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S1E8 Honey, Nut, Cheerio! : A Bee's Final Countdown
Ever wonder what happens when 100 bikers descend upon a restaurant? Drew's weekend managing the chaos offers a hilarious glimpse into an overwhelmed kitchen, hour-long wait times, and the surprise appearance of professional arm wrestlers. Yes, apparently that's a real job—complete with certified judges!
When Mike spots a suspicious car with expired temporary tags lurking near their neighborhood, his inner detective emerges. After snapping flash photos of the vehicle, he returns from a quick walk to find it mysteriously vanished. Coincidence? Probably not. The hosts speculate about neighborhood security and the odd places people choose to park.
The conversation shifts to a fantasy that many of us entertain: winning the lottery. Drew and Mike calculate that the current $243 million jackpot would translate to approximately $73,000 weekly after taxes for 30 years. But the real question becomes who would you tell? Family, close friends, or absolutely no one? The hosts debate the merits of secrecy versus transparency when sudden wealth changes everything.
Throughout the episode, trivia games showcase the hosts' knowledge across diverse subjects. Challenge yourself to identify movie franchises from subtitles alone, or test your geography skills with US states whose postal abbreviations match their first and last letters. Perhaps the most memorable moment arrives with the shocking revelation about honeybee reproduction—a fact so bizarre it spawned the episode's most quotable joke.
Join us for this blend of casual conversation, surprising facts, and laugh-out-loud moments. And don't forget to consider our question for next week: If you could choose any all-expenses-paid adrenaline adventure, what would it be?
Warning the following podcast contains adult language and adult themes.
Speaker 2:But everything else is pretty flippin' childish Trivia with Mike Sleeper has been around for over 20 years and consistently voted the number one trivia show in the Augusta and surrounding areas. Come join us for a bit as your hosts, drew and Mike, take you inside our childish minds with a little trivia and a lot of BS. Alright, there we go. All right, there we go. Finally, all right. So again, season zero, episode eight Yep, all right. So you said interesting week, you had bike week, yeah, and we established we don't mean bicycle, yeah, we mean, although that would be pretty cool.
Speaker 2:You know a bunch of kids coming up with their bicycles. Yeah, tricycles, oh, you ever done a tricycle race? I haven't, but I bet it would be fun. Hard as hell. Yeah, your knees are sticking like way the hell out there and you look like well, I won't say what you know you look like you're trying to give birth to a yeti. Yep, what the hell. So, yeah, not not easy, all right, but you had bike week and you had set everything up. You did what now?
Speaker 1:we had like a hundred bikers come out. Wow, yeah, we did. Uh, we did a bunch of drink specials so we put a beer tub out on the patio. Um, we had a bunch of drink specials, so we put a beer tub out on the patio. We had a bunch of beers ready to go. We thought they were going to hang out on the patio. They took over the whole restaurant, like inside and out. Oh, wow yeah, we had 50 tickets hanging in Expo. At one point last night we got our asses kicked. How bad were your wait times? Bad, oh, I feel bad for those people we were pushing like an hour hour 15. For a full pie, for everything. Oh, like it was bad. It wouldn't have been so bad, but they all showed up at different times but they all ordered at the same time, so like our kitchen kind of got flooded. It was just a dump, yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh God, I hate that which led to a bunch of comps, um, but it was a. It was a success in terms of, like, bringing people in. I think we need to be staffed a little bit different when we do it next time, but no, it was a lot of fun. They had a professional arm wrestling judge out there and a couple of professional arm wrestlers showed up, so you know when I grew up, I'm going to judge arm wrestling.
Speaker 2:So does one go to four years of schooling to be like all right? So the elbow must be placed there. Just remember, now you've got to take into account the humidity outside, you know? So this is speak. Yeah, I don't know A professional arm wrestling judge. Yeah, dude, I'm going to declare myself a professional underwater basket weaving judge. I fucking love that. Who the fuck said who certifies you? I fucking love that. Who the fuck certifies you? I don't know.
Speaker 1:There's probably a bunch of arm wrestle people out there Arm wrestling.
Speaker 2:They're going to come up and grab my right arm and just like yank it off. Yeah, speaking of yanking it off, came home last night had a trivia show up in Waynesboro. Yeah, the country club up there, little private show, great group of folks up there. Anyways, came home, decided to go to Mexico and tried this new place because we were looking for margaritas. I say new, it's been around for a while, just locos. So we gave it a shot over there. On Boy Scout.
Speaker 1:Was that Veracruz used to be With the big deck? Yes, the over there on Boy Scout. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Where was that Veracruz used to be, I think, with the big?
