Good Job, Brain! - 212: Remember Me?

Episode Date: June 16, 2021

How well do you remember the last few years or is it one giant year blob? We discover some current events trivia that... might not be so current after all. Need a special memory manipulation service? Take Chris' memory-altering movie test! And why do smells conjure up memories? Bust out your childhood sticker collection because we find out the origin of scratch and sniff stickers. Let's soar all over the world in Karen's memorial monument quiz. ALSO: ultimate sports memorabilia, GJB 2012 Debut Challenge Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Hello, Dreamy Dreadnots, Druids, Dryads, and Dragons. Welcome to Good Job Brain, your weekly quiz show and OpBit Trivia podcast. This is episode 212. And of course, I'm your humble host, Karen. And we are your Mughals who like to Google and eat Coogles. I'm Colin. I'm Dana.

And I'm Chris. Well, without further ado, let's jump into our first general trivia segment, pop quiz, hotchot. And here I have a random trivial pursuit card. You guys have your barnyard buzzers. Here you go. Let's answer some questions. Uh, question number one, Blue Edge for Geography. What is the name?

of the traditional Japanese bra that's made from fermented soybean paste. Dana. Miso? Miso, correct. Pink Wedge for pop culture. What is the better known name of Hollywood gossip blogger Mario Armando LeVondera Jr. who calls himself the queen of all media. Everybody.

Perez Hilton. It was very enthusiastic. That question had like, yeah, I really found that question. was over. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can't give us even a nanosecond pause, Karen. We're going to jump in there with the buzzers.

Yeah, I knew this. Yellow Wedge. What is the Wall Street Reform Act that became law in 2010 commonly called? Wall Street Reform Act that became law in 2010. Oh. Colin. I mean, are they looking for, is it like a hyphenated? name?

Yes. Is it Sarbanes-Oxley reform? Wow, it's hyphenated. It's not that. It is Dodd-Frank. Oh, okay. I don't know. Well, Purple Wedge.

Which Depraved Prisoner of the Bastille wrote the book, the 120 days of Sodom during just 37 days of his incarceration. Dana. Is this the Marquis de Saude? Correct. Marquis de Saude. There we go. Have you seen clothes?

Yes. Yeah, that's how I know. Yeah. There's a Joaquin Phoenix, Kate Winslet, a very strange man and movie. Ooh, okay. Greenwich for Science and Nature, baby camels are born without humps, true or false? Colin. I'll say true. It is true. They're born humpless. Humpless. Easier on mama camel, I'm sure. The birthing process is probably a lot more.

I didn't think about that That makes sense Can you imagine if it's like The Bactrian double hump camel He says you're like No Another humph How many camels are in there

Okay Last question Orange Wedge for Sports and Leisure In baseball What is the name For a non-contact swing That results in a ball

Or a strike A non-contact swing that results in a... Chris. A big wiff-eruny. What are they looking for here, Karen? The answer is a check or a checked swing. Oh, a check swing.

Baseball, one of not my super specialty, but a check swing is like when the batter tries to abort the swing halfway. Like, oh, I was going to swing. Oh, no, I'm not really going to swing. Oh, but it's a ball. And then they have to get the judge and it's like, no, you came too far around yeah we're crediting you you didn't make contact but we're still

going to credit you with yeah all right to reason out that's sports all the baseball fans out out there are just pulling their hair out yeah they're like oh my god sorry guys all right well good job everybody so this week guys our topic i believe colin chose this You know, we've been feeling pretty nostalgic for our pre-pandemic lives, and we have a lot of fond memories. And it seems like we're everything's kind of gearing towards going back. And so we're going to talk about memories, things to remember, things to memorialize. So this week, misty color water memories. It's watercolor.

I believe it's water colored. What did I say? Colored water. Colored water. I mean, you know, it's part of it. I only know it from from naked gun, the second naked gun. I didn't know about the original song, but like she's singing it in the shower. And I think like the robber in his house like came in.

And she's singing and he started duetting with her. Oh, right. Oh, geez. A lot of my knowledge from a naked gun. Right. Oh, right. Who's been water forwarded men Of the way we were

Scattered pictures Of the smiles we left behind Smile we gave to one another Of the way we were Who's first? So before we get into it, I was remembering, because memory, AP psychology in a senior year of high school. I'm going to do this experiment on you guys that my AP psych teacher did for us, which is that she went over to the chalkboard and she wrote down the number 316, 316, she wrote 316, okay, on the chalkboard. Should you write this down?

Um, yeah, yeah, go ahead and write it down. Sure. Go ahead and write it down. You all got, you know, pencil, paper, right? Just go ahead and write it down. So you all, you all have the 316 written down. Do it at home too. Do it at home.

