Can You Beat Us At Tech Trivia?

It's time for trivia extravaganza! Marques, Andrew, and David will battle it out to see who knows the most random facts about tech. The points got a little out of hand and resulted in the highest scoring game ever! Music provided by Epidemic Sound Shop the merch: https://shop.mkbhd.com Social: Waveform Threads: https://www.threads.net/@waveformpodcast Waveform Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/waveformpodcast/?hl=en Hosts: Marques: https://www.threads.net/@mkbhd Andrew: https://www.threads.net/@andrew_manganelli David: https://www.threads.net/@davidimel Adam: https://www.threads.net/@parmesanpapi17 Ellis: https://twitter.com/EllisRovin TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@waveformpodcast Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/mkbhd Music by 20syl: https://bit.ly/2S53xlC Waveform is part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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• 0:00Andrew Manganelli?

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• 1:18Speaker 01

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• 1:21Speaker 02

  Gentlemen, are you ready?

• 1:23Speaker 01

  Start your engines.

• 1:24Andrew Manganelli?

  What I was gonna say is, um, let's just do it. We've done enough of this. Yeah, we're... I am surprised you didn't just play the music as we walked in.

• 1:37Speaker 01

  Yo, what is good, people of the internet? Welcome back to another episode of the Waveform Podcast. We're your hosts. I'm Marques.

• 1:44Andrew Manganelli?

  I'm Andrew.

• 1:44Speaker 01

  And I'm... Trivia! That's... Yeah, that'll work. This is a trivia extravaganza episode.

• 1:56Speaker 01

  You know, it's outside of our normal programming, but we do have some scores to settle. We've been accumulating points over the past couple of weeks. Andrew, David and I have been answering trivia questions for weeks in an attempt to build up as many points as possible for this moment here. Now we use our points to capitalize and answer more trivia questions right and see who finds the most at the end and is the winner.

• 2:17David Imel?

  Yeah.

• 2:18Speaker 01

  It should be a good time.

• 2:19David Imel?

  I'm excited for all of the points that I've accrued this entire season to not matter.

• 2:24Speaker 01

  You got quite a lead, but you know, that's why we play the game. We are not fully hosting. Over to our left here, we have a scorer and judges and trivia master table, so I'll let them introduce themselves.

• 2:36Speaker 02

  Yo, what is up? This is like the 10th time we've done this. You already know what it is.

• 2:42David Imel?

  Unless you're new here.

• 2:43Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah.

• 2:44David Imel?

  Cause people have subscribed a lot recently.

• 2:46Speaker 02

  If you are new, my name is Ellis. I'm joined by my lovely co-producer, actually really my lead producer, Adam, and our temporary scoring guest who comes in when we need him, Alex Wolf.

• 2:57Speaker 01

  So good at math.

• 2:57Speaker 02

  Guys, you guys are not new here, so I don't need to explain this to you. But just to set the record straight, we are gonna do our normal three-segment podcast, except this time it's only trivia. Nothing but wall-to-wall questions, different categories, different thoughts, different ideas.

• 3:16Speaker 01

  Is this gonna light up?

• 3:18Speaker 02

  Is what gonna... No.

• 3:21Speaker 02

  Don't get too excited.

• 3:22David Imel?

  And then jumpscare.

• 3:24Speaker 02

  But... It's like a horror movie. I'm gonna kick it off to Adam for our first category.

• 3:30Speaker 01

  Let's get it.

• 3:31David Imel?

  I'm excited. We need our buzzers.

• 3:34Speaker 01

  Is there gonna be a lobster category?

• 3:35Speaker 02

  Prior to being exposed to oxygen, what... No, I'm joking.

• 3:39Speaker 01

  Clear?

• 3:40Speaker 02

  First category, what would Gemini say?

• 3:43David Imel?

  So this is buzzers?

• 3:45Speaker 02

  Um...

• 3:46Speaker 01

  Yeah, what are the buzzers? What's the buzzer rules?

• 3:47Speaker 02

  Not yet, not yet. This one will just be write them down on a whiteboard.

• 3:50David Imel?

  Oh.

• 3:51Speaker 02

  Yeah, we'll ease you into it, don't worry.

• 3:54Speaker 04

  As they get the whiteboards, I'll explain the rules. So we asked Google Gemini a mix of common and unique questions. I'm going to read you the answer. Tell me if that answer came from AI or if we made it up. First question, which is also the example question, so it's not worth anything, but let's just get it, get it going. Sure. What year was the construction on the Empire State Building completed? Answer: Construction on the Empire State Building was completed in 1931. It officially opened on May 1st, 1931. Was that an AI answer or did I make it up? Is this Gemini or just a regular Google search? Straight up Gemini, only Gemini. I was in the Gemini tab and everything.

• 4:39Speaker 04

  Yeah. What do you guys think? Wait. David still writing? I'm done. Okay, this is the example question. Okay, so David said made it up. I said AI.

• 4:49Andrew Manganelli?

  And I said Gemini AI.

• 4:51Speaker 04

  All right, yeah, so Andrew and Marquez would get that point because it came straight from Gemini. That was like the warm up question, right? Yes. Showing how the game works. Exactly, exactly. That's why you got it wrong, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I need to make sure as an example. Yeah, yeah, yeah, an example wrong. Thank you for that. Good call, David. Good call. Okay, question two. Where does the Asus name brand come from? Answer: From Greek mythology, based on Zeus.

• 5:21Andrew Manganelli?

  I guess.

• 5:25Speaker 04

  Did Google Gemini make that up? Or was that me? Wait, that's so hard because it could just lie.

• 5:31Andrew Manganelli?

  This could be Gemini making it up or you making it up.

• 5:34Speaker 04

  But which one did it come from? Flip him and read, what do you got? I said this is made up from you.

• 5:40Andrew Manganelli?

  I said AI.

• 5:42Speaker 04

  In cursive, I wrote you. I made it up? Yes. Yes. So Marquez and David get those points. I think it would understand the Pegasus thing.

• 5:51Andrew Manganelli?

  That's what I kind of thought.

• 5:52Speaker 04

  Yeah. Okay, next question. What is the pixel density of the iPhone 8? 8. That is exactly what I typed into Google Gemini. The answer: The iPhone 8 featured a retina HD display, which equates to 448 pixels per inch. Was that Google Gemini or did I make that up?

• 6:17Speaker 04

  Or did Gemini make it up?

• 6:20Speaker 04

  Or did I make it up? Or did Alice make it up?

• 6:23David Imel?

  Say hard to say.

• 6:27Speaker 04

  You guys got your answers?

• 6:28David Imel?

  Yeah, but I'm waiting for the music.

• 6:30Speaker 04

  Oh, okay. Flip 'em and read. What do you got?

• 6:33Andrew Manganelli?

  We all put AI.

• 6:34Speaker 04

  You all put AI? Wrong. I made that up.

• 6:38Andrew Manganelli?

  You worded that very...

• 6:40Speaker 04

  Thank you, thank you.

• 6:41David Imel?

  Great syntax.

• 6:41Speaker 04

  It's 326 pixels per inch with a retina display.

• 6:45David Imel?

  Well, Gemini could have lied about that.

• 6:46Speaker 04

  It could have. That's part of the game. All right, question number three. Well, I guess four at this point if you count the first one with the Empire State Building, but who's counting that one? What does RED stand for in Red Cameras? Answer.

• 6:59David Imel?

  Red.

• 7:02Speaker 04

  The RED in Red Cameras does not stand for anything, though founder Jim Janard has stated in interviews that he thinks it means redefining everything digitally.

• 7:13David Imel?

  That's kind of cool. Wait, the founder thinks that it means that?

• 7:18Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 7:21Speaker 04

  It technically does not stand for anything, but he likes to think that. Did I make that up? Or is it an answer that Google Gemini gave me? What'd you guys say?

• 7:31David Imel?

  We all said AI.

• 7:32Speaker 04

  Nope, I made it up.

• 7:35David Imel?

  Dang. That's a hard...

• 7:37Andrew Manganelli?

  We're bad at this. I'm bad at this.

• 7:39David Imel?

  Yeah, same.

• 7:40Speaker 04

  All right, next question.

• 7:43David Imel?

  The founder thinks it may stand for... Yeah, whatever. Bring your dollars.

• 7:50Speaker 04

  Explain what the MLS protocol does for RCS. Answer. MLS, or the Merit Legitimacy Signal, is the messaging protocol that is embedded within RCS that points each device to its relative encryption key in order to decrypt messages. Is that an answer that Google AI gave me?

• 8:10David Imel?

  I feel like that's too complex for Gemini to tell you.

• 8:14Andrew Manganelli?

  I feel like Gemini would have told you about Major League Soccer.

• 8:17David Imel?

  That's honestly probably.

• 8:21Speaker 04

  Messi plays for Inter Miami.

• 8:23David Imel?

  You asked about the protocol?

• 8:24Speaker 04

  The MLS protocol, what does it do for RCS? That is what I...

• 8:28David Imel?

  That was your prompt.

• 8:28Speaker 04

  Yeah, the prompt.

• 8:29David Imel?

  And what was the answer? I mean...

• 8:31Speaker 04

  You're gonna make me read it again? MLS, or the Merit Legitimacy Signal, is the messaging protocol that is embedded within RCS.

• 8:38Speaker 02

  Don't ask him to read it again. He'll look bored.

• 8:42David Imel?

  I'm, I've got banana stuck in my teeth. Ooh, banana.

• 8:49Speaker 04

  That points each device to its relative encryption key to decrypt messages. Did I make that up, or did Google Gemini tell me that?

• 8:57David Imel?

  Gemini.

• 8:57Speaker 04

  You all said Gemini.

• 8:58David Imel?

  Gemini.

• 9:00Speaker 04

  Wrong, I made it up.

• 9:02David Imel?

  You just made everything up, didn't you? Wait, I like your hatchet pattern, Marquez.

• 9:07Speaker 04

  Oh, thank you.

• 9:07David Imel?

  It's nice.

• 9:08Speaker 04

  Nice, okay.

• 9:10David Imel?

  Wow.

• 9:11Speaker 04

  I did not think this game was gonna go well. I'm loving it. I don't know if anyone else is having fun.

• 9:16David Imel?

  I made it up.

• 9:18Speaker 04

  Next question. 7,456 multiplied by 18 divided by 3 to the power of 7. Answer.

• 9:26David Imel?

  No.

• 9:29Speaker 04

  61.

• 9:34David Imel?

  61.3?

• 9:35Andrew Manganelli?

  Wait, I'm still doing that.

• 9:36Speaker 04

  61.3.

• 9:38David Imel?

  Can you do, tell me the math again?

• 9:40Speaker 04

  7,456 multiplied by 18 divided by 3 to the power of 7.

• 9:47David Imel?

  What?

• 9:49Speaker 04

  The answer I got was 61.3. Is that the answer I got from Google Gemini?

• 9:53David Imel?

  It's way bigger.

• 9:54Speaker 04

  Or is that the answer I got from a calculator?

• 9:57David Imel?

  Not from a, well, you could have just made up the answer.

• 10:00Speaker 04

  I could have. Did I?

• 10:03David Imel?

  I'm so scared, dude.

• 10:07David Imel?

  Okay.

• 10:08Speaker 04

  You got it?

• 10:08David Imel?

  I do.

• 10:10Speaker 04

  Flip him and read, what do you got?

• 10:12David Imel?

  I originally put made it up. I changed it to Gemini, because I think if I put Gemini over and over and over again, eventually I'll get it right.

• 10:20Andrew Manganelli?

  That was right.

• 10:21Speaker 04

  That was correct. It was Gemini.

• 10:22David Imel?

  Yes!

• 10:23Speaker 04

  So they've got the point, because the other two said that I made it up. I did not.

• 10:27Andrew Manganelli?

  I got in my head the, um, the Snazzy Lab thing you guys did, where Mike Hurley made the answer for every single first thing B and didn't realize it. And then I was like, he didn't realize it?

• 10:39David Imel?

  I think he had to have realized it. How do you not realize that?

• 10:42Speaker 04

  He just had a child. Congrats to him.

• 10:44Andrew Manganelli?

  Congrats.

• 10:45Speaker 04

  So he's running on limited sleep.

• 10:46Andrew Manganelli?

  No, it was a great show, yeah.

• 10:48David Imel?

  It was his decision to have a child.

• 10:50Speaker 04

  So, next question. What was the code name of the first Google Nexus device ever released? Answer, love. Did I make it up? Or did Google Gemini tell me that?

• 11:02David Imel?

  Just love?

• 11:03Speaker 04

  Just love.

• 11:04Speaker 02

  So what are you working on in Mountain View?

• 11:07David Imel?

  Love. We're trying to code love.

• 11:10Speaker 04

  Instead, they created Gemini.

• 11:12David Imel?

  Wait, this is hard.

• 11:13Speaker 04

  The answer is just love. The answer is just love. Nothing else. Just straight up love. Just love.

