Good Job, Brain! - 199: Bring on the FANfare!

Episode Date: May 17, 2018

Woah woah woah, finally a new episode from our hiatus?! YES - and what better way to come back than with a brand new episode turgid with brain-filling trivia that's all about you, the FANS! Facts about fandom and tidbits inspired by our own GJB fans: music fan quiz, Chris puts on the "Belgian whistles" on his giant compiled list of eggcorns, grab a zinFANdel and take Dana's proFANity-free FANcy word quiz, and learn about the most intriguing one-person towns. Get your cheese hat ready for Colin's sports fandom quiz, and things get real with a GJB fan favorite topic: the octopus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Hello, painstakingly patient pacing patrons of paleobiology while paving for paintballs. You're listening to Good Job, Brain. You're soon-to-be weekly quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. This is episode 199. And of course, I'm your humble host, Karen. And we are your gaggle of grain-free granola

guzzling gargoyles, galvanizing granules of great goodies to gorge your gluttony for geekiness. I'm Colin. I'm Dana. And I'm Chris. Welcome back, everybody. Welcome back. Good to be back.

I missed you guys. I really missed you guys so much. It's our big comeback. debut, if this is your first time listening to the show, Hello, and welcome. I don't know how you stumbled on us at 199 randomly, but welcome. We're happy to have you here. We got plenty of room for you, and for a long-time listeners and fans who have been waiting for new episodes, yes, we're back from a long hiatus.

Lots have happened. A lot of ups, a lot of down-downs. But more importantly, we've spawned a new generation. The new, the next generation. TNG, we've cloned ourselves. Good job. Baby gang has increased in membership. Well, what have you guys been up to?

I now have a brand new baby daughter at home. Oh. And she is only three weeks old right now. Yeah, you look a little tired. Yeah, I feel a little bit tired. I've had a baby in the last year. It is a lot of work. It's a lot of work.

It's good. It's very cute. You guys need this outlet to talk to other adults. I don't know what you're looking at me for. or I just got the same old kid. No change there. Just a boring old toddler. Yeah.

We're getting into the, um, dad, what is this phase? And, uh, you know, I better have an answer. Yeah. And what about you? I have no spawns. I'll tell you what I have been doing, which I haven't really done before. Uh-huh. Um, and it's kind of shocking for most people is I started watching Jeopardy.

Oh. And that's not something that like, like, I'll read about it online. And I never really watched it. But now you do it hard clear. Even just five years ago, like 10 years ago, when you watch Jeopardy year, I'm just like, I don't know. How does anyone know anything about this? You know? And then now when I watch it, I was like, I can answer most of these questions.

It's so easy now. You accumulated enough knowledge and trivia. I don't want to say it's easy, but it's not as hard as it used to be. That's for sure. Maybe both things are true. Ten years ago, maybe out of the six. categories. I'll have one category. Oh, maybe I'm good at this and I'm not, you know, and I can't answer all the questions now even for things like American rivers. I'm like, how do I? Really, it's a

weird new experience. I think it's also, let's let's go ahead and just say that you are smarter now than you were five years ago, 10 years ago. And there's, that's a good thing to be proud of. It's that's something that like, it was just a revelation. I was like, I'm actually making money. up for this. Making imaginary money. You're like, I would have won this game. And, of course, you know, when you get on Jeopardy, then you realize that the real, the real trouble is doing it with stage lights shining on your face, buzzing in at the exact problem. Stage fright, anxiety, the timing.

Oh, yeah, yeah. You know, being like the armchair Jeopardy contestant is obviously much more comfortable. Right, right, right. But you know, it's lower stakes. Yeah. And speaking of Jeopardy, let's jump into our first general. trivia segment pop quiz hot shot

yeah listeners I have random trivial pursuit cards here from multiple versions I'm going to pick a card what we're going to do here is I'm going to ask some questions and you guys have answered buzzers amazingly we have not had to change the batteries in these buzzers

yeah I guess that's true they're leaking though the acid is burning my finger burns Colin here we go this is from The Virgin Trivial Pursuit R&R singles Not sure what

Must be rock and roll Maybe No Relaxation Let's jump in All right Okay First question

Blue Wedge What team was Boston College playing When Doug Flutie Through the Hail Mary Pass I like sweat pouring down

College Was it Notre Dame? Incorrect. Chris. New York Yankees. Incorrect. Dang. Wrong sport.

I was hoping that the hiatus magically gift me all of the sporting knowledge. Flutie flakes. This was a big, huge college football play. The Hail Mary Pass. Yale. No, it is University of Miami.

Oh, okay. Yeah. Miami. I knew it was against a big football powerhouse school. We talked to about the trivia behind Hail Mary Pass, right? Yeah, we coined the term. It was like, on a press conference and they're like, it was just a Hail Mary.

Just kind of just threw it up there. That's right. All right. Pink Wedge for the next question. Who celebrated his 60th birthday with his 60th concert at Madison Square Garden? Chris. Billy Joel. Incorrect.

Although, well, I mean, he probably did. I think he did, but it probably wasn't a 60th. I'll be honest. I was going to guess Billy Joel at first, but I'm going to amend it now. Was it Elton John? It's Elton John. Not a New York tie-in, but that would have... Right. I'll tell you, I know what the first song was. Of Elton John? Yeah, of Elton John's... The first song of Elton John's 60th birthday concert. What is it?

I believe it was the song 60 years on. Ah. And when he talks about being 60. Of course, it was from his album Elton John, which was when he was like 20-something years old. Really? Yeah, yeah. Oh. Yeah, yeah. He's a prophet.

Yep. Okay. He's a profit in that. He's like, one day I'll be 60. You know, quite frankly, considering his contemporaries in the 1970s scene. Fair. We didn't know what happened. That's fair.

All right. It was optimistic, yeah. Ooh, good one. Yellow Wedge. What color kerchief does Frosted Flake spokes cat, Zoe the Tiger Sport? Dana. Blue, right? Incorrect.

Oh, wait. I was going to guess blue. I was going to guess blue as well because it goes with orange Oh, now I think I know Yeah Chris, you want to take a stab? There's only so many colors

Oh, your buzzer is a little Buzzers die and I'll just hold it closer To the microphone of this all I just wanted to get a nice clean Yeah, rooster crow Well, okay, so he's orange, it's not blue Well, blue's, well yeah Yeah, red

Is it red? Oh, okay I figured what was gonna match well It's gonna match well with his It can't be white because his stomach is Yeah, exactly. I just thought, blue seems like it would be good with the orange. Right, right.

I mean, it does because the box. Purple Wedge. What Michigan City is the biggest consumer of those, uh-oh, spaghettiOs? Michigan City. What Michigan City is the biggest consumer of not only, first of all, thinking for the, like, baked in ad. Yeah. Can you just say spaghettiOs? Uh-oh.

