Good Job, Brain! - 232: Dirt Off Your Shoulder

Episode Date: April 26, 2022

We get our hands dirty this week! How can the most expensive dirt in the world be worth 9 BILLION dollars? And importantly, *where* can you find it? From Windex to Tide, Colin's cleaning brands challenge will be sure to leave you spotless. Dana's got a quiz all about dirty-titled movies, and Karen shares the aromatic mystery behind moon dust. And watch out for the goose poop when learning about dirty jobs like egg addling and cherry blowing. Also: Wordle logic puzzle, and recording from Las Vegas. 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, fellow fact-toid freaks and flap-doodle fans. Welcome to Good Job, Brain, your weekly quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. This is episode 232. And of course, I'm your humble host, Karen, and we are your. a platoon of pleasant people pleased to present plenty of pleasurable podcasting. I'm Colin. I'm Dana.

And I'm Chris. We are coming to you from, well, me and Dana are coming to you from the very glamorous business center calling room at the ARIA Hotel in Las Vegas. We haven't recorded our podcast in the same room in a really long time in years. All it took was B.T.S. Yes. The power of BTS. And as committed as we are to BTS, we're also equally committed to a good job

brain. And this is why I brought my computer and our mic and setting this up at the business center that, of course, nobody's at. Right. We're in Las Vegas. What are you doing? Yeah, we're like above the casino floor in a tiny business suite. So the only reason why Dana is here is we thought she was going to be home.

She was going to fly out yesterday, but her flight got canceled. And so now we're here. We also got to see PTSD for the second time. Anyways. The universe provided. All right. Without further ado, let's jump into our first general trivia segment, pop quiz, hot shot. So I didn't bring a trivial pursuit card, so I looked one up on Google.

And so I got a picture of a card here. Colin, once you were in Seattle. and we recorded a podcast episode, and you were good enough to bring your buzzer. I took inspiration from that, and I did not bring my buzzer, but I recorded the sound of the buzzer onto my phone. Dana, you can use my dog buzzer recording from my phone. Thank you. And so here we go.

Let's try this. Let's answer some questions. First question, Blue Edge for Geography. What country is home to Heineken Beer? Oh, of course, Colin. I believe that's the Netherlands. It is the Netherlands. All right, second question.

How many seconds usually elapsed before the tape self-destructed on Mission Impossible? Oh. Oh, yeah. What's everybody's get? Oh, jeez. Five. Five or six? It is five seconds.

Five seconds. Oh, yeah. I don't know if they do that in the movies. They don't have the tapes in the movies anymore, right? Only on the show. Maybe in the first one? It's been so long since I saw the first one. How many are there now?

The tapes? None. They all self-destructive. Isn't seven about to, or isn't seven the next one do to come out? Seriously? We're into the teens by now, but no. Okay. So they're at six now, but seven and eight are scheduled to be released. least in 2023 and 24 seven and eight all right next question what date in 44 bc was julius caesar assassinated oh i'm going to call on dana because she she used my buzzer recording yes the app was it god i always forget if it's the 13th or the 17th the 17th incorrect chris i believe it's well i mean is it generally

considered to be the 15th? The middle of the moment. Okay, okay, yeah. But the real IITs is the new moon. Right. All right, next question. What heroic group did D'Artagnan lead? Ah.

Colin. The three musketeers. Yes, three musketeers. Green Wedge for Science and Nature, what's the term for opposition to an electrical current in a conductor? Chris. Resistance. Correct. Resistance.

Last question, orange wedge. What's the main vegetable in Vichy Swaz? Oh, geez. Chris. Potato? Incorrect. Oh, I was going to say potato. You say potato.

I say potato is in it. Describe what Vichy Swaz is or what you think it is. Nobody said I would have to describe what Vichy Swaz. I didn't sign out for this. Yeah. No, I just thought it was a... I thought it wasn't primarily potato-based soup. It is leaks.

Oh. Oh. There are more leeks than potato in it? Okay. Is that by flavor or by volume? I don't know, yeah. Leave it to Uber. All right.

Thank you, Trivial Pursuit card that I found on the internet. Nice. I was in a jam. So a couple of episodes ago, I think in our Seeing Red episode, I talked about cherries. And something I omitted from that segment that I found was super interesting that there is a not so glamorous job of cherry blowing. Of cherry. I'm sorry. Cherry blowing. Okay. I talked about cherries. Go on. All right. So first of all, when people are growing cherries, one of the most kind of precarious moments is when they're about to ripe and it rains. And that causes a huge problem for the

cherry growers because the rain will kind of settle on the fruit, especially on the little divot, you know, with the stems come out. Cherries are super high in sugar content. Yeah. So they will split if there is extra moisture or they will rot with extra moisture. So the cherry growers found a solution and this is they hire cherry blowers. And this has been in existence for decades now. they hire pilots to fly plane above cherry farms,

cherry orchards will blow the water off the fruit. I think I've seen this on TV before. It's amazing. And it's like, oh, I was researching about like, how do you become a cherry blower? Usually there are pilots, right? Pilots have different jobs. They do different gigs. And you have to be on call.

