Morning Brew Daily - Ultimate America 250 Trivia Game Show & Drafting July 4 Essentials

Episode Date: July 3, 2026

#881: In this America250 edition, Neal and Toby tested some Morning Brew colleagues, Olivia Lake, MBD’s Associate Producer; Ethan McCarthy, Social Video Producer; and Henrik Blix, Senior Branded Video Producer, on their knowledge of America. Also, a fantasy draft of what the most essential elements are for a July 4 holiday. We need your help to vote who won the draft. Get 10% off using MORNINGBREW10 at altrarunning.com/morningbrew  Grab tickets to our Performance Revue show! https://www.morningbrew.com/events/brew-performance-revue-2026?utm_campaign=performance_revue_2026&utm_source=mbd Subscribe to Morning Brew Daily for more of the news you need to start your day. Share the show with a friend, and leave us a review on your favorite podcast app. Listen to Morning Brew Daily Here:⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.swap.fm/l/mbd-note⁠⁠⁠  Watch Morning Brew Daily Here:⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@MorningBrewDailyShow⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It's the Ponzi scheme You better get it now Because now the steel is Well that still doesn't help me Please get it I don't remember Oh my God I can't believe I'm forgetting this Hang on

Nobody steal Oh my gosh Good morning Brew Daily show I'm Neil Fryman And I'm Toby Howell Today one more day Until July 4th

How much do you know About the United States We'll test our coworkers and you in this special holiday trivia episode. It's Friday, July 3rd, let's ride. Good morning on July 4th Eve when I hope you aren't working and are staying cool in this brutal heat. To ease you into the Independence holiday weekend, we've recorded another Morning Brew Daily game show. We asked three of our very funny friends from around the office to come on the podcast and answer a bunch of trivia questions. and today's trivia has a special theme, America at 250 years old.

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So play hard, everybody. Yeah, this is news to me. That is big. All of my five followers will be able to see that. So if you're not following me yet, this is a good opportunity to follow me for that picture. Let's quickly get to know our contestants who may or may not take a picture with me later and be the smartest person I know. First up is Henrik Blix. Wow.

What's up? Nothing. Let me do again. First up. First up is Henrik Blix, senior branded video producer. Henrik, who is your celebrity look-a-like? I've gotten McCulley-Colkin. Do you think that's accurate?

it? I think it's fair, yeah. I don't love it, but I think it's fair. Nothing like an audio product doing lookalikes as their introduction. If you're listening to this, just imagines somebody who looks like McCullochan all growed up. All right, up next, it's Ethan McCarthy, social video producer, Ethan. Who's your celebrity lookalike? Something I've been getting a lot recently is the white half of logic. I see that, unfortunately. Unfortunately, very accurate. Finally is our, hey, this is exciting.

Our very own Olivia Lake, associate producer on Morning Brew Daily. Olivia, I guess let's go three for three. Who is your celebrity lookalike? Recently, I guess with the World Cup happening, I've been getting, what's his name? I forget his name. Erling Holland. Erling Holland. I guess when I'm not wearing makeup.

He's six foot four of Norwegian, you know, force. I think it's just the first. face card is similar, not the body type. Viking mentality. All right, thank you for that. Let's dive in some quick housekeeping. I will be keeping score on this handy-dandy whiteboard here so you know this is a legit operation. Neil, what is our first round? All right. It's fill in the blank American history headline edition. We are going to give you a famous headline from U.S. history, but remove a keyword or name and you have to fill it in. Ready to go? Is this like a buzzer style? No, so what we're going to do is we will start with one of you.

You know, you talked first, Henrik, and I introduced you first. So we'll start with you. Thank you. And so you have the, you know, the floor to answer the question. And then if you miss it, we'll go down the line and there will be an opportunity to steal. Cool. Okay. So, Henrik, this is to you.

It was on January 17th, 1920. Blank is now in effect. I'm going to go with prohibition, Neil. Wow. Oh. Wait, I have the sound word I forgot. Good job, Henry. New edition.

All right. Henrik got one point. One for one. Let me mark that down. Question number two to Ethan. Blank explodes on May 7th, 1937. Oh! Ethan's like there's only one thing that's ever exploded in American history.

At least let me finish the question. Well done. Yeah. Hindenberg explodes. Okay, one point apiece. Olivia. What? What? She's busy.

Oh, sorry, wait for Ethan. Good job, Ethan. All right, you'll get the hang of that. Number three is Dewey Defeats Blank November 3rd, 1948. I don't know. So, okay. We got Henrik with the steel, potentially. Dewey defeats Truman.