Those delicious. Yeah, this is like a sponsored. Colin. Just because it's fun, I'm going to say Ipsilani, because Detroit's too easy. Incorrect. I know we've talked to listeners who are from Ipsilani, and they have a very phallic structure that they're very proud of. Huh.

I will have to go research that on the internet. Yeah, it's very phallic. Type in I'm sure it'll get me there. Chris. Did I buzz in? Oh, I thought you did. Michigan City. Ann Arbor?

Uh-uh. It's a university town. Oh, a good thing. That's a good idea. I think this is also a university town. It is Grand Rapids. Great Rapids. I wish I knew why.

Is there a reason why? Yeah, like the factory or a plane was or Kellogg, I don't know. Or they made real pasta illegal. And also, we have a lot of international listeners. SpaghettiOs are canned pasta. Yeah. By use that term. loosely. It's like little

donut hollow circle little o's if you will. Sweet tomato sauce. I think as a kid I liked it now as an adult. Oh sure. When you look at like the congealed kind of like It's a stomachache, yeah. Anyways, all right. Green Wedge, what Chateau Marmon, bungalow

was the scene of John Belushi's long goodbye. So I need a These are good trivia questions. I need room number. Oh. What? Okay. What? What Chateau Marmond Bungalow.

Famous hotel in L.A. Okay. Was the scene of John Belushi's the long goodbye? No, just John Belushi's long goodbye. It is not capitalized it.

Did he die there? I'm assuming. Okay. This is a weird wording. This trivial pursuit card just went from Spaghettios to like the death of John Belushi. That's a good car.

Shattering. S&L. Which Belushi? Yes. Comedy legend. John Bolusio. She died of a drug overdose. Just say it.

Three. It is three. It is three. It's always three. It's always three. You know what? Lucky number three. Pop trivia rules. Guys, if you got a good job,

brain book, it's in the hint or in our tips. Always guess the number three. When it's out. Last question. What status symbol timepiece is identified by its five pointed crown logo?

Colin. That has to be Rolex. Roll X. Roll X. Rolex. All right. Good job, Brains. We are contractually obligated to tell you about the Good Job Brain book, which you can find at your local FedEx Kinko's. Yes. Yes, a big

retailer. And that's it. But you can get it on Amazon. Yeah. Barnes & Noble. It's been spotted in the wild at actual bookstores. It is a pretty good book. It is pretty good. I've been reading a lot of trivia books. lately. Yeah? Yes. And they're not as good as ours.

Our book is stands up. Yeah. Yeah. It's good. I completely agree. I completely agree. I sound very defensive, but it was like an honest assessment. Yeah.

Yeah. There are other books you have to buy now, too. If you're, if you're collecting all the good job brain books. I'm not going to talk about mine first. We'll talk about Karen's. Oh, yeah. I have another book. Book of Jawsome Shark quizzes.

Yes. Sharks. I became an amateur shark expert. They're not professional. Yeah, it was paid for it. That's true. That's right. So Jossum Shark quizzes by Karen Jew is out there.

And Final Fantasy 5 by Chris Kohler. That's me. The book. The book. The book. There is a game called Final Fantasy. This book is about that game. But it is all about, it's the very first Japanese game that I ever imported when I was

15 years old. And so it's all about the game, but it's also all about like that experience of like being a otaku, like a job. like a Japanese, you know, anime and game-loving nerd in the, in the 1990s back before you could just go on the internet and get everything you ever wanted. It's about that. So my mom even read it, and she said, I really love it. I skimmed over all the parts about the game, but I really love it all the same.

So, I mean, even if you're not super into games, I think there's a, it's a personal story. It is. It is a personal story of mine. So it's kind of like a coming of age. A thing's women. It is. It's yes. It's the yes.

Gil Dung's Ramon. of Chris Cole. Yeah. So it is. It is. All right. So this is our first new episode in a while. And as we were brainstorming about what should be our topic this week was pretty much a no-brainer.

This past year, we've been overwhelmed by the continued support of our very patient and very vocal and very loyal fans. And a super important acknowledgement to listener George, who set up the goal. good job brain fan lobe troders facebook group it is public and it has become a thriving community of fans and us just sharing links talking about pub trivia it's super active it's really good um so we decided that we're going to honor and celebrate you our fans and this episode is all about fandom what's it like being a fan trivia and facts about being a fan fan groups and so this week Bring on the fanfare. One of our favorite things to find and share with each other.

Because even when we're on hiatus, we'd be checking in with each other and sharing information, talking about what we were going to do, how we're going to get this started again. We would always be sharing with each other. Eggcorn. And our fans in the Facebook group and on Twitter would always be sharing with each other eggorns.

And an egg corn, if you don't know, there was a segment in the Good Job Brain Book now available at FedEx and Co's Nationwide. And in a previous episode. And in a previous episode, of course, of course. But we love these so much. It is using the wrong word for something. But importantly, like,

Using the wrong word is known as a malapropism, right? So an egg corn is a phrase or a word or a saying that is used incorrectly, but there's a sort of a weird twisted logic that you can see how that person thinks that that's the right word. You could tell yourself a story about why it makes sense. It sounds similar. It sounds similar. Right.

And, of course, the word itself is derived from there was a woman who called acorns, eggorns, because she had always heard the word. acorn, acorn, acorn, but her brain was processing it as egg corn. And of course, what does an acorn look like? It kind of looks like a... Yeah, short of a corn. It's got a sort of a round, you know, a smooth shell, but sort of a corn kernels. So, you know, an egg corn. Why not? It's a little bit bigger than a kernel of corn. It's an egg corn. So that's why we love eggorns because of, you can see the brain process that got you there, and it makes total sense. And so I think a lot of people use egg-corns their whole life.

Oh, yeah. Not knowing, because it makes total sense. Karen, you shared a mean with us. There are some good ones in here. I like this, the Monday world in the Monday world, like not the mundane world. The Monday world. Yeah, the Monday world. Yeah, Mondain, boring.

You know, mundane is in the Monday world. Like you have a case of the Mondays. You're like, yeah. After all is set and done. Oh, that's good. So, and now with that one, I bet you there's people listening going, wait, that's the right phrase. Oh, I guarantee you, someone out there. So the phrase is, after all is said and done.

After you've done all the talking and all the doing, this is what's left. But a lot of, but so after all is set and done is the end. It's set and it's done. Almost better. And there's one in here that I think is, this is really good. Post-dramatic stress disorder. I've seen that one. Yes.

It makes total sense, right? Post-traumatic versus dramatic. trauma trauma traumatic versus drama yeah like both traumatic stress and dramatic stress suggest you know really like bad stress yeah but it's called PTSD yeah yeah you may not maybe never thought about it maybe the P is from post so more that we've that we've heard recently carpool tunnel syndrome I like that one I think Karen gave us that one if you get if you got carpal tunnel syndrome from from driving which you know, is certainly possible.

Maybe it's work-related. Carpool Tunnel Syndrome. Yeah, or it's, you know, restricted flow through your wrists. I don't know. It's, yeah, however it makes sense. Carpool. Carpool. Carpool. How do you spell carpool?

