Good Job, Brain! - 174: Whoops!

Episode Date: February 13, 2016

Goofs and gaffs, d'ohs and duhs, we tried getting all the banana peels cleared away for this trivia episode about mistakes. Ah, the joys of live TV and all that could go wrong... Take Colin's quiz about major TV slip-ups, and one oddball find from a classic TV show. From space missions to the stock market, Chris curates the greatest hits of tiny typos that had colossal consequences throughout history. Karen's riding along with Road Pig, visiting a few cartography mistakes. And Dana just felt mean and made us a quiz where our punishment for getting the answers wrong was eating unusual foods in... unusual shapes. ALSO: The Oscars thank-you ticker  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Hello, listeners, lavishing in linguistics and leasing in luxurious leather loafers. Welcome to Good Job, Brain, your weekly quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. This is episode 174, and I'm your humble host, Aaron, and we are your turnkey turkeys turning trivia turntables and trying to train your trusting troughs with trivia traps and trying tropes. Oh, that was awesome. Did you write that?

Nope. No, that's definitely not. It's over long. I'm Colin. I'm Dana. I'm Chris. And that was submitted by listener Michael. Thank you.

I liked it. Yeah. Tees and trs. Well, actually. I feel like we're on a slippery slope here. I feel like eventually they're going to be like six minutes long. No, well, actually, a listener did email in a story about Superman completely in illiterate, like, not, not 100% alliteration, but like, let's say 95%. Really?

Oh, I have exciting news, everybody. Chris was the one who shared it with us. What? Our favorite Tumblr, Bad Kids Jokes. Oh, yeah. Now has a Twitter account. I saw that you tweeted that. I was so excited.

So you can enjoy bad kids jokes throughout the day with Twitter. The Twitter handle is at KidsWrite. jokes and it really is the same person whose job is to moderate kids joke website and basically puts all the failed kids jokes the ones that don't make sense or like get the punchline wrong into this Tumblr and now onto a it's fantastic like when I read them I like to pretend that this is the intentional work of like a surrealist

you know that these are just intentionally absurd my favorite one is uh what did Batman say to Robin before they They got into the Batmobile. Get in the car. So, yes, follow them for a nice, hearty laugh. Yes. Kids write jokes. Yeah.

I saw a piece of news this week that I really wanted to share with you guys, because I think you're going to find this very interesting. We all watch the Academy Awards or, you know, clips of the Academy Awards. Yes. Or bloopers from the Academy Awards. Anyway, we talk about it a lot on the show. Just reading a report from the Wall Street Journal this year. year's Academy Awards will introduce a brand new technological feature, which is while the actors,

whenever, when they announce the actor or whoever who wins the award and they come up on stage to begin their speech, they will begin scrolling on the screen, a pre-written list of people that the actor wants to thank. So in the hopes that the actor does not have to remember all of the people that they're thanking and stand up there making sure to thank everybody and can instead, the hope goes, just, you know, say something inspirational or interesting, rather than have to rattle off a whole list of names because they don't want to forget somebody. Wait, wait, so as viewers, they're going to have scrolling up.

When you watch it, exactly, so when you watch it on TV, like the news ticker. Or possibly on the, or possibly on the jumbo-tron. They might have a jumbo-tron. They might, yeah. I have to mention this is a thank-you ticker. This is also probably to speed things up, I would guess, as well, right? Not just out of courtesy to the winners. They make reference in the Wall Street Journal's story to, like, last year's show,

the winner for Best Documentary Short was played off with music as she started talking about her son's suicide. Yeah. So they kind of want to avoid things like that happening again. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Interesting. They want to let you be able to talk about a story that you want to talk about. Rather than... Versus feeling like you have to rattle off a list of names.

Right. But we shall see. This could become the new thing or it could become like an embarrassing. thing they back away from you know what i think it's smart but now they can't be like oh i didn't prepare a speech i didn't think i was going to win because on the bottom of the screen it's like everybody well they'll just have everyone submit a list of names right yeah yeah i don't know i would feel like that's like jinxing it i don't want to write an award but everybody's going to do it there's going to be one person who won't do it there's going to be one person i guarantee i want

somebody write prank names right right right huge ass yeah and a bunch more we can't say on the show. Yes. When is Academy Awards? Is that coming up soon? Every year. They're in February. Oh, yes.

Thank you, Colin. That's a lot more helpful. All world, stay tuned. It's going to be a bunch of more, another year of more trivia. More trivia. That's right. More trivia.

That's right. To occupy our brain. Speaking of more trivia, let's start off with our first general trivia segment, pop quiz, hot chat. You guys have your barnyard buzzers. Now all the barnyard animals are back to their rightful owners?

Yes, it's the triumphant return of the horse buzzer. All right, here I have a trivial pursuit genus for card. Things might have been updated. We shall see. Here we go. People in places, Blue Wedge. What's the world's top-selling duty-free product? Colin.

