467: Doom Moon

Summary

Triviality Podcast – Episode 467: "Doom Moon"

Release Date: April 21, 2026
Hosts: Ken, Matt (out), Neal, and Jeff
Guest Host & Gamewriter: Kevin Squires
Special Guest: Dan Reardon

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Overview of the Episode

This episode features a classic Triviality pub quiz-style competition with guest gamewriter Kevin Squires and special guest Dan Reardon joining the hosts (with Matt absent). The team faces off against a gauntlet of clever, often pun-laced trivia questions ranging from English etymology and pop culture, to history and science. The episode is marked by light-hearted banter, some running gags (notably about escape rooms, oysters, and “doom moons”), and a streak of genuinely challenging questions. Listeners will appreciate both the humor and the depth of knowledge the participants bring.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Meet the Players & Warm-Up Banter (00:19–07:14)

• Matt is out “training for Hot Ones,” so Dan Reardon joins as a teammate.
• Kevin Squires, the host/gamewriter, introduces himself and talks about life in Austin, his ad tech job, and dreams of becoming an “oyster baron” in Texas, referencing the “oyster mafia.”
• Notable Quote (Kevin, 02:59): “We do need more oysters in our Texas waters to keep them clean and also eat delicious bivalves.”
• Dan Reardon, self-described science nerd and escape room buff, has completed over 250 escape rooms, recommending Montreal’s Escaparium as the best.

2. The Triviality Game Begins (07:14–31:59)

Sample Questions & Answers with Highlights

• English Oddities: Words Ending in –mt

  • Question: Only word ending in ‘mt’?
  • Hint: “Sleep on it.”
  • Answer: “Dreamt.”
  • Memorable Banter: The team riffs on vivid dreams caused by late-night ice cream (08:22), leading to laughter about “ice cream with DMT sprinkles.”
  • (07:59) Kevin: “It’s fun to think of Fantine saying, 'I dreamt a dram.'”

• The Baader Meinhof Effect

  • Question: West German militant group, also known as Baader Meinhof group?
  • Answer: Red Army Faction.
  • Discussion: Explanation of the frequency illusion, i.e., the Baader Meinhof effect.
  • (10:39): Kevin: “The effect is named after the group, because a journalist … keeps seeing them everywhere.”

• Before & After: Chadwick + Science

  • Question: Experimental physicist king/Nobel winner, combined with a Marvel king.
  • Answer: James Chadwick Boseman.
  • Hosts struggle to make the connection, leading to laughter about “King James.”

• History & Language: The Monarch Who Brought English Back

  • Answer: Henry IV.
  • Jeff explains how English/French class distinctions yielded animal vs. food terms (“pigs” vs. “pork”).
  • (14:00): Jeff: “Another 300ish years puts us to 13ish 100.”

• Math Brain-Breaker: Smallest Integer Divisible by 1–10

  • Answer: 2520.
  • Math banter and self-aware jokes about breaking rules and using calculators.

• Longest English Word Without a Vowel

  • Answer: “Rhythms.”
  • Debarge pun: Question clue references the band DeBarge’s “Rhythm of the Night.”
  • (19:04): Neal: “Dan got us there. We gotta give it to him.”

Additional Game Highlights

• Guy Ritchie, Andre 3000 & Outkast Films and Albums:

  • Movie: “Revolver”; Album: “Speakerboxxx/The Love Below.”
  • Enthusiastic discussion of British films, auteurs, their careers, and idiosyncrasies.

• Volcanoes & Geography:

  • Question: Only continent without active volcanoes?
  • Answer: Australia.
  • Features a Werner Herzog impression for fun (27:30).

• Before & After Riddles (Schrödinger’s Cat Stevens, 29:07):

  • The group loves the creativity, even when they miss the answer.

• Mountains: Tallest by Base-to-Summit

  • Answer: Mauna Kea.
  • Dan shares a personal story about visiting Hawaiian mountains.

3. “Mrs. Peacock Was a Man!” & Mid-Game Scores (31:59–34:13)

• Dan’s go-to trivia team name, a callback to “Clue.”
• Mid-game score update: Team is struggling but optimistic, bantering about ad-free Patreon perks and root beer barrels.

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ROUND 2: More Trivia, Deeper Dives (35:12–50:44)

Notable Segments & Quotes

Shakespeare Chronology (35:16)

• Question: Which Shakespeare play came after Julius Caesar but before Othello?
• Answer: Hamlet.
• (36:19): Kevin: “You nailed it. Good job, Dan.”

Science & Medicine

• Liver’s Regeneration Ability (36:28)

  • Churchill reference: “No wonder he made it to 90.”
  • Dan jokes: “I put that [liver regeneration] to the test every week!” (36:36)

• Snooker’s Origin (37:02)

  • Initially guessed Britain, but correct answer is India.
  • Insight: Many British-associated traditions have colonial origins.

• Snooker Jerseys and Sports Math (39:00)

  • Amusing attempt to add jersey numbers of sports legends, leading to math mishaps.

• Arya Stark & Needlepoint (42:22)

  • Question leads to a tricky clue about “needlepoint stitches.”
  • Inside joke: LNS = Local Needlepoint Store.
  • Neal: “Arya Stark’s hobby? Needlepoint?”

• Civil War Oddities (44:30)

  • Last battle: Palmito Ranch, Texas.
  • Backstory: Brownsville and tuberculosis treatments.

Pop Culture and Science Crossover (46:09)

• Brian May (Queen’s guitarist) & Homemade Guitar Facts
  • Astrophysicist who built the “Red Special.”
• Six Nights at the Opera: Elemental Trivia
  • Platinum—Spanish for “little silver” (Platina).

Shark Science

• Swim Bladder and Buoyancy (47:42)
  • Why sharks must keep swimming.

CIA, Animated Films, and Propaganda (49:04)

• Animal Farm (1954)
  • CIA produced a new ending to stoke anti-communism.
  • Neal: “Nothing about that even screams remotely crazy to me.”

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FINAL ROUND: Lightning Questions & Memorable Moments (52:37–end)

Key Segments and Standouts

• Moons of Mars (52:40):

  • Answer: Phobos (“fear”) and Deimos (“terror”).
  • Neal riffs: “Phobos and Deimos sound like WWE wrestlers…”
  • Ken invents his new doom-metal band: “Doom Moon.” (54:20)

• Washington’s Only Foreign Visit (54:47):

  • Answer: Barbados, neatly foreshadowed by a Rihanna “umbrella” reference.

• The Beatles’ Official Breakup (57:11):

  • Dan nails it: The papers were signed at Walt Disney World’s Polynesian Resort.

• Black Hole Tides (57:39):

  • Dan recites: “Spaghettification.”
  • Kevin: “Pretty scary, but also, you know, it’s pretty silly when they show it in like Family Guy…”

• WHOSE LINE/BAADER MEINHOF BEFORE & AFTER (58:39):

  • Clue points to actor who says “Freakin’ A” in Office Space—Diedrich Bader—plus the “Baader Meinhof” effect.
  • Answer: “Diedrich Bader Meinhof.”

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Closing Reflections & Notable Quotes

Light-Hearted Farewells and Shoutouts

• Shoutouts from Dan: To his partner Chris, dog Nancy, and “anyone trying to make the world good for people right now.” (61:37)
• Kevin’s Parting Thought:
  • “Dark times… can be really easy to get down and despair, but putting you guys’ show on really brings a smile every time. I appreciate the work that you guys do.” (62:40)
• Ken: “Just remember, if we’re in these getting down times, the only thing you can do when you get down… boogie.” (62:59)

Meta Moments and Podcast Community

• Neal bemoans missing the “Severance”-inspired episode.
• Kevin’s fun fact: A coworker works in the famous Bell Labs building, used for the show’s interiors.

