Good Job, Brain! - 108: Oh Baby!

Episode Date: May 1, 2014

BIG NEWS! Chris is going to be a dad! We're celebrating his big news with an episode filled with facts and quizzes about babys, kids, and one nightmare animal. Grab a train ticket to Whoville for Chris' Dr Seuss quiz, and learn how Target uses the magic of data to know when you're pregnant before anybody else. Dana reminds us that we are the worst at Oscars superlatives in her young Oscars quiz. Colin has a lullaby rock cover music round, and Karen shares some cool names for baby animals. And as promised, one nightmare animal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to an airwave media podcast. Hello, squishy and squeezable squabbling squires. Welcome to Good Job, Brain, your weekly quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. This is episode 108, and of course, I'm your humble host, Karen, and we are your practically praiseworth be prancy pranksters. I'm Colin. I'm Dana. And I'm the squishiest of all. And, uh, well, let's jump into our first general trivia segment. Pop quiz, hot shot. And you guys have your Barnyard Buzzers. I have a random Trivial Pursuit card from the box.

Uh, here we go, Blue Wedge for Geography. Uh, what San Francisco bookstore was founded by beat poet Lawrence Ferlingetti. Oh, wow. You guys. City Lights. What's special about the bookstore? It's just, they're like the landmark bookstore of the beat generation. Yeah, Ginsberg and Kerouac and for the strip clubs. Interesting.

All right. Pink Wedge for pop culture. What duo wrote the movies Fargo, Raising Arizona, and Blood Simple? Joel and Ethan Cohen. Yes. I've never heard of Blood Simple. Is that earlier or recent? That was their first movie.

That was the first movie. All right. Yellow Wedge. who was the first female U.S. Speaker of the House Chris Nancy Pelosi Correct

And Purple Wedge What Comic Strip character shares a name With a muddy rock festival Colin Woodstock Yes From peanuts

What kind of bird is Woodstock Do we know? Canary? He has like a crazy hair Yeah He's got hair like Callin From Talbot No one knows

What kind of a dog? a Snoopy, no one knows. Beagle. Beagle. You just got trolled. You just got Beagle trolled. All right, Green Wedge for Science.

What company was originally known as Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing? Everybody. Three M. Oh, I was going to say M&M's. M and M and M.

M. We got rid of one of the M's. Don't ask what happened at that third M's. Last question. Orange Wedge. My name is Earl. Jason Lee, also from Mallrats, in many other movies, was a professional athlete before becoming an actor.

What was his sport? Hmm. Oh, I just one. He's not a big guy. Like baseball or something, maybe? That's not a bad, Jess. You can call it a sport. Oh, you can call it.

Chris. Ultimate Frisbee. No. Golf? No. Swimming? He was a professional skateboard. border.

Oh, okay. Yeah. Oh, that. Okay. Well, good job, Brains. And we have one lobe-trotter fact from one of our fans. Loeb-trotters are our fan club members, and Ginger Turner wrote us a very cool mnemonic for remembering when, for the very specific function of remembering when

J.R. Tolkien died. Oh, okay. Okay. Tolkien, author of the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, died in, not. 1973. And how you can remember this, Ginger said, is reversing the numbers in the ring poem in the book. So the poem...

Oh, oh, yeah. Yeah, so three rings for the elven kings under the sky. Seven for the dwarf lords in the Hall of Stone. Nine for mortal men doomed to die. And one for the dark lord on his dark throne. And reverse, you know, it's three, seven, nine. reverses 1-973, which is the year Tolkien died. I appreciate the mnemonic, but there is no way that would help me.

Like, I have better luck just remember in 1970s. Yeah, that's true. But it's fun that it's connected to the poem. And there's an intro, she wrote, bonus somewhat related fact. It's kind of macaw. C.S. Lewis, also famous author of the Narnia series, died on November 22nd, 1963. which is the same day as J.F.K. was assassinated. Oh.

Fun fact. And then she goes, thanks, Karen, Dana, Colin, and Chris. Death, death, death. Bye. Enjoy the show. Well, thank you, Ginger. Thanks, Ginger. I don't think I'll forget those years.

I think I'll remember that. I like your handwriting. Yeah, very cool. Thank you. So, let's start the show this week. Big exciting news inspired by you, Chris. our theme for this episode. Do you even remember?

I feel like you should. Jerks throughout history. Oh, no. I prepared for the wrong show. Squishy podcast hosts. Well, I guess I can announce this to all of the good job brain listeners because my mom knows. I wouldn't want to tell you before her. Yeah, yeah.