C-A-R-P-A-L. Oh, Carpal. Sorry, P-A-L. I said P-A-L. P-A-L. Carpal tunnel. Colin found an eBay auction for a computer containing an ethernet cord. Either-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-R-E-E-E-E-E-E-R-E-R-R.

It can go on even net. It'll work on either of your nets. Yeah. And it's an either net cord. Yeah. Yep. I've done a, I've done a lot of soul searching, S-O-L-E, searching. Like I've been sitting by myself, but I'm looking at solely at this problem.

Oh, okay. I've been searching just by myself. Oh, that makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. Not the fish. The real one being, the real phrase being soul, S-O-U-L, like I've looked inside my own soul. Yeah.

Yeah. Or shoes. Shopping. Right. Or out walking, maybe. You found tidy whities, as in clean, T-I-D-Y, T-I-D-Y, T-I-G-H-T for under it's T-E, T-A-T-I-G-H-T. Because they're tight, tight, tight-ty, whitey.

Not tidy as clean, although they better be. That might be an American thing. It's because we have that T-N-D sound. Yeah. You know, whereas British English, we'll pronounce. now it's an enunciate. I think they're a lot more clear. Yeah, generally. Yeah, you're right.

This is an amazing one. This was going around Twitter, actually. And maybe there's a little bit of a, is this an egg. How about we play egg corn or not an egg corn? Oh, yeah, yeah. Belgian whistles. Well, that's going to cost you $10 or $20 if you want all the Belgian whistles. If you want all the Belgian whistles.

It's tough, right? Now, first of all, the French phrase is bells and whistles. If you want all the accoutrema, all the bells and whistles. I say yes. I think it is. I think it is. Yeah, because Belgian whistles, it sounds like a whistle, but like fancier because it's like Belgian chocolate. You just assume.

Oh, the Belgian whistles. Belgian waffle. Right. Belgian waffle. He got, you got eggos, then you got the Belgian waffle. It's creamy. He got chocolate, Belgian chocolate whistles. Belgian whistles.

All the Belgian whistles. All the Belgian whistles you want. What? Yeah. Pick up the paste, I think, is in egg corn. Pace. Pace. Like, pick up the paste.

Not pick up the pace of your movements, but pick up. the paste off the floor, which is sticking you in the baby. Oh, okay. You're too slow. Come on, pick up the paste. I would say yes, Edcorn. I would say yes, Edcorn. I mean, our human brain wants to make reason for everything. It's true. It's true. This is like the linguistic equivalent of seeing faces and things. It's like, we want to make it make sense. There's like definitely idioms where you're

like, I don't know why we say this. Let the cat out of the bag. That sounds crazy. Yeah. Yeah, you're right. And we just take it for granted because we use it. Yeah. Explanation point. As in, like, if you really want to explain something, you put an exclamation point on the end of your sentence. Oh, exclamation, exclamation, explanation, explanation point. I'm explaining. I'm explaining. Yeah.

Here's a couple really good ones that I think this is great. Dana, you may appreciate this one. Swedish fish. Swedish fish. Like, you know, when you eat Swedish fish, S-W-E-D-I-S-H from Sweden. they're not that sweet you know they're sweetish they're kind of sweet you yeah they are not from Sweden the one Swedish person I hang out with all the time my husband very he likes to point that out every time he sees a package of Swedish fish he's like they're Canadian they're from Canada

all right but you know sweetish they are sweetish yeah they're not that sweet and then this one was just amazing a guy said oh my my daughter for breakfast when she wants an egg that's been boiled and has its shell taken off. I would give it to her and tell her what it is. And then the next day she asked me for another hard bald egg. Hard bald egg.

That is so adorable like coming from a child. Yeah. Right? Because they're they don't understand boiling as a cooking process. They're like, I know heads and hair and this is like a toy. It's bald now. It's bald. Yeah. Hard bald egg.

Hard balled egg. Then folks, things took a turn as I was searching out more eggorns on the repository of eggorns that is Twitter. It turns out that earlier this year, noted rapper T-Pain tweeted a very popular tweet in which he said just sat here and mind-effed

myself into embarrassment by thinking of how recent it was when I found out it's not lactose and tolerant. Wait a T-Poast and tolerance. No, T-Pane. lack toast, as in not have enough You need toast. Browned bread.

Lack of toast. Yes. And tolerant. Now, this one I'm going to call not not sure how you thought that. He thought it was an idiom, maybe? Yeah, maybe.

So he said, I'm lack toast and tolerant. Like, I'm telling you these... Here are two things about me. Did he think it has nothing to do with milk? What if he just thought it was like, picky, you know, like you lack toast and you're tolerant. Well, of course, it became very popular

and then spawned a whole reply section of things they thought of, of, of eggorns, of people replying to T. Pame, and there were some good stuff. There was some good stuff in here. Here's a great one that I like. Yeah, thank you, T. Payne.

Swing in the mist. Swing in the mist. As in gorillas in the mist. Swing in the mist. Swing in the mist. As in swing and a mist, like you You swung at the ball, but you missed it, but you're swinging into the mist. You can't see it. You can't see it.

You can't hit mist and you can't see in the mist. Wow, all right. Off pudding, as in P-U-D-B-I-N-E. Like, that was very off-putting. Yeah, oh, my doctor has me off-putting. Right. Yeah, how I can't. You know, like, oh, that pudding that's gone bad.

Yeah. Oh, I see. Like, oh, that pudding is like, oh, that pudding. You're not sweet. Like, his comments were off-putting. Yeah, he's pretty off-putting. Yeah. I can see.

I can see. but I wouldn't categorize that as a joke. Right, right, right. The ghost is clear. For the coast is clear. The ghost is out of the way. It's time to go. Oh, okay.

There's no ghosts, so go ahead. So we can go. Yep, yeah. Maybe. Yeah, I haven't heard that one. This one, definitely, dis-shuffled. Oh, yeah. Because his clothing is very disheveled.

No, his clothing is dis-shuffled. Dischuffled. Yeah, dis-shuffled. It's not shuffled. It's all out of shuffle. It's like fives that are all mixed up. They're dis-suffled. Yeah.

And finally, there was a story of a teacher telling his middle school students that when they do their homework tonight, he doesn't want them to do a half-fast job. Apparently the principal was in the room when he said this. It's half-assed as in your butt. Half of your butt. Half of your butt. Like don't do half of your butt, do your whole butt. You a full-ass job.

But he thought it was half-fast-fast. Like you're going slower than you could. Yeah. Like, don't do it. But when you say it, when you say it fast, though, when you say it really does. A half fast job. Wow. Yeah, half fast job. And by the way, this also came up, but this is we know, it's not, it's neither an egg corn nor a malapropism. It's something that Dana did a segment on called the Mondagrine, which is a misheard song lyric.

