I am your host and honored announcer of the North Pa, Ryan.
Original introduction wording
- I am your host and honored announcer of the North Pa, Ryan Senso.
NO COMMON DENOMINATOR
Movie verdicts.
Hannah: thumbs down. Katie, Ryan and Curtis: thumbs up. No collective recommendation is stated.
Original rating systems, exactly as represented in the archive. These scales are not interchangeable.
By way of introduction.
In his absence, trying to prove he is not too old to try, and hailing from the upside down, the living embodiment of yogurt, Curtis.
Original introduction wording
- In his absence, trying to prove he is not too old to try, and hailing from the upside down, the living embodiment of yogurt, Curt Schick.
And his opponent, my co-host. She's definitely seen movies representing South Cleavy, Katie “Mighty Mac” McKenzie.
Original introduction wording
- And his opponent, my co-host. She's definitely seen movies representing South Cleavy, K.E. Mighty Mac McKenzie.
And our special guest referee ensuring we have a good clean fight representing the secret capital of dentists, Hannah Scheck.
Original introduction wording
- And our special guest referee ensuring we have a good clean fight representing the secret capital of dentists, Hannah Ferensquare-Shirk.
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Ladies and gentlemen, the following podcast is scheduled to cover in its entirety the sixth movie of the Rocky franchise, Rocky Balboa. This is another special presentation of Reverse Psychology, and it's your main event, the Summer Movie Marathon. I am your host and honored announcer of the North Pa, Ryan Senso. Your old and outdated champion, Frasier Crane's suspension continues. In his absence, trying to prove he is not too old to try, and hailing from the upside down, the living embodiment of yogurt, Curt Schick. Ain't that too old? I'm just right. And his opponent, my co-host. She's definitely seen movies representing South Cleavy, K.E. Mighty Mac McKenzie. What up? What up, indeed. And our special guest referee ensuring we have a good clean fight representing the secret capital of dentists, Hannah Ferensquare-Shirk.
Someone brought rules.
The games, the premises, and what everyone brought to the table.
Game / activity
Turtle Tank ↗
How this one works
How it works
- As every Rocky fan knows, Rocky Balboa famously owns a pair of pet turtles.
- They're a panel of elite cold-blooded investors, and you're standing before them asking for cold,
- hard cash.
- You haven't actually invented anything.
- Instead, you'll take something that's been around forever, something forgotten, underused,
- underappreciated, or simply taken for granted, and rebranded as if it were launching today.
- Give it a shiny new name, a modern marketing spin, and convince the turtles it's the next
- big thing.
- Once the investment round is complete, the turtles will have a chance to buzz in and guess
- what your product actually is.
Prompt
- Your mission is to pitch a revolutionary new business.
Scoring
- To earn a point for your pitch, at least two of three turtles must agree to invest.
- If the herd buys in, you score a point.
- If someone correctly identifies the original item, both the swimmer and the turtle who
- guessed it earn a point.
RESULT STATUS
A winner is actually on the record.
Winner: Katie
What was recorded
What everyone brought to the table · 1 recorded exchange
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 55:56
Recorded conversation
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- Response context: My co-founder is a chicken.; We go door-to-door.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: CurtisSource excerpt ↗ 1:01:42
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Action
I want to get a poll here if you guys use these things, because my opinion is that the
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:01:42
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Have you used one of these?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
I own one and it lives in my microwave.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
And so I took it out and set it on the stove because they're steaming bag vegetables.; If I was like reheating pasta, I'm going to put the plate in there with the dome over; it to protect my microwave.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
My feeling is it's hovering over the food.; It's not touching the food.; But I will absolutely 100% of the time, unless it's like a thing of popcorn in a bag, I will; put the dome over the food.
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- Answer qualification: I will not let my husband microwave food on a plastic plate, nor will I let him wrap the; food in a plastic wrap.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:08:22
Recorded conversation
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- Winner statement: That gives Katie the win.
