Who Knew It with Matt Stewart - 49 - Jess Perkins, AJ and Marcel Blanch-de Wilt

Episode Date: August 14, 2023

Who Knew It with Matt Stewart is a comedy game show podcast hosted by Australian comedian Matt Stewart. This episode was features guests Jess Perkins (Do Go On, Simply The Jest), Marcel Blanch-de Wilt (the Writer's Group) and AJ (Cult Popture)!Watch Matt's stand up special FREE on YouTube: https://youtu.be/cWStRpI-BhESupport the show via http://patreon.com/dogoonpod and you can submit questions for the show!Get tickets to see the podcast/Matt live: https://www.mattstewartcomedy.com/Check out Matt and Jess' podcast network: https://dogoonpod.com/Theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and Logo by @muzdoodles! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello, it's the titular Matt Stewart here just letting you know that me and Saranjo Amana are at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. We're on every night. Chinese Museum and then for the second half of the festival at the Grace Darling Hotel and we'd love to see you there. Use the discount code DOGOON and we'll see you at the shows. Also in Sydney and Brisbane, the comedy festivals in both those cities with our show Dry Dry. We'd love to see you at all of those shows. Come to each one. Now, on with the show. Welcome to Who Knew It with Matt Stewart, the show where the guests write the wrong answers.

I'm the titular Matt Stewart and our first guest is host of First Dates with Jess and the Do Go On podcast. It's Jess Perkins. When's the next season of First Dates coming out? Probably next year. So it's on its 10 year anniversary. I think it was 2014. It could have even started in 2013 actually. It was a long time ago.

That's a deep cut jess perkins yeah well last time i had her on i said she's from triple j's weekend avos and just like oh who cares about that so i'm like all right i'll i'll do a credit that people do care about people care about yeah nobody cares about the national broadcaster um but they do care about a youtube series that i would love to get off YouTube, but I have lost the login. I can't, I can't. Our second guest this week is stand-up comedian, improviser, writer, director, and Mission Impossible aficionado. That's Marcel Blanche DeWille.

Thank you so much for having me. I'm glad you didn't reference my YouTube series. Which is? It's called Comedians in Chairs, Drinking Cordial. That sucks. I used that as a promo for a show called love and cordial which was originally going to be about what if i developed a whole musical around the cotties cordial theme song my dad picks the fruit and goes to cotties it makes a cordial i convinced a bunch of people on facebook as a joke i said oh i've i've been um i've been paid

to turn that that song into a fully fledged feat to musical people like congratulations what a huge opportunity our third guest this week is the host of the cult popture podcast and is a barbie expert it's AJ. Hello. I'm so glad to be here to see if I know it. AJ. AJ. You've written questions from this show before. You wrote one of the early film questions. Yeah.

I think you're only the third person who's been on both sides of the game as a question, right? Maybe the fourth. Well, I was thinking about this. So it's a pretty exclusive club. I was thinking about this i was thinking about this matt when are you gonna relinquish hosting duties and play who knew it one day as a player very keen to do that i just need someone who's got the skills to host and i haven't met that person yet i sort of feel like the host has to be called matt stewart oh yeah and that's such an uncommon name

where would you find another one maybe i get the horse racing journalist from the Herald Sun. Yeah, I guess. Or the old American footballer. No, there was someone to do with KFC was Matt Stewart, right? Oh, yeah, the guy who shot the colonel. Yeah. Yeah, right. Oh, yes.

But he did not shoot the deputy. Anyway, the way the show works is I ask a relatively obscure trivia question and our contestants have to write a convincing fake answer. i then read their answers as well as the real one and they have to guess which one is correct let's play until recently i always say are we ready to play and i'm realized that that was unnecessary i think it's all implied but to save time i'm not gonna ask that yeah but now that i've explained it i've lost that but i would i would like to flag with you that i am ready to okay great and i'd love to check in with mar Marcel and AJ as well and see that you guys are also ready yeah I am I am also ready to play I think we'll have to see yeah yeah we'll see well this

first question comes from multiple question askers the most that any questions ever come from just coincidentally Kayla Hodkwitz from Maineine usa brie from buchella country in hervey bay queensland leo mcgonigal from brisbane caitlin dowden from radelaide and angelo del gaduch but it's not that it's like del i'm so sorry from summersworth in new hampshire damn it sorry angelo all these fine people ask this same question. And the question is, what does Herkldurkle mean? Oh, Herkldurkle. What does Herkldurkle mean? All right.

Is that one word or two? It's two words. Is that E's or U's? U's. Okay. Oh, U's. Oh, that changes my answer entirely. It does, doesn't it?

While they're writing their answers, I'll explain how the scoring works. So, you get one point if your fake answer is guessed by the other contestant and another point if you correctly guess the answer by the way i'm also playing as the house and i've put in two of my own fake answers for each question and 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 though if you've listened to previous episodes you'll know this is nearly never the case anyway our questions come from our great patreon supporters and 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 all right the answer in for question number one here it is what

does herkle derkle mean a feeling of nausea and unease often occurring after eating a particularly spicy meal oh i've got a bit of a herkle derkle. My constant state of being is what we're talking about here. Jess, if you can act out all of them, that would be helpful. Okay. Oh, I think I've just got a bit of herkle derkle. Or you've got to trip over your own untied shoelaces. Okay.

Yep. Curse you,ercule Dercule To lay in bed long after you should have gotten up I mean I don't need to act that one out These are all describing my daily life In a very concerning way Because the sound of that one would just be TikToks Over and over again

And then fuck And the TikTok of your own mortality as well. Yes. You got, for traditional Dutch cooking, tongs used for handling bread. Tong, tong, tong, tong, tong, tong. See? I never put it together why tongs are called that. It's because of the sound.

Tong, tong, tong, tong, tong, tong. An old English term for a fruit bowl containing non-typical or exotic fruits. That one's harder. Yeah. That is getting tricky. You can put in a sentence someone saying, talking about it. I forgot. What was it?

A fruit bowl. An old English term for a fruit bowl containing non-typical or exotic fruits. Yeah, I got it. Han, can you pass me my keys? It's just, they're behind the herkle-derkle. They're behind the herkle-derkle. Finally, slang for the sound a student makes after being given a difficult assignment. Aww.

Are you going to say it? No, because it's the sound they make. So the teacher would talk about it later on. Oh, Justin was giving me real herkle-derkle. Kids, enough of the a real Hercule. All right, kids. Fine, enough of the Hercule D'Ercle. Can I have them again? Because I was so busy trying to ask them out, I didn't hear any of them. So you got a feeling of nausea and unease

after eating a spicy meal in particular. Tripping over your untied shoelaces, laying in bed long after you should have gotten up, from traditional Dutch cooking, tongs used for handling bread. Tongs used for... An old English term for a fruit bowl containing non-typical or exotic fruits or slang for the sound a student makes after being given a difficult assignment. I am going to choose the shoelace one.

I am going to choose the lying in bed. Oh, yeah, good one. I'm going to go nausea i think that i think that that would be a term that was maybe used a long time ago to describe that and i feel like maybe the other answers feel slightly more contemporary and i maybe would have heard them then good reasoning yeah great reasoning well you can't change your answers i claim the the old one. I never reason my way through things. And then when I see other people use reason, I'm like, oh, God, that's clever. What do you use?

Gut. You herkle-derkle. I herkle-derkle it. Well, let's go through who wrote the answers. Something for the sound a student makes after being given a difficult assignment. That was Caitlin, aka The House. That's a good one. An old English term for a fruit bowl containing non-typical or exotic fruits. That was Caitlin, aka The House. That's a good one. An old English term

for a fruit bowl containing non-typical or exotic fruits. That was AJ. Hello. Big fan. Thank you. From traditional Dutch cooking,

tongs used for handling bread. That was Marcel. Okay. Yeah, I'm warming up. That really stands out. That was the third in a row Jess has gone, love that.

Love that. Silence. I didn that, silence. I didn't do silence, I made tongue sounds. Could you make them again? Thank you, thank you, yes. You got what it deserved. A feeling of nausea and ease, which AJ went for. That was Jess Perkins.

Well, you got me, you got me. I herkle-dercled you, bitch. To trip over your own untied shoelaces, which Jess for that was leo okay the house meaning myself was correct to lane bed long after you should have gotten up that's called to herkle derkle it's the old scottish term mate it's on scottish so it is actually your right aj that's an old term but it feels like a really modern yeah i can't picture people hundreds of years ago lazy no they had livestock to feed scrolling tiktok in their beds no so it's like dilly dally yeah i guess you know if you'd never heard dilly dally before and someone said what does dilly dally mean you wouldn't necessarily

you know so herkle derkle don't dilly dally don't herkle derkle yeah yeah i heard on the daily god i'm a massive herkler D'Arc-ler. Yeah. Before they had a word for depression as well. Yes, yes, yes. I'll explain a bit more about the origin of Hercule D'Arc in a second. But in the meantime, here is question number two. This one comes from Claire Norris from West Sacramento.

