Good Job, Brain! - 222: It Takes Two 2

Episode Date: December 7, 2021

We're all seeing double this week now that we've made it to our 222nd episode. We don our raccoonnookkeeper uniforms for Chris' double letter Scrabble word challenge but this time, it's all about words that strangely begin with twinning letters. Celebrate human-animal pals in this Dana's duo quiz, and learn weird facts about reduplicated cities that are so nice, they named them twice: Walla Walla, Pago Pago, and what exactly is so funny about Canada's Saint-Louis-du-Ha!-Ha!? Buy low and sell high in Colin's corporate partnership quiz with some mind-melting trivia behind famous companies. And of course, we're traveling to our third destination in space trying to catch Carmin San Mateo and her greaser henchwoman, Didi Connvict. Good Job, Brain is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. For advertising inquiries, please contact [e-mail]! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Bonjour, Boat Bills on the boardwalk, bowling for Boas, bonus bonito, and Bonnie clabber. This is good job, Brain, your weekly quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. Today's show is episode 220. And of course, I'm your humble host, Karen. And these people are my triad of trivia tricksters who treasure a Triscaphobia. Hey, I'm Colin. I'm Dana.

And I'm Chris. That was the spooky intro that I didn't do in the Halloween show. I'm just keeping everybody on their choice. You might ask, in my alliteration today, I mentioned something that is a Bonnie clabber, a Bonnie clabber. A bonnie clabbard. It is a type of sour milk, like a sour cream yogurt. And it's a treat that people eat and with fruit and spices. It comes from a Gaelic term.

But it is what old-timey people use as a leavening agent when they bake. So, you know, sometimes we bake, you add buttermilk or you add other like acidic dairy products to help, you know, leaven your baked goods. And once you know it, it's where the popular baking. powder brand here in America. Claver Girl got its name from. That is definitely the first, last, and only place I hear clabber used is clabber girl. Yeah.

It sounds like a disease. All right. Time to jump in into our first general trivia segment. Pop quiz, Hot Shot. I got to be careful now with these random trivia tour suit card because I've gotten, I think maybe two people have told us on Twitter that their version of Trivial Pursuit is the same. And as, you know, they're playing at home with their friends, they're getting the questions that we're asking on the show.

We're ruining family game. No, I think it's just an incentive to listen. Yeah. All right. Here we go. I got a random Trivial Pursuit card. You guys have your barnyard buzzers. Let's answer some questions.

Blue Wedge for Geography. The Victoria Falls are. located on the border between Zimbabwe and which other southern African country? Hmm. Oh, that was Dana.

Is it Tanzania? No. I was going to guess. I hope they border. Chris. South Africa. No, not that. Dang, it was a good guess.

You know, I didn't want to leave it unsaid. If it had been. Yes. We'd all feel silly. You're right. It's between Zimbabwe and Zambia. Zazza. Victoria Falls.

That's our mnemonic. I like it. Oh, pop culture, Pink Wedge. Name three of the five famous female models that appear in George Michael's Freedom music video. Oh, wow. Dana. Linda Evangelista.

Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Is Naomi Campbell in it? Yes, ding, ding, ding, ding. Is Cindy Crawford in that? Ding, ding, ding, ding. Keep going. Keep going. Christy Turlington.

Dinging, ding, ding. Wow. Let's see. Is Claudia Schiffer? No. No, I've never heard of this fifth one. Tatiana Patitz. What?

So what is it? What's her name? I'm sorry. I didn't. Catch that, Karen. What was it? Tatiana Petits. Huh. Okay.

Okay. Maybe. Stop laughing. It's not right. Tatiana. It actually, it's like Tatiana, T-A-T-J-A-N-A-T-Y-A-T-Y-A-T-Y-A. Then P-A-T-I-T-Z. All right.

It checks out. Okay, maybe Pattitz. The math seems to work out. Okay. We'll go with that. I mean. Sounds more right. Talk to you on the paddits.

Tits. Who are we to say? Okay. Movie on, moving on, moving on. Yellow Wedge. Which U.S.

Space Mission marked, quote, one giant leap for mankind when it landed the first humans on the moon. Oh, geez. embarrassing. Oh, man.

We were just talking about this, right? Yeah, yeah. So which U.S. space mission basically. So, Apollo, man. I feel this come up so many times. The number is.

Okay, okay. One of the Apollos. What's Apollo Seve? What was the one with Tom Hanks? 13. Because things went bad. Oh, no. Things went, okay.

I like 11. Apollo 11. Seven. Apollo 7 11. Apollo 11, you are correct. It's 11. Okay. Ooh.

All right. 10 years in, 10 years in, we have a way to remember that. Well, which is what? 13. It's the bad one. It's 13. Okay.

But 7. 11, but not the 7. The 11th part of it. No, we're going backwards now. We're undoing the progress. Well, how about this? How about this? Ready?

Here's the mnemonic. One small step for a man. One giant leap for mankind. One and one. Brilliant. Oh, that's good. I was going to say, lucky number 711. So not that.

That's just. introduces the seven again yet not to be confused with one and one makes two so it's not apollo two apollo's in moon so it's like the people who come up with a crazy in the mocks to remember where they parked now you can just take a picture on your phone you should just take pictures of Wikipedia with my phone I used to have to draw a little sketch. It took so much longer. It's like a treasure map. All right.