Write it down. You got your midpad, 316. Okay? All right. Here is the psychological experiment. Forget that number. So when I see you guys in a month, when I see you guys in a year, I'm going to be like, can you forget the number 316?

I will have forgotten it. I'm sure. So I'll tell you that that is the exact number that she wrote down on the board Because I absolutely remember it Oh and you're and you remembered it this whole time I remembered it this whole time for this now infected us and this and I've infected you and she said that she had people come back She's been using that same number on all of the classes and that she had people come back 20 years later She told us you know in class like oh yeah people come back 20 years later and they tell me they still remember that

They can't they can't forget the number That's cool I just looked at it again, too. I just made a rookie errors. I just looked at it one more time to just re-encoded even, yeah. The problem is because I surprised you guys with the knowledge of, now forget it, that you're less likely to be able to now. You know, as a little kid, my dad would do that thing of like,

don't think about monkeys. And then like, I was like, all I can think about is monkeys. Yeah, yeah. I feel like I've been training my whole life for this test of forget this. I'm like, okay, I'm fleshing it right now. No more monkeys. Get out of here. Take it out of the punch bowl. That's what happens when if there's like two streams of audio that's happening. Like if someone's talking to me and there's music playing in a room, I'm like, I need to concentrate on this person who's talking to me, but all I hear is the music that's in the room. And then I have to trick my brain. I was like, okay, well, I'm going to then trying to think about the music.

So then the person talking to me, I can pay attention to that. Interesting. All right. My turn. Historical Monuments is a subject that is just so a fact-filled trivia dance. Comes up on Pub Trivia a lot. So here I have a game here about famous monuments, but you might not know that all of them are actually memorials. Remembering, commemorating something.

So I will give you the location and the monument name. And you tell me, you buzz in, in whose memory was this built for? Okay. Okay. All right. Well, first stop, we're going to go to Agra, India, famously the Taj Mahal UNESCO World Heritage Site, made of white marble, a really universally admired piece of architecture. In whose memory was this built for? We all know the building.

All right. Colin. It is in the memory of the wife of the man who funded its construction, and his name was, that's as far as I got with that one. You're partially correct. We hear about the Taj Mahal was built for the wife. It should be for the wife, but whose wife and who was the wife? The ruler was Shah Jahan, and his favorite wife.

was Mom Taz Mahal. So Mahal is in the building name. Mom Taz, M-O-M-T-A-Z. Mahal. So if you said Mrs. Mahal, I would have given you, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I would have given you points. I like it. This is Mahal.

Good thinking, then I. All right, next stop. We're flying Paris, France, for the Arc de Triumph, the triumphant arc in the middle, smack in the middle of the, the Charles de Gaulle star of all the avenues coming in at the end of Champs-en-Lise. In whose memory was this built for? Colin again. I mean, in whose memory?

For some reason, I want to say Napoleon. It could be a group of people. I want to say, like, it was after one of Napoleon's battles. Again, I've got partial information that may or may not be right. Anybody want to take a guess? Is it some soldiers? Correct. That fought an award.

Okay. Yes. That France participated in. Yes. Very good. Specifically, it's dedicated to all the people who fought and died for France in the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. So it's just kind of a blanket dedication to those who all lost their lives. And actually, underneath, well, beneath the arc, there's another memorial, and it's for the unknown soldier, and that's for World War I.

It's the eternal flame tomb of the unknown soldier. So that location kind of represents three. We have the Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, and World War I, all kind of in one, Arc de Triumph. All right, time to come back to the United States, in America, Midwest. We have the St. Louis Arch. St. Louis Arch, famously built by Aerosarinen, in whose memory was this built for? Hmm. Interesting. I didn't know that was a memorial.

Yeah. Another place I've been and was clearly not paying attention to the plaque. Gotta read those plaques here. You really, as Roman Mars says, you got to read the plaque, yeah. That's me. I read all the plaques. Yeah, that's one of his, yeah, always read the plaque. Is it some brotherhood type thing? Is it some kind of like Civil War thing? It's the gateway to the West.

Is it connected to that in any way? Yes. Spiritially yes. Lewis and Clark. To the pioneers or to the trailblazers. You know, you're close. It is commemorating the westward expansion of the United States and all those who have participated in the westward expansion. I mean, because, you know, like you said, Colin, it was a gateway to the west.

Yeah. It's a big gate. Hello, welcome. Thank you for all the people who've made it this far, you know, in the past to help establish this. I don't know if you still can do this, but when I was there like, man, 20 years ago, more. You could take a little elevator car up to the top of the thing. An arc shape, it moves up and to the side, and then you get up to the middle. It's weird.