I mean, I'm going to guess whiskey or liquor. Or liquor. Cigarettes. Cigarettes. Is that or cigarette, yeah. Could be alcohol now. Could be Toblerone. Could be.

That's true. On a caloric basics. They saw the super big ones, like the monster toll rooms. They do. All right. Pink Wedge for Arts and Entertainment. Where was the ship headed from Mexico in Catherine and Porter's Ship of Fools? I assume this is a novel.

We've had this trivia before. Oh, well, I don't know. I haven't, yeah, I didn't read it. Ready? Yeah. Miami. Incorrect. From Mexico?

From Mexico. Yeah. I figure maybe they're going back to the U.S. And they're going to land in. It's a country. Oh, it is? Yeah. College.

England. Oh, you're close. It is Germany. Okay. Mexico to Germany. That's a long boat ride. It is a long boat ride. Huh.

You'd have to be very foolish. I ship of fools. Yeah. Oh, I get it. All right, Yellow Wedge for history. What country lost 3.7 million people in a 1931 flood? What country lost how many people? 3.7 million.

Indiana? Incorrect. Colin. China. Correct. Is it like the flooding of the Yangtze River or something like that? It doesn't say, it just says China, but I believe you. Okay.

But, yeah, India and China, well, I mean, you just guess with the country. Where the people are. And they have floods all the time. And a lot of people lose. Yeah. Big population. Brown Wedge, Science and Nature. What does an Alabama-approved disclaimer in biology textbooks describe as only, quote, a controversial theory?

Everybody. Evolution. Correct. So controversial. Very controversial. Green Wedge for sports and leisure. What major league baseball team is sometimes dubbed the fish? Oh

Oh, Chris The Marlins Yes Yeah The Florida Marlins Yep Sure Yeah

But Marlin is a Oh are there Are there no other fish teams I can't think of anyone Rays Those aren't really fish though Yeah Why?

Because they're rays Yeah they're raised Oh It's a different That's a race And actually I should say Since that card was written The team has renamed

They're now the Miami Marlins They used to be The Florida Marlins Yeah Of course, Florida would be the state that has all the aquatic mascots. Not a lot of other – all the other mascots are mostly birds. Lots of footwear. Oh, socks.

Yeah. Just the two. Yeah. And that's it. Birds and footwear. Birds and footwear. And a fish. All right.

Last question, wild card. What author's first and middle names were Alan Alexander? Oh. Chris. A.A. Milne. Yes. He of Winnie the Pooh. Yes, Alan, Alex, I did not know this.

I mean, I only know because of A.A. Allen. A.A. Yeah, exactly. A.A. Rolling. Alan Alexander. That's a good trivia tip it. All right. Good job, Brains.

So, Colin suggested that we do an episode just with the title, whoops. Whoops. Whoops. Dedicate to mistakes, slip-ups. We did have a similar episode that was epic fail. Yeah. That's talked about, like, massive, you know, scale of just, like, failure. But this is, like, mistakes.

Yeah. So today we're going to talk about, whoops. Because you lose all my senses. That is just so deeply mere. Oh, baby, baby. Oops. I did that again. I play with your galarzin again.

Oh, baby, baby. Oops. You think I'm in. I will start us off. I have a quiz about goofs and gaffes, slip-ups and skin. Wow. Got your attention, right? Yeah.

More poetic than my intro. So, yeah, Karen, I actually was specifically inspired the idea of like, oops or whatever, because I think you and I were coming back probably after a public quiz one day. night, and it was just a few days after the Miss Universe slip up this year with Steve Harvey. So that was what got me thinking specifically about, like, goofs and things on TV. So I've got a quiz for you guys about memorable, memorable oops moments that all happened on TV, television.

It's naturally when you, like, put emphasis on whoops, your whole body has to, like, emo. You know, like, you're like... One hand goes out. Yeah, your shoulders go up and your eyes go. You get kind of the wavy, yeah. So if you may not have seen the broadcaster read about it, yes, this was just recently at this year's Miss Universe Ceremony, Master of Ceremony's comedian and television personality, Steve Harvey, unfortunately, announced the wrong winner on live TV right at the end and then had to tell, after a minute, you know, had to looking at the cards. Oh, because they gave for the crown.

Get everything, yes. Here you go. You win, and then he's furrowing his brow, looking at the card, and he's like, oh, actually. So he had to go over and correct himself, take the stuff away, give it to the real winner. It was just a catastrophe. It was a catastrophe. So I have a two-point question here for you guys. For one point each, from one point each, I want you guys to tell me who was the actual winner?

and who did he announce mistakenly as the winner? Oh, everyone. Everyone seems pretty confident. The actual winner was the Philippines. The mistaken was Columbia. Yeah, you guys got it. That's right. Ariadna Gutierrez from Miss Columbia has probably made more fame for herself in being

misannounced as the winner. Actually, that's true. Yeah. Because not a lot of runner-ups do get a lot of attention. But because of this, you know. I won't short the real. winner. That's P.O. WordSpock, by the way. Word Spock?