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Segment | Timestamp | |------------------------------------------------|-------------| | Player Intros, Oysters, Escape Room Banter | 01:06–05:27 | | English –mt Word (Dreamt) | 07:17 | | Baader Meinhof/Red Army Faction | 09:22 | | Before & After (Chadwick Boseman/James Chadwick)| 11:27 | | Monarch who Brings Back English | 13:54 | | Math: Smallest Divisible Integer (2520) | 15:32 | | Longest Word w/o Vowel (Rhythms) | 17:41 | | Outkast/Guy Ritchie (Revolver) | 20:38 | | Volcano-less Continent (Australia + Herzog) | 27:04 | | Schrödinger's Cat Stevens (Before & After) | 28:50 | | Mountain by base-to-summit (Mauna Kea) | 30:03 | | Shakespeare Play Order (Hamlet) | 35:16 | | Regenerating Organ (Liver) | 36:28 | | Snooker’s Country of Origin (India) | 37:16 | | Snooker Jersey Math | 39:00 | | Needlepoint/Needle Techniques | 42:22 | | Civil War Final Battle (Texas) | 44:30 | | Brian May & Red Special Guitar | 46:09 | | Catalytic Converter Metal (Platinum) | 46:57 | | Shark Buoyancy (Swim Bladder) | 47:42 | | CIA and Animal Farm | 49:04 | | Mars' Moons (Phobos & Deimos) | 52:40 | | Washington travels to Barbados | 54:47 | | Beatles' Legal Breakup at Disney World | 57:11 | | Black Hole Spaghettification | 57:55 | | Final Bader Meinhof/Office Space Before & After| 58:39 | | Closing – Shoutouts & Signoff | 61:29–end |

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On the challenge level:

  • Ken: “Well, Kevin… not starting out great, pitching the heater!” (17:16)

• On obscure knowledge:

  • Neal (re: needlepoint stitch names): “It sounds more like high fantasy than arts and crafts.” (44:13)

• On pop culture mashups:

  • Team’s excitement at the “Schrödinger’s Cat Stevens” before-and-after clue.

• Reflecting on tough questions:

  • Jeff: “Tough but fair.” (62:30)

• Finding joy in trivia:

  • Kevin: “Putting you guys’ show on really brings a smile every time.” (62:40)
  • Dan: “Shout out to anyone trying to make the world good for people right now, because we need more of it.” (61:37)

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Summary

A fast-paced, deeply nerdy, and often laugh-out-loud episode, “Doom Moon” is classic Triviality: an array of imaginative trivia questions, friendly rivalry, occasional math confusion, and sincere appreciation for knowledge (and for each other). Whether you want to hear about the origins of words, continental volcanoes, or why sharks swim constantly, this episode delivers both fun facts and big laughs.

Final Score: 170 out of 250 – respectable for a game loaded with tough, well-crafted questions!

For those who missed it: You'll learn, you'll grin, and you just might find yourself wanting to start a doom metal band called “Doom Moon.”

Transcript

[A]

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast

[B]

recorded in Chicago, Illinois, with your hosts, Ken, Matt, Neil and Jeff. This is Triviality.

[C]

Hello and welcome to Triviality, the game where lack of seriousness meets a little bit of knowledge. Here in the studio with Jeff and Neil. He's back.

[B]

Me, I forgot he was gone.

[D]

Oh, yeah, because he's always here.

[B]

He just wasn't here here. I just wasn't there here.

[C]

Tagging out his mat.

[D]

Yeah, I was like 10ft away, but I just wasn't here. I forgot I was gone.

[B]

But scratching on the other side of

[C]

the wall gave us a hot tag, though.

[D]

I did give a hot. Oh, that's right. I did give a hot tag. That's right. For a question, I guess we have to remain nameless. Although it would have come out already, right? Yeah, it was From Here to Eternity. Yeah.

[C]

Yeah. But tagging out today is Matt.

[D]

Matt is tagging out today. Um, he's kind of prepping for an appearance on Hot Ones. So he's eating as many spicy things as possible and we figured let him stay at home with.

[C]

Sitting on the toilet. Yeah, Just eating spicy stuff.

[D]

Yeah, just. That's the best way to do it, I think. But, yeah, no, we're. We're here. We're ready to play today. We have a really great, you know, panel of guests here today. So let's start with our host. Great game. Last time he was on the show and I feel like that was an episode I wasn't on. I'm going to have to confirm with him because I was really bummed because I listened to it after. It was really fun. Kevin Squires, how are you?

[E]

Good. How are you guys doing?

[D]

Doing well. First of all, thanks for being a Patreon supporter. Tell us a little bit about yourself and anything that's been new since you have been on the show.

[E]

Yeah, well, I'm down here in Austin, Texas. Hang out with my girlfriend McKenna a lot and the two dogs and cat. I love cooking, I love playing tennis, enjoy listening to you guys consuming lots of media. And in my D job, I'm about 7 degrees away from providing any value to society whatsoever. I sell software in the ad tech industry, so.

[C]

Okay.

[E]

You don't go to school for it, but.

[D]

But you're also.

[C]

Thank you for your service.

[B]

Well, yes, you're able to sustain yourself because I feel like that's way more important these days, honestly, than people give themselves credit for.

[E]

I am, I am. You know, a few years ago, it felt a lot easier to sustain myself, but, you know, we do what we can.

[D]

And we.

[B]

Because we must.

[D]

Because we must. We talked about it before we started recording. No one can see this, but you do have a hat saying shuck local. So you do want to become an oyster baron.

[E]

That's right. Oyster baron. Yeah, that's right. Well, yeah. So in Texas, we didn't have mariculture or oyster farming until 2004, which is behind a lot of the other coastal states. And once we started getting permitted, allowed, we were actually making some really delicious oysters on sort of more boutique farms. There's a lot of oysters in the Gulf of Mexico that are absolutely terrible. And those are all produced in the wild by the oyster mafia, which is a real thing. You can look it up.

[D]

Wow.

[E]

They are vicious and terrible. But we do need more oysters in our Texas waters to keep them clean and also eat delicious bivalves.

[D]

And I just heard that Martin Scorsese is adapting an oyster mafia movie.

[C]

I heard that too.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Guess who's starring?

[D]

Take it. Take a guess.

[E]

Yeah, I'll do it.

[D]

You want it? Yeah, you can start in it.

[B]

Is it Leo?

[D]

Well, it's Leo. And then maybe a little cameo from De Niro kicking someone on the ground.

[C]

It's a good supporting.

[D]

Yeah, good supporting role. Well, thank you for being here, Kevin. We're excited to play your game. Just for those at home, it's going to be a pub triviality style game. So we'll keep score over here, see if you can beat us. But we need a good team member because Matt is not here. And we have a great one today. Longtime patron of our show, which we thank and also a great patron of curated by Chance, my other podcasts. And that's Dan Reardon. How are you?

[F]

Hi. I'm doing well, how are you?

[D]

Good, good. Thanks for being here. Tell the folks a little bit about yourself and how you doing?

[F]

Hi, yeah, I'm from St. Louis, Missouri. I'm a lawyer by trade. Science nerd at heart. I apologize for my raspy voice. I'm getting over a cold.

[B]

No need to apologize.

[F]

I have my. My classic Epcot shirt on because that was my happy place as a kid. Again, science nerd. I've been listening to your podcast since 2018 and thanks to your podcast. And when Bill Sunderland and Danny Silla were on from Escape, this podcast, it led me to the Escape room community. And my partner and I have now done more than 250 rooms and we've gone on.

[B]

That's awesome.

[F]

Yeah, we've been to the best are in Montreal. We've been up there to see them. We've been all over.

[E]

It's.

[F]

It's great. So many thanks. Yeah.

[C]

That's a lot of rooms.

[D]

Yeah. So do you have a favorite like the one that if you had to go back to or you'd recommend to people like, this is the one you have to before you die or that you should get trapped in and not get out of?

[B]

10 escape rooms you must try before you die.

[F]

So the. In Montreal, there's a multiple location facility called Escaparium run by Jonathan Driscoll. And he has a giant warehouse and he literally built a cathedral within it. And you interact with this cathedral, go through walls, like outside in the graveyard and all sorts of stuff.

[B]

It's.

[F]

It's incredible. And that's apparently not even his best room. Like, the best one just opened up last year. Wow. Go to Montreal.

[C]

If you could do an escape room of a specific theme that you haven't seen yet, what theme would you think would be lend itself well, to an escape room?

[F]

Man, I don't know. That's a good question.

[C]

Because I think about that and then we could come back at the end.

[D]

Yeah, let's think about that. There is one escape room I wouldn't want to escape. And I only bring it up because Dan sent a picture a while back of a concert that he's like, you really should go to. And I thankfully was somehow able to go to the concert, which was life changing. But what was the concert you were at? That it was an artist that we share a love for. Dan.

[F]

Oh, yeah. Dua Lipa in Chicago in September. Yeah, that was amazing.

[D]

Yeah. So that's like if you, you know, drop me off the Dua Lipa escape rooms, like, o' Neill just never escaped. What happened?

[C]

That was like a fire fest escape room.

[D]

Yeah. Oh, that'd be. That'd be really good. A fire fest. One where you just keep hearing Ja Rule in the background. Can't leave.

[C]

You gotta add the poop to the scales and balance the scales.

[B]

Get your.

[D]

Your ham sandwich or whatever they had or your bread sandwich. So, Dan, you're gonna provide our team name today.

