Good Job, Brain! - 195: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #39

Episode Date: March 24, 2017

Soak and soothe your brain in our hot tub of quizzes and trivia! (And on a related note, find out why we may never go into a hut tub or public pool ever.) Revel in nostalgia as we try to answer (and draw) Dana's newspaper comics challenge. Say yes to rocking that denim-on-denim look in Colin's national phrase quiz. Chris belly flops into failed rock albums, and Karen's got an easy music round but with a very difficult theme. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Hello, animals, anxiously anticipating android anecdotes and antics. This is good job, Brain, your weekly quiz show and off-be trivia podcast. Today's show is episode 195, and of course, I'm your humble host, Karen, and we are your quad of caesadia quaffing questioners quacking about quills and courts. I'm quallin. I'm Dana.

And I'm Chris. We have an awesome update. Layed on us. Previous episode. So listener on Twitter, Sarah Kay Stevenson tweeted at us, she found out, so in our C-related episode. One of the questions, Colin, you asked, was about chicken of the sea. Chicken of the sea.

Yes, yes. And how the mascot for chicken in the sea was a mermaid. And I remember we were talking about if the mermaid had a name. Mermaid has a name. Of course she does. What is it? Listener, Sarah found out. What is it?

Catalina. Oh, that's a nice name. Yeah. That's a good one. That's a good mermaid name. Yeah. That would come up in. sub-trivia finals.

Yeah. And then you'd lose because you wouldn't know. You're like, who knows this? Yeah. Yeah, nobody knows, but now we know. Now we do. Now we know. Thank you.

Well, I have a news item here for you guys in the headlines. You probably saw that. Speaking of water-related news and updates. Okay. Let me ask you guys a question now. Be honest. Okay. And I'll even go first.

I like how you're insinuating. We usually lie. We're withholding. We're withholding information. Have you at an age when you should know better ever peed in the swimming pool? You're kidding me. Wow, we're on the same wavelength. Yeah, you said shower.

Shower. I have peed in the swimming pool at an age when I should know better. I will go first and say, yes, I have. Sure. I harshly judge people who pee in the swimming pool because we're all swimming there. I was hanging, I was at a swimming pool once with this girl. I just met in the swimming pool. I was like 13.

And she was like, oh, hang on. out. I have to go to the bathroom. I was like, okay. And then she got up, got out of the pool, walked to the other side of the pool, got back in. And then I was like, oh, I don't think this is going to be one of my friends. I don't know. It's not me. It's actually you. She went into the little kid area. It just occurred to me that that's the side of the look. Yeah. That's no good. We, I mean, if she was going to get out of the pool, why does she go to the bathroom? You're already out. She was doing the courtesy, Dana, you know, at least of moving it.

She didn't pee next to me. Yeah. Wait a minute. Hold that thought. I got to pee. And then she just stands there. You're like, is it warmer here? Yeah, no. Just. I, you know, I don't. You're not really sure when. You know, I didn't really grow up with swimming pool access. So I. You can plead the fifth. All right. Karen, don't remember. Chris pleading the fifth.

I think so. No, that's not a thing I do. All right, okay. Dana, a principal stand. I try to be a good citizen. You are a good citizen. Well, also, they scare you with stories like if you pee, it's going to change the color of the water. Then everybody's going to know that you pee pee.

They put a dye. They put a dye in the water, so it changes that it doesn't happen. We told the kids that when I was a camp counselor. We had every, oh, absolutely. It's our only defense. It's the only defense is telling the kids that a bright red cloud would appear around them if they peed in the pool. The hints of public shaming. Right, right. Well, guys, so the news item, to bring it back to the news, researchers at the University of Alberta have done a test to determine how much urine, on average, is in an average public swimming pool.

Turns out they should be measuring how much water is in this movement. Yeah, right, exactly. Well, so first of all, let me give you the science behind this. It's like, you know, we're ostensibly a knowledge and learning-oriented show here. So the researchers, their technique was really interesting. They decided to track how much urine is in the pool. They would trace a specific, very common artificial sweetener called ACE or asosulfame K, or asosulfame potassium. And the reason they chose this is because it's a very common artificial sweetener, and it doesn't get broken down. by the human body. It passes completely unchanged into our urine stream. It's easy to detect

and is not, you know, doesn't overlap with any commonly used pool chemical. What if someone spills a drink filled with that in a pool? You know, I mean, it's possible that the occasional can of Diet Coke or whatever is throwing these results off. They found that on average, they tested two swimming pools. Oh, okay. Small sample size. Well, okay, you know, you got to start somewhere, there was a 110,000 gallon pool and a 220,000 gallon pool. There were eight gallons of urine in the smaller pool, 20 gallons of urine on average in the larger pool. What percentage of that? What this equates to is that over 400 people probably peed in that first pool and over a thousand people probably peed in the second pool. Swimming in a toilet. Over how long of a

period. This was over a period of three weeks. You dirty monkeys. Oh, my goodness. But is, are we counting unique, unique peeing's though? Now, I mean, this is a very, this was an anonymized pee study, let's say, you know, they, they're just analyzing on average the results. They don't, they didn't identify any individual peers. They weren't there to like single anybody out. Because if you're, if I'm counting a gallon of pee from one day and I'm counting again next day, that gown piece still there. You know what I mean? It's not new pee.

It's not a unique peed. There were 400 peeing's in that pool over the court. They also sampled a lot of hot tubs and smaller pools. And again, they would sample, they did multiple samples, Karen, to account for it being cleaned out. I mean, this was over a course of a number of days, right. They found the ace, the sweetener, in 100% of the samples they took. Every pool, every hot tub, every public swimming area they took, had some in there. Hot tubs, though.

Yes. They said that they found higher concentrations in the hot tubs, which seems worse. I mean, it's a smaller area. It's so small. Maybe people think that it's hot already. No one's going to notice. Exactly. What's creepy about the hot tub, though, is like, those are mostly adults.