Speaker 2:deck. Yes, yeah, the big deck is still there, nobody out on it. But we walked in the inside of that place. They are set for a club. I mean, there are lights, there are movers, there are. So you got speakers, they got subs. There was bass pumping through this place. The floor is set. You know it's not quite a parquet floor, but it's basically. The tables are set. You can move this out. You can make a huge dance floor. This is set to be club night. I love that and I'm thinking in a Mexican restaurant, shee.
Speaker 1:Latina night.
Speaker 2:What, what you know, and I didn't think of that. Okay, so that maybe makes a little bit more sense, but I'm thinking all right, so there are. I think there were one, two, three, four tables set. We became five and that was the max for the night. Yeah, yeah, I felt bad for them, but what?
Speaker 1:time was that.
Speaker 2:Nine o'clock yeah, it's near the end of the whole dinner thing. It's pretty much the same, but again, weak, weak, nasty. I asked for so that everybody's got their little margarita selection. We're going to do this one. You can do this one. This is a spicy one. I found one I wanted to try. I'm like let me have a picture of that. And they're like no, we can't do that. Like, okay, fine, we'll just do a picture of Texas margaritas. I'm not sure if we can do a picture. Let me go ask who does not do a picture at a Mexican restaurant? Who does not do a picture of margaritas?
Speaker 1:I don't know, especially when you can go to El Rey and get a tower.
Speaker 2:They had the tower. Somebody else got the tower thing, their version of a tower thing, which I thought was interesting, but we need to talk about El Rey then, so anyway, so it came out typical. You know how some of these places it's more mixed than anything. It's nothing but sour and I fucking hate that.
Speaker 1:It's worse when it's pre-made sour.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, and I'm like come on, do me just a little bit, you know, give me. So we've gotten to the point where I will order a pitcher of margaritas and I'll order a shot of tequila outside that, and so I'll pour the extra tequila in there and you know it balances it out and get a couple of orange slices and we're okay. But oh, back to squirrel Coming home. You know, as you come, come into the neighborhood here, there's that curve there by the pond, by the lake, there was a vehicle driven up into there and so it had temporary tags and the tags had expired. And I'm like, wait a minute. And so I'm like you know what, stopped, rolled down the window, took a picture of the license plate, which is a temporary tag from CarMax that expired six days ago.
Speaker 2:This is a Chevy, a bronze Chevy. I don't know what kind of car that thing is, but just parked there. And I'm like, well, I'm thinking either A, they're parking, or B, somebody's ditched a car, or C, somebody's casing the neighborhood. But I'm thinking you can't be that stupid to park it. What you can be, you can be. So parked here, said, all right, let's do our nightly walk, fix a drink and we'll go, walk out to the road, to the bridge, and we walk back. Car was gone, I think once they saw me taking the pictures with the flash. Yeah, they were like it's time to go, time to go.
Speaker 1:So yeah.
Speaker 2:You never went parking as a kid.
Speaker 1:No, by the way, that band that I was telling you about JC and the Stints. Yeah, every guy that's in that band has a stent in their heart, hence why they're called.
Speaker 2:JC and the Stents.
Speaker 1:This is the kind of shit you can't make up, bro. And when I tell you they rock out, they fucking rock out, wow, alright, they're awesome. That was the second time we had them. The first time we had them. Oh, is that where that noise was coming from? Yeah, no, not that. Wow, it's so much cleaner.
Speaker 2:Just realized that, yeah, I'm a dumbass.
Speaker 1:We had them during Masters Week too, and they were fire, like they were so good and everybody wanted them to come back.
Speaker 2:So yeah, they were so good, um, and everybody wanted them to come back, so yeah, they were a blast.
Speaker 1:What's their, uh, what's their set list? Like they do classic rock, um, a lot of like 80s music, um, like I mean basically you name it, they play it type classic rock, 80s music. That actually sounds pretty cool country.
Speaker 2:Little country music, a little bit country, a little bit rock and roll. Yeah, donnie and Marie, they were really good. Yeah, all right. So our uh cross episode question if you won the lottery, who would you tell? That's a tough one. First thought is fuck you Nobody.
Speaker 1:you know how much are we talking well.
Speaker 2:So I mean, if I won the lottery and and I won 50 bucks, hell, I'd tell everybody right, but if we're talking like 500 million, keep talking.
Speaker 1:I mean 500 million is a lot of money. So I mean if we talk $500 million, I'm telling my wife, our two immediate families and maybe my two best friends, Okay.
