Good Job, Brain! - 193: Under the Sea

Episode Date: February 20, 2017

Set sail on the H.M.S. Trivia! We're back with the sea's rich bounty of quizzes and facts: we got ghost sharks, sea movies, Dead Sea, and sea riddles. And move aside pumpkin spice, make way for sea salt caramel craze! From candles to protein bars, we trace the flavor's origin from ignition to popularity BOOM. Colin quizzes us about Sea Monkeys, Seabiscuit, and more "sea-words." And Chris explains how and just why the English breakfast ties into our marine-related topic. Also: We missed everyone!, Serena Williams title update Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Hello, bodacious bros, babes, and buds who bask in being bold and a bit of bizarre and beseeching brilliance. Welcome to Good Job Brain, your weekly, well, kind of quisho and off-beat trivia podcast. is episode 193. And of course, I'm your humble host, Karen, and behold, we are your belated and backloged boobers, but back for boosting brain waves. I'm Colin. I'm Dana. And I'm Chris. And today's show is brought to you by Penn State World Campus. Learn how Penn State World Campus can help you reach your educational goals by visiting worldcampus.psu.edu. We all like learning. Yeah. Penn State World Campus allows you to earn your

degree from nearly anywhere in the world through convenient, flexible, and online format offers 125 graduate and undergraduate degrees and certificates online. So, again, learn how Penn State World Campus can help you reach your educational goals, learning the things you want by visiting worldcampus.psu.edu. Hey, guys. Hi. Karen. Hello. Oh, my goodness.

Oh, that's Karen. That's Karen. He didn't recognize her with her big gray beard. Yeah, no. Like Rip Van Winkle. Let me feel your face so I can know you. Man, how's everybody? It's not bad.

We're doing good. We've had a lot going on. But we are back with a vengeance. Actually, no, we have no vengeance. We're just back to, yeah, just to be nerdy and share some fun. I mean, we've been hanging out. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Off podcast. Right. And that's typically whenever we post a picture of us hanging out, somebody's like, you can just turn on a recorder just put a liking to all that table You guys are all there right there in the same room I am excited to be back

because I found out a thing that I really wanted to share with it Maybe you know this But like And maybe you've heard of this before But I just found this out And I am blown away Especially because I feel like

This might come up on trivia someday The song It Must Have Been Love By Roxette But it's the one Appeared on the Pretty Woman Soundtrack how it was released.

Okay. Oh. That song was originally written as... It was a Christmas song. What? You will never believe this, unless you already know this. That song was originally written and released and was a modest hit in Europe in 1987. They're from Sweden, right?

They're from Sweden. And the song's original title was, it must have been love, parentheses, Christmas. for the broken-hearted And it was originally written by them because they want It was a sad Christmas song? Yeah, it was supposed to be like

an adult Christmas song or like an intelligent Christmas song And the original, the only lyric changes in the second verse she sings In the song that we know, she sings, and it's a hard winter's day And in the original version she sings And it's a hard Christmas day

Wow, you really don't have to change much. No. I thought you were going to say it was quite It must have been doves. It must have been dove beauty bars. Pertheses, Santa's Lament. So, yeah. So if anybody ever asks, and they might, it must have been love by Roxette was originally a Christmas song.

That is a really sad and not festive Christmas song. That's the idea, I guess. It's called Christmas for the Broken Hearted. You know what, good for them for repurposing their song and turning it into a hit, not having to be tied to a holiday. I like that. like a perennial thing, like... Released like 12 different versions and then substitute whatever the holiday. There's a summer jam version.

All of those Christmas songs every year they get played, the Mariah Carey song. I feel like it's my whole life. It hasn't been my whole life, but it feels like every year for... That's a darn good song. Yeah, it's a really good song. The crazy part, okay, yeah, so I felt on a rock set wiki hole after this, as, you know, as you do. Sure. She got brain cancer in the early 2000s.

Oh, the Leetinger? Yeah. But she beat brain cancer, and she still, they still go out on tour. I think they actually just stopped touring in, like, 2016. Oh, my God. Yeah. That's amazing. Yeah.

So here, I'm curious, since we haven't been back for a while. Uh-huh. Sure. You know, we still have the, we still have good job brain on the brain, right? So what are some of the recent wiki holes you fell into? I fell into Zelda Fitzgerald. Huh. Well, it was a whole Zelda thing.

It was like, the game. And then I read, you know, the synopsis for everything. every game. Then I read about, oh, it was Zelda's named after Zelda Fitzgerald? And I fell into that hole. Did you watch the Amazon show? No, but I then read the episode summaries for all of that show. You know, it's funny that you mentioned that. At first I was like, well, what have I? Oh, no, no. I've been reading a lot about recently about medieval fortress defenses, like castle defenses. Like, it's actually, I started off, you know what, it started off so innocently. I just, I was just researching the little arrow, the arrow firing slits that they cut in the castle walls.

What are they called? That's immaterial for the conversation. But, you know, I was just looking into those other types of fortifications in the walls, like built for specific weapons. And then from there, I just fell into another, all kinds of just catapults and crazy. The one that I love the most is the giant bows and arrows that are basically the guys would lay down on their back. Oh, yeah. And, like, you string it with your feet. and your hands and you fire it.

Whoa, man. It's good for core. It's good for core, yeah. It's like a roaming machine. It's true. It's true. Yeah. I was reading something about these shrimp that make little bubbles that pop and make a

spark of light when they pop. Pistol shrimp? Because somebody was like, oh, we don't know why this happens. But people do have a reason, like a theory why, but I don't know enough about science to be able to tell you what that reason was. Knowing nature, it's either related to getting food. defense, reproduction or defense, right? Oh, I don't mean the motivations.

I mean, how are they making bubbles? Oh, they don't even know how it. Like that. Oh, wow. There was, I just, I just saw a tweet from somebody that took a picture of their, like, biology textbook, and it's talking about the hypothalamus, and it's like, the hypothalamus is directly associated with, you know, major life survival functions, which are colloquially referred to as the four Fs fighting.

fleeing, feeding, and mating. I've heard that before. Fornication. Oh, sure. That would have been better. There you go. That would have been better. It kind of had like three S and one M.

