Good Job, Brain! - 256: Flat Out

Episode Date: October 3, 2023

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You're listening to an airwave media podcast. Hello, jargonistic protagonists, Duterogynists, and tritagonists. Welcome to Good Job, Brain, your weekly quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. This is episode 256, and of course, I'm your humble host, Karen, and we're your humble host, Karen, and where your flat-footed flat-fish writing in flat tops with flat screens while flatulating flattery? I'm Colin and I'm Chris. We got a really jam-packed show today.

Lots of quizzes, lots of segments. So, without further ado, let's jump into our first general trivia segment, pop quiz, hot shot. Ooh, here, deep in the box, I got two random trivial. Pursuit-ish, Trude Pursuit-ish cards. You guys have your barnyard buzzers. Let's answer some random questions. Here we go.

Let's do this first card. This is Trivial Pursuit. Genus 4. Blue Edge for People's and Places. What industrial powers join South Korea and Taiwan as the Four Dragons on the Pacific Rim? Oh. So name two places. Right.

Okay. It was joined. Okay. Oh, Chris. Um, Japan. And, oh, really? Oh, oh, all right. And I will step aside.

So there's four dragons of the Pacific Rim. One of them is Taiwan. Another one is South Korea. What are the other two? And one of them is not Japan. The first thing that came to my mind was like, but was India, but that doesn't fit the criteria here. They are. Hong Kong.

Okay. And Singapore. Okay. Yeah. Pink Wedge for our. and entertainment. Whoa, what LSD pioneer was Winona Ryder's godfather? I mean, I can only name one.

Yeah, I mean it. Colin, please. It must be Timothy Leary. Correct, it is Timothy Leary. I did not know that. There we go. Yellow Edge for History. What Fundamentalist Lebanese Shiite outfit has a name meaning party of Allah?

Oh, Colin. Is that Hezbollah? Correct. Correct. Purple Wedge for science and nature. What two words described things floating on the sea and things thrown overboard? Chris. Flotsam and Jetsum.

Ursula's Eels. On the Louvreveid. Greenwich for Sports and Leisure. What brand introduced microwave popcorn in 19, 76. Hmm. Could be a bunch of names. Chris, go ahead.

Yeah, it could be. I'm going to say Orville Redenbacher. Yeah. You are correct. All right. Good, good. Mr. Orville Redenbacher. I do vaguely remember that as to being the originator of microwave popcorn.

Oh, you know what? I was thinking jiffy pop. But that's on the stove. That's stove top. Yeah, don't put that in the microwave. It's all metal. Yeah. Again, orange wedge for wild card.

What swimwear sensation did the Vatican newspaper call the ultimate shame in 1964? Holy moly. All right. All right, Chris. The bikini. Incorrect. Okay. Oh, okay.

This is strange. The banana hammock. They want the topless bathing suit. Oh. Oh, gosh. Is it like for men? I assume not. I assume they mean.

No. In 1964? Because you know how like men will, I mean, maybe that's like turn of the century. They wear those. No, I think in 64 we're talking. I don't think that. I'm going to, yeah, they probably weren't as scandalized by the male nipple in 1964.

So probably. That's true. That's a little bit late. Even at the Vatican. Yeah. Time for another card. This is our off-brand Forte trivia. God, here we go.

Here we go. I can't wait for soaps. Watch for soaps. That's my forte. Which soap opera takes place in Washington, D.C. I've never heard of this before. Oh, my gosh. It has a good name.

And this is like, what era is this set from, right? I mean, like... It's like a copyright date on this card. You know, sense of like when they were... I mean, it feels like it's from like the 80s, basically. like that's when forte was that was its only kind of day in the sun so it's something that would have been airing probably in the 1980s i don't know i mean it's not i don't it's not dynasty so i mean i really have no idea it is capital capital okay like just like dynasty one word capital sure all right pink wedge for cartoons what 60s show starred five marvel comic book heroes incredible hulk iron man submariner Captain America and Mighty Thor.

Chris. Oh. I was about to say, for some reason, I was about to say Justice League, but that's not at this DC. There was, yeah, so there was a show, Super Friends. Close, Colin. I was going to say something very close to that. I don't have a confident answer. It is Marvel Super-Heros.

Oh, okay. Of course. Marvel super-dash heroes. Don't overthink it. Yep. It was a simpler time back then. They just kind of named things. Capital, okay.

Right, Marvel Superheroes. Okay, all right. Yellow Wedge for Space. Which musical gave us the song, Good Morning Starshine? Oh. Colin? I'm pretty sure that's hair. Hair.

Brown Wedge for Pears. What Hollywood Star and his girlfriend were involved in the first palimony suit. Oh. Interesting. For clarification, palomony is... Party of a non-marital relationship. Got it, got it.

Okay, so palomony, alimony. But you weren't married. Got it. Right. Okay, good question. All right. Broadway star and their partner... Sorry, Hollywood star and his girlfriend.

We're involved in the first palomony suit. I don't know any of these names, so I'm just going to say it. Okay. All right. Okay. Lee Marvin. Okay. And Michelle Triola. Okay.

I mean, I definitely know Lee Marvin. I don't know Michelle Triola. Wow. You know, that was definitely like a phrase back in the 80s that you don't really hear about that anymore. Because now it was just like, child support, whether you were married or not. Alamone. That's not like ever here. all I ever hear at the weird ass on

Greenwich for ads what is quote the sensuous food Big S big F big T

the sensuous food Ready whip Incorrect Oh I see It's like an advertising slogan Yeah The sensual

Oh God Colin Cheese. This Do you find cheese sensuous? Look, what happens in my kitchen is between me and my cheese. And his industrial-sized jar of nacho cheese from Costco. What up? The sensuous food.

The sensuous food. Okay. This is probably the rise in popularity of this produce. Oh. Oh. Oh. Strawberries? Avocado.

No. Avocado Really? Do we learn? That's like the name for scrotum? It's derived from the same root word for testicle. Yes. Yes.

