Good Job, Brain! - 171: BEST OF 2015 (Cheesy Awards Show Edition)

Episode Date: January 5, 2016

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You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Welcome to the Best of 2015 Good Job Brain Awards. Now, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage. We are MC Fortnite, Carrie. Welcome, sniffy, speculative, springy, sprightly speedsters. You're listening to Good Job Brain, your weekly quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. This is episode 171, and I am your M.C. Karen for tonight's star-studded and fact-filled evening, as we are all here at the best of 2015 Good Job Brain Awards.

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A good job, brain. And when we learn More next year We'll have some more Facts to share From us to you A Good Job Rain Now, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage.

Co-host Dana. Pop quiz hotshot. Yes. Are the silver platters real or fake X-Men villains? We sure didn't know the answer, but we had a great time guessing. Here are the best good job brain quizzes of the year. Yes, I have a possibly hip-hep quiz for you guys. It's been a while since I've inflicted some sports trivia on you guys.

So I will, I promise to try and go easy here. I have sports slang quiz. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to give you a word or phrase that is hopefully very common known. slang for the sport, and I will give you the sport, and you tell me what it means. Oh, okay. Okay. These are pretty colorful. I like it.

Some of these are very weird. Some of these are weird. And where possible, I will try and give you a little bit of etymology. It will not surprise you to learn that a lot of these sports slang terms have disputed origins. Okay. All right. Here we go. First one.

So get your buzzers ready. Buzz in if you think you know it. And remember, I'm giving you two pieces of information, slang and sport. You tell me what it means. Okay. In bowling. Mm-hmm. What is a turkey?

I think everyone clicked in on that one. Three strikes in a row. It is. Three strikes in a row. Do you guys see my tweet? Do you guys see my good job break tweet? I found out all the different names for the different consecutive strikes. Double turkey.

Yes, there's many different ones. Yes, the four bagger or the five. Yes, there's many different names. The turkey is one of the more well-known and easier to accomplish. Turkey is standardized. Yeah. Yeah. There are, believe me, I tried.

I could not find any citations for the actual origin of this. But a very commonly told story is that once upon a time, it was common either for a particular bowling alley or for bowling alleys in general to award a turkey during the holiday season to the first person on a team, maybe that day, who could get three consecutive strikes. That's cool. Who knows? Get people on the door. Yeah. Possibly. Possibly is the best.

And to be fair, it did used to be a lot harder to hit three strikes in a row than it is. Yeah, right. The bowling alley was all. Yeah. I mean, the balls were oblong. The pins were set by hand. They weren't going to be. They were pullikins, right?

Right, right, right. Right. All right. In football, American, American-style football. What is a Hail Mary? Chris. That is when you basically, when you're like, you know, 80 yards to the goal and there's 10 seconds left on the clock and you don't have any

timeouts and it's just like, okay, run super fast towards the goal and I'll just lob the ball towards you and there's a one out of a hundred chance you're going to catch it, but whatever it's basically like saying a prayer to Mary Mother of God and maybe she is rooting for your football team and she will intervene and guide the ball to the hand of the receiver. That's right. So it's just you're really far from the goal. and someone's just going to throw the ball and someone's just going to run.

You say a little prayer and hope they're really far from the goal. You're down so much, time's running out that even if it's intercepted, it doesn't matter because you're going to lose anyway. And yeah, like slam dunk or home run, this is one that's kind of moved out. You know, it's, oh, it's we're down to our Hail Mary play. Right, right, right, yeah.

This is interesting, for the real sports fans among you, you might be interested to learn. Who's that? I found out that this only dates back to 1972. this term, and it's credited to Roger Stalbach, who is a famous, famous, famous, famous Dallas Cowboys quarterback, but he is credited with coming up with the word. Yeah, in an interview. The interviewer for Sporting News says, I asked if he really saw the receiver, or if he was

throwing it away. He said, let's just call it my Hail Mary play. Wow. There we go. Wow, it's always nice when you can pinpoint it right on the dock. So satisfying. Yeah, it is. In the sport of hockey, what is the five hole?

The five hole. And I can give you a hint if you want. Chris, I'll take a... Is it the penalty box? No, no. Karen. What is A5 hole? V5 hole.

The 5 hole. Or A5 hole. Is it the hole in the middle where you do the kickoff? The kickoff? The kickoff. The five hole, I'll give you hint. Because there's five whole, there's five areas. There are five face off circles. You're right.

It's related to the goalie. The five hole is related to the goalie position. The face. No, not the face, but you're thinking in the right direction. The butt. The five hole. The five hole is the spot between the legs. Oh, my God.

That's what I thought it was without any clues. The spots are numbered. The spots are, so if you're a, a goalie in front of the net. You've got glove side high, glove side low, stick side high, stick side low, and those are one, two, three, four. And then there's the five hole, which is right

between the legs. Gotcha. Yep. Yes. Oh, my God. That's a word we need to say. Five hole is great. Yeah. I loved him in an American tale. Five hole. Five hole. Five hole.

In the sport of basketball. What is a brick? What's a brick? Oh. I believe this when you throw the basketball and it just bounces off the backboard and just rebounds and does not go into

I will accept that I will accept that, yeah notably it's a bad shot that's not an airball Oh yeah It's a thing A brick has to, yeah Made contact with something That's so poetic airball and brick

Yeah Yeah and air ball Yeah And I think the connotation's pretty clear It's like you're throwing up bricks They're not very pretty to look at The worst a shot is the more likely it's going to be called a brick.

All right, we've had this one a pub quiz before. This one's shown up in the sport of baseball. In the sport of baseball, what is Uncle Charlie? Karen. That is a curveball. You are correct. It begins with C as well, not knuckleball. Yeah.

Yeah, it has a C and an R in there, Charlie, curve. Who is Uncle Charlie? Is that named after person? Well, I think it's taking, um, uh, uh, I'm spacing on the name of it, but it's Charlie as in military code for C. This one's a little unclear as to where the Charlie and Uncle Charlie comes from. Some people say military. Some people say CB radio code.

It's kind of lost to the mists of baseball. But, yeah, Uncle Charlie is code for the curveball. Last one. I'm not going to give you a sport here. All right. What is a hat trick? And what sport might you use it in? Chris and or Karen?

Hockey. And it's when you score three goals, oh, no, excuse me. Is it when one player scores three goals in a single game, or is it when one team scores three goals in a row without the other team scoring? A hat trick is one player scoring three goals in a game. It's three. It doesn't need to be consecutive, doesn't need to be unanswered. But this thing evolves into three of anything kind of all.

Yes, it does. Much like, you know, Hail Mary and Grand Slam and et cetera. it's evolved out of sports Yes, it's a menu item at Denny's. You'll hear it mostly in... I order the Hail Mary all the time with Denny's personally.

You'll hear it mostly in hockey. Also in soccer. You can have a hat trick in soccer, three goals. And there are a lot of stories about where this one originated in hockey leagues. It's a bagel as well. NHL teams, going back to like

around the mid-century, they're competing stories, but they all sort of revolve around the same theme of a local businessman or team sponsor basically offered a reward of a free hat, a nice free hat to any player who could score. All of these things always sound like things people needed an explanation for, so they made up the most obvious explanation.

Like, why is it called turkey? Why is it called a turkey? Why is it called a Hadrick? Because they gave you a free hat. Why is it called Hail Mary? Because they gave it a free Bible Day. They gave it free Bible. The fans of Montreal claim it came from Montreal.

Toronto fans came. came from Toronto. Of course, of all of them are wrong. Oh, yeah? It didn't come from hockey. It didn't come from soccer. A hat trick

goes back to late 1800s from cricket. It is a cricket term. What a sticky wicket. And this has been verified. There are a lot of citations. It really did mean, originally, in cricket,

a bowler who takes three wickets in three success balls, after which he would be presented by his club or the fans or the boosters with a new hat. It really was. And now keep in mind. Keep in mind. Once upon a time, men wore a lot more hats than they do now. And hats were very expensive. And hats were not cheap. And a nice, you know, bespoke hat could be a big deal. So yeah, cricket. We get it from cricket all the way into hockey and soccer with a hat trick. You'd be rewarded with a hat. I want to see what kind of hat, if it's like a top hat or like a...

Well, if it was a bowler hat for the bowler. Indeed. It might have been. No, I looked it up. Yeah. Oh, that'd be too. Wait, what was it like? Like, well, no, no, I looked up the bowler hat to see if there's any sport connotations.

