The Pennsylvania Game
Horseshoe Curve, Eastern State Penitentiary & Faustin Wirkus
Season 8 Episode 6 | 28m 50sVideo has Closed Captions
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The Pennsylvania Game
Horseshoe Curve, Eastern State Penitentiary & Faustin Wirkus
Season 8 Episode 6 | 28m 50sVideo has Closed Captions
Who was Faustin Wirkus? Play the Pennsylvania Game. This program is from WPSU’s archives: Information impacting answers may have changed since its original airing. Promotional offers are no longer valid.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipANNOUNCER: Why did Governor Pinchot sentence inmate number C2559 to life in prison in Eastern State penitentiary?
How many national forests can be found in Pennsylvania?
Find out as we all play The Pennsylvania Game.
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Now let's get the game started.
Here's the host of The Pennsylvania Game, the probing, crying, the forever questioning Lynn Cullen.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Thank you.
Enough already, please.
The adulation might go to my head.
Welcome, welcome in yet another Pennsylvania Game for you.
And I can't wait to get this one started because, [laughs] do we have some questions for you.
Let's meet our suckers-- I mean, our panel, excuse me.
Ah, look who's here.
Hey, familiar face.
When he's not looking for a job he's looking for a date always.
He's the host and color commentator for Penn State Hoops.
Please welcome the irrepressible Brian Allen.
[applause] What do we feed this audience?
My lord.
Martha Hummel.
Listen to this, listen to this, she's worked as a thesis editor, a psychiatric aid, a school bus driver, a real estate agent, a secretary, and she is among other things a masochist.
No, I'm kidding.
She's a member of Mensa.
Hi, Martha.
Welcome.
[applause] And making his first appearance on The Pennsylvania Game is Jeff Fishbein.
He is manager of WQSU FM at Susquehanna U, and he's a self-proclaimed formula television freak and computer dweeb.
Just the kind of guy we love on The Pennsylvania Game.
[applause] OK, let's get the show on the road.
What do you say?
How's about we go off to prison, why not?
ANNOUNCER: In 1924, Pennsylvania Governor Gifford Pinchot personally sentenced prisoner number C2559 to life in prison in Eastern State Penitentiary.
Who was this notorious criminal?
A, Willie Sutton, the gentleman bandit, B, Pep, the cat murdering dog, C, Al Capone, the underworld kingpin, or, D, Arnold Schilling, also known as Arnie the arsonist.
LYNN CULLEN: My heavens, what a rogues gallery have we there.
Was it Willie Sutton, Pep the cat murdering dog, Al Capone, or Arnie the arsonist that governor Pinchot himself said, life, life?
Brian.
BRIAN ALLEN: I went with C, Al Capone.
LYNN CULLEN: Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, Chicago guy but I think they wanted to ship him East to the underworld, and sometimes people known Pennsylvania as the underworld.
LYNN CULLEN: Wonderful.
All right, we have to figure out-- Not a way to win any fans, is it?
They'll turn on you.
I can tell they're surly.
Be careful, really.
All right.
LYNN CULLEN: Martha.
I know better.
MARTHA HUMMEL: Well, I selected A, Willie Sutton because I seem to remember some Pennsylvania connection for Willie.
Nothing very intelligent.
LYNN CULLEN: Is he the one who says I rob banks because that's where the money is?
Yeah, well, he wasn't an idiot.
Hello, there Jeff.
What do you say?
I picked B because it was different from all the others.
LYNN CULLEN: Yes, I noticed it was different too because Pep had four legs and all these other guys have two.
Absolutely.
LYNN CULLEN: And you're strange.
No wonder they picked you to be on here.
Let's find out if anyone has the correct answer.
ANNOUNCER: The answer is B, Pep, the cat murdering dog.
In 1944 Governor Pinchot personally sentenced Pep the dog to life in prison for murdering his wife's cherished cat.
Eastern State penitentiary was called home by such notorious criminals as Al Capone and Willie Sutton, but they were not sentenced by Governor Pinchot.
Sutton is infamous in Eastern states history for his escape attempt in 1945.
After a solid year of digging, he and 10 others tunneled under the prison wall.
They were caught just one block away.
Al Capone on the other hand was a model prisoner.
He gained the favor of the warden for helping to quell a riot.
