Good Job, Brain! - 187: BANNED

Episode Date: July 17, 2016

Quizzes and trivia about banned and prohibited things in the US and around the world! Want to name your newborn baby "@"? We share a smattering of banned baby names we found from around the world. Learn about how video game companies change their games to avoid some odd international ban rules. Dana's got a quiz on US presidents and their personal quirks have dotted the history of the White House with bunch of weird bans. See if you know what foods are not allowed in the US, and E.L.V.I.S. is back speaking some lyrics from songs that all used to be on BBC's restricted list. You might be able to name the musical artist but can you name why these songs weren't allowed on the air waves? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to an airwave media podcast. Hello, rambunctious regal riddlers and rattlers. Welcome to Good Job Brain, your weekly quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. This is episode 187. And of course, I'm your humble host, Karen. And we are your quizzical quartet of qualified, quotable questioners. I'm Colin. I'm Dana.

And I'm Chris. So we get stacks and stacks of letters and tweets and all kinds of things. And I guess we can have our running errors in omission segment, which of course is titled. Um, actually. Um, actually. What you said just wasn't true. Um, actually, do you mind if I correct you? Because actually, factually, and quite enthusiastically, I was right and you were wrong.

That's exactly what inspired me to write this um actually song. You were wrong. Even though it's really me, um actuallying. That's a reverse. That's all a clarification. Reverse um actually. So I talked about, we had our episode about, spice, and I talked about curry.

Yes. And I said that there is no such spice as curry. You don't just take a bunch of curry and wash it up and make curry out of it. No. And the curry powder is a spice blend. I mean, a couple of people point out that there is a leaf called the curry leaf from a tree called the curry tree. This, unfortunately, is not where curry gets its name. It's actually the other way around.

This is an aromatic leaf that is sometimes. sometimes, but certainly not often and certainly not necessarily used in curries. And they call it the curry tree because they use the leaf in curry. The word curry is a word from the Tamil language, and it means sauce. But there is, yes, there is indeed the curry tree. Yes. So if somebody tells you that curry doesn't grow on trees, they're still right. But it is to curry what lemon grass is to lemon.

Yeah, yeah, it doesn't even, yeah, it's like it is an aromatic leaf used in cuisine. You might find it in curry. But not all curries feature curry leaf. No, and in fact, I had never even heard of a curry using curry leaf until people point out of the thing. It's a regional, regional things. But yeah, there's the dish and there's the plant. Lemongrass, actually, that's a good example. It's not grass from the lemon plant.

They don't make lemons using lemon grass. Right. Is it Tamil or Tamil? Oh, I don't know. Is it Tamil? Tamil. Tamil. The Tamil language?

Oh, okay. We got all of our buzzers back to life with new batteries. Renewed vigor. Well, that cow is stronger than ever. Yeah. The rooster buzzer was out. Mm-hmm. Cow buzzer's out.

Which one's going to be out? The dog or the horse. Oh, place your bet. I bet it's the horse. Yeah. Because I don't press my buzzer. Because we do pop quiz. Yeah.

Yeah. And speaking of which, let's jump into our first general trivia segment. Pop Quiz, Hot shot. And I have a random trivial pursuels. card from our 13 pound box of cards. All right, here we go. Let's,

this is Trivial Pursuit Pop Culture 2. Okay. Pop culture, not 90s. Okay. Pop Culture 2. All right. The squeakwell.

Blue Wedge for TV. Oh, Chris. Who was the only ER star to stick it out for the show's first 12 seasons? Wow. Chris? It's Noah Wiley.

Correct. Wow. Yeah. Mr. E.R. over here. Pink Wedge for Fad. I mean, he's still left after the 12 season. They kind of drag. I think they dragged themselves to 15 before, for gamely giving it.

All right. Pink Wedge for Fad. What company proudly announced the return of its classic 1960s banana seat stingray in 2004? I don't know what any of this means, Colin. Oh, it's one of the, it's, it's not Huffy. Is it a Schwinn? It is Schwinn. Yeah.

It's a bike. It's a very 70s. It's like that classic 70s. The banana seat. So I'm reading this and I look at the answer and I was like, I still don't know what they're talking about. I thought it was a roller coaster. With a banana seat. Yeah.

Yep. Yellow Wedge for Buzz. What Nation's 1998 Miss Universe? contestant Dared to wear a dress emblazoned with the faces of Yassar Arafat, Bill Clinton,

and Yisak Rabin. Wow. Colin. I'm going to guess Israel? It is Israel. Good job. Oh, they just want to the country. Yeah, what nation?

Oh, oh. I'm thinking what her name is. I don't know the names of any. Yeah, not neither. Yeah. Purple Wed for Music. What Smells Like Teen Spirit Line was once a phrase

Kirk Cobain used to break the ice at parties. Break the ice in quotes. Uh, I'll guess. Okay, yes. A mosquito, my libido. Nope.

