Good Job, Brain! - 168: It Takes Two

Episode Date: December 16, 2015

Prepare for trouble! Make it double! We're all about facts and quizzes about pairs and duos this week. Twins playing tennis, oooo minty fresh! Learn some pretty weird facts about Doublemint gum and what exactly is Wrigley doubling up on? Movie buffs rejoice in Colin's film pairs quiz, and who is Philip and why are people putting pants on him? Karen's all about Texas Hold'em and funny card pair nicknames. Dana quizzes us on musical duos, and we explore the uncommon world of raccoonnookkeeping. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to an airwave media podcast. Hello, shining, sharp shooting sherlocks. Welcome to Good Job, Brain, your weekly quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. This is episode 168. And of course, I'm your humble host, Karen, and along with me are your clackety-clack club of clever and classy clue clinging cluckers i'm colin i'm dana and i'm chris oh hello so sensual i'm very sensual thank you all right and without further ado let's jump into our first general trivia segment pop quiz hot shot here i have random trivial pursuit cards

from genus four okay that's a that's a quality genus okay okay okay Good genus. Okay. Here we go. And you guys have your barnyard buzzers ready. Oh, someone wrote in asking me to clarify who has what buzzer. Oh, okay. We haven't talked about this in a long time.

In a while. You don't hear me because I'm reading the questions. But every now and again. I have a dog buzzer. Yeah. So let me do it. Yeah. That's Karen.

And I've got the horse. I've got the cow. And I have the Brewster. That's the most annoying sounding one, I think. It really is. It's the highest one. It really is. Yeah.

It cuts through. Yeah. So the sample is so long compared to the other ones. Yes. Yes. The full cockadoodle do. I always feel like you buzzed in first. It always sounds like I buzzed in first.

Yeah. Yeah. Here I have a random card. Here we go. Blue Edge for People and Places. What city replaces 253,42 by fours on its boardwalk? every decade. Dana.

Oh, I think Colin. That was Colin. I think we probably have the same guess. I'm going to guess Atlantic City, New Jersey. Atlantic City. Where the boardwalk is. Yeah. I have a, so I have a burning question.

I need to look this up. So when I was a kid, when I come to the States to vacation, you know, my aunt lives in New Jersey. We'd go to Atlantic City and adults would go gamble and the kids would buy saltwater taffy and walk around. Why is it called saltwater taffy when it's not made of something? salt water. It's not made of salt water? Because it is made of salt water. Oh, it is? But it's not salty. Historically, it is kind of salty. It's not, well, I mean, salt. It's not going to make it taste salty, but like, you know, you add salt to your cookies. Or if you eat cookies,

there's salt in your cookies. I challenge the two tenants of your complaint, one that it's not made with salt water and two that it's not salty. But I feel like there's a way to answer this. I mean, but maybe we'll never know. You can also add more sugar, too. There's salt in a lot a thing. Contrary to popular belief, the Taffey contains no salt water. Oh, yeah? Or sea water. Well, then why is it? However, it does contain both salt and water.

Oh, okay, so it's not sea water. It was just a market. I always thought it was salty water. No, I didn't think so. No, I didn't think it was sea water. Because you're by the Atlantic City, it's Atlantic Ocean. Yeah, I wouldn't want to drink that water. Well, see, I never associated it with the ocean.

I just associated it with like old-timey candy shops. But, yeah, you're right. I could see, like, yeah, Yeah, you're like, it's on the boardwalk. People think that the water was just pulled out of the ocean that day. Is there any food made with ocean water? Just like besides fish or something. I wouldn't try it. Because they're always like water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink.

Right. You're not supposed to have any of it. I don't know. Right. No, you're not supposed to drink it. No. The sea breeze and you're there and you're like, oh, saltwater taffey. It's made out of water and a bit of salt.

Okay. Okay. Well, so I was wrong. There is no salt water. Yeah. Not even historically? Mm-mm. Wow.

Mm-mm. I do find it salty. Maybe my taste buds are broken. I'm glad now I found out my birthday pushed it. I'm glad we pushed through that. Thanks, Wikipedia. All right. Pink Wedge for Arts and Entertainment.

What 1991 movie did Brad Pitt appear in for less than 14 minutes, launching him to stardom? Colin. That is Thelma and Louise. Correct. Oh, right, of course. He's the hunky guy. Yeah. Yellow Wedge for a history.

Who was the last U.S. president of. of the 19th century. Oh, we've had. We're so... All right. Dana. McKinley? Correct.

Yeah. William McKinley. Who used to have a pretty nice mountain named after him. Oh, snap. But randomly. He never went to Alaska. No. So now it's Denali.

They renamed it. Recently. Oh. Yeah. Why the name after him? It's actually a long, interesting story. That we don't have time for. Yeah, that we don't have time for.

But it's interesting. story of why they named it Mount McKinley. It was kind of ironically, actually. Yeah. Let's do Brown Wedge, Science and Nature. What two astronomical objects pull equally at the solar and heliosphoric observatory? What? What? Say that one more time, please. What two astronomical objects pool equally at the solar and heliosphoric observatory? Yeah, I guess you just break out the name. Well, heliocentric. I'm going to guess one of them is the sun. Correct.

And I'm going to guess since we are on Earth and like to observe things, I will guess the earth. Correct. Okay. Sports and Leisure, what N-word is the old term for our golfers nine iron? I know this. Niblick. Yes. Thank you.

What an awesome word. I know. I know the old club names. Nivlik is great. The mashie. The mashie. The mishy. All right.

Last question. Wildcard, Orange Wedge. What former surgeon general's, New Year's resolution was, quote, to spend more quality time by herself, according to David Letterman. Uh, Dana. Is this, uh, Jocelyn Elders? Yes.

Man, that's a really a racy card. All right. Good job, Brains. And Chris. Yes. You have a surprise for us. I do have a surprise. In the grand tradition of making each other eat weird foods, yes.

