Good Job, Brain! - 167: What's Your Guilty Pleasure?

Episode Date: December 1, 2015

  Time to let our hair down, uncover and admit to some of our guilty pleasures and the facts and trivia behind them: the lurid crime-filled world of Law & Order: SVU, reality shows, and how real is courtroom TV? Chris confesses his love for his girlfriend, Judge Judy, and shares the story of how she became TV's highest paid star, and how exactly do courtroom shows work. Get your hands nice and jazzy as Karen delivers a handy Broadway show tunes quiz that will show up in pub trivia one day. And we love Disneyland facts, and we love pee facts, so why not both? Some of the outrageously funny things that the Disneyland custodial crew has ever seen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Hey guys, Karen here. We recorded this episode unknowingly with a busted mixer setup like the episode before, so I apologize for the quality. We fixed the issue already, so our upcoming banked episodes sound normal, back to normal. Thank you for understanding and being patient, and on with the show. Hello, fact-facing friends feasting for a bit of the fantastic. This is Good Job Brain, your weekly quiz show and off-beat trivia podcast.

Today's show is episode 167. And of course, I'm your humble host, Karen, and we are your group of goopy, groupers, and goofballs. I'm Colin. I'm Dana. And I'm Chris. So last episode of Good Job, Brain. is our puzzle stravaganza. And we...

Puzzleuza. It's a puzzle stravaganza. Okay. At the end of it, puzzle paloosa is too much. We let you guys know we actually threw a puzzle in to our opening alliteration. And now we'll give you the answer. Yes. So what Karen said at the beginning of the show was, hello,

Ocelots, oozing on Outer Ontario, and then described us as oddball orators outrunning omelets. And so if you take the first letter of each of those words, you would get, ooh. Oh, that's the answer, guys. Yeah, no, that's meaningless. But we told you there was a puzzling word hidden somewhere in there, but if you were to take the second letter that comes right after the O, you would get the word conundrum. Yes.

Ocelots Ousing on, et cetera, et cetera, C-O-N. Good job. Chris wrote that one. I was really happy with that because, A, it has obscure animals, which we usually put into our alliteration. And then also a B-phrase, oddball orators, because we always describe our science in such a way. Actually makes sense. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Until you get to the omelet. You get some food in there. Oh, running omelets? I don't know. I can see us doing that. They're stationary. You need to get away. I'll run an omelet right now.

Unless the eggs are runny. Oh. Get out. I liked it. That's our... She could stay. I'd say she could stay. So I was in Old Navy.

That's another O phrase. I was in Old Navy and we're buying some clothes and we were stuck in line. I saw in the line of the Old Navy. That's how they get you impulse fire. Absolutely is. totally an impulse by, but I justified it by saying, we'll use it on an episode of Good Job Brain.

The text right up. Lego Star Wars Madlids. Not Star Wars, not Star Wars. Lego, Star Wars, Medlips. What's the difference? I have no idea, but we're going to find out. So I need a silly word.

Toilet. That's fast. Well, I've played Madlips before. I know how it works. You know, I don't think I've ever played. I've never played Madlips. Oh, okay. Like, real Madlobs.

What? In case you're like Karen, I am going to ask for a whole bunch of different parts of speech like adjectives and nouns. You're going to give me the first thing that pops into your head and then I'm filling this into a story and then I'll read you the story with your words inserted inside. Okay. So should

I go with in canon or just whatever what comes to mind? No, no, no. In fact, you know, just whatever pops to mind based on that part of speech. Okay. Yes. Okay. Plural noun. Buggers. That was my word. Sorry. Adjective.

Spikey. Nice. Adjectives. Brown. I see a trend in your word. Noun. Pogo stick. Now.

Transcendentalism. That was the first thing that popped in my head. Now. Your mom. Now. Frog legs. Oh, very specific. Now.

Cow utter. Or just utter. Oh, okay. Yeah. Now. Goat. Now. Laser.

Part of the body. Butt cheek. Okay. You guys are all thinking of. Part of the body floral. Toes. Adjective. Slimy.

Part of the body. Oh, no. Loonilla. What the what now? The loonilla. On your fingernails. Just one. All right, well, great work, everybody.

You have written an essay about carbon freezing. If you ever try to double-cross an intergalactic gangster like Toilet the Hut, you might end up encased in boogers. That's pretty good. It's unbelievable. The process isn't very spiking. You will find yourself lowered into a brown chamber where you are then frozen inside a large block of Pogo Stick. After that, you could end up hanging on someone's transcendentalism,

or even used as a piece of furniture, such as your mom. However, you don't need to worry about that as you won't feel a frog legs. If you are eventually released from your suspended utter, you might experience goat sickness, provided you survive the laser. You could feel numbness or stiffness in your butt cheek, and your toes might take some time to get back to normal. But the most important thing to remember is, when you're frozen, try to smile so you won't be stuck with a slimy look on your lunia left.

great job everybody wow we're adults so what age is this usually for they just specify and up yeah and and up we're up good work everybody teamwork well with a bit of teamwork I think it's time for a little bit of competition because it's time for our first general trivia segment

pop quiz hot shot here I have a random trivial pursuit card from the entertainment edition so all entertainment that's good All right. You guys like to be entertained. You guys have your barnyard buzzers at the go. Here we go, Blue Edge for TV.

What was the name of the first fake novel, Notts Landing, written by Val Ewing? What? Read it a more time. What was the name of the first fake novel, Notts Landing, written by Val Ewing? I don't get the question. First fake novel, In? It didn't say in. It's not coming in italics?

Knott's Landing is in italics Okay Okay What was the name of the show? There must be like many shows Many novels I have no idea We're not going to get this out of back yet

It is Capricorn crude Okay well What is Natsin? What is Nothan? It's a show Yeah It was like one of the nighttime shows Yeah

Okay wow Pink Wedge for music Let's do better What band inspired The 2001 film Rockstar About a lead singer in a cover band who is asked to join the real thing.

Oh. Chris. What is the actual real? Journey? Incorrect. But that did kind of happen. Later. Was it Queen?