I remember this because Steve Harvey then took to Twitter to apologize. To the people of Columbia spelled wrong and to the people of the Philippines. So then that went viral. It had a rough night. It was a bad night. Now, honestly, a lot of it was bad design. You should see the card. Yeah. Yeah. Because the card says

like second runner up, first runner up, and it really seems like the first runner-up is the winner, because it's kind of like won. And then the actual winner was, like, way down in the corner. And it's tiny time. It's smaller type. Yeah, yeah. Oh, you set them up.

Poor design. Yeah. At last year's Academy Award ceremony. Oh. John Travolta. Famously. Famously. Last year.

It's been a year. Yeah. It's only been a year. Famously mangled the name of singer Edina Menzel. while introducing her performance of Let It Go from the hit movie Frozen. By what name did he misintroduce her? Chris.

The lovely and talented Adele Dazine. That is correct. Adele Dazine. That I have no idea. I can't. He's like nobody will be able to tell the difference. Something like this. It's fine.

Similar letters. John Travolta for his part, he has since he claims that, But he sort of is a blaming Goldie Hawn for this mistake here. He says that, like, they were talking before he went out on stage and that she had rewritten some of the names to be more phonetically pronounced, I suppose. This all seems a little fishy to me, to be quite honest. I think he just goofed, but, yeah. She corrected his pronunciation.

Right. No, it's pronounced. Right, right. It's like, yeah. The eye is silent. And the M is... And so are the other letters. Every letter is silent.

You're going to look like an idiot if you say it wrong. We'll stick with the Academy Awards here. In 2011, the winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Let loose an accidental F-bomb in her acceptance speech. For two points, Karen, here we go. Karen's ready. For two points, who was the actress who loosed the F-bomb? And what previous Oscar winner was she name-checking when she...

dropped, said F. Bob. I thought you're going to ask the second one for what movie did she win for. Well, you know, we'll make that an unofficial bonus third point. So go ahead. Melissa Leo. It was Melissa Leo. It was for the fighter. I don't know what she was name-checking. Judy Dinch or Helen Mirren?

Merrill Street. Oh, yeah, you got the nationality right there, Dana. Not Kate. Kate Winslet. It was. Kate Winslet. Yeah. Oh, Kate Winslet. Yeah. Kate Winslet. Yeah. When Melissa Leo, she said, when I watched Kate two years ago

it looked so F and easy and then she's like, oops So when on live TV when people do drop the F bombs they get fined right? Like who gets fined? It can be the it's the network that is a stent that is supposed

to have the responsibility for it but they can also try and you know find the actual book like they wanted to find MIA remember when she flipped the bird at the Super Bowl a couple a couple years ago Justin Timberlake, right? Yeah, yeah.

So they find them? They wanted to. I don't know if they did or not. Okay. Yeah. Interesting. A lot of, you know, I mean, in the last few years, more and more of the live broadcast shows,

they've just gone to a few second delay just to avoid any of these problems. So even though they say it's live, it's mostly live. Yeah. Yeah, right. In Super Bowl 45, 2011. 2011. Oh, that's five years ago. Just five short years ago.

This singer famously goofed the lyrics of the national anthem. Who was this? Really? Yes. Oh, I know. Chris. It was Christina Aguilera.

It was Christina Aguilera. What did she say instead? She swapped. So she said instead of or the ramparts we watched, she said, what so proudly we watched. Yeah. Yeah. So she kind of, instead of like,

what's so proudly we hailed, And she kind of, she mixed up. Yeah. Okay. I mean, that's hard to, you know, because mid-sentence, I bet she's like, oops. Like, I can't imagine. At least you didn't just stop. Show must go on.

Yeah. She'll like, what if it's like, well? I just run, run off stage. Yeah, right, right, right, right. All right, well, we alluded to it just a couple questions ago, and we're already talking about the Super Bowl. So let's talk about Super Bowl 38, the birth of the phrase, wardrobe malfunction. Also, birth. Isn't it like the birth of YouTube?

That's what they say, the birth of YouTube. They say that was what prompted people trying to go find it online. TiVo said it was by far their most rewound moment in history. Yeah. So I'm going to give you all the really obvious trivia because we have this had, we've had this so many times in quiz. All right. So it was in 2004.

It was Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake. It was in Houston. The Patriots beat the Panthers that year. Oh, yeah, because it's P and P for, I remember. I was like, yeah, because I was like, oh, it's like Pacey's and Pacey. So it's Panther and Patriots. All right. That's how I remembered it.

I want to know. But what song were Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake performing the moment her nipple was revealed to the live TV audience? Dana. Is it called Rock your body? It is called rock your body. You make it by the end of this song and it's like, nipple. And I was like, whoops. And after that, MTV was no longer asked to produce.

any other Super Super Bowl halftime shows ever again. Yep, yep. This is what happens when... They could no longer be interesting. Because after that, it was like, you too, Tom Petty. A salute to retirees. It's like nobody with boobs for a while. Right, right, right.

