Who Knew It with Matt Stewart - 44 - Claire Hooper, Dave Warneke and Ben Volchok

Episode Date: July 10, 2023

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Oh my God, can you believe it? It's the year 2024. It's Melbourne Comedy Festival and we've just moved venues. We're at the Grace Darling now. We had a great run at the Chinese Museum, selling out shows by the end, but now we need you to come over to the Grace Darling and shows are at 7.15. It's going to be so much fun. Love to see you there. Let's have a beer. Use discount code DOGOON. The show's called Dry Dry at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Then we're going to Sydney and Brisbane. Tickets to all that stuff's on sale now. And you can find those tickets and details at mattstuartcomedy.com. As women, our life stages come with unique risk factors. Like when our estrogen levels drop during menopause, causing the risk of heart disease to go up. Know your risks. Visit heartandstroke.ca. Welcome to Who Knew with Matt Stewart, the show where the guests write the wrong answers. I'm the titular Matt Stewart.

Now, first guest has a brand new podcast out called I'm the Worst. It's Claire Hooper. That's me. Oh, I'm Claire Hooper. Hello. Are you buzzing in? I know the answer to this one. I think you will find it is a struggle to make alternate definitions of Claire Hooper.

But it is a brand new podcast, only out the last couple of months. Oh, right, so we talk about the podcast is a great idea. Yeah, not even months, two weeks. It's been out two weeks. Three weeks? Depends when this comes out. Well, this comes out this week. So then three weeks.

Wow, it's fresh. It's so fresh. So fresh, so fun because it's people telling me stories about one time when they did a bad thing. How bad are we talking about? People coming on confessing horrific murders. That is part of my official invite is please nothing prosecutable. I can't handle that.

No, but it's more of a like because I'm inviting people on who people would think are generally good people. Right. And then it's really fun to unpick what they offer up as an example of bad behaviour. And for a lot of people it's like something that's no big deal but from their childhood that they've obsessed about and has kind of informed their identity as adults as well.

You know, like the one time they cheated at school and how they were so mortified about it that they're now this really hot, incredibly ethical adult. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. We should probably introduce the other guests. Our second guest this week is award-winning comedy writer

and performer Ben Volchok. Hello. That's the extent of my writing. People love his brevity oh yeah hello good comedy writing hello hello oh yeah you know you can convey a whole universe what would you be putting in the brackets before those hellos in the comedy script uh thoughtfully pensively uh thoughtlessly oh that's good writing not pensively you know it's really not pensively it's really good the four quadrants of uh human emotion some would argue that thoughtfully and pensively are the same

thing but there's tinges no i that's how you can tell you're the professional because i would have thought that no you see that there's there's so much there's a you know again a universe of difference between thoughtful and pensive and our third guest this week is from the do go on and book cheat podcast on this very network it's dave warner key hello i am at no risk sorry oh no i am at no risk of saying hello in any deep way like you just did just a simple hello from me now claire i've paired up dave and ben uh on the podcast for a specific reason. We shared a room at the Adelaide Fringe earlier this year and a tech as well. And our tech told Dave and I that Ben had a pre-show warm-up that included going around the room, sort of shaking your arms and

making noises. So Dave and I started taking that on and we said before our shows would start, we said, let's do a bit of Volt Chocking. We're going to Volt Chock it up. Volt Chock it up a little bit. Let's loosen up. Let's Volt Chock it. And it's something I still say to this day. You've become a verb?

I've become a concept. A concept, yeah. I think I'm- You've become a practice. I've become a practice. You're absolutely- I've become a discipline. You know, I'm my own teachings uh i think i think it's it's i'm yeah very grateful to have seen you benefit from my discipline uh it's genuinely it

was just a thing that i used to do i'll still do before getting on stage is just shaking everything out using loosening muscles loosening know, everything in your body, getting more into your body. And it, you know. It's really beautiful. Thank you. And that's really interesting, but I will just say, it's the right last name for it.

Yeah, it works, doesn't it? Doesn't it work? I mean, imagine if it was Matt that you'd all learn. Yeah, that's right, hoopering. We're all just going to indulge in a bit of hoopering. That's disgusting. Please cut that out. Do you Volchok before shows?

I've gone through different phases, but at the moment it's actually my favourite pre-show is to try and be still. Ah. So reverse Volchok. Yeah. I know, right? Isn't that like almost like. And that is hoopering. And and that is hoopering and something else

is hoopering as well do you know but you know like you know like almost like trying to collect the universe's energies and hold them latent in your body for the moment where you will burst onto stage and do your adequate show yeah absolutely takes all the universe's power to put on an adequate show god it, it really does. Because the universe is spreading itself quite thin at Melbourne Comedy Festival time. But also, I feel like we've offered up two new words that we've come up with a definition for, which is the exact right podcast to be doing this on.

We're all stewarding right now. Anyway, let's get into the show. I don't think we've ever done a preamble that long before. So the way the show works is I ask a relatively obscure trivia question. Our contestants have to write a convincing fake answer. I then read their answers as well as everyone and I have to guess which one is correct. Are we ready to play?

Yes. You bet. Oh, yes. Sorry. Yeah, yeah. The first question comes from... In brackets, pensively. Oh, yeah. That first question comes from... In brackets, pensively. Oh, yeah.

That was very pensive. It was game face, but people at home couldn't see that, so... The first question comes from listener Linda Moulton from Gainesville in Florida. And Linda's question is, what is an ophiophagus? What is an ophiophagus? What does it mean? What does ophiophagus mean? Could an Ophiophagus? What does it mean? What does Ophiophagus mean?

Could you spell that for us, please? O-P-H-I-O-P-H-A-G-U-S. And while they're writing their answers, I'll explain how the scoring works. You get one point if your fake answer is guessed by the other contestants and another point if you correctly guess the answer. By the way, I'm also playing as a house and I've put in two of my own fake answers for each question. I get a point for each one of those that our guests choose so each of us can score up to three points per round which seems fair but the probability actually favors me the house and the house always wins so uh if you've listened to previous 40 odd episodes you'll know that is really the case anyway our questions come from our great patreon supporters

if you want to submit a question sign up on any level via patreon.com slash do go on pod which is linked in the show notes so the answers are in let's go back to the first question what does otheophagus mean it's a valve at the base of the fourth ventricle of the heart someone who becomes a vegan for one month a year usually october different species of snake that eat other snakes the feeling of loneliness when exacerbated by darkness a rare condition where the sufferer smells the blood of an englishman or the tube connecting your large and small intestines a couple of medical ones there yeah it's a few body part sort of related ones anything sticking out to you ben um i the body part sort of related ones. Anything sticking out to you, Ben? The body part ones feel like, because when you spelled it out for me,

it sounded like esophagus. Right, yes. So I thought maybe it's like a body part. So the heart one and what was the other one? The heart one and the intestine. Heart and intestine. I feel like. Yeah, I feel like you're at something. Because the A-G-U-S at the end, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But the. Are we meant to be working together? Absolutely not. No, for sure. Love it. We were turning this against the house. We all split the points. You've got a common enemy here.

Oh, that's true. So hang on. There were six options there. Yeah, so two were put in by the house. Oh, of course there's a correct one in there as well. I was struggling to add it up. I was like, but hang on, if there are only five made up answers, what's the sixth one?

We just have to guess which one sounds the least made up. Yeah. Yeah, we rank them. Gotcha. Well, do you want to pick one of those? Do you know what? I think I'm going to go for the snake one. Okay.

Can we hear? Okay. You've lost down one. Well, I think because I was also thinking because the esophagus eating, you know. Right. Potentially. Can we hear the snake one again?

What was it? Different species of snake that eat other snakes. Yeah. Snake eating snakes. Yeah. The esophagus, the phage, and I think the suffix has something to do with eating. So I'm going to go with the snakes.

All right. Locking item for Ben. Yeah. Dave, you want to go? All right. Actually, Claire, if there are more in your mind, maybe because I have forgotten the other five. Except for there's two body ones.

Yeah, two body ones. One vegan one. Oh, the vegan. What was the vegan? So there's two eating ones, snake eating and not eating meat. And then there's loneliness in the dark. And then dark. I am like, well, there's two medical ones and I feel like AGUS.