[F]

Yeah. So my. My favorite movie of all time is the movie Clue. And so our local trivia team, whenever we can't come up with something topical and funny, we default to Mrs. Peacock was a man. And the host never understands what the reference is to, even though he's the same age as me. But that's it. Mrs. Peacock was a man. Yeah.

[D]

All right. I love it. Well, let's do It. Kevin, feel free to take the reins, grab the. Whatever that little knife is that you open oysters with, and take it away.

[E]

Yeah. Be a good addition to the Clue weapon set.

[D]

Yeah. Oh, yeah, that's true.

[E]

Do we need to do a roll?

[C]

Shucking knife?

[D]

Little shucking knife.

[C]

We don't have rules on these pub episodes, but if you want to hear a read, we can. We can drop one in anyway.

[E]

Yeah, no, we don't need no rules.

[C]

No rules.

[E]

Love it. All right, well, we're starting with a banger. We have a lot of words in the English language, and I'm going to use some of them today. But what's the only one that ends in mt? If you can't figure it out right now, maybe sleep on it.

[C]

A word that ends with MT and sleep on it is the clue.

[D]

Okay, I need some mt. Anything from you, Dan?

[F]

No, not yet.

[C]

Sleep exempt. No, that's PT Exempt.

[F]

Yeah.

[D]

What are things that you sleep on usually like? Big decisions.

[F]

I got a guess.

[D]

Yeah.

[F]

Is it dreamt?

[C]

Dreamt. Beautiful.

[D]

Love it.

[E]

Yeah, you just nailed it.

[D]

Nice.

[E]

It's fun to think of Fantine saying, I dreamt a dram. Yeah, so both are right. Dreamed and dreamt. And I don't really know why we allow dreamt, but it's fun to use. All right, number two.

[B]

I don't know. Dreamed, but that's fine.

[E]

What's that?

[B]

I feel the opposite poll.

[D]

But I think I've said this before on the podcast, and maybe you guys can try it and see if it works. But I've noticed if you eat ice cream maybe like an hour, hour and a half before bed, you have really vivid dreams. So maybe try it at home. Give us some comments. It's happened to me.

[C]

Pseudoscience.

[D]

Yes, pseudoscience. See if it happens and then comment.

[B]

It might be real science. Just his sample size is woefully.

[D]

It could just be me flavor.

[C]

Ice cream. That's important.

[D]

I was just eating vanilla. So maybe if it is like a rocky road, you'll have even worse dreams or, you know, more intense dreams. I don't know.

[F]

Doritos do that for me.

[D]

Is it? Okay, so maybe it's just a food thing for you. Yeah.

[E]

Cool. Ranch or nacho cheese?

[F]

Nacho cheese.

[B]

Taco Bell flavored. From the 90s.

[F]

Oh, yes, the 90s one, definitely.

[C]

I always find that my dreams are really vivid if I eat ice cream with DMT sprinkles.

[D]

Oh, yeah. Or a little DEET, maybe.

[E]

DEET.

[C]

DEET. No, not DEET.

[E]

Okay, question two. Ever heard of them. Active from 1970 to 1998 and motivated by anti imperialism, this West German far left militant group employed bombings, kidnappings and assassinations to fight the state.

[D]

Oh, Jeff, you like militant groups? What do you got?

[C]

I'm part of several. What was. What was the clue again?

[E]

Oh, Ever heard of them?

[D]

So it's not the one West German.

[C]

I don't know any German militant groups. No ideas.

[D]

Yeah, I don't know.

[C]

This is probably Cold War times.

[E]

Anything?

[D]

Nothing on you?

[B]

Nothing is Cold War times.

[F]

No.

[D]

Any hints?

[E]

How about a little hint then? Yeah, all right. I'm more of a green military click guy myself.

[D]

Green military click.

[C]

The Red Faction. The Red. The Red.

[D]

The Red Barons. No.

[C]

Platoon military click. We're not gonna get it.

[E]

You're right there.

[C]

I know. Well, you're spoon feeding it to us.

[E]

This is the Red Army Faction, also known as the Botter Meinhof group.

[D]

Oh, I've heard of the Botter Meinhof. Yeah.

[B]

That's an effect.

[D]

Oh, that's what I'm thinking of. Okay. Yeah.

[E]

And so the effect is named after the group because a journalist, I think, in Minnesota was writing about how he'd never heard of the Baader Meinhof group. And then. And this is in the 90s, and they were active from the 70s to the 90s, but then all of a sudden, he keeps seeing them everywhere or hearing references everywhere. So that's what the effect of the frequency illusion or something is another word for it.

[D]

Yep, that'd be kind of a fun little sketch of, like, the biter. Meinhof meets Mandela and they just have a weird conversation.

[C]

I always found that when I was sick, when I'm sick.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

I see a lot of stuff about people being sick on television or whatever.

[D]

Oh, that makes sense. Yeah.

[E]

Well, I had the Butter Meinhof effect about the Mandela effect.

[D]

Oh, that's Inception right there.

[E]

Okay, question four. This is a before and after or question three, Question three, question three. Yep. I was told there would be no math. Question three, row four. This experimental physicist must have felt like a king when he won the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering neutrons, changing the future of Wakanda's tech forever.

[C]

All right, so Wakanda Black Panther. Yeah.

[D]

T'. Challa.

[B]

I don't think it's T. Chadwick Boseman.

[C]

Adamantium.

[D]

Boseman.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, Bose Boson, boson, Higgs Boson. Boseman, Boson, Bozeman.

[F]

A scientist.

[D]

It might be.

[B]

It's a town in Montana.

[C]

You want to say Bozeman or Boson.

[F]

Boson's A particle.

[C]

Right.

[E]

So remember, it's a before and after.

[D]

Oh, it's a before and after.

[C]

So like Chadwick Boson.

[D]

Yeah, yeah, maybe.

[C]

Is that what we like?

[D]

It's better than I can come up with, Dan.

[F]

Yeah, I can't parse it. Yeah.

[E]

You guys are so close. It's James Chadwick Boseman. So James Chadwick was the guy I tried to get you there with the king clue. King James. If I wanted to do it before, during and after. But there you go. Okay, question four. From derpy to usurpy. After William the Conqueror took over following the Battle of Hastings in 1066, he tried to learn English, but could never master it. As such, French was the default language of the ruling class for over 300 years. Who was the first monarch to bring English back into the court?

[B]

It's part of the reason that we have different terms for animals and their preparations, like pigs versus pork.

[C]

Oh, really?

[B]

And cows versus beef. Interesting. Deer versus veal. So the.

[C]

The animals didn't know a lot about this.

[B]

Yeah, well, I was around in 1066. Um, no, but the. So a lot of the. The food prep terms come from French. And then the commoners, the English speakers, were the ones who had the names for the animals.

[C]

Gotcha. So what do we think? We need a. We need a ruler.

[B]

1066. Another 300ish years puts us to 13ish 100.

[C]

What were our clues, like Charlemagne or something?

[B]

Charlemagne was 10th century. He died in like 980, or he would have died before the Battle of Hastings. Okay, there's a monarch with the moniker the Usurper. I'm trying to remember who that is.

[D]

Oh, that was the nickname or the moniker. Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

How would you like that?

[D]

The Usurper.

[B]

He was usurped.

[D]

You have anything, Dan?

[F]

No, I was just gonna. I noticed the Usurper as well, but I can't remember the dude's name now.

[D]

Well, it's probably like something like a.

[C]

Like Chuck.

[F]

Is it a Charles? Charles.

[D]

Charles. A William, A Henry.

[B]

There's definitely a Charles.

[C]

Maybe that's why there hasn't been a Charles in a while. Should we go with Chuck?

[B]

The usurper Charles might have been the one that was usurped, and that's why they didn't.

[C]

I'm not good with lines of kings. Let's go with Chuck the Usurper.

[B]

Maybe Charles, because I doubt there's a Chuck.

[D]

To his friends, he was Chuck.

[E]

All right, well, Henry, Ivan, he was raised away from the French speaking court and grew up during a rise in English nationalism. And he needed to solidify his legitimacy after usurping the throne from Richard ii.

[D]

Okay,

[E]

that's the last English monarch question I'll do today.

[C]

All right, that's good.

[E]

This next one is called. This question would have been cooler last year. What is the smallest positive integer that is evenly divisible by every number from 1 to 10?

[B]

So 10 is divisible by. I mean, just working backwards, you got 2, 5, 9 is 3. So 7 is the outlier. You need something divisible by 7, right?

[C]

Yeah. 900.

[D]

What's the clue?

[C]

About what?

[D]

Did something big happen with a number

[C]

last year, like a 2025?

