Good Job, Brain! - 229: Let's Get Loud

Episode Date: April 5, 2022

Decibels! Voices that shatter glass! Loudest concert records! We're pumping the trivia jam this week with intriguing facts about volume and sound. The 1883 eruption of the Krakatoa volcano holds the record of being the loudest event in human history, but is it possible to fully comprehend a volume of that magnitude? Blast that car radio and tune in for a twisty tale about an epic Singaporean radio call-in contest. And Chris turns it up to eleven with a quiz dedicated to the *loudest* number. We are airing bumpers created by GJB listeners this year! This week: Hudson, who is not Levar Burton 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. Hello, zillions of zippy, zesty zodoks. Welcome to good job, bring your weekly quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. This is episode 229, and I'm your humble host. Karen, and we are your ridiculously rad ragamuffins riffing and ranting on the radio. I'm Colin. I'm Dana. And I'm Chris.

Happy birthday, Colin. Yay. Oh, thank you. Yeah. Another pandemic birthday. That's right. They all just kind of blur together now. Let's start today's episode with a very special purple Patreon fact.

And this is from a very special person. Chris and I have met. This is from Mr. Jonathan Cain, and he says, hello fellow trivia files, been a ride or die GJB fan, and now a proud purple Patreon supporter. I tried to turn GJB into a late night talk show for the Game Show Network back in 2012. Still think it's a great idea. Anyway, I wanted to use my Patreonic podcast placement to plug a charity that is near to my heart,

which is F-A-R-E-Fair, Food Allergy, Research, and Education, which you can find at Food Allergy.org. I remember that. It was like in L.A., right? Or where were you guys? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Jonathan, who worked at, I think, Fremantle at the time, it was his kind of crazy dream to maybe turn Good Job Brain into, like, a TV venture.

But we hung out with him, and we learned a lot about whiskey. He's a big whiskey person, and it was fun. So here I have a mini-quizabeth, written by. Jonathan, here's the question. I need you to write down your answers. The U.S. government, FDA, officially recognizes nine allergens as the most common and dangerous. Can you name them? Oh, jeez.

So nine of them. And here's a hint. He has a pneumonic. Oh, okay. Oh. Mama Paula trained waffle flipping elephants. Oh, geez. and Susie sang softly.

Okay, that helps. That does help. Save everybody a step. Here are the letters. M-P-T-W-F-E-S-S-S. Okay. Okay. Wow.

Ooh, man. Am I allergic to any of these? I'm not allergic to any of these. My allergies are very strange. I'm allergic to mangoes. So I know M is not mango. Thanks for the extra tip. Okay.

hmm m pt w f e s s s all right okay answers up whatever you have okay well okay so maybe let's go letter by letter okay let's go letter m is for milk it is milk okay okay all right yep makes sense and that makes sense i was like where's the d for dairy but yeah okay all right all right okay pee peanuts gotta be peanuts got to be peanut got to be peanut correct tea is it is it is it tree It is tree nuts. I see that on labels all the time. I always see like, you know, yeah, maybe manufactured in a facility or whatever, right. Okay.

W. Wheat. Wheat. Wheat. Wheat. Wheat. Weet. Okay.

Fish. I put fish. It is fish. It is fish. Okay. Okay. E. Eggs.

So three S's. What are your guesses? I have shellfish. Correct. Okay. And then it gets really kind of elucing. Lucy Goosey on my list from there. I got soy.

Soy, yes. Strawberries. Sesame. I have sesame. I couldn't believe it. I was just guessing. Wow. Oh, man.

That's the only thing I've ever had an allergic reaction to was like is what? I ate strawberries. I had a bunch of strawberries when I was a kid once and got like a little mild allergic reaction to it. Like what happened? But like I can eat them. Like did you poop or is it like?

No, no. Like the itchy skin. And one last question. Finally, what is the most common food allergy? children. Pick one out of the list. What do you think? I'm going to say, I'm going to say dairy milk. Yeah, I would I would second that. Correct. Milk, it just overtook in the rankings. So just overtook peanuts. Petus was number one for a long time. Milk just overtook it. Interesting. Thank you, Jonathan, for being a fan. Yeah, thank you, Jonathan. He tried to get

Danica McKellar attached to that TV show. He really did his best. All right. Without further ado, let's jump into our general trivia segment pop quiz hot shot here I have our trusty genus edition trivial pursuit card you guys have your barnyard buzzers let's answer some questions blue edge for geography what was the traditional name of iran prior to 1935 Chris Persia Persia is correct all right pink wedge for pop culture which Which insect lends its likeness to the name and logo of Lorelei Gilmore's Inn? Oh, man. I did not watch this show.

Oh, my gosh. I did not watch this show. I'm guessing. Is it like a firefly or something? You know, you're close. I thought it was a bee. It is dragonfly. Dragonfly.

Sure. You sure this is genus edition and not a Gilmore edition? Yeah, there's actually eight questions per card because they talk so fast. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yellow Wedge. What was Barack Obama's nickname as a child? Colin. Do they just mean Barry? I mean, is that what they're looking? Oh, okay. All right. Yeah. I call him that as an adult. I've heard people call him that as an adult, too. It was like, little stinker or something. Like, okay. Yeah. I thought. Yeah. I thought it was like, yeah. Turbo.

Turbo would be amazing. Turbo. Purple Wedge. Stephen King. Stephen King, our favorite, Stephen King's science fiction novel, how do I say this? It's November 22nd, 63, or 1122.63 chronicles the attempt to save which historical figure from his untimely death. That was Dana. JFK. JFK, John F. Kennedy. Green wedge for science. What is the fabled term for the zone around a star where a habital planet could be found not to,

too far or not too close. Oh. Oh. Yeah. Not too far or not to close. Oh, yeah. Chris. The life halo.

No. Is it Goldilocks? It is Goldilocks. There we go. There we go. Wow. Okay. Yeah, yeah.

