Tim Wildmon: Hey, good morning, everybody. Welcome to Trivia Friday on American Family Radio. Today is Friday, September 11, 2026.
Tim Wildmon: As always, we thank you for joining us here on AFR and Trivia Friday. We're going to do a whole bunch of learning today, aren't we, Ed?
Ed: Oh, we is.
Tim Wildmon: We is learning. I'm going to learn how to speak correct English.
JJ Jasper: The professor of Owensboro, Kentucky. Great to be here. A mom asked the dad to read a book to little Johnny and put him to bed. After about 20 minutes, she went to the edge of the stairs and said, "Is he asleep yet?" Little Johnny said, "Yes, finally."
Tim Wildmon: All right. Today, you're eligible to call in if you haven't been on the show in the last eight weeks.
JJ Jasper: That is true.
Tim Wildmon: So we have an eight-week waiting period between on-air appearances. If you want to call in and be on with us, we welcome anybody who can call, as long as you've waited eight weeks since your last appearance on the show. Trivia Friday here on AFR. The phone number to reach us is 888-589-8840. You need to be 11 years old or older to be on the show. J.J., what else have we got going on?
JJ Jasper: This is pretty exciting. You woke up this morning not thinking you were going to win anything, but you have a chance to win a really nice Learning University T-shirt. One of our original nine questions is a mystery question. If you happen to land on it and answer it correctly, you'll hear this sound.
Ed: Ah, the beloved cowbell.
JJ Jasper: That means you're going to win a really nice Learning University Trivia Friday T-shirt that our president is modeling right now.
Ed: It's displaying.
Tim Wildmon: Well, it's a magic trick. I'm putting a magic trick on the air.
Ed: What's that?
JJ Jasper: Well, you look like a bullfighter.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah, it looks like if you were out there, you would need to be a bullfighter.
Ed: But things just didn't work out, did they, Tim?
Tim Wildmon: I'm telling you, you've never presented yourself.
Ed: I didn't apply myself.
Tim Wildmon: There you go. This is a great-looking T-shirt.
JJ Jasper: It is.
Tim Wildmon: Hopefully, we'll win that today. If you want to take a look and see what it looks like, you can go to our resource center. The web address is resources.afa.net. Search for T-shirts. This one should pop up, and you can order one.
JJ Jasper: We are getting to what J.J. always talks about, the time when you want to start looking for stocking stuffers for Christmas.
Tim Wildmon: September is not too early. You can pick up a couple.
Ed: Not according to Cracker Barrel. I just was there.
Tim Wildmon: That's right.
Tim Wildmon: Hey, guys, of course we want to acknowledge the 25th anniversary of 9/11. It's hard to believe that it was 25 years ago. You have things like our great-grandparents remembering Pearl Harbor, maybe the assassination of JFK, and baby boomers right now remembering just a handful of things. You remember where you were when you heard that. You even remember what you were wearing and how you made those phone calls to your loved ones to make sure they were safe, because we knew we were under attack, but we didn't know to what degree.
Tim Wildmon: So we acknowledge this very important anniversary. It is strange, and then we'll move on, but it is strange that it's been 25 years. We have young people working here at AFA and AFR who weren't even born then. That's strange. Twenty-five years is long enough that it's not unusual to be working with people in that age group.
Tim Wildmon: It was a long time ago, but it had a great effect on our country. As always, we applaud and ask people to pray for and appreciate those who keep us safe in all areas: first responders, those in the military, members of the police, and those in the medical community who are always the first to treat people in natural disasters. We're grateful for all those folks as well.
Ed: All right, let's go with our questions.
Ed: Here are my three questions. Number one: During the Revolutionary War, the colonies deployed something called the Turtle. What was it?
Ed: Second question: Superstar Bill Dundee recently passed away. What was the sport for which he became famous?
JJ Jasper: It was wrestling crocodiles, wasn't it? Because I remember in that movie he said, "You call that a knife? This is a knife."
Ed: Yeah, Crocodile Dundee.
Tim Wildmon: That might have been his cousin.
Ed: And then third question: There actually is a secret map on the back of the Declaration of Independence which inspired the movie National Treasure. Is that true or false?
Tim Wildmon: My first question, out of the Bible, we're going to make Ken Ham proud and go back to Genesis. In Genesis 1, what were the first words that God spoke to man?
Tim Wildmon: My second question, thinking about this anniversary of 9/11: Four hijacked planes crashed in three primary locations on September 11, 2001. Name the three locations. We promised we would never forget, so I hope people remember those three locations.
Tim Wildmon: Third question: How many hearts does an octopus have? Multiple choice: Is it A, three; B, five; or C, seven?
JJ Jasper: You know, we've had that question six times.
Ed: Have we really?
JJ Jasper: During our tenure here.
Ed: No way.
Tim Wildmon: Don't forget that. We have had that question.
JJ Jasper: If it's okay, why did you try to shame him on national radio?
Tim Wildmon: It's not shameful to ask a question six times over a period of eight years.
Ed: Oh, eight years?
Tim Wildmon: No, that day wasn't the only time you asked it. You've asked it. I've asked it. We've all asked it.
JJ Jasper: That explains why a lot of sports have the octopus as a mascot. Come on, just give it up. Give it all your hearts.
Ed: Give it all your hearts.
JJ Jasper: Leave it all out on the field. Give your 400, 500, 600 percent, whatever number of hearts they have.
Ed: We've asked it so many times, I still don't know the answer.
JJ Jasper: If a school is recruiting me and their name is the Octopuses, that might almost strike them off.
Ed: Look, if you've got a bunch of arms and a bunch of hearts, you're off to a great start.
JJ Jasper: I know. I'll pick you to be on my team. The Octopuses, take the field.
Tim Wildmon: Imagine what an amazing shortstop lineup that would be.
Ed: Well, good boy, J.J. That's what we'd get by then.
JJ Jasper: I like that question every year or so. I like that question. It pays a little to us.
Ed: All right, here are my three questions. Number one: After chicken, beef, and pork, what meat ranks fourth in consumption by Americans, excluding seafood?
Ed: No shrimp, no salmon. After chicken, beef, and pork, which are by far and away the top three most-consumed meats by Americans, what's the fourth one?
Tim Wildmon: With the exception of seafood.
Ed: Yeah, no, you can't include seafood.
Tim Wildmon: I didn't know.
Ed: Again, ladies and gentlemen, I brought Tim here, Professor Tim. I don't pull my questions off trivia websites just willy-nilly. I think about these questions, and they're original. Does that sound like I'm bragging?
Tim Wildmon: I don't know what you mean. It's not like you don't get struck by lightning.
Ed: You don't brag.
Ed: Number two: What classic movie ends with this line: "After all, tomorrow is another day"?
Ed: I don't know the answer to that. That's a good question.
JJ Jasper: I can see him driving that Pontiac Firebird and saying, "Breaker, breaker," but I can't remember the name of the movie.
Tim Wildmon: I think you're on the wrong track there, brother.
Ed: Anyway, here's my third question. Who introduced peanuts to the American South?
Ed: We know that peanuts are big in Georgia and maybe Alabama. I think they grow some peanuts, but they're not native.
Tim Wildmon: I didn't know that.
Ed: This is a learning show. We promised you're going to learn something again. I came up with these questions after doing some quick research. I did major investigation.
JJ Jasper: You came forth.
Ed: Yes, I came forth.
JJ Jasper: Did I not come forward?
Ed: Well, you came forth.
JJ Jasper: Okay, absolutely.
Ed: So who introduced peanuts to the American South? They're not native to the South.
Tim Wildmon: That's fascinating.
Ed: All right, let's go.
Tim Wildmon: We're going to go to Virginia, and Mark is on the line. Mark, welcome to Trivia Friday.
Mark: Hello, professors.
Ed: How are you, Mark? Is this the Birdman?
Mark: Yes.
Tim Wildmon: Not the Birdman of Alcatraz, right?
Mark: That's right.
JJ Jasper: He's not the pitcher, either.
Ed: Mark Fidrych. Do you talk to yourself a lot, Mark?
Tim Wildmon: Was it Mark Fidrych?
Ed: Yeah, Mark Fidrych. He talked to the ball and then jerked around. He'd take his hand and fluff up the mound.
JJ Jasper: Yeah, that guy. He was a character.
Ed: Mark Fidrych of the Detroit Tigers. He was a flash in the pan.
Tim Wildmon: His flash lasted for a year or two.
Ed: If he was a fad, what a character that guy was. All right, Mark, do you want to ask, answer, or do both?
Mark: Both, please.
Ed: Which one do you want to try to answer?
Mark: The September 11th one, please.
Ed: Yes, sir. Four hijacked planes, hijacked by Islamic terrorists, crashed at three primary locations. Name them, Mark.
Mark: Washington, D.C., New York City, and Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
Ed: Yes, sir. The World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon, and Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
Tim Wildmon: We have all those people, all of those families. I heard a program this morning, and a man said his daughter was a flight attendant on one of the flights. For everybody else, when they see those iconic clips of the plane going into the tower, he sees, "That was my little baby. I know my girl was on that plane."
Tim Wildmon: Think of all the families of the firefighters and all the more than 3,000 people who were killed. Multiply that by so many cousins, aunts, uncles, and parents. We promised we would not forget. I wonder, having Mamdani as a mayor in New York and the fellow running in Michigan, if we have forgotten. But thank you for remembering that, Mark.
Ed: What's your question for us?
Mark: In which John Wayne movie does he speak to an imaginary girlfriend?
JJ Jasper: Wow. I'm a little ashamed of the Duke. On the one hand, John Wayne is talking to an imaginary girlfriend?
Tim Wildmon: I don't receive that at all.
Ed: He was in one musical, so I wonder if he was in that.
JJ Jasper: I know. All I have to say to you is, how dare you, sir?
Tim Wildmon: How dare you say that about the memory of John Wayne?
Ed: In what movie did John Wayne lose his marbles?
