Good Job, Brain! - 141: BEST OF 2014

Episode Date: February 6, 2015

It's out MEGA-long year-end episode! Double the length, double the memories as we try to cram in some of your favorite and notable segments. With the help of our listeners, we've picked some of our best quizzes, stories, facts, and music rounds from 2014. Thanks to all for another fantastic year, and let 2015 be a brainy year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Hello, feisty and fiery, friendly fact fanatics looking forward to 2015. Welcome to Good Job, Brain, your weekly quiz show and Offi trivia podcast. This is episode 141. And I'm your humble host, Karen, and we are your glad globs glittering with glowing glitz who are gluttons for glutes and galadereal. I'm Colin. I'm Dana.

And I'm Chris. We are on site recording at the legendary trader, Vicks, Restaurant, and Bar. And we've mentioned this place a bunch of times on the show, the birthplace of the Mai Tai. Dana talked about that before. Which we've now had. Yes, very good. Oh, yeah. Some of us more than one.

It's delicious. That's Dana. They actually have two different variations, which is one is the original 1944 Mai Tai, which might not be quite what you think of when you think of a Mai Tai now, and then they have the more traditional Mai Tai. I think we all stuck with the 1944 one, right?

Oh, I think we made sure to get a mix, because, yeah, you have to be able to compare. So today is our best of 2014 episode. We are going to celebrate, highlight, and feature some of the best, the funniest, the weirdest, the mind-blowing, biggest moments on Good Job Brain and we've asked our loyal listeners on Twitter and on Facebook to help us curate some of our most memorable segments.

We had a super awesome year. It started in January where we won a Stitcher Award. We had our first on the road recording with our two Las Vegas episodes and then our first fan meetup. That was awesome. That was great to see everybody come out in person and put faces to our listeners. Yeah. We hit our 100th episode and featured our funny and touching listener messages in, I think, March. And then we had our second meetup in San Francisco. We ran our first

big real ads in the San Francisco train station and had a butthole gate happen where they didn't let us, they didn't let us publish or they asked us to take out the Beaver butthole from our ad because of butthole. Chris had a baby. I did. The baby is here with us. The baby's here in the studio, yes. So lots of stuff happened. And of course, we are a pub trivia enthusiast,

and we're so happy to share our passion for facts and trivia and histories and all that stuff with the world and with other people who are as curious and nerdy as we are. And if you're a new listener, welcome. You're in for a weird tasting treat. And if you're already a good job, brain listener, we want to thank you for all of your your support and we invite you to skip down memory lane with us well i think we would all agree that the the absolute most difficult thing about doing this podcast is putting together those history segments right it's it's a lot tougher to i think research a whole topic uh become a sort of a mini expert about

something you started to and yeah and then to uh to tell an interesting story in the space of a few days yes right right right in the space of the couple of days that we have to spend preparing the podcast. And so when one comes together really well, when you start, I mean, you guys know, when you get into that groove of researching something and you really start to, you really start to like go down the rabbit all and find those really interesting pieces of information and the story comes together, that can be some of the most magical moments, I think. And so here are some of our best historical stories segments of the past year. I'm going to start us off with as high-brow an approach to the butt as I could think of.

Before it spirals down to the right. Yeah. And I'll meet you down at the other end. Believe me. Yes. Yes. We will close that with some lowbrow later in the show. So I'm going to 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, but, our butt. How old do, how old of a word do you think but is? Very. Very. It is pretty old. I think they'd probably spell like B-U-T-T-E maybe.

They did, Karen, yep, you got a good linguistic sense, yeah. 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. 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. Yes, but everything had a butt. You know, you had a butt and this, you know, this stick over here. 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 words are just so 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. Yep, it's also the thick end of something. Sure, right. Can I ask you a question? Yes. When we say that, like, something abuts, 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, so as I, as I got deeper into the butt, I was, I was really, yeah, I was really interested in all these words that have but or so, or how related are these words? Yeah, because they sound all kind of similar. They do.

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 from a different source as well. And again, I had assumed they were related. Yeah, that sense of butt most likely comes from Boteer, 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 butthead is? Wow. 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, butthead. But it didn't mean what we mean now.

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

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

It meant like a cul-de-sac, or like a blind end or a blind hole. Cullen, 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 it. 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?

I'm down on the butt hole. The blind hole. 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, but is kind of, you don't want to be the butt. You're the end. 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-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. Man, we got a lot of butt words. We got a lot of butt words in English, certainly. And they're not referring all. to the buy.

Yes, yes. I have fun little math game for you guys, which I'm going to ask you to choose between different options. Okay. So first, there's going to be two exercises. So first, I'm going to give you guys a choice. You can either gamble or you can play it safe. Option number one is I will give you an 80% chance of winning $4,000 and a 20% chance of getting nothing. Or you can pick option number two, which is a 100% chance of me giving you $3,000.

Tell me, just right now, spur of the moment, what would you jump for? Okay, so repeat the options again? I'm going to repeat the options. An 80% chance of getting $4,000, 20% chance of getting nothing at all, or instead of that, a 100% chance of getting $3,000. Oh, the second. You go for the second one? Yeah. I would take the second one, the second one.

the $3,000? Okay. You are in line with about 80% of people who would just take the sure thing. They would go with the $3,000. That's a lot of money. So here's question number two. Again, two choices. Option one, I'll give you an 80% chance of losing $4,000 right out of your bank account, or a 20% chance of breaking even and you don't lose anything, versus option number two, which is a 100% chance that you will lose $3,000. I would take the 80% chance of losing $4,000. You would?

Yeah. What about you guys? I know it's a rational. Would you lose $3,000 for sure? Or would you take the 80%, 20% chance of either losing more, losing $4,000 or 20% chance of you break even and you don't lose anything? When you're talking about taking away something, it's different. I hate my brain, but that's what I would choose. I would choose the first option.

You would take the gamble? Just for that chance that nothing happens. Well, I'll tell you, again, in this case, 92% of people choose to take the gamble. Really? And the thing is, both of the decisions that you guys made mathematically are actually, no, they're wrong. They're both the wrong decision. In the case of gaining money, an 80-20 chance to get way more money is actually a really good gamble that you should take because the odds are so much better. And in the chance of losing money, you have a really good gamble.

good chance of actually losing more money. And the smart thing to do is just to lose the $3,000 if those are the two things you have to choose from. But again, most people are like you guys and make the mathematically wrong decision. Why is this? This comes from a

19... I feel like a dummy. No, no, you're just a normal person like everybody else. This comes from a 1979 study and they called it prospect theory or the theory of how people choose between different prospects, different perspective options that are in front of them.

What they say that it shows is that people are not necessarily risk averse all the time, but that people are definitely loss averse. We do not like the idea of losing things. So let me illustrate this with a personal example. A couple of years ago, I was on eBay looking at items that people would put up with a buy-it-now price as soon as they put them up to see if anybody put up something that was a lot cheaper than it should be so I could buy it really quickly. In rapid succession, this happened.

Somebody put up a video game for $50. And I knew that video game was worth about $500. So very quickly, I bought it. Then they put up another video game that was $50. And I thought to myself, oh, is this one worth money? It's worth a lot of money? I think it is. But I don't know if I want to pay $50 because maybe it's not in that span of time that I was thinking about it.

Somebody else bought it. And then I did a little bit more research and I realized that other video game was worth at the time about $300 and I totally should have bought it. So, I get the game that I had gotten at a great, great deal in the mail. Was I happy? No. No. Because all you were thinking about was the one

It was the score of a lifetime. It was an amazing, amazing deal for this really rare game and when I think about that day, I feel a twinge of regret that I lost out on the other one. So even though I came out way ahead, I counted as a loss. Like if you gain $100

and lose $80, you think to yourself that you lost, even though you're $20 ahead of where you used to date. Yeah. That's so weird. People, you should take, like, the 80-20 risk when it's in your favor, and you should not take it when it's not in your favor, but people don't think of it like that. They don't, you don't want to have the bad feeling of losing. And you guys are thinking about, well, I mean, if I'm going to lose $3,000, I might as well

lose $4,000, because it's not the money. It's the bad feeling, and you're going to feel bad, whatever, so you're going to take the outside chance that you're not going to have the bad feeling. That's absolutely right. And I can feel myself thinking that. And I'm like, no, that's wrong. Oh, but there's a chance. I've got a one in five chance.

