Good Job, Brain! - 220: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #44

Episode Date: November 23, 2021

Hope you have a lot of toast handy because it's a jam-packed episode! Karen puts on "LollaPUPlooza" - THE festival for dog breed trivia! We dive into the crayon box and explore some of the more quizzi...cal Crayola color names. And it's the return of "First in Line" where we try to identify movies solely by their first few words. 4x4? 45 record? Colin gets us to play "What's That Number" that's all about meaningful numbers in everyday names. Artist Nigel Sussman drops by for Pop Quiz, and tells us all about the mouth-watering piece he has created for us that's now available in our new merch store. And we're still trying to catch Carmin San Mateo who has our trivia prize! Help us find the next location! Good Job, Brain is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. For advertising inquiries, please contact sales@advertisecast.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Aloha, audio files, astutely ascertaining accents and accessories about atlases. This is Good Job, Brain, your weekly quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. Today shows episode 220. and, of course, I am your humble host, Karen, and we are your bodacious bunch of boisterous baby bringers. I'm Colin. I'm Dana.
Starting point is 00:00:41 And I'm Chris. I can do a good impression of my baby. She says, Oh, yeah? No, no, no, now, now, now, now, now, now. Our daughter is just about to be two, and so she'll be like, no! And then if she'll, and then if I'm like, really, then she'll get down on all. fours and be like, no, okay?
Starting point is 00:01:05 How do they know? How do they know that no is like, it has such power? Because you stop what you're doing. And today we have a very special guest joining us for Pop Quiz Hot Shot. Colin, do you want to say some words about our special guest, tease it out? I'd be delighted to say some words. Yeah. So as you all know, regular listeners, I live in lovely Berkeley, California. And one of the things I used to love to do, especially pre-pandemic, was I like to get out and walk up and down Telegraph Avenue. One of the things that was going on on Telegraph is there's always a lot of construction and building. And I noticed that a couple of the businesses along Telegraph, when they were undergoing remodeling or, you know, changing into a new business, they would, instead of just putting up regular old boring plywood covers on the outside.
Starting point is 00:01:57 as you might see in a big city. They would put up the covers and there would be a really cool art piece on it, a mural. And I was like, wow, this is really neat. And I noticed another one a couple blocks away. I got up close and I'm like, huh, okay, the artist has their signature here. And I went and I looked up the artist online. I found out it was an artist named Nigel Sussman, saw that he was local. And then about a year or so ago, I moved into a new house, still in Berkeley.
Starting point is 00:02:22 And the house that I'm in now, when you come up off the freeway, you come along, Gilman, right by the punk club, of course, but I'm getting sidetracked. So as you're coming up off the freeway toward 924 Gilman, you pass another mural. It says, welcome to West Berkeley. And I was like, that's another Nigel Sussman. I had gotten to the point that I could recognize the artwork just based on the visuals. Purely by happenstance, I was clicking through Twitter at one point, you know, a few months ago. And I noticed that Nigel Sussman followed Good Job Brain on Twitter.
Starting point is 00:02:53 And I said, you guys, I was like kind of fan. boying out here a minute. I was like, you guys, do you know who Nigel Sussman is? And then I shared a link. And I was in there. And of course, everybody's like, oh, yes, I've seen those. Yeah. I mean, we all live in the Bay Area. I said, I wonder if we could approach this cool artist and ask if maybe he'd like to collaborate with us in some way, shape, or form. And I said, he's too cool for us. We're not cool enough. But yes, we have the one and only Nigel Sussman here in our, in the studio, in the virtual studio today. Welcome, Nigel. Hello. Yay. Hi. Hi, everybody. Thanks for having me. This is exciting. Stoke to be contacted by you,
Starting point is 00:03:38 because I've fanboying a little bit too. I've been listening to Good Job and Praying for years. Wow. And so I knew exactly what I was getting myself into when you contacted me. I love being associated with stuff that I like. Thanks for the great intro column. he has done something very special for us he has made an original good job brain illustration for us for you the listeners and it is a real ode to some of the things that we love
Starting point is 00:04:10 on good job brain primarily food Nigel made a super cool illustration of almost like all of the interesting food bits that we've talked about for the last 10 years it's so cool you guys I'm so glad you like it Food is a big part of my work. You're got to be crazy if you're not into some kind of food. So it's a way that we all connect.
Starting point is 00:04:31 So to make something that references all of the food stuff that good job, Brain has been obsessed with over the years. And it's like weird and quirky things, which kind of tells a story. Nigel, how would you describe this piece that you've made? It's a big brain made out of food that has all of these references. to the food, and I've labeled them, so that makes it sort of scientific and instructional. The blend of irreverent and educational. Irreverent is the...
Starting point is 00:05:05 100% on brand. Yeah. I like it because it's so dense. Yeah, it has a great, what I like is a Where's Waldo effect. The 20-year-old stick of gum is now immortalized forever. It makes my taste buds fire. You know what I mean? like the power of suggestion. Yeah. A little pavons. And Nigel's fantastic illustration is available in our new merch store.
Starting point is 00:05:33 We now have a shop on Red Bubble where you can get some good job brain stuff. You can get Nigel's brain food illustration printed on a shirt, on a poster, and on my favorite, on an apron. We also have our classic logo available on shirts, too, of any color of your choosing. We have mustache face masks for all ages. and a poster commemorating our favorite noted normal person, Thomas Edison, that lists out all 146 of his insane job application trivia questions, which was hilariously featured in a past segment. So head on over to redbubble.com slash people slash good job brain slash explore or it's just going to be hotlinked from our website, good jobbrain.com. Well, Nigel, you're going to join us for our first general trivia segment, Pop Quiz, Hot Shot. How this is going to work, because Nigel doesn't have a buzzer.
Starting point is 00:06:34 He's going to meow. Cats show up in my work for one reason or another, so I feel like that's fitting. Here we go, everybody. I have a random trivial pursuit card. You guys have your barnyard buzzers. Nigel has his meow mouth and let's answer some questions First question, Blue Edge for geography
Starting point is 00:06:59 In 1814 Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled to what island in the Mediterranean? Multiple choice Oh, come on, all right Okay No, no, please, please, give us the choice Three choices, Corsica, Elba or Malta
Starting point is 00:07:17 I was calling Call it is Elba Elba Pink Wedge for pop culture We're going to go around the room for this one Okay The question is What are the stage names
Starting point is 00:07:32 Of the five spice girls All right I'm going to call on you And tell me Bonus Point if you know their real name as well All right Nigel, guest of honor You can go first
Starting point is 00:07:47 This is not my forte right here in this posh spice and scary spice and ginger he can do all of them I don't know the real I definitely don't know real names I'm not even going to try is sporty one
Starting point is 00:08:03 I said I'm going to need a tag tag team old old spice old spice yes old bay seasoning all right Dana lay it on us all five and their real names
Starting point is 00:08:17 can you do it okay so posh spice is Victoria Beckham. Correct. You said sporty spice. That's Mel B? No, Mel C. C. M. C. Scary is Mel B. Correct. Then there's Baby Spice.
