Good Job, Brain! - 198: High and Dry

Episode Date: June 22, 2017

Time to wring out them brain cells and learn trivia and facts about things that are dry! Get out your map and compass in order to navigate Colin's desert quiz. Ever wonder what goes on in the back of a dry cleaning store and how dry cleaning actually works? Why ask why when you have Chris explaining the very strange and awesome story behind the dry beer craze of the 90's. It's Dana's turn of sharing an amazing animal story of a special creature that can survive dry conditions, and pretty much all other extreme conditions as well. And of course, we got a themed music round for all our pop culture buffs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Hello, proper proofers propelling into prosperous progress. Welcome to Good Job Brain, your not-so-regular quiz show and off-beat trivia podcast. This is episode 198, and I'm your humble host, Karen. And we are your special spitters of spectacular spadefuls of Spanacopoda and spare ribs. I'm Colin. I'm Dana. And I'm Chris.

Karen, did you ever feel not so regular? Ew. Quick special shout out to Brad, who I met two days ago at the Fargo, North Dakota Airport on a 20 person or so flight to Denver. He, I was talking, I was talking to a family about the race. You know, I was there for a marathon and he heard me and he approached me and he's like, are you Karen? And I was like, yes. He's like, oh, you're from Good Job, Brie and I love that podcast. And then followed it up, what are you doing in Fargo?

Yeah. That's a fair question. Marathon. It was a great marathon, great course. And he was one of the passengers on this little puddle jumper, 20 person. Yeah. Then, you know, the flights that you have to, like, you can maybe only fit a backpack up on top. Yeah, I've been on those.

The ones where they seriously distribute the passengers on the left and the right sides of the plane isn't imbalanced. Yeah. So that's nuts. All right, Brad. That's nuts, nuts, nuts. Is Brad a native Fargoite? Yes, he is. Fargoian.

Okay. All right. But Fargo's a cool town. Cold, but cool. Well, I would like to let you all know that I also, uh, I also, uh, was talking recently with a good job brain listener, my wife, who also was on an airplane, who also was on an airplane to Thailand recently and went to the Japanese chain of convenience source family mart in Thailand and brought us back some wonderful Thailand snacks for everybody.

Wonderful as in like quote wonderful. As in scare quotes around you be the judge. Oh, okay. Yo, we're reviving our taste test segment. Surprise taste test. Are we guessing what they are? Or are you going to show it? Or are you going to tell us?

And we evaluate how close it is to the mark. Yeah, here, I'll shake them. I'll shake them. It's like a mystery box. And then you can say what it is. Did you hear that? I'll shake them again. It sounds like a coated candy treat to me.

Sounds like nuts. Ooh, you're both probably very close. These are delicious, delicious cheese. And barbecue-flavored insects. Oh, my God. We've got some, a bag of, again, this is right off the racket, family mart in Thailand. Is it cricket? Is it crickets?

It's adorable. This is crickets. We got some barbecue, crispy small crickets here. You can pass that around. It's a picture of a real cute cricket cooking crickets. It is. Yes, it is. And this is a picture of a adorable little silkworm holding some cheese with little hearts over is.

head. He loves cheese. I'm not sure I trust a cricket who cooks other crickets and then sells them. No, he's just cooking normal barbecue. Oh, you're right. Okay, I see. He's true. He's grilling vegetables. True, true, true. All right, let me see this one. Recently, good job, Braden fans on Facebook. You probably saw

a video I shared. It was the growth, a growth progression of Hercules beetle, which is a very, very large, shiny, beautiful beetle. Yeah. Kind of gross growing up. It's like a fat, are we all? Fat grub. Yeah. I mean, it goes through an awkward phase.

If you saw a time lapse of me growing up, it'd be pretty gross, too. I have to have been. It smells, I mean, yeah, it smells like bugs coated in barbecue powder. Really? Yeah, it's got a bug flicks. I will at least take a look. I will at least take a look. You're not going to try it?

I'm in one step at a time. You're going to look first? I would try ripping it from the top that you got to rip it down from the top on one of it. Grubs, scrubs creeps creep me out. I can't even look at it. When I was in elementary school, we raised, no, not for eating. We raised those kind of worms. Like, I think we put them in oatmeal or something, and they, like, cleaned themselves out.

Somebody killed them. I was a little kid, so it wasn't me. But then we chopped it up and put it in cookies. You made cookies with them? This was in elementary school? Elementary school. How did the silkworms? Ooh, the cheese-flavored silkworms have a heady aroma.

Oh, really? I'm not, I don't know. Yeah, I can't be successful. Well, I'm going to do it because I... Okay, I'll be a good sport. I'll eat the cricket. Oh, my God. That looks so gross.

Oh, yeah. I forgot Karen has a thing about bugs. Here, Colin. She shook them all out in front of where she was sitting. Now she can't sit there anymore. Okay. Here we go. It's protein.

Yeah? It tastes like a cheesy snack. It's all in my teeth. It tastes nutty. Yeah. It tastes nutty. Good job, guys. It's not my favorite.

It's not my favorite, I have to say. The psychology of it being looking like. The cricket is pretty dusty, and I could see that working as a flour, because as soon as you bite into it all disintegrates. It disintegrates. Yeah. That was not, okay. Yeah. Well, I did it. I did it. I did it, everybody.

You did. You did do it. I ate a silkworm. So which is better, which is better, Chris? The fact that it sort of evaporated, you know, kind of hits you as a fine powder is maybe not as appetizing as the silkworm, which really tasted like kind of eating a snack. Yeah, like a bad chito, you know. Chris, you are, without a doubt, I would say you're. probably our most adventurous eater on the team. Thanks, Regina. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Buying us these snacks that we're not. I'm glad I got to see them. Yeah, and I like that we got to smell them. That's right. That's right. I'm working my way up. I'm working my way out. You eat the cricket.

I have some more animal-related trivia. Not trivia, but kind of news. A couple episodes ago, we talked about Yale's new mascot. Oh, yeah. Handsome Dan. The 18th? The 18th was out? Oh, I've forgotten.

18, what made the headlines is instead of a traditional English bulldog, it is a kind of a newish breed. They're breeding them to kind of resemble the bulldogs of like 100, 200 years ago. That's more athletic. And healthier. Yeah, healthier. Old English bulldog giggi-g-e. It ends with GGE in an old way. I just want to remind everybody to follow Handsome Dan 18 on Instagram because, boy, does that bring me joy every day?