And somebody brought up, there is a, there is a hymn, there's a spiritual hymn in which somebody is singing to Jesus saying Jesus, you know, the cross that you carried, I happily would take that cross on. Yes, yes, yes. And they sing in the, in the hymn. Oh, really? Oh, really? Oh, I love this one. They sing in the hymn, gladly the cross-eyed bear. Gladly the cross-eyed bear. I would take on your cross-eyed bear. Which my mom, as a little girl, you know, talked. It was. It was about a cross-eyed bear named Gladly. Gladly, the cross-eyed bear. Gladly, gladly, comma, the cross-eyed bear. I know why they were thinking about that in church. Yeah.

He's cute as a kid. Gladly the cross-eyed bear. Oh, my God. I made me he needs like one of those patches over one of his eyes. I was trying to like, I was trying to predict where you were going with that. So I thought it was like, I was like, oh, it's got to be bare, but I had no idea. It's like it has a personality trait and a name. You can see this baby.

I would read that children's book. Absolutely. I would read that. Gladly, the cross-eyed thing. They're just singing. I love thinking of equins if they came, as if they came from kids. The kids' imagination. Very pure mind. The bald egg.

It's just so cute. It's like it's an egghead. Well, thank you. Wow, that was quite a recap. Thanks. They did my research. That's great. On August 1st.

May I speak really? I prefer English. The naked gun is the most fun you can have in theaters. Yeah, let's go. Without getting arrested. Is he serious? Is he serious? No.

The naked gun. Only in theaters. August 1st. All right. My turn. And to celebrate fan groups, I have a quiz about famous celebrity fan groups. Oh. So, as you know, for the fans of Good Job Brain, they are called lobe-trotters.

Usually, they're kind of pun or it's a reference to the subject of the fan. of the fandom. I have a couple of levels here. It's going to increase in difficulty. Three levels. Everybody have a piece of paper and pen. We're going to write down your answers and we're going to compare them.

So level one, I'm going to give you the subject or celebrity. Tell me what their fan group name is. And all of them are puns. Okay. Even if you don't know, you can guess. Okay.

All right. Level one. We're starting. easy. Here we go. Heartthrob celebrity actor, Chris Pine. If you're a fan of Chris Pine, what would you call yourself? Keep in mind

these are puns. Okay. So if are real I go crazy for Chris Pine. Okay. What would I call myself? Okay.

Answers Chris says pine cone heads that's pretty good Dana says saps because you're the sap of a tree and I like my answer so much that I'm going to say if it isn't this it should be okay okay pine nuts you are cool oh that's good all right okay okay okay all right next one that's those are all right Pine cone heads. All right. Next one. British singer Ellie Goulding.

Ellie Goulding. How is it spelled? G-O-U-L-D-I-N-G. Gould-D-I-N-G. I'm also quite happy with my answer. Okay. Chris is writing a very long name. Okay.

It's like improv. You've got to just react. Don't think. All right. Answers up. Chris says, Ellie Gouldnerds. That's good. Dana says,

Ellaolics. Ellaolics. A lot of, a lot of hollics. Please tell me it's this. Colin says, gold diggers. Gold diggers is correct.

Oh, so good. The gold diggers. Wow. Wrestler. You can't see him. John Sina. John Sina. know, what do you, what do you call yourself if you are a fan of Mr. Sina?

Clue is, it's a collective. Okay. Okay. All right. Answers up. Chris, John Cination. Oh, that's good. That's good.

Dana. I put Sina Sina and then you were like, it's a collective and I was like, the casino. The casino, right? Please tell me it's the Sina files. Oh, that's good. It is C nation. C nation. I thought you knew.

No, I had no idea. It was making up something. A lot of blank army. A lot of a blank navy. A lot of blank nation. C nation. That's good. Yes, my fan group is, in fact, the Colar Marines.

The Culler Coast Guard. The Coler Coast Guard. The Kohler diggers. Protecting my borders from the haters. All right. Next one. Coalerminers. Oh, Kohler miners.

Coalerminers. That's what you're all called now. And then the youth club would be the cola miners. Yeah. Coalers. Yes. Coalers. That's so good.

Last one for this level. My little pony. There is a. A. male adult fan group, and there's also a female adult fan group. Oh. Okay, so you want both or one? Give me both if you can.

Okay. The male fan group, more people know. Mm-hmm. What's something clever about the female fan group that has something to do with fantasy horses? Hmm. Hmm. Well, now I feel like my answer is wrong for that. female

Okay Okay All right Chris says Brones Correct it is Bronies most people know Yeah okay

I got bronies Milo pony Yeah And then Chris says The female fan group is Normal women Dana

I have the So the bronies And then the Hoonies or the Cisterns Oh I know what it actually is I know what it actually is But I already put my

joke answer down Oh Okay Well also I got bronies And then I What I meant is a pun on corn balls. So I meant like the like the unicorn balls.

But I wrote it down and I realized it looks like. Unicorn balls. Yeah. I know. I just, I just remembered from the recesses of my brain. It is the Pegasisters. Correct.

Oh, Pegas sisters. That's good. All right. I like Sistones though. Cisterns. Like Sintars. Oh, got it. It's even better.

It's even better when I get it. It's even better when I get it. all right level two i'm going to give you the name of the fan group they're not punny but they do make references to the subject the celebrity band artist movie whatever all right so uh let's buzz in for this one okay all right you can get your buzzers ready if you know it buzz it in all right if i am a daydreamer i am a fan of who uh chris the monkeys Oh, I was going to guess the monkeys as well.

Because of the song. Daydream believer, yeah. Howie Day? No. It is fan of Adele. Oh, okay. Yeah. Adel.

He has a song called Daydream. Oh, okay. Okay. If I am a cheesehead, what team am I a fan of? Horace, Colin. That is the Green Bay Packers. Correct. The G.B. Packers.

If I am an idiot, I am a fan of. of what? Dana. Green Day. Green Day. American idiot. If I am an animal, I am a fan of what pop star?

Animal. Oh. Oh, no, no. It's not it, but I'll say something. Taylor Swift. No, because that's... No. Yeah, as soon as I...

As soon as I, yeah. John Cougar, Mellon. That's pretty good. It's not Lady Gaga, right? It sure she's his little monsters. It is Kesha. Partying. Well, because she used to, her image was about partying.

Oh, okay. Animals. All right. If I am a Dunderhead, what show do I like watching? Oh, oh. Dana. The office. Correct.

Dunder Mifflin. In Dunder Mifflin Company. If I am a shell head and I am, what am I a fan of? A shell head. A shell head. gas stations. And you are, Karen, you yourself are a shell. Yes, I go to every gas station.

I don't even own a car. I just go there, yeah. Just walk on over. You're like train spotting. You're like gas stations. Prices and the expiration dates on the 15thage. A shell head. I don't know you.

Michelle Tractonberg. No. Is it a perj? Michelle Trackenberg from Buffy? Shell, shell, shell. What has shells? I mean, the oysters. What animals have shells?

Clams. You're clam fan. Clam thing. You're a clam d'a. Lobsters. Lobsters? Muscles. You're a fan of muscles.