Correct. So this was the famous wrong newspaper headline from the Chicago Tribune, saying that Dewey defeated Truman when Truman actually won. Well, there are a lot of irregularities in the vote counting. I'm still Team Dewey. That's like when the Missy Universe thing happened. Correct.

I would have gotten that. Very similar to miscingenuity. I would have gotten that. To Hendrick. Blank dies at 42 on August 17th, 1977. I'm going to go with John Lennon. Wait? Fuck.

I think John Lennon died in the 80s. So, Ethan, 19, can you give me a hint? No. Oh, okay.

We'll give him a hint. What the hell? 1977, died at 42. It's a weird age to die. Jimmy Hendrix? Hmm. Good guess.

Is that a really good guess? All right. I'm going to need a little less conversation from all of you. We're going to go to Olivia. A little less conversation. God. Keep it lively.

It's a game. Okay, guys, don't talk to me. All right. That went all over your heads. 40? Oh. Oh. I still don't know.

Okay. Olivia? Elvis. Yes. Oh, my God. Well done. Don't give that to me. Olivia's on the board.

We're doing it. This one is to Ethan. Blank not guilty, October 4th, 1995. O.J. OJ. Okay. It is correct. Whoa!

I met this one. Question number six to... Olivia. Oh, gosh, this one's tough. Great. Blank wins Oscar sends Native American women to refuse it on March 28, 1973.

Jack Nicholson? Wait, wait, wait, no, no, no. Marlon Brando, Marlon Brando. Let's give it to her. Wow, we are giving it to her. Oh, my God. I got my white men confused. Toby didn't think any of you guys would.

How do you know that? I know that because that's king. That's a king thing to do. That is, it's king ship. That's king stuff to do. So he won for the godfather. Can we not swear on this? And didn't go.

I think we can, but it's too late now, but yeah, let's try not to swear moving forward. This next one is, we're back to Henrik. Blank arrested in $50 billion fraud December 2008. I'm going to go with, oh my God. Please get this. It's the Ponzi scheme. You better get it now because now the steel is.

Well, that still doesn't help me. Please get it. I don't remember. Oh, my God. I can't believe I'm forgetting this. Hang on. Nobody steal. Oh, my gosh.

Bernie Madoff. Yes. Thank you. I think that's the first time anyone ever cheered for Bernie Madoff. Let's go. All right. Well done, Henrik. Question eight to Ethan.

Tyson bites off part of Blank's ear, June 29th, 1977. Vanderholyfield. Well done, Ethan. As a typo, it's 1997. Oh, whoops. Yeah, so if you don't know about this, Mike Tyson bit off a part of the ear of Evander Holyfield in a heavyweight bout. It was crazy.

It was one of the first things that I actually remember. I was born in 1991. One of the first things I do remember in the sports world is that a guy, that a guy's ear. It's an insane first. That's crazy. Four months old. Yeah, you remember too. I remember it well.

It should be allowed. This is the final question of round one, the news headline round to Olivia. Roswell Army Airfield captures blank July 8th, 1947. Stop hitting me with the 40s. I don't know things from that time. Roswell, New Mexico. An alien. What do you think, Toby?

We'll give it to them because there's some great. symmetry that's about to be developed. Can you specify more? Whatever. UFO. UFO. Yes, we asked well done. Flying saucer. This is a famous headline from that the army put out a statement saying that they captured a flying saucer. It was quickly retracted, but obviously sparked a huge UFO scene and alien scene in New Mexico, especially Roswell. Guys, I didn't know the army was like, yeah, we got one. Yeah, I didn't think they'd say that. Ladies and gentlemen, we got one. That's so funny. They're like, publish it. shit everywhere. I didn't know the army would lie to us. Here's the thing. The scores are

Henrik with three, Ethan with three, and Olivia with three. How did that happen? That's some good, good old-fashioned parody right there. Adam Silver would be proud. That's a good game. That's what they call a good game. On to the next category. This category is called before and after. The idea is the last word of one answer becomes the first word of the next answer, creating a mashup that can be spoken in a single phrase. Sounds confusing, but I'll give you an example. So the clue would be a story about a science teacher turned meth dealer turned reggaeton star. And the answer would be Breaking Bad Bunny. Breaking Bad Bunny. So bad is the shared word there. But since this is America themed, the answers will all have some element of U.S. history in them as well.

Let's start with Henrik. Question one. Thank you. A Revolutionary War protests against people being a drag at social events. Oh, my God, I've got this. Boston Tea Party Poopers? Yes, correct. Correct. It is Boston Tea Party Poopers.

