July 31, 2025 • 35 mins
Sinatra, Dino, Bogart, Sammy... these are but a few of the old Hollywood greats that made up the Rat Pack. 👔🎥 Mitch, Alec, Drew, and Steven do their best to make them proud! Who knows the most Rat Pack lore in this week's shortcut?
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Welcome aboard Bus 1. We're taking a shortcut through
Los Angeles and Las Vegas, and we've got some time to kill.
Let's play some trivia. All right, Hello, gamers.
Go ahead and introduce yourselves alphabetically.
What's up, rat people, my name'sAlec.
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Hey rat guys, My name's Drew This.
Is a certified hood. Hey.
Rat characters. My name's.
Steven. And you all look like a damn
pack of rats. That is our topic for this
shortcut. It is the epitome of mid 20th
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century celebrity and a bygone era of glitz and glamour
consisting of some of the biggest entertainments of the
time, a group called the Rat Pack.
So let me go into our rules for today.
So there are two errors of the Rat Pack.
Thus 2 rounds each with four questions.
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Questions in round one or with one, one point questions around
2 or with two points. Each question will be multiple
choice, but there won't be a buzzer.
So multiple people can get the same question right and
technically you can all get the question wrong as well.
We'll have to use the honor system, AKA don't base your
answer off of someone else's andwe'll lock in the answers before
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we go. There is no challenge question
and I'm not trying to trick you.There is no challenge question,
but there is one extra question at the end that will also be
multiple choice where you can bet some of your points double
or nothing. All right, we will be using the
snipe mechanic. So if you know the answer before
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I read the multiple choice answers, the first to yell snipe
can answer right away. If you get it right, you get the
points and everyone else misses the opportunity to answer My
life be like. And then most points at the end
wins. And of course, no Googling.
All right, all clear. Yes, A. 100%.
I can't wait to talk about rats.All right, gamers, let's go into
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round one all about the Los Angeles era.
So a little bit of of context here.
The original Rat Pack started inthe late 1940s and early 1950s
as just simply a group of A listcelebrities that were drinking
buddies. So they get together, they
cruise the town, they would go out drinking or stay home and
drinking. Married actors Lauren Bacall and
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Humphrey Bogart would throw house parties for their friends
including Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Nathaniel Benchley
amongst others. According to Bacall quote in
order to qualify one had to be addicted to non conformity,
staying up late drinking, laughing and not caring what
anyone thought or said about us.One night after a night of
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drinking. Bacall exclaimed.
Quote, you all look like a Dan pack of rats.
And that is how the name started.
So we'll go ahead and go into round one.
This is five questions or sorry,4 questions, all worth one
point. Let's go into question #1 Judy
Garland, known as the first VicePresident of the Rat Pack, was
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introduced to the Rat Pack by her then husband, producer and
businessman Sid Luft. Luft is credited for making a
deal with the Warner Bros to finance his in Garland's 1954
movie, which brought Garland renewed success on the big
screen. Which movie did Luft produce and
Judy Garland star in? Is it a judgement at Nuremberg B
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The Wizard of Oz CA star is born, or D in the good old
summertime? Well, I don't know.
Fair enough, but. I can guess.
OK, everyone locked. I think I'm locked, Yeah.
No, I thought it was. Going to be about like RATAT.
Cheese. Sorry, the rat has episode is
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coming another time. This is rat pack rat rat rat.
So it's a judgment in Nuremberg B the Wizard of Oz CA star is
born, and D in the good old summertime.
OK, locked in. All right, Alec, you start us
off. What do you think?
I'm going to say a star is born.OK, Steven.
I was also going to say A star is born.
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OK, Drew. Give me the good old, the good
old summertime. OK, Alec and Steven, you 2 are
correct. You both get a point.
A rat I guess rat. So I was trying to trip you up
with those are all movies that she's starred in.
Wizard of Oz, obviously she was pretty young when she took that
role. This movie was came out in 1954
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and it was kind of like her re emergence into the movie scene
after like a a really long extended kind of break.
So it was a remake of the original A Star Is Born.
OK, is there, Is it the same? A star is born that, like
Bradley Cooper, pees himself on stage.
No, no. It's a different star is.
Born. That's another.
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They free made that oh but it's like the same but is.
It like the same story. Type of generally same the
concept. Hollywood has always been
remaking shit like this. Right, exactly.
Interesting, I think I need. To remake it again.
If they remake it again, give meanother one.
They could they could do like like Sabrina Carpenter and.
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And. Timothy Chalamet.
Timothy. He's got to be in everything.
We know he knows how to sing, right?
That's true. It was in Wonka, yeah.
Maybe. Maybe Lady Gaga?
Just. The same.
That's a good. Idea.
That's a great idea. Write that down.
Write that down. I know how.
To cast. Them All right, let's go to
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question #2 The Rat Packs historian was a name a man named
Nathaniel Benchley, an author and close friend of Humphrey
Bogart. His most famous books include
Side Street Sailor, Cricket Shipand Humphrey Bogart's biography.
There's actually 3 generations of Benchley's were authors.
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So Nathaniel's father and son. Though his son Peter Benchley is
arguably more famous than him. What famous 1974 book and
following screen adaptation did Peter Benchley write?
OK. Beats me.
Is it A1 Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?
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B The Rocky Horror Picture Show CA boy and his Dog or D Jaws.
Trying to think about when thesemovies came out, yeah.
So Peter eventually wrote this book and the following screen of
adaptation. OK, I'm locked.
I'm locked. I got it, I'm locked as well.
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All right, Alec, what do you got?
I'm going to guess One Flew Overthe Cuckoo's Nest.
OK, Steven. Oh, Jaws.
Yep, that's it. OK.
Drew, give me jaws. You 2 are correct Drew and
Steven. The answer is Jaws.
I didn't know that was a book. Yeah.
So he wrote, he wrote the book, and then he also wrote the
screen adaptation as well. Oh, and it came, It came.
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It actually came, I believe, a year after he wrote the book.
So the movie was made very quickly after the book.
Wow. Yeah, that's pretty cool.
Is the book called Jaws too or is it like?
It's called Jaws. I've.
Seen the book The Tale of the Big Shark.
Yeah, I know everyone like thinks of the movie, but it was
a book first technically. I wanted to, I wanted to snipe
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with Boxcar Children, but I was like, no, I.
Should hold off that. Classic.
OK, OK. Well, let's go to question 3.
The Rat Packs recording secretary and treasurer was a
man named Swifty Lazar. Swifty was a celebrity agent for
many stars, including Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart.
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It's said that he became such a powerful agent that he would
negotiate for stars that weren'teven his clients and then charge
their agents. Later in his career, he
sustained his fame through his Swifty parties thrown after the
Oscars. That might be he has like really
big chunky glasses or he had very big chunky glasses.
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After Humphrey Bogart's death, Lauren Bacall and Frank Sinatra
started a relationship and were to be married, but it was called
off at the last minute due to Swifty these actions.
What did Swifty do to ruin Bacall and Sinatra's
relationship? Was it A he slept with Bacall
and Sinatra found out B he let the news of their secret
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marriage slip to the media? C he slept with Sinatra and
Bacall found out, or D Swifty convinced Bacall that it was too
soon to marry after the death ofher husband.
