Good Job, Brain! - 264: Holiday Clips Spectacular!

Episode Date: November 28, 2023

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You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Who, who, who? T'was the week before our break. To another year we say goodbye. The barnyard buzzers are resting, charging in the manger nearby. Trivial pursuit cards are stacked by the chimney with care. Get ready, friends.

Our holiday clips show is here. Hello, chrysalids and chryslist criss-crossing through chrysanthemums while crystallizing crisps about chrisms and crisp breads. Welcome to Good Job, Brain, your weekly quiz show and Offbeat Trivia podcast. This is episode 264, and of course, I'm your humble host, Karen, and we are your holiday honeies, hoping for some hoppin hot sauce and hot sauce and hot. I'm Colin and I'm Chris today is our penultimate episode before next week's season finale and today is a special ding ding ding ding ding ding very special holiday greetings to you all from good job brain wow it's a special holiday gift to you A clip show, because we're all too busy with the holidays. We have curated the best and the funniest and the most trivia-est holiday-related clips, segments and quizzes from the past library of, I don't know, 260 episodes.

I know people are kind of like roll their eyes at clip shows, but we've been doing this for a really long time. Sometimes we should bubble up and curate and have these kind of like themed anthologies. to bring back things that we even forgot that we talked about. It's a present to us as well. Yeah. Without further ado, let's jump into our first general trivia segment. Pop quiz, hot shot. Of course, we're going to do a fresh one.

So grab your barnyard buzzers. I got a random card here. Let's hope it's, let's hope it's one of those Christmas ones. It's not. It's a Christmas miracle. It is not a miracle because it's not the Christmas one. This is Forte. I love Forte.

Here we go. Here we go. All right. Give me that soaps question. Here we go. Yep. Which 30s crooner. Oh.

Croner. That would be better. That would be better. That would be guisible. Yeah. Okay. Who much for soaps? Soaps.

Which soap opera star has worked as a movie stuntman and has doubled for Billy D. Willey. Oh, my gosh. Lando Cal Rizian himself. Again, which soap opera star has worked as a movie stuntman and has doubled for Billy D. Williams. Yeah. Oh, we do have our theme because what is Billy D. Williams' full legal name, guys. You know this. It is William December Williams.

Yes, it is. Yes, it is. Chris, this was in the show. William, on time of December Williams. Oh, we had our Christmas miracle. There it is. Snuck at December in there. I'm clearly stalling because I have no idea.

It is Eddie Earl Hatch. Eddie Earl Hatch. Eddie Earl Hatch. However, it also says parentheses Tucker Foster. What? Is that a character name? Character on the show? Yeah, probably.

Oh, I see. Not like his, yeah, sag name versus real name. Doubling for Billy D. Williams. Okay. All right. Pink Witch for cartoons. Okay. Pink Witch for cartoons.

Where do Rocket Robin Hood and his merry men live? Rocket Robin Hood? Yes. Rocket Robin Hood. Yes. Oh. Sure would plan it. Yeah, that's good.

Yes. I like it. I like it. I like it. That's better than the actual answer, which is. The Solar Powered Asteroid Sherwood Forest. Oh, man, that's not even a joke. There's not even a terrible pun.

But I was sort of onto it. That's way better than... Starwood Forest, even, something? Come on. Sherwood Forest. Okay. We can do it. We can do it.

Yellow Wed for Space. There's a whole category dedicated to space on Forte. How fast is Warp 1 Collin. The speed of light. Correct. It is the speed of light. Parentheses, Tucker Foster.

All right. Brown wedge for pairs. Who starred as grandpa and grandma Walton? Wait, we have to name them both? Yes. Well, that stinks because I don't know either of them. What is this? referring the Walton's yeah is that a show it was it was a very popular

show in the i mean 70s um yeah can you even name any i don't i don't it is i if you said it i might recognize one of them but there's no way will greer uh-huh and ellen corby nope nope nope all right uh Someone out there listening to the show knew that, and I salute you. Oh, yeah. I wish you were here. I was going to say, I can't even name a character on the show of the walls. I can name John Boy.

Okay. Well, oh, yeah, I mean, I can, I can name too, Grandma and Grandpa. And now apparently John Boy. That's their first names, yeah. Green Wedge for ads. Where is the, quote, Valley of the Jolly Green Giant? It is on the solar-powered asteroid green bean. Is it a real place?

It is a real place. You're never going to get it. California. I don't know. I don't know if it's the canning plant or were they growing the beans or their corporate HQ is. It is Lassore, Minnesota. Oh, okay.

All right. No, I mean, I, that might be in there, because I've heard of like the lasseur peas. Yeah, I don't know. Oh, okay. Okay, that's something to grab on to. Maybe. This is like, this is harder than Chris's hard quiz from last episode. Yeah.

Yeah. It's like, geez. All right. All right. Who, who, who. Last question. Orange Wedge for Fair Play. who was the 1,783 celebrity to be honored in Hollywood's walk of fame?

What? What? Just pulling out of nowhere? 1,873rd? 7883. Oh, oh, 7008. So 1, 1783. 1783.

Who was the 1,7883 celebrity to be honored in Hollywood's celebrity? walk of fame. Gosh. It, like, if this were a good question, the number must clue into something. Right, right, right, right, yeah, yeah. Carrot top. Let's see. I don't know.

I feel like it's either going to be some legendary name. I mean, I guess they've got to be a legend by definition, but, but then wouldn't, yeah. Chuck Connors. Oh, my God. Okay, sure. The Rifleman. Yes. Oh, my God.

You got that. I know who Chuck Connors is. So that's just such a random answer. There's no. Whoa. What's the connection. What an interesting man. Okay, okay.

He is one of only 13 athletes in the history of American professional sports to have played in both Major League Baseball and NBA and National Basketball Association. I forgot that about it. We hear baseball and football. Yeah, yeah. But not baseball and basketball other than Michael Jordan. So what, why? Yeah. What strange question?

It's just kind of a so what? And it's like, okay. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. I mean, it's where, you know, the other thing, for most of these questions, you know, at the time, this is something that you would have seen on TV a lot. You know what I mean?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, I just saw this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good job, brains. Ho, ho, ho, ho. It just shows you how trivia is, Trivia is just like comedy, that it's like it's tied to a certain time and place and the further away from what you get. But that's, you know, that's also why when they show like, this is a test that kids in the 1800s had to take.

Right, right. Third grade. We're just so separated from that that we've just moved on from having that stuff be common knowledge or even things that are even taught to children. Yeah. Happy holidays, everybody. So let's bring on the holiday cheer. Take us away, Trivia Santa. T'was the night before Christmas, pop quizzes await.

For the true Christmas nerds with knowledge so great. Not your usual questions, oh no, my friends. These queries dig deep, where true experts wend. Like, if you are a Christmas file, like, this is for you. Inside Christmas baseball. Inside Christmas baseball. Get ready for these questions. I mean, I'm just thinking if you have to generate enough questions for a whole game.

Yeah. You're going to be deep. Yeah. Deep. All right. Everybody get your barnyard buzzers ready. Here we go. Oh, man.

All right. All right. Maybe we can do it. I don't know. Okay. Category is Christmas carols. Okay. All right.