It's Judas Priest. Did that really happen? Yeah. Yellow Wedge. What actor played Jim Carrey's sidekick in the 1994 comedy Dumb and Dumber? Colin?

That's Jeff Daniels. Correct. And the Martian. Yes, now on the Martian. Emmy Award winning. Emmy Award winning. Yeah. Funny how, like, so I always get Jeff Daniels and Jeff Bridges kind of mixed up.

Oh, yeah, you're not the only one. Yeah. But then Jeff Bridges is also like, he's Academy Award winning. Too many Jeffs. Yeah, too many Jeffs. All right. Purple Wedge, what style of wrestling, also known as Scholastic or Folk Style Wrestling, is native. to the U.S.?

Wow, this is actually a really good trivia question. It's hard, but it's a good trivia question. Dana. Thumb wrestling. You didn't need it to be that. Oh, sure. Yeah, incorrect. I mean, I know Greco-Roman, and I know

WWE style. Right, right, right. So it is... Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hell in the cell. Rage in a cage. No. It is a college-style, right?

So I think it must be a variant of Greco-Roman. Because I assumed college wrestling was Greco-Roman. I did too. In Olympic, yeah. Oh, okay, all right. All right. Green for a B-O. book. Oh, okay.

What men 1920s Gertrude Stein novel depicts the events that transpire within her family? Wow. I don't know. If you can name any Gertrude Stein. Name a Gertrude Stein novel. It has a really long title. What is it? The Making of Americans, colon, being a history of a family's progress.

Okay. I didn't know that. I thought it might be in the punch bowl. Okay, last question. Wildcard. What legendary magician introduced his Chinese water torture cell in 1913? Everybody. Harry Houdini.

Correct. That's not the thing, right? That's the dripping thing? That's Chinese water torture. Okay, so this is a different. That's a different. That's a, I think that's like suspended upside down. Oh, oh, in a tank.

Yeah, right. Yes. Good job, Brains. All right this week, I'm really excited. Yeah? Because we can let our, what our hair down, let loose. Because this week we're going to talk about things that we indulgent that might not be, that might be dumb. We're going to open up a little bit.

Yeah, we're going to open. We're going to learn about each other and maybe a little bit about ourselves. This week, we're all about guilty pleasures. Stop pretending. I came here to make you dance tonight. I don't care about my guilty pleasure for you. Shut up because we won't stop from work getting melted. The start's coming up.

I came here to make you dance tonight. I don't care about my guilty pleasure for you. Okay, so I'll kick us off. I don't have that much shame. I don't think any of us would be here. if we had any concept of like normal human shame. Yeah. Yeah.

I was like, oh, I really liked facts and learning. I was like, oh, what will I do for guilty pleasures? I feel like watching some Law and Order SVU while I considered it. And I was like, oh, I wouldn't tell anybody really. I am super into Law and Order SVU, like the most salacious version of Law and Order Special Victims Unit. That marathon, like sometimes it comes on TV and then you just need to watch all of the, the whole marathon. It's like, well, there goes the day. I thought I was going to do something else. There's two places for me. One is, because I fly Virgin America a lot,

one of the channels will always have, I think it was like TBS or something or TNT or something, we'll always have, not just law and order, but law and order, SVU, which is the, you know, the sex crimes unit. The other thing is, like, I just settled into a hotel room. And I was like, ah, do I really want to go out? Like, I would turn on TV. And then you see, like, the tail end of SVU. And then it goes through credits. And then the first, First, then they just bleeds through the first five minutes of the next episode. You're like, well, I'm in. So I have a quiz for you guys about SVU.

I won't go deep, you know, deep SVU and you don't have to know any manuscript about episode. Right, right, right. Okay. Have you all watched it? I have never seen a whole episode. Oh, really? No. I definitely know the decor, long order.

Huge on order. Huge on order fan, but I just, I just never seen. With Sam Waterson and Jerry Ardoch? In all the various iterations, yeah, yeah, it just never transferred over to the spin-offs for me. I guess the reason why I would say it's a guilty pleasure is because I can never explain the plot of any episode to anyone without feeling weird about it. Yeah, I'm so lurid, yeah. Yeah, I find them so fascinating at the same time. So, you know, I'm not the only one.

Karen's not the only one who's really into Law and Overse View. Recently, within the last few years, a pop star named her kitten Olivia Benson after the name. The character of SVU. Which pop star named for Kate? Oh, Karen. Okay, I don't know for sure, but I have logic. I think it's Taylor Swift,

because in Taylor Swift's bad blood video, there is a Mariska Hargast. Mariska. Mariska Hargate cameo. She plays Olivia Benson on Law & Orders. I was going to guess Taylor Swift. I was going to guess Taylor Swift, because she can't really answer to a lot of these trips.

It's true. She's pretty prolific. It is Taylor's actually a good name for a cat, Olivia Benson. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It feels very feline somehow. So Law and Order SVU is currently the longest running, scripted, non-animated. They haven't quite caught up with Law and Order, the originals, run, which was 20 years. How long has SVU been on?

SVU has been on for 18 years. It's 17 years. Very cool. Wow. One of the characters on SVU has a record for appearances by an actor playing the same character in different programs. Like, has played this role in lots of TV shows. In other TV shows.

I was waiting for the inflection. It's like, and then it's a question. Oh, okay. Who is it? It's, it's, it's, uh... Squeaky wheel. What do you want to, do you want to go with a character or the name? I was going to guess the actor.

I was going to guess Dan Florek. It is not. Richard Belzer who was a detective John Munch in order to rescue but also in an unrelated show called Homicide Life on the Street. Same character, same universe. He was in

he was on the show? Yeah, as Detective John Munch. Yeah. And Homestead was set in Baltimore like the wire. And yeah. Yeah. Moved. Oh, that's so weird. Yep, but same character. I forgot about that. That's right. So he was also in law and order. A lot of people were in law and order

who were on SVU. But he was is also on an episode of the X-Files on who's in Law and Order Trial by jury and he was in the season three finale of Arrested Development as an episode of The Wire. Yeah, now they...

