I'm your host and honored announcer, Uncle Slam, Ryan.
Original introduction wording
- I'm your host and honored announcer, Uncle Slam, Ryan Sansone.
NO COMMON DENOMINATOR
Movie verdicts.
Katie, Ryan and Curtis: thumbs up. Vitaliy: thumbs down.
Original rating systems, exactly as represented in the archive. These scales are not interchangeable.
By way of introduction.
In his absence, a man who is whiter than a Russian winner, and hailing from the upside down, Curtis White Lightning.
Original introduction wording
- In his absence, a man who is whiter than a Russian winner, and hailing from the upside down, Curtis White Lightning Shirk.
And his opponents, my co-host, who didn't get to see the fall of the Berlin Wall, representing South Cleavey, the Kremlin crusher, Katie.
Original introduction wording
- And his opponents, my co-host, who didn't get to see the fall of the Berlin Wall, representing South Cleavey, the Kremlin crusher, Katie McKenzie.
And our special guest referee, he must break you, representing the USSR. He is the Ruski robot, Vitaliy.
Original introduction wording
- And our special guest referee, he must break you, representing the USSR. He is the Ruski robot, Vitaly Steert.
Read the full performed opening
Oh, ladies and gentlemen, the following podcast is scheduled to cover in its entirety the fourth movie of the Rocky franchise, Rocky IV. This is another special presentation of Reverse Psychology, and it's your main event, the Summer Movie Marathon. I'm your host and honored announcer, Uncle Slam, Ryan Sansone. Your champion, armed with Cold War era psychology, Dr. Fraser Cranes. Suspension continues. In his absence, a man who is whiter than a Russian winner, and hailing from the upside down, Curtis White Lightning Shirk. I was trying to do a lightning sound effect, and just nothing came out of my mouth. Oh, you nailed it. And his opponents, my co-host, who didn't get to see the fall of the Berlin Wall, representing South Cleavey, the Kremlin crusher, Katie McKenzie. What up? And our special guest referee, he must break you, representing the USSR. He is the Ruski robot, Vitaly Steert.
Someone brought rules.
The games, the premises, and what everyone brought to the table.
Game / activity
USA versus USSR fact battle ↗
How this one works
How it works
- Each team will take turns declaring a statement as fact.
- At the end,
- we'll also award a bonus point for the most outrageous true fact presented during the game.
- If the vote ends along party lines,
- the A-Rai will serve as the final judge.
- and the A-Rai will tell you if it's true or false,
- along with up to three reasons explaining why it's decision.
Scoring
- If your statement is true,
- you are in one point,
- So I guess we will, as Americans, get the point.
- You also get Vitt a point.
RESULT STATUS
A winner is actually on the record.
Winner: Curtis
What was recorded
What everyone brought to the table · 3 recorded exchanges
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
Cleveland is the birthplace of the first tricolor stoplight.
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- Adjudication verdict: FALSE
- Adjudication: Detroit installed the first,; the first three color four-way traffic light.; the addition of yellow amber caution light happened six years later in Detroit.
- Answer qualification: I am doing research because I don't believe you.; I still think I'm right.; That's what I was taught as a child, and I will stand strong in that till my death.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 51:06
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Action
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- Scoring mechanism: Oh, we're supposed to do which one was most outrageous every round.
- Answer qualification: For the record, the most outrageous last round was the persistent lies of Katie about the electric traffic lane.
- Final adjudication: There has to be two truths in a round, and so far we have not had that.
- Point awarded: False
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:00:04
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Final fact-battle result
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- Winner statement: And Curtis, you won.
- Score checkpoint: Curtis: 3, Ryan: 2, Katie: 2, Vitaliy: 1
- Winner declaration: And Curtis, you won.
Follow the round structure (3)
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 41:29
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Each team will take turns declaring a statement as fact.
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- Each team will take turns declaring a statement as fact.
- Team Cleveland can only present facts about Cleveland.
- Team world can present facts about literally anywhere that isn't Cleveland.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
Akron is the rubber city.
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- Important beats: In the world encyclopedia,; S has the largest book.; You have to do one that counts.
- Adjudication verdict: TRUE
- Adjudication: Historical manufacturing hub in the 20th century.; It has an enduring legacy,; and it says global production scale.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
I think Japan has the most robot butlers in the world.
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- Adjudication verdict: FALSE
- Adjudication: It's saying China leads the deployment.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
I'm going to say that the Great Lakes Christmas Sale is the best Christmas beer.
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- Answer qualification: you want me to say Great Lakes Christmas Sale is the best Christmas ale?
- Adjudication verdict: FALSE
- Result qualification: It does note it's subjective.
Round context
- Team Cleveland can only present facts about Cleveland.