And this is why this is a component of some people getting addicted to gambling. If you're gambling and you've lost money, the smart thing to do is to just stop and walk away. But people will throw good money after bad because they want to get back their losses. Yeah. And this is why sometimes, like, people will start behaving more recklessly when they're gambling after they've lost money because they're trying to recklessly. Totally. Because they want to avoid that bad feeling of I lost. And if they can at least get back to having broken even, they'll walk out feeling good.

In your first example, 80% chance of winning $4,000 and 20% chance of winning nothing. If I'm in that 20% chance, I'd feel so bad. I'd rather just get $3,000. You would feel like you'd lost the $3,000 that you could have gotten. There was a study in 2012, and this is kind of, this study is still kind of in its early days, but the study linked the presence of the chemical norapinephrine in the brain to a lessened sensation of loss aversion. If you've got more of it in your brain, you don't feel those losses as hard. Can I take it?

That's the thing. They're trying to come up with, like, is there a way we can actually medicate people to get rid of their gambling addictions? Because if we put more noropenephrine in there, they won't feel the loss as hard, and they won't feel as compelled to go, quote, win back their losses. That's really interesting. If you guys are like me, you had your share of bad Halloween costumes as a kid. Some years I was lucky enough to have a grown-up help me, you know, and I would have a really awesome, I was an awesome vampire one year. My mom spent a lot of time. I had this cool cape, and we got the, like, the makeup and the teeth.

And there were other years, though, like, I remember quite specifically years where I, it was more like when I had my E.T. costume. So this was a store-bought, off-the-shelf, E.T. costume. Oh, that you're E.T. You're not E. I was E.T. Like a hospital gown, plastic kind of thing that wrapped around you. 1984, you know.

A height of E.T. Ranias. And as a way of introducing the rest of the story, I would like. like to play for you a short clip from The Simpsons, a Treehouse of Horror episode. Jack it out, Lisa. I'm Radioactive Man. I don't think the real radioactive man wears a plastic smock with a picture of himself on it. We would on Halloween. Yes. So what is your T-T costume is on a shirt? The writers had exactly the same experience I did. Yes, it was the, the, the, the, the mask was

decent enough. It was a decent enough mask of E.T. It looked like E.T.'s face. But the rest of the costume was essentially, it was an apron with a picture of E.T. on it. And even as like a little kid, I felt like I was getting ripped off. I'm like, I'm not dressing up as E.T. This is more like, I'm a walking tribute to E.T. I'm an E.T fan. Yeah. And the masks, again, if you know what I'm talking about, These were the most uncomfortable. They had the tiniest, tiniest little eye slits. They're made out of plastic that you would ordinarily use in that configuration for a picnic night. The edges of it would just cut you up.

They were sharp. And they had these weird little nose slits as well. So basically everybody, if you're dressed up as he-man, you look like E.T. If you were dressed up as Barbie, you look like E.T. Because you had these like Voldemort steak nose-slit things in the mask. Yeah, the rubber, the piece of, not even just like a proper like strap, but a piece of rubber band. So it was stapled. So stapled to the plastic.

The stapled by your face. Yeah, this brittle rubber band that you'd put over and would just pop right off. By the end of the night, the mask is off. The smock strings are falling off. And it's not even a long night. It's like two hours later. You just dragging this thing around town. I totally see why your smock had a picture of,

E.T. Like, I was Smurfette, and so it looked like a dress. It didn't look like, it didn't have a picture of Smurf, but E.T. is naked. So it would look like a little kid, like, like, that's dressed in a naked costume, which is weird. Right, which is interesting. But it is interesting when you think about it, the idea of the sort of the, the, the sort of connotative versus denotative. Yeah. Yeah. It is E.T. versus the image. It's not so much you want to look like E.T. But you want to profess your love for you. See, I think I think I did want to

look like E.T. Yeah. And, you know, I don't think that they could have made it look right. Oh, who are you just as, little boy? I'm a shrine to E.T. I'm a collection of some impressions. Yeah. I'm an homage. Yeah. I am the

zeitgeist. I'm the feeling of the culture of 1982. Yeah. I'm a pastiche of E.T. Related moments. I wish she'd sit back. All of these costumes were made by one company.

Oh. All of these costumes. These masks with the smock type costume were all made by the Ben Cooper costume company. Man, Ben Cooper. And the Ben Cooper name was for decades the name in costumes. Right. And this is the story of a man who just saw an awesome opportunity to become the, the figure, the leading figure in his...

Yeah, he was. Yeah. The company's a lot older than I thought. I mean, they peaked, I think, in the 70s, 80s for sure, but they went back to the 30s. So, Ben Cooper himself, was from New York, and he had a fairly regular start in professional costuming for, like, showbiz. He ended up making costumes for chorus girls, and he would outfit places like the Cotton Club, or he had a contract with the Zig-filled Follies at one point.

Oh, wow. So he really, it's not... He's just a businessman. Yeah. And a grand idea. He actually is in that trade. That's right. That's right.

And this was, you know, starting out in the 1920s. And, you know, as Chris alluded to earlier, like, trick or treating as, like, a phenomenon, especially in America, really didn't start in earnest until, like, right around World War II and thereafter. But in the 1930s, Ben Cooper saw this was starting to become really popular. He noticed that there was an opportunity here for costumes for kids to go. go door to door. What made him so savvy was he recognized the opportunity for licensed costumes. Sure.

Because anyone can make a ghost. Anyone can make a vampire or a werewolf. So this is, you know, this is the 30s. If he licensed, that is very early. That's right. Very, very early in terms of licensed merchandise. 1937, he obtained the rights to, would you guys care to guess? What would have been a big costume for 1937?

No. No. Disney? Like Mickey Mouse? Is it Mickey Mouse? He obtained the rights to Walt Disney characters, and his snow white costume. Oh, sure. Sold like anything that sells a lot.

And he kept this on. Anytime there was something that he thought that could be licensed as a character, he was all over it. All over it. Like, well into the 40s, into the 50s. And as trick-or-treating, it was kind of this, like, feedback. Like, a lot of people give him credit for helping make trick-or-treating a thing. Because now kids could latch on. to their favorite pop culture character.

He sold tons of Superman costumes. He sold tons of Davy Crockett costumes. And it should be pointed out that for a lot of the time, he didn't have any real competition. I mean, he was just, there was nobody trying to get into Hornet on his business. As far back as the 50s, the Ben Cooper Company had made a generic kind of horrory costume that they called the Spider-Man costume. Okay.

And this was a in the 50s. Okay. Spider. Yes, a spidery man, right. Exactly, yes. So in the early 1960s, he got wind that Marvel Comics had created this new character called, of course, Spider-Man, and it was very popular. And they approached Marvel. So Ben Cooper was kind of like, you know, partly I want to avoid a lawsuit.

And partly, I sense another great marketing idea. His marketing sense was tingling. This was Marvel Comics' first merchandising deal. Oh, wow. Their first merchandising deal was for Ben Cooper to make costumes of specifically Spider-Man and then also Incredible Hulk and Thor other characters. Is this still the same, the mask and the character? The mask and the smock, right, right.

On into the 70s, he got the license for Star Wars. And so I remember a lot of these in particular growing up. There's a really bad Yoda costume from the 80s where it's a decent enough Yoda mask, but then the body of the costume is all green with a... picture of Yoda's face and then and then and then the Empire Strikes Back logo. Again, I know Yoda has a weird body, but it strikes me as supremely half a hat. But they were selling so many of these costumes. It doesn't matter. My favorite bad one that I found, though, was of the Fons when Happy Days was big. I want to show you guys a picture of this one just because to describe it won't do it justice. The Fawns costume was a Fonzie mask, and then a smock with a picture of the Fons saying, hey, the Fonz.

And in case you really at this point still didn't know he were looking at, the Fons is wearing a pan on his jacket that says Happy Days. He has his thumbs up. It's like the masks themselves were so low detail that, I mean, Yoda, you can probably figure out what Yoda is, but the Fonz mask? I mean, that looks like, could be anybody. Right, yeah. So, I mean, you have to have the smock with the picture of the fons to let people know that you are the fond. It's funny you mentioned the Richard Nixon mask, Karen. Like, they made, when they started making presidents, presidential masks, those became another huge seller for them.

