Good Job, Brain! - 124: Bootylicious

Episode Date: August 28, 2014

It is finally time to talk about.... the butt. Yes. Butt trivia and butt facts and butt quizzes. We dive into the history of butt words, and some origins may surprise you! And Chris finds the most beautiful booty in classical art that has been mesmerizing people for centuries. Our very serious problem with a specific butt hole, and of course, J Lo. Did she insure her behind? What does that mean to insure a butt? ALSO: The Lion's Share jackpot finally hit! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Hello, snazzy, snappy snoop snorkeling for snarge. Welcome to Good Job, Brain, your weekly quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. This is episode 124, and of course, I'm your humble, Karen, and we are your sparkling, sparky, sparring, Spartans, and spare ribs. I'm Colin. I'm Dana. And I'm Chris.

Oh, big news. What? A couple of big news. Oh, a couple of big newses. Newses. Earlier today, we're recording on Sunday. We had a big earthquake last night. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. A lot of good job. Re listeners actually immediately went to Twitter, Facebook, to ask us if we were okay. Oh. It's very sweet. Thank you. We are okay. I slept through it. I did not sleep through. I was playing video games up at 4 a.m.

I woke up and went to the USGS website and was the second person to report the earthquake. I'm often the first. Wow. That someone beat me this time. Who was this person? They live in Lafayette, California. Oh, you don't put your name. No.

You don't put your name. Otherwise, Dana would be at their house right now. Who do you think you are? And we have a big piece of news that happened this past weekend. very excited in our special on-site Las Vegas episode. Colin, you talked about the infamous lion's share. The lion's share slot machine at the MGM Grand, right, which had not paid off its multi-million dollar jackpot in 20 years and was, if you believe in things being overdue,

it was overdue. Yeah, and you're saying that like generations, families go and kind of like on a pilgrimage to play the slot machine. We ourselves put some money in, play them. It was literally the last of its kind still on the casino floor. Right. It was an old school slot machine with physical reels, and you had to put in actual dollar bills, like what you do not do in the MGM grant anymore. It's all cards, and, you know, computer screens and such.

And this past Friday, it hit the jackpot finally, yay, in 20 years. 2.3 million dollars. 2.4. Whoa. Because it's a progressive slot. So, yeah, so the longer ago, yep, well, that's the idea, right? Yeah. Was not at all the highest jackpot in the MGM grand.

No. Like, they had paid out like $10 million jackpots on other slot machines. It was just the mystique of this one. Yeah, 20 years in the making, lass of its kind, still old school. Yeah, there's a lot of history and tradition behind it. And the Las Vegas Sun reported that Walter and Linda Miscoe of New Hampshire, the Miscoes, They inserted $100. This is a $3 max machine.

So they only put in a hundred. And you have to put in $3 and play $3 at a time to have the chance of hitting the big jackpot. The total jackpot. And so they only put in $100. Approximately five minutes later, the jackpot, the three lions aligned up. Perfectly aligned. If you will. And the miss goes.

they're a retired horse farmers. Of course they are. It's a retired horse farmers. How do you farm a horse? Yeah. Are they a breeder? Did they grow out of the horse tree? You plant little horse seeds.

Yeah, horse seeds. They're called plenty seeds. And they grow up. And they grow into horses. Yeah. Pick them early for like the first harvest horses. Yeah. Extra virgin horses.

Right. Right. Yeah. So according to Wizard of Odds, Colin's go to gambling stat site. Indeed. Like, I'm not kidding. He's like, you should go to Wizard of Odds.

All right. So Wizard of Odds, they did some math. I wouldn't say it's back of a napkin. It is very, it's estimate, but it is very smart estimate. The probability of hitting the jackpot is about one in 19 million. It's actually legendary that this slot machine has not paid a jackpot. That's the weird thing. For 20 years. For 20 years. No reports if the misgoes get to keep the machine. Right. Well, as we talked about on the show, like they had always sort of unofficial. officially said that whoever finally wins the jackpot will get to take the machine. They don't want to have this thing playable on the floor anymore. Yeah. It's old. The estimated value of the actual machine is like maybe up to $500

Yeah, yeah. Kind of the mystique is gone. Yep. Maybe they can put it on display somewhere. They should actually. This is the legendary lion's share. This is the machine. Touch it for good luck. I feel like the miss goes. I feel like the misgo should get to take it home. Put it in their living room. I guess so, I guess. So awesome news.

