Good Job, Brain! - 119: All Around the World

Episode Date: July 24, 2014

Please put your seat back in the full upright position, and your tray table up as we're about to take off into this travel-themed episode! Discover the strange origin of passenger air travel and exactly what you had to do to "fly" from New York City to Los Angeles. Dana's got space tourism on top of mind and Chris mapped out some funky destinations but it's all jumbled up in his anagram segment. Are you a world traveller? Then you'll probably ace the airport code quiz, and our lonely island challenge. ALSO: Aussies rule! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Hello, Smorgasbord of Smashing, Smokin, Smitten, smiling Smirkers. Welcome to Good Job, Brain, your weekly quiz show and Offi trivia podcast. This is episode 119, and of course, I'm your Humble host, Karen, and we are your school of scones, scoffing, scallywagg scholars. I'm Colin. I'm Dana. And I'm Chris.

And I'm back. You are back. What did you guys do when I was gone? We talked about breastfeeding. Which was kind of related to. I'm going to need to know a lot about that. Yeah, exactly. She'll listen to our dairy episode.

Yeah. Oh, okay. You need to look up, actually, this will be a little test. Do you know what witch's milk is, Chris? Um, yes. Yeah. You do? Wait, wait, wait.

Is it, is it, is it, like milk from a woman who like isn't pregnant. That was that was kind of my guess. No, it's not what it is it is. It is a sometimes when the baby is born. Yeah. The baby will have breast milk in the baby breast.

In the baby? Yeah. That's clearly a witch. All right. Without further ado, let's jump into our first general trivia segment. Pop quiz, hot shot. Here I have a random trivia pursuit card and you guys have your morning zoo radio, radio zoo buzzers ready. Here we go.

First question, Blue Wedge for Geography. What drinks Gaelic name means Water of Life? Oh, whoa, sorry. Chris. Whiskey. Correct, it is whiskey. All right, Pink Wedge for pop culture. Who was the only American member of the Monty Python comedy troupe?

A Colin. That's Terry Gilliam. Yes, Terry Gilliam. Also filmmaker. Yes. Of some note. Yeah. That's what I was going to say, you guys.

I just want to look you now. Okay. You're right. Not to take anything away from Colin. I can hear you. Yellow Wedge. Who left her dog named Trouble $12 million in her will? Oh, college.

I think this is Leona Helmsley. Yeah. Oh. I don't know who that is. the queen of mean she was heiress to our owned hotels right primarily i think that's where yeah real estate hotels apartments all that yeah yeah yeah it's a fascinating wikipedia page data approved yeah um note here says a judge reduced the amount to from 12 million to 2 million yeah the dog didn't have very good lawyers apparently this dog name is trouble all right purple wedge what

American pop star wrote the children's book The English Roses. American Oh, oh. Ed Stana. Madonna? Correct.

Oh, Madonna. All right, green wedge for science? Multiple choice about how often do sloths poop? Wow. Poop is printed

on this card, yes. That's interesting. Once a day, once a week, or once a month. one a month incorrect I'm sad that continuously

was not one of the he's pooping right now Chris once a week once a week yeah because if it was once a day yeah

then I could be a yeah I could be a sloth yeah maybe that's why you move so slow it's only once a week right right he's like I'm coming

hang on oh he could poop more But once a week It doesn't say how long He poops for him That's the next question Six days But it starts

Once a week It starts once a week Yeah exactly All right Orange Wedge Ooh we had this question before In Pub trivia Who was the first

African American head coach To win a Super Bowl Yeah Colin Colin then as now Was the only person Who even could venture I guess I believe that is Tony Dungy.

Correct. A note here says, Dungie's Colts beat the Bears 29-17 in Super Bowl X-L-I, which is what? 41? Yes. Yes. Yeah, yeah.

Oh, look at the Roman numerals. 10 less than 50 plus 1. Yeah. Okay. The Romans, they were probably really good at adding and subtracting because they had to do it constantly. All the time. It's like, let's see, L minus X. French time, too.

French numbers? Yes. Lots of addition. Oh, yes, subtraction. Especially with time. Oh, yeah, yeah. I was like, boy, I don't know. You just read out the numbers.

Right, yeah, I know. Yeah, right. All right. Good job, Brains. This week, we're in the middle of summer. Lots of people are traveling. Lots of people doing their family vacation. We thought we would dedicate this episode to a traveling, tourism, vacation hot spots.

