Good Job, Brain! - 129: Father Of Mine

Episode Date: October 9, 2014

Chris is back and and has a new spawn! What better way to celebrate his new fatherhood than having an episode dedicated to dad-dom. Take the Dad Jokes challenge and see how many eye-rollingly cheesy dad jokes have you had the (dis)pleasure of hearing in your lifetime? Paternal puzzles and probs, and weird dads of the animal kingdom. And a Music Round of lyrical odes to fathers and sons. ALSO: Cotton candy grapes, Um Actually, @WordsAreSoWeird Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Hello, warm-blooded wardrobe, warlocks, warblers, and wards. Welcome to Good Job Brain, your weekly quiz show and off-beach trivia podcast. This is episode 129. And, of course, I'm your humble host, Carol, and we are your weekly Wikipedia wielding weevils. I'm Colin. I'm Dana.

And I'm Chris. Sorry, let me do that again. Wow, I've never screwed that up before. And I'm Chris. Smooth as a baby's bottom. Speaking of baby's bottoms. Oh. I now have one.

In fact, I have an entire baby, bottom and all. Top to bottom. You know, you have to take the whole baby, apparently. Yeah, not just the bottom. Not just the butt. We ask at the hospital. But now you are a legal reasons. Yes, I am now a dad.

Congratulations. Thanks. I heard your legal reasons thing. Such a dad joke. Dad joke, exactly. It's been, you know, quite an interesting life change. Yeah. Big question.

Yeah. What is your baby's name? Oh, his name is also Chris. Yay. Chris 3.0, actually, because I'm my dad, but my dad's name is Chris too. So, so I mean, I mean, I've just been attacking this, not the baby, but the dad thing with this sort of, you know, I mean, it's, it is good job brain parenting because it's like, I'm going to find out all the facts that I possibly can find out about stuff. I mean, the really interesting thing is the replicating the experience of being in the womb and what effect that has on calming a baby.

Because when they're, like, when they're crying, a lot of the reason they're upset, if, like, if their diaper is clean, if they've been fed, if there's, if there's. no overt reason for them to be upset, they're just kind of ticked off because they just had nine months of enjoying this relative life of luxury. And now there's this big world and it's super scary. So swaddling babies, like this is a big thing you learn as a parent in terms of like wrapping a blanket tightly around them. Oh, not swatting. Not swaddling. The, uh, and then, and then keeping their arms like locked. Oh, fixed. Yeah, fix in a fixed position. You know, again, like the womb. So they can't move them around so much. Turning them on their side and then and then the shushing thing and this is the big one is this it's so counterintuitive but it's

you put your mouth up super close to the baby's ear like almost touching just make Darth Vader noises into the baby's ear like a human white noise machine and the thing is yeah like a human white noise machine or you get a white noise machine there's there's white noise apps for the iPhones that just make womb sounds it's it's like a loud it's a sound of a mom's heartbeat and swishing and stuff like that and what it does is it just activates this reflex and you will take a crying baby and turn them into their eyes just go wide and they just become silent because they just they do it's like you just injected them with something you're just like it's pretty crazy but then of course you put them down and they start crying again so you kind of try to get them to sleep you know while they're while they're doing that I'm not saying it's easy if I'm sitting here before you today I'm not saying it's easy but there's all kinds of fascinating things that you learn so So I'll just continue to bring these to us. Yes, very cool. Well, let's do a very quick installment of our omissions and errors segment.

Actually. When we were talking about... More like, more like, rar. Oh, I like that. We can have Karen edit in some sound effects later. Yeah, generic bear. Stocks on the Wilhelm bear scream. That would be awesome.

When we're talking about bears on the outdoor episode, a couple episodes ago, I had asked, you know, the best way to deal with being confronted with a black bear specifically. On the show, we actually did have conflicting. We did. Because Dana had a, if it's brown, lay down. If it's black. Oh, wait. If it's black, send it back.

If it's black, fight back was in Dana's mnemonic. And so a couple people on Twitter actually wrote it. And they're like, no, it's not how you do with black bears. Don't just lay still. And so I went back and dug into it a little more. And the source that I found originally is a note. bear expert. I'm not going to throw this person under the bus. But it does seem like this person's opinion is sort of in the minority among. Most of the, not all, most of the bear resources say that,

yeah, we're dealing with black bears. If you're sort of at a safe distance, you know, like they're not literally right up in your face. You know, you kind of want to try and spook them. You know, it's okay to make noise. It's okay to make yourself appear larger. It's okay to, you know, act like, hey, get out of here. Get out of here, bear. So, get out of here, bear. But you, you go away. Bear. Who's the not bear? But Chris, as you astutely pointed out, it's very hard to do control trials. And a lot depends on the particular bear and the mood that that bear is in that day. But yeah, it does seem like... And how much you look like a salmon. Right, right. Yeah. How much raw salmon you're carrying in your pockets. But this all does lead to one thing that I, that I didn't