- Result qualification: Withdrawn as final before kurts turn
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RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:10:50
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- Response context: I thought it was an IV bag.
Follow the round structure (4)
Pitch round 1
Source excerpt ↗ 50:52Cash: $100,000; Equity: 20%
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 50:52
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Who wants to go first?
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- Activity request: Your mission is to pitch a revolutionary new business.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
One Egg is Unearthed
He should not be guzzling raw eggs.
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- Response context: Because in France, one egg is enough.
- Ending or payoff: Thank you, turtles, for your time.
- Answer qualification: Rows 1342–1344 are injected audio; the recorded performer is unidentified. Hannah remains the live pitch presenter.
- Rows 1342–1344 are an inserted recording with an unidentified performer. Hannah is the live pitch presenter; the recording earns no host voice credit.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 52:07
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Are you in or you out, turds?
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 53:47
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Investment decisions
Curtis: in; Katie: in; Ryan: out
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- Result qualification: enough turtles invested
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 54:42
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Prompt
Question / challenge
We're now going to guess what your product is.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
a chicken
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- Answer qualification: The eggs are very safely inside of the chicken.
- Correct: False
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
powdered whey protein or some kind of like a protein powder.
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- Correct: False
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
I still think it's one like very nicely packaged egg.
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- Correct: False
Round context
- Important beats: If you buy One Egg is Unearthed today, you can get the product plus a book of puns, plus; one egg packaged very well so it doesn't break on its way to you.; I'm trying to prevent salmonella poisoning.; You have to provide the rest of the eggs yourself, but the product you'll have.
- Correct answer: a frying pan
- Point awarded: Participant: Hannah; Points: 1; Basis: investment
- Result qualification: All offered identification guesses are rejected before the presenter reveals the frying pan.
Pitch round 2
Source excerpt ↗ 57:13Cash: $750,000; Equity: 5%
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: KatieSource excerpt ↗ 57:13
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Katie, would you like to go next?
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
micromanager technologies
It's a microwave damage prevention platform.
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- Method: Its elevated dome architecture allows for optimal steam circulation, while simultaneously; preventing upward ejection trajectories from reaching the microwave ceiling.; Strategic venting channels regulate pressure equilibrium, ensuring that heat distribution; remains efficient.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 59:01
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Prompt
Question / challenge
So who's with me?
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- Question: Katie, you've got what you need, but do you have a trifecta?
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:00:26
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Investment decisions
Ryan: in; Hannah: in; Curtis: out
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- Answer qualification: I would do it for 1%.; So, I am, for that reason, I'm afraid out.
- Ryan: “I am 100% backing this product.”
- Hannah: “I'm in because I want my food to be as inanimate as possible in every way.”
- Hannah: “So, I am in.”
- Curtis: “So, I am, for that reason, I'm afraid out.”
- Hannah’s repeated assent continues her existing investment; it is not a fourth investor.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:01:34
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Once the investment round is complete, the turtles will have a chance to buzz in and guess; what your product actually is.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
one of those plastic covers you put over your plate when you microwave.
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- Correct: True
- Score effect method: If someone correctly identifies the original item, both the swimmer and the turtle who; guessed it earn a point.
Round context
- Correct answer: one of those plastic covers you put over your plate when you microwave.
- Point awarded: Participant: Katie; Points: 1; Basis: investment
Pitch round 3
Source excerpt ↗ 1:03:35Cash: $650,000; Equity: 22%
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: RyanSource excerpt ↗ 1:03:35
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Well, Ryan, are you or I going next?
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
The distraction sheet.
Stop worrying if they will notice and start distracting with the distraction sheet.
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- Method: No, these sheets are loud, but they don't have a lot to say.; And when somebody starts to question why you've hung it up in the first place, give them a; little FOMO by making it sound like something great they aren't a part of.
- Ending or payoff: Let us distract so your friends don't react.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:03:42
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Prompt
Question / challenge
I'm here today to request $650,000 for a 22% stake in my company.