Oh, I see. But yeah, you're right. So anyway, hat trick now, any kind of three of anything in a game, sort of loosely, a hat trick. But yeah, the traditional hat trick is three goals. Yeah. Hmm. All right. Well, you guys know more sports slang than maybe you thought.

Five bagger in the five. Hull. Yeah. Borgas in the five hole. Birdie, albatross, eagle. Yeah. Yeah. Condor.

Condor. It is a thing. The money guide. Yeah. You just go around randomly dropping your ball into the forest. Into other people's holes. That's the honey guide. Oh, mark myself.

Up down for a honey guide on that one. Time to hit the bar. 18 holes I've done. I won. Yeah, it took 18 holes, 18 seconds. I have to drink. All right. So every company has a founder or founders, people who establish a company that may go on to do great things.

And many of those people, when looking for a name. for their company may look only as far as themselves and will name their company after themselves. Okay. And so this is a quiz about companies that are named for the founders of that company. Okay. There also, there is an overarching, there is another thematic thing going on. There is another theme that is beyond the boundaries. of the theme that I was just suggested, which is the right, yes.

So as you're, there's a meta theme. There's another theme. So as we're going through, try to, uh, yeah, there's a, uh, there's a pattern. It's a pattern. Okay. Okay. We are buzzing in. This restaurant was opened in Lodai, California in 1919 by Roy Allen and Frank Wright.

Colin. That's A&W. That is A&W. Yes. Roy Allen and Frank, right. A. Allen, right. Yeah. California ice cream shops, Burton's ice cream, and snowbird ice cream,

merged in 1953 to form a new ice cream place named after the two founders. Oh. Is it Baskin Robbins? It is Baskin and Irv Robbins. Oh, I see them going to see. Maybe. Maybe you don't. Maybe you do.

This guy named his company after himself. He founded that company after he initially purchased the magazine publisher Vogue. Karen. Condé Nass? Condé Nass. Yes. From whom all my paycheck. Yes.

Condé Nass. That is a guy. His name was Konday Naste. Really? Yeah. First name, Kande. First name, Kande, last name, Nass. Yep. At the end of the movie.

The movie Hannibal, the title character, is seen eating foie gras, purchased at this upscale, very upscale chain of grocery stores, which was initially opened in New York City. Oh. Karen. I've never watched the movie. Yeah. It is, Dean and Deluca. It is, Dean and Dolica, yes. There were additional hints in there.

Yeah, right. So it crafted in such a way that, yes. The founder's name is often dropped when this camera company is mentioned, but it's really. really in there, or it's supposed to be in there. Column. Is it Eastman Kodak? Eastman Kodak. Is the still to this day the actual proper name of the...

Is it two guys? No, just the guy's name is Eastman. He made up the word Kodak. Yeah. Oh, okay, okay. Ah, is the theme you thought was the theme, not the theme? Not the theme. The nickname...

It should be, Christy. Yes, I did. The nickname of this car company's founder was Il commendatore. Colin. Il commendatory. Okay, he's Italian. Ferrari?

Yes. Enzo Ferrari was known as. Il commendatorre. This company was named for its founders. Gary Burrell and Min Cow. Gary Burrell and Karen. K-B-T-T-Y-T-Y-N-E-L-L-E-L-R-E-L-R-E-L and Min-C-O-N-K-N-N-E-N-E-E-E-E-E-L and M-I-N-N-N.

space, K-A-O. Yeah, K-V-T toys would be good. B-K-K-K-B. They use their first names. Oh. And they made a nice little portmanteau of them. Gairn. Oh, Garmine?

Garmin? Whoa. The GPS manufacturers. That's right. Yep. Whoa. Wow. This company, this founder-named company,

which Ken Jennings knows very well, is rather unique in that most of its employees work only four months out of the year. Oh, geez. Karen. H&R. Block. H&R. Block. That's the question that Ken Jennings went out on. Yes, that ended his Jeopard.

This retail store was founded by a guy named Ingvar Comprod. Everybody. IKEA. This is an acronym of Ingvar Comprod and the family farmer he was born, Elm Tarud. and a nearby village, Aguinaris. Sounds accurate. Yes.

Very Swedish. IKEA. Finally, finally, and sticking with names I can't pronounce, James Liottaud, L-I-A-U-D, L-I-A-U-D-L-O-T-A-O-T-O-T-O-T-O-D, James L-L-T-O-T-O-D, founded this fast-growing sandwich shop in 1983-3. Yes. Remember? Jimmy John?

Jimmy Johns. Yes. That's James. He doesn't go by James. He goes by Jimmy John. Oh, that's a sandwich place. Yeah. Yeah, they're growing back.

They are growing fast. They are growing fast. So, just as a recap, that's A&W Baskin Robbins, Condé Nass, Dean and DeLuca, Eastman, Kodak, Ferrari, Garmin, H&R Block, E, Kea, and Jimmy Johns. They're enough of that order. They're enough of that order. Okay.

Well done. Thanks, thanks, thanks. Wow, the garment one blew me away. Yeah, that's a good one. Yeah, I really like that one. When I saw that one, I was like, oh, that's nice. Yeah. Not a lot of first names.

That's elegant. Not a lot of first names, yeah. I will close us out with a quiz called, where's the original? This is going to be a quiz about place names. We have a lot of cities, countries, countries. states places the world with new in front of them. This is a question for you about where's the original

where's the old? So if I were to say I know you know the city of New York but where is original York? And I would accept, yeah, I'll accept that. Oh really? Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, I mean be more specific if you can. Mainly I'll accept it because it's right. Okay. You don't

want us to say planet earth for everyone. Right. The solar system. The northern hemisphere. I narrowed it down for you. All right, here we go. Buzz in when you're ready. I know you know the city of New Orleans, but where is original Orleans? All together?

It is France. Yes, that's right. Orleans, right. And it's sort of indirect. It's named after the Duke of Orleans. Oh, so that's a classic. Who takes his name from, yeah, from the region in France. I know you know the country, New Zealand.

Yeah. But where is original? Belzeeland. It's it Belgium. It is not Belgium. No. Wait, that is... Think about who were some of the early...

Yeah, Karen. Netherlands? No. Yes. Yeah, yes. Genius. Yeah, that's totally right. Yeah, so Abel Tasman, you know, after whom Tasmania was named.

He was Dutch. He was sort of the first European to cite New Zealand. He gave it a name originally that was later change to New Zealand after the Dutch province of Zealand. So this is our New Zealand. I know you know the

Canadian province of New Brunswick but where is original Brunswick? New Jersey. I know there's a Brunswick New Brunswick. This one is not a trick but it's a little tricky. Chris.

Germany. It is Germany. Yeah, we're Brunswick, you know, it's just sounded... Brunswick. I'll give you, you're right for the wrong reason. Okay, great. You'll take it. It's named after Bronschweig, which you may have heard of. No.

Brownschweig, which was anglicized into Brunswick. Yeah. I always thought it was, it sounds so English. Wow. June Hilda. You got it. You got it. Yeah, Brunhilda.

Thank you. Thank you. All right, quick quiz. Last question. Here we go. Whoa. Oh, that is nice. Well, you know, so I started...

A lot of these are. England. I know you know New Mexico, but where's original Mexico? That could have been your sample. Is it Mexico? Well, what about Jersey? Oh, sorry. Sorry, sorry.

I have two more. Two more. I know you know the state of New Hampshire. Yes. Where is original Hampshire? Chris? England. It is England.

Yeah. Hampshire County. Shire. I don't want us to. Hampshire. Hampshire. Yes. Yeah.

All right. And last one. I know you know the state of New Jersey. Here we go. But where is original Jersey? It's like, it must have changed its name. Jersey. England? Poland? Not Poland.

This is a, again, not a trick, but tricky. In the afternoon? Jersey. Netherlands. Friends. Like, Jay is a weird. Wait, does nobody have said it yet? No one said it yet.

No one said it. I'm just... Jersey. France. I think when I say you'll remember. Chris, I can guess. Egypt. No.

It is the colony, the New Jersey colony was named after the Isle of Jersey, which is in the Channel Islands and is an independent region. Whoa. Yes. It is a bailiwick of Jersey. It's one of my favorite terms, the bailiwick. connected historically with the U.K. Like, they're sort of on the hook to defend Jersey, you know, militarily.

