cochran]

Peanut butter fudge.

[Toby]

Not peanut butter fudge.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

It can't be that simple. Nikki, can you repeat the ingredients?

[Toby]

Caramel and chocolate ice creams with chocolate cookie swirls and gobs of chocolate chip cookie dough and peanut butter cookie dough.

[Kyle Haggie]

Toby, can we hear the nutritional facts? How many carbs?

[Toby]

That's got 4,900 calories per serving in eight servings.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Is it like fields of gold?

[Toby]

This is shocking out of you.

[Neil]

Y' all are embarrassing.

[Kyle Haggie]

I ran out of my.

[Neil]

Does anyone have any other guesses?

[Kyle Haggie]

Tonight dough.

[Toby]

It's the Tonight dough. You guys are joking. You're actually kidding me right now.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

No, wait, I thought that was the one that had the pretzel potato chips.

[Toby]

No, no.

[Annalisa Cochran]

What's that one?

[Toby]

I don't know. That sounds. I cannot believe that just happened.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

That's tonight, though.

[Toby]

We put it very strategically 8 paces down cuz we knew it'd be a popular guest tonight. Tonight though. And I'm getting. You know what, I'm going to subtract the point I just gave to all you guys last round. Because of that performance I'm allowed to see.

[Kyle Haggie]

I thought the bit was over, so I wasn't going to say it, but in fact you said it one time. I was sticking to the ba.

[Toby]

It is delicious though.

[Neil]

Okay, we got two more here. Annalisa Chocolate ice cream with chocolate cookies and swirls of chocolate pudding ice cream.

[Annalisa Cochran]

Beehive.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Beehive.

[Toby]

Our first sponsored answer.

[Neil]

Yeah.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Is it like Mudslide Fudge?

[Neil]

It's a Dolly Parton name. Done. Moving on from Silly Dan. That is not correct. Kyle.

[Kyle Haggie]

Chocolate river.

[Neil]

Close. Close. Chocolate therapy.

[Toby]

Chocolate therapy.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Okay, been there.

[Toby]

To chocolate. All right, question 10. This one's to Nikki. Coffee ice cream with espresso bean fudge chunks.

[Kyle Haggie]

Oh.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Oh crap.

[Toby]

It's like a. Oh, I got it.

[Kyle Haggie]

It's like I got it.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

It's, it's. It's like a Java mama.

[Neil]

Now we're back to fish songs.

[Toby]

Java Mama.

[Neil]

Kyle, you seem to know you guys

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

didn't even say if it was ready.

[Kyle Haggie]

It is express. So, so, so tasty.

[Toby]

Wow. Kyle leads for most confidence. Least correct answers for sure.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

I thought you were going to say

[Toby]

that was which I like.

[Annalisa Cochran]

Annalisa, Anything Wake me up with morning brew.

[Toby]

This name kind of pisses me off.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Coffee.

[Toby]

Coffee. Buzz, buzz buzz.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

No way.

[Toby]

Stupid.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

No way.

[Kyle Haggie]

We just came up with three better names. I'd rather have Jama bring in Ben and Or Jerry. Bring him in.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

They're old as hell.

[Toby]

We can take them. Coffee buzz, buzz, buzz.

[Neil]

Toby, what's the score after that round?

[Toby]

The score is not a lot of action that round, except for Kyle making up some ground.

[Kyle Haggie]

Yep.

[Toby]

Annalisa and Nikki are now tied at seven with Kyle Haggie coming in close at five.

[Kyle Haggie]

Five. Okay. I'm in the game.

[Toby]

You're in the game. Win the show.

[Neil]

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[Toby]

Of course. Why do you think my life is so chaotic?

[Kyle Haggie]

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[Neil]

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[Toby]

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[Toby]

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[Neil]

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[Toby]

Great, because all my investments are of the emotional variety.

[Neil]

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[Toby]

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[Toby]

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[Neil]

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[Neil]

First place is going to get five points here. Second place is going to get two points. So this is for all of the

[Kyle Haggie]

marbles within striking distance.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Oh, it's a one question.

[Neil]

You'll see. Okay, I'll explain. So the World cup is right around the corner.

[Kyle Haggie]

Come on, you have no idea. She's got a soccer jersey on.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

This is actually not a soccer soccer jersey. This is the Olympic US Skateboarding.

