Blaisin' Access 95 March Disability Trivia

This is the Blaze and access podcast amplifying disability perspective, one story at a time. Today's Tuesday, March 5. I'm blaise Bryant, and when it is Tuesday, that of course means trivia Tuesday. And joining me is my very best friend in the world since high school. He was the best man in my wedding. I was the best man in his wedding, even though I don't know why he asked me to be a witness because I didn't see him get married. But anyhow, it's my very best friend, James King, who is also a comedian. You can check out his work and upcoming shows at jamesking comedy. Hey, bro.

Hey. Thank you for having me on the. We were. We were each other's best men, which meant that we had no other friends that we could ask. I guess that's what that means. Our options were limited. I'm absolutely excited to be here. Long time. I've been on a lot of your different shows and different things, and I know I've done your trivia before, so here's hoping I do better than I did last time, right?

I think the only podcast you have not been on that I've done is the baseball podcast, the swinging blindly podcast I do with Pat. And the reason for that is, well, you can't look worse than the hosts. So that's why we haven't had you on.

Yeah, I mean, baseball is the sport. I don't know, but my current day job, there's a lot of baseball people and they're kind of pushing me in that direction. So who knows? Maybe I'll learn baseball next. We'll see how that goes.

Yeah. Is it divided between Yankee and Mets fans since you're down on the island?

Yeah, I'd say for the most part, it's a lot of Yankees, a lot of Mets down here. It really know if someone looks sad, usually Mets, because that's what I've learned just from experience of being down here. Mets fans are usually sadder, but their games are a lot more fun. From what I've heard, if you go to a Mets game live, it's a lot of fun. So that's on the bucket list for this year. So we'll see what happens there.

There you go. Well, I've only been to the old Yankee stadium, not the new one. Never been to either met park. It's on my list.

We'll have to change that. You'll have to come down. Maybe we go to a game together, we figure something else out.

Hell yeah. Let's do it. And speaking of doing things. Let's do trivia. So this is kind of developmental disabilities awareness month, women's history Month themed trivia. So that's what we're going to do here. The first question, this 1972 documentary about this particular place really shed a light on the horrors of institutionalizing people with disabilities. James, was it Meadowbrook, Willowbrook or babbling Brook?

Okay, I'm going to go with answer a, because that is the one that sounds the most familiar to don't. I'm not confident on this one, so I don't feel good about it, but I will go with choice a, please.

You are wrong, my friend. It was actually Willowbrook.

Willowbrook. Darn. I knew it wasn't babbling Brook. That one I figured out. But no, I guess I now have a documentary that I need to look into.

Yes, Willowbrook. You can find it. It's on YouTube.

Okay, that's good to know. See, getting questions wrong but still learning. I think there's a metaphor for life in that somewhere, right?

I mean, we did that in school. That's how we met.

Yeah, we got a lot of things wrong in school.

Isn't that the truth?

Yeah. Starting to sound like our dating history. We got a lot of things wrong.

Well, you said it, not me.

It's okay. My exes don't listen to anything I do. I can make these jokes.

Right. Well, I don't know if any, mind you. And at this point, I really don't care because I certainly finally got it right. And you got it right.

Yeah. We're both living the dream now.

Hell, yeah. All right, question number two. She is the mother of the disability rights movement who died one year ago. Is it Judy human, Judy Shyimlin or Judy Hill?

I really feel like I did not learn anything in school. Hearing these questions, I'm like, why does none of this sound familiar to me?

Well, the reason, I'll tell you why. Because disability history is not taught in schools and it needs to be.

Yeah. And I completely agree with you because I feel like this is something I should know. And I feel like I remember you posting about this, but I don't know the name. I'm going to go with choice C. I'm going to go Judy Hill, I believe. Was that choice? Am I correct?

Well, you were correct that it was choice C and Julie Hill is the name, but you were actually wrong.

But I was wrong. Okay, and who was it?

It was Judy human.

Judy Human. Okay, right.

And you know who. Right, right. Well, you know who Judy Shimlin is, right?

That one sounds familiar. Is she an actress?

That's Judge Judy.

That's Judge Judy.

Yeah. Judith Shinelin? Yeah.

Yes. I did not meet her, but my college roommate did because she did the commencement for U. Albany in 2012, and he was in the earth tones, and he says that she's a lot shorter than she looks on tv. She's a shorter person.

Okay, well, I never thought to look.

Yeah, so you would have just been able to tell just from talking to her. The sound would have been coming from a lower point in. She's short. That's all I'm trying to say. I gave up on the analysis.

I had to do that to you.