All right. Last question on this card, orange wedge. Oh, American Pharaoh was the winner of which thoroughbred racing trifecta in 2015. Oh. As if there's another race, is there another racing trifectar? Yeah, exactly. Right. Chris.

The triple crown. Yes, the triple crown. Can you name the three races that you have to win to get the triple crown? Yes, the Kentucky Derby, the Belmont Stakes and the Preakness. Yeah. Because at our local quiz, I remember they were really big on, which is the shortest, which one comes first, which is so like we at one point, certainly not now, but at one point I remember we knew, yeah, the lengths and the order.

order, yeah. Yeah, because they never ask what are the three. They always ask, of the three, which one, yeah, has the most horses. Good job, Brins. All right. Has the most horses. Horses. People throw the word horses around a lot these days.

Webster Dictionary defines, horse. Quadraped mammal. But to me, they are magnificent beasts. Ultimately, a horse is a study in contrast. So very exciting news. Dana and I got tickets to BTS. So excited. That's a hard ticket to get, right?

Yeah. I followed all the instructions and got into all the lotteries. No, it was hard. Lots of levels of lottery to get it. And Karen did it. And then I remember I texted Dana and she responded like, I'm dying. She's so happy, so excited. And so we're about to, I haven't been to a concert in a long time.

With that in mind, this week we're going to talk about things that are loud, things that are sound related. And so this week, let's get. Loud. Yes, so loud music is top of mind for me right now. I think about it a lot right now since we got tickets to this concert. I'm very excited. Every day.

I think about it every day. So I decided to do a quiz about loud music. This will be a buzz-in quiz. All right. Okay. I like music. Yeah. Name all seven members of BTS.

Oh, I know. That's for Karen. Only. Name the cutest member of BT. Dave, is this just a BTS quiz? I told my husband I was going to make a music quiz and he's like, oh, is it about BTS? And I was like, no, I have to like make quizzes that everyone. either look either either you know zero of the answers to a or you know all of the answers

yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah i think that's true so this one i tried to i try to make it fair fair to everybody right here we go in nineteen seventy six which english rock group entered the Guinness Book of World Records for performing the loudest concert in history at the time wow you guys all know well i mean i think they they incorporated this into their, kind of their legend. I think, I'm pretty sure that was The Who. It was The Who. Okay.

They got the record in 1976, and it stood until 1984. Their sound was registered at 126 decibels, 100 feet from the speakers. So that's louder than Thunder. Thunder is usually 120, and so they're 126. Doesn't sound very enjoyable. No, but it was an outdoor theater. And so people have broken that record indoor theater. and plaster falls off the walls.

That's how loud it is. Or they do it outdoors, and it's louder than that. And like in New Zealand, the foo fighters did it. And it was registering as earthquakes or a volcanic activity. It was moving the earth. That loud is very bad for your hearing. Peter Townsend and Roger Daltry from the Hube both have a lot of hearing problems. Oh, my God, of course.

Yeah, yeah. The Guinness Book of World Records doesn't make that a record anymore. more. They don't want people to try to beat it because it's like the fattest cat. Yeah. You don't want people overfeeding their... Exactly. Yeah, it's a fat cat kind of record. Like, okay, yeah, I guess you win, but you've... Yeah, we don't want to encourage you to, right? Yeah. Okay. Jennifer Lopez's song, Let's Get Loud, was originally written by another Latina singer-songwriter who's responsible for a number of popular party anthems. Oh. Karen. I want to say Shakir, but I'm going to say...

Gloria Estefan is Gloria Estefan yes she said it was too similar to her others to some of her other songs and I looked and I was like oh yeah she had like conga get on your feet the rhythm's gonna get you turn the beat around like she has a lot of like party jams yeah and this one is just kind of also another party jam but it worked out real well for Jennifer Lopez she got she got a great party jam out of it so it's great to be at that point in your career where you can kind of just be like no you know what I've had enough hits you can take this hit yeah right it's yeah You have this one, yeah. All right.

The Black Eyed Peas song, Pump It is about playing music loudly. You know, Pump it louder. That song? Yes. That was embarrassing. Okay. It features a sample from Dick Dale's 1962 surf version of Miserlou. And the surf version is also heavily featured in a Quentin Tarantino movie.

Heavily featured. What movie is that? Pulp Fiction. I think it's my. I watched a YouTube video about how to pronounce miserle, miserle. Oh, yeah. And somebody said, miserleu, but they said it quickly. And I was like, that's like, that's good enough.

And I didn't do any further research. But I'm told it's also pronounced miserleu. And I believe it. I don't know how to pronounce it. What does it mean? It's an Eastern Mediterranean folk song. So, and then, so Dick Dale did a surf version of it that was real hot. Okay. Last question. In 2005, MythBusters did a show with Jamie Vendera, the singer and vocal coach. For the first time, someone was able to capture video footage of a human doing what feat with their voice. Oh, I'm guessing. I heard a horse. I remember this one. I saw this one. He was a singer and they got him to actually shatter the glass, right? They had him in the studio. And he did it not, I mean, he did it more than once if I remember the episode. Like it was reproducible. Yeah, it took him 12 tries. And.

You have to sing really loud. You have to hit the exact right frequencies. The glass has to have the right kind of imperfections in it that you're able to match. Oh. So you have to be very good, very lucky, very loud. But you can do it. I mean, it took until 2005 to get it on camera for the first time. It's very hard to do it.

That's really, yeah. I wonder who was the first person to do that and make it a thing? Do you know what I mean? Like, what were the conditions that that happened? Yeah. Was it just a person singing in a kitchen and like things started breaking? Or like an opera singer and people. Yeah, that's what my guess would be.

It would have to be because you do have to sing very loudly and it takes a lot of training to get to that point. This is a little bit off topic, but the most memorable MythBusters episode for me was they're trying to bust the myth of a torture method where people would tie a living person to an empty. bamboo field and wait for the bamboo to grow through the person. I remember that one. That was gruesome. And they made, they had to make like a fake ballistics gel torso, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's amazing.