Starting point is 00:08:32 Who's Emma Bunsen. Bunton. Bunton. Wow. Yes. And then Ginger is Jerry Hallowell. Correct. Wow. Oh, ginger spice is one. I knew more of those than I thought I might. I forgot the baby one. All you forgot was baby. You put baby spice in the corner.
Starting point is 00:08:49 next question yellow edge true or false give me thumbs up for true thumbs down for false the first apple pie was made by american colonists in boston true or false the first apple pie was made by american colonists in boston i refuse to believe nobody ever thought of this before them yeah yeah definitely i know it is you are correct it is false it says the first the first first recorded recipe is from 14th century England. Yeah, I mean, duh. Yeah, come on. Purple Wedge. This is, what a weird card today. All right. Purple Wedge.
Starting point is 00:09:32 With what color is the boys named Rufus commonly associated? What? Okay. All right. Does it, does it mean something perhaps? Uh, Chris. Red. Just like, yes.
Starting point is 00:09:48 It looks like it's going that direction. You are correct. The card says specifically brownish-red or redish-brown. The color of a roof. Yeah, maybe it's just etymology. A whole spectrum. Yeah, it runs the spectrum from reddish-brown to brownish-rored. I feel like I should have known that.
Starting point is 00:10:07 I guess that was a question for an artist. Yeah, I've dropped the ball big time on that one. There's no roofish crayon, I don't think. Yet. All right. Greenwich for science, what is the name of the rare second full moon in a single month? Oh. So, in context, every month has a full moon, and every month's full moon has a name, right, based on, like, the farmer's almanac.
Starting point is 00:10:35 It was just this Friday. Yes, it was the beaver moon. Yeah. Yeah, that was, it seems appropriate. It does. Chris, you must it. Is this a blue moon? Yes, it is a blue moon.
Starting point is 00:10:47 Once in a blue moon. Didn't want to overthink it. All right. Last question. Orange Wedge. Okay, for the sports people, person, people. Nigel, how good are you at sports? Very small sports knowledge.
Starting point is 00:11:02 But if it's not baseball, I don't got anything. That's good, because, yeah, I'm not super strong in the baseball. Yeah. Well, this is not baseball. Chuck Foreman lost his chance to win the NFC rushing title in 1975 when a Buffalo fan. when a Buffalo fan, not a Buffalo, a fan from the city of Buffalo. Yes, yes, not a Buffalo who was a fan. Hit him in the eye with what?
Starting point is 00:11:26 Once again, once again. Chuck Foreman lost his chance to win the NFC rushing title in 1975 when a Buffalo fan hit him in the eye with what? Meow? No, I got a joke answer. Is it a chicken wing? No. Yeah. I wish.
Starting point is 00:11:47 Oh, my gosh. That's a good answer. No, it makes too much sense. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Knowing, knowing Buffalo and Buffalo fans, perhaps, and I'm hoping that it wouldn't be something really gruesome or it wouldn't make it on its way to a card. I'm going to guess a snowball. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:12:02 You're correct. Wow. Nice. Wow. Holy cow. Impressive. I thought it was a hot dog or something like that. And there have, you know, there have been, like, instances of, like, fans, you know, doing, again, I don't endorse this.
Starting point is 00:12:15 anyway, throwing coins and things on the field. But I don't think they would put that on a card. Like, whereas a snowball seems kind of just on that line where... But if someone did throw coins or something, like, they would kick you out. Oh, yeah. If they can identify you. Absolutely. Yeah, if they can identify you, they will kick you out for sure.
Starting point is 00:12:29 Oh. Cool. Well, good job, Brains. That was our pop quiz. Nigel, did you used to play pub trivia at all? I've done a couple times. It's a lifestyle. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:42 That is the best way to describe it. I mean, I didn't do well with... the Spice Girls, but I have a lot of music knowledge and some science stuff. Music is always valuable on a pub quiz. Music and sports. I think between the four of us, like, we span a pretty good decade by decade of music trivia that we kind of cover each other's gaps and holes. You know different pieces.
Starting point is 00:13:09 Yeah. Nigel, thank you so much for joining us. Anything you would like to share, anything you want to plug. Oh, we have a plug theme song. I'll play it here. Who's got something a plug? Holidays coming up again, and I got a, I still have these alphabet books that I'm trying to sell.
Starting point is 00:13:30 You can order them most easily through my site. You can follow me on mostly Instagram or at Nigel Sussman. Nigel, you're working some of the commissions for some of the big names in the big area, and we're so appreciative and thankful. that you were able to carve out time to do something for us. We appreciate it. It's so awesome.
Starting point is 00:13:53 Yeah, thank you for having me. This was fun. And I have one Patreon listener fan fact. This one is from Claire Norris. And her fun fact to share is that as the pyramids of Giza were being built, woolly mammoths still lived. They happen at the same time. That's crazy to me.
Starting point is 00:14:19 She is a science teacher, and so this is one of the facts that she tells her science class. So as the pyramids are being built, a woolly mammoth still roamed the earth. That's great. My window and perception of time comes very cloudy when we talk about prehistoric stuff. That seems to me, you know, really, really shocking. Didn't we get, I think somebody posted on the Good Job Brain Facebook group that there was a window of time when a samurai could have sent a fax to Abraham Lincoln. Yeah, that's a great example.
Starting point is 00:14:50 I was just thinking about that. That's right. Yeah, because I guess for a certain definition of a facsimile machine. I looked more into woolly mammoths, and this is something I found. According to the OED Oxford English Dictionary, Thomas Jefferson, American President Thomas Jefferson, was partially responsible for using the word mammoth to describe big things like he was one of the people who started using the term mammoth to talk about something that is very very very big and what he was describing that was mammoth was a cheese wheel
Starting point is 00:15:26 Cheshire which is a city in Massachusetts they once combined the milk from every cow of the town of Cheshire. Cheshire created this massive cheese wheel and gifted it to Thomas Jefferson. Oh, sure. We're going to give him the biggest cheese he's ever seen in his life. He'll never forget us. He's going to need to coin a new usage to capture. He's never going to poop again.
Starting point is 00:16:06 Okay. On with the show. Today is episode 220 in every fifth episode. We don't have a topic or a theme, and it's just us making our own random quizzes to stump each other and stump you guys, listeners. So today, it's All Quiz Bonanza, number 44. So I have decided that I'm going to bring back an old segment. I did a couple of variations on this. this segment is titled first in line first in line the second coming this is the sequel to first in line
Starting point is 00:16:49 and what this is is i will give you the first line spoken in a movie and you will tell me what the movie is now something that i learn in researching this quiz is that you really have to be careful and double and triple check this stuff because there are so many um lists online of the best first lines in movies that say things like they're like the best first line in a movie is as far back as I can remember I always wanted to be a gangster good fellas and it's like that's funny because that is in no way the first line of that movie that is the last line of the first scene of the movie that like people remember it's an incredibly memorable line because it smashes after that right to the title of the movie.
