When I saw mention of former Navy frogman, professional wrestler, and Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura among this in this week's questions, I immediately knew that he'd feature in a bonus, too.
I ended up asking about the minigun his character carries in 1987's Predator, Old Painless, which is a spectacular name for a machine gun capable of demolishing the forest like a Brazilian logging conglomerate. But I wanted to ask about the absolutely awful truTV series he hosted from 2009–12: "Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura." Never have I seen such phenomenally terrible television.
HAARP's weather modification? Jesse was on it. Secret bunkers built beneath Denver International Airport where the elites could ride out the impending 2012 apocalypse? Yep, "researched." Are most world leaders and influential people actually shapeshifting lizards? You know your boy was asking the tough questions. Alas, everything I considered asking about was entirely too obscure.
And while none of that has anything to do with the night's trivia sesh — or anything comprehensible, for that matter — it made for one hell of a Wikipedia rabbit-hole. But I digress.
Round 1 ended, as it so often does, in a tie-breaker, and the Fantastic Four-ish came out on top over Angela Paxton's Divorce Attorney. Regulars $$$ handedly took Round 2 but faltered in Round 3; APDA took that round with a near-perfect card. Round 4 was marked by an easy Nic and the Cages pick-up, but Round 5 saw the Four-ish return to the throne. With everything on the line, APDA could not be touched, putting up an easy 10 points to take Round 6.
Congratulations to all of this week's winners:
Editor's Note: If you are, like I am, fascinated by conspiratorial thinking (especially in American culture and politics), I cannot recommend highly enough Richard Hofstadter's "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" (Harper's Magazine, 1964) and Jesse Walker's The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory. Foundational texts.
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