You just see these bamboos like popping up. It makes me shivered just thinking about it again. Yeah. Every time I see that's all I think of. I was like, oh my God, that can grow through a person who's alive. Anyways. On that happy note, yeah. Yeah.

So, yeah, you know, Dana, I'm glad you mentioned some of those, like, decibel level marks to peg it at. I, you know, but when I was doing some research for the show, even though I already knew what I wanted to talk about, I was like, you know, I want to go find some good kind of just decibel chart comparison things. As I think most of our listeners know, the unit of measuring basically how loud is a sound, the amount of sound energy is the decibel. So I went and found a chart. There are a lot of charts out there that have some common noise sources. and how they would measure on a decibel level. Yeah, give us some examples. Yeah, breathing.

Breathing would be like 10 decibels. So 10 decibels is just barely audible, okay? And because the way the decibels scale works is every 10 additional decibels is basically twice the previous level. Okay. So it scales up really fast. Bird calls, bird calls can be 40, 45 decibels, okay? conversation in a restaurant, maybe 60 decibels, garbage disposal, or, you know, factory noise, or, you know, a plane flying overhead, maybe 80 decibels.

Okay. The human kind of the pain threshold, they say, is around 110 decibels, as Dana was alluding to. So, yeah, a thunder would be around 120 decibels. A jet, if you were standing right next to a jet taking off, that would be around 150 decibels. And that's also around the level that I noticed that almost all of the charts that I found stop. And they stop right around 150 decibels because that is also right around the level where it will rupture your eardrums. And the concept of noise past that really kind of loses meaning in a human scale, right?

I remember as a kid in one of my many trivia books, one of these trivia little lines I saw said, the loudest event in human history was the explosion of the volcano, Krakatoa, in 1883. You know, and that's it. And they kind of just laid it to one line factoid, and I filed that away the loudest event in human history. Now, what is Krakatoa? Where is Krakatoa? Is in Indonesia? It is in the Sunda Strait.

Is this still there? So the spot is still there, okay? So for many, many, many, many thousands of years developing there was a volcanic island that went by many names over the years, many various spellings, but we've all sort of settled on Krakatoa. As long as people had lived in the region, this island, you know, is a little cluster of islands like most of Indonesia. It was active on and off, you know, above, you know, major kind of tectonic plate activity.

It is frightening. Boy, Karen, I will, I'm not going to lie, the more I read about the explosion of Crackatoa, there's just some really scary stuff that could not be captured in one line in my little trivia book. So, yeah, it was an active volcano on and off for thousands of years. And people lived on Java Sumatra for thousands and thousands of years. There was at least one pretty well documented eruption in 1680, but there's no doubt it's been active on and off. Java and Sumatra and the islands around there are very busy, have been a center of the global spice trade for hundreds of years. And in fact, that's what first led to the Dutch government and Dutch corporations setting up shop out there. There were a lot of people there. It was a very, very active, busy port. It wasn't like it was a secret that it was a volcano, but people were not, you know, intimidated or frightened about living there, even though...

That's crazy. Even though every couple hundred years, at least, you know, it could erupt. Colin, I have to say, we live in a place that has horrible earthquakes. Yep, exactly. And we're like not even thinking about moving away from... Exactly. That's right. You know, it's like kind of wherever you live in the world, you've got to choose your natural disaster.

Yeah, I mean, like, for me personally, I don't know. I can deal with earthquakes, but like tornadoes freak me out. And I think there are probably people who are the other way. And, yeah, so as I say, so Crackatoa, the volcano, the island volcano, as for its most notable eruption, this loudest event in human history, tantalizing, let's just set the scene here. So below Crackatoa, there are two tectonic plates. They have been slowly but surely sliding into each other at a rate of about four inches a year for. Oh, that's a lot. That's a lot, and it builds up a lot of pressure, and that's why the volcano and the volcanoes

in the region have a continuous supply, you know, ultimately of energy to kind of keep going. And, you know, it's really interesting, like even before really reliable human records, they can go back and look at the, as I say, the geologic record around the world to see where major eruptions have happened because, you know, it deposits ash hundreds of miles away. And you can find these, you know, thin layer of ash in the rock formations, and you can see, oh, okay, it happened roughly this time. Reduced growth on tree rings also is a really good indicator of intense, intense, like, global level volcanic activity. Because you get so much ash and smoke and dust up into the atmosphere that it creates wintery, you know, night effects.

It's trees don't grow as fast. And so they can go back and look. And if there's a tree from the area, they can see, oh, the rings are this close together. As a kid, when I read this fact of, oh, the explosion of Krakatoa, it's like, you know, it's just, just as if it's just out of the blue, it just one day just, you know, blows its top. And of course, that's not really how most volcanoes erupt. Like it actually unfolds over days, weeks, months. You can see smoke coming. If you're in a high earthquake region, you can have increased earthquake activity. And that's, that was what happened in the case of the 1883, uh, huge explosion with

Krakatoa that as far back as May of that year, they had noticed ash and smoke kind of rising up from this cone on Crackatoa. I mean, and it started freaking some people out, but kind of business kept going. I mean, they were still running the ships in and out of the port. I mean, they had money to make. I mean, it's not, and there were whole villages and thousands and thousands of people living there. It's not like they were just going to get, you know, up and move.

They would run basically sightseeing trips out to kind of witness, you know, get a little closer and see the smoke and punctuated every, you know, so often every couple weeks. that would be sort of a semi-major event that would kind of really grab people's attention, whether it's an earthquake or a particularly loud eruption. All right. So the day before this ultimate cataclysmic event, so the day before, this is Sunday, August 26, 1883, there was to that point the kind of biggest pre-erruption or pre-explosion from Krakatoa, raining down chunks of hot pumice.

