Beantown Podcast - "Celebrity" NBA All Star Game Rosters (02162025 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: February 16, 2025

Quinn comes to you LIVE to break down the NBA Celebrity All Star rosters, complain about the amount of Jeopardy tournaments, and make some early Oscar picks

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast for Sunday, February 16th, 2025. Yours truly is 11th, 12th birthday. What's happening? What's going on? How are you? It reminds me of Eleven Z's from J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth. J.R.R. is kind of a tough first name to say because if you want to be J.R. that's fine, it's easy. Isn't there a character in Dallas named J.R.? Is that like the main character in Dallas? I've never seen Dallas. I don't know. Is Dallas a drama Dallas a drama It's a Western obviously. Is there any comedy in Dallas or is it kind of a straight shooter? I've never seen Dallas I have no idea but I think The one of the main characters name is JR but JR are it's like are you having a stroke is something wrong yet something?

Stuck in your epiglottis. Oh geez EPIGLOT something stuck in your epiglottis. Oh geez. E-P-I-G-L-O-T. T-I-S? Is it two T's or one T? I'm going, I'm leaning two T's, just like two R's and J-R-R-Tolken. It'd be good if you were a pirate. J-R-R-Tolken. But you gotta say the R twice. Anyway, you got to say the R twice. You got breakfast, second breakfast, 11 Z's, high tea, dinner, supper, something like that. I think I think Billy Boyd and Dominic Monahan like lists all of them in the Fellowship of the Ring. I can't remember it though but it's about 11 20 in the morning here we would be squarely

on presumably 11 Z's. It's interesting because I think the morning here. We would be squarely on, presumably, 11sies. It's interesting because I think 11sies is the third meal of the day over there in Hobbiton, in the Shire. So they're fitting in ideally two meals before 11sies. Now I usually have my normal breakfast around 11 on a work day, maybe a little bit earlier on a weekend, which is probably backwards from most of society, but fitting in two meals before 11 Zs is tough. Now by nature of the 11 Zs, I think tends to imply that you could have it around 11, but it's not a faux pas, F-A-U-X space P-A-S to have it later but you probably I would say by about noon 12 15 or so you probably got to put the kibosh on 11 Z's

that's when you transition into high T. I don't know how to spell kibosh I don't even know what language that's from it could be Hungarian Hungarian. It could be Slavic. Not sure about Kibosh and no idea how to spell it. You know what, I like learning on the Beantown podcast and I'm not afraid to admit when I don't know something. So let's put the Kibosh on not knowing how to spell it. Kibosh, just pretty straightforward. K-I-B-O-S-H.

Kind of like Chrisbosh, but Kaibosh. Chrisbosh, of course, Raptor's legend, before teaming up with the Heat. Let's also learn the etymology of Kaibosh while we're here. The origin of the word Kaibosh is uncertain, and this is from the AI overview, so you know it's right. But it may come from the Arabic word kurbas which means whip so if you're gonna put the whip on something the cool whip or the kibosh you would say you know let's let's let's close this out let's get it you know let's get it in gear here I've been saying shift gears a lot in my phone calls I do for work a lot of of my time in the workday is spent on phone screens with candidates basically to just lay out all the details,

ask some preliminary questions, but I always shift gears when I go from my sort of standard set of human resources oriented questions to more of the job specific questions that hiring managers want to know about. So I'm always shifting gears and say, hey, let's shift gears. That's a good Gen Z, not Gen Z phrase, but 2020s era work culture phrase. There's a lot of those.

And I'm not going to repeat all of them ad nausea, but I know like put a pin in it is classic. Circle back on that is classic. Check-in is maybe less egregious, but let's check in on that. That's a good one. Other classic workplace phrases that really grind your gears, email us, bean-town-podcast-at-yahoo.com. Again, that's bean-town-bean-ownpodcasts.yahoo.com. Again, that's beanthownpodcasts.yahoo.com. I am the creator, the host, and the chief, let's say chief prosthetics

designer of this program. Speaking of prosthetics, the reason it came up, I watched The Substance yesterday, 2024 film nominated for a number of Academy Awards, actually. I think off the top of my head, I think it's like five. I'd have to triple check all of it, but I'm fairly certain that it's Best Picture or nominated for Best Picture. Demi Moore was nominated for Best Actress.

