Good Job, Brain! - 274: Sibling Revelry

Episode Date: May 15, 2024

We are family! Facts and quizzes about siblings. Get on board with Colin's Parker Brothers game quiz. Do you know your city's sister city? And why is that a whole thing? BROS. vs BROS and an old-timey name abbreviation quiz. And get your ears working hard with a sibling band music round that, of course, has a secret theme. For advertising inquiries, please contact [e-mail]! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Good and Good morrow, goodly, goodwill, goody-goody-to-to-to-shoes. This is Good Job, Brain, your weekly quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. Today's show is episode 274, and of course, I'm your humble host, Karen, and we are your gutsy gutter punks, guttling, guttural gutt buckets. I am Colin. And I'm Chris. This sounds gross, Karen.

What are we doing? I know, gut bucket sounds really gross, but it is a type of jazz music. Really? Yeah. All right. Without further ado, let's jump right into our first general trivia segment, Pop quiz hot shot Here I have two

Normal Trivial Pursuit Cards Copyright 2016 Okay, all right Wow No baby boomer, no Silver, silver screen Here we go

Blue Edge for Geography In which city was the first Mobile phone call made Oh Oh Colin New York City New York City

Oh, it has even the address At the corner of 6th Avenue Between West 53rd and 54th Street Wow All right, Pink Wedge Which electronic dance music duo Wear Helmets Inspired by the film The Day the Earth Stood Still

To keep their ID secret Chris, please I was dead too early Chris Daft Punk Daft punk, correct. I did not know that. About the origin? Yeah.

Didn't you say random access memories is like one of your favorite albums? Yes. Oh yeah, that was me. That was definitely me. That's a great album. And your Australian husbands, too. Yes, yes, yes. Tattooed forever on his skin. Oh, really?

Yeah. Oh, okay. All right. Well, I lose. It's not like two robot helmet men. on his body. Like a big back tattoo. Life size. Yeah. On the back of his head.

Yeah. Oh, he tattooed the helmet onto his head. All right. Purple Wedge. What R&B singer of I Feel for You sang the theme song for Reading Rainbow, which had a 26-year run on PBS? Oh, wow. Oh, I feel for you.

Okay. I don't know I feel for you. So I'm going to have to think about like R&B singing. singers. Oh, man, I don't know that song. This is a great question. This is, I would say R&B, maybe venturing to disco. Okay, okay, okay.

Oh, man. Who was it? Shaka Khan. Oh, nice. Okay. Chaka Khan. Wow, cool. That's right.

I feel for you, Shaka Khan. That should have been in my quiz, in my TV-themed quiz. Oh, yeah. ...cum by celebrities. Oh, you didn't know. I didn't know. Oh, now I do. All right.

Yellow Wedge, which California Democrat became the first female speaker of the House of Representatives? Oh, yeah. Chris. Nancy Pelosi. Correct. It sounds harder than it is. Yes, yes. Oh, right.

No, this is recently. Okay. Yes. And we have the 2016 questions here, right? Yeah. Yep, yep, yep. Green Wedge, which form of pollution means that more than 75% of Americans cannot see the Milky Way? Oh.

Oh, Colin. That is light pollution. Yeah. Light pollution. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Orange Wedge. In which Arab capital is Ferrari World in Italian race car theme park with rides that emulate the thrill of driving a Formula One machine? Uh, Chris.

Dubai. Uh, no. Oh, okay. Colin. Riyadh. No, it is Abu Dhabi. Abu Dhabi. Where normal is.

Yes, exactly. I was, look, like many other children, Garfield is where I first learned about Abu Dhabi. Next card, here we go, Blue Edge Geography. Britain's Prince William married Kate Middleton in which London church. Ooh. I'm sure it's like the same, they always use the same one. Colin.

St. Paul's. Incorrect. Chris. St. Ringoes. Westminster. Westminster Abbey. Westminster Abbey. I was overlooking the obvious.

I was like, well, it's too, no, it's going to be something tricky and it wasn't. You might think it's like, oh, but it's like a tourist. They don't really use it for anything real. Yeah, well, if you're the Royals, you can clear it out pretty much, yeah, when you need to. Pink Wedge. Woody Guthrie saying that this land is your land and his, from the Redwood Forest to the what? Oh, Chris. For the Redwood Forest, the Gulf Stream Waters.

Yes, correct. Yes. Yellow Wedge, what method of fastening shoes was patented by Whitcomb Judson in 1890s. It's multiple choice, but we've talked about this on the show. Yes, we have. Please go for it, Colin. That's the zipper. Zipper. Zipper. Wittcombe Judson. Purple Wedge, which was Oxford Dictionary's U.S. Word of the Year in 2013. Oh, wow. Okay. Multiple choice? It is multiple choice. Okay, all right. Amaze balls. Yeah, okay.

Here are your choices. All right. Oh, gosh, GIF, GIF, GIF, okay. Selfie or vape. I say selfie. I have to go with selfie. I feel like I remember it was a word of the year at one point. Maybe it wasn't this dictionary.

Maybe it was another dictionary. The answer is, selfie, correct. GIF was 2012's. Oh, wow. Wow, oh, okay. And VAPE was at the top in, 2014. Oh,

oh, they're really messing with us here. Okay, but we followed the Kohler rule. Go for the middle option. I guess so, yeah. That's right.