I mean, and I should mention at this point that, leading up to the weeks to this there was rock and stuff coming out by some accounts by some accounts it was a sea of stone kind of coming through the straight there by Crackatoa you could drop you could drop a bucket off the side of your ship

pull it up and it might have more pumice than water I read in one account I think everyone in their mind that they weren't totally ignorant of what a volcano could do but they really thought this was going to pass and it's dark as night I mean it's the middle of the afternoon

but there's so much ash, so much smoke in the air, as if it was nighttime at 4 p.m. Weird. Yeah. Yeah. These rumblings in the distance, people 20 miles away, 30 miles away reporting it sounds like artillery fire or, you know, distant gunfire. And there's, there's lightning going on because the air is charged and there's, I mean, it just, it really just must have been absolutely horrifying at 10.02 a.m.

on that Monday morning, August 27th, 1883, after weeks of building tension, there was, I mean, my words are just going to fail here. There was a massive explosion, but it was the most massive explosion that had ever exploded, that to this day, we do not have a record of a bigger,

more violent, more intense explosion. As I say, it's off the charts in terms of human hearing. When Crackatoa erupted, there are reports that, sailors on ships 40 miles away suffered ruptured eardrums. Oh, my God. Do your ears bleed? Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. If you were standing next to it, it would kill you. I mean, it would just, it would just, it would just, you would not survive it. Just the sound alone at a distance of 100 miles away, they recorded pressure changes that equate to 172 decibels. Okay. So now remember, I said, standing next to a jet airplane.

150 decibels, okay? This is 100 miles away, more than 20 times that powerful, okay? Just, just unimaginably, unimaginably loud. I've read estimates that, you know, just working backward, estimates that it could have been as high as 310 decibels if you were standing. I mean, it's just, it's meaningless. It's really, it's just meaningless. We can't comprehend what that loud of a sound would be.

And I want to emphasize here, this really is the loudest, I mean, more than warfare, more than industrial accidents, atomic bombs. Like, this is truly the loudest event in human recorded history. It is estimated as much as 13% of the globe could hear this sound. No, wow, that's crazy. Yeah. There are reliable, confirmed, multiple reports of it being audible, almost. 3,000 miles

away. Imagine an explosion in New York that you could hear here, Karen. Like, that's there were, of course, many thousands of people who died. Yeah, most, you know, most from the tsunami effect

of the volcano. Catastrophic. Absolutely catastrophic. The pressure wave from this sound, this massive, unfathomable explosion, the pressure wave, all right? Traveled the Earth, hit its antipode, bounced back, and came back. Hit itself again, bounced back to the antipode, hit itself again, came back again. There are spots on the

globe where that had barometric equipment that recorded seven spikes from this explosion. Wow. Yeah, just on its way out and back, just ricocheting, you know, around our planet. This is, none of this really can fit into the little one-line factoid of loudest event in human history, which is kind of cheery. And it's like, oh, you don't really think about how many, many thousands of, you know, lives were destroyed here. I came away from this just in awe, frankly, of the power of the volcano. And no other volcano that has erupted in modern times even comes close. It doesn't even come close. Forget surpassed. Forget even approaching. I mean, Mount St. Helens, you know, Mount Pinatubo, any of these, nothing even comes close yeah it's just it is truly a a one of a kind event in in in history that's done right

crackatoa after well it isn't done karen no it's not done the all the energy down below those tectonic plates they're still moving they're still moving four inches a year four inches a year four inches a year so so as you know volcanic activity can produce islands uh we have you know hawaii many other examples of this so it's just a matter of when does it break the surface right so uh after the 1883 explosion you know kept on growing kept on growing by 1927 out of the caldera so you know the remnant of the volcano out of there had grown a new island volcanic island named anac crackatoa or child of crackatoa um that grew to over a thousand feet tall itself started having volcanic activity. In fact, fairly frequent. There was a minor eruption in 2020. Just last month, in February 3rd, Anakatoa started another eruption cycle,

and it is putting out smoke, ash, gases. I mean, they're keeping an eye on it. They're much better prepared in terms of monitoring and the ability to get people out early. But there are still many thousands of people who live right there. I did not realize this. I have to admit I was ignorant until doing my research that the Krakatoa Caldera, the Anakrakatoa is what was responsible for the Indonesian tsunami in 2018. If you guys remember December 2018, the horrific tsunami there. Yeah. That was... Oh, it's because of the activity there. It was because of the Anakrakatoa was, the way it was being formed was kind of lopsided in a way. And they had been keeping an eye on it for a few years, in fact, worried that a huge chunk of it might slide off into the ocean and trigger a

tsunami. And in fact, that's exactly what happened is that a huge portion of it slid, triggered a tsunami. And, you know, even with the advanced warning that we have, it's not a lot of warning. Again, tsunami is just really cause a lot more damage than the volcano itself. But no, Karen, Anak, Krakatoa, Krakatoa, it is not done. I don't think it'll be done in our lifetimes. We're just going to have to learn to live with it. Yeah. All right. On that cheery note, let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. It feels really good to be productive, but a lot of the time it's easier said than done, especially when you need to make time to learn about productivity so you can actually, you know, be productive. But you can start

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And we're back. You're listening to Good Job Brain. And this week we're talking about things that are loud. That's right. And actually, you know, Colin, that segment actually reminded me of there was an essay in one of the Penn and Teller books by Penn Gillette. When he talks about NASA's successful quantifying of comedy timing, which he was invited to watch a space shuttle launch from as close as you're able to get

which is like three milesish away and he's like you see this you're so far away from it that you see the spatial taking off and it's a big burst of fire and you can't help it but you start to think like huh that's funny you think there would be some noise and the second that your brain gets to the word noise that is when you are hit with

The loudest thing you have ever heard in your life, you know, sound waves that, that knock people over, sound waves that knock things off the table, you know. And that's why you can only get X, you know, so close to a space shuttle. Yeah. Yeah. So when I think of loud, I think of turning things up to 11. Am I right? Yeah. Yeah.