So this week, we're hitting the road. So everybody's going on the phone. You're never looking back. It's a long, long way from our own. So our first stop, on this tourism-themed on this tourism-themed episode. Our first stop is in Australia, and here I have a lovely package, a letter here, from Jason from Australia, who sent us a care package, filled with Aussie goodies, and here let me read part of his letter. He says, Dear Karen, Dana, Colin, and Chris, firstly, you guys are great, and thank you. Every week you bring joy into my day and my walks from the moment the G.J.B. jingle hits my ears.

I'm having a great time, and there's a spring in my step. It really means a great deal to me And I appreciate all the work you guys put in Making a fantastic show Which leads me to the care package from Sydney, Australia So here we have a Big care package from Jason Filled with

We have like a little stuffed kangaroo Some Australia magnets And also plenty of Australian candy Lots of Australian candy We're not going to do a taste test But let me just kind of walk through It all tastes good probably taste good.

We only taste gross candies. That's true, yeah. We don't taste good ones. Nobody tunes into here of saying, oh, it's pretty good. What awesome chocolate thing. Right, yeah, exactly. They're here for the train wreck or nothing. They're here for pain.

A large percentage of this care package is filled with Tim Tams. A lot of us are familiar with Tim Tams. Definitely an Australian specialty. It's a... It's sort of like a twilight. It's not, yeah. That's probably the closest American equivalent. Right, like a cookie-ish sort of.

layer with chocolate all around it and then other stuff in there too. So you can just eat Tim Tams, and that's fine. I cast no judgment on you whatsoever if you simply decide to eat the Tim TAM. But what one of my Australian friends taught me, and what I believe Jason encouraged us to do in the letter. Yeah, let us introduce this great tradition. The Tim Tams Slam! Yeah!

Bouch! Intro. It sounds intense. So we're going to make Colin do it. Okay. And so this is how you do a Tim Tam Slam. You take the Tim Tam, which is a rectangular, imagine a rectangular about the size of like, it's about the size of a centimeter high stack of business cards.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Or like a hotel soap. Oh, yeah, exactly. Oh, Hotel soap. There we go. Tim Tam is about the size of a hotel soap. You bite off one corner just a little bit, then you bite off the opposite diagonal corner, just a little bit, and then you place it into coffee.

You stick one of the bitten off corner. corners into coffee as if you were going to use it like a straw. And then you suck up coffee into the timetam but let me tell you. So it's a chocolate cookie straw. It will fall apart. But importantly, the timetam will hold

its structural integrity together. Once you have filled it up with coffee by means of inhaling the coffee into it, you can pop the whole thing into your mouth. And from thereupon it will explode into creamy, chocolatey, coffee cookie goodness. I'm down.

It just, I mean, it renders it almost like drinking something. Yeah, it's like a, you don't have to work your mouth and chew it. Yeah, it's very, very, very tough. Very strange. I like that. A hot milkshake. That's good. Jason has sent us many different flavors of Tim Tam with which to do this. Salted caramel to me as a Tim Tam slam veteran.

I don't want to say veteran. Pro-am. Okay. Is probably the best one to do. I think that would taste really good with coffee. Let's do it. And here, just in case that bad happens. I think I will make it.

need some napkins. Thank you. So, Colin, if you do it right, you won't need napkins. Okay. And so here's the thing. Okay. So, again, make sure that this diagonal corner you've now kind of created is fully immersed into the coffee. Okay, all right.

Then here's the really important part. As soon as you will know when the coffee has gone all the way through. As soon as coffee goes into your mouth, get the whole thing in your mouth. Slam it in. Here we go. Let's chew it just wait for it to. I'm verified it's not a hotel soap. Here we go.

Okay. that was fast that was a lot faster than I thought couldn't even get a picture of it yeah that's really good yeah right it's like a hot milk shake that is really good

and it was way faster than I thought I don't have to suck on this thing for a couple of one second very good Tim Pam slam there he go Australian favorite so I've noticed I don't know if this is now that you're nourished

now that and more caffeinated and sugar yeah It's a little hot in here, huh? I've noticed recently in last few years, I don't know if this is just like a social media thing. I guess it kind of has to be, but, you know, when people will go on a trip now, sometimes their only update, you know, will just be like SFO, Aero, L-A-X. It's a thing. And, you know, I've probably done it myself. With the airplane emoji.

