Good Job, Brain! - 241: Halloween Clips Spooktacular

Episode Date: October 25, 2022

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You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Hello, Helion's hell-bent on hallucinating about hellacious Halloween hallmarks. Welcome to Good Job, Brain, your weekly quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. Today's show is episode 241. And of course, I'm your humble host, Karen. And we are your spoofers, spoon-feeding spookiness. I'm Colin. And I'm Chris.

We got our Halloween special today. But before that, let's jump into our first general trivia segment, pop quiz, hot shot. Here I have a random trivial pursuit card. Sorry, not Halloween theme. You guys have your non-Halloyne hard buzzers. Here we go. Let's answer some questions. Blue Edge for Geography.

Ooh, which of the five Great Lakes does not have a border with Canada? Oh, gosh. Okay, all right, does not. Do you each want to say one? Okay, don't think it's Ontario. Yeah, I was going to say, we can rule out,

yeah, let's look, okay, so don't think it's Ontario. Oh, we should know a mnemonic for all these, right? There's Ontario, Superior. Oh, that's right, Holmes, right. Superior Huron, Michigan, Erie. Michigan, Erie. Okay. So does not.

I'm going to say... So they all do except for one. All do except maybe... How about Erie? I was going to say either Erie or Michigan. So, yeah, I could go with Erie. The answer is Michigan. Okay.

Sorry to all of our Michigan. So the one that is named after a U.S. state is the one that does not even touch Canada, would refuse this to even touch it. It does not Dane Right All right Pink Wedge for pop culture Which self-proclaimed

Best Friend of Nicole Brown Simpson wrote her posthumous Tell All and appeared on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Oh my gosh Wow, what a snapshot of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Self-proclaimed best friend

of Nicole Brown Simpson Who was on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills? Bethany Frankel. No, she's in, that's New York. She's in New York. Vanderpump. Not her. It wasn't, but the right coast, I guess.

Omarosa. Chris Jenner, was it? No, she. Okay, all right. Okay, who was it? Faye Resnick. Oh, yes. Wow, that's, I remember that name from the OJ trial days.

Okay. Oh, I see. Yeah, yeah. All right, Yellow Wedge. What was Martin Luther King Jr's birth name? Oh, what a good question. I don't know. Paul. It was Michael. I am pretty sure. Michael King Jr. Yeah. Huh. Wow. All right. Next question. Purple Wedge. The town of Agra in India houses what famous monument to Shah Jahan's wife? Everybody. The Taj Mahal. Taj Mahal

Okay, all right Great Green Retro-Science Where in the human body Are the two most common areas To check for a pulse I was like Where is this question going?

The two most common areas Check for false The wrist and the neck Yeah Correct Okay, all right What a weird question Yeah

If you stop at any point That question is here Yeah. Where the human body? Okay. Turns out it's the groin and the right nostril. Yeah. Why, how do you do it?

That's funny. All right. Last question, Orange Wedge. Oh, gosh. What a strange card. A race that is longer than 26.2 miles in length is called a what? A race that is longer than 20. Is it?

Collin. Ultramarathon? Yes, it is. All right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anything over 26.2 is called an ultra. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah.

So you can run 27. I guess it literally makes sense, but I don't know why. Like when I hear ultramarathon, I think like, you know, 50 miles or 100 miles. Right. Across the United States. Yeah, yeah. I'm going to run an inframarathon one day. Incredible.

That's when you jog alongside one of the runners. to hand them a cup of water, right? It's like, yeah, I completed my first inframarathon. That's it. All right. Good job, Brains. All right. Well, I mean, we're so excited to bring you the type of episode that I think everybody looks forward to when you're, you know, when you're watching, when you're really into a television show or a trivia podcast. And that is a mid-season clip show. Yay.

Or, I mean, it could be worse. It could be we're stuck in an elevator. Two characters stuck in an elevator. Yeah, right. That's every episode of this show, right? Like, you're stuck in an elevator with, like, you know, a bunch of people who won't shut up about trivia and your clawing at the doors. Do you guys have some trivia? Right, right, right.

So this week, we've curated our past 200-plus episodes, and we've picked out the spookiest, the gastliest, the candliest, the funniest, the funnest. Importantly, the previously recordedest Halloween trivia we've got. So enjoy this spooky season, everyone. Stay safe and let's get into the Halloween spirit. Time for ghosts to come out to play. Different shapes and sizes on display. Some look wearied, some look posh. But the secret ingredient in your coffee is squash.

Now I have a trivia question for you. You might get this question on your pub quiz listener at home. You're going to want to know this. If you go to Starbucks, coffee, and you order a pumpkin spice latte. Yeah. Is there pumpkin in the pumpkin spice latte? Dun, done, done. Right now?

All right. Yeah, if you go today. Today. October 2016. and you ordered a pumpkin spice latte, and they gave it to you and you drank it. Have you just consumed any pumpkin? They changed it.

It used to not be... It used to just be spice, and I think all the organic or all the natural hoopla, they had to cut down an artificial flavoring, and I think they did add... I think the opposite. Like, it did have it, and then they took it out. I mean, they might have natural flavoring.

They did change it in 2015, but what did they change it? I think they took it out. What's the answer? Let's find out. The answer is Karen is correct. They put it in. It's pumpkin spice latte.

The popular fall beverage served at Starbucks for a limited time. Did not have any pumpkin in it. The idea was it was pumpkin spice. The sort of spice that you put in a pumpkin pie. But, yes, due to people sort of making some noise online about how there's not even any pumpkin in a pumpkin spice latte. And also that it used caramel coloring, which for good or for ill had got this reputation of, you know, being bad for you, Starbucks re-formulated the drink in 2015, took out the caramel coloring, and put in pumpkin puree.