There is a certain food that we have mentioned here on Good Job Brain before that I don't think any of us have ever actually eaten. And I saw certainly a canned version of it in a foreign foods store. And I'm like, we are all so scared right now. We've totally got to eat this finally on good job. So I'll just run over to the kitchen and get it for you where it's been on the stovetop all this time. Okay. We're going to get, we're going to guess while you go get it. Okay.

Yeah. Oh, it's those psychotropic mushrooms. Psychotropic. Yeah, canned. They're never quite as good canned. Well, it's not going to be ordolon, the baby birds, because that's probably illegal. Right. I'm going to guess it's not going to be vegetarian, right?

I mean, because there are a lot of meats that you don't eat, Karen. But haggis stuff. Oh, no. Or maybe a weird fruit. Like maybe a... But why is it in a can and why did he have to heat it up? Oh, yeah. Heating it up.

Yeah. At first I was like, oh, he's making... Oh, oh, is it a figgy pudding or like a spotted dick or something like that? Okay. Spotted dick in a can. I'm scared it's haggis now. We've talked about, but haven't. Your eyes.

All right. Can we open? It is. Open your eyes. It's spotted dick. Oh. You called it. It is.

It is a traditional English pudding. Now, this version was in a can. But it's a sponge-type pudding that I heated the can up by putting it in a pan of boiling water on the stove. So it should have heated it all very evenly around. Okay. And the spotted dick just means pudding. And the spotted part is that it's spotted with... Raisins.

Well, actually, they're... Current. Sultanas. Which are raisins. Which are raisins. Oh, yeah. I even have the label... It's Simpsons brand, Spotted Dick Spunge.

How lovely. I can't smell it. Oh, thanks. I am excited, actually. It smells like... It smells from horror to excitement. Raisins, raisins, and spices. Horror to excitement.

I'm getting a lot of, like, gingerbread kind of scent from this. Because it's just steamed cake, basically. Yeah, so it's like... Steencake. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think traditionally they would make a sauce and pour it over this, but I have not gone that far. Like a vanilla. Oh, yeah, yeah.

The serving suggestion photo has some sauce on it. Yeah. Looks like maybe a heavy cream sauce of some sort. Thanks label for suggesting that I just whip up a homemade sauce to go along with this. They couldn't get the sauce in the can. Yeah, or have a separate can for sauce. Right. Well, anyway, let's try it out.

Yeah. You smell it now. Yeah, it does smell like gingerbread. All right. Here we go. The experiment begins. I like it. I like it, too.

It's just like it's like hot gingerbread. Yep. Yep. Hot gingerbread. Festive. Yeah, the fact that it's, um... Now, of course, the real thing would probably be a lot better than that. And we're probably doing it a disservice by eating the canned version.

Yeah. There's no offense to the good people at Simpsons, uh, spotted dick. You know what? Concern. Yeah. It's very good. I like it. So much better than, um,

Scog spray jelly bellies. Oh, my God. So much better. This is the first time you've had, like, strange food, and everybody's eating the whole thing. Yeah, yeah. So now I'll have to be very careful what we discussed on this show. You have to eat it. Truffles.

Yeah, maggot cheese. I would try maggot cheese, but I just can't look at it. Yeah, I think you're supposed to, like, not look at it because they'll hop into your eyes. Oh, my God. Like, put your hand over it. Would you guys try maggot cheese? Nope. I feel like maybe if enough people did it and there was a little bit of peer pressure involved, I would...

Even if you handed me a piece of the cheese and said, like, all the maggots are gone. Like, they just left. I still wouldn't eat it. Really? Nope. What about you, Chris? No. And people were like, oh, this is awesome.

It's the best cheese, Colin. You'd do it. So, I mean, I'm torn because on the one hand, I am very squeamish. And on the other hand, I'm very susceptible to peer pressure. People always say, oh, these things are going to taste really good. and then it turns out it just tastes like cheese with maggots in it. Yeah. Oh, what a tree.

Well, thank you. Oh, no problem. Now I'm energized. And this week's theme, Colin, you picked. I did. Yes. Blame Colin. So I had the name first, and I worked backward.

I like the name is It Takes Two. So it's a theme all about things that are paired or doubled or always come together. And I think I said to you guys, I pitched it as anything from Abbott and Costello to peanut butter and jelly to Thunder and Ler and Lerlender and lightning to identical twins, uh, it's, it's pairs. It takes two. It takes two to make it outside. I want to rock right now. I want to rock right now. I'm rob base and I can to get down. I'm not internationally known, but I'm known to rock the microphone because I get stupid. I mean outrageous. Stay away for me. So long ago, we had a couple of Good Job Brain fans appear on the show with us.

They were telling us a puzzle after they were here on the show about the green glass door. Yes. Oh, the mother and sister. Yes. And afterwards, they were like, oh, we have a puzzle for you. And the puzzle was, I think we might have talked about it on the show at some point. But the puzzle was great. It was there is a green glass door.

Some things can pass through it, but other things cannot. Right. And so you tell me things, and I'll tell you whether or not. it can pass through the... So, for example, tea could not pass through it, but beer could pass through it. Or coffee. Alaska could not pass through it, but Hawaii could pass through it. So words with double letters was the answer.

Any word with a doubled letter. So that was the puzzle. And so I was thinking about that for this doubles, pairs, what have you type of episode. There are a lot of words with double letters in them. And I'm not going to bother you by listing every one of them. However, there was a much shorter list in English of words with consistent. consecutive pairs of double letters, where the doubled letters appear next to each other. Like, for example, Karen, you said coffee earlier.

Now, that has two pairs of double letters, F-F-F-E-E, and they're right smack up next to each other. So the answers to the clues I'm about to give you in this quiz are all words with consecutive, with two consecutive pairs. All double letters, all right. This is a type of art. This is a type of art. Adele has one that reads Paradise. Karen. Tattoo.