mention on the bear show very quickly, that everyone agrees, whatever your strategy is for dealing with a fight. Everyone agrees the best approach is prevent a bear encounter by announcing yourself, you know? So as you're hiking along, surprising them. Sing a song, whistle. When I used to go hiking, they would give a lot of us if we wanted

bear bells. And you can buy this a lot of wilderness stores, and they're like little jingle bells basically, but you put them on your backpack or you put them on your walking stick. You're like a bard of the floor. Gather around, bears. Your Penny whistle and your feathered

Let me sing you a song. But yeah, the idea is just as you're going along, you're making like little jingling sounds just so that bears kind of hear you coming because you don't want to startle the bear. They don't want to deal with you. They do not want to fight you. So thanks to all those who gave us actually on Twitter. Yes. Speaking of Twitter, I also have a new baby, but it's really just a project on Twitter. Surprise.

Surprise. Segway to segue to segue to segue. Synergy. You guys can tell us. Speaking of bear bottoms, we're going to clean up at the Seggy Awards this year, guys. I think I've got a good feeling about this one. For most segues in a single episode, Best Bear Theme Segway was awarded at a separate presentation earlier in the day. And the technical awards.

The technical segies, yeah. I have a project on Twitter called Words Are So Weird. Yay! So at Words are So Weird. I'm posting a weird word every day. I think, so for October, I'm doing gross and creepy words. And so far, I think the best word is Skattomancy, which is fortintelling with poop. Yeah.

It's a pretty special word that I had not heard of before. So every day, I'm going for it. Every day, sometimes there'll be pictures that I've drawn. I love the pictures you've been doing. Yeah, that's the Scatomancy picture is very, very fun. And of course, we've been retweeting some of these on the Good Job Brain Twitter account, too. So you might have seen some of these. All right. I want to try doing things where people make sentences with these weird words.

Ah. So, yeah, and if you have ideas for word words, tweet me. It's like old school vocabulary homework in middle school, yeah. But for words, you never actually, you didn't really need. Right. Use the word scatomancy in a sentence, kids. I know. Well, maybe you could practice your scatomancy when you're changing all the diapers. What was the one I liked was, the frog eating?

Yeah. What was it? Bachelichivorous. Bachelchiverus. Frog eating. Frog-only diet. A frog-centric diet. That's right.

All right. And lots of, a lot of housekeeping. Well, let's finally 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 buzzers. Here we go. Blue Edge for geography. New Mexico's official state question.

I didn't know there are official state questions. Red or green asks about your preference of what food? Oh. Dana. Uh, Chile's? Yes, Chile. I was going to guess salsa. New Mexico's official state question.

What a weird. There was a recent study of the most popular food by state, and I think Chile is for New Mexico. It's like, it's in everything, in everything, and people were writing. What about California? Oh, gosh. Is it like avocado? Oh, I don't know. It might have been prawns or something.

Like the thing that people mention on Twitter the most and where they're from. Oh, interesting. All right, Pink Wedge for a pop culture. What Public Radio Show was adapted for TV complete with its host sitting at a desk in the middle of a scene? Dana again. This American Life? Yes. Oh, that's right.

They do do that. That's right. Yellow Wedge. According to Aristotle, where is the seat of intelligence? Oh. Colin. The heart. Correct.

Oh, very good. All right. Purple Wedge, who read her poem on the Pulse of Morning at Bill Clinton's 1993 inauguration? Everybody. Maya Angelou. All right, Greenwich for Science. What does DSL stand for? DSL Connection

Digital signal line Close but no cigar Oh no DSL I thought it was digital signal line too Yeah The S is wrong Oh digital

Digital signal Secure line Lo Subscriber Oh That's right It was digital Subscriber

DSL equals Digital subscriber All right Wow card from 2006 Yeah Yeah exactly What is that? Things change fast

Things change fast All right. Last question, Orange Wedge. What is it called when a golfer or tennis player wins all the major championships in the same calendar year? Everybody. Grand Slam. Okay. I have a dumb question. Okay.

I know Grand Slam is also used in baseball. Yeah. What is a grand slam in baseball? It's when the bases are loaded and the guy hits a home run. So four points. Yeah. Four points. Yes.

We call them runs as well. Yeah. Yeah. The score went up by four points. All right, good job, Bray. Advantage Yankees. Do you guys, oh, this one comes up in trivia a lot. What is the Golden Slam?

