Fast Food History and Final Trivia

This is Tangents My name is Scott Englemeyer. I'm a government affairs manager from Shawnee, Kansas. My categories are National Parks, US States, and seventies TV What can you recommend We watched the Netflix miniseries Death by Lightning about President Garfield. I really enjoyed that. In fact, I enjoyed that so much that I wanted to go out and get the book. Really do. And the book that it's based on is called Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard in kind of an extra bonus at least for me is that I found out she's a Kansas City author she's local. So I really recommend that book. The miniseries was excellent and the book fills in some of the gaps that makes it even better. Yeah, really, really good stuff. Michael Shannon's great. Yeah, yeah. It's really well done. It was very true to the book. The book just kind of goes has some details that , you know, for time or whatever were edited out . So when I run into something like that, I almost always go get the book afterwards enjoy the book and there's always something extra in there. Great suggestion, yeah, good stuff . What are you looking forward to? Well, you know, I said at the outset, I'm a government affairs manager. We're right in the middle of or actually winding up the legislative session and I can't wait for it to be over. I'm sure everybody in your position feels exactly the same way. I'm sure you're not alone there. Where do you quiz? So my wife Chris and I go to a place called Service Trivia . Well, it's surveys, I think. Actually, I'm not sure I pronounce it right . But it's in downtown Johnny, Kansas, a wonderful little bar just really nice trivia and a great group of people. Yeah. And of course, I'm in Learned League League. Excellent What is something I should ask the next player ? Something you should ask the next player , wow. Let me give you your question from the previous player. Okay, so you can think about it. So Matt Lamiya was the previous player and he wants to know from you if your life was a movie or TV show, what would your theme song be? Wow. You know, it's it's already been taken and I'm already and I'm getting close to that age, but the first thing that comes to mind is thank you for being a friend . I like it. The Andrew Gold song Thank You For Being A Friend from Golden Girls, that's perfect. So along those lines , what would your question to the next player be? Hm m. Well, actually , here's a good one because I get this sometimes. What famous person do you think you resemble? Oh, that's great. Yeah . Love it. Yeah, exactly. Who is your celebrity domelganger? What would your answer be to that? Well, I used to say I mean I've gotten various things. I don't wear glasses much anymore, but when I wore glasses regularly, people thought I looked like Roger Ebert . I got Garrison Keeler. I could see that. But the strangest one that I got was a couple of years ago posting, and it was a younger person said, You look like Mark Hamill. Of course, I was still thinking of nineteen seventy seven Mar Hamill and Right. And then I went out and looked at pict someures and it's like, okay, I can see it. Yeah. one hundred percent, yes, that person was right and not far off from the seventh camera, not that far off . All right, perfect. Scott, we've talked aboutvia, T speriaking of trivia. Are you ready to make your game? Let's get it started. Let's get it. We're going to pick your game up where Matt Lamia left off with this question . A nineteen ninety three IRA bombing with tragic results in Northern England inspired what protest song that hit number one on the US alternative airplay chart in nineteen ninety four. That's zombie by the cranberries. That is zombie by the cranberries, and that is your first point of the game of many, I'm sure and it gets you these tangents . Z words nineteen nineties , nineteen nineties music or billboard. What strand is z word? Z words it is . What African country bordered by Botswana to the West and Mozambique to the east was formerly known as Southern Rhodesia. You know, when you started this question, I was thinking, oh, there are a lot of African countries with Z, but southern Rhodesia gave it away to me because I remember when they when they became independent, so that's Zimbabwe. There we go. It certainly is Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe is your second point and it gets you these tangents . Z words , Africa, geography, or FKA, formerly known as let's stick with Z words. Stick with Z words. Here we go. What twenty sixteen movie was described by film critic Sean Means as a smart, four footed spin on the buddy cop genre? Wow Is that Zombie Land? That's the only thing that comes to mind. Zombie Land is your guess. This one is an animated movie called Zootopia. Well, I was thinking about that too. Zootopia four footed spin on the buddy cup. Oh, I need to pay attention to the quest anymore. It's just your first miss . And it gets you these tangents , Z words, twenty ten's films, quotes, or animation. Let's try Z words one more time. See if we can get a little redemption. Z words it is. Here's your third . Also the name of a Bantu language and an ethnic group. What word represents the letter Z in the NATO phonetic alphabet. You know , it's funny because Chris and I actually I think missed this one in trivia a couple of weeks ago at Bar trivia. So hopefully I'll get it right this time it's Zulu. Yeah, double redemption. Zulu it is at your third point and you have these tangents Z words, language , Africa, or the NATO phonetic alphabet. You know, I didn't really think I would stick with Z words that long, but let's go with that one more time. Here you are. Okay , one more time. When J Thomas joked about having to kiss Rhea Perman on cheers, his character Eddie Lebec met his fate, being run over by what kind of vehicle? That's a zamboni. That is a Zamboni, Eddie Lebec, hockey player on cheers. And that gets you your fourth point and it gets you these tangents . Z words, that was four for you. So you can do one more in Z words if you want, nineteen eighties TV , sitcoms or wild card. You know, let's actually let's try wild card. I always want people to do that when listening sit uations. Completely mix it up. It could be