He later had his stay reduced and was permitted to have a radio in his cell.
Coddling criminals, Capone.
Yeah, did they give the dog a radio?
Where's the ACLU?
Somebody call the SPCA, yeah.
Gee, whiz, poor thing.
I have another question.
I'd like one, how about you?
ANNOUNCER: In the 1940s, J.C. Backus of Smethport invented a device that helped people around the world enjoy their leisure time more.
Did Mr Backus invent, A, the electronic scoreboard, B, the game of lawn darts, C, the hula hoop, or, D, the automatic bowling pin setter.
LYNN CULLEN: Hula hoop is making a comeback.
I used to be really good at it.
I tried it the other day, I couldn't do it at all.
It must mean I'm getting old.
What did he do?
The electronic scoreboard, lawn darts, hula hoop, or an automatic bowling pin setter and forever will go down in history.
Mr J.C. Backus.
Martha, what'd you pick?
MARTHA HUMMEL: Well, I think I must have just plain guessed at it.
D, the automatic bowling pin setter.
Seem like somebody whose name was Backus ought to some do a bowling pins.
LYNN CULLEN: Well, sure, why not?
I mean, if his name were Jones it would have been a different story.
That's right.
Right, I figure it out.
Jeff.
Well, I sort of associate the bowling pin setter with Pennsylvania.
Now, whether that's a repressed memory of a trivial correct answer or if I'm just nuts-- LYNN CULLEN: Yeah, nuts.
BRIAN ALLEN: Nuts.
LYNN CULLEN: All right, are we going to make unanimous here?
I am not going to make it unanimous.
We have a name there Mr Backus back.
My backside is pretty big, hula hoop is a perfect leisury leish sport for me.
So I went with C, a hula hoop.
Now-- [applause] --you got to use reason in this game.
Keep it down, keep it down.
OK, if it was the-- you think it was the hula hoop?
BRIAN ALLEN: Yes.
OK. We got one hula hoop, we have two pin setters, do we have an answer that's correct?
ANNOUNCER: The answer is D, the automatic bowling pin setter.
In the 1940s, J.C. Backus of Smethport was an employee of the Holmes and Griffin Sawmill and Lumber Company when he invented the first automatic hand-operated 10 pin setter.
In 1953, Holmes and Griffin improved the original design and created the electric pin setter called the Spot-o-matic.
The electric pin setter was then marketed throughout the United States and eight foreign countries.
Yeah, thanks a lot J.C. Backus.
I mean, you're an automatic pin setter and the next thing you know you're out of work, huh?
Huh?
Hey, let's meet this panel, not that I haven't met some of them before.
Brian, hey, you learned how to scuba dive recently so you've been under the water.
Yes, I have.
LYNN CULLEN: Is this true that tomorrow you are going to run where?
In Washington D.C, the 26 mile US Marine Corps Marathon?
What are you, nuts?
Exactly, exactly.
You hire people who are nuts.
I don't have anything to do with-- for my-- you know, I'm watching my girlish figure, and I don't play basketball anymore, so I figured I'd run 26 miles.
LYNN CULLEN: Have you run 26 miles before?
BRIAN ALLEN: No, I have not.
How many miles have you run?
I've run up to 18.
Oh-oh.
Which is-- I mean, that's a good distance.
OK, good luck.
I'm serious, good luck.
Well heroics, we'd like to see you back.
Martha, I wasn't kidding before, this job history of yours, school bus driver, a person who reads senior theses, rhymes with-- I'm kidding.
MARTHA HUMMEL: There's a lot of grad school jokes about that.
LYNN CULLEN: Yeah, really, but, I mean, those all sound like sort of painful jobs.
Well, yeah, some of them were.
[laughs] LYNN CULLEN: I mean, I can't imagine.
What's the funniest thesis you ever had to deal with?
Well, the funniest one.
LYNN CULLEN: Or the most memorable if that makes-- The most memorable.
LYNN CULLEN: Apparently not.
Well, there were lots of memorable ones.
I guess the most memorable was the one that spelled thought NASA all the way through was National Aeronautics and Space Association.
LYNN CULLEN: Oh my heavens.
After umpteen years of work and committee effort, nobody noticed that it's-- LYNN CULLEN: We know it's administration, don't we?
BRIAN ALLEN: Yeah, I knew that.