You have to be close to the cherry farm, but then what if what if it doesn't rain? And you're not guaranteed a paycheck then. So what they do is cherry growers, they have like a retaining period. They're like, we need you to be available in the next three weeks. And we're going to pay you a per die of. Okay. So even if you're not necessarily working or blowing cherries, we're going to, we're going to compensate you just to be available. If rain doesn't happen, at least they get paid for trying.

And if rain does happen, then they would come and blow all the cherries. When you first said it, I was not picturing, you know, like a helicopter. I was thinking, you know, like a guy with like a little straw or something like. Yeah. I was like, they do that by mouth. Yeah, wow. Just take forever. It's eat the individual cherry.

Yeah. It's like a big boba straw. Yeah, right. Well, but like, tree growers throughout the ages have done everything to try to solve this problem. Shaking the tree, big fans. But it just had to be that balance of what's strong enough and what's not destructive when we're dealing with wind. So yeah, cherry blowing's fascinating job. One of the topics that Colin always wanted to do is around dirty jobs about like unglamorous jobs.

But that story and that topic kind of inspired me to just have. an episode on things that are dirty. Could be dirty job. It could be different takes on the word. Yeah. So this week, brush that dirt off your shoulder. So, guys, human existence is in many ways. Yeah, wow.

Deep. A never-ending struggle against dirt. In America and in the world, I guess, actually, we found a way to turn that struggle into consumer products, never-ending supply of cleaning products, goods to clean everything from your house to your body and everything in between. I have a grab-bed quiz for you all here about cleaning products, famous ones. And we're going to, you know, maybe a little tricky here with some of these.

Let's do this as a write-down quiz. Oh, I got these, I got these nice hotel pens that I can use. Oh, wow. I'm using my BTS pen. Excellent, excellent. Yeah, I don't want to privilege those of us with buzzers. Oh, thank you. So get your writing implements ready.

There's going to be a quiz about brands, logos, slogans, history. You name it, a little bit of everything here. The one common uniting theme is cleaning products. Okay, here we go. First one. According to its manufacturer, among the ingredients in this cleaning product is liquid tint sky blue, a trademarked dye. The name, of course, trademarked. All right.

When you're ready, answers up. Okay. I believe everyone has written the correct answer here. Windex, that's right. Yeah. Really just iconic color here. They were the ones I learned that really pioneered blue equals glass cleaner. And everybody else on the market just kind of followed suit.

Did I ever mention on the show? So I went to Iceland and I ate the fermented shark. Right. Yes. Yeah, the hot car. Well, to me, it tastes like eating a cube of concentrated Windex. Yeah. Well, I mean, you know, famously, if you're not familiar with Windex, you're right. I mean, you know, it goes back to the 1930s. And yeah, famously, a high ammonia percentage in the product.

That was really kind of its active ingredient was, yeah, I mean, as much as 5% ammonia at times. So, yeah, totally, totally understand why the fermented shark, which is high in ammonia also gives you that bad head. It's high in pee acid. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that whiff of Windex. Okay, let's talk about Mr. Clean, Mr. Clean, the well-known, hardworking, bald-headed mascot introduced by Procter & Gamble in 1958 for what has become a true family of cleaning products. But we'll stick with color here. What color are Mr. Cleans' eyebrows? What color are Mr. Cleans' eyebrows?

Doesn't have any hair on top of his head, but he's got two good eyebrows there. Huh. Okay. Mr. Clean. In Spain, known as Don Limpio. In France, he is Monsieur Propp. Answers up when you're ready. I'm all trying to just imagine him here.

All right. Karen and Dana have said white. Chris has said blonde. Chris, I'm sorry. The correct answer is white. White, Mr. Queen's eyes. His eyes, his eyebrows are white. White.

He looks like an adult, like a grown-up oompa-lumpa. Yeah. Yeah, I never really thought about it that way. Right, right. Right. In 1978, Bristol Myers introduced Body on Tap shampoo, which was one-third what? body on tap shampoo and I have a fun commercial I will play for you here in a moment

oh thank you all right one third it's got to do this you have all thankfully put the right answer it is indeed beer body on tap shampoo one third beer I I it's it just it sounds so ridiculous but apparently is quite popular they even uh introduced this a few years ago. There was a commercial for body on tap shampoo I found with a young Kim Basinger, which we can play here, just one second. Apparently, they used a beer.