In Good King. Went so slow. Oh, thank you. what did the monarch looked out on wow he looked up it's a good king

lancis last looked out on the feast of even Eden Stephen Stephen on the feast of yes yes I was running through the lyrics

is that a how do you sing that song Good king lances slops looked out on the feast of Stephen All the snow Around about And even No, that's what it was

Yeah, then nobody knows the rest So let's just forget about it. All right, next category. Good job. Stocking Stuffers. Who wrote The Christmas Murder Mystery Star Bright,

A Christmas Story? Oh. Is it with a question mark at the end? Oh, no, question mark is for the question. Okay. You'll read anything on the car. Murder mystery, Star Bright, A Christmas Story.

Wow. Chris. Agatha Christie. Incorrect. Colin. Ellery Queen. Incorrect. Chris again.

Agatha Christmas. Nice. No, it is. Andrew M. Greeley. Well. Okay. All right. Good for it.

Yeah. Deep cut. All right. Next category. Holiday Traditions. Who is credited? with the 1903 creation of Christmas Seals. Oh, 19.

I don't know if it's Arf Arf Seals or like a wax. Like a sticker. Could this be the president at the time? That's who I think it was. Okay. What was the first president of the... McKinley was right around the turn of the century. 1903.

Oh, wait. No, or am I thinking of March of Dimes? Yeah, they have Christmas Seals. All right, we got to... We've got to come up with something here. 1903. McKinley. Incorrect.

It is Danish postmaster. Oh, my God. Einhar Holble. Oh, yeah. All right. All right. So who do you play this game with? This is for.

Is this for children? This is for, you know, this is for the real serious Christmas geeks. Yeah. This is the tradition. I mean, at least one existed in order to make this game. Right. Yeah. All right.

Next category, Christmas. movies. In a Charlie Brown Christmas, what does Lucy want for Christmas? Wow, Chris. Real estate. Correct. Nice. Okay. She's savvy. All right. Last category, North Pole. What were Donner and Blixen's name in the 1823 publication of A Visit from St. Nicholas? Colin. I'm going to guess, Donder and Blitzen.

The original, or Dunder and Blitzen? You got Dunder, right? Mifflin. Dundner and Miflin. No, it is, yeah, it's Dunder and... It's not Blixen. Blixen. Or Blitzen.

No, she was asking about Blixen. No, Blixen. Oh, wait. It is. So, what were Donner and Blixen's name? Yeah, okay. So in the original, it's Dunder and Blixem. Oh, what's a M.

Oh, okay. Dunder Blixim. Blixim. Dunder. Dunder and Miflum. Do you guys want to do another one since it's Christmas time? Yeah, okay, sure. They're not that fun, but yes.

Right, right, yeah. Yeah, why not? Okay, Christmas carols, in the 12 days of Christmas, what did my true love send to me on the eighth day? Wow. You buzz first and then you think. That's what he always does. Well, yeah, because I know I'm going to get this.

I was just like Chris buzz. I think so. It's eight maids of milking. Correct. Thank you. Okay. Stocking stuffers. Who wrote

Why are there so many Christmas murder mystery? All right. Who wrote the Christmas murder mystery Cat in the Golden Garland? Collin. Ellery Queen.

Incorrect. None of the names we mentioned. Oh, okay. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle? No, it is Carol Nelson Douglas. Who are these people?

He just went to like half-price books and like looked at all the Christmas. I've been whoever created this game has like a murder mystery collection Yeah Just Christmas theme We're working on a tight deadline

Yeah All right Uh holiday traditions In Norway When our church bells Rung to welcome The Spirit of Christmas Hmm

Wait in On what day and what time What day and what time And where? The Spirit of Christmas Welcome December 24th at midnight Or midnight between the 24th and 25th

It is on Christmas Eve So it is December 24th You have to guess the time. Oh, but it's not midnight. It's not midnight. No, it is. 5 p.m.

Oh, great. Well, we would have got it eventually. Yeah. Maybe we would have. It didn't go into the minutes. It's like that would have been. All right. Christmas movies.

What do all the murder victims? What is up with this dude and what Christmas murders? What do all the murder victims in? Don't open till Christmas. have in common. What do all the... Did you put... I didn't buzz.

I just, like, flints my buzzer. Colin. I'm going to guess they were all Santa Claus's. They were all wearing Santa Suits. Oh, wow. Nice. I was going to guess, like, the murderer, like, stuffed candy canes in the victim's nostrils. Oh, that's true.

As a macabre and festive calling card. Like a moth, but it's a candy cane. Right, right, right. Oh, that's actually no bad. All right. Last question, North Pole. From a time in England, Father Christmas delivered presents, riding what? Writing?

Writing. Writing on a? Oh, yeah, what animal did he? Chris. Festral. No. Oh. No.

Hypogreth. Yeah. Was it a bear? Nope. A horse. Nope. It is a white donkey. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. That's, I feel like that. I've seen a picture of that. Yeah. Are all donkeys? No, donkeys are not white, right? That's why it's magical. Oh, it's a magical white donkey.

Got it. It's like shadow facts. Shadow donkey. Go, white donkey. Deliver these presents for me. In those days, he only had to get, he doesn't have the team of eight reindeer here as the one donkey because he only has to circumnavigate like England.

Oh, yeah, that's true. It's confined to a very small area. It's not all over. the world. Yeah. He's got a solid ground game. That's, yeah. All right. Good job, Raines. Good job on our Christmas pop quiz. That was pretty hard. A lot of people died. That was tough. It was tough. Yeah. Lots of murders. Really high body count on that quiz. You know the song The Twelve Days of Christmas? Yes. Right. So what is the 12th and last day of Christmas? Oh. Is it Christmas Day? No, I don't think it is. I think it continues.

into the new year. That was one, like, I remember at my house, like, my mom went kind of tongue-in-cheek, be like, oh, we don't need to take the Christmas tree down. Oh, right. No, yeah, your mom was actually, um, correct. She's actually correct. It was actually correct, um, that you can keep going because people celebrated Christmas starting on Christmas Day and then into the new year.

So I did not know this. I always thought the 12 days of Christmas started like 12 days prior to Christmas Day. Yeah, counting down the Christmas game. And they were just getting a head start or whatever. The 12th. Day, traditionally, was January 6th. That supposedly was, was like, the day that I think that Jesus met the wise men, you know, like he was born, and then a few days later. Something like that.

It's called, it's the day of the epiphany. Okay. It's like the day that Christians were awoken to the fact that Jesus was the son of God, that that sort of thing. So are you supposed to do something on the actual 12th day, like a, like a special celebration or a meal? Yeah. Well, there's a Shakespeare play about it. The 12th night? 12th night.

And that's the night of January 5th before 12th day or January 6th. And so they have like 12th. I don't know. You probably eat a bunch of food and get drunk. You know, like every holiday. Like whatever. There's Lord's a leap in. But that's no, yeah, exactly.

There's 12, what is it 12? Is 12 drummers? Is it 12? 10 Lords leaping, nine ladies dancing. What is it? What is it? Fierreously looking it up right now. Oh, geez.

We're so embarrassed. Oh, drummers drumming. Is it drummers drumming? 11 ladies dancing? No, nine ladies dancing. Pipers. Piping. Okay. Okay.

