Good Job, Brain! - 25: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #5

Episode Date: August 20, 2012

Our most sensational, inspirational, celebrational, Muppetational all-quiz show! Dana's got a round of Muppets trivia, Colin's got a geography and mononym celebrity names, Karen mixes things up with a mash-up round, and Chris quizzes us on very MAN-ly superhero names. ALSO: mind-blowing history behind the fortune cookie, the best/worst/sleaziest International Date Line pick-up line ever, and of course, a mini-segment of our favorite animal sex facts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Ahoy, awesome alliance of alert and adorable attendees. Welcome to Good Job, Brain, your weekly quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. This is episode 25, and of course, I'm your humble host, Karen, and we are your bumbling but barely beastly bunch of brain buffs i'm colin i'm dana i'm chris barely beastly all right so just a little just a little bit barely so this is episode 25 and you know on multiple five episodes we do an all quiz so today is our fifth all quiz bonanza yeah and before we start we just want to say that this Alquist episode is brought to you by

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Yeah. All right. Let's start our all quiz Bonanza number five with our general usual trivia segment. Pop Quiz, hot shot. All right. Barnyard buzzers ready. And we're back to Trivial Pursue cards. All right.

Not from 1884? Flash forward to modern times again. Right, right. Okay, Blue Wedge Geography. Which of these is not in Ireland County? Aaron, Galway, Carrie, or Limerick? Erin. Yes.

I am very up on my Irish counties. People don't say that they're from cities. They always say what counties there are. County carry, county car. So, whenever, yeah, so any Irish musician I ever see, you know, they always say what city they're from. So Aaron is actually refers to Ireland. Oran is the name of Ireland. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's what it sounds like in Gaelic. All right. Pink Wedge pop culture. On TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, what portal to the Netherworld is Sunnydale High School built upon? Is it the Hellmouth? Correct.

Yeah, right, right. Yellow Wedge. Oh. Oh, what groundbreaking all-female rap crew had hits with Push It and what a man. Salt and pepper Salt and pepper Feet Spinderella Featerson

She wasn't always there Not for pushing Purple Wedge What fast food product Does the economist Use as an economic indicator Oh oh Oh I went too fast but I'm sorry

Go ahead Big Mac, the Big Mac index Right right The hamburger is used to explain Differences in currency exchange rates Very clever We've definitely had that one at Pub Quiz Yeah but it's like one product

Right Is this exact same product that is sold all over the world. Oh, that makes so much sense. Green wedge for science. What organ of the body does a hepatologist specialize in? You know it or you don't. Yeah.

I might as well take a guess. Do it. Kidneys. Of course, liver. Liver. Liver. Yeah. Okay, yeah, they're exactly.

Last question. Orange wedge. What color is? is the Y in the eBay logo. Oh. Krish to know this guy? I know it's scaring all day. Is it yellow?

It is green. Oh, okay. Oh, that was hard. Yeah. Good job, everybody. Thank you, Trivial Pursuit card. You served us well. That was a good card.

That was a good card. Good card. It wasn't like, who did Jim McGillicudy star in Caddy Shack 3 played caddy number five. Before we jump into the show proper here, we do have a little bit of housekeeping to take care of the segment. that we affectionately call Actually Dana does it so much better than anyone else

I said it many times I believe that you believe it Last episode Episode 24 I had a question about Olympic country codes I had gone over some country codes that were palindroma

Of course in my haste from transcribing notes to show I did lose one off the list So in addition to ASA American Samoa CRC Costa Rica U-R-U, Uruguay. There is also I-R-I, of course, for Iran.

Did not mean to leave them off. That was entirely inadvertent. I-R-I. Awesome. And it is our all-quiz. Who wants to go first? I'll go first. Okay.

Here's a little quiz that I like to call. Not really foreign food. Chop sui chow mean, too fooling you. I've got a feeling tonight. That will be pretty clever if we're ever get together with chop suey chow me and rice and tea shoes and rise and you and me chop suey chow me young one two foo and you um so here so um actually so this this started was thinking about this because uh my fiance regina we were playing game of scattergories once i put one of the categories and scotigories was

ethnic food letter was oh so i wrote down orange chicken and she voted that it was wrong right Meaning like that it was not really authentic to the country it claims to be. Exactly. Now I said, okay, well, it said ethnic food, but either way, this got me more thinking about ethnic foods and, like, you know, the distinctions between, like, Italian-American versus Italian. And so what you guys are going to do is I'm going to give you the name of the food, and you're going to tell me basically if it is, if it is, is it people came to America and developed

it in America, or do they develop it in their country and then brought it to America? I'm still trying to think ethnic foods that start with, oh. You see, it was a tough round. Okonomiaki. That would have been good. All right. So here we go. All right.