Congrats to the Miscoes and congrats to Vegas for such a cool little story tip. And I'm so happy that we got the chance to play it, to touch it, to witness it, stood in line for it. Contribute some money to the Miscoes. Yeah, exactly. Very happy to. All right, time for our first general trivia segment, pop quiz, hot shot. Here I have a random Tribal Pursue card and you guys have your Morning Zoo radio buzzers. You guys ready to answer some questions.

All right, Blue Wedge for Geography. Which of these is true of Rat Island in Alaska? It isn't an island or there are no rats. I think that was Chris. It isn't an island. Incorrect. Dang. There are no rats.

What if I brought a rat there? So, man, this strip and prescription presby has a lot of notes. Maybe they mean year-round resident rats, you know? So in 2009, environmental. environmental organizations and the U.S. government teamed up to eradicate the rampaging rats that inspired its name. So there used to be rats. But they killed them all. They killed them all.

Wow. That sounds like a nightmare. Wow. Rampaging rats. They call it rat island. Yeah. Yeah. That's true.

I guess you were fairly warned. Neighboring cute puppy island. Oh. I love cute. Well, honey, these tickets to rat island are so much cheaper than cute puppy island. Oh, God. All right, Pink Wedge for pop culture. What classic arcade game does Seinfeld's George buy from a pizza parlor to preserve his high score?

That's our Colin and Chris. Frogger. Yes. More notes on this card. In the end, a truck smashes it, setting Jerry up for the punchline, game over. The punchline. That's a pretty mean thing to see. Yeah, right?

All right, Yellow Wedge, who was Janet Jackson dancing with when she experienced her Super Bowl wardrobe malfunction? Are we playing trivia or trivia? Justin Burley. Yes. More notes. Both performers denied any intention to disrobe. Really? Yeah, really?

Yeah, yeah. Purple Wedge, what graphic artist retold the Holocaust with cats and mice? Oh, Chris. This is Art Spiegelman. Correct. One of a... Mouse. A Survivor's Tale.

Very good. Oh, amazing. Amazing. Classic. All right. Green Wedge for science. What fruit is also known as a carambola? Oh.

Carambola? Carambola. I think that's... Oh, what is? We've talked about this. We've had this at pub quiz. We've had this at pub quiz. Really?

I don't know. It's native to where I come from. Oh. Is it... What is it? What is it? Like the starfruit, jackfruit? Starfruit.

Okay, all right. How do you spell caram? C-A-R-A-M-B-O-L-A. Caramble. I was trying to see if I could figure out. Parabola. A way to remember it. Yeah, I don't know.

I don't know what the root of the word is. All right. Orange Wedge. The opening to ABC's wide world of sports promised viewers both the thrill of victory and what? Colin. The agony of defeat. Yes. Correct.

And very famously, as they said, the agony of defeat was a ski jumper just absolutely wiping out. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Agony of broken limbs. And ribs. All right, good job, brains. Wow, well, you guys, today's show

124 episodes later, or 123 episodes later. So we've been circling around this topic for a while. Finally, we're dedicating a full episode to perhaps... Unofficial mascot. Yeah, unofficial concept or mascot

of good job. brain. Yep. Today's topic is all about buts. Butts. No ifs or but. Yes. No,

no ifs or ands, but a lot of butts. Lots of butts. The majesty of the but. Yeah. All about the word butt, the thing but. Dada.

Da-da-da-da-da-da. Butt, butt, butt, butt, butt, butt, butt, but, but, but, but, but, we have all agreed there's a, there's an agreement in place. We're not talking about poop. That's for a future episode. That because we, yeah, exactly. because we just realized there was so much there. We didn't want to pollute the...

Yeah. Yeah. Just so much information packed in. Maybe the next like anniversary episode or something. All about poop. You know, all about poop. But this is just about... We're secretions in general.

This is simply the butt. Yeah. Yeah. So, of course, on Good Job Brain, we've talked a lot about butts before. We talked about, well, I personally talked a lot about animal butts at the Bombadier Beetle that shoots a noxious fluids out of from its butt. Of course, there's castorium. You talk about toilets.