And the question is, in 210 BCE, Chinese Emperor Qing Shi Huang went traveling. What unusual thing happened during the journey? In 2010 BCE, Chinese Emperor Qing Shi Huang went traveling. What unusual thing happened during the journey? Is that with a Q? With a Q. It's about, yeah, Q-I-N. I looked up the pronunciation, but I'm still very possibly butchering it.

But you're doing your best. I'm doing my best. I found a video from that guy who speaks in that really relaxing tone. Okay, today we're going to learn how to say. I love it when he takes on Irish words. I'm like, I don't think you're nailing this one. He just knows it's pronunciation for everything, apparently. It's true, yeah.

So, this is 210. BCA. And he's going out. He's pronunciation for everything, apparently. It's true, yeah. So, he's 210. BCA. And he's going out. He's gone travelling. Gone travelling. One unusual thing happened on the journey. During the journey. While you're writing your answers, here is some more info on Hercule Durkle.

Brie, I think everyone found a similar article from Haggard Hawke's website. And a guy called Paul Anthony Jones wrote and I think Brie was partially quoting from him here when she wrote uh herklderkl is an old dialect term from 18th century southern Scotland one of its earliest records comes from John Jamison's etymological dictionary of the Scottish language from 1808 herklderkl is an example of a reduplicative word such as okie dokie which comes from ok or hoity toity comes from hoit in reduplicative word such as okie-dokie which comes from okay or hoity-toity comes from hoit. In reduplicative words it's often the case that the first part of the word is the original root to which a second part has been added as little more than a rhyming humorous playful tag. Herkul

derkul then likely comes from the old Scots verb herkul or herkill meaning to draw the limbs together close to the body. From there it's easy to see where the image of someone cosily curled up in bed reluctant to get up might develop. Same with Hercule Poirot. Same. You'll have to curl up and solve mysteries. Hercule, Dercule, Poirot. That's his middle name, Dercule. Honestly, all that did was make me want to go to bed.

Yeah, me too. Let's all snuggle up together. I just wanted to be all snuggled in my bed. How about the rest of the pod, we all do it snuggled. Oh, man. Some people are probably Hercule Dirkling as they're listening to this. I don't think it counts as Hercule Dirkling when you're listening to a podcast like this, which is helping you live, laugh and learn.

Is that really Hercule Dirkling? No, it seems like you're- By the way, I love your new t-shirt that has Live, Laugh, Learn on it. When are they going to go out to a match? Well, you know, tomorrow. Great. This is the only one I've got. So, people, if they want to make me an offer...

I can start a bidding war, sure. All right, the answers are in for question number two. In 210 BCE, Chinese Emperor Qing Shehuang went traveling. What unusual thing happened during the journey? Most of his traveling party were eaten by alligators, so he had to find his own way home. Wow. He rescued a young boy who was drowning in rice pudding. Wow.

He discovered what he thought was a new country, but was actually just a different port of China. He died, but to stop rebels coming for his throne his trusted advisor pretended he was still alive weekend at bernie style he told his subjects they were just heading out for a short trek but ended up walking to europe inadvertently creating the silk road or he was staying in a backpackers in amsterdam and while out on a booze cruise with some of his bunkmates, he dropped his passport in a canal. Or canal. Canal.

Canal. I think I'd, yeah, canal. Two Dutch answers in a room. Interesting. Someone's got Dutch on the brain. Pass the Dutch to the left-hand side. This one's so hard, because who among us hasn't done all of those things at some point? Exactly right.

Yeah. Accidentally starting a Silk Road. Yeah, yeah of those things at some point? Exactly right. Yeah. Accidentally starting a Silk Road. Yeah. Been there. If I had a dollar. Yeah. If I had a dollar for every member of my travelling party who was eaten by an alligator, I'd be a rich man. Here's the thing.

All of these sound ridiculous. It does make it rather hard to pick the right one. This is a game for silly billies. Matt, who will answer first this time around? I'm looking at AJ. I'm going to need them again summarised. Me too. Travelling party eaten by alligators.

Young boy drowning in rice pudding. Thought he found a new country but it was just a different port of China. Died but his advisor pretended he was alive, weekend at Bernie style. Accidentally created the Silk Road or saying to backpackers, dropped his passport in a canal.

I'd be going for that one if I were you, I'd go. I think I'm going to go for the weekend at Bernie's one. And I'll just like to add that I don't think it's probably written that way on Wikipedia, but that's how it was amusingly worded for the submission you know there's other websites online mate no no it's not on the official history website wikipedia there's there's imdb where you look up uh weekend at bernie's and then in the trivia section it's like based on a true story well the the listeners write these questions so um it's you know they can write them however they

like the listeners are writing history yeah that's right hey history is written by the winners and the listeners of this podcast there's no bigger winners you'll find marcel do you want to have a crack yes i too have gone with aj's logic of uh that it's just a bit of a silly wording, but actually the best story. And why else would this be being talked about if it was just for the alligators? You don't think all the party being eaten by alligators would be noteworthy to history? I don't think it would be noteworthy enough for a little podcast. Okay.

I mean, the last question's answer was laying in bed all day. I feel like a travelling party being eaten by alligators is a little more exciting than that. Also, I don't know much about Asia. Okay. We're alligators. We're alligators. Like, do they even screen Weekend at Bernie's

over there? I think I do. I also like that one. But just for a point of difference, I'm going to say he thought he discovered a country. Okay. Lock that in. And just quickly on AJ's favorite website, Wikipedia, there is an article titled Chinese

Alligator. Just for your benefit, Marcel. That could be like a wrestler or something. It is. Discovered country for jess all right here's who wrote the answers uh sang in a backpackers in amsterdam out on a booze cruise that was just read the whole thing uh and he was out with his bunk mates and he dropped his passport in a canal okay here's a few things i was like okay you go traveling you're in you're doing your backpack in europe you end up in Amsterdam,

you have a crazy time in Amsterdam. But also, Matt can't say canal. Oh, he did that deliberately. It's a very tricky word. Yeah. Yeah. One of my favorite movie studios is Studio Canel. Yeah.

All right. He told his subjects, so just heading out for a short trek, but ended up walking to Europe. That was the house. He rescued a young boy drowning in rice pudding. That was Marcel. Okay, yes, yes. Most of his travelling party were eaten by alligators.

That was run by Claire, a.k.a. The House. Oh, okay. He discovered what he thought was a new country, but it was actually just a different port. That was AJ. I got you, Beck. I got you back. I got you. AJ's on the board.

Yeah. Meaning that the correct answer is he died, but trying to stop rebels coming for his throne. His trusted advisor pretended he was still alive weekend at Bernie's style. Yes. Well done. So good. Because it's one of those answers where you go, oh, yeah, I can see that, especially back in the day, they would die and somebody would.

But it's also, it's the one you want to be true. Yeah. And it's satisfying when that's the real one. Yeah. Well done, everybody. Yeah. I'll tell the story in a little more detail in a second. Do you want a quick score update?

Yes, please. We've got Jess on one point, The House on one point, Marcel on two points, and AJ on two points. Ooh. It's a hot start here. Hot start. Everyone on the board. Yeah, I love that. Here's question number three.

This one comes from Zoe DL from Epping in New South Wales. This is one of Jess's favorite categories of questions. Fish or bird? Well, it's a slightly new version of that is, which of these is a real species of caterpillar? Oh, yes, I do like this. Which of these are real species of caterpillar? So, AJ, just got to come up with a fake caterpillar species. And while you're writing your answers,

I'll let the audience know a bit more about Chinese Emperor Ching She Huang. According to historieskills.com. Excuse me? I don't have their website. I found it very informative. That might be my new favourite website over Wikipedia. They put it in a terms I understand.

I find history hard to... Alright, historieskills.com So the Emperor had worked hard to create a unified kingdom and to make sure his enemies were defeated. He also wanted to make sure that his hard work would last into the future. As a result, the emperor wanted to find a way to ensure that he could live forever. He ordered his officials to travel the lands and foreign countries to find the secret to immortality. He also hired fortune tellers and magicians who he hoped knew the information he

wanted. He never did find the answers he was after, and he eventually died when he was 49 years old in 210 BC. He had been on a journey at the time and his most trusted advisor, Lee See, had to take charge of the kingdom. His advisor knew that if people found out that the emperor was dead, there would be an outbreak of rebellions across the country. So he pretended that the emperor was still alive and had to find a way of getting the body back to the capital city before people found out. To hide any bad smells, which might reveal his secret, he paid for a wagon of rotting fish to join their two month journey home. This also bought him some time to create a fake document from the dead Emperor that named his heir and successor. The Emperor was buried in an enormous burial mound the size of a hill, which the emperor had begun constructing while he was still alive.