Let's start off with one. General So's chicken. Karen. Actually Chinese. No. Invented in New York. Oh. Yeah.

What they have it in Chinese restaurant. Yeah. It went back to China. It's like a back formation. There's a Chinese name for it. It does. It certainly has its origins in other dishes, but yeah. Let's go with sushi rolls, rolled sushi.

Colin. I'll say authentic. It is, in fact, authentic. Now I'm so not confident about my answer. The California roll, which has, like, avocado in it was, of course, invented in California by a Japanese, you know, or a Japanese-American sushi chef who thought, who realized that the avocado would actually be a good substitute for fatty tuna, you know, because they're very similar in some texture and paste.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's talk about eggplant parmesan. Is eggplant parmesan part of Italian cuisine, or is it Italian-American cuisine? Who wants to just Stabbit? American It is actually It is from Italy

I am horrible At the skin He's tricky He's very tricky I feel like he's in our brains Or something How about How about nachos

Were they created I believe Nautos were created here And in fact I think I've been to the restaurant That claims to have invented them In California So

The Someone Yeah so we'll see here The story in fact is that they were invented in a border town right in Mexico where a lot of like US Army type people were stationed but it was actually created in Mexico and the chef who says that he created them his nickname was Nacho he like threw it together for them and they were like what is this and he's like

oh it's Nacho is a special you know so it's named after a person yes that's cool that is that is the story now again so many of these things other people claim that they did it right these are the more most commonly accepted stories Chapino Is that American? Yes. It's San Francisco. It was created by Italian-American immigrants

in the North Beach or Fisherman's Warf area of San Francisco. Now, again, it comes from an Italian word, but the type of soup, but the actual dish that we know of as Chapino was fundamentally like made in America. Kung-Pao chicken. Karen. Actually Chinese.

Yes. We knew one of these. Kung Pao chicken is actually Chinese, yes. In fact, so it is named after a guy, a certain figure per person, and Kung Pao is a horrible mangling of this name. Kung Bao. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So a lot of places, when that guy fell out of favor politically,

they started just calling it like spicy chicken with spices and whatever, yeah. Freedom fries. Yeah, right, precisely, yeah, yeah, yeah. Calzone. Well, I'm going to say authentic. It is. It is, in fact, Italian street food. How about Chimichangas?

That's just like a fried burrito, right? It is like a fried burrito, yep. I'm going to say American because we love deep frying stuff. Accidentally invented by a chef in Tucson. Yeah, she accidentally dropped a burrito in the friar. The story is, and this might be too good to be true, but she said the burrito accidentally went into the friar, and she started to say a very bad word in Spanish that starts with shit.

And instead of saying that, she just said, Chimmychanga, which means thing of a jig or something like thing of a jig. That is a really good story. It is a great. I hope it's true. It's probably not true. If you had a deep fry, you had one of a burrito in it. Right, right.

Oh, no, yeah. She fried all sorts of things. That was just the first of one. Yes, you've got to be fried. Oops. So, okay, so the final question. The Fortune cookie. Was it invented?

Okay, sorry. Was it invented in China or was it invented in America? America. America as well. I'm going to say America as well. You are all incorrect. No. The fortune cookie was invented in Japan.

There are woodblock etching. Oh, yeah, so the answer is no. So neither. It wasn't invented or China nor America. Well, that's a weird question, but it's not authentic Chinese. So they're actually called Suji Ura Senbe. They look exactly like fortune cookies. There's like woodblock etchings of them.

They still sell them in temples, where if you go to Japanese temples, they give you a paper fortune. So they sold you the cookies, which were the same shape, except for the only thing they did was they put the fortune into the crook of the cookie instead of putting it in the hollow part of it. And again, like there is documented, backed up, like woodblock etchings from the 18th century, predating. Now, the thing is, two of the people who, two of the people who said that they first started serving them in America, one of them works in the Japanese tea garden in San Francisco in the early 1900s. And then there was another person who said, no, I was the first one to serving fortune cookies.