You like having muscles. Teenage Mutant Ninja Town. Oh, of course. Of course. Okay. Okay. If I am a fanatic, what movie do I like? Finn

It sounded like they said Finatic Aaron I did say Finanatic Finnatic Oh Jaws

Jaws They're called fanatics Finatics Very good You see what you did there Fanatics Level three This is the hardest one

But this will come up in trivia If I like the show Firefly I would call myself a what Oh What do they call themselves. I've seen this on the

internet before. I don't know. A brown coat. That's what it is. The brown coat. That's right. I was like, brown shirt? No, that's something different. Yeah. That's something wildly different. Why they choose such a close name? Yeah. But they did.

If I am a big fan of Canadian emo, pop star, Averal Levine, I am a what? Wow. A stater boy. That's not bad. I wonder why. That's not bad.

That's not bad. She calls her fans black stars. Black stars. Kind of emo, moody. Yeah. Yeah. Very unbranded. I always assume if it's a musician, it's like a lyric reference or something.

Yeah. Yeah. If I love Jimmy Buffett, I am a what? Everybody? A parrot head. What do you call young Jimmy Buffett fans? Oh. Chick heads.

Like a little, yeah. What's it? What's a baby parrot called? I don't know. Like a hatchling. No, that's a turkey. Yeah. It's not a baby parrot.

Parakeets. Of course, Jimmy Buffett, a very margaritaville, tropical-y kind of thing. All about that lifestyle. And here I'm just going to share some. Mariah Carey calls her fans lambs. I think I knew that, yeah. Kind of like honey, lamb. White stripes call their fans, or sorry, their fans,

call themselves. Candy cane children. Okay, sure. Because of the white. And the red and the right. Okay. What two Australian music artists separately refer to their

fan groups as lovers? Huh. Two Australian musical artists. Two Australian musical artists. Separately. Kylie Minogue. Uh-huh. And Keith Urban.

No. All right, Dana. Does Kylie Minogue one of them? Yes. Kylie is one of them. Oh, okay. Kylie Minogue is... Olivia Newton, John.

No. Okay, those are the only four Australian musicalics. Who else is? Cia. Oh, Cia, that's right. That's right. Okay, I forgot she was Australian. Both ladies.

Yeah, yeah. And not that I would have just crowded. Okay, lovers. All right. My last question. So, I am a big fan of Beyonce. Sure. And I've only seen her fan group written, which is the Bayhive.

Yeah. I have no idea how to pronounce it. Oh. Do I call it the beehive? Because her name is Beyonce. say, but it's spelled Bay. In my head, Karen, I've always said Beehive, but I'm right with

you. I've never heard someone else say it out loud. I read it. I mentally say Beehive. And so if someone asked me, I'd be like, oh yeah, I'm in the hive. I'm in, let me just write it for you. I can show you the little hashtag too, yeah. And look, it shows the B emoji.

And that is my quiz. No frills, delivers. Get groceries delivered to your from No Frails with PC Express. Shop online and get $15 in PC optimum points on your first five orders. Shop now at nofrails.ca. So we got the fan topic settled, and at first I was thinking to myself like, oh, if I did something sports fans, that's a little on the nose.

I'd do a lot of sports stuff. So I'm going to find something else. No, that's good. Yeah, well, I'm glad you feel that way because I gave up and eventually I did a quiz about sports fans and sports fandom. Play to my strengths. Well, how are you going to learn? exactly

and this isn't a peer sports quiz I'm asked you about points or scoring records or who played for what team this is about the fans the fan experience anything related to yeah fan traditions

so let me start with my first question which I wrote Are you buzzing it? Grab your buzzers yep yep keep them and I wrote this quiz out over the last day or two so first question here

this will be a warm up cheese heads is the now is the now affectionate name given to fans of what American football team? It is the Green Bay Packers. Cheese Nation. Green Bay Packers, of course.

How about this? I'll elaborate a little further since we've got the question already. So it's Green Bay, Wisconsin, famous for their cheese, among other things, their dairy products in general, the cheese heartland of America. I thought it was all the holes in their defense. Oh. Zing. Yeah. That's Swiss

It was originally like Kind of like a put down It wasn't something that people they call it It was like people from out of state Oh there's cheese heads from Wisconsin It does sound derogatory It does But I like it that they claimed it

Exactly They've reclaimed cheeseheads Yeah and you'll see You'll see at Green Bay Packers games Very common They'll have the little cheese hats Yeah yeah All right

Well now we'll get into the quiz proper here I guess with the real questions All right home playoff games, you might see fans of the Detroit Red Wings hockey team throw what onto the ice. Karen, I believe,

was first there. Cephalopods. Octopus. Yeah. Octopus is really what I'm looking for. You will get your occasional squid, I suppose. Yeah. You know, there's the famous story. There's like these brothers. They threw an octopus onto the ice to sort of represent

the eight wins that the team needed to get to win the Stanley Cup. You had to win two best of seven series. Yeah. But it stuck. No, people love it. So they won both the series. They won the Stanley Cup that year, other years as well.

But so, no, I mean, during home playoff games, it is very common at Red Wing's fans. People will get up, huck octopus out on the ice, specifically a dead one. Only if there's eight games left or? No, it's kind of just become a celebration. Yeah. I mean, what do they do with it? I mean, like, they trash it.

They scoop it up, they trash it. Yeah, actually, there was a little bit of controversy, like 10 years ago around this. So the guy who's the head ice manager at the Red Wings Arena, it's his, no, I think he loves it. He loves it because it was part of his job. And his thing was like, I'm the guy, you know, not only do I run the Zamboni, but I go pick up the octopus. I get a free octopus. Because, hey, you know what his family's having for dinner. Probably live and just, like, get that deep fire ready.

But, like, I guess what the problem was is he had developed, he kind of a showman style. He would twirl the octopus over his head from time to time. And the NHL, they're like, you know what? We don't want you fling an octopus parts into the crowd. This is not a good look. So we need, like, official NHL employee at the Lionsman are the only ones allowed to collect the octopus. And, like, I think the media and the fans really pushed back. They're like, come on, man, this is our tradition.

So he's now allowed again to, you know, in a responsible twirl. Like, dignified. Yeah. When he's by the Zamboni entrance, they say he can do the twirl, I guess. Because he's not, like, an official cheerleader or anything. Well, I mean, the team has embraced it. I mean, they have, like, an octopus mascot, you know. I mean, they are well aware people are bringing the...

