Good Job, Brain! - 254: We're Going on a Road Trip

Episode Date: May 16, 2023

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You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Hello, drizzingly dazzling but puzzling, quizlings, nuzzling and bedazzling grislies. Welcome to Good Job, Brain, your weekly quiz show, an offbeat trivia podcast. This is episode 254. our 2023 spring season finale and of course

I'm your humble host Karen and we are your creeping creatures creating creatine-filled cream puffs and creaky creameries I'm crawling I yeah Colin

and I'm Chris I mean I'm Chris Before we get in trivia Colin we were chatting about how in the corporate world work environment in person or over Zoom There's the dreaded fun fact.

The fun fact. What's your name? What do you do? And what's your fun fact? Oh, gosh. So I want to ask you guys, what is your go-to fun fact in those work situations that you share? Those are super painful. But believe it or not, this show is my fun fact.

So it's great. You know, it's like, hi, you know, I'm calling and I have a trivia podcast that I've been doing for, you know, this many years. So it kind of fills that hole pretty nicely, yeah, for me. I have never been asked this in my life. What? Chris never worked a corporate job. You've never had to, oh my God, how many times? I've never had to, like, randomly give a fun fact.

You've never had to go to a function where there's a sticker on your chest that says, Chris, so your own co-workers know who you are. Yeah, right, right, right. I feel like you've got a great one. I was on a game show. That is a great one. I was going to say your marathon running with the costumes, because, like, that in itself contains you've got like your states you've got your Disney I mean I don't know yeah you don't think it's too weird I feel like that's too out there oh you don't want to like turn people off basically yeah yeah something something I have to say I mean you know maybe I should get in the business of fun fact coaching I'm a life coach but only like just very very hyper focus all right what's what's the fun fact you're going to share with everybody it's like oh I had a third nipple surgically removed it's like no you got to bring it back you got to bring it back yeah All jokes aside, I do notice having done these things that the first person who does one that's

kind of like funky or wacky or weird or maybe embarrassing, it does sort of crack the seal and other people are more willing to do them after that, you know what I mean? Yeah. One of my coworkers had a great fun fact, though. He's, you know, he stood up and said, hi, my name is, you know, whatever. And this is what I do. And he said, my fun fact is that when I applied for the job here, they asked me if I had any questions and the only question I had was can I watch YouTube at work and then he said

and then the company took three weeks to get back to me to hire me and the whole time I was thinking oh damn I screwed up he's like I totally believe that he's like why did I watch you do that work, which means that implies that in his life, he either caught in trouble or it was a company policy. Exactly. Right, right. Yeah, it's a question that tells a story, for sure, yeah. Anyways, all right, well, thank you everybody for sharing

your fun facts. Can I watch you do that work? I'm crying. Any questions? Just one. Let's jump into our first general trivia segment, pop quiz, hot shot. Here I have a random trivial pursuit card, and you guys have your barnyard buzzers. Buzzin with the answer. What set?

What set is this card? Oh, this is 2016 Classic Edition. All right. Blue Wedge for Geography, which landmark nicknamed La Dame de Fair is one of the of the most visited tourist spots in the world. I actually took French and that sounded terrible. La Dom Deferre.

D.E. Space, F.E.R. The Eiffel Tower. It is the Eiffel Tower. Pink Wedge. Which Frat Pack comedian was Conan O'Brien's first and last guest on his short-lived stint as the Tonight Show host? Oh.

Oh. All right. So, I mean, I'm just going to I'm going to go ahead and throw this out there. Will Farrell. Yes! Okay. I mean, he's the frat pack. I mean, that's Will Ferrell. He's the number one of the frat pack, so.

But that's a good question. That is a good one. That is a good one. That is a good one. Yeah. Yellow Edge. Oh. We just talked about this in a segment.

Which founding father became the first postmaster general of the United States Postal Service. He appointed himself, Colin. That was Mr. Benjamin Franklin, I believe. Correct, yes. Purple Wedge, which comedian paired up with the NYU sociology professor to write modern romance, italics title, Modern Romance, a book about dating in the digital era. Oh. Colin, I think we saw a black together.

I believe that was Aziz Ansari. Aziz Ansari. Oh, wow. Huh. Green Wedge for Science in Nature. How many pixels is in a megapixel? Chris. Wait, one million.

One million, yes. Okay, all right, okay. Not a trick. Last question on this card, orange wedge. What was the occupation of the winner of the first recorded Olympics held in 776 BC in ancient Greece? Multiple choice. Okay, okay. Thank you.

Multiple choice. Influencer. Soldier, cook. or actor I'm gonna say a soldier actor and I'll say cook because it's cook nice goddess his name was Corrobus and he ran a 192 meter foot race that's super random yeah okay fine woo good job brains we got a theme for this episode Colin you're a topic picker what'd you choose for us this one it was almost one of these I can't believe I I didn't think of this one earlier.

I was stressing her for a few days. And I was like, oh, I was planning for my annual road trip. And I was like, road trip. Yes. A rich, rich topic, especially for us here in the great United States of America. It is practically a ride of passage for, oh, I'm not saying other places don't have the road trip. Don't get me wrong. Yeah, I thought that would be just a great topic for us here, kind of coming into spring break for a lot of us, summer coming up.

And, yeah, I just thought I'd see where we could take it, if you will. Bring your snacks, load up your stuff We're going on a road trip Okay, to get our brains lubed up for this car trip That's my analogy I was going for I have made a general lightning round a general trivia

lightning round all of the answers here are going to have road in the title these could be book songs movies

general things so please get out your barnyard buzzers lightning round here we go every answer has the term

road in it here we go right boys to men ballad for the Eddie Murphy movie boomerang Chris

end of the road Correct. DreamWorks film starring Kevin Klein and Kenneth Branagh. Animated. DreamWorks Animated. Oh, DreamWorks Animated Film. Oh, man. Man, I'm drawing a blank on this one. It's about explorers and gold. Oh, yeah, it's okay. The Road to El Dorado. Road to El Dorado, correct.

