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April Fools 2026 · Quiz Quiz Bang Bang Trivia Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Quiz Quiz Bang Bang, the pub
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  Speaker 1: quiz practice show that hits you wop right in the quizzer.
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  Speaker 2: I'm David Flora and I'm Annie Flora, and we're here
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  Speaker 2: to un teach you more about trivia. Oh bys, As
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  Speaker 2: you can tell already.
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  Speaker 1: By the fact that you forgot your own.
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  Speaker 2: Name, the best joke of all is on me.
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  Speaker 1: We have an April Fool's episode here. This is not
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  Speaker 1: serious trivia, so sorry. If you're new to the show
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  Speaker 1: and looking for that, go to one episode before this,
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  Speaker 1: or one episode after this, or many others yes that
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  Speaker 1: aren't named April Fools.
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  Speaker 2: This is our nonsense episode, so for those of you
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  Speaker 2: up for some nonsense.
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  Speaker 1: We have it.
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  Speaker 2: It is for you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So this is our annual fun one. We allow
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  Speaker 1: ourselves one fun day a year and this is it.
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  Speaker 1: But hopefully it's entertaining to you, so we hope you
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  Speaker 1: enjoy it and don't forget. We have Live Zoom Trivia
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday, April the eleventh, at noon mountain time. If
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  Speaker 1: you need the link let us know. Otherwise, kick back
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  Speaker 1: and have some fun.
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  Speaker 2: There we go.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna dive right into it.
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  Speaker 2: Round one question one true or false? This sentence is false.
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  Speaker 2: Question two. If you time traveled and took a copy
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  Speaker 2: of Hamlet to Shakespeare before he wrote it, and he
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  Speaker 2: copied it and claimed it, and it reproduced until it
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  Speaker 2: ends up back in the bookstore where you buy it
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  Speaker 2: to take back to Shakespeare who wrote Hamlet? Question three.
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  Speaker 2: Greek King Theseus put his famed ship in a museum,
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  Speaker 2: and as the wood rotted, it was replaced until it
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  Speaker 2: was all new. Was the new ship still the ship
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  Speaker 2: of Theseus? Question four? In a hotel with an infinite
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  Speaker 2: number of rooms, with an infinite number of guests, is
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  Speaker 2: there any vacancy for new guests?
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  Speaker 1: And now?
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  Speaker 2: The answer is to round one? Question one, True or false?
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  Speaker 2: This sentence is false. If you said true, the statement
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  Speaker 2: is false contradiction. If you said false, the statement is true. Contradiction.
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  Speaker 1: It's a classic liar's paradox.
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  Speaker 2: Question two. If you time traveled and took a copy
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  Speaker 2: of Hamlet to Shakespeare before he wrote it, and he
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  Speaker 2: copied it and claimed it, and it reproduced until it
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  Speaker 2: ends up back in the bookstore where you buy it
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  Speaker 2: to take back to Shakespeare who wrote Hamlet?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't know who's the first to do it
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  Speaker 1: in that scenario, it's called the bootstrap paradox. Pull yourself up.
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  Speaker 2: By your bootstraps, by your time machine bootstraps. Question three.
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  Speaker 2: Greek King Theseus put his fame ship in a museum,
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  Speaker 2: and as the wood rotted, it was replaced until it
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  Speaker 2: was new. Was the new ship still the ship of Theseus?
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  Speaker 1: What do you think any.
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  Speaker 2: Sure? Why not?
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  Speaker 1: Unfortunately, there's no clear answer to that one, Like.
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  Speaker 2: All good trivia, Thank you Wanda vision. Question four. In
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  Speaker 2: a hotel with infinite number of rooms with an infinite
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  Speaker 2: number of guests, is there any vacancy for new guests?
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  Speaker 2: The trick to solving this problem is to make a
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  Speaker 2: mapping from our accountable infinite set of rooms to another
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  Speaker 2: countable infinite set of rooms that leaves us with an
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  Speaker 2: extra unoccupied room.
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  Speaker 1: It is possible to incorporate infinite guests because you have
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  Speaker 1: infinite rooms, and you either move people to the next
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  Speaker 1: room over to accommodate the next guest, or if there's
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  Speaker 1: an infinite you multiply whatever room they're in by itself,
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  Speaker 1: or in Room one's case, you double it, and so
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  Speaker 1: they all move into even numbered rooms, and all the
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  Speaker 1: odd numbered rooms accommodate the infinite guests.
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  Speaker 2: There you go.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to think about it.
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  Speaker 2: I would hate to stay at that hotel.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, imagine the walk to breakfast. Round two. Question five,
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  Speaker 1: Assuming the idea that what you have not lost you have,
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  Speaker 1: when did you lose your horns? Question six? An adjective
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  Speaker 1: is autological if it describes itself. An adjective is heterological
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  Speaker 1: if it does not describe itself. Is heterological a heterological word?
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  Speaker 1: Question seven? Is it possible to know that you know nothing?