Like, I, the swimming pool in my mind, I'm like, oh, it's kids doing this. But in a hot tub, I'm like, these are like 40, 50-year-old people peeing. Where is this? Where was, where were these pools? This was all across Canada. This was all across Canada. Oh, okay. Well, that's fine.

We'd go to Canada. Yeah. Well, no, I mean, I should say, yeah, you know, this is just the average concentration in, you know, Canadians. That's right. Right. Well, yeah, it's in Canadian pee. Yeah. There's inflation.

So you've got to change, you got to change the math around. Yeah, right. According to one survey, uh, nearly 20% of, of adults have said that they have peed in swimming pool at least once. Oh, that's kind of equal to us. So that's lower, that's lower than I would have guessed. Yeah. So Dana is our solid, in the majority, our solid citizen. So, you know, and I mean, a lot of people think that like, oh, well, you know, peeing the pool is okay because it's sterile. And it's true. Urine is sterile, but it breaks down into other compounds that are not good

and can, you know, ear can cause. Also, it's pee. It's long, long term harmful effects. When you're peering yourself, you do smell like urine. It's still, I mean, you know, not to put a taboo stuff on pee, because, like, you go swimming in the beach, that's like, we're swimming in the ocean, that's filled with other. That's true. That's true. Yeah. You know what I mean? I guess some people do put their head under the water in the ocean, like really go swimming.

Yeah, but it's like touching your pores and stuff, you know what I mean? And you just kind of prepare, you like, you know, or you go scuba diving, you're breathing in. That's true. You know, not breathing. We're not that fragile. It's not like swimming in like a port of. potty thing or something. Yeah.

See, I feel like an ocean sample of germs and stuff is higher than, say, a public pool filled with chlorine and pee. Interesting. Germs. I don't know. I mean, salt water, though, the saline is pretty... There's a lot of stuff living in that, though. Did I tell you guys, a dolphin pooped on me?

What? No. Yeah. Today at work? Guys, I had the worst day at work today. I hung out. I did, like, a, like a, you know, dolphin encounter. conservation thing at I think

at Epcot. And yeah, I got to pose with the dolphin and you pet them. And then they flip back and you're like oh, so cute. And it just pooped on me. Yeah. Pooped and peed on me. So I was like So you had the VIP

packet. So I was like, that's cool. I was like, well, now I'm in the small minority of people who got pooped on by a dolphin. You've been marked. So I was like, You're a friend for life Yeah Bonding

She claimed to You can get back in after hours If you just show what they pooped on you It's cool our friends So when you put it that way Well you know What's that's nothing So let's 20 gallons of

Canadian pee Yeah Anyways moral of the story is Don't pee in the pool Please get out of the pool Please get out of the pool I have to go to the bathroom Will you excuse me

Okay, sure Yeah Interesting Ah, I'm done Oh my face first Oh, I'm crying Okay Anyways

Uh Uh Time for our first General Trivia segment Thank goodness Pop quiz Hot shot

Oh go to the bathroom, walks over and poops in the bug net. I feel great. I'll be right back. So here I have, ooh, I have a bunch of random

Trivial Pursuit cards ranging from different versions of the game, Trivial Pursuit. And you guys have your barnyard buzzers, and we're going to pick a card random. Let me tell you some of the categories.

Okay, all right. Versions. Okay, all right. Silver screen. Oh, always a, always a favorite. Yeah.

Is it old? Is it old? Is it old? Right, right. No. Silver hair screen. What is this? Baby boomer.

No. Genus 4 and, oh, 1995. That's pretty good. Normal trivia pursuit. All right. 95. Come on.

Please not 95. What? This version of Windows. Oh, no. Oh, no. Yeah. On every card. Yeah, it's escaping.

Yeah, use the Rolling Stones. It's pretty pivotal. Yeah. All right. Okay. Colin, left hand, right hand. Right hand. Okay.

Dana, left hand, right hand. Left hand. Left hand. Ooh, genus four. Good choice, you guys. It's a good compromise. Yeah. Here we go.

You guys all have your buzzers. People in places, Blue Wedge, which is P.P. What sea contains Europe's lowest point? Chris. Oh, I want to say the Dead Sea, but that's not Europe, is it? It's not Europe. Colin.

Is that the Caspian Sea? It is the Caspian Sea. Yeah, yeah. I was just looking at this not too long ago. Oh, because you did the C-load of me. Oh, yes, yes, as recently as one episode ago. Yeah. Pink Wedge for Arts and Entertainment.

what historic year did writer and director Chris Columbus choose for his production company's name? Chris. 1492? Yep. A little on the nose there, Chris. Chris Columbus, not you, not you. Little on the nose, trivial pursuit. That was like way too much info.

Yellow Wedge for history, what New England state was the first to declare slavery illegal in 1780? New England State. New England State. Oh, that's a good question. Colin. New Hampshire. Incorrect. Everybody name a New England state.

Rhode Island. Nope. Connecticut. It is Massachusetts. Hmm. Really? Massachusetts. Good on you.

First New England state. What year was that again? 1783. Oh, okay. Oops. Interesting. Purple Wedge for Science. to nature, what dehydrated

land animal was clocked slamming back 56 gallons of water in 4.6 minutes? What dehydrated land animal camel? Incorrect.

I don't understand the question. So there was a land animal. It was thirsty. That's not like a jerky version. Uh-huh. Okay. Not a sea monkey. Chris has a guess here.

Yeah. Horse? Incorrect. Dehydrate. hydrated land and clocked in a record. It's got to be a big. 4.6 minutes drank 56 gallons of water. Colin.

An elephant? It's an elephant. It's more of like a scale. Okay. You know what I mean? Yeah. Okay. All right.

I was just thinking what could suck down water really quickly. Right. Yeah. Green wedge for sports and leisure. What Florida-based pro sports team is named after the rarest American mammal? Florida Is we read it again? Sorry, what?