Okay, I'm going to guess. Here we are now. Entertain us. Correct. Correct. All right. Green Wedge, I'm subbing in a question here.

What Sports League has mystified potential fans since 1997 with the slogan, we got next. I know this one. Well, then go for it. Dana. Billiards or pool? Oh, that's cute.

No. That is the WNBA. Yes. The Women's National Basketball Association. Mystified potential things. Mystified potential fans. It's supposed to be a play on like, we got game, we got next.

Like, meaning, like, the men had their turn, like, we got next. Right, right, right. We got the next game. We're up, I don't know. Yeah, I know what we got next to me. Mistified? Yes, I've heard of that. It's like, yeah.

Yeah, it's like putting quarters on a arcade machine. Yeah, I like that. Yeah. Last question, Orange Wedge. How many points is the most valuable ring worth in ski ball? Oh. Chris. 500.

No. Really? Colin. 50. Correct. Oh. One too many zeros. Yeah, it's way too many. Oh, okay.

Oh, yes, 10, 20. It's not 100, 200, 200, 400, 500. I've seen different numbers. I feel like I've seen different numbers or they all got inflated with an extra zero. Because the middle is 40 and then the corner ones are such a gamble. 50 is not a right number. I thought the corner ones were a thousand. They were 100.

Okay, so it might be inflation. Hmm. Point to point inflation. I think strategically you shouldn't aim for the corner ones, two in the corner outside. We're going to have to settle this with a picture, yeah. We need to go to play some ski balls. I'm down. Let's do it.

Oh, Dana sounds like she hustles. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What do you do with the ball? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wait, there's balls. Can we play one more, let me get my money back? Somehow I lost my car to Dana playing ski ball. I don't even know what that.

Good job, Brains. This week's episode. we're going to talk about, well, first of all, let me share this. This is related. I saw an interesting article of Mental Floss. Band names around the world. Not band names. No, sorry, not musical prohibitive.

Right, okay. Yeah, names. This to be clear, this is an audio podcast. Yes. Yeah, yeah. C-A-N-N-E-D. Okay. Names you're not allowed to...

Prohibited. For your children. Oh, yeah. Yeah, because there are a lot of... Yeah, because we don't really consider that in the U.S. Because you can just name your child. whatever you want. Really?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But some countries, they have a, I mean, some countries, they have banned names. Yeah. Or it has to go through government, like approval. Yeah. In some countries, there's like a list of approved names.

Yeah. And it's not, it's, it's just only the names on this list. Yeah. I think some of the Nordic countries, yeah. I'm just going to read out some of the names that are banned just because they're funny. There's the at symbol. The at, the at the app. Okay.

They just wanted to name them. At symbol. Uh-huh. Yeah. In China. Chinese government. did not agree that that is a good idea

actually a lot of these stories are also like please don't name your child this the government telling the parents because they're going to be living a life of being bullied or being made fun up so there's that too which is

I guess kind of like borderline child abuse emotional abuse yeah name it stupid head yeah yes so there was a stinky head was one of them Metallica the the tax officials in Sweden deemed it inappropriate

to name a baby girl Metallica. Some parents want to name their kids after like products like Nutella. That's a pretty name. It is actually pretty good. There was a couple of few years ago who named their baby Espin.

They were big fans of ESPN. Oh, that was in an Adam Sandler movie. That was a blended. Yeah. Kids name was Espin. And so my favorite name out of this list definitely is Sex fruit. Sex fruit.

The fruit from sex. Yeah. Well. Sure. New Zealand government did not agree that that is an appropriate name. I agree it's not an appropriate name, but I also feel like you should, it's... It's a great band name, like an actual B-A-N-D musical band name. I think you can change your name to that after you're 18, but I don't think you should force somebody to grow up with that name.

Who doesn't? That's fair enough. That's fair. Sex fruit chew. That's fair. That sounds like a really terrible candy sex fruit shoe So in the spirit Is this starburst?

Not exactly Yeah You spit it out So in the spirit of these Restricted B-A-N-N-E-D band names Today we're going to talk about things that are banned Things that are prohibited, restricted Verboten

And exed So no books, back from the books So no So no video games are banned in America That's good, hooray! That's good, hooray! That is not the case in a lot of countries Some country, so in the, in the U.S. of America, and to our international listeners, you see, you know, ratings on our video games and you have ratings on your country's video games.

One of the major differences may very well be that our ratings is a, it's a voluntary board. It's not a government ratings board. In many, many, many countries, they have government ratings boards. Those you must submit video games, you know, films. things like that, but video games specifically to a government board, and they will put a rating on them. And then sometimes they will ban them. They simply say, no, you cannot release it here. Sometimes it means that you cannot distribute it.

It's okay if you have it, but the company can't sell it. Sometimes it means they can't advertise it or promote it in any way, but, you know, possession or, you know, like the sale is not illegal if it's like, you know, if you buy it over the internet from them, that they're not like doing something illegal, but like they can't advertise it or promote it. Sometimes it's like even possession. It's like even that is illegal. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it could really run the range. Yes, Dana? I was going to say there are video games that are made in America that are not allowed to be sold in certain platforms.

