Good Job, Brain! - 252: When We Were Young

Episode Date: May 2, 2023

Sure we are stepping into our Old Fart era but just like Whitney, we believe the children are our future. Enjoy facts and trivia about being young! From vampires to cryo-freeze, take Karen's quiz about anti-aging in famous fictional works, and find out just how mid you might be in the dreaded teen slang challenge. What's your internal age? Hear our jaws crash on to the floor as we play Chris' "How Young Were They?!" game about remarkable over-achievers in history. And was Ponce de León really looking for the fountain of youth? ALSO: hyperforeignism foodie 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, dreams of centipedes in tweed and in need of mead and a good read. Welcome to Good Job Brain, your weekly quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. This is episode 252. And of course, I'm your humble host, Karen, and we are your old style, old squaws and oldsters listening to oldish oldies. I'm Colin. And I'm Chris.

I have a surprise quiz. We're still going to do pop quiz hot shot. Oh. Here's how it's going to work. You guys don't have to answer. I'm going to ask the question. Think about it and answer it in your head. Listeners, feel free to do the same.

Maybe, you know, if you're in the privacy of your own home, you can, like, shout out. what you think the answer is maybe write it down maybe if you're at work you can like type it out in the notes app for for christin call just think about it okay so this is what i'm going to call the foreign foodie quiz okay i just have a couple questions here we go just think about the answer what do you call a big buffet in sweden a big big display of food big buffet in sweden okay In Sweden. All right. Okay.

Okay. Next question. What kind of small bright orange pepper is hotter than a jalapeno? So it's not a jalapeno. It's a small bright orange pepper. It's hotter than a jalapeno. Okay. Next question.

How do you spell latte as in the coffee? How do you spell latte? More specifically, do you put an accent in latte? latte. Next question. What kind of cheese is usually graded over pasta? What kind of cheese is usually graded over pasta? Okay.

Last question. What do you call the Latin American half circle pastry that's kind of like a turnover? And it's usually savory. Mm-hmm. Had some for dinner. Had some for dinner tonight, in fact. Really? Oh.

I did. Put some chim-churi sauce on it. Okay. Okay. All right. Someone in our fan group pointed out in a recent episode, my bad, I mispronounce Doxand, the wiener dog, the sausage dog. Yeah.

I said Dashhound. That's just kind of how you say it. That's how I learned it, right? I overly Americanized it. I looked at it. I was like, wow, okay, how would an American person pronounce this? Dash hound. We probably still get people.

and listening to old episodes where I said Edinburgh instead of Edinburgh. Oh, yeah, yeah. That's how it goes. We Americanize things here maybe a little too much. Yeah, it's like, I know it's Melbourne. We say Melbourne. But this led to a fascinating discovery.

I found out on the other end of the spectrum, there is a phenomenon called hyper-foreignism. Oh, sure. Which is when we, as English, speakers overly foreign fi or overly embellish foreign loan words

in English. Sometimes we know we're doing it, but most of the time we actually probably might not know that we're doing it. So, for example, we love the super store Target. And it's a joke now for a long time that we mispronounce it

on purpose, targeet. Right, right. It's just a normal store, but you're like, ooh, I'm going to targe. to make it sound fancy because it's not a fancy place. So we know we're doing, and that's for a comedic purpose. But there's some foreign loan words that we just, in our minds, overly foreign-fi because that's what we think, what we should do. So let's go back to that quiz, the list of questions I asked earlier.

It just so happens, like, you got like food examples, because most people know the food examples. So what do you call a big food buffet in Sweden? All right. We're not going to, we're not going to self-correct. here, Chris. We're going to go with the Oh, sure. I mean, I would have said... Even knowing that we're setting ourselves up to be... Yeah, I'm not trying to make fun of anybody.

I would say smorgasbord. Smorgas board, yeah. Yeah, so smorgas board versus schmorgas board. Oh, I see. I see. So pronouncing the SM smorgas board, but schmort, adding a S-C-H or like adding an S-H, schmorgas board. What small bright orange pepper is hotter than a jalapeno? Habanero.

Now, jalapeno has a tilda on the N. It's the N-Y. Right? Halapeno. Habanero does not. Ah. Because we're very familiar with jalapeno. So we're like, oh, Habanero, it probably also has the N as well.

I'm guilty of that. I would have said habanero. Yeah. Oh, okay. All right. Latte. L-A-T-E. No accent.

No. accent. There's an accent in the E if you say Cafe Latte in Italian. Starbucks's Frappe has an accent on the E, but latte itself does not. Oh, interesting. This reminds me by the way of the, I think it was either a TikTok or some sort of video of some guy tourist in Italy and goes around all the coffee shops asking you for a latte. Can I have a latte? Can I get a latte? Can I get a latte? Not realizing

And for like three, after three days, he realized he's just been drinking milk the whole time. I've been drinking hot, proppy milk the whole entire time. Because that's what he's telling him. He's like, give me milk. Oh, not. Not a cafe latte, coffee with milk, yeah. I'm feeling great. Real sleepy, but I'm feeling great, though.

