Good Job, Brain! - 146: It's a Date!

Episode Date: March 18, 2015

Sweaty palms, racing heartbeat, and a whole lotta akwardness! It's our episode about dating: dating alarms in Iceland, the 3 key questions to ask to find your mate, and we cringe at some of our own dating horror stories. Karen's got a quiz about very specific online dating sites, and can *you* name these famous date scenes in movies? ALSO: Rollover puzzle solution Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Chick-a-check, check, check, chums and cherished champions. Welcome to Good Job, Brain, your weekly quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. This is episode 146, and of course, I'm your humble host, Karen. and we are your harmonious and happy, hopefully, hoping to harp about happenings and hullabaloo. I'm Colin. I'm Dana.

And today, well, this week we're missing Chris. Yeah. Maybe Dana is Chris, Tyler Durdon. That's right. Are we ever in the same room at the same time? Yes, we are. That theory. Usually at least twice a week.

Yeah, yeah. We should start off with another installment, Karen, of our corrections and omissions segment. um actually i made the mistake that i've probably made dozens of times before man we got so many emails and i'm sure i will make this mistake dozens of times in the future finland is not scandinavian as i said it is nordic and i do apologize uh to the fine people of finland uh and i look forward to apologizing again when i make this when i make this mistake at some point in the future and also in the last episode chris uh he is currently at

at the Penny Arcade Expo in Boston, a video game convention for work. But I will help him explain our last listener puzzle challenge. So last episode, Chris made a puzzle. And basically what it was is he's looking for a musical artist. And he played a, not mashup, but like a smush together of five clips of songs. Hopefully you'll find the solution that he was looking for. And so the solution, and I'm going to point out,

Nikolai Dowd was the first person to email us with the correct solution. And the answer is Billy Ocean. So the five artists in order, it was Bonnie Tyler, then Ice Cube, then Leonard Cohen, then Lady Gaga. And finally, Ingvee Malmstein. The shredder. Yes, yes, the Swedish shredder. And Chris's big hint was it would help if you write it down in a lot. list.

Yes. And if you write it down in the list, you will notice those five artists, the first letters of all of their names spells out Billy. The second letter of each artist's name spells out Ocean. So the solution, we got a lot of emails saying just Billy, but really it's Billy Ocean. And so Nick Lydow, the first person who wrote in, wrote line by line, said, Bonjour. I like listening. You guys, one word, on car explorations anywhere nonstop, which, of course, the first letter of all the words spells out Billy Ocean. So, congrats. Awesome, Nikolai. Thank you, Nikolai. Oh, and so much housekeeping. One big thing. We surpassed our third birthday.

Oh. Yeah, Dana was in Mexico. We're all busy. You know, Chris is a dad and work has been crazy. We totally forgot it was our third birthday last week. Oh, we're three. Happy birthday to us. Yeah. We're out of the terrible twos. Yeah. Is there a, is there a, I don't know. The thirsty threes, maybe.

Thrilling threes? Sure, there we go. Why not? Thirsty three? I don't know. It was the first, it was the first TH word that came to mind. All right. Without further ado, let's jump into our first general trivia segment.

Pop quiz, hot shot. And I grabbed truly a random card for. from our 13 pound box of Trivial Pursuit cards. And this turns out to be the Trivial Pursuit 90s edition. All right. All right. Completely random. Usually I kind of screen the questions.

Okay. Let's just play it loose. Go for it. All right. I don't even know what the categories are, but here we go. Specifically, this is 1995. Here we go. What Rocker was cited for assault after slugging

Bikini Kill Singer Kathleen Hannah The Backstage at a Lollapalooza show. Oh. So 90s. That is, yeah, those are lots of 90s words. Yeah. Who was this? I don't know.

Oh, man, this was a big deal when this happened. All right. Rocker, 95. Oh, my God. This is 20 years ago. Yeah. Wow. 1995.

Maybe Perry Farrell. Smashing pumpkins probably was. I think it was somebody more from like a hair band. I don't know. I have no guess. We should take a guess. We should guess somebody. Axel Rose.

Sure. Yeah, there you go. That's good. All right. Yeah. We'll guess Axel Rose. It is Courtney Love. Oh, that makes sense.

