[MUSIC PLAYING]
- From Proto Man to the protomolecule,
nerds like a lot of things.
But there's something they love above all else,
and that is correcting people.
This is Um, Actually.
And joining us today, we have Ify Nwadiwe.
- Hey, what's up.
It's your boy.
I'm back.
- He's back.
And Siobhan Thompson.
- Hi, what's up?
It's your girl.
- And our fan contestant for this game,
from Lexington, Kentucky, Jeremy Puckett.
- Hi-diddly-ho, neighborenos.
- There we go.
We're very excited to have you here--
very excited to get the fans in here.
This will be the last episode that we're doing for a while.
It's like this, but hopefully we'll
get to do some more in the future.
If you didn't hear about this before, I don't know,
get on the Discord.
You two have played before.
You've certainly seen some episodes in your time,
so you all know how this game works.
But for those at home, I have here a stack of statements.
These are incorrect statements, about the things
that you know and love.
It's up to these fine contestants
to find the thing that is wrong and correct it.
Corrections must be preceded with the phrase, "Um,
actually."
If you don't, I won't give you the point.
And you can correct me at any point in my sentence.
Pretty simple rules, pretty simple game,
let's see how it goes.
Based off the 1990s manga of the same name,
the film Alita: Battle Angel takes place
in the post-apocalyptic distant future of Earth,
focusing on the sprawling junkyard metropolis
of Iron City, which sits below the wealthier,
floating city of Zalem.
[DING]
- Um, actually, it doesn't actually take place on Earth.
- Incorrect.
- Well, you always make it look like [INAUDIBLE] I'm right.
- That's what I was going to guess.
[DING]
- Yes?
- Um, actually, the manga is called
Gunm, or Battle Angel Alita in the English translation.
- That's correct.
The manga is called Battle Angel Alita, not Alita Battle Angel.
- Whoo!
- OK.
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
- I go home with a point.
- Nitpicky.
- And that's where we can sit back and go like,
OK, I got this.
- Now I don't have to worry about dishonor on my house,
dishonor on my cow.
- Oh yeah, that's perfect.
Yeah, no dishonor around here.
You got that point.
- Cool cool, you got the pedant questions then.
And that's the ones you've got.
- What game do you think we're playing?
- Cool, cool.
I thought we were talking about some real nerd stuff, not
rearranging words.
This ain't Scrabble.
- All right.
Well, that's a point for Jeremy.
We'll move on to our next question.
This is about Kingdom Hearts.
- Well.
- Yours.
- The Kingdom Hearts series brings together characters from
Final Fantasy and Disney in a notoriously hard-to-follow
adventure story.
The first game starts, however, in a location
known as The Destiny Islands, a location that
is original to Kingdom Hearts and populated entirely
by original characters, like our protagonist, Sora.
[DING]
Jeremy?
- Um, actually, it is not inhabited by entirely original
characters.
- That's correct, can you be more specific?
- I cannot.
You've exhausted the depth of my Kingdom Hearts knowledge.
- Well, that's fair enough.
Anyone else?
[DING]
- Um, actually, Minnie Mouse lives there.
- Oh, man that was--
- Incorrect.
[DING]
- Hoo, this is a free throw, because I
got to take myself back to Ify in 2006,
playing this right before senior year.
Getting ready, I had two things on my mind,
beating Kingdom Hearts, losing my virginity.
- Which one did you do first?
- And the two are in conflict.
- I lost my virginity first.
- You know what?
Congratulations.
- Yeah, yeah.
Thanks.
You know--
- Well, Kingdom Hearts is a hard game.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- American Pie type story.
- Well, that's what I grew up off of.
I was like, I can't graduate a virgin.
You know, movies they have an effect on me.
So, I'm going to go and guess that the character was
Lilo from Lilo and Stitch.
- Incorrect.
So we'll give that point to Jeremy.
[DING] The island was also populated by child versions
of well-known Final Fantasy characters--
- Oh, yes.
- -- like Titus from Final Fantasy X.
- What?
OK.
- And Sophie from Final Fantasy XIV.
- Sure.
- That's the correct response.
- No, I have a friend who was recently
[? playing ?] Kingdom Hearts III, and I asked him,
"So you finished it.
Does the ending make any sense?"
And his response was, "About as much as the rest of the series
does."
- Nothing in the series makes sense.
I think these are already characters
that have back stories that are existing elsewhere,
but here they are as children.
- It also seems insane to me that Disney,
which is notoriously very proprietary about their stuff
and how you use them, it's like sure, Mickey can have a sword
and kill people.
Absolutely.
- Well, actually-- um, actually--
I believe, although I may need someone
to check me on this because this could be apocrypha or something
just invaded my brain.
I believe that part of the reason that Sora wields
a giant key instead of a sword is because Disney was like,
no, no, no, not a big sword.
That's too violent.
So it's like, what if it's a big key?
It's like that's cool, that'll work all right.
So yeah, the weapon is just a giant key.
- That makes as much sense to me as anything
about Kingdom Hearts.
- Yeah.
- Sure.
- Wild.
- Well, a point for Jeremy on that one for identifying
that it wasn't populated entirely
by original characters.
Here's a D&D question for y'all.
In the Planescape setting of Dungeons and Dragons,
the city of Sigil serves as a kind
of interdimensional crossroads.
It is ruled by The Lady of Pain, an inscrutable
being powerful enough to kill a god with a single thought.
She also does not allow beings like gods
into Sigil, instead insisting that the denizens of Sigil
worship her as their one true goddess.
