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I saw the finger like rearing back and I was like, what's about to happen?
I was like, is this going to be an aggressive jacuse?
No, no, no.
These are!
Oh, you really slipped up last time.
You really slipped up last and or the previous time after that,
depending on when that episode was.
You really goofed it, friend.
I'm sure I did.
You dared! You dared!
To call professional wrestling fake.
Because it is.
Oh, he doubles down on it!
How could you?
How could you?
Alright, let's talk about a professional wrestling match.
First of all, it is scripted.
Everybody knows who's going to win within the organization.
That's why there's no gambling surrounding it.
Secondly, the punches, they don't hit them.
There's mics underneath the mat to elevate the sound when they hit the arena and mat.
They do things and they do actual stunts.
They are stunt performers who are insanely athletic and I will never discount the fact that they are athletes by the definition.
But pro wrestling is not a sport.
It is sports, ancillary entertainment.
And the impact and the actual results in quote unquote competition is not real competition.
But here's where the points on the internet that I'm going to co-opt as my own and pretend like I actually know what I'm talking about.
Really stick you to the wall.
Because Danny Boy XV said,
This jacuse goes out to Tyler who had the audacity to call professional wrestling fake.
Although it is scripted and match outcomes are predetermined in no way is any of it fake.
These athletes legitimately put their bodies on the line for our entertainment.
For example, in most famous league, when mankind nearly died falling through the top of the Hell in a Cell match against the Undertaker,
who was also wrestling with a broken foot.
And last year when Cody Rhodes fell, went through a full match with a fully torn peck.
Just because it's sports entertainment doesn't mean these wrestlers don't risk their well being on a weekly basis.
I mean everybody risk their well being every time they hop into a car.
You're equating hopping into a car for a daily commute to being thrown from the top of a of Hell in a Cell cage match?
Debatably?
More people die in car accidents?
Am I wrong? Am I wrong?
That's not the argument being made.
Either way, more people die in car accidents than in traditional sporting events.
What about stunt performers in films?
They risk their lives every day that they're doing their job, which is exactly what these people are doing.
But again, the stunts are to create the illusion of an effect.
Uh huh.
It is not, they are not actually punching each other.
But are they athletes?
They are athletes, but that does not mean that it is a professional sport.
But is it?
No.
Because the elements of sport are missing because it is not competition.
It's scripted.
It's entertainment.
Uh, but what about how all of sports are rigged and all the NFL Super Bowls have been predetermined since 2001?
You know, they totally predicted the loudest stadium event when March on Lynch ran through like 13 defenders for a touch day.
They totally scripted all of the chaos.
They scripted, um, uh, Tom Brady breaking his knee and Carson Palmer getting, getting his knee broken.
You know, that's just how deep the rabbit hole goes.
It's so deep.
They handed to him.
I do.
I kind of get what they're saying because there's such a, there's such a negative connotation of calling it fake.
And also I think it's highly reductive to equate it to the, to the commonplace activity of getting in a car for a commute.
But you're comparing a risk to injury by doing an activity and trying to say that that makes it a sport.
That's not how sport works.
No, I think what they're doing is they're equating into the idea that the entire purpose of professional wrestling is to get to a point of athleticism that you can perform those things.
It's like if you went to, like to your example, if you went to a stunt performing ability, it meant what you do is fake.
It's not real.
They would be very offended by that.
But I'm not, I'm saying that the wrestling itself, like the aspect of calling it wrestling is not true wrestling.
It's, and the fact that a lot of the stuff that they do is illusion based because they do not actually impact each other every time.
They purposely land on their forearms oftentimes when they're doing stuff.
It's an illusion of the impact.
It's an illusion of an actual competition.
It's an illusion of punches.
Those aspects by being not truly what they are is by definition, fake versus real.
Honestly, like I don't have any stake in the game.
I think it's just like, it's kind of the same way that a lot of these things get people up in arms because they get offended because it's like to dismiss something is to almost insult something for people to care so deeply about it.
And it's like, I don't think anybody that watches professional wrestling is in any way under the illusion that it's all super, super real.
It's exciting.
And there's like, oh yeah, it's entertainment to follow.