They got from Budweiser Corporation. They would- Oh, it's a collab. Well, yes and no. It sounds like the bud was, they were happy to take Bristol-Myers money, but they did not want to be involved in any of the marketing. They were like, no, you can't, yeah, you can't say proudly featuring. Yeah, and they had to, you know.

denature the beer so it was no longer i was going to ask if you needed an id to get yeah no in fact they yeah they uh well here let me let me let me share this ad with you guys here they have some helpful advice uh for you as a consumer m clean i mean really clean and it holds any set i want new beer enriched shampoo body on tap gives your hair super body super hold brewed with one third real beer wow but don't drink it just shampoo whether i roll it pin it curl it it or blow it dry it gives my hair super body super hold and the shine of your life it's the beer shampoo that does it in three bodybuilding formulas that's body on tap i just i don't get it

i'm just like you're not even making the case for why the beers yeah why what is it do it's shampoo and it has beer in it wow amazing yes and she's like don't drink it which I'm sure I'm sure the lawyers were like now all right you got to make sure that she says don't drink it in there yeah she's like see it works you can still blow dry your hair it didn't fall out and I smell like a brewery it's like it's sold for a number of years and then as I say I read a few years ago they brought it back

there was enough of a fan base or nostalgia I guess or maybe just curiosity okay question four Question four. From 1970 to 1990, actor Nancy Walker portrayed Rosie, a no-nonsense, New Jersey, diner waitress pitching a product with a very famous catchphrase, one of the best known in American consumer history. For one point each, two points here.

I want you to tell me, what is the product and what is the catchphrase? slash slogan once again Nancy Walker in her famous portrayal on TV anyway of Rosie

a diner waitress numerous commercials over 20 years household name product what is the product what is the catchphrase Chris nodding serenely

I mean I have an answer that I think it's really great I'm kind of just guessing what would a diner waitress it must be like what kind of scenarios would a diner waitress spills like laundry related cleaning the counter i mean karen you just got trust your instincts yeah i think trust your instincts here here and yeah like i have to think now i have to think of a tagline so it has to be a product that has a tagline oh oh i know oh my gosh see this is what like a little bit of time gives you all right okay karen

and Chris have written bounty, bounty paper towels, the quicker, picker, upper. Dana has written Palm Olive and... Like, tough on grease. Oh, tough on grease, easy on hands or something. That's a good one. That's a good one.

Chris and Karen have it correct. It is bounty, bounty paper towels. Wow, Karen, reaching deep for that one. The last minute, yeah, that's right. And, you know, Nancy Walker, a long... career on TV. She was on many, many TV shows. She was on Mary Tyler Moore Show. One of her last roles was on Golden Girls toward the end of her life. So she was the best thing in Hollywood. You're a working actor and you have like a long running commercial gig on the side. It's really pretty good.

All right. Moving right along. Question five. In addition to numerous artworks featuring Campbell's soup cans, Andy Warhol famously produced a series of works featuring what household cleaning product. Oh. There are many of these. He made quite a number of these. If you happen to have one, it is a very valuable thing. Well, sure.

It's not a banana. Let me just check. Do I have one? Yeah, it's worth looking. No, I don't think I do. It's not a banana. Not Marilyn Monroe. Not Marilyn Monroe.

This is a kitchen, usually, cleaning item. Huh. All right. You're going to need answers up here. to take your best guess here. All right, I don't know. Okay, Chris has written Comet. Dana's written Clorox bleach.

Karen's written Sponge. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I was looking for Brillo. Oh, I was close. Oh, come on. That's what I meant. I needed the brand name. That is the whole point of the art and the is the, they are, yeah.

So he won it, you know, very famously, they're reproduction like Brillo crate boxes. And he would. Sure. All right. No partial point. I was... I'm sorry, I cannot give you a

question, like a brillo pad is not a sponge. A brillo pad is, it's like the, you know, it's like steel wool basically with soap in there, yeah. Top part of a sponge. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, well, you know, you guys rise in the challenge here. I didn't, I didn't promise you easy ones, but here we go. Question six, question six, introduced in 1891.

This cleaning product is named not after its founder, but after the animals that transported it. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, we talked about this. Oh, no, wait. We may have talked about this on the show before. Yeah, how well does that memory serve you? 1891, very, very popular product in America, perhaps less so now than it used to be answers when you're ready. Dana improvising.

Oh, oh, you guys. Okay, now I'm going to, I'm going to be generous here. I'm going to give you a chance to clarify. I am looking for the name of this product named after the animals that transported it. Oh, okay. Chris and Karen have written Borax, which is the generic good being sold. But what is the name? What is the brand name, I should say?

Borax, of course, not named after animals. This was transported out of Death Valley, California. Had to get it all the way, all the way to the railroad. Oh, Karen, Karen has written simply Burrow, which is, which is you're getting on the right track. Chris has written 11 mule team and Chris, I will give you 1120ths of a point because it is in fact 20 mule team. I don't know. I don't know how many mules. Yeah.

So we'll see if that 1120th of a point comes into play here at the end. Yeah. It really did, it really did take a team of 20 mules to haul the raw borax, Francis Smith, the Borax king of California. Yeah, yeah, where he had hauled it all the way out of Death Valley to get it into American home so they could make slime. Question seven, the logo for this brand that sells a variety of cleaning products is a reference to the Roman god Vulcan. And now I'll give you a little bit of a hint here Now Vulcan you might of course be thinking Vulcan This is a god of fire now that's true

Vulcan also the god of fire including metalworking Yeah blacksmithing The forge I got this one Yeah I do not got this one let me see I believe in you Chris Oh I know I mean yeah I know

You have a lot you have all written the correct answer arm and hammer that's right arm and hammer the the baking soda empire it was started by uh austin church and john dwight they were brothers in law and uh after austin church uh retired they caught they carried over the name from one of his son's businesses which was vulcan spice mills and vulcan spice had the arm and the hammer uh yeah vulcan often shown with kind of the blacksmith hammer. Yeah, so they incorporated it into their sort of, you know, taken over their father's business.