Yeah, a little gassy, but aside from that. Oh, speaking of gas, what kind of cheese is usually grated over pasta? Parmesan. Yeah, I mean, you're saying it right, Parmesan. I said Parmesan. It's not Parmesan. It's not Parmesan. Yes.

You know, sometimes I even misspell it. Like S-E-A-N. Parmesan. But I said Parmesan. Like the person, Sean Bean. And then, okay, the last one, last example. The Latin American half-circle pastry. Empanada.

Empanada. The ghost tilda, basically. The ghost tilda. The ghost tilda. A phantom tuesday. Phantom Tilda. That's great. Empanada.

It's not. It's empanata. Hyper foreignism. Yeah, that's a great, that's a great term for that. It's like we want to, we want to honor the origin of the word, but like honor maybe a little bit too far, a little bit too much. All right. Well, more quiz. Without further ado, let's jump into our first, well, second, oh, I guess, whatever.

The general quiz segment. Pop quiz, hot shot. You guys have your barnyard buzzer. Chris is actually coming to us live from a hotel room, but he brought his buzzer with him. Good man. Yeah, forget that. At my random trivial pursuit card, this is just normal trivial pursuit. You guys have your barnyard buzzers.

Here we go. Blue Wedge for Geography. What was the first global radio navigation system that also shares its name with a luxury Swiss watchmaker? Hmm. Wow. Global radio navigation is this time. Chris. Rolex.

No. I don't know. But you're on the right track. Yeah, right. It is Omega. Omega. Oh, interesting. Okay.

Oh, Pink Wedge. Who was the only cast member in the Lord of the Rings to have actually met J.R.R. Tolkien. Oh, wow. Colin. I'm going to guess that's, uh, uh, Christopher Lee. Yes! Oh, I thought, I would have guessed, Sir Ian McKellen.

Yeah. All right, Yellow Wedge. What title did Camilla Parker Bowles receive following her marriage to King, now King Charles? Outdated card. In 2005. Colin. Okay, so what did she get in 2005, right? Well, she was like the queen consort, right?

but that, I think that's outdated. So, uh, I got to pass. Chris knows. Chris. Duchess of Cornwall. Yes. Yeah, Chris knows. Wall of Corn.

Duchess of Cornwall. My favorite thing on this show when I'm, we both buzzed in and I'm like, I know this. And then it's like, Colin. Well, let's see. I think that it's not. Chris just laying in a wait. Like, Chris is like, out of my way. Oh, no.

It's not the Duke of Earl. It's not the Earl of Sandwich. That's not a hereditary title. That one's, yeah. Okay, Purple Wedge. Which classic kids book took shape when its author was inspired by watching tiny spiders in his New York City apartment spin web after web? Chris. Charlotte's Web.

Yeah, yeah. Now let's say. Yeah. Okay. Who wrote, who wrote Charlotte's Web? How about that? E.B. White? Yes, it is E.B. White.

Green Wedge for science. Which product first sold in 1990 as the power drencher was invented? Yes. An engineer working on the Galileo mission to Jupiter. Wow. Wow. Collin. I may have jumped the gun there.

Apologies, Chris. I'm sure you know it. It must be. It must be the Super Soaker. Power Dranger. Power Dranger is the name that you would have in the writer's room when you had to come up with something for your show and you couldn't say Super Sokker, right?

It's the Safeway brand. Last question, Orange Wedge. What sensuous ballroom dance is called the Dance of Love and was born in Buenos Aires in the 1870s? Chris. I think that's the tango. It is the tango. Okay.

I'm going to overthink this. Argentine tango. Good job, Braids. Oh, actually, I have a fun basketball trivia fact that I learned from you, Colin, that I applied in the wild. So a couple episodes ago, you asked, what seemed like a really easy sports question that both me and Chris, did not get what what basketball player is famous for missing all the free throws uh right one game okay most misses most misses without a make yeah most misses without a make um i think i guess like kevin garnett chris said basketball jones and then you're like shack and it's like oh my god yes

but i learned it it's in my head my company's CEO was talking you know this is all through zoom and he used the analogy he's like there are companies who are really good at some things and there's some parts where they're not as good they can be celebrated in one area but you know still have room for improvement for another area he's like just like a basketball player you know maybe someone who who maybe someone who plays really well isn't good at free throws and I was like oh this is my time and I wrote in the Zoom chaggle oh like shack I'm so proud. That's so proud of you.

That's great. Sure made an impression. Yeah, they're like, yes, good, Karen. That's right. Like Shaq. Yes, yeah. I wish all the rest of you could be as on the ball as Karen is here. Yeah.

Karen, you're promoted. Today's episode, I saw an article about in our minds, we have what age we think we are. Oh, sure. For some reason, I feel like I'm 27 all the time. That's so funny that you say that. You know what, Karen, at one point, I remember talking with my mom before she passed away, and she told me that in her mind, she felt 27.

