(upbeat music)
- From robo to lobo, nerds like a lot of things,
but there's something they love above all else,
that is correcting people.
This is Um, Actually.
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Joining us today we have Brennan Lee Mulligan.
- Get in the comments.
- No, no.
No, I'm gonna cut this off right now.
- Get in the comments.
(laughing)
- And next up we have Jess Clemons.
- Hi!
- And next to Jess we have
a very special fan contestant for this episode
from Austin, Texas this is Chris Calilung.
- Hello.
- Chris is a fan just like you who got to be on the show.
If you wanna be on the show, subscribe to DropOut,
get on the discord, we've been banging this drum for a while
and it's your own fault if you haven't gotten on it.
How's everyone feeling?
- Whoo!
- Ready to battle each other to the death
over a bunch of pointless.
- Oo, to the death.
- Yeah, one of you is going to die today.
I'm sorry, we should have mentioned that
before you flew out here, somebody's gonna die.
- Someone call my mom.
- Yeah.
(laughing)
Well, you all know how this game works.
You've seen enough episodes, and you've been on before,
but in case you don't know, these are a stack of questions
that contain false statements of things you know and love,
it's up to you to spot what's wrong
with the incorrect while using the phrase Um, Actually.
If you don't say um, actually, I won't give you the point
and you can interrupt me at any point
as I'm reading the question, just like in real life.
You guys ready to role here?
- Mm.
- Yes.
- Well.
Let's do it then.
(laughing)
This first question is about comics.
(gasping)
"Superman vs. The Amazing Spiderman
was the first superhero crossover comic
between DC and Marvel.
It featured an array of fan-pleasing moments
including a villainous team-up of Doc Ock
and Lex Luthor, a fist fight between Morgan Edge
and J. Jonah Jameson, and a double-date
with Clark, Lois, Peter, and Mary Jane."
(dinging)
Brennan.
- Um, actually
the double-date wasn't
between Clark, Lois, Peter and Mary Jane.
- Who was it between?
- I think that in that crossover
he was not dating Mary Jane.
- There was the double date between, I just wanted
to see who you would guess.
That's not what was wrong.
- Isn't that a little bit weird?
'Cause in that continuity, aren't they like teenagers?
Isn't that like two professional journalists
going on a date with two high-schoolers?
- Yeah, of course you are.
(laughing)
They're journalists.
Maybe they're investigating a story.
Peter Parker's kind of a journalist too, right?
- He's also pretty mature for his age, right?
(laughing)
- Yeah, he built web shooters.
- Yeah.
He's basically an adult.
- Yeah, Chris?
- Was it not Doc Ock and Lex Luthor?
- It was Doc Ock and Lex Luthor.
- Shoot.
- Jess, you want to venture a guess?
- I'm so nervous.
My mom will have my head if I get this wrong.
- Why will your mom have your head if you get this wrong?
- My mom loves DC and Marvel.
- Crossover specifically.
- Specifically crossovers.
- Oh.
- Um, actually, I think the first crossover was
Wonder Woman, oh this is, I'm so wrong,
but Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel.
- No.
- What was it?
What's the answer?
Tell me.
- Um, actually, none of the moments were fan-pleasing.
(laughing)
- No one was happy with any of this.
- This is disturbing.
These two older adults with these two younger.
- You're really hung up on the.
- I hate it.
(laughing)
Comparable ages, please.
- Old grouch, Brennan.
- Very well, well no points for that one.
The answer, um, actually, Edge and Jameson
actually get a drink together.
They don't have a fight, they have a drink together,
and they commiserate about how their star reporters
or photographers are never around
when something big is happening.
They like really find common ground
and just have a nice moment.
- You know, that's genuine.
- And we'll move on to our next question about video games.
"The original NES game, "The Legend of Zelda"
started players out as Link, armed with only three heart
pieces and a sword and let them immediately
begin exploring a non-linear world packed
with eight boss-filled dungeons."
(dinging)
Jess.
- Um, actually
is it like nine?
No, okay, I was completely wrong.
I was like, I've played that and I feel like it was more
- It lasted a long time when I was a kid.
Time had no meaning.
- It was weeks.
- Half hour felt like a year.
(dinging)
Gosh, aging sucks.
- So whimsical.
- Brennan.
- Um, actually, Link doesn't start with a sword.
- That's correct.