And I think the director, it's a female director who I'm not familiar with, and I don't recall her name off the top of my head but I'm almost certain she was nominated for best director I think it was I think I saw it was five nominations so there's there's two others if I had to guess that's actually now I'm curious we're all we're learning early in the morning here on a Sunday here the Bean Town podcast before I look up, if I had to guess, two other nominations for The Substance, which is a horror kind of body dysmorphia movie, starring Demi Moore, really just a three person cast. I mean, there's plenty of other people in the movie, but

it's just three people essentially. Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, and Dennis Quaid. three people essentially. Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, and Dennis Quaid. Let's see. I'm pretty sure, so we already named the three. The other ones you'd have to say best effects, visual effects almost certainly. That's got to be on there. If this movie was going to be nominated for one Oscar it would have to be best visual effects. And there was a lot of, I don't know if it's going to be editing or audio effects. Didn't they combine? Because there used to be two audios, right? There is like, I don't even remember what they were, but I remember on years past, we used to do more dedicated Oscar specials with a friend of the show, Ryan Liggin.

And it was always interesting, you got the two sound effects categories. Do you go same movie for both? You try to split hairs, thread the needle, but I'm fairly certain the last year or two, they've combined it and condensed it. Now we're down to one audio effect. I don't even know what it's called. Sound mixing and sound editing, I think, is what it is. And now I think it's just one. So I'm going to... The reason I mentioned it, this stood out to me more than anything else and this was probably largely because it was a horror movie first and foremost, but the sound in this was like... Over the top sounds like a very negative phrase to use, but at times it was a little bit distracting, just like too much sound, if you will,

and not like music, just like, oh, she's chewing or she's walking or she opens the door and just the noise that accompanied those was just extreme or dramatic, I guess. So I'm gonna, I'll go with that because I'll go with that over editing, although I thought the editing was good too, tough. I'm gonna go

visual effects and audio effects alongside best picture, best actress, and best director. So let's see, the substance. While I'm googling that, I will also mention that listener discretion is advised when you are watching this or listening to the show Quinn David Fernse, who presents the Bean Town podcast, because we'll occasionally occasionally some language and the podcast is objectively terrible. And I'll also mention before I forget, we're trying to keep this relatively short show today. Got Daytona 500 green flag here in a little over an hour, 1130 in the morning. Our Oscar or excuse me,, not our Oscar special, our eighth annual Pledge Drive Telethon fundraiser will be Friday night, February 28th.

Last day of the month, close out your February with us at 7 PM Central. We'll have a video stream going. There'll be an audio link that'll circulate on social and on the website. And you can, of course, call in at 815-298-7200. We started this last year playing games live on air and had a lot of fun with that.

Still trying to come up with like a gimmick. Last year it was drinking the lemon juice. Just not interested in anything quite like that. I've floated the idea of doing like a one chip challenge or something spicy, but then I'm like, I just don't know if I want to spend the next 12 hours on the toilet. So we'll see. TBD, we got 12 days to figure it out here,

12 days of Bean Town. And of course, you can always donate to support the show, which is more important now than ever. I guess I'll just take the time to mention this right now, and then we'll come back to the substance, I promise. Spotify is taking down episodes of the Bean Town podcast so you know Trump's been in office about a month now of course all of his cronies are getting confirmed I don't even know if I want to call her a friend of the show but Tulsi

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And he got, what's his face, RFK Junior in charge of health and human services, which is just crazy. I don't even know, like, I don't understand, let me just put this out there, I don't understand the RFK Junior experience in any capacity other than the name brand recognition. Like where, I didn't even know about RFK Junior

until probably a year or two ago. I didn't know there was an RFK Junior. I was more familiar with RFK One and then RFK Stadium Two in Washington DC where the, who was it, the Redskins used to play there presumably and perhaps? the Nationals in their first year or two. I don't know did the Nationals play in our case stadium. I can't recall