That was like, she was like, yeah, this was, I mean, she was probably 70. And then she said that, like, in her mind, she kind of just felt 27 for the rest of her life. So it's funny that you say that. Do you guys feel like there's the age in your head younger than you are? Or older. Yeah, right, or older. Right, right. I know what you mean.

I would say for me it's probably, yeah, like early 30s. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. 32 maybe, something like that. The way you sort of perceive yourself. I'm still a kid. I'm not really grown up. And it's like, what?

I have kids now? Like, when did this happen? I still love Pearl Jam, you know? Maybe I think that until I begin interacting with someone. who was actually like 27 and then and then I realized like my gosh I'm I'm so so much older than you in honor of facing our mortality I was inspired to to have a topic on age and youth and youthfulness and being young and being 27 in your head all the time so this week when we were young I mean, that's

I'm going to be able to the killer's. That's, that's, that's what an old. That's what an old person would think. When did that song come out? People would think of Adele now with a song called, you know, when we were young. Oh, my God. I searched when we were young. And Killers doesn't even show up

It is, you're right It's all adult That's what I'm telling you You're old now 2006 To me that's not that long ago It's a really long time It's an incredibly long time ago

Oh my gosh Kids were born When that album came out Now they're teenagers No I don't know They're like They're doctors Duky Hauser

They're operating on you Yeah Oh man So again I don't want we're already sort of trending towards like, I don't want this show to turn into us bashing the young people. You know what I mean?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly. The children are our future, Chris. Oh, my gosh. Wow. I mean, I agree. I think that people are getting younger and younger these days. You know, I think that's great. So I think we should celebrate the achievements of the youth with a quiz that I would like to call.

How young were they? This is a write-down closest to the PIN quiz, okay? So I am going to ask you how young the youngest person ever to do something impressive was. And you're going to take a stab at just guessing the age, at the age of the person. You don't tell you who the person was or anything like that. I'm going to say how young was the youngest person ever to blank, and you have to guess how young they were. I'm talking about how old they were, how young they were when they, when they, accomplish this. So I'll start it right off with the joke that I made earlier in the show, which is

how young was the youngest person to pass the U.S. medical boards and become a doctor. How young was the youngest person to pass the U.S. medical boards and become a doctor? So just go ahead, write down an age that you think is the appropriate answer to this question and we'll see who is the closest. How young was the youngest person ever to pass the boards and become officially in the United States of America, a doctor. Do they have to practice? It's, I mean, this person went into, to practice of medicine.

Okay. All right. All right. Okay. Collins is 14. Karen's is 16. You guys are both thinking a little too dogy Hauser-ish, but not quite. It was 17.

Bala Ambati was 17. He graduated from Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 1995, passed the U.S. Medical Boards, and became a doctor. Whoa. Yeah, yeah. Amazing. A lot of child prodigies. All right, here's one for the athletes out there.

You know, maybe you're not going to become a doctor at age 17, but, you know, how young was the youngest person to climb Mount Everest? I wonder if they, have rules for that now like what if it was a baby in a backpack what if it was a baby in a backpack do you think somebody would do that I say no

that baby doesn't get credit you're not burning you have to get that's that's this quiz you have to figure out like well what is the story you know yeah yeah yeah for the doctor one I was like man if it's if it's US like I feel like they won't let anybody practice maybe until they're 18

but they can get credit with A four. Yeah, I went through it the same process. All right. Karen says nine, Colin says 11. Again, you're very confident of these children. I will tell you that it is third. The answer is 13, which is still very young.

Jordan Romero of California, USA, was just 13 years old when he summited Mount Everest in 2010. Yep. Accompanied, accompanied by his parents, accompanied by a. several Sherpas, but, you know, I mean, that's extreme. Everybody, yeah. No joke. It's not. No, it is not. No, it is not a joke. You know what? It also isn't a joke.

How young was the youngest person ever to travel to space? Space also not a joke. How young was the youngest person ever to travel to space? I bet they're not American. That's kind of where my mind went to.

Oh, the youngest person ever charged twice. Wow, both Collette and Karen guess 19. You are both the same distance away from the correct answer. Thanks. The correct answer is actually 18. So you're both very close on this one. Oliver Damon, a Dutch student, was 18 years old when he traveled aboard the Blue Origin space tourism spaceflight. Oh, that's right.

That's so recent. in 2021. This technically was a, he did go to space. He left the Earth's atmosphere and was in outer space. But it was a suborbital mission. Trivia, the youngest person ever to actually like fly in Earth's orbit was Soviet cosmonaut, German Titos. He was 25 years old when he went up in 1961.

Okay. I was kind of thinking maybe somebody, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Basically it was until the new age of space tourism, where you can go through space if you are very rich. How young was the youngest person to graduate from college with a bachelor's degree? This is a person who graduated from an accredited university in the United States of America with a bachelors.