It would be weird if a guy. If a dude assaulted a, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're right. All right. She's going through some step. That was one year after Kurt Cobain died, right?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Next question. What yellow smiley interface for computer newbies was quickly downsized by Microsoft? Yellow Wow I don't know

Smiley Interface Yellow Smiley Interface For computer newbies It's not the paper club Yeah Clippy Yeah

Yeah Clippy What was there one called Like Bob or something Like that or maybe Man You guys got to buzz in Nineties

Yeah That's true You're collaborating Because it's so Stabbing the darky Bob sure Microsoft Bob.

Oh, wow. Okay. I don't even know. I got to look that up. Some part of my brain. Is that related to the to the Minesweeper, smiley face? I don't know. I don't know. I wonder if it's related to the paperclip because that's also Microsoft.

Yeah. They're kind of spiritually. They're spiritually related. What pricey Kevin Costner movie was tagged Kevin's Gate and FishTar months before it hit the theaters? Waterworld. Yep. Waterworld. I always liked Waterworld.

I don't know why everybody hid it. Fish tar. That's good. I never heard. That's a pretty good slam. I thought it was very imaginative. I think, I mean, the problem was just, it was so expensive, right? Wasn't that, like, the primary slam against it?

Yeah. It's a little boring. Yeah. I just really like the kind of the world building, the setting. The setting was nice. The villain was Dennis Hopper, right? Chewing the scenery. He's good at being a villain, though.

Yeah. He was Jeep. Purplehorn was in it, right? Yeah. Wasn't it change? Was she? Yeah. I don't remember.

She showed her butt. I think I saw. Oh. It's a lot less creepy than when you say it was most of me. Yeah. She showed her butt. And next question. What caused more worldwide deaths in 1995?

Multiple choice. Menangitis. Rabies or sleeping sickness. Oh. I'm not sure what sleeping sickness is. Is that related to malaria maybe? Yeah, what was it? It was rabies.

Ravis. Menangitis. Either rabies or sleeping sickness are my guesses. I'll go with you on this one. Whatever you want. Yeah, all right. I don't know. All right. Sure.

Yeah, just because I don't know what it is. It will go sleeping sickness. It is rabies. Yeah. All right. Okay. I believe it. What Republican was accused of prolonging, paralyzing,

paralyzing budget battles because Bill Clinton snubbed him on Air Force One? Yeah, it's the only thing that makes sense. Correct. New Gingrich. Okay, last one. Oh, yeah. What WCW Star has been called the biggest Jewish sports hero since Sandy Kofax? Oh, I know this one. I know a wrestling question.

Because there's like one big Jewish wrestler. Is it Goldberg? Correct. It's Goldberg. Steve Goldberg? It just said Goldberg. All right. He's stage name. All right.

All right. Good job. Completely random. Not bad. I kind of like the 90s cards. They're hard, but. But you vaguely remember that these things... Yeah, they're not as easy as we...

Yeah, you know... Like, you know, 90s. I like, it's almost like a good illustration of, like, the problem with 60s Jeopardy, right? Like, these are from the 90s, and already we're having trouble with some of the questions. I know, like, 20 years ago. Oh, yeah. You did get in the fist fight at Lollapalooza. All right, good job, Brains.

Not to sound creepy. It's too late for that. I mean, when you start a sentence with that, all right? Well, so I have a... I have a Google search alert for a good job brain. So whenever a good job brain shows up somewhere online, someone talks about us or, you know, links us. All right. Sure.

One of the things that kept on linking was people would say they listen to Good Job Brain on their OKCupid profiles. Really? Yeah. How cool is that? I guess podcast, you know, Colin, you keep saying that this year podcast is becoming mainstream. It's, yeah, people are putting like, oh, these are the podcasts I listen to. It's kind of like, it's cool. We're like, we're a signify.

of something we stand for a personality type is that cool um i can't believe it like we've never talked about dating the trivia and the facts related to that i guess it makes sense if we talked about valentine's day but it seems like everybody was doing valentine's day stuff i don't know we don't want to hurt anybody's feelings that's right yeah so we'll wait three weeks and then and then we'll cave let the wounds heal of it we'll open them up again so today we're going to talk about the daunting dome of dating. Hi. All right.

Welcome to dating with Dana. Hello, everyone. Okay, so speaking of OKCupid, they collect a ton of data. They have all these quizzes on their site. Just profile questions. They're trying to match you up with somebody else. Figure out if you're going to be friends or there's romantic potential or if you're enemies or whatever.

