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Original introduction wording
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NO COMMON DENOMINATOR
Episode ratings.
Original rating systems, exactly as represented in the archive. These scales are not interchangeable.
By way of introduction.
Someone brought rules.
The games, the premises, and what everyone brought to the table.
Game / activity
how dangerous is it? ↗
task: compare each named profession's danger with an assigned profession assignments: Brad, police officer, Ryan, firefighter choices: more dangerous, less dangerous
RESULT STATUS
A winner is actually on the record.
Winner: Brad(ley)
What was recorded
What everyone brought to the table · 2 recorded exchanges
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 55:32
“Participant cited” identifies a contributor, not the speaker of every word in this excerpt. It may include other participants’ replies or reactions.
Prompt
Question / challenge
To start the game off, one of you has to pick firefighter and one of you has to pick cop.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: RyanSource excerpt ↗ 55:39
“Participant cited” identifies a contributor, not the speaker of every word in this excerpt. It may include other participants’ replies or reactions.
firefighter
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 55:50
“Participant cited” identifies a contributor, not the speaker of every word in this excerpt. It may include other participants’ replies or reactions.
police officer
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 55:37
Context
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- Rules: There is no city.
- Answer qualification: suddenDeath: conditional on a tie alternativeProposal: whoever chose firefighter was the winner enacted: False
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:09:11
Context
Can I give my my winning speech?
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- Scores: Ryan -3 Brad -1
- Ending or payoff: And I hope to win next time.
Preserved source round labels (9)
These overlapping source containers are not additional rounds or participant answers. Their recorded labels and excerpt links remain available here; their shared exchanges appear above.
Follow the round structure (9)
farmers
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 56:14
“Participant cited” identifies a contributor, not the speaker of every word in this excerpt. It may include other participants’ replies or reactions.
Prompt
Question / challenge
Brad, would you say being a police officer more or less dangerous than being a farmer?
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- Prompt item: farmers
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
police officer more dangerous than farmer
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- Adjudication verdict: INCORRECT
- Score effect points: -1
- Answer qualification: a firefighter is, I mean, goddammit, a police officer's job
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
firefighter less dangerous than farmer
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- Adjudication verdict: CORRECT
- Score effect points: 1
- Answer qualification: It's the machinery that they use to work the land.
Round context
- Correct answer: police officer less dangerous than farmer firefighter less dangerous than farmer
landscaping supervisors
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 57:47
“Participant cited” identifies a contributor, not the speaker of every word in this excerpt. It may include other participants’ replies or reactions.
Prompt
Question / challenge
landscaping supervisors
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
police officer less dangerous than landscaping supervisor
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- Adjudication verdict: CORRECT
- Score effect points: 1
- Answer qualification: They're standing in the road and they get hit as they're supervising the landscaping job.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
firefighter more dangerous than landscaping supervisor
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- Adjudication verdict: CORRECT
- Score effect points: 1
Round context
- Correct answer: police officer less dangerous than landscaping supervisor firefighter more dangerous than landscaping supervisor
Crossing guard.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 58:49
“Participant cited” identifies a contributor, not the speaker of every word in this excerpt. It may include other participants’ replies or reactions.
Prompt
Question / challenge
Crossing guard.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
firefighter more dangerous than crossing guard
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- Adjudication verdict: CORRECT
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
police officer more dangerous than crossing guard
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- Adjudication verdict: INCORRECT
Round context
- Correct answer: police officer less dangerous than crossing guard firefighter more dangerous than crossing guard
- Answer qualification: discourseRole: restatement of submitted answers before adjudication clauses: Both jobs are more dangerous than a crossing guard.
garbage collectors
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:00:07
“Participant cited” identifies a contributor, not the speaker of every word in this excerpt. It may include other participants’ replies or reactions.
Prompt
Question / challenge
garbage collectors
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
police officer less dangerous than garbage collector
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- Claim: discourseRole: volunteered comparison beyond assigned police baseline comparison: garbage collector, more dangerous than, firefighter
- Adjudication verdict: CORRECT
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
firefighter more dangerous than garbage collector
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- Adjudication verdict: INCORRECT
- Answer qualification: Wait, that's what I said.