And he said, I was inspired by the cookies that they sold at temples. And so, interestingly enough, fortune cookies were originally in America, part of Japanese cuisine. And at some point, it transferred from Japan to China. And actually, what I read,

I'm not entirely sure if this is true or not, it's hard to kind of gauge. But it's like when the U.S. government started interning Japanese immigrants, there was nobody left to actually make fortune cookies, you know, who wasn't like an in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in in tournament camp so that's when the chinese were able to get in and start and start making them

that that i cannot verify that but it is absolutely true that fortune my eyeballs are going to fall out of my head that's crazy right because typically what people think is they were made in america ah i'm trying not sick oh they make every other vowel sound A, I, you. Sometimes why. Yeah. Sounds creepy. All right, I have a little quiz here.

That's the kind of thing that I personally love, which is about celebrity names. So, you know, we love the kind of quizzes of, you know, stage names to real name or matching those kind of quizzes. The focus of this quiz is about mononyms. So people who are famous with a single name. Now, it's even more specific than that. So, you know, there are a lot of classic people, like Bono from YouTube.

Paul Houston is his real name. But Bono is not really his real name at all. Or Sting is Gordon Summers. So those are a couple throwaways I'm going to give you right there. I'm talking about now about people who's actually used their real given birth names. So the way we're going to structure it is we're going to start with some famous first name celebrities. I'm going to give you their last names. And you see if you can tell me the first name.

And we'll start with one that I think that you guys will know just so you can sort of see how this goes. Madonna. So the first last name, if I were to say, Chaconay, you would say. Madonna. Madonna. Exactly. Her given name is Madonna, Louise Chaconan.

Now that's out of the way. All right. Yes, that's why that was first for a reason. Let's watch it out of the scene. Here we go. So again, I'm giving you the last names. Sarkisian. What?

Oh, man. Chris. Share. That is correct. Sherilyn Sarkisian. Sherilyn Sarkisian. Good job. Yes, a famous one for Cher.

Now, this is actually interesting in the course of researching this. She now is saying that she may think. that her given name may actually be Cheryl and that there was some sort of mix up between getting the name out and putting on the birth certificate. So it is either Cheryl or Sherilyn, but either way, Cher, her given name. That's right. All right. Here we go. I'm not going to change the poster. You have now at the Palazzo. Oh, I thought you meant your share posters in your bedroom, I thought you know. Oh, yeah. I will mark her in the while. Nelson.

Dana. Prince. It is Prince. Yes, that is his real given name. Prince. Prince Nelson. Prince Rogers Nelson. This is hard. All right. Next one. Here we go. Goodman's daughter. I think you guys, I think Chris was first. Bjork. It is, in fact, Bjork. I sort of learned this and looking at traditional Icelandic names. It's one of those cultures where you go by a single name. So even though, you know, we would say that her last name is Goodman's daughter, like in Icelandic culture, she is just. Burek, whether she's formal, informal, whatever it is. Right. She's like, Samuel. And I can give you a, this one, my little tricky, I can give you a longer name here.

Okay, all right. All right. So, Blank, Henry, Ola Segun, Olimidae, Adiola, Samuel. Dana. Is it Seal? It is Seal. His first name is Seal? His first name is Seal.

Seal Samuel, yes. Seal Samuel. Seal Henry, Seal Henry, Samuel. Or that was his fuller name with the Yorubu names in there as well, yes. Seale Samuel. Hansen. Beck. It is Beck.

He's gone by Beck Hansen for his whole recording career. He was actually born Beck, David Campbell, Beck with No C, B, E.K. So a little bit of a stage modification. Weird name. Yes, Beck Campbell, now Beck Hanson. We're going to switch it up now. So these are people famous by their given last names. Got it.

I will give you the first and middle names to make it a little bit easier here for you. All right. So, again, I'm looking for the last name. Stephen Patrick Blank. Karen. Segal. No. Stephen Patrick Blank.