Yeah, see, they float the character around as much as they can now, too. So, both of Mariska Hargitay's parents were celebrities. Father was Mickey Hargatee, right? Body-golour. Yes, a huge body-golder. And he was like, Mr. Universe? Yeah. And was it, Jane Mansfield?

Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Jane. She got the looks and the and the buffs and the muscles. Christopher Maloney. Yes. Elliot Staler was on SVU for 12 years. And during the first few years of SVU, he was also on an HBO show called Oz. And since leaving SVU, he's played,

we'll say small roles, but there are no small, whatever. There are no small roles, but he's been on two other HBO series. Do you guys know which HBO series? I know one. I know he was on Veep. He played Selena's, like, trainer. Yes. I know he wasn't, I know he was in Wet Hot American Summer.

I don't know if he's in, but that's Netflix. That's not HBO. Right. What other HBO show? What would he, what? This show is no longer on HBO. Wow. It ended.

Very popular show that's not on HBO. It is. Oh, yeah, that's right. That's right. I said, I never watched it. Okay. And then finally, Ice-T plays Detective Odafin Tutuola on the show. And earlier this year, he and his wife, Coco, announced that they're going to have

a baby. And then on their new show, Ice and Coco, they announced that they're expecting a girl, and they revealed what they were going to name it. And it's a very guessable name. Yeah. It's a lot of, oh, is it? And I'll give you a hint that it relates more to the mother's name. It was just wordplay. Is it? Oh, is it not like beverages because he's iced tea and there's cocoa? So people were putting that out of it. Like, I mean, Macchiato. It relates more to the mother's name. Okay. Coco, nut.

Is it... Is it Chanel? Yes. Oh, Coco Chanel. Oh, that's cute. Okay, I was... Do we know iced tea's full name? No, no one knows it.

Oh, Tracy. Oh, Tracy. I thought it was Terry. Is that what is for? Tracy Merro. Tracy Merro, so it would be Chanel Mero. Yeah. Not Chanel T. Chanel T.

Chanel T. I purchased a... book recently. This happens a lot. And I would, we were in the D23 Expo, the Exposite for Disney fans out of Anaheim. And there's many, many books about Disney. There's many books by former Imagineers. There's many books by former Disney

employees. I did not buy any of them. As fascinating as they would have been. But there was one book that I saw at D23 Expo. I'm like, I am purchasing this book. This is going to be really interesting. It is called Cleaning the Kingdom. Yay! Insider Tales of Keeping Walt's Dream.

spotless. And it is from the creators of the Sweep Spot podcast, because of course they also have a podcast, and is former members of Disneyland's custodial team. Yes, because we talked about how efficient. Yes. I've shared

how they do the gardening and how they have like scuba people and the tanks like picking trash up. And so these are the behind-the-scenes stories and people who keep the Magic Kingdom the absolute cleanest place on Earth. And why is this guilty pleasure?

Well, they say a lot, like, we've cordoned off all the really disgusting stories into, you know, Chapter 4. So you don't have to read those if you don't want to. Falks, I went immediately. That is the thing I read first. I bought this book because I want to hear the grossest, most disgusting things that ever happened at Disneyland. They've sold Chapter 4 by itself. You would have bought that as a stand-long book. That's it.

I want to hear about all the whole CD for that one song. Poop and pee and blood and everything at Disneyland. The worst stories they have to tell. Man, we love poop. It might gross you out. And it might gross me out, but I had to have it. And so I will now, I have done my research, and I will tell you about the worst things that ever happened at Disneyland.

One of the things that these guys say is there are some people who, think that it would be a good idea to spread, their deceased relatives ask, and their ashes be dumped in the spread across the haunted mansion, yeah. And they're like, folks, unless you want your loved one's ashes vacuumed up and thrown in the garbage, do not spread their ashes. So romantic. So this is one of the stories, and I'm paraphrasing from the book here. In the 1980s, one of the special events they put on,

It's called circus fantasy, turning Disneyland into sort of, like, you know, circusy type stuff with, and they would have the parade, and the parade would have real-life circus animals. Now, they have horses in Disney. Yeah. Code H is code for the horse pooped, and they would clean up the poop. And they had that pretty much down to the science. They had, of course, elephants in the Disney circus parade, very circusy. That's what everybody wants to see is the elephants.

So they're like, okay, what they have what is called? called the honey bucket. Now the people, if you have live animals in Disneyland, watch out because, or watch out for the custodial members who would be dressed up in costume, an elaborate costume, wheeling an elaborate looking bucket along, looking like they're kind of part of the show. But that is, that is the poop bucket. Now, what they didn't realize is that elephants, when elephants poop, they poop, they poop a lot. So they use the bucket that they use for the horses. But if the elephant pooped once, it would fill half the bucket. And they say, after two times you got nervous because there were four elephants.

However, this was not the real problem. It was the pee. When an elephant lets loose, the book says, they put out gallons. So they had a bucket for the elephant pee, and they would quickly mop up the elephant pee and move on with the rat. And they're peeing and pooping while they're on parade. Of course, because they don't care. They think nothing of your human parade.

Yeah, yeah, I guess so. So the elephant pees during the parade at one point, The guy mops it up, gets it all into the bucket, has to continue along with the bucket. He has a five-gallon bucket of elephant pee that he is carrying to get rid of. He slips on elephant pee. People are lined up seated on the ground along the street. Quote, a massive wave of elephant pee rushed toward the Tomorrowland side of the crowd. The air filled with a chorus of screams

As people frantically stood up from the curb where they had been sitting Popcorn flying Mothers yanking their kids back Simultaneously A roar of uncontrollable cheers and laughter came On the opposite side That's me So that happened

In the Indiana Jones ride at Disneyland that. By the time you get up to the place where you actually get into the vehicle and are about to take the ride, you might have been waiting for like 90 minutes. And sometimes you think you really need to go to the bathroom. Sometimes you think that you're really far from a bathroom because you've been waiting in line for so long. In point of fact, there are restrooms near the cars, but you don't know that if you ask, someone will take you back there. The book says, a woman who did not know this burst into the control room. for the attraction and deposited her gift right there. Oh my gosh, you really had to go. It must have been challenging for the ride operator to stay at their post before it was cleaned up to eat. Oh, my God. But that's not the worst thing.