But they are autonomous. They rule themselves. Yes. The Isle of Jersey in the Channel Islands off the coast of Normandy, France. Yeah. Oh, English Channel. Yeah. I had always assumed it was

just, again, like everything else is in New England, somewhere in England proper. But no. New England. No. No. Jersey's, they call it a crowned. Dependency. So like, Isle of Man. Gernsey, also a crown dependency. So it's sort of in this weird

quasi. Those are different. Those are more, those are more closely tied to the UK. Are they in the... What about New Finland? Foundland. So a lot of the... No, isn't that like, literally like, we just found this? Yes. Oh. Yeah. Newfoundland. Oh, my God. Newfoundland. There's no found land.

That we just, was newly found. That's so cool. I mean, I made that up with, I'm guessing that's true. New House town. Right, you're right, right. Yeah, and that's just, I mean, maybe related to that, looking at a lot of the eastern cities, like New Haven. There's no Old Haven. It was just a New Haven where they were founding, right. All right, well done, well done.

Oh, my God, Newfoundland. Newfound land. One of the first comic books I ever remember getting was an issue of Spider-Man. the debut appearance of Hydro Man. Hydroman, and it, for some reason... Is it to water conservation? He, no, he can turn himself into water, basically. And he ended up being a fairly long-lasting villain in Spider-Man.

That seems like that's a good power. That was pretty good. You can freeze. Right, you can imagine all the ways that, you know, the good guys have thought to beat him. You can bust out a lock by, like, you know, filling it with water and expanding it. It's pretty powerful. You can trap us, you know, somebody. Right, yeah, yeah, yeah.

You could, no, no, slow down. I want to keep brainstorming this. You could. But how would you defeat him? A sponge? A fan. Oh, a fan. Yeah, he's been turned into vapor before.

Just, that's one way to beat him. You know, if you happen to chance upon Hydro Man. Yeah, you could drink him. You can mix some poison into the water. Well, actually, so you guys know Sandman. I think they've even had Sam Man in the Spider-Man movies, right? At one point in the Spider-Man continuity, Hydroman and Sandman got merged together into Mud Man, Mud Man. How many?

Was this a special, like, six-issue sort of mini-series? It was a short run. That's very intimate. Well, you know. He was dumb, too. It wasn't like he was, like, twice as smart. It was almost like, yeah, yeah. All of that to say, I've had a fascination with the villains in particular.

And Karen, I know you and I have talked a lot about these. The good villains, the bad villains, the dumb villains. I'm a Marvel guy, so I put together a quiz about Marvel comics villains. Okay. For this quiz, I will give you a description of a villain and their name. You tell me, is it a real villain from the Marvel comics? Or is this a villain that I have made up to try and fool you? So not like from another, like not from D.C. or something.

I feel like we're all going to learn something. Oh, man. I've tried to choose some of the movies. I've tried to choose some of the more obscure ones, but some of these have shown up more than once over the years. And the order of these has been entirely randomized, not by me. So you can't try and out smart me by, oh, well, he wouldn't put two of these back to back. The dice decided the order of this quiz. So here we go.

Yeah, but whose dice were they? It was on the iPhone. Yeah, technically it was a dice app. Yeah, that's how sad things are today. We didn't even find real dice. It was a dice app. All right, here we go. So, once you ask you me, thumbs up for, yes, this is a real villain from Marvel Comics, or a thumbs down.

Colin, you are just BSing us. Okay. Stiltman. Stiltman is a scientist and inventor who developed a pair of super long telescoping legs, allowing him to rob tall buildings. If you made it up, you did a great job. Yeah. It captures that time. Yeah, it's like Inspector Gadgety.

All three of you say real, you're all correct. This is a real villain from first thing. He first fought Daredevil in 1965. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's simpler time, as you said. Yep. Moving right along. It's dumb enough to be true.

The silver platters. Spoiled rich kids, Arthur and Eva Silver, turned to a life of crime using metal throwing discs as their weapon of choice. Again. I'm going to say it's real. I hope you made it out for that.

I know. I love it so much. Everyone says real. Noah's is false. I made this up. I made up the silver platters. That is gold. The silver platters?

The right level of. No one would suspect them because they're rich. Right. Why do they need to throw metal discs around? They're so rich. Paste pot, Pete. Peter Petrosky is a chemist who develops an advanced adhesive and turns to a life of crime using his super sticky paste to combat foes.

Oh my God. Again, I hope you made it up. What's his name again? Paste pot, Pete. Peter Patrosky. So they love alliteration. They love alliteration. It sounds old-timey as it is, and so far as it refers to an obsolete piece of equipment.

Yeah. And it also sounds like the sort of thing that a comic artist would have. Would, like, on deadline, literally just starts looking around his office. Like Kevin Spacey and the usual suspects, lands on the paste pot. And it's just like, Bing, Bang, Boom. Got this one. So I'm going to say, I'm going to say true. I like it too much.

I'm going to say true to all of these. All right. Well, Chris is all in on true. Yes. Dana says true. You know, I really like the fact that he has, like, a Russian-y last name to you, the Colossus. you know, how to... Makes it east coasty, no way.

Yeah. Okay, true. You're going to say true? It's too good. All right. Yeah, you are all correct. He is a real villain. And Chris, I love your...

I love the deduction that you go to. Yeah. Yeah. And he really did. He had a little paste pot and a gun and he would just... It was simpler. He was simpler. He was a very early Marvel villain.

This was 1963. I wonder how long he was around. He showed up a lot. He fought... As a legit... As a legit villain. He fought the fan. fantastic four many times.

Hell's Bells. And now that's B-E-L-L-E-S. Hells Bells. An all-female team of high-end burglars who dress in demonic costumes to hide their identities and intimidate their victims. Wow. Very progressive. There's also like a band, I think, called the Hells Bells.

It's all girl, or old girl band. Yeah. Kiss had their comic. Kiss was big. Maybe this was some jumping on that train. I feel like just the kiss thing. All right. All right.

Karen and Dana say true. Chris says false. I made this one up. I made up the hells spells. All right. Next one. The splinter. Is he a rat?

A former lumberjack who discovers a mystical hardwood so strong it can puncture steal and turns to a life of crime. If I were him, why would I name myself the splinter? I would mean something like the trunk or something more mightier. Splinter is like this annoying

little thing. Roots McGillicuddy. I would say it's true. But I feel like if Colin made it up, it would have had a better name. The lumber jack or timber or something. Oh, timber. Timber. That would have burned. That's why.

I think it's real because it's not as good. All right. Chris says fake. Karen and Dana say real. I made it up. Yay. God, reverse psychology. I know. It's both a compliment and an insult.

Pace pot is the worst. Pace pot, Pete. Hole punch, Harry. He's on a loose again. Punching holes in your money. And it's like, render it illegal tender. Sir, we found these

a little circular piece of his calling card. Yeah. This can only be one person. And it's just confetti. It's hairy. All right, so I don't know if you guys saw But Big Hero 6 The fantastic new Disney movie

Just came out on DVD Blu-ray What an Oscar! Won an Oscar! Won the Oscar for Best Animated Film So anyway, I was thinking about Disney And I was like, oh, I'll do a Disney quiz for all quiz And then I was like, wait a gosh darn minute I know Dana's not going to be there

And that means it's going to be just Karen answers all the questions And Colin was just like, I'll just leave Yeah So then I realized, okay, this is what I'm going to do I've crafted a sports quiz that Colin can definitely get all the answers to. And I've crafted a Disney quiz that Karen can definitely get all the answers to. But I'm going to give you the sports quiz and I'm going to give Colin the Disney quiz. I love it.

And we're going to see how you guys do with this. I love it. Colin will be sitting there sort of biting his litter in the entire time. I know this. But we're going to see. Again, these are very generally easy questions for somebody who knows their stuff about this, which means it's going to be a challenge for somebody who totally doesn't. So we'll begin with Karen.

Okay. And I'll give you a round of sport. Five questions, five questions for each of you. All right, here we go. Now quiz Karen in the realm of sporting. This NBA legend played his entire career for the Boston Celtics and was named MVP for the years 1984, 1984, 1985, and 1986. Karen.

Oh, yes, just me. I think she's going to get this. Who is Larry Bird? Absolutely. Who is Larry Bird? Yes. All right. I only know that.

Because my dad used to have a t-shirt of Larry Bird's face, like, overprint. Like, the whole t-shirt is his face with his mouth open. And so my dad would, like, take a nap. And I would come in in the room and be like, whoa, what is that? It's Larry Bird's face. It's a great slumdog millionaire moment. Yeah, yeah, yep, yep, yep. Question number two, this is golfer Jack Nicklaus's nickname.