Round context
- Correct answer: police officer less dangerous than garbage collector firefighter less dangerous than garbage collector
- Adjudication: retractedReading: Firefighting is more dangerous than... explanation: I was reading your answer, not the, the right answer. finalComparison: firefighter, less dangerous than, garbage collector
Mining machine operators.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:01:22
“Participant cited” identifies a contributor, not the speaker of every word in this excerpt. It may include other participants’ replies or reactions.
Prompt
Question / challenge
Mining machine operators.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
police officer less dangerous than mining machine operator
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- Adjudication verdict: INCORRECT
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
firefighter less dangerous than mining machine operator
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- Answer qualification: I don't know how broad mining machines are.
- Adjudication verdict: INCORRECT
Round context
- Correct answer: police officer more dangerous than mining machine operator firefighter more dangerous than mining machine operator
Aircraft pilots
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:02:39
“Participant cited” identifies a contributor, not the speaker of every word in this excerpt. It may include other participants’ replies or reactions.
Prompt
Question / challenge
Aircraft pilots
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
firefighter more dangerous than aircraft pilot
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- Adjudication verdict: INCORRECT
- Score effect points: -1
- Answer qualification: initialRationale: commercial air safety postResultReflection: I wasn't thinking of helicopters. metricQuestion: Is that flight hours we're talking about?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
police officer less dangerous than aircraft pilot
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- Adjudication verdict: CORRECT
- Score effect points: 1
- Answer qualification: I mean, than a, than a police officer.
Round context
- Correct answer: police officer less dangerous than aircraft pilot firefighter less dangerous than aircraft pilot
- Adjudication method: reportedFatalInjuryRate: 53 denominator: hundred thousand workers reportedListPosition: 2
- Result qualification: I can't see it anymore.
highway maintenance
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:04:35
“Participant cited” identifies a contributor, not the speaker of every word in this excerpt. It may include other participants’ replies or reactions.
Prompt
Question / challenge
highway maintenance
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
police officer less dangerous than highway maintenance
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- Adjudication verdict: CORRECT
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
firefighter less dangerous than highway maintenance
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- Adjudication verdict: INCORRECT
- Answer qualification: My father-in-law does highway.
Round context
- Correct answer: police officer less dangerous than highway maintenance firefighter more dangerous than highway maintenance
Crane operators.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:06:03
“Participant cited” identifies a contributor, not the speaker of every word in this excerpt. It may include other participants’ replies or reactions.
Prompt
Question / challenge
Crane operators.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
police officer more dangerous than crane operator
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- Answer qualification: retractedRationale: the only damage we're going to do is to themselves. replacementRationale: crane operator damage, more likely to facilities or buildings, than themselves or people
- Adjudication verdict: INCORRECT
- Score effect points: -1
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
firefighter less dangerous than crane operator
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- Adjudication verdict: INCORRECT
- Score effect points: -1
- Answer qualification: To take a commanding tie.
Round context
- Correct answer: police officer less dangerous than crane operator firefighter more dangerous than crane operator
Delivery drivers.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:08:01
“Participant cited” identifies a contributor, not the speaker of every word in this excerpt. It may include other participants’ replies or reactions.
Prompt
Question / challenge
Delivery drivers.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
police officer more dangerous than delivery driver
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- Adjudication verdict: INCORRECT
- Score effect points: -1
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
firefighter more dangerous than delivery driver
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- Claim: discourseRole: participant prediction before adjudication clauses: Brad is wrong, Ryan is right, the score becomes a tie
- Adjudication verdict: INCORRECT
- Score effect points: -1
Round context
- Correct answer: police officer less dangerous than delivery driver firefighter less dangerous than delivery driver
- Answer qualification: I do know that the data they were pulling seemed to be from 2019.
View source wording — how it was explained on the show
- Title: how dangerous is it?
- Scoring mechanism: correct: 1 incorrect: -1
- Adjudication method: reportedSource: ishn.com workingRecord: spreadsheet liveArticleAccess: unavailable publicationDate: not known by facilitator dataYearQualification: seemed to be from 2019
- Result qualification: I'm not sure how valid it is, but this is what we're going with.
- Scores: stage: after farmers Brad: -1 Ryan: 1 stage: before crane operators Brad: 1 Ryan: -1 stage: final Brad: -1 Ryan: -3
- Winner statement: And our winner for today.
- Ending or payoff: winnerSpeech: target: game wrap announcedPrize: target: prediction prompt
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Recorded conversation and follow-up discussion.