I mean, is it like, I feel like there's like there's like an
obvious one, but I don't that that's, that's a red herring, I
think. I don't know, I don't know.
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What was this? Sorry, what was the?
Second one, really believable. Option So A is Swifty slept with
Bacall and Sinatra found out B is he let the news it was a
secret marriage but he let it sleep slip to the media see as
he slept with Sinatra and Bacallfound out or D Swifty convinced
Bacall that it was too soon to marry after the death of
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Humphrey Bogart they're. Also, it's about a.
It's about a year after. Especially the third one.
OK, I'm locked in. You're locked, OK?
I think I'm locked in. OK, let's start with Alec.
I think he leaked it to the news.
Why not? Steven.
I think that he convinced her itwas too soon.
OK, Andrew. He leaked it to the news.
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All right, Drew and Alec, you are both correct.
OK, so he unwittingly leaked it to well, kind of not
unwittingly, he he leaked it to the news whether on accident on
our purpose. But Sinatra thought that Bacall
leaked it to the to the public. So he broke off basically the
relationship because of a misunderstanding.
He figured that it was her, but it was actually Swifty who did
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it. Wow.
Yeah. Dang.
Well, Frank Sinatra has a lot ofyeah history with partners, so
we'll leave it at that. Yeah, maybe she dodged a bullet
on. That right, Yeah, probably,
probably. It was about a year after, I
believe, when Humphrey Bogart died, that Lauren Bacall and
Sinatra kind of got together as a couple.
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OK, Anyways question. 4. Question 4.
This is the last question in round one.
The rat in charge of public relations.
Humphrey Bogart began on Broadway at first, but his film
breakthrough came in High Sierrain 1941 and The Maltese Falcon
in 1941, where he became the pioneer of the film noir genre.
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Another huge success for him was1942's Casablanca, his first
romantic film. Humphrey Bogart met Lauren
Bacall on the set of 1940 Fours.To have and to have not, despite
a loving relationship. According to Bacall, there was
some controversy considering theage difference between the two.
What were the ages of Bogart andBacall when they met?
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This one's probably not snipable.
I'll go into the options. Here objection not snipable.
Sorry, A 18 and 33. B, 22 and 65, C-19 and 44 or D25
and 73. Oh my gosh.
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Not great all things considered.I can go over those again.
A is 18 and 33, B is 22 and 65, C is 19 and 44 and D is 25 and
73. Dude, and they got together in
1944. Yeah.
So like, what was creepy in 1944?
Yeah, could be. Really was.
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Towing the line back. Towing the line back then right
where people were like I don't know about this.
Is the multi I had a question. Is the Maltese Falcon spiritual
predecessor to the Peanut ButterFalcon with Shia LaBeouf?
Probably yes. Probably.
There's some very fire, at leastin the name they're.
In the same extended universe. Yeah, Right.
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Yeah. We'll call it the Falcon
universe. I was gonna say the RPCU, the
Rat Pack Cinematic Universe. Although there is that.
That doesn't exist, really. We'll get to that.
Yeah. There's some like Rat Pack
movies, yeah. Interesting.
OK, OK. Are you all locked in?
I guess so, yeah. Yeah, I'm gonna go the I think
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is 19 and 4419. And 44 now.
First, people might think that'sweird.
OK, Steven. I'm thinking like 22 and what
was it, 63? 6560.
Five. Yeah, Yeah.
OK. And then Drew.
I'm gonna go with the biggest gap.
What was it, 4048 years, 73 and 50 or 25?
Yep, the points go to OR. The point goes to Alec.
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It was 1919 and 44 Oh. I didn't believe that.
Was a week and. There's a year that they met was
1944 and I was like, oh, that's where you pulled the numbers
from. Wow, just a coincidence.
Just a coincidence. Wait, Oh, that's actually crazy,
dude. It was actually 1944 and 1944.
Yeah, actually that is that's. Actually why?
I really could pick up on that. I didn't even realize that.
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I didn't even realize that. And that's not the challenge
question. There is no challenge question.
So it's a true fact. All right, let's do a quick
point check, starting with Alec.I think I have 3 points.
OK, pretty good, Steven. Two OK and Drew two OK, pretty
close anyone's. Getting better than I thought I
was going to get. Good.
All right. We will take a quick break.
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So here is our question for the audience.
Frank Sinatra, the Packmaster was the glue that connects the
LA Rat Pack and the Vegas Rat Pack.
He started gaining notoriety with Tommy Dorsey Band, but
despite a close relationship anda public presentation of
graciousness, they're split. The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and
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Frank Sinatra was pretty ugly behind closed doors.
Sinatra was held back from leaving the band by his
contract, which gave Dorsey whatpercentage of Sinatra's lifetime
earnings? So what percentage of Sinatra's
lifetime earnings did he have topay Tommy Dorsey, according to
his contract? Closest wins One percentage.
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Do you? Know.
I do know do. You guys know no.
Do. The audience know.
Yeah, does. The audience know.
I hope you guys know. I hope you know.
So apparently they had like, sorry, a quick aside, I guess
for the audience. Like apparently they had a
really interesting kind of father son relationship where a
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lot of like Dorsey's hobbies andmannerisms Frank Sinatra picked
up like he collected trains. So it was like a really, really
tight relationship. But they obviously had this
contract where basically if Sinatra were to leave, he would
have to keep paying, paying Tommy Dorsey.
And there's all this whole storyabout alleged underground
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relationships and like guns being pulled.
Basically any, any history relating to Frank Sinatra is is
kind of riddled with kind of conspiracy theories about his
underworld connections. It's kind of.
Interesting, my grandpa must have been hanging around them
because he collects trains too. Oh, there we go.
So didn't collect trains back inthe day.
That's true. They didn't have Pokémon cards.
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Well, back then you weren't allowed to be autistic either,
so yeah, there were slightly green things you could.
Collect anyway. Like coins?
Trains cards. Trains.
Maybe stamps? Were those around yet?
Yeah, yeah, they didn't use. They didn't use, they still had
the Pony Express back. Let's go ahead and go to Round
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2, the Vegas era Rat Pack. This might be more what you're
familiar with. So after Bogart's death in 1957,
Sinatra turned the group into aninformal Vegas production group
whose members united their star power to support each other's
careers. It contains the lights of Dean
Martin, Joey Bishop, Sammy DavisJunior and Peter Lawford.
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They would often show up at eachother's Vegas shows and wow the
audience. In fact, I think I saw like a
poster that said like, come see Dean Martin and maybe Sammy
Davis Junior and maybe Frank Sinatra they put maybe on there
because it's like, I don't know.Whoever shows up, so be.
On there, yeah. Before they get to stage right.
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But they, they'll be there, right?
But it was kind of cool. Like, you went to a Vegas show
and you didn't know who was going to show up.
It was kind of, you know, kind of cool in a way.
So they also appeared in a few movies together, including
1958's Some Came Running, 1960s Ocean's 11 and 1963's Robin and
the Seven Hoods to name just a few.
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But those might be some movies that you're vaguely familiar
with. So these are going to be 4
questions, each worth 2 points. Alright, here is question 5.