You're not allowed to have them on the Super Bowl. Yeah, and so you've proven... We just feel like we shouldn't have any boobs at all. During the live broadcast of the 2002 Golden Globes ceremony... 2002. Sorry, I goofed. Okay. Oh.

During the live... I'm so dumb. During the live broadcast of the 2003 Golden Globes Ceremony, the lead singer of what band prompted hundreds of complaints to the FCC after proclaiming their win for a song and a movie, really, really effing brilliant. And you can imagine what the singer said. He did not say effing. for a movie for a movie i can give you the movie the movie was gangs of new york what hugely popular hugely popular rock band chris you two it was you too yes bono said yes the win was really really effing brilliant and here's where this gets so interesting to me so of course many many

people wrote it into voice their displeasure they went back and forth and back and forth and the FCC eventually said it was not indecent or obscene because he wasn't using the F word to describe a sexual act. This is a quote, the performer used the word as an adjective or expletive to emphasize an exclamation. So he's describing brilliant. Right. Very.

Exactly. Instead of very. How brilliant is it? It's Fn' brilliant. Yeah. Yeah. Now, needless to say, that did not stop the networks from going. to a 10-second delay for all future shows.

Oh, okay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, well, was it that incident that sparked the 10-second delay? That was a real big part of it. Wow. And then followed the next year by the Nipplegate, the Janet Jackson thing. Yeah.

It's really, it really was. There's not, like, these days, there's really nothing that goes out live, live, live anymore. Interesting. Yeah. I want to hear about the person that has to man the bleat button. Yeah. You know.

Kenneth does it on 30 Rock. Right. Or is it a one guy or do you think it's a team? There's, or is it a computer? It's actually really interesting. I mean, if we have time, we can talk about. I read a lot about this. Oh, yeah.

Well, so, I mean, in the real early days, you know, you talk about like, oh, the seven-second delay, you know, right? And, like, really all it was was, you know, you've got the live broadcast going to one tape deck, and then it's spooling out going to another tape deck that is really what goes out to be shown to the people at home. And the time between the two tape decks was the time. that somebody sitting there watching would basically have to hit the beat button and overdub it sort of as it's going out. This was back in the day of real-to-reel tape machines. Once things started getting computerized and digitized, they could set any kind of arbitrary delay they want. It's all computerized now.

They call it a dump box. It's called a dump box. So you've got your truly, truly live feed of the show that's going past, you know, whoever's in charge of hitting the sensor button. And what they approve or add beeps to, it goes down to the dump box. that's what goes out to the live audience. So there still is a guy. It's a man, a woman, a team. But Karen, there is.

A human. They do have, some of the networks do not have proprietary software that can automate a lot of this. They can key it, yep. They can key it to certain words. They can key it to certain mouth shapes. Wow. Like lip reading. Yeah.

Yeah. Like even before the sound comes out, your, your mouth is already looking the shape. Yeah. Oh. Pre-Cog. In 1975, speaking of tape delays, what comedian was only allowed to host NBC's Saturday Night Live if producer Lorne Michaels agreed to institute a seven-second delay? Chris. Richard Pryor.

That is, famously, Richard Pryor. Yeah. And this was a fight. You know, Lorne Michaels went back and forth with the network with NBC. He's like, no, I don't want to put, you know, a delay on. we didn't put one on for George Carlin. Why do we have to put one on for Richard Pryor? And if Richard Pryor finds out, he's not going to be happy.

So the network wanted 10 seconds. Lorne Michaels apparently sounds like they talked him down to five seconds. It's like pawn stars. As if it makes a difference. Yeah, it's a delay is a delay. Or at least like a 15 second stream of profanities. Right. Right, right, right.

So, yeah, so the story is told us seven seconds. I've read that they negotiated down to five seconds. here's where it gets funny years later uh dave wilson who was director at the time he says that the show actually was live because the crew couldn't figure out how to get the delay mechanism working because they never used it this was it was the first season of s and l so so they kind of just shined on nbc they're like oh yeah we've got the delay in place don't worry yeah the technology exists yeah so so the show went on it's it's it's one of the classic shows uh they've only bust out they've only busted out the uh the bleat button the sensor delay on s

twice more after that they did it once for Sam Kinnison in the 80s who was not just profane but I think a little hard to control let's say right right and then again in 1990 do you guys want to take a guess who would have been the most profane comic of 1990 Andrew Dice Clay he's banned he's banned from S&L oh really yeah I think so yeah there's a list of of band performers and hosts. Oh, yeah. Some of them is because of profanity. Some are hard to work with.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yep, yep. All right, we'll close it out here with a provide the answer question. Okay. Don't we always provide the answers? Yeah, I realize I worded that.

I really, I want to have you guys each write down. How should I say that? A write-in answer. Okay, all right, right. All right, I'm going to close this out here with a write-in answer. You guys are each going to write down your guess. here as to what I am looking for. And remember, I promised goofs and gaffs, slip-ups and skin.