Do you have the school? Sure, the school is the University of South Alabama. I'm sure that did not help you in any way. Karen says 13 Colin says 13 the youngest person ever to graduate

from college with a bachelor's degree was Michael Kearney of Honolulu Hulai who was 10 years old when he got his bachelor's degree in anthropology from the University of South Alabama

in 1994 Good job brain He was a like the most child he's still alive he's the most child prodigies of child prodigies he's only like 40 what I mean he's still alive yeah yeah yeah yeah Michael Michael Kearney apparently was talking at four months when he was six months old he went to the doctor and he told the doctor he's like I have a left ear infection when he was six months old and yeah I mean he just sort of took off like a ride he's gotten several degrees since then I mean he got I mean I think at 14 he got his master's degree Oh, my goodness. How young was the youngest person ever to win a competitive Oscar? Oh, competitive Oscar.

Competitive Oscar. We're not not not talking about Shirley Temple with the special juvenile award that they that they just gave to her or didn't even consider any other children who might have been, you know, nominated. The kids battle it out. You're talking about age at which award. was handed to the person. Yes. Age at which Oscar was put in this person's hand. Yes, that's right.

That's right. All right. Yep. How old? Karen says 11. Colin says 10. Colin nails it right on the beanbag. With 10 years old.

And Colin, I bet you know who it. It's not Anna Pacquine. I believe it is Tatum O'Neill. It's Tatum O'Neill. Oh, Paper Moon. Got it for Paper Moon in 1974. Still has not been toppled. Anna Pac-win was, I believe, nine years old when she filmed the piano,

but she was 11 years old when she accepted the Best Supporting Actress Award. But let's stick with award shows. How young was the youngest person ever to win a Grammy? Again, still a competitive award. I feel like, oh, man, I feel like this, we had this somewhat recently. I feel like, yeah. Oh, oh, yeah. Well, I know who it was.

I don't know how old she is. Okay, all right, okay, well. Maybe together we can. Then you got to take a stab at it and see. Karen says nine. Colin says nine. Again, you're both one year off. It was eight years old.

Does anybody want to say who it was? Blue Ivy Carter? Not Blue Ivy. Not Blue Ivy Carter. She did win a Grammy. It was, wasn't one of the, one of the sisters who on like the soundtrack for like, oh, brother were art thou, right? There you go.

that's as close as anybody's going to get. Yes, excellent work. Leah Peasall of the Peasall sisters was eight, eight years old when she won a, when she became a Grammy winner for her work on the soundtrack album to O Brother, where art thou? That's right, alongside her two older sisters. So like she won as a performer? She, she did. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She, I mean, they, they essentially, the Grammy was awarded to their group. So, I mean, she as a member of that group is considered a grand, winner. Yep. Um, let's see. How many more do we have here? Uh, just, uh, a couple interesting ones. Okay, here we go. So how young was the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize? Oh. Well, I think again, I know who it is. I don't know how old she was,

though. Mm-hmm. Oh, all right. Paulin says 14. Karen says 16. The answer is that Malala Yusuf sigh was 17, 17, when she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 for her work in human rights advocacy. Yes, so she was 17 years old. That is the youngest person. I believe that is the youngest Nobel laureate period, also. No 17-year-olds of won in physics yet, you know, but, you know, could happen. How young was the youngest person ever to become president of the United States of America. It's not 17, and it's not 10. So now there's a rule.

I feel like maybe before then there wasn't a rule. There wasn't an age requirement in the old days when people were practicing dentistry and being a lawyer at the same time. Right, right, right. Yeah, and just being the president, I'm like, yeah, as a side hustle. Yeah. You know, I always hear it's JFK, but like I think maybe, I don't know, I think maybe there's There's a little rub here in how Chris worded this question, I believe, yeah.

Oh, okay, all right, okay, okay. Karen says 30, Colin says 40 and is written down TR question mark. So, yes, Colin has kind of gotten what I'm getting at. John F. Kennedy was the youngest person ever elected president of the United States. He was 43 years old, and he was elected president of the United States. But Fyodor Roosevelt was just a wee little baby of just 42 years of age. when he became president following the assassination of William McKinley. So, Theodore Roosevelt at 42 is the youngest person to ever become president of you.

Oh, so that's how you worded is become. Of America. Not the long president of the United States of America, not be elected president. That was closer than I thought. I thought he was a couple years younger than Kennedy. That was really close, though. It is very close, isn't it? Yeah, yep.

So just one more question for you all. Okay. Here we go. How young was the youngest Olympic medalist? Now, now, I'm going to qualify and say we're talking about the modern Olympic games. I am not going to say that some kid in the year 9001 way, like, no. Documented. It's not, it's not Hercules.

It's how young was the youngest Olympic medalist in the modern Olympic games. Right. There's so many disciplines. I know, I know. You can just totally imagine that age is not necessarily a blocker. Oh, you went young. I did. Karen says 13 and Colin says 10.

Colin is right. It is 10. So are you ready for this one? Demetrios Lundris was 10 years and 218 days old. when he represented Greece in the team parallel bars, earning a bronze medal. Did not see gold medalist. He earned a bronze medal in the team parallel bars.

