Good Job, Brain! - 196: We Could Be Heroes

Episode Date: April 11, 2017

Come one, come all! We're celebrating heroes that comes in all shapes and sizes: from the underdogs of the fast food world to life-changing inventors. We got a grab bag hero quiz, and Chris has an epic music round of heroic songs. Colin found a town that features not one but two heroes in the food industry. And what sandwich is made of french fries? Karen is pleased to finally share her hero sandwich quiz.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Ahoy, awest, striking alliance of alert attendees. Welcome to Good Job Brain, your weekly quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. This is episode 196. And of course, I'm your humble. host, Karen, and we are your squires scavenging and sifting for science and scintillating stuff. I'm Colin. I'm Dana. And I'm Chris. Karen, you've got a food on your, you got it. And that's the theme of today. What's on my mouth? Oh, I don't know. I could all be the judge of that.

You guys are weird. We have a book that we wrote with words. Of trivia. With many correctly spelled words. Yeah. It's called Good Job Brain. Then there's a subtitle. You can find this. I don't want to say wherever books are sold because you can't find it wherever books are sold. You can find it on Amazon and you can find it on Barnes and Noble.

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sketched. You're like parent, can you draw something like this? Right, right, right. It takes a village to illustrate a good job, Branch, trivia book. Indeed. We're proud of it. We had a lot of fun making it. And we will probably be having some more

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Yeah. So watch out. It's a T-shirt can and it's a book kit. It's just kidding people randomly. With that said, let's jump into our first general trivia segment, Pop Quiz, Hot Shot. All right. And here I have a random assortment of trivial pursuit cards drawn from the box. Completely at random, different versions.

You guys have Barnyard buzzers and random. So, Chris, left or right hand? Left hand. Okay. Dana, left or right hand? Collin. Left hand. Yeah, this is genus four.

Good. Just give me that pure, that pure genus. Okay. Okay, okay. Here we go. Blue Wedge, first question. Blue Edge for People and Places. What African Country

has 13 official languages? Wow. So interesting. Dana. South Africa? It is South Africa. Let's look this up. They have a lot of tribes. Yeah.

Wikipedia says it has 11. Okay. They've consolidated two of them since that card was made. So yeah. So it's been, so instead F-13, as of right now, there are 11 official languages of South Africa. Afrikaans, English, de Belli, Northern Sotho, Soto, Swazi, Tonga, Tijuana, Venda, Zosa, and Zulu.

So, yeah, a lot of tribal languages and English and Afrikaans. All right, Pink Wedge for Arts and Entertainment. Who did Richard Burton, quoting Churchill, refer to as, quote, A secret wrapped in an enigma inside a mystery. Wow, I hear that all the time. Chris. Elizabeth Taylor? Correct.

His wife. Two times. Twice. He referred to her in Winston Churchill as that? Quoting Winston Churchill. Oh, okay. Yellow Edge for history. Who failed to heed the advice of his scouts, Mitch Boyer and Bloody Knife?

Chris. General Custer. Yes. I don't get, I don't, I don't, I don't know that part of history. George Armstrong Custer. Yes. The battle did not go well for him. Didn't go well for him.

Got it. They were like, definitely don't do this. And he was like, whatevs. I do what I want. Yeah. You don't know me. Purple wedge force. Purple brown.

It's brown. I don't, oh my God. Why doesn't look purple to me? It does like a little purple. It's a black or blue or white and gold. All right. Science and nature. what's the common name for a cubic decimeter?

A cubic decimeter? Yeah, a cubic decimeter. The common name for... So a decimeter is 10 meters, and then it's cubic. No, wouldn't that be a deck? Oh, sorry, decimeter. So it's 10th of a meter. It's 10 centimeters.

10 centimeters, and then it's cubic. Yeah. Chris. One liter. Correct! There we go. Yes. Metric system.

Metric system. So a leader is a, yeah, is a cubic. Yeah, it's a volume. It all works. It all works out. My car gets ten rods to the hogshead. That's the way it gets. Is that from something?

I think so, yeah. It's good, yeah. Greenwich for sports and leisure. What seven foot two, Chicago Bulls Hoopster, was the first Australian to play in the NBA. Whoa. Wow, his name is very appropriate. Okay, so I can base on the era, yes. Zingo.

That is. Colin, of course. That is, was Luke Longley. Correct. The last time is Longley. Longley. I thought you meant because of the Australian part. Last question, wild card, orange wedge.

What Robert Heinlein book title can be found in Exodus 2-2-2-2? Oh, the Heinlein. I don't know. How do you say, how do you, how do you pronounce two colon two two two two twenty two. Exodus 2222. I don't know. I'm, I was never big Heinland fan. What else did?

Something biblical, something biblical. Yeah. What is it? It is stranger in a strange language. Okay, that's okay, okay. Okay. Good job, brain. Well, yeah.

That's a lot of the last question. That's why we didn't start the fire. Really? Stranger in the same. Burling, bowling. That's it. We have a lot of mad Heinland fans, but maybe we made it back with some happy Billy Joel fans. Yeah.

Except they just were like, bing, bang, bang, bang. Exactly. All right. Let's alienate everybody. All right, today's episode. It was, actually, it was a funny story because usually we kind of pull together and think of concepts, themes for future shows. Colin, you suggested villains, and I was like, oh, that's great. And we have done some villain stuff before.

And I was like, oh, wait a minute. Have we ever done a hero show? It's so crazy. If you said we had never done a hero show, I would have called you a liar to your face. We've done villains. We've talked about anti-heroes and bad guys and super villains, but never. celebrated the actual hero. I like that you were like, oh good, I can do my

sandwich quiz now. So sandwich quiz is definitely in the car. Way to tip your hand. Tip your sandwich hand. So this week we're holding out for a hero. Say to deny that person I turn and I

dream I'm what I'm a hero. I'm holding out for a hero to the end of the night. That's got to be strong and he's got to be fresh from the fight Is that, that's in the movie, right? He's got to be larger than life, larger than life. Gotta be good with a knife. It fits though, it fits, yeah. I'm arguing.