How do you keep inviting me back to this? I'm just coming here to answer questions wrong and humble myself because that's why.

I invite you back.

I swear, I was smart 20 minutes ago before we started recording. I swear.

That's, at best, debatable. Oh, Lord. All right, well, you continue to suck.

You're over two.

Maybe you'll get this one right.

Yeah, maybe.

It was a 50 50 shot.

Okay.

Even though there's a one in three chance. But you'll either get it right or you don't.

Yeah, that's 50 50 to me.

Right? I don't know. I was just trying to throw more math at you and throw you off balance.

Yes, of course I'm off balance enough. You don't have to do that.

All right, the third question here. This Illinois senator became disabled when she was fighting in the Iraq war. Is it Tammy Duckworth, Tammy Jones or Tammy Wynat?

That is a Tammy Duckworth.

You got it.

Yes. I knew one. The second you said the name, I was like, I know it's her. I know it's her. I know this. I could not have told, you know, that was new information for me, but I knew the name. So it's a question. Right? We're taking it.

There you go.

Someone we know once said, we're taking the points.

High school gym class reference. We're taking the points.

We're taking the points.

That's what you do on the trivia Tuesday here on the Blaze Nexus podcast. You take the points.

Yeah, you take the points.

I got to work that in more often now.

Oh, yes, of course. I'm glad I could contribute something, because it's definitely not my question answering that I'm contributing with.

Well, you got one right at the end.

I will say, in my defense, I usually do a lot of trivia at breweries, so I'm not used to doing my trivia 100% sober. So this is quite the accomplishment for me.

I mean, we texted about this earlier in the week, so you could have, if you wanted to, you had time to slam down a couple of beers to simulate it.

I could have. That's what I should do next time. I should make sure that I've at least had an IPA or something just a little bit to take the edge off to answer the questions.

So here's what I'm going to do the next time I say trivia, I give you a half hour and you drink as much beer as you can.

Okay.

Or maybe not as much as you can, but as much.

Maybe not as much as I can. If I drink as much as I can, it's going to be, why is he slurring every answer?

What's going on with him? Is he, like, half asleep?

Yeah. I don't know what's wrong with this guy, but also, usually my wife is my trivia partner, so usually she can be like, james, that's a dumb answer. And choose something else.

Exactly.

Yeah. That's called teamwork.

Right on. Well, James, as always, it's a pleasure. And you've got some upcoming shows down in the city and on Long island and up in the north country. You can go learn about those and buy a ticket. Follow this dude on social media. He works really hard in addition to his day job because let's face it, being funny, especially for him, is really difficult. Jamesking comedy again, that's jamesking comedy. You're on what, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, all that stuff at Facebook?

Yeah, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok threads. I'm everywhere at. I'm going to be tonight, I'm going to be at a show in Huntington, New York. And then this Friday, I'm going to be in New York City at the Producers club, and then I will be in Plattsburg coming up in April. And that's on April 13, we're doing two shows at Old Soul, which is a nice restaurant or not restaurant. Excuse me? A nice bar up there. There's restaurants on that main street. But, yeah, it's a beautiful bar with lots of craft beers. So definitely fun to come out and have a drink and have a laugh.

And you're an old soul. So once those two shows are done, you're just going to go to bed and sleep for 12 hours until you got to get the train to go back to the city.

Yeah, I know. I'm sleeping 6 hours on that train ride. The part of comedy they don't tell you about is how I got to travel for all these things. It's easy to write jokes and tell them. It's hard to travel and book things, right?

But do you ever get material just watching people while you're traveling on the train or whatnot?

I do. Sometimes I have a joke, honestly, from when I lived in Albany and I overheard someone at the bus stop say the most wild sentence I've ever heard. But it's definitely not a podcast friendly. So if you want to hear some of those jokes, you might want to come see me live.

All right, well, let's just stop promoting you before your head gets too big. And, James, as always, this is a lot of fun. Thanks so much.

Yes, thank you for having. I'm always, always a fan of all the things that you're doing. And also, if you're listening to me, plug myself, also follow blaze. He's doing so many different things. Know all of the shows that he does. Follow his baseball podcast, follow this podcast. He puts a lot of work into the stuff that he does, and I don't think he always gets the credit for what he does. So definitely support him as well.

All right, I'm getting t shirts made, and you'll be one of the first to get one, so I appreciate that, bro. Thanks.

Yes, of course. I can't just sit here and plug myself the whole time. I got to plug you, too, dude.

Right on, brother. Well, thanks a million, as always.

Yes, thank you for having me.

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