[Kyle Haggie]

All right, never mind then. Then we might have a chance.

[Neil]

Is that true?

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Yeah, it is. Okay.

[Toby]

It's kind of pretty.

[Neil]

Wearing something that eerily resembles a soccer jersey but is in fact a national team skateboarding jersey.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Yes.

[Neil]

Okay, so the World cup is right around the corner. We want to see how many of the 48 countries that qualified you can name. So this is part footy knowledge, but also part geography. So when in doubt, just think of countries who call it football, not soccer. It'll be a survivor format. So we're going to go around and each of you has to name one country that qualified. No repeats, no passes. If you can't Name one. You're out. Last one standing is going to win five points and probably the entire show. And second place gets two points.

[Toby]

You guys ready?

[Kyle Haggie]

And last.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

I'm like my heart's beating.

[Annalisa Cochran]

Yeah.

[Kyle Haggie]

All right.

[Neil]

Okay. We're going to start with the person. Last place.

[Toby]

Kyle.

[Neil]

Kyle.

[Kyle Haggie]

You know this would be quite embarrassing if I didn't get the this right. So World cup teams.

[Neil]

Yeah.

[Toby]

Correct.

[Annalisa Cochran]

Wait T. Country, countries.

[Neil]

Teams.

[Kyle Haggie]

Germany.

[Toby]

Great answer, Kyle. Germany has qualified for the World Cup.

[Annalisa Cochran]

Brazil.

[Toby]

Correct as well.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Oh, we just say it or this is survivor.

[Toby]

We're ripping. Yeah.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Oh. Canada.

[Toby]

Correct.

[Kyle Haggie]

Germany. No, I'm kidding. France.

[Toby]

Correct.

[Annalisa Cochran]

Mexico.

[Kyle Haggie]

Wow.

[Toby]

You guys are correct.

[Neil]

Mexico. And so we've got two of the host countries. Mexico and Canada.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Usa.

[Neil]

Usa. Nikki.

[Kyle Haggie]

Spain.

[Toby]

Wow. You guys might do really well at this actually.

[Annalisa Cochran]

Argentina.

[Toby]

Correct. Correct.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Senegal.

[Toby]

Correct.

[Neil]

Go in Senegal for quickly. Okay. Kyle.

[Kyle Haggie]

Italy.

[Toby]

Kyle.

[Neil]

Kyle.

[Toby]

That's brutal.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Bro. Doesn't know.

[Toby]

It's really sad because that is such a good guess. The Italian qualifier multi time World Cup. They've missed out on the last two World Cups. Is it three or something?

[Neil]

They haven't been in a very long time in.

[Toby]

In the men's side. They have not made the last. They. They lost to Bosnia and Herzog.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Oh, yeah. That's one of them.

[Kyle Haggie]

I was going to say. Here we go. Here we go.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

I had that in Bosnia.

[Kyle Haggie]

Technicality. I'm somehow still in the mix. I'm canc. Canceling my trip to Florence. I'm not impost anymore.

[Toby]

That's brutal. Kyle is eliminated though. Unfortunately.

[Neil]

Yeah. Don't go anywhere. We still need you later.

[Kyle Haggie]

I'll stay tight.

[Neil]

But we need you. We need you. Heckling. Okay. Annalisa.

[Annalisa Cochran]

Bosnia.

[Toby]

Do we? Yeah.

[Neil]

I mean it's your fault.

[Toby]

And Bosnia. And who?

[Kyle Haggie]

And who?

[Annalisa Cochran]

Bosnia and

[Toby]

not a real Bosnian. We'll still allow it. But Anne. Hurts a good.

[Annalisa Cochran]

Thank you. I knew that.

[Kyle Haggie]

It's a bogo deal.

[Toby]

Yeah.

[Neil]

Yeah.

[Toby]

To Nikki.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Croatia.

[Toby]

Correct.

[Annalisa Cochran]

Uruguay.

[Toby]

Correct. Winner of the World Cup.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Once.

[Toby]

Once.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Yeah. The Netherlands.

[Toby]

We'll accept Holland or the Netherlands. Actually we just realized Holland is a area of the Netherlands and not the full name of the country. But Correct.

[Annalisa Cochran]

Chile.

[Toby]

Chile. Did they make it?