Well done, Henrik. Wow. It takes a while to wrap your head around it, but you guys got it. All right, Ethan, number two, the United States is divinely ordained to expand its domain to an R&B pop girls group. Manifest Destiny's Child. Okay. You don't even a second one.

Oh, yeah. Ethan's determined to finish this entire episode in like 20 minutes. We started later. Well done. Well done. All right. Question three to live. What?

Give me your tired, your weak, and your emu spokes animal. My emu what? It's like spokesperson, but spokesman. Oh, oh.

Whoever wants to steal that cat. Okay. Hannah, let's see a, let's see a statue of Liberty Mutual Insurance. Correct. Correct. Well done.

I'm fucking, oh, sorry, I shouldn't say, fuck. I'm sick and tired to seeing that emu on the screen. All right, Henrik, this one's back to you. America's first spaceflight that landed humans on the moon was led by Colonel Sanders. The format of the questions gives me an aneurism. None of you want to be here right now. Can you say it again? No, I'm having a great time.

Okay. America's first space flight that landed humans on the moon was led by Colonel Sanders. Like, just talk it out, you know? Neil Arm. Neil Arm. Wait, America's first. Space flight that landed.

Humans on the moon. Let's start there. Okay. What do you think that is? Well, it's not a group problem. Tell me when you're done. Get rid of me. Okay.

Apollo 11 herbs and spices. Yes, correct. Damn. This is so good at this. 11 herbs and spices, famously, the seasoning blend for KFC chicken. Well done, Ethan. All right. This one is to Ethan. Rapidly deployed colonial militial members to fight aliens.

Can you repeat the... Whoa. Whoa. Rapidly deployed colonial militia members to fight aliens. Minute men in black. Correct. This is an impossible. You got this. Ethan's about 100%.

Ethan is doing well. That is for sure. It's still early. Question number six. Olivia. Paul Revere warns of flying into the primary hub of Alaska Airlines. I'm actually going to quit my whole job. All right. What is a famous phrase, Paul Revere warns of flying into the primary hub for Alaska Airlines. Let's leave us at the office.

Henrik, Henrik, do you have the steel? The British are, Paul, say it again. Paul Revere warns of flying into the primary hub of Alaska Airlines. Do you know the British are coming? Ethan? Even by C-TAC. Yes, Ethan. Say it again, Ethan.

By land or by C-Tac. I want this to be like an SAT category. This really works for my brain. What is that word? C-Tac. C-Tac, Seattle, Tacoma. Yeah, one if by land, two, if by C-Tac,

with C-Tac being the primary airport of Seattle and also be... Can I get half a point for... Do you know the British are coming? Yeah, that was really good. That should be the ready. Should we get them to half a point? No, well, he got... I thought Alaska Airlines was Hub was in Alaska, Juneau, Alaska.

Which was stupid of me. I'll actually take away a point for that. Idiot. Neil, I think it's too. Okay, and it's also to Henrik. Question number seven, the first lines of the Constitution should read, dang, I can't believe Paul Rudd won this. The first line.

We the people's sexiest man. Yeah. Sure. Yeah, actually. We the People magazine's sexiest man alive. Well done. When did Paul Rudd, win that. I think it was like two years ago or something. It was, here, I there is hope for all of us.

I'm going to say four years ago. Four years ago. Didn't he three Pete? Paul wrote three. No way. Paul read hat trick. 2021. That was five years ago. COVID was a weird time. Wow, that was. All right. Final question in this category. It goes to Ethan. This Nick's legend. Oh, actually, I shouldn't mention it. This is a triple. My God. Before and after. So there are three parts of this. So pay attention. Okay. This Knicks legend took the stage at Hamilton, but was not informed of his rights to remain silent. Jeremy Lin-Manuel Miranda rights.

Yes. Well done. Nick's legend is a bit aggressive. I was thinking like Walt Frazier. I feel like I didn't edit this question. I also probably would have made a comment on that. I would give him. It's true.

He would have Nick's legend for 11 days. I mean, that just shows how bad the Knicks were for a while. Okay. Toby. What is the score update? Henrik eeked out to six points, actually, on that. Ethan with eight now and Olivia stuck in neutral at three. It was not her favorite category.

A lot more to go. That's all right. Okay. Our next round is state facts. State facts. Pretty simple. Name the U.S. state from the clue. Olivia, let's start with you.

What is the flattest state? Ohio. Ohio? Yeah. No. Really? Because I've been there. It's flat.