It's just like, I think the issue is with calling it just straight up like, it's all fake and therefore it's one is higher than the other.
To be clear, I never was putting one above the other.
Which to a degree it is, but when you get into the Olympic ranks and actually compete in true wrestling, the actual sport of wrestling, that is sport.
That is when you can become a professional athlete.
The problem is a lot of people don't go and watch traditional wrestling matches. It's not a popular sport, especially in the United States.
Overseas, there might be places where actual wrestling is a sport.
What we call professional wrestling in the US is not a sport.
It's entertainment that is sports ancillary.
They are insanely athletic and I respect the hell out of them.
They are basically stunt performers and actors and so much wrapped into one that can do so many things.
The stunts they do are real, just like stunt performers do real stunts, but the actual competition in itself is not real.
But what about the other competition that is a part of it? The popularity competition?
Because that is a big determining factor in who is able to succeed in that field.
I would say the argument is made of that they are professional athletes and professional competitors in that sense.
The sport overall is more encompassing than just what takes place in there because there is all the drama that actually takes place behind the scenes.
Who is top dog? Who is actually gets... Why does someone get predetermined to win?
Is because they are more popular or because it could create more drama if they lose.
And it is like that sometimes is against the athletes' choices and it's all to do with their ability to cultivate their own persona and performance.
So there is an element of competition there, I would say.
To a degree, that is a performative competition. That is a little bit different than because more often than not has less to do with their ability in the ring and more to do with what they can do outside the ring.
Almost like they are judged.
Audience based judge does not fall into the same category.
It's the officials behind the scenes, they are judged by a panel of officials that determine their worth and value of their performance.
It's about viewership. It's entirely about viewership.
Not entirely. Sometimes you can sway people in charge with your charm and wit and people believe in you because you are a hot spot.
Either way, it is not a sport.
What is it fake?
I will still say that it's fake. In the sense of saying that if you use the word wrestling, it is not real wrestling and if something is not real, a synonym to not real is fake.
Well, there's better ones to use, I suppose.
Anyway, you also didn't mention the major score change after the Salt Lake City Olympics of 2002 for figure skating.
I know what that means. Informal analyst 459 said that.
What do you say about that?
Oh, I didn't dive deep enough into figure skating to get more analytical.
Oh, well.
Judge scoring is so complicated that it just throws everything through a loop and trying to explain how they do the scoring system is so overly complicated.
That's what a fake podcast host would say.
I'm an imposter.
Yes, exactly.
All right.
Decuse is over.
Oh, that's fair. That's fair.
We are today going to be deciding the fate of Tyler's education.
The fate of it.
Is it dying?
I talked to the school board. They said it's all good.
If you fail this test, they will revoke your master's degree and then you will have all knowledge of sports burned from your mind.
That sounds horrible for the success of this podcast.
Yes. Well, you could learn it all again.
You just got to hurry before the next.
I'll find the, do you remember like, what was it?
No, it was a future.
They had the little like book gummies.
Yeah, book gummies.
Yeah, they'd like eat the books and then they absorb the knowledge of everything in that book.
Man, that would be awesome if that was possible.
First off, tell me what school that you're going to do.
Well, undergrad, I went to Wilmington and for grad school, I went to University of Northern Colorado.
University of Northern Colorado.
I hope they have a list of courses.
So I actually sent you.
Oh, you sent me perfect.
You sent me the recipe of your demise.
Oh, I sent it through Discord though.
All right. Well, that's boring.
And boom.
Sports administration.
So the way this episode is going to work is I'm going to grill Tyler on various sports information and also to make sure he actually took the classes that he says he took in order to be able to get to the school board.
In order to be able to get whatever the hell he has.
In order to get that disease that he caught there for sport.
Yeah, all the STDs you got at University of Northern Colorado.
The sports transmitted diseases.
Shout out.
That's not funny.
You started laughing.
You think you're funny.
You're not funny.
They don't even say what the classes are.
What kind of school is this?
This is even a real school.
You have to dig through.
The reason I went there is they were considered the number three in the world for the program.
Couldn't go to the number one.
Wasn't good enough.
I tried.
I tried.
What is the number one Ohio University in Athens?