So they collect a ton of data about millions of people. And they have been able to come up with some statistically significant findings about love and relationships. And they actually release this to the public, too, which is awesome. They're OK Trends blog. And one of the founders of OKCupid also released a book full of this data. And it is fascinating. It is so interesting. For instance, if you want to know if you and your date have long-term potential and you want to ask them a question on the first date, he's distilled it down to the top.

three questions you should ask. And if your answers match your dates on those three, you are statistically inclined. Inclined. Like the chances of you guys being a long-term match are very good. So those three questions are, yes, do you like horror movies? Have you ever traveled around another country alone? And wouldn't it be fun to chuck it all and go live on a sailboat? So like if you both agree or disagree. I thought I was like, do you like dogs? No, no, no. So they are specific. He kind of distilled them down to things that aren't weird to ask on a date.

Interesting. That would be okay. That aren't boring or too obvious. And that's very telling of. And that are telling about what your lifestyle is like. Things that you may not have an immediate like stock answer to either. You know what I mean? Like you're going to have to think for a second.

And it's funny because they also probably make you a little more charming too if you asked somebody that. Like a quirky question. Yeah, it's quirky. Wait, what were the three again? It was, do you like horror movies? Hold on. Do you like horror movies? movies, Colin. I do. I would say if, yeah, I would say I do. I do, but I don't like watching it. I like

reading it on Wikipedia. I'd say they're okay. I don't dislike them, but I don't seek them out. But I love reading about how people die. Oh, okay. Not to sound creepy, guys. Not to sound creepy. On the first date, you say that with lots of icons. It's like, oh, okay. No, like, final destination. It's right. Sure. The other one was, Have you ever traveled around another country alone? Another country alone. Yes, I have. I have not traveled another country alone.

No, I haven't. Oh, like flying everything by yourself. I've always been with, you know, a friend or my girlfriend or my wife or yeah. Yeah. And also, wouldn't it be fun to tuck it all and go living on a sailboat? For a short time. I would say yes, it would for a short time. It would be, you know, but I think this implies long term.

Chuck it all. Chuck it all. For like a year or two. Oh. Yeah, I could do it temporarily. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it does sound fun. One of my old co-workers did that, and it sounded amazing.

Like, she and her husband sold their house, and they went and traveled around the Bahamas and lived on a sailboat. That sounds great. That sounds like very cool and romantic. I have motion sickness, though, but sounds cool. So maybe we're all a match. Maybe that's why we've been together for three years on this podcast. Just on this podcast. Yeah.

Totally. Okay, so another question. If you want to find out, if you, your date have the same politics without asking them, if you're picking a fight. You can kind of get... This can be dangerous. Yeah.

People are really sensitive about politics and religion. Those are, yeah. So you just want to fill them out without starting anything. It's like, oh, do you prefer people in your life to be simple or complex? And so it turns out there's two to one people who prefer complexity are liberal. And two to one, people who prefer simplicity are conservative. And it's maybe a little different in certain areas. Like New York City, there's some liberal people who like...

I like trying to find out something by asking a super unrelated question. For sure. Yes. Just based on data. What a weird thing. Oh, and then there are a couple tips about your profile. And it was about picking the most attractive profile photo. And it was photos taken on your camera phone are the least attractive.

Really? Do not post pictures from your camera phone. I'll buy that. But that's the easiest. Yeah. Point and shoot camera, better results. Better than that is like a fancy camera. So they can tell from the data tags in your photo.

Yeah, in the JPEG. And then they had people rate them. And so basically that. And then the other really interesting thing was a flash adds seven years, basically. What? What? Really? So they found, they go, for example, a 28-year-old who used a flash is as attractive as a 35-year-old who didn't.

Wow. So don't use the flash. on your picture either. And there are a bunch of, like, you should look at this, okay, cupids trends thing. It's fascinating. There's all this data about how to frame your picture and what you should be doing depending on your gender and maybe what kind of what your vibe is. It's very cool to look at this data. That is so, I agree. It's so fascinating. Just what they get with just millions and millions of data points. But like, just boiling down to those three questions initially. That's what a great experiment. Yes. You should go ask your

significant other and figure out if this is long term, if this is a forever home or not. Forever home. It's like a shelter cast. A lot of awkward conversations are about to unfold in the car now, I think, yeah, for our listeners.

