About this episodeActress Darcy Carden joins host Ike Baron for a trivia game covering 90s music, sports, and pop culture, where…AI summary
Actress Darcy Carden joins host Ike Baron for a trivia game covering 90s music, sports, and pop culture, where Carden wins with a score of 30.5 to 26. The conversation highlights specific anecdotes about the Hollywood Bowl improv show, misheard lyrics from Green Day and Tori Amos, and the history of the Oakland A's and Golden State Warriors.
Key takeaways 8
Billy Corgan appeared on a Chicago sports TV show called 'The Sports Writers' alongside Jerome Holtzman and Rick Telander, where he offered surprisingly knowledgeable opinions on baseball strategy.
Darcy Carden, Drew Tarver, Lisa Gilroy, and Ike Baron performed an improvised scene at the Hollywood Bowl for the Netflix Festival where they smoked joints on stage, a compromise after bong hits were banned.
The 1992 Lithuanian Olympic basketball team was funded and had their uniforms designed by the Grateful Dead because they loved Jonas Macijauskas, a player on the Golden State Warriors.
Carden misheard Green Day's 'Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)' lyrics as 'tattoos and memories and Eskimo pie' instead of 'dead skin'.
Carden realized late in life that Tori Amos's song 'Cornflake Girl' contains the lyric 'and a hard [__]' which she had been singing as 'and a hard clank' since age 14.
The only ancient wonder still standing is the Pyramids of Giza, while the Hanging Gardens of Babylon are the one never archaeologically confirmed to have existed.
Woodrow Wilson is the only US president to earn a PhD, and he was president of Princeton University before his presidency.
The last US president to serve without a college degree was Harry S. Truman.
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“I love like their first few albums and then I don't not like them anymore. I just sort of like that's what I was obsessed with. Era crystallized I think for us.”
▶ 5:26Darcy Carden explaining her relationship with Smashing Pumpkins and how fandom can be tied to a specific era.
“We performed at the Hollywood Bowl... improv on the stage of the Hollywood Bowl for thousands of people while being the most stoned you could possibly be.”
▶ 9:10Describing the unique experience of performing live improv comedy while under the influence at a major venue.
“I'm giving you half a point cuz it is tattoos and memories and dead skin. Tattoos and memories and ask I like that better. Tattoos and memories and pie.”
▶ 15:53Host correcting Darcy's misheard lyric from Green Day, highlighting how common it is to misinterpret song lyrics.
“It's one of my low-key favorite Olympic stories of all time. And the Grateful Dead did it because they love Shonus. They love because of the Bay Area.”
▶ 35:49Ike Baron sharing the story of the Grateful Dead supporting the Lithuanian basketball team.
“I waited and you got there. I freaking waited. I finally got in there, baby.”
▶ 18:57Ike Baron recounting how he persisted in dating Darcy Carden after she left other relationships.
Chapters & Sections (39)▼
0:00Smashing Pumpkins fandom and name changeschapter1
2:58Smashing Pumpkins fandom and name changes
5:26Billy Corgan Sports Podcasting and Improvchapter1
6:55Wikipedia Rabbit Holes and Hollywood Bowl Improv
9:49Hollywood Bowl Joint Story and 90s Music Triviachapter2
11:39Lisa Mattress Sponsorship and Game Rules
13:28Green Day Good Riddance Trivia
15:25Misheard Lyrics and 90s Music Nostalgiachapter4
17:14Misheard Lyrics and 90s Music Shift
18:31Dating Story and 90s Band Preferences
20:12Color Me Bad Update and Eddie Vedder
21:3390s Music Trivia and Song Lyrics
23:52Song Guessing Game and Ancient Wonderschapter2
26:24Discussing Boy Bands and Ancient Wonders
28:29Identifying Ancient Wonders of the World
30:16The Good Place Swear Words and 90s Warriors Triviachapter2
32:00Mike Schur's Birthday Trivia and Philosophy Game
33:211990s Warriors Trivia and Grateful Dead Story
35:54Grateful Dead, David Crumbholtz, and 90s Sportschapter2
37:26D'Arcy Carden on Ike Barinholtz and Oakland A's
39:11Chicago Bulls 90s and League of Their Own
41:50Oakland A's History and Ricky Henderson Recordschapter1
43:34Ricky Henderson's Baseball Stats and Anecdotes
45:49Baseball Cheating and Plane Crash Triviachapter1
47:54US Airways Flight 1549 Trivia
50:06Clint Eastwood Films and US Presidentschapter2
51:26Woodrow Wilson PhD and Princeton Presidency
52:44Harry Truman and Gary Oldman
54:00One Direction Trivia and Fan Storieschapter
58:40One Direction Trivia and Harry Styleschapter1
1:00:15One Direction Music Video and Song Trivia
1:03:20Barbie Movie Trivia and Speed Roundchapter3
1:04:46Barbie Trivia and Cuban Missile Crisis
1:06:14Trivia Questions and Speed Round Setup
1:08:49Music, Sports, and Pop Culture Trivia
1:10:26Trivia Game: Sports, Movies, and Historychapter1
1:13:02General Knowledge Trivia Questions
1:14:26Baseball Trivia and Historical Factschapter1
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