Good Job, Brain! - 211: In Full Bloom

Episode Date: June 7, 2021

The sun's shining, the bees are buzzing, and the flowers are blooming just so they can pass on genetic material and then die. But cheer up because we got trivia about the green stuff around us! Colin ponders about hummingbirds and what animal can actually poop out an avocado pit, and Dana gets our green juice flowing with a garden quiz. It's okay if you hate eating vegetables because you can still play TOSS THAT SALAD with Karen. And Chris quizzes us on some famous fictional plants. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast. Hello, preppy and peppy pandemonium of positive pandas and podcast patrons. This is Good Job, Brain, your quirky quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. This is episode 211. And of course, I'm, I'm your humble host, Karen, and we are your team of two twosoms touting and talking terrific topics. I'm Colin. I'm Dana. And I'm Chris.

I saw a fun article while I was reading my Twitter feed, and I thought, I got to share this with you guys. And I forgot to share it with you guys. That was last show. So let me show you out. I saw a headline, and I thought this is the kind of thing that might show up in like a tiebreak round or something, okay, at trivia. So there was basically a new Guinness certified world record for biggest painting sale ever. And I don't mean biggest painting sale like most amount of money. I mean the world's largest painting has sold.

Oh. Okay. For, yeah, so for quite a lot of money. It was at a charity auction. So the headline I saw is a world's largest painting sells for $62 million at Dubai auction. So I had to read this. Yeah, this is the largest painting in the world. And now I was thinking of myself, like, I know a little bit about art.

Yeah, I've seen, you know, I'm not to be too jaded. I'm like, I've seen some big paintings. I've been, you know, like I've been in front of the Sunday afternoon on the island of LaGron shot, you know, the one at the Art Institute of Chicago, famously in the Ferris Bueller movie, the 10 feet by 6.5 feet feet. I also know that like Gernica, you know, Picasso's famous name. I know like that one, I've never been there in person in Madrid, but that one's like 25 feet wide and 11 and a half feet tall. So I'm thinking like, okay, it's going to be pretty big. This painting is 17,000 square feet. That's like a house.

Yeah. It is like a mansion. It is not something that you could fit inside your house. On a wall. So they roll it up and put it in a tube, I guess? So this is a painting called The Journey of Humanity by a British artist named Sasha Joffrey. I was not familiar with his work before.

I looked it up. Apparently, one of the things. he's known for is fairly large-scale works. He lives and works in Dubai, and while the pandemic had kind of shut everything down for most of the last year, he decided he was going to plan an extra-large painting in the ballroom of a hotel that was basically going unused. So he has this gigantic, gigantic grand canvas. It's, you know, it's fairly abstract.

It's like drips and splatters and not necessarily representational. It was sold for charity, which is one reason I think why it sold for so much. And originally the plan was to slice it up. Yeah, I was just going to say it. Yeah, and sell it in 60 pieces, I guess, to raise $30 million. But the buyer, there was one buyer who said, no, it would be a shame to slice this thing up. I will pay more than $60 million. It's not just large.

I mean, this is preposterously large. Yeah, apparently the buyer is having a special museum built just to display this thing. I guess we'll see if that happens. They got money to build museums. They're like, whatever. What is money? Who cares? I broke down the math here, right?

So it's 62,000, 17,000 square feet. That comes out to over $3,600 per square foot. And now I have to tell you, like, if you're just looking to cover some ground, Like, you can go over to Home Depot and, you know, for like $6 a square foot, they'll give you some really nice artificial turf. Oh, my God, you guys. Yeah, a lot better. We should make a bigger painting.

And we'll cut it into tiny squares. Yeah. And then to everybody. Each person gets a one inch square. Well, actually, what we do is we do it as an NFT. So we don't even actually take it. Just the idea of it. We just need to write the biggest painting ever.

on a piece of paper and take a photo and then sell that as an hefty. So, 1700 square feet. 17,000. Oh, my God. I thought it was like a house. Okay, 17,000 square feet. Importantly, certified by the Guinness Book of World Records. Someone asked me this question, and I thought it was really cool, and I'm going to throw it out

to you guys. What would you want to be your last meal? Oi. So it's like, you're going to burn it all down. down anyway, so you may as well just go out. While you guys are thinking, I'll share mine. I would guess you, I mean, the obvious answer would be pizza, but I think you're going to go deeper than that.

It might be surprising, but like what I want is actually pretty simple and not very luxurious nor very expensive or rare. I want a good turkey sandwich on Dutch crunch bread. The proportions have to be to my liking. No, I hear you. Oh, man. Karen, that was like actually one of the first things that came to my mind, too. That's crazy.

It's just, it's so, it's fresh. It has, like, crunchy lettuce and tomatoes and vegetables. It has sauce. It has the turkey. It has, you know, cheese. And then it has the crunchy Dutch crunch bread, which I think, like, in the Netherlands, they actually call it tiger bread. That's amazing little trivia nugget right there.

I'll let me hook into that. A Bay Area favorite Ikes specific sandwich called the Hunter Pence, which is like a turkey sandwich. I think I can hook into that. I think if I knew I was going to have my last meal, I would actually want a full Thanksgiving-style dinner. Like the roast turkey, the stuffing, the gravy, the pies, that's like my favorite meal that I look forward to the most. Yeah. Or are you asking like just a single thing? Oh, no, that's fine.

