Good Job, Brain! - 278: Butts II: The Rebuttal Electric Buttaloo

Episode Date: November 12, 2024

Can you believe it has been 10 years since our butt episode? We're back with more butt facts and trivia: we got turkey butts, we got jelly butts, we got art history butts, we got Leprechaun butts, and more. What's up with all the naked angel babies in Renaissance art? Are they angels? Are they mythical? Are they cupids? And 👏where👏are👏their👏parents? Play a round of Pain in the Butt!, Karen's grab-bag butt quiz where each question hides a cheeky surprise. Hold on to your butts because Chris blows our mind about the amazing discoveries and research done on the humble "sea walnut," truly, GJB's Lifetime Achievement Awards winner. ALSO: more live solving featuring Chris' original cryptic crossword clues For advertising inquiries, please contact [e-mail]! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Hello, peppy and preppy, peachy and perceptive party pals and palaminos. Welcome to Good Job Brain, your weekly quiz show and Offbeat Trivia podcast. Today's show is 278, and of course, I'm your humble host, Karen, and we are your jumping jellyfish jazzer-sizing in a jam-packed jacuzzi. I am Colin. And I'm Chris. The jacuzzi invented right here in Berkeley, California.

Berkeley, California. That's right. Yep, yep, yep. Okay, so I have got inspired by, I think, really the community's reaction to something that happened earlier this season, which is that Karen, you shared some cryptic crossword clues. given to us by listener, Amy. Yeah, from ABCX, yeah. And there was good reaction in the good job brain,

Loeb-Trotters, Facebook group. People seem to like, or say they like the cryptic clues. So I said, okay, great, I'm going to write a couple more for everybody. Oh, okay. Because we all seem to like to you and Colin get you. You know why people like it? Well, I mean, I don't know people. You know what I liked it is because we're doing this as a group.

I think when it's myself and I'm just reading the words, I'm like, oh, boy, I don't know where to go. I don't know where to go with this. It's so scary. But then I think when we're bouncing off from me one another, it makes it less scary. Yeah. I mean, you guys solved it live. That was seriously, people, there was like no special editing. It's like you guys did it in the same amount of time that you heard.

And the way that you two work together really was such a like kind of master class in how to approach these. Yeah. Just tossing the ball back and forth. You were underestimating yourself. You're like, oh, man, I'm just going to, you solved a lot of them. Yeah. I was downplaying it. Those were fun.

Those really were fun. And I totally agree. Like, I mean, it's like, that's part of the fun of just any kind of trivia in pub quiz. Like, that's our number one rule, you know, is don't censor yourself brainstorm because you never know what it's going to spark in the other person on your team. All right. Well, I can't wait. So grab a, yeah, get a writing implement so you guys can write these down for yourselves.

Cryptic crossword clues, American cryptic crossword clues are split into a straight definition, a standard definition of the word, plus a wordplay definition, but they're jammed together so you don't actually know where the straight definition starts and where the wordplay definition. I like how Colin framed it where he's looking for the trigger word. What is the trigger? What is the wordplay signal? So here's here is your first one if you're ready to write these down. Wow, original? Oh, yeah, absolutely, yeah. Hang on, let me get a better pen.

I got, I got a quiet pen. It's like a rubber chicken pen turns out, he has. Why does it have a horn on it? Why is it a Vufu Zala? Well, the nice part about doing these like this is that this affords us an opportunity to learn a little bit more about how cryptics work also, you know, so we can talk about, like, well, what is the particular kind of wordplay going on here?

as well. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, all right, are we ready? Yeah. Let's do it. Right it down. Okay. First, first clue. Hot Broadway show like a candle. That's got a question mark at the end of it. Okay. Hot Broadway show like a candle question mark at the end. Oh, I know. Enumeration is, wow, fast. Okay. Okay. Okay, so let's talk it out though. So like, oh, sorry, six letters. Six letters. Six letters, six letters. I thought it was. Okay. Okay, so hot Broadway show, like a candle. So I'm taking like maybe as like sounds like.

Yeah, exactly. A homophone or something like that. Okay. There is something that you need to know. So when you have a question mark, when you have a question mark in a cricket club, that always indicates that there is a play on words. Okay.

There is a play on words or a punny sort of thing happening. Okay, all right, all right. particular definition. Hot Broadway show. It's not a homophone. Not, okay, thank you.

Homophone indicators are typically sounds, sounds like or, yeah. Okay, um, this is helpful. Hot Broadway show. Yeah.

Like a candle. Candles are bright. They're, their, their heat, their wax, there's light. They melt.

Flame. At first I was like, oh, flame, but then it was like, flame, uh, burning.

Oh. You know what, or I can work backwards is, I think. Well, how do you, you couldn't? You know, honestly, I will sometimes solve things by working backwards. Oh, oh, I get it. I get it. I get it. It's a plate.