literally anything . So here we go. We're going to do wild card, very brave. As funny stories began spreading from celebrities like Shaquila Neal, Anthony Anderson, Lionel Richie and Steve Harvey, what entertainer finally addressed the rumors in twenty twenty five and confirmed that he really is blind . Wow . You know, I haven't heard this, but I'm wondering if this was something he did for a laugh. And so I'm gonna guess Stevie Wander. It's a good guess. Yeah, Stevie Wander is the right answer. There's been this kind of funny speculation for the last few years that Stevie Wonder has been faking being blind for all these years. There was some concert, a bunch of people on stage and somebody knocked over a mic stand and Stevie caught the mic stand as it was falling like no, oh what? Yeah, so yeah, Stevie Wonder is the right answer. That gets you to five points and it gets you these tangents. Hidden Badre , Wonder Bread is in there. Singers , the twenty twenty's or Wildcard. Let's try hidden bread. Hidden bread, okay. Now, remember the word bread can follow a word that is in your answer , so use that in your brain . And here is your first question in that category . It was invented for patients at the Battle Creek Sanitarium in eighteen ninety four, but what breakfast cereals packaging was fairly bland until the now familiar roost er mascot cornelius began appearing on boxes in nineteen fifty seven. Well, that would be Kellogg's cornflakes . It certainly would be Kellogg's cornflakes, in this case, that category would be corn bread . So that is your sixth point. I'm going to get you these tangents, more hidden bread, inventions , food and drink, or mascots. You know, I'm going to jump around a little more. I think let's do mascots. Mascots, alright, here we go. They didn't introduce their mascot Elsie until nineteen thirty six, but what company started producing condensed milk in Connecticut in eighteen fifty seven? Else, I'm pretty sure is the mascot for Borden. She sure is. Borden is correct and that is your seventh point. Get you these tangents . The nineteen thirties , mascots , marketing are the eighteen hundreds . I think out of those we got to stick with mascots. Here is your next one in mascots . As seen on a t shirt worn by John Travolta's character in pulp fiction, the mascot for the athletics teams at the University of California Santa Cru z is what gastropod gets its name from its distinctive color. This is one of the best mascots there is the banana slugs. The banana slugs, that's right. Yes. I don't know how they came up with that, but that's a great mascot . It's very memorable. Banana slog gets you your eighth point and it gets you these tangents. Bananas , nineteen nineties films , universities , or mascots. Well, I like a lot of those. Let's go with mascots again. Mascots again, here we go. In the nineteen fifties an elf named Pow briefly joined three other unamonopaically named advertising mascots in an effort to sell what product introduced by Kellogg's in nineteen twenty seven. I get those get those Kellogg serial questions. That's snap, crackle and pop. Oh, rice krispies. Yeah, rice krispies. Yeah. That is your ninth point. And get you theses tangents . Keyword brown is in, in this case, brown rice , nineteen fifties, advertising or mascots. Let's keep going with mascots. Mascots, it is. All right, here we go. Mayhem is the name of the advertising character portrayed since twenty ten by actor Dean Winters as a human representation of various disasters in commercials for what insurance company That's all state. That is all state. You're in good hands with All State . That , Scott, is your tenth point. You're in double digits now, with just one miss and you have these tangents to work with . Advertising, mascots, actors or companies . You know, I guess one of my goals was to close out a category. So let's let's finish up with mascots. Finishing mascots. Here's your fifth and final, at least for now in mascots . Which of the franchises in North America's Big Four Sports Leagues has a mascot that dragged Leonard Hofstadter into the sea in a Sheldon Cooper nightmare in a season seven episode of The Big Bang Theory? Wow , that's there are two that I'm thinking of that would have some logic to it , both hockey teams . Big Bang Theory it just seems like they would go with a kraken though. So I'll say the Seattle Kraken That was very well worked out. The logic there was completely sound. Yes, it is the Seattle Kraken. Yeah, definitely a show that would go more for the Krak en than perhaps the San Jose Sharks. Very well done, yeah, Kraken it is and that gets you your eleventh point and get you these tangents, no more mascots, that was your fifth, but you do have the big bang theory , sports or wildcard. Of course you could also reset if you wanted. Let's try sports. Sports . And your first in sports is this. Oh, it's kind of tangentially sports. Launched by ESPN in nineteen ninety five, what six volume compilation of arena anthems? Included tracks like Get Ready for This, Whomp, there it is , and let me clear My Throat. Took me a little bit, but I think that's jock jams. Scott, it is jock jams. Yeah, jock jams is your twelfth point. And somehow, one of the tangents is not alliteration. I don't know why, but it should have been. But your tangents are sports, nineteen nineties music, stadiums or wildcard . Well let's stick with sports . Sticking with sports . Maj was the winner of the twenty twenty three Kentucky Derby, and Archangelo took the Belmont Stakes . But what pretekness winner shares his name with a two thousand four Nicholas Cage film? Oh the ones that come to mind two thousand four doesn't really fit I was thinking I remembered a horse being called Leaving Las Vegas, but I don't think that was two thousand four. I think that was quite a bit before that. But there's that I didn't see it, but it looked really strange, which might be why I didn't see it. Something like Ghost Rider, let's try Ghost Rider. Oh, what a great name for a horse that would be . And there probably is a horse named Ghost Rider out there, so some should be if not. But the right answer is National Treasure. Should have known that. I mean, that was one of the movies I thought of, but it just didn't. That