In the 1896 Summer Olympics, the first modern Olympic Games. Demetrios Lundress died in 1970 as the last surviving participant of the first modern Olympic Games. Wow. Because he was so young then. He got the bronze medal. Yeah. That's a good one.

Isn't that great? Wow. All right. I know. Congratulations. Yes. Congratulations to Demetrios and everybody else. You did it.

Malala. Yeah. Yep. Yep. Teddy Roosevelt's in there at 42. Yeah. This young go-getter. Yeah.

All right. I also have a quiz. I here have a quiz about the fictional world of delaying aging. These are questions about books, TV, movies. This is a buzzin quiz. So get your barnyard buzzers. Delayed aging in fiction. Here we go.

So this first section are about characters who are immortal. Okay, here we go. First question. In the Pirates of Caribbean series, Davy Jones was cursed with immortality and looking like an octopus. His whole crew was cursed, too. What was the name of their ship? Oh, Lord. Hmm.

Oh. Colin. The dread not. No, it is the flying Dutchman. Oh, no. The flying Dutchman. The mythical, which actually recently I just saw a possible explanation about out at sea, there's this phenomenon. There's this optical illusion phenomenon with like the reflection of water that makes ships look like they're floating.

Sure. Yeah. And so maybe that's, you know, kind of these like legends kind of was born out of that. All right. Next question. This character served as a captain in the American Civil War then was transported to Mars. and became an immortal warrior. Whoa.

This character served as captain, American Civil War, on the Confederate side, then was transported to Mars, Colin. It's from the boroughs, right? From the Barsoom, it's what it was like, John, help me out here, Chris. Like, they made it, there's John. Just John. No idea. John something.

I know you know this. They tried to make, they tried to make a big blockbuster out of this. flopped, Chris. John Carter? Yes, John Carter of Mars, of Edgar Rice, also the author of Tarzan, yes. Vampires are famously immortal. One of the most famous vampires in modern literature is Anne Rice's Lestat, from interview with vampire movies and books and also like the vampire chronicles.

Lestat, Lestat, Lestat, Lestat. What is Lestah's last name? Oh, jeez. He has a last name. Oh, man. Tom Cruise. Yeah. Dracula.

LaSot de Lioncourt. Ah, yes. Yes. The Lioncourt. Yes. Never, literally never heard that in my life. Should I read that book? It's like the first, because she's written one million of these books, but like it's the first book to interview with the vampire.

Like, is that, is it good? Should I read it? Yeah. I think it was fun. I mean, I remember it was a long time ago, like, in college. I just had a bunch of friends who had read it. It was fun. I mean, you could read it very quickly.

The other kind of vampire literature is from so long ago. And Rice really kind of gave more flavor to the vampire mythology than just like Dracula. Right. All right. Next chapter, next segment. This is all about finding an object that grants immortality. So here we go. This Ron Howard Phillips.

The film stars Don Amici, Wilford Brimley, as seniors who stumble across a swimming pool that makes their bodies younger. Colin. That is, of course, cocoon. It's been a while since I watched that movie, but I watched that movie as a kid and I thought it was awesome. Oh, yeah. And I mean, speaking of course, of the aging episode, right? You are, of course, aware of the Internet, the Wilford Brimley line, right? The famous Twitter account congratulating other celebrities when they hit certain

age, which was the same age as Wilford Brimley, when he starred in Cacoon. Right, and which is... Which is young. He was 50. Wow. I mean, like, you know, old man, Wilford Brimley, like that... Senior citizen.

You know, yeah, he was 50 years, nine months, and six days. That's crazy. Yeah, that's when you cross that's like Canna Reeves now. All right. Next question. Immortality Object. Who exclaimed that he would sell his soul for his painting to age in his place.

Chris. Dorian Gray. Dorian Gray. And the portrait of Dorian Gray. In Chinese mythology, the monkey king steals this type of fruit from a tree that grants immortality. This fruit has long been a symbol of long life. Here's a hint.

You might see it in a bun or a bowel form if you go eat dim sum. It's kind of a dessert shaped like this fruit. I know in Japanese mythology, there's a kid that gets born out of it. Oh, it's, oh, okay. Chris. The peach. The peach. The peach.

Long life, longevity. Yes, Monkey King steals the peach from the garden in the heavens. It represents butts. Long life and butts. This 1975 children's novel by Natalie Babbitt is about a family who inadvertently drank from the fountain of youth. Chris. Tuck Everlasting.

Yes! Yes. I have not read that. I hate school reading. Usually required school reading is like big downers like, where the red fern grows. Right, right, right. I shot my dog. years. Or another, oh, it was a book about like the I Diderod or some sort of like

race. Oh, yeah, yeah. The snow dog dies. Yeah. My teacher was reading it out loud and he was crying and I was like, why are we keeping reading these books about dead dogs? Oh, finally, a book about a family that drink from the found of you. All right. This last section is on suspended animation, your cryo freeze, your cryo sleep, your preservation, very handy, a plot tool. For sure. My all-time favorite show, as you know, is Futurama slash Futurama, features the main character, Philip J. Frye, who gets accidentally frozen, wakes up in the year of 3,000. The show's creator is, of course, Simpsons creator, Matt Grainning.