Speaker 2:So I'm a geek and you know just little idiosyncratic, idiosyncratic things. Would you go do get the average of no? No, so every day when the lottery comes out, I pop those numbers and I and I track them just to say, all right, so today, the current uh, mega, millions is 243. That's the jackpot. Okay, and I'm trying to be liberal and assuming all right, you know what. I have to pay 53% taxes. I only get to keep $47,000. It's going to be a bit better than that. You're taking a lump sum up front. So hang on, bear with me. Okay, you're going to pay taxes either way. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you pay less if you took it on an annuity, right? Um, and again, assuming 40, 47 is what I get to keep. Uh, that's basically 73 000 right now, 73 000 a week after taxes, for about 3.8 a year. Yep, I could be okay with that, me too. All right, so we'll use today. So basically $73,000 a week. Yes, and we may have to do a question on how the hell do you spend that on a regular basis?
Speaker 1:That's very similar to the cross episode question that I wrote. What would you do with it? The first three things you buy with it or the first three things you spend the money on?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, well, yep, Is that yours? Yeah, it was yours.
Speaker 1:I was going to put it for the end of this episode into the next one, but you had already written one. Who do you tell my wife?
Speaker 2:If you don't tell your significant other your girlfriend, spouse, wife, husband, whatever boyfriend. So if you don't tell your significant other, you can't really claim it, because they're going to know all of a sudden. Holy shit, dude's paying for everything. Just bought me a cruise, you know. Yeah, mercedes Benz. Yeah, we got his brand new car. I don't know where it came from. He's just refinanced everything. He's in debt. The crops came in early, dear.
Speaker 2:I started selling coke, yeah, yes there's a mountain of coke on the dining room table and he's just passing it. You had a butler passing out straws as you walk in. Yeah, look out, I've reloaded.
Speaker 1:Tony Montana.
Speaker 2:You gotta tell the spouse you can't leave them in the dark. It's weird One minute I'm okay and one minute I'm not. It fluctuates a little bit. It does. I may have to figure that out. You got to tell the spouse One or two best friends Everybody's got those real close-knit folks.
Speaker 1:You got to tell them who else do you tell Nobody and my work is going to get a two-week notice, because in two weeks you're going to notice I haven't been here in two weeks. Sorry, sorry, that's 73 grand is going to be for what? 20 years?
Speaker 2:30 years, so that is a 30-year payout. Yeah, I'd be mid-60s.
Speaker 1:by then You'd be in your 90s.
Speaker 2:Shut up, Nah, shut up, All right. So you know, you can go on a cruise, you can do some things. Now. You can go on a cruise, you could do some things. Now you can elect to remain anonymous. I understand, but I mean, people are going to know, they're going to know something's up. You cannot get away. At some point. Everybody's going to know. Oh yeah, and by that time you're hoping hey, I've got a financial planner who isn't going to bend me over with a fiberglass dildo and clap both cheeks together. Yeah, that'd be really bad, I mean.
Speaker 2:So you hear a lot of folks. Two things have happened. From what I gather and this is just me doing this from memory now Two things happen. Number one they gain a lot of weight, Every single one of them, because all of a sudden they're eating rich foods, all this kind of stuff. So the dining goes up, so they gain weight. The other thing is, a lot of them end up broke after some period of time. Oh yeah, A lot. Now, not all, Not everybody, but I'm going to go buy this, I'm going to go buy that. Then you got taxes. Your friend's taking this, somebody's taking that, your financial planner has taken this, yeah, which is why I always said I wanted to do an annuity. Yep, I'm going to get stupid at some point in time. I'm going to get screwed over at some point in time. I'm going to get screwed over at some point in time, but hopefully I'll be like all right. Well, I got $73,000 coming in next week.
Speaker 2:Exactly. I think it's paid annually, but you know funny.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean I always say that I would take the annuity and do it based off that, as opposed to taking a lump sum right now. Yeah, Because I wouldn't say that I don't trust myself with that kind of money. But I don't trust myself with that kind of money.
Speaker 2:Nobody does. The church lady would be there. Well, um, I think I'm going to have Chippendale serve me today. Each of you should put a lobster shell, and then I'm going to go from there, Bro.
Speaker 1:I would spend an obnoxious amount of money on the most random shit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean I'd sit and blow this. You know, help out that, and you know I always kept thinking so what I really want, so there's a new place that's opened up in town with a golf simulator, right, yeah, what is it? It's over on, yeah it's over on. Davis Road I'm thinking over. I don't know if it's in the shopping center or if it's over.
Speaker 1:It's in that new one where Baldino's is. You don't know where Baldino's is, so if you immediately turn onto Davis from Washington, it's right there on the left.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, yeah. I think that's where the old Fat Man's used still there. Okay, so it's right on that side of the road.