Whatever you want. Oh, yeah. No, the whole deal. The whole deal. yeah i mean a surprising no one i guess i have to go with japanese curry but with what i mean you have so many toppings oh i see i see i see oh it would have it would have tonkatsu i mean i've tried all of the katsu i almost stick with the the regular pork tonkatsu um and cheese i'm gonna i'm gonna i'm gonna go wild i'm gonna double up on the ton kong i'm gonna have two ton katsu in this curry yeah yeah

because really well i'm dying right so yeah throwing caution to the wind this is good this is making me think like, you know, I should eat every Japanese curry as if it were my last Japanese curry. I think, funny enough, I think it's chicken wings. I think I would just have, like, so many chicken wings. And then I'd take a break, and then I'd have frozen chocolate-covered raspberries. Wow. Yeah. Like, wet, dry, sauced, you know, dry rub, fried. No boneless. I'm not a boneless person. Those bowlers aren't chicken wings. They're not, but they're, like, always like, oh, do you want boneless chicken wings. And I'm like, this is just chicken nuggets. This is not. Oh, lemon pepper is

like a musket, some buffalo barbecue, like basically all the flavors. And then while my stomach recovers from that ordeal, like after after I feel okay again, then I have the frozen raspberry, chocolate covered raspberries. And then I'm like, all right, come take me. I'm ready to go. Time to die. And with that, without further ado, let's jump into our. our first general trivia segment, pop quiz, hot shot. So I'm drawing a random trivial pursuit card from the box. And then you three have your barnyard buzzers. Let's get ready to answer some questions.

Blue Wedge for Geography. In which country would you most likely encounter Vegemite on your toast? Colin. I'm going to guess Australia. Australia is correct. We're New Zealand. Yes.

All right. Pink Wedge, pop culture. Which actress is the off-screen narrator of the TV show Gossip Girl? Oh. Not who is the gossip girl at the end as they reveal? Oh, right, right, right. Who is like the narrator? I didn't watch this show.

So it's not, to be clear, it's not one of the actors on the show. No. This is narrated by Ms. It says here she has an on-screen cameo on the series finale. XOXO. This is a question where... That was printed on the card. It was printed on the card.

Okay. All right, Yellow Wedge, which Supreme Court justice earned the nickname Notorious RBG after she was enraged over a voting rights act ruling? I didn't know that part. Oh, that was Dana. Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Ruth Bader Ginsburg. rest in power.

Yeah. I didn't know that part either, that specific part, that it was tied to an act. I thought it was just had developed. Someone who was clever. Yeah. All right. Purple Wedge. In which play did Larry David make his Broadway debut as both an actor and playwright?

In which play? Play. Colin. Is it the producers? No. I've never heard of this. And this is a deep cut. Oh, okay.

It's like, okay. Fish in the dark. I mean, it was written by Larry David, so it wouldn't have been... Yeah, I thought... Seinfeld the play. Yeah, got it. It's like, it's like way back, way back. I'm here.

Got it. Okay. Green Wedge. Which breed of dog was Daddy? Who co-starred with animal behaviorist Sazer Milan on the TV show Dog Whisperer. Oh, man. Chris.

Was Daddy a Pitbull? Yes, Daddy was a pit bull. The model dog. It's weird to name your dog daddy. Name your dog. All right, last question, Orange Wedge. Which prestigious event held each summer is the oldest tennis tournament in history? Colin or resident tennis?

That must be that must be Wimbledon. Yes, it must be. I don't know. It's Wimbledon. Obviously. There's like the big four. Yeah. Okay, yeah, Wimbledon.

Good. Well, guys, spring is in the air. My planter is blooming nicely. The sun is shining. It's springtime, you guys. One of our fan club listeners, Zim's Aguayo, suggested talking about things that are plants and in full bloom. All I see are tulips and I'm a hummingbird. Heavenly embrosia in every curve.

Only dripping over my imagination. The fragrance keeps flowing straight down to my soul. Okay, I'll kick it off with a general plant quiz to get the green blood flowing. Is that what it is? I don't know. I'm not a gardener, but let's... I'm always an Ivy in Batman. All right, so get your barnyard buzzers ready. This is a buzzing kind of quiz. And we'll kick it off with a throwback when I was talking about crafts. What kind of craft would I be doing if I tied a series of knots to make a plant. holder. That one, and I think Karen's going to say it too, but this one's Macromay, right? Yeah. Macromay.

I associate Macromay with the 1970s. Like, I just feel like if I had, that just, there's so much. Is it having a comeback? Magromay is having a big moment. It's fun. I've tried it. Entertaining. Adult lanyards.

Yeah. Oh, God. Sorry for the diversion. It just made me think of like, at one point, like my mom, like, there were like, a bunch of like reeds out in the back of our house and stuff like that. And she was like, oh, you know, I could like take these and, you know, do macramay and like tie it to a basket or something like that, you know, just like sitting around the summer thinking about doing this.

And so she goes out and like sits in a chair in the yard and like kind of tying knots and just having fun. You know, we kind of lived in a rural area of Connecticut. People then drove by the house and she heard people in the car going like, oh, look, a basket weaver. And that was it for the project. She's not going to. She went back inside. She didn't want to be asking me.

Look at the simple life. I hadn't thought about that until you mentioned this. Simple rustic life. Yes, exactly. Right, right, right. Question number two. What's the eight-letter term for a flowering plant that takes two years to complete its biological life cycle?