Right, right. Or it's, you know, it's fun if you have, like, a multi-stop, you know, connection of, like, three or four airports. And it's just, it's a thing. And if, you know, you know your airport codes, you know what city the person's talking about. So, like, in that example, I just gave, it's pretty straightforward, I think. It's San Francisco, SFO, and, and Los Angeles, L-A-X. So when we do these three-letter codes, like, that's a very specific thing, all right? And I have put together a quiz for you guys around the I-A-T-A codes, the International Air Transport Association.

I love it. I know, Karen in particular. I don't know why. Like, there's something, just three-letter, I don't know. You've made awesome, like, puzzles. before that had them. Yeah, that's right. Yeah.

So I feel like this is really a Karen, Colin, talking to each other segment. He's like, PDX. I don't know that one. Some of these are really obscure. I mean, you know, they're for every major airport in the world. No, no, no, I didn't put any of the obscure ones

on my quiz. So I tried to keep this make this fun for everybody here. Sure, sure. These are all guessable. Some of them may be a little more obscure, but for the most part, I think they're guessable. So, I mean, yeah, so these codes go back to the to the 30s, actually, was when they really kind of started in earnest. And before then, like, a lot of airports had two-digit codes. And some of the old two-digit codes, when they

converted over to three-digit codes, they just added an X on the end. So, like, L-A-X was originally just L.A. And it kind of makes sense for, like, you know, international. Like, I kind of just made sense of it that way. I found out that Phoenix, which is P-H-X, seems to work perfectly, originally was just P.H. It just happens to be a very nice coincidence that the town already ends in the letter X. so here we go this is the airport code quiz a.k.a. Why Newark got shafted. We'll come back

around to that at the end. All right. Dang. Yeah. Yeah, I've got to keep the listeners interested. So we'll start with some American cities here. P.D.X for instance. We just talked about this one. Portland. Yes, that is. Portland, Oregon. What is D.F.W. Oh, Chris. Dallas, Fort Worth.

Yes, that's right. Dallas, Fort Worth, Texas. Yeah. Oh, Texas. Yes. Sure. What is A-N-C? A-N-C. This is a major American city.

A lot of these, you know, it's shortened. They'll just take the first few letters of the city name is a very common tactic. What city can you press? Just Anchorage, Alaska? It is Anchorage, Alaska. Oh, yes, yes. Very good. All right, let's go a little more internationally.

Keep in mind, sometimes they may be named after the city. Sometimes it may be named after a person. All right, we'll start off with some easy ones here. What city is M-A-D? Chris It is Madrid, Spain Man What city is

PRG P-R-G Karen Prague Yes, Prague The Czech Republic All right A little more tricky here

What city is M-U-C Dana This is Munich It is Munich Yes Muck Muck

What city is V-C-E Also in Europe Dana Venice It is Venice What city is S-A-O- Oh, Dana again.

Oh, is this Europe, you said? No, this one is in South America. It is Sao Paulo, Brazil, right. Okay, all right. So as I've mentioned, some of these are named after people. So I'll give you the next few here. And if you know the person, it'll be pretty obvious what country we're in. What city is C.D.G.

Karen. Paris for Charles de Gaulle. Absolutely right. Until 2006, this city went by the code C.K. Karen again Oh Chen Kai-Shek Airport

Taipei Taiwan That's right Now T-P-E Now T-P-E All right Back to some city Name ones here What city is

D-E-L Dana Is it Delhi It is in India Yes New Delhi New Delhi That's right In Derogandi Airport

All right A couple of these Are good trivia ones You may just know These are not What city is N-R-T Karen

At Tokyo Tokyo Japan It's for Narita? Yes, Narita, right. What city is P-E-K? Chris. Beijing.

It is Beijing, because it was known in the West as P-King. When it was originally named, yes. All right. What city is Y, Y, Y, Z? Karen. No, no, mine. I know it's in Canada.