It's really funny. Fragmancy, right? You're laughing at non-futney Joe. No, it was awesome. Like, in my mind, I was like, he's going to be good with a night when I was like, what are you doing? What is the song about? You clearly need a hero.

You're in a very specific jam. Okay, I'm going to start us off with a quiz. A general quiz about heroes, Heroes Feast, a poo-poo platter, a heroic pooh-platter, maybe. Of heroics. So all of the questions have something to do with heroes or heroic things. All right. You guys buzz in with the answers? Real life heroes?

Fictional heroes? Maybe. I mean, it's just a real... All right. We'll see where it takes us. And the listeners, again, so my dog buzzer is low on Barry, so I'm going to woof instead of buzzing it. In the 2005 version of the video game series Guitar Hero, players could simulate playing which roles in a band

2005 version of the tar yeah so later they added more instruments but in 2005 when they first released this video game what did you play in the band uh Colin I think it was just guitar and bass oh I think what you're looking for is lead guitar bass and also rhythm

yes those three and then they added vocals and drums later a couple years later all right the heroes journey is a common narrative template. Who introduced the hero? Colin got it first, yes? That is Joseph Campbell.

Joseph Campbell. The song Hero by Enrique Iglesias was released eight days before what historic event, which actually gave his song more meaning. Chris. September 11? September 11. I did not remember that. Wow.

And then like 10 days later at the benefit for the first responders, he performed it. And then it became kind of like the first responder song. Wow. Okay. Which 1981 TV show was about a teacher given superhuman abilities. Oh. Oh, I loved this show. Colin.

It's the greatest American hero. Yes. I love the song for it. I love that show. We had to sing it in choir when I was in elementary school. Really? Yeah. It's so 80s.

It's so 80s. And finally, this one is a sciencey one. Hero is the genus name for what type of mollusk? Oh. H-E-R-O? Yeah. Oh, what type of mollusk? Oh, man.

Karen. Oyster. No. Chris. Muscles. No. Oh, that would have been good. Wouldn't have been.

Oh, muscles. See, I was thinking, like, hero, hera, Greek mythology, oyster, I don't know, like. You want to just guess? Barnacles. Clams. Sea slugs. Huh. Seaslugs.

Hero. Yeah. Did you know that most mollusks are sea, or not sea slugs, are slugs. Oh, okay. Yeah. So you should guess that. Oh, because they're the thing in the shell. They just don't have the little eye probes.

Yeah. These are all scientific terms. Very much. Highly scientific terms. And the ice stalks. The ice stocks. We had a whole show of a parasite ice stocks. Oh.

Well, Dana, let me thank you for implanting the Enrique Iglesiasia song in my head for the next two weeks. You're welcome. You're welcome. It's just going to looping through there right now. You need a fan in front of the room. Yeah, just blow in the shirt back. Yeah. Right.

Yeah. I can be. No frills, delivers. Get groceries delivered to your door from No Frills with PC Express. Shop online and get $15 in PC optimum points on your first five orders. Shop now at nofrills.ca. All right, my turn, and it was teased already, not five minutes ago in the show. I've been sitting, so a little backstory, there are two bookmarked Wikipedia links that have in my browser.

There's two permanently bookmark, not permanently, but you know what I mean. One is a list of cakes and one is a list of sandwiches. Okay. And I kid you not, you know, maybe like once a quarter, once a season, I'll revisit and be like, I need to read all the. She was changed. Yeah. It's not just, it's global. Keep up with the sandwich news.

Just going back to the old friend. No, seriously, all the links are purple because I've come up. the floor but it's like oh yes this sandwich oh lavasht oh yeah i don't know my it's so i just like i just reread it i was like yeah wow that's so cool maybe i'll click into the links there's pictures too because you know wikipedia list they'll say the name and the picture and then like you know a little description and it's like it's so there yeah it's so interesting to me um and i you know i i've done a dessert quiz and in the past and it was like based on that we had to talk about the hummingbird and so why i like it

is because not only because i like cakes and sandwiches but i like reading about the variety of of these food items and also like kind of their origin and it's just i don't know it's so captivating to me just read them over and over and finally and i pitched this before you've been years years i've been pitching a episode all themed on sandwiches because of this list And you guys are all like, man, this is really specific. I would do it. We don't understand the role of sandwiches. We don't see the potential.

Do you feel it? I feel inspired now. I would do an episode on sandwiches now. The whole hour on sandwiches. Yeah. Let's do it. Once we decided the topic of hero, I was like, Hero is also a word for sandwiches. I can finally do my sandwich quiz since we don't have a sandwich.

sandwich-themed show. Hence... This is the backdoor sandwich quiz. The backdoor sandwich quiz. I've finally been sitting on it for a while. Sandwiches all have very colorful names, very colorful origin stories, and weird contents. And basically, what I'm going to do is I'm going to read the ingredients, the contents of a sandwich, and a lot of sandwiches have names. And they have really colorful stories about how it came to be.

And so I will be reading the ingredients, and then you will be writing down the name of these sandwiches. All right. Okay. For example, if I said thinly sliced steak and melted cheese sauce, you would say Philly cheese steak. Sure. Yes. Or cheese steak. Or cheese steak.

Okay. So here we go. I'm going to start out easy, and then I'll go hard. Okay. And by heart, I mean maybe not. As note. Oh, not like a hard roll. No.

You know, okay, all right. All right. All right. I'm reading the contents. If I need to mention the type of bread, I will. Okay. But I'm just going to read the contents. All right.