JJ Jasper: I've watched a lot of John Wayne movies. I cannot remember that one.
Tim Wildmon: Oh, John, now I remember. The one where John Wayne gets to knock the socks off of his man cards.
JJ Jasper: I think you have a smart idea. I'll go with True Grit.
Ed: In True Grit, he was kind of prone to sipping from the whiskey bottle. Maybe you're onto something.
Tim Wildmon: I'm going to go with Tim. That could be a stroke of genius.
JJ Jasper: Or it's just a stroke.
Tim Wildmon: I'm going with the real one. Nobody has hardly heard of it. It was on the B side. I'm going with the movie Tiptoe Through the Tulips.
Ed: How about Shores of Iwo Jima?
JJ Jasper: He was a Marine in that one. There's no way they're going to make John Wayne a Marine talking to an imaginary girlfriend.
Ed: We've got several movies. What's the answer, Mark?
Mark: It's not any of those. It's Blood Alley.
JJ Jasper: Blood Alley?
Tim Wildmon: When was that, in the 1920s?
Mark: It was 1955.
Ed: Blood Alley. I've never heard of it. What happened in that movie, Mark? Give us some backstory.
Mark: In that one, he is up against communists from China, and he is locked up in prison. He's got an imaginary girlfriend that he likes to talk to.
Tim Wildmon: Okay, I'll give him that. Solitary confinement can do you wrong.
JJ Jasper: It's sort of like Tom Hanks on the island with Wilson.
Ed: A little bit of company.
JJ Jasper: Yeah, but Wilson was a volleyball, so you can make up an imaginary girlfriend. It wouldn't be unusual if you were in solitary confinement.
Ed: Very confined.
Tim Wildmon: That's right.
JJ Jasper: We'll give him a pass.
Tim Wildmon: But that is still disappointing. We didn't need to know that about John Wayne.
Ed: He should have rejected that script.
JJ Jasper: He should have.
Tim Wildmon: Hey, Mark, thanks for listening. Have a great weekend.
Ed: John Wayne should have paid a little more attention to the script. You say yes to the idea, and it was his role as an icon of American masculinity.
JJ Jasper: It kind of takes a hit right there. He doesn't even have a real girlfriend.
Ed: Although I've got to say, there's nothing wrong with, if you can't get a date in high school, telling your friends that you do have a girlfriend from out of town. There's nothing wrong with that. I'm just saying.
Tim Wildmon: You're sensitive here.
JJ Jasper: It can happen to the best of us.
Ed: All right, you're listening to Trivia Friday on American Family Radio.
Tim Wildmon: Even my imaginary girlfriend from out of town dumped me.
JJ Jasper: That's bad.
Ed: That's bad when your imaginary girlfriend sends you a Dear John letter.
Tim Wildmon: Dear John.
Ed: All right, who's next?
JJ Jasper: We're going to Oregon, and Cammy is on the line. Cammy, I think this is a big welcome back to you to Trivia Friday, isn't it?
Cammy: Yes. I've tried to get on, but you guys are pretty popular.
Tim Wildmon: We have a lot of imaginary friends out there.
Ed: That was pretty good.
Tim Wildmon: Cammy, ask, answer, or do both?
Cammy: Both, please.
Tim Wildmon: Which one do you want to answer?
Cammy: Your question regarding the first thing God said to Adam.
Tim Wildmon: Okay, we're going all the way back to Genesis. What were the first words spoken to man?
Cammy: I believe it said, "Be fruitful and multiply."
Tim Wildmon: Yes, ma'am. Is that right?
Ed: Be fruitful and multiply. The first pro-life message.
JJ Jasper: Then we said, stay away from the tree.
Tim Wildmon: That's in chapter two.
Ed: That's right. Be fruitful and multiply is in chapter one. Soon after that was, "Stay away from that tree."
JJ Jasper: All the other trees were fine.
Ed: Right. Forbidden fruit. Nothing's changed. You can have all this, but then you crave the one thing you're told you can't have.
Tim Wildmon: Fallen nature.
JJ Jasper: Talking snake.
Ed: Do you have a fallen nature?
JJ Jasper: You don't have imaginary girlfriends, and you stay away from talking snakes.
Tim Wildmon: There's the moral. If you remember only two things from this show today to apply to your life, stay away from imaginary girlfriends and talking snakes.
Ed: Talking snakes.
Tim Wildmon: Hey, what's your question for us, Cammy?
Ed: Thanks for reading the Word and knowing your Bible.
Cammy: There is a dam in eastern Oregon that served as the primary engineering prototype for the Hoover Dam. Where is that dam, and what is it called?
Tim Wildmon: I didn't realize there was one.
Ed: I didn't either.
Tim Wildmon: You said it's in eastern Oregon?
Cammy: Yes.
JJ Jasper: You and I have both been there once.
Ed: I've been there once.
Tim Wildmon: So this is eastern Oregon?
Cammy: Eastern Oregon, the Baker City area.
Tim Wildmon: I don't remember.
Ed: There's a very popular missionary group that we all know. It slips my mind, but they do their training right outside of Baker City because the hills and the landscape resemble a third-world country.
JJ Jasper: The Navigators or something?
Ed: No, it's not the Navigators, but it's another group.
Tim Wildmon: The Avengers?
Ed: No, not the Avengers.
JJ Jasper: We have the Avengers and not Avengers.
Ed: Cammy, what's the answer?
Cammy: It's called the Owyhee Dam.
Tim Wildmon: Owyhee?
Cammy: Owyhee.
Ed: Spell that for us.
Cammy: O-W-Y-H-E-E.
Tim Wildmon: What's the backstory there?
Cammy: Owyhee Dam in eastern Oregon served as the primary engineering prototype and testing ground for construction techniques later used on the Hoover Dam.
Ed: A smaller version.
JJ Jasper: There's a deal. They reached out over there to Honolulu and said, "Would you all send local 101 down, builders from Honolulu, to get this thing done here in eastern Oregon?" That's why it's called Owyhee.
Tim Wildmon: Boy, some people made some mistakes planning a vacation for that.
Ed: I thought they had beaches here.
JJ Jasper: Owyhee still does.
Ed: Oh, when it was completed.
Tim Wildmon: Have you been there?
Ed: I have not.
JJ Jasper: It's about two hours away from us.
Ed: Good news, bad news. "Honey, we've won a trip to Hawaii." "Bad news. Don't pack a swimsuit. Expect to have a layover right over here."
Tim Wildmon: Look at the weather report. I swore there were beaches here.
Ed: This flight to Hawaii or Owyhee?
Tim Wildmon: We're going to have to talk to that travel agent.
Ed: Thank you. Have a great weekend, Cammy.
Cammy: Thank you.
Tim Wildmon: That's interesting, a prototype for the Hoover Dam. Have you guys seen the Hoover Dam?
Ed: I'm not. I won't do it.
JJ Jasper: I haven't.
Tim Wildmon: Everybody I know has, except me.
Ed: Obviously.
Tim Wildmon: They say it is just amazing.
JJ Jasper: It can't be everybody.
Ed: Who are your two best friends?
Tim Wildmon: I want to see it. You can do three or four things. I'm going to bore people with this.
JJ Jasper: We want to hear it.
Tim Wildmon: Absolutely. If you go out west, people who live out there know this, but you can go out there and hit the Grand Canyon, the Hoover Dam, and, if you want to, Las Vegas. You can also go over to Moab and see the national arches. You can do that probably in about eight days.
Ed: Eight days?
Tim Wildmon: Well, it's all within, you know, when you get there, it's probably less than that if you just want to go fast. But there's a lot to see in that Hoover Dam region.
JJ Jasper: I'd like to see Monument Valley. I would like to see some of those things that you mentioned. I haven't gotten out that far to check that stuff out.
Tim Wildmon: Let's go ahead and take our break right here. We'll take our break and come back.
Ed: I have to go give a call to my imaginary friend.
JJ Jasper: I was about to say imaginary girlfriend, but you never know who's listening.
Tim Wildmon: You never know when Diane's listening.
Ed: Or do you know she's never listening?
JJ Jasper: She's heard it all.
Tim Wildmon: All right, we're going to take a short timeout right here. We'll be back with more of Trivia Friday on American Family Radio.
Host: In the year 1931, Aldous Huxley, the famous skeptic, wrote on the subject of wanting a new pleasure. In the essay, he had this to say:
Host: "As far as I can see, the only possible new pleasure would be derived from the invention of a new drug which would provide a harmless substitute for alcohol. If I were a millionaire, I should endow a band of research workers to look for the ideal intoxicant. If we could swallow something that would abolish inferiority, attune us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection, and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transforming drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution, then it seems to me that all our problems would be solved and earth would be a paradise."
Host: Huxley was hunting something that we all hunt in life. Every person seeks what he wanted. The difference comes in the methods in which we seek it.
Host: For him and countless others, the answer could be found in a drug or a bottle, some kind of magic to turn the trick. Some of the rest of us have found that which Huxley searched for, but we didn't find it in the magic of a bottle. We found it in the miracle of a cross.
Host: We followed the little Jewish tentmaker's advice. "Don't get drunk with wine," he said, "which will only ruin you. Instead, be filled with the Spirit."
Host: Abolish inferiority? We have indeed rid ourselves of it by hearing Him tell us that we are the light of the world and the salt of the earth. When He compares us with terms like those, we cannot feel inferior.
Host: Affection toward our fellows? We found that, too. You see, the Galilean has taught us to do exactly what Mr. Huxley wanted: to love one another. He set the example. He loved us.
Host: "Greater love has no man than this," He said. Then, because of His love, He faced that cross.
Host: Something to make life more than mere existence? Some who follow the Galilean can say with Him, "For this purpose I have come."
Host: In making life beautiful, there is nothing more beautiful in all of life than to see it as His creation. To know that He is there behind it all, full of love for us even when we don't deserve it, makes life eternally beautiful. He is indeed the source of all beauty.