Yes. A tattoo. This is a toy. Sometimes they float. Dana. A balloon? A balloon. Ah.

I don't really think. I don't like a balloon as toy. Oh, really? He's intentionally starting kind of vague. I am sort of vague. Yeah, exactly. Yes, yes, yes. A group of people.

Karen. Committee. Committee. Wow. Nailed it. This is a quality of being finally sharpened or acute. I was going to say chiffonade, but that's not consecutive. It's not consecutive.

Finally sharpened. Or acute. Maybe stylishness. stylishness Yeah Oh man It's where that ends in nests Pollen

No not finness Phaugh Pitchy blank Oh Key Yeah Keenness Keenness

Keenness Peachy keen Got it Okay Keen Keenness Sharpness Yes

Yep Yep This is a type of Waste Receptical Smokers don't use this Caren Oh, smokers don't use this Smokers don't use this

Okay, I was going to say ashtray Ash Trey I didn't even think about Collin Spittoon Spittoon This is an animal Often named Maskey or banditit.

Raccoon Raccoon I'm gonna call you Masky This is a candy. Karen. Toffee. Very good.

This is a woodwind instrument. Oh. Uh, Karen. Bassoon. Bassoon. Fun to say. This is Belgium or not Belgian? It's Belgian.

And it's a French-speaking ethnic community in Belgium. Oh. Colin. That is Walloon. The Walloon. What? Very good. I figured one of you guys is going to know that.

How do you spell W-A-L-L? L-L-L-O-O-N. This is one that you should be able to figure out. In a courtroom, a person who has an appeal filed against them. Who has an appeal filed to them, against them. Not the appellant or the appeller. Appellee. Appellee.

Appellie. Appellie. Yes, yes, yes. A fool, a clown, a jester. A buffoon. A buffoon. Now, famously, there is a word. that has three consecutive pairs of double letters.

Yes. We all know this word because it's great trivia. It is bookkeeper. And Excel. Bookkeeping, bookkeeper, yeah. Encyclopedia Brown. Oh, really? That's the answer to one of those cases.

Yeah. If you start to add in hyphen-it's words with a hyphen, there are more. I'm only going to ask one. This word means a person who enjoys candy. Like a toffee enthusiat. Sweet toother. You know, you're very close. It's, it's, it's, it's an adjective.

Huh. Sweet toothed. Oh, it's a sweet toothed. Okay. A sweet toothed. Huh. Oh, so, E, T, T, O, O. Yeah.

Yeah. Um, and there's, there's one more hyphenate word. This is onomatopoeia closely associated with Popeye. Okay. Wait, I was thinking about this. It's like, uh, uh, nomadipia closely associated with Popeye. Okay, so what does Popeye do? Popai punches and eats spinach spinach.

I guess, I guess, depending on how you spell, Ak, Ak, Kack, Kack. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, it's the, it might be considered the final word in the, the, the, the, Sailor Man theme song. Nah, nah, nah, nah, Garpie the Sailor Man. Wow. It is, T-T-T-O-O-O.

Oh, T-T-O-O. Yep, yep, yep. I was going to say, finally, this is the penultimate point, actually. You would never know this. coee C-O-O-E is the shortest word in the English language with two consecutive pairs of double letters C-O-O-E C-O-O-E E is a word for a shout or an animal call used in Australia And that, not encyclopedia Brown, but it is actually the linchpin of a Sherlock Holmes mystery in which somebody says that and Sherlock Holmes realizes that they must be Australian.

Yeah. But yeah, co-y. Okay. Shortest with double. with two with double consecutive words That's a good one Probably also the shortest word with two like two pairs

You can't get much short But I don't know yeah No you can't And of course People being as they are Have tried to come up with words With the most pairs of consecutive double letters possible

So this is not actually a word But maybe you can guess The person responsible for cleaning The Corner of the Kitchen Where a Raccoon has breakfast would be a raccoon nook Raccoon keeper

Yes The raccoon no The raccoon no keeper That's C-C-O-O-N-N-O-K-E Six pairs That's nice You know you're a raccoonook keeper Now I want to set up a little nook with a fake raccoon

Right right right The Raccoon nook That would be a really esoteric Halloween costume Yeah What are you? Well, I'm so glad you asked. There's very few words with triple letters. Freer.

Freer is one. Wow. Freer. But this show is about pairs, Chris. Right, I know. Exactly. Save them for triples. Yeah.

Yeah. For the power of threes. I have a movie-related quiz for you guys. I like movies. Yeah, I do too. It's why I like putting these together because it's kind of fun because I fall into various movie-related rabbit holes. But this quiz, is, in keeping with the theme of the show today,

all about pairs and duos. So all of the answers to this quiz will be about movies with pairs in the titles or series with pairs of names in the titles. I think you guys understand. So, for example, for example, you can buzz in if you like. Example quiz.

Yeah, so we're all competitive. We're all competitive on the examples. Example that's worth one point. For example, right, yeah. You know, we can have this, we should start making the examples worth half a point. Then it could be like we could fight about them as tiebreakers.

This 1971 movie featured an unconventional romance between a 20-year-old man and a 79-year-old woman. Chris. What is? Harold and Maude. Yes. I like the Jeopardy style answer, though. You know, just in case, I want to make sure. Yes, I was looking for Harold and Maude.

There you go. So let's get underway. Blank and blank. All right. If casting had gone a little differently, this 1967 film might have ended up starring Jane Fonda and Bob Dylan in the title roles. Karen. Bonnie and Clyde.

Yes, Bonnie and Clyde. Bob Dylan. Among the many, many famous names. Apparently, Warren Beatty, early on, Warren Beatty, who ultimately ended up playing Clyde and produced the film. Right. Yeah, yeah. He wanted to be Bonnie originally. He said he wanted Bob Dylan to play Clyde, at least partly because he actually kind of looks a little bit.