Oh, okay. On the other end of the spectrum, Cormac McCarthy's not. about father and son. Colin? Simply, the road. The road. All right. George Miller's fourth installment of his post-apocalyptic franchise inspired by the Australian Outback.

The fourth. Okay, so we got Mad Max. I got, um, Chris. Mad Max Fury Road. Correct. I didn't know it was the fourth one. There's the Mad Max, Mad Max 2. And then Thunderdome and then Theory Road.

Yeah. All right. The essential literary work of the beat generation. Chris. On the road by Jack Kerouac. Yes. I read somewhere that Jack Kerouac, when he typed up the novel, he, like, stitched the pages together.

So the manuscript is in a scroll. Oh. And then someone bought it for like millions of dollars. And now it's like, you know, being shown at museums. and stuff. I remember reading once that Elron Hubbard had a custom-made typewriter that would allow him to just feed a basically a continuous scroll of paper so that he didn't have to, you know, he would just get in these, you know, frenzied bouts of writing. So that he didn't even have to take the time to swap a sheet. What are pages anyways these days, you know? All right.

Hodgepodge candy invented in Australia to make use of cheap, lower quality ingredients. Oh, I have a second clue, but yes. Go for it. Go ahead, go ahead. Oh, I was going to say Rocky Road? Correct, correct. The ice cream version invented in Oakland, California. Oh, so wait, Rocky Road ice cream was not the source of the term Rocky Road.

No, the candy preceded. A chocolate, chocolate bar with marshmallows and nuts in it, basically, and stuff. Wow. Crappier quality chocolate, crappier nuts, crappier dried fruits and marshmallow, mix it all together to make a treat that's like palatable, I guess. Marketing genius, that's great. Yes, Oakland, California, the ice cream version invented by Dreyers and Mr. Dreyers and Mr. Eddie. Oh, that's a good fact. All right.

Best selling Elton John's studio album. Oh, Colin got there first. Is that Goodbye Yellow Brick Road? Correct. Acclaimed novel by Richard Yates Turned film about a strained marriage in 1950s, suburbia. Oh, oh, it's, uh, um... Colin.

Is that Revolution Road? Revolutionary Road. Revolutionary Road. Okay, yes, yes, yes. Stard Titanic Stars, Leo, DiCaprio, and Kate Winslet. Hmm. Now it's getting hard. Here we go.

the punny titled song by Lil Nas X featuring RM from the boy band BTS The punny titled title title song Pony, okay By Lil Nas X featuring RM from the Korean boy band BTS It's a remix version of an existing song Okay, okay Not Old Town Road But punny, but make it punny

Road, Naus X, Lil Nasax Chris. Chris. Soul Town Road Yes Yes Chris I knew you could do it Using all my pun powers

Yeah believe in All right With my pun powers Combined Macho Patrick Swayzy Bar Brawl Flick Where he rips out throats Cullen

That is Roadhouse I was just watching this like Three days ago It's so funny that you mentioned it Talk about topical I honestly Karen Like what was the last time you watched Roadhouse

if I may digress from your writing around here. Maybe like 10 years ago. It is, it's hard. It's hard to overstate just what, how absurd and great this movie is. It's got, it's got a little bit of everything from every 80 movie, every 80s movie stereotype. It's got everything. Every, it's got comedy. It's got saxophone.

It's got bar fights. It's got guys ripping throats out. It's got guns. I mean, it's got Jeff Healy band. I mean, it's got what, everything that you need. It's just over the time. top great, great 80s movie. All right.

This story features the character's Shaggy Man, polychrome, button bright, and Toto, the dog. Some more characters, Jack the Pumpkinhead, TikTok, Princess Ozma. This is, yeah, this is all, these are a Wizard of Oz characters, yeah, so what's the... I mean, it's not like, it's not like the yellow brick. road, is it? No, it is simply Road to Oz. Road to Oz. Fourth installment.

I think most people know, you know, the scarecrow and the lion, and then maybe a little bit more deep cut with like TikTok and like Princess Ozma. But then once we get real deep in the series, polychrome button bright, I was like, I don't know who

any of these people are. How many were there? Do you know? Oh, God, a lot. I think there's a lot. Road to Oz is like Dorothy's fourth time visiting. That anyways, okay, moving on. Tom Hanks' gangster film. Tom Hanks.

Oh, Chris. Road to Perdition? Correct, Road to Perdition. Also a graphic novel. This is a Percy Mayfield song, made famous by Ray Charles. Hmm. Oh. Chris.

Hit the road, Jack. Hit the road, Jack. Not really a. Ray Charles original, but boy, did he, did that become a signature song for him? Mm-hmm. The competition-focused companion to

MTV's real world. Holland. Road rules. And then the last one, an anthem to West Virginia. Ah. Take me home. Country roads. Yes, roads.

Roads. Roads. It wasn't until today. I didn't know it was plural. Well, good job, everybody. So yeah, Colin said road trip, and I just immediately, my brain just goes right to, you know, when you're bored, you're on that car trip with the family or into like hour three or four of the eight hour, you know, drive. And, you know, one of the things you might decide to do to pass the time is, you know, to start looking for license plates from as many states as you can find

cars driving by, right? So while we're all on this, this road trip together on the show, I figure we should stare out the window for a while and check. out some of the great license plates of the U.S. of A. Now, I started putting this quiz together. I'm going to about halfway through. I'm like, wait a gosh darn minute. We've been doing this show for 11 years. Let me quickly check. Oh, yeah, Colin, you actually did a similar quiz in All Quiz Benanza Seven. Single Dish It. Yep, which then ended up getting printed in the Good Job Brain book now available, I mean, on Amazon, I guess. So I made sure to, Nothing is overlapping here.

This is new, new license plate questions, nothing that was covered in previous episodes or in the book. Some of these license plates might not be offered anymore, you know? It's kind of hard to check, but, you know, they're recent enough that you would still see them out on the road. They're not like... All right, all right. A lot of states do the special one-off ones, too. Oh, they do? Yeah.