Speaker 1:It's right past that. Okay, all right, but isn't that where the Fat Man's used to be?
Speaker 2:I thought Fat Man's was downtown. There were three of them. I didn't know there were three. I knew there were two.
Speaker 1:There was one on Washington Road where PJ is now there, built a whole new shopping center. There. There's a new fitness place, a nail place. Baldino's moved over there and Back Nine's over there now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it's like $165, I think, a month, or $195 a month or whatever. You can go 24-7. I don't know how it works. To bring a buddy, I get a membership, can I bring a buddy? And we just you know, I've got a bay for an hour. Basically it's like blocks of time. That sounds awesome and it's BYOB. Bring your own balls. Yes, okay, both of them. Yes, all right. So who would you tell? We figured out, we would tell nobody, but would you really Come on? So all of a sudden you're down. All right, you just want, you still want to hang out. You still want to see some of your friends because they were your friends beforehand. You know that they're not. They don't want you for your money. You know they were just your buddies. Yeah, well, then, all for your money. They were just your buddies, yeah, well, then all of a sudden you pick up the tab.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I got you today, man.
Speaker 2:Don't worry about it, All right. So you got the tab today tomorrow.
Speaker 1:I'm not picking up every tab. Why not If you've?
Speaker 2:got $3.8 million a year, would you not? Because your friends don't. I don't want people to know You're going to freaking, know anyways? Yeah, but not immediately. You're going to have to hire security, probably. Good thing, I know. Yeah, drew Bear is coming out now. The Bear is coming out. No, no, it's going to be Drew Bear. It's going to be your Secret Service code name, drew Bear. Not to be Drew Bear. It's going to be your secret service code name, drew Bear. Not to be confused the Grizzly, yeah, and there's Drew Bear. Oh wait, there's more of him. So it's Drew Bearmore.
Speaker 1:That was a good one.
Speaker 2:All right, so I got some trivia for you.
Speaker 1:I got a question of the day for you, for you to think about.
Speaker 2:All right, what you got for a question of the day day for you, for you to think about, all right, what you got for a question of the day.
Speaker 1:What's so? What's your question of the day? I've settled on my question of the day is being on this day in history because that's cheating and you know it's easy to look up.
Speaker 2:Why is it cheating? Well, it's not cheating, it's it's efficiency.
Speaker 1:Yeah it's fun. You learn about what happened in history, what you got. So what ultra famous singer-songwriter was born on this day? Okay, they amassed five number one hits and went platinum on an astounding 16 albums under a couple of different names Artist names, not album names.
Speaker 2:So we're saying artist as in a person or a group.
Speaker 1:Either, but we're specifically talking about the singer-songwriter. Do I have a?
Speaker 2:genre.
Speaker 1:Rock, slash, pop, okay.
Speaker 2:Five number one hits Solo, or five number one hits Group and solo, group and solo. Okay, this is kind of vague. I'm thinking it's kind of vague.
Speaker 1:Oh, I gave you a pretty massive hint.
Speaker 2:That what they were solo and in a band.
Speaker 1:No, that they went under a couple of different names. You know them, Prince. Well, you weren't supposed to answer the question right now. Oh shoot, I'll edit that out.
Speaker 2:I suck at this shoot. I'll edit that out. I suck at this dude.
Speaker 1:But yes, it's Prince and the artist formerly known as Prince With the unintelligible symbol.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry, I thought we were on there. I suck at this. No, you're good man, I'll move that. I'll cut it. Move it later, all right. So I got a couple different things for you. Hit me. I'm going to put this series into the trivia, but I figured I'd lay it on you to see how it goes. We're going to talk about subtitles, because there are lots of movies and you know they want to do Bubba, bubba 1, Bubba 2, bubba 3. And then they'll go like Bubba 3, bubba Eats a Pie, right, right. And then they'll go like Bubba 3 Bubba Eats a Pie, right. So Bubba Eats a Pie is the subtitle. Okay. So what I've got for you, and I just realized what my problem is. I had it wrong, but anyways, alright, there we go. Oops, let's take that back off. Yeah, no, so there's my issue, right there. Just from vibrato and bass in your voice now, all righty, so I am going to give you, I'm going to give you the name of a subtitle and you need to tell me the film series.
Speaker 1:I love this.
Speaker 2:All right, so I've got several of them here so we can go through a whole list. We'll start off easy and then we'll just jump around Ballerina. If you ask, I can give you a year.