We don't agree on any of these things. You drop me off here. I'm going to tuck and roll. Open the door. All right. And speaking of dating sites, I here have a fun, weird quiz. Other than the kind of the mainstream popular dating sites in America, I would say in North America, we have what, Match, E-Harmony, OKCupid. But there are other dating sites

that are very, very, very specific. Some of them I thought were jokes. But these are completely real. Okay. And I'm going to name the URL, like the link, what the matching site is called and I want you to guess all right what you think thus the specific interest oh is all right so you guys have a notepad and a pen so I'm going to name the matching site and I want you guys to guess what you think the the specific niche okay okay and these are real or made up these are real and I double check I double checked let's start let's start off easy my lovely parent dot com my lovely parent okay this is the easy one my lovely parent all right answers up please Dana says single parents Colin says Hatchet moms and dads I don't know like lovely my love yeah lovely is a funny

modifier with I don't know Dana is correct it is for single parents especially Especially for the children of the single parent to post. I mean, that was kind of the start started by two sons who want to find a date for their mom. Oh. Yeah, so it's, it's kind of cute. All right. Next one, crewdating.com. Crew dating?

Crew dating.com. Can you see C-R-E-W? Yes. Okay. Crew dating.com. What do you think this dating website is for? Who do you think? This dating website is very.

Answers up. Dana says people on boats. And Colin says rowing. It is for airline professionals. Oh, like flight crew. Makes a lot of sense because they travel a lot. They're not always in one central location. So this is like aviators, pilots, flight attendants.

Yeah, that makes sense. That does. All right. Next one, personals. com is it P-U-R-R Yes Okay

Personals dot com All right Dana Cat lovers Colin cat lovers It is a dating site for cat lovers For cats Oh

For people who like cats Looking for other people who like cats This one You know I really thought it was fake And I kind of poked around But it seems like it's real I mean the thing is The funny thing is maybe it's just because I'm

I work in tech and web and online A lot of these sites look super outdated And so it's like I'm like I don't know if it's real I mean maybe a lot of them are just kind of like forums Hey all you need is two people All you need is two people All right

Darwin dating.com Huh Darwin dating.com As in Charles Darwin All right Dana says people who survive near-death situations. Oh, okay.

I like it. And then Colin says, Pro Theory of Evolution Advocates. Okay. It is, the tagline for Darwin dating is online dating minus ugly people. Whoa. It is a site for beautiful, quote,

beautiful people only. Well, how judgy. Well, it is super judgy. So they even have a page that says Darwin dating rules. in order to join darwin dating you have to agree that you don't suffer from this like giant list of stuff nerdy glasses uh mullets acne out of proportion noses anyone with a middle part what a part in your hair i see oh i thought you meant like someone's the stomach yeah i'll be damned

if i go out with an abdomen what yeah he gets really specific uh i just want on shoulders right in the hips. Yeah. Kind of weird. Very judgy. All right. Next one. Natureist passion.com.

Oh, I know. That was fast. Sorry. I know what it means in British slang. Naturest Passion.com. All right. Answers up. Dana says,

Nudestpassion. Collins says naked people. Yeah. Correct. It is for people who share the passion of nudism, I guess. Being nature. Natural. Yeah.

The state of state of nature. Yeah. All right. Next one. This is so specific, guys. Atlasphere. What? Atlasphere.

And, oh, okay. Theatlessphere.com. All right. Answers up. Dana says. Anne Rand Enthusists and Colin says Randians, you are correct.

It is for Anne Rand enthusiasts. Actually, the Atlasphere is a like a web magazine for a lot of objectivism like articles and stuff and there is a dating section. Got it.

Of course. Sure. Sure. Sure. All right. Next one. Women behind bars.com. I'm going to try

not to overthink this one. Women behind bars. dot com All right answers up Dana says Ladies in Jail Collins writing a novel Are you gonna

You can't change your answer All right What's he doing Naked cat lovers No no no I'm just yeah The same as the same as what Dana said Yeah yes and actually It's kind of nice

It is really they have a lot of profiles Of ladies who are incarcerated And it's pen pals Yeah It's looking for pen pals. It's not, so online dating is kind of a misnomer. I mean, it might lead to dating, but it could be normal letters. And it's a huge thing that you just get out of the way right at the beginning.