So Code H is for horse poop. Human code H is for human poop. Okay. Sometimes that gets confused. There is a story in the book about somebody pooped in the Swiss family Robinson or the Tarzan tree house, like up in the tree house. but they reported it as code H. Someone's like, what?

Yeah, it had a horse get up there. This is the worst, and then we will stop talking about this. A woman wearing shorts had been on the highest of the three guest decks of the Mark Twain Riverboat. Okay. When diarrhea caught up with her. Oh, no. She started walking, which meant she kept spreading it. So she knew.

Yeah. Oh, okay. As she touched some white wire mesh protecting the propulsion system. for the boat, leaving some of the fecal matter in the white wire mesh. So basically, there was just, it was like, this was one of the most difficult cleanups because it was all in the wire and everything on a boat. Even with these gross things, the park, any, most thing parks have protocol. Remember Chris when we went to Harry Potter?

Yes. And then they had to wait, we're like, why are we waiting for so long? So someone either barfed, I think, peed. Keith. While during the ride. And we saw them disinfecting and cleaning the whole train.

And it was actually really cool to see. They're really fast. They have like kind of hazmatty suits on. And, you know, they have all this protocol. And I'm like, oh, okay, they're prepared for this. Right. And meanwhile, there's announcements going over. Oh, yeah, yeah.

Like, attention muggles. Due to increased dragon activity in the sky for Hogwarts, the Dragon Challenge has been temporarily grounded. And we're like, oh, no. And we're looking. We're like, oh, they're clean.

I love a good... There was another story there about there was like a huge like blocks of vomit. And there were like teenage kids were like running in the park. And the custodian was like, no running kids. And they're like, yeah, whatever. And he let them run through the puddle of vomit and they wipe out and they fall. And he's like, I told you no running. What can I do?

So I've been doing some traveling on the weekends. I'm doing my 50 states, 50 marathons and 50 states. I just finished up Virginia because I did the Marine Corps Marathon, which is a big deal, a big race, and very patriotic because you run around D.C. and Virginia, all the monuments and very cool. Weirdly enough, met a lot of good job bringing people while I was, listeners while I was running, including Colin's friends, Jay and Diana. kids, right? They were cheering on the side. And then other people afterwards, like, from Twitter, people were you running the Marine Corps marathon? Because I thought or saw

you. And I was like, there are like, there are like 30,000 people out there. And so that is super cool. Yeah, I was Captain America. Well, technically American Dream, which is the female. Oh, technically. Yeah. Oh, my God. This is a nerdy show. Before running the race, I was like, oh, you know, it's all like American and, you know, I got to set the mood. and I usually listen to music on my races and I decided to put on Hamilton, latest hit Broadway show

Smash hit! Smash hit! Written by my hero, Lynn Manuel Miranda, who also wrote In The Heights, which is one of my favorite Broadway shows. And also retweeted me once. Oh, really? Oh, your baby joke? My baby joke. Yeah, your baby joke. He blew that thing right up. I made a joke about the baby, and

next thing you know, Lynn Manuel Miranda is retweeting it. Hamilton, it's a mix of musical and rap. And when I see rap, the rap is super dense, super well written, so clever. And I think Colin, you're the one who told me New York Times did like an analytical take on... Yeah, I forget it was New York Times are 538, but they did an analysis of it has the most words packed into the time. The density of words to music. Yeah. Hamilton is about the life in times of Alexander Hamilton, one of the America's founding fathers. And that's kind of my new thing.

with running is now I listen to show tunes and it's actually pretty I mean used to I used to listen to a lot of angry music a lot of Papa Roach you know to like get me going and get feel angry about things but now you know as I'm older like I like show tunes because it's like a story and I can kind of mount to it do you listen to like an entire show entire show oh yeah okay I thought it was fitting because it was Hamilton it was about family fathers and I'm in DC even though technically New York City was the first capital but you know it's very patriotic yeah very patriotic

They're two types of people. They're people who are into Broadway and show tunes, and they're people who really are not. And I am in the showtunes camp. I know Chris is also in the showtunes camp. My guilty pleasure is showtunes. So I have a quiz about showtunes. But since Chris is a showtutes person, I'm going to structure this quiz a little bit differently. It's Dana and Colin versus Chris.

Oh, okay. So you guys can work together. So Chris is going to write down and commit his answer, and then Dana and Colin can talk about it. So, Hamilton, about Alexander Hamilton, name another titular named Broadway musical that also chronicles the life and death of a politician. Politician. Okay, politician.

I'm locked in. Well, I mean, would you count Eva Perron's politician? Yeah, she? Yeah. We'll say Evita. Chris? I also said Evita. Correct.

Evita is correct. She was actually elected to office in some while. So, Evita was made into a film in 1996 starring Madonna, and she campaigned for that role very, very hard to the director. Madonna did do something extra to campaign for her role, other than writing and talking about it. She did do something. What did she do beforehand as kind of her, quote, audition? She did do something that was a little out of the ordinary. It's related to one of her songs, too

You know, I don't know I was going to say, like, translate a song in Spanish maybe He had some songs, like, La Islamo Yeah, yeah I could know with that There was that video Take About, it's like about a Spanish That's right, the Whole Fighter, right? I was, I mean, my first thought was like

That she, like, just dyed her hair or something But if it was a song, I like that, yeah, Transited song in Spanish maybe For the music video of Take About, if you remember, it is a she is the lover of a like a bullfighter and set in Spain and that video the visuals and her styling and all of the wardrobe choices madonna requested that houseman the director give the video a spanish theme because she was lobbying for being evita and she said the video to Alan Parker the director of the film to kind of be like oh you go here and you can see if

you watch the video it was a great song and great video, you can see she has kind of that wardrobe and the look and the very blonde hair. Right, she's like, look, I can pull it off. Currently, what is the longest running Broadway show? It is still running. Longest

running. Okay, hold on. I'll have my head's down. Yeah. You guys are really competitive. Well, the way you structured it, yeah. I can give you more clues. Well, okay. Seven Tony Awards,

including Best Musical. And this is all about musical, so that was a bad clue. Okay, I've written one down. All right, well, Lion King has been running since the late 90s. So if it's not Lion King, it's going to have to be something that's even older. Is Laymez still running? Or cats finally stopped, right? It finally, I would say either Lion King or whatever the biggest Angelid Weber is.