Around this artificial mountain, he had also ordered that thousands of life-sized model clay soldiers should be made and buried with him, so that he could have an army in the afterlife. Today, these soldiers are known as the terracotta warriors. Due to the amount of mercury that the emperor ordered to be used in his tomb, it is too hazardous for modern archaeologists to excavate and remains unopened oh here's the terracotta armor guy yeah right that's cool that

there's still something that hasn't been like unearthed and discovered properly i think that's you don't unless you've watched the mummy three that's what i was gonna say as well actually we've got a couple of cinephiles here Oh oh It's gonna be Nerds Which I mean We're not cinephiles You and I Jess

But we are Fraserphiles Yes And there is a Crossover there There is a crossover We are Fraserphiles And the answers

Are in for question Number three Which of these Is a real species Of caterpillar The little cabbage Gobbler Horned wiener

The gloopy dupe The spiky mike, The Silk Spectre, or The Furry Puss Caterpillar? One of these is real. One of these is real. Damn. I'm going to need them again. The Little Cabbage Gobbler, Horned Wiener, or Horned Wiener, The Gloopy Doop, The Spiky Mikey, The Silk Spectre, or The Furry Puss Caterpillar? Interesting.

Is it my turn to go first? I reckon it could be. Yeah, I think so. I reckon I'm going to go with the last one. What was it? The fluffy puss? Furry puss. Okay.

Sorry, I misspoke. Yeah, I'll have the furry puss, please. It's the only one with caterpillar in the name, so you can't be too far off the mark. It's true only one with caterpillar in the name, so you can't be too far off the mark. It's true. Yeah. I'm going to go for the... What was number three? The gloopy doop.

No, the horned something. The horned wiener. I'm going to go for the horned wiener. Horned wiener. Beautiful name for a boy or a girl. Beautiful name for a boy or a girl. Is it lame if I also go with the fairy puss i just feel like that i think you should choose mine

i'm thinking like at some point like puss meant like face like sour puss kind of thing and that's that's where i'm like i could picture a caterpillar with a fairy actually sour puss was the first time when they were talking about it, me in your private park. That's when it started. That's when it stopped me in your face. Oh, God. Yeah.

I'm a historian. I'm an etymologist. Wow. I didn't know that about you. I've just looked up the origin of sourpuss. It says 1930s, originally US, from sour and puss. Oh. Okay.

Could not have put that together myself. Okay. That does make sense now. That is helpful. So, you're going with Sour Puss as well? Sorry, Fairy Puss? If that's okay, yes, I will. Of course, it's okay.

All right, let's go through who wrote the answers. The Gloopy Doop. That was the house. That's cute. The Little Cabbage Gobbler. That was Zoe. Okay, the house. That's cute as well. gobbler That was Zoe Okay the house That's cute as well

Good on you Zoe That was so freaking cute Little cabbage gobbler The spiky marky If I may I'm going to call this one cute This was by Jess Perkins Yeah well

Queen of cute Who's surprised The silk spectre Which I would describe as cute Was Marcel Blanch de Wilt That's a good one Yeah well It all says

I am silently sobbing Which I would describe as cute Was Marcel Blanch de Wilt That's a good one Yeah well It all sets I am silently sobbing That's a good one The Horned Wiener Or Wiener Was by AJ Well done That's two in a row

That you've fallen into His silky trap Silky trap Don't worry about it Don't talk about My silky trap please Can I talk about your furry puss? Because that is the correct answer

You're on fire, Marcel I've got all three correct so far But not been chosen once Yeah, your writing's terrible But your guessing is fantastic I'll agree with that Marcel, where have I heard Silk Spectre before? I think maybe it's

from some superhero franchise. Is it Watchmen? I've watched a lot of them. It might be Watchmen or maybe that other one. Yeah, yeah. The other one. AJ's onto me. He's hanging in front of me. He's like, hey, you're derivative, Marcel. I'll just casually let you know

I also watched Watchmen. I would say Marcel. Who watches the Watch watched Watchmen. I would say Marcel. But who watches the Watchmen? Your writing's fantastic, Marcel. Thank you so much. I was being ironic there. Isn't it ironic? Don't you think?

But Marcel also was the only one to describe his caterpillar writing. Silk Spectre, known for its elaborate cocoons With patterns resembling Horoglyphics Wow I like quite like that I couldn't remember If there was a description That was good yeah So I threw that in there as well

I thought I thought you were saying He's the only one who Like put it like Used descriptive And I was like Uh Spiky Mikey

Hello Silk Spectre sounded like I mean I I was thinking Mission Impossible But was there one That was called Spectre or something That's James Bond I knew it was one of those things

What do you call them? Movies What were we calling them recently? Woovies I call them films because I'm highbrow Silk Spectre's in Watchmen Well good stuff Can we have a score check?

Sure can. After three rounds in third place, equal on one point, it's Jess in the house. Yes. I'm on the ball. In second place on three points, it's Marcel. But out in front on four points, it's AJ. But I'm hot on those heels. You are hot on the heels.

Still truly anyone's game. I could come back from this. Easy. Easy, and I will. They call you the comeback king. I'm going to fuck both of you up. Is that true? Just you watch.

Just let's tone it down, okay? You're fucked. This is a family podcast. People are trying to hoity-toity in their beds. Yeah, that's right. Everybody's hoity-toitying, but I'm fucking shit up. So we're up to question number four. Don't get emotional. I got a little emotional.

It's okay, bro. It's okay. It's all right okay it's all right this episode's just going by too quick i'm already gonna miss you guys that's remembering that things come to an end so here is question number four this comes from emmy white from albuquerque in new mexico emmy's question is what is the headline from a real news story by journalist Hannah Murdoch from the 7th of June, 2022? 2022. Emmy, slightly defensive there with the real news story. It's definitely real. I've looked it up.

It's totally real. So, you're just going to come up with a headline. What did you say it was? 2022. So, a relatively recent headline. While you're writing your answers, here's a little more info on the furry puss caterpillar cornazoi the furry puss also known as asp caterpillar are notorious for their ability to cause excruciating pain they're called puss caterpillars due to their long soft hairs which have been dubbed toxic toupees people who have been stung by puss caterpillars have described

the feeling as being similar to touching burning coals or being hit with a baseball bat only the That is good news, Zoe. I appreciate you finishing on a positive note there. All right, while you're still writing your answers, let's go for a quick break. All right, we're back and the answers are in. Here's question number four. What is the headline from a very real news story by journalist Hannah Murdoch from the 7th of June 2022? Man legally weds iceberg. Red eyes.

Allergies or marijuana? How to tell if your kids are smoking the devil's lettuce. Man eats fish. Fish family takes revenge France advance and dance champs As Aussie Lance Rue's judges stance On Cha Cha Prance Wow

Don't look at me Jess Like oh I've got Sorry that's just a I put your number on that one That's just a lot of words What was I rhyming before? That would sound a little bit different In a South Australian accent

That's all. Oh, sorry. I should probably do it in Marcel's accent. France advance and dance chance as Aussie Lance roos judges stance on Cha Cha France. All right. Now do it in my accent. You're going to have to kick me off. How do you say ants words?

I'd say, so what is it? France. I'd say France. I'd say France. Yeah. France advance and dance chance, but it was Aussie Lance, Ruse, Judge of Stance and Cha-Cha Prance. The Kiwi accent doesn't change the A vowel sound. No. Then we've got breaking bag.

Carry on luggage mishap. Or is a B a fish? California court says it could be. I love that. I love all of these. Especially Marcel's one. Mine famously fly under the radar, so you would not know which one mine is. I know. I'm just saying, whichever one it is, I love it.

Thank you. I like the positivity. I think maybe we're back to you, Jess. This will shock you. I'm going positivity. I think maybe we're back to you, Jess. This will shock you. I'm going to need them again. Okay. So, we got man illegally weds iceberg. Red eyes.

Allergies on marijuana. How to tell if your kids are smoking the devil's lettuce. Man eats fish. Fish family takes revenge. I pause you. The first two ones are both lettuce related. That's fun. Oh, my God.

Oh, my God. Oh, do you think it? Yeah. I was assuming like- An iceberg iceberg. Like Titanic style iceberg. Yeah. But you're right. It could be lettuce. We've got fun. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, do you think it... Yeah, I was assuming like... An iceberg iceberg. Like Titanic style iceberg. Yeah. But you're right.

It could be lettuce. We've got caterpillars on the brains. That's probably more attainable. Yeah. Man eats fish. Fish family takes revenge. France advance in dance champs as Aussie Lance rues judges stance on Cha-Cha Prance. I don't...