And yeah. I thought Army Hammer was part of the Armand Hammer family. Yeah, he is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So, you know, there's a funny, there's a funny story about that. So Army Hammer is related to the very wealthy, deceased, industrialist, Armand Hammer.

Armand Hammer owned many, many, many businesses over the years. And a lot of people, in fact, assumed that he had a connection to the Armand Hammer or baking soda company. He did not, but he ended up buying the company because he thought it was essentially, you know, kind of just tickled him on some level. But no, his name has no connection to the baking soda company. They didn't name it for him.

Yeah, it did not. But he did buy it because it's funny. Because it's funny. Really just as kind of a rich guy goof. Yeah, that's right. All right. We're getting toward the end of the quiz here. Getting a little tricky.

If you believed the ads in the 1970s, Ring Around the Collar was a ever-present threat to exasperated housewives and laundry doers. What detergent, what detergent was behind the Ring Around the Collar campaign? Ring around the collar. Yeah, that was such a problem they really presented even. They really, yeah. You up to the 90s, I remember.

It's like, wow, this is, what a problem. And it's like, is it? Yeah. Can people just take showers more? I know. I'm going back and forth, but I feel like that's it. You have all written down tied. Unfortunately, it is not tied.

It is whisk. Oh, wow. Yeah, whisk. Is that even around anymore? So, you know, it's funny. Whisk is not, maybe it's not funny. But no, they are not around anymore. They were discontinued about five or six years ago.

And now nobody cares about ring around the collar anymore. Nobody cares about ring around the collar. Right, they went away. But you guys here, last question, we had a chance to make up some points here. I think it's still everybody's game on the table, including Chris's 1120th of a point. Last question.

So we have now discussed tied and whisk. It is, of course, maybe not a coincidence, that so many laundry detergents are single-syllable names. I want you to write down as many single-syllable name laundry detergents as you can. And I will give you one point for each. All right. Get ready. Go.

I've tried to assemble what I think is a fairly comprehensive list. Okay. We can go to the internet if needed to settle any disputes. This is American, I assume. Yeah, American, but hey, you know what? If you, you know, maybe you can convince me. But yeah, we're thinking American, English speaking, perhaps at least. One syllable.

If you can think of a multiple word with one syllable, that would be very impressive. Ah. All right. Time is up. I got to call it. She have at least two. All right. Who wants to go first?

I'll go first. Okay, Chris. All right. Tide. Yep. Whisk. Yep. All.

Gain. Yes. Chear. Yeah. And Draft, the baby shampoo. I will give you draft. Yes, yeah, yeah. Draft the...

Not baby shampoo. Not baby shampoo. Yeah, the detergent. A line of products, that's right. The first synthetic detergent I read, Draft. Oh, wow. Yeah, yeah.

Okay, so Chris, coming in with six there. Dana. Carrie, you writing? I see pen on paper. I'm crossing it out because they're fake names. So I had four... I had four. I had four of Chris's, and I also had bounce.

Ooh. It is laundry product. Yeah, but it's a, it's a fabric softener. I, I, I'm not, I'm not sure I can give you, I'm not sure I can give you a bounce. I'm not sure I can give you bounce. But you put it in the washer. She's bad now. Four for Dana?

No, and then I also put bright. I made it up, but maybe it's something. Oh, yeah. That's why I was crossing. I was like, I don't think these are right. I'll give you a, I'll give you, uh, Point and then a bubble, just for the spirit. Oh, okay.

I better have a little light reflection. Yeah, it does. Yeah, that's right, little window. Karen, what do you got? Tide whisk, all gain. I also put in clear, clean, fresh, and bare. Okay, just into the making stuff up around here. All right.

Well, it ended up being very close here. By my tally, by my tally, we've got Chris Kohler with 10 points, Dana with one, two, three, seven point bubble points, Karen with nine. So Chris, coming in at the end, being able to name those single syllables. Here's the list I was able to assemble of generally available or recently or until recently available in the English-speaking world. we have all we got biz we got bold bold i guess primarily the uk but you can't get it here we got cheer we've got that drift as chris noted we got fab we got gain we've got sun we've got surf another one that is uh uk based also available here tide of course whisk of course uh rest in peace and win, which is one of the newer ones on the market.

I feel pretty good about this. I feel pretty good about the one. What about the bear one? Yeah, I basically haven't heard of. Oh, there's a teddy bear one. Snuggle. Oh, snuggle. That's two syllables.

All right, all right. Well, we went deep on cleaning. You guys did pretty good, pretty good. Keep it clean. It's so Colin to give you 11. I like that. 20. No, it's a good joke.