Speaker 1:Ballerina, and that's not the movie that just came out in the John.
Speaker 2:Wick franchise. It is the John Wick franchise. See just how easy that goes, gotcha Age of Extinction.
Speaker 1:That would be the Transformers series Curse of the Black Pearl. That would be the Pirates of Extinction. That would be the Transformers series Curse of the Black Pearl. That would be the Pirates of the Caribbean.
Speaker 2:The Last Stand, the Last Stand 2013. 2013.
Speaker 1:It's not the Bond franchise, it's not Mission Impossible. The Last Stand. Is that the Step Up series?
Speaker 2:It is not. It is the X-Men.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I should have gotten that one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, catching Fire, a Volunteer's Tribute. There you go. Hunger Games, ghost Protocol.
Speaker 1:Mission Impossible See, they're not. Again, I'm excited about the Final Reckoning. I don't know if you watched the series at all. I think I may have seen parts of one. They're really good and the final movie in the series is in theaters right now the Escape Clause really good and, like, the final movie in the series is in theaters right now. Now, the escape clause. The escape clause that leads me to believe is the Santa.
Speaker 2:Claus, it is the Santa Claus series 2006. That was number three. Uh, never go back 2016. Never Go Back. Never Go Back 2016. Never Go Back 2016. Is that the no? It's not the shit, but thanks, I don't know, jack Reacher.
Speaker 1:Yeah, those are some of my favorite. I don't know why I didn't get that.
Speaker 2:Back in the Habit 1993.
Speaker 1:Is that the Friday? Nope.
Speaker 2:Franchise, what is it? Sister Act? You know, there was just a bunch of them there.
Speaker 1:That was good. I like that. I like that series. Yeah, I got one for you.
Speaker 2:What you got for me, what you got Since you like to hit me with the food and beverage stuff.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'm going to hit you with some food and beverage Clean up on aisle five. I'm going to give you the ingredients for this dish it's a world famous dish, okay, okay, and I'm going to give you bonus points if you can tell me what chef is widely known for this dish. Never going to happen, oh, it will Trust me, chef Boyardee. So our ingredients? Okay, what do we got? Center cut beef tenderloin, okay, prosciutto Mushrooms, yeah, and puff pastry.
Speaker 2:Is that a beef wellington? It is a beef wellington. God, I have no idea. Don't ask me how the hell I knew that. Because I'm sitting here going all right, because you know Chef Ramsay is like, don't set me up that shit.
Speaker 1:And there's your answer. Is it Gordon Ramsay? It's Gordon.
Speaker 2:Ramsay, really, yes, I never. I mean, that's about the only. So if you ask the average person on the street, you'd be like, all right, name me five famous chefs Gordon at the top of that list. They would come up with two Gordon and Emil. No, I don't even think Is it Emil or Emeril, whatever, yeah, whatever. I don't think most people would get that. Some would, some who are really, really into cooking. Some might even come up with Julia Childs. Everybody's going to come up with Chef Boyardee. Amen, I'm just saying.
Speaker 1:I wonder if I could name five chefs off the top of my head. Bourdain comes to mind first off. Rip to the homie who, Anthony Bourdain.
Speaker 2:Oh, what I thought he was an actor.
Speaker 1:No, he hosted a bunch of like. He would travel the world eating a bunch of like strange shit, but like he was a two-star Michelin chef before he started doing that.
Speaker 2:Oh my god, the wife's got me watching some damn series like that. It's like around touring Italy with Andrew or Tucci Stanley, tucci, stanley Tucci.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but yeah, anthony ended up taking his own life a few years ago. He was Tragic, awesome, but look at you, you got both parts. That's weird. Unknowingly, you got both parts.
Speaker 2:That's freaking weird. All right, all right, all right. Here I've been saving this. I've been waiting for this. I've been waiting for this. So let's talk about biology, and let's talk about zoology's subspecialty, and then let's go down to just animals Love. That, all right. The male of which animal species has a testicle explosion after mating and dies.
Speaker 1:The fuck.
Speaker 2:You're going to love the tagline testicle explosion yes, and they die, you must, die, I must break you shit, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Uh now, is this a four-legged creature in the wild, or are we talking insects as well? Insects as well.
Speaker 2:I don't know the bumblebee. You are very, very, very close. Is it a wasp? No, it is a bee, it's a honeybee, so literally it's honey.
Speaker 1:Nut cheerio, I love that dude, that's a good one. That's a good one, that is a good one. I was stuck between because I think I think yeah.
Speaker 2:Therefore you are, yes, descartes, descartes. I said Descartes.