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- I'm here today to request $650,000 for a 22% stake in my company.
- To earn a point for your pitch, at least two of three turtles must agree to invest.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:05:38
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Investment decisions
Curtis: in; Katie: in; Hannah: out
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- Answer qualification: No explanation.
- Curtis: “We've established I don't have that kind of money, but I'm in.”
- Katie: “So I am in.”
- Hannah: “I'm out.”
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:06:54
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Prompt
Question / challenge
I don't think we're going to count it, but we're going to give Curtis a shot.
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- Activity request: Once the investment round is complete, the turtles will have a chance to buzz in and guess; what your product actually is.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Like a wall poster.
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- Correct: False
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Is it one of those kinds of banner type sheets with a tie dye motif on it that people in college; dorms hang over their beds?
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- Adjudication verdict: close enough
- Point awarded: 0.5
- Answer qualification: Katie supplies the clarification at rows 1769–1770. Hannah retains the original guess and awarded half point.
- Adjudication raw correctness: False
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Apron.
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- Correct: False
Round context
- Correct answer: a flag
- Point awarded: Participant: Ryan; Points: 1; Basis: investment
- Result qualification: We were not going to give me the point, because I don't think you quite got it.
Pitch round 4
Source excerpt ↗ 1:08:39$250,000
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: CurtisSource excerpt ↗ 1:08:39
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Let's let you go, I guess.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Hydro Health Unlimited
This revolutionary product is portable.; It is reusable.; And most importantly, it is guaranteed to keep you hydrated throughout the day, every day.
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- Ending or payoff: I've shared a sample with each of you, and I'm happy to take your questions.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:08:44
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Prompt
Question / challenge
It doesn't matter, but are you in or are you out?
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- Activity request: $250,000 for 33.33% of the company.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:10:17
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Investment decisions
Katie: out; Ryan: out; Hannah: out
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- Selection or action: In: 0; Out: 3
- Katie: “I think this is a very saturated market, so I'm going to be out on this one.”
- Ryan: “I'm out as well.”
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:10:35
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Once the investment round is complete, the turtles will have a chance to buzz in and guess; what your product actually is.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
a water bottle
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- Correct: True
- Score effect method: If someone correctly identifies the original item, both the swimmer and the turtle who; guessed it earn a point.
Round context
- Correct answer: a water bottle
- Adjudication: No investment majority: all three turtles decline.
View source wording — how it was explained on the show
- Activity premise: As every Rocky fan knows, Rocky Balboa famously owns a pair of pet turtles.; They're a panel of elite cold-blooded investors, and you're standing before them asking for cold,; hard cash.
- Scoring mechanism: To earn a point for your pitch, at least two of three turtles must agree to invest.; If the herd buys in, you score a point.; If someone correctly identifies the original item, both the swimmer and the turtle who; guessed it earn a point.
- Method: Once the investment round is complete, the turtles will have a chance to buzz in and guess; what your product actually is.
- Winner statement: Katie takes the big win.
- Result qualification: Curtis somehow got second place, so that's confusing.
- Ryan: “Anna, you have got the point for enough turtles invested, mostly because Curt got peer pressured and he gets nervous.”
- Ryan: “You've got the point.”
- Ryan: “So, Hannah, we're going to give you a half point, because I don't think you quite got it, but you got close enough.”
- Ryan: “Katie takes the big win.”
- Ryan: “I lost, and that feels right.”
- Katie wins; Curtis finishes second; Ryan is the loser. No final numeric scoreboard is stated.
- Your mission is to pitch a revolutionary new business.
- As every Rocky fan knows, Rocky Balboa famously owns a pair of pet turtles.
- They're a panel of elite cold-blooded investors, and you're standing before them asking for cold,
- hard cash.
- You haven't actually invented anything.
- Instead, you'll take something that's been around forever, something forgotten, underused,
- underappreciated, or simply taken for granted, and rebranded as if it were launching today.