Purple Wedge. Which dance style is not a street dance? Multiple choice. Okay. Beboying. Hustle. Locking or popping. I think that was Dana very confidently.

Hustle. Correct. Hustle. Do the hustle. That's a disco. It's an indoor dance. It is an indoor. It's not street dance.

Uh, green wedge for science. Which shape is used to illustrate similarities in event diagram? Which? Oh, gosh. I mean, I, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Please. Okay.

Circles. Correct. Yeah. All of us were just like. immediately like okay wait what's the deep answer here there the similarities are where the circles overlap like a not a crescent no no it's the it's the thing that would be the the other parts that aren't the crescent it's like a inverse of a crescent it's like an eyeball shape right like yeah yeah yeah yeah i wonder what that word is i bet there's a word for that yeah i'm sure there's

some word defined as like you know the intersection of two circles where the angle is less than 180 degree below yeah they all have names yeah let's just call it the the vertical eye eyeball yeah um all right last question orange wedge which olympic athlete was known as the world's fastest woman for breaking records in both the 100 and 200 meter dashes wow data on a roll today i don't know maybe this is going to break is it flojo it is it is flojo her full name do we know florence joiner Griffith Joyner. Griffith Joyner.

Yes. Collin is our track. Yes. Our track MVP. Woo. And related, like, related through marriage to Jackie Joyner Cursey, I believe. Yeah. I believe the Joyner family there is the same family.

They are joined. Yes. Oh, nice. Jointly fast. There's a new, there's like a movie about her life coming out, right? Isn't it like Tiffany Haddish, I think, or somebody going to be in the photo? Oh! Asfojo, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And we have another sports fact. Yay. This one is from our purple Patreon pledge from Colin Storm from Thousand Oaks, California. And he said, like Good Job Brain Colin, I know a ton about sports. And I also have a PhD in communication and teach communication studies at Pepperdine University. So he's got a stumper for you. Well, for all of us, but really for you, Colin. And a cool name, Colin Storm.

That's my like superhero name. His question is, who was the first openly black African-American player in baseball history? Hint, it is not Jackie Robinson. So they're saying openly black because some people were black but didn't say that they were black. They were passed. Yes. And we're not counting this guy, but technically there was a player. His name is William Edward White, recognizes the first black player.

but he passed as white. That's a good one, man. Baseball definitely not my deepest area. I mean, the two names I know with kind of players who broke the color barrier were Jackie Robinson and Larry Dobie. But I'm guessing it was somebody prior to that. So the answer is Moses, quote, Fleetwood Walker was the first black player that many historians have recognized.

That's a good one. That's a good one to file away. What year generally? Do you know? So Moses, Flea, Woodwalker played baseball around turn of the century, so late 1800s. After his baseball career, he actually became a pretty successful inventor. I wonder what he invented. He invented and patented outer casing for ammo, for artillery shells.

Really? Yeah. Wow. That's a story career. I thought it's going to be outer casing for like a baseball or something. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was just a story. I was like, oh, okay, I would get, okay. Yeah, it's awesome. Yeah. All right. This episode is episode 222. 2-2.

I don't know if we did anything for 1-1-1. But today we're going to do something special for 2-2-2. We're going to celebrate things that are twos, pairs, duos, doubles, seconds, and all of that. So this week, it takes two. Two. Fun small fact 2-2-2-2 is what you call a strobo-grammatic number which is a number that reads the same upside-down on a calculator.

Oh, okay. I was like, does it? Yeah, okay, all right. No, on a couple, yes. I was like, this seems very font-dependent. You know, other numbers, 1961, you know, 818. Turns out real purist mathematicians don't really put any significance in this. Because it is font-dependent, it's not right.

It's just how you write it. The discovery of this flip Newtonian physics right on to ask. All right. Now, Karen, yes, you had reminded us back in 2015 episode 168 was titled, It Takes 2, 1, now retroactively known as It Takes 2.1. Yes, yes. Part 1. And we talked about, I did a segment about words with consecutive pairs of double letters, such as not just words with double letters, but consecutive pairs of them like balloon has L-L-O-O next to each other. We landed on my favorite and possibly yours, which is a word for the person who cleans out. the corner where the raccoon lives, which is a raccoon nook keeper.

That's a... How many is that? Six pairs. Six consecutive pairs. C-O-N-O-K-E. Yeah. Raccoon-K-K-E. Good one.

Good word to know. Maybe considered a word or not. Not a real word, everybody. No. No. Anyway, we already did that. But I wanted to revisit the idea of double letters for this revisitation of the double show.

So here we go. It's another quiz about English language words that this time every word will begin with a pair of double letters. Begins with a pair of identical letters. Now, you may have some questions as to whether or not these are words. The overriding legal authority here is going to be Scrabble. Every word that we're talking about here is a legal Scrabble play. As a solving aid, I'm going to do these in order of how many points you would get

if you played these in Scrabble, just to help you out a little bit here. Okay. Okay. Even though it may not help you out that much. No. And do pay attention like a crossword puzzle to the precise definition that I'm giving you, such as verb tenses or things of that nature. Okay. To get to the exact right form of the word.

I will firmly reject anything that is not the exact answer that I'm looking for. So everybody get your barnyard buzzers ready. A reminder that each of the answers will begin with one pair of duplicated letters, a double letter pair. And here we go. For six points, a three-letter word, an expression of discomfort. Six points. Dana.