I'm not going to lie. It's very flat. Wait, can I guess again? Give me one more. We want to make this competitive. Sure. Guess again. Illinois.

Illinois also flat, but not the flat estate. Henrik? I'm going to say Kansas. Kansas is not correct. I think it's Florida. Florida is correct. Really? Wow.

Ethan's just playing a different game. Ethan's, there's levels to this. I've been to the highest point. It's a, um... A dune. It's a landfill. I don't know if that's actually. true, but that's what we know he's joke.

The highest point is Britain Hill, which is just 345 feet above sea level. That is great. And the Washington Memorial is 555 feet. So this is an extremely flat state. I thought for sure Midwest. Flat state. We noticed as you inch your way along like Michigan. All right.

Question two to Henrik. Yeah. What is the most dense state? State with the most density. of population or of air? Population. I was like, what does that mean? I'm going to go ahead and say

Rhode Island. Not that many people in Rhode Island. You didn't say it with much, but it's small. It's tiny. You're on the right track. I think it's New Jersey. Okay. Should we step out?

Running away from this. Alet, Olivia and I team up. It is New Jersey. Yeah. Yeah. We as a team go against Ethan. In which case, it's a very good match. So that is the new game.

That's the new game. 2B1. All right. Question, no, this is you, Nick. Yeah. Question three to Ethan. And only Ethan, which state has the highest life expectancy? Massachusetts?

Not Massachusetts. My first buzzer. Well, I wish. I'm from there. Olivia and Henrik. Wait, maybe I'm a liar. Is it Vermont? It's not Vermont

Henrik Okay Highest life expectancy Let's not altering through this a little bit Yeah okay so let's take you inside of my process I'm thinking I'm thinking high education Probably is correlated

Okay Olivia can have mine since we're on the same I don't even know if that is correlated I'm going based on vibes Yes that's a good Go based on vibes What has a long life vibe I feel like there's a lot of cool old people in the southwest, you know, like in New Mexico.

I feel like there's a lot of cool people there that are living old, living long. California seems like a pretty healthy state. Too many people, yeah. Those smaller population and nicer weather. Is it Colorado? No. All right. I think we have to end this.

Is it Washington? It's Hawaii. Wow. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Hawaii. But you were on the right. track with Southwest, Henrik, just not Southwest enough.

Thank you. Just further Southwest. Yes. Yeah. All right. Question four to Henrik? Olivia. Olivia, Delia, Delia, Dean.

Oh, my gosh. What is the only triply landlocked state? Nebraska. No way. No way. No way. It's Nebraska. Absolutely, hell, yeah.

Very smart. Yeah, to reach a coastline from a triple landlocked area, a traveler must cross at least. three separate state or national borders in any direction. Let's go. I'm moving to Nebraska. I'm going to move to Nebraska. I cannot believe you just pulled that.

You hate the ocean? No, I just, that made me happy. And so now I'll have happy feelings in regards to Nebraska. But I love the ocean. Okay, Anric, what state has the youngest median age? Thank you for your question. Okay, so let's again go through it. So it's not Southwest because I think there's a lot of cool old people there, as I previously mentioned.

I feel like Florida is like 90% team. So that is pretty high. I've never heard of anyone I think Florida is like Henry that might be the worst yes I mean hey hey let me get through my process trust the process I think it's 90% teens but I think the 10% that's old's are the oldest people alive so that eliminates Florida the villages the villages brings the median age of Florida to so so that's one down 49 to go I feel like a lot of young people are moving to Colorado, but that happened a while ago. Can I get old every year?

Kendrick, you got it. We're going to. I know yet. Ethan has a doctor's appointment coming up. Yeah. I'm going to give it to North Carolina. Good process. Thank you.

Okay. I feel like it has to be associated with religion, so I'm going to say Utah. Are you kidding? Let's go. Wait, why is that religion? Oh, because the Mormons. The Mormons.

I was going to say Massachusetts for like college, like a college. That would be bad. That was good process, Ethan. Question six to Ethan. What is the closest state to Africa? I feel like this is going to be

counterintuitive. Hey, take a step. Trying to decode our question. Watching him work is incredible. North Carolina. We were thinking Africa, South Carolina. No, I'm joking.

It is the continent of Africa, and that is incorrect. Live. Florida? Good guess. Incorrect. I don't want to buzz again. Henrik, no process.

You got to give me one name, one name. One name. One name. I'm just going Maine. Oh! Sniped. Far the feast. Sometimes you've got to get out of your own way. I love one.

See, maybe get out of your process. It's clearly working. Process is the problem. Yeah, the process is the problem. All instinct. Okay. Olivia. Yes.