Okay. And so it's made, there, no, it's the, yeah, yeah, no, not trace elements, but like, you know, there is a, they called a sauce, a pumpkin sauce. Okay. And like that plus your milk, plus your coffee is the, is the pumpkin spice. Have you had one yet? And that pumpkin spice, I have not had one this season. I wonder how the flavor is.

I very rarely get these sort of sugar bomb Starbucks stuff. But incredibly popular. So let's talk about pumpkin spice. The pumpkin spice lattes, the pumpkin spice, the pumpkins, all that kind of stuff. So around 2003, Starbucks looked at the success of seasonal drinks that it had, like, the eggnog latte. That's my favorite. And the peppermint mocha. Maybe you like this.

I don't know. And they were like, well, you know, we're having these success with these seasonal drinks in the winter. What if we had a seasonal drink in the fall? The fall. The fall is cold. Yeah. Oh, those are winter. Those are like hot. Yeah.

Those are holiday. Yeah. So they do some focus tests. And they find out that when they kind of focus test a whole lot of different flavors, people liked chocolate and they liked caramel. Uh-huh. And the pumpkin, the pumpkin pie flavored coffee. We were like, it was not like on the low end, but it was in like the middle.

Okay. It was like, this is all right. Yeah. So Starbucks ended up going with the pumpkin pie because they kind of looked at the, the market. And they're like, you know what, we have this sort of free and open, you know, market on pumpkin-flavored, you know, coffee genre. So let's go ahead and do that. And, of course, it is, you know, very thematically appropriate to the fall. Yeah.

And you might wonder, Chris, why is that if you don't live in America? A lot of our listeners are international. And I'll tell you, when I start looking up, you know, facts and figures about pumpkin spice latte, a lot of the articles are aimed at people in the UK and Australia who are like, why do Americans? love this stuff Go so wacko For pumpkin Why are they putting squash Yeah

In their coffee It doesn't make any sense You'll get to that Pumpkin is a kind of squash By the way They almost called it the fall harvest latte No It sounds like leaves

Like it's just a bunch of leaves You're right It sounds like leaves in your coffee Yeah That's in reference by the way Karen to the way the leaves Fall off the trees So pumpkin

Yeah it's a kind of Squash. Here's something real interesting. Libby's pumpkin is a subsidiary of Nestle. They do about 80 to 90% of the canned pumpkin business in America. Wow. Most of it is around this time a year. Wow. Because Thanksgiving pumpkin pie. If you look at the can, it says made from Libby's select pumpkins. Okay. That is not just a little marketing line. They have their own proprietary variety of pumpkin that they bought. It is called

Libby Select Pumpkins. Like the strain or like the Yeah. Technically it's a type of Dickinson pumpkin. And the weird part about this is if you look at Libby Select Pumpkins, they do not look like

the orange round carving jack-a-lantern pumpkins. What do they look like? So I'm not going to... I imagine they look like a water balloon full of pumpkin goop. You are not very far up. They are more oblong.

They're a little taller. The skin on them is tan to beige. Okay. Now, this has led to an urban myth that started going around this year that, oh, there's no pumpkin and canned pumpkin. It's all squash. It's like, well, pumpkin is squash. These are pumpkins. They are bred not to look like jack-a-lanterns.

They are bred to be full of delicious, delicious pumpkin. But again, why? Why, why, think our foreign listeners, are you guys so not so about pumpkins and you put in your coffee? This, this aroma of the spices that they put into pumpkin pie is so fundamental to like American nostalgia. You know, Thanksgiving is a time of going home and being with your family. Those air fresheners are my mom's jam. Oh, yeah. And they have been since before 2003.

I know. Well, pumpkin, and that smell of pumpkin spice goes, back to the beginning of America. American cookery by Amelia Simmons, which was written in the 1700s-ish. First known cookbook written by an American, person living in America. And basically, if you look at this book that scholars look at it, it really takes the old British recipes and then it uses the ingredients that are available in America to make, right. So it's like, oh, this stuff is made with corn and not oats, that sort of thing, maze. has the first recipe for turkey with cranberries.

And she has a recipe in this book for pumpkin pudding, which is basically like pumpkin pie. Yeah, yeah. And it's pumpkin that is spiced with ginger and nutmeg, another variety of the recipe, allspiced. The major spices are cloves, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and then possibly all spice. Yeah.

And so, again. Which is its own plant. Yes. Oh, yes. All spice is not every spice. Yes. Yeah, yeah. Et cetera spice.

Technically, one spice. It was in 1934 that the company McCormick, the spice company McCormick, introduced the pumpkin spice. So it just says all the spices that you need, all the four basic spices all together. And finally, I'd like to close out by saying now that the pumpkin spice latte has become so popular, pumpkin spice everything is now the current bad trend in America. I went to Target.com and just searched for pumpkin spice. Oh, interesting, interesting. Here are just some of the products that I found on Target that are available right now to order. This is all, I'm not making any of this up.

Okay. Any of it. Pumpkin spice Cheerios. Okay. That sounds delicious. Probably. Yeah. Pumpkin spice Halloween costume.

It's like, it's like sexy pumpkin. Pumpkin spice eggos. Sure. Pumpkin spice Greek yogurt. These are all products that are currently purchasable. It depends on how pumpkin-y it is. Yeah, only if there's, like, granola to make it home. Pumpkin spice Lindor Truffles.

Yeah, probably good. Pumpkin spice chili seasoning. Oh, I kind of have some. Yeah. Pumpkin spice lip balm. Okay, I have some in my purse right now. It's disgusting. And finally, this sounds like a Chris Kohler joke, but this is actually real.