Ah, A-A-H. It is not a-a-h. This is more like an expert, like, a little bit of pain, like, when you get up and, uh, Colin. Ooh, O-O-O-H. So, okay, so the, the word is, oof. Of course, of course. Let me double check with some of these because, like, ah, could be, ooh, could be. I feel like H's four points.

Isn't H4 retroactive? If there could be an alternate answer, we can always come back and check it. For another six points, this one is a four-letter word, an expression of dismay. Like, I've done something wrong. Dana? Oops, O-O-P-S. Yes, oops. Oops.

Oh, no. Final six. point word, this is an expression of deliciousness. This is two letters. Colin. Yeah. Yes. Yeah.

Yes. M.M. Wow, that's playable. That is a playable. That is a playable, Scrabble word. Such a good way to make your mom upset. That happens to me, too. You can't play words with friends or scrabble with your parents because they think you're

cheating and you're like, no, this is how the game is played. You need to memorize these two. better words. It's true, though, learning those two-letter combos like, mm, you know, really changes the game of Scrabble. Oh, yeah. Like, not just because you know more words, but because you start to be able to play words, not crossing other words, but parallel to other words. That's where the points are. That's where the points are, baby. That's right. Yeah. I think these will get a little easier as the words get longer and they become a little more

wordish. Yeah, more wordy. Yeah. So moving up to seven points, three letters, an expression of sudden fright. Dana. Is this ah, A-A-H? This is not A-A-A-A-H. This is really, like, very specifically, Colin.

E-E-E-K? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, yes, one-five. That's seven points. That's great. Another seven points is a four-letter word. resembling a certain fish Dana

You said three letters or four letters? Four letters resembling a certain fish. Is it eel-y? Yes, E-E-E-L-Y, resembling a certain type of fish, that fish being the eel. Eight points now, a six-letter word, some ruminants.

Some ruminants. Some ruminants. Uh, Colin. No, no, no, no. Some ruminants, six letters. How many letters did you say? Oh, six. Six.

What's ruminants? Oh, oh. Oh. Um, Colin. Is it llamas? It is llamas. L-L-A-M-A-S. What?

Ruminants are llamas and sheep and those kinds of, those kinds of guys. I was thinking, like, ruminance was like rumination, like thinking about something. Oh, okay. Okay. All right. Another eight-point here. This is an eight-letter word, which I believe means that each one of these is only, each letter is only worth one point.

Okay. The quality or state of being weird. A quality or state of being weird. Dana. You guys are so good. Is it uki-ness? It's not uquiness. I don't know.

That's good, yes. It's in the Adam's family song. I don't know. You know, it's a spravily. It's good. I like it. I like it. Yes, the quality or state of being weird.

Karen. It's going to be some permutation of eerie, but the state of it. Oh. Is it not eerieness? Ah, Dana got it. Eeriness. E-E-R-I-N-S-S. I wrote down all the double letters of the alphabet.

Oh, Karen is. developing some strategies here. Yeah, oh, this just in. It helps when you have a cheat sheet. Have I answered any of them? So who is it helping, really? Final, your final eight-point word, another eight-letter word as well, tiniest. Karen.

Enceist. Inceist. Yes. Yes. Nice job. I mean, there are really not a lot of letters you can double up in the beginning. There are not. fact.

As it turns out. Okay, on to the 10 pointers, all right. Exclaiming in delight or surprise. Now, it's six letters. Exclaiming in delight or surprise, six letters.

Karen. Owing. Owing. Or eyeing. Both are okay. There was much owing and eyeing when Karen got the question right, yes. Maybe this cheat sheet is helping.

There we go. Yes. Yeah, I think so. okay folks for a big 15 points hope you'll land that one on your triple word score 15 points scrabble word it is it is an eight letter word again an african insectivore a k a k a termite eating hyena what dana is it ardvark you it is not ardvark because you didn't listen to the hulk you buzzed in too early ardvarks i'm going to read the entire question and then everyone except Dana gets a shot at the bite of the apple.

You're mean. I'm a teacher. All right. Here we go. Okay. An African insectivore, aka the termite-eating hyena. The termite-eating hyena.

I'm not sure I know this animal. Not Ardvark. It's an Ard-vark dog. Yeah, it is. It is, basically. Ard-lion? No, it's not Ard-Lion. It's, you're so close with Ard Dog.

Do you, does anybody want to take a guess? Ard Wolf! Oh, Ard Wolf! I've never heard of it before. Wow! An ard vark means like Earth pig and Ard Wolf means like Earth Wolf. And they both, they both eat insects off the ground.

Hence, um, the Ard Wolf. This is the most excited I've been in a really long time. I like screamed for real. Like, you never heard of it before. Up and down. You were blocked from answering. You got back with the right one. So we got three more

here for you. You guys are doing good. These are some big, big points here. Okay. 17 points, nine letters. Playing a repeated rhythmic bass accompaniment. Oh. Playing. Playing a, playing a,

a repeating a repeated. rhythmic bass accompaniment. Nine letters. The last three of which is I'm going to give you our I-N-G. Yeah. Something here. Playing a repeated rhythmic bass accompaniment.

Colin. I'm going to go with umpahing. Yes! Ompa-ing! Oh, my God. So I guess there must be an H in there, right? There's only way I could stretch it to nine. letters. Yes. O-O-O-O-M-P-H-I-N-G. Yep. Scrabble legal. For 18 points, a six-letter word, unctuously.