- Give it a shiny new name, a modern marketing spin, and convince the turtles it's the next
- big thing.
- Once the investment round is complete, the turtles will have a chance to buzz in and guess
- what your product actually is.
- To earn a point for your pitch, at least two of three turtles must agree to invest.
- If the herd buys in, you score a point.
- If someone correctly identifies the original item, both the swimmer and the turtle who
- guessed it earn a point.
Comic bits and episode moments.
Conversation excerpt
Opening context ↗
Conversation excerpt
Action ↗
How this one works
How it works
- We're going to save for the end your official feelings about this movie.
- have seen one of those, we're trying for a no-spoiler situation.
Recorded activity context
we're asking your general feelings or knowledge; about Rocky.
See how they answered
What everyone brought to the table · 12 recorded exchanges
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: HannahSource excerpt ↗ 01:48
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Prompt
Question / challenge
But how about you, Hannah?
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- Prompt item: you guys stand with it in boxing movies.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
I have never seen a Rocky film.; I saw a commercial for Creed that Michael B. Jordan was in.
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- Response context: I did play the Barry Saxon jazz band when we did Gonna Fly Now, the Rocky theme, which was; very fun.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: KatieSource excerpt ↗ 03:07
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Where are you at with the Rocky movies?
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RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
I had never seen a Rocky movie.
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- Response context: I do watch a lot of sports movies because I work in sports, and we watch them all day; at work.
- Answer qualification: Well, it's just not on the streaming services that we have at work, so that's why.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: KatieSource excerpt ↗ 03:31
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Well, how about any boxing movie?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
That one, The Girl Boxer.
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- Answer qualification: Katie speaks at rows 82–84; the later title claim and recognition belong to Hannah.
CLAIM & ADJUDICATION
Remark
Million Dollar Baby.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Wait, I did see Million Dollar Baby.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: HannahSource excerpt ↗ 03:59
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Prompt
Question / challenge
What were you expecting?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
The only thing I was expecting was Milo Ventimiglia in this film.; I knew that he was coming in as Rocky's son.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: KatieSource excerpt ↗ 05:25
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Prompt
Question / challenge
So what'd you expect?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
I don't think I had a lot of thoughts going in.; But I'm usually into a sports movie, so I was pretty excited for it.; I just pressed play and went for it.
Source details
- we're asking your general feelings or knowledge; about Rocky.
- We're going to save for the end your official feelings about this movie.
- have seen one of those, we're trying for a no-spoiler situation.
Conversation excerpt
Recorded conversation ↗
Source details
- Notable references: Project Hail Mary
Conversation excerpt
Movie verdicts and invented subtitles ↗
How this one works
How it works
- As you guys know, Curtis gets, he gets two thumbs for this, so he could swing over to the thumbs
- down if he so chooses.
Recorded activity context
Thumbs up or down to decide if we liked the movie.; And as a bonus, let's give this old man movie a fresh new title.
See how they answered
What everyone brought to the table · 6 recorded exchanges
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 46:46
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Whole-film thumbs prompt
Question / challenge
Thumbs up or down to decide if we liked the movie.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 46:50
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Invented subtitle prompt
Question / challenge
And as a bonus, let's give this old man movie a fresh new title.
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- Question: What's the, what's the subtitle?
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Invented movie subtitle
Rocky Balboa: again?
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- Answer qualification: With the question marks, right?
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WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Invented movie subtitle
Rocky Balboa, the retirement plan.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Invented movie subtitle
Rocky Balboa, uh, no teeth, no stakes
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- Answer qualification: because of vampires.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Invented movie subtitle
Rocky Balboa, boxes the cradle.
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- Answer qualification: Like instead of Rob's the cradle.
Source details
- Thumbs up or down to decide if we liked the movie.; And as a bonus, let's give this old man movie a fresh new title.
- As you guys know, Curtis gets, he gets two thumbs for this, so he could swing over to the thumbs
- down if he so chooses.
