Good Job, Brain! - 251: Summer, Summer, Summertime

Episode Date: April 25, 2023

Just a few months shy from the scent of sunblock and chlorine, the taste of pink lemonade, the sound of radio jams, and the spectacle of the blockbuster. Yes all, it's time to sit back and unwind because it's summertime! We start with a tricky summer blockbuster quiz, and end with an epic AI-movie-trailer-voice-powered summer jams music challenge. Along the way, we bask in facts about lemonade (why does pink lemonade exist?!) and how would you go on to calculate just how many swimming pools there are in Los Angeles? 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, perfectly pumped pub problem punchers. Welcome to Good Job Brain, your weekly quiz show and off-beat trivia podcast. This is episode 251, and of course, I'm your humble host, Karen, and along with me, are our crazily crafty acranial cream puffs. I'm Colin. And I'm Chris. All right.

I just want to start today's show with a quick shout out to Leslie, who now lives in Seattle, who we're recording now at like 9.30 p.m., six hours ago, who recognized me at the airport. Oh, yes. I was at San Francisco for work, for a work trip, and we were on the same flight back to Seattle. My husband facetined me at the airport, showing me the dog sleeping. And then he says, hey, I got to go. And I'm like, you called me. I got many more important things to do right now.

I mean, I got to go back to watching the dog sleep. I hung up the phone. I was like, well, that was weird. And the person across from me was like, are you Karen? And I go, yeah. Huh? And then she said that she listens to Good Job Brain and recognize my voice from that terribly embarrassing interaction on the phone with my husband. Leslie, I am impressed. I mean, I would have to be 600% sure that I know the person. I mean, like, just on that short of a sample, I mean, and you know, we're, you know, there was not a video production that we do here. Even if it's like a famous person, I'm not even like show.

We were at a restaurant once. We were at kids. Literally, like, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was there. And there was, like, this one was like, do you think that's Kareem Abdul-Dab? It's like, yes, yes, it's Kareem-A-Bul-Jabbar. It is Karema, yeah. That's so funny, my husband also spotted Kareem-A-Bul-Jabar once.

Well, I guess he's easy to spot. Yeah, that's true. Tall man. Even in a crowd. Oh, man. So, yeah, thank you. Thank you, Leslie. I was such a fun, fun interaction.

And Colin, we need a boop-p-p-p-p-up update on your dice game, on your game. I have been so delighted. I did. I just launched a dice and cards game called Bear Bones. I have been absolutely delighted how many good job Brain listeners have gone to our site, given us their hardered money, bought our game. We've been packing them up, shipping them out. It's really surreal, I have to say, like after working on this thing for so long,

to, you know, bring it into the world and hold it in your hands. It's like having, you know, 500 little cardboard boxes of babies. Well, that's a bad analogy, I guess. But the game is going great. Thank you to everybody who has bought the game. If any of you would like to check the game out, see if you like it. Take a look at it. You can go to bare bones game.com.

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I'm very well trained now after 10 years. Use the promo code, $5 off if you use the code. Good job, brain. By the time this episode airs, boxes will already be in people's homes on their shelves, hopefully playing with their families. Cool. All right. Well, without further ado, let's jump a do.

A-D-O. It's not a-JU. Yeah, it's not the French. It's a-D-U. It's like without further doing it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what's like that? There's the super cut of Alex

Trebek being Canadian he you know with French words he's very very respectful of the French pronunciation so it's like a super cut of him saying genre genre the genre this genre it's one syllable when he does it I mean that's the beautiful it's incredible uh all right pop quiz hot shot Trivial Pursuit normal version blue wedge for geography I got a random card you guys have your barnyard buzzers let's Answer some questions. Blue Edge for Geography. Which is the only U.S. state capital city with not a single McDonald's fast food joint.

Oh, my gosh. The only U.S. state capital city. So not only do you have to know the state. Right. Right. And, yeah, let's just go the other direction. There's got a mean McDonald's in Sacramento, Chris. Right.

So that's one down. Yeah, yeah, good. Just knock them off. What if it was? was Anchorage, Alaska. Ooh. I see which are going like, yeah, like Alaska. I don't think that's the capital.

That's not the capital. Yeah, and it's a Juneau, I'm pretty sure. Yeah. Juno, Juneau. You know, it's one syllable when Alex Trebek says it. Yeah. It is not. It's a contiguous.

Okay. All right. As you guys are thinking, I'm quickly doing really quick research to see if there's a reason. For a notable reason or is it just a random fact? That's the thing. It's like, is it just a whole thing where they just don't, like McDonald's. Okay. Okay. So this this city also doesn't have a

Burger King. In terms of population, 7,500 people. They tend to favor local businesses over large chains. It is on the East Coast. Before you throw those clues out, I was going to say Montpelier of Vermont.

Yes. Yes. Oh. What? How? Wow. I mean, I can see local, favoring local stuff. Yeah. I didn't know Montpelier was that small. Did you say 7,500 people? 100. Yeah. Wow. Okay.

All right. Pink Wedge for pop culture, which Bridesmaid, who was upstage in the film by Rose Byrne, was herself a serial one-upper on SNL. It's the circuitous way to say who was in the movie

Bridesmaids with Rose Byrne. Oh, goodness. Okay. Okay, is it Kristen Wigg? It is Kristen Wig. Okay, all right. What is the movie? that mean serial one

upper? I don't I don't understand what they mean by that. This is too clever. Yeah, yeah. It's like Oh, like, because her character, right? With the, the, who was like the embellishing character, right? Yes, Penelope.

As the annoying Penelope, she invented kayaks and made a summer home on cheaper. Got it. Yeah. Yellow Wedge. Which London department store was started by an American retailer in 19, I can name two, and it's one.

Yeah, I know, I'm going to guess one. Yeah, I'm going to guess one. Herod's. No, the other one. The other one. Collin. Is that Fort Newman Mason? No.

I guess there's a third one. Selfridge. Selfridge. Selfridge. I definitely heard of them. Yeah, yeah. Selfridge. Okay.