It's a weird sensation. So you're sideways. Well, the car sort of moves at an angle. When it opens up, are you like on a balcony or are you in? It's like a little walkway with like outward facing windows so you can kind of look out and like look down below you and there's like, you know, nothing below you. Yeah, yeah, maybe not if you're claustrophobic and or acrophobic. Architect Aeroserinen, actually, fun fact, beat out his own dad for the contest for the building, building whatever monument it was going to be in St. Louis. Beat out his own dad, who's also a famous architect.

Okay, next place we're going to, oof, all right, we're going to Africa, we're going to Cairo, to the Pyramids of Giza, in whose memory was this built for? There are a couple names. Yeah. Mr. Giza. It is not Mr. Giza. Sorry. Is any of those names, Keops?

Am I close? Yes. Oh, okay. So, correct. You get the point. That is the Hellenic name of this Egyptian monarch. It's Kufu. Kofu.

I was also going to say, yeah, okay. I didn't know they were the same person. So they're the same dude. Oh, okay. There are three main pyramids in the great pyramids. There are a couple like little ones, but there are three main. Each one is a different Egyptian ruler. So there is Kiyopsar Kuf, Kaffre, and Menkare.

And those are the three dudes that are the pyramids are built. for. Next stop, we're going to Reikovic, Iceland for the Imagine Peace Tower. In whose memory was this built for? The name should clue you in, but I have another clue. Oh, okay, Chris, Chris, Chris, Chris, Chris. John Lennon. Correct. It is John Lennon. Imagine Peace Tower. My clue, well, I'll describe a little bit of it. It is, the base of it is a large wishing well. and has 15, like, hardcore Batman search spotlights that shoots out. The lights only light up certain days of the year. So, including John Lennon's birthday, the day that he was shot.

And it was also lit up for, you know, sometimes it's Icelandic New Year or other, I think, like solstice and equinoxes. It's not a statue. It's light, which I think is kind of cool. Last stop, we're coming back home to San Francisco. We're going to Coyt Tower. Coit Tower. In whose memory was this built for? Oh, Colin.

I believe it was in the memory of Mr. Coyt funded by Mrs. Coyt, like Lily Coit or something like that. You're getting the names right, but that is not... It's memorializing. I'm not afraid to be wrong. I know what it is. Oh, wait, wait. Is it the firefighters who died in the 1906 earthquake or fighting the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco?

Yes. Yes. Specifically, it is for the volunteer fire people who died in the San Francisco five major fires. Huh. And there's a rumor, Dana, I think you know, that the shape of the building looks like a fire hose. I've heard that. That's the rumor. All right.

Well, that was a hard quiz. Actually, before I hand this off, I just want to recommend everybody watch this clip, this video clip. It was James Corden on the James Corden show, and he had this prank. The L.A. Galaxy was going to have a monument, like a statue of David Beckham, to honor him. And James Corden had a prank where he had another artist commissioned the worst-looking statue of David Beckham and swapped it. So when they had a little like preview event for David Beck and for him to finally see his own statue and they unveiled it and it was like the supremely bad statue of him, but to catch his reaction and like, man, cool as a cucumber, just you can see that he is so upset inside, but he was very courteous. I love it. That's great.

I did not get mad. Oh, my God. It's so funny. That's that's one of my. And the statue is just so bad. I love, I love every now and then Googling like. bad statues bad like it just it always cracks me up there's just some so horrendously bad yeah and then of course the echo hominae yeah redo always ends up in there yeah uh well karen speaking of

soccer related news and a little bit of trivia question here for you all no we're gonna yeah i promise i promise this will be a fun one i promise this even though it is sports related i really think you guys will we'll dig this one yeah we like learning We like learning about sports. I don't know if there are any, you know, soccer slash football fans in your lives. But have you heard of the Dutch team Ajax or Ajax, if you prefer the more anglicized pronunciation? You may have seen their shirts out there. They're like the powerhouse team in the Dutch soccer leagues in the Aere de Visi, the highest level of pro soccer there.

I mean, they're like they're Yankees or Lakers Celtics where they've won. Wow. I know those names. They've won 35 championships, you know, out of the last, however many, you know, 60 years that they've had them. They, this year won the Ared Divisi title, as I say, not for the first time. And, you know, like a lot of pro sports teams all over the world over this last year and a half, they had to play all or part of their last season with no fans, you know, because, hey, there's a pandemic going on. You know, there have been some kind of fun, feel-goodish stories about how some of the sports teams have tried to engage with their fans despite-oh, I had a cutout for A's. The A's. So, Karen, yeah, you and your household are A's fans, right? You know, baseball's done some pretty cool things with, like, cutouts in the stands, yeah. They strap your cutout to a seat and you have a dedicated seat for an entire season. It's cool. And they're like, they'll show it on camera and they'll fill up, you know, whole sections of the stands or the, you know, with like cutouts. Some of the, you know, especially maybe some of the more minor league teams, they've done things like, well,

fill half the stands with like TV characters. Yeah, I think there was a... Costco Teddy Bears. Yeah, I think there was a, the Denver Broncos, the pro football team. I think there was a game this past year where they filled part of the stands with cutouts from the South Park TV show, you know, to kind of the Colorado, yeah, reference. So yeah, so this year, AFC I-X did something special with their trophy as a way to honor their 42,000 season ticket holding fans.