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  Speaker 1: Question eight? True or false? It is opposite day today
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  Speaker 1: and now they answers to round two. Question five, Assuming
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  Speaker 1: the idea that what you have not lost you have,
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  Speaker 1: when did you lose your horns? Well, if you have
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  Speaker 1: not lost your horns, you must have horns. If you
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  Speaker 1: did lose your horns, you had horns.
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  Speaker 2: No matter what we're letting you know, you have horns.
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  Speaker 1: Question six? Is heterological a heterological word? If you said no,
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  Speaker 1: that means heterological is autological? That means, since heterological does
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  Speaker 1: not describe itself, it is a contradiction. If you said yes,
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  Speaker 1: then heterological is heterological and it does not describe itself,
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  Speaker 1: and so heterological is not heterological and therefore would be
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  Speaker 1: a contradiction. Question seven, is it possible to know that
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  Speaker 1: you know nothing? If you said yes, then you know something.
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  Speaker 1: That's a contradiction. If you said no, how would you know?
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  Speaker 1: That's a contradiction. That's attributed to Socrates, but it was
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  Speaker 1: It's mostly attributed to what Plato said about what Socrates.
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  Speaker 2: Said, so we know nothing about who actually said it.
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  Speaker 1: Dun Dunn. Question eight. True or false? It's opposite day today.
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  Speaker 1: If it's true, then the statement's false. If it's false,
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  Speaker 1: then the statement's false. That's like the liar paradox.
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  Speaker 2: That's it for the first half, which means it's time
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  Speaker 2: for the bang bang round. You will have thirty seconds
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  Speaker 2: to say nothing at all. Your tips are now.
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  Speaker 1: And that's time. You had thirty seconds to say nothing
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  Speaker 1: at all. If you said nothing at all, you are correct. However,
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  Speaker 1: if you said nothing at all, you are incorrect.
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  Speaker 2: You're still listening.
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  Speaker 1: If you said yes, you're incorrect.
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  Speaker 2: Round three. Question nine. A town has one barber who
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  Speaker 2: shaved all those and those only who do not shave themselves?
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  Speaker 2: Does the barber shave himself? Question ten is an arrow
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  Speaker 2: fired into the air in motion? Question eleven. A man
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  Speaker 2: trying to sell a spear in a shield claimed that
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  Speaker 2: his spear could pierce any shield, and then claim that
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  Speaker 2: his shield was unpierceable. What would happen if he were
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  Speaker 2: to take his spear to strike his shield? Question twelve?
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  Speaker 2: Is it possible to get from point A to point B?
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  Speaker 2: And now the answers to round three? Question nine. The
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  Speaker 2: town has one barber who shaves all those and those
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  Speaker 2: only who do not shave themselves. Does the barber shave himself?
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  Speaker 2: The barber cannot shave himself, as he only shaves those
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  Speaker 2: who do not shave themselves. Thus, if he shaves himself,
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  Speaker 2: he ceases to be the barber specified. Conversely, if the
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  Speaker 2: barber does not shave himself, then he fits into the
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  Speaker 2: group of people who the specified barber would shave, and
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  Speaker 2: thus has that barber. He must shave himself. What a life?
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  Speaker 2: Question ten? Is an arrow fired into the air in motion?
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  Speaker 2: For the arrow to be considered to be moving, it
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  Speaker 2: has to be continually repositioning itself from the place where
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  Speaker 2: it is now to any place where it currently isn't
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  Speaker 2: at any one durationless instant of time, the arrow is
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  Speaker 2: neither moving to where it is nor to where it
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  Speaker 2: is not. If time is entirely composed of instance, then
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  Speaker 2: motion is impossible.
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  Speaker 1: Take that arrow, if you take a picture of it
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  Speaker 1: in the air, it's it's not me in motion. And
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  Speaker 1: you just imagine with time, every instant is a snapshot.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't move.
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  Speaker 2: Question eleven. A man trying to sell a spear and
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  Speaker 2: a shield claimed that his spear could pierce any shield,
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  Speaker 2: and then claim that his shield wasn't pierceable. What would
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  Speaker 2: happen if he were to take a spear to strike
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  Speaker 2: his shield? Wouldn't you like to know?
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  Speaker 1: That's the classic unstoppable force meeting an immovable object. What gives?
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  Speaker 2: What? Oh?
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  Speaker 1: The point is you're wrong?
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  Speaker 2: Question twelve. Is it possible to get from point A
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  Speaker 2: to point B? No, to get there, one must get
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  Speaker 2: halfway there. Before that, one must get halfway to halfway.
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  Speaker 2: Before that, one must get halfway to halfway to halfway,
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  Speaker 2: and so on indefinitely, thus never reaching point B, sorry,
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  Speaker 2: never getting there.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of those are some Zeno's paradoxes. You know, Greek.