Founded by an American. Sorry, self ridges. It's multiple of them. Many ridges. It's like a ruffles chip. Purple Wedge, which novel by Emma Donahue, narrated by five-year-old boy, was made into a movie that snagged the lead actress in Oscar. That makes sense. Oh, oh, yeah.

Oh, no, I have no idea. Colin. It's just the room, right? What's the title of this movie? Just room? It is just, it's room. It's just, it's room. It's just room, right, yeah, it's just room, sorry.

Yes, definitely not to be used with the room. No, just room. Brie Larson. Yeah, right, right, right. Here we go. Green Wedge for Science. How many people does it take to drive an autonomous vehicle? That was a trick.

Chris, please. Zero. It is zero. Flavor text here, also known as self-driving cars. Autonomous cars operate without a driver. last question on this card orange wedge sports and leisure headquartered in oh god headquartered in beaverton oregon let's just throw in some guesses now headquartered in beaverton oregon Nike corporation which athletic company was once known as blue ribbon

sports founded in 1964 they changed their name to Nike in 1971 all right let's do another card. Pop culture too, pop two culture, whatever it is. This one I just scanned and it looked hard. That's why I feel like doing this card might be fun. Okay. Blue Wedge for TV. What series follows the exploits of Max Guevara in a bleak Seattle after an electromagnetic pulse-fried most of North America's electronics? I'll say that again. What series, so TV series, follows the exploits of Max Guevara. an oblique Seattle after an electromagnetic pulse fried most of North America's electronics. Hmm. Man, this sounds...

I don't know. Vaguely familiar. I don't know. Oh. Okay, the answer is Dark Angel. Isn't that Jessica Alba? Was that the one right? Okay.

And that was like produced by like James Cameron, right? Is that the one? I don't know. She was the star of that show. I know. Maybe her name is Max. Or maybe her name is Max. That's right.

It is. Her name is Max. There's no way a woman can be named Max, Taryn. It's not possible. Pink Wedge for Fad. How many years is a phone number on the U.S. Do Not Call Registry Off Limits to Telemarketers. I didn't even know this was available. This was available. Colin. Seven. Lower, Chris, hazard a guess. Five.

It is five. many years. I don't know if it's currently five, but yeah. Okay. Yellow Wedge for Buzz. What world leader, according to longtime mistress Parasula Lampsos, claimed his favorite Sinatra tune was Strangers in the Night. Wow. One more time. Okay. Sorry. What world leader? World leader. Okay. Wow. According to his longtime mistress, Parasula Lampsoz claimed his favorite Sinatra tune was Strangers in the Night. I'll tell you, before I saw the answer, I mean, my guess was Marcos. Ferdinand Marcus. Yeah, Ferdinand Marcus, because, you know, as we talked about singing Sinatra in the Philippines and karaoke is like a big. Good guess. A big thing. Yeah. Good guess. Good guess. But it is not. Strangers in the night. Okay. Go for it.

Saddam Hussein. Yes, you are. No way. I thought I was joking. Okay, all right. Good job, brain music. What country star has been backed by the Nash Ramblers, Spy Boy, and the Hot Band? I feel like Chris would actually know this. Yeah. Sing this answer.

What country? Country. It is a woman. Okay. Reba McIntyre. It is Emmylou Harris. Emily, yes. Emmy.

Okay. Well, I can't say that. Emilu. Emilu. Emilu. Emilu. Emilu. Okay.

Green wedge for movies. What actor plays Frank Whitaker, who leaves his wife for the other man in far from heaven. Wow. What a deep cut? Okay. What actor plays Frank Whitaker who leaves his wife for the other man in far from heaven? Wow. Damn.

Man. I'm going to say, do you? not know. Okay. I don't know. I don't know if I know this one. I think Julian Moore is the wife, uh, and Dennis Quaid is the husband. It is Julianne Moore. Wow. Wow. Good job. Uh, last question. Sports and games. How many consecutive tour de France did Lance Armstrong win? Ooh. Consecutive. I'll let Carl take a stab at this one. Yeah, yeah. It was a lot, man. Was it, was it, was it six, seven. Oh, seven.

Wow. All right. Good job, Brains. Wow, that was it. That was, you know, for pop culture, that was actually a really hard card. All right. Well, folks, it's our spring season. We are in the full flower of spring, and you know what that means.

Allergies. Yay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, right. No, I was going to say, I was, yeah, we're all like just, yeah. No, what I was going to say is that means that, you know, generally what follows spring is summer. And so that kind of got me thinking of like, you know, usually, right? And so it was like, oh, why don't we talk about this upcoming summer that we're going to have? Let's have a little episode about summer.

Summer is now so different. Yeah. Now as a parent. Yeah. Now it's not like, oh, summer vacation, yay. It's like, oh, God, summer vacation. They're going to be in the house. What are we going to do with these people?

Yeah, I have to work. Yeah. So this week, you guys, just like DJ Jazzy Jeff, says, it's summer, summer, summer, summertime. So I did something recently that I have not done in a really long time, which is I went to the movies. Uh-huh. Oh, I bet I can guess what movie you watch. I bet you can guess what movie I watched.

What did I see in the theaters, Karen? Darren. Da-na-da-da-da-da-da. The Super Mario Bros. movie, correct. Yes. Took the oldest child to the theaters for the first time in, like, you know, three years. Yeah, three years. Two of the movies to see the Super Mario Brothers movie, and it was great. We had fun.

He pronounced it. It's his favorite movie ever. I'm like, that's recency bias. Was it his first time in a theater? You know, his, no, his first time at a theater was we saw right before, right before everything closed we saw onward the Pixar movie onward in the theater wow great it was Pratt double feature it was exactly so the only actor he's ever seen in the theater is Chris Pratt and got me thinking about while we're doing the summer episode oh I shoot something about like summer

blockbusters because you know Super Mario Brothers movie was huge it's the biggest movie of the year so far it's got to make a ton of money it could be the biggest movie of the year period who knows it's been it's been it's doing incredibly well so it got me thinking about the classic, the summer blockbuster. And so I got myself a list of the biggest, the number one summer blockbusters of every year, you know, going back to the 70s and constructed a little quiz around them. All right. So it's just pretty straightforward.

