Good Job, Brain! - 248: You're Embarrassing Me!

Episode Date: April 4, 2023

Colin tests us on big-time embarrassing goofs in the world of music, politics, and sports! Ever been surprised/haunted by a truly embarrassing memory from the past? Find out why we have these cringe attacks. Adele Nazeem's got nothing on Chris in his awkward award show moment challenge. Do you remember when dog poop used to be white and crumbly? What happened to them and where did they go? And TV is in its cringe comedy era, and Karen can barely stomach the awkwardness in her multi-network quiz. 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, Brains in Spain, staying mainly in the plane. This is Good Job, Brain, your weekly quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. Today's show is episode 248, and of course, I am your humble host, Karen, and We are your assembly men, assembly people, assertively assisting in classifying assets associated with embarrassing gassy assonance. I'm Colin, and I'm Chris. Well, it's about that time again, a little segment that we like to call. Um, actually, what you said just wasn't true.

Actually. Do you mind if I correct you? Because actually, factually, and quite enthusiastically, I was right. And you were wrong. That's exactly what inspired me to write this um, actually song. You were wrong. Corrections, omissions, updates on things that we might have gotten wrong in the past. And this would have been from previous season at least, right? Yes, yes. in episode 243, not even that long ago, I had a quiz about relaxing things, things you do to wind down before bed. And we talked about Ovalteen and how a long time ago, Ovalteen was being marketed as a sleep aid, like drink Oval Tine and it'll help you relax and go to bed and sleep well. And so I dug up a vintage ad of Oval Tine and had a funny like, hey, look at all the benefits of Ovaltine and comparing the nutritional value. And it's so ridiculous. It's like,

oh, two glasses of Ovaltine has more vitamin D than 10 ounces of butter, which is two and a half sticks of butter. Yeah. Wasn't the comparison for vitamin C like more than like two sirloin steaks or something like that, right? Yeah. So on the show, I said it was more vitamin C than quarter pound of sirloin steak Two glasses of wooltoe However, this is my bad Because on the ad It actually says

Vitamin G And in the script font It looks like vitamin C Also like these ads are like Scam Right, right Two glasses of Ovaleteen has more Vitamin G

than Sirloin steak What is vitamin G? And am I getting enough of it? Yes. Now that I found out it exists. We got A, we got a bunch of Bs, we got vitamin C for sure, a vitamin D. What is vitamin G? Vitamin G is riboflavin.

Oh, okay. It's just an old name for riboflavin. Oh, really? Interesting. Which is now B2. Oh. Because, right, we pretty much stop at E these days, right? There's no vitamin F. You don't really hear about too much?

Okay, so I'm glad you ask, because I actually, I look this up. We have a vitamin G in the old days. What about F? What happened to F? When they were assigning vitamin names or vitamin letter names, F technically, as it turns out, is not a real vitamin. Whatever substance it is didn't really fit the now technical description of a vitamin. So now they axed it.

So the important thing is, if you're looking to get more riboflavin, don't eat a steak, drink Ovaltine. Two glasses. Two glasses of Ovaltine. It's more vitamin G than one quarter. I'd rather eat one quarter pound of steak. Steak. I'd rather eat all of these comparison things.

Oh, maybe not the butter. Ten ounces of butter is a lot. It's like stick. That's over the course of a day. You know, it's like it's a bite here, a bite there. You're not eating the whole stick of butter all at once. Come on. Without further ado, let's jump into our first general,

trivia segment pop quiz hot shot guys i got a mongolian barbecue buffet of trivia pursuit cards here oh yeah so usually i will pick a random trivial pursuit card from a many different a variety of additions and you guys have your barnyard buzzers and you buzz and answer pick your poison let's go recent all right all right i'm fine with that i feel like i feel like oftentimes we're like half of the segment is correcting what the question should be, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Here we go, Blue Wedge for Geography.

In which country is the ancient temple complex of Anchor Wat located? Uh, uh, uh, uh, Colin. Uh,

Ancor Wat is in, uh, Cambodia? Correct. It is Cambodia. Pink Wedge for pop culture. Which composer was the first person to score an egot by winning all four American Entertainment Awards, Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony. We should really know this.

The first person to ever do it. Okay, ready? Andrew Lloyd Weber. Incorrect. Earlier. A little earlier than Andrew Lloyd Weber. The Golden Age of Classic Movie Musicules. Yeah, okay, okay.

Classic Golden Age of Movie Music. musicals. Richard Rogers? It is Richard Rogers. Good guess. Okay. Rogers was the first Egot. Yes.

Okay. Of the writing duo, Rogers and Hammerstein. Yeah. Sound of music, King and I. All of the classics. And also, quick congrats. Today is what? We're in February, 2023.

Congrats to Viola Davis. Yes. New Egot dropped, and it's Viola Davis. From her Grammy win. for her autobiography. All right. Yellow Wedge, which computer pioneer

was fired from his job before returning to launch one of the first digital music players. Everybody. Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs. Purple Wedge, under what pen name

does Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling write a series of detective novels. Oh, God. What's the, oh, my God. It's, oh, So, um, okay, I got it.

Robert Galbraith. Yes. Yes. Wow. Wow. Good job, Brain. Here we go. Green Wedge.