Host: A clear head and undamaged constitution? Well, He gives that, too. He lets you think clearly and live with a constitution written by the Author of life.
Host: Mr. Huxley kept hunting for that magic drug. On November 22, 1963, 31 years after his wish, Huxley tried a new drug called LSD, which many thought to be the answer to his wish. His wife administered the drug to Huxley, who was dying of cancer. It was the last drug Huxley ever experimented with. You see, it was a one-way trip.
Tim Wildmon: The horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust, and a hearty "Hi-yo, Silver!"
Ed: The Lone Ranger.
JJ Jasper: That's my workout music.
Tim Wildmon: That's the theme song from the Green Hornet, folks.
Ed: That's why he switched to Silver, you know, the horse. That old car he was driving was backfiring several times there.
JJ Jasper: Do you have an imaginary girlfriend? You sound like you're asking for a friend.
Ed: I sound like such a nerd.
Tim Wildmon: It sounds like you're hallucinating just a little bit here.
JJ Jasper: That was the Lone Ranger with the scratchy music of the cinema.
Ed: "Hi-yo, Silver!"
Tim Wildmon: Away, right?
Ed: That's right.
Tim Wildmon: Trivia Friday on American Family Radio. Tim, Ed, and J.J. We also call this Learning University.
JJ Jasper: Learning University is on the air.
Tim Wildmon: Let us repeat our questions, Ed, that have gone unanswered, and then we'll get back to the phones.
Ed: Hoyt in Georgia, stay close to your phone, brother. We're coming to you in just a second.
Ed: Here are my three questions. During the Revolutionary War, the colonies deployed something called the Turtle. What was it?
JJ Jasper: You can deploy a turtle, though, right?
Ed: You can, because they did.
Tim Wildmon: They deployed that turtle.
Ed: A turtle went forth.
JJ Jasper: It went forth amongst them.
Ed: All right. Superstar Bill Dundee recently passed away. What was the sport for which he became famous?
Ed: And then third question: There actually is a secret map on the back of the Declaration of Independence which inspired the movie National Treasure, but is that true or false?
Tim Wildmon: Here's what I've got. First question: How many hearts does an octopus have?
Ed: When there's a breakup involving an octopus, its heart has been broken so many times it beats with a limp.
JJ Jasper: That's so sad.
Tim Wildmon: Take an octopus in middle school.
Ed: I forgot to tell you, it's multiple choice: A, three hearts; B, five hearts; or C, seven hearts.
Tim Wildmon: I've had a couple of questions answered, so let me give you a couple of them. A royal flush. You can turn a royal flush.
Ed: That's right. Which major league pitcher totaled the most strikeouts during the 1970s and 1980s?
Tim Wildmon: I know my two baseball aficionados. I know you guys know who that is.
JJ Jasper: Don't blurt it out.
Ed: I know that. I know.
Tim Wildmon: Which major league pitcher threw the most strikeouts during the '70s and '80s?
Ed: Third question: True or false? It took 199 years to construct the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Is that true or false?
JJ Jasper: If it's true, almost none of the original workers were still working on it after it was completed.
Ed: It wasn't intended to be leaning.
Tim Wildmon: Oh, I know. They looked up and discovered some bad engineering, and here they are today.
Ed: Who would have ever heard of the Tower of Pisa?
JJ Jasper: Right. Nobody would have heard of that. It's like any other tower. It's got to be leaning.
Ed: All three of us were Larson.
Tim Wildmon: What was that?
Ed: Gary Larson.
JJ Jasper: Gary Larson, the cartoonist.
Ed: You had a guy there, and the thing said, "Tower of Pisa under construction." The architect and the contractor were looking at it. The contractor said, "Hey, I was able to cheap out on the footer. Nobody's ever going to know. It's going to be more money for me and you, but nobody will ever know."
Tim Wildmon: Nobody would ever know.
Ed: Yeah, that was Gary Larson.
JJ Jasper: Very nice.
Ed: So funny.
Tim Wildmon: After chicken, beef, and pork, what ranks fourth among the most consumed meats by Americans, excluding seafood?
JJ Jasper: Seafood.
Ed: Got me.
Tim Wildmon: Number two: What classic movie ends with the line, "After all, tomorrow is another day"?
Ed: Number three: Who introduced peanuts to the American South? Peanuts are not native to the American South, so how were they introduced to Georgia and Alabama?
JJ Jasper: Johnny Appleseed did a whole lot more than just plant apple trees.
Ed: He was also Santa Claus before Santa Claus. A lot of people don't know that.
Tim Wildmon: That guy, huh?
JJ Jasper: He would bring gifts to kids coming down to America.
Ed: Apple seeds and peach seeds. Here comes Johnny Appleseed, coming down the chimney, coming down the cotton trail.
JJ Jasper: Hippity-hoppity, Santa's on his way.
Tim Wildmon: You've got a couple of your fairy tales mixed up there.
Ed: Christmas is on its way. I think that's what John Wayne was singing.
JJ Jasper: Yeah, he was doing that. He said that over and over.
Ed: I wonder if you broke up with your imaginary girlfriend.
Tim Wildmon: All right, let's go to Georgia. Hoyt has been waiting patiently. Hoyt, welcome to Trivia Friday.
Hoyt: I want to do both.
Ed: All right, get right down to business.
Hoyt: Yes, sir.
Tim Wildmon: You want to do both?
Hoyt: Yes, sir.
Ed: All right, Hoyt, which one do you want to answer?
Hoyt: Which major league pitcher totaled the most strikeouts during the 1970s and 1980s?
Ed: It's not Nolan Ryan.
Hoyt: Nolan Ryan.
Tim Wildmon: Nicely done. That's who you guys thought.
JJ Jasper: Nolan Ryan.
Ed: I'm a machine.
Tim Wildmon: He threw 99 or 100 miles per hour and did it for nine innings.
JJ Jasper: Wasn't he even in his late 30s and into his 40s?
Ed: He was a freak of nature.
Tim Wildmon: That's right.
Ed: No, we're still live. Hey, great job, Hoyt. What's your question for us?
Hoyt: 5,714.
JJ Jasper: Wow, 5,714. What, strikeouts?
Hoyt: No, it was home runs.
Ed: 5,714? Is that what you said?
Hoyt: Yes.
Tim Wildmon: That's insane.
JJ Jasper: That'll just never be broken. For one thing, he pitched nine innings every time. They don't do that anymore.
Ed: They don't do that anymore.
Tim Wildmon: The fact that he never had Tommy John surgery and never had a shoulder problem after all that.
JJ Jasper: He was a rubber-band man. Like you said, you could probably study his body and see how his ligaments and all these things were unusual.
Ed: He might be like the guy whose dad put a little pinch of gunpowder in his oatmeal just to toughen him up. That could have been part of it.
Tim Wildmon: As he got older and could make his own choices, he said it was just a habit. Every morning, he put a little pinch of gunpowder in his oatmeal to make him tough.
JJ Jasper: He happened to be flexible.
Ed: They said when he died, he was cremated and it blew a hole in the funeral home, a hole so large you could drive a truck through it.
Tim Wildmon: That is sad.
JJ Jasper: It's sad that it's just a longevity joke.
Ed: Talking about questions, you know, you've heard that seven or eight times. They'll never forget that funeral, the people who were there.
Tim Wildmon: I know.
Ed: All right, what have we got going on?
JJ Jasper: Hoyt, we have a question for us.
Ed: I'm going to get a sandwich.
Hoyt: Which college quarterback threw nine interceptions, and they left him in? Number six, number seven, number eight, and number nine?
Ed: What team?
Hoyt: The year was 1971, and the team was Florida.
Tim Wildmon: Can you give me any more information?
Ed: Is this a player who eventually made it to the pros? I know that sounds silly.
Hoyt: I don't think he did.
JJ Jasper: Did they play in the SEC?
Hoyt: Yes, this was the Florida Gators.
Tim Wildmon: In 1971, you're probably talking about Steve Spurrier.
Ed: But he made it to the pros, didn't he? He played for the 49ers.
Tim Wildmon: No, it wasn't him.
Ed: Spurrier would have been in the sixties for the Florida Gators, but he did play quarterback for the Florida Gators and won the Heisman Trophy.
Tim Wildmon: In 1971, there is going to be somebody nobody has heard of.
Ed: Give me a first name.
Hoyt: John.
JJ Jasper: John? That's like half of American males.
Ed: Spell the last name.
Tim Wildmon: There's no way we could get this.
Ed: I think we broke the record for getting here.
JJ Jasper: John Appleseed, I guess.
Ed: You needed to help us.
Hoyt: It was John Reaves.
Tim Wildmon: That's funny.
Ed: Even though he went down in flames with nine interceptions, he was a lefty.
JJ Jasper: I didn't even know they threw that much back then. They didn't throw that much in that era.
Ed: Anyway, what's his name?
Hoyt: Reaves.
Tim Wildmon: Okay, that's great. Thanks, Hoyt.
Hoyt: Thank you.
Ed: Have a good weekend.
Tim Wildmon: Absolutely. John Reaves. I remember that name.
JJ Jasper: You do know Steve Spurrier played quarterback. He played for the 49ers, didn't he?
Tim Wildmon: I don't know who Spurrier played for in the NFL, but he played college at the University of Florida.
Ed: The Gators have put out some real talent over the years.
Tim Wildmon: Yep.
JJ Jasper: Who's next?
Ed: We're going to Texas, and Tim is on the line. Tim, welcome to Trivia Friday.
Tim: Hey, guys. How's it going?
Ed: Good, Tim. Thanks for calling. Where do you live in Texas?
Tim: The big city of Mount Calm.
JJ Jasper: If I look at a map, where am I looking?
Tim: You're about 20 miles northeast of Waco.
Ed: Northeast of Waco. Got you. You're on the interstate there toward Dallas?