Yes. And. You mentioned toilets and toilet paper and a bunch of stuff. We talked about the word natiform, meaning shaped like a butt. Like a peach is a natiform. So lots of butt talk. Lots of butt talks. We should have a lot of butt talks.

Buttocks. Maybe one day I'll like edit an anthology of all of our segments about butts. So today's episode is more about the butt itself. Butts at large. Butts, yeah, butts quab butts. But, butt's Gratia butts. So this week, don't butt out. Bud in.

All right. Before we talk about butt in. All right. Before we talk about butts, we got to talk about the words. We got to talk about the word. But I'm gonna I'm gonna start us off with as high brow and approach to the butt as as I could think of Before it spirals down the right yeah And I'll meet you down at the other end believe me, yes, yes We will close out with some lowbrow later in the show So I'm gonna do a little bit of my you know I'm a word nerd and I like doing the etymology stuff So let's talk about the word but but our butt

How old do our collective butt? How old of a word do you think but? Very very old It is pretty old. Like, I think they'd probably spell like B-U-T-T-E maybe. They did, Karen, yep. You got a good linguistic sense. Wow. So, but meaning generally like the thick end of something is kind of the most direct, kind of the most direct antecedent to our sense of like your posterior.

And that goes back to at least 1400. And you're right, Karen, it came from originally B-U-T-E. And it's not short for buttocks. It was not short for buttocks necessarily. Oh, okay. But so the word. The butt of something would just be, as I say, the thick end of something. You can see not too much of a leap from there.

Yeah, by only 50 years or so later, it was definitely already being referred to as your rear end, your posterior. Yeah, but everything had a butt. You know, you had a butt and this, you know, this stick over here with a cigarette butt. Sure, right. Yep, the butt of a tree or the butt of right, right, right. And so here's what's interesting. I had always assumed it was. It was just short for buttocks.

It makes sense. And it's not necessarily true. You know, again, these were just so old. old, they can't be 100% sure, but they think that they came from different places. So buttocks seems most likely to come from a, from a 1200s word, buttock, B-U-T-U-C, which was old English, which meant a short piece of land or the end of something. So that also kind of makes sense. Your butt is a short piece of land. Yep. Yep. It's also the thick end of something. Can I ask you a question? Yes. When we say that like something a buck

something else, like, is up against it? That comes from a different source. Oh, really? Yeah, as does buttress. Oh. So buttress doesn't come from? So as I got deeper into the butt, I was really, I was really interested in all these words that have butt or so, or how related are these words?

Yeah, because they sound all kind of similar in terms of the meaning. They really do. They really do. Yeah, buttress comes from a different root. The verb, meaning like to butt something with your head, comes. comes from a different source as well. And again, I had assumed they were related. That sense of butt most likely comes from Boutaire, like a French verb,

meaning like to push or to shove or to knock. And they all kind of just sort of settled in the same spelling of B-U-T-T. The word B-U-T, you know, like a geographical feature, not related at all. B-U-T comes from a French word B-U-T. And we'll come back to that in a minute, that French word. And that one had a lot of different meanings to it. How old do you guys think the word but-head? What do you think the first usage of butthead was?

I think it's probably something technical. 1697. Wow. I think people use butts as insults for a long time. Probably. Chris is pretty close. It goes back to at least the 1630s, butt head. But it didn't mean what we mean now.

Oh, man. Originally just meant like the butt end of an object. It was like it's the butt head of a log or something like that. It's the butthead of a log. They don't date until late night. 1980s, the current meaning of butthead. Wow. Yeah, I was surprised.

I would have, I would have guessed earlier. Butthole? You guys, uh, care to guess how old butthole is as a term? That goes back to the 30s. Early 1900s. Oh, okay. And again, had a different meaning originally. A butt hole originally.

I know, I know. Uh, it meant like a cul-de-sac or like a blind end or a blind hole. Oh, this doesn't make sense because everybody has one. All animals have one. There was no word to describe. Sure, there were words to describe. They just didn't use this particular one. So it just meant if you lived at the end of a street with a cul-de-sac on it.

You're a butt hole? Yeah, I'm down on the butt hole. Oh, yeah. The blind hole. Yeah. The word booty is booty related emologically to butt. What do you guys think? It means treasure.