So this is a... Oh. Chris. Biennial. Biennial, yes. That makes a lot of sense. People are like, oh, I'm going to plant my annuals or my biennials. It means that the plant goes from the seed through the whole growing and the flowering and then dies.

And that's the end of it. So annuals just, it takes one year, biennial, it takes two years. Perennial is two or more years. It's not forever. Or maybe it is. But, yeah. Number three. Who was the Greek goddess of flowers in spring?

Oh, flowers in spring. The great flowers and spring. Persephone? Persephone. Hey, wow. Yes, yes. Next question. What color were carrots originally?

Colin, you had a segment about this. Yeah, yeah. But it was all about orange. If I'm remembering, originally they were kind of more like a purpley, kind of just brownish-purple-y-ish. Yes, they were purple. Oh.

They started purple. And then they... That's what happened. Trader Joe's. If I recall, my segment, is tied up in Dutch nationalism. They started breeding. They started breeding the orange color and selecting for orange.

Next question. The bark from which kind of tree is often called nature's aspirin? Oh. Nature's aspirin. Colin? Is it the willow? Yes, the willow. Yeah, I've heard that before.

Like, you can kind of, I've heard this. What are you supposed to do with it? Chew on it. You can chew on it. Yeah, it's been a pain reliever and inflammation reducer. for centuries. People knew about it. I think that's how they got figured out aspirin as they distilled it from the willow. Which U.S. state gets its name from Spanish for flowery, covered with flowers, or bounding in flowers? What U.S. States?

Oh. Chris? Florida. Florida. Took me a bit. I was like, yeah. I love that one because I was like, oh, you could figure that one out if you thought about it. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Next question. Which large South American country gets its modern name from a type of tree. Oh. Not Argentina, because it's silver. Oh, Colin. I think I just a couple weeks ago was reading about this.

Is it Brazil? It's Brazil. Yeah. Brazil is named after Brazil would, not the other way around. You know, I checked all the other countries just to be sure, and they were all water, people, or concepts. Wow. Yeah.

Checked all the other countries? Yeah. I mean, there's a limited number. I was just like, okay, what's this one, what's this one? What is the 11 letter name for the organelle in a plant cells that conducts photosynthesis? Karen. Chlorophyll? No.

That's the... Oh, the organ, the cellular organs. But it also has letters. I was like, shoot, but that's why I was like organelle. Oh, man, I used to know this. Yes. We all used to know this for sure. Is it?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm trying to count. This is mitochondria, right? Because it's organelle, like, I remember the little cross-section of the leaf and of the little drawing. You give up? Yeah. The chloroplast. Did not know that.

Wow. Yeah. Like boroplast. Going back way back. Sorry. Okay. Hyperion is the name given to a 600-year-old tree that stands 371 feet tall. What kind of tree is Hyperion?

Oh, Chris. Redwood? Yes, the California Redwood. What's the name of the 2020 Netflix show about florists, sculptors, and gardeners who compete to make elaborate garden displays and sculptures? Karen. Okay. It's called The Great Flower Fight. Not to be confused with the HBO Max Florist show in full bloom, but the great big flower fight.

Big flower fight. Oh. I love British. craft competition shows. I know. They're so nice. Yeah. All right. Last question. Tulip mania, period in the 1600s when tulips were more valuable than gold, happened in which modern day country? Karen. Netherlands. Yes, the Netherlands. Though at the time, it's called the Dutch Republic.

Oh, I see. That's why I said modern day. Great job, y'all. It feels really good to be productive, but a lot of the time it's easier said than done, especially when you need to make time to learn about productivity so you can actually, you know, be productive. But you can start your morning off right and be ready to get stuff done in just a few minutes with the Inc. Productivity Tip of the Day podcast. You'll hear advice on everything from how to build confidence to how to get the best night's sleep. New episodes drop every weekday, and each one is five minutes or less, so you only have to listen a little, to get a lot more out of your weekdays. Listen and subscribe to Inc. Productivity Tip of the Day

wherever you get your podcasts. That's Inc. Productivity Tip of the Day wherever you get your podcasts. So yeah, Karen, as you mentioned, spring is definitely here. If you look at my yard, there be no question. There are blossoms blooming everywhere. We got bees buzzing.

We have hummingbirds coming around. And this year did something I've never done. them before as I went and I bought a hummingbird feeder. So what do you put in the feeder? So it's just like sugar water. It's like sugar water at a very specific ratio. Just like just plain white granulated sugar just mixed into water. They can tell, their systems can tell the sugar content of water or nectar that they drink.

And if it's too low, they're like, forget it. It's not worth my time and they won't come back. Yeah. Yeah. And in fact, if it's too high, it can cause like, you know, behavioral problems. stuff. Like, they'll be like, they'll be like, I will kill you if you come near this thing. Yeah. Yeah. So, watching the hummingbird drink, I just marveling at nature. It's just how the plants and the animals evolve together to have these awesome relationships. And I think the hummingbird is just

such a clear example of that. Like, he's got the tiny little beak, super long and thin. And the hummingbird feeder has, they're plastic, but they're fake flowers on the front with a little hole in the at all, you know. Psychologically, I think that's as much for me. So I feel like I'm giving him, like, you know, drink out of the hours. He's like, he's like, yeah, buddy, like, it could just be a hole in the side of the thing. I would still drink out of it. So, you know, it is, it's very long and thin.