Florida-based pro sports team Doesn't say what sport Is named after the rarest American mammal I don't know if this is I have a guess I have a guess Jacksonville Jaguars

Noop Hmm The rarest The dolphins Nope Land animal It's just mammal Rarest American mammal

Oh rarest American mammal And no not the dolphins Not Miami Dolphins. Oh, okay. I guess so here's a thing. I don't know if this animal is no longer that rare. Oh, is it, are they looking for Marlin? No.

I guess it's not a mammal. What am I does a fish? Yeah, yeah. Devil worries. Yeah, also not a mammal. Yeah, magic, the heat. The heat. What are the Tampa Lightning?

Magic is pretty rare, but it's not a mammal. a hockey team. Man, I feel like I'm blanking on this here. That's the answer. Florida Panthers. Oh, okay. Okay. Well, it's their hockey team, right?

Isn't that one of the hockey teams? They have the Tampa. They have the Tampa Lightning. Yeah. Panthers is not an ice animal. Yeah, it's kind of a, it's not a what. It's not a nice animal. Not a nice animal.

Oh, I said not a nice animal. Except, just expect it's like, we're going to come out on this ice like a bunch of panthers it's like what slipping and sliding like your legs are all unable to function it doesn't seem like they'd be very steady yeah yeah well I mean there was like

the coyotes too right also you don't really associate that with yeah it doesn't make any sense oh what is the answer you don't ducks yeah it's true they are water they are aquatic things I thought about sharks too but then it's like oh but they cut through the water yeah maybe also sharks can live

in like Arctic environments too and last question wildcard orange wedge what Christian science leader was falsely rumored to have had a phone installed inside her white marble tomb

what Christian science leader was falsely rumored to have had a phone installed inside her white wow your recall is so good wow I don't this doesn't ring a bell you just recall that word for word thanks you just read it

I don't have that I don't have that recall ability I don't know any Christian science leaders. I don't think I do, but maybe. Do you know the name of the person? It sounded familiar. It sounded familiar. Okay.

Okay. All right. Oh, you know what? It only sounded familiar because I'm thinking of a different person. So no. It is Mary Baker Eddy. Would not have known. Which I got it mixed up with Tammy Freight Baker.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That name is. It's rattling around in my head. I wouldn't have connected it to any of those facts. Never. Mary Baker, Eddie?

Mm-hmm. Okay. All right. Well, good job, Brains. That was our pop quiz hot shot. And today, finally, episode 195. Yeah. And for long-time listeners of the show or for listeners of a show who listened five

episodes ago, you'll know that every fifth episode, instead of having a fixed topic or a fixed theme, and we've all prepared quizzes and puzzles to stump each other and stump you guys, listeners. So this week, it is All Quiz Bonanza number 39. This is the last All Quiz Before Episode 200, which will itself be an all quiz. But this is the last one before.

Yeah, yeah. All quiz bananas on number 39. Who wants to go first? Okay, I have a quiz for you guys. I'll get this party started. It's a comic strip quiz. Oh. So these are all classic newspaper comics.

Maybe they crossed over to other things, but they were all newspaper comics. I'm going to ask you specific questions about them. You all seem like you know about comics while your face is lit up. Well, you told us to get some pen and paper, and I thought we have to draw out. Like, so my eyes lit up. So you each have pen and paper. This will be a scored, a scored quiz. All right.

Some of the answers have multiple. There are like a number of answers and you get points for each correct answer you get there. Got it. You get points for drawing pictures as well. So we'll kick it off with question number one. What is Kathy's husband's name? Oh, man. Near the end.

They're married? Yes. They got Mary. Married near the end of the strip. They were on again, off again for much of the series and then eventually got married. I think it ended with her getting pregnant, which is interesting. Oh, my God. I know what it starts with.

Justin Timberlake played him. You get points for... Wait, what? On SNO. Oh, okay. I thought there was like a Kathy movie or something. Well, it was Andy Sandberg as Kathy. Right.

I... Keep wanting to see... I feel good about my guess. It's a guess, but I feel good about it. You ready? Yeah. All right. Colin says Greg.

Oh, you draw a picture. Hold on. Chris says Henry. Karen says Greg. It is Irving. Irving. Irving. Yes.

Okay. That's pretty funny that you and I both put Greg. Yeah. He looks like a Greg, but his name is Irving. Right in the same area of the alphabet. Yeah. And we all drew the. Okay, so you each get point for the picture.

Next question, what item usually tops Dagwood's sandwich, and it, like, not the bread, what goes on top of the bread? All right, you ready? I've got olive. I put olive too. I also put olive. Yes, you're all correct. I see Colin and Karen both drew pictures. Chris did not draw.

Chris, man, you've got to take any points you can get here in this game. This is how it would be as a teacher. Like, again, you get points for extra. And look, Karen and I, our sandwiches even have the same angle of perspective. Look at that. They're both kind of semantics. It's like a, are you guys cheating? This is the martini of sandwiches with the olive.

Because it's a toothpick, right? It is, yep, an olive on a toothpick, yeah. What soap opera style comic strip began its run in 1930. It continues to this day. Soap opera. Soap opera style. I don't know what picture of drops. For me, it's 50-50.

I'm just hoping I gambled right. All right. I've got Mary Worth and I drew a little picture of a TV here. I put something, inventors of something star. Oh, you think of Brenda Star? Yeah, the reporter or something, right? And I drew a picture of a dove soap. Okay.

I also put Mary Worth, and I drew a picture of Mary Worth saying, I'm old. That's right. So Colin and Chris are correct. Mary Worth. Mary Worth. But the Brenda Star thing, like, that's a thing. Yeah. Yeah, Brenda Star was around for a long time.

So many comic strips have been around forever and still are being published. I don't. I don't get it. Like, it's astonishing that they're still able to produce. I don't understand the economics of the whole. Oh, that they keep making them or that one? And people buy the newspaper to read the sort of three-panel comic. I think you just get in a habit.