Is that the, is that his rule? Well, yeah. As endorsed by. This rule is my rule. This rule is your rule. Yeah.

Green Wedge, on Twitter, a tweet is limited to how many characters back in 2016. Oh. Chris. Outdated, 140. What is it now?

280. Well, longer now. For certain users. Depends on how much money you pay. Exactly. Yes. Orange Wedge. In 1928, Mildred Day of the Kellogg Company added butter and marshmallows to one of their cereals

creating which gooey dessert? Colin. That is rice, crispy treats. Correct. I love it in cooking shows, especially the crazy cake construction. They always use Rice Krispy Treats as a base, right? Yeah, it's a good structural element. But you can never say Rice Krispy Treats, because it's a brand name.

Yeah. We'd watch Cake Boss a lot. He'd be like, we're going to build it out of cereal treats. Like, are you? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, do you mean Rice Krispy Treats? Because it seems like you're going out of your way and have to say that, yeah. It's like, I'm wondering how many times.

people slip and they're like oh we gotta dub that over probably a lot yeah probably a lot all right good job brains I stumbled upon a pretty cool fact recently I'm wondering if you guys will know who is the first person born in the 21st century to win an Oscar oh oh okay first person born in the 21st century. Shorthand means after 2000. Right, right. So they could be, they could have theoretically won this any time in the last 10 or 12 years, right? Have any like kids actually won Oscars in the last few years?

Like any like literal children? Yeah, good question. Benzine Wallace. Right, she was nominated. She's nominated. This person has two Oscars. Oh, is it, it's not Emma Stone, is it? She's not that young.

I don't think she's that young. She just won her second, I was like, I'm. Yeah. I wonder if it's someone as a child or someone who won it at like 22, right? Oh, who is? They just won one. Okay, so they just won it. Their second.

It is. Is it Emma Stone? Billy Eilish. Billy Elish. Yep. For first, yeah, first Oscar, best songwriting with, of course, Phineas O'Connell, her brother, their brother-sister writing team. So they won first four, no time to die.

The Bond. Amazing song, the Bond thing. And then for what was I made for Barbie, two-time Oscar winner, first one born in the 21st century. Wow. That's a good one. I love them so much. Billy Alish, always working with her brother,

Finios Connell, who does a lot of arrangements, does songwriting. And that got me thinking, we should celebrate siblings. You're a sibling. Yeah. You're a sibling. I'm a sibling. Let's celebrate siblings with some sibling rivalry.

Revelry. Oh, both of you are older brothers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We've both got the older brother energy. Chris does not have the big brother energy. I don't have big brother energy. No, no, I don't think I do. I don't know what it is, but I got, I am a, I don't have it.

I don't have it. Yeah, no, but I am an older brother. We always got the, are they twins? Because we were very close, you know, in age. We were 14 months apart. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. Okay.

Yeah. Yeah. And I've got a, the younger sister, three years, almost exactly three years. We did it all. We would fight. We would scrape. She would annoy me. I would boss her around.

But we love each other now. We're all good now. We've been good for many, many years. Right, right, right. Yeah, like the last like 20 years or so, I think my brother and I have been pretty great. What happens when you both leave the house and you don't live together anymore? It's a big part of it.

Yeah. If we still live, if we still live together, it might actually be much worse. No surprise here I'm the baby of the family My big sister has Big Big Sister energy If you know what I mean I'll start us off

On the show in the past We have talked about a lot of companies Founded by siblings And we've had some stories of rivalries Where they end up breaking apart And starting their own competitors like Adidas and Puma, for instance. So I wanted to talk about a company where the founding siblings,

the brothers, not only stayed together, but they were very successful. They loved what they did. And they also created many products that all of us on this show are intimately familiar with. I'm talking about games and toys. And specifically, I have a quiz for you guys about. the Parker Brothers game company.

Yes, Parker Brothers. If you grew up in the 70s, 80s, 90s, you really could not avoid the name Parker Brothers. Like there was a nearly 100% chance that somewhere on your family game shelf, you might have two, three, four Parker Brothers games. Let's just get it out. List them out. List them out. I'm not going to list them all out because they have a quiz about them.

But they have so many games that I can afford to. throw away a few household names like Monopoly, like Trivial Pursuit, like the Ouija Board. Now, of course, Parker Brothers, like a lot of big game publishers, their big hits are a mix of games that they invented and developed in-house. A lot of games that they licensed, someone would come to them, either sell them the license rights from another country, or they would buy a game from an inventor.