Number one. Sourcrow. Corn beef. Swiss cheese. Thousand Island dressing. Okay. All right. Chris, you say.

Rubin. Rubin. Rubin. It is Rubin and usually served on a rye bread. And some of these might be international. Okay. Okay. All right.

Peanut butter and marshmallow fluff. Oh. You know, originally I was going to do a quiz where I'm going to read each ingredient and then you have to buzz in. But if you buzz in wrong, then you get super penalized. So if I say peanut butter, you buzz and you're like, oh, it's going to be P.B. and J. You actually get it wrong because you didn't listen. All right. Chris. Fluffer nutter.

Fluffer nutter. Correct. And this is a New England. This is a New England thing. Yeah. Because the company that makes the stuff you got to put on it, marshmallow fluff, it doesn't travel very well. You know? Yeah, you don't find marshmallow fluff on the West Coast.

If you go to like a cost plus world market or something like that, you can find it. But that's like it. Yeah. And it's different. It's different from, like, you'd find, like, craft whipped marshmallow. Yeah. You know, in the sandwich aisle, maybe it's not the same thing. It's not.

Whoa, really? It is different. I've never had it before, the fluffer under. The original Fluffer Lerner. It's like a peanut butter and candy sandwich. Sounds like it. It's great when you're a kid, but as an adult, maybe not as much. But it is really good.

Okay. Salami. Mortadella. Mozilla. ham, provolone, and olive salad. The meats are mortadella, salami, ham, cheeses are mozzarella and provolone, and then olive salad. And here's a disclaimer. I mean, these are the common ingredients.

There might be some variants. There's some variants, but these are the common ingredients. Olive salad being your big differentiating factor. All right, answers up. Chris, you say. I don't know. I put the Italian combo. Oh, I would have said combo, but I said Italian heart attack.

I just put the Sicilian. This is known in New Orleans as a muffleda. Oh, I know that word. I've heard that word. I did not know that's what it is. Usually in a round bun bread. Not a bun, but it's round. It's not like in a slice or it's not in a submarine long bread.

Muffletta, yeah. I've heard that before. I did not know that's what it is. Yep, yep, yep, yep. All right. Next one. Ham, roasted pork, Swiss cheese, pickles, and mustard. ham, roasted pork.

Oh, everybody got it. All right, Chris. Cuban sandwich. Cuban. Cubano. Correct. It is the Cuban sandwich. And notably, it is also grilled around the bread.

It's like flat and kind of like a pressed sandwich. Panini. Yeah, yeah, panini pressed. Doing good, you guys. Doing good. Okay. Here's the next one. Assorted meats.

Assorted meats. It could be assorted meat. All right. Okay. Peppers. Salantro. Pickled carrots. And patay.

Assorted meats. Peppers. Cey. Pickled carrots. And paté. I expect everybody in this room to know why this. Chris. I put a Bon me.

Bon me. Bon me for me. Correct. Is Bon me? It's the pickled carrots think that pushed me over the time. See, for me, it's the paté. It was the paté that, yeah, that gave it to me. So, so, oh, not patte.

So, Bonnese is a famous Vietnamese-style sandwich. And what's interesting about it because it's Vietnamese, it also kind of shows that the traces of French colonialism through the pattee and through the baguette. The sandwich is in a baguette bread. But here's the thing. The name Bonnese applies to bread. It's not the sandwich. Now it's called the sandwich, but really it's referring to the bread. Yeah, very interesting.

That is. This is why I love the sandwich list on Wikipedia. All right. Okay, next one. Ingredients are peanut butter. Okay. Banana and bacon. What sandwich is this?

Peanut butter, banana, and bacon. Sounds tasty. to me but do we need a hint no no okay Dana's like okay okay okay okay hold on that's again

did they not prescribe this to you in the hospital no for nine months just eat this I mean now I'm like I feel like I've been missing out and then the hint I was Dana locked in her answer

but the hint is um the whole thing is deep fried afterwards all right Chris your answer oh I put the Elvis Correct. Oh, okay. I said the P, B, cubed. Pb cubed. Because it's P, B, B, B.

Oh. Colin? I put the Elvis Presley. It is called the Elvis. Another international one. Ingredients are French fries, salt and vinegar, or ketchup. What's it called?

BuzzFeed always puts a picture of this up. always so many times um has a very british jaunty name i got it i know it i don't think i know this one i know this oh you know what i'm gonna put yeah chris can say his answer last all right calling uh i just put the white boy it's not bad okay it's not the chippy that's the shop you get it from i oh it's like on the tip of my tongue it's is it british it's british i forget Chris. I believe this would be called in England a chip buddy or a BAP. Yes. A BAP.

A chip buddy or BAP. It is literally a sandwich of French fries and your preferred condiments. It's exactly what you imagine it looks like. Okay. It's not. There's nothing serious about it. What do they do to it? It's a very.

It's a very. French fries going to sandwich. It's very straightforward. Yep. Very straightforward. All right. Yes. A BAP.

Okay. Okay. Next one, we got a few more. Okay. Ham and cheese, bechamel sauce, and an egg on top. That's why I was waiting for the last bit there. Yeah, good one.

Ham, cheese, bechamel sauce, and an egg on top. I'm not saying it's not inside. That's why I have to. Oh, of course not. Not if you're making it right. All right. Am I right? Am I right?

Chris. Croke madame. Monte Cristo. croc madame yes croc madame is right yes croc monsieur doesn't have the egg no egg which is kind of kind of makes sense the lady one has the egg i don't know i'm not exaggerating when i have been in paris and i've been lucky enough to go to paris i have crook madame every day every day you well sure do you like it better than crook monsieur i do i like the egg yeah the egg is better yeah last one last one ham and cheese yeah

French toast and jam. All right. Chris. Monte Cristo. Monte Cristo. Monte Cristo. Monty Cristo. Yes, let's make a sandwich with French toast as the bread. Yeah.