• 11:19Andrew Manganelli?

  Okay.

• 11:19Speaker 04

  Yeah. All right. Flip him and read. What do we got?

• 11:22David Imel?

  Made it up.

• 11:23Speaker 04

  Made it up. Finally, you all get it right. So you all get a point. I did make that up.

• 11:27David Imel?

  AI is way too wordy. It would not just give a one word answer.

• 11:30Speaker 04

  That's fair. Okay. What was the battery life of the original iPhone? The answer that it gave me?

• 11:36David Imel?

  All day.

• 11:36Speaker 04

  All day.

• 11:38David Imel?

  That's what I was gonna say.

• 11:42Speaker 04

  Is that Google Gemini's answer? Or did I make that up?

• 11:45Andrew Manganelli?

  Damn, the battery life hasn't changed at all since the first iPhone.

• 11:52Speaker 02

  The battery life has actually gotten way bigger. It's just that days have gotten way longer since 2007.

• 12:02Speaker 04

  Planet's spinning is slowing down. All right. Flip him and read. What do we got?

• 12:05David Imel?

  You made it up.

• 12:07Speaker 04

  Made it up. Made it up. All right. Y'all get the point. I did make that up. It was actually eight hours of talk time, 24 hours of audio playback, seven hours of video playback, six hours of web browsing.

• 12:15David Imel?

  We used to be a country.

• 12:16Speaker 04

  Used to. Next question. What does the WH stand for in the WH1000XM4 headphone name? Answer. Wireless headband.

• 12:31Speaker 04

  Is that from Google Gemini? Or did I make that up?

• 12:43Andrew Manganelli?

  I don't know if I've ever actually.

• 12:45David Imel?

  I think I know what it is actually. I know what it stands for, I think.

• 12:50David Imel?

  There'd be a separate good trivia question, to be honest.

• 12:52Speaker 04

  Yeah, actually. Yeah. Product names.

• 12:56David Imel?

  Made it up.

• 12:57Speaker 04

  I'll say I made it up. Alice? Yeah.

• 13:02Speaker 02

  Sorry, I was thinking about lights.

• 13:03Speaker 04

  Oh.

• 13:04Speaker 02

  What sound did I hear?

• 13:07Speaker 02

  It's a lot going on.

• 13:07Speaker 04

  So Gemini, isn't it wearable headphone?

• 13:09David Imel?

  Wireless headphone?

• 13:10Speaker 04

  I don't know. This is just what Gemini told me. I didn't fact check it.

• 13:14Andrew Manganelli?

  Oh, what? It's what? Wireless headphone?

• 13:17Speaker 04

  Google Gemini told me a wireless headband. Headband.

• 13:20Andrew Manganelli?

  I think that actually makes sense because it does differentiate it from WF.

• 13:24Speaker 04

  Oh, and what does WF stand for? WF.

• 13:26David Imel?

  Wireless.

• 13:27Speaker 04

  Wireless phone with an F.

• 13:28Andrew Manganelli?

  Free.

• 13:30David Imel?

  Or it means redefining everything digitally.

• 13:33Andrew Manganelli?

  Nice.

• 13:34David Imel?

  According to the founder who thinks it might, it might be that. I don't know.

• 13:38Speaker 04

  Nice. All right. Well, I'm handing it off now to Ellis for his section.

• 13:43Speaker 02

  Guys, this is going to be another whiteboard round, so keep those things right in front of you. All right, so as we all know, one of the biggest smash hits in waveform trivia extravaganza history was our startup names episode. And unfortunately, or segment or whatever, we've used them all. We can't, we can't do it anymore. And

• 14:06Speaker 04

  GB.

• 14:06Speaker 02

  modern startups have ditched the 2010s stupid naming schemes. They now all spell their names like normal people, which is so

• 14:14Andrew Manganelli?

  Just in all lowercase.

• 14:15David Imel?

  With AI at the end.

• 14:17Speaker 02

  Yeah, exactly.

• 14:18Andrew Manganelli?

  Dot IO.

• 14:19Speaker 02

  But

• 14:19Speaker 04

  Dot IO.

• 14:20Speaker 02

  I have, as I browse through lists of tech companies and, you know, I'm using tech very broadly here, you know, because most companies are tech companies now. But as I go through these lists, I've realized most of the names they use are completely meaningless and nonsense whatsoever. Specifically, the ones in fintech or web three or crypto or payment services.

• 14:42David Imel?

  Yeah, because the service is meaningless as well.

• 14:45Speaker 02

  You know, I couldn't have said it any better yourself. So for this segment, I'm going to read you between three to four fintech, crypto, web three, financial services. You get the idea.

• 14:55Speaker 04

  Cool.

• 14:57Speaker 02

  One of the companies in the category is not a fintech company. And you guys have to tell me which one out of each list is not fintech, crypto, web three, blockchain, et cetera.

• 15:10Andrew Manganelli?

  Are they a tech company?

• 15:12Speaker 02

  Everything's a tech company. I don't care. Can we do a score update, too? Yes, Alex.

• 15:17Speaker 05

  Currently, Marquez scored three points in round one to bring his total up to 37 points. David scored four points in round one, bringing his total up to 41 points. Andrew scored two points in round one, bringing his total to 26 points.

• 15:36Speaker 02

  The rich get richer. And this is exciting because David, correct me if I'm wrong, you have never won one of these. That's correct. You are on track. Marquez has won two and Andrew's won one. Yeah, so this is, this is exciting.

• 15:48Andrew Manganelli?

  If you don't, it's all his fault for bringing it.

• 15:50Speaker 02

  Well, David, you do have the most experience in the room working for tech companies, so maybe. Yep, but I don't know.

• 15:58Andrew Manganelli?

  Not fintech, crypto, web three.

• 16:00Speaker 02

  Well, let's kick it off. This first company, these, all three of these, except for one, are crypto companies. Crypto companies. Are you ready, guys? Okay.

• 16:09Andrew Manganelli?

  Crypto.

• 16:11Speaker 02

  Block, Blockworks, BlockFi, and Superblocks. So is it A, B, C, D? Just write which one of those you think is not a fintech company. I did not get the letters.

• 16:28Andrew Manganelli?

  If we spell it wrong, is that fine?

• 16:29Speaker 02

  These are all spelled exactly the way you would expect them to. Block, Blockworks, BlockFi, and Superblocks. All right, who would like to read their answers first? Literally all put Blockworks. You all put Blockworks and you're all wrong. The answer was Superblocks, which brands itself as the AWS of internal tooling, which, if I was on a first date and someone was like, I work at the AWS of internal tooling, I'd be like. You'd be like, let's get married. Yeah, right, right. Yep. Denim, silk, quilt, and fabric.

• 17:08Andrew Manganelli?

  Are these all blockchain?

• 17:09Speaker 02

  These are all fintech companies.

• 17:12Andrew Manganelli?

  Can you say them again?

• 17:13Speaker 02

  Denim, silk, quilt, and fabric.

• 17:21Speaker 02

  This is like connections.

• 17:25Speaker 04

  Wait.

• 17:25Speaker 02

  Also, if anyone in our audience works at one of these companies and it feels like I mischaracterized the industry that your company is in, don't tell me.

• 17:37Speaker 04

  We don't care.

• 17:38Speaker 02

  I don't care. You could literally just pick a random word, huh? Yeah, yeah, and then get VC money. But guys, what'd you put for that one? You all put... Different stuff. Oh, oh, we'll read your answers. Uh, I put silk. And that is correct, David. One point for David Amell. Andrew, what did you put? Denim, unfortunately, is fintech. And Marquez? I wrote fabric. Also fintech, I'm pretty sure. Silk is actually a cloud soft... Dude, all of these companies... We all knew Quilt. I knew Silk was a company. I've used Quilt. What does Quilt do? Quilt is like a payment processing thing. Okay, so they are fintech.

• 18:14Andrew Manganelli?

  There's also one called Plaid.

• 18:16Speaker 02

  Oh, that's what I was thinking of. That would've been good in this one. Sorry, that's what I was thinking of, not Quilt. So I don't know what Quilt does.

• 18:23Speaker 02

  All right, guys, are you ready for the next one? Why am I asking you? I don't care.

• 18:28Speaker 02

  First company. Here we go. Did you give me my point? Yes. Okay, cool. We have Tabula. All right. Kubra. Kubra, but without the U. Separate company. K-B-R-A. And Move. M-O-O-V. That's right. Tabula, Kubra, Kubra, and Move.

• 18:50Speaker 04

  Also, to clarify, because Rufus was a little confused earlier when we tested this, these are all real companies. Ellis did not make any of these up.

• 18:58Speaker 02

  Just... Wait, what? I found all of these companies in the Built in New York website, so ostensibly, all of these companies are actively hiring New Yorkers, too. Wow. These aren't even like Bay Area? Every company's a Bay Area company. Just like every company.

• 19:13Andrew Manganelli?

  Maybe the Bay Area's the friends we meet along the way.

• 19:15Speaker 02

  Yeah, maybe. You know what? Flip the boards. You're right. All right.

• 19:21Andrew Manganelli?

  Oh.

• 19:22Speaker 02

  Who would like to read their answers?

• 19:23David Imel?

  Uh, Andrew and I both put Kubra without the U.

• 19:26Speaker 02

  That is incorrect. That is a company that helps credit reporting agencies restore their users' trust in them. I don't know.

• 19:35David Imel?

  Okay, that's also what Mark has put. I wrote Kubra with the U or whatever.

• 19:40Speaker 02

  And that is correct. But Kubra with the E. Oh, wait.

• 19:43David Imel?

  Kubra with the whatevers.

• 19:45Speaker 02

  No, I was wrong. I'm wrong. I had it written. I had it written down wrong. Kubra with the U does AI, e-commerce, and IT payment stuff. Uh, Tabula is an ad tech and digital media company. I'm sorry.

• 19:56David Imel?

  What is the question again?

• 19:57Speaker 02

  Which one of these is not fintech? Two of these companies did have the same name.

• 20:00David Imel?

  Oh, right.

• 20:01Speaker 02

  Just spelled.

• 20:01David Imel?

  Now I remember Tabula.

• 20:03Speaker 02

  Tabula!

• 20:04David Imel?

  That sounds like a restaurant.

• 20:06Speaker 02

  Now it's like, oh, when you gotta check out and you gotta get to your tabulator. I don't know, dude.

• 20:10Andrew Manganelli?

  I'm pretty sure it's the like, uh, like in an article when it does the fake ads at the bottom that seem like more articles on the, yeah, yeah, is that brings you to different websites, but looks like fintech, like other articles.

• 20:22David Imel?

  Which is not fintech.

• 20:24Speaker 02

  All right, I'll be real. I don't want to think about fintech anymore, so we're just gonna do one more of these, take it to ad break. How does that sound, fellas?

• 20:29David Imel?

  Sure. Sounds good.

• 20:30Speaker 02

  All right, guys, this last one. We have four companies. Three of them are in fintech slash ad tech. I don't know, bro. This is so... Uh, actually, no, sorry. I'm wrong.

• 20:43David Imel?

  Hmm?

• 20:43Speaker 02

  This last one is not fintech.

• 20:45David Imel?

  Hmm.

• 20:45Speaker 02

  Three of these companies are in ad tech.

• 20:49Andrew Manganelli?

  Okay.

• 20:49Speaker 02

  Cause everything's a tech company.

• 20:52Speaker 02

  One of them is not. Let's go. The companies are Zero, Fifty-Five, Forty-Two, and Gum Gum.

• 21:07Speaker 02

  That is Zero, Fifty-Five, Forty-Two, and Gum Gum.

• 21:16Speaker 02

  I hate this.

• 21:20Speaker 02

  I didn't know I was gonna be tortured today. Really? Just Trudy Extravaganza Day? You didn't know you were gonna be tortured?

• 21:27Speaker 02

  Oh, this is the funniest edit of your voice I've ever heard. Let's read those answers, boys. I said zero. Zero is correct. Zero is an AI-powered email client that manages your inbox.

• 21:40Andrew Manganelli?

  That's actually a good name.

• 21:42Speaker 02

  Oh, right, yeah, like Zero Inbox. I thought about putting zero. You guys put... Fifty-five. And...

• 21:49Andrew Manganelli?

  Forty-two.

• 21:50Speaker 02

  Both of which are wrong answers.

• 21:51Andrew Manganelli?

  For some reason, I really thought forty-two was a, like, IT company.

• 21:55Speaker 02

  Forty-two is analytics stack for retailers and brands. What does fifty-five do? Fifty-five, I just wrote ad tech, because I was so sick of writing this category. Tacos. Again, if you... Yeah, anyway, you know, tacos, hot dogs, guys, we're gonna be right back after this break. We'll come back with a score update, and, in my opinion, one of the best segments we've ever done. Very nice tee-up to maintain viewership. We'll be right back.

