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- From Starfire to Firestarter, nerds like a lot of things,
but there's something they love above all else,
and that is correcting people.
This is Um, Actually.
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And joining us on this episode,
we have Jordan Doll.
- Hello! - Hello!
We have Nick Marini.
- Yo, yo, yo.
- [Mike] Yo, yo yo,
and we have Liam Senior.
- Hello lo lo.
- Hello lo lo to all of you.
Thank you so much for coming onto this episode.
Returning are Jordan and Nick,
and for the first time, Liam.
Very happy to have you here.
The rules are very simple, this is a,
I have here a stack of statements,
these are incorrect statements about
the things you know and love.
It's up to you to find the thing that I said that was wrong,
buzz in and correct me, all your corrections have to be
preceded by the phrase, um actually.
And you can interrupt me whenever you want in the question.
Yeah, how are you all feeling?
- Good, I've been practicing.
- Okay, just correcting people on the street.
(laughing)
- I've gotten very good st losing this game
over the past couple of times I've been on.
- Is that true, I feel like you,
for some reason I have a memory of you
doing quite well, but I don't know.
- You know what,
it's just my energy. - Um actually,
apparently he didn't! (Jordan laughs)
- [Liam] Yeah, we have a fact-checker.
- Well, we're gonna go ahead and get started then
if you all feel ready, buzzers in hand,
um actuallys at the tip of your tongue.
We will start the question about Stranger Things.
"When we first meet Mike and friends in Stranger Things,
they're playing a game of Dungeons and Dragons,
battling a demon known as a Demogorgon.
They give this same name, Demogorgon,
to the monster from the upside-down
because it bears a striking resemblance
to the fantasy demon.
Similarly, in season two a creature
is called The Mind Flayer because it also looks like a D&D
creature of the same name. (bell dings)
Liam. - Um, actually, a Mind Flayer
doesn't look like the Mind Flayer in Stranger Things.
That was more of like a weird kind of Cthulhu-y mass,
where I believe a Mind Flayer is more humanoid.
- There actually, they do look kind of similar those two.
Yeah, yeah. (bell dings)
Nick?
- Uh, I don't think, um, actually!
I'm tryna remember what a Demogorgon looks like,
but I don't think the Demogorgons look the same.
- That's correct. - Yeah.
(Liam signs) - Yeah, a Demogorgon from D&D
is typically depicted as a giant lizard-like humanoid
with two mandrill heads mounted on snake-like necks,
with tentacles for arms.
(bell dings) Which is a nightmare,
and also markedly different from the Demogorgon
in Stranger Things.
- [Liam] Which is just a dude with like
a flower of teeth for a head, if I remember correctly.
- More humanoid, certainly not two mandrill heads
on snake necks and things like that.
- Get it together, Duffer brothers!
- Honestly I would watch that show, as well.
- Yeah, the show with this like--
- Stranger-er Things. (all laughing)
- Well yeah, that's a point for Nick.
Our next question is a video game question here.
Poor Lakitu, he appears in so many Mario games,
but never gets to have any fun.
He's an enemy in a variety of Mario games,
and he also shows up in Mario Kart, Mario Tennis,
Mario Party, and Mario Golf, but only to retrieve balls,
communicate information and referee the games.
(bell dings) - Liam.
- Um actually, I believe recently he was finally allowed
to get behind the wheel of a kart.
- That is correct, how recently?
- I wanna say the latest one, the re-make for the Switch.
- Yes, that's right. - Mario Kart 8?
- In Mario Kart 8 and Mario Kart 7,
Lakitu is a playable kart to play.
- Um actually, doesn't that mean he also gets to have fun?
- That's exactly it, he finally gets his shot to have fun.
Yeah, in those two he is also doing fun things.
They finally gave him his shot.
(bell dings) - Good for him.
- Um actually, those things aren't fun
because Lakitu is lame and nobody cares.
(Mike laughs) Get my ball, Lakitu.
- I know I'm going the wrong way
you don't need to hold the sign in front of me.
- I wish to continue having fun with my real friends.
- (laughs) Why are you here?
"Mom said you had to invite me!"
(all laughing)
It feels like it raises an issue
if Lakitu is both refereeing the match
and also racing in the match. - yeah, right?
- 'Cause when you're racing as him,
isn't there still a Lakitu sort of like,
it's like, "Okay, here come the lights, everything's cool."
- The version that's racing just has like a mustache on.
- Yeah. (laughs)
- Like, "No."
- "Oh, it's just me it's someone else,
"nothing to worry about here!"
- "I'm a different guy!"
- "Oh the winner is Lakitu again, what a shocker!"
Well that is a point for Liam.
Randall Flagg is a recurring villain
across multiple novels by Stephen King,
often appearing under a pseudonym with the initials R.F.
He's gone by Robert Franq, Richard Feynman,
Ramsey Forrest, Robert Freemont
and Raymond Fiegler, among others.
He first appeared in "The Stand",
but is perhaps best known for being
one of the primary antagonists of "The Dark Tower" series.
(bell dings) Yes, Jordan?
- Um actually, he first appeared in "The Gunslinger"?
- He actually does first appear in "The Stand".
- Rats! - Yeah.