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And we're back. This week we're talking about things that are dunders. Dirty. All right. Well, you're all listening to Good Job Brain, and that means that you want to know things. You have a curiosity about the world around you or the universe possibly around you. And a lot of times we always hear people say, oh, you know, I knew that because a good job brain. And okay, well, here's something. Here's a good job brain. Heads up for you all. You listen to Good Job Brain, and now you know this, okay? So now you know. Aliens may crash land on Earth in the year. 2033. Okay. Now, I'm not saying that they definitely will. I'm not saying it's even likely, but it is possible. I'm just sharing this because I found this out. Now I have to live with the burden of this knowledge for the next decade plus, and I have to pass it on to all of you. Again, I became burdened with this, this heavy knowledge that aliens may crash land on Earth in the year 233.

Because of this show, I went to Google because I was like, oh, we're doing something on dirty, dirt, soil. What's the rarest, most expensive dirt you could think of? You know, I'm thinking that like there'd be some soil somewhere that's so rich and so perfect that people will pay a lot of money for it. Well, all of the Google results for most expensive dirt that I saw initially were totally destroyed by people talking about the idea of Mars dirt, dirt from Mars. being potentially not only the most expensive dirt in the world but the most expensive thing

in the world as far as the amount of money you would have to spend to get it that if we ever were to obtain a soil sample from mars it will be by far the most expensive dirt a handful of mars dirt it would cost nine billion dollars oh i see to be able to just to procure just to get it So, yeah, let's talk about Mars dirt. The idea of getting dirt from Mars has been something that scientists have been very interested in for a long time. We learned a lot about the moon when they went and got moon dirt and brought that back. And so now we have very sophisticated equipment. So even the samples that they brought back because they went to the moon in the 60s,

like we can now analyze that to a better degree than they could in the 60s and learn even more about the moon. And so now we can learn a lot about Mars by getting a Mars sample as well. Like was there ever life on Mars? You know, like if so, how long ago was it? Was there ever water on Mars? If so, how long ago was it? Is there still water somewhere potentially? Like by analyzing the soil sample, we could really answer a great deal of questions that we don't have the answer to right now. So basically, like getting the Mars dirt isn't like, Oh, we got some Mars dirt. Let's put it in a museum and look at it. Like, it's a big deal in terms of knowledge. So everybody agrees we want it. The problem is getting it. In 2012, we got like the next best thing to actually having Mars dirt, which is the Curiosity rover. When that landed on Mars,

that was outfitted with a variety of features that could, like it has a laser that it can use to like vaporize a sample of rock and then pick it up, pull it inside itself, and then run remote scientific analysis on it, including, like, x-ray-like, and, like, spectral analysis. So cool. The curiosity remotely analyzed in 2012, the components of Mars soil. And so now you can actually buy, because they've made this, simulated Mars dirt, which is the same, you know, grouping of minerals that they, that the curiosity found. But that's not, that's very useful, but it's not the real thing, right? The Mars lawyers won't let you sell it as Mars dirt.

You have to sell it as Mars-style dirt. Dirt made famous by Mars. It has to be spelled with a Y instead of it. A poor substitute. A poor substitute for the real thing. Here's the interesting thing. I didn't even know this. We are now two years in to a joint mission between NASA and the ESA,

the European Space Agency. to bring back Mars oil. We have the Perseverance Rover, right? That was launched on July 30th, 2020. It landed on Mars in February 21 successfully. And currently, in addition to all the other stuff that it's doing over there, it is collecting up samples and it's storing them. And it's collecting like, you know, it's coring rock and collecting samples of that.

It's collecting dirt samples. It's collecting like atmosphere, like, it's called like witness samples, like what's in the atmosphere right now, which is like grabbing some air so it can study the particles that are in there. And it's storing them up and it's doing it. It's collecting samples in what scientists believe is a dried up lake bed where there used to be water. I mean, maybe like billions of years ago, but like they figured that the dried up lake bed has like the highest potential of finding not only water or like, you know, some evidence of where water might be, but also evidence of life, even if that life died out billions of years ago, the dried up

Lakebed might have the evidence. So there's actually going to be now three more missions over the next decade plus to get the samples back. I'm going to skip over a lot of details. But basically in 2028, by 2028 there will be multiple vehicles in or around Mars ready for the essentially the return mission. The handoff. So there's going to be another rover that they're going to send that's going to go retrieve the samples off of Perseverance because it's possible Perseverance may have shut down by then another rover to go get the stuff

as a backup Perseverance if it's still working could deliver the samples by itself but the whole thing is here they're not taking any chances whatsoever so then another vehicle that's going to get sent there with the Fetch rover is the MAV or Mars Ascent vehicle

which is going to be the vehicle that they're going to be able to remotely control to actually blast itself off and achieve orbit. Awesome. From the surface of Mars. No. Nope. Because all this thing can do, it's going to be able, fingers crossed, and also it can't

just take off. It's going to, it's going to like bounce itself into the air first and then take off, make sure that it clears the ground before the actual launch so that it doesn't, yeah. Because if this thing fizzles and falls over, like that's it, you know? Right, right. And so then it's going to get into orbit, and the Mars Ascent Vehicle is now just going to be orbiting around Mars, and then it's going to release the sample container into orbit. And so now the samples are just going to be floating around Mars, and then they're going to have up there, the Earth Return Orbiter.