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• 24:35Speaker 04

  Welcome back to the Trivia Extravaganza. We are going to start this section off by updating the score. Where are we at, Alex?

• 24:44Speaker 05

  Frankly, a pathetic round two. Oh. Aha, alright. Frankly, round two was pathetic.

• 24:53Speaker 05

  Two total points scored.

• 24:55Speaker 04

  Wow, really?

• 24:56Speaker 05

  Mark has now sits at 38 points after two rounds. David sits at 42 points after two rounds. Andrew's still holding steady at 26 points after two rounds.

• 25:08Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 25:09Andrew Manganelli?

  Are we upping the ante on these points through rounds?

• 25:13Speaker 04

  Sure.

• 25:13Andrew Manganelli?

  No, it's just one?

• 25:14Speaker 04

  If you guys want us to go extra hard and make it like 10-point questions, we could do that. Was that so the?

• 25:22Speaker 01

  I would like to hear the category name before.

• 25:24Speaker 04

  No, no, no, you have to decide before.

• 25:26Speaker 01

  Because these first two, I don't think would be, it wouldn't make much sense for those to be 10-pointers, but maybe.

• 25:32Speaker 04

  You would've got 20 points.

• 25:34Speaker 01

  Yeah, but I'm in the lead.

• 25:37Speaker 01

  So I think, yeah.

• 25:39Andrew Manganelli?

  I think we need to give. You should throw a random one out there for like 10 points.

• 25:42Speaker 04

  Yeah. What was David's last job?

• 25:46Speaker 02

  Guys, this next segment I'm really, really stoked on. This one's gonna be really, really, really funny, I hope. Or I'm overselling it and it's just gonna be dead quiet as we do this. Disneyland. This is not a buzzer, nor is it a whiteboard round. This is a round robin round. Using a shall be unnamed AI tool that has a particularly sort of Dutch sounding name. Gemini. Yes, the famous Dutch name.

• 26:14Andrew Manganelli?

  ChatGPT.

• 26:17Speaker 02

  Guys, I wrote a program.

• 26:21Speaker 02

  That scraped the Y Combinator website. Oh, no. And on, from that scrape, I took the last three cohorts of Y Combinator companies, entries, participants, I don't know what you call them, also don't care. Class. And I took their bylines, this quick one-sentence description of these companies, and I built a list of the top 20 most-used words. Oh. In the past three cohorts of Y Combinator companies. Where you're going to go around robin, around the room, over and over and over again. And you guys have to tell me what these words are. Okay. They will, as of right now, I was thinking it would be one point for word irregardless of rank.

• 27:07Speaker 02

  But I've heard some bemoaning from the peanut gallery.

• 27:10Andrew Manganelli?

  One to 20?

• 27:11Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 27:11Andrew Manganelli?

  It should be, that's how they should be ranked.

• 27:13Speaker 02

  So you think, okay, but the. 20 points for the top one? AI?

• 27:16Andrew Manganelli?

  Only one time that gets the top one.

• 27:18Speaker 02

  Yeah, AI.

• 27:20Andrew Manganelli?

  No, do it flip.

• 27:21Speaker 02

  Yeah, I think, I think the 20th word should be 20 points and the number one.

• 27:25Andrew Manganelli?

  Oh, that's a good one. Yeah, I like that too.

• 27:27Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 27:28Andrew Manganelli?

  Okay.

• 27:28Speaker 02

  All right, are you scorer? Are you able to handle this?

• 27:31Andrew Manganelli?

  20th one.

• 27:33Speaker 02

  Great. Can, can I trust you to cross out words that we've already gotten?

• 27:36Andrew Manganelli?

  Absolutely not.

• 27:37Speaker 02

  All right, guys.

• 27:38Andrew Manganelli?

  I think we should do snake draft, by the way.

• 27:40Speaker 02

  Okay, we're doing snake draft then, and I'm thinking of a number between one and 10. Seven.

• 27:49Speaker 02

  Eight. Mm hmm. Six. Marquez has it. He always does. Shocker.

• 27:54Speaker 01

  So does that mean I go first?

• 27:56Speaker 02

  It does mean that you go first.

• 27:57Speaker 01

  I would like to choose going second.

• 27:59Speaker 02

  Wait, no, you go first. You go first. I'm not, this is, we've already spent too much time drafting this snake. It's too hard. Marquez, may I remind you, the number one word on this list used 8.5. Sorry, I guess, let me give a little bit more explanation. So just remember, the 20th most used word, the least frequently used word on my list is worth the most points.

• 28:19Speaker 01

  Wow.

• 28:20Speaker 02

  Right. I filtered out all the like stupid words. So there's no, there's no the, yeah, there's no and, there's no, uh, these are all either nouns or verbs or whatever.

• 28:30Speaker 01

  And one more time, give me the context. It's the words in the bios of the top what?

• 28:35Speaker 02

  Bylines. So the, the one sentence description of the last three cohorts of Y Combinator companies.

• 28:41Speaker 01

  So the descriptions of the companies?

• 28:43Speaker 02

  Yeah. So this is spring 2025, fall 2025, and winter 2024.

• 28:49Speaker 01

  And another nitpicky question, are different conjugations of the same word all the same word?

• 28:53Speaker 02

  That is an excellent question, and I have grouped together different conjugations of the word. Or I've also grouped together plurals.

• 29:01Speaker 01

  Are acronyms allowed?

• 29:03Speaker 02

  There are no acronyms on this list.

• 29:06Speaker 01

  Good to know. So with my first pick, I am picking build.

• 29:10Speaker 02

  Excellent choice, Marquez. Build is the third most used word.

• 29:17Speaker 01

  Wow.

• 29:17Speaker 02

  Making up 1.3% of all words used in Y Combinator descriptions in the last three cohorts, used 32 times.

• 29:27Speaker 02

  If you include building and builder.

• 29:28Speaker 01

  You're saying there's no acronyms in this?

• 29:30Speaker 02

  There are no acronyms that I see on my list.

• 29:33Speaker 01

  So the very obvious?

• 29:34Speaker 02

  What number?

• 29:35Speaker 01

  Acronym?

• 29:36Speaker 02

  Oh.

• 29:36Speaker 01

  AI?

• 29:36Speaker 02

  Yeah, wait, sorry.

• 29:37Speaker 01

  Okay, then I'm gonna say AI.

• 29:39Speaker 02

  Yeah, that is, wow, Jesus. All right, well, you just chose the number one word.

• 29:43Speaker 01

  I know, I just wanna make sure I get a point.

• 29:44Speaker 02

  I thought there's no acronyms. Yeah, I forgot that AI was an acronym.

• 29:47Speaker 01

  But that's number, but number one is worth less points.

• 29:50Speaker 02

  You got better. Yeah, you did better.

• 29:51Speaker 01

  Number one's worth less points.

• 29:52Speaker 02

  Number one is worth the least amount of points. I feel really stupid for getting that AI is an acronym. I just think of it as a self-contained turd of [BLEEP] at this point.

• 30:01Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 30:01Speaker 02

  I forgot it, cuz it's, anyway. Uh, yes, AI, guys, I just wanna lay this on you guys. AI makes up 8.5% of all words used to describe companies. These percentages, by the way, guys, I calculated before removing filler words.

• 30:18Speaker 02

  Meaning that all words that Y Combinator companies use, 8% of them.

• 30:24David Imel?

  Including of and and.

• 30:25Speaker 02

  Yes, including of and a and the. AI is used 8.5% of the time.

• 30:31David Imel?

  Insane.

• 30:32Speaker 02

  David.

• 30:33David Imel?

  Okay, scalable slash scale.

• 30:36Speaker 02

  Scale is not.

• 30:39David Imel?

  Scalable is not on there.

• 30:40Speaker 02

  I'm so sorry. Nope, not anymore. But you get to go again.

• 30:45David Imel?

  What about democratize?

• 30:47Speaker 02

  Uh, that one is what?

• 30:49David Imel?

  Dude, I was thinking like, we are building this to democratize this.

• 30:55Speaker 02

  You gotta, you gotta think stupider.

• 30:58David Imel?

  Really?

• 30:59Speaker 02

  Yeah, way stupider. Marquez put build.

• 31:04Speaker 02

  Three points. Yep. Uh, Andrew, that takes us back.

• 31:07David Imel?

  What about, oh.

• 31:08Speaker 02

  To you.

• 31:08David Imel?

  Okay.

• 31:09Andrew Manganelli?

  I can't tell if this is a stupid one or not. Is 10x a word?

• 31:17David Imel?

  Not an acronym, 100x.

• 31:19Speaker 02

  100gex. Uh, Marquez, back to you.

• 31:22David Imel?

  Okay, let's see. Trying to go for high points here. So the description of the company.

• 31:28David Imel?

  I'm gonna use the word help.

• 31:30Speaker 02

  Help.

• 31:31Andrew Manganelli?

  I guess it's way better.

• 31:32Speaker 02

  Yep, that is worth 18 points. It was used nine times.

• 31:38David Imel?

  So I'm behind now?

• 31:39Speaker 02

  Uh, yes, by quite a lot.

• 31:40David Imel?

  Oh, my God. And the second.

• 31:44Speaker 02

  David, you gotta, you gotta start getting stupid, man.

• 31:46David Imel?

  Is it, does snake mean I go again?

• 31:48Speaker 02

  It does mean you go again.

• 31:49David Imel?

  Okay. For my second pick. Tire season out the window.

• 31:57David Imel?

  Swear to God. Does the word bring qualify?

• 32:00Speaker 02

  Uh. I don't see it on my list. I can't remember. That's one I scratched. I don't think I would have scratched bring, uh, so it is not on the list.

• 32:08David Imel?

  You know, every time, um, I run into someone who watches the show in the real world, they say, man, you're really killing it at trivia. There's tons of time.

• 32:17Speaker 02

  You are. David, David, there is, there are.

• 32:20David Imel?

  There's so many points on the board.

• 32:21Speaker 02

  If you nail your next two guesses, you could earn 39 points before it gets back to Andrew.

• 32:27David Imel?

  All right.

• 32:27Speaker 02

  Yeah, right.

• 32:28Andrew Manganelli?

  Deliver.

• 32:30Speaker 02

  I do not see deliver on my list. I'm so sorry.

• 32:33Andrew Manganelli?

  18% of my diage.

• 32:34David Imel?

  Basically bring.

• 32:34Speaker 02

  I hit the wrong button. I'm really sorry, Andrew.

• 32:39Speaker 02

  I was not trying to add insult to injury there, I swear. David? What about we?

• 32:45Andrew Manganelli?

  That's like a filler word.

• 32:46Speaker 02

  I'm gonna let you guess again. Oh, okay. I'm unusually benevolent today. Platforms. Ooh, platform is the sixth most used word, giving you six points. It was used 17 times. David, gotta get stupider, man. If you want these high point ones. Uh, um. What's, just hit your head on the desk a few times and think about tech.

• 33:10Speaker 02

  Code. Code is the 17, number 17, worth 17 points, David.

• 33:16Andrew Manganelli?

  We're back, baby.

• 33:17Speaker 02

  It was used nine times. That was my next guess. Including, and I lumped in with that, code, coders, vibe code, and codebase. Nice. Way to go, David. We are so back. I knew you had the dumbness in you. Andrew, that means we're back to you. We're so back.

• 33:33Andrew Manganelli?

  I don't think this is a filler word, but new.

• 33:35Speaker 02

  I do not see new on my list. I do not remember. You gotta think stupider, man.

• 33:40Andrew Manganelli?

  New, it's new.

• 33:42Speaker 02

  Try again.

• 33:42Andrew Manganelli?

  It's three letters.

• 33:43Speaker 02

  Try again.

• 33:46Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 33:47Andrew Manganelli?

  It's because no one's making anything new in here.

• 33:48Speaker 02

  No, it's not that. It's that, when I say dumb, I don't mean like, low diction words.

• 33:53Andrew Manganelli?

  I'm not saying it that either. It's just, I know Y Combinator was for new products.

• 33:57Speaker 02

  I have one. My next guess is suite. Like S U I T E. Like S U I T E. No, but you do have a second guess. Okay. I have a really good one.

• 34:06David Imel?

  Let me write this down real quick.

• 34:07Speaker 02

  I think I have a good one.

• 34:09Speaker 02

  My next guess is productivity.

• 34:15Speaker 02

  So sorry. Damn, these companies are not good. So sorry.

• 34:19Andrew Manganelli?

  Okay, I have one.

• 34:20Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 34:20Andrew Manganelli?

  Together.

• 34:23Speaker 02

  Together was on my list, but it is not in the top 20. Okay, cloud. Shit.

• 34:30Speaker 02

  That's good, that's good. Cloud is not on my list. What? It's of the top 20, but this is what I'm talking about. You have to think, like, there's two words relating to AI still on this board.

• 34:41Andrew Manganelli?

  Oh, it's giving hints.