So the Nickelodeon network who runs Nick at Night, one of the shows they run is the classic hit Three's Company. In recent years, a viewer rode into Nickelodeon to let them know that he spotted something that he think might need to be changed. So Nickelodeon went back and re-edited a good. goof that had been in the episode since 1983. So I want you guys to tell me, take a guess what could have caused Nickelodeon to go back and edit

a 30 plus year old episode of Three's company and I will tell you this, it's a hint. It's not a nipple slip or boob slip. Okay. All right. And answers ready. Chris says

John Ritter's penis. I hope you didn't already have that written down before the show started. I carried it around in my wall. Karen says butt crack. And Dana says John Ritter's genitalia. Wow, man, you guys are all over John Ritter's genitalia. It was actually one of John Ritter's testicles.

That's my one of his shorts are so short. Yes, yes. I think Dana wins for going general. Absolutely. No, no, I knew specifically. but I was like, can we say as you're being more scientific. This is not the scientific term?

No, it's a different. It's penis adjacent. Yeah, you're right, Karen. Because shorts are so short. Jack Tripper with those super, super short shorts, and no underwear beneath it. It was 1983 episode. So it's the episode, The Charming Stranger.

which seems strangely appropriate. Yeah, that's my little charming stranger. It's a flirty little appearance. There's just so Jack, like he sits down on the couch, and it's ever so brief. It's super, super quick, just a little bit of a flash of... Which nobody noticed for decades. Yeah, because, you know, this was pre-Tivo. This was like, I mean,

I mean, maybe some people had VCR, but again, no one's going back and looking for, you know, flashes of, what's that? Is it in HD now? If you, you can find, uh, on, of course, of course, on the internet, you can find screen caps of the aforementioned scene if you want to go take a look at it. Oh, no, I mean, did they put them in HD, not like, was filmed in HD? It wasn't filmed in HD. It was not filmed in HD. Um, so yeah, uh, uh, I, I have to close this with a quote from the late great John Ritter himself. So this was before he passed away

thankfully. He asked about the controversy. Those quotes from after they passed away. Right, right. I make up quotes all the time. Boring.

Yeah. He told the New York Observer I've requested that Nickelodeon air both versions edited and unedited because sometimes you feel like a nut

and sometimes you don't. Zazing! He's like, look how young guy was there. I've mentioned on the show before, there's an interview with the guy who works on the TV show Cops. If you don't know, that's the American show where it's kind of reality. They follow cops chasing criminals and stuff. It's always in shaky cam where they have a footage from like the security cameras.

And so it's one guy's job to blur it out butt cracks because there's so much butt crack from the criminals and from the police. You know, like when they're running Or, yeah, they're tussling on the ground And so this guy has to basically make a big Unabut And so they don't blur it out He like actually fills it in Oh, they fill it in with flesh colors

Yeah, yeah, yeah, so he goes in Because when you blur something out You call it too Yeah, it's obvious there's something going on Yeah So in keeping with the theme of Whoops I just want to talk about some

Just just some small, small, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny little mistakes. The tiniest kinds of mistakes you can possibly make, which are typos. You accidentally hit the wrong key on the keyboard, or in one case that I'm going to talk about, you know, insert the wrong word into your, you know, Gutenberg Press or whatever. And it just, you know, just accidentally, you know, just like one letter is wrong. What number is wrong? How bad could it be? What could possible I go wrong? No, I have compiled a list of some of the most momentous, catastrophic typos, teeny, tiny

errors throughout history. Relying heavily on the fact that there are tons of articles on the internet called the 10 most worst typos in history. There's some of mental floss and cracked and things like that. And say great estates. December 8th, 2005, the Japanese. investment banking firm, Mizuho Securities, wants to sell one share of stock in a company called J-com for $610,000, so $6,000-ish.

The firm had just IPOed, and they just had a, you know, if they had to enter in, they were going to sell one share, one share for $610,000. Instead, they accidentally placed an order with the Tokyo Stock Exchange and say that they are going to sell 610,000 shares for one yen. They lose about $400 million. Oh, my God. Because the Tokyo Stock Exchange, so they immediately after Butterfingers does this, they send an error report to the Tokyo Stock Exchange saying, hey, cancel, cancel this,

it's an error, cancel it. But it doesn't get canceled. And basically it's just out there all day, the whole day of trading. The whole day? They don't, by the time that they finally cancel it, they had just sold or basically made a legally binding promise that they were going to provide you with a share of this company for a yen. Why, wait, so there's no double-checking process or, you know, authorization buttons? Yeah, very interesting that you say that because they took the Tokyo Stock Exchange to court arguing that their system was defective and that their system should have canceled it, but that the system being defective, it kind of, you know, screwed them over. And they did, they did have a partial victory in court and prove that Tokyo Stock Exchange was partially negligent and responsible.

And they got, like, some money back from them. But they lost a lot of money. Just imagine being that guy. Just imagine being that guy. I wonder if he can laugh or she could laugh about it now. He can probably laugh about it now. Yes, I hope so. I certainly hope so.

