Good Job, Brain! - 172: Catch Up! Listener Challenge, Puffy Snakes, Xenografts

Episode Date: January 24, 2016

It's our catch-up episode, and we got lots weird facts to share and special listeners to thank. Karen's back from her 5 million races over the fast few weeks and has so many stories to tell (involving... dolphin poop and oddly-shaped cucumbers), and had so many real-life listener encounters! Colin's got some interesting news about scientists discovering the first and only (?) odorless vertebrate animal. A listener mailbag featuring a real xenograft encounter, and take our music quiz listener challenge! Email gjb.podcast@gmail.com with your answer! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Hello, Nito, never nervous, nerdy, noots and narwhals, needing nonstop nitpicking. Welcome to Good Job, Rain, your weekly quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. This is episode 172, and I'm your humble host, Karen. We are your crew of spunky, spoofing spurters of specifications and sporadically sphincters. Oh. That's submitted by listener Jordan. Thanks.
Starting point is 00:00:43 Thanks. I'm Colin. It's just us two. It's just us too. It's a catch-up episode. Yeah. The other two, they couldn't catch up, so they're not here to. It's not our usual full topic episode, but we got a lot of stuff.
Starting point is 00:00:55 We're going to be back with your regular good job brain programming soon, but today is our catch-up episode filled with listener shoutouts, mailbag, and some weird facts and trivia we stumbled upon, and even a listener challenge. Oh. Well, even though this isn't our full usual episode, I do have one pop quiz hot shot question for you. All right. I hope I win this one.
Starting point is 00:01:20 And you know why, I have two. Okay. Should I go through the charade of getting out my buzzer? And these two, okay, so one of them actually showed up. pub trivia uh when i was traveling i actually went to pub trivia when i when i traveled it was awesome i didn't win but that's okay you need to stay what you went by yourself no i went with a runner friend okay my runner friend james all right it was just us too you got to stay sharp on you're on the yeah exactly um and and so that's something i i try to do now like when i do travel for races or
Starting point is 00:01:49 anything like if it's on a weekday i'll try to i'll try to i'll try to go to a local pub quiz yeah yeah last time i was in connecticut when i was in hartford i went out with a couple listeners, they invite me. And this time I was in Orlando and felt really, really dumb for not getting this question. Okay. All right. All right. Lay it on me. Okay. So the presidents on Mount Rushmore, which two served in the same century. Oh, right. I saw, I saw you had posted this on Twitter, actually. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Let me get my buzzer, though, so we can go through this. But it's just you. Oh, you want to make it official. Paul. All right. So we've got,
Starting point is 00:02:30 just to recap, the four choices, right? We've got Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, and Lincoln. Yes. Right. So it's which two served in the same century. So that is Jefferson and Lincoln. Yes. The thing is, when you go in,
Starting point is 00:02:49 you're thinking there are two pairs that you know are close. So you know Washington and Jefferson are close. Right, right. And you know the other two are also close. Right, right, right. But there are, like, the tail ends of... That is a tricky one, yeah. Of the 100 years.
Starting point is 00:03:05 And, man, and seriously, like, we were there. We wrote down pretty much the years. And we're like, ah, but we're not sure, because, like, Jefferson was, like, on the cusp, you know, was he, like... 17-99? Right, right. It turns out 1801 is when he first assumed office.
Starting point is 00:03:24 We also had the other years for the other two, and we're like, okay, well, we know Gettysburg Address, and we know Lincoln's turn. Right. And we're like, oh, Roosevelt. We had the ears. We just didn't see past the two pairs. Yeah, that's so funny.
Starting point is 00:03:37 That is a good, tricky one. I like that. Yeah. Okay. Good job. All right. For following our Twitter feed. You would have figured it.
