Who Knew It with Matt Stewart - 8 - Cass Paige, Andy Matthews and Evan Munro-Smith
Episode Date: October 31, 2022Who Knew It with Matt Stewart is a new comedy game show podcast hosted by Australian comedian Matt Stewart. The eighth episode features guests Cass Paige (Sanspants Radio) and Andy Matthews (Two In Th...e Think Tank)!This episode was recorded as part of the Stupid Old Studios Pod Fest, if you want to watch the stream (which includes other shows like Do Go On, Plumbing the Death Star and Two In The Think Tank), you can purchase a pass here: https://sospresents.comCheck out 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!See the show live, get tickets via: https://www.mattstewartcomedy.com/Check out Matt's podcast network: https://dogoonpod.com/Check out Cass' podcast network: https://www.sanspantsradio.com/Check out Andy's podcast: https://shows.acast.com/two-in-the-think-tankTheme song by Evan Munro-Smith and Logo by @muzdoodles! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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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 this week, I'm joined by co-host slash second banana
slash scorekeeper at Stupid Old Studio's own Evan Munro-Smith.
Hello.
Woo!
So happy to be here.
It's so good to have a second banana on this show.
This is the first week I've had one.
Yes, that's correct.
Well done.
One point?
All right.
Yes.
And when we say Stupid Old Studio's own, we do mean that in a very legally binding sense.
We purchased him as an orphan, much like the show,
the Truman Show.
Oh, yes.
And, yeah, he's not allowed to leave.
I'm trapped.
Yes, yes.
It's a nightmare.
He's the only man who can retain adoption status as an adult.
That's right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Our first contestant this week is Sands Pants Radio's host with the most, Cass Page.
That's really nice.
I do have the most.
Yes.
Bit of what?
Our second contestant is perhaps Superdoll Studios' most multi-talented member.
It's some sort of scientist, Andy Matthews.
Hello.
Thank you very much.
Yes. Let's broaden the definition of talents to, you know, like when you're dredge fishing the ocean
and you'll pick up any old bycatch. We'll just consider everything to be a talent. Dolphin. Yeah,
sure. Get that in there. Scallops. You don't think dolphins count as a good talent in that
scenario? What a fantastic catch.
No, you're right.
I do have the talent dolphin.
And I write that on all of my resumes, what I said in the mid.
I write dolphin, very big text, quite close to the top.
And I'm currently looking for work.
That's true. You're in need of a dolphin.
Hi, Randy.
You might be wondering what this show is and how it works.
Well, it's pretty simple, really.
I ask a question and then the contestants have to write a convincing fake answer.
Then I read their answers as well as the real one
and then they have to guess which is the correct answer.
Jeez, it sounds more convoluted than it is.
I've got to take the time to write that better.
But now is not that time. time okay are we ready to play
yeah absolutely what precisely is my role your role so you're going to be collecting the responses
so andy and cast are going to message you the responses then you're going to quite and this
is the most efficient way i've thought of then you're going to put in a document that i can see
yes so you're basically sending them them to. So you're sort of sending them around.
Right.
It goes around in a-
So it basically goes around in a clockwise motion.
I see.
Great.
So you send them back to us.
And then I'll read them back to you.
Oh, okay.
So they really do arrive.
It's a round trip.
Yeah.
It starts with you, goes to Evan, then to me, and then I read them back to you.
We get them back.
Yeah.
It's nice.
It's like the carbon cycle or something like that.
Exactly.
It's very much like the carbon cycle.
Dolphin over here with his multi-talents,
some kind of scientist.
Carbon cycle.
The first question comes from listener Kayla Hodquitz
from New Jersey in the US.
Cool name.
It's a fantastic name.
That's good.
And Kayla's question is,
what is the definition of the 16th century word Huff Snuff?
Huff Snuff?
Huff Snuff.
And that's H-U-F-F-S-N-U-F-F?
That's right.
Okay.
With a hyphen that twixt them.
Ooh.
Oh, a hyphen.
Huff Snuff.
Huff Snuff.
Okay, so you just have to give it a-
16th century?
Yeah, well, that was when it was most popularly used.
If that gives you any sort of guard. And while they're writing their answers, well, that was when it was most popularly used. If that, you know, gives you any sort of guard.
And while they're writing their answers, Evan,
let me tell you and the viewers and listeners 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.
Okay.
Boo.
So you could win this?
I could win this.
I'm the only one that couldn't win this.
You're the only one who certainly cannot win it under no circumstances.
Okay.
No, you're part of the house, Evan.
We're collectively the house.
Oh, great.
Love that.
I've put in two of my fake answers as well,
two of my own fake answers for each question.
And we, the house, we get one point for each of those that the guest chooses.
So each of us can score up to two points per round.
It seems fair, but the probability does favor us, the house.
And the house always wins.
Although if you have listened to the show before, you'll know that the house nearly
never wins.
Anyway, our questions come from our great Patreon supporters.
house nearly never wins anyway our questions come from our great patreon supporters if you want to submit a question sign up to any level via patreon.com slash do go on pod all right so question
number one is what is the definition of the word huff snuff here are your five options a blowhard
who likes to bully but takes offense easily the act of using a leg to pump the covers up and down
after a nocturnal fart to secretly expel the smell from the bottom of the doona like a bellows.
A medicine to snort to help clear your nose when it's blocked.
The rattly bit of a rattlesnake.
Or a wealthy lady who spends all of her allowance on tobacco.
Surely the rattly bit of a rattlesnake is called a rattle.
Oh, that's what you would think, Evan.
Yeah.
No clues, though, please.
But then why wouldn't the question say the rattle of a rattlesnake?
No, that's fair.
Yeah, really good point.
Yeah.
I don't think I've ever heard a less rattly word in my life than huff snuff.
It's very-
It's got no edges.
It's quiet.
That's under a blanket.
So the fart one's really coming out stronger than rattle. Yeah, my only question about that is whether or not they had doona technology
back in the whatever time we're talking about. 16th century. It feels like for a thing
that is just essentially, you know, torturing a duck for warmth, a doona
feels like a relatively modern invention. Does yours include
torture? Yeah, it's basically full of ducks.
You sort of kick them and they squirm around
and the friction generates heat.
Isn't that what everyone?
Yeah, that's a duna.
A blanket is different.
Yeah, and a duvet is a completely different thing again.
That's one of those cruelty-free ones.
All right.
Yeah, 16th century seems very woolen pelts yep i'm tempted
to lock in the person who about the taking offense and the bullying and the being you know basically
you know a real matt stewart type of guy that is yeah that is me and no nothing no at all
who likes to give but very bad at taking do Do you just call yourself a know-nothing know-it-all?
That's really funny.
Fantastic.
I've locked that in for Andy.
Cass, do you have any thoughts here?
I agree with that because half is very like,
and then snuff is like.
That's a much better explanation than I came up with.
So both locking in the blowhard?
Yes, blowhard.
Fantastic.
All right.
Well, let's go through the answers.
Firstly, we had a wealthy lady who spends all of her allowance on tobacco.
That was written by Cass.
That was a fantastic answer.
It's a beautiful answer.