This dog, they just put this dog like, you know, on the field, doing different things. And the look, the bulldog look, they just look like they did something wrong all the time. Like he's being scolded, you mean? Yeah, like, oh. I messed up. He's like a little dog, like sitting on big statues or in the library or whatever. I highly recommend. And the other animal related news I suggest people read up on is Fiona, the premature baby hippo.

at the Cincinnati Zoo I heard about Fiona Yeah She's doing Man she's doing good Like it's a miracle How she survived She was born premature

And so required like You know oxygen tubes And you have all these like Very very dedicated vets And expert kind of Help her grow And she was really underweight You know

Especially for a hippo And they have to like Basically isolate her from her parents And but they're doing great work It's great to read about Her progress also brings a smile To everyone So Brin

brighten up your day with those animal celebrities is there a hippocam that we can watch there must be right well they have a lot of videos okay all right don't worry okay don't worry coli so there's no 24-7 live feed no well what is wrong with moderate yeah hippocam yeah cool without further ado let's jump into our first general oh wait i have some further ado oh okay if i may um there would there was a there was a there was a uh a correction sent in so it's time for a very brief segment that we like to call um actually um yeah so i had a music quiz and i said i'm just going to get this out there i said that uh the bonnie tyler song uh i need a hero was uh from the movie flash dance was not it was from the movie footloose i see i hope you can see how i might have gone wrong they're in the same we all thought 80 movies beginning with they're the same galaxy ending with e yeah

It's about dancing. Highly danceable. Highly danceable both of them. Well, because there's that angsty solo dancing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, they both have intense dancing. You have intense dancing.

I was just thinking of the wrong intense dancing. It is from footloose. And, of course, many of our listeners right now are turning to their parents and saying, Mommy, Daddy, what's a footloose? Yes. And how does it differ from a flash dance? Now, without further ado. Yes.

The adduous. Yes. let's jump into our first general trivia segment pop quiz hot shot and here I have a random trivial pursuit card and you guys have your barnyard buzzers so let's buzz in answer some questions listeners wherever you are yell out the answers too all right all right here we go oh this is what it's you know I used to love getting 90s but we just keep getting 90s well you know what everyone we do will burn through and closer to the end you know yeah they don't have to be random cards. You know, if you want to start picking out

some different cards on your own. Should I? I think you should. You can exercise editorial discretion here. All right. Baby boomer, it is. There we go. Okay. All right. Be careful what we wish for. That was the worst advice. Yeah. Thanks, Chris. Good luck, guys. All right. All right. TV.

Okay. What show featured the incurable neurotic Elliot Carlin? Elliot Carlin. Incurable neurotic. Oh, Dana. The Odd Couple? Incorrect. Collin.

Was this Bob Newhart show? Correct. There you go. Yeah. Because he played a psychologist or psychiatrist. I forget which he was. He was one of the two, yeah. All right.

For SS, I'm not sure what that stands for it. What character did Johnny Sheffield play in a series of 11 jungle movies from 1949 to 1955? Chris. Tarzan, Lord of the Apes. Incorrect. Who is it? Jungle movies.

1949 to 50 series of jungle movies. Georgia of the Jungle? No. It's like a good game. I was going to guess Tarzan, too. The answer is, Bomba. Okay, I've never heard that before. Baby boomers out there, no.

Yeah. All right. For National News, N-N, what Apollo mission marked man's first trip outside Earth's gravity? Oh. Colin. Five. Incorrect. Chris.

Apollo 3. Incorrect. Four. Incorrect. It is eight. Oh. Eight. I feel like we could have known that.

We could have known that one. Yeah. First one outside Earth's gravity. Oh, this one we'll get. This is everybody kind of a question. What author's first three names were John Ronald Rule? Oh. Everybody, no

J.R.R. Tolkin. Marr. J.R. R. Yeah, Martin. Cool. For L.T. literature, what did yoga exponent L.S. Rao

failed to do on water in 1966 before 600 paying spectators? Colin. What is? walk. Yes. And I know I didn't need to phrase it in the form of a question.

Failed to walk on water. That's a lot of people to assemble and then not be able to pull off that trick. Watch this. Yeah. Was this a magic trick? I believe that he believed. He could do it. Okay.

This is something worth following up on. All right. Last question. RPM for records. What did the old man play knick-knack on a number eight? My gait My gait Incorrect

Is it my knee? Incorrect No number eight? Yeah On a crate No Let's keep going Wait this old man

Gate My knick on my thumb Well it has to rhyme Plate Plate Plate It's got a comment It's got to be a

This is like the knick neck pat Is it that? This old man He played one He played knick-knack on my mom, and then it's, yeah. I wonder if there are variations, because I don't think we said plate. They're Muspies. I think Kate was the one I heard.

Oh, well, maybe not for the baby boomers. Not bad, not bad, yeah. And, you know, I feel like it's, I feel like it's opened our minds. Yeah. Yes. Okay. Bomba. Bomba.

I'm going to look that one up. Yeah. That sounds like a cut rate Tarzan. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not Tarzan. He's Prince. of the apes, you know, prince of the primates, archduke of the jungle snakes. Majority whip of the apes.

This week's topic, it's kind of general, and it's, we decided just like the crickets that kind of powdered into nothing in Chris's mouth, we're going to talk about things that are dry. Dry. Dry. Whether if it's wit, whether if it's a drink, whether if it's weather, if it's a drink, whether if it's weather. Mm-hmm.

Feeling dry. So this week, we're leaving you. High and dry. High and dry. Don't leave me high. Don't leave me dry. Try. Don't leave me.

So that we might continue limbering up our brains in preparation for this, this heady episode of things of dry things. I have put together a little list of idioms, English language idioms, that use the word dry in some sort of metaphorical sense, such as leaving you high and dry to abandon someone, yep. So let me ask you guys this. Can you think of another idiom? that means to abandon someone and that uses the word dry that is not leave them high and dry dry dry docked drying on the line no it's like hanging oh

leave someone hung out to dry precisely hang them out to dry or leave someone hung out to dry to abandon them I was like it's laundry related yeah so get out your buzzers here is an English language expression that means to stay alert or to take care Colin

Keep your powder dry Precisely Keep your powder dry Meaning don't let the Don't let the gun powder for your gun get wet Keep on the lookout and yeah Be cautious Because if the gun powder gets wet

It won't useable anymore Right exactly Yep so keep your powder dry A rehearsal Everybody Dry run. Dry run. Yes, yes, yes.