While performing the Rat Pack, members would often interrupt
and poke fun at each other, sometimes with kind of offensive
subjects. At times they would have a
persona that they embodied on stage that were sometimes
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accurate and then sometimes not necessarily so.
Dean Martin had a persona on stage that was not anything like
his true personality. What persona didn't Dean Martin
portray on stage with the Rat Pack?
Is it A An upright gentleman whofound everyone's jokes
offensive? B.
An alcoholic who slurred his words and took naps between
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songs? C An extremely gay man who would
grab all the men's asses while they sang, or DA womanizer who
checked out women in the audience and flirted with them.
Dang, it's a product of its time, let me tell you if you if
you want to go on Google and look up some Rap Pack concerts,
you'll find it. Interesting, I think I almost
shouted out this one. I think I you could have sniped
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it. You might have sniped it,
actually. OK, All right, Well, everyone
locked in. I guess I'll lock in.
What was the first one again? Just the first one.
An upright gentleman who found everyone's jokes offensive.
OK. OK, Alec, I'm gonna go with the
Womanizer 1. OK.
Yeah. OK, Steven.
Definitely a drunkard. OK, Andrew.
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I mean, I think he's he was grabbing some asses.
I think he's grabbing some assesso.
You don't just make that answer up.
Right, I made it up Steven, you are correct.
So he would he was called the King of Cool was his nickname,
but he would basically he would joke around and and like I have
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a drink in his hand and like a cigarette and then the mic in
the other hand. And he would like stumble on
stage and pretend to be drunk. When in actuality, at least at
this part in his life, he was not an at all like even close to
being an alcoholic. In fact, Frank Sinatra would
often say that like when given the option between like spending
time with his family and or likegolfing and like going out
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drinking, he would much prefer just like spending time with his
family. So it seemed like an actual cool
guy, but his his like kind of accent that he had was he would
always be drunk. It was kind of funny if you ever
watch a video. Yeah, there's a live recording
that I really enjoy and that's why I knew the ACT where he's in
Vegas and he's singing. I love Vegas.
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But when he starts, he's like doing a toast and he's like, he
like messes up the words multiple times.
He's like, Acts ask you like correct himself.
Yeah, it's really. Yeah, it's pretty, pretty funny.
Now, interestingly so I didn't make the grabbing the the ass
grabbing up out of nowhere. One video that I saw, Frank
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Sinatra was grabbing a little bit of ass or smacking a little
bit of ass around. But like it would, it would be
that kind of like very laid back, like silly behavior
basically. And then the womanizer was kind
of was Frank Sinatra. He was kind of known as a
womanizer. So that was always the joke
about him. All right, well, good job,
Steven. You got that one.
Two points to you, Sir. OK, let's go to question 6.
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Sammy Davis Junior was an energetic and extremely talented
entertainer in the Rat Pack. Possibly the craziest fact about
Sammy Davis Junior is when he allegedly got threatened and
even kidnapped by organized crime on behalf of the president
of Columbia, Harry Cone. So he was harassed and straight
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up kidnapped for like an hour I think allegedly by I mean he was
kidnapped by organized crime butallegedly it was at the behest
of of Harry Cone. For what alleged reason was
Sammy Davis Junior kidnapped? OK, no snipe.
No snipe. OK, is it?
A he owed Columbia millions of dollars after a legal dispute.
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B He staged A protest against racial segregation in one of
Harry Cone's Vegas hotels. C Sammy mimicked and mocked
Harry Cohn on stage. Or D Sammy was dating a white
movie star from Columbia, and Harry Cohn was worried about the
optics. Wait.
Is this Columbia the country or like Columbia?
No. Columbia the the oh the student
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like yeah, not Columbia. I was like, what?
Columbia Pictures. Yeah, I started off thinking
like the country and I was like.What did he do?
Hey, Harry and Columbia Pictures, No.
Wait, can you say them again so I can read them?
So, a Sammy owned Columbia millions of dollars after a
legal dispute B he staged A protest against racial
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segregation in one of his Vegas casinos.
C he mimic and mocked him on stage.
Or D Sammy was dating a white movie star from Columbia and
Harry Cohn was worried about theoptics.
Which one is worth? I think I got mine OK.
I guess I'm locked. OK.
All right. Alec, what do you think?
I think it that he just owed hima lot of money.
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OK, Steven. Honestly I'm thinking it's the
boring answer too. He just owed him a lot of money.
OK, Drew. I feel like it'll be stupid if I
don't actually know it, but I feel like I heard that he was
kidnapped for a like a racial protest.
OK, unfortunately none of you are correct.
The answer is quite dark. So it it it was D that he was
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dating a white woman star of Columbia Pictures.
So Sammy obviously has a lot of history.
He. Got kidnapped for that.
Yeah. And actually, he married a black
woman that he was not at all in love with a black performer to
like, save off like basically all of the terrible things that
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were happening to him to convince people that he wasn't
in a relationship with a white woman.
But so. So Sammy obviously has a lot of
history both with racial segregation and with like
interracial marriages or relationships.
So he was dating Kim Novak but had to call it off.
And actually, Sammy would later marry, marry white Swedish born
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actress May Britt in 1960. It's also just when it comes to
segregation. So a lot at the very beginning,
at least a lot of these casinos or, or places in Vegas that they
would perform, he wouldn't be allowed to stay in that hotel or
even like be in the dressing room.
And so until kind of some of themembers of the Rat Pack kind of
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rally behind him to basically desegregate some of these
hotels, they basically said, if if you don't let Sammy stay
here, we're not going to we're not going to perform here.
And so Sammy Davis Junior was very close with Frank Sinatra in
particular, because Frank Sinatra really was was one
person who who helped him. But actually, another kind of
dark part of history is at leastit's alleged that Davis's Sammy
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Davis Junior's invitation to perform at JFK's inauguration
was revoked because of his marriage to a white woman.
So yeah, just terrible, terriblehistory.
But I think Sammy Davis Junior is the most talented member of
the Rat Pack by far. I love Sammy Davis Junior, and
especially considering kind of all the things that he was going
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through, it was it's kind of crazy to see the amount of kind
of just energy and passion that he had for music in particular.
So big Sammy Davis Junior fan right here.
Let's go to question 7. Joey Bishop is a deadpan style
comedian who first opened for Sinatra then later performed
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with the Rat Pack. He played the role of the
straight man reacting to others antics.
In 1961 and 1967 Joey Bishop wasinvolved with two TV shows, both
called The Joey Bishop Show. What was the difference between
these two shows? The two Joey Bishop shows.
So A is 1 is a sitcom while the other was a talk show.
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B is the first was in black and white and the and the revival
was in color. C They were exactly the same
except the first aid on aired onCBS and then it was picked up by
ABC or D Joey Bishop starred in the first, but Sinatra played
the character of Joey Bishop in the second.
Interesting. OK, I have my answer.
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I think it is. OK, Steven, you locked in?
I'm locking in. OK, Drew.
I'm trying to think if like sitcoms were like a big thing
back then cuz like the Brady Bunch was like the like
seventies, 80s, I don't know. This is the first was 1961, the
second was 1967. Dang, but obviously ran.
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That's just when they started. They ran for at least a few
years. OK.
Yeah, I think. I'm OK, Alec.
What do you think? I think I'm gonna go with the
most interesting answer, which is that Frank Sinatra played
Joey. Bishop in the in the second one.