Will Shorts presents Pumpkin Spice Sudoku. Nice. Okay. Watching television can rock your brain. Halloween specials can make you go insane. But TV knowledge and trivia is vital. Can you identify the show by their spooky episode title? So I love Halloween. I love it.

I love the costumes and the candies and the decorations. And I really love the Halloween episode. of TV shows. Everybody always has like a punny name. They go way out of their way. Like you see their costumes is fun. Yeah. Halloween is a big cult culture.

And some shows really stepped it up. Yeah. I'll read you the title of the episode and you tell me what show. And there's a clue in the title. Puns or characters from the show. Okay. All right. Awesome.

How about the one with the Halloween party? Everybody. Friends. Friends. How about Ghost of Clampett Castle? Oh, the Beverly Hillbillies. Oh, is that where they lived? Well, the Clampets.

The Clarence. Oh, that's okay. The Curse of the Cramdens. The honeymoon. Keep saying Chris and you keep answering. I thought that was an altogether one. How about it's the great pumpkin, Sam Winchester? Karen.

Supernatural. That's right. Yeah. The Winchester brothers. Halloween night, but night is spelled with K-N-I-G-H-T. Chris? I have no idea. Why'd you buzz?

I thought I was going to figure it out. Night Rider? Yes. Oh, my God. Thinking some medieval show. Yeah, me too. Game of Thrones. No, no.

Every episode is a Halloween episode. Yeah, about this. Bung-Holio, Lord of the Harvest, aka Bud-O-W-W-O-W-E. Bud Hopin Everybody Beavis and Budha Yes How about this

Everybody hates Halloween Chris I'm sorry Karen You did it Everybody hates Chris Yes Oh I thought it was going to be everybody I was going to say everybody loves Raymond

Yeah Oh really? Yeah I was a teenage Taylor Oh Oh is this home improvement Yes They were the Taylor family

Oh The Taylor Okay Nice Halloween Hill O'ween. Hill O'ween. King of the Hill?

Yes. The ghost of the General Lee. Everybody. The Duke's Hazard. Yes. It's the gay pumpkin, Charlie Brown. It's the gay pumpkin. Karen.

Queer as folk. No. Colin. Will and Grace? Yes. What is Blue afraid of? Oh. It's just blues clues.

Blue's Clues. Steevel 2. This time he's not alone. Steeville? Steeville, too, this time he's not alone. Jackass? No. That's good, yeah.

It's like Steve O. It is Family Matters. Steve Erkel. Steve Urkel. Wow. Bar Wars 5, the final judgment. Oh, Chris.

Cheers. Cheers. Introduction to St. Statistics, Chris. Community. Yes. The good guy fluctuation, Colin. That must be Big Bang Theory.

Big Bang Theory, yes. Tina and the real ghost. Karen. 30 Rock. No. Family ties? Nope. Bob's burgers?

Bob's burgers? So many Tina's. Yeah. Cliffs mistake. Cliffs. The Cosby Show? I was thinking cheers I was like we already have cheers

Peter Geist Everyone Family Guy Yes Employee transfer Karen The Office The Office

Oh good one Lord Zed's monster heads Lord Zed Karen Dr. Who? No Lord Zed I don't know

A mighty Morphan Bauer Rangers Oh Corn's groovy pirate ghost mystery. That is South Park. South Park. It's corn the band. And last one. Fonseleectomy.

Happy days. Happy days. Fons. Fonslectomy. Like Fonzie. Having a tonsillectomy. Yeah. Halloween.

Oh, I thought of another sectomy, but okay. Oh, Fonzie's best septemes. That's what I was like. I was like. I was going to do it on a very special episode of Happy Days. Hey, hey, I want to pregnant you on Halloween. Sit on it. Oh, wait, no, no.

Please get off. Cool, good job, you guys. What's the most frightful thing you'll ever feel? Is it that creature laying eggs at your heel? Or is it an axe-murder giving you a chase? No, it's you. Your crappy costume mask, digging into your face. If you guys were like me, you had your share of bad Halloween costumes as a kid.

Some years I was lucky enough to have a grown-up help me, you know, and I would have like a really awesome. I was an awesome vampire one year. My mom spent a lot of time. I had this cool cape, and we got the makeup and the teeth. There were other years, though, years were it was more like when I had my E.T. costume. So this was a store-bought, off-the-shelf, E.T. Cost of a... Oh, that you're E.T. You're not Elliot. I was E.T.

Like a hospital gown, plastic kind of thing that wrapped around you. 1984. And as a way of introducing the rest of the story, I would like to play for you a short clip from The Simpsons, a Treehouse of Horror episode. Jack it out, Lisa. I'm radioactive man. I don't think the real radioactive man wears a plastic smock with a picture of himself on it. We would on Halloween. Wayne.

Yes. So, what is? E.T. costume is on a shirt? Yeah. The writers, the writers had exactly the same experience I did. Yes, it was the, the, the mask was decent enough. It was a decent enough mask of E.T.

It looked like E.T.'s face. But the rest of the costume was essentially, it was an apron with a picture of E.T. On it. And, you know, even as like a little kid, I felt like I was getting ripped off. I'm like, I'm not, I'm not dressing up. As E.T. This is more like, I'm a walking tribute to E.T. Right. I'm an E.T. fan. Yeah. And the masks, again, if you know what I'm talking about, these were the most uncomfortable.

They had the tiniest, tiniest little eye slits. They're made out of, they're made out of plastic that you would ordinarily use in that configuration for a picnic night. Yeah. The edges of it would just cut you up. They were sharp, and they had these weird little nose slits as well. So basically everybody, if you're dressed up as he-man, you look like E.T. If you were dressed up as Barbie, you look like E.T. Because you had these like Voldemort snake nose slit things in the mask. The piece of, not even just like a proper like strap, but a piece of rubber band. So it was stapled.