Thank you.
Do you know, I forgot what snuff is.
Yeah, I think it's a type of snorting tobacco.
Oh, okay. Yeah. I guess.'s a type of snorting tobacco.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
I guessed.
You forgot, but then out of all the things that could have been in the world,
you guessed the correct one, which is amazing.
Is that what you put in a snuff box?
Is that what that's for?
Yeah, that's right.
That's what a snuff film is all about as well? Yeah, it's all about the smoking industry.
Thank you for smoking is a snuff film.
Wow.
Yeah, there you go.
I've never seen it, but I should.
I think that would be thank you for snorting.
It would be, yeah.
Just look, if you just go home and Google snuff movie,
you'll be able to find it, I'm sure.
That's the rest of your night, sort of.
Yeah.
I think by the end of today, it will descend into a snuff movie.
You reckon?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's a long session of podcasting.
So the rattly bit of a rattlesnake was written by the house
I may or may not have been watching an episode of The X-Files
That featured a lot of rattlesnakes last night while writing this
A medicine to snort to help clear your nose when it's blocked
That was also the house
That was a good one
I think that was a really good one
We're looking okay
So no points for the house this round
The farting pump That was a really good one. We're looking okay. So no points for the house this round. The farting pump, that was Andy Matthews.
Meaning the correct answer was a blowhard who likes to bully
but takes offence easily.
Meaning one point for Andy Matthews, one point for Cass Page,
no points for the house.
Yes!
Stop!
Burn this house down!
Run it from the inside.
Get the mites in.
My strategy of questioning the logic of my own answer
in the hope of throwing people off the scent really worked.
Really worked.
Your answer was about throwing people off a scent, right?
That is absolutely correct.
That's what I do.
I was going to clap, but I don't.
No, try.
You know what they say? Throw people off the scent in the streets,
throw people off the scent in the sheets.
That's the one thing where you do the same thing in both scenarios.
Okay, here is question number two.
This one comes from Ash Dickinson from Bradford in West Yorkshire.
The question is, what world record is Thomas Cleaver associated with?
What world record is Thomas Cleaver associated with?
While they're writing their answers, though,
Evan, do you want me to tell you a bit more about Huff Snuff?
Yes.
Well, according to our question writer, Kayla,
this word was tweeted out by Susie Dent,
the linguist who sits in Dictionary Corner on the UK's countdown.
And he works for the Australian countdown.
No, Australian letters and numbers.
She has several books exploring the long and strange history of English words.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines Huff Puff as a conceited fellow who gives himself airs and is quick to take offence.
A braggart, a a Hector which is all I
mean I don't know some of those words well she knows too many words she's forgotten how to talk
mental floss says the idea is that a person is huffing and snuffing in an exaggerated fashion
with their nose in the air outraged by any affront to their precious person I think you you explained
that quite well Cass thank you thank you. The vibes were immaculate.
I really did nothing.
They flowed through me.
You're just a vessel.
Would that be what we would call a snowflake today?
Or is a snowflake has a more political component and more identity-based component?
Yeah, but it is similar, right?
If someone calls you a snowflake, you're probably opinionated or they think you're opinionated,
but you're also a fragile. Overly sensitive. Yeah, that's true. Opinionated like a snowflake, you're probably opinionated or they think you're opinionated, but you also are fragile.
Overly sensitive.
Yeah, that's true.
Opinionated like a snowflake.
I always thought snowflake also had the connotation of the person who is the snowflake assumes
themselves to be quite unique and special. And the person calling them a snowflake thinks
that they would melt at the touch of a hand like a snowflake.
It's actually now come right around. It's a great word. I'm going to start using it. You're special and I want to treat a hand like a snowflake. It's actually now come right around.
It's a great word.
I'm going to start using it.
You're special and I want to treat you with care, snowflake.
That's really nice.
Yeah.
That's not what a huff snuff would do.
You would not have taken that so well.
So your answers are in for question number two.
What world record is Thomas Cleaver associated with?
Here are your five options.
He built the world's largest model tower of pizza
out of a tower of pizza he led the biggest ever drumming circle the most pieces of buttered toast
consumed in five minutes he owned the world's largest horse or an accident on the royal barge in 1753
established him as the most buoyant member of the royal family.
Do you need to hear any of those again?
There was no other way to check that.
You've got to float them all, right?
Yeah, you'd have to.
It's like when you don't know if your eggs are bad.
You have to put aside five minutes in the kitchen.
You're like, okay, well, we should check that out.
Does that mean that everyone in the royal family fell off that boat?
Yeah, I guess so.
Do we really get them?
That's the inciting event from the movie King Ralph.
Is that right?
Is that what happened?
Yeah, I think that is.
Yeah.
Thomas Cleaver was there, but he also was electrocuted,
making way for Ralph to take the throne.
I've forgotten all of those.
Yeah, let's have those again.
I'll go back through them.
He built the world's largest model tower pizza out of a tower of pizza.
That's good.
Just as funny the second time around.
I love it.
I'm really glad we asked for these again.
He led the biggest ever drumming circle.
Still not as funny as you would have hoped it to be given the first one.
We didn't hear the circle.
That's true.
Yeah, it's an audio thing.
The most pieces of buttered toast consumed in five minutes.
He owned the world's largest horse.
Can you ever really own the world's largest horse?
Oh, that's true.
Surely at that point you've just got to say, you know what,
you're in charge.
How big does a horse have to be before you, you know,
the balance has tipped?
I kind of feel like Evan is the living world's largest horse
and we're trying to own him here at Stupid Old Studios,
but can we really?
I mean, legally, yeah.
Absolutely.
You know, spiritually.
I want to know about the horse.
The horse grew.
The horse did the good thing.
Sorry, continue.
I'm sad about the horse.
It's like horse racing, isn't it?
The horse is never interviewed.
It's always the jockeys and the owners.
But it's the horse that did, I'd say, 90, 80, 70% of the work.
You've got to bring that number up.
Up again?
Yeah, I reckon up again.
75?
Yeah.
That's really sad.
But, I mean, horses can't own themselves, Cass.
That's got to be at least 20% of it.
It's an interesting dynamic, isn't it, between the horse and the jockey,
where the horse tries to be as big and strong as possible
and the jockey tries to be as tiny, tiny little thing.
Meek.
Yeah, and that's their work is to become smaller and smaller and smaller
while the horse gets bigger and bigger.
It's sort of quite a toxic relationship, I would say, between the two of them.
Not symbiotic?
No, it's the opposite of that, isn't it?
It is toxic.
You were right. Parasitic almost? No, it's the opposite of that, isn't it? It is toxic. You were right.
Parasitic, almost.
Yeah, parasitic.
The jockey's like a little parasite.
Yeah, although you'd think then that they would swell up like a tick
while the horse got smaller.
I guess it doesn't really make sense.
It's really close to working.
And the final option was an accident on the royal barge in 1753
established him as the most buoyant member of the royal family.
So you've got five fantastic options there.
Did you hear them again?
I mean, once again, I've forgotten what all of them are.
But in terms of things that feel like a record,
I'm going to go with the pizza made of pizza, the pizza pizza.