So why don't you guys get your pen and paper? And I want you to write down your best answer, maybe your most hilarious answer if you want to take a guess. I want you to tell me, AFC Iax, who won the championship, they did something special to honor their season ticket holding fans. What did they do? What did they do? Something that has not been done before.

Okay. up let's see here. Hold on. Hold on. Oh, Karen needs time. So they wanted to do something special to honor their diehard season ticket holding fans who could not attend games. What did they do? Karen says they bred a special tulip. Ooh, I like that. Okay. Well, I crossed out NFT. Crossed out NFT. Right. Chris, what do we have? Chris here. Chris says they put the names of all the fans inside the trophy and pulled one out and that person is now on the team. I like that. That would be cool.

Very Disney style ending. Airbud. Airbud. Dana, your guess. They cut it up into pieces and gave it to the fans commemorative coins. Dana, I'm going to give you the point because you are so close. Let me read to you. Let me read to you this article that was published on the Associated Press just about 10 days ago.

Amsterdam, byline. I-X has melted down its Dutch League trophy to give a tiny silver star to all 42,000 season ticket holders who were locked out of games during the coronavirus pandemic. That's cool. I'm continuing here. The storied Amsterdam Club published Movie-like Videos Wednesday of the Ared Divisi Trophy, a wide silver plate being torched and recast into stars. Each star weighs just under three and a half grams, so about an eighth of an ounce, and will be sent. It's tiny. I mean, you got to support all those season ticket holders.

That's right. That's right. And so presumably there will be some sort of certificate that comes along with it as well to prove that it is a real trophy IAC star. And then I also read that the Dutch Soccer Federation basically presented the team with a commemorative replica second place. as a display. Yeah, it's kind of like, you know, well, you know, good on you for... We just made another one. If they, like, run out of material, they underestimated how much they needed.

They could just melt the second one. So I thought that was definitely one of the coolest kind of sports memorabilia offers that I've ever heard of, and a kind of cool way to hang on to a championship trophy. For this last year, yeah, if you were not able to actually go and watch the games. Nice. And Chris, what you got? Well, I have a quiz about memory in the... movies. There are a lot of films out there that deal with the idea of like implanting memories or racing

memories, messing with people's memories. You know, of course, because in the movies you can do that, you can show somebody a scene and, oh, but it never really happened, that sort of thing or from you know, multiple different angles. Yeah, exactly. So, and a lot of this revolves around either companies or teams of people or organizations or, you know, people that are messing with other people's memories in whatever ways. So I'm going to describe to you the company or the team of people that's messing memories and what they do and how they do it. And you tell me what film, what movie I am describing.

How's that I said? All right. Okay. And you can go ahead and you can buzz in for this one. Here we go. Question one. Had a bad relationship and don't want to think about them anymore. Our firm Lacuna will erase all those pesky memories and the good ones too.

sound like everybody how about dana eternal sunshine of a spotless mind eternal sunshine of the spotless mind who next one want to take a vacation we can't help with that but we can implant a memory to make you think you did a carrot total recall that is total recall

the name of the company is recall can't remember anything We're your local tattoo parlor And we might be able to help with that Oh That sounded like Colin Is that Memento? It is Memento

Yes Question four Think you have a lot of great memories Maybe you do Or maybe you're an android Don't worry, we'll figure that out for you Oh Karen

Blade Runner Blade Runner was behind it Yes I should I overthought it I overthought it. Speaking of implanting, need to do any corporate espionage because our team will infiltrate the mind of anyone and retrieve a memory

or maybe even put a new memory inside them. I'm going to say, I do it was everybody. All right, everybody. Inception. Inception. I think Christopher Nolan likes making movies about memory. I feel like he does. At time.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Oh, I actually, so for research for this show, I mean, not really research, but I was just reading around. You know, the Inception, we always think about the, wah sound effect. Yeah, yeah.

That was never in the movie. It was only in like two trailers. And somehow everybody associated that, blah with Inception, it was like never, never in the film. Because you saw like 10 times that movie, that summer in trailers, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Never going to the movies. So when our team sends you back in time to stop a deadly plague,

you probably won't do it. But you might learn why you keep having dreams of someone being shot at an airport. Heron. Twelve monkeys. Yes, 12 monkeys. I love having memories of seeing so much shot at the airport. Oh, what a good movie.