OK, Steven. I think it was a network change,
just OK. Politics, yeah.
OK. And Drew.
I think I am gonna say the sitcom in the talk show.
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Drew, you are correct. One was a sitcom, the other was
a talk show. But actually the the the sitcom,
it was called the Joey Bishop Show, but he played a character
that's name was not Joey Bishop,it was Joey something else.
So I don't know what the thoughtprocess is on that, but that's
interesting, kind of weird. Chewy just now, actually,
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that's. That's the same thing as The
Cosby Show. Yeah, that's.
Cosby Show. That's not their name in the
show. Really.
He doesn't go by Bill Cosby on the Cosby.
Show they're the Huxtables. Yeah.
So you're right. That was just the thing that
they did back then. I guess I don't know, Kind of
interesting. It is interesting.
OK, well nice one Drew, you got the two points from that.
And here is the last question ofround two, Question 8.
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Peter Lawford was a British bornactor who was first typecasted
as a British soldier in war movies, but later became MGM's
leading man in romantic films, surpassing Clark Gable and James
Stewart. What can be accredited for
Lawford's success in Hollywood? Is it A his parents, who are
wealthy socialites, paid MGM to let his son star in movies?
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B He blackmailed the head of MGM, Louis B Mayer, after
sleeping with his wife. C he leveraged his wife Patricia
Kennedy's political power to gain star roles.
Or D He took lead roles in Hollywood while his competition
had been drafted in World War 2.Wow, none of those are good.
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Yeah, wait, one of those are is right.
One of those is right all kind of crazy.
OK. So either it was, you know,
Daddy's money, blackmailed aftersleeping with his wife,
leveraged his wife Patricia Kennedy's political power, or
took the roles while his competition was in World War 2.
All right. I'm locked.
I'm locked in, OK? Alec Oh, wait.
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Steven, are you locked? Oh, there's so many.
All of them are so good. That's the thing, I can't
decide. OK, I've got 1.
All right, Alec, what do you think?
I think it's D, just because that'd be really clever of you
if you made that up. OK, fair enough.
OK, Steven, I was thinking that's yeah.
OK. And Drew.
I think daddy's money gets pretty far in old Hollywood.
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That's fair. That's fair.
Unfortunately for you, Drew, Steven and Alec are correct, so
it is the truth. So Clark Gable and James Stewart
were both drafted in World War 2, and they needed a guy to play
the romantic lead in these movies.
And lo and behold, this British guy who's playing like, you
know, soldier roles, like British soldier roles.
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And so he just gained in popularity because of that.
Wow, yeah. He kind of took advantage, yeah.
Yeah, he just kind of took that.Answer was so historically
accurate and niche that I was like, Mitch came up with that.
He's a genius. Not not that you're not good at
coming. Shoot, OK, that's OK.
That's OK. I forgive you.
All right, well, let's we do have one final question before
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we get to that. What?
Let's do a point check. So let's start with Alec.
How many you have? With that one I'm up to 5.
Okay, Steven. I'm at six.
Okay. And then Drew.
And I'm at 4. Okay, well don't worry, the last
question here. So this is how it'll work.
I'll give you a hint of the question.
Then you can lock in how many points that you want to bet.
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Oh, by the way, you can't snipe this one.
So everyone gets a chance to answer, but you lock in how many
points you want to bet, and thenI'll ask the question.
You give your answer. If you're right, you double the
amount that you bet. If you lose, then you lose those
points. OK, makes sense.
Basically, Final Jeopardy. OK.
All right, so here's your hint. This question concerns with the
deterioration of Peter Lawford and Frank Sinatra's friendship
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in relation to President John F Kennedy.
OK, I know about as much of thistopic as I knew about all the
other questions. Well, I.
Was going to say. Like really, we can't snipe it
because we've been wanting to snipe.
All these, yeah, some of these are not necessarily snipeable.
I thought the Jaws one was goingto be, but I guess not.
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It's again. I Yeah.
We might have known some of those.
OK, so lock in how many you wantto bet?
Yeah, Steven is in the lead withsix.
OK, Steven, you locked in. OK, Drew, you locked in.
Yeah, yeah, OK. Alec, how many how many points
are you betting? I'm betting 3 just to see what
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happens. OK, Alec is betting 3.
Steven, how many are you betting?
See, originally I was going to bet 5 because like game theory,
that's like the best because I can beat Alec if he bets all
those points. I'm going 6.
I I think I know this one. You're going all in.
I'm getting interesting. I hope you know this OK, Drew,
what about you? I swear I did not base my answer
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off theirs. I'm going to go one point.
Oh, OK, wrong. OK, interesting.
All right, here is the question.It's got a little bit of
background. OK.
So Peter Lawford was married to Patricia Kennedy and obviously
the younger sister to President John F Kennedy.
And that brought the Rat Pack into the arena of politics.
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So they performed for and supported Kennedy's presidential
campaign. And it was around then that
Frank Sinatra dubbed Peter Lawford, quote, brother in
Lawford, which is pretty, prettyfunny.
And he's a funny guy. Not that funny.
He's not that funny, right? In 1962, during a tour of the
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West Coast, President John F Kennedy was to stay at at
Sinatra's house for a time, but was convinced by Robert F
Kennedy at the last minute to stay with Bing Crosby instead
due to Sinatra's alleged ties toorganized crime.
Because Lawford failed to defendSinatra and the President ended
up staying with Bing, the two had a falling out, with Sinatra
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giving Lawford's part and Robin of the Seven Hoods to actually
Bing Crosby, which is kind of funny.
Sinatra was especially angry because he prepared a blank for
the President, which he tore up in a fit of rage afterwards.
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OK, so a an ice sculpture of thePresident.
BA helipad CA custom made sailboat or DA rare signed Babe
Ruth baseball card worth millions.
My goodness. All right, I'm locked in.
What I mean, what can you say what he did to it after he found
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out he wasn't coming? He destroyed it and or tore it
up. OK when he found out.
Yeah, in in a fit of anger. OK, we locked in.
Yes, yes. OK, Alec, what do you think?
I think it's the boat. You think it's the boat?
OK, that be that be satisfying to tear up.
Steven. I think it's the helipad.
OK. And Drew.
I think it's the boat as well. Steven is correct, so no.
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So imagine imagine the amount ofmoney that.
Imagine. Imagine the amount of money that
it takes to construct a helipad on your like residence for the
president to land on via helicopter, for him not to
arrive and to go to your competitors house instead.
And so, in a fit of rage, he tore up and destroyed the the
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helipad. Wow, that is.
Cool. That was the premeditated
though. Like how do you just tear it up
on a whim? I don't.
Know just for the crowbar cameralying around or.
Something I was like, how would you tear up a helipad?
I don't know, but he just. Strengthened 10 men, yeah.
He was so angry. Yeah, he ripped it apart.
All right, well, let's do then. A final score.
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Check here. Alec, how many do you?
How many? Down to 2.
Down to 2, Steven. I'm down to well, there you go,
that's how I do it. Andrew.
I am up to three, which is actually down to three.
OK. Steven, then you are by far the
winner. You got that person right.
Nice job. Congratulations.
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Is this your first win? He's the rattiest pack.