I'm going to tell you about some trivia about a film that was a summer blockbuster. And you just have to guess, you know, what movie I'm talking about. Are the constraints just that this movie was released in the summer? It was released in the summer, and of the year that it came out, it was the biggest hit of the summer. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Yeah, so we'll get you started, get those barnyard buzzers ready to go, because here it comes. Question number one, summer blockbuster trivia. All right.

Question one, when composer John Williams originally played this film's theme song for director Steven Spielberg, Spielberg laughed and said, that's funny, John, really, but what did you really have in mind? Holland it must be Jaws It is Jaws Very good It's like this is the theme This is the main theme of their movie When I was in second grades

This must have been 1988 They you know They did like reading groups in second grade Where they assessed all the kids reading levels And then they kind of had one group of kids come in You know and they like split off from the class Like do reading with a teacher And so the first day they did this

they split off the one group, and they did the thing where they had the kids name their reading group. Like, you know, and so. Always. Always a hazard. And so I'm in the third group. The third group sits down, and we find out that the first group of kids had come in, and they had named their reading group, Jaws. And the second group of kids had come in and named their reading group, Jaws, too. And thus, we were sort of peer-pressured by one.

kid into naming our group, Jaws the Revenge, which of course was the recent film that had come out, I think, the last year. Now, none of these kids should have seen this movie, not for all the, you know, but every, but it's like everybody knew all those movies, like whether or not you would seen it. So yes, our reading group was called Jaws Revenge. Funny you said that because my parents took me to that, to the third movie. Like, really? Worst nightmare. Being in an aquarium and a shark comes and attacks the glass tank and pokes through the glass. Every time I'm in aquarium, that's, like, all I think is. Not sitting in the front row.

No, no, no, no, no. Oh, my gosh. Well, I'm glad I didn't actually see the film. Jaws. The first summer blockbuster. Yes. Very, very well known as the number of the first time there was a summer blockbuster movie that was Jaws.

Question two. 2014, jumping ahead in time a little bit, 2014's biggest summer blockbuster featured, among others, John C. Riley, Glenn Close, and Benicio del Toro. Okay. Karen. This is another Chris Pratt. Is it Guardians of the Galaxy?

Yes, it is Guardians of the Galaxy. Wow. That's a good question. Among others. Among others, nice. Well, for us. Yeah, yeah. The cameos, yeah.

All right, question three. Question three, the biggest summer blockbuster of 2000 was this sequel, which reintroduced its main character by showing him doing a bare-handed free solo climb up a massive cliff in the Utah desert. Oh, all right. So, oh. Colin. Mission Impossible 2?

Mission Impossible 2. Okay. Okay. Not trying to trick you. All right, okay. Mission Impossible 2, famously by Tom Cruise doing the stunt himself. I, you know, really? Oh, yeah.

I know he does last stunts himself, but like, that's free climbing is hard. Yeah. And that was probably done on helicopter, like not drones yet. I believe so, yeah. Oh, yeah, it's like he had a wire harness on him that they kind of digitally removed. But he was still doing it. He was doing it. Yeah.

Nobody was helping him. Yeah. It is pretty wild to watch it. All right. How about question four? Question four, the original treatment for this summer blockbuster was titled Journal of the Wills. Oh, Star Wars. Star Wars, yeah, the treatment that George Lucas sat down originally and started writing out was titled Journal of the Wills.

Here's the first sentence, by the way, from the Journal of the Wills treatment that he wrote. You ready? Yeah, dear Will. No, W-H-I-L-L-S. All right, here it is. Ready? This is the story of Mace Windy, a revered Jedi Bendu of O'Fucci, as related to us by C.J. Thorpe, Padawan Lerner to the famed Jedi. Mace Windy.

Mace Windy. Mace Windy. And the hero of this film was C.J. Thorpe. That was the original name, C.J. Thorpe. Hilariously, the C. C. actually stood for Chewy. Ah. Chewy J. Thorpe.

Chewy J. I believe it was the, the J may have been a junior also. Chewy Thorpe Space accountant. I'm glad in a galaxy far away. They still honor the junior, senior, same name rule.

Yeah. And so, you know, George Lucas went and got that treatment out when he started writing Phantom Menace, he went and like reread the treatment. So obviously this, he saw Mace Windy and, you know, kind of brought that in. I love that.

Much more Star Wars. name Miss Wind do. Kicking around his head for 35 years. Decades. It's like, ah, I can't believe I forgot to use Mace Windy. Yeah.

Question five, this summer blockbuster about an adorable five-year-old boy debuted on June 6th, 1976. That's six-six-76, by the way. Karen. Is it the omen?

It's the omen. That was the day they did previews for it in the UK. And as when audiences were in the theater in the UK, they saw the movie. And as they're in the theater watching it, they were putting up more posters outside the showroom basically that read, today is the sixth day of the sixth month of 1976, you have been warned. because they didn't say like, oh, it's on 6676 to get people in. They sort of figured people would not notice that and then they hit it with them as they left. Give you something to say up at night about when you get home.

Exactly. Question six. In this summer blockbuster, acclaimed Australian actor Jeffrey Rush played a pelican named Nigel. Oh man. Pelican. Karen. It's Finding Nemo. It's Fighting Nemo. Yeah. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. It wasn't Jeffrey Rush dressed up like a bird. It was not Jeffrey Rush dressed up like a Pelican.

I definitely caught him that it was probably like a CG movie, but yeah. Question seven. The biggest summer blockbuster of 1978. was Greece. This is the musical featuring such songs as Greece. Greas hopelessly devoted to you summer nights and you're the one

that I want. Okay? Greece, hopelessly devoted to you, summer nights, you're the one that I want. Of those four songs, only one of them actually appeared in the Broadway musical on which the movie Greece was based. Wait, say the songs again?