Oh, yeah, for various fundraisers or things like that. Right. Ten questions. Buzz in with your barnyard. buzzers, if you know the answer. Okay. Here we go. Question one.

The phrase, aloha state appears on the license plates of Hawaii. Okay. Along with what image? Uh. Karen. A palm tree. Colin. Is it the fish?

You know the one I'm talking about. Is it the fish? What? I don't... I'm going to put you around this here. The homo-humu-nuku-nuku-wapua-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-oh. No, it is a rainbow. Of course.

Oh, my gosh. All right, now I'm just going to... I will straight up ask you about a slogan that appears on a license plate. No, no trick questions. This state's license plate reads, on the bottom, the last frontier. Oh. Oh, man, I've seen this one on the road driving. The Last Frontier.

Oh, Colin. Is it Alaska? It is Alaska. Good job. There is actually a reality show currently airing on Discovery Channel that is titled Alaska, the Last Frontier. And this show is about the rough homesteading life of the extended family of what well-known singer-songwriter. Oh. Karen.

It's got to be Jewel. It is Jewel. Good job. So her family? Your family. Yeah. Wow. Question number four.

The upper right corner of this state's plate has a little heart with the phrase in it, Heart of Dixie. Colin. Mississippi. So named because it's right in the, in kind of the middle of the American South. It's not in the north of the South or the. the south of the south, but it is like, this may not help you, but there was a show called Heart of Dixie, H-A-R-T, person named Heart of Dixie, that aired on the C-W, and it was

set in this state. It doesn't have it. Oh, you C-W watchers on there. It's Alabama, Alabama, nicknamed the Heart of Dixie, yes. Question number five, okay, the image on this state's license plate, the, quote, bucking, horse and writer is a registered trademark of the state. Colin. 100% Wyoming.

Absolutely correct. The cowboyist of cowboy states. Wyoming is the looking horse and writer. And it's a trademark of the state that is how they advertise their state. Yeah, interesting. That's a good one. It makes sense that states would trademark their taglines, right? But I wonder what else they also trademark.

So obviously, this is the first time I've ever heard of a state trademarking something. Yeah. Like for their, I guess for their tourism board, basically. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's cool. Yeah, yeah. This state's standard plate is the only one that puts the letters USA after the state name, specifically calling out the fact that it is in the USA. Hmm.

Oh. Oh. New Mexico? It is New Mexico. Oh. It is New Mexico. Because it's just trying to be clear It's not like New Mexico, Mexico

It says New Mexico USA is what the standard place says, yes. Good logic. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, we're on to question seven. You know it or you don't. This state's license plate bears the phrase

Constitution State. Pennsylvania. Not Pennsylvania. Delaware. I'm sorry it is not. not Delaware. It is, however, my home state of Connecticut. That's a nickname. That's, that's a nickname. And the Constitution state doesn't even refer to the actual, to like the United States Constitution. It refers to like an even

older document than that. That's, isn't it a weird thing to put on the license plate? I think it's kind of weird. I think it's like intentionally misleading. Yeah. Question eight, although it has recently been discontinued, you'll probably still see a lot of license plates in this state that read spectacular peninsulas. More than one. I think you'll agree that is a phenomenal thing to put in a license plate. Just floating out there.

It just rolls off the tongue. Yeah. Honey, have you seen the peninsulas in this state? Ah, just because of the, the Swamplands, Louisiana? It's not Louisiana. Hannah. Now I'm thinking of like fractals. Yeah, there's a good thing with so many. I think you've got a, you know, a state that's on the water that just has like a lot of

peninsula, but just really good ones, you know? Thanks for helping. It is spectacular peninsules. Michigan. Michigan. Oh, that makes me. It's spectacular peninsulents. All right. Many of them. Look at out.

I was definitely thinking. I was thinking the wrong part of the country. Like, we're thinking ocean. Lake's. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Lots of peninsulas going to that lake, spectacular ones. Peninsulas are real and they're spectacular. So question number nine, this state's license plate reads, the first state. Yeah, I mean, how are we defining? Yeah. Delaware. Yes. Okay. All right. Yeah. Question number 10, the final question, and that is this. Kentucky's license plate bears its state nickname.

which is what? Is it? It's not the bourbon state. Is it the bluegrass state? Bluegrass, that's what? It is the bluegrass state. Very good, Colin. Kentucky, the bluegrass state.

Well done. All right, generally good job, everybody. I mean, obviously, I had to step that Colin was asking, like, what state has the motto famous potatoes? You know what I mean? So, I mean, we already knocked off all the easy ones. So I kind of had to step it up for you guys this time. So you did, he did good all things considered, tough questions.

Like, what, Virginia's for lovers? The one that I absolutely wanted to do for this quiz, but then, of course, Colin had already did it. I'm like, it was so good. It's the license plate that says great faces, great places. Oh, South Dakota. Yeah, yeah. Because of Mount Rushmore.

I thought that, I think that's killer. Yeah. Speaking of road trips, if you, dear listeners, are hankering. for a road trip or any type of trip, we want to invite you to SporkelCon, the largest trivia slash quiz convention in the country, September 8th through 10th in Washington, D.C. Good job, Brain. We'll be there. We'll be there. We'll be there. We'll be doing a live show

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This might be an interesting generational question maybe, but what type of vehicle do you picture when you think of family road trip? Family road trip. Chris, didn't need a buzzer, but I appreciate it. I'll take it. What do you got? This would, of course, no longer be the camera. in any way, but I mean, for me, you know, it's all about National Lampoon's vacation and the family truckster, the station wagon. For me, totally the same. I have to say, yeah, I mean, I think, you know,

depending on when in the 80s, 90s, maybe 2000s you grew up, might be minivan, might be something else. But yeah, for me as well, Chris, it's station wagon. It's just three kids rolling around in the back, you know, at 60 miles an hour on the highway. Is this, is this the car with like the fake wood on the outside? Absolutely, yeah, yeah, yeah. What is a station wagon? Well, because I didn't, you know, I didn't grow up with Bruch. In case you have never seen the Brady Bunch or National Lampoon's vacation or anything

from those areas. Yeah, the station wagon, just a classic big vehicle. That's sort of the formal definition is you got, you got like a car body with an extended roof and no trunk. So the roof goes all the way to the back of the car. And you either got like a tailgate or, you know, a lift gate. on the back. The whole back is one space.