In what sport? Tennis. Oh. The Golden Slam. The golden slam. So is it like when you win the men's and the women's? The Golden Slam is if you win the, the Grand Slam of the four tennis majors and a gold medal. the Olympics.

Oh, okay. Has any, who is the most recent person to do that? We can look this up very quickly. So I hear see Steffie Graff, singles player who won a Golden Slam. 1988, Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, U.S. Open, and then the 1988 Olympic gold medal. Oh, okay, all within one calendar year. Right.

So that's super rare because it's every four years. Yeah, yeah. Right. See, you'd have to win the Grand Slam. Wow. Actually, yeah, you know, looking at it, it is more rare than I thought. There are several players who've done the career golden slam. Which is a little more like Serena Williams, Venus Williams, Andrei Agassi, many others.

Okay. So there are a lot of people who have won Grand Slam and a gold medal, but not within the same year. Steffie Groff, the only one to do it in the same. That's a good trivia question. 1988, Stephanie Groff. All right. Well, good job, Brains, and good job, Steffie Graf. Yeah.

Woo, yeah. All right. So, of course, today's episode might not be a surprise that we're going to dedicate and celebrate Chris's new fatherhood with a dad-centric, dad-themed episode. Dawn of the Dad. That's good. That's pretty good. So today, to Fatherhood.

Papa loves Mambo. Papa loves Mambo. Mama loves Mambo. Mama loves Mambo. Don't play the rumba and don't play the samba because Papa loves Mambo tonight. All right, let's get started with a dad-themed grab bag of trivia. Grab-dad. Grab-dad.

A dad bag. A dead bag. Every answer either has dad or father or pot or whatever, or I explicitly ask for the name of the father. What was the name of Barack Obama's memoir? Chris. Dreams from my father. Do you know the subtitle? Oh, man.

The lessons that my father took. taught me. Something like that, like lessons from a life or... Oh, yeah, sure. What was it? A story of race and inheritance. Oh, okay. Was this before or after he was a senator?

Oh, I think dreams from my father was before. It was before. It helped launch his political career. Right, exactly. Really? Yeah. It just covers from his birth to when he was enrolled in Harvard Law School. Oh, okay, okay.

So none of his actual career career stuff. Mm-mm. Who was Queen Elizabeth the first? First father. Queen Elizabeth first father. Chris. Is this Prince Albert? No.

Dang it. Uh, King Edward. No. No, there are like so many Edwards. Well, I mean, maybe, yeah. She married to Edward. Was it, was it Henry the 8th? Henry the 8th?

And her mother was Anne Boleyn. That's right. Oh. Oh. Wow. It was back. It was back away. Yeah, right?

Yeah. Are you puny-hous? Oh, my God. Are you K fans? I'm going to be like, oh, no. I do not know. Somehow, I don't know why, that era, those two eras, seems so separate to me. Oh, okay.

I wouldn't think they're connected. Right. I see what you're saying. You know, yeah, yeah. I think, like, Henry and the Eighth is almost like, not fairy tale-esque. Right, right, right. Yeah, I get what you're saying. I get what you're saying.

I don't know if this helps, but Queen Elizabeth the first was alive during Shakespeare's time. Like, Shakespeare performed for her. That's true. That's true. It was in the movie, yeah. It was in the movie. So you know it happens. So you know it was real.

Judy Denge. Yeah. I think it's law. In England, you can't have Judy Dench act something if it didn't happen. That's a... Yep. Oops. All right.

This fictional industrialist, philanthropist, and three-star general has been portrayed in comics, Broadway musicals, and movies. Fictional... Fictional. Oh, I... Okay. Chris. Daddy Warbux.

Yeah. From Little Orphan Annie. Yeah. Do you know his first name? Oliver. Yes. Whoa. Oliver Warbux?

Oliver... Oliver, Daddy. That's so weird. This character is 546 years old, according to Wikipedia, and known for dressing in red pants and a red hat. Oh. Colin. Santa Claus? May?

Father Christmas? No. What? Oh, that's what my guess was. Parenthood O'L? It is. 546 years old and dresses in a red... Pants and a red hat.

Red pants and a red hat. Does he wear a shirt? No. Does he wear... She's... shirtless? Yeah, just a red pants and red hat. Right, right, right.

You guys give up? A little. Oh, yeah. Papa Smurf. Oh. That's good. That's good. You got me.

Yep, that's right. That's very good. And he does just wear red pants and a red hat. He's laughing, but he really does. He goes shirtless. Yeah, and a sexy sand? Wait, he really is topless. They're all topless except for smart.