Spilberg. No. Again, these are people named by a single name, monomyn. Mononym. Stephen Patch. He's a singer of a very famous British band. Stephen Patrick Morrissey All right

One more here Wadju Valentino Blank WL-A-D-Z-I-U It is a Polish name Wajou Valentino

Blank The middle name might be more of a clue to the ethnicity of the name we're looking for Dana single name Vers that she No It's on Tiffick-Carrin's tongue

Liberace Liberace Yes the son of a Polish mother and an Italian father Yes that's right I was doing so good at the beginning of that quiz And then just We'll close out with this super super easy

Throwaway here Just because it's one of my favorite ones here Galilei Galileo It is in fact Galileo Galileo Galileo Galilei And that's famous mononyms Hey

That was kind of hard So last week When we were talking about the Olympics And I talked about the mascots Like it reminded me of Muppets And then I was like I know a lot about Muppets I was like I think that should be my tribute

All right The Muppets It's time to put on makeup It's time to dress up It's time to get started Why don't you get them started I always dreamed We'd be back here

Dreams those were nightmares It's time to get things started So for the young ins, Muppets, we got some reviews from people who like hearing about the olden days of the 80s. The olden days of the 80s. Before I was born. We're going to blow your minds. And the days before computer graphics, we had to make our fanciful characters. Yes, out of cloth and sticks.

When I was your age. We didn't have PlayStation 3. Had an old sock. We liked it. Just to kick it off with a really easy gimmick. The term Muppet was coined by whom? Jim Henson. Jim Henson, yes.

So he said that that word was a portmanteau of two words. What is Muppet? Manual puppet? No. That sounds a little bit too clinical. It's not as good. It's something and puppet. Something and magic?

No. We have an answer from our studio. I want to go. No. Oh, no. She said moth and a puppet. It's not a mop and a puppet. I give up.

Marionette and a puppet. Mary Annette. Okay. So the voice of Kermit the Frog was performed by Jim Hinson and then Steve Whitmerer. Kermit was also voiced by what famous voice actor and Muppet babies. And this guy comes up a lot for us. Frank Welker. Yes.

He's everywhere. I am his podcast foremost expert. All right. He's also a good answer to every question about who voiced his character. So in the 1979, the Muppet movie, Kermit performed what song? It was an Oscar-nominated song. It's the Rainbow Connection. Okay.

Can you complete the following lyric? Yes. Maybe. Someday we'll find it, a rainbow connection. The Lovers, the Dreamers, and Me. Yes. So speaking of Muppet music, who was the house band on The Muppet Show? Dr. Teeth and the Electric Man.

That's right. Can you guys name three members of the band? Karen? I only name one. That's all right. We'll each name one. Animal. Yes.

Floyd. Floyd. Floyd. We got to know Floyd. I feel like the other ones only have one name, but you picked the one who has like a longer name. Floyd, T. Puppet. Sergeant Floyd.

It was like a mix-up of Pink Floyd and... Oh, that's good. Oh, gosh. Well, I mean, there was Dr. T. of course but that's kind of a comment what was the girl what was the girl the long janis i was like they also had lips and zoot what muppet wrote a new york times bestselling book that was a guide to life huh it's got to be miss piggy it was miss piggy she's the only one who's diva enough to write as yeah a guide to life book so the muppets were also on sesame street so i have to ask some sesame street questions of course

of course all right so um sesame street's main protagonist big bird starred in what 19 85 movie and it was probably one of the most depressing and scarring movies I've ever seen. What was it? The movie is called Follow That Burr. Yes. Makes children cry. Some things cannot be unseen. Big Burr just gets lost and sings songs about

how he misses his family. Yes, oh God, so sad. Yeah, it's just a festival of melancholy. Oh, man, yeah. That's the worst festival. Why did I buy a ticket to this festival of Melancholy? So in 2011, Sesame Street introduced a new Muppet named Lily to raise awareness about what, so issue oh uh was lily HIV positive no I was gonna say that as a joke no I think

no they did they had a positive Muppet yeah really yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah she was to teach kids about food insecurity for children like she never knew when her next meal was gonna come and this was like one in four kids has experiences food insecurity so yeah yeah yeah yeah okay so I'm gonna end it on on a happy note. They have some really awesome funny names for Muppets.

I'll give you the clue and you guys figure out what the name is and I think you'll figure it out. All right. All right. What would you call a sheep detective?

Uh, bah. Sheeplock homes. I don't know. Basel. No. Whoa. Basel.

Raphone. You guys, I give up. Calambo. Calambo. That's really cute. That's good. That's good.

Dear Sesame Street, would like to request you change name of Klambo. That's great. To either A. Sheeplock Holes or B, Bazelrathbone. What would you name an operatic flamingo? Placidio Flamingo? Yes. Oh, my goodness.