So I have a quiz for you about games that have, either been created by Parker Brothers or for which they famously bought the rights or for which they were the major publisher distributor. Maybe you've never heard of Parker Brothers. Maybe you don't know, like, were they actually brothers? Yes, they were. This was not made up. It was not a marketing ploy in the late 1800s, George Parker, when he was 16 years old, got

interested in game design. And, you know, it sounds like he was sort of kind of, kind of bored with some of the classics. The first name he created was called simply banking. And in some ways, sort of a spiritual predecessor to monopoly, which he did not create, but which Parker Brothers bought the rights to. But banking was apparently a lot of fun, big hit in their friend and family circle, so much so that he and his brother, Charles, Charles and George Parker, published it and took it, took it big time eventually their third brother Edward joined the concern there's a third Parker brother yeah and the rest was history so as I say this is late 1800s they had many decades of success

ultimately like in a lot of industries there's been a lot of consolidation um so you know these days Parker brothers all of their property and IP is now owned by Hasbro a game company itself founded by Brothers, but this is not a quiz about Hasbro. Oh, Hasbro! Hasbro. Oh my God. Yes. Hasbro Company, which was founded by the Hassanfield Brothers. That's right, by the Hassanfield Brothers, correct. They're sort of the largest, single largest by far game name and

toy name as well. They own Parker Brothers IP. They own all the Milton Bradley IP. They own magic name. They own all the Kenner, they own Wizards of the Coast. Yes, they, so, yeah, and all of the many, many, many brands. Jeez. Yeah. But once upon a time, Parker Brothers was an independent entity, going strong, responsible for many games we know and love. Here we go. This will be a buzz quiz. Get your bar yard buzzers ready. You know, we may start maybe a little easy here, warm up, but we may talk about some things that have appeared on the show in the past. The beloved game we know in the U.S. as Clue was imported from England.

What is the original British English name of the game? Karen. Three, two, one, Cludeau. Cludeau. And what is Cludeau? Can you explain to our listeners, Cludeau? Are you aware? I mean, I'm guessing.

This is me theorizing, because I never really thought about it until this moment, and I think it's a good theory. is Ludo is play, right, game, the Latin root. And so it's like Cluedo. No. Ludo does in fact mean I play. Yes, that is correct, Karen. But the more direct explanation and history of the name is that it was a play on, yes, clue,

but also the game that was called Ludo, L-U-D-O. There is a fairly well-known sort of, you know, Tile Moving Around Strategy game called Ludo. At the time, the game was a lot more well-known in the UK and Europe, and the publishers, I think very rightly, assumed that most Americans would not pick up on the reference. This game was first pitched to Parker Brothers with the name, Find a Word. by oh oh chris scrabble good guess but not correct oh karen for the steel boggle you got it it is boggle that's right that's right Alan Turoff invented this game in 1970 they renamed find a word to boggle in 1972 and then it still had extremely sluggish pool

sales just across the board. Yeah, no, they, they couldn't figure it out. But they, they tripled down in 1977, apparently, with a big ad campaign. I mean, big for the world of board games, at least. And, yeah, it was like almost overnight, apparently Boggle became sort of this sleepy little lackluster title and became, yeah, like a family hit. Believe it or not, this board game was invented by French. film director Albert Le Maurice in 1957, first marketed under the name La Conquette

Dumonde or The Conquest of the World. Karen, decisively. La risk. It is risk. I had no idea that this one had this very, very uncommon history. Yeah. So obviously, this was one of the many, many successes that was, brought to Parker Brothers.

They took it over, made some changes to the rules. Then it was originally released in the U.S. as risk, colon, the continental game. And then risk, colon, the game of global domination. Ah, yeah. This game, a sleeper hit from the 1970s, is played on a field similar to a go board, and takes its name from the Greek word for five. It's a very good chance

you had this one in your elementary school classroom. Chris. I mean, okay, so Greek for five is Pentah. So is that the name of the game? Or is it something else? You're so close that if you're not getting it from that, it may not be in your punch bowl. the object of this game was to get five stones tokens in a row

oh okay okay so it's oh god i've played it it's i'm sure you played this i played it like once once you sandwich when you sandwich that's exactly another another tile then you can flip it to your color you got it that's exactly right but i had no idea how to name a lot of people assume that this was a traditional game you know It's not. No, it's not. It was invented in 1977 by a guy named Gary Gabriel, who was working as a dishwasher at the time.

And basically, it's just flipping. I will pop this balloon for everyone screaming at the radio. This game is Pentay, Pent. I had no idea. Oh, N-T-E. I just thought it was the Oreo game, because you keep flipping black and white, yeah. All right, ramping up the difficulty here. All right.

Well, we couldn't have. We avoid Scrabble forever. And we have definitely talked about Scrabble on the show before. In a standard English language Scrabble game, there are 100 tiles. That includes two blanks, of course. Of the remaining 98 letter tiles, there are five letters for which there is only a single tile each. for five points

Not that we're keeping track of points All of a sudden Can you name all five Singleton letter tiles Oh yeah, sure, okay Okay, let's take turns As soon as somebody gets one wrong Okay, sure

All right, Karen, why don't you kick us off? Z Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, Ding, ding, ding, Q Ding, ding, ding, ding, X Ding, ding. Oh, I wasn't sure about X.

Z, Q, J, J, X, one tile each. All right, there's one left. What's the last tile? Oh. Only one of these. Geez. Is it, I mean, it's a figure it's either...

K's a five point. Oh. But I don't... But does that merit? Right, right, right. But maybe there's just only one of them because... You got to take a yes. Oh, V's also...

V's also a... K. Oh, I'm glad. I'm really glad you trusted you get on that one. It is, in fact, K. K for Karen. You got it. That's right. And you're correct. By the way, it is five points. Woof. Good job. Pulled that one out. Excellent. Excellent teamwork there. In 1969, Parker Brothers expanded their empire from focusing on board games primarily into toys.

