Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes) - Introducing WikiHole — hosted by D’Arcy Carden!

Episode Date: July 15, 2024

D’Arcy Carden invites her best pals and collaborators Ted Danson, Rashida Jones and Mike Schur to fall down a WikiHole that starts with trivia about Bruce Springsteen. But how does one of D’Arcy��s favorite musicians connect to the US Olympic Equestrian team, and why do they end up answering every question wrong on purpose? Listen to find out!

Hello, everyone. It's Ted, and I am here to tell you about a great podcast you got to check out. It's called WikiHome, and it's hosted by the delightful Darcy Carden. Just a disclaimer, she's one of my best friends. And you may know Darcy as Janet from The Good Place or on the wonderful A League of Their Own on Amazon Prime. Darcy brings together her funniest friends to go head-to-head in a trivia competition that leads contestants down an internet rabbit hole. Each topic leads to the next via the surprising links you only find on Wikipedia.

From pop culture to history, science, geography, just like your own personal internet scrolling, you never know where the next click will take you. It's trivia with a lowercase t, and the conversation definitely veers off the page. Case in point, this moment from an episode where Mike Schur, Rashida Jones, and I are answering some trivia questions about Chevy cars showing up in song lyrics, which then leads us to a wiki hole involving yours truly. Take a listen.

Wiki hole. Okay, we're going to jump down the wiki hole to Chevrolet. This is going to be a lightning round, okay? Few cars have been as celebrated in popular music as the Chevy. I'm going to play snippets of songs mentioning Chevy, and you will get a point for naming the song and the artist, okay? Great. I'm going to really have to control myself because I love names.

You can always say things and then lock in the right. The wrong. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so here's the first one. Here we go. You can always say things and then lock in the right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so here's the first one. Here we go. I got it. Okay.

It's Green Sleeves. I'm so sorry. No, that one is Night Moves by Bob Seger. Oh, Night Moves. That's, oh, Night Moves by Bob Seger. Now that you hear it. Oh, you're so close. Yeah. Okay, and here's our next song.

Just a boy in a Chevy truck That had a tendency of getting stuck On back roads at night Night Moves. Oh, shoot. Okay, because that was the other one we played. No, that's Night Moves. Okay. Bob Seger. She's right the other one we played. No, that's Night Moves. Okay.

Bob Seger. I think she's right. I think she's right. I see where you're going. I'm so glad you answered. I was going with the Cheers theme, so wow. Well, maybe the next song is the Cheers theme. No, that was Tim McGraw by Taylor Swift, but really good guess because, you know, it was

like, I get how it was probably in your head from the song we played before. That's tough. Yeah, yeah. That's really tough. Okay. And the, and the last song. Green. Peter Piper by Run DMC.

Oh my God. So close. Oh, you guys are just, it's, I know it's on the, and it's so, it's hard for me to tell you this. No, that was So What You Want by the Beastie Boys.

Beastie Boys. Oh, that was, that was Twist and Shout by the Beatles. Beastie Beatles. By the Beastiels. I was in a Beastie Boy. My name was in a Beastie Boy song. Was it really? Get out of here.

Yep. I can't tell in a Beastie Boy song. Was it? Get out of here. Yep. I can't tell you the name of the song. I know. I'm trying to search through my little Beastie Boys knowledge right now. One of our producers will give me, they'll look it up right now and tell us which one. And then the listeners at home can listen to whatever Beastie Boy song this is. They hung up a long time ago. Yeah, they're like, this is...

I really said, if one of the questions in this game were Ted Danson's name was in a Beastie Boys song, what song was it that Ted Danson would get it wrong? Ted, it was Make Some Noise by the Beastie Boys. Thank you. You're welcome. There you go. Write it down, Ted.

Commit that to memory. WikiHole. Thanks so much for listening. You need to hear the whole episode to find out who wins and takes home WikiHole glory. Join Darcy and a panel of her best friends every Monday as they take us down another exciting WikiHole. You can listen to WikiHole on Wondery Plus or wherever you get your podcasts.