is your second miss. Still going, but now we're gonna play a perfect game and your questions are going to be in these tangents the twenty twenty's sports, Kentucky or two thousands films. Of course, you do have your reset. Yeah, we do have my reset, but you know, you know, one of my topics was US states, so let's go with Kentucky and that may lead me there naturally, or I may miss it and be done. We'll see. We'll see. Either way, we'll find out. Here's your next one. And it's gonna be in Kentucky. In twenty fourteen, enthusiasts worldwide cringed at the news that eight cars had fallen into a sinkhole at a Bowling Green Museum dedicated to what model of automobile . I remember when this happened, these were corvets. Yeah , what a sad moment that was. Corvette Museum with a big sinkhole in Bowling Green, Kentucky. And that gets you your thirteenth point, lucky thirteen , and these tangents museums, cars , Kentucky, or the twenty ten's. Let's stick with Kentucky. Stickin with Kentucky . He could have used Jim Hawkins, Alexander Smollett, or Billy Bones, but Jim Patterson went with the name of another character in an eighteen eighty three novel when he opened the first location of What Fast Food Chain in Lexington, Kentucky in nineteen sixty nine . Wow. I don't know, maybe I should think of fast food restaurant s . I know Bojangles is a chain that's in the south, but I don't think that that came from a novel that I or a character from a novel that I can think of . Two hours later . Hardy's burger came albumese . There aren't that many fast food restaurants. I'd be able to come up with it and o , oh, long John Silvers . Yeah , I could see the light come on. Yeah, treasure Island, the Robert Lewis Stevenson novel from eighteen eighty three. That is your fourteenth point get you these tangents . Characters, eighteen hundreds books, fast food or Kentucky . You know, you'd think that I had learned my lesson, but I'm gonna go with fast food. Fast food, it is. Okay, perfect. In nineteen seventy three, Sydney Marty Croft sued McDonald's, claiming that what character in their McDonald Land Marketing campaign was a rip off of their character, HR Puffinstuff . Yeah, I you know, I've always kind of thought this that I think there's a resemblance with Meramic Cheese. There is a strong resemblance with Meramic Cheese. That is the correct answer. Yeah, and the cross were eventually awarded a million bucks for that. So yeah , that gives you your fifteenth point and get you these tangents, the nineteen seventies, fast food , law, or advertising. I thought that one might give me nineteen seventies TV . But you know, let's let's go ahead with nineteen seventies. I lived lived for the whole decade so I should be able to come up. You were there? Yeah, let's see what happens. nineteen seventies . A commissioned portrait of Colonel Sanders in nineteen seventy three was one of the last paintings by What Artist, best known for his magazine cover work. You know, I didn't know this, but it makes perfect sense, so I think it's gotta be Norman Rockwell. It does have to be Norman Rockwell indeed. Yeah, nicely done. That is your sixteenth point . And it gets you these tangents ends well. Alls well that ends well and this does. Rockwell ends with the letters WE LL Your answers in that category will art, the nineteen seventies or magazines. I'll stick with nineteen seventies. Yeah, more seventies, here we go. In nineteen seventy five, Gerald Ford survived assassination attempts just seventeen days apart by Sarah J ane Moore in San Francisco and by what member of the Manson family cult in Sacramento ? That's I'm glad that that was the one that was the would have come up with Sarah J. Moore, but I'm pretty sure this was Linette Squeaky From. That was indeed Linette Squeaky From . Yeah, and that gets you your seventeenth point and it gets you these tangents . Colts , the nineteen seventies , California, or families Let's stick with nineteen seventies. Next one up in the seventies is this ? What legendary singer died after a round of golf in Spain just five, weeks after recording a duet with David Bowie for a nineteen seventy seven Christmas special. That's Bing Crosby. That is indeed Bing Crosby. And Bing Crosby is your eighteenth point and it gets you these tangents . Singers , Spain , the nineteen seventies or holidays . That's nineteen seventies again . Seventies again. All right. You're fourth in the nineteen seventies, is this ? Independence Rock, Snake River, and Fort Walla Walla are among the key landmarks along the journey in what educational computer game originally released in nineteen seventy one. You know, I see memes from this all the time and I hear people talk about I never got to play it , but it has to be Oregon Trail. It is the Oregon Trail. That's right. You've died of dysentery. That is your nineteenth point and to get you these tangents . Landmarks , games, education, or the nineteen seventies. Now, let's finish out nineteen seventies. I was tempted by landmarks, but let's finish this out. Your fifth in nineteen seventies is this Born five days into nineteen seventy eight, what actress had roles in films like American Wedding, Love Actually , and We Are Marshall before earning two Golden Globe nominations for playing Betty Draper on TV . Is it January Jones? That's what I'm gonna go with. January Jones. January Jones is absolutely correct. Yeah. Scott, you made it to twenty points. Lots further than I thought I would go so your tangents are keeping up with the Joneses, obviously people whose last names are Jones , actresses, or awards. Let's try keeping up with the Joneses . All right, keeping up with Jones's . Who did British actor Toby Jones play in the two thousand six film Infamous? Just a year after Philip Seymour Hoffman won an Oscar for portraying the same person I should know it , but it's not coming to me and he was one of my favorite actors too Yeah, I always feel like that I should study the Oscars better because I just don't know them as well as I should. And so the Phillips Seymour Hoffman role isn't coming to me and the Toby Jones role isn't coming to me either infamous . You know, I think this is where my run's going to end. So yeah, I think I'll just throw in the towel. Call it quits then? Yeah . Okay The correct answer there was Truman Capote. Phillip Seymour Hoffman in the movie, Capote . My wife was over here, so she knew it. Of course she did. Next time you can play as a team . Yeah, we may do that sometime. I don't want to end on a bad note. So we're going to end on a good note. Going to one of your categories, parks, states or nineteen seventies TV. Let's do something from states, I guess. States, okay ? Not far from the population sign telling you that one hundred and sixty six people live in Adrian. You'll find another sign marking the midpoint of route sixty six in what state . You know, my wife and son did a route sixty six trip a few years ago so I'm familiar enough with the routes it's got to be around Oklahoma, Texas possibly New Mexico . Adrian is not helping me very much . Thinking maybe in the panhandle of Tex as. Let's go with Texas. Texas. Yeah, you mentioned three states picked the one in the middle. That's the one. Yes. Texas it is. And yes, we go out on a good note, Scott. It was great having you on. You dig fantast ic for your first time on twenty points. That's not too shabby. I had a great time. I loved this podcast and it was a thrill to be a part of it. Anything you want to shout out or plug before we say goodbye. When I've recorded other things I've always said I work with an agency that deals with mental health issues and our family has been touched by suicide , our relatives. At the time, this was before nine hundred eighty and eight was a . I want to make nine hundred and eighty eight as ubiquitous and as known to people as nine hundred and eleven. So I try to shout that out whenever I can remember nine hundred eighty eight. If you're if you're having any thoughts, anything at all. So yeah, what a great message. I haven't heard that brought up before, but that I'm so glad you said something. We'll try to get the word out there as we can. Thanks, Scott. Thank you very much. This is Tangents . My name's Brandon Fellows. I work as a financial counselor for a health system in Springfield, Illino is. I'm playing from Taylorville, Illinois, and I'm looking for questions about the state of Illinois, automotive history and football in the NFL . Oh, speaking of bowling, that HBO show. I've watched it now. Yeah. What are you thinking? It's better than I thought it would be. When you texted me about this and you were not the only person who texted me about this, I'm a lot of people's friend who bowls. Who's exactly right? There's a thing that happens it may be specific to me, but when there's a documentary about something you already know a lot about , it can be almost cringy to watch it because they're explaining stuff on such a elementary level. You're like, oh no, wait no,, that's not what it is. I will say it was much better than I thought. I mean, there's stuff in there that has this serious bowling community a little standoffish about it about not taking it as seriously, but I think it shows does a really good job of showing what a grind and how actually difficult it is to make money doing that . It's nearly impossible. Yeah. Because you have to win, right to make any money. Yeah, it's a win or nothing proposition when you're in a tournament like that. Now the guys at the top are making a fair amount of money on endorsements, which they cover in there and that kind of stuff. But the other big one in the last fifteen years like everything else, some of the highest earners are YouTubers , guys who do the guy they just hired as the color commentator, CW just took over the broadcast of the professional tour this year. A guy who's St. Louis guy Kyle Sherman is the new color commentator and he runs one of the top bowling YouTube channels and I think he makes way more off of that YouTube channel than he does on actually bowling. So pretty wild. Yeah , it's cool and I'm glad people are seeing it. I mean, I've been a lifelong bowler and most people who bowl are people like the people in born to bowl who were literally that phrase. Like I started bowling when I was two . What can you recommend besides that HBO show? Oh God , you know, when we talk to Russia, you know, I have very odd media viewing habits. And much to my wife's chagrin, over the last four months, I've gotten super back into Columbo for like the fourth time since twenty twenty. Peter Fk Caolulum bo. Yes, I watch Columbo every day and back to contending it's the greatest television show ever made. So well definitely the longest running with the fewest episodes . Yeah, and that's because it was never a recurring TV show. It was always a movie at the week like the crime story or whatever and it rotated with those other shows the beginning. It aired on multiple networks and, you know , and after rewatching it this time, it is actually a little painful . I'm that like would,n't be a se venty year old detective. What's going on here? Why is he still working? Retire man. Retire . What question should I ask the next player? Mon let you think on that? Okay , while I ask you the question that the previous player Scott asked you. Okay , which is what famous person do you resemble? Oh, and I only have one and it's the only one I've ever gotten. Every time I say people like, Oh yeah, I can see that. It's a Joe Flako.. Yeah, yeah Yeah. If you asked me to pick somebody for you, I wouldn't have thought NFL stars. I know. And I don't either . But and I wish I had his jawline, but generally now that you say it. Yeah, with beard eyes , there's a pretty good resemblance. And I'm not and I didn't it's not like I look like Joe Flako. I've been told this right many times. Yeah . It is true. Yeah, okay. Now, what would you like to ask the next player What was the least favorite car you ever owned? Oh, that's good. Yeah. And how would you answer that? My first car was probably my least favorite, not because it was not a great car. It just had a lot of typical eighties GM electrical issues. It was a eighty four Grand Prix LJ . Wow . That would randomly the dome light, the headlights would randomly turn off and on. It was like a possessed Christine type thing. It would just do it in the middle. The horn would just come on the middle of the night and that kind of stuff. Yeah . My mom had bought it and she thought it was possessed, so she gave it to me. Here you go . Yeah, and it had all the GM stuff, the saggy headliner, all that eighties , every single one of those GM quirks it had. Yeah. Where do you quiz? I quiz most regularly at Boons in Springfield on Sunday with the great Greg as the Greg Greg, Greg Peterson. Yes, and you host . I do host on Wednesdays at Bruce Kee's in Springfield. That is a show that gets talked about often on this show. Oh, really? That's good. That's good. We have a good time there. We fill that place up. It's a lot of fun. It's a lot of fun. A lot of fun people play that game. Yeah. And then I like playing . We just recently played one of the Twin City Demons, me and my son and my wife and a friend won the Breakin' Bad Tribute of Bluington. That was a lot of fun too. Oh, where was that? It was at Ked Grove. Holy Jeans. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it was a lot of fun . Those team ones are good if you hit the exact right theme of something you like and you're with people who really know it. It's where you know you can't miss any and it's it's super obscure stuff. There's a lot of fun and looking at other players while you're playing like ah man like this is what was that and it's that shared experience of something so specific which is hard to hit the right sweet spot on but when you hit it right it's a lot of fun Well speaking of trivia brandon you. re Aadyre to make your quiz? I am ready. It's been a while. It's been a while. I'm ready to go. Well, let's do it. We're going to pick your game up where Scott Engelmeyer left off . With this question , who did British actor Toby Jones play in the two thousand six film Infamous just a year after Philip Seymour Hawfin won an Oscar for portraying the same person. This is one I would not have gotten if I'm not a loyal listener to the show , but I know that it was Truman Capot e. It was Truman Capote. Thank you, Scott. Yeah, I appreciate that. Truman Capote gets you your first point in these tangents, keeping up with the Jones's actors , two thousands films or Oscars . I'm gonna do something radical here, Russ. Radical. I know how radical it is, but I don't think any of these are that great a category for me. So I'm gonna take my one rerack here go ahead and put my categories up there. We're reracking it then and your categories to remind the audience NFL football or just football in general, Illinois, cars wildcard . All right, I will start this with NFL . NFL. Here we go. What NFL team got its starting in Cleveland in nineteen thirty six and technically moved to its current home city ten years later, but spent twenty years elsewhere before moving back in twenty sixteen. This hits on two of my favorite categories in sports trivia . Football, and I love relocation . It's one of my favorite tribute questions. They won a championship actually right before they moved . And that is the Rams. That is the Rams. Yes, that's right. nineteen forty seven NFL champions, or forty six . Yeah, but a bang . Not only that, they won a championship in Saint Louis. They did. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Should have won too. Should have won two for that if not for that meddling Tom Brady. Yeah, and Vinteri. Yeah. All right, that is your second point and you have these tangents NFL, debuts, nineteen thirties or twenty ten's I think I have to stay in NFL. Well, here we go. Your next one up is this And it's very tangentially NFL . In twenty twenty four, the Club She podcast won the I Heart Radio Award for Best Sports Podcast, but thanks to an episode featuring comedian Kat Williams, it also earned a Webby Award for what football hall of Fame Tite End who's been hosting the show since twenty twenty. That's Shanon Sharp . That is Shannon. Don't call me Sterling Sharp. Yeah, stirling, one of the great forgotten players in NFL history. Yeah, why do you think it is that he's forgotten? I think it's because his best years were right before the Packers started winning Super Bowls. He had to retire for health reasons . So he played with Mikowski and then the early Far stuff and had, you know, ridiculous numbers, like crazy numbers. But then when they won, he was that was the year before he'd had to retire to health issues. So he just missed when they really vaulted in the national spotlight. That's some terrible timing. That's some that would happen to me . Yeah . Me too. Yes. Just missed. Just missed. Shannon Sharp gets you thir yourd point in these tangents , rivers , NFL , podcasts or awards I should probably stay in NFL. I was trying to figure out why Rivers, but I forgot that's a category about hidden rivers, the Shannon River. Oh geez. Ireland's Shannon River. There you go. That is a stretch. That is a stretch indeed. You're staying with the NFL? Yeah, let's do that. Here's your third. Both direct TV and the NFL network have dedicated channels named for what imaginary twenty yard section of a football field that was first mentioned by Washington coach Joe Gibbs in nineteen eighty two. Also the name of a fine line of deodorant it's red zone. It is red zone. I do love the red zone deodorant. Yeah, it's good stuff. That is your fourth point without a miss . And you have these tangents , zones , the NFL , the nineteen eighties , or wild card. I'm assuming wild card is anything and it's not like about the wild card playoffs. Exactly right, yes. Okay, yeah, okay. We'll do one more NFL. One more NFL . Again , tangentially . Oh wow related. Terry Cruz was an eleventh round draft pick out of Western Michigan, but after recording only three tackles in thirty two NFL games, he turned to art and acting, breaking through as president camacho in Indiocracy and later playing Detective Terry Jeffords in one hundred fifty one episodes of What Sitcom? I'm gonna is this Brooklyn nine nine? It is Brooklyn nine nine. Yeah . Levi's also deodorant related, isn't it? Wasn't he in some commercials for deodorant? Well, Isaiah Mustafa is the famous that? But he did two or three? Yeah, I think so . I think he was also wasn't he No he wasn't. Was he the office linebacker? No, that's Terry Tate. Okay. Terry Tate Office linebacker. Yeah. Well, cut all that out . Yeah, I was wrong. Don't be wrong . No, that's not my goal. That was your fifth point