You guys might be aware of this. We wrote a book and it is out for sale. And since we last graced the internet airwaves, we've been getting a lot of positive feedback from our fans and our listeners. So thank you to everybody who's been sending us some love. We really appreciate it. And you can find our book wherever fine books are sold. Yeah, I found one at Barnes & Noble's in McLean, Virginia.

I heard about this. In the store. Yeah. In the actual, you walk in, see it there on the shell. Only in the one in McLean, Virginia. Well, that was just so happens I was in that mall because I was in Virginia to visit my sister for the holidays. Oh, no.

Now I have to go to the bookstore. Yeah, yeah. So what you can do is you can go to like, you know, the online versions of physical bookstories. You can see if they have it in stock. And it's a game to see if you can find it. I'm going to stand next to it for a really long time. So what I did was I have propped it up.

Because, you know, you only see the spine. Sure, sure. Kind of made it like feature. She put a posted on it like, wow, what a great book. Yeah. Anyways, without further ado. Now that we're back, let's jump into our first general trivia segment, Pop Quiz, Hotchot. I hope I remember some trivia.

Yeah, man. Everybody have their Barnyard buzzers, and I have a random trivial pursuit card from our box. Actually, during the break, because I had to move to a new place to live. I called a lot of the Christmas stuff out of, like, the, because in our big giant trivia box, there was, like, a lot of, like, Christmas trivia. Yeah. So, yeah, you know, they kind of cleaned up some. So now the, the trivia box is maybe, like, eight pounds versus 13 pounds.

Okay. A lot of Christmas. Five pounds of Christmas cards. There's a lot of Christmas. Wow. You know you're serious in the trivia game when you measure your trivial pursuit cards and pounds. It's random from the box. All right.

What edition is it? Entertainment singles. Ooh. So, like, single people? I still don't know what that means. I think one-offs. I think it's all. All right.

Okay. There we go. Blue Wedge for TV. What 1970s TV series featured a weekly presentation of comedy playlets starring Big Hollywood names such as Phyllis Diller, Milton Burl, and Sonny and Cher? Big Hollywood. That was Dana. Laughing?

No. No. Colin. Love American style? Yes. I've never heard of this. Pink web. For music, what member of All-Girl Rap Group TLC died while filming an autobiographical documentary

in Honduras. Dana. Lisa, left-eye, Lopez. Correct. Or Lopes. Lopes. Lopes. Spelled Lopes.

Yellow Edge for movies, what, 1985, a Kira Kurosawa film was loosely based on Shakespeare's King Lear? Chris. 85? 85. Dreams? Incorrect. Colin.

Was that Ron? It was Ron. It was right. It was 85, huh? I only watched that in school and was kind of traumatized because it was a lot of blood. It was a lot of fake blood. Games, purple for games. Which game did Alexander Cartwright invent in 1845?

Ooh. So it's in entertainment. Entertainment. Game. Well, I mean, just a, you know, more game. 1845? 1845. Which game did Alexander Carr?

I feel like we must have talked about this person at some point, right? Maybe. Well, it's like, it's not monopoly. It's not like, it's not scrable. That's not a board game. Oh, it's not a board game. Is it like a puzzle? Okay.

Or it's a physical game. 1845, it's not. Oh, Chris. No. I was going to say basketball. No, that's James Maysmith. Yeah, it's not basketball. It's not baseball.

Soccer. Is it, is it a common? Yes. Yeah. Chris. American football? It is baseball. Baseball.

Oh, yeah. Okay. All right. I don't know who he is. Alexander Cartwright. Alexander Cartwright. That feels like a real trivia question we should have known to answer. Who invented baseball?

Well, I mean, look, I'm far from like Mr. Baseball, but I thought baseball had like was murky origins. I thought there were a lot of competing claims. Like proto-proto. To origin to baseball. Yeah. I don't know. I'm not going to stake my trivia reputation on that.

He had a ball with a stick. To investigate. Yeah. All right. Alexander. We all have some homework to do. I feel like we have not talked about that before. That's a good one.

All right. Green Wedge for B.O. Book. What Christopher Isherwood book is the basis for the musical Cabaret? Oh. I did not know. Bill Cohn. Yeah.

I mean, I know. I didn't even. I think I've just. seen the TV movie version of Taberade the novelization. Chris. Is it something to do with Sally Balls? No. It is goodbye to

Berlin. Goodbye to Berlin. Yeah, I should say, I've definitely heard that at some point in my life, but I wouldn't have been able to pull that. No, not even Punch Ball. It's like, oh yeah, okay. Last question, Orange Wedge for Wildcard. Where was the first Miss America pageant held in 1921?

We should all know this. Colin. Oh. Oh, I think Dana was first. Oh, sorry. Dana. Atlantic City? Yeah.

Nice to Monopoly. I was thinking, all right. Trick question. No, play it straight. That's also a good wiki hole. I have all, okay, now I'm like able to remember more Wikipedia pages I've read before. What, Monopoly? No.

Miss America. Oh. Fascinating. Oh, so here, I should have said this before we record when we play trivia. Yeah. So we have to remember the Monopoly Board. That comes up in trivia all the time. Like what color, what's three, you know, properties.

The other thing I remember in making a mental note is the color of pool. That comes up a lot. Billiards ball to number. Yeah, yeah. I know one in eight. The other one's a little fuzzy. The patterns are the same at least. You know, the one through seven is the same as nine through the, yeah.

Just remember next time we got it. And you hit the white ball. It's mnemonic. It's mnemonic that sucker. That's hard. I mean, I think we tried once. Anyways. Well, before we get started, Karen, and guys, I have a quiz-slash-news-related update for you.

On a recent episode of the show, I had a quiz called, I believe we're number two. Yes. It's about second-places. That's right. People places, things that are number two, second place. And I had a question on there of the players who hold the second spot in record for most Grand Slam singles titles by a women's tennis player. And at the time that I asked the question,

there were two women who held the number two spot, Serena Williams and Steffie Groff, second to Margaret Court. But Serena Williams, this past weekend, just won the Australian Open women's title. She is just incredible. She keeps on rolling. So she is now all alone in second place.

One title. That's right. So Steffie Groff is now in third on the list of most. Grand Slam singles titles. It's 24, 23, 22. Oh, my God. So she's got one more to go to tie.