So stapled for the plastic. The stapled by your face. I totally see why your smock had a picture of E.T. Like I was Smurfette and so it looked like a dress. It didn't look like, it didn't have a picture of smear. But E.T. is naked, so it would look like a little kid, like that's dressed in a naked costume, which is weird. Like, I did want to look like E.T. Oh, who are you dressed as, little boy? I'm a shrine to E.T. I'm a collection of some impressions.

I'm an homage. I am the zeitgeist. I am the feeling of the culture of 1982. Yeah, I am a pastiche of E.T. related moments. I wish she's at that. If you're like me, if you were a child of the 70s or 80s and even into the early 90s, you know exactly what I'm talking about. This is like the decent too crappy, decent mask and then the picture of the character

on the smock. All of these costumes were made by one company. Oh. All of these costumes. These mask with the smock type costume were all made by the Ben Cooper costume. And the Ben Cooper name was, for decades, the name in costumes. Right. And this is the story of a man who just saw an awesome opportunity.

The company is a lot older than I thought. I mean, they peaked, I think, in the 70s, 80s, for sure. But they went back to the 30s. So Ben Cooper himself is from New York. And he had a fairly regular start in professional costuming for, like, showbiz. He ended up making costumes for chorus girls. And he would outfit places like the Cotton Club or, he had a contract with the Zygfield Follies at one point.

Oh, wow. So he really, it's not, he's just a businessman. Yeah. And a grand idea. He actually is in that trade. That's right. That's right. And this was, you know, you know, starting out in the 1920s.

And trick or treating as like a phenomenon, especially in America, really didn't start in earnest until like right around World War II and thereafter. But in the 1930s, Ben Cooper saw this was starting to become really popular. He noticed that there was an opportunity here for. for costumes for kids to go door to door. And specifically, all the stories I read about Ben Cooper, they all make the point of what made him so savvy was he recognized the opportunity for licensed costumes.

Sure. Because anyone can make a ghost. Anyone can make a vampire or a werewolf. So this is, you know, this is the 30s. If he licensed, that is very early. That's right. Very, very early in terms of licensed merchandise. Nineteen 37, he obtained the rights to.

Would you guys care to guess? What would have been a big costume for 1937? No. No. Disney? Like Mickey Mouse? He obtained the rights to Walt Disney characters and his snow white costume. Oh, sure.

Sold like anything that sells a lot. And he kept this on. Anytime there was something that he thought that could be licensed as a character, he was all over it, all over it. Like well into the 40s, into the 50s. And as trick or treating, it was kind of this, like, feedback. Like, a lot of people give him credit for helping make trick-or-treating a thing because now kids, kids could latch on to their favorite pop culture character. He sold tons of Superman costumes. He sold tons of Davy Crockett costumes.

And just be pointed out that for a lot of this time, he didn't have any real competition. As far back as the 50s, the Ben Cooper Company had made a generic kind of horrory costume that they called the Spider-Man costume. Okay. Okay, so this was a, in the 50s. Okay. Spider. Yes, a spidery man. Right, exactly.

Sure, sure. Yes. So in the early 1960s, he got wind that Marvel Comics had created this new character called, of course, Spider-Man, and it was very popular. And they approached Marvel. So Ben Cooper was kind of like, you know, partly, partly I want to avoid a lawsuit. And partly, I sense another great marketing idea. His marketing sense was tingling. This was, that's great.

That's it. This was Marvel Comics' first merchandising deal. The first merchandising deal was for Ben Cooper to make costumes of specifically Spider-Man and then also Incredible Hulk. And this one, the Spider-Man Smock actually made an attempt to look like the Spider-Man costume. I will give them credit. It wasn't quite as conceptual as some of the other ones.

On into the 70s, he got the license for Star Wars. And so I remember a lot of these in particular growing up is the Smok. of like the face within the picture on the smock. Like there's a Yoda. There's a really bad Yoda costume from the 80s where it's a decent enough Yoda mask, but then the body of the costume is all green with a picture of Yoda's face. And then the Empire Strikes Back logo. Again, I know Yoda has a weird body, but it strikes me as supremely half-hast.

Yeah. My favorite bad one that I found, though. was of the Fonz when Happy Days was big. I want to show you guys a picture of this one just because to describe it won't do it justice. That's the Yoda one? Oh my God.

That's so scary. Ding, Dong, I'm Yoda. With a picture of myself on my shirt. Wow, Yoda's quite the narcissist. The Fonz costume was a Fonzie mask and then a smock with a picture of the Fons saying, hey, the Fonz

And in case you really, at this point, still didn't know he were looking at, the Fons is wearing a pan on his jacket that says Happy Days. He has his thumbs up. It's like the masks themselves were so low detail that, I mean, Yoda, you can probably figure out what Yoda is, but the Fonz mask? I mean, that looks like, could be anybody. Right, yeah. So, I mean, you have to have the smock with the picture of the Fons to close to let people know that you are the Fonz. It's funny you mention the Richard Nixon mask, Karen. Like, they made, when they started making presidents, presidential masks, those became another huge seller for them.