Greece, hopelessly devoted to you, summer nights, you're the one that I want. Only one of them wasn't the moon. Only one of those four famous Greece songs was actually in the musical. Okay. Let's work this out. Work it out. I feel like it's not going to be Greece. Yeah.

Because that's like the pop song. It's just so poppy and cinematic. Yeah, that's what I feel. Okay, all right. Hopelessly devoted to you. Yeah. was like a big pop hit as well. And that was like such an Olivia Newton-John's song.

Summer Nights is such a like here introduce the characters. Yeah, let's go Summer Nights. Let's go Summer Nights. Okay, let's do Summer Nights. You got it. You figured it out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Summer Nights, you're absolutely right.

Summer Nights does really set up a lot and put the plot in motion. But yeah, you're the one that I want, the big ending. You know, that was added for the movie, hopelessly devoted to you. I think caring you're right on the money that was added as, you know, Olivia Newton-John's big. single, you know, like single for the movie. And then Greece, of course, was the intro song by Frankie Valley,

which, you know, had, yeah, nothing, nothing much stooped with the plot. Wasn't even in the, yeah. So how did the Broadway musical end? It didn't end with that. There's a song called All Shook Up, which is very kind of similar-ish to you're the one that I want, but it's not nearly as, uh, as infectious. Okay, okay. Yeah.

Badly, the Broadway musical ended badly. It's a weird musical. It's a, it's much less, um, there's much more of a plot in a three, line kind of you know going through um the the movie um that's what they kind of narrowed it down you know what i mean to the danny sandy story whereas in the the broad musical is very sort of a pastiche it's like lots and lots of things happening and lots of people getting their own solos and things like that got it got it got it got it anyway yeah greece biggest biggest hit of a big summer blockbuster of 78 uh question eight okay huh big summer blockbuster from the 90s

You probably have seen it. You've probably heard of it. You've definitely heard of it. You've probably seen it. But can you name it based on the names of its three main characters? Ooh, okay. Those names are, maybe you can. Maybe I don't know.

Molly Jensen, Sam Wheat, and Oda Mae Brown. Oh. That is ghost. That is ghost. That is definitely. ghost. It was not until you got to Oda Mae Brown. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She was so good. Yeah, Odomy. Oh, my God. Okay, so the last, got the last question for you, folks. It's the last question. Speaking of, we're going to stay on ghosts. Let's talk about 1984's biggest summer

blockbuster, Ghostbusters. All right. Hmm. Piece of trivia that I learned while I was making this quiz. Ghostbusters, the likeness and personality. of the ghost character Slimer were actually a deliberate homage to this Saturday Night Live comedian. Oh. Karen. It's got to be John Belushi.

It is John Belushi. Really? Animal House, John Belushi kind of. So basically, Slimer was based on, you know, John Belushi had passed away in 1982, so basically, you know, just before they were making this film, very close with Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramos, right? I mean, they basically based slimers look and his sort of blotness personality on John Belushi and his character, Bluto, from Animal House.

Whoa, really? Wow. Right. Yep. Go back, take a second look at slimer and his face, and there's a little John Belushi in there, basically. Wow. I'm going to have to watch that one with my daughter. She's maybe is getting old enough that she might appreciate it. It's not super scary. The librarian scene is so scary. You know what? She's she's kind of a rock. She likes to be scared. She's a kid who likes a little bit of thrill. Yeah. If you get through that, just like that first sort of jump scare at the beginning. It's not that frightening. All right. I'm going to watch for the balusiness of the slimer. A memoir by Columptocosity. Yeah. Guys, if you were to name a drink of the summer, like a summertime drink, what would it be? Lemonade. Lemonade. Lemonade. Yes. Do you actually.

actually drink lemonade during the summer. When I was a kid, for sure, I did more. Did you make it at home or do you order it? Like, do you drink it out of a can? I remember making lemonade at home with my dad literally one time, one time. We had actually a lemon tree on our property. Not from concentrate. Out in the alley, not the alley, but like on the side of the house.

And it, you know, it didn't put out really robust lemons, but it was one of those things. One summer, it was, like, super hot. And, like, I was there and my dad was there. And one of his friends was over. One of us just said kind of casually joking, like, oh, we should make some lemonade. It's really hot. And my dad's friend is like, let's make some lemonade. So my dad's like, yeah, let's make some lemonade.

So we pulled the lemons off and went inside and squeezed them up and add the sugar, you know, a little back in the end. And, like, it was just one of those things. Like, this is not worth the effort. Like, even at, like, even at like, eight years old, I was like, I was like, I was so much more comfortable 20 minutes ago than I was now even with. Right. I'm sweating. I had to go pick lemons. And then I just made the lemonade and it's not even cold, you know. Yeah. Yeah. A couple episodes ago in our good morning brain episode, which was all about morning stuff, I blew my own mind and hopefully everybody else's minds when I looked into why do we drink orange juice in the morning?

Because you think it has vitamin C, it's healthy for you, it's an ancient tradition, you know, like, turns out it was an advertising ploy. Orange got the morning slot and lemons got the afternoon lunchtime slot. I've always had a question when I came to America. Because I didn't understand it, I just made a reasoning for it in my head, is the phenomenon of pink lemonade. What is the difference between pink lemonade and normal lemonade? For people who are outside of the U.S., I don't know if you guys have pink lemonade as well, but it is pink lemonade. Is it the same? How is it different?

What do you think is the difference? As a kid, I was always baffled by this. As a kid, like in my head, I think I just decided that, like, pink lemonade was, I don't know, like tartar or more. or something, but, you know, I just convinced myself of whatever I needed. Yeah, I can never get a straight answer from the grownups. I'll be honest with you. Yeah, I don't know if it has a different flavor. Because you see it in candies too, right?