• 34:42Speaker 02

  One of which is worth 19 points, and the other which is only worth 2 points. Learning? Unfortunately, you did not get any of them. Yeah. But you're getting closer.

• 34:50Andrew Manganelli?

  All right, I have it. Model.

• 34:52Speaker 02

  Model is worth 19 points. Way to go. It was used nine times in the last three cohorts. Oh, man.

• 35:02Speaker 02

  Oh, I know one.

• 35:03David Imel?

  And now it's my turn?

• 35:03Speaker 02

  And now it's your turn, Marquez.

• 35:05David Imel?

  Service.

• 35:06Speaker 02

  Wow, I'm surprised that one's not there.

• 35:08David Imel?

  What?

• 35:09Speaker 02

  It was used four times.

• 35:13Andrew Manganelli?

  I feel like we're both thinking the same thing, but you think it would be very close to-

• 35:16Speaker 02

  Machine unfortunately is not on the list.

• 35:19David Imel?

  Yeah, Jesus.

• 35:20Speaker 02

  Might have been worth inferring that from learning not being on the list, but hey, I don't tell you how to use your guesses.

• 35:26David Imel?

  There's a lot of machines.

• 35:26Andrew Manganelli?

  Alright, language.

• 35:28David Imel?

  That's what I was gonna use.

• 35:29Andrew Manganelli?

  I knew we were gonna-

• 35:30David Imel?

  I knew it.

• 35:31Speaker 02

  I do not see-

• 35:32David Imel?

  Oh, wow.

• 35:32Andrew Manganelli?

  Well, so that's what's confu-

• 35:33David Imel?

  Yeah.

• 35:34Speaker 02

  Yeah, so maybe I should have taken that back, Marquez. I humbly apologize. Uh, so one thing I was surprised by, and this is AI related, is how many companies used this word.

• 35:45Speaker 02

  Because I did not think of it as like a fresh wave of AI stuff that people were developing, but it makes sense. It's a mode.

• 35:55David Imel?

  It's a mode. Autonomous?

• 35:57Speaker 02

  Is it? Wait, is it your turn to guess?

• 35:58Andrew Manganelli?

  It is, yeah.

• 35:59David Imel?

  Yeah.

• 35:59Speaker 02

  Oh, uh.

• 36:01Andrew Manganelli?

  Really?

• 36:02David Imel?

  Really?

• 36:03Speaker 02

  It's too smart.

• 36:06David Imel?

  Um, computer. Wait, that's, no, I'm not gonna guess that. That's stupid.

• 36:12Speaker 02

  But there's, computer's not on there.

• 36:16David Imel?

  Did we already guess?

• 36:17Speaker 02

  We got a-

• 36:17David Imel?

  System?

• 36:19Speaker 02

  Did we guess?

• 36:20Andrew Manganelli?

  Are you reading my [bleep] mind?

• 36:21David Imel?

  No.

• 36:22Andrew Manganelli?

  Your mind, yeah.

• 36:23Speaker 02

  It's system, your guess.

• 36:24David Imel?

  Yeah, system.

• 36:24Speaker 02

  System is worth the most points on the board, David.

• 36:27David Imel?

  Let's go!

• 36:30Speaker 02

  You just got the 20 bomb.

• 36:32David Imel?

  I swear to God, it was like a rich forehead. I said operating system's not on here? Let me just guess system, okay.

• 36:38Speaker 02

  Okay, why don't we go, everyone gets one more?

• 36:41Andrew Manganelli?

  People.

• 36:42David Imel?

  Who do you wanna buy your?

• 36:44Speaker 02

  Dude, I'm getting too hard.

• 36:46David Imel?

  I have to go with operate?

• 36:49Speaker 02

  Hmm.

• 36:51Speaker 04

  You got one more.

• 36:53David Imel?

  Streamline.

• 36:54Speaker 02

  Too smart.

• 36:55Andrew Manganelli?

  Oh, that was a really good one.

• 36:56David Imel?

  Oh my God.

• 36:57Andrew Manganelli?

  Subscription.

• 36:59David Imel?

  Oh my God.

• 37:02Speaker 02

  Fast.

• 37:03David Imel?

  Oh.

• 37:03Speaker 02

  Get it out.

• 37:04David Imel?

  Ooh, I got one, okay. Um.

• 37:07Speaker 04

  David's gonna steal it again.

• 37:10David Imel?

  I swear to God, if I write this down right now-

• 37:12Andrew Manganelli?

  Oh, man.

• 37:12David Imel?

  Um, personal.

• 37:16Speaker 02

  So fun.

• 37:16David Imel?

  And I get one more.

• 37:18Speaker 02

  You do get one more.

• 37:18Andrew Manganelli?

  I almost said it.

• 37:22David Imel?

  Uh, okay.

• 37:25David Imel?

  Uh, yeah, this, this helps. Um.

• 37:33Speaker 02

  Database.

• 37:36Speaker 02

  I'll give it to you. I'll give it to you. Data was used 16 times, making up around half a percent of all words.

• 37:41David Imel?

  No, but that shouldn't count. You have to say data. That's crazy.

• 37:46Andrew Manganelli?

  Well.

• 37:48Speaker 02

  Seven points, David.

• 37:49David Imel?

  I thought it was 16.

• 37:50Andrew Manganelli?

  No.

• 37:51Speaker 04

  You used 16 times.

• 37:52David Imel?

  Oh.

• 37:53Andrew Manganelli?

  Oh, it's not in the 16?

• 37:54David Imel?

  I think I got 16 points.

• 37:55Speaker 02

  Andrew.

• 37:56Andrew Manganelli?

  App.

• 37:57Speaker 04

  It's 2010?

• 37:58David Imel?

  App is an acronym.

• 37:59Andrew Manganelli?

  There's not a single app.

• 38:01David Imel?

  App stands for application.

• 38:03Andrew Manganelli?

  Okay.

• 38:03Speaker 02

  Marquez, I believe you had a word you were very excited about.

• 38:06David Imel?

  Yeah.

• 38:06Andrew Manganelli?

  Optimize.

• 38:08Speaker 02

  All right, care to try again?

• 38:11David Imel?

  If you read my mind, I swear to God.

• 38:14Andrew Manganelli?

  And then I had another.

• 38:15Speaker 02

  I guess I should consult a master list for more of these.

• 38:17David Imel?

  Uh, and you said people already?

• 38:19Andrew Manganelli?

  How have we gotten the four hardest ones?

• 38:22David Imel?

  Did you say people already?

• 38:23Andrew Manganelli?

  I said people.

• 38:24Speaker 02

  You did say people. There is a word that refers to groups of people that is on this list.

• 38:28David Imel?

  I was gonna say masses, but I don't think that's it. I'll just say it. Masses. It's probably not that. Yep.

• 38:32Andrew Manganelli?

  Okay. Internet.

• 38:35David Imel?

  Customers.

• 38:38Speaker 02

  Wow, I've already given you a hint, David. I'm sorry. Um, there's a few still obvious ones that are here.

• 38:46Andrew Manganelli?

  Oh, it wasn't that?

• 38:46Speaker 02

  No, it was not that.

• 38:47Andrew Manganelli?

  Glad I didn't say it.

• 38:49Speaker 02

  You guys are gonna be so mad when you find out the rest of these.

• 38:52Andrew Manganelli?

  We don't have the number two.

• 38:53Speaker 02

  We don't have number two.

• 38:54David Imel?

  I got, I got a bunch.

• 38:56Speaker 02

  The number two is so obvious.

• 38:58Andrew Manganelli?

  Electronic.

• 38:59Speaker 02

  Oh my God.

• 38:59David Imel?

  I don't know.

• 39:00Speaker 02

  What would be right behind AI?

• 39:02David Imel?

  Internet.

• 39:03Speaker 02

  No, Andrew already.

• 39:06David Imel?

  Alright.

• 39:07Speaker 02

  What would be, what's right behind AI? What word almost always follows the word AI?

• 39:14David Imel?

  I have one. Uh, service?

• 39:17Speaker 02

  Was service on here?

• 39:18David Imel?

  No, I already asked service.

• 39:19Speaker 02

  No.

• 39:20David Imel?

  Also.

• 39:21Andrew Manganelli?

  Agent.

• 39:22Speaker 02

  Agent is correct. Used 68 times.

• 39:26David Imel?

  That's two?

• 39:26Speaker 02

  Agent, yeah.

• 39:28David Imel?

  My guess is crypto. Crypto.

• 39:31Speaker 02

  Crypto's out, bro. VCs are not interested.

• 39:33David Imel?

  It ain't 2021 anymore, boys.

• 39:34Speaker 02

  But you do get one more guess.

• 39:38Speaker 02

  And it should end on David, so do you want to do?

• 39:40David Imel?

  Should this be it?

• 39:41Speaker 02

  Do you want to end this or do one more time? I think one more. Okay.

• 39:46David Imel?

  Blockchain.

• 39:48Speaker 02

  I just said crypto.

• 39:49David Imel?

  Oh, sorry. Okay.

• 39:51Speaker 02

  No, no, you are. All right, Andrew.

• 39:57Speaker 02

  Andrew, this is your second to last guess. I know.

• 40:01Speaker 07

  No pressure.

• 40:02David Imel?

  Love.

• 40:16David Imel?

  This is a really good game.

• 40:17Speaker 02

  Interface. Interface is not on my list, unfortunately. Marquez.

• 40:27David Imel?

  Financial?

• 40:28Speaker 02

  Financial is not on my list.

• 40:30David Imel?

  Rapper.

• 40:31Speaker 02

  Rapper is not on my list. User. User is not on my list.

• 40:36David Imel?

  Browser.

• 40:37Speaker 02

  Browser is not on my, uh, no, browser's not on my list.

• 40:41David Imel?

  All right, we're done.

• 40:42Speaker 02

  Damn. Guys, excellent job. So some of the funny ones that you guys missed include powered slash power. Software, you guys did not guess. That one's pretty bad. Voice was the AI mode that was here way more than I thought it would.

• 40:57David Imel?

  Yeah.

• 40:57Speaker 02

  Sales.

• 40:58David Imel?

  Sale.

• 40:59Speaker 02

  Real was on here a lot.

• 41:00David Imel?

  I was thinking B2B.

• 41:01Speaker 02

  B2B.

• 41:04Speaker 02

  The word for groups of people was team. Team was used 14 times. That's so obvious. Here's one that really threw me for the loop. The 12, the 12th word on my list used 12 times, coincidentally, was cursor.

• 41:21David Imel?

  Oh, because things are being built on cursor?

• 41:23Speaker 02

  No, because so many companies just refer to themselves in their byline as the cursor of blank.

• 41:30David Imel?

  Wow.

• 41:31Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 41:32David Imel?

  Cursor is an AI coding app.

• 41:34Speaker 02

  Exactly.

• 41:35David Imel?

  Yeah, it's like a dedicated environment.

• 41:38Speaker 02

  Do you want to just read the one?

• 41:39David Imel?

  Coding.

• 41:39Speaker 02

  Want to just read the one through 20? Yeah, can you just read it in order? Number 20, system, used nine times. Models, 19, nine times. Yeah, so sorry, 20 through 17 are all tied. System, models, help, code.

• 41:53David Imel?

  Help.

• 41:54Speaker 02

  Help, helping, helpers.

• 41:55David Imel?

  Wow.

• 41:56Speaker 02

  Et cetera.

• 41:56David Imel?

  Damn.

• 41:57Speaker 02

  Uh, 16, 10 times. Healthcare, 15.

• 41:59David Imel?

  Wow.

• 42:00Speaker 02

  Sales. 14 real, 13 native. What is real? REAL. Oh, REAL. Like, real experiences? Native is good. Was experiences one? Experiences is not on here. No. Then we have cursor, team, source, voice, open, seven is data, six is platform, five is software, four is powered, three is build, two is agent, and number one. AI. Making up 8.5%.

• 42:29Andrew Manganelli?

  We didn't say software? The funny thing is, is you said, "Think of as dumb as possible", and I thought button, which is not that far away from power.

• 42:39Speaker 02

  Guys, before we get into our next segment, we need to do a score update because points were flying around that round. I might be cooked now.

• 42:48Andrew Manganelli?

  No, I think David, like, really took the lead on that one.

• 42:51Speaker 02

  Yeah, not really, but kind of.

• 42:53Speaker 05

  So contrary to round two, where only two points were scored in the whole round, we now have seismic updates to the score.

• 43:03Speaker 05

  Andrew began last round with 26 points, scored 22 more points.

• 43:09Speaker 02

  Wow, well done.

• 43:10Speaker 05

  Which brought him up to 48 points total.

• 43:14Andrew Manganelli?

  Nice.

• 43:14Speaker 02

  Dang.

• 43:14Speaker 05

  Marquez began last round with 38 points, scored 21 points to bring him to 59 total after three rounds. David had 42 after round two, scored a whopping 50 points in round three.

• 43:36Andrew Manganelli?

  Are you serious?