Yeah, you don't have to lie about it. Yes, exactly. You don't need to find an awkward time to bring it out. But like, to be honest, it seems really positive. They're just like, oh, you might brighten up someone's day. The tagline is, become a ray of hope in someone's life, and you can make a difference. Oh, very cool. That is nice.

And the last one, this is probably the, the, toughest one. Okay. All right. Cupidino. Cupidino. T-I-N-O? T-I-N-O.

Cupid. Cupid. Cupid. C-I-N-O. Cupidino. Keep saying it. Cupidino. What does it sound like?

Cupidino. What does it sound like? Cupidino. Wait a minute. All right. Cupidino. Answer is up. Colin.

You're right. a lot. Dana says, people who live in Cooper Tino, the city. And then Colin says, people who like Tino from my so-called life. Oh, is there a guy called Tino? Yeah. Oh, Dana's a little bit close. Apple employees. Apple fans. Apple fans. Apple fans. Apple fanboys and fan girls. People who like Apple, the company, and their products. It's a matching site for them. It's actually an app. However, it is going to be discontinued at the end of this. This month. Why?

I don't know. They've matched everybody. I mean, on there. Mission over. Yep. That is what their current Twitter status is. They are, you know, in the tech world, we call it sun setting. Okay.

Right. Yeah. So get on the ball. Yeah. You got a couple weeks to find your Apple fan match. Yeah. Yeah. All right.

Good job, Brains. Colin, would you use personals? Personals. Because you do love kitties. For the cats. See, I don't know. That's a tough one. Like I... But you can't imagine yourself with a person who doesn't like cats. Right. I can't imagine being... I am a cat person. I grew up in a cat family. It is important to me.

But I don't know if I could actually bring myself to list myself as the cat guy. I don't know. I just feel like there's some stigma. There are. That's true. And maybe I should stop being so judgmental about myself. But I would give it a look. You know, hey, luckily, perhaps for myself, I don't need to worry about that right now. My wife would be very upset to find me on... You're perusing the personal. Mewing over. Mewing. The personal.

Musing. Musing. So prepping for the dating episode, I was looking at a lot of, like, movies, dating movies, songs from movies. Rom-coms. You're reading about, like, the history of drive-ins, you know. I mean, you can imagine how big drive-in theaters were to the history of dating in the 50s, 60s. Yeah, movie is always like a date option. Yeah, it is.

It's, you know, because you're together, but it cuts some of the tension of having to talk nonstop. So it's like you're sharing space, but you don't need to really come up with two hours with a conversation. And then you have something to talk about when it's over. Afterwards. Oh. Yeah.

You have a story for you guys from my own past of bad, of bad, the archives. The archives of bad dating history. Okay. All right. This was in college. This was one of those. This was a double date, I guess, technically. This was not with your wife.

This was not with my wife. before I met my wife. This is with my college roommate and college best friend Jay. And Jay had this girl he wanted to go out on a date with. And she had a friend. And it was basically like, oh, why don't we go to a movie together? You can bring a friend along. So I was the friend who got brought along.

But it was really so that Jay and this girl could like be on a date without the pressure. You know, we're like being a freshman in college, you know. Okay. So somehow it felt to me, I guess, is the way I'm like, Colin, pick a movie for us to go to. I'm like, okay, great. No problem. I'll find us a movie to go to. The third wheel gets to pick the movie.

So I was looking in the paper, of course. Back in the day. This is 19, well, I guess, you know, there's no secrets here. This is 1992. And I'm like, oh, there's this movie that had just come out. I had heard a lot about it, like on the indie circuit, kind of a buzz about this movie called Reservoir Dogs. Okay. So, like, nobody knew who Quentin Tarantino was at this point.

I certainly didn't. And I was like, so here are the things that I knew about this movie. Like, it got a lot of buzz. because it was very stylish and it got a lot of buzz because it was very violent. Oh, so you knew about the violent part. Yeah, but I...

He didn't know what violence, what the extent was going to be. I did not know to the extent, but I knew like, I'm like, oh, it's playing in like, art house theaters. Like, it can't be, it can't be that bad, right? So I called Jay, I'm like,

hey, I found this movie. It's called Reservoir Dogs. I don't have you heard of it, but it sounds kind of like an artie movie. I'm like, the one thing, though, is you should tell the girls is I read it's violent. So Jay calls me back, and he's like, oh, no, it sounds like it'll be fine.