So, like, bees can't get in there. So other, like, it's designed just so hummingbirds can drink. Oh, I was just going to ask, like, wouldn't, like, bugs and stuff also? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

We haven't, we haven't had any problems with that yet because it's design so well. So yeah, you know, reading about how all the various flowers that hummingbirds eat out of, like, and they've evolved, they have co-evolved with the hummingbird that if the flower, you know, kind of preferentially is advantageous to be pollinated by hummingbird versus insects, it'll evolve to have a very long kind of spout where you get to the nectar. If that plant goes away, kind of bum in there, they've got to find, you know, a new source or, you know, like if the plant goes extinct, they'd really be in trouble. And then I was thinking like, okay, Well, what about the opposite?

Like, what about if the plant stays and the animal goes away? So I discovered the concept where, say you have a plant, or any species, but a plant in particular, where it has sort of evolved and lived past its partner, if you will. It's called an evolutionary anachronism. So you guys remember we talked a while ago, a long time ago about, like, chili peppers and how, like, birds and chili peppers are, like, work really well together because the hot oil doesn't bother the birds, but they eat the, they eat the chili peppers, and then they go, they poop out the seeds far away, and then the plant grows. And also, like, other animals won't eat the chili pepper because it's so spicy. Exactly. So it works out great for, like, the plant is, like, has a defense against animals whose gut maybe destroyed the seeds, and the animal that can transport it isn't affected by the oil.

Most plants that produce something with a seed, the way it gets, regenerates a new plant is some animal eats it, travels a little bit away, poops it out, and it grows into a new plant. There are some plants, many plants I found out, if you're a botanist and you look at this plant today, you're like, the plant spends so much energy producing a seed that no animal can eat. It's crazy. Why does it do this? And the only explanation, so here's the best example, the avocado. The avocado, I want you to think about how honking big that little pit slash seed. It's a seed in the middle of the avocado is. Yeah, like you couldn't chew that. I mean, it's, you know, it's toxic, you know, depending on the animal mildly to severely toxic.

But even if you could, you couldn't chew that. And then you start thinking like, okay, yeah, well, what animal could chew an avocado seed? Yeah, right. Transport it. Exactly. And take it any kind of distance. So, yeah, so the avocado is really kind of, I read one author called it, it is a fruit of a different time. The avocado really reached its peak in the Cenozoic era.

Okay, it's an old, old, old plant and fruit. Back then, across North America, we had giant ground, like ground sloths, just huge ground animals, okay? Who could, in one bite, chomp an avocado, swallow it whole. it's rich and kind of fatty and tasty enough to be attractive and then poop and then poop out this avocado pit right exactly it makes sense it makes so much sense and so there's an animal called the gomphothier and i hope i'm pronouncing that correctly but they think would have been probably a primary eater of avocados i mean it kind of looks like an elephant it's in that family and ground slots as well i mean you You guys have probably seen, you know, tree sloths. And I'm not talking like, you know, with Kristen Bell. And, you know, I'm talking about like, you know, huge, huge, huge, like the size of car, bigger than a car. So the avocado, it's really kind of a mystery how the avocado sort of made it far enough to get to the point that humans could be like, oh, this is a really, I'm going to breathe this thing and then make it fatter and tastier. And yeah, you know, I've read that, you know, these avocados that we're talking about 10,000, 12,000, 13,000 years ago. Yeah, it would have, it would have looked like an avocado, but there was not nearly as much flesh on it. It wouldn't be as rich. You probably wouldn't find it nearly as tasty,

but, you know, a giant ground sloth would still eat it and still poop out the seed a long way away. So somehow or another, it hung on, you know, and that's not to say that these plants die out because, you know, they can still drop the fruit. And the fruit, you know, these plants. Usually it'll rot on the ground and it might seed there. It might take over. But you know, then it's competing with the parent plant, right, for resources. And, you know, there might be an animal that, you know, maybe a rat comes along and carries a little bit of a way and kind of choose at it. Yeah, it's not, you're not getting the kind of real oomph that's worth the energy that you spent however many years and years and years building up this kind of cool little

massive seed inside this fleshy surrounding. At this point, obviously humans are like, we got this, you know, and the avocado was well known in Mexico. We can go back 500 BC and find evidence of them growing and eating avocados. The conquistadors came over. They discovered avocado from the Aztecs.

And, I mean, it really is a new world plant fruit. And in fact, you know, our home state today, they say like 90% of all avocados in the world come from California. Like we have got avocados, the industry, locked down here. So yeah, even today, they kind of theorize like in North America, the only animal today that might kind of be big enough to eat the avocado and still swallow the pit might be like, you know, a big cat or something like that, a cougar maybe.

But there's no evidence that they eat them. Yeah. If you see them around, now you have the term. them is evolutionary anachronism. Oh, and I have something that is almost the opposite of what you just talked about. A really quick fact. The internet is always full of like, hey, gross out factoid. And I'm sure you guys probably have come across something about the fig, the fig fruit, right?