The whole back. Well, usually you got like flip down seats of some kind. That's right. So you can do just a bunch of people. You can flip them down and do a bunch of cargo. You can mix and match. As Chris, it was saying, like, that's my memory too. It's like as kids is growing up, you might call shotgun when you were a teenager.

But as a kid on a road trip, you're calling the way back. Because in the station wagon, there were no rules back there. Like parents, you were like beyond the reach. Are your seat belts? No. What are you talking? You're talking about seat belts. Seat belts, yeah.

It was like sometimes you're just rolling around loose, like, bags of laundry or something. Yeah. My family, you know, we didn't own a station wagon, but there was a family that we would take trips with every year down to San Diego. And on more than one occasion, I clearly remembered, like, we're all piling in there, four adults, four kids. And again, like, we would just sort of be in one big station wagon. Yeah. And with the kids in the way back. So when I was thinking about road trip, I didn't want to talk yet again about one of my modern road trips.

I wanted to pitch back to my memories of your. And ode to the station wagon, this little segment here. I got some trivia. Got some questions for you guys. We can do this as a buzz in quiz here. And yeah, maybe we'll have some fun here. This is way too deep a cut to have put on the quiz here. But I will just throw it in as a freebie, which is, yes, of course, as the, as the, the,

the vacation car was a parody of American station wagons at the time. It was not a real. There was no, you couldn't buy a family truckster. But in the movie, it was the wagon, the wagon queen family truckster. The actual car, you know, not dressed up for the movie, the actual car was a 1983 Ford LTD Country Squire for you real deep cut vacation fans out there. Did they like mod it up? Like, did they try to make it look different?

Yeah, yeah. Okay. They added extra wood paneling and they kind of like just exaggerated the body and the racks and all that stuff to just, yeah, kind of give everything it needed. I mean, and to be clear, even in the movie, it was not the car that Clark Griswold wanted, but that's what they ended up with. All right. Question one, here we go. On to the actual business at hand. Get out your buzzers. We got three questions here.

So, short and sweet. Get out your buzzers. All right. Number one. Why do we call? it a station wagon. Why do we call it a station wagon? I used to know this, and I sure don't anymore. I'll give you maybe a clue here, unless you want to hazard. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. In the UK, this type of vehicle is, you might here refer to as an estate wagon.

Is it like you can carry your entire estate around in it? The station in the station wagon is a a reference to train stations and this type of vehicle is descended from the vehicles that were used to shuttle people and luggage or cargo to and from train stations and it was like they needed one vehicle type that could get you and your stuff basically. I think it's funny like in the UK they focus on the estate that you presumably own like it's you're shuttling between your estate and the train station. I see from your where you live to the station and this is the wagon that takes all your stuff and people at one go that's right all right number two you know what actually we should write this one down here this is going to be a year question we're going to

prevent we're going to prevent any uh prices writing shenanigans over here i will always prices great shenanigans if not i know all right number two closest two wins this one what year did minivan sales overtake station wagon sales in the united states Ooh. The rise of the minivan, the fall of the station wagon. What year feels right? All right. Answers up.

Chris says 1997. Karen says 1987. Karen is closest to it. Only three years off. It was, in fact, 1984. Oh, earlier. Oh, wow. That was not only, and it was not just like, you know,

minivans had been, you know, building up ahead of steam. That was the year basically the first minivan came out. which is the, yeah. People were on board. Yeah, right out of the gate. The Dodge Caravan introduced by Chrysler, also the Plymouth Voyager, 1984, and just an immediate success. You know, by contrast, station wagons by that time were sort of in decline. They had sort of flattened out already.

1976, I read was, that was peak station wagon in the United States in 1976. They sold almost a million station wagons. That was basically 10% of the car. cars sold in the U.S. So one out of every 10 cars in 1976 sold was a station wagon. That was down to basically 1% by 2015. Wait, does anybody still make station wagons in the U.S.? There are some countries where they've always sort of remained popular, especially in Europe. You know, the station wagon never really fell as far as it did here in the U.S. Okay, because I'm looking at some like 2023 station wagons. They don't look like classic station wagons? They don't look like the Griswold car.

It looks like a typical, like a sedan, but just like longer, so you get the no trump. All right. Last question here. What celebrity owned a custom crafted 1973 Cadillac L Dorado Station Wagon with features including a built-in refrigerator, a built-in TV, high-end sound system, pink vinyl roof, and a TCB lightning bolt. logo on the door. What's TCB? Oh. Chris. For me, I feel like it's got to be Elvis Presley.

You got it. That's right. Ding, ding, ding. Elvis Presley. I was going to guess Barbie. She had many dream cars. Yeah, but not a TCB logo. TCB taking care of business, which was Elvis's sort of personal

motto slogan, if you will. This was one of many, many Many, many fancy custom cars built by Hess and Eisenhardt. I was reading about them. They're one of these companies that they'll, you basically, you buy a sort of base donor car. They take it and they will trick it out for you. Yeah.

So the Cadillac El Dorado did not roll off the assembly line as a station wagon. So yeah, it was built to his exact specifications. Everything I described, all of that cost him a cool 17,000. $1,000. Elvis would drive it himself, apparently, like between Memphis and L.A., I read like he would drive himself to the airport in it. I mean, he loved this car. He loved this car, apparently, yeah. Hesse and Eisenhardt, I also learned they had a long line of custom built cars and some station wagons as well for U.S. presidents. They built, in fact, they built custom cars for everyone from John F. Kennedy all the way up through George W. Bush. Fancy limousines mostly, but some, in fact, Honest to God. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, bulletproof glass. And it's actually pretty cool. Yeah, it's pretty cool reading about some of these presidential cars. Yeah. All right. So that was just a little bit of love, a little bit of lore, a little bit of

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well folks think about it three million square miles of land spanning several states spanning several geographic areas between coast to coast people traveling and exploring in the early days looking for a better life so many places of interest so many roads so many roadside attractions it's no wonder that road tripping culture is such a a big part of the great country of Australia. Of Australia. Sike! Not America. The island slash country slash continent of Australia is actually very, very, very close in size compared to the U.S. I think just a tad smaller. But what Australia has in spades and has us beat is not only roadside.