Like, those presidents. The bank robber. That is a Ben Cooper mask. That classic bank robber, Richard Nixon mask, that was originally a Ben Cooper mask. Yeah. Sadly. Yeah, what happened to? So sadly, you know, partly what happened was competition.

You know, it was only so long, but before other companies started realizing, you know, there's a lot of money being made here in costumes. And particularly where Ben Cooper started to feel the pressure was on the high end was, there were a lot of companies making these elaborate, molded, you know, latex, really high quality masks. In the 90s, they declared bankruptcy, and they got bought by Rubies, which is now sort of the big name in, they make adult costumes. They make kids costumes. Yeah, so they bought out what I've ordered stuff from Ruby's. as well for my Star Wars related costuming they bought out what was left

but that's not for Halloween yeah yeah I decided I want to see a naked Yoda and well no I've said too much I've said too much did they ever show Yoda like topless no he's always in a real no I'm serious

okay no I don't think so I don't think they ever showed him topless yeah I'm gonna take this seriously I forgot he wears a rope like in my mind yeah he's naked like E. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for my mind. Just wrinkly and green. And fuzzy, green and furry.

He's not furry. He has hair. He has strands of hair. Yeah, he has some hair. Yeah, he has some hair. Yeah, I wouldn't describe us furry. Well, have you seen below the rope? No.

No, no, yeah, exactly. Does the curtain match the gray? Match the ears. So if you have fond or not fond memories of these crappy smock costumes like myself and Melhouse, thank Ben Cooper. No frills, delivers. Get groceries delivered to your door from No Frails with PC Express. Shop online and get $15 in PC optimum points on your first five orders.

Shop now at nofrails.ca. I do think that necessity is the mother of invention. They do say that. And for me, necessity means running out of old quiz formats and trying to think of something new. I feel like all of us, like we kind of push the boundaries. this year of new formats, new types of quizzes, trying to keep things fresh. So here's a little bit of our experiments

in quiz formatting technology. All right, I had a good time putting together this quiz for you guys. This quiz is called Brad Pitt or Lasers. Interesting. So, what, that's not obvious to you what the quiz is about? Yeah. This quiz is going to be sets of pairs of wildly unrelated things. Okay.

And you need to tell me which is older. So in every pair that I will be giving you, they are separated by at most six years, sometimes a matter of months. So these are all very close to each other. So you each have a pad of paper. You guys will all be providing an answer here. So let's start off with the namesake question of this quiz. Which is older? Brad Pitt or lasers?

Answers up. Karen and Chris say Brad Pitt. Dana says lasers. It is actually lasers. Oh, that was a trick question. They're very close. Brad Pitt was born in 1963. The first functioning laser was operated in 1960.

Wow. I knew Brad Pitt turned 50. He did. He just did. Which is older. the saxophone or Salt Lake City, Utah. Did you just like

pick two things and you're like... I had a lot of fun putting this one together. How do you... Answers up. Dana and Chris say saxophone. Karen says Salt Lake City. It is in fact the saxophone. I'm on the board.

The saxophone invented in 1841. by Adolf Sacks. What? A Belgian, a Belgian music. Mr. Sacks. Yes, yes, Mr. Sacks. And Salt Lake City, or great Salt Lake City, as it was originally known, founded in 1847 by Brigham Young at all. Which is older?

Justin Bieber or the Sony PlayStation. Wait, PlayStation 1. original Sony PlayStation before it had a number appended and Chris in case you're curious this would be when it was released in Japan because I know you have very fine-grained knowledge of such things

This is close It's very close I know the year It is it is very close It is very close but I think I got this Okay All right answers up Everyone says Sony PlayStation

everyone is wrong Justin Bieber was born March 1st 1994 the Sony PlayStation was introduced December 3rd 1994

yes by a hair yes great great year for entertainment well that was also the year Kirk Cobain died yeah

way to bring us down maybe he was he revived as was he was he was he reverted as the PlayStation or Justin Bieber which is older the mouse

trap or the game of basketball. Oh. By the mousetrap, you mean the classic spring loaded one? Yep. Yep. She's included or not included. She's not included. Just the trap. All right. All right. Answers up.

Karen and Chris say mousetrap. Dana says basketball. It is in fact basketball. Whoa. Yes. Basketball invented in 1891 by Dr. James Naismith. The mouse trap invented and patented in 1894.

by William C. Hooker. That sounds by William Mousetrap. By William James. He just pronounced Mousetrap. Mouset. Which is older? Betty White or penicillin? Oh.

That's good. She. What's it? Um. Answers up. Karen says penicillin. Chris and Dana both say Betty White. Betty White is, in fact, older than Penicill.

Yeah. Betty White was born in 1922. Penicillin was discovered and isolated in 1928. Wow. She's a lot older than penicillin. Yeah. She was, yeah, good. She was a little girl.

Holy cow. And, of course, they did have some idea that mold was involved. But, yes, Sir Alexander Fleming, coined the name. and concentrated it in 1928. All right. Last one here, guys. We'll close this out. Which is older, the first episode of The Simpsons for the earliest known web page.

Interesting. Known web page. The oldest known web page. Answers up. Karen says Simpsons. Chris and Dana say first web page. Karen is correct. Whoa.

The Simpsons Christmas. episode aired in 1989 and the generally accepted date for the oldest known web page is 1991 it is... What was it? It is possible there were webpages as early as 1990 but the Simpsons

would still be earlier. Yes. What was the first web page? It's a long and not very interesting story like Tim Berners-Lee has a copy of it on a disc. It's just it's a super nerdy story. Okay. All right. All right. Well done guys. Let's tally up our scores here. All right. And our

winner coming out on top is Dana with a whopping four points. The winner of... The winner of... Brad Pitt or lasers. I'll take both, please. Well done, guys. So, I have a quiz for you guys.

It's called Ya Burt. The classic literature version. Yeah, burnt. Yeah, burnt. So I went through Amazon, and I found one-star reviews of classic works of literature. And so I'll read a snippet of somebody's one-star review of a work.

And you try to figure out what it is, what book it is. Oh, my God. Are these, like, joke reviews or are they serious? Oh, no. I think they're sincere. A lot of them talk about having to read it in high school. Like, they were working on a paper, and they're just like, mm-hmm. They needed a vent somehow.

They needed a vent. And I, you know what, I don't necessarily agree with these. Like, I think some of them. I've read most of these already, and I was like, I liked it okay, or I really liked some of them. But these people did not. They did not like it. Oh, my God. All right.

Guess the book by its one-star Amazon review. Yes. All right. I so hated this book that I found myself hoping the entire Jodd family would get mowed down by a Zephyr hurtling down the highway, so they'd be put out of their misery. Unfortunately, Death Race 2000 wouldn't get made for another 36 years. The Grapes of Wrath? Yes, by John Steinbeck.

Wow. All right. The fatal flaw in this piece of literature is its inability to stay relevant. Postmodern society does not really care about baby daddies and the revelation, which is made at the end and the beginning of this novel, is reproduced daily on morning television, a la Mori. Unfortunately, Nathaniel Hawthorne, you are the father of this literary disaster. The Scarlet Letter. Yes. Wow, sassy.

I know, I was just like burn. And then personally, I would have rather been trapped on a deserted island for a couple of decades with a wreck of a ship than read this classic again. Karen. Robinson Crusoe. Yes, Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. This one's subtitle is, or title is Great American Novel, You Are Not. It was like, snap, snap. Yeah, and there it goes, this book does an okay job of portraying that.

rich post-World War I, 1920s-era apathy generation. But the problem with portraying apathy is that your readers are going to be apathetic. Chris. Is this the Great Gatsby? The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald. All right. So I was looking around, I was like, you know, these are sassy.

I bet book reviewers were also pretty harsh on some of these classics when they first came out. Oh, like real accounts? Okay, sure. So here are, I'll just do three from critics who critique these books when they first came out and we're very sassy and let's say it's undeniably news in the world of books unfortunately it's bad news there are two equally serious reasons why it isn't worth any adult reader's attention the first is that it's dull dull in a pretentious and archly fatuous fashion the second is that it is repulsive so both dull and repulsive that's their

and repulsive repulsive and I'll give you a little hint this was in the New York Times in 1958. Wow. Chris. Is it a clockwork orange? No. It's Lolita.

Oh. Vladmere, Nabokov. Yeah. Appears to have been written by a perverted lunatic who has made a specialty of the literature of the latrine.