What is the third most populous state? So the first is California, followed by Texas. What's the third? Massachusetts. Oh, Massachusetts. Henrik? I'm going to say Florida. Florida, no process.

No process. No process. No process. No process. To Henrik. Question eight. What state produces the most apples? California.

That is a logical guess, but unfortunately, incorrect. Good guess, though. Florida? Not Florida either. Apples. Go west. I don't want it, though. Oh, oh.

Yeah, yeah, you got it. You got it. Whoa. What just happened to? Washington. Yes. Wow. I just actually read your mind.

Yeah. Like I looked into your, we're on a team. Yeah, on a team. Sorry. They're on a team. Ethan does not need it. It was crazy. Olivia was in there.

Yeah. All right. Well, it's pretty interesting. Washington does produce 60% of the entire apple crop of the United States. You know, because it's always fall there. It's always fall. And the University of Washington, actually just produces so many,

so many varieties of apples. So they just kind of like a, if you want to major in apples, like there's only basically only one place you want to go to. Neil, what's your favorite apple? Oh, McCune. Okay, sorry. Easy.

Or McCown. McKeown. I don't know exactly how I pronounce it, but it's like M-A-C-O-U-N. I've never heard of these. You've got to bring some in. What makes it? It's just like the most essence of apple. Like when I eat it,

it has like this white flesh on the inside. And when it's really crispy, it is delicious. It doesn't, you don't really see it a ton, but, and it's not in season. Like, it's not super fresh for all that long, but it is my favorite apple. It's delicious. I knew he was going to have some crazy answer. That's why I asked him.

Okay. I forgot who's. We're last question. And this one goes to, who just answered that correctly? Olivia. What state has the most lighthouses? Is this for me? Yes, that's for you.

Maine. That's what I guess. That was wrong. Oh, I was going to guess. to me. Send it to Henrik. Michigan. Whoa. He's from Michigan.

Michigan guy. You can't swing a cat without hitting a lighthouse in that state. Really? That's the state motto. It's where I was born in a lighthouse. 3,288 miles of Great Lake Shoreline. So, well done. Michigan, we should have known that.

Actually, I don't know if we can do a team up anymore because it got mighty close. We made a decision whether. Once we linked minds. We linked it. Yeah. They linked minds. Henrik has nine now. Ethan's only at 11.

And then Olivia is in, she got a slash in our column. It's five now. So do some math. I'm down three. Yeah, down three. We'll be back with more trivia after this quick break. Toby, are you okay? No, this new thing is happening where if I drink two to six beers, I don't feel good.

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base API as of January 30th, 2026, and subject to change details in the episode description. So Toby, after starting the workday at 5 a.m., how much energy do you have left at the end of the day to figure out dinner? Toby, wake up. I'm awake. I was just making my point here. Like so many busy, hardworking professionals, the decision fatigue has fully set in by dinner time. that's why forkful is so helpful. Forkful partners directly with chefs to create fresh restaurant quality meals that are delivered right to your door.

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the Beautiful, specifically you want to see how many national parks you can name. There are 63 in total across 30 states and two territories. This is a survivor format, so we'll go around the circle. Each of you has to name one national park. No repeats, no passes.

If you can't name one, you are out. Last person standing wins five points. Second place gets two. Third place gets a pat on the back. Um, Ethan, since you are in first, why don't you leave us off? Yosemite. Yosemite. Olivia.

Um, there's, it has trees on grass. I know which one you're talking about. Um, just give me one second. I totally did not grow up in New York City, so this is really easy for me. That is tough. I won't lie. Um, you know. Prospect.

Grand Canyon. Oh, wait. Yeah. Yes. Okay, good. Correct. Correct. Grand Canyon National Park.

Computer, give me Yellowstone. Yellowstone. Oh my gosh. Forgot about her. Computer. Download all the National Park. Pinnacles. What's that?

I wanted to save that. It's in South Bay. Oh, it's in California. Pinnacles National Park. Yeah, it's going to be good at this. I wanted to save that because I can't think of another one. Correct. What about Niagara Falls?

I do not think Niagara Falls. I do not think Niagara Falls. Niagara Falls is a national park. And see, that's what's wrong with our country. Well, it's not in our country. It's not, right. We split it. I know.

It is kind of crazy that it's not, but also. It's our international park. What's interesting is New York does not have a single national park. Yeah. Well, that's crazy. Should we just donate it to her? Guess again, because that one was tricky. Yeah, that was a trick question on mine to you.