In the, yes, in the film, this is Spinal Tap. There is a scene in which there's a character who shows off a guitar amplifier whose volume knobs, do not. stop at the traditional 10, but can be dialed up to 11, which is one louder. So I have a quiz all about the number 11, the loudest number, one louder than 10. It is a write-down quiz. So get your pen and your and your paper ready to go. I like that 11 is the loudest number. Yes. It's the loudest number. Also, I appreciate Chris. We know you're sick and you're still, you're still here I'm, yes. You know what? I'm getting over something and my voice is just totally shredded, but but I'm okay. Yes. So your first question, I'm going to keep score for you guys the loudest

quiz of all time because everything has something to do with 11. Question number one, in spinal tap, which character delivers the line about it going up to 11 and how it's, and how that's one louder? Who is the name? What's the name of the character that delivers that line? name of character or name of the character name of the character yeah this is like whatever whatever BTS is for me

spinal tap is the inverse right right right but there's only four people in spinal tap yeah and one of them always changes all right answers up Karen Karen says Nigel

Dana has written very small I put Nigel St. James Nigel St. James Colin put Nigel Tufnell Now, Colin is, Collin is correct as Nigel Tufnell. I did, this is, this is tough. This is a tough one because it's like,

Karen, I want to give you the point too, but then Dana, you put additional incorrect information. Do we want to go on asterisk? Yes, okay, sure. I'll give you. All right. I'll give each of you an extra. You each get an answer.

Colin gets the point. I'm curious, Colin, can you name the other members or the other character names in Spantham? Well, I mean, the three, sort of the three permanent members, if you will. Yeah, sure, there's Nigel Tufnell. There's David St. Hubbens, which is maybe where Dana got the saint from. Yeah, David St. Huffins. That's such a good name.

David St. Yeah, the patient saint of quality footwear, of course. And there was Derek Smalls, Harry Shearer. Okay. Yes. Harry Shearer, okay. Nigel Toffinels Christopher Guest. Yep, yeah.

And then Michael McCain is David St. St. Hummins, exactly. All right. Okay, get ready to put some points on the board. The record for the most Oscars ever won by a single film is 11. This record is shared by three films. For one point each, name them. I'll reread as you're writing.

The record for the most Oscars that the Academy Awards ever won by a single film is 11. This record is shared by three films. For one point each, name them. you you may remember the most recent maybe more than the others when it we know sort of famously like tied the other two but i don't know we'll see all right i'm going to ask you to we got it we don't have all day you know what i mean all right all right let's get some answers in five four three two one karen says lord of the rings return of the king dana i said shashank redemption philadelphia chicago Okay. And Colin says, Titanic, the Godfather, and I just, I'm grasping at straws.

I didn't get up there. Yeah. All right. So Karen and Colin each get one point. Karen is correct that Lord of the Rings return of the king won 11 Oscars. Colin is correct that Titanic has won 11 Oscars. And no one got the third one, which I kind of sort of expected, because it is Ben Hur. Oh, okay. her also at 11 Oscars. Yes. All right. Question number three. The formal end to the hostilities of World War I took place famously at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of what year. Now closest to the year is going to get the point. What? World War I. World War I. The formal end to the hostilities of World War I took place at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of which year. The person who writes down the year that is closest to the year will get the point. Man, I'm so embarrassed.

Formal end, too. The formal end to the hostility. Yeah. Okay. I don't know. Sometimes, okay. Okay, I'm going to give you guys, five, four, three, two, one. Answers up.

Dana has written 1917. Colin has written 1919. Karen has written 1929. Dana and Colin both get a point because the answer was 1917. 18. No. Yeah, I was like, I was like, do we add some time? Because like, you know, like for all the diplomacy.

I was like, oh, okay, all right, all right. The grim grotto. The grim grotto is the 11th entry in which series of books. Oh. The grim grotto is the 11th entry in which series of books. Oh. What series is books is that? that long?

That is a very good question, Karen. The grim grotto is the 11th entry in which series of books. All right. Got it. All right. All right. Answers up. Karen says Nancy Drew.

Colin says goosebumps. And Dana. Lemony Snicket series of unfortunate events. Lemony Snicket's series of unfortunate events. I like your answer, Karen. Without Chris even saying it. My first thought was Nancy Drew. So I don't know.

All right, let's keep it to another book series. Are you ready, folks? What is the name of the 11th book in Sue Grafton's Alphabet Mystery Series? Oh, man. What is the name of the 11th book in Sue Grafton's Alphabet Mystery Series? Don't, you know, if you talk too much thinking it out, you might give the other contestants here a clue. So, okay. Try to work it out in your brain if you can.

Karen, I believe, has an answer. Dana has something written down. Colin is working on it. The name of the 11th book in Sue Grafton's Alphabet Mystery Series. I'm not going to overthink it. Answers up. Answers up. Oh, my goodness.

All right. Karen says K is for killer. Dana says, I had K is for killer. And then I was like, is it kill or killer? and then I went with kill. And I'm like, I think it was killer. And Colin has written, K is for killing.

The answer is K is for killer. I get the point. I scratched the er off. Back and forth. I was like, oh, what is it? I was like, it's not just kill. That's too easy. It's it.

It's K is for killer. I mean, they're all easy. That's why we could guess. That's what it was like, uh. Yeah. Now, if you can't imagine how the, yes, Sue Grafton's Alpha Mystery Series started with A is for alibi and went on that way, yes.

All right. The maple leaf on the Canadian flag has 11 points on it. The Canadian $1 coin has 11 blanks. Oh. The maple leaf on the Canadian flag has 11 points on it. And the Canadian $1 coin has 11 of these. So answers up. Karen says stars.

Dana says stars and Colin says loons I almost was going to put loon footprint the Canadian the Canadian dollar does in fact have a single loon on it that's that's why it's referred to as a loony but the Canadian one dollar coin has 11 sides it has 11 sides no that's so weird yep it is it is not it is like one less than a dodecagon. Whoa. What do you even call an 11-sided thing? That's a really great question.