Tim: We're on Highway 31, which runs through Corsicana toward 45.
JJ Jasper: You're right down from the Dollar General, aren't you?
Tim: Actually, we're in a bad place here. The nearest Dollar General is about eight miles away.
Ed: How do you all make it?
Tim: It's a long trip.
JJ Jasper: The good news is there's a Buc-ee's about 30 miles away.
Tim: Oh, yeah, there you go.
Ed: You can get just about anything you need there.
JJ Jasper: Stay there. Don't move off.
Ed: All right, Tim, ask, answer, or both?
Tim: I'll do both.
Ed: Which one do you want to take a shot at?
Tim: I think your movie question.
Ed: Here's my movie question that Tim is going to answer. What classic movie ends with this line: "After all, tomorrow is another day"?
Tim: I believe that's Gone with the Wind.
Ed: Yes, it is. Who is the character there?
Tim: Scarlett O'Hara.
JJ Jasper: And that's before Rhett Butler delivers his line.
Ed: That's all coming back to me. That's right when she clicked her red ruby slippers together and said, "Tomorrow is going to be a new day."
Tim: I love that part.
Ed: You know why I didn't know the answer to that?
JJ Jasper: There could be a number of reasons, but the main reason is that you've never watched that movie.
Ed: And you call yourself an American.
Tim: Scarlett, my wife Allison uses that line. What is it? "I'll worry about that tomorrow."
Ed: That's her mindset during the movie.
Tim: My wife was named Melanie after that movie. Her mother already had a name picked out, but she watched Gone with the Wind and saw the sweet girl, Melanie. She was inspired and named her Melanie.
Ed: How'd you know that, Tim?
Tim: I've seen the movie.
JJ Jasper: Did you have to take off work to watch it? Isn't it three and a half hours long?
Ed: You have to take a nap in between.
Tim: It's kind of like a football game. You take halftime.
JJ Jasper: Intermission.
Tim: It is a long movie, but it's an American classic. At the very end, Scarlett O'Hara says, "After all, tomorrow is another day."
Ed: It's one of the famous lines.
JJ Jasper: Well, don't spoil it. You've ruined it for me. Now I know the last line.
Ed: Then Rhett Butler says, "I'll be back."
Tim: I'm interested.
Ed: All right, what's your question for us?
Tim: First, I want to say that my wife and I visited your offices back in June, and we enjoyed the tour.
Tim Wildmon: Thank you, brother. We're glad y'all came. I always welcome folks to come and see us.
Tim: We didn't get to meet Ed, but I guess I'd come back another day.
Ed: That's right.
Tim: Where was I?
JJ Jasper: You weren't there.
Ed: You had to schedule Ed.
Tim Wildmon: I'm not here every day.
Ed: You don't have to pay to schedule Ed.
JJ Jasper: It's kind of a lottery.
Ed: I'm not on every day. That was probably the issue.
Tim Wildmon: Because not everybody has made the trip, what can you tell people about your first impression? What was your reaction to being here on our campus?
Tim: It was really nice. Everybody was very welcoming.
JJ Jasper: Tim was a little bit standoffish.
Ed: He's the one who's always trying to get people to take pictures with him. He was over by the popcorn machine.
JJ Jasper: If you get him away from the popcorn machine, he's really got a good personality and is easy to talk to.
Tim Wildmon: Is this how y'all talk about me when I'm not here?
Ed: No, we're talking about you while you're here.
Tim: When we were there, he slipped out and got popcorn, and my wife went with him. He showed her the way.
Ed: That's it. That's the way.
Tim Wildmon: All right, Tim, did you have a question for us?
Tim: Yes. This American band sold the most concert tickets from 1969 to 1974. Do you know who it was?
Ed: For a five-year period, you're saying?
Tim: Yes.
JJ Jasper: He didn't say British band, so American band.
Tim Wildmon: We're thinking about ourselves.
Ed: Are you thinking the Beach Boys?
JJ Jasper: I'm thinking the Eagles or Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Ed: We're throwing out names.
Tim Wildmon: That is a good guess, J.J. What can you tell us?
Tim: I can give you a hint, but you'll probably get it.
Ed: Give us a little hint. Don't tell us the lead singer or anything like that.
Tim: They brought joy to the world.
Ed: Oh, I know you'd get that.
JJ Jasper: So you mean they sold the most concert tickets in America?
Tim: They sold the most tickets.
Ed: That makes sense. They had a bunch of hits right there.
JJ Jasper: So the number of guests?
Tim: A guy who toured with them was named Randy Cutler. I got to travel with him a little bit. On one of his albums, he's got me listed as his road manager, but he's not on any of the albums. He filled in for people who were out. They went on a Japan tour, and he went with them for the whole tour.
Tim: You can never find him on an album, but he was the keyboard player for Three Dog Night. I got to hear a lot of stories. He became a Christian, and he went to churches where he shared his testimony and played music.
Ed: "Joy to the World" was probably their biggest hit.
JJ Jasper: "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve."
Tim Wildmon: You're thinking of "One," not "Joy to the World."
Ed: I'm surprised Jeremiah was a bulldog.
JJ Jasper: Bulldog?
Ed: He's a bullfrog.
Tim Wildmon: He was a bullfrog.
JJ Jasper: It is football season, so you can look it up.
Tim Wildmon: All right, thank you, brother Tim.
Tim: Thank you.
Ed: We invite you to stop by our campus. A lot of people, if they're headed to the beach, stop here. It gives them a chance to stretch their legs and see the ministry.
JJ Jasper: Or if they're going to the Owyhee Dam in Oregon.
Ed: Owyhee, you stop along the way.
Tim Wildmon: If you do want to come by and visit, go to afa.net. There is a drop-down menu that says, I think, "More," and then "Contact Us." There's a place where you need to fill it out to let us know that you're coming.
JJ Jasper: So if people want to stop here and see us, what do they need to do?
Ed: They go to afa.net, and then there's a drop-down menu under "Contact Us," so we can know they're coming.
Tim Wildmon: It will say "Visits" or something like that.
JJ Jasper: Can they check a box saying they want popcorn?
Ed: There is not. That's because there's almost always popcorn available.
Tim Wildmon: That's true.
Ed: They're pleasant people.
JJ Jasper: Yes, and we give them a little bag of goodies for their effort.
Tim Wildmon: All right, you're listening to Trivia Friday on American Family Radio. Tim, Ed, and J.J. Who's next?
Ed: We're going to Arkansas, and Laura is on the line. Laura, welcome to Trivia Friday.
Laura: Good morning.
Ed: Good morning.
Laura: I was here with my brother, and we had something we wanted to give you before we started. Would that be okay?
Tim Wildmon: Yes, sure.
Laura and Clay: Good morning, dear professors.
Tim Wildmon: We're going to have to use that some way.
Ed: That was awesome. Let's save that for one of the intros when the show starts.
JJ Jasper: Beautiful harmony. If you guys don't sing in the choir, you need to. That was wonderful.
Laura: Thank you so much.
Ed: What was your brother's name?
Laura: Clay.
Tim Wildmon: Clay and Laura just made our day. Who wrote the tune there?
Laura: My brother does a lot of songwriting.
Ed: He and I need to get together. I write songs myself on the side here, in addition to my full-time work on a cello, which makes it a little more difficult.
JJ Jasper: It's the side gig he has between his rocket science and brain surgery practice.
Ed: I was also an Austrian astronaut.
Tim Wildmon: That's what they call astronauts down there?
Ed: I'm not a finalist. I was the last cut. I was number five out of four.
JJ Jasper: You can hold your breath as long as the other elements.
Ed: I don't like to talk about it.
Tim Wildmon: Hey, Clay and Laura, I noticed you left off "here to four," and that's understandable. It's hard to find anything to rhyme with "here to four."
Ed: It's like the word orange.
JJ Jasper: What's your brother's name?
Ed: Clay. She already said that a minute ago.
JJ Jasper: I wasn't listening to that part.
Ed: All right, Laura and Clay, is this a duet on the show, or is there one person going to answer?
JJ Jasper: When two people sing, that's typically cool.
Laura: My brother's driving, so I'll just answer.
Ed: Do you want to ask, answer, or do both?
Laura: Do both, please.
Ed: Which one do you want to answer?
Laura: The one about the Turtle.
Ed: Here's the question: During the Revolutionary War, the colonies deployed something called the Turtle. What was it?
Laura: It was one of the first one-man submarines, made of wood. It was created in an effort to break the blockade on Boston Harbor or New York Harbor. My brother and I were deliberating about that. It did not work. They weren't able to attach the explosives to the flagship, but the explosion in the water scared the British enough that they did go ahead and break the blockade. It was one of the first one-man submarines.
Ed: It is the very first wartime submarine, so that is an excellent answer. That's what they called the Turtle. You have the backstory exactly right. It was New York Harbor, and they were not able to attach the bomb because the hull of the British ship was too thick.
Ed: The only other thing I wanted to add was that they had a valve to let water in to sink and a hand pump that pushed the water out to rise. Here was the most fascinating part, to me anyway: They had a small piece of bioluminescent foxfire, which is a glowing fungus, in a glass vial. That provided light for the instrument gauges.
Tim Wildmon: My wife says I overthink many things. You're telling me you're going to have a wooden submarine, a wooden submarine, and you're saying, "I need a volunteer." You get into a wooden craft under the water loaded with explosives. When you get close enough, you need to lie there and crank the drill on the back of that thing. Then you swim as fast as you can. I think we have a chance to smarten up. Do I have any volunteers?
Ed: This guy did. His name was Sergeant Ezra Lee. They called him Turtle. He made it through all that. He lived.
Tim Wildmon: Hey, good morning, everybody. Welcome to Trivia Friday on American Family Radio. Today is Friday, September 11, 2026.
Tim Wildmon: As always, we thank you for joining us here on AFR and Trivia Friday. We're going to do a whole bunch of learning today, aren't we, Ed?