Put some breakfasty stuff inside. There you go. That may have been like, I'm thinking back like my first introduction to the sweet and savory concept as a kid. You know, I was like, oh, you can do that. They put powder sugar. I don't know. I just don't like powder sugar on my sand. I am a member generally of the clean plate club, but like, we went to Disneyland.

Yes, they're famous for the Monte Cristo. The Blue Bayou restaurant that does the Monte Cristo. So we ordered this thing. They make a ham and cheese sandwich, you know, on bread and everything. Then they dip it in enough basically like donut batter to create a whole donut. But they cut it into triangles. And then they dip each piece in tons of batter. I ate half of this sandwich, and I was like, I literally cannot keep eating this sandwich.

It was like I had just eaten half a sandwich, but also it was covered in two donuts. Like two donuts. Like a Luther. Like a Vandross burger. Disney, straight up trying to murder me, wants me to eat two more donuts, another half a sandwich. Four donuts. At the same sitting and then go on the teacups. Well, you know, the Monte Cristo is all about.

Revenge, Chris. Yes, as in the phrase. And... Monty Cristo's revenge. Which I'm pretty sure is correct. That's all for my quiz, but I want to share some cool sandwich facts. Ooh, like sandwich highlights? Like, yeah, sandwich highlights.

You know, like, nobody... Because I try to find sandwiches that most people know. I'm not going to go to inside sandwich. Right. But, you know... Between the balls. We mentioned Dagwood before. It's named after the comic.

Yeah. There's a Dagwood sandwich. That's pretty much just a double, triple, quadruple, whatever, decker of anything. Yeah, just a giant, a giant sandwich. It's called a Dagwood with the Olive on top. My dad would have called, like, growing up a giant sandwich. I got yourself a Dagwood there. There is a sandwich called Guajolota.

Okay. And I'm sorry if I'm pronouncing it wrong. This is, this is in Spanish, guajolota. It is a tamale in a roll. Huh. Okay. So this is a tamale in bread. This sounds like the classic, you know, the classic Earl of Sandwich Sandwich where it's like, I want to eat with my hands.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Slap that sucker and some bread. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, maybe that is. I mean, tamales are already pretty easy to eat. But it's hot, it's hot, though. Okay, oh, true. It's steam.

It's like steam. They don't usually hold their. True. And also has the leaves and stuff. Yeah, you're right. I see this all the time. I didn't know how to had a regional name. A juicy loose.

Oh, I've never heard that. It is a cheeseburger with the cheese stuffed inside the meat patty. Oh, okay. Cheez stuffed meat patty is called a juicy lucy. Okay. Huh. Yeah. Sounds gross.

Yeah. No, but there's the hot dogs with the cheese inside. No, no, no, not that the cheese and the hamburger is like, it's a little blue. So, yeah, there's, I highly recommend the list of sandwiches on Wikipedia. Well, so let me ask you this, Karen. Because this has been a hotly debated topic on the internet over the last couple years. Oh, no, Colin, no. No, Karen.

I have to. She's our expert. The show, until this point, it's been so good. Is a hot dog a sandwich? Interesting. I say no. I say no. Like, I would say it is a sandwich.

The way, a hamburger is a sandwich because it's cooked meat inside of bread. But, and then I was like, oh, but is a corn dog a sandwich? And I was like, if a Monty Cristo is a sandwich. It's a slippery slow, people. Okay, so to me personally, and I'm no expert, but to me, it's all about sandwiches usually are, the contents are flattened. Yeah. Whereas a hot dog is circular and round. I'm with you.

Yeah. You know what? I shouldn't have dragged us, yeah. Colin, I told you. Into this morass of. No, I think if the content is horizontal, it is a sandwich. If the content is round. But what about french fries?

Well, that's between two slices of bread. That's flat. Once you eat it, it's flat. But you still eat it that way. All right. All right. All right. I have a music quiz. Let's cut this all. Rest you rescue us from this swamp. Also, I don't care. It's all good. It is themed. Okay. So be thinking about the theme. Okay. Okay. The theme is hero.

So no points for the theme because the theme is just hero. Okay. Every song title has the word hero in it. Some of those song titles might just be the word hero. If it doesn't have the word hero in it, it's because it has the word heroes in it. And maybe the song title is just heroes. Anyway, it doesn't matter what the song title is

because I'm going to play a clip from each of these pieces of music and I'm going to ask you for the artist. Okay. Wait, are we... And you are going to write down your answers. So here we go, looking for the musical artist of this piece of music.

Late at night I toss and I turn and I'm fresh from the fight I need a hero So yeah We were all singing it earlier But who Indeed musical number.

Karen says Pat Benatar Colin and Dana both say Bonnie Tyler. It is Bonnie Tyler. Yeah, that's who I was thinking about. Yes, that is correct. From the, and somebody said, was it from movie? It was from Flash Day. Yes. It's too many good songs

for that. Too many. It's a kind of maniac, many. All right. All right, we're going to get even more difficult now with song number two. A working class hero is something to be When they've tortured and scared you for 20 odd years

Then they expect you to pick a career Well you gotta write something down Oh, man. Got to take that chance. Take a chance. Maybe you're going to do good. All right. All right.

Karen has a couple things written down. Hold on. Everybody is locking in their answers. Colin wrote down something. Let's find out what everybody said. Karen was going to say Bob Dillam, Cross it up, put Van Morrison. Colin put Bob Geldof. Yep.

Geld off. And Dana put... I put free-fallen guy. And then I was like, oh, wait, Tom Petty. Tom Heddy, you're all wrong across the board because that's a working class hero by John Lennon and Plastic Ono band. Would have accepted just John Lennon. I was going to write John Lennon. I'm like, no, it's too obvious. It's too easy. Liverpool.