Like Apple has certain restrictions. You can't sell. Sure, so sure. So it might just be like there are no banned ones here because they didn't. They weren't really. Our government does not ban any content. Right, right. Could be by platform.

Yeah. Yes. The Papers Please had like naked. bodies in it. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But it wasn't like a sexual thing. And, yeah, yeah, so they banned it. So on that platform, it doesn't exist.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, but nothing else. So our, our, not a government thing, yeah. Yeah. So here's, here's just some interesting fun facts about, I mean, a lot of, you know, I mean, some, you know, sometimes games with, like, you know, sexual content might get banned, sometimes overly violent games might get banned. Here's just some weird trivia and facts that are maybe a little bit out of the ordinary.

So in Germany, first of all, in Germany, you cannot like, display a swastika. Okay. And you actually, you can't, you cannot put that in your media either in a way that is associated with or like glorifies like the Nazi party. Right. So it's not just video games, movies, too, shows. Right, right, right.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, like, I'll tell you, Wolfenstein 3D, banned in Germany. That is a video game that takes place with the dude killing Nazis or swastikas all over it. There's representations of Adolf Hitler. Okay. Banned. Cannot sell there. But Germany goes even further.

They really have some of the biggest restrictions on if they perceive, like, violence against humans in a video game that could ban it. And what's interesting is, sometimes, you know, video game companies to produce, like, the European version of games, every now and again, sometimes they don't just edit the German version. Sometimes they make changes to the whole European version. So there's a game on the Nintendo Entertainment System, the 8-bit one from the 80s, called Contra. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's running through a jungle, shooting people. the European version is called Probotector and SARS exclusively robots

So that is actually Even in the game Team Fortress 2 The recent game Team Fortress 2 There's a video where Yeah like somebody gets decapitated And you see a screw in the back of their neck And it's like oh it was a robot It's the German yeah

So I mean they will sometimes And like sometimes they'll turn entire games And they'll just make everybody a robot Because robot on robot Violence against robots is okay Aliens too Would an alien substitute work? I think aliens are okay

I think it's the human on human violence And if it goes over a certain bar And the bar is kind of lowish for Germany Yeah Yeah So you get robot games Australia actually has some of the strictest rules On what can be released there

Sometimes it's kind of funny Like the football game blitz the league Drug use got the game Banned in Australia American football game. It was an American football game, and it was sort of like an over-the-top. It was not a realistic simulator like John Madden. It was like a sort of an over-the-top football game where it's like, if you got injured,

it can be like, okay, do you want to rest up and heal the injury, or do you want to take steroids? That kind of thing. That's not really how steroids were. But that was one of the things, and that got it banned, totally banned in Australia. And again, a lot of games get banned. and the companies go back and they tell them, well, this is why they change things for the Australian version. But sometimes they just don't bother doing that,

and the game just never comes out. The game, Mark Echoes Getting Up. Yes. Contents under pressure was the name of the whole game. Is it graffiti? It's an open-world graffiti game, and because it glorifies graffiti. They're like, no, thank you.

The Australian government banned it from Australia. Can I sell the game in Australia. EA Sports MMA, the MMA fighting game from EA Sports, not able to be released in Denmark, because Denmark has a ban on advertising energy drinks. They don't let you advertise energy drinks. And apparently, Electronic Arts was like, you know, if you're not advertising energy drinks, it's not the MMA. And they didn't edit it, they didn't pick it out, or anything like that. They just didn't release it.

Wow. Yeah, aside from punching people, that's our race on DETRA. Wait, wait, but it's advertising, right? In that case, in that case, it was because... Does Denver sell energy drinks? I think you can't buy energy drinks in Denmark. But you just can't have like a monster drink. Got it.

You just can't advertise it. Well, it's funny, I was just at a retro gaming arcade here in Alameda, lovely Alameda, California, and I was playing Tapper with a friend of mine. And he noticed there's a giant Budweiser sign in the background of the room where you're playing Tapper, the old game where you're serving up beers. And we were both just, like, looking at each other, like, there's no way this would ever fly today. Why? Oh, it's for kids.

Like, it's for kids. It's like, it's not just commercial, but commercialized alcohol. Yeah. I mean, like. It's a fun game. Yeah. Yeah. But you could do it.

So finally, let me put this question to you guys, because I probably get this. The game, Football Manager 2005, that's European Football. Football Manager 2005 was banned in. China. Why do you think it was banned in China? Football manager, too. Which is a statistics-heavy strategy game. Is it because it was two capitalists with the...

No. What year was this? 2005 was the year it came out. So you're organizing the teams, the leagues. Something to do with teams, for sure. It's a sort of worldwide... Is it because... Sort of a list of different countries maybe?