It's wicked versus wick, wicked, a candle, wicked. Yes. The properties, like, just visually, like, I was trying to, like, picture the words in my mind. Yeah. Right. And, and, of course, I had, I could have had Broadway smash. I could have had Broadway smash. I could have had Broadway smash hit or something like that,

but what you're trying to do is you're trying to make it sound like by using hot and candle. You know what I mean? You're trying to make it sound like something that could be, you know, a street. That's good. It's good. It's the second level, right, because you're like your brain, because we're human, goes to the immediate properties of a candle. And then, but no, it's literally, how is a candle constructed?

Not yet. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. That's good. Well, I mean, I think if you said like something where Broadway. I think that is kind of a red herring or some sort of bad clue because smash does have a trigger kind of meaning of like anagram or like a physical term thing. It could, yeah.

That kind of puts us in a danger zone. Yeah, so either way, this was a better way to do it. Yeah. Okay, here's your second one. Get ready to write this down again. Before Monday, comma, a card game, comma. Mostly, comma, was a big Nintendo franchise. I'll read it again.

Before Monday, comma, a card game, comma, mostly, comma, was a big Nintendo franchise. The enumeration is seven. Okay. Wow. Okay. Sunday. There's some, like, weekend, chopping up, chopping up words. Uh-huh.

Uh-huh. um sun sunday sat sun weekend a card game now nintendo made card games is chris going for the deep cut reference there or is it just purely mostly and what's up with all the comments i think it's a seven letter word and i think i think it's dividing and chunking them oh it's stringing them letters by letters so like it was a big nintendo fran let's name some big nintendo franchises and see if that jogs something loose i mean obviously or is he or is he taking us down the other path with like before they were making video games well i mean i'm saying hanafuda is okay yeah uh-huh oh right right right right card games name of a card game or oh okay so like i bet it's like most of the word or most of the letters from the name

of a card game right it's like oh there we go there we go before monday part of poker Part of poker, mostly. Yes. Excellent. So what you're working on here is there's two things. There's an abbreviation, which is substituting M-O-N for Monday. And mostly, mostly is a clue word for a curtailment. Which is when you have a word and you remove just the last letter.

So when you see mostly, yeah. Got it. Okay. The trigger words again. Colin, I have to credit it all too. you because you're like, oh, mostly, like most of the letters. And that's where I was like, oh. You got it. You absolutely got it. Yeah. That's great. That's great. Wow. Great teamwork. Great teamwork. All right. Hey, nice work on those cryptics. Well done. And well done, Chris. And I know,

I know you love writing them. So it's not a chore for you, but that's great. Yeah. My favorite was when Tyler and I did the one. I haven't really written a lot of them, but Tyler and I made that cryptic crosswords in the good job brain book. And one of the words that he put in the crossword was trapeze. And the clue I remember writing it was rap with EZE, oddly follows start of the wire. And it was rap, just RAP, with EZE oddly is just the odd letters out of EZE. So it's E and then C and then E follows start of VE. the so it follows t and so you put the d and then you follow it with rap and easy e and then

the straight definition is just wire wow that was i was very proud of that one yes wow wow layers normal crossword is like synonym you're like okay what could be you have to get out of that mode and you have to like do some like surgery i think that's what it's like to me that's like weird mental block because like i have to like do surgery to not just find i like that synonym that's a a good way of looking at it. Wow. But, Karen, I mean, your idea of, like, let me just write down big Nintendo franchises and see if anything, you know, works here.

Yeah. But you also did fall. I also tried to set the trap here as well because the card game, which got you thinking about Nintendo's card games, right? That's great. Set the trap. I know too much. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I know too much. Woo, thank you. Yay. All right. Without further ado, let's jump straight in to our first general trivia segment, Pop Quiz. Is, hot shot. And here I have two random trivial pursuit cards. I got a little bit of a treat.

I got entertainment singles. And, ah, our favorite, silver screen. Ah, yes. The Baby Boomer specials. Yes. Let's do silver screen first. Here we go. Blue Wedge.

What war was the background to the 19th? 156 William Wyler film Friendly Persuasion. Wow. Okay. How long ago was that? What, 1950s? What, 1956? Quite a while ago.

The Spanish-American War. Colin, take a guess? Civil War. It is the Civil War. Oh, okay. I was getting really fancy. I was like, it's not World War II, because that's like, too, you know?

Too soon. Too soon, guys. soon. Peak Wedge. What 1968 disaster movie had a geographically incorrect title? Oh. Oh, I know Colin knows this one. Is this, the title, is it

Crackatoa West of Java? East of Java. East of Java. Dang it. Incorrect. East of Java. I was going, wrong. Wrong. That's right. Crackatoa east of Java. Colin famously had a a segment, I believe, in our sound episode about the loudest sound in history of the world. Recorded history. That's right. Kill you on the spot. Here we go. Yellow Wedge. What mystery man did actress Gene Peters secretly married in 1957? Okay. Is mystery in quotes there or italics?

I would just say this man is like kind of misknown for Mr. No, not like Hitchcock. It's like this person is just an eccentric, mysterious person. Oh, okay. I can't even hazard a guess. Colin. Howard Hughes. It is Howard Hughes.