Yeah. Feels like it feels like a body part, doesn't it? Yeah. So 50-50. Are you going with your heart or are you going with your gut? Oh Alright, looking gut Whatever that one was

The tube connecting your large and small intestines Tube I don't know, that doesn't actually sound It doesn't sound very medical, does it? No The tube I'm a bit off it now But maybe like it's been Maybe it's been dumbed down You know what I mean? The tube. I'm a bit off it now.

But maybe it's been dumbed down. You know what I mean? Intentionally dumbed down? I don't think you're allowed to do that with a definition. A tube. A tube. Does anyone say tube? Nobody says tube.

Is it really tube? That's disappointing. The tube connecting. Well, I mean, maybe you've just found a loophole or maybe you've not. I don't know. Can you move back to Dave? I need to think about it. All right, Dave. Oh, no.

Okay. Well, this tube talk really influenced my decision. I mean, what is a snake if not a long tube? Long tube. Yes. Okay. Ophi, Ophagus. I'm going to go with the snake as well

Go with the snake as well Really? Yeah I'm off the The tube has killed all of them Yeah It's killed all of them They all sound terrible

Yeah None of them feel You'll find that That comes up a lot in this show None of them feel super real this time I feel like yeah They're either They all sound like really plausible

Or none of them sound really plausible So we've got two snakes so far, Claire. You can go with the snakes, which is what I call Dave and Ben, or you can go your own way. Oh, look, leave the gut in. It's not. There's no way it's got tube in the definition. For you go and forget?

Yeah. I mean, because like Dave, I have sort of forgotten. Yes. I want it to be the loneliness that you experience in the dark, but I don't have the courage to go for that. All right. Well, let's go through who wrote the answers. Rare condition where the sufferer smells a lot of an Englishman.

That was The House. The feeling of loneliness when exacerbated by darkness. That was Dave Warnocki. That's right. Yeah, it's really beautiful. Very poetic. It's a bit sad, though, isn't it? That's what came to me.

It was right there, ready to go. Watch out for the future definitions. If any of them are, like, remotely, like, really depressing and poetic. If they're melancholy. That's me. Just keep checking in every question. But even though I knew it wasn't right, my head had a backstory for it.

There was some Greek god, Phagos, who was the god of loneliness or something, you know. Becoming vegan for one month a year. That was Linda, okay, the house. Okay. A valve at the base of the fourth ventricle of the heart. That was Claire Hooper. Okay, yes. The tube connecting your large and small intestines.

That was Ben. So cute. Tube. You're adorable. When you started piling on tube, I was like, what have I done? Whoever wrote this is an idiot. I still went with it. It's true.

You did. Adorable. And that means the correct answer is different species of snake that eat other snakes. Does that mean we all get a point? No, I don't. No, Ben gets two points. Oh, that's right. Sorry.

I was thinking it was the other way around. Yeah. You were right on the money with your logic there. So it's derived from ancient Greek, ophio meaning snake and phagos meaning eating. Right. So esophagus, I said phagos, phagus, I guess. I guess that's why esophagus is called that because it's an eating thing.

There's also trouble swallowing is dysphagia. Yeah, right. There you go. There you go. Well, that brings us up to question number two. This one comes from Paul Mellor from Oldham in the UK. And Paul's question is, it's a local question for him. What is the name of track eight on the Lancashire folk band,

the Oldham Tinkers 1977 album, Sit Thee Down? the Oldham Tinkers 1977 album, Sit Thee Down. So you've just got to come up with an old-timey folk song title. Uh-huh. Yeah, but he wouldn't have picked track eight. Yeah, it was a bit silly. Unless it was a real beauty. Yeah, yeah.

Do we know if Oldham is in the north or the south of England? Manchester. Manchester, so the north. Yeah. All right. Mid-north? Mid. Midlands.

Midlands to the north? Sorry, English listeners. Manchester is definitely in the north. Yeah. All right. Mid-north? Mid. Midlands. Midlands to the north? I think it's in the north. Sorry, English listeners. Manchester is definitely in the north. Okay, great. Because it changes everything. Okay. Yeah. And what was the name of the album?

The album was called Sit Thee Down. All right. And while you're writing your answers, Linda also wrote, she wrote this question specifically because she knows a bit about them. She's seen them up close. So in this family of snakes, there is the king cobra. It's probably the most famous one in Southeastern Asia.

And in North America, the biggest one is the eastern indigo snake. They're the two biggest of their regions. And she's lived in both those areas and had one of each invade her home. I don't know if invade's the right term. And I was worried for Linda for a second, but I looked up the king cobra. Apparently, according to animaldiversity.org, it's undoubtedly a very dangerous snake, but it prefers to escape unless it's cornered or provoked. So I hope that Linda didn't either corner or provoke the snake.

Hopefully, Linda lives in a round house. Yes. That's the only way to survive a king cobra attack. A round, calm house. And apparently they only eat other snakes and some of them get real specific about it and will only eat one specific species of snake and they'll refuse any other type. They can become real fussy.

They only eat snake. It could be. Surely, couldn't there be like an issue of immunity to the different venoms? I can become real fussy. I only eat. It could be. Couldn't there be like an issue of immunity to the different venoms? Oh, that's true. You can't be okay with all the venoms. When you eat a snake, you wouldn't eat its venom necessarily, would you? Sorry, where does the venom that is in the snake go if not into your tum-tum?

I mean, it's not in the snake, isn't it? It's like it's got a sack of venom. Where's the sack, though? In the head. The sack is in the snake. I thought they outsourced their sacks. Byron from the supermarket, like an IV drip. Yeah.

Well, I mean, yeah. I mean, they're probably producing venom at all times. So it's not like they're carrying their full lifetime supply with them. But I still say there would be. If there's enough in a fang to give you a, you know, to give you a sad snake bite, then surely eating the snake that contains a bite, at least a bite's worth of venom, if not more than one bite's worth of venom. It depends on if you eat the sack or not, surely. So, what you're saying is these snake eating snakes just need to like bite it off at the tip, right? Yeah, spit out the sack. Absolutely. Spit out the sack or not, surely. So what you're saying is these snake-eating snakes just need to bite it off at the tip, right? Yeah, spit out the sack. Absolutely.

Spit out the sack. Bite off the head, spit it out, and then everything else is safe to consume. But what if the sack's the tastiest bit? Yeah, I imagine it would be. That's where it becomes a delicacy. Your final meal on death row, I want the sack of a snake. That makes sense, actually, if you're ever going to eat one. The succulent sack of a snake that makes sense actually if you're ever gonna eat one the

succulent sack of a snake which coincidentally is the name of the track of the um well the answers are in and uh here's question number two once again what is the name of track eight on the lancashire folk band the oldham tinkers 1977 album, Sit Thee Down. Throw me a black pudding and I'll show you a good night. Lost my wallet swill. What? Can we hear it again? Lost my wallet swill.

Oh, for a pot of mum's thick custard. the night John Willie took his ferret to a do, or my nanny on my knee, or you couldn't set a lower bar than setting fire to a hire car. Can we hear the second last one again before that one? My nanny on my knee. My nanny on my knee. Yeah, I can hear that. I feel like we have no chance at all.

Well, you got a one in six. But I mean, normally what we're talking about is a definition of an actual thing. And what we're talking about now is a song title, i.e. something someone made up once. Up against five other things someone made up once. But one something someone made up nearly 50 years ago. Yeah.

Okay. A specific thing that someone made up, not something we made up. You're getting into the crux of this game. It's all a bit of a fool's errand, to be honest. Sounds like a bit of a swill to me. A wallet swill? A wallet swill. Lost my wallet swill.

I don't understand that one. But it's not important. Is it like money is the stuff that swills? Yeah, maybe that was local. Lost my wallet swill. A few of them have locally sort of sounding stuff. You also have to imagine them all said in like a northern accent. Okay, can you do that for us?