Uh-huh. Oh, that's true. Yeah. I bet it's not. it is not and you're right yeah originally booty like meaning like treasure or plunder in the sense of like meaning like a butt or something kind of you know sexual or body related not until the 1920s it seems like and and originally it was kind of objectified originally it looks like it just meant to like a female body was like booty and then it kind of went from there you can easily see how that happened right right right you talk about somebody being the butt of a joke like I never really quite understood this as a kid I was just imagine like well butt is kind of you don't want to be the butt You don't want to be... Yeah, you're the end of the joke. I kind of made up a meaning for it.

It turns out that no, but of a joke is related to the French word I mentioned earlier. B-U-B-U-T. So originally, the butt also had a meaning of, like, a target. So, like, a butt was like a shooting target. Like, that's who you're... You're aiming the joke or the prank at somebody. And my last little nugget that I have retrieved from the butt wiki here for you guys. When do you guys think the word bootie?

Butylicious first appeared. Well, we know booty dates from the 1920s. So Bootylicious, I would say, what, World War II? I'd say, like, 70s, like, black quotations. I feel like Dana is probably right about 60s. The earliest reference they can find for Bootylicious, which, just as an aside, is a combination of booty and delicious. Sure. Ninety-eight is the earliest written reference they can find to Bootylicious.

Hip-hop and hip-hop slang. I can't believe it. us that long as a society. And you know, as with all these words, a lot of words can exist before they're written down. Oh, sure. Yeah. But this is, you know, when you're in the Oxford or right. Exactly. They were so close because Bubblelicious was out for a long time. Right. I just never put two and two together. One last little bit. Sorry, I guess I lied. One more factoid. The word debut is related to the BUT in like, in like, but or like Target. So a debut originally meant like leading off at billiards or leading off at bowling like you're taking the first shot at the

target yeah debut and that's where that came from yeah we got a lot of butt words a lot of but words in english certainly yeah they're not referring all to yeah the butt yes yes uh so speaking of semantics and different vocabulary and different words for uh but uh specifically the but I've talked about this on Twitter and Facebook to a lot of our listeners. We are debuting, very exciting. Debutting. Debutting. Oh, yeah, yeah.

Our first series of actual big print ads for Good Job Brain. The ads are going to show up in the Bay Area. We kind of have a subway city train system called Bart. We're going to have Good Job Brain ads in some of the select stations in San Francisco and in Berkeley. We have a couple of different designs, and of course, one of our bigger ads feature, our mascot, are the Lily, right? Billy the Beaver. He's looking back at you. He's got his tail up, and he's looking back at you. So you get to see his butt. And he has a little cute asterisk's buthole. Yeah. It's where all the goodness comes from. Yes. So I got an email from the agency that is helped putting this ad campaign.

pain together. And here, let me read the email word for word. Okay. Here we go. Uh-oh. And remember the train system that we use is called Bart.

All right. Bart has an issue with the image of the beaver's anus on the diorama ad. We need to either redesign the entire ad or the easier

ways to print a sticker that covers up the anus. I apologize. for this reason for our initial conversation. But please let us know what you would like to do when you have a chance. The bottom line right now is Bart will not allow us to install that ad. This is so awesome. This is a real business email that we got saying...

Talking about anuses. They had to have this phone call. I all but guarantee we are the first ad campaign that's ever had that particular problem. Yeah, yeah, the beaver a sticker over the anus. We need to remove it or to cover it. Oh, my God. So I just want to share that little bit of news for you guys. What did you decide?

Sticker or redesign? So we redesigned and basically took out the butt hole. Yeah. Okay. You still see the beaver. Yeah. He's just all smooth down there. Yeah.

He's just like a Ken doll. Yeah. The butt's still there. Right, exactly. If it's, you know, if it's, you know, if it's, if it's, if it's, if it's, if it's, If his beaver hole was, had been there, it would have been funny. But now it's even funnier because somebody had to like take time out of their day. Yeah.

And be like, excuse me. Yeah. Life is about compromise. These ads will go up on September 1st. So stay tuned. When we do, when we do these shows, we, we tend to start chronologically earlier and then go through the history, whatever it is we're talking about. So I want to do that with this, with this segment right now, which is, which is about. a famous posterior in classical art.