Just because Taiwan was in it? It was because in this version of the game, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Tibet were all in separate countries. Which China does not like. And they actually banned the game from being distributed in China. Did they change it? I think they did change it, yeah. About the other smaller markets. I don't know.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think it's the way that they were saying. Interesting. Woo. Woo. 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. So continuing our march towards mastering presidents, American presidents, we keep getting... I like that you're on this beat for us. It's so important. We've got to do it. We lose points every single pub trivia lately, a pub quiz. It's been coming up a lot. So we need to... It is.

It's so disappointing. There are four of us. For a while, we couldn't even name the first five like accurately. Hamilton has helped a lot. We can each take 10 presents. Yeah, they're really... Every time we lose, we're like, we could each take 10 presidents every single time. We always agree it's a good idea, though.

I mean, to be fair. We should. We should. We should do it. For the podcast, though, is like, you know what, this is a thing I have to work on. and I'll just make it presidential. Like, there'll be a lot of presidents turning up. Sorry for international people, but...

I just talked about international stuff, you know. Yeah, there you go. I have a quiz about things that were banned from the White House. Oh. Too hot for the White House. Too hot. All right, we'll start off with maybe an easy one. You guys can buzz in with your answers.

All right. What food was banned from the White House in 1990? Oh. Colin. Uh, broccoli. Broccoli. Yeah. What?

George H.W. Bush was like, I'm the president. I hate broccoli. So we will never, we won't have broccoli here. He really doesn't like it. But you know what's funny is that broccoli sales went up. Ah, it's good. No press is bad press. Yeah.

There's, I mean, half the country probably didn't vote for him. They were like, well, if he doesn't like it, maybe I don't know. I feel like broccoli is a divider. I feel like there are a lot of people like. Like Brussels. Yeah, it's a divider. You've got to cook it well, like everything. Brussels sprouts cooked poorly or disgusting.

I agree. Exactly. Same with broccoli. What was banned in 1975, but allowed again just a few years ago during White House tours? Oh. Colin. Photographs. Photography was prohibited in the 70s because they were like, oh, the flashes are bad for the artwork here.

Oh, okay. It's kind of like the Mona Lisa you're not supposed to. do the flash photography. Okay. And so they recently, Michelle Obama was the one who she lifted the band because most people take pictures with their camera phones. And there's not a lot of flash.

Not a lot of flash. But in the 70s, I guess people brought their real cameras with the real intense flashes. Yeah. Which president banned jeans from the Oval Office? That's a little hint. Bono was the only one allowed to wear them. Bono.

Yeah, after that. I don't want to say Jimmy Curry because I feel like he's pretty cool. I feel like Jimmy Carter would be okay with jeans Yeah, I'm going to say Clinton No, I was going to guess Ray again It was George W. Bush Oh really?

Really? Yeah, I mean, like you imagine he's a rancher He would wear his jeans. Yeah, like every man. I think he liked to imagine he was a rancher too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But they wanted a more formal dress code for the Oval Office. Oh, they didn't allow them.

But that's only in the Oval Office. Like, you can still wear jeans in the White House. I'm not sure. but I bet Obama, doesn't it? I mean, you shouldn't wear jeans to meet him in the Oval thing, but it's probably enough. I don't, I'm sorry, I don't see the ban on mud-caked boots on the Lincoln desk. In 1902, which president banned freshly cut Christmas trees in the White House?

What is going on here? So, no more freshly cut trees. Karen, theater or Roosevelt? Yes. Do you know why I know that? Because he's the cusp of the century. Yeah. Oh, okay.

There's only three of them. Good job. You got it for the right reason. He's also a conservationist. Oh, okay. Yeah. Oh, that was why he didn't want the fresh-cut trees. Yeah, he thought it was really bad for the environment to cut down trees every year.

Good for him. So what they do? So they, you know, they still exchange presents, but they didn't have them. His sons were really sad about it. And they got somebody to bring a tree, a little tree, into their closet. Oh, a little sad Charlie Brown tree. The story goes, he had like a tree expert talk to them about it. And he's like, tell them, you know, it's bad for the environment.

And he's like, actually cutting down trees sometimes is good because it lets other trees have sunlight. And so Teddy Roosevelt was like, mm. And so he lifted. The man was lifted in 1905. Dad. I know. Like, that's what you want on Christmas days, have a tree expert come to your house. and explain to you, you know, the scientificity you're a bad person, why you don't have a treat.

And on Easter, he has a dentist come in and tell you why candy's bad. Yeah, right, yeah, right. Sorry. Happy Valentine's Day, dear. Love is just a chemical process. To explain this further, I've employed the help of the endorphins expert. In his term in office, the last. 11th president rarely had cut flowers in the White House because it was believed that cut flowers gave off unhealthy vapors and formed valuable elements in the air.

Who was the 11th president? Wow. All right. 11th president. 11th. This was the 1840s. Karen. I think Van Buren was Monroe.