[B]

I mean, it'd be funny if it was 2025, but might be. It may vary.

[C]

Did I bust out my calculator? Is that. Is that allowed?

[E]

There are no rules.

[C]

That's true. Well, you're telling me how to do my show.

[B]

Apparently, you need the reminder.

[C]

Let's see if 2025 is divisible by 7.

[B]

It might be.

[C]

It is not. Sad.

[B]

It doesn't. It's not divisible by. It is divisible by 9, though, right?

[C]

2024 divisible by 7.

[F]

No.

[B]

Is 2025 divisible by 9, though? I need to know. I think it is. It should be.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Oh, you know how.

[B]

You know.

[F]

Yeah.

[B]

You know how you do that one?

[C]

Yep.

[B]

You add up all the digits, and then if it's divisible by nine, it's divisible.

[D]

Oh, I've been blacked out.

[B]

That's fine.

[E]

A little help. So, Jeff, do you know what a permutation is?

[B]

I've heard of it, but I can't remember.

[D]

Can you go to the CVS mini clinic for that, or.

[B]

Wait, you have no idea.

[C]

I'm just doing. Yeah, we don't know.

[E]

Yeah, so it's 25, 20, which is a permutation of 2025.

[D]

Oh, okay. That's where the permutation comes from. Well, Kevin, we've only got one right out of five, so aren't starting out

[C]

great pitching the heater?

[F]

Yep.

[B]

We stepped up to the plate and hit the first one, and then he

[D]

came in with the. Paul Skeen's mustache. And it's proving true here. So we got 10 points. Sorry, Dan. We're trying.

[E]

It'll get better, guys. Don't worry. Question six, ask the DeBarges. What is the longest English word you can write without a vowel?

[C]

The longest English word. These are great questions. They're difficult. They're like thinkers.

[D]

What do you got Dan.

[B]

I mean, is it something that's technically a vowel or not a vowel?

[F]

Yeah. Like to have a Y in it, then. Right?

[B]

Like Syzygy or.

[D]

Dan was saying it has to have a Y in it.

[F]

Is that.

[C]

What's the Debarges? Clue.

[D]

What is the famous music group Debarge? So we could. It could be one of their songs.

[C]

Do they have a eclipse in one of their songs? Because then it would be Syzygy, probably.

[D]

Oh, man, I'm completely blanking. I listen to Debarge all the time, too. Rocks. No, Rocksteady. Is. Is that Debarge?

[B]

No, that's littered with vowels. I agree.

[E]

That's like Billy Ocean.

[D]

No, it's. It's a band. Like Debarge.

[F]

Shoot.

[D]

Yeah. Yes.

[B]

Aren't many words without syllables.

[E]

The whispers.

[D]

Whispers. Thank you. Yeah.

[C]

Should we go with syzygy?

[F]

How do you spell that?

[C]

I don't know, but it's all wise

[F]

because I came up with rhythm, but I think it's the same.

[D]

Oh, what? Debarges. Rhythm of the night. The rhythm of the night.

[C]

Rhythm.

[E]

Yeah, the Debarges. I'll give it to you. It's rhythms.

[D]

Rhythms. All right. We're giving it Dan. Dan got us there. We got to give it to him there.

[E]

So Y is a semi vowel, and rhythm really should be written R, I, T, H, E, M. But in the 16th and 17th centuries, writers were called inkhorn writers because they Greekified spellings to look more scholarly. I think we just call them douches.

[B]

I know. I missed my calling.

[C]

Yeah. I was going to say, what's the

[B]

one that's, like, all over the Constitution? That the letter always throws me off.

[C]

Like a word?

[B]

No, like the way they used to write it. It looks like a different letter. I'm trying to remember which one it is.

[C]

Have you read your Constitution today?

[B]

No.

[D]

Gonna carry it in your pocket?

[B]

Gotta read my Constitutionals.

[D]

Dan, are you reading the Constitution often?

[F]

No, but I did used to live a block from the National. Not a block, but a mile from the National Archives, so I did go look at it.

[D]

Did. Did Sean Bean ever give you $20 to write letters down?

[F]

No, I missed him by, like, a week. Yeah, it's weird. I think it's like an S and an F, Jeff.

[B]

Yeah, I think you're right. I think the Fs look like Ss or something.

[E]

Question 7. I like the way you explore philosophical and spiritual dismantling of one's ego. On September 22, 2003, Guy Ritchie released a movie starring Jason Statham, Andre 3000 and Ray Liotta. The next day, Andre 3000 and Big Boy dropped their penultimate studio album, a double feature with songs that absolutely dominated the airwaves when I was in high school. Name the movie, and the album

[C]

is that.

[D]

That was an album I listened to on repeat in college.

[C]

Is that that Wildwood movie or what was that called? Wildwood.

[D]

Yeah, that was Idle Wild. Idle Wild. Yeah. But I don't think Guy Ritchie did that unless he was, like, a producer on it.

[C]

Oh, Guy Ritchie.

[D]

Yeah. Well, the. The. The album that I used to listen to had. Hey.

[C]

Ah.

[D]

And. And all those songs was Speaker Box. And was it the Love Below?

[F]

Love Below. Yeah.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Guy Ritchie pumps out movies.

[D]

He does what? I was actually thinking about this yesterday because he has a new Sherlock series that's pretty fun on Prime. It's a young Sherlock, and I was looking back through his filmography.

[C]

Baby Sherlock.

[D]

Baby Sherlock. He solves crimes from the. From the diaper. I was gonna say from the womb, but that would have been a little weird, I think.

[B]

Solves cr.

[D]

Yeah, but I was really Teen Sherlock.

[C]

That's the last thing I want to see is a more smarmy Sherlock.

[D]

He releases so many movies, and, like, he'll hit. One of them will hit, and the other ones are just way off.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

But when he hits, it hits. Like. I really love, like, the Gentleman.

[C]

The Gentleman's really good.

[D]

It's really good. And the TV series is Gentleman is really good.

[C]

Sometimes I just skip his movies because I'm like, there's so many of these. I don't know. They can't all be good. But then you watch some Gentlemen, you're like, was that one not good?

[E]

That's actually kind of middling.

[C]

I like the.

[B]

You missed all the shots you don't take, you know?

[C]

I like the Ministry of Gentlemanly Warfare.

[D]

That was good, too.

[C]

That was fun.

[D]

Yeah. The one.

[E]

The one before this movie was called Swept Away, and it was with his wife, Madonna.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, I remember.

[D]

I remember that was a big controversy at the time.

[C]

The Ministry of Gentlemanly Warfare was about beating up homeowner association. That

[B]

your wet dream, dude?

[C]

I love that. That was so good. I knew he was the good guy in that.

[D]

Oh, yeah. I knew right away. Our friend Kevin was like, he's in the wrong. I was like, just wait. Yeah, there's no way he's punching someone if he's wrong.

[C]

All right, so what do we think? Guy Ritchie 2003, rock and rolla. Oh, did he leave out Gerard Butler on purpose?

[D]

Yeah. Audrey could have been in that. Rock and roll, actually.

[C]

Rock and roll. It, I think, is a little after. That's a little later.

[D]

And he wasn't in Snatch, obviously. That was earlier.

[C]

So it's after Snatch. Before Swept Away, you said. Or at. You said after Swept Away.

[B]

I don't know.

[E]

After. Yeah, sorry. After Swept Away, which I think so

[C]

directly after Swept Away.

[D]

So he wanted to reset after.

[C]

Well, what was the name of the. The.

[D]

The album Speaker Box and the Love below was the double album.

[C]

That was not the name of the movie, though.

[E]

Here's another clue. If you wanted to go for an album of the same name, the first song on that album is the Taxman.

[D]

Oh, so that's. Oh. Oh. It was a Revolver. Revolver.

[E]

Revolver, yeah. Absolutely. Revolver, I think, is an underrated movie. It didn't do well. I think it got like 15% on rotten tomatoes or something. But Andre 3000 and Vincent Pastore, it's, like, very philosophical because you never get confirmation that those two characters are real. So it's sort of like, you know, I don't know if it's the super ego or what it is, but.

[D]

Was Gerard Butler in that?

[E]

Yes, he was okay.

[D]

Thought so.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

See that lowers. It's.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Standing a little bit.

[B]

That's how you always know if you should avoid a movie. As if you see Gerard Butler,

[E]

not

[B]

because he's a bad actor, but because he has terrible taste in bad projects.

[E]

Pretty fun.

[C]

What. What genre of auteur filmmaker do you prefer? Do you prefer the releases? Two movies every year, like Soderbergh and Guy Ritchie? Or you have to wait 10 years in between each movie, like. Like a Tarantino or a.