(bell dings)
- Um actually, one of those many names you said
was not one of his names.
- You're gonna have to be more specific. (laughs)
Those names, you wanna take a stab?
- Is one of them Raymond something?
(all laughing)
- It's Raymond from Everybody Loves Raymond.
(bell dings) Jordan?
- Um actually, he's never been the Ramsey Forrest.
- He has been Ramsey Forrest. - I, kidding.
- Yeah. - Gotcha.
(bell dings) - well , you got me.
- Um actually, he's never been Raymond Fiegler?
- No. (bell dings)
- Um actually, he spells Raymond Fiegler with a ph.
So that's R.P. (Mike laughs)
- Yeah, you couldn't tell how I was saying it,
but that's actually it.
All right, I'm gonna call it, we'll just say no-one got it.
We'll just end up guessing here.
Richard Feynman is a famous physicist.
(Liam giggles)
Who is a sort of cohort of Carl Sagan's,
written a bunch of books and all kinds of things.
He is not in fact The Man in Black,
a great unknowable evil, he is a physicist,
and so that is not one of his--
- I mean, that was like double-deep nerd.
- [Mike] Yeah, double-deep nerdom.
- We're not nerdy enough--
- It was either you, you either know Stephen King
or you know physics-- - What was the name?
- We'll give you a save there.
Well, no points for that one.
Our next question is a fan submitted question,
so one of the viewers of this program
wrote in a question and this is about Warhammer 40,000.
Orks in Warhammer 40,000 only bear
a passing resemblance to those in Tolkien's work.
Greenskins, as they're often called,
are brilliant engineers capable of spaceflight,
who worship their own gods Gork and Mork.
They also reproduce asexually through spores,
similar to a fungus.
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- Um actually, they're not engineers
in the sense that they're creating their own technology,
they're more like scrap engineers,
so they're like taking existing things,
strapping those things together,
and they're using other people's technology
to transmit themselves to the stars in their WAAAGHs.
- You're pretty close, I'm gonna say that
that's close enough to what we're going for here,
which is that Orks are capable of spaceflight,
but it's not because they're brilliant engineers,
it;'s because they manifest a collective psychic field
known as WAAAGH which allows them to will technology to work
through sheer force of will,
not because they are particularly clever engineers
and know how machines actually work.
They just believe it hard enough and so it does work.
- So the psychic equivalent of hitting the VCR.
- Yeah, exactly (laughs) just smacking it.
Or I guess they kind of Secret, they use "The Secret"
to sort of make their machines work.
They're just like, "Guys, you know what?
"I really think this spaceship's
"gonna get us where we need to go."
- There also just need to be enough of them, I think.
If there's a small colony, they ain't getting anywhere.
But once they've reproduced enough,
they can be like, "Okay sick, enough of us!
"Let's go guys!"
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- And this is our first shiny question of the game,
this is called Crunch Time.
Here are time travel maps.
It is up to you to identify what the property is
based on the time and dates traveled to.
None of these are from movies.
Let's flip this over and let's take a look at this.
What on earth do we have here?
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- Is everybody ready?
- I'm ready, let's see it. - Okay, here we go.
My one guess is "Outlander"
for the first one. - All right.
- [Nick] I didn't guess it there.
- Or as my people know it, Ootlander.
(mike laughs) - All right.
- It's the one hot Scottish man in fiction.
(Mike laughing)
- What about Fat Bastard?
- Oh come on now, he's not fictional!
(all laughing)
- All right, Nick, why don't you show us what you got here.
- This si gonna be rough.
I just knew "Outlander" was a thing
that included time-travel, os I put it somewhere,
and then that should say
"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court,"
because that's the only other thing I can remember
that had time travel. - That's very good.
- And not that King Arthur's court existed--
- But you were traveling there.
- But yeah, I don't know.
- All right, Liam, let's see what you got.
- All right, so I started with
George Washington's secret cooler biography,
this is "Boyhood" the book,
but I'm pretty sure it lasts more than 10 years.
(all laughing)
I wrote "Time Bandits" the book,
just 'cause I like the movie.
I realize that I guessed, the only guess was
H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine".
Pretty sure he only time-traveled a couple of times,
and not in this pattern.
- That, yes, spoiler, but yeah, that is not the way
that "The Time Machine" travels.
- I just wrote "Some crazy medieval,"
and then "Th Cat in The Hat Comes Back."
- Wonderful, well, Liam, you have none correct.
- What? - I'm sorry to say.
Nick and Jordan, you both have one correct.
- What? - Yes!
- The one guess you made, that is in fact
a depiction of "Outlander", and your guess for
"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court," is correct.
But let's take a look at those other ones
and see what we got.
"Outlander", "Timequake" is this one.
- [Nick] Oh, Prince of Persia, of course.
- I didn't even think of video games!
- Hey, we just said they're weren't movies,
we never said they were books.
- Books, the original video game.
(all laughing)
Back in my day, our video games were printed on paper,
and we never wanted to read them!
"Kindred, "Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court,"
and Prince of Persia at the end there.
- Look, I don't secretly love
and read "Outlander" all the time.
- Okay!
- No-one thought you did until you said it though.
- Shh, I'm thinking about "Outlander".
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