July 14, 2025 • 12 mins
It's the Return of Beat the Geek! All week we are bringing back this Fantastic competiton to give away tickets to Comic-Con!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This started in twenty twelve. I went back and looked
and twenty twelve we did Beat the Geek, where it
was try to beat me. I was the geek and
you had to beat me in nerd trivia and nobody could.
And we did this for a few years and it
was pretty brutal because nobody could beat me, and so
we just had to give away the tickets and it
(00:22):
wasn't very fun. It's not fun for our listeners. No
little anti climactic. Uh sorry, I don't know what you
want me to do, but that was the way it was,
and so we had to switch it up and we
decided to change it to where it's now. My questions.
This is all part of how I do Eddie's Nerd Trivia.
Now I come up with the questions. It is two
p ones, head to head, last nerd standing. That's basically
(00:45):
it works to win Comic Con tickets, which is next
week twenty fourth through the twenty seventh at the San
Diego Convention Center. This is going to be crazy. Cannot wait.
Did you guys hear the big news over the weekend
what George Lucas is going to be at Comic Con
for the first time ever stop it?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Okay, Eddie eddie out.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
That is thrust. I don't know what. I can't even
talk about it. It's like a god there right, What
is he looking at me? Like the creative of Star Wars. Yeah,
maybe the hugest, greatest wow human ever alive rever going
(01:31):
to make his first apparents conk. Yeah. Kind of big deal.
I'm kind of big deal. I'm like, hey, well, we
haven't done Beat the Geek since twenty nineteen. Of course,
I don't know if you remember, there was a little
pandemic that happened uh Comic Con kind and got screwed
over for a little while, and then we haven't had
passes to give away. I guess, I don't know, or
we have like one, you know. So it hasn't been
(01:52):
the true Beat the Geek game since twenty nineteen. So
it is the return of Beat the Geek, which I'm
very very excited about. I was listening back in twenty
nineteen because I was like, I remember how to play
the game, so I listened back to it. Emily made
a big proclamation that every year they go Dad, they
(02:13):
take the trolley down and hang out at Comic Con.
They they've never been inside. She did, and she says,
I go down and hang out outside every every year.
She said, it's fun and have a good time. Yeah,
and we did. There's the last time you did that.
I don't think it was a big proclamation. Ye, every
said every year. You take and I have a few
(02:36):
drinks and we have a good time, and I go,
have you ever been inside? No? No, I don't want
to go outside. I don't want to happen. D you
ever And it's been inside. Comic one time with you guys,
because we got like taken in that VR. Yeah, that's
all was there. That wasn't even really inside the hall.
We were inside the hall. Yeah, we're inside the hall
that was That was not like a hotel. I think
that was like the top floor of the Omni Yeah. Yeah, Okay,
(02:58):
that's not Comic co Okay, you're cutie. You're a real cutie.
So so Comic Compasses online. We're gonna be doing this
all week long. How does it work, Well, it's last
nerd standing. Basically, I'll ask a question if you get
it right, and it goes to the next person they ask.
I ask them a question, they get it right, He's
going until somebody drops. And obviously if you get the
(03:21):
question wrong, the other person has a chance to answer
to get it right. And that's how they went. You
know what I mean? So you don't you don't just
like lose automatically. All right, all right, let's find our
first nerd on the line here. Maybe nerd, I don't know.
It could be just somebody trying to win comic com passes.
Let's talk to p one. Amanda. Amanda, you are in
Beat the Geek. How's it going?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Hi? How's everybody doing? Oh?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I'm very excited. This is a great time. I love
come con time. Have you ever been to comic con? Amanda?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
One for one day?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
So it doesn't really count.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
No, that does count. It does counts.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Two hours.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Did you have fun?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I did?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I had a black It was when Walking Dad was
super huge, so they had this like display there before
Fear the Walking Dead started and they had like the
airplane where you could like sit and.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Its like before it was terrible. Okay, you don't need
you don't need to you said it, not me. She
believes that too. Uh So what kind of what kind
of nerd stuff do you like?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I'm a huge MTU fan? I love XN like all
like x N ninety seven was epic.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I watched x Men as a kid.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I read X Men comics of the kid.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Who's your favorite X Men?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Brother?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Who's your favorite x Men?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Honestly? Rogue or Storm? I know everybody gets really into
Wolverine and he's great.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
But uh, you know, you don't know who my favorite is.
You want to hear a random one with my favorite
isl I love Classus.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Yeah you don't know that.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
I know. That's how nerdy I am, right, yeah, there
you go.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I know you.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Well that's but but whatever. All right, man, it feels
like you're in the right realm here. Hopefully you can
do well at this. Let's get your competitor. It is himI. Oh,
what's going on? Him? Oh? What's going on? Tour? Are
you there? himI? No? Oh? Are you there? Himy? Yes? Okay,
(05:35):
there we go.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
May have you been to Comic Con before?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Yes? I have. Actually your first time when I was
eleven years old. Play what in nineteen ninety two?