Oh, there you go. All right. You helped kind of stringing me along to that one. Thank you. Very good. Purple Wedge, Lavender Wedge. What was the religious calling of Gary Cooper in. friendly persuasion.

I love when they double up. The double dip. It was the religious calling of Gary Cooper in friendly persuasion. Colin? He was Catholic. He was Quaker. Oh, okay. Like's oatmeal, you know.

Greenwich, who directed Frank Sinatra in None But the Brave Who directed Frank Sinatra Oh my God None but the brave, Chris Sergio It is Frank Sinatra Come on now

Awly Parallously close to a trick question Yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah Here we go. Last question on silver screen card. Orange Wedge. Who played Detective Tom Paul House in the Maltese Falcon? Colin. Humphrey Bogart. Incorrect. I think this is the other one because that's Samp-Aid. Oh, yeah.

The main guy Sam Spade. You are correct. It is a very old-timey name. It is Ward Bond. Mm-hmm. Ward. Ward Bond. His Ward is his bond. His, ah, you beat me too. Yes, yeah. All right. Cleanse the palate. Eat the pickle ginger.

Here we go. Entertainment singles. Blue Wet for TV. What Scarecrow and Mrs. King star played Luke McCann in the TV Western How the West was won. Oh, man. Who was in that show? I know. This is, you, I never, I never saw it.

I was going to drive me nuts. I read again. What Scarecrow and Mrs. King star, I assume that was a movie or show. It was a TV show. Played Luke McCann in the TV Western How the West was One. Oh my God, this is going to kill me. Sorry if I mispronounce that. Like, I have problems with, you know, Vince McMahon.

I don't understand how that spelling of words equals McMahon. You know what I mean? You're like, it's McMahon. I'll tell you what. I know this name and I only know it from. No, he was He was well known He was

Oh Okay, all right Oh man Who was it I'm gonna be so angry And Tron It is Bruce Box Lightner Oh man

Yeah Pink Wedge for music What Funny Girl and Yentle Star Has achieved number one albums in the 60s 70s 80s and the 90s Chris Kohler Barbara Streis

Let's see, Yellow Wedge for Mo movies. What movie, based on the life of cerebral palsy victim, Christy Brown, won Daniel DeLewis in Oscar for Best Actor? Colin. That is, my left foot. Correct, my left foot. Purple Wedge, games. How many balls are used in a regular game of pocket billiards?

Oh. Chris. Um, wait, one, two, three, 16, 17, 17, 18, 19. Come on. How many is it? Take a number. Well, fine, you do it then.

I can't think. You were right. You were right. You were right. 16. Yeah, 16. Yeah, 16. One through 15 and the queue. Good job.

Moving on, Green Wedge for books. What author wrote the nonfiction novel in cold blood? Colin. That is Truman Capote. Truman Capote. And last question on this card, wild card, orange. What Master of Suspense never won an Oscar for directing? Colin.

Must be, Alfred Hitchcock. Good job, Brains. Woo, woo, woo. All right, Colin. It's going to be an interesting show today because you pick the topic. Please, please tell us what you have. I'm looking forward to this one. Yeah, what you have chosen.

Well, we've chosen. And actually, to be honest, here, I got to go credit to our own Chris Kohler here for originally suggesting this one. We had our group chat going here, brainstorming some topics for the next three or four episodes. And Chris said, hey, how about butts? Just butts. You know, for good job, Brain, we haven't done a show on butts or the butt. And I was like, yeah, that seems really appropriate. I said, you know, I even said back, I mean, you know, honestly, it's amazing.

It took us this long to do a show on butts. And so penciled that right in. And then somewhere in the back of my brain is like, maybe you should check the archives, Colin. Maybe you should go and look on the Good Job Write Archives. And I did, dear listener, and I'm glad I did because I realized that we have, in fact, done a show before on the butts. And it shouldn't surprise me that we did.

So we had already great. Yeah, and it was great. It was great. It was where, Chris, you memorably told us about the Calipigian Venus. Yes. Calipagian, the butt sculpture. And that episode was 124. The title was

boodylicious. The year was 2014. So, and I was like, oh yeah, that's right. How could I forget? Oh, you know how I could forget it? It was 10 years ago. It was 10 and I was like an entire lifetime ago. My child

lived his whole life since we did that episode. So we still had to ask the question, is there enough material out there to support a sequel to the Butts episode? And I think we have determined that yes, there definitely is. So get ready, buckle up, turn the other cheek. What is he, what are we doing? This episode, Butts, part two, the rebuttal. Two cheeks, too furious.

Two cheeks. No. It doesn't rhyme. It doesn't. Yeah. So in that previous episode, 124, from 10 years ago, we, yes, we talked about, oh, the butt sculpture. We had origins of butt words, and we also have a, I looked into when you insure body

parts, especially because J-Lo made the news about insuring her butt. What does it mean when you insure a body part or like vocal cords, your voice and all that? Like what actually happens? So, yes, 10 years ago, episode 124. So I would like to begin by talking about one of the beautiful creatures of God that exist on this earth. It is called the sea walnut. Oh. Does it sound very beautiful?