How many TV animated shows did Matt Grainning create? Oh, geez. Okay. I feel like it's not going to be two. Animated TV series, Colin, four. It is three. Magic number three, guys. Always guess magic number three.

Name three, and then I was thinking there must be when I was forgetting. And so I was trying to, like, add. The third one is disenchanted on Netflix. All right, next question. Sleeping Beauty and her kingdom got to delay aging as they fell into deep. sleep because of a curse in the 1959 Disney film What was Sleeping Beauty's name?

Oh, Chris. Aurora. Yes, Aurora. Aurora. Okay, last question here. In 1997, who peed for three hours after being thawed from cryo-freeze?

Colin. Is that Austin Powers? Yes, it's Austin Powers. Some works of fiction address maybe the physical problems of cryo sleep or cryo freeze, you know, being disoriented. And of course, Austin Powers appealed for three hours, which makes sense. It doesn't make sense. It's not like you just build up water the whole time.

That's true. That's true. Flatters will like first. Yeah, it's not proportional to how long you're sleeping. I don't want to wake up and poop All right, and we're just going to need to fit on your cryo diapers here. I'm sorry, am I what now? Yeah, yeah.

So, I related to this. Big news, the remains of a 30,000-year-old Arctic ground squirrel was just discovered preserved in ice. You know, when dogs do the cinnamon roll sleeping, like the squirrel is like cinnamon roll sleeping position, And you can see the fur. It's brown, red fur. You see the little claws.

Now that you say it, that's how old I feel. When you're like, how old do you feel on the inside at the top of the show? I feel like a 30,000-year-old ground squirrel curled up into a little ball. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. Are you dreaming about becoming a nurse? or maybe you're already in nursing school. I'm Nurse Mo, creator of the straight A nursing podcast,

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for something? The topic of the episode got me thinking about the many, many things we learned in school growing up that have since turned out to be somewhere on the misleading to outright baloney scale. Somewhere, some things fall in there. I mean, I'm not just talking about like stuff like Pluto used to be a planet, right? I mean, it was legitimately a planet when I was a kids no longer plan it. I'm talking about false sort of lazy histories of parts of our very own country. I remember learning as a kid, the sort of the thumbnail version of the history of Florida, the great, great state of Florida, which was that I'll do some fill in the blanks here, guys. You help me out. All right. Florida was discovered, quote, by Ponce de Leon. Yes. And further,

I was told that at least in part, Ponce de Leon was searching for the fact. The fact The fountain of youth. So, yeah, I mean, people believed a lot of kind of out there things in 1513. I mean, they didn't really have like the germ theory of disease then, you know? I mean, it's like, okay, I could plausibly see that maybe some people believe there was a fountain of youth. Juan Ponce de Leon was indeed a notable Spanish explorer, conquistador, colonizer. As I say, his expedition did, in fact, make the first. verified official landing of a European crew in Florida.

But okay, was he really, really, really, really looking for the fountain of youth? Even if it wasn't like number one on his list, I'm like, was it like somewhere on the list? Yeah, top five, you know? I would say gold would be up there. It is not going to surprise you to hear that in the 1500s, the Spanish Empire, was quite keen to get its hands on as much gold and or territory as it could. I mean, in the, you know, in the so-called new world. All right.

Where did the fountain of youth? How did it work its way into the Ponce de Leon sort of origin story, if you will? I will tell you, and I hope I'm not disappointed you, there is no real fountain of youth. They didn't find it. At age 19, speaking of high achievers here, at age 19, Hans de Leon, in 1493, he was one of more than a thousand people, sailors, colonists, soldiers who were on Columbus's second visit to the new world. 1493, right?

I mean, Columbus was there. Hey, found everything, went back. As you probably remember, again, we learned in school that Columbus was, you know, largely bankrolled by the Spanish crown. So this was his second visit, Ponce de Leon, many other people joined on board, went back. He did eventually land after a few stops on what is today Puerto Rico. He kind of set to work, you know, making his name and making his life. By the early 1500s, he was serving as governor of Puerto Rico, you know, installed by the Spanish crown.

So he really got to work. And I mean, let me be clear. Let me be very clear here. He was not a sweetheart or a soft touch kind of. guy. In fact, part of the reason that he climbed sort of the ranks quickly was that he was very good at conquering and colonizing. He was involved in some very kind of brutal treatment of the Taino people there. As kids certainly, sometimes you see these little cartoon smiling pictures of the conquistadors in the margins of the books. I think we know enough these days to note that

that's certainly not the rosy picture that was going on. By 1513, he was tasked with sailing out to explore a little bit. All right. Now, so let's just pause there. All right. There are a lot of legends around the world of healing waters and magical springs. This is not necessarily a unique folk motif. But in that region, that according to the legends and the tales, some of the native peoples in Cuba, in Puerto Rico, various places, there were stories of a mythical land, a magical land that May got mixed in, perhaps, with some of these magical water motifs. And this mythical land was called Bemini, or Beninini, which we believe was the source of the name Bimini.

