Good Job, Brain! - 158: Sweeping Epics

Episode Date: August 11, 2015

Grab your mighty sword and charge into the battle for tivia about the most EPIC STUFF!!! We go from high-brow with a quiz on *actual* epic poems laced with hints and clues to low-brow with epic eating contests- learn some of the tactics, lingo, and rules about jamming the most hotdogs into your mouth hole. Make sure you have a pen and some paper to take on Karen's epic character challenge (experimenting with a new quiz format) and Colin doesn't give us intermission in his segment about epic movies clocking in over 3 hours. AND. YES. MUSIC. ROUND. EPIC. GUITAR. SOLOS. How many can you name? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to an airwave media podcast. Hello, canoos of bugaboos up for hullabaloo and peekaboo. This is good job, brain, your weekly quiz show and off-beat trivia podcast. Today's show is episode 158, and of course, I'm I'm your humble host, Karen, and we're your fabulous friends finding flabbergasting fartist facts about farts and facials. That was from Brandon age 11. Thank you.

Thanks, Brandon. Two fart references. No, I think I added in the second part. Okay. Okay, okay. I'm Colin. I'm Dana. And I'm Chris.

Okay, guys, big news. We are on Wikipedia. Until somebody deletes us. Oh, please don't. I think we passed requirements for Notability at this point Yeah Because we have Kixar

We want awards We got awards We got nominations And I think I like one of the things cited Is we were on the Apple TV Yeah Apple commercials

So that kind of So yeah So yeah I'll commit a crime if I have to If that's what it takes To keep us on there Okay No you'll get your own page

And then we'll edit your name Our first names And last names are all listed on Wikipedia too, which is weird because I don't think we It's spelled correctly, I mean Actual. They figured it up. Yeah. They know our Pub Team name. That I think

is the most hilarious thing that the Out of all things to talk about is that They play on a team. It's there. You can't do it away. Well, you could. They could take it away. I guess any person could go take it away. Oh my God, we can't even tell our Quizmaster, our public, be like our team is on Wikipedia.

It's on Wikipedia. You got an extra point for that. That'd be really annoying. I'm annoyed. I'm annoyed. I'm already. I'm already annoyed. No, we're just excited to be.

So whoever did that, thank you. Yeah, thank you. It's a very nicely. It'll be a nice two weeks. Yeah. But we're like, what is this? I'm screen capping everything. Guys, this is actually Winkipedia.

I don't know if you noticed. No, that was the first thing I checked was like, is this like a different wikisite? Oh, right, right, right. The bad podcast wiki. But I want to say, I, because our official name has an exclamation point on it, it kind of screws up our URL. Oh, sure, yeah. Because it goes to Good Job Brain, like, when you link it and when you copy it, it seems like you're really excited about a show called Good Job Brain, no punctuation. Right.

And then so if you just go, if you click on it, it just goes to like this page doesn't exist. It has an exclamation point in the URL. Oh, no. So keep a note of that. And without further ado, let's jump into our general trivia segment, pop quiz, hot shot. And here I have a random Trivial Pursuit card from Genus 4. All right. Is there a date?

No date. So I don't know when this is. Could be outdated. Could be outdated, could be not. Try our luck. Press our luck with your barnyard buzzers. Let's buzz in. Blue Wedge for people and places.

What storied European Mountain is no. in Italy as Monte Servino. Montservino. Storyed. European Mountain. Singular. Mount Servino.

Is known in Italy as Monte Servino. Chris. Mount Olympus. That's a different country. What? Yeah. Oh, okay. But like they have their own name for it in their own language.

Oh, is it? Oh, is the mountain in Italy? I believe the mountain is in Italy. I see. Okay. I would think of all people, Chris would know this one. Oh, really? Oh,

why? So that means it's in a game or something? Yeah. I was going to guess the Vesuvius, but I don't, I think that's,

they just call it Vesuvius. I think they call it Vesucus. Yeah. Yeah, probably. It's between Fantasyland and and Tomorrowland. The Matterhorn.

The Matterhorn. I think I thought that was in Switzerland. Yeah, because the theme of that ride does not. Yeah. Maybe it's on the border. Yeah.

Close enough you can see it. But it's on the Italy. All right, that's good to know. What do I call it? Servino. Yeah, Servino. That's good. That's good trivia.

All right. Pink Wedge for Arts and Entertainment. What? 19994 movie is generally credited for Sandra Bullock's rapid rise as a superstar. Oh, Dana. Speed. Yes, speed. Rapid.

We're Popquoise Hotchop. Rapid, yes. Oh, I like it. Oh, that's a clever, clever question writer. Is it not the net? I think the net came after. That was after. Yeah.

Yeah, that was my little attempt at a joke because the net was not good. We're all trying to correct you. I was like, I have watched that. Yellow Wedge for history. Who chose Martin Pinson and Vincente Yanez Pinson to captain his two other ships on his best-known voyage? I'm so sorry for...

It's cool. Christopher Columbus. How do you pronounce those names? Martin Pinson and Vicente Janese Pinson. Okay. Okay. I didn't screw it up too bad. Yeah. Probably Pinsong with that a little bit of a... Oh, his two other ships, got it.