Right. Did they have, um... Nipples? Yeah. No. They call them smirples. They call them smirples, yeah. And they don't have them.

They just talk about them. That's so weird. Yeah, they talk a lot about how they don't have them. Yeah. What was the name of James Brown's 1965 single? And it was his first to reach the top of the Billboard 100 top 10. Everybody. Papa's got a brand new bag.

Woo. Who. Who sang the song. Papa was a rolling stone. Oh, Colin. That was the temptations. Yes. Oh, wow.

Papa was tempted to leave the house. Yes, that is actually how I remember that. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, it really is. Yeah. Well, because, again, I think we mentioned this on the show. It's the whole, the Temptations, four tops. Right, right.

I don't know if we're the only pub quiz team, but it's hard for us. It does. Yeah, it is. All right. So the next couple of questions are about the, The wonderful year in television, 1987. Whoa. 19807.

Okay, all right. All right. 1987 sitcom starring Paul Reiser. My two dads. Yes. Oh, that was a bit hard because I was like, he wasn't a bunch. He was. Yeah, but about dads.

Yeah. Matt about you is 90s, definitely. Yeah. He was on Dad. 1987 show up starring Tom Bodley. Oh. Happy days. No.

The Father Dowling, Mystery. Yes, the Father Dowling Mysteries. He was a mystery-solving priest. Yes. Yes. I enjoyed that show. It's like the proto-Divinci Code. Yeah.

Okay, so another 1987 sitcom in which the father was a sports writer turned co-host of Wake Up San Francisco. Oh. Full House. When his name was. Oh, Danny Tanner. Yes. Daniel. Danny.

Danny. Well, I mean, that's, yeah. And his middle name was there. I don't get the point yet. Yeah, you got the point. Yeah, you got the point. More bucks. Ernest.

Oh, really? Jenny Ernest Tanner. Wow. There you go. It's just in my notes. I felt like sharing it. Danica Patrick is the spokesperson for what father-centric company name? Go-daddy.

Go-dady.com. Okay, sure. That's right. The domain name registry company, yes. And she's a race car driver, not Winnie. Danica McCuller Not Winnie Cooper Don't confuse the two

So cellar spiders have another name Oh Daddy long legs Now I'm gonna throw this out there Daddy long legs is not a spider Right It is a spider It is a spider?

There are three things named Daddy Longlegs The thing in your house That everybody has in their house at some point That is a spider Really? Yeah But there's also an insect called a daddy long legs that's not a spider and there's an arachnid that's also called daddy long

legs sometimes that is not a spider but an arachnid yes that's not confusing at all it is not it's super super confusing yeah but i looked at the pictures and i was like nope the thing that thing that was in my house that is a spider i'm going to close it out with two lyrics two lyrics samples okay which song are these lyrics from take me back to the day when i was still your golden boy back before you went away oh i'll give you a hint this is from a late 90s band take me back to the day when i was still your golden boy back before you went away oh uh oh no i remember blue skies walk in the block wallflowers no was this everclair yes oh yes what's the song father of mine yes Where to no, no, no, no.

Okay, last one. I went hiking with Joe Spivey. He developed poison ivy. You remember Leonard Skinner, he got Tomein poisoning last night after dinner. Whoa. Well, the song is Hello Mudda, Hello Fada. Yes. I do not know.

We're looking for the artist. Sure. I believe that's Alan Sherman. Yeah. Hey, all right. Teamwork. Good job. Okay.

The name of my segment is called, Hi, Hungry. I'm dad. Oh, I'm hungry. Yeah, exactly. One of the best things, well, probably the best thing about being a dad for me going into it, bringing a new life in the world, being able to tell jokes all the time, totally. I am all ready for dad jokes. Before you've been to dad. Well, I mean, you know, I think guys like telling jokes.

And then you have a child and you realize with this golden opportunity because they've never heard any jokes before. So any of the oldest saw is brand new and funny or annoying. and it really doesn't matter. If they think it's funny, if they think, you know, you're a total buffoon and they're all the rise at you. It's all amusing. So, um, here is the quiz for you guys. Oh, it's a quiz. I'm going to set them up.

You're going to knock them down. All right. These are the jokes. It's like, maybe you've heard them before. This are all dad jokes. So, I mean, just, you know, for example, if I were to say, hey, what do you call a fish with no eyes? Oh. What do you call a fish with no eyes?

Oh, man. It's going to be, like, laughy-taffy level. A f-sh... Oh, wow. Yeah, they're all jokes like that where you're just like, oh. All right, well, here we go. Let's see, let's see which ones you can get. And if you don't get them, then we'll just, you know, store them in your minds.