What do you want to do? I'll say Lion King, sure. Sure. Chris? Well, I had said Phantom, because I, I didn't know if it had started and stopped. Because it was cats. It definitely was cats for a while.

The cats stopped. I know it's been eclipsed since then. If Phantom has never left Broadway, I'm pretty sure it's Phantom. I don't know if it's left or not, though, but I did write down Phantom. It is Phantom of the Opera. Started running in 1988,

Broadway's longest running show and musical. And I don't see it, I don't see it going away anytime. Really? Well, I mean, it's still super popular. It's like self-sustaining at this point. Yeah. Yeah. It was kind of, I mean, as a kid, it was kind of scary. It is scary. It's super scary. You would have a crazy face about murders.

We just saw, we saw a new staging of it here in San Francisco that has, like, some new, like, set design and things like that. It's really cool. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah, because, I mean, back then it was all about crazy sets. It was. Yeah. Miss Saigon had a helicopter, and then, like, this had, like, a chandelier.

And it was all about big sets moving. Right. So, longest running is Phantom. What is the highest grossing Broadway musical of all time? It could have ended at some point. Yes. Okay.

But made the most amount of money by far. Wow. So it's not Phantom of the Opera. It is not Phantom of the Opera. Despite that, that's the longest running. What is the highest grossing? It did dethrone. The title holder was Phantom of the Opera.

I feel like I said it. Lion King? Yeah, let's ride with Lion King. What'd you put? Well, I put, I put cats. Because I know it came back to Broadway. It is Lion King. Those tickets are expensive.

Reaped in a whopping one billion dollars and will probably, it's still, I mean, it's still on Broadway. It's on the 17th year straight. And the Lion King was where they absolutely nailed, like, they brought kids back to Broadway. So we got highest, most profitable, longest running. most expensive Broadway show. Highest budget.

Oh, okay. And this has been in trivia before. I like this team thing. Was this a show a hit? I can't. You can't ask questions. Sure, I can't. It benefits them, too. Okay, I'm locked in. I think it may have been that

Spider-Man one. Yeah, Spider-Man. It was turn off the dark. I don't even know what that means. That was what I was angling for with this show a hit, but I didn't write that down. What'd you write down? I wrote that Miss Saigon. Because you're right,

it had a helicopter. It's a good guess, yeah. And it had a car, too. Right, right, right. Yeah, it was crazy. It was Spider-Ban, turn off the dark. Oh, man. $75 million.

Now $79 million with inflation. It's one of those things where the budget just kept growing and growing. And didn't like Bono do the soundtrack? Yes, so Bono wrote the music, Julie Tamer, who did, who directed and did all the puppet stuff for Lion King. She, you know, she did, it was, and it looked great. Right, but it was just all of the expenses just compounding $75 million. All investors lost money. So some of the Broadway shows sometimes, like, if they kind of lost money on Broadway,

maybe they'll have a touring company and they can make back some of the losses. But, like, this is not an easy touring show to do. Still playing? Mm-hmm. Oh, no. Yeah, and with these shows, you just kind of don't know. Like, you know, if I tell you, hey, a story about Alexander Hamilton is like the number one. You're like, what, really?

Oh, no, it has rapping. You're like, what? Wait, come back. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, the South Park guys are going to make a musical. About Mormonism. It's like, yeah, sounds great. Okay, crazy person.

All right, I'm going to close my segment with a couple, with a name that tune. I try to choose them. They're not that easy, but they're also very famous. You know, even people who don't know musical theater can either figure them out or have heard these songs before. Some of these might be classic. but they're some of my favorites, and so I want to share. So song number one, this is still Chris versus Colin Dana. So let me be clear, we're naming what musical is this from?

Yes. Okay, okay. Here we go. First song. Of the chance, when the last little star is in the sky. Shall we still be together with our arms around each other, and shall you be my new... From us.

On the clear understanding that this kind of thing can happen. Shall we dance? Shall we dance? Shall we dance? Shall we dance? All right. Chris locked in? I'm locked in, yes.

What'd you say? I think it's the king and I? Yeah, king and I. It is the king and I. I saw that on Broadway with Get Ready. Lou Diamond Phillips. Wow. Well, at the King of Siam?

Yes. Oh, okay. Yes. For some reason, the way you said that, I was like, he went like he was. No. He was in the show and I was in the audits. So you saw it. He was in it.

Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We were in the same room, technically. This version, the song I just played is from Louvre, starring Deborah Kerr and Yule Brenner. Yul Brenner played the king. So he died, sadly, died from cancer. But until then, from the movie, he was doing the king in theater.

Oh, yeah. Like, until he died. So he was, like, the king of Siam. This scene, they just don't make these musicals the same anymore. That's Roger's Hammerstein? Yes, it is, yes. A couple more, here we go. Right now you are down and out and feeling really crappy.

I'll see. And when I see how sad you are, it sort of makes me Happy Sorry, Nicky Human Nature Nothing I can do It's shot in Freuda Making me feel glad that I'm not you

That's not very nice, Gary I didn't say it was nice But everybody does it You ever clap when a waitress falls And drops a tray of glasses I think we all know what is. I think we can all say. Avenue Q.

Avenue Q, yes. And you can hear that it's kind of Ernie Sesame Street. Yeah, Muppet voice out. All right, here we go. A classic. I could have danced all night. I could have danced all night and still have begged for me.