For first. That's right. Or two to do true first. Two to be the true. She's already the leader in what they call the open era of tennis. But Margaret Court, you know, who played before the open era, where there were rules about professionals and amateurs. She's got one more.

But yeah, I will keep updating all of you, dear listeners. Now I feel obligated. That's a very trivia, like, superlative that you have to know. I think she'll do it. I think she will catch and then pass market court. Just like, I mean, now it's like the World Series. Now everybody has had recalibrated and be like, oh, yeah. Now who's the second, yeah, the second longest drought.

For real, yeah. Texas Rangers. Oh, good job. All right, this week. I have a question for you, Karen. Okay, already. Are you ready? Uh-huh.

For your riddle? Okay. Oh, it's a riddle. It's a riddle. It's a riddle for you, Karen. What is a pirate's favorite letter? R. Nay, you think it be the R, but tis the C!

I liked it. It's pretty clever. I was like, oh, yeah, he says R when he's kind of upset usually. Right, right, right. It's, oh, because it's not his favorite. Yeah, because his favorite is, yeah. R is when he's mad. Yes.

And that is today's topic. At sea, under the sea. Of pertaining to the sea. To the sea. That's right, Karen. This week we're setting sail on the HMS Trivia. It sings like the sweet, you're weak as the media, natural and meat.

Ivan they's sergeant and debate. If the urgent start to play We've got the spirit You've got to hear it Under the sea Each of to clammy in his pretend He's under the sea Each of the sun yet

Cutting the blood you're under the sea Each of a snail you know Every wheel in another sea La la la la la la And I will Start us off here on our sea voyage. I have a grab bag quiz for you guys called the C word.

And I, of course, means C, S-E-A. The name of those quizzes, the C-word. All of the questions or answers. All of the questions or answers in this quiz will be have the word C, somewhere in them. So that may be a hint. It may just be a convenient hook for me to write questions related to the sea. So get your buzzers ready.

All right. And here we go. Specifically, what kind of animal are sea monkeys? The novelty pet as advertised in the back of many comic books over the years, Chris, I believe, was first. They are brine shrimp. Correct. They are brine shrimp. And they are, I mean, I know we've talked about them in passing on the show before.

They're pretty cool. You have to admit that, like, an animal you can just dry out and they'll just sort of go into stasis and you reanimate them with water. No, the cartoon for it, like, built it up too far. Like, oh, there's like a king and a queen and they built a castle. No, like, they really set you up for disappointment. It is cool. They should have just been like, oh, you can reanimate these animals. They look like flies and water.

Yeah. I bought them. I definitely had them as a kid, and I was definitely disappointed when I got them. And I think after, like, maybe, maybe a day I was, like, done with them. I'm like, I don't care about these sea monkeys anymore. Even if you say that they're like, even as a kid, they're like, oh, it's brine shrimp. You're like, oh, cool, it's going to grow up to look like a shrimp, shrimp. And you're like, it's not going to fit in this tiny little plastic tank.

But I have also fell down that wiki hole about. about sea monkeys and how it's like some dude found out do you know what they were originally called before they before they come up with the sea monkeys name strip friends it was it was strip farm no it was they were called instant life oh yeah that's okay I like that better almost yeah I mean it's not quite as vivid a picture though you know what I would set you up for less disappointment it's true it's more true okay it's alive yeah but I thought they were going to be monkeys like I really did I really imagine like the snorks that they might like build their own little castles, like as shown in the ad, you know, this, yeah.

Feed them. They have a costume. Yeah. Extricent life is good. Play God. Yeah. Hold their tiny face in your mighty hands. Yeah.

Right. Right. I know you guys are not big horse racing fans, but you have surely, surely heard of the legendary champion race horse horse sea biscuit. Yes. You thrilled America during the Depression. What is a sea biscuit? What is a sea bistet?

What? I'll give you a little hint. It's a slang. It's a slang term. Sea bistead. It's clean for air. This is clean for air. Is it like a clam or an oyster or something?

No, no, no. But it's something that would be eaten out on the high seas. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not like hard tack or whatever the sailors. That is exactly what it is, Chris, yes. A sea biscuit. was, but your clue fouled up. I was like, oh, there's

no way of that. Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah. No, it was like sailor slang for like a chunk of hard tack, basically. You know, just this dry kind of. It's slang. It's what it is. Yeah. It's true. For the sea. It's a Bistit at sea. So C-Bistit's father,

his sire, I suppose, in horse breeding terms, his was named Hardtack. So it was kind of like a little joky joke with the breeder, you know. It's like, oh, hardtacks, you know, offspring is C-Bistion. That's kind of cute.

Yeah, I like that. Better than Elven Bread. It made me smile, much like Elven Bread. It's called Lembis. Oh, really? I don't think so. Oh, it is called it. You're right.

The Tolkien Bread. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry. Yeah. I'm actually. It's hard to, it's hard to distinguish parody of screen nerd versus the real thing. I mean, it was sincere. Yeah.

Yeah. There's a sincere nerdy moment. For 11 C's. What is the only European capital city below sea level? Oh. Karen with a yes. Capital? Yes.

Is it? Uh-huh. It is Amsterdam. Yes. Do they have dams to keep the water out? That city as well as many other parts of the country. Yes. The little Dutch boy.

with his finger. Yeah. Amsterdam, Netherlands is Amsterdam, capital of Netherlands, is seven feet or two meters below sea level proper. In fact, there are

only two world capitals below sea level. World capitals are state cap. World capitals, national capitals. I'll give you guys a hundred fantasy points here if you know the other one.

You might have come across the senior trivia travels At a At a staggering 92 feet below sea level It is Baku Azerbaijan

No Not in the punchable Yeah the only two World Capitals below sea level Yeah Baku and then Amsterdam Baku is like way below It's pretty substantial Yeah as I say

You know 92 feet It's the largest city below sea level as well It's its other claim to fame Yeah Baku is, I don't know, there's no mnemonic there, I guess that's either. Well, A, B.

Oh, okay, all right, there you go. If you were served Patagonian toothfish in a restaurant, you probably ordered it by what alternate marketing name? Karen. Chilean sea bass. That is correct.

Oh, that sounds a lot better. Yeah. It is the Patagonian toothfish. Oh, that makes it Patagonia. Yeah. And, you know, it is. is caught partially, at least in waters off of the coast of that part

of the world. I remember reading that Chilean sea bass isn't even bass. Yeah. Yeah. It's neither a bass nor Chilean. Nor is it from the sea. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's actually a land animal.