[Neil]

I'm not seeing them.

[Toby]

No. Chile.

[Neil]

World cup for 2026. Sanchez would not be happy.

[Toby]

I know. That is. That is a good guess because they

[Neil]

did not qualify for the 2026 World Cup.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

They've fallen off. They've fallen off.

[Toby]

Ball. No. Or Nikki. Do you want to just flex on

[Kyle Haggie]

them with one final drama Bomb on.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Better.

[Toby]

Alexis. Sanchez, Sure.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

I think we got. Ghana's in there.

[Toby]

Ghana is in there. You want to just keep going? You want to just keep ripping?

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Yeah, I think we got. Sweden's in there.

[Toby]

Sweden is in there.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Norway's in there.

[Toby]

Norway's in there.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Denmark's in there.

[Neil]

I mean, it's hard to. To not make it this year because there's 48 teams.

[Kyle Haggie]

Oh, yeah. Tell that to Italy.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Denmark not make it.

[Toby]

Denmark did not make it. So Nikki is out. But Nikki has. Has won. Some fun ones to root for this year is Curacao, which made it for the first time. Smallest country ever to make it. They're very fun. And then a nice small country, too, who tends to struggle on the world stage as well. England. England might do well this year. I'm in for Uzbekistan as well.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

They're pretty good.

[Annalisa Cochran]

Did Japan. Does Japan have a.

[Toby]

Yes, Japan as well. Japan is fun. There's a lot of fun teams.

[Neil]

One team that's not fun that you all didn't mention is the host. The final host country, which is the United States.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

I said.

[Neil]

Yeah, Nikki said United States. Okay, Well, I just wanted to make fun of them. There's. The vibes are bad going.

[Annalisa Cochran]

The vibes are vibes or tough.

[Toby]

All right, well done, Nikki. That is A Nice crushed five points for you, Annalisa. Two points for you.

[Annalisa Cochran]

Three, surely.

[Toby]

I mean, fine, we'll give you three.

[Kyle Haggie]

Yeah, I'll take 10.

[Toby]

You can take one too.

[Kyle Haggie]

Okay.

[Neil]

Yeah, yeah.

[Toby]

You know what?

[Neil]

Thanks.

[Toby]

So that. That is the end of our graded portion of the exam. We do have one more segment free response time. So I give the winners right now. I think we know who won. But first place, Nikki with 12 points. Annalisa, second place with eight points because you added a third to your own score. And then Kyle in the last place with five or six. Six, depending on if I gave you

[Kyle Haggie]

that last shout out, shout out.

[Neil]

Italy categories were kind of right down the plate for Nikki.

[Toby]

I know, but I think everyone.

[Annalisa Cochran]

No, no, she just watches soccer at work.

[Neil]

She watches a lot of.

[Toby]

But do I watch news. Crush the news category. And Kyle, business news.

[Neil]

Kyle, we'll do a. We'll do a parenting segment.

[Toby]

He did well.

[Kyle Haggie]

That's right.

[Toby]

On the ice cream as well. All right, we are going to move into. To the listener's choice portion of the show, which will be a draft. No, not for the war in Iran. We're drafting fruit.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Shoot.

[Toby]

This will be a snake draft, which means our leader and winner, Nikki will go first. Second place, Annalisa will go second. And then once we get to Kyle, he will go twice before it snakes back in the opposite direction. You're drafting a team of four and this is where all the listeners get to play. We want you to weigh in on who the most berry pill. The melon headed passion fruited of the group is his YouTube comments, Spotify comments. You can even email us at morning bu Daily Morning bukom. You will be the arbitrator of this fruit draft and we'll announce who accrued the most votes on our Instagram. The final wrinkle to this fruit draft is Neil and I want to play as well. So we're going to take up the last two spots, actually. So without further ado. Nikki.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Yeah.

[Toby]

Who are you taking number one overall in your fruit draft?

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Easy pick. Pomegranate. Let's go.

[Toby]

Whoa.

[Kyle Haggie]

I mean, whoa. Really good college career. Y NFL Ready? Yeah. Yeah.

[Neil]

I did not see Pomegranate.

[Toby]

Might have been on the board a little later.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Has good leadership around them.

[Kyle Haggie]

Mel. Mel Kiper is in shambles, though. He had that way down the board.