Like, those president, the bank robber, that is a Ben Cooper mask. That classic bank robber, Richard Nixon mask, that was originally a Ben Cooper mask. Yeah. Sadly. Yeah, what happened to? So sadly, you know, partly what happened was competition. You know, it was only so long, but before other companies started realizing, you know, there's a lot of money been made here in costumes. And particularly where Ben Cooper's.

started to feel the pressure was on the high end was there were a lot of companies making these elaborate molded you know latex really high quality masks uh in the 90s they declared bankruptcy and they they got bought by rubies which is now sort of the big name in as they make adult costumes uh they make kids costumes yeah so they they bought out what i've ordered stuff from rubies as well for my star wars related costuming um they bought out what was left of that's not for Halloween yeah yeah that's for day yeah I decided I want to see a naked Yoda and well no I've said too much I've said too much ah did they ever show Yoda like topless no he's always in a real no I'm serious okay uh no I don't think so I don't think they ever showed him

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Do you guys know what spontaneous generation is? Oh, no. Is that like when you cut a worm in half and both halves grow back? Close, kind of. It's a theory. According to this theory, living things come forth from non-living things. It's a very old-school way of thinking. Like maggots come from meat.

Yeah, right, right. Exactly. The theory is that, you know, there are different elements in the world. There's air, there's water, and through different combinations of that, life can be generated. It's funny to sit here and be like, wow, they're really dumb. But this is like centuries and centuries of people without the right technology or tools to find out about cells.

They were putting forth a theory and their observations held up that theory as best as they could. From the days of Aristotle, spontaneous generation is discussed as a fact in literature well into the Renaissance. Even Shakespeare snakes and crocodiles and other creepy crawlies forming from the mud. And it kind of made sense because the observation is, oh, well, all these crocodiles are living in the river, hang out of the mud. They must therefore come from mud. In 1668, Italian physician Francesco Reddy disprove the theory of spontaneous generation. And what he did was pretty basic.

Popular claim or the popular example is, yes, there's meat and maggots come out from the meat. And so what he did was he had samples of rotting meat that some were fully exposed to the air, some were partially exposed, and some of the meat was not exposed to air at all, like in a container of some sort. Obviously, the meat that was exposed to air had maggots and flies, and the meat that was enclosed did not. This discovery completely changed the way people viewed decomposition of organisms. He didn't know it at the time, but Francesco Reddy really is the founding father of what we call forensic entomology. Forensic entomology is application and study of insects and other bugs and

arthropods to criminal and legal matters, thanks to his maggot meat experiment. And now it is a scientific way for experts to determine the time of death of bodies and crimes. We've seen it on the TV cop shows, you know, it's like, well, based on the level of maggots and decomposition time of death was 18 hours ago. Yeah. And the concept of forensic entomology kind of dates back a while ago, but it was within the last 30 years that it has become a certified kind of a system to explore feasible sources for evidence in investigations and whatnot just from bugs.

There's a certain type of beetle, and they're flesh-eating beetles. Forensic labs would use these bugs to help them clean skeletons. Oh, yeah, right, right. I've heard about this. On bones. On bones. I've seen it on the TV show bones. Oh, really?

And it happens on bones. They can eat all the meat, all the hide, all the skin, and leave a pristine skeleton. And this is actually really helpful because the other way, the old way is they would use a lot of harsh chemicals. Right. The Natural History Museum in London a while ago, they had a flesh-eating bug cam. But the thing is, you have to keep them enclosed because of some... Because they eat flesh. Yes, they eat flesh.

They eat organic material. They're also known as bow bugs because it's a problem for violinists. Oh. Because they like to eat the bow because it's made out of horsehair. And so they would infest. And it would just degrade and snap. Eat all those strings. There you go.

Even the best kind of sweets can make the spirits hold. Turns out. what makes candy good is not salt so I went to Sweden a few weeks ago so I brought back a taste of Sweden for you guys but I'm not going to tell you what the flavors are

okay all right okay we'll be kind of a blind taste test except you can see the candy it's okay for you to look at it okay you just taste it tell me what you think it is and then I'll tell you I'll confirm so we can look and we can taste but yeah we can't know we must simply guess I won't tell you

right been trying to practice my Swedish pronunciation of these? I said it's better than ours. Well, it still might not be right, so sorry for the Swedish listener for laughing at your candy and also for mispronouncing. We're not laughing at your candy. We're laughing with your

camera. We're laughing because... Okay, here you go. Yeah. The first one is called Salta mice knicks. Yeah. Salty mice nuts. Salty mice nuts. Delicious salty mice nuts. Well, they look like Um, those Ritter bars.

It looked, yeah, it looks like chocolate. Yeah. This looks like we're getting off to an easy start here. Yeah, I'm starting you guys. Yeah. Gently. I'm gently easing you into the experience. Okay, so it's chocolate.

Crunchy things. Yeah, crunchy things inside. There are size of nuts, but they're not nuts. It tastes corny. It does. It almost has like a corn nuts. It's a familiar flavor for sure. So it's basically, it's a bar of chocolate with...

Are they peas or is it corn? I can't identify what it is. I vote corn. Yeah, I thought corn nuts. It's corn nuts. They're salted corn. That's good. Chocolate bar.

This one is called Turkish, Turkish pepper. I'm not pronouncing it correctly. It's actually made in Finland, but it's super common in Sweden and in Denmark. And if you bite into it, I'm told. Whoa. Wow. Oh, my. I swear.

Do it, just by the end of it. Oh. All right, so licorice on the outside, for sure. That was, that's not like... It's like a burst of salt. Yeah. It's like salt. Is it also hot?

Oh, maybe some pepper. Oh, God, it's so salty. It's like salt and pepper wrapped in licorish. Usually when there's like salt in your mouth, it goes away after a while. Yeah. But it just keeps building and building. It's a tsunami of salt grenade. It is.

I think I have now fired all of these salt receptors off my tongue. That's bracing. Oh, oh, God, my toes are curling. Wow. I did not enjoy that. So my friend was like, oh, no, they're really interesting when you bite into them. But I'll be honest with you, I couldn't make it to the bite into it part of that candy. I was like, oh, no, I'm taking it.