It sort of became a stand-in for some of these magical stories about mythical places and magical lands. There is no evidence whatsoever that Ponce de Leon was interested in a fountain of youth. cared about a fountain of youth, heard about a fountain of youth. However, he did have a royal charter to go discover this land called Beninni, or Beninini, which eventually became modern-day Bimini. But what happened over the years is writers, successive writers, writing about Ponce de Leon sort of fell into this common pattern.

There were several writers who all sort of said, here's Ponce de Leon, here's what he did, Some people think he was looking for the fountain of youth, but I certainly, for one, don't think that. And this sort of got repeated and repeated and repeated, almost like just comically, writer after writer, like, I don't really think this is happening, but some people say. And by the time, you know, I was a kid learning about it in school, it had sort of just gotten in trying. He was doing this. Yeah, yeah.

He was there searching for the fountain of youth and, oh, hey, just happened to discover Florida. it's a much better reason than saying he was out looking to conquer territories and killing people yes he's looking for the magical water that's right totally what a fantasy yeah yep it's a much just very sanitized much cleaned up version of the story you're totally right there's no direct evidence that that he had this anywhere on his list it was not three it was not five it was not top ten it was nowhere on his list now so it kind of it kind of answered a little bit of a question there like Yeah, I got a little bit of baloney as a kid. If you go to Florida today, if you go to, I don't know, Karen, maybe you've run a marathon.

Have you ever been to St. Augustine, Florida? No, but I've heard of it. All right. So, yeah, if you go to St. Augustine, Florida, there is a place called the Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park. Now, for many years, this park built itself as the real location of the well that was discovered. by the Spanish conquistadors, nay, by Ponce de Leon himself in 1513. And this is what he believed to be the fountain of youth.

This is a real park. It's a real place. If you grew up in Florida, you may have, you know, gone there. But he's dead. So obviously he didn't find it. Well, you know, it's interesting that you say that. There are varying descriptions of what exactly the fountain of youth was. Oh, yeah.

You know, like on its most extreme description, it was, you know, an old man could take a bath in the fountain of youth and emerge, you know, rejuvenated, able to father more children and father more children. Other accounts are it just cured your illnesses and just, you know, or just maybe just made you feel good. So it's like, when you get down there, like, wait, do I drink it? Because that old man just got in there. Yeah.

And he fathered a lot of children. I don't want to go in there. Back to St. Augustine, Florida. So I like I tell you guys about Luella Day McConnell or Diamond Lill. Luella Day McConnell, Diamond Lill, she was a physician. And in the late 1890s, she moved from mainland America up to the Klondike, in fact. Oh. She made her fortune there.

By the early 1900s, she had returned from the Yukon. She and her husband, they had arrived in St. Augustine. Florida from the Yukon, wearing fur coats, jewels, and a diamond studded tooth, front tooth, hence the name Diamond Lill. They bought a big parcel of land in St. Augustine on which they had this fountain. Luella was a hustler. There is no question. Luella, Diamond Lill was a hustler.

She started selling, quote, youth water from this little fountain on the property. All right. And eventually started charging admission, turned it into a park. Oh. She at one point uncovered a stone cross in the ground that apparently she claimed was tied to the Ponce de Leon landing party. This is all bunk. I mean, none of this is real.

But I mean, just grade A early 1900s, just American kind of hucksterism. And so this place became like a landmark. I mean, like in pretty, in pretty short. period of time. And Diamond Lill just was a fixture in St. Augustine. Things were going great. She was building up her empire. She died in 1927. Apparently she drove her car into a ditch. It's a little sad. And that was the end of the Diamond Lill. I mean, it's just, it's one of these things like these people, just these huge big lives. I mean, she's a physician. And, you know, she moves to the Klondike and makes her fortune and comes.

diamond in her mouth and everything and then she goes so well so uh the the park you know has changed hands obviously uh is still there carrot it's not only still there it is a local landmark fountain of youth archaeological park in st augustine like i i guarantee you we have some listeners listening like i've been there i went there with my class or my family or whatever as it turns out real bona fide archaeological expeditions have in fact uncovered artifacts and evidence that the site of this park is truly on top of one of, if not the first sort of modern settlements in St. Augustine, Florida. So in its own way, did sort of come to have a legitimate historical claim to Florida history.

How convenient. How convenient, yes. despite Diamond Lill's overbilling, maybe. Wow, she was right. She was certainly right in her vision of a successful park in Florida. Yeah, so you can go there. You can visit it today. It's on like lists of, you know, things to do if you're in St. Augustine.