Boring, as in a movie or a play. Just dry? Well, sorry. A colloquial expression that something was very boring. Yeah. You came out of the movie and you thoroughly bored by the whole thing and somebody asked you, what was that movie like? Watching paint dry. Like watching pink.

Oh, sorry I didn't buzz in. No. It was too excited. That's it, though. To take all of someone's money. Oh, no. Yeah, I think I had to say it. Yeah, I was like, take him to the...

No. Take him to the dragler. To take someone's... To take all of someone's money? Yeah. An expression means to take all of someone's money. Leave me dry, leave them dry. To try them out.

Try. Drying. Oh, to bleed them dry. To bleed them dry. He's like, dry up the sponge. And finally, a phrase that means that someone is mature, grown up, responsible. Dried out. Oh.

Oh, dry behind the ears? Yes, that's it. We often hear wet behind the ears to mean immature, not grown up, irresponsible, but dry. behind the ear. Oh, I haven't heard that. Yeah. What's an obsession with ears? No, no. Well, it's like, like, newborns, right? Isn't that like they're wet behind the ears? I think that's the idea. Okay. Or you're, yeah, you're too young. Who knows? Yeah. All right. Relatively, I, it wasn't until I was researching, I was like,

oh, dry has no vowels. The word dry. Well, why? Well, yeah, well, no A, A, E, I, OU. Yeah, right. It's got the sometimes. What is the longest word? What is the longest common word that It does not have A, E, I. It's not rhythm, or is it rhythm? It is not rhythm. Man, we've had, I feel like we've had this a pub quiz. Yeah, is it a common word, not zizigy? No.

Okay. Well, rhythm is six, so it's got to be longer than six letters. Rhythm is a dancer. Okay, I'll be not tricky. Rhythum's. Oh, my God. So that's it, huh? Rhythum's.

Okay, okay. All right, so I want to introduce you to very, very, important figure in American history Thomas L. Jennings Thomas L. Jennings was the first black man to receive a patent in America. Yes. This is back in slavery times. So in the 1700s, 1800s.

He was actually born free in New York, so he was not a slave. And in his early 20s, he was a tailor. This patent he got, he devised a way to clean clothes, delicate clothes, without getting them wet. And one of the forerunners

for dry cleaning. And he developed this process called dry scouring, which sounds a little bit more, yeah. Sounds intense. Yeah, it sounds like there's some scrubbing involved. And the patent was awarded in 1821.

And here's the thing, why this is a big deal. Slaves at this time could not patent their own inventions, wherever, because their effort was the property of their owner. Right. And so this regulation was, you know, this U.S. patent law dates back into 1793. Since he was born a free man, he was able to have a patent for himself. And it wasn't until that in 1861 patent rights were finally extended to slaves. So they're still slaves then, but then they can get a patent.

Yeah, yeah. And the thing is, he profited Thomas. Jennings profited a lot from being this person who could dry clean clothes, especially in New York City. Oh, yeah. He was able to make a lot of money. He used the income from this to free the rest of his family who were slaves. He was able to fund all these abolitionist causes. Super cool.

So what is this dry scouring that he invented, which eventually became what we know as dry cleaning? Wizardry. We don't know. It was wizardry. The exact chemicals or method that he used was lost because it was destroyed in a fire. In 1836. So we know there was a patent. We just don't know what it is.

But people... It's chemicals, though, right? It's chemicals. Yeah. Dry cleaning at that time, we do know dealt with turpentine, kerosene, benzene, gasoline, anything that is petroleum-based as solvents to dry clean clothes, which kind of makes sense because his patent was burned in a fire. And they used candles a lot at that time.

You're coated in kerosene. Yeah. Yes. So let's rewind back into where the origin or many origins of what became modern dry cleaning began. And dry cleaning actually the process or the process of using non-water to clean clothes dates back to like ancient Rome and other cultures, yeah. So they

used Fuller's Earth, which you mentioned in an episode before Colin. Which was the kitty litter? Yes. Yes, kitty litter. They would mix it with ammonia that is taken from urine from public bathrooms. So kitty litter. Yeah. Just use kitty litter. It's funny that they used human litter. They used pee

to clean, clothes back in the day. Waste not want not. Yeah, exactly. So Fuller's Earth. Earth. But most people would attribute dry cleaning to a French guy called Jean-Baptiste Jolie of France. And this is around the same time as Thomas Jennings. And this French dude had this is, I don't know if it's one of those nice origin stories, like a like a cute origin story over it's actually, you know, real or made up. But the story goes, his made spilled kerosene or turpentine or whatever. It's fake. It's fake. On a tablecloth. And then he

realized, after it evaporated, like, the spot seemed a lot cleaner, so he decided to dunk the whole thing in kerosene or turpentine, and then turns out it's so clean. So he became a maid. I wonder who invented this process. Was it the person who had to clean the tablecloth or the person who lived in the house with the tablecloth? I observed. She's like, uh-huh, I just happened to spill it.

This is what I've been doing. You just happened to be standing here this time. So during that whole time in the 1800s, you know, dry cleaning did exist, but they were using super highly flammable and toxic chemicals to clean clothes. So many cities required these dry cleaning stores to be not in the city, to be, you know, outside and, you know, outskirts of the city because there's a chance that it might blow on stuff. Right, right, right. You know, clothes were clean, but they, they, they. they might smell toxic or it might be toxic. A lot of off-gassing.

Yeah, exactly. And finally, you know, in early 20th century, they're like, there's got to be a better way. And also because now into coming into World War II, there was a petroleum shortage. People latched onto a chlorine-based solvent called, whew, perchlori-ethylene. Okay. Short name is Perk. Perk. Perk.

became the go-to solvent for dry cleaning from World War II to now. 85% of our current dry cleaning use perk as the chemical. And here's a thing. It is not as flammable. It's a lot better than what people were using. But the EPA and many other agencies are kind of concerned about, you know, the carcinogenic properties and the toxicity. Dry cleaning places always have that particular odor, you know. There might be signage, and, you know, especially where we are in California, declared Perk to be a toxic chemical.

And then we'll become illegal here by 2023. Oh, really? Yeah. So, well, how do you clean your clothes, you know, through dry cleaning if you're not using Perk? The greener places are using liquid carbon dioxide, which is a very kind of a harder and more complex process for a lot of these laundry shops to do. But it does exist. or they use like silicate-based solvents. But I think the whole technology is kind of progressing.