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Oh? Wow, you met stan Lee?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
What? Oh? That epic? That's impressive. That's really cool. Yeah,
yeah that was you know, obviously Stanley was a big
name even then, but like he really blew up after
all the movies came out and all that stuff. That's
very exciting. So what what kind of stuff do you
think is your expertise? What kind of stuff do you
really like?
Speaker 3 (06:09):
I wouldn't say probably the Star Wars universe expanded, you know,
the new stuff, even though what they call New Republic.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Oh look at this guy, like this is great. And
he was pointing to his Star Wars shirt. Yeah, and
then he blew me a kiss. I don't know. You
earned a kid, I earned it. Yeah, all right, hang
on the line, Highmay. So what's the deal? Door? Talk
me through this. For some reason, I could only put
one person on at a time. That's not good. Yeah,
(06:39):
I don't know how to. I tried to hit the
right side. You're gonna have I'm really concerned because you've
got You're gonna have to bounce back and forth. No,
come on to you don't pass out. You have to
bounce back and forth. This is gonna be crazy. Yeah,
I got this. I got this. Don't hang up on
I won't. I won't Jamie get their numbers. This is
not good. I got this. Don't worry the big big
(07:01):
T's got that. No, Big T is not big I
had the ability to do to it once unless I'm
just completely asking something. But I hit the right side.
It wasn't okay, we'll off to somebody. We'll have to
come in here. I'm sure they're gonna be so happy
to Okay. So you have to be well versed, because
I mean, you know, I'm asking you what your expertise is.
(07:22):
But that doesn't matter. I mean, it could be anything.
It could be anything in the comic con world that
the questions are okay, So it could be Star Wars,
it could be DC, it could be Walking Dead, it
could be whatever, cause we had something for everybody, Harry Potter, anything.
Just let you know, all right, Amanda, are you ready? Oh?
(07:45):
You got to have Amanda already? Alight. He was just
he was just waving his arms at me. I was like,
what's going on. We're good, We're good. Are you locked in?
I need you? I'm locked in. You're you're my Robin
right now, locked in to my batman. Amanda. This is
very daddy locked it all right? Amanda? Are you ready?
Speaker 3 (08:10):
I'm ready?
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Okay, Amanda, this is good news for you. The first
question is a Marvel question, and it's sort of MCU,
so hopefully you will know this, Amanda. In thor Ragnarok,
what is the name of the leader that runs the
contest of champions?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
The grand Master?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Amanda says the grand Master, and she is correct, Well done.
If you have survived the first round, Let's now go
to himeh Hime. You are up? Are you ready? If
you get this question wrong, you're out. If not, the
game will continue. Here we go, Hi May your category
(08:54):
is Game of Thrones. Hopefully you've seen the show him.
How did ned Stark meet his untimely death?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
He got his head chopped off?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
He was, in fact beheaded, That is correct survival. Did
he say next after you answered that? Like next? I
swear he said that, Okay, I like it. I like it.
I made all right. Back to Amanda, Amanda, and he's
starting to get a little on not focused, which makes
(09:34):
me cocky, like you need to chill. You've got one
job right now, You're you're witty commentaries. Now come on,
there's no way like you saying any Amanda. Your question
(09:56):
is from Star Wars. Amanda, what is Kylo Wren's birth name?
Ben Solo, Manda says, Ben Solo and she is correct. Done,
well done. Oh wow, oh wow, that we may never
(10:16):
have a loser. Back and forth, back and forth. Two
more hours. Maybe are ready, hym okay, Hi may. Your
question is from D. C. Hime. What actor played Lex
Luthor in the original Superman movie in nineteen seventy eight. Oh,
(10:42):
that's his man, and he is correct? This man, this man,
he must be devastated that when he found out that
I was older. Yeah, I mean yeah, but still there
if you hit it, yeah, I feel like I mean,
come on, okay, over back to Amanda, Amanda, are you ready, Jim,
(11:10):
I'm ready. Okay, Amanda. Your category is Harry Potter. Amanda,
what is the name of the competition Harry takes part
in in the Goblet of Fire.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Oh, the Try Wizard Tournament.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
The Try Wizard Tournament is correct. Yeah, I really understand
the question. Back Yeah, Ma, your question is from Lord
of the Rings. Yeah did it? What is Gimli's father's name?
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Him?