Ed: Oh, we is.
Tim Wildmon: We is learning. I'm going to learn how to speak correct English.
JJ Jasper: The professor of Owensboro, Kentucky. Great to be here. A mom asked the dad to read a book to little Johnny and put him to bed. After about 20 minutes, she went to the edge of the stairs and said, "Is he asleep yet?" Little Johnny said, "Yes, finally."
Tim Wildmon: All right. Today, you're eligible to call in if you haven't been on the show in the last eight weeks.
JJ Jasper: That is true.
Tim Wildmon: So we have an eight-week waiting period between on-air appearances. If you want to call in and be on with us, we welcome anybody who can call, as long as you've waited eight weeks since your last appearance on the show. Trivia Friday here on AFR. The phone number to reach us is 888-589-8840. You need to be 11 years old or older to be on the show. J.J., what else have we got going on?
JJ Jasper: This is pretty exciting. You woke up this morning not thinking you were going to win anything, but you have a chance to win a really nice Learning University T-shirt. One of our original nine questions is a mystery question. If you happen to land on it and answer it correctly, you'll hear this sound.
Ed: Ah, the beloved cowbell.
JJ Jasper: That means you're going to win a really nice Learning University Trivia Friday T-shirt that our president is modeling right now.
Ed: It's displaying.
Tim Wildmon: Well, it's a magic trick. I'm putting a magic trick on the air.
Ed: What's that?
JJ Jasper: Well, you look like a bullfighter.
Tim Wildmon: Yeah, it looks like if you were out there, you would need to be a bullfighter.
Ed: But things just didn't work out, did they, Tim?
Tim Wildmon: I'm telling you, you've never presented yourself.
Ed: I didn't apply myself.
Tim Wildmon: There you go. This is a great-looking T-shirt.
JJ Jasper: It is.
Tim Wildmon: Hopefully, we'll win that today. If you want to take a look and see what it looks like, you can go to our resource center. The web address is resources.afa.net. Search for T-shirts. This one should pop up, and you can order one.
JJ Jasper: We are getting to what J.J. always talks about, the time when you want to start looking for stocking stuffers for Christmas.
Tim Wildmon: September is not too early. You can pick up a couple.
Ed: Not according to Cracker Barrel. I just was there.
Tim Wildmon: That's right.
Tim Wildmon: Hey, guys, of course we want to acknowledge the 25th anniversary of 9/11. It's hard to believe that it was 25 years ago. You have things like our great-grandparents remembering Pearl Harbor, maybe the assassination of JFK, and baby boomers right now remembering just a handful of things. You remember where you were when you heard that. You even remember what you were wearing and how you made those phone calls to your loved ones to make sure they were safe, because we knew we were under attack, but we didn't know to what degree.
Tim Wildmon: So we acknowledge this very important anniversary. It is strange, and then we'll move on, but it is strange that it's been 25 years. We have young people working here at AFA and AFR who weren't even born then. That's strange. Twenty-five years is long enough that it's not unusual to be working with people in that age group.
Tim Wildmon: It was a long time ago, but it had a great effect on our country. As always, we applaud and ask people to pray for and appreciate those who keep us safe in all areas: first responders, those in the military, members of the police, and those in the medical community who are always the first to treat people in natural disasters. We're grateful for all those folks as well.
Ed: All right, let's go with our questions.
Ed: Here are my three questions. Number one: During the Revolutionary War, the colonies deployed something called the Turtle. What was it?
Ed: Second question: Superstar Bill Dundee recently passed away. What was the sport for which he became famous?
JJ Jasper: It was wrestling crocodiles, wasn't it? Because I remember in that movie he said, "You call that a knife? This is a knife."
Ed: Yeah, Crocodile Dundee.
Tim Wildmon: That might have been his cousin.
Ed: And then third question: There actually is a secret map on the back of the Declaration of Independence which inspired the movie National Treasure. Is that true or false?
Tim Wildmon: My first question, out of the Bible, we're going to make Ken Ham proud and go back to Genesis. In Genesis 1, what were the first words that God spoke to man?
Tim Wildmon: My second question, thinking about this anniversary of 9/11: Four hijacked planes crashed in three primary locations on September 11, 2001. Name the three locations. We promised we would never forget, so I hope people remember those three locations.
Tim Wildmon: Third question: How many hearts does an octopus have? Multiple choice: Is it A, three; B, five; or C, seven?
JJ Jasper: You know, we've had that question six times.
Ed: Have we really?
JJ Jasper: During our tenure here.
Ed: No way.
Tim Wildmon: Don't forget that. We have had that question.
JJ Jasper: If it's okay, why did you try to shame him on national radio?
Tim Wildmon: It's not shameful to ask a question six times over a period of eight years.
Ed: Oh, eight years?
Tim Wildmon: No, that day wasn't the only time you asked it. You've asked it. I've asked it. We've all asked it.
JJ Jasper: That explains why a lot of sports have the octopus as a mascot. Come on, just give it up. Give it all your hearts.
Ed: Give it all your hearts.
JJ Jasper: Leave it all out on the field. Give your 400, 500, 600 percent, whatever number of hearts they have.
Ed: We've asked it so many times, I still don't know the answer.
JJ Jasper: If a school is recruiting me and their name is the Octopuses, that might almost strike them off.
Ed: Look, if you've got a bunch of arms and a bunch of hearts, you're off to a great start.
JJ Jasper: I know. I'll pick you to be on my team. The Octopuses, take the field.
Tim Wildmon: Imagine what an amazing shortstop lineup that would be.
Ed: Well, good boy, J.J. That's what we'd get by then.
JJ Jasper: I like that question every year or so. I like that question. It pays a little to us.
Ed: All right, here are my three questions. Number one: After chicken, beef, and pork, what meat ranks fourth in consumption by Americans, excluding seafood?
Ed: No shrimp, no salmon. After chicken, beef, and pork, which are by far and away the top three most-consumed meats by Americans, what's the fourth one?
Tim Wildmon: With the exception of seafood.
Ed: Yeah, no, you can't include seafood.
Tim Wildmon: I didn't know.
Ed: Again, ladies and gentlemen, I brought Tim here, Professor Tim. I don't pull my questions off trivia websites just willy-nilly. I think about these questions, and they're original. Does that sound like I'm bragging?
Tim Wildmon: I don't know what you mean. It's not like you don't get struck by lightning.
Ed: You don't brag.
Ed: Number two: What classic movie ends with this line: "After all, tomorrow is another day"?
Ed: I don't know the answer to that. That's a good question.
JJ Jasper: I can see him driving that Pontiac Firebird and saying, "Breaker, breaker," but I can't remember the name of the movie.
Tim Wildmon: I think you're on the wrong track there, brother.
Ed: Anyway, here's my third question. Who introduced peanuts to the American South?
Ed: We know that peanuts are big in Georgia and maybe Alabama. I think they grow some peanuts, but they're not native.
Tim Wildmon: I didn't know that.
Ed: This is a learning show. We promised you're going to learn something again. I came up with these questions after doing some quick research. I did major investigation.
JJ Jasper: You came forth.
Ed: Yes, I came forth.
JJ Jasper: Did I not come forward?
Ed: Well, you came forth.
JJ Jasper: Okay, absolutely.
Ed: So who introduced peanuts to the American South? They're not native to the South.
Tim Wildmon: That's fascinating.
Ed: All right, let's go.
Tim Wildmon: We're going to go to Virginia, and Mark is on the line. Mark, welcome to Trivia Friday.
Mark: Hello, professors.
Ed: How are you, Mark? Is this the Birdman?
Mark: Yes.
Tim Wildmon: Not the Birdman of Alcatraz, right?
Mark: That's right.
JJ Jasper: He's not the pitcher, either.
Ed: Mark Fidrych. Do you talk to yourself a lot, Mark?
Tim Wildmon: Was it Mark Fidrych?
Ed: Yeah, Mark Fidrych. He talked to the ball and then jerked around. He'd take his hand and fluff up the mound.
JJ Jasper: Yeah, that guy. He was a character.
Ed: Mark Fidrych of the Detroit Tigers. He was a flash in the pan.
Tim Wildmon: His flash lasted for a year or two.
Ed: If he was a fad, what a character that guy was. All right, Mark, do you want to ask, answer, or do both?
Mark: Both, please.
Ed: Which one do you want to try to answer?
Mark: The September 11th one, please.
Ed: Yes, sir. Four hijacked planes, hijacked by Islamic terrorists, crashed at three primary locations. Name them, Mark.
Mark: Washington, D.C., New York City, and Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
Ed: Yes, sir. The World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon, and Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
Tim Wildmon: We have all those people, all of those families. I heard a program this morning, and a man said his daughter was a flight attendant on one of the flights. For everybody else, when they see those iconic clips of the plane going into the tower, he sees, "That was my little baby. I know my girl was on that plane."
Tim Wildmon: Think of all the families of the firefighters and all the more than 3,000 people who were killed. Multiply that by so many cousins, aunts, uncles, and parents. We promised we would not forget. I wonder, having Mamdani as a mayor in New York and the fellow running in Michigan, if we have forgotten. But thank you for remembering that, Mark.
Ed: What's your question for us?
Mark: In which John Wayne movie does he speak to an imaginary girlfriend?
JJ Jasper: Wow. I'm a little ashamed of the Duke. On the one hand, John Wayne is talking to an imaginary girlfriend?
Tim Wildmon: I don't receive that at all.
Ed: He was in one musical, so I wonder if he was in that.
JJ Jasper: I know. All I have to say to you is, how dare you, sir?
Tim Wildmon: How dare you say that about the memory of John Wayne?
Ed: In what movie did John Wayne lose his marbles?
JJ Jasper: I've watched a lot of John Wayne movies. I cannot remember that one.
Tim Wildmon: Oh, John, now I remember. The one where John Wayne gets to knock the socks off of his man cards.
JJ Jasper: I think you have a smart idea. I'll go with True Grit.