Golfer Jack Nicholce. I know who he is. Yes, yes, this is his nickname. I know he's very good. Is it like Golfie McGalpherson Like Shooter McGabbin The pro

No That's a nice guess though I like that That's classic Colin you want to go for it I believe Jack Nicholas is The Golden Bear He is the golden bear

Oh I was gonna say the golden boy Oh man Don't they have the jackets The gold jackets or is that just from Happy Gilmore For the masters But yeah Right right Why is he a golden bear?

Who knows? I'm not sure of the origin of that nickname, actually. Neither, and I didn't do enough research to find that out. So question number three, question number three, from 1996 to 2007, this baseball team was managed by Joe Torrey. From 1996? 1996 to 2007, this baseball team was managed by Joe Torrey. It's T-O-R-R-E. Oh, Tori.

Which is a weird way of spelling Joe, but they're. you have it. East Coast. Boston Red So close. New York. New York Yankees. Ah, yeah. Okay.

Yes. Yes. Yes. I like how you were able to intuit East Coast just from the manager's name. Just from the way I was speaking? Because I figured 2007 that was, didn't the Red Sox like have a win or something? It was a big deal. They did have a win and it was a big deal.

And so that's why I thought it was the timing. Oh, okay. Oh, okay. Got it. Karen, question number four. Wow. Karen's round of sport. Name any two of the seven Canadian

NHL teams. Oh, this is easy. Oh, okay. Oh, she'll get those. Oh, yeah. Well, there is, of course, the Toronto Maple Leafs. Yes. I believe Vancouver Canucks.

There you go. And also the Montreal Habs or Habiton or Canadian. Ottawa Senators. Yeah. Oh, you're doing pretty good. Colin, do you want to try to finish it off? Senators, Maple Leafs. Senators, Maple Leafs, Canadians, Canucks.

Three left. It's like Edmonton. Edmonton. Yeah, Oilers. Edmonton Oilers. Two more. Oh, Calgary Flames and one more. Yeah, you have to think of major cities.

Winnipeg Jets. Winnipeg Jets. Wow. All right, between the two of you. All right. And question number five. At age 29 in 1973, she beat 55-year-old Bobby Riggs in a Battle of the Sexes

tennis match. Karen. Who is Billy Jean King? Absolutely. Very good. So let's see. Now, okay, you've acquitted yourself well in the sports round. Three out of five.

Very good. Let's see Colin tackle these Disney-themed questions. I'm not feeling confident. I don't know. We'll find out. We'll find out. We'll find out. We talked a lot about Disney.

It's true. I've absorbed a lot of information passively. Yep. Question number one. This Disney film, features characters such as To Luz, Marie, Duchess, and Rokefort. Okay.

To Luz, Marie, Duchess, Rokefort, it's all French. So is that Beauty and the Beast? Oh, it is not. Well, you don't get to buzz it. But you can go for it if you want to. What is the Aristot Cats? The Aristot Cats. Which takes place...

You're kind of close. It takes place in France. In France. It does take place in France. You know Marie, though. Marie's the white cat with the little purple of a tie. That's where she's from. Right, right, right.

Got it. Sorry, I tried to pick characters that did not overtly suggest that this character is a cat. Are there other cat name? Thomas O'Malley, the alley cat. You just say Thomas O'Malley. Stat cat. I guess I could have, yes. Name any two Disney musicals that feature song lyrics written by Howard Ashman.

Okay. So I'm assuming that's like the later gen, right? So I think he started with Little Mermaid, is that one? So I'll say Little Mermaid and I'll say Beauty and the Beast. You are absolutely correct. In fact, you nailed the two that he actually wrote all of the lyrics to. He also contributed a song to Oliver and Company and then wrote three of the songs in Aladdin. Okay.

Name the sequel to Fantasia. Oh, man. fan the sequel to oh is it it wasn't Fantasia 2000 yes it was

I almost overthought that one yes I'm like it's not Fantasia Barino it's not yeah yeah Fantasia Boogaloo

yeah Fantasia Perino the sequel I like it we may need to know this one day this is not a question but uh for a bonus point

for both of you in what year was Fantasia 2000 released well okay well it's got to be early because late would be stupid. I'll say 98, 1998.

It was released in 1999. It was released in 1999. It's like, just remember it's like Madden. Yeah. Okay. All right. In addition to its most popular Academy Award winning song, this movie also features the tunes, How Do You Do, and Everybody's Got a Laughing Place. Oh, man.

Okay, so I'll just keep it to Academy Award winning. I believe a laugh. I don't know something for an Academy Award for music. I'll guess Aladdin. It is, it is not Aladdin. Okay. Wow, you haven't been at Disneyland. I will tell you, yeah, you can hear both of these songs being sung on a certain ride at Disneyland.

I got nothing. Okay. I believe that's Song of the South. Song of the South. The Academy Award winning song being, Colin, I'm going to take a stab at it? Zippity doo-Doo-D-A. All right. And finally, all right.

How are you doing, Ashley, by the way? I think you got you nailed. Ashman Fantasia, so you can tie this up. Here we go. All right, here it is. Here it is. Here's the big old softball right across the plate, just for you. The titular characters of this film are named Todd and Copper.

Copper. Okay, so the, man, now I'm drawn up blank on anything that has title characters. Todd and Copper. Todd and Copper. Todd and Copper. All right. Okay, they must be some kind of animal. Are they, like, cousins or, uh, yeah, newsies?

Is it newsies? I wish it was newsies. But Caramel, Caron will school you on. I know. It's right. It's right. That's true. Yeah, absolutely.

The Fox and the Hound. Oh, wow. The Fox and the Hound. Oh, man. The saddest movies. Yeah. Wow. I've never seen that as a kid.

I've seen that one. Oh, I don't remember. Oh, who was what? Kurt Russell. what really yeah and oh the other person's famous too was it was like an old actor i think it's like a micky rooney or something i'm a hound dog i'm a hound dog oh so cute oh man i haven't thought about that i should see that on the end well karen you're better at sports than i am at disney so there we go that was good i like that oh thanks yeah it's so funny because they're all so

easy for me yeah my questions are so easy for you but yeah like i like i like when christ was reading the Joe Tori question, like, you're writing down the years, and I'm like, oh, I don't need to know what years yet. Right, yeah, yeah. That's great. All right. This is why we're a team. Yeah, this is why we're, this is why we are hated, actually, hated throughout the

entire food truck park. Hissed and booed at our own pub trivia. People do parody. They're smiling when they do that. I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, we had parody teams. We have.

We have. We have. Now, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage. Co-host, Collin. People throw the word music around a lot these days. And I find that more often than not, they are in fact using it correctly. Let me introduce to you the 2015 winners for Best Music. I'm bringing back, and I did this once before,

International Song Covers. Oh, I love this. Of famous songs. Originally sung in the English language. Exactly. Now in another language. Now another language. So what are we trying to...

What are we trying to guess? So two things. We're going to make a trickier. Two things. One is, can you name the original artist perform that song? Okay. Or the song is fine, too. These are all famous songs that you two all.

know. You should know. Okay. All right. Should not all know. The other part is, can you tell me what language it is? Oh, okay. Okay.

Sounds good? No. You're so sassy today. First one to wet your appetite. Everybody Rolling stones Painting French

Yes, But a day You'll Enter in the dance Everybody Rolling Stones Paint in black Uh

French That was my first guess at first But the longer it played The less I thought it was French It's like I don't understand the words But it sort of sounded like a French It started off sounding French But by the end, I don't know

Esperanto is French. Oh, it is? Oh, okay. Sorry. Paint a black by the Rolling Stones by Marie LaForette. Next one. Oh, I'm going to be the chorus. Incorrect. Oh. I believe it was the cranberries. Oh, the cranberries.

And was that, it wasn't song for my father. What was it called? Oh, to my family. Oh, yeah. This is a dream. Dreams. Dreams. What language?

Was that Swedish? Oh, I was going to say maybe, I was going to say maybe Spanish. But again, the longer it went on, it didn't, I didn't sound, I don't know. That was in Cantonese. Oh, wow. So nowhere close. Nope, not all. Not at all.

Not at all. Not all. Right. Okay. Yes, that was a cranberries. Cranberries. Wow. Next one, we're moving up in difficulty.