Okay.
All right.
Well, then you would have had to have been in Athens.
I would have had who wants to be there.
That's ridiculous.
That's where Joe Burrow is from.
Oh, never mind.
It's great.
We all love Athens.
Do you ever just forget that Toledo exists?
No.
We were talking about Ohio undistractable.
And I was like, I always forget that Toledo is in Ohio.
I was saying that Toledo is somewhere else.
What makes you think of Toledo to begin with?
Exactly, right?
Exactly.
What makes you think of Toledo?
Nothing.
Nothing makes you think of Toledo.
I mean, the only time I think of them is when I see their team in a competition.
That's it.
They have a team?
Yeah.
Is there school there?
Yeah.
They're Toledo.
All right.
Whatever.
Okay.
So it's time for the quiz.
Are you ready?
I'm always ready.
My master.
I wasn't done.
Oh, let's go continue.
Well, it's not as dramatic now.
No, it can be more dramatic.
Will adds epic music.
Build the anticipation.
Mark.
Are you ready to lose your master's degree?
No, because I'm not going to lose it.
All right.
Fair enough.
He's very confident.
Okay.
So if you really did go to this supposed college and get a supposed master's degree in May
2003, the fastest known speeding ticket in US history was handed out with the sweetest sports
car, allegedly going 242 miles an hour in a 75 mile an hour zone.
In what state did this occur?
75 miles an hour.
I mean, the fast, I'm just going to say Colorado.
Wrong.
Wrong.
Wrong.
Wrong.
I don't know why there's a sports relationship.
I was like a speeding ticket.
Was that part of the cannibal run?
It might have been actually.
Yeah.
The cannibal run is like that competition to go across the US as fast as possible.
It took place in Texas.
Oh, of course it would be Texas, which I guess if you could have just guessed if it was a
cannibal run, which state is the largest and like has the most like the cannonball run
wouldn't have them go through Texas.
No, no, because it's East coast to West coast and the fastest track would not bring you
south.
Oh, I did not know that.
I didn't know that unless you unless you can hit 242 in Texas, apparently.
But that's okay, that's a point against Tyler that is not looking good for him having a
master's degree by the end of this.
And we do have a time limit on this episode because I ordered food just before it.
And as we said in the last episode, we are limited on time.
And as you can tell, we're, we look exactly the same as we did in that episode.
The mystery is, did we record it that day or do we just always wear the same clothes
like cartoon characters post production change the color of my shirt.
Don't ask will to do it.
Just like the sliders starts a rainbow.
I just picture him putting the word different color.
Yeah.
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All right.
Next question.
Arguably, the second most popular in the world after soccer, what lucky sport has defensive
positions named Gully, silly midoff and deep.
Cricket.
Cricket.
He got it right everybody.
Even I could have guessed this one.
When they said silly, it's very obvious.
Silly midoff and deep mid wicked.
I was like, that's got to be cricket.
But also, also it's soccer cricket.
And then I think after that in the tier of sports, because there was a while that I knew
it was probably probably American football.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
It just it still blows my mind that baseball isn't higher up because I know so many Asian
countries love baseball Japan and Korea love baseball and I bet there's a few others
there but across the world, like I guess Europe doesn't play it very much and they do account
for a lot of the world.
But you know, I just would have thought.
Yeah.
Isn't basketball also taken off?
Oh, basketball is the third one.
I was wrong.
Oh, there we go.
I knew that before you did.
I get the point.
Yeah.
Well, well, what's after basketball?
Uh, because it's not American football.
Baseball, it's golf.
That's dumb.
All right.
Next question.
Remember, everything's on the line here.
All right, everything.
My life.
Turkish.
Is it?
All right.
His life is now on the line for this.
If he doesn't get enough to, he'll lose his master's degree and his life.
So you'll die and then along with your body, your master's degree will be incinerated.
Oh, nice.
At least you know, at least you know our friendship is close enough that you knew I wanted to
be cremated.
So that's pretty nice.
Yeah, I was pretty sure I was pretty sure.
But Turkish born athlete and activist Enos Cantor legally changed his name to Enos Cantor
freedom in 2021 to celebrate his American citizenship.
