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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, Benjamin came in today to host his classic game
of Benjamin's time Machine. So let's get into it.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
It's time to enter Benjamin's time Machine.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Jim Tanne Wonder, tear down this wall. I know it's
chum of it. If this is chicken.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Taking a kid into school.
Speaker 5 (00:30):
The game is simple, my friends. You are trying to
guess the year my time machine is landing in. I'll
say a big headline or pop culture moment, like radio
legend Benjamin visits KATWB for the first time, and then
you would buzz in with your name to say the year.
If you said twenty fourteen, that is correct. But if
you're wrong, you're out for that round. And the other
(00:52):
ones get more hints and they get from harder to easier.
If you guess it correctly on the first clue, you
will get two points. Okay, so Jenny, will you hit
the gas pedal on the time machine? WHOA your first hint?
Pizza Hut introduces us to the historic stuffed crust pizza. Okay,
(01:16):
and you don't have to buzz in, but all right,
Poggs reaches the peak of its mainstream popularity.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
What oh my gosh. These are hard, but.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I'm gonna wait Okay.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Coolio's Gangsta's Paradise was the top song of the year.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Bailey, Yes one later.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
And last, but not LEAs smoothies are all just equally interesting.
Microsoft releases a VHS guide for its newest operating systems,
starring Matthew Perry and Jennifer Aniston Jenny.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Ninety three later.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
It was ninety five the five Let's get out of
this year Jenny okay?
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Chris Jenner famously tweets, I feel like there's a giant
meat loaf inside of me.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
That is a crazy like tweet.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
What a strange thing to tweet.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
I know people say they think Kim got a hold
of her phone or something. We for the first time
hear about a famous the famous Tan Mom.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Remember ten Tan Mom?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Fairly but yeah, okay, okay.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth get engaged, Yes twenty eleven. Later,
and last but not least, Mikayla Maroney made the face
at the Olympics. Oh my gosh hashtag unimpressed.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Olympic tiers. Okay, so Jenny Yep twenty twenty.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
Earlier, out Oh You're out Bailey twenty thirteen.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
No, it was twenty twelve.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Remember Olympic years even year I was gonna say twelve.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I can't believe it was that long ago. God, we
are not doing well.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Say this time.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Machine jump out here.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
All right, everybody, roll your shoulders and shake it off.
That got me.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
I'm just regular stupid, my.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Costco size jug of X braby letting me down, all right.
Queen Elizabeth celebrated seventy years on the throne.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Oh on the throne. Oh okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
The biggest Powerball win ever is drawn at two point
oh four billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Thang good for them, Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Lizzo played a century's old flute.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Owned by James Madison.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
Remember that Bailey, Yeah twenty twenty three earlier font yep
Twenty nineteen later you want the last him?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Jenny gave me the hint.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Kate Bush returns to the mainstream thanks to season four
of Stranger Things with running up that Hill.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Oh Jenny yep twenty twenty one, No. Twenty two two?
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Jenny, Who and I keep going on either side of
the correct year.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
This is I thought you.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Said twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
That's why I said twenty one.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
This is this is the first time we've ever had
a point zero foot time Machine jump.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Come on? Should maybe I get half points for the.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Close closest Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert breakup? Okay, Ken,
Arianna Grande's donut gait.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Gosh, Dave would know? I know he would, you would know.
I feel like he would have known a lot of these.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Oh are you no?
Speaker 5 (05:02):
Justin Bieber feels super violated with nude photos of him
go viral.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
You gotta know yep.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Twenty sixteen earlier, Adele returns from a four year hiatus.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
That's a heartbreaking new album twenty fifteen, Yeah has a point.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Yeah. I was almost there with Bieber, but then Adele
sold it. That was my high That was a freshman
year high school for me. Oh jeez, hello, it's my
freshman year time Machine know. Tony Hawk becomes the first
skateboarder to land a nine hundred, which is two and
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a half revolutions if you're wondering.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Oh okay oh.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Tiger Woods wins his first PGA tournament championship.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I mean okay okay.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Woodstock has a thirty year anniversary festival featuring Red Hot
Chili Peppers, kid Rock and more.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Yeah, I was doing the math in my brain.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
Fine, if you're just joining us, they're guessing the year
my time machine is landing in.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Based on these headlines from the year.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
The next one is the Boston Red Sox beat the
New York Giants in the World Series.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Tell me is it? Because then I got you?
Speaker 2 (06:31):
But oreos are created?