Yeah.
MARTHA HUMMEL: You knew that.
Jeff, former Navy man says here you've been engaged three times.
What's wrong with you?
At least I'm not divorced.
LYNN CULLEN: You're not?
That's true, but-- JEFF FISHBEIN: I'm going to marry this one.
I'm going to marry this one.
Yeah, you're going to marry this-- you're engaged now?
JEFF FISHBEIN: I'm engaged now.
So a woman of some faith and a risk taker I would imagine.
Let's move from the matrimonial aisle back into the game, what do you think?
ANNOUNCER: On October 20, 1954, the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Sylvania Electric Company collaborated to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Horseshoe Curve.
Did they, A, hold a midnight lovers' train ride.
B, staged the longest flash picture ever made.
C, install the nation's first electric incline.
Or D, create a Horseshoe Curve Amusement Park ride for Lakemont Park.
LYNN CULLEN: Hm, the year was '54, what did they do for the 100th anniversary of the Horseshoe Curve?
A lovers' train ride, a flash picture, an electric incline, or an amusement park.
Not very amusing to Jeff Fishbine.
What did you choose?
Well, I chose the flash picture because it seemed to make the least amount of sense, and so far those are the correct ones.
LYNN CULLEN: Yeah, that works for you.
OK, that's smart.
You're using your head there, Jeff.
Brian.
BRIAN ALLEN: I went also with B but for a different reason than Jeff.
The longest flash picture I figure is a big occasion, Horseshoe Curve, everybody took the clothes off, flashed the camera, longest flash cookies.
That is what you mean, isn't it?
Yes, absolutely.
Certainly.
Humor him, humor him or humor him humor in the audience.
Hey, Martha.
BRIAN ALLEN: Well, a little electric jab in the brain said didn't you say West Penn Power?
LYNN CULLEN: No, I did not.
So what did you choose?
I said Sylvania.
MARTHA HUMMEL: I said C. LYNN CULLEN: Install the nation's first electric incline.
Well, there you have it, a B, a C, and a B. I wonder what it all means.
ANNOUNCER: The answer is B, the longest flash picture ever made.
On October 20, 1954, two Eastbound freight trains and the trailblazer, a westbound passenger train, were pulled into position to appear in the commemorative photo at 10:53 PM.
Hundreds of people gathered to watch Altoona Mayor Walter Grove push the button that set off 6,000 flash bulbs, which ran along 31 miles of wiring.
The photo appeared on the cover of the 1954 Pennsylvania Railroad Annual Report.
It also ran in Life Magazine and in newspapers nationwide.
A copy of the photograph is currently on display at the Horseshoe Curve Visitor Center.
Yeah, Brian just said, wow, and I think that was the point.
You were supposed to say, wow, a great promotional event.
Speaking of electricity, you can feel it here in the studio where the score is Jeff Fishbein, our first time contestant running away with three correct answers.
[applause] And Brian and Martha, well, we won't mention them.
Please don't.
LYNN CULLEN: We won't, we won't.
Ooh, that can only mean one thing, it's our first clue for the Mystery Pennsylvanian.
Get it right on this clue you get three points at the end of the game, get it right the next clue, two, and the final and third clue you get one point at the end of the game.
Born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, in 1832, she was the family breadwinner at first supporting her parents and three sisters as a doll's dressmaker.
I am looking at the faces of three confused human beings.
Germantown, 1932, family breadwinner made her living supporting her parents and three sisters as a doll's dressmaker.
Take a stab at it.
Write anything down if you'd like.
And while you mull that over, let's confuse you here, and-- 1832-- let's confuse you further with our next question.
ANNOUNCER: 17 million acres, or more than half of Pennsylvania, is covered with forested land.
How many national forests can be found in Pennsylvania?
A, none, B, one, C, two, or D, four.
LYNN CULLEN: The none, one, two, or four, which one would that be?
Can they see the forest for the trees?
Did you all pick already?
You're all looking at me like I'm-- I picked.
I'm on top of it.
LYNN CULLEN: But why are you looking at me like that?
Because we love you, Lynn.
LYNN CULLEN: Thank you so much, Brian.
It's always been mutual.
And what did you choose?
I chose A, none.
LYNN CULLEN: Really?
Yeah.