Mr.
Freedom has played what sport for.
Her K is fan or Bosch, but she sports club as well as the jazz, nicks and thunder.
Basketball.
I feel like those last parts of it really gave that question away.
The thing is you could have you could have skipped those last part and I would have known
you know of your new thing.
Your body.
No, but my my estimated guess based on the name would be basketball based on popularity
and sports and the fact that he came to the US because for the other sports that are highly
popular, the US is not where you would go cricket would be the UK.
That makes total sense and it would be actually it would be.
Yeah, it'd be UK or India.
Those are the two.
Ah, that makes sense.
All right, you get a point for that.
Okay, but it's only going to get harder from here.
Outside of what sports venue would you find rise up the world's largest freestanding sculpture
of a bird?
All right.
So you've you've got the Falcons.
You've got Arizona.
You've got the Eagles.
You've got the Hawks rise up.
I'm going to say the Eagles.
The Eagles stadium Philadelphia.
So close, but no, it's the Mercedes Ben Stadium home of the Atlanta Falcons.
You were very close.
You were very close because you didn't know all the bird teams.
So that was the hint you get there, but no, it looks like you might be burning tonight.
In all fairness, I have a I have family in Atlanta and I've yet to go to the Mercedes
Ben stadium.
So I haven't seen the bird.
You missed Atlanta class in your degree.
Yeah, I guess you didn't really go.
You know, I didn't go to Georgia for my master's degree.
I went to Colorado.
You want to know what sculptures in Colorado?
What the demonic horse that stands by the Denver airport that believe it or not actually
killed the person who created it.
It fell on him and murdered him while he was trying to put it up.
I don't think that's murder.
Well, it murdered him.
It was intentional.
The things evil.
All right.
I have seen that from the airport and it is very scary.
I don't know why it is like that.
All right.
Next question.
Are you ready?
I am always ready.
The run for the roses and the fastest two minutes in sports are both colloquial names
for a horse race that occurs on the first Saturday of May in which US state first Saturday
in May.
It's a it's amongst the three races, which is the Kentucky Derby, the Belmont stakes
and the other one that's name is escaping me, but the run for the roses to me, I'm going
to say Kentucky.
That is absolutely correct.
It is in fact, Kentucky.
I don't know why I get any kind of ego.
I don't know.
Yeah, because the run of the roses is a common place to be called with the Kentucky Derby.
So all right.
Well, well done.
Okay.
There are there are literally 290 questions on this and they go from.
I wonder how many I would get right if we went through 290.
We're not going to now because we're on a time crunch, guys.
When Mark's food gets there, we're done.
You're right, man.
These, these are easy.
Even I would know these.
I'm going to scroll down a bit.
It's because you're learning markets because I taught you thing.
You know, actually it probably is.
There are a few of these that I'm like, yeah, I know that because of from that episode or
whatever that is.
Here's one.
I don't know if this will be too difficult.
What was the gate moniker given to the 2014, 2015 NFL scandal in which the New England
Patriots were accused of manipulating the air pressure of football to flake gate, which
is a total lie Tom Brady would never would ever disgrace the name of sports to do such
a thing.
I reject this question.
This is awful.
I mean, I can, I can tell you the other gates that are involved in the three gates of the
NFL that I can name offhand that happened in our lifetime.
Spygate was the New England Patriots.
They were spying using cameras to film other teams defensive signals when they were giving
signals for what play was going to be called by the defense.
And then there's bounty gate, which was the new New Orleans Saints where they were head
hunting and getting paid to injure other players or attempt to injure other players.
Well, you don't get bonus points for any of that.
So that's nuts to you.
All right.
The owls are the sports teams of what public Philadelphia university owls.
They're called the owls.
Is it Penn?
Penn University?
It is not what I had.
It is temple.
Oh God.
I forgot that was in Pennsylvania.
Yeah, you, you should feel bad.
Wait, where's the other one?
What?
Penn is.
Isn't that?
Penn is in Pennsylvania.
My uncle went to Penn and he's going to shame me for this because he played football for
Penn.
Yes, I'm going to be good for you.