All right. For instance, for lost my wallet swill. Lost my wallet. No, that's Scottish. Lost me wallet sw accent. Okay, can you do that for us? All right. For instance, for lost my wallet swill. Lost my wallet swill. No, that's Scottish. Lost me wallet swill. Okay. That makes sense now. Yeah, now I get it.

Now I get it. What were the others? You do the custard one. Get him to do the custard one. Oh, for a pot of my mum's thick custard. Oh, for a pot of me mum's thick custard. They would like that. It's got the...

There's two dessert-based ones. There's also throw me a black pudding and I'll show you a good night. Throw me a black pudding and I'll- Well, that is very good, but also- Throw me a black pudding and I'll show you a good time. When have you ever had a black pudding for dessert? Oh, I don't know. It's the wrong kind of pudding.

Oh, wrong kind of pudding. I just think of pudding, I assume. It's made of blood. It's made of blood. Black pudding is a sausage made of blood. We are talking to a dessert expert here, host of the Greatest Try and Bake Off. Did you ever make him do a black pudding? Which makes me not a black pudding.

Absolutely. I mean. If you order me a black pudding, I'll show you a good time. Oh, yeah. That sounds like something. Yorkshire or something, maybe? Yorkshire. Oh, no.

Oh, the English people listen. There are. My nanny on my knee. My nanny. There are- My nanny on my knee. My nanny on my knee. My nanny on my knee. I mean, that one did sound pretty stupid, but now that you say it in the right accent- It's all in the accent.

See, that's the one I'm calling. My nanny on my knee is calling to me. All right, Dave, you want to lock that in? That just felt right. I'm going to go with that one. All right, lock that in for Dave. Are there any others that I haven't said in a northern accent yet? You couldn't set a lower bar than setting fire to a hire car? You couldn't set a lower bar than setting fire to a hire car you couldn't set a lower bar than setting fire to a hire car

that's pretty good did they have hire cars and that is the did you say it was from the 50 77 77 yeah did they have hire absolutely they did but did they write folk songs about the hire cars i feel like they might not have been you know know, the folk music is the music of the people. And I feel like in the 70s, the hire car was not of the people. That's for Richie's. Yeah, yeah. That would have been like there would have been classical music composed about hire cars. That's right.

Operas. Operettas. Operettas. Yeah. You couldn't set a lower bar than setting fire to a hire car. Oh, jolly good, yes. Set a lower bar than setting fire to a higher car. Oh, jolly good, yes. Could you please isolate that audio for me to use as a ringtone? Yes.

Our alarm wake up call. That'll wake me up for sure. Claire, what do you reckon? I already know I'm going to lose this game. So I think I'm going to follow my heart now. I'm going to choose custard because it spoke to me. Okay, great. We'll lock that in for you, Claire.

Thank you. And Ben. What could it be? Did any of them speak to you? Honestly, the black pudding. Yeah. There's something about that. But it's so silly.

But I feel like that's why we've been. Yeah. Like, it's not going to be, you know, the farm. You know, it's going to be something. Yeah, like Paul's gone to the shelf, he's got the old CD out, and he's seen track eight and gone, that's funny, I'm going to tell Matt about that. It's the game behind the game. For a fun, fun reason.

You know, why have we got this particular tidbit, you know? I think it's like the Combine Harvester song, you know? What? This is like a novelty Combine Harvester song from the south. It's like, I've got a brand new Combine Harvester song you know the this is like a novelty uh combine harvester song from the south it's like i've got a brand new combine harvester and i'm gonna give you the key uh yeah that's you know it's quite it was a big hit back in the south in the south of england of england yes uh anyway they're big in combine harvesters combine harvesters yeah that's right it was i've got a brand new combinevoi norvester and i'm

gonna give you the key anyway that's why my mind i changed my mind i want that one for a ringtone so ben locking in yeah i'll go black pudding all right oh this is so exciting black pudding well let's see who wrote the answers you couldn't set lower bar than setting fire to a high car. That was the house. Man, that took me way too long. It's great. I went through multiple drafts and started off with the lower bar and trying to get in like a some guy drinking at a bar.

The front bar. Anyway, it doesn't matter. You don't need to know my process. The front bar. I mean, it really should have been you couldn't set a lower bar than setting fire to a combine harvester. That would have been better. Oh, darn it. You might have got that over the line.

Yeah, that is better. That is a lower bar than higher car. And I would have immediately known that it was from the south of England, not from the north where this track is from. Yeah, but I wouldn't have known that you'd have such knowledge coming in. I lost my wallet swill. That was Dave Warnicky. That's right.

Okay. Can you talk us through it? We would love the reasoning behind this one. It just felt like a phrase that someone from that part of the world in a folk band now it's time for track eight the Lost My Wallet Swill. Can you imagine that?

No. As in it's like a lament or a... Yeah, it's time for the Lost My Wallet Swill. Do you spill a glass time for the Lost My Wallet swill. Swilling the glass? Do you swill a glass? I love that one. Like the Lost My Wallet blues.

Yeah, that kind of thing. But that doesn't feel folky enough. But swill? Now you're in folk town. See, because I read- I probably hurt you in my reading of it. I don't think you ruined the reading. I think it was perfect.

I stand by my art, okay? Throw me a black pudding and I'll show you a good night. That was Paul, okay? The house. And Paul is a local, so he was able to write in the voice that you obviously understand so well. See, that spoke to me. Yeah.

That's beautiful. My nanny on my knee, which Dave went for. That was Claire Hooper. I loved it. Thank you. No regrets. It does have a beautiful rhythm. I answered very quickly because I could really hear that,

like with somebody like stomping out the beat. I can hear it too. Putting a fiddle in the bridge. Yeah, I can hear that definitely as well. Over a pot of my mum's thick custard, which Claire went for, that was Ben Bolchok. You've gone for Ben's two in a row. Two for two.

That's what it is. Meaning no one got the correct answer. It was the night John Willie took his ferret to a do. Oh, I forgot about that one. I forgot about it. I forgot about it is. Meaning no one got the correct answer. It was the night John Willie took his ferret to a do. Oh, I forgot about that one. I forgot about it. I forgot about it too. I was going to go with that one. But I actually instantly wrote it off.

Yeah. Oh, do? Are they saying that in the 70s in Holland? Yeah. On the North, yeah. The 70s seems like a hipper time, but this was a- A do. A do.

It feels like a more Australian thing to me, but- Going out to a do. Going out to a do. Well, if you say it in that accent, yes, it's Australian. Yeah, that's right. But if you say out to a do. I think we get a lot of our language from their country, though, I think. In a lot of ways.

First off, a little bit. What I love is that we're coming on, but I am discovering a new definition of Volcheking, which is to be Volcheked. To be Volcheked. Which is what's happening to be vault checked. To be vault shocked. Which is what's happening to me. It's what I'm saying. You've been getting vault shocked.

I've been vault checked. Two from two. All right. We're up to question number three. This one comes from Melissa Gamble from Pawnee, Oklahoma. I'm just putting the cultural filter over every question. It's going to really tax my brain. Have you been to Oklahoma?

No. I haven't even been close. i've circled around the outside yeah i think you refused to go yeah you went you're not permitted in state lines just just went along the border looking in looking in and melissa's question is what unique message will you see on road signs along Route 270 in Oklahoma? So there's a road sign, it's got a message on it unique to this stretch of Route 270 in Oklahoma. So it's like a repeated, it's not like a you are exiting Oklahoma, it's repeated along the 270? Yeah, there's a well yeah, along a section of the 270. Bit of a 270 branding. Yeah, a bit of local, a section of the 270. Bit of a 270 branding.

Yeah, a bit of local, something local to the area. Yeah, okay. Yeah. While you're writing your answer, let the audience know a bit more about the Oldham Tinkers. According to Paul, they're an English folk group from Oldham founded in 1965 by John Howarth and the brothers Larry and Jerry Kearns. Larry conceived the idea of this song after John, a deerstalker friend of the group,

told how he used to take his ferrets to parties and of the havoc they caused. It is a fun song, a bit of oral slapstick, Paul writes. This is the chorus. I was there, so were you. The mayor and the vicar, all the council too. With their wives and ladies on full view, the night John Willie took his ferret to a do. You've turned this from an old folk ballad to an old folk bush poem. You've turned this into a bush poem.

