I am Ryan Sansone and this is Reverse psychology present Die Hard
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- I am Ryan Sansone and this is Reverse psychology present Die Hard
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Pod Hard with a Vengeance Part 1
IN THE ROOM
RyanCurtisVitaliyGuest appearance: Vitaliy
By way of introduction.
Helping me dive into the action from the upside down, the man who was positively delighted to see Lawrence fishburne in this series, it’s Curtis Scheck
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- Helping me dive into the action from the upside down, the man who was positively delighted to see Lawrence fishburne in this series, it’s Curtis Scheck
My cohost, who routinely says and I quote, I like my movies like I like my wine, the older the better
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- My cohost, who routinely says and I quote, I like my movies like I like my wine, the older the better
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Hello and welcome. Tonight, a very young director of fury enters the fray. If you came here looking for Frasier, you are out of luck. We're taking a break from comedy sitcoms about psychiatry in favor of diving into a summer filled with pulse-pounding, totally realistic action. I am Ryan Sansone and this is Reverse psychology present Die Hard Helping me dive into the action from the upside down, the man who was positively delighted to see Lawrence fishburne in this series, it’s Curtis Scheck My cohost, who routinely says and I quote, I like my movies like I like my wine, the older the better
Someone brought rules.
The games, the premises, and what everyone brought to the table.
Game / activity
Sam Jackson's Jeopardy ↗
How this one works
How it works
- We have three categories tonight each with four answers. It will be your job to ask your answer then identify if this is in fact for Sam or for Lawrence.
- Initial actor rule: One question in each category will actually be a Lawrence Fishburne question.; Accepted buzzer: Boom.; Pass revision: This is your last pass you're allowed to take. And Curtis, you'll get one.; Final submission: You both have to write down an answer. I want you to text it to me so you don't lie.
Scoring
- Board values: 200; 400; 600; 800; Incorrect example: You both lose 200.; Daily trouble award: Well, because you got the Daily Trouble, you get 800 points for that.; Final rule: We're just going to say whoever does this wins.
RESULT STATUS
A winner is actually on the record.
Winner: Curtis
What was recorded
What everyone brought to the table · 1 recorded contribution
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
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You don't owe us money,
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- Winner statement: Technically, Curtis won because you answered some questions correctly.
- Result qualification: We all lost. All of us lost this.
Follow the round structure (2)
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:07:48
Recorded conversation
Rejected: Bazinga.; Accepted: Boom.
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- Vitaliy: “Bazinga.”
- Vitaliy: “Boom.”
- Ryan: “You should say boom as mundane as possible.”
- Rules: You should say boom as mundane as possible.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:07:42
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Category: the man; Amount: 800; Participant: Curtis
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- Prompt: For 800 this special clause is included in all of his movie contracts.
- Correct answer: The correct answer is what is easy access to a golf course?
- Classification response: Sam Jackson
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
I think the mandate or what is purple must be involved.
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- Response context: You asked me the answer in a contract dispute.
- Adjudication verdict: INCORRECT
- Score effect points: -800
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: VitaliySource excerpt ↗ 1:08:59
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Action
No. I want to be up 800. I'll buzz in next time.
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- Response context: If I win zero to minus 800, that'd be great.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:09:49
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Category: the actor; Amount: 200; Participant: Curtis
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- Prompt: He has been in this many movies with Bruce Willis.
- Correct answer: Sam jackson: 5; Lawrence fishburne: 0
- Answer qualification: I also would have accepted the Sam Jackson amount, but...
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
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I'm going to say one.
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- Classification response: Sam Jackson
- Adjudication verdict: INCORRECT
- Answer qualification: We know he's been in one, but you also didn't answer in the form of a question,
- Score effect points: -200
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
How many is four?
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- Adjudication verdict: INCORRECT
- Score effect points: -200
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:10:45
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Category: the actor; Amount: 400; Participant: Curtis
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- Prompt: His movies became the highest grossing of any actor with this animated film.
- Correct answer: The Incredibles
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
What is The Incredibles?
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- Adjudication verdict: CORRECT
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:11:16
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Category: the actor; Amount: 600
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- Prompt: He worked as a stand-in for a famous comedian on this famous sitcom.
- Answer qualification: You just have to name the show for the record in the form of the question.
- Correct answer: the Cosby show
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Is it, is it Family Matters?