Who the Pipers were in there somewhere. There are somewhere. So it takes a while before you get to the drummers. You got the pipers and then you have the drums and now it's the real party. Yeah. Yep. Yep. Yeah.

Well, you got the, yeah, the bass section. But then you get all these rando birds come in. Tons of birds. They've been there. Well, so interesting part about the birds, too, that I found out while I was looking at 12 days of Christmas. It's actually not for calling birds, which is what everybody sings. It's, it was for collie birds, C-O-L-L-L-Y.

And a collie bird, collie is an old English word or an old word. No, it's for calling. So it's for calling birds. No, it's an old word meaning black. So it's just blackbirds. And then because the word fell out of favor, people kept singing it. They thought, oh, it must be calling, like, you know, bird calls. just singing about regular blackbirds that make no noise.

Or go like. But hold your excitement, for there's something quite stark. For midwinter festivities, the secret ingredient is shark. Ha Carl will wake you up. It's a fermented affair. It made Gordon Ramsey puke.

So try it if you dare. So, Dana, you had mentioned earlier Lutifisk, which is the Dandenavian, fish covered in lye and sort of semi-fermented. I have a sort of related dish that I would like to talk about. That's even one step beyond that in terms of craziness. This is the traditional Icelandic dish of ha-carl. Hot Carl.

Hot Carl. H-A-K-A-R-L, H-A-R-L, which is essentially fermented shark. But the process is a little nuts. So, ha-carl is made with the green. land shark. And the way you make the dish is you, well, you catch the greenland shark first. So it assumes you have a greenland shark. It seems like that's the hardest part. Step one. Step one. Acquire green lens shark. Take the shark. You gut it. You clean it, cut off the head.

You bury it in a hole in the ground, covered up with dirt. And then you wait two to three months while it decomposes and putrefies. You come back. You dig it up. You take what's now sort of, the remains of the putrified shark meat, all the liquids, all the liquids would have drained off into this time and have been absorbed into the soil. You hang it up, you let it dry, and after it's dried, it sort of has this brownish rind on it. You cut off the rind, you chop it up into cubes, and then you eat it, and that's hacarl. Now, here's where it gets weird. This is reported to be... It gets weird from now. This is, yeah, that was the normal part. That was the normal part of this dish. It's reputed to be

the worst smelling food on the planet. Oh, I bet. We've talked about durian. We've talked about lutefisk. This dish may actually take the cake for the most foul presentation. And part of the reason it's so foul has to do with the shark itself. So Greenland shark on its own is poisonous. If you eat it fresh, it would kill you because it has ridiculously high concentrations

of urea, which is, you know, yeah, it's what gives urine the ammonia smell. When it combines with water, urea turns into ammonia smell. a compound called TMAO, which is basically what breaks down into the rotting fish smell. Like when fish goes bad, you're smelling TMAO that has converted. So the Greenland shark is high in both of these, so you can't eat it right away. Like there are stories that if you eat it fresh, you can vomit blood. Oh my God. So what the fermentation does is it breaks down these compounds to make them safer to eat.

When you eat it, it smells like urine. So here's a question. Yes. Why even eat it at all? Why even eat it at all? You know, there are a number of theories that range from, this is just a joke to be played on foreigners when they come to Iceland. Like I could see getting as far as burying the sharks,

so you never have to think about it again. It's the part three months later where somebody's like, Hey, Ivan, you remember that shark we buried? You want to dig it up and hang it in the garage for whatever? This is a traditional dish really associated with a midwinter festival in Iceland called the Thorsablot, named after Thorseblot. So there is just a bevy of awesome, awesome quotes about HaKarrel. And this dish actually has the distinction of it's got the golden trio of celebrity chefs.

Anthony Bourdain has covered it on his show. Andrew Zimmer. Andrew Zimmern has covered it on his show. Gordon Ramsey tried to eat it. Gordon Ramsey famously spit it back up, vomited it. Even he couldn't keep it down. Anthony Bordane said it is, quote, the single worst, most disgusting and terrible tasting thing he's ever eaten.

And Anthony Bourdain has eaten a lot of things. Here's some quotes from other people. It's a little like a tuna fish sandwich that's been sitting on the bottom of your lunch bag for three weeks. It resembles a tramp sock soaked in urine. It tastes like someone pooped in your mouth after a bender. Yuck. And every guide I've read, you know, is like, if you're going to go try this for the first time, it warns you. Be prepared to vomit.

Be prepared to drink heavily. Just know what you're getting yourself into. The pee you can chew. The lights may sparkle, a festive display. But danger lurks if precautions sway. So gather around. Let's talk safety tonight. for a joyful holiday, all merry and bright.

Yes, it is the holiday season. And that means that I have, you know, I just wanted to talk about a gift that you should not give to yourself and that you should not give to other people. Whoa. It is, yeah, so it's the holiday season. That means that, you know, all around America, hardware stores are going to start hanging up

some festive holiday signage. The typical holiday sign that they're going to hang up at, you know, Home Depot or Ace Hardware as a little illustration of a product that people typically want to buy during the holiday season. And below that product, that image that illustration, is usually written something that goes a little bit like this. These are not made. These should never be made. We will not make them. We will not help you make one.

Okay. Well, this sign seems to mean business. What is this product? Why are people asking for it? It is, put simply, if you can picture this in your head, a male-to-mail power cord. Both ends of the cable. Like, both ends of the cable are a plug that you plug into the wall. And at the other end is another plug that you plug into the wall.

And, yeah, you cannot buy this at hardware stores. But I recently discovered, actually, around this time last year, that these signs showing one of these saying, Get out of here if you want one of these. Go up every holiday season because there is a big surge in interest for them around this time. And why is that?

Well, typically this is what happens. You, like Clark Griswold, go up onto the roof of your home and you hang about 500 feet of Christmas lights up there. Santa and the reindeer and everything. Then once that's all, you know, stapled in and secure and, you know, it's not going.

anywhere and it's really fixed to your roof you climb down the you know ladder that's kind of like precariously leaning up against the side of your house with like one setting the scene you know and you you're finally done right you've been up on your literal roof this whole time like risking your life and uh you go over you're going to plug the strand of light into the outlet and light the pole place up and you look down at your hand and and you're holding the female end of the the holes end and the holes end of the cords and the male end is somewhere up near your chimney like stapled up right you put them in backwards oh they do it wrong that people will do it backwards accidentally and so at this point if you don't really know that much about electricity

you think oh sure no problem i just need an adapter you know just like you do USB to USB micro whatever no no i just need an adapter you know a dongle i just need a a dongle that plugs in the mail end and goes in here, and then I'll plug the mail end into my wall, and then bing, bang, boom, I got my adapter. Problem solved. Actually, no, for like many reasons. So, so I'm talking about this, by the way, because I think some of you guys may have seen, I actually tweeted about this last year in 2020.

On Twitter, I showed some examples of these signs because I could find many of them. So I showed like four examples of these, we don't make this sign. And the tweet, like, kind of went viral that year. And then this year, with me doing nothing, it came back again, you know? Like, it just seems like every holiday season, this tweet is going to come back on me because people are very interested in, you know, in this and the fact that this sort of just happens. Oh, I just thought to myself, you know what? Let me bring this on to the show.