Attractions, Australia boasts and is very, very proud of what they call big things of Australia. That's capital B, capital T, big things of Australia. All right. Almost anything you can think of, there is a giant big version of it somewhere in Australia as a roadside attraction. When we think of roadside attractions here in the U.S., like, what do you think of? ball of yard. Yeah, right. Exactly. Yeah. Largest potato. Yeah. But really, we kind of think of that as a, as a, it's something of days gone by. Yes. Right. Like you don't really do you stop at that sort of thing

anymore. The sunburnt, faded dinosaur that's missing an eyeball that looks like someone made out of paper mache like 70 years ago. You know, it's kind of hokey, kind of tacky, very old. We're not really thinking of these things as like super quality or super cool. It's not to say Australia Australia doesn't have these Australia does have these The big difference is Australia is constantly

putting up more of these big things so it's not a thing of the past there's new ones that pop up all the time people are really invested in refurbishing the old big things the Australian Post in 2007 this is so cool

they even commissioned an artist and released a special run of stamps commemorating some of their famous big things. The big things, big B, big T, big deal. I like that. I like that. So yes, that is the name of my quiz. Big Things is a big deal about some of these cool Australian big things. Ooh, let's do write down.

We've been buzzing. All right. Get out your writing utensils. Here we go. Question one. In the town of Musselbrook in New South Wales, you can find a big This, celebrating this now very popular native dog breed. In the town of Musselbrook in New South Wales, you can find a big this.

If you were to name an Australian dog breed that is very popular now. Oh, gotcha. Okay. What would it be? I don't know any Australian dog breeds. I would have felt really dumb if I didn't put this down. All right, answers up. Oh, oh, yes, of course, of course.

Chris put Corgi and Colin is right with the blue healer. Oh, yeah. The big blue healer just 12 kilometers away in another small town. That's where the blue healer was first developed or bred, which is a combination of herding dogs and dingoes, native Australian dingoes, to come up with a herding dog who could tolerate some of the more harsh conditions of Australia and Musselbrook in New South Wales. They also hold the Blue Healer Film Festival every year.

They encourage people who live in Australia to submit any films about the Blue Healer. Of course, made famous nowadays by the cartoon, Bluey. All right, next question. In Thornton, you can find the Mortals Sheepskin Factory and also a big pair of this. one of the most globally exported brand name goods. Oh. In Thornton, you can find Mortel's sheepskin factory and also a big pair of this. All right.

One of the most globally exported brain named goods. Answer is up. Chris says Uggs and Colin says Ugs. Yes, it is a pair of big Ugg boots. When we say big things, these are like several people. tall, big things. Yeah, they're not just like size 18s. Ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.

Next question. In 2019, like I said, people keep making these big things. In 2019, a university in the city of Perth debuted the biggest version of what? First created by Dimitri Mendelieve. A university in the city of Perth debuted the biggest version, clue on their science building, a big version of what? First created by Dimitri Mendelieve.

Answers up. Chris says, Periodic table. Colin says periodic table of elements. Yes, your son would be so proud. It is the periodic table of elements. The biggest one in the world is on the side of this science building. Someone racing outside, just look at it and study. And run back

Yeah, that's tough quiz time. Like, let me go down the block. Okay, next question. Leftover from a beloved but now abandoned water park, a big version of what Roman god was granted heritage status by the Western Australian Heritage Council in 2006. Sure, okay. Leftover from a beloved 1980s water park, a big version of what Roman god was granted heritage status by Western Australian Heritage Council in 2006.

Chris put Neptune, Colin is Neptune, you guys know your Greek slash Roman gods. It is Neptune, not Poseidon. King Neptune, a little bit about this statue, you might think, hmm, King Neptune, you know, Ariel's dad, Triton, like a majestic, maybe buff, Murman, handsome. Again, this is a statue that was part of a 1980. 80s water park and it looks like it's from a 1980s abandoned water park it's it's it's more nomish I would say the features are more nomish than I'm going to do it I'm going to pull a care I'm going to regal majestic yeah I see it oh it oh Google knows what I was looking oh yeah oh

you know what what you didn't mention also care is like that it's really just like like like from the waist up it's kind of yeah yeah the eyes that is that is Not what I was expecting at all. Really capture your attention. Oh, goodness. This thing was granted heritage status. Oh, yeah, it's big. It's big.

But you know what I mean? The features are a little bit more no-mission cheery than like the grandeur of a... Yeah, you know, it's not without a little bit of like a gimley quality to it. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah, Lord the Rings. You know, this is a good time to pause here. There's big versions of everything in Australia. Like, it's not just a big fish.

It's a big burmundi, a big trout, a big dead fish. You know, there's like so many versions and so specific. You know, in California, we're driving up and down. We'll see like fruit stands and maybe there's like a big date or like a big orange. In Australia, there's like the big cherry, the big double cherry, the big cherry with sunglasses, the potato on the side, the big potato with the cowboy. hat it's just it's there's so many variations of different things uh it's so great one of the most famous big things the one that made it to the the national stamp collections stamp run i mentioned is the big marino the big marino not dan merino m er i n o big marino we just talked about

this in colin's quiz uh about fabrics fabrics of our lives marino wool comes from marino In Goldburn, Australia, the big marino is a very, very, very handsome, very majestic, unlike King Neptune, just awesome big sheep. And he goes by what punny action movie name? Okay. Write it down. He is a big marino sheep, punny action movie name. Okay. Okay, great.

I got it. Oh, okay. All right. All right, answer is up. Colin has Barnold Schwarzenegger. And Chris has Bruce Willis. That's good. That's good. It's Ram, Bo.