Two other ships. Yeah. So which ship was Columbus on? Is she on the Santa Maria? I, yeah. The Nina, the... I think that was the... That's probably the big one.

That was the same. The other ones mean, like, small, don't they? Yeah. No, I think you're right. It's also named after a saint. Oh, the actual flagship. Is that where flagship comes from? Yes.

Yes. In general. And you would have a fleet. Your flagship would be the biggest. and would be flying all your banners and your colors. Yeah. A big one. Yeah.

Usually the first, but not always. Not always. I learned. I learned something. Oh. Brown Wedge for Science in Nature. What bright star in Canis Major has a dim companion, the first white dwarf ever seen? What? Can you read it again?

Yeah, it's a lot of comments. What bright star in Canis Major has a dim companion, the first white dwarf ever seen? Isn't that, I mean... So, star, we're looking for the star. Is it the dog star? Is that what we're looking for? Yes, serious. Yes, okay.

All right, uh, green wedge for sports and leisure. What yard line do Division 1A college football teams try to score from in overtime? Oh, geez. Man. What yard line do Division 1A? It's a number. Sure. Okay, so, please, Chris, go ahead.

20. No. Dang it. I mean. Is it the 30? It is the 25. Wow. Between the two minutes.

Getting around it. We're bracketing it. Split the difference. Okay. Last question. Wildcard. What magazine was the first to sell a billion copies worldwide in a year in 1974?

Holy cow. First magazine. A billion copies. Copies in a year worldwide. 1970. Holy cow. Colin. Readers digest.

InCRECT Time Is it news of the world Incorrect Playboy Increct It is Life magazine

TV Guide Oh Really I guess people love their TVs I was thinking populist With the Reader's Digest Right Is TV Guy technically a magazine though

Yeah Yeah Okay It's not just listings of stuff No stuff Wow man those were the day Those were important You had to have a TV guide or you didn't know what was going to be on TV.

I remember looking in the newspaper and knowing, trying to find out what times are shows. Yeah. When I was a kid. All right. This week, you guys, put on your seatbelts because we're going big. We're talking about things that are legendary. So this week, it's going to be epic. It may not surprise you guys to find out that my brain first went to movies when we're talking about epics.

A little side note here. Whenever I see a new movie comes out, one of the things I like to check in addition to the review is how long the movie is. I've noticed, you know, like, there's definitely a correlation. Like, the shorter movies tend to be, you know, comedies, kids movies, maybe some kind of brainless action movies, you know, like right around that 90 minute mark. If I see a movie is below 90 minutes, that always raises a red flag for me. It's like, ooh, 81 minutes. Like, you just didn't have anything in the budget to get you to 90, yeah? Yeah, like, you remember that movie phone booth, right?

you know, where, uh, isn't it Colin Farrell right? Yeah, that's a lean, like 81 minute. It's like there's just not enough idea to just spread out, thankfully, to spread out over three hours. So, uh, at the other end, we're going to- watch a three-hour movie. Well, lots of people like to watch three-hour movies. In fact, every question on this quiz I'm going to give you is about a movie that exceeds three hours. Oh my goodness.

It's a long movie. Might be more common than you might think. Right, right. Yeah, good question, Karen. Yeah, so A lot, yeah, so for the most, I will, I will clarify if I'm asking about the theatrical release or the sometimes self-indulgent, director's cuts, uncut, extended release movies that make it to home video. We have a family story about very long movies.

My dad is the Civil War buff, and he went to go see Gettysburg, and he brought me and my sister, and we were like under 10 years old. The movie is four hours long. It has an intermission. Yeah. And at intermission, we were like, begging. We begged. And I, actually, I don't remember if we had to see it or not, but the first two hours, like, were mind-numbing.

Your dad is, like, so weird. Could your mom have come and picked you up or something? I think my mom was, like, out of town. She was on a trip or something. Oh, no. Of course. And he's like, I'll take him to a movie. And it's like, oh, my.

Well, there may be some military-themed movies on this quiz, so we will find out. Okay, those are epic. That's right. They are epic. And, of course, these are all movies that are big in scale or scope or both. There may be a couple in here that are not over three, but they are all going to be in that neighborhood, if not longer. So here we go. We'll start off with a 50-50 question for you guys here.

So get your pads of paper ready. This will be a write-in quiz. And we will start off with this question. If you added up the theatrical run time of all three Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies. So, Lord of the Rings, Fellowship of the Ring, the Two Towers, Return of the King. Yes, the theatrical runtime. If you added up all three of those, and if you added up all three of Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather movies, Godfather One, Godfather Part 2, Godfather Part 3, which would be longer? And again, these are the theatrical run times.

And I'll give a bonus point. Godfather 3, I'm wondering, was it a really long movie, or did it feel? I'm playing. I feel like I'm, this is not the right answer, what I wrote down. All right, answers up. Karen says the Godfather trilogy. Chris says Godfather trilogy. Dana says the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

clocking in at nine hours, 18 minutes is the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Yeah, that's what I actually estimated. And a paltry eight hours and 57 minutes for the Godfather trilogy. So point to Dana. Yeah, I guess they put a whole lot in this. I remember the last Lord of the Rings movies.