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All right. My turn, I believe. And this one's a little bit different. So my quiz segment is a blend of trivia and very light a riddle solving. And I'm going to call it mash it up. So mash it up out. So in this segment, I will be reading out a riddle. And what's important is the format of the answer I'm looking for. So the riddle will clue to two answers, and the two answers share a word.

So the last word of the first answer is the same word as the first word of the second answer. So, a little bit confusing. All right, I quit. And I'm out. For example, if I say, what liberated whale owns a magical chocolate factory? Free Willy Wonka. Yes. Okay.

All right. So now I got a little taste. He's got a lot of faith, the faith, the faith, and a lot of gold medals. George Michael Phelps Correct Very good All right These are all so

They all sound so silly Okay This sounded so good when I was writing it What is Mad Men's Joan Holloway's Favorite brand of alcohol Um Christina Hendricks gin

Correct Very good Yeah yeah yeah This might be my favorite one Who sang the song, Do You Really Want to Hurt Sulu? Oh, Colin. Boy, George Takey. Okay.

Who was Cleopatra's boyfriend who starred in Top Gun? Mark Anthony Edwards. Correct. You're very fast. She called, actually, her pet name for Mark Anthony was Goose. Trivia. Trivia. All right.

He rocks in the treetops all day long, most likely in the Sherwood Forest. Rock and Robin Hood. Rock and Robin Hood. Correct. This is ridiculous. Oh, great. What is Tina Turner actress's favorite dog breed? Oh, my God.

I hate you. Angela Bassett. How? Wow. I thought you guys would. be so happy. I'm laughing. I'm just getting a lot of groans.

We're going to end on this one. May this American historical writer with gorgeous and well-moisterized hair rest in peace. I mean, it's something about shampoo, some shampoo brand.

Yeah, oh, what is it? Gore-Vidal Sissu. Oh, yeah. If you guys are groaning, I mean, give you more to groaning. I want to share some of the failed ones. Maybe we'll get these.

I have to axe because... Yeah, maybe we'll get them. They're funny, but the thing is they don't technically share the same word. So I didn't use them technically. Because they don't technically follow the rules I set forth. The cheese that you just want to give it away, give it away, give it away now. I believe that's red hot chili pepper jack. Yes.

It's what you're going on. All right. It's like red hot cheesy. I see, but it's peppers. Yeah, yeah, yeah, right. So the question is, who lives deep in the 100-acre woods? Who enjoys Asian appetizers? The winnie-poo platter.

That would have been fine. Yeah. So there go. Mashed up. That was funny. That was good. That was funny. Angela Bassett-Hound.

Well, let's take it into a little bit of a geography, world knowledge, kind of quiz that I've put together. Yeah, it's a little bit of a grab bag. We're going international for this one here. Flyer, first class. Yum, Beninos. All right, we'll start off close to home here in the U.S. And this one may just be a speed contest, see who buzzes in first. What is, no, no, no, I think this is a language one. What is the only letter of the alphabet that does not appear in the name of a U.S. state?

Every other letter is represented in the name of a U.S. state except... I think that was Karen. Cute. It is cute. Yes. There's a Z, Arizona. Mexico. Yeah.

New Jersey. New Jersey. Oh, yeah. Okay. So one of the oft-repeated fun facts about Disney World in Florida is that it is basically the same size as San Francisco. And, in fact, this is true. It is actually slightly larger than the city itself of San Francisco. So, leaving that aside, I'm going to give you three places,

and I want you to put them in order of square mileage. So they are Disney World, the country Lichtenstein, and Bermuda, the island of Bermuda. I want you to put them in order from smallest to largest. I'll go with Bermuda, Disney World, Lichtenstein. Correct. If you're a little bigger than seven miles by seven. Bermuda is 21 square miles. Disney World is 47 square miles, and Lichtenstein is 62 square miles, so not much bigger.

Just a scosh. Just a scosh. The international date line, so you guys know, it's the line that runs down the earth, which separates the calendar days from the other, okay? So, and it's pretty much opposite the prime meridians on the other side of the world. Now, it doesn't go straight down because they kind of try and have it not break up countries. So the international date line is kind of zigzag as it goes down the earth. What is the first country on the international date line to experience a new day every day?

And basically, meaning, what is the easternmost part of the international date line? What country? Chris. Russia. Incorrect. New Zealand. Close but incorrect. Samoa.