No, I won the the last episode that I was.
On Oh God, whatever that's. Stats.
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Whoa, I see the lights. Oh my gosh.
Now we're in the middle of the desert.
It's so hot.
Welcome aboard Bus 1. We're taking a shortcut through
Los Angeles and Las Vegas, and we've got some time to kill.
Let's play some trivia. All right, Hello, gamers.
Go ahead and introduce yourselves alphabetically.
What's up, rat people, my name'sAlec.
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Hey rat guys, My name's Drew This.
Is a certified hood. Hey.
Rat characters. My name's.
Steven. And you all look like a damn
pack of rats. That is our topic for this
shortcut. It is the epitome of mid 20th
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century celebrity and a bygone era of glitz and glamour
consisting of some of the biggest entertainments of the
time, a group called the Rat Pack.
So let me go into our rules for today.
So there are two errors of the Rat Pack.
Thus 2 rounds each with four questions.
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Questions in round one or with one, one point questions around
2 or with two points. Each question will be multiple
choice, but there won't be a buzzer.
So multiple people can get the same question right and
technically you can all get the question wrong as well.
We'll have to use the honor system, AKA don't base your
answer off of someone else's andwe'll lock in the answers before
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we go. There is no challenge question
and I'm not trying to trick you.There is no challenge question,
but there is one extra question at the end that will also be
multiple choice where you can bet some of your points double
or nothing. All right, we will be using the
snipe mechanic. So if you know the answer before
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I read the multiple choice answers, the first to yell snipe
can answer right away. If you get it right, you get the
points and everyone else misses the opportunity to answer My
life be like. And then most points at the end
wins. And of course, no Googling.
All right, all clear. Yes, A. 100%.
I can't wait to talk about rats.All right, gamers, let's go into
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round one all about the Los Angeles era.
So a little bit of of context here.
The original Rat Pack started inthe late 1940s and early 1950s
as just simply a group of A listcelebrities that were drinking
buddies. So they get together, they
cruise the town, they would go out drinking or stay home and
drinking. Married actors Lauren Bacall and
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Humphrey Bogart would throw house parties for their friends
including Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Nathaniel Benchley
amongst others. According to Bacall quote in
order to qualify one had to be addicted to non conformity,
staying up late drinking, laughing and not caring what
anyone thought or said about us.One night after a night of
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drinking. Bacall exclaimed.
Quote, you all look like a Dan pack of rats.
And that is how the name started.
So we'll go ahead and go into round one.
This is five questions or sorry,4 questions, all worth one
point. Let's go into question #1 Judy
Garland, known as the first VicePresident of the Rat Pack, was
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introduced to the Rat Pack by her then husband, producer and
businessman Sid Luft. Luft is credited for making a
deal with the Warner Bros to finance his in Garland's 1954
movie, which brought Garland renewed success on the big
screen. Which movie did Luft produce and
Judy Garland star in? Is it a judgement at Nuremberg B
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The Wizard of Oz CA star is born, or D in the good old
summertime? Well, I don't know.
Fair enough, but. I can guess.
OK, everyone locked. I think I'm locked, Yeah.
No, I thought it was. Going to be about like RATAT.
Cheese. Sorry, the rat has episode is
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coming another time. This is rat pack rat rat rat.
So it's a judgment in Nuremberg B the Wizard of Oz CA star is
born, and D in the good old summertime.
OK, locked in. All right, Alec, you start us
off. What do you think?
I'm going to say a star is born.OK, Steven.
I was also going to say A star is born.
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OK, Drew. Give me the good old, the good
old summertime. OK, Alec and Steven, you 2 are
correct. You both get a point.
A rat I guess rat. So I was trying to trip you up
with those are all movies that she's starred in.
Wizard of Oz, obviously she was pretty young when she took that
role. This movie was came out in 1954
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and it was kind of like her re emergence into the movie scene
after like a a really long extended kind of break.
So it was a remake of the original A Star Is Born.
OK, is there, Is it the same? A star is born that, like
Bradley Cooper, pees himself on stage.
No, no. It's a different star is.
Born. That's another.
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They free made that oh but it's like the same but is.
It like the same story. Type of generally same the
concept. Hollywood has always been
remaking shit like this. Right, exactly.
Interesting, I think I need. To remake it again.
If they remake it again, give meanother one.
They could they could do like like Sabrina Carpenter and.
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And. Timothy Chalamet.
Timothy. He's got to be in everything.
We know he knows how to sing, right?
That's true. It was in Wonka, yeah.
Maybe. Maybe Lady Gaga?
Just. The same.
That's a good. Idea.
That's a great idea. Write that down.
Write that down. I know how.
To cast. Them All right, let's go to
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question #2 The Rat Packs historian was a name a man named
Nathaniel Benchley, an author and close friend of Humphrey
Bogart. His most famous books include
Side Street Sailor, Cricket Shipand Humphrey Bogart's biography.
There's actually 3 generations of Benchley's were authors.
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So Nathaniel's father and son. Though his son Peter Benchley is
arguably more famous than him. What famous 1974 book and
following screen adaptation did Peter Benchley write?
OK. Beats me.
Is it A1 Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?
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B The Rocky Horror Picture Show CA boy and his Dog or D Jaws.
Trying to think about when thesemovies came out, yeah.
So Peter eventually wrote this book and the following screen of
adaptation. OK, I'm locked.
I'm locked. I got it, I'm locked as well.
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All right, Alec, what do you got?
I'm going to guess One Flew Overthe Cuckoo's Nest.
OK, Steven. Oh, Jaws.
Yep, that's it. OK.
Drew, give me jaws. You 2 are correct Drew and
Steven. The answer is Jaws.
I didn't know that was a book. Yeah.
So he wrote, he wrote the book, and then he also wrote the
screen adaptation as well. Oh, and it came, It came.
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It actually came, I believe, a year after he wrote the book.
So the movie was made very quickly after the book.
Wow. Yeah, that's pretty cool.
Is the book called Jaws too or is it like?
It's called Jaws. I've.
Seen the book The Tale of the Big Shark.
Yeah, I know everyone like thinks of the movie, but it was
a book first technically. I wanted to, I wanted to snipe
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with Boxcar Children, but I was like, no, I.
Should hold off that. Classic.
OK, OK. Well, let's go to question 3.
The Rat Packs recording secretary and treasurer was a
man named Swifty Lazar. Swifty was a celebrity agent for
many stars, including Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart.
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It's said that he became such a powerful agent that he would
negotiate for stars that weren'teven his clients and then charge
their agents. Later in his career, he
sustained his fame through his Swifty parties thrown after the
Oscars. That might be he has like really
big chunky glasses or he had very big chunky glasses.
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After Humphrey Bogart's death, Lauren Bacall and Frank Sinatra
started a relationship and were to be married, but it was called
off at the last minute due to Swifty these actions.
What did Swifty do to ruin Bacall and Sinatra's
relationship? Was it A he slept with Bacall
and Sinatra found out B he let the news of their secret
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marriage slip to the media? C he slept with Sinatra and
Bacall found out, or D Swifty convinced Bacall that it was too
soon to marry after the death ofher husband.
I mean, is it like, I feel like there's like there's like an
obvious one, but I don't that that's, that's a red herring, I
think. I don't know, I don't know.
