I'm your host, Curtis.
Original introduction wording
- I'm your host, Curtis Jack.
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Frasier reboot · Season 2 · Episode 7
My Brilliant Sister
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CurtisBrad(ley)RyanNO COMMON DENOMINATOR
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By way of introduction.
The “resident abyss boy” arrives with “What up, what up? The abyss has risen” and calls for a great show.
Original introduction wording
- resident abyss boy
- What up, what up
- The abyss has risen
- great show
The “brilliant brother from another mother” is introduced as co-host; his greeting turns to Curtis’s recent compliments.
Original introduction wording
- brilliant brother from another mother
- co-host
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Welcome to Reverse Psychology, the Frasier Rewatch podcast, where we go backwards through every episode of the show. Tonight, we are covering Frasier 2023, Season 2, Episode 7, My Brilliant Sister, which originally streamed on October 24th, 2024. Surely this must be a good Christian episode. We'll find out. I'm your host, Curtis Jack. Joining me, as always, is our resident abyss boy, it's Bradley Kirkston. What up, what up? The abyss has risen and the Brad is here. Let's do a great show, guys. Shockingly coherent for you. Nonsense, but shockingly coherent. Also with us, as you're hearing, is our brilliant brother from another mother, its co-host, Ryan. Join us. Hello, Brad, I don't know if you know this. Curt's recently been
Someone brought rules.
The games, the premises, and what everyone brought to the table.
Game / activity
Apple TV golf tailgate ↗
How this one works
How it works
- we're going to be tailgating the most tailgate-able sport, golf.
- collaborative proposals and discussion for one imagined tailgate
Prompt
- design the world's greatest tailgate party
RESULT STATUS
The recorded result is unresolved.
What was recorded
What everyone brought to the table · 3 recorded exchanges
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 01:25
Tailgate Setup
Apple TV is sponsoring us.
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- Interaction mode: performed sponsorship framing
- Result qualification: This is Curtis's favorite kind of joke.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 05:55
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Drink Check
What are you guys having?
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- Method: you all go around and say what you're drinking.
- Answer qualification: when we were doing the drink, I was just telling you what I was drinking today.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: CurtisSource excerpt ↗ 05:55
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Drinks Prompt
Question / challenge
What are you guys having?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Drink Y
I'm drinking a yingling light
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- Answer qualification: It says field and stream, which is pretty golfy, I think.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Drink W
an Alexander Ovechkin whiskey.
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- Answer qualification: people bring flasks.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Drink B
I got a canned beer. It is called Barstool Bum. It is an amber lager. It's quite tasty.
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- Answer qualification: It's by a local Chicago brewery called Spiteful Brewing.
CLAIM & ADJUDICATION
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 08:02
Beer Feedback
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- Result qualification: Not even Baltimore. Balmoral.
- Adjudication: Nailed it, Curtis. Good work.
- Ending or payoff: So I will take that as a win.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 22:15
Cheese Digression
I had a block of cheese.
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- Question: How much cheese have you eaten today?
- Answer qualification: I started eating cheese, man.
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RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 26:57
Tailgate Wrap
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- Ending or payoff: I think as disgusting as that is, it might be Frasier time.; Can we talk Frasier, please?; Yes.
Follow the round structure (1)
Design
Source excerpt ↗ 08:21What will make this golf tailgate the best in the world? What do we need?
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 08:21
“Participant cited” identifies a contributor, not the speaker of every word in this excerpt. It may include other participants’ replies or reactions.
Design Prompt
Question / challenge
What will make this golf tailgate the best in the world? What do we need?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 08:24
Minimum Tailgate
We just need like three or more people to meet in the parking lot before a golf match and we're good.
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- Answer qualification: Should we wrap it up? Is that all we needed to do?
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Wedge
We're getting it sloppy.
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- Response: some wedge salad at this tailgate.
- Answer qualification: Although wedge isn't a putter.
- Adjudication: All right. I'm in. I mean, I'm in. Especially a few beers deep.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Eggs
I thought a good kind of party food is a deviled egg,; but I thought you could balance them on some golf tees to make them kind of like little golf holes.