- Does he not?!
- He does not start with a sword, yeah.
- He's like a little-
he's like in the little dinker village.
He's just hanging out.
Not walking around strapped
in the middle of your hometown.
It's crazy.
- Yeah, it's dangerous to go alone, take this.
- Yeah, that's right.
- No it came to me, I was like yep,
I didn't start out with a sword.
You start out and like,
don't you start out in his little hovel?
- His little hobble?
(laughing)
Hovel.
- For the simple lives of these,
I'm just saying, these sweet little forest elves
in these hovels, maybe we're not all these big,
powerful, highly in castle dwelling
or out in the desert with the gorudo,
but you know what?
They live a simple life.
- Yeah, they're in their little huts and, Link makes--
- I struck a nerve and I get it.
I'm so sorry.
(laughing)
- Well, that is a point for Brennan.
- Congrats.
- Thank you.
- We'll move on to our next statement here.
"In Highlander II: The Quickening,
we learn that the mysterious Immortals are actually aliens
originating from the planet Zeist,
a world that is referenced throughout the remainder
of the Highlander series, but never actually shown."
- Um, actually.
- Yeah?
- Is it not the planet Zeist?
- It is the planet Zeist.
(dinging)
- Brennan.
- Um.
(laughing)
Trap hates me.
Um, actually, the planet Zeist is shown,
we do see it in Highlander II,
colon The Quickening.
- We see it in Highlander II, but we do not see it
in the remainder of the series.
- Oh, we do not see it in the remainder of the series, okay.
- So you're wrong.
- Or am I just right in a different way
than you were expecting?
(laughing)
- Hmm.
(dinging)
- Um, actually Zeist is shown.
- That's kinda what Brennan said.
- What?
Oh god.
(laughing)
Let me take another stab at it.
- I mean, at this point do I even need
to say get in the comments?
Because--
- No, please don't.
- You need to get in the comments.
- Don't get in the comments.
Oh god, what did I do?
- They'll burn me.
- They will put me on the stake, please.
Answer, answer, answer.
Sorry.
I'm so excited.
- We do see Zeist in The Highlander II.
I said it's continually referenced throughout
the rest of the remainder of the series,
and point of fact, they tried to scrub
that from the rest of the series.
They were like, that was a huge mistake.
In fact, they even re-released a version of Highlander II
called The Renegade version where they removed
all the Zeist references. - Why?
- Because they thought it sucked.
They were like this was a mistake,
we shouldn't have done this.
It was like a richer lore when it was just like yes,
they've always been on earth and they've just
been beings that have been here
rather than like, we are from Zeist
and we will go to earth to compete.
- That's insane.
- If you had to pull the Zeist on anything,
like take one detail and lets scrub that.
That was a mistake, let's not do that,
what would you do that for?
- I guess me answering Brennan.
(laughing)
Answering the question the same as Brennan.
- I didn't necessarily mean your own life,
I meant like in something, but you can also
do it for your own life.
- Oh, in real life.
- There was a couple huge ones
that I think the fan base would want to Zeist,
which would be- we gotta make that the verb now.
We gotta Zeist that.
People probably want to Zeist midichlorians, right?
From Star Wars.
I'd wanna Zeist the way that the armies of the dead
are depicted in Return of the King,
where it's like oh, invincible Pac-Man ghost army
comes out of no- like why did the writers of Rohan
just die in the Battle of Pelennor Fields?
You could have just hung back for another 10 minutes
and this ghost crew would have swept in
and taken care of everything.
Yeah, I'd probably Zeist that pretty hard.
- Staying on topic, I would maybe Zeist the Hobbit movies
or even the prequels in Star Wars.
- It was all of it.
(laughing)
We can talk about it, but it never really happened.
- Rankin Bass did it right the first time.
(laughing)
This brings us to a first for Um, Actually.
First time we're gonna do, keeping in theme
with the fan episodes, this
is our first fan submitted question
that a fan has sent in for you to answer.
This comes to us from bits number 7563.
- Bits!
- Bits.
Bits.
- Thanks Bits. - Thanks Bits.
- "If you'd purchased the original release of Dungeons
and Dragons in 1974, you'd have found everything you need
to run a campaign, but it would look very different
from the D&D you know today.
Among the differences- only three character classes
were available: cleric, magic-user,
and fighting-man and "Hobbit' was one of the playable races.