Oh, yeah, that makes a lot more sense. He's a boy sheep. I keep saying him. him is a boy sheep ram bow and of course these big things serve as great tourist traps and attractions and advertising campaign the shortest living big thing in Australia was just that it was an advertised campaign for a limited time this big thing was from an american-based convenience store what was this big thing this was the short thing this was the short living big thing in Australia. It was an advertising campaign from an American-based convenience store.

Okay. What was this big thing? Cheekly, it was built in a city where there's other, a lot of big things. So it was, you know, it was like a stunt. All right. Answer's up. Chris says, big slurpy. Colin says, big slurpy. You're both correct. It was big slurpy.

Right before summertime, they put this out. Just kind of incept everybody, be like, it's going to be hot. I was going to be funny, and I was going to put big, big gulp. Bigger gulp. Well, so they did the math. It would take eight months to fill the big slurpy using a standard, a standard one slurpy machine. It would take an adult 14 years to finish drinking the amount of slurpy.

Well, they would die. You would die from diabetes long before you got to the end of that. Yeah, yeah, exactly. All right. In the city of Emerald, a city of Emerald, which is in Australia a major sunflower producer, a big easel was set up along with a big painting, which is a replica featuring the work from what famous artist? Again, in the city of Emerald, which is a major sunflower producer in Queensland, a big easel was set up along with a big painting,

which is a replica featuring the work of what famous artist? Answers up, please. Chris says Van Gogh, Colin says Van Gogh. You're both correct. It is Van Gogh. Part of the Van Gogh project, where they also set up a big easel. In Canada, there is one in Kansas. Oh, cool.

How big is it that one flower is like the height of a person? Right. That's how big. Oh, okay. This is the big one. Yes, sorry, the painting. In Australian, they're not breeding human-sized. All right.

In the town Churchill in Victoria, the town Churchill is named after Winston Churchill. And it boasts a big version of this favorite accessory, a pastime that Churchill enjoyed. Oh, okay I'm going to guess it's not drinking So I'm going to You know, don't count it out Chris says cigar Colin says cigar

You're correct It is a big cigar But really it just looks like a tube painted like a cigar But sometimes the cigar is just a gigantic tube painted like a cigar Last question In Jamboroo Action Park New South Wales

is home to the world record holder for the largest spider statue in the world. The spider is modeled after the deadliest spider species and it's hugging a water ride attraction that has what shape in reference to the shape of the wed that it spins. So it's a very wordy question. There's a water park.

There's a water slide ride and it's shaped very specifically. And the reason why there's a spider statue next to it is because that shape of that water ride is a reference to the shape of the web. This species of spider spins.

Wow. Okay. So just to be clear, just to be clear, our answer is a shape, not a spider name. Okay, all right, all right. All right. Oh, Chris put hourglass and Colin put funnel. It is funnel. Funnel Web Spider, the Sydney or Australia,

funnel web spider, the deadliest spider in the world. Asterisk. Deadly as in its venom is the most venomous. It takes 15 minutes for like a person to die. However, not a lot of people have died from this spider. Right, right, right. It's just that this spider has the most venomous venomous venom. On a one-to-one relationship.

Yes, yes. There was an episode of the show Peppa Pig, where it's like spiders are your friends if you see a spider don't kill it spiders help to eat bugs spiders are great and then they like could not air that show in australia because in australia spiders are definitely not your friends and we'll murder you a 15 minutes yeah that's my quiz i've actually have not seen any of these but i have seen the biggest pocket watch that's a milburn special shout out to good job bring laura who took me around philip island a few years ago we saw the big wave

the big faucet tap and then of course I've mentioned this this story a while ago but now I have an update let's time travel back to the late 80s when I was a kid I was a young kid and I was watching the Taiwan's

version of PBS they aired this travel show and in this episode they showed the segment about the big earthworm in Australia the big earthworm which was an earthworm museum that lives inside a building that was a big earthworm building. It completely captured my imagination.

I barely understood the concept of countries or even Australia or even traveling. Ever since that up, so I'm like, okay, Australia equals big earthworm. So fast forward, I'm a teenager. For summer vacation, we're going to go to Australia. And I was like, can we go to the big earthworm museum? And of course, we're going with like an Asian tour group. The itineries planned out. We're going to stop at every single Chinese restaurant to eat like Chinese food.

And I made my mom go ask the tour, like the tour guide. And of course, I don't know if she did or she said she did. And it was like, no, it's not on the list. I was like, other than the Chinese restaurants, we had to stop along the way. We stopped a lot of like pit stops, rest stops, go use the bathroom. And then one of the stops in Victoria, we got off, and it was the Earthworm Museum was her pit stop. At this point, nobody believed me that it was real. Do you know what I mean?

Like, it was like, as a kid, they keep hearing me. Like, I won't shut up about it. And it's like, is it real? Where did she watch this? And turns out my mom was like, oh, my God, it's real. And I was like, yes. You must have just been in disbelief. You know, like little kids, they dream about their wedding

or they picture what their wedding would be like in the future. And the only imagery they have of wedding is like from Disney movies or from books. You know, like they don't even know what love is, but they know what a wedding looks like. It was realized. Years long dream. And it was awesome. It was like, you know, tanks of Earth. The Earthworms, the Earthworm Museum, you walk into the earthworm.

And then the reason why I think I shared a little bit about this previously in an old episode of Good Job Brain is because this Earthworm Museum then became kind of like a wildlife park. And they housed the biggest preserved Great White Shark in formaldehyde. Turns out they were operating without a wildlife license, without any kind of license actually. So they had to shut down. So it was abandoned. This earthworm museum slash aquarium was abandoned, along with this giant great white shark in formaldehyde. And so it became like an urban explorer thing where people would break in. Oh, okay.

But just recently, a couple years ago, someone bought is saving the shark and is kind of restoring it back to its, as best they could from this abandoned. The museum. But they're restoring just the shark. No, we're just restoring just the shark. They move the shark to elsewhere. Now they're putting in glycerin, which is a little bit more gentle. But Rosie, the shark is now somewhere else. Earthworm Museum closed down.