Dana. Oozing. It is not oozing, unfortunately. Unctuously. Oh. Uzzily. Oozily. Oosily. Oosily. Yes, yes. Finally, Folling. you will score a whopping 30 points in Scrabble if you lay down this three-letter word, a sound you might hear in the middle of the night. Kara, z-z-z-z-z-Z. Z-Z, Z, Z, Z, Z, Z, the sound of snoring is a scrabble legal word.

Which requires at least one blank, right? Yeah. That's true. So actually, you wouldn't get the full 30 points. So I did say that was the last one, but I do have a bonus for you. And, okay, it is a seven-letter, scrabble official word. It is worth 14 points. It begins with double letters.

It ends with double letters. Whoa. And somewhere in the middle is a third pair of double letters. No way. And this one is an expression of extreme pain. What if it's just six letters? Ah! I mean, you're not far off.

It is a seven-letter, Scrabble official word. It is worth 14 points. It begins with double letters. It ends with double letters. And somewhere in the middle, there is a third pair of double letters. And it's only seven letters. And it's only seven letters. So there's only one not doubled.

There's only one letter that's not doubled. This is an expression of extreme pain. Wellin. Yes, that's it. Are you serious? I'm absolutely serious. That is A-A-A-R-R-G-H. No way.

Get out of here. Now, it's worth 14 points, but honestly, I feel like it's worth more than that because it's at least 14 points plus your opponent loses their next turn because there's no way they're not going to challenge that if you put that down. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. It is in there. And in fact, just remember, in fact, in Scrabble, Arg, A-R-G-H, Arg, A-A-R-G-H, and what Colin said, all four of those are acceptable.

Yes, the second thing is where one of throws you off. No, ending in a 2-H, that's, I would be like, get out of here, that what are you trying to pull yeah yep yep yep try it on your friends the other person's like no that's not a real word there's no way they're not going to challenge they're already so mad at you for being so insufferable the rest of the game by that point their spirits broken they're not challenging anymore you got to set it up too like like like over the two or three turns prior you got to be like ah he's damn aches you know just like like really you're like trying to solve They're going to be desperate and do something crazy, so they should challenge you, but they shouldn't.

It's a trick. Chris, for fun, can we recap these words that we answered in this quiz? It's just so unusual to have to start with double letters. I mean, that's not like a medical term. Yeah, exactly. Ooh site is going to be in there. Right, I didn't put oocyte in there. I really, yes, I wanted this to be common things for sure.

Um, oof, oops, mm, eke, ely, llamas, eerieness, inceiest, owing, eyeing, ardwolf, umpying, oozyly, and zz. And, of course, Arg. Woo! So earlier this year, I think I wrote a tweet on our good job. brain Twitter. I found out about what you call reduplicated names, names that are repeated words or sounds. Yo-Yo Ma is a reduplicated name. What about people who have the same first names and last names, reduplicated full names? I tweeted this out.

I made a little list. There is, of course, our favorite Lando Calrissian, Billy D. Williams, full name is William Williams. American Idol winner Philip Phillips Count von Count Count from Sesame Street Yeah It's more of a title Oh it is more of a title

Yeah You know it passes down through the family Yeah I was thinking of Chris Christopherson Chris Christopherson Chris Christy is also a close one And so a lot of cultures The format is they might not have last names

They just take their father's first name and they end up having the same first name. And so you have a lot of names there duplicated that way. But for this episode, I want to talk about reduplicated city names, reduplicated city names. And I have three reduplicated city names that I want to talk about that have some drama going on. Of course, the first city I want to talk about is Walla Walla Washington.

I was hoping this was going to be on the list. Yes, we hear that. a lot. It's used a lot in pop culture. It's just fun to say. I mean, let's come right out. Every Looney Tunes, yeah, whenever somebody's writing out and ascending something, addressing something to somewhere, they're always sending it to

Walla Walla Washington. Yeah. Walla Walla is named after the Walla Walla People and it means many waters and Walla Walla is home to the Walla Walla Sweet Onion. When we go to the store, we buy sweet onions. They're either

Vidalia onions or there are Walla Walla Sweet's, and the Walla Walla Sweet Onion, recently, I mean, within the last 10 years, was in a bit of the news. Now it's named as Washington State Vegetable. This was back in 2007. After a few years of high drama, people weren't happy, especially the Washington State Potato Commission was gunning for the potato being the official state vegetable. because it turns out potatoes are Washington's top grossing vegetable that they grow. So they're like, well, of course our state vegetable would be the vegetable we grow the most and sell the most. But then people are like, well, when you think of potato, that's Idaho.

Right. Idaho has an iron grip on potatoes. It's on their license plates for crying out loud. Yeah. So a bunch of high schoolers and middle schoolers were lobbying for their homegrown special walla walla sweet onion to be the fish. state vegetable. Sure. And they kept getting blocked by votes by the counter-lobbing from the Potato

Commission. The Senate committee passed something. It's called the bulb and tuber amendment saying, hey, both of you guys can be our state vegetable. And people are like, no. We will not share this. I think the onion people like at Thanksgiving instead of mashed potatoes, they just got a big plate of like onions and they're just like.

like I'll never never give an inch so you know what let me interject here from I I will tell you Karen I don't know if you know this but in fact I have family roots in Walla Walla Washington my grandmother grew up in Walla Walla she went to Walla Walla high school she went to Whitman which was a well-known college there my mom always said that like the story of the walla-walla sweet onions was that you could eat it like an apple that you could Yeah, just you can just eat it like an apple. And I was, as a kid, I was, I was pretty skeptical. But at the time, I've never done it.