There are whole chapters in it without any punctuation or other guides what the writer is really getting at. Two thirds of it is incoherent and the passages that are plainly written are devoid of wit, displaying only a course of salacrity intended for humor. Chris.

Is it Cat's cradle? No. This is 1922. Ulysses. Ulysses. Yes. A whole section is without punctuation. Yeah.

All right. Last one. This book, though, it's too long. It gets kind of monotonous. And he should have cut out a lot about these jerks and all that crummy school. This is an official book review. They depress me. And this is from the New York Times in 1950.

Is this Catcher in the Rye? Yes, this is Catcher in the Rye. J.D. Saunders. Kind of mocking the style. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, I see. I was like, it sounds so casual on New York Times. It seems like you can't have it both ways.

If you're going to diss the book, you can't appropriate its style to do so. He's just mocking it, though. Dull, dull, dull. Yeah. Two snaps. It's like the old in living color sketch, men on films, men on books. No, Blaine. It's, oh, geez.

Blaine Edwards and Anton Maryweather. Oh, that does sound right. Blaine Edwards, yes. Antoine, Maryweather. Nice, Chris. Nicely pulled out. Brain hanging on to that one.

Two snaps around the world and in a V formation. Yes, yes, yes, oh, man. All right. Awesome. That was a great segment. All right, I have extreme 90s segment for you guys. And, of course, what's 90s without pop music? 90s was really kind of the height of pop

And I have a music quiz for you It's all about pop boy bands From the 90s And I have to preface this It's not just a random You know assortment of boy bands I pulled out Like the thing is like people have to understand The success of new kids on the block

In the late 80s Oh okay sure Sparked the whole boy band Pop movement of the 90s Sure And so all of these bands in the quiz Are related to that, not even resurgence, but

because of new kids on the walk. This is how the format's going to go. I feel like Dana has an upper edge on this quiz. Being a girl growing up in the 90s and also likes pop. So, for her, she has a notepad and she's going to write down what she thinks the artist is

from the music clips I'll be playing. And Chris and Colin will work together, team up and try to see if you can get it. One big hint is, as long as you know what the lead singer of all these boy bands sound like, you probably can guess the boy band.

Wow, that's great. But like Justin Timberlake, you know. Sure, if I knew what Justin Timberlake sounded like, I would be able to guess that it was. All right, here. We got two brands here. What was Justin Timberlake in? He was...

I have a feeling you guys are going to beat me. He was insane. Nicholas Shea was 98 degrees. Oh, don't give us his answer. Whatever, it's okay. Yeah, because we don't know what he's just complicated. He doesn't know what they're going. All right.

Here we go. First one. Don't care what it's written in your history as long as you hear with me. I don't care who you are, where you're from, what you did as long as you love me, who you are, where you're from. Don't care what Okay Okay This is the song

I'm not picky By By the Backstreet Boys This is As long as you love me I see I think this is I think this is insane No this is the Backstreet Boys

Oh it is the Backstreet Boys I believe You know yeah This one I'm pretty sure You seem very confident Yes Okay All right I will defer to Chris

On this one Okay All right You guys boys say Backstreet Boys Yes Dana reveal your answer Backstreet Boys All right

All right next one I like a girl from Abercrombie and Fitch New kids on the block cat a bunch of heads Chinese food makes me sick

and I think it's fly away girls stop by for the summer for the summer I like girls that wear Abercrombie and Fitch I take her if I had one wish She's been gone since that summer

since that summer Cherry Pets, cold crushed rockster boogie used to hate school so white I if you don't know you don't know it They sing new kids on the block I mean I think they were just name checking them

Oh yeah They also talked about Chinese food makes them sick Yeah I mean I mean okay I don't know Just throw a throw a I know I want you to get something Is I really

It's in a punch bowl in your head I mean oh yeah yeah it's in the punch ball Yep It's somewhere in there I mean I don't think it's in sync I'd never heard it Is it like O-town O-town

O-town is it O-Town Is it O-Town? Increct Dana L-F-O The light funky one Oh, wow. Wow. That was not in my punch bowl.

Is this the senior punch bowl? I didn't think it was. That was not the punch bowl. It's very specific. So, this is actually very related to New Kids on the Block. I mean, obviously, they're more, they do some kind of rapping. Are they related to the funky bunch? No, they just, so they did a cover of New Kids on Block step by step.

And they kind of gained some attention. And they actually worked with Danny Wood from New Kids on the Block in the kind of behind the scenes production process. There you go. There you go. Alright, next one I'll tell you Yes, I'll tell you

Oh yeah Yeah, it's been my sunshine after the rain You're the cure against my fear in my pain Because I'm losing my mind When you're not around It's all, it's all It's all because of you I'm leaning toward 98 degrees on that line.

I feel like we should just keep guessing O-Town over and over and over again. Eventually. But you want to say 98 degrees? Yeah, I just for something, for some reason, getting a Nick Lachey vibe. Sure. Yeah, I don't know.

Day and I answer up? 98 degrees? Yeah, 90s. Oh, hey. That is what Nick Lachet sounds like. Okay. Pretty bad. Yeah.

Sorry, Nick Lachey. I like that. Whatever. I'm sure. was crying all the way to the bank. So in this quiz, I haven't put any, you know, there's All 4-1, which is kind of a boy band, but there were two camps in the 90s. You had boy bands, pop boy bands, and you had what boys to men kind of sparked were all

these harmonizing R&B groups. And to me, they're very different camps, right? Boy bands are very designed, whereas the more R&B groups are more, you know, kind of like a cappella group. You have a base. It's based on voice. need. And the funny thing is, you know, when I say they're more designed is all the boy bands, you can name the lead singer of all of them. Whereas for a lot of these R&B bands,

there's no one star. You know, there's like a, you know, I can't even name anybody from all for one. And for 98 degrees, they kind of also started this, because they're a pair brothers. They're the Lachet brothers and two other dudes. Oh, I didn't know that. So that kind of gave them like a family edge. what's the other Lichet brother doing these days Drew Lachethe he won Dancing with the Stars

Wow All right This one is a little bit more international So complete In our love We will never be Uncovered again Whatever I said

Whatever I did I didn't mean it I just want You want you back for good Well, the fact They're British Oh, okay A British

And the creation of this band Is solely because The manager, or like the record head Saw the success of New Yorker Kiss in the Block in America. I was like, shout to jump on this. Was there a band called,

um, is it two words? Yes, two words. Is it, uh, take that? Yes.

Yeah. Wow. Good night, everybody. Wow. I'm done. Wow. Wow.

I put something else. And then you said that and I was like, that's the name of the band. I knew, I knew what I put was not the right one. Like there are two of them. I knew. Main singers,

Gary Barlow, who wrote most of the songs, Actually, he was a talented songwriter. They kind of build a band around him. Robbie Williams. Okay. Most notably, can't come take that. Was Ronan Keating in that one as well?

Was he in the other one? He was in Boizzo. All right. Next one. You know, I am down, down on my knees. I can take it anymore. It's tearing up my heart when I'm with you. But when me.

are a part of feeling too and no matter what I do I feel the pain with or without you Is this one going to be In sync, do you think? I think so Yeah, all right, I think so

Let's go for it Did I interrupt? In sync? Insync, it is, and I was tricky I actually did not pick a clip with Justin Timberlake It was J.C. Chese. Yeah. He was the other lead singer.

The brunette lead singer. They always have a blonde one and a brunette one. There's like the brooding one, the cute one. The older one. The one with glasses. All right. Last one. Last boy band. They're all blending together now. Very much so.

Here's one more. I've had the rest of you know. I want the best of you. It's time to show and tell. It all Or nothing at all There's nowhere left too far When you reach the bottom

It's now Or never Is it all Or are we just friends It is how Wow All right I mean I'm pretty much like down to like

I can only think of two more Like I can think of like A new town or Mnucon or Mnuch. We can't, I don't think it's Minuto. I think we keep saying O-Town, so we should probably just... You don't think she would have doubled up, right? No, no, doubling. Okay, that was...

No. Okay. Those are literally only two. Let's go with... I would not go with Minuto. Okay. For many reasons. So, O-Town.

Sure. Also, I think Minuto started in the 80s, too. They really did. Yeah. I guess that's true. You're right. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. Okay. I said O-Town. It is O-Town. It is okay. Significance of O-Town is... So in the whole boy band craze, O-Town was the first or notable reality show.