It is the busiest airport in Canada. It is the busiest airport. Toronto. Yes, Toronto, Y, Y, Z, the Lester Pearson International Airport. Yeah. That's a weird one, but a good one to know. Yeah. All Canadian airports are with why. Right. You bring up a good point, which is that every country will sometimes have their own restrictions on what is and isn't allowed inside the country. So, in fact, this brings us

back to why Newark got shafted. In the U.S., there are some reserved letters. The Navy has all N letter codes reserved. Oh, okay. So if your city starts with a letter N in the U.S., you had to shift to something else. There are some other reserved codes. The FCC has K and W reserved. So if your city starts with K and W, you have to switch to something else. So this is why, if you've ever flown in or out of Newark International Airport and have wondered why it's EWR, it's because they had to sort of shift it in. So it was like, ooh work. You know, they lost the end. Good job, guys. I think you got every single one of those. Very continental. Okay, did you guys hear about PayPal Galactic? Have

heard of that? No. No. Is that real? Yeah, it's a new thing PayPal is doing for space tourism. So you could do banking in space. You could protect your investments. Who wants to have paper money and coins? Not me. Yeah, you want digital money. Okay, I guess that makes sense. Yeah. So PayPal, one of the PayPal founders, Elon Musk, is also involved with SpaceX, which is a new, a privatized cargo shipping business and space. Yeah, they've been doing a lot of, like, test flights and stuff over the last year or so, right? What are they shipping? Stuff to the International Space Station.

So I'm going to talk about space tourism. The burgeoning business of privatized inner, not intergalactic, just basically, like, just the one galaxy. Just leaving, intragalactic. Intra, yeah, exactly. Leaving the surface of the earth. Interstellar travel. How about that?

That's between stars. I think even that's an overstatement, right? We're just getting off the planet a bit. Yeah, yeah. Off the planet more than plane travel. It's gathering a lot of momentum lately, this space tourism thing. There's new Virgin Galactic. Yeah, I've heard of that.

They're building us a launch pad in New Mexico. It's almost done right now. They're going to start, I think at the end of the year or early next year, they're going to start doing Virgin Galactic flights for $200,000 a seat. Wow. If you're interested. How long is the trip? How long is the ride?

I mean, that opens it up to a lot of people. That does. I mean, you have to be wealthy and not super wealthy. So it's a 150-minute flight, and they take you about 62 miles up, and you will have six minutes of zero gravity. Wow. Wow. That actually does sound really cool. But the drink service is going to be terrible.

Well, they do have a bar. When you come back down, there's a special. a special bar for people who have taken the flight. But if you have a little more money to spend, maybe like $20 million, $20,000, a little more. Yeah, you can actually go on a flight on the Russian spaceships to the International Space Station for about five days. They've had a few people, right?

They have had a few people to do it. Yeah, it's really starting to, like, become a thing. Amazon's working on one. For right now, they're really, you go up in space and come back down in the same place, right? It's like more of like a pleasure cruise. It's not like a travel, right? Well, yeah, exactly. You're not going anywhere.

Right. Yeah. Well, you're traveling out of, out of, yeah. Not to downplay six minutes of zero G. When the Russians shoot you into space, you don't come back down in the same place. You come back down somewhere. Oh, okay. Yeah.

It's not random. They know where it's going to land. It's a long trip. And then you're not going anywhere. Could you give them another million dollars and then they'll tell you where you're going to land? Yeah. But the Virgin Galactic, yes, it's up and down. What do you do when you're up there?

That's my question. You look at space. You're in space. Oh, okay, so you can see out. You look out the window and look at space. Yeah. You can see it. Yeah.

You can see the horizon. And you don't have to wear really weird, like. Oh, no, that you're wearing a suit with a helmet. Oh, you have to wear a suit. Yeah. Oh, okay. So why is this happening? It really has to do with NASA.

NASA not being funded anymore. They're trying to privatize space travel. So NASA is like, oh, we'll work with a private company if you do. do it. So private enterprise is like, oh, yes, we will make you a spaceship and we'll also try to figure out how to market this to people. And we'll pay you. Yeah. We came NASA to help us out. Within the last couple of years, there is a, I wouldn't say renewed interest, but there is more interest in space with, you know, Neil deGrasse Tyson and with the Curiosity rover, and it's becoming more in people's brains. Yeah. I've been watching

Cosmos, so I got really into space. That's why it's like, oh, space tourism, sounds interesting. like space travel all right so you guys all know I'm a geography nut and during the summertime is where a lot of island destinations island hot spots

and I don't know if you guys are like me but I there are a lot of island destinations that I've heard of I was like oh of course I know so much about this but I have no idea where it actually is so here I have a is I'm going to call Lonely Island.

And what I'm going to do is name an famous island destination, and you guys have no pads in front of you. So I need two pieces of information for you guys. I need to know what body of water the island is in, and also if it is a country by itself or a part of another country. Okay. All right. All right.

So, for example, I would say Crete. Crete is an island, and it is in the Mediterranean Sea, and it is part of it. of Greece. Oh, I would have gotten that right. Yeah. Well, that's why it's an example. I'm a little worried. Like, if these are the ones that Karen doesn't know, I feel...