The sea walnuts. Shrively. It also goes by the name of the warty comb jelly. Ah, yes. That's a beautiful name. It's so much worse. It's like two names. And either of the, hey, we're going to call you the sea walnut.

It's like, is there another option? It's like, yeah, we can go the warty comb jelly. I'll go with sea walnut, I think. Yeah. So what is the sea walnut or the warty comb jelly? and why is it called these things? So it's a jelly. It is a marine invertebrate, right?

It's a floppy marine creature. It's similar to a jellyfish, but it's not a jellyfish. Oh. They're apparently, they're very common off the east coast of North and South America. There's a lot of them in Chesapeake Bay, for example. They're called a sea walnut because they're about four inches long. They're approximately shaped like the insides of a walnut. like a walnut meat basically is what it kind of ripply and wavy.

Like a brain. Yeah, like with lobes and stuff like that. And so it also has cilia, you know, this hair-like sort of, you know, appendages. But it has them in very neat rows all kind of down its body. And so they look like a comb, hence the wharf in the warty comb jelly. And apparently these things are really beautiful in the right light because the individual cilia will reflect the light in different ways.

And so you see it swimming around. It looks like rainbow patterns kind of running up and down the sea walnut. I was imagining like the brown cragly thing. No, like transparent and like reflective of the light in like sort of rainbowy patterns. Yeah, very beautiful. Yeah. Now, the sea walnut has multiple biological features that I would say you or I would kill for. um first of all the sea walnuts are hermaphroditic and can fertilize themselves so convenient so if you if you look on the app store you will find zero sea walnut dating apps

they don't need it they don't need it not even one don't get to deal with any of that stuff they can for male male and female reproductive organs fertilize themselves then there's the biological feature that is more pertinent to the topic of this show is why we're talking about this now let's go back to the jellyfish, which is the C. Walden is not a jellyfish. Go back to the jellyfish, though. Jellyfish do not, per se, have buttholes. They have one opening, and the food goes into that opening, and it gets processed, and then it comes out that opening. That's in and out. Yeah, it's in and out, in an out hole. Goes in, gets processed, comes out, right? But, but comb jellies in general, we're just talking about the warty comb jelly, but there's a whole family of different comb jellies. They do have buttholes. They have what is known biologically as a through gut.

Whoa. Goes in the mouth at one end, goes through the system, and comes out the anus. Great, great. And they're transparent, so you can watch it all heaven. As I have said, our previous butts episode was in 24. At that time, what I'm about to share with you, we could not have discussed this. Incredible. It was discovered in 2019.

Oh. A guy named Sidney Tam. He is a professor at the Marine Biological Laboratory, which is located in, I am not making this name up, Woods Hole, Massachusetts. He was watching Sea Walnuts Poop as part of his job. and the sea walnut pooped and he saw the poop come out its butt and then he went back and looked again at the same sea walnut the butthole was gone

what what the butt in psychopedia brown in the case of the missing butthole the butthole is gone he's looking at this thing on a microscope there's no butthole anymore what happened to the butthole he discovers that what is happening is the sea walnut

takes in the food through its mouth. Its gut fills up with waste. It fills up with waste and it expands. And it starts moving towards the inner wall of the skin, the epidermis. And the cells of the gut, this is a very cellularly sort of simplistic, you know, kind of creature here. Yeah. The cell wall of the gut makes contact with the cell wall of the epidermis, the skin. and they fuse and they create an anus and the sea walnut poops and then the anus

closes up and goes away. Wow. The gut moves away from the skin and the butthole is gone. It's an ad hoc butthole. It is an ad hoc butthole is one way to scientifically describe it. The other way is what is delightfully known as. this is scientifically known as a transient anus. Truly fantastic.

Probably isn't always in the same place. No, exactly. They can grow a butthole anywhere they want, and it only exists for as long as they needed to. Wow. Imagine what I wouldn't give to have. So, and this, again, this was discovered in 2019, and so far, the warty comb jelly,

or the C-Wallnut is the only known creature with a transient anus. Amazing. So this happens, by the way, in an adult sea walnut, it happens about every once, once an hour, basically. Wow. They create a new butthole whole every hour on the hour. Sea walnut larvae, apparently, are creating a new anus every 10 minutes. Oh, because they're growing. Oh, I can't create an anus every 10 minutes anymore.

I'm getting too old for that. Right, yeah, in college. Yeah, I'm getting old. I'm like two weeks old. I think I'll just create a new anus every, what, like, hour. It's truly amazing. Like, just, just that we as a species can be this interested in other species. You know what I mean? Like, this is his life. This is his life. Dr. Sidney, Tam. This is what he does. I have a question. They asked him, like, do you know of any other marine life, you know, with a transient anus? He said, no, I haven't looked. He's just, he's just concentrating on sea walnuts, apparently. Karen, what's your question? Maybe I can answer this for you.