Starting point is 00:03:45 I like to think I would have figured it out. Just the blinders when you think so, like. Yeah, because I know what you mean. Like, you mentally, you think like, all right, well, Washington and Jefferson. They're going to be, yeah. Yeah. Okay. final question all right
Starting point is 00:03:58 Adele she's a singer what is her last name oh god you know I was this is one of those like I was putting together a quiz in fact of like first name you know one name singers it's it's con like in one eye
Starting point is 00:04:16 and out the other eye it's I seem to remember it was something fairly fairly caught like Harris or Atkins or something oh my god am I close adkins okay all right ADK IA okay all right so that was
Starting point is 00:04:34 in there it was in the brain somewhere wow yeah yeah it's a good it's a good true like you know we give you the last name you tell me who has the first name oh that be a good quiz who else would be all that quiz up oh you like Hanson Nelson you have to say Prince oh got it got it yeah yeah what's
Starting point is 00:04:52 Beck's last name Hanson right yeah oh Oh, hey. Yeah, I think we're, hey, we're halfway to a quiz right here. We'll spring it on Chris and Dana. Surprise. All right, well, I have a quick animal science news headline here that I wanted to share with you.
Starting point is 00:05:09 This one I found was really fascinating. I was reading this in The Guardian just last week. But I think the story was picked up by a lot of science wire services. So scientists think they have found the first example of an odorless animal, or a at least an odorless vertebrate, you know, so, you know, there may be some odorless, yeah, or slugs or something maybe. Yeah, so this is interesting. It's a snake, a puff adder, and they've discovered that the puff adder apparently can
Starting point is 00:05:42 go into a state where it has no detectable odor, no scent. And I was thinking about this, and I was like, huh, I never thought about that before. I never thought other snakes smelled. Oh, I guess they trace amounts. So, you know, the scientists, you know, who have sort of come across this discovery are saying that, you know, virtually every animal that they know of emits some level of scent, you know, like you can train a dog or, you know, an animal that's really a sense of dissent to key on that. But they can't do it with puff adders. They can't. Oh, they can't detect it. And so how they found this is really fascinating.
Starting point is 00:06:19 So this is in Johannesburg and South Africa. And there are researchers at the university at Whitwater's ranch. who are studying puff adders for totally unrelated reasons, right? And they have little, like, radio trackers in the puff adders so they can see where they're going. Well, hold on. Why are they called puff? Do they puff up? They do puff up.
Starting point is 00:06:38 They are an attacking, you know, venomous snake. Okay, so it's not just because it's cute. It's not, no, it's not because they're cute. It's like, oh, puff, it was like a little puff ball. But so this is not related to the discovery. So the researchers were tracking the puff ass. the snakes, for unrelated purposes, and they noticed that sometimes the snakes were getting off the property. They were tracking them to an area where there were some dogs. So they were
Starting point is 00:07:05 like, all right, we've got to go get the snakes. So they would go back over to retrieve the snakes, and the dogs would come over, kind of just bounding over like, hey, what's going on, Mr. Scientist? You know, hey, this is a scientist. And totally ignoring the snakes. And they're like, well, this is weird. The dogs, you know, normally dogs are pretty good about detecting other animals in general, and they're like, this is really strange that they can't sense the snakes at all. If they don't see it. If they don't see them, right.
Starting point is 00:07:30 And that's part of the, and that's also part of what goes into this is that the puff adders, they hide. So they're like, they're ambush hunters. So they got interested enough in being scientists, they started studying the snakes, and they found out that they could not train, they could not train dogs. They also tried training mere cats, which I guess are quite adept at scent detection. and scent training, they cannot smell the puff adders in a controlled experiment. They can't find them any better than random.