I've never been to our case stadium. I don't even know is it's like southeast DC Is it even in Washington DC or is it in Maryland? Regardless moving on Then there's our K jr. I don't because I just don't get it. I don't understand. Much like what I'm going to talk about when we get to the NBA celebrity All-Star game, I don't understand who this is, where they came from, or who he is popular with. But you know what? It's okay. We live detached from reality here in bean town land apparently I also and then we'll we got substance lined up here

Will reveal my my guess which I haven't looked at yet, but I do want to quickly say Thank you to our good friends in Pakistan Whether you are in the Khyber Pass Karachi Hyderabad Islamabad or Lahore L A H O R E which is also you know something you could say about the red lights red light red lice district in Paris it's where you go and you stick your head in you get lice and a blowjob and you keep going the red lice district Lahore I don't know what are the what are the articles in in French I don't even know you got L in law in

Espanol so I should have said the red red lights district in Barcelona I guess would be more apropos or Buenos Aires or wherever. I don't know what the what the adj or what the Whatever those are the articles. What are those pronouns in French? Don't study it. Don't care to study it those pronouns in French. Don't study it. Don't care to study it. Thank you for making us the 112th ranked comedy podcast in the great Islamic Republic of Pakistan. But yeah, to cap that thought about the censorship, I'm not even joking. Got multiple emails this week for each, one email for each episode that was taken down. It's probably three or four of Spotify saying, we're taking down your episodes. Something to do with there being songs in them. So I guess,

you know, we used to sing a lot more in the Meantown podcast than we do now, but singing is banished. It sounds like, it sounds like the, you know, it's like the fucking music man or something, like no singing in River City that, you know, JR from Dallas is the mayor of town and he's gonna he's gonna ban it What's the name of the time River City? Is that what it is in the music man? I don't know. I haven't seen it since the Matthew Broderick version came out 20 years ago But yeah, no singing it's like footloose no dancing. This is no singing so Spotify. I Guess they're they're saying get in line I don't know which tech oligarch is the head of Spotify who's also in charge of a government division now

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ahead with our hot take, Maples Minute, our sponsors, Trivia, and we'll talk the all-star, celebrity all-star game, celebrity in quotes here. Here are the, from the Hollywood Reporter, just to cap this thought, these are the five Oscar nominations that the substance was nominated for. By the way, I liked it. It wasn't, I was kind of surprised it was nominated for best picture because I thought it was really well done, very innovative, extremely creative and a great social commentary. But I was kind of surprised because the back half of the movie, I really enjoyed the premise and I thought the setup was excellent. But the back half of the movie, I really enjoyed the premise and I thought the setup was excellent, but the back half of the movie,

not to give too much away, but it really, it just kind of turns into like a monster horror flick kind of thing. And there wasn't as much, it just wasn't quite as intriguing to me. I thought that the setup was a lot more intriguing than the payoff, but still very well done, enjoyable, long movie, two hours and what?

Two and a half hours, basically. So pretty long. I thought there was some, it could have been about 15 minutes shorter, all in all. There were some moments that just were like, it doesn't need to be this long. But I will say if you are a queasy, if you don't like blood, or if you don't want to see boobs and butts on screen for two and a half hours, then don't watch this one. Because if you've ever wondered what Demi Moore looks like,

Demi Moore looks like naked, or Margaret Qualley, apparently, Qualley had to do a lot of like implants and stuff to, it's all about being as like sexualized as possible. That's the social commentary. And so what you see on Margaret quality, naked wise is not actually her body in real life, but enhanced, if you will,

which just kind of had second layer meta of social commentary. But I recommend it. It's a five bagger for me, five bags of popcorn. Here are the five awards. It was the Oscars. It was nominated for best picture. We know best original screenplay did not get that one. Best actress, best makeup and hair styling, best director. So neither one of the guesses, cause we, we pretty much knew best director, best picture and best director. So neither one of the guesses, because we pretty much knew best director, best picture, and best actress.