Like, I've heard of these before. I just have knowing where it actually is. All right. Going to have some wildly incorrect answers here. All right. First one. Easter Island. Oh, okay.

Where is Easter Island? Is it part of a country or is it its own country? Easter Island, of course, famous for the face statues, the monumental... Statute is called moi, M-O-A-I. Which means giant head. Oh, really? No, no, no, I just made that up. Sorry, yes.

We've seen them on a lot of shows and different imagery of those big Easter Island heads. Yeah, yeah. Where is Easter Island? All right, answers up. Well, Chris drew a picture of a bunny in the water. that is incorrect. Part of a country. Part of a country.

Let's see. Dana put... You know what? No, I'm thinking about the... I think I was thinking of the Galapagos Island. But I said it was off the coast of South America. I think it's in the Atlantic and it's part of a country. I put South Pacific and I think it's independent, but I kind of hedge my answer.

I put independent formerly Dutch. See, this thing, we know what Easter Island is famous for, but we have no idea where it is. It is in the Pacific. Ocean. Pacific Ocean. It is part of Chile. It is South America. Okay. It is South America. Uh, part of Chile. And, uh, well, Dana, you mentioned this. The next one, Galapagos Island. Where is Galapagos? Of course, famous for Darwin's destination on the HMS Beagle, lots of lizards and tortoises. Finches. Uh, answers up. Chris says Pacific. Dana says Atlantic. Atlantic. Colin.

says Pacific. It is Pacific Ocean and it is not its own country. It is off the coast of Ecuador and part of Ecuador. So Colin is right. Wow. Nice. Next island or group of islands is the Seychelles. Seychelles. Always heard about Seychelles, but where is it? I don't know anything about islands at all. You've heard of these.

I was like, where is it? I don't know. Yeah, that's not knowing things, though. That's having heard of things. She sells Seychelles by the seashore, but which seashore. All right. Answers up, body of water. Chris says Atlantic. Dana says Mediterranean Sea.

And Colin says Indian. It is in the Indian Ocean. It is above Madagascar. So it is on the eastern. off the side of Africa and it is its own country So it's independent Great way

We all got it That part All right next one Next Lonely Island Bali Where is Bali Oh And is it its own country

Or not Famous recently for Eat Pray Love Was one of the destinations Which hiked up tourism Actually for Bali Answers up. Chris says Pacific own country.

Dana says Pacific Independent and Colin says Indian and Indonesia. Some of you guys are right. Some of you guys are wrong. It is in the Pacific and it is part of Indonesia. Joint answer, somewhat correct.

Somewhat correct. All right. Christmas Island. Oh, man. Where is Christmas Island? It's called Christmas Island, because it was discovered on Christmas Day. Also, fun fact about this place.

Lots of coconut crabs running around on Christmas Island. Just chilling. Answers up. Colin, you put Atlantic and Dutch. Dana says Pacific, part of a country. And Chris says, North Pole, part of Santa's workshop. Chris is incorrect Dang it

Christmas Island is in the Pacific Ocean And it is in Australian territory Fun fact The majority of population is Chinese Australian Really? Yeah because it is Kind of between Indonesia and Australia Part of Australia

Lots of Chinese people Okay next one Party Island Ibiza Or Ibiza Ibitha Oh god where is it it's on an ocean

what body of water is it in okay I thought you were here we go answers up Colin says Atlantic Spain Dana says Mediterranean Spain

and Chris says Atlantic Spain Dana is correct it is in the Mediterranean part of Spain that's why I was like is it an ocean and she said body of water I did the reverse psychology

all right one of our favorite ones, Lonely Islands, Canary Islands. Where are the Canary Islands? We always talked about how is not actually named after the bird canary. It's named after dogs because

of Canis, canine. But where is the Canary Islands? Answers up. Colin says Atlantic, Spain. Dana says, Atlantic, independent, and Chris says, Caribbean, British.

Lots of islands are Caribbean and British. Not this one. Colin is correct. Atlantic, it's off the coast of Morocco and is part of Spain. Okay. All right, last one. We're not doing so good. It's hard in the writing ones because you can't just not buzz in.