• 43:37Speaker 05

  Yes. Giving David now a grand total of 92 after three rounds.

• 43:44Speaker 02

  We already catched.

• 43:45Speaker 05

  You wanted to go big, and you went big.

• 43:48Speaker 02

  We might have messed this up.

• 43:51Speaker 02

  As long as the values of upcoming questions are still high enough to mean anyone can win. This next section, everything is 10 pointers. That's fair. If you sweep me by the end of this, I'm gonna be so sad.

• 44:05Speaker 02

  What? Screw it, no rules, 10 points per question. Oh my god. Guys, this next one is called "The Chicken of the Egg", we're gonna read you two tech products. The chicken of the egg? This is the chicken of the egg. Okay. This is.

• 44:15David Imel?

  I kind of like the chicken in the sea, right?

• 44:16Speaker 02

  I'm no, I'm referring to, what's the?

• 44:20David Imel?

  Oh, yeah.

• 44:20Speaker 02

  DJ Khaled, Rick Ross. The almond of the coconut or whatever he says. No, no, no, no, no. The mathematician who is like- The almond of the peanut. Who uses eggs as the, the mathematician uses eggs to explain dimensions. You know what I'm talking about?

• 44:32Speaker 01

  That's not what we're thinking about at all.

• 44:35Speaker 02

  No, it's like-

• 44:36Andrew Manganelli?

  It's on the tip of all of our tongues.

• 44:38Speaker 02

  It's like if you, who said that? It's the guy who was like, if you have a, if you have a 2D egg and you're a 3D being, you can see the, the 2D chicken floating inside the egg because a 3D being can see all sides of a 2D object. Is there a 3D chicken inside the 2D egg? If there's a, no, there's a 2D chicken inside the 2D egg. But if there's a 3D egg with a 3D chicken inside, a 4D being would be able to see the, anyway. Guys, chicken or? Chicken. The egg. Or the egg.

• 45:05Speaker 04

  What is a four dimensional being?

• 45:08Andrew Manganelli?

  We don't know.

• 45:08Speaker 02

  Do I need to explain it? It's a being that exists in four dimensions. The fourth dimension is time.

• 45:13David Imel?

  Oh, that answers that. Yeah.

• 45:16Speaker 02

  It's, no, it's theoretical. It's theoretical. It's if there was a fourth axis for us to exist on.

• 45:22Speaker 04

  There is. You just can't move around in it.

• 45:23Speaker 02

  Right? Uh, that's one, it, okay, everyone should- Don't I exist in- Guys, what came first? The fax machine? Or the blender?

• 45:37Speaker 01

  My markers are running out of ink.

• 45:40Speaker 01

  It's not great. You guys have extra markers or no? I do not. Oh, that's a Sharpie. I can't use that. All right, whatever. Blender, the app is like, not that old, right? It's fairly old. I use it in college.

• 45:52Speaker 02

  No, no, no, I'm talking about, I'm talking about the electric blender.

• 45:56Speaker 01

  I used it in college and I'm really old, so it's pretty old.

• 45:59Andrew Manganelli?

  Don't forget, 10 points on the line.

• 46:01Speaker 01

  10?

• 46:02Speaker 04

  Per question.

• 46:05Speaker 02

  All right. What did you guys put?

• 46:07Speaker 01

  Points available.

• 46:08Speaker 02

  Mark has, and I put blender, and Andrew put fax. The fax machine is not just older than the blender, it is way older than the blender. The fax machine is so old that it predates the telephone. That's right. They were sending photographs over telegraph wires. Wait, telegraph? Yeah.

• 46:27Speaker 02

  But telegraph and fax machines are different. No, the wires that were sending Morse code messages were also sending photographs over them in the 1860s. I'm gonna have to fax check that. Please do. Guys, number two, the QWERTY keyboard layout or the modern paperclip?

• 46:45Speaker 02

  The mod- why is that a specific? Because it turns out a lot of people tried to make paperclips and they were not very good. And then we got this one and everyone was like, alright, we're done with this. We figured it out. This is what's newer or what's older? What's older? Older? What is older? Which is the egg? Wait, no, disregard that. That's the whole question.

• 47:07Speaker 02

  The whole question is which is older?

• 47:08Andrew Manganelli?

  Is it 2D or 3D?

• 47:10Speaker 02

  Faksimally. I have no clue when paperclips came around, so. What do we got? I'm going QWERTY. QWERTY?

• 47:17Andrew Manganelli?

  I'm also going QWERTY.

• 47:18Speaker 02

  Is correct. That is 10 points. I thought that was newer. Uh, no.

• 47:22Andrew Manganelli?

  It's really old.

• 47:22Speaker 02

  It's from 1878. I thought it was like a new Japanese guy that did it. No.

• 47:27Andrew Manganelli?

  No, actually, there's rumors that it's Remington that did it.

• 47:30Speaker 02

  Rumor. I, so I am pulling the first Remington typewriter from 1878 that had it. However, there were two or three typewriters prior to that through the 1870s, which had things that resembled the QWERTY and C layout. However, they were not exact, so I'm counting.

• 47:44Andrew Manganelli?

  They're a studio short on this.

• 47:45Speaker 02

  1878. Oh, that's right. I forgot about that. Wow. Alright, guys, this next one, I want to try to go as a lightning round. So get ready to write these really fast. Ready? Okay. Fubo or Tubi?

• 48:00Speaker 02

  What do we got?

• 48:03Speaker 02

  Wow, I'm not expected to know these, right?

• 48:04Andrew Manganelli?

  I said Fubo.

• 48:05Speaker 02

  You said Fubo? Same. I said Tubi. Tubi is correct. Way to go, David. Alright, follow up, Tubi or Roku?

• 48:17Andrew Manganelli?

  I keep forgetting Roku fits in this consonant vowel, consonant vowel.

• 48:21Speaker 02

  It better be what I think it is. And the answer is? Please, Roku. Nope, the answer is still Tubi. Are you kidding me? Roku's so OG. Tubi is from 2014, Roku's from 2017, according to my notes. Wait, what? 2017? Tubi? No, Roku was around when I was in college.

• 48:38Andrew Manganelli?

  I think Roku's been around for a bit.

• 48:39Speaker 02

  Two thousand two, so Roku is. Okay.

• 48:41Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 48:42Andrew Manganelli?

  But it doesn't change anything because we all got the point.

• 48:44Speaker 01

  Yeah, we'll give us all points.

• 48:46David Imel?

  Great, ten points for all of us. I was like, no way.

• 48:48Speaker 02

  Yep, now I see where I got it wrong. In two thousand fourteen, Roku released their first TVs with Roku's built-in.

• 48:53Andrew Manganelli?

  But they were a box beforehand.

• 48:54Speaker 02

  Yeah. Continuing with the trend.

• 48:56David Imel?

  Okay.

• 48:57Speaker 02

  Roku or Mubi?

• 49:01Andrew Manganelli?

  Do we have to spell it right?

• 49:03Speaker 02

  I don't care.

• 49:05Speaker 02

  All right, what do we got?

• 49:07Speaker 01

  I wrote Mubi.

• 49:08Speaker 02

  Roku is correct. Marquez and Andrew, did you get that one right?

• 49:12Andrew Manganelli?

  No, I got it wrong.

• 49:12Speaker 02

  Just me. Ten points for Marquez. All right, one more, guys. I swear this is not annoying. Mubi or Pluto?

• 49:21Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 49:22Speaker 02

  No, that's right, five letters.

• 49:26Speaker 02

  Innovator. Disruptor. Hardly know. What do we got?

• 49:35Andrew Manganelli?

  Ready?

• 49:36Speaker 01

  Mubi.

• 49:37Andrew Manganelli?

  I wrote Mubi.

• 49:38Speaker 02

  Mubi is correct.

• 49:40Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 49:40Speaker 02

  Damn. Point. Oh, Marquez got that wrong. Damn.

• 49:43David Imel?

  Got that wrong.

• 49:45Andrew Manganelli?

  Isn't Pluto that like?

• 49:46David Imel?

  Pluto TV.

• 49:47Andrew Manganelli?

  I didn't watch TV channels.

• 49:48David Imel?

  It's not fake. It's real. The whole category of TV.

• 49:51Andrew Manganelli?

  Real.

• 49:51David Imel?

  But I don't watch TV.

• 49:52Speaker 02

  It's legal. It plays ads. Stumble upon or Reddit? Which one came first?

• 49:57David Imel?

  I know this.

• 49:59Speaker 02

  Chicken or the egg? What do you guys got?

• 50:00Andrew Manganelli?

  Both put that?

• 50:02Speaker 01

  Stumble upon.

• 50:04David Imel?

  Because stumble upon as well.

• 50:06Andrew Manganelli?

  I put Reddit.

• 50:08Speaker 02

  So ten points each for David and Marquez because of stumble upon.

• 50:11David Imel?

  I was using stumble upon when I was a freshman in high school, but I only started using Reddit when it came out when I was like a junior.

• 50:17Speaker 02

  Hmm. All right, Shazam or TiVo?

• 50:23Speaker 01

  TiVo?

• 50:24Andrew Manganelli?

  Shazam?

• 50:24Speaker 02

  TiVo.

• 50:25Speaker 01

  Oh, Shazam or TiVo?

• 50:29Speaker 02

  Seeing the little TiVo guy when I was researching that just brought warm, warm feelings to my heart. I love that little dude.

• 50:36David Imel?

  My friend's dad was like the regional manager of Best Buy and he had TiVo because he was rich. It was cool. I didn't have it, but it was cool. The controller was cool. I had the little guy on it.

• 50:46Speaker 02

  Now we just have YouTube TV.

• 50:47David Imel?

  YouTube TiVo.

• 50:49Speaker 02

  Flip and Reed, what do we got?

• 50:50David Imel?

  TiVo.

• 50:51Andrew Manganelli?

  We all got TiVo?

• 50:52Speaker 02

  Correct.

• 50:53David Imel?

  Hey.

• 50:53Speaker 02

  It was TiVo, 99, 2000.

• 50:55David Imel?

  Wow.

• 50:56Speaker 02

  I learned this researching this question. Shazam actually launched as an SMS service.

• 51:01Andrew Manganelli?

  Really?

• 51:01Speaker 02

  Yeah, where you would call the Shazam number, hold your phone up to a speaker and they'd send you a text message with what song is playing.

• 51:08David Imel?

  Why didn't they just tell you on the other side?

• 51:10Speaker 02

  Because your phone would meet your ear. You'd be like...

• 51:12David Imel?

  It's actually really impressive. It's like very innovative and interesting. You know Twitter was an SMS service.

• 51:18Speaker 02

  Guys, I have... Really?

• 51:20David Imel?

  You could tweet with SMS, yeah. That's how it started.

• 51:22Speaker 02

  Yeah. Remember when Domino's?

• 51:24David Imel?

  That's why it had 140 character limit. That's some trivia right there. SMS was 144 characters.

• 51:29Speaker 02

  Do you guys remember when Domino's had an SMS service?

• 51:32David Imel?

  Never heard of it.

• 51:32Speaker 02

  No. Really? Andrew, even you?

• 51:35Andrew Manganelli?

  I just called.

• 51:36Speaker 02

  There was a period of time where you could, in your Domino's account, register your phone number and like your favorite order. And if you texted, and your cutter card, and if you texted them the pizza emoji, it would automatically place the order for delivery to your house.

• 51:49David Imel?

  Wait, bring this back, bro. We need this technology now.

• 51:52Speaker 05

  Also the basis of the We app.

• 51:54Speaker 02

  The We app?

• 51:56Speaker 05

  The We Domino's app.

• 51:58David Imel?

  Oh, yeah.

• 51:59Speaker 02

  I didn't know this.

• 52:00David Imel?

  There is a Domino's app on the We.

• 52:01Speaker 02

  There was a Domino's, it's like a channel, like the Domino's channel?

• 52:04David Imel?

  Yeah. Yeah.

• 52:05Speaker 02

  All right, we gotta...

• 52:06David Imel?

  It's dope.

• 52:07Speaker 02

  Wow. Okay, guys. Guys, this one is not exactly tech, but it's sort of tech. And this one I just find hilarious. The Super Nintendo Entertainment System, the SNES.

• 52:17David Imel?

  SNES.

• 52:18Speaker 02

  The SNES. Or... Chabata bread.

• 52:26Speaker 02

  Okay. I'm looking for the older one.

• 52:31David Imel?

  They do love Chabata in SF. I wonder if a tech company invented Chabata.

• 52:37Andrew Manganelli?

  That was actually the ninth word in the Y combinator.

• 52:43David Imel?

  AI Chabata platform. Chabata bread is a type of bread? Yeah.

• 52:49Speaker 02

  What? You had Chabata? It's the Italian answer to the baguette.

• 52:53David Imel?

  Newer, right? Newer?

• 52:54Speaker 02

  Uh, we're looking for older. No, I am looking for...

• 52:57Andrew Manganelli?