[E]

The old Nolan.

[B]

Nolan's pretty spaced out usually.

[D]

I think I'd rather have someone who's just constantly pumping stuff out and then you get a good one.

[B]

Well, I mean, Spielberg had, like, two of the best movies of all time in the same year.

[C]

Oh, yeah. Spielberg is a. Is movie pumper.

[D]

Yeah, he did it three times, but

[B]

he's a solid pumper.

[E]

You know that you got. You got pta, who does it like, every decade.

[C]

He's slow.

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Which. But he.

[B]

He's great banger after banger.

[C]

Yeah, well, actually, he kind of alternates for me.

[E]

Like, not a one battle guy.

[C]

No, I am, I am. It's on a positive alternation. I was like, okay, this one's going to be good because the last one, Licorice pizza, I really hate it.

[D]

Yeah, I didn't like that either.

[C]

And then before that Phantom Thread, which I loved.

[B]

Loved.

[C]

Loved. And then before that, Inherent Vice, which I hated. And then before that. Yeah, he's so. He's on. The next one's gonna be crap.

[E]

Just skip it.

[B]

What is the. Do you have, like, a formula for PT Anderson projections? There's gotta be some kind of formula that's just alternating. It's just a sine wave.

[D]

Well, Tarantino annoys me so much too. Cause it's like, you know, 10 years ago is annoying. I'm only gonna do 10 movies. And now he's just doing everything he can other than make another movie. I'm writing a TV series, I'm doing a play, I'm writing a book. And it's like, dude, just keep making these.

[C]

He set this limitation on himself and now he's like AF to. To drop the ball. He's gunshot his last one.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Dan, any auteurs you like?

[B]

That's great. He's gonna die without making a 10th film, and that's fine.

[D]

Not really.

[C]

I am looking forward to the David Fincher.

[B]

Fincher.

[D]

Oh, Cliff Booth.

[F]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

Quentin Tarantino sequel.

[D]

Yeah, Fincher's great. Yeah.

[E]

I grew up across the street from Wes Anderson's grandparents.

[D]

Oh, wow, that's wild. Was their house symmetrical?

[E]

It was, but not. Not like in a sexy way.

[C]

Like, was it pastel colored?

[B]

It was also never shot from. From like ground level. You know, you have to elevate to get that symmetry. Nice. You know.

[C]

No, I. I've said this many times, but he's somebody. I deeply respect the films don't care, but I don't. I don't care for them, but I deeply respect them.

[E]

I like the. The French Dispatch. Is that what that one was called?

[D]

Oh, yes. With Benicio.

[E]

Pretty fun. Yeah. Question eight, toxic geography. What is the only continent that does not have any active volcanoes?

[C]

Now, to the audience at home,

[E]

this

[C]

is a take two. This is a take two. On the question, due to a slight mistake by the host. It happens. But the original one contained a Werner Herzog impression, which I think we should work in anyways.

[D]

Yeah, why not?

[C]

So maybe we can work it into the answer.

[E]

So I'll do a rules read for you guys.

[C]

What do we think? Australia.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Dan, the Australian birds are not singing. They are screaming.

[D]

Dan says Australia. You say Australia, first thing out of

[B]

my mouth was Australia.

[C]

Okay, the volcanoes, they do not stir in Australia.

[E]

Yeah, there's a lot of dangerous things there, but no volcanoes. Unless you count the herd in McDonald's Islands.

[C]

Okay.

[E]

You know, we don't.

[D]

Do they call it Macca Island.

[B]

I count the Burger King Islands. Sorry. Hungry Jack Islands.

[D]

The Hungry Jack and Maca Islands. Yeah. That's for our Australian listeners.

[B]

Or us.

[D]

Or us.

[B]

Sometimes they just do things for us.

[D]

Well, we're batting perfect so far, so hopefully this.

[B]

Yeah. What a way to turn the trend around.

[E]

This one is a before and after, but also an after and before. What singer, songwriter hypothesized that it was simultaneously both a wild world and not a wild world. And simultaneously hard and easy to get by Just upon a smile, girl.

[B]

Well, that's the artist currently known as Cat Stevens, who was formerly known as Yusef Islam, but formerly known as Cat Stevens.

[C]

Is that what we said? What's happening?

[B]

No, I don't know.

[C]

Well, there another. Is there another?

[B]

I mean, the song. The song was Wild World that I

[C]

was picking up, right?

[F]

Yeah, yeah, it's the Cat Stevens Oroboros. Yeah.

[D]

Okay, now let's go with Dan. You got it, Dan.

[C]

Cat Stevens. Yusuf Islam Cat Stevens.

[E]

Well, I think this one's on me because I was going for Schrodinger's Cat Stevens.

[D]

Oh, right. It was. Oh, that's right. It was a before and after. Well, we won't take.

[C]

No, that's an excellent question.

[D]

That is a really good question.

[C]

Schrodinger's Cat Stevens. Now, in retrospect, I understand the question, and it is excellent.

[D]

Dan, that's a good name for your retriever team. If you can't come up with one.

[F]

Yeah, there you go. I like it.

[C]

The world is full of pain. However, this question was excellent and brought a smile to my face.

[E]

Ah, thank you. Okay, question 10. We're going to do Hang 10,210 meters. What is the tallest mountain in the world? Measured from base to summit, not sea level, translating to White mountain. It's about 38 meters higher than its more massive neighbor, which translates to long mountain.

[D]

See, this is the problem. Sometimes, let me tell you.

[C]

Definitely get a little more height out when you go.

[B]

You gotta measure base to tip. That's the only correct way to measure a mountain. Yes, yes.

[C]

What are we saying for this one? I don't know a lot about mountain.

[D]

Dan's got something here.

[F]

I thought that in Hawaii it's either Mauna Lea or Kilauea is if you go underwater and start at the base. It's the highest mountain in the world then. But I don't remember which one.

[C]

Those are two more Hawaiian mountains than I know. So.

[B]

Yeah, I thought it was. I thought. Was it Mauna Kea?

[D]

Sure. Well, if you go from base to tip, you have to go through the shrub, like the trees, to make sure you get to ground level to the base.

[C]

Right. Talking about mountains.

[D]

Mountains, yeah.

[C]

So we're going with. What was it? Mauna Kea.

[E]

You nailed it. It's Mauna Kea. The other one's Mauna Loa. And then Kilauea is the most active volcano.

[B]

Yes, sir.

[D]

Dan brought us back there. Thank you, Dan.

[B]

No, it's actually kind of cool, but if you see a. I saw a time lapse done of the tectonic movement of the Hawaiian islands over time, and it's basically one like volcano, like pooping out islands and then they drift away and then kind of sink back into the ocean. It's pretty cool.

[F]

Yeah. We went to Hawaii in September with my mom and one up Haleakala on Maui. And you go above the cloud level and things get really weird. Like all the plants are silver green and brushy, and it's incredible.

[D]

Wow, that sounds really cool.

[B]

That's pretty high. Is over 10,000ft.

[D]

So what'd you call me exactly after that first round? Dan got us that win there at the end. So we only have 50 points, so you're probably beating us at home. But 50 points for the first round. But excellent questions nonetheless.

[C]

Now, Neil, I need to bring up, before we do our Patreon request, that you've put the Baynes root beer barrels just barely out of reach here. So you know what? I'm gonna go grab one of those delicious root beer barrels from Baines.

[D]

Yeah, go grab one. Yeah. Thank you to Ben Coughlin for the treats that he brought us from Bain's Cider. Bain's Cider Farm. You can go check it out in Michigan. And yeah, Ken's going to have one of these delicious barrels. Delicious barrels. Well, speaking of Ben Coughlin, Ben is a Patreon supporter who came out and joined us on a show. You probably heard that episode recently. And we can't do our show without our patrons. Like Ben, like Dan, like Kevin here. So if you'd like to join the fray and support the show, you can go to patreon.com trivialitypodcasts and just for as little as $5 a month, you can get all of our bonus ad. I was gonna say bonus ad content.

[C]

You get even more ads, but more ads.

[D]

Yes. You get four bonus episodes a month, three trivia related, one crop drop, plus a bunch of other things. But you can get our episodes ad free, which is great. So you don't have to hear all the different ads through our network airwave over there. So if you'd like to join Patreon, you can go to patreon.com triviality podcast.

[C]

You know how when you sign up for the ads you can, you can cross out certain ads. So I think we don't run like gambling ads, right?

[D]

Oh yes, right.

[C]

And we don't run.

[D]

We don't run gambling sexy ads. I specifically asked for toys but they said no. They said these aren't the type of toys you want.

