09-27-24 Interview - Comedian Matthew Broussard, Performing at Comedy Works South

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
There is a guy, and I'm just gonna assume because
I know Mel, the wonderful pr person for comedy works
well enough to know she probably wouldn't write the following
paragraph herself.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Matthew Brossard is a disgraced.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Financial analyst forced into stand up comedy. The byproduct of
a Cajun chemist and a Jewish microbiologist, he holds a
degree in computational mathematics. He always manages to bring up
just did it and is fully aware of how do she?

Speaker 2 (00:26):
He looks Matthew Brossard, I'm going to assume you.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Probably had something to do with that particular paragraph.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
I had a hand in that. I did have a
hand in that.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
I think it's an interesting way to present yourself because
in a way, it's like a humble brag of like, yes,
look how good my genes are and how smart I am.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
I need to sell myself in some way. It's the
one place you're not allowed to be humble, as in
writing that that description for yourself.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Now are you can?

Speaker 3 (00:49):
Really? He's easy to work with, It shows up on time,
and it costs less than other comedians, and good at math,
and good at math.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
In case somebody has a complex equation at the comedy club,
and he's be solved.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
If you need financial advice or just someone to explain
how compound interest works, I'm a good backboard.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
So let me ask you.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Two questions related to your background.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Number one, I'm assuming that you grew up in a
household where it was mathew, where are you going to college?
Not if you go to college, where are you going
to college?

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (01:17):
So how do you get from computational mathematics and financial
world into stand up comedy?

Speaker 3 (01:26):
It was for me the ultimate act of rebellion. It
was funny because it's not that crazy of a thing
to do. But for me, I was like, ah, I
thought I was going to be I was told I
was going to use math in some capacity. I was
told I was told yeah, or a model or anything.
There was just like your like, your skills in this
world are mathematics, not even interpersonal skills. You were good

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at math. We're a math family. So you're going to
do a job based around that. And I believe them.
And then I did a open mic when I was
twenty four years old, and I was not bad at it.
I had a lot of room to improve it. Like
but I could also do this as a job, and
it was just like everything it felt likes. It felt
like it felt like one of those movies where someone's
in a cult and then they realized there's a whole
world outside that they're allowed to go into. I felt

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like I was.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Like, I was gonna ask. It sounded like you found
out you were not Asian when you were forty three
years old. You're like, I'm good at math. That's what
we're gonna I mean, I'm making a stereotypical joke.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
But I'm Jewish and it's pretty close. I think Jews
and Asians relate to the same kind of pressure from
their parents.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
What did you What was that conversation like when you
were like, hey Mom, hey Dad, I've decided that after
get it, get it. Where'd you go to school?

Speaker 3 (02:32):
Rice?

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Okay, so you went to a very good school in
Texas and.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
You come back and say, hey, I'm just gonna throw
throw caution into the wind. I'm going to go after
this stand up comedian thing. What happened there?

Speaker 3 (02:42):
In true so, in true actuarial form, I did not
quit my job to start doing comedy. I was still,
you know, timid enough and well trained enough to hold
on to my job as long as possible and and
try to, you know, keep a day job while doing
comedy at night, and just see how far I could
go before it tore me in half. And luckily I

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got fired from my job video because of comedy, because
I was really just stretching myself too thin and traveling
and not telling my boss where I was.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
And it's actually an important job, right, It's not like
something you could just mail it in.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
Right. Yeah, if when you miss an audit you get
in a lot of trouble.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
When you got fired, Were you at a position where
you thought, I'm not going to starve if I just
go full board with the comedy thing.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
I thought I was gonna starve. I didn't think it
was going to work out.

Speaker 4 (03:29):
I got start.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
Men have to find a job as a waiter. Woe
is me. I just moved to la and I had
that job. I was able to work that job. Remote
was the deal I worked out with. My boss was
really really cool of him. And then I screwed up
something really bad and I basically had to resign in shame,
and I had like two months of being afraid. And
then I booked a bunch of college shows, so not
that harrowing of a journey, all things considered.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
This is just I mean, is it just because you're
good looking that you've just been able to coast through
all these various things?