That's the only kind of time travel fiction that I like, which is time travel fiction with Brad Pitt. With Brad Pitt, exactly. Where if you try to change the past, you can't because you already went back and tried to change the past. and that's what created the, yeah, off topic. Final question, who needs memories anyway? Every night, our team of aliens will come take yours away and give you new ones.

And here, it's always night. Karen. Dark city. Dark city. Yes. Oh, I did not see that one. It's really good. Who was it?

Which one was that one? Rufus Sewell. Oh, okay. When is it from? Do you know? It's from the 90s. I like the slogan aspect. Yeah.

Oh, thanks. It wasn't originally in the course. quiz and it's just like I got to like question four and I kind of wrote it like that and then I had to go back and you know change it all because I was like oh that's good I should change it so that's all yeah book club on Monday gym on Tuesday date night on Wednesday out on the town on Thursday who quiet night in on Friday it's good to have a routine and it's good for your eyes too Because with regular comprehensive eye exams at Specsavers, you'll know just how healthy they are.

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Yeah, yeah. So I was like, huh, this is about memory. Maybe I should make a quiz about that. It's not that you have to give me the exact year it happened, but more like, did this happen recently or not that recent? By recent, I mean things that happen 2018 to now, and not that recent, is 2017 and earlier. Okay. I feel like... Buffers like three years.

Just three years ago or... I like it. I like it. I continually find myself failing these little challenges in my own life, so... Well, especially, like, oh, that movie won last year. It's like, no, that movie won like six years ago. Yeah. Oh, okay.

I know. this way. This is a sports one. I'm excited to start with a sports one. Gritty, the Philadelphia Flyers mascot was introduced. Was that recently or not that recently? Karen. Recently. Do you know what year? 2019. 2018. Oh, okay. I tested this out on awesome plans and they were like, hasn't Gritty always existed? Isn't it like 40 or 50 years old? And it's like, no. Well, there are all these memes of him. So, like, recently there's all these memes of him.

And he's very active on social media. How about the current world's tallest building opening? The world's current tallest building. Yeah, when did it? I'll say not that recent. Okay. Yes, you're right. Not that recent.

Do you know what year that happened? I don't know. Is the Birch Khalifa? Is that the building? First. 2015, 16? Or is it? 2010.

Oh, wow. Man. Yeah, there you go. QED. Yeah, yeah, yeah. How about a new independent branch of the U.S. military, meaning, and that independent branch is the U.S. Space Force was formed. Was that recent or not that recent? Space Force.

Space Force is very recent. Last few seconds of the Trump administration. 2019. How about the Game of Thrones series finale? What's our cutoff? The show ended? 2018 is the cut. I'm waiting for the book.

Don't spoil me. I'm waiting for the last book. You're waiting for the second to last book still, Colin. No, that, okay. Chris, yes. Recently, recently. Okay, do you know the year? They wrapped it up in 2019.

2019. How about that college cheating admission scandal where the rich people, like Felicity husband and Laurie LaFleynne? You went to jail? Yeah, they went to jail. They were busted for using their money to cheat their ways. their kids way into college. Yeah, that was, that was...

When was that, Chris? I think that was 2019, too. Yes, 2019. Great. Wow, they're fast. They already have, like, the document, you know, the movie that came out. Yeah. Man. How about when Colin Kaepernick kneeled on the field to protest for the first time?

Oh. First time. Oh, that's... That was not that recent. Man, at this point. I mean, he was out of the league for a while. 2016. Yeah, good, yeah, good guess, yeah.

How about Pokemon Go launching? Not that recent. No, not that recent. 20, man, I was so into it too. Where was I? Well, I know I was writing about it for Wired. I think it was 2016 when it officially launched. 2016, yes.

Wow. Do you know this one the first time the Miss America pageant didn't include a swimsuit competition? Oh, I remember it was a big deal. Wait, do they took it out? They took it out. I'm not really up to date on that. Colin? I'll say recent.

I'll say that was pretty recent. And I'll say 2018. Yes, nailed it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. How about the Starbucks unicorn Frappuccino? Oh. Not recent. Okay.

Do you know the year? 2015. 2017. That was like the pink, swirly. shiny thing, right? And the people who worked there hated it, right? Because it takes about 35 minutes. So, like, one.

Okay, yeah, because they have to make all the different flavors and layer it and stuff. It's beautiful, but too much. It was too beautiful to live. Much like a unicorn. That's what happened to the unicorns. It's too beautiful. Yeah, exactly. The hardest part was milking the unicorns.

How about when Kanye West got Kim Kardashian? in a hologram of her dead father for her birthday. That was not recent. That was not recent. That was a while back. I agree. I agree.

Not recent. It was 2020. What? It was in October in 2020. I'm thinking of something else then. I'm thinking of some other hologram. Yeah. When you do so many audacious things, they all just kind of, you know, like the Tupac hologram, right?