You might need him someday. All right, okay, here we go. What did the pirate say? By the way, I got these all from various lists of dad jokes on the United States. Specifically titled... It's just a variety of sorts of kids. Dad jokes. Which for dad jokes, you'll find these.

All right. What did the pirate say on his 80th birthday? Oh, his 80th or something? Close, close, close. Think about it, his 80th birthday, things pirates say. On his 80th birthday, the pirate said, I'm 80. Oh, I'm 80. I'm 80.

I was staring at Dino, but I don't get it. All right. Hey, what did the ocean say to the shore? Is this like nice to meet you? No, no, no, no. What did the ocean say to the shore? He didn't. He waved?

Yes! Intuiting the dad joke. Yes. Awesome. Hey, did you get a haircut? No, I got the old cut. Okay, we know this one. Yeah.

If your child asks you, what time is it, you say... Time to get a watch. Oh, or that. Or, oh, I don't know. It keeps changing. Oh. That's a Calvin and Hobbs, Calvin Dad. I would also sometimes get, looking down at the blank wrist, oh, it's two freckles past a hair.

Of course, yeah. Of course, they're not going to, they're not going to get that at all. So, like, why are you looking at your wrist at all the time? Why don't you look at your cell phone? Yeah, that's true. Some of these. All right. Hey, have you heard about that new movie constipation?

It hasn't come out. Yes, yes, that's it. Yep, I know what hasn't come out yet. In the same vein Oh, did you hear about the kidnapping? Oh, you should wake him up. Yeah, yeah, yes. It's okay. He woke up.

How do you know you're about to drown in milk? How do you know you're about to drown in milk? I'm going to drown in milk. Think about words related to milk and maybe processes that they use on milk. Pasture. You're pasturize. Yeah. When you're past your eyes.

Wow. These are kind of like clever. Yeah. You're a little bit harder. Yeah, right? Okay. So two goldfish in a tank. One turns to the other and says, two goldfish are in a tank.

One turns to the other and says, Let's have sex? For older kids, I guess. I bet they'd laugh at it, but it doesn't really follow from more of a non-sector. You don't want your dad to tell you that joke. You're like, what? Two goldfish are in a tank. Are you new in this?

bowl are you I'll give it to you Two goldfish you're in a tank One turns the other and says Do you know how to drive this thing? Tank Oh okay Wow

Okay All right Where does Where do kings keep their armies Oh and their sleeveies Yes In their sleeveies That's cute

That's pretty cute What time is it when you have to go to the dentist 230 230 Sorry Karen I only know this one because Chris told me that one and I've never heard of it. I was like, oh, that's clever.

That's amazing. Two-thirty. A couple more. How does NASA organize a party? How does NASA organize a party? By the lunar cycle. Space, rocket. Stars aligned.

Shuttle. Committee. Oh, by comedy. That's really good. That's too smart. That's too clever. That's funny. That's funny.

How does NASA organize it? They can't because they're underfunded. If you want to have a party, you can hire a party. They plan it. Oh, they plan it. And finally, oh, did you hear about the guy who fell off a 50-foot ladder and survived? Who's on the first wrong? Yeah.

It's a part of a lateral thinking problem. But, yeah. Also, when you drive by cemeteries, make sure to say, oh, I mean, you can do a lot of, you know, the cemetery is actually just a target-rich environment. Really? The one I know is, oh, you know, people are dying to get in there. Right. People are not to get in there. Or they put that fence up so that people can't get out. And the most clever one that I read was, drive by a cemetery and then turn to your kidding to say, hey, you know, those people living on the other side of the street, they can't get buried in that cemetery.

And they say, why is that? Because they're still alive. That's clever. Right? That's clever. That is for sure a dad joke. That's right. It absolutely is.

I think my favorite dad joke is, what do you call? a blind deer no idea no idea what do you call a dead blind deer oh um still no idea

that's good so sad I think you once shared one on the show and you're like I think we were talking about M&Ms

and you're like oh of course the dad would be like oh someone sneaked in some MNs with W yeah I got some W

you catch the Ws yeah it's like Can you imagine sitting in the back of a minivan and then looking at another kid and rolling your eyes? And it's like, embarrassing me. Oh, dad, don't do that to my friends. We've talked about this. All right, let's take a quick ad break.

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Or he'd Yeah or snuck into a playground But So this is from Rob And Rob said that That ending little theme song is supposed to represent all four of us, like we're a note. I like it.

Yeah, very cute. Special shout out to a listener Mitchell. And I have to apologize to you three first. Mitchell sent us an awesome package. But the day it arrived, I was on my way out to the airport for vacation. So it was a food item and it was going to get spoiled. So I didn't have time to bring it home and put in the refrigerator and then bring it out to you guys. But you tried it, right?