Yeah, I can't help but Australianise it. It's just do. I had Matt say do, and I was like, that's not right. The night John Willie took his ferret to the do. 100%. Any more? That's the main chorus. The rest of it is just sort of talking about things he did.

He slipped his lead with some butter from the sauce. He patented all the table with his dirty little paws. Ooh, said the vicar's wife, this rabbit isn't dead. As he danced a little jig around the hat upon her head. It really does have the rhythm of a bush bulb. That's right. Do you think it's available on Spotify? It is available on Spotify. That's amazing.

Funnily enough, I didn't listen to it. I looked it up to, I saw it there. To confirm? I didn't want to get that rhythm in my head. You know, mucking me up. Alright, the answers are in for question number three. What unique message will you see on road signs along Route 270 in Oklahoma? Tumbleweeds can kill. Please don't touch wildlife crossing the road.

Please. Honestly, I'm at my wits end. Is that two separate ones? Yeah. Okay. Oh, wait. No, it's the same. Is it?

Wait. The tumbleweed one. then oh no they're two different okay it's not like i'm at my wits end all the way down route 270 so the first one is tumbleweeds can kill great second one please don't touch the wildlife crossing the road please honestly i'm at my wits end okay uh hitchhikers may be escaping inmates. Oh. Corn, cattle and company. Okay. It's a local slogan. Route 270, more than four times as good as Route 66.

Or if you're just passing through, enjoy your trip. If you're a returning resident, Okla Welcome Homer. I love it. I love it. So I think hopefully Oklahoma is listening because I reckon they've got a few more options to put up along the way. That's right. Why are I the same thing all the way along? Rotate through those fine six slogans.

But if you have one, you've got to take them all. Yeah, that's right. It's a package deal, Oklahoma. You win. Claire, I don't think you've had a go first up. Do you want to have a pick? Claire, I don't think you've had a go first up. Do you want to have a pick? Yep.

I would like to say hitchhikers may be escaping inmates. Thank you. Locking that in for Claire. However that was phrased. Ooh, okay. I know. That was fast, wasn't it? Yeah.

Yeah. We've got a couple of ones that are really selling it, maybe three that are more positive, and then the other half are sort of more warnings. I like it. Seeing three that are more positive and then the other half are sort of more warnings. I like it, seeing which way you're going to go here. Dave, what do you reckon? Okay, I think that's a good choice. Is that what you were going to go with?

Maybe, but also I love Welcome Homer. Welcome Oklahoma? Oklahoma Welcome Homer. I love that. But, like, that's probably. I mean, it should be Welcome Oklahoma, I. Welcome home. I love that. But, like, that's probably. I mean, it should be Welcome Oklahoma, I think. It should be. Right.

So, maybe not either of you wrote that then because you're punching it up a bit there. Corn, cattle and. Company. Company. Why would they have that? State motto. Corn, cattle and company. Now I'm going to go with, well, I thought it was perfect.

I had no notes, unlike you two. I think I'm going to go with it. Okla, welcome Homer. Is that what the president called it? Okla, welcome Homer. Cute. All right, lock that in for Dave. And Ben?

Before Dave actually picked welcome Oklahoma, I mean, sorry, Okla, welcome Homer, and was passionately defending it, I thought he wrote it. Well, maybe I did and I'm just here to defend it. So I did, yeah. You thought that was my right. And I appreciate that. That's a compliment.

Yeah. Good. I love it. Welcome Oklahoma Simpson. I love it. Welcome, Oklahoma Simpson. I'm caught by the, I'm taken by the mathematical one. Yep.

More than four times. Yeah, it's really good, isn't it? Hang on. Okay, let's do this quickly. Four times 60, 240, four times 624. So it's 664. So, and six, what is it? Two, sorry, 260. So you're just checking that it's-

I'm checking that it's actually more than four times, which it is because it's 264 and this is root 270. Yeah. I'm going to go with it. All right. I've done the maths. You've done the maths. I've done the maths.

It's that one. All right. Let's go through who wrote the answers. Tumbleweeds can kill. Oh, I also loved that. That's great. All caps lock. That was Ben Volchok.

Great. Yes. Loved it. loved that. That's great. All caps lock. That was Ben Volchok. Great. Yes. Loved it. Thank you. It could have been it. Oh, I'm almost disappointed you didn't get me again. I was sitting there thinking, what would Claire Hooper write? It's killer tumbleweeds.

Please don't touch wildlife crossing the road. That was Melissa, aka The House. Begging. Yeah. Corn, cattle and company. That was Claire Hooper. That's right. I mean, but you can see. I can see it on the house. Begging. Yeah. Corn, cattle and company. That was Claire Hooper. That's right. I mean, but you can see.

I can see it on the crest. They're so, wow. You can see it on the side of a truck. You can see it on the side of a truck or a bar along the way. It's so hokey. I love it. Okay. Well, thank you.

My favourite one of those is Gary Indiana's crest, which says, City of the Century. Oh, great. I love that. Without specifying. Yeah, what century? In what way? In what way? To be honest, it was good a couple of hundred years ago

before it got crowded. When we made this sign. Route 270, more than four times as good as Route 66. Ben went for that. That was Dave Warnke. Ah, Dave. The math magician himself. I did the maths on it quietly to make as Route 66. Ben went for that. That was Dave Warnke. Ah, Dave. The math magician himself. I did the maths on it quietly to make sure it worked.

That's very good. Yeah. Dave went for if you're just passing through, enjoy a trip. If you're a returning resident, Okla, welcome Homer. That was the house. Yeah. And I did go through both options, I got to say. I thought welcome Oklahoma was a bit too hard on a sign to get the home.

I thought you had to break out the home thing, but I appreciate the note. No, no, no. You're right. When you're doing the graphic design on it, it's actually easier to sandwich the Welcome Home inside the Oklahoma, isn't it? I appreciate that. I can imagine that. Just as a read as well.

Yeah. The only way you can do it is if you have Oklahoma and then Homer is in a different colour. Oh, yeah, that's good. That is good. Or Welcome and Homer are in the same colour. Yes. We've done it. Italicised.

Okay, Oklahoma, that's our final submission. And that means Claire is correct. It's Hitchhikers may be escaping inmates. Terrifying. It means it must have happened enough that they went, something has to be done. And is there a prison nearby or something? Yes, there is.

There's always a prison nearby. They don't mind a little penitentiary over there, apparently. All right. So question number four comes from Lewis Gemmel from Glasgow. And Lewis's question is, what caused Tottenham Hotspur to lose a crucial final day of the season match against West Ham in 2006? What caused Tottenham Hotspur to lose a crucial match on the last day of the season against West Ham in 2006? While you're writing your answers, here's a little bit more info on the signs.

I wish I knew more terminology. I wish I knew more terminology. Because the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAllister is near a stretch of the highway, there are roadsides everywhere warning you that hitchhikers may be escaped inmates. I was a bit curious to see how frequent these escapes were for the science to be required and couldn't find a number, but a Google search came up with heaps of stories

about escapes from that prison stretching back to 1914 and all the way up to this year so i think it's relatively regular melissa writes fun fact about oklahoma slightly off topic but fun fact about oklahoma is that everywhere a cemetery may be located on a dirt road or side road there is a sign on the main highway pointing the direction of the cemetery. While you're still writing your answers, let's go for a quick break. As women, our life stages come with unique risk factors, like high blood pressure developed during pregnancy, which can put us two times more at risk of heart disease or stroke.

Know your risks. Visit heartandstroke.ca. I'll be honest. First thing I thought was pants fell down. That is, and I had to work hard to move on to the next one. They lost because all of the players' pants fell down and they wouldn't come back up. I thought a similar thing.

Did you? Yeah. I also thought that, like, half of them had eaten something bad and shat themselves. Yes, a big, like... And their pants were down. And their pants were down. Mass diarrhea.

They diarrhea'd so hard their pants fell down. If that's all you've written, that would have been so good. Two words and they write cholera. All right, well. I really hope that's one of the options. I hope it actually was mass diarrhea. That would be great. Well, everyone's answers are in.