Like, they're great. Sure. Right. So we set the time. We're going to meet up with the girls at the theater. So we go in, and I'm like, all right, let's sit there. They're okay with the violent movies. So we sit.

We're watching Reservoir Dogs. And now if you've seen Reservoir Dogs, you know, there's a lot of blood. There's a bank robbery. We see the aftermath of it. There's gunshots. There's violent scenes. They get to the scene where a person's ear is getting cut off. And it's a very gruesome part of it.

of the movie. And at that point, I look over it, the two girls, they get up. And they walk out of the movie theater. And I'm like, oh, my God, I've totally ruined this. Like, I screwed this whole thing for Jay. I'm like, what did I do? And like, are they okay? And he's like, they're going to go watch the end of the movie next door. And so to this. And you guys stayed in there. So, and then I was like, you guys stayed in there and was like, what we want to know what the movie is. We were really into the movie. Freshman. Freshman and God. So to this day, I will always remember that Last of the Mohicans with Daniel DeLewis, it was in the theaters at the same time as Reservoir dogs. Because that was the other movies.

They got up. They walked out. They walked in and they switched and watched the end of Last of the Mohicans. And I, from that point on, was no longer in charge of scheduling movies for our dates. Yeah, you shouldn't. You should not. So I have a bad dating story. So I'll say this was a, it was a bad, it was a bad thing that happened.

But I thought it was funny. The guy did not think it was funny. So that's the end of the story. So, you know, we all survived to the end of the story. So I was going away with a guy I was dating. We went to a lake for the weekend. I took a day off work to go. And we rented a little paddle boat.

And we paddled to the middle of the lake. And I wanted to steer. He wouldn't let me steer. And then so I started to take, there was water coming into my side of the paddle boat. It started filling up. And he was like, oh, just bail it out with this beer bottle here. And I was like, I was like, oh, no. I'm probably not going to do that.

And then I, like, talked to him into switching sides with me. So we switched sides. And then all of a sudden, his side, like, filled with water. And my side filled with water. And then the boat was going into the water. So we had to, yeah, it was totally sinking. The nose was in the water. So we jumped out of the boat and we're, like, doggy paddling next to the boat.

We're far from the coast. We're far. And I'm in my clothes in the lake. And I'm like, oh, my God. I took a sick day from work. I'm going to die in this lake. this weekend, and people are going to... Not know where you were.

I like it. You're like, think of the boat. Stop the boat from sinking. I mean, we were going to lose their deposit for sure if we didn't figure out what to do with the boat. But it was, we were far from the coast, so it's like, at least the boat is like, now it's stopped sinking. It's just like the, but the tail of the boat is straight up. So there's no way to save this boat for us.

This motorboat comes by, and they're like, are you guys okay? He was like, yeah, we're fine. I was like, we're not fine. We're drowning. Can you help us? They like happen to have a water pump on their boat randomly. And so they come and they help us drain the boat, and I ask if I could sit on the boat because I'm tired of doggy paddling. And they're like, yeah, sure.

And I ask the guy I'm seeing if he wants to come. come on the boat. He's like, no. He's like, he's like doggy paddling next to the boat, like still as it, like, they drain the water. And then we get in the boat and they're like, they give him a lecture about steering the boat after we had like a whole discussion about whether I would get a chance to steer the boat and he was like, no. And like on the way back, he was like proving he could steer the boat. And I thought it was funny. I was like, oh, this is, this would be like, I didn't tell him, but it was like, oh, this is totally the story you'd tell people happened to you the funny cute dating story but he was in such a bad mood after this happened

I was like oh this is not good and so we we stopped seeing each other after that weekend because it because I thought the box story was funny and he knew that he couldn't take ribbing yeah and he couldn't take the ribbing so are you guys okay yeah we're fine we got this it's going to be okay I got this. Keep going. It was getting dark. And there were no other boats on the lake. We're not okay.

We're not okay. We're going to die here. Oh, my God. My face. Wow. Oh. Wow. Does your face hurt?

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And we're back. You're listening to Good Job Brain. And this week we're talking about the weird trivia world of dating. I promise this will get into dating. But this is very, very interesting. Iceland, super, super organized country. They are home to the world's oldest. parliament and devoted thoroughly for record keeping.