Starting point is 00:17:42 But it's not, the first line of Goodfellis is actually, what the F is that? That's the first line of Goodfellas. So there are so many of these lists where they, they, oh, it's like, here's the first line of this movie, and it's a memorable line from the first scene, but it is not the first thing that is, I don't know it. In this case, I believe, um, actually means,
Starting point is 00:18:08 if you have to, listeners, I'm pretty positive that these are the first lines that you hear spoken in the film. So here we go. And I want you all to write this down just because I just enjoy write down. I'll just keep score for everybody and we'll see how you all do. Are you ready? Yes. Here we go. Question one. I was 12 going on 13 the first time I saw a dead human being. I was 12 going on 13, the first time I saw a dead human being. I believe I just watched this movie if I'm correct. And I'm going to feel very silly if I'm wrong. All right.
Starting point is 00:18:54 Answers up. Everybody says stand by me and everyone is correct. Yay. That's by Stephen King, right? It was based on the novella called The Body by Oh, okay Am I insane or was there a scene in that movie Where like someone puked and then someone saw that person puke
Starting point is 00:19:17 And then everybody ended up puking It's the story within the story, yeah, that's right It's at the pie eating contest Which is one of the stories, yeah, that one of the boys Tells the other boys. Okay, okay, I'm not crazy. That traumatized me more than the dead body. All right, here we go. Question number two.
Starting point is 00:19:38 If I live to be a hundred, I'll never be able to forget that big snowstorm a couple of years ago. The weather closed in and, well, you might not believe it, but the world almost missed Christmas. Give it to you again. If I live to be a hundred, I'll never be able to forget that big snowstorm a couple of years ago. The weather closed in and, well, you might not believe it, but the world only... almost missed Christmas. Oh. It is a movie.
Starting point is 00:20:18 Answers up. Karen says, Ice Storm. Colin says, It's a wonderful life. And Dana, Dana says 2012, 2012 with Dana's answer.
Starting point is 00:20:32 I have stumped you all. the answer is Rudolph the red nose Rangia. Wow. The claymation one? The clay that's the one. Well, I think it was puppets, but yes, yes.
Starting point is 00:20:47 You're thinking of the same one. So dramatic. Yeah, right? It's like an apocalyptic. I gave it a real dramatic reading for you. It's coming off of stand by me about a dead body. So I think I put it in your head that it's, yeah, it's going to be drama.
Starting point is 00:21:01 That I was like, but it's a children's thing. But I just couldn't get there. Yeah. All right. Question number three. We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. Oh, man. Collin looks confident. Karen and Dana are making faces.
Starting point is 00:21:32 I'm like, I feel like I know, I have an idea of what movie it is. I can see the poster. I can't read the poster, my mom. I'm trying to like, see if I can read the title of the movie. Yeah. We're going to have to ask for answers in a few seconds here. So write down something that you think might get you half a point, the mercy point. Oh, okay.
Starting point is 00:21:55 Are we doing that? No, we're not. We're not. Oh, it's hard. You know, just for pure entertainment. I did so well on. Partial credit in school. Oh, my goodness.
Starting point is 00:22:06 Oh, my goodness. Oh, no. Oh, Dana. Oh, no. You poor thing. You poor thing. Colin, so Dana has written leaving Las Vegas, which is a movie. I knew that was wrong.
Starting point is 00:22:15 Whereas Colin and Karen have written fear and loathing in Las Vegas, which is the name of the film. And the Hunter S. Thompson short story on which is based, which began the same iconic line. I actually found, I've been thinking about this because I was at the flea market, maybe a couple of months back and found the issue of Rolling Stone, that short story actually initially appeared in. Yeah, I found that issue of Rolling Stone. They bought it and they sold it for a bunch of money. Are we sure we're not doing partial credit? Because that, I knew that was what I was trying to get to. But I can't, I can't give it. You know what? Yes, you know, hold on. I was like,
Starting point is 00:22:52 it's Johnny Depp. The poster's kind of trippy. I was like, what? I can't see the title. What's it say? Okay. I'm going to give you. you like a little tiebreaker asterisk such that if there is a tie at the end of this I will give me the nudge based on it. Right now Karen and Colin have two points you have one point with a little star. All right. Karen you and I have to start lobbying for additional asterisks here too. Question number four. It all began on New Year's Day in my 32nd year of being single. once again, I found myself on my own and going to my mother's annual turkey curry buffet.
Starting point is 00:23:37 This movie inspired me to make turkey curry just because they talked about it and ate it. Oh, it was great. You know what? It turned out to be the perfect way for me to use all like the Thanksgiving leftovers and all the bits. I just made a giant pot of essentially like turkey ticamasa, basically. And ate it for like a week.
Starting point is 00:23:58 Yes, it all began on New Year's Day. My 32nd year of being single. Once again, I found myself on my own and going for my mother's annual turkey curry buffet. Answers go up. And. Oh. Yes. So Karen and Dana have said Bridget Jones Diary, which is the right answer.
Starting point is 00:24:16 And column has put love actual. Now, Chris, I'm going to have to lobby here for a partial point because these movies both take place in England, I believe. So I think that it's fairly obvious that I was in some way thinking of Bridget Jones' diary. I would just like to request some consideration. The first scene of love actually is not at a buffet. At an airport. Q. Grant is in both of them. Well, we'll just take it under advisement, Chris.
Starting point is 00:24:49 This is all I'm saying. How about half an asterisk? I'm giving you a half an asterisk. One half of an asterisk. So, Colin, if you can earn another half an asterisk, you will tie Dana's asterisk. Oh, oh, okay. All right. They have to move to something else.
Starting point is 00:25:09 That's what we're doing now. Yeah, okay. All right, question number five, there was a boy, a very strange enchanted boy. There was a boy, a very strange enchanted boy. Karen wrote something down confidently and has a big, big old grin on her face right now. Okay. All right.
Starting point is 00:25:35 Well, that helps me. Well, how is that? The chances of it being something Disney means is now, the chances have just gone up. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Okay. Yep.
Starting point is 00:25:46 It's probably about a dog. It could be the title. It's not, I'm going to spoil it. It's not the first line of airbud. But it could be. But it could be. Yeah. Okay.
Starting point is 00:25:57 All right. come on let's have some answers in a couple of seconds here or something write down something um Colin writes down you know a pretty good guess that but I was actually thinking that um somebody might guess that Colin says pinocchio um uh Dana has written down Harry Potter in the chamber of secrets but the only person who is correct is indeed Karen who has correctly uh nailed it as the first the opening lines of the for song in Moulon Rouge. I haven't seen that either. What?
Starting point is 00:26:27 Nice. It's great. Nice. Can I lobby for extra asterisk or parts of an asterisk? No, no. Now, hang on here. Moulon Rouge exclamation point. Exclamation point.
Starting point is 00:26:40 That's the official title of the movie. I'm going to, yeah. So I'm going to put an exclamation point next to your points. Yeah. We may reveal later on. what that means. Yeah. All right.