I remember that. I remember that they put them together on a reality show. And I was like, oh, okay, well, they're not going to become popular because this is clearly, like, they're up front just stating, like, we are manipulating you. And, you know, it's like we're putting them together

as this sort of marketed thing. They actually are reuniting this summer for a new album. I've been wondering where they're just kidding. The reuniting was easy because none of them ever left Orlando. Aren't they named O-Town for Orlando? Yeah, for Orlando. Orlando Town, as they call it. Which is like InSync and Backstreet Boys, they all started in Orlando.

Oh, I mean, there's like the hotbed of boy band culture. Well, Lou Perlman or whatever. Yeah, a lot of the NSYNC members and Backstreet Boys members, they're in kind of performing as kids. It's in the parks or also in the Mickey Mouse Club. But there was that guy. There was like the Svengali manager type dude who is organizing them. Yeah, they're all.

Who just kind of like handpicked them and assembled them. In Orlando was the hot town. Wow. So there you go. Some of the major boy bands. Well, I think Chris and I acquitted ourselves well. Pretty good. Yeah, I'm not sure whether that's good or bad.

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new episodes of the History Tea Time podcast, wherever fine podcasts are enjoyed. All right, let's get this party started with a little bit of Lifetime movie title, or not Lifetime movie title. Okay, for our friends in the United Kingdom, Lifetime is the Women's Network. Yeah. Famous for such movies as... Mother, May I Sleep of Danger? It's very... My stepson, my lover.

Very melodramatic, would you say? TV movies. Yeah, yeah. Wait, my stepson, my lover is a real one? It's actually pretty good. I've seen that one. Don't judge. Don't judge.

This is a funny title. You feel weird while you're watching it, but I don't know. It's watchable. You can watch the whole thing. I think all of their movies are watchable once you dive in. They set up these, you know, very provocative situations, and it's like, well, maybe I'll watch this. Yeah. No one, no one will know that I watched it.

You felt a little different after you watch it. Yeah. It's changed you in some way. All right. So Lifetime Movie Name or Not Lifetime Movie Name. So thumbs up, if it is a Lifetime movie, thumbs down if it's not. Okay, so importantly, if it's if it's not one, does that mean that it's a real movie from the, like in the theaters or? Did you make it up?

I made this up. Oh, okay. All from Dana's brain. Yeah. All right, let's get started. Let's kick this off the right way. My Week with Aunt Flo. Real title, not real title.

That's not. I just wanted to, like, set the bar so you understand. You got two examples of real ones that was ever wrong. Okay. How about the babysitter's seduction? Oh, yeah. Yeah. It has to be.

How about my baby the magician? My baby the magician. I'm going to say. No. All right, fine. I made the... All right. How about the mockingbird murder?

Sing me a song of murder. I want this to be real so bad. I want it to be real so bad. I want it to be true. It's fake. Wait, what is the full title again? The mockingbird murder.

Sing me a song of murder. Colon, sing me a song of murder. Yes, yes, importantly. The baby monitors, colon, sound of fear. Oh, man. Yes. It is one.

Yes. Dang. Steele's daddy Oh Daniel Steels daddy I'm going to say Yes

I say no Yes it is Oh snap I believe it has the dad From step by step On their Patrick Duffy Yeah Well I know the dad from step by step

Susanne Summers Then I've run out Oh no Stacey Keenan Was on that And then that's then I'm You own them all on DVD Just say it's okay Stasia

It's also from my two dads My two dads Yeah how about a lot of broken homes I know she looks like a divorce kid or something

yeah yeah how about divorce kid look about yeah um dead ringer

1 800 murder what oh oh this is more of it to say that it sounds right

yeah yeah I don't know no I think it's just I made it up yeah man

bring her 100 murder it's too good yeah thank you I'm just crimes of passion she woke up pregnant

Yes Because of passion She woke up pregnant I don't think they would make this up I think this is two separate movies You guys think that she made it up I say no I did not make it up

Oh yes What is this movie about? It's about a woman who is like in a coma And she wakes up pregnant Yes that is the quintessential lifetime Yeah You know you're in for something terrible right from the get-go. Me, myself, and die.

My time with Princess Diana. Me myself and die. Me myself and die? I'm going to say no, because I'd like to believe that you invented that. That's a good... I invented it. Yeah. That was good.

Yes. Oh, me myself and die. That's fantastic. How about this one? I me wed. I mean wed. It's like somebody who wants to marry themselves. I mean wed.

I'm going to say no just because it would be too confusing to read in the listings and the TV guide. I'm going to say yes. I'll say no. It's yes. What is it about? A woman who marries herself. Colin nailed it. Wow.

Very descriptive. Sure. How about this one? Last one. One Dave at a time. I'm going to say you made that up. Yeah, I'm going to say no. This sounds like a sitcom.

This is like a show, though. It could be like a reality show of someone named, oh, okay. I say true. It's false. One day at a time. All right, I'm claiming victory. Yeah, that was good. I think I would have.

Yeah. Nice. Here I have a quiz about famous actors and actresses. The twist is, instead of answering the name of the actor I'm looking for, you have to do an impersonation of this person. Okay, all right. This is what you guys get for making me go first. All right. So you can say a famous quo or impersonate this person.

And I chose very iconic celebrities. Okay, all right, okay. Nobody wants to buzz it. Really? Oh, no. All right. I know your scheme. Before playing the leader of Shield in the Avengers universe,

he was the voice of the superhero Frozone in the Incredibles. Colin. Say what again Yeah I was like I can't think of any queen quotes What do we possibly say I think in some of his movies He may have uttered an A or a the

I could also do That's one tasty burger Can we just say their name In their accent like if we're like Samuel Ljave The answer is of course Samuel L. Jackson. Yeah, I didn't really think about that.

I was like, oh, he's really iconic. I never really thought about, oh, his lines are not. Every, yeah, every major, yeah, every memorable. That's one, Taser. He's saying something sassy with, like, I bought these Monday to Friday snakes off this monkey fighting plane. The edited for TV version. Monday to Fight.

B's, I think it might have been the other way, right? I think it was. Monkey fighting snakes off this Monday to Friday plane. I want that job. I want that job. I'm sure it's controlled by some sort of a secretive guild of the people who get to edit, no, edit movies for TV. I'm sure they're protecting their job because that is a sweet job. I'd be out of here in a second if they offered me that job.

All right. In AFI, American Film Institute's 100 greatest movie quotes of all time. The quotes in the number two spot and the number three spot are spoken by this late actor. So he spoke both the number two and number three spots The number two and number three Best movie quotes of all time Okay Chris

I could have been somebody I could have been a contender Yes And also I'll make him an offer He can't refuse Is that the two of those? That's got to be Yeah

So I'll make him offer Can't refuse number two Number two From the godfather Contender is on the waterfront Number three spot And they're both Marlon Brando. Yes, Marlon Brando.

Very good job. You didn't need to tell me the quotes, but props. Oh, okay. This guy served two terms as a 38th governor of California. Oh. Chris. Get to the chopper. Come with me if you want to live.

There's so many. Sylvester Salon. It's not a tumor. It's not a top. I think we've been. just, I think those are like the three lines he would least like to be remembered for, probably in the entire career.

That's probably the least favorite one. On the quote list, I'll be back. Must be on there, right? I'm sure. Arnold Schwarzenegger, of course. The full name of this rap group hype man is William Jonathan Drayton Jr.

Oh. Yeah, boy. Oh, my God. I hope that's right. I hope that's right. I know, I really hope that's correct. Because he put it all out there. That's got to be flavor.

It is flavor of flavor. Okay. Flavre. Very good. All right. Next question. This amateur singer behind a viral 2007 hit song likes to, quote, move away from the mic to breathe in. Dana, you want to hit this one?

Dana. Chocolate. That went really well. I don't actually remember any of the other lyrics, but I do remember the... Something about... Black boar, something like... Yeah, it was really... People laughed at this song, but it was really deep, right?

It was, like, racial issues. Right, right, right, right, right. He did the, yeah. Well, he did the Dr. Pepper commercial, too, the cherry chocolate Dr. Pepper commercial, where he's saying, cherry chocolate rain. And then one of the lines actually was, I move away from the mic to breathe. That's really good.