Speaker 1:The praying manis eats the female eats. The male species, yes, and I think black widows do the same you could be right. I wouldn't swear to that one um, and that's where I was kind of stuck. But that's why I wanted to make sure we were also including insects in this, because I knew yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, all right.
Speaker 2:Uh, since you were such a sports guy, I came across this stat. That's crazy. I have a sports question for you. We are and we all know I suck at sports. You can get this one, I promise. So we're trying to write, we're going to write another sports game because I get that and from time to time we will do a sports. Will you let me know when it is so I can come play it? Okay, so well, this will be on there. I mean, I'm not going to be able to win either way. All right, $332 million that's the central figure for this question, because last year this college athletic program raised the most annual revenue $332 million. I think the technical was 331.9. So the next closest was what do we got there? Oh, sorry, yeah, so, and that, by the way, the other thing I came across was that's 100 million more than the prior year.
Speaker 1:Damn. All right, are we talking their entire?
Speaker 2:sports program or are we talking about a specific sport in that program? So this comes from the Knight new house college athletics database. Um, and it is just college athletics. It just says which college athletic program but it doesn't say like I'm talking the sport of badminton, or I'm talking football or I'm talking basketball, yes, Entire athletic program.
Speaker 1:So that's gotta be somebody.
Speaker 2:But we all know that golf raises the most.
Speaker 1:Yes, oh man. So it's got to be a program that has more than one high-profile sport in it, Does it really? It would lead me to believe that it might not. Notre Dame won the football championship, but that was this year. We're talking 2024? Well, Notre Dame didn the football championship, but that was this year. We're talking 2024? Well, Notre Dame didn't win it.
Speaker 2:Last year, 2024. Notre Dame did not win last year. That was Ohio.
Speaker 1:State, so that wouldn't count in 2024, because I assume they're talking calendar year.
Speaker 2:It has nothing to do Well. I mean it has something to do with championships.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean you win money for championships, but I got the Notre Dame part wrong. I had to rethink about that. It was Ohio State. Notre Dame was in the game but they did not win it. So Ohio State would be near the top of my list. Alabama would be near the top of my list. You being a Georgia guy, and this being a sports question, also leads me to believe it might be the University of Georgia. And this being a sports question also leads me to believe it might be the.
Speaker 2:University of Georgia, and that's not bad logic.
Speaker 1:but it's wrong, wrong. But if we're talking in terms of pure viewership and what they bring in, the Duke men's basketball program brings in a lot of money You're just saying that, because you're a Duke fan. I mean, yes, but they also bring in a shit ton of money. But if I had to lead, I mean maybe, but they've been terrible for two years. So no, yeah, so has Duke. No, If I really had to go for a guess here, it would either be Ohio State or Alabama.
Speaker 2:You got the number two, which is Ohio State, but you haven't even mentioned number one, oregon state. But you haven't even mentioned number one, oregon. Texas, texas. Uh, in 2023, texas was second in athletics of revenue to ohio state. Now at 239 this year, that was 2023. 2024, texas 331. That's crazy, I know.
Speaker 1:They weren't good in anything.
Speaker 2:I'm thinking some of this is also I don't know how much NIL plays into that, because I don't know and this is I don't understand. I think it's destroying. It's destroying athletics, it's destroying these kids. It's destroying these kids. It's definitely fucking bullshit.
Speaker 1:I am on the side of these kids getting paid.
Speaker 2:I absolutely agree. But when you give this 18-year-old kid $20, $30 million, $5, $6 million, it doesn't matter, that's just come on, I get it. Bank it Say you know what. Come on, I get it Bank it Say you know what? When you graduate or go to the pros, or when you leave, if you leave without graduating, then you get it eight years later. You know whatever.
Speaker 1:I would be interested to see what the highest paid NIL player was.
Speaker 2:That's not a bad thing. I'm going to write that down because I'm going to look that up. So I don't know if the colleges get a cut of that at all. So in other words, this athlete gets $5 million. Does $50,000 go to their school?
Speaker 1:I don't believe so I think that that's the school paying the student, and I think that's the whole point is that funnel through the school, or does that come directly from the sponsor?
Speaker 2:whoever?
Speaker 1:so athletes can sign uh sponsorships. But any nil money that a school has like that's direct to student okay, so I.
Speaker 2:So. That's something I didn't quite understand. So what you're saying is you know we raise all this money and we're going to designate $20 million to be spent for NIL.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so they have an.
Speaker 2:NIL fund.
Speaker 1:That boosters and everybody else can just okay, which is why some of these big schools Texas, ohio State, alabama, georgia they have such a massive booster program that their NIL funds are ridiculous, which is why they can, in essence, buy players legally now I'm going to start an NIL fund for trivia.