Yes. Okay. The sensuous food. California avocado. So you know it's like part of the California avocado growers board or whatever. Right, right. Your marketing campaign. All right.

Last question on this card. Orange Wedge for Fair Play. What country withdrew from NATO? in 1966. Oh, not getting any hint. From NATO. Okay, so it... Go for it.

Oh, oh, oh. Colin. Czechoslovakia. Incorrect. It still is an existing country, Chris. Oh, okay. All right. Cuba. France.

France. France with Drew. France. Wow. Okay. All right. Good job, Brains. Today's episode, Colin. you're our topic picker it's a good one i'm looking forward to this one a lot of times you know these topics are just big grand you know philosophical metaphysical ideas and emotions or you know

grand human endeavors and then other times these topics that we do are things that are adjective and that's a really honestly to be very honest with you dear listener it's a very fruitful avenue of topic hunting. So this is one of those. You know, I'd say it came to me in a flash, but really it came to me while looking at some food on my desk after my camping trip.

We were going to talk about flat things, things that are flat, inspired by the word flat, however you choose to go with that direction. Looking for some flat souls baby this year. The famous. weird albert what should I call

that episode flat stuff yeah hey there flat stuff or go going to flat land how about yeah in nothing

no time flat or something like that yeah yeah we're going flat out or going flat out so this week we're going flat out I'm crying.

I'm crying. God, I'm sorry to next next. All right, I'm going to ask you guys a snap question here. You know, I love to do this on the show. All right, no tricks or jokes here, no right or wrong. I just want you to just give me your first gut answer. And we'll have you go, we'll have you guys go at the same time here so you don't influence each other.

Okay, all right. So we're going to go one, two, three here. All right. I want you to tell me, what is the flattest U.S. state? One, two, three, go. Utah. For me, it was always, like, coming into this show, I would have said Kansas. Oh.

I was trying to answer the question of just as a starting point, hey, what is the flattest state? And right off the bat, I ran into the question of, well, how are you defining flattest? I would say there are many valid ways to answer this question. So here are a few of the ways to answer this question. One way is average flatness. Okay, like you take every, you know, surveillable point in the state, every nook and cranny, natural point, you add that all together and you divide by the number of points. Okay, that's one way to do it, average height.

Another way that I found that I thought was very interesting is looking at the delta between a state's highest natural point and its lowest natural point. Now, of course, you're going to have some outliers here, right? You know, it may or may not represent the state. But I thought this was very a fun way of looking at it because it's concrete. and pretty easily measurable a state's highest and lowest point, right? Is it like the least sloped? Exactly.

Great. So I stumbled upon an article here from National Geographic. So I'm just going to read just some short passages here from this article by author Brian Clark Howard. The flattest U.S. states? Not what you think. Kansas is not the flattest state despite common perceptions. I thought this article was like talking straight to me. I'm like, yes, I did think Kansas was the flatter state.

So the article goes on to describe a professor named Jerry Dobson. Jerry Dobson lives in Kansas. He is the professor, or it was anyway, professor of geography at the University of Kansas and Lawrence, and also the president of the American Geographical Society. Okay. So he moved to Kansas in 2001, almost. immediately, it sounds like, started getting questions from everyone's like, hey, how's life in the flat state or, oh, he's super flat, right? And he said, you know, he kind of, he kind of noticed that he didn't really feel it was as flat as he was led to believe, essentially. So Dobson and one of his PhD students at the time named Joshua Campbell, who apparently now works for the State Department as a geographer, they devised and published a study called the flat. of U.S. states.

Among the things they did is they listed the top five flat estates. Kansas was not in the top five. Wow. We'll get to what we're maybe in the top five here in a little bit. How do you measure flatness, right? So this was their, like their real core question is, what does that mean, Karen? Like, what does it mean to say a state is flat? So here's what they ended up with.

So this is a quote. Flatness is how you perceive the ground as you're walking around, driving on it, standing on it. It's what people are talking about when they come here and say, this part of Kansas isn't as flat as I expected it to be with the help of a software program. And they put together an algorithm that basically would simulate a person standing on one spot, turning in a circle 360 degrees, looking at the horizon, and then in their judgment, is this flat, not flatter, flattest, okay? Okay. So it's essentially like a vibes-based scientific study. Well put. Converting vibes into data? Yeah. You got, I'm perfectly put. Because ultimately that's what

matters, right? It's like how flat does it feel to you? Like, how flat do you perceive it to be? That's right. Because doing just, you know, average flatness doesn't really answer the question. So they took this program, this algorithm, and they basically simulated the experience of standing in a turning around and saying, hmm, how flat is this over every spot for the continuous 48 states? They ruled out Alaska and Hawaii right off the bat because they knew that neither one of Alaska or Hawaii is, in fact, very flat at all and not in the running. Apparently, it had to run for six days to process all this data. Whoa. And they came up with an overall flatness rating for all 48 continuous states.

I will tell you that Kansas came in at seventh on their list by their methodology. That's pretty good. The least flat state ended up being West Virginia, which they were surprised. They would have thought, you know, maybe somewhere out in the Rockies or, you know. So what they're saying is West Virginia Mountain Mama. Take me home, Jerry Dobson. All right. So with that is a little bit of background here.

I've put together a short quiz for you to hear involving questions about flatness of our great United States of America here. This will be a write-down quiz once you get out your paper and writing implements. I have a question here about the state. It was in fact determined to be the flattest by this study. It also is the state that is the flattest if you go by. the measure of lowest to highest point, with a total height differential

of only 345 feet from lowest point to highest point. Wow. This state, which borders the Atlantic Ocean, is the flattest state in the U.S. Atlantic Ocean, I didn't know it's going to be on that side.

I'm trying to give you guys a little something to work with here. Not mountainous. Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh. total height difference of only 345 feet okay all right got your answer ready let's see them answers up karen says rhode island chris says road island that is incorrect it is actually florida no lorda florida florida the flattest by the experiential measure i outlined earlier and also yeah britain hill apparently is the highest point 345 five feet. I mean, you could, you could, you can huff your way off it. Yeah. That's nuts.