I did try it. I did eat some of them. So, long story short, I ate your food. And then I went on vacation. And then I went to Disneyland. Cool. Good news, I guess, is that Mitchell, who lives in Bakersfield, it is famous for this thing that he sent us, which is cotton candy grapes. What?

They're normal green-looking grapes, very crunchy, very plump. Okay. And they taste like cotton candy. Like not in it's... How do they do that? It's not soaked or artificially flavored. It's just from breeding. Whoa.

I think I was reading the site. It took them probably almost a decade or longer than a decade to finally get to this hybrid crop. Interesting. It's just very strategic hybrid cropping different grape varieties. The grape does have a faint taste of cotton candy. It's not like you're eating a ball of cotton candy. It's a very faint taste. Was it good?

It's very good. Was it delicious, Karen? It was very good. That sounds good. Sounds really good. It's very... I wish I had some. I wish we could have been there.

Well, thanks, Mitchell. Thanks, thank you for thinking of us. Yeah, yeah. That is pretty cool. And, of course, you're listening to Good Job, Brain. This week we're talking about dads, and I want to talk about fathers in the animal kingdom. We've talked a lot about cool, animal dads. Yeah.

I mean, when I say cool, I mean, weird. Right. Um, before, uh, we talked about seahorses, how sea horses have a male pregnancy and they're the ones who have the babies in the belly and then, you know, thousands of them kind of shoot out out of a hole. It's kind of, it's very stressful to watch. Yeah, no. I wish you could see the hand motions here. Yeah. Like, shoot out.

Like, my belly buttons like, it explodes out. Um, and we talked about, um, the male fruit bat that lactates to, uh, ease the stress of the mama fruit bat. I tried doing that. It's only been a week, Chris. You have some time. That's true. Yeah, yeah. As long as it latches on.

Yeah. Yeah, exactly. I'm using two breast pumps, just to be sure. And in nature, there are a lot of instances where the father animal actually does a lot to help out the mommy. And so one of the examples is the giant water bug, the giant water bug and a lot of other species. and a lot of other species, what they would do is they would carry the eggs on their backs as dads. And so that way it's to protect eggs. And in a similar vein, there is the aerowana, which is a type of fish you can catch in Animal Crossing.

Oh, okay. And other fish similarly, they're called mouth breeders, not mouth breeders, but Mount breeders. Mouth breeders. Yes. So what happens is they have. hide or they hide, they protect the eggs in their mouths. Wow. The dads, the dads have all the fish eggs in their mouths and they don't eat. Wow.

Until they hatch. Wow. So in a way, they're protecting it. At the same time, it's like, it's kind of miraculous that they don't eat for weeks. Yeah. Sounds like a Greek myth. Yeah. It does.

You're right. It totally does. There's another interesting fish called the lump fish or the lump sucker. They look like, they're like, they're like. like golf balls. They're spherical fish. When you think of fish, you think of like slender. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like, you know, not aerodynamic. Fish shaped. These are like ball shaped and they're very cute. Why they're called lump suckers is because they do have a suction cup at the bottom, like at their belly part. Okay. Okay. So what the dad lump sucker does is, uh, you know, by a cluster of eggs, the dad will anchor and use the suction cup to suck itself near the eggs on the ground and basically just stay there and stay there. And stay. there to protect the eggs. Like a century.

Well, yeah, like a centurion and be like, okay, you know, this is my hood. You should Google this animal because it's hilarious. I think it's super cute. Lump sucker. Yeah, they look like a, what do you call the Mario Fish? Oh, uh, Cheep Cheeps? Cheapes. Yes, yes.

In a lot of aquariums, actually, you might see lump suckers. And what they do to illustrate their sucking ability is they'll put balloons in the tank. Oh. And the lump sucker will suck to the balloon. It's really cute. Super, super cute. Also, great, great animal dads. And of course, there are a lot of birds, like a penguins. Oh, yeah, yeah. And they, like, they bury the eggs, like, between their feet, right? Or they waddle over them. Like, they will help out in incubating the eggs and protecting a lot of this

protection stuff. But I'm going to introduce to you guys one example of a bad father in the animal kingdom. Also, a nightmare animal in itself, even without the dad part. So this animal is called the assassin bug. Well, see, he's already off to a bad start. Yeah, he's already... People live up or down to your expectation. Yeah, of your name. In context to humans, they're kind of a friend and a foe.