What is the name of the digital currency established in 2009 with no central authority or middlemen? Wow. Colin. I, is it, uh, bot coin? Is that, uh, it's doge coin? The doge coin. I believe they're looking for Bitcoin. Yeah.

Yes. Which sister of an NBA Hall of Famer was a four-time All-American basketball player at USC and a member of the U.S. Olympic team in 1984? Colin. That is Cheryl Miller. Yes. Who is her sibling? Someone you may have heard of name Reggie Miller.

Reggie Miller. That was a strong basketball family. And, I mean, he has often credited having to play against her as one of the reasons that he became as tough as he tried to be on the court. Well, both of them, yeah. I mean, that's the thing, right? With, like, his siblings and the family that they have someone to play the sport with. And that gives you quite an advantage. All right, do you guys want to do another card?

Sure. Yeah, let's do it. Boomer or pop culture? Boomer. Boomer. Blue Wedge for TV. What talk show did John Lennon and Yoko Ono co-host for five days in 1970? Oh, my gosh.

Oh, Chris. I mean, I've got to say the Tonight Show. Incorrect. Colin? I'm getting a strong, ooh, Dick Cavett vibe was going to be my guess. It is the Mike Douglas show. Oh, okay. Yeah, the Mike Douglas show.

Yeah, that was big in the 70s. Yeah. Pink Wedge. What color was the key Mark Hall wore around his neck in the Andromeda Strain? my gosh. I mean, it has been a long time. You're glad we're doing this to bring us down after that,

you know, the victory on the first car. That's the book, right? The Michael Crichton book? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's what.

Wow, this is a deep cut. All right, Chris. Golden. It is red. Oh, wow. It's red. Okay. Yellow Wedge.

What assassin used a pump action scope site, Remington Game Master 30.06. I'm sorry if I'm not saying the format. It's so weird. That is super weird. Okay, Colin. James Roll Ray. Yes, James Rui.

What a strange question. It's our question. A brown wedge for a publication. What High Fashion Magazine credited Ingrid Bergman with having a nose that was, quote, rather generous. Wow, it was a different time. Chris Different, yeah This card was written

In the holy cap How about How about Vogue? Yes, it is Vogue All right Cringe All right Green Wedge

I don't even know if I should continue Okay What dance According to the New York Safety Council Was the largest cause of back problems

In 1961 What on Earth Oh, my gosh. The dance, New York Safety Council, back problems. And that's like title case caps, New York Safety Council. Colin. Was it the twist? It was the twist.

Oh, okay. All right. Okay, wow. RPM for records. What group's album, Green River, top the scene in 1969? Colin. I believe that was CCR. Credence Clearwater Revival.

All right. Credence Clearwater revivals. Woo. Oh, we survived that card. That was a, that was certainly a segment. A lot of landmines. Jake here Rowling. The assassination of MLK.

Body shaming. We made it through that one. As we're kind of cringing through some of those questions, you know, actually fits nicely. It wasn't by design. It was just a, coincidence that this week

our topic, our theme, is about things that are embarrassing. So I'm curious to see what kind of trivia we're going to share this episode. So this week, stop it. You're embarrassing me. All right, so I want to share this random trivia fact, but it actually kind of fits well for this episode. Have you guys seen the movie Step Brothers starring Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly? John C. Riley? Yeah, I think I did. I got to admit, I think I saw it like on an airplane or something, though, to be honest.

There's one embarrassing scene where, you know, they're kind of like loser dudes and they get bullied by children at the playground. Right, right. They make Will Ferrell lick this dried white piece of dog poop. like in the park set to like classical music and this led to something from our good job brain lop trotters fan group on facebook someone today anna just shared a link it was why don't we see white dried dog poop anymore i i saw that article too that is an interesting question when we were kids when we were when we were kids yeah that's what dog poop look like it's a little shriveled up it looked like a giant like cigarette ash you know

yeah yeah it's like brittle and so they phased that out so yeah what happened what happened to the dried white dog poop it is because 70s 80s 90s in dog food yeah they had really really high calcium content a lot of bone meal a lot of calcium and they started phasing that out that was no longer a big nutritional requirement to be in commercial dog food. And that just tells you when the poop is white, it's the dog trying to get rid of all the extra calcium, yeah, that they're eating for no reason. They obviously don't need that much calcium in their diet. And this is what makes the poop white brittle. It's, I wonder if like the dogs are like, do you, do you guys notice like, I swear, I swear a few years ago, it used to be, yeah.

They're looking at old photos in the dog yearbook, and they're like, wait, look at you look at this, look at this. Why is their poop pictures of the dog yearbook? Yeah, I don't know who's dog photos. Yeah, what's a dog? It's a dog, it's a dog album. It's the dog's album, Karen. It's the extracurriculars, you know, section. Yeah, it's the clubs.

Yeah, it's one of their hobbies, yeah. Well, thank you, Anna, for this amazing fact. No one asked for it, but we all. appreciate it. Well, I don't know where to take it from dog poop, but I will see if we can find a way forward here. I have a grab bag quiz. I have assembled for you both in sort of classic Colin Good Job, Ray in style here. So with the, all around the theme of embarrassment, cringe, shame, things that maybe we wish it had not happened. I got a little bit here for you from World of Politics, a little bit celebrity, a little bit of some sports here.