[Toby]

Wow.

[Kyle Haggie]

I like the sneak pick.

[Toby]

All right.

[Annalisa Cochran]

Analisa second Dragon fruit. Doesn't that name strike fear?

[Toby]

Holy moly.

[Annalisa Cochran]

Yeah.

[Toby]

Have you ever had dragon fruit?

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Yes.

[Toby]

Trust me. Kind of gross. Not a lot. Lot of. Not a lot of flavor.

[Annalisa Cochran]

Hey, it's my fruit draft.

[Toby]

Draft.

[Kyle Haggie]

Intimidating.

[Toby]

I like the name Kyle. Go ahead.

[Kyle Haggie]

I mean, there's a lot of talent still left on the board based on those first two picks. I'm going to go with the honey crisp apple because the University of Minnesota invented it. Fun fact.

[Toby]

I like that.

[Neil]

My God.

[Toby]

Homer. Neil. Basically. Okay, me.

[Neil]

I mean, the whole board is wide open for us. I feel like.

[Toby]

I mean, this was my number one prospect. I can't believe you made it all this way. When it's good, it's great. The mango. Mango.

[Neil]

Mango is a good one.

[Toby]

The mango. Neil, you get. Neil, you get to the mango.

[Neil]

I'm going peach.

[Toby]

Peach.

[Neil]

Because there's nothing better than a summer.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

What color? What color?

[Kyle Haggie]

I like the peach.

[Neil]

All kinds. I like it yellow on the inside. I like it white on the inside. I like nectarines.

[Toby]

I like. Call me by your name. I like.

[Neil]

I like peaches more than Timothy Chalamet. I. Then I think I'm going to go cherry.

[Toby]

Peach. Cherry. You guys are leaving a lot of good picks on the board.

[Kyle Haggie]

Neil's team. I'm not you.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

You just said two.

[Neil]

Yeah, because we snake it back in the opposite direction. That's how it works.

[Toby]

Yeah.

[Neil]

Have you ever played fantasy football?

[Toby]

Holy moly.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

No.

[Neil]

Yeah, so we're doing. We're doing Snake Jeff, but you'll get two picks at the top back when it comes around to you. I. I guess I like pits. I like a little stone fruit.

[Toby]

Yeah, he's a stone fruit guy. I'm not going stone fruit. I'm going berries. And I'm taking raspber cherries. They're actually my favorite fruit.

[Neil]

As someone who goes to northern Michigan a lot, I'm surprised you're shading cherries.

[Toby]

You took cherries.

[Neil]

I know, but you were like.

[Toby]

And actually, real ball knowers know Rainier cherries are the best cherries out in the west coast, so that's facts. Kyle, you have honey crisp apple on the board so far.

[Kyle Haggie]

Yeah. So honey crisp apple, low profile, low to the ground, low center of gravity. That's a point guard I'm gonna need.

[Toby]

You already have them.

[Kyle Haggie]

I'm gonna need a rim protector. So I'm gonna draft the banana. The victor Wembanyama. A free fruits.

[Toby]

I love how you've just made this into an NBA draft. Previously, it was a football draft.

[Kyle Haggie]

It's a multi sport draft.

[Toby]

Okay, I like that.

[Kyle Haggie]

Stay with us.

[Toby]

But I like that you're balancing your team. Annalisa, you have dragon fruit so far. Oh, my God, that's smart.

[Annalisa Cochran]

Yeah, that's all I want.

[Toby]

That's all I want.

[Annalisa Cochran]

I'll win with that. I'm gonna take pineapple. You know, add some flavor.

[Toby]

Hang that above your throwaway, strong defender.

[Neil]

This is a very tropical roster you're building.

[Annalisa Cochran]

Exactly.

[Toby]

Swingers. Nice swingers. All right, Nikki, you got the pomegranate for Shub?

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Yeah, what about it? I got more. Okay. Grape.

[Toby]

You get two. You get two as well? Yeah.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Grapefruit. Grapefruit and classico strawberry.

[Toby]

I love how she's slowly becoming more conventional as the draft goes on. Strawberry made it to the ninth. Or I can't even count that many. That is.

[Neil]

That's a far fall.

[Toby]

They had off the field issues or something came up, because that is shocking. All right, so, Nikki, you now have pomegranate, grapefruit, and strawberry. Annalisa, back to you with dragon fruit and pineapple.

