Good Job, Brain! - 300: Our 300th Episode!

Episode Date: October 29, 2025

Our little pub quiz podcast has reached episode 300! We're celebrating this incredible milestone with a loving spoonful of our signature GJB quizzes along with an amorous forkload of listener messages. Naturally, we got a 300-themed quiz and Karen precariously prepped a puzzle-y round of sports. It's giving Brad Pitt, it's giving lasers - just how well do you remember the year when GJB started? Time to play a fun round of "Medicine, Wartime, or Taxes!?" and rock out with an epic music quiz about fake bands in real movies. 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. Please record your greetings after the tone. Hi, Karen, Colin, and Chris. My name is Danny. I'm calling from Tampa, Florida. I've actually been following the podcast since I was in high school, and now I am a PhD candidate, and I'm married. It feels very weird to grow up with y'all, but I'm so grateful for. all of the lovely and amazing memories that y'all have created with the podcast and just thank you so much good job, Brain, for being a consistent in my life and making me happy when I'm stressed about writing my dissertation. So thank you all so much and happy 300s. Woo!

Hello, fabulous fans frolicking in Frabjust festivities. Welcome to Good Job, Brain, your weekly quiz show and Offbeat Trivia podcast. This is episode 300. Woo! Yay! And of course, I'm your humble host, Karen. And we are your original orchestra of organisms orating about oranges and ordolons for your orientation.

I'm Colin. And I'm Chris. Frabgist. Nice use of Frabjust. Yeah. jumped out to me as well, Chris. Great Lewis Carroll word there. It's a Jabberwocky. Yeah. This is why we're friends.

That's exactly right, Karen. You are, listeners, listening to our 300th the episode, 300-0-0. Yeah, you're the engine that makes it go. 300, I can't believe it. Took us some time to get here. You know, we used to put out the show every single week. I can't believe we used to do that. Oh, boy.

Yeah, not having kids makes things easier. It makes it easy to say, yeah, just all hang out, you know, on Sunday and do nothing other than record and, like, get whole foods and stuff like that. Oh, yeah, and she can't order while we... Yeah, uh-huh, yeah. Maybe your partner knows where you are for 12 to 16 hours. Maybe they don't. It's okay. You don't have to report back.

Then we went on break for a couple years, and then we came back, and then we're on a season schedule. But now we're here, 3-0. Oh, we're so lucky to have each other in our lives, but also we've been more lucky to have all of you listeners who have supported us through Thick and Thin and Colin, you just had your first, quote, organic listener encounter recently, right? It took over a decade, Karen. Yes, I, you know, I was wearing some good job, brain swag,

and I was walking, I was getting some coffee at my local Phil's coffee, Bay Area favorite. The person taking my order was like, okay, ask for my name, what do you want, give my coffee. My name is Colin. And the person standing next to the person kind of glanced over and he looked at my shirt. And he's like, oh, hey, good your brain. I love that podcast.

And I kind of looked up. I was like, all right, don't blow it. Don't blow it. Like, you've been waiting years for this to happen. You know, this has never happened to me. And I was like, okay, all right, don't go too big, but don't play it too small either, you know. So I did kind of the awshucks routine, you know, I was like, oh, great. Yeah.

know like you like it um i'm i'm calling and and the guy and he and he looked at me he's like oh my god i didn't even yeah colin you said your name he's like oh that's so weird he's like now i recognize your voice so it turns out this person his name is brian he manages my my fills uh shout out to you brian he said he's been listening to the show for years he likes to uh binge listen as he drives down to Southern California to go to Disneyland. I'm like, well, you, sir, are like a prototypical, good job brainless. Exactly. Yeah, I was probably blushing a little bit.

It was great. Wow. Disney road trip, good time. I don't know. You know, Colin, I actually had a sort of a different situation once I was at a video game convention and I was wearing a good job brain shirt as I'm like walking in the hallway somebody walked past me and like called it out and just like good job brain as we're kind of like walking past each other you know good job brain and I thought he meant like oh you're

the guy from good job brain because so I'm like and I'm like thanks you know and then I think he like tweeted at me like later oh I didn't even realize that you were Chris from good job brain like I was just calling out that you had a cool shirt that I like that. I like that podcast too. And then you said, thanks. It gowned on him only later. Like, why would he say, he said thanks. Isn't that strange?

Why would he say that unless, you know? And then it's like, well, to celebrate our little trivia family and community of listeners and fans for the past couple months. We've opened up the Good Job Brain hotline, jazz hands hotline, where people could leave us voice messages. And we'll be sprinkling some of those throughout this episode. We can't fit all of them into this one episode, but we've listened to all of them. We feel the love. So thank you all.

Leading up to this 300th episode, we also want to say thank you to a lot of people who, quote, stopped by on the show, rang our doorbell. So thank you to all those special guests. All right, without further ado, just like any episode of Good Job Brain, we got trivia. So it's time for our first general trivia segment, pop quiz, hot shot. Oh, here I have random Trivial Pursuit Cards from different editions. And, you know, it's our 300th episode. So let's do three. We got here, Trivial Pursuit Totally 80s.

Okay. Trivial Pursuit Entertainment Singles. Uh-huh. And, of course, baby boomer. All right, what do we want to start with? Let's do it. Should we do chronological order? Boom it up.

Here we go. Baby boomer, you guys have your barnyard, buzzers ready. Blue Wedge for TV. This is interesting. What actual group was the Monkees TV show originally scheduled to star? Really? Hmm. Oh, Chris.

I'm just thinking like something in that milieu. Yeah. Herman's Hermits. Okay, I like that guess. Incorrect, but a very good. Era appropriate. I didn't know they thought of someone else originally. Yeah.

Is it a household name, Karen? Yes, it is. Let me just double check. I've heard of it, and they have a very popular song. Let me just. Interesting. Okay. Oh, this is.

Interesting. Oh, oh. Okay. Okay. Do you believe in magic? Oh, is that the love and spoonful? Yes, it's the loving... Wow.

Really? That is a great factoid. Oh, so there we're going to use a real band to play a fake band on the show. As opposed to assembling a fake band that sort of became a real band. Yeah, basically. Next question, Pink Wedge. What comedy team's last film appearance was 1956's Dance With Me, Henry? Oh, Chris.

The Three Stooges. Incorrect. Good guess. Another great guess. Comedy team. Can you give me the year and the title again? 1956, dance with me, Henry. Wow, 56.

Last, all right. Colin. You said last movie together. I'm going to guess like Martin and Lewis, because like they split up maybe. That was like, I don't know. You're close. Give me some more names.

You'll get it. The Marks Brothers. No. There's only Abbott and Costello. Abbott and Costello. Good. Okay. Yellow Wedge.

Who sang the Battle Hymn of the Republic at Bobby Kennedy's funeral? Ooh. I've heard of this name. Okay. Man or woman? It's described as popular American singer known for his smooth vocals and relaxed style. Wow. Who was it? Jim Crocey. It is. Andy Williams. Wow. William. Okay. Moon River. Round Wedge for publishing Who's 1972 book did McGraw Hill wrongfully

defend? It's authentic. All right. We've had it checked by an expert. 1972. So not the book. I need the author. Whose 1972 book? Did McGraw-Hill wrongfully defend? And it's authentic, all right. We've had a check by an expert. So it must be a scandal. You had a name for it. A fabulous. Yeah, exactly.

Fabulous. Well, it's not a glass. It's not that guy. That was the 90s and the tech boom and stuff like that. It is Clifford Irving. Oh, I would have a call. They don't tell us the book in the answer. They're just, oh, man.