Speaker 3 (03:56):
Is that what you attributed to I've just gotten so
lucky at every stage in my life, just everything, Just
I jump off things and that's appear for me. Sometimes
I just feel very, very grateful for that.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
I will tell you that I'm my little production company
that I have on the side is called Serendipitous Productions,
because I like, you have made some decisions that have
looked like dumbastery from the outside looking in, but they
all kind of panned out.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
Yes, stumbling upwards or whatever it's called.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
Yeah, that's a great way to put it.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
For failing upwards is the term. But yeah, just that
kind of oops, ohoh things ended up better.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
Yeah, it's a weird.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
And the job you have is like this is a
really what you do is highly sought after, highly competitive,
and for every position like this, there's a thousand people
who worked as hard as they could and didn't get
it and are bruised and battered because of it.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
Well, now they have a podcast.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
So that is true of comedians as well. I would
say all the failed sale of comedians all have podcasts.
It's required.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
So do you have a podcast?

Speaker 3 (04:51):
I'm so bad about it. I have one with my
fiance and we probably do one episode every four months.
Because she was like, you know what, I'm not going
to take care of this one. I'm gonna I'm gonna
let you edit this and see too that it gets done,
just to show that you care about it, and guess what,
I don't. So I tried to do a podcast with her.
We've had some great guests. We've had, like you know,
Mittail Lane and Taylor Tomlinson. We've had really wonderful people

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on the podcast, but I need to do more of it.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
You talk about your now fiance. I actually was going
to ask you because over the last few years, I've
been with my girlfriend four years, six years, I'm like,
are you gonna put a ring on it? Why did
he take so long? Matthew?

Speaker 3 (05:23):
Oh? Why did I take so long? I didn't know
there was pressure. I don't know. I don't know why
it took so long. She proposed to me. So that's
how long we waited.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
Okay, So why did you take her so long. We'll
ask her that question at a later time. But you
just told me she's actually now doing stand up as well.

Speaker 3 (05:37):
She also does comedy. Yes, so she started like four
or five years ago. She did improble when we met,
and she was a professional swimmer when we met.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
So why does wandn't be a professional swimmer?

Speaker 3 (05:47):
Really really good, really really really.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
Do you do professional swimming? In college?

Speaker 3 (05:52):
National champion and had you know since a very young
age was a phenom, like eleven years old, was competing
at nationals and you know, my fifteen years old was
a final Olympic trials And it is just very very good,
very impressive, very impressive athlete and had a great career
as a national team member and represent the United States
and won a silver at Worlds and a national champion
many times. But she is surprised to say the hours

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of stand up comedy and the hours of professional swimming
don't don't.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
Oh yeah, well yeah those two ams, those shutdowns and
six am starts probably not great.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
Yeah, so she wasn't doing she wanted to do comedy
then and then basically a couple of years of afterwards,
she moved, we moved to New York together, she stopped swimming,
she starts working, and finally felt comfortable to start doing
open mic since she's done an excellent job, and she
comes with I think she came with me last time here.
She's not here this time, but because she's too busy
doing comedy in New York, and I for her.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
Good for her.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
How do you come up with your bits?

Speaker 1 (06:48):
Because I got to tell you, I love all the
medical stuff you do because it sort of mirrors the
stuff that I find interesting. I always have medical stuff
on my blog because I want my listeners to know
the latest stuff. But of course you make it funny,
or if I just make it informative, you make it funny.
Why what takes you in that direction?

Speaker 3 (07:04):
I like a joke that can start with a piece
of information that I find interesting, that is not widely known,
and then try to build the comedy around that. So
I do like when comedy can be kind of informative
while it happens to be funny. I was fortunate and
that my you know, my mom was was a microbiologist
and my dad was a chemist. So I was constantly

(07:25):
bombarded with tidbits of fascinating information that that that's stuck
in my head, and over the years I found a
way to put them together just learning about I have
a long chunk online about how many major medical breakthroughs
are by accident, and you know, you discover one, you
read more about it, and you find that it's kind
of a string of things. Park I was called bager
was a hard medication.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
Yeah, the person of the audience yelling out what everything
originally was for. Because that's kind of nerd I am.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
You'd be rare one one hundred people knows that in
terms of like asking the crowd, it's pretty because I'm a.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
Girl, Matthew, I know all that stuff. I'll be like
your right hand shout out or in the crowd like
I do that.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
Do you know the eyelash the stuff you used to
make your eyelashes longer?