But yeah, we definitely grew up in our family hearing about the Walla Walla Sweet onions. Absolutely. Turns out the Walla Walla Sweet is extremely sweet because of the soil there. They do have a special way of growing so that the Walla Walla Sweet is super, super high moisture and very, very low on the pyruvate scale. The pyruve scale is like, you know, the Scoville unit for peppers. The pyruva scale is the pungent meter. Oh, I love it. Nice.

Nice. Supposedly not pungent at all. People eat it raw like an apple. I don't know if it's like to prove a point or like it really is like enjoyable. We don't know. Eventually the onion people won. Yes, the onion people finally won in 2007. and now have the

is the sole title holder for Washington State vegetable. Somebody at the potato lobby lost their job. They really drop a ball. There's a hot potato issue and they really let it fall. I'm team onion. I'm team onion.

I'm team onion. I like the underdog. Yeah. The good guys born here, yeah. All right. Our next reduplicated city is Pago Pago or pango, pango. Different ways to pronounce it. It's based on a Samoan word. It looks like Pago Pago Pago, Pago, Pago, but it's pronounced more like Pongo Pongo. For this episode, I'll say pongo Pongo. So Pongo Pongo Pongo is the capital of American Samoa. And in the 1990s, it was home to not one, but two major tuna fish canning

companies, chicken of the sea and starkest. The tuna district. The tuna town. We all here and good job right. We all live near the California coast. Historically, it's where a lot of the canning and fishing companies started, right? If we've been to Monterey, passed by Cannery Row, right? That's where all the canned seafood goods sprung up. However, as time passed and corporations start getting bigger and this scaled up, these companies then had their eyes on having facilities elsewhere. And so in the 80s, the facilities were moved to territories like Puerto Rico and to America, Samoa, because the wages were cheaper, technically part of United States, so they didn't have to pay any import taxes. Again, another thing we're talking on the show, which is avoid taxes is the mother of all inventions. Pongo Pongo became the home of the two of the big three tuna companies, big three tuna.

Yeah. Is the third one? What's the third one? The bumblebee. Is that the third one? The third one is bumblebee. Okay. So here's where it gets interesting. In 2015, Chicken the C, the company, was about to strike a deal to buy bumblebee. So our big three is now going to become the big two. Big tuna two. Tuna two. And at the same time, a wholesale grocery network observed some weirdness and sued the big three tuna companies for 50. fixing prices. I remember reading about this. Yes. So now we got the Department of Justice coming in to review.

And yes, the Big Three tuna have been colluding and have been illegally fixing prices on canned tuna. You're telling me the people who moved somewhere to exploit cheap labor and tax laws would also collude on the prices of tuna. They would get rid of sales or deals. Like you wouldn't find bulk deals anymore. Pushing up the price by a little bit. And then here's the sneakiest thing. They made the cans smaller. No.

Just one ounce smaller. Basically sell people less tuna for more without people really knowing. The merger between Chicken of the Sea and Bumblebee was called off. StarCist pled guilty and was fined the maximum at $100 million. It's funny because we kind of think of a can tuna as kind of like an American staple, host war, you know, tuna casserole. Guess what? All three of these companies, not even American anymore.

StarCist is Korean. Chicken of the Sea is Thai. Bumplebee after this lawsuit got bought by Taiwanese company. Tuna trouble. Yeah. And then the last reduplicated Ciddle. name i would like to share is this is so strange it's in canada called st louis do ha ha and i have to say it that way because it's h a exclamation point h a exclamation point

which is a crazy name it's a great name not only does it have reduplicated ha and ha in its name it also it's the only town in the world to have two exclamation points points in its name. Yeah, St. Louis to ha-ha, nothing to do with laughs, sadly. That's what I thought. So what is a ha-ha, and why is it so exciting? The ha-ha in the name, I can't believe that there is actually a word describing this. How do I describe it?

I hope I can do it justice. A ha-ha is, imagine a split-level lawn. Okay. For example, you're walking on like a very, you know, like a hilly lawn. and you're walking and there is a usually like a stone wall that's maybe three feet high kind of like coming at your waist side on top of that stone wall then becomes the bottom of the lawn of that level so it's like a split level lawn and that is what we call a ha ha and which is a really you know kind of strange thing why do we need this type of landscape architecture feature

these things are also called deer walls because before the time of of having lawnmowers, what they have to do is like tricksy walls or fences to try to like contain the deers that would come on property or that would eat their lawns. However, nature's lawnmower. But if you're like Lord of the Manor and you're looking out, you don't want to see a bunch of just random walls on your lawn. And so the ha ha is a way of hiding the wall so that it can basically bar from dears from coming onto different parts of the lawn

that you don't want them there but then if you're Lord of the Manor when you look out it just looks like a big seamless lawn some say that it's like oh someone was like ah ah what a magnificent lawn or some people say it's shortened half

and half it's half half wall half and half and half and ha ha ha ha half and so no real answer but that's what a ha ha ha is is a ha ha wall so ha ha is why you're saying to the deer there you go three tales of three double cities reduplicated cities walla walla pongo and st louis dahaha all right let's take a quick break and we'll be right back

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Good job, brain. And we're back. This week we're talking about doubles. For this show, my mind automatically went to celebrity couples, but I know I've done it more than once now. So it's like, okay, I can't do that again. And then I was like, well, what about platonic couples? Oh, what about, like, people and their pets? And then I started brainstorming people and pets.