Conversation excerpt
Recorded conversation ↗
Conversation excerpt
Closing conversation ↗
Conversation excerpt
Postlude ↗
I assumed that Muhammad Ali was a distant uncle.
Source details
- Answer qualification: It's not true though.
And the award goes to…
Selections stay with their own movie part and selector. Some attributions are not confirmed.
What was recorded
Their choices, kept with the original category and movie part · 1 recorded exchange
Conversation excerpt
Five-part movie awards
How this one works
How it works
- We've divided the movie into five parts.
- For each section, everyone will hand out one award.
- To keep things interesting, try not to reuse the same award twice.
- If none of the standard categories fit a section, feel free to substitute them with a custom award of your own invention.
Award categories
- Highlight: For a moment or scene that was particularly good.; Low light: For a moment or scene that was particularly bad.; Punchy: Awarded to the person we most wanted to punch in the face.; And the moment that inspired it.; Hottie: For a moment or scene that inspired a hot take.; Punchy uppie: For a moment or scene that made us think of something better the movie could have done.; Mvp: Awarded to the person who earned most valuable player status in the moment that locked it in.; Wild card: custom award of your own invention.
Recorded activity context
We've divided the movie into five parts.; For each section, everyone will hand out one award.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 07:59
Movie section 1
So this blocks them to take us up to the 22-minute mark where Rocky threatens the drunk as he tries to leave the bar.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 08:09
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Let's start with Hannah.
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- Activity request: For each section, everyone will hand out one award.
- Question: Ryan, did you have an award?
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
The highlight for me was when Rocky poured a bowl of candy out of his kitchen window.
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- Choice: highlight
- Answer qualification: Because look how much conversation we've gotten from that one moment.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
For this section, I gave punchy because I was real mad that Rocky's son didn't show up to the restaurant that night.
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- Choice: punchy
- Answer qualification: A day like that, you should be with your family.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
I want to give out a double punchy because Polly is such a jerk to everyone.; I'll throw my righty at Rocky and my lefty at Polly.
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- Choice: double punchy
- Answer qualification: Like if they were just had a simple conversation with each other, they could avoid a lot of pain they're causing each other.; There's no differentiation.; It's an equal opportunity weak punch.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
But I actually wanted to give a punchy to Robert's boss, William Tomlinson.
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- Choice: punchy
- Answer qualification: I thought about doing a punchy uppie there, but I said, like, let's just punch him.
CLAIM & ADJUDICATION
Remark
On the restaurant sign for Adrian's, it says established 1995.; So I'm pretty sure Rocky 5 is going to be 1990.; And this is a 2006 film, which means the restaurant isn't part of the original Rocky 5.; This is an invention for this film.
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- Answer qualification: I am curious to see if Adrian is going to be, like, talking about wanting a restaurant someday.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 15:00
Movie section 2
So this is going to take us up to 41 minutes when Rocco and Bobby are talking in the streets; the first time.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 15:12
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Prompt
Question / challenge
All right, Katie.; How about you?; Curtis, what about you?
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- Activity request: For each section, everyone will hand out one award.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
Yeah, but you think you ought to stop trying things because you had a few too many birthdays?
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- Choice: highlight
- Response context: Let me just add that at some point I paused because I thought I've got to be halfway through; this film by now, right?; 13 minutes.
- Response status: Highlight retained
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Recorded conversation
The pause check.
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- Answer or action: I offer a wild card and call it the pause check because that's hilarious.
- Answer qualification: Curtis makes the offer at row 404. Ryan remains the original participant in the pause discussion.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
No, when Steps was leaving the restaurant and Pauly went, who's the criminal?
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- Choice: low light
- Adjudication: That's a proper low light, I think.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
This is for the CGI fight.
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- Choice: Unintentionally Funny Award
- Answer qualification: The unintentionally funny is purely for the actual CGI dramatization.; It is not for the concept.; What the sports network is doing is believable.; I think that the boxers in real life would react to it this way is believable.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
I think my punchy uppie would do anything with Steps that made sense or just get rid of; him.