Speaker 2 (08:07):
That I do know?

Speaker 1 (08:08):
The late not La six, it's I did know at
one point, wasn't it for I don't remember Klackoma.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
I knew it was an eye disease, I just didn't
know which one.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
Yeah, And they noticed it was giving people longer eyelashes.
So maybe Leine was like, that's ours now.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
Sad but true though, I mean, it really is your
entire bit.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
I gotta tell you, if you don't know anything about
IUDs Matthew is your guy, do not actually tell you
how they work, but to tell you how they work
in a way that is both charming and gaging.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
And a lot of a lot of it's intract which
is fine as well.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
So when you are deally, I'm fascinated by the relationship
you have with your girlfriend, Like, do you ever just say, okay,
listen to this? Do you ever bounce stuff off her?
And when you do something and you think is gonna
be really, really good, and then you kind of get
the dull stare at the dairy cow back, You're like, tang,
does that happen a lot?

Speaker 3 (08:58):
It's it's oftentimes yeah, it's not a good way to
go about it. Of just like when she's sitting at
her desk.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
Look, look, book, Look, look is this funny?

Speaker 3 (09:05):
So to try to take it and work on it
and then bring it to her. And you know what
is nice though? Us We you know, we go and
walks together and we talk a lot, and when someone
says something, we're like, ooh, that's good. And then sometimes
there's a custody battle where one of us says something
or like that might be I said it, but maybe
it'd be funnier coming from you, and then you said this,
and I maybe I could play with that a little bit,
so so it's fun kind of bouncing. It is around.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
Will you talk about your girlfriend in the in the act.
But you know, some comedians can be critical and a
little I think a little harsh about their snouts. Is
that I always wonder, like, how does that play at home?
You know what I mean? But you're not You're very
complimentary and kind to your your girlfriend, now fiance. Does
that change when she becomes a wife? I mean, you know,
everything goes downhill once you get married, but you should
do it.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
I'm not sure if her whole rule is you can
say whatever you want about me if you make enough money.
So there's certain jokes I want to do, and she says, here,
here's how much money you have to make to do
that joke.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
She gives you a bar.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
Uh, that's pretty high.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
This is a great joke too, But that's convenient. You
should actually set up a Patreon, go fundme or something
to be like my my wife to be says, I
can tell certain jokes if we make this amount of
money and then you just like walk up with a check.
There you go.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
Yeah, that's why I would donate a bad.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
Idea, I would donate the passive aggressively donate. I would
do that. I would help you with that. I would
five ten bucks, twenty bucks, whatever, And then you're in
you can hear the real you.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
That's a really good idea.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
I'll have a million of them, a million, feel free
take it.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
Yeah, publicity and then at that point, no, that good.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
But they won't know which jokes, right, I mean just
he just says that there are jokes in this set
I had to pay for.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
This has been a very productive creative session.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
And I really appreciate that I were bad at details,
but I'm really good at big ideas.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
Okay, so if I.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
Had minions, Like, if I had minions.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
I could have already taken over the world. But I
come up with these great ideas and then I and
no one's listening, and then I say them, and then
and then then nothing ever happens.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
There's that sounds like I don't know what I'm allowed
to say on this program curse. I was gonna say
it sounds like a lot of a specific drug the
symptoms of when specific drug is you have a lot
of good, big ideas, but you don't have the detailed
follow through.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
I'm not saying that there was anything like that involved.
I'm just saying that I have always been a big
idea person. So mile hassee all right, have you you've
played here before? Yes, I've always asked medians about Comedy
Works because it's such a great venue. It is.

Speaker 3 (11:28):
I would I would say if you asked one hundred
working comics what their favorite club is, they would you
would hear mostly Comedy Works. It's just always ahead of
the curve, takes her of comics, great crowds, phones, the bags.
It's just a it's a it's it's a good experience
all around.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
The bad thing was the first time I'd ever done
that on Saturday night when we went to see Billy Gardell.
I don't hate it. Do you guys ever have pushback
when people like with kids or babysitters or stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
Now a little bit, she's like a little oompikito a
little bit there.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
Yeah, when you decide what kind of comedy you're gonna do, like,
how do you approach this? Because at Comedy Works on
Saturday night we saw the opener, who is just like
scorched to Earth and hilarious but very inappropriate. And then
you know, Billy Gardell works mostly clean, very You know,
you could probably take your grandma there and not be set.
How much of thought do you give into that? Like
do you work blue? How do you how do you

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make those choices?