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Father? Hi man?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (12:12):
In answer him, he says grimly, that's somebody else. I
think that is incorrect. That means congratulations to Amanda. Dance
was glowing. By the way, gin Son of gloyin Amanda.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
You won, you didn't.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
You're going back to the Khan Man
This started in twenty twelve. I went back and looked
and twenty twelve we did Beat the Geek, where it
was try to beat me. I was the geek and
you had to beat me in nerd trivia and nobody could.
And we did this for a few years and it
was pretty brutal because nobody could beat me, and so
we just had to give away the tickets and it
(00:22):
wasn't very fun. It's not fun for our listeners. No
little anti climactic. Uh sorry, I don't know what you
want me to do, but that was the way it was,
and so we had to switch it up and we
decided to change it to where it's now. My questions.
This is all part of how I do Eddie's Nerd Trivia.
Now I come up with the questions. It is two
p ones, head to head, last nerd standing. That's basically
(00:45):
it works to win Comic Con tickets, which is next
week twenty fourth through the twenty seventh at the San
Diego Convention Center. This is going to be crazy. Cannot wait.
Did you guys hear the big news over the weekend
what George Lucas is going to be at Comic Con
for the first time ever stop it?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Okay, Eddie eddie out.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
That is thrust. I don't know what. I can't even
talk about it. It's like a god there right, What
is he looking at me? Like the creative of Star Wars. Yeah,
maybe the hugest, greatest wow human ever alive rever going
(01:31):
to make his first apparents conk. Yeah. Kind of big deal.
I'm kind of big deal. I'm like, hey, well, we
haven't done Beat the Geek since twenty nineteen. Of course,
I don't know if you remember, there was a little
pandemic that happened uh Comic Con kind and got screwed
over for a little while, and then we haven't had
passes to give away. I guess, I don't know, or
we have like one, you know. So it hasn't been
(01:52):
the true Beat the Geek game since twenty nineteen. So
it is the return of Beat the Geek, which I'm
very very excited about. I was listening back in twenty
nineteen because I was like, I remember how to play
the game, so I listened back to it. Emily made
a big proclamation that every year they go Dad, they
(02:13):
take the trolley down and hang out at Comic Con.
They they've never been inside. She did, and she says,
I go down and hang out outside every every year.
She said, it's fun and have a good time. Yeah,
and we did. There's the last time you did that.
I don't think it was a big proclamation. Ye, every
said every year. You take and I have a few
(02:36):
drinks and we have a good time, and I go,
have you ever been inside? No? No, I don't want
to go outside. I don't want to happen. D you
ever And it's been inside. Comic one time with you guys,
because we got like taken in that VR. Yeah, that's
all was there. That wasn't even really inside the hall.
We were inside the hall. Yeah, we're inside the hall
that was That was not like a hotel. I think
that was like the top floor of the Omni Yeah. Yeah, Okay,
(02:58):
that's not Comic co Okay, you're cutie. You're a real cutie.
So so Comic Compasses online. We're gonna be doing this
all week long. How does it work, Well, it's last
nerd standing. Basically, I'll ask a question if you get
it right, and it goes to the next person they ask.
I ask them a question, they get it right, He's
going until somebody drops. And obviously if you get the
(03:21):
question wrong, the other person has a chance to answer
to get it right. And that's how they went. You
know what I mean? So you don't you don't just
like lose automatically. All right, all right, let's find our
first nerd on the line here. Maybe nerd, I don't know.
It could be just somebody trying to win comic com passes.
Let's talk to p one. Amanda. Amanda, you are in
Beat the Geek. How's it going?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Hi? How's everybody doing? Oh?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I'm very excited. This is a great time. I love
come con time. Have you ever been to comic con? Amanda?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
One for one day?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
So it doesn't really count.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
No, that does count. It does counts.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Two hours.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Did you have fun?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I did?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I had a black It was when Walking Dad was
super huge, so they had this like display there before
Fear the Walking Dead started and they had like the
airplane where you could like sit and.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Its like before it was terrible. Okay, you don't need
you don't need to you said it, not me. She
believes that too. Uh So what kind of what kind
of nerd stuff do you like?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I'm a huge MTU fan? I love XN like all
like x N ninety seven was epic.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I watched x Men as a kid.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I read X Men comics of the kid.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Who's your favorite X Men?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Brother?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Who's your favorite x Men?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Honestly? Rogue or Storm? I know everybody gets really into
Wolverine and he's great.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
But uh, you know, you don't know who my favorite is.
You want to hear a random one with my favorite
isl I love Classus.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Yeah you don't know that.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
I know. That's how nerdy I am, right, yeah, there
you go.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I know you.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Well that's but but whatever. All right, man, it feels
like you're in the right realm here. Hopefully you can
do well at this. Let's get your competitor. It is himI. Oh,
what's going on? Him? Oh? What's going on? Tour? Are
you there? himI? No? Oh? Are you there? Himy? Yes? Okay,
(05:35):
there we go.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
May have you been to Comic Con before?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Yes? I have. Actually your first time when I was
eleven years old. Play what in nineteen ninety two?