- Team world can present facts about literally anywhere that isn't Cleveland.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 48:16
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Prompt
Question / challenge
It will present a fact about the Soviet Union.; The rest of us will present a fact about 1980s America.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
The American Sasquatch is a cryptid that could beat any Soviet cryptid,
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- Important beats: If the cryptids of the world had fought a Cold War, the Loch Ness Monster would have beat the ass of any Soviet cryptid that exists.; You just had to pick an American cryptid.; Fucking Sasquatch.
- Answer qualification: No.; Oh, I feel especially good, because I just looked it up.
- Adjudication verdict: FALSE
- Adjudication: It cited lack of physical evidence.; And then it says it can't tell how big a Sasquatch would be.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
Then go with, like, music in America in the 80s was better than in Russia in the 80s.
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- Answer qualification: Soviet Union, not Russia.
- Result qualification: It's not saying Soviet was better, just that it's not subjectively worse.
- Final adjudication: Objective metrics do favor American 80s music.
- Point awarded: True
- Score effect points: 1
- Initial adjudication: false as initially reported
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: CurtisSource excerpt ↗ 52:25
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Action
I think you should force it to make a choice.
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- Answer qualification: It's not saying Soviet was better, just that it's not subjectively worse.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
In America, you drive car.; In the Soviet Union, car drive you.
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- Adjudication verdict: FALSE
- Adjudication: Automobiles in the Soviet Union operates using standard mechanic controls.
- Point awarded: False
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
I'll say that Rocky won the Cold War.
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- Adjudication verdict: FALSE
- Adjudication: It says there's actually complex geopolitical factors.; It also pointed out this is a fictional narrative.
Round context
- Point awarded: Americans
- It will present a fact about the Soviet Union.
- The rest of us will present a fact about 1980s America.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 55:08
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Prompt
Question / challenge
In this one, all facts must be about the Native Americans from your respective state.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
That Native American peoples from Ohio built burial mounds and they are shaped like giant snakes.
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- Adjudication verdict: FALSE
- Adjudication: The famous snake-shaped structure in Adams County, known as the Great Serpent Mound, is an effigy mound, you dummy.
- Answer qualification: I am at OhioTraveler.com and they say Native American effigy mounds and Indian burial mounds dot Ohio's landscape.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Recorded conversation
The Serpent Mounds are a burial ground in Southern Ohio.
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- Adjudication: Sorry, they're effigies.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
I'm going to say the Ohio Native Americans lived in teepees.
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- Adjudication verdict: FALSE
- Adjudication: They had longhouse wigwams.; Teepees were great plains dwellings.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
And I'll say that Pennsylvania was dominated by the Sui-X people.; So I'm putting P-A is dominated by the Sioux, which is definitely how you pronounce that.
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- Adjudication verdict: FALSE
- Adjudication: Those guys are native to the northern Midwest.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
Northern Ohio was settled by the Erie tribe.
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- Answer qualification: I don't know if it's northern or northeastern.
- Adjudication verdict: TRUE
- Adjudication: It's the historical homeland.
- Result qualification: You won for Ohio.; And more importantly, you won for Curtis.; You also get Vitt a point.
Round context
- Winner statement: You won for Ohio.
- Answer qualification: You also get Vitt a point.
- In this one, all facts must be about the Native Americans from your respective state.
- You cannot use a Google.
- You can only use a Google to prove that A-Roy was wrong and unsuccessfully.
- Score checkpoint: Curtis: 2, Ryan: 2, Katie: 1, Vitaliy: 0
- Winner declaration: You won for Ohio.
View source wording — how it was explained on the show
- Scoring mechanism: If your statement is true,; you are in one point,
- Scoring method: So I guess we will, as Americans, get the point.; You also get Vitt a point.
- Adjudication method: and the A-Rai will tell you if it's true or false,; along with up to three reasons explaining why it's decision.
- Answer qualification: We've decided that going forward, it just has to make a choice.
- Each team will take turns declaring a statement as fact.
- At the end,
- we'll also award a bonus point for the most outrageous true fact presented during the game.
- If the vote ends along party lines,
- the A-Rai will serve as the final judge.
- If your statement is true,
- you are in one point,
- So I guess we will, as Americans, get the point.
- You also get Vitt a point.
- and the A-Rai will tell you if it's true or false,
- along with up to three reasons explaining why it's decision.
- Curtis wins with 3 points; Ryan and Katie finish with 2 each, and Vitaliy with 1.
Comic bits and episode moments.
Conversation excerpt
Recorded conversation ↗
Summer Movie Marathon.; Vitt, have you ever seen a Rocky movie before?
Conversation excerpt
Action ↗
What is your favorite thing about this country that you'd like to rub in a Soviet's face?