And in fact, why don't we start with the sports? Because as we record this episode, it is, in fact, the eve of the Super Bowl tomorrow. Let's do this as a write-down quiz. Oh, right. So here we go. Like I say, we'll start with the sports questions. Sports embarrassment, I think, is a special kind of embarrassment in sports. It come in a lot of different flavors.

You're playing a game. Losing a game is bad enough. but you're losing a game. It's often on live TV. It's also your job. It's like you have objectively failed at your job that day in front of thousands of people who organized their whole day

around coming to see you play this game. A lot of pressure. There's a lot of pressure. Let's start with some team-based embarrassment, maybe. All right. Beginning in 1991, this East Coast team appeared in the Super Bowl four consecutive years and lost four consecutive times.

What team is this? I have faith in you guys. I know it's in the punch bowl. All right. Answers up. Answers up. Karen says Buffalo Bills. Chris says Buffalo Bills.

Good job. You guys both got it. Oh, my Jesus. Chris. It is the Buffalo Bills. I just remember just remember just being in middle school. And the joke being that Bill's stands for, boy, I love losing Super Bowls. Oh, that's good.

Wow. That's a slum dog moment. We'll move to individual embarrassment, let's say. In the NBA, that's basketball. Who holds the ignomious record for most free throws missed in a game without making a single one? So who's got the biggest. O-Fer, basically, in a game. O-for, how many?

Never. I mean, the whole game did not make a single free throw. Okay, okay. Who's got the record? In one game. That's right. You don't need to give me the number. Who's the person? Who is the person who holds this record? This record has stood for a while. It's a household name. This person is a household name. For a while. Yeah. A little over 20 years.

This record, I'll give you guys the error. I'll help you out. This record was set in, in 2000. Oh, my God. All right. I'm going to need a name here when you're ready, Karen. All right. Took a bunch of free throws. Just every single one.

All right. Answers up. Answers up. Chris says basketball Jones, a legendary figure, to be sure. Not the right answer. Karen says Kevin Garnett. Now, you definitely got your eras right there.

Neither of you unfortunately got this one. I thought this might be a little easier. At one point, this player was almost synonymous with poor free throw shooting. It is Shaquille O'Neal. Oh, really? He had his ups and downs, but on the whole, a pretty remarkably bad free throw shooter. He went 0 for 11 from the free throw line, as I say, in a game in 2000. This was against your, I mean, at the time, hometown now, the Seattle Sonics, Karen.

It wasn't your hometown then, and they don't exist in Seattle anymore. But, yeah. So there have been people who have missed more free throw. throws in a game outright, but they at least made one. So yeah, O for 11 has stood for quite a while. All right. Let's move into politics here. All right. Now, again, this one, this is one that might be in the punch ball here. Okay, trivia sometimes is a game of retrieval as much as it is, a game of knowledge. In 2009, then U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented the Russian foreign minister with a big red novelty button labeled in English, reset.

This was to symbolize the reset in relations between the U.S. and Russia. It was also supposed to say reset in Russian on there, but it was mistranslated quite prominently as what word instead? Oh, geez. Oh, my gosh. What did it say instead? You guys remember? Yes, remember the reset button.

I remember that was not translated correctly. Oh, interesting. Okay, this is a guess. I'm just trying to see what other, like, if reset the meaning of it. I looked into it exactly kind of how and why they got it. They got it wrong. Oh, okay, all right. Karen's answer is up.

This was one, it was, they made a big deal out of it at the time. Chris says, oops. Karen says continue. Karen, that's actually, that, that's, I like your, I like your, I like your, reasoning, Karen. Yeah, it's not. The word was, in fact, overload, was what the last word. Oh, my God. Yeah. Overload or overcharge, you know, like in terms of like charging perhaps a little metaphorically. Yeah. As always, I apologize for the pronunciation. So in Russian, the word was Peregruska that they put on there, okay, thinking that that meant reset. That was the word for

overload. The word they were looking for was Perezagrushka. Very close. Very close. Which meant like reboot or like a re-download or yeah, kind of reset like a hard reboot. Yeah. And Hillary just had to kind of just sort of smile there and sort of shucks her way through it. All right. This one even more embarrassing. Even more embarrassing. Here we go. All right. On a visit to Poland, this Democratic president was comically mistranslated by his own translator,

including saying he, quote, desired the Polish people carnally and was, quote, happy to grasp at their private parts. When, do we get an era for this? Well, if I gave you the era that might. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Democratic president. Democratic president.

On a visit to Poland. Oh, president, okay, okay. Democratic president, visit to Poland. All right. Okay. The interpreter also said, you know, apparently Carter started his speech. She said, you know, I left the United States this morning.

It was translated as I abandoned the United States. Chris has it is Jimmy Carter. Karen has it as Jimmy Carter. Correct. Point to each of you. All right. All right. Let's get a little celebrity embarrassment here.

I have to say is I wanted to find something that was embarrassing, but not like life-ruining scandal embarrassing. Okay. It's hard. It's hard. It's a good line. It is. Okay. In 2015, a paparazzi photo of actor Ben Affleck made the rounds on the internet, revealing that he had a giant, cringeworthy, hitherto unknown tattoo on his back of what?