I watched the 12 hour, like the director cut trilogy. I spent the whole day doing it. The director's cuts, I mean, of the Lord of Rings movies. Oh, yeah. It adds a, it adds a. another two hours. Yeah, yeah. Adjusted for inflation, this three-hour-plus epic is the highest grossing film of all time.

Can you say that one more time? Adjusted for inflation. Okay. So this could be any movie in the history of movies. Got it. This is the highest grossing film of all time in inflation adjusted dollars. Answers up. Karen and Chris both say gone with the wind.

Dana says Star Wars. It is gone with the wind. Star Wars is not a really long movie. It feels like. Feels like it. The original theatrical presentation of this, by the way, was over 230 minutes long. Oh, what? What was in it?

There's an overture. There's an overture, first of all. There's an intermission. Are they counting the intermission? There's an on-track, which is a separate musical break between acts, and then there's exit music. So all of that together, yeah, you were in your seat for, or out of your seat, you were in the theater for, it was an evening out. The uncut, the uncut version of 1981's Das Boot runs four hours and 53 minutes. Wow.

Telling a story about a mission on what? type of vehicle 1981 Das boot four hours 53 minutes which I feel like honestly at that point

why not just go for five even They didn't want to be self-indulgent Right Oh yeah I trimmed it off Everyone says submarine You are all correct Yes a German U-boat Undersieboat

Submarine So is the boot boat Boat yeah Oh the boat The boat Not the boot This 1963, historical epic, was at the time the most expensive movie ever made, including a then-record, one-million-dollar contract for its leading lady.

What year? 1963, historical epic, at the time most expensive movie ever made, name the movie, and name the leading lady, if you know who she might be. answers up oh now i know i know i see your answers and i'm like yes dana dana did not write down the correct answer uh karen and chris have it correct it is cleopatra with elizabeth taylor yeah this movie by the way if you guys want to read about a disaster of a production oh yeah this movie they they called this movie the movie that killed the big budget epics yeah it just cost overruns accidents on set scandals. Elizabeth Taylor had to have a

tracheotomy during the middle of filming. It nearly bankrupted 20th century Fox. It was they spent one of those movies where they spent more promoting it and producing it than it earned back at the time. Yeah. All right. Last one. Marlon Brando turned down

the title role in this sweeping 1962 epic allegedly because he didn't want to spend one to two years riding around on a camel. Do we get a bonus point for the person who eventually did ride the camel? Yes, you get a bonus point for the person who did accept the title role in this movie.

Oh. Answers up. Dana says Lawrence of Arabia. Oh. Chris says Ben Hur. Good guess. Not Ben Her. It is also what Karen wrote, Lawrence of Arabia.

And Karen, for the bonus point, yes, Peter O'Toole. Nice. Ended up getting the role. Lawrence Olivier is the actor, so clearly my wires were... It was a Lawrence. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. All right. I love King Ralph as a kid.

And I was like, who, what else is this guy in? And I watched Lawrence Arabia. I was like, this is boring. Yeah, it was like, this is too long. It is a long one, again, as all of the movies on this list are. Yeah, Brando, he turned it down, by the way, to take the role in Mutiny on the Bounty that same year. So it wasn't like he was sitting at home doing nothing.

Is that a hit? Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. All right. Well, good job, guys. And... Wow.

Winner coming here. Chris. I probably... I think Karen is our winner there. Well, done. You guys... I think so. You guys...

Oh, no. I got everything but the first one right. You guys know your epics. Okay. Well, I feel like we do too many quizzes with movies and popular music and things like that. So I think we need to get a lot more highfalutin. Oh.

For this one. So this is the challenge quiz. I think you guys are going to do okay. We'll see. We're going to... That's why we're going to write down our answers, so we're going to see who wins the end.

All right. This is, this segment is called Name that epic poem. Oh, man. The epic poem, a long form of poetry to tell a tale

of either great warriors or whatever. That's where the word comes from. The original. Exactly. The actual word, epic, epa is the for song or poetry

in Greek and Latin. Yep. Talk about the original epic. When you guys, when I think of epic, I think of video games. Because you have different tier sets and armor. Oh, sure, yeah. You know, legendary is the high level, and then next is epic, and there's rare. So that's what I think of.

I'm removed from the poetry or the song or the story. Interesting. Interesting. So this is how we're going to do this. I'm going to recite you a line. Oh, man. Now, okay, it's all right, no, no, no. There will be hints.

I've chosen the lines in particular That there are that there are hints in there As to which epic poem All right, all right Okay Yes and you will write down the name of the epic poem We're going to see how you guys do on this one What's the one with Angelina Jolie

Here we go Question one Or poetry line number one All right here we go Arise O King Quick let us hasten to look at the foot of the kinsman of Grendel. Yeah.

Ariseo King. Yeah, the woman with Angelina Jolie. Ariseo King, quick, let us hasten to look at the footprint of the kinsman of Grendel. I forget. Answers up. That's what it is. Colin and Karen both say Beowulf. Dana says Gilgamesh.