Like, no, most of that doesn't make any sense. Yeah. So, I... Okay. Yeah, what's the story? What's the story, Jess, with that that doesn't make any sense. Yeah. So, okay. Yeah, what's the story? What's the story, Jess, with that one? Ozzy, Lance. The Ozzy was eliminated. His name was Lance.

He was up against the French competitor. Yes, in the cha-cha. But the judge, he's ruling on his cha-cha prantle. I'm guessing it was disqualified for an illegal step or something. Gotcha. That's how I read it. Yep. Then you've got Breaking Bag, Carry On Luggage Mishap, or Is A Bee A Fish?

California Court says it could be. I'm going to go for Man Legally Weds Iceberg. Locking it in for Jess. I'm going to go with Is A Bee A Fish? Yeah, that's a good one. Oh, man. Locking that in for Marcel. Listen, I love Breaking Bad. I love Breaking Bag. a fish yeah that's a good one oh man locking that in for myself listen i love breaking bad i love

breaking bag i love um fish family fights back but is it be a fish moved me like is is it be a fish like in what what world it was that question asked and i'm so drawn to that california yeah yeah i'm i gotta go is it be a fish I'm going to be asking myself that question all night if it turns out to not be the real answer. All right, well, let's go through who wrote the answers. France Advance and Dance Champs as Ozzy Glance. Rue's Judge's Stance on Cha-Cha Prance. That was the house.

That's why I knew what it meant, because it took me a while to put it together, I've got to be honest. I got out of control. Yeah. Yeah. I had a story in case People punched a hole in it

And I think I I think I did a great job Yeah it's good Good writing Man eats fish Fish family takes revenge That was Jess Perkins And nobody chose it

It's good It's very fun Very whimsical I loved it so much though It was so good Well not enough to choose it Well I didn't think it was true But I loved it It much though it was so good well not enough to choose it well i didn't think it was true but i loved it it's a good story i got a special mention i quite often

just choose the ones i like and that's why i don't win this game but you play it with great heart play it with heart uh red eyes allergies or marijuana devil's lettuce blah blah blah that was emmy aka the house yeah love that man legally weds iceberg that was aj you've picked his three and you just said you that you pick answers that you love jess so that's beautiful i think she said like breaking bag carry on luggage mishap that was marcel kind of the trivia for that is because that's where breaking bad is set. Oh, that's right. Albuquerque.

That's good. Meaning the correct answer is, is a be a fish. California court says it could be. That's four in a row, Marcel. I don't think anyone's done that before. Do you know all of these? Well, there's a big mirror behind you. I've been reading your screen the whole time.

That is a be a fish did sound very sound very familiar so it wasn't just a shot in the dark it was like oh i'm having a sort of right slumdog millionaire moment where i'm flashing back to seeing that i guess what compels me so much about it is like in what situation would that need to be proven like what court case what why was someone going to go to jail if a bee couldn't be legally declared a fish i guess yeah let's say it's probably an agricultural debate yeah yeah i'll go i'm gonna read the article in a second but yeah it is basically them trying to find a way legally to protect the bees. Right. They weren't listed in the fish animals, blah, blah, blah. Right.

So, they're saying it's a fish, so it comes under protection. What do you think Nick Cage would have said about that? Probably, the bees, ah, the bees. Something like that. Yeah, something like that. So, yeah, the last three rounds have gone the same way. AJ and myself guessed the correct answer. Jess has guessed AJ's answer.

Jess has had fun. Jess is having a great time. These two, fucking no fun. Do you think the listeners are enjoying it? No, they're hating it. I'm having fun watching you pick my answer every time, Jess. Yeah, that is fun when people do that. Quick score update.

In third place, equal on one point each, Jess on the house. In second place, on four points, it's Marcel, but out in front on six points, it's AJ. So, I have a couple of options here. I can either start writing proper answers. Oh, yeah. Good luck. Yeah. I've been trying this whole time.

Or I could just keep fucking about. I think I'm going to keep fucking about. Yeah. Go the whole hog, I reckon. Yeah. It's more fun. You guys are no fun. What do you think that movie...

All the fun of this is resting on me now. It's exhausting. What do you think a movie called Jess and the House would be about? It would be... Obviously, I would play the house. Question five comes from Piper Gallagher from Eugene, Oregon. Gallagher, I barely know him. And Piper's question is, what is the name of track 11 of the 1975 album Spider-Man,

Rock Reflections of a Superhero? Right. Can I have that question again, please? What is the name? You got a song name yeah track 11 off the 1975 album spider-man rock reflections of a superhero yes while you're writing your answers here's the article about the bees a sacramento appeals court ruled that some bumblebees can legally be considered fish under the california endangered species act uh why did the court decide

bees can be considered fish? The debate over classifying bees as fish goes back to 2018 when three public interest groups, the Center for Food Safety, the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation and the Defenders of Wildlife, wanted four types of bumblebees to be listed as endangered and to be protected under the CESA, according to Slate.

Jess isn't laughing at the bees, of course. She's laughing at the answer she just wrote, which is such fantastic news for me and the listeners out there. The article continues. The problem? CESA protects native species or subspecies of bird, mammal, fish, amphibian, reptile, or plant, notably missing insects. Law is so ridiculous sometimes it's like we'll just

add insects to that yeah why are you having to make bees fish recategorize bees as fish there's got to be another way yeah the public interest groups argued however that bees actually fit under cesa's definition of a fish which is a wild fish mollusk crustacean invertebrate amphibian or part spawn or ovum of any of those animals the key word here is invertebrate because bees are invertebrates the four bumblebee species technically fit under cesa's definition of fish and can therefore be protected in california as endangered species the course ruled this is my however the rule this is exactly my kind of like finicky like you know changing things around to make like a stupid statistic i this is the kind of shit i love

oh well i'm glad i'm bringing this to your attention apparently it was overruled in 2020 by the sacramento county superior court when seven agricultural groups argued that invertebrates referring only to marine invertebrates not insects california's third district court of appeal overruled that decision and then ruled that bees actually do fit under the definition of fish so it's going back and forth a bit who have who's this um villainous party in the story that's desperately trying to make it okay to kill the bees. Yeah, exactly. They're not a fish. Yeah, there must be some flow on effect that they're worried about.

But yeah, I'm not exactly sure what it would be. But probably by reading the final four paragraphs, I can find it out. But I refuse to do that because everyone's answers are in. Mine's great. Yeah. So looking forward to it. Strap in. Can I preemptively pick Jess's answer as a sign of good faith?

Yes. Cool. I'll just figure out which one it is. It won't be hard. Yeah. Can we do double points round if we also choose who wrote the one? Can we do wild card round? All right. We'll lock in everyone's guesses and then you can each have one guess at who. Great. Can we do wild card round?

All right. We'll lock in everyone's guesses and then you can each have one guess at who. Great. So Jess guesses Marcel's or whatever. We'll figure it out. Okay. Yep. All right. Here's question number five.

What is the name of track 11 of the 1975 album Spider-Man, Rock Reflections of a Superhero? I'm not a spider boy, not yet a spider man. Thwip, thwip goes my heart, bracket, and I'm swinging into your love, close bracket. No one's got a crush on Peter. Your time is up, Octavius, brackets, tick-tock, dock-off, close brackets. Oh, that's good, that's good. Thwip, thwap, I Was Taking a Nap. Or finally, Gob Forgive Me, The Ballad of Norman Osborn.

Oh, my God. I really thought mine would stand out as very silly, and it hasn't at all. out as very silly and it hasn't at all. So yes, I think maybe we're back to AJ having a crack here. Okay, what was the first Thwip one? First Thwip, Thwip goes my heart

and I'm swinging into your love. Lock that in. Lock that in for AJ. Marcel? I think Gob, forgive me, is pretty good. The ballad of who was it? Norman Osborn. Yeah, very good. The Ballad of... Who was it? Norman Osborn. Norman Osborn.

Yeah, very good. Locking that in? Short for Goblin. Yes. Yeah. And Norman Osborn is... Is the Green Goblin. The Green Goblin.

Yes. There you go. I thought it was also that one, but I don't want to just sound like I'm copying Marcel, but I think it's that one too. Going to lock it in? Yes. Locking that in for Jess.

All right. Before I reveal whose answers they are are for a bonus point each do you want to who wants to get you what was your idea marcel who's he gonna guess here i think i think aj's is one of the the thwip is a deep cut because this is the sound effect from the comics so i what was the Thwip one that AJ didn't choose? Thwip Thwap, I Was Taking a Nap. I think that's AJ's. All right, locking that in for myself. Thwip Thwap, I Was Taking a Nap.