Yeah, he thought that he could kind of visually pull it off. Bob Dylan was not available nor interested in the other. Yeah. I think, you know, they say that Warren Beatty kind of probably wanted the role all along himself. Also, hopefully Warren Beatty was an actor. Yes, yes. He's like, Warren, if you want tickets to my concert, you could just ask. Yeah, you don't need to set me up with a role in a movie.

And then, yeah, and Jane Fonda auditioned for the role of Bonnie, Bonnie Parker. She admitted, yeah, that even years later, she was actually really mad she didn't get the part, who ended up going to Faydanaway, of course, right. 1927's, putting pants on Philip marked the big screen debut of what legendary comedy duo. Ooh, very close, but I think Karen. Abbott and Costello. Incorrect. Chris.

Laurel and Hardy. It was Laurel and Hardy. Yes. Putting pants on Philip. Yeah. Who's Phyllis? Is it a baby? No, it was a...

It's a giraffe, actually. It's a really funny movie. It was a comedy, you know, and you couldn't tell by the... Who is Philip? Is it a person? Yes, it is a person. Oh, yes. I would be, yeah, a giraffe.

Oh, like a duck or a giraffe or something, right. A duck would be really hard. A duck would be so hard. That would be so funny. The wet feet. All of her, yeah, so stay. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, yes, the skinny British, Stan Laurel and the heavier American, Oliver Hardy. What we now call a normal American.

Yes, Stan and Ollie. What's funny about that? Hardy's character had one of the best character names I've ever heard. He played a character named Piedmont Mumble Thunder. Yes, beautiful. Mumble Thunder? Piedmont Mumble Thunder. That's my new pet name.

Right, right. So that was their big screen debut as a team. They were individual actors before, and they basically got, you know, sort of in the old Hollywood system. They got paired together and they're like, hey, this works out. They went on to make 107, 107 movies over the next 30 plus years. It only took like two days to make a movie. Yeah, it took a really short time to make a movie. They just crank those things out.

They keep hitting each other. Every other week there was a movie. That's comedy. There's the poster. for putting pants on I wish you won the duck So Philip is Scottish And he wears a kiltz

Got it Oh Mystery Sol That is funny Is it as funny as putting pants on a duck Yep All right

I'm going to ask this next one I'm intentionally cryptic here All right The people who played the title characters in this 1991 movie were both nominated for an Academy Award, and they both lost to the same person. Oh, Karen.

Thelma and Louise. It is Thelma and Louise. Yes, yes. Is this Sarana and Gina Davis? Yeah. Who did they lose to? They lost to anyone care to guess, 1991. Oh, man, that's the year before our best year.

The best actress. No. Best actress in 1991. Holly Hunter. Not a bad guess. Not a bad yes. It was Jody Foster. Or Silence of the Land.

Yes. Silence of the lands. Yeah, but otherwise, yes, both Susan Sarandon and Gina Davis were nominated for Best Lead Actress, yeah. Oh, interesting. I thought one of them was going to be the supporter. Yeah. You know what it is? They canceled out each other's votes.

I think you're probably right. Maybe. I think you're probably right. Yeah. I wonder who got Brad Pitt's vote. I think it would have been sadder if one of them won and the other didn't. Oh, that's true. That's true.

Best to just give it to Jody Foster. Yeah, just to be safe vote. It's a pretty good movie. That silence of the land. This 1969 movie tells the story of two famous American outlaws on the run to Bolivia. Dana. Bich Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Correct.

Bich Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Bich Cassidy born Robert Parker Sundance Kid, Harry Longabaw, which is a fun name to say. Yeah. Yeah, it's not mumbled to-toed. Piedmont Mumble Thunder Lungabah Mungabut

And it's It's fictionalized But lightly fictionalized I mean Butch casting the Sundance Kid Really were outlaws And partners And they really did

flee to Bolivia Who played who The So Bucch Cassidy was Robert Was No Well yeah

Well who was in the movie Karen Paul Newman and Robert Redford Yes But who's who Buc Cassidy was Paul Newman Robert Redford was the Sundance Kid.

Okay, Sun Red. Because he has, like... Oh, nice. Yeah. Bill S. Preston. Yes. And Ted Theodore Logan. Yes.

Are, of course, the Bill and Ted of 1989's... Bill and Ted's excellent adventure. But I know you guys know those names so well. So I'm going to go a deeper cut here. And I'm going to ask you, Bill and Ted formed the nucleus of what rock band? Yeah. Ooh, everyone together. Wild stallions.

Yes. Wild Stallions. From San Demas, California. Yes, which is a real city. It's a real place. Yes. I used to go to Raging Waters out in San Dimas, California, the water park. And notably, that's Wild Stallions with Ys, well, with one Y in each word, right?

All right, last question, last question. The title characters in this 1989 movie were portrayed by, respectively, Tom Hanks and Beasley. Karen, instantly When you introduce your quiz I was waiting for this question Oh really? What if this question It never come up

I would say You forgot this movie Oh well now I'm really glad I put it in Karen please Turner and Hooch It is Turner and Hooch Yes Beasley was a dog

A big dog Yes Who drooled All over the play What kind of dog He was a A bloodhound No I think he was like a mastiff

Or something Yeah I'm not Big Jowley drooly dog Right All right well good job guys. You got good on your pairs, on your

title duos. Star Ski and Hutch. Hard Castle in the movie. There are many, many, many pairs. Yes, I could crank out another two or three title duo quizzes if needed. Yep. Good job. Cool.

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And I thought to myself, oh. you know, this wasn't so hard. Let's make it challenging. So I decided to run the Rock and Roll Las Vegas Marathon on that same day, which happened at night. And is in Las Vegas. In Las Vegas. So after my race, you know, it was a morning half marathon in Disneyland. I flew to Vegas.

And then I tried to run the full marathon on the same day. How did that go? I ended up in an ambulance. How far did you make it? 15 miles. So total, I ran like 28 miles. So you did up the challenge for yourself. I did.