At his new company. Just to lose so much money so quickly. Like, I, like, my heart, like, skips a beat when I send out, like, the wrong signature on an email, you know, let alone costing somebody $400 million. Let's go back to the year 1631. Okay. A little early. Way back. Sure.

The Royal Printers of London, because there's not a whole lot of printers out there, but these are the ones who do the work for the King and everything like that. Like they're the officially appointed Royal Printers of London. They put together a new edition of the King James Bible. As you do, got to get some more Bibles out there for the public. They need to be any of their Bibles. A handsome, handsome new edition of the Bible. They accidentally eliminate one.

word. One tiny three-letter word. I've never heard of this. They accidentally leave a tiny three-letter word out of the Bible. That word was not. The word was N-O-T. Oh, no. And the resulting sentence, which was, to be fair, right in the middle of the Ten Commandments, was thou shalt commit adultery.

That's funny. So the Bible said. Honey. You have to. I got the book today. You have to. or else you don't get into heaven. This is a big problem.

Like, when the king is mad at you, you have a big problem. They were fined 300 pounds in, like, Renaissance money. So that was, like, about $60,000 today. They were pretty much ruined after that. I mean, they couldn't work in that town again, bad times. They round it up and burn most of the books. Oh, okay.

But there are extant copies today. There's about 10 of them. They're known as the Wicked Bible. Right. Or the sinner's Bible. Bible. How much are they worth? Tens of thousands of dollars, depending. Yeah, yeah, nothing too crazy.

Anywhere between, like, 10 and 50 or so is what I saw. Yeah, yep, they come up for sale every now and again. Wow, the wicked Bible. Once people get over the, you know. I feel like, yeah, like in the last year, I was, like, maybe one just sold or got a new collection or something recently. And I saw a little picture of the, yep, that shall commit adultery. They're like, there's so many other words we got right, you guys.

No, yeah. It's so much. there's so many other words, but it just so happens. It's the commandments. It's one of the commandments. It's not like somebody begat somebody. It's a bad. You forgot it begat. In 1934,

Webster's Dictionary defined Dord, that's D-O-R-D, as a word meaning density used in physics or chemistry. If you look it up in a 1934, Webster's dictionary, the new international dictionary from the 1940, There might still be one in your school.

Look it up. Doored, D-O-R-D. It is a term in physics or chemistry, meaning, density. This was in the dictionary for a while until somebody wrote in and said, you know, I've never heard this word. I am a physicist. Like, what? Can you, you guys want to go back and double-check this?

Because it's a little bit weird. And, you know, things can really hide out in the dictionary. You know, but he said, some people do read the dictionary, but, you know, not, yeah. Unfortunately, yet, the editor. who was an expert in chemistry and physics had submitted, you know, the list of words that was submitting for the dictionary or, you know, oh, this is what we should change for this edition, had in fact submitted a piece of paper that said, by the way, D, as in a capital D or D as in a small, lowercase D is an abbreviation that means density. So we should add that to the list of abbreviations for D. D or D.

Right. Unfortunately, the person who put it in thought that the person who put it in thought that the person, on the paper said, doored is an abbreviation, means density. Because it's a big D and then a small D. and a small D. It's like a proper word or so. This is like a cake rack. It is, yes.

The cake rack of dictionaries. Like purple with balloons. Yeah. Let's just, we'll just write it on. Purple with balloons. John, underneath that, we will miss you. So the next time you see a new international dictionary, it looks like it's from the 30s or 40s.

I'm totally going to check. I'm going to check. I have a Dordian, a Dordian dictionary. Yep, yep, worth nothing, sorry. Finally, we'll blast off to July 22nd, 1962. The Mariner 1, Mariner 1. Blast of all. I see him.

The Mariner 1 was NASA's first attempt at a planetary mission. It was an unmanned probe. Oh, okay. But it was supposed to go to Venus and get information about Venus and then send it back to us. And it was definitely going to do that. long story short this is known as quote to the most expensive dropped hyphen ever oh yeah I don't know I've heard of this might have been a hyphen might have been a decimal

point people are people are sort of unclear on what exactly the problem was NASA did not really spell it out for people in the 60s but basically as far as we know it might have been an over bar which is like a bar that goes over a character rather than a rather than a hyphen the macron type thing yes indeed yeah somebody left that out of the computer instructions And so they launched the Mariner 1 probe, and then within minutes, they realized it was flying way off of the trajectory that it was supposed to have, and that it was probably, it might crash into a occupied area of the world, and they had to detonate it. So they sent it up there, and then within minutes, they were like, no, and they had to detonate the whole thing. What, $18 million in 1962 money. Oh, my God.

Some odd million dollars worth today. Mission to Venus started. Check your work. Yeah, apparently, yeah. Well, now I don't feel so bad about my typos. Yeah, exactly. Well, with autocorrect now, it's almost impossible to spell. Yeah, but it puts correctly spelled incorrect words.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, trivia is always Trisha. Hey, guys. I'm coming to Trisha. I got Bar Tricia. Like, oh, phone. All right. Let's take a quick break.