Starting point is 00:26:56 Good luck cashing that one in, Karen. Yep. Never know. You never know. It might come into play. It might come into play. Question six.
Starting point is 00:27:03 Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. Okay. Whenever Karen's laughing. She might know it. She might know. Who knows? Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world,
Starting point is 00:27:19 I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. okay uh karen everybody has everyone has loved actual you totally did this time it is actually love actually yes great job okay call it if i didn't say it happened at airport would you have gotten it no Karen no 100% i still would have put love actually just he throw was enough for me to yeah i was like oh there we all right all right uh three questions left Karen has five points and an exclamation point, Colin has three points and half an asterisk, and Dana has three points with an asterisk. Oh.
Starting point is 00:27:58 Okay. Here we go. You might come into play. We'll see. It might come into play. I believe in America. America has made my fortune, and I raised my daughter in the American fashion. Hmm.
Starting point is 00:28:13 I believe in America. America has made my fortune, and I raised my daughter in the American fashion. fashion we have some answers maybe write down something all right okay you've asked this one before oh this is right so dana says american beauty uh karen says the godfather and colin has written the godfather 100 percent so the way you read it deprived of all context you're like right that's what i'm trying to do exactly exactly it's not a scene reading yeah yeah I really like that. I really love that intro. I mean, for me, that's like, that's really just one of the best introductions.
Starting point is 00:28:56 Yeah. And the best openers in movies. The character's name is Amerigo Bonacera, which means good night in America. Oh. That's, that's him basically saying, like, I tried to, you know, follow all the rules in America. But, like, it didn't work out for me. So, and it sort of gets at the, the central sort of conflict of the film. All right.
Starting point is 00:29:16 Just two more, two more. Everybody gets a point on that one. Oh, no, excuse me. Karen and Colin get points on that one. Yeah. And, um, okay, two more. People do not give it credence that a young girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood, but it did happen. People do not give it credence that a young girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood, but it did happen.
Starting point is 00:29:44 This is from a, it's from a movie, these are all from movies, but this is a, it's a little bit of a rewrite of, the first line of the book that's a hint this movie is based on a book has so many of them are so it's really narrow it down that much oh have I stumped everybody write down something
Starting point is 00:30:03 alright so let's okay write something it's fine oh maybe that's right I don't know All right. Anna has written Hannah Karen has written Girl with the Dragon tattoo Colin has written True Grit and Colin is correct specifically the
Starting point is 00:30:20 I believe the Cohen Brothers recent remake of it, which uses that first line out of the book whereas I think the original filmed version did not. We have one final question. Karen has six, Colin has five. Dana has three. One final
Starting point is 00:30:36 movie. There we go. All right, everyone. This is a stick up. Don't anybody move. Now empty that safe. All right, everyone. This is a stick up. Don't anybody move.
Starting point is 00:30:51 Now empty that safe. I feel like now it's just thinking like what movie starts with a stick up. With a stic up. With a bank robbery. Yeah. Okay. I'm, I, I'm, I'm, I, I'm, I feel better about my memory of the movie than I do about the title, man.
Starting point is 00:31:09 Me too, me too. Okay. I bet we're on the same wavelength. All right. Okay. Well, I'll tell you. I mean, this, this, this movie was huge, huge movie. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:31:20 All right. Massive. All right. I think it's going to come down to this, Karen. All right. Let's see some answers. Let's find out. Did anybody get it?
Starting point is 00:31:28 Colin says the dark night. Karen says the dark night. And Dana says Batman. We're all of them. I get another estrus. And the answer is toy story. that is the first line of toy story spoken by Andy
Starting point is 00:31:56 through Mr. Potato Head. That's right. Okay. That's great. All right. So Karen did not even, Karen did not even need to use her exclamation point that she had. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:32:11 Oh, yeah. You're going to want to bank that for later. She's got six points and is the big winner. guessing a lot of lines from a lot of very different movies. So some good performance there for sure. Oh my gosh. Once Colin was like, I'm not sure about the title. I was like, oh, I mean either. Which one is it?
Starting point is 00:32:32 Which Batman movie could it be? And you're right, of course, because right, the Dark Night had there was a bank robber. Some bank stuff going on. Yeah, but I don't know who said what, yeah. Good robbers of banks don't announce. You know what I mean? Like in the dark night, for that scene. It would happen all very quickly and quietly and stealthily because they're pros. All right. Why do you recover? We're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back.
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Starting point is 00:33:47 You're listening to Good Job Brain. Smooth puzzles, smart trivia. Good job Brain. So I wanted to talk about a crayon color that came out in 2017 with, I think my favorite punny color name. And that is bludiful. Beautiful, but blue. I think it's a solid pun. I saw on the internet, other people are less impressed, but I like
Starting point is 00:34:30 pun. So I was like, yes, crayola, you nailed it. Anyway, it's based on a new blue color. It was discovered in 2009. Yeah, it's the first new blue pigment that was found in 200 years called Yinman, which is Etrium. I think I pronounce it. I don't know if I'm not do that currently. Itrium, Indian, and manganese oxides mixed together and made this blue. I love it. Nobody had known before, and then Crayola made the blue color called Blutiful based on that. Crayola has kind of a history, though, of having like a ton of crayons and some of the names
Starting point is 00:35:05 are not punny at all. In fact, you maybe have no idea what color it is based on the name. For instance, like the classic one that I was like, what is cornflower? Blue. It's blue. Right. But when you're a kid, you're like, corn is yellow. Why is this crayon blue?
Starting point is 00:35:23 I definitely as a kid was confused by cornflower for sure. But yeah. So this quiz, though, is called What Color is this? So I'll tell you a Crayola color. It's not punny. You just kind of have to guess or know already what colors is going to be. All right. So Buzz in.
Starting point is 00:35:42 I'll keep score. And you tell me what color. This is. First one. Wisteria. What color is wisteria? Oh, man. Karen.
Starting point is 00:35:56 Purple. Yeah. It's like a kind of a lighter, mid-light purple. I'm already sweating. I know. If we just knew our flowers litter, maybe. How about this one? Timberwolf.
Starting point is 00:36:10 What color is Timberwolf? I think Chris maybe buzz first. Is that gray? it is gray it's lightish gray right yeah could have been brown could have been brown
Starting point is 00:36:20 well see I I took a sports angle on that one yeah that's right the Minnesota Timberwolves the NBA team their wolf indeed in their in their logos and such is a grayish
Starting point is 00:36:32 is a gray wolf yeah how about a bittersweet Bittersweet Brown it's no like chocolate oh yeah like chocolate
Starting point is 00:36:44 which makes him Oh, how about this? Chris. Is it green? No. Why did you think it was green? Because I thought maybe it was like the name of a minty type of plant. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:36:57 Oh, oh, like stear mint? Oh, good guess. It's red. It's like an orangey red. It's not weird. Weird. Yeah. How about orchid?