I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things I've never done before I'm locked in So that's like I could have danced all night Yeah Which Famous Very famous Was that from my fairy lady?

Like was that after she went to her first society, you know Okay I don't think it's sound of music My Fair Lady? All right, Chris? I too am locked in at My Fair Lady. Correct, My Fair Lady. And this is not from the movie.

So here's a bit of controversy, some showtunes controversy. So this version I just played, you might think that the voice sounds really familiar. That's Julie Andrews, you know, Mary Poppins, sound music. So she was the original Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady on stage. And she was ready to rock and roll for the movie. So they're planning the movie and they're like, ah, Julie Andrews, no. little playing. We might need a little bit more star power. So instead of hiring her who perfected the Liza Doolittle role, they hired Audrey Hepbert, who cannot sing. And all of the singing parts

in the movie is sung by someone else. And so... Marnie Nixon. Oh, really? Marnie Nixon also did Deborah Kerr and King and I as well. She was the voice. She was the voice. So, I mean, that really sucks for Julie Andrews. And then the same year, she's like, well, you know, I have some free time because I'm not doing the My Friend Lady. I'll pick up this other movie that someone offered me a role called Mary Poppins. And what happened was that year at the Oscar Awards, both actresses were up for best female, lead female performance, and Julie Andrews won for Mary Poppins.

Maybe because Arthur Herbert didn't see any of her parts. My Fair Lady did win Best Picture that year. Oh, really? It did. And the very next year, Sound of Music, won Best Picture. Oh, so it's just... Just them, them too. All right, last one.

Probably one of my favorite songs from show tunes ever. All right. From my favorite show. All right. Here we go. Every time I look at you, I don't understand. Why you left the things you did get so out of hand. You'd manage better if you'd had it planned.

Why'd you choose to back with time on such a strange land? If you'd come today, you would have breathed off all day. Israel and 4 BC had no mass communication Yes, let's get you all know In fact, Jesus Christ's super star Showed this on TV like years ago It's so 70s As a kid I'm like, what am I watching?

The movie was a super cool take It was a bunch of like traveling actors Decided to stage this in Israel Funny story, when I was a kid I grew in Taiwan So we didn't have American channels but we had NHK, which was the Japanese channel, and they're airing Jesus Christ Superstar.

I was a kid in no concept of 70s, and I was like, I don't know what's going on. I just thought people singing and dancing. I was like, this is cool. So I watched this, I watched the whole thing. Didn't understand a word, but like the songs were really catchy. So my mom came home from work. I'm singing all these songs, but I don't know what I'm singing

because my English was bad. So there's a song called What's the Buzz? And I thought it was What's the Fuzz on a Teddy Bar. So I kept, I was like trying to tell my mom, I was like, I watched this thing. It's like, what's the fun? I kept doing the dancing. It wasn't until later she's like, oh, you watch Jesus Christ. So there you go.

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We have many Judge Judy's under TVR. When we're just feeling mad at the world and we want to hear somebody yell at somebody else who probably deserves it. It makes you feel good inside. Judge Judy is a great place to go. Really does. You learn about the law. So I have this told some trivia and facts about Judge Judy. And why it is a guilty pleasure for me.

Judge Judy, I mean, famous worldwide, but if you have not seen it, it is a courtroom reality show. Litigants come into her courtroom and describe their problem. And Judge Judy decides who is right, who is wrong. It's always a civil suit in which somebody believes they are owed some sum of money from someone else. and she decides who gets what money. And she does, in fact, have legal training, and she was a... Indeed. Judith Shindlin is her name, and she was a family court judge in New York City for about 20 years.

She first became known to the public in 1993, because she was well known at that point among people who were in the family court system, the attorneys, you know, who worked in the family courts in New York City as being this acerbic, very no-nonsense, very gelly courtroom presence. I mean, very much like she is on the show. So family court is a little bit different, you know, when they're dealing with juveniles and or like families or she's of custody. It's not plaintiffs and defendants. It's complainants and respondents.

And it's the idea is that like everybody is trying to work together, try to figure out what the best solution for the problem is. And this gives the judge a lot of leeway. It's not a jury trial. You know, Judge Judy became known as this, as, as the judge who would always, you know, speak her mind. You either loved her or you hated her. But her mentality at that time was, look, like, if you're a 16-year-old kid who's committed a string of robberies, it's like, yeah, your lawyer could get you off on a technicality. But like, is that good for you to learn that there is no punishment whatsoever? You know, so a lot of it was saying, kids like, you know, you better straighten up and trying to scare the kids because she knows

legally that she has to let him go. So there was an L.A. Times article, a big feature all about her, like kind of talking about the problems of the family court system, you know, through her lens. And then also there was a very famous 60 Minutes show, which you can find on, I think, it's CBS's website, interview with Morley Safer, you know, who was hosting 60 Minutes. And with cameras in her courtroom, she's, I think, 49 years old at that point, but acting in family court, very much the same way she does on a TV show. So she was headed towards retirement at that point, but off the strength of 60 minutes. Oh, she became famous.

She became famous. And she even wrote a book because the LA Times writer wrote the story then worked with her on a book entitled, Don't Pea on My Leg and Tell Me It's raining. Yes. Is that something she says? Yeah, yeah, that's one of her, that's one of her catchphrases, yeah, right, like, as in, I can tell you're lying to me, don't make it so obvious, yeah, television produced her approach to her, like, would you like to do a, you know, a court type show? At this point, the people's court was popular, you know, Judge Wapner, right? Sure, sure. There were a lot of courtroom drama type shows, but a lot of them were scripted. Oh, okay. And it was like, oh, this is a dramatization based on an actual court case, exactly. But the idea behind this one, that this is real. And what does real mean like this show? This is the interesting thing about shows like Judge Judy.

They go out and they find litigants who have filed cases in small claims courts around the country. And they say to them, okay, drop your case and sign an agreement with us that says that we will arbitrate your case. Because in every state, there's a process for arbitration, which is it's faster than a court trial. And what you basically say is everybody agrees that an arbitrator, who doesn't have to be a lawyer, doesn't have to be a judge. Oh. You know, generally, states will have different standards for, like, who can hire as a child as an arbitrator. You could. Oh, okay.