Frustrating. Frustrating. All right. Green Wedge. What group emerged when the Hollywood reporter ran an ad? Colan, wanted four insane boys aged 17 to 21 to form a group for a TV show. Go for it, Colin. The monkeys.

It is the monkey. Oh, oh, of course, because, well, the tribute from suit cards, you're always supposed to be asking one question from each card. Love and Spoonfill fell through. The amorous forkful is the proposed name of the band. Oh, man. There might be another domain name we have to buy. Might have to get Amorous Forkful.

Might have to do that. Amorous Forklode. Foreclode. I'm going to go forkload. I don't want to repeat the full. Forklode is funnier to say it, too. It is. It is.

It is. Yes. Last question. I'll read really quickly. What group took the last train to Clarksville for their 1966 career starter? Yes. Everybody. The monkeys.

Amherst Forklode. All right. Next card. Moving on. Totally 80s. Here we go. Blue Wedge for TV. What nickname did Warren Weber answer to on Happy Days? Ooh. Oh.

Wow. Colin. Warren Weber was potsy. Yes. Potsy. Potsy. Pink Wedge. What great Dane, not the dog.

What great persons in Denmark, Dane. Dane. Okay. You see. This is very misleading when you read it out. Not a dog. What great Dane had Sly Stallone and Mark Gastineau's name tattooed on her buttocks. Colin.

That must be Brigitte Nielsen. Yes, Brigitte Nielsen. All right, Yellow Wedge. What diplomatic role was filled in the 80s by Donald McHenry, Gene Kirkpatrick, Vernon Walters, and Thomas Pickering? Oh, I've heard Gene Kirkpatrick. Exactly, exactly. What diplomatic role was filled in the 80s? Go for it, Chris.

Envoy to the United Nations. Yeah, good guess. U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Well done. Well done. Yeah, we knew what you meant. Well done. Yeah, Purple Wedge for Music.

What band had a special drum kit built for Rick Allen after he lost his left arm in an auto accident? Colin. Is that deaf leopard? Yes, that is Def Leopard. Somme live, he's drumming with one arm. Yes, yes, still rocking, still rocking one arm. All right, uh, lime green wedge for movies. What movie opened with the Yogi Berra quote, in baseball, you don't know nothing?

Ooh. Name a couple baseball movies. Is this totally 80s? Totally 80s. Totally 80s. Colin. I think I was. Eight men out.

No. Bull Durham Bull Durham Oh nice okay Fantastic movie I was gonna go to Field of Dreams next If it wasn't Field of Dreams is too earnest

It fits Bull Durham better You're right Both Kevin Costner and a very Young Tim Robbins Awesome Awesome movie Okay last question on its 80s card Orange Wedge Sports and Leisure

Who took five stitches in the scalp After smacking his head on the diving board At the 1988 Olympics Oh Colin I was watching this live or whatever passed for live, then it was, oh, man, that was Greg Luganis. And I just, I cringe thinking about it. Oh, yeah. It was gnarly.

All right, let's move on to our last card here. Trivary Pursuit Entertainment Singles. You think it's easy, but it's actually very hard. Here we go. Blue Wedge for TV. I didn't say, I thought it was easy. What 1995 TV series remake about a dolphin star Jessica Alba? Chris.

Flipper. It's Flipper. It's Flipper. I don't remember the show, but remake and Dolphin. Yeah. All right. Pink Wedge for music. What Sound Garden Frontman wrote and performed the song,

You Know My Name for the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale. Was on a Karen James Bond music quiz. Colin. Chris Cornell. Chris Cornell, Seattle's own. That's Soundgarden Frontman. Yes. Yeah.

Yellow Wedge. for movies, what Lars von Trier film was renamed Zentropa for release in the U.S. Oh. I think it's because other title, there was already a movie called that. Oh. Fun time, Lars von Trier. Oh, yeah. Always a good time.

Take a kid. Could pick me out. I don't know. Yeah. I mean, it's not. The only one I can think of is about dancer in the dark, right? But I don't say. It's not that.

That was called that here. I could only watch that movie once. And I was like, I never want to watch this movie ever. I know. Yeah, yeah. I was shown that film. All right. It is Europa.

Oh, okay. So the U.S. name was Zentropa. Zentropa. Purple Wedge. How many balls constitute a walk in softball? Ooh. Softball. That implies that it's different from baseball.

It does. It implies that. Chris? Three. Three balls. Incorrect. Dang. All right.

Colin? Five. It's four. It's just like normal baseball. All right. I'll kill them all. Totally, totally overthinking this one. They're trying to trick you.

It's just like baseball. They did. They did. They tricked both of us. All right. That was funny. Green Wedge. What poet and essayist wrote the Raven?

I know this one. It's four balls. It's Edgar Allan Poe. Correct. So our last question on this last card for this last bit of Pop Quiz Hotchat Wildcard, Orange Wedge. What film based on a Stephen King novel made Jack Nicholson's catchphrase? Here's Johnny famous. The shinning.

The shinning. The shining. That didn't feel very satisfying. But we did three cards. Good job, everybody. Yeah, we hit our way through it. Yeah. Yep, yep, yep.

Loomers, 80s, and entertainment. What a roller coaster ride. So this week's episode, 300. Well, last week we had, actually, we kind of moved things around. We had an all quiz last week. This week is kind of an all quiz, but more themed towards celebration, good job, brainy stuff, celebrating milestones. So this week, it's our good job brain,

300 Bonanza I will start us off you know in the spirit of the 300 celebration I wanted to set you guys up for success you know

sort of like the inverse of me sitting on a quiz about Broadway show tunes you know or just very specific video game characters where I'm along for the ride I figured like you know as we've said before

like you know seriously I joking we've said like if we wanted to we could stump each other 100% of the time we all have such such arcane areas of knowledge but that's not fun so I decided to go the total opposite direction I tried to put together a quiz where I'm

I'm not giving you guys softballs necessarily but I trust that if I cater to your guys' interests, I could put together a quiz that together working together you guys could score a perfect score on, all right? So I want you guys to work together on this music quiz. I've tried to put together a pub quiz style, 10 questions. You're going to hear a short clip of music. And the angle of this quiz ties in very nicely with the monkeys. You know, so we heard a lot about the monkeys at the top, which is, again, start as a fake band, but became a real band,

you know, I mean, just because they were assembled, they were putting out the songs. I have a quiz called Real Movies, Fake Bands. I will play for you a song from a movie. Your guy's goal is to tell me what is the movie and what is the name of the band in the movie? okay the artist made solo artist or the musical act in the movie okay now some of these cases it may actually be the actors singing or performing I don't want the actors names I want the name of the in universe in the performing act all right we're going to go in reverse chronological order here so we're going to start very fresh and move our way back in time I am trying to set

you guys up here I really trust that if one of you if one of you doesn't have it the other one will. So I encourage you to talk it out pub quiz style. Karen, I'm going to nominate you as team captain. You're going to give me final answer here, all right, for each of these these. All right. I will give you the year of all these movies. And start with a movie from this year

2025. When you are ready, get clip one ready. I bet I know what I do. I bet you do too, Karen. I bet you do too. Clip number one. Day's so sweet And it's It makes me one boy Yeah

Like a band Because you gotta like that Take a big guy Want another bite yet No it more than going Now I want to want to I want to All right

I've never heard this song before Oh my gosh The movie Is Chris K-pop Demon Hunters And the band Is the demon boy band Sajah boys

The Saja Boys You got it That's right Saja Boys Soda Pop K-pop demonh Singing Soda Pop Yeah

You know I'm a award some bonus points here if you want to name the song as well yes soda pop we all know it we've all heard it we're all going to hear it again tomorrow most likely at this point all right perfect score so far okay get ready we're going back to 2016 for this clip all right remember i need the movie and the act here we go clip number two bar none i am the most humblest number one at the top of the humblest my apple crumble is by far the most crumbless but I act like it tastes bad humbleness the thing about me that's so impressive is how we think you know I've never watched

this movie but I think I know okay fake name I thought for sure the actor singing rapping is Andy Sandberg you are correct now and Lonely Island and I think his movie was pop star. Yes. And his fake name, or the character he plays, is Connor, the number four, real. Amazing. You got it, Karen. Just, I love, I love, like that.