And do you ski at this place? Are you going to say like Breckenridge National Park? Aspen National Park. Just name a really large feature in... Mountain. Red Rock. No. No.

All right, sorry. But you are still in essentially with Henrik, so My Meld and Henrik, what's got? Send me any more that you can think of. Give me, computer, give me Glacier National Park. Glacier National Park in Montana. Correct, correct. Acadia National Park. Correct.

In where? Maine. Maine. Great place. Computer, show me Joshua Tree. These boys are flying. These boys are flying. How long do I have?

Yeah. 20 minutes. 10 seconds. Take your time. Go through your process. Oh, Big Bend. Big Band, yes. In Texas.

I don't know if this is national or state. A regional level. Is this going to be? Okay. I'm going to save the state one and do a different. guess. Is there a Rainier National Park, like in Washington? Oh, thank you. You just reminded me of one. Hi, there is Mount Rainier National Park in Washington. Well done. Nice. Olympic National Park also. Correct. Okay. This is, this is so scary. This is like guarding Jordan in his

prime. I'm going to direct you to some regions. Like I want us to keep going with this. I'm going to deck to you some regions that we haven't been to yet. Utah has some very very famous national parks and also some in the maybe more Appalachian area and central United States over there. Okay. You just covered 90% of the country, I thought. Oh, oh, what's the crap? Henry, think of the Pelicans.

The pellet. Oh, that's a great hang. Wow, he's literally. The Orleans National Park. In Utah. The Utah Pelican. Okay, Henry, we need an answer. Okay, I'm going to just go with the one.

Is Sleeping Bear Dunes a National Park? Oh my gosh, I've been to Sleeping Bear Dues. It's not. It's in Michigan. Yes. That is an incredible place, though. There's only one National Park in Michigan, which is Isle. It's the least visited National Park.

Isle Royale National Park? Oh, is that like off the coast of Detroit? Oh, no, no, it's in Lake Superior, right? It's way up in Lake Superior. It's very hard to get to. But, Ethan, just to win this, you need to name one more. Zion? Yeah.

Zion. Wait, can you tell me? Oh, yeah. Man, I had Irish Zionism in my head. Oh. Is Great Smoky Mountains one? Yes. Yes.

That's the kind of one I was checking to. I would just like to say this is the most boy episode. This is the most white man. You're not allowed. You're not allowed to enjoy nature? No, I love nature. But like, this is if a dad were a trivia episode and I'm not going to be a dad ever. thing. Everyone ignored Florida.

What about Everglades? No one, no one remember the Everglades? We ignored Florida on purpose, Toby. All right, so Ethan gets five, and Henrik and Olivia get two. Which means... A tie? Carry me, white man. If Ethan was down three when we started this round, I think we have a tie.

15 to 1, 2. Correct. It is a tie. It's a tie ball game right now. And that's it, though, because the next part is a fan. vote things. So y'all tied. I guess. Give us a tiebreaker. Yeah, tiebreaker. Tie breaker that's tie breaker that's the least

dad, least white man. Barbecue tools. We'll use the draft as a tiebreaker. Neil, explain the last thing we're doing here. So we're going to move on to the listener's choice portion of the show and it's going to be a tiebreaker for the entire thing. It's going to be a draft. Not for the NBA.

But today we're going to be drafting the most important components of of a July 4th backyard barbecue, because hopefully that's what we're all doing tomorrow. You're drafting a team of four, and this is where we want all the listeners to play along as well. We want you to weigh in on whose backyard party you'd most want to go to this Independence Day. YouTube comments, Spotify comments,

send an email to Morning Brew Daily at morningbrew.com. You will be the arbitrator of the barbecue draft, and we'll announce who accrued the most votes on our Instagram. Final wrinkle to this draft, Toby and I are playing as well, and we're going to take up the last two spots. So there's going to be a snake draft, which means our leader, which is a tie, it's all of you. I guess we'll just start with Henrik. We'll go first.

And then we'll go to Ethan and then Olivia. You guys hate me. No. Oh, do you want to go first, Olivia? No. Okay. I mean, you don't necessarily want to be first because I'm back to explain the snake draft is the last person in the draft gets to choose twice and then you go back.

And so we will do it like that. Henrik, what do you take in number one overall at your July 4th barbecue? So this is just like any item? Yeah, like what? Any element. What's something that you absolutely needed a barbecue? Just so I'm just so my process works. Is this like family feud style where like I get the most points of this is the one that the audience said the most?

You're curating the vibe. You're building a team. You're building a team of four. Give me charcoal. Whoa. That's a crazy first. Honestly, I had I had. I had charcoal grill as potential number one pick.