The mouth stays in the same spot. Yes. Interesting. Yeah, I guess because the mouth is like constantly taking in food. Yeah, I don't know. But then it's like building it all up. It's getting ready. It's like Shawshank Redemption.

Yeah, it's like digging its way out. The other crazy thing that I was reading about the sea walnut is that the current studies suggest that when it is in danger, it can actually age backwards, can reverse age back to an earlier stage of its life. Now, scientists are kind of going back and forth a little bit on whether or not that's what's really happening. There is something known as like the immortal jellyfish that can reverse age. They're suggesting the sea walnut could do the same thing. So the sea walnut, I mean, you look at the sea walnut, it's like four inches big and transparent and floating in the water. If you take it out of the water, by the way, it falls apart. So the sea walnut, the sea walnut needs to

check itself because the seat on it is like, okay, I can literally, I can fertilize myself. Once I'm mature in two weeks, I can just create my own butthole wherever I want. And also I can turn into a baby if necessary. But at the same time, if you take one and lift it out of the water, it just just just, just part. Just done. So now the crazy, now the thing is, the professor Sidney Tim, he believes that this may be how we, we of the behole having, you know, section of life, as opposed to the jellyfishes about their mouth, you know, this may be how we all evolved but holes. The missing link.

The missing link. The missing link of how do you get from one hole that sort of takes in and leaves to the through gut of it starts here and ends here. And it's like we may have evolved permanent. but started out as just sort of just creating one wherever, whenever the, you know, the feeling. Sometimes you feel like a butt. Sometimes you don't kind of a situation. And anyway, that is how thanks to this episode of Good Job Break, learn all about the beauty and

the miracle of the transient anus. The transient anus. I don't feel like pooping out my mouth today. Is there, can I come up with some kind of a solution? There's got to be a better way. I don't want to commit all the way. Like, see the first guy doing it. What are you doing?

Oh, it's a bottle. Yeah. Yeah, I came up with this. You invented that? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just, you know, wherever the mood strikes me over here one day, over there the other day. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, let's take a quick break, and we'll be right back.

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Smooth puzzles, smart trivia. Good job, brain. Hey, we're back. It's butts, too, guys. It's two butts. It's butts, too. The electric buttell. Lou. Well, I got a quiz for all y'all. It's going to be a write-down quiz. And I've titled it, Colin, Colin Titles as quizzes, now we all title our quizzes. I've titled it, pain in the butt.

Yes. Pain in the butt, because that's what making this quiz was. Here I have a couple of trivia questions that are butt adjacent. In each question, there is a hidden but synonym in the construction of the question itself. And so your job is to give me the answer and also the hidden butt, the pain in the butt. And by hidden, I mean embedded. It is maybe traveling between words, maybe the end of this word and beginning of this word. So that's what I mean by hidden. Feel free to write down the questions as I'm reading them. or not to give yourself a challenge.

I'll read each question twice. Okay. How's that? All right. Here we go. Question number one. True or false, the human fetus has a tail in the early stages. True or false.

The human fetus has a tail in the early stages. Okay. Okay, I got it. I got it. I got it. Okay. And the hidden word is not tail because it's not very hidden. Answers up. Here we go. Chris has put true and the secret word is tush. And Colin has put true and the secret word he found it. You both found it. It is tush.

Fetus has. So the T-U-S and fetus and then the H-in has. The answer is false. Oh. So we probably read that humans in the early stages actually have like a little tail. It is true, but it's the human embryo that has a tail. Oh. Not the fetus. And you might ask, what's the difference?

When is it an embryo? When is it a fetus? Eight weeks is the cutoff point. So starting from fertilization to eight weeks, that's an embryo, eight weeks and on. That is a fetus, right? So it is a bit of a trick question. The human embryo has a kill. Right, okay.

And it's extremely, extremely, extremely rare, but it happens someone would be born with a stigial tail. It's super, super rare. Does not contain any bone or cartilage or, like, spinal cord. It's usually muscle, connective tissue, maybe some nerves. All right. Next question. Answer the question. find the hidden but word.

Number two. Before the American imagery of the leprechaun chasing after rainbows and gold, the leprechaun was more commonly depicted sitting on what? My second time reading, before the American imagery of the leprechaun chasing after rainbows and gold,

the leprechaun was more commonly depicted sitting on what. What? All right. I got it. I mean, I have the, I have the hidden word, but I mean, I also have a guess. Take a guess. Take a guess. This is a very common imagery of the leprechaun, but not in America. Here we go. Answer's up. Chris has put... Oh, I think you're right. Yeah, yeah. I put a stool. Colin has put the lepercon sits on a mushroom slash toad stool. You're both correct.

I'm going to give it to you, Chris. I know you mean. like a chair stool, but we'll say, we'll say mushroom. Like, you know, a classic Mario red-capped toadstool mushroom. It's a day, they sell art like it. It's in fairy tale books. It's in candle holders and bases and stuff with folksy art. And the hidden word, Chris, you put. Haunch.