Man, the problem is, the problem is I immediately knew I was wrong because they're the Quakers
because it's the, it's my school and undergrad was also the Quakers.
And we talked about it multiple times between me and my uncle.
So right when I said Penn, I was like, no, man, you really should have known that one.
That's a pretty embarrassing.
That's pretty embarrassing.
All right.
Scrolling down.
Uh, boo.
What?
Okay.
So this is a Cincinnati related one, I think.
Okay.
The quote, and this one belongs to the Reds was the catchphrase of what sportscaster who
called Reds games from 1974 to 2019.
2019?
Yes.
Not Marty Breneman, is it?
It is in fact, Marty Breneman.
I got it right.
No, the 2019 was the key thing.
So yeah, Marty Breneman, was that the same guy that got in trouble?
Yes.
That's why I was like, what do I know that?
Yeah, he said, uh, he was on a hot mic and he said some horrible things.
I can't remember what it was, but probably best that I don't remember that.
Yeah.
You said, you said derogatory term towards a certain group of people.
Oh, good.
That's great.
Well, good thing he lost his job, but man, it's so, it's so funny that that's the only
reason that I also know of that name.
Yeah.
All right.
This one, some of these are like ridiculously easy.
I'm not asking you this one, but it's like in a football game, what's called when a player
loses control of the ball when they have a score.
A football.
You don't get a point for that.
I'm going down.
Okay.
Here's an interesting one.
Okay.
Paul Allen, an American billionaire who passed away in 2018 was the owner of the Portland
Trailblazers, Seattle Seahawks and a part owner of the Seattle Sounders before entering
the world of sports ownership.
Allen was best known for co-founding what company?
And this, this might be difficult, but I'll give you a hint.
Remember the Seattle Seahawks and the Seattle Sounders.
The think of a Seattle ace company.
Ah, damn, that would, that would have been a good one, but no, it was actually Microsoft.
Oh, I was founded in Seattle.
I know that, but you don't get a point for that.
Well, Seattle and founding the company, I was like, ah, that would make sense.
That's so ancillary.
That's so like an arbitrary trivia question.
That is like a very tangent.
I think that's the only way I'm going to get you on any of these.
If I tackle it from a different way, I don't study billionaires.
Sorry.
You didn't have billionaire class in your business administration?
No, I would think that as you're learning how to be a part of the cog in the machine
of business administration, that you would know who your superiors were.
No, we talked about moral and ethical reasoning in sport.
We talked about facilities and event management.
We talked about marketing and promotion around sport.
Okay, those, you actually were, I have another list of classes in this and you did name a
few of them, but you could have just pulled up that from the same Google search.
I got nothing right here.
Legal aspects of sport or sport law.
Those are both in the same category.
There's sport and exercise science.
Oh, I got nothing right here either for those listening.
I'm holding up both of my hands, but I also know organizational behavior in sports, sports
marketing, human resource management, sports organizations, legal issues and sports.
Wow, there's nothing in my hair.
I hear I share my screen.
I can do that.
No, no, don't do that.
All your tabs of porn and I want to see that here.
All right.
Next question.
What tough furry orange mascot swung into his first appearance at a Philadelphia Flyers
home game on a giant wrecking ball?
Philadelphia Flyers mascot, tough and orange.
Furry orange mascot.
I can picture this.
It's weird.
I can picture this occurring.
I'm just going to say Bailey on because for whatever reason that popped into my head.
Do you have any other name?
I do not.
It's gritty, gritty, which I never in a million years would have gotten, but you as a master's
degree owner should have known.
Yes, I study all of the mascots that are created to entice kids to want to come to sports
events.
They're like clowns.
They're pretty much.
Yeah.
Okay.
Next one.
Out of the growing boom of sports cards, a rookie year signed Tom Brady football card sold
at auction for more than $1.3 million in early 2021.
What team was Tom Brady on during his rookie year?
The New England Patriots.
That is great.
I was like, I thought you're going to ask me about some random stat that was on the card
now would have been like God.
No, no, these are too easy for that.
But if there's one thing we've proven that Tyler knows everything about Tom Brady.
I figured there was some underlying reason for this.
The deflate gate is a Tom Brady question.