That's all I know of the movie. Hasn't seen the movie. Hasn't seen the movie, but she still got it. Yes. Performing, I'm so humble from the movie. The full name. Pop star, never stop, never stopping. Full marks so far, you guys.

I'll be leaning here when needed. We have a hit movie from 2012. There are lots of songs in this one. I need you to identify the movie and the name of the group performing. Clip number three. We just want to make the world dance. Forget about the price tag.

It ain't about the... It ain't about the... I know bling bling want to make the world dance Forget about the prize tag I know Chris I don't know so you might as well go for it The movie is pitch perfect The first one

Yes yes And the group performing is the Barden Bellas You got it not slipping these by you yes Singing their medley in their finals appearance This is a a cappella mashup made by Becca Mitchell. It includes price tag. Don't you forget about me, just the way you are.

Give me everything. Party in the USA. Turn the beat around. All of those songs are run through in short order. You got it. Continue on back in time. We are now at 2010. A movie loaded with music, loaded with action.

We got clip number four. One, two, they go! Yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah Let me make the spaces Mama Mama serpent What's, do you know? Yeah.

Oh, you do? Yeah. It's video game adjacent. It is video game adjacent. Is it the Scott Pilgrim? Yes. Okay, okay. It is.

You got it. Scott Pilgrim versus the world. Versus the world. It's the movie. What is the band? The sex baubams. You got it. No, no, it's sex baobam.

Sex baobam. That's what I said. Yeah, you said, the sex baubams. Yeah, it's not a plural. It's just one, yeah. Yes. In fact, the name of the song, and I truncated it at the beginning, is we are sex baobam. Right.

Not plural. That's not plural. So a little bit of a deep dive trivia that no one asked for. So Brie Larson, a very young Brie Larson, was. in the movie. She played Scott Pilgrim's X and she has banned. And so they perform a song called Black Sheep in the

movie and she's great. Rie Larson's a great singer. And then when they release the soundtrack, people are like, I want that song. But the version they had the song was performed by like a real band and not her. And it took them years and years to get, I don't know, like

contracts or licensing or publishing rights. And they finally released the Brie Larson version on, you know, Spotify or on the official soundtrack. Oh, that is a good little snippet. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nice. Putting this quiz together, I found myself, I'd start getting a song,

and 10 minutes later, I find myself just watching the movie for 10 minutes. And so I have to kind of like stop and snap myself back to it. All right. Clip number five, all the way back to 2001. This film was somewhat of a bomb on release. Oh. It has gained a little bit of cult status in the, you know, 20-something years since then.

Clip number five. Spin around. Come back home. You're running out on a line. Sometimes feel I'm going out of my mind. Stunt here waiting for anyone to take the time. Spin around. We get further and further away.

Yes. Oh, I don't. Oh, Chris knows. Oh, I think so. All right, all right. Is the title of the movie the same as the name of the band? It is. The title of the movie is the same as the name of the band, Chris.

So, therefore, critically drubbed at the time, but since re-evaluated as a cult classic, and actually, yes, a fantastic film, Josie and the Pussy Cats. You got it. You got it. That is Josie and the Pussy Cats, yes, performing. That's Parker Posey. Spin around. And Alan Cummings, yeah.

Alan Cumming in it. Yes, a lot of great. names in that that's right again karen it's not alan cummings there's not plural yeah yeah it's just one of him everything everything is plural yeah the boy band in the movie i remember called du jour uh it was like yes you got it right it had uh set green donald fazon i think maybe breck and mire uh yeah so the stars the josie of the pussy cats rachel lee cook Tara reed Rosario dawson they are in the mix on the songs.

They're not like the leads, but their vocals are in the mix, yeah, even though they weren't really handling the singing. Haven't dropped a point so far. Here we go. Over halfway, all the way back to 1996, clip number six. You doing that thing you do. Breaking my heart into a million pieces.

All right. You didn't have to play the clip on that one, honestly. I think just the drums at the beginning. And yeah, it's, the film is, That Thing You Do, the band is the Onators. The Onators! I'm sorry, just Cap and Geach and the Shrimp Shack Shooters. Yes.

Yes, a great film set in the 60s about the wonders, the name of the movie right there in the song, that thing you do. It did, in fact, as I think we've talked about on the show before. It did chart, yes. It sort of, it breached containment. It was nominated for a Golden Globe

as well as an Academy Award. And it was written by, as I think we may have mentioned, Adam Schlesinger, who's bassist for the band, Fountains of Wayne. Oh. Yeah. Yeah, very, very popular. I remember hearing that one on the radio and being like, oh, okay, I guess we're playing songs.

from movies on radios now. What is real anymore, though? Yeah. You know, now we have reality shows where we, it's sort of conspicuously in view of the world. We're going to make a, we're going to put a band together, and they find people, and they give them a band, and they give them a name.

Yeah. It's so artificial, and then it works, and everybody just sort of buys into it. I mean, the monkeys, do we call them a fake band? Are they fake? They don't really feel fake to me. Exactly. The songs are real.

Yep. All right. heading into the end of the quiz here 1994 we've got a comedy here on a Los Angeles band 1994 clip seven getting tricky getting tricky here

Johnny can't read Johnny can't write It's just don't understand Getting tricky here I'll give you a small hint. The lead in the movie is actually singing this song. Yeah, he sounds familiar. That's what I was trying to go for. He's not known for being a singer.

Oh, God, God, hold on, hold on. I know this. It's the one where they're stuck. I think they want the radio station to play their demo. Yes, yes. Has Adam Sandler, Steve Scheme, Bradd, Frasier, Airheads. You got it. Oh, what is their name?

What is the name of the band? It's like funny. It's like, it's a funny name. It's not, it's like Spinal Tap new originals. Yes. Yes. That's a good comparison. You've described the plot.

I don't know. I don't know the name of the band. There are three of them. The lone rangers. Amazing pull, Karen. Wow. With an S. Yes, with an S.

With an S, finally. We got it. And it counts. That's right. The lone rangers. And as is pointed out to them in the movie, they're like, you know, there's three of you. You're not exactly lone, yes.

Adam Sandler on drums, Steve Busemi on bass, you know, ostensibly. And Brendan Fraser, not Fraser, Brendan Fraser. Yes, yeah, lead singer and actually belting it out there. That was degenerated. Great poll. Okay. We have arrived at 1991.

There are not a lot of vocals. to go by in this clip. But I want you guys to just channel the brief bit you get at the beginning and the overall vibe, all right? 1991, clip eight. And all we can say is let's rock!

One, two, one, two, one, two, three, four. Is it a... a sequel. It is a sequel, Chris. It is. It's a sequel. I think I know the film. Uh, is the, would the film be Bill and Ted's bogus journey? Yes, sir. It is the wild stallions. Yes, sir. It is. It is the wild stallions. The second movie. It is the second movie, yes, where we see them traveling into the future, then traveling back, so they've had time to practice and become good. And given it to the the crowd. They've got, yes, the Grim Reaper on base. They've got all their friends there.