Speaker 3 (12:18):
There's only two sets. I have the set I want
to do. In this set, I have to do okay,
So it's always finding how much so I want to do?
Is going to have certain things that aren't necessarily going
to work every time. I have a lot of math
jokes right now that are not that sounds. I swear
they're good. If you're listening to this, I swear they're
the best master guys.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
Us Kaminsky is like, oh my god, this guy's the
funniest comic ever.

Speaker 3 (12:40):
Because you do math jokes, they're solid, They're really solid.
If you're like math, I've come see the show. I
swear you'll you will enjoy them. That's a hard cell
for some audiences, A mixture in the right place against
them up to my speed. I have some political stuff
that may cross some lines for both sides and That's
very fun for me because it makes me feel very
alive on stage When you don't know. If you joke
that you know gets laugh every time, you're not gonna

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say it with as much enthusiasm. Yes, see it. If
you're pulling the pin of a grenade and waiting to
see if it's a dud or a hit, you're gonna
be very alive and a much better performer for it.

Speaker 1 (13:10):
So it's a little like putting, you know, your tongue
on a sore tooth a little bit, just to like
wake yourself up. Just zip you there. Yes, do you
ever just think to yourself if things are not going
as well as you were hoping, maybe you're not connecting
or you know, not every show can be a gem, right,
I mean that's just the same here. Do you ever
think to yourself, screw it, I'm throwing in all the
math jokes. I'm just throwing it against Walllet just like time.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
Throw a caution to the wind and see what happens.

Speaker 5 (13:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
I did not get into this job because I respect authority.
So yes, a lot of times when I feel resentful
of a crowd for not liking certain things, I will
do more of those things just to push. It was
a very spoiled response, but sometimes you just want to well,
if this is what, if I found what you don't like,
then I want to make you like that.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
I'm gonna do it so much that you're gonna have
to laugh, and just if it's just laughter.

Speaker 3 (13:54):
That's uncomfortable, or I'm just gonna go out my way
if like there's sometimes with the scouts on not gonna
like me anyway, at least I'm not going I'm going
to bomb with my dignig doing something that I'm proud of.
Is the worst is when you just start doing jokes
for them and they still don't like you anyway. It
just feels awful.

Speaker 1 (14:07):
Do you remember the first time you ever bombed?

Speaker 3 (14:09):
The third time I did comedy.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
See I've had.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
One show in my life since I got my own
show in two thousand and five that I did not
do enough prep for. And I did a five hour
show and it was from five am to ten am,
and I am at like nine thirty and I don't
have a single I can't think of a single story.
I can't think of a single topic.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
What I'm like, Flop's weating.

Speaker 1 (14:32):
I've got to I'm like, I got pit stains. I mean,
it was the worst half hour of my entire life.
And if you ask me of my listeners, they would
not have known that it was that bad. But I
will never forget that, and I have never underprepared from
that day. What is it like to think back on
that flop and how does it change how you approach
stuff now?

Speaker 3 (14:52):
That one? I mean I bombed the third sets. You're
probably the one hundredth set. The first two just happen
to go. Well, are there bombs that make me like change?
How I there's some sets you just didn't prepare enough
for and I could definitely relate to that. That's often
not stamped well in general. Some nights, I I just say,
I think I know, I sat and you got there,
and then you do it kind of the wrong order
and have to go back to do a joke. So
just anytime you sit down and write before the show's

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going to go better that my old, my little silly
illium is that the more you plan, the more you
can improvise.

Speaker 1 (15:18):
That's really actually very safe. Yeah, yeah, that's kind of
like smart.