Okay. Standing proudly at 448 feet, the Ebright azimuth is the highest natural spot in this eastern state. While this state may not boast towering vistas, it can lay claim to more registered corporations than any other state. All right. That seems to have been the either for both of you. You have both put the correct answer, which is Delaware, yes. Why do so many companies start there? It really comes down to Delaware has decided to long ago and just continually doubled down on extremely business friendly corporation law. It's just, it makes it very, very easy. compared to any other state. Yeah.

More than half of all U.S. publicly traded companies are incorporated in Delaware. Wow. I read 68% of the Fortune 500 are incorporated in Delaware. There are more business entities incorporated in Delaware than there are people who live in Delaware. Get out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Just over a million state residents in the 2020 census. And it sounds like approaching two million. business registrations there yearly. Yeah. Jeramoth Hill. It is the fourth lowest state high point in the U.S.

at just over 800 feet tall. What state is home to Jeromoth Hill, which is used for astronomical observations by students at Brown University? Oh. I don't think I know where that university is.

So I will simply write something. Karen, smiling. Trying to get to it. Karen has either written down or simply picked back up her post-it that says Rhode Island, which is the correct answer. Yes. Brown University in Rhode Island. Yeah, Gerimuth Hill, apparently, if you can head out there and do some night sky observations there. All right.

What state has the highest, lowest elevation? All right. In other words, if you consider a state's got a floor and a seat. ceiling. What state has the highest floor? All right. Answers up. You have both written the correct answer. Colorado's lowest point is just over 3,300 feet, which is higher than like a third of all the states total. Yeah, it's up there. It's up there. It's up there. All right. Last question. Two possible points here. There are two states in the U.S. where the lowest elevation is negative. In other words, it is below sea level. For one point each, what are the two states where the natural point of lowest elevation is below sea level? This is knowable.

I'll even give some extra style points if you can tell me what those specific points are. So we'll see what we got out here. No, I cannot. I refuse. Two states. Write down two states. Okay, okay. All right, answers up. Chris has written Louisiana

and Florida. Karen has written Louisiana and Utah. You both get one point. Louisiana is indeed one of those states where, in fact, it is in the great city of New Orleans. I've read it's either seven feet or eight feet below sea level. So somewhere right around there, a person. An NBA player.

Yes, a very, very tall person below sea level. The other state where the lowest natural point is below sea level is our own great state of California in Death Valley. Specifically, in Badwater Basin and Death Valley is about 280 feet below sea level. That's a lot. that's what i mean that's a significant amount below sea level yeah that's more than like a negative lebron yeah that's many negative lebrons it's many negative darth vaders yeah and of course the other like we we've definitely gotten this question at pub quiz before a little side trivia here for you

of course the the fun fact of california that the lowest point is very very very very close to the highest point in the state uh mount whitney at 14,500 feet and change and in fact In fact, they are close enough. You can, if you so desire, you can hike. You can complete the 135 mile hike from the lowest point in the state to the highest point in the state. A lot of people do it and we'll, you know, brag about it. All right. Well done.

You guys, you guys know your flat states, you know your bumpy states. All right, my turn. Well, Colin, I claimed it. And when you said the topic is flat, I claimed it. I want to do the flat food quiz. Yeah. In our life, in our diets, there are a lot of foods that are flat, sometimes natural, sometimes processed. And so this is a quiz about kind of the greatest hits of flat foods.

You may ask, Karen, how are you qualifying foods as flat? What is flat in foods? And I'll tell you, I have a very sophisticated system. There was a book, a novel, published in 1990s by the great Gen X writer Douglas Copeland. And he wrote a book called Microsurfs. Microsurfs, big hit back then in the 90s. It's kind of, how do I describe it? You know, Silicon Valley, the show on HBO.

This is like that in a book, but about the early tech scene. Yeah. Like about early 90s tech working at Microsoft, moving to Silicon Valley. There is a section of the story. They're in the office as coding and they have to eat. They're sending flat foods under a door. And so that is my sophisticated metric. I like it.

This is a buzz in quiz. Here we go. In 1999, what brand name food partnered with Nintendo to have game tips printed on its wax paper strips. I need the brand name, please. Chris. Okay. I was fruit roll-ups. Incorrect.

Let me read that again. In 1999, what brand name? food partnered with Nintendo to have game tips printed on its wax paper strips. Is it fruit by the foot? Fruit but another fruit roll. Not fruit roll-up, which is a sheet.

All right, here we go. Next question. The burkle. The burkle, not the burkin, but the burkle. It's the brand name for the deli slicer machine. Oh. Okay. A burkle is the brand invented in 1898 by W.A. Van Burkle. In what city?

The second largest city in the Netherlands. Second largest city in the Netherlands. You can probably name number one. I mean, I would hope so. What's number two? Okay. It's going to be somewhere that we've heard of. Yes.

Well, it's not Amsterdam That's number one That's number one That's number one Is it Rotterdam? It is Rotterdam Rodderdam Rodderdam

Good one, good recall Deli Slicer was not well received when it first was unveiled And presented Yeah, because the butchers are kind of like What, you're trying to replace me with a machine You know, and they're kind of hesitant and W.A. Van Bergel is like, no, no, no, no, no.

This will make it easier. Can you imagine slicing meat without an automated machine? Like, they were doing it with, like, a knife. Yeah, yeah. And your slices aren't consistent. You just have to frame it as, look at how much more meat you can move per hour here. That's, exactly. They're like, you can make so much more money with this.

Let's stay in the Netherlands. Let's stay in the Netherlands. The Dutch, people of Netherlands, eat a special. breakfast item called Coco's Brood K-O-K-O-S-C-O-O-D Brood B-R-O-O-D Uh-huh

Coco's Brood is a solid sandwich topping in the shape of individual deli slices made up of what? Collin chocolate incorrect Cocos brew

I mean the brood sounds like bread bread? Yeah, yeah Uh-huh coconut? It's coconut. This is the most wonderful thing I've come across in a really long time. Imagine like craft cheese singles, right?