Now they can actually call it an archaeological park. Yes, that's right. I mean, it wasn't until like the 1970s that they really started, you know, in earnest, like these real expeditions. Yeah. So it had, you know, many years of pseudo-history and then definitely has come into real history. Yeah. It's a long way to go from California. But if I am out there, I do promise I will take a detour and check this place out.

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Oh, no, come on. It'll be fun. I'll probably. I've even recruited real teens to help me verify this quiz because it was kind of sad and desperate that I was Googling some of this stuff. Right. We're in a weird

age because we have kids, but our kids are very young. I feel like if our kids are teenagers, we'd probably be more connected to like the language of the youth, but just our kids are younger. But we do work in youngish skewing

tech industries where we do encounter not only younger people as coworkers, but like communities and such. It's a write-down quiz. Please have your paper and pen ready. I'm going to give you a term. You're going to tell me what you think it means.

It's important to give where credit is due because a lot of the youth slang, these terms, they're borrowed from other cultures. Like minority communities, black vernacular, a fringe and specialty groups like gaming, fan slash stand culture. Here we go. First word. Bussin. That is B-U-S-S-I-N. What do you think Busson means? All right, answers up. Chris, what do you think it means?

Good, delicious, high quality. Colin says good, good energy. Both correct. Chris is closer. Busson does have a food kind of related. Yeah, yeah This stake is Bussin Next word Cap C-A-P

Cap You can say cap Or you can say No cap What does cap mean All right What do you think it is I said like lie

kidding joke Holding back Like restricting Well I'm going to give it to Chris It is lying Cap is lying And when you say No cap it is for real

The theory I read is teeth capping. Oh, it's not false. Teeth. Oh, okay. So no cap means like, oh, my teeth are bare. It's real. Yeah.

Yeah. I'm giving it to you straight. Heather. Heather. Heather. Heather. Heather. Hmm.

It's funny because I think when we were younger, we also had Heather as a slang as well. Yeah, we did. All right. Chris says street drugs. Yes. Where can I score from heaven? That's really good.

Colin says white or uncool. Ooh, it's the complete opposite. Heather is a beautiful, admirable person you aspire to. Okay. Our 80s, Heather's, is popular. Like, mean girls. Yeah. Heather, this stands from a Conan Gray song, Team Heart and Musician has a song called Heather, and that's where it came from.

All right. What does it mean when someone says bet? B.E.T. Bet. And I'm going to say this is not an acronym or abbreviation. This is like, are they gambling? All right. Chris, you said, let's do it. It's on. Colin says, believe it. Watch. It is yes. It is confirming. It's on. I heard you. I'm confirming what you just said. It's kind of the equivalent of if you're working in the kitchen, people say heard. To give a call and response, be like, yes, I heard you. Roger. Roger, exactly. Okay, next one.

Chugi. Can I have the spelling of that word? It is, C-H-E-U-G-Y. Chug-y. I had to look up the syllable emphasis. Choo. Okay. not not choice yeah yeah chris says cringe Colin says funky Chris is actually doing pretty well it is

it's try hard so there is a you know cringe okay uh someone who's trying to hard okay all right all right all right next one next term mid mid mid MID am i mid am i mid am i a mid do I wear a mid do I a mid. Chris says mediocre middling. Colin average. Yes, you're correct. Unremarkable. Undesirably average. All right. Two more. Two more. Take several seats. Take several seats. Wow. What happens when you take several seats? What happens when you tell someone take several seats? All right. Answer. up oh okay well it's uh chris says listen and then uh calling please stop talking you are very wrong wrong yes that's exact take several seat calm down chill out shut up because you are out of line

and it's like it's it's more than just take us eat it's like no please take several seats yes yes because you're so out of line all right last one you you're you're you You guys are doing so good. Don't you feel good? I'm glad we're not just outright embarrassing ourselves here. At least one of us is getting closer to it on each one. I'll take it. And also, like, I mean, these terms are not that wild.

Do you know what I mean? They're not that random. They come from somewhere. Right. They come from somewhere short for something. You know, it is figure outable. For old men, Chris and I are relatively online, too. So, you know, it trickles up a little bit.

For my job, I, I, I used to. to feel like I had to really understand like youth culture. So what I would do is I would go on YouTube and I would listen and watch music videos of what teenagers listen to. Last one. Here we go. Last one. Not to be confused with what we grew up

with. I want to know what you think op means. OPP. We had our own OPP growing up. This is not the same. This is not the letters OPP. This is op. Plural. is ops. OPP or OPPS. Op or ops.

All right. So Chris says opportunity. Colin says opportunities. Oh, so close. It is opposition or opponent. Oh. Maybe you play a sport and go in game. You're like, well, a lot of ops here, right?

A lot of opposition. Yeah, opponents. Well, there we go. Good job brains. all right thank you i will not name my teenager help but thank you how do you do fellow kids all right and that's our show thank you guys for joining me thank you guys for listening and hope you learn stuff about pons de leon very high achieving young people about immortality and fiction you can find us on apple podcast google podcast spotify and on all podcast apps

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