Ed: In True Grit, he was kind of prone to sipping from the whiskey bottle. Maybe you're onto something.
Tim Wildmon: I'm going to go with Tim. That could be a stroke of genius.
JJ Jasper: Or it's just a stroke.
Tim Wildmon: I'm going with the real one. Nobody has hardly heard of it. It was on the B side. I'm going with the movie Tiptoe Through the Tulips.
Ed: How about Shores of Iwo Jima?
JJ Jasper: He was a Marine in that one. There's no way they're going to make John Wayne a Marine talking to an imaginary girlfriend.
Ed: We've got several movies. What's the answer, Mark?
Mark: It's not any of those. It's Blood Alley.
JJ Jasper: Blood Alley?
Tim Wildmon: When was that, in the 1920s?
Mark: It was 1955.
Ed: Blood Alley. I've never heard of it. What happened in that movie, Mark? Give us some backstory.
Mark: In that one, he is up against communists from China, and he is locked up in prison. He's got an imaginary girlfriend that he likes to talk to.
Tim Wildmon: Okay, I'll give him that. Solitary confinement can do you wrong.
JJ Jasper: It's sort of like Tom Hanks on the island with Wilson.
Ed: A little bit of company.
JJ Jasper: Yeah, but Wilson was a volleyball, so you can make up an imaginary girlfriend. It wouldn't be unusual if you were in solitary confinement.
Ed: Very confined.
Tim Wildmon: That's right.
JJ Jasper: We'll give him a pass.
Tim Wildmon: But that is still disappointing. We didn't need to know that about John Wayne.
Ed: He should have rejected that script.
JJ Jasper: He should have.
Tim Wildmon: Hey, Mark, thanks for listening. Have a great weekend.
Ed: John Wayne should have paid a little more attention to the script. You say yes to the idea, and it was his role as an icon of American masculinity.
JJ Jasper: It kind of takes a hit right there. He doesn't even have a real girlfriend.
Ed: Although I've got to say, there's nothing wrong with, if you can't get a date in high school, telling your friends that you do have a girlfriend from out of town. There's nothing wrong with that. I'm just saying.
Tim Wildmon: You're sensitive here.
JJ Jasper: It can happen to the best of us.
Ed: All right, you're listening to Trivia Friday on American Family Radio.
Tim Wildmon: Even my imaginary girlfriend from out of town dumped me.
JJ Jasper: That's bad.
Ed: That's bad when your imaginary girlfriend sends you a Dear John letter.
Tim Wildmon: Dear John.
Ed: All right, who's next?
JJ Jasper: We're going to Oregon, and Cammy is on the line. Cammy, I think this is a big welcome back to you to Trivia Friday, isn't it?
Cammy: Yes. I've tried to get on, but you guys are pretty popular.
Tim Wildmon: We have a lot of imaginary friends out there.
Ed: That was pretty good.
Tim Wildmon: Cammy, ask, answer, or do both?
Cammy: Both, please.
Tim Wildmon: Which one do you want to answer?
Cammy: Your question regarding the first thing God said to Adam.
Tim Wildmon: Okay, we're going all the way back to Genesis. What were the first words spoken to man?
Cammy: I believe it said, "Be fruitful and multiply."
Tim Wildmon: Yes, ma'am. Is that right?
Ed: Be fruitful and multiply. The first pro-life message.
JJ Jasper: Then we said, stay away from the tree.
Tim Wildmon: That's in chapter two.
Ed: That's right. Be fruitful and multiply is in chapter one. Soon after that was, "Stay away from that tree."
JJ Jasper: All the other trees were fine.
Ed: Right. Forbidden fruit. Nothing's changed. You can have all this, but then you crave the one thing you're told you can't have.
Tim Wildmon: Fallen nature.
JJ Jasper: Talking snake.
Ed: Do you have a fallen nature?
JJ Jasper: You don't have imaginary girlfriends, and you stay away from talking snakes.
Tim Wildmon: There's the moral. If you remember only two things from this show today to apply to your life, stay away from imaginary girlfriends and talking snakes.
Ed: Talking snakes.
Tim Wildmon: Hey, what's your question for us, Cammy?
Ed: Thanks for reading the Word and knowing your Bible.
Cammy: There is a dam in eastern Oregon that served as the primary engineering prototype for the Hoover Dam. Where is that dam, and what is it called?
Tim Wildmon: I didn't realize there was one.
Ed: I didn't either.
Tim Wildmon: You said it's in eastern Oregon?
Cammy: Yes.
JJ Jasper: You and I have both been there once.
Ed: I've been there once.
Tim Wildmon: So this is eastern Oregon?
Cammy: Eastern Oregon, the Baker City area.
Tim Wildmon: I don't remember.
Ed: There's a very popular missionary group that we all know. It slips my mind, but they do their training right outside of Baker City because the hills and the landscape resemble a third-world country.
JJ Jasper: The Navigators or something?
Ed: No, it's not the Navigators, but it's another group.
Tim Wildmon: The Avengers?
Ed: No, not the Avengers.
JJ Jasper: We have the Avengers and not Avengers.
Ed: Cammy, what's the answer?
Cammy: It's called the Owyhee Dam.
Tim Wildmon: Owyhee?
Cammy: Owyhee.
Ed: Spell that for us.
Cammy: O-W-Y-H-E-E.
Tim Wildmon: What's the backstory there?
Cammy: Owyhee Dam in eastern Oregon served as the primary engineering prototype and testing ground for construction techniques later used on the Hoover Dam.
Ed: A smaller version.
JJ Jasper: There's a deal. They reached out over there to Honolulu and said, "Would you all send local 101 down, builders from Honolulu, to get this thing done here in eastern Oregon?" That's why it's called Owyhee.
Tim Wildmon: Boy, some people made some mistakes planning a vacation for that.
Ed: I thought they had beaches here.
JJ Jasper: Owyhee still does.
Ed: Oh, when it was completed.
Tim Wildmon: Have you been there?
Ed: I have not.
JJ Jasper: It's about two hours away from us.
Ed: Good news, bad news. "Honey, we've won a trip to Hawaii." "Bad news. Don't pack a swimsuit. Expect to have a layover right over here."
Tim Wildmon: Look at the weather report. I swore there were beaches here.
Ed: This flight to Hawaii or Owyhee?
Tim Wildmon: We're going to have to talk to that travel agent.
Ed: Thank you. Have a great weekend, Cammy.
Cammy: Thank you.
Tim Wildmon: That's interesting, a prototype for the Hoover Dam. Have you guys seen the Hoover Dam?
Ed: I'm not. I won't do it.
JJ Jasper: I haven't.
Tim Wildmon: Everybody I know has, except me.
Ed: Obviously.
Tim Wildmon: They say it is just amazing.
JJ Jasper: It can't be everybody.
Ed: Who are your two best friends?
Tim Wildmon: I want to see it. You can do three or four things. I'm going to bore people with this.
JJ Jasper: We want to hear it.
Tim Wildmon: Absolutely. If you go out west, people who live out there know this, but you can go out there and hit the Grand Canyon, the Hoover Dam, and, if you want to, Las Vegas. You can also go over to Moab and see the national arches. You can do that probably in about eight days.
Ed: Eight days?
Tim Wildmon: Well, it's all within, you know, when you get there, it's probably less than that if you just want to go fast. But there's a lot to see in that Hoover Dam region.
JJ Jasper: I'd like to see Monument Valley. I would like to see some of those things that you mentioned. I haven't gotten out that far to check that stuff out.
Tim Wildmon: Let's go ahead and take our break right here. We'll take our break and come back.
Ed: I have to go give a call to my imaginary friend.
JJ Jasper: I was about to say imaginary girlfriend, but you never know who's listening.
Tim Wildmon: You never know when Diane's listening.
Ed: Or do you know she's never listening?
JJ Jasper: She's heard it all.
Tim Wildmon: All right, we're going to take a short timeout right here. We'll be back with more of Trivia Friday on American Family Radio.
Host: In the year 1931, Aldous Huxley, the famous skeptic, wrote on the subject of wanting a new pleasure. In the essay, he had this to say:
Host: "As far as I can see, the only possible new pleasure would be derived from the invention of a new drug which would provide a harmless substitute for alcohol. If I were a millionaire, I should endow a band of research workers to look for the ideal intoxicant. If we could swallow something that would abolish inferiority, attune us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection, and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transforming drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution, then it seems to me that all our problems would be solved and earth would be a paradise."
Host: Huxley was hunting something that we all hunt in life. Every person seeks what he wanted. The difference comes in the methods in which we seek it.
Host: For him and countless others, the answer could be found in a drug or a bottle, some kind of magic to turn the trick. Some of the rest of us have found that which Huxley searched for, but we didn't find it in the magic of a bottle. We found it in the miracle of a cross.
Host: We followed the little Jewish tentmaker's advice. "Don't get drunk with wine," he said, "which will only ruin you. Instead, be filled with the Spirit."
Host: Abolish inferiority? We have indeed rid ourselves of it by hearing Him tell us that we are the light of the world and the salt of the earth. When He compares us with terms like those, we cannot feel inferior.
Host: Affection toward our fellows? We found that, too. You see, the Galilean has taught us to do exactly what Mr. Huxley wanted: to love one another. He set the example. He loved us.
Host: "Greater love has no man than this," He said. Then, because of His love, He faced that cross.
Host: Something to make life more than mere existence? Some who follow the Galilean can say with Him, "For this purpose I have come."
Host: In making life beautiful, there is nothing more beautiful in all of life than to see it as His creation. To know that He is there behind it all, full of love for us even when we don't deserve it, makes life eternally beautiful. He is indeed the source of all beauty.
Host: A clear head and undamaged constitution? Well, He gives that, too. He lets you think clearly and live with a constitution written by the Author of life.