The big gross out fact is like the figs actually have a dead wasp in them because that's how they reproduce, right? So really, you're eating a dead wasp when you're eating a fig. in my mind, I knew that, but in my mind, I imagine a one, one and a half inch dead wasp carcass carcass, half disintegrating inside the big fruit. It seems like that's how they're selling it to me, this fact. Right. Like in the Matrix, when he's in those big pods, everybody's liking a pod. It's like that, but it's a wask. And it's like draining the life force. You know, that's what it feels like. But it's not, I looked it up like a fig wasp is tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny.

And it goes into the, it looks kind of like a butthole of the fig fruit. And the fig, essentially, I mean, it's like a ball, but inside is inverted flowers. So the flowers don't bloom out. They grow into this ball. This is why it needs. It requires this wasp to come into this wall to spread and roll around pollen to pollinate the flowers inside.

also the fig wasp then also lays eggs in the fruit those baby wasps grow up and they fly out they like bore holes out and they fly out and they're really really really tiny and then they're gone what's very tiny like i'd imagine something like a millimeter you're like it's cool it's not like a two inch fat you couldn't see it with the naked eye very tiny i thought that by the time that you actually were eating the fig the fig wasps body was pretty much gone because it dissolves right yeah it gets absorbed so it's really more like a wasp essence at that point it's an ode to wasp the story gets crazier maybe i'll save that for another episode um it's it's now i feel like you have to say so i'll give you some bullet points the boy wasps hatch first and they make their way through the fruit and out the fruit and they bore these holes and they're a little bit big So they would bore holes and they would leave some reproductive materials so that when the female baby wasps, they go through the holes that the males have already bore through.

They also get inseminated. And then that wasp then goes to another fruit and does the same thing. It is not a big wasp in the middle. It is a tiny wasp. And there you have it. There you go. Now I'm, like, thinking about every time I've had figs in my life. Oh, yeah.

When's the next time I'm going to have a fig? It might be cool. No frills, delivers. Get groceries delivered to your door from No Frills with PC Express. Shop online and get $15 in PC optimum points on your first five orders. Shop now at nofrills.ca. Well, these have been some very interesting stories, everybody. about real-life plants.

But I, my stories are much more interesting because the plants that I have chosen, they are absolutely fascinating plants with stories that you will not even believe. And I don't want us to get distracted by the fact that they may not technically exist. In fact, definitely don't actually exist. In fact, this is a quiz for you all about famous fictional plants. Famous fictional plants. Plants that have appeared in fiction, they do not exist. Some of these are going to be specific plant-based characters.

Some of them are going to be, you know, like vegetation described in certain works of fiction, et cetera. Interesting. It's everywhere. So this is going to be a write-down quiz, which means that I want you all to get your pens and papers ready, and I will keep track of everybody's scores. Here we go. Question one. This fictional plant's singing voice was famously provided by leave. Stubbs of the R&B group

The Four Tops Oh! Go ahead and hold those answers up when you're ready. Oh, no. I'm embarrassed. And Dana have both written down Audrey 2 while Karen has written down California Raising.

It is in fact good, good thought process on that one, Karen. But yes, it is in fact Audrey 2 from Little Shop of Horrors. Oh, man. Colin and Dana get one point each. Yes. Yep. He was a Venus flytrap, right?

It was an alien. Audrey, too, was an alien. Oh, that looks like a penis fly trap. Yeah, head the mouth. All right. What comic strip are you reenacting if you were to travel to the Cedar Point theme park in Sandusky, Ohio, and ride a ride called the kite-eating tree? I have been to Cedar Point, Ohio.

Awesome, good roller coasters. Okay, I'm ready. All right. Colin is ready. Do you like my review? Hold up your answer. Dana says Calvin and Hobbs Colin says Peanuts

and Karen says family circus The winner One of you is right And it's Colin Duh The kite eating tree famously eats all of Charlie Brown's Kites in peanuts

Oh we got some Colin Colin is putting some daylight Between himself and the other competitors Fictional plant knowledge Yeah All right Let's see if anybody can catch up here Playing

Okay question number three Playing a game of Dungeons and Dragons, you come across a Myco-Nid, M-Y-C-O-N-I-D. It resembles an anthropomorphic what? Playing Dungeons and Dragons, you come across a mychonid. It resembles an anthropomorphic what. Karen is ready. Dana is ready. Colin is ready. Colin says Mushroom.

Dana says mushroom and Karen says mushroom, and you're all correct. Yes. A myco-nid. Miko, that Greek prefix meaning fungal. Everybody gets a point. Question number four, if you are playing a Super Mario Brothers game, then you touch a blue flower. What power will you gain? If you're playing a Super Mario Brothers game and you touch a blue flower, what power will you gain?

Karen seems ready. Collins' eyebrows are going up. And Dana wrote something down. Okay. Dana says water shooting. Collins says fireballs and Karen says ice balls. The correct answer is ice balls. That's what I was going to say, but I was like, no, I don't remember any snowy ones. Yeah, yeah, yeah. When did it first appear? I believe in the new Super Mario Brothers series and maybe new Super Mario Brothers Wii, I think. Oh, I think. I really should have put down ice.

All right. It is the year 1993. You are a student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. You are enrolled in herbology class learning about gillyweed and mandrakes and things like that. Who is your teacher? I know you were going to say that. But what is the teacher's name? 1999. 1999.

I want to be very clear. Yeah, 1993 is when Harry Hermione and Iran. That's when they were all at Hogwarts. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. A freebie point back to the field here. We'll see if they get it.