Starting point is 00:37:09 What color is orchid? Hmm, I mean. Is it like a little? Is it like a white-ish color? No. No. Pink. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:37:20 White family. No, not quite pink. Pink purple. Okay. So its original name was medium red violet. So it's like a reddish purple. It's not really pink. Okay.
Starting point is 00:37:29 Okay. Yeah. How about inchworm? What color is inchworm? Get out of it. Yeah. Colin. I'll guess green.
Starting point is 00:37:40 Yes. It's green. Yeah. A little green inchworm. Oh, sure, like a little like a... I just in my, yeah, children's book, universe vision. Yeah, right. Yes.
Starting point is 00:37:51 How about Fuzzy Wuzzy? Fuzzy, what? Chris. Brown. It's brown. It used to be called Fuzzy Wuzzy Wuzzy Brown. Right. But like Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear.
Starting point is 00:38:01 Yeah. Oh. How about thistle? Oh. What color could be two. I think Karen? It could be the flower, which is pink or the green. or the plant, which is green.
Starting point is 00:38:14 I'm a flower purple. Yes. It used to be light magenta, but it's like a, it's like the lightest purple, yeah. What? I wonder, I don't really recall any of these colors
Starting point is 00:38:26 in my childhood Crayola super pack. Some of these are new and some of these are from like the deluxe one. Okay. And this one is actually a scented color, but I thought it was so random. I really, okay.
Starting point is 00:38:40 What about shampoo? What color is, crayon, shampoo. Wow, that's weird. Colin. Blue. No. Chris.
Starting point is 00:38:53 Yellow. No. Karen. Orange. No. What is it? It is carnation pink. What?
Starting point is 00:39:03 And then I was like, maybe I feel like I've seen pink shampoo bottles. Like Mr. Bubbles, maybe? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's kind of a good shorthand, I guess. I mean, it's better than anti-acid. Oh, like Peptobismol.
Starting point is 00:39:17 That's the Peptobosol. Crayon. Yeah. Anyway, that's it. That's the quiz. I just thought it was fun to, like, think about why we name things. I'm so intrigued by Blue Diffle. I want to go get one and look at one in person.
Starting point is 00:39:32 The idea of a new color seems so strange because I feel like at our disposal, we can, like, mix and match whatever color nowadays, but, like, having a new color is kind of weird. I feel like, Dana is our. new color beat. I mean, Vanta Black, I learned from that. Blue to full, the new blue, like, new blue dropped. Yeah, okay, all right. Yeah. All right, everybody. It is all quiz number 44, and it's my turn. Big celebration in my household this week because it's the 15 year anniversary or adopt anniversary of my beloved dog, Cisco. Cisco yeah 15 years adoptversary he's almost 16
Starting point is 00:40:20 because I got him as a puppy he went from a puppy to now a very extremely extremely extremely old man dog who still likes to get himself into trouble once in a while probably more so because like he's so old that he just like doesn't care anymore
Starting point is 00:40:36 he's like you don't you know I don't have to listen to you also I can't listen to you because I'm deaf This happens with people, too. Yeah. I want to celebrate his adoptversary and with my quiz, and my quiz is called Lala Puploosa. It is a two-part quiz celebrating dogs and dog breeds. I am the designated dog breed person at our pub trivia team.
Starting point is 00:41:04 Oh, hands down. We're going to do part one first. So I have a list of very famous dog characters, and I need you to buzzer. with your barn or buzzer with their correct dog breed. Okay. Oh, okay. All right. What the character's dog breed supposedly is.
Starting point is 00:41:22 Okay. They're in universe. Yes. Sometimes the dog doesn't look like the breed. For example, if I said Snoopy, you'd buzz in with a beagle, even though he doesn't really look like a beagle, but he's supposed to be a beagle. Good example. That was the only one that I was going to get right.
Starting point is 00:41:42 No, no, there are a lot. There are a lot. Okay. Well, we'll start with, we'll start up easy. All right. So, buzz in with your answer. Lassie. Dana. A collie. Correct. Collie. Doug from Pixar's Up. Oh, my goodness. That was Dana again? A golden retriever? Correct. Also, your bud. Earbud really is a golden retriever. Pongo and Perdita. Chris. Dalmatians.
Starting point is 00:42:18 Dalmatians. They're the parents in 101 Dalmatians. They didn't have 1001 Dalmatian babies. Yes. Have we talked about this on the show before? I was so for about your lawsuit against the Disney Corporation. Oh, yeah, I spent a lot on legal fees and it went over. No, so you know how like there's.
Starting point is 00:42:42 so many movies that just sort of they're there in the sort of the cultural zeitgeist but you haven't really seen the movie like I don't think it's like I knew all about it's like 101 Dalmatians and the dogs and then the Cruella DeVille and she wants the dogs but I had never seen the movie for a really long
Starting point is 00:42:58 time until I saw the movie as an adult I thought that the mom Dalmatian dog had given Burke to 101 Dalmatians I thought that she was to and suddenly there's
Starting point is 00:43:14 101 little Dalmatian puppies that they had and Kurella decided to steal all of them. That's really what I... And as it turns out, no, it's not about this like the most pregnant dog in the world. Right, right, right. It's about, yeah, they end up with 101 because they get theirs back
Starting point is 00:43:33 plus all the other ones. That's been captured. They have 1001. Dalmatians, but I for a long time was under the assumption that it was just just a bit, she was just full of... Baby. Oh, I guess, well, I guess if, technically it's not that much because if Pongo would pretty to count as two.
Starting point is 00:43:49 Exactly. It's just 99. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, exactly. Chris, we're in the same boat because I was like, all right. There must have been 101 dogs, surely, for this title to make. Right.
Starting point is 00:44:05 Like, I thought that that's, I did. Yeah. I still haven't seen that movie either. Yep. Exactly. All right. Moving on. Beethoven.
Starting point is 00:44:14 Beethoven. Charles Groton. That is Colin. He was a big St. Bernard, yeah? He's a St. Bernard, correct. That's the name of that dog. All right. Next one.
Starting point is 00:44:25 Childhood favorite, Wishbone. Wishbone the dog. Jump from story to story. That was Dana. Was he a Jack Russell Terrier? Correct. He's a Jack Russell Terrier. Also, the dog, Milo from the Mask with Jim Carrey.
Starting point is 00:44:40 that was also a Jack Russell Terrier. All right. Scooby-Doo. Scooby-Doo. He has a breed? Yeah. Colin. Isn't he a great dame?
Starting point is 00:44:54 He is a great dame. So is Marmaduke, Astro from the Jetsons also. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe why in that era there are a lot of great dames. I don't know. Maybe because like they're the same kind of almost the same height as people. Yeah, they're just common. largely large yeah yeah Santa's little helper from the Simpsons
Starting point is 00:45:15 Chris Greyhound yes he's a great hound because he was a ex racing dog yeah yeah toto from Wizard of Oz Chris Toto is oh geez what the heck is the name of that dog I forget okay you know it's a little with the thing with it whatever But I forget the breed.