Starting point is 00:08:01 So they've never seen this behavior before. They call it chemical cryptis. Oh. So cryptis is sort of the blanket term for any behavior that's about evading detection. So what they think is the puff adder, their working theory is one of two things, is that either the snake can lower its metabolism and its body temperature so far that it doesn't give off any kind of volatile
Starting point is 00:08:27 organic compounds. Got it. Like nothing emits. It doesn't emit anything. Right. Right. So, you know, that's one possibility. The other possibility is that you know, maybe they do emit these compounds, but they're so heavy relative in the air that they don't
Starting point is 00:08:44 waft up. They don't rise up. They don't know. So they're looking into that. Yeah, because if you put that snake somewhere else with different, say, like air components, it might be a different thing. Right, right, right. One thing they did rule out, though, is that it's not like emitting a false scent detector, right? So one theory was, well, maybe if it's in a room that smells like flowers, it makes itself smell like flowers, you know, kind of like a chameleon. They ruled that out pretty quickly. So to be determined what it is, but they haven't found
Starting point is 00:09:14 any other example of this and any other vertebrate of an animal that has no smell. And they interviewed a lot of other scientists and they all kind of agree like yeah if you if you can't train dogs to scent for this animal there's probably nothing that can smell this brings up another question and i'm looking at a best sense of smell in the animal kingdom there seems to be i mean different different smells for different things like so dogs you can train them for a single to track a single scent yeah i don't know i'm getting conflicting like so people say moths are really have really strong sense of smell but only for their mate right uh shark for different types of protein
Starting point is 00:09:52 So it's hard to pinpoint Like who has the best smell But yeah well I think it's probably a combination of best sense of smell And can be worked with under laboratory conditions You know, I don't know how I got a shark and a snake in the same room Yeah Will the shark find the snake
Starting point is 00:10:06 Johnson you take these moths Smith you take these sharks Yeah Can I help with the moths? So yeah If you want to evade detection You know like just cover yourself and puff adders I think is the lesson, that's my takeaway from this.
Starting point is 00:10:23 If I'm on the run from Bloodhounds is just a puff adder suit. Venomous. Yeah. Venomous puff adders. Yeah, this dumbest criminal we've ever seen, he died from 300, 300 simultaneous puff adder bites. Took us 10 years to find him, though. Yeah, dogs couldn't smell him. Oh, man.
Starting point is 00:10:47 Oh, so I mentioned I spent the last. couple weeks, traveling, doing racing, ping-ponging between Disney World and Florida and Disneyland in Anaheim for a total of six races. They're not very close to each other either. Cross-country. You know, I run in costumes. People know that. I have to say, my biggest and most touching surprise.
Starting point is 00:11:11 I mean, people do recognize me because I'm in costume. I'm like, oh, I've seen you before. But the biggest surprise to me is the alarming amount. of listeners I met who recognized me just on this past trip on these past two trips it's the good job rate army is growing it's an audio show you know I'm sure like through social media you guys kind of know what we look like but like it's still like I'm I'm so humble and I'm so touched it's super cool and I just want to give a shout out to the listeners I met I try to remember everyone's names on the fly sometimes this was at like 3 a.m. 4 a.m. so I apologize if I if I
Starting point is 00:11:50 flub your name, but I think I got everybody. Chelsea and Jeff, who said hi to me at the 5K. There's like tens of thousands of people, and they found me. And Suzanne, who was in my race corral. She's like, oh, my family
Starting point is 00:12:06 list. I was like, this is so nuts. And hello, Suzanne's family, and also to Gem, who was running the marathon. I finished, and then I was cheering for the other runners towards the end and she was running while she was running she was in a tweedledee costume she like stopped and like
Starting point is 00:12:26 said hi to me you know during the race which i thought that was really cool um and how did the holograms do did they finish sorry yeah can you name the other holograms oh no not at what uh i'll take us to dazzle is one of them named dazzle i actually don't know i know asia's dana would know dana would have this cold yeah i'm just going to assume i'm wrong please don't write in to tell me i'm wrong Caroline and Eric, who is a cast member at Magic Kingdom. What cast, what does he play? Is he allowed to say? Oh, no, he's like a supervisor.