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- Method: I think you'd have to get some kind of a foam that you could put at the bottom of the package,; and then you'd stab the tees into the foam and then place your...
- Adjudication: That'll work. That'll play.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Cheese
But this is golf, so we should get a white cheese.; I'm going to poke, press little holes in with my thumb so it looks like a golf ball.
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- Answer qualification: It's going to be like a mini basketball-sized cheese,; but one for each person to go with your wedge.
- Adjudication: Honestly, this sounds pretty good.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 11:25
Call One
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- Interaction mode: performed phone call
- Ending or payoff: He hung up.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 12:13
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Bono Prompt
Question / challenge
We'd love you to incorporate Bono, and here's how.
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- Interaction mode: in character sponsor request
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 12:38
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Bono Interpret Prompt
Question / challenge
How are we supposed to do that?
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- Prompt item: I think he said he wanted us to incorporate Bono somehow.
- Answer qualification: To the tailgate.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 12:46
Bono Download
Should we go old school like they did once and put a new U2 album on everyone's iPod without; them asking?; Or iPhone without them asking?; On iTunes?
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 12:54
Bono Cds
We should have CDs, like homemade CDs burned that we can pass out.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 13:01
Bono Target
So we'll, we'll get a cutout, like a cardboard cutout of Bono and people can hit golf balls; at him till his head falls off.
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- Adjudication: Let's, let's just lock that in.
- Result qualification: That has to be what he meant, right?
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 13:28
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Games Prompt
Question / challenge
Let's, now that we've got that squared away, what, what else do we need for this thing?
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- Activity request: Well, we need that in games, obviously.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 13:40
Mini Golf
Are you thinking like a nine-hole mini golf course just to get you excited?
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- Answer qualification: No, I said a nine-hole mini golf, not a full mini golf course.
- Adjudication: Like that's a lot of structure.; Otherwise, it's like, if it's nine strips of those ones you would use like in an office; building, it's not that fun.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 14:12
Hybrid Games
So we've got the traditional cornhole style games that you play at a party like this,; but you spruce them up.; Like you take those classic games and make them mini golf style.
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- Method: Instead of just a straight boring hole in a board, you get like a weird clown face that; opens and closes like a mini golf would.; Like you get like a dinosaur that is doing weird things.
- Adjudication: That does sound really fun.
- Result qualification: We didn't go to a mini golf event.; We went to a golf event.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 15:09
Cart Races
I mean, obviously you're also going to have golf cart races.
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- Adjudication: Yeah, that's true.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 15:19
Polo
What about a polo cannon?
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- Adjudication: Yeah, I'm cool with a polo cannon.
- Answer qualification: We're not trying to kill people.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 15:41
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Shirt Prompt
Question / challenge
What kind of polo would it be?
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- Prompt proposition: Describe a golfy polo.
- Answer qualification: I'm saying describe a shirt.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 15:44
Shirt Choice
No final shirt color explicitly selected.
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- Response: Just plain teal and a man riding a horse.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 16:50
Call Two
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- Interaction mode: performed phone callback
- Ending or payoff: Oh, we lost him again.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 17:01
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Product Request
Question / challenge
So, as I was saying before, we want your tailgate to highlight the next revolutionary product.
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- Interaction mode: in character sponsor request
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 17:12
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Product Guess Prompt
Question / challenge
What do you think it is?
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 17:17
Smart Toilet
I think it's a smart spot-a-potty.
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- Method: You sit down and the toilet knows how long you're going to take.; So the next person can be like, oh, it's going to take five minutes for this person to finish.; And then obviously it's going to be a self-cleaning spot-a-john.
- Ending or payoff: So we've got, this place is sprinkling with eye flushes.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 18:37
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Toilet Name
eye flush
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- Adjudication: That's actually a pretty good one, Brad.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 19:01
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Missing Prompt
Question / challenge
Is there anything we are missing at this point?; Like, is there anything we need to have for it?
More of this contribution
- Prompt item: Do we need music?; Is music a part of this?
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 19:09
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Drink Design Prompt
Question / challenge
I need to do a special drink for this.
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- Answer qualification: when we were doing the drink, I was just telling you what I was drinking today.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 19:19
Rum Melon
Let's fill a cantaloupe with rum.
