Introducing WikiHole — hosted by D’Arcy Carden!
2024-07-15 00:04:29
Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson are total opposites with an unbreakable bond since meeting on the hit sitcom “Cheers.” But after that show wrapped, life took them in different directions. This podcast is a chance to reconnect, both with each other and the amazing friends they’ve each met over the decades—that is, when Ted can get a hold of Woody! Join them as they dig beyond the career highlights and into the stuff of life that makes us who we are. Like the title says, this is a place to be known.
Hello, everyone. It's Ted. I am here to tell you about a great podcast you got to check out. It's called Wiki Holes and it's hosted by the delightful Darcy Carden. Just a disclaimer, she's one of my best friends.
You may know Darcy as Janet from The Good Place or on the wonderful A League of Their Own. on Amazon Prime. Darcy brings together her funniest friends to go head-to-head in a trivia competition that leads contestants down an internet rabbit hole. Each topic leads to the next via the surprising links you only find on Wikipedia. From pop culture to history, science, geography, just like your own personal internet scrolling, you never know where the next click will take you.
It's trivia with a lowercase t, and the conversation definitely veers off the page. Case in point, this moment from an episode where Mike Schur, Rashida Jones, and I are answering some trivia questions about Chevy cars showing up in song lyrics, which then leads us to a wiki hole involving yours truly. Take a listen.
Wiki hole. Okay, we're going to jump down the wiki hole to Chevrolet. This is going to be a lightning round, okay? Few cars have been as celebrated in popular music as the Chevy. I'm going to play snippets of songs mentioning Chevy, and you will get a point for naming the song and the artist, okay?
Great. I'm going to really have to control myself, because I love naming songs. You can always say things and then lock in the right. The right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, so, here's the first one. Here we go. I pass the cornfields when the wind's got heavy.
Out in the backseat of my 60 Chevy.
I got it. Okay. It's Green Sleeves.
I'm so sorry. No, that one is Night Moves by Bob Seger.
Oh, Night Moves.
That's, oh, Night Moves by Bob Seger. Night Moves, now that you hear it. Now that you hear it. Okay, and here's our next song.
Just a boy in a Chevy truck that had a tendency of getting stuck on back roads at night.
Night Moves. Oh, shoot. Okay, because that was the other one we played. No, that's Night Moves. Okay.
Bob Seger. I think she's right. I think she's right.
I see where you're going. I'm so glad you answered. I was going with the Cheers theme. So, wow, that was way off.
Well, maybe the next song is the Cheers theme. No, that was Tim McGraw by Taylor Swift, but really good guess, because, you know, it was like, I get how it was probably in your head from the song we played before. That's tough. Yeah, yeah. That's really tough.
Okay, and the last song. Man, I'm like Smoothie G.
Well, I'm the Metro politician. You're screaming, Yeah! about my Chevy and power, but the sweat is getting wetter and I'm the one right to call.
Green Sleeves.
Peter Piper by Run-D.
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Oh, my God, that's so close. Oh, you guys are just, it's, I know it's on the, and it's, so, it's hard for me to tell you this. No, that was So What You Want by the Beastie Boys. Beastie Boys.
Oh, that was an awful fight. That was Twist and Shout by the Beatles.
By the Beastie Beatles. By the Beast-eels. I was in a Beastie Boy. My name was in a Beastie Boy song.
Get out of here.
Yep. I can't tell you the name of the song.
I know, I know. I'm trying to search through my little Beastie Boys knowledge right now. One of our producers will give me, they'll look it up right now and tell us which one, and then the listeners at home can listen to whatever Beastie Boy song this is.
They hung up a long time ago.
Yeah, they're like,
I realized that if, if, if one of the questions in this game were Ted Danson's name was in a Beastie Boy song, what song was it that Ted Danson would get it wrong?
I'm defeated.
Ted, it was Make Some Noise by the Beastie Boys. Thank you. You're welcome.
There you go.
Write it down, Ted, write it down. Commit that to memory.
Thanks so much for listening. You need to hear the whole episode to find out who wins and takes home WikiHole glory. Join Darcy and a panel of her best friends every Monday as they take us down another exciting WikiHole. You can listen to WikiHole on Wondery Plus or wherever you get your podcasts.
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