If they get it, this is weird esoteric Harry Potter knowledge. Okay, everybody is ready. Okay, Colin says, Vineward Binesworth, excellent, excellent answer. Dana says Professor Tomato Paste. No, I said Professor Tootwistle. Professor Tootwistle. Whereas Karen has said,

Sprout. And Karen is corrected as Professor Sprout. Professor of Herbology. Mary Margulies. And we'll jump right into question number two. Following up on that, what former Hogwarts student eventually became

a professor of herbology around the year 2018? I did ask that. I just asked it. Which of Harry's school classmates that you read about in those books later went on to become professor of herbology? Karen is locked in. Dana is holding her, what's it up?

Colin is like, I don't read these books. I will never read these books, and I'm going to make something up. So Colin says, Neville's second tier. Neville's second tier. Dana says Neville Longbottom. Karen says Neville Longbottom. And in fact, it is Neville Longbottom. Man, I should have.

So Colin was so close. You were really close. I knew it wasn't going to be one of the main characters. So then I was like, I think there's a Neville in there. All right. Speaking of Longbottom, in the Lord of the Rings books, Longbottom Leaf, Southern Star, and Old Toby are examples of what? Ooh. I'll tell you, I say it again. Speaking of Long Bottom, in the Lord of the Rings books, Long Bottom Leaf, Southern Star, and Old Toby are examples of what? What do you all think? Karen is locked in. Dana seems locked in. Colin is still writing. This is the nerd stuff that Colin did write. Karen, Karen says an ent, E-N-T, Dana says tobacco, and Colin says, what did you write, Colin? I, maybe, but no, I like what Karen pulled.

The answer is, smoking leaf. Oh, no, no. That's correct. And Dana, you are also correct with tobacco as well, because that's what Tolkien was trying to do. So, yes, long bottle, old Toby, yes, and Southern Star are all strains. What Tolkien called it was pipe weed, pipe weed. But they changed it in the movies because basically you're not going to be able to say pipe weed in the 90s and not have anybody thinking that I was got, you know, there was going to be an end question, but then the pipeweed question just got a more interesting to me with the names. You were all tied.

You all have four points each right now. Interesting. All right. Here's one. The name of this mythical tree translates to Odin's horse. The name of this mythical tree translates to Odin's horse. Not right. That's good.

It's so funny. I read something about this. Old brains. All right. Karen is, she's got her paper up. Locked. Colin is thinking about,

I know it's... Five. Four. You're not running this. Three, two, one. Okay, pencils down. Colin says, Yaramere Jager.

Dana says, what did you write there? Mure. Oh, Aaron wrote Indrazil, the World Tree. That is it. That is it. Dana wrote down Thor's Hammer, which in the absence of another guess is a fine guess. I'm like, here you go.

Colin wrote down another Harry Potter character. The exchange student. That was a hockey player, but close enough. Oh, oh, sure. Sure. It's just, you know, little we know of sports that you put a real athlete's name. We're like, oh, yeah, Harry Potter. Yep.

They both do hat tricks. I should have put the address Elba. Maybe you would have given it to me. Okay. On April Fool's Day in 1957, the BBC broadcast a hoax report about Swiss families harvesting what food item off a fictional tree. All right. I got this one. On April Fool's Day in 1957, the BBC broadcast a hoax report about Swiss families harvesting what food item off a fictional tree.

Everybody's up. Colin says spaghetti. Dana says... I forgot. I can't read it. Oh, cookies. Cookies. And Karen says spaghetti.

Yes, it is the great spaghetti tree hoax on BBC of 1957. Discussed on Good Job Brain, episode 104, the April Fool's episode. Go listen to it if you want to find out more about that. And we have two more questions left. It is truly anybody's game. If you eat a Senzu bean to restore. your fighting energy. If you eat a Senzu bean to restore your fighting energy, in what Japanese animated series have you somehow become a character? Series. Japanese animated series. Are you a

character if you eat a Senzu bean to restore your fighting energy? All right. Everybody is up. Colin says Dragon Ball. Karen says Dragon Ball and Dana says Naruto. It is Dragon Ball. It is Dragon Ball. I have zero percent chance of getting this right. I don't watch it. I almost guess Naruto because I was like, oh, maybe that's how they sprint. Yeah. Okay. We have one question left. Karen has seven points, Colin has six points, Dana has four points.

The final question is, and this final question is for 100 points. No, this final question is for one point. I'm not changing things up there. All right. In the Dr. Seuss book, The Lorax, the Lorax is trying to protect what type of tree from deforestation. I don't know. In the Lorax, he is trying to protect

what type of tree from deforestation. Also in the motion picture, the Lorax. Also in the iPad app based on the Lorax. Okay. All right, let's see. Let's see. Okay. It's a tough

one. It's tough. Colin says banana. Karen says Ajax and Dana says Yellow belly sneech tree. It is the Truffula tree. Truffula tree. Lorax is protecting the truffula tree.

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Well, flowers and plants are great to look at, but they're also delicious. I don't know if this is true for you guys, but when I was a kid, I refused to eat salads. I just didn't like, I was like, why would anybody want to eat this? But now as an adult, I love salads. You can put so many different things in it. It feels so fresh. It's so refreshing to eat. So here, I have a little game that I'm calling, toss that salad.

