Hello and welcome! I am Ryan.
Original introduction wording
- Hello and welcome! I am Ryan Sansone.
← Movie nights
Movie reverse-watch
Live Free or Pod Hard Part 1
IN THE ROOM
RyanCurtisVitaliyGuest appearance: Vitaliy
NO COMMON DENOMINATOR
Movie verdicts.
No final overall movie verdict is given in this episode.
Original rating systems, exactly as represented in the archive. These scales are not interchangeable.
No attributed vote is recorded for: Ryan, Curtis, Vitaliy. Being in the room does not mean someone gave a vote; the archive does not assume one.
By way of introduction.
Now, joining me as always from the Upside Down, the man that would plan and detail out his fire sale using Excel, it's Curtis. Thank you, I'm excited to be here. Still trapped in the Upside Down. It feels cold.
Original introduction wording
- Now, joining me as always from the Upside Down, the man that would plan and detail out his fire sale using Excel, it's Curtis Sheck. Thank you, I'm excited to be here. Still trapped in the Upside Down. It feels cold.
All right. And helping me out with both co-hosting and hacking the government, the man who once said that this menu has too many words and colors, it's Vitaliy. Hey, yo. Yeah, why do menus have so many colors? Make it simple.
Original introduction wording
- All right. And helping me out with both co-hosting and hacking the government, the man who once said that this menu has too many words and colors, it's Vitaly Steart. Hey, yo. Yeah, why do menus have so many colors? Make it simple.
Read the full performed opening
Hello and welcome! I am Ryan Sansone. Our summer movie marathon continues as we delve backwards into the mind of one John McClane. If you're here for some hard-hitting Frasier talk, don't worry. We are simply giving the doctor some time to rest and recuperate. Tonight, we jump from an obscenely high height, feet first, into Live Free or Die Hard. This is the fourth installment of the infamous franchise that some people would be shocked to learn even had a sequel. This is Reverse Psychology Presents Die Hard. Reverse Psychology Now, joining me as always from the Upside Down, the man that would plan and detail out his fire sale using Excel, it's Curtis Sheck. Thank you, I'm excited to be here. Still trapped in the Upside Down. It feels cold. It's a comforting cold, though, right? All cold is comforting to me. So this is nice. It's not too loud. There's not too many people. The not too many people is the go-to part. I'm on a vacation here. All right. And helping me out with both co-hosting and hacking the government, the man who once said that this menu has too many words and colors, it's Vitaly Steart. Hey, yo. Yeah, why do menus have so many colors? Make it simple.
Someone brought rules.
The games, the premises, and what everyone brought to the table.
Game / activity
our very own fire sale ↗
How this one works
Prompt
- I want to hear the three things you would eliminate, disable, or destroy.
- Lay out for us why and how you would do it and in what order.
How it works
- All in the name of freedom, of course.
- we should figure it out here tonight very quickly.
Recorded activity context
I want to hear the three things you would eliminate, disable, or destroy.; Lay out for us why and how you would do it and in what order.
RESULT STATUS
A winner is actually on the record.
Winner: Ryan
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:19:43
Recorded conversation
More of this contribution
- Ending or payoff: And scene.
Follow the round structure (1)
the three things you would eliminate, disable, or destroy
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:03:40
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Prompt
Question / challenge
I want to hear the three things you would eliminate, disable, or destroy.; Lay out for us why and how you would do it and in what order.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:03:50
Recorded conversation
Chipotle; any mics for any person that's under the age of 18 when it comes to gaming; taxes
More of this contribution
- Answer qualification: How dare they serve us so little food while making their price so high?; I've had enough of the 12 and 13 year olds telling me how much I suck at games such as Call of Duty.; So much of my money out of my hard earned paycheck is going to taxes and nobody knows why.
- Method: we will send all the nuclear energy to each Chipotle during the middle of the night.; Xbox and PlayStation will do their job.; we got to throw tea off of; I'm proposing I bring Lipton tea.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: CurtisSource excerpt ↗ 1:10:18
“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
Why don't you show them how it's done?
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
the wedding websites; these venues; the court clerk offices
More of this contribution
- Central premise: the wedding industrial complex
- Activity premise: I have one target and three steps for how to take that target out.
- Method: all of the individual couple sites redirect to pornography.; I'm going to clear all of their bookings.; I'm going to fill all those bookings with dummy weddings.; We're just going to eliminate all the licenses.
- Answer qualification: They are clumsy and difficult and they are very limited.; they want $10,000 for a room.; Marriages have now been made null and void.
- Ending or payoff: So congratulations to Ryan and Vitale.; You're now single men again.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: RyanSource excerpt ↗ 1:14:08
“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
Ryan, I'm curious if you have a fire sale in mind.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
the home stores; the Cocoa Melon knockoffs; the untrustworthy reviews
More of this contribution
- Answer qualification: This includes at home, home goods, and the Hobby Lobby.; Again, they can leave Cocoa Mellon.; Negative reviews are great.
- Method: I can just magic them away.; we're going to hack the, the creators of this.; playing it in their homes 24 seven till they, till they get rid of all of them.; create a very, very strict registration system; if you leave a bad review, punishable by jail.
- Important beats: Earlier unselected method: put one board over the door; Selected method: magic them away
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:16:44
“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
How are you eliminating them?
CLAIM & ADJUDICATION
Remark
you could force them to be video reviews where you have to actually like show that you have the thing.
More of this contribution
- Answer qualification: But then I realized, again, AI, like we're in a world now where that can be fixed so easily.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: VitaliySource excerpt ↗ 1:19:10
“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
Vitz, who'd you like better?