Whatever became of the Earthworm Museum closed down, it's no more. But for that one moment, I've lived my fantasy. It's so great. I mean, like the frustration to like, you know, like you're a kid, Like, you see it on some show, you know, you know, I was like, well, show me some evidence of this earth. And you're like, it was on the show. It was on the show. I don't know what show it was. It was just on TV. No, no, there's no recording. And, you know, back then, like, yeah, sure, we had dial-up, but it's like. Like, but you're also, you're still waiting for somebody to even, like, create a web page devoted to the bankings of Australia on GeoCities or whatever, like.

Yeah. And you've created it yet. Yeah, right. You have opened my eyes to an entire genre of thing here, Karen. I want to do an Australian road trip now. I know. Just I'm sure there are people now dedicated who go and I got to go visit the big pistachio, the big lobster, the big prawn. How can you get even more of everything you love about Porter with the new BMO VI Porter MasterCard? Enjoy more freedom, more flexibility, more rewards. More of all the things you love.

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Everybody sees how quiet they can be and you can be quiet the longest. That's a dad talking right there. It certainly is. You just lost the quiet game, Colin. Better look next time. It's mostly me and my dad, but sometimes it would be the whole family. We used to do the one where you have to continue the chain going where whatever your topic is,

U.S. states or cars or whatever. I give an example, and then you have to give an example where the first letter is the last letter of the example I did. Oh, I've played that. I just played that before. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, we used to play like geographic places, right? So if I said in France, you would need to do something like Ecuador, and then you could follow that with Rhode Island or whatever.

Yeah, we used to play that one for such long stretches that we would forget if we'd repeat. You know, it was just silly. Well, with games in mind, I have put together a game for us here. Okay. The name of this game is called One is Easy, Three is Hard. This is a little bit of an inversion. if you will, of games that Karen, you've done a bunch of these with us in the past.

So you've done a lot of games of the type. Name as many boy band members as you can, right? And then we would each get points for whichever ones the other person doesn't mention. So like, you know, if we both say, right, yeah. If I say Justin Timberlake, Chris says Justin Timberlake, no dice. But if you're the only one who says Joey Faton, you get a point for Joey Faton.

We're going to invert this formula. Our goal on this game is we want to name as many in common with the other people as possible without cheating, without table talk, anything like that. So I'm going to give you a category or a topic. We're going to name three, only three. Oh. We get points for overlapping answers. And this is where I come up with the name of the game.

Like we want to name what other people would name. That's right. except we are also, we are the pool of people, right. Getting one overlapping is easy, getting two, a little bit more tricky, but if you get three overlapping, that is hard. So, Colin, are you playing with us too? I am playing with you as well. Oh, cool.

These are not outrageously weird or obscure categories, but let's see how this goes here. So remember, the goal here, you're going to write down three. We want to overlap. You get points. So if I list three things and two of them I have in common with Chris and one I have in common with Karen, I get three points. If you say three things and nobody else says them, you get zero.

Here we go. Name three American pizza restaurants. And the challenge here is instead of trying to outsmart the other person is don't overthink it, you know? You're good because most people can name two big ones. And then it's like the third one. Oh, man. Cross it out.

All right. When you're ready, we'll do answers up. And I'll go first here since this is my creation here. All right. You guys ready? All right. So three American pizza chains. I wrote Domino's.

Got it. Pizza Hut. Got it. And Papa Johns. I put Little Caesars. I put Little Caesars too. Yeah. I don't know.

I think Little Caesars was the answer here that we were looking for. I almost put shakies because of all. Oh, I would have been too far out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's the, that's the try and outsmart. All right.

Well, so I got two. Here we go, failing at my own game. So par for the course. Okay. Name three marsupials. It's got to be. Okay. It's tough.

I might name things that aren't marsupials, but yeah. All right. Let's rotate. Karen, what do you got? What do you got here? What are your three marsupials? Kangaroo? Naturally, yes. You psyched me out with naturally. Coala. Got your koala. I got a koala. I got a koambat.

I almost. I wrote W and then I crossed it out. Kangaroo, koala, and I put wallaby. I'm not sure if that's a marsupial or not. Yeah, I put. It doesn't matter. It's true. It's really, yeah. Yeah, I'm not going to you on accuracy. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. If we're wrong, collectively, that counts for points. I put possum. I put possum. I should have put wombat. I was going to put wombat. Dang it. I don't know why I just overthought that one. Okay. Okay. All right. Moving right along. Third question. All right. Name three jazz musicians.

Oh, gosh. Not singers. Jazz musicians. Oh, okay. Instrumental, primarily. I mean, that kind of narrows it down. Yeah, yeah. Known for playing an instrument, let's say. Oh, gosh, someone's going to kill me. Yes, it's jazz. I think, yeah, I think these are all jazz musicians that I wrote down.

We'll see what happens. I don't know. We're trying to arrive at the thing. We want to overlap. Right, right. But like, Colin, you're more knowledgeable about this. So I'm like. Right, but so Colin, well, so Colin has to say,

What's the Joe Bloggs answers? Exactly. With the three most common ones. What are you and I most likely? That's right, Chris, exactly. It's like if it's NBA players, you know, I'm not trying to stump you. It's like, okay, you got your Michael Jordan, right? Yeah, all right, all right.

Three jazz musicians, Chris, what do you got once you go? Louis Armstrong. I got Louis Armstrong. No. Miles Davis. Yes. I got Michael Davis. Count Basie.

Oh, okay. Yeah, no, don't have it. Okay. So two so far. What do you got, Karen? Coltrane. Nice. I got you on Coltrane.

Okay. All right. So I got three. I put Kenny G. Yeah. I would accept Kenny G. All right. Moving right along.

Number four. Name three studio Ghibli movies. Oh. Oh. Okay. All right. Yeah. This one's for you, Colin.

One is easy, two is hard. Mind meld, Colin, mind meld, you better have this one. Okay. Okay. All right. I'll go first again. I've got my neighbor Totoro. Correct.

Yes. I've got spirited away. Yes. And I've got Ponyo. No! Who? Put Panyo! I got a crazy person.