I'm both obvious and easy. Yeah, overthinking it. I'm both obvious. Overthinking it. And yes, and continuing with that theme, here is question number three. That's a song? Yeah. That's a song.

What's the title? Oh, the title is Heroes and Villains. All right, you got to lock in something. All right. Got to write down your best guess at something. Colin is locked in. Dana is locked in. Karen is writing down something here.

I'm, hold on. Oh, my God. I'm just like a guess. All right. All right. Karen says, question mark, question mark. Monkeys. Colin says the mamas and the papas.

And Dana says, fifth dimension. Is that like, no, that's fifth harmony. I don't know what fifth dimension is. They do a lot of like. Intense harmonies Gotcha Gotcha Yes

Well it was a group That did a lot of intense harmonies And it's the Beach Boys That is from Smile Yeah Once again

I was thinking Yeah I was thinking like I know Chris likes The Beach Boys I know they do vocal harmonies Yeah that was the

That was the big Circus Nighter song Yeah That was That was the I wrote down Gorillows first And then Chris said

I was like This is 70s Or 60s It is 60s It is like Oh it's not the grill listening. Here is a song that I'm sure you all anticipated

would be in such a quiz I'm going to write down my answer first. Okay. Oh, yeah, I have a guest too. Okay, great. Okay. Karen's going blind-n-n-nil. And here it is. And you can't go to face aside because you know you can survive

when you feel our hope is gone and a good strong and you'll finally know the truth that a hero lives in you Oh, no

where we'll be tomorrow In time Oh Is everybody in? Dana says Aretha Franklin Collins says Aretha Franklin And Karen says

Aretha Franklin. You have run the board. Yes, that is Aretha Franklin's cover of hero as made famous by Mariah Carey. Good job on that one. She has such a cool voice. Yeah, yeah. I think, yeah, I mean, I was kind of thinking that towards the end maybe you guys would get it if you were having a little trouble. So you did.

You came through for me. Good design. Good design. Thanks, thanks. Here we go. Ordinary Talk the best about Karen says creed,

Collins is Foo Fighters and Danes's Foo Fighters. Yes, it is Foo Fighters. It is Foo Fighters. I got mixed up with another stuff. My hero. footh fighters. I was like, is it a nickelbacker creed? I can see that. Guarantee that you here in the Good Jarbrain studio have never heard this song before. I guarantee that you have

heard this singer before. So let's play, listen to the voice of the singer and try to identify the band because it is the same band. It's just a deep cut. It's a deep cut. So try to listen for that voice and you might know it. Listeners at home, you may have heard this song and be like, Oh, yeah, this is a good song. Great deep cut, Chris. That's what they'll be thinking. Chris cut fries. There we go.

When you're in the moon, you may meet a man. Can't do anything good. Nothing good. But you're going to fit in. That does that That does sound I'm trying to think of what other song I've heard that's not writing. Oh, it should.

Trying to think of what other song I've heard that voice. It's not ringing a bell for me. You're going to love for my answer. this is not correct but yes if you don't get it I'll let you guys talk it out I think we're not I want to see us all reveal the same let's say this is yeah I want to say it's all reveal all right I wish you was all the same

it's probably for the best so Dana says Fleetwood Mac Colin says Fleetwood Mac and Karen says Hall and Oats that is indeed from right before Lindsay Buckingham joined Fleetwood Mac

that is Christine McVee singing I thought that was Christine McVee And you're correct If you're absolutely right That's her singing heroes I might overthink myself once Yep I might overthink myself twice

But I will be damned If I overthick myself three times Because it was me and Chris's Old Role when it was just us Two playing trivia If we don't know a vague band We just put haul in it

It works a lot. Again, have you heard the song? Maybe, maybe not. But the singer has a very distinctive voice. So again, that's something good to concentrate on here. And all one else can see. You know, I'll burn on me and my blood on you. What's to make you believe the only thing I would and do.

And you know. Heroes aren't been to survive Oh, geez Is it current or old? It's current. It's current. Just a couple of years old that song. So it's not old. Oh, man.

There are two bands, I think it could be, but I just wrote down. It is a solo artist. Okay, good. Okay, I'm going to give you all that hit. It's a solo artist in case you want to change your answer. You guys are right. I just go with whatever Chris likes.

Oh, well, now. Sometimes, sometimes that works and sometimes it doesn't. Hopefully when that work, and I didn't get on that train. All right. You got to get on that train. It's good. All right. I already wrote down a band before you said solo artist.

What's on the old iPod. Yeah. Call it wrote down Fun. Dana wrote down Mika. Karen Routon Mika. Yes. It is Mika. Yes.

It's not. Do you know music? Do you know Chris? I did not know Chris like to Mika. I did not know Chris liked Mika. And one more clip for you guys to round out this heroic music quiz. Here we go. Living on another fear,

you know nothing else we have. We don't need another hero. We don't need to know the way. Just might be young. The Thunderdome. Wow, everybody very quickly wrote down Tina Turner, and everybody is very quickly correct. Tina Turner, we don't eat another hero from... Mad Max.

...Beyond Thunderdome. Yes, indeed. Well, pretty good. Kind of a tricky music quiz. You guys came through with some of the trickier ones, for sure. Karen eventually caught on to the when in doubt just go with what I know. on Chris's iPod. Look, this is an iPod.

iPhone. All right, well. All right, that's good. That's good. Book Club on Monday. Gym on Tuesday. Date night on Wednesday. Out on the town on 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, of 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. I have a story for you guys that involves two heroes in one way of looking at it, all

in the food industry. Oh. Yeah. We like food. Yeah, all right. So I'm going to start us off here with, I want you guys to write down the answer to two questions I'm going to ask you. And if you guys get the answer to both of these, I'll be extremely.

impressed, I encourage you to just go ahead and guess. Okay. All right. And I promise you, these questions will be connected in the end. Question the first. What is the only national fast food chain restaurant prohibited from doing business in Mattoon, Illinois? Wow. So go ahead and you'll either know it or you won't.