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and this week we're time about whoops, mistakes, slips, goofs. And Dana, I hear that you have quite a surprise for us. Over the holidays, I went to Sweden and Denmark, and I brought you guys more treats. Yay! Last time, I brought you candy. Sure, we'll call it. It's still candy.

It's candy to other people. It was very salty and licorchy. This time, I decided to just go for savory, not even pretend it's candy. Okay. All right. So I'll tell you what I... I brought you guys four kinds of Swedish tube cheese. Oh my God

Oh, what? In a big, it looks like a toothpaste tube, a jumbo toothpaste tube. I thought tube was like as in like a polenta tube. No, it's a toothpaste tube. And I'm told people eat it for breakfast. Sure. So this is the natural flavor, the original flavor. The natural tube cheese.

Just straight tube cheese. This is shrimp flavored. Whoa. It was the, okay, so is the mistake? Showing up here today? Is that with that the mistake? This is a good prank. You put in where you put someone's toothpaste it.

Oh, my God. This is bacon cheese. Okay. Oh, that sounds good. They have bacon flavored easy cheese or they have bacon flavored dog cheese. This is their easy cheese. Oh, okay. Made with reindeer meat.

Whoa. And as a bonus. Oh, there's more. Don't answer yet. As if reindeer cheese. I also have. Call now and get. Moose jerky, moose snacks.

I'm made with moose meat for you guys. So don't worry. You don't have to necessarily eat all of these. These are the rewards for getting the quiz wrong. That's a nice little PR snack. If I get it right, if I get it right, I get bacon cheese. If I get it wrong, I get shrimp cheese. I'll let you choose, which ones.

Okay, good. So the quiz I made for you guys is called, sometimes it's hard to say sorry. So there are five snacks here. There are five Nordic countries. I used Google Translate, and I translated the word sorry into these different languages into the different five countries. They are Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden.

So listening to these words and whatever stereotypes you have in your head and, like, random look, you will find out how many of these delectable, salty snacks you have to eat. Yeah, write them down. So the way it's going to work is I'll play all five. They're short. They're just one word, usually, in these languages. They're audio from Google Translate. Okay.

I had them, I checked them with a Swedish person, and he thought they looked, they looked like they were the right meaning of stars. The five countries are again? The five countries are Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. D-FINs. Oh, yeah. Yeah, D-FINs. All right.

Or fines. You know, I like saying D-FINS. That's good. So I'll play them and you write down one through five which ones you think they are. All right. Pahoelani. Pahoelani.

Pahoellani. Okay, that was number one. Number two is Onskud. Onsky. Unskull Number 3 Beclager

Beclager Beclager Forlott Forloth Forloth Smee me there Is the last off of a speaking spell That's me neither

That's the Google Translate voice For this language That's maybe a hint Can we do a real quick one We'll run down again Bahoylani Weclager Forloth

Me either You ready? So the first one Is I put Norway I put Norway I put Iceland Finish Alright so everybody's having at least one thing

Onskule is I put Swedish I put Denmark I put Finland Denmark yeah Danish I didn't live there

for vain well I know I got it wrong because I put Denmark I put Sweden it's Norwegian It's Norwegian I put Sweden I put Sweden

Yeah Great I got them all wrong I put Norway Oh And then this one Iceland Iceland I put Finnish

Oh okay Woo How was that a hint That it being in Google Because that's such a remote. Yeah, because it's not part of that, that immediate area. See, I went finish because it's like so unrelated to so many other languages. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, makes sense. Yeah, it makes sense now. I got three wrong. All right. I got three wrong. No.

No, I got them all wrong. Yeah. You have to eat everything. That's not going to happen. It's a texture thing for me. I'm just not. What, the cheese or the jerky? Yeah.

Just the creamy cheese is just not. my thing. Oh, what about Brie? Don't like Brie. You're too picky. You can't, this is punishment. Oh my God, it farts like a toothpaste. It smells like bacon, but it smells like kind of a cat food you kind of smell.

You know, I was expecting shrimp cheese to be orange or pink. It is white like toothpaste. It's like cheese with little bits. Yeah, mine has little bits of me. This reminds me of the soft cheese wedges from a left ball. I'll try some just plain original. Okay. Okay, yeah.

Okay, Colin's game. Well, I just have meat on the front. so weird. I think those are little... Really? I think this is just like... Well, it's good, because it comes in like... It comes in paint tubes. Like, that's kind of the weird part.

It's the metal... Yeah, it is. Yeah, it does. This is like the tube I would get like furniture polish in. Right, right. All right. Cheers. Cheers. It is like the laughing cow thing.

