Good Job, Brain! - 226: The Power of Ten

Episode Date: March 15, 2022

TEN YEARS since our first episode! Let's all celebrate the number 10. Butter up your cheddar bay biscuits because Karen looks into the strange repeating occurrence of rare-colored decapods that keep showing up at Red Lobster. "That was ten years ago!?" Dana tests our (foggy) recall with a 2012 vs 2019 dictionary quiz. Colin steps his foot in the yard as he tries to pound facts into our brains to get us fathom the hilarious history of Americans trying to adopt the base ten metric system. Chris quizzes us on famous events that have happened on October 10th throughout history. We are airing bumpers created by GJB listeners! This week it's an original piece by Abigail Clarke who arranges women's barbershop music! 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, bongoists in bonnets bonding over the bonfire in preparation for the bond spiel. This is a good job, brain, your weekly quiz show, an offbeat trivia podcast. Today's show is episode 200. And of course, I'm your humble host, Karen, and we are your supernatural supervisor, super speeding on the superhighway to get to the supermarket for superfoods in time for the Super Bowl. I'm Colin. I'm Dana. And I'm Chris.

Look, I got two sport references here today just now. Do we know what a Bonspiel is? Oh, I thought it was a musical instrument. I was going to ask you what is of it. I think you're thinking of the Glockenspiel, right? I was thinking of the glass field. It is a curling tournament for the great winter sport of curling. Representing Winter Olympics in American football.

We are recording on Super Bowl Sunday hours before the kickoff. By the time you hear this, obviously we will have a champion by then, hopefully. So a hearty, congrats to the Los Angeles runs. And well done to them. You did it. Yes. Well, yeah. Who knew they weren't even playing today?

That's crazy. Yeah. Today is an important day because it is our 10-year anniversary. Yeah. Not continuously. No, no, no. But over a stretch of time, there are very few things in my life that I have sustained for 10 years with even including breaks in them. Yeah, not counting living.

So, yeah, it's an achievement. Not counting living. We have a great show, but before that, without further ado, let's jump into our first general trivia segment, pop quiz, hot shot. Here I have a random trivial pursuit card. You guys have your barnyard buzzers. Here we go. Let's answer some questions. Blue Edge for Geography.

What is the only U.S. state allowed to fly its flag as high as the national flag? Didn't know there was a rule That you couldn't do that It's allowed to do it Did they work something out Allowed to I got so many guesses here I could I guess

I think that was Dana first Is it the mile high state Is it Is that Colorado? Am I guessing? Oh I like your thinking Oh because the high altitude Oh that's in terms of absolute height

Chris All right I'm gonna throw it out there Hawaii, you know, because it was an independent, you know, kingdom, right, for such a long time. I thought maybe there was a deal there. I don't know. Interesting logic. Incorrect.

Colin. I'll guess. I'm going to guess Virginia. I'm just going to guess Virginia maybe for some original origins region. I don't know. Out of all of your, your kind of reasoning, Chris touched upon it. The answer is Texas. The only state that was previously a sovereign country.

Right, right, right. This is a weird one. Pink Wedge for pop culture. Okay, listen to the question. What, quote, brother and sister, end quote. So what brother and sister duo covered the Dolly Parton song, Jolene? Colling. Only because you have the heavy quotes on brother and sister.

I'm going to guess the white stripes, just because that was, okay, all right. I was like the Osmans, Donia Marie, but they really are the alleged brother and sister. That is a strange question for trivial pursuit because the person has to read it out, you know what I mean? You have to, you have to, you're not reading it. You know, the person has to say it. So they have to, yeah, they have to do exactly what you did, which is to go through some weird sort of contortions like air quotes. Quote on quote. Yeah.

White Stripes Meg and Jack White popularly believed to be a sibling band Yes, but even though we're married though They were married, they're married Why are in the confusion? That's why they have the same last name. Why does everybody think they're related? Who does this?

Like, they saw people were like, had this conception and they just decided, yeah, we'll go with it, sure, whatever. Right. I mean, but do you pretend you and your wife are brothers and sister? Right, yeah, exactly. Like, it's such a like commonly understood relationship. Yeah. Then why do they have the same last name?

Answer me that. Yeah. What other explanation could there be? It's like that mother is the doctor kind of question where you're like, right, right, right. Okay. Next question, Yellow Edge. French Independence Day is celebrated each July 14th to commence.

the storming of which fortress everybody La Bastille La Bastille Down with the Bastille All right Purple Wedge

In which In which magazine Did Caitlin Jenner Make her world debut? Oh This is a really great pub quiz

That is Question. Dana Is it Vanity Fair? Yes, it is Vanity Fair Yep Green Wedge

for Science and Nature what is the name of the international public venture that undertook discovering the complete sequence of our DNA? Oh. Oh, right. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Dana.

The human genome project. Yeah. Correct. The human genome project. Starting in 1990, the project took 13 years to uncover all three billion-based pairs. Wow. I don't know. It took that long.

Yeah. Okay. Last question. Sports and leisure. This is a sports one. Colin, I'm going to ask you to sit out on this one. Sure. And may I wish you all, Bon Spiel?