Yes. We're close. But Regina, my wife and I are going to have a baby. Yay. Mostly Regina is going to happen. How did it get there? standing around how is it that's what how is babby formed um i really have no idea um i just informed yeah and so um man this years of the show have witnessed your wedding that's right yeah yeah yeah now

now well not you're not peggers your wife is preggers right exactly yeah so they've seen me go from it's not junior yeah yeah this week we decided and also actually we had a really fun sorry we had we're all going to be pod parents the pod parents yeah yeah your pod mom pod yeah yeah yeah A couple episodes ago, Dana had a really good quiz from a baby shower you went to. So this week we decided to talk about kids and baby stuff. That makes me realize when she said, don't worry, baby, don't worry, baby, everything will do not all right, baby, don't worry, baby. So, let me tell you a little story. At some point in the mid to late 2000s, a very angry man stormed into a Target store just outside of Minneapolis, Minnesota.

And he demanded to see the manager. And he was, in the words of the New York Times, which reported this story, he was clutching a stack of coupons that had been sent to his home addressed to his high school age daughter. He was young teenage daughter. And he said, what are you people sending to my kids? children. My daughter is in high school, and you are mailing her coupons for baby clothes and baby cribs and baby formula. What are you trying to encourage the young people to get pregnant because of hot deals at Target on these items? Now, a more level-headed person... Because that's why kids are pulling around. That's why. That's why. Because of the deal.

Now, a more level-headed person who does not get angry at his junk mail and storm in a fit of rage into the local target might have thought, oh, maybe they just, this is just the mailing list for everybody. Yeah. Maybe they didn't just send it like, it's not hand address to his daughter. Maybe it's just what everybody got and my daughter's on the mailing list. And he really thought that they had targeted his daughter with these specific coupons in an effort to encourage her to teen pregnancy.

Yeah, sure. So, of course, the manager, you know, the customer is always right. This guy might be a little loopy, but the manager apologizes profusely. I'm so sorry, sir. I don't know why these were sent to your daughter. I'm very sorry, sir. You know, please give us your business later. And then the manager actually follows up a few days later to calls again.

We're really good customer service. He's just like, I, this is, you know, so-and-so, the manager at Target. You know, we had the incident a few days ago, and I really just again wanted to express my apologies. And the dad is like, yeah, about that. Yeah, it actually, yeah, my daughter is actually pregnant. So the dad apologizes. Oh, that's good. That's good. And as it turns out, the dad was half right because Target did know that his daughter was pregnant.

And Target absolutely sent her those coupons because Target knew that she was going to have a baby. Gee, how did Target know? Well, let's take a trip back to Small Town America, as we always love to do. When, you know, when you would visit your local store, you were on a first name basis probably with the guy behind the counter and you know if you bought something you knew it and they knew it they were sort of a they were the

holder of the town's secrets right right they knew what everybody in the town was up to because you had to come to them to buy whatever it was so if you needed cream for your bunions I don't know bunyan sounds like an old timey thing that's like bone disalignment sure yeah

you don't put a cream well back in the day that's why they were selling so much cream I thought you're going to say hemorrhoid cream so you're like if you need I need cream for your butt. I was like, butts. Yeah, so let's say hemorrhoid cream. Yeah, so I mean, you know, you need that.

So the local, the guy behind the counter, he was the keeper of all of the secrets. Now, of course, in the modern day. Now, and if they were smart, they'd try to anticipate your needs, you know, knowing what kind of a customer you were. The modern day, Colossomart, big box store, impossible. Too many things. Too many things. Too many people. Millions of customers.

Different teenager behind the register. Every day you go up there. There's no way they could do it. But if you're paying with a credit card, then you are handing them your data. You are handing them every single thing that you've ever bought, and then you're giving them your name. And they have all of that data.

It's there. They've got it. The question is, you have all of this data. What are you going to do with it? You can analyze it after the fact. You can look at, you know, what items do different customers buy together, you know, so we'll have a sale on both those things or put them closer together or further apart. Right. I mean, you know, they have it all and people are just handing it to them so they can kind of use that data.

But the Holy Grail for Target was, can we predict what you're going to buy in the future based on past purchases? The real Holy Grail was, can we figure out based on your current purchases if you are going to have a baby? Because as soon as people have babies, they need a whole bunch of stuff. They're going to start spending all kinds of money. And what people were doing was going to people saying, hey, do you have a baby shop here? But if they could go to you beforehand and say, hey, are you going to have a baby shop here? Then they're hitting you while you're still pregnant, right? So they can get to you potentially first.