Okay. And debuted what iconic line of indoor appropriate playthings. Oh. Is it? Aaron. Nerf? It is Nerf. No way. Yes. Yes way.

Yes way. That's right. Parker Brothers brought us Nerf. They jumped on in. Huge, huge, huge hit for them. Nerf was invented by the same person who created Twister. Oh, wow. Ryan Geyer came up with the idea for Twister.

Took that to Milton Bradley. They loved it, marketed it. Obviously, huge hit for. for many, many years now. He went on to work on a second game. It was a game called Caveman. And in Caveman, which was sort of a, you know, goofy, you're basically role-playing as a caveman, right?

And in part of the game, they had these rocks in the game, these little handheld rocks that you would use to sort of defend your territory, right? And these rocks were essentially little chunks of foam. and the creators of the game would throw them at each other and Geyer got the idea

basically like oh I could just make a ball out of this and why are we wasting our time with the game this caveman this elaborate yeah thing we're just let's just make this new ball exactly so so he took

the idea to his contacts at Milton Bradley for whom he had made quite a bit of money with Twister and they were not interested They passed. They said, nah, we just don't see the potential in this, you know, indoor, foamy, indoor safe game. So he took it to Parker Brothers, I mean, and the rest is history. Wow.

Yeah, to their credit and to their vast success, right, Nerf, which is just now obviously gotten its tentacles into so many varieties of toys and guns and all kinds of things. Kids and guns, it's blasters. Sorry, that's right, they are blasters. That's right. There are far too many Nerf products, some that didn't make it to list here. I was reading up some of the Nerf products between 1969 and now. Plus, like, failed ones? Well, it not necessarily failed, but maybe short-lived.

The one, the one that made me laugh the most. I'm laughing now, just reading my notes here, was a, was a bath and pool toy, all right? And it was a creature. This is from 1983. It's the lock-nerf monster. I can't even say it, the straight face. The lock-like lock-nest, right? You guys, you get it, right?

Yeah, you get it, right? The lock-nerf monster. Yeah. But what is it? Is it just like a dinosaur? It's like a little, yeah, it looks like a little dinosaur, you know, with sort of like a, you know, a semi-rigid body. It had like a terry cloth.

kind of, you know, cloak, you know, like cape on it. You're not like firing. It's not like, no, it was like a bath and a pool toy. Yeah, it was not, yeah, no, it was not a blaster. Yeah, the locknerf monster. Hmm. All right. Last one.

Last one here for you guys. Okay. In 1982, Parker Brothers took the leap into the bold, exciting, new. world of video games. Oh, Chris will know. Well, we'll see. That year, they debuted what was, at the time, their single most successful first year product ever over the life of the Parker Brothers Company with the home console version of what Arcade Smash hit, 1980.

Did they make the game or it's like a hardware? They brought the game to the Atari 2,600. $40 million in orders in 1982. There's a few the arcade games that they brought over, but I'd have to say the answer to this one is probably Frogger. You got it. It is indeed Frogger. And you're right.

They did mark it very successfully more than one game. I did Kubert also, but I had a few. That's right. So I've read now two books about the toy industry in the 80s. One was called Toy Wars and the other was called Toyland. Both fascinating books about like the toy industry. It gave me a new perspective on the whole video game crash of the early 80s because Atari was a video game company. But like practically all the other companies that were doing video games were toy companies.

Oh. That had gotten into it because this was the hot new fact. When the market crashed, that's why you saw everybody get out of it. The thing with toy companies did it, it is a fad-based industry. So it's like they made a ton of money off video games. But the second the video games started to go down, all the toy companies, Mattel, Parker Brothers, you know, they were all just like, oh, get out. Like, it's over, it's over, get out. Because as soon as a toy starts going down, you bail out and you look for the next thing.

Wow. And that's just how they operate. Exactly. So a video game company, if you're just making video games, you have ups, you have downs, you look how to, how do we reinvent ourselves, how do we pull back out of this? But like, Mattel with the Intellivision or Parker Brothers of this games, everything was just sort of like, oh, it's over, bye, and they bounce. You know, I always read about it from the perspective of video games, but from the perspective of the toy industry, like, you know, you were saying how Hasbro now has scooped up a lot of competitors. some of that, a good deal of that was because of that video game crashed because Hasbro never did

video games. They were the only, Mattel did the Intellivision, Parker Brothers got into video games and as you say, they had such a hit with Frogger, right? That those companies, they invested a lot into games. Then they lost it, but Hasbro

never got into games. So Hasbro in 1982, 83, they were the big winners of the toy. industry because they didn't lose millions and millions of dollars on games and it actually really benefited them and I think that ended up I mean I think that was the end of Milton Bradley because Milton Bradley did the Vectrax game system and they lost their shirts and after that and Hasbro ended up acquiring several you know of like competitors over the years because they all got they all got knocked back when Hasbro didn't yeah so it's not like

this like an established you know industry where you know the big companies always make money it's very razor thin margins yeah yeah yeah yeah fast lots and lots of of competition going on and what's really always fascinating about these things is um reading about toy fairs because you know about like gem and barbie and the rockers right yeah yeah they were making gem and you know you know truly outrageous gem and mattel got wind of this and they were like no And Mattel throws together Barbie and the Rockers in record time and have it on shelves before Gem and cut all that off. This happens a lot.