It all starts with the Icelandic sagas written about a thousand years ago and page after page of genealogy and very well-documented archive of who your ancestors were, your whole family tree, and your line. So there was a biotech company in Iceland called Decode Genetics. And they did something really interesting. They basically called out submissions for creative uses of this. data. I mean, and all this data is open to everybody. It's like what are some creative ways or interesting uses to use this data of everybody's family tree? So three University of Iceland

software engineering students submitted to this contest. So they made what they call the book of Icelanders, basically taking all of this information and making it online. You can see if a person you're dating is related to you how this person to really because they might be and though everybody probably in Iceland

will go back a couple of generations you go like far enough yeah sure right yeah but but Colin do you remember when we were working together we had a phone app called bump yeah basically we just like bump our phones it'll trade our contact information this is you bump

and it'll tell you if you're related to this person and how you're related to this person. Because it has all of the family tree data. Interesting. That is kind of the PR twist. That's kind of the marketing, sassy marketing line is like, you know, make sure you're not, you know, it's called the incest prevention alarm. Man.

The incest prevention alarm. But that's just like a feature of this book of Icelander census data, basically. Yes. Yes. And so. That's not the main mission. of the book. No. It's probably a pretty important mission of the book. Yeah. I wonder I wonder if it's like a binary like thumbs up, thumbs down or if it just gives you a score. It's like, this is your

third cousin and you're like, woo. Yeah. I mean, the whole shtick of young people to make sure they're not going to hook up with their cousins is not really what's happening. Nobody wants that. I mean, let's be clear. We're not trying to encourage that. It's just a PR kind of spin. But it's funny. But it's very interesting, I think, having, you know, like Dana said, having all this, all this data used for dating. Well, especially, as you say, in a country that's so, I mean, not isolated, but just very insular. There we go. Thank you. Yeah. At the opposite end of the world. In Singapore, they're having problems with low birth rate. Every year, the birth rate is dropping because people are choosing not to procreate. And this,

And this is becoming a concern for the government. There are a lot of smart, financially able, young people in Singapore, but they are mostly career-driven. They're not really thinking about family. And so the government is a little bit kind of like, well, how do we make sure that Singaporeans have Singaporean babies and they have Singaporean babies. There are a lot of government-sponsored dating activities. There's a whole section of the government that basically try to help matchmaking.

There's like cruises, there's like dances. It's like high school. It feels like having like your aunt and uncle trying to hook you up. It is, but it's your government. Not a lot of people are picking it up. No, you don't say. Yeah, really. But they're trying.

And it's, it's interesting to see there's like workshops and training sessions about like, you know, how to be socially engaging and stuff like that. But it's just it's everybody's very, everybody's career minded. A lot of people are like, I don't have time. You know, a lot of women are like, I don't have time. don't have time to raise a family and you know I'm running this business and I think we need an exchange mission between Iceland and Singapore that's an app that's our app yeah yeah app available only in Iceland and Singapore all right we have one last segment yes I'm going to try something a little different for this quiz this is still in theme of dating this

is an audio quiz. Okay. What I've done is I've taken the audio tracks from famous date scenes in movies. Oh, cool. And I will be playing just the audio for you. And I'm sure that if you saw these clips visually, you would instantly know the movie. The challenge is, can you tell me what movie it is just based on the dialogue and or the music and or the line? Wow.

Okay. So, yeah, I'll play, you know, 10, 20 seconds here from each movie. And you tell me, what is the movie? And it's a movie necessarily, it's not necessarily a dating movie, but it's a scene. It's not necessarily a dating movie. Okay, so get your guys buzzers ready, and you buzz in when the clip ends. What movie is this from? Yummy.

You think I could have a sip to that? Be my guest. I got to know what a $5 shake taste thing. You can use my story. I don't have cooties. Yeah, but maybe I do. Cooties I can handle. All right.

Dana. Pulp Fiction? That is Pulp Fiction. Oh, okay. John Travolta and Uma Thurman. I think most milkshicks I've had is way more than $5 these days. Yeah, that's a cheap milkshake. It was a different time in the 90s, Karen.

Yeah, it was a lot ago. We were so naive then. All right. What movie is this? this date scene from. He gave you $20 each. All right. This is what Mr. Tommy over there.