Yeah. This is definitely a pub quiz classic. So let's see, Dana and Chris put our brain cells together. Okay. Okay, here we go. Getting caught in here now. Which two tennis players competed in the Battle of Sexes in 1970. Billy Jing King

I think so Against Was it John McEnroe Or no? No No It was No

John McGrown's a little bit later Arthur Ash No No I will just tell you It's not a household It is not a household tennis name No

Oh I know You're gonna You're gonna bond Gluck and spiel it for us You're gonna clear the ice Oh yeah All right help us out Colin Clear the ice

I believe that was Bobby Riggs. Yes, correct. Bobby Riggs, played by Steve Carell. Bobby and Billy. Bobby and Billy. By this time in the early 70s, Bobby Riggs was like, you know, he was kind of older. It was like the tail end of his career. It was a stunt. It wasn't like a hot shot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Up and coming player. We know Billy Jing King, but the other name is Bobby Riggs. Good job. Woo. Thanks, Colin. That's why we're a team. Always our tennis expert. Yep. We have a purple Patreon pledge fact. This is from

Ryan C. from Armank, New York. Oh, home of Dave Barry. Armanc, New York. Source for dad trivia here on Good Job Brain. As a Purple Patreon, he gets to pick a couple of questions and facts that we can share on the show.

And here's his fact. We hear a Good Job, Brian, love antipodes. Do you remember? Oh, yeah. Yeah. I learned this term from you, Karen. I am absolutely. Yeah, I came far along in life without knowing. It's it's two spots on on the globe that are directly opposite each other, correct? Yeah. If you skewer, the earth go through right smack in the center and you'd come out and that would be the two cities or the two places would be antipodes. Obviously, a lot of the antipodes in the world are like in the ocean, but there are some really cool ones. And here, Ryan, he said the antipode of the. the city Formosa in Argentina. Is it Taiwan? Is it in Taiwan?

Wow, that's cool. Taiwan, formerly, you know, the island where I come from, formally called Formosa. That's really neat. Well, well, well. How about that? The antipode of Formosa, Argentina is in Taiwan, formerly called Formosa. So Ryan is a dad to two wonderful girls, and he also shared this fact. I think now that we're all parents,

interesting. So we often hear about how strong the baby grip is, like the infant grasp. I've read this fact in baby books, you know, kind of in the way like, did you know a baby's grasp is so strong it can support its entire way? Yeah. I was like, oh, okay, that's cool. And I was like, wait a minute. How did they come to this conclusion? There was an official test that the doctors and nurses would conduct with infants to basically gauge how strong their grasp is, and it's essentially the old

hang a baby from a stick test. That's how I would have tested it. I was like, they would take a stick, they would make the baby grab the stick, and they would lift the stick like in air and just wait until the baby falls off and they time it. You know, the

next step is to put weights on the baby and see how we just like it. We don't know the floor we want under the ceiling here yeah well thank you ryan for supporting us and for these wonderful facts so guys today's episode 226 are 10 year anniversary so of course a no-brainer today's episode is to celebrate 10 the number 10 decades so today we're going for the perfect 10 Yes, happy 10th anniversary to this pod, the Good Job Brain podcast and us, the cast and cast and crew of the good job brain part, hardworking behind the scenes. You don't see them.

They're so important. We have the director, the second unit director. The grip, yeah, get the grip, yeah. Second unit director for the, yeah, for the, you know, the parts that are shot on. No animals were harmed. Yeah, exactly. Yep, yeah, all the, yeah, I mean, the animal wranglers alone are so much of the Patreon budget. Yeah, to celebrate this 10th anniversary, I have put together what I am calling the 10-10 quiz.

All right. This quiz is about events that occurred on October 30. 10. Ooh, I like it. In various years. I like it. So I will give you the date and the year and the question, and you should use the date as a solving aid for some of these, all things that have occurred throughout history on the date

October 10. We're going to do this as a buzz in quiz. Okay. So get your barnyard buzzers ready, especially because I just have a lot of questions so we can kind of lightning round it a little bit. here we go. Okay, okay. All right. October 10, 1979, this California rock band gets their star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, two days before they release their album, Tusk. Is that a Colin? Colin? Colin? That's Fleetwood Mac, yes. Yes, yes, yes. All right.

October 10, 1846, English astronomer William Lassel discovers Triton, largest moon, largest moon, of this planet. Oh, we need Chris for this. Karen. Oh, is it Neptune? It is Neptune. Yeah. Oh.

Ariel's dad. Ariel's dad. Yep, yep. King of the Sea. October 10, 1973. This well-known host of the television news magazine Extra is born in Chula Vista, California. Extra. Extra.

Extra. Okay. Oh, this person's not... Dana. Is it Mario Lopez? It is Mario Lopez. He did extra for a long time. October 10, 1492,

the crew of this ship attempts a mutiny. Oh. Which one was that? I figure one of you is going to get this. Colin. The pinta. No. Ah.

Dana. The Santa Maria? The Santa Maria. Wow. All right. I think Columbus was on that one. Yeah, I guess that makes sense. That's right.

Yes, the crew of the Santa Maria attempted a mutiny October 10, 1492. October 10, 1973, this American vice president resigns his office after being charged with tax evasion. Colin. I believe that's Spiro Agnew. It is Spiro Agnew, yes, yep. October 10, 2003. This Quentin Tarantino film is released into theaters. 2003.

Okay, so, Kill Bill, Volume 2. It is not Kill Bill, Volume 2. Oh, that's the first one. I would have accepted Kill Bill, but I can't go with volume 2. October 10, 1946, the trip. Triple threat, this actor, dancer, singer, who appeared in the original Broadway production of Jesus Christ Superstar, appeared in Alex Haley's Roots, and appeared in Zubelie Zoo, was born. Oh, uh-oh.

Is it LeVar Burton? It is not LeVar Burton. No. God, oh, I love Jesus Christ Superstar. Oh, Godway. Oh, God. Not the movie. All right, folks.

I'm going to go ahead and tell you that it's Ben Verene. Oh. I know. Karen, I know you love Jesus Christ Superstar. Oh, man. This one's got to hurt. October 10, 2007. This band takes a big risk and offers its latest album as a pay-what-you-want-download.