Individual slice things. It's sliced coconut cream. Okay. It's made out of a compressed coconut meat, sugar, flavoring, and you just pop it on, like a slice on your sandwich, and now you have like a delicious coconut sandwich. I would try that. Sometimes they flavor it and they put like pink, a dye in it. So it almost looks like meat.

Is it meant to be a meat substitute? No, no, no, no. It's just meant to be its own thing. Okay, all right. It's sweet. It's sweet. It's sweet. Yeah, Coco's brood.

I think it's absolutely wonderful. Speaking of Kraft Singles, did you know in May 2023, Kraft Singles, the sliced American cheese product. Yes. got a major redesign. They reconfigured the individual wrappers of the cheese slices, but they also have new packaging on the front. Something is missing in the new packaging.

You might remember there used to be a picture of something. Hmm, okay. But what long time imagery did Kraft remove in its new packaging? I am not ashamed to admit we buy and use craft singles at our house. Nothing melts like that on a cheeseburger. Oh, yeah, yeah. I'm going to, yeah, of course. And I haven't noticed.

Is it the pitcher of milk? It is. That's what I was going to say is, yeah, there's a glass of milk or something like that, right? Yeah, did they? Throughout the years, we have seen a glass of milk or, like, a pitcher pouring milk. That milk is gone. Oh, no way. Is there a scandal?

It depends on who you talk to. They're spinning at different ways. It's replaced now with text that says made with real dairy. Okay. It was misleading people being like, oh, one slice of craft singles has five ounces of milk. Right, right, right, yeah. I swear that I remember they used to even run a commercial for craft singles, and it was like they would start pouring a picture of milk, and then the milk would take the shape of a slice of cheese. It could not have been more over what they were trying to establish.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, we swear to God, this is actually made with milk. There is some non-zero amount of dairy in this, yeah. Right. I'm going to look in my refrigerator as soon as we're done recording here. Oh, yeah. If you have one of the old ones, put it in the freezer. Keep it for 20 years.

Yeah, eat one slice of it every year, like an, like an anniversary. anniversary cake. We come across this in trivia. Classic trivia fact. Japanese food, sashimi, mostly sliced raw fish. It can be sliced other things, but mostly most of the time, raw fish. Sashimi literally translates to pierced body. Piersed body.

Love sashimi. Tell me, what is the Japanese name of the pickled ginger side dish usually served with sashimi? Sometimes it's pink. Right, right, right. Sometimes it's beige. Yeah. It's always delicious.

What is it called? Chris Kohler. You'd think that I would know the name of the side dish, but I don't think I do. Is that interesting? We know wasabi. We know sushi. We know sushi. It is not Gary.

G-A-R-I-G-E-G-E-G-E. Oh, I did not know that. Okay. That's not ringing a bell. That's a good crossword. I can eat so much sushi ginger. It's so delicious. No, really?

I never tell you. Oh, I love it. I love it. I'm the guy who's always like, oh, are you going to eat that? Can I have that? Yeah. All right. Chances are you've eaten pizza before. Chances are you've eaten pepperoni pizza before. In the world of pepperonies, there is the flat pepperoni. And there is what is called the cup and char pepperoni. This is when you get pizza, the cup and char pepperoni curls up into a cup, sometimes whole. holding its own grease in the cup. That's what you want. That's how you know it's working.

Those little shot glasses of grease on the pizza. Yep. The flat pepperoni is missing something that cup pepperoni has that causes them to curl. What is it? What are they missing? Chris. I believe it's the natural casing. Correct.

As the pepperoni cooks, the casing and the meat inside, they shrink in different rates. Right, right. which causes the cup, the curling of the cup. Flat pepperoni has no casing. And so they would form the pepperoni and then it's made out of a special casing when they extrude it out. And they just take it off. You said cup and char. What does the char mean?

Well, the char, it's because the edges of the pepperoni sort of raise up, you know, and so you'll get the little, the char. Oh, okay. Oh, gotcha. Gotcha, gotcha. It's real industry. speak, Colin. Yeah.

All right, next question. Injira. Injira, Injira, Injira, is a spongy flatbread that's similar to a French crepe or an Indian Dosa. Injira is a big part of which nation's cuisine located in the

horn of Africa. That was Colin. I think that's Ethiopia, yeah? Correct. I would accept a retreat. as well in that region. Last question. People were completely shocked and mildly disgusted when it was revealed that the limited

edition Mr. E flavor, it's mystery, but it's a person named Mr. letter E, Mr. E. People were completely shocked and mildly disgusted when it was revealed that the limited edition Mr. E flavor of what Kellogg Breakfast Flavor. flat food was not only savory, but it was everything bagel flavored. Colin. Is it Pop-Tarts? It is Pop-Tarts.

No. And everything bagel pop, like cream cheese and stuff in there? You just, do you bite into it and like poppy seeds and onion bits? Garlic and out? Like, what would that even be? That's disgusting. This is a marketing campaign where I, like, like a mystery man called Mr. E.

But when I say man, he's really like a Pop-Tart in glasses and a mustache. An anthropomorphized Pop-Tart. He sneaked into the lab or the factory and replaced the pop tarts with his favorite flavor. And you don't know what flavor it is. You just got to buy the box and try it. Oh, so you don't even know. Like, you open it out. Until you're biting it.