It was like, it's so weird. So strange. All right, just a couple more. When McDonald's stopped including soda and happy meals. Oh. I didn't even know they did that. I mean, that makes sense. I know, well, I know that they don't do that because I order sometimes happy meals, but for the kids and myself.

Yes, yes, the kids. No. I would say not recent. I would say not that recent, too, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. You're very close. 2013. That was, yeah.

Okay. That seems a little late. For someone to be like, hey, let's not, let's not, you know, gear these kids up with sugar. Yeah. Like they reduced a bunch of calories. They're baby stepping to making Happy Mills better. So I think in the next year or so, they're going to not do plastic toys anymore. Oh, cool.

So they'll, like, eat paper books or something. Who wants those? I have some garbage that you can throw away later. It would be like a QR code for a digital thing, you know. Yeah. Okay, last one. What about when giant pandas left the endangered species list? Oh, I didn't even know that they had.

Disclaim. They're still vulnerable, but they're no longer considered endangered. I think not that recent. Because I feel like I've watched so many baby panda videos. I have no guess. Yeah, not that recent. You're right. Do you know the year when they talked up the list?

2016. Oh, okay. The panda cam videos online are consistently. hilarious, like, out of one of the panda sanctuaries. And they got very smart of realized, like, we can post these videos on YouTube and get a million clicks. Oh, I think they're seeing the pandas got really smart.

I was like, I think they're pretty dumb. The pandas do get really smart. They do. They're like doing all these poses. They're like, hit the subscribe button. They figured it up. Like and subscribe. Yeah. Hit that notification bamboo. Great job, you guys.

Woo. So I have a little fact that I found. that I wanted to share. Some of you guys might know that I'm very into perfumes and perfumeries and collecting and trying and smelling different scents. And it's commonly known that smells and memories are tied very closely together. That certain smells can, like, trigger a memory. Some smells we closely associate with like moments in our lives.

And why is that? Part of our brain, that processes smell. is called the olfactory bulb, which I think is a cute, and it makes me think him like a tulip bulb, olfactory bulb, and it's located at the base of your brain, and it's actually very, very close to the amygdala part of the brain that controls or processes emotions, and the hippocampus, which is more for memories and cognition. So the theory is that when the olfactory bulb gets, you know, a smell signal, because it's physically close to these parts, of the brain, that your brain learns to associate smells with, you know, whatever you're feeling

or whatever memory you have at that time. That's why, like, a smell could really paint a picture in our brains for us. So back to my perfume hobby. A good chunk of what I smell in different perfume notes, you know, brings me the memories of my childhood. A lot of Disneyland smells, like when I smell like food, it kind of reminds me of trips to Disneyland. And specifically, and this is so strange. I'm not lying, this is a real thing.

I actually looked it up today and it's on eBay. I had a book. It was called the Winnie the Pooh Scratch and Sniff book as a kid. And that literally was the title and it was like one of those gold, little gold books. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And the whole point of the book is like they see a pine cone and as a kid, you can scratch the pine cone and it smells like a pine cone. And so it's funny that now when I smell perfumes and I encounter different notes, I can literally

picture the page of the Winnie the Pooh book. And it made me think of like, man, scratch and sniff, what a strange thing. It was so big for a while. It was so big for a while. And I looked into how Scratch and Sniff came to be. Like many things, it goes back to 3M. 3M developed a technology called microencapsulation. And essentially it is that they can coat gases or liquid in a very, very small amount with like a protective coding. And so 3M actually developed this because they were trying to invent a carbon-less paper. Like it's like, you know, carbon copy paper. You used to have to put a special paper to make copies.

But now it's like, you know, especially when we write receipts or at the post office, you write on one sheet of paper and then the sheet of paper underneath also gets printed, right? It gets copied. That is because of micro-encapsulation. It's little drops of ink. that's coded. It burst open with the pressure. And it reacts with the layer underneath.

And therefore, you know, you don't need a carbon paper anymore. It's the same technology of Scratch and Sniff. Yes. That's amazing. So 3M and Matt's company, they developed this and they're like, well, what else can we use this for? And they came up with Scratch and Stiff. And this is like back in 1965. This is like a long time ago.

They're like, what if we encapsulated smells and scents? and this is where Scratch and Sniff came from. This is also where, you know, like in, back in the days, these things called magazines, they have a few samples and you open it up and then, or, you know, you open the flap and it smells and you rub it on your wrist and it's because you're breaking, you're puncturing these little droplets. And they last for a really long time. If you buy Scratch and Sniff stickers now from like the 80s, like they still work because they're really well preserved in the little capsules.

It also explains why... The smell, but not the sticky part. Yeah. Yeah. Not the sticky part. That's amazing. I never knew that. That is really cool.