A none was actually-- I was going to choose none anyway because usually I get none answers right.
LYNN CULLEN: Yeah, and you're probably-- Yeah, I beat that this time.
LYNN CULLEN: Martha.
Two only because I have two hands and two eyes.
LYNN CULLEN: You mean C. OK. C. LYNN CULLEN: And Jeff.
JEFF FISHBEIN: I said D or four.
I know there's at least one because I've driven through it but we have a lot of trees in this state and some of them must be federal trees.
LYNN CULLEN: Some of them must belong to the feds.
I mean-- BRIAN ALLEN: They own everything else.
LYNN CULLEN: They own it.
Yeah, exactly.
Well, let's find out how many of our trees those feds do own.
ANNOUNCER: The answer is B, one.
Spanning more than half a million acres, the Allegheny is the only national forest in Pennsylvania.
The forest generates millions of dollars in revenue each year from activities ranging from timber sales and recreation, to mineral rights.
By law 25% of each national forest revenues are returned to the states where the forested lands are located.
In addition to more than 600 miles of trails, some of the most popular sites in the Allegheny national forest are Heart's Content and Tionesta Scenic Area, both of which contain virgin stands of white pine of three to 400 years old, and buzzard swamp near Marienville which provides a Haven for nesting and migrating birds.
Just occurred to me, what's a virgin stand?
I mean, they never what?
BRIAN ALLEN: We have enough questions as it is.
All right, all right.
BRIAN ALLEN: My brain's already hurting.
All right, well, OK, forget it.
We'll get another question for you.
You don't like that one?
Here's another one.
Gee whiz.
ANNOUNCER: Penn State astronomer Aleksander Wolszczan was named a grand award winner in popular science magazine's Best of What's New 1994 Achievements for being the first person ever to do what?
A, identify a 13th zodiac constellation, B, develop material to plug the earth's ozone hole, C, photograph an exploding star, or D, discover the first known planets outside our solar system.
LYNN CULLEN: Good heavens.
Whatever it was it was pretty remarkable.
13 zodiac constellation, plug the earth's ozone, photograph an exploding star, discover the first known planets outside our solar system.
Martha, which one?
Well, I guessed C. I guess because those exploding consonants make me think-- LYNN CULLEN: That would be cool.
And I'd like to see that picture if there is in fact one.
Jeff.
I said B, plug the ozone hole.
It seems like something Penn State would do.
And I think that that 13th zodiac constellation was discovered-- that's a good thing.
It's a good thing Penn state.
BRIAN ALLEN: It was a joke.
But I think that the constellation was from England somewhere.
LYNN CULLEN: OK, Brian.
Well, you know, you did mention I scuba dive and I think today scuba stands for sure could use better answers.
And hopefully we're going to start with that today with C. LYNN CULLEN: Photograph and exploding star.
Well, I hate to explode your bubble but I think you're-- you still don't have one right.
That is pathetic.
ANNOUNCER: The answer is D. Radio signals from the constellation Virgo led Penn State professor of astronomy Aleksander Wolszczan to discover the first planets ever known outside our solar system.
He discovered the planets in 1991 using the world's largest radio telescope, and confirmed their existence in 1994.
Located 7,000 trillion miles away, two of the planets are similar in mass to Earth and the other is about the mass of the moon.
The planets probably don't support life because the tiny pulsar they orbit gives off no light or heat and bombards them with deadly radiation.
However, Wolszczan's discovery increases the chances that somewhere in the universe planets may exist that like Earth are capable of supporting life.
BRIAN ALLEN: We come from one of them.
LYNN CULLEN: There's not much life here right now, I'll tell you that much, gee whiz.
Checking the score once again, it's exactly as it stood the last time we checked the score.
Jeff in front with three and Brian-- [applause] BRIAN ALLEN: Clap for him?
Clap for me.
LYNN CULLEN: I'll get my reasons.
Here's our second clue for the Mystery Pennsylvanian.
Get it right on this one will give you two points.
Referred to as the children's friend, she used several pseudonyms throughout her career, including AM Barnard.
Her writing she considered lurid or blood and thunder, whatever that means.
Born in Germantown 1832, the family breadwinner.
And she made that bread by making dolls clothes.
She supported her parents and three sisters.