You actually have to blame your ignorance for all to see. Last one. The Maldives. Maldives. Yeah, where are the Maldives? Heard of it before. Where is it? And is it independent or part of a country?

country. Let me just in advance apologize to the, what I'm sure, the good people of the Maldives. I'm so sorry. One person there who listens to us. It's like, they don't even know where I am. I'm so sorry. They'll never have a meet up here. Well, what?

There was that old, a Malta, Maltese. Oh, Malta. Sorry, yes. Different. So I for sure got this wrong. All right. one says South Pacific independent. Dana says Mediterranean independent. And Chris says, surface on the moon Chinese.

Maldives is the smallest Asian country in both population and land area. So it is independent. And it is island nation in the Lacadiv Sea or Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea. Okay. A couple choices there. Okay. Southwest off the coast of India. Okay. by itself. Okay. But the smallest Asian country by area and by population. So it's a good, good.

It's good to know, like, the extremes, yeah, smallest, biggest, yeah. Well, um, I want to say good job, guys, but it wasn't a good job. But it wasn't a good job. Some of us got some of them. I mean, I got. I mean, I got a piece of every question, right? Okay. That's good.

That's good. It was all 55. Yeah. Dana's 50-50 tour guide company. It couldn't be this. And the time, we get you there every time. It's like the Grenada and the Grenada thing. I mean, that's one of the things with geography is there's so many island nations.

And islands that are part of nations and they're just, I mean, I could have had some deep cuts in here. But these are islands we have all heard of, but we just have no idea where it is. I don't even know where to begin to guess some of these. So, you know, for geography nuts, make sure you brush up on your, on your, islands. Right. Well, and this will help us on those nights when you're not there for public quiz, Karen. All right.

Average job, guys. Thanks, Karen. I didn't know. I didn't know where a lot of these. It's not all sunshine and roses and good job, ruins. All right. Let's recoup. Let's take a break for a word from our sponsor.

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I'd like to take you not to space. I have prepared for us a trip to various countries around the world, a real world tour in our hot air balloon. However, something terrible has happened to the itinerary. Oh, no. Someone, I'm not naming names, probably Carmen Sam Mateo from jail, decided to... She's that connection.

She has people on the inside and the outside. ruin my travel itinerary for us, and it's all jumbled up, and I don't know where we're supposed to be going. Not only did she jumble up all of the letters of our destinations, but then she took the words that resulted from jumbling up the letters and switched each of those to their opposite. So I'm going to give you guys a word. Then you have to figure out what the opposite of that word is.

And then when you figure that out, you have to anagram those letters into the place we are going. So here is the example. I'm using this as the example because we're not going there. And because it's really hard. And there's nobody who would have gotten this one. But I like it so much that this is the example. And you guys can write this down, obviously.

It's going to be a little easier if you write it all down. So the example is I would give you guys the clue unfitting. And then you guys would come up with its opposite, which is apropos. This is why I'm using as the example. The rest are a lot easier. And so if you guys were, if I were to say unfitting, you guys would say, oh, well, obviously, the opposite of that is apropos. Sapporo. We would be going to Sapporo, exactly, in Japan.

Where's the S? Apropos is APRO P-O-P-O-S. That's why I'm not, that's why, again, the rest of these are much easier than that. Don't worry. Smoke is coming out my ears. I tried really hard to come up with, like, what would the opposite of apropo be? Anyway, all right. here we go let's do this all right your first clue everybody just go ahead and write this down and um just try to be the first person to figure it out basically yeah okay yes you know don't don't if you want to talk it through for yourself that's fine but that might give other people clues all right it's a two-step process okay here we go maybe you'll even get it right away so the first clue less

Rome. Yeah, exactly. Oh, I thought we had to, like, raise our hand and you were to all on. No, the first person, first person would say, yes. Okay, okay. Less, it's opposite is more shantagrams to Rome. Yes. Okay, here we go.

Wow, I can't believe you. This next one is a city in America. Different. Oh. Karen. Ames. Ames. Or Mesa.

Or Mesa, Arizona, or. Or Mesa, Arizona. or Ames, Iowa, both totally accurate and both excellent destinations. We'll buzz in. You can buzz in. Just buzz in. The answer to this will be five letters long. Singles. Think of playing cards. Faces? If I had one single playing card or if I had. Oh. No, not the opposite of a single. The opposite of the word singles. In playing cards.

If I had two playing cards. Oh. Pears. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Dana? Paris. Paris. Wow.

I was like, okay, pairs. A five-letter word meaning. Yeah, okay, okay, okay. Well, this one you should get. Adulterated. I was like, unadulterated. Nope. Yeah.