Ooh. The band. Karen? Radiohead. Radiohead. It was in rainbows, and it was still a really big success. Yeah, turns out it worked. October 10, 2010.

The first. episode of this animated cartoon reviving a popular 1980s toy line debuts, sending the popularity of the franchise skyrocketing, although not entirely among its intended target audience. Oh. Colin. My Little Pony. Me, the full name of the revival. Oh, geez.

Yeah. Dana. My Little Pony, friendship is magic. Yes, My Little Pony, friendship is magic. Sorry, Colin. October 10, 1970, this four-letter, Pacific Island country becomes independent from the United Kingdom. Dana. Fiji?

Fiji. October 10 is Fiji's Independence Day. October 10, 1924, this author, known for novels such as Shogun is born. Oh, you made a joke about it. Colin before. No one knew that name except for you. Oh, God. Colin. That's James Clavel. Is that right?

James Clavel. Yeah, okay. All right. Born on 10-10. Solidly in the dad zone here. I mean, we got eight, Mary, James Clavel. Yeah, man. October 10, 1964, the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics in this Asian city is the first to be relayed.

around the world by satellites. Ooh. Oh. Uh, Colin? Tokyo. Tokyo. It is Tokyo. Yep.

Yep. Nice. October 10, 1985. Sad day for fans of the movies. The director of Citizen Kane and the lead actor in The King and I both die on the same day. Oh. Who are they? Karen.

Yul Brenner Orsenwell. Yes, there you are. We're all pulling for you. We're rooting for you for that one. All right. Final question. October 10, 1913.

U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sends a signal from the White House by telegraph. This signal Triggers an explosion that completes major construction on this project. Whoa, that's cool. Isn't that cool? That is cool. 1913.

1913. Woodrow Wilson. It sounds like a Rube Goldberg machine. It sends a signal via telegraph. The signal triggers an explosion that completes this construction project. Wow. Okay, 1913. It's not Mount Rush.

Rushmore. I mean, it's something of national significance. Karen's got a guess. What, are you hosting this quiz now, Kyle? Route 66. No, it's not Route 66. I'm going to give you a hint. Okay. The explosion destroyed the Gamboa Dyke. Oh.

Oh, oh, is it the Hoover Dam? Yeah. It's not the Hoover Dam. Some kind of dam, though. Some kind of, some kind of, kind of water power project. All right, I will rescue you. All right, please. October 10, you're going to kick yourselves. October 10, 1913, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sends a signal via telegraph that signal triggers

an explosion that destroys the Gamboa Dyke, thus completing major construction on the Panama Canal. Oh, wow, so far away. Yeah, well, that's why they used the telegraph. But it was more, I mean, this is this cool symbolic thing. Like, oh, Mr. President, we're going to let you blow it up. Yeah. Well, great job, everybody. A little bonus trivia for you.

October 10 is World Mental Health Day and also World Porridge Day. Oh. So you choose how you want to deal with that information. Or both. All right. So I figured I'd go back to. to my roots, which is weird animal facts. Oh, yeah.

I want to introduce you to the Deca Pod. The Deca Pod's order of crustaceans, literally meaning 10-footed Deca Pod. And this includes a lot of the crustaceans we know, crabs, shrimps. Wait, do shrimps have 10 feet? Many of these animals have many, many appendages, but they're counting what they call walking legs. Okay. Okay. So even though when you look at

Trib, you're like, there are a lot of things happening. Decapods, not all of them technically have 10 legs or 10 feet. So what I want to talk about is lobsters. I want to tell you guys a story on a normal Tuesday in 2020, not that long ago, in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio

at the Red Lobster restaurant. employee laura jones not nora jones laura jones was at work doing her day to day including unpacking a delivery of live lobsters that was airlifted from lobster fisheries this story is going to open it up i can i can already i'm in it i want to hear more okay she opens it and she noticed something weird

she noticed that there was a blue lobster And I'm not talking like vaguely blue or like maybe has a blueish undertone under some light. Like it was a blue lobster and it's obviously very rare. Yeah. She named her, it's a girl lobster. She named her Claude. C-L-A-W-D-E is Claude. Okay, okay.

They worked with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Conservation Program and relocated Claude to the Akron Zoo. Blue lobster So this is in 2020 In the next year Employees at another Red Lobster This is of course For many non-American listeners

This is our seafood lobster Restaurant chain Employees at another Red Lobster This time in Manassas, Virginia discovered another weird colored lobster in its delivery crate This time it's what they call

a calico lobster It's brown and it has modelled like freckly bright yellow spots. Again, this is also very rare. They relocated freckles to the Virginia Living Museum. And this was the second time that this restaurant rescued a rare colored lobster. Obviously, there are a lot of questions. What is it with rare colored lobsters? How do they get their different colors?

How actually rare is it? Why do they keep ending up at red lobster? So the lobsters I'm talking about is the sort of generic seafood lobsters, American lobsters. And they're usually fished out of Maine or the New England area. They're not an exotic species. When they're alive, they're brown. Yeah, brownish. You know, they're like muddy color.

Rusty. Dark coffee color. But rare color oddities do exist in these lobsters. basically every color of the rainbow. The rarest variations people have seen are white albino crystal lobsters. They're called crystal lobsters. I'm sure about albino lobster before. Crystal lobster sounds like something would have been popular in the 90s.

Yeah. To go with your crystal pepsie. It's the lobster for the next generation, Chris. This ain't your father's lobster. Yeah. Crystal lobster. So how rare is it? Out of all these rare colors, the most common rare color is actually blue.