Yeah. And also, it can't get to the point where there's too many, like, octopuses on the ice because, like, those things are expensive. Yeah. Like, there's only going to be, you know, one, maybe two per game. All right. If you're at a Chicago Cubs baseball game in historic Wrigley Field, and you happen to catch a home run hit by the visiting.

team what should you do according to cub fan etiquette uh dana did throw it back it is throw it back yeah you throw that back on the field yeah well i thought i was gonna guess give it to a little kid no no it's from the other team it goes back in the field wasn't it at the world series somebody did that fans of other teams do it too but the cubs really kind of own this as like we made this a thing that's right get that junk out of here i don't want this stinking ball from the other team it's like A woman caught it, and then a guy sitting next to her snatched it out of her hand. If you catch it and people are watching you,

they'll start to throw it back, chance. I mean, you're not, yeah, you'll be... Good thing they're giving directions. What do I do with it? The so-called black hole is a motley crew of costumed and painted diehard football fans famous for attending games

of what NFL team? Karen. The Raiders. That is the Oakland Raiders. I didn't know how to what place I should say. Yes, for right now today as we're recording they are the Oakland Raiders.

Yeah. And they are, if you ever watch a Raiders game on TV or go to a person. They are hardcore fans. Hardcore. I mean you know, face paint, spikes, pirate helmets, Darth, Darth Raider, a lot of yeah, just anything black and imposing. Yeah, they'll take up several rows of seats there. Fans attending home

games of the NBA's That's basketball. Yes. The NBA is Oklahoma City Thunder. Don't do what until the home team scores their first basket. Chris, weekly. Shower. Over the course of a game, you are in the arena.

You are there for just the couple of hours it takes to play the game. When the game starts, the fans don't do what until they score the first basket. Dana. Cheer? Not cheer. Karen. Stand up. Oh, you're so close.

it's sit down. They start standing and cheering, and then when the team scores the first points, then you can sit down and relax. Oh, that's nice. Yeah. It's a very, it's funny, it's a very collegiate thing, like to do at a pro level. It's very kind of like small town, we're all in it together, fun and quaint in a way. Yeah. On March 23rd, 1974, a British soccer fan named John Taylor made a bit of ignominious history at an Arsenal, Manchester City match.

He was the first person ever arrested for what at a soccer match? What is Ignan? Something you may not be proud of. Okay. Chris. The first person ever arrested for public intoxication at a soccer match. No, not the first. Ooh, very close, but I think Dana there under the wire.

Streaking? Yes, Dana has it. Yeah, the year was, I was hoping a little bit of a clue there. Yeah, you know, stripped down right before the start of the match, ran out in the field, and he was not the first streaker by any means. But he was the first person to get busted publicly for it arrested. Yeah. Some of the articles I read have great turns of phrase, yeah, that he was, quote, forcibly clad in trousers. And I guess he

was fined 10 pounds, which works out to about $135. I like today's money. I like they had, apparently, back up pants. Yeah. Because they knew this was going to happen. You know how, like, the firemen have those official, like, emergency blankets? I think the police have like emergency pants. Yeah, they're just like one size fits all, you know, yeah. They're made out of that foil. Yeah, crinkle, crinkle, crinkle, crinkle. All right, last one.

Last one. Here we go. Named after the home team, this oversized food item has been satisfying fans of the Los Angeles Dodgers for over 50 years. Chris. Dodger nachos. Dodgers. Dodgers. No, it is not dodgers, Dodger nachos, but I do like that.

Okay, you said, oh, wait, same. Named after the home team, this well-known, oversized food item has been satisfying fans of the Los Angeles Dodgers for over 50 years. Home team. Don't overthink this here, guys, baseball, 50 years ago, Dana. Dodger dogs. Dodger dogs. Yes. Dodger dogs.

It is a 10-inch-long hot dog, yes. And if you grew up in or around Los Angeles. You were well acquainted with the Dodger dog They used to call it a footlong And I guess people kind of You know, this isn't really a foot long You're right Right, right, right

Yes, no, so they switched wisely to Dodger dogs instead Yeah, no, if you say Dodger dog To any baseball fan, they will know instantly Like, oh, the big hot dog, yeah, yeah Yeah, that's right All right, well, good job, you guys Just a little bit of

fan knowledge there for you Fantastic fans, by the way, was the name of that quiz. I had pretty good. Yeah. Yeah, you did. So in that Facebook group, in that Loeb-Trotters Facebook group,

one of the great things I think that really kept us going is seeing our fans not just posting this group to say like, you know, hey, jerks. When are you going to get off your butts and do another episode? But they really continued the spirit of Good Job Rain by finding interesting things and sharing them amongst themselves and talking about all these cool things that they found. And I really enjoyed looking at a lot of these. And there was one fan-submitted factoid story that I thought that just blew my mind.

It was really fascinating and just had a tremendous rabbit hole. And this is a fan. Her name is Kate Haberman. Oh, yeah. So thank you, Kate. She shared a story from the BBC. And there's been actually many stories about this place. And it is the town of Monowee, Nebraska.

Monoie, Nebraska. The name, of course, coming from the Latin Mono and Nintendo. Wii. The town only has one single Nintendo Wii. Okay. That they all have to share. No one knows where the controller is. It's so frustrating. The spooky thing is they named that before the... Before it even came out.

It was when the GameCube came out. How do you actually spell the town's name? Oh, it's spelled M-O-N-O-W-I. It apparently means flower in some Native American language that nobody's been able to identify. Soundsbury Wisconsin. That was a false cognate. It was a joke.

But it would only need the one wee because mono-wee is a town with a population of one. A big old sign out there that says pop one. And in fact, Mono-wee is the only, we're going to get technical here. It is the only incorporated municipality, the only actual incorporated city, incorporated town in the U.S. For the population of one. That means incorporated means it has its own government. It has a town government. It makes its own laws.

There are other places in America, other like census designations. places with a name and everything that have a population of one or have a sign up. That's like population months. But Monawi is the only one that has a mayor. And that mayor is the town's single resident. Elsie Eiler.

Monoey used to have a population of two, but Elsie's husband Rudy died in 2004. She is 84 years old. She does have friends. She has a lot of friends. I don't want to get out of town friends. They don't live in Mono. But they come from other towns to hang out at her business, which is Monawi's only

business, which is a bar. They want to support the Moni tax base. Yes, the Monoey tax base being Elsie, who pays herself taxes every year, and who grants herself an alcohol license every year.

And she does have to apply to the state for the license to send her the license as the mayor, who then passes it to the town clerk, who is her, who then passes it to the owner of the bar, Hey, this sounds pretty nice. This is all above board.

Yeah. All about board. Well-willed machines. She votes for herself for mayor every year. Okay. She's lived there her whole life. Mono, we used to have about 150 people and more stuff happening, more businesses, you know. Everybody else left or everybody else passed away, you know, move to bigger cities, greener pastures.

And she just doesn't want to move. It doesn't want to move. It is 99% Egos town. You know, the lapidated buildings, you know, buildings that are out of use. There's her house, which is a trailer, which is nice. It is nice. Bar seems to be good. She cooks food there.

And there's a library. It's got great reviews on Yelp locally. Yeah. There's one review, but it's really good. There's a public library with 5,000 books and magazines. You can see pictures. Everything is tagged with the Dewey Decimal system. Post office?