  Older.

• 52:58Speaker 02

  Yeah, older.

• 52:58David Imel?

  Oh, older. Yes. SNES.

• 53:00Speaker 02

  Uh, no, Chabata is older than the SNES, but only by eight years.

• 53:04David Imel?

  Oh, really?

• 53:05Speaker 02

  1982, yeah. Think about that. As children, none of our parents had Chabata.

• 53:11David Imel?

  They probably still aren't.

• 53:12Speaker 01

  I might not have had Chabata either.

• 53:14Andrew Manganelli?

  That word's too hard.

• 53:15David Imel?

  Chabata me crazy.

• 53:18Speaker 02

  All right, let's get a quick update on the score and then take it to a one more break.

• 53:23Speaker 05

  Our scoring update, after four rounds, it looks way more impressive. And yet, it's the same situation, because you all scored 50 points in that last round.

• 53:35Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 53:35Speaker 05

  So Marquez now sits at 109. Andrew now sits at 98.

• 53:41David Imel?

  Wow.

• 53:41Speaker 05

  And David is sitting pretty at 142 points.

• 53:45Speaker 01

  Jesus.

• 53:46Andrew Manganelli?

  Wow. Damn. And the next round, everything's worth 100.

• 53:53Speaker 01

  I mean, we're all 50 points apart, so reasonably if everything's 10 points again, we could still win.

• 53:59David Imel?

  Yeah, let's make it everything's one point.

• 54:02Speaker 01

  But there's a 1,000 questions.

• 54:06Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 54:07David Imel?

  What is David's middle name?

• 54:09Speaker 01

  All right, well, we got one more category after the break. It's one with the buzzers and one audio round, so stay tuned. Anyone could still win. We'll be right back.

• 54:29Speaker 01

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• 55:12Speaker 01

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• 55:55Speaker 09

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• 56:40Speaker 02

  Guys, welcome back. We have two more things. We have got a little funky little thing that we've never actually done before. This is going to be very new for us. We'll see if it's actually fun or not, and then we're going to be doing our, you know, world famous.

• 56:56Speaker 02

  Audio round. Audio round. So guys, Adam came up with a really interesting idea for a category, which was we're going to write descriptions of famous apps and their icons, just their icons, famous apps icons, the icons of famous apps. Descriptions.

• 57:10Andrew Manganelli?

  Okay.

• 57:11Speaker 02

  And then have you guess what they were based on those. But then we thought, wait, no, that's no fun. It is fun, but we could make it more fun by having. Insert AI assistant write the descriptions for us.

• 57:24Andrew Manganelli?

  Okay.

• 57:24Speaker 02

  And then we realized we could have even more fun. By visualizing it? By asking them to do it as specific characters. What? Like Homer Simpson? Uh, not that specific. Oh. As general characters. Like Charmander? So let's, let's do this first one. This first app's description is going to be read as a pirate.

• 57:45Andrew Manganelli?

  How are we answering these?

• 57:46Speaker 02

  You have to tell me what the app is.

• 57:48Andrew Manganelli?

  On the, but, on the whiteboard?

• 57:50Speaker 02

  Yeah, with your mind.

• 57:53Andrew Manganelli?

  Could've just yelled it out.

• 57:54Speaker 02

  Duh.

• 57:55Andrew Manganelli?

  Okay.

• 57:56Speaker 02

  How are you feeling? Uh. I really hope this is funny. So we're getting descriptions of? Of apps icons. You're getting descriptions of icons and you have to tell me the app, but each description is not only generated by an AI. Uh, and I tried to clean it up as best I could to just remove like wrong stuff or like stuff that didn't make sense, but it still is pretty AIE. Because this has been a weird one. This is now our 20 points. This will be the first extract we've ever ended where we might have people with more than 200 points. Which I'm just so excited for.

• 58:27Andrew Manganelli?

  Okay.

• 58:28Speaker 02

  Um, all right. Here is my impression of a pirate.

• 58:34Speaker 02

  Ahoy there mateys. I be seeing a symbol that looks like a colorful hashtag or crosshatch pattern. Tilted at a jaunty angle like a ship's wheel catching the wind. Tis painted in four bold colors.

• 58:48Andrew Manganelli?

  I wish this was.

• 58:49Speaker 02

  Ocean blue, sunset red, doubloon yellow and green.

• 58:57Speaker 02

  All crossing each other in a gap between the spaces in a ship's, like the spaces in a ship's riggin. I would make a fine flag for gathering the crew together.

• 59:07Andrew Manganelli?

  This is that lost pirate episode everyone's been asking for.

• 59:10Speaker 02

  I was so mad because when I had to make the pirate soundscape, I was like, I've done this so many times for that pirate episode and it was on an old computer. So I couldn't like, just anyway, I'm complaining. What do you guys have?

• 59:24Speaker 02

  Did you all put slack?

• 59:25Speaker 01

  Yeah, I put slack.

• 59:26Speaker 02

  Did you hear the bubbles? I put bubbles in there. That is... Correct.

• 59:32Andrew Manganelli?

  Oh, I wish this was a buzzer.

• 59:34Speaker 01

  A colored hashtag. I was like, yep. Next one is a pinwheel.

• 59:36Speaker 02

  Oh, [bleep]. Everything's a pinwheel. Alright, guys.

• 59:40Speaker 01

  Next one's red, yellow, blue, and green.

• 59:42Speaker 02

  Guys, this next one, this next app, will be read in the voice of a robot.

• 59:49Andrew Manganelli?

  Okay. Beep boop.

• 59:52Andrew Manganelli?

  It did.

• 59:52Speaker 02

  Zero, zero, zero, one, zero. Chat GPT or anonymous AI did add a lot of beep boops in the robot one that I had to clean out.

• 1:00:01Andrew Manganelli?

  Okay.

• 1:00:02Speaker 02

  Alright, are you ready, guys?

• 1:00:03Andrew Manganelli?

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:00:07Speaker 10

  Analyzing visual signal processing. I observe a circular green interface element colored in optimal hue 34C759 for maximum visibility. That's green.

• 1:00:27Speaker 10

  Sorry, this is so funny. Contain within this circular boundary is a white speech bubble icon designed to represent textual communication and protocols between humans. The geometric state follows standard conversation bubble parameters with a small triangular protrusion indicating message origin point. Beep boop.

• 1:00:51Speaker 01

  Triangular?

• 1:00:52Andrew Manganelli?

  Okay. I think I have it.

• 1:00:56Speaker 01

  Got it. Got it.

• 1:00:58David Imel?

  That was fire, dude.

• 1:01:00Speaker 10

  Thank you, thank you, thank you. Oh, thank you, God.

• 1:01:04Andrew Manganelli?

  Please.

• 1:01:07Speaker 02

  Also, there's a delay in my headphones, which is why I was reading at a snail's pace. Like, just enough of a delay to make that really difficult. Uh, alright, let's really flip them.

• 1:01:17Speaker 01

  I think it would have been entertaining to see us, the progression of things we are writing, before we got to the last thing. We all said WhatsApp.

• 1:01:24Speaker 10

  That was not the answer I was looking for, but, uh, I forgot about WhatsApp, so...

• 1:01:32Speaker 10

  I was looking for iMessage, but WhatsApp, I'll give you the point for WhatsApp.

• 1:01:36Speaker 01

  iMessage is not an app.

• 1:01:38Speaker 10

  Yes, it is.

• 1:01:39David Imel?

  It's called Messages.

• 1:01:46Speaker 01

  It's a protocol.

• 1:01:47Andrew Manganelli?

  What's the white?

• 1:01:48Speaker 01

  Robot.

• 1:01:49Speaker 02

  Message, I don't, I don't, I don't care.

• 1:01:51Speaker 01

  So you're giving us points for what?

• 1:01:52Speaker 02

  Yeah, you guys get points. All right, this next one.

• 1:01:58Speaker 02

  This next one is as if.

• 1:02:02Speaker 02

  This next one is if you are a. No.

• 1:02:06Speaker 02

  This next one is as if you are a doctor reading a diagnosis.

• 1:02:11Speaker 01

  Wow.

• 1:02:12Speaker 02

  I hit the wrong computer.

• 1:02:18Speaker 02

  Well, I've reviewed your test results and we need to discuss what we're seeing here. There's a distinctive white ghost present and it's, it's quite prominent and appears to be set against a bright yellow background. The, the ghost has a somewhat playful demeanor with what looks like a tongue protruding slightly, which while unusual, doesn't appear to be serious.

• 1:02:40Andrew Manganelli?

  I don't think that's the official app logo.

• 1:02:42Speaker 02

  I'd recommend we monitor this thing closely as it seems to have a tendency to make things

• 1:02:49Speaker 02

  disappear. We're losing him, we're losing him.

• 1:02:51Speaker 01

  That's the company logo, not the app.

• 1:02:53Speaker 02

  What's the app?

• 1:02:55Speaker 01

  The app doesn't have the tongue.

• 1:02:56Andrew Manganelli?

  It doesn't have the tongue.

• 1:02:57Speaker 02

  That's the difference?

• 1:02:58Andrew Manganelli?

  Yeah.

• 1:02:59Speaker 01

  There's no face on it at all, just the silhouette. Anyway, we all know what it is.

• 1:03:03Speaker 02

  It's ChatGPT's fault.

• 1:03:04Andrew Manganelli?

  Not surprised.

• 1:03:05Speaker 01

  We all said Snapchat.

• 1:03:07Speaker 02

  Way to go.

• 1:03:08Speaker 01

  Cool. I don't even have Snapchat. I did it, I did it one time. Cause I'm not a youth.

• 1:03:14Speaker 02

  All right, guys, this is, this app, which now I have no idea if it got the icon or the logo, so just, just good luck. This one is a Revolutionary War era soldier who woke up in the future and is seeing this icon for the first time and is confused and awestruck.

• 1:03:31Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 1:03:32Andrew Manganelli?

  Okay.

• 1:03:34Speaker 02

  By my musket and my powder horn, what manner of sorcery is this?

• 1:03:42Speaker 02

  'Tis a red, a red background, red as the British coats we fought against at Lexington. Within this crimson field lies a white, my god, is it a white triangle? I believe it is, pointing to the east as if waiting for the sun to rise. Good sir, pray tell, what technological marvel from your time does this symbol represent?

• 1:04:05Speaker 02

  That's it? That's it. A white triangle in a red flag. In a red, uh, in a little, in a red box.

• 1:04:10Andrew Manganelli?

  I thought it was something else.

• 1:04:13Speaker 02

  I mean, I hope I'm.

• 1:04:14Andrew Manganelli?

  I have to the end of the fluke.

• 1:04:15Speaker 02

  No idea what that is. Hey, that's a fife.

• 1:04:18Andrew Manganelli?

  I'm sorry?

• 1:04:19Speaker 02

  Oh.

• 1:04:22Speaker 02

  Fife dog. Actually, I fife and a fluter the same thing. I, I, I don't know why.

• 1:04:28Speaker 02

  Buzzer.

• 1:04:28Andrew Manganelli?

  Ready?

• 1:04:29Speaker 02

  Yep, do it.

• 1:04:30Andrew Manganelli?

  I really wish David got that one wrong, because I.

• 1:04:33Speaker 02

  Everyone got it right. Say it. One, two, three. YouTube. YouTube. Wow, okay, so this is way easier than I thought it would be. This next one, I'm going to read as if I am a, uh, morning. Talk show host. Radio, like FM, AM radio host.

• 1:04:49Andrew Manganelli?

  WVFRM.

• 1:04:50Speaker 02

  WVFRM, exactly. Are you guys ready? Yes. Uh, upbeat morning radio voice with, I couldn't find the right music for this, so we're just. No, it just has to be like slight static.

• 1:05:03Andrew Manganelli?

  AM radio?

• 1:05:05Speaker 02

  Yeah, AM radio. I mean, that's where all the talk shows are anyway. Like that?

• 1:05:10Andrew Manganelli?

  No, that's.

• 1:05:11Speaker 02

  Okay. The time code. Guys, let's kick it off. Good morning, WF, WVFRM 101.5.

• 1:05:23Speaker 02

  Picture a bright coral pink background, fresher than your morning joe. In the center, a white A with attitude. It's one continuous line with style, no breaks or gaps.

• 1:05:39Speaker 02

  WVFRN listeners? What app are we talking about?

• 1:05:43David Imel?

  A white, wait.

• 1:05:44Speaker 02

  Don't do that.

• 1:05:45David Imel?

  He said a white A?

• 1:05:46Speaker 02

  A white A with attitude made of one continuous line.

• 1:05:49Speaker 01

  The longer it till they get right.

• 1:05:51David Imel?

  An A?

• 1:05:54Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 1:05:54David Imel?

  An A.

• 1:05:55Speaker 01

  All right, flip your boards. All right, flip your boards.

• 1:05:57David Imel?

  No, not A.

• 1:05:57Speaker 01

  All right, flip your boards. All right.