And you get a bonus point if you get it. There's no losing puns or anything like that. I hope not. Okay, great. I think maybe the first one, the Britney Spears reference. Yes. I think that was Marcel. Right.

I'll look that in. What was the third one? Third one was No One's Got a Crush on Peter. Yeah. I'm saying that was Marcel. Interesting. No one wants to guess Jess. All right.

Yeah. Well, there you go. Well, all right. So there's now multiple points up for grabs exciting good luck keeping track of this man yeah i know it's a nightmare uh here's who wrote the answers so um just thought marcel wrote i'm not a spider boy not yet a spider man but that was the house it's a good one i do like like Britney Spears. That is something I would have written. Yeah, me too. When did this album

come out, though? 1975. Yeah, but it's a riff as old as time. I never think of that, yeah. AJ went for Thwip, Thwip Goes My Heart and I'm Swinging Into Your Love. Jess Perkins wrote that one. Hey, I did it! I successfully did it!

You said you'd choose mine and you did. I'm a man of my word. That's why I got the giggles. You know your spider sound effects. Flip, flip. Yeah. We learned it from Nick Mason on Weekly Planet. Do you know Wolverine's claws?

No. Snicked. Oh. Do you know Godzilla's roar? No. Screeonk. Oh, Greeonk. Screeon you know Godzilla's Roar? No. Scree-onk. Oh, Gryonk. Scree-onk. That's cool.

Oh, Shree-onk. S-K-R-N-E-K-S-T-A-T. Oh, Scree-onk. So, Marcel thought AJ wrote Thwip Thwap. I was taking a nap, but that was also the house. Oh, they're good. Sorry, AJ. It's okay.

No one thought or guessed Your Time Is up Octavius tick tock doc oc But that was Marcel Blanch to wilt Oh yeah yeah Tick tock doc oc I thought it was good stuff That is really good Marcel and

Jess both went for Gob forgive me The Ballad of Norman Osborn That was AJ Oh my gosh Shit My first incorrect answer Drowning in points

And it feels horrible I feel like a nerd Can I give you a little taste Of tick-tock-dock-ock? Yeah, please. Tick-tock-dock-ock. Your crime is gonna stop. Yes. Tick-tock-dock-ock.

You're the one... I don't know. I think that was a real song from Turn Off the Dark, the Broadway one. I never saw it. There's got to be something in there vaguely, so I reckon. And finally, AJ thought Marcel wrote this, but it's actually the correct answer. No one's got a crush on Peter. Yeah.

See, that one did stand out to me as like just simple enough to be the one. It's so funny to me that that's a real thing out there. Yeah. This sort of rock opera song of Peter Parker feeling unloved. I love that. That's sort of his deal. Isn't that like patently untrue though? Like I can think of two characters that have a crush on Peter Parker.

Yeah, grow up, Peter. I thought Peter's more of the crusher than the crushy. True. Yeah, right. So that means in this round, no one got a bonus point. AJ got two points because two guessed his. And Jess got a point because AJ picked hers. So, that's...

Shit. The game is on. So, now, languishing in last place on one point, it's the house. In the third place on two points is Jess. Second place remains Marcel on four. But out in front still on eight points, increasing the lead is AJ. Oh, my God. First to worst.

Yeah, agreed. We're up to the penultimate question here. We're getting a real business end of proceedings. A single tear goes down Matt's cheek. Why not? Sorry. Question six comes from Conal Tyrrell from Dublin in Ireland. comes from Conal Tyrrell from Dublin in Ireland.

And Conal's question is, what happened during the NFL playoff game between the Seattle Seahawks and New Orleans Saints in January 2010? 2010. What happened during the NFL playoff games between the Seattle Seahawks and New Orleans Saints in January 2010? While you're writing those answers,

let me tell you a bit more about the Spider-Man album. This is according to Piper. Spider-Man, rock reflections of a superhero Piper. Spider-Man rock reflections of a superhero is one of life's greatest curiosities. It consists of groovy spider-themed tunes from the heart of 70s corporate America interspersed with a loose story told by none other than Spider-Man's creator Stan Lee. From what this suggester can tell, not much is to be found online about how this album came to be other than it likely originally being aired on radio other tracks include square boy and peter stays and spider-man goes i did look

through the tracklist thing there's none are too exciting i i agree with pop the standout name of a track was no one's got a crush on peter do you have any lyrics there that you could sing us i tried to find them i couldn't find any but i reckon you could imagine how no one's got a crush on peter do you have any lyrics there that you could sing us i tried to find them i couldn't find any but i reckon you could imagine how no one's got a crush on peter would go no one's got a crush on peter why ain't they gonna like me either sure there's mj and there's the other one why doesn't anyone have fun with me it's a short song. He's very good. Yeah, you are a theatre kid? Yes, I am a theatre kid. I didn't have the chops for musical theatre. I do love to sing and I am on a campaign to encourage other people to just enjoy singing

rather than like, you know, being told they can or can't sing. Wow. People love to go around and tell people they can or can't sing. Do they? It hurts people. You've been hanging around dicko too much. Well, I work in the corporate training world

to help people be better presenters as well. And a lot of people go, yeah, my husband and my kids tell me not to sing and yeah, for some reason when I stand on stage and have to present at work, I just feel terrified of expressing myself. I wonder why. I wonder why because your husband and your kids are fucking dead shits.

And you should leave him. And take me. And then I remove my wedding ring in front of them and say, please, please, don't go. Now it's the time of this corporate session where we put our keys in the bowl. That's right. Just mine and your keys. I know it's a one-on-one. But let's

Let's make this one on one But you're also doing this via Zoom And your wife is next to you Like what the fuck Marcel Stop doing that She's the one making me Please take him Is that like being reverse cucked

Yeah reverse cucked Oh man What a life you live Alright the answer in for question number six What happened during the NFL playoff game Reversed cucked? Yeah, reverse cucked. Oh, man. What a life you live. Cucked to the heart. All right. The answer in for question number six. What happened during the NFL playoff game between the Seattle Seahawks and the New Orleans Saints in January 2010? A coach ran onto the field and tackled a player who was about to score.

A sinkhole suddenly opened up in the end zone and swallowed the quarterback. Oh. Kelsey Grammer did a spoken word rendition of the American National Anthem in the character Dr. Frasier Crane. A streaker ran across the field but tripped on the grass, breaking his arm. The crowd cheered so loudly during one play that they caused

an earthquake. All the team's mascots were caught having sex in the locker room. Wow. Do you think they were in, surely they were in costume having sex otherwise yes yes if you're a fairy fan yeah can i have those again i didn't hear some of them because i was laughing at marcel laughing so hard at the fraser one uh coach ran out of the field tackle the player was about to score sinkhole suddenly opened up in the end zone swallowed a quarterback

kesselgramma did a spoken word rendition of the American National Anthem In characters Dr. Frasier Crane He's listening A streaker ran across the field But tripped on the grass, breaking his arm The crowd cheered so loudly during one play That they caused an earthquake Or the team's mascots were caught having sex in the locker room I'm gonna go with The Frasier one

The Kelsey Grammer one Locking that in for AJ Oh say can you see by the dawn's early light. So proudly we hailed as the twilight's last gleaming. This must be brutal for you as a man who loves to sing. Jess, anything standing out to you? Yeah, but I'm always wrong. Have you got any of them right this time?

No. I think all my points have come from AJ choosing mine. I don't think I've gotten anything right. Honestly, no, but I think everyone picking the right answer all the time. That's boring. That's boring. What you're doing is bringing a little, I don't know how you say it, but something different, a little something extra.

A little herky-derky. What's the term for it? A little herky-derkle it a little herky derkle a little herky derkle yes which is a new term i came up with i think it could be the earthquake one nah probably not and i don't think it's a sinkhole one and why would a coach run onto a on the field good coach do you find with some of these these they're like with this the concept of the show that sometimes the answers um they'll either not be notable enough to that you wouldn't think they would have been noted down by anyone or they're too ridiculous that

it's obviously not them because to me a coach stopping a goal feels like that's probably has happened in history but probably wouldn't necessarily be newsworthy while noteworthy while a an audience cheering so loud they create an earthquake is that not flagrantly impossible i think it happened at a taylor swift concert it happens in in really big crowds but i was sort of like but would they have a crowd that big and that loud there's nothing in the rule book that says a coach can't play in the game. Is American football as popular as Taylor Swift? A pop singer? I don't think so.

Okay, so then maybe I will say I was joking. It definitely is. Nah. NFL Taylor's version. I don't think so. Name one NFL song.

That's true. O say can you see Take me out to the Take me out to the ball game. Okay, you got me. What about Kelsey Grammar speaking Star-Spangled Flag or whatever?