An undecad. So you know what? It's, so you can, you can, you can call it an undecagon, but actually they call it a hendecagon. A hendecagon. A henddecagon. Undecagon is also acceptable, though, but they like, they like hendekagon. From the Greek for 11, I believe.

So the loony is a hendecagon. It's the title of my murder novel, yeah. Okay. Eleven is a prime number. How many prime numbers come before it? Oh, man. Do we count? Okay.

Eleven is a prime number. How many prime numbers come before it? I feel like it's a trick. All right. Karen, Karen says three. Dana says five. And Colin says four. Collin is correct.

Two, three, five, and seven are the prime numbers that are lower than 11. And one doesn't count as a prime. One is not a prime number. The definition of a prime number is that it has two factors, itself and one. All right. I think I've been keeping proper track of everybody's scores, but we'll... Okay. Okay.

On the 11th day of Christmas, my true love gave to me what? I just want the one from the line from the song from 11 because technically on the 11th day of Christmas my Trullo gave me the 11th and then also 10th. Yeah, right, right, right. So you get a, right, yeah. So by the end of it, you have 12 partridges and 12 pear trees. You don't need to, yeah, on the 12th day of Christmas

for Trululg gave me 11.1. I feel like with this song, I always, you know, I know like the first, you know, six, seven, And then I know maybe the last one, but yeah, yeah, right, exactly. Yeah, that's why, yeah, that's why I would, 10, 11, man, that is just a minefield there. I made it my goal last year to learn all 12. All right. All right.

All right. I'm sorry. Yes, you put maids and milking. So no point for this next question because this next question is, I swear, the Stephen King novel 112263 is about a character who goes back in time to prevent what event. Don't write anything down. It's the assassination of JFK. Now, is that the first time that that's ever happened to somebody on this show that the trivial pursuit card literally was a question they were going to ask in a quiz? The odds of that are crazy. It happened to Dana, I think, last year. I remember, man, oh, good job, Brandon. It was about, like, the cricket match between the two, one, two, like, the most watched cricket match. And then it was our show, I think, about television, and Dana had a quiz about most watched events on TV. And so it was, like, it was structured differently, but it was, like, talking about the same thing. Interesting.

According to the movie Swingers, when playing Blackjack, you always do what on 11 you always blank on 11 all right how are we doing okay dana says this hit nana says hit Karen says double down Colin says double down you always double down on 11 I've never watched that movie before it's great job Favreau very very young yeah a great movie it was Vince Vaughn very young it does hold up it does hold up okay All right. So just just two more questions. Not on 11? No.

Oh, but I guess we skipped one. Okay. Oh, I didn't have them numbered. Okay. What is the title of a 2007 documentary by Leonardo DiCaprio, a 1988 children's book by Graham Bass, an entry in the Women's Murder Club book series by James Patterson,

and a 1995 video game by Virgin Interactive Entertainment? What is the title of a 2007 documentary by Leonardo DiCaprio, a 1988 children's book by Graham Bass, an entry in the Women's Murder Club's book series by James Patterson, and a 1995 video game by Virgin Interactive Entertainment. I didn't know about the documentary. But I'm for sure. Yeah, four ways in here.

None of them are ringing a bell. I'm just going to be taking a guess here. The title of a, it's an entry in the women's murder club book series by James Patterson, a 1995 video game by Virgin Interactive Entertainment, a 1988 children's book by Graham Bass and a 2007 documentary by Leonardo DiCaprio. They all share the same title. I know Karen knows it.

So let's see. Colin says 11th hour. Dana says the 11th hour and Karen says the 11th hour. Wow. Across the board. Yes, they're all called. There's a lot more stuff called the 11th hour too. That just colloquially means like close to

the end, right? Like, time is ticking. Right, right, right. It's one hour to midnight. Yeah, like the last minute. Um, okay. I'm going to read off the points before we go to the last question. Um, no. Okay. I have Colin with six. I have Dana with three and Karen with five. All right, folks, it is anybody's game right now because this is the question. In the 2001 film, Ocean's 11, a group of 11 criminals team up for a major heist. Yes. In one minute, name as many of the actors playing the titular 11 as you can in one minute go go do you need full names uh yeah okay i need a new paper shoot okay now you have a whole minute i'll give you your 30 second morning you know when we get there okay in in this minute you're trying to name as many of the actors

who play members of the titular 11 in the film Oceans 11. Not the old 1950s one. I'm not doing that to you, the more recent. Man, all right. 30 seconds remain. Oh, I don't know. Hopefully, once we get to the end of this, you'll have sort of exhausted the ones that come easily to you.

This is one point each of ten seconds left. Oh, um, five, four, three, two, one. Ah, I just, all right. I know their character names. I just don't know there. Okay. Oh, you timed it. Oh, yeah.

All right. Answers up. Let's see what we got. Let me get back to my document so I actually can check these. Hey, Colin, those aren't their full names. Those are initials and last names. You read it to me. I have ten.

I have ten names written. Okay. What do you got? Brad? Pitt as Rusty. Got it. Yep. George Clooney as Danny. Yes. Got it.

I got twins Scott Khan and Casey Affleck. Yes. Oh, that might be the difference right there. That might be the difference right there. Bernie Mac. Yes. Oh. Okay.

Don Cheatle. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Elliot Gould. Yes. Got Elliot Gould. Carl Reiner.

Yes. Yeah. Matt Damon. Yes. Matt Damon. And, uh, Qing Shao Bao. Oh my God. Really good, Karen.

Hacker guy, I did not. And how could I forget Bernie Mac? He's so early in the movie. Okay. And Dana, how many do you get? I got six. What was the last one that Karen didn't get? I'm sorry.