Is it just children? I just assume it's kids. Mary Worth is not really for kids. That's true. You're right. Kids and old people. There's web comics. You just go online and you read everything.

Yeah, I don't know. Tell me more. Okay. What is Beatle Bailey's military rank? Wow. I barely even remember what that is. Just guess. I don't know if I'm thinking of Gomer Pyle or not, but I put private first class,

and I've got a picture of his sergeant yelling at him here in the background. That's great. Oh, that's pretty good. It's conceptual. Yeah, yeah. I drew a beetle, and I put sergeant. I also put private first class. For some reason, I felt like that was his rank, and I drew Beetle Bailey.

William, can I see? Oh, yours is so good. That's not bad. That's not bad for a good cartoonist. A couple of seconds. All right. So everybody put a picture. Everybody gets a point for that.

Feel great. So he's a private. I don't know the difference between private and private first class, but I'll give it to you. Oh, all right. Okay. I would even take half a point, but I like it. We don't do half points here. Okay.

There's high grade inflation. I appreciate it. Okay. All right. there are five main characters main types of animals in pearls before swine I don't know what that is and you know that there's one in the name of the comic even so name as many of the five animals as you can naming more than five won't get you more points more than five times before the swine pearls before swine

Pearls before Like girls before Pearls before I think it's a saying I knew what it meant at one point But I don't remember it's giving something good to somebody Who doesn't deserve it Okay Like Shakespearean actors acting in front of the audience

It doesn't understand their references Like we're throwing pearls before swine Oh P-E-A-R-L Not like knitting pearl Right I don't know like Okay No

Okay Wait, I was too busy making jokes. It looks to jokes and jokes and jokes. I'll tell you what the animals, what the answers are, and you tell me how many points you got. Okay. All right. All right. All right.

So the five animals are pig. Got it. Rat. Zebra. What? Goat and crocodiles. What? I was going to put goat and I changed the last second to ferret.

I just went with like a Charlotte's Webb kind of thing. Yeah, that's kind of where. Yeah. I got one point. I got pig. I got two points. What was the other one you got? Mouse.

Oh. Did you guys draw any pictures? Yeah, I drew a pig. Okay, Chris, good job. I drew a pearl necklace greater than symbol of a pig. Oh, nice. I'll count it. I didn't draw a pig, I'm being honest.

Thank you. I appreciate you get a point for being honest. And I should be really good at drawing pigs. I'm going to stick that little trick in my back pocket. I'm not consistent with giving out points. for that one, but sometimes. Okay, which Popeye character asks to pay you Tuesday

for a hamburger today? I'll give you two points if you know his full, full name. All right. What do you got? Well, I know his street name is Wimpy. Sure. And somewhere in the back of my mind,

I thought it was Wimpy Wimpleton, so I put Wimpy Wimpleton. Oh, it's something like that. Yeah. I have Wimpy and Wimpe's eating a burger. Yeah. Yes. I have Wimpy eating a burger and I put Wimpy J. Wimperson.

We're on the side. Yours are so good. Your comic, your cartoon. Like, I can see it in my head by I can't draw it. Right, right, right. Yeah, yeah. So his name is Jay Wellington Wimpy. You should get it.

You're so close. Well, how good? Wellington is different. The J part's right, but it's not... The J is all over the place, yeah. But the picture, everybody got wimpy. Everybody has a picture, all right? I've got a little calendar with a hamburger on Monday and the dollar sent on Tuesday.

Oh, my goodness. That's great, Colin. Let's do two more questions. Two more questions. What is Dennis the Menace's last name? Oh, I knew this. Yeah. Oh, man, I knew this.

Dang it. Oh, man. I've I'm amazing Karen man I just cut a glimpse I put Henderson oh my God I also put Henderson it's Mitchell oh it is it's Mitchell yeah it's Mitchell how do you know that you know I watched a lot of the the black and white TV show on Nickelodeon yeah oh there's a place the live action the middle live action show yeah yeah how did we end up Man, we are just on the same lifeline today.

And it's like the wrong answer, but the same wrong answer? Yeah. It's weird. You're doing the show too long. Yeah. I drew a little picture of Mr. Wilson's grave, which Dennis drove him to. Wait, can I see your... That is dark.

That looks like that it's the menace. You got the hair right. The hair is right. The hair is right. All right. Okay. Last question. There are four kids in the family circus.

Oh, my God. What are their names? The four kids. Going into this round, Chris has 13 points. Colin has 12 points. Karen has nine points. If Karen gets all four of these, correct? No, there's no way.

Four kids, you said, right? Four kids. Okay, for this, I'll tell you the answers, and you guys tell me how many points you got here. And if you have any whimsical names, perhaps you'll be. I have a bonus point for that. That's a gamble. That's a real gamble.

We'll see. Should have put it in there. Billy? Yes. Dolly? Dolly. Yeah. Jeffie.

And PJ. Yeah. I just got Billy and PJ. I had Billy, Dolly, Jeff, and Ringo. Wow. Dolly. I had Sally. Maybe you get a point for that.

But I was like, Billy, Dolly, and Jeffie. Nice. Jeffie, right. Man. Nice. You guys really read the. Dana, here's my picture that I drew, by the way. You drew an actual family circus?

What is that? They're being. What's your job? I drew a family circus cartoon and the kids are talking to each other and there's a dotted line showing the kid walking to the other end of the pool. Sorry, I have to go to the bathroom. That's great. That'd be a great family circus. I was like Molly, Sally.

Dolly, of course. What did you get? Did you have a picture? Yeah, I have a picture. It's not good. Zilch. Great job. Yeah.

Oh, man. I think Chris won. Yeah. Yeah. He's a comics person. I am a comic person. Yeah. I bought and read every single, like, old, like, you know, not graphic novel, but, like, paperback collection of newspaper, strip, comics and whatever back in the day.

Yeah. Including Maryworth. No. No, I don't know. They were collected. I don't know. Certainly. I tried to read some when I was researching this.