Starting point is 00:12:58 Very, very cool. I saw him, like, work on his job, telling people to not, like, stand on the thing. I was like, oh, I was still official. That's, that's the pinnacle of achievement. It's like, you can tell someone not to stand on the thing. Yeah, I was like, wow. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:13:11 I bumped into a Lisa in Anaheim, who was across the street and yelled at me and told me to get some honey for my throat. It took me a couple tries to figure out what she was saying. Man, it was so cool. Guys, it's so cool. I love it when listeners say hi. And I like getting to know you guys, too. Like, I want to know, like, what your story is and, you know, how you listen to the show.
Starting point is 00:13:34 And, you know, I actually have become really good friends with some of our listeners who approach me, like my mouse adventure teammates. And all, all you listeners, if you do spot us in the wild, tag us. Catch and release, please. Catch them all. Yeah, catch them all. release them all. No, it is. It's rewarding to see to remember that we're not just talking out into the void here on these microphones. Yeah, exactly. Not just our moms. I know I'm a, I'm a freaking old trivia nerd because my whole time in Disney World, I didn't even
Starting point is 00:14:01 ride rides. You know, I barely rode rides. I just, I booked myself tours, like educational tours. It's my new thing. You've been there so many times, right? I mean. But it's like, what can I learn, you know? Oh, I can pay somebody to tell me trivia about you know for like two hours you're moving into the retiree phase of your disney line sign me up i'm no regrets it's i love i love the tours there um they have like such good educational programs and what's the coolest fact you learned on this trip okay so i signed up for two tours um epcot at epcot which is the in disney world it's the futuristic educational park yeah yeah um i signed up for the dolphin discovery encounter tour okay and then i
Starting point is 00:14:46 signed up for their futuristic greenhouse tour called Behind the Seeds. Or behind the seeds. Got it. Yeah. And where they grow plants in non-conventional ways. It's, both are super cool. So the Seeds Tour, they have a futuristic greenhouse and their whole model is not
Starting point is 00:15:03 to use soil because they can control everything. So they can grow some crazy stuff. Like just straight in water and things like that. So there's like hydroponics, grown water, sand. Okay. You know when you have like pumpkins and squash. They kind of grow viny on the ground. They grow up on trellises, and the gourd hangs in the air.
Starting point is 00:15:24 So they won't get bruised by the ground. It's easier to, like, cook them up. They have Mickey cucumbers there where when you slice a cucumber, it's Mickey shape. Basically, they do a lot of these Mickey things where they just, as the fruit is growing, they put it in like a plastic bolt. They micify it. Yeah, they micify it. You know, the vines, they would lead them to grow into a big Mickey.
Starting point is 00:15:45 So there was a peppercorn plant I guess it's three circles If you can get something into Yeah It's not that If you can wrangle something Into a three circle shape You can mickify it
Starting point is 00:15:53 It was just cool Oh they had Miracleberry Oh right right They had a stevia plant And we got to eat the leaves That's cool Yeah it was super cool And then the dolphin thing
Starting point is 00:16:04 Oh my god You know that video of Kristen Bell Freaking out about the Sloth Yeah I was almost in tears Like I was Not only did I tour And the Epcot, the aquarium is the second largest in the nation.
Starting point is 00:16:18 First being the Georgia Aquarium, which is a question I had to ask. Because they're boasting. I'm like, we're the second biggest. And I was like, okay, what's the first one? It's the Georgia aquarium. Man, that's a big tank. So you know that big golf ball at Epcot? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:16:31 You can fit that ball in the tank, like circumference-wise. Holy moly. And still have room around for like a bus. That's how wide or how the circular tank is. All right, that's big. And it's got dolphins in there? Yes. A bunch of fish has manatees.
Starting point is 00:16:48 So I've never been close to a dolphin before, let alone hang out with them in the water, in a wet suit. That's cool. One pooped on me, but that's cool. That is cool. That is pretty cool. How many people can you say that dolphin pooped on them? Yeah. The water just kind of washed away.