So here's question number four. What caused Tottenham Hotspur to lose a crucial match at the end of the season against West Ham in 2006. During the final penalty shot, the striker slipped on an empty crisp packet that had floated onto the field. They accidentally travelled to West Brom instead, meaning West Ham were awarded the win.

The goalkeeper knocked himself unconscious on the cage around the goal net right as the winning goal was scored. Ow. Half the team was ill after eating a dodgy lasagna the night before. Oh, my God. One of the players forgot they'd changed the ends at halftime and scored a spectacular own goal seconds into the second half.

There's no defenders anywhere. This is amazing. Why isn't anyone stopping me? Or finally Tottenham's goalkeeper Got into a fist fight With West Ham's mascot Hammy

The goalkeeper Broke his nose And had to be subbed off So you've got two Injured goalkeeper answers One The team shat themselves One

The player didn't realise They'd switched ends One They went to the wrong venue And one The striker slipped on a crisp packet. Yeah, the crisp packet's really fun. It was a fun one. Is it in a penalty, did it say?

That one was, yes. During a penalty. The final penalty shot. Because that also jumped out to me, but do you think that they would see, surely you would see that there's a crisp packet there. Let's move that out of the way before we have our run-up here. They're blowing through, I guess. Yeah, so see. There's a crisp packet there. Let's move that out of the way before we have our run up here.

They're blowing through. Yeah, so you think it's as he's moving. I assume it's... Towards the ball. It's stuck in the mud or something. Ben, do you want to have a stab? A stab. Sorry, a guess at...

Oh, sorry, yes. A guess at one of these answers. Yes, otherwise I could stab and then go on Claire's podcast to talk about. No, that's one that I did. Thank you. That's one I think if it's an illegal stabbing, Claire doesn't want to know about it.

Oh, sorry. Okay. Just legal stabbing. If you stabbed and you have been through the justice system and you have done the appropriate amount of jail time for the stabbing, then I'm happy to talk about it. I just don't want any unfinished business all right okay i i like the switched ends one uh i like the the wrong venue one

the chris packet one i like all of them um do you know what i'm gonna go own goal i'm gonna potentially score an own goal here by going for own goal. Own goal. Locked in for Ben? Something about it. I just think it's funny to go to the wrong place. And I think it's absolutely not the right answer, but whoever wrote that deserves the point, thank you. Love that. Is it okay to play that way? Of course. I should try to win, shouldn't I?

I think often people do go that way. They're rewarding good writing. Yeah. But, I mean, often, you know. What a delight that answer was. Yeah. Beautiful delight. The Royal West.

Somebody should go there. I lived that in real life, but the rest of my team got the right venue. Had a basketball grand final as a kid. You did. Oh, the grand final. Yeah. You missed the grand final. I have a funny feeling they weren't that worried about getting me the right venue name.

Okay. I feel like it might be a house answer then. But I still am going to stick with it. Dave, that leaves you. Okay. I talked myself into it. Then I talked myself out of it. And then I was talked back into the chip packet.

I reckon he had a slip. All right. Locking on. Had a little slip and then blamed that forever. Like, that's why we didn't make it through. It was the packet of walkers, the cheese and onion. Here's who wrote the answers. Tottenham's goalkeeper got into a fistfight with West Ham's mascot, Hammy.

That was Dave Warnocky. Yeah, he's very good. So his name is Hammy. Oh, Hammy. Not Hammy. Yeah, Hammy. It's a giant ham. Yeah, no, no.

I thought it was a hamstring. Hamstring muscle. Anthropomorphic hamstring. Yeah, no, a giant ham. Yeah. No, no. I thought it was a hamstring. Hamstring muscle. Anthropomorphic hamstring. Yeah, no. Giant ham. The goalkeeper knocked himself unconscious as the winning goal was scored. That was Claire Hooper.

So you two were in similar sort of frames of mind there. One of their players forgot they'd changed ends at halftime, scored a spectacular own goal, which Ben went for. That was Lewis, aka The House. Lewis. Question writer House. Lewis. Question writer there. He knows the game. He also wrote they accidentally travelled to the wrong venue. It's really good.

It's good. It's good. His two answers, yeah, they were both very good. Really convincing. I think some of the house answers like to go for wordplay. They're mine. Yeah. And the ones that are believable are the question writers usually.

I'm trying to keep things light here, Ben, okay? I don't know if you're having a go or... Look, I don't know if you could tell, but I like the one that had maths in it where I could work out an answer and still get it wrong, but I could, you know, do a bit of a sum. And you also like to write ones about empty crisp packets, Ben. Good one.

Thank you. Which does mean the correct answer was half the team was ill after eating a dodgy lasagna the night before. With Matt's diarrhea. Upset of the century. Stomach upset. Stomach upset. Wow.

I wonder if it was like someone's mom had made some homemade lasagna. Come round. We'll put it on for the boys. You've got a big match tomorrow. I can name and shame. Oh, you can. London Marriott Hotel. Just like mumma used to make.

My mumma Julie Marriott used to make. Holy shit. Okay. So, after four rounds, Dave's on two points. Claire is on two points. The house is on on two points, Claire is on two points, the house is on four points, and Ben is on four points. So it is still truly anyone's game. Here is question number five, and it comes from James H.

from Southern California. Which of these is a real species of fish? So you've just got to make up a fake fish, make up a species of fish. Okay. While you're writing your answers here's some more info about what became known as lasagna gate according to lewis in may of 2006 tottenham just had to match rivals arsenal's result on the final day of the season to finish ahead of them and clinch the final champions league spot but the evening before the match

the entire team went for a meal at the london marriott hotel those who had the lasagna were in for a nasty surprise and in total 10 players spent the night and following morning vomiting with what turned out to be a case of norovirus unable to postpone the game they tried to but they were told that they might be docked points if they try and postpone the game they played with their depleted squad. Many of the sick players ended up playing in the game. Oh, no. Still spewing in the rooms before and after the game.

I'm just imagining, because, again, there's nothing in the rules. You can just not use your hands. So if they spew and use the projectile to propel the ball into the goal, that's a... The game changed that day. Now everyone's getting norovirus the night before. That's right. Everyone's eating at the London Marriott.

You can, I mean, there's nothing in the rules to say that you can't use your unbottled fluids to propel the ball into the goal. They still scored a goal. They didn't lose that badly. They lost 2-1. Okay. But Arsenal won clearly, which means they dropped out a fourth spot which they'd held for most of the year and thus didn't qualify for the champions league

they were gutted the answers are in here's question number five which of these are real species of fish blue striped fang blenny blennymouth bass. Salty gravy fish. Brian Ray trout. Sanctimonious Philip. Or golden wish fish. Okay, they were great. Good job, everyone. They're all good, but they're all so as if.

Blue striped fangblenny. spork mouth bass, salty gravy fish, Brian Ray trout, sanctimonious Philip, or golden wish fish? Are you having a stroke? Golden wish fish. Golden wish fish. This is hard. This is the hardest one so far i forgot how much i like hearing stupid words i was gonna ask can we just make up like three of them and just guess out of 12 yeah yeah just so we can hear more dumb names.

One more time. Just once more. Just one more. I'll lock one in. Blue Stripe Fangblenny, Sporkmouth Bass, Salty Gravyfish, Brian Ray Trout, Sanctimonious Phillip, Golden Fish. No more. I made this only last night.

Okay. I think maybe since it's just the first one I heard, but the what? Blue Stripe Fang Blenny. The Blue Stripe Fang Blenny. I'm going to go with that one. Locking that in for Dave. Awesome. The Fang Blenny.

It's so fun to say. Fang Blenny. But they're all good. They're all so good. Okay. Yeah, I also want, just because it's so silly and the first thing I've heard, I also want the blue striped fang blenny. And you just said your new rule was rewarding the ones you like the most.

Blue striped fang blenny. So hard to say. Blue striped fang blenny. Blue striped fang blenny. Blue striped fang blenny. It's really hard. I want to say flang blenny. So hard to say. Striped. Striped Fang Blenny. Blue Striped Fang Blenny. Blue Striped Fang Blenny. It's really hard. I want to say Flang Blenny. All right.