One in two million. Wow. During the summer, there could be around 500 million lobsters around Maine. So one in two million is rare, but there's 500 million lobsters out there. It happens. Yeah, you'll occasionally see it. Yeah. The next rare color is red, one in 10 million.

Then yellow, one in 30 million. orange one in 30 million calico one and 30 million why does this happen how do lobsters change color or why are there different colored lobsters and when you look at these lobsters they're like really blue they're really red they're really yellow so lobsters store a naturally occurring keratinoid called astazanthan it's kind of like a red pigment it's actually what makes salmon you know the salmon we eat it makes it pink or it makes it red. Okay. So lobsters get it from eating plant material, you know, that occur in algae.

Imagine you're looking at a live brown lobster. What you're looking at is actually three layers of colors on top of each other. The most inside layer of the three layers is lobster skin. And it's really strange to think that lobsters have skin, but they do. So their skin underneath the layers of shell is actually red. astazanthin right this pigment as the lobster is storing it the pigment actually gets moved up into the layers of the shell so the next layer the astazanthin the red pigment actually combines with the proteins from that layer and the proteins grab the pigment they kind of twist around and modify it

so that it becomes blue so the second layer turns this pigment into blue based on the proteins that live in the shell. Then the next layer you see turns those pigments into yellow. So what you're seeing is three layers, a yellow layer in the shell, a blue layer in the shell, and the red layer from the lobster skin, all kind of compounding together to make this brown color. Like you got like transparency stacked up on top of each other. Yes. Here we have two factors, right? We have the lobster's diet. The lobster is eating this astazanthan, this red pigment. that, you know, that produces the red color. And also, we're talking about the lobster's genetics in developing the proteins.

You know, if all goes according to plan, they're going to show up brown. But through the combinations of diet and genetics, the shell can exhibit, you know, a bunch of colors, right? So, for example, the bright red lobster probably means that the proteins in the blue and yellow layers aren't really there to bind to the pigment, to change it to blue or yellow. Okay. So it's almost like it's not working. And so through the combination of whatever the lobster's diet is and through the protein generation, you can have a whole rainbow, a whole Roy G. Biv of lobster colors.

Just tuning the dials on the different layers. Yep. Yep, exactly. Do they have natural predators? I'm ignorant of lobsters in the wild. Like, is there, are they at a disadvantage if they're bright blue? If they can survive from predators, then your next level is getting to the lobster fish. that maybe someone there will notice. And if someone doesn't notice, then the kind of your last stop is the red lobster.

Wow. In addition to a whole possible rainbow of colors, there are crazier, further genetic anomalies that can produce even crazier colored lobsters. There is the split lobster that has been caught before, which is half black, half orange, like straight down in the middle. Interesting. One in 50 million. And scientists think that it was because of a six.

cellular split, like after fertilization. There's also the white albino lobster, one in a hundred million. And then kind of a subset of the wide lobster. There are pastel lobsters. They're called bubblegum lobsters. Sadly, no matter what color lobster it is, when they get cooked, all their shells turn red. I was going to ask that. Because what dictates their color is the proteins, right?

When you're heating up, the proteins break down. what shows up is just the astazanthin that's like bright red my theory of why red lobster was donating them at first was like oh because nobody would want to buy it you know it's like they bring it to the table and it's a weird color you're like what is this red lobster why are you bringing me blue lobster yeah but they turn red anyway after you cook them and one last thing I found out about lobsters and it's so smart is that the people at university of Maine Maine, probably the state that produces the most lobsters for the country, they use the byproduct of the lobster canning industry. You get a lot of like leftover shells, right? So what they did was they

took the leftover shells, made it into a paste, and they now make golf balls out of ground up lobster shells. And they're biodegradable. So you see them more on cruise ships on like the very fancy cruise ships people do like driving range yeah yeah yeah okay I don't play golf or go on cruises it must be really fun to hit golf balls into the ocean on a cruise yeah it's got to be a blast and now you can you can hit hit lobster balls just to like really show off humanity's dominance over the ocean like we're on this big boat and throw this the skeletons back into the ocean yeah yeah here you go here's here's something for our leisure that we made out of your husks.

We perverted their form and ground it and made it into a ball. Get it right into a wails blowhole. You know what I mean? I'm pretty sure that was a sign fell. Yeah. I was going to intro this segment with that sound clip. And I was like, oh, I don't want to spoil it.

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Good job. And we're back. Welcome, you're listening to Good Job Brain. And this week, we're celebrating the power of 10. Yeah, I can't believe it's been 10 years since we started this. I mean, I can believe, and I also can't believe it's been 10 years. So this quiz is what happened in 2012. I think we might have done a 2012 quiz before. But again, this is a test of memory. Trivia is a lot about like, What do you remember about what happened? Do you still remember the things that you used to know? What happened in 2012? Oh, there was a presidential election.

I was like, who is in the presidential election? I was like, oh, this is perfect for a quiz because these are questions where you're like, I know the answer. I was like, growing up when this all happened. But no, don't remember. Don't remember. We'll see how you guys do.

All right. First question. So in the U.S. presidential election of 2012, who, who, who, ran against Barack Obama and Joe Biden. So I want the president and the vice presidential Do you remember? Yeah, yeah.

Okay, Karen. Was it Mitt Romney? Yeah, and who's the VP? Oh, no. Paul CrossFit guy, Paul Ryan. Yes, good job. The CrossFit guy. You got it, you got it. Yeah. CrossFit guy. Nice. Good pull-out.

Okay, a James Bond movie came out in 2012. You know which one? Well, Casino-R-R-I-L was the first one of Craig back. So that was too early, right? And then there was Quantum of Solace. Solace. And then Skyfall.