Fuck it, I'll say Kelsey Grammar as well. Marcel, have you locked anything in? Kelsey Grammar. Marcel. Marcel. Marcel. I did like Kelsey Grammar a lot. It's a very fun one.

What was the one before the dogging in the... That was the earthquake one. Oh, that was the... The one before that was the striker broke his arm. Oh, wow. It also doesn't feel like enough. I thought I had a feeling for one that came toward the end, but I might have to lock in Kelsey as well,

even though, damn it, there could be too many... No, I unlock, unlock. I'm realizing that could be too many points if it's AJ's and I want to, I'm playing. He guessed it. It can't be AJ's. He guessed Kelsey as well. In fact, we've all guessed Kelsey. Not you officially, Marcel, but which, which.

You heard me say unlock. There was a five second rule. Everyone knows that. All right. Then I will choose Kelsey. All right. Jess, you still Sticking with Kelsey

Yes I can't remember If you locked it in Yeah five second roll You mentioned all of them I just I know but he Like I thought you

Were giving me a chance To change and Actually get a point Yeah but are you like Are you trying to help me What was your Gart instinct The earthquake one

Oh I'll lock that in For Jess Here's who wrote The answers A coach ran onto the field And tackled a player Who was about to score That was run by Connor I'll lock that in for Jess. Here's who wrote the answers. A coach ran onto the field and tackled a player who was about to score. That was run by Connor, a.k.a. The House. Well done.

A sinkhole suddenly opened up in the end zone and swallowed the quarterback. That was Marcel. I'm picturing Dark Knight Rises. Yeah, a little bit like that, I guess. I believed sinkhole until the quarterback was in it. Then I was like, no. A little fun image. Running for the bowl as well.

The team's mascots were caught having sex in the locker room. That was Jess Perkins. Did you visualize this, Jess? Like the sicko?

Yeah, what animal? A seahawk and a saint. Yeah, yeah. That's what it would have been. All right, okay. Sexy.

Streaker running across the field, tripping, breaking his arm. That was AJ. That's what it would have been. All right, okay. Sexy. Streaker running across the field, tripping, breaking his arm. That was AJ. That's a good one. Oh, it's looking good. Kelsey Grammer singing the spoken word, speaking the anthem or whatever.

That was the Hamlet. Oh, no. I say, can you see? Really? How upset I am. One of the tropes of mine is, if anything's Seattle, I'm writing a Dr. Fraser Crane answer. I didn't click on it. Why would you know that? But

that means the correct answer was actually the crowd cheered so loudly one day that they caused an earthquake. God damn. So Jess gets a point there. And also I've outed myself as an idiot not knowing that. Yeah you did you outed yourself as an idiot. Yeah and technically not yeah the earthquake like it registers like an earthquake I guess. Right. Okay. So that means with one round to go Technically, not the earthquake. It registers like an earthquake, I guess. Right, okay. So, that means with one round to go, the scores have tightened up slightly.

In equal third on three points, it is Jess in the house. In second place on four points, it's Marcel, but still out in front on eight points, it's AJ. Ooh, AJ got a four-point lead. All right, we're up to the final question. This comes from Akilah Talamaska from san francisco i left my heart there akilah if you've seen it please let me know i've got a po box you can send that back and akilah's question is we always finish with a movie synopsis question yeah and i forget that aj and marcel are both cinephiles aj do you think we're going to be Instagram friends after this I genuinely was thinking about that About five minutes ago

Oh my god that's Yuck Networking Networking I don't call it that Making new friends I don't know how valuable a Christchurch network is To be honest though You never know

This thing's going worldwide AJ lives in an attic You might need an attic at some point In Christchurch Yeah I performed in an attic before Wow And you're very tall Wow

It was a big attic Okay great Alright the final question Comes from Akila Talamasca From San Francisco And we always finish with a film And we always finish with a film synopsis question. So this will be your longest answer here, AJ, Marcel.

It's going to be my shortest, actually. Nothing happens. Three words. Fuck you, Matt. And the question is, what is the synopsis of the 1991 movie The Dark Backwood? What is the synopsis of the 1991 movie the dark backward can i just clarify are you saying backwood or back war like backwards back ward okay backward backward water

backwater backward the dark backward the dark backward yeah it's very clumsy yeah i hate this while your answers are being written here is some more info about that earthquake. According to Mike Voral, writing for the Seattle Times, it was January 8th, 2011, and the Seahawks led the Saints 34-30 with three minutes 40 left in the NFC wildcard game. At a supposedly silent quest field in Seattle, Matt Hasselbeck took a snap at his own 33-yard line,

turned and handed the ball off to Marshawn Lynch. Amid a morass of broken tackles, the Beastquake was born. That's what it's colloquially known as. Lynch, a 215-pound, 24-year-old torpedo, laid waste to New Orleans' defensive line, burrowing through Scott Schannel and Will Smith's feeble tackle attempts.

At the second level, Darren Sharpa and Remy Ayodele each latched onto a leg, and Lynch shook them off like Forrest Gump finally breaking free of his metal braces. Jabari Greer wrapped his arms around Lynch's waist at the 49-yard line and received a four-yard ride before unceremoniously tumbling to the turf, which is when Tracy Porter ate the most iconic stiff arm in NFL history. As the quest field crowd came irreparably unglued, the 185-pound corner attempted to wrangle a loose line by tugging on its fur. Instead, Lynch launched

Porter five yards into the stratosphere, then skirted through defensive lineman Alex Brown's diving arms along the sideline. He veered inside, evaded a helpless Roman Harper, and some assaulted backwards, exalted into the end zone. After the 41-30 wildcard win, Seahawks linebacker Aaron Curry called it the most unbelievable, unrealistic play I've ever seen in the history of football. First year Seahawks coach Pete Carroll added, it was one of the greatest runs I ever saw. At the time at least, John Vidal didn't see it. The director of Pacific Northwest Seismic Network at the University of Washington,

Vidal was working in the lab an hour or two after the game when he was told there was a play he needed to see. Quote, So I went to YouTube and found videos of Marshall's run, and it was striking. Some of them were taken with phones in the stands. People were just cheering forever. It was deafening. It looked like everything was shaking. So I just figured I'd see if the seismometers recorded anything.

It looked like everything was shaking, so I just figured I'd see if the seismometers recorded anything. Coincidentally, one of PNSN's permanent seismometers, an instrument designed to gauge ground motions, was located directly across the street from the stadium. And sure enough, it registered an unmistakable spike at precisely the moment Beast Mode broke free. I was surprised to see it on the seismometer, because it's just people jumping around and shouting. It doesn't usually have the power of an earthquake. Usually it doesn't. This time, it did. The sustained fervor inspired by Lynch's 67-yard scamper

reached a peak acceleration of roughly 1 20,000th of a G and a peak motion of 1 100th of a millimetre, registering as a highly localised magnitude 1 or 2 earthquake. It goes on and on. People call me 1 20,000th of a G. That's my rap name. I tend to just prefer to call you Marcel. Yeah, but some people, other people.

Yeah, I'm just saying I would never because that's fucking stupid. I'll do it. I'll do it, Marcel. What was it again? Thanks, AJ. So it was just this little thing and then the people who, you know, record those movements or whatever. Seismographers. Yeah, they put out a little press release saying, you know, it might be a cute little story, but it blew up and they were getting calls from media around the world, China and England and everywhere.

When it blew up, were they able to measure that? They were able to measure that, yes. You're very funny. Thank you, Jess. Not ha-ha funny, but clever funny. Jess has one last ounce of energy as she calls it a day on three podcasts in a... I just think Marcel's very quick. My brain's slow.

What do you like about me, Jess? Very little, AJ. I just needed to hear it so that I can move on now. Yeah, your podcast do move on. Not a lot of good to say about you, AJ. Fair enough. Jeez. Nice beard.

Nothing but trouble. All right. The answer in for the final question. What is the synopsis of the 1991 film the dark backward a farmer makes a deal with the devil for a successful harvest after a year of bad crops but when the plants start growing upside down and with their roots rising into the sky the farmer must descend underground to collect his cursed subterranean fruits and vegetables that's great in small town iowa an eight-year-old girl becomes possessed by a demon named Crad.

The town must hope Father Michael, a priest they shunned for believing in such things, will return to save the girl and their community before it's too late. Oh, wow. Detective Nick Poole must solve a case of a serial killer who leaves clues that can only be deciphered in mirrors. But Nick's most difficult confrontation will be with his own reflection whoa

Marty Malt is a garbage man and struggling comedian his comedy career is going nowhere until one night he mysteriously grows a third arm out of his back could this be what turns it all around yes life is fleeting at least that's what This be what turns it all around? Yes.

Life is fleeting. At least that's what young poet Graham Flannelpack always says. Much to the chagrin of his friends and family. Graham either doesn't notice or doesn't care that they find him a pretentious bore. He's too busy living every moment until he dies suddenly and his life starts again. This time in reverse. Wow. Oh.