I'm calling this segment, art, is it but? I feel like you came up with the title first. That was a title in search of a segment. It really was. So, at some point in the first century BC, some Roman sculptor, I'm being very vague because we really don't know a lot of these details,

but we're pretty sure about this. Some Roman sculptor created a marble statue of a woman. Maybe it was Aphrodite Venus, you know, maybe the goddess of love. Maybe it was just a regular person.

Maybe it wasn't anybody in particular. Anyway, this thing about the statue of Venus or whoever it is is that it was this very tall marble statue. It was positioned in a way where she was actually holding the back of her dress up and her butt was exposed.

Whoa. Yeah. And people were like, Oh, is she, what's she doing? Is she getting out of the bath? Because she was sort of half-clothed, but then she was sort of holding her dress up and, you know, her butt was out there. Well, this is all sort of guesstimation because the only actual records we have of this statue was that it was, it had been rediscovered by at least the 16th century. It was a little worse for the wear by the time they found it again. 1600 years later, you know, as a lot of statues didn't have a head anymore.

It was actually missing one of the arms and the right leg and a lot of the torso. It was pretty much a butt. It was just a butt. That wasn't just a butt, but it was a butt and it had, yeah, it had some clothes, but like a lot of it was worn away on the top and the bottom. The butt was, the butt was in the middle. The butt was built to last. But, yeah, yeah. It was truly a butt that won't quit.

So they had this butt, but it was like this really apparently just beautiful butt. And they really liked it. really nicely sculpted marble, you know, but, and so the 16th century artist who then restored the statue and put all the rest of the part, you know, made new parts to fill in the fragment, essentially, that they had, decided to add some editorial flair. Oh, no. Oh, no. And so, when he added a head, because he put on another leg and arms, when he added a head to this statue. He decided that the head of Venus should not be like pointed straight ahead or whatever going to the market. It should actually be looking over her shoulder, looking back and

admiring her own butt. It's like for Billy the Beaver. Yeah, exactly right. It's the Billy the beaver of, you know, of antiquity. Of antiquity. Yes. Looking back and with an expression on her face that could only be read as, man, I have a great butt. And from this restoration was born the very famous work of art known as the Calipigian Venus. Calipigian, from the Greek, is your vocab word of the day. Calipigian means, oh, darn. It means having a beautiful butt. Yes.

Yes. Yeah, it's from like butt and pretty. Calipigian, C-A-L-L-I-P-Y-G-I-A-N. That's a great. Because Callie Mammolian is having a great boob. Yeah. Bubs and bun. Pallie Mamolian?

Yeah, I think so. Oh, interesting. So, yeah, the original statue probably didn't have the head looking back on the buck. But it's just sort of a commentary. I'm like how great it was. And so, but it was the addition of the head turn that made this statue so arresting, so fascinating. Like the Mona Lisa staring at her own butt. Yeah.

Right. They restored it. Somebody in the 18th century actually restored it again. Like, that's the version we have now. They took apart the 16th century restoration. They re-did it better, basically. But he kept the element of the head looking back at the butt. Like, I'm reading the story, it's like, oh, man, if you were to go into a museum and look at the statue, it would be like, oh, an old statue.

But really, it's a collaborative work of art across the ages. The butt and the admiration of the butt built into the statue. Right, right. over a millennium later. An 1816 text about various, it was actually about like sculptures that were considered to be erotic in some way, had this to say about the statue. 1816. It is placed in a reserved hall where the curious are only introduced under the surveillance of a guardian, though even this precaution, has not prevented the rounded, forms which won for the goddess the name of calipid from being covered with a dark tint which betrays

the profane kisses that fanatic admirers have every day impressed there yes they're kissing her people were so in love with this statue that they would kiss the butt of this statue and thus discolor the marble it's like a it's like a sexy blarney stone yeah If you want to see this, but please do not kiss it. It is in the Naples National Archaeological Museum. Ooh. Yes. Well, I feel the kissing butt thing, tradition is kind of cool.

But, like, if it discolors the art, like, stop. Yeah. Well, it doesn't. I mean, you don't see it happen immediately. It's through many over time. But I did learn, yeah, I mean, marble is porous. Yeah, exactly. Like, if you have, like, a marble countertop and you spill something on it, you think to yourself, it's rock.

I'll leave the spill there. No, you'll actually. No, you'll discuss it. color it because it'll suck in the... It puts some saran wrap over the butt and then kiss it. Right, right, right. Yeah, use protection, obviously. Yeah.