It does... You're right. It does. You're right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It does. It's just the fact that come from a handheld tube. So nobody was a metal tube. Oh, I'll try to bring your cheese. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

When I was on the plane back, they were offering us sandwiches and they're like do you want a cheese sandwich or a rudolph sandwich and it's like what and they said yes and it was reindeer you can't do that it was right after Christmas okay well hit me with some moose jerky all right oh you got oh you should put the cheese on the moose jerky oh that's a good one they're like cocktail sausages they're there are bacon cheese is going on the moose jerky this is not kosher yeah bacon cheese and moose jerky is fantastic well thank you dana for this feast you're welcome for this tube feast it's all tube related you're right to be honest i haven't had any of it i just thought

it was really weird now the truth comes out yeah i was like what can i feed them that's not poison i'm interested Swedish tube cheese yes man you know what we should do uh one day is to have a tube feast and we can just have like wasabi tubes you know chocolate tubes for dessert like everything just leaves it all out it's coming a tube okay

you just have stripes on your plate yeah just awkward fresh futuristic yeah it's very molecular gastronomy type thing kind of but just all tubes cool thank you Dana

that was actually better than candy all right it's my turn I have one last segment dedicated to mistakes you know, before I really jump into my topic, I want to read this little summary that I thought Wikipedia did a very good job of summarizing this person. It's Wikipedia. So it sounds more official. So I'm going to read an excerpt here. Roadpig was declared by his doctor to be the ugliest looking baby he had ever seen. As a child, he was expelled from kindergarten for milk money

extortion and was dishonorably discharged from the Cub Scouts. What? Roadpig's arrest record includes charges of speeding, reckless endangerment, littering, assault, Grand Theft Auto, felony spitting? What is felony spitting? What is that? That's just the most intense kind of spitting you can do. It's like dangerous.

Felony sitting. Wow. Like actual spit? Yeah. Spitting bullets. Petty bribery and peony. passing stopped school buses at high speeds. So, who is Roadpig?

Who is this miscreant? Roadpig is a fictional character from the G.I. Joe, a comic book and cartoon series. Felony spitting. He kind of looks like an ugly Thor. That's what it looks like. He looks like what? An ugly Thor. Like, he has a big hammer.

Oh, okay. He has like a metal, like super hardcore metal armor. And his face is super hard looking. Is he a bad guy? Bad guy. The important part about Roadpig is he is from a city in Michigan called Go Blue, G-O-B-L-U. This city, this city from Michigan, we've talked about this before about copyright traps and also with map making where with cartographers and map makers in order to kind of, you know,

when they do the surveying and they're the ones trekking. and finding out, you know, distances and boundaries or whatnot, they would insert fictional roads, bodies of water, cities to kind of, you know, say that this is my signature. Right. So that if someone copies it, then they know that's, you know, Rand McNally, the map giant, just totally basically copied your map that you worked so hard surveying and researching for. So there are two cities in Michigan called, I don't even know how to pronounce it, but it's a...

Can I guess? Yes. Can I guess? If one of them is Go Blue, I'm getting to guess the other one is like Bitoosu or something. Yeah, it is. It's B-E-A-T-O-B-B-B-U. Yeah. B-E-A-T-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-B-L-U-O-B-L-E. So, Beto-Su and Go-B-B-B-B-L-E.

So these two cities were inserted into the 1978 and 1979 official state of Michigan map. And if you know the college rival, the rivalries, Ohio State University is a big rival school, the rival school, the rival school for Michigan. And Michigan's, you know, color is blue. So hence go blue and then beat OSU, butosu. So Peter Fletcher, who is, who was at the time the State Highway Commission, he was the chairman of it, decided to insert the fake towns, go blue and also Betoosu. And funny enough, there is a G.I. Joe villain that was birthed in Go Blue, which was Road Pig, which is so random. I don't know if the creators knew that, or did they just pick a map? I feel, if you saw Go Blue Michigan and you're at all aware of, like, college rivalries, yeah, you'd be like, wait a minute. You have to, you'd have, you'd have, you probably

are aware that's a joke. These maps. And the thing is some of these, this is 1979. Like, it's not even that long ago. Imagine even long before that. with explorers people arriving by ship like most of the maps were wrong they had not only in addition to the the trap stuff they add in you know there's no one to double not a lot of people have the opportunity to have their work double you know double checked right especially if you're an explorer so actually um i read somewhere that for a really long time people thought california was an island because no one made the full you know they they got far enough. They're like, ah, this seems like there's a lot

of water there, like, with inlets. And it's like, ah, let's just cool, whatever. Let's just an island. No one really fully discovered whether or not you could circumnavigate the island of California. It wasn't a perfect science. It wasn't. So with a lot of these trap things, trap streets, trap lakes, trap whatever, trap landmarks, a lot of people think they're real and would

keep making more maps after a while. And so then no one really... It's adored on a map. So no one knew that this was wrong. People drive there and they buy a house. It's terrible. I live in the Go Blue. Yeah. I have to think that people in Michigan knew that Go Blue is not real.

Yeah. Sure. But if I'm looking at a map, like a printed map, I would just like look glance over and not think of anything. You'll skip right past it. Yeah. And that's our show. Thank you guys for joining me. I thank you guys listeners for listening in.

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