Oh, these are just a quiz questions that I am randomly scrolling to and then finding.
Okay.
All right.
I can tell you the reason why fences are around pools and it has to do with my education.
So it's something called an attractive nuisance.
A what?
An attractive nuisance.
It basically means if you have something that can be dangerous that's a kid walking by,
it would be like, Oh, I want to go do that.
If you don't have a fence around it and somebody gets injured or dies in it, you are liable.
And that's part of legal aspects of sport.
Interesting.
But that doesn't prove a thing.
How would anybody at home know that that's related to that degree you supposedly have?
You're right.
We're called Bob because of his law degree.
Uh, exactly.
Yeah.
He's, that's not proven either.
I'll quiz him on law trivia in a moment.
Just you wait for that.
All right.
Also the name of Swarthmore college's sports teams.
What deep red silicate mineral is the birthstone for January.
And I have another supplement in if you can't get it from.
No, no, no, it's Garnet.
Hey, there you go.
Because that's my birthstone.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, it would be.
That's right.
Yeah.
I was like, maybe you know, I wouldn't know the name of that stone off the top of my head,
but the other part of this was the mineral is also a homophone with a basketball turned
actor, basketballer turned actor.
Garnet.
Garnet.
Okay.
Although his historical reputation is marred by steroids.
What a literative man remains the MLB's all time home run leader.
Harry bonds.
Correct.
That's another point.
So that was, I didn't give a celebration about the Garnet one, but who cares if you
get points?
It's not really that exciting.
Doesn't prove it.
This isn't distractable.
We don't get points here.
Points are arbitrary.
Unnecessary.
Yeah.
This is a judgment.
A judgment based on how I feel at the end of this, not necessarily whether you earned
it.
Okay.
Definitely not.
If you earned it.
All right.
Here's another reds related question.
Okay.
Name the controversial Cincinnati Reds player and manager who was penalized with permanent
ineligible.
He runs baseball.
That is correct.
All right.
He was a major part of the big red machine, which had Ken Griffey senior on it.
And believe it or not, the Cincinnati Reds are still paying Ken Griffey junior for his
contract with the Reds.
And he has since been retired for I think a decade now.
How does that work?
The way the contract was structured to make it so that it didn't hit all of the money
right away.
He paid him out long term, which is as a person and individual.
That's how I'd structure it.
I'd want to get paid out way after I've done with my career.
Makes sense to me.
All right.
But we'll see if you're going to get paid out in fire after this question.
Arthur Blank, co-founder of the Home Depot and owner of the Atlanta Falcons owns one
other sports franchise.
What is that sport?
And I have a hint.
What were the ones that he owns?
He owned the Atlanta Falcon and co-founded the Home Depot.
Okay.
Home Depot Atlanta Falcons.
I'm good.
My guess I'm leaning towards.
I'll take the hint.
You want a hint?
I want the hint, but I'm leaning towards.
Okay.
The franchise was founded in 2014.
2014.
Well, it's not football.
It's not another football team.
The NBA is relatively recent, but probably not that maybe.
It's probably hockey.
Final answer?
I think it's hockey.
It is not hockey.
It is soccer.
Oh, yeah.
I don't know what the name of the team is.
It's just a soccer.
It's probably the Georgia based one that I can't think of.
I don't know.
I don't know anything about anything.
Why ask me?
I only read the questions and then pretend like I'm smarter than you.
Wait, if that question didn't even give you the answer.
It did.
Yeah, it did.
It said it was soccer.
It just said what other sport?
Oh, it should name the team.
They should make it harder than that.
They even they don't know.
It's not possible.
2014, because I was getting down the lines and I was like hockey or soccer because hockey
moved south recently.
Mm hmm.
Okay.
Next question.
In what sports league do the Minnesota Lynx play?
Minnesota Lynx.
Is it professional lacrosse?
It is not professional lacrosse.
It is the WNBA.
Oh, God.
You heard it here first.
Tyler doesn't respect.
No, that is not works.
I don't watch the NBA.
You could have quizzed me on some of the NBA, NBA teams and I want to know who what they
are.
Look, I just scroll and I just.
That's a tough one.
