We play Learned League, the greatest trivia competition in all the land. Each day, we run through the questions and how we arrived at the answers (or at least, how we arrived at our answers).
One of us didn't want to linger on their performance, the other one wanted to be done before the USC game started. Quick one today.
Congratulations to Friends Of The Podcast GroceV and wardr on their best-ever finishes in the LL Championship.
"git gud", sadly, often applies to one or more of us.
Kinda two questions about them today, if you count "Suits".
Seriously, Nigel Farage can get clacked.
This is a quote from a longtime friend of the podcast that we will not identify unless they're okay with it.
Kurosawa stole it from Stan Sakai anyway.
The reason HGTV pushes "open concept" architecture is that it lets them show lots of demolition shots, and dudes love sledgehammers busting up walls.
George has a book about chiasmus and will therefore never miss a chance to point one out.
George is kind of right, and that's as good as it gets today.
Helen Hayes won Best Supporting Actress for that movie, showing that the category has long been a de facto Lifetime Achievement Award.
Sometimes the slogs are pleasingly brain-fizzy.
"Your land is mostly mountainous"! That's the other lyric.
May you all find someone who lets you do bits until you pause to take a breath.
Lackluster week. Next week will be better.
There was an attempt. Several. Some fruitful, but not many.
Did George have The Drew Carey Show theme song in his head all day? He still does, we can assure you.
Bear with us. We're old and slow to accelerate.
George legit forgot about the new season until like 9AM, which is possibly the latest he's ever opened the questions.
Coincidentally, Punchboard published a guide to trick-takers today. https://punchboard.co.uk/guide-to-trick-taking-games/
Just ignore all that stuff at the end where George is totally wrong about the schedule.
Not that Larry King, just a Larry King. He died last month, as it turns out.
It is, in fact, a "novella" and was first published in Life magazine.
Lot of background noises possible today (he said, glaring around the room at various living things).
Summers was diagnosed with OCD only after the original run of the show.
See if you can detect where we had to pause for an egregious Rule 3 violation.
Once you realized which side the "heroes" of that "Western in space" show had been on, the allegory got real rancid.
Tangentially, get well soon, Simone Biles.
Thanks to all of you for being a supportive and generous community.
We don't know what weirdo downloaded every episode yesterday, but it got us over 275,000 total downloads, for which we thank you all.
George probably should have known he was on a couple of wrong tracks when four of his answers started with D.
That other store is a "luxury department store", but at least it's an actual place.
How was your weekend? Full of Swedish producers and scandalous clothing?
Those books are "This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (And Why It Matters)" by Mark Cooper-Jones and Jay Foreman, and "A History of the World in 47 Borders: The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps" by Jonn Elledge.
Why can't we be asked about Krypto? He's a good dog.
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We await the morning's scores with bated breath.
Did we forget to put the number in the title yesterday? No, Shut up.
We're not just saying that because the Rams stole Matthew Stafford.
Google would tell you that football (soccer) is the king of sports, but does football have it on their logo? They. Do. Not.
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See you in February. Find a Kura Sushi near you. It's worth it.
We cannot recommend Bluey highly enough. Watch it now and call it Olympic preparation.
Meetings suck and should not be allowed to interfere with one's online trivia league.
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