Like they're constantly ear to the ground. What is our competitor doing? And people quickly try to do something exactly like that to have it up at Toy Fair. So I didn't include this in the quiz, but it's too good not to mention here. So I was reading in the early, early 1900s, going over to the U.K. here, there was a company called J. Jacques and Sun, and they held the trademark for the name ping pong, okay? And there were many other, you know, table tennis sets. And sure enough, Parker brothers worked out a deal with them. They bought the rights to the ping pong name in the U.S., and starting in the, like, 1920s, they were just rigidly all over, all over it.

Like, you could not use the name ping pong in the U.S. So everybody else was, you know, stuck with table tennis. That's right, instead of the more common, you know, name, but they were the first ones to slap it on their, you know, or at least to get it trademarked on their box. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, good job, guys. You know your games.

There is no question about it. My hats off to you. All right. My turn, I have a sibling music quiz. Oh, boy. We're going to have a music round, and it's kind of like named that tune. We'll be playing very, very quick clips of songs, and it is your duty to buzz in, maybe identify the song, and also identify the music artist. Oh, song and artist.

Yeah, song and artists. They're all relatively famous. Let's roll right in song number one. You're wondering who I am. Secret, secret, I've got a secret. Machine or manicats. Secret secret, I've got a secret. With parts made in Japan.

Chris. That's sticks, right? What is the song? Oh, Mr. Robotto. Yes, Mr. Robotto by Sticks. Okay, all right. Clip number two. No, I can't forget about my love.

Where to party at. Oh, my God. Where to party at. I'm talking. Where to party at. If the parties when you're a band, let me hear you say. I put this in number two.

Let's just get it out of the way. You may have stumped us. I figured this might be challenging. This is a Karen and Dana song, probably not so much as a Chris and Colin song. But even as an added hint, there was a little bit of clue in the song lurks there. I'll just tell you. Well, I don't know. I'm just, you know, in the spirit of not leaving it blank, take a guess.

What would Karen? What would Karen? Is it like Nelly or somebody like that? So you're partially, the featured artist is Nelly. Oh, okay, all right. Yeah, so you're on the right track. It has that Nelly like a, yeah, a sound. It is jagged edge, jagged edge featuring Nelly.

Not in my punch bowl. All right. I'll take my partial hit. Club hit back then. All right. Oh, what's the song title? It's called Where the Party at. Is that, are they asking where the party is at or are they telling us where the party?

Oh, yeah. Are they? Is it like where the wild things are? It's parentheses, this is where the part of it, yeah. Here we go. Clip number three. Everything is our song. Everything is cool when you're part of the team.

Everything is our song when we live in our dream. Everything is better when we speak together. This has an artist Oh, I know the movie Yeah, right, right, right Who did do this one? Lego movie. Songs from the Lego movie soundtrack.

Everything is awesome. Everything is awesome. Is it Billy Elish? I have no idea. It's not. This is Tegan and Sarah. I was going to say Tegan and Sarah.

Okay. With the theme here of maybe a siblings. All right. I was going to say that. I should have just said it. All right. here we go song number four

oh oh man oh man oh man I just I don't want to know this because a game that we both really really like you because a game that we both really really like has the

song in the game. I was just going to say this sounds like a song from a game. Yeah, like a skate. It's in elite Vita Asians. Yes. Oh, okay. All right. It's the one that I don't.

It's like the one that I didn't actually know. What year? Prior to 2006. Oats. The song is called The Anthem by Good Charlotte. Oh, my gosh. I was going to say like My Chemical Romance or something, but. Song number five.

I'm going to say Oh, okay, Colin knows, yeah, that's era. That's, that's, that's, that's, pretty sure that's, pretty sure that's the breeders, that's, pretty sure that's the breeders with, uh, A cannonball? Yes. Cannonball by the breeders. I was just to say this is like, to me, this is like old MTV. It was on the state famously.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like, when they have bumpers and stuff, like this is like the song. Totally. Kim and Telly Deal, of course, right? Yep, yep. All right. Good job. We have two more here.

Song number six. You can come to me on the summer breeze. Keep me warm. Your love and you're so clear. It's me you need to show. How deep is your love? How deep is your love? Chris.

By the Brothers Gibb. BG's. Oh, that's what BG stands for. The brothers. Brothers Giddy BG's correct. You got it. That's right. The BG's.

Not the bubble guts. Got it. Wow, man, I did not, today I learned. The label made them change their origin story, yeah. Wow. Oh, my gosh. All right, we have one last song. Here we go.

I heard that you keep my surprise. I can't live without your love and adventure. I can't face another night. on my own I give up my time to say Oh, Oh, I'm so glad you know this, Chris

It would kill me if we didn't get this. All right. Well, okay, I think it's a I think it's called parentheses I can't live without your close parentheses love and affection. I believe it's Nelson. It is Nelson.

Yep, yeah, yeah. So, me being me, there is a secret theme. There's an even more specific secret theme. with this round. I'm hoping that you, you know,

okay, so let's go through the artist where we got Charlotte, Teagan and Sarah, Bee Gees, the Breeders, Nelson, Jagged Edge.

What was our first song? Sticks. There's a, there's a theme. Today's episode we're about siblings. Yeah. Right.