I guess if you if you knew like teams in the NBA, you might have an idea about it, but
yeah, I would never have been able to guess that.
Lynx, I guess.
What is the one there?
Is it the Timberwolves?
Is that where they are?
I don't know.
I have no idea.
I just read them.
All right.
Here here is a not necessarily sports related question, but something you might know because
you're an adventurous person.
In what?
No, God, you would not know this at all.
In what Georgia County County, would you find a starting point or ending point for the
Appalachian Trail?
Oh, God.
The county.
This feels unfair.
Yeah, this feels unfair.
Man, I don't even know all the Ohio counties.
Yeah, I barely know the two that I was part of.
It's not Atlanta.
It's not by the city.
It's north of there.
Is it starting Marietta?
Is Marietta a county?
It might be, but it's not the right answer, unfortunately.
So you don't get a point for that.
You pathetic.
No, I'm not a loser.
All right, I'll discount that one.
No, but I want to know what the county is.
It's called Fanon County.
Fanon, okay.
F-A-N-N-I-N county.
I was curious if you would know it because I don't know if you're a trailblazer, but
even trailblazers might not know where it's called.
I've read a book on the Appalachian Trail, but I don't think it mentions the county.
It mentions a town, and that was years ago.
All right.
Well, we're getting down to the last few questions because my food is almost here.
All right.
So we're going to ask you something that you definitely know nothing about because you
don't care about it.
The first, 10th and 20th editions of WrestleMania were all held at what iconic East Coast
sports and concert venue.
Oh my God.
Yeah, you're not so fake now.
Is it not so fake?
And concert venue.
East Coast.
East Coast.
So it's on a coastal city.
Madison Square Gardens.
That is correct.
Yeah.
Well done.
I guess he does care a little bit about professional wrestling.
The realest wrestling there could possibly be.
I had to remember that New York was East Coast is on the coast.
You don't just remember that New York.
I keep.
It's geography.
My brain gets bogged when I'm thinking about it.
If I see a map, it's easy.
I can name the States.
But when it comes to thinking about it in my head, it gets discombobulated.
All right.
We're here's something to discombobulate you in 1996.
Nike created the ACG line of products, which markets for extreme sports such as snowboarding
and mountain biking.
What does ACG stand for?
ACG.
I think G stands for games.
Alternative competitive games.
No.
All conditions gear.
Dang.
Hey, mine was interesting.
I guess you took a different route from snowboarding and mountain biking, but not quite there, not
quite there.
All right.
Next question.
Since you seem to know a little bit more about the sport than maybe you might think you
do, the bridgeport sound tigers and the Hartford Wolfpack are both professional sports franchises
based in Connecticut that compete in what sport lacrosse.
What do you keep saying?
I don't know.
I don't know the answer.
It's hockey.
Oh, dah.
Hockey professional sports franchise.
Are there professional?
There was for a while.
I don't know if it still exists.
Yeah.
Let me see.
Hockey is hockey.
Silly, silly, silly.
Wait, what were the names of the teams?
The bridgeport sound tigers and Hartford Wolfpack.
How could you not know that?
I think the NHL.
I don't know.
Must be, I guess.
All right.
We're going into a different world because he, an ardent star craft fan in 2021 Shopify
CEO Tobias Lute announced that his company had started its own professional e sports
team, which competes under what name?
Is it cloud nine?
No, but the answer is dumb.
It's the Shopify rebellion.
Oh my God.
So, not a great name.
I can't say that's a good name.
That makes it sound like he's telling his team not to use his product that he created.
Yeah, maybe not.
Okay.
Here's one in linguistics.
The word forensics comes from a Latin expression meaning of or before what type of building
in reference to where Romans trials were held.
That was a complex, but let me read that again.
The word forensics comes from a Latin expression meaning of or before what type of building
in reference to where Roman trials were held.
This F word can apply to a place for exchanging ideas or an alternative name for a sports
arena.
I think forum forum is correct.
It is a forum, which I didn't know that that was another name for a sports arena.
That is a strange thing.
Yeah, there's there's a few that have that name in the US.
I can't think of the exact ones, but the form there's places.
All right.
We're getting down to the wire.
They're almost here.