I was going to say Monroe. No. It was James K. Polk. This was the mean one This would come up in trivia We're like, why don't I know So he banned freshly cut flowers So it was weird

They had it occasionally Like it would randomly show up And being used from their dinners But everybody else was fine with flowers This was the president who was Maybe he had allergies Maybe the unhealthy vapors were allergies I couldn't find like the exact story

I was like maybe it's like Oh they associate it with sick people or something Having flower I don't know But that was a thing that happened. Which president's wife was nicknamed Lemonade Lucy because she banned alcohol from White House functions. Right.

It's got to be, God, I just learned this on the bourbon tour. Temperance, mind is. Lucy, Lucy. Well, I can rule people out, but that doesn't help me. I read another story about this president, and it was, they used to have, like, every night they would have late night gospel singing in the White House. Oh. Her gospel.

Like church hymns, they would walk out. Grant. No. Eisenhower. No. Too late. Well, if you remember from the egg episode, this was the same president who started the Easter egg rolling at the White House. Who started it?

Who was the one? Oh, started it. Harding. No. So close. Rutherford be. Oh, Hays. Higgs.

Higgs. Higgs. Higgs. Yeah. That's how you remember. And lemonade lucey. Lemonade Lucy. Oh, my God.

So many presidents. That's all you need to know. Just two more, two more. These ones are funny. Okay. Which first lady was the first to ban smoking in the residence? Karen. Betty Ford.

No. Earlier or later. Later. Nancy Reagan. No. Barbara Bush. No. Michelle Obama?

Hillary Clinton. Oh, okay. I forgot. She was the first lady sometimes. Lived there for a long time. Yeah, yeah. Okay, last one. This one had one of my favorite vocabulary words in it, so we have to do it.

It's which president had a mild case of Triske decaphobia, fear of the number 13, and would not sit at dinner if there were 13 people eating. Oh. Oh. Huh. Hint. Hints. He also didn't like Fridays, and he hid.

hated Friday the 13th, and he actually died on Thursday, April the 12th. Whoa. Okay, so. I want to. Okay. Well, I mean, I know what president hated Mondays. That was Garfield. Yeah.

Right. Right. Oh, my God. That was a really good joke. That was really good. That's good. I want to say, I want to say it's like somebody from the 1800s, but I'm afraid it's somebody. Somebody from the 1900.

Uh, Ronald Reagan. No. Uh, uh, I. Eisenhower. No. Close. Military. Yeah.

It was FDR. Really? Yes. Huh. And I will never forget that he died Thursday, April 12th. 1945. Okay. The day before Friday.

That's a good way to remember that. Yeah. All right. Good job, you guys. That was good. That was good. It just goes to show you, man, you can be some eccentric crazy person. Exactly.

You get to that office. He's like, all right. My eccentric needs are now. No broccoli. Yeah. That's right. This is my house. And then everybody will note down all the weird things that I...

I want to talk about banned foods. Banned foods. Very interesting. And I've structured this into a quiz. And to be specific, this is about U.S. foods that are banned here. We might be a little bit more lax on video games, but we are not lax about food. Oh, yeah, that's right. A lot of the reasons, especially if you're bad.

You watch Good Eats or Alton Brown, a lot of the FDA Food and Drug Administration, they have very strict rules. Some, you know, some things are banned because of, like, say, taxes or import stuff. Some are banned because of health. Lead and poop. Yeah. This is a write-in quiz. So I'm going to give you the reason why it's banned. Okay.

And you tell me what product. Okay. And this is a short one. So, for example, this is an example. It's a very easy example. You don't have to write it down. If I say the reason is because of overfishing and poses a threat to the global shark population. Shark fin.

Shark fin soup. Shark fin. Yeah. All right. Here we go. Very, very quick quiz. This item is banned because it violates the USDA's ban on lung in food products. Wow.

Lung. Lung. Lung. Lung. The organ lung. Huh. Um Violates the USDA's band on lung

I know yeah I don't know All right Chris says A hashtag Yeah It's the print symbol I was gonna write haggis But then I was like no it's not

A brand name Let's see Would you say Dana Haggis or Scrapple What's a Scrapple It's like lamb version of Huggins I believe It's scrambles scrabble

It's kind of a guy And then Colin says Haggis It is Haggis It is haggis. Oh, okay. Haggis cannot be imported to the U.S. Like, haggis from, you know, the origin.

You can make it at home. You can make, you know, you can make, like, all the ones that maybe, you know, sold and right here is not the actual, according to the old recipe. But you can't get a true Scottish just. No, no lung product. Okay. And, of course, it's because of a safety issue. Yep.

All right. There is a federal ban on this thing. because non-edible items cannot be placed inside food products. There are actually a couple things you can write down for this. But there's this one thing, one popular thing. Non-edible items placed inside food products. All right. Colin says, King's cake with the baby.

Uh-oh. Yeah, Kinder-Egg. Kinder-Egg. Well, I'm going for Kinder-Egg, but yes, the other answer I was thinking, about is the king's cake with the baby. So the Kinder surprise egg. Also, Nestle makes something similar called the Wonderball, which is a chocolate egg or a circle.