Because I plugged the show under the tweet, plugged the show. That's what you're supposed to do. You're supposed to promote your SoundCloud, right? And the tweet goes viral. And I'm like, oh, I should actually talk. about this on good job brain now i learned something interesting before we go into too much detail here i learned something interesting in the replies to this tweet which is that christmas lights do not necessarily work in other countries the way that they that we do them in america because

people are actually very confused they're like what do you mean the the female end of the christmas lights um if you're a non-american listening to the show right now and you're a little confused about this yes are strands of lights that you buy and you put on your house and stuff like that or even that you put on your Christmas tree. Christmas lights generally have a male plug at one end that you plug into the wall and a female plug at the other end. And we can daisy chain our strands of lights together to cover our gigantic American houses. Now, you might think, gee, isn't that like dangerous? Like, won't that like overload the circuit if you do it too many times? And the answer is no, because what a lot of people don't know is that each of those strands of lights

actually has a fuse in it. At the female end, there are fuses in the strands. So if something were to get overloaded, you wouldn't overload the whole thing and cause a big fire. The fuse would blow. So with that in mind, now we get to, well, why can't Ace Hardware sell me, you know, a male-to-male power cord? Well, the first danger here is basic electrical safety

because the reason the plugs are designed as they are, it's that the electricity is deep inside your wall. That's why there's no plugs sticking out from outside your wall, and you plug the other end. The electricity is in there. So you put the prongs inside, and then it meets the electricity versus it just being out. When you plug this, you plug one of these things in,

and now the electricity is all outside of the wall, and it's just open and exposed. Because people ask this question on Twitter, it's like, why is this dangerous? It's like, imagine. if you had a taser but it was floppy and always on and at ankle height in your living room yeah exactly and this is why this is why some people very morbidly

call this cable a suicide cable it's super dangerous and back to the Christmas lights now okay so let's say that you were really super careful you still shouldn't do this if you were really super careful and you plug the you know into your Christmas lights and plug it into the wall well you've now kind of lost the protection of all those chains of fuses because the fuses are at the wrong end of the whole thing and so you don't you just all you want to do is it's like this is what some of these signs are like if you need this adapter you put your lights up wrong you don't need this adapter doesn't exist what you need is a big extension cord for the other end or you need to restring your Christmas lights but you but if you want to get a big extension cord and do that do it that way you can do that so some of the replies to this tweet said something to the effect of, oh, well, I actually do use one of those because that's how I plug my generator into the house's electrical system. You know,

if you have a portable backup, you know, generator, you can plug it into your home using one of those cables. And I'm sure there's a lot of them actually out there being used for that purpose. You know, you have a generator. You plug one end in. You plug one end into an outlet in your house and it, quote unquote, back feeds. It back feeds the electricity backwards into your house instead of it coming from the power line you're putting the electricity into your house into your house yes so you can do that it's illegal everywhere in the united states you can do it and the reason i mean one of the reasons why is because if somebody is let's say the power goes down right okay i'll plug my generator into the wall and start sending electricity through my house that way

now uh the power line guy comes to that goes up in the power lines well the power lines are dead so he's going to fix it. Oh, oops, you're sending electricity through because it's leaving your house and going to the power lines also. Now you zap that guy and he dies. So, but people are like, oh, well, you know, then I'll just, I'll shut off the, you know, the main breaker. It's like, yeah, okay. Like, I guess if you do that, but it's like, then you have to, you know, make sure you do it. So there is a way to have a backup generator for your home, but like it involves like what's called a transfer switch which which takes away all of these you know sort of uncertainties and dangers and things like that yeah and so the thing is you can go

if you go to amazon you can buy a mail-to-mail power cord oh my god i would not you said places don't make them you so responsible places do not make them but there are sellers on amazon that will sell you a lot of stuff that um you can't buy in a store i looked with all the reviews for it the first review for the first one that i saw five out of five stars, good for pools. I plug one end into my home outlet and I put the other end into my pool to kill all the frogs. Oh, God.

Did you kill all the frogs? Oh, my God. Yes. So, the holidays bring a bounty of gifts. Let's make sure that one of them is not a suicide cord. Also, important PSA. There were so many people who responded to this tweet who were like, uh, yeah, I worked at a

hardware store and I constantly had to deal with people like yelling at me, telling me that these did exist and that they just know more than me. I'm like, it could kill you and they're like, no, no, no, not me, you know? It's like, yeah, yes, you. I'm the electron charmer. I know what I'm doing. Right, right. Precisely, right, right, yeah. Well, so now I'm curious, Chris, you alluded to this. So have other countries solved this problem in a more sophisticated way than we have? And yes, in a lot of cases, if you do have strands of lights that connect together. They just have special

proprietary plugs on the other side so you can only connect them to other strands of lights. So less confusing. Or they just don't have them. Yeah. Be careful out there, everybody. Yeah. Thank you, hardware store employees. Keeping ourselves safe. No frills, delivers. Get groceries delivered to your door from No Frills with PC Express.

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wherever you get your podcasts. That's AccuWather Daily, wherever you get your podcasts. Gather round, my kin, for this curious show of strange family names from long, long ago. Not just aunt and uncle or cousin or brother, but moniker's lost in time, unique like no other. Kind of following up on what Colin said,

You lived with your family, and your family was very important before. Like, it's important now. But before, like, everybody was up in your grill all the time. So there were very specific names, other names for members of your family. I have a quiz for you guys. Because you were just constantly, like, you know, your cousin might sleep in the same bed with you or whatever. And, like, you got to know who that person is. Right.

How everybody's related to you is important. Yep. Yep. And so that's a little clue for you. I have a quiz for you about family. Family members, specific names of family members. I'll read you the name or the word for this family member, and then you guys will write down your guess at how this person would be related to you. Oh, got it.

We're going to try to, yeah, describe it as best we can. Yes. Got it, okay. First one. Who is your brother uterine? Wow. Right off the bat. Right out of the game.

I mean, I just thought, I want to keep your interest. Try it. Brother uterine. Uterine. How do you spell that? Brother uterine. Brother hyphen U-T-R-I-N-E. E-T-R-I-N-E.

Is that like P? Uteris. Not Brother U-R-U-N. Okay. All right. I don't know. Yeah, okay. Okay.

Chris says twin. Karen says twin brother. Colin says you're twin. No. It is your half-brother from the same mother. Oh, okay. Because I was like uterus. Yes.

You're in the right. Yeah. So there's a lot of meeting condensed in there. Okay. Got it. Okay. All right. I like that.

Who is your avuncle? Spell it. Can I have the spelling please? Sure. Yes. It is A-V-U-N-C-L-E. Wow. What?

All right. Chris says great-uncle, Karen says dad's brother, Colin says uncle on dad's side. It's your mom's brother. Inverse. We were both thinking the same thing. It's like uncle but specified. Wow. Who is your double cousin?

Oh, man. Double cousin. Double cousin. Okay. I'm like adding a question mark into all of them. Yeah. They're weird. They're weird.

Collins says great-a-slash-uncle's grandchild. Karen says step-sibling. Chris says, child of two-blood relatives. Kind of. It's your full, full cousin. So you share the same set of grandparents as your cousin. Okay. So it's like some sisters married some brothers.