Yes. Wild Stallions with Bill and Ted. Great, great job, you guys. All right. Close to the end now. Clip number nine. We have a groundbreaking 1984 film. We're going to play a clip from a truly catchy pop

song. Now, I want to say, for this one, there is a right answer and there's an even more right answer. I will, yeah, okay. I'm going to get the most right answer you know what I need

oh maybe you don't do I have to come right flat out and tell you everything give me some money I knew I knew exactly what it was going to be no problem give me some money

so A, the name of the film is, this is Spinal Tap. Correct. Now, some sort of poser or wannabe Spinal Tap fan would tell you that that song was, Give Me Some Money, performed by Spinal Tap, but they would be wrong. That was the dulcet tones of The Thamesman. 100% right. That is the Thamesman with their first single, Give Me Some Money, the Band,

which would go on to become spinal tap. Well done. I was smiling and thinking of you as I assembled that question. Wow, that's number nine. What's number 10? Number 10, a little bit of a twist here. Going all the way back to 1977. Uh-huh, uh-huh.

Just a few seconds of this one here for you. Clip number 10. All right, what do you got for me? Movie, let's get the movie out of the way. Star Wars. Okay. Or New Hope. I'll accept that.

That's fine. Yes, Star Wars. The first one, the 1977 one. I know all of the answers and the names because I went as this for one of the Star Wars races with the butt head that I made. I made a butt head. The butt head. Do you know that, do you know exactly how it goes? It's so, so the main, there's a main performance.

and his name is like figure Dan. Very, very close. Figurine Dan. So close. You're right on top of it. The band is called the modal nodes. Yes, that is right. It is the canteena band from the canteena scene in Star Wars.

Yes. Which today is now called Figrin Dan and the modal nodes. Figrin Dan, who is the lead. of the band and the modal nodes, that's right. And in the Star Wars universe, they are the Bith species with the, as you said, kind of the butt looking heads there, yeah. When that song itself was first released on, you know, various soundtracks back in the 70s and early 80s, it was just listed as canteena band.

The song itself has a name since, it has a name now, yes. The name of that song is now officially mad about me, mad about me. Well done, you guys. Perfect score. I'm going to say that is 300 points for 300 episodes. I am so proud of you. You nailed it. Did it. Woo! Hi, good job, Rain. My name is Josiah. I listen in Maryland. Congratulations on 300 episodes. I've been listening since the beginning. I actually created your Wikipedia page about 10 years ago and have been struggling. to keep up with all the great episodes and content there, but look forward to 300 more. Congratulations. Hey, hi there.

This is Grace from Muddy Creek Township, Pennsylvania. I want to say congratulations on 300 episodes. What a milestone. I wanted to send an message to you, Karen, and Colin and Chris, to celebrate this incredible achievement. I was thinking of the Roman numeral for 300, which would be CCC, C, C for celebrating 300 episodes of amazing content, C for your collective class. and bringing fascinating facts and stories to life,

and C for your incredible creativity and making learning so much fun. And one more C, just for good measure, to thank you for helping to instill curiosity in all your listeners. I know Dana is missed, but for the four of you together, you have created something truly special. Here's your 300 more episodes. All right, my turn. Let's completely do a 180.

Instead of doing a quiz about stuff that we love and we like to watch and listen, I here have a quiz, maybe celebrating something we're not too good at. Good job, we're about pub trivia. And pub trivia is about knowing a lot of different categories. And by far, our weakest category is sports. We have only Colin to rely on. Here, I've made a sports quiz we could all enjoy because it's a sports quiz, but it's not really about sports.

All right, all right? It's all about team names and mascots, a very quick quiz. Okay, okay. I feel like you guys should work together. Here we go. Please name me three teams of the big four U.S. sports league, so MLB, baseball, NFL, American football, NBA, NBA, basketball, NHL hockey. So, so big four leagues. Okay.

Please name me three teams that have multiple Ks in their team name. Wow. all right oh i got one okay off the bat well just throw it out there i guess yeah we got we got the nix we got the new york nix okay okay okay multiple multiple ks wait does the new york yankees count or do you mean the team like the just the team just okay okay okay next yeah the nix yeah the nicks actually have three correct because it's short for knickerbockers you got to get three in there all right but that doesn't help us all right we need two more multiple more wow okay So something that starts with, there's like the golden nights, but that's only one.

Ooh, this is a good question, Karen. Okay, I'm trying to think. Baseball. I'll tell you what sport, both these teams are part of NHL. Oh, the next two were part of the NHL. How about the Blackhawks? Ooh, Chris. Fantastic.

Well done. Chicago Blackhawks. Very nice. Okay. All right. Yeah, you guys got to be a good. compound word, right? Let's see, the Seattle.

The Cracken? Oh, the Crackin, yes. Is that one? Yes. Yeah, there we go. Three. Good job. That was a word quiz disguised as a sports quiz.

That was good. Yes, that's the spirit of this quiz. And some trivia embedded in here. Like this next question, what are the Dodgers dodging? They are dodging. trolleys because they were originally the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers. Yes. Which was something you had to be aware of is don't get

creamed by a trolley as you're crossing the street in Brooklyn. And then moved 3,000 miles away to the opposite coast. Yeah. All right. Next question. Out of all the NFL American football, team logos, almost all of them are facing straight ahead or they're facing to your right. So if you're, you know, looking at it, they're facing to your right hand, you know. Mm-hmm.

What is the only one team whose logo faces your left? Ooh. Faces to the left. Of the NFL teams? Yeah. Yep, yep, yep. Or the logo faces. So it's like an animal or a mascot or something.

It's an animal. It's an animal. Okay. All of them are either, you know, like the cults has a horseshoe and it's like center. Like anybody that's a person or an animal usually are either centers. or looking to Okay, all right, I'm trying to think. It's not the, it's not the falcons.

The bird is pointing to the right. There's one out of all of them. There's one. When you look at all the logos, you're like, that's weird. It's not the dolphins. The dolphin is swimming to the right. I need a final answer. The ravens.

Close. It is the Philadelphia Eagles. The birds fly into the left. Yep. Only one. that looks for that side. I wonder why. It's so weird.

Karen, do you know what the dolphin's helmet logo is? Is it not a dolphin? It is a dolphin. But historically, the dolphin on the dolphin's helmet had a helmet on. So like, as if the dolphin maybe were, I don't know, part of the team somehow. I don't know how you fit it. But so the dolphin had a little helmet on the helmet. They took it off.

No. Yeah. A lot of people are sad that they took the helmet off the dolphin on the helmet. How would a helmet work on a dolphin? Yeah, it kind of doesn't really work. It's not like he has any head under there. Yeah, there's no neck. They're like a sausage, yeah.

All right. Next question. There are three teams in the major Big Four sports named after a real individual person. so not a group of people or not a type of person or like a profession but named after a named real individual person three teams three teams i believe one of these is the browns i think the cleveland the cleveland browns football team right the original owner's last name was brown right i think it was the coach okay oh sorry okay Yeah, named after a Mr. Brown. Mr. Brown. Singular, but now, plural.

Yes, okay, but not the color, right. Yeah. Okay. All right, named after a real person, man, okay. It's football and a hockey team. And a hockey team. The hockey team was mentioned earlier. Okay.