And what happens is when you have that big life change, they have the opportunity to bring you in and make you a customer, not just for the baby stuff, but everything else. You know, because you're already going there for your baby stuff, right? You've got to pick a baby stuff place. So what are these items? What are these clues? What are these clues? So basically Target had an in-house statistician, and this is the guy who was profiled by the New York Times and this big thing. And they asked him, like, you know, is this possible?

And he put a prediction model together. So he started with, you know, besides the credit card, you know, information, people would voluntarily give info to Target. So, for example, they would set up their baby registry at Target. And that involves giving them your name and all this stuff you're going to buy. So he kind of starts there. And he doesn't just look at what's on that list, but he looks at, okay, well, the people that set this up, you know, what else have they purchased? Unsented lotion, unsented soap, cotton balls, vitamin supplements, cocoa butter, people

who started buying these things, he could ascertain if they really stepped up their purchases of them over a period of time. He figures, you know what, I think that they're pregnant. Not only that, he worked on this model. This model got so good that not only could he figure. you're out of a customer was pregnant, he could take a stab at their due date. He could get it to, like how far in advance they would start buying it. Get it to within a couple of months because they start, yeah, yeah.

That's the magic here is that you've got thousands and thousands and thousands of people and you can look through the historical data. Yeah. Right. So now, okay, so now they've got a model and they have figured out they can predict when someone's due date is and they have their address, they have their information and they can start sending them promotions that are geared towards this. So what do they do? You know, what do you do? You put together a coupon book that's like, hey, congratulations on your baby. Consider shopping at Target for all of this baby stuff. Here's some great deals for you.

This turns out to be the worst possible idea because people got freaked out. It's so scary. It would be so scary, right? How do you know I'm pregnant? I don't tell anybody I'm pregnant. How are you sending this thing telling me, hey, here you're a bun in the oven. My father doesn't know, but Target knows. Right, exactly.

So they tried it on a very small scale. They kind of did an, you know, A-B test, and that was all. and that did not work. But this is what they did. They're like, oh, here's a coupon book from Target. And then it's like, here's a deal on blank CDRs. Here's a deal on diapers. Here's a deal on

whiskey. Here's a deal on baby formula. So they kind of scatter it. Yeah. It was heavily baby stuff themed, but with enough other completely unrelated items in there, this has been a colossal success for them.

Like, billions with a B. Like, that is how much more money they are now making. They don't, they don't, like, break it out, you know, in their reports. But, like, it's been pointed out that, like, they have huge revenue increases and they will call out, like, we're doing really well in the mom and baby department. It's funny, there was, I couldn't really independently research this, but they note in the New York Times article, like, for some reason, people get into habits with their shopping. They just go to the same place. They buy the same stuff, right? If there is a major life event, like, you get married, you move in with someone, you get divorced, you know, you have a baby, you graduate from school.

Like, when you have a major psychological, like, life event happened to you, that is the moment where you might actually also start totally changing your shopping behavior. going to new stores, buying new things you haven't bought before. There was something in there about, like, when people get married, they start buying different coffee. Like, just weird stuff like that. Oh, it's compromised coffee, right? Or he's and her coffee. Yeah, well, where you're just like, oh, that wouldn't have been the coffee I picked, but I think the other person likes it, and I think they did it too.

And it's like, all right, we'll just pick the... Oh, Henry. Yeah. So it is about predicting major life changes. and trying to capitalize on that opportunity because the business is going to go to somebody. How do you going to go to you? I have a quiz for you guys about children who are nominated in one

or nominated and lost Academy Awards. The youngest Academy Award nominees and winners, which comes up in trivia. A lot. Yeah, enough that we should know the answers to these questions. A little caveat. You have to listen really carefully for category and like whether nominee or winner

because they're different qualifiers but there's a pool of kids you should know about okay they're watching you when you sleep there's a whole pool of kids get them out of the pool I've been in a pool full of kids and I can tell you don't yeah

no no don't submerge your head you used to be a camp counselor I did I did and I don't think we were the first ones to do this but we would tell the kids every year There's a special chemical in the pool That would change color if they pee in the pool So people will know, right?

Well, hopefully, yeah. So everyone would know there'd be a bright red cloud around you. I was in the pool once and this girl was like, wait a minute, I have to go to the bathroom. I was like, okay. And then I saw her get out and then just walked to another area of the pool and get back in. And I was like,

Ah! Puller kids! But we mean a metaphorical pool. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. All right. First question. who was the first child

winner of an academy award everybody Shirley Temple it was a non-competitive Oscar it was an achievement award she won when she was six years old a lifetime achievement

a year six all down hill are from here again no one lifetime achievement but it was a special achievement but it wasn't her versus other kids and she won it was like they created it just to honor her they felt weird about nominating her for an actual Academy Award because she was six years old.