And then inside you have a little capsule that has a toy in it. You cannot do that in the United States, mostly because it could be a choking hazard. Like, I think they may have just lifted the ban on that because my old job gave them out. Like, to be like, oh, look, a new thing. You still see Kinder Surfriger. eggs. I'm not really sure if it's like I can go buy them elsewhere and then bring them back. I'm not really sure what the legality is. But King's Cake, which is a Mardi Gras specialty. It's kind of like a bread with icing. And then usually there is a baby Jesus, like out of clay or

ceramic or plastic inside the cake. The whole point is you eat it and you find the baby in your cake. Yeah, you're like, yeah, I got it. I'm the lucky one. So of course, in fear of choking hazard and other issues, now the baby is out of the cake. They give you the baby, but it's not randomly hidden somewhere. He's sticking in there. Oh, yeah. Like a big raisin. Like made out of nuts or something.

I'm a big raisin. Not the same. A normal raisin. I think a big raisin is like, I found the baby represented by this big reason. Right, right, right. But it's just not out. It's just not in the cake. It doesn't seem nearly as fun, I have to say.

It's not. It's not. Oh, I found it because it's in a plastic pouch. Yeah, right, yeah, yeah. You have to stick it in the cake. I think you need to, like, poke a lot of holes in the cake, so people won't know which one's the real baby. I like the way you're thinking.

And, like, I think this might be why cereal, because you used to be toys used to be in cereal boxes. Yeah. And then now it's like, it's all, you got to go online and you fill in this thing on the, yeah, where you collect. coupons. I'm not sure about the item and food rule on that is.

This is not U.S. This is California only, so we should all get this question. All right. This item is banned because it is cruel and inhumane. It's one thing in particular. Not uniformly banned across the U.S.,

but definitely banned in California. Because it is unethical to produce this item. There are a lot of items that are unethical, but this one, this one is it. I spelled it phonetically. This is the middle.

Dana says, foie gras, for gro. And then Chris says, foie gras. I spelled it really terribly there, but I did write FG. Okay. Yes. Good all Fagre, which is, what organ is it? Liver? It is the liver and geese are force-fed, which is a,

not very nice. And so California has banned it, but it's not a U.S. banned product. All right. Last question. This I had no idea and super interesting. It is the main ingredient in traditional root beer, but this ingredient is banned because it's used in the production of psychoactive party drugs like MDMA and Molly. Hmm. Huh.

It is the main ingredient in traditional root beer. It's what makes root beer, root beer, traditionally. Okay. All right, answers up. Chris, can you read your... Sarceperilla, Sarsaparilla. I wrote that, and then I was like, Mandric. Because I've been playing the Witcher a lot.

I don't know. Colin, you said. Sarsaparilla. All very close. It is sassafras. Oh, it's sassafras. You know what? I wrote that and I crossed it out.

Yeah, me too. Yeah. I thought, uh, they don't use that anymore because we have fake, but fake stuff. Not only does it have carcinogenic properties. So it's not that great for you. It can be used to make Molly and other party drugs. And there are a lot of stories about different tribes all of the world who use sassafras. You know, to, you know, healing or trip on drugs and stuff.

But many native tribes would use it for healing or to trip themselves out. It's like reindeer pee, you know. But it is, it is carcinogenic. Okay. So that's, that's, you cannot get sassafras oil or anything of that sort anymore because it is banned. All right. Interesting. So that was the last question.

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Yes. It is the time for the return of our musical friend Elvis. It has been a while. And I actually, a couple episodes ago, I had a Beatles song for you guys included in a music quiz. The circus one, yes, the circus one, being for the benefit of Mr. Kite. And we were talking about it. And one factoid that I didn't manage to slip in, but that I came across while researching it was that song was, for a time, banned by the BBC in England. And in fact, I dug a little bit more.

It turns out the BBC has a great, rich, and long history of banning popular songs, many rock songs. The reason this song was banned, so there's a line in the song, several verses in. And, of course, Henry the horse dances the waltz. Wow. Kind of a simple, very kind of frivolous line. The BBC's reasoning is, well, we believe these are slang for heroin. That both horse, now, to be fair, horse was and is slang for heroin. And Henry, they say as well.

So they're like, no, this cannot fly. This is a veiled. It's about a circus. Yeah. And of course, John Lennon, he's like, no, it's about a horse dancing the waltz at a circus. It's not making a heroin reference. And the Beatles, in fact, had several songs over the course of their career, banned by the BBC. So losing, Sky with Diamonds.

That was, you know, it's funny. That one is actually, it's hard to pin down if that particular song was, in fact, banned. It's often said that it was banned, but that one song, it's tough to prove if that one song, but they definitely had other songs that were banned for short period, long period by the BBC. So, I figured it would be appropriate for Elvis himself, since his namesake, Elvis Presley, was famously banned for various reasons. You know, like when he appeared on one of his appearances on the Ed Sullivan show, they shot him only from the waist up. Oh, right, right. Sultry hips, don't lie.