So I'm going to scroll to the bottom and I'm going to see what these last questions are
and how hard they actually is going to say just like lightning around me.
That's not even this one isn't even an actual trivia question.
It's just I think it's like a riddle more than anything.
Okay.
Being one of the most popular sports down under, how many points is a goal worth in Australian
rules football football?
A goal.
A goal.
I'm going to say five.
So close.
It was six.
Oh, so it's the same as a touchdown.
I can't remember if it was or not.
Yeah, apparently.
I don't know what the differences between a goal and a touchdown is in Australian rules
football.
Is that still like is that like American football, but in Australia?
Yeah, it's there's some similarities and some differences.
The ball is different.
I think it's like a round ball.
If I remember right.
This is an interesting question.
Upon their establishment in 1902, the Durham Bulls were originally known by what regionally
appropriate team name.
Oh, the Durham Bulls.
Do you know the Durham Bulls?
I know the name of the Durham Bulls.
I don't think you'll ever get this.
Oh, God.
There was a time in which I knew this.
I'm not even kidding because there's a there's a video quiz thing for sports trivia that
I used to play at my uncle's house.
And this was one of the questions.
And I don't remember.
It's a weird.
It's really weird.
It's a weird one.
Yeah, it is a weird one.
Nothing's coming to me.
It's the tobaccanists.
Oh, yeah, because tobacco tobacco.
I would never I don't even know where the Durham Bulls are.
I don't even know what any of that is.
I don't know what sports they play, but I don't have a master's degree and apparently
not.
I believe it's baseball.
Durham Bulls are all right.
I don't believe you.
I can't trust anything you say.
Look it up.
Here we go.
This is a good one for the last one.
What American city has occasionally been considered the first purely American city because
it was the first city founded after the American Revolution.
The city peaked in the late 19th century as the sixth most populous city in the US,
although it has slipped to the 65th most populous by 2018.
What city is it?
American Revolution.
I have another hint to.
Okay.
I'll take to him.
But if you need it, yeah, the city remains well known because of multiple major sports
teams started at the sixth in the late 19th century, slipped to the 65th most populous
by 2018 and well known for multiple major sports teams.
Well, it's not all the way in California because this is right after this is the revolution
against England, right?
Yes.
It was founded the first American city founded after the American Revolution.
Boston existed has a lot of teams.
Atlanta has a lot of teams.
Did New York exist?
Yes.
It's a lot of places with multiple teams.
Boston Angeles has a ton of teams, but that's too far west.
Yeah, you can pretty much discount anything on that side.
Because multiple teams makes me think of multiple teams within the same sport.
And I don't know if that's.
No, different sports, different sports.
Is it called the Queen city?
It's not Cincinnati.
It's a very final answer.
I'm going to say it's Cincinnati.
It is Cincinnati.
It is Cincinnati.
It is Cincinnati, the first purely American city, our hometown still well known for multiple
major sports team.
All right.
It's also known as the Queen city, which is why I lean towards it because it was right
after the revolution.
It is also known as the Queen city.
And it is beautiful and it is lovely and I craving skyline.
No, I'm not going to go on.
But I'll have to settle for the food that's almost at my door, which ends this.
So the determination.
Do you actually have a master's degree?
I mean, my answer is yes.
It's not about your answer.
That was for the trivia.
No, will light up on fire.
All right, I guess you do.
Okay.
Well, I don't think I'm qualified to know what that answer is.
And I don't know how any of these trivia questions relate to whether or not you have
a master's degree.
But you did get quite a few right.
So that's pretty impressive.
Yeah, some of there are definitely ones I should have gotten right if I paid attention
to like more sports.
That's all right.
It's all right.
But I do want to say if any of my classmates from getting our master's degrees together
or any of my professors happen to be listening to this podcast, please hop over to that sub
red and showcase the fact that I did, in fact, walk and get my master's degree.
Interesting.
There's only there's no evidence.
And maybe there'll be a picture that suddenly appears of my master's degree in the next
few days.
Hmm.
I don't know.
It hasn't happened in the past year.
So I don't think it'll ever happen again.
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You got to go watch a spotify video.
Oh, right, right.
That's right.
Yeah.
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