I was like, these are not very good. Yeah. I don't want to enjoy these very much. There was Maryworth and Apartment 3G. was another one like yeah I was never a fan of those serious comics so I was sometimes I try to get my mom to explain them to me you know like explain to me why this exists you know and she's just like they're not for you yeah well they're trying to tell these detailed stories three panels at a time and like nothing happens in each one well but that's how old newspapers

were they would have like pieces of novels like a page of you know a page of day yeah by the next day's thing there you go thanks for uh all your beautiful pictures oh yeah we should keep these Throughout history, royals across the world were notorious for incest. They married their own relatives in order to consolidate power and keep their blood blue. But they were oblivious to the havoc all this inbreeding was having on the health of their offspring. From Egyptian pharaohs marrying their own sisters to the Habsburg's notoriously oversized lower jaws. I explore the most shocking incestuous relationships and tragically inbred individuals in royal history. And that's just episode one.

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You too sweetest thing. Yeah, the sweetest thing. Fun back story. I don't know if you guys ever seen the music video for this. It's like he's in a car, and behind him is a parade. And everything in the parade says, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It's like showgirls having a big band and says, I'm sorry.

And it just like escalates to an elephant that says, I'm sorry on the elephant. And it's because I believe the backstories, he forgot either his wife's birthday, Bono, or their anniversary. And so he made that video to say, I'm sorry, which is a very sweet thing, a sweetest thing. Yeah. And frankly, a bit of a luxury if you're Bono. Yeah. I'm going to say sorry with a music video. All right.

Good job. next song Oh The wheel And she's a living A lot of Jets She's got an electric boots

My boy has food You know I'm Redder than I'm back to say No Oh Oh Benny on the Jets

Chris Chris Elton John Yes, of course Sir Elton John Was he a sir When he did this song

You don't have to call me sir You don't have to call me sir Yeah Next song I heard you crying loud All the way Of the way You're cross down

To be sent shit From that someone Man is me out of the crowd Yes yes Sit around Bill it's all right for your Everybody. Well, don't get lonely now.

Everybody. Green Day. Their first hit single. Man, takes me back. Takes me back. I just say it that weird. I guess it takes you back further. Same amount of time.

Berkeley's own Green Day. Yes, Berkeley's own Green Day. Here we go. Next song. Colin. That sounded like Cindy Lopper. It is, Cindy Lopper. Chris, tell me what movie this song was featured in.

The Goonies. Correct. The song is called The Goonies Are, as in, like, Toys Are Us. The Goonies are good enough. Wow. Backwards are. No. No, forwards are.

Just the letter are. Lowercase R. But it's got, it's got quotes are good enough. Oh, does it? Okay. Sorry, I was doing an air quote. Got it. Yeah. The Goonys and then are with the quotes.

Yeah. Goonies are good enough. Yes. Also, the meaty version of the song was used in the Goonies video game. That's right. Yeah. Which was fantastic. I thought you said the meaty version.

I'm like, oh, what's the meaty version? The midi version. Yeah. Next song. I hear me, darling, can't you hear me? S-O-S. When you're gone, how can I even try to go on? When you're gone, though I try hard.

Chris. Abba. Abba. Yeah, ba. Good job. All right, we got two more. Okay. Next song.

And there's a theme? There is a theme. I have not been paying attention. This is Karen's running playlist? No, no. There's a theme. I'll give you a hint after all the songs are played and you guys can confab over what you think the theme could be.

All right, that sounds good. All right. Next song. Please don't cry. We both know. That I'm not what you need. But I will always love you. I will always love you.

Everybody. Dolly party. She sounds like a pretty bird. Yes. It's just like a warbler, like a beautiful warbler. All right. Last song. Okay.

I love to hide. Really can be serious. You have to ask me why. I sing goodbye. Because I am barely breathing. I can't find. Yeah. Don't know who I'm kidding.

Imagining you. Yeah. I could stand you waiting For another day Dana Duncan Sheek Barely breathing Very good

All right You guys aced Yeah Collectively we did Nailed every single one of them There is a theme To the artists To the artist

Okay Okay so my running guess was to the songs But that blows that right out of the water To the artist I'll just give you a clue It's to artists So list out the... So we've got you two, Dolly Parton, we've got, I mean, different Cindy Lopper, different nationalities.

They were a movie. That was my guess was movies, but she said it's based on the artist. No, some of the artists were... Oh, oh, oh, I see what you're saying. Okay. Here's another hint. Okay. New York City.

They were all on like maybe musicals or... Are they... Oh, yeah, these, oh, were these all in Broadway musical? shows me but these songs no the artists the artists well mean they're in like were they all performers related to some of them were but it doesn't that's not the thing in New York

but you're close oh really is like a not a hall of fame so here we have it's not the rock you two Alton John Dolly Parton Green Day Cindy Lopper Abba

Duncan Sheet is the subject of I was going to say like that their music has been turned into musicals but I don't know that Duncan Sheik I mean Abba yes Yeah has it Is it that these are artists Their work has all been turned

Into musicals on Broadway Actually yes and no Some of their work has been turned But they've wrote All the music For a musical That is the theme If you put Sarah Borellis

It would have been like Yeah Yeah she just did waitress Yeah Okay So like Green Day is American idiot And also I have to Here's a caveat too

It's not There are some musicals that are like, we're just going to take the songs belonging to this band, turn into musical. Right. This is an original. They must have, not only that, but they must have coined or penned more music. Okay. Original music. Got it.

All right. So, give us the rundown here. So, you two famously. The Spider-Man, right? Turn off the dark. Spider-Man, Colin, turn off the dark. Elton John has penned Aida, Billy Elliott. Dolly Parton wrote the music to 9 to 5.

The musical version of 9 to 5. Yeah, and she did write more music for it too. Green Day, American Idiot. Cindy Lopper wrote the music for Kinky Boots. Award winning as well. Abba wrote many. Chess, that was their, I think, their first. This is the two dudes from Abba and Mama Mia.