Oh, my gosh. Uh-huh. This is a good one. This is a good one. Huh. a giant tattoo what like a Boston thing maybe it was some some kind of animal

oh really wow okay it was I think the thing that a lot of people kind of were taken back is like wow that's that's a full back tattoo practically yeah yeah and he got he got a lot of grief for this one at the time all right answers up answers up wow you both said tiger no it was in fact a very

large phoenix on his badge yeah just it was it's just super cringed and just like at Karen and I are both Karen and I are both thinking that he's like in the yakuza yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah at first I guess he he claimed it was for the movie that he was working on at the time he's like oh it's like it's like a temporary tattoo it's for the role I'm doing in the movie right but you know like people I guess he did he pretty quickly figured out like oh it wasn't shown in the movie and then like other photos of him surfaced with this big back tattoo like yeah he uh eventually yeah did have to sort of fess up and say yes it is a real tattoo i didn't know that you all were going to see it but it has meaning to me it's big majestic it's majestic

yeah okay i wasn't going to look but now i'm going to look yeah yeah yeah everybody else oh my god it's sad they call it his midlife crisis tattoo oh my god it was During, you know, a rough patch in his life. It's so colorful. It is. It's too colorful. It is blinding. Yeah.

In 1989, this musician, known mainly as a drummer, sued to block the sale of his own album. Oh, uh-oh. Claiming it was recorded while he was heavily drinking, and it would be a, quote, professional embarrassment if it were released. This person had made other albums before, made other albums since, but very specifically did not want this album released. Known mainly as a drummer. Me as a drummer, okay. Had a career as a solo artist, also a member of a band.

Yeah, this person reported that he was drinking as many as 16 bottles of wine a day during this period. Oh. Hey, I had sobered up, did not want the album released. Karen says Phil Collins Excellent guess Excellent guess Chris however has the right answer Which is Ringo Star

I could tell Once I thought of it I was like What drummer do I know And then it has its own album And then you were like He had a solo career He was also with a band

I was like Trying to dangle it No but Karen excellent Like Phil Collins Checks all those boxes too Yeah yeah And I'm right on that area Primarily is a drummer though

Well that's true I guess Yeah you're right I mean he definitely made a name more as the same. I kind of, you know, I think I mentioned this on the show. Like, I tried really hard to make a drummer and vocalist quiz. Oh, it's tough. I, like, I, like, thought of three people. All right. So, wait, so you got, all right, Phil Collins, Ringo Starr. And who else? Oh, sorry, four people now, including Ringo Starr. I mean, basically, that there's not much more of the story than that. He was just, you know, in a, in a period of heavy drinking and

and other substance use and he had sobered up and realized, wow, this album sounds terrible in my judgment. I don't want it released. So what happened? He tried to work it out, basically. He tried to offer him, can I just pay you not to release this album? And the guy said, no, I want to release this album. It's a Ringo Star album.

And so he had to take him to court. The album is actually not that hard to find. I mean, there's a bootleg released of several the tracks on there. It's if you look for like the Memphis album or sometimes called the Memphis sessions. So if you're a Ringo Star completest, yeah, you'll have probably a. copy of this bootleg in your collection somewhere but yeah he he definitely is it that terrible or he felt it sounded terrible he also did not do a lot of drumming you know maybe ironically on on the album uh yeah he just he was embarrassed by it he said he just you know did not want it released hey yeah that's okay

yeah all right last question here we go we love a we love good advertising uh especially good slogans here what product introduced in 1931 was advertised with the tagline? It gives forth noises that can be better imagined than described. It's a great line. It's a great line. Can you repeat the line again? I will. And keep in mind, what's the theme of the quiz here?

All right. In 1931, this product was advertised. catalog with the line, it gives forth noises that can be better imagined than described. Ha! I'm confident. Okay, I like it. I love confidence. All right.

Karen has written Whoopie Cushion. Chris has written Whoopie Cushion. You both have it. It is indeed the Whoopi Cushion, 1931 on the market. Karen, yes, you have a question? Quick question, yes. I spelled it like Whoopi Pie. P-I-E, and then Chris has P-E-E-E, is it I-E or EE-E?

I'm so glad you asked. Colloquially, they are both acceptable, although the product name is with EE. The official Wikipedia entry on Whoopi Cushion is Wikipedia voice. A Whoopi Cushion is a practical joke device involving flatulence humor, which produces a noise resembling human flacculent. It has also been referred to as a farting bag, hooting cushion, windy blaster, and raspberry cushion. I have never called it any of those things. I've never heard of it.

Yeah. I mean, just to be clear, the concept of an inflatable device that someone sits on and makes a fart sound is, in fact, many, many, many hundreds of years old. Like animal bladders, you know, there are many tales of, yeah. Yeah, it's, I mean, people love fart jokes, right? But so the official whoopie cushion, yeah, it was invented in 1930 by the gem rubber company of Toronto, good proud Canadian invention. They knew they had a hit on their hands, so they're like, all right, let's take this. Let's take this to the largest novelty, you know, kind of joke puzzle producer at the time and see if they'll sell it. That was the SS Adams company.

they took it they said we've got called the whoopie cushion you sit on it makes a fart sound what do you think and uh the the owner of the company samuel sorens and adams said no i don't want to sell that he said he called it indelicate he thought it was too rude so he passed so the gem rubber uh salespeople they're like no we believe in it so they ended up going to you guys could probably guess the johnson smith catalog and And that was basically who turned the whoopie cushion into, you know, the success that it became. Seeing the success of the whoopee cushion, S.S. Adams Company is like, oh, we missed on this one. And they introduced the competitor, the raspberry cushion.

