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Inside WM: Meet Our New Trivia Guru! – Ep. 13


hey mojo ha let’s welcome to inside
watchmojo episode 13 lucky number 13 as
you can see ash is not with me this week
but that just means you guys get to meet
a new member of the team actually the
newest member of the team and in this
case it is chris mason welcome Chris
thanks Rebecca and meet the nice people
outside oh hi everyone haha so I’m like
we do with everyone who comes on the
show who hasn’t been on before we like
to do kind of a getting-to-know-you
portion which involves a lightning round
so if you can answer as quickly as
possible and you are on to discuss
trivia and game shows so appropriately
what is your favorite current game show
I’ll say jeopardy good answer vanilla
but classic yeah well favorite classic
game show oh okay let’s say either beat
the geeks or win Ben Stein’s money
neither of which I am super familiar
with so check them out uh do you have a
favorite like board game or something
yeah seven wonders that’s my favorite
board game right now I play a lot of war
games though okay seven wonders i’ll of
pandemic um munchkin munchkins pronto
yeah a lot of wardens I guess so uh
everybody has to say their favorite
movie um let’s say punch-drunk love it’s
one of my favorites might be favorite
all right favorite TV show uh I’m loving
better call Saul I’m loving that right
now all on PVR mr I’m hooked on walking
dead too even though I love it and hate
it and favorite band let’s say Beck all
right then okay okay I’m really into
odessa Odessa I’ll say Odessa okay
usually oil listen to it my desk there
you go okay so like I said you’re on to
discuss the game show / trivia but let’s
find out a bit how you came to join the
watchmojo family you did some work for
us a couple years ago um now did you
know about watch motor before that yeah
I mean I probably stumbled on it
on youtube and then when i found out
that you know you were montreal-based
that made me a lot more interested being
someone who works in in media in
montreal and so I’ve been you know
watching the videos ever since cool yeah
i was gonna ask have you been following
you know what we’ve been up to yeah i
mean i’ve actually seen probably every
episode of this show to be honest no no
no it’s been really interesting well for
me at least cuz you know i consider
myself an industry insider right so it’s
we’re letting you be the insiders yes
sir I made my cheesy face um so anyway
you then saw post another job and you
heard ash talk about on this show you
know like the potential for watchmojo
game show so what made you want to get
involved in our work on that well I
worked on a game show before you know
spent last couple years working in TV as
a writer researcher that sort of thing
and I worked on a show called pop quiz
which was extremely popular in lasted
one season I see it oh thank you that’s
good that’s good i never saw it I didn’t
have a TV at the time so what are you
gonna do but I saw it all as we filmed
it so I saw that that’s cool um yeah
that was a great experience so and what
did you do on a show I wrote content so
I research questions and put him into
this crazy half broken jaw have a
database that we had and man edited some
and then when we were shooting I was the
judge backstage so like yeah someone
would give an answer and I I’d be there
to like click yes or no as quick as
possible you know I want to do that
that’s also i always think about those
guys on Jeopardy and like in the back
room and they’re very picky sometimes
sometimes they’re not and on this show
we had questions where it was like you
have ten contestants and you have to
everyone has to name something from like
a list of like 50 best romantic comedies
and so they’re saying stuff and i’m
looking at a list of them and seeing
it’s on it was it was intense that
sounds rough
dr. Brad yeah well before we get into
more about the game show / trivia show
we need your help on some suggest pages
as always so take a look at these top 10
anime powers top 10 courtroom films and
top 10 fictional video games and movies
and TV courtroom films are well I was on
an Al Pachino kick once and I decided I
wanted to watch all of his good movies
and I want to watch that one where he’s
like you’re out of order the whole
system’s out of order and it’s called
and justice for all and I don’t know how
long it is but I I want to say it’s like
five hours long and it’s really slow
until that one scene well super slow
maybe i’m just dumb I don’t know what to
tell you ever you have a favorite
courtroom movie um courtroom movie have
a my favorite courtroom scene Big Daddy
yeah Jon Stewart comes in what I love
about it is that it’s so implausible
like the court doesn’t work that way in
any other movie or jurisdiction fair
enough what are you gonna do I’m working
on this week Thompson aphrodisiacs now
I’ve heard like a conflicting
information about whether or not an
oyster is actually an aphrodisiac but I
think you had mentioned with zinc zinc
stimulate some fluid production let’s
say right is that the first time you’ve
had the phrase simulate fluid production
on the show fact actually it might be
the first time I’ve ever encountered it
in life and I hope really it that way oh
you have a satellite Rebecca do you want
really anyway you’re working on Asian
dishes which probably stimulates fluid
production in the mouth area hopton
agent really I’m just working on lunch
okay um no do you have a favorite asian
fish I love me some indian food let’s
say rogan gosht which i think is a lamb
curry okay I like Szechuan food as I’ve
mentioned many times I I think hoon and
dumplings I hope our Szechuan with the
peanut sauce there and like you know
general Tao I think
spring rolls in Holland americanized
Asian food but it’s delicious anyway um
so now we’re talking about contests we
actually have two this week but let’s
talk about last week’s first last week’s
contest was a bit different we asked you