Beyond. just them being siblings. Beyond them being siblings, yeah. Maybe more specifically. Maybe it's like all brothers or all sisters or I don't know, like the younger sibling is the lead vocalist or. Well, maybe I put Nelson last because I thought that would be a dead giveaway. Okay. Oh.

Oh, is it like twins? Yes. Oh. They are all bands. that have twins in them. Right. You know, at first when I did this music quiz, I was like, oh, I'm just going to do brothers and sister, you know, starting a band.

But then I was like, oh, there's enough. Wow. There's enough twins that I can make a whole point. But yeah, all twin music round. That is, yeah. Yeah, wow, God. I'd love to do the twin siblings quiz. Yeah.

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You're listening to Good Job Brain. Smooth puzzles, smart trivia. Good job, brain. Chris, it's your turn. It's not a quiz so much as it is, a complaint. I am really annoyed by this. There is a video game that, you you may know it's called uh super mario brothers stars brothers mario and luigi yes so super mario

brothers is still uh well known today and people still like to uh make youtube videos about it and talk about it on podcasts and things like that and every now and again really far too often um for my taste and it's a lot you you hear people talking about this game and they say they call it super mario bros you're talking about like oh my favorite game is super mario bros one you know you you you collect mushrooms but in super mario bros too you know you throw turnips um they think it's pronounced super mario bros oh no as in like no way i never that's so interesting and i actually had an issue with this but i was i was working at a you know video game website and a new game in the Super Smash Bros. series came out. And everybody put in their

headlines about their stories about it. They didn't put the period at the end of brothers. And I told everybody, I'm like, you know, you know this game isn't called Super Smash Bros. Right? It's Super Smash Brothers. It's an abbreviation. And to a man, everybody was like, what? What? And so I hear it in videos and I just cringe because that's like, that's not what it is. you know, if you watch like Nintendo's, you know, promotional videos, they don't, they don't say that. It's brothers, BROS, period. It's an abbreviation, but the thing is, it's like it's not,

I feel like it's not, people are like, well, it doesn't matter. I'm like, fine, if you want to say it that way, you can. But the best response that I heard, I didn't come up with this, unfortunately, but I was talking about this and somebody said, yeah, well, I mean, they can do that, but, you know, the game where Mario throws medicine, they have to call that der Mario. know if you want to be consistent.

And so I started, so I was thinking about that as I was thinking about this, you know, this, this show that we were, this show that we were going to do, this one. And I was like, oh, there's other, you know, instances in which, you know, it's like these abbreviations are sometimes used. And it's like, what do you, so there's a, there's a retailer very similarly. because, of course, the brothers thing comes from, you know, old company names, right? Parker Brothers, so and so brothers, but they don't write out the whole word brothers. The BROS dot, that's an abbreviation, you pronounce your brothers. But there's, you know, there's a clothing, a retailer called Joseph A Bank, right? And their logo says JOS period A period bank.

Now, again, I have to, to all the video game YouTubers out there, that store is not pronounced it is Joseph Bank. It is Joseph A. Bank. You say it's a whole thing. It's a little old timey, but it definitely is a little old timey, Colin. In fact, it used to be much more common practice to see abbreviated names like this. When you're writing it out, like in, you know, government records, family registries, whatever. Save time, save paper, save ink, because you're sitting there writing about all the time. And also, a lot of people tended to have kind of the same names in the same country. are the same place, you know, so you're just sort of abbreviating them. So if you're like a historical researcher, you actually need to know a lot of these abbreviations because you're going to encounter them and it's like, oh, well, what name are they abbreviating? Because they're sort of standard thing. And I was fascinated by this. So not all of these, not all of these shortened names that you might see are actually

technically abbreviations. And abbreviation is where you stop before the end, basically. but there's these are these are technically distinct from and we love being technically correct around here a contraction which is which is where you take out like the middle of the word that's how you get like a C-H-A-S for Charles because the middle is taken out and by the way that's where the nickname Chad Charles comes from oh it's from a straight from the you might say abbreviation but it's really a contraction of Charles so they would write it C-H-A-S and or but like you know for Alexander they might write Alex period you know and so that's sometimes where a lot of these

nicknames can come from is written abbreviation but in written where this this practice kind of started with with English names anyway you would put a period at the end of a abbreviation but you would not use a period for a contraction which I think think is very fun. So with that in mind, I have a quiz for you that is titled A Burrs. ADBRS, period. I will spell, I'm not going to say the abbreviation like it's a word because that might be, I don't want to confuse, I'll just, I'll just spell out the abbreviation or

the contraction. Okay. And you give me the person's first names that I am abbreviating or contracting. We'll start with abbreviations. Maybe it'll be a little easier. Then we'll move on to contractions. Okay. And let's see how good you guys do with this.

This could be hard. It could be also could be easy. I'm not really sure. Writing or buzzing. Oh, buzzin. Buzzin in. And helpful hint here, Colin, as you alluded to, this is an old-timey practice. Many of these are old-timey names.

Okay. All right, yeah. You like old-timey names. All right, all right. Not going to be any Jadens on here. No, no. We're asking American Idol with someone named Cabrian. Cabrian?

Cabrian. Cabrian, K-A-I-B-R-I-E-N-N-N-E. Wow. Pronounced Kabrian-R-N-R-N-A-Labrian Peppers. Calabrian Peppers. Cabrian Knights. Cabrian, yeah. All right.