So you have not had the experience of the attack. It was in my mouth for a while. And I was like, nope, no. You foisted this on us. I have a pallet cleanser for you guys, though. Yeah, that was a pallet cleanser in the sense... Everything's wiped out. The bad man little boy were household cleaners.

It's like you when you burn your tongue and your taste buds are kind of numb. Yeah. It feels like that. Your mouth is just like a void of sensation. Okay. This is Bilar. Balar. You say it's Bugar?

Bilar. Oh, okay. What are they shaped like? They're shaped like little animals? Sharks. Are they Swedish fish? Or like cars. They're either cars or sharks.

Oh, are they Swedish fish? They're in pastel colors. No, they probably taste like burning. Bular is Swedish for a... I think it's a little race car. They're a little race car. Yeah. Bilar is Swedish for a car.

I have one of each color. It kind of looks like someone took normal marshmallows and squished them into little cars. It does. Like someone made these. Yeah. Wow, that's remarkably resists. You're squished down, aren't it, it returns to its original shape. They call these Sweden's most purchased car, because Bulari means car in Swedish.

This is Sweden's most tasteless candy. It's because we don't have tasteless. Yeah, yeah. They're actually quite savory if you haven't just eaten the salt grenade. It feels like it's in the same family as like circus peanuts. It's like a marshmallow. You know those rings, gummy rings? Sometimes they have a white underside, like they're two-sided.

It takes like the white part. It does. You're right. Yes, it totally does. Yep. All right. So this is the last candy. It's been described as like, oh, you have to try this.

This is the classic Swedish candy. Everybody's had. It's really old, old type of candy. It's called younger roll, which means jungle roar. You know what I'm scared by is the fact that it's so small. I'm scared that it's the color black. It's black because it always means licorice. This looks like a poisonous fish.

You know what I mean? Like on the nature channel, they're like, its markings indicate its deadliness. It's black with white stripes. Yeah. Oh, they're little squirrels. Maybe monkeys. The package has monkey.

Oh, you know what? Yeah, it's like a monkey profile, and it's covered in sugar. Oh, my. Wow. That packs a punch. It's so. You can take it out. Just put it in for a little.

It's so salty. It tastes like Play-Doh. Yes. Oh, man. Once you get past the cahoing. How is this candy? Once you get past the co-hoding of table salt on this thing. Yeah, I thought it was sugar.

It is at least just a piece of sticky licorice. Now it's fine. This thing is now taking the shape of one of my molars and will be there forever. After the initial salt wears off, it's actually kind of tasty. No. That's my least favorite out of all of them for sure. No, I don't know. that is oh god yeah that whatever what is that one called the turkish pepper the turkish pepper

yeah pebber pepper turkish pepper is what batteries taste like well there you go can i have some more corn nuts chocolate yeah yeah you started out with the most delicious oh things started out this is good great segment these are awesome wow it's trick candy no they eat it sincerely they don't even their eyes don't even tear up when they're eating it Like, we've built up some kind of immunity. Unlike you babies. Yeah. I mean, we're wusses.

We're told wusses. We're used to a different flavor profile. Mm-hmm. We're just used to crap-load of sugar. Sugar, sugar, sugar. Anyway, there you guys go. All right. Yay.

Good job. A death by bullet, by jeep by an unfortunate fall. Death by or getting pushed off a wall. A shriek so sharp, so famous. is in the movie realm can only be the painful scream that of Mr. Wilhelm I would like to

begin this next segment by playing a very short clip for you guys from the movie The Charge at Feather River from 1953. It's a Western. Okay. Will Helm. Yeah, I'll just

fill my pipe. Ah! I know that guy Wilhelm You do know that guy Chris And his name is Wilhelm And this is although this movie is largely unknown It is famous for giving a name

To perhaps the most famous sound effect In Hollywood history And I believe Chris Knows what this is Chris The Wilhelm scream Yes the Wilhelm scream And what the Wilhelm scream Is, was, shall be

Is a stock sound effect of the man screaming. This was not uncommon, especially in the 1950s and 60s of if you had a particular sound effect, it would show up again and again and again, particularly within one given studios movies. Oh, like a library. Exactly. They would create a library of here's, you know, arrow being shot. Here's sword clash. You know, so as, you know, as a movie maker or sound engineer, you don't need to recreate these sounds every single time. And this particular scream has become one of the most, if not the most used stock sound effect ever, ever. Oh, yeah.

First appeared in this movie. So let's back up, let's back up a couple years. It was first used in a movie called Distant Drums from 1951. It was a Gary Cooper movie, and it was basically about explorers, you know, in and around the Everglades and their interactions with the Native American tribes. Safe to say, not a terribly politically correct movie by today's standards. Got it. But one of the scenes in distant drums featured a man getting attacked by an alligator as they're going through the Everglades.

And they recorded originally for that movie several samples of a guy screaming that then they would lay in afterward. And that was the source of the original scream. So, but it didn't take its name until, as I played for you just now, the charge at Feather River where Wilhelm, and then he gets shot in the leg. And so as I say, you know, this went into a library of sound effect vault kind of thing. and you'd use it when needed. And it was actually featured in, you know, some big-name movies into the 50s and 60s. It was in A Star is Born.

It was in PT-109. So why is this a big deal? This is a big deal because this sound effect was reintroduced to the world in a small movie you may have heard of called Star Wars. Oh. Ben Burt, who was the sound designer on Star Wars,

as well as a number of other George Lucas movies, he found this clip on a reel, basically as he was creating all the sound effects for Star Wars and he found it labeled Man Being eaten by Alligator Yeah And I think

You know, you're gonna need that. And partly out of his need for a sound Of someone falling And I think partly out of his Just sort of mischievous streak He decided to put it into Star Wars So let me play you the clip where it appears in Star Wars I'm trying to guess where it is

This is when Luke and Leia are escaping across the chasm and the stormtroopers on the other side. Okay. It's one of those sound effects where once you hear it, it just jumps out at you. Yeah. So from there, really, this is just, you know, the late 70s, early 80s. It kind of exploded. Well, Star Wars was sort of a influential film on many young directors.