You have pink lemonade flavor and there's lemon flavor. And like, what's the difference? In my head, I thought it was the species of lemon pink and flesh, like ruby grapefruit or blood orange. And it's just a special type of lemon. that maybe has an extra colorant in the fruit. A lot of people think there's like berry or cranberry or some sort of like other juice added to it. There is zero difference.

It literally is just colored pink. Yeah. It makes, I mean, it makes a lot of sense. There are two competing origin stories here. Oh. Both stem from the circus. One is a circus worker was making a batch of lemonade and dropped a cinnamon heart candy.

All right. False. Already false. And any of the origin stories where it's like accidentally not false. But yeah, no, like, I don't believe it. Yeah. The other story is a little bit more colorful, ha ha, color, colorful and slash gross. A circus worker who was making a big batch of lemonade, he ran out of water.

It was too popular. It was too hot outside. He needed to make more lemonade. So what did he do? He took a tub of water that was used to rinse. The circus horse riders tights. So, so hold on, let me rewind. Okay.

At the circus, there are people who ride horses or do tricks on, you know, bareback writing. This lady needed to rinse her tights and her tights were bright red. And so she's washing her tights in this laundry water, which then Mr. Lemonade used that water to make his lemonade, which is why the lemonade's pink, because the water was red from the dye from this person's tights after she wore them. These are the two, but these are the two best stories. Yeah.

At the risk of contradicting myself here, I'm going to have to say, of those two stories, I think the hard candy dropped in is more plausible. And the other thing I wanted to share, you know, when we think of lemonade, we think of like kids selling lemonade, the lemonade stand on the sidewalk. Yeah. And it has become the symbol for entrepreneurship, right? Sure. Yeah.

Little kids, understand how money works, start a business, open a lemonade stand. I don't know any other cultures that have that lemonade stand symbol. This is such a uniquely American thing. And it links to one person. And this person, his name is Edward Bach. And he's an immigrant from the Netherlands, came with his family to America, you know, was pretty poor, was definitely a hustler. and he eventually became a big-time kind of editor for the ladies' home journal. So that's kind of his big claim to fame.

After he found success, he had an autobiography published, and that actually won a Pulitzer Award. And so a lot of people are reading this highly acclaimed book when he was a kid, he sold lemonade on the streets. And it was this that propelled this narrative. So it is sort of uniquely American in its origins. Yeah, the American dream. I'm so curious, if any international listeners, if there is something like a lemonade stand equivalent in your country or in your country, did you guys sell lemonade when you're kids?

Again, it's something I did one time. I did. My friend Justin, the friend who I created Bare Bones, the game with, my life. You guys sold lemonade together? We did. Once when we were kids, it was the middle of summer. and again, we were just bored at, you know, like, it's hot.

He's like, should we do a lemonade stand? Because we had seen it, again, just in countless TV shows, movies, comics, magazines. I guess we must have ridden our bikes to the store. Do you guys buy, like, fresh lemons or like? No, I mean, we bought, it's so stupid. We just bought, like, lemonade off the shelf. Oh, like, pre-made.

Yeah, we just bought, like, so, like, this was our business model was like, all right, Well, our business model is no one really cares if it's homemade, right? People just want lemonade. Like, we're just about satisfying the customer. Between the two of us, we couldn't have had more than like five bucks or six bucks. So we bought some lemonade, took it back. We iced it down.

And, like, we got our own cups. We definitely supplied our own cups. And we built a little stand and set up. And we sold cups of our lemonade with ice for, I don't know, like a quarter. And, like, we made, I mean, we made money. We made a profit. And we're like, it actually worked. It worked.

I mean, it worked. We set up, like, right on the corner near, like, the city park, just a couple blocks from our house, and it worked. Yeah, so you had location. You had that foot traffic, you know, you were in the right place for it. That's amazing. And now you guys are still trying to get a business going, so. I promise, we did not buy this game at the store and then sell it to you.

This one we did. We actually created from scratch. We've advanced a lot in the decade. decades since then. Maybe I did lemonade at some point, but it was probably in conjunction with us having a yard sale or selling at a flea market. That's smart. Because I did that because I absolutely, I would always be selling stuff at the yard sales in flea markets, old toys and things like that. Wait, as a kid? Yeah. Then I graduated too. I was buying and selling video games because we would buy like Atari games

and stuff like that. We'd buy them for like five bucks for like somebody's entire Atari and all their stuff. But then we'd sell games for like a dollar or two each at the flea markets and stuff. Who's we? My brother and I.

Wow. Hustle kids. Yeah. Oh yeah, totally. Well, our parents were selling at the yard sales and flea markets as well. So we were all doing it all together. Yeah.

Oh, how cute. Oh, that's very cute. That really is. Wasn't so cute when we bought some ladies' video games from over one end of the flea market, marked them up and put up on her table, and she came by. The look on her face did not suggest that we were adorable. I'll tell you that. All right.

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You're listening to Good Job Brain. Smooth puzzles, smart trivia. Good job, brain. Hey, this week, it's getting hot. It's almost summertime. We're talking summer. Colin, what's next? What smells come to mind when you guys think of summer?

When you just close your eyes And I just summer What are some of the smells? This is going to be another one of those Collin quizzes with the title that's like The title of my quiz is Anybody smell that? Furiously taking notes over here

Anybody smell What's that smell? What smells come to mind Is that smell of a... Yeah, summer smell. Coconut sunscreen. Lemonade sands. Oh, okay, I like coconut.

Okay. beach salty water oh yeah okay smell of moan grass swimming pool beach

chlorine yeah yeah yeah you and I are you and I are locked in because like you've named you've named like the two that are like for me my top two

like just I close my eyes it's it's it's chlorine and and sunblock you know just that just that just that It doesn't have to be coconut, but there's just that that aroma of sunscreen and the chlorine, just like a swimming pool, just like I can just hear it. I can feel it. I close my eyes. And that to me is just the smell of summer, the feel of summer. I didn't even have a swimming pool. I didn't have a residential pool in my house. But I did, however, grow up in Los Angeles, as you both know, which is practically the land of the swimming pool, just a dizzy. number of swimming pools in L.A. I didn't have one, but my next-door neighbor had a pool.