Look, over there. Oh, thanks a lot, Tommy. Thank you, I, Saloo. What do you do? What? What do you do? I'm in construction. They don't feel like you're in construction.

I'm a union delegate. Dana. Is that back to the future? It's not back to the future. It's not even familiar to it yet. That is from Goodfellas. Oh. That is the date scene when he takes her to the club at Goodfellows.

Got it. Who is that talking? That was Ray Leota and Lorraine Brockow. Oh, okay. I don't think I've ever seen that movie. Oh, really? Yeah. Chris would have gotten that one.

Oh, yeah. Chris for sure would have gotten that one. Mafia movie person. All right, here we go. Moving right along. Uh, date scene from what movie? Okay. You must you care for another bottle, the chateau la tour.

Yes, but no more 1966. Let's splurge. Bring us some fresh wine, the freshest you've got. This year, no more this old stuff. Yes, monsieur? He doesn't realize he's dealing with sophisticated people here. Uh-huh. Uh, Karen. That is the jerk.

That is from... That's Steve Martin. Bring us some fresh wine. One of my favorites. Yes, the jerk. I like how you're making this quiz because it's from a dude's perspective. You're like, what are some famous dating scenes? Kind of from the dude's perspective.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Interesting. So far. Interesting. Okay. All right, here we go. What movie is this from? Hey, Tony's.

Of course. The very place for a very special occasion. Oh, this way, Pidge, I have my own private entrance. Wait here. Just to one of the minutes, I'm coming. Oh, both of you immediately. Together. Lady in the Train.

Lady in the Tram. He calls her Pidge. I thought he said something else. Which is, it would be accurate. It would be accurate. Oh, that's right. And he nudges the meatballs. Classic.

Classic, indeed. That is a classic dating. For sure, yes. Cartoon dogs eating spaghetti. Moving right along. What movie is this scene from? Earth Angel, Earth Angel, will you be mine? My darling, dearly,

George, aren't you going to kiss me? I don't know. All right, sure. Oh, Karen, no doubt about it. Back to the future. That was Back to the Future. And that is, wow, Leah Thompson. Uh-huh.

And Crispin Glover. Yeah, yeah, very good. I wasn't even asking for the actors, but you guys are impressing me. Yeah, just the same. I'm moving right along. Another dating scene. Please tell me what movie is this from? Okay.

And you are Gina? Jaina. Hey, what's up? Nothing. Look, I'm going to be real honest with you. It's been a long time since I've been with a man. Spent a lot of time with the ladies. Looking to get back up on that pogo stick.

You know what I'm saying? Excuse me? Dana. 40-year-old virgin? Yes, that is from the speed dating. All right. Very good. And last one.

Now, bear with me. This one may be a little obscure, but we'll see if this one, just open your minds, open your minds, the people on a date. Please tell me what movie is this from? Maybe we shall see. Okay, okay. Here we go. Yes, yes, yes, yes, in his face, in his faith, yes, in the faith. I'm not sure. You seem sure. I think it's fever pitch.

It is not fever pitch. Is it Rocky? It is not Rocky. It's a sports. It's a sports. In the face. In the face. It's a comedy. Is it with Adam Sandler? Not Adam Sandler. Another Saturday at Live alum. It is from Coming to America. Yes. It is when they're on the double date at the Bastion Ball game. I didn't recognize his voice. Yeah.

It's hard to hear in there. Eric LaSalle. Eric LaSalle, yes. Oh, my God. Yeah. Prince of Kim trying to fit in. Yeah. In the face.

Yes. In the face. I quote that probably more than I should. Yes. In inappropriate scenarios. Anytime I go to a basketball game, I will scream out in the face. Yes. Oh, yeah, because like he goes to the bathroom.

And then someone's like, prince my royal prince yeah oh my god all right well it was a little bit of a stretch there but i'm glad you guys took the trip with me still a date still a date um all right well good job good job dating at the movies through collins view all right and that is our show thank you guys for joining me and thank you guys listeners for listening in to our horrible dating stories the three the three questions you should ask your potential dates uh famous dating scenes and movies. Of course, you can find a show on iTunes, on Stitcher, on SoundCloud, and on our website, goodjobbrain.com. Thanks for our sponsor, Squarespace, and we'll see you guys next week.

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