Referred to as the children's friend, used pseudonyms for some of her writings that were lurid and blood and thunder.
Well, no blood and thunder here, just the usual looks of bemusement and consternation.
And yet another question, eyes up.
ANNOUNCER: In 1879, two brothers, Clarence and Edward Scott, started a paper products business in Philadelphia.
They were determined to market a product that was indispensable, disposable, and unrefusable.
Was this product, A, the dixie cup, B, rolled bathroom tissue, C, paper handkerchiefs, or D, disposable diapers.
JEFF FISHBEIN: I thought I blew it.
LYNN CULLEN: All righty, it's amazing.
The minute you say bathroom tissue, everybody starts grinning.
What are we, a bunch of three-year-olds here?
Was it a dixie cup, rolled bathroom tissue, paper handkerchiefs, or disposable diapers?
Hm, did you do it?
Yeah, you did.
Jeff, which one?
I'm not allowed to say it out loud, everybody will get a laugh.
Roll bathroom tissue.
LYNN CULLEN: Tissue, OK. We'll say tissue, it sounds so much nicer.
Hello there Brian.
Hello there Lynn.
I was really fighting between B and D, disposable diapers.
But since I stopped using diapers last year, I went with rolled bathroom tissue because it's very important to me and all of us.
LYNN CULLEN: All right, you know you end up in diapers again before it's over.
Martha.
MARTHA HUMMEL: Yeah.
I picked A, the dixie cup.
LYNN CULLEN: Well, thank you so much.
I appreciate that.
For all the Southerners.
LYNN CULLEN: Bab, bab they've spelled, bab.
ANNOUNCER: The answer is B, rolled toilet paper.
The Scott brothers learned from the mistake of Joseph Gayetty, a business man who attempted to sell the first commercially packaged toilet paper 22 years earlier in 1857.
Gayetty failed miserably because his toilet paper was sold in packs of single sheets.
The Scott brothers tissue was placed on rolls and sold in plain brown wrappers to the many homeowners who were beginning to install indoor plumbing.
LYNN CULLEN: Ain't that nice.
And we'd like to thank Mr Whipple for sending us that.
That's not.
It was the wrong brand, wrong brand.
Let's get another question in here, huh?
Just come on, one more.
One or two, one or two.
ANNOUNCER: Marine Sergeant Faustin Wirkus of Dupont Pennsylvania was no ordinary marine.
His military exploits in Haiti launched him on an adventure that ended in most unusual fame.
Was Wirkus, A, given a medal of honor for establishing literacy programs in Port-au-Prince, B, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for the civilian evacuation of a besieged Haitian village, C, named king of a small Haitian island.
Or D, awarded the first and only marine badge of comedy for using humor to prevent an uprising.
LYNN CULLEN: Well, I hope it's D. Can you imagine?
He disarmed the enemy by cracking them up.
OK, medal of honor winner, Nobel Peace Prize, a king, or a comic.
Brian, what was-- whatever his name-- Faustin Wirkus.
Well, I went with D, the badge of comedy.
I've been awarded a badge of comedy not to try to be funny ever again in my life.
LYNN CULLEN: Yes, I believe I seconded the nomination that day.
Martha.
MARTHA HUMMEL: Named C, king of a small Haitian island only because it seems a pretty unlikely thing for a marine to agree.
LYNN CULLEN: We like to go for those unlikely answers.
Jeff.
JEFF FISHBEIN: I picked king as well because I thought that his name was funny enough that he would have had a badge of comedy before he ever arrived.
LYNN CULLEN: Right King Faustin Wirkus.
I don't know if it works for you, it might works for me.
ANNOUNCER: The answer is C. Faustin Wirkus was named the King of La Gonave, a small island in the Gulf of Gonaives at the West end of Haiti.
He was stationed in Haiti twice.
And it was during his second stay from 1919 to 1929, that he was named king.
He was thought to be the reincarnated spirit of Faustin Soulouque, the Black emperor of the mainland.
Even before his coronation Wirkus oversaw the island of La Gonave by dispensing peace and justice, as well as distributing medicines and instruction in farming and home keeping.
But in 1929, Wirkus was called back to the mainland of Haiti and his reign ended.
According to the Marines, Wirkus was transferred for health reasons.
But more likely, it was due to pressure from Haiti's President Borno who said, "Haiti is a republic.