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- Answer qualification: And texture, kind of.; It's not the right size, but I don't think we want that little alcohol.; We want something much bigger.
- Ending or payoff: So that's what I would bring to the table.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 20:20
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Other Drinks Prompt
Question / challenge
What about you guys?
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 20:23
par three
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- Answer qualification: If you want to do it, you can do double in 18.
- Adjudication: I'm not participating in this.; This is dangerous.
- Result qualification: None of this is like fun to do.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
The Drink
It would be a dirty martini with Gorgonzola cheese ball that I've poked some holes into.; Anyway, one Swedish fish floating around.; Otherwise, at the bottom is sand.; Real sand.; Decorative sand, of course, but sand.
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- Method: And so you can tell if you get too drunk when you accidentally drink some of the sand.; It'll be with a straw that's silver because it's a golf club.
- Adjudication: First of all, there's no scenario in which you've got sand in the bottom of your cup; that you're not going to get some of that silt floating around and into your mouth,; no matter how much or little you've drunk of it.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 23:19
Call Three
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- Interaction mode: performed phone callback
- Ending or payoff: He's gone again.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 23:59
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Owen Prompt
Question / challenge
When you build this tailgate, you'll need Owen Wilson to...
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- Interaction mode: in character sponsor request
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 24:11
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Owen Interpret Prompt
Question / challenge
What are we supposed to do with Owen Wilson?
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 24:15
Owen Fallback
You think we can get the other Wilson brother, Luke?; Oh, and just put a mop on his head so he looks like Owen?
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- Adjudication: It's a solid plan B.
- Result qualification: We can get Owen.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 24:14
Owen Greeting
I think we just ask him to walk around and say hi.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 24:40
Red Grass
I think what if we spray paint the green red, like a red carpet, but red grass?
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- Adjudication: I do think that, but we're in the parking lot.; Like, why would that help to do that in the golf course?
- Result qualification: Well, I finished my first beer and I don't know.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Lightning
We have Owen Wilson come in his car from the movie Cars that he was.
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- Answer qualification: You just get a cartoon car, bring it in real life, and you just have his voice.
- Adjudication: Yeah, we're not going to do that because it's not who framed Roger Rabbit, but okay.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 25:40
Real Car
Should we just get a car that looks like Lightning McQueen and make that the car we bring to; the tailgate party?
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- Answer qualification: Yeah, and I don't think that should be anything to do with this section.; That's just something we should do anyway.
- Ending or payoff: He told us to get Owen Wilson and we got Lightning McQueen.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 26:03
Owen Wedge
Why don't we just have Owen Wilson handing out the wedge salads?
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- Adjudication: Lock it in.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 26:22
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Final Design Prompt
Question / challenge
Is there anything else that we should do before we get into this episode?; Or is this tailgate locked?
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Hot Cheese
There wasn't enough talk of hot cheese.; Maybe like, you know, like a cheese dip.
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- Answer qualification: It could be white cheese, Brad.; I will poke holes in it.
- Response context: Ryan's idea is it's still Velveeta, but it's like a white Velveeta.
- Adjudication: I don't think we need so much cheese.
Round context
- Interaction mode: cumulative collaborative design
View source wording — how it was explained on the show
- Premise: we're going to be tailgating the most tailgate-able sport, golf.
- Method: collaborative proposals and discussion for one imagined tailgate
Game / activity
Next Guess ↗
How this one works
Prompt
- tell us what to expect next week
- Season 2, Episode 6, Cape Cod.
RESULT STATUS
The recorded result is unresolved.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:09:18
Guess Wrap
More of this contribution
- Ending or payoff: I just know that I'm better at guessing than Ryan is, so I'm going to continue to do that.
- Result qualification: participant boast not awarded result
Follow the round structure (1)
Next Round
Source excerpt ↗ 1:08:35Cape Cod
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 1:08:35
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Next Prompt
Question / challenge
Well, Brad, why don't you tell us what to expect next week when we cover the previous episode at Season 2, Episode 6, Cape Cod.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Next Answer
Yeah, the whole Frasier gang goes to Cape Cod where they go to a restaurant and Frasier gets kicked out for saying rude things about the chef.; And David falls in love with what he thinks is a mermaid and it turns out to be a prostitute.