Duncan Sheek wrote the music to Spring Awakening. Award winning, Spring Awakening was written by Duncan Sheik And now he is a Tony Award winning Really? Yeah I feel like I knew he was going to do something in Broadway And then I like lost

Yeah, lost the story. Like I Spring Awakening, Spring Board for stars Like Leia Michelle for Oh interesting Glee, right? Yeah, John Gallagher Jr. who's a newsroom And then Jonathan Groff

Also Skyler Aston Is that his name from pitch perfect yes here you go well that's that's the yeah that was a good that was a good one yeah I was thinking songs at first I thought like maybe you were maybe going like something Oscars themed but no that's good

good job you guys good job and it is also Karen's running playlist it can be two things no you know what I used to listen to some bad angry music when I'm when I'm wait a giving example of bad angry music like uh cut my life

Into pieces That's a great song This is my last Reiting You know when you're like angry Sipatution Yeah Angsty

Yeah But now Now I listen to a lot of Power Lady songs And then I would Lipsing to it While I run Um

Karen I have some awesome music I don't remember the name But Eric is really My fiancé Is really into Euro Vampire Techno

Where they're singing That's very Swedish It's so weird. It's catchy, but weird. Like, once you stop laughing, it was like... History never says goodbye. It just says, see you later. Edward Galliano was right when he said that.

Events keep happening over and over again, in some form. And that's the reason I produced the podcast, My History, can beat up your politics. What is it? We take stories of history and apply them to the events of today to help you perhaps understand them better. We are also part of Airwave Media Network. I've been doing the program since 2006. That's a long time and the show has a long name. My history can beat up your politics. Find me wherever you get podcasts. So, in preparation for this episode, I wrote a quiz. Okay.

And then I forgot what quiz I wrote. And so I'm going to look at it now. This is a week ago. This was a week-ish ago. Yeah, exactly. And so I totally forgot what I wrote. So now I'm going to discover it with you guys. Look at my phone and present to you the...

Ah, yes. It is very interesting. I'm fron my beard. He installed him. How will I present? I don't know if this is amusement or sinister. No, but now it all comes flooding back. This is a quiz about musical flops.

This is a quiz about albums, which, you know, may have been critically well received, especially maybe even later on, may have sold well-ish, but that were notorious for failing to even scratch the heights that they're pretty. predecessors Okay. Oh, like their previous albums. So even if they sold a million, two million copies, the previous album had sold, you know, whatever, 20 million, and it was incredible. And either way, it was a big letdown after the first year.

So this is a quiz in and around that. It's, there are many different types of questions I might ask you for the artist. I might ask you for the name of the album. Okay. I might, whatever. Okay. Okay. All right.

So we're going to be buzzing in because it's not easy. Although. This one maybe is. Okay. Question number one. Journeys, 1990. Sorry. Before I'm talking about that. This list of album flops was as compiled by Ultimate Classic Rock.com. They have a list of flopped albums.

So I'm outsourcing the decision whether or not the album was a flop or not. Address your hate mail to write all letters to Ultimate Classic Rock. But you wrote the question. But I wrote their questions. Yeah. Based on their assessment. I wrote a question. Yes.

Question one. Journey's 1996 album Trial by Fire was a flop and also the final album featuring this band member. Oh. Karen. Who is Steve Perry? Yes. This is not Jeopardy. Oh, I'm sorry.

But it is Steve Perry. Yes. The vocalist. The voice. He's the only person I can. Oh, Randy Jackson. And I was like, oh, maybe it's an American Idol or got into producing more. And they're going to get inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, I believe, this year journey.

Oh, wow. So, you know, rumors, you know, rumors circulating that maybe he'll rejoin his bandmates. I bet he will. I bet he will. I hope so. Yeah, just for the playing a couple of songs. Yeah. I mean, he's part of the story.

Yeah, I mean, for sure. I mean, he's one of his best. Yeah, he's not just part of the story. Yeah. Okay, question two. This very major rock and roll artist released two meh albums on the same day. Those albums were Human Touch and Lucky Town. Oh.

Who is that? Colin? Is that Bruce Springsteen? It is Bruce Springsteen. Why did he release two albums? Why, indeed, Karen. You get to be so big, you got to top yourself, right? You get in the zone and just start making sense.

Well, Outcast had kind of a double. No, that was still one album, though. Right, no, this was literally two very different albums. Oh, okay. One of which was extremely high production values, and the other one was more raw and acoustic. You couldn't decide. But neither did very well. Why not both?

Yeah. A question three. Although it was clearly intended to be seen as the true successor to the band's first two albums, This 1998 rock album with the band name in the title Was a fairly high-profile failure instead Ninety-eight And there were two other albums Yeah, sorry, it's a little confusing

I wanted to get some hints in there It's a same 1998 rock album It has the band's name in the title So I'm not telling you that That was clearly intended to be seen as Clearly marketed as The true correct successor to the band's first two albums But instead it was a pretty big failure

I think column was first there I'm just a guess Oasis It's not Oasis Is it like Guns and Roses Oh you're close though Yeah

You're close They had a thing They did I mean they've had a lot of album Controversies You're close This was This album was Roman numeral three

Following on the band's first two albums Which were band name one And band name Roman numeral two I don't know 98 It's Van Hylen It's Van Hylen Van Halen 3.

Okay. What were the two? Where were the albums in between? Van Halen and Van Halen 2 and then a whole bunch of other albums. Okay. Got it. Wow. So the idea was, no, this is Van Halen 3.

Oh. It was not good. What's, wait, 19, 98? So that was firmly in the Semi Hagar era, right? Yeah, hey, don't. So now I'm going to give you the album time. Did you hear any judgment in that? I was just demarking history.