as to replace a word in a movie title
with a type of cheese and the people who
are much funnier than I am came up with
Monterey Jack Reacher oh and the Gouda
the bad and the ugly i believe was the
other one but we’re giving it to Chris
Soto Farrell also known as at Chris
underscore guy 126 who went with Gouda
fellas don’t forget to email us at
contest at watchmojo.com to claim your
prize and send us your shipping info
which is something i forgot to say last
week so if you won last week that is how
you get your info to us so this week
we’re actually have two contests sooo
one is for our Canadian residents only
many apologies but so in honor of the
release of into the woods on DVD and
blu-ray on March 24th we will be asking
guys to tweet us a message about your
favorite fairy tail tail fairy tale and
why with the hashtag WM fairy tale fa ir
y tal we have six copies of the movie to
give away on blu-ray so do you have a
favorite fairy tale I guess Cinderella
cuz it’s their shoes I’m gonna say the
Pied Piper of Hamelin alright um
something about stealing children is
very it makes for like a like a rich
story okay it’s awful don’t do it don’t
do it is it’s not an endorsement of
child theft okay moving on before we get
to our other contests we’re gonna talk
to Chris a bit more about his plans for
watchmojo in the video game non-video
game in the game show space so we’ve
always had come an element of trivia to
our videos because they are trivia based
basically and on watchmojo.com we have
like the trivia section that people can
go and answer questions but we’ve never
pushed it’s super super hard what do you
see as a concept for a trivia show or
game show that watchmojo would
well I think the good place to start is
with what already exists and so its top
ten lists and trivia right like you said
those are two very strong components
that watchmojo has and so I think we
should probably start small right so
what I would like to do is have a trivia
show thats related to a top 10 list
right so we keep things tight and
thematically related and start there and
we have to start small that’s the other
thing you know is like I have so many
ideas and there’s so many possibilities
that we could do leave to crawl before
we can walk before we can run before we
can fly right so I want to start simple
so people I think can expect in the near
future to see a video which is basically
top 10 trivia relating to a brand new
video and from what i understand it kind
of combines some elements of existing
shows that we have for example it’s well
like watchmojo news is something
different for us but it’s still in the
top 10 format that people are used to in
that people respond to and for topics
for example it’s similar to topics in
that I expect that we’ll see a host yeah
yeah I think we’ll see a host either me
or someone else we’ll see and so yeah
it’s really just building on what mode
what watchmojo is already doing
hopefully it can help it do even more
new things what do you see as like the
fly section of that oh man I mean it
could be something like like a live game
show really where we either have
contestants in the studio or I think
think more appropriate to skype them in
so we have mojo holics from around the
world you know most of our fan base
isn’t even in North America right are
these half of them that right about that
something like that good question yeah
I’m not good with numbers um so you know
a game show with guests who are Skyped
in live graphics live sound going on
prizes we can go really far with it but
we’ll get there start slow that is fair
so in the spirit of trivia this week’s
contest is kind of a combo
Oh trivia / game show and Chris is
helping me out with this and why he has
to scramble to get his hey pdu I don’t
know why not it what tablet that’s what
it is halt like a like a TI yes cuz i am
in the 90s wow my Palm Pilot here yeah
exactly that’s what asking where’s my
stylist alright that’s enough haha
anyway so chris has invented a question
for us this week that is far more
complicated than what I usually come up
with so this will be on Twitter send us
your answer with the hashtag WM question
Chris take it away well yeah here’s the
thing is that since this is like an
internet-based trivia show the Internet
has all the answers Google basically
nullifies if you have access to google
it nullifies anything you know nullifies
any any trivia game show thing unless
you can write tricky your questions
right at least that’s that’s my take on
it for now so I want to I want to create
questions that you can’t just solve with
one google search right take two and you
have to compare and be clever so here we
go I’m straight already all right and I
like it when the questions can sort of
tell a story yeah right so here where
you are the Q linaria Secretary of the
UN in New York a group of apsara dancers
has come all the way from their home
country to perform for the delegates as
the head chef of the joint you need to
prepare a meal featuring their national
dish so what do you make is it a pad
thai be Sam Laura kako SI gonga Momo or
D sweet and sour pineapple chicken well
I do not have the answer to that without
any rule searches master said uh so as I
said this is on Twitter so don’t forget
to tweet us with the hashtag WM question
with your answer to chris’s very
convoluted and complicated question
which is what we like to see on this
show yeah so we always like to end with
a comment of the week that either Pat’s
is on the back or kind of makes fun of
us and in this case it is the latter so
on top 10 mad men women to hear akinci
commented top 10 watchmojo video
resolutions number 10 for ATP
number nine for ATP and you can see
where this is going honorable mentions
go to 360p 240p and 144 peace now joke’s
on you two here because that was
commented on a 720p video suck it oh I
kind of it anyway thanks for watching
see you next time
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