It's actually, yeah. But we like the name. Chilean Sea. Yeah. It's been a trade name since the late 70s. I guess when they were, the wholesaler who came up with the name also considered Pacific sea bass

And not exotic Yeah and South American sea bass Like you can see he's getting closer and closer No, Chilean sea bass Yeah marketing I guess also the Antarctic Toothfish also is legally allowed To be called Chilean sea bass

Toothfish is not a nice No thank you Well yeah because there's those The fish that have like human like teeth And they look scary Oh those are just freakish Yeah I don't like it Well, it looks like they have dentures.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The advertising mascot for this American household staple is a smiling blonde mermaid holding a golden scepter. Oh. Karen. What is? Chicken under the sea. So close.

I want to give it to you. But Dana. Is it Star Kiss? No. Because that's Charlie. Charlie. You just got the name slightly. Chicken of the sea.

Chicken of the sea. There you go. You got it. You say chicken under the sea? Chicken under the sea. That's close. Chicken under the sea was my prom theme. Yeah.

Yeah. Chicken of the sea tuna. Does the mermaid have a name? That's a good question. Not in the research that I found. I didn't, you know, I didn't fall into a wiki hole on the chicken of the sea mermaid. She's just their mermaid. She's a mermaid or she a meluicee?

No, she's a mermaid. Chicken of sea is older than I thought. Company's been around since 1914. Dealing that chicken of the sea I guess they really had to explain to people what tuna fish was Well, they said, apparently, apparently, honestly Part of their company story was that fishermen really said that albacour tuna was the chicken of the sea

Like they didn't come up with that Who knows, who knows that maybe lost the midst of time On average, this will be a closest to answer here So you guys can each give me your own answer if you want On average, what percent of seawater is salt. What's the salinity percentage? Oh, Chris knows. So we'll all go around here, yeah. And I will put on my poker face here.

And let's say here, we'll accept a precision of two-half a percent. That's as close as you need to get. Oh, wow. Yeah, well, two-half a percent. And maybe that gives you a clue. Yeah. Maybe it does. It's not 90 percent. 3.5. Chris says 3.5 percent. 2.5. Dana says 2.5 percent. Of water that has to be salt?

On average, what percent of seawater is salt? 10%. All right. I have a feeling that Chris may have been doing some research because he had it right on the nose. Three and a half percent, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. I looked it up. Yeah, no, I mean, I was looking, I didn't end up doing anything on this for the show, but I was looking at like, I was looking at the Dead Sea, actually, which the Dead Sea is not. the most they call it the hyper saline or hyper salinated lake it is not the saltiest like

landlocked body of water but it's close what is and um it's I forget the name of it it's some other lake somewhere else but like the but like the Dead Sea is salty so it's like a 15 something percent I might be getting that wrong but I do remember seeing 3.5 for the for the normal but like the Dead Sea like you you know, the, the waves come up on the shore over and over and over again, and it builds salt castles on the shore as the waves come in, and it builds like these mountains of salt and, and like balls, salt pebbles. Yeah, it's like a salt beach, like river pebbles.

And it washes those up made of salt. It's, yeah, it's nuts. It's neat. Yeah. I'm feeling salty right now. Yes. No frills, delivers. Get groceries.

to your door from No Frails with PC Express. Shop online and get $15 in PC optimum points on your first five orders. Shop now at nofrails.ca. During the break, we still read a lot of the crazy links and news that listeners and fans send us. And we got this a lot, which was late last year. There was announcement of the first ever video capturing the motion. of something called the ghost shark. I saw that and I thought of you, Karen.

The ghost shark. Yeah. And it is a kind of a really rare creature. It turns out, you know, there's a lot of things in the ocean and it's really hard to get video because this kind of happened by chance. Yeah. So this video was released at the end of 2016, even though the video was captured like a couple years before. Video of the elusive ghost shark. It was cool.

What's it look like? It looks like a, it kind of looks like a smooth Muppet. Yeah, it did. It had a very Muppet. Yeah, it had a very Muppet quality to it. Like, kind of bluish and, yeah. It's not like animal. Yeah, it looks like it has like a very slimy kind of skin texture.

It has beady eyes. Fun fact, though, the ghost shark is actually not technically a shark. It is a chimera. Oh. Which is also a cartilaginous. Cartilaginous fish. Like sharks, their skeleton is not bones. It's cartilage.

But they are not sharks. They're chimeras. And it's their own animal group, which is the chimera. This ghost shark kind of capture the tension of the internet. It's cool, but because it has a ding-dong on its head, has a retractable penis-like sexual organ on its head. It is. It's not just like a stock. No, no, it's a real ding-dong.

And the reason I know that it's a chimera. Because I worked, am working on a book about Shark Facts as well. Yeah. I've been busy with. And so that's why I'm like, it's a chimera. A lot of people, a lot of people knowing that I'm writing the shark book, like, it was like, oh, my God, a ghost shark. I was like, technically. Is it in your book?

It is. It is. Even though it's not a shark. And, oh, you know. The name, though. And the other thing I'm very, very excited about while working on the shark, I don't want to give any of the shark facts away. No. But one of the things I made sure to include, and we talked about this extensively on the show, is hacarl.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Not the hot carol. No, the hot carl. The fermented shark meat dish. From Iceland. Yes. And I'm making a trip to Iceland this year.

Yeah. Going to a hacarl factory. Oh, nice. You're going to have some. I don't know yet. It is described as the most disgusting thing in the world to eat. But it's not poisonous, right? No.

It just tastes like ammonia, right? Yeah, yeah. Do it. And you drink it with aquavit, I believe, is the... You know what? I haven't really... A lot of alcohols. Why Carl is not very favored by a lot of people.

Sure, sure. Very diplomatic. Yeah, it's because of the strong ammonia and urine smell of the shark flesh. So you want some rotten peepie shark? Yeah, rotten peepie shark. Are you doing a race there? Yes, I am doing.

I'm running the Reichvik Marathon. Oh, my goodness. That is why. So what's the name of your book? It's called Jossum Shark quizzes. I love the name. There's a lot of shark puns. Yep.