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- Choice: punchy uppie
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 22:28
Movie section 3
So this will take us to the hour mark when Rocky and Mason have a presser.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 22:37
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Prompt
Question / challenge
What award do you want to give out?
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- Activity request: For each section, everyone will hand out one award.
- Answer qualification: I mean, you've already nailed it, but do you want to, do you want to give a different; award or how do you want to go with them?
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
Rocky
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- Choice: MVP
- Answer qualification: At least for me, it was very emotional.; This is something you have to do, right?
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
I wish they would just stop mentioning, would you like to come inside?
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- Choice: punchy uppy
- Answer qualification: I was just saying, don't add the line about come on in, but you're right.; The real punchy uppie is reverse vampire.; Make it a little bit of a reverse vampire movie.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Volunteered improvement
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- Answer or action: Is this like some sort of reverse vampire lore where, you know, if someone invites him; in, he's not allowed to go in.
- Submission type: Volunteered improvement
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
My punchy uppie is that maybe Rocky should know what the bill of rights is.
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- Choice: punchy uppie
- Answer qualification: Since he refers to it as the official paper that they wrote down the street there.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Volunteered additional award
Rocky deserves a second jacket of some kind.
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- Choice: Hot take.
- Answer qualification: And I feel like maybe he should have a different, like, rotate them out.; Maybe wash that one.
- Adjudication verdict: Modified to punchy uppie
- Submission type: Volunteered additional award
- Final choice: punchy uppie
- Final reviewed category: punchy uppie. The original hot-take proposal remains in the source record.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Recorded conversation
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- Answer or action: If I had seen a closet full of maroon jackets like he's a cartoon character, I would have accepted that.
- Response status: Continuation by the same jacket proposer, Hannah
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
I'm giving my hottie out to Marie here.; I thought that felt so out of character.; Like we didn't do any of the work to build up her confidence other than making her take a job.
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- Choice: hottie
- Adjudication: I think that's a lukewarm take in that.; Yeah, I think I'd give you a warm take on this one.
- Hannah: “I think that's a lukewarm take in that.”
- Hannah: “I agree.”
- Katie: “Yeah, I think I'd give you a warm take on this one.”
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 31:14
Movie section 4
So this is going to take us up to the hour 13 when Marie gives the least romantic kiss; in history to Rock on the lips.
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Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 31:28
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Katie, what award do you got?; All right, Hannah, what's your award?
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- Activity request: For each section, everyone will hand out one award.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
So going back to Rocky and his son arguing in the street.
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- Choice: highlight
- Answer qualification: I can relate to the kid.; Rocky gives it right back and like puts him in line.; And then like they reconnect to the next day at the gray site.; It's like a full circle.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
You, me, or nobody is going to hit as hard as life.; But it ain't about how hard you hit.; It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.; How much you can take and keep moving forward.; That's how winning is done.
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- Choice: highlight
- Answer qualification: I just thought it was very well written, incredibly well performed.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
I gave my MVP to Rocky here.
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- Choice: MVP
- Answer qualification: All three of them work together just fine, where you go, like, yeah, like, I want this guy to fight this guy who's way younger than him.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
My MVP is the dog in the training montage.
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- Choice: MVP
- Answer qualification: He helped Rocky more than anyone else did.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Volunteered additional award
That dog, his name should have been Champ, obviously.; Or KO as in knockout.; Or the Balboa Constrictor.
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- Choice: The Steps Award
- Answer qualification: Which also applies to Mason Dixon.
- Submission type: Volunteered additional award
- That dog, his name should have been Champ, obviously.; Or KO as in knockout.; Or the Balboa Constrictor.
- The Steps Award for pick a better name for anything.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Volunteered additional award
It is very much a, why did you drop out of Yale?
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- Choice: here's a separate award for the scene most like a scene; in Gilmore Girls.