Yay. Those are not just any salads. They are specifically and properly named salad. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to list out ingredients of famously named salads. Then you can buzz in if you think you know what salad I'm describing. Does that make sense to everybody? what we're doing? Yeah.

All right. So here we go. Our first named salad. Name that salad. I'm going to read the ingredients. Here we go. Romaine lettuce. Parmesan cheese.

Oh, no. I don't know how to pronounce this. Right. Worchester sauce. Worcestershire. Worcestershire. Worcester. Okay.

Well, everybody knows. I think, Chris, you buzzed in first. Caesar salad. Correct. It is Caesar Salad. The following ingredients I was going to read is croutons and anchovies. Correct. It is Caesar salad. Named after what? The chef's the reader. Yeah, Caesar Cardini, I believe, is his name. Salon. You fed it to daddy every day. Caesar salad, not named after the Roman Emperor Caesar, but invented in a swanky hotel in Mexico.

during Prohibition. A lot of the Hollywood A-listers would come down to Tijuana in the Swanky Hotel, and this is where the Caesar salad was impended. Wait, wait, did they also prohibit salad in America? Next salad. Toss that salad. Tomato. Basil. Mozzarella cheese.

Dana. Caprize? Caprizy salad. Capraise salad. Correct. named after a region in Italy. Here we go. Toss that salad.

Celery, apple, walnuts. Oh, Colin. Is that a Waldorf salad? Correct. A Waldorf salad. Following ingredients also include grapes and mayonnaise. The Waldorf salad. Named after the Waldorf Hotel.

Not the old guy from the Muppets. Yeah. Although they were both named. after the same thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for hotels. All right. Toss that salad. Lettuce.

Grilled meat. Or grilled meats. Shredded cheese. Taco salad? Incorrect. Ready for the next ingredient and the final ingredient? French fries. Lettuce.

Grilled meats. Treaded cheese. French fries. French fries. Properly named existing. salad. It is called something of something to come up with. Yeah, what is it?

It's called the Pittsburgh Salad. Pittsburgh salad. A real thing. Wow. Yep. Okay. Yep. All right.

Toss that salad. Here we go. Salad greens. Avocado. Hard-boiled egg. Oh. Chris. Just a cob salad?

Oh, you're so good. Cobb salad. So salad greens, avocado, hard-boiled egg, red wine vinaigrette, rockfort cheese, chicken, and bacon. Some say it came out of the famous Hollywood Brown Derby restaurant named after the owner Robert Howard Cobb Cobb Salad. It's one of those great salads where the lettuce just sort of disappears into a sort of melange of meat, cheese, and eggs. Here we go. Toss that salad. Greens. Tomatoes, hard-boiled egg, olives, anchovies. Greened tomatoes, hard-boiled egg, olives, anchovies. This sounds like some straight 1950s-level salad making right here.

Is it Nisois salad? Correct, it is correct. Oh, hey. Oh, a salad. Niswas, a proper Niswaz. I think, like, when we buy it at the coffee shop, there's, like, a bunch of other stuff in it, but this is, like, classic. Oh, I didn't realize that was the classic. Yeah.

All right. Toss that salad. Here we go. Mixed greens. Vinaigret dressing. All right. Dry cherries. Oh.

Blue cheese. Yeah. What is this? My dad is eating this. What is this? It sounds good. Are there more? That's, those are the four.

It's going ingredients. It's got the red from the cherries and the white and the blue from the blue cheese. So maybe it's an America salad or French. Freedom. Another French one, the tricolor. Oh, man, I've seen my dad eat this before. You know, I've seen people eat this. I didn't know it had this name.

It is called a Michigan salad. Oh. Or Michigan style salad, which is putting those toppings onto different types of greens. Michigan salad. What salad? What salad is referred to as the king of salads? The king of salad. The king of the Caesar salad.

Yes, it's not the Caesar salad. It is a... So I was going to say like a chef salad, but... Caviar in it or something. Yeah, can we work this out somehow? It has a seafood in it. A shrimp. A shrimp cocktail.

Lobster salad is a king of salad. Oh, king crab in it. Oh, there we go. Is it a... Also called? A Louie Crabb Louie Salad

King of salad And here's another fun fact I'm not going to make it a question There's something I read And this is not in the proper quiz Because it's not a in the spirit of things It's not a proper salad It is one of those weird dessert salads

It is called a Watergate salad And what's in it is Pistachio pudding Canned pineapple whipped topping pecans and marshmallows and it's

yeah that's that classic 1950s you know The fun fact is in 1925 Harper's and brothers they published

a book of called favorite recipes of famous women back in 1925 and Helen Keller her

recipe was for what she calls a golden gate salad which is the same ingredients because it reminded her of California

I mean, it must be good. It sounds like a lot of sugar, to be honest. It just sounds like a lot of sugar in one place. It can look like delicious gelato or it can also look like wallpaper paste. Like it's kind of a mix between the two. It's one of those that you want to eat quickly before it all melts together. Anyways, well, that's my quiz. Thank you guys for eating your greens.

I want to look something up real quick. So we talked about Waldorf and this funny thing, popped in my head about Waldorf, the Muppet. You know his wife's name is Astoria? That's great. She looks exactly like Stettler. That's great. Wait, I need a look like so.

Which one is Waldorf? Is he the round one or the long one? I think the more round one. Oh my gosh. We're all doing it right now. Yeah, that's really good. That's a great little trivia, Muppet Nugget. Wow, wow, wow.