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- Adjudication verdict: INCORRECT
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
What is the Cosby show?
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- Adjudication verdict: CORRECT
RECORDED EXCHANGE
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Would you want to guess the famous comedian?
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- Correct answer: Bill Cosby
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Bill Cosby?
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- Adjudication verdict: CORRECT
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:11:53
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Category: Actor; Amount: 800; Participant: Curtis
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- Prompt: This Cannes Award was recreated for his performance.
- Answer qualification: An award, an award's not normally there. And they gave him one because of his performance.
- Correct answer: best supporting actor
- Classification response: Sam Jackson
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
What is the badass award for how badass he was?
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- Classification response: This is Lawrence Fishburne one.
- Answer qualification: What is, I don't understand what you're saying.
- Response context: What do I get for knowing that was Laurence Fishburne?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
It's the Snakes on a Plane Award.
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- Adjudication verdict: INCORRECT
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Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:13:06
Recorded conversation
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- Rules: Yeah, you had the option to answer how many movies Laurence Fishburne was in with Bruce Willis in the first question. I also would have accepted the Sam Jackson amount, but...
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:13:36
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Category: the good, the bad, the ugly; Amount: 200
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- Prompt: He has overdosed on heroin this many times.
- Correct answer: 3
- Classification response: Sam Jackson
RECORDED EXCHANGE
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Do you want to guess who it is?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Zero.
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- Adjudication verdict: INCORRECT
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
How many is three?
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- Classification response: I'm going to say Laurence Fishburne.
- Response context: I thought that it had to be Laurence Fishburne because you have not asked about Laurence Fishburne at any time in this entire thing, but you suddenly asked for this one.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:14:28
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Category: the good, the bad, the ugly; Amount: 400; Participant: Curtis
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- Prompt: He was an usher at this historic figure's funeral.
- Correct answer: Martin Luther King Jr.
- Classification response: Sam Jackson
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Nelson Mandela.
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- Adjudication verdict: INCORRECT
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
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- Adjudication verdict: INCORRECT
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I think it was Lawrence Fishburne.
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- Adjudication verdict: INCORRECT
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Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:15:26
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Category: The good, the bad, the ugly; Amount: 600; Participant: Curtis
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- Prompt: He was briefly suspended from college after committing this crime.
- Correct answer: He took multiple hostages.
- Classification response: Sam Jackson
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:15:45
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Curtis, was it Jackson or Fishburne?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
What is holding somebody hostage?
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- Answer qualification: The, like, university. Morehouse University.
- Classification response: Sam Jackson.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:16:27
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Category: Good, bad, the ugly; Amount: 800
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- Prompt: He saved Emilio Estevez from this.
- Correct answer: quicksand
- Classification response: Lawrence Fishburne
- Response context: When they were on the set of Apocalypse Now.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
What is a cocaine overdose or cocaine?
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- Adjudication verdict: INCORRECT
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
What is a bear?
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- Answer qualification: Because of the cocaine thing.
- Adjudication verdict: INCORRECT
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You mean Lawrence Fishburne saved him from some quicksand?
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- Adjudication verdict: Correct actor only
- Score effect points: 0
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:17:13
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Category: The man; Amount: 200
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- Prompt: He shared this in common with Simon Gruber.
- Correct answer: a stutter
- Classification response: Sam Jackson
- Answer qualification: That was a trick question because the stutter proved to be fake with Simon.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
What is his brother was murdered by John McClane?
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- Adjudication verdict: INCORRECT
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What is he is foreign?
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- Answer qualification: He could have been born in a different country.
- Adjudication verdict: INCORRECT
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Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:17:49
What is a stutter?
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- Ryan: facilitator or questioner voice; no contestant credit.
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Category: the man; Amount: 400
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- Prompt: He was roommates with this Breaking Bad actor.
- Answer qualification: I will accept the character name if you want to go with that.
- Correct answer: Jim Carlo Espozito
- Classification response: Lawrence Fishburne
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:18:36
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Was this for Sam or for Lawrence?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
I want to say Jim Carlo, but I don't remember his last name. Espozito?
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- Classification response: Lawrence Fishburne.
- Response context: I finally got the answer right. And I got the Fishburne right. What does I get?
- Adjudication verdict: ACCEPTED
- Answer qualification: That's close enough.