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Oh? Wow, you met stan Lee?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
What? Oh? That epic? That's impressive. That's really cool. Yeah,
yeah that was you know, obviously Stanley was a big
name even then, but like he really blew up after
all the movies came out and all that stuff. That's
very exciting. So what what kind of stuff do you
think is your expertise? What kind of stuff do you
really like?
Speaker 3 (06:09):
I wouldn't say probably the Star Wars universe expanded, you know,
the new stuff, even though what they call New Republic.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Oh look at this guy, like this is great. And
he was pointing to his Star Wars shirt. Yeah, and
then he blew me a kiss. I don't know. You
earned a kid, I earned it. Yeah, all right, hang
on the line, Highmay. So what's the deal? Door? Talk
me through this. For some reason, I could only put
one person on at a time. That's not good. Yeah,
(06:39):
I don't know how to. I tried to hit the
right side. You're gonna have I'm really concerned because you've
got You're gonna have to bounce back and forth. No,
come on to you don't pass out. You have to
bounce back and forth. This is gonna be crazy. Yeah,
I got this. I got this. Don't hang up on
I won't. I won't Jamie get their numbers. This is
not good. I got this. Don't worry the big big
(07:01):
T's got that. No, Big T is not big I
had the ability to do to it once unless I'm
just completely asking something. But I hit the right side.
It wasn't okay, we'll off to somebody. We'll have to
come in here. I'm sure they're gonna be so happy
to Okay. So you have to be well versed, because
I mean, you know, I'm asking you what your expertise is.
(07:22):
But that doesn't matter. I mean, it could be anything.
It could be anything in the comic con world that
the questions are okay, So it could be Star Wars,
it could be DC, it could be Walking Dead, it
could be whatever, cause we had something for everybody, Harry Potter, anything.
Just let you know, all right, Amanda, are you ready? Oh?
(07:45):
You got to have Amanda already? Alight. He was just
he was just waving his arms at me. I was like,
what's going on. We're good, We're good. Are you locked in?
I need you? I'm locked in. You're you're my Robin
right now, locked in to my batman. Amanda. This is
very daddy locked it all right? Amanda? Are you ready?
Speaker 3 (08:10):
I'm ready?
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Okay, Amanda, this is good news for you. The first
question is a Marvel question, and it's sort of MCU,
so hopefully you will know this, Amanda. In thor Ragnarok,
what is the name of the leader that runs the
contest of champions?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
The grand Master?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Amanda says the grand Master, and she is correct, Well done.
If you have survived the first round, Let's now go
to himeh Hime. You are up? Are you ready? If
you get this question wrong, you're out. If not, the
game will continue. Here we go, Hi May your category
(08:54):
is Game of Thrones. Hopefully you've seen the show him.
How did ned Stark meet his untimely death?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
He got his head chopped off?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
He was, in fact beheaded, That is correct survival. Did
he say next after you answered that? Like next? I
swear he said that, Okay, I like it. I like it.
I made all right. Back to Amanda, Amanda, and he's
starting to get a little on not focused, which makes
(09:34):
me cocky, like you need to chill. You've got one
job right now, You're you're witty commentaries. Now come on,
there's no way like you saying any Amanda. Your question
(09:56):
is from Star Wars. Amanda, what is Kylo Wren's birth name?
Ben Solo, Manda says, Ben Solo and she is correct. Done,
well done. Oh wow, oh wow, that we may never
(10:16):
have a loser. Back and forth, back and forth. Two
more hours. Maybe are ready, hym okay, Hi may. Your
question is from D. C. Hime. What actor played Lex
Luthor in the original Superman movie in nineteen seventy eight. Oh,
(10:42):
that's his man, and he is correct? This man, this man,
he must be devastated that when he found out that
I was older. Yeah, I mean yeah, but still there
if you hit it, yeah, I feel like I mean,
come on, okay, over back to Amanda, Amanda, are you ready, Jim,
(11:10):
I'm ready. Okay, Amanda. Your category is Harry Potter. Amanda,
what is the name of the competition Harry takes part
in in the Goblet of Fire.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Oh, the Try Wizard Tournament.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
The Try Wizard Tournament is correct. Yeah, I really understand
the question. Back Yeah, Ma, your question is from Lord
of the Rings. Yeah did it? What is Gimli's father's name?
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Him?
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Father? Hi man?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (12:12):
In answer him, he says grimly, that's somebody else. I
think that is incorrect. That means congratulations to Amanda. Dance
was glowing. By the way, gin Son of gloyin Amanda.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
You won, you didn't.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
You're going back to the Khan Man
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