Pizza pizza.
Fantastic.
Andy's locking in for the pizza.
What was the first one again?
The first one was the pizza.
Then we had the drumming circle, buttered toast, large horse, Fantastic. Andy's looking in for the pizza. What was the first one again? The first one was the pizza.
Then we had the drumming circle, buttered toast, large horse,
or largest horse, and buoyant royal family member.
Cass, I feel really bad.
I don't know.
You might have said the drumming circle thing, and I suggest that wasn't as funny as the first one.
And if it turns out you did do the drumming circle thing,
I feel really bad for even putting out there the idea.
Or maybe if I wrote the drumming circle one as well.
Yeah, maybe if you're reading Matt's feelings.
Don't give a shit about my feelings.
And also, they're not all meant to be funny.
They're meant to be very believable, Andy.
Okay.
Sure.
That'll make for great podcasting.
Yeah, people listen to podcasts for facts and to learn.
I'm definitely going to go for that horse because I want that to be true.
Okay, well, if you're right, you'll get more info on it like you desire.
Yeah.
All right, well, let's go through them.
I'll leave the two guests till last there.
Firstly, the accident on the Royal Barge with the buoyant member
of the Royal Family.
That was Andy Matthews.
A very funny one, Andy.
Thank you. Very funny. That was Andy Matthews. A very funny one, Andy. Thank you.
Very funny.
It's not a competition.
The biggest ever drumming circle.
That was written by the house.
You know, maybe it's not that funny or believable
or maybe it was just making up the numbers
and maybe that's what some people's role in life is.
And as I read it out i'm like
it's drum circle isn't it it's not even drumming so whatever uh the most pieces of buttered toast
consumed in five minutes that was cass twas i yes so that means one of you has the correct answer
here but it was not andy because the pizza tower that was the house the world's largest horse was
correct yeah i'm so excited to learn more about this horse.
What I really want to know is how big is it?
I'll tell you all about that.
How many far laps?
That's harder to say.
I can tell you in hands and I don't really know what that means.
21.5 hands.
Actually, I can tell you.
Seven feet, two inches.
You've got to see photos of this thing.
Now, are we talking to the top of its head or
to its back they measure up to the back i think it's up to the back so the head's even higher
than that and it's just it's so chunky it's like crazy it looks it's like a rhino build on but it's
a horse it's awesome oh that rules i think that we should measure humans in the same way and only
measure them up to the shoulders and then the head is all just bonus because i think that'd be great
when you hear someone's like seven foot or something like that
and you're like picturing all the way up and they come in and that's just to hear and then you've
got the whole head you're like you're looking because you look from the feet up right when you
when a big person you look like like you're panning up like in a in a movie when yeah
it works both ways we use the same gaze it's a very versatile gaze we use it for tall people. I mean, it works both ways. We use the same gaze.
It's a very versatile gaze.
We use it for people who are objectifying
and also people who are just stunned by how tall they are.
Different kind of objectifying.
They should use the same rule for buildings, right?
I'm always-
Up to the shoulders.
I use this language absolutely PO'd when they count in that antenna bit at the top.
The Rialto was topped off by some building with a big, oh, you've got the Foxtel antenna.
Who cares?
That's not the building.
That's not the building.
If I take it off, that's still the building.
If I take the roof off a building, that's iffy on building.
If we're doing that, then we're including people's hairstyles and how tall they are.
Yeah, and we can't be doing that.
Yeah, that's a real unfair advantage.
Every punk wins.
And they've had it for too long, those punks.
It'd be a great loophole if you could get into the NBA
by just having really high hair.
Muggsy Bogues, Mr. Trick.
Well, I mean, he got in anyway.
But he had a shaved head and was the shortest player at the time.
So, you know.
Doubling down, I love that.
He wasn't helping himself up.
Short king.
Short king, thank you.
All right.
Here's question number three. Yes. What happened on the 3rd of September, 2013 in the Maldives that made international news? What happened on the 3rd of September, 2013 in the Maldives that
made international news? While they're writing those answers, Evan, let me tell you about this
horse. This is from Wikipedia. Its name was Samson.son was a shire horse gelding fold in 1846 in toddington mills bedfordshire in england he was
the tallest and heaviest horse ever recorded at 21 and a half hands 2.19 meters tall 7 foot 2 inches
by the time it was four years old imagine like that's tall for a four-year-old as well i know
horses do age differently but imagine a child who's that tall that makes you think doesn't it oh yeah uh he's about squid game
it makes you think about squid game although the the doll thing that was very tall and right
i thought maybe that your um mind was just wondering
uh his peak weight was estimated at 3,360 pounds.
Wow.
That's 1,524 kilos.
Here's a less fun fact.
He was gelded at approximately one and a half years old.
What does gelding mean?
That's an interesting thing that with a lot of animals,
if you do cut off their testicles, they grow bigger.
Oh, I didn't realise that.
Yeah, yeah.
Remember that huge cow?
Remember when there was that really big cow and that picture of that really big cow and
everyone got excited about how big the cow was compared to all the other cows?
Remember this?
It went viral on Twitter.
It was a great cow.
And then there were some people who were like, the cow's not really that big.
And you're like, just come on, don't take this away from us.
Yeah.
But they were like, it's only because it's been castrated or something like that.
And you're like, well, that's fine.
And it's a perspective trick.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah. Why do they keep giving me-
They've got a jockey standing next to it.
All the names for lop and off bits are fancy.
I hate it.
I hate hearing about like, ah, gelding, castration.
You're like, oh, beautiful name for a girl.
No, awful.
Is cast short for castration?
Castration Page.
That's a fantastic name.
Oh, I want to be a wrestler.
But yeah, I find it strange because they're making it a gelding.
I guess that's why it got bigger because it means it can't breed, right?
Wouldn't you want the biggest horse?
I feel like that would be a selling point as a horse breeder.
You want to get the
offspring of this big horse it's a real catch-22 that is a catch-22 isn't it but you know isn't
it in almost 200 years there hasn't been a bigger horse that is amazing that's crazy right people
would have tried they would have tried the gelding method it just didn't work oh that's like the
golden goose thing yes it is like the golden goose thing.
Poor goose.
Here is question number three.
What happened on the 3rd of September 2013 in the Maldives that made international news?
Am I saying Maldives right, by the way?
Don't know.
I've heard Maldives.
Maldives.
I thought it was wrong.
Maldives.
Let's say that.
I don't know if I'm right.
But I feel like it's a Caribbean, Caribbean thing. I don't know if I'm right. But I feel like it's a Caribbean, Caribbean thing.
I don't know which is the right.
Split the difference.
Maldivis.
Oh, Maldivis.
Maldivis.
Maldivis.
All right, here are your options.
Controversy erupted after the man claiming to have the world's biggest ball of belly button lint
was caught supplementing it from his tumble dryer.
A species of talking stingray was discovered.
The football team lost the match to Brazil 69 to nil.
A sinkhole opened and swallowed a small hotel
or a coconut was arrested on suspicion of vote rigging.
So we've got five.
One of these is a real thing that happened.