And I was like, these are all cartoon characters. So this is an animated pets quiz where I'm going to give you a fictional animal and you give me the name of their human. They're all animated and they all have a person. It's not like two animals that are friends. One is a human or a humanoid and the other is. Definitely an animal. A pet.

A pet. Yes. Like if the animal got sick, the human would take it to the vet, that kind of relationship. This is going to be a buzz in quiz. I wasn't going to tell you what the animal was, but I think that'll be the hint if you guys get stuck on the name. I'll give you the name. Okay. How about Garfield?

Everybody. John Arbuckle. Yeah. You go all drifted off of me on that one. Yeah, they did. They did, Chris. I think you're right. But how about Gromit? I think Colin, I heard first. Wallace.

Yeah. Dino. Chris. Fred Flintstone. Yes. How about Gary? Gary. Chris. SpongeBob Squarepants. Yeah. Gary is SpongeBob's Pet Snail.

What about Tweedy, Boat. Bird. Who? Oh, what's her name? What's her name? Oh, did you say, Petty Bird? Yeah. Granny. Yeah, Granny is her name. Okay, all right. I was like, Granny's something. I should have... I looked. I was like, is she Granny, Mabel? But she's just Granny. How about Asriel? Karen. Gargamel. That's right, from the Smurfs. What about Crypto with a K? Karen.

This is a Superman Clark Kent. That's right. His dog. Wait, hold on. Isn't it weird that his dog is called Crypto? Crypton is the planet he's from. Why is he allergic to the thing that's named? Well, only under a yellow sun, Karen. Wait, really? Yeah, I look to be clear.

I'm not a Superman, a super fan. But yeah, no, that's part of the mythology, right? It's like the red sun, the yellow sun, and the different kryptonite that they, you know, there's like red. and green and blue and he's allergic to the green one. But I'm not crazy that that doesn't really make a lot of sense, right? Yeah, that he's allergic to his whole planet. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it sounds like it. Okay, okay.

How about this one has two names. Their unchanged name is Crenger, and then they become Battled Cat, Chris. Prince Adam and He-Man. Oh, of course. That's right. That's the tiger. How about Lady Bird? Who is that? That is the Hill family, Hank Hill.

Yeah. His dog. Clifford. What is the family? I finally don't know. Karen. Is it Rebecca? No, it's in that family, but no.

Emily Elizabeth Howard. Wow. Emily Elizabeth. Oh, it's a triple firsty. It is. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, so this animal has three names.

It's spirit. horsey and swift wind Chris do you know what this is well you'll know how I know this is the this is the horse of Princess Adora aka Shira

yes oh so the horses change their names too yeah the horses and the tiger yes everybody changes their name so you don't so you don't recognize the other giant you know green tiger walking around

right do you think that's the same It has a helmet on. It has a helmet on. It can't be. These are the same people who are like, think Prince Adam is He-Man? No, He-Man doesn't have a shirt on.

He-Man. He wears pants, too. How about Raja? Karen. Is this? Princess Jasmine? Yes, her tiger. There you go.

Aladdin. What about brain? It's Penny from Inspector Gadget. Yeah. Oh, I was going to guess Pinky. And I was like, oh, that doesn't have a human. No, that is not a pet master relationship.

I don't know. How about Spunky? Spunky. Chris I'm okay I believe I think it's Punky Brewster

I know I would have guessed that too Now her dog was Brandon Oh yes Okay all right Okay I've come all the way

back around Now I know it Spunky is as I should have known in the first place The ever so slightly off name

of Rocco from Rocco's modern life Yes yes How about Appa, A-P-A. This is not a real animal. Like, not a Earth animal, we'll say.

All right. That exists. Okay. But it's definitely a animal. Okay. Fantasy animal. Karen. Is this an avatar?

Yes. Which one? Oh, gosh. Airbender. Is he Airbender? Anybody watch it? I have heard of it. It's good.

You guys have to watch this show. It's so good. Oh, Ang. Ang Airbender. And Appa, his sky bison. They ride him the whole show. All right. Last one.

This one has two pets. One is named Pupcake. And the other one is named Custard. Karen. Strawberry Short Cake. That's right. I had enjoyed. Custard was the cat.

Yes. Custard the cat and Pupcake, the dog. Pupcake. Pupcake wasn't originally her dog. It was a different character's dog. And then when they rebooted her, she got to have a cupcake. Yeah, she took it. I was like, ooh, it is a better name than custard.

I agree. But that's kind of mean to take someone else's dog because they have a better pun. Yeah. Good job, y'all. And we have one more segment. Colin, giving it to you on the double. All right, on the double. I've got a quiz for you all about business partnerships.

Many of Americas and the world's most famous companies' businesses are often result of mergers or partners who will give their names to the company, their initials, things of that nature. So every question I will give you revolves around a two-ish, two-name, two-person, two-founder, two-group question or answer. So get your buzzers ready. I like the answer. And the answer to every question will be the name of a company here, okay? One of many companies that came to prominence during the Great Depression. This was the first company to use plastic in a children's toy with the Buzzy B introduced in 1950.