Yeah, it was the best part of this is I get to go back and I have some money. I'm going to play Willy Wonka Slah machine until my flight leaves. And coincidentally, I was in Disneyland the same weekend that Karen was in Disneyland. We only saw each other for about two seconds, but we went to. You met good job, brain listeners. We met good job brain listeners. Well, this is the way that we met them. We went to Disneyland because we wanted to eat.

at the Big Thunder Ranch Barbecue, which is closing very shortly, permanently. But we went back there for one last time, and we come out of the barbecue, and that's where they're passing out the fast passes for a Fantasmic, which is the light show. And the guy who's giving out the passes is like, by the way,

pts, hey, hyperspace mountain is soft open. Now, of course, if you don't know what either of those things are. I don't know what any of those words are. Right, exactly, right. Hyperspace Mountain is they have temporarily re-skinned the Space Mountain ride with Star Wars theming. And we hustled over there as fast as 10 people can cross Disneyland, which is not that fat, and a baby. To go up and all the signs for Space Mountain were turned off.

There was nothing indicating that it was running, but they let you walk in. And we go in and we ride Hyper Space Mountain. I don't want to oversell it, but it was amazing. It was so good. So what ends up happening is We're getting into the line And there's two people who are just like Hey, you're from a good job, brain

Because they'd come to our live show And then the way it all worked out We all ended up in the same car For hyperspace mountain You're kidding Yep So we all got to ride together It was fun

How what a small world All this to say When I was in Vegas I was watching other people play cards And you know Because I was kind of zoned out I was zoned down I could only play a Willy Wonka

So for three hours or something. Only three out. A woman has her level. I saw this very, this thing that's really, really cool and I'm going to talk about in my segment related to this week's theme.

Do you remember in the early, in the late 90s, early 2000s, what kind of explode in pop culture is Texas Holdom? Oh, yeah. And one of the main reasons why it got so big and it was televised and there was celebrity versions

is because they kind of figure out a way to televise and to play the game. They have the little camera. Yeah, that was revolutionary. Yeah, that you can see the two cards. Right, yeah. I mean, and the reason that the cameras are like a big deal

and being able to see the cards is because in Texas Holden, I'm like, you start off with two cards to yourself that only you see. So in years past, you know, the players would be sitting at the table, and they would kind of peek at the cards, but people at home have no idea what they have. So watching the bedding isn't exciting. But, yeah, once they pioneered these little, you know, tiny little cameras right by the pocket cards, they would show them to you, so now they could calculate the odds and people at home. And they can go, it's really exciting when it's like, oh, yeah, right, right, exactly.

When you know they're bluffing. And they flip the card and it's like, it matches. Yes. It matches. And it's the same. They're going to win. Well, it's great. Yeah, because you have people like they're betting a million dollars on the TV that they only, it's like

they have 2% chance of winning. And then they come up with the card that they needed. They bluffed. And then they get the card they needed anyway. One out of $100. chance and it's like bring it so exciting yeah the drama is super high and so uh for those who don't know how works i'm not i'm not going to explain the whole game of texas hold them but the setup is is important like colin said each player gets two cards face down and then you have a

community a community kind of a cards in the center that you can make hands with the two cards you have so having those two cards whatever those two cards are are very very important basically your base to try to make hands and win from. And so in Texas Hold'em, there are a lot of nicknames for different combinations of that pair of cards you have. It's a lot of alliteration. So, for example, like having a Jack and a 10, sometimes they call it Justin Timberlake because it's J and T.

So some of them are pretty on the nose. But there's some that are so clever that I want to share with you guys. And it can be a quiz, but, like, you know, I just want you guys to talk through and figure out what the actual two cards, the nickname is describing. I already want to propose one. So if you have a Jack and a two, it's a JTT, a Jonathan Taylor Thomas. Because that's a two. I don't know. I think you can.

I just want to hear the announcers on ESPN for, you know, he's got Jonathan Taylor Thomas and old cards. And so I'm going to say a nickname And you guys tell me what the two cards That you think it might be Or unless we know it Yeah I know some of these But poker is not my game

I know some but it's just a game Awesome So all right This one's pretty easy Okay Anna Kornicova That's an ace and a king Yes

A and a K Ace and king A little addendum here That I read Little editorial Looks good but never wins. Oh.

That's mean. Harry Potter. Harry Potter. It's got to be one of it. Oh, is it when you have a nine and a three-quarters? Dang it. It's got to have something with the Jack, right? The Prince.

Think about things about Harry Potter. It's a book. It is a book. Oh, it's a Jack and King for Jay. K. Rolling. Yes. Okay. J.K. Rolling, Jack and King.

Gorillas. Gorillas. Gorillas. Two nines because they look like Jee's? Oh, that's a good one. But no. Think of a famous gorilla. Oh, King Kong.

K.K. Yep. Pair of Ks is known as gorillas. All right. This one, Dana, I'm looking at you. Oh, okay. The Doctor Who. Oh, no.

Think about characters in the show. Joe. Doctor Who. River. Oh, Dalek, no. Maybe have letters

in their names. Chris is like, no. K-9. Oh, no. King and nine. Also,

I mean, these pairs have so many other nicknics. Kodon is also like, bow, wow, or, you know, yeah.

Pup dog. Right. They had nicknames for him before Justin Timberlake was born. Yeah. Yeah. Like,

Dr. Who? That's such a deep cut. That is, and that's old Doctor Who, too. There's a pair called Motown, and there's another pair called The New Motown, knowing that those two, those two are different. All right. But it makes sense. What do you think those are?

What do you think Motown is and New Motown is? Is Motown J and 5? Yes. Okay. And then, yes, for the Jackson 5. And then New Motown is J and 4, because Michael's gone. Oh. What?

That's mean. What two cards are called Woolworths? Woolworths. Oh, five and ten. Because it's a nickel and dime store. Five and ten. I need to be specific with the suits for this one. Red balloons.