Here we. go with some abbreviations. A-G-N. Karen. Agnes. Agnes. Very good. Nice. U-R-S.

Colin. Ursula. It's Ursula. Very good. B-R-I-D. Oh, Colin. Bridget. Yes.

E-D-M. E-D-M. Oh. Alan. Is it Edmund? Edmund. Edmund. Edmund.

Edmund. Okay. All right. P-H-I-N. Karen. Phineas. Phineas. A-M-B, period.

Karen. Amber. No. A-M. That's a little, that name is a little too modern, I think. Okay, okay. for what we're doing here. Oh,

Oh, oh. Holland. Is it Ambrose? It's Ambrose. All right. Imagine Ambrose being so common that you can just see A-N-B-B-D. You're like, oh, well, Ambrose, naturally. Oh, obviously, it's for Ambrose, yes.

All right. C-O-N-S-T, period. Karen. Constance. Constance. That's, wow, that's an old-time name. G-O-D-F, period. Huh.

Colin. Is it Godfrey? It's Godfrey. My man, Godfrey. And the final abbreviation, M-A-U, period. Karen. Oh, no, I was going to say Move. That's like a color.

No. I bet you're close. That's more of a color than a name. I bet you're one letter off. Is it, is it Maude? It is not Maude. Oh, Mauree. Maurice?

It's Maurice. Or Morris. M-A-U, Maurice. Yep, yeah. All right, let's move on to the contractions. As a reminder, the contractions generally take out letter or letters from the middle of the name. So bookends kind of. Here we go.

Start you're off, but I think an easy one that you may have even seen before. W.M. Ah. Karen. William. William. E-L-N-R. Colin

Eleanor Eleanor F.S Oh Hmm F F S F F S It's just

It's gotta be common enough That if somebody wrote F S Karen Frederick No It has the ends with the S No

no no no Fri F FUS F F F F F bitches F F F FOMRz F Funny isn't it that like

They could have written this down Because the idea would be that it would be standardized enough that you would write this down and be like, oh, yeah, of course. I'll give it to you to move things along if you want. Francis. Oh, of course. It's really, really not even that common.

Getting harder and harder. All right, let's see, you open up the old family registry and look at your great, great, great, great, great, great, great, grandmother. And you see D.Y. No period. Karen. Dorothy. Dorothy. Yeah.

Dorothy. How about H.Y. Oh. Callan. Hillary? It was not Hillary. H.Y. Oh.

Holland again. Henry. Henry. Henry, of course. Not knowing feminine or masculine. Right, right, right. Yeah, that's good. That's good.

All right. Here's a, for the last couple, I'll just give them to you, or in terms of in terms of the gender just to help you out. Male name, J.A.S. Karen. Jonas. Oh.

No. Jonas. J.A. J.A. A bunch of stuff, S? Or J. A bunch of stuff. It's J.A. A bunch of stuff. S. I give it to you, it's James. Oh, my, of course.

Wow. Oh, man. Just overthinking it. Male name, A-B-M. Colin. Abraham? Abraham. A female name.

S-U-S-N-A. Herring. It's still a lot of letters. Susanna? Susanna. S-U-S-N-A. To make sure that Susanna, not, you know, Susan or whatever. You're still coming out of head, I suppose, yeah, yeah.

And final contraction for you guys X-PR Oh X X-R you look up the old family registry

and you see XPR That's a contraction Great great-great- grandpa's name It's a contraction And a little bit

of a shorthand Or common name X is going to be something else right Yes Karen That's right What does X Sometimes

What is the X for What is What is the X for? Eggs? Like two O's? They look like eggs. Oh, oh. Oh.

Colin has it. Is it Christopher? It sure is. Wow. It sure is. Oh my God. The X back and X-Miss. Wow.

The X stands for Christ. Wow. And then P.R. I was blown away by that one. Because it's not even, it's not even pronounced P. It's pH, it's an F-cells. Yeah, right, right, yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow, that's wild.

If my name or Christopher, I would start bringing that back. 100% go by X-E-R. It's on your L-LB monogram bag, XPR. Totally, totally. Book club on Monday. Gym on Tuesday. Date night on Wednesday. Out on the town on Thursday.

Quiet night in on Friday. It's good to have a routine, and it's good for your eyes too, because with regular comprehensive eye exams at Specsavers, you'll know just how healthy they are. Visit Spexavers.cavers.cai to book your next eye exam, eye exams provided by independent optometrists. I have one more segment. Imagine you're traveling, and you're finally at your destination at the airport, and you're wheeling your luggage and you're going through trying to exit the airport and you might

stumble upon one of these like welcome to the city kind of like sign you go through the gates and it's like oh a quote from the mayor or a picture a seal states that oh this city is a sister city of another city oh yeah you see them in airports like they're on the ground like a seal like oh yes you know Osaka's our sister city and here are other sister cities usually this happens at, you know, city halls or airports, which is where I see them. So what is sister cities? What are sister cities? What are they for? Why do we have them? I am so glad you're talking about this. I thought about this like for the episode and, uh, oh really? I thought it looking into it and just didn't scratch that itch, but I, I am so glad. I'm going to, I'm going to

learn here. I did not do. I know. Actually, confession time. I sort of started looking into it too and then also rejected it. Oh, really? Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sister cities, also known as twin town or town twinning, two cities around the world where they declare, hey, we're in the friendly relationship with each other. Isn't that cool?