The Blackhawks is the member of the Black Hawk tribe that the team is named after? Black Hawk is a individual person. named Black Hawk Chicago Blackhawks Hockey Did not know that And we got one more Which is a football team

Think of it Is it a Western team or an Eastern team East? East Patriots, Giants Jets It is The Buffalo

Oh the Buffalo Bill Named after Buffalo Bill Of course Not Not the Hannibal Lecter Buffalo Bill.

Right, yeah. Right. Yes, right, right. All right. Well, Chris, with your keen and astute detective skills. Yes. Before the Lakers played for Los Angeles, what city or state did the team play for? Hmm.

Sending vibes. Right, right, right. Was it Minneapolis? Yes! Yeah. Land of a whole bunch of lakes. Land of 10,000 lakes. Lando lakes.

Land of a bunch of lakes. That's why they're called the Lakers. They, again, also moved to Los Angeles where there's maybe not as many lakes. All right. Last question here. There are six pairs of teams who share the same name of the Big Four sports.

For example, out of the six, one of them is Cardinals. You have the St. Louis Cardinals playing baseball, and then you have the Arizona Cardinals playing football. What are the five other people? pairs. So there's the Giants. Yes.

Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, right, okay. San Francisco Giants, baseball, New York Giants football. Okay, four more, four more, four more. New York. We got Jets. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, Degging, Degs, Jets. Oh, of course.

And the Winnipeg Jets hockey team. Oh, okay. Woo, okay, all right. There's a feline animal. Okay We got the The Panthers Right

Yes Carolina Panthers Football Florida Panthers NHHL Yeah Okay All right

Two more Both from a state You currently live in Kings Ding ding ding ding ding Ding ding ding Kings hockey Sacramento Kings

Basketball The last one We got the Rangers New York Rangers hockey and then Texas Rangers Baseball

six pairs wow six pairs that's if you just ask me cold how many I would not have said six that's really good trivia Karen that's great that's great all right good job everybody all right we're going to take a quick break

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Congratulations on hitting 300 episodes. Wow. Here's a celebratory cryptic clue for the longtime lobe-trotters listening. snarled for flavoring agent, nine letters. Again, that's a customer snarled for flavoring agent, nine letters. I bet you can figure that out. Again, congrats. And here's to the next 300. It is episode 300 of Good Job Brain. So I have come up with a quiz that is themed around the number 300 because I'm being very literal on this one. Oh, that's not a lot of things I feel like. You know what, Karen?

You're right. I really had to stretch it out. So let's see how we do. So far, every quiz has been everybody worked together to figure this out. So maybe that's just the theme of this episode. So you can just work it out together. All right. It's all the old school pub trivia, doing the old school, like putting those brains together

and working it out. It worked. That's the glory of, that's why it's pub trivia team and not pub trivia by yourself. So, all right, so that are all themed around the number 300. Okay. First question. The film 300 about the historic battle of Thermopy was based on a comic book series by what author oh okay that was you don't got to buzz in you guys work together i know

you know it the frank miller miller it's frank miller it's frank miller yes yes okay let's get a little more difficult the lightweight ninja 300 motorbike was introduced in 2012 by what maker oh the ninja yeah the ninja 300 motorbike Oh, Colin, you actually ride bikes. I mean, there's, I'm just going to, I mean, I'm not going to overthink it. I mean, I'm going to guess it's like, like Kawasaki or Yamaha, maybe. I don't know. Let's say Kawasaki.

I mean, I don't know. I'm just, just taking a guess here. It's Kawasaki. It is Kawasaki. Nice work. Yes, the Ninja 300. Just felt right. Abasaki.

Yeah, doesn't it? It just feels right. Yep. Uh, next question. 300 entertainment is the music. label of Young Thug, Fettie Wap, and this singer of Family Affair. Isn't that Mary J. Blige? That is Mary J. Blige.

Good job, good job, Eric. They're not going to leave you hanging there. Yes, Mary J. Blige. Next question. 300, in quotes, for some reason, is the full name of a 1975 name. pinball machine themed around what? Huh. It is not the Battle of Thermopyly.

300, 300 is the full name of a 1975 pinball machine with what as the themeing. Is it like, what's 300? I'm trying to think like, is it after a movie from that year? Is it, or is it something, is it a sport maybe? Oh, oh. Bowling. Bowling. It is bowling. Yeah. Bowling themed pinball machine.

Nicely spotted. Bowling was, it was for sure, you know, having a moment, I think. Bowling was in 1975, absolutely. In fact, if you couldn't, if you couldn't go bowling, you could play the pinball machine based on bowling, which you probably put play at a bowling alley. Next question, taking place from 1991. to 2008, the Gold Coast Indy 300 was an IndyCar racing event taking place on what continent? Australia.

Australia? Australia. Yeah. Coast. All right. In what province of Australia? Over to you, Karen. Okay, I'm mapping it out.

This does not count for points. New South Wales? No, it's Queensland. That's why I'm glad I didn't ask that as the actual question. I was just like, you know what? That sounds a little maybe too obscure. Yes, the Gold Coast Indy 300 and IndyCar racing event in Australia along the Gold Coast. All right.

Next question. Released in 1976, the Magnavox Odyssey 300 could play three games. Hockey. smash, and what? Hockey. That's the first ever console, right? That is a later revision of the Magnifico. Magnifico's Odyssey was 72.

Okay. They did the Odyssey 100, the Odyssey 200, and the Odyssey 300, which could play three games. Hockey, smash, chess, or checkers, or something. too hard chess is too much computing power yeah you're right that is way too much yes it's got to be very simple like like a i was thinking like board game yeah it's it's it's tennis everything could play pong at this point yeah it's just you just go back and forth interesting bit of trivia at the odyssey 300 is that it had a it had a ship that was designed by the company general instruments and it was a integrated circuit

that just played video games. The video games were all sort of on this chip. And over 200 different companies licensed. They just bought these chips from general instruments. The Calico Telstar, there was an officially licensed Pong machine from Atari, The Odyssey 300, many, many different machines around the world were just the exact same.

game, same chip, same games, and then it was really just the outer shell of the machine was different. Sticking with electronics, but maybe going a little bit more obscure, the E-Mate 300, that's, of course, lowercasey, capital M, BTE, the E-Mate 300, a laptop computing device released by Apple in 1997, ran what opposite? operating system. Man, I vaguely remember this. Could it just be Linux? Yeah, I mean,

could it be before they moved over fully to basing the OS on yeah, ran what? I mean, what would you even call an early Apple OS? I mean,

it could run. They had some machines that ran Windows. I mean, but what if it was, that'd be funny if it was, let's say Windows for fun. I mean,

the era is correct. Yeah. All right. sure, that'll be fun to say Windows. It's not Windows, I'm sorry. Yeah. It was a laptop computing device. It was low cost, kind of a low power draw laptop that actually ran Newton OS.

It ran the OS from Apple's PDA palm type, palm top devices, but in a laptop form factor. You are really tickling the deep recesses of my brain with that one. The E-mate, oh my gosh. The E-Mate 300. As of this recording, Wikipedia's list of longest films consists of movies with run times of over 300 minutes or how many hours. You have to get this in the next two seconds. Five hours. Five hours.

All right. Good job, Colin. Is that the question? That was the question. I think I think originally I was going to be like whoever buzzes in first, you know, I made the last minute decision. It's like, yeah, I think talking amongst each other, you could probably get that one. Okay, all right, let's get a little bit more difficult.

One of baseball's most exclusive groups is the 300 win club, reserved for pitchers who rack up a career 300 wins. What pitcher, who at the time was pitching for the San Francisco? Giants was the latest to join that club on June 4th, 2009. Linsica? No. I mean, he was big for a while. I don't think he had that longevity. 2,000, man.