I love those questions that are like,
so you've got controversy over the cheating belly button lint,
world record holder, talking stingray discovered,
football team lost to Brazil 69-0, sinkhole opened
and swallowed a small hotel, or a coconut was arrested on suspicion of vote rigging.
Wow.
I mean, I want them all to be true.
They're all my favourite.
Big day of news.
Yeah.
Look, I'm trying to go a bit meta here.
I'm trying to think what kind of news was I into in 2013?
What would I have heard about?
What was the belly button lint one?
I feel like I would have known about that.
Yeah.
I have,
I have some Google alerts set up.
Yeah.
I know what's happening.
Yeah.
So the first,
that was controversy erupted after a man claiming to have the world's
biggest ball of belly button lint was caught supplementing it from his
tumble dryer.
I mean,
that's the worst thing you can do,
isn't it?
It'd be like,
it'd be like in,
you know,
that drug cheat sort of thing where they actually you know often will have somebody else's
urine in a in a sachet and then a fake penis he probably had some sort of prosthetic belly button
yes in one of those the piss world record yeah that happened did you see that in the news recently
that uh a guy won a lot of fishing competitions was busted with like planting fish
in and then catching them out again.
But he also cut them open and had lead weights in them.
Oh.
What?
And he, yeah.
So we were like apparently been cheating for a while.
But there's this video of this guy just pulling the lead out going,
what do you have to say for yourself?
We trusted you.
You're making a mockery of the entire idea of competitive fishing,
our sacred sport.
That's so funny.
What about all the kids watching today looking up to you and saying,
Dad, I want to be that guy.
Daddy, Daddy, where can I find some lead wakes so I can be like my hero?
Oh, it's already happening.
Where can I find some lead wakes so I can be like my hero?
Oh, it's already happening.
So you've got the lint ball, talking stingray.
What kind of lint ball? The football flogging, the sinkhole hotel,
or the vote-ringing coconut.
That talking stingray, the real sting,
is in his backhanded compliments.
So you've got to stay clear of those because they'll really get you.
I firstly adore that two of the answers revolve around things
that can't speak having a voice.
Yep.
I'm going to go with the coconut.
Fantastic.
I want to say that the coconut got arrested for vote rigging.
And in this case, its voice was only like in a sort of a voice
to parliament style.
Yeah, yeah, a voice to parliament.
It was enfranchised. His voice was only like in a sort of a voice to parliament style. Yeah, yeah, a voice to parliament. Represented.
It was enfranchised.
Let's see.
I can't remember any of them.
And so I'm going to go with the third one.
Okay.
That was the football match.
Yes.
69 to nil.
Correct.
All right.
Here are the answers.
Controversy erupting Over a man claiming
To have the world's
Biggest ball of
Belly button lint
That was Andy Matthews
That was good
Thank you
Very believable
I'd say
More believable
Than
Species of talking
Stingray was discovered
Which was written
By the house
Cass wrote A sinkhole opened and swallowed a small hotel.
Football team lost a match to Brazil 69-0.
That was also the house.
Nice.
So I'll point to the house there, meaning Cass was right.
A co-cut was arrested on suspicion of vote-raising.
Yes!
That was one that I instantly was like, well, that is so stupid.
It's obviously not that.
That's not going to be it.
And I think less of whoever wrote it.
But it was reality and now I think less of reality.
Fair enough.
That's right.
So was it one of those things where it looked like someone had done voter fraud
and then they tried to arrest the person and it turns out that person was a coconut?
It's sort of more baffling than
that um it's tricky because i explain these things when you're not concentrating you're
writing it's one of the real faults of this show so far but they'll never know they'll never be
able to know no no this is all just a ruse to get you to listen to the podcast giving me
one extra download or two oh yeah you yeah. You're doubling what you.
That's very clever.
Sucked in.
Evan, I just shared with you a thing that has the scores on it if you want to give us
a score update in a second.
Sure.
Before we get to that, Andy and Cass, here's question number four.
Yes.
This one comes from Ryan Wells from Colorado in the USA.
Great names.
What is the nickname for Eddie Stanky,
a baseballer in the 40s and 50s in America?
Pro baseballer, Eddie Stanky.
What was his best-known nickname?
He had a few.
What was his main nickname?
Evan, do you want to give us a score update?
So Andy is on two points if I was to read this correctly.
No, one point because I'm reading it incorrectly. And Cass is on two points if I was to read this correctly. No, one point because I'm reading it incorrectly.
And Cass is on three points and the house is on two points.
That's right.
In future I'll read that in like an ascending.
Yeah.
I'm new to this.
That's right.
So Andy on one, house on two, Cass on three.
Anyone's game at the halfway mark here.
That's true, but less Andy's game.
Yeah, it was a little less Andy's game, but it's still anyone's game.
He could get two points in this round alone.
What?
He can get two points in any round.
Oh, he can, he can, yeah.
So he could jump to the equal lead in just one round.
Yeah.
So while they're writing their answers, here's some more information
about that coconut from a Guardian article written about the incident.
Yes.
In 2013.
A coconut has been detained by Maldivian police on suspicion of vote rigging in a key presidential
election.
The coconut, described as young, is found near a school that will be used as a polling
station on Saturday.
Though the population of the Maldives is Sunni Muslim, continuing belief in magic is widespread
in rural areas.
Coconuts are often used in rituals and inscribed
with spells. The local
minivan news website reported
that police took the coconut into their possession
around 7.05am on
Tuesday after they received a
complaint about the suspicious fruit near the
school. A magician summoned
by police established that the coconut was
innocent and local officials have said no arrests have been made.
An innocent young coconut.
I thought the whole point was that it had been arrested.
No arrests have been made.
I mean.
It was just taken into custody?
Wasn't that the thing?
A coconut was arrested.
No arrests have been made.
All right.
You found a little flaw there.
Okay.
So we're deducting Cass's points.
Brought into custody, Andy.
I see what you've done there.
You found a...
So you mean he was arrested but not jailed?
I think you can bring a coconut into custody without arresting it perhaps.
Sure, coconut and custard, delicious.
I don't know Maldivian rules and regulations around that,
but does that sound fair that you can bring someone into custody
without arresting them?
I thought that was being arrested.
I don't know. I mean, I think you can invite them down to the arresting them? I thought that was being arrested. I don't know.
I mean, I think you can invite them down to the station
to help you with your inquiries.
But if you're bringing them into custody, I think they've been arrested.
And then there's the additional thing of whether or not they've been charged.
But I actually did follow this case at the time
and I hear that there was 17 hours of interrogation.
He still didn't crack.
All right.
So your answers are in for the question,
what was the nickname for baseball Eddie Stanky?
I like how Andy, you felt you were deflated before you even said it.
You had to touch someone to get through that.
No, I needed support.
You were using it.
It's a difficult time like this.
You've got to have people around you.
You've got to lean on those nearby because it's not easy.
Here are your options for what was baseball Eddie Stanky's nickname?
Pongos.
The San Fran Stench.
Yeah. Theongos. The San Fran stench. Yeah.
The brat.
Public zirconium.
Zirconium.
Sorry.