and your fourth in NFL. You could do one more NFL question if you wanted to do. Otherwise, you've got athletes in Hollywood , sitcoms or two thousands films. Is that really only my fourth in NFL? Yeah. You've only got five points and your first one was yeah. That's right. My first one was yeah, let's do that one more time now. All right , and we have more tangential NFL stuff . All right, listen, if you wanted to go athletes in Hollywood, you got that one too. What Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver and dancing with the Stars winner had no lines, but got plenty of screen time running into the zone while the stadium was destroyed behind him in the twenty twelve film The Dark Knight Rises . This is a former University of Georgia quarterback. It's a Heinz Ward . Heinz Ward indeed, and that is your sixth You have answered five NFL questions in a row . So that category's off the board, but you did mention athletes in Hollywood was tempting and then it is right back on the board again athletes in Hollywood, twenty ten 's films or Pittsburgh. Yeah, I said I spoke it back into existence. So let's try Athletes in Hollywood. All right, there are three of these remaining . Okay, here you go. Currently the owner of twelve NFL records among tied ends, what future Hall of Famer had a recurring role on the FX horror series Grotesque before playing a waiter in the twenty twenty five happy Gilmore sequel? Oh Oh, I gotta assume that's Travis Kelsey. You should assume that's Travis Kelsey. That is correct. At first I froze up because my wife really likes this movie and I watched it. She had me watch it. I think it's fine And then I was reading, I was like, oh, tight end. Like, wait a minute. Because I'm thinking of all the videos. I'm going no , that's that's an obvious one. So we're good. You're good. That's your seventh point, no misses and you have these tangents, athletes in Hollywood. Oh, you could go back to the NFL. The NFL can back up. You could you can go back. Oh yeah, if you find your way back to the category, you can do another five. Records or Halls of Fame. Would I bore everybody if I did that though? Listen, it doesn't these are your points, not everybody else's. Okay. So I'm going to go back to the NFL. Yeah, yeah . You have four left in the NFL. Okay . What nickname for Lambau Field in Green Bay was coined by Steve Sabel for an NFL fil ms recap of a nineteen sixty seven game between the Packers and Cowboys played in sub zero temperatures. I believe it's the technically redundant name of frozen tundra The Frozen Tundra , Lambo Feel . Yes . And I like that this question points out that while John Fasinda was a very famous voice, Steve Sabel wrote everything. John Fasinda, a great voice. Great. And Harry Callas two and all their guys, but Steve Sabel, a childhood idol of mine, which tells you a lot about my childhood. When he died, it felt like he died very young, but he was older than I thought he was when he died. Lived a very full life, fun loving guy , really funny. I think another part of that is that his dad was very young and he was old but seemed young, even though he was like ninety , and was still lucid and super funny and stuff. Yeah. Yeah . Well, Don Brandon, that is your eighth point and it gets you these tangents . Hidden cars , the Toyota Tundra , nicknames NFL or the nineteen sixties ? Car is another category of mine. Yeah, so it's very tempting. But let's I'm gonna try and close out a category so I'm going to stay in NFL. NFL it is you're not going to like this It's very tangentially NFL it's super bowl related kind of try me There may never be another disc track volley like the one in twenty twenty four between Drake and K endrick Lamar that effectively ended in a knockout with a release of what single that got a large audience during the Super Bowl fifty nine halftime show. I'm curious why you think I wouldn't like this . Because I only want to know one Kendrick Lamar song that was performed during that. Yes. So I have only one guess whether it's right or wrong. It is my best guess. Yes. And I believe that track is called Ain't Like Us. Not like us. Is it not like us? Not like us. Yes. Your ninth point and it gets you these tangents . Distracts, which I'm sure you're all about. twenty twenty's music, the NFL or feuds . And am I out of the NFL now? This will be your last NFL question. So let's do that one more time. One more to kill the category . It's had many names since it opened as Joe Robbie Stadium in nineteen eighty seven , but the naming rights for the home of what NFL team have been owned by Hard Rock Cafe since twenty sixteen. Would you believe I can name every single name this stadium has had? I bet you could. This is the Miami Dolphins . It is the Miami Dolphins. It was also home of my favorite baseball team for a very long time. Also that is one of your superpowers NFL or just stadiums and sports stadiums. That stadium in two different seasons was called Dolph in Stadium and then the next year Dolphins stadium. Which is a fun little tidbit. so weird. Yeah. Brandon that gets you into double digits your tenth point with no misses and you have these tangents . The nineteen eighties , companies were advertising. This is good for me . These are all good categories for me . I do love advertising, so I've always wanted to grab it on here, so let's see where that takes me. Advertising is before landing roles like Marcellus Wallace and Luther Stickle, and lending his voice to a famous five word fast food slogan. One actor took the advice of college friend Stanley Tucci , who suggested dropping the first two letters of his first name to make it sound tougher. Famous five word fast food slogan . Well, that's a four one . Oh, wait a minute, no, it is five. Is this Ving Raymonds? It is Ving . OK . Arby's. We have the meat. I was leaving off Arby's. It was doing we have the meats. We have the meats. Yeah. Yeah. Ving Rames, Irving Rames. Oh, it's Irving Ving Rames, yeah, thanks to his college friend Stanley Tucci . Cool. Yeah . That is your eleventh point in these tangents . Actors , voices , advertising or fast food. Yeah, three really good ones for me here. And I will flip to fast food. Fast food, if you're gonna flip, I thought you would have flipped to