Take a guess. Take a guess. National Fast Food Chain Restaurant, not allowed, by law, to do business in Matun, Illinois. Second question. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, how heavy is the world's largest bagel? How heavy is a lot? Actually baked? Take a guess. Closest to the pound will win here. Sure. Okay. Everyone got your answers down there. All right. Why not? Okay. All right. So hold you just hold your answers. Just hold on there. We'll come for a second. All right. This is a story that I stumbled across thanks to Atlas Obscura. I don't know if you guys, they're a fantastic website. I follow them on Twitter. They publish, you know, I mean, just in a nutshell, they write about unknown or little known or weird or obscure places. Big tip of the hat to them right at the top of my segment here. In Matun, Illinois, all right, in the 19.

In the 1950s, there was a husband and wife named Gene and Betty Hoots, H-O-O-O-T-S. That's a very 50s. It's such a 50s. Yeah, Gene and Betty, Gene and Betty Hoots. And they... Did they start Hooters? They did not start Hooters. If you wrote down Hooters, you're wrong.

It's not Hooters. That's where we celebrated Valentine's Day. That is. We did do that. How romantic. Not with each other. No, no. His baby was there, too.

Right, yeah. Oh, okay. The waitresses love him. Gene and Betty Hoots were getting into the restaurant business, and they bought an existing ice cream shop. The name of the ice cream shop was the frigid queen. Yes. Yes.

Yes. This is 1952. It sounds fancy. It does sound like the frigid queen. So they bought, it was an ice cream shop, and they, you know, in the spirit of the 50s, they added your burgers and fries to the menu, straight burgers and fries the menu. All right. And again, I'm quoting liberally here from Atlas Obscura.

In need of a name change, Gene suggested renaming the shop to the hot dames. But Betty pointed out that, quote, every queen needs a king. So, Gene registered the name of his new restaurant. They're changing it to as Burger King, in 1959. And on the advice of his uncle, who had owned the restaurant, restaurant before. They bought it. It was a within-the-family, frigid queen purchase. Gene, so he advised him, you know, you should register the name as an Illinois state trademark. So they did. All right. And, you know, that might seem like a meaningless distinction, but it turns out.

So Burger King, the national, famous, well-known chain Burger King, they started in the 50s down in Florida, and they hadn't gotten to Illinois until the 60s. Okay. So they started expanding into Illinois. They started setting up, you know, franchises in the state of Illinois, and the Hoots family filed a lawsuit, an Illinois state lawsuit, claiming, we have territorial rights to be

Burger King. You guys cannot come in here from out of town and be Burger King. The chain responded with a lawsuit. So this is a federal suit. Burger King of Florida Incorporated versus Hoots.

Yes. And They hired their fancy lawyers to go show down the local Mattoon, Illinois family. And the courts ruled on the Hootts side. They said that the Burger King could not operate anywhere within a 20-mile radius of Mattoon, Illinois. Okay. So Burger King, the franchise, still got the rest of the state. They could operate in the state.

That's right. So because the Hoots has just had the one restaurant, they didn't have a chain. You know, I mean, it seems fair. But they said, no, you cannot come into Mattoon and cause confusion. I guess. Although they had the trademark for the state, for the whole state. You know, being a good judge is about finding compromise, maybe. So Burger King, they lost. They obviously, they still want to do business.

They offered Gene and Betty Hoot's $10,000. It doesn't sound like a lot, even in 1960s dollars. That doesn't sound like a lot necessarily. Yeah. So they say, we'll give you 10 grand if we can, you know, if you'll lay down your claim and allow us to open up a restaurant inside the 20-mile radius. And they said no. They said no. We do not want your money. We do not want you operating. To this day, right now, today, if you're driving through Illinois, the closest Burger King to Matun is in Tuscola, 23 miles away, just outside the border.

And it's still operating. Still operating. You can still go there today. Yep. Yep. All right. So, the answer to the first question is if you guys put Burger King. No one. No one. Got it. All right. Well, so the Hootses in my book are, you know, just underdog hero. They are standing up for their family restaurant, standing up to the team of Lloyd. They were the first Burger King. They were the kind of one, but that's like a. Yeah. You don't think it's a amount of golfers. You've gotten like a royal, like every year get X percentage of burgers.

They own Burger King in Illinois. Yeah. So as I was doing research on the, this. original Burger King and Mattoon, Illinois. I noticed a couple times I would type in Matun and Google would auto-complete for me. I'd type in Matun, Illinois, and it would auto-complete world's largest bagel. And I'm not, all right. Well, now, now, I've fallen down enough trivia polls.

I've eaten some pretty big bagels. I want to see this. Now, let's flashback. I don't even know the exact episode, but Chris educated us once a while ago about the history of the Lenders Bagels Corporation. It's in the book. Yes, it is in the book. And Lenders, bagels, they're at least famous in the U.S., from Chris's home state of Connecticut, the Lender family, proud nutmeg nutmeg staters.

So, Chris, you were telling us a story about Lenders, one of their main innovations in the world of bagels was frozen bagels. Indeed. Right. So as part of the expanding Lenders Bagels Empire, you know, into the 1980s. They opened up a production, they opened up a bagel factory in Mattoon, Illinois. And because this is the 1980s, we're now overlapping echoes of good job brain passed. So lenders came to Matun, Illinois in the 1980s and basically said, all right, these are bagels, everyone. We're Jewish.

Jewish and these are bagels. So, scratching their heads. Murray Lender, who was the second generation running of the Lender fan, he was just Mr. Bagel. He was the number one cheerleader for bagels. He wanted the town of Mattoon, Illinois, to really embrace their new bagel. Dumb heritage.