Host: Mr. Huxley kept hunting for that magic drug. On November 22, 1963, 31 years after his wish, Huxley tried a new drug called LSD, which many thought to be the answer to his wish. His wife administered the drug to Huxley, who was dying of cancer. It was the last drug Huxley ever experimented with. You see, it was a one-way trip.
Tim Wildmon: The horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust, and a hearty "Hi-yo, Silver!"
Ed: The Lone Ranger.
JJ Jasper: That's my workout music.
Tim Wildmon: That's the theme song from the Green Hornet, folks.
Ed: That's why he switched to Silver, you know, the horse. That old car he was driving was backfiring several times there.
JJ Jasper: Do you have an imaginary girlfriend? You sound like you're asking for a friend.
Ed: I sound like such a nerd.
Tim Wildmon: It sounds like you're hallucinating just a little bit here.
JJ Jasper: That was the Lone Ranger with the scratchy music of the cinema.
Ed: "Hi-yo, Silver!"
Tim Wildmon: Away, right?
Ed: That's right.
Tim Wildmon: Trivia Friday on American Family Radio. Tim, Ed, and J.J. We also call this Learning University.
JJ Jasper: Learning University is on the air.
Tim Wildmon: Let us repeat our questions, Ed, that have gone unanswered, and then we'll get back to the phones.
Ed: Hoyt in Georgia, stay close to your phone, brother. We're coming to you in just a second.
Ed: Here are my three questions. During the Revolutionary War, the colonies deployed something called the Turtle. What was it?
JJ Jasper: You can deploy a turtle, though, right?
Ed: You can, because they did.
Tim Wildmon: They deployed that turtle.
Ed: A turtle went forth.
JJ Jasper: It went forth amongst them.
Ed: All right. Superstar Bill Dundee recently passed away. What was the sport for which he became famous?
Ed: And then third question: There actually is a secret map on the back of the Declaration of Independence which inspired the movie National Treasure, but is that true or false?
Tim Wildmon: Here's what I've got. First question: How many hearts does an octopus have?
Ed: When there's a breakup involving an octopus, its heart has been broken so many times it beats with a limp.
JJ Jasper: That's so sad.
Tim Wildmon: Take an octopus in middle school.
Ed: I forgot to tell you, it's multiple choice: A, three hearts; B, five hearts; or C, seven hearts.
Tim Wildmon: I've had a couple of questions answered, so let me give you a couple of them. A royal flush. You can turn a royal flush.
Ed: That's right. Which major league pitcher totaled the most strikeouts during the 1970s and 1980s?
Tim Wildmon: I know my two baseball aficionados. I know you guys know who that is.
JJ Jasper: Don't blurt it out.
Ed: I know that. I know.
Tim Wildmon: Which major league pitcher threw the most strikeouts during the '70s and '80s?
Ed: Third question: True or false? It took 199 years to construct the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Is that true or false?
JJ Jasper: If it's true, almost none of the original workers were still working on it after it was completed.
Ed: It wasn't intended to be leaning.
Tim Wildmon: Oh, I know. They looked up and discovered some bad engineering, and here they are today.
Ed: Who would have ever heard of the Tower of Pisa?
JJ Jasper: Right. Nobody would have heard of that. It's like any other tower. It's got to be leaning.
Ed: All three of us were Larson.
Tim Wildmon: What was that?
Ed: Gary Larson.
JJ Jasper: Gary Larson, the cartoonist.
Ed: You had a guy there, and the thing said, "Tower of Pisa under construction." The architect and the contractor were looking at it. The contractor said, "Hey, I was able to cheap out on the footer. Nobody's ever going to know. It's going to be more money for me and you, but nobody will ever know."
Tim Wildmon: Nobody would ever know.
Ed: Yeah, that was Gary Larson.
JJ Jasper: Very nice.
Ed: So funny.
Tim Wildmon: After chicken, beef, and pork, what ranks fourth among the most consumed meats by Americans, excluding seafood?
JJ Jasper: Seafood.
Ed: Got me.
Tim Wildmon: Number two: What classic movie ends with the line, "After all, tomorrow is another day"?
Ed: Number three: Who introduced peanuts to the American South? Peanuts are not native to the American South, so how were they introduced to Georgia and Alabama?
JJ Jasper: Johnny Appleseed did a whole lot more than just plant apple trees.
Ed: He was also Santa Claus before Santa Claus. A lot of people don't know that.
Tim Wildmon: That guy, huh?
JJ Jasper: He would bring gifts to kids coming down to America.
Ed: Apple seeds and peach seeds. Here comes Johnny Appleseed, coming down the chimney, coming down the cotton trail.
JJ Jasper: Hippity-hoppity, Santa's on his way.
Tim Wildmon: You've got a couple of your fairy tales mixed up there.
Ed: Christmas is on its way. I think that's what John Wayne was singing.
JJ Jasper: Yeah, he was doing that. He said that over and over.
Ed: I wonder if you broke up with your imaginary girlfriend.
Tim Wildmon: All right, let's go to Georgia. Hoyt has been waiting patiently. Hoyt, welcome to Trivia Friday.
Hoyt: I want to do both.
Ed: All right, get right down to business.
Hoyt: Yes, sir.
Tim Wildmon: You want to do both?
Hoyt: Yes, sir.
Ed: All right, Hoyt, which one do you want to answer?
Hoyt: Which major league pitcher totaled the most strikeouts during the 1970s and 1980s?
Ed: It's not Nolan Ryan.
Hoyt: Nolan Ryan.
Tim Wildmon: Nicely done. That's who you guys thought.
JJ Jasper: Nolan Ryan.
Ed: I'm a machine.
Tim Wildmon: He threw 99 or 100 miles per hour and did it for nine innings.
JJ Jasper: Wasn't he even in his late 30s and into his 40s?
Ed: He was a freak of nature.
Tim Wildmon: That's right.
Ed: No, we're still live. Hey, great job, Hoyt. What's your question for us?
Hoyt: 5,714.
JJ Jasper: Wow, 5,714. What, strikeouts?
Hoyt: No, it was home runs.
Ed: 5,714? Is that what you said?
Hoyt: Yes.
Tim Wildmon: That's insane.
JJ Jasper: That'll just never be broken. For one thing, he pitched nine innings every time. They don't do that anymore.
Ed: They don't do that anymore.
Tim Wildmon: The fact that he never had Tommy John surgery and never had a shoulder problem after all that.
JJ Jasper: He was a rubber-band man. Like you said, you could probably study his body and see how his ligaments and all these things were unusual.
Ed: He might be like the guy whose dad put a little pinch of gunpowder in his oatmeal just to toughen him up. That could have been part of it.
Tim Wildmon: As he got older and could make his own choices, he said it was just a habit. Every morning, he put a little pinch of gunpowder in his oatmeal to make him tough.
JJ Jasper: He happened to be flexible.
Ed: They said when he died, he was cremated and it blew a hole in the funeral home, a hole so large you could drive a truck through it.
Tim Wildmon: That is sad.
JJ Jasper: It's sad that it's just a longevity joke.
Ed: Talking about questions, you know, you've heard that seven or eight times. They'll never forget that funeral, the people who were there.
Tim Wildmon: I know.
Ed: All right, what have we got going on?
JJ Jasper: Hoyt, we have a question for us.
Ed: I'm going to get a sandwich.
Hoyt: Which college quarterback threw nine interceptions, and they left him in? Number six, number seven, number eight, and number nine?
Ed: What team?
Hoyt: The year was 1971, and the team was Florida.
Tim Wildmon: Can you give me any more information?
Ed: Is this a player who eventually made it to the pros? I know that sounds silly.
Hoyt: I don't think he did.
JJ Jasper: Did they play in the SEC?
Hoyt: Yes, this was the Florida Gators.
Tim Wildmon: In 1971, you're probably talking about Steve Spurrier.
Ed: But he made it to the pros, didn't he? He played for the 49ers.
Tim Wildmon: No, it wasn't him.
Ed: Spurrier would have been in the sixties for the Florida Gators, but he did play quarterback for the Florida Gators and won the Heisman Trophy.
Tim Wildmon: In 1971, there is going to be somebody nobody has heard of.
Ed: Give me a first name.
Hoyt: John.
JJ Jasper: John? That's like half of American males.
Ed: Spell the last name.
Tim Wildmon: There's no way we could get this.
Ed: I think we broke the record for getting here.
JJ Jasper: John Appleseed, I guess.
Ed: You needed to help us.
Hoyt: It was John Reaves.
Tim Wildmon: That's funny.
Ed: Even though he went down in flames with nine interceptions, he was a lefty.
JJ Jasper: I didn't even know they threw that much back then. They didn't throw that much in that era.
Ed: Anyway, what's his name?
Hoyt: Reaves.
Tim Wildmon: Okay, that's great. Thanks, Hoyt.
Hoyt: Thank you.
Ed: Have a good weekend.
Tim Wildmon: Absolutely. John Reaves. I remember that name.
JJ Jasper: You do know Steve Spurrier played quarterback. He played for the 49ers, didn't he?
Tim Wildmon: I don't know who Spurrier played for in the NFL, but he played college at the University of Florida.
Ed: The Gators have put out some real talent over the years.
Tim Wildmon: Yep.
JJ Jasper: Who's next?
Ed: We're going to Texas, and Tim is on the line. Tim, welcome to Trivia Friday.
Tim: Hey, guys. How's it going?
Ed: Good, Tim. Thanks for calling. Where do you live in Texas?
Tim: The big city of Mount Calm.
JJ Jasper: If I look at a map, where am I looking?
Tim: You're about 20 miles northeast of Waco.
Ed: Northeast of Waco. Got you. You're on the interstate there toward Dallas?
Tim: We're on Highway 31, which runs through Corsicana toward 45.
JJ Jasper: You're right down from the Dollar General, aren't you?
Tim: Actually, we're in a bad place here. The nearest Dollar General is about eight miles away.
Ed: How do you all make it?
Tim: It's a long trip.