[C]

Gotcha. But when you're on Patreon, you do get the the Draft Kings ads.

[D]

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[C]

And we are back and ready for 10 more questions.

[E]

All right, first question of the second round. To Baader Meinhof or not to Baiter Meinhof. Written after what play was written after Julius Caesar but before Othello.

[D]

So now Dan, you are a Shakespeare expert. You probably know this one right off the top of your head. Have any thoughts?

[F]

Yeah, no. I mean I did take a Shakespeare class, but we didn't read them in order or anything, so this was not my favorite.

[B]

It doesn't come up that Way very often.

[D]

Does it?

[F]

Nope.

[C]

So what Shakespearean work has been on our minds recently?

[B]

I mean, one was mentioned earlier in this episode, right? Richard.

[F]

Richard.

[D]

Richard ii. Yeah.

[C]

What else?

[F]

And Henry iv.

[D]

And Henry iv.

[C]

Is that a play too?

[F]

It's a two parter.

[D]

Yep.

[C]

Thinking outside of this game, there was a Hamlet movie recently.

[D]

Right.

[C]

So what do we want to go with?

[D]

Good question, Dan. You can pick Hamlet or Richard II or Henry iv.

[F]

Let's go with Hamlet.

[E]

All right. You nailed it. Good job, Dan.

[D]

All right.

[F]

It was teamwork. Thanks, Ken.

[C]

We thought it through and it worked.

[E]

Okay, question two. No wonder Churchill made it to 90. What's the only internal organ in the human body capable of regenerating itself?

[F]

Liver. I put that to the test every week.

[C]

That was an excellent clue. Thank you.

[E]

Yeah, it can grow back to full size even if 75% of it is removed.

[C]

Wow.

[D]

Why can't the rest of our body do that? That'd be nice.

[E]

I asked my question, she said lungs.

[B]

Talking about all that today, Neil.

[E]

Okay, next question. If tea was a sport, you guys like esoteric sports from other countries, but have you ever gotten into snooker? It was invented in the 1870s, but can you guess in what country?

[C]

If tea was a sport?

[B]

He says, I mean, it's very British.

[D]

Well, snooker is very British. Yeah. Richard Osman, who I listen to all the time, one of my favorite authors, he loves snooker. He talks about it all the time.

[C]

Or if tea was a sport. Right.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

So I, I do like British.

[D]

It's probably from there. Unless we're overthinking it's actually from anybody

[B]

talking about anywhere else but colonize the tea.

[D]

But yeah, I only hear English people talk about snooker, but Dan, anything?

[F]

My gut reaction was also Britain, but it makes me wonder if it's like India because they also like tea and it went back.

[D]

That's what I was thinking too. Yeah.

[F]

But I would just go with Britain. If I had to guess the country

[B]

that drinks the most tea. That's not Britain, is it?

[D]

It's got to be Britain. Or China probably. Maybe.

[C]

I don't know.

[D]

I'm gonna look that up while we're thinking.

[C]

Yeah, circle in the per capita. Probably Britain, but not per capita, probably China. What are we thinking? Britain.

[F]

Let's go with Britain.

[E]

Yeah, you guys are right there. It's India. We don't have to get into why it's now heavily associated with the uk.

[C]

Well, it's kind of like cracking hole, right?

[B]

Croak and hole. Yeah, crack and hole.

[D]

I always mistakenly call it crack. And hole.

[B]

Yeah, that's a. That's a cool name.

[D]

Krakenol, Quirkinol.

[B]

Cork and all.

[D]

Oh, man, I'm messing it up now.

[C]

Cork and hole. That's what you called it?

[B]

Yes.

[D]

Cork and hole.

[C]

Cork and hole.

[B]

That's a different game we played in college.

[C]

Yes.

[E]

Okay, next question. We're gonna get into sportsball maths. The highest score you can get in snooker is equivalent to the sum of these jerseys. Megatron, the round mound of rebound, and the mailman.

[D]

Just very quickly. I know Kevin just asked. That was a really good question. So China dominates by sheer quantity, accounting for roughly 46% of global tea consumption per capita. Turkey reigns supreme. Yes.

[B]

I knew it was not England, but I couldn't remember who it was.

[D]

Per capita, England is fourth, so it's Turkey, Ireland, Azerbaijan, United Kingdom, Iran.

[B]

Yep. And for coffee, I believe it's Finland. That could be true. Most per capita.

[C]

That's why they're so happy.

[D]

So what was the question again, Kevin? We had the jerseys, right? Named by the nickname.

[E]

Yep.

[B]

Calvin Johnson.

[D]

Megatron is Kelvin Johnson. Mailman is Carl Malone.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Kelvin Johnson was 16 or something. No, 17.

[B]

I know. I'm in the area.

[D]

Or was he not? I can't remember.

[B]

Come back.

[D]

We need the numbers.

[B]

We need the numbers.

[E]

Okay.

[B]

And then I'll do the math.

[C]

We need to add them up.

[D]

Okay. So we got Megatron adding Jeff. What was the other jersey?

[B]

Sometimes that's a problem around here.

[E]

It's the round mound of rebound. Or I can give you a different athlete if you can't figure that one out.

[D]

The round mound of rebound. I don't think that was. Rodman was the worm. So who's.

[B]

Who's always up there on rebounds?

[D]

I don't think it would have been Barkley.

[C]

No.

[B]

Wasn't Shaq.

[C]

Give him another clue on. On that one.

[E]

We could also go with. They called him. Oh, what was it? The bread truck in college? He's on the. He's on a lot of commercials right now during March Madness. And you said his name.

[D]

We said his name already.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

The bread trucks. Probably Barkley.

[B]

Did we say his name already?

[D]

Yeah, I said. I said maybe Barkley.

[B]

I mean, he's all over those GLP1 ads right now.

[D]

Yeah. All right, so Malone is C.32.34. It's one of those.32,34. Dan, do you happen to know Malone?

[F]

Not a clue. Sorry.

[C]

I think it's March Madness is on, but I'm not even angry.

[D]

I'm gonna say 32. I think I'm wrong.

[B]

But I'm not even lightly perturbed.

[C]

I'm not even angry.

[D]

Megatron. Yes. Is it 7? 17 seems too high for him, but 11? Is it 11? No.

[B]

That's funny. I can. I feel like I can see him, but I can't see.

[D]

I'm on St. Rob wouldn't be having Megatron's number.

[C]

I don't think we know these numbers.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

Do we have a clue to just

[B]

guess the whole number?

[E]

I'll give you some alternates.

[C]

60, 62.

[D]

Oh, you have alternates.

[B]

You're just gonna guess.

[E]

I have alternates.

[B]

Even though he's gonna give us an

[E]

alternate Megatron, you're mad. Instead of Megatron, what if I tell you to twirl?

[B]

Owens?

[D]

80.

[B]

He was 80 something.

[D]

Just 80. Just 80 or. No, that was rice. 83.

[B]

Yes. That feels right.

[C]

And we don't know the third one

[D]

anyway, so Barkley, I think is 34. So we got 34, 32, 83.

[C]

So 66 plus 83 is 149 right there.

[E]

Megatron and Tio were 81, so it's 147.

[D]

Yeah, well, we tried.

[E]

Okay, question 15. 2.5. If Arya Stark had a hobby. Encroaching goblin, diamond, Hungarian frame, Scotch oblique, Slav, and Byzantine are types of what skill that you might learn at an LNS near you.

[C]

Lns?

[E]

Lns as in Sam.

[D]

You should repeat those things again, you said.

[E]

Yep. Encroaching, goblin, diamond, Hungarian frame, Scotch, oblique, Slav, and Byzantine. Types of what skill that you might learn at an lns.

[C]

Fencing techniques or knife.

[D]

Knife work or something. Yeah, probably fencing. Yeah. Dan, What.

[F]

What is lns? Am I missing something? I don't.

[C]

I don't know what that is, but I bet you that it's all sorted. Because if you're talking about Arya Stark's

[B]

hobby, it's multiple different makeup techniques. You'd like to change your face a lot.

[D]

Yeah, that's true. It could be like Lansing National Society.

[C]

Sounds like sword technique, though. That could be sword.

[D]

Because the oblique. Yeah, sounds like a sword technique.

[E]

So follow the sword angle. With Arya Stark, where does that take you?

[D]

Well, she had the needle. Oh, probably like knitting or something. Or knitting techniques or crocheting, I guess. I don't know.

[B]

I mean, those are.

[D]

I don't know. Are we close or farther away?

[E]

Yeah, you're super close. So you want to Give you a sec.

[C]

Sewing.

[D]

Sewing.

[E]

It's. You're pretty much right there. We're talking about needlepoint stitches.