Operates on the honor system. I think there's, I think maybe there's a way to mail letters in a post office. I can actually read about a post office. There's a little bit of tourism there because people, because it has a population to once, people want to go there. Yeah. So people come to Elsie, and especially, like, strangers come into town and they, like, go to the bar and they hang out with her, and they tell her where they're from and everything like that. Monoie is a great old story.

It's like she's lived there a whole... Yeah, I love that. I love this. I love stuff like that. She wants a library. Such a feel-good, you know, story. But the most fascinating one-person town is Beaufort, Wyoming. Huh.

I will tell you all about Beaufort, Wyoming right now. This was not... This, I had to, as I started, you know, looking at more and more and more one-person towns, I eventually landed on Beaufort, and this is amazing. Buford, Wyoming, or, as it's been known since 2013, Fendellie Town, Buford. Finn-D-D-T-L-E-F-E-Ford. That's F-D-L-E-L-I-Town, Buford. Capital D, D, you said.

So up until that year of 2013, Buford was sort of a similar story. You know, there used to be a lot of people living there, but the population declined. It's out in the middle of nowhere, kind of Wyoming, right? But in 1980, the whole town, everything, all the land in the whole town, all the buildings, all the houses, the whole entire town, was bought up by a successful business band from Los Angeles, and his name was Don Salmons. And Don was like, I want to get out of Los Angeles, I want a small town living, have a buttload of money. I want to buy a whole town. So he goes there with his whole family. his wife passes away eventually

his kids leave because they don't want to live there anymore and now the town has a population of one and it's just done and in 2013 he decides to sell the town the way that you sell anything these days on eBay. Via the internet. It was an internet auction.

It was not on eBay but it was indeed an online auction and the town was purchased by a guy named Fam Din Wynne. He is a Vietnamese man. Not a Vietnamese American. A man in Vietnam living in Ho Chi Minh City, where he still lives, bought the town. And he makes a brand of Vietnamese coffee called Fin Deli. Finn referring to, it's a brand name.

And Finn referring to, I think, the type of coffee filter that's used to make Vietnamese coffee or the equipment and deli being an abbreviation of delicious. That is his brand. Okay. It is literally like the town is. now named Folgers Town, Buford, because he renamed it. He renamed the town, Findellie Town, Buford, rebranded the Buford trading post with the brand of his coffee. It is the one and only place in America that serves his Vietnamese coffee, you know, as a

coffee shop type thing. And he bought it. And Vietnamese coffee is like its own awesome thing. Yeah, it is. A big coffee culture there. Yep. So he bought the town. And the thing is, I can't even figure out besides this one store how you can even get this coffee in America.

It seems like he bought the town and rebranded and did everything so that in Vietnam, he can be like, this brand of coffee owns a town in America that's owned town because that seems to be the only place you can get the coffee. I'm like, it's kind of listed on Amazon in the U.S., but you can't buy it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So when this guy who bought it is not the resident still lives in Hocchigan's. city, he, there's a guy named Brandon Hoover, who is a local that he hired to run the coffee shop, take care of the horse, and so, and just to have, to have one person there, and only one person gets to live there, it's this guy so that it can still say population one on the sign. You don't want to get squatters in your town, yeah. So that's what you'll find if you go to what, the former Beaufort, Wyoming now called Fendelli Town, Buford, Wyoming.

I was just in Wyoming last year. Like, if I had known about this earlier, I would have gone. gone out of my way. I want to go there. I want to go there and drink some fin deli coffee. Did you find out how much the town sold for?

Like, how much does it cost to buy it? What's a town go for these days? I have to look at this. I think it was like $300,000 something like that. No, I got to say that seems affordable.

For a whole town, that seems pretty affordable. That's a down payment of the house here. I've been thinking about getting in town, so I'm going to the price of money. You know, it might have been the opening bid. It might be more.

I'm not sure how much it actually sold. It may have been secret, too. I'm not really sure what the process was. Oh, what would I do If I had my own It would be a pizza shop You'd be a pizza shop, Karen Yeah

Well, I don't have to live there right You just hired somebody to live there Oh, yeah You would open up Shellhead pizza In, you know, wherever Wyoming population one It looks like a fake

New York City You could have knockoff ninja turtles It's like manholes Everywhere These are samurai Samurai turtles They're similar From all the way up to Wyoming to get you on the IP infringement.

So, you know, just do it. Those turtles up there. Shall I have pizza? When the creators of the popular science show with millions of YouTube subscribers comes the Minute Earth podcast. Every episode of the show dives deep into a science question you might not even know you had. But once you hear the answer, you'll want to share it with everyone you know. Why do rivers curve?

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So the category name is fantastic. All the answers contain the word fan. Nice. Ooh, they don't tell you that on Jeopardy. You got a, sometimes they do. You need to know the ground roll. Sometimes Alec has to like spell it like all these answers. Start with a letter D.

And sometimes they don't get it. Like you get down to the 800 question and he's just like as a reminder of all of these answers. Don't make me tell you again. All right. Are you buzzing in? Buzzing in. Jeopardy format. Yes.

All right. For 200. I'm not going to do $100. $200? at points. From Latin for not speaking, also a very young child. Colin. Infantile or just infant?

Infant. Okay. Infantile. Infant. Infant. From the Latin. Latin for not speaking. That's good.

Infant. Not because it's like, oh, a larval stage or something. You know, like read the Latin term or whatever. For not speaking. Yeah. But they're so loud. They make noise in a lot of other ways. I can attest to that.

But before they say words, they're infants. Oh, I see. Yeah. Okay. Okay. A derogatory way to refer to something new. Oh. Karen.

New Fandangle. No. I'm sorry. Newfangled. Newfangled. That's not Edcorn territory. Not quiet. Not quiet.

Fandangles. That's just misspoke. Yeah. You almost made like Fandongled. Dango and, yeah, it's New Fan Dangu. Yeah, yeah. In British English, a way of describing a costume party. Oh.

Colin? Fantasy party. No. Chris? Fancy party? Oh. Karen. Fancy dress.

That's right. Yeah. Fancy dress party is not a formal. party it's a costume party so if you're invited to a fancy dress party it's not wear a fancy dress it's come in unless you're a princess or something right exactly yeah i'm james bond in my suit yeah you're gonna have yeah yeah haggard's pet and harry potter karen who is fang fang yeah nice yes it's a mastiff neapolitan mastiff i believe i believe you a story that uses characters or settings from an original work uh call or

Chris. Fan fiction. Fan fiction. One of the dot-com companies stole around. Also a lively Spanish dance. Colin. What is Fandango? Fandango.

Oh, oh. I was like flamenco. Flamengo. It's also a pink color. And it's just fun to say. It is. As we know. Yeah.

Fandago, the company, though, was started in 2000. Wow. I didn't realize they were an early one, yeah. All right. Pottie mouth swears, curses, and cuss words. Colin? What is profanity? Profanity. The branch of an army that engages in military combat on foot.