It is, I'm going to give you partial credit for Samoa. It is actually Kiribati, which is very close to Samoa, but runs just enough. further east that they get it before Samoa does. So Kiribati's the first earliest country, I guess. Yes, the line islands in Kiribati see a new day before any other country. Wow. It's the saying, hey girl is it tomorrow? Because you've got a

Kiribati. What? That's top shell. That's a good pickup line. That is top shell. Wow. That's great. True story. That's how you got your fiancee, right? That is. I'm so kidding. The Southern Cross is a star constant. And you can see it in the Southern Hemisphere. It is featured on the flags of five countries. Now, four of these countries are Commonwealth countries.

And you see it on a lot like Australia and New Zealand, the Southern Cross, the Star Constellation of the United States. Those were the ones I know. So I want you guys to tell me the one that is not a Commonwealth country. So there are five flags. There's Australia, New Zealand, Papua, those are all Commonwealth countries. What is the other country where you can see the Southern Cross. constellation featured on the flag.

I'm going to throw this out there. Maybe I'm wrong. Is it Brazil? It is Brazil. Yes. Oh, it's a little. Oh, yeah. I don't know the flag looks like there's a line in a James Taylor song, only a dream in Rio when she talks about the Southern Cross. Ah, yep, no, it is. If you look on the flag of Brazil, and yes, it has several constellations on there, and the Southern Cross is the one basically right in the middle.

And if you look at it, it really does form a cross shape. So I've got one more quiz for you guys, and it is called Superheroes. just made up Uh-huh. Sling us a web, you're the Spider-Man, sling us a web tonight,

because we're all in the mood for a hero now, and there's evil-doers to fight. There are many words the English language that end with the letters M-A-N, so I will describe the superhero, and you will tell me

what that superhero is, and of course the superhero's name is going to be just a word in the English language that... That is fine! I think I understand. Now, a lot of these, it's going to be like the letters M&N are there because that means it actually does mean man. For example, if I were to

say, I'm going to give you the tagline off of this superhero's comic book that I mentioned in my mind. So if I were to say he'll make your head ring. It's Bellman. Oh, okay. Got it. Got it? Okay. All right. Okay. And of course, the answer does not count

unless you say it like, Bell man. Enthusiasm is part of the correct answer. Exactly, yes. Okay. He fights for truth, justice, and saving bachelors from how to learn how to use an oven. He's... The woman. Oh, the four men.

Four men. Beware his pipe cleaners and tacky glue. Craft man. Craftsmen. Claspman. Crasman, sorry. Hey, can you help him find the dining hall? It's...

The Freshman. Yes. Oh, that's good. Okay. His secret power, relaxing on a group of tropical islands owned by the British. Jamaica, man. Oh. Bahaman.

No. Oh. That was good. That was good. K-man. K-man Island. His eyes shoot beams of sauerkraut. German.

What? Beams of sauerkraut? They have special sauerkraut goggles to cover it. He's three balls of ice cold fury. The snow. He's snowman. Yes. It's so dumb. It's very.

One for you. 19 for him. He is, of course, the tax man. Yay. Yes. In spirit of the late, George Harrison. Yes. Oh, that's why Beatles.

We're like, what? Oh, my face hurts. So, it's good. Oh, man. Remember when all quiz episodes are about facts? Yeah. We're a little loopy in this one. Break the mold.

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So I've mentioned before that in honor of our sponsor Bonobos that I wanted to do a quick weird animal reproduction mini segment because everyone knows I love talking about animals doing it. Yep, yep, love talking about animals getting freaky. So I'm going to call our last segment getting freaky. So in this segment, we're all going to share some of our favorite animal sex fact. We've mentioned before Bonobo is not only fun to say, but the term refers to a species of apes that are popularly known for their high levels of sexual activity. And unlike, say, chimpanzees or other similar primate communities, where outsiders may be treated in a really hostile and aggressive way.

We've seen kind of like footage of chimpanzees being angry. Very territorial. Yep, yep, and ripping people's faces off. So the bonobos are extremely and extraordinarily peaceful, probably most likely due to the heavy and abundant amount of sex they have. And in their society, sex functions in appeasing conflicts and fights. When they're excited, they have sex. When they're stressed, they have sex to reduce.

stress. They talk about them. I mean, they're an animal that's almost moved past violence. They talk about. It's kind of amazing. Actually, sex happens in virtually all partner combinations. And also a large... No judgments. Yeah, no, no. No. Also, uh, happens in a large variety of positions. To a bonobo style. Yeah. Beautiful. It's beautiful. It's beautiful. So last week I talked a little bit about the Kidna, which was an Australian mammal that was one of the Olympic big mascots in 2000. Echidna kind of looks like a porcupine or a hedgehog.