They're a friend in a way that they do take care of a lot of parasites. You know, they eat, they prey on... And they're called satins because they're... They prey on other bugs and such. And so they eat termites. They eat a bunch of, like, pests. But at the same time, they can be vectors. for some of the diseases, you know, that will affect humans.

So it's friend or foe. It's scientifically great for the ecology in general. Anyways, so assassin bugs have a toxin. And what happens is you probably know this from a lot of other insects or spiders where the toxin will liquefy the prey's body. And then the assassin bug will suck all the insides up after it liquefies. So cockroaches will die three to four seconds after a bite of the assassin's. bug. Fat caterpillars can survive up to 10 seconds. But once you get bit, you're pretty much dead. A little caterpillar doctor comes over to him. It's like, I, yeah, yeah. So the sassum bug also,

some of the sass and bugs will do is it will take the shell, because after it eats all the liquefied parts, it will collect the shells of its victims and make an armor. And it will build all these bodies on their backs and they look like a pile of dead ants or dead termites and wear them as armor to confuse predators and sometimes they'll use

these dead bodies as decoys to like trick other praise. So the male assassin bug, I'm going to and this is a very scientific article by Lisa K. Thomas and Andrea Manico which I think is their thesis

or their PhD paper called filial cannibalism in an assassin bug and what happens is when the mom assassin bug lays a cluster of eggs the father will come and protect it and what happens is he will start

eating the eggs located on the outer edges of the cluster and it is messed up because it's eating its own children and there are a lot of other animal dads that do this scientists think that instinctively

this is done to protect the brood. So they do this so that it guarantees protection of the middle eggs. A lot of the outer eggs of the cluster will fall victim to wasps, to parasitic wasps. And instead of having that happen, the dad just starts eating the eggs. And it's so hardwired into the bugs because scientists have done this research in a lab and they still do this, even though the threat of wasps even when there's no predators all. You know, another reason is, well, if the dad is trying to protect these eggs and cannot leave, it needs something to eat. Sorry, Jr.

So in a way, maybe they laid that many eggs is also to know that some of them will be ingesting. 20% for overhead. Yeah. It's overage. Yeah, right. There you go. Life is rough in the animal kingdom.

Yeah. It's filial cannibalism. Filial cannibalism. Interesting. Happy dad. Well, you only had one baby, so you can't eat it. I have, and I can't, what? You can't eat that one.

I can't eat that one. Don't go getting any ideas, Chris. And, of course, it's not, I mean, Assassin Bug itself is already weird. There are a lot of animals that do this. A lot of fish will do this. They'll pick out the weak, the smaller eggs to eat. Larger eggs, especially in the fish family,

larger eggs will mean they're going to be stronger fish, but also means they take a long time to hatch. So the dad will eat the smaller eggs as sustenance to protect the big eggs. Kind of effed up, but there you go. Get to Toronto's main venues like Budweiser Stage and the new Roger Stadium with Go Transit. Thanks to Go Transit's special online e-ticket fairs, a $10 one-day weekend pass offers unlimited travel on any weekend day or holiday anywhere along the Go Network. And the weekday group passes offer the same weekday travel flexibility across the network, starting at $30 for two people and up to $60 for a group of five. Buy your online go pass ahead of the show at Go Transit.

dot com slash tickets and we have one more segment that actually does celebrate dads Colin yeah it's a music quiz it is a music quiz we haven't done one in a while it's been a while i was thinking that i was putting together what can i do i was like no you know just straight music quiz and you know we do get frequently uh themes for our music rounds in a pub quiz so the theme so the theme quite overtly is dad's fathers fatherhood yeah so free point for everybody for that's in the theme. Yes. I'm giving you the dad theme.

And that should help you bootstrap into, hopefully, maybe you don't recognize the song. You guys all have pretty good thinking caps. You, with the theme, armed with the theme, you can figure these out. All right. So the connection may be in the name of the artist, maybe in the lyrics, maybe in the title of the song. Yeah. In the lyrics. Perhaps.

Whoa. Or the theme. Yes. So, all right, here we go. Number one. You, Utah. You would take me to the movie. You would take me to the beat

Take me to a place Inside that's so hard to meet Karen Well, we all know, Chris, do you know? No. We just talked about it. Everclear. This is the Everclear song.

Yeah, Father of Mine. Father of Mine by Everclear, yes. We're just trying to prove to you listeners that we don't collaborate ahead of time here. I was thinking I contact with Colin as I started, and he did not recognize it. I was trying to play it cool. Here we go. Next track.