- Score effect points: 800
- Score effect method: Daily Trouble
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:19:21
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Category: The man; Amount: 600
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- Prompt: He played this instrument prior to attending college.
- Correct answer: French horn trumpet
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Piano.
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- Adjudication verdict: INCORRECT
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The saxophone.
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- Adjudication verdict: INCORRECT
Round context
- Final state summary: The score is not close.
Final Jeopardy
Source excerpt ↗ 1:19:47RECORDED EXCHANGE
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Prompt
Question / challenge
This character is ranked 41 on Premier Magazine's greatest performances of all time.
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- Correct answer: Jules Winfield
- Rules: You have to write the character.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:20:12
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Prompt
Question / challenge
And then obviously it should be obvious, but you have to write who the actor is, just to be clear.
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- Correct answer: Sam Jackson
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Snake's on a plane, bro.
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- Classification response: I said Sammy.
- Answer qualification: Vit just said a move.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
I said Sammy for a time to kill.
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- Classification response: Sammy
- Answer qualification: I don't know the character's name.
Round context
- Rules: We're just going to take that off the table. We're just going to say whoever does this wins.
View source wording — how it was explained on the show
- Scoring mechanism: Board values: 200; 400; 600; 800; Incorrect example: You both lose 200.; Daily trouble award: Well, because you got the Daily Trouble, you get 800 points for that.; Final rule: We're just going to say whoever does this wins.
- Winner statement: Technically, Curtis won because you answered some questions correctly.
- Result qualification: We all lost. All of us lost this.
- Ryan reads and adjudicates; Curtis and Vitaliy are the contestants. Ryan’s later spoken answer does not establish contestant status or points credit.
Comic bits and episode moments.
Conversation excerpt
Recorded conversation ↗
We're taking a break from comedy sitcoms about psychiatry in favor of diving into a summer filled with pulse-pounding, totally realistic action.
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What is the oldest wine you've ever had? Like three years?
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So, Curtis, talk us through this.
Source details
- Final state summary: Well I'll mention for the audience that we are pausing this movie at one hour and five minute and 50 second mark. So we will pick up that next week when we return to this movie.
Conversation excerpt
Recorded conversation ↗
Because I've got about 10 more of these riddles that are way harder than this one.
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Prompt ↗
As I was going to St. Ives I met a man with seven wives. Each wife had seven sacks. Every sack had seven cats. Every cat had seven kittens. Kittens, cats, sacks, wives. How many were going to St. Ives?
What was recorded
What everyone brought to the table · 3 recorded contributions
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 34:09
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Is the answer a small boy's Sunday trousers?
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- Adjudication: No.
- Inserted recording; not a host answer.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
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Is it Invisalign braces?
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- Inserted recording; not a host answer.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
It starts with the guy saying I'm going to St. Ives and then the rest of it's junk.
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- Response context: but Zeus explained it very clearly.
Conversation excerpt
Prompt ↗
What do you think movie two is about?
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Prompt ↗
How did they solve this.
What was recorded
What everyone brought to the table · 2 recorded contributions
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
So I think what they have to do is they have to pour the three gallon jug into the five gallon jug twice. The second time it won't fill all the way there will be one gallon left over in the three gallon jug. They then would have to empty the five gallon jug. Put the one gallon into the five gallon and then refill the three gallon to put the remaining three gallons in and that gets you four gallons.
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- Answer qualification: I could be wrong about this. But I'm pretty sure the way they solved it is impossible.
- Claim: Well I think what they did is they they had they got to the point where they had one gallon in the three gallon jug but they just poured that into the five gallon jug and said they were done. They didn't empty the five gallon jug and do another three gallons.
- Response context: And I did take the time to sit down and try to solve the puzzle.
- Adjudication: We're proud of you. You did a math thing. Good work buddy.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:03:42
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Isn't that what they did?
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- Adjudication: We're proud of you. You did a math thing. Good work buddy.
Conversation excerpt
Prompt ↗
Is Die Hard with a Vengeance a Christmas movie?
What was recorded
What everyone brought to the table · 1 recorded contribution
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Like, this was a really stupid segment because, obviously, this is a Christmas movie.
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- Important beats: You've got kids getting a break from school. You've got piles of gold bricks like so many presents under the tree. And you've got Germans. The whole thing's about Christmas.
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And hope you join us for part two when we finish the movie.
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We'll be right back. We'll find out why in a minute.