Yes, Elvis the pelvis. We could not have his wild gyrations inciting impuretors in sighting impure thoughts in our nation's teenagers. His pants weren't that tight either. Right. Very quickly again, Elvis, the concede of this quiz, is Elvis is a disembodied 1980-style computerized robot voice who will sing slash speak lyrics to famous songs. What does it stand for again? This time it stands for the electronic lyrical vocalization interpretation system. All right. Don't hold me to that. So I'm going to play for you the opening lines of several popular songs. and not only

these songs banned, but all of these are songs that were banned by the BBC. Okay, that's what I was going to ask. All right, so not picking on... Are they all British songs, though? They are not all British songs. They are mostly.

You know, they are mostly, but that may just be a coincidence. These are going to be mostly from the 60s, 70s, but some of these might be later than you think. We're getting into the 80s and 90s even in some of the, into some of these censorship over BBC airwaves. So these are going to be a pretty well-known song. So for these, I want you guys, to give me the name of the song, the artist, and if you can,

why do you think it was banned? Some of them will be pretty obvious. Some of them may surprise you why the song was banned by the BBC. So here we go. Get your buzzers ready. And here is the first track. There's things that you guess and things that you know. there's boys you can trust

and girls that you don't. There's little things you hide and little things that you show. All right, so let's play it again. I'll give you his little hint here. This is a solo singer who made his or her fame as part of a duo.

Oh, okay. Second time through. Here we go. There's things that you guess and things that you know. There's boys you can trust and girls that you don't. There's little things you hide. Little things that you show.

I want to take a guess, Karen. George Michael. Yes, George Michael. What song do you think would be most likely to be banned? Remember our list here. Sex, drugs, violence, politics. That was actually... Freedom, 1990.

No, it was actually, I want your sex. Oh, okay. Well, maybe that's why it was... Oh. The BBC felt it as promoted, promissuity, didn't fit too well with anti-AIDS messaging at the time, but of course you know, as with a lot of these songs,

they go on to become huge hits, and then eventually, yeah, BBC kind of has to rely on. What year was this? That was from 1987. So, you know, the AIDS epidemic was definitely on people's minds at the time. All right, next track. What band, what song? And why

was it banned? God save the queen. The fascist regime. made you a moron, a potential age bomb. All right, one more time through. Here we go. God save the queen. The fascist regime.

They made you a moron, a potential age bomb. Potential age one? This was the sex pistols? Correct. God save the queen. Yes. For obvious reasons. Obviously, it is not sufficiently deferential.

chill to royalty. You pretty much put the nail on head. Yes, extremely anti-establishment. This song came out in 1977, which was purely coincidentally, Queen Elizabeth Seconds, her silver jubilee. So a lot of people thought it was a direct, like, very pointed attack. You know, the band said it was kind of coincidental. Maybe top of mind, though. It did. Oh, there is a, there is a theory many people hold. So this song peaked at number two. And there are a lot of people who to this day believe that the Powers That B, prevented it from ever officially reaching number one. What was number one, though?

Queen is so great. Next track. What is the song? Who sings it? And why was it banned by the BBC? I met her in a club down in Old Soho, where you drink champagne, and it tastes just like Coca-Cola. C-O-L-A-Cola. And one more time.

I think you guys may know this, but here we go. One more listen. I met her in a club down in old So-Haw. where you drink champagne and it tastes just like Coca-Cola. C-O-L-A-Cola. Chris. This is Lola by the Kinks.

Correct. Now, why do you think the song will be banned by the BBC? You know Lola? You know Lola. Story of a trist with a gender-fluid person. That's what I would think, too. Is it because of a name brand? It is because they said Coca-Cola. and the BBC had very strict rules on product placement, advertising.

So they actually, this is a great example of their censorship, because the band went back, and in order to get airplay, they re-recorded a version, which you will still hear on the radio today, where they change the lyrics to Cherry Cola instead of Coca-Cola. The LP version, the original version, is Coca-Cola. Because Cola is not a proper... I had only ever heard cherry cola. Yes.

And that is the version that I grew up hearing on the radio as well, the standard kind of re-recorded version. Yeah. It's the radio version. Yes. Yes. Oh. All right. Here we go.

Next track. What's the song? Who's the singer and why is it band? We are young. Heartache to heartache we stand. No promises. No demands. Love is a battlefield.

All right, one more time here. We are young. Heartache to heartache we stand. No promises, no demands. Love is a battlefield. I think everyone but Dana was first. Pat Benatar, love is a battlefield. Correct.

Pat Benatar, love is a battlefield. Why would they ban that song? Battlefields? Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Was it during a war or no? During the first Gulf War in 1991, the BBC came out with a very long list of songs that were not to be played for the duration of the war. Wow.