Let's go again.
Pubic zirconium.
Or take it to the banky stanky.
That's a longer one. That is a long nickname. G'day, take it to the banky stanky. That's a longer one.
That is a long nickname.
Could I take it to the bankies, Janky?
It's really funny.
So you got Pongos, San Fran Stench, The Brat, Pubic Zirconium,
or take it to the bankies, Stanky.
Do you have any more information about Pubic Zirconium?
Yeah. Can we get moreirconium? Yeah.
Can we get more intel on that?
Yeah, I do.
So I think he got that nickname thanks to his bejeweled protective box
he was known to wear.
Ah, okay.
So that was why he was known as pubic zirconium.
Uh-huh.
All right.
Like a cup.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Pongos was because of- Stank. Because of stanky. Same a cup. Yeah. Pongos was because of.
Stank.
Because of stanky.
Same as the stench.
The brat, he was a very bratty player.
And Banky, take it to the Banky, was just a very reliable home run hitter.
I don't think it's going to be the brat because I think then they'd call him
like the brat with the bat or something like that.
And like it feels like it's a missed opportunity.
But remember it was 40s or 50s.
Yeah, that's like pretty cutting.
They didn't have – like back then, they didn't have – they couldn't afford it.
Great Depression was only recent.
There was a word economy in place.
You're paying by the letter.
Yeah, I think you've got to – instead of being like, oh, here comes the brat,
it's like, here comes the brat.
I'm sure.
I'm actually pretty sold on brat.
I've sold myself.
I mean, yeah, there's a lot of stink-based ones.
I'm going to go with the San Fran stench.
What's that?
San Fran stench.
Yeah.
I'll lock that in for Andy.
Cass, what are you thinking?
I reckon I am going to go the brat because I can just imagine a commentator being like,
here comes the brat. because it's snappy the other ones are a bit long i've locked it in but can you do the same not to change your mind we can do the same for pongos all right here comes
pongo yeah it works pongos oh it does yeah could you say take it to the banky stanky that voice
take it to the banky stanky but now voice? Take it to the banky stanky.
Now it's starting to sound like a bank robber or something, isn't it?
I can picture that guy wearing a pinstripe suit.
That would be take it from the banky stanky.
Take it from the banky stanky.
He's a very inefficient bank robber.
They call me the depositor.
His calling card is $1,000.
Oh, God, we've been robbed.
How do you know?
Look.
I'll be eating for weeks.
That is, okay, that is the joke of the episode.
And there you go, congratulations.
So, doesn't normally get called this early, Cass.
Well done.
Okay, so take it to the banky, Stanky, that was written by the house.
That's good.
Pongos, also written by the house.
Oh, my goodness.
Pubic Zirconium was written by Andy,
and I apologise for the butchering in the telling, Andy.
No, that's okay.
It was not meant to be.
And then I also apologise for the very clunky way
in which I tried to get you to read the extra information
I'd submitted with my joke,
which you cut out for no reason as far as I can tell.
Probably would have been funnier if I hadn't had to force it in there.
I thought it was going to give you a chance of it being picked
because it would have stood out as being the only one that explained itself.
And when you stuffed up the pronunciation,
did you also think that was going to give me a chance of being picked?
I thought I was punching it up on the run.
Yeah, wow.
Sometimes I just naturally mispronounce things in a way that helps.
Does your run feel punched up?
Yeah, actually it did.
Okay, good.
Maybe, I mean, should I be offering you some sort of a concession point there?
Yeah.
Evan, what do you think?
Concession point for the butchering there?
All right.
Thank you.
So one point to Andy there for me.
I'm not above taking these sort of pity things.
I'll do anything.
So what have I explained so far?
I've forgotten.
We've got Pongos.
That was the house.
We've got Take it to the Banky Stanky.
That was the house.
Pubic Zirconium was Andy.
The San Fran Stench, which Andy picked.
That was Cass.
It was me.
The brat was correct.
Double points for Cass. It was me. The brat was correct. Really?
Double points for Cass.
This is devastating.
Two points for Cass, one point for Andy, no points for the house.
I'm going to take those to the bankie.
Thank you.
Evan, do you want to give us a quick score update?
I do.
So we have Andy on two points.
Let's not talk about the scores thing it's
it's slowing down the show no it's crucial to the show oh um and then we have the house on on two
points and then in the lead we have cass on five oh my god it is anybody's game anybody's game with
three rounds to go all right here's question number five. What song by country singers L.E. White and Lola Jean Dillon
charted at number 90 on the US country charts in 1977?
Gee, that's an obscure one.
So we're doing the name of the song?
How many country songs have you got into the top 90 on the charts?
None at all.
None.
Well, maybe once you you do then you can call
things obscure okay thank you so the song was by ellie white and lola jean dylan charted number 90
on the u.s country charts in 1977 while you're writing down your answers here's a bit more
information on eddie stanky aka the brat have you heard of eddie stanky ev aka The Brat. Have you heard of Eddie Stanky, Evan? No. No, neither had I.
But he was born Edward Raymond Stankiewicz on September the 3rd, 1915 to Frank and Anna Stankiewicz.
In his childhood years in the blue-collar Philadelphia neighborhood of Kensington,
Eddie developed the belligerent, enthusiastic, win-at-all-costs attitude that would make him so successful and reviled later in life.
Brooklyn fans adored him. He was given nickname upon
nickname, including Stinky and Mugsy. However, the most famous nickname, the one that stuck with him,
was The Brat, a reference to the snarling, clamorous, hot-headed edge to Stanky that came
out in moments of high emotion and tension. According to our question writer, Ryan,
one of his most famous moments was when he once started a fight during a game by standing behind the pitcher
and doing jumping jacks.
It rolled the other team up so much that a fight
broke out and police had to come and break it up.
What? That's such an escalation.
Like anytime I feel like I hear about
old timey things, 40s is old timey,
you're like, he called the
brat, it's what a nickname, blah blah blah,
and it's like, ah, he's doing jumping jacks. Then they had
a punch on. Yeah, because they're doing jumping jacks. Then they had a punch on. Yeah.
Because he's doing jumping jacks.
They're just like us.
I guess it was because he was sort of putting off the batter.
But yeah, that feels like it's an overreaction.
It does feel like an overreaction.
Maybe the escalating things have just gotten more intense.
Can I resubmit mine?
Can I just add something?
Do we have time?
We have time.
Yeah.
Okay.
I'm just going to add a couple of keywords.
You want to tell me what your nickname was
when you played baseball while we're just waiting for this edit?
When I was playing baseball, they called me the shitter hitter
because I was really good at pitching but couldn't hit for shit.
Right.
I would have called you Castration Page.
Oh, that's my wrestling nickname.
When I get into the ring, I'm Castration Paige.
I wonder why that hasn't happened yet.
There's been different, you know, hybrid sports.
What about wrestling baseball?
Wrestle ball.
Okay.
Okay.
So it is just wrestling with a bat.
I like that.
I'd watch that.
Home run is when you kill them.
Yeah.
And instead of a ring, it's a diamond.
So you just sort of tilt it.
Oh, that'll be good.