Speaker 3 (15:23):
So I always noticed when I sit and write a
set list, I actually end up trying more stuff, which
is odd because you think if you don't plan, you're
going to go off course. Where is it? Actually, if
you don't plan, you stay very you have a more
predictable route. You're going to just do the just kind
of you don't have time to think of what jokes
and new next. You're just going to automatically default to
the safest joke you could do next.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
But and doesn't it kind of give you like an
island from which to dive into the stream list?

Speaker 3 (15:44):
I mean truly, if I had just a flow chart
on stage, is do this joke now, if that joke course,
do this joke a bit bombs, go back to this.
But if it works, skip to this right yeah, so yeah,
and it makes you present.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
That's actually a really interesting window into the world of
how a comedians might work. I appreciate that.

Speaker 3 (16:00):
There's oddly like what I feel in my mind is
there's a good will meter next to me on stage
like that kind of like just this number, like the
Applauso meter, and it's going up and off. The crowd
likes me because this show work, this show to works,
this woke's work. Okay, now they like me. I've done
it totally munch of the shows throw. Now I'm gonna
do a bad one, a new one that I don't
think is there yet, just to see and it works,
but it doesn't work super well. So now I have
a little bit less good will, right, so maybe I

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should do a good joke. But if I do another
new joke again, I'd lose them. Now I have no
good will, and now I have to kind of restart
and do a bunch of I know, tried and true jokes.

Speaker 1 (16:29):
Maybe you should do what rock bands do. Now, We're
gonna do some jokes off our new album, and then
everybody can go get a beer.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
Yeah, and you just work stuff that like that.

Speaker 3 (16:37):
I do do that a little bit. Sometimes I'll be like, hey,
I just film special. Here's some jokes that are I'll say, oh, yeah,
I'm gonna work on some new stuff. And by new stuff,
I mean we're doing these jokes for a couple of
years now they still don't work, and.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
You're just gonna keep just hammering away at it.

Speaker 3 (16:49):
And I'll just pull out a note card and just
look through a couple Sometimes it's fun to do that
with a crowd of just here's some new jokes. I'm
gonna try them off this note card, and they're not
is for me. When they're new, it is a little tedious. Sorry,
But when they're new, it's not so so they're bad.
It is that they're not connected. To have a long
joke of connected ideas, what you actually have to do
is like building mosaic. You have to have all the
little pieces. You don't write it as one long joke.
You write a bunch of jokes and then find a

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way to connect together. So what I need is the pieces,
any a couple of one minute jokes. So I'm going
to try a joke about men's fashion. Do I have
any other jokes about men's fashion? No, but I'm going
to get this one working, and then one day I
will need a joke about men's fashion. And the perfect
puzzle piece.

Speaker 1 (17:21):
Matthew Brizard is this weekend at the Landmark South Comedy
Works location. And I feel like you're probably better for
a for a smart audience.

Speaker 3 (17:30):
I hope. So I'd like to be well, I.

Speaker 1 (17:33):
Mean, you're a computational math nerd, So what else? I mean,
what else do you need to know?

Speaker 5 (17:37):
Well?

Speaker 1 (17:37):
Everyone, if you're an idiot, you can still come there.
Will be no math at the actual event. Maybe a
math joke. But Matthew, thank you so much for coming
to with you. I really appreciate it, and you're going
to crush it this weekend. Now I should ask you
if you want to play our dumb game that we
play at the end of every show. But some people
are like they lock up in any kind of competitive situation.

(17:59):
But I feel like you're smarty and you could probably
pull this off.

Speaker 3 (18:02):
I have a website of over five hundred puzzles I
designed myself on Monday find it dot com. I do
the cross Road every day. I really really get intense
about getting you're in.

Speaker 1 (18:10):
It's called of the Day and it goes like this here,
sit right over there, right, and now it's time for
the most exciting segment.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
On the radio.

Speaker 1 (18:17):
Oven's gone hit Ryan.

Speaker 3 (18:21):
Do it?

Speaker 1 (18:21):
No, Ryan's got it.

Speaker 3 (18:25):
Of the day?

Speaker 1 (18:26):
All right, First we do Dad Joke of the Day.
I don't know if you do any Dad jokes because
you're not Dad yet. So we'll see what is our
Dad joke of the day. Please grant Dad joke of
the day.

Speaker 5 (18:36):
What occurred when the cup of coffee got offended by
a joke?