I am its president.
It's unthinkable that there should be a kingdom within a republic or a king."
LYNN CULLEN: Well, here it is, last chance.
Mystery Pennsylvanian and final clue, get it now or don't get it at all.
In 1868 she published her best known work which was based on her own childhood.
The novel was eventually made into a movie twice.
In 1868 she wrote her most famous work, and it was about her family.
It was made into a movie not once but twice.
The children's friend born in Germantown, 1832.
She started sewing dresses.
If you don't get it now you're never going to get it.
And I'll be shocked and dismayed if you don't.
Of course I'm looking at the answer right here, I have no idea if I would have gotten it.
We're all done?
Yes, yes, yes.
Martha, who do you think this is, Mystery Pennsylvania.
It's a mystery to her.
I haven't the thought.
It's a mystery.
LYNN CULLEN: Don't know, OK. That's OK.
I appreciate her honesty.
I even draw a third question.
LYNN CULLEN: Yes, and the dignity with which she handles herself.
Jeff.
Well, at first when you talked about sewing I thought maybe Betsy Ross's daughter because Betsy Ross would have been pretty old in 1832.
And then I got real confused with the writing.
And then the only woman author I can think of who wrote about her family who might be from Pennsylvania, Louisa May Alcott.
LYNN CULLEN: Well, that's smart.
But I don't even know if she is-- LYNN CULLEN: That's smart, I don't know if it's right.
And Brian-- He just thinks he knows everything, doesn't he?
I'm not impressed, Jeff.
My first answer, you said something about stitching clothes for dolls so I went with Mrs. Barbara Doll, other too known as Barbie.
LYNN CULLEN: Get to the point.
Second one is Mother Goose, for those of you eyes aren't good.
And this, his final answer is Alice from Wonderland which I think is where you hail from, isn't it?
BRIAN ALLEN: Well, I don't care what happens to me, at least for this half hour.
I'm as smart as a mensa.
All right, let's-- odd.
How's about we get our sense of dignity and decorum back and get the proper answer.
Alice from Wonderland indeed.
ANNOUNCER: Louisa May Alcott was born in 1832 in Germantown, Pennsylvania.
When Louisa was two, her philosopher father lost his teaching position and was forced to move his family to Boston.
This began a lifelong struggle to adequately provide for his wife and four daughters.
Louisa fortunately had an independent streak and a love of writing.
Eventual success as an author of children's stories provided her with both personal fulfillment and a practical means of supporting the family.
In 1868 she published Little Women, her best known work, based on her own family and childhood.
The story was an immediate success and earned Louisa a devoted audience of readers and admirers worldwide.
"I'll do something by and by," she once said, "Teach, sew, write, anything to help the family, and I'll be rich and famous and happy before I die.
See if I won't."
Louisa May Alcott, a famous Pennsylvanian.
BRIAN ALLEN: Took me a minute.
Yeah, I'm all mixed up about her being from Pennsylvania.
I just saw the latest movie with, what?
Winona Ryder, and I swear they were someplace in New England.
That's what I thought.
Well, they were.
Well, they were.
So who's right?
We, are we right?
BRIAN ALLEN: I know I'm not right.
Well, no, I'm a little confused.
But for-- oh, I guess you want to know who won, huh?
I'm sitting here mulling this up.
I know it wasn't me.
It's beginner's luck.
It is beginner's luck, just relax.
I mean, Brian you are an embarrassment to yourself.
BRIAN ALLEN: And my family, don't forget my family.
LYNN CULLEN: I think the human race.
Martha, well, we'll just let it go.
And Jeff, six whole points for you.
[applause] We give you something.
I've heard.
We do.
There it is, it's coming right at you.
It's a basket of diapers.
Is this a deal?
It's from Just Born in Bethlehem PA.
They are the world's leading makers of marshmallow chicks.
Watch out because Brian will be in there trying to get a date.
I'm worried about all the kids in the audience.
They're the makers of tiny beany gourmet jelly beans.
BRIAN ALLEN: Those are good.
They are really good, seriously good.
You were good too, you were a lot of fun.
You at home, thank you so much.
The audience, [kiss] thank you for putting up with us.
And, hey, I hope you'll come around and join us yet again when yet again we do it again, that is play The Pennsylvania Game.
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