Oh, my gosh. Yes. All right. Well, good job. A little bit of embarrassment from all corners of the world. You guys did well. So I've shared a lot of embarrassing moments in my life on the show, 11 years on the show. I've done a lot of embarrassing things on air even, but I'm going to take this moment and share with you, like the most vivid memory I have around a truly personal, embarrassing moment. So let me set the stage. I was in sixth grade.

It was 1994. It was like social studies history class. And we had to do a group presentation on a project. So I have to stress that there are three other people on my team. They were like super cool. Not popular cool. They're like cool, cool, aloof rebel cool. So like a part of me felt like I was cool by association.

It's our turn to go up in front of the class to give this group presentation. I thought it was so cool. I was wearing my like Stoosie t-shirt. I was wearing my Janko skater jeans. I had like a flannel, LL bean flannel, like wrapped around my waist, peak 90s. I was also important to note that I was getting over a cold, a pretty bad cold. So my face in my head was completely congested, congested with mucus. Let me just be a little bit more descriptive.

And so it was my turn to talk. And like, sure, I sounded like nasly than I was. And that's okay, whatever. like people get sick all the time but i was in the middle of a sentence and i had to sneeze and i didn't have enough time to like cover my face oh no and so my sneeze came out the air that came out of my nose created and inflated this giant comical snot bubble out of one of my nostrils it was like the size of a large grapefruit like you're like blowing bubble gum it's not like a dangling snot. It is an inflated orb in front of my whole class of adolescence.

You know, we were like, what, 12, 13s? Now, so the worst part isn't the fact that there's an inflated snot balloon in front of my face. It was that this yellow snot balloon had to pop, right? It had to go somewhere. So it popped. And now it's all over my face. It's like splash on my clothes and like I had to like quickly improvise and I had to untie my cool flannel shirt and I had to wipe my face in front of everybody and I ran out of the classroom and like this is where my memory blacked out like you just dissociated yes I think I think I remember there was roaring laughter but there was also like oh you know like shocked so the reason why I'm telling this story is because sometimes when me myself,

when I'm least expecting it if I'm walking the dog or I'm eating cereal, this memory will pop into my mind out of nowhere. Unprompted. Unrelated to anything I'm thinking, doing, saying, and it's like a surprise.

And not only will I think about reliving this memory, I will start feeling all the feelings I felt when I was 12. this phenomenon, and I'm sure, I mean, this probably happens to you guys too. Maybe it's like an awkward like conversation, you're reliving or something. Yep. This phenomenon is very normal. Everyone experiences this and it's called an involuntary memory.

Okay. You go about your day and boom, like cringe memory from the past haunts you when you start feeling the same feelings. So your brain retains the information about this memory. what I was wearing who you know what is what was I doing what was I talking about all of this information but it also retains all the emotions that you felt back then as well author Melissa doll who wrote an entire book called cringeworthy she calls the involuntary memory a cringe attack that's a good name for it yeah a cringe attack I sometimes can feel it starting and I'm telling my brain like no no no no no no

Don't think about it. Don't think about it. No, no, no, no. Don't think about it. Like, trying to deny it. Another explanation of why this might happen is because it may be your emotions are so strong that your emotions may dictate what your brain decides to hang on to. Okay.

Yeah, yeah. So the stronger, the feeling, the more visceral and, you know, the memory is in your head. For your brain senses a strong wave of emotions, it was like, holy crap, what was that? we got a we got a document record this right right right if this happens to you you're certainly not alone very common phenomenon best ways to deal with it is just to ride the wave man just let it happen some say like the embarrassing feelings lessen over time because you you become like more accepting of yourself yeah i it's funny like i i definitely for for moments that i retrieve of like extreme embarrassment or for things that were extremely embarrassing at the time

it's funny like i as like you say i do have very clear memory of the details around me like like i'll share karen you're always so brave sharing these stories which uh i i i you know i appreciate i'll share one too i think i was in seventh grade and it was like gym class and it was one of those gym classes where for some reason it was like an assembly i don't know like we were all together in the gym maybe it was a rainy day We were all sitting on the floor, and I farted. And it was like, it was one of those where I was like, ah, no one's going to hear this. And it was like sitting on the wood floor in the gym.

Even at the time I was like, wow, that was pretty loud. And it was like, and I look around. And of course, like, everybody heard it. And it was like, it was very clear as me. And like, people started laughing. And then teachers like, ah, I settled down. But like, I remember what I was wearing. I remember what every, just like what the gym looked like.

I can just picture like the sequence of events. Yeah, yeah, just in very clear detail, like the couple minutes before the couple minutes after, the rest of that day, total blur, but yeah, those moments, it was just ingrained. I'm less and less embarrassed about it each time I think about it over the years. All right, let's take a quick break, and we'll be right back. You can spend less time staying in the know about all things gaming and get more time to actually play the games you love with the IGN Daily Update podcast. need is a few minutes to hear the latest from IGN on the world of video games, movies, and

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puzzles. Smart trivia. Good Job Brain. This week on Good Job Brain, we're sharing trivia and facts about being embarrassed. If you've been listening to Good Job Brain for a while, you know, I've done a lot of quizzes about awards shows, like the Oscars and the Grammys and Emmys and stuff like that. First of all, they tend to just sort of generate a lot of trivia. They tend to come up a lot.