Right. She's so good. She did such a good job. Anyway, all right. In 2002, at the age of 12, this girl became the youngest ever Oscar nominee for Best Actress. She held this title until 2013 when another actress took the honor of the youngest person nominated. Oh, me. Who was the one in 2002, and then who was the one in 2013?

Lead actress? Best Actress. Best Actress. Yeah. Not supporting. Oh, that is late. Okay. That's too late.

That's too late. That's too late. I was thinking it was Natalie Portman, but that's too late. Um, I say Keisha, uh, whale rider. Oh, yeah. Oh, you're so close. Oh. You're thinking of Rudy from the Cosary show.

Oh, yeah, that's right. Keisha Night Polyum. No. Shearer Knightley. But, yeah. Keisha Castle Hughes. Yeah. Castle, not night.

Yeah. It's so close. Kisha Castle Hughes. And it was overtaken. Yes. In 2013. Is that Kavanaugh-A Wallace? From Vennon-A-Wallis.

For Bees of the Southern Wild. Yeah, she was nine, so cute. It was so cute. All right. The youngest person nominated for an Academy Award ever was Justin Henry, who was nominated for an Oscar when he was eight. What movie was he in? Justin Henry? Yes.

Oh. Eight. Oh. What's that? Isn't that E.T? No. Wait for what category? That was Henry.

Thomas. Here's the thing. Have we heard of this movie? Oh, yes. Oh, yeah. Okay. Oh, yes. Okay.

To kill a mockingbird. It was Kramer versus Kramer. Oh. Yeah. He was young Kramer. Yeah. Yeah. All right.

Last question. Put these people in order from oldest to youngest at the time of their nomination for an Oscar. Okay. They were all nominated for supporting actress. Okay. All right. We have Tatum O'Neill.

We have Jody Foster, Anna Pacquin, and Abigail Breslin. Oldest to youngest I believe oldest was Jody Foster I think she was 15 I think Tatum O'Neill was 11 She was at the time she was the youngest I think Tadem O'Neill was 11 or 10

And then Anna Pacquine was 9 Well here's the thing Well Anna Pacquine was the youngest In the movie she appeared in But when she won the award The movie hadn't come out for a while Right right She was the youngest

Tatum O'Neill, I think, was like a year older than she was. And so I would have to go with Jody Foster, Abigail, Breslin, Tatum O'Neill, Anna Pac-Win. I say switch the last two for me. I agree with Chris. I think that's the, yeah. So it was Jody Foster, who was 14 years and 83 days old. For taxi driver? For a taxi driver, yes.

Then came Anna Pacquin for the piano, who was 11 years old in 200 days. Yeah, it got down to days. Because the next person was Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine, who is 10 years old, and 284 days. She was almost 11. She was like 100 days out from 11 or so. And then came Tatum O'Neill for a paperman. For paperman. Tatum O'Neill was the youngest, and she's held this record for 40 years.

Wow. Cool. Good job, you guys. So, of course, in this baby kid, child, offspring episode, I want to talk about non-human babies. offspring and maybe a little bit of a nightmare animal later um but before that that means yes yeah that means we're going to get the nightmare not a little bit yeah not maybe yeah there will be yeah it will haunt your dreams and before i talk about the harris three spot moth uh i want to share with you guys you know how like we we talked about in the show many times like groups

of animals have have named sure right right a parliament of owls yeah was a rumba of snakes right So they're also very specific baby names for different animals. Oh, sure. Puppie, pup, kitten for cats. Calf. So here I have a list of interesting names for baby animals that we don't really see every day. I think they're funny. So cow, you said calf, right?

Calf is a baby cow. There is another name for a motherless calf, a specific name. And I didn't know. I came across this. I was like, is this real? it's dogey Like get a long little dogy Yeah

Like get a long little doggie Yeah Like in the old western songs Yeah Wow so they're not time about doggies Little orphaned cows So it's an orphan They're the same

Makes much more sense now Right Well we know baby chickens Are called chicks There's also specific Young Girl chick And Young Boy chick A pull it

For a young girl chick young hen and a cockerel I heard of that I've heard these names and I didn't know what they meant Yeah interesting Pullet and cockerel Pullet and cockerel A young eel

It's called an elver Oh You guys are all They look slimy and gross But they're baby It's a cool word yeah Yeah yeah babyums are all Yeah also all babies are slimy and gross