Oh, my God. Which there is, I saw, I mean, I just, I saw this computer simulation of what it's going to be, and like, the Earth Return orbiter is kind of like orbiting Mars. this way and the sample is coming from the other side and the earth return orbit just opens up a little hole and the sample just goes and it's like of course oh sure sure it will yeah but yeah it's gonna involve like these like three vehicles it's gonna it's gonna it's gonna eject the sample in space it's the other one's gonna pick it up and then the earth return orbiter is going to then it's gonna blast itself a little bit to change its orbit, put itself into a path where it's going to kind of then be in an orbit that's going to carry it back to Earth. And then in the year 2030, once all this is done, it's going

to crash land 80 miles south of Salt Lake City in the Utah. Wow. Wow. Wow. And like that's the plan. How, like, I'm picturing like a football size amount of like dirt. Like how much dirt is it bringing back? Like, it is bringing back maybe 20 little vials. Like if you imagine just like, of air and dirt. Yep. And it's going to, they're all going to be in a very, very, like,

protective, you know, covering because they actually, um, they don't want to have a parachute failure be the end of this whole thing. So it's going to be in a, uh,

container that can simply crash land. Like, it's going to protect all the, imagine having to protect these tiny vials in something that's literally like a meteor falling under. You know what I mean? It's like that physics experience. experiment with the egg?

Yep, yep. But this is like NASA level egg thing. Yeah, yeah. The scale is so big. For me, it wasn't an egg for the one I did

was a taco shell. Oh. I did one with a light bulb. I did one with a light bulb. I had to see how far we could drop a light bulb. And it's like they could try to do this faster,

but they're just giving themselves as much, they're just giving themselves a nice big padded window to make sure this is perfect. So this brings us back to the aliens crash landing on Earth because it's like we've done analysis of what's in there remotely on the on the curiosity rover but it's like might there be

microscopic life forms in there like we don't know like we don't know it's it's very unlikely at this point yeah which means you know people are not like super concerned about this but like when this thing comes in they are absolutely they're treating it like a potential huge biohazard oh yeah makes sense until they can be sure that it's not and in fact even just to make sure that the outside of the containers like the outside of the files don't bring anything from mars they want to make sure the insides are mars and the outsides are not they're super clean right this is why i mean learning about this it's like oh right when they send when they send the curiosity rover or whatever to mars it's like you've heard of like clean rooms it's like clean rooms

within clean rooms because they are just literally just like cleaning this thing and cleaning it and cleaning it and cleaning it, making sure everything is totally spotless, because if you take this thing and it's got all Earth bacteria all over it, and you send it to Mars, and the bacteria are on Mars, well, now worthy, exactly, precisely. And then you come back and it's like, oh, there is life on Mars. It's like, no, there's not. We just sent it there. It's like, there is now. So, yes, I'm exaggerating here the threat to human existence. It's exceedingly unlikely that life is going to hitch a ride, but they have to be absolutely sure. But, yeah, so if everything goes well, I mean, if all of these, if all of these things actually work and everything is fine, we could have a handful of, not even a handful, like several vials of Mars dirt for the low cost. Well, you know, I'll say this. It's not, it's, this is not my observation. I saw somebody make this observation in a YouTube comment, but it's like the dirt is zero dollars, but the shipping and handling thing.

That's how they get you. That's always, that's how they get you in 11 short years from now. All right. I have a quiz for you all. It's called Dirty Movies. And I want you to note that Dirty is in quotes. You may be in my voice. It got all the movie titles include the words dirty.

Yeah, this is a family show. So Dirty is in quotes. And I'm going to give you the year. And I'm going to read you the I am. Mdb plot synopsis. All right. And you buzz in and tell me the name of the dirty movie. Okay.

Okay. All right. First movie. This is 1987. Spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Francis Baby Hausman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle. Johnny Castle. Everybody.

Dirty dancing. Starring Patrick Sweet. And Jennifer Gray. Yeah. And hey, let's not downsell our man Jerry Orbach here. Yes. Come on. Yeah.

Next movie, 1971. When a madman calling himself the Scorpio killer menaces the city, Tough as Nails, San Francisco Police Inspector Harry Callahan, is assigned to track down and ferret out the crazed psychopath. I heard a horse first. Colin? That is, Dirty Harry. Dirty Harry.

starring Clint Eastwood. Yeah, that's right. 2016 movie, right before his wedding, an uptight guy is tricked into driving his grandfather, a lettuous former Army lieutenant colonel to Florida for spring break. Oh, oh. Colin.

Is this a dirty grandpa? Is that what it? Oh, I didn't see this one. Zach Ephron. Zach Ephron. Who's the grandpa? Robert De Niro? It is.

Is it De Niro? Bobby D. Okay. 1988. Two con men try to settle their rivalry by betting on who can swindle a young American heiress out of $50,000 first. Karen. Dirty rotten scoundrels starring Michael Cain. Yes.