I think it was the, maybe the close of the Hagar era, yeah, yeah. All right. I'm going to give you the album, the flop of the album title for this one. This is the unfortunately titled, I'm in you. I'm in you, was the failed follow-up to this breakthrough, 1976 double live album by a British rock singer guitarist. Colin? That's got to be Peter Frampton. What's the name of the live album?

Oh, Frampton Comes Alive. Frampton Comes Alive. Yes, yes, yes. Frampton comes alive. Frampton comes alive. He's doing it on purpose. Yeah, yep, yep. Yeah, that, it's hard, it's hard to overestimate how big that album was.

Yes, yes. Wait, which one? Frampton comes alive. Yeah, okay, not I'm in you. Not I'm in you. How big that album was and how open his shirt was. Very big and very big. Very open his shirt.

Question whatever. After the huge success of the album's Don't Look Back and third stage, the album Walk On was a disappointment for this East Coast rock band in 1994. Oh, wait, man. Karen. Oh, this is losing battery. Uh-oh. The dog's not barking.

Aerosmith? No, although they are East Coast Rock band. Yeah, I'm just naming East Coast Rock Band. Oh, I was thinking, I was going to guess Aerosmith, too. Yeah, what was it? Don't Look Back. Yeah, after the huge success of Don't Look Back and third stage, the album, Walk On, was a disappointment for this band in 1994. Ninety-four. That sounds so familiar.

Very, very definitely an East Coast rock band, unmistakably East Coast rock band. I mean, it's not the Ramones. Although they also released like 30 albums. Like, definitely, definitely a New England rock band. Hey, no, I know. Karen's furiously pressing the button. No, no, no, don't worry. No, no, dogs dying.

Dana. Boston? Yes. All right. Do you want to do a battery shop real quick? No, it's okay. All right. Oh, you know what?

You'll just make your noise. I'll wolf from now. Okay, great. Okay, okay, all right. Question probably six. The title of Meatloaf's Disasterous, Disasterous, 1981 follow-up to Bat out of Hell is a two-word phrase. The title of the

album is a two-word phrase, meaning someone who looks exactly like someone else or possibly a zombie holding a bell. Colin. Dead ringer. Dead ring.

Did not do I got that just 100% on the hint. Just 100% on the zombie clue. Yeah, I do not remember this album. Yeah. Question 7. Door to Door was the lack Luster album that followed this band's hit Heartbeat City. I don't know.

Rock band's sitting. The time frame. I believe it's 80s. Maybe late 80s. The cars. It is the cars. Heartbeat cities. It was in there.

It was somewhere in there. It was somewhere in there. Yeah. All right. What is it? If I stick a needle into your brain, you recall it all perfectly? Yeah. Yeah.

It's like a recess button. Yeah, yeah. You can do it right now. All right, here we go. Question eight. The mega-flop, 2011 album, Lulu, which was based on two German plays written in 1895 and 1904, was a collaboration between these two musical acts. How old? I believe that was, well, I know half of it was Lou Reed.

And I think it was Metallica. Lou Reed and Metallica. Yeah. Coming together to produce songs based on obscure German erotic plays. I know, I've never given this one a listen. You know, for kids. Yeah. This one has been like pretty much universally panned.

I should listen to this one. I just out of curiosity. And finally. Some say, some say that Billy Idol's career came to a total halt when he released this, poorly received 1993 album inspired by computers and the internet. Oh, man. Oh, really?

Woof, woo, woo, woo, who, who, who, Karen. Cyberspace. Oh, so close but wrong. Colin. Cybersex. Oh, again, close. Same amount of close.

Oh, really? Cyber. Cyborg. Cybernetics. Somebody's going to get it. It's cyber something. Cyber world. Billy Idol?

Cyber. Cyber Idol? Cyber Idol. Cyberbilly? Cyberpunk. So. Cyberpunk. Cyberbill.

It's late in the day. It's late in the day. It's the first idea I had. Cyberbillies. He said cyberbile. Yes, and. Yeah, we heard you Colin. Yeah.

No, that's not it. Jackal. Jackal. Is it Jackal? Okay. Well, great work. My face is hurting I know, man

A little punchy When we're going to be cold Cyberbillie That's a new genre of music That we could innovate right now Like rockabilly Like kind of techno Yeah

I don't know I was thinking about like flutes I don't know why Billy goat I don't know Oh like a pan flute Yeah like like a band flute It's like Sabre Yanni You mean Sabre Yonnie

Yep Yep Billy Idol Cyber Bill and Sarah Bill and She's like no Come on St. Carter St. Carter, Colin

Alexander Humpington It's not I'm scary Book Club on Monday Gym on Tuesday Date night on Wednesday Out on the town Thursday.

Quiet night in on Friday. It's good to have a routine. And it's good for your eyes too. Because with regular comprehensive eye exams at Specsavers, you'll know just how healthy they are. Visit Spexavers.cavers.cai to book your next eye exam. Eye exams provided by independent optometrists. And we got one last quiz, Colin.

All right, I've got a quiz for you guys. It's called the United Nations of Things. Yes. Oh, okay. I like how you title your quiz. Yeah, you know, sometimes I put more thought into the titles than the quiz themselves. Just see where it is. This is a little grab bag quiz here for you guys.

And all of the answers to this quiz will have names of countries or nationalities as part of the name. Oh, okay. So I'll give you a hint to what the thing is. You give me the answer. For instance, if I were to say this is a multiple. multi-purpose piece of cutlery, you might say, it's a Swiss Army knife, right. Or, you know, I said a caffeinated beverage with a little bit of alcohol thrown in. Irish coffee. You're right, exactly. All right. So get your buzzers ready. Now, I know, I should. We apologize if we offend anyone with this segment. It's not our intention. Thank you, Chris, for saying it right at the outset. Some of these may be uniquely American sayings or American idioms. So, you know, they may have variations in British. British, English, other countries. So here we go.

If you've never heard some of these terms. But we definitely say this in America. I swear we really do. All right, here we go. This is a door with two sets of hinges, so the top half can open independently. Oh, whoop, who, who, who, whiff, who, uh, Chris. Is it a French door?