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What was this? Sorry, what was the?
Second one, really believable. Option So A is Swifty slept with
Bacall and Sinatra found out B is he let the news it was a
secret marriage but he let it sleep slip to the media see as
he slept with Sinatra and Bacallfound out or D Swifty convinced
Bacall that it was too soon to marry after the death of
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Humphrey Bogart they're. Also, it's about a.
It's about a year after. Especially the third one.
OK, I'm locked in. You're locked, OK?
I think I'm locked in. OK, let's start with Alec.
I think he leaked it to the news.
Why not? Steven.
I think that he convinced her itwas too soon.
OK, Andrew. He leaked it to the news.
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All right, Drew and Alec, you are both correct.
OK, so he unwittingly leaked it to well, kind of not
unwittingly, he he leaked it to the news whether on accident on
our purpose. But Sinatra thought that Bacall
leaked it to the to the public. So he broke off basically the
relationship because of a misunderstanding.
He figured that it was her, but it was actually Swifty who did
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it. Wow.
Yeah. Dang.
Well, Frank Sinatra has a lot ofyeah history with partners, so
we'll leave it at that. Yeah, maybe she dodged a bullet
on. That right, Yeah, probably,
probably. It was about a year after, I
believe, when Humphrey Bogart died, that Lauren Bacall and
Sinatra kind of got together as a couple.
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OK, Anyways question. 4. Question 4.
This is the last question in round one.
The rat in charge of public relations.
Humphrey Bogart began on Broadway at first, but his film
breakthrough came in High Sierrain 1941 and The Maltese Falcon
in 1941, where he became the pioneer of the film noir genre.
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Another huge success for him was1942's Casablanca, his first
romantic film. Humphrey Bogart met Lauren
Bacall on the set of 1940 Fours.To have and to have not, despite
a loving relationship. According to Bacall, there was
some controversy considering theage difference between the two.
What were the ages of Bogart andBacall when they met?
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This one's probably not snipable.
I'll go into the options. Here objection not snipable.
Sorry, A 18 and 33. B, 22 and 65, C-19 and 44 or D25
and 73. Oh my gosh.
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Not great all things considered.I can go over those again.
A is 18 and 33, B is 22 and 65, C is 19 and 44 and D is 25 and
73. Dude, and they got together in
1944. Yeah.
So like, what was creepy in 1944?
Yeah, could be. Really was.
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Towing the line back. Towing the line back then right
where people were like I don't know about this.
Is the multi I had a question. Is the Maltese Falcon spiritual
predecessor to the Peanut ButterFalcon with Shia LaBeouf?
Probably yes. Probably.
There's some very fire, at leastin the name they're.
In the same extended universe. Yeah, Right.
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Yeah. We'll call it the Falcon
universe. I was gonna say the RPCU, the
Rat Pack Cinematic Universe. Although there is that.
That doesn't exist, really. We'll get to that.
Yeah. There's some like Rat Pack
movies, yeah. Interesting.
OK, OK. Are you all locked in?
I guess so, yeah. Yeah, I'm gonna go the I think
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is 19 and 4419. And 44 now.
First, people might think that'sweird.
OK, Steven. I'm thinking like 22 and what
was it, 63? 6560.
Five. Yeah, Yeah.
OK. And then Drew.
I'm gonna go with the biggest gap.
What was it, 4048 years, 73 and 50 or 25?
Yep, the points go to OR. The point goes to Alec.
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It was 1919 and 44 Oh. I didn't believe that.
Was a week and. There's a year that they met was
1944 and I was like, oh, that's where you pulled the numbers
from. Wow, just a coincidence.
Just a coincidence. Wait, Oh, that's actually crazy,
dude. It was actually 1944 and 1944.
Yeah, actually that is that's. Actually why?
I really could pick up on that. I didn't even realize that.
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I didn't even realize that. And that's not the challenge
question. There is no challenge question.
So it's a true fact. All right, let's do a quick
point check, starting with Alec.I think I have 3 points.
OK, pretty good, Steven. Two OK and Drew two OK, pretty
close anyone's. Getting better than I thought I
was going to get. Good.
All right. We will take a quick break.
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So here is our question for the audience.
Frank Sinatra, the Packmaster was the glue that connects the
LA Rat Pack and the Vegas Rat Pack.
He started gaining notoriety with Tommy Dorsey Band, but
despite a close relationship anda public presentation of
graciousness, they're split. The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and
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Frank Sinatra was pretty ugly behind closed doors.
Sinatra was held back from leaving the band by his
contract, which gave Dorsey whatpercentage of Sinatra's lifetime
earnings? So what percentage of Sinatra's
lifetime earnings did he have topay Tommy Dorsey, according to
his contract? Closest wins One percentage.
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Do you? Know.
I do know do. You guys know no.
Do. The audience know.
Yeah, does. The audience know.
I hope you guys know. I hope you know.
So apparently they had like, sorry, a quick aside, I guess
for the audience. Like apparently they had a
really interesting kind of father son relationship where a
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lot of like Dorsey's hobbies andmannerisms Frank Sinatra picked
up like he collected trains. So it was like a really, really
tight relationship. But they obviously had this
contract where basically if Sinatra were to leave, he would
have to keep paying, paying Tommy Dorsey.
And there's all this whole storyabout alleged underground
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relationships and like guns being pulled.
Basically any, any history relating to Frank Sinatra is is
kind of riddled with kind of conspiracy theories about his
underworld connections. It's kind of.
Interesting, my grandpa must have been hanging around them
because he collects trains too. Oh, there we go.
So didn't collect trains back inthe day.
That's true. They didn't have Pokémon cards.
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Well, back then you weren't allowed to be autistic either,
so yeah, there were slightly green things you could.
Collect anyway. Like coins?
Trains cards. Trains.
Maybe stamps? Were those around yet?
Yeah, yeah, they didn't use. They didn't use, they still had
the Pony Express back. Let's go ahead and go to Round
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2, the Vegas era Rat Pack. This might be more what you're
familiar with. So after Bogart's death in 1957,
Sinatra turned the group into aninformal Vegas production group
whose members united their star power to support each other's
careers. It contains the lights of Dean
Martin, Joey Bishop, Sammy DavisJunior and Peter Lawford.
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They would often show up at eachother's Vegas shows and wow the
audience. In fact, I think I saw like a
poster that said like, come see Dean Martin and maybe Sammy
Davis Junior and maybe Frank Sinatra they put maybe on there
because it's like, I don't know.Whoever shows up, so be.
On there, yeah. Before they get to stage right.
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But they, they'll be there, right?
But it was kind of cool. Like, you went to a Vegas show
and you didn't know who was going to show up.
It was kind of, you know, kind of cool in a way.
So they also appeared in a few movies together, including
1958's Some Came Running, 1960s Ocean's 11 and 1963's Robin and
the Seven Hoods to name just a few.
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But those might be some movies that you're vaguely familiar
with. So these are going to be 4
questions, each worth 2 points. Alright, here is question 5.
While performing the Rat Pack, members would often interrupt
and poke fun at each other, sometimes with kind of offensive
subjects. At times they would have a
persona that they embodied on stage that were sometimes
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accurate and then sometimes not necessarily so.