Be art smart. Oh, oh, yeah, okay. Art. Is it butt? Yeah, she hiked it up real high. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was thinking it was like peeking out or something. Oh, yeah.

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You're listening to Good Job, Ray, and this week we're talking about the butt. All right. I have a booty-licious lightning round for you guys. Oh, okay. Yeah. About what? About butts, Karen.

What are we talking about today? but I didn't know who was like, you know, like animal buts in general. It's butts in general. Okay. All right. Get ready. What butt-related word made the short list for Oxford Dictionary's word of the year in 2013? But-2013.

Yeah. Last year. But-related word. Wow. Last year. Bought-related. Yeah. I have no idea.

Lady lumps? No. Is it hyphenated? No. It can't be. Hold on. Hold on. There was a very famous event.

that happened last year that kind of moved this word into the mainstream flaxis. Oh, was it under butt or something like that?

Side butt? Yeah. No. The answer is twerk. Oh. Oh, yeah. Okay. Of course.

They define it as a dance to popular music in a sexually provocative manner involving thrusting hip movements in a low squatting stance. Wow. AKA jiggling your butt. Yeah.

Of course. According to Sir, Mix-A-Lots, 1993 Grammy-Award-winning rap song. Whoa, Grammy Award-winning rap song. Baby got back. Which fashion magazine has nothing to do with the physical measurements he prefers? Karen. Cosmo.

Cosmo. Sure for Cosmopolitan. But it comes to females, Cosmo ain't got nothing to do with my selection. 36, 24, 36. Ha-ha, only if she's 5'3. Grammy Award winning. Wow. Sarah Blakely is the inventor of what essential body-shapeing garment?

Colin. Whoa. Is that Spanx? Spanx. What's her name? Sarah Blakely. Oh, okay. She started the company Spanx, Inc.

when she tried cutting the legs off a pair of controlled top panty hose in order to have her butt look smooth in her pants. They were curling up. So she was like, this is a need. And all these male patent lawyers and, like, hosery factories turned her down. They didn't think it was a thing. And then one of the mills got back to her and was like, oh, my wife and daughters said it was a good idea. Yeah. Now she's a billionaire.

Yeah, a billion dollars later. This, of course, led to the classic, Does Chris Know What It Is Segment when... You know what Spanx are. Well, yeah, I did know what Spanx are. Your description was not very good. No, my description was fantastic. My description was, they squish your fat in. Yeah, no.

I believe so. That is a body sheeper is the nice way to say it. Right. All right. Alfred Mosher Butts invented what classic board game? Mr. Butts invented... Oh, man, I've heard this name. Oh, Bourdain.

Is it Operation? No. Is it life? No. Alfred. It's not. It's not. Moseur, buts.

We've talked about this before. Monopoly. No. No, it's not monopoly. Oh, man. It is Scrabble. Scrabble. Mr. Betts made Scrabble.

Yep. Okay. Okay. All right. All right. In 2004, Oprah appeared in what brand of jeans and included them on her annual Oprah's favorite things list. Jeans.

Appeared on what brand of jeans? She appeared on her show wearing a pair of jeans and put them on her favorite things list. Is it mom jeans? Is it something like a butt accentuating jeans? They are called Apple Bottoms. Oh. Oh, okay. I believe a company invested by Nellie, the rapper.

Oh, really? In Mike Judges Beavis and Butthead. Yes. What color hair does Butthead have? have everybody black black well I guess butthead dark hair brown hair it's brown yeah yeah dark hair oh bevis is the blonde one yeah yeah follow up which of them has an alter ego and also what's the name of this alter ego the great coronelio which one bevis he needs teepee for his bunghole uh the destiny child's song booty licious contains a sample

from a 1981 Stevie Nix single, which one? Oh, is that edge of 17? Edge of 17. Okay. And Beyonce doesn't sing the majority of the lead vocals on this song, which members of Destiny Child does.

I can only name one other one. Is it Kelly Rowland? Yes, Kelly Rowland. Nice. Michelle Williams is the other. Okay. Yeah. It was 50-50 if you knew.

Yeah, it was 100% because you only knew one. Right. It was good. Tux, Annie Weiss, and Rescue are over-the-counter medications to treat which bodily ailment. Oh, ew. Hemorrhoids? What were the names of them?