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  Speaker 2: Phloosphah Achilles in the tortoise or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, this is this follows on the heels of
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  Speaker 1: that but yeah, it's kind of like if you need
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  Speaker 1: to get from here to there, then you have to
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  Speaker 1: get halfway there first, but then you have to get
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  Speaker 1: halfway to that first, and then you get halfway to that,
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  Speaker 1: so it just keeps going and going and you never
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  Speaker 1: really get there. But you know, that's more of a
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  Speaker 1: thought experiment. Round four, Question thirteen. If Pinocchio says, my
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  Speaker 1: nose grows longer, now does it? Fourteen? Can a society
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  Speaker 1: truly be tolerant of everything? Question fifteen? Will you answer
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  Speaker 1: the next question the same as you answer this one?
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  Speaker 1: Question sixteen? Do you love? Quiz? Quiz? Bang? Bang? And
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  Speaker 1: now the answers a Round four question thirteen. If Pinocchio says,
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  Speaker 1: my nose grows longer, now does it? That's the same
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  Speaker 1: paradox as the liar's paradox. The sentence is false because
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  Speaker 1: if the nose does grow, he didn't lie, and that's
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  Speaker 1: a contradiction. But if his nose doesn't grow, he lied,
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  Speaker 1: and that's a contradiction, and it grows. Question fourteen Can
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  Speaker 1: a society truly be tolerate and of everything? That would
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  Speaker 1: suppose tolerance of intolerance, which would eventually erode or destroy,
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  Speaker 1: said tolerance through oppressive practices. So if you are tolerant
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  Speaker 1: of intolerance, they're gonna take you over. They're gonna get
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  Speaker 1: rid of you.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, sorry, you tried.
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  Speaker 1: This is a political philosophy, right, It's one of those
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  Speaker 1: things that people like to try to weaponize, usually the intolerant.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Question fifteen, will you answer the next question the same
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  Speaker 1: as you answer this one? Just looking for a yes
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  Speaker 1: or no on this because it leads to question sixteen?
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  Speaker 1: Do you love quiz quis bang bang? If you said
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  Speaker 1: yes to the previous question, then you must answer yes
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  Speaker 1: to this than if you said no to the previous question,
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  Speaker 1: then you must answer yes to this one because it's
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  Speaker 1: different than the answer you gave. And you love us.
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  Speaker 2: Yay, thanks for loving us. Forced love is the best love.
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  Speaker 2: And that's it for the regular rounds? Or is it,
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  Speaker 2: which means it's time for the big bag round? It is.
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  Speaker 2: We'll name an object. Do you tell us if it's
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  Speaker 2: proof we're living in a simulation? Here we go, trombone, chair, pumpkin, testosterone, airport,
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  Speaker 2: snow battle damage, he man beans on toast, and now
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  Speaker 2: the answers to the big bang round.
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  Speaker 1: Trombone, Yes, that's proof we're living in a simulation.
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  Speaker 2: Chair.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, that's proof we're living in simulation. Pumpkin, Yes, that's
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  Speaker 1: proof we're living in a simulation.
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  Speaker 2: Testosterone.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, that's proof we're living in a simulation.
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  Speaker 2: Airport.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, that's proof we're living in a simulation snow. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: that's proof we're living in a simulation.
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  Speaker 2: Battle damage he man, Yes.
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  Speaker 1: That's proof we're living in a simulation.
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  Speaker 2: Beans on toast.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, that's definitely proof we're living in a simulation.
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  Speaker 2: We hope you enjoyed those trivia paradoxical questions, and we
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  Speaker 2: hope you got them all right.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of these if you look them up, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if you search paradoxes, you'll you'll come across these. It's
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  Speaker 1: very fun to look at and think about. Some of
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  Speaker 1: them are just straight up there's I don't think there's
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  Speaker 1: really a good answer unless you change the question itself,
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  Speaker 1: like the liar paradox, the sentence is false. And some
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  Speaker 1: of them have been used, you know, just in philosophy
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  Speaker 1: or in thought experiments. They span all kinds of genres,
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  Speaker 1: from politics, physics, chemistry, to time travel, economics, logic, math.
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  Speaker 1: That they're paradox is everywhere and they're fun to think about.
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  Speaker 1: Some of them are pretty silly, like the getting from
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  Speaker 1: point A to point B kind of thing, but some
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  Speaker 1: of them are pretty elegant. And that Zeno, the Greek Zeno,
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  Speaker 1: came up with a few of those and is a
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  Speaker 1: fascinating figure. And it's just a fun, fun way to
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  Speaker 1: think about reality.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, paradoxes are fun because they they're just fun
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  Speaker 2: thought experiments. Fun.
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  Speaker 1: It's is a paradox proof we're living in a simulation.
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  Speaker 2: Yes it is. Well, we hope everyone enjoys the rest
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  Speaker 2: of your April falls.
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  Speaker 1: We will have our regular episodes back next week and
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  Speaker 1: again Live Zoom Trivia is on April eleventh at noon
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  Speaker 1: mountain time, and that's it's standard day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no joke.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening. Everybody, Stay safe out there, keep staying safe.
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  Speaker 1: And for this special episode of Quiz Quiz bank Bang,
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  Speaker 1: I've been David Flora.
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  Speaker 2: I've been Andy Flora. Here's looking at you, Quiz