The family across the street had a pool. My best friend down the block had a pool, as did his neighbors, as did that city park that I told you we set up to sell lemonade two blocks away. There was a pool there. Yeah, there are a lot of swimming pools in L.A. And there was something that I always liked. I'm going to get a little poetic here for a moment. There's something I was like flying into or out of L.A.

I don't know if any of the listeners had this experience or you guys, too. You look down? You look down and you see all this little swimming pools in L.A. Just these little, just the flex of blue and blue green. And you're like, there's so many of them. And it's gorgeous in a way. Like little blue beans. Several years ago, I was reading an article in the L.A. Times.

What's the title of your segment? Yeah. I'm just about to get there. Like I'm let. Oh, really? Oh, okay. That was all the cold hook. Okay, okay, okay.

Several years ago, I was reading an article in the L.A. Times, or probably more accurately, on the L.A. Times website, since I don't live in L.A. anymore. And this article, it was talking about an artist and a researcher named Benedict Gross. And it was talking about how he had had the exact same thought that I have had many times on the airplane, which is, I wonder how many swimming pools there are in L.A. The name of my segment is How many swimming pools are there in L.A? But I know this almost feels like one of those lateral thinking challenges, right? Or like the Google interview question. Jellybee. I'm not so interested in are you giving me the correct answer as I am

and how would you go about solving this problem? So I'll throw it to you guys here as a little fun little exercise. Just how would you go about counting, estimating, arriving at the number of swimming pools in L.A. What would you start? I mean, can we do research? Yeah, yeah, let's say. Okay, you probably have to have a permit to put in a swimming pool.

That's like an in-ground swimming pool. So I'm guessing you could go to the government and figure out like maybe if they might be able to give you like a percentage or if you were to take, you know, a sampling of houses to find out which ones had put in pools, you know, permit-wise. and figure out number of houses and figure out your percentage and you can kind of estimate it that way. That's really good thinking. That was the author of the article talked about, you know, that is, in fact, one way that Benedict Gross. And he ended up partnering with another sort of postgraduate student named Joseph Lee. And so they kind of had that thought, too, well, permits. Maybe we looked at the number of permits.

Now, the problem is L.A. is, you know, not the oldest city in the country, But it's, it's an old city and they've had swimming pools there for a long time. Some of which predate the modern permitting system. Some of which will probably never permitted at all. Some of those records may not exist. It may be totally spotty. Maybe you could look at water bills, right? I mean, you've got a swimming pool.

Oh. Maybe you go talk to pool suppliers, pool cleaners, right? You do a survey and maybe you kind of just sort of do a like a statistical approximation. But why not? Is it the jelly bean approach where if you're flying, down and you're looking down and you map out how big greater L.A. is and you have an aerial view. Do a little section of an aerial view like from an airplane and be like, okay, out of this block, which has 10 houses, eight of them have swimming pools. And you kind of multiply that,

the jelly bean estimation approach. That's a great, exactly, great statistical approach method there, Karen. So they kind of ended up sort of on that vein. In fact, they went you one better. And they figured well why not just take a big picture from above and count them up sort of audaciously so they decided we're going to count from above using photography every pool in the in the LA basin in the LA basin the greater LA area so yeah so here's what they did is they started by getting two sets of satellite photos right I mean they didn't actually go up in the helicopter and take these pictures themselves but they got two two sets of satellite photos from the government, from the National Agriculture imagery program, and they were two

overlaid photos. One was a true color composite photo, okay? And then the other was, I'm sure you guys have seen these in science reporting or space or agriculture, what they call a false color photograph, right? So, you know, a false color photograph is often used to highlight or accentuate a particular feature of terrain or something. So, you know, the color is not real, but it helps. to sort of visualize how much of something is or what the contrast is between something. So now again, these are, you know, artists, researchers, you know, students, maybe you got to work on a budget here. They sent them off to a company in India that specialized in photoshopping elements out of

their backgrounds to be comped against white backgrounds for things like catalogs or, you know, photoshoots or movies or things like that. Sillow. So trained in pulling things out of the background, right? Right. So they paid $300 and got this massive set of photos here outlined. They went through it and they outlined every pool, every swimming pool. They went through and outlined them pulled them against in the background. They reviewed the company's work manually, just to kind of double check.

Then they sent these results. They paid another $350, $350 on Amazon's a mechanical Turk. I know you guys are probably pretty clear. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. To basically just a crowdsourcing platform to pay people very small token amounts of money to verify this original team's work of finding, you know, you missed a pool or this isn't a pool. This is just a blue shed. Cleaned it up. Again, grossly, manually check this themselves. Sounds exhausting. And of course, they're pricing their own labor at zero. They got their best, their best estimate based on every pool, at least visible from above in the LA basin. They count. counted 43,123 swimming pools. They, now, I mean, you know, it's hard to envision that number. So they put together, sort of the grand output of this project was a book, a multi-volume set called the Big Atlas of L.A. pools.

And there is one copy of this 74-volume 6,000-page edition that contains all of their findings. They overlaid on top of this a lot of really interesting demographic and statistical breakdowns of everything from income level. No surprise. It turns out that of the various cities, Beverly Hills, had the highest per capita swimming pools in the region. Question. Let's say I live in a house that has a pool in L.A. Would I see my pool in this book? If they did it correctly, then yes. And they would even be able to cross-reference it with your address or, you know, I mean, it's publicly accessible data. As they got further and further into doing this project, they both got a little unnerved by how much data was publicly available to them to sort of correlate all laid up on top. of each other. Like once you start layering income and voting patterns and it really paints a very

rich picture of the populations around Greater Los Angeles. And what's my privacy? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And what's my privacy? Yeah. So maybe it is better. There's just, you know, one copy of this sitting in one of their, one of their houses somewhere. But it started literally with him on an airplane flying into L.A. looking at like, oh my gosh, I wonder how many pools there are out there. So now, just as a little button on this segment here, I have a few, a few little bit of trivia and that gets questions for you guys here, but just to close up this article, this article in the LA Times from 2013, I swear, this article was written by reporter Bob Poole. Robert.