Tilt it on an angle.
Because, you know, when they jump off the corners,
that can be like, you know, you make it to first base,
you have to jump off onto your opponent.
Yes.
You've got to touch base.
Yeah, and three taps, you're out.
I think the idea of a sport where the bases are constantly moving,
maybe they're played by tortoises or something like that.
It would be very exciting.
They have the numbers on them, but they're constantly being randomized
by crawling around the field.
That's awesome.
Yeah.
All right, question five.
What song by Ellie White and Lola Jean Dillon charted at number 90
on the US country charts in 1977?
Here are your options.
I don't mind you leaving.
I just wish you'd leave my heart, kidneys and spleen.
Open bracket.
The involuntary organ donor's lament.
Close bracket.
That's option one.
Option two.
Boop, boop, boop, boop, da-doop.
Then you've got, you're the reason our kids are ugly.
then you've got you're the reason our kids are ugly dancing on my old man's grave or finally I've got my boots on my feet whiskey in my glass and 125,000 dollars owing to the IRS open bracket
please buy this record I'm in a lot of trouble Closed record Okay so
That's a lot of
That's Alyssa Cries for Help
Yeah
Yeah
Yes
And I think
I'm a big fan of
The country music's
Penchant
For the open and closed bracket
In the song title
Some supplementary information
Yes
Sometimes you need it
Yeah yeah
Now I could put this in the song, but I think
you need to know this up front.
Do you need to hear those again?
Yeah. So, we've got
I don't mind you leaving. I just wish
you'd leave my heart, kidneys and spleen.
The involuntary organ donor's lament.
Boop, boop, boop, boop.
Da-doop. You're the
reason our kids are ugly.
Dancing on my old man's grave. or I've got boots on my feet,
whiskey in my glass and $125,000 owing to the IRS.
Please buy this record.
I'm in a lot of trouble.
Five great answers.
I've got to say I love the song.
I love the title.
You're the reason my kids are ugly.
I want that to be correct.
Locking it in?
Yeah, let's lock it in, please.
Matt Stewart.
Cass, what are your thoughts?
Talk us through.
Have you got any theories here?
Can you rule any out straight away?
You're a big country fan.
I love the cunch, as Ben Russell would say.
I'm really loving boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop.
It's not a common-
Is that the one that Andy went back and added words to?
Yeah.
He initially wrote boop boop boop.
But he's like.
Does it,
does it seem like the kind of title that has one or two extra boops?
They're not going to go for it.
They're going to think it's jazz.
Big fan of that.
It's not,
it's not a classic of country.
I can't imagine a boop or a dupe in a country song.
It's more of a shoe, but I can't imagine a boop or a dupe in a country song. It's more of a shoe.
A shoe?
Yeah, like a shoe.
Okay.
That sounded different in my head.
I'm going to go for the boopies.
Locking in the boops.
I'm going to go for the boops because it charted at number 90,
so it didn't do amazing.
Yes.
Not a good country song.
No, but it was catchy enough.
And if I'm thinking of catchy enough to get on the charts,
I'm thinking Boop.
All right.
Well, here are the answers.
I've got boots on my feet, whiskey in my glass,
and $125,000 owing to the IRS.
That was The House.
Dancing on my old man's grave.
That was Cass.
I don't mind you leaving.
I just wish you'd leave my heart, kidneys, and spleen.
That was Andy.
If I believe it. is that a real song?
You know country music as well.
Have you based that on a real one?
Well, having listened to Who Knew It with Matt Stewart,
big fan of the show, I'd noticed the penchant for the brackets
because you had a brackets thing before and I wanted to play in that space.
And I originally just had I Wish You'd Leave My Heart
and I thought, oh, that's a bit too straight.
Like that could almost be the name of a song.
And then so I added.
I guess that's kind of the point though, isn't it?
You sort of want people to think that it could be the name of the song.
I kind of shot myself in the foot there, didn't I?
I added in the spleen and the kidneys.
There's two ways I think you can win on this show,
either the point or a laugh.
Didn't really get either with that one, though, did I?
And I get it every week we've played so far.
You don't tick either box.
Okay, so that leaves the two final answers.
One of you is correct.
Unfortunately, it's not Cass.
Boop, boop, boop, boop, da-doop was the house.
Yes!
The correct answer was you're the Reason Our Kids Are Ugly.
Yes.
It's a great name.
She deserved to chart higher.
It was covered the next year by Loretta Lynn
and I think maybe it was on a bigger album.
Can I add that to my Spotify?
I think you should.
We should start building a –
Can you make a playlist? I think we should do We should start building a- Can you make a playlist?
Because there was a song that Matt had in a previous episode,
Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette.
Great.
With an exclamation after every word too, which is fun.
Loretta Lynn passed away just this week.
Oh, did she really?
I believe so, yeah.
Anyway, I thought that would get a laugh as well.
I'm not doing well.
Evan, are you happy to do a score check here?
Because things are just tightened up that round.
I can do it because I've got it in front of me.
I'm just trying to give you something to do.
No, no, no.
I have it in front of me as well.
Something to do, do, do, do, ba-doop.
It is tightening up.
So at the bottom we have Andy, but also the house.
Ooh.
With three points apiece. And then Cass still in the lead at five but no movement there.
And that means that either the house or Andy could jump
into the equal lead in one single round.
So two questions left to go here.
Here's question number six.
This one comes from Brian Nichols from Melbourne.
His question is is which of
these is a real species of spider okay so you've just basically got to give us a fake spider name
and while you're writing out those answers evan let me tell you a little bit more about the
songwriter of you're the reason our kids are ugly le what uh he was a an american grammy award
winning songwriter singer singer and musician.
Some of his other songs included I Love You More Today,
I'm Not Through Loving You Yet and Jimmy Gets a Gun for Christmas.
Okay.
How did that song end?
I don't know.
I mean, and for Christmas was in brackets there as well.
Doesn't seem like a happy family, does it?
Is he depressed because his dad thinks he's ugly?
Oh, yeah. Do you think all of his songs are autobiographical i'm assuming maybe it's like you're the reason our
kids are ugly i wish i didn't love you so much i bought our son a gun let's just see what happens
uh let's see the font the first line is oh hang on. That's a different song.
I found a different song that's called All I Want for Christmas,
and it starts,
All I want for Christmas is my Glock with the extension bow bow.
But that's a different song, so don't worry about it.
America is a healthy country.
There's a lot of songs about getting a gun for Christmas.
We should write our own.
Add to the genre.
Sure.
I saw mummy shooting Santa Claus.us oh that's beautiful uh here is
question number six which of these is a real species of monkey spider
i mean it's gonna be really interesting if you read the question wrong or if you are now if you
just made the mistake now?
Because- That's going to-
I've got in my head it's all about monkeys, you know.
I see spider.
Is this a monkey?
The web-slinged tarantula.
The two-fanged foot boy.
All right.
Here is question six.
Which of these is a real species of spider?
Double-headed singing spider?
Curly finch muncher?
The bird dung crab spider?
Dancing trapeze spider?
Or the iridescent spangled bum bum spider?
Geez, they're all in the same sort of world, aren't they?