It's spiky. And it's the only other mammal besides platypus that lays eggs. The male echidnas have a four-headed penis. That's awfully ambitious, if I do say so myself. Not just two, but four. When they're reproducing basically two go inactive and then two go into the battle. And then they basically switch off during the mating process. It's the WWB tag team match.

Yes, with itself. With itself. So the male, Akina is not having sex with four other female inkiness. No, no. Just the one. But he comes with his own backup.

Ingressive. That is really unusual. I feel like now everybody's going to go Google. Image search that. I bet if you just type in echidna, it'll auto-complete penis. It'll auto-complete penis. Because they're not interesting in any other way.

Well, I was like, I'm looking into a little bit into eagle mating, and this is the fact I had heard before. I just wanted to kind of get a little bit more clarification on. So the Eagles have a really interesting mating ritual, mating dance. So this is before the actual mating takes place, they will fly up in the air, and they have like a mating cartwheel, is what it's called. Oh, cool. So they will sort of dive and swoop at each other, the male and the female eagle, and then they will grasp talons. Oh, that's so cute.

It's like they're holding hands, you know, and their talents are grasped and they're spinning, and they will plummet and kind of twirl around, and they break apart at the very last minute before they hit the ground. Yes, this doesn't sound evolutionarily advantageous, but this is how they do it, and this is part of the cartwheel mating dance that they do, and this is, then they'll break apart right before they hit, and then if it's a successful mating ritual, they'll go and do the actual deal. They won't die on the ground. Well, I found an article from a couple years ago, actually, an AP article. They found in Valdez, Alaska. They found two eagles that had slammed into a snowbank because they didn't disentangle in time. They were able to bring the female to a bird treatment center. But unfortunately, the male eagle died.

So it's this serious business, this mating dance. And, yeah, they're moving at really high speeds if they don't separate in time. Romeo and Juliet Maybe they need the adrenaline to get going Right to get just to get turned on It's like a game of chicken or, you know, eagle It's a game of eagle, yeah A sexy eagle

Right, it's a game of sexy eagle The old sexy eagle So I don't know about you guys, you're animals That are going around, engaging in mating rituals all the time But the animal that I looked up, the giraffe is much more discerning about who he mates with because the male giraffe will only mate with the female giraffe if she is in heat, if she is in ovuling, right? And otherwise, he will not even bother.

Typical male giraffe. Am I right, ladies? Yeah, so basically, no, he just won't even bother. He's like, well, we're not going to have kids, so I mean, why are we even doing this? And it's like, yeah, just no sense of excitement. So anyway, how do you tell if a female giraffe is in heat? Well, as it turns out, if you're a male giraffe, is you go off. up behind her and you bump

her butt with your head which which causes her to pee and surprise and then you get yourself a good mouthful urine and drink it again I'm not suggesting that you

my fellow podcasters or listeners do this I'm saying you are a male wrap and because different hormones and etc. inside of the urine when the female is in heat, he switches it around in his mouth. And he can smell just based on the chemical levels.

Just based on the taste, basically. And if the urine tastes good, he's like, okay, I guess we can make some baby giraffes. So how often is he checking? Like, I wonder how many times is he right. Every ten minutes. People think they're like, yeah, every, yeah. They never want to mate, but they always want to drink your urine. Right, right, right.

That's why you think it's so cool to be a male giraffe, like, oh, you can eat the really high leaves and stuff like that. I don't know, you guys probably thought the same thing. All the time. All the time, Chris. But then as it turns out, you've got to do a lot of urine drinking. It's a lot more work than... There's a lot of footwork. Yeah.

So basically, the urine drinking really outweighs the high leaf eating. This is the second episode. We talked about drinking urine. Yeah. Well, no, and again, I don't even think it's the good stuff, like the reindeer urine. You know what I mean? Like, the good... They get you high, you know?

Yeah, yeah. I think it just tastes like urine. And you don't even... And if they happen to be in heat, then it's going to be a messy day. So, that is our show. Sorry, people. Thank you guys for joining me. Thank you guys, listeners, for listening.

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