Speaker 2:I love that. Yeah, I'll be like all right, here's a $5 coupon, $10 coupon for you, cause you did good this year.
Speaker 1:But I think I think Cooper flag um the kid that just played for Duke. Um, he, he's going to go number one in the NBA draft, like he's okay, he's insane. Um, I think he only got.
Speaker 2:I did watch the finals at the other. It's like the only two basketball games I've in pro games that I've watched um I think he only got uh like three or four million.
Speaker 1:All right, but he was a freshman all right, right.
Speaker 2:So moving on, you ready for my sports one. What you got for sports.
Speaker 1:You should get this one. I have full faith in you. What ultra-famous sporting event being hosted by the USA this year is expanding their tournament to include 32 teams for the first time ever.
Speaker 2:Tournament Teen tournament Expanding to 32. Hosted in the US this year.
Speaker 1:In like four or five different cities, atlanta's hosting a few games.
Speaker 2:So because you said that now it's like FIFA World Cup, it is the World Cup Only because you said that I'm sitting there going all right, so Ryder Cup's only two teams. You said the US, so it's not like the NFL expanding their playoffs again. But then when you said hosted in a couple of cities, I was thinking, wait, isn't something being the Olympics being hosted? But that's not teams, that's countries and it could be. But then you said like Atlanta's one.
Speaker 1:I mean, I think Atlanta's hosting some of the good games.
Speaker 2:Yeah With their new stadium and all had the Mercedes Benz Still have not been inside that.
Speaker 1:I remember I was living in Atlanta when they were building it and I knew a guy that was working on it and that retractable roof. When they built it because of the way that it opens, it doesn't just slide apart, it like spins and opens they said there was like a 5% chance that the first time they opened it they would never be able to close it again.
Speaker 2:That's when you get a big hammer.
Speaker 1:Yeah, big old hammer, you need a helichopper to bring it up there.
Speaker 2:So there's some dude sitting at a desk somewhere going okay, bob, here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to calculate this because every once in a while it just doesn't work quite right. So here's where we go. Give me another Mountain Dew. All right, mountain Dew.
Speaker 1:I thought Red Bull, no, no, no.
Speaker 2:Oh God, coders, no. So let me rephrase that Now, when I was coming up, and you do all night coding sessions, you do all this geeks. Mountain Dew, dude, mountain Dew will send you into the stratosphere. Nice, all right, let's do a little geography. I love geography. All right, there are 15 answers to this single question. Let's see how many I can get. That's going to be my thing and it's going to be kind of easy, I mean for some, but I'm going to try this out. There are 15 US states whose postal abbreviations are the first and last letter of their state name. I'll give you one to show you an example. The postal abbreviation for the state of Georgia is GA. G is the first letter and A is the last letter in Georgia.
Speaker 1:There you go. Yes, give me Iowa.
Speaker 2:Survey says ding ding, ding, ding ding. Yes, Give me Maine, yes.
Speaker 1:Give me California. Yes, give me.
Speaker 2:Give me a break. Give me a break, Break me up a piece of that good bad bar.
Speaker 1:Give me Michigan, no Minnesota.
Speaker 2:No, damn, neither one of those. All right, that's two strikes. I'll give you two more strikes. Give me Pennsylvania, pennsylvania, it is Okay, including the one I gave you. You now have five of the 15. Okay.
Speaker 1:Give me Kentucky, kentucky it is. And Louisiana yes, give me Colorado. Yes, it's not Utah. It's not Utah. It's not Minnesota, it's not Illinois, it's not with Virginia. Give me Virginia.
Speaker 2:Virginia is correct. Give me Delaware. Delaware is correct.
Speaker 1:Give me Connecticut Connecticut is correct. Give me Connecticut, connecticut is correct.
Speaker 2:What Drew Bear doesn't know is we've secretly spiked Alright, going once, going twice. Give me no.
Speaker 1:Give me Kansas. No, yes, it is, it is Okay. No, that's it, that's all I got.
Speaker 2:Okay, so you got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 of the 15, including the one I gave you. So the remaining missing ones were Hawaii and Maryland.
Speaker 1:Maryland.
Speaker 2:So that was a good question. I like that. Yeah, I figured that'd be something something different. So I don't know how I will, you know. So when I've got producers and stuff and we're doing trivia, and all of a sudden I'm going to be like all right, so I've got this question. They hate multi-parters, especially in the beginning. Oh, producers and and I can't blame them because I'm not scoring them but so I'm thinking, now I throw out a 15-parter. But now, to be fair, I always let the producers say you know, you choose. How many do you want to score? Yeah, so you can't get pissed at me, they still pitch. Oh, of course, especially when there's a lot of multi-parters. That just makes life nasty.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you've got to try to put them at the end of a round, so they've got time to.