Yeah. And then their children are double cousins. So your actual cousin? Yeah. Your cousin has the exact same grandparents you have. Got it. Oh. Like a closed set, a closed, closed pairs.

Close loop, yeah. Okay. Sisters marry two brothers. Your cousins have this, you have the same grandkids. You're double cousins. Because from both sides of the family. You're so cousin. You are so cousin.

That's so cousin. Colin, stop trying to make cousin happen. Who is your bell sire? Goodness. Your bell, B-E-L-S-I-R-E. It's B-E-L-S-I-R-E. B-E-L. Yeah.

Oh, so just one word. Mm-hmm. One word. BELS-I-E-L-S-I-R. Wow. Bell-Sire. These words are out, you know, they're obscure, outdated words. All right.

Collin says, your mother's father. Karen says, aunt and uncle. Married. Like a pair. Not, not. And Chris says, your mom's new husband. It is your grandfather. Your mother's or your father's father.

I over-specified. It's like Bell is great, her grand. Oh, okay. Then Sire. Of course. These are great words. Yeah. Kicking her butt.

It's okay. It's all right. What about your eld mother, E-L-D-M-O-T-H-E-R? Colin says, grandmother on your mom's side. Oh. Karen says grandmother on your dad's side. And Chris says your mom's mom. that's more of a

you know escalating the insult your mom's mom double dairy it is your mother-in-law oh old mother oh okay probably don't want to say that to her face yeah because it kind of sounds like old mother

yeah oh okay still hanging in there old mother oh old mother's so great to see you stop calling me that I do not enjoy this name fairy tales. It does sound very

very Cinderella-ish. Yeah, yeah, yep, yep, yep. Who are your nibblings? Are your niblings? Your niblings? Niblings? Niblings?

Nibling. Yes. And I, B-L-I-N-G-S? Yes. Okay. They're not the corn left on your plate. You're niblings.

Niblings. Oh, all right. Everybody says nieces and nephews. They are your nieces and nephews. All right. Good job. I almost want to end on a high note, but there are two more than are good.

There's more. There are two more than I enjoy. I like, so siblings and nibblings. Yeah. I don't know what it's so pleasing to say. Yeah, it's really fun. I don't know why we stopped saying that one. That's good.

Yes. Who is your Benjamin? Oh. Whoa. Your Benjamin. Yeah. Hmm. Like Benjamin Franklin.

Like Benjamin. With a capital B. No. Benjamin. If you know about the Bible, that helps. It is a biblical reference. Oh. But it describes a very specific family member.

Chris looks pretty confident. Oh, I know. Now I know. Yeah, I think I got this. Thanks, musical. Oh, okay. All right. Colin says older brother.

Karen says youngest son. Chris says your 100th kid. It's your youngest son. Yes. And if you only had 100 kids, then it is your 100th kid. If you had a hundred and one, that's not right. Okay. Joseph and the amazing type of color, Drew Co.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I wouldn't have gotten to there, but yeah. Kind of last question, it's a double question. If something was described as an Agnet or a Cognet, which one's mother's side, which one's father's side, basically. Cognet and Agnet? Cognet. I mean. Cognet.

I just know that, like, Agnes is more. Agnet, mom, cognate dad. I agree with Karen. Yeah, I'm going to say Agnet, Mom, Cognet, Dad. Flip. I'm going to start trying to use as many of those as I can. Definitely. You should.

Nibblins. Yeah. For decades on end, under trees and in stores, Barbie has been a top gift that children adore. But the doll's history can be pretty dramatic when her accessories prove to be quite problematic. I have assembled for you two a quiz. all about Barbie and Barbie accessories.

I see. Now, this is not just about Barbie accessories, but I've got a special emphasis on misfires and recalls and other assorted Barbie universe controversies. This will be a write-down quiz. There will be points awarded on every question, starting with the correct answer. and then to most correct

and then if neither of you are particularly close I will award a point to my favorite answer it is anybody's game here here we go spanning the years the decades Barbie's been around for a very long time we got I learned a lot assembly in this quiz I'm just going to say that at the top here all right here we go first question

in 2006 Mattel released the Barbie and Tanner set the next year it was recalled from stores after complaints about loose magnets in the accessories for this kit. For two points, who or what is Tanner in Barbie and Tanner. And what was the magnet-powered accessory? Oh my gosh. Interesting.

In what year was this? This was 2006, Barbie and Tanner. Yeah. Who or what is Tanner? And what was the accessory? Oh, man. Tanner is such an all-purpose name. Do you know what I mean?

It can be anything. It really could. It really could. Were people like swallowing them? Because like Bucky Balls got recalled. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Okay.

Okay. All right. Answers up. Answers up. Karen says Tanner is a dog and the accessory is a dog collar. Chris says, ooh, Tanner was a horse and the accessories were magnetic horseshoes. It's like Barbie learns how to shoe a horse, you know what I mean? She's pounding the nails in or it's got the magnets.

Instead of the Barbie Dreamhouse, it's the Barbie Dream stable, kind of like my little pony stable. That would have absolutely. Man, great, great answers. Tanner was, in fact, Barbie's dog. So point to Karen, point to Karen there. And the problematic accessory was, so, you know, it came with a dog and other dog-related things. Oh, my God, is it poop? It was a little magnetic poop scooper that Barbie held.

And so she had a little stick. It was magnetic on the end. And it came with little, you know, you were supposed to pick up Tanner's tiny little magnetic doggy turd, basically. And parents, apparently, some parents said that the magnets could come loose. Not clear if anybody actually swallowed them. But, yeah, that was kind of the concern was, hey, we cannot have these little... So it is a bucky ball sort of situation, basically. I mean, and if I was a kid, I would put on a little doggy turds in my mouth.

Sure. I mean, you know, yeah, like a little brown tic-tac. Don't put magnets in your mouth kids. Yeah, please, seriously. Do not put magnets in your mouth kids. Yeah, it is, yeah, for real, for real. All right. So we'll give two points to Karen there for a dog and dog collar.

All right. in 1992 Mattel released Teen Talk Barbie Teen Talk Barbie This was actually This one You might remember this one

Teen Talk Barbie rubbed many parents And educators the wrong way For what reason Why did Teen Talk Barbie Get on the wrong side of authority figures When you are ready.

You emphasize the word rub. Don't read too much into it. Chris, Chris seems pretty confident here. Yes. Yeah, this one was in the news. Kind of turn some people off. All right, answers up.

When you are ready, Chris says. Chris says, all right, first, top three joke answers to this. Number one, spelled out all of the ingredients and how to make a Molotov cocktail. Number two, wished for the reformation of the, USSR. Number three, I don't know. No, the actual answer is, um, when, when button was pressed, Barbie said, math is tough. What? Chris, 100% correct. Yes, that's right. Parents, teachers were really not happy with this. I mean, for one reason, you don't want to be coming down on math. But for two, it also kind of played into the stereotype of, you know, Barbie and kind

of girls in general, maybe not being good at math. Yeah, the wrong way. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Mattel actually eventually allowed parents to exchange their Barbies, if they were not happy with it, for a version that did not have the math is tough phrase loaded on her. Oh, so they did release another version, not like exchange it for another Barbie. Yeah. Mattel's president at the time, she said, in hindsight, the phrase math class is tough, while correct for many students, both male and female, should not have been in. included. Math class is tough. Math class is tough. In 1961, Barbie was gifted a very special accessory by the name of Ken.