This one is a four-letter answer. Peru. Peru, yes. Anulterated, the opposite is pure. Antigrams to Peru. There we go. You're doing very well. You should get this one pretty fast.

Let's see who gets it first. Okay. Friend. Dana. Yemen. The opposite of friend is enemy. I was going to foe. I was like right.

Rival. Yeah. Yeah. Of course. This next one is also a country. Pleasures. Oh. Spain.

Wow, Colin, right on in the fall of this. Pains. Pains. Pains. It's Anna Garmu, Spain. Here we go. Here's one. Digital. Colin. Oh, no, I think, Dana. Dana have a much, yeah. Angola.

Angola. I saw Colin's hand moving. Angola, digital. The opposite is analog. Angola. And your final. It's good. This is going to be, this might be a little tricky as well.

But, again, I'll push you towards the right word here. Unordered, a six-letter word meaning in order, or a six-letter word meaning an ordered sequence of something. Unorder, so it is ordered. Yeah. Straight. Oh, sorted. There's no ass in Detroit.

When they used to break up a movie into several parts, they call it this. I mean, you'd go one week to see a part of a movie, and then you'd go to the next week to see a part of it. Oh, oh. I got the... Israel. Yes. Serial.

Serial. Yes. Serial. Yes. Serial. Ordered anagrams to Israel. Wow. Good job. Fun, right?

Good job. You thought of these. These are... These came out of your head. Well, I started looking at country anagrams, and they were just... Kind of easy. Well, there were only a few of them, and then I realized that a lot of them, you know, like, you know, more and friend and things like that, you know, could be clued in different ways. Very good.

That's fun. I'm glad you liked it. Yeah. On August 1st. May I speak freely? I prefer English. The naked gun is the most fun you can have in theaters. Yeah, let's go.

Without getting arrested. Is he serious? Is he serious? No. The naked gun. Only in theaters. August 1st. All right, and we have one last segment.

Colin, what do you got? Well, I definitely have airports and air travel and air tourism on the month. I kind of fell down a airport, airplane, wiki hole, doing some research for the show. Oh, good. There's all air hole. Hell into the air hole. There's so much good, just fun trivia and anecdotes about the early days of air travel. And, I mean, I've talked about it on the show before.

It just fascinates me for some reason. Like, I mean, the whole endeavor is, like, really less than 100 years old, you know, I mean, like. A fly in the sky? Just for, like, tourism and travel. You know what I mean? Like, 100 years ago, if you wanted to take a serious trip, you were going on a ship or taking a train. So it's a very kind of modern. thing. Chris, you know, you've talked before

about the Wright brothers on the show who were doing all their famous flights in the early 1900s. Do you know what they called their invention? The flying machine. They did. They called it the flying machine. They very pointedly never called it an airplane because to

them, the word existed, but to them at the time an airplane had a very specific meaning, which was just the wing. The wing was the airplane and you would attach it to a flying machine. To, yeah. Other inventors called it the aerodrome or, you know, just aerial ship, which you know, kind of makes me think of a blimp today. But they were still settling on the word.

Eventually, kind of settled on airplane for meaning the whole thing. Airlines, as a term, didn't come into play until 1914. The first airlines, they weren't passenger airlines. The first airlines were cargo. Cargo and mail. Almost, yeah. I mean, like, there were a lot of air services. Airmail was a thing. But it was dangerous. Like air travel was not something, oh, we're going to go on vacation. We're going on plane. I mean, it was deadly. Like ships, much, much safer.

Trains, a lot slower, much, much safer. Not ready for prime time. If only, there were some heroic, galvanizing figure to sell Americans in the world on the idea of air travel. And that is, of course. Don Draper. Don Draper sells everything. Before Don Draper, of course, was a lot of course. Charles Lindberg.

Yes. Of the Lindy Hop guy? Yes, after whom the Lindy Hop is named, famously did his solo flight across the Atlantic, was probably about the biggest celebrity in the world at that time that had happened. I mean, just such a big deal. I read one source said that when he came back to New York, there was more ticker tape generated in his parade

than for the soldiers returning home from World War I. He was like, Lindy was the man. Again, Chris, I will tip my cap to you. I think you mentioned that, you know, when Ripley wrote his column at one point, kind of snidly pointing out, well, he wasn't the first person across the Atlantic because he wasn't. You know, dozens of people had done it in airships and things like that. He was solo and succeeded. And to put it in context, there were at least six people who died, you know, in the months and years leading up to his successful attempt trying to do the same thing, solo Atlantic flight. So it wasn't just some flight of fancy, as it was.