Okay, I think we're going to go with Dana on that one. What do you got? Fisher Price. It is Fisher Price. That's right. That's right. Taking the name from Herman Fisher, Irving Price and his wife, Margaret Evans, Price. They're so synonymous with toys. I forget that their name is not. Does it mean toys? Do you know what I mean? That is actually people's name. All right, moving along. This high-end fashion house dates to 1985, though it wasn't until 1991 that they became really internationally famous after they began a collaboration. with Madonna. Karen, what do you got for us?

Dolce and Gabana. That's right, Dolce and Gabana. Domenico Dolce, Stefano Gabana. Karen, I know you're also a fan of the movie Romeo and Juliet. They designed the costumes for that movie. Did you know that? Oh, yes. All right.

We'll stick with high-end lifestyles here. This high-end department store chain was established by a brother and sister corps in Dallas, Texas in 1907 after the founders passed on investing in Coca-Cola. Karen. Neiman Marcus. That is correct. That's right. Neiman Marcus, yeah.

Definitely an older chain than I guessed before I started researching them. Herbert Marcus Sr., his sister, Carrie Marcus Neiman and her husband, A.L. Neiman. They had been kind of successful on their own, you know, in a firm that they had. in Atlanta, Georgia, and we're looking basically for someplace to invest a lot of their money. And they said no to Coke? One of the pitches they had was Coca-Cola. Apparently they decided they did not want to take a chance on a, quote, sugary soda-pop business that was kind of unknown at the time.

And so they passed on that and they moved back to Dallas, I guess, where they were from and opened up their own retail business. And Texas, I think, still has this reputation. But especially in 1907, it was a little more, you know, rough and tumble, but still with a lot of money out there. And, yeah, you know, they really were quite successful on the idea of buying expensive goods in New York and other places and bringing them to Texas and selling them to the very wealthy big oil families. And, yep, this company was once America's premier wilderness and outdoors outdoors. fitter catering to high-profile clients ranging from Theodore Roosevelt to Ernest Hemingway. Today, however, you are probably more likely to associate them with logo t-shirts and sexy models.

Ooh, oh man, a couple buzzes there. Dana, what do you got? Is it Abercrombie and Fitch? It is Abercrombie and Fitch. Yeah, it's really, the transformation over the history of this company is really something. Yeah, they date back to 1892 in New York, and they were founded by David Abercrombie, really founded as a high-level, you know, I am catering to rich men, mostly, rich people going out to do outdoorsy, woodsy, hunter expedition type things, yep, absolutely.

The company supplied Admiral Bird's expedition to Antarctica, I mean, among many, many other things, Yeah, really known for their high-end weapons, outdoor snow shoes, anything that you would need to go kind of tackle the outdoors. Yeah. And this is kind of funny. Again, I read a, there was a wealthy customer of theirs named Ezra Fitch. And I don't know if you guys remember the old like Remington Shaver commercials where it was like, I liked it so much, I bought the company. And it was kind of one of those scenarios where Ezra Fitch started buying up interest in the company in Abercrombie's company. He loved it so much.

eventually became the outright owner and took it into kind of the next generation. Yeah. The company has had for sure some ups and downs over the years, the late 70s, 80s. They had kind of just moved to a point where they were selling just expensive, useless stuff. Like, I read that at one point they were selling a $18,000 gold and onyx chess set, which is not necessarily something that you need when you're on an expedition. Yeah. So they really don't need on an exquisite color.

I had no idea. Oh, my God. Teddy Roosevelt. Oh, yeah. I mean, you can go back. There's a lot of really good old ads and, you know, just things that you can find from their history. This company was created in 1852 by two of the founders of American Express, frustrated that their East Coast business.

partners were unwilling to expand services to California. Karen, with a, I've got a guest look on her face. Wells Fargo. Absolutely correct. You got it. That's right. Henry Wells and William Fargo were basically the core of the investing group that started American Express and doing, you know, money transfers, early banking services, and

along with John Warren Butterfield. They saw, you know, because of the gold rush, just this boom happening in California. And they're like, these people need mail, these people need money, these people need services out there. They could not convince their fellow board members to basically extend their operations. And so Wells and Fager are like, all right, well, we're going to go do this on our own. And so they did while still maintaining their roles with American Express. So I really had no idea how intertwined those two companies were in the early days. Yeah.

American Express. I didn't realize it was such an old company. Did they deliver mail? Yeah, that's right. American Express started in 1850 as an express mail service. They started in upstate New York and in Buffalo. My God. All right, here we go.

Ramping up maybe a little bit here in the difficulty, but I have faith in you guys. Trumpeter and songwriter, Herb Alpert. Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, co-founded what famous independent record label in 1962. released albums, everyone from the police to Carol King to Cheryl Crow, more than 30. Herb Alpert. Two names.

Are they two names? Co-founded. Alpert. They were one of the most successful, as I say, independent record labels for good over 30 years. They are today ultimately owned by Universal Music. You will still see their imprint, something and something. Oh, it's A&M Records. Yes, that's right.

Yeah, Herb Alpert. All right, last one. This company was founded by two German immigrants in 1853 in Rochester, New York. Initially, a small craft shop manufacturing monocles. I'll give you a hint. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, I know. I don't need a hint. Karen doesn't even need the hit.