Speaker 2:Well, no, no, they can't be at the end of the round because then they can't be included in the score, because now you're busting your butt trying to get them ready when we're going to read scores at the end of the round.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but they've got that whole time.
Speaker 2:I don't know what you put. Them is just before the I Spy. Oh, that works too that way. You've got the I Spy time while the music is playing, to do some scores. You've got to do it for the long one. For one like that, that might not be a bad idea. But these days also, especially for the heavy shows, I've got two producers. One of them can be doing it. They could know in between the two of them. They're both doing it, um, and reading everything All right. So, uh, I got one.
Speaker 2:What you got.
Speaker 1:Let's talk a little bit of technology. Okay, unless you want to end there and start a second one real quick.
Speaker 2:No, we'll continue on, okay second one real quick.
Speaker 1:No, we're continuing, okay. Um so everybody knows well, I would assume everybody knows um that the best-selling tv in the united states is made by samsung. Right, samsung tvs are, depending on the criteria you use no no, I I mean, they are widely the number one selling.
Speaker 2:TV brand. So you're talking about by volume sales volume selling the most units, Mm-hmm, Okay.
Speaker 1:Can you name the second?
Speaker 2:So there would be things like Hitachi Mm-hmm. There would be things like hitachi. There would be things like is roku an actual or is that just a? I think that's just an add-on, that's not the actual brand. Yeah, they, they add on to tvs. Yeah, it's like an operating system, whatever you want, like there's fire tv and there's um so they normally attach to a brand um so there's like yeah, so TCL was one of mine and Hisense was another one, but you've already got Sony.
Speaker 2:You said for no, you did Samsung. Yeah, so Sony is there, but I don't think they're up there anymore. They're just too expensive. There's one more big one you haven't named See Sony, hitachi, hisense, tcl, two letters, or they're just too expensive. There's one more big one you haven't named. Let's see Sony, hitachi, hisense, tcl, two letters.
Speaker 1:GE, lg, lg is another one, huh.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're right, you're right, and LG TV. I remember those.
Speaker 1:In terms of profit. I'll give you a big hint here In terms of profit, they're number two.
Speaker 2:No, so I just got to pick one of those I'm going to go with Hisense TCL Dickel.
Speaker 1:Because of their partnership with Roku, because the Roku TVs that you buy are almost all exclusively TCLs.
Speaker 2:I don't like them.
Speaker 1:I don't either, but that's the reason why they're so popular is because they're so cheap.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I get that. The Fire TV. I need a Fire TV OS a Fire OS because I've had a couple of the others the Google in there as a fire os, just because I've had a couple of the others, the google in there and I just with the new fire sticks, you can pay like I don't know how much.
Speaker 1:My friend pays, it's like 200 a year. But like you get everything like movies that are just coming out of the theater and like every channel known to man, every sporting event.
Speaker 2:I finally started watching Wicked last night. Had not seen it yet. Oh my God, it's so good. Yes and no, we'll see. I'm only a third of the way into it. And then today I was going to watch the Accountant 2.
Speaker 1:I hadn't seen that one yet they just dropped the trailer for the second part of Wicked yesterday.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I knew that was coming so I figured it's about time. I just never could make it into the theater. All right.
Speaker 2:We saw it three times in theaters, by the way. So cross-episode question for next week If you could choose an any, any, all expenses paid, adrenaline adventure, all right. So not just I'm going to go land a cruise ship, I'm talking adrenaline, something that you're gonna be like, holy fuck, I can't believe I'm doing that. Right, that's, that's what we're looking for, all right. So if you could choose any, all expenses paid, so you know you don't have to worry about, you can just do, right, this is what I'm gonna. So that's it. And for the dynamic duo we're going to expand this. We're going to pick up at least one, if not two. Unfortunately, tez just didn't work out for him. He's got a bunch of other stuff going on and just couldn't quite do that. So I think we've got a couple of folks in mind and we'll just expand this and make it a four-person thing and it'll just be a lot of editing. Yeah, but that's okay, I have confidence in you. You can do it. I have faith, too, you can edit it. Yeah, okay, I'll make it work.
Speaker 1:All right, dude. See ya, it was a pleasure.
Speaker 2:Wait for her pleasure For all of us. It was ribbed. Oh yeah, how you doing, big boy, how you doing.
