Ultimate America 250 Trivia Game Show & Drafting July 4 Essentials

22:39North Carolina.

22:41Neal Freyman:We were thinking Africa, South Carolina, so you're correct. No, I'm joking. It is the continent of Africa, and that is incorrect. Liv? Florida? Good guess. Incorrect. I don't want to buzz again. Henrik? No process. You got to give me one name, one name, one name. I'm just going Maine. Oh, nice. Sniped. Farthest east. Sometimes you got to get out of your own way. I love when. See, maybe get out of your process. It's clearly working. My process is the problem. Yeah, the process is the problem. All instinct. Okay. Olivia. Yes. What is the third most populous state? So the first is California, followed by Texas.

23:19What's the third? Massachusetts. Oh, Massachusetts. Henrik. I'm going to say Florida. Florida, no process. Oh, my God. No process.

23:27Neal Freyman:No process. No process. To Henrik, question eight. What state produces the most apples? California. That is a logical guess, but unfortunately incorrect. Good guess, though. Florida? Not Florida either. Apples. Go west. I don't want to, though. Oh. Oh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You got it. You got it. Whoa. You got it. What just happened? Washington. Yes. Wow. I just actually read your mind. Yeah. Like I looked into your. We're on a team. You're on a team. Sorry. Yeah, on a team. Ethan does not need it. It was crazy. Olivia was in there. Yeah. All right. Well, it's pretty interesting. Washington does produce 60 % of the entire apple crop of the United States.

24:11You know, because it's always fall there. It's always fall. And the University of Washington actually just produces so many varieties of apples. So they just kind of like a if you want to major in apples like there's only basically only one place you want to go. Neil, what's your favorite apple? Oh, McCoon. Okay, sorry. Easy. Or McCown. I don't know exactly how to pronounce it, but it's like M-A-C-O-U-N. I've never heard of these. You got to bring some in. What makes it? It's just like the most essence of apple. Like when I eat it, it has like this white flesh on the inside. And when it's really crispy, it is delicious.

24:45It doesn't you don't really see it a ton. But and it's not in season. Like it's not super fresh for all that long, but it is my favorite apple. It's delicious. That's a crazy name. I knew he was going to have some crazy answer. That's why I asked him. Okay. I forgot who's it through.

25:01Neal Freyman:We're last question. And this one goes to, who just answered that correctly? Olivia. What state has the most lighthouses? Is this for me? Yes, that's for you. Maine. That's what I guessed. That was wrong. Oh, I was going to guess that too. Send it to me. Send it to Henrik. Michigan. Whoa. Oh, Michigan. He's from Michigan. Michigan guy. You can't swing a cat without hitting a lighthouse in that state. Really? That's the state motto. It's because there's 3 ,288 miles of Great Lakes shoreline. So, well done, Michigan. We should have known that. Actually, I don't know if we can do a team up anymore because it got mighty close.

25:38We made a decision whether. Once we linked mines. We linked it, yeah. We linked mines.

25:43Neal Freyman:Henrik has nine now. Ethan's only at 11. Okay. And then Olivia is in, she got a slash in our column. It's five now. So do some math. I'm down three. Yeah, down three. We'll be back with more trivia after this quick break. Toby, are you okay? No, this new thing is happening where if I drink two to six beers, I don't feel good. Congrats on being officially old like me. But luckily for you, there's Z-Biotics Pre-Alcohol Probiotic. It was invented by PhD scientists to tackle rough mornings after drinking. Pre-alcohol produces an enzyme designed to break down the toxic byproduct of alcohol in your gut.

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28:33Neal Freyman:If you can't name one, you are out. Last person standing wins five points. Second place gets two. Third place gets a pat on the back. Ethan, since you are in first, why don't you leave us off? Yosemite. Yosemite. To Olivia. It has trees and grass. I know which one you're talking about. Just give me one second. I totally did not grow up in New York City. This is really easy for me. I won't lie. Prospect. Grand Canyon. Yes. Grand Canyon National Park. Computer, give me Yellowstone. Oh my gosh. Forgot about her. Computer. Download all the National Parks. Pinnacles. What's that? I wanted to save that.

29:29Oh, it's in California. Pinnacles National Park. Yeah, it's like, I wanted to save that because I can't think of another one. Correct. What about Niagara Falls? I do not think Niagara Falls is a national park. And see, that's what's wrong with our country. Well, it's not in our country. It's not, right. We split it. I know. It is kind of crazy that it's not, but also, it's our international park. What's interesting is New York does not have a single national park.