voices. I know, but that's so it runs into an animation. Yeah. And there's some feature length in animation. I got a big window after my kids grew up where I just didn't see anything. So I get it. All right, fast food it is. Now operated by young brands in almost fourteen thousand locations around the world . What food chain started in a tiny Witchaw, Kansas House in nineteen fifty eight . Is this pizza hut? A house so tiny it resembled a hut. Yes. Pizza Hut gets you your twelfth point and it gets you these tangents. Kansas brand s, nineteen fifties or fast food We'll stay in fast food. Fast food . Speaking of the yum brands , taco bells of the future have dance floors and v alet parking according to scenes from what nineteen ninety three action film, starring Sylvester Stallone as LAPD cop John Spartan and Wesley Snipes as the cryogenically frozen criminal Simon Phoenix This demolition man? Of course it is demolition man Yeah . All right, thirteen points now and you have these tangents. Wesley Snipes , Fast Food , nineteen nineties films, or Wildcard We'll stay in fast food . Next up in fast food, man, sensing a theme in fast food here. In twenty twelve, Taco Bell replaced their think outside the bun campaign with what simple two word multilingual slogan? I believe this is live moss . Live Mos is that simple two word multilingual slogan. That is your fourteenth point and it gets you these tangents. The twenty ten's, slogans , language or fast food . I will hold strong in fast food. Brandon, you're killing a category. Again, you killed the NFL, you're killing fast food with this one . Oh, we stay in the yum brands . Sometimes called a ventriculus, what is the common name of the digestive organ found in birds that can still be found for sale at KFC restaurants in some regions of the US I'm a little disappointed that I stayed in this category only because I'm closing it out and I see the three I have to choose from after I get this right and I'm not thrilled about it . I know this is Gizzard. It is gizzard. That is correct for your fifteenth point. Yeah, I'm not thrilled about these other choices. Yeah. But your tangents are going to be anatomy , Latin or bird s. Okay, I'm not much for book learning . So anatomy and Latin . Not great . And I recently read that birds don't even exist. So curious to see where that goes. So I'm gonna have to go with birds here. Could go birds yeah. Just out of curiosity . Yeah. Could go St. Louis Cardinals or Philadelphia Eagles, things like that. That's a hope . Here we go . And it is a sports question. It's not. Yeah . And it is this, nicknamed the Sparrow From Minsk, what Soviet gymnast scored gold medal at the nineteen seventy two Olympics after doing a back flip on the balance beam. Oh boy , I really should know this . See, this is where being full of cold medicine maybe won't help. I recall as much. A little fog y. Is this Nadia Kominich ? Nadia Komanich, I think we're about four years early for Nadia. Now this is Olga Corbett. Olga Corbett, Corbett. Yeah. Yeah, I wouldn't have gotten that. I should have. I should. This is something I absolutely should know. You should know this. Now you do. You'll never forget Olga Corbett now. And I think now you come with each Romanian. I think that's right. Yeah, yeah. I think that's right . Yeah. All right, fifteen points now and just one miss, but your tangents are nicknames, birds , the nineteen seventies, or the Olympics. Despite missing that question, I do like the Olympics . It will that's sports. So I will go back to sports in the Olympics. Go in Olympics. Here's your first one in Olympics . He shocked the world when he beat Alexander Carellan in Kracko Roman wrestl ing at the two thousand Olympics, but Roulon Gardner never won an NCAA championship, finishing as high as fourth place while competing for What University in the early nineteen nineties. Holy cow. This was a pub trivia quest ion. No. Okay, a question written specifically for this game. Okay. Collid wrestling was requested by Cheyenne Fletcher. All right. You have Cheyenne Fletcher to thank for this question. Well, thank you. Boy, I don't I remember all the details about Roulang Gardner winning in this incredibly boring sport of Dreco Roman wrestling . And I know some about programs that are good at college wrestling and where they're located . But and I know where he's from . But I don't know if that any of that helps me because people who are really, really good tend to go places where the programs are really good. That's correct. Yeah. Which narrows me to about four choices and I'm gonna go with most dominant one and it is a pure guess and I will say Iowa. Iowa's a great guess. Yeah. Right conference. So in the right conference. Really? Okay. I think I could have given you three or four more guesses. Okay , and you might not have gotten there. This school apparently specializes in heavyweights. Okay. And that is Nebraska. Okay, that was that was in my cluster of twenty years ago. It was like I owa State, Nebraska, or Oklahoma State were the four guesses I was going to go with there. So you were close. Yeah. So you weren't that you weren't as hopeless as you thought. Oh no, no, I know I can get I know the teams that are good. I don't know how much that helps in that, but yeah right. Yeah, exactly. So all of a sudden after, doing so well, I am up against the wall, Russ. You aren't up against the wall and you don't have your reset. Like you have and you get some interesting tangents. Oh, I have one I really like. Oh, you do. Okay. Yeah, I have one I really, really like. Oh, yeah, I do know you like that. Yeah. College wrestling winners Olympics or universities. I really like universities. So even if I miss this, I'm not be going like to, I got bad categories because this is something that would be on a list that I would choose I know to have . So I will take you really good at universities there we go . Well , I mean, it's tangentially univers ities, but you will have no trouble answering this question . To no one's surprise , which team selected Duke standout Cooper flag with the number one overall pick in the twenty twenty five MBA draft . And a lottery that was no way fixed and a grand scheme and a grand scheme by Nico Harrison, who was later fired