So again, I said visual effects and sound effects, I think, or editing, whatever I chose. I've gotta give myself half credit for best visual effects because it's makeup and hairstyling, and that's what I was thinking when I said visual effects. I think those are two separate categories, but I don't know. But best screenplay, best original screen effects. I think those are two separate categories, but I don't know but best screenplay Best original screenplay. I think that's fair. I was my one nitpick other than what I just mentioned is like you don't really get a lot of

Dialogue in the movie. I guess you don't really I feel like you don't really get to understand. There's not a lot of like Growth or transformation I feel like in the main characters But it is it is it is what it is. I recommend it So we'll see we got some other best picture noms I want to cross off this week and I want to get to the 824 one camera what it's called. I want to watch that one. She's like Mary's a Russian oligarch I can't remember what it's called. I want to watch that one. She's like Mary's a Russian oligarch Should be fun gotta watch walls and grommet vengeance most foul the return of feathers McGraw one of cinemas greatest movie villains

Definitely gonna watch that one, but before we watch anything else I have to let you know that listener just heard here Sorry, that's not what I wanted to say. I wanted to say is thank you to our sponsors at home pride, Oregon I wanted to say is thank you to our sponsors at home pride Oregon 541 for no 0 3 1 6 call Steve guys if you are buying a home whether you are a first-time home buyer or You're moving up in life or you're down Sizing like that Matt Damon movie, whatever it is Was that is that a thing Matt Damon a movie called downsizing? I think that was a thing from like five years ago. Don't recall. Never saw it. Move past it. Home Pride Oregon. Trust the experts. Inspection. Perfection. Locally owned, locally sourced. All that good stuff. Of course, our good friends over at the Samson Q2U series. It's got crisp, clear audio quality. You know what they need to,

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his iconic 48 car. See how he does today, starting like 19th, something like that. Not too bad for an old timer. When God speaks or announces the start of the Daytona 500, he uses a Samson. And then of course our good friends at Cuts by Q, got a fresh cut a couple weeks ago, is now it's all about maintenance guys. And you could, I don't know, Cuts by Q doesn't sell any of our own haircare products,

but I'll go to Walgreens, buy them, use a coupon, and then mark them up at a steep, steep, I was gonna say discount, but it's the opposite of that a steep steep markup and Make big money off of that. Is that what drop shipping is? I'm gonna drop ship men's hair care products and Let you know Rachel got an eyebrow wax or a threading not sure this week And I suppose we've never been asked to do that here at the Cuts by Q studios but I'll give it a shot. There were some stitches to put it mildly in the film The Substance last night and I don't know eyebrow threading I think is basically like stitches. Does it actually go into

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that there needs to be a pup cup in every school lunch from now on. That's where our federal funding should go towards. So if you're a public school and you receive any sort of Title VII funding, you know, schools are always receiving funding under some sort of title of the Civil Rights Act, presumably. Not sure. Stuff I should know in HR, but just Google it. Just like the perms and the eyebrow threading. I'll Google it. Maple believes that it's important that every public school should have pup cups for humans,

but more importantly, if there's any service dogs, they need to be adequately nourished. So that's Maple's Minute for the week. My hot take of the week, which I'll also combine into something I was watching last night because I have two differing opinions. So we're gonna have to find a way to meet somewhere in the middle. There's too many Jeopardy tournaments. Excuse me. At the same time, there's not enough. but let me explain. I'm a huge jeopardy nut jeopardy head Ken head all that fun stuff Ken bone I Do enjoy jeopardy and we just finished the tournament of champions, which was a lot of fun It's a classic annual thing. I love the tournament champions

I only know about a quarter of the answers, but it's fun nonetheless, because you're seeing really high level strategy and gameplay. Before the tournament champions, we had champions wild card. And this was for people who had won some games, but not enough to qualify for the tournament of champions, but they were well loved. And so you threw a bunch of people in their champions wild card. And the one winner gets to go to the tournament of champions alongside other people who actually won enough games on their streaks to qualify the regular way. Before Champions wild card

we had Jeopardy second chance which is people who did not win a game at all they lost just straight-up losers but they got invited to come back, do a tournament, to qualify for the Jeopardy Champions wild card. And if you won Champions wild card, you get one of the spots in the Tournament of Champions. But there wasn't just one Jeopardy second chance. They did two separate tournaments, two separate pools. So there were actually two winners of Jeopardy second chance they did two separate like tournaments two separate pools, so there are actually two two winners of

Jeopardy second chance who are original losers and of course if you win the tournament champions, and you automatically get a qualifying bid to Jeopardy Masters Which is six people and Jeopardy Masters is the three people including the winner the three finalists from the previous installment of Jeopardy Masters. In this case that is... I can't even remember. The first time they did it, the finalists were Matteo Roach, Matt Amodio, and whoever won. I don't know if it was Amy Schneider, I can't remember. So then the second iteration they brought those three back.