Absolutely. And in some ways, I guess it kind of became like an in-joke, almost, as the way of it was an homage. Right. Yeah, in-joke slash homage slash like Easter egg for other people in the industry. You know, that as a sound designer, you'd find a way to sneak the Wilhelm scream into your movie just so that everyone else who's in the know can be like, oh, hey, Wilhelm scream and kind of, you know, nudge their date. You're so cool.

You know the joke apparently. Stop talking during the movie. George Lucas uses this a lot. Stephen Spielberg has used it a lot. Huh. Quentin Terran. When he was first introduced to the Wilhelm Scream, kind of just fell in love with it. He has used it.

Peter Jackson has used it as well. And it's kind of become, you know, and all of these people that I just named, they're film nerd directors. You know what I mean? They all really kind of like, I think, tying themselves to this rich history of the Wilhelm Scream. I can, I don't have the time here to list all of the movies that this sample has been used in.

But I will give you just a sampling of some of the greatest hits of movies wherein you can find the Wilhelm scream. In no particular order. Despicable me. Inglorious bastards. Reservoir dogs. Kung Fu Panda. Beauty in the Beast and Aladdin. Raiders of the Lost Ark, as I mentioned. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. And this one, I think, merits special note because it's actually used as the sound of one of Mola Roms thugs being eaten by an alligator. Yes. Yes. It's a wink, wink inside of a wink, wink. Wow. Toy Story. Lord of the Return of the King and the Two Towers, Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, Pirates of the Caribbean, Transformers, Up, Titanic, and every single one of the Star Wars movies. Wow.

So, again, we have Star Wars to think from many things, and in perpetuating the Wilhelm scream is one of them, Wilhelm scream. What about the guy who screamed? The guy who screamed, Karen, I'm so glad you asked. Ben Byrd himself did a little bit of research into this. and a couple of other, you know, magazines and film writers have dug into this. By all accounts, it seems that the man who created the original scream was Sheb Woolley, who you may not know the name right away. He was a famous voice actor, and he did some novelty songs.

His most famous hit was The Purple People Leader. Yes. Oh, wow. So Sheb Woolley, a Purple People Leader, also gave us the Willhelm Scream. Here it is a, here it features in Batman. returns. This is Batman tossing a thug off the roof. Okay.

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science and you can hear it wherever you get your podcasts. We are the host. Seth is a scientist. I'm a science journalist, and we talk to people smarter than us. We hope you'll take a listen. A banquet hall approaches out of the blue. A scary feast of roast, goblets, and stew. But do you eat the dishes, or do the dishes eat you? Okay, so I have a quiz. It's mostly about horror and food and how they overlap. All right. Okay. Going to some dark corners here. I like it. But there's some whimsical stuff.

Barnyard buzzers, please buzz in with the answer. What 1978 comedy horror movie spawned three sequels, two video games, and an animated TV series, and features a song, Puberty Love? 1978 comedy horror. And it has to do with food. Oh, it has to do with food. I got it. Okay. Is it Attack of the Killer Tomatoes?

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. I've never watched it. What made them killer? Is it like some radioactive? There was somebody, some weird scientist. It doesn't make sense. Don't look too closely yet. Because at the end of that movie, the carrots strike back after they control the tomato.

Oh, my God. I mean, wow. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, yes. Okay. What short story by Stephen King about a monster called He Who Walks Behind the Rose was The Seed for Eight Feature Films? was that children of the corn children of the corn a short story and there were eight

children of the corn man I knew they made like three or four I didn't know there were eight of them man Stephen King is making some bank off of doing nothing some good ideas what 1966 Charlton Heston movie was based on the novel Make Room make room make room about overpopulation

of the earth everybody Soiland Green What 2006 zombie comedy musical is about zombie chickens. And, you know, I'm going to leave it there because it's a pun. The name is a pun, and

I know you guys can get there. Zombie chickens. And meat and monsters, that's all I'm going to say. Oh, man. Yeah. Poultry geist. Poultry geist. Oh, my God. Yeah. Team effort. Team effort.

Poltery geist. Poultry geist. Night of the Chicken Dead. That's the name of the movie. What's the name of the titular yogurt? Like, White Substance. People eat in the 1985 horror comedy with the tagline, are you

eating it or is it eating you? Whoa. 1980. They're eating a white. Yogurt. Creamy. Gogurt. Are you eating it or is it

eating you? I don't know. It's probably eating them now. The goo? The dip. Oh, you're close. The oos. The stuff. The stuff. Oh, like Oreo stuff. Oh, yeah, you probably right. It's white, it's goo. The stuff.

The stuff. All right, so I'd say too scary to me, children's movies, or like a little bit disturbing. And Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, who becomes a giant blueberry after eating gum that doubles as everybody. Violet Beauregard. Another role doll book. James and the Giant Peach. Yes. James goes on an adventure inside a giant peach that's inhabited by a variety of large, talking invertebrate.

name three of them there are a number of them like seven or eight yeah a worm a worm yes miss spider yes was it is a centipede or a millipede yeah a centipede okay a maggot nay no no grasshopper uh yes grasshopper because he plays violin right uh ladybug yeah ladybug An ant? No, no ants. Man, I suck. Yeah, the earthworm is like blind. Glow worm.