Tux, Aniwice. Okay. And rescue. Okay. Which is rescue. Oh, like rescue. Rescue. Oh.

I didn't care. It's Bert B's. I was like, oh, maybe it's some kind of hippie bee thing. I don't know. Rescue. The NFL's Chad Johnson was denied a plea bargain judgment for doing what? Oh, what did he do? Did he moon?

No. No, he smacked somebody on the butt, I think. Yes. He slapped his lawyer on the butt in front of the judge. That's right. Was he held in contempt of court? Is that what happened? This is what the judge said.

I don't know that you're taking this whole thing seriously. I just saw you slap your attorney on the backside. Is there something funny about this? The whole courtroom was laughing. I'm not going to accept these plea negotiations. This is a joke. Oh, yeah. And then he had to go to jail for 30 days.

Oh, dang. Wow. Want, Wong. Yeah. He was not really known as a guy. who took things seriously. Is that Ocho Cinco? Yes, yes.

He legally changed his name to Chad Ocho Cinco at one point. Yeah. I was trying to figure out where the butt slapping and athletics came from. It's just, don't know. There's all sorts of rules about how you do it correctly, but... Don't linger. Yeah, don't... That is one of them.

Open hand, choose one sheath, not too hard, not too soft. Right. Yeah. Then it crosses over into fondling. Yeah, you got to pick your middle ground. Yeah. Though this insult likely dates back to the Middle Ages, it wasn't known by its common name until the 1960s. Insult Middle Ages wasn't known by its common name.

Oh, is it mooning? Yes. I actually, yeah, I started doing research on mooning. I did too. Yeah. Turns out it just goes back a long time. Yeah. People do it.

But it was college students in the 1960s who gave the name. Because they used to call the butt. The moon. Yeah. And poetry that. Good job, you guys. That's the booty-licious, bootiful, lightning-ish round. Lightning and a booty? Lightning and a boodle. Lightning and a boodle. I'm sorry.

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And I'll tell you. J-Lo. I do. J-Lo, there were news reports saying that Jennifer Lopez insured her butt. Oh. Oh, right. Yeah, I remember that. Billion dollar.

And they call it a billion dollar booty, billion dollar bud. And what this generally means or implies is that if anything happens to her butt. Right. If it gets punctured and be plates or scarring, I guess. Right, right, right. She will get a payment. Some sort of animal attack. So she did, she did really have this.

This was a real thing. Yeah. Well, I mean, I know that people definitely do this for certain. and like body features, like models and things like that, we'll get insurance on body parts. It is not clear if Shalow actually insured her buttocks. The thing is, it's very, it's very dodgy. She shows up on interviews, like saying, oh, what a crazy rumor, yet never 100% denies or confirms. Okay, okay.

Some people, a lot of, like, weird experts and theorists. On her butt. Saying that maybe she just insured her body as a whole, not necessarily just her butt. But when asked point blank, you know, she doesn't give a very confident answer. Maybe she did her whole body, but there was an itemized line for the butt and it was worth more. Probably. The thing is we hear a lot about people insuring different body parts. The butts, the legs, the boobs.

Dolly Parton insured her boobs. Yeah. Mariah carrying her legs. What does this mean? Why are they doing this? Yeah. This is a tradition. dating back to even vaudeville or silent era of films.

Yes. And the thing is keep in mind, the whole purpose of they call the surplus line insurance, which is very specialized insurance for really odd situations. And it's not just body parts. It could be, for example, I think recently some British guy got insurance for psychological damage if England doesn't win the World Cup. So really weird, odd cases. Okay.

In the vaudeville era, the first star that really did this kind of body part insurance was Ben Turpin, who was a vaudeville actor, and he's known for being cross-eyed. And so his act was being cross-side. He'd look funny cross-eyed. So if his eyes were to ever magically uncrossed. And he would get some of money because then his career would have been destroyed because his career is dependent on being cross-eyed. And that is a very specific but very good case. If that is how he makes his living. But really now, when you hear headlines about celebrities ensuring different body parts or like, oh, what million

dollar teeth or legs or whatever, it's mostly for PR. It's mostly for marketing. A lot of these celebrities, like, you know, if a scar shows up on their leg, it's not going to be the end of the world for them. Versus maybe a singer who ensures their voice and their voices, you know, damage. Hand model. Exactly. That's something that your career 100% or if you're an athlete where your legs are, you know, like a directly.