Some states, it's like you have to have a bachelor's degree. Okay. Some states, it's not that at all. In some states, it's like, oh, you have to be an expert in the field that this is, you know, an issue with. So, like, if it's about the manufacturing industry, they want to know that you have some expertise in that industry. So you can make an informed judgment. The thing that makes the Judge Judy show legally binding is that everybody agrees that Judge Judy is going to make this decision. Everybody signs a contract that says her decision is legally binding and that kind of closes out the court case.

Judge Judy, even though she was at one point a judge, is not acting in the capacity of a judge. They can call the show as Judge Judy or Judge this or Judge that. Put her in a row. You are not watching. you are not watching a documentary about a small claim story. You are watching an entertainment television program that has been educated for your entertainment. Karen, did you have a question?

I do. So I've watched a couple episodes. Sometimes one party is really dumb, and sometimes both parties are really dumb. Or, you know, you're casted as the villain or the dummy. Because, like, it's small claims. Honestly, I would not. Why would I want to go on TV to show the world?

that I can't pay my friend. And also, get paid. Right. Well, that's the, that's the character here. Yes. So what they say to them is, you know, you might win in court but never get paid.

But on our show, we have a pot of $5,000. And if nobody wins in court, you each get half of it. If Judge Judy could award all of that money to one plaintiff or the other. And the reason why plaintiffs go on is, oh, you're going to get your money. Like, you can get it that day, right? Versus, and why defendants go on is because even if they lose, they don't have to pay the money at them.

Oh, it's not from their pockets. No. Got it. Kind of why it's a guilty pleasure for me is because, you know, it's still an edited TV show, and they're still looking to have heroes and villains. Yeah. So they'll still, but the thing is, a lot of people who watch it, they don't understand that you can get a bad edit or a good edit.

You know what I mean when you want a reality show? And that has made Judge Judy, I mean, she's absolutely one of the highest paid television stars, period. Wow. She was making close to a million dollars in episode when she worked in. Wow. Yeah. She just bring in legal, quasi-legal terminology and concepts. You know, you do actually learn some things, such as what she always talks about, the doctrine of clean hands,

which is certainly a real legal doctrine, which is to say that if you, the plaintiff, have also acted fraudulently, if you come to court and say, well, this guy defrauded me. And it's like, yes, but you also defrauded him. We don't care, get out. Like, you have to come in having acted in good faith the whole time for a court to want to award you the money for which you are owed. If you both tried to cheat each other and you came in and said, well, he got the better end of it, then the court is like, we don't care. Roughly speaking, a real thing. That does come up a lot.

She's like, you did not act good either. Also, just hearsay. She's very strict about hearsay, which is that's when you come into court and you're on the witness stand and they said, okay, tell us what happened that day. And you say, well, Bob said to me that he saw somebody, and it's like,

no, no, no, no, that's not admissible what somebody else said to you. Because the game of telephone, we have no way of verifying that. And we can't cross-examine a person who's not here. You have to bring in Bob. Bob has to tell us,

but you can tell us what you saw that day, you know, but you can't tell us what someone else said. It's inadmissible. And she will strike that down very, very quick. We've all signed contracts. She will always take the contract and hold up the contract and say, here are the four corners of the contract. This represents the entirety of your agreement.

If you sign the contract and you say, oh, well, they really said that I had an extra 30 days on top of this. It's like, it's not written in the contract. You know, that's something you can really look. I think that's the one thing that everybody learns coming away. If you watch it enough, Judge Judy. I didn't realize until very recently that it was popular, let alone a hit, outside of America. What?

I mean, when we had some listeners came and joined us from the UK once, and they were telling us, like, oh, one of our favorite American shows, Judge Judy. Wow. And I was like, what, I couldn't. I mean, it just really threw me that it would play. So, yeah, international star, Judge Judy. I would not have guessed. Yeah, there's a whole channel. What?

There's a whole, like, Justice, whatever, I think, channel. But some of those shows are actually, they are scripted. So watch out. Yeah. There was, there was, there was, it was, it was, it was, uh, justice with Judge Mabelaine. They, I knew it was fake because they did one about, um, a woman was suing because, uh, she ordered Kalamari, but it turns out the restaurant made Kalamari out of, of

pig sphincters, which is an urban legend. Ripped from the other ones. I have eaten a pig sphinx, butthole. And it was not, it's super good. It tastes like Kalimari. No, no, you don't eat the butthole. You eat the intestines. Yeah.

Oh, my God, it's so good. So chewy. What, really? Yeah, it's a Taiwanese staple. Oh. You put it in their noodles. Yeah. Well, chitlins.

Chitlins. We were in Paris, and we went to a place that served pigs feet. Oh, yeah. And I'm like, oh, I don't want to get pigs feet. And then there was something on the mini called an unduit. And I'm like, oh, like, an undoing this sausage. And I'm like, oh, it's going to be great. It was just, it was just pig's butt parts.

and it tastes like a dirty diaper. I was not happy. No good. Not a guilty pleasure. No, I felt neither guilt nor pleasure. Well, I think when you put it that way, I just know what it has pig intestines, but when you say pig buttholes, that's different.

That's like one part. Yeah. We eat chicken buds. They stuff it. They stuff the whole part with like seasoned steaky rice and they deep fry it. Oh, yeah. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

Wait a minute. What are they called? Or do they just, they don't call them chicken butts. Well, no, they call it like, like, like, lucky pouch or something because it's stuffed with rice and stuff in it. How do you say, guess what chicken butt in? It doesn't work. How do you say, guess what? Guess what, lucky pouch?

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Because with regular comprehensive eye exams at Specsavers, you'll know just how healthy they are. Visit Spexsavers.cavers.cai to book your next eye exam. Eye exams provided by independent optometrists. Well, we've all gone and shared our guilty pleasures, except for one person, Colin. For last segment, you're up. You know, you guys all went really specific onto your, like, real, just drill down to your guilty pleasure, and I didn't go quite so specific.