Glow worm, yes. That's how they light up. A silkworm. Oh, sure. Good job, you guys. The execution is in sight so you should not stow. Bow down to the royalty of disgust and gall. Is this a ballad or a story that makes your skin crawl?

I have a quiz concept that I think it's going to be better than Brad Pitter Lasers. I think it's going to have more longevity. I think people are really going to love this one. Throw it down some gauntlets. We can get a lot of juice out of this. I've written down the name on a piece of paper, and I want you all to say it with enthusiasm when I show you. All right. Here is the name of the quiz you're all about to take.

Carol or Stephen. That's right. It's the game show where you guess whether I'm about to give you. the title of a song by singer-songwriter Carol King or the title of a short story by Master of the Macabre Stephen King. Oh, I get it. So, yes, you're going to write down either Carol or Stephen

in response to these questions. I will give you the title, and you will tell me which king penned it. Question one, the Snow Queen. The Snow Queen. This is a song by Singer's songwriter Carol King, or is this a short story by Stephen King? Carol or Stephen? The Snow Queen. Dana says Stephen, Colin says Stephen and Karen says Carol. It is a song by Carol King. One point on

the board for Karen. Dolan's Cadillac. Dolan's Cadillac. Is it a story? Is it a story about a car that kills people, or is it the car that, you know, she used to drive, she was a teenager. Dolan's Cadillan's Catalan. Carol or Stephen, Caroler, Stephen, Caroler, Stephen. Dana says Stephen.

Colin says Stephen. Karen says, Stephen. It is a short story by Stephen King in which a guy is buried alive in his Cadillac. Yikes. Oh, I think I've read that. Oh, yeah, right.

Yeah, that sounds familiar now. Main Street Saturday Night. Main Street Saturday Night Is it a song by Carol King Or a short story by Stephen King Main Street Saturday night Karen says Carol Colin says Carol Dana says Carol

Yes it is a song by Carol King I can imagine it as a Stephen King story But they're tougher than you think they are Exactly you hear it and it's like It can be anything And as always our natural tendency to psych ourselves out Of course, of course. Well, here's one.

Here's one for you. My pretty pony. My pretty pony. Does the pony murder people? Is it a possessed pony? Yes, exactly. Or is it just a pony? Or is it a bitter street pop ball ball?

A girl. A lost childhood innocence. Yeah. We got, Dana says Carol. Colin says Carol. And Karen says, Carol. My pretty pony is a short story by Stephen King. About what?

It is about time. It's a very sure... Yeah, it's not about murder or anything. Uncle Otto's truck. Uncle Otto's truck. Is it a song by Carol King? Or a one of Stephen King's, as it turns out, many, many short stories. About automobiles.

About a truck that kills people. He keeps going back to that theme. but is this one of them? Is this one of them, or is it just about Carol King's Uncle Otto? Dana says Stephen, Colin says Carol, and Karen says Carol. It is a short story by Stephen King about a truck that comes to life and kills people. Points on the board for Dana. He got hit by a man.

I feel like that would be a pivotal, seminal part of your life. Right, right. Chasing the relationship. Case you're keeping track. Colin has two points. Dana and Karen tied for first with three points each. The hard rock cafe. The hard rock cafe.

Could be either Karen is locked in. Colin is still thinking about it. Dana is locked in. Colin says Stephen. Dana says Carol and Karen says Carol. It is a song by Carol King. It was Hard Rock Cafe named after? No.

No, I believe. I think she actually wrote it for like, The hard rock. Oh, really? Yep, yep, yep. Marketing. Yeah. Okay.

Smackwater Jack. Smackwater Jack. A song, a folk hero song? Or a man who rises out of the swamp and murders people. Okay, Colin says Stephen. Dana says Stephen and Karen says Stephen. Smackwater Jack is a person who murders a bunch of people. In a song by Carol King.

Wait, really? Yes. Oh, my God. Yes. So we all got it wrong. We got it wrong. The man who loved flowers. The man who loved flowers.

Is it a touching ballad by Miss Carol King about a man who shows his vulnerability? Exactly. And his love for botany. Or a story about a truck that kills people. Karen says Stephen Colin says Stephen and Dana says Stephen it is a Stephen King short story

About a man who is Yeah, it's a king song Howard and McKenow It's Stephen King short story You all get one point, congratulations It is a body man who loves flowers and murders women Who wear flowers

And finally And finally One last one you know they got a hell of a band you know they got a hell of a band so Karen says Carol Colin says Carol and Dana says Stephen

it is a Stephen King short story about a couple driving through the woods who find themselves in a town where all the dead musicians of the fifth 50s and 60s live and force the people of the town to watch concerts that

go on for years. And it is basically heck for them. It is not so good. It is not one of his most beloved short stories. Who got that right? Dana got that right. Thus, with six points Dana... Under the wire, yeah. Rocks the whole place

and wins. Carol or Stephen. Wow. I like the Carol King's song about the killer. That was good. That was good. Yeah, just spiritually on point for both. The list of Stephen King's short stories and list of Carol King's songs, they're so prolific that I was hoping that there would be a both.

Yeah. And then I could throw in the both as a, you know, total game changer. There was not. Yeah. And so foolish mortals, that's the end of our ride. I want to give a special thanks to the Uber Duck open source voice AI. community in Perfect Picture 88 for the lovely Haunted

Mansion ghost host voice model that I used to make those segment intros. Hope all you Disney fans enjoyed that. And thank you listeners for listening in. Hope you learned stuff about costumes, candy, bugs, horror, took a trip down

memory lane and don't forget to Pumpkin Spice Everything. You can find us on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcast, Spotify, and on all podcast apps. And on our website, Good Jobbrain.com. This podcast is part

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