They're moving. Let's not use, you know, super poison to dry clean our clothes. And despite the name, I mean, they are liquids, you know, I mean, like it's, you know, you think dry cleaning. So here's the thing. Until I researched this, I had no idea what's involved in dry clean. So I would go to a laundry shop and you see like all the racks of, you know, on the moving conveyor belt. I love that thing. I thought that was like, they just kind of put that through a car wash or something.

You just spray it. Yeah, yeah. I thought it was spray. I didn't know what exactly the dry cleaning process is. I imagine like dry shampoo. I'm like powder. Yeah, like how does that clean your hair? Like carpet like like the carpet cleaner, you know. Well that you put down and you vacuum it up. But like dry shampoo. You're just putting your head. And then you go out apparently. I don't know. But you're right, Colin. It is not. dry. It's still wet. It just doesn't use water. And what actually happens in dry cleaning is it kind of looks like washing your normal clothes. Instead of washing it with water, they dump the solvent in and then they dry it to a certain temperature and it just all evaporates off. But for me, I was like it was a mystery. I was like, what goes into the clothes car wash? Yeah, well, because you never, it's not like you can really see the machines there, you know? Yeah. Kind of just disappears into the back of the shop.

And it comes back with a, we love dry cleaning, like, a paper on it. That's just so funny, it's like, yeah, we clean your clothes with kerosene. Like, for a while, they had a, like, they had factories, like, out in the countryside. So you would drop your clothes downtown and they would take it leave town and do all this and then have it back. It's like the dynamite factories. Yeah, it is. You need to go way on the outskirts of the. Exactly.

Just in case you don't wipe out the whole block. But, yeah, so there you go. Thomas James, very interesting. Very cool. That is. Ever dreamed of traveling the world with your children without leaving your home? Tune into Culture Kids podcast to embark on an incredible adventure right where you are. At Culture Kids, we collaborate with cultural organizations, authors and educators from all over the world to expand our children's horizons,

inspiring them to embrace our differences while bridging communities worldwide. And that's Culture Kids Podcast. Here's your passport. Let's go. Oh, boy. Well, I hope you guys get lost in the desert. My desert quiz. Oh. Get you.

Good one, call. I don't really hope you guys get lost in the desert, even metaphorically. Because that's bad. I don't want you to get lost in the quiz. I want you to answer these questions correctly. Find our way out. I want you to find your way through the desert. Find the oasis.

Yes. I have a quiz about and related to. and using things desert-related. Okay. Because those are dry. Those are quite dry, Karen. Yes. This will be a write-down quiz,

only because I think there's a couple questions in here that I think could be fun to see what you guys come up with. Oh, goodness. Varying answers. It's a humiliation factor? No, just more for my entertainment factor. All right, fair enough. So get your dry desert thinking caps on.

We're going to write down some answers here. Here we go. Number one. what is the world's largest desert This becomes like What really counts as a desert? Yeah, so I'm glad you said that, Karen, think about that What counts as it?

What is a desert? What does it mean to be a desert? It's like low precipitation Yeah Yeah I don't feel like Is it a country? Are we writing a country or a desert?

the name of the desert the name of the desert you know if you're if you're not sure you can take a guess if you're getting close enough here just write down you know go with your gut here as you say Karen remember a desert is defined mainly by precipitation or lack thereof I feel like this is such a hint but I'm still going to get it wrong all right answers up so let's see what we got here I say Karen and Chris have both written Antarctica and Dana has written Sahara I was thinking Antarctica, and then I was like, I don't know maybe is the Arctic. It is, in fact, Antarctica. Yeah.

Yes. The Antarctic Desert. Oh, yeah. I will accept, I will fully accept Antarctica. Yeah. The Antarctic Desert is, in fact, the largest desert. The Arctic Desert is the second largest. So our two biggest deserts, yeah, are the polar desert, right?

The Sahara is the third largest desert. Oh, non-polar. The largest hot desert. Yeah. Yeah. But, you know, I mean, again, it's, we. all, you have to fight against the impulse of desert equals hot. Yeah.

And in fact, a lot of the biggest deserts are what they call cold deserts or polar deserts, yeah. I should have got it. I mean, you were giving the clues, telegraphing the clue. Like, maybe Colin's tricky. I don't know. I wasn't trying to be too tricky. Yeah, so to be a desert, basically, the general

definition is no more than 10 inches of rain a year. Oh. Sorry, not rain, 10 inches of precipitation. So that can include rain, snow, fog, I mean, frost, mist, yeah, frost, dew. And any way, any way you get your water.

Yeah, 10 inches, 250 centimeters. A third of the earth is desert of some form or another. Yeah. Sadly, that is the limits of my knowledge about deserts. So everything else from here. You got the trick one. Yeah, we all know the trick one. You all got the trick one there.

All right. What is the name of the desert planet prominently featured in the original Star Wars movies. Oh, my God. Featured in almost all of the original movies, five out of the six movies. Take a guess. Okay.

Star Wars movies. Answers, yeah, it's somewhere in there. All right, answers up when you have them. Chris and Karen say Tatooine, which is the correct answer. Dana, to her credit, does have a Star Wars planet. She's put an Alderon. which is where Princess Leia grew up. Yes, no.

Tatouine is the answer. But I got blown to bits. It did get blown to bits. They talk about it. They do. They do. They did a lot. Yeah, luckily, Leia was not on it as it happened.

Yes. Tatooine, Desert Planet, has two sons. Their primary export is Skywalker's. Wait, what is their primary export? Nothing really. I mean, they're kind of a barren outpost. Okay. Yeah, most, you know, I'm so glad you asked, Karen.

Most of the planet. Oh, God. Most of the planet is actually uninhabitable. Sorry, I'm not going to go. We'll stick with movies here. This 1994, cult classic, won an Academy Award for Best Costume Design, in large part due to its main characters' flamboyant outfits. 1994. Colt Classic.

Flamboyant Outfits Are you keeping score? You are keeping score For my own Just for my own Just for my own interests Remember the category

Remember the category I'm thinking about the category Okay Karen and Dana are locked in Chris is Moving the pen It's about The pen is making marks

Answers up Chris says the mummy I like it's not It's not it's not It's not be bad Dana and Karen, however, have written the correct answer, which is, you know, I'll give you guys again, close enough. The proper full name is The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. You guys have both written Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, close enough for Colin.