No. Oh, that's what I was going to say. No. Dana. Is it a Dutch door? It is a Dutch door. Yes, yes. The French door is.

or the doors are side by side, open the other, yeah, two sets of hinges. You can open the top half. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, usually it's like a pie, you know, resting on the sill there. Oh, yeah, always. Oh, Mr. Ed. Yeah. Mr. Edd. I guess also called a stable door in British English.

Yeah. Mr. Ed. Yes, there you go. Common in stables, right. This toy slash prank is a simple tube made of woven straw or paper. Dana. A Chinese finger trap? Yes, yes.

That one does sound racist actually. I would also accept Chinese handcuffs, another term for it. Yeah. What is it? What is it? The little finger trap tube. It looks like a basket weave kind of thing. And then you pull your finger and it tightens up so you can't get it out.

I've never heard this. The origins of this toy are kind of murky, but most people agree it is not actually Chinese an origin. but it's old. It's an old little toy. I had so many of these as a kid. Because there's always the one kid who just plays too hard with it and just rips it apart. Yeah. I hate that kid.

This is the most well-known variation on an old type of con known as an advance fee scam. Especially common in the age of email. Dana. Is this the Nigerian prince scam? This is the Nigerian prince. scam yes if you just send me this small amount of money I can unlock a lot more money and we'll all be rich the advance fee the the the the classification of this type of scam is advance fee right you give me an advance fee I'll give you more and it goes back as long as

we've had money and banks right but it's it is more commonly now just the Nigerian print scam this is a gel based confection made from starch and sugar often featuring flavoring like pistachio or rosewater. Woof, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, Karen. Turkish delight. Turkish delight, yes, yes. Delightful Turkish delight.

Also called, uh, and I apologize for the pronunciation, loquum, or rahat loquum. Uh, it says a lot of names around the world, depending where you're from. Apparently, uh, in Greece, it's called Greek delight. Oh, no, laity-da. They're like, guess who really made it. Yeah. And in Greece, American cheese is called.

This is a mildly derogatory term for an all-denim outfit, denim on top and denim on bottom. Karen. Canadian tuxedo. Yes, this is the all-denin outfit known as the Canadian tuxedo. It's also known as the Texas Tuxedo. Okay, okay. So, you know, I had to fit with the theme of... It's making a comeback.

It is making a comeback. Because I wear chambray on denim. Yeah. Yeah, shambray is just fancy denim. Well, like, yeah, yeah. It's like, you know. Kanye does it. Yeah.

Yeah. It's now, and now it's kind of socially okay. Yeah. And I mean, certainly I think it's more okay now than it was maybe 10 years ago. Yeah. Like when Brittany and Justin went to that award show and they were both head to tone. Yeah. That's the best denim.

A picture of it. Despite its tradition. name. This item of clothing made from the leaves of the toquia palm actually originated in Ecuador. Dana. Is it a Panama? Yes. It is the Panama hat. The Panama hat is historically straw. It's straw. Yeah, it's leaves of the Tokyoia palm. Only that plant historically. And this is actually a traditional Ecuadorian craft. It goes back a few hundred years. even. They're called Panama Hats. And you know, it's not, it's not especially amazing reason. They're called Panama Hats because that's where they were shipped out of

to the rest of the world. That was basically where the shipping port was. I thought it was style, not material. Yeah, yeah. Because Magneto wears it. Oh, yeah. Young Magneto wears it. Yeah. Yeah. We killed all the Nazis. Yeah. You know, I mean, and historically, they were, you know, you really kind of associated them with like Gold Rush era, you know, Theodore Roosevelt War I Kind of helped give them a little boost in popularity Yeah, the Panama hat This is a hard-boiled egg

Wrapped in sausage Woofoo-woo-poo-bo-bo-bo-bo-bo Both of you, but I think Chris was first on the trigger there Scotch egg That is a scotch egg The trigger of my voice, yeah Yeah, scotch egg Delicious

A good hangover food I associate scotch egg It's like, you know, hangover Kind of just hearty, rustic style I just associate it with food poisoning Because I got food poisoning The one time I had it So I was like, oh, God

Oh no This is what you call it This is what you can call it, I should say If you slip away from a party Without saying your farewell I do it all the time I think everyone I'll give this one to you Karen

Irish goodbye Yes, the Irish goodbye I've also heard this term The French exit Which I like it Sounds a little classier A staple of westerns and action films.

This is a term for a showdown where none of the participants can make the first move safely. Again, Chris, I think just by a hair there. Mexican standoff. Yes, the Mexican standoff. A classic version would be the three gunmen each pointing guns

at the other two, and no one wants to go first, right? No one knows the origin of this phrase. I dug a little bit. It's like a movie or something. Yeah, no, I mean, some sources say it dates back to the Mexican-American War, But it's, I don't, I couldn't find anything that really substantiated that. It goes back to at least the 1800s.

Oh. Yeah. And last one. Last one. Okay. This landmark 1941 film noir marked John Houston's directorial debut. Chris. The Maltese falcons.

The Maltese falcon. Yes, you have it. I was thinking of a dog. And I realized Maltese falcons. He's is Malta. Yeah, Malta. Yeah, and I was like, I don't know why I was thinking of a darn. If you guys are in need of a good wiki hole to fall down, by the way,

Malta is a great one. Malta, just the history of that place is just intensely, intensely interesting. Ooh, that's a good theme quiz. All right. That's a good theme quiz. All right. Well, thank you. Thank you.

You guys did good. I think collectively you guys aced it. Yeah. And our apologies to our Canadian neighbors. Yes. Hey, I like a good denim on denim. And that's our show. That's our episode.

Thank you guys for joining me. I thank you guys, listeners, for listening in. Hope you learn a lot of stuff about swimming pool. Don't be in the pool. Don't do it. But excuse yourself first if you're going to. Musical flops and musicals. Nations.

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