But then the finalists that time were... I don't remember so then the second iteration they brought those three back But then the finalists that time were I don't know Victoria Gross, oh, it's holes our holes our was the first winner But Victoria Gross from the chase she was the winner. Oh, and she beat holes our and someone else. I can't remember might have been a modio and So those three are going to be back. Actually, no, that's not, it's not a Modio because he's in the Jeopardy, the JIT, the Jeopardy Invitational, which we haven't even talked about yet. But it's the three winners, three finalists from last year's Masters. And then the three other spots

go to the Terminative Champions winner, in this case, Neelish Vingamori. And then the fifth spot is the winner of the JIT the Jeopardy Invitational tournament Which is a whole other thing and then a sixth spot is the producers choice They can bring anyone they want in for it. So then you got the Jeopardy Invitational which starts on Monday, which Look, let me be very clear the amount of studs and stars and Jeopardy legends They're bringing back for like the JIT for example Roger Craig you know Amy Schneider, Matt Amodio it's absolutely insane who's coming back for that it's it's awesome I'm Ryan Long you know people with some of the longest win

streaks in Jeopardy history I mean Amy Schneider and Matt Amodio are two and three respectively they're playing in Jeopardy! Invitational, which is another tournament, and the winner of that gets to be the fifth spot in Jeopardy! Masters. So to break down the hierarchy, not fully, but Jeopardy! Masters is the top of the top right now. Terminant Champions is like the top for the yearly thing, but then it all feeds into Jeopardy Masters. At the same time, they've gotten rid of the kids tournament, the teen tournament, the college championship, the teachers tournament hasn't happened in forever. So we've got all these high level, fairly high players, except for the second chance losers, cuz they all lost.

But we're missing, I mean, I don't know, man. I know we got Celebrity Jeopardy and Pop Culture Jeopardy are like their own separate tracks now, prime time. But I really miss the college championship was a lot of fun, largely cuz I know the answers. But the kids tournament or the teen tournament, you get so many like great moments. There's that one kid who thought he lost or thought he got cheated, the white kid because he added a T to emancipation proclamation and people

were up in arms and that. And then there was the black guy, Leonard Cooper, who was like gloating rather than writing a response in Final Jeopardy he was just like I don't know but it doesn't matter cuz I just won $50,000 but turns out if he actually if his opponent actually wagered differently he would have lost and that would have been embarrassing the black kid with the afro and that reminds me there was a whole Jeopardy I don't know what this was called but this was like two years ago it was like a Jeopardy relay basically there were six teams of three and they were like so they were like six cap six captains and 12 other players and the six captains did like a fantasy draft and it was you know, Ken Jennings

and I think Holds Hours probably one of the captains maybe Brad Rudder, Colby Burnett who won the teachers tournament and then the tournament of champions he's a teacher here in Chicago who I like. That hasn't that only happened once I think but I don't even know if that was called. All this to say too many Jeopardy tournaments tournaments. We got a... I love it and I watch Jeopardy every day, but it gets confusing to keep track of. We've just gotten too into the habit of having all of these tournaments happening all the time. We need to bring back some of the... Give us some space, right? Summer Olympics, Winter Olympics, they nailed it every four years. Just give us a little bit more space, okay?

Let's do every year, it's the tournament champions. I love to see the college championship every year. And I'd love the teachers tournament every year. Occasionally sprinkle in some kids. And if you want to do champions wild card leading up to tournament champions, fine. But I really don't need Jeopardy second chance even though I liked both of the winners from it. Will Jansies like this, he could have played JR in Dallas, let's just put it that way.