And they also, you know, they tend to generate a lot of cringy, awkward moments for other people, not me. They're, you know, they're unscripted, you know, people are probably drinking you know they're live you never know what could go wrong so you know I was thinking about this actually recently because the Grammy Awards just took place the Grammy awards they had the first ever Grammy Award that was specifically the category for video game music and so a lot of people were paying attention to that and um it went to the game Assassin's Creed Valhalla and um the presenter of the award a comedian named Randy Rainbow yes it became

a sort of a viral Twitter moment because the video of him he presenting the board, he opened up the card and he clearly was just, you can see him looking at the name and it's just not registering for him at all as three words that even

like how those words even go together. I mean it says, it says something about video games still have a little ways to go. You know what I mean before? You can truly call them mainstream cultural but you can see in his eyes just the deer in the headlights look and he

opened and he knows he has to go so it's assassins creed valhalla and he's like the winner is assassins creed valaha so um but also i mean it's just funny that he thought the name of the game was assassins colon creed valaha like somebody's name you know like it's like he just It's not even... But anyway, I mean, so I'm sorry. Here's... Sorry, Randy. Here's 10 additional, famously awkward, embarrassing moments that took place, you know,

in full view of the entire world live and televised award show. And again, if you feel embarrassed for any of these people, if you feel embarrassed for Randy Rainbow, I just remember, these people all have buttloads of money. They're fine. That's true. Whenever they have those those cringe eruptions, you know, just think about all their cash. So here we go. Get your barnyard buzzers ready.

It's a 10 question quiz of your trivial knowledge about embarrassing moments. Here we go. Question one at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards won Kanye West famously interrupted Taylor Swift's acceptance. beach to proclaim that in fact Beyonce's single ladies was one of the best videos of all time but what was the Taylor Swift video that actually won that award

what year? What year? 2009. Starting off with what turns out to be a tough one. And you know, Kanye Wow, this is hard. Maybe Kanye went about it the wrong way but maybe his heart was in the right place.

because everybody remembers single ladies. That's true. Nobody remember what the Taylor Swift video was that actually won the award. I'm going to tell you, the title of the song is, You Belong With Me. You Belong With Me was the Taylor Swift song. Wow. Video won.

Best female video, yes, in 2009, yet not single ladies. All right. Question number two At the 2013 Oscars This actress was accepting the award for best actress When she famously tripped going up the stairs Oh Terran

Jennifer Lawrence It was Jennifer Lawrence Yeah Trit up the stairs Going to accept her Her award I mean But you know

But it's so relatable You know we can blame Lag You know whatever you want to Whatever you want to blame it on I guess It's funnily enough, at the 2014 Oscars the next year, Jennifer Lawrence tripped again this time on the red carpet, took a big red carpet spill.

But fortunately for her, this was erased by the real most embarrassing moment of the 2014 Oscars, and that was when John Travolta introducing a performance of the song, Let It Go, introduced singer Idina Manzel by this name. What was it? Colin? That was Adele Dazim. Yes, that's it.

That's it. Adele Dazim. Adele Dzeem. Right. That's right. Wow. Has it been that long already? In a while.

Yeah, it's almost, it's been nine years since that happened. We'll move on to question number four. Let's go back to the 1984 Oscars where they were performing one of the nominated songs, the theme from Ghostbusters. This turned out to be an incredibly embarrassing performance, a bizarre spectacle with dancers in blue satin ghostbuster outfits,

other dancers shrieking on stage, wearing ghost outfits, and meanwhile, the whole time, this singer was awkwardly suspended above the stage in the cab of a forklift. Karen. Ray Park

Ray Parker Jr. Ray Parker Jr. No, go for it. Wow. I do not remember this. Ghostbusters Oscars. Ray Parker Jr. They got a fort. It's like a New York City sort of staging. But there's dancers in ridiculous costumes. The Ghostbusters, the dancers representing the Ghostbusters have like machine guns that like like like silver painted assault rifle toys that they're running around. There's weird, you know, flowy, like humanoid ghost costume dancers, and then Ray Parker is in a forklift that's been raised like up and he's singing, you know, the Ghostbuster song while seated kind of awkwardly turned around in the, in the forklift. But he won. He won best original song that he was just going to ask. It was all worth it. It was. It was worth it. Took home that Oscar. But probably nothing.

as far as embarrassing moments can top the 2017 Oscars. And that was the Oscars at the end of which the Best Picture Winner was originally announced to be La La Land. But it turned out in the middle of that celebration that the Best Picture Winner was, in fact, this film, directed by Barry Jenkins. Karen. Moonlight. It is Moonlight. And who were the presenters who made the flub? It was Warren Beatty and Fay Dunaway.

my gosh. So the wacky mix-up at the end of the 2017 Oscars with the wrong winner was announced was so awkward that at least it distracted people from the thing that happened all throughout the night earlier, which is the fact that this veteran actress was seen clapping in an extremely weird way all night. And she later said it was to avoid damaging the rings that she was wearing, which were not hurt. Oh, interesting. Oh, gosh. Yeah, Karen's doing it. Karen's doing it. Who was doing the crash? Imagine clapping with your palms in such a way that your fingers never touched because they're bent so far back. She was doing this all night and people like, it's a Hercules, Hercules, Hercules. Was it Jane Fonda? It was not Jane Fonda.