Like two-thirds of every movie released in the 80s. Michael Cain. Can you think of, do you know who the other person is? Steve Martin. This is a 1967 dirty movie. During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers.

Karen. The dirty dozen? Yes. Yes. Do you know any other people in that? Nope. It's Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnein. Oh, okay.

All right. 2004 high school senior katie moves to havana in november 1958 when her dad gets a promotion at ford she meets a local waiter who introduces her to sensual cuban music and dance they enter a big dance contest for the prize when he gets fired i heard a rooster chris dirty dancing to havana nights yeah oh darn it oh okay how do you know man i i've just Well, I knew there was a dirty dancing, too, and then I, you said Cuba. I'm like, okay, I've heard this before. It is actually not called Dirty Dancing 2. Oh. Karen, is it Dirty Dancing Havana Nights?

That's right. Dirty Dancing. They want you to feel like you can watch them in either order, you know. Yeah, I mean, 58, it might be a prequel or, you know, not really a prequel, but, you know. Yeah. Yeah. Do you know any of the people in this movie? I can't say that I do. But if you say the name, maybe I'll read it up.

Okay. Diego Luna. Oh, yes. Oh, really? Yes. It too mama tambion, yeah. It too mama tambion, yeah. Wow. All right.

This is a 2002 movie. Irregular migrants, Oque and Cine, work at a posh London hotel and live in constant fear of deportation. One night, Okwe stumbles, stumbles across evidence of a bizarre murder, setting off a series of events that could lead to disaster or freedom, starring two big actors. I'm just going to make a guess. Dirty money. Oh.

No, that is a movie, but that's not this movie. Chris. Dirty work. No, that is also a movie, but not this one. It's tricky. This is the hardest one in this quiz. Dirty, pretty things with Chihuahua Tiafore and Audrey. Tatau.

Yeah, I never saw that one. Definitely heard of it. Okay, this is the last one. This is a dirty TV show. Okay? 2018 TV series. It's an anthology series in which each season is based on a true crime story featuring an epic tale of love gone wrong.

Karen. Dirty money. No. What? Oh, oh, oh, oh. Okay, Karen. I have to press the play button. Dirty John.

Yes, Dirty John. It's starring Connie, Britain, and Christian Slater. There's a new one. There's one with Amanda Pete. Good job, you guys. That was a dirty movies. They had a remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, didn't they? Yeah, like they did like a gender flip version, right?

It was like, yeah. I wonder if they wanted more than $50,000 in the remake. No frills, delivers. Get groceries delivered to your. door from No Frails with PC Express. Shop online and get $15 in PC optimum points on your first five orders. Shop now at

nofrails.ca. So I have our last segment, but this is not part of my segment. This is another, like, weird, dirty job that I found. This is egg addling. Egg adling. Have you guys heard about this before? You're just making these up.

No, no, I know. It sounds like a cherry-blowing. Shaking eggs. It's where you stuff the eggs in your your pants to keep them warm and it's you know the pain over the eggs you're uh not that far off what an egg addler does is helps limit goose population huh you know when i say control the population they're pretty much making sure that the egg doesn't hatch or they don't want the egg to hatch into more wild geese so definitely more humane than than just straight up killing geese so egg addling someone will come weighed in the water and they dip the egg

in oil. The oil will stop oxygen from passing through the shell. So the egg will never... Being a chick or something. Yeah, being a gosling because there's never going to be oxygen in the beginning for it to happen. It's not that it's too slippery

for her to sit on it anymore. Oh, yeah. She immediately flies off the eggs. They just use corn oil and they dip the eggs in corn oil and it'll stop it from a little hot to her. And they They leave it in the nest so the mama goose doesn't freak out like, where's my egg, right?

Yes, yes. Wow. Or reject other eggs. It's probably not a clean job. No, definitely not. I mean, poop. Geese poop so much. Yeah, they do.

Geese poop a lot. A lot. And it can be so aggressive, too. Yeah. You can't make eye contact with them because they can either. Because they see through your soul. No, because they, like, look at you. And if they think you're like,

threatening them they kiss and they get big and then they chase you. I didn't ask for this. So my segment, it's interesting that both of us kind of went into space for our segment. And I'm going to talk about moon dust, getting dirty on the moon. Sounds like something from the 70s. Yeah, yeah, moon dust, or I guess the formal name is lunar soil. So what does it feel like? What do you think moon dust feels like?

Tell. We took our daughter, who's four, to the Shabot, like, you know, Space and Science Museum. And they had a little bin of what they described as simulated moon dirt. Okay. And I was very curious. And, you know, it felt almost like, like magic sand. kind of like almost like, not like Plato, but it had like a really viscous quality to it. Like you could kind of like sculpt it and mold it.

It was really not at all what I expected if it's anywhere close to what actual moon dust is like. It was it was not what I expected. So Chris mentioned that on Earth we have lunar soil. We have that. It's somewhere in NASA. We actually have a lot of it. So it's not like in little miles. Like, there's a lot of lunar dirt that people have brought back.