See how they answered
What everyone brought to the table · 5 recorded exchanges
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 02:26
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Prompt
Question / challenge
What is your favorite thing about this country that you'd like to rub in a Soviet's face?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
I am, of course, talking about the free refill.
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- Answer qualification: In America, you get 100% of your sugar for the day in a glass and the waitstaff will keep; bringing more and more and more to you until you explode or leave the restaurant.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
ranch dressing
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- Answer qualification: Like, ranch isn't my favorite condiment, but I like having it as an option.
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RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: VitaliySource excerpt ↗ 04:39
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Anything you'd like to rub in your own face?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
The size of food in this country.
Source details
- Adjudication: Two nice answers.
Conversation excerpt
Recorded conversation ↗
I obviously will play boxing movies as long as they're kid-friendly.; But I want to know, are you going to do so backwards?; Like, I feel like starting it backwards means I have to continue backwards.
Conversation excerpt
Whole-film verdicts and invented subtitles ↗
How this one works
How it works
- Curtis gets two votes cause this is his thing.
Recorded activity context
Thumbs up or thumbs down?; let's finish the movie off by giving it a worthy subtitle.
See how they answered
What everyone brought to the table · 6 recorded exchanges
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 36:41
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Whole-film thumbs prompt
Question / challenge
Thumbs up or thumbs down?
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 36:47
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Invented subtitle prompt
Question / challenge
let's finish the movie off by giving it a worthy subtitle.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Invented movie subtitle
Let's go to Russia.
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- Answer qualification: I hope that wasn't yours,; Curtis.; Cause I totally stole it.
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WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Invented movie subtitle
If he dies, he dies.
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- Adjudication: Little on the nose,
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Invented movie subtitle
death from a glove
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- Adjudication: And a little James Bondy.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Invented movie subtitle
I've killed your friend.
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- Answer qualification: you use the Roman numerals card.
Source details
- Final state summary: Only Vic going thumbs down.
- Thumbs up or thumbs down?; let's finish the movie off by giving it a worthy subtitle.
- Curtis gets two votes cause this is his thing.
Conversation excerpt
Recorded conversation ↗
Source details
- Final state summary: The awards are finished.; The ratings are locked as a win for Rocky,
Conversation excerpt
Action ↗
So Curtis, why don't you tell us what to expect when we cover the previous movie, Rocky 3?
See how they answered
What everyone brought to the table · 6 recorded exchanges
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:00:27
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Prompt
Question / challenge
So Curtis, why don't you tell us what to expect when we cover the previous movie, Rocky 3?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
The whole thing is a mislabeled Rocky 3, but is in fact Rambo Fur's Blood, and a backdoor pilot to Mr. T's series, The A-Team.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:01:04
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Vitt, what's your thumb prediction for that?
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RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: VitaliySource excerpt ↗ 1:01:07
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Down.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:01:08
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Curtis, what about you?
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: CurtisSource excerpt ↗ 1:01:09
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thumbs down
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- Answer qualification: I think three is going to be mediocre at best.
Source details
- Response context: we will be back September 8th with more Rocky.
Conversation excerpt
Action ↗
Curtis, you want to give her a parting award?
See how they answered
What everyone brought to the table · 5 recorded exchanges
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Ms. Movie Award
Katie
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- Answer qualification: Because I assume now everyone will call you like Little Ms. Movie because you've knocked out so many movies.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:01:51
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Curtis, you want to give her a parting award?
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Mid-Max Award
Katie
More of this contribution
- Answer qualification: But despite this and your general aversion to watching films in the first place, you maxed out on delivering a great podcast performance.
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RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: VitaliySource excerpt ↗ 1:02:16
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Prompt
Question / challenge
You want to throw an award her way?
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
sorry award
Yeah, I'll give her the sorry award for having to sit through these Rocky movies.
Conversation excerpt
Recorded conversation ↗
Well, thank you for solving global conflict with us tonight.
Conversation excerpt
Recorded conversation ↗
In an effort to prove that I did have a laptop, I did just spill Modelo on it.
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
Movie awards
How this one works
How it works
- To keep things interesting, try not to reuse the same award twice.
- If none of our standard categories fit a section, feel free to substitute them with a custom award of your own invention.
Recorded activity context
For each part, everyone will hand out one award.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 07:34
Round
This block will end with Apollo talking Rocky into backing him up.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 07:34
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Prompt
Question / challenge
What's your award to kick things off?
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- What's your award to kick things off?
- For each part, everyone will hand out one award.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
Apollo Creed
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- Choice: punchy
- Answer qualification: So punchy to Curtis for making me do this.
- Adjudication: That's a really interesting use of punchy.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
When they give Pauly his birthday present and Adrian goes, since you don't have any friends,; we thought you'd like it.