Oh, that was actually a really good. Of course, the man here is Taze-on-Day, the brain behind the hit Chocolate Rain, famous on YouTube. Though she's more known for her hit 90s TV show, this actress appeared in movies like Saturday Night Fever. This is Spinal Tap and Weird Al's UHF. And, of course, the beautician and the Beast. Chris. Oh, right. Um, jeez.

Hey. That's right. Air five. Okay. Across the table. Good job. And that was, of course. This was, of course, a broken machine gun.

Fran. Dresser. Fran Drescher, star of the nanny. He was initially created from a discarded spring coat and two ping pong balls halves for eyes. Dana. The lovers. The dream.

Well, that's good. That's good. Kermitty Frog here. Hi-ho. It's Kermit the Frog. Kermit the Frog. Kermit be frog. All right.

Last one. Oh, my favorite one. The notable people who like to do impersonations of this actor include actors Kevin Pollock, Kevin Spacey, and of course, comedian Jay Moore. Uh, oh, okay. Colin? I've got a fever. Yeah. Of course, Christopher Walkin.

Do more, do more. Scooch closer, Chayvon. Don't make me tell you again about the scooching. Which is a weird part of my brain. Which is Jane Moore. Right. One of my favorite skits on Saturday Live of recent years was the, the Christopher Walken Family Reunion, yeah.

And so Amy Poehler, like, talking about her doll, she's like, she's a good doll. She doesn't respond well to spooky behavior. It just cracks me up. All right, well, good job, you guys. That's a good way to start the show. Yeah. I like that quiz. I'll stick with you, Karen.

I like that one. Yeah. All right. You're not fired. So I've got a quiz for you guys called Slow Down, Lady. And I had as much fun just writing that on our little sign-up shoot. Slow down, lady. So Karen, a few months ago, I had shared something with you that I stumbled across on the internet, which was someone, yeah, can you narrow it down?

Someone discovered that if you slow down the Dolly Parton song, Jolene. Oh, yeah. Yeah, did you get to see this on the internet? From 45 RPM to 33 RPM. Yeah. It is still a badass song, even just, it changes it completely, the feel of it. It just gets a lot more just downbeat and smoky and very... Manly.

Yeah, so let me play that for you guys very quickly. Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, I'm begging of you, please don't take my men. Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene. Yeah, it kind of gives me chills. That's, that's, it's a transformation of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I've put together some other famous songs by female singers, and I've slowed them down. The same proportion.

So from, if these are, slow down, lady, right. So these are all, uh, these are all women. Next time I get slowed out. I've forgotten the name of the quiz. They're all really famous hit songs. You guys will probably recognize them. So in order to make this somewhat quiz-like, I want you guys to just raise a finger as soon as you identify the singer and the song.

And whoever recognizes it last will win the prize of giving me the answer. Fair enough? Okay. All right. Some of them you'll probably get right away. That's interesting. So it's like you have to guess if you don't know. Right.

All right. Here we go. So again, I need a singer and song. Looking out on the morning rain, I used to feel so uninspired. And when I knew I knew I had to face another. all right uh you all got it pretty quickly but can karen got it last karen you make me feel like a natural woman correct as sung by carol king no oh is it erytha franklin it is arretha franklin yes yes why do i think it's carroll she did see that song first it's her

song okay okay yeah it changes it really changes it you're like it's this who is this boy Right. All right. Here we go. Next one. Nothing. No, then. Nope.

Madonna. I mean, I know the song. Oh, okay. All right. That is... Borderline. Oh, Madonna. That also sound like an 80s song, but like a slow ballad.

Like a dude ballad. The synth kind of gives it away for 80s, for sure. All right. A little bit newer one here. Tell me who and what is this song. Okay. bite my tongue and hold my breath

scared to rock the vote and make a mess so I sit quietly agree politely I guess that I forgot I had a choice I let you push me past a breaking point

I stood for nothing So I felt All right I think Chris is passing on this one Pat pass. Katie Perry. Katie Perry. Katie Perry.

Roar. Yes. Yes. Her voice really dropped a lot more than I would have guessed. You know, you kind of associate her with. She does. It gets accentuated more. Here we go.

Next one. Who and what do we have here. And does it fail, you rose to claim it? It was dark, and I was over you until you kissed my lips and you stayed me. Oh, Karen, no take for Karen. Oh, yes. Okay. Sounds like Adele.

Yeah, it is Adele. I don't know what song. Chris, do you want to? Set fire to the rain Correct Adele set fire to the rain You know it's funny With enough time

I think I would have gotten Borderline But it's like I'm trying to like Rush myself Like through all the lyrics So I can get to the chorus Yeah yeah Yeah

The sounds of it are not there You know All right well we'll close it out With this one And so you can get it first Here we go Slow down lady We'll see you can get it last

Rather I should say There's a boy I know, I know he's the one I know he's the one I dreamer looks into my eyes takes me to the clouds of love Mm-hmm Ah Wait All right Chris Is this Whitney Houston?

Yes Yes She sounds completely Transform How will I know Yes Correct How will I know

By Whitney Houston Yeah All right Well good job guys Slow your roll lady These all sound like dudes Yeah A lot of them really slow down

Or evil spirit Well, you're going to wake up at like 3.33 a.m. At some night, just here, Oh, it's up, oh, yeah. So I have prepared a segment inspired by something that always destroys us at Pub Trivia. We get, man, we never get these right. And it's really interesting, and we're always like, we should study this, but we never really did. until now, because I studied it.

So I remember once one of our pub trivia questions was, I think the first of this kind of type of question was, if you type, www.books.com, where will that take you? Where does it redirect to? And I think we had a big discussion. We're like, well, this seems like the obvious choice is Amazon. Turns out it's Barnes & Noble. Books.com redirects you to Barnes & Noble. And then we had another question probably a year after, which is we're to soup.com, take it with multiple choice.

And if you think that books.com engendered a lot of arguments. Imagine the argument over soup.com. And I think at least they gave us the multiple choice. It was, was it Campbell's, was it nor, K-N-O-R, or was it like a progresso? And we're like, well, it seems like the obvious answer is. Tambles, turns out it is not obvious again. It is NOR. Soup.com takes you to NOR.com, which is a dehydrated soups and sauces.

And then, last week at Pub Quiz Finals. Finals, mind you. The finals, the grand championship finals was where does coffee.com take you? And we're like, all right, we learned our lesson. It seems like it is not going to be the obvious answer, which is Starbucks. were like, okay, it must be maybe something like coffee brands that you buy. So like Folgers

or Maxwell house. Turns out it was none of that. It was Pete's dot com. It was Peets. Valley. Yeah. Pete's dot com started in Berkeley. Early on the scene, yeah. So here, I found a couple of these generic names

redirects. I want you guys to talk about what you think of it is. Yes, I did. Okay. I did. Took me a while because a lot of these are parked. They're squatters. Or, you know, like... They're trying to sell it for like a million dollars, basically. Or that company is actually...

Like, diets.com is diets.com is diet's about diets. Because once you get that brand name, right? You just kind of roll it. Or cars.com, right? Same thing. Car.com and cars.com. So these are definitely redirects to famous companies. And, you know, let's talk it out.

We'll talk it out. Let's talk it out. I did group exercise. Most of the time is not the obvious answer. Superheroes.com Oh, Marvel. It's not Marvel. I mean, who is more on the ball?

Marvel or DC? That's really what this question is asking. Talk it out that way. Oh, no, one of them... Oh, no, they share it jointly, right? Didn't they copyright something? I think they did, and I think they agreed to share the term superheroes jointly? Yeah, but who has the web...

Who has the domain? Who has superheroes? Well, she said they're not obvious. Okay, so is it Marvel or DC? It's one of those. It's one of those. I'm going to guess Marvel. I guess Marvel.

I'll guess DC, just to be on the other side of it. It is DC. Oh, okay. DC. All right. News.com. Oh. Oh, news.com.

Oh, man. Is it, is it like Rupert Murdoch, Fox? News Corp? Or was it like Yahoo? Or was it one of the early, like early web aggregation properties? Oh, man, I know this. Oh, wow. But I don't know.

Is it on the right track? Is it like CNET? Is it seen it? Is it one of those? Oh. It is CNET. That's why I know this. Yeah, seen it.

All right, let's do salad.com. Oh, oh, is this Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing? Yes. Yes, yes. Wow. Which is kind of like, I want to eat a salad. It takes you to ranch dressing. I know.