So get ready. There's a lot of shark puns. This book has a lot of bite. It won't bite. It will bite you. Take a bite out of it. She'll like it. Oh, I didn't.

I don't know. I don't know. I would like to talk about something very germane to this discussion, which is English breakfast. Wow. Or the full breakfast, as it is known if you are in England. Or possibly Irish breakfast, as it is known as you if you're in some parts of the guy. English breakfast. We've had English breakfast.

It's the whole ridiculous. You go to a pub and you get eggs, bacon, beans, sausage. Right. Like a half a tomato and then maybe some other things, but those are kind of the main... How is this related to C? Interesting, Karen. So, of course, you also have, you have Irish breakfast, as I said, are Scottish breakfast, different regional variations on the same theme of the heart attack on a plate. But there is also Welsh breakfast.

I was just going to ask you about Welsh breakfast. There is Welsh breakfast from Wales. Wait, Colin, did you know about it before? No, it was just the only one that he didn't enumerate. He's like Irish breakfast, got it. I'm like, well, what about Welsh breakfast? And Wales has many things in rich supply. The letter L.

Yes. Yep. Cockles or clams are often a part of Welsh breakfast. Are we there? And there's also something called laver bread. Huh. L-A-V-E-R, lava bread. Lover bread.

But they don't say the R because of the United Kingdom. So you're like lava bread. And then, in fact, sometimes it is cute. cootely referred to as lava bread. And it is bread made of lava. And lava, as you would know, if you lived in that area, is seaweed. Wait, you can make bread out of seaweed? Is it pure seed?

After a fact. Okay. After a fashion. Seweed is algae, right? Okay, yes. Like photosynthetic plant life that's in the sea. In the water. Right, in the water.

This comes from the Latin word alga, which means seaweed. Ah, okay. Seweed. Seweed is not one thing. Seweed is a big, big, broad term encompassing about 10,000 different species of plant life. For purposes of this discussion, which is seaweed cuisine, seaweed that is consumed as food, we are often, not always, but often talking about a group of like a hundred-ish species called porphyra. That's the, I believe, the genus that we're generally discussing. Seasweeds from that group are called laver in Wales.

They're called Nori in Japan. Same group. Okay. Okay. So, lava bread is, so you take the seaweed, you wash the ever-loving heck out of it because it has got all kinds of sand in there. It's gross. You wash it, wash it, wash it, wash it.

What does it look like? This seaweed is, this is the stuff that when the tide goes out, you see it on all the rocks. Oh, okay. That's this, the laver seaweed or the porphyra family, yeah. It's, I think it's porphyra umbilica. And the umbilica is there's like, there's one little cord by which it attaches to the rock. And there's one point at which it's attached. And so that's where, that's where it thrives, right?

And that stuff is norie, and that is also lava in Wales. Seaweed's got sand all over it. You take it, you wash the heck out of it. You break it into tiny pieces and you boil it for a long time. Boil it and boil it and boil it. And then you mash it into a whole paste with like, you know, butter, salt and the things that taste good. Maybe, and in fact, in Wales they mix oatmeal in with it. Okay.

Then you have two options. And both of these are called lava bread. You can take that paste and they sell the paste in a tin in the stores. And it says laver bread on it. You open it up and it's just a black seaweed paste. And you can spread it on bread and eat it. Oh. You can also take it or like fry it.

first in bacon fat to cook the seaweed and fry it up and then then eat it. Or you can take sort of a fistful of this paste and like coat it like you know bread it with oats on all around and then fry that so it's crispy on the

outside and chewy seaweed on the inside so it's not technically like baked bread. It's like a like a pancake like a pancake and you can eat that so you can spread it or you can fry it up as a patty by itself and that you will always find that with Welsh breakfast. Oh, that's like an original veggie burger. I want to go

track down like a Welsh restaurant in San Francisco and see if we can get some authentic lumber bread. Interesting if we could actually have that. So similar but different in Japan and I have to confess prior to today how ignorant I was about this. Because of course, you know, Nouri in Japan, it's like these dry sheets of seaweed. And they, when they make sushi, sometimes, they wrap it all in a sheet of Nori. That's what it's the idea. So I'm a huge idiot because I just thought that Norti was like a piece of seaweed that they pulled out of the sea and then let it dry. Wait, really?

Yeah. And then that's not what it is. No, in no way. Is that what it is. So it used to be like the lava bread paste in Japan up until about the 18th century. They made a paste out of it. They probably put soy sauce in it. But this is really interesting.

The way they make Norei is exactly. exactly the way that they make paper. Yeah. And when, once they develop paper making techniques, they went, you know what else we could spread thin now? You could make seaweed paper and eat it. And still they did. And that's exactly what they did. And so it's they use, I mean, obviously there's like factories that can do this now, but like the traditional way of doing it, which some people still do is you, you do everything, you boil it, you know, you mash it up into a paste.

And then you, like you're making paper. wire screen with a, yeah, like a screen door kind of screen, and then shake it around in the water, make a little sheet of it, and then you put it on a bamboo mat, you stick it up, and you dry it in the sun, and then you have your nori sheets, and then you roast them, because the sheets are black at first, and they're uncooked. And so you roast them for a couple of seconds, they turn green, and that's, and that's how you get it. Oh, yeah. So thanks to the papermaking technique. Right. The naughty sheets followed from paper making. Makes sense.

We should have a dinner party of like sheet foods. Ooh, sheet foods, right, right. Fruit roll-ups. Yeah, fruit roll-ups. Sheet foods, yeah. What was it? There's microsurfs, right, where they've got the flat foods, where it's got the foods that can be passed under the door.