29:56Neal Freyman:Yeah. Well, that's crazy. Should we just donate it to her? Guess again, because that one was tricky. Yeah, that was a trick question on my end to you. And do you ski at this place? I'm going to say like Breckenridge National Park. Aspen National Park. Just name a really large feature in Colorado. Red Rock. No. No. All right. Sorry. But you are still in essentially with Henrik, so Mind Meld and Henrik, what you got? Send me any more that you can think of. Uh, give me, computer, give me Glacier National Park. Glacier National Park in Montana. Correct, correct. Acadia National Park. Correct. In where?

30:39Maine. Maine. Great place. Uh, computer, show me Joshua Tree. Joshua Tree. These boys are flying. These boys are flying. Um, how long do I have?

30:48Neal Freyman:Yeah. 20 minutes. 10 seconds. Take your time. Go through your process. Um, oh, Big Bend. Big Bend, yes. In Texas. I don't know if this is national or state. A regional level. Is this going to be? Okay, I'm going to save this state one and do a different guess. Is there a Rainier National Park, like in Washington? Oh, thank you. You just reminded me of one. Hi. There is Mount Rainier National Park in Washington. Well done. Nice. Olympic National Park also. Correct. Olympic is huge. Okay. This is so scary. This is like guarding Jordan in his prime. I'm going to direct you to some regions. I want us to keep going with this, so I'm going to direct you to some regions that we haven't been to yet.

31:37Utah has some very famous national parks and also some in the maybe more Appalachian area and central United States over there. Okay.

31:47Neal Freyman:You just covered 90 % of the country, right there? Oh, what's the crap? Henrik think of the pelicans the peli oh that's a great hint New Orleans National Park in Utah the Utah pelicans okay Henrik we need an answer okay I'm gonna just go with the one is Sleeping Bear Dunes a national park oh my gosh I've been to Sleeping Bear Dunes it's not that's in Michigan that is an incredible place though there's only one national park in Michigan which is Isle Royale National Park. Oh is that like off the coast of Detroit? Oh no no it's in Lake Superior right? It's way up in Lake Superior it's very hard to get to.

32:36Ethan just to win this you need to name one more. Zion? Zion National Park. Wait can you tell me is... Oh yeah. Man I had Irish Zionism in my head. Is Great Smoky Mountains one? Yes. That's the kind of one I was drinking too. I would just like to say this is the most boy episode. This is the most white man. You're not allowed. National Parks in American history.

32:58Neal Freyman:You're not allowed to enjoy nature? No, I love nature. But like this is if a dad were a trivia episode. And I'm not going to be a dad ever. Here's the thing. I don't have it in me. Everyone ignored Florida. What about Everglades? No one remember the Everglades? We ignored Florida on purpose, Toby. No one said that about ignoring Florida. Come on. All right, so Ethan gets five, and Henrik and Olivia get two, which means if Ethan was down three when we started this round, I think we have a tie. 15, 2, 1, 2. Correct. It is a tie. It's a tie ball game right now. And that's it, though, because the next part is a fan vote thing, so y 'all tied.

33:42I guess so. Give us a tiebreaker. Yeah, a tiebreaker. Tiebreaker, that's a tiebreaker. That's the least dad. Barbecue tools.

33:51Neal Freyman:We'll use the draft as a tiebreaker. Neil, explain the last thing we're doing. So we're going to move on to the listener's choice portion of the show. And it's going to be a tiebreaker for the entire thing. It's going to be a draft, not for the NBA. But today we're going to be drafting the most important components of a July 4th backyard barbecue. Because hopefully that's what we're all doing tomorrow. you're drafting a team of four and this is where we on want all the listeners to play along as well we want you to weigh in on whose backyard party you'd most want to go to this independence day youtube comments spotify comments send an email to morning brew daily at morning brew.com you will be the arbitrator of the barbecue draft and we'll announce who accrued the most votes on our instagram final wrinkle to this draft uh toby and i are playing as well and we're going to take up the last two spots so there's gonna be a snake draft which means our leader which is a tie it's all of you i guess we'll just start with henrik we'll go first sec and then we'll go to ethan and then olivia you guys hate me no oh do you want to go first olivia no okay i mean you don't necessarily want to be first because uh back to playing the snake draft is the last person in the draft gets to choose twice and then you go back uh and so we will do it like that henrik what do you taking number one overall at your July 4th barbecue so this is just like any item yeah like what what what's the element what's something that you absolutely need uh just so I'm just so my process works uh is this like family feud style where like I get the most points if this is the one that the audience said the most no you're curating the vibe you're building a team building I'm building a team of four uh give me charcoal whoa crazy that's a crazy honestly I had I had charcoal grill as potential number one pick.