Starting point is 00:17:05 Yeah, yeah. I just make sure I didn't drink any of the water. So I pooped on them back and then we were even. Yeah, yeah. That's how they make friends. And, yeah, you want to fit in, don't you? It's reciprocal. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:16 So they had four dolphins there. And the dolphins there, they're not for show. They're not, like, trick dolphins. Like, they don't have, like, a dolphin show. Okay. You know what I mean? They're not, they're not, like, jumping out of the water. Okay.
Starting point is 00:17:27 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nose budding balls or whatever. So the facility there is for research. So they are trained to do a lot of, like, animal husbandry things. Like, they know how to, like, get on the scale, you know, to help us to, like, get their vitals. and cognitive training I hugged them I felt their heartbeat
Starting point is 00:17:47 That's so cool It is really cool But the coolest thing I never realized this was I mean it's a 500 pound animal So I got to pet all over And once you get to the tail It feels like a completely different thing
Starting point is 00:17:59 Because it's so hot It's hot Really Like a hot piece of steak Huh And it's because they regulate They regulate their body temperatures Through their tail
Starting point is 00:18:09 And so their tail is super hot Interesting. It's really weird. Because you're in the water and it's cold. And, you know, because the water they swim in, it's cold. And, you know, their body is like rubbery. But once it gets its tail, it's like you just feel heat radiating out. Well, they're so well insulated.
Starting point is 00:18:25 I can see that. Like, the heat's got to go somewhere. Yeah, exactly. Do you know what the difference between a porpoise and a dolphin? Yeah. You know, I mean, I, again, this is another thing. Just at some point over the years, I used to. I could not tell you what it is.
Starting point is 00:18:41 A porpoise is basically a small whale And a dolphin is a dolphin Like a different species I do remember reading once That like what is passed off as porpoises In a lot of places is actually just a different type Yeah like a bottle nose dolphin or something like that Maybe I mean they do look very similar
Starting point is 00:18:58 How you can tell is by their teeth Okay So dolphins have like conical Like little cone teeth Okay And then whales and porpoises have like spade like teeth Ah okay Both scary
Starting point is 00:19:11 Okay. But that's how you can tell. And sometimes a porpoise is called a mere swine. A mere swine. Yeah, a sea pig, pretty much. Do they get along? Do dolphins and porpoises get along? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:19:24 Hmm. I wonder. And like Chris said once, what he, I think when we, when we travel now, we kind of have what he calls the good job brain effect, where when you travel to somewhere, you just want to read up and learn about. Yeah. You're like, oh, he was in Hawaii. He's like, how do pineapples grow?
Starting point is 00:19:45 So things that are very everyday vernacular, you're like, hmm, when you're traveling. So when I was walking around downtown Disney, which is like a shopping area, well, now called Disney Springs, shopping area with my runner friend, James, we walked by a cigar shop. There was a smoke shop there. And I noticed that there was a wooden statue outside. And it was of a classic imagery of like a Native American chief, like an Indian chief. And I remember there was a similar statue on Main Street USA in Disneyland. And I was like, wait a minute.
Starting point is 00:20:16 Then I was like, oh, there is a statue like that in San Francisco in a smoke shop that I walked by to work. And I was like, is this a thing? What is this thing? Have you seen these before? Are you just asking about the phenomenon of a cigar story? Yeah. Yeah, that's absolutely a thing. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:20:31 Oh, yeah. It's been a thing forever and ever. In fact, it's, I mean, it got to be, I mean, not got to be. It was always a little politically incorrect. Controversial. Yeah. Yeah, it was just, it just became more apparently politically incorrect. So you don't see it as much, but no, that's a thing going way, way, way back.