Yeah, yeah, fruit roll-ups and things like, yeah. So a few more things. If you have miso soup at a Japanese restaurant and there is bits of seaweed in it You probably have this at some point That is not Noree That is probably a different species called Wakame

So that's a different plant It's not shredded nori or it's not It's not shredded It's actually just cut up But it's this is the seaweed That's actually good to eat You know like Slimy as it is

Yeah yeah yeah There's also Kelp which is a different species of seaweed and that's that's known in Japan as kombu oh okay uh and that's really yeah yeah it's for soups and you you would boil it in a dashi broth right the miso soup broth probably had some kombu like boiled in it but you wouldn't eat you wouldn't eat it you boil it for the flavor now I saw that and I'm like huh is that where kombu cha comes from because cha is tea and I'm like oh there is in in Japan there's something called kombu chaa

which is cha or tea made from kombu or kelp but that is not what we know of in the U.S. as kombucha which is the fermented yeast beverage totally different and in fact confuses Japanese people when they go over here I bet they see oh kombucha yeah Japanese right yeah yeah there's a big push to get people to eat more seaweed because for example one sheet of nori has 70% of daily value for iodine, which is really good, and it's not, a lot of people get their iodine from iodized salt, but we actually don't eat iodized salt as much anymore in America because people are shifting to, like, kosher salt and sea salt and stuff like that. Oh. Right. It also has 10% of your daily value for vitamin C.

It's a lot of vitamin C in one sheet of seaweed. And easily harvested. Yeah. And also potassium, vitamin A, and magnesium. But mostly you're getting a lot of iodine. And you're getting a lot of vitamin C. Okay. I have a quiz for you guys.

Okay. It is a movie quiz. Yay! All right. Yeah. So the answers to all of these questions are movie titles that have the word C in them somewhere. S-E-A. All right.

I'll save the one where it's hidden for the end. Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. It's not even hidden in a crazy way. I saw some ways to do it in like the meanest way where it's like, it's like, it's, like, That's what I want.

I know. I know. It's what you would have been brutal because you had to like really search for it. Okay, I'll give you a brief description or a hint about the, about the film, and then you buzz in and tell me what it is. All right. Kicking it off with kind of a current film. This film is currently nominated for six Oscars, including Best Picture. Oh, oh, oh, oh, Colin. It must be Manchester by the Sea.

Manchester by the Sea. This is a 2015 film written, directed by, and starring Angelina Jolie. Karen. Also, Brad Pitt's in it. Oh, I thought it was called salt, but I guess I'm wrong. That was an Angelina Jolie movie. It wasn't in 2015. That was not, yeah.

This was the one where they're like the disaffected married couple, right? Oh, geez. Can they just hang out? Yeah. I never, I don't remember. They're like on vacation. She wrote it, directed. Start?

I'm going to kick in myself when I hear it. And it has the word C in the title. By the sea. Yes. All right. The punch bowl. It was. All right.

This is also a 2015 film and it's about the sinking of a whaling ship called the Essex. And this, that story is what inspired. the novel Moby Dick. Oh, yeah. It was with one of the Hemsworths. Oh. Oh, yeah. Come on, Karen.

We can do this together. I gave you the Hemsworth. It's Thor. It's in it. Whichever one is. Yeah, Chris Hemsworth. Oh, man. Yeah.

It's like vintagey. The word C is very, very just nautical. Don't know. It's called in the heart of the sea. In the heart of the sea. Okay, I can picture the commercial for it. it vaguely. Oh, okay. So this is like the event that inspired Moby Dick.

Mm-hmm. Okay. The sinking of the whaling ship, Essex. So this is a 1999 science fiction horror film, and it's about a genetically modified super smart shark, Karen. What is it? Deep Blue Sea. Yes. I didn't even know it was in your book, but starring.

Starring. Starring, Samuel L. Jackson. Saffron Burroughs. And the Punisher, Thomas Jane. Can't to ask Karen any questions about anything that were all for on Sharper. And fun fact, we learned this. We learned this. No, no, we learned this a couple years ago.

It was Day of his birthday. We went on a tour to a distillery in Alameda, California, called St. George. They make hangar one, vodka. and the absinth. Yeah. That was one of the most fun birthdays I've been there. That was a fun being. So in that hangar, it used to be a film's props, like special effects crew that occupied the hangar.

And they worked on Deep Blue Sea. So in the hangar, in the distillery, they had a robot fake giant shark. Well, I don't even remember this. I forgot. Yeah. Well, we were drinking up. Yeah. They drank that day.

Yeah. The Deep Blue Sea shark that ate Samuel Jackson, spoiler. Oh, thanks. Yeah. Tia Leone was in that movie, I believe. That sounds about right for, what, 99, you said, right? 99, yeah, yeah, that sounds like Taya Leone, yeah. All right.

Going back 55 years, 1954, this film was adapted from Jules Verne novel of the same name, and it was produced by Walt Disney. Walt Disney himself produced it. Oh. Chris. 20,000 leads under the scene. Yes, yes, it was. Contrary to Coma Conception, you know, it's not, this is serious, it's not referring to being, you are not at a depth of 20,000 leagues under the sea.

You are traveling for a distance of 20,000 leagues while under the sea. You know, he maybe could have clarified that in a better way. Yeah. Yeah. More pronouns. It would have, it would have been real clear. 20,000 leagues while under the sea. Eight thousand leagues.

It rolls off the time. Four years later, 1958, this film was adapted from a Pulitzer Prize-winning novella. Oh, 1958. Pulitzer Prize winning. Oh, the old man in the sea. Old man in the sea. Ernest Hemingway.

I thought if I told you Ernest Hemingway, it would be too. Yeah, no, that was good. That was good. All right. And then as promised, this is the title. Hiddenish It's not about an ocean This is a 2011 movie starring Nicholas Cage

It's about the Black Plague Ostensibly somewhat Oh man I stop following Nick Cage's Movies after The Wicker Man Or no, Ghost Writer Ghost Rider was probably the last movie About the Black Plague, huh? And I'll say

There's supernatural elements to it A little magic a little occult. Oh, Karen? No. He was in Sorcerer's Apprentice. Oh, I was thinking the same thing.

You're like in the ballpark-ish. Something with seal, maybe like a seal. See, I thought maybe like sleepless in Seattle or something. No. No. I don't know. I'm not up on our nickel stage. What is it? Yeah.

Season of the witch. Oh, okay. There's a vague tingling sensation of the back of my skull. Oh, that's true. Then you can use a lot of seasons, too. Yeah. Oh, it's the bees. It's not the bees.

Peace. Cool. Good job, you guys. Thank you. That's good. That's good. All right. Let's take a quick break and a word from our sponsor.

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wow these are all very good give me more give me these are pretty good it's not the answer the Harry Potter Whiskerpedia It is a catalogue Oh yeah

Okay All right But those are all Where does the cat order his toys He's like, yeah, yeah. His J. Crew. Yeah, where did the kid in order his balls of yours?