Skyfall. He's done five of them. Which one is it? Okay. I think Skyfall was too recent. Maybe it's Quantum of Salas. Yeah, Skyfall was not 10 years ago. Skyfall was 10 years ago.

What? That was 10 years ago. You sorcerer. On the podcast. My Godwald was 2012? Wow. My goodness. That was Adele, right?

Did the soundtrack, right? Oh, man. Oh, my God. There was a new Disney princess added to the mix in 2012. Who was that? Oh, geez. Okay, okay, okay. It wasn't Frozen.

Frozen was 2013. So it was, oh, yeah. So it had to be... Rapunzo. No. What? Okay, sorry. There was all.

Also, Brave. She technically is a princess. That was Merida. Is that her name? I'm just, I'm just going, I'm just go with Tiana. No. And Rapunzel tangled was 2010. So you guys said it.

2012 was brave, was Merida. Oh, Merida. Yes. So there was a Spider-Man movie that came out in 2012. Who was Spider-Man at that time? Oh, okay. Okay, I heard her doggy. Oh, my God.

is it 10 years ago Andrew Garfield yes Andrew Garfield yeah that's right Merrill Streep won an Oscar that year for her portrayal of a historical figure

do you know the movie and the role Karen I think we talked about this recently Karen Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher starring Merrill Street Yes was Margaret Thatcher alive

when that happened I'm going to say no I'm going to vote no you didn't know she you didn't know she died there was that whole ding-dong the witch is dead like was number one on iTunes when that happened

oh yeah was she alive in 2012 though I'm gonna go away yes I say no no she was but she died in 2013 not that I wonder if she watched the movie I don't know oh I guarantee it

if you were alive in a movie movie came out about you, even if you didn't admit it, you would watch it. Don't you think? I don't know. All right, the day before the 2012 Grammys, a six-time Grammy award-winning musician died. Who was it? This is a very famous

musician. 2012. Chris. Ray Charles. No. Whitney Houston. Oh, 2012. Yeah. Yes. And Jennifer Hudson, the producer's got Jennifer Hudson to sing a tribute to her. Do you know what song she's saying? What Whitney Houston song? Did Jennifer Hudson sing at the Grammys?

Yeah, what would be something upbeat? My name is that Susan. I will always love you. I will always love you. Yes. The classic. Yes, yes, yes. Someone swept the Grammys that year by winning six. They tied for the most won by a female artist in one night that year. Somebody was a big star of the Grammys. 2012. That's got me. Karen. Taitay. Nope.

Whoa. You know, we talked about her earlier in this quiz, in fact. Adele? Adele. Oh, yeah. That's right. Because Skyfall came out. Okay.

In 2012, Queen Elizabeth of the UK celebrated an important anniversary. Which one was it? Oh, yeah. It was one of the... Yeah, yeah. Which one? Diamond. Diamond Jubilee.

Yes. And how many years did that recommend? Or how many years did that represent? Oh. Not 50. It was 60. Yeah, 60. It was 60.

So now 10 years later, she's getting another Jubilee for 70 years. Wow. Good for her. I know. Do you know which Jubilee this is? The Blue Lobster. Platinum. Yeah.

Blue Lobster. The Blue Lobster Platinum Jubilee, yes. There was a major breakthrough in physics in 2012, where physicists were able to create what the popular media called the God particle. Do you know what the common name for the God particle? In fact, I do, Dana. That is the Higgs boson. That's right. Okay.

In 2012, a Mr. Rogers neighborhood spinoff was launched for people with small children. What, Chris? It's Daniel Tiger's neighborhood. That's right. Is that what Daniel Tiger is? Yeah, he's a puppet. It's a Mr. Rogers? Yeah.

He's from the MRU. Okay. So the last section are words that were added in 2012 to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary versus words that were added in 2019 to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. So you have to decide, do you think this was a 2012 word or a 2019 word? I pick 2019 because it's like contemporary, but not about the pandemic. Do you know what I mean? Right, right.

Okay. Smart. First word, energy drink. Her words. Chris. 2012. Yeah. Yeah.

And we called it go-go juice based on toddlers and tiaras. And that fueled Karen through many early recordings of our podcast. Yeah. Yeah. How about swole? Oh, Chris. I'm going to say 2019. 2012 seems a bit early for Swole.

It's 2019. I agree. Yes. Wow. They don't like, they don't rush to put these in the dictionary. Yeah. Yeah, they're around for a while for sure. Power, yeah. What about sexting?

Oh. Twenty-twenty. Colin. I'm going to say 2012 because I feel like, like, Like enough young people had cell phones then, that it would be a new-ish thing. I say 2019. It was 2012. And you know why?

There was a major political scandal around sexting that happened. Do you remember who was involved with that? Anthony Wiener's scandal happened in 2011. So all of the sudden, everybody was talking about sex. Oh, that makes sense. Yeah. What about EGOT? Ha-ha.

Okay. I was going to say 2019. It was 2019. What? But it was a 30 rock. I know. I know.

But I think the reason why is because in 2018, three people egotted in 2018. Yeah. So it was Andrew Lloyd Weber, John Legend, and Alan Mencken. All egotted that year. Whoa.

Yeah. What about bucket list? Well, they made a movie with... Yeah, exactly. I would probably say... I would say 2012. 2019. 2012 it seems old enough to be it's 2012 and the movie came out in 2007 so wow yeah okay yeah okay

all right uh last one what about stan like uh oh to stand or something yeah i would say yeah again i feel like 2019 yeah kind of exploded in use right so a stan is an extremely or excessively enthusiastic and devoted fan it was added to the dictionary in 2019 do you know where the word stan came from Eminem. Do you know what year that was? No, don't even. Don't even. Oh, man.