It's what I found, Winnie Pooh, Scratch and Stiff's book. Find that on eBay. A lot of people were selling it. I thought you were going to say it was like a military use. Like, I think I had some sense of how the technology worked, but I thought you were going to say it was like to find a way to put poison on grenades or something, you know, just something horrid. Oh, right.

A person will come and scratch it. Right. Exactly. Yeah. So I'm glad it was something. There have been other uses for it. Colin, you talked about smell-o-vision before, where you get a card and you go to a movie and the shtick is like, oh, you know, in scene three, everybody scratched this.

Oh, yeah, they're at, you know, they're in a forest, so it smells like a forest. There was a gas company that actually mailed scratch-and-snip cards to people. Just in case you don't know, this is what a gas leak smells like. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. What was your favorite smell? We've talked about ambergris before, right? which is the whale vomit.

They have synthetic versions of now, and I actually, I like it. It smells pretty cool. What is it? How would you describe it? Resony, sunny. Whale vomiting.

It's not marine at all. It's very golden. It smells very golden. Oh, that sounds fun. Yeah. I mean, this is,

you know, after you distill it and oxidize, you know, it's not like raw smell. Rubbing it from the whale and rubbing it on you. Yeah, yeah. Wherever.

My favorite, some gratitude sniff sticker was pizza. I remember, oh man, I remember popcorn, the pickle, the grape jelly, yeah, yeah, the grape jelly toast. They still make them. They still have the vintage designs. You can go buy them. It's so classic. I bought some from my kid recently.

He was not impressed. He did not care at all that. I was like, you scratch it and then you smell it. And he's like, I'm going to go do something. He's like, mom, you can get the internet in your pocket. Do you know that? You're showing me. No frills, delivers.

Get groceries delivered to your door from No Frills with PC Express. Shop online and get $15 in PC optimum points on your first five orders. Shop now at nofrills.ca. All right, and we have one last segment, Colin. Yeah, I have a 2012 flashback quiz for you all. Now, 2012, as you might remember, is the year that we started this show. Whoa. I went back and verified, or at least it's when we released our first show.

Yeah, way, way back in March. It's almost 10 years ago. It is almost 10 years ago. March 2012 was when our first show was released. No way. Yeah. So I, in fact, started putting together a fun little memory flashback quiz for our reunion episode and promptly filed it away and forgot about it.

it. And I was like, oh, I remembered it in time for our memory episode. So I have a write-down quiz for you guys here. It is short. It is short. So we're going to see how well, again, I mean, kind into Dana's point here. The last nine years in some ways is just one big blob to me. So I'm going to ask you questions about peaks, number ones, tops of the charts from 2012. And we'll see here how good your all memory is. So get your pan. I got laid off that. your paper ready. I will try and sort of clue you in along the way here. I want you guys to look good. And I heard you

play along at home. Here we go. We'll start with the, go to the movies here. This film with an ensemble cast was the number one highest grossing movie of 2012, both in the U.S. and internationally.

What movie am I talking about? A lot of money. Quite a bit. Wait. Are we buzzing in a You're writing down. I didn't remember. Sorry. Ensemble.

No. Yes. No. You're having an argument with herself. All right, answers up. Dana says the number one highest grossing movie of 2012 was Oceans 12. Ooh. Chris says rent.

Karen says Oceans 13. Ah, none of you are correct. It was, you're closer, you're closer spiritually, it was in fact the Avengers, just the first vanilla, oh my God, no, no subtitle, no colon, just the Avengers. Does it feel like that was the Avengers? Yeah, yeah, yeah, Marvel's the Avengers, yeah, made just an incredible amount of money. I mean, 1.5 billion worldwide, I believe, here, according to box office mojo. Avengers feels like something that's always existed.

You know, I couldn't tell you what year that was. All right. Let's move to the small screen TV shows here. I'll give you the number one here. This is, you know, not necessarily a surprise. The number one regularly scheduled primetime show was Sunday night football, as it often is in many years. So I want to ask you a question about number two and three. This primetime TV series managed to claim

both the number two and the number three spots for most watched regularly scheduled programs. Yeah, how could that be, Karen? I see Karen making a... It's the same show? Hmm, yeah. Oh, okay. Okay, 2012, the number two and number three

most watched regularly scheduled program. So by regularly scheduled, I mean, this does not include things like the Grammys or the Super Bowl, you know, the Olympics, which always claim the overall outright spots for okay okay answers up number two and number three most watched shows karen says law and order sv u i like your thinking chris says american idol i like your thinking dana says dancing with the stars dana i like your thinking i like all you're thinking chris is the only one who is correct however it is american idol wednesday and

American Idol Thursday, they made the brilliant move of, yeah, so they get the two of the top three Nielsen rating spots. I mean, just, you know, so smart to just break it, hey, you know, we could get people. Because the results show is a different show. I couldn't, I couldn't remember if they were still popular then because Kelly Clarkson was like 2001 was when that happened. So it's like 11 years later, they're still cooking. Yeah, that's so smart.