The catalog. Like, what kind of person just reads the catalog? Yeah. That's true. You need a, like, a call to action. Okay, this is from David S from Newburgh Heights, Ohio also. Where do very smart hot dogs end up? Oh, we're do very smart hot dogs end up.

The Wieners Circle. Oh, that's good. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. Oh, really? Wiener's Circle, man. The Frank Furchin 500. Oh, yeah.

They cut the mustard. Frankfurt University. They're number bun. Very smart. Very smart. I like this. Wait, what is it? Where do they?

Where do very smart hot dogs end up? They become soft sages. Oh, yeah. Sausages. The answer, not bad, is on honor rolls. Okay. That's good. That's not bad.

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I like how me and Chris We always end up talking about food Whatever it is I want to talk about Slash animals Slash animals Yeah, slash animal animal reproduction I want to talk about something

That now is so Pervasive And it is Patagonian toothfish It is sea salt caramel Oh yeah Oh yeah And a couple episodes ago

Chris you taught about pumpkin spice latte or the pumpkin spice flavor explosion and craze and now we're in a sea salt caramel craze however the difference is Starbucks did invent the pumpkin spice latte like you know they actually invented a drink um and the sea salt caramel has a fascinating history of how it like became the flavor now and it's through years and years and years and through history it's crazy So just as a quick kind of search on Safeway and on Target online, here are some of the things that are sea salt caramel flavor. Okay. Fiber one bars.

Okay. Safeway ice cream, Walmart truffles. So it is, now we're at mass consumption. Yeah, candles, lotion. It's everywhere now. And before talking about the origin, let's just talk about how it exploded. And this is fascinating because there's an article in New York Times about Center for Culinary Development. And this place is right here in San Francisco.

And what they do is they analyze flavor trends. Food trends. Yes. I like it. I like it. And so they have, they use what you call a five-part trend map to kind of map the boom of a flavor. And so these are the five stages. So stage one is.

Very, very specialized. Usually these flavors. And we've seen this with other things like wasabi, Asiago cheese. Also, they all start from very, very either ethnic food markets in a market, not in store, but as in like the landscape or very, very fine dining specific places that not a lot of people know. So that's stage one. So stage one of sea salt caramel comes from France.

Kind of a traditional thing. But recently what made stage one boom was Pierre Urme, who was a Parisian pastry chef. He made the French macaroons, and he made a salted caramel flavor. And that kind of started being written up, and there was like a little bit of a gourmet following. What year was that? This is in the 90s. Wow. Okay.

It takes a while. Yeah, seesaw caramel has an older origin, which I will get to. But I'm talking about in terms of like the boom. And there was also, I mean, right, a broad boom of these sweet and salty, just in general. Yes. And I'll get to that. Oh, all right. And so in the 90s, then, a lot of the pastry chefs and chocolatiers kind of started using this way.

But that's still, we're at the high end kind of hard to reach market. Right. That's stage one. And we talked about this, how this is the cycle that these flavors and foods go through. Like, I think we talked about jello molds on a previous show, talking about how, like, it used to be an, an aspect. Spick, you know, like getting served a jello mold at your table was like the finest of fine dining. So stage two demonstrated by the flavor or the food item, this case the sea salt caramel, into high-end food shows and awards and magazine, high-end. So in 2000s, Gourmet Magazine published a recipe for C-Salt caramel.

It showed up in specialty food trade shows. The fancy food show. Then stage three, that's still in the specialty area. Then stage three, it trickles, it becomes a little bit more available. So now more specialized store, but you can find them more often like Williams and Sonoma. New York Times listed cheesecake factory. That's like, it's chain, but it's still more, a little bit more exotic or inventive. And so they start serving C salt caramel flavor.

Stage four, this is the key stage. Of the boom. So then it's an appearance into a mainstream women's magazine or a larger chain restaurant. Interesting. Specifically calling out Starbucks. Starbucks is a high stage four. So by this point, Starbucks released the C-Selt caramel latte. And then stage five is now you can buy it at Walmart at Safeway at every store.

It might be used to have to go to William Sonoma to buy it. But now it's like a store brand ice cream has a flavor. It becomes a flavor variety of other things. So it's a five-stage thing. I don't know if you guys ever watch Devil Wears Prada. There is that really awesome scene where they talk about the color blue of the sweater she's wearing. It's like a whole kind of a rant on that. And it's the same thing.

It's like that started with this fashion designer or this fashion show. And it trickles down. She's like, I know exactly what your sweater is. And you're right, Colin, the sea salt caramel is also kind of characterized by the parallel rise of high-end salt. Yeah. Yeah. The Himalayan salts and the pink. Yeah.

The pink Himalayan or like harvested from the coast of England, this specialized salt became kind of big and becoming a gourmet thing. And then also salt on chocolate. That was also big. Which is delicious. Yeah. And it is, it all kind of converges. Now, where did it come from? Like, we know how it got popularized, but where did it come from?

Who invented it? And actually, it's a pretty recent, quote, invention. And this trace back to the 1970s. Oh. Yes, there is a chocolatier. Henri LaRue studied in Switzerland, and then he moved to Brittany, France. The region in France. Brittany, it's a northwest kind of peninsula-y, you know, very close.

to England. He opened up a Chocolatier shop and he was trying to find out like a product like maybe a sweet that differentiates from all the other sweet shops in that area. And so he was just like, well, I'm in Brittany. Brittany is famous for their

salted butter. So why not highlight that local ingredient? Wow, that's good. Yeah, that's a natural fit. Yeah. So this is in the 70s and after testing Henri Leroux made Caramel Obert Salé, Salted Butter Caramel.

Of course, because caramel itself, it has a lot of butter in it. So he's using the salted butter, making the caramel with the salted butter. And he won awards for this tree. And so this is, we're pinpointing that this is a person that, you know, we actually have documentation that invented this item. Now, let's travel back in time even more. Why is there so much salted butter in Brittany? Why is a big deal in Brittany?

And this is crazy. This dates back to the 1,200s. Louis 9th established a salt tax or a salt duty so they can control salt. This lasted until like the 1940s. Whoa, the salt tax. The salt tax, the Gabel, the Gabel salt tax. However, for the salt tax, different regions of France got taxed different ways. got taxed different ways.