Okay, okay, okay. No, but it was, it was somebody big. Oh, yeah, yes. Yeah, yeah. Man, oh, I'm going to be so angry when you say this answer. Who was it? And she has wonderful, like, very long fingers as well. So when you go back and you look at it, they're just massive in the way that they sort of arched away from her hands. It was Nicole Kidman. Oh.

Kidman's weird clapping was a whole thing for a couple of days there. Here's something that's maybe a little less funny at the. 2013 MTV Movie Awards. This actress ended up getting yourself kicked out of the 2013 MTV Movie Awards after she got up on stage and attempted to yank the statuette out of Will Ferrell's hands during his acceptance speech for the Comedic Genius Award. This actress had also written across her chest at the time, hashtag the to-do list, if that gives you any hint as to who that might be.

Karen is it Aubrey Plaza it was Aubrey Plaza that was her movie who was starring in the film that year the to-do list apparently she had won too many and decided to do something that maybe she thought was going to be funny like she'd get up on stage and try to take the award from Will Farrow but like she didn't really go anywhere with it and he was very confused and there's that moment where you're like this a bit or oh no yeah it's like I don't know where we're going with this yeah yeah you know again It's hard to say whether some of these things are embarrassing or whether the person owns them so much that they're, you know, they're not embarrassed. In fact, they're proud of themselves. But I will say that at the 2008 MTV Latin America Awards, okay, the 2008 MTV Latin America Awards, singer Katie Perry dove into a giant cake and then became so covered in icing that she was unable to stand and eventually ended up having. to crawl off the stage after her performance of this song, her debut single. Her debut single.

Yes. Again, very roundabout way of simply asking what was Katie Perry's debut single. Karen. I kissed a girl and I liked it. I kissed a girl. Oh, right, right. I'm going to have to dig this up. I'm going to have to watch this.

With like her guitarist tried to help her up, but she just kept comedically banana peeling onto the floor and finally and just crawled away. Yeah. This type of fail is I don't know. I can't explain it but it just

it makes me crack up so like watching like or like people falling like mascots like on ice or something like that. I just I can watch for an hour. Yeah. I don't think she quite knew because how would you know what the interaction. Yeah. And it's like stage frosting. You know,

it's probably not like actual edible frosting. it's probably made out of like glycerin and it's like super slippery stage frosting i don't know why that's so fun yeah exactly two more question nine the host he wishes he could blame this one on stage frosting this host of the miss universe pageant in 2015 famously just read the card wrong and called out the Oh, I love this. Colin. Was this Steve Harvey? It was Steve Harvey.

It was Columbia and the Philippines. Yes. Who was the winner? I believe it was Miss Philippines, was the, was the, and he said Columbia. Columbia. And the cards at Philippines. Like, this was not like Oscars. Poorly laid out cards.

Okay, all right, all right. Yeah. And here's your final question, everybody, this, after this, this parade of awards. show embarrassment. This is pretty bad. When this actress won, it was probably bad for her. Like when this actress won, she won the Golden Globe in 2000 for her leading role in the film Nurse Betty Betty Betty Betty Betty Betty Rose Betty.

Leaving, leaving presenter Hugh Grant on stage flustered and not knowing what to do. Oh, boy. Karen. How funny that was Hugh Grant was presenting because there was like to be Jones's Renee Zellweger. Renee Zellweger, yes. Won the Golden Globe for her role for her best actress in the film, Nurse Betty.

She emerged. They were looking for her. Hugh Grant almost accepted the award on her behalf, but then she came out of the bathroom about a minute and took the stage telling everybody that she had gone to clean lipstick off of her teeth. Not pee.

And not me, but managed to miss her own Golden Globe win. Soja Cat just did that for Grammys. She knew the award was coming up, but she had to go pee. There were so many things putting this quiz together that I was looking at like, I was like, okay, give me, you know, lists of famous, you know, awkward Oscar moments, famous awkward Grammy moments, stuff like that, you know, embarrassing moments or, you know, flubs or whatever.

And there's so many things which is just like someone doing something extremely inappropriate, you know, that's not even like, oops, this embarrassing thing happened. And more like somebody like, gets up on stage and does something racist, you know, and it's like, well, that's not really in the spirit of what we're talking about here. Yeah, yeah. That's just, that's just bad life decisions, yeah. When Johan Rawl received the letter on Christmas Day 1776, he put it away to read later. Maybe he thought it was a season's greeting and wanted to save it for the fireside, but what it actually was, was a warning, delivered to the Hessian colonel, letting him know that

General George Washington was crossing the Delaware and would soon attack his forces. The next day, when Rawl lost the Battle of Trenton and died from two colonial boxing day musket balls, the letter was found, unopened in his vest pockets. As someone with 15,000 unread emails in his inbox, I feel like there's a lesson there. Oh well, this is the constant, a history of getting things wrong. I'm Mark Chrysler. Every episode, we look at the bad ideas, mistakes, and accidents that mid-year. This shaped our world.

Find us at constantpodcast.com or wherever you get your podcasts. All right. Last segment. We keep saying this word of this episode. Cringe. Cringe. Such a great word. There's such a physical representation.