for doing this. Yeah . Yeah, this was the Dallas Mavericks. That is the Dallas Mavericks. Yeah. And you're back in the good side of things now with your sixteenth point. What's your highest score ever? I don't know. I've only played once for us . This is my second show. I played I played I played a tandem. I've only played once and then I was on in a tandem. So well that counts. Oh, it does count. Okay. Well, that I've played three times because I played twice during the tandem in an epic rock fight with Dolph. That's right. Yes. You had six points in one game, eight points in another tand amode game and you are currently at sixteen points tied with yourself over your highest regular game. You had sixteen points in your one regular game . Gotcha. Okay . This next question is big . It is. You're either going to end with a tie with yourself or a new PB. Here we go. You have these tangents ? , so at the pump quiz, we do a current events round that I call What's Going On and somehow the tangent in this one comes from that category. What's going on from july third , twenty twenty five , july third last year. July third last year. Universities, sports or wildcard . As much as I'm very tempted to see what was going on last July third . Yeah . And as much as I would love to stay in universities with two strikes, I think the book play here , if I were being coached off c amera by a trivia expert , they would say you have to go to a sports. You have to go with what you know best, right? Yeah . So yeah, you do certainly know sports. So I'll go to sports. Yeah, let's see how it goes. Sports . And like most of your questions today, this is very tangentially sports. He would have to wait eight more years for another series win, but in two thousand eight for the one hundredth anniversary of the Cubs's most recent world series victory, at the time, what Evanston native and lifelong cubs fan released the song all the way as an homage to his team . Eddie Vedder . Eddie Fedder.rect Cor. Yeah. That's the only guess I had. I don't know that song at all, and I'm not in shocking given my age. I'm not a huge grunge pearl jam fan. I like him. I think he's cool dude, but it's not like music. So he's a cool, he's a cool dude. Steams like a righteous righteous dude. Like a righteous dude. Brandon, you have your all time best score now of seventeen points and have these tangents sports , Illinois , winners or wildcard . If you wanted another suggested rule or twist of the game, you could force people to go into their selected category if it comes up even if they're on a run in another category . You don't have that rule. You don't have I'm not going to do that. But if you had it, I would have to pick it up. I'm not going to. I'm going to pick sports, but it's something you could add if you needed another twist to the game. Yeah , we'll see . But in the meantime , here's your next sports question . Describing the player's freedom to replace any back row player without following normal rotation rules, what Italian word is used for the volleyball position that debuted in NCAA competition in two thousand two and high school teams later in the decade. The popular sport I know the least about is volleyball, but I do know this is Libero, Liber o, whatever. Liberto. Yeah. Libero. The Chrysler Libero. nineteen eighty two Chrysler Libero . Yes, it is that Libero. And that's your eighteenth point and it gets you these tangents , sports, language, Italy or rules . I do love rules , but I will stick with sports rules . I will stick to sports as they like to say. As I'm frequently told on Blue Sky Sick to sport s. Here is your next question in sports . They've also operated a separate museum in Iowa since twenty ten. You can find the John Vaughn Hall of Honors , the Paul K. Scott Museum , and the Cliff Kean Theater at What Sports Official National Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma? Wow . That's an interesting question, isn't it? Yeah Iowa and Oklahoma , Cliff Keane , Paul K. Scott . I feel like this is probably where I'm gonna go out . I have a few things on my mind and I think all of them are wrong . So guessing the best wrong guess here . I'm gonna guess archery . Archery . All right, what were your what were your other guesses? Skate shooting or trap shooting. Okay or something along those lines. I really had no idea. Those are sports, unless it's wrestling. What if there was like a roulon gardener gift shop? Oh geez . Is it wrestling? Yeah, it's wrestling. Iowa. I went through this whole thing earlier knowing that Oklahoma State and Iowa were in there. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And that was next on my list, but then I got bogged down by pro wrestling and knowing where those halls of fame are museums. So yeah, that's all right. Listen, you can't win them all and you get your high score. . And all the sports fanatics and trivia, which are many will be thrilled by this episode that it's so yeah. Hardcore sports questions people are always looking for. Hardcore sports. Yes, ye,ah indeed . But Brandon, we're not going to go out on that. We're going to go on a good note. So you can choose one of your categories . Actually, you can't choose all of your categories. You can do Illinois or Cars OK , let's do Illinois. Let's do Illinois. All right, your question . After a worldwide search, a moldy cantaloupe found in a Peori Illinois market in nineteen forty three helped with the mass production of what antibiotic first discovered by Alexander Fleming in nineteen twenty eight. The penicillin? It is penicillin. Yeah , yeah. We've gone out of a good note, Brandon. All right. Well done, eighteen points. That's fun, Rust. Had a good time . As always, anything you want to shout out or plug before we say goodbye. Shout out or plug. I just went to a local concert last night and I think everybody should go see live music today or this coming weekend if possible. It is very good for your soul. And if possible, find a local artist that records and writes their own music and see some lyrics you've not heard before. Here's some lyrics you've not heard before and some sounds you've never heard. How about that? That is a great message. Love it . Thank you, Brandon. And I'll see you soon. Yeah, I'll see ya