Well, it's good. It's very good. They're kind of synonymous with eating a salad in America. All right. Game.com, singular. Game. Oh, it's Hasbro. Correct

It is Hasbro Beautiful.com Sephora? Mabeline Nope, nope Okay, so not Sephora and a Mabeline

Maybe she's born with it Maybe it's cheese with Beautiful.com Are we in the right ballpark? Avon Let's think more corporate Oh Avon

No Oh, was it the Did Dove have the Larger Larger than Dove Mary Kaye cosmetics Larger Larger

I agree. Go up. Procter and Gamble. Proctor and Gamble. Procter & Gamble company owns Covergirl, Max Factor, Pantin, Ole. All right. Celebrity.com. Oh.

People magazine. No. Us magazine. No. Entertainment Weekly. TMZ. There is another company that's also called Celebrity. Oh, Cruise.

Oh. Celebrity.com redirects you to Celebrity Cruise Live. So very, very lucky that they got that. And similarly, in the same vein, hotel.com. It doesn't go to Hotels.com? It goes to Hotels. Okay, I was wondering, yeah. Well, you know that, like, Google, it was mentioned earlier in the show.

I had time to look it up since then. Yeah, if you type in Google. It goes to Google. Like, if you type in 3-0s, 4-0s, 5-0s, I tried this once, and you had to get to, like, 7 or 8 or 9 before, like, somebody else had stole that. Oh, wow. Somewhere else. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I would love it if it was just one person, like, from like one to 100 zeros, some dude just had, like, 19. Yeah, yeah. I've taken this one to my grave. Yeah. Happy.com. Happy. McDonald's. Yeah.

No. Happy.com. This is a very good move on their. Wow. Okay. Very good move on. So it's not like Budweiser or something. No, no.

Happy. Hallmark. Is it Walgreens? It is Walgreens? It is. Walgreens at the corner of Happy and Healthy. So I looked at, I don't know if you guys noticed, in San Francisco, at least, Walgreens had a really big marketing. Yeah, they're opening more stores.

They had a rebranding. And they're really kind of like a branding is like almost a supermarket. You know, there's some places that have fresh salads. Happy.com doesn't take you to Walgreens storefront. It takes you to a page says Walgreens have acquired Happy Harries, which is a far. pharmacy. I've never known. So maybe they had it. It could be Happy Harry's hadhappy.com.

Wallgreens also owns Drugstore.com and Dwayne Reed. Yeah, Dwayne Reed. Also, so... I remember them more on the East Coast. Biggie City, yeah. So I wasn't really making any kind of decision whatsoever if I went into Walgreens versus Dwayne Reed every time I was in New York City.

Nope, same store. Gosh darn it. And let's end it on this note. This is not really a quiz thing, but I found this really interesting. Pokemon obviously takes you to Nintendo's Pokemon destination. Pikachu.com takes you to the Pikachu character. Of course the Pokemon site has like bios for all the Pokemon's.

Yeah, all 7,000. So I was like, okay, do they own every single Pokemon name.com? They don't own all. But the famous ones, jigglypuff, Pikachu.com goes to their, not only Pokemon site, but their character bio site. Teamrocket.com also takes you to Pokemon. So I was trying those out. Yeah, because they made all those names up

and they tried to make them all super unique in like 1998 when they brought the game out in the U.S. So, of course, there's a lot of, yeah. Right, because those are unique games. By 98, you know, you probably start registering these URLs for your product. Book Club on Monday. Jim on Tuesday. Date night on Wednesday.

Wednesday. Out on the town on Thursday. Quiet night in on Friday. It's good to have a routine. And it's good for your eyes too. Because with regular comprehensive eye exams at Specsavers, you'll know just how healthy they are. Visit Spexsavers.caver's.cai to book your next eye exam. Eye exams provided by independent optometrists. I think one of my favorite things about The show is being able to share new experiences with you guys.

And I'm thinking specifically of the weird food that we try on the air. Bad things in our mouth. New pains. Yeah. Here are some of our favorite food-related segments. So I went to Sweden a few weeks ago. I heard stories about their candy from my mom randomly when I was a little kid. And she told me about the flavors they had and we'd laugh.

Which was such a weird jerky way to do. It sounds like a one-sided conversation. So I brought back a taste of Sweden for you guys. I'm not going to tell you what the flavors are. Okay, all right, okay. But I'm going to give it to you. So some of these are traditional. Some of them are new.

I found out. Okay. We'll be kind of a blind taste test, except you can see the candy. It's okay for you to look at it. Okay. You just taste it. Tell me what you think it is. Okay.

I'll tell you. All right. So we can look and we can taste, but. Yeah. We can't know. We must simply guess. I won't tell you. Right.

Until you... Are you going to tell us the name of the candy beforehand? Um, I could tell you the Swedish name. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. All right. I've been trying to practice my Swedish pronunciation of these.

I said it's better than ours. Well, it still might not be right. So, sorry for the Swedish listener for laughing at your candy and also for mispronouncing. We're not laughing at your candy. We're laughing with your candy. We're laughing because it's that. Okay. Here you go.

Yeah. The first one is called Salta Mice Knicks. Yeah. Salty mice nuts. Salty mice nuts. Delicious salty mice nuts. Well, they look like those Ritter bars. It looked like chocolate.

This does not look. This looks like we're getting off to an easy start here. Yeah, I'm starting you guys. Gently. I'm gently easing you into the experience. So there's nuts in here. Okay, so it's chocolate. and there are

things that look like. Yeah, crunchy things inside. There are size of nuts, but they're not nuts. It tastes corny. It does. It almost has like a corn nuts. It's a familiar flavor for sure. So it's basically, it's a bar of chocolate with... Are they, are they peas? Or is it corn? They can't identify what it is.

I vote corn. I vote corn. I vote corn. It's corn nuts. They're salted corn. That's good. Chocolate bar. I like it. Yeah. Like pretzels and chocolate? This one is called

Turkish pepper I'm not pronouncing it correctly It's actually made in Finland But it's super common In Sweden and in Denmark I don't trust black colored candy Hard candy And if you bite into it

I'm told Whoa Wow Oh my I'm scared I'm so scared Do it just bite into it Oh.

All right, so licorice on the outside, for sure. That was, that's, like, a burst of salt. Yeah. It's like salt. Is it also hot? Oh, maybe some pepper. Oh, God, it's so salty. It's like salt and pepper wrapped in licorish.

Usually when there's like salt in your mouth, it goes away after a while. Yeah. But it just keeps building and building. It's a tsunami of salt grenade. It is. I think I have now fired. all of these salt receptors off my tongue. That's bracing.

Oh, oh, God, my toes are curling. Wow. I did not enjoy that. So, my friend was like, oh, no, they're really interesting when you bite into them. But I'll be honest with you, I couldn't make it to the bite into it part of that candy. I was like, oh, no, I'm taking it. So you have not had the experience of the test.

It was in my mouth for a while. And I was like, nope, no. You foisted this on us. I have a pallet cleanser for you guys, though. Yeah, that, no, that was a pallet cleanser in the sense Fat Man little boy were household cleaners. It's like you when you burn your tongue and your taste buds are kind of numb. Yeah.

It feels like that. Your mouth is just like the void of sensation. Okay, this is Bilar. Balar. What are they? Bugar? Bilar. Oh, okay.

What are they shaped like? They're shaped like little animals? Sharks. Are they Swedish fish? They're either cars or sharks. Oh, are they're in like, Swedish fish? They're in pastel colors. No, they probably taste like burning.

Bular is Swedish for, uh... I think it's a little race car. They're a little race car. Yeah, but are Swedish for a car. I have one of each color. It kind of looks like someone took normal marshmallows and swished them into little cars. It does. Like someone made these.

Yeah. Wow, that's remarkably resilient. You're squished down on it. It returns to its original shape. They call these Sweden's most purchased car, because Bilar means car in Swedish. This is Sweden's most tasteless candy. It's because we don't have tasteless. Yeah, yeah.

They're actually quite savory if you haven't just eaten the salt grenade. It feels like it's in the same family as like circus peanuts. It's like a marshmallow. You know those rings, gummy rings? Sometimes they have a white underside, like they're two-sided. It tastes like the white part. It does. You're right.