But also the second one was great too. The Sporkmouth Bass. Sporkmouth. This is a great combo of sounds. Sporkmouth. Oh, is it, Dave? Is it a great combo of sounds that you wrote together? Interesting.

Yeah, that's definitely the one I'd go with, Claire. I'd lock that one in. What a fun game. What was that last? Oh, yeah, the golden wish fish. Very cute. Salty gravy fish. Brian Ray Trout.

Brian Ray Trout. I feel like that's a person, isn't it? Sanctimonious Philip. Wow. That'll be a surprise if it's that one. Yeah. All right, fine. Let's share it around.

I'll go the spork-mouthed bass. You're welcome, Warnick. Great answer. Very pleased. All right. I don't know. No? No, you'll be pleasantly surprised when that's the right answer.

It's something about the salty gravy fish. That's funny too. It's, you know, if again, yeah, if it's wrong, it's a good, it's a good bluff. I think that's the thing. You can never feel bad because if you pick someone else's, you're just saying, I liked your answer. Exactly. It's like you're, you're not taking a point, you're giving a point and a compliment. That's right.

Yeah. That's how I justify my losses. All right, let's go through who wrote the answers. Golden Wishfish, that was Ben. Yes. Sanctimonious Philip, that was Dave. Okay. Brian Ray Trout, that was The House.

Is that a person? That's a real person. Which is the real name of 90s heartthrob Skeet Ul house. Oh, Claire. Is that a person? That's a real person. Which is the real name of 90s heartthrob Skeet Ulrich. Yes, that's right. That's his birth name. Is it Brian Ray Trout? Brian Ray Trout, which I think is so fun. That's great.

I'm sure I've heard you say that name. I have said, yeah. Skeet Ulrich does sound fake, but you had- Well, it was because he made it up to, you know... But Brian Ray Trout also sounds fake. That sounds fake for a fish and for a human. Ben went for salty gravy fish. That was Claire.

Oh, great one. Returning the favour. Thank you so much. Yeah. Claire went for spork mouth bass. That was James, aka The House. Sorry to talk you into that. Yeah, I know.

I really wanted the right one, but what are you going to do? Meaning the correct answer was the blue-striped fang blenny. It's such a good fish name. Fang blenny. So a point for Claire, a point for The House, and a point for Dave that round. Very good. I really needed that point.

I feel bad. But the spork mouth. The spork mouth. That's so good. That was good too. That was fun. I feel bad. But the spork mouth. The spork mouth. That's fun. That was good too. That was fun. That's fun. All right.

So we're up to the second last question here. Comes from Hunnas Noda from Cape Town in South Africa. And Hunnas' question is, in April of 1671, what strange occurrence happened at the extravagant banquet held in King Louis XIV's honour? Something noteworthy. It's in the history books. Dutch lasagna.

So, hang on. This is 1861 and- Sorry, 1671. 1671. How did I get all the numbers wrong? April, I think, sounds like 18 maybe. Thank you. Also, I was texting while you were reading it out.

Also, I was texting while you were reading it out. What strange occurrence happened at an extravagant banquet held in King Louis XIV's honour? Are we assuming this is happening in France? Yes, it's in France, yep. So, King Louis is there. Something happened. It's noteworthy enough that it's in the history books. While you're writing those answers, let me tell you more about the blue-striped fangblenny.

According to James, until recently, scientists were unsure just what kind of powers the finger-sized fish's chompers possessed. But a new paper from Current Biology reveals that the unassuming creatures actually shoot out an opioid-like venom, unlike any that has ever been seen in fish before. According to All That's Interesting, the fish injects into its would-be predators using two curved lower canines, uniquely containing three different kinds of toxins. One that causes inflammation like a bee sting, another causes a sharp decline in blood pressure, making victims loopy and limp, and a third is made of opioid hormones, whose properties are similar to the endorphins people get from going for a run or using heroin didn't realize they were similar when a larger fish like

a groper swallows it once inside the larger fish the blenny bites the inside of the predator's mouth and casually swims out while its numb and slack-jawed predator floats around aimlessly so it's just like if it gets eaten it's like all right and it just bites the inside of the big fish's mouth i'll get out of this one. They open their jaw, drops open, and they just swim out. No worries. Also, Dave, they look like they're smiling. I don't know if you want to have a look at one of these guys.

Look at the face of the blue striped fangblenny. That's my favourite fish ever. That is so cute. It looks like a Pixar cartoon or something. I would enjoy being venomed by that fish. Yeah. Any of the three types. Apparently the scientist who was testing it got bitten.

He's like, it didn't hurt as much as I thought it would. He was taken by it. It's the smile that does it. Yeah. Smiling assassin. The sugar. And the Blue Stripes are pretty amazing too. Sort of glow in the smile that does it. Yeah. Smiling assassin. The sugar. And the blue stripes are pretty amazing too. Sort of glow in the dark sort of things.

So we've heard about the blue stripes and we've heard about the fangs. What does, what's a Blenny? Blenny is the type of fish apparently, which I'd never heard of. Blenny. And that's the funniest bit to me. Yeah.

Blenny fish. There's a bunch of them. Oh my God. I'm going to save some of these for later episodes. Lawnmower Blenny. Well, we've heard Blenny fish There's a bunch of them Oh my god I'm going to save some of these for later episodes Lawnmower Blenny Well we've heard Blenny No one's being fooled by Blenny again That's absolutely right

Or Bluff the Blenny Oh yeah Bluff the Blenny Let's play Bluff the Blenny Name a real type of Blenny Yeah they're all Blenny in one round Alright the answers are in Here's the penultimate question.

In April 1671, what strange occurrence happened? The extravagant banquet held in King Louis XIV's honour. After an earthquake smashed all the crockery, the organisers improvised and created the first paper plates. A goose wandered into court and sat on the queen's throne. From then on, King Louis demanded the goose be treated like royalty and it outlived him by six years. Due to a mix-up, a group of travelling mime artists

looking for their lodgings were thought to be the banquet's waitstaff. Despite their confusion, they did the job and ended up being a huge hit with the guests. Two guests were attacked on their way to the event and the attackers attended dressed in their clothes. They were discovered when the guests entered the room dressed in undergarments and accompanied by a local constabulary.

They allowed commoners to attend the banquet in an attempt to demonstrate how Louis XIV was in touch with the people or the chef ran himself through with a sword because the seafood delivery was running late. Ran himself through. Ran himself through. What a lot of great answers good job good okay you're all on fire today can i just say that all right who's feeling it all right i'll start what are

you feeling i really like the idea that it was the invention of paper plates or their first ever paper plates but i know that you're not meant to think about it but are we really going to have another correct answer in first place? Surely not, right? Yeah, do you randomise dates? It's all randomised. The Goose is such a charming story because it feels very of the time. That feels like such a French aristocracy kind of thing to do. Although in the question we didn't specify that Louis XIV

was actually there. It was in his honour, but they actually don't always attend the banquets in their honour. No, doesn't say the way that. Doesn't say, but we were imagining that he was there. Okay, cool. It really captured, there's so many good ones. I mean, it feels like the My Martyrs surely was written

by somebody who has travelled to Adelaide Fringe and wished for a different job. So I'm going to go with The Goose. I'll go with The Goose. Go with The Goose. Lock that in for Claire. You can tell I've forgotten the last three. Yeah.

Yeah. Can we have a two-word summary of all of them here? Oh, yeah. Paper plates, The Goose of them. Paper plates, the goose, the mime artist, the tackers attending, the commoners attending, or the chef

running himself through. Because of the late seafood. Yeah. What do you reckon? I think commoners attending, maybe. Can we go with that? Yeah, I'm going to go with common is attending. Common is attending for Dave.

It does feel like that's what is extraordinary. Yeah. Can you believe this? I really like the goose one as well. Yeah. I'm tempted to also say goose. It's sort of too charming though, isn't it? It's a bit like a fairy tale.