Lots of athletes have that kind of oddball case. You lose your ability to make money and some insurance agency will insure it for you. They will do that. They'll take your money. That's how it works. So sadly, J-Lo, we don't know if she really insured her butt. I was hoping you're going to say that like the resolution for J-Lo is like, oh, she could only have four to insure one cheek. and so she didn't want to let people know

which cheek was because that's the one you would target. Yeah, you gotta be a little cagey. Yeah, obviously, they're not a lot of details. Like, what are the offenses, right? How about a scar? Maybe a little bit. Yeah, what's covered?

What's not covered? Acts of God is not covered. They would pay for the plastic surgery to fix it or they'd pay for your salary. They would just give you money because supposedly your livelihood is dependent on it. Right. So if so if like J-Lo were to like lose. a chunk of her butt to some God, God forbid. Right, yeah, exactly.

But to some sort of, like, rabid marmoset or something would take it off. They could always add it in again, like, as a hologram. Yeah, during the concert. Yeah, right, right. So there's ways around it. Yeah. Don't worry, J-Lo. Yeah, it'll be okay. It'll be okay. It'll be okay.

She's going to need that insurance money for the butt hologram technology. Yes. Which is pricey. Yeah. Only a few people in the world would need a butt hologram. Exactly, right. Yeah. You're right. Okay, this is low brow You promised us

Lowbrow butt humor I did I did And as I say I started the show A little high brow Maybe this will balance out It will end up middle brow

This is last segment You gotta go lowbrow Middlebrow Figure out how to make it worse Unibrow Skittlebrow Have you guys heard Oh geez

Have you guys heard of Cloud to Butt Plus This is my new favorite thing. This is by Adobe. One of the great things about today's modern web browsers is there are a lot of extensions available for your web browser. So, for example, there's an extension for Chrome, the browser I'm using at the moment,

called from Google, Cloud 2 But Plus. And what this extension does when you load it is it will go through any page that you load that has cloud on it. Now, we live in San Francisco. Cloud as in... Cloud is in cloud computing, cloud storage. It's all over. I mean, to the point of parity, it's everything is cloud this, cloud that.

Yeah, I store it. You're saving all your information. Right. I get it. What this does is it will scroll through your webpages and replace the text, the cloud, with my butt. And it will replace the word cloud with butt. Yeah. And now it tries to do this in a pretty intelligent way.

So the developer says, you know, it should be smart enough not to do it on like weather reports, you know, because sometimes you do want to know if it's going to, you know, chance of clouds that day. Yeah. Chance of butts. So what I've done is I've installed cloud dubut plus. I went to Google News, loaded up a whole bunch of articles about cloud. And I would like to share for you guys some of the altered headlines. Oh, my God. I want to know more about the developer.

Like, what gave him the idea? Just to make people laugh. TechCrunch, cautions, butt storage is eating the world alive. Chicago Tribune advertises a new butt-based TV service launching in Chicago. Yeah. I believe this. I believe that. Yeah.

I actually believe that one. Another headline, Verizon promises to get its butt service online in early September. Yeah, I'll believe it when I see it. ABC News has a helpful kind of explanatory article. You know, maybe you've just heard about this. You're not sure what it is. So ABC News, how my butt works and why so many people are perplexed by it. That's the winner.

The article, the article starts off. You're probably using my butt already and just don't know it. Probably already using my butt. Right. already using my butt. You didn't even know it. An article posted just a few months ago on Wired.com.

Chris, your online home. Health care and technology. Head in my butt. Feet on the ground. That's like that same. That was so visual. But it's been sober. Feet on the ground.

And this was me laughing late last night assembling these. So I promised I would bring it nice and lowbrow at the end. I wonder what other, like, weird extensions there are. I guess there are a lot. Oh, there are a lot of text replacement. Yeah, just to make you laugh.

That is awesome. All righty then. And that's our booty-licious butt episode. Thank you guys for joining me. And thank you guys, listeners, for listening in. Hope you learn a lot about art butts, about butt trivia, butt words, butt insurance. This is the rear end of the episode. Yeah, very good.

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