And then Drew Goins who ended up getting into the tournament of champions because the celebrity Jeopardy champion, Lisa Ann Walter, aka Chessie from Parent Trap, had to decline due to scheduling issues. If you have no idea, if you're really struggling to keep up, that proves my point. At the same time, if you're not paying attention, NHL is on their All-Star break right now,

but there is no NHL All-Star game this year. Instead, it's Four Nations Tournament, which I had to research because I kept seeing people talking about it. I was like, I have no idea what this is to break it down It's very simple if you thought the jeopardy discussion was complicated here's something very simple for you instead of the all-star break The NHL is having four countries USA Canada Finland and Sweden assemble their best squads Olympic style and

Compete against each other in round robin style. So there's three group matches and basically regulation win is three points, overtime win is two points. I think overtime loss is one point and straight up loss is zero points. I think that's how it goes. Each team plays each other once, three games total. The two teams with the highest score coming out of those three games play each other, I think Thursday night in a final match, which is gonna be US.

They've won their first two games in regulation, so they're locked in. And then the other spot is up for grabs. I think Canada might only have two points because it was an overtime win. I think everyone's got two points maybe. Canada, Finland and Sweden. So it'll be interesting.

I think the US could... The US might be able to, depending on tiebreakers, I'm not sure, but they play Sweden, I think on tomorrow night or Tuesday night. Must be tomorrow night, I think. And I think if they just like throw the game, they might be able to keep Canada out, which is presumably what they would want to do. But we'll see, that's it.

There's only four games total, essentially for your team, the US, or three if you lose. But all in all, there's only, what is it, three games per team? I'm not even getting into math. There's not lot it's quick it's easy that's what we need the the atmosphere last night you got you know they're in Montreal for the first part Boston for the second part so you got the Canadians booing the national anthem last night three fights in the first nine seconds, US goes on to win three to one.

Just very much Stanley Cup style atmosphere. And not one of these new age Stanley Cup, shitty matchups between the Florida Panthers and the Las Vegas Golden Knights. What, Miami and Las Vegas, two teams who wouldn't know hockey if it hit them in the head with a puck. I'm talking old school Blackhawks Bruins or Red Wings first.

I don't know who's a iconic team from the Western Conference that's really into hockey, the Canucks or something like that. Old school smash mouth style, Rangers, Islanders. What's the dynamic of the New York there's free New York metropolitan area NHL teams the Islanders the Rangers and the Devils I don't know like what the rivalries are like I don't have a finger on that pulse but let's move on here so that's our hot take of the week. All I have written here is Beantown NFT. If anyone knows how to create, I can create the NFT, probably put it on the website, but I also like to add it to the blockchain and the Kraken exchange.

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NBA. He used to be, but he's just good at dunking. And it's like McClung. He's won it three years in a row. He's not even in the NBA. He used to be, but he's just good at dunking. And it's like, well, what's the point of this? And I think the skills challenge was yesterday too, which there's a lot of controversy about. Apparently, Chris Paul and Victor Wembenyana from the Spurs tried to hack the system, and they got disqualified, which is just hilarious.

How are you going to get disqualified on your day off? And then today's the actual All-Star Game. It'll be about 220 to 180, is usually the final score of these things. Don't care, don't give a crap. I did just wanna mention though, cause I did catch a second of the celebrity in quotes, All-Star Game.

I am the one who put the quotes on celebrity. Look guys, I know I'm not plugged into pop culture. I don't know jelly roll. I don't know shabuzy. I don't know You know little pump or a little dirt or a little baby or da baby. I know bad bunny, but not well So when I tune into the all-star game and I'm watching the guys play, the people play, there's people of all genders on the court and they're showing the rosters, I'm not pretending that I should know every one of these people, but I would have loved to have known 50%. I think that's fairly reasonable. But the thing with these celebrity All-Star games or like the celebrity softball game and the MLB All-Star weekend, you're not, you know, it's like what Trump said about

Mexico. They're not sending their best, right? They're sending the rapists and the terrorists, or whatever the terms he used. Am I calling, you know, Lil Dirk and Ice Bice terrorists and rapists, no. But it's the spirit of it. So for this, I pulled up the rosters for the two celebrity all-star teams. Not to break down every single person, this list I pulled it from does actually have their, I hesitate to say, occupation. Because being someone who shows their tits on Twitch

and goes on Barstool podcasts, I don't know if that's really an occupation, but I guess if you make money, it's an occupation. So who am I to judge? So we can see why these people are famous from the list that I pulled online, but I haven't even like looked at this full list that he's copied and pasted them for today. Let's just go through it. And I don't even, it's not even like a let's break down each one, I just want to put this out there. Because we need someone from Gen X, someone who's 10, 15 years younger than us, to email the show or skeet at us or tweet at us, whatever it is, and just kind of break down who these people are and why I should know them.