Please tell me the artist. Just four people, that's all we were, trying to make a living out of Blacklander. But we'd get together in a family circle singing loud. Daddy sang bass. Mama sang to me a little brother, we're joined right and burn. Singing seems to help. Dana and Chris Johnny Cash

Yes it is Johnny Cash Daddy sang bass All right All right All right Dad sang bass I've never heard that song before That's a great one

Written by Carl Perkins Hey I have no idea what that is But that's great He wrote blue suede shoes Oh okay Here we go Next one

Please give me the artist Of this track Hey Jen I know what you're thinking That now's as good It's zanet juice dot drinker And sky Yeah

And what's it gonna be Wine chin and tonne sounds mighty money good to me Oh yeah Chris although I think you all know this Cherry popping daddy No It is big bad voodoo daddy

It is big bad Oh I got this cherry potu daddy Oh yeah You guys all seem so confident But yeah I can see why you think that That's right I had both of them in my head, and I just couldn't... That swing...

That period of, like, two years. Zoot Riot. That was Cherry Popin' Daddy. That was Cherry Popin' Denets. Yes, yes. But they had a whole album full of stuff, but yeah. You did. That was you and me, and the bottle makes 30.

Oh, that's right, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, as famously featured in the movie Swingers. Yes. Yep. I'm going to bring it down a little bit for this next one here. He learned to walk while I was away, and he was talking for I knew it, and as he grew, he'd say, I'm going. be like you dad you know i'm gonna be like you

and the cats in the cradle and the silver spoon little boy blue and the man on the moon when you're coming home dad a don't who's sing it though uh harry chapen yes yes harry chapen cats in the cradle and a silver spoon just a just a bittersweet yeah just a sad song i don't even know what it means What? The whole song is just about like The Dad's too busy to spend any time with the Sun growing up

And then finally the dad grows up And the son has no time to spend with the dad Oh I think every summer camp I went to as a kid You would hear that song One of the counselors would know it on guitar And you'd hear it That's very weird

So you're separated from your parents And they play Cats Cradle And welcome And welcome to nature Your parents are not here. I'm manipulative, but it doesn't work because you don't know what they're talking about. All right, we're going to do a radical stylistic change here for this next track.

And listen to the intro. This isn't the spoken intro to the track. And keep in mind the category. Please tell me who is this artist. All right. I'm just going to sit here and lay back to this nice mellow beat, you know, and drop some smooth lyrics. Because it's 88. Time to set it straight, you know what I'm saying?

And ain't no half stepping. What? I'm ready. Rapper stepping to me. They want to get some. But I'm the cane. So, yo, you know the outcome. I'm not the victory.

They can't get with me. So pick a PC date because you're a history. Dana. That's Big Daddy Kane. That is Big Daddy Kane. I thought it was him. And then he said, I'm Kane. And I was like, okay.

He also made very clear, it's 88. I feel like a detective. You're Nancy Drew. That was so mean. Sorry. No. No, yeah. No, no.

It was just the tone. It was funny. You're like, way to go, Nancy Drew. That was, ain't no half stepping. Probably his biggest hit, I think. No, Pippett ain't easy. It is his big. Big Daddy Kane.

Man of many hits. Let's agree. Let's agree. Man of many hits. No one hit wonder he. Here we go. Next track. This will be a two-part question.

Please tell me, who is the artist. Papa, please forgive me, try to understand me. Papa, don't you know I had no choice? Can you hear me praying anything I'm saying, even though the night is filled with voices? Everyone. And for the bonus point, what I'm saying?

And for the bonus point, what a girl? What movie is this from? Is this funny girl? Yentel. Karen's got it. Karen's got it. Because she's like Moulonning it, right? She has to pretend to be a boy to study.

That's right. That's right. Yeah, that's right. Yes, from Yentel. Nice, nice. All right, last one. Close it out here. Who is the artist performing this track?

I'm a hopeless one turn. Hold me farts. Hold me farts. Because I'm a hopeless one. Homemade farts. Homemade farts. Yeah, homemade farts. Good thing you picked this song and not their famous song.

That famous song, we can't air. I wanted to make it both family-friendly and a little bit more challenging. Mumford and Sons. Yes, Mumford and Sons. Yes. There is not actually a father of the rest of the band. But yes, it implies, yeah, father and sons. You guys get her. That's right. That is a hopeless wanderer by Mumford and Sons. All right. And that is our episode celebrating dads and fatherhood and celebrating you, Chris. Oh, thanks. Congratulations again. And thank you guys for joining me. Thank you guys listeners for listening in. Hope you learned a lot. lot of stuff about different dad trivia facts, dad jokes, dads in the animal kingdom, and also a dad's songs. Of course, you can find us on iTunes, on Stitcher, on SoundCloud, and also on our website, good jobbrain.com.

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