Take it out and you cook it and then, oh, no. Okay. I mean, go on, but like, oh, no. There's nothing that tells you what it could be until you heat it up and you bite it or open it. And inside is a creamy, cream cheesy kind of filling that has everything bagel flavoring in. There's no bits. There's no, like, poppy seed and bits. That's like, it's so bad because, like, to expect sweetness and to get everything bagel.

flavor. It would be disgusting. It's toasting. Like, do you guys smell onion? I'm just waiting from my, yeah. Right. Oh, no. I'd be like, you got me, Kellogg's, you got me. Fake shelf stable cream cheese flavored gel with onions and garlic and, ah. That's what the E stands for. Everything. Mr. Everything. Mr. Everything bagel. I just got that. I just got that. I just. just got that. I mean, I guess it could be worse. It could have been like Mr. Eggplant. Right, right, right. Yep. Well, that's my flat food quiz. Thank you, everybody. All right, let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. When planning for life's most important moments, sometimes the hardest part

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if I've mentioned before, but it was a big, it was a pandemic breakout YouTube hit that is still going on and I'm still watching it. It's called a Rate My Takeaway. It was a British guy, average guy, who goes around to like takeout places

in the UK and he orders food and then he sets up a table and a chair right outdoors outside the restaurant like on the street and then he has them just bring the takeaway food like to his table right outside very unassuming it's just the guy you know he's not a professional you know food guy in any way shape or form it's all extremely positive it's very funny and the thing for me is that since it's in britain it's everything is just slightly different than american food it's there's so many things they're the munch box which is

like, imagine a large pizza box, but they don't fill it with pizza. They fill it with multiple burgers and sandwiches and, you know, French fries and and onion rings and chicken wings and whatever. And you open it up and it's this like unhealthy food cornucopia spilling out of the the most recent episode, he goes to a place that sells as takeout food. Okay. The most bizarre thing I've ever seen sold as takeout food. was a tomahawk steak.

Okay. That's big. So a tomahawk steak is a rib eye, right? A bone-in rib-eye steak. But they leave the big rib bone, the cow's rib bone on it. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. But then it's covered in gold leaf.

They place, they take a big sheet of gold leaf and they put it on this tomahawk steak. Oh, my gosh. And you eat, you eat this. They're not gift. wrapping the tomahawk steak in gold leaf it's just kind of artfully resting on top it's like it looks like a golden it looks really stupid like it doesn't even look artistic like you look at the video and it's just they took gold leaf and they just threw it onto a perfectly good steak the steak itself looks like it's really well seared and everything on the underside but the top is just covered

haphazardly in like gold leaf it's uh 45 british pounds to buy this thing right now i think it was inspired. I'd have to imagine that it was inspired by the chef colloquially known as a salt bay. Right, right. The restaurant Noosrette in London. I think he may have done this first, but he does the steak with the gold leaf on it, but he charges 1,500 British pounds for his. So this was only 45 pounds, but it's like seeing it, seeing the gold leaf on a steak, not in a fancy restaurant but at a very like unassuming like takeout restaurant we've done it we've hit peak gold food and now we're on the way down right so the first and it got me thinking about the use of gold leaf on foods so the pretty sure the first one that i heard about maybe you heard about this in like

2005 it was at a restaurant a dessert heavy restaurant not entirely new york city called serendipity is the name of the restaurant and in 2005 they unveiled the golden opulence Sunday to celebrate their 50th anniversary and it was a thousand dollar ice cream Sunday that had like Tahitian vanilla bean ice cream rare chocolate you know chocolate sauce made out of like some of the world's most expensive

you know type of chocolate and had caviar on it a dessert caviar and then everything was covered in gold leaf right and then that was the sort of you know that was the gold an opulence Sunday. It came in a special goblet. It did. Like a crystal goblet. You got a, you got a

$350 of, like, crystal goblet to take home. So it's it. You're still paying $1,000 for it. So, I mean, you know, you're, if it makes you feel better to think you're only paying $650 for the, for the ice cream, you know? So, yeah, so, and then you got this goblet, what are you going to do? Take it home

put it next to your on your goblet rack. Plastic cups. Yeah, exactly. Universal Studios Your three foot long plastic You know, beer from Mardi Gras, right But I have ice cream Yeah, I guess I'll use my ice cream goblet

Scooping Ben and Jerry's into it So, but anyway, that was 2005 And it's like you heard about it in the news But nobody else, you know, people sort of Kind of started doing it a little bit but, like, really in the age of social media, Instagram, you know, now you've probably seen many, many different sort of ridiculous over-the-top menu items that sell for, like, four figures, if not five figures.

And what all of them will always have in common is they will incorporate gold leaf. Yeah. So you'd think that the gold as the most striking element of these dishes, you would think that, like, that was what contributed to them being, $1,000 because we're covered in gold, you know? And that's the thing that jumps out the most. But really, you know, the gold leaf is often the cheapest thing on one of these dishes. So I looked, I'm like, okay, how do we get gold leaf? Let me go to Amazon, gold leaf. Yeah, there's like a booklet of sheets of edible gold leaf on Amazon for $6.99.

Oh, on sale. And really the reason for this is all down to the fact that gold is extremely malleable. It is the extreme malleability of gold. So the definition of malleability in chemistry is

able to hit it with a mallet, right? Like the ability of a, the ability of a substance to deform when subject to compressive stress. So like when you whack something with compressive, you know, when you compress it down.

Right, right. The malleability is the ability of that substance to deform, but not crack. So a metal, for example, that is not very malleable is titanium. If you have a titanium ring and you put it on a hard surface and you hit it with a hammer, you'll crack your titanium ring because it is brittle. Then this comes down to essentially the arrangements of the atoms, basically. The way that the gold atoms are arranged and, you know, molecules, gold, if you hit gold with a hammer, you will not crack it open. You will just squish it.

And of all the metals, gold is absolutely most malleable. It's the squishiest metal. That's why we can have gold leaf, because you can take one gram of gold, which is the weight of a paper clip. So one paper clip's worth of gold. Okay. Very, very little amount of gold. And you can smash that into one square meter of gold leaf. No!