Yes, it totally does. Yep. All right. So this is the last candy. It's been described as like, oh, you have to try this. This is the classic Swedish candy. Everybody's had it. It's really old, old type of candy.

It's called younger roll, which means jungle roar. You know what I'm scared by is the fact that it's so small. I'm scared that is the color black because it always means licorish. This looks like a like a, like a. poisonous fish. You know what I mean? Like on, like, the nature channel, they're like, its markings indicate its deadliness. It's black with white stripes.

Yeah. Oh, they're little squirrels. Maybe monkeys. The package has monkey. Oh, you know what? Yeah, it's like a monkey profile, and it's covered in sugar. Oh, my. Wow.

That packs a punch. I don't want to do it. It's so. You can take it out. It's so salty. Do they need to get their soda? New from their candy? It tastes like Play-Doh.

Yes. Oh, man. Once you get past the cahoing. Oh, this is candy. Once you get past the coating of table salt on this thing. Yeah, I thought was sugar. It is at least just a piece of sticky licorice. Now it's fine.

This thing is now taking the shape of one of my molars and will be there forever. After the initial salt wears off. Yeah. It's actually kind of tasty. No. That's my least favorite out of all of them, for sure. No, I don't know. That is, oh, God, yeah, that whatever, what is that one called?

The Turkish pepper. The Turkish pepper? Yeah, peber. Peber. Turkish pepper is what batteries taste like. It's sold everywhere. It's actually, I think, a finish, or from Finland. Well, there you go.

Can I have some more corn nuts, chocolate? Yeah, you started out with the most delicious thing. Oh, things started out so good. This is a great segment. These are awesome. Wow. It's trick candy. No, they eat it since.

their eyes don't even tear up when they're eating it like some kind of immunity unlike you babies yeah i think we're wusses we're told wusses we're used to a different flavor profile we're just used to crap loaded sugar sugar sugar anyway there you guys go all right yeah good job i don't know about you guys but when it comes to food stuffs nothing is funnier to me than cheese totally it's just funnier or better yeah yeah saying it thinking about it. Well, you guys have set me up quite well. I have a quiz for you guys called Hey, where'd you get that cheese? I am a cheese whiz. So we will be focusing on cheeses that are named after places in the world. Usually where the cheese was first made, maybe where it

became famous. These are all regional geographic names. I will give for you the name of a cheese and you guys each have a pad and a pen. I want you to write down for me what country this cheese comes from. Where, more specifically, what country does this cheese take its name from? Got it. Maybe a city, maybe a region. I think you'll figure out as we go. We'll start with one that I hope is relatively easy for some cheese connoisseurs such as yourselves. So get your pens ready. Oh, and purely because it amuses me, every question will be in the form of, hey, where'd you get that blank? Okay. All right. Okay. Hey, hey, where'd you get that cheddar?

Where'd you get that cheddar? So the answer for all of these will be a country name. And answers up. Dana says England. Chris says Germany. Karen says UK. I'll accept UK. It is England.

Cheddar, yes. Cheddar is quite specifically the village of cheddar in Somerset in England, yes. Cheddar. the claim their number one claim to fame home of the original home of cheddar cheese yes hey where'd you get that gorgonzola country right country not region country all right and answers up hey where'd you get that gorgonzola dana says italy chris says france karen says italy it is italy yes yes from the gorgonzola region of Milan. Hey, where'd you get that Gouda? Where'd you get that Gouda? Answers up. Dana says Netherlands. Chris says Switzerland. Karen says Netherlands. It is the

Netherlands. Yeah. Oh, Chris. Man, the two of you are really. You're up on your cheeses. This is interesting little cheese history here. So the city of Guda, it wasn't that this cheese was first made there. It was that it was known for being traded there. It was a wildly busy center of cheese trading, cheese selling activity. Gouda is a very old cheese as far back as the 12th century. The cheese merchants would come out and agree and hango on prices in Gouda. Hey, where'd you get that Bree?

Don't overthink these. Don't overthink these. Answers up. Dana says France. Chris says France. Karen says France. Yes, it is French. Seems French.

It is French. From the Brie region of France. Hey, uh, where'd you get that Colby? Where'd you get that Colby cheese? Oh. I feel like we talk about this. We shall see if you know this. Answers up.

Dana says Denmark. Chris says U.S. of A. Karen says America. Yes. Colby is an American cheese. You are correct. Yeah, Chris, you got one. Colby, Wisconsin.

Yes, many, many cheeses come from Wisconsin. Colby's one. Yes. Hey, uh, where'd you get that Havarty? It's, you're getting so, like, it's like illegal. Hey, uh. Contraband cheese. Where'd you get that Havarty?

Answers up. Dana says Denmark. Chris says Germany. Karen says Denmark. It is a Danish cheese. It is from Denmark. This one, this one I stretched a little bit on the region. Havardi is a relatively modern cheese as cheeses go. I did not know this. Havarti was only invented in 1952 on a farm, and the name of the farm was Havartigard, just outside Copenhagen. Hey, where'd you get that grueuier? Greer. Gruyer. Gruyer. Grewier. Where'd you get that grew year? I heard you grew your own cheese. And I will even give you guys a little bit of a hint here.

There are no repeats on these answers here. Oh, I see. No repeats. Where'd you get that grew year? Answers up. Dana says Germany. Chris says Switzerland. Karen says Switzerland.

It is Switzerland. Yes. It's the fond. do cheese. Yes. Right. Yes. From the Grueyre region of Switzerland.

The region actually has an S on the end. The cheese doesn't. But in Switzerland, it's Grueuers. I mean, silent S. Yeah. Wittzerland? Nice. Hey, where did you get that Yarlsburg?

Where did you get that Yarlsberg? God. Answers up. Dana says Germany. Chris says Germany. Karen says Germany. Incorrect. Hold on.

Can I guess? Sure. Is it Scandinavian? Yes. Oh, okay. Because I was writing this down. It was like the Berg sounds German, but I know for sure. Yarl.

Because of playing Skyrim, all the heads are called Yarls. Okay. I would say Swedish or Norway. Norway. Norway. Yes, yes, from the Yarlsburg region of Norway. Yarl. The Yarls from Skyrim.

Didn't you put together a food cart in Skyrim and call it Yarls Jr.? Yeah, Yarls Jr. Oh, my streak is gone. Yeah, Karen is killing it on the cheeses. Hey, I smelled you coming around the corner. Where did you get that Limburger? Where did you get the Limburger from? And this one, I'll give you a slight clue.

The place it's named after doesn't exist anymore. So I'll take what is the modern-day equivalent. Okay. And Sursa. Dana says Germany. Chris says Germany. Karen says Germany. No, not Germany.

It's rubber Germany. Belgium. This would be a Belgium, not Belgium. Yes. Wow. The no longer extant the Duchy of Limburg, which was a state in the Holy Roman Empire. Most of what was the Duchy of Limburg is today, modern day, Belgium. Also parts of Germany, parts of Netherlands, but the capital itself, Limburg, was in modern-day Belgium.

Oh, wow. The stinky cheese. Oh, Belgium. Although I did read that most of the Limburger-Linberg-style cheese today does come from Germany, but it is not named after that. All right. Last one, last one, as we're traipsing the world, taking cheeses in, where we find them. Tell me, hey, where did you get that Manchego? Where did you get that Manchego?

That Munchego cheese. And for a bonus point, what type of animal is the milk from? Sure. Got it. Answers up. Dana says Spain and sheep. Chris says Spain and sheep. Karen says Spain and sheep.

That is correct. It is from Spain. It is a sheep's milk. This one is kind of a two-step regional name. Can you guys guess what the connection between Monsecago? and Don Quixote is. La Mancha. Yes.

Munchego cheese comes from Monsega sheep, which are so named because they are native to the La Monsha region of Spain. And the real aficionados will say the reason that it has the taste it does is from the grass that only grows in La Muncha. And that's why... Well, that's entirely possible. Yeah, entirely possible. Yes. So... You have grass-fed beef versus corn-fed beef.

You can taste a difference. All right. What's better? It depends on your taste. It really does. It does. I mean, grass-fed beef is probably better for you. But they're noticeable, yeah.

It has a really strong flavor to it. Got it. I like this. This is fun. I think Karen might have taken that one. I think Karen is the true cheese whiz. Yes, you are, you, verily, Karen is our cheese whiz. So that is our show.

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