Starting point is 00:45:40 Colin. Is Tono a Scotty, a little Scottish terrier? No, he is a terrier. He's a, I'm not sure if I can pronounce this right. Is it cairn? Cairn. Oh, okay. No would not have gotten that.
Starting point is 00:45:53 Cain Terrier. Okay, all right. Frank from Men and Black. Dana. Is he a pug? He is a pug. He's a little squishy-faced, boisterous, loud-talking dog alien. Lady from Lady and the Tramp
Starting point is 00:46:12 Oh She is Spaniel King Charles Spaniel Oh you're close Oh Cocker Spaniel Cocker Spaniel Yes American Cocker Spaniel Cocker Spaniel
Starting point is 00:46:26 King Charles Spaniel Cavalier Spaniel is Charlotte's dog from Sex in the City Yeah Last one here for part one We've gotten this at Pub trivia either it was red to us or it was like a picture round
Starting point is 00:46:42 where they show a picture of this dog. Oh no. The Odalay mop dog from Beck's album, O'Dalay. That was Colin. I know this one. It is a commondor. Yes.
Starting point is 00:46:54 I know it only has the mop looking dog from the O'Dale album cover. Good job, everybody. See, that wasn't that that wasn't that bad. Okay, you're right. You guys know your dog breeds. All right. So here I'm moving on.
Starting point is 00:47:08 on to part two. So my dog, Cisco, he is a Rottweiler mix. And I was like, kind of curious. I was like, oh, what does Rottweiler mean? Because obviously, it's German for something. Turns out the breed is named after the geographical region of Rottweil. So not very, not very exciting. Yes. Probably 95% of the dog breeds are named after a region or a city or a person or mostly an area or a country. And then some dog breeds are named they have very straightforward names like straight to the point descriptions of what they do so for example Portuguese water dog it was like a Obama's dogs Portuguese water dog German shepherd right they're shepherding sheep and they're German so pretty pretty self-explanatory so here I have a quiz about famous dog breeds whose names are descriptions of the breed but in a
Starting point is 00:48:03 foreign language. Okay. Oh, okay. All right. So I will give you the direct translation of, of these dog breed names and some clues. And you buzz in with the correct name of the dog breed I'm looking for. All right? All right.
Starting point is 00:48:18 So, for example, if I said, the giant miniature and standard breed of this dog literally means snout in German named for its famous mustache snout, you would say, Is that schnauzer? It's schnauzer. Schnauzer is snout in German. All right, here we go. Thanks to the internet, this dog breed exploded in popularity back in 2008, thanks to a Bay Area puppy cam. Its breed name literally means firewood dog, mostly due to their fur color looking like fallen leaves and twigs.
Starting point is 00:48:59 That is Chris. Is that Shibait, you know? Yes, it is Shiba Inu. Inu is dog. Shiba means like firewood wood twigs. Funny story, my friend was visiting the Bay Area and I was taking him around. In the Bay Area, there are a lot of Shiba Inus. And I've noticed that almost all of them have like Asian food names as their dog name.
Starting point is 00:49:24 Like there's a boba or a kimchi or a mochi or a sushi. They all have like Asian food names. And so I was like making this joke to my friend who's visiting. And I was like, man, all these Shiba Innu's all have like Asian food names. And so we're in line to get coffee. And there's a lady behind us with her Shiba Inu. And my friend decided to like test this theory out. Oh, cute dog.
Starting point is 00:49:49 You know, to the lady, what's your dog's name? And the lady's like, oh, my dog's name is Taco. Oh, no. Before we could say anything, she then followed up with Taco is octopus and jack. Japanese. So close. Oh my God. Every Shiba, you know, I know, and I know a lot, are all named after Japanese food.
Starting point is 00:50:12 Yeah. There's no, like, Western, you know, there's no, like, tuna casserole or, like, stroganoff. Borsh. Yeah. Borsh. My Shiba E. Oh, my God. That's really cute.
Starting point is 00:50:31 Oh, if it's like a reddish. Like a reddish dog. Oh, that's cute. Just forched. I like that word. Borsh. Okay. Sorry.
Starting point is 00:50:39 Go back to my quiz. Okay. This dog green name literally means rather low. And these dogs are excellent ground scent trackers. Rather low. Rather low. It's in French. They're great at ground tracking, ground slipping tracking.
Starting point is 00:50:59 What dog is low to the? ground. I'm just trying to think of any dog with a French name. That is Chris, Chris, Chris. Basset hound. Correct. It is Basset hound. Yes. Oh, like, Bob.
Starting point is 00:51:17 Yes. All right. Next one. This Asian dog breed's name literally means sand skin, known for its very short hair and extremely wrinkly skin. Oh, Colin.
Starting point is 00:51:34 Is it, uh, Charpe? Sharpay. Yeah. It is. Choppy. Sharpie go. Sharpay. Stan, Sanskin.
Starting point is 00:51:43 Next dog. This toy dog, it's toy dog, literally means butterfly due to their face having like a butterfly-like look because of their big, upright ears and, like, trailing ear fur or ear hair. Uh, Dana. A papillon? Papillon. Correct. Butterfly in French. Yep.
Starting point is 00:52:04 This floofy dog is actually named for the German word for splash or puddle. Pena. Poodle? Poodle. Which is funny because we think of it as like, it's always portrayed as like a French-accented cartoon dog, you know? Yeah. It's actually German, German for Splash or Puddle because they're water dogs. Oh, is it because of French.
Starting point is 00:52:31 Poodle is a is a is a breed yeah yeah yeah and that's the one all right good job everybody for la la laopoosa looser la laopoosa laopoosa on august first may i speak really i prefer english the naked gun is the most fun you can have in theaters yeah let's go without getting arrested is he serious is he serious no the naked gun only in theaters August 1st. And we got one last quiz segment for this all-quiz. Bonanza, Colin. I have a quiz for you all
Starting point is 00:53:08 titled, What's That Number? And it is a little bit of a grab bag. And all of the questions and or answers revolve around numbers, numerals in some way or another. So I'll give you an example here. I was, as you know, out camping a couple weekends ago. and this was a big trip for me for the first time my camping friend and I
Starting point is 00:53:34 we rented a four by four and we got to just talking about abbreviations and stuff like that so you all of course know what four by four stands for right in colloquial usage no no anyone wanted to give an out burger with four patty like an off road vehicle yeah it's four wheel drive vehicle right got four wheels and four of them are powered
Starting point is 00:53:58 sort of the simplest way of looking at it. Kind of just a shorthand for describing how many wheels or, you know, really, really precisely how many axle ends does the vehicle have and then how many of them are powered. Right. Other examples where the numbers kind of become a shorthand for the thing itself is really what interested me. So, you know, like a four, you know, we talk about a 45 record, right,
Starting point is 00:54:20 which, you know, as we all know, is short for the RPM, a 45 RPM record. Oh, I see. I like that. Forty-fives, things like that. Yeah, okay. So let's get warmed up here. So get your brains ready. Get your buzzers ready.