[D]

Needlepoint.

[E]

LNS is a local needlepoint store. So there's a lot of. My girlfriend's gotten into this and I've tried it out a little bit, but there's a lot of, like, materials you need, primarily string or yarn or whatever. And there's also canvases and there's a bunch of different types of stitches you can do. And I thought I was reading her book on it. Like that shows you how to do this stuff. And I thought these names were just preposterous. It sounds more like high fantasy than arts and crafts.

[B]

I think that's a blank.

[D]

A blank on that one. Yeah. Not close enough. So we've only picked up 20 points in this first half of the second round.

[B]

But we started that way, bringing us to 70. We ended up stronger in the second half.

[E]

So we'll see how that's second half team.

[D]

All right, Dan's going to carry us for the second half here.

[E]

Next question. There just ain't no way. The battle of Palmito ranch was the last battle of the Civil War and actually occurred over a month after Lee surrendered. What state did it take place in?

[C]

I think it's Virginia.

[D]

Oh, yeah. Maybe Palmito.

[C]

I remember it was the same place that or there was something weird about it. Where, like the war started there and ended there. Right?

[B]

Well, the war started at Fort Something.

[C]

Right.

[D]

But there's.

[C]

There's something funny about. I know there's something funny about it, though. Yeah. Texas. That seem right?

[F]

Yeah, works for me.

[E]

Yeah, it's Texas. And the clue. There just ain't no way. Is something. I find myself saying a lot. Stolen from no country for old men. When he finds the tracker in the suitcase.

[C]

What. What is the weird thing about that ranch?

[E]

It's near Brownsville, which is kind of a weird place, but there's something.

[C]

There's something about how something started there and ended there. I'll do a little research while we move on here.

[E]

Cool. Next one. The show must go on. The red special is a guitar that is constructed using mother of pearl buttons for fret markers, motorcycle valve springs for the tremolo system, and a hundred year old mahogany from a fireplace mantle for the neck. What astrophysicist and his father used these spare parts because they couldn't afford a stratocaster.

[C]

Talking about an astrophysicist along with a guitarist. There's only one man who comes to mind.

[D]

Same here. Yeah. Only one man. He's also a little bit of royalty.

[C]

Brian May. So what you're thinking.

[D]

I'm thinking Brian May. Yeah. Queen.

[E]

Yeah, Absolutely.

[D]

Nice. You were a Little silent. We're like, oh, no. Were we way off?

[E]

No, you guys nailed it. I mean, astrophysicist is if you know anything about Queen or Brian May. That one comes together pretty neatly. So, staying on theme, Six nights at the Opera. This element, whose name comes from Spanish for little silver, reduces emissions in cars, is used to treat cancer, and is 30 times rarer than gold.

[C]

When I think of catalytic converters. Do you know this one, Dan?

[F]

Don't they have platinum in them?

[H]

I think so.

[C]

That's why they keep getting stolen.

[D]

Oh, okay. Was that that what the answer is, you think, Dan? Platinum.

[F]

Okay, that's my guess.

[B]

Pla is silver in Spanish.

[D]

Oh, okay.

[E]

Yeah. You guys nailed it. Comes from Platina. And the six nights at the opera is for the six times platinum, that night at the opera went, oh, okay, Queen. Next one is I got a fish. Like a racehorse. Sharks are definitely fish, but they lack the organ that allows bony fish to control buoyancy. What is that organ called?

[B]

I know this. So I mean, taxonomically speaking, we're still basically fish. Just for the record.

[C]

Shut up.

[D]

Do you know this one, Dan?

[F]

I mean, is it. I just think of a bladder as being something that can hold something within a boat or whatever, but I don't know what.

[B]

I think it's called a swim bladder. Okay, so I think you're. I think you're onto that, Dan.

[E]

Yeah. Good work, team. So because they lack a swim bladder, a lot of shark species have to fish. Sorry, swim constantly to prevent from sinking and pass water over their gills for breathing purposes.

[D]

Okay.

[E]

So that's why they're never. They never stop moving.

[D]

So the water will pass their gills.

[E]

Yeah, I guess something about moving allows the oxygenation of. In the gills. Better not. A marine biologist. I just play one on tv.

[F]

All right.

[C]

I found the fact that I was

[B]

looking for someone who participated in both battles.

[C]

The battle of Bull Run, which is the first battle, took place on Wilmer McLean's farm and Appomattox courthouse.

[B]

And then he moved or something. Right.

[C]

And then was also owned by him.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Oh, wow. Okay,

[E]

interesting. All right, last question of the second round. I swear, Andy Circus is in everything. What 1954 animated film includes an ending that differs from the original 1945 novella as the CIA wanted to inspire revolt and communist led countries.

[D]

Is it Andy Serkis? I'm thinking he directed, I believe, a adaptation of Charlotte's Web or Animal Farm. It's one of the other. It's one of the two.

[B]

Well, Animal Farm is very.

[D]

Andy Circus did He's either star or he directed. I'm pretty sure he did the motion capture for either.

[C]

For the new one.

[D]

Yeah, for Charlotte Sweber. Animal Farm.

[C]

Yeah, the new one that's coming out. The new Animal Farm.

[D]

I know it's one of them. I don't know if it's the new one from the Angel Network. It's possible. Are we on the right track?

[E]

Yeah, it's Animal Farm.

[B]

I was like, animal Farm reeks of communism.

[D]

Okay. I knew it was one of them.

[E]

Yeah, yeah. I found that out and I thought I was crazy. The CIA covertly funded and facilitated the production and they acquired the film rights from Orwell's widow and changed the story so that it's more anti communist, where

[B]

nothing about that even screams remotely crazy to me.

[E]

Completely makes sense.

[D]

The I didn't want to get left out with the CIA, so they produced Chevy Chase's Funny Farm. Like two people have probably seen that movie.

[B]

That's why.

[D]

All right, well, it looks like Dan helped us out there. We were batting perfect second half of the second round, picking up 50 points, adding the 20 we got in the first half, which is 70. So our total is 120 for the two regular rounds. So not bad.

[C]

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[D]

Where is Daredevil? I'm right here. Don't miss the return of Marvel Television's Daredevil Born Again. So what's next?

[E]

I feel liberated.

[C]

We're gonna take this city back over medicated in an all new season now streaming only on Disney plus.

[D]

They're hunting us.

[A]

It's time we started hunting them.

[C]

I can work with that.

[E]

Nobody gives.

[C]

This should be tons of fun. Marvel Television's Daredevil Born Again now streaming

[D]

only on Disney plus.

[I]

Did archaeologists discover Noah's ark?

[H]

Is the rapture coming as soon as the Euphrates river dries up?

[I]

Does the Bible condemn abortion?

[H]

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[I]

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[C]

And we are back. Ready for five final questions here.

[E]

All right, final question number one. In space, no one can hear you scream. Mars is the Roman God of war. So when Ossof hall discovered the two moons of Mars in 1877, he gave them appropriate names, albeit in Greek. What are the two moons of Mar of Mars and what do they mean?

[C]

Dan, any idea here? First, before Jeff, I feel like one

[F]

of them is Phobos and the other one has like three syllable name. It's a tiny little rock flying around real fast. I don't remember.

[B]

Tiny little rock flying around a little fast is the story I tell about the Earth. Phobos is correct. And then Deimos is the other one.

[C]

I know. Phobos is fear, Right?

[D]

Phobos and Dymos sound like great, like WWE wrestlers from, like, the 90s.

[B]

Tag team.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

Hell of a tag team.

[D]

The moons of Karn or what was it?

[B]

Mars.

[D]

You said Karn, right? Or Mar.

[E]

No, I said Mars on accident.

[D]

I was like, oh, the moons of Marne.

[C]

Do you think it could be like Fear and Pestilence or something? Anyways, Phobos and Deimos.

[E]

I'm getting back to Herzogen. Yeah, it's Phobos and Daimos, and they mean fear and terror.

[D]

Oh, okay.

[E]

And Phobos is a doomed moon. It means it's getting. It's getting 1.8 meters closer to Mars every hundred years.

[B]

So at some point it will spiral into it and crash.

[E]

That's right.

[C]

That's a good band name. I'm gonna write that down. Doomed Moon. Doomed Moon is kind of hard to say, though.

[B]

No, that is the opposite of. Of our moon, which is slowly drifting away from us.

[C]

Doom Moon. How about that?

[D]

Doomed moon.

[C]

Doom Moon.

[D]

Doom Moon.

[B]

I think you have a new band name, Ken. What are you listening to? Doom.

[C]

Doom.

[B]

One more time.

[C]

Doom Moon.