It has some super, super strange qualities. You know, what is lunar dirt? It's formed when meteorites crash on the moon surface, heating, pulverizing rocks. There is no water on moon. And so it's very dry. But there's also no wind or water movement. There's no movement to tumble the moon dust. So it's almost like as if they're,

They've never been disturbed. So the particle, the most signature characteristic of moon dust, the edges are really, really jagged on a very small scale. And annoyingly, they cling to everything because it's so, it's almost like a, like, a mini burr or a mini, like, Velcro because it's so rough. Astronauts describe it as invasive. It is so annoying and it's so clingy. It's the glitter of the sky.

It is the glitter of space. It cleans to space suits. It can eat away layers of moon boots as they're walking on the moon. Imagine when it comes into contact with humans or into humans. So famously, Jack Schmidt, who is an Apollo 17 astronaut. He actually had a reaction. He took, you know, on the space shuttle, he took off his helmet after, you know, a stroll on the moon. And he started having, like, allergies.

cheese. His throat was like kind of congested. His eyes were itchy. Oh, no. I guess people didn't really think about. Because they're like, they're no creatures. Yeah. So we must be saying. So astronauts also have smelled and tasted moon-dust. The human, the human impulse to taste something new. I know, I know. Don't put this in your mouth. And well, what does it taste like? What does it smell like? Is it just putting sand in your mouth? You're like, but point to your. Yeah, pointed to get cut up her tongue. It smells like, and it tastes like, gunpowder. Huh.

Why did you put that in your mouth? Moon dust and gunpowder, they don't share any similar chemical makeup or properties. So it has been a long mystery for NASA as to why when astronauts in their space shuttle smell moon dust, they smell gunpowder. It's as if someone fired a gun. And on Earth, it doesn't smell like anything. Oh, really? Yeah. It only smells like that in space or within the space shuttle when they're kind of freshly stepped off the moon.

But like when they bring it back, it doesn't smell like anything. Yeah, so they have a couple of theories. It could be oxidation. The smell dissipates. They weren't vacuum sealing the dust to come back. Like they just opened it in the space shuttle. Like it gets everywhere glitter. And then they like eat it.

You're like, what are you guys doing? So obviously they did put in the effort of transporting the dust back. I said earlier, this stuff is so abrasive. They broke the vacuum seal because this stuff is so rough that it's not a true vacuum. That's crazy. For every mission, every mission that they brought back, there's always a problem with like really containing the moon dust. So it could be because of that, that like the moisture of our planet and also oxidation kind of just like neutralized or. got rid of the odor. Some theorize it might be solar winds.

Too many weird mysteries around this stuff. I want to see, yeah, what other things smell different, you know, in space versus on Earth. So currently no one knows. We literally don't know why it smells like gunpowder. Wow. I picture that, you know, just a dude with a shovel, you know, in like the early moon missions. Maybe, I don't know, maybe technology is helping us here. I think they figured it up by now, yeah. So, yes, a NASA mystery.

Also, smelling moon dust is very dangerous because it will rip your insides. So don't do it. So don't do it. Don't play with it. Don't touch it. Don't eat it. The simulated moon dust at the Children's Science Museum. Yeah, yeah, probably say.

I would just stop there. But you definitely, look, I would feel safe for eating real moon dust than the moon dust from the Children's Science Center bin. Yeah. Ew. Ew. Wow, Moondust smells a lot like boogers. You're in. It's very sticky.

And so you're like, it's viscous. I don't know. Oh, that's grape soda, Colin. Yeah. So, listeners, last week, I presented you a challenge, a wordal challenge. I'm trying to, my attempt to make a wordle-based puzzle, but in audio format. And I have the same challenge for you for a different word this week. What this is is pretend that there is a person who's playing wordle,

and all you see is their screen, and you see that they've attempted to guess at the wordal secret word five times, and you have their list of words. And so can you use this information and work backwards to figure out what the correct answer is? Now, this person is a pretty casual wordal player, meaning they're not going to bank or bench letters. They will never repeat wrong letters. If they get a letter right, they will always use it in their next guess. If they get the letter right and in the right place, they will always keep that letter there.

So I think a lot of you guys had fun last week solving this puzzle. I have another one for you. I'm going to give you five words in order. Here we go. Word number one, night, N-I-G-H-T. Second word is 40, F-O-R-T-Y. The third word is stump, Stump, S-T-U-M-P-S-U-M-P. Number four, acted, A-C-T-E-D.

And the last word is tweak. T-W-E-E-A. A. K. So a little bit of a solving aid, for example, the first two words are night and four T. With these two guesses, you probably can figure out that this person probably had T right, but in the wrong position in night because they repeated T and the second guess in 40, but with T's in a different position now. It's in the fourth position. So is the kind of the logic that you might need to backwards solve this. They're really hunting for that T's.

Yeah. Yeah. They're shopping around. They're like, is it here? Is it here? Is it here? If you figured out the word, you can head over to our website, good job, brain.com, and you'll see a word old puzzle section, and you can put your answer there.

Good luck. And that's our show. Thank you guys for joining me and thank you guys listeners for listening in. As you can tell, my voices start. starting to go away. That means we had a good time. Yeah, well spent. We had a good time.

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