It's the infrastructure. He just said charcoal. He just shows one component. I can't. Oh, so I have two picks now. Yeah. No, no,

no, no, no, no. No, no, no. No, so charcoal. I traded Macall Bridges away. Now I have four picks. You meant charcoal, right?

Or just literally charcoal. No, no, he just charcoal. I think it's just charcoal. It's just charcoal. It's just charcoal. It's just charcoal. All right. Ethan,

Ethan. then? Okay, not so much. Just for the 4th of July in general, a prerequisite is water. Any body of water. Oh, body of water. Okay. Yeah. Also staying hydrated. Okay. Olivia. Purpose player. Give me good sunny weather. Ooh, that is very important. I mean, that's the most important. That is the most important. A cloudy Fourth of July? I don't care what else you bring. It doesn't matter. Okay, Toby. Okay. Yeah, it's true. I'm going with the grill master.

Someone who commandeers the grill is just the guy who stands, or girl, who stands there. Thank you, Toby. Exactly. And just is the person that you know they're going to serve up juicy, delicious, everything. Grill master. Okay. Talk to me. I got two picks.

You get two picks, Neil. Beer. Wow. Beer fell. Beer fell in draft. I mean, is that a steel? He had some off. I do think beer is a steel.

Off the field issues for sure. Because even if you don't have. have a sunny day. If you have beer, it's all going to be fine. Wow. I'm going beer and then I'm also going good playlist. Fourth of July playlist. It's so important. It's so vague. Good playlist. Tell me what's on it. Is it patriotic? Is it? Country views. It's classic. Here's why I'm mad you put that. Because I had big booty mix volume 11 picked as like the playlist that you have to play. Okay. Well, I'm not. Good playlist. All right. Fine.

Beer, good playlist. I don't see how my team loses now with beer and a good playlist. That's like saying food. Yeah, no, that's a little. After this,

can we get, we don't have to do this on air. Can I sort of learn more about what big booty playlist. Do you guys not know big booty mix? Definitely. No. What is that? We'll talk about it after.

Toby back to you. That's like high school class. Ethan's got an orb that he attaches to in his home after work. All right. I am saying. A dog, preferably multiple dogs, preferably a golden retriever, and they have to have a bandana on as well. So a golden retriever with a bandana on. Okay.

Okay. Olivia? Perpetability. Me. I'm going to say a cousin or family friend who is drunk and has no survival instincts when it comes to the fireworks. Oh. So they'll just light off anything as big. Like it's not even legal in the state, but they went.

The drunk pyro cousin. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Ethan? Uh, 4th of July. This was, this was, doesn't even require knowledge. This is what he's stumped on. He can name, he's gotten everything right in the whole thing and he's stumped on an opinion. He can name a national park in Guam, but not, uh.

Yeah, I'm trying to think. I'm trying to think. There feels like a big piece missing. What do you already have? Think about your team, how you want to build it, the interplay between the, the players. Correct. What if you, Hot dogs?

Yeah. How did hot dogs slip? Classic. Hot dogs. Henrik, what are you trying to pair with charcoal? With charcoal? Well, you already got fire. Let's go ice cold watermelon.

Ooh. A cooler full of watermelons and they're frigging. Very important. It goes great with charcoal dusting. Exactly. Snake style, do I have the next one more? Give me hot dogs. No.

Hot dogs are off the board. Oh, sorry. Hamburgers. I don't use the two. Okay, hamburgers. One's long. That's how I keep them straight. Ethan?

God, everything is like, the only things I can think of are like the cringiest college answers. But I'm going to say, from the perspective of celebrating in high school and college, I'm going to say like a really overly sweet,

disgusting like 8% 32 ounce can of something. Whether that's a four loco or like a truly lemonade. Oh, like a lemonade. Anything like that's disgusting that you have. Mike's hard on the fourth. Yeah.

I mean, there's nothing better. Okay. So Mike's hard, just like a tall boy, Mark's hard. Yeah, sure. Wait, so what's your, what's your water hot dogs? Water hot dogs. I mean, he started strong.

Yeah, that's great. Olivia. I'm going to say lawn games, like a slip and slide or a cornhole. That's different. How is slip and slide part of a long game? You put it on a lawn. What do you literally mean? I had slip and slide.

But I, okay, so would you like me to choose? Yeah, you take long games. I want slip and slide. Whatever, whatever. It's not. I know, but like that team is like, oh, can I have them? Other people are saying it before you. That's like, no, super vague, right?