Only four pitchers have joined the 300 win clubs since the 1990s. Oh, wow. So he is the latest person to do it. It was 2009. He was playing at the time for the San Francisco Giants. He is not as associated with the San Francisco Giants as he has with other teams that he has played for. But he is the latest member of the 300 win club. And he, I believe, retired very shortly after getting 300 wins.

What team did he play for before? Like, more notably. More famously, he played for the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Seattle Mariners. Oh, is that Randy Johnson? The big unit. The big unit. Oh my God. Yeah, the big unit.

Randy Johnson, the most recent inductee into the 300 wins club in 2009. Wow, I totally forgot that he played for the Giants. And that recently, I guess. Yep. Wow, that's crazy. And finally, what do the words accuracy, eclectic and focacha have to do with this quiz? Oh, I know. They have three Cs in them, which is the 300, right?

Roman numeral for 300. Accuracy, Foccacacia, eclectic. Oh, Faccia does have three Cs. It does have three Cs. Yep, yeah, yeah. All right. Well, we've celebrated the number 300 with my number 300 quiz. Great job.

Sorry about the Newton. Hey, good job, Brainiacs. Congratulations on hitting 300 episodes. That is an epic, epic milestone. This, of course, is Jonathan from Los Angeles, the TV executive who tried to develop a game show with y'all way back in the day. Late Night Talk Show meets trivia. Thank you so much for reading my ear friends for all these years.

I've been Rydered I since season one, and I hope that this fun train never stopped. But, speaking of 300, I would be remit not to throw a piece of trivia out. Did you know that Brad Pitt was actually Zach Snyder's first choice for King Leonidas and not Gerard Butler? He gets the first rule of 300 casting is, you don't talk about 300 casting. That's done.

Cheers for the next 300, sending a lot of love, and face you so much keeping brains everywhere, a little smarter, one fact at a time. Bye. Hello, Bill from Pennsylvania. Just call them to say, congrats and keep going on 300. I can't tell you how many road trips, morning commutes to work you guys have got me through. How many cool talking points and trivia, I can pull out at parties and stuff now thanks to your podcast. So keep going. Hats off to you. No, um, actually. Hi, this is Jamie from Oviedo, Florida. I started listening to Good Job Brain back in 2016 when my now husband and I were dating.

We like to take day trips and wanted something we could listen to and enjoy together on the long drive. Now we keep up that tradition with our kids who have been listening to Good Job Brain their entire lives. I even played episode 131, Bibliotech, Disco Tech, in our hospital room the night after I delivered our firstborn. Our kids love the show so much they always do a little dance in their car seats whenever the theme song plays. Thank you all for creating such a wonderful show that has become a series of touchstones in my family's life. We love listening. All right, I have another quiz in the spirit of Good Job Brain. We joke about this all the time.

Some of our favorite things to talk about facts and quizzes on Good Job Brain are like inventions or where things came from or where their origins are, secret origins, accidental origins. The longer we do this show, the more we realize that so many things in our world were invented for mainly three big reasons. for medical purposes, for wartime purposes, and for tax purposes, either trying to avoid tax or trying to get more money. What I'm going to do in this quiz is I'm going to give you an invention or an item, and you tell me if it had origins in medicine, wartime, or taxes. Ah, yes. All right.

So, for example, Coca-Cola. Coca-Cola was initially invented to relieve migraines and headaches. It was for medicine. This is one of my favorite segments in the history of good job brain is the origin of salted caramel. Because for a while, salted caramel was everywhere, the flavor, where did it come from? Turns out it had roots in taxes, in the salt tax in the Brittany region in France. And then duct tape, we talked about duct tape. Duck tape was a wartime invention for ammunition.

So, I'm going to give you a name of the thing. You guys write down if it's medicine, war time, or taxes. Here we go. Shortbread. All right. Great British Bake Off just started. Sometimes they make a mean shortbread, just like a Scottish shortbread. Oh, you're killing me here.

It could be anything. It could, it really could be anything. Oh, my God. I've erased something I've scratched out something that I wrote something else and I scratched that out I would love to also hear

your your potential reasoning too sure I'm gonna write okay I gotta I gotta go with what I'm writing down okay what do you have down and what's your fake reasoning or potentially correct reasoning okay I mean I'm thinking okay

this is this is a sort of a baked good it's made with shortening I believe and so it's like If there were high taxes on butter, then they did this with different ingredients to get around the high taxes. But then I was like, could it also be wartime because maybe it transports really easily in their military rucksacks? But I eventually, I just sort of, I went with taxes. I went with taxes on. I also went with taxes too for sort of similar reasons that like it's a very simple base recipe.

Like maybe you had to make due with only a certain amount to stay under a certain. monetary level or something like that you are both correct shortbread originated from a little tax loophole i guess previously called short cakes originated from Scotland went through a name change in the 18th century the parliament began placing taxes on luxury goods like cakes and biscuits okay to avoid this they changed the name from short cakes to short bread being like Hey, it's a bread. It's a non-luxury item. Just a work-a-day bread.

We ain't no fancy cake. Interesting. It's been an ongoing thing. The EU wanted to classify shortbread as a biscuit. And impose whatever taxes a biscuit slash cookie would get. You know, now a shortbread, Scott Shortbread is so tied to the Scottish identity. People in Scotland, like, really fought hard. Yes, it's a cookie, but it's culturally significant as,

and important as bread to us and so currently not not taxed as a biscuit i love how arbitrary so much of this is it's it's great it's great all right next item here the metal detector the metal detector had origins in medicine taxes taxes or wartime okay okay all right Just the longer I think about it, the more I just end up going in circles. I know. Yep. All right.

Colin. I'm saying wartime. It just seemed like late 1800s, early 1900s, you know, there's metal in the ground. There's mines. There's explosives. I don't know. That's what I was thinking too. It's like.

Covering surplus. Yeah, I don't know. Mines. Looking for mines so you don't step on them. I'm like, yeah, okay. War time. Metal detector had origins, yes, to retrieve a bullet, but not during the war time for medicine medical purposes.

Famously, famously, an early version, one of the first versions of a metal detector was by Thomas Edison himself. Really? Why? Because the assassination of President Garfield. No.

So Garfield was shot, famously. And he didn't die right away. He died like two months, three months after, from the injury sustained. It's a hot mess. Terrible. He got shot and this is 1881 where like doctors didn't know. They were digging around in there with their fingers. They weren't really washing their hands. They were dug the wrong way to find the bullet and then

which caused war infection. But Thomas Edison was tasked to invent something to help them find the bullet this whole time the bullet was still in him. They didn't get the bullet out. An in-body metal detector originally. I mean, it was picking up the springs from the mattress so it wasn't really. It was unsuccessful, but it did pave way for later more sophisticated male detectors. Also, Garfield's assassination also gave us another early invention of the air conditioner. I believe we talked about this on an early show, the early air conditioning. Right, right. And they were trying to do their best to keep him comfortable, right? Oh, yeah. E.C. was hot. Terrible combination of things. R.I.P. President Garfield.

Yeah. Right. Next thing here. Brandy. brandy as in the alcohol beverage brandy okay okay not the song brandy not the person brandy not person brandy Colin I'm putting tax because I feel like it's to not be treated like other wine or to not be treated somehow and to get into or out of a classification that was precisely what I was thinking to. Like, we need something that's, uh, get you drunk like wine, kind of tastes like it, but it's technically not wine. Therefore, it's not tax like wine. And that's, that's the thought. Dain, anything, it is tax. All right. Uh, it is even sneakier. For a while, places were taxing by volume. So it's like, well, we have all this wine.