CLAIM & ADJUDICATION
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:08:58
Guess Feedback
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- Adjudication: All I'm going to say is I remember this episode.; We never got a storyline that good for David.; Like that's solid David writing material and I wish that's what we got at any point.
- Result qualification: Hey, you know, I don't know.; Anything's in play.
- Ryan: “All I'm going to say is I remember this episode. We never got a storyline that good for David. Like that's solid David writing material and I wish that's what we got at any point.”
View source wording — how it was explained on the show
- Prompt item: Season 2, Episode 6, Cape Cod.
Comic bits and episode moments.
Conversation excerpt
Fish Digression ↗
Fish store?
Source details
- Context outside the activity.
- Answer qualification: Ah, pet store is what I meant to say, but we only get fish,
Conversation excerpt
Episode Review ↗
Source details
- Context outside the activity.
Conversation excerpt
Looking up Waldo Kutnik ↗
Please let me know what comes up when you do that.
What was recorded
What everyone brought to the table · 2 recorded exchanges
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 37:28
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Lookup Prompt
Question / challenge
Please let me know what comes up when you do that.
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- Prompt proposition: I had no idea if I was a real person or not.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 37:40
Lookup Answer
It looks like early indicators is that he's probably not real.; Vlado Kutnik, PhD, a real-world Slovenian academic and anthropologist.
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- Answer qualification: I wonder if it's based off of that.
- Response context: He's an expert in opera, power, and ideology.; Sorry, that's the name of his book.
Source details
- Method: Oh, I can look that up for you.
- Prompt item: Waldo Kutnik
Conversation excerpt
Word Retrieval ↗
to think what is it called though?
What was recorded
What everyone brought to the table · 2 recorded exchanges
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 53:53
“Participant cited” identifies a contributor, not the speaker of every word in this excerpt. It may include other participants’ replies or reactions.
Word Prompt
Question / challenge
I'm genuinely trying to think what the, I know that it's not rehearsal, but I'm trying; to think what is it called though?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Word Answer
Practice.
Source details
- Prompt item: Softball rehearsal
- Method: It starts with a P.; You do it with your violin.
Conversation excerpt
Ratings ↗
Well, Ryan, did you like this episode?
See how they answered
What everyone brought to the table · 2 recorded exchanges
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: RyanSource excerpt ↗ 59:41
“Participant cited” identifies a contributor, not the speaker of every word in this excerpt. It may include other participants’ replies or reactions.
Ryan Rating Prompt
Question / challenge
Well, Ryan, did you like this episode?
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 1:01:09
“Participant cited” identifies a contributor, not the speaker of every word in this excerpt. It may include other participants’ replies or reactions.
Brad Rating Prompt
Question / challenge
But Brad, what do you think?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Ranking Afterthoughts
More of this contribution
- Answer qualification: My good order is still actually fine probably.; It makes me think that I put the first episodes of season 10 at the eight spot.; I might have put that a little too low, but we'll see.
Source details
- Method: distinct participant rating and ranking methods
Conversation excerpt
Post Review ↗
Source details
- Context outside the activity.
Conversation excerpt
Texting Tiebreak ↗
Break the tie.
What was recorded
What everyone brought to the table · 2 recorded exchanges
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Brad(ley)Source excerpt ↗ 1:06:41
“Participant cited” identifies a contributor, not the speaker of every word in this excerpt. It may include other participants’ replies or reactions.
Texting Prompt
Question / challenge
What do you think, Brad?; Where do we land on this?; Break the tie.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Texting Answer
I think the short text with no explanation is better than a long text that you can't read.
Conversation excerpt
Outro ↗
Source details
- Context outside the activity.
Conversation excerpt
Blooper ↗
I thought it would be good foley work to have the sound effect of me opening this can of beer.; And it sprayed all over my microphone.
Source details
- Context outside the activity.
By way of goodbye.
Death's receiving no more.
Source excerpt ↗ 1:10:03–1:10:06Original sign-off transcript
For myself, Ryan, and Brad, death's receiving no more.
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