Good, good job. Leprecon chasing. Nice. Haunch. Haunch. Let me just, let me just say. This quiz was a pain in the bubble. But I thought it was like a kind of clever idea until I started doing it.

So not only do I have to embed a synonym into the question, then I have to find a trivia nugget and then I have to make the question be about butts. Do you know what I mean? It's that constraint that really, it has to be about butt related things that kind of was really, really hard for me. Oh, man, it took me a long time. All right. Here we go. Next question. Number three, what company built a robot to mimic sitting repeatedly to test the durability of their products? Second time, what company built a robot to mimic sitting

repeatedly to test the durability of their products? This was a couple years ago, it was kind of a viral news. bit because someone went to testing facility like a lab and saw this very special robot. What are we stuck on? The hidden word. Yeah.

Yeah. Sam. Oh, okay. I got it. Oh, you got it. All right. Answers up. What company? Chris put IKEA. And Colin put Levi's jeans. Oh, I'm sorry. Both. you are incorrect. It is Samsung. Samsung built a juicy butt robot wearing jeans to test their phones to test their phones because you put the phones in the back pocket. And so they built this special

machine to QA. I mean, hilarious. There's a robot, but it's just the butt. And it just like It goes down and up and down and up, down and up. And the hidden word, calling you got it, bottom, bottom. Robot to mimic. Good job. Wow. And speaking of big, impressive butts, question number four, what term marks the highest rank in sumo only achieved by 73 individuals so far?

second time what term marks the highest rank in sumo only achieved by 73 individuals so far i knew this word i didn't know this is what this word meant right you know where i'm going with yep i know we're going with that well hunting for the butt i got it all right okay i think so all right i think so yeah okay all right answers up what term marks the highest rank chris has put Yoko Zuna and Colin has put Yoko Zuna. You are correct. Yoko Zuna. And the hidden word, Chris got it, is Moo.

Sumo only. Nice. Nice. Since record a history of the sumo sport, only 73 has achieved this highest title respected title. I knew it was not a big number. It's not a big number. That is really impressive. Yeah.

Not only do they have to win X amount of consecutive championship. work their way up the ranks. They also have to pass kind of like a style test, like a grace test. You know, they also have to be like of the utmost like sportsmanship. Really, really hard to get the Yokozuna rank. And very interesting. So the first non-Japanese sumo wrestler got made into Yokozuna in 1993.

Before this, it was all Japanese people. And finally, an American, a Hawaiian Akebonotaro, real name, Chadwick Hajeo Rowan, number 64. So this is 1993. He was number 64 on the Yokazuna list. And between 64 to 73, are currently, there's only been 73. Out of those 10 Yokazunas, two are American, three are Japanese, and a whopping five are Mongolian. in fact out of the current active roster of sumo wrestlers there are a number of mongolia wrestlers like mongolia is really awesome at sumo wrestling and it seems random but it turns out that mongolia has their own traditional wrestling called boc which is kind of similar in style to sumo so like a lot of people do it, and so it kind of just translates to sumo pretty easily. All right. Earning them this moniker, umpires historically wore pants in what color?

Earning them this moniker, umpires historically wore pants in what color? I got it. Yes, I have the... The secret word. The secret word. color of the pants is what is what game them the name umpire no no umpires have a nickname that people call them at the game they're referred to as something and this something is the color of the pants they used to wear the answer is a color okay i have no idea uh chris has put white and colon is correct

with blue and you both hunted and found the secret word which is rump moniker ump uh yes you go a game sometimes. Maybe a made a bad call or something and they would boo them. Instead of saying boo, you say, blue. Or sometimes, sometimes even the players, if they're mad, they'll be like, come on, blue. Now when you watch a baseball game, they're in their snazzy black polo, slacks probably of a tech fabric, all of their padding, actually pretty sleek underneath their clothes. So they look,

they look pretty sharp. But back then, umpires used to wear a full suit. they used to have to wear a navy blue suit and they have to wear all the safety stuff over in back then you know like the padding is insane and so yeah they'd be sweating squatting in a suit the absolute least comfortable work get up possible yes all right here we go this is my last question the samoan government did a flip-flop ratifying the unbanning of the what birds edible tail obviously you can tell that the question is constructing it sounds kind of weird because there is a hidden but word here it is again

the Samoan government did a flip-flop ratifying the unbending of what birds edible tail I got the secret word yeah now hailed as the

national dish Samoan National Dish is Tale of What Animal If you're looking for these, Colin It's always the two like Weirdest words Yeah, yes And smash it together in some weird

Like you just got to look around there Yep, exactly All right, answer to the trivia question Chris put emu And Colin has put peacock And then the hidden word You both found it It is Pratt

flip-flop ratifying nice the answer is turkey oh turkey why do they eat turkey tails and just why was it banned why is it just the turkey tails what what about the who's eating the rest of the turkey hmm let me think well it looks like america loves turkey and when you buy a full turkey for Thanksgiving, there's no butt. The head and neck is cut off, and then the butt is cut off. Those have to go somewhere.

