{"id":7006,"date":"2013-02-17T11:33:40","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T11:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?page_id=7006"},"modified":"2014-10-20T22:18:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T21:18:02","slug":"episode-04-the-gameshow-losers-special","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?page_id=7006","title":{"rendered":"Episode 04: The Gameshow Losers Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?attachment_id=6174\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6174\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6174\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/The-Lineup-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"The-Lineup\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a>Life is full of winners and losers. But we don&#8217;t like to think of them as losers, just people who didn&#8217;t win. The losers. Speaking of which, it&#8217;s time for the gameshow losers <strong>The Line Up<\/strong> special!<\/p>\n<p>Once again we thank our good friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quizquizquiz.com\">QuizQuizQuiz.com<\/a> for supplying the questions today. <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/app\/quizquizquiz\/id329015885?mt=8\">Check out their app.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cp.sync.com\/dl\/3a59d28a#FN7tztQo8hp7Dm3ayW9hx59TePdnp25UMlMaua6MtKxrGXxFZAh0Lal0EQ4uZqOget4lK5njI0ZndQ0LpFjHKw==\">Here is the link to download the episode directly<\/a>, it&#8217;s 23:30 long this week and about 32mb.<\/p>\n<p>And here follows some show notes. They are also SPOILER heavy, so you are well advised to actually listen to the show first.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I decided to go with the <strong>Ask Me Another<\/strong> opening for no other reason than it had been playing in my head for months. AMA is NPR&#8217;s puzzletainment quiz show usually starring Glee&#8217;s Jonathan Coulton, it&#8217;s quite good fun and worth a listen (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/programs\/ask-me-another\/\">show page<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/podcast\/npr-ask-me-another-podcast\/id524978407?mt=2\">subscribe on iTunes<\/a>)\u00a0but it carries a certain&#8230; tone. I think I really nailed it (*sarcastic straightface*). Anyway there is always a bit at the end in the credits where they do anagrams of all the crew&#8217;s names which is basically hugely excruciating (I note they&#8217;ve cut that bit down for their second series) so the ending of this show features a joke that&#8217;s a callback reference to a show not many of you will have listened to. I&#8217;m not going to pander to you, KEEP UP.<\/li>\n<li>Today&#8217;s brilliant contestants are Andrew Sullivan (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/keshihead\">@Keshihead<\/a>)\u00a0and Shanine Salmon (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/braintree_\">@braintree_<\/a>). Andrew is a regular on the <a href=\"http:\/\/fifty50show.com\/\">Fifty 50 Show Podcast<\/a> was also a contestant on <strong>21 Questions Wrong<\/strong>. Shanine I&#8217;ve known on messageboards for\u00a0 years that I knew had been on many actual real TV shows\u00a0and I basically\u00a0had been dying\u00a0to ask someone &#8220;is Eamonn Holmes <em>different<\/em> in real life?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The contestant sound effects came as a genuine surprise. I added one for Shanine though.<\/li>\n<li>This was a bit of an odd game I think really because it seemed to me that more of the difficult questions were used earlier on and the final round is full of sitters (3\/20, then 7\/10). This is actually fine because it means an exciting final round but it just goes to show. Don&#8217;t forget when our contestants are supplied with the questions they&#8217;re going to attack each other with, they are not given the accompanying answers. I hope at least that we managed to make three correct answers out of the first twenty sound like entertaining radio.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/qqqlogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6183\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/qqqlogo.jpg\" alt=\"qqqlogo\" width=\"220\" height=\"104\" \/><\/a>As ever, questions were supplied by our good friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quizquizquiz.com\">QuizQuizQuiz.com<\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/The-Line-Up-5.xlsx\">Here<\/a> is a link to the spreadsheet\u00a0with all the questions on and their PROFESSIONALLY graded difficulties &#8211; see how much you agree with them.<\/li>\n<li>Quick maths &#8211; how did question\u00a0placement make the game? Well by my rudimentary reckoning Andrew could have been restricted to 8 points and could have scored a maximum of 19, whilst Shanine&#8217;s range is 3-12, so the results could have been very different if the questions were put in a different place. Which is what it&#8217;s all about.<\/li>\n<li>I decided to see out the show with <em>So You Wanna Be A Boxer?<\/em> from <em>Bugsy Malone. <\/em>Boxing seemed to be the category that defined the game, I think. The inspiration for this was actually the use of <em>You Give A Little Love<\/em> as the ending to last Summer&#8217;s last <strong>Big Brother&#8217;s Bit On The Side<\/strong>, I had basically forgotten what an awesome soundtrack Bugsy Malone had. Also using something from a 1976 film is precisely the sort of thing NPR would do. We might tackle This American Life next time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life is full of winners and losers. But we don&#8217;t like to think of them as losers, just people who didn&#8217;t win. The losers. Speaking of which, it&#8217;s time for the gameshow losers The Line Up special! Once again we thank our good friends at QuizQuizQuiz.com for supplying the questions today. Check out their app.\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?page_id=7006\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":25,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7006","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PLcmt-1P0","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7006\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}