JJ Jasper: The good news is there's a Buc-ee's about 30 miles away.
Tim: Oh, yeah, there you go.
Ed: You can get just about anything you need there.
JJ Jasper: Stay there. Don't move off.
Ed: All right, Tim, ask, answer, or both?
Tim: I'll do both.
Ed: Which one do you want to take a shot at?
Tim: I think your movie question.
Ed: Here's my movie question that Tim is going to answer. What classic movie ends with this line: "After all, tomorrow is another day"?
Tim: I believe that's Gone with the Wind.
Ed: Yes, it is. Who is the character there?
Tim: Scarlett O'Hara.
JJ Jasper: And that's before Rhett Butler delivers his line.
Ed: That's all coming back to me. That's right when she clicked her red ruby slippers together and said, "Tomorrow is going to be a new day."
Tim: I love that part.
Ed: You know why I didn't know the answer to that?
JJ Jasper: There could be a number of reasons, but the main reason is that you've never watched that movie.
Ed: And you call yourself an American.
Tim: Scarlett, my wife Allison uses that line. What is it? "I'll worry about that tomorrow."
Ed: That's her mindset during the movie.
Tim: My wife was named Melanie after that movie. Her mother already had a name picked out, but she watched Gone with the Wind and saw the sweet girl, Melanie. She was inspired and named her Melanie.
Ed: How'd you know that, Tim?
Tim: I've seen the movie.
JJ Jasper: Did you have to take off work to watch it? Isn't it three and a half hours long?
Ed: You have to take a nap in between.
Tim: It's kind of like a football game. You take halftime.
JJ Jasper: Intermission.
Tim: It is a long movie, but it's an American classic. At the very end, Scarlett O'Hara says, "After all, tomorrow is another day."
Ed: It's one of the famous lines.
JJ Jasper: Well, don't spoil it. You've ruined it for me. Now I know the last line.
Ed: Then Rhett Butler says, "I'll be back."
Tim: I'm interested.
Ed: All right, what's your question for us?
Tim: First, I want to say that my wife and I visited your offices back in June, and we enjoyed the tour.
Tim Wildmon: Thank you, brother. We're glad y'all came. I always welcome folks to come and see us.
Tim: We didn't get to meet Ed, but I guess I'd come back another day.
Ed: That's right.
Tim: Where was I?
JJ Jasper: You weren't there.
Ed: You had to schedule Ed.
Tim Wildmon: I'm not here every day.
Ed: You don't have to pay to schedule Ed.
JJ Jasper: It's kind of a lottery.
Ed: I'm not on every day. That was probably the issue.
Tim Wildmon: Because not everybody has made the trip, what can you tell people about your first impression? What was your reaction to being here on our campus?
Tim: It was really nice. Everybody was very welcoming.
JJ Jasper: Tim was a little bit standoffish.
Ed: He's the one who's always trying to get people to take pictures with him. He was over by the popcorn machine.
JJ Jasper: If you get him away from the popcorn machine, he's really got a good personality and is easy to talk to.
Tim Wildmon: Is this how y'all talk about me when I'm not here?
Ed: No, we're talking about you while you're here.
Tim: When we were there, he slipped out and got popcorn, and my wife went with him. He showed her the way.
Ed: That's it. That's the way.
Tim Wildmon: All right, Tim, did you have a question for us?
Tim: Yes. This American band sold the most concert tickets from 1969 to 1974. Do you know who it was?
Ed: For a five-year period, you're saying?
Tim: Yes.
JJ Jasper: He didn't say British band, so American band.
Tim Wildmon: We're thinking about ourselves.
Ed: Are you thinking the Beach Boys?
JJ Jasper: I'm thinking the Eagles or Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Ed: We're throwing out names.
Tim Wildmon: That is a good guess, J.J. What can you tell us?
Tim: I can give you a hint, but you'll probably get it.
Ed: Give us a little hint. Don't tell us the lead singer or anything like that.
Tim: They brought joy to the world.
Ed: Oh, I know you'd get that.
JJ Jasper: So you mean they sold the most concert tickets in America?
Tim: They sold the most tickets.
Ed: That makes sense. They had a bunch of hits right there.
JJ Jasper: So the number of guests?
Tim: A guy who toured with them was named Randy Cutler. I got to travel with him a little bit. On one of his albums, he's got me listed as his road manager, but he's not on any of the albums. He filled in for people who were out. They went on a Japan tour, and he went with them for the whole tour.
Tim: You can never find him on an album, but he was the keyboard player for Three Dog Night. I got to hear a lot of stories. He became a Christian, and he went to churches where he shared his testimony and played music.
Ed: "Joy to the World" was probably their biggest hit.
JJ Jasper: "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve."
Tim Wildmon: You're thinking of "One," not "Joy to the World."
Ed: I'm surprised Jeremiah was a bulldog.
JJ Jasper: Bulldog?
Ed: He's a bullfrog.
Tim Wildmon: He was a bullfrog.
JJ Jasper: It is football season, so you can look it up.
Tim Wildmon: All right, thank you, brother Tim.
Tim: Thank you.
Ed: We invite you to stop by our campus. A lot of people, if they're headed to the beach, stop here. It gives them a chance to stretch their legs and see the ministry.
JJ Jasper: Or if they're going to the Owyhee Dam in Oregon.
Ed: Owyhee, you stop along the way.
Tim Wildmon: If you do want to come by and visit, go to afa.net. There is a drop-down menu that says, I think, "More," and then "Contact Us." There's a place where you need to fill it out to let us know that you're coming.
JJ Jasper: So if people want to stop here and see us, what do they need to do?
Ed: They go to afa.net, and then there's a drop-down menu under "Contact Us," so we can know they're coming.
Tim Wildmon: It will say "Visits" or something like that.
JJ Jasper: Can they check a box saying they want popcorn?
Ed: There is not. That's because there's almost always popcorn available.
Tim Wildmon: That's true.
Ed: They're pleasant people.
JJ Jasper: Yes, and we give them a little bag of goodies for their effort.
Tim Wildmon: All right, you're listening to Trivia Friday on American Family Radio. Tim, Ed, and J.J. Who's next?
Ed: We're going to Arkansas, and Laura is on the line. Laura, welcome to Trivia Friday.
Laura: Good morning.
Ed: Good morning.
Laura: I was here with my brother, and we had something we wanted to give you before we started. Would that be okay?
Tim Wildmon: Yes, sure.
Laura and Clay: Good morning, dear professors.
Tim Wildmon: We're going to have to use that some way.
Ed: That was awesome. Let's save that for one of the intros when the show starts.
JJ Jasper: Beautiful harmony. If you guys don't sing in the choir, you need to. That was wonderful.
Laura: Thank you so much.
Ed: What was your brother's name?
Laura: Clay.
Tim Wildmon: Clay and Laura just made our day. Who wrote the tune there?
Laura: My brother does a lot of songwriting.
Ed: He and I need to get together. I write songs myself on the side here, in addition to my full-time work on a cello, which makes it a little more difficult.
JJ Jasper: It's the side gig he has between his rocket science and brain surgery practice.
Ed: I was also an Austrian astronaut.
Tim Wildmon: That's what they call astronauts down there?
Ed: I'm not a finalist. I was the last cut. I was number five out of four.
JJ Jasper: You can hold your breath as long as the other elements.
Ed: I don't like to talk about it.
Tim Wildmon: Hey, Clay and Laura, I noticed you left off "here to four," and that's understandable. It's hard to find anything to rhyme with "here to four."
Ed: It's like the word orange.
JJ Jasper: What's your brother's name?
Ed: Clay. She already said that a minute ago.
JJ Jasper: I wasn't listening to that part.
Ed: All right, Laura and Clay, is this a duet on the show, or is there one person going to answer?
JJ Jasper: When two people sing, that's typically cool.
Laura: My brother's driving, so I'll just answer.
Ed: Do you want to ask, answer, or do both?
Laura: Do both, please.
Ed: Which one do you want to answer?
Laura: The one about the Turtle.
Ed: Here's the question: During the Revolutionary War, the colonies deployed something called the Turtle. What was it?
Laura: It was one of the first one-man submarines, made of wood. It was created in an effort to break the blockade on Boston Harbor or New York Harbor. My brother and I were deliberating about that. It did not work. They weren't able to attach the explosives to the flagship, but the explosion in the water scared the British enough that they did go ahead and break the blockade. It was one of the first one-man submarines.
Ed: It is the very first wartime submarine, so that is an excellent answer. That's what they called the Turtle. You have the backstory exactly right. It was New York Harbor, and they were not able to attach the bomb because the hull of the British ship was too thick.
Ed: The only other thing I wanted to add was that they had a valve to let water in to sink and a hand pump that pushed the water out to rise. Here was the most fascinating part, to me anyway: They had a small piece of bioluminescent foxfire, which is a glowing fungus, in a glass vial. That provided light for the instrument gauges.
Tim Wildmon: My wife says I overthink many things. You're telling me you're going to have a wooden submarine, a wooden submarine, and you're saying, "I need a volunteer." You get into a wooden craft under the water loaded with explosives. When you get close enough, you need to lie there and crank the drill on the back of that thing. Then you swim as fast as you can. I think we have a chance to smarten up. Do I have any volunteers?
Ed: This guy did. His name was Sergeant Ezra Lee. They called him Turtle. He made it through all that. He lived.
Tim, Ed, and JJ welcome callers from across the country for a fun edition of Trivia Friday on American Family Radio. The questions cover the first words God spoke to man, the Revolutionary War submarine known as the Turtle, the locations connected to 9/11, octopus hearts, American meat consumption, and the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Callers Mark, Kami, Hoyt, Tim, and Laura take turns answering questions and challenging the hosts. The conversation also includes Bill Dundee, John Wayne's Blood Alley, Gone with the Wind, Nolan Ryan, Three Dog Night, peanuts in the American South, and the Owyhee Dam, along with plenty of humor and playful banter.
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