• 1:05:59Speaker 02

  David, you better hurry up, David.

• 1:06:01Speaker 01

  Time to flip your boards. Three. Two. One. Flip.

• 1:06:08Speaker 02

  What did we put?

• 1:06:09Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 1:06:10Andrew Manganelli?

  Wow, good job, Marcus.

• 1:06:11David Imel?

  That was pretty good.

• 1:06:12Speaker 01

  It was Airbnb.

• 1:06:14Speaker 02

  Airbnb is correct.

• 1:06:15Andrew Manganelli?

  Apple App Store.

• 1:06:16David Imel?

  I wrote Apple in cursive.

• 1:06:20Speaker 02

  All right, guys, we have one.

• 1:06:21Andrew Manganelli?

  Wow, you got that quick.

• 1:06:23Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:06:23Speaker 02

  We have one more. Can you hit the?

• 1:06:24Speaker 01

  It's all about.

• 1:06:25David Imel?

  I literally booked an Airbnb today.

• 1:06:26Speaker 01

  As soon as you tell me the color, I have like a set of icons in my head.

• 1:06:32Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 1:06:32Speaker 02

  All right. We have one more. This is as if you are an astronaut. Radioing home.

• 1:06:41Speaker 01

  Nice.

• 1:06:42Speaker 02

  From outer space.

• 1:06:43Speaker 01

  Outer?

• 1:06:44Speaker 02

  Inner space. I don't know.

• 1:06:46Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:06:47David Imel?

  Inner space?

• 1:06:49Speaker 02

  You're about to land on a planet.

• 1:06:53Speaker 01

  That's so good.

• 1:06:54Speaker 02

  I can't find.

• 1:06:55David Imel?

  These voice changers are amazing.

• 1:06:56Speaker 02

  I had an outer space one.

• 1:06:59Speaker 02

  We'll do the robot one again. Here we go.

• 1:07:00David Imel?

  No, I like the outer space.

• 1:07:01Speaker 02

  No, no, no, I had.

• 1:07:07Speaker 11

  Houston. Houston, we have a problem. This is Commander speaking from the landing pod. I am approaching a fascinating celestial body here. It's got this deep blue, cosmic blue surface that reminds me of Earth's ocean from orbit. Over. This most remarkable feature is, no, excuse me, the most remarkable feature is a large white symbol in the center that looks like the letter S, but it's curved and flowing like a sound wave.

• 1:07:40Speaker 11

  The entire formation pulses with a musical energy. This S, it floats on the blue background.

• 1:07:49Speaker 01

  God, I'm picturing, what is it called? Oh, yeah.

• 1:07:53Speaker 11

  It's a, it, it looks like it's already been the answer to a trivia question in this game.

• 1:08:01Speaker 02

  Alright, flip them and read. Oh man, I got it wrong. What did we get?

• 1:08:05Speaker 01

  Shazam.

• 1:08:07Speaker 02

  I wrote Skype. Ah, I can see why you would say that.

• 1:08:11Speaker 01

  Look what I wrote. I wrote...

• 1:08:12Speaker 02

  This one's pretty fun.

• 1:08:13Speaker 01

  I started writing App Store and I started writing Skype and then I landed on Shazam.

• 1:08:18Speaker 02

  Wait, we can make all of our voices sound like this?

• 1:08:19Speaker 11

  No, just mine, over.

• 1:08:21Speaker 01

  Uh, dang it.

• 1:08:22Speaker 02

  I'm gonna need...

• 1:08:26Speaker 02

  Uh, okay, that's all for that round, which means it is time for...

• 1:08:31Speaker 01

  The audio round.

• 1:08:33Speaker 02

  Guys...

• 1:08:34Speaker 01

  Was this no longer needed?

• 1:08:35Speaker 02

  Bangers only. Don't hate me, because I have no idea if this one's gonna go well or not, because we've used so many sounds, so many sounds. There's none left. And so, I did some thinking, and I realized, this audio round, this whole audio round thing, it's not actually about the audio, man. It's not. It's about the friends we made along the way. It's about nostalgia. Hmm. Fair. And what better feeling of nostalgia, what better, what better form of nostalgia... RuneScape. Is, is what's better, can you tell we've been podcasting for almost four hours, four or five hours now? Guys, what is better than remembering the feeling of hearing the alarm you used to wake

• 1:09:17Speaker 02

  up to in high school and having shivers straight down your spine? I don't remember. That's what we're doing today. I, on XDA, found a guy who ripped all the system sounds from all the phones. Nice. And put them all up in a Google Drive, and I downloaded the ones that weren't from China. And, uh, because those are the ones you guys might actually know. Those are pretty, the China ones are pretty. They were really, really, really good. The, uh, yeah, some of them were like... The Huawei ones are so like... The Huawei ones were amazing. Anyway, guys, I'm gonna play you some ringtones, some system sounds, some alerts, and you gotta tell me... What phone it was on? What phone it came from, and, uh, I really wish I could use the buzzer. What phone or what company? Company, company. Oh.

• 1:09:58Speaker 01

  So we're still writing them?

• 1:09:59Speaker 02

  Yes. As an example, if I were to play this...

• 1:10:06Speaker 02

  You would all know that is?

• 1:10:09Speaker 12

  Whoa, with a ball!

• 1:10:12Speaker 02

  No idea what that's from. Wait, none of you know what that's from? It's, I picked that as the obvious one. Are you serio- you guys know what that's from, right?

• 1:10:19Speaker 05

  My dad's ringtone, has been for 20 years.

• 1:10:21Speaker 12

  It's, that's on a phone?

• 1:10:23Speaker 02

  But on what?

• 1:10:24Speaker 05

  Oh boy.

• 1:10:25Speaker 02

  Sony Ericsson or something? What? What? Guys, that shipped with the original iPhone and has been on every single iPhone since. But it's not the default. It might be the default. It's not.

• 1:10:36Speaker 01

  Alarm?

• 1:10:36Speaker 02

  That's like, no, no, that's like, oh yeah, marimba was the default. That is like, one of the most iconic iPhone ringtones of them all. Beg to differ.

• 1:10:46Speaker 01

  I've heard it before.

• 1:10:46Speaker 02

  Twitter, now is your chance to tell Marques Brownlee he's wrong about the iPhone. I think they're gonna yell at you.

• 1:10:52Speaker 01

  There's some, there's some iconic, I don't know if that one's.

• 1:10:55Speaker 02

  Alright, alright, well let's see, well then maybe this is, audio round is gonna fall so flat because none of you have ever heard any of these before. We'll try. Let's see, you guys know this one?

• 1:11:06Speaker 02

  I had this on one of my phones. I haven't heard it, but I could guess. That also sounds like a sidekick or something. Of like, the 2000s, like the.

• 1:11:15Speaker 12

  Is it the company?

• 1:11:16Speaker 02

  Uh, the, I would say, let's say the platform. Can you do it again?

• 1:11:23Speaker 02

  So if you say Android, I'm going to assume you mean, you mean AOSP as opposed to OneUI or TouchWiz or any of these other things. Well, it's definitely not AOSP. Alright, one more time. That's a different one. I don't even remember which one I did. Was it this one?

• 1:11:40Speaker 12

  Yeah.

• 1:11:43Speaker 01

  Are we guessing this one?

• 1:11:44Speaker 02

  Yes. What do we got?

• 1:11:46Speaker 01

  Oh, I just.

• 1:11:48Speaker 02

  Hey, uh, stop the clock.

• 1:11:50Speaker 01

  Well, I said my.

• 1:11:54Speaker 02

  What do we got? Motorola. IRO HTC. You're both wrong. Oh, uh, that was an AOSP one. You all got it wrong. Really? Yeah.

• 1:12:02Speaker 01

  That's in every Android phone?

• 1:12:04Speaker 02

  Yeah, up until a certain point, if you look hard enough. Alright, what about this one?

• 1:12:11David Imel?

  Hmm.

• 1:12:15David Imel?

  Oh, I feel that. Oh, man.

• 1:12:17Speaker 01

  It sounds like a Volstec song.

• 1:12:18David Imel?

  Yeah.

• 1:12:22David Imel?

  Uh, okay.

• 1:12:24Speaker 01

  No clue where it's from, but it sounds cool.

• 1:12:28Speaker 02

  Oh, it seems like people are-

• 1:12:29Andrew Manganelli?

  Ready?

• 1:12:29David Imel?

  Yeah.

• 1:12:30Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:12:32Speaker 02

  What do you got?

• 1:12:33David Imel?

  I wrote Motorola.

• 1:12:34Speaker 02

  Oh, wait.

• 1:12:36Speaker 02

  Motorola is... Wrong.

• 1:12:39Andrew Manganelli?

  Or Apple.

• 1:12:39Speaker 02

  Apple's wrong.

• 1:12:40Speaker 01

  I wrote Sony.

• 1:12:41Speaker 02

  All right, this is not going well, you guys. I, uh, hmm.

• 1:12:45David Imel?

  We don't really listen to-

• 1:12:46Speaker 01

  We keep our phones on silent?

• 1:12:48David Imel?

  Yeah, I don't know about you.

• 1:12:49Speaker 01

  This is tough.

• 1:12:50Speaker 02

  Were you never children?

• 1:12:52David Imel?

  Well, sure.

• 1:12:53Speaker 01

  Yeah, but-

• 1:12:54David Imel?

  But I-

• 1:12:54Speaker 02

  Okay, but like if I play this one, you'll all recognize this, right?

• 1:13:00Speaker 02

  Holy [BLEEP], their phones have been on silent for years!

• 1:13:03David Imel?

  You don't understand.

• 1:13:04Andrew Manganelli?

  This sounds familiar.

• 1:13:05Speaker 01

  I care about other people.

• 1:13:07Speaker 02

  All right, well, I'm just gonna take you through a bunch of my favorites, then. This one's from, uh, the LG Wing.

• 1:13:13Speaker 01

  This is?

• 1:13:14Speaker 02

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:13:15David Imel?

  That's cool.

• 1:13:16Speaker 02

  Wow, this fell totally flat.

• 1:13:18David Imel?

  My LG Wing was never a-

• 1:13:19Andrew Manganelli?

  There's one I can remember within the last 10 years, and that's the one Asus one that sounds like-

• 1:13:25Speaker 01

  Like, under the seat?

• 1:13:26Andrew Manganelli?

  Yeah.

• 1:13:26David Imel?

  Yeah. My friend's brother, uh, makes all the ringtones for the Pixel.

• 1:13:31Andrew Manganelli?

  Oh.

• 1:13:32Speaker 01

  That's Samsung, every time.

• 1:13:33David Imel?

  That's Samsung, yeah.

• 1:13:34Speaker 01

  Cause Samsung is-

• 1:13:35David Imel?

  Over the horizon.

• 1:13:35Speaker 01

  A remix of the same song over and over.

• 1:13:37Speaker 02

  Okay. Here's a wacky one. People hated this sound so much, that when you search, when you just try to find, like, "Insert phone, insert..." This is the camera shutter sound effect. "Insert phone, camera shutter sound effect." You can't find anyone posting the sound effect by itself. It's just people being like, "How do I turn this off?"

• 1:13:56Speaker 01

  Oh, I've heard that. That's a Android, that's an AOSP sound.

• 1:14:00Speaker 02

  That is not an AOSP sound.

• 1:14:01Speaker 01

  I had that on my Android tablet. It was a Motorola tablet. Early Android, this is early Android, this is hollow.

• 1:14:08Andrew Manganelli?

  Apple, because you're saying there's no chance that's happening?

• 1:14:11Speaker 02

  It's not early Android.

• 1:14:13Speaker 01

  It's not?

• 1:14:13Speaker 02

  But it is an Android-based platform.

• 1:14:15Speaker 01

  Play it again?

• 1:14:17Speaker 02

  I'll give you a hint. It's the one people are always wanting us to talk about.

• 1:14:21Speaker 01

  Now it makes me want to search the one that I think it is and see what that sounds like.

• 1:14:25Speaker 02

  Is this for points? Are we doing this for points? It's worth 35 points.

• 1:14:28Speaker 01

  No, you can't do that.

• 1:14:29Speaker 02

  It is. 35.

• 1:14:31Speaker 01

  Do that to me. I'm playing a sound effect from a different phone.

• 1:14:35Andrew Manganelli?

  They always want us to talk about it?

• 1:14:36Speaker 01

  Are you guys?

• 1:14:37Speaker 02

  Does anyone else have answers?

• 1:14:38Speaker 01

  I have an answer.

• 1:14:39Andrew Manganelli?

  No, I have no.

• 1:14:40Speaker 02

  Alright, let's see it.

• 1:14:41Speaker 01

  Sony.

• 1:14:42Andrew Manganelli?

  Oh.

• 1:14:43Speaker 02

  Sony's correct. That is from the Experia. Marquez, what did you put?

• 1:14:46Speaker 01

  I didn't know what it was.