Let's not waste these things. Yes, in the 1950s, the U.S. poultry companies began offloading their unwanted turkey tails along with other parts of other animals into the

Samoan markets. Really? What is a turkey tail? What is it? Is it feathers? is it. It is just, I would say, like a knuckle side, like a fist size piece of flippy butt in like a cartoon duck. You see the little tail. It's like that part of meat. And it is filled with oil that the bird uses to preen itself to oil its feathers. So this piece of meat is very, very oily, very high fat content. And delicious because it has high fat content. Yeah.

And the ban was in the 2000s, and it was more of a health concern. You know, obesity numbers realizing. The government thought, hey, let's ban turkey tails and to try to improve the diet of everyday Samoans. And so they did that. People were unhappy. They brought it back, and people were eagerly awaiting for the turkey tails to come back.

Wow. They smoke them. Unassuming, it just kind of looks like a, that's like a fist, fish-shaped meat. I guess that's, I'm not really selling it. Fish-shaped meat. No, you're not. Fish-shaped meat.

It's such an American thing to do. Be like, here, who wants our trash? Here, have our garbage meat. Such an American success story. Oh, I know, yeah. That was such a care and quiz. The effort and the detail. And like you say, like going with the idea and after like one or two being like,

oh, well, yes, I got to finish this one. Yes, I'm in this. Yeah. I would be like, oh, this. This is great. And I would finish writing this question. I'd be like, oh, okay, I have the hidden butt word. And then I was like, oh, whoops, this question has nothing to do with butts. So here's one that's not officially in the quiz. There's a hidden butt word and it's a trivia question, but it's not a trivia question about butts. Spoiler for an 18 year old movie. If you don't like spoilers for 18 year old movies, it was a 2006 movie. Please skip 15 seconds. Here's the question that didn't make. quiz. In a series of flashbacks, identical twin characters played by Christian Bale are revealed to be the secret in what film? In a series of flashbacks, identical twin characters played by Christian Bale are revealed to be the secret in what film? Oh, Chris is actually writing. I guess

I better write. Again, just take the two weirdest. words and it's probably hidden in there. But now you have to name the Christian Bale movie. I hope you got the word Chris because I got the movie. I got the word. I do not know the movie. All right. Okay. All right. Together. Together. Here we go. Let's see if we get this. Yes,

the movie is correct. Colin got it. It is the prestige. It's the Christopher Nolan, a turn of century magician movie and that was one of the many secrets revealed. And Chris found the but word. It is backside. Nice. In a series.

of flashbacks, comma, identical twins. Yep. Back side. Woo. Nice. Book club on Monday. Gym on Tuesday.

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All right, Colin, you're next. This is not the official egg corn watch. I usually relinquish those duties to Chris, our resident egg corn expert. But I do have a fun to me anyway. Eggs, expert. I do have a fun to me, egghorn. I don't think we've ever talked about this one on the show before. have probably heard this one. You may have seen it on the internet. When I was in school many years

ago, I took a art history intro class. I actually majored in art history. Big shout out there. Oh, it is a big shout. This is why you're the MVP of our trivia team. Because of the art history. You know what? Honestly, it comes in handy quite a bit having somebody with some art history knowledge. Yeah. During this intro to art history class, it was really more honestly, it was a survey of Western art. So it was like intro to all of Western art, like from antiquity all the way up to modern times. And it's a lot to cover in, you know, one semester. We did, however, spend probably at least one whole lecture talking about Michelangelo's work painting in the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, the Sistine Chapel. The professor I had in this

course was very dry. I don't remember him cracking any jokes over the entire course of that class. The closest I remember him getting to even a flash of humor was during the section, we were talking about the Sistine Chapel. And he paused and he said, I want to remind you all, it is not the 16th Chapel. If you call it the 16th Chapel in your paper, I will doc you points for that and that was my first introduction to the egghorn of the 16th chapel i've never heard of that you think about it's like oh okay the 16th chapel right sure there were you know there was the 15th and this is the 16th one and yeah maybe there's a 17th one and this one just happened to be particularly famous you can you can go like you want to just plug in 16th chapel into that search bar and just

you'll bring up many many results but absolutely there are people who believe that the Sistine, that's S-I-S-T-I-N-E, chapel, is the 16th chapel. Why is it called the Sistine Chathes? I'm so glad you asked, I'm so glad you asked, Karen. Yes, why is it called the Sistine Chapel named in honor of Pope Sixtus the Fourth? So the adjectival form of Pope Sixtus is the Sistine Chapel. As a brief recap of what Michelangelo did in the Sistine Chapel, he very, very famously painted the whole inside of the ceiling, massive frescoes. It's just a staggering achievement.