Like, we're, yeah, we're sister cities. How neat. But really what we know of sister cities today. this notion of international cities banning together and forming these kind of little networks and little relationships happened after World War II. And propelled by, we talked about him a lot this season, Mr. Dwight Eisenhower.

Hey. Eisenhower, this was an effort after World War II to globalize relationships with the rest of the world, including Germany and Japan. World War II happened a bit ago, and so now let's kind of rebuild those bridges, goodwill outreach, have these partnerships of sister cities.

And so, for example, Portland, Oregon, their sister city is Sapporo since 1959. They just celebrated, like a couple years ago, 60 years of being sister cities together. And you might ask, well how do you determine what's a sister city and how do you kind of go about and are you know asking asking asking asking a city to prompt yeah who who approaches is there is there an app do you swipe yeah there there really are no rules in terms of like what pairs you together it can be as random as you want it can be as as as kind of related as you want so you could be two

cities that have very similar population size, maybe you both share an industry, maybe cities went through similar events, like devastating events, like wartime and immigrant communities, maybe they have some sort of like same roots. I did always wonder, yeah, I feel like some grown up, probably my dad, like at some point told me like, oh, they're always like cities around the same size, you know, and I was like, I never, like, bothered to, like, doubt him or question or looking to that. But generally, there's, like, some kind of commonality or something like that they can hang it on. Like, like a capital with a capital.

And I want to share some of the fun sister city pairs. I've also looked up all your sister cities and I will share those two. I know mine, but okay. Here's a fun pair, which is Toledo, Ohio and Toledo Spain. Oh, I'd see. That I, that I like. That's like, if you put like an 11-year-old in charge of assigning the sister cities. This is what, yeah, yeah.

The first thing I would go through it, yeah, and just match you up. Yeah, the same names. Yep, yep, Toledo, Ohio, Toledo, Spain. This is my favorite one. Indianapolis and Monsa, Italy. Oh. Because of Indy 500 and Formula One. Those are the two places with the Speedway.

I like it. And so their sister. cities that way. I think that's so cool. That's totally makes sense. That is. Like that's a very, very satisfying answer to why is this my sister city.

Yep. Yep. There is the city of Dahl, Scotland, and boring, Oregon. Their sister city. Chris, you know yours. Chris, San Bruno's sister city is. It's Narita, Japan. Where the airport is.

Where the airport is. is. I mean, isn't that perfect? Yeah. That's fantastic. I mean, we're, we abut SFO and, you know, that Noretas were the big Tokyo airport. That's great. Yep, yep. I love it. And then for you, Colin, Berkeley has a bunch. Um, San Bruno only had one, but Berkeley has a bunch. Las Vegas, Honduras. Whoa. Oh. Oh. Yeah. I don't know why Las Vegas and Las Vegas are sister cities. Yeah. Um, there's also, uh, Sakai, Japan. San Francisco has a, a bunch. A lot of, a lot of big ones. Barcelona, Ho Chi Minh City, Seoul, Taipei, Taiwan.

Hey. And then I looked up Seattle, too. Seattle has Kobe, Japan. And you'll see a lot of Japanese cities because, again, this is post-war. This is Eisenhower administration. So it's almost like every U.S. city has kind of a Japanese I feel like Until you just said that Or I mean at the opening To the segment I don't think I ever really processed

But I have noticed A lot of Japanese A lot of Japan Yeah So yeah Seattle Kobe Japan Also Reykavik Iceland

Maybe for like the fishing The fishing Coastal But what does this mean Like so what Yeah what are the obligations What do you have to do From putting up a badge somewhere

Yeah This is It's kind of up to you. It's like you get, you get what you put in, you know. There's like, you know, Portland, Sapporo, they, they do a lot of goodwill things. They have meetings, photo ops, activities, you know, festivals. They'll have like an exchange of some sort. But that's not an obligation.

Right. You know what I mean? It really is up to the city officials to decide what they want to do with the sisterhood of their city. Right. And, you know, there's some cities, I'm not going to name names, but there's some cities who, like, kind of complain and it's like, it's... Oh, like they don't like the sister. They got assigned or whatever you mean. It doesn't really affect them one way or the other.

Not that they don't like them, but it's just like, what's it for? Everyone has to believe. Everyone has to clap and everyone has to believe and everyone has to buy in. Right. And I'll share my favorite random one, which is Paris, France, the sister, one of the sister cities is Paulo Alto. Silicon Valley Tech Capital, which is like, you're like, oh, yes, Palo Alto, the Paris of California. The Paris of California, right. Paris has the Eiffel Tower, Palo Alto has the Ikea, it's all very similar.

Paris has famous paintings, and Palo Alto has thousands of guys in Patagonia vests, yes. But yes, I encourage everybody. everybody look up your who you're a sister city Karen i don't know if you know this or you know not to get any cities in trouble but have there been any sister cities that like broke up like yes yes and obviously it's for political reasons where one country is supporting an initiative or a person or made a statement and then you know angered or pissed off the other sister uh yeah this happens this happens quite a lot. Well, that's our show.

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