So that's fine That's true Yeah at one point This one maybe because English is my second language I didn't know A baby fish is fry Small fry And I was like

That I always thought like Small fry was like An actual potato fry And it's very small Oh like a little brown Yeah it's like oh I don't care about That's a small fry Yeah that's a

Which is funny Because another bonus Another name for a young fish is fingerly And I think a fingering potato So it's all like potatoes in my head A young hair A baby hair is a leveret Oh that's a good word

Leveret. These are great words. How do you fill that one? L-E-V-E-R-E-T. That's a good scrabble word. Leveret. That's a really good one. Young Oyster, baby oyster, is a spat.

I think it might be in the Alice in the Lerland poem. So Peacock is very funny because peacock is the animal peacock is really referring to the boy. And of course, their baby is a pea chick chick. Pea chick. So cute. Not a chick-pee. A pea chick-chid. A peach chick.

A swan baby. Oh, a signet. Yeah. Signet. All right, here we go. Baby animals are usually really cute. And I don't know if you, I don't think I've ever shared this on the show, but you guys know. My diet is very strange.

I'm not really a vegetarian. I'm an uglierian. I eat animals. I don't eat animals I find cute. I eat animals I find ugly. So I'll eat shrimp, but I won't eat ducks because I think ducks are cute. Cows and pigs are cute. Most mammals are cute.

And the thing is, if the baby version is cute, then I will not eat that animal. So most baby animals are very cute. Not this one. So I want to introduce you this species called the Harris Three Spot Moth. It's just a, you know, kind of like a standard moth that has three brown spots on it. So the Harris Three Spot Moth, the caterpillar of it, it's supposed to look like bird poop. Okay. It's supposed to look like discarded animals.

What color? It's brown with white spots or white colorations that look like bird poop or poof. It saves it from predators. Yeah, exactly. It's a camouflage technique. And even the shape, you think of capital as like a plump long thing? No, it's weird and nightmare and gnarly. And it has like these weird, not thorns or the spindles that come out.

It's gross. As caterpillars, they molt, right? They have to replace their casing and skin. And what this caterpillar does is it keeps the head. head skin and it would save it on one of the spindles coming out from the body multiple of them various molds so it would be a caterpillar with three dried head molds like heads on pikes up at a head on pikes a they have camouflage going for them b if they do get threatened they'll thrash around and it looks like the heads are moving and it's like kind of like violent jerks and it might

scare people away that is yeah That's pretty freaky. I need to see a picture now. Well, there's video of it's thrashing, so I have fun with that. Let me ask you guys, how old were you guys when you had your first jobs? And I'm not talking about, like, lemonade stand. I'm talking about you did some work, and someone not your parents gave you money for that work. And taxes were taken out of it, maybe.

Well, we'll fudge on taxes. But you got money for work performed. How old are you? 16. Oh, 13, huh? I was a tutor 16 16, yeah, I think I was 16 as well

Yeah, okay, so all around the same I want you to imagine starting your life In the working world at age four I would have been terrible Right, yeah And we're not talking about Shirley Temple here No, we are not talking about the cushy life of a Hollywood actor

Once upon a time, I mean, not that long ago It was totally commonplace It was accepted. It was even encouraged to have children as young as four entering the workforce. To do what? Well, to do lots of things. And, you know, in Europe and America, before modern labor laws started appearing in, you know, in the 1800s generally, there was virtually no regulation at all around child labor, virtually none.

And, I mean, I should say, you know, there are obviously many places in the world today where there still is child labor. The main difference between now and, you know, 200 years ago is that now child labor is pretty much universally condemned. It still happens. It's still there. Most people don't consider it a good thing. Back in the good old days or battle days, there was a lot of work to be done everywhere. And you'd find all the hands you could do to do it.

Sadly, the primary advantage of child laborers has, well, there have been two. One is they'll work cheap. They work more cheap than adults. And the second is their size. So, you know, going back to like 15, 16, 17, 1800s, a lot of the roles for child laborers were because they were small and could get in places that full-size adults could not. It was very common to have children working in mines and coal mines or, you know, gemstones, right? Because they can get into tight little spots as bad as it is for your health to be a coal miner as a grown-up. Yeah.

When your lungs are still developing. Substantially worse to be down there as a child. As you say, your body is still developing. You know, all of your systems are still developing. You know, you could be burned out of a life as a minor as a kid by the time you were a teenager. You know, you could be just so many ailments stacked up that you're done. Kids would have rickets. Because you're underground all day.