It is Beowulf. Famously made into an animated motion picture for grownups. It was, yeah, Polar Expressy, CG, motion captured. animation with the faces of the actors. What is it about? Is male a wolf a dude's name, or is it a wolf? It's a guy. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, he's a guy. I have no idea what's it. Oh, okay. He's a strong warrior. He goes to kill the monster. But Grendle is the, yeah, Grendel's the monster, and that's Angela and Julie. Yeah, because Grendle's mother, who is Angela Jolie. Factor's in the original poem. All right. Here's another, here's another one. Oh, Beatrice, sweet and precious guide who cheered me with her comfortable words. Oh, Beatrice, sweet and precious guide who cheered me with her comfortable words.

Wow. Epic, epic poem? Yeah. Not play? Nope. Oh. Mm-hmm. We got, Karen says Excalibur.

Colin says the Iliad. And Dana says Dante's Inferno. So it is, in fact, we're being really loose for this. It is called Dante's Divine Comedy. The Divine Comedy. The video game was called Dante's Inferno, but we're going to give you the point, because that is the correct.

You know what? You know what? This is all about, I know what you mean. That is good. Okay, so we're all for the races here. There mourned Achilles plunged in depth of care,

but soon to rise in slaughter, blood, and war. There mourned Achilles. Killies plunged in depth of care, but soon to rise in slaughter, blood, and war. Specifically? Mm-hmm. It has a name. I want you to write down that name.

Karen says the Iliad. Colin says the Iliad. Dana says the Iliad. Yes, this is the Iliad. It is not the Odyssey. The Odyssey is about... But this is about the Troy battle, right? Yeah, but the Iliad is about the Trojan War.

Like, it's epically long. Right. It is epically long. Yes. The Iliad is about Achilles. Their shields were new, gleaming and broad and fair their helmets, as Sigfried the Bold rode to court in Gunther's Land. The hint is the big hero of this, his name is Sigfried.

That's not a hint. Get out of here. Get out of here with your no hints. Well, I mean, we can reason it out. It's German or of that region. It became a pretty famous opera. Oh, shoot. Karen says Rise of the Valkyries.

Colin says the ring cycle. Yes. And Dana says Valkyries. Yes. So basically we're going to give it to Colin because the name of the epic poem is Das Nibblungenli, which is the song of the Nibolungs, which of course became the Ring of the Nibolungenes,

or the Ring Cycle by Wagner, but of course it came from the epic poem. Yes, yes, yes, yes. In the spirit of, we're going to give Colin the point for that. Yes, yes, I was not, I couldn't even begin to try and spell. I think if you wrote down a ring somewhere. But this is from Valkyrie. Yes.

Oh, okay. Well, that's tough. But that's not the name of that. Right, right, right, yes. And finally, our last epic poem, here is a line from it. Of man's first disobedience and the fruit of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste brought death into the world and all are woe. Of man's first disobedience and the fruit of that forbidden tree,

Whose mortal taste brought death into the world And all are woe Oh man So it's not too old Who knows? Karen says the Bible Collins says Paradise Lost Dana says the Bible

It is in fact John Milton's Paradise Lost Yes yes yes yes yes The bag of... Or the innigado. Yeah. All right. Well, Chris, you're class in the joint up.

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jam-packed with science facts and terrible puns. Subscribe to Minute Earth, wherever you like to listen. Hey, you guys, you're listening to Good Job, Braden. This week we're celebrating things that are epic, Dana. Yeah. So, Chris got us all high flutin with epic poetry, and now I'm going to bring it back down to something, a little earthier, but also epic, and I'm going to talk about epic eating contest.

Yes. So this is the world of competitive eating, where people eat more food, Yep. Then a human body should, without troning. Yeah, yeah. So I'll start off with a couple or a question or two. And this comes up in jury a lot.

What food do competitors eat every year on July 4th in Coney Island, New York? Hot dogs. Nathan's, Nathan's hot dogs. That is right. Nathan's hot dogs. Karen's signaling. It comes up in trivia a lot. Karen's making the international signet for hot dogs.

We're eating hot dogs. No, no, because I, the way competitive eaters eat hot dogs is very different than a normal person. Oh, yeah, for sure. Yeah. So I'm mimicking the way competitive eaters eat hot dogs. I remember we had this question in trivia, and I'm looking at my teammates like, you know, like how they're eating hot dogs. And everybody's like, whoa, what? No, Colin, you got me.

You're like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we're right here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Put that down. Nathan's hot dog eating contest started in 1972. Until the 2000s, people would eat like 10, 14, right, right.

Because they just go and they just eat hot dogs. They're like, I can eat a lot of hot dogs. And those people could eat a lot of hot dogs just as a normal person. Right. And then... Like the other kind of people who would go to Nathan's in order like 10 hot dogs because they just had a man-sized hunger.

I have a big hunger. I'm a big man. They were all men. They were all men at that point. So in 2000, the new record. was 25 and a half hot dogs but still but then the very next year 2001 yeah the record 20 it was 25 and a half it was smash it was 50 that's just that's game changer I mean that's just like rewriting yeah the hot dog rules the conversation has has advanced yeah in terms of like how people one year and one year and so do you guys know the name of the guy who came in and kobiashi kovayashi yeah Kawayashi, he showed that this could be a very competitive sport, and then people were doing it wrong, basically.