Yeah, Robert. So I got three trivia questions here for you guys about swimming pools that I just came across in some form or another in course of my research here. So here we go. Let's make this a write-down quiz here, give the pen and paper a chance to shine. Question one, what Western U.S. city has the highest per capita rate of residential pool ownership in the country? It is not L.A. It is not L.A. L.A. has more pools overall, but yeah, what, this city, according to numbers I found in pool magazine, yes, this city, 32.7% of the residents of this western city. All right.

Pool enthusiasts monthly. Pool enthusiast monthly. When you are ready. Answers up. I have been to this city before. I can vouch. There's a lot of pools there. Chris says San Diego

Karen says Karen has Karen wrote Phoenix crossed it out started to write Scots maybe Scottsdale I'm guessing crossed it out

wrote Phoenix again Karen I'm so glad you trusted your gut it is Phoenix Phoenix Arizona My first guest was San Diego but I was like oh but they're literally next to water they're literally next to the beach

so it can't be like a beachy That's a great great reasoning right It makes a lot of sense. Phoenix, just very hot, of course, and also... Rich. And landlocked. So, yeah. Yeah, basically a third of the residents of Phoenix, Arizona on a pool.

Numbers two, three, and four, however, are all in Florida, which is Miami, Tampa, Orlando. So, yeah, maybe the being close to water, far from water. Yeah, all of those cities, over 25% of the residents there, apparently. again according to pool magazine all right number two what u.s. president ordered construction of the current white house swimming pool in the 1970s I didn't even know there was a there's there's a rich history of this swimming pool in fact oh do I go with the Joe blog okay against the advice of his advisors his advisors all told him please do not do this but he did it he went ahead and did it all right answers up karen has written

carter jimmy carter chris has written nixon richard nixon neither of you are correct oh it was ford dancing around yeah jerald ford yes yeah i did not know this until reading a little bit about uh drug for he was an avid avid swimmer before becoming president he would swim twice a day apparently, like really early in the morning, and again at the end of the day after work, it was just for him, that was how he needed to kind of just keep himself, you know, mentally aligned and physically happy. So he moved into the White House. The White House did have an indoor swimming pool until Richard Nixon had it covered over

because he didn't particularly, yeah, there was an indoor swimming pool for many years. Nixon didn't like it at all, even though many of his predecessors, you know, loved it. Kennedy, notably, others. So Nixon apparently had it covered over. They turned it into, you know, just one of the, I believe, like the press office or something like that in the White House. And so Ford, he was, he was mad that there was no swimming pool in the White House anymore. So he said, I need a swimming pool build. And his advisors are like, they're like, Jerry, you kind of probably.

You're not even supposed to be president. You're all about like keeping everything on budget, but he put his foot down. And so very, very pointedly made sure that the public knew there were no public funds used to build the pool. It was all done through. They solicited and got some private donations to finance building for his swimming pool. And of course, it would be not like he could take it with him, but it would stay at the White House for all future. Is it still there? It is still there.

It's been, you know, it's been remodeled and touched up. But yeah, it's still there. All right, quick one here. Last question. Last question. This is going to be an estimate closest to kind of last trivia question of the evening to salt type. breaker kind of question. I have never swim in an Olympic-sized swimming pool. My wife

has. A Olympic-sized pool is 50 meters long, 25 meters wide, and a minimum, it can fluctuate, but a minimum of two meters deep. How many gallons of water

are there in an Olympic-sized swimming pool? And we're going to do closest to the mark here, 50 meters long, 25 meters wide, two meters deep. We'll see who's... All right, hold on. The numbers are swimming around above the people's heads here. Cubic meters.

I'm gonna... Tip me over and pour me out. How many gallons? If you want to give me liters, I'll do the conversion, if it's easier for you. Okay. Chris has written... Is it two? I said 250,000 gallons.

Karen, oh, she's, Sharon's got a diagram. This is so Karen. Like, Karen has actually a visualization. Karen has written 225,000. Yeah, you're both off by, I mean, not an order of magnitude, but at least double here. The number that I have here in front of me says 660,000 gallons of water. Oh, 660,000 gallons of water, a little bit over. How many milk jugs is that?

Yeah, yeah, that's right. That would be, well, that would be 660,000 milk jugs, wouldn't it, Karen. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, well, here's to being the least wrong and counting swimming pools and cooling off in the summer heat. Woo-hoo! Join us aboard CN's new podcast, The Inside Track, your front row seat to the railroads and supply chains powering North America. Hear real stories, expert insights, and bold innovation. episode one dives into

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because Chris started with summer movie blockbusters. Shadow, not that he listens to the show but one of my former co-workers. That time of the summer every year he's just like all right what's the official song of the summer what is what is this year's the jam billboard has their own official song of the summer with data okay it's between this day and this day this is the stream play this is the radio play and this is what's number one so they take a data approach

and that's kind of more in the modern time so can anyone guess what was billboard when it when they first did official song the summer based on billboard chart data uh in 2010 can anyone hazard a guess oh it is by katie perry oh okay um was a 2010 was that the the the california girl's song yes okay kind of cool even though they started that project in 2010 they started going back every year looking at data within the constraints and be like okay this was the song this was song this was song and it kind of dates pretty far back. And then it got me thinking, I was like, oh, I wonder what was an early, early song of the summer. Like Edison cylinder song of the summer. It's really hard to measure what is

the song of the summer because it really coincides with, it coincides with radio. Because there is a time where when you buy music, it's like sheet music. Right. Right. You know, there's no timely, there's no like scheduling. Oh, this is the summer time. It's, um, it's, not until like we have radio and kind of music sales that then you can say okay between this time and this time yeah also also the the mass culture like like tying you all together you know like like trends and fads and yeah so i look back there are a lot of contenders for what kind of named um really early on song of the summer so i'm just going to share i'm going to play here a little bitch. This is

Billy Murray performs in 1907 I'd rather two step than waltz, Bill. I'd rather two step than waltz bill. I'd rather two step than eight.