Put Panyo. That movie is a seven out of ten. it best. It should at least be Princess Mononouke or Kiki's delivery service. Princess Monanoque Totoro and spirited away. Yeah. I put Kiki's delivery service because Colin's daughter dressed up as

Kiki. She did. Oh boy. Did anybody put mononoika? Oh, you're just saying it? I started to. Karen, can you help us out here a little bit? What did you put down? Kiki Spirited Way, Totoro. Oh, okay. All right. So I get two.

Nobody put Princess Monaoke. I'm overthinking as usual. It's a worldwide release. Okay. Panyo. I know. I know. I'm sorry.

I put Tales from Earthsea. Porco roso. Porkeroso. I was not. Look, at least I did not put pork or roso. Come on. You just said it here. All right.

All right. See if I can come back from this one here. All right. Okay. Question number five. Name three. non-human characters from the Star Trek universe.

Any... Oh, okay, all right, okay, okay. Any franchise, any show. You mean a race of characters, or a... Like, a specific... A named specific character. Right, from any, any franchise, any era, any movie, any story, Star Trek universe.

There's three non-human characters. Non-human characters. Good, good. Okay, great. I mean, this is, after 11 years, maybe this is a good time to say that I'm not a Star Trek person. Neither am I. That's good. That's an advantage, I think. That's, yeah, I think that is an advantage. Really? Okay. I do.

Because it's like, if you can think of that character, then you know that that's at least the lowest common denominator type thing, you know? I don't need their rank or anything. Okay, thank God. R2. Yeah, non-human. not yeah yeah all right all right uh karen i think it'll be funnier if you go first what do you got all right here we go data yeah i got data you got data spock i got spock i got spock i got spock yes warf we did it 3333 we did it we did the trifecta incredible nice yes i am aware that spock was half Vulcan, half human, but as far as I'm concerned, that counts. And more to the point, we all put the same answer.

So, yeah, exactly. That's where knowing less actually works in your favor. Great. Wow. Same three. Same three. I've always found that to be the case. Yeah.

All right. Two more. Two more. Here we go. Here we go. Name three famous sculptures. Three famous sculptures. Something out of stone, marble.

You know, maybe, you know, a cast bronze, maybe, but... Like sculpture art, not actually sculpture functional monument. Yeah. All right. Well... Wow, I don't know any sculptures. I'm terrible. I'm sure you do.

I'm sure you don't have some sculptures here. I'm sure you know some sculptures. At least one. One is easy. Three is hard. I don't even know one. Okay. All right.

Chris, Chris, what do you got? What do you got? Well, first. I wrote down the thinker. I got the thinker, nice, yes. Yeah, right. Rodan, the thinker, yep, yep. Then I put David, Michael Angelou's David.

Yes. Yep. And then I finished it out with, you know her. She got no arms, Venus de Milo. Yes. Yes. Was that it? That's what I got.

I got the same three. Oh, man. David, Venus, Chicago Bean. Oh, I almost put the Chicago Bean. David. The thinker. Quick sidebar. What is?

is the Chicago bean. It's the cloud gate. It's that big reflective bean. It's like a mirror bean made by it. I'm sure you've seen it. It's super photogenic. It's been in like commercial. I've seen the bean.

That's what the t-shirt should say that you buy at the gift shop. I've seen the bean. No, I've never heard of it and I'm not convinced you're not making this up to go. Go on. Last one. Last one. Here we go.

Let's close it out strong here. Let's let's just mind meld. We're not trying to trick each other. Okay. Name three. from any era professional major league baseball players

oh no oh gosh oh this is going to be all over the place we know we know each other well maybe too well sometimes okay oh oh hold on hold on I don't know I don't even know if one is easy on this one

but we'll say I feel confident that the three of us are, we could all get two. I just, I feel like we know each other. Really? Okay, all right, okay, well, we'll see. We'll see, we'll see, okay. See, we'll see. Yeah.

I will go. How about that? All right, I got our man, good job Brains, own Bobby Bonilla. Yes. No. I put Bobby Bonilla also. I thought for sure, Karen would get Bobby Bonilla. Oh, man.

Okay. I've also got Karen's favorite name play. I'm guessing. No! I didn't put it down either. Albert Pooholz. No. I did not put that. I thought we're going with Joe Blog.

Oh, man. And then my safe answer is Babe Ruth. I just figured like, got it. Oh, really? Oh, I did not put Babe Ruth. No, I put A. Rod and Derek Jeter because I don't have no idea. I put Hank Aaron and Ken Griffith. Oh, my gosh.

Terrible. That's too many avenues. But I did get one point for Bobby Vanilla, so three, four, five, six, seven, eight, all right. So I got six, I got 16 points. I got 17, I think. Oh, 10. Wow. I got 15.

Yeah, 17. If I did my mouth right. All right. You're on your own game. I did. I did. Yeah. Yeah.

Despite the bad embarrassing stumble. Very, very bad face plan. Oh, all right. Well, that was fun. That was fun. That worked out pretty well. Maybe we'll see if we can bring that one back in a future show. All right.

Thank you guys. Honestly, I think that one, that's, that could come back. The magic number three works very elegantly. Getting all three is such a big feat. Very good job. Oh, that was fun. All right. And that's our show.

That's kind of sad. This was our last episode for this season. That's a good season. And it on on a high note. It's always bittersweet to come to the end. I love doing the show. I don't have friends. I don't really see other adults who are not work.

Do you know what I mean? Spring is coming to an end and we're going to take a summer break and we'll be back in the fall. Thank you guys for a good season. Yay. And again, you can catch us in person and live this coming September at SporkleCon in Washington, D.C., September 8th through 10th. We're going to do a live show.

We're going to do it. We're going to have a splash zone. We're going to have beaver butthole prize grab. We're going to have some swag. We're going to have awkward interactions because we are not famous people, nor are we trained to stage people. So doesn't that sound like fun? Come on down this September to Washington, D.C. Thank you guys for joining me and thank you guys, listeners, for listening in.

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