That is going to be hearts. Nine of hearts and the nine of diamonds. Yes. Yeah. Right. Because of the song, 99 red balloons. And they kind of even look like little red balloons. It's good.

Another suit only one, vizine. Vizene. Oh, the red eyes, has hearts and diamonds. But it gets the red out. Oh, it gets the red out. Okay. Is it ace of hearts and ace of diamonds? Correct.

These two cards together is called Oedipus. Oh, Jack and King. Like, oh. Or Jack and Queen. Jack and Queen. Like the story, Oedipus, yeah. Roger that. 10-4.

Yes, 10-4. And then San Francisco, what two cards are called? Seven and seven. Oh, that's not bad. That would be great. That would be great. But it only makes sense if you're like from San Francisco. San Francisco, Golden Gate, fog.

Number, oh, four and nine. Yes, four and nine, 49ers. Oh, that's good. So, this actually is a pair. What two cards is called dynamite. Dynamite. Dynumite. No.

What is dynamite? Dynamite. Pair, a pair of tens? Yes. T-N-T. T-N-T. Gotcha. Dynamite 10 and 10.

All right. And this last one, I didn't know. Maybe, I don't know if you guys know. It's called the whip. The whip. Only if it's off suit. Only if the suits are different. It's called the whip.

W-H-I-P. Is it a pair or two different cards? Two different cards. Two different cards. Cards. Huh. Whip. And WIP stands for

Worst Hand in Poker. Oh, okay. Yeah, what is the worst thing you could possibly get dealt? Because if you get like a two and a three but they're of the same suit then that's actually not bad.

Right. And even so it's not a pair. So is it two and three not suited? No, two and seven. You can't make a straight. You're not even right. So a two and a seven

not suited is the worst hand in Yeah, that's a good trivial one. Worst-hand poker is seven and two off-suit. Yep, the whip. Yeah, the whip. Worst-handed poker. Now, I thought you were going to say things like pocket rockets for like a pair of aces, which is, I think, the best hand you can get.

Or bullets. Yeah, bullet, sneak eyes. Also, big slick, which I believe is Ace King suited, which is also really, really good. Yeah, there are a lot of these pairs or these, or two-card duos. They're named, sometimes they're named after, like, actual poker. players who, you know, did something with them. You know, I ended up winning this thing with them. Yeah, there are a lot, yes, and then there are a lot of, um, just, uh, acronym or initials

like American Airlines, double aces, they have a lot of nickname, pocket rock. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I thought these were kind of fun, you know, with all the different permutations, you have to come up with something. Those are the fun ones. I love those. I love, I love, I love, yeah. Okay, I have a music quiz for you guys, but I'm not going to play any samples. This is to check your musical knowledge, your knowledge of musical duos. Just checking up on us? I mean, it might be a little challenging. I'm going to try to add some hands. Musical duos. So I'll give you the two names of the people in the band and maybe a little bit about the band, like when they formed or where, maybe even their hit song. If I'm like this, you're not going to

know the name. You guys buzz in. For example, we'll start out, we'll start out gentle. And then it'll get it more difficult. So, for example, Andrew Ridgely and George Michael. Oh. We're in everybody. Wham! Wham!

And this band was formed in 1997 in Detroit, Michigan, with Jack White and Meg White. The White Stripes. My favorite band. I mean, maybe that's enough details. My favorite. Yeah, Karen. Savage Garden.

No. Oh. Oh, but that's good. Flight of the Conquins? Flight of the Concord. I was going to say, Jermaine Clement and Brett McKinsey. How about 1980s in the UK?

This is David A. Stewart and Annie Lennox. Everybody. The arithmetic. All right. We're going to start turning up the heat a little bit. At least one person is famous in all of these. Yes. 1991 in Atlanta, Georgia.

It is James Christopher Kelly. and Christopher Smith Oh my God Chris Cross Yes the Mac Daddy and the Daddy Mac They'll make you jump How about Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus

Oh I don't know Millie Vanilly Rob and Fab Yep That's not the real name Yeah That's what the same was She just said so

Yeah They were European Okay Oh really That should explain Where are they from? I belier At least one of them was French

They might have both been French 1993 in Paris France This is Thomas Everybody knows Thomas Bangalter and Guy Manuel de Homon Cristo Yeah Yeah

That was all of us Daph punk Daph punk Daph punk I didn't know that In 1996 in Akron Ohio This band Features Dan Auerbach

And Patrick Carney Oh, wait, 19. Say one again? This was in 1996 in Akron, Ohio, when they first got together in this hipster music. And I'll tell you, Patrick Carney had a beef with Jack White a little while ago. This was in the news, in the pop culture news. Man, guys, I had the best answer, which now doesn't fit with the Jack White thing, but I was going to guess ICP. No, they're out Detroit, though. Was it the black keys?

Yes. Oh, yes. They are two dudes. Versus the white stripes. That's right. I knew they had some beef. How about this? This is a husband and wife duo.

It's Daryl Dragon and Catherine, Antoinette, Teneal. Chris. The captain and Teneal. The captain and Teneal. His nickname is Captain. Her nickname is Tony. Christopher Reed and Christopher Martin were a hip-hop act in 1987, New York. They maybe are known by their stage names more.

Oh. It's the name of their band. Huh. Well, I mean, I was so, Eric B and Rick Kim, but that's not, can't be their stage. One of them is a voice actor. One of them is a voice actor. No, it's kid in play. Oh.

Kid and play. They had a fun dance, a real fun dance. When they kick each other? Yeah. How about this? They formed in 1982, but their big hit was in 1994 with the song Missing. missing. This is Tracy Thorne and Ben Watt. Oh, that is

everything about the girl. Yes. Oh, wow. And I miss you. Formed in 1985, this pop supergroup with Andy Bell and Vince Clark. A little respect. Always. These are some of the names of their songs. Erasure? Yes. Oh, right. That's right. I didn't know. I always thought was one dude. It's two.