Speaker 3 (18:41):
I don't know, he steamed.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
Hah hah, Yes, there you go, dad. Joke of the day.
Today's word of today. Please we guess badly what this
word might be. So what is it?

Speaker 3 (18:52):
Grant?

Speaker 1 (18:53):
I thank you?

Speaker 3 (18:53):
Guys, will both guess correctly?

Speaker 1 (18:54):
Okay, lucid lucid. Lucid means you're awake in paying attention
and conscious aware.

Speaker 3 (19:02):
It's aware. Yes, I was going to say, it's when
your ego has been let off the leash.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
Oh there, I like that.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
No, you are, but so much.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
You did. Uh, yes, I think we're right about that.
Today's trivia question what romantic Comedy stars Billy Crystal and
Meg Ryan as two friends who are considering taking their
relationship to the next level.

Speaker 2 (19:24):
And if y'all don't know this, thank you Ryan.

Speaker 3 (19:27):
I thought I thought you're going to say here today
the Billy Crystal movie.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
Harris, And yeah, stop it anyway. Okay, Now here's how
this works. Matthew, we played Jeopardy and it's a blood
sport on this show. So if you know the answer
to the question, you do not have to wait until
the end to yell out your name Matthew, and then
you answer in the form of question to yell at
your name, and then you answer in the form of question,
what do you recognize? I've been doing this for a

(19:52):
long time. Is Ryan's won the last three? What's our
jeopardy category?

Speaker 5 (19:57):
Well, we're going back to sports, so he'll probably love.

Speaker 3 (20:01):
Terribles for that's right.

Speaker 5 (20:03):
Category one. Okay, we will do prepositional book titles.

Speaker 1 (20:09):
Oh god, okay.

Speaker 5 (20:11):
This novel was originally published as Natour DuMond in Quatre
Ving's Yours.

Speaker 3 (20:18):
Matthew, Matthew Around the World in eighty days.

Speaker 1 (20:24):
Will play Matthew, I heard a tux Spanish and not French,
so I think is actually.

Speaker 3 (20:31):
Literally four twenty four twenty. They don't have the word
eighty Oh well, wow, it's.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
Right now.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
Okay, next question.

Speaker 5 (20:41):
This Stephen King novel has Chester's Mill, Maine suddenly sealed
off from the rest of the world by an invisible
force field.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
Many what is it?

Speaker 1 (20:51):
No, that's the clown one day?

Speaker 3 (20:53):
Correct? It starts with the preposition I know, preposition preposition Matthew,
what is into thin air?

Speaker 1 (21:04):
Incorrect? Okay, Ryan, anything but I.

Speaker 3 (21:09):
Can't I can't think of it right now?

Speaker 1 (21:10):
Is it under the dome?

Speaker 2 (21:13):
Moving on?

Speaker 5 (21:14):
And this Nick Hornby novel a twelve year old misfit
and a thirty six year old man child strike up
a friendship?

Speaker 1 (21:21):
What is and men incorrect?

Speaker 5 (21:24):
That is a preposition, strike up a friendship that teaches
them both valuable lessons.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
And it's not.

Speaker 1 (21:31):
Creepy at all that a man and a child just
strike up a friendship. That's a thirty six year old
man child. Yeah, no, what is it about a boy? Oh?

Speaker 3 (21:41):
We got that.

Speaker 1 (21:41):
I've seen that movie.

Speaker 4 (21:44):
Yeah, friends, expand my radius ran if you know this
Hemingway novel is about Robert Jordan, who fights on the
losing side for whom the bell tolls.

Speaker 1 (21:59):
Correct, I'm back to minus one. Hate him? Awell all right?

Speaker 5 (22:03):
And last one Virginia Wolf used a um who's.

Speaker 1 (22:07):
Afraid of Virginia Wolf? Never mind next Virginia Wolf.

Speaker 5 (22:10):
You stream of consciousness in this novel about the Ramsey
family vacationing on the isle of Sky.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
I need to read more books sky. We have no idea?
What does that to the lighthouse? Yeah? That was a
horrible category, but I think Matthew you one with zero yeah?
Well zero yeah, when we're out of time because we
got to make room out as fortunately coming in lace
don't see Matthew. We're starting The Smart Guy this weekend
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