Let's move things to the printed page. Well, I guess maybe not necessarily these days anymore. The New York Times bestseller list, a 2012, the fiction list. This self-published debut novel spent 28 weeks on top of the New York Times fiction bestsellers list. Wow, was that long ago? What book am I talking about? 2012. basically half the year.

Answers up when you're ready. Chris says the Martian. Oh, good guess, good guess. Dana and Karen both say 50 Shades of Gray. That is the correct answer. Yes, 50 Shades of Gray. I did not know that was self-published. Yeah, self-published.

Yeah, I knew it started as fanfic. I didn't know it was self-published, huh? Yeah, E.L. James, of course, the author, yeah. And I believe that she released it to the world in 2011, but it really caught fire and hit the bestseller charts. Yeah, the following year. So good for her. Sorry, that sounded really snide.

Let me replace that again. So good for EL James, and I do mean that. That sounded even more snide. Okay, Colin. I know what you mean. I know what you mean. Like, you go, girl. Yeah.

Leave it. Forget it. forget. No, no, no, no, it's good. It's good. And I mean it. Not like, I'm not kidding. Video games. Video games is a big part of all three of your lives. According to the NPD group, I know, Chris, you're familiar with them. They tracked video game and console sales. The number one selling video game across all platforms of 2012 was part of of what military-themed franchise? And I'll give you a bonus point

if you can give me the complete title of this specific game, 2012. It is a franchise like Avengers. It may come in different flavors. I feel like I should know this, but I... I got it. I fleshed this from my memory already. Karen seems very confident.

Yeah. All right, answers up when you're ready. Karen says, call of duty, modern warfare two. Karen, you have the franchise correct, but not the title. Chris says call of duty, Black Ops 3. Chris, you have the franchise correct, but not the title. And Dana says, call of duty. Again, you have the franchise.

Yes, it is Call of Duty, Black Ops 2. Was the number one selling game. game of 2012. Yeah, that was the third year in a row, by the way, that Call of Duty was the outright number one seller across. Yeah. The year before, it was Modern Warfare 3. The year before that, it was Black Ops, the original. So, I mean, they really figured out what they were doing there in those years. All right. Last question. Last question. Hopefully this is a softball. We'll see. The Olympics. It was an Olympics year in 2012. There were many number ones in the form of gold medals at the Summer

Olympic Games, which were of course hosted in what city? Oh my God. What did this to us? City. 2012. Summer Games. Summer Games means that was

2016. Let's see. Mario and Sonic at the something like 2012. So it would have been on the original Wii. So it would have been Mario and Sonic at the this is not the right answer okay all right okay oh this is good i'm glad i'm glad it was more challenging than i thought it might no answer's answer's up answers up let's see dana says

rio chris says Beijing karen says sydney wow no none of you got it it was in fact london england oh my god uh yeah they hosted in fact ugly mascots oh yeah oh that's right i forgot about the mascots, yeah. Weird, you and I. Yeah, they were the first city to host the Olympics three times with that, with that games. The modern Olympics, I should say, you know, going way back. Athens has some claim. Yeah, 1908, 1948, and then 2012.

Okay, so Beijing was 2008. Rio, Dana was 2016. Dancing around it. Sydney was a ways before that, right? wasn't it? I thought they hosted multiple times, which is why, let's see. Hold on. Let me grab.

Yeah, London, like I say, they were the first city to host three times when they got that game since 2012. Okay, I got the list. All right. 2020, supposedly Tokyo, 2016, the one before that. Rio, 2012, London, 2008, Beijing, 2004, Athens, and then 2000, Sydney. So, man. Time flies.

They all blur together. cheese. Do we know after Tokyo, what's the next place to host the summer games? Man, it's on here. It's on this list. Was it supposed to be L.A.? L.A. is slated for 2028. Oh, okay.

Cotter? It is Paris. Oh, okay. Oh, yes. They had a cool logo. All right. Well, good job, guys. I think, yeah, all things considered for a nine year ago span.

No, we bonded, Colin. We caught most of them all wrong. I'm trying to support. I'm trying to build you guys up. A lot was going on then we started a new podcast in 2012. I don't know if you remember that. There was a lot in our minds. Oh, my God.

That was terrible job. Well, all right, you guys. Bad job brains. That's our show. Thank you guys for joining me. We would like to apologize to the following people. The city of London. El James

Marvel Kelly Clarkson for some reason Yeah Well thank you guys for joining me And thank you guys listeners For listening in Hope you learn stuff

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