Yeah. I get the gentleman. That's good. Yeah. She didn't have a boyfriend for those first couple of years there. I actually learned as an aside here, I didn't know that in the Barbie universe, did you know Barbie and Ken broke up for a few years there in the early 2000s. Yeah, Barbie and Ken broke up. And Barbie was, you know, rumored to be kind of caught the eye of an Australian boogie boarder named

Blaine in the Barbie universe. A lot of drama. Yeah, Ken and Barbie, they did eventually get back together a few years later. Yeah, of course. I mean, you can't stay away from Ken forever. Yeah, well, I mean, she found out that Blaine didn't have genitals either, so. You know, when I was a kid, I noticed that they didn't have gills and I would draw them in with the mark. Good for you. Good for you.

Fixing what Mattel would not. All right. So there's a question buried in here somewhere, I promise. So here is the question for you guys. All right. The original Ken was redesigned to address a problematic part of his body. Okay. What part of Ken's body was redesigned after the original release of the doll?

And you're not, you're not telling us why. I am not telling you why. You can speculate on why. If you look up a photo of the original Ken, let's just say modern day Ken looks a lot cooler than original flavor can. I'm just, I'll just say that. Interesting. Okay. All right, answers up.

Answer's up. Karen says they redesigned Ken's hair. Chris says they redesigned Ken's belly button. Oh, that's good, right. They ended up to reveal that he was not a clone. Karen, right on the money. It was his hair. It was his hair, apparently.

And you can see this in some of the pictures. So Ken, the original Ken doll, the hair, was a separate piece glued on top of his head, all right? Oh, okay. And it kind of came off a little bit too easy. And Ken would look a little kind of scruffy there with his. hair head pulled off. Was it, was it like Barbie where it's like strands of hair? No, it kind of looked plastic.

It kind of looked more like a like a like a like a like a like a like a like a like a like a like a brillo pad honestly. So they redesigned Ken's hair to basically just be it was just molded into his head and they just painted it. Yeah. So it didn't didn't come off anymore. Yeah. All right.

All right. All right. Along here to 1975 now of course beyond Barbie and Ken the the universe started getting bigger and bigger with Barbie's friends and. you know, family members, including Skipper. There have been many versions of Skipper over the years. 1975 saw the debut of Growing Up Skipper, which was rather quickly discontinued because of what controversial feature.

Growing Up Skipper. Not available for very long. Feature on the doll? Yes, yes. Not like a feature accessory that's probably right. Right, yeah, yeah. Maybe the doll did something or it was not your ordinary skipper. All right, answers up when you are ready.

Chris says boobs, inflated, deflated. Karen has just written boobs. I'm going to give you both the point on that one. And I'll give Chris a half point here, maybe. This is the first time I'm running boobs, like not on a calculator. Growing up Skipper was advertised as, quote, two dolls in one because you could make Skipper, quote, grow from a young girl to a teenager in seconds. And in practice, how this worked was if you rotated her arm, her waist got longer and her boobs got bigger. Yes, I am not making this up.

Maybe understandably, again, many parents said, no, this is not really appropriate. We do not want to see Growing Up Skipper, perhaps too many conversations we're not ready to have. So, yeah, growing up Skipper, discontinued. If you happen to have one on your shelf somewhere, probably worth a lot of money. This sounds like this is some really good engineering for that time in the toy industry. You know, it's really true. Yeah, you go back and you read almost any of these. like action figure and doll lines, like the G.I. Joe's or the Barbies or, you know,

or, you know, again, I alluded to the He-Man figures later on. They had some really, really good construction and good design. Yeah, it was, it was serious business. Barbie herself has had many careers over the decades, you know, all these careers, just so many opportunities for accessories. I mean, she's been everything from an astronaut to a doctor to a chef. In 2010, Barbie became a computer. engineer. In fact, Mattel released a Barbie book entitled, Barbie, I Can Be a Computer Engineer. Now, again, keeping with the theme here, Mattel eventually had to discontinue this book. They pulled it from stores after complaints. Why was the book, Barbie, I Can Be a Computer Engineer,

controversial. What caused, again, what rubbed people the wrong way? I'm just going to say sometimes people, companies, you fall into the same traps over and over again. You know what I mean? Okay, okay, okay. Okay, all right. All right. Answers up. See what we got here. I'm looking forward to see what you guys got on this one here. All right. Chris says, Barbie was shown mishandling classified documents. Karen has written Sexist Workplace. I'm going to give Karen the point there. I'm just guessing.

I'm going to give Karen the point there. Oh, that's unfortunate. Yeah, actually, so the book was actually available for a little while here before it surfaced on the internet. Of course, in the book, talking about being a computer engineer, Barbie says, quote, I'm only creating the design ideas. I'll need Stevens and Brian's help to turn it into a real game. I feel like I heard about this, but oh, that's so much worse than I remember.

It's almost like they're going out of their way not to learn the lesson here. It's like, come on, this is meant to be an empowering toy, or at least neutral. We're not going backward here, 2010. So, yeah, I mean, again, like they pulled it. There was an e-book version on, you know, Amazon pulled that one, couldn't buy it anymore. Yeah, back to the drawing board. They're trying. They're trying.

In 2002, retail giant Walmart refused to stock. It didn't even reach the recall stage. Walmart said, we will not sell a Barbie set from the Happy Family Collection featuring Barbie's best friend, Midge. all right who had been in i guess some other collections earlier yeah yeah yeah she had been well established uh why were walmart and many parents i might add upset with this midge what did midge do what was their problem with midge in the happy family collection it was an idea that metell thought was good enough to make and walmart thought was not good enough to sell and it was ultimately discontinued, maybe in no small part because Walmart wouldn't sell it.

All right, answers up. Karen says pregnant. Chris says Midge was great with child. Yes. Yeah, you guys both got the right answer there. First of all, I want to emphasize Midge was married. Her husband, Alan, was part of the Happy Family Collection. In the Happy, it was Mommy and Baby.

And Midge was pregnant With a removable baby. Yes. You could pull the baby out of Midge's belly, womb, body. And then it was an infant. And in the collection, Barbie was Dr. Barbie. So you could take the invent to Dr. Barbie, you know, for infant checkups. But Walmart and many parents felt that Midge looked too young to be having a baby.

And they were concerned that it could be taken. as a depiction of teen pregnancy and said, we're not going to stock it, we're not going to dance on that line. I see now. I thought it was the tiny plastic placenta that was in. Me too. I figured that was going to be the thing that not put over the edge. A little rubber band umbilical cord.

Yeah, magnets on the placenta. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, well, they would stick to the doggy turds. You don't want that. It's just not sanitary. Okay, we're going to, we're going to wind the quiz down here. I got a couple here that are maybe not so much. about the accessories themselves, but I'm going to give you guys a chance to do some

closest, closest to the mark here kind of questions. All right, 2020 was a presidential election year, and not for the first time, Barbie ran for president. This is going to be a closest to the mark question here. How many times has Barbie run for president? I will say they do theme it with presidential election years. 2020 was not the first time. So at least two, how many times has Barbie run for president? All right, Chris and Karen. Karen says three times. Chris says 10 times.