[Annalisa Cochran]

And I'm gonna bring on a pear.

[Toby]

I like that.

[Kyle Haggie]

A pear of what? Fruit. Hey, dad, joke.

[Toby]

Do I get two pear? Do you want to specify the type of pear or are you just going pear?

[Annalisa Cochran]

Is it pronounced Don Ju Dan? Do you know d apostrophe Don Bo Leo? Does anyone know what type of pair I'm talking about?

[Toby]

Neil, are You Googling?

[Neil]

I'm Googling. I'm Google over here.

[Toby]

Just Google D pair.

[Neil]

I just typ. I just typed in famous pairs, and I'm not seeing any type of.

[Annalisa Cochran]

Is that not a pair?

[Neil]

Start with a D. Seeing a Shinko.

[Toby]

Don ju pear.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Don ju pear.

[Toby]

It's D. Apostrophe. A, N, J, O, U. J, O, U.

[Neil]

Okay.

[Toby]

I was not sure that. You want to know what I Googled to get that? What Da.

[Annalisa Cochran]

I'll take the pair.

[Toby]

All pairs. Okay. You guys have dub hair. Kyle to you.

[Kyle Haggie]

Okay. We got the point guard. We got the rim protector. I need someone who's an enforcer. A little controversy. Who's going to take it to the other team? Papaya. Wow, that is a controversial fruit I kind of like. You want it on your team and you hate it.

[Neil]

When was the last time you had a papaya?

[Kyle Haggie]

I had a papaya in Austin, Texas, about three weeks ago. Hated it. Controversial.

[Toby]

It's good, though. You're just getting what your roster needs. Not necessarily who. Your favorite players.

[Kyle Haggie]

It's not about the best players. It's about building the best team.

[Toby]

I like this. Okay, on to Toby again. Can't believe it fell this far. The BlackBerry. The BlackBerry.

[Kyle Haggie]

I believe it fell that far. No, it's not boring.

[Toby]

It's versatile.

[Kyle Haggie]

You got nothing interesting on your team, Cobbler.

[Toby]

I'm getting married soon. It's a topping. My cake. We have a little BlackBerry creme.

[Neil]

All right.

[Kyle Haggie]

Fair, Fair.

[Toby]

I don't know what else. BlackBerry can go in. You can reduce it into.

[Neil]

You can muddle it, you can make jam.

[Toby]

You can make jam, but you can do that. Yeah, but the BlackBerry is just delicious. Oh, also, I did see that Uncrustables is coming out. I hope I wasn't duped by this, but Uncrustables is coming out with a BlackBerry jam flavor, and that's very big news in my world as an uncrustable lover.

[Neil]

All right, so I have my final two picks. I'm really weighing whether to go conventional or spicy, like. Like Kyle does with his team by picking a fruit that he doesn't even like. Like, I won the draft. Previously on President's Day. By just going mainstream mass market. So I might continue to do that and might resonate with people. So I'm going to go blueberry.

[Toby]

Oh, wow. Which I forgot about blueberry.

[Neil]

I feel like it was a first rounder that people overlook. So right now I have peach, cherry, blueberry, which are incredible. And then I think I'll go something a little different lime.

[Toby]

Oh.

[Neil]

Because lime is used in literally everything from drinks to make. It just spices up. It just adds a little zestiness to life. Like anything you make in the summer, you're always going to want to squeeze lime over it.

[Toby]

When life gives you lemons, pick the lime instead. I like that pick. It does Mog the lemon. So Neil's final team is Peach, cherry, blueberry. Lime sounds like a great little, like, drink cooler. I'm going. I'm going. Watermelon. It's summer. It's summer.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

It might be.

[Toby]

It could have gone number one overall actually, as well. So I'm rounding out my team with. I mean, I. Guys, I got a good team. Mango, raspberry, BlackBerry, watermelon.

[Neil]

Espn, A B plus.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Yeah.

[Kyle Haggie]

No, that's a first round exit.

[Toby]

First round exit.

[Kyle Haggie]

Yep.

[Toby]

I got no depth.

[Kyle Haggie]

Yeah.

[Toby]

All right, Kyle, finish your squad.