Dean Martin had a persona on stage that was not anything like
his true personality. What persona didn't Dean Martin
portray on stage with the Rat Pack?
Is it A An upright gentleman whofound everyone's jokes
offensive? B.
An alcoholic who slurred his words and took naps between
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songs? C An extremely gay man who would
grab all the men's asses while they sang, or DA womanizer who
checked out women in the audience and flirted with them.
Dang, it's a product of its time, let me tell you if you if
you want to go on Google and look up some Rap Pack concerts,
you'll find it. Interesting, I think I almost
shouted out this one. I think I you could have sniped
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it. You might have sniped it,
actually. OK, All right, Well, everyone
locked in. I guess I'll lock in.
What was the first one again? Just the first one.
An upright gentleman who found everyone's jokes offensive.
OK. OK, Alec, I'm gonna go with the
Womanizer 1. OK.
Yeah. OK, Steven.
Definitely a drunkard. OK, Andrew.
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I mean, I think he's he was grabbing some asses.
I think he's grabbing some assesso.
You don't just make that answer up.
Right, I made it up Steven, you are correct.
So he would he was called the King of Cool was his nickname,
but he would basically he would joke around and and like I have
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a drink in his hand and like a cigarette and then the mic in
the other hand. And he would like stumble on
stage and pretend to be drunk. When in actuality, at least at
this part in his life, he was not an at all like even close to
being an alcoholic. In fact, Frank Sinatra would
often say that like when given the option between like spending
time with his family and or likegolfing and like going out
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drinking, he would much prefer just like spending time with his
family. So it seemed like an actual cool
guy, but his his like kind of accent that he had was he would
always be drunk. It was kind of funny if you ever
watch a video. Yeah, there's a live recording
that I really enjoy and that's why I knew the ACT where he's in
Vegas and he's singing. I love Vegas.
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But when he starts, he's like doing a toast and he's like, he
like messes up the words multiple times.
He's like, Acts ask you like correct himself.
Yeah, it's really. Yeah, it's pretty, pretty funny.
Now, interestingly so I didn't make the grabbing the the ass
grabbing up out of nowhere. One video that I saw, Frank
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Sinatra was grabbing a little bit of ass or smacking a little
bit of ass around. But like it would, it would be
that kind of like very laid back, like silly behavior
basically. And then the womanizer was kind
of was Frank Sinatra. He was kind of known as a
womanizer. So that was always the joke
about him. All right, well, good job,
Steven. You got that one.
Two points to you, Sir. OK, let's go to question 6.
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Sammy Davis Junior was an energetic and extremely talented
entertainer in the Rat Pack. Possibly the craziest fact about
Sammy Davis Junior is when he allegedly got threatened and
even kidnapped by organized crime on behalf of the president
of Columbia, Harry Cone. So he was harassed and straight
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up kidnapped for like an hour I think allegedly by I mean he was
kidnapped by organized crime butallegedly it was at the behest
of of Harry Cone. For what alleged reason was
Sammy Davis Junior kidnapped? OK, no snipe.
No snipe. OK, is it?
A he owed Columbia millions of dollars after a legal dispute.
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B He staged A protest against racial segregation in one of
Harry Cone's Vegas hotels. C Sammy mimicked and mocked
Harry Cohn on stage. Or D Sammy was dating a white
movie star from Columbia, and Harry Cohn was worried about the
optics. Wait.
Is this Columbia the country or like Columbia?
No. Columbia the the oh the student
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like yeah, not Columbia. I was like, what?
Columbia Pictures. Yeah, I started off thinking
like the country and I was like.What did he do?
Hey, Harry and Columbia Pictures, No.
Wait, can you say them again so I can read them?
So, a Sammy owned Columbia millions of dollars after a
legal dispute B he staged A protest against racial
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segregation in one of his Vegas casinos.
C he mimic and mocked him on stage.
Or D Sammy was dating a white movie star from Columbia and
Harry Cohn was worried about theoptics.
Which one is worth? I think I got mine OK.
I guess I'm locked. OK.
All right. Alec, what do you think?
I think it that he just owed hima lot of money.
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OK, Steven. Honestly I'm thinking it's the
boring answer too. He just owed him a lot of money.
OK, Drew. I feel like it'll be stupid if I
don't actually know it, but I feel like I heard that he was
kidnapped for a like a racial protest.
OK, unfortunately none of you are correct.
The answer is quite dark. So it it it was D that he was
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dating a white woman star of Columbia Pictures.
So Sammy obviously has a lot of history.
He. Got kidnapped for that.
Yeah. And actually, he married a black
woman that he was not at all in love with a black performer to
like, save off like basically all of the terrible things that
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were happening to him to convince people that he wasn't
in a relationship with a white woman.
But so. So Sammy obviously has a lot of
history both with racial segregation and with like
interracial marriages or relationships.
So he was dating Kim Novak but had to call it off.
And actually, Sammy would later marry, marry white Swedish born
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actress May Britt in 1960. It's also just when it comes to
segregation. So a lot at the very beginning,
at least a lot of these casinos or, or places in Vegas that they
would perform, he wouldn't be allowed to stay in that hotel or
even like be in the dressing room.
And so until kind of some of themembers of the Rat Pack kind of
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rally behind him to basically desegregate some of these
hotels, they basically said, if if you don't let Sammy stay
here, we're not going to we're not going to perform here.
And so Sammy Davis Junior was very close with Frank Sinatra in
particular, because Frank Sinatra really was was one
person who who helped him. But actually, another kind of
dark part of history is at leastit's alleged that Davis's Sammy
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Davis Junior's invitation to perform at JFK's inauguration
was revoked because of his marriage to a white woman.
So yeah, just terrible, terriblehistory.
But I think Sammy Davis Junior is the most talented member of
the Rat Pack by far. I love Sammy Davis Junior, and
especially considering kind of all the things that he was going
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through, it was it's kind of crazy to see the amount of kind
of just energy and passion that he had for music in particular.
So big Sammy Davis Junior fan right here.
Let's go to question 7. Joey Bishop is a deadpan style
comedian who first opened for Sinatra then later performed
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with the Rat Pack. He played the role of the
straight man reacting to others antics.
In 1961 and 1967 Joey Bishop wasinvolved with two TV shows, both
called The Joey Bishop Show. What was the difference between
these two shows? The two Joey Bishop shows.
So A is 1 is a sitcom while the other was a talk show.
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B is the first was in black and white and the and the revival
was in color. C They were exactly the same
except the first aid on aired onCBS and then it was picked up by
ABC or D Joey Bishop starred in the first, but Sinatra played
the character of Joey Bishop in the second.
Interesting. OK, I have my answer.
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I think it is. OK, Steven, you locked in?
I'm locking in. OK, Drew.
I'm trying to think if like sitcoms were like a big thing
back then cuz like the Brady Bunch was like the like
seventies, 80s, I don't know. This is the first was 1961, the
second was 1967. Dang, but obviously ran.
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That's just when they started. They ran for at least a few
years. OK.
Yeah, I think. I'm OK, Alec.
What do you think? I think I'm gonna go with the
most interesting answer, which is that Frank Sinatra played
Joey. Bishop in the in the second one.
OK, Steven. I think it was a network change,
just OK. Politics, yeah.