Here we go. And I let's escape As long If the future So I'm Permit I don't I'm

My love My love Not we're We're On the world To expect For us The infinite

of the sky Azu Can't have life in Mars Then

come And in your Linger And don't Vey I want to Goin around the world

Oh, what is that? Well, I'm going to say, is it, is it in Portuguese? Yes, it's in Portuguese. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. But, life on bars. Oh, I do not know that. David Bowie. Oh, no.

Oh, okay. Yes, yes. This was just, this was just, uh... Slow. Yeah. I don't know how to pronounce his name. Sayu Jorge. Sayu Jorge.

If you watched Steve Zissu in the Life Aquatic by West Anderson, he is one of the crew members, and he sings. I think the soundtrack was all him singing David Bowie covers in Portuguese with the guitar. Really good. Here's another one. Listen careful. Listen to the beat. Okay. The arrangement is a little bit different, but the beat is the same.

I don't know anything. I'm in chasm beckery I need I'm going to bed, yeah, you know,

offal. Mavothood. Mbany shim, shams, Eker she, I need, I need,

but I'm tall, again, a day, offdal, yeah, offda, yeah,

Mofdaul, Colin? That's a cover of the guerrillas, I believe. Correct. Clint Eastwood. Yes. Man, again, these... How does that...

How does this? I'm happy when I'm sad, oh. Sunshine in my head, my useless. Yeah, mostly correct there. Yeah, I think you got a word or two wrong. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Somebody. But, you know. Get me out of my cage. Huh, yeah. And dull, right. So it was a little bit slower version. It did sound. It sounds like it beatwise, though, yeah.

But all of this to dance around the fact that I have no good guess on the language there. I'm going to guess, again, I don't know, Eastern European, something. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, in terms of, it's not. Geographically. Yeah, geography. I'm not picking up. It's tough.

It is Lebanese Arabic. Okay. This group is fantastic. And this song, this arrangement, he later wraps, too. It's really cool. Oh, one guy. I really like it. Oh, no, it's like a band.

Oh, okay. That's cool. I like that one as well. These are all good. One last one, and this is kind of a jokey one. It was in a movie, so maybe it's not commercially released. Okay. And the person who's singing is not a famous singer.

All right. He's an actor. All right. So please give me the original artist of the song that's being covered and perhaps the language. You know, I'm just to be, I see, I want you, the song is I want you to want me to want me. Yes. Is it, is that, Chet? No.

Cheap trick. Cheap trick. Cheap trick. Oh, okay. Well, I want you to want me. Yeah. In Spanish, it sounds Spanish. Spanish, yes.

It's from, uh, the person saying it was, um, Gail Bernal Garcia. Gail Garcia, Bernal. Yes. Uh, the, one of the famous Mexican actors. He was in a movie and he like had a cheesy, like music video in the movie. It's a really crazy fake video. Cool. Well, good job, you guys.

Hey. A trip around the world. Uh, I feel like we got. either the language or the song for all of them yeah awesome

keeping the theme of epic I have put together a quiz of epic guitar solo epic epic guitar

solos these are all solos these are all solos I know you've heard the song or I'm reasonably sure you have

but do you recognize it from just the solo oh wow let's do this as another write down so I will play you about

We're so nerdy, we're like, we love writing down to the text. You have asked me some questions. I'll write down. It feels more real. Can we write it down? Name the band or artist. And for a bonus point, name the guitarist. I'll even throw in bonus possible points here.

Some of these are famous bands with famous guitarists. Here we go. First one. Okay. All right, answers up. Write down something if you're not sure. Karen says Rolling Stones, which is correct, and Keith Richards also correct. Chris has a question mark.

Dana says Rolling Stones and Johnny Depp's pirate dad. I will accept that I will accept Johnny Depp's pirate dad I like that I don't know that That is sympathy for the devil I don't know

I'm pleased to meet you Hope you guess my name All right next one Here we go Next track Please tell me the band Remember these are legendary epic

Thank you. answers up oh nothing for chris uh i do it's not the right answer dana says leonard stinard not correct karen had with two points again stairway to heaven led zeppelin guitar to jimmy page i meant lead zeppelin i don't i don't deserve the point but but i was like it's not that it's different words it begins with the oh yeah all right okay showing me how hard it is for me to gauge how hard these are here. All right, next one. All right, and answers up. All right, and answers up. Chris says, the Eagles, with a

bonus of Don Henley. Dana says the Eagles with a bonus of Don Henley. Karen says the Eagles and nothing bonus. You guys all got one point. It is the Eagles. Hotel California. No, that is a Don Felder and Joe Walsh.

That he had that attributing that. He didn't know the answer then either. Is Don Henley even in the band? Yes, yes, but he was not the guitar. Right, very. Yeah. A whole lot of dons. Too many dons. All right. Last one here, guys. last one last ones close it out here in style please tell me the band

and if you're feeling especially smart tell me the guitarist All right, answers up. Karen says Leonard Skinner, Chris says, question mark. Dana says Leonard Skinner. Yes, that is Leonard Skinner performing Freebird, what has been termed the most requested song in rock history. Did you not play rock band with me? Yeah, but I could identify songs from like the vocal.

The rules? Yeah, it's tricky. When you excise a guitar solo from a song, I can't play. Yo, runners, I play Free Bird just the, like, when it gets into the solo. And I'm just like, I'm like a nymph. I'm like a wood nymph. Like, I'm running on the trails. Like, I'm free.

Like, it is my jam. So I know that's solo solo. Awesome. I don't know who the guitarist is. Yeah, Alan Collins. Oh, okay. Yeah. Very, very deep in the trivia well for that one.

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Steve Cubine and Nan McNamara's podcast from Beneath the Hollywood Sign. Mary Astor has been keeping a diary. Mary writes everything down. And so this torrid affair with Georges Kaufman is chronicled on a daily basis. In great detail. And Iif pulls out a box and gives McAllister a ring saying, here's something to remember me by. This article caused Daryl Zanick to hit the roof. Actress Ruth Roman followed that up with playing a foil to Betty Davis in Beyond the Force.

I mean, if you can stand toe to toe with her, boy. And she does because she plays the daughter of the man that Betty Davis kills out in the hunting trip. And it's directed by King Vidor. So, he's no slouch. How do you go wrong with that? Yeah. Speaking of the Oscars, talking about what I call beginner's luck, it's all about the actors and actresses who won an Oscar on their very first film. Get your fix of old Hollywood from Stephen N on the podcast from Beneath the Hollywood Sign.

Making good job, Brain Awards now, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage. Co-host Chris. Thank you. Thank you. Webster's Dictionary defines segment as one of the parts into which something can be divided. Segments are extremely important parts of anything. The very human body can be divided into many segments. many of which are very important.

For example, the top segment or the bottom segment. Some segments like the appendix or pinky toe do nothing and should feel bad. But this award for Best Segment honors a segment that truly embraces the meaning of segment. We have talked occasionally about the great video game crash of 1983. Now, just prior to that, in 1982, Atari was riding high. They had more money than God. They had wild ambitions, crazy, crazy dreams about what they were going to do with Atari. And from a game design perspective, certainly, and certainly from a marketing blitz perspective,

Atari's craziest game was called SwordQuest. Sounds fantasy-related. Yeah. Yeah, but SwordQuest was sort of the evolution of games like adventure, you know, and it was a sort of a, you know, action-slash-puzzle-slash-adventure-type game. For the Atari 2,600, but it was not merely a video game. It was a proposed suite of four video games. Whoa.

Crazy. Sword Quest Earth World, Sword Quest, Fire World, Sword Quest, Fireworld, Sword Quest Waterworld, and Sword Quest Air World. Each of the Sword Quest games would come packaged with an elaborate comic book, produced by DC Comics, which was owned by Warner. Communications, which owned Atari. And this told the story, the backstory of the game, the fanciful

fantasy backstory of the characters. And beyond that, this was the promise that the Sword Quest game and the Sword Quest comic put together were an elaborate puzzle. Oh. And if you can put the clues together

correctly, find the correct clues within the game that led you to clues within the comic book and entered your answer. You could get invited to a competition at a where you could win what of four prizes, one for each game. Earth World, the prize was the talisman of penultimate truth, which was a round talisman made of 18-carat gold, in which were inlaid 12 diamonds and won each of the 12 birthstones of the zodiac. Just what a really big nerd needs.