[Kyle Haggie]

God, I'm okay. Well, I have a few things to say. Well, can we. Can we break down my roster? Point guard, honey crisp apple from the great state of Minnesota. We got the rim protector banana. We got the enforcer papaya. We need something just out there, a jack of all trades, something you wouldn't expect. And before I make my pick, I have to say we play for the name on the back of the jersey. Okay, I don't even know what the song is, but we play for the fans. Please vote for my team.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Team.

[Kyle Haggie]

I think this is technically true. Someone's gonna have to correct me. That a tomato.

[Toby]

Oh, God. I knew. I knew he was going. I know he was going to put

[Kyle Haggie]

it on the roster. Look at that lineup. Enforcer, rim protector, point guard, and a jack of all trades. Sneaky pick. That's a championship team.

[Toby]

One of the worst fruit salads imaginable. Imagine all of those together. Papaya and tomato. Feel like they're occupying.

[Kyle Haggie]

Hell of a coach. They all play for each other.

[Toby]

All right, Kyle, I love that you went into the draft with a plan and executed on that plan, even if it makes me gag a little bit. Annalisa, finish your. You have dragon fruit, pineapple, and pear.

[Annalisa Cochran]

I know I said lake at the beginning, but I'm thinking beach, and we're adding guava.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Guava.

[Annalisa Cochran]

Guava salad.

[Toby]

Now, what is the difference between a guava and a papaya?

[Annalisa Cochran]

Guava tastes so much better.

[Kyle Haggie]

Whoa, whoa, whoa. You don't want to piss off the inside.

[Annalisa Cochran]

Have you tasted a papaya seed? Need those things.

[Toby]

No, they're not good guava. I don't know if I've ever had a natural guava.

[Neil]

I Think they're just different.

[Toby]

They're just fruits. Google it. Google it. I am Googling it. They are. They look very different.

[Kyle Haggie]

This episode brought to you by Google by.

[Toby]

This episode brought to you by their new age.

[Neil]

Google it. Yeah, there's different things. It's like saying, what's the difference between a pineapple and papaya?

[Annalisa Cochran]

Thank you.

[Toby]

And what is. Take a sec. Okay. Dragon fruit, pineapple, pear, guava. Nikki, close out yours. Do you want to know who's on your squad so far?

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Yeah.

[Toby]

Pomegranate, grapefruit, and strawberry. Solid. Different taste profiles.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Sick squad. Sick squad. I just pick one left.

[Toby]

Just one.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

You know what? Thought about it, I think. I think it's a beautiful guy. He's got a lot of stuff. He's got a lot of stuff. Coconut.

[Neil]

Coconut is Mr. Irrelevant.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Is coconut a fruit? Look it up. You guys both have laptops.

[Neil]

Coconut is a fruit.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Tip top away.

[Neil]

So you're making me question everything I thought I knew. Like, papayas and guavas are the same. And is coconut a fruit now?

[Toby]

Some might think it's a nut.

[Neil]

Can't. You don't call it.

[Toby]

Coca. Fruit.

[Neil]

Okay, so the fruit draft is over. Let's run down everyone's rosters. And remember, listeners, we love, not love. We need you to weigh in because obviously we can't solve this ourselves. About who won. I think I know who the clear winner.

[Toby]

Well, they give everyone scenes. Give everyone I know.

[Neil]

Okay. Nikki is helming a squad with pomegranate, grapefruit, strawberry, and coconut. Kind of like the Mavericks. Mavericks GM there. What's his name? Nico.

[Toby]

Nico Harrison. Former.

[Neil]

Former Nico Harrison. Yeah, Very Nico Harrison Right there. Then we have Annalisa, dragon fruit, pineapple, pear, and guava.

[Toby]

I'm not going. Started really rough, but then I brought back.

[Annalisa Cochran]

Right.

[Neil]

Kyle with perhaps the most well rounded roster imaginable. We've got the honeycrisp, apple, the banana, the papaya and the tomato.

[Kyle Haggie]

Come on. America's team.

[Neil]

America's team. Toby. Mango, raspberry, BlackBerry, watermelon.

[Toby]

Could have all been number one.

[Neil]

It's like choosing, like, the fruit that. Just choosing like, Alabama or Georgia or LSU players nonstop.

[Toby]

We're going to dominate.

[Neil]

And then my team obviously loves it. Peach, cherry, blueberry, lime.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

That's pretty good.