Or a group of troubled teens go on a camping trip into the woods. One night, they hear strange sounds coming from deep in the woods, and one by one, they are sucked into a portal, travelling back in time. Together, they have to find their way back home, and along the way, they help each other overcome their troubles. These are all so good and would be such interesting films you know i'd watch all of these no doubt about that there's there's hollywood screenwriters who are currently listening to this wishing they could break their uh break their strike and start writing these oh wait should are we scabs right now all right so i don't know aj do you want to go first things are in the lead i feel like

to me the one that sounded like i could see it in my head was the the disgraced priest one i think it's the second one um but i love the like lynchian grotesqueness of a comedian growing an arm out of his back i think that's disgusting and I love it. Proper cinephile is going to use terms like lynching. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Is that Marshawn Lynchian, like the beast who started the earthquake? Yeah.

Is that how you mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think I'm going to go comedian with an arm out his back. That's great. All right. Great choice. Locking that in. Marty Moult. Thank Malt Garbage man comedian

Marcel you're in second place I thought it was Marty Mulch Beautiful writing I've got to commend that one I scribbled them both down I love that one a lot But I also Just could not get past Subterranean Farmer

I thought that was just Brilliant If that's not real just gotta pay could not get past Subterranean Farmer. I thought that was just brilliant. So, if that's not real, just got to pay the good writing. Got to pay it. All right, locking that in for Marcel. And I would like to lock in the correct one, please. And what one would you say that one was?

Well, that's for Matt to mark down, but I would just like to lock in the correct one if that's okay. you think that like maybe i might get you could choose one of mine just so this whole game like i haven't yeah yeah so which one's yours and then i'll choose it i did say earlier that i trust you yeah yeah so trust me geez you're trying to break the game very late you're gonna wildcard this round and and you guess which one what one do you think i would have written i stopped listening to them yeah it's not one that's been chosen so far okay all right jess can i i can run you through them quickly again yep so you got the upside down crops yep you got the uh girl possessed by crad the demon yes you got detective nick pool solving a serial killer yep but he's

got to find clues in the mirror yep uh marty molt the garbage man and struggling comedian life is fleeting the poet who dies and lives his life in reverse yeah or the troubled teens who go camping into the woods yeah so just the correct one or marcel's one this is so great to watch because Matt's not like warmly smiling at what Jess is saying he's clearly like what do I do here AJ which one do you I don't think Matt's going to allow

for wild card rules but which one do you think I wrote knowing that it's not one of the ones that's been chosen so far what was the second to last one I think you wrote that one life is fleeting the poet I think you wrote that one. Life is Fleeting, the poet. I think you wrote that one, Marcel. Okay.

Well, let's do bonus points. So, who are you going to guess? Who am I going to guess? Which one AJ wrote or which one Jess wrote? I think Jess wrote the ones about the teens. She loved teens. I love teens.

Okay. Okay. Okay. So, you're not going to just like... You're not going to... But what if you just like... I won't say which one it is. You don't have to say which one it is. Yeah.

Just put mine next to whichever one Marcel wrote. Oh. Well, I've put it next to the correct one. But who... No, chuck it in the Marcel one and then we're good. All right. And then you got to guess which one you think is Marcel's as well. Okay. So, no, if you guess this as well, you'll both get three points somehow.

Yeah, that makes sense. There's people at home who are like, I just want the rules to be played normally. It's going to be so annoying for the freaking man. I don't think there's people. There's people out there. I don't think there's people people. There's people out there. I don't think there's people listening. There's people out there.

I don't think people are going, oh, no, don't have fun with it. No, don't fuck around a little bit. They're keeping their own scores. Oh, come on, guys. Take it seriously, would you? The thing is, I'm not retaining any of them. I think my brain's clocking off, but I don't want to ask for them again. You know?

We'll just pick a number then. One to six. All right. Locking that in. Here's who wrote the answers. All right. At random. No one gets this one.

In a small town, Ira, an eight-year-old girl becomes possessed by a demon named Krad. That was Akila, aka the house. That's so good. That's like a- Krad's so fun, but also Krad is dark backwards. Oh, that's good. Too smart for me. I honestly thought the demon having a name didn't feel like a normal movie synopsis.

Yeah, yeah. I was like, oh, that one's right. Which it made me laugh the first time and then- Krad. Minutes later, I'm like, oh. That one's right. Which it made me laugh the first time and then- Crad. Minutes later, I'm like, oh. That one feels like a Scandinavian Nordic noir kind of thing, you know? Yeah. Then let's go for, Marcel, you picked a farmer with the upside down crops.

That was AJ. That's very good. Yeah, that is good. What a great writer. Thanks so much. We're definitely going to be Instagram friends after this. Yeah. I love this.

Jess picked Detective Nick Poole must solve the case of a serial killer leaves clues to solve it in mirrors. That was actually Marcel, which is also the one that you guessed. So three points for both of you there. Yeah. Yes. Great. Wild card.

AJ thought Marcel wrote the one about the annoying poet who lives his life in reverse, but that was actually The House. The House. And Marcel thought that Jess wrote a group of troubled teens going on a camping trip and Jess did write that. So another three points for Marcel there. I love teens. But the correct answer.

Great t-shirt, by the way. I love teens and I love journeys along the way. The correct answer is Marty Malt is a garbage man and a struggling comedian with an arm in his back which AJ picks. I'm going to watch this. I'm going to add this to my litter boxed watch list

right now. Right after watching Naked Lunch. So we all got three points there. So Nick Poole, he's a detective. He's a detective, yeah. But like he realises

that he's got to look into the mirror to solve the clues. I mean, it's laid on a bit thick realizes that he's got to look into the mirror i like to solve the clues yeah i mean it's it's laid on a bit thick about how he's gonna but then when he looks in the mirror himself he's like whoa hold on a minute am i the killer oh that's so good shit am i a killer which is the name of the person who wrote the question oh shit this is good let me know if you want to put an embargo on releasing this episode So you can develop the script

You just say dibs, you just say copyright Copyright Well I can call copyright on your idea by saying dibs No I've done it already So this On Rotten Tomatoes has got a 45% critic score 59% audience score

I'll take it off my watch list now it's a disappointing score i think it's a very split uh film so there's a positive review written by brian webster reads in part odd and twisted the dark backward has plenty to thrill admirers of ugliness and enough food for thought to interest the rest of us too but on the other hand a zero out of five star review from ken hanky says ken hanky really strange full stop really bad full stop hey matt yes my brand matt would you like to hear about another split film another split film split film would you like to hear another about another one it's the movie split that's it that. It actually did have somewhat of a divisive reception. That's true.

It works on two levels. The cast of this film's got big names coming out the wazoo. Judd Nelson plays the main character, Marty Malt, but Adam Rifkin's also in it. Bill Paxton, Rob Lowe, Lara Flynn Boyle, and James Caan. Wow. Amongst others. Lara Flynn Boyle is in Twin Peaks, so it is Lynchian.

Yeah. There we go. And James Caan is dead. Whoa. Yeahst others. Lara Flynn Boyle is in Twin Peaks, so it is Lynchian. Yeah. There we go. And James Caan is dead. Whoa. Yeah. Yeah. And I think Lynch delves into issues and themes of death and mortality. Laura Palmer.

Yeah. All right. Final score check in fourth place. Some call it last. I call it just off the podium on three points, it's The House. In third place on six points, it's Jess Perkins. Yeah, Perkins. In second place on ten points, it's Marcel, but just down front on 11 points, it's AJ.

Oh, well done. I'm so embarrassed. I'm so embarrassed. Today, AJ stands for always joining the winners. The winners, yes. The W for winners is silent. Now, AJ, where can people find you? You can find me and my podcast, Cult Popshire, where I watch a different film franchise every fortnight

with my friend Richard. And you can also follow me on Instagram and TikTok at AJNHD. AJNHD. AJNHD. I'm looking that up right now to see if you're lying to me. This is so cute. I would never lie to you, Marcel. And Marcel, where can people find you? I am MarcelTheComedian on Instagram.

People can find me there. And if you're a budding comedy writer, you can also find The Writers Group, which is is my patreon where we do online meetups on the reg as well as a weekly podcast with comedians like yourselves who have been guests on it what will you do if you ever change careers or leave comedy behind and your handle is still marcel the comedian yeah it's gonna be difficult i once when i did a gig in auckland this year they put me because i'd signed up through Instagram they put me on the poster as master of the comedian and I was very embarrassed

that is very embarrassing that's not my stage name it's just on the line up of comedians a bold stage name yeah because a lot of people have comedy in their Instagram name just to sort of make sure people know that they that's their business because their name is already taken that's the only reason I'll have it in there.