Someone just give me a little history lesson here. So we got two teams. This team is coached by Barry Bonds and 2 Chainz. At least I know those people. Barry Bonds, definitely, 2 Chainz. I'm pretty sure as a rapper and I don't know a song by two chains But I've heard heard about him before So I don't know is it two people or is it just one guy?

It's two chains one person or is it two people is that one chain per or just one person has two chains unclear Here is the roster for bonds and chains Kai Senat, C-E-N-A-T, he's a YouTuber. Okay, so we're gonna try to keep track of all the people I have heard of. So that's O for one. Next one I do know, Baron Davis, NBA legend. He was the point guard for the Washington Bullets actually

and then he like shot someone accidentally and it was aets actually. And then he shot someone accidentally and it was a whole big thing. And then he played for other teams. But back when I had the NBA video game for PC, I think the first one I ever had was like 0-4, 0-5, something like that, Baron Davis was still a quality player. So he was late 90s, early 2000s. I know Baron Davis.

He was a point guard. Okay, so we're one for two next up Rome Flynn an actor and model. No idea. I thought maybe that was the kid from Tangled, but it's not. So Rome Flynn next up Alicia Gray WNBA star Atlanta Dream. I'll take the L on this one because I just don't follow the NBA WNBA much. I only know the big name stars and sorry I don't think Alicia Gray is in the same notoriety of Caitlin Clark or Candice Parker or Ionescu or the one lady from the other lady on that team who kind of looks kind of scary the brunette with a ponytail. But I did watch we watched the game five the last game between the links

and the Liberty because of the same day we were at the Vikings game and the links got cheated out of it. I think that was when that was. I don't remember. But sorry, I don't know Alicia Grable one for next up. Mickey Guyton GUI, sorry, GUYTN is a musician. No, you don't hear the name Mickey a lot though. So there's something. Next up Tucker Halpern, not Jim Halpert, but Tucker Halpern is a musician. No idea. Next one I do know, just by name, but I don't know anything about him. Noah Khan, K-Han, K-A-H-A-N, I've heard of him. I think he's been famous for one or two years. He probably has a pop song that I've heard of,

but I don't know what it is. In my mind, he's like Philip Phillips from American Idol. Is that the same style? Email us, let us know. Next up, Danny Ramirez. I don't know, and I would have no idea who he is if you showed him to me, however, I have read recently in the last couple days the plot synopsis in Wikipedia page of Captain America 4 with Harrison Ford as the Hulk, which I'm not kidding. That's actually true. And Danny Ramirez is one of the leads

in that movie along with Anthony Mackie and Harrison Ford. So I'm putting like a point five on Daniel Ramirez. So we're at two point five right now. Baron Davis, Noah Cahan and Daniel Ramirez. Actually, you know what? Let's put, let's combine Kayhan and Ramirez together for one. So we're at two Next up Masai Russell track and field star. Sorry Pablo Schreiber there we go. I do know him and you know him from the halo show that got cancelled But if you go back 20 years To the wire season two He is Frank Sabaka's nephew Nick Nicky Who's like the only one from the Sabaka clan who makes it out okay.

Spoilers, but Frank and the guy played by, I was going to say James Marsden, that's not his name. But Frank Sabaka's son, Ziggy. He's doing some time, let's just put it that way. But that's Pablo Schreiber and then Dylan Wang. No idea So that was three out of one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven three out of eleven Okay, so that's what about twenty five percent thirty percent Here is the other team coaches Jerry Rice and KB lame Here is the other team, coaches Jerry Rice and Kaby Lame. So I guess we were three out of four on the coaches. I definitely know Jerry Rice, but I do not know who Kaby Lame is, so sorry. First up, Matt Barnes. He's an NBA player. I could pick him out from a lineup.