Starting point is 00:54:34 We'll start off with one I know we have talked about before, who's quickest on the draw. The large American conglomerate corporation known as the 3M Corporation. What do the 3Ms stand for in the 3M Corporation? Karen. Minnesota, mining manufacturer. I'll give that to you. That is absolutely right.
Starting point is 00:54:58 Minnesota mining and manufacturing company. That's right. And they did, in fact, start off way back in the early 1900s as a mining concern and manufacturing concern. Yes, in Minnesota. So the 3M makers of by one count. Yeah, tape among many other things, more than 60,000 products. Wow.
Starting point is 00:55:21 What else do they make? Post-its. Oh, I mean, they make health care, you know, industrial. worker safety they make, yeah, post-its among many other things, right. Yeah, household goods, scotch tape. All right, this is another one here. This will be a one point for each kind of scenario here. So you might want to get a pen or pencil ready.
Starting point is 00:55:44 Yeah, yeah, let's write these down, please. These Six Flags Entertainment Corporation, also known as Six Flags, theme parks, operates properties all over Canada, Mexico, the United States, The name six flags is a reference to the flags of these six nations that historically had dominion over Texas. For one point each, please name those six nations, nation states, entities. I'm confident that you guys can get at least three or four here, if not all six. How well do you know your U.S. history might come into play? Whenever you're ready, hoist them up, hoist them up.
Starting point is 00:56:30 Okay. Okay. Airbud. Chris has written Airbud, the micro-nation of air bud. All right. I will, great. Answers up, I trust you. I will let you score yourselves here.
Starting point is 00:56:46 I will read out the answers. The answers are Spain. Okay. Got it. France. Got it. Mexico. Got it.
Starting point is 00:56:56 The Republic. of Texas. Got it. Yeah. The Confederate States of America. Oh, you know, oh, man, I thought this was okay. And the United States. All right.
Starting point is 00:57:09 How many points you all got here? Let's sell for four. Five. Five. Okay. All right. Karen and Dana five. Get your buzzers ready.
Starting point is 00:57:17 And I apologize. There may be a little bit of bias on this one. But I think you will all know this one. About cats? In 1996, the Nintendo 64. was released, a legendary home console. What does these 64 in Nintendo 64 stand for? Chris?
Starting point is 00:57:38 The number of bits that the processor can handle at any given time. Yeah, that's right. 64 bit processing. Basically, bigger numbers, bigger data. You can do more stuff with it. You can do more cool 3D-ish stuff with it. Even if many of the games were not necessarily taking 100% full advantage of it. Yeah, it could do more.
Starting point is 00:57:57 You could just handle more information. Do more math. More math. That's right. More math, more fun. Yeah. That's right. Were there any other 64 systems?
Starting point is 00:58:05 No, I don't think so. Not at the time. Or at least none that boasted about it in their name. The great, great, great American product. I have some. In fact, I have many cans of this in my house, at least three in various places. WD 40. WD.40.
Starting point is 00:58:23 I knew it. I'll tell you the first part. The WD stands for water. displacement. Now, I'll give you guys a multiple choice here on this one if you want to. I'll give you more. Everyone gets a chance at a point here. Does the, does the 40 and WD. 40, does it stand for the 40th formula that the original inventors came up with? Does it stand for 1940 the year it was brought to market? Or does it stand for the 40 year Rust Guarantee? they had.
Starting point is 00:58:59 What I thought was none of these things. What I... WD.40. Was none of these things? Okay, so what was it? It's the year it debuted. Mm-hmm. Was it the year it debuted, 1940?
Starting point is 00:59:15 Was it a 40-year rust guarantee? Or was it the 40th formula that the scientists experimented with? Okay. All right, answers up. Answers up. What do you all think here? Chris says 1940.
Starting point is 00:59:31 Karen says 40th formula they came up with and Dana says 40 year guarantee. Wow. This is really the multiple choice question writer's dream here, the split ticket. It is in fact, if you believe the company story, it is in fact the 40th formula that they came up with for a water displacing substance. What do you guarantee sounds along? Who's going to dispute? it like four years later and be like dear company my I mean is it longer than a lifetime guarantee that's true that's true it reminds me of um Heinz 57 like it's a braggy kind of number name
Starting point is 01:00:09 you know that's what I thought it was I mean I thought I thought I thought a WD 40 was ketchup I thought it was 40 uses like 40 different uses oh yeah yeah okay right right right like these are all the ways you can use it around the house 40 different places on the human body you can use it I shouldn't leave you hanging on the year. It was introduced in 1953 actually by a company called the Rocket Chemical Company. They were creating like solvents and, you know, degrisers for aerospace manufacturers. And it really was, the goal was water displacement. Keep the water out.
Starting point is 01:00:48 Get the water out of there so things don't rust. And yeah, so they can stay lubricated. Another American success story, Motel 6, Motel 6. You see them all over if you're doing road trips. What does the 6 in Motel 6 stand for? Get your buzzers out. Karen. $6 a night initially.
Starting point is 01:01:11 That is right. Yeah, the Motel 6 chain, they were started in 1962. Their original goal, it wasn't just like, oh, wow, things were cheap back then. I mean, which in some sense they were. The two founders, William Becker and Paul Green, Motel 6, was that they wanted to specifically start a budget, no frills, low-cost, you know, hotel, essentially, motel. And so $6 in 1962 is a little bit over the equivalent of around $50 today. So that's still, that's dirt cheap. Like if you get like a $50, you know, hotel room, that's pretty good.
Starting point is 01:01:51 Yeah. And they really were super budget. Like, I mean, coin operated black and white TVs instead of, you know, free color TV like you might find at other chains. Yeah. There was no restaurant, which was kind of a big difference for sort of a chain, you know, hotel, motel in those days, like compared to like a holiday inn or something, like to not have a restaurant on site. Yeah, any way they could save money, Motel 6. The entertainment company A24, originally A24 films, before they branched out into TV and other things like that, has become one of the most noteworthy players on the scene in the last 10, 12 years. The premiere, at least prestige name in indie films in America right now, I mean, moonlight, hereditary, ladybird, uncut gems, the room on and on and on. a lot of big hits. This is a multiple choice here. What does the A24? An A24 stand for. And I'll give you a choice here.
Starting point is 01:02:54 I'll give you multiple guests, multiple guests. I won't make this too hard on you. Does the A24 refer to a historic German cinema house? Does it refer to an Italian motorway? Or does it refer to a French postal code? A24. They are an American company. Can you say the choices again, Roveman?
Starting point is 01:03:21 Yes, I'll give you the choices again. 824. Is it stand for a historic German cinema house? Does it stand for an Italian motorway? Or is it a reference to a French postal code? Wow, you're really good at writing fake answers. Yeah. They're all so believable.
Starting point is 01:03:39 I have a tough crowd. I have a tough crowd. I know it's got to pass your guy's bar. Yeah. I originally assumed that it was a reference to, you know, perhaps 24 frames per second film. No, okay. All right. Chris says German cinema house.