Barbie has been on the ticket seven times since 1992. So point to Chris, very tight game here. Yeah, so the first time Barbie ran for president was 92. perhaps stung by her defeat. She sat out the 96th election, but came back strong with a renewed sense of purpose in 2000 and has run every four years since 2000. Yeah.

All right. Final point on the line. We'll frame this last question as kind of a mini version of one of my favorite personal segments from Good Job Brain, Brad Pitt or Lasers. The format of this question is going to be a which came first, all right featuring some

bona fide American classics here and I would say in my opinion Barbie's most glamorous accessory which came

first Barbie's little pink corvette or the prince single Little Red Corvette did she have

other cars too there is a rich history of Barbie's cars Yeah, over the years, she has had, she's had multiple corvettes, first of all. Yeah. She's had a Ferrari. She's had a Porsche.

She's had a Mercedes-Benz. She's had a Jeep. She's got, I mean, yeah, she's Barbie rides in style. All right. Which came first? I have Little Red Corvette trivia, which I can tell you after. Chris has written. Oh, oh, here we go.

Chris has written Barbie Pink Corvette. Karen has written Prince. All right, I love it. We got the showdown. Prince's Little Red Corvette. released as a single in 1983, taken from the album 1999, which was released in 1982. Yes. The single relates to the following year.

Barbie's StarVet debuted in 1976. 1970s was Barbie's first Corvette. Oh, so closer than I thought. I thought the Corvette was maybe even earlier, but I guess not. Yeah, it was closer than I thought. Yeah, and I should say here, it was, strictly speaking, not pink, pink, pink. It was purple and pink, but, you know, close enough here. They are generally pink when they give them to her.

All right. Well, we tied it up there. Chris, good job. Pulled it out at the end. You guys know your Barbie. You know your dog turds. You know your Corvettes. You know your growing up Skipper.

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Very common in Japan. The Christmas tradition in Japan and other countries, but really mostly from Japan, is you eat not only fried chicken, you eat KFC for Christmas. China is the second largest market for Christmas. KFC and Japan is number three. U.S. is obviously number one. So KFC has a really, really strong presence in Asia. And Christmas isn't a national holiday. It's celebrated in the marketing sense.

Right, right. Pictures of reindeer. But like, especially... The commercial part of it. Yeah. Right. Yeah, Christmas is Japan is like another Valentine's Day, basically. It's like for couples and you like get a Christmas cake or you like go out on a date and get

dinner at Christmas. Only 1% of the Japanese population is estimated. made to be Christian. Right. So they're not really. There's no, there's no, they're not celebrating the religious aspect of it. Yep. So how did this start?

The, the legend is when a group of foreigners or expats or Americans who were in Japan on Christmas Day couldn't find turkey because there's, you can't really buy turkey, they decide to eat fried chicken. Of course. And then that kind of started becoming a thing. So a lot of foreigners on Christmas Day would get chicken. And then KFC is like, wait. minute. This is an obvious, like, opportunity that we should really take advantage of. So,

in the next several years, they really pumped up the marketing. Really make it clear. It's Christmas. Christmas equals Kentucky Fried Chicken. Yeah. Yeah. And this was in the 70s. It's not a, it's not like, you know, recently. It's, it's been in people's minds for like 40 years that Kentucky Fried Chicken, or sorry, KFC now, Christmas. Yeah. So, you know, a whole generation of people who grew up knowing nothing but that. Yeah, exactly. The year when they first did the marketing campaign, they actually, it was the bucket of fried chicken and wine. Like, it was kind of a package deal.

I'd see why it's for couples. How romantic. Yeah, you can get alcohol at a lot of Japanese fast food places. Chicken and wine, and it sold at that time probably about $10, which is kind of pricey. And this is in the mid-70s. So today, if you go to KFC for the Christmas chicken dinner, now it comes with shams. campaign and Chris mentioned Christmas cake and it's about 40 bucks. It's worth it.

Probably for like a family, you know. That's awesome. That's all of your Christmas meal done. Done. You got your booze. You got your sweets. You got your chicken. And it's just because there are no traditions attached to it, it was like this sort of open, you know, for anybody to rush in there and like make it about them.

A little bit of corporate history behind KFC and Japan. It was a joint venture between the American KFC and Mitsubishi and Mitsubishi corporate. All, like, successful, like, when Japan is so kind of closed off, you have to, like, partner with a Japanese company to, like, make your product a success. Yep. So at the Osaka World Expo in 1970, they debuted a store, a test store of, sorry, at that time, it was still Kentucky Fried Chicken. Yeah, right, before the name chain. And it was obviously really successful because it was fried chicken. And also, it was American.

It seemed really American. They have the colonel, Kentucky, you know, very, very homey. Since it was a hit, they've decided, yes, let's go in and let's open up some stores. So the funny thing is the U.S. counterpart of Kentucky Fried Chicken, they're like, we should do what has been successful in the States is you open up KFC stores in the suburbs. Because then, you know, they buy it for family. It's an alternative to family dinner. Right, right. However, the big cultural difference between the two cultures at the time is that America's very car automobile-centric.

At that time, Japan wasn't that into, you know, like not a lot of people would drive out to the suburbs. They'd take the train or something. Yeah. And even now. Restaurants and things are clustered around train stations. Yep. And big department stores. You do all of your stuff in one trip, kind of.

The Japanese counterparts, like, no, we got to hit the bigger cities. centers. Um, so what they did was they did open some of the suburban stores and they failed. Yeah. They lost money. Yeah. And so they're like, okay, you know what? Let's, let's listen to. The people who live there. Yeah. There is no, there's no like, oh, the family, we're the family we're going to go out to dinner and go to a family, you know, restaurant. Like they're, that tradition of taking the whole family out to dinner is not as much of a thing. KFC now kind of slots into that like, students. They just got out of school, you know, out of high school. And, They're not going to go home for dinner for a while, so they're going to go to KFC and eat.

Or, like, you know. Urban, young professionals. I'm, you know, I worked really late, and I'm going to stop at KFC before I go home, that kind of thing. And they do have a lot of fun with the icon of Colonel Sanders than we do. It's almost like Hello Kitty in a way. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They dress him up. Every or almost every, everyone that I've ever seen, Japanese Kentucky Fried Chicken has a statue, like this poly-rosin kind of statue life size of Colonel Sanders.

out in front of the door, which we don't have in America. And they would dress them up for different seasons. A little Santa hat. A little Halloween costume. It's a cute character. Whereas here we're kind of like, oh, it's an old southern dude. Yeah, it's a mascot. You know what they call him in Japan, Colonel Sanders?