Oh, okay, of course, of course. Livingston Dell was the name of the character, the hacker guy. And the actor was Eddie Jemison. Okay. And I would have not. So that's, that is astonishing. So, okay. Well, Karen has run away.

with this one. Actually, it was, it was close. I mean, Colin at 13, Karen ended up getting 15 points. This is like the class where the final is 90% of the score, right? It's like, well, what did I bother doing? That's true. Yeah, yeah, the rest of it is. For this last question. It was a lot of points. It was 11 points for last question possible. So, you know, there's, and there's no prize. So congratulations. All right. Good job, Chris. Thank you for the loudest quiz. thinker. You don't just bring your A game. You bring your AI game. Workday is the AI platform that transforms the way you manage your people, money, and agents, so you can transform tomorrow.

Workday, moving business forever forward. My turn for this last segment. So working from home while raising children, I realize, all those things kind of force you to have a routine. So every weekday morning my husband and I you know we're in like full go go go mode like since we wake up right we like we wake up and it's oh okay you get the baby ready you did a potty train you change the clothes I'll prep the breakfast and get her like little school bag ready and it's just like so hectic and then after all this we get in the car I'm like okay we got to go drop her off at preschool you know after drop off we have this like half hour to ourselves and before our work day starts you know back in the home office this half hour is very precious to us we we're driving back home

we usually stop at pete's to get coffee and like the very normal people we are after we get our coffee we tune in very seriously to a particular radio station with the pure intent of winning the call-in radio contest that they hold every day in that time slot. I'm not going to tell people what it is because I don't want your competition. Between me and my husband, we've won a lot. They're not like big prizes or anything. They're like Lindsay Buckingham tickets that we're going to give to Chris or a promo pack, but really it's just garbage from their office and it's like a PBS DVD or something. You know, like it's not very high stakes. But let me tell you, there

are a few moments in my life where I can distinctively like remember feeling the high and the rush of winning. I think one of them was like five million years ago when we won the NorCal champion trivia. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Like easily one of the highlights of my life. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Like I remember that so clearly these radio calling contests, like I can live off the high for a week. I'm just It just makes me feel instantly so good. Quick disclaimer. We're not like annoying and we call in every day. We'll tune in every day, but we won't call in every day because we don't want to be.

You'll leave some prizes for the rest of the listeners. How many times have you won so far? Oh, like throughout my lifetime probably more than 20 times. No, no. On this station. Oh, five or six. Okay, okay. I thought you were saying you won 20 times.

And then it's like, did they tell you? you weren't annoying, or did you decide you weren't annoyed? I'll address that later, but I'll, I'll, um, one of the things is for most states, you can't win within 30 days. Oh, okay. So after you win, you have to kind of wait for a cool down period. But, but we'll get there in a bit. So some stations have really awesome kind of like morning call in games.

Usually I call in for trivia. Um, but there was one station that used to have a game called the two spirits. they play a sound of someone screaming and you have to identify if it's a sound you hear from like the spirit of the Halloween store skeleton decor and they make like a wailing noise or if it's heard at a spirit airline's airplane gate oh my gosh is that funny that's so good and it's like it's really hard you really don't know is it a wailing skeleton or is it a person Getting on Spirit Airlines. And the one I did that was really fun and challenging,

they would play one second clip of a song, three songs in a row. I've heard these before. And you have to correctly identify. I've only done it once. Because you know, you have to solve it so quickly and you have to be the right caller, right? To get selected to be on air. So I won that once. It's hard.

But it's not as hard as the contest I'm about to tell you. in a story. So in 2020, lockdown year, Singapore's gold 905, their radio station, gold 905 held a call-in puzzle contest, very similar to the one I was describing.

It's called the Celebrity Name Drop. And the big prize, 10,000 Singaporean dollars, which is like $7,000, US dollars. So it's huge. So the puzzle was the gold 905. They pieced together 14 celebrity,

celebrity sound bites one word each spoken by 14 different celebrities so when you piece it together it like reads out like a ransom note of an audio promo message you know it says like gold 905 the station that sounds good and makes you feel good you know yeah yeah that's really hard 14 that yeah that one word you you had to call in and you had to get selected to be the caller on the air and then give your answer and so this took weeks people were were piecing info together after like from like failed attempts because people were getting it wrong so like it's almost like everybody's kind of try and get all this information crowdsource it a little word oldish yes yeah yeah yeah then comes mohammed shallahan a railway worker for the singaporean railway railway father of

three and quite the quiz enthusiast he had successfully called called in, but he did not have the 14 celebrity solution completely right. So him and his wife have been like pouring over the voices, you know, figuring it out. And finally, he felt confident that he had the full set. So on April 21st, Muhammad called in, very confident with a solution, got through, got selected, and then the DJ asked him for his solution. And the solution he gave was Tony. Hadley, Madonna, Maggie Wheeler, Ellen DeGenerous, Jim Carrey, George Clooney, David Bowie, Belinda Carlisle, Julie Andrews, Lionel Richie, Stevie Wonder, Merrill Street, Michael Bublay, Rebecca Lynn.

That's a lot of voices. And he's pretty confident. This is his right set. And the DJ said, no, you only have 13 correct names. Keep on, keep working at it. So, okay, well, he's like, man, I'm real close, real close. We're. Which one is wrong? Which one is wrong? Then two weeks later, listener Jerome Tan called in, gave his answer. Jerome was declared the winner because he got all 14 right. He also gave the same exact set of answers as Muhammad did two weeks ago. What?

Oh, no. Listeners on social media on Facebook were like, wait a minute. This guy said the same answer as the same answer. set that Mohamed gave. What is the deal with that? Mohammed contacted the radio station and get this, this was their response. We have reviewed the relevant audio clip of your call and our decision remains final. The name Tony Hadley had been mispronounced by you. Hmm.

They said that he mispronounced the name Tony Hadley and therefore he only technically got 13 out of 14 right. So who is Tony Hadley? Do you know? Does anybody know? It did not ring a bell. Did not ring a bell. Most famous for being the lead singer of the quintessential 80s British band Spando Ballet.