A talisman. It was worth in 1980s. $25,000. Now, again, that's, that's, in today's dollars, that's about $60,000. But that's not accounting for the increase in the price of gold. It would be now incredibly worth a lot of money. If you won, that's just one, that's just, oh, that's just one. If you won the Fireworld competition, you would win the chalice of light made of gold and platinum, also inlaid with diamonds and other precious.

gems, Waterworld, the crown of life, similarly, gold, diamonds, et cetera, $25,000 in 1983 money. And if you won the Air World competition, you would win the Philosopher Stone, which was a gigantic hunk of white jade inside an ornate gold, jewel-encrusted box. I can't imagine why this industry bottomed out. It just seems on the base of it's so sustainable. It's so logical. So each of these, so now we're at $100,000 in prizes. Finally, of those four winners, they would have a final competition,

and one of them would win the Sword of Ultimate Sorcery itself. 18-carat gold handle and a silver blade, also encrusted with jewels, and worth by itself $50,000. Is that impossible to make? Yeah. Tari holds the first contest, and, like, name. and it was so difficult that only eight people submitted correct answers

of all the thousands and thousands of people and one of them, a guy named Stephen Bell, won the talisman, the talisman of penultimate truth. The second game, Fireworld, they held the contest. The contest was easier.

In fact, too many people won. And they had to whittle it down with an essay contest. Why you love Fireworld. They're just making this up as they go along. The Fireworld was the chalice of light. The chalice. An essay contest.

Why, I deserve the chalice of light. So again, sparing no expense, they fly 50 people to San Francisco. And there was a guy, his name was Michael Riteout, and he won the chalice. Okay. Then everything went to hell. The game industry crashed. Retailers were stuck with unsold copies of Atari games that nobody wanted, including SwordQuest. It kind of sucks the joy out of it, because you,

no, you can't win the contest. It's like the moment the contest is over, you're like, well, I'm not playing this game again. See, the game was still on because they had promised these people a shot at the Sword of Ultimate Sorcererate. Yeah, duh. So they can't just stop it.

Sword Quest Waterworld was the third game in the series. At this point, retailers didn't want Atari games, but Atari was still selling games to its diehard fans through its mail order, like Atari Club mail order business. So they did, in fact, release SwordQuest Waterworld. They had the one. Water World contest. It was all in the box, and you could send in your entries. They only got as far as picking out the finalists, the people who had sent in correct entries for Waterworld. And at that

point, Atari mailed out a letter to all the finalists, basically offering to settle. Buy them out and end the contest. They said that they would pay each of the two, the two guys who would won Earth World and Fireworld, they said, we will give you $15,000 to walk away. And then to all the people who had who were going to go and play in the water world competition a smaller amount of money and everyone agreed to cash out and not go for figuring, you know

50,000 versus getting the sword or which is a one in four shot at the sword might as well think that 15,000 bucks so there was no final round the prize was never awarded and Sword Quest Air World was never made. So where is everything now?

As recently as 2005 if people tracked down Michael Rightout and he was still in the possession of the chalice of light. Safe deposit box. Enlightenment, I don't think, has come to him.

Nobody has been able to track down Stephen Bell, but apparently he actually had the talisman of penultimate truth melted down and sold it for the scrap value of gold, which is probably a lot of money at the time. And as for the Crown of Life

and the Philosopher's Stone and the Sword of Ultimate, whatever, Sorcercery Curseery, excuse me Whereabouts Unknown So they made them The contestants saw them

The rumor is that the Tremiel family The founders of Commodore Who bought Atari out The rumor has always been That they have had them In their possession But they've

But that's never been proven And they've never been seen They're on the wall In someone's basement Someone's game room They're in a box All right. So I'm going to talk about black, which is a funny thing to talk about in a show about light,

because black is often known as, what, the absence of color. The opposite. The opposite. It also, in physics, is the complete absorption of light. Indeed. There is a new material. It was discovered in 2008. It's called Vanta Black.

Oh. Vanta? Vanta. Vant-T-A-N-T-A. It stands for vertically aligned nanotube array. Yes. Oh, it's an acronym. Yes.

It reminds of what? Carbon nanotubes? Acronym or abbreviation? Accron. Accron. Accurant. Yes. Vanta.

Black. Not Fanta. No. Right. And it absorbs almost all light. It is the closest thing we have to actual black. Wow. And it's new.

And it's new because it couldn't have existed before. Oh. They basically have to grow it in a laboratory. It's made of carbon nanotubes. They grow it on aluminum foil, and they grow it. They grow these tiny little tubes. You actually grow? You grow it.

Yes, and it's super densely packed. There's no space between them. They're nanotubes. So that's one millionths of a millimeter. That's how small they are. They're tiny. When you wrinkle a piece of paper, you can see all the shades and the, like, shadows and reflection of light. You wrinkle this or you try to crumple this up.

There are no wrinkles. You can't see it. I can't even think about this. Yeah, it's like it blows your mind. There are videos of it. I highly recommend watching some videos. It makes... It just looks the same, whether it's flat or wrinkled.

But like, is it like a sheet of paper? Like, like, what is it? It kind of looks like it would be spongy a little bit. It's a little bit thick because they're... Wow. So they use them for military... Military and NASA. Of course.

So it's great for masking things because it absorbs all light. You just, you can't see it. It's like the closest thing we have to maybe being invisible from... But you can totally see. They put it in NASA telescopes because it absorbs all the light. And it removes all the distortion from the light going into the telescope.

So you can get the crystal clear pictures. It's like 10 times clear than anything they've had before. You guys, this is weird. It's like looking into a black hole, some people say. It's like, I feel like everything's being censored. You know, there's like a black bar on everything.

If you look at an image of it, It looks like somebody went into Photoshop and cut out that whole part of the image. Right. And then just hit delete. Yeah. Because there's no light. Because it doesn't reflect anything back to the camera. So if you made like a little black dress out of this, you would look like a 2D character because there are no shade.

There's no contour, no highlights. Oh, wow. Yeah. What do you mean grow? Like, is it sell? They build them up. They build them up. Just imagine a hot glue gun except for it spits out individual carbon molecules.

Man, super. Vanta black. What does Vanta stand for again? Vertically aligned nanotube array. So they're all little tube standing up. Oh, they're standing up, not lying down. Okay, I was thinking they're lying down, like pick up six. No, no.

This is like a little forest, like little trees. Wow. Yeah. Yeah, they absorb 99.96% of all light, the darkest material we've made so far. Oh, my God, that's weird. We're getting so close. We're getting so. Come on, people. We can do this.

Yeah. Well, I mean, it's like, you know, early on, and it's like, well, we got these mirrors down pretty good. We're going to be reflecting all the light. How hard could it be to go the other direction? Right. Really hard. Wow. You talked about honey on the show before. Yeah. I think we had a cool honey facts. A great slam dunk with our segment about bees eating M&Ms and then producing blue honey and all kinds of stuff.

It's got me thinking going out and getting honey out of beehives must be a very old human activity. Right? Like, this must go back a long way. Yeah, yeah. Turns out that, yeah. In fact, there is a cave painting that very clearly depicts someone climbing up a tree and reaching their hand into a nest to get honey. This cave painting could be, because, of course, it's very difficult to date these things,

could be up to 8,000 years old. So honey hunting, here's the part where it just gets crazy. There is a family of birds, and they have the family name, Indicatoridae. Ah. Which what? Their common name of these birds is the honey guide. It shows, indicates where the honey is. Right.

One word. The honey guide. Indicatoridae. Yes. Chief among these birds is family birds is the greater honey guide who has the amazing Latin name of Indicator Indicator. That's his Latin name. Honey guide birds are one. of the few birds out there

that eat wax. Oh, not honey. They don't want the honey. They don't want honey at all. They're interested in eating wax or like wax worms or like, I mean, they eat insects. So, so like the walls of the honeycomas. Yeah. Okay.

Yeah. And there's a lot of bees wax. Bee wax. Be wax. The bees are careful to not let the honey guide birds into their nest because it is none of their bees wax. I was waiting. I was waiting.

waiting for it. Thank you. So anyway, the honey guides cannot actually get in there. They will get, like, probably stung to death, trying to go in. So the honey guide birds over the millennia developed a fantastic, fascinating, evolutionary behavior. They will go, and they will find a human being. And they will be like, hey, hey, hey, in a certain manner, like, follow me. Look at me. They will fly conspicuously or, like, you know.

make themselves very conspicuous as they go from like tree to tree or flying to get the human to follow them. And the humans learn, oh, these birds will lead us to honey. They train the humans to birds. That's great. And they will do certain calls and things like that to try to get their attention. This is actually, it is still practiced today by societies like the hodzah, which are people who live in Tanzania. And they follow after the birds, and the birds leave them to the hive. Then once they get to the hive, the humans smoke out the bees.