Oh, wow. They're like, how did he do it? There's training. He trains in advance. Don't train in it. It's very dangerous, but competitive eaters train in advance. They do water training. They drink tons of it.

He has, like, dip the hot dogs, buns and water. Well, that's the big thing, right? That's one of them. But there's also the Kobayashi method of eating hot dogs. Okay, okay. Do you guys know, can you guess what the Kobayashi? Wasn't it that he would do two at a time, basically? I mean, I know he separated the bunts and the meat.

One of the big important things is, because if you just sit there and just eat the hot dogs. Because it's hot dog and bread. It's hot dog and bread. But if you just eat hot dogs, anybody who's done like a low-carb diet, no, it's like you need a lot more hot dogs if you take the bread away. That's kind of what makes you feel the fullest. So what they would do is take the bread and dip it in water, and then it would just make the bread just sort of slide. down real fast and you can get a lot more in because the because one of the things about eating is like the chewing and the the working the food in your mouth like you will get tired

before you get full like it all kind of happens at the same time so yeah yeah so yes it helps with the surface area because bread is big and then you can squish it down you also don't have any time to drink water so this is a way I get a little bit of water yeah totally and then I think somebody mentioned it hot dog HDB is a thing that comes up in competitive competitive competitive of eating. It stands for hot dog and bun, and so your hot dogs don't count unless you also eat the bun. So you have to be very careful about it. But back to the question about the Kobayashi method. Does anyone know what the... No. That is breaking the hot dog into and putting it in both sides of your... Like, yeah. So that's what I...

Oh, sure. Okay. Like, folding it in half. Like, yeah, breaking it in half. So you're working... Yeah. You're going for it. I thought he was eating two at a time. Because I've seen the video of him stuffing like in house but I guess oh okay okay okay so smart yeah what that represents is this mental break away from like how do we usually eat food yeah like that's the that's the hurdle that he went over which is like I'm gonna eat like like an animal break myself away from like how we usually eat a hot dog yeah so what's picnic style rules picnic style rules is I'm guessing that that means that like you cannot do all that yeah you have to eat it as you would normally get

hot dog yes and it you know uh people are like oh it's less um gross to watch that way and it's better for like if you sponsored the like event your food isn't being like deconstructed right and your buns aren't being soaked in water and milking like gross buns slop yeah sure sure um what about chipmunking oh oh must be stuffing storing food in your cheeks yeah yeah yeah you stuff food in your cheeks so like right when they call time these are usually timed they're like into 12 minutes. So right when they call time, you can try to swallow as much of it as you can.

You get 30 seconds after they call time to get it down. So it behooves you to have as much of it in your mouth as possible. What's a Roman incident? I'm going to guess that's an unexpected loss of hot dogs. So if you're eating a lot of stuff, you're chewing a lot of stuff. If any of it gets on the table or on a plate, you're disqualified. That's the end. Oh, okay.

Wait, the vomit? Yeah. Okay. But if crumbs are on the plate. Yeah. But if it's like, oh, no, you threw up on the table. No, you're done. You have to, you're out.

Oh, yeah. Seems fair. Roman incident. It's a Roman incident. And that happens to people. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, because then how do you judge how much you ate?

Yeah, it's just like, I win. And it's pretty gross, too. Right. Also, yeah. You want to discourage people from doing that to the other competitor aspect. aspect of it. Well, also the guy sitting next to you eating trying to eat his hot dogs. You, oh, man, this just probably starts a chain reaction.

There were all these stories, yeah. There were all these stories about how most of the time food eating competitions are in the summer in the hot months because people, it's a spectator sport. It's for people to watch. Right. But you don't want to eat when it's really hot. And so at one of the hot dog eating competitions, the women went on first, and they were like, oh, it was so hot we couldn't, we could barely eat.

Like, it was too hot. And so when the men came out, they knew that that happened. So they had iced down their shirts. They were soaking, wearing, drenched shirts. So they would be cool. And that's why the difference between the number of hot dogs the women ate that year and the number that the men ate was dramatic. Because they went first.

Yeah. They didn't realize they should be wearing wet t-shirts while they ate that much food. So what's the record number of hot dogs eaten in a contest? So 2001 was when the 50 was set. What have they gotten it up to? I feel like they got it into the low to mid-60s. I say 62. 78.

It is 69. Wow. I almost made that joke. Wow. It's not a joke. It's real. It's reality, Karen. 2013, Joey Chestnut from San Jose, California.

Oh, so was he the current record holder? No. Oh, well, record holder, but he just lost. He lost Nathan's, right? Yes, he lost, but he is the record holder. Wow. For Nathan's. For Nathan's.

Yeah, man. Going back to Kobayashi, he used science. Like, he used, like what you said, he completely changed the way you think how to eat something. Yeah. But in Japan, like, he is so smart with food science. There was a documentary. I'm not sure of it was a show I washed or it was a film, but he's walking down the supermarket aisle. He's talking to camera.