Starting point is 00:20:46 Yeah. Any Western movie, anything you see, it's, yeah, absolutely. So I looked up the history of it. It really started in Europe, even though the Native, you know, Native Americans is an American thing, but it started in Europe and just like, you know, all the other store emblems that we know, like a barbershop pole. Yeah. The three gold balls for pawn shop. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:21:07 And there was another thing to you. Yeah. It just became the kind of visual. shorthand. Yeah. And it's because back in, this is like 17th century in Europe, not everybody knew how to read. And so they had to have these like, emblems or logos shorthand to be like, I didn't
Starting point is 00:21:20 go to the store. Oh, that's that store. Yeah, yeah. Then why a Native American chief for a smoke shop? So it started in Europe. Tobacco was always tied to the new world, was always tied to, it was introduced to explorers and travelers, then introduced to Europe. Right, right.
Starting point is 00:21:36 They're like, hey, look what we found. Yeah. So the people who are making these, like the carvers and stuff, really never seen an actual Native American chief. So, you know, the early ones kind of didn't really look right. It was like a game of telephone. Yeah, it is. It is like game of telephone through across an ocean. That makes more sense.
Starting point is 00:21:56 I didn't realize it was a European origin thing. I mean, I knew it was really old and, you know, predated the Old West even. But that makes a lot of sense. Yeah. That it's like, here's this new world product. Yeah. We will show you our. best attempt at interpreting a new world Native American.
Starting point is 00:22:14 I cannot unsee it. Now that I've noticed, I was like, oh, my God. Oh, you'll see. I mean, it's in everything from Bugs Bunny cartoons to old magazine ads to to sitcoms to, yeah. Or a lot of, you know, like, again, like Tom and Jerry or like Roadrunner Coyote, like any cartoon where there's like no dialogue, it's a really easy way to kind of signify.
Starting point is 00:22:37 Got it. Yeah, you're one of the, yeah, you'll see it everywhere now. That's, that's, that's really interesting. No frills, delivers. Get groceries delivered to your door from No Frills with PC Express. Shop online and get $15 in PC optimum points on your first five orders. Shop now at nofrills.ca. Are you dreaming about becoming a nurse or maybe you're already in nursing school?
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Starting point is 00:23:52 So subscribe to the stray day nursing podcast, and I'll see you on Thursday. So we get a lot of listener mail and email. I wish I can feature them all. But if you follow us on Facebook and Twitter, the Good Job Brain account, sometimes I will take pictures of it and like the snail mail especially. People draw pictures and stuff.
Starting point is 00:24:15 But I got this one email. It's so weird and I have to share. It's a nuts story. This is from Autumn. Lay it on me. She wrote in and she said, I recently listened to episode number 82, body hacking, where you discussed various ways to alter body parts, such as tattoos,
Starting point is 00:24:33 piercings, and other weirder hacks, including notably a xenograft. And I believe I talked about xenograph, which is grafting or adding body parts from other species. Oh, right. That's not human. Right. For example, a lot of the old World War I or World War II, when they have to do like kind of facial reconstruction, they might use skin from this. They might use a bone from a pig or a cow or I think the one I saw was a duck. Like someone got something from a duck.
Starting point is 00:25:04 Anyway, so that's what we talked about. Autumn says, Maybe you've already got a ton of mail on this subject. Oh, no. But in case if you haven't, I'd like to tell you that I have a xenograph. Go on. Please don't think less of me. It wasn't by choice.
Starting point is 00:25:21 And in fact, I didn't even know about it until the anesthesia wore off. this is great scene setting here yeah okay okay autumn says that's right i have an involuntary xenograph how does this happen well when i was 23 the dentist told me that i still had a baby tooth and i needed to come out i said okay because i used to trust doctors so they pulled the tooth and started the process to build a new tooth bridge to fill the gap okay but my jaw that held the tooth somehow lost bone mass over the weeks where they were doing the molding and they decided they had to graft additional bone onto it with a minor surgery. They told me, hey, no worries. They just put some cadaver bone in my jaw,
Starting point is 00:26:09 but it was okay because it was totally sterilized. Fast forward five hours after the surgery, I found out, to my great surprise, that they decided to use bovine bone instead. So now I'm part human, part cow. There is a really terrible action movie in there somewhere, or maybe just a lot of awful puns about a cowgirl. So Autumn, that's wonderful. I think that's cool. I think... I think that's great. I think that's so cool. Yeah. We don't think less of you. No. I have never heard anything like that. I like that they specified it was cadaver bone. Like, as it like, don't worry, we didn't take this from somebody alive. Yeah, don't worry. It's just a dead person, but it's sterilized.