Yeah, yeah, just a bunch of words, isn't it?
They let you say anything in the encyclopedias.
Yeah, they're all- The one place a man could truly be free.
All right, once again, double-headed singing spider.
That's not true.
Curly finch muncher, bird dung crab spider,
dancing trapeze spider, or the iridescent spangled bum bum spider?
Mm-hmm. I want to be an iridescent spangled bum bum spider?
I want to be an iridescent bum bum, I think.
I like your strategy is usually I want this to be true or I want to be this thing.
It's just like you're inserting yourself in.
I want to be a vote-rigging coconut.
What if I could affect a government? And I'm not having a go at all because coconut. Would that I could affect a government.
And I'm not having a go at all because your strategy has you two points in the lead.
It's all vibes, baby.
Is that the one you want to lock in?
No, I think the dancing trapeze spider because I think it would be very beautiful to watch a dancing trapeze spider move through the world.
Because I imagine the way that it would swing a web would be really nice.
And you know how sometimes those spiders do a little jiggle for their mates?
That just seems nice.
Or we'll lock in the dancing trapeze spider.
I'm going to go with the bird dung spider because I imagine there is a spider
that sort of disguises itself by looking like a little bit of bird dung
and maybe leaps on crabs.
What's the crab part of that then?
Hadn't thought about that bit, but you know what?
Why not? Why not chuck it
in there? Maybe it describes itself as a
crab that's been shat on.
Yeah, exactly. That's a low
status, non-threatening kind of thing.
Any bird's going to look at me like,
I don't want that. Even if I get the poo
off, I'm going to have to get inside the hole.
It's going to be a thing.
Yeah, crabs are hard to wait.
Who doesn't say bird dung?
You say bird poo or something, you don't say bird dung, do you? Dung. Who doesn't say bird dung? You say bird poo or something.
You don't say bird dung.
I think dung is the more science.
You're a man of science, Andy.
Is dung the more science than poo?
Yeah, that's correct.
Yeah, that's why I chose it.
Okay.
It's a scientific term.
Andy, I don't know if we've ever, in all the podcasts and things we've done together
and the life events we've shared, I've never asked you what kind of scientists are you?
I always introduced you as some sort of scientist
I could have just asked you
I'd like to keep the mystery alive
I don't want to break your heart
Might be one of the sciences you don't believe in
Vaccines
Wait
So
The answers are
Double headed singing spider
That was the house
The curly finch m spider. That was the house.
The curly finch muncher.
That was Cass.
The iridescent spangled bum bum spider, which Cass wanted to be.
That was Andy.
I felt so excited for a moment there.
I was on a fast train to victory.
Spangled.
Spangled.
Oh, I love that word.
The dancing trapeze spider that Cass went for That was the house
Meaning Andy was correct
It was the bird dung crab spider
So again that is one point to Andy
Does that mean we have
Is there another round?
There's one final round
Wow
And it's truly
It is
Anyone's game from here
Before I tell you a bit more about the bird dung crab spider,
here is your final question.
This one comes from Jim Bates in Sackets Harbour, New York.
And we always finish with normally a movie synopsis,
but this week we're doing a failed 1990 TV pilot.
So you've got to tell us what this show was about.
What was this pilot about?
The show title was Puchinski.
How do we spell Puchinski?
P-O-O-C-H-I-N-S-K-I, Puchinski.
Did we know what year it was?
1990.
1990, okay.
A failed TV pilot.
Yeah, okay.
All right, so while they're writing these up,
normally obviously a little bit more time is required to write these.
Evan, do you want to hear a bit about the bird dung crab spider?
Yes.
Oh, thank God.
According to newscientist.com,
this spider has gone to town in making itself look like crap.
Literally.
Beautifully written already.
Loving this article.
Bird dung crab spiders spend a lot of time sitting motionlessly on leaves of plants
waiting to attract insects such as flies for dinner all right so that's basically looking
like crap trying to and then a fly comes in and then just eats the fly don't have to worry about
making a web just the flies will just come to you yeah most other creatures out in the open would be
like sitting ducks but these spiders have a trick up their sleeves.
They mimic bird droppings not only in colour, shape and size,
also in smell.
What?
And that deceives predators.
When they draw their legs close to their body and stop moving,
the masquerade is complete.
Amazing.
Isn't nature beautiful?
So beautiful.
Joseph Ko of the Lee Kong Chan Natural History Museum in Singapore said,
birds, almost all with good eyesight,
will not go for what appears to be their own turd for food.
And that makes sense.
Why would a bird go to eat its own turd?
You're unlucky if you're pretending to be bird crap
and you just happen to be near a bird that likes eating its own crap.
One of those cop profile freaks.
Nature is mysterious.
Nature is beautiful.
But it does also throw up the occasional bird that likes to eat its own shit.
Yeah.
I mean, yeah.
And the flip side is occasionally you're reincarnated as a spider that looks and smells like bird shit.
So, I mean, you know, it's not all good.
Apparently most spiders can't make themselves smell like things.
This is quite a unique trait that it and other spiders related to it can do.
Who's going around sniffing spiders?
Not me, that's for sure.
I don't know why you're even asking that question.
It's actually weird.
Why are you bringing that up?
It's so strange, Evan.
All our answers are in, I believe.
Yes, yes.
So here is your question once more.
What was the plot of the failed 1990 TV pilot Puchinski?
Here are your five options.
Okay.
Remembering the scores.
Did we get a score update?
Yeah, we did. We've had several. It's been one of Okay. Remembering the scores. Did we get a score update? Yeah, we did.
Yeah, we've had several.
It's been one of the major features of the show.
Evan, can I just quickly check in before we go?
Right now, equal bottom, we have Andy and the house with four points.
And Cass, just a little bit higher at five points.
Could be anybody.
It's anyone's game.
I feel like you're selling it negatively.
Andy and the house are in second place, not bottom.
Okay.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, no, all right.
All right.
So what is the plot of TV pilot Pudzinski?
A talking dog who becomes a radiotherapist.
The show failed because it premiered the exact same day
as the more plausible Frasier.
Brutal.
That is so unlucky.
I can't believe how unlucky that is.
Oh, no.
It's the same.
What are the odds of that?
That is horrible luck.
And its theme song was also about tossed salad and scrambled eggs.
What?
Oh, no.
They put so much effort into it.
Yeah, it was really hard to get the dog to look like it was talking.
The microphone was made out of beef.
Anyway, that could be the correct answer.
Could be, yeah.
You're right, Matt.
I was so close to the end.
So that's option one.
Option two.
Stanley Puchinski is a detective
who after being killed in the line of duty
possesses a nearby canine and continues to solve crimes.
Struggling ventriloquist Puchinski returns to his hometown
after his dummy is destroyed in a fire at the comedy club.
He reunites with his family and old friends
as he tries to find a new act.
Mark Puchinski is a single man struggling to find love,
even though he's the only male resident of his apartment building.
That's brutal.
Well, the janitor's closet at Belmont High School is a time-travelling portal,
meaning Mr Pachinski is able to give his history class a close look at their subjects.