He's like, you know, he has. at a packet of like octopus he's like oh octopus has tannins and then tannins help coat your stomach with blah blah blah like he is very very knowledgeable right what foods do makes sense he goes to the gym almost every day he's super buff and he you know works up his metabolism most of them are very in shape because they're saying there's a a fat belt and there people debate about whether or not this is true but there was a competitive eater lost a bunch weight and then could eat a lot more hot dogs and then he gained weight back and he wasn't able to hit his numbers before and so they're just like your rib cage can hold this much stuff and it's food or so I'm proud to announce that

next month I'm doing something called the beer mile and I am doing so much research about it so it's one mile it's hopefully at a track and then you chug a can of beer in the beginning And then you run a lap, you tug another one. Oh, no. You do that four times. And what fraternity are you joining? That's exactly what I was thinking. Like, oh, okay, she's pledging.

And it's, the rules, the official rules are like, you know, they really cover all the loopholes. Can a beer, standard can beer, has to be 5% alcohol or more. Okay. So it can't be bud light. It can't be, like, something very light. Not odoules. You cannot shotgun the beer. You have to.

It's unopened. And at times how you have to open the beer, open the tab, drink the beer. If you do have a Roman incident, you have to do another lap. And that counts as your... A penalty lap. And so I've been practicing, like, I'm serious about... I've been practicing with carbonated water and soda. And sometimes with bud light.

Okay. It's really hard. It is really hard. Are you just running around your neighborhood all a little buzz? Yeah. Yeah. Not a little buzz. see it's not it's not the alcohol that's the problem the alcohol is a problem after you do the race

yeah but during the race it's the bloating oh yeah it's the carbonation that's really really hard to it must be a loud race let me put it that way yeah you have to force yourself to birth to make room in your stomach and also like I think for me I'm starting to feel like temperature plays in a key part if it's too cold it freezes your teeth So there's ways to like tilt your head. The person I think currently who holds the record got it down to 457. Wow. Whoa.

A mile with stopping to drink. Yes. And it takes him eight seconds to chug. Wow. It's taking me 25 seconds average and I think I'm doing pretty good. That's fast. I know. Well, you know what, competitive eaters can drink a gallon of water in 30 seconds. Holy God.

Crap. The carbonation camera. So this is happening. Wow. We'll see. Yeah. Well, maybe I'll come help, you know, train. You know, I'll do the chug part.

And then you'll just watch her around. And then you'll chug again. No frills, delivers. Get groceries delivered to your door from No Frills with PC Express. Shop online and get $15 in PC optimum points on your first five orders. Shop now. no-frails.ca. I also have kind of a write-down quiz,

but I'm going to try. This is kind of experimental. Everybody get a pad. We're going to play a game. All right. And listeners, if you are not driving or if you're at home,

please take a sheet of paper. Let's see how this game works. So what I'm going to do is I picked some of, I've picked a couple of epic franchises or epic series. Okay. For each one of them,

I'm going to give you guys 20 seconds. I need you guys to write down five character names from that epic franchise. Okay. First name and last name. Oh. But you will get every point for a character name that the other person did not write. Oh, don't write down.

So you want to be, so it's part of a game. It's kind of like boggle rules. Does it count if we only write down a first name or a last name? You have to write the full name. The full name. So, you know, oh, I kind of remember. This person was- So it can't be like Jim. I'm going to give you 20 seconds.

You're going to write down five character names, first name and last names, from that franchise. So, for example, if I say Star Wars, you can write down Luke Skywalker, Landau, Calrissian. But you'll only get a point for the unique name. So if all you guys write down Luke Skywalker, no, it's like boggle. Yeah, it is like boggle. So no repeats. So, let me get a countdown clock. so here's that's the

and listeners at home feel free to play I think this is the hard part is to see what other like you don't want to go too common or you can go common thinking that the other people aren't putting common character names down or you can just write down all the ones you know yeah also that

yeah and that's why I'm putting that that first name last name okay because you would be like oh Skywalker and it's like there are a bunch of them uh here we go speaking of Star Wars let's start with Star Wars on the clock

20 seconds go Star Wars You can also So it can be the original movie Series it can be the new trilogy Or you can even be a Force Awakens Movie counts as canon in this case Oh that's it? Oh geez

Wow wow wow it's fast wow Okay, all right. I only got three names. I only got three, yeah. Okay. Chris has R5D4, Salacious Crum, and Waddo. Does Wado have a last name?

I said first name last name. I don't think it's a last name. But if that person, you cannot get down the name. I don't think a droid counts either. I'm just going to say it. Why doesn't a droid has a character? That's not a first name last name. He's only got a single name.

If Wado doesn't count, R5D4 doesn't count. It has to have first name and last name. I thought you just meant, you know, It has to have No, it has to have. So characters that have first name and the last name. That's baloney.

Okay. Well, let's say this is practice. How's that? All right. Dana has Ben Skywalker. Isn't that his uncle Ben? No. His uncle Owen.

Owen. Yeah. I don't know. Also, it's Obi-Wan is old Ben Kenobi. Okay. Who else? Skywaker. Because I guess nobody would write that down.

Lando Carysian. Right, right. Yeah. I wrote Mon Mothma. She's one of the leader. of the alliance. I wrote Salacious Crum and Jack Porkens.