Okay, hold on. If it's not specific, then you have to admit what your guilty pleasure is. I like, I like really bad disaster movies. Like, I will watch any disaster movie, even though, even though I know, going into that I know it, oh, you know, like, day after tomorrow or 2012 or like, just any of those. I know they're going to be bad You know, I don't include the sharknado in there That's too ironic And then I do have another guilty pleasure

Which is dumb TV I grew up Like how dumb? Well, we're going to talk about some of them Some of the dumb things will feature into this quiz That I have prepared for you guys I originally called it a trash TV quiz But I know that's a little too harsh

It was, it's not, it's really more dumb TVs I'm going to ask you questions about TV shows And these are going to be TV shows that people, you may not want to admit to somebody that, yes, I like to watch this show. This TV personality was born in London, England,

was a political campaign advisor to Robert Kennedy and served as mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, from 1977 to 1978. Karen. Robin Leach? It is not Robin. That's a good guess, though.

Kind of. He's British. Chris. Jerry Springer. It is Jerry Springer. Born in London? Born in London? Yes, to a family of Holocaust survivors.

They immigrated to the U.S. where he grew up in New York. And had, by all accounts, a very serious life as a politician before he went on to host, of course, the Jerry Springer show, which is, you know, it's not high-round... A black mark on our nation's history, let's just say. You know, the show that was even worse as the show afterwards, where his bodyguard had... its own talk show. This TV series takes place at 1209 Ocean Terrace

in the town of Seaside Heights. Karen, without a hesitation. Jersey Shore. That is. Jersey Shore. Yes. You can rent out the Jersey Shore house if you feel so inclined.

Apparently it gets trashed on a regular basis. People go there to reenact what they've seen. That's awesome. If they had a fan club, and they like larp out like the actual episodes. I had no idea how many remakes and exports there were of this. Wait, what do you mean?

Well, so of course, Jersey Shore was a hit for MTV America. But they're like, well, we can export this to any country that has young drunk idiots. Whoa. There's Jordy Shore. There you go. That's a remake, Jordy Shore in MTV, UK. They're running for over a decade now. There's Gandhia Shore in MTV, Spain.

There's Warsaw, sure. You're an MTV Poland. There's a Russian version. The checklist is house, water, alcohol. Yeah. Truly, among our greatest gifts to the world. Shame, not anywhere on that list. This TV host was known for her signature eyewear,

which she admitted years later she originally got as a promotional item in exchange for a visit to the doctor. Whoa! Dana. Sally Jessie Raphael. Sally Jesse Raphael. This story is great.

This is an interview she gave with Oprah a few years ago. She told Oprah that early in her career, working in TV, she needed a pair of glasses. And she was so poor. She saw this, I swear this is true. She said she saw there was a deal if she went to get a pap smear at the local pedicomacomacist. You would get a free pair of glasses. So she went in. With prescription or non-president?

Perthap smear. And then she said they tried to upsell. her for the more expensive glasses and she's thinking like nobody's going to want these like giant gaudy red glasses she's like no i can't afford it so she took the big red glasses and stuck with them and that became her signature wow it's just a banana's what was she doing before her a talk show she started off like at local news like like so many people yeah yeah right apparently she had trouble reading the teleprompter and she realized she needed to get some glasses well good thing that pass near places nearby if i hadn't heard it from her herself i would

wouldn't have believed it. This nighttime soap opera featured such exciting workplaces as D&D advertising, Wilshire Memorial Hospital, and Shooters Bar. Karen. Melrose Place? It is Melrose

I was like, I can't think of a nighttime soap opera. All right, we're going to close it out here. We're going to close it out here, guys. We need to talk about the Kardashians. To make this interesting, For the first time ever, on Good Job Rain, there will be actual cash prizes available for the princely sum of $1 American. Oh, man.

I need you guys to name all five, and then for another dollar, list them in order from oldest to youngest. Karen. I don't want your dollar. I can do it. Okay, so, young as how old is. So, Kylie, Kendall, Chloe, Kim, Courtney. Dana, what do you think?

Yeah, that's great. Wait, can I get it in this too? Yeah, although you didn't want my dollar, Chris. I'm pretty sure Chloe is younger than Kim and Courtney. You got it. This is not that hard, like, I mean, too. You know the way we're always impressed that you know sports questions? Like, he has me, and I'm like, oh, yeah, I know the answer.

Wow, it's incredible. It's like, that's why we're so. high functioning. Yes. Because we have our strength in our areas. Don't remember that much. Do you guys ever have some guilty pleasure like TV movies where if it's running, if it's playing on TV, you'll just watch it.

For me, there's two movies. Oh, okay, okay. They both have the name holiday of the title. One is Last Holiday, starring Queen Latipa, and L.L. Kuljee, I know. I love it. If it's on TV, I will watch the whole thing. It's where she gets an illness and she's like, I'm going to live my life fully.

She goes to Czech Republic and Timothy Hutton is in it. Oh, I remember. L.O. Cool J. And the other movie is The Holiday. Not last holiday, but The Holiday, starring Kate Winslet and Cameron Diaz and Jack Black. I will watch the TV show Bate Car. I don't know if you're going to talk about this. But this is wonderful.

What they do is the police will leave a car with the keys in the ignition in an air. area that is known for a lot of car thefts and then wait for a car thief to come by and steal the car. Right. But the car is outfitted with, A, lots and lots of cameras, and B, they can remote shut the car down. Whoa. So they let the person drive away in the car.

For a little bit. Drive away for a little bit. Get them surrounded and then shut the whole car down. Everybody's got a story. Oh, no, no, I thought it was just, I was going to move it because the car was there and it felt like I should really, you know, get it out of here. Everybody has a story. Yeah, and then everybody has a story. And then

99% of the time they run the person's ID and there's like multiple auto thefts. Well, we've opened up and now is the end of our show. Thank you guys for joining me. And thank you guys for listening. Hope you learn a lot of stuff about our inner

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