[B]

Oh, I love.

[C]

I'm listening to the Royal Juror.

[B]

It was giving me Royal Juror vibes. Yeah.

[E]

All right, next one. Cheese on bread. We're finally going on vacation this summer, and I Hope we don't need an umbrella. Ella. Ella.

[B]

A.

[E]

What's the only country that George Washington ever visited outside the U.S. so that's Barbados.

[C]

Yeah, that's Rihanna reference. You know what I always say to my students?

[B]

What?

[C]

I always say, you know what the philosopher Rihanna says? They go, what? I say, work, work, work, work, work.

[D]

That's right.

[C]

When they're not working.

[B]

Do you know what the.

[C]

And they go, that's not Rihanna.

[B]

I go, yes, it is. Do you know what the philosopher Britney Spears says?

[C]

Toxic.

[B]

You gotta work.

[C]

Oh, I believe I can't say that to my students.

[D]

What's funny is I think the song was originally written for Brittany and then Rihanna took it. I have to look that up.

[B]

It could be. I know there was one. At least one of those. That was a. Yeah, someone had written. Had written the part for Brittany. So kind of in mind and.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Barbados.

[E]

Oh, yeah, Barbados. He was there for seven weeks while his brother Lawrence was getting treated for tuberculosis.

[B]

I was gonna say, were they recovering from TB? Because that was the 18th century thing to do.

[E]

Exactly.

[C]

Go take in the fresh air.

[E]

Larry Washington. O' Larry Washington got tuberculosis. So they went there and then George Washington contracted smallpox.

[F]

Oh.

[C]

Was there anything scientific to the. Like, air quality? No.

[B]

I mean, we named malaria. I mean, surely air.

[C]

Surely the air quality wasn't bad.

[B]

It wasn't about.

[C]

But is it better to have, like, higher humidity?

[B]

I'm sure warmer, more humid air felt better. But you're. You're not gonna.

[C]

You're not gonna.

[B]

You're not gonna cure a virus.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Like, Dan, what's. Where does Rihanna rank on your ranking of pop girlies?

[F]

Yeah, she's. She's way up there. I've always been particularly fond of shut up and drive. So that's my go to.

[C]

Slightly more aggressive than Deftones. Be quiet and drive.

[D]

You could probably do a whole playlist on. Just drive.

[B]

Drive by, Incubus.

[D]

I'm your vehicle, baby.

[B]

Local Jim Peterick.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

Okay, we'll shut up and answer this next question. The theme is go to your happy place. I guess. While they broke up in 1970, the legal dissolution of the Beatles in 1974 was finalized when John Lennon signed the papers in what notable location?

[F]

I know this one.

[D]

Yeah. Take it, Dan.

[F]

It's at the Polynesian Resort in Walt Disney World.

[E]

Wow. Even. Even went down to the resort level. I like it. Yeah, absolutely. And when it opened, the rooms were $22 to $40 a night. I think they're like a million dollars now. Wow. Dan, how'd you get that one. How'd you know that?

[F]

I don't know. I have a Walt Disney World shirt on right now. It's just random.

[C]

Random. Fun fact.

[D]

That is a really fun fact.

[B]

Nice.

[E]

Okay, question four. Space zucchini. I'm looking for the name of the phenomenon that occurs when a black hole's gravitational pull on an object's near side is significantly stronger than on its far side.

[B]

Pretty sure Dan knows this one.

[D]

Dan's got again. Yeah, he's saving us again.

[F]

Spaghettification.

[C]

Wow. That's what I was thinking too, but it just didn't sound. The description sounded different.

[E]

Yeah. Is a vertical stretching and horizontal compression due to gravitational tides Pretty scary, but also, you know, it's represent. It's pretty silly when they show it in like Family Guy or whatever.

[B]

Do you.

[C]

That's how I want to go.

[B]

Do you think we live inside of a black hole?

[C]

This podcast is too small for that conversation.

[B]

It's just a simple yes or no.

[C]

Yes.

[B]

Really? Okay, let's talk about that later.

[E]

Okay, the last one. I keep seeing these before and afters everywhere, so I'm going to do that. Nobody used to say freaking A until this. Whose line player said freakin a in office space? But I swear I hear people say freakin a all the time now.

[B]

Who's land player? Who is an office space?

[D]

Well, let's see. So we got Colin Mockery. We got Ryan Styles Rain Brady Brady, Drew Carey.

[B]

Colin. Or Greg Proops.

[D]

Greg Proops. Yeah. Which one was in office?

[C]

He's talking about the Bader Meinhof again though.

[D]

Who's line player?

[C]

Is there a baiter somebody Baiter. Oh, Meinhof Mine.

[D]

Hoff.

[C]

Somebody start with Hoff.

[D]

I'm trying to go through the people in office space. Then separately, then

[C]

who said. Who said it in office space?

[D]

Freaking A. Gary Cole.

[C]

It's. No, no, no. Dietrich.

[D]

Dietrich Vader.

[C]

Meinhof.

[D]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[E]

I like the original version. I kind of tamed it down for radio. But it's Dietrich Bader Meinhof who said, hey, man.

[D]

Wait, is that the movie he had the mullet with the. Yeah, okay, okay.

[E]

He's a construction worker and he's his neighbor.

[D]

That's right. Well, great final round there. Dan again carried us in the final round there. We picked up an extra 50. So our final score is 170 out of a possible 25. 250. So 170 out of 250. Not bad. Not bad. Thanks, Dan, for helping us out there.

[F]

It was not me, but thank you.

[D]

You're Gonna take the credit, though. We're gonna. When the. When the legend becomes truth, you print the legend from the man who shot Liberty Valance.

[C]

Well, Dan, you did help us out a lot. I want to give you your final shout outs, but first, have you thought of a good escape room theme?

[F]

Yeah, I did, actually.

[C]

Escape room, maybe.

[F]

Yeah. While I was sick, I binged all of Severance, which I hadn't seen before. And I was very taken by the brutalist architecture and the old carpeting and all that. And I've never seen that sort of like brutalist aesthetics, building aesthetic in an escape room. So there you go.

[D]

That sounds cool.

[B]

I will say one of my Triviality regrets of 2025 is I was absent, unfortunately, on an episode that was inspired by Severance, which was very fun.

[E]

Fun fact. I have a coworker, so most of the employees in my company work remotely. I have a coworker that lives in Jersey and his little wework. I don't know if it's a we work, but it's one of these office spaces you rent is in Bell Labs, which is the building they use for the.

[B]

That's awesome.

[E]

The exterior and the interior kind of lobby area.

[F]

That's great.

[C]

Well, Dan, again, thank you so much for joining us today. Anybody you want to shout out or any props to give?

[F]

Yeah, I just want to say thanks to my partner Chris, who's in the living room right now with our wonderful dog Nancy, and just wanted to shout out anyone who's trying to make the world good for people right now because we need more of it. So thank you.

[D]

Well said. Yeah. Thank you so much for being here today and for being a longtime supporter.

[F]

Yeah, happy to. Thank you.

[D]

All right, Kevin, hard game, but very good game. Your questions are always really written well. So thank you so much for that. Any shout outs or anything you like to say before we let you go today.

[E]

Well, thank you. And it's always a pleasure to be on Shout out to my lady, McKenna, my buddy John, who was a guest last time I did one of these. Look forward to doing it again, and maybe I'll make them a little bit easier.

[D]

Well, no, they're just. They're written so well. It's just that you're ahead of your time.

[C]

Out of 25.

[D]

Yeah, yeah.

[E]

Tough but fair.

[D]

Tough but fair. No, that's right. Well, thank you so much, too, for being a supporter, for coming on writing the game. We know how hard it is to write a full game, so we appreciate that.

[E]

Well, just to say, dark times, we're living in can be really easy to get down and despair, but putting you guys a show on really brings a smile every time. I appreciate the work that you guys do.

[D]

Well, thank you. We appreciate that. We try to bring smiles through our own, often stupidity.

[B]

Just remember though, if we're in these getting down times, the only thing you can do when you get down. Boogie.

[F]

That's right.

[D]

Or get down on it. We do want to boogie. And thank Airwave Media, our network, whose new tagline seems to be constantly curious. So like that. Yeah, it's not bad. There's some new shows if you want to check them out, called Answer for It, a podcast for smart people, Book Riot, the podcast and Fast Company. So yeah, check those out at Airwave Media.

[B]

That's my favorite kind of people to have over.

[C]

Smart people?

[B]

No, people who are gone by like 8:30. Oh, fast company.

[D]

Gotcha.

[C]

Well, that'll do it for today for both of our guests and Jeff and Neil. I am Ken, and that was triviality.