We're both going in the same area again. You know what? That was practice round. All right. So moving forward. So they have to be first in the last day.

All right. All right. Okay. All right. All right. All right. All right. Okay.

All right. All right. Okay. All right. Okay. All right. Okay. Let's do Harry Potter.

Let's go. Okay. Scratch, scratch, scratch, Scress. Okay. You can say Harry Potter. That's one of the names.

Collins a little bit. Got on advantage. And 20 seconds is up. It's not long enough to write down five names. Wow. I got four. I cannot do it. Oh, wow.

As well as fast you can. Wow. All right. Chris has. Dolores Umbridge. I have that too. Rufus Scrimjore and Harry Potter. I have Dolores umbridge.

Cross it out Yeah, George Weasley Minerva McGonago Wow I have Ron Weasley Harry Potter Yeah

Aldous Dumbledore Is Elbeth Dang it If you would If you would say it correctly That's not bad And Hermione Is it Granger?

Yes Nice, good Good Keep your points dudes Okay All right Good job You know you can

You guys can write Scribly You know as long as it's kind of legible As long as we're honest, as long as we're honest. Be honest. All right. This one is hard. You're trying to game.

I need a faster writing pen. Well, it's like, it's too much friction. I'm like, I can't read it either. Yeah. Oh, man. Okay. Well, everybody's changing pens. 20 seconds is too fast for a sharpie.

They're cobayashiing this. All right. Let's do. Game of Thrones. Okay. Start. Okay. George R. Martin

There are a lot of children There are a lot of places Relatives You can probably just stick with one house You can list a bunch of people First names and last names Game of Skiles Time

Only right down for Dude, you can just stop writing You cannot do that You know honesty I had Rickens Stark I have that. Wow. This is the problem.

We're all going for. Benjin Stark, Tyrion Lannister. No. And Peter Baylish. Oh, nice. Wow. Good job. It's funny.

I like the psychology of like none of them are avoiding some of the big names. All the famous kids will go with Rickin. Smart. All right, Dana. Aria Stark, Brand Stark. I had Rickon Stark. Ned Stark. Catlin Stark.

And I started writing Hodor, Hodor, hodor. You're doing ditto marks on the Starks, though. I put it like... No, no, she wrote. Hodor, good, yeah. Danny Targaryen. I wrote Danny instead of DeNaris. I was like that.

We guys aren't friends. You can't call it. Caldrogo. Marin Trant. Wow. And Marcella Lannister. Wow. Yeah.

People go with the... The chill. Yeah, yeah. Good job. All right. Not a lot of overlap. You know what? A lot of characters in that franchise.

That's pretty... I have to say the least. Yeah, pretty good. All right. Next epic franchise. Lord of the Rings Go I don't know how to

Last names Tom Yeah Um All right I mean Yeah That's the

The hard part Yeah It's not Because It's not because you don't know It's because you kind of blink Do the elves have last names?

That's the thing. So, I mean, I wrote out the characters that I know that have last names and first names are Frodo Baggins. I got Frodo Baggins, I got Bilbo Baggins. And Samwise Gamjean. I got Samwise Gamjean. Does anybody have any other? I wrote Aowin and that was it because I don't know if Ayoen has a last name. Well, then I got zero.

I got zero. I mean, if you are a Lord of the Rings super fan, you probably got all of them. Went for deep cuts. All right. All right. Good job. Okay. one last one

Marvel Marvel Avengers Universe Avengers universe Okay All right Okay I figured

I figured doing like Avengers is like combines people who don't read the comics but watch the movies and vice versa I'm blinked It's okay It's a mental workout All right

Chris Steve Rogers Nope No no Tony Stark Tony Stark Tony Stark Bruce Banner

Yes Bruce Banner Okay And pepper pots Oh good one That's good Good one Did not get pepper pots Thor Odensen

And Loki Odensen Nice Nice with the last name Is that true? Is that the last name? Well yeah but is that In canon That is there

Yeah Thor Odinson Very nice I had Hank Pim, who was a giant man, aunt man, yeah, Janet Pim, who was The Wasp, I had Bruce Banner, I had Tony, I had Nick Fury, and James Rhodes. Oh, Roads. That was, that was fun. That's cool. Yeah, that's, I mean, I'm not going to even total, like, that was a good brain workout. I hope you guys had fun.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was good. That was good. All right, and we got one last segment, Colin. I love we are all over with the high culture, low culture. or movies, literature. I'm going to close it out with some music. Keeping the theme of epic,

I have put together a quiz of epic guitar solo. Epic, guitar solos. Now, I do feel a little bad because I know that when like the classic rock type stuff comes up at Pub Quiz, you guys kind of look to me to sort of take the lead. You're the one who's making the quiz. I'm trying to go a little bit easy on you guys. These are all famous bands. These are all solos from famous songs.

I know. you've heard the song, or I'm reasonably sure you have, but do you recognize it from just the solo? Oh, wow. So we'll write it. Yeah, let's do this as another write down. So I will play you

about 30. We're so nerdy, we're like, we love writing down to text. Ask me some questions. I'll write down. It feels more real. Can we write it down? I think I explain a lot.