Yes, Jeremy?
- Um, actually, one of The Lady of Pain's primary rules
is that she is not to be worshipped as a god.
- That is correct.
- Oh, man.
- Wow.
- Yeah, I didn't have a chance.
I just play my own cooked up games.
I don't do these systems.
Sorry.
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
- The best thing about Planescape
is Tony DiTerlizzi's art.
It's just beautiful, and like labyrinth-type stuff as D&D,
and it's gorgeous.
- Oh so you just read it for the pictures?
- Oh, absolutely.
- I mean, I think I've talked about this before.
But when I was a kid, I would get monster manuals just
for the art.
I didn't play Dungeons and Dragons,
but I was like, "That's a cool monster."
I'm going to buy that.
- I feel like this is the more-- beat for beat--
the difference between nerds and regular dudes.
He was like, oh, I read it for the articles.
Like no, I read it for the pictures.
- Well, that is another point for Jeremy.
This is a new thing that we are doing, this is a fan question.
This is a question written by a fan and submitted to the show.
So this will be fan v. fan a little bit here.
This comes to us from Tikiza--
maybe that's how you say your name.
Ta-kye-zah?
Tikiza?
Tikiza.
Let's go with Tikiza.
The Norse pantheon is full of familiar figures like Odin
and his sons, Thor and Loki.
But there are many obscure deities, too.
Forseti is a god who peacefully settled disputes between men.
Sol is the goddess of the sun.
Mani is the god of the moon, and Hodr is a warrior god
typically depicted as blind.
[DING]
Ify?
- Um, actually, Hodr's not one of the gods.
- Hodr's one of the gods.
- Now, all right.
- Hodr, Hodr, Hodr.
[DING]
Siobhan?
- Um, actually, Hodr isn't blind.
Odin is blind.
Like, does he have two--
- Odin is missing an eye.
Hodr is depicted as blind.
- That's a lot of blind deities in Norse mythology.
- Hey, you know?
[DING]
- Um, actually, in Norse mythology,
Loki is not Odin's son.
He's Odin's brother.
- That's correct.
- In Marvel, they are brothers.
- See, that's why--
- I was still doing it as MCU.
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
- You can't let the MCU trick you.
Yep.
- Stan Lee!
Done again.
- You've tricked me again.
- Just remember, if you ever think that mythology is weird,
Loki once had sex with a horse to win a bet.
- Oh yeah, and then didn't he have a horse child--
- Yeah, a horse baby.
- --that he gave birth to?
- He was the mother of a horse.
- Great.
- Yeah.
- Look, if you're living in classical times,
we're living in the mythological age,
you've got to be careful with the animals.
Because you're going to give birth to animals.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Thank you Tikiza, for this tricky Norse mythology
versus Marvel question.
It's another point for Jeremy.
And this will bring us to our first shiny question
of the game.
Shiny questions, of course, same number of points,
just a little bit different-- a little bit rare,
just like shiny Pokémon.
This is a game called Where Am I?
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So this is a game called Where Am I?
This is a game we've played before.
So on the other side of this, there are a series of maps.
So we're going to go kind of one at a time.
First person to buzz in and correct it will get the point.
Wait till I say next to flip to the next one,
just so everyone's looking at the same thing
at the same time.
Now, in the past these have been predominantly fantasy maps
from fantasy novels.
This time, these are going to be video game maps.
Flip your stack.
Tell me, where am I?
What map this?
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[DING]
Jeremy?
- This is Final Fantasy VI.
- It is Final Fantasy VI.
All right, flip to the next one.
Where am I?
What is this?
Ify?
- Witcher, Witcher 3.
- This is The Witcher 3, yes.
All right, flip.
[DING]
Ify?
- Super Mario World.
- Yes.
That was just a race to see who could get it first,
and that was Ify.
All right, and flip.
- Oh.
- Oh, yeah.
Bleh.
- Where am I?
Where is this?
[DING]
Jeremy?
- Fantasy Star?
- Incorrect.
[DING]
Siobhan?
- Is this Civilization?
- It is not.
[DING]
- Zone of the Enders?
- Incorrect.
This is Capital Wasteland from Fallout 3.
- Oh my god.
- Oh.
- I've never seen it completely revealed like this.
- We're zoomed way out.
- Oh my god, yeah.
- Yep, yep.
So no one gets that one.
We'll get ready here for the next one, and flip.
[DING]
Ify?
- This is--
I was almost going to say Fallout, but this is Fortnite.
- This is Fortnite.
- This is a season six, too, I think, season five or six.
- Ify, I don't have that information on my card.
I couldn't tell you, but this is in fact, Fortnite.
All right, and let's get that last map.
Flip.
[DING]
Jeremy?
- This is Oregon Trail.
- This is the Oregon Trail.
- I didn't even need to read the map, the shape of it
was burned into my eyeballs.
- Yeah, this is--
yep, there it is.
That's our grand country there, Soda Springs and all.
Well, that was a very fast-moving one.
Jeremy, you got two.
Ify, you got three.
That point goes to Ify.
- Look at so many maps.
- That's it for this preview of Um, Actually.
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And since we're all about being correct here,
I should point out that it's not actually 66%.
It's 66.6666666666666.
It will be up to you to give the appropriate food
to the appropriate character, that
is matching the food from the franchise to the character
that it would belong to.
Whoever can get the most correctly matched up
will get the point.
All right, let's flip those over.
Look, look who we got here.
Look at these fun folks.