I will give you guys the point. I never heard of that movie. It's the Australian drag. It's Hugo Weaving. Yeah, Hugo Weaving. A young guy Pierce. Literally never heard of it. Terrence Stamp.

You've never heard of that? You've never heard of that? They lip sync to, yeah, to like fabulous music. They're crossing the desert in Australia. Priscilla's the name of the bus. Yeah, yeah, or their RV or their vehicle. Not to be confused with... Was that the spoiler at the end of the movie?

Turns out it was a bus. Turns out it was a roseboat. Not to be confused with... Thanks for everything, Julie Newmark. Yeah, not to be confused. All right. Anyone's game so far. Next question.

what is the largest city in the Mojave desert our very own Americas oh america's mohavi desert largest city by population largest city by population yes also probably by area those tend to go head and hand not always oh my gosh largest city by population this is a good question it's a fair question i don't even know I don't know where this is. Like, I'm guessing. It is in the southwestern part of our fair nation. Largest city in the Mojave Desert covers parts of four states. Oh, the desert.

The desert itself, not the city, yes. I have driven through the Mojave Desert. You guys may have driven through the Mojave Desert. I don't know. Answers up. Okay. Dana and. Hold on, no, no, no, no.

Okay. Dana and Chris have written. Phoenix and Karen has written Karen wrote Phoenix crossed it out wrote Las Vay crossed that out and is now starting to write Phoenix again that's too bad Karen because I'm going to hold you to Phoenix the answer is Las Vegas. Yes Las Vegas, Nevada the largest city. Next question. The Desert Fox was the nickname given to this decorated German commander. During World War II, Desert Fox, named given to him by British journalists, apparently, for his exploits.

Don't know how to... I will not hold you to spelling. Just phonetic is close enough for me. I don't know how to say it either. Answers up. Dana and Chris have written Rommel, Erwin Rommel, yes, which is the correct answer. Karen has been Goebbels.

No, also a big figure, certainly, in the German structure. Why is it called Desert Fox? Because he was really, really good at commanding the desert troops, particularly in North Africa. He was just widely considered, I mean, both by Germans and the, you know, the Allied forces to be just a really smart, tactically minded guy. He was a huge hero. He was like a total popular folk hero in Germany. and, as it turns out, that may have softened his punishment. He was part of the plot to kill Hitler.

You know, so the details are a little murky, but basically Hitler, when he found out, you know, and was having all these people executed and punished for trying to have him assassinated, because Rommel was such a hero, he kind of went to him, like, I don't know if you guys have seen the Godfather, but he kind of did like a Frankie Pentangeli thing. He's like, you know, you're such a hero, I might let you kind of just, off yourself and keep your, keep your honor. And that's more or less what happened. It's, there's a lot of just drama in that story.

Switching gears dramatically here. Okay, okay. The music video, the music video for this hit, 1999 song featured the artist being chauffered through the desert in a sleek new Jaguar, after which Jaguar featured the song and video prominently and their ads. 99. For two points.

Named the song. 1999. Remember the theme of this round. The Desert Quiz. Name the song and the artist. Karen has something confidently writing down. I'll give you guys a hint. Karen does not want a hint.

I don't know the answer, but I'm just deducing. The year. Can I give a mild hint? Karen, the word desert is in the name of the song. song. Oh, okay. In case you were wavering. You wanted the artist and the song?

I'll give you the two points here, possible. Is that 99? Okay, well. All right, answers up. All right. Karen and Dana have written the correct answer, which is Sting and his song Desert Rose. Chris has written Desert Flash Dance, which I will give half a point to. You're not far.

I will give half a point to Desert Flash Dance. Yeah, I didn't realize this until reading this, that he had the Jaguar in the video first, and then, like, he and his manager went to Jaguar, and they're like, hey, don't you think this would make for a great commercial, as opposed to, like, you know, really cynical product placement. So I see. I assumed. I had just assumed. But he got money for it, right? Oh, yeah. You better believe.

Yeah. License music of a commercial. No, Sting was the one who was cynical about the product placement, not Jaguar. Exactly. Yes, well said. All right, last question. This country is home to the Great Sandy Desert and the Great Victoria Desert. This country home to both the Great Sandy Desert and the Great Victoria Desert.

Anyone's game answers up. Karen says Tunisia. Chris says Canada. Dana says Australia. Dana has the correct answer. It is Australia. Oh, and I didn't even work in this bonus trivia nugget. The name Tatouin comes from a city in Tunisia, which is where they filmed a lot of those desert scenes.

I had a feeling, Karen, that might be why you put Tunisia. Yeah. So, all right. Well, good job, guys. You made it largely through the desert. Well, I don't think it could be a good job brain episode if we didn't talk about weird animals, right? If we didn't have a weird animal segment. So I'm going to tell you guys about tardy grades.

Or they're also known as water bears. Oh, those are cute. Yeah, and other cute nicknames for them are space bears, pudgy wedgies, and moss piglets. Oh, Ross Piglin, that's a good one. I haven't heard some of those. I don't have water bears. I've heard water bears. I'll call them water bears.

That's easier. So they're microscopic creatures. They're tiny, and they're usually about half a millimeter big. The largest they get is one and a half. I'll tell you what they look like. I was scared to them for a second because, like, water, you know. Water bears. Those swimming, watch out for water bears.

I mean, you still might. It's like a new thing I got to watch out for now. The sharks were bad enough. So they kind of look a little bit like squishy bears. except they have eight legs and their face is just like a round hole with sharp teeth. Like they're like, what's the real name? They're called Tardigrades. Tartagrades.

And they were called that because they're slow walkers like tardy. Oh, no. Like when they saw, you know, they're just kind of tuteling around. When you look at them, they're like, oh, bless their heart. So they're found all over the world. They usually live in dirt and they eat moss and algae and lichen. But what's really significant about them is that they are really tough. They are one of the most resilient animals in the world.

One of the most resilient animals we've ever found. They can survive extreme heat, extreme cold, pressure is greater than like the deepest parts of the ocean time six. Whoa. They've sent them to space and they came back and they had babies. Really? Yeah. Like in the vacuum of space. In the vacuum of space.

Oh, not like on a spaceship. They put them on a satellite. They put thousands of them on a satellite. They sent them to space. They were in space for 10 days, like with all the pressure and the solar radiation. And the lack of air. Yeah. They came back and there were a bunch that were still alive.