It doesn't explain a lot. It really, it really just opens up, no, it opens up a lot of questions. Kind of so much faster. Yeah, right. All right, here we go. Here we go. These might be in order of difficulty.

We shall find out. If we do anything, it's time, we're going to destroy these nice felt-tip pens. A concert are jamming them so hard and trying to write down. You have to drag your hand. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. All right, here we go. First one.

What? Name the band or artist. And for a bonus point, name the guitarist. I'll even throw in bonus possible points here. Some of these are famous bands with famous guitarists. Here we go. first one All right.

All right. All right. All right. Answers up. something if you're not sure. Karen says Rolling Stones, which is correct, and Keith Richards also correct. Chris has a question mark. Dana says, Rolling

Stones and Johnny Depp's pirate dad. I will accept that. I will accept Johnny Depp's pirate dad. I think that. I don't know that. That is sympathy for the devil. I don't know. I hope you, yes, my name. All right, next one.

All right, here we go. Next track. Please tell me the band. Remember, these are legendary epic Answers up. Oh, nothing for Chris. What? I do.

It's not the right answer. Dana says Leonard, Leonard, not correct. Karen, with two points again, stairway to heaven. Led Zeppelin guitarist is Jimmy Page. Okay. I meant Led Zeppelin.

I don't deserve the point, but I was like, it's not that, it's different words. It begins with the L. Yeah. All right. Okay, showing me how hard.

it is for me to gauge how hard these are here. All right, next one, who is the band? up. Chris says the Eagles with a bonus of Don Henley. Dana says the Eagles with a bonus of Don Henley. Karen says the Eagles and nothing bonus. You guys

all got one point. It is the Eagles. Hotel California. No, that is Don Felder and Joe Walsh. He had that a trivia. I thought we didn't know the answer then either. Is Don Henley even in the band? Yes, yes, but he was not the guitar.

Right. Right. Right. Yeah. A whole lot of Don. Too many dons. All right, here we go, Chris, I think you, you may, you may. I'm just going to leave it with that. Okay, you may. Chris, you may. All right, here we go.

Who is this band? Okay. And for a point, name the guitarist. Okay. All right, when you are ready, answers up. Chris says Santana and Santana, which is correct. That is the band Santana. I thought you were really trying to, yeah.

That's Carlos Santana, yes, on guitar. Dana says Santana, Carlos Santana. I just put Carlos Santana and I put Flewwood Mac and Lindsay Bucking. Because I don't use the original. I will accept that. I will accept that. No. Lindsay Buckingham did not do original guitar on Blackmagically. Peter Green. Oh, that was original, original, wow, that was early.

Right. Got it. Okay, wow, good trivia. There are, all right, here we go, moving right along. Who is this band? And for a bonus, who is the guitarist? I'll give you guys a hint if you want it. This was given as an incorrect answer to an earlier question by someone. Oh, okay.

That's what, okay. All right, all right. Answers up. Nobody got this one. Nobody got this. This is The Beatles. This is, while my guitar gently wist. I do you like to meds this song.

I was like, I love. I like this. Yeah. While my guitar gently weaves, and not really a trick, but as a trivia there on this one, the guitarist, it was Eric Clapton. Oh, right. Yes. Oh, she did.

She wrote Eric Clapton and crossed it out. I'm going to give Karen half a point for writing Eric Clapton and crossing about it. That's scratching it out. Yeah, Eric Clapton and George Harrison, very famous friends. Much drama there in their personal lives as well. Love life. Ooh, a documentary recommendation on Netflix. It's called Good Old Frida, and it's about their secretary, the Beatles secretary, Frida.

It's good. I really enjoyed that. Yeah. All right. Last one here, guys. Last one. Last one. It's closed it out here in style.

Please tell me the band. And if you're feeling especially smart, tell me the guitarist. All right. Karen says Leonard Skinner, Chris says, question mark. Dana says Leonard Skinner. Yes, that is Leonard Skinner performing Freebird, what has been termed the most requested song in rock history.

Did you not play rock band with you? Yeah, but I could identify songs from like the vocals. Yeah, it's tricky. When you excise a guitar solo from a song, I can't play it. Yo, runners, I play Freebird just the, like, when it gets into the solo. And I'm just like,

I'm like a nymph. I'm like a wood nymph. Like, I'm running on the trails. Like, I'm free. Like, it is my jam. So I know that solo, I don't know who the guitarist is, though. Yeah, Alan Collins. Oh, okay.

Yeah, very, very deep in the trivia well for that one. Yeah. All right, well, even without the half point, Karen, I think you won that one. Wow, I'm surprised at my... Yeah, I've heard a lot of these songs a million times. If you take a little snippet of the solo, I can't idea it. I'm so bad at them because I don't pay attention to the line. So I don't know.

Right, right, right. So when that's missing for you, you can't idea a song you know. All right. How can you not know this one? all right well well good job guys that was that was fun to put together yeah all right and that's our show thank you guys for joining me and thank you guys listeners for listening and hope you learn a lot of stuff about being epic and you can find us on iTunes on stitcher on sound cloud oh on on spotify as well and on our website good jobbrain.com and we'll see you guys next week

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