Trivial Pursuit
- Title: Trivial Pursuit
Recorded conversation and follow-up discussion.
Previously cited participant: Brad(ley)
Prompt
Has anyone shifted with tonight's episode?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
nobody really shifted.
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- Answer qualification: It's not how I say how I view either character. It's how I view the series.
Recorded conversation and follow-up discussion.
Previously cited participant: Brad(ley)
Prompt
I want all five firefighters ranked.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Submission
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- Response or selection: 6 the guy that wasn't in the episode that we don't know 5 the muscular dude 4 Tiny 3 Freddie 2 Smokey 1 Moose
- Answer qualification: I know that's not her actual name, but that's what I'm calling her.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 05:20
Context
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- Answer qualification: Her actual name is Smokey.
- Rules: include: the firefighter absent from this episode, Freddie resultCardinality: 6
Recorded conversation and follow-up discussion.
Context
Recorded conversation and follow-up discussion.
Previously cited participant: Brad(ley)
Prompt
Sorry, do you have a couple you want to throw out there?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
firefighters the water guzzlers Psychiatrist the Harvard three
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- Answer qualification: Psychiatrist, sorry.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Submission
They could have been the Boston Celtics.
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- Submission type: volunteered alternative
- Adjudication: That would have been good.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 11:46
Context
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- Adjudication: That one's pretty lame.
Recorded conversation and follow-up discussion.
Action
I moved it from 45 degrees to 90 degrees.
- Prompt: Where did you move it?
- Answer qualification: I seriously think it goes slightly more than 90.
- Final state summary: We can move on.
Recorded conversation and follow-up discussion.
Action
discourseRole: reported lookup results clauses: Nicholas Lindhurst is of course Alan., That's who plays Eve. EveNameVariants: Jess Salguero, Jess Salguerio
- Action: I can look that up.
Recorded conversation and follow-up discussion.
Action
It seems like it's either, it's either bone in chicken or it's sausage or both.
- Action: This is where I, I, I Google image search this and I don't know what I was expecting.
Recorded conversation and follow-up discussion.
Previously cited participant: Brad(ley)
Action
Testosterone
- Adjudication: You said it right, Curt.
- Answer qualification: I tried to say it wrong.
Recorded conversation and follow-up discussion.
Previously cited participant: Brad(ley)
Action
discourseRole: joke retake firstSpelling: C-A-S-T-L-E-A. requestedRetake: Ask me again. retakeSpelling: C-A-I-S-T-L-E-A.
Recorded conversation and follow-up discussion.
Previously cited participant: Ryan
Prompt
Well, Ryan, did you like this episode?
Recorded conversation and follow-up discussion.
Previously cited participant: Brad(ley)
Prompt
Brad?
- Response context: episode assessment
Recorded conversation and follow-up discussion.
Context
Recorded conversation and follow-up discussion.
Context
But is he technically correct?
- Claim: attributedTo: Frasier subject: Freddy's profession comparison: the only profession more dangerous than his father's fatherProfession: police officer
Recorded conversation and follow-up discussion.
Previously cited participant: Brad(ley)
Prompt
task: tell us what to expect next time episode: 1, 3 title: the first class
Recorded conversation and follow-up discussion.
Context
Recorded conversation and follow-up discussion.
Action
Well, I was seeing if I could make my sound better.
- Final state summary: reportedFailure: computer freezing, Apple Music playing locally, computer shut down reportedReturn: I'm back. lastAvailabilityQuestion: Are you still there, Brad?
Recorded conversation and follow-up discussion.
Logistics Drop
- Title: Logistics Drop
By way of goodbye.
Fall asleep.
Source excerpt ↗ 1:11:05–1:11:08Original sign-off transcript
For myself, for Brad and for Ryan.
Fall asleep.
Previously, next week.
Predictions as made on the podcast—not claims about what actually happens.
Looking ahead
Next episode predictions
Predictions made on the podcast.
What was recorded
Their next-episode predictions · 1 recorded contribution
PREDICTION
discourseRole: prediction clauses: Frazier's first time teaching a class at Harvard, He starts off in the wrong class, then goes to the right class and has David there., David will be in his class and make a lot of crazy comments.
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- Answer qualification: Those are two separate things.
- Adjudication: deferred to next episode