There were ones that laid eggs, had healthy babies. Oh, my goodness. Wow. How do they survive these extremes? Yeah. Is it their shell? Kind of. They do it.

They go into a cripple. Biotic state. That's what they call it, where it's almost like they're dead. It's like mega high radiation. They dry themselves out. They pull in their head. They slow their metabolism to 0.01% of the normal rate. Kind of like a sea monkey, right? So sea monkeys, so sea monkeys, they lay their eggs and little cysts and they can be dried, but not for, not for this long, not forever. So, but really what's going on is that their DNA has some cool protein stuff going They can repair their DNA when they come back in the water. What?

They're the only animals we found that can do this, and they're actually figuring out that we can take their proteins and put them in other things, and other things, and it repairs the DNA. It's like Wolverine. Yeah, it's like Wolverine. This is how we're going to get to. We're going to get it.

Waterbears are the key. Just eating them by the handful. As I understand how medicine works. Oh, man. Oh, okay. Get some cool claws made out of water mirrors. So, like, how did they, it almost seems like something they would discover accidentally, like how hard, how hard.

Oh, did they? Okay. They did. They, um, whoops, I lucked it in space. They live in dirt, and they can't control whether or not there's going to be a drought or they're going to get dried out. And so somebody put water on it, and then, like, they sprung back to life. So they figured out they can be dried out for 10 years.

And somebody, somebody was like, oh, I found one. It was dried out for 120 years, and I put water on it and it's leg moved. Oh, my God. But nobody has been able to replicate that. So maybe put water on it and the leg moved. I don't know. We don't know. Can they survive in, yeah.

Can they, so they can survive in extreme conditions? What about, like, in other substances? Can they, like, survive in acid? Mm-hmm. They, they repair their DNA. They, you can put them in something crazy. Even if they get frozen with water and, like, that burst their cells. Like, if not all of them get burst, they can.

Wow. They can repair themselves. There are many wolverines. They're not harmful to us in any way, right? I mean, they eat moss. Okay. Most of them eat moss. There's like 900 species in this category.

Not all of them are Wolverine, but enough of them are hyper regenerative, hyper resilient. Yeah, they're like little supercreatures. They can go to almost zero Kelvin and come back to life after, you know, they're not, they can't be that cold forever, but they can get very cold for. Okay, Chris, since you've never seen this picture, I think me and Colin have. Let me show you. And we brought a bag of them to eat. They're not so cheese-flavored.

They're cheese-flavored. They look like something, like a cute mass-effect pet. Oh, my goodness. They're like a cross between a gummy bear and the sandworms from Dune. Yes. They remind me, yeah. Yep, that's a good idea. It looks like a rejected Disney animal pal.

from a princess movie. Yeah. You don't have eyes. It's so cute. Yeah. It's almost like if Disney and Germal Del Toro teamed up to create a creature. Yeah. Yeah.

Whoa. How long do they live, like, just on their own? Like, if no one's, if no one's shooting them into space or freezing them or dipping them in acid or say, hey, I'm just trying to live a water bear life here. Yeah. Yeah. You can stop messing with these guys. They're going to rise up and attack us to repair their DNA.

That's a great question. Yeah. I wonder if they can. die natural death. But what is life to a water bay? I'm taking the show to some philosophical places here. We're not figuring it out. We still don't know everything

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Oh, wait. What version of Windows? When I think of fad beverages of the 90s, this is one of the things that always comes up between, you know, your crystal Pepsi's and your Zimas. and you know what I always I always think of this Bud dry Yeah Bud dry

Why ask why Dry bud dry I don't know what this is Well I mean You know Karen Why ask why So you have your Budweiser beer You've got your bud light

Which is lower in calories And then in 1890s Bud and a number of other beer brands introduced dry. Oh, man, I remember the dry beer. Is it like a Kool-Aid packet? No. No. Do you want to take a guess at what a dry beer is?

Oh, I'm not an alcoholic. I always assume what they were going for is like with wine. There's like the dry wine. It's just basically just less sweet. Yes. They ferment more of the sugars and attenuation is what it's called. The word attenuation is the opposite roughly of amplification. So in audio you have amplification and

attenuation. And attenuation is what they use in brewing to talk about the process of the yeast turning the sugars into alcohol. And if something is highly attenuated, more highly attenuated, it means more sugars turn into alcohol. So it's less sweet. And more

alcoholic? And that's, and more alcoholic. Yeah, unless you do something to it to balance that out. So, yes, bud, the idea behind Bud dry and Mickalob Dry and cores dry and all these dry beers the 1990s you can watch some ads for them they're extremely 1990s they all look like the van halen right now video it's all i love that video um and and yeah the idea was crisper cleaner less always less aftertaste less aftertaste which means

goes down easy you don't taste this disgusting Having it, it's like once you swallow it, it doesn't linger in your mouth forever, which is funny now because everybody's all into IPAs, but nothing but after you know you're drinking an IPA, it's a good long while. But so that was, it was just this whole big thing. And there was a joke on The Simpsons where they went to the Duff Brewing Factory, and there were like three vats that beer was pouring. And it was like Duff, Duff Light and Duff Dry. And the camera pulls back and they're all just being serviced by the same giant, you know. Um, so why, why we must, I mean, you know, contrary to the Budweiser commercial, I am going to ask why, um, of this dry, of this brief dry beer fad, phenomenal. So sorry, sorry, what, um, what would dry beer taste like? Is there just beer without the bitterness and the hoppy or?

No, no, no, it would actually be more. bitter. Yeah, because the sugars are big. Yeah. So it'd be less malty, less sweet, and leave less of a taste in your mouth afterwards, though. Well, there is a reason that this happened. And it's a good story. There was a very specific reason why all these American ruling companies, all the big ones, were like, we got to try this. The reason why is because, okay, bud dry, no longer being made. Mickelope dry, Coors dry, all long, long phased out, right? there is a popular beer that is a dry beer that still has the word dry in it Karen it's not American right it's not American asahi it is a satchi super dry

oh yeah yeah super dry but of the most popular Japanese beers that is a dry beer a dry logger just like you know bud dry etc etc and that was the first dry beer. That was the first beer that was, it was not the first dry beer. There were plenty of German beers that you would be considered the same level of attenuation, the same idea. But that was the first beer that marketed itself very specifically as being the dry beer. And the idea was, in the mid-80s, right, in 1985, they went around asking, so Asahi only had about a 10% market share of the beer market at that time. You got your Sapporo, right? You have Cey-N-Torri, Citi, Asahi. Asahi was like, low-man.

on the totem pole. And they were like, what are we going to do? And they asked people, well, what do you want? They want, they were like, and the customers were like, crisp, refreshing, no aftertaste. Like, that's, that's what the, that's what the consumers said that they want about of a beer. So they're okay. Carbonated water. I know.