35:39So it's the, but he just said charcoal. He just shows one component. Oh, so I have two picks now. Yeah. Charcoal grill, hot dogs, hamburgers. No, so charcoal, I traded Mikkel Bridges away. Now I have four picks. You meant charcoal grill, right? Or just literally charcoal. he just said charcoal. I think it's just charcoal.

36:00Neal Freyman:It's just charcoal. Give me a big bag of Kingsford. Just charcoal. All right. Ethan. Ethan? Okay, not so much. Just for the 4th of July in general, a prerequisite is water. Any body of water. Oh, body of water. Body of water. Okay. Yeah. Also staying hydrated. Okay. Olivia? A full purpose player. Give me good sunny weather. Ooh, that is very important. I mean, that's the most important. That is the most important. A cloudy 4th of July. I don't care what else you bring. It doesn't matter. Okay, Toby? Okay. Yeah, that's true. I'm going with the grill master. Someone who commandeers the grill is just the guy or girl who stands there.

36:45Neal Freyman:Thank you, Toby. Exactly. And just is the person that you know they're going to serve up juicy, delicious everything. Grill master. Okay. It's up to me. I got two picks. You get two picks, Neil. Beer. Wow. Beer fell. Beer fell in draft. I mean, is that a steal? He had some off-the-field issues for sure. Because even if you don't have a sunny day, if you have beer, it's all going to be fine. Wow. So I'm going beer, and then I'm also going good playlist. Fourth of July playlist. It's so important. It's so vague. Yeah. Good playlist? Tell me what's on it. Is it patriotic? Is it... Country music? It's classic.

37:25Neal Freyman:Here's why I'm mad you put that. Booth Springsteen. Because I had Big Booty Mix Volume 11 picked as, like, the playlist that you have to play. Okay, well, I'm not... Good playlist. All right, fine. Beer good playlist. I don't see how my team loses now with beer and a good playlist. That's like saying food. Yeah, no, that's a little. After this, can we get, we don't have to do this on air. Can I sort of learn more about what big booty playlist volume 11 is? You guys not know big booty mix? Definitely know what it is. What is that? We'll talk about it after. Toby back to you. That's like high school classic.

37:57Ethan's got an orb that he attaches to in his home after work.

38:02Neal Freyman:All right. I am saying a dog, preferably multiple dogs, preferably a golden retriever, and they have to have a bandana on as well. So a golden retriever with a bandana on. Okay. Okay. Olivia? Repetibility. Me. I'm going to say a cousin or family friend who is drunk and has no survival instincts when it comes to the fireworks. Oh, I love that. So they'll just light off anything as big. Like it's not even legal in the state, but they went. The drunk pyro cousin. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Ethan. Fourth of July. This doesn't even require knowledge. This is what he's stumped on. He's gotten everything right in the whole thing, and he's stumped on an opinion.

38:46He can name a national park in Guam, but not a... Yeah, I'm trying to think. There feels like a big piece missing. What do you already have? Think about your team, how you want to build the interplay between the players. Correct. Hot dogs? Yeah. How did hot dogs? Hot dogs. Henrik what are you trying to pair with charcoal with charcoal? Well, you already got fire. Let's go ice-cold watermelon Cooler full of watermelons and they're very important.

39:17Neal Freyman:It goes great charcoal dusting exactly Snake style do I have you have one? Give me hot dogs. No hot dogs are off the board. Oh, sorry hamburgers use the two okay hamburgers One's long. That's how I keep them straight Ethan god everything is like the only things I can think of are like the cringiest college answers But I'm gonna say from the perspective of celebrating in high school and college I'm gonna say like a really overly sweet disgusting like eight percent 32 ounce can of something Whether that's a four loco or like a truly lemon like a lemonade anything like that's disgusting Mike's hard on the fourth.