It was harrowing and a dangerous thing. Right, yeah. How does this lead into airplanes as tourism? So despite being a huge public figure, doing, like, stunt flights is only going to take you so far, you know? And Charles Lindbergh was a smart guy and basically realized, all right, well, if I'm going to go into business, probably stay in the arena of airplanes. Just like if you're Michael Jordan, you stay in the arena of basketball. It just makes sense.

Which he did not. Right. Because he unknowingly, well, or maybe knowingly, became the brand ambassador for, for flight. He really did. He really did. And again, passenger airlines at the time, it was just not a big thing. But within a couple of years after, after his flight, is when it really started to take off in earnest. And he himself, he helped found transcontinental air transport, TAT, which most people consider to be the first true, like, passenger airline for passenger tourism, passenger travel, dedicated this. It's not just, you know, sticking you

in the back of a mail flight. Which they would do. Which they would do. And it makes sense, you No, it's a big business, and, of course, his name can help sell it, you know? In fact, it became known as the Lindbergh line. It was just kind of commonly, it was T-A-T, but, oh, the Lindbergh line, sure, yeah, I'll fly the one with Charles Lindbergh associated with it. They had the first long-distance passenger service across America, which meant that they also came up with a lot of, you know, things that, to me at least seem fairly modern, like, you know, lavatories on the plane. Makes sense. You're going to need that. You're going to need a bathroom on a plane, but a mail flight isn't going to have that.

an airmail pilot. It's a saving space. How do you... In a model? You go before you get on. Yeah. Or in a bottle. Toss it out over a cornfield. Open the window. They had flight attendants. You know, again, this is so founded in 1929 and into the early 30s.

Flight attendants, they were all men originally. They had in-flight movies. What? Yeah, in-flight movies. Like in the early 30s even. And you would have a projector and you would bolt it down really securely. and roll the screen down, yeah. It was a big deal that they didn't have parachutes on the plane, you know, for the passengers. It was really like an issue they had to get over of like, no, trust us, you're not going to need a parachute.

It's safe. Right. So, like, you know, as I researched us a little bit more, like, I had the idea of like, oh, this is great. Like, even though it was slow, you know, I mean, these planes flew like 100 miles an hour. It wasn't, you know, five or 600 miles an hour. I had the idea that, okay, you could fly from New York to California. Great. It might take a while.

But no, you couldn't. Like the earliest planes, they weren't power. enough to fly open over the big mountain ranges. They could fly for a distance if they had enough gas, but they had to fly low and slow. So these early trips, so like if you were coming from, say, New York to Los Angeles, you would get on a train at Penn Station in Manhattan. So you start your airplane trip. Yeah, on a train. On a train.

Exactly, exactly. You would get on a train at Penn Station. You go to Columbus, Ohio to get past the Alleghenies. And then you would get on the plane in Columbus. So you would fly from Columbus, again, remind you, they're making stops along the way, too. So you fly the plane from Columbus out to Oklahoma. In Oklahoma, you get off the plane, get on another train to go past the Rockies. Again, mountains.

Take the train over the Rockies to New Mexico. Then you get on another plane that would take you from New Mexico into Los Angeles. Wow. How long did that take, do you know? 48 hours from New York. York to Los Angeles. Again, next time the pilot tells you we have to circle for 15 minutes before landing. Don't complain. Right.

You did not have to ride a train probably. Well, yeah, I mean, otherwise you were taking the train the whole way and to put it in context if you were to take that that same trip on train would have taken you 72 hours. Okay. So you're still, hey, two days, but I'm shaving off 24 hours off that trip. Right. This was a big deal. There was a lot of, you know, bother associated with getting on and off the plane.

So, in addition to the thrill of riding all the way out, every passenger on these early flights was given a solid gold Tiffany's pen. What? The cost of a ticket was over $350. You know, again, this is 1929, early 30s. That's, you know, I still try and beat that price today if I'm looking for a flight from New York to Los Angeles. Right, right.

Yeah. So it was much more of an adventure than it was today, and of course, the rest is history. It's like going on Virgin Galactic, basically, yeah. Yeah, again, it's just like, I'm mad now when it's like, oh, 15 minutes delay. I've been on this plane for six hours. Yeah. Count your lucky stars. It doesn't take you two days.

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