Their new bagel, yeah, their pending bagel heritage. So they started, so under, with Murray Lenders very strong influence, the town of Mattoon, Illinois, started having and then he's Bagel Fest. Yes. Okay. A week long at one point, week long celebration of bagels and, you know,

music and crafts and foods and arts. You're really all around bagels, right. It sounds like these days it's down to now just, just a three-day affair. Oh, okay. Okay. Seven days worth of bagels being... I mean, it takes all week to get it through your sister.

Right, yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah. Yes, that was the motto of bagel fest. Eat it Saturday, poop it on Friday. You're good to go by next weekend. So, yes, the Matun, Illinois Lenders Bagel factory, at one point, making a million bagels a day. I mean, this is just huge, huge bagel center. So many bagels.

The bagels don't have a center. Oh, good night, everyone. Good night. Good night, good night, everyone. They decided, you know, one of the best ways to get publicity, is, you know, Guinness Record type stuff. So they decided, let's go ahead and create the world's largest bagel. So I'm going to show you guys a photo here, and I apologize to you, dear podcast listeners.

You cannot see this photo of a 563-pound bagel. That is basically six feet across in diameter, sitting on a giant scale in downtown Mattoon, Illinois. So this is the centerpiece, if you will, of Bagel Fest. It looks delicious. Yeah. So this was a child next to it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's like a being, that's like a child can, it's like a lazy river.

Yeah. Yeah. Like a pool flow. It is. It's like one of those giant size inner tube bagels. All right. So that was 1996, world record bagel, 563 pounds. Karen, what did you write down?

562. Amazing. Wow. I'm just stunned. Just imagine the cream cheese. Well, so now that was 1996, and they got them in the Guinness Booker World Records. You know, they came down to Matun, Illinois, certified it, had the bagel, people taking photos. Right.

All right. Two years later. What flavor? Oh. I'm guessing it would be plain. You know, I actually. You should have made it watermelon flavor with real big watermelons in there to wait it down. Or just like an onion bagel, but it's just entire onions.

Yeah. Like the weight is. Yeah, they're cheating. There's a whole onion. It's a lead bagel. Right. So I believe the original was just a plain bagel. All right.

Now, so two years later, 1998, they got such good press and such good recognition from the original record. They said, no, we're going to top ourselves. So Lenders bagels, they went and they produced a 714 pound blueberry bagel. Oh, nice. Yeah. Maybe on your idea, Chris, get some fruit in there and nice events, right? Make it, make it a little healthier. And again, it was paraded down Matun.

It was part of Bagel Fest. So I was just so blown away that this one town, you know, in Illinois, can not only have the, you know, Burger King basically excluded from town, but also the world's largest bagel. I mean, what else do you need? Me personally, nothing. Chris loves that's one of his favorite. I'm on, I'm on Orbits booking flight right now. Do you think they're finished eating it yet? Or do you think there's still some way?

Do you think people get to eat it? You know, that's, you know, so I read that they would march it in the parade and that it would be on display for a while. So I don't, I don't think anyone eats it. I think it kind of gets just, they kind of, yeah, wait until it gets a little gamey and maybe. Worms eat it. I got to tell you guys something, because every now and again I share a culinary thing that I learned. But we went back to New England. We went back, we visited a place with a restaurant, a breakfast restaurant in Maine with a very good job brain name.

Doc Hollandeys. Doc Holland days? Yes. Breakfast. Is the real Doc holiday from Maine? No. No. Okay.

No. They just like the pun. Doc Hollande days. Show up and we got some things. But then I was like, oh, I want to get a bagel. Can I have a bagel? And they said, yeah, do you want that toasted or grill? And then like my childhood memories came flooding back and being like, oh, that's right.

Like in New England, sometimes they would grill bagels. Wait, what do I mean grill? I mean, they take the bagel, cut it in half. They put it on a barbecue grill? Spread a thin layer of, no, so griddled, really. It's technically. They call it a grilled bagel, but technically it's griddled. So spread a thin layer of butter on it, do it on a flat top instead of doing it in the toaster.

Yeah, yeah. And then put cream cheese on it. And they eat it like that. Oh, that's like a grill cheese, like a surface of a grilled cheese. I got to tell you. I had this and I was just like, I eat a lot of toasted bagels and ate this grilled bagel. I was like, oh my God, it's so good. The heat kind of coming off of the grill really softens up the bagel.

It really makes it like so chewy and moist versus toasting, which dries it out. It's just delicious. And so I would really encourage you, if you have a nice, like, big, like, flat frying pan or a griddle or something like that, try griddling your bagels. I wonder if you could ask at a restaurant to do it because, like, they do it with, like, hamburger buns. They do, but it's so completely unheard of. Yeah. Yeah. All right.

Is there more? Well, just a little bit. It's a little bit of a bittersweet coda. I was trying to tag on to the end. No, I mean, it's, there's just so much just bursting forth. The company was sold, Lenders Bagels was sold in 2003. And I don't think this is a coincidence, but the very next year, Brueger's bagels of New York decided they were going to throw down the gauntlet and take over the world's largest bagel mantle. And they, in fact, have, unfortunately.

Since 2004, the world's largest bagel is now 868 pounds displayed at the New York State Fair. So Brueger's Bagels of New York has the current record. But I like to think that they waited until they sold the company because Murray Lender, it sounds like, was personally invested in having the Guinness World Record. It was almost like, this man is Mr. Bagel. Let's not take it away from him. Murray Lender, he died at 81 in 2012, and the, I'm taking this from a citation I found, the Washington Post called him, quote, the most important man in the modern history of bagels. Oh, a true hero.