This will make you feel very old. 2001. 90s? No, 1999. You guys are right around. It's 2000 is when that song came out. Okay. Oh, wow.

Yes. You sandwich it. Yeah. Good job, you guys. 2012. Not that long ago, but a long time ago. And yet. Yeah.

I got a segment for you guys called Take 10 America. It is about our country's bumpy, bumpy relationship over many, many years with the metric system, the base 10 system. Yeah. I was in Seattle a few months ago. I took a trip up there. I was at the airport. I got my rental car. And it was one of those times I don't know what was going on.

There was a really long wait for the car. I couldn't just walk up and get it. I had to go to a little booth. They had to bring the car. around to me. I was waiting in line. It was late at night. I was really tired. They finally bring the car around. And I notice the car has Canadian plates. You know, and I think to myself, oh, that's kind of neat. You know, I mean, Seattle probably does a lot of cross-border trips. You know, I mean, Vancouver, I mean, is just two, three-hour drive from Seattle, right? So I was like,

oh, that's okay. It's kind of fun. I don't think I've driven a car with Canadian plates before. Didn't think too much of it. I get in the car and I load all my stuff in. And I start to drive away. And I'm like, well, that's interesting. Everything in this car is. labeled in metric units. I'm like the temperature controls are in Celsius. The odometer and the odometer are in kilometers. And I'm like, I'm kind of nervously chuckling to myself. I'm like, ah, ha, ha, ha, ha.

Yeah. And it really, I mean, as funny as it sounds, I really did just have a little flash of like, oh, wait a minute. What am I going to do here? I mean, you know, the temperature fine. I'm comfortable or I'm not. What are you going to do? So, yeah, what did I do? So I realized like, this is not just a car with Canadian plates.

I'm like, duh, of course, I'm like my American-centric world. It's sold for the Canadian market, and they do things in the metric system there, and it makes perfect sense. So I poked around a little bit. Luckily, for me, only some of these units were painted on. Like the temperature controls were painted on. The little gas tank indicator was painted on, but I could at least digitally toggle the spodometer and odometer. to good old, good old miles and give myself some comfort there. It really got me thinking, again, just at many points in my life, I think just how

fundamentally hilarious it is, just that we as a country just have time and again decided, nah, now we're good. We don't need the metric system. It's fine. We don't care that almost literally everybody else has decided to do this. So yeah, so Karen, when, you know, we realized this was going to be the 10th anniversary episode and you kind of said 10 themed, you know, almost just sort of I let my brain go to that place to just like, all right, what comes to mind 10, 10, 10? And believe it or not,

one of the first things that popped into my head was a jingle that I heard on TV many, many, many years ago, I think probably before you guys were born even. I want to play a little jingle for you. This would have aired as a public service announcement on like Saturday morning cartoons. This is from 1978, all right? And I will just play this a little bit here for you guys. Take 10 America to learn the metric way. It's a simple system based on tens that you can start today. Efficient, more accurate, more universal too. It's good for our economy, our country, and for you. Now there's a meter. A meter. It's a little more than yard. You think about it that way. It's really not so hard.

The leader, the leader. Now, please don't sell it short. It works out fine. In mind, it's a little more than a port. The ground. What that was was a public service announcement as one of the sort of last big pushes of the late 70s to get America on board with Let's Go metric. Come on.

It's finally time. Everyone else has done it. every other industrialized nation has done it. Can I say that was the most infuriating, condescending thing I've heard for the long time. I was really angry. Hey there, dumbass. Learn this stupid thing. It's so fast where it's like, it's just like a quart. And I was like, wait, what? What's like a quart? Yeah, I'm a kid. Like, I'm, you know, like, I'm four. I don't know what a court is. I'm 40 years old. And I'm like, what's happening? Look, the, the, there's sort of, there's sort of, you know, there's sort of, I'm, you know, There's sort of a narrative for years and years about why America doesn't have the metric system.

And I love America. America has been very good to me, et cetera. But I think it's fair to say that as a nation, we are perhaps, perhaps resistant to change, motivated by money, and vaguely suspicious of anything European or heaven forbid specifically even French. And as you heard in the lyrics, you know, they're like, it's good for you. It's good for me. It's good for our economy. It's good for this and that and the other. And the economy part, that's really what it all comes down to, is that it is so inefficient for us to be the one industrialized country. And a big one at that on the world stage that we just don't, by large, use metric units for measurements. Everybody else imports, exports, does metric. They have to work around us. We have to work around them. So many times over the years, they've kind of tried these sort of public education and,

nudging campaigns. And that was, that was a big one in the 70s. It did not take. I mean, as you can tell, it's been this whole time. And we are not, you know, by and large, using most of us kilograms and kilometers and meters and grams. There are, there are big parts of our American society where we do use, you know, the metric system. I mean, you know, very famously, you know, you read any article about this. And they'll point out like soda, you know, every, every red blooded American knows a two liter of soda. And that is just a solid, solid, you know, we don't even think twice about it. We just say, you know, we'll put the two liter of soda in the cart next

to the gallon of milk, kind of just happily riding along there. But if you suggest to somebody that they would go and purchase a liter of milk, they would look at you like you were from Mars. They have actually tried at points in the past to convert milk over to three or four liter jugs

and Americans just won't do it. They won't take it. It's so funny. We're willing to do it for soda. Wine even. You know, you buy a bottle of wine. It's, you know, typically a 750 milliliters, right? And that's very standard. You go to Europe, you go wherever, it's fine. But for whatever reason, just we just, we will, like, we will not give up our gallon or half gallon of milk or a quart of milk. It's so funny. Well, I guess some places they kind of still