I don't really know much about him. I'm pretty sure he's well retired by now, but I think he played for the Warriors at some point. Matt Barnes, I don't think was ever that great, but this article says NBA legend, not so sure about that. Next up, Bayley, WWE superstar, okay, not that I know about. Next Chris Brickley, basketball trainer, no. Next up, AP Dylan, musician, no. Next up, Drew Ski, actor, influencer. I will say I looked this person up because I was watching a very similar event,

a flag football celebrity thing with Mike Vick and Cam Newton for like five minutes a week ago. And there was just the most, if I had to design in a lab the most annoying person possible, I would have come up with Drusky. He's wearing like a visor and like blonde, tight curly hair. And he was playing the ref in this like football game and just the most irritating personality of all time. So I had to look him up because I was like, who is this? Is this like a famous person that I should know?

And his whole schick is he's like famous for appearing in music videos. But that's like his job. So I do know who Drew Ski is, but only as a result of another one of these stupid celebrity things. So I'm going to count that as a zero. Next up Walker Hayes, musician. No, Shelby McEwen track and field star. Sorry. Don't know. Here we go. Terrell Owens, pro football hall of Famer crying. Tony Romo. That's my quarterback Eagles 49ers. You really, as far as like, you know, high profile legendary wide receivers

go, he bounced around a lot compared to other, other people. So that's, I guess Moss at the end of his career played for a bunch of different teams too. Remember Randy Moss and the Titans or the 49ers? Yeah, me neither, but it happened. Or Adrian Peterson did that. He played for the Saints and the Redskins, all that fun stuff. Shibuzy, we already name dropped once. I do know Shibuzy only because he was on SNL a month ago. And he's got that song called Getting Tipsy.

So you would ask me two months ago, I'd have said, no, what the hell is Shibuzy? But I do know Shibuzy now. But I will forget about him in a month. And then to finish up here, Oliver Stark is an actor. I thought he was the guy who got killed in Game of Thrones, but that's Sean Bean. And then Kayla Thornton is a WNBA star for, get this, another thing we haven't heard of, the Golden State Valkyries.

That's gotta be new. I never heard of the Golden State Valkyries before. That's gotta be new. I never heard of the Golden State Valkyries before. So on that one out of one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, we had heard of Matt Barnes, Tara Lowens, and Shaboosie. So three out of 11 again, and an honorable mention for Druski.

So that's six out of 22, which doing some basic math here is 27% So I would love in the future to get closer to 50% Maybe add in like a 50 cent type or you know back in my day when they were doing the all-star game in Toronto you had Wynn Butler who I have my own complicated feelings about But arcade fire lead singer and potential sleazeball but he won because he dominated he's like 6-4 that's what I want I want someone to come in and dominate you know give me give me a

celebrity all-star who's actually really good at basketball and pit pair them up against these people who are not good and just wipe the floor with them I would enjoy that win Butler style so that's the celebrity all-star game Let's finish up with our trivia question of the week here. Valentine's Day was this past Friday, two days ago, so my question is very simple for you. And there's two sets of acceptable answers, and if you want a bonus point, you can give me both sets. Who were Cupid or Eros' parents? So the God of love, Cupid is the Greek god of love, Eros, the Roman god of love. So if you know both of them, great. If it's just one, that's okay.

But who was this little troublemaker's parents? Little naked baby flying around with a bow and arrow. That's an Osha violation just waiting to happen. If you want time, go ahead and give yourself time. But the answers, so I think, let's see, Greek. I think Cupid is Greek, Eros is Roman. And if I got that mixed up, that's embarrassing. But the Greek parents are Aries and Aphrodite,

God of War, Goddess of Love, fiery combo. And then Roman is Mars and Venus, their Roman counterparts counterparts which you may know from the planets we check our list here that's the meantime trivia question of the week to make sure we got through everything I think we're good that's what I had for you on today's show thank you for listening if you get the chance to listen to this before Spotify takes this down then that's great you can leave us a five-star review or whatever you to do. But that's what I had for you.

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