Because there would have been a nursery rhyme written about it that would endure today were it true. Do you know what I mean? But it feels so perfectly of the time. Yeah. And the fact that you're defending it and also picked it. I know. Makes me not suspect it.

I do like the attackers one. No, I'm going to split the goose vote. Split the goose vote? Okay. All right, lock that in. Let's go through who wrote the answers. The first paper plates, that was written by Hunters, aka The House.

It was a very good one. It's a very good one, but then I also started thinking, these people had so many plates. Surely there's another room that you go, get the second set. The backup plate room. But I thought that was very, very good. The House also wrote the one about the mime artists. That was really good.

The two guests that were attacked on their way, which you almost went for, Ben, that was Claire Hooper. I nearly got you. Do you know what? I was thinking that you were like their way, which you almost went for, Ben, that was Claire Hooper. I nearly got you. Do you know what? I was thinking that you were like, oh, yeah, yeah, and the attackers one is really good as well in an effort to fool. I did not say that. You did.

Did I? Well, I think that's, I mean, that's great. You've definitely used that a couple of times already this game. That's my technique. I don't trust either of you anymore. You shouldn't have from the start. I love it when I, most weeks someone will do that and I love it every time.

Because I get him by, I say, yeah, there is something there, isn't there? It's so sneaky. What have we got? Oh, they allowed the commoners to attend the banquet, which is what Dave went for. That was written by Ben. Oh, you did do it again. He just did it. Oh, was written by Ben. Oh, you did do it! You just did it!

Oh my god, Ben. You snake. This is how you play the game. And the other two of you went for The Goose, which was written by Dave. Oh no, you just did it. Very good. I just quietly sat back, Ben. I didn't have to defend it at all. You know what I enjoyed the most?

That it outlived him by six years. It just felt very sweet. It was awesome. It was a great detail. The chef ran him through. No. The chef ran himself through because the seafood was running late. I was like, all right, well, we can immediately discount that one.

I didn't think that they would call it seafood. Yeah. That's what was going through my head. And ran himself through. I mean, that's like an honourable. That was the more believable half of the story for me. Seaford, come on. Yeah.

Wow. So that means two points to Dave that round, one point for Ben. And going to the last round, it is tight. Two points separate us all. Claire's on three points while Dave, the house and Ben are on five points. But something you may not know is the final round is worth triple points. And this question comes from Alex Lloyd from Croydon in the UK. And Alex's question is, what is the

synopsis of the 1998 film Slappy and the Stinkers? 1998? 1998. What is the synopsis of the 1998 film Slappy and the Stinkers? And while you're writing your answers, here's some more information about the chef who ran himself through. His name was Francois Vettel. According to Wiki, Vettel was responsible for an extravagant banquet for 2,000 people hosted in honour of Louis XIV

in April of 1671 at the Chateau de Chantilly. According to a letter by Madame de Sevigny, Vittel was so distraught about the lateness of the seafood delivery and about other mishaps that he committed suicide by running himself through with his sword and his body was discovered when someone came to tell him of the arrival of the fish. Brutal.

This incident is thought to be the origin of the idiom, this idiom I've never heard of, died for want of lobster sauce. Anybody heard of that? I use it daily. It's a phrase meaning to die or be devastated due to a minor disappointment or mishap. It goes back to him. Died for a want of lobster sauce. All the time. Yeah, it's a very common idiom, isn't it? According to hunters, historic accounts say vatel's death happened because of a miscommunication when asking the fish vendor is this all vatel

wanted to know if the quantity given was the entire supply of fish for that day however the vendor understood that vatel was referring only to his own stock ignoring that other vendors were still coming so this is a few slight variations of the story but wild tale all right the answers are in here's the final question what is the synopsis of the 1998 film slappy and the stinkers slappy and the stinkers an animated film about a beaver called slappy who teams up with a group of skunks to save their woodland from being destroyed by developers it's option one. We've got The Stinkers are Canada's worst local ice hockey team, who all work at the local sewerage plant. Their mascot, Slappy, an anthropomorphic skunk,

discovers the struggling plant may have to shut down without emergency funding, which is exactly the amount of prize money awarded for winning the league. Can Slappy and the Stinkers turn it around and save the day? A fast food restaurant in Portland, Oregon is robbed at gunpoint. But rather than fight back, the underpaid teenage workers decide to join the robbers on a rampage across the city. Hijinks are plenty as a gang of school kids dubbed the Stinkers by their head teacher go on a school trip to an aquarium.

Whilst on the visit, they decide an unhappy seal called Slappy should be set free and live in their teacher's hot tub. With hilarious consequences. Great twist. Mild-mannered receptionist Peter Warner is a blue-collar family man by day, but by night he is the masked vigilante superhero Slappy. Utilising his trademark open-handed slap, Slappy's mission is to rid the city streets of these stinking criminals. Will his arch nemesis Grubby Gregory get the better of him? Or can Slappy defeat these stinkers once and for all?

Someone was tired. Finally, faced with the closure of their favourite boardwalk arcade parlour by a developer planning to build condos, eight-year-old Slappy and his friends decide they'll do what it takes to make sure Sandy Shoals is no longer anywhere anyone would want to live. So, we've got the animated film about a beaver and the skunks. I thought we were going to do a small film for the day. We've got the bad ice hockey team works at the sewage plant. You've got the teens, underpaid teens who joined the robbers.

You got the gang of school kids who steal the seal, put it in the hot tub. You've got the vigilante superhero Slappy. Sorry, I was imagining that as a dolphin. That's why I thought it was so funny they put it in the hot tub. I guess it's still stupid, but it's like a dolphin in a hot tub. Yeah, but dolphins, they only bend front ways. At least seals bend back ways.

So you can grab them easier. Get in there. Or you've got the young gang slapping his friends who try to make sure no one wants to build condos to shut down their boardwalk. There are two developer. Yes, two developer ones. I think that's a really 90s kind of.

Yeah. We don't make films about capitalism anymore. Implicit horrors of capitalism. Now we make films about brands succeeding. Yeah, that's right. That's today. I watched Air recently. Yeah, there you go.

Oh, my God. Oh, that's depressing, isn't it? I miss the 90s. I miss developer bashing. See, I don't think it's the sewage workers just because I know America likes to hide its dirty industries. Right. Like they don't, you know, they celebrate the working person

but not the person with the actual sad job. Right. This was Canadian, wasn't it? Oh, yeah, that was Canada's worst-of-class. Well, it's back on the table. Thank you for that. Two skunks as well. Oh, yeah.

Was it? Oh, yeah. Was it the first two? I was thinking, are we going to get six skunk movies? Except that Slappy is a beaver in the first one. That's true. And a skunk in the second one. Oh, yes, that's true.

What's weird is I feel like that gang of youths one is so not what you'd expect from the title, but Canada can do that with film. But the film's not Canadian necessarily. The film's not necessarily Canadian. Only that ice hockey one specifies Canada. Oh, my God. Of course. All right.

Okay. I wasn't listening. In Oregon, which is just below the Canada border. That one's Portland. Well, okay, but Portland is also an arthouse movie. Like, it sounds like even though it sounds super violent, it sounds a bit arthouse. And I'm like, yeah, maybe that's the unexpected movie called

Slappy and the Stinkers. Maybe. The Tarantino ripoff films that came out in the 90s. Yeah, right. After, like, Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction that came out in the 90s. Yeah, right. After like Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction. It does have a 90s vibe, yeah. And what was it like Bottle Rocket and just like weird, like people's first films.

Yeah, yeah. That were a bit scrappy but still. Or slappy. Well, yeah. Somebody's got to start this. So I'm locking in The Beaver. The Beaver? Yeah. First one? I mean, it's so locking in the beaver. The beaver? Yeah.

First one? I mean, it's so obvious, isn't it? The animated one. Let's just go for obvious. After I've campaigned heavily for the art house one about misplaced youth. Yes. I will choose the beaver. All right.

Locking in the beaver for Claire. Dave? This is so tricky. What was the last one was a developer. What was the other developer one? The other developer one. Oh, okay. Sorry.

I'm with you now. I'm with you now. I'm going to go to the last one. The condo. Condo for Dave. Yep. And what about you, Ben? Ceiling hot tub.