Well, they were like, well, we want to get a drunk suit. Right. Also true. And the Asaki Super Dry actually did have a little bit more alcohol. Not a whole lot, but like, yeah, 10-ish percent more alcohol because they used a strain of yeast that would, you know, ferment more of the sugar and turn it into alcohol less leaving you with a, you know, like a dry

wine. It's not as sweet. It's more alcoholic. And they marketed it as Asaki Super Dry starting in 1987. And in Japan, it was a hit. Big, big hit. They couldn't keep it in stock. Asahi's market share doubled

like overnight. I mean, it was this massive, massive hit for them. And like, the other beer makers who were usually very quick to react and bring out, you know, competitive kind of stuff, they, they waited on it. And they let Asaki Super Dry get very big, very quickly. Now, what was funny is, so immediately in the beginning of February 1988, and this is something that Japanese people remember, this was a thing called the Dorai Senso. Pan, if you said any Japanese person who lived through the 80s, just like we remember the Kola Wars. sure.

I don't remember the dry war. That is what Dorae is in, so literally translates to. February 1988, literally within the same week, within just a couple of days of each other, Sapporo, Suntory, and Kieran, all roll out Saporo dry, Kieran dry, Kieran dry, Suntory dry. And they start, I mean, they are going at it for this exploding dry beer market in Japan. Wow. Kieran gets Gene Hackman

to do commercials for Kidin Dry Suntory This is all just beginning of 1988 Suntory gets Mike Tyson World heavyweight champion Mike Tyson's punchout

peak of his career Mike Tyson in a Japanese commercial for Suntory Dry And the idea is This is not a sweet beer for ladies This manly, macho,

Yeah, dry beer. Huge, huge extent. And then just immediately, so there's a New York Times report from July 1988 talking about it's entitled, and now from Japan, the hot new dry beers, talking about how huge, this, by the way, not only was it really popular, this was a major, like a Tunguska event in the Japanese beer industry.

Yeah. Because everybody had been kind of going along. with the same market share up to this, Asahi, by introducing super dry, basically, like, upset the whole apple cart of the Japanese beer industry and was able, I think Asahi now actually is the market leader,

took it over from here. Yeah. Wow. Yeah, like now. I mean, so basically, like, it was a huge, huge major event that really, like, changed up the Japanese beer industry. And so these dry beers

start getting imported and to finer restaurants and such in America, and that's what the Japanese, or the New York Times article is reporting. And this is straight out of the New York Times story. A retailing expert, a guy who works at the Takashi Maya company, the big department stores in Japan, says, well, the Japanese are much more fat-oriented than Americans. This is true.

And then also points out, and this is very true, the meaning of the word dry is important. Dry suggests something new, decisive, and bold. In Japan, a wet person is very strongly attached to family, company, and friends, while a dry type would be more individualistic. So, yeah, and this is true. Like, they use wet and dry in Japan and talk about, like, emotional versus cold and calculating. And that's the metaphor that they use.

So dry, in this sense, on the beer in Japan, had grand connotations. Interesting. Yeah. Yeah. You're so cool and dry. So it was a huge. It was a marketing success. It was exactly what they wanted.

It is still, to this day, like Asahi Super Dry and the Dry Beers are very popular. I can picture it until you said that I never connected the two that the Asahi Super Dry is at all, is dry beer. Yeah. Right. And this is how they thought they were going to make inroads into the United States because it was such a huge, hugely popular thing. And so, again, New York Times, August 1989, so just one year later. Wow. dry beers flood market a wave or a mirage there were by that time the new york time said august eighty nine it's a good headline 19 different imported and domestic dry beers had been introduced into the u.s market in 16 months just just ridiculous um there was one beer industry analysts in the story that had noted that they had moved like uncharacteristically fast like he's like never seen mickalob and and and bud react like roll out new products so quickly with like bare minimum of like should be do this or not they just they

do it they all just this was the 80s I mean this was the mid 80s and like everybody was looking to Japan for you know transistors radio you know transistors radio is like walk man disc man Nintendo video games yeah so the hot new beer thing happens and all the American companies jumped on it I love like huge failure how transparent the ag is like why ask why I just Drink it. Yeah, don't, don't guess why. Just try it. Just try by dry. We don't know either. Yeah, we don't know either. Just, just, please buy some. Yep. So that was the, that was the big marketing campaign of just like, you know, just, I guess just drink it. We don't know, you don't know, you know, you know you're going to drink whatever we tell you to. So let's just admit it. Yeah. And yeah, and it did not last very long. Oh, no. No, but, I mean, Bud Dry apparently was made until 2010. Oh, geez, really. But, like, it's not like you could go find it. You know what I mean?

So, yeah, it was out there, but it was, you know, very tiny little part of the market. There were some diehards. I mean, it is, it is a different experience. And if you wanted a beer that was, like, as absolutely unsweeted as possible, like, you would do that. And the U.S. ones were not higher in alcohol. They were fermenting more, they were taking more of the sugars out, but then they weren't leaving as much alcohol, essentially, in the final product. Because, you know, in fact, it, the funny. thing is that like people people pointed out too in these new york times articles that it was like

this is going against the common grain right now like people are moving towards uh moderation light beer less alcohol and and we're introducing this product that has this uh this reputation of having more alcohol even though it doesn't and it's not light and it's not sweet yeah well it's like in japan they did market research and they're like what do you guys want right and they said in Japan. This is what we want. And they did no research in America. Yeah. Here it was just like, what do you want. Oh, you want. Okay, we'll do what we want. Yeah. And all these articles are full of people scratching their heads going. We don't think this is like what the market is into. That's not what they asked for. Yeah. Yeah. So when you were talking about bud dry and stuff like that, it came from Japan.

So it's called, it's called Asahi Super Dry. Yeah. Okay. Do you guys know the clothing brand super dry? Yeah, which I think was just taken directly from that. But it's a British clothing brand. Yes. It's not. Japanese. Right. I didn't know that. Super dry is not from Japan. It's from a British company with Japan aesthetics.