Long games is fine. Is slip and slide and cornhole part of the same category? They are both on a lawn. Okay, okay, fair enough. I'm just, you took my guy? That's all right. Yeah, don't be mad. Oh, brother.

Should it trade it up. All right. That is true. All right. I'm sorry for that outbursts, everyone. I really wanted to slide and slip. Oh, no. They're coming from me.

All right, I'm saying a ball a football a soccer ball any ball that you can toss around I like it you just need it for the fourth of July okay this is tough right now I have just have beer in a good playlist which is basically all you need I don't even need to I mean I just want to take the rest like I'm pretty already won I'm gonna go with potato salad I think it's the best side okay I mean it wow that is I mean that's that's risky do you think that's like a seventh round pick that I took in the third? That's an undrafted free agent. Yeah.

Are you kidding? I love potato salad. I mean, obviously there's upside, but mayo and the hot sun, real character issues there. Tough. Okay. And then for my final pick, hopefully this redeems me, solid paper plates. It's pretty solid. Got to handle the hot dogs.

Got to handle the cheeseburger. It's got to handle the potato salad, potentially macaroni salad, a lot of mayo dripping on it. So you don't want to have a flimsy plate. you want to have very solid high quality paper plates for your barbecue. So that's a team player. Yeah. All right.

So my team's done. Beer, good playlist, potato salad, and solid plates. I mean, potato salad. Yeah, that's, that's a tanker. You know what? I know the potato salad fans are going to back me up here. Yeah, it's divisive. It's divisive for sure.

All right, Toby, round out your team. I'm going sunscreen. Nothing ruins a Fourth of July, like too much of a tan. Yeah, but that's a tomorrow problem. Yeah. Exactly. And I'm carrying a. about you today to care about you tomorrow.

Sunscreen. Olivia. Okay, wait. I have. Sunny weather, drunk pyro cousin, and lawn games. And lawn games. God, it's good. I'm going to say those, the red, white, and blue popsicles.

Ooh. Wow. The rock. Spong pops. Good poll. God, my team, guys, I'm sorry. I didn't do well at trivia, but I killed this. Ethan?

Okay, I'm going to say a general ambiance. of a place where you would be camping. I feel like where I mostly celebrate the 4th of July is a place where there's like pine trees and like a creek nearby. You don't think that's going to be competing for playing time with body of water?

I know. No, because the body of water's next to it. Okay. It's not somebody's house. You're just doing it in like field? No, yeah. It's mostly like Tahoe or something like that. I love being... Not a national park. Surrounded by buildings in New York City

for 4th of July. That's true. But I mean, I guess fine. Take your nature. Take your nature. All right, Henrik, fill out this team. Computer, show me friends. Oh! Yeah. A lot of people forgot to have friends.

Friends, friends. All right, Neil. I know, my team is just me by myself with a good playlist and potato. Honestly, not to each their own. You know what I mean? So we will publish this also on our social media. I'm going to read the teams out. And yeah, let us know in the comments in Spotify and YouTube or you can email us who won

because we actually have a tie game right now, so we need to know. Henrik's team, charcoal, watermelon, hamburgers, and friends. What do you think Yahoo Fantasy would grade that? Charcoal went number one, friends would last. Yeah, you've made up for it. I got a great team.

Charcoal, watermelon, hamburgers, and friends. Sounds like a good time to me, honestly. Ethan, you got to be next to a body of water, hot dogs, a tall boy of Mike's heart or something pretty disgusting and sweet, and the general ambiance of camping, maybe some pine trees. Come on, come on.

Olivia, my mic's hard. Olivia needs sunny weather, the drunk pyro cousin, lawn games, and red, white, and blue, those firecracker

popsicles. Olivia's is lit. That's really good. Change your mouth. Thank you. Different colors, too. Yep. So,

inside with a bumpon. Oh, no. I don't know. This sounds like, wait, before you hear my team, it sounds like a team a dog woodman.

In that context, Listen to this. Grill master. Like a good grill master just takes over everything. You have to think about it. With no charcoal. No charcoal. A dog, preferably a golden retriever.

A ball. And sunscreen. And then my team, I feel like I started out so strong. Don't know what happened at the end. But I'm still sticking with it. Beer. I think you need beer. Good playlist.

Potato salad and solid paper plates. I mean, solid paper plates, they'd bring the squad all together. Yeah. I think you might lose it with potato salad. Should have gone chicken salad, maybe. Well, let the people decide that's the whole point of this. Either way, I'd want to go to all of your parties, and we appreciate you playing with us. I hope you all have a good Fourth of July with at least some of these components.

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