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Oh cheese, Oh geez, this is old.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
We're not a sports cruisell where an oreos.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
Are New Mexico and Arizona are admitted as state.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Okay, so this is I thought you guys.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Would have had a lot right by now, so that
I'm like, I'm gonna trick them with an older one.
And I didn't realize you'd be doing this poorly.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
Yeah, okay, I feel like I have to rationalize because
I know when Hawaii was made of state. Yep, and
it had to be before Hawaii has made a state. Okay, Well, no,
I don't want to guess because they're so last.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Which is the giveaway? If you're good? Is the Titanic
sinks Bailey?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Yes, nineteen twelve.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Yeah, whoa good job, Baily?
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Honestly, can I tell you why? I know when the
Titanic sank.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Because you had friends on that ship.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
I did have.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Friends on that ship, and I remember them every day
because it was on the first episode of Dalton Abbey.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
They were like, oh, the Titanic, it's gone down. We
just lost two of our cousins. And it was nineteen twelve.
On the first episode of downt Nabbey.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I see.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
And I always make that joke with Tony because I
always call Tony an older man, even though he's only
one month.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Older than me.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
And then people always like, yeah, Tony's older, Like he
had friends on that ship, and he's like stop time
machine jump Global headlines are taken over when people are
shot to hear a whale is swimming through the River
Thames in central London.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
This was a big deal.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Okay, Lance Bass comes out as gay oh oh man uh.
Pirates of the Caribbean. Dead Man's Chest was the biggest
movie of the year.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
That's the third one I think. So I'm doing math
in my brain.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Okay, you can't talk a loud you gotta.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
And last, but not least, high school musical aired on
Disney Yes oh six.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Yesive I was too. Can we get a score update?
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Bailey two? I have one Jenny has one.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
All right, we three left, three left okay jump. Lil
nas X is named TikTok's number one artist.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Of the Year.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Yes, twenty nineteen. Yes, back when TikTok was news.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Bombay impressed me left and right with the clone that flair.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
That's two points, that's two points.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Time Machine Jump.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Dennis Tito becomes the world's first space tourist, paying a
reported twenty million dollars to a space tourism company, Space Adventures.
So the first time a tourist went into space.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Dairy Queen celebrated the Blizzard's sixteenth birthday with the limited
time grape kool Aid Explosion Blizzard.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
I remember that one. Oh my gosh, sorry that just
came from nowhere.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
Okay, okay. Enron files for bankruptcy.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Oh I'm so lost.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
And the Lord did.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
The Rings movie trilogy kicks off with Fellowship of the Ring.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
Bailey, Yes, twenty two thousand and four earlier.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Yeah, finally, finally. Now, this is usually the final round,
is usually Bond's favorite round, because this is where I've
creepered your all of your socials to find three things
from your guys's year that the time Machine is landing
in starting with Jenny. But remember, anyone can buzz in.
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Jenny tweets. Rebecca Black said it best gotta get down
on Friday tunny yep.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Later.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
I feel like Jenny could have tweeted that today last Friday,
I could.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Have, but I just tried to go for the air
since she was on.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Yeah, vaunt tweets. I think I'd willingly change my name
before I'd want free Subway for the rest of my life.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
That's a fact. Subways trash ever, all right, another hint.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Dave tweets there's a Netflix movie in the top ten
called The Snowman made in Norway. I can't get past
the fact that the lead character's name is Harry hole.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Name.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Yeah, that sounds like a Dave tweets.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
All right.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Last hint, which the beginning of this sounds a little odd,
but I know it's nice and innocent. Bailey tweets if
if I could bottle the smell of high schools during
speech and debate tournaments.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Yeah again, these all could have been tweeted yesterday.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
So now you two get the Bailey twenty eighteen.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Later yep, twenty twenty one, No, twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
That was All twenty twenty three from All.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Four year tweet three.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
I don't think I was using Twitter down.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
I think we're gonna file this one under the level.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
This was Benjamin's advanced time machine, Bailey, where did we land? Well?
Speaker 6 (12:13):
I have one point, Jenny has two points, and Van
has four points.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
And the crow goes time machine that we all waft
in the Cologne.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Jenny, will you bring out Vaughan's giant check?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
No too heavy.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
I'm gonna cash myself and thank you as always Benjamin
for coming in. It's always a joy, even though honestly
today I feel like we all feel a little bit.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
More, you know, Titanic.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
Some people, you know, go to a therapist to feel
better about themselves. People talk to me to feel worse
about themselves.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
So