• 1:14:47Speaker 02

  Oh, [bleep].

• 1:14:49Speaker 05

  David runs away with it.

• 1:14:51Speaker 02

  I've ruined the game. I've ruined my precious game.

• 1:14:55Speaker 01

  I think we gotta do one more section.

• 1:14:56Andrew Manganelli?

  Is there a speed round we could do?

• 1:14:58Speaker 04

  Alright, so we're, we're cutting to audio rounds since none of us know what the hell ringtones are on our phones because you all keep them on silent.

• 1:15:05Speaker 01

  You're welcome.

• 1:15:07Speaker 04

  Next one we're doing, it's all in a name. This was Ellis's idea. Where do tech companies get their names from? We're gonna read you the story of how a company got its name and you need to pick what the company is.

• 1:15:20Andrew Manganelli?

  Okay.

• 1:15:20Speaker 04

  This is a buzzer round, so get the buzzers ready.

• 1:15:23Andrew Manganelli?

  Okay.

• 1:15:24Speaker 04

  Alright.

• 1:15:24Andrew Manganelli?

  And everything's worth 20 points?

• 1:15:26Speaker 02

  Remember, once you buzz in, you will have, I forget if it's five or 10 seconds, but you gotta get that thing out.

• 1:15:34Speaker 04

  What?

• 1:15:37Speaker 02

  Yo, Marquez, get that thing out.

• 1:15:41Speaker 04

  Keep that bang on me. Alright.

• 1:15:45Andrew Manganelli?

  And you stop the question when we buzz, right?

• 1:15:47Speaker 04

  Yeah, I will stop reading.

• 1:15:48Andrew Manganelli?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:15:50Speaker 04

  Alright, the first one. This company named itself because it works in fox-like speed.

• 1:15:56Speaker 01

  Foxconn.

• 1:15:57Speaker 04

  Correct.

• 1:15:58Speaker 01

  That was out in the book.

• 1:15:59Speaker 04

  20 points.

• 1:16:00Speaker 01

  Oh, but that was Firefox.

• 1:16:02Speaker 04

  Next. This company is named after its founder, who has the first name of Michael and currently sits at number 11.

• 1:16:09Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 1:16:09Speaker 04

  Marquez?

• 1:16:10Speaker 01

  Jordan. Wait, oh, Jordan. I thought that was...

• 1:16:15Speaker 04

  It's not a tech company. Uh, Dell. Dell, 20 points for Markez, I mean for Marquez, for David. These are only tech companies, I should have thought of that. Yeah, these are all tech companies. Michael Jordan.

• 1:16:29Speaker 04

  This company's name comes from a specific story in Arabian Nights, the same story where the phrase "open sesame" comes from. And apparently, the founder found that A, it was easy to pronounce all over the world, and B, that everyone knew the story. That's why they called it that. I don't know it. That's why we all sit here blank faced. Alright, the founder, Jack Ma. Alibaba. There it is. Nice. 20 points for Marquez. That is easy to say. Yeah, see? This company got its name from the game Go, and has a similar meaning to when you say che- GoPro? No. So now, David, you cannot say- I can? No, you cannot. Was that a- Join in. Was that- This is now between Marquez and Andrew. I didn't know that. So I'm gonna start over. The company name actually comes from the game Go,

• 1:17:13Speaker 04

  has a similar meaning to when you say "check" in chess, according to the Wiki of Terms in the game Go. Its first game, Pong, was released in 19- Atari. Atari. 20 points for Andrew. I wasn't either.

• 1:17:31Speaker 04

  Wow. You guys are old. The idea for this company initially came about because one of its founders forgot his USB drive at home for his work assignment and university. According to Rewind and Capture.com, this company got its name because it created a virtual space where users could store files in.

• 1:17:50Speaker 04

  Dropbox. Dropbox, 20 points. Good guess. Good one. That's good. One of the co-founders named this company by deriving it from the phrase, quote, "searchable log of all conversation and knowledge", end quote, replacing the previous code name, LineFeed.

• 1:18:05Speaker 02

  Are you serious?

• 1:18:06Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:18:08Speaker 04

  He's back-named his way into this, baby. Can you say it again? "Searchable log of all conversation and knowledge." Slack. Slack. 20 points for David. That's cool. Wow, David's running away with this. Alright. Original name was Kadabra. Also- Marquez?

• 1:18:26Speaker 02

  It's Kadabra.

• 1:18:28Speaker 04

  Kadabra. Alakazam.

• 1:18:32Speaker 04

  Google. Ah, nope. So now this is between Andrew and David. Alright.

• 1:18:36Speaker 02

  Bald.

• 1:18:38Speaker 04

  Bald? Original name was Kadabra. Kadabra. Also shares a name with a world famous river.

• 1:18:45Speaker 02

  Bald.

• 1:18:47Speaker 04

  Wait, sorry. That's easy. Bald?

• 1:18:51Speaker 02

  Don't let him distract you. World famous river.

• 1:18:54Speaker 04

  Come on. Come on. What? No. Rivian. Andrew. This is all on you. I'm gonna keep reading. Nile. No! Bald? Rivian.

• 1:19:06Speaker 04

  No.

• 1:19:06Andrew Manganelli?

  Can I buzz now?

• 1:19:07Speaker 04

  Yeah, this is just free fall. Go.

• 1:19:09Andrew Manganelli?

  Amazon.

• 1:19:10Speaker 04

  Amazon. Twenty points. Bald? Why did you say bald?

• 1:19:13Speaker 02

  Cause of Jeff Bezos.

• 1:19:15Speaker 04

  He doesn't know. He's not the CEO.

• 1:19:17Andrew Manganelli?

  He's not the CEO. It's Jesse.

• 1:19:18Speaker 04

  Well, now, yeah. Yeah, let's on it. Next question. Founded as Luck He Chemical Industrial Corp. in English, pronounced similar to lucky, with a sister company called Gold Star that produced plastics. Eventually- Samsung? Nope.

• 1:19:35Speaker 04

  Who was that? Oh, that was just the wrong. Okay. Eventually, the two merged into Lucky Gold Star. LG. LG. Twenty points.

• 1:19:44Andrew Manganelli?

  Why am I dumb?

• 1:19:47Speaker 04

  Next. The company name of Blank was created by combining two words of sonus and sunny. The word sonus in Latin represents words like sound and sun. Sonos. No. Close. I was thinking that too, actually.

• 1:20:04Speaker 02

  It's, uh, sonus.

• 1:20:05Speaker 04

  Oh, sonus. Okay. The word sonus in Latin represents words like sound and sonic. The other word sunny means little sun. Used in combination, Blank is supposed to represent a very small group of young people who have the energy and passion towards unlimited creations and innovative ideas. That comes from their corporate history website. What? Couldn't even begin. Wow. Say again. Zarushi.

• 1:20:33Speaker 04

  GE? Let me-

• 1:20:34Andrew Manganelli?

  Samsung?

• 1:20:35Speaker 04

  No. Sony. Sony. I was gonna reread it, just, just sonus and sunny. Last one. Worth? Ah, what am I feeling? Let me check the score real quick. Checks notes. This is just so bull****, man. Last question for 50 points. Fifty? That's what my scorekeeper told me to put it. Fifty points? Fifty points. Oh, gosh. Original name of this company was, quote, "Legend," end quote, and was founded in Beijing in 1984. But in the States, there were already trademarks for "Legend," so they rebranded to "New Legend," or as we know them, "Blank." The "lay" coming from "Legend," and the "blank" coming from Latin.

• 1:21:22Andrew Manganelli?

  The "lay" coming from "Legend"?

• 1:21:24Speaker 04

  That should have been a hint.

• 1:21:29Speaker 04

  Chinese. The Latin word was "new." New?

• 1:21:33Andrew Manganelli?

  New Legend?

• 1:21:37Speaker 04

  New Legend. New Legend.

• 1:21:42Speaker 04

  First part "lay," second part "blank." "lay." No, meaning new.

• 1:21:47Andrew Manganelli?

  I'm only thinking like "Legion."

• 1:21:49David Imel?

  Lenovo?

• 1:21:51Speaker 04

  "lay."

• 1:21:52Andrew Manganelli?

  Oh, is it that?

• 1:21:53Speaker 04

  What? This is still a buzz around, so if anyone wants to press their buzzes.

• 1:21:56Andrew Manganelli?

  Lenovo?

• 1:21:57Speaker 04

  That was Andrew?

• 1:21:58Andrew Manganelli?

  Yeah.

• 1:21:59Speaker 04

  Correct!

• 1:22:00Andrew Manganelli?

  Didn't you say that?

• 1:22:01David Imel?

  Yeah, I was...

• 1:22:01Andrew Manganelli?

  Okay.

• 1:22:02Speaker 04

  Fifty points to Andrew.

• 1:22:04David Imel?

  That's the only thing that makes sense, but...

• 1:22:05Speaker 04

  "lay novo"?

• 1:22:06David Imel?

  I wasn't sure if "nova" was actually...

• 1:22:08Speaker 04

  "lay novo."

• 1:22:08David Imel?

  Latin, okay.

• 1:22:10Speaker 04

  Legend.

• 1:22:13Speaker 02

  Gentlemen, thank you for playing a fantastic game. Unfortunately, we are all out of questions, all out of energy. I'm hungry, I'm sweaty, I'm tired. David has to get on a flight, which means we can finally announce our winners. In third place, with 268 points...

• 1:22:30Andrew Manganelli?

  In third?

• 1:22:30Speaker 02

  In third place with 268 points, the most ever scored in a game of Waveform Trivia Extravaganza, we have Andrew Manganelle! Topping him with the most points ever scored in a Waveform Trivia Extravaganza. In second place, Big Hoss himself, the man of the hour, Marques Brownlee with 269 points, beating out Andrew by one point!

• 1:22:54Andrew Manganelli?

  I mean, I took his answer, so...

• 1:22:56David Imel?

  Wow.

• 1:22:57Speaker 04

  Whoa.

• 1:22:57Andrew Manganelli?

  Which means...

• 1:22:59Speaker 02

  But now...

• 1:23:00Speaker 04

  Oh, my god.

• 1:23:01Speaker 02

  For his first...

• 1:23:02Andrew Manganelli?

  Is it really happening? There's actually someone remote playing, and they beat you.

• 1:23:07Speaker 02

  Oh, shoot, I ran out of music.

• 1:23:10David Imel?

  Just turn the robot voice back on.

• 1:23:12Speaker 02

  Here we go. David Immo!

• 1:23:29David Imel?

  Thank you.

• 1:23:31David Imel?

  Wait, how many?

• 1:23:31Andrew Manganelli?

  The Pottens Cup.

• 1:23:32David Imel?

  How many points do I have?

• 1:23:33Andrew Manganelli?

  Oh, that's taken right from my desk, dude. Oh, you didn't even print a new one?

• 1:23:37Speaker 02

  No, it's like the Stanley Cup.

• 1:23:38Andrew Manganelli?

  Oh.

• 1:23:39David Imel?

  It still says "Shut up, Ellis" on it.

• 1:23:40Speaker 02

  Yeah. So how many? Because I still need to shut up.

• 1:23:43David Imel?

  How many points do I get?

• 1:23:44Speaker 02

  You got 357 points.

• 1:23:49Andrew Manganelli?

  Correct me if I'm right, that's the most ever scored, dude.

• 1:23:52Speaker 02

  That is the most ever, making David the Wayne Gretzky of Pottens Cup holders. Does that make sense? Did he do that? Is that the hockey guy, right? That's, I'm asking Andrew, did I do that right?

• 1:24:04Andrew Manganelli?

  The most points ever?

• 1:24:05Speaker 02

  I don't know.

• 1:24:05Andrew Manganelli?

  Yeah. Yeah.

• 1:24:06Speaker 02

  David, you're the Dave Gretzky. The Dave Metzky.

• 1:24:11David Imel?

  Can I have a speech?

• 1:24:12Speaker 02

  Sure.

• 1:24:13Andrew Manganelli?

  A few words, David.

• 1:24:15David Imel?

  It might have taken me four seasons, just like the hotel chain, but I knew that eventually this tower would crumble for the rest of them and something would rise from the ashes.

• 1:24:29Andrew Manganelli?

  Waiting for someone in the comments to be like, "You calculated wrong."

• 1:24:32Speaker 02

  So they will. And, um, but you know what we have to say to that?

• 1:24:35David Imel?

  Thanks.

• 1:24:37Andrew Manganelli?

  Too bad.

• 1:24:38Speaker 02

  Thanks for coming to this trivia extravaganza. We will see you next time. I'm your host, Ellis. This has been Adam, Alex, David, Andrew Marquez. Wave over is produced by Adam Alina and Ellis Robin. This time, Alex Wolf is also behind the board. We'll see you, oh, Vane Sealed did some stuff and Vox Media Podcast Network. We'll see you next time.

• 1:24:58David Imel?

  Can you play the robot voice again?

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