Like you're folding and you're shriveling yourself into like non-existence because you're so embarrassed. or you feel so embarrassed for someone else, right? There is something kind of a kind of like beautiful, kind of nice about the feeling of cringe because here is a quote from psychology professor Roland Miller who said, it's the ability to feel vicarious embarrassment influenced by our ability to empathize with others. So sure, sometimes you're cringing out of disgust, but it also can be like compassionate, understanding how awful that feeling could be that someone else is going through.

Totally. Right. So writers have completely harnessed that fascination with cringe. And it has found its way into our TV shows, specifically our TV comedies. And this whole genre is called cringe comedy. Like the humor is in the awkward, like feeling that awkward. situation. The main characters are mostly kind of out of touch. They're mostly self-absorbed people going about their day, breaking what they say like social boundaries or social norms,

like normal behavior. And probably the two most famous, I would say, delivery people of cringe comedy are Larry David. Yep. And across the pond, Ricky Jervais. So here I have a quiz about signature hallmark cringe comedies. This will be a write-down quiz. So get your pens and paper ready. I, for one, cannot stomach awkward comedy. I can't do it. It's not my thing.

But here we go. Question number one, comedian and actor, Sasha Baron Cohen, got his big break in the year 2000 in the UK satire news program the Ali G show where he interviewed unsuspecting prominent figures and celebrities playing as the I would say clueless young street poseer kind of guy Ali G and also what two other characters Yes before he became a household name

Sasha Baron Cohen and his characters debuted on his own show in the UK. All right, answers up, please. Chris says, Borat and Bruno. Colin says Borat and Bruno. Correct. And those became feature films. One had a sequel. Yeah. Number two, The Office. We talked about The Office, the Office. Big mockumentary cringe hit for NBC based on Ricky Jervais's UK show on BBC. Both versions of The Office managed to capture the quirkiness and awkwardness of office life and both helmed by cringe bosses. So tell me, what are the names of both the U.S. boss character and the U.K. boss character? One played famously by Steve Carell, and the other played by Ricky Jervais.

There's one moment in that show where they actually did cross paths very quickly at an elevator. Oh, that's right. That's right. Okay. All right, answers up. Chris put Michael Scott, Colin put Michael Scott, and David Brent, correct. Number three, speaking of Ricky Jervais, he has created, directed, and acted in several of his own creations, all based on capturing cringe. Other than the office, he has done the show extras. He made an idiot abroad.

And also a mockumentary show called Life's Two Shrine. Short, starring what British actor that serves as the inspiration of the show's title? Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. This British actor plays himself, and it's his day-to-day life as an actor in the entertainment industry. Life's Too Short, starring what British actor that serves as the inspiration of the show's title? I think I know this. I don't really have anything. Answers up. Chris Scott, nothing, Colin, Warwick Davis. Colin, you are correct. The show star is Warwick Davis of Willow fame, of Star Wars fame, of Harry Potter fame. And I believe that Warwick Davis started, or I don't know if he still runs a casting agency or basically a representation agency for actors who are little people. Yeah. And his daughter is in the new Willow show. His own daughter plays his daughter.

All right, number four, Julia Lewis Dreyfus stars an HBO's political cringe comedy, Veep, playing the likably unlikable character of Vice President Selina Mayer, Meyer, Selena Meyer. Julia Louis Dreyfus has won the TV Award Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series seven times. Besides Veep, what other shows has she won the award for? Mm-hmm. Two other shows besides Veep.

Oh, what? Lead actress in a comedy series. Oh, what's the other show? One of these is a deep cut, and I got a good guess. And it was answers up. Chris, Colin both put Seinfeld, Colin, and the new adventures of old Christine. That's it. That's it.

Wow, Colin really knows his cringe comedy. That one was locked in in my memory banks at one point. I love her. She is absolutely one of my favorite actors. She's great. Here we go. Question number five, a little bit more recent, a little bit more edgy. The show, I think you should leave with Tim Robinson, has become a cult Netflix

hit and a source of a lot of memes and gifts starring Tim Robinson, who before this got his break writing and acting in what landmark comedy show for two years a bit more recent i think you should leave with tim robinson has become a cult netflix hit and a source of a lot of internet memes uh stars tim robinson of course who before this got his break writing and acting in what show landmark comedy series for two years writing and acting in answers up Oh, I don't know. Nothing. Colin put S&L.

Correct. He was on Saturday Night Live. Okay, last question. Amazon Prime has also scored their own cringe hit with what show that was originally a one-woman play of the same name. Ah. Amazon Prime has also scored their own cringe hit with what show that was originally, and that adapted, from a one woman play of the same name. Yeah, what do I have?

I just want to make sure. Yeah, I got Ali G-show, which was UK. We got BBC, NBC, HBO, Netflix, all right. Spreading the love, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's good. All right, answers up, please. You got me.

Wow. Colin is correct with Fleabag. Fleabag, Fleabag. Phoebe, Woll. bridge bridge she's going to be the new indiana jones movie that's right i heard that yeah she's got writing credits she she she wrote the last james bond right or co-wrote it whoa that's cool well good job everybody and that is our show thank you guys for joining me and thank you guys listeners for listening and hope you learned stuff about embarrassing award show moments um embarrassing sports moments

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