How do we decrease volume so that we don't get tax as much? And it's like, we'll just evaporate the water. Just make it more. potent. I've got an idea. All right. Next item here, we have the corkscrew. Speaking of wine, let's open up. I think I know this one. I think I know this one. Let's open up a bottle with a corkscrew. All right.

Take out the cork. Is that what you're supposed to do with it? I want to say it's for like medicine. So like be like, oh, you've got ghosts in your brain. We got to, like, you know, drill a hole to let them out, you know? Moats in your brain. Yeah, yeah, we got to screw them out of there, yeah. All right, pretty sure that I have read,

maybe we even talked about this, that it was invented for war, that it was like a soldier's kit kind of thing for opening wine bottles, probably invented by the French army. I wrote war. I wrote war. I just feel like that sounds probably right.

You're correct. It is wartime. It is a wartime invention. Corkscrews came from an earlier version of something very similar called a gunworm. And it was like early. This is like 1600s. It's formed to remove unspent bullets or charges from a musket. Right, right. Next item. Synthetic dye. Synthetic die. man this does really ring a bell too okay it's really cool all right Chris well I put medicine because I'm thinking maybe they were trying to you know make some you know some kind of medicine but it ended up just being a color instead of a yeah yeah forget what the first artificial dye was I feel like we just talked about this oh my God it was Movene Movene was the first synthetic dye because someone was trying to work on a synthetic version of quinine To treat Malaria Yep Yeah

To avoid Taxes All right Next thing Cheetos Cheetos Cheetos Cheetos

Oh wow Okay War Medicine or taxes Oh my gosh Man it could be anything I could In my head I could

I could paint a picture. All right. It could be anything. You can convince yourself of anything. Anything. Like they were trying to develop. It could be like the process of puffing corn or packaging. Like they're trying to develop an erectile dysfunction drug and they end up being a Cheeto, you know?

Yeah. I have put taxes. Oh, man. Because I feel like perhaps it's trying to get around taxes on potato chips or Something like that. Okay, okay. I put tax as well thinking that maybe it's like about the ingredients. A lot of food do fall into the taxes bucket.

But not this one. It is wartime. Oh. War time. Wartime Cheetos. How? Why? The quartermaster core, which is the military storage of all of their food,

including processed cheese powder. Oh, of course. Big hit. They put that in everything. And then when the war ended, they have tons of it. And so basically, the government was selling all the food surplus to different companies, including to Frito Lay. All these different food companies were able to buy from the American government all of this food stuff at a cheap, cheap, cheap price. Right.

Hilarious. And so with the extra cheese powder in 1948, Frito company debuted. America's first cheese powder snack, and that was the Cheeto. I love just the idea of sort of this top-down snack history, which is just, all right, people, I don't care what it is, but it's got to use cheese, okay? Like, I'm going to come back tomorrow. I need some ideas that use cheese powder. Also, highly recommend there is a book called Combat Ready Kitchen, how the U.S. military

shapes the way you eat. It is fascinating. I have not finished it, but I did. see this in the book. All right. Our next invention or thing, Braille, Braille, Braille. Braille, right. Yes.

Language system are legally impaired. Tactile system. I also learned that there are a lot of other languages for the visually impaired. Okay. Yeah. I've put together a plausible story for medicine. I put taxes. I really, I just really want it to be a complex tax avoidance scheme, you know, that somehow worked out good.

War time, war time. It makes sense. So an earlier version of Braille is tactile code. Now it's called night writing. That makes a lot of sense now, yeah. It does. Instead of Braille, which is letter-based, it's sound-based. And it's so that soldiers can pass these notes throughout the night without light.

They can read basically without sight at night. They can feel the pronunciation. That's very interesting. And that inspired Braille. All right. Our last thing here. Action figures. Action figures.

Wow. Huh. Okay. Action figures. All right. Okay. Chris. I put taxes on the last.

last two. I was wrong both times. I'm sticking with it. Taxes. I think it's, there might be something about sort of jointed dolls or mannequins versus toy soldiers or tin soldiers or, you know, something along those lines where you're getting around taxes for either the materials or the, the workmanship or whatever it is. Okay. Okay. Yeah, I put taxes as well, because I got to feel like there's a reason monetary that they moved from right other types of dolls and figures to action figures in particular ding ding ding ding ding ding it is taxes most toys are produced overseas and imported into america which means the u.s can impose import duty tax on all goods different things get taxed differently and so toys resembling humans aka dolls taxed at 12% of value and there is other

things that are not human or not dolls, including monsters or robots, taxed almost half at 6.8% of value. Marvel, who owns the company, the toy company, Toy Biz, were getting

their X-Men figures, their Spider-Man figures, and their fantastic four figures taxed as dolls, because they're based on humans. Marvel was arguing, like, actually, they're mutants and they're really humans and they have superpowers and hence

they're not really human-like like a doll. They're more toy-like or monster-like or mutant-like and let's try to get taxed in the cheaper bucket as toys, non-dolls. And they won. The court was like, you're correct. They are mutants and they're not humans and therefore they're not dolls. and therefore they don't get tax-like dolls. I love that there's the possibility that X-Men issues are being cited as evidence, you know,

and it's like, well, as you see in issue 99, clearly. The court says X-Men are not human, which is funny because that goes against the whole story of X-Men, but nowadays, there actually is no distinction, no more distinction now. Yeah, and that is my tax, medicine, or wartime. I like that. It's a really good three-way lens of viewing the world, right? Ever dreamed of traveling the world with your children without leaving your home? Tune in to Culture Kids podcast to embark on an incredible adventure right where you are.

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unimportant. I just wanted to say you are the most consistent podcast I've listened to in all my years. I've been with you for so long, waited through the hiatus, still going strong with a number of coworkers. as well listening to the podcast. It's one thing that that really brings us together at work is trivia. We do a daily movie trivia that I send out. It's my one night a year I get to go out and hang out with everybody is doing trivia. So you've definitely inspired me from the beginning all the way through. I'm listening through for the third or fourth time. Thank you so much. Talk to

later. Bye boy. Hi, lobe-trotters. My name is Kathy and I am a middle school teacher from Atlanta. I've been listening from the very beginning of your show. Back in the day when you guys had a meet up in San Francisco and a live recording, I actually flew out from Atlanta and met y'all in San Francisco in Tokyo, a little Tokyo. It was awesome. I've always, always kept trivia close to my heart. As a middle school teacher, I've coached the Academic Bowl team, which is Quiz Bowl in some places. I call it Jeopardy for Nerdy Adolescence. And now I'm actually a trivia host. around town in Atlanta. So thank you for being such an essential part of my trivia and curiosity-filled life. This is Heather from Arlington, Virginia, calling to wish you a very happy 300th episode.

As a longtime listener and lobe-trotter, I want to heartily thank you for thousands of hours of laughs and trivia and Pop Quiz Hot Shot and Carmen Sam Mateo and Beaver Butts. Thank you all of you guys. I hope for hundreds and hundreds of episodes more. My trivia ecosystem would not be the same without you. And we have one last quiz for our episode 300. Colin? Episode 300. We are looking back our first episode.

Do you guys remember when it was? I know you do, Karen, because you probably look at these dates. March 12th? March 18th, 2012. March 2012, March 2012 was our first episode. So we have come up with a lot of quiz formats since then, all of us. Some have showed up multiple times. Some are kind of one and done.