That's so big! Wow. Like, just imagine a little paperclip and then imagine that becoming one square meter. That's incredible. That's really incredible. And so a gram of gold is, you know, today worth about $60. So you can make a ton of gold leaf out of $60. And then you really only need, like, maybe.

like less than a dollar's worth of it to put on your ice cream sunday as it were um how thin is that once you make gold leaf you can get it to as thin as four millionths of an inch uh i can't even can't even comprehend how thin that is point one micrometer wow maybe it's hard to wrap your head about that let's let's put it this way if you're having trouble with that you can see light through it at that point If you mishandle gold leaf, if I ordered the gold leaf off of Amazon and I got the sheet of, it's like fruit roll-ups, basically. They have a sheet of paper and then the gold leaf is sitting on the paper. You have to very carefully, you know, lift it, lift it off and put it on what you were putting it on.

But it's like, if you just hold it in your hands and just start rubbing your fingers, it would just disappear. Like it would just float away. Now, we know that gold leaf exists and it's not. that expensive if you're you know just using a little bit of it and you know you could people are putting it on food and stuff like that is it safe to eat to eat it now if you start searching for gold leaf you'll find two things you'll find imitation gold leaf which is very shiny works like gold leaf but it's mostly made of copper um don't eat that okay but edible gold leaf and generally if it's if it's edible what you're buying we labeled edible there is no special

thing you have to do to gold leaf, you know, to make it edible gold. It just has to be actual gold leaf because edible gold leaf has to be pure 24-carat gold or slightly less pure than that, but like like 23 carrots at the lowest. Can't be an alloy with anything. Okay. It has to be pure gold. It has to be pure gold because, well, the malleability, right, so you can make gold leaf out of it, but because pure gold is inert. It does not, it's the same reason why, like, like gold doesn't tarnish because it doesn't oxidize it doesn't react with things and unlike some other metals it doesn't react to your stomach acids or anything in your body it's totally inert it does nothing and it just it just passes through you it can't get into your bloodstream it just doesn't do anything that is why you can eat gold leaf and gold leaf has so little golden that you'd have to eat like a real lot of it before you got anything substantial like i'm not saying go eat a gold bar like you're going to have trouble to open that out, right? But it's like the gold leaf, does it taste like anything?

Does it benefit you in any way? Because it's inert, but it also doesn't hurt you in any way. If you have a gold ring, it's probably not a 24-carat gold ring, and you wouldn't want that, because, like, those will, like, melt in the sun. People who buy, oh, I'm going to buy a platinum wedding band. It's like, well, if it's not alloyed with anything, it will deform. So that's why you have, like, a 14 or an 18-carat gold ring, because they put in stronger metals so it does not literally just start like the form.

So anyway, all this, all this is to say that everybody, every, you know, restaurant for, you know, across the world has now discovered like gold leaf food if people are, if a random takeaway spot in Britain is just like slapping it across a steak. One of the things that I, that I remember seeing is a gold chicken wings, buffalo wings totally covered in gold leaf, gold chocolate bacon, gold macarones, a gold bagel, a bagel with cream cheese with gold leafs to wrinkled over it. Gold-wrapped sushi. Serenipity 3 does a, they do a gold hot dog, the H-A-H-A-S-T-E-E-H-A-O-M-G with gold.

And so here's the thing. So the dumb thing about this, and it's so dumb, is that, as we now know, the gold that's in there is barely worth anything. You don't just spend anything. You get it. So if you're buying one of these $1,000 gold hamburgers, whatever, it's one of two situations. Either one, you're paying for the other ingredients because a lot of these use A5 Wagyu, white truffles, caviar, you know, take home the crystal goblet, you know,

or stuff like that. Either you're paying for that or as I suspect is in the case of salt bay's 1,500 pound, you know, rib-eye, you're just getting taken for a ride. You're paying for salt bay. You're paying for salt bay, but you can go to the restaurant and get a rib-eye without the gold leaf over it. So, I mean, go spend that money on A5 Wagyu that's not covered in gold. So I feel like we'll start seeing fewer and fewer of this. Sears go on because it's now kind of like we've kind of hit this, this ridiculous point. But yeah, gold leaf, you can eat it.

It's fine. And you just poop it out? Yeah, poop's not going to be gold. It's so negligible. There's barely anything there. It's so little gold. And there's so much poop. It's tiniest, tinyest bit of gold.

into a thin sheet of gold. I'm not proud of the amount of gold schlager that I may have drunk at one point at a college party. But that was the appeal of, you know, just to an impressionable... It has real gold in it. It's floating right in there, the tiny little flakes of gold. How classy is that? And then later in the evening, I'm puking gold. I mean, it's, yeah.

I'm so classy. Yeah. All right. Flat, flat, flat. Let's take a detour. But we're already like on the subject of pooping gold. Let's take a detour, a back road, if you will. When thinking about flat, my first instinct is, oh, flatulence.

No. Flatulence is the more medical and proper term for farting. For farts. The scientific sense. study of this area of farting is called flatology. Uh-huh. Flatology. Farts are funny because it's as a funny sound.

Every child can tell you that they are funny. And of course, throughout centuries, we as humans have developed a lot of colorful sayings and phrases and expressions describing farts. I here have a quiz called fart or sports. I have some I have some colorful, old-timey terms describing farts and some colorful and old-timey sport lingo. You have to tell me is a phrase I'm going to give you

describing farts or describing something in sports. And then we'll go through and share some of the origins of these sayings. So a big warning and disclaimer, nothing in this quiz is like overly gross or explicit. These are classic sayings. They're documented somehow. It's not like someone just made it on the spot. This is a scholarly fart quiz people. Yes, yes.

There's a family friendly, you know, in the realm of fart humor. So for example, here's my example. win by a nose you win by a nose is it sports or is a fart it is sport it is sport yes it's a horse racing the horse is touching the finish line

and one horse is winning by a horse nose win by nose but it sounds like farce it does it does yeah they're probably they're probably farting a lot if you think about horse races you know what I mean probably something people don't talk about so much is that those horses are probably ripping them just constantly as they're running around the track at high speeds.