mixed hybrid systems, right? Even England, of course, you know, which, uh, after many, many centuries. Yeah, their England is, England, God bless him. They have a good hybrid system. I mean, so look, all right, going going, going way, way, way, way back. And we're not going to do a history of weights and measures here. But, you know, obviously going way back, every country would have their own system. Towns and regions would have their own idiosyncrasies. And it's a function largely of trade. You know, it's like as trade gets bigger, money's behind it, economy's behind it, it behooves everybody to kind of standardize things. So, you know, how standardized your economy is is in some ways a good measure of how much you interact with the outside world, generally,

generally, right? So, you know, we inherited the inch pound system. from England, even after the American Revolution, our main trading partner for most of the time was England, and we were their main trading partner. It really does come down to just time, money, and effort, converting over to the metric system. You know, I mean, it was not until well after World War II that even England kind of started,

all right, we've got to convert to the metric system now, like formally, even if we still retain a lot of these other things. So in the mid-60s, the UK, I should say, not just England, The UK is like, all right, we're going to do it. We're going to get on board, kilometers, kilograms, everything. And they were largely successful. They did a really good job in a very short period of time. But so the fact that the UK was able to do it, like, Congress is like, oh, man, all right,

we're starting to look really bad here. Like, we got this system from them. And like, if they're switching over from inches and pounds, like, we're looking pretty bad here. So in 1968, Congress authorized a three-year study. And out of that study can report titled, A metric America, a. decision whose time has come. And they concluded that eventually it's just a matter of time. Now, here's, I think, where all of these efforts have fallen down. Now, Congress, it says,

in fact, right in the Constitution that Congress has the ability to establish weights and measures. Like, they could just do this. They could just say, this is the law. But time and time again, our Congress is like, let's make it voluntary and let's just encourage people to do it. And sure enough, that's what they did. They've had the metric conversion act of 1975. Like, they established the U.S. metric board to just get everyone on board. And out of that board would have come things like that PSA that I played a few minutes ago, that little jingle, just education.

And they would fund things like putting up dual measurements in places, you know, and road signs that would be in miles and kilometers, kind of try and ease people in. It was, you know, well-meaning, but there was ultimately no, no, teeth behind it. You know, it was all voluntary. Businesses didn't have to do it. States didn't have to do it. And, you know, it's kind of, we're like a make me or I'm not going to do it country in some ways. So the Metroport was disestablished in the fall of 1982. Yeah, unfortunately, in 1994, the Fair Packaging and Label Act was enacted. And now what this does is for food packaging in particular, that's right.

It required both systems of measurements to be on packaging for things sold in the U.S., okay? And this went over really well. There was minimal resistance. I mean, comparatively, like the average consumer didn't really care about it. We're making progress in some areas. Like, if you're any kind of science or engineer, you use metric units, SI units. I mean, if you're in the military, you know, they don't measure things in miles. It's kilometers.

You know, I mean, if you're athletics, athletics even, mostly, mostly has converted to metric units and, you know, track and field, you know, swimming. There are some colloquialisms I don't think they'll ever go away. Like in the NBA, you know, like you talk about a seven footer. And it's just, I, that's never going to change. Like, you know, high and weight is hard. Yeah, it is, it is hard. Yeah, we're not going to talk about, you know, he's a good 2.13 meter guy on the team. It just doesn't have the same.

ring um yeah i found a document from the 19 from 1997 with a recipe for metric chocolate chip cookies and you know to kind of show you like you can do it right yes all the measurements are metric the the oven temperatures and celsius you can do it guys you can really do it the best the best anecdote that i could find here that maybe in retrospect is a little prophetic uh with regards to America in the metric system and base 10. There's a French scientist named Joseph Dombay, and he was active in the late 1700s, and he was acquainted with Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson, of course, as you know, had a great affinity with all things French,

and among many other things, he really, really, really thought it would be great. We're a young nation. Let's move away from English measurements. Let's move away from Dutch measurements, which were also in use. It was kind of a mix. We had a little bit, it wasn't even just pure inch. It was just, it was kind of a hodgepodge. You know, this new fangled kilogram, kilogram, kilometer system.

I think this could be great. Right, exactly, the French system. In 1793, Thomas Jefferson, he requested, can I get one of these weights that we can sort of start our own system. So Joseph Dombay was sent from France with a standard kilogram represented weight. And he was on his ship. The ship gets blown off course. The ship gets captured by pirates.

He gets sentenced to a prison sentence on Montserrat, and he died. And so we never got... It never made it to Thomas Jefferson. We never got the standard kilogram. And it was sort of just, you know, hijacked along the way. Yeah, well, it's probably, yeah, in someone's collection somewhere in the world, right? But I mean, who knows. What is this thing?

What is this thing? Who knows what the course of our weight and measures in our country could have been like if this kilogram had made it to Thomas Jefferson's desk way, way, way, way, way back then. As you guys all know, our beloved transportation security administration, when they first passed the rule, remember, like you can't bring fluids on liquids on a plane over three ounces, right? Okay, so their original goal was three ounces. That's what they wanted.

But that comes out to 89 milliliters. And the European Union in particular was like, no, this is BS. So they made them round up, basically. So that's why it is 3.4 ounces because that's 100 milliliters even. So there's a little bit of, you know, give and take there required from us to sort of, you know, mesh with the rest of the world. There's hope. There's hope for us yet. But, yeah, even if I'm not quite ready to rent a car cold with, you know,

Canadian measurements on it. If you couldn't change it, would you have tried to exchange for a U.S. car? You know, because I would have been like, I'll figure it out. I mean, I'll just drive as fast as I think is safe. I'm not really worried about, you know, that's sort of, yeah, I just got to drive by field. Yeah. Yeah.