One of my personal favorite quiz formats, often imitated, never duplicated, is Brad Pitt or lasers. A quiz format, I've done several times where I would give you guys two notable things. people, places, and you've got to tell me which one came first. This is not another installment of Brad Pitt or Lasers. However, it is similar. It's a retro throwback. It is a retro throwback in that I have built a quiz around our inaugural year of 2012. Okay.

It's a big year for us. I'm going to give you guys here in a little twist several notable events or debuts. They all happened within a year or two before 2012 or within a year or two after 2012. You are going to tell me, did this notable event or happening or debut happen before 2012 or after 2012? That's it, all right? You will compete against each other. I will tell you the thing or the event. And you just tell me earlier than 2012 or later than 2012, all right?

Okay. The hit game, Minecraft. Oh, my God. Was Minecraft released prior to 2012 or after 2012? There is scarcely a person under the age of 25 in this country who is not no Minecraft. Answers up. You have both said before. You are both correct.

Yes, Minecraft officially released in November 2011. Oh, wow, did you know that for sure, sure? I knew for sure that it was before 2012, yeah. Although it was just slightly before. The Burj Khalifa, which is the world's tallest structure, was the Burj Khalifa completed before or after 2012? I have a story. I have my, I mean, I have my way of thinking.

Okay. Chris says after. Karen says before. Before is correct. Yes. Birch Caliphah construction completed in 2009. Well, we started this podcast. And so I remember we used that as our measure of like the tallest thing for a while.

That's right. And you, of course, probably know. What building did the Birch Caliphah surpass when it became the- Taipei 101? You got it. Taipei 101. I've been there, I have not been to the Birch Caliphah. Yeah, I've been to Taipei 101, yeah.

And that is tall. Tall. It is really tall. Disconcertingly tall. Pope Benedict became the first Pope to resign in several hundred years. When did Pope Benedict, Pope Benedict the 16th, I should add? When did Pope Benedict the 16th resign? Was that before 2012 or after 2012?

The first Pope to resign since 1415. Answers up. Maybe you remember what was going on. Okay. All right. Going way back for all of us here. Okay. Answers up.

Chris says after, Karen says after, you are both correct. Yes. Yes. His resignation was February 2013. He was, like, sick, right? You know, he, he was old and weary and, yeah, not in great health. He had finished his run. When did Snapchat launch?

Did Snapchat launch prior to 2012 and our great show, our humble show, or after 2012? Oh, man. Snapchat. I feel like that was later Oh All right All right We got a little divergence here

Karen says after Chris says before Chris is correct Snapchat launched September 2011 Yes Taylor Swift won the

Album of the Year Award for Fearless at the 52nd annual Grammy Awards Was that before 2012 or after 2012 Hold on

What year was this? Oh no You tell me You tell me So Flores was Her first Granny win How old was she was born in 1989

So even if it was 2012 Let me do some math here calculator Chris has his answer up So she would be 23 At 2012 But she has a song

called 22 that's okay all right I don't have anything that was happening in my life that I can hang this on because I was not actually paying attention but I feel like it's like she didn't win album of the year the year that random access memories came out because daft punk won and that was the whole there was whole thing that was red yep I love it I love the thought process and the window I feel like this would have been maybe even earlier than that so I'm just going to say All right. You have both answered before. You are both correct. Yes, this was in 2010 that she won for Album of the Year. One of the best-selling, longest-lasting video games of all time, Grand Theft Auto 5. When was this game released? You can still hop on and play this game tonight if you want to. You can. You can. Since he delayed Grand Theft Auto 6.

you're going to have to. Okay. GTA4 came out probably 2005. I don't think either of you guys needs any hints, but I can tell you the console if you want.

I know. Answers up. Chris says after. Karen says before it was indeed after. Grand Theft Auto 5 released September 2013 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Yep.

Okay, last one. I know you guys are big Royals fans. You can't get enough of the Royals. Baseball team? When was the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton? Ooh. When did that happen? Wall-to-wall TV coverage.

Oh, yeah, I like the way you're thinking. and how old are their kids and how long did they wait to have kids? That's right. Lewis, Charlotte. Uh-huh. Working from 2012, are we going earlier or later for the... I think later. Okay, you have both said after.

You are both incorrect. Yeah, this was older than I thought. They were married on Friday, the 29th of April 2011. All right, I can hardly believe the road we have traveled since 2012, all those events, some after her, some before, we got Grand Theft Auto, we got Taylor Swift, we got tall buildings, you name it. You guys did very well there. Thank you for taking that little trip with me. Woo! Yay!

And that is our Good Job Brain 300th show. Thank you all. Oh, actually, another special thing. Thank you, shout out to the real MVP's of Good Job Brain. I would say our spouses, our partners. A very big thank you to Regina, Betty, and Cameron for Friday nights taking care of the house with the kid. It wouldn't be possible without you guys helping us out. Thank you all for joining me and thank you listeners for listening in.

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I was there for the first episode, and I had many, many happy memories of listening to Good Job Brain, starting with my first generation iPod Shuffle. I'm old. I've since gotten married, moved to South America, and I've even been to the Salt Platts of a uni, and I thought of you guys. I just wanted to say congratulations on 300 episodes. I can't speak for everybody else that Good Job Brain has been a consistent source of joy and positivity in a world that feels like that's getting harder and harder to come by. Seeing a notification of the new episode feels like the podcast equivalent

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Back in 2012, I had one of those life-changing moments, a hit-and-run accident that left me with four prolost discs and a fractured caustic my fur back. My body was strong, but the sciatica pain was relentless. I couldn't sit down or lie down for more than 20 minutes. My solution, I walked and walk. Six, sometimes eight hours every evening, to tire myself out, and that's when I stumbled upon Good Job Brain. Now, I've always loved

trivia at runs in my family, so finding this podcast in 2014 was like striking gold. Suddenly, I had a walking companion. That was fun, smart, and gloriously nerdy. Since then, I've been through three back surgeries in 2015, 2018 and 2020, and every single time, Good Job Brain has been my lifeline. This lovely, brilliant, bright, brainy, bold, brisk, breezy, balanced, buoyant, bandless, bedazzled, bouquet of vesties carried me through pain. recovery and countless long walk. So for me, a huge thank you to the whole GJB crew and everyone who supports you behind the scenes, keep those good vibes coming. You're not just filling time, you're feeling live. I love you guys. Bye.

Hello, good job brain trivia mavens. This is William from Orange County, California, and I have a few different things to share after 300 episodes. So buckle up. Firstly, thank you all so much for the amount of time and care you put into the job brain. I know it's an enormous time commitment, so I will echo what others have shared that listening to you brings such a great level of joy to my life. Secondly, my brother and I have taken two long road trips and listened to you while traveling through 27 U.S. states, and it might be no surprise that based on the law of large numbers, we've had several moments of no way when you read a trivial pursuit question or tell us a story about something that we just saw or experienced on the trip. But the most memorable, because you helped us solve something in the moment, was while we were driving. through West Virginia in 2018. We were driving through rural areas and we're seeing

colorful square designs on the outside of barns. We didn't have any good cell phone reception to look up what they were and didn't really have a good understanding of what to even call it in the search. So now we're into the drive, you mentioned barn quilt squares and we both said, no way, and we're blown away to be in the middle of an experience, and thanks to this new trivia knowledge, learned about barn quilt trails throughout the rest to the trip. We saw and looked up as many barns wilt trails as we could. So thank you for being with us on our journey through more than half of the country. Next, I didn't realize that I bumped into Karen at a run Disney event or I first noticed her fun costume and then a few seconds into our chat

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