Starting point is 00:26:56 Well, yeah, I hope it's sterilized. Because I know, like, teeth and stuff, they use porcelain. They use a lot of, like, casting. Synthetic, right, right. But I guess this was down and below that. Wow. All right. But you can't.
Starting point is 00:27:10 No, we don't think less of you on them. No, I think that's awesome. That's pretty cool. I think that's, if we're trying out for Jeopardy or a game show, that's your fun fact. Oh, yeah, absolutely. We're on a dating show. That's the little fun fact on the back of your card. Yeah, exactly.
Starting point is 00:27:23 That's an awesome fact. So we have kind of decided on our next topic when we're all back. And I'm not going to tell you what it is, but I'm going to clue you in with a clip from a movie. Mysterious. Yeah. Bonus points, if you can identify the movie without looking it up. I guarantee our listeners will be able to identify that. Somebody, somebody out there, at least.
Starting point is 00:28:09 All right. And we're going to end this catch-up show with a listener challenge. I have devised a music quiz. I'm going to be playing a couple of clips of songs back-to-back. and there is a theme and it's different than our usual music quiz because you don't have to tell me the artist this is listener challenge so you can look it up
Starting point is 00:28:33 you can read all all about it you can sound hound it shazam it Google it whatever but there is a theme and that's the puzzle see if you can find out what ties all of these songs together all right here we go in succession
Starting point is 00:28:51 my music puzzle Oh, did I say too much? I'm going to in my head. We're out of touch. I'm really, really, really, really, really like you. Yeah. I want you. Do you want me to?
Starting point is 00:29:12 Do you want me to? I'm tired of this town, oh my, my, oh hell yes, honey put on that party dress, buy me a drink, sing me a song, take me as a come, cause I can't stay long. Last dance with Mary Jane, one more time to kill the thing. so deep salt in the world like you're laughing right at me oh it's so sad to think about the good times you and I Walk without rhythm, it won't attract the worm. Walk without rhythm, and it won't attract. Holds no currency. He is a foreign man.
Starting point is 00:30:27 He is surrounded by the sound, sound. Cattle in the marketplace, scatterings of all the churches. He looks around, around. He sees angels in the architecture, spinning in infinity. He says, amen. Hallelujah, if you're not by your heart, I can be your long lost pal. All right.
Starting point is 00:30:53 You guys got that? I'm working on it. I'm working on it. Okay. All right. So listeners, if you figured out, send us an email, and we'll give you a shout out for the first couple of people who got the theme right away.
Starting point is 00:31:07 And the theme is not they're all humans. Or they all live on planet Earth. They have not been in my kitchen. It's a very specific theme that kind of ties all these songs together. And that's it for our catch-up show. Thank you guys for being patient with us. Hope you guys enjoyed our best of. You can find us on iTunes, Stitcher, SoundCloud, and Spotify.
Starting point is 00:31:31 Oh, and also on our website, good job, brain.com. Keep sending us emails, tweets, snail mail. We'll try to feature some of you guys in one of these catch-up episodes, Mail Away. Well, the gang's going to be back next week, and we'll see you guys next week then. Bye. Bye. And we recommend another one. It's called Big Picture Science.
Starting point is 00:32:14 You can hear it wherever you get your podcast, and its name tells part of the story. The big picture questions and the most interesting research in science. Seth and I are the host. Seth is a scientist. I am Molly, and I'm a science journalist. And we talk to people smarter than us, and we have fun along the way. The show is called Big Picture Science. And as Seth said, you can hear it wherever you get your podcasts.

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