Sir, do you know how fast you were going? But, you know, officer, I was kind of just driving by feel. No numbers in this car, just vibes. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Vibein. Some people point out, some people point to the fact that we've kind of shifted the way we talk about thousands in like salaries. Like we don't we don't say like, oh, you know, he makes, you know, 80 Gs. Like we say, oh, he makes 80KKK.

Yeah, that's true. That is definitely a kind of a small little, a little victory for, yeah. Some people say that when we switch to electric cars, you know, the fact that we'll be measuring, you know, the charging power in base 10 might maybe move us away from gallons. and gasoline, and that might be one other kind of real, real, real hardcore American volume. Do you feel like it would happen in our lifetime? Yeah. I'm dubious, but it's possible. I would say maybe the end of our, toward the end of, like our kids, maybe.

We'll be in the hospital, the doctors be like, give them 100 cc's a fluid. It's like, you give me 3.8 fluid ounces. Or let me die. History never says goodbye. It just says, see you later. Edward Galliano was right when he said that. Events keep happening over and over again, in some form. And that's the reason I produced the podcast,

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Find me wherever you get podcasts. All right, my turn. I have one last quiz. I had a quiz last season. inspired by what I call a triple firstee. A triple firstee is a person with a three-word name, but each one of these names are like first names. So for example, like David Jacob Thomas, you know, at my old work,

there was an applicant applying for a job. We noticed that this person had like a three-word name and all of them were like first names and my co-workers like, oh, it's a triple firsty, which he said it's so matter-of-factly, and I was like, this is great. And since that moment, I think about this all the time about, like, what counts as a triple-firsty. So we did part one in a previous episode where it just turns out, like, a lot of the 90s and 2000s heart throbs all had triple firsty name, Sean William Scott, Chad Michael Murray. Jonathan Taylor Thomas.

Jonathan Taylor Thomas. And so now I've come back with more. triple firsties now with some famous ladies involved as well so I'm going to ask a question and the answer is a famous triple firsty name how do I know what counts as a first name because you know these days a lot of people have very last name sounding first names so this is what I call the Billy Ray Cyrus standard Billy Ray Cyrus is like in the middle right where Billy's a name, Ray's a name. Cyrus is a name.

Yeah. Unquestionably. Yes, yes, but not as common. At the Billy Ray Cyrus standard is, all of these names are more common. Okay. More common than Cyrus. More common than Cyrus. Okay.

I see what you're saying. Right. Does that make sense? Yeah. Like Bryce Dallas Howard, a little bit on the other side. I like it. Arbitrary but fair. Yeah, yes.

The Billy Ray Cyrus standard. Here we go. Buzz in. with your triple firstee. She stole our hearts as a teenager in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Then she freaked us all out as the psycho stalker in single white female. That is Dana. Is it Jennifer Jason Lee?

Yes, it is Jennifer Jason Lee. Good job. All right. This triple firstee was ranked number five of the greatest radio show host of all time. and at number 11 as the greatest TV talk show hosts of all time. Oh, wow. Greatest radio show host. We probably know this triple first D more for her talk show in the 90s.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, that was Chris. Oh, I don't know. Well, okay, Sally Jessie Raphael. Sally Jesse Raphael. Oh, it is. Okay. It's a radio host. That's how she got her gig.

All right. Okay. This Hawaiian actor was widely praised for his portrayal of Bruce Lee in the movie Dragon. He then joined the Disney family. He voiced David in Lilo and Stitch and was the villain in the current live action Mulan. Dragon, the Bruce Lee's story was. Oh. Dana.

Is it, it's not Daniel Day Kim or is it? No, no, no, no. Okay. This is Jason Scott Lee. Okay. Jason Scott Lee. All right. Next one.

This British actress was nominated for the Oscars, the Golden Globe, the SAG Award, and the BAFTA for the English patient. And she was never in any of the Harry Potter movies. the one British actor not in the Harry Potter movie she was also in Gosford Park she was also in four weddings and a funeral yeah what is her name gosh it is Kristen Scott

Thomas Thomas yes yes yes oh god I get a lecture her face okay he broke our heart and Dead Poets Society in the 90s and then played Dr. Wilson in House in the 2000s. Dr. Wilson.

Dead Poets House. This is Robert Sean Leonard. Oh, man, I don't... I did not know it. I did.

I don't... When you said it, it was like, oh, okay. But I don't know that I don't think I could have to treat that. She played Miss. scarlet in the film clue based on the board game oh my gosh um and her name is the one who is not wearing scarlet not madeline con uh it's um shebers her name oh man i don't know is it's something and something yes leslie and warren yes there we go all right okay teamwork team work yep yeah

yeah all right good good teamwork you got she's Bodies with Lindsay Lohan in Freaky Friday. Chris. Jamie Lee Curtis. Jamie Lee Curtis. Jamie Lee Curtis. In 1963, he was arrested while hiding at a Dallas movie theater called the Texas Theater.

Please, Colin. That is Lee Harvey Oswald. Do you know the name of the movie that was playing? at the theater. You know, once upon a time I did, but I cannot retrieve it. I did a huge, like, JFK kind of report thing at one point in high school, but no, I is absolutely not in the punch bowl right now. Lee Harvey Oswald, you know, assassination of JFK, he, you know, afterwards he hid in a movie

theater, and that's where he got arrested. The movie theater was playing a film called War is Hell. Mm-hmm. War is Hell. All right. Good job, everybody. I think that's, I think we've exhausted the bank of, uh, they're not making new ones fast enough.

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