It also means the janitor, Doug, often ends up confused.
So you've got five good options.
Do you need to hear them again or are you sort of in there?
I'd especially like to hear one of them again.
Could you just read it verbatim?
I'll go bottom up.
So we've got the janitor's closet that's a time travel portal.
We've got the single man struggling to find love,
even though he's the only man in his building.
It could be like the rest of the building could be chimpanzees
or something he doesn't say.
Struggling ventriloquist Puchinski returns to his hometown
after his dummy is destroyed.
Stanley Puchinski is a detective who, after being killed in the line of duty,
possesses a nearby canine continuing to solve crimes
Or a talking dog who becomes a radio therapist
The show failed because it premiered the exact same day
As the more plausible Frasier
It is more plausible but does that make it better?
Is the best TV the most plausible TV?
What's it like in the universe where that one succeeded?
I bet things are great over there.
I want to be there.
If the janitor's closet could take me to that dimension,
I would jump in.
Yes, please.
Yes, please for me.
What do we think here?
I mean, I think it's really interesting.
Imagine who Niall would have been in that universe.
Another dog?
Surely, right?
Or a cat.
I mean, that would have been a real – because they had that dynamic, didn't they?
They did.
They had a real cat and dog dynamic.
I mean, I'm intrigued by the ventriloquist dummy one,
the idea that if your dummy is destroyed in a fire,
you can't just get another dummy.
You've got to go back to your hometown and rebuild your entire life.
But that one.
It'd be like the death of a friend.
Pachinski also, I mean, when I first heard you say this,
I thought it was a violinist.
And I was like, that makes sense because a violinist, Pachinski,
that sounds like someone.
I'm amazed none of the answers are about a musical composer.
So I'm going to go with the one about the dog possesses the body
of a nearby dog.
I also possess a nearby dog.
Oh.
That's just an ownership set up.
When you said the one about the dog, my mind went to Frasier.
Yeah, of course.
But you meant the other one about the dog.
Okay.
And Cass, what are you thinking?
Well, there's just been such a nice talk about how plausibility
versus I'm going with the radio one.
You're going with the radio one?
Okay.
And in your mind you're thinking, I put this quiz together,
I'm familiar with the correct answer, and it just hit me then,
which can happen, and it has before.
No, in my mind, that is what deserves my point.
Okay.
I like to think that Matt writes these in a completely like fugue state
where his eyes become completely black and he types furiously
and then comes to like seconds before the podcast begins.
It has happened before where one of my own has broken me.
Yeah.
And maybe that happened again today.
We'll see.
All right.
So answers are locked in? Yes. Happy with your answers? Because this decides it all. It's all dog. Okay. Well happened again today. We'll see. All right. So answers are locked in?
Yes.
Happy with your answers?
Because this decides it all.
It's all dog.
Okay.
Well, let's go through the answers.
The janitor's closet, that was written by the house.
Ooh.
I just lost the idea.
There was a bit too much information about the janitor.
The B-plot, I thought every episode the B-plot is the janitor's like,
I was just trying to get a mop.
And now I'm in.
That every episode.
Wow.
Every episode.
Well, it's a failed pilot.
Yeah, that's right. Yeah, it's a failed pilot.
Yeah, it didn't work.
The single man struggling to find love.
That was also the house.
Meaning the house can't win.
Oh, thank God.
It's out of Andy and Cass.
It's a happy ending, whatever happens.
The struggling ventriloquist.
That was Cass.
So the correct answer is one of the dog ones.
One of you two is correct here.
Unfortunately, it is not you, Cass.
It is Andy.
Stanley Puchinski is a detective who, after being killed in the line of duty,
possesses a nearby canine and continues to solve crimes.
This was a failed pilot.
And you know who was the actor? The dad
from Everybody Loves Raymond.
Not Raymond, his dad.
I guess Raymond's also the dad from Everybody Loves Raymond.
And he played the dog? Yeah, he played the guy
getting killed in the first episode and then I guess
the plan was that he was going to voice the dog.
Wait, was the first episode just a death?
He looks at himself in a mirror and it's still
that guy down on all fours, naked.
Maybe?
Maybe? They do that a lot in these kinds of shows we don't know what what it was in particular that stopped it from succeeding
but i imagine the side of him there looking at his own reflection you could see his penis dangling
down just below his head like a sad tale yeah yeah unless of, it had been Cass Page. Ah, yes, sure.
Evan, well, can we get a final score here?
There was a bit of movement there.
Okay, so in third place, we have The House,
which is a great effort on The House's part.
Well done.
In second place, we have Cass Page.
She was leading all game long.
Which means a late win from Andy Matthews.
Andy.
Six points.
Well done.
I'm insanely happy.
I am disgustingly pleased with myself.
Because not only did I win, as we all know now.
As we all know.
I also got that really big laugh at the end from Matt.
So I won twice.
You've done very well.
Thank you.
He came from the clouds there, Andy.
Mate.
Oh, and I've just remembered we gave you a pity point at the start. Yeah, done very well. Thank you. He came from the clouds there, Andy. Mate. Oh, and I've just remembered, we gave you a pity point at the start.
Yeah, that's right.
You won by your pity point.
Yeah, that's right.
I forgot about that.
Take it.
Oh, well.
Just before we finish up.
Dignity, always dignity.
This is from the Wikipedia page for the show.
It says, the story follows Chicago police detective Stanley Pucci,
played by Peter Boyle,
whose spirit is transferred into a flatulent
English bulldog
after he is killed
in the line of duty.
The canine detective
then returns
to solving crimes.
NBC did not pick up
the series,
but subsequently
did air the pilot
on June the 9th, 1990.
In recent years...
The same day as Frasier.
In recent years,
the show's premise
has been recognised as one of the most bizarre in television historyier. In recent years, the show's premise has been recognised
as one of the most bizarre in television history.
But then that's also the premise of the very popular kids' book series,
Dog Man.
It's a series of books about a policeman who comes back as a dog
and it's really, really popular.
Oh, right.
There you go.
Yeah.
Was Raymond's dad involved?
He was, yeah.
Ah, Frank.
Thanks so much for joining us, Cass and Andy.
Where can people find you?
Online.
I'm at CassCassPage on everything.
I've got a few podcasts out at the moment.
One's called Shut Up a Second.
One's D&D is for Nerds.
And we've just dropped Being Hot is Hard, which is exceptionally fun.
It's a really great podcast.
I learned a lot and I laughed a lot when I listened to it.
And you can find me at StupidOldAndy.
You can buy my book, Gustav and Henry.
How many dogs?
From all sorts of different – one, one dog.
Yeah, Henry's a dog.
How many dead cops?
Thousands.
Yeah, we've been actually – the police union's actually got some –
they don't like us at all.
And Evan, where can people find you?
I make a show called Gamey Gamey Game on YouTube so you can go check that out
Andy I don't have a sign off yet
I'll say goodbye and then you
want to do some sort of sign off
thanks so much to Cass, Andy and Evan for
joining us and Andy as we always say here
and that's how you do it with Matt Stewart
oh that's pretty good
that was a good one
thanks That's a good one. Thanks.
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