A lot of people call him Kentakun. Kentucky. And then Coon is like San, but for like, you know, little kids or like your pal. Like Kentucky pal. Little Kentucky pal. But your little Kentucky pal is an old man. Yeah. But if you ask him, like, what is his son?

guy's name, they would either say, I don't know, or oh, you know, Kentucky. Oh, not, Colonel Sanders. They would not necessarily know that, yeah, you'd have to be deep into your KFC Otaku lifestyle, which, to be fair, some people probably are. But yeah, so there you go. I mean, that's... I want some

right now. I want them to deliver right to this table. T'was the night before Christmas, in a musical trance, people prepare themselves for a Name that tune dance. Not the jolly old melodies you usually hear,

but sung by a robot who's quite unenthused, I fear. In keeping with the holiday theme, I've invited our old friend Elvis to join us. Yay! The electronic lyrical vocalization interface system, our soulless sense of musicless robot voice from the 1980s is here. He will be speaking opening lines from songs to you guys and this is the holiday episode so this will be the non-traditional end-of-year

holiday version of Elvis all right so which is just my long-winded way of saying these are not all Christmas I was like oh is it like modern Christmas like not everyone celebrates Christmas so it's like Jingle Rock is not really a carol but it's Christmas but they're not all Christmas songs okay right they might be Honolica yeah it's a little mix and these and as I say I want to emphasize non-traditional, non-traditional. Some of these may be in the running, maybe becoming classics. I will play the first line of the song. These are short. Get your buzzers ready. You guys buzz in. Tell me, who's the artist for all of these? The artist. And if you want to show off and give me extra knowledge about the song, you can. Here we go. What holiday, what holiday song is this?

The moon is right. The spirit's up. We're here tonight. And that's enough. Chris Okay A, you're a jerk B, this is Paul McCartney's Simply having a wonderful Christmas time Correct on both counts Yay!

Wait, why is he a jerk? Because this is, because now it's stuck in my head for the next 24 hours It's the worst Christmas song Yeah Is it a bad song? No! Oh, no!

That's that song. That's not a carol? No, that is Paul McCartney. Technically, Paul McCartney and Wings. Yes. I just saw a headline just three days ago, I think, that the Shins, you guys know the band, the Shins, their version of this song this year

dethroned Mariah Carey as the most played Christmas song in retail establishments. Wow. Yeah. It had been, you know, the Mariah Carey, like, all I want for Christmas. Yeah. That has been raining since what, like,

I guess as Americans, we were just ready for something old and new, yeah. All right. Next track. Who is the artist of this non-traditional holiday song? Last Christmas I gave you my heart, but the very next day you gave it away. That's so sad. Everyone together. George, my, is it George, like, Wham?

Last Christmas? dispute? Who wants to state definitively? Who is it? Wham! It is Wham! Yeah. Last Christmas. All right. Next track. What is this one? And we'll excuse Elvis's pronunciation. Who is this artist?

Put on your yarmulka. Here comes Hanukkah. So much funnika to celebrate Hanukkah. I think everyone had that. Adam Sandler. Adam Sandler. The Hanukkah song. Yes, yes, the Yarmulka. You could have tweaked that a little, but I don't think that's the spirit of us.

I know, yeah, yeah. All right, we're getting a little bit trickier here, moving up. All right, next one. So this is Christmas, and what have you done? Another year over, and a new one just begun. Chris, this is John Lennon. This is Christmas. Yes, yes, yes, this John.

Is it John Lennon, or is it the plastic? band? It is John and Yoko, yes. So, yes, John Lennon with Yoko Ono, yes, that is, you know do you know the full proper name of the song? Oh, yes, yes, I do. It's Merry Christmas, parentheses, war is over. Oh, yes, so close.

It's Happy Christmas. War is over. It is very British. That's right. Happy Christmas parentheses, war is over. All right, next track. I would say this one is on its way to becoming a new classic. Oh, sure. Hmm.

It was December 24th on Hollis Ave after dark when I seen a man killing with his duck at the park. Chris. Run DMC. Yes. Christmas in Hollis. Yes. Wow. Featured prominently in the movie Die Hard.

An oldie bit of goodie. All right. All right, we're testing your knowledge here, guys. Again, I think this one has become maybe a modern classic, but very non-traditional. Who is this original artist? It was Christmas Eve, babe. In the drunk tank, an old man said to me, won't see another one. Little dark, little dark.

Yeah, Chris. Technically, that is, the Pogues with Kirstie McCall, fairy tale of New York. 100% correct, the Pogues, right? Yeah, who else is going to have a Christmas song that starts off in the drunk tank? And I'll tell you, I actually heard a bit of trivia about Shane McGowan, what he got for Christmas this year, which is a new set of teeth. Jane McGoan has received a full set of permanent dental implants and looks about 50 years younger. Not for Christmas.

It is a long, lengthy process of many, many, many dent disappointments. The lead singer of the Pogues, who basically lost all of his teeth due to some hard, hard, hard, hard living for a long time. But he has teeth now. That's a Christmas miracle. The things you can get with money. All right. Last one. Last one. This will either be the most difficult or the easiest.

This is a three-parter. You're going to tell me this is from a TV show. Whoa. So I need the name of the TV show. I need the name of the character. And for the third bonus point, who is voicing this character? Okay. All right.

TV show, character, voice of the character. TV show, character, voice of the character, non-traditional. holiday song I am There's seven basic principles that go to make

a Kwanza So sit your asses down And have some knowledge Dropped upon you Ah, Karen, instantly That is from the character Kwanza bot Correct

From the show Futurama Correct voiced by Kulio Correct Wow You could have written Now Kwanza bot I know yeah

Kwanza bot I didn't want to tip my hand right down KwanzaBot early. Yes, Kwanzaabot explaining to the crew. What Kwanza is. All right. Hey, and that's almost it for our holiday special. And listeners, before we leave, Colin, you want to share some updates. Yeah, I, as mentioned on last season of the show,

after several years, incubation, testing, building, design, production. Yeah, my game design partner and I, we have introduced a game called Bear Bones. It's got dice. It's got cards. And we've been having a lot of fun and have really been humbled by the support from our Good Job Brain listener audience. We have sold many, many copies to Good Job Brain listeners. Perhaps you listening right now have bought yourself a copy.

and it's been fun to see sort of as a proxy of where our listeners are where we're sending these copies of the games. I have to say, surprised at the distribution that maybe no surprise.

We have sold a lot of games to Canada. Yeah, we really have. We sold a lot of games to Canada. But state-wise, Texas, Texas might be number two. We've sold a lot in California, which, you know, to be expected, perhaps.

Our home base, a lot of our roots. But Texas, man, coming through, really. Wow. We have shipped, well done, Texas. The furthest copy of a game we sent, we sent a game to Stephanie. I will withhold her last name, but Stephanie in Norway,

shout out to you. The absolute by distance, furthest copy of bare bones that has been sent out into the world. How many miles is that? How many kilometers is that? Let's quickly look that up. oh it's it's a nice a pretty round number it's it's for me i got four nine six nine miles five thousand miles yeah yeah i mean it costs more in shipping than the base price of the game itself

so really if you are in norway i cannot say it is a affordable holiday gift but we appreciate the thought we're very proud of the game we call it the dice game that thinks it's a card game If that sounds fun to you, go check it out at Bear Bones Game. That's B-A-R-E-Bones.Bones, BairBones Game.com. Yes. Not Rar, bear. Not Rar, right, exactly. What better way to celebrate togetherness by rolling dice and yelling at people.

Sounds fun. Sounds great. And that's our show. Happy holidays, everyone. Be merry. Be safe. Thank you all for joining me and thank you, listeners, for listening in. Hope you learned stuff about old-timey family member names and about fermented Greenland shark.

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