Walt sing it's fine bill, but not for mine bill. It isn't in it with a two step a minute for there's something about it that's Grand Bill. B-O-A-O- F-O-F-E-O-S. It's so on the nose.

It really sounds like something. Yeah, to parody, to parody. It's, yeah, authentic. The song of the summer, 1907. That's what sounds like. And what was the most recent song of the summer, do you think? This was just last year, 2022. What was the song of the summer?

According to the old board. What was last summer? What was time? as it was by Harry Stiles. I ran out of time for this, but I was like, wow, what if I mash up? I'm not a music producer nor a DJ, but I was like, oh, maybe I can really quickly learn how to like mash up songs. So I take this two step. I rather two step than Waltz Bill with Harry Stiles.

It didn't work, guys. I tried it. It's like, how hard can it be to do this? Oh, I'll just real quick learn how to do it. You know, I'll isolate the track. It just sounds like playing two things at the same time. I'll tell you what, it did work. And this is our last quiz.

What I'm going to do is I took some lyric snippets of what Billboard defined as the official song in the summer in the past couple of years, decades. I had a summer blockbuster movie trailer voice. Read out the lyrics. Thanks to AI. AI voice that sounds like the, in a world, you know, that kind of like summer blockbuster movie trailer voice, read out lyrics of some official songs this summer and then you guys buzz in and tell me, identify the song and the artist. Okay.

You're not going to give us a year or anything. We're just just lyrics. Okay. All right. Song and art. Okay. Okay. Okay.

So let's hear. Let's play the first clip And this would be Summer 1.m.p3 Seems like yesterday we used to rock the show I laced the track, you locked the flow So far from hanging on the block for dough Notorious, they got to know that

That's well, first of all, that's great I love the voice. Should we play again? Let's play it again. Let's play it again. Yeah, yeah, sure. Seems like yesterday we used to rock the show I laced the track. You locked the flow. So far from hanging on the block for dough. Notorious, they got to know that. I mean, the notorious, they got to know that. Notorious, is it Biggie? I mean, is it, uh, so that would be like, dig deep, Colin. Colin, we're all counting on you. Is that, uh, is it, uh, I love when you call me Big Papa?

So you are right that Notorious Biggie is related to this song, but there is a reason. and why, if he is on the flow, who is on the track, I'll be missing you by Puff Daddy. Notorious B.I.G. passed away, and this is the song tribute to him featuring Faith Evans, notorious B.A.B.'s wife at the time, very famously sampling a clip from every breath you take by the police. That's right. All right. Okay. Here we go. Wow. Next clip, Summer 2. Why do birds suddenly appear every time you are near, just like me, they long to be close to you. That was a fast one.

That was very good. The Carpenters, close to you. Chris being the stickler with parentheses, it is parentheses, they long to be, end parentheses, close to you. Why the Carpenters, yes. Yes. Number 30, this. is number 30 greatest summer songs of all time. Next up, we got Summer 3. Despacito, Queer Oispera 2, Cuolo Dispacito, Deja Quiti di Gicosas al-Oido, paraquitia Qudcino estes comigo. I'm so serious.

I wish I knew the artist, but I don't. I didn't choose a Spanish-speaking one, I'm sure. AI's doing a great job. AI's doing a great job. This is a Luis Fonzie, Daddy Yankee. Daddy Yankee. And then featuring Justin Bieber. Okay.

Wow. This is number five, number five on all time list. It just, it has no idea what Spanish is at all. It's just, yeah. It's like me trying to just read, read phonetically. Yeah, phonetically. All right. Next one, summer four.

As a river flows gently to the sea. darling so it goes some things were meant to be oh well okay ub 40 yes parentheses i can't help close parentheses fall in love with you i don't know yeah but it's the one that goes back then you be 40's version very specifically not the Elvis Presley version not I associate that song with like just like hotel pools now you know what I mean it's just like it's like it's relatively inoffensive. It's kind of always playing in the background. Like, when I'm in my 20s, like, oh, this club is playing my

jam. Like, in my 30s, like, oh, this drive time radio station is playing in my 40s. Like, oh, this hotel pool is playing in my jam. You know, this Walgreens is playing my jam. All right. Time for the next one. Song number five.

I got that devilish flow. Rock and roll. No halo. We party rock. Yeah. That's the crew that I'm repping. the rise to the top. No lead in our sepullin. No lead. The song title was in there. Yeah,

party rock. Right. It's that was was that LMFAO? Yes. Oh, great. Who. Party rocked. Yeah. That's tonight. All right. And finally,

before we play it, I just want to say not only was this the official song of the summer, it was Billboard's Song of the Year has won many awards and I think it's sitting within the top 50 of the highest performing song of all time.

So this is song number six. Since you've gone, I've been lost without a trace. I dream at night, I can only see your face. I look around, but it's you I can't replace. I feel so cold and I long for your embrace. I keep

crying. Baby, baby, please. Yes, please. Chris, please. Every breath you take by the police. See what I did here. I bookended with Puff Daddy. That song famously sampled the police song, Every Breath You Take.

Part of the reason for the popularity is because of the sampling kind of created more awareness for this older police song. I mean, it already performed so well in its time. And then it kind of came back. It charted again, right? I mean, yeah. It charted again. Yeah.

Stang is like, please, yeah, sample my song is all you want. I'll take those extra royalty checks, yeah. And that's our show. Thank you guys for joining me and thank you guys, listeners, for listening in. Hope you learn stuff about blockbusters, how to count the number of swimming pools in L.A., lemonade, and summer jams. You can find us on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcast, Spotify, and on all podcast apps. And on our website, good job, brain.com.

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