One of the greatest works of Western art, certainly. The main focus of the work are nine scenes from the Bible, including very famously the creation of Adam, which I promise you you have seen before. It's the image of Adam leaning back and God, reaching out and they're just almost touching fingers. That is from one of these scenes and painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, yes. So the painting, the paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel have something in common with a lot of Renaissance work, which is there's just a lot of butts in these paintings because there's a lot of nudity in the paintings and, you know, you can't have nudity

without some butts, right? As the saying goes, you want to make an omelet, you got to. break a few butts or something like that. And, you know, you can't not mention it. It doesn't matter if you're teaching college-level kids. And, you know, maybe this is one reason they don't show these paintings to younger kids is because everybody obviously is just laughing at the butts a little bit. Even if you don't want to admit it to yourself, you're laughing a little bit at the butts.

There are reasons why there's nudity in a lot of these paintings. And some of it is, well, I mean, it's as much about, frankly, showing off the artist's skill to truly show the human form and the anatomy as it is about any sense of, you know, biblical, you know, historicity. And in particular, when you look at a lot of the nudity in Renaissance art, it is, or seems to be, often chubby little naked boys, often with wings. And you're like, what are these, what are these chubby little, right? Some people will tell you they are Cupid's, and that's partly right. Some people will say, oh, they're cherubs. Cherubs.

They're cherubs, right. And that's partly right, sort of, depending on the situation. Incidentally, the plural for cherubs properly is cherubim. So cherub I am, cherubim. And this is getting closer to it. In Renaissance art and, you know, surrounding period paintings, all of these little chubby, usually winged, but not always little boys, naked, always naked. They fall under the category of puti, that is P-U-T-T-I, Pouti, that is an Italian word. It comes from the plural of the Italian word puto, which at its most basic level just means boy.

Oh. So, okay. I had no idea they had a name. Because you see them in cartoons, too. You're like, you're like, you know, lifting the drapery of a stage. And they're on like the awning and stuff. They're blowing horns and their, their prance. Like there's so many statues of them.

I had no idea that's, I just thought they were cherubs. One of them is puto. That's right. As a class, they are putti. We're in the umbrella term is putti. Okay. You know, I can all but promise you that somewhere, somewhere in most of your families, maybe your mom, maybe your grandma, you know,

maybe somebody has either on a shirt or a refrigerator magnet or a poster in the dorm room, you see this a lot, two little kind of bored-looking cherubs. And one is kind of leading on his hands, the other one's kind of looking up. Right. This is, these are maybe the most famous cherubs putti in art, let's say. And this is actually a detail taken out of context. From the bottom of a very famous painting by Raphael, sticking, of course, with the Ninja Turtles themes here from Michelangelo to Raphael. Rafael had a painting called the Sistine Madonna, not actually in the Sistine Chapel, just to make this even more confusing.

But his painting of the Sistine Madonna, you can Google it. You Google Sistine Madonna, Raphael. And you'll see it as a portrait, you know, vertical painting. And the Madonna child are in it, of course, and some other, you know, heavenly figures. And at the bottom, almost as a decoration, are these two little bored-looking putti. And just that part has been cropped out and reproduced at infinitum. Wow. Those are winged putti. And this is just a classic example of your little winged putti. They are not cupids. Here's how you know they're not cupids. Okay. One, they are not

carrying any arrows. Oh, okay. You know, the very common Cupid got the little arrow. These are basically love arrows. And you'll often see Cupid's either in paintings with Aphrodite, Venus, or in a situation where it's really obvious that they are trying to trigger feelings of, you know, love. You don't see the arrows. And if they're not with like a goddess of love, they're not Cupid's, all right? So, okay. Then what are cherubs?

Okay. Great. Yeah. Okay. Right. I'm hand waving a lot here, but just go with me. Think of the cherub as like a baby angel, okay? So it's sort of meant, it's sort of meant to be a baby angel.

So you can tell if a putti is a cherub if they are in basically a religious scene. Okay. So if they are accompanying other holy figures or, you know, people from major scenes in the Bible being depicted, then they're surrounded by the little winged putti. Those are cherubs. They are meant to evoke and say. symbolize an angelic presence, okay? Okay. Now, there is a very specific meaning in Christian theology of what a cherub is,

and is actually fairly high on the angel ranks, not to be confused with the little doughy, you know, winged, naked boys flying around in paintings. Okay, those are your traditional cherubs. All right. So we've got our cupids. They've got the arrows. They're in a love or an amorous context. We've got our cherubs.

They are usually in a religious. or a holy or a devotional context. And then everything else is just puti. Kind of just generic babies to toddlers. They're not human per se. That's right. They're not really human. They're more for kind of, it seems silly to say,

just sort of your general needs of winged children floating around. Cute. Yeah. Yeah. They're often getting into like little mischievous, you know, scenes. So that is the sort of simple taxonomy, if you will, of the difference between cupids, cherubs, and then just garden variety, putti. All of them are going to be naked with their little putty butts in some way, shape, or form. And hopefully, if this comes up, you can correct somebody at Pub Quiz.

I do need to give a special shout out to writer Meg Butler, shed an article with the Getty Art Foundation. in my spirit of great titles or article is What do you call those tiny winged babies? Woo-hoo, buts, butts to the end. And that's our show. Thank you all for joining me and thank you listeners for listening in. Hope you learned stuff about angel butts, about turkey butts and walnut butts.

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