More of this contribution
- Activity request: tell us who did the best
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
I feel like Curtis didn't even follow the prompt, so I feel like his is disqualified.
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- Adjudication verdict: proposed disqualification
CLAIM & ADJUDICATION
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:19:20
Remark
I feel like Curtis didn't follow the prompt.; I feel like I'm the only one who followed the prompt.
More of this contribution
- Ryan: “I feel like Curt didn't follow the prompt.”
- Curtis: “I feel like I'm the only one who followed the prompt.”
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: CurtisSource excerpt ↗ 1:19:23
“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
All right, Curtis.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: CurtisSource excerpt ↗ 1:19:24
“Participant cited” identifies a contributor, not the speaker of every word in this excerpt. It may include other participants’ replies or reactions.
the home stores; the Cocoa Melon knockoffs; the untrustworthy reviews
More of this contribution
- Winner statement: Ryan did the best.
- Answer qualification: I hate the bad reviews.
CLAIM & ADJUDICATION
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:19:36
Remark
More of this contribution
- Winner statement: So I get to, I won, right?
- Result qualification: By default.
View source wording — how it was explained on the show
- Adjudication method: we should figure it out here tonight very quickly.
- Result qualification: By default.
Comic bits and episode moments.
Conversation excerpt
Round ↗
come up with like a threat level scale
See how they answered
What everyone brought to the table · 13 recorded exchanges
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 02:12
“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
Was it the hacking group and Thomas Gabriel? Or was it Yuri Komarov and like a really hard to pin down group of bad guys?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Thomas Gabriel and his group of badass hackers
More of this contribution
- Answer qualification: they're an actual threat to American lives.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
a literal nuclear bomb
More of this contribution
- Answer qualification: all the chaos that Thomas Gabriel is able to accomplish and all the damage he could and did do, it will just always pale in comparison to a literal nuclear bomb.
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RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 02:45
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Prompt
Question / challenge
come up with like a threat level scale
More of this contribution
- Answer qualification: It could be like out of five stars.; It could be like the Avenger scale.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 03:11
“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
Okay. And how many stickers have you given Yuri?
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 03:14
“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
I assume this is a classic 10 scale, a 10 out of 10 sticker?
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
Unit: stickers; Thomas gabriel and his hackers: 10; Yuri: 5; Maximum: 12
More of this contribution
- Answer qualification: These hackers are sitting at home and do whatever they want without getting off their couch.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 03:47
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Prompt
Question / challenge
What about you, Carl? You got the scale boards we could use?
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 03:50
Recorded conversation
I'm going to go on a scale of computer things to nuclear weapons.
More of this contribution
- Answer qualification: I've only seen two movies. It will broaden as I see the others.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 04:24
“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
Right. Well, I mean, we've got a third here. Like where do you land?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
I really think it's pretty close. I think it's much closer than both of you are acting like it is.
More of this contribution
- Answer qualification: I assume that the nukes are just going to be sold, which is dangerous.; They're probably going to be involved with nukes next.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 04:44
Recorded conversation
He accomplished horrible things.; But the potential for damage is so much greater with the Russian movie.; They had potential to get 12 stickers to be clear.
More of this contribution
- Curtis: “He did horrible things. He accomplished horrible things.”
- Curtis: “But the potential for damage is so much greater with the Russian movie.”
- Ryan: “They had potential to get 12 stickers to be clear.”
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: RyanSource excerpt ↗ 05:31
“Participant cited” identifies a contributor, not the speaker of every word in this excerpt. It may include other participants’ replies or reactions.
We're going to air with the nukes
More of this contribution
- Result qualification: we're going to keep an eye on this for future movies.
Source details
- Activity premise: who you guys thought was the bigger threat
- Prompt item: Thomas Gabriel; Yuri Komarov
- Result qualification: we're going to keep an eye on this for future movies.
Conversation excerpt
Recorded conversation ↗
We're going to see if we can build these scales out a little better.
Conversation excerpt
Recorded conversation ↗
We're going to cover everything up to the car trip to West Virginia.
Source details
- Answer qualification: This will be part one of two.
Conversation excerpt
Recorded conversation ↗
I did not enjoy my time as a Subway sandwich artist, particularly by the end.
Conversation excerpt
Round ↗
a Christmas movie; an Independence Day movie
What was recorded
What everyone brought to the table · 7 recorded exchanges
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: CurtisSource excerpt ↗ 1:19:52
“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
Is Die Hard 4, Live Free or Die Hard, a Christmas movie?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
No.
More of this contribution
- Classification response: False
- Answer qualification: There's nothing Christmas about it.; It's not set at Christmas.; It doesn't have any jolly fat men who are rosy cheap.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:19:56
“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
Defend.
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RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: CurtisSource excerpt ↗ 1:20:08
“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
Is it an Independence Day movie?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
It's 100% a 4th of July movie.
More of this contribution
- Classification response: True
- Answer qualification: It is set on the 4th of July.; It's got very America vibes.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:20:16
“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
As you as a true American, why don't you watch this every Independence Day?; Why don't we all?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
I didn't know.; Nobody told me.
Source details
- Prompt item: Die Hard 4, Live Free or Die Hard
Conversation excerpt
Recorded conversation ↗
I'm theorizing now that each of these is a different holiday movie.
Source details
- Notable references: the last movie we watched was clearly a Valentine's Day flick.; the next one we watched, Die Hard with a Vengeance, is a Purim movie.
Conversation excerpt
Recorded conversation ↗
Join us next week when we continue to break down Live Free or Die Hard.
Conversation excerpt
Recorded conversation ↗
We've just talked through four sequences.
Source details
- Activity premise: a good scale for both