Because you smoke to dull, the bees will not, like, they'll still sting you like some of them will. But mostly, they'll be lulled into a torpor, you know, they will not, yes, but they reach in and they pull out the honeycomb. And that's something the honey guide, you know, could not do. And so now the honey guide can potentially go in and get the scraps that the humans leave over. But the humans get the honey, the bees, the birds get what they want. It's like his finder's fee. Yeah, yes. Today, the hodzah will often eat all the honeycomb and then take, they take whatever they did not eat and they actually burn it. And there's a video of somebody asking, so why are you doing this? He goes, well, I mean, if the bird would eat it, the bird would get full and then wouldn't guide me to any more nests. So we're stringing the honey guide along to keep them hungry, so he'll lead me to more honey. This is like being mischievous on both sides.

There is manipulation on both sides of this relationship. And to make you feel a little bit better about this, I want to stress that the honey guide, so we know with the honey guide, you know, how he interacts with humans, sounds like a cool guy. No. Yeah, it sounds like a jerk. Is it a-hole?

He is. Yeah, I bet. The honey guide is an a-hole bird. Now, careful listeners of good job brain know about a-hole birds. Yes. Like the cuckoo. I mean, you discussed on an earlier show, the cuckoo is what is called a brood parasite.

Yeah. And that what that means is that the cuckoo does not raise its own eggs. The cuckoo goes around to other bird's nests and deposits the eggs in the other nests. The honey guide also does this. The honey guide is also a brewed parasite. It's a crafty bird. So the honey guide does not take care of its own children. It doesn't even build its own nest, because it finds a nest full of eggs of another bird and deposits its own babies in there and then beats it.

And then the other birds are tricked into thinking that the honey guide is one of their children. Right. Yeah. The honey guide is the primo A-Hole of all A-Hole birds. Because the first thing a honey-guide bird usually does when it hits up somebody else's nest is it checks to see if there's any other honey guide eggs in the nest. So if another honey guide has already been there and laid an egg, it's a same thing. No, it punctures the egg with its beak. Oh, my God.

It pops a hole in it. Well, try to kill it. Sure. Yeah. Then, if there's other eggs from the actual birds that built that nest, it will also puncture them, too. But it goes for the, it knows the honey guide eggs gets those first. Because it needs to kill off any potential other honey guides who will compete with it for the bees nest that it's going after. So it kills its own.

Oh, my God. Oh, yeah. Oh, it gets worse. So let's say, for example, that this attack did not work or did. puncture all the eggs and and the other uh chicks are born well the honey guide egg that's been left in this nest usually is born first birds are born blind naked and basically help vulnerable yeah totally vulnerable if you ever seen a baby chick that's just been born yeah is gross a little alien and it's blind you can do anything and fly honey guides when they are

born. They are born with a tiny working razor sharp needle beak. And they sit there and wait and as their little foster brothers are

born as soon as they hatch out of the egg, the baby honey, the blind, flightless baby honey guide goes over and brutally murders them. He grabs them, he bites them to death, he'll shake them around, and his jaws until they're dead.

One by one kills all the other babies. So the parents come back. All the babies are dead except for their fake baby. Yeah. He's like, I don't know what happened. Yeah. They were like that when I got here. Also, apparently the honey guides are generally bigger.

Yeah. Or certainly want more food. Yeah, they want more food than the babies that are in there anyway. So now these poor parents are like working overtime to feed this not their baby. Because it gets huge, right, for like a month until he finally leaves the nest. At least he doesn't murder them, too. You know what? He does not murder them.

That's a silver lining. Yep. But just day once, stone cold killer right out of the egg. Just killing all the babies. Honey guy. Oh, my goodness. Well, Chris, please keep us informed. You are officially on the Honey and Bee beat.

Yeah. Good job, Brain. If anything else pops up. It's official. You're the head of the office there. Awesome. The 2015 Good Job Brain Awards will be right back. No frills, delivers.

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The competition was fierce this year, but ultimately, this lucky group made it to the top of the food chain. But no, like, I was thinking, okay, this will be an easy one. It's full of food. It's full of fantasy. I can find some fantasy food to talk about. And I always loved Alice in Wonderland as a kid, too. Oh, yeah. Imaginative.

Oh, yeah. I mean, and one of those things that, like, you appreciate a lot more as an adult. You're like, oh, I didn't get this reference at all as a kid. Really? I think a lot of the stuff. I mean, he's got, you know, random math jokes and things tucked in, you know. Lewis Carroll was a, he was a strange guy. Yeah.

But as it turns out, I fell down a different rabbit hole, if you were. I will, yes, with a slightly different quiz. That's the worst. I hate you. I want to talk about a fantasy animal connected to a real food, connected to an imitation food. Oh, I know. I think I know what it is. I bet you guys probably do. Oh, yeah, okay. Okay, okay. During Alice's adventures in the book.

Wait, can we write down our answers? Oh, sure. Wow. And then we'll... All right. We're talking about an... This is an impromptu quiz. This is an animal that we encounter during Alice's adventures. Yes.

One of the characters answers up. The mock turtle. Yeah, someone talk about the mock turtle. Can I tell you one quick thing that was so weird. I was Googling for some quiz, and it was, I was like, how many meats? I was going to ask how many meats were on something? And it was like, how many meats? are on a turtle.

It was like a list of questions about how many meats. That's what Google thought I was going to ask. I don't know why. And you're like, okay. Who's been searching this? I was like, I've never asked you anything like this, Google. Why do you think I care about how many meats are on a turtle's body? Anyway, there you.

How many meats are in a turtle body? I almost followed it. And then I was like, I don't want to give Google the wrong idea. Oh my God. It's the number one thing. For what? In auto company? How many meats in a turtle?

Well, let's get here. We'll get there. We'll get there. I may be able to give you some idea. In case you don't remember, yes. In the book, shortly after playing some croquet, Alice and the queen are walking off. And the queen says, and I'm quoting here from the book, then the queen left off quite out of breath and said to Alice, have you seen the mock turtle yet? No, said Alice.

I don't even know what a mock turtle is. it's the thing mock turtle soup is made from said the queen and you know like as a kid that was a sufficiently silly absurd answer um duh yeah duh and you know as as i got older i think i did sort of learn i knew vaguely that mock turtle soup was a real thing in the same way that like you know like mock apple pie or right right right or other mock dishes what's mock apple pie saltines or ritz crackers yeah Cracker. Cracker pie. With pectin. No, no, no.

What? The cracker is the apple meat. Get out of here. Yes, mock apple pie is crackers. With saltines and like sugar. It's, yeah, after it dredges, it has a texture that's similar to like the baked apples. Wow. Yeah.

It's, it's a flavor fooler. Yeah. Flavorfuler. Texture. Ooh, flavorfulery. Yeah. So, so, okay. So, mock turtle soup was a thing, which you could probably have.

that turtle soup was a thing right so turtle soup wasn't just a thing turtle soup was hugely hugely popular in this day yes yes and I mean as early as the 1700s even like in colonial times in America turtle soup was a big thing it was a big thing in in England it was a big thing because it was a delicacy it started as sort of an upper crust kind of dish and sort of trickled down to the masses got more and more and more popular now so And there's two things to keep in mind. Making turtle soup sounds like it was a pain in the butt. Because just imagine cleaning a turtle.

You know what I mean? Like dressing, like you've got to get through the shell. You've got to clean it up, cut it up. I learned apparently that there were many types of meats on a turtle. Wow. Many types of meats to make turtle of. And as it got more and more popular, people are like, you know what? We can find a substitute here for mock turtle soup, a little bit cheaper, a little bit

easier to make. Mock turtle soup commonly would be made with like sweetbreads or random parts of a calf. You know, anything from the brains to cows' feet, you know, it was kind of a, yes, yeah, it was sort of a catch-all. Turtle soup, incredibly popular. It was said to be President William Taft's favorite food, turtle soup. This was a case where the imitation, kind of like maple syrup, the way that a lot of people prefer the imitation maple syrup, a lot of people, started to get, they loved mock turtle soup. And you would go into a diner and it would say proud of the menu, hey, mock turtle soup.

By the 1920s, Campbell Soup had a mock turtle shoe. No. No. Yes. It was, this was how popular was, you don't need to look it up, Karen, because I'm going to show you an ad. This is an ad. And I have to say, I like the direction they're going here. This is from 1928. Mock turtle soup.