(dinging)
- Brennan.
- Um, actually Hobbit was not one
of the playable races it was half-ling.
- It was Hobbit.
It was later changed to half-ling
because it was like, the Tolkien-est day was like,
you can't do that, which is kinda where half-ling is like
oh yeah, this is something else.
This isn't a hobbit.
- Fair enough.
- Yeah.
- Um, actually.
- [Host] Yes.
- Was he called a wizard not a?
- No it was a magic-user yeah.
- Okay.
(dinging)
- Jessica.
- Um, actually hobbit wasn't one of the pl-
- That is again what Brennan said.
- No!
(laughing)
Okay, maybe I just stan so hard for Brennan
that I'm like, I'm seriously not trying
to steal your thunder right now.
- You're not stealing, it's not thunder.
I up and you're also up.
- Leave in the comments.
(laughing)
- In the comments.
- Tag yourself.
(laughing)
- I wish you would steal my thunder,
because I have nothing to give you.
- Dammit!
- I wish that I had better stuff for you to take.
- Give me something.
- Do you want to take another go?
- Yeah, no he got it.
He got it, it's fine.
- Um, actually, you would not have everything you needed
in the original set that you would buy in 1974,
because there would be elements of the game
that were not included in that set.
- That's correct.
- There wouldn't be dice, right?
- Actually, what it was is in the original white box,
it presumed that players owned
and already knew the rules to two other games
called Chainmail and Outdoor Survivor.
- That's right!
Chainmail, yes, yes, yes.
- Alternatively, Fighting Man is
just a fun label for that class.
- What do you do?
- Me?
Ah, I'm glad you asked.
(laughing)
- I'm Fighting Man.
- Fighting Man also doesn't, like if I hear Fighting Man,
I don't think like swordsman, I think like drunk in a bar.
- Yeah, just like swinging.
- Weirdly, an unnecessarily gendered, non-descriptive term.
The term warrior is right there.
- No, we don't want that.
He's a fighting man.
- A fighting man.
- We don't want to box him in, like not war necessarily,
just generally getting into scraps.
Well that goes to Brennan.
- Thanks, Bits.
- Okay, this brings us to our
first shiny question of the game.
Shiny questions like shiny Pokemon, worth the same number
of points, just a little bit different
and a little bit rarer, and this is a game
called A Title of Words.
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You may have noticed that Sci-fy and fantasy books
tend to have titles that are like a blank of blank
or a something of something, so we've taken
the nouns to six different titles
and we've scrambled them all up
and it's up to you to try to arrange them
into the combination of books that are the actual titles.
Whoever can get the most
will get the point for this question.
Sound cool?
- Cool.
- All right, let's flip those over, see what you got.
(suspenesful music)
Jess is just gonna put whatever Brennan puts.
(laughing)
- I only got one for sure, and now looking
at the rest of them being like,
do I want to take stabs at it
or do I want to be funny?
(laughing)
- I'm just creating fun scenarios.
- Oh gosh, I'm so glad we're all in the same boat.
- All right, we will start.
We'll start at the end and work our way this way.
So Brennan tell us about your books here.
- First one is The Lathe of Heaven.
- Okay.
- The Courts of Chaos,
which, there's something in the Amber Chronicles,
I remember the name Courts of Chaos vaguely.
The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian,
which just feels like people would, you know,
that guy's a nightmare.
- He's showing up, he's coming somewhere.
- He's constantly showing.
That guy?
He shows up.
(laughing)
The next one is A Case of Conscience,
which feels weirdly non-dinary,
that feels like it would I don't know,
be like an airport, like John Grisham novel.
The next one is Children of Blood and Bone,
and the last one is one I'm planning on writing,
which is The Shambles of a Walking Tour.
(laughing)
You know like a long walking tour
and your like, it's just, it was too long,
and you get to the end and it's like oh,
we lost a lot of people.
Some people have peeled off to the cafeteria early.
- Very good.
How confident are you in these answers?
- I think I got one.
- Okay.
Brennan, you got five of these right.
- What?!
- Oh!
(laughing)
- Whoa!
- What?!
- But we will--
- Are you joking?
- I'm not, but we got down here
and then we'll--
- That's awesome, man.
- None of mine are his.
(laughing)
- You're supposed to copy Brennan!
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