It's sized like Japanese clothes. It has a bunch of kanji and Japanese characters on it. They must be using the same definition of dry as like cool. Cool. But still, I mean, but I was like, oh my, it blew my mind. It's Japanese-ish. Yeah, it's Japanese-ish. It's funny in English dry is kind of the.

opposite is like boring yeah yeah yeah well that's the connotations of the word are different here than they are there's like dry and when ours is like cool and warm i guess yeah right yeah oh yeah hot yeah hot cold yeah yeah yeah all right uh my turn last a dry quiz and i have a music quiz so keep your pens and paper uh these are some hits there is a A theme. The theme is very a Karen theme. Okay. It's kind of complicated, but it's kind of on topic.

Okay. But you know what? Let's just identify. Let it wash over us. Yeah. I like it. I'll play clips of music. Yeah.

I'll play clips of music, and it is your job to identify the artist, whether it's a band or a singer or whatever. Maybe these will stir up some memories, and maybe those memories will formulate into a theme. Oh, okay. All right. All right. Some people

things out and some just don't know how to change. Let's no wait till the water is dry. We might watch our whole lives past as fly. Let's go wait till the water is dry. We'll make the biggest mistake of our lives. Don't do it, baby.

All right, answers up. Colin puts Boys to Men, Dana, Boys to Men. And Chris, Boys to Men. You are correct. That's Boys to Men. We all spelled it. Yes. Boisza.

And the Roman numeral two. Yeah. Men. Very good. Ah, the 90s. Couldn't spell anything correctly or the normal way. Okay. Here we go.

Next one. You ain't never got a word. I'm down for you, baby. Best believe that. When you need that, I'll provide that. You will always have it. I'll be on deck. Keep it in check.

When you need that, I'm a let you have it. It's in the drum like dumb ditty day. Like the dirty rhythm you play. I want to hear you calling my name like, hey, ma, ma, mama, hey, ma'am. Bang in the drum like dumb-de-de-de-dee. I know you want it in the worst way. I want to hear you calling my name like, hey, ma-ma, hey-ma-ma-ha-ma-a-ha-ma-a-ma-ha-a-ma-a-ha-a-old.

All right. So, meaning the person singing may not be the... Yeah, person singing may not be the artist. Oh, oh, okay. All right. Answers up. Nope, that's wrong. Colin put, DJ Khalid.

Dana puts Rihanna. And then Chris puts Rihanna. That was David Gettah. With a little bit of, well, featuring a bunch of people, notably, Nikiminage. Ah, that's so good. I did think it was. Wow. Yeah.

I figured it was a guest, yeah, on somebody's, yeah, okay. Here we go. California I'm going to party In the city You're building In the city

You're good old once In the city In the city of We keep in a rocket Welcome Everybody to the Wawa West

I've got that and putt. Tupac and Dr. Dre. Put Tupat. I put a robot? A robin. Is it a robin? You know, yes.

Wait, is that my joke answer? Do you know who sang that? No, I don't know. Tupac. Okay. And Andre. California love. Big big hit.

It does know how to party. It does. From Diego to the Bay. All right. Next song. You got to take it easy. Throwing far too much emotions at me. But any fool.

I can see that falling I can make you understand I'm giving you everything All that joy I can bring this I swear I'll give you everything All that I want from you is Okay which one is it

Let's see Colin Putts I put Envogue Which girl group Space Girls It is Because it's Spice Girls. It's Spice Girls. There are other songs.

Yes. There are others. Say you'll be there. Oh, there's two become one. There are a lot of songs. There are a lot of songs. Nope, just the two. Spice World.

Yeah. Yeah. Every boy, every girl. Nope. All right. Next one. Closer than I've ever felt before. And I know.

And you know. There's no need for words right now. And I can feel you breathe You're washing off of me And suddenly I'm melting into you There's nothing to prove And baby all we need is just to be Caught up in the touch

Five Dang it Golly gosh Ding dang do Two One Oh what's her name What are you writing?

All right Colin What are you writing I'm just putting the Judds, but it's not her. I think it's, I don't think it's that. Okay, Dana puts Shanaia. That's who I think it is. Faith Hill. It is Faith Hill.

Oh, all right. I saw it and I was like, oh, yeah, that's what it was. Well, it actually comforts me because I was trying to remember Shania Twain. So I'm glad I would have been wrong anyway. All right. Last song. Mm-hmm. One time you out, John, I'm new.

All right. All right, answers up. Man, that's what a good song. There's three bands, and they all are the same. Put. G and F and R. Guns and roses. Dana.

Guns and roses. Guns and or roses. And or. It is Guns and roses. November Rade. That song came out in the 90s, but, man, reading about it, Axel Rose started working on a song as really as 1983. Yeah. And he's been honing it.

And then also, he arranged all of the orchestra, all the strings in the orchestration. like he was the one who made all the... Yeah, musical Rangerman. Very cool. All right, there we go. Let's see. Let's recap. Boys to Man, David Glutter.

Okay, we got Boys to Men, water runs dry. Yeah. David Getta, Hey Mama. Guns and Rose is November rain. California Love by Tupac. Say You'll be there, Spice Girls. Breathe Faith Hill. There's a reason why they all kind of fall in the 90s era.

up um okay so she's she's been very clear there there has something well but it's but why would it have to be in the 90s yeah no not have to be in the 90s they just all happen to be in the but there's a reason why they all fall into that yeah there's a logical were they all all the music videos were in the desert yes oh but yeah i was thinking that but that could have been any oh okay well because MTV stopped yeah oh okay i was thinking i was like yeah because like California love they're in the desert all mad they're all it all shot in the desert I mean the thing is even though music videos are being made I mean that the titular kind of like MTV culture was in the 90s were big budgets there are a lot of videos that were shot in the desert and um I had to

double check each one of them that were actually filmed in a real desert yeah not at a sound stage not just simulated desert I almost had Shakira whenever wherever but that was screen. This is like them at the desert and I could locate, you know, read about which. You got the precipitation records from each video shoot. And so, yeah, they're all shot in a real desert. Okay. Good job.

So, yeah. That was my first thought, but then I'm like, no, it's got to be something with the 90s. She was so clear. It was big, it was such a big trend. Like, yeah. It was before the mirror room phase when every video was in that mirror room writing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And that guns and roses.

That November video was really expensive. And it wasn't like, it was an eight minutes long. It was long. It was long. I remember. All right.

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