Okay. Yeah. But if you are on a, on like you're doing comedy Republic this week and you're on the banner as, as Matt Stewart comedy. Yeah. You're putting a lot of pressure on. You don't want anyone coming to your comedy show expecting comedy.

No, it's too much. And Jess, where can people find you? They can find me at Jess Perkins. And also you can listen to Simply the Jess. We've just recorded the final ever episode. And the whole back catalogue that will remain available?

Yeah, back catalogue's still up. And it's a collection of like different topic every week. Triple J listeners, which is a radio station, tell us their cooked stories. And it's really wild and really fun. And do you get residuals for every listen absolutely not no it's from the abc we get no money at all uh if you want to support this show you can go to patreon.com slash do go on pod that's uh this podcast as well as a

bunch of other ones including do go on which is obviously no coincidence that's why the network's named that. Yeah. Marcel was just recently or about to be on a bonus episode about two recent films. I've forgotten the names of them. Mission Impossible and Indiana Jones. Yeah, it's like a couple of big ones, actually. What if they were in the same universe? That'd be fun. Also, people should come see my Sydney Fringe show for Sydney listeners. They should definitely do that.

Now on sale. Oh, and Brisbane people should come see my show at the Good Chat Comedy Festival, as well as this show, doing this live up there, early September. And AJ, you're on, in a couple of days' time, you'll be on a Do Go On episode doing a report about Barbie, the history of the doll. Yes. I will be. And it was fun.

It was fun, and it's fun to listen to, I hope. Awesome. Well, you have to listen back to it. I hope you mentioned Alan. To go on. Yes, we mentioned Alan. Oh, great. And yeah, please hang around.

There'll be some outtakes following the outro music soon. But thanks for joining us, everybody. If you're listening at home and you're thinking, hey, I should give this a five-star review, I agree with that. And maybe even tell your friends if you think they might enjoy it. Cheers for tuning in to Who Knew With Matt Stewart. now that you know it i've been matt stewart goodbye all righty um all right so i'm gonna sing the friends theme and we're all gonna clap at the same time. Got it.

So no one told you life was gonna be this way. So good. So good. And who came up with that? Carlisle Laurent who's a... What a name. Incredible name. One of my favourite musicals. Carlisle Laurent.

It's very good it's good I'll tell him that as well yeah a reset of energy you can always do a reset you can just choose you can just choose to have a different energy

at any point I love that that's great advice I'm going to choose I was trying to tell Marcel the name of your podcast before and it fucked me up

That's fine I think I said about Seven different versions Of it before I Got Jess Let me out Put me out of my misery I shot him in the head

It has ruined The term pop culture For everyone who knows me Alright Any questions? I think you're the one with the questions. That's a hot start, Marcel. Thanks.

You're off and away. Use it in the B-roll at the end. I almost definitely will. But if you could enjoy it more, that will guarantee that I'll put it in. Are you the only Marcel? Are you the only Marcel? In the world. Bunched a world blanche de wilt i mean it's ungoogleable there's a few de wilts around yeah but no not a blanche de wilt not a blanche and not a marcel i'm cheating with the hyphen can i ask as well and you don't have to necessarily dox them but

you have siblings you have three two brothers yeah do they have fun names as well stefan and anton although when stefan moved to canberra um in his late teenage years he became stefan much like urkel before him yeah he became a carl yeah i he didn't think blanched a wilt was fun enough well he at a workplace he got called stefan and it just stuck Like it wasn't like oh that's my new identity now It was just like oh okay this person who has More cult of personality than I do

Has sort of named me this so I'm just sort of Going with it. I'm just always very interested in People who have unusual Or like you know interesting Sounding names I'm always like I just It would be so disappointing if you had a brother and his name was like jack yeah well my middle name is peter which is so bland but i've met so few marcells

in my i met my fourth marcel the other day his last name was breed isn't that a strange last name last name but see like matt boring all of his siblings, who I love, boring names. You know, Jess, boring. My brother, boring. His name is boring. I'm thrilled to be here in the B-roll. Herkle Derkle. Speaking of Steve Herkle before. Yeah, yeah.

I was just thinking that. Yeah, that's annoying, that interference. I think it was because of my telephone oh because it sends out a signal much in the way that they recognize the signals being sent out from computers in the film independence day and then used it against the aliens so you just have to do that matt but every i mean everyone's everyone does that on this every week, and that never happens. My phone's particularly signally. Okay.

Do you guys like to know my favorite line from Independence Day? Can I guess it? Yes. Is it, welcome to Earth? No. Oh, that's a good one. So, he punches the alien. Yeah, that is a good one.

And somehow, like, punches it out, even though the alien has an incredible exoskeleton. Like, it's got a very thick skull and he punches it with a bare fist now my favourite line is sorry I'm late Mr President who says that Randy Quaid

it cracks me up every time and he's like they're fighting against their little fighter jets. And the president's like, oh, we're screwed. And then Randy Quaid appears. Sorry, I'm late, Mr. President. And he saves the day. He comes in his little biplane.

Oh, shit. Every time. And he says, I'm back. I'm back. It's me, Randy Quaid. It is too hazardous for modern archaeology. It is too hazardous for modern archaeologists to... Oh, my.

Fuck. Marcel, could I just have a look at your screen for a second there? No reason. Hey, hey, hey. I left this unattended because I thought... I can't see. I thought I could trust you. You can't trust me, but I can't see that far.

I trust you. What? Yeah. At what level? With life? Like with my own living soul or just like with casual things. Like if you said I'll meet you for a coffee at two, I'd trust you to be there. Okay.

Yeah. How do you guys feel about me? If you said I'll meet you for a coffee at two i'd expect you to be there by 207 yeah or thereabouts damn or is this the first time i'm meeting you is that cool though is that kind of yeah that's yeah that's still an okay window that's just 207 is like if you you don't just send a message to say you're running late 208 i'd feel like where the where the heck is AJ yeah I wish I was that cool I'm actually probably

going to be there at 155 in reality I have a sort of a rhyming guide 208 you're running late 207 I'm in heaven very good does that help you AJ

thank you so much the problem with it is 158 you're running late you know 158 you're my mate oh okay 208 148 148 128 you're running late, you know. Yeah. 158, you're my mate. Oh, okay. 208.

148. 148. 128, you know what I mean? You shouldn't be leaving your gate. Okay, okay. Well, I don't know why I came for the king. She was going to have the answer there. All right.

Was it horned wiener or horned wiener? I was thinking wiener, but I appreciated the little pizzazz that you put in. Wiener? Horned wiener. I think I've done a great job here. I think I've continued my hot streak of being just fine. Oh, mine are all dog shit, but my confidence is sky high. How do you feel as someone who's on their third pot of the day? Naked.

My brain's fried. What are you going to do to chill out after this? I actually have to go for a run tonight. You have to? I'm not excited about it. Who's making you run? Me. That reminds me of a little song called She Likes Me For Me.

Not because. Me. That reminds me of a little song called She Likes Me For Me. Not because. Yep. I look like Pavarotti and he is a big old hottie. Put that in the sound effects reel. Oh, that was genuine. Why are you going to be a dick? And if you cut that out of the podcast. I certainly will.

Yeah, well, coward. AJ, do you use any products on your beard? I get given a lot of beard oils as gifts and I never use them. Is that people being passive aggressive to you, do you think? No, because people have asked me, like, what's your beard care routine? I mean, it just happened right now and the answer is is laziness so yeah the ultimate beard care do you use any um oils matt no i'd also have been given a few well occasionally there was this primates was once sponsored by this great beard care company from brisbane and i've still a, they gave me a bunch of them

and I still use the little, I'm just trying to eke out the last little bit, but there's this great little ointment stuff that you put in. Smells so good. Because your moustache is right under your nose. Yeah. It's right there. Right there.

It's all for me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's all for me. Not because he looks like Pavarotti. And like I said before, he a hottie yep oh say does that stuff span old banner yet wave oh the land of the free and the home of the brave good night I was like can you see

by the door it's so hard to sing to that rhythm oh maybe I hear it in the corner yeah

it's unusual it is unusual anything in there that I could use post credits I tried to sing the national anthem to the Frasier theme. Oh, yeah?

It was quite difficult. It was really good. Yeah, if I knew the words. Well, I was reading off the tune. Yeah. Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. So spangled and... Star scrambled.

Star scrambled. Star scrambled. Star scrambled. Yeah, yeah. Now we're getting somewhere. It's called workshopping. Yeah, yeah. Now we're getting somewhere. It's called workshopping. Spangled flags.

We're going again. Good night. Good night. Here's some outtake material now. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. I slipped on a banana peel. He won't be in Rush Hour 3.

I get that reference, Marcel.