Wait! I Know This!

Wait! I Know This! is the game-show feed from Nerd Nook Trivia, and Bevan Lucas is the host. Each episode opens with the Nerd Nook Trivia intro before he takes over, often asks for a rating or review, and brings in two players. Most of them have played before. The feed actually runs under two names. Episodes billed as Wait! I Know This! are general knowledge: true-or-false items such as whether the Supreme Court building contains a football field, which it does not, although a player who volunteers that there is a basketball court inside the Matterhorn at Disneyland lobbies for a bonus point on the strength of it. Episodes billed as Buzzword the Podcast are based on the PlayMonster board game of the same name and play as a word hunt. Each player gets five numbered clues, and every answer contains the same word. A 'deal' round asks for raw deal, deal breaker and done deal. A 'green' round moves from the Green Mile to a green thumb, a green beret, Green Acres and Green Eggs and Ham. A 'school' round covers High School Musical, a school bus and preschool; a 'low' round reaches low key, low profile and low tide. Five for five is a clean sweep. Miss one, and the other player can steal the points. Scores are tallied before a mid-show break, and a winner is named at the end; one game finishes 20 to 23. The returning cast is what gives the show its texture. Slade Hovick and Heath Wilkin turn up together repeatedly, and the host reminds Heath that a visit a couple of shows back ended in a one-point loss, which earns an accusation of rubbing it in. One player opens an episode by announcing that he is not waiting to play, he is waiting to win, and that he cannot recall ever losing; he is promptly told that he lost his last game by a point. Bo Batterson, Oliver Schmitz, Ian Pope and Jake Sandvik rotate through as well. The host introduces two regulars as the week's victims, then immediately walks it back and calls them two of the show's favorites. The tangents run alongside the clues: a player who neither confirms nor denies having threatened his kids with the school in the clue, another who knows Green Acres because TV Land was on in his house every day, an aside about Butterfinger that comes with an on-air reminder that Butterfinger is not a sponsor. The break carries a pitch to text a friend a recommendation. One episode notes a move to a new home in the historic College Hill District of Cedar Falls, Iowa, and adds that listeners can now send the show a text. The clues are simple enough to shout at while doing something else. The scorekeeping and the grudges are what make it a show rather than a quiz.