You're not exposed to light. What's rickets? It's vitamin D deficiency because you're not getting supposed to sunlight. It makes your bones weak and brittle and they can become malformed. And your body's still growing. and you're underground harvesting coal. My first vision of a chimney sweep is from Mary Poppins. Yeah, probably like a lot of people.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I assure you that real-life chimney sweeps were nowhere near as jolly as their film counterparts. They go around singing about it afterwards. In real life, particularly in England where there was a lot more coal and chimney sweeping, your average chimney sweeping crew would have several young boys as part of the crew, and they were called climbing boys. And their job was to climb inside the chimneys and scrub them out in places that a grown-up couldn't reach.

There's some reports of boys as young as three and a half. I mean, just imagine trying to explain to a three-and-a-half-year-old this is the work that you need to do. It said that sometimes to keep the climbing boys from slacking off, you know, while they're inside there, it was not uncommon for crew bosses to light small fires near the grades to send heat and smoke up the flu. Like, hey, keep working.

Don't slack off here. It's going to get really uncomfortable. You might be retired as a climbing boy by the time you were 12, and you might be stooped over and bruised and hunched to show for it. You might think that, okay, well, you know, some of the advances of the industrial revolution would bring about better conditions, right? Yes and no. Yes, you are outside of the mines.

You're not underground. You're not inside a chimney. You might be in a factory. But inside a factory was dangerous, dangerous work. Yeah. And the job. for a lot of children in factories early on was runners was one term for them. Say you're working in a textile factory and there's a snag or a breakage or something on the giant

machines. You would send little kids in there to root out inside the machinery because they can fit inside the gears and around the little tight spots to fix whatever problem there was. It was tough, tough, dangerous work. Not all these children were volunteers. A lot of them were very poor. A lot of them were orphans. A lot of them were pressed into service. A lot of them were stolen children for the purpose of working in factories. Until 1814 in England, there was no law outright forbidding the theft of children. What? Yes. There is a story of a woman named Elizabeth Salmon who abducted a child in 1802. She was only charged, once she was discovered, she was only charged with theft of the girl's clothes because that was the only part of her act. that was technically illegal. Wow. Crazy to imagine some of these things that seem like common sense. Well, nothing is a law until you make it a lot.

It's true. It's true. I guess we have to talk about this. Yeah, this is a thing now. There was a little bit of relief with the Factory Act of 1844, which reduced the number of hours that a child could work. Didn't ban. It could reduce. Which basically said that you could no longer have things like kids working 12 to 14 hour shifts in some factories.

workplaces six days a week. Kids got mandatory cigarette breaks. Whiskey breaks. They would probably be glad to have the cigarette breaks. So, yeah, you would bring it down to a much more respectable, you know, eight or ten hour day, maybe only four to five days a week as a child. Thankfully, as both Europe and America moved, you know, toward the end of the 1800s and into the early 1900s, child labor was, you know, bit by bit, reduced and reduced,

and eventually pretty much outlawed in all cases, you know, and there are weird little exceptions like actors today. But even today, there are really strict regulations on child labor school. That's why on TV shows like full house, they get twins to play one girl. That's absolutely right. Because they'll have rules

that any given child under a certain age can only be on set for 20 minutes, let's say, at a time. We're working only a certain number of hours a day. So yeah, this is why they'll get multiples, twins or triplets, even if you're lucky, to play young kids in TV and movies and things like that.

So as much as I grumbled about having to go get a job when I was in high school, I'm glad I did not have to start when I was five. Yeah. All right, let's take a quick break, a word from our sponsor. And you're listening to Good Job Brain. This week we're talking about babies and children and talking about offsprings. Whether you are currently a child or used to be a child or have children, you've probably encountered Dr. Seuss books.

Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. This is not the story of Dr. Seuss. This is a quiz. It is a quiz baby that I have birthed and will all bestow upon you. That sounds bad for some reason. You all know the Dr. Seuss books. I want to know how well you know some of these doctors.

All right. Well, we'll see. All right. A lot of these have entered into popular culture. So each of you have a notepad and a pen. And that is how we will play this. So you guys will write down your answers. If you're following along at home, I'll let you know what everyone is written down.

And we'll see who gets it right. If anyone. If this were a role doll, it would be a different matter. Sure. I did not grow up. That is another quiz for another episode of time of time. So, for this first question, I'm going to give you a quote, and there will be a blank, and you will write down the word that goes in the blank. All right.