39:58I mean, there's nothing better. Okay. Mike's hard. So Mike's hard, just like a tall boy, Mike's hard. Yeah, sure. The paper. Wait, so what's your... Water, hot dogs. Water, hot dogs. I mean, he started strong. Yeah, that's great. Olivia? I'm going to say lawn games, like a slip and slide or a cornhole. That's different. How is slip and slide part of a lawn game? You put it on a lawn? Yeah. What do you literally mean? I had slip and slide. but I okay so would you like me to choose yeah you take long games I want slip and slide whatever

40:31Neal Freyman:whatever you can have it's not always draft I know but like that team is like other people are not too vague that's like no super vague right long games is fine it's slip and slide and cornhole part of the same category they are both on a long okay okay fair enough I'm just you took my guy that's all right yeah yeah don't be mad oh should it trade it up all right All right, I'm sorry for that outburst everyone I really wanted to slide Coming for me all right, I'm saying a ball a football a soccer ball any ball that you can toss around I like it. You just need it for the fourth of July. Okay. This is tough right now I have just have beer and a good playlist which is basically I mean I don't even need that I mean I just want to take the rest like I'm pretty already one I'm gonna go with potato salad.

41:25I think it's the best side.

41:27Neal Freyman:Okay. I mean it Wow That is I mean that's that's really think that's like a seventh round pick that I took in the third That's an undrafted free agent. Yeah. Yeah, are you kidding? I love potato. I mean obviously there's upside but mayo and the hot Sun real character issues there Okay, and then for my final pick hopefully this redeems me solid paper plates it's pretty solid gotta handle the hot dogs gotta handle the cheeseburgers gotta handle the potato salad potentially macaroni salad a lot of mayo dripping on it so you don't want to have a flimsy plate you want to have very solid high quality paper plates for your barbecue so that's a team player yeah all right so my team's done beer good playlist potato salad and solid plates I mean potato salad yeah really you know what I know the potato salad fans are going to back me up here.

42:19Neal Freyman:Yeah, it's divisive. It's divisive, for sure. All right, Toby, round out your team. I'm going sunscreen. Nothing ruins a 4th of July like too much of a tan. Yeah, but that's a tomorrow problem. Exactly, and I'm caring about you today to care about you tomorrow. Sunscreen. Olivia? Okay, wait. I have... Sunny weather, drunk pyro cousin, and lawn games. And lawn games. God, it's good. I'm gonna say those the red white and blue popsicles Good Paul got my team guys. I'm sorry. I didn't do all trivia, but I killed this Ethan Okay, I'm gonna say a general ambiance of a place where you would be camping I feel like where I mostly celebrate the 4th of July is a place where there's like pine trees and and like a creek nearby.

43:11You don't think that's going to be competing for playing time with body of water? I know. No, because the body of water is next to it. Okay. It's not somebody's house. You're just doing it in like, no. Yeah. It's mostly like, yeah, like Tahoe or something like that.

43:25Neal Freyman:I love being surrounded by buildings in New York city for 4th of July. That's true. I mean, I guess fine. Take your nature. Take your nature. All right, Henrik, fill out this team. Computer, show me friends. Oh,

43:40A lot of people forgot to have friends. I know my team is just me by myself with a good playlist. Honestly, to each their own. So we will publish this also on our social media. I'm going to read the teams out. And yeah, let us know in the comments in Spotify and YouTube, or you can email us who won because we actually have a tie game right now. So we need to know. So Henrik's team, charcoal, watermelon, hamburgers, and friends. What do you think Yahoo Fantasy would grade that draft?

44:10Neal Freyman:Charcoal went number one. Friends went last. Yeah, you made up for it. I got a great team. Charcoal, watermelon, hamburgers, and friends. Sounds like a good time to me, honestly. Ethan, you got to be next to a body of water, hot dogs, a tall boy of Mike's heart or something pretty disgusting and sweet, and the general ambiance of camping, maybe some pine trees. Come on Olivia needs sunny weather The drunk pyro cousin Lawn games and red white and blue Those firecracker popsicles Olivia's is lit Change your mouth Different colors too Oh no I don't know Before you hear my team It sounds like a team a dog would make In that context Listen to this grill master like a good grill master just takes over everything you have to think about it no charcoal no charcoal a dog preferably a golden retriever a ball and sunscreen and then my my team i feel like i started out so strong don't know what happened at the end but i'm still sticking with it beer i think you need beer good playlist potato salad and solid paper plates i mean solid Paper plates, they'd bring the squad all together.

45:31Yeah.

45:31Neal Freyman:I think you might lose it with potato salad. Should have gone chicken salad, maybe. Well, let the people decide. That's the whole point of this. Either way, I want to go to all of your parties, and we appreciate you playing with us. Hope you all have a good Fourth of July with at least some of these components. And we will see everyone back here on Monday. Have a great weekend. You want to get your backyard summer ready, but you don't want to break the bank? Wayfair gets it. Planning on dining al fresco or relaxing poolside? Wayfair has everything you need to prep your space. Shop now and save up to 70 % off during Wayfair's 4th of July clearance.

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