Colin. What is infantry? Infantry. Okay. I just got infant on the brain here. All right. Two more. Two more in this category.

A musical composition structured according to the composer's whim. Okay. It doesn't come about it. Really? Yeah. What is fanfare? No. Chris?

Slight of fancy? No. That's not bad. Is it something with fancy? No. It can talk to the composure. It's also a Disney movie. Everybody, Fantasia.

Fantasia. I did not know that. That makes the movie make more sense. I just learned something, Dana. There are a lot of composers that have a Fantasia something, including Mozart. Yeah. Wow. That makes sense.

Okay, last one. First Lady Jackie Kennedy popularize this hairstyle. Oh. Chris. Bufant. Oh, nice. Poofy hair.

See, that's the thing. I thought I was so good at Jeopardy when you're watching it and you're reading the text, but like listening is a different game. You know what I mean? I mean, it's like, so on the show, they got to read and listen. And not only that, but they know they get locked out if they're early. Yeah, that's the stressful part.

Good job, you guys. All right. Well, I have a last segment, last quick segment, and inspired by, and I have a little shout-out list here of fans. Cessca Cimerick, Penelope Riley, Sarah and Jenny Coker, Warren Carlyle, Ginger Hilderman, Vanessa, Matthew, Tina Easton. been and many others because some of the most popular facts shared on our good job brain lobe tropper fan page is all about the octopus there are multiple shares and I think it's also because like on social media you have like videos and that's like very viral and you can send it be like oh look at this weird thing really strange animals and you know if we were to chart the

fan post by subject manner like deep sea creatures and octopus would like win out it would be poop even? It would be poop. Good, good. So octopus, quick reminder, plural form, you can say octopuses. Not a lot of people say octopi.

Officially it is octopodes. You sound pedantic when you're, if you try and bring in octopodes into a conversation. I think you sound pedantic if you correct somebody's pluralization that's true. Fair. Yeah. We're not talking about around the trivia table.

Right. That's different. Exactly. But if you're at a bar just talking about octopuses just let it go yeah yeah you don't want to end that date early come on yeah yeah yeah like oh I regret this she could be the one

you know what I mean not if she doesn't know the plural so octopuses are just really weird really fascinating there's so many different types there's that video where like the giant octopus like squeezes through like a two inch hole

they're amazing they're like a multi-step It's not just like they shove themselves through it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like one arm and the other. Like I would do. They take coconuts under water, like coconut shells, and they like put themselves in the coconut, you know, when they're threatened to get it. It's so, it's so strange that they can, like, so we've also talked about different octopuses before.

And inspired by our fans, I decided to find the weirdest, most intriguing, and maybe not so known type of octopus. Oh. Okay. There are a lot of them. And I did. Okay. Okay. So meet the blanket octopus.

When the blanket octopus is threatened, they have a few defense options. So one, like most octopodes, they can shoot ink to cloud and confuse their predators. The second way they can defend themselves is only the female blanket octopus. They're like kind of six feet long. They will drop from their head body and unfold. this giant webbing cape or a blanket and it's like this little packet

and it's just kind of in the water just like rolls out so it's like rolled up ready to go yeah so it's like you know when you go to Target and you look at bedsheets and they're like in small kind of container

I need a California king size and you're like oh this is so neat and then once you like unzip it and you unfold it you're like oh my god it will never go back in there I'll never go back again. But, like, it's just so large.

And this makes the octopus appear larger than they are, you know, which is a very common defense mechanism. You know, like the Jurassic Park of dinosaurs with the, uh-huh, the little fins, things. Yeah, the fin's neck. And so when the blanket octopus has, has all the webbing out, it looks like a paraglider. It's very graceful and very pretty. And it's like a gown, like with a cathedral train, right? Just the female? Just the female.

Because the male octopus is actually exponentially smaller than the female, 10,000 times smaller. What? She really, she really meant exponentially. Yeah. So several exponents. So two meters, six feet for a female, two inches for the male. It's kind of like the anglerfish, too. Yeah.

A lot of animals that had that kind of weird. And so, well, what are you going to do when you're a boy blanket octopus? You don't have a, you don't have a blanket. You're small. So how do you do to defend yourself? And it's not like they're young. It's not their babies. They're like grown men adults, right?

And they're bite size. Yeah, yeah. Oh, perfect. So on a previous episode, Colin, you had a, what's the difference quiz segment? Yes. And you ask, what's the difference between venomous and poisonous? Right. What is the difference?

One is like it injects or stings you and one is you eat it. Venomous is they have to inject their poison through a sting or a bite. substance that is that is stored in their bodies that they can put into you to kill you. Yeah. So one of the most venomous creatures out there in the water is the greatly feared Portuguese Mano War.

Yeah. They're up there. Yeah. They're going to name a couple few more I'm not scared of, but the Portuguese Mano War is definitely on my top. I want to clarify that the Portuguese Mano War is not actually a jellyfish. Quick thing. It's actually a colony of different

different animals that live in a con that Voltron into Get out of, get out of town. Yeah. And people on the internet will get very persnickety about this if you call it a jellyfish. It's not. It's a syphanophore. Yeah.

Cyanophore. Cyanophon. Come on, in common parlance, it's a jellyfish. Yeah, okay, but it looks like one. But it's actually a whole bunch of different animals in a Voltron. That have different functions. Yeah. Like a coral.

So like the top bubble is a thing and a tentacle. Yeah. Yeah. It's a colony. It really is like Voltron. Wow. Okay. So it's not a jellyfish at all.

It's not. It's not. That's not a jellyfish, then, if it's a bunch of other animals stuck together. Okay. So the Portuguese Mano War is very venomous and its tentacles can deliver a sting. But guess what? Unlike every other living thing, the blanket octopus is 100% immune to the Portuguese Mano War. Nice.

The venom. of the Portuguese Man o' War. So the little small, a blanket octopus dude will literally use its arms and rip out the tentacles of Portuguese Mano War and like super casual

just carry it around and like, you know, like a jump rope or like a necklace or like a scarf to defend itself. So if there's a fish

that comes by whatever and you whips its scarf. It's like, you know, I imagine like Stevie Nix like beautiful scarves And so the thing is When dismembered or dead

Portuguese manor war The venom's still there It's still like deadly So even though He's just ripped out He's like I know how to use this thing man Stay back There is no other animal

In the world that is completely immune To the venom Only this animal There's like a type of fish That would kind of cohabitate With Portuguese Mano War But they're just, they're 10 times more resistance to the venom, but they're not completely, not a hundred percent. I love that, like, they're just perfectly adapted to just come in close to their defenses.

Yeah. And it's very, it's just very fashion forward. Yeah, the females have like a big, the superhero cape, like Lady Gaga cape. And then, like, the little guys are just dragging around a tentacle. I imagine it's like a Linus and security blanket scenario that kind of just, yeah. all right and that is our show about fans hope you guys learned a lot of stuff learn about sport traditions sport fans cheese heads cheese heads learned about fan words learn about fan groups and population one towns

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