Give me the ceiling hot tub. I mean, it also sounds that they all sound terrible, but also plausible. I was going to, I think I was gunning for the ice hockey one because slappers, slappy, but the seal in a hot tub, that got me. They should have called the movie seal in a hot tub. Seal in a hot tub.

That would be an absolute nightmare. You know, never work with children or animals. Try both. Slappy and the stinkers. I remember seeing a... That's a tagline. I'm sure I saw a Seal movie in the 90s called Alex the Seal or something. I think the Seal movies were also big in the 90s.

Yeah, well, wasn't there... Oh, no, it was a dolphin in Ace Ventura, wasn't it? Yeah, dolphin movies were big as well. They did a remake of Flipper. Free Willy. I think you have Andre the Seal. Andre the Seal. That was Andre the Giant.

Alex the Seal. It's a big seal. Yes. All right. Well, so it sounds like no one's tempted by the arch nemesis, Grubby Gregory, but... You're so right about Todd. I wrote that quite late last night.

Anyway. So, yeah, The Grubby Gregory Let me change my vote That was The House The House also wrote The worst local ice hockey team Alex in particular wrote that one Good one Alex

Fast food chain restaurant In Portland, Oregon Underpaid teenage workers The one that I think you were saying Was a bit arthouse Claire would have That was Dave Warnock here That was me

Yeah but I got what you were I got what you were going for. That's the kind of vibe in all those movies where you go, why is it even called this? Yes. Correct. Yes, one of those ones. I almost went for it because it had nothing to do with the title.

The only one that didn't mention Slappy all of a sudden. Yeah. Yeah. The one you went for, Dave, the Boardwalk Arcade Parlour. The condo. Being closed down. That was Claire Hooper. Great work. Oh, the boardwalk arcade parlor. The condo. Being closed down. That was Claire Hooper. Great work.

Oh, thank you so much. Yeah, the word condo. That's what condo is. It really did for me, for sure. And also the word boardwalk. I feel like the words boardwalk and condo were big in the 90s. Big in the 90s, yes. I agree.

I don't hear about condos that much anymore. No. Then the one Claire went for, the animated one, Ben wrote that. Yes. Back in. Reeled you back in. I closed you on a full check. But we both wrote developer ones.

Yeah, it's beautiful. Stick to man. You know what? We said at the start we were in sync. That's right. Not in a good way. In a really unhelpful way. But beautiful.

In a very poetic way. Absolutely. And that means, Ben, you also got it correct. The real movie was about a seal in a hot tub. Yes. There's something about those kids. It's like one of those like- Kids take a seal.

Kids, yeah. They love messing things up for their adults. There was something, yeah. Wow. Would you believe it? Critics seem to hate it. A review by Don

Wilmot of film critic dot com reads your enjoyment of Slappy and the Stinkers will be directly proportional to your ability to be amused by a farting

seal. Count me in. Though the audience was slightly more favourable on Rotten Tomatoes they gave it a score of 61 percent and there's definitely a lot worse out there.

All right. Final score check. In equal third place on five points. Equal third. It's Dave in the house. Sloppy and the stinkers in the house. I didn't come last? No.

Well, that is a surprise. In second place on six points is Claire Hooper. Wow. Meaning out in front on six points is Claire Hooper. Wow. Yeah. Meaning out in front on 11 points. Whoa. It's Ben Volchok. Wow.

We all got Volchok today. Great work. We all got it. Yeah. Now, Claire, one more time. That's beautiful. Where can people find your pod? Anywhere you can find pods.

And it's called I'm the Worst. It really rings true for me. Doesn't it? Thanks so much for joining us, Claire. Thanks for having for joining us there been a pleasure to have you on ben where can people find you uh so i'm doing a monthly show called the ceremony uh the last wednesday of every month at the motley bauhaus you can uh find me uh on my website or social media uh using my name that's in melbourne in melbourne uh in carlton so come along to that uh and yeah following along my social media for other stuff i'm doing awesome and dave what about you i can listen to my podcast do go on the one i do with you every week and also the book cheat

podcast where i talk about classic books oh yeah that's a good show um i've got a new show on sbs at the moment really it's around jayamana's show, previous guest, called Good Tucker. Check it out. It's on SBS On Demand. And I don't think I've mentioned this on the show, but we've got social media on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. WKIMS? No, whatever it is.

WikiWims. Who knew with Matt Stewart, the initials of that. WNK. Oh, my God. Claire, what's my handle again? of that. W-N-K. Oh, my God. Claire, what's my handle again? W-K-I-M-S. Thank you very much.

That's what I was thinking. No, W-K-A-W-M-S. Oh, my God. And then there's more. Oh, I've got to put the with in. It is weird that people haven't found me. There's not a lot of followers there yet, and it's surprising, really, isn't it? I can't even explain where to find it.

There's three Ws in www, which you put at the start of the URL. There's only two in... That'll make you remember. That's helpful. Thanks so much for joining us you three and thanks everyone for listening. Please give us a five star review if you like. Check out these three great guests and what they do. Cheers for

tuning in to Who Knew With Matt Stewart. Now that you know it, I've been Matt Stewart. Goodbye. Mate, half my inbox is just emails from myself. Yeah. Well, it's really lonely. I know. And it's a lot of emails. As Matt knows, I've hit 80,000 unread emails.

It's grim in there. Some people do that. They like follow people and then get them to follow them back and then unfollow them. Who are these some people? Sociopaths. Yeah. Which is 99% of Twitter, isn't it?

Yeah. Yeah, that is sick though. Yeah. It's like gaining clout. Quite a lot of emotional admin just for tiny, sad little wins. Yeah. 100%. Not worth it.

The one that first came to my mind is probably something like that. My mum knew that I wanted an orlando magic hat the basketball team shack played for them and she got me a southeast melbourne magic hat and just to double check the check play for them as well yeah i think shack also played for them in the off season so this is the worst thing that your mum ever did so i think look like now I look back, I'm mortified that I cracked the shits about it rather than going, thanks so much, mum.

Like, it doesn't, it's a hat, who cares? But I'm like, that's actually not the hat I meant, mum, you know? And she took it back and it breaks my heart every time I think about it. She took it back, but she didn't get you the one you wanted, right? No, she never got me the one I wanted, no. At first when our tech, what was our tech's name? Linton. Linton.

When Linton told us about you volt-chocking, it felt a little bit like we, you know, it felt a bit wrong like he was letting us into a private moment. But in the end, and I think when I told you the first time, I was like half saying it apologetically. You were a little bit. You came up to me sort of like being, I'm so sorry. And, you know, in your voice, it was like,

I can't believe I've trodden on this sacred bond between you and your tech before the show. And I was just like, you know, benevolently kind of gifting you this. It was very generous. The way you allowed him to try jumping around a bit. That's right. It was, you know, this thing that I'd invented of just shaking out your body before a show, which no one else has done ever.

I feel like, yeah, I've let them in, you know. And we're better people for it. We are. Absolutely. But it does, I think it does help a lot with being in your body and your presence. If anyone is wondering why I look slightly tense, it's because I'm waiting for the moment where someone suggests we do it

before the recording. I thought that was the preamble. I thought you were like. Claire, that's what the car trip over here was for, Claire. True professional at the traffic lights lights clucking like a chicken to be fair that's not part of my warm-up that's i feel like that's a variation it's a splinter that's right yeah okay um that's funny i knew it was blood but i also the pudding there still overpowered that knowledge to make me assume that it was a blood dessert that was really cute

let's go through who wrote the answers no hang on i'm losing it i'm doing another one straight after this as well so fuck all right um I'm losing it. I'm doing another one straight after this as well. So fuck. All right. Fucking whatever. Sorry, everyone.

I thought about it too much. No, I understand. So when you see the one that just says mass diarrhea, you know it's me. The one that ends with fucking whatever. Yeah, that's true. Fucking whatever. They all ate some cabbage and fucking whatever. Fucking whatever.

Who cares? This game's stupid anyway. I don't care. Whatever. Stop it. I was just about to ask you all for a synonym. Go on. What's another word?

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