OK. And Drew.
I think I am gonna say the sitcom in the talk show.
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Drew, you are correct. One was a sitcom, the other was
a talk show. But actually the the the sitcom,
it was called the Joey Bishop Show, but he played a character
that's name was not Joey Bishop,it was Joey something else.
So I don't know what the thoughtprocess is on that, but that's
interesting, kind of weird. Chewy just now, actually,
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that's. That's the same thing as The
Cosby Show. Yeah, that's.
Cosby Show. That's not their name in the
show. Really.
He doesn't go by Bill Cosby on the Cosby.
Show they're the Huxtables. Yeah.
So you're right. That was just the thing that
they did back then. I guess I don't know, Kind of
interesting. It is interesting.
OK, well nice one Drew, you got the two points from that.
And here is the last question ofround two, Question 8.
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Peter Lawford was a British bornactor who was first typecasted
as a British soldier in war movies, but later became MGM's
leading man in romantic films, surpassing Clark Gable and James
Stewart. What can be accredited for
Lawford's success in Hollywood? Is it A his parents, who are
wealthy socialites, paid MGM to let his son star in movies?
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B He blackmailed the head of MGM, Louis B Mayer, after
sleeping with his wife. C he leveraged his wife Patricia
Kennedy's political power to gain star roles.
Or D He took lead roles in Hollywood while his competition
had been drafted in World War 2.Wow, none of those are good.
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Yeah, wait, one of those are is right.
One of those is right all kind of crazy.
OK. So either it was, you know,
Daddy's money, blackmailed aftersleeping with his wife,
leveraged his wife Patricia Kennedy's political power, or
took the roles while his competition was in World War 2.
All right. I'm locked.
I'm locked in, OK? Alec Oh, wait.
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Steven, are you locked? Oh, there's so many.
All of them are so good. That's the thing, I can't
decide. OK, I've got 1.
All right, Alec, what do you think?
I think it's D, just because that'd be really clever of you
if you made that up. OK, fair enough.
OK, Steven, I was thinking that's yeah.
OK. And Drew.
I think daddy's money gets pretty far in old Hollywood.
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That's fair. That's fair.
Unfortunately for you, Drew, Steven and Alec are correct, so
it is the truth. So Clark Gable and James Stewart
were both drafted in World War 2, and they needed a guy to play
the romantic lead in these movies.
And lo and behold, this British guy who's playing like, you
know, soldier roles, like British soldier roles.
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And so he just gained in popularity because of that.
Wow, yeah. He kind of took advantage, yeah.
Yeah, he just kind of took that.Answer was so historically
accurate and niche that I was like, Mitch came up with that.
He's a genius. Not not that you're not good at
coming. Shoot, OK, that's OK.
That's OK. I forgive you.
All right, well, let's we do have one final question before
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we get to that. What?
Let's do a point check. So let's start with Alec.
How many you have? With that one I'm up to 5.
Okay, Steven. I'm at six.
Okay. And then Drew.
And I'm at 4. Okay, well don't worry, the last
question here. So this is how it'll work.
I'll give you a hint of the question.
Then you can lock in how many points that you want to bet.
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Oh, by the way, you can't snipe this one.
So everyone gets a chance to answer, but you lock in how many
points you want to bet, and thenI'll ask the question.
You give your answer. If you're right, you double the
amount that you bet. If you lose, then you lose those
points. OK, makes sense.
Basically, Final Jeopardy. OK.
All right, so here's your hint. This question concerns with the
deterioration of Peter Lawford and Frank Sinatra's friendship
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in relation to President John F Kennedy.
OK, I know about as much of thistopic as I knew about all the
other questions. Well, I.
Was going to say. Like really, we can't snipe it
because we've been wanting to snipe.
All these, yeah, some of these are not necessarily snipeable.
I thought the Jaws one was goingto be, but I guess not.
(30:26):
It's again. I Yeah.
We might have known some of those.
OK, so lock in how many you wantto bet?
Yeah, Steven is in the lead withsix.
OK, Steven, you locked in. OK, Drew, you locked in.
Yeah, yeah, OK. Alec, how many how many points
are you betting? I'm betting 3 just to see what
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happens. OK, Alec is betting 3.
Steven, how many are you betting?
See, originally I was going to bet 5 because like game theory,
that's like the best because I can beat Alec if he bets all
those points. I'm going 6.
I I think I know this one. You're going all in.
I'm getting interesting. I hope you know this OK, Drew,
what about you? I swear I did not base my answer
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off theirs. I'm going to go one point.
Oh, OK, wrong. OK, interesting.
All right, here is the question.It's got a little bit of
background. OK.
So Peter Lawford was married to Patricia Kennedy and obviously
the younger sister to President John F Kennedy.
And that brought the Rat Pack into the arena of politics.
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So they performed for and supported Kennedy's presidential
campaign. And it was around then that
Frank Sinatra dubbed Peter Lawford, quote, brother in
Lawford, which is pretty, prettyfunny.
And he's a funny guy. Not that funny.
He's not that funny, right? In 1962, during a tour of the
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West Coast, President John F Kennedy was to stay at at
Sinatra's house for a time, but was convinced by Robert F
Kennedy at the last minute to stay with Bing Crosby instead
due to Sinatra's alleged ties toorganized crime.
Because Lawford failed to defendSinatra and the President ended
up staying with Bing, the two had a falling out, with Sinatra
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giving Lawford's part and Robin of the Seven Hoods to actually
Bing Crosby, which is kind of funny.
Sinatra was especially angry because he prepared a blank for
the President, which he tore up in a fit of rage afterwards.
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OK, so a an ice sculpture of thePresident.
BA helipad CA custom made sailboat or DA rare signed Babe
Ruth baseball card worth millions.
My goodness. All right, I'm locked in.
What I mean, what can you say what he did to it after he found
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out he wasn't coming? He destroyed it and or tore it
up. OK when he found out.
Yeah, in in a fit of anger. OK, we locked in.
Yes, yes. OK, Alec, what do you think?
I think it's the boat. You think it's the boat?
OK, that be that be satisfying to tear up.
Steven. I think it's the helipad.
OK. And Drew.
I think it's the boat as well. Steven is correct, so no.
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So imagine imagine the amount ofmoney that.
Imagine. Imagine the amount of money that
it takes to construct a helipad on your like residence for the
president to land on via helicopter, for him not to
arrive and to go to your competitors house instead.
And so, in a fit of rage, he tore up and destroyed the the
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helipad. Wow, that is.
Cool. That was the premeditated
though. Like how do you just tear it up
on a whim? I don't.
Know just for the crowbar cameralying around or.
Something I was like, how would you tear up a helipad?
I don't know, but he just. Strengthened 10 men, yeah.
He was so angry. Yeah, he ripped it apart.
All right, well, let's do then. A final score.
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Check here. Alec, how many do you?
How many? Down to 2.
Down to 2, Steven. I'm down to well, there you go,
that's how I do it. Andrew.
I am up to three, which is actually down to three.
OK. Steven, then you are by far the
winner. You got that person right.
Nice job. Congratulations.
(34:25):
Is this your first win? He's the rattiest pack.
No, I won the the last episode that I was.
On Oh God, whatever that's. Stats.
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