Starting point is 01:03:55 Karen says French postal code. And Dana says German theater house. Oh, unfortunately, none of you got it. It is, in fact, named after the A24 motorway in Italy. Yeah. This is kind of a very personal. So A24 was founded in 2012 by some veterans of the film industry. Daniel Katz, David Fenkel, and John Hodges.
Starting point is 01:04:19 The story goes that Katz was on a trip. He was traveling with some friends. And as he tells it, I always had dreams of starting my own company. I was with a bunch of friends driving into Rome and I had this moment of clarity. It was on the A24 motorway. And in that moment, I was like, now it's time to go do this. All right. In 1995, an up-and-coming American band had just released their debut album.
Starting point is 01:04:47 In addition to attention from the local music scene, they also caught the eye of an Irish band with the same name. And indeed, that Irish band had been recording and performing for a few years, sent this American band a request, essentially, to please knock it off. You cannot use our name. Now, the band really, really, it seemed, could not care any less. They ultimately chose a random number to append to their name. What was that number and or what is this band?
Starting point is 01:05:22 1995. They added it to it. Yeah, they added it to their name. Dana. Blink 186 or blink 185. Oh, I'm sorry, Dana. I cannot give that to you. I'm sorry.
Starting point is 01:05:36 Blink 187. No, what is their name? Everyone's still incorrect. Oh my God. 182? Blink 182. Not 185, not 186, not 187. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:05:50 I'm becoming my dad. He does. Yeah. I had always assumed there was some, I mean, even if it was stupid or dumb or local or all three of those, some meaning to the 182. and blink 182 but no they say like it really was they were called blink originally and they got a letter from an irish pop rock band name also named blink the band kept putting off the decision kept putting it off their record label ultimately said to them guys if you do not choose a new name we're going to rename you and so they just chose a random number and became blink 182 at that point okay last question for you guys
Starting point is 01:06:32 here. All right. Beginning in 1982 and continuing for decades, this phone number is widely accepted as the most prank called phone number in American history. What is this phone number? Oh, everybody, at least in my hearing, go for it. 867-3-0-9. It is 8609.
Starting point is 01:07:02 This is the name of the song, 867-5309 slash Jenny by Tommy Two Tone. At its height in 1982s, if you were unfortunate enough to have this number, you might be receiving, you might be receiving as many as 5,000 phone calls a day. God. Yeah, yeah. Oh, no. And that's, in many, many, many areas, people were calling to have their phone number disconnected because it was just, it was virtually unusable if you have this, you know, thousands, 5,000 calls a day. As late into the 2000s, even, people who had this number were trying to sell it, you know, places on eBay, things like that. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:07:51 It's really interesting. I learned eBay would shut these auctions down because you are not technically allowed to sell. a phone number per se like you cannot just sell a phone number it's considered sort of a quasi public resource now if the phone number is part of a business you know you could sell the business right I mean like if you're you know 1 800 you know whatever 1 800 laptops you know you could sell that number as part of your business but you as an individual you cannot just post your numbers so some people have kind of indeed some businesses who have owned this number in various area codes. The 800 and the 888 version of this number have changed hands several times over the years
Starting point is 01:08:36 for thousands of dollars. Wow. It's still to this day, I read a story by somebody who bought this in the early 2000s plugged in the, you know, the phone. The minute you plug this line in, it just starts ringing. It's just that it just starts ringing. Yeah. It's just, Yeah, as late as 2013, there is a woman in Florida with this number. I will not give out her area code, but she still says that she would get 50 calls a day as late as 2013 to 867-3-0-9. Yeah, Jenny. Yeah, many, many, many people named Jenny over the years hate this song. Anybody with this phone number hates this song.
Starting point is 01:09:26 That was, what's that number? And I think you guys did great as usual And hopefully you learned a little something along the way I always appreciate your your quiz title It's always something like Hey, who's poop is that My favorite was I think for our underwater episode
Starting point is 01:09:43 Colin had a quiz called the C word Oh yes S EA I don't remember that That's good That's good I don't remember that Well, folks, not to bring the energy down here or anything like that, but I have to remind you all of these tragic events of last week's podcast in which our on-again, off-again nemesis, Carmen San Mateo, international, now quite frankly interstellar thief of trivia-related items, absconded with what was to be our final prize for winning the trivia-based escape. scape room. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:10:28 Yeah. And we found nothing in there but an eight-track tape again explaining to us. She had handed off the prize to one of her associates in crime, Didi Convict. Who took the prize and then left us clues, which we solved
Starting point is 01:10:48 on the show to find out that where she had taken the prize was outer space. Fortunately, we did remember from the last escapade in which we had to go chasing after Carmen San Mateo, we were still in possession of the fancy and ridiculous time interloper system, aka the Fartis. Yeah, our Fartis. How can I forget the Fartis? It's our orange phone booth. Smellier on the inside than it seems like it would be on the outside. Now, fortunately, we have been able to upgrade the Fartis
Starting point is 01:11:22 with the space blast off device, the space blast off device, which we're going to attach the, or the SBD. We'll attach the SBD to the Fartis and finally be able to get into outer space. So let's just press a few, let's just press a few buttons here.
Starting point is 01:11:41 Magically, we are now in the vastness. The majesty. It's just big. There's just a lot of outer space. And I really wish that we had, something telling us like where we should look in the universe we might we should look we look around the Fartis and we find a you know a nice control panel that has two things on it essentially right now there's a there's a button that says go to space we had already
Starting point is 01:12:10 pressed that to go to space okay and then there is a a knob for our interstellar sort of communication radio system so we turn that and kind of flip through the channels a little bit to see if there's any, you know, communications coming in from outer space. We do actually end up picking something up, and that is this. 11, 12, 5, 15, 18, 9, 15, 14, 14, 14, 19, 21, 21, 2, 21, 3. It's a puzzle One of those crazy stations
Starting point is 01:12:55 That just has somebody speaking out a bunch of numbers Yeah it does seem like a puzzle So here's the thing we We listened to it and it turns out that It loops from there Like after that last number It just keeps looping that series of numbers And in fact it keeps looping to the extent
Starting point is 01:13:11 That we're not actually sure Where it begins and when we're Because we just sort of came in We were able to tune it in So listeners, everybody out there Lobetrotters can you use that loop of numbers to figure out where we're supposed to go in the vastness of space? You should go to good jobbrain.com.
Starting point is 01:13:34 You should look for the farthest and maybe you should type in, I don't know, some sort of a destination for us. And see if you can get it right. We'll just chill out here in outer space until you guys have an answer, I guess, for us. It's fine. We have tang. We have tang. We got the, we got the... Getting everywhere, unfortunately. They say tang is for outer space. You can't just bring a canister of tang and just open it right up. It's not like it's, it's not like it's anti-gravity or anything. I feel like they should put that as a warning on the box. It's an orange cloud. We can't see. Please help us. It's in my ears. We're going to, looks like it's going to take us about a week to clean up the tang. That's our show. Thank you guys for joining me and thank you guys listeners for listening in. Hope you learn. stuff about dogs, about numbers, about colors, and you can find us on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify,
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