Yeah, those names had really familiar. Okay, so this band formed in 1981 in England, featuring Roland Orzabal and Kurt Smith. Some of their hits include Shout and Mad Worlds. Yeah. Karen. Tears for Fears for Fears. And their biggest one, everybody wants to roll out. Shout.

That's the one. That's the one. You have identified it. Yes. So many of these are British, like two people, you know. They're just, you know, their population is just lower, so we don't have it. It's sad, really. Yeah, all these bands haven't to get by with only two people.

How about this? 1978 is when one of their big songs came out, reunited. And they're, this. Uh, Chris. Peaches and herb. Yes. Herb, Herb Fane and Francine Peaches Herd Barker. They're not both food items?

Okay, last one. This band is from L.A. They formed in 1994. they are comedians. This is Jack Black and Kyle Gass. Tonacious D. Tonacious D. Wonderful.

Good job, you guys. Woo. That would be a good soundtrack, though. One song from all of those bands. That's Peaches and... Reunited. I've never heard of that band, but I know that song. Right.

Peaches and Herb. Yes. Herb. Herb. never says goodbye. It just says, see you later. Edward Galliano was right when he said that. Events keep happening over and over again, in some form. And that's the reason I produced the podcast, My History Can Beat Up Your Politics. What is it? We take stories of history and apply them to the events of today to help you perhaps understand them better. We are also part of

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That's pretty experimental. I like it. Well, the questions don't limit until about minute 20, so I do need to keep in the attention. No, I've dug up, I guess this is a little bit more boring, but I've dug up a bunch of trivia and facts.

And wow, I never knew that type information about double mint gum. Wow. Double mint gum. Yes, indeed. Of course, famously. Famously features. The double mint.

Double mints. Yes, yes, indeed, indeed, yes. Writing bikes. You couldn't watch television in the 1980s, especially, without seeing pairs of twins enjoying them some double mint gum. But let's back up. Okay.

Back the heck up. Put these gums in order of introduction made by the rigley's gum company. Okay. All right, let's see how well you guys do. Should we do this? I think you should all do it as a team. Unless you have a strong disagreements in which case you can splinter off. Sure.

So just three grams. Juicy fruit, spearmint, and double mint. Juicy fruit, spearmint and double mint. So, okay, I kind of feel like spearmint would come before double mint because, you know, they're kind of like, they're like, all right, we got to go somewhere. It's like, it's like, it's like two mints. Go bigger, go home. Right. It's like when they step away from the double mint and go to spearmint, it's like, oh, two is too much.

Let's do the one. I think they went from one to two. Juicy Fruit is either the first one or the last one. I completely agree. I remember reading, because I've read the juicy fruit Wikipedia a lot of times. I can never remember it. Well, anyway, let's not take up too much time. All right.

Ridiculous questions. Let's put it first. Okay. Juicy fruit, spearmint, then double mint. Yeah. Yeah. You are correct. Wow.

Well done. Juicy fruit was the first gum introduced by Wrigley's 1893. Holy moly. Spearment. They named juicy fruit then. Yeah. Oh, that didn't even sound that old tiny of a name. You know what it is?

It sounds, they did such a good job, I think, advertising juicy fruit in, like, the 80s that we don't think of it as being such an old brand. Yeah. But 1893. Spearmint later in 1893 and then double mint gum in 1914. Double mint was the... Yeah, I know. It took a long time before they introduced a third gum flavor. They really molded over.

Searching the world for that second mint. Yeah, exactly. So, you know, it's interesting that you say that. It's so interesting that you say that. There are not two different mints in double mint gum. I just blew your mind. I always thought that they took like... Peppermint and peppermint.

That's what I always assumed. Incorrect. No. A double serving of it? Basically, it is named after the process by which they distilled, a unique, quote, double distillation process on the peppermint to create a stronger double peppermint flavor. Got it. Now, I couldn't find much more information than that about the double distillation process.

They just sort of refer to it on the Wrigley's homepage. Interesting. As you know. But I will say, I did find, I searched for, like, you know, peppermint oil distillation. Oh, yeah, yeah. This is kind of fascinating. Actually, here, why don't you guys guess? Sure.

How much monies is a 55-gallon drum of peppermint oil worth? Wow. Ooh, 55. Okay. This is according to a story by the Oregonian, Portland, Oregon in 2011. There's a lot of worth. So I got, like, a four-ounce bottle for, like, $8 on Amazon recently. I mean, a little goes a long way.

A barrel, a barrel of peppermint oil. 10 grand? You are correct. It is worth $10,000. You nailed it. Wow. Where's the prize? It can flavor, a 55-gallon, a barrel of peppermint oil can flavor five million sticks of it.

Believe it. It's worth so much money. It's so powerful. Wow. You need so little peppermint oil. To make gum taste like peppermint. How many gums did you say? How many gums?

Where? Five million gums. That's a $10,000 seems cheap now. Right, exactly. If you have, yeah, well, if you can break into the lucrative peppermint gum market, which you can not be able to do. It's sewed up, but still buy the Regulence Corporation. So here's a, here's a trivia question. Double mint gum.

Sugar-free? If you were to go buy it today, is it sugar-free? I thought they're all sugar-free now. If you were to go buy it today, is it sugar-free. I'm going to say, yes. I'll say it is sugar-free. I think it is. I don't know

I don't think now Oh It still has sugar It's not the one Dentists recommend Try it Dentists do not recommend Doublement

Yeah Yes What about the other gums Well excuse me I'm sorry Nine out of ten Dentists The other one out of ten dentists

It doesn't care It's on the take Yeah He wants you to get cows But yeah most Most gum is sugar-free now Because most of just

Yeah Sugar-free gum The Dumbled Twins Yeah The famous advertising concept. I actually began in 1939 in the days of radio.