I wonder if they poop while they run. I think they do. I did a rod dogs do. They're rubbing and they're pooping at the same time. So you got to watch when I run. So I assume the horse is, uh, or, you know, another colorful phrase is cut the cheese. Cut the cheese would be fart. Farts.

Farts. Farts. Farts or sports. Let's take turns on this one. Let's take turns. Chris, you're up first. All right, here we go. Barn burner.

Sport, sport. Yes, you're correct. Barn burner is a sports term, usually describing something very exciting, very dramatic, very over the top. The origin of Barn Burner comes from an old Dutch story of a farmer willing to set his barn on fire to get rid of rats. So that's the expression. You're ready to do something super dramatic. You're, like, going to escalate it. Like, you can just get rid of the rats.

No, no, I'm going to burn the whole barn down. Colin, your turn. All right. Air biscuit. I can confidently say that an air biscuit is a fart. You are correct. No, I thought it was going to, you were kind of, like, throwing a curveball there, and it was going to be, like, in basketball, you know, when somebody kind of throws it

and like, you completely miss the basket. Air biscuit. Oh, yeah, it's an air biscuit. Air biscuit. A 1990s kind of slang from the south. It's like you ate a biscuit, and now it's in the form of air. We, among my circle of friends, like, you wouldn't just talk about an air biscuit. You would ask who floated the air bistet.

Yes. Yes. Yeah. So beautiful. All right. Chris, now is your turn. Fart or sports.

The Bronx cheer. That is a fart. That was what they, the whoopee cushions used to have as your like logo like. It emits a real, quote unquote, Bronx cheer. Bronx cheer is a fart or a raspberry noise

fart noise you make with your mouth. All right. Colin, your turn. Light the lamp. Light the lamp. I believe that's a sports term. I'm pretty sure that's a sports term.

Do you know what sport? Oh, man. What team is it when, yeah, they would light the lamp when they win? It is hockey. There's the light by the goal. And every time the small tiny puck goes into a goal, they run the light siren to tell people, hey. You probably didn't see this tiny thing.

Yeah, this tiny puck winning. Okay. People on the back. Got it. Ooh. Chris. Yes. Your phrase is, hurler on the ditch.

Hurler on the ditch. Um, I mean, this sounds like a sport thing. I'm going to go sports. Correct. It is the sport of hurling. Ah, okay there. There we are. Hurling, one of the two national sporting games of Ireland, the other one being,

Do we know? Oh, Gaelic football. Gaelic football. Okay. Yes. Hurling, it's kind of like lacrosse. It's a rough, rough sport. Hurler on the ditch, hurler on the ditch.

It means a person standing on the side of a hurling field, sometimes issuing instructions or comments or unwelcome suggestions. Oh, it's like actually driving armchair quarterback. Yeah. Oh, that's funny. that's funny curling on the ditch if you're blue

and you don't know where to go to why don't you go where fashion sits curling on the ditch just had to get it out of my head or else

yeah all right Colin what is a rouser a rouser is it a fart or is it a rouser could be a referee call

yeah boy I mean like really fast ball. I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna go sports on this one. I just, I don't, I just, just a gut feeling. I don't know what it is. I'm gonna guess sports, a rouser. R-O-U-S-E-R means a loud fart. Uh-huh. First appeared in 1713. Jonathan Swift. Hey.

In his poem, he described a rouser, which is a loud fart. All right. Chris, your last, your last term, Chris. is a backdoor cutter. Backdoor cutter. I'm not going to overthink this, and I'm just going to say fart. And if it's not, then we've got to make it that.

It's such a good name for a fart, but it is sports. Yes, it applies to both basketball and baseball. A backdoor cutter. In baseball, it is a type of pitch where the ball begins outside the strike. zone and then kind of crosses in, you know, backdoor cutter. Woo! That was a backdoor cutter. I'm never going to think of some of these the same way because, yeah, you hear that a lot in basketball, a backdoor cut or backdoor cutter. Yep. Colin, your last term. Drop the lunchbox. Drop the lunchbox. Drop the lunchbox. Drop the lunchbox. I'm going to go sports again. I'm going to

guess it's like slang for like dropping the football or something like that it is Australian slang for farts oh dang it sounds so much like a sports turn drop the lunchbox like a like a like a bad fumble you know or something but drop the lunchbox Australian slang for farts sounds like kind of from the same place as like air biscuit yeah yeah yeah yeah is coming back yep here here's a list of sport lingo terms I did not use, that totally sounds like fart to me. Whiff, a whiff, a whiff. Yeah. Air raid offense.

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I'm going to flood the zone. As you guys know, I was in Utah recently camping. It wouldn't be a post-summer break, good job rain show if I didn't manage to find a way to sneak that in somehow. While we were on this trip, my camping partner and I, we were doing a lot of Jeep trails, really rocky, really bumpy, up and down. It was a lot of fun. Maybe ironically, on the lowest rated, ostensibly the easiest trail out of all the trails we rode on that entire week that we were in Utah, we got a flat tire. I'm not going to say it was like panic-inducing, but it was definitely like, oh man, what are we going to do? Because we were out, you know, on a four-by-four trail out not far from Moab.

We weren't far from civilization. We were never worried at any point, but it was the middle of a 95-degree day. Oh, my God. What do you do? The short story is you stop and you change the tire in the middle of a trail, and you just do the best you can. I mean, luckily for us, we were on a relatively flat portion of the four-by-four trail. It would have really, really sucked if we had been on an uphill or a downhill of a steep angle. We were in the Jeep.

We were riding along. and my friend, Justin, was driving. We hear a little beep, and he says, hey, cheap says our tires low pressure. And we're both kind of like, huh, I'm like, hey, yeah, okay, all right, well, let's just keep going. Keep an eye on that. Keep an eye on that for sure. Because that would be a real pain if we had to stop and change a tire, wouldn't it? Ha, ha, ha.