Here's the quote. This one has a little star. This one has a little car. Say, what a lot of blank there are. No frills, delivers. Get groceries delivered to your door from no. Freels with PC Express. Shop online and get $15 in PC optimum points on your first five orders. Shop now at nofrills.ca. Are you dreaming about becoming a nurse or maybe you're already in

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too, because as nurses, there's always something for us to learn. So, subscribe to the Stray Day Nursing podcast, and I'll see you on Thursday. Karen is locked in, Dana is locked in, Colin does not have anything. Say, what a lot of blank there are. One has a little star, one has a little car. Colin, your time is up. So, Karen says fish. Dana says...

Ones. Ones. Okay. Books. Books. Karen is correct. This is from one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish. I thought it was ones because that would also work with the foot.

It would. It would. It would. With Dr. Seuss, yeah, of course. And then something went bump. How that bump made us jump is aligned from a book. What was the thing? What was the bump?

What made the bump that made them jump? And then something went bump How that bump made us jump What went bump Karen's locked in Dana's locked in Colin is locked in Colin says who

Dana says the cat in the hat And Karen says the cat in the hat It is the cat in the hat All right here we go On the 15th of May In the jungle of Newell In the heat of the day In the cool of the pool

he was splashing, enjoying the jungle's great joys when Blank the Blank Heard a small noise We have two blanks. Blank the blank. Colin is locked in. Karen is locked in. Dana is locked in.

Colin says Horton and elephant. Karen says Horton and elephant. Dana says Horton the elephant. It is Horton the elephant. It is Horton the elephant. The small noise he was hearing is the I like the cool of the pool The cool of the pool

It was a nice opening Here is a little A few rhyming lines Just tell me what book these are from Chicks with bricks come Chicks with blocks come Chicks with bricks and blocks and clocks come Whoa

Hey all right Head out of the gutter Back in the pool full of kids All right here Chicks with bricks come Chicks with blocks come Chicks with bricks and blocks and clocks come It is a bit of a tongue twister

It is a book of very specifically tongue twisters Dancing on a razor with that one Karen is locked in Dana is locked in Colin is locked in Dana says I don't know Colin says hop on pop And Karen says green eggs and ham

The answer is fox in socks Wow, you're celebrating. I remember reading this one, but I just couldn't remember how I was like, box in socks. And knocks on box and all sort of stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. In how the Grinch stole Christmas, the Grinch steals from the residence of Whoville three types of food that are called out by name. Name two of them. If that's too hard, name one of them.

Are they normal food, or is it made-up food? He steals three types of food. All of them, all of them are evocative of a certain type of food. There is one specific line where he's talking about all the things that the Grinch is stealing. I'm trying to think of what rhymes with other things. Three things are named. Yes, that's a way to do it. Yep.

Dana has a couple of foods written down. Karen has some foods written down. Colin weighs in with jellies and jams. Karen weighs in with cake, cookies. and candy and Dana says turkey and hand you have all failed

horribly he steals first he steals from them who pudding he steals the very well known roast beast and the Grinch even takes their last can

of who hash got it here is another opening rhyming couplet from a book on the far away island of Salamassand blank the blank

was king of the pond Oh Oh, man On the far away island of Salamassand Blank the Blank was king of the pond Karen is locked in

I can picture that page Oh man I can picture it I just don't remember Colin is having some trouble Just put something Mass Dana is locked in

Colin you are out of time Karen says don't know Dana says Can you read that for me Either Myrtle or Erdle the Turtle Oh, you're about the turtle! It is, Yurtle. Yurtle.

Yes. Yes. So, sadly, no points all, half point. 50%. Yep, yep, point five. That's 0.5 more than we got. All that I've noticed, except my own feet, was a horse and a wagon on blank blank. All that I've noticed except my own feet was a horse and a wagon on blank blank.

It's not right, but it rhymes. Everyone locked in. Dana says, Sesame Street. Colin says, can you read that for me? Mulberry Street. And Karen says, Crazy Street. And you did need to get both for one point. The winner is Colin, the book is, to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street.

Okay. First book for children. Oh, was it? Yeah. All right. And the last question. Let's talk about green eggs and ham. And the dish, green eggs and ham, that one character keeps trying to get the other character to eat during the entire book.

What actual parts of the food are green? Oh. All right. Karen is locked in. Everybody is locked in. Karen says yoke. Colin says yokes and pork chop. And Dana says egg yolks.