Just once. And it's Stadler with a wig. How funny. That's hilarious. All right. We got one last segment. Colin, let it grow. I will let it grow. I have a quiz for you guys about celebrity names. The answer to every question in this quiz will be a celebrity's name that has a plant or floral or growth-related tie-in. I think it'll become very clear after we do a couple of these. You should clue right in. Remember, if the clue feels a little sparse, remember the answer will always have a plant, flower growing tie-in. Okay, so why don't you guys get your barnyard buzzers ready? And here we go. This British actor is not the only one in her family with a floral-themed name. Her two older sisters are named Kika Rose. and poppy Sophia, a model and musician in their own right. Oh, geez.

Is it Peaches Geldof? Oh, that's not a bad deal. It is not Peaches Deldof. This is a current working actor. Oh, another guest. Is it Lily Collins? Oh, it is not Lily Collins. Daisy Ridley.

Yes, it is in fact. Daisy Riddle. There you go. I was like, Colin. Like Star Wars, yeah. Daisy Ridley, her two older sisters. I thought that was a good floral-themed one. Oh, that's cute.

I like plant names as people names. Next question. Before his career in politics, he was the captain of the Yale baseball team and a Navy pilot in World War II. Is it George Bush? It is George H.W. Bush. That's right. Yes. Branch twig.

Yeah. Leaf famously shot down as a pilot, in fact. So next question. This Tony, Grammy, and Emmy award-winning actor and comedian got her big break on TV's Laugh-in in 1969. Dana, again, I think is what I heard first.

Yeah. Is it Lily Tomlin? It is. Lily Tomlin. Very close to her egot there. I just got to get this lady in Oscar. Next question. This youthful actor has performed on stage,

both on Broadway and in London's West End, but he is also the only lead actor to appear in both the Lord of the Rings and the Pirates of the Caribbean series. I will give it to Chris, even though Dana may have shaded the next second. I believe in points now. Why don't you guys go together?

Who is this? Orlando Bloom. Yes. Karen, you were not asked to chime in. I wanted to be trying to sneak in, and nobody's listening. No points. Yes, that is Orlando Bloom, portraying Legolas and Will Turner, respectively in those two movie series.

Next question. This former Major League Baseball player and manager had the, the nickname Charlie Hustle in his playing days. Unfortunately, he is currently banned from all official association with Major League Baseball for gambling on games while he was a manager. Who is this? Confidently.

Okay, everybody. Pete Rose. Rose, that is correct. Pete Rose. And we should say, yeah, scrubbed. Yeah, you know, it's controversial. Every few years he kind of, you know, tries to make his case to get back in the good graces of Major League Baseball. We'll see.

We'll see. You know where he spends most of his time? I've seen him like a couple times now. Las Vegas at like memorabilia stores doing, doing science. Oh, yeah. Wait, didn't he walk by him like one time? Every time. Yeah.

Many times. Many. I was like, well, Pete Rose again. Next question. This British rocker accepted an invitation from Jimmy Page to become the lead singer for one of the biggest rock bands of all time.

Chris. Robert Plant. That is, of course. Robert Plant. Duh. Robert. Damn it. I was like that. Axel Rose, right? Yeah.

Oh, man. Axel Rose does not make an appearance on this quiz. He would qualify, but yes, Robert Plant. A couple more here. All right. This a literatively named Academy Award-winning actor was born in Georgia, but she moved to New York City in the 1980s

where she actually shared an apartment with Francis McDormand. She, like Francis McDormand, has some notable appearances in Cohen Brothers films. One of her early roles was in Raising Arizona. Karen. Holly Hunter. Holly Hunter. That's right. That's right. She has a really good Marvel comics name. She'd be like a reporter, you know. Yeah. All right. Last one. Short clue here. Short clue. This American singer is the second youngest person to win a Grammy Award. Chris. Blue Ivy Carter. Correct.

Oh, yes. Right. At nine years old. really getting her start early. Blue Ivy Carter became the second youngest person to win a Grammy. She shared with her mother. You may have heard of her mother, a singer of some renown named Beyonce. And her

father, of course, no slouch himself, Jay-Z. So she was also the youngest person to ever win a BET award. I mean, she's racking them all up here at just nine years. So she's currently, she currently holds the record for youngest. She's the second youngest person to win a Who is the youngest?

The youngest person to win a Grammy was part of a country group, the Pissol sisters. Oh, okay. They were 8, 11, and 14. Again, we will tie it all back together with the Cohen brothers. They won the Grammy for their song and the soundtrack. Oh, brother were out there. Album of the year in 2002. So there we go, guys.

A little bit of plant, flower growth-based questions for you all. I think you guys got every single one there eventually. Good job. Oh, the cousin won a Grammy last week. What? What? Go on. She's a classical musician.

Her group won. I forget the name of her group. Yeah, she's really, really talented and really beautiful. So she, like, has performed on Saturday Night Live in the background for people, like, doing the viola. Like, other people. When they ever, they need a viola on Saturday Night Live, they get her to show up. Wow. That's great.

Yeah. And that's our show. Thank you guys for joining me. And thank you guys listeners for listening in. Hope you learned stuff about fake plants, about avocados, figs, and also salads. Yeah. You can find us on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcast, Spotify, Audible, and on all podcast apps. And also on our website, good job, brain.com.

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