Now, it's funny looking over this list now, some of them, okay, you know, it's you can kind of see why maybe they wouldn't have this. There's a cure song killing an Arab, you know, probably not the best song to be playing during the Gulf War. But some of them get crazy and crazy. It got to the point, like, almost anything that just had any kind of war or battle illusion in it. Yeah, Abba's Waterloo was on this band. Yes. Love is a Battlefield is on this band. Buffalo Soldier, the Bob Marley songs.

Anything that was even hinted at warfare. Wow. It seemed a little reactionary. Or military. Yes. Atomic by Blondie, also on the list. Yeah. They banned Give Peace a Chance.

John Lennon's song, because it was just too political. Yeah, it goes another way, too. Your priorities are not quite in order here. Stay a message where you are. Right, right, all right. Next track, here we go. What's the song? Who's the band?

Why was it prohibited? Here come old flat top. He come grooving up slowly. He got two-two eyeball. He won Holy Roller. Add one more time. Here come old flattop. He come grooving.

up slowly. He got two two eyeball. He won Holy Roller. I think everyone had that. The Beatles come together. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Could this I mean, could this be drug use?

Yeah, I mean, just like imagined drug use. I assumed, again, I assumed it was drug use. No, it's our old friend Coca-Cola again. There is a line in the song, he shoot Coca-Cola. Right. And that one was actually That's a good line.

A kind of a tofer there. Yeah, it was hitting on their no product names. And they also, it was one of those things where they weren't sure. Maybe it's a drug reference. Yeah, yeah. A lot of weird words in that song. Yeah, it's just rambling. It could have all of the things.

What song? Who sang it? And why was it banned? All the old paintings on the tombs. They do the sand dance, don't you know? If they move too quick. Oh, way, oh, they're falling down like a domino. All right, one more time.

One more time. Oweyo. All the old paintings on the tombs, they do the sand dance, don't you know? If they move too quick, oh, way, oh, they're falling down like a domino. Dana. The Bengals walk like an Egyptian. Band because it's racist. Band, it was on, it was on the Gulf War no playlist.

Yep, yep, anything, again, it's anything even remotely touching on an Arab or Islamic country. They just don't want to deal with it, yeah. Oweo. Oh, way, oh. Yeah. And I'll go ahead and I'll tell you that these next two were also banned on the Gulf War no playlist. Yes. All right.

What song? Who's singing it? It's getting late. Have you seen my mates? Ma, tell me when the boys get here. It's 7 o'clock and I want to rock. Want to get a belly full of beer. One more time. It's getting late. Have you seen my mates? Ma, tell me when the boys get here. It's 7 o'clock and I want to rock. Want to get a belly full of beer. Saturday Night's All Right for Fighting by Hilton John. Yes, that legendary pro-war song, Saturday Night's All Right for Fighting by the combative Elton John. Sir Elton John.

Yeah, we can't have this going out over our airways. Wow. Opinion of people. You know, I read, I'm going to take a little side of these. I didn't fit this into the quiz. But, you know, I'll be home for Christmas. The Bing Crosby, the classic, you know, I'll be home for Christmas. Assuming you're not home.

Well, so he wrote it in 1943. And he didn't intend it to be about soldiers, but it turned out that it ended up being very popular with American soldiers stationed, you know, far away from home. And so in the U.S., they actually started really marketing it towards soldiers and soldiers' family. The BBC went the total opposite direction. They said, we think it's going to be bad for morale for soldiers stationed away from home. home who are not going to be home for Christmas to hear this song and they banned it they couldn't play it i mean it's just such babysitting of people's emotions kind of funny to me all right stiff upper lip and all that stiff upper lip and all that absolutely and i guess you know there are

some people they say that sort of over the years they the BBC was sort of just generally against anything that was overtly schmaltzy to begin with like they would just ban songs for being too treakly they really would like this is too sickly sentimental okay all right last one Told you why it was banned. I know you've heard the song. The question is, do you know who sings it? Here we go. War, huh, yeah.

What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Uh-huh. War, yeah. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Say it again, y'all. One more time, just because I like to hear him say it.

War, yeah. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Uh-huh. War, huh, yeah. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Say it again, y'all.

Chris. Was this James Brown? It's not James Brown. Is it Tower of Power? Is that a thing? That is a thing, but it's not Tower of Power. Known for their horns. Is it War?

The name of the song is War. Yes. Marvin Gay? No, not Marvin Gay. It's a singer It's a singer Who did this? This is a good one

This one Absolutely No not Isaacase Oh all right This is Edwin Starr Wow With two R's With two R's

This one shows up In music at pub quiz All the time All the time Edwin Star Made famous Or Rush Hour

Yeah well that's not That's not his real name Yes born Charles hatcher but Edwin Starr sounds more like a yeah uh-huh uh-huh so that's just a smidgeon of sampling of songs that will get you in trouble with the BBC over the decades but they would lift bands though eventually they would yes you know honestly it was market pressure would be the only thing it would be like when a song became too much of a hit that they

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