Bowsha-Lam. Ah, Karen. Bowsha-Lam. My hint was going to be, if you were some. someone you know where's contact lenses, I guarantee you have seen this name. Yeah, Bausch and Lum, they, to this day, one of the largest manufacturers of contact lenses in the world. It's, I mean, it's very charming to me to imagine these two German immigrants. John Bausch, Henry Lum, manufacturing monocles in their little, you know, kind of bespoke shop.

But they also benefited greatly over their history from a lot of military contracts. It's really fascinating. Gun sites? Well, yeah, well, gun sites, optics. binoculars, range-finding equipment, just lenses, you know, on and on and on and on. Raybans, you know, I mean, Raybans, the famous of those were invented for, you know, pilots. This is interesting. I read that one of their first kind of non-monicle-based products was glasses frames made out of a

particular type of rubber, vulcanite rubber. And they started making a killing in these when there was a blockade on gold and, like, horn and shell during the Civil War. So they were uniquely positioned to kind of just ramp up really quickly, making a whole bunch of stuff for the Army. Yeah, it's really, really fascinating history. Just put two monocles together. There you go.

Yeah, exactly. I like to think that that's what was keeping them from making glasses. It's like, well, we can know how to make the lenses, but we can't stick them together yet. Maybe someday we'll come up with the technology. All right. Well, good job, guys. Well, done.

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Learn more at TurboTax. slash business tax. All right. Well, it seems like that is our show. Whoa, whoa, whoa, Karen, Karen, you've forgotten something. Have you forgotten that we're currently floating through space in our fartis?

That's what that smell is. Yeah, but it didn't, yeah, but it didn't hear it, though, did you? So our old nemesis, Carmen San Mateo was still out there in outer space, so we're tracking her through the galaxies, through the universe, playing where the heck in space is Carvin San Mateo. Her hench person, D.D. Convict is also out there somewhere. They stole our trivia prize. Now, approximately 100 episodes ago, this happened. I don't have time to recap all

this, but, you know, just go back and listen to the other episodes. But at the end of our last episode, we asked you to help us puzzle out their last known location. And the clues that we had were, it was a moon in the Milky Way somewhere, named after a quote, a lady in a play, and the other two clues were daughter of Hermione and Mother of Lucky. Now, and we didn't know, we had to ask you guys for help. Now, the first two seemed pretty straightforward, as it turns out, although most of the moons that are in our solar system are named after mythological figures, you know, like the planets, there is one exception, and those are the moons of your anus.

Uranus, I guess they call it now. And the moons of that planet are largely named after characters from the plays of Sir William Shakespeare. Now, reference to Hermione may have had some of you barking up the wrong tree for a while because, of course, in the Harry Potter play, there is a, you know, Hermione has a daughter named Rose. Rose. But no, if you were going down that, that road, it was nothing but a dead end.

No, we were looking for the Shakespeare play, the Winter's Tale, in which the character Hermione in that play has a daughter. and that daughter's name is Perdita, P-E-R-D-I-T-A-P-D-A-P-D-A-P-D-A-P-T-A, and as a final confirmation, Perdita is indeed also the mother of Lucky if we are talking about the Disney film 101 Dalmatians. Dalmatians! Yeah. So Perdita, that's a moon of Uranus, and that is the moon to which we are traveling. Perdita is an interesting case.

Photos of it were first taken by the Voyager 2 Space Probe in 1986, but a researcher didn't actually notice it on the photos and I ID it as a potential moon until 1999. And I think that's why it maybe got the name Perdita, which comes from the Latin for Lost. Yep. Yeah. Anyway, let's head on over. Seems like we're getting a little closer to

home with each thing we travel to. Yep. Upon arriving in the orbit of Perdita, we discover on our view screen another space faring vessel that's out there getting closer to our ship. This one is in the shape an exact color of a pink

1957 Chevy Bel Air Convertible We're getting close, I feel like We're getting close to D.D. Convick. You know, I don't know. We reach out for a transmission. It begins to send us a transmission from, I guess, the CB radio that's inside this thing. And here's what we hear.

Hi, Gumshoes. Yep, it's me. D.D. Convors. You probably know me because of Greece. Not the movie Greece, not the country grease. The substance grease? I covered myself in it to slip through the bars of my prison cell. Only, this stuff's not really coming off.

Space travel may have been a bad idea. As it turns out, being in a zero-gravity environment when you lubed up like a pig at a county fair is not an optimal combination. Anyway, I don't have to. have your trivia prize anymore. I guess you could say it slipped through my fingers. Because it literally slipped through my fingers. Carmen's got it for herself. She said she wanted to go get her kicks on a dwarf planet that could support life, had a lot of pebbles, and was full of lucky charms. I don't know. Meanwhile, I'm off in search of a planet

whose surface is covered in at least 75% palm olive. Because, I'm hopelessly encoded in goo I still got it Oh my You know what's amazing Dating Convick

Has got not only the right pitch But also the right New York-ish accent Yeah Non-descript New Yorkish accent Uncanny At first, I thought it was

D.D. Khan, I'll be honest. And then I was like, no. Oh, I see, I see. Wow. Okay. Clues. Dorf Planet. Yep.

Get her kicks. Pebbles. Lucky term. I don't know. I'm lost, you guys. I listen to the whole thing. I have no idea. Well, we need your help, listeners.

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