Singer of True. People online, radio fans, people were furious. They're like, this is not fair. It was the same answer. Media court is the name of the big media conglomerate. parent company of Gold 905 Radio Station, and they would not budge. And I heard the clip. Okay. I'm so curious, yeah. Let me tell you, it's like my cousins, they grew up in New Jersey and still live in New Jersey, and they pronounce like my name with a New Jersey accent.

They say Karen instead of Karen. Karen. Karen. Anyways, I'm going to play the clip. It's going to play three times into comparison. It's comparison. The first voice, the first voice is Muhammad reading Tony Hadley. And then the second is Jerome reading the winning answer Tony Hadley. So it's going to play three times. Okay. Tony Headley? Tony Hadley? Tony Hadley? Tony Headley? Tony Headley? Tony Hadley? Tony Hadley? Tony Hadley? Also, I want to point out, this is Singapore. The, you know, there are four official languages in Singapore. Yeah, it's multi-language. One of them is English.

You know, I want to make it clear. Singaporean English is their English. It is not someone who spoke a different language and now they're speaking English. Like the way Singapore English sounds, a lot of us have seen crazy rich agents. That is, Singapore English is their. That's standard. Yeah. It is.

Yeah. It's pronunciation so important because there's no other famous Tony Headley. Exactly. Exactly. That's true. I'm not mistaking someone else for it. I find it to be close. I find it like my cousin saying Karen instead of Karen, you know, Super Mario, Super Mario. Yeah, right, right. As a bit of a long shot, Muhammad's wife, very, very smartly suggested that he should go straight to the source. Tony Hadley himself. So Muhammad emailed Tony Hadley. manager or managing team and guess what Tony Hadley emailed back not only did he write back he recorded a video of himself remember this is pandemic so everybody's like at home right right and then nothing to do everyone's reachable yes yes yes yes they're at home yeah so he made a video of himself and and this is uh I edited the clip but this is kind of the gist um and I will

play it for you. Hi, Mohammed. Mohammed Shalahan. This is Tony Hadley here from the UK. As far as I'm concerned, you pronounce my name absolutely correctly. Tony Headley, you might have said Hadley, this slight accent, but as far as I concerned, you know, you said my name correctly. Listen, all the very best and see you hopefully when we get to Singapore.

All right, take care, Muhammad. Bye-bye. Yeah. Hey, I mean, if the guy says it, yeah. What a nice guy. That's awesome. Honestly, it sounds like Headley a little bit when he says it with his accent. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, right, right.

So obviously this video was released into the wild media core, again, a large parent media company. After this video, after people flooding their social media, after multiple news, newspapers and sites picking up, you know, the story and the drama. Right. They were still doubling down on their stand. They issued a statement. We refuse to be shamed. Yeah. And make, again, very clear, this is not our fault.

This is his fault for his pronunciation. But then they kind of added very publicly that even though that they think, even though Muhammad was wrong, they're going to throw him a bone and give Muhammad a smaller prize as a, quote, token of appreciation for his exceptional commitment to the contest and loyal support. I hate how patronizing that is. I'm like, oh, you're so loyal to our contest. It's like, no, I'm angry at your company. I want my money. Yeah.

People were not having it. It made it worse. They're like, oh, my God, this is so insulting. Yeah. How much, like, is seven, like, how much bad publicity is $7,000 worth to them? I mean, my goodness. This all happened actually pretty quickly. Over two months, probably Media Corp tired of all of this.

They finally publicly apologized to Muhammad, decided to reward him the full amount as he so dessert. Anyway, so that's a great story. And to wrap this up, I just want to share some of my general tips and best practices to winning your local radio contest call in. As a disclaimer, people will always find. a way to exploit or to cheat the system one way another. We are not about that life. So I'm not going to tell you to set up bots and get phone or phones. These are good faith efforts.

Yeah, these are Rod Stewart tickets. You know, they're not, they're not like really high stakes prices. They're just kind of. PBS DVDs that were in the office. Yeah, they literally just probably like, what do we have lying around the office that we can send to these people? number one know what time certain contests are for us it's at exactly this time every day they usually do a contest it's probably not the same contest or the same giveaway have the call in number saved you know save to a contact your contacts the biggest mistake that people do is they call in too early because you hear the DJ saying like hey give me a call now and play trivia blah blah blah you know blah blah you hear like oh okay I got call in now. No, you have to wait until they're done reading the sentence because chances are

it's the DJ who's doing this. So if they're reading out a thing, they're not also multitasking trying to open up the phone lines and pressing a button. You just kind of wait until they're done saying their sentence. I don't know. My husband swears he can hear when they put down the headphone. You keep calling until you're sure that you lost. Like sometimes you get a busy signal. Sometimes it cuts out. Just keep calling, keep calling, keep calling. And if you win, you probably can't win another prize in most states for another 30 days. So obviously, Karen, do you put in your calendar when you win so you know when your 30 days is up and you can call again?

No, but I kind of know it in my head. Because it made your day really good. You said you were thinking about it for the rest of the week. Yeah. It's not every day that you win Lindsay Buckingham tickets. I mean, that's going to stand out. Yeah. That you can give to Chris.

Which again, I do appreciate them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's my husband who won. Oh, okay. Because I just recently won. So I'm like, okay, now you have to call in. At the end, he's like, wow, I won. And we hung up the phone and we're driving.

And he turns and he goes, who's Lindsay Buckingham? Well, that's our show. Thank you guys for joining me. you guys listeners for listening in hope you learn stuff about uh crackatoa about 11 about tony hadley tony hadley uh you can find us on apple podcast google podcast spotify and on all podcast apps and on our website good job brain dot com also we have a very active facebook fan group of listeners like you um a lots of fun this podcast is part of airwave media podcast network Visit airwadmedia.com to listen and subscribe to other shows like The Sit Down, a mafia history podcast, food with Mark Bittman, and The Explorer's Podcast.

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