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- Choice: highlight
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
But the robot.
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- Choice: highlight
- Answer qualification: that Drago was a robot.; I now see where I got my wires crossed.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Mandela Award
wild card
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- Response: I'm giving this robot the Mandela Award because I've never seen this robot in my life,
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 12:33
Round
This section actually ends with a bloody, dying Apollo.; Not quite dead yet, but that's where it ends.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 12:33
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Katie, you want to open it up?
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- Katie, you want to open it up?
- For each part, everyone will hand out one award.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
low light
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- Response: Okay, so I said low light based on his reaction to killing Apollo.; If he dies, he dies.
- Answer qualification: Oh, I just don't like the character.
- Adjudication: Okay, so Katie, no, you did not mix the awards up.; You could call it a low light.; You get the low light.
CLAIM & ADJUDICATION
Remark
Drago looks like the robot male version of his wife.
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- Answer qualification: So I wrote that down, but I was like, that's not the award I'm giving, but that is something; I feel like we need to talk about.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 13:32
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Prompt
Question / challenge
What would you call that award if you were to name it?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 13:36
I got nothing.; I also got nothing.
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- Katie: “I don't know.”
- Katie: “Like, I don't know.”
- Ryan: “I got nothing.”
- Ryan: “I also got nothing.”
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
highlight
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- Response: But I did give this a highlight award because I loved Apollo's entrance.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
hottie
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- Response: Hot take, great way to be killed.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
punchy
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- Response: I think that Apollo throughout this section is so obnoxious.
- Answer qualification: In my defense, it's the only safe way for me to punch anybody in these movies.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 16:49
Round
So this section takes us all the way to Rocky leaving for Russia.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 16:49
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Curtis, why don't you open this up?
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- Curtis, why don't you open this up?
- For each part, everyone will hand out one award.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Retrospective Award
wild card
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- Response: They spent so much time showing clips of previous Rocky movies scattered in this driving montage.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
punchy
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- Response: I'm giving my punchy to the writers.
- Answer qualification: It's literally just spoilers for Curtis over and over again.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
low light
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- Response: I get that Apollo died, but I don't want to be sad for 20 fucking minutes.; Make it like two minutes and let's move on.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
punchy
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- Response: I said a punchy because Adrian pissed me off.
- Answer qualification: But, like, I understand that he's like, this is his way of, like, avenging his friend's death.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: CurtisSource excerpt ↗ 22:05
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Is Rocky IV a Christmas movie?
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- Response context: We asked this for Die Hard.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
It might be in my rotation for Christmas movies.; I think I've got to give it to a nod.
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- Answer qualification: Well, it isn't.; But this is.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 22:56
Round
So this part ends with Rocky entering the Russian ring.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 22:56
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Prompt
Question / challenge
What do you got, Vit?
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- What do you got, Vit?
- For each part, everyone will hand out one award.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Rocky vs. the World's Most Depressing Airbnb
wild card
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- Answer qualification: It was secluded.; There was no place to go.; There's no steps to climb.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
hottie
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- Response: I think Rocky IV is a little bit anti-American.
- Answer qualification: And it just seems like they're saying America is going to win because we're so humble and full of farm animals.; And Russia is this evil technologically dominant place.
- Adjudication: I'll give you muddled.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
highlight
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- Response: Rocky climbed a mountain for training.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
you know, you're from Cleveland; when?
wild card
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- Response: Because I wrote down weather changes hour to hour.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 29:39
Round
Not only does he beat Drago, but he wins over the Russian people with his message of peace; through violence.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 29:39
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Rocky struggles to keep up with the dominant Drago.
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- Rocky struggles to keep up with the dominant Drago.
- For each part, everyone will hand out one award.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
low light
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- Response: And they never lower the banner back down.; Those people just got completely fucked out of this fight.
- Answer qualification: It's a system, Ryan.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
hot take
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- Response: That was the worst piece of boxing I've ever seen in my entire life from Rocky.
- Answer qualification: I'm doing the hot take of the whole fight.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
Rocky
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- Choice: MVP
- Response: The MVP is that he remembered he has a kid.
- Answer qualification: I like that he recognized that people can change.; And I like that he remembered he had the kid.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
Ivan Drago
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- Choice: MVP
- Answer qualification: He's the imposing force.; He doesn't look beatable.
Source details
- Method: The highlight.; The low light.; The punchy.; The hottie.; The punchy that beat.; And finally, the MVP.; Once again, we're offering a seventh non-standard award, the wild card.
- Answer qualification: You have a punchy up if you want to try that.
- For each part, everyone will hand out one award.
- To keep things interesting, try not to reuse the same award twice.
- If none of our standard categories fit a section, feel free to substitute them with a custom award of your own invention.