The person who is most correct is Colin Because the egg yolks are green And also the ham is green That's what I was thinking It's not it's yeah As it turns out it's green eggs and ham And green eggs and ham Not just green eggs

And regular ham Green eggs and green ham Yeah that was tricky That was trickier than I thought going in And then you hear the answer It's like oh yeah that I mean there's probably a lot of parents With small children out there

That ran the board on that I'm sure Yeah It's easy to write poetry when, like, you just get to the part where you have to put the rhyming word in and just make up a word. Right, yeah. He's, he dined out a lot on that. Steve Cubine and Nan McNamara's podcast from Beneath the Hollywood Sign. Mary Astor has been keeping a diary.

Mary writes everything down. And so this torrid affair with George S. Kaufman is chronicled on a daily basis. In great detail. And Ife pulls out a box and gives McAllister a ring saying, here's something to remember me. buying. This article caused Daryl Zanick to hit the roof. Actress Ruth Roman followed that up with playing a

foil to Betty Davis in Beyond the Forest. I mean, if you can stand toe to toe with her, boy. And she does because she plays the daughter of the man that Betty Davis kills out in the hunting trip. And it's directed by King Vidor, so he's no slouch. How do you go wrong with that?

Speaking of the Oscars, talking about what I call Beginners' Luck, it's all about the actors and actresses who won an Oscar on their very first film. Get your fix of old Hollywood from Stephen Nann on the podcast from Beneath the Hollywood Sign. So, Chris, as a father-to-be, you will no doubt soon be learning, of course, the joys of various kids' books as we just went over. Indeed. You will also, I am sure, be learning the joy slash pain of kids' music, lullabies, you know, just the same old.

They're great the first time, the first ten times, but as a parent, if you have to hear some of these things hundreds of times, they can get a little old. So what I think is a brilliant stroke of music marketing and music selling, there are companies that now create lullaby and baby versions of normal adult rock songs. Yes, Rockaby baby. This is not an official plug or anything, but I have taken several rockabai baby. covers of very well-known rock songs. As Karen said, they're all instrumental. So for me, part of the fun with these kind of songs is listening to, at what point do I like, oh, I recognize this song. I know it. I imagine it'll be like sort of familiar, but you won't be able to place it without a little bit more help. And they're really well done. Once you hear them, like, for me, I can't help but smile when I hear these. The arrangements are fantastic. The arrangements are

great. I'll start us off here with one that I think is fairly straightforward. So keep in mind, These are all very famous, very well-known rock songs. All right, here we go. So here's the first sample. Just kind of give you guys a flavor. Tell me what song this is. Yeah Oh, well

Did you get it? Karen. Fell in love with a girl By the White Stripes That is Oh, I love the girl That's right I'm okay

I'm so glad that I have no idea What, no I've never heard that song Before my life So I'm listening to this going Oh man I hope that like This isn't like a familiar song That I know

Right right I want to play it for you I'm like Do you know you don't know The video was made out of Lagos? Nope Yeah kind of the first I think the first white stripes

hit song right Yeah If you hasn't heard any of them I'm just saying I'm relieved. Okay. Here we go. Next one. Tell me what song this is.

It's queen We Will Rock You Yes We Will Rock you My Queen It really does They really are They're slow

It's so slow down They do They'll change the tempo On some of them And it's just And not only that But it's just like I know we will rock you

But it's just hard to get it Yeah Here we go A punk classic Okay Okay This is I want to be sedated. Yes.

Oh, my God. Yes. The Ramones, I want to be sedated. A very sedate version. Quite, quite, yes. Here we go. Another hard rock and classic. What song is this?

Oh, Karen. Paradise City with the grass is green. Yes, Paradise City by... Guns and Roses. That's right. One of my personal favorite rock songs here. Karen Where is the fight club song?

Yes, as seen in Fight Club. Yes, where is my mind by the Pixie? That's a good song. I mean, if you guys like this lullaby stuff, there are so many kind of instrumental covers of rock songs. I love the wedding ones with the violin. Yeah, the vitamin stream quartet does a whole selection. They have like all Fleawood Mac, like, you know, all wedding, all babiesies. You're right, it is very much in the same vein.

And there's also brass band interpretations too are really big. And also like banjo bluegrass. Like I have a whole album of a brass band Dach Punk, which is really interesting. That does sound interesting. Yeah, like, I love listening to, like, weird instrumental covers of songs you already know. And whereas my mind is always, it's always in one of these... It shows the strength of a lot of these songs that they can be, I think, deconstructed and reinterpreted and they're still good songs. All right. Last one. Last one. For your little punk music fan baby, might enjoy hearing this.

I think everyone, I think everyone, I think on that one, I think on that one, should I stay or should I go. Yes, by the car. Wow. Crazy. Good job. You know what? I learned something today. All right.

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