You might say, how would you see twins on the radio? No, what they... Take our word for it. Take our word for it. They would bring in two dueling pianists or they would bring in two comedians, a comedy duo. Oh, that's cool. Or other pairs of instrumentalists or things like that. So that was the gag

of the Doublement, you know, the doubling. In 1960, the first TV ads with the first set of Doublemat twins, their names were Joan and Jane Boyd. Some other sets of twins who have been Double Mint Twins in the past include Good Job Brain Favorites Tia and Tamara Maui

have appeared as Double Mint Twins and Jean and Elizabeth Segal who are twin sisters of Katie Seagal. And they had their own sitcom for a while. They had a sitcom called Double Trouble. Yes indeed. I am old. But they have been I think I watched that. Doublemen twins. Here's a question. Here's a trivia question. In what Mel Brooks movie can you find Doublement Twins, Denise

and Diane Gallup? Mel Brooks movie. Blazing Saddles? Denise. History of the World Part 1. No. Not Blazing Saddles? It is not Blazing Saddles. It is Spaceballs. Okay, all right. We'll give you the point. Yeah. It was Spaceballs. They were, I mean, they just played a pair of, they were on stage for about two seconds. They were like, Charleney and Marlene. They were the girls with President Scroo.

And he's like, hello, Charlene. She's like, I'm Marlene. And he's like, chew your gum. But they were real double mint twins. Got it. Yeah. Yeah. Here's another question.

At some point in its life, this is fascinating. Double mint gum was off the shelves for a two-year period. You could not buy it. Okay. Why? Wasn't it like a shortage of the gum ingredients due to blockades in World War II? Shortage of the foil. No, no foil shortage.

there was, it was, it was during, it was during World War II. Rubber? Everything was being rationed in World War II. So, rationing, not blockade, okay. And what they decided was that rather than put limited amounts of double mint gum and juicy fruit and spearment gum onto the shelves. Just have one. What, no, they actually took all of those, they made all their juicy fruit, spearmint, and doublement. And they sold it all to the U.S. Army.

Ah. So the only way you could have juicy fruit. fruit or double mint gum was to be overseas, like in the art, you know, or be in the army during World War II. And what they ended up, and they ran ads saying, when the war is over, this gum will come back. Ah. Okay. For the time being, just for those two, three years, they pulled double mint in 1945 and

reintroduced it in 1947. During that two-year period, they had a replacement gum with what they considered to be, like, inferior ingredients. They didn't want to call it, you know, Wrigley's gum. on shelves and that brand was called Orbit. Oh! So that is where they first came up with Orbit gum.

Yes. It was a replacement brand that was on shelves for two years, was pulled, and then they brought back the name, which they still owned, you know, as trademark, much later on, for a line of sugar-free gun.

I wonder what, at that time, the old Orbit, what made them in fear is, like, not strong enough? Yeah, the ingredients that they could, yeah. Tired rubber. You know, Well, it might have been kind of a marketing thing. You know what I mean?

Like, oh, we're giving it all to the troops. Yeah, we're busy helping our boys fight overseas. Because they made a big deal about how they were doing it. No good deed ever goes untrumpeted. Yeah. If you wanted to be a double mint twin, there was one, or really any sort of gum spokesmodel at all. There was something that you had to be able to do really well. Smile.

Blue bubbles? Sure. Yeah, not look hideous, I don't know. But, like, you know, for gum, importantly. No, it's not a bubble gum. Talk while chewing gum. Not talk while chewing gum. You notice they didn't really do a whole lot of that.

The thing you had to master, and this was very important, was putting the gum into your mouth in a way that did not look stupid or gross. So if you watch these commercials, they all put the gum into their mouth. They do fold it. And this is called, Karen, I'm going to tell you, this has a name. it's called the Wrigley load Oh The way you like put it in and fold it on your tongue as it's The gum loading, exactly

So there's a video of this obviously floating around the internet And what you had to do was You put the stick of gum into your mouth And you catch the end of it on your tongue So that it folds over in a pleasing curving manner That's how I do it Well of course Because I learned if we're watching commercials

just stick it in it and then once you put it in you your reaction has to be a split second reaction in which yeah in which you're just like hmm and then you immediately go back to whatever it was you were doing like you don't ham it up mill right holy crap yeah gum is the best gum of every no it's just like and then back to whatever it was right right yeah but that is the wriggly load and it's very they again they made a training video for this and they show to all of the all of the actors who were going to be in these in these commercials or these the B-roller than whatever they just practice some people like crying they can't get it out of right importantly I'm sorry I skipped a step you only open your mouth wide enough to be able to get the gum in wow yeah do they still have double-minute commercials these days you know I don't think they I haven't seen a gum commercial in a long time I feel like in the mid in the mid 2000s they kind of of brought back the double mint twins. I remember they did bring them back at one point. Sporatically they bring them back. It's kind of corny. It's really interesting when you think about it.

Some of these products have just, you know, mostly continuously been on shelves for like well over 100 years now. That's true. Yeah. And it's the same brand and the same name and everything. And it's just about like sort of reinventing the marketing for that brand. Yeah, if you look at the history of Riegelie's gum, like they really took their time rolling out like new brands of gum.

Like there's, there's big, big gaps in between. Right, because then people were expecting triple mint. And it's like, you want to keep, like, keep expectations down. One thing I read is that at some point they really tried to get over, there was like this sort of, the socially, the idea is that only women chewed gum. It was like adult women chewed gum, and that was about it. And so you saw a lot of marketing to kids. You saw a lot of marketing to men, like how do we get men to chew gum, big red gum, the cinnamon flavor. Man, man, man jump, macho gum.

It takes a strong gum for a... Well, yeah, and their commercials were always like lumberjacks and race car drivers. Oh, I can never know about that. Yeah. Because I think originally a lot of the marketing for gum was sort of as, I think, there was a little bit... It was a little bit... It was certainly there was some anti-smoking marketing. And there was also the sort of like, oh, you're on a diet.

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