- Submission type: Volunteered additional award
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 39:33
Movie section 5
So, the final part of the movie dominated by the exhibition fight and its coverage.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 39:51
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Question / challenge
Hannah, let's start with you.; Katie, did you give the award?
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- Activity request: For each section, everyone will hand out one award.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
The ring woman had a website written on her chest, on her skin.
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- Choice: lowlight
- Answer qualification: That's gross.
CLAIM & ADJUDICATION
Remark
Another lowlight.
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- Claim: Mike Tyson used a derogatory term in the four seconds that he spoke.
CLAIM & ADJUDICATION
Remark
So this fight is based on a real fight that happened with George Foreman.
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- Response context: So I happened to be watching this movie with my dad.; Almost beat for beat this fight, which me and my dad watched immediately after watching this movie.
- Answer qualification: And I got to tell you, it's interesting how much of the movie is more believable than the fight that happened in real life and how much of it isn't.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
I'm giving MVP to Rocky because he convinced me through the choreography that was done in this movie, the performance Stallone gives.
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- Choice: MVP
- Answer qualification: It's just the entire fight.; Like there is a story being told in the fight.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
I don't think it's necessary to have black and white montages with only thing in color is the blood flying from his face.
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- Choice: hot take
- Answer qualification: I just didn't like the blood flying.
- Adjudication: That is a hot take.; It's definitely hot.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
I don't get why Mason's hand broke when he punched Rocky in the hip.
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- Choice: low light
- Answer qualification: And that explains it, so I stand corrected.
- Result qualification: Humorous vampire explanation
Source details
- Method: Highlight: For a moment or scene that was particularly good.; Low light: For a moment or scene that was particularly bad.; Punchy: Awarded to the person we most wanted to punch in the face.; And the moment that inspired it.; Hottie: For a moment or scene that inspired a hot take.; Punchy uppie: For a moment or scene that made us think of something better the movie could have done.; Mvp: Awarded to the person who earned most valuable player status in the moment that locked it in.; Wild card: custom award of your own invention.
- We've divided the movie into five parts.; For each section, everyone will hand out one award.
- We've divided the movie into five parts.
- For each section, everyone will hand out one award.
- To keep things interesting, try not to reuse the same award twice.
- If none of the standard categories fit a section, feel free to substitute them with a custom award of your own invention.
- Highlight: For a moment or scene that was particularly good.; Low light: For a moment or scene that was particularly bad.; Punchy: Awarded to the person we most wanted to punch in the face.; And the moment that inspired it.; Hottie: For a moment or scene that inspired a hot take.; Punchy uppie: For a moment or scene that made us think of something better the movie could have done.; Mvp: Awarded to the person who earned most valuable player status in the moment that locked it in.; Wild card: custom award of your own invention.
Previously, next week.
Predictions as made on the podcast—not claims about what actually happens.
Conversation excerpt
Predicting Rocky V
So, Curtis, as a runner-up, why don't you tell us what to expect next week when we cover the previous movie, Rocky V?
What was recorded
What everyone brought to the table · 4 recorded exchanges
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: CurtisSource excerpt ↗ 1:11:13
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Prompt
Question / challenge
So, Curtis, as a runner-up, why don't you tell us what to expect next week when we cover the previous movie, Rocky V?
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Comic future synopsis
The whole thing is a shot-for-shot remake of Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan, and all of the boxing involves Shatner-style double-fisted punches.
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- Submission type: Comic future synopsis
- Important beats: Just past his prime, heavyweight champion Rocky now oversees the training of a new generation of boxers.; But he is surprise attacked by his old nemesis, Mr. T, and is forced to flee.; Having taken control of the Genesis device, Mr. T can now destroy entire worlds, but Rocky goads him into a rematch and saves the day.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:11:55
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Do you want to hear my thumb prediction?
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RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
I think the next one's going to be a dud.
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- Answer qualification: I think probably that's because they weren't very good anymore.
- Response status: Prediction not current movie verdict