So you're more metropolitan cities like Paris or, you know, areas got tax a lot more. But there were some areas that were exempt from salt tax, including Brittany. So this whole time, Brittany did not have to pay salt. So they're just like rubbing everybody else's face in it. And they had their own, a lot of sea salt. They're like, I can just go to the beach at night. Like, you're never going to know. Yeah.

So because they're off the coast of the, Atlantic and they had a readily available amount of salt and so Brittany became famous for their salt and hence salted water. Showing off. Yeah, it is. Kind of just show it off.

We, you know, salt. Yeah. So I'm going to sit down for a delightful glass of salted wine. It goes back to Louis the Ninth for trying to make some extra money to have more. Making some extra money. To have for France's wars.

And this royal control over salt Yep. Easier way to consistently get money from people. It's interesting, people did not, and because of the tax, people didn't consume that much salt. Right. They're just like, well, we'll do without. Yeah. I'm glad you didn't say that the origin story was like the saltwater taffy supposed origin.

Oh, the ocean swept all this salt into my caramel. And it's, what a taste treat I've discovered. This actually has salt. I like this. Yeah. This is more salt water taffy than saltwater taffey. It is. This is honest.

This is what I wish salt water tapy was. Totally. But yeah, so that is from 1229 to 2017, from the salt tax to fiber one, sea salt caramel flavored bars. That's where we are. I just want to know who was the first person who dipped a French fry into their chocolate milkshake at McDonald's because that person is genius. I wonder what the next food trend's going to be. Like you were like, oh, the next one's in the pipeline. I remember, I think I got sea salt.

Caramel at tier two because we were in San Francisco. It was like early 2000s. It's a little bit hard for us because we're a little bit weirder. Like we'll eat lots of stuff. Trends also just come and go so quickly here too. We might be churning through a bunch of stage twos and threes without even knowing it. Jackfruit. Jackfruit is becoming big because it's now used.

I mean, like I've talked about jackfruit on the show before about like the crazy sticky glue. Yeah, you and your mom are trying to hack one together, hack. Hack one apart. Now they use like unriped jackfruit for fake meat because it kind of is stringy. Yeah. So like barbecue places in San Francisco. Now they're they're vegan instead of like a tofu or something synthetic.

It is just unripe jackfruit. Ooh, that might be a stringing. Yeah. You know, Saracha was one like that we had like a long time ago. Like in college. Yeah. So I, you know, I had a really good time doing those laughy taffies with you guys. So I decided to go on the internet and collect a whole bunch of stupid sea riddles.

Yeah. That's how you started the show. It is how I started the show. And it's the middle of the show. And it's how we're going to end the show. So I've got one last sea-related thing for us, which is a bunch of those laughy-taffy-type riddles. But they're all about the sea and fish and whales and sharks. Putting our heads together.

I think you guys are putting your heads together to A and try to come up with. better answers than the real answer, but then ultimately try to figure out the quote unquote real answer. I mean, who's to say? Online and a variety of different sea-related web portals. All right. We'll start. I mean, I've tried to

start easy and go hard, so we'll see how it goes. Okay. Yeah. All right. Where does seaweed look for a job? Where does seaweed look? Karen. The kelp desk? No. The kelp wanted?

Yes. in the Help Wanted section. I was close. Yeah, yeah, basically. All right. Why is it so easy to weigh a fish? Colin. Because it has its own scales.

Because it has its own scales. It's covered in scales. It's something, something scales. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's actually a lot of riddles, the answer to which is, because it has scales. Why are fish so musical? Oh, I'm not going to pay it. Okay.

What do you get if you cross the scale? a fish with an elephant. Trunk. Fish. Oh, swimming trunks. That's it. Swimming trunks. Good job.

Teamwork. Yeah, yeah. Teamwork. Trunks. What can make an octopus laugh? Eight. What can make a octopus something. Tenticoled.

Oh. Being tentacled. Tenticled. Tenticled. Tenticled. Tenticled. Tenticles? Yeah, that's it.

Wow. Ten tickles. Ten tickles. Oh, ten tickles. Ten tickles. Okay. That's slightly more clever. Yeah.

Right, right. Okay. Eight tickles. All right. Why didn't the pair of oysters share their pearls? Why didn't the tear of oysters? Oh, they clammed up. Because they're shellfish.

So you're close. I want you to really listen. Selfish. Why didn't the pair of oysters share their pearls? Something like two shellfish. Two shellfish. Two shellfish. Okay.

We're pretty good. Yeah. We're at least our smartest children. Okay. Now we're trending into the bad jokes, which may have better. Okay. How do you catch a school. of fish

test net bus net catch trap pop quiz trap quiz

interesting school bus it got to be something with net or hook when they're playing hookie oh that's not bad playing hookie

get them when they're playing hookie catch them when they're playing hooky that doesn't really connect Because hook is for one fish, not a group. But neither does the real answer either. Anything you come up with might actually better. Homeroom, I don't know. What is it?

I'll tell you the ridiculous answer that I found it is. How do you catch a school of fish? With a book worm. Oh. It's like one as well. It's not going to, yeah. That's not bad. It's okay.

It's not great. It's not great. You catch with a worm, you catch one fish. You don't catch a whole. Yeah, it shows it with book worm. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right, with bookworms. Yes, it's good editing on that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe this is in Karen's book. It should be in Karen's book. I don't know. Hey, hey, why did the shark spit out the clown? He tasted fun. Because he tasted funny. Arf, arf, arf, arf, arf.

Like that, like, I mean, just as an aside, like, that could be why did the lion alligator, like, anything, spit out the clown. Absolutely, right, yeah, so, you know. But then it would. No, it wouldn't. It's true. I'm sorry. I mean to pull back the curtain here on the humor. What does Cinderella wear when she goes swimming? Golden, or the glass flipper? Glass flippers. Got it in the lawn. Yeah. Flippers. Finally, finally. Why did the cantalope jump into the sea? Is it melancholy? Because he was... Oh, that's good.

Oh, because he wanted to be a watermelon. That's good. And that is it. It was the show. But Karen, that doesn't make sense. No, I know. I think that's wonderful because it was melancholy. That's good.

Yeah. It's fantastic. Yeah. It's dark thing. It's dire. Yeah. Yep. And that's our show.

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