You'll like its unusual flavor. Holy cow. It's a little kid. It's a little kid. little Campbell's kid riding a turtle. Yeah. Wow. Before she kills it. Campbell's mock turtle soup.

Yeah. Man, how quickly it fell out of favor from going from like one of the Campbell's soup flavors to you suggest I eat what? Yes. Yeah. Heinz mock turtle soup. I mean, if you were in the business of making soups, you would have a mock turtle soup flavor. It faded pretty rapidly, I have to say, over the next few decades. Yeah.

There are some recipes you'll find today that just use straight beef even. It looks kind of like a beef stew. Alice goes and she meets the Griffin and the mock turtle in short succession. And she's supposed to go hear the mock turtle's sad story. Oh, right, right. And, you know, the sad story of the mock turtle, as it turns out, is that he used to be a real turtle, and now he's a mock turtle. That's really clever. It is clever.

I have here a picture. This is the very famous illustrations. by John Teneal in the... Oh my God, this makes so much sense now. The very famous

why he's a calf It makes so much sense if you look at the picture of the mock turtle he's got a turtle shell and a turtle body and turtle flippers but he's got the head of a calf

the feet and the tail of a cow and a calf and so this is again the very sort of cheeky idea that you're ordering a mock turtle soup and this is why you're getting cow parts because this is the animal

that mock turtle soup is made out of. Wow, that's clever. Wow. Wooosh. Over my head as a kid. Yeah. Yeah.

Please, dude. I, this was all over my head as a kid. I did this is way, way too much subtext. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. And to be honest, like conservation efforts among turtle populations have really like it's, it's not just is it hard and cumbersome, but it's really destructive to the turtle ecosystem.

So there are, you know, a lot of laws that you would have to break in parts of level to make every kind of turtle. soup? You can still get it. You can still get it. You can still find turtle soup in many places around the globe. But there is no mock turtle actually giving up its life to make mock turtle suit. It's a cow. I had no idea that it was that popular. I just envisioned it in my mind as being like green. White. Yeah. I would imagine it being served in a shell. Yeah. Yeah. Just as my kid imagination. I'm just imagining the shredder telling the ninja turtles that he's going to make them into turtle soup, you know. And then it's mock turtle soup.

But then it turns out it's mock turtle soup. They all laugh and eat pizza. Right. There's the episode. Wow. So Chris, like, got us all high flutin with epic poetry, and now I'm going to bring it back down to something, a little earthier, but also epic, you know, and I'm going to talk about epic eating contest.

Yes. Nice. This is the world of competitive eating, where people eat more food than a human body should, without training. Yeah, yeah. So I'll start off with a question or two. What food do competitors eat every year on July 4th in Coney Island, New York? Hot dogs. Nathan's Hot Dogs.

That is right. Nathan's Hot Dogs. The Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest started in 1972. And until the 2000s, people would eat like 10, 14, 20, 25. Because they just go and they just eat hot dogs. They're like, I can eat a lot of hot dogs. And those people could eat a lot of hot dogs just as a normal person. Right.

And then. Like, they're the kind of people who would go to Nathan's in order like 10 hot dogs because they just had a man-sized hunger. I have a big hunger. I'm a big man. They were all men. They were all men at their point. So in 2000, the new record was 25 and a half hot dogs.

But then the very next year, 2001, the record, it was 25 and a half, it was smash, it was 50. Somebody came and ate 50 hot dogs. That's just game changer. I mean, that's just like rewriting the hot dog rules. The conversation has advanced now in terms of how people can epically eat in one year. So do you guys know the name of the guy who came in and Kobayashi? Kobayashi. He showed that this could be a very competitive sport and then people were doing it.

it wrong, basically. The Kobayashi method of eating hot dogs. Do you guys know, can you guess what the Kobayashi method is? Wasn't it that he would do two at a time, basically? I mean, I know he separated the buns and the meat. One of the big important things

is he would take the bread and dip it in water, and then it would just make the bread just sort of slide down real fast and you can get a lot more in. It helps with the surface area because bread is baked, and then you can squish it down. You also don't have any time to drink water, So this is a way that I get a little bit of water in there.

Oh, yeah, totally. And then I think somebody mentioned it. Hot Dog, HDB is a thing that comes up in competitive eating. It stands for hot dog and bun. And so your hot dogs don't count unless you also eat the bun. So you have to be very careful about it. But back to the question about the Kobayashi method, that is breaking the hot dog into and putting it in both sides of your mouth. Like, yeah, like, that's what?

Oh, sure. Okay. Like, folding it in half. Like, yeah, breaking it in half. So both of your cheeks, there's something. Oh, you're working. Yeah. You're going for it.

I thought he was eating two at a time, because I've seen the video of him stuffing, like, in house, but I guess, oh, okay. Okay. That's so smart. Yeah. What that represents is this mental break away from, like, how do we usually eat food? Yeah. Like, that's the hurdle that he went over, which is, like, I'm going to eat, like, I'm going to break myself away from, like, how we usually eat a hot dog. Yeah.

So what's picnic-style rules? Picnic style rules. Is, I'm guessing. that that means that, like, you cannot do all that stuff. You cannot separate it. You have to eat it as you would normally eat a hot dog. Yes. And, you know, people are like, oh, it's less gross to watch that way.

And it's better for sponsors. Like, if you sponsored the, like, event, your food isn't being, like, deconstructed. Right. And your buns aren't being soaked in water and milking, like, gross buns slop. Yeah, sure, sure. What about chip munking? Oh. Oh, must be storing food in your cheeks.

Yeah, you stuff food in your cheeks. So, like, right when they call time, these are usually timed. They're like 10 to 12 minutes. So right when they call time, you can try to swallow as much of it as you can. You get 30 seconds after they call time to get it down. So it behooves you to have as much of it in your mouth as you possibly can. What's a Roman incident? Oh, I'm going to guess that's an unexpected loss of hot dogs.

Right. Yeah. So if you, you're eating a lot of stuff, you're chewing a lot of stuff. Yeah. If any of it gets on the table or on a plate, you're disqualified. That's the end. Oh, okay. So. Wait, the vomit? Yeah. Okay. But if crumbs are on the plate. Yeah. But if it's like, oh, no, you threw up on the table. No, you're done. You have to, you're out.

Oh, yeah. Seems fair. Seems fair. Roman incident. It's a Roman incident. And that happens to people. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So what's the record number of hot dogs eaten in a contest? So 2001 was when the 50 was set. Um, what had they gotten it up? to know. I feel like they got it into the low to mid 60s. I'd say 62.

78. It is 69. Wow. I almost made that joke. Wow. It's not a joke. It's real. It's reality, Karen. 2013, Joey Chestnut from San Jose, California. Oh, so was he the current

record holder? No. Oh, well, record holder, but he just lost Nathan's, right? He lost, but he is the record holder. Wow. For Nathan's. So I'm proud to announce that next month, I'm doing something called the beer mile. And I am doing so much research about it. So it's one mile. It's hopefully at a track. And then you chug a can of beer in the beginning.

And then you run a lap. You chug another one. You do that four times. And what fraternity are you joining? So that's exactly why I was thinking. Like, oh, okay, she's pledging. And it's the rules, the official rules are like, you know, they really cover all the loopholes. Can a beer, standard can beer has to be 5% alcohol or more.

Okay. So it can't be but light. It can't be like something very light. If you do have a Roman incident, you have to do another lap and that counts as you're like. A penalty lab. Okay. And so I've been practicing, like, I'm serious about, I've been practicing with carbonated water and soda. and sometimes with with with with with but light okay it's really hard yeah you're just running around your neighborhood all a little buzz yeah yeah not a little buzz

it's not it's not it's not the alcohol that's the problem the alcohol is a problem after you do the race yeah but during the race it's the bloating oh yeah it's the carbonation that's really really hard to it must be a loud race like it that way yeah you have to force yourself to birth to make room in your stomach. And also, like, I think the person I think currently who holds the record got it down to 457. Wow. Whoa. A mile with stopping to drink. Yes. And it takes him eight seconds to chug. Wow. It's taking me 25 seconds average, and I think I'm doing pretty good. I know. That is real. Well, you know what, competitive eaters can drink a gallon of water in 30 seconds. Holy God. Crap.

Well, maybe I'll come help, you know, train. You know, I'll do the chug part. And then you'll just watch her around. And then you'll chug again. All good things must come to an end. As we congratulate the winners, we must bid adieu to 2015.

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