[Toby]

Yours does sound like a sonic drink or something. Sounds like a sonic refresher. So if that's. If that's your.

[Annalisa Cochran]

Your style, they all kind of taste the same, though, you know, like when you put them together, I don't feel like there's Nothing exciting.

[Toby]

Lots of people think that limes and blueberries taste the same.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Blueberries are.

[Kyle Haggie]

People are saying. People are literally saying that.

[Neil]

We need everyone to weigh in to see who won.

[Toby]

All right. All right. That's all the time we have. We will be back to our regularly scheduled programming tomorrow. Please remember to vote in our YouTube Spotify comments or on Instagram or via our email. Nikki, Annalisa, Kyle, thank you so much for playing.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Thank you for having us. Yes. And I won.

[Neil]

That was so fun.

[Kyle Haggie]

So fun.

[Toby]

That was fun.

[Neil]

You guys are good.

[Kyle Haggie]

The fruit draft is such a good idea.

[Toby]

It's really.

[Neil]

Fruit Raptor took up, like, three quarters of the entire.

[Kyle Haggie]

I could. I could draft fruits for hours.

[Neil]

It was good.

[Toby]

Yeah, we've already done that.

[Neil]

I left. I. I feel like acai could be good. We didn't have. We didn't have grape. No one choose grape.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

I thought about grape. I thought about, too.

[Kyle Haggie]

Sorry. At a point guard.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Yeah. I thought about.

[Toby]

Oh, clementine. I wanted to do clementine.

[Kyle Haggie]

A nectarine.

[Toby]

We didn't do orange. No, orange.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

I did grapefruit. Close. But I thought about orange.

[Neil]

We had so many tropical niches going. Instead of the.

[Toby]

Yeah.

[Neil]

Instead of.

[Kyle Haggie]

I love my team a lot.

[Toby]

Lychee, but I've never had.

[Neil]

It has, like, a single purpose thing.

[Toby]

Plum kiwi. Oh, apricot olives.

[Kyle Haggie]

Are those fruits? No.

[Toby]

Jesus.

[Kyle Haggie]

No way.

[Toby]

Get out of your savory eggs. Yeah, they do have a seed.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Wait, so coconut is a fruit?

[Toby]

I never looked it up.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Oh, yeah.

[Toby]

Coconut fruit.

[Kyle Haggie]

I. I still don't understand the tomato thing, but it's a fruit or something.

[Toby]

It's banana clean. A droop. A type of fruit with fleshy or fibers.

[Kyle Haggie]

Let's do a droop draft next.

[Neil]

Not a draft. Droop draft.

[Toby]

What's a droop?

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Okay.

[Neil]

You guys were great. We had so many good bits. That was so fun.

[Kyle Haggie]

Very fun. You crushed the. The actual trivia portion.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Yeah.

[Kyle Haggie]

I feel ashamed that my best one was ice cream.

[Annalisa Cochran]

It's pretty funny. The letter box reviews. That was sick.

[Kyle Haggie]

Amazing.

[Annalisa Cochran]

Have you put that together?

[Kyle Haggie]

Long hit, like.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

You got to know the letterbox game. Everyone's trying to. To be on the trivia podcast with their reviews. You got to realize. Once you realize that it. It's all clear.

[Toby]

Oh, we got to. We got to film army.

[Neil]

Yeah. We got to do it. You guys are good out there.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Oh, wow. That was fun.

[Kyle Haggie]

Fun competing.

[Toby]

See you on the outside heat, too.

[Nikki Mahmoudi]

Oh, crap.

[Neil]

Toby, did you take the elevator to our floor this morning?

[Toby]

I did. You could say I was elevated here.

[Neil]

Ever heard of Elevated travel rewards?

[Toby]

Are you talking about Venture X, a business card that offers double miles on every purchase?

[Neil]

You know it. The founders of Unfiltered Hospitality know it too. They use their Capital One Venture X business card to scale their team and their business.

[Toby]

Is it true that you can earn an early spend bonus, a 300 annual travel credit and a 10,000 mile anniversary bonus?

[Neil]

Yes, it is. You can maximize your rewards potential and get back to the things that matter the most to your business.

[Toby]

Those are pretty sweet perks for just a $395 annual annual fee.

[Neil]

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