No, no doubt. A true bagel hero. No doubt. So if you're a resident of Matun, Illinois, you are just steeped in history. Enjoy it. Yeah, enjoy it. Now I really want a bagel. Steve Cubine and Nan McNamara's podcast from Beneath the Hollywood.

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won an oscar on their very first film get your fix of old hollywood from stephen ann on the podcast from beneath the hollywood sign All right, my turn. I have one last quiz. All right. Oh, this is the surprise. This is a surprise. I have something to do with a theme, but these are questions first.

There's a theme, but don't think too hard on theme. Let's just answer some questions first. Okay, okay. All right. So cool, cool tech questions. All right. Busing in? Busing in.

Busing in. Speed skaters. Speed skaters. Where an underlayer made out of what material to protect. them from skate blade wounds in case if there was a fall or like a collision or you know a call it Kevlar correct did you know that already I did know that oh I was gonna guess that yeah because it would have a lot of trouble the skate wouldn't be able to cut through the Kevlar yes yeah so Kevlar famously more known in a bulletproof vest and stuff so-called bullet resistant vests

Yeah. How it works is it absorbs all of the energy, the impact of the bullet. And it just redistributes because Kevlar is made out of really tightly packed, like, fibers. Yeah. Yeah. But to me, it's so weird because bullet is a thing, whereas a blade is like a slicer. You know what I mean? It kind of seems different.

But yes, they wear it in case if one person falls, everybody falls or skates in your throat, Oh, my God. And so it helps them to. The speed skating states are really. Really sharp. Really sharp. Really, really sharp. All right, next question.

Tech mogul, Elon Musk of SpaceX and Tesla, recently announced that Tesla will begin selling what item later this year? I know. 2017. They will be selling what? Yeah. Tesla will be selling what? Dana. self-driving cars

incorrect no it's not the battery yeah the finding is the Tesla will be selling this item it has nothing to do with cars okay

and this is recently I feel like I was just yeah I feel like I just saw this well he is sending people to the moon I know but that's under space sets yeah okay what is it's under Tesla

a solar roof oh right right really when you think of solar panels I think of those giant big boar of the grids that live on top of your roof that you put on these things are crazy

they are roof tiles the solar panels is a sea roof tile that looks like normal roof tile and it comes in four different variations French slate that looks like slate rock there's like smooth that's like black and modern

and they tessellate like normal roofing tiles when you look at a house you cannot tell that there's solar panels. That's cool. That will be available this year to buy. That's right. That's right. All right. Next question. Where on your

car might find something that uses the simple arc, eccentric arc, or pantograph system. Where on your car? Can you find, let me repeat, the simple arc system, the eccentric arc system

or the pantograph system. Call it. Your windshield wipers Those are terms for the different movement and patterns of windshield wipers You know, I had to look up what Pantograph is Pantograph, we've seen it all before, I didn't know this is Kind of accordion, wooden, like a tracing drawing machine Tracing machine

You didn't have one of those when you were a kid? No, I had one of those times a kid. It's like a weird accordion thing and then you attach one pencil and then you draw with another pencil in it like recreates or scales Yeah. So that is kind of makes sense where they're all connected on one linear thing. That also makes sense that there would be like so many different fancy terms for the mechanism. The way you know, windshield wipers.

There's like, currently there's like eight different movements or configurations. There's like, you're with single blade and double blade. I love it. Video surveillance is sometimes commonly known as CCTV. What does CCTV stand for? Dana. Uh, closed circuit television? Correct.

Close circuit television system. Last question. What board game featured a lantern, cannon, and battleship? Lantern. What board game featured a lantern, cannon, and battleship? It is not battleship. It's not Battleship. It's not Battleship.

Monopoly. Lantern, cannon. Someone want to give me an answer? Is it risk? No, it is not risk. Data. Is it Monopoly? It is Monopoly.

Past tense, featured. Oh, right. That's right. We've even talked about that. Lantern, Cannon, and Battleship. All right. So, here we are. We got Kevlar.

We got windshield wipers. We got solar. panels we got CCTV we got monopoly there's something in common for all of these things say it again kevlar kevlar ccTV monopoly solar panels windshield wipers and this episode is about heroes yes i know karen loves batman are you going with that one really funny uh uh uh Kevlar CCT

invented by those very people I was like Kevlar No no Monopoly was by They're all invented by a woman Yes They're all invented by women

Lady Inventus I knew Kevlar Okay yeah I was like Kevlar yes Monopoly yes So Kevlar was developed by Stephanie Qualick Yeah at DuPont

Yeah at DuPont And it was kind of like One of those accidents I was trying to make this type of rubber and then this happened. Yeah, I think she was developing tires. I think was what she was working on. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Winshield wipers. So a lot of things, a lot of these inventions, like there might be other variants of it, but American inventor, Mary Anderson is popularly credited devising the first operational windshield wiper. When was that? When were those invented?

1903. Oh, wow. Yes. Oh, okay. So she's like, hey. Yes. These windows are getting dirty. It's real hard to see when it's raining.

Physicist Dr. Maria Telkees, or Telks, build the first home entirely heated by solar power in 1947. Wow. Good job. 1947. Good job. Yeah. And CCTV, the first commercial closed circuit television system became available in 1949 called Veracan. And what it was used for, it was to see.

who was outside your door. Oh, okay. Yeah, so all of these are some lady inventors who are real heroes of inventing some life-changing stuff. I like it. Maybe not Monopoly. No, Monopoly can be life-changing. It makes people angry.

That way. That's awesome. Cool. And that's our show. Thank you guys for joining me. I thank you guys, listeners, for listening in. Hope you learn a lot of stuff about hero sandwiches, lady inventors. songs, and uh, Mahoon.

Mattoon. Mattoon. You can find our show on iTunes, Stitcher, SoundCloud, Spotify, and on our website. Good job, Brain. And we'll see you guys next week. Road to 200. Bye. Bye.

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