So we go about 10 minutes later, it's beeping again. He's like, hey, and it gives us a little number, you know. It tells us what the three regular tires were somewhere, you know, around maybe. 30 PSI. And it was telling us that this problematic tire was dropping below 20 and getting increasingly lower. So we pulled the Jeep over, parked the Jeep so we were so we could change the tire out of the sun, put the new one on, started driving again. And as we were driving, you know, it was safe enough to kind of say, how does it know that the tire was losing pressure? How does it know that the Jeep could tell us on the dashboard, hey, this tire is losing pressure? And in fact,

it was. So I'm going to turn that question over to you guys. How does the car know when a tire is losing pressure? And I will tell you that if you have bought a new car in the U.S. anytime after 2008, your car has a low tire pressure monitoring system. So is there like a gyroscopy type thing that's seeing like how flat is the car? And if the car starts to tilt towards one end like this, it's It's like, well, the only reason it will be lowering down is if the tire is losing air pressure and the tire is flattening out subtly. So it's a Wii remote, basically. I bet it's not something that's super advanced. A little microphone that is listening for like a sound.

That's good. I like that. There are basically, broadly speaking, two ways that your car can tell if you've got a low pressure tire. There's the direct method. All right. Now, this method of direct monitoring, you will generally find on higher-end luxury brands. It does, in fact, directly measure the pressure of the tire inside each tire. And a common way that this works is incorporated into the little valve where you put in them is a little pressure sensor and a little radio transmitter. And it directly responds, yes, this is.

Now, this is why you tend to see this on the more expensive, higher-end brands, sends a little radio signal to the car's CPU. Again, virtually every car these days has a computer on board, at least one, and it tells the car, hey, tell the driver that this, this tire is exactly this much low. It's exactly for PSI low. Yeah. There's a little battery, basically, that has to power each little radio transmitter. And, you know, when the battery dies, it's not easy to replace the whole assembly.

then there is indirect method, which is the most common way of monitoring tire pressure. And this to me is kind of the cooler way. Among the ways of doing this are using kind of existing data sensors in the car to deduce the tires pressure. And most of these methods revolve around the idea, the principle, that a tire that is underinflated will have a slightly smaller radius and therefore it will make more turns per second at a given speed. So that is one way. So cars that might already have systems like anti-lock braking or stability control, skid control, those kind of things, which already are set up to monitor, yeah, rotations on the given tire. They can sort of use that information to say, oh, wait, you're driving straight,

but this tire is making more rotations. Yeah. Now, what's important to note here is is that in this kind of system, it does not actually know what the pressure is on your tires. So if you've got this kind of system, I have it in my car. If you ever have like a significant change, you've got to go in and tell the car,

okay, I'm reset now. I'm back at normal. And then it just monitors them relative to one another. This is why you have to manually reset it because it's not smart enough to know. It's also why, and we discovered this, when we put on the brand new or the spare tire anyway, We had to drive for about 15 minutes or so before it had enough data that it could say like, okay, yep, this tire's good again.

We just kind of had to trust that we put the new tire on and it would still tell us it was low for, you know, a good number of miles. So it all worked out. All right. Why did I say 2008? Why was I so sure that if you bought a car after 2008 that you would have what is called a tire pressure monitoring system? That is because 2008 was the year that the Transportation Recall Enhancement, Accountability, and Documentation Act, also known as the Tread Act, went into full force. Yes, the Tread Act. You know, you know, Congress loves, they work so hard.

They work backward, right? All right, okay, we got to call this thing the Tread Act. What is that going to stand for? Right. So the Tread Act was signed into law by President Bill Clinton in the year 2000. It was a more or less a direct response to, you guys may remember this. This was dark, but the Ford and Firestone rollover entire controversy of the late 90s, this was a big news story.

There were numerous fatalities and serious injuries related to sort of the combination of some very specific Ford's explorers and some very specific Firestone tires. I would give you the very short version. Ford realized and discovered that their explorers were prone to rolling over and tipping. So one of the ways they countered this was by reducing the recommended tire pressure on the explorer. To a safe level, ostensibly. But when you reduce the pressure on a tire, it does, in fact, make the tire generally wear faster.

There's more friction on tires that are predisposed to tread separation, which is basically where the layers of the tire come apart, okay, and you lose control. If you have underinflated or low inflated tires, that's a lot more likely to happen. And that is what happened in this very regrettable set of circumstances. So Congress is pressed into action. You've got to change this. You've got to figure this. Both Ford and Firestone had a lot of changes they had to make.

This legislation, it did a number of things. One required auto manufacturers to tell the government that if they had any safety recalls, that are important safety recalls, if they became aware of any defects or injuries caused by defects related to their products, and then kind of created a criminal liability if they didn't do these kind of things. What, so before then, didn't you do any of that? Before then, the laws around what auto manufacturers and had to report to the government were not nearly as stringent.

That's right. Jeez, Louise. Like a lot of things in our country's history, a lot of regulations, a lot of which made us safer, came after play after some horrific, you know, tragedy or a series of catastrophes. Yeah. So accompanying the Tread Act, right? So part of this whole wave of legislation that was passed extremely quickly was federal motor vehicle safety standard 138, which specifically mandated tire pressure monitoring systems be installed on all passenger cars, trucks, buses under basically 10,000 pounds. So basically every common passenger car and truck and bus that you would see out on the road.

And they gave them a few years to sort of phase this in, which is one reason why some of the earlier systems were the indirect, because the auto manufacturers are like, all right, what systems do we already have that we can kind of piggyback off of? By the end of 2007, going into 2008, 100% of new passenger vehicles sold in the U.S. were required to have a TPMS. system of some type installed. In fact, it is specifically obligated by Congress, it must warn drivers of significantly underinflated tires and then also say, like, you know, hey, dummy, this is dangerous, so you should fix it. I mean, look, thank goodness for me that it worked at a very flat point on a relatively sparsely populated trail out in the Utah backcountry. But, yeah, I learned a lot about how my car works from this little event and how to avoid. avoid flat tires because they suck no matter where you are.

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