Good Job, Brain! - 308: Orange You Glad?

Episode Date: May 20, 2026

A-peel-ing trivia about orangey things! Do you love Panda Express' Orange Chicken too? Then take Karen's American Chinese food quiz. Chris gets puzzle-y in "A Clockwise Orange." Get the full heaping scoop on Gatorade and why it literally changed the game. How well do you know your famous tigers? 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. And oracles and organza organizing oranginas. Welcome to Good Job Brain, your weekly quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. This is episode 308. And of course, I'm your humble host, Karen. And we are your verifiably vivacious victors, voracious for vocabulary, Vuvuzales and Vivian Westwood. I'm Colin.

And I'm Chris. Not expecting the Vivian Westwood swerve at the end there. You caught me off guard. It seemed to have thrown you for a little bit of a loop there. Yeah. I do love a good orangina though, Karen. I have to tell you. I want to just, I mean, for my money, maybe, maybe the best soda.

Oh, okay. My favorite soda of all time, and I've shared this on the show, Michigan's own Vernors ginger ale. Also great. I think you and I have, yeah, yeah, agreed that we both love that. Yeah. It's the best soda. It's the best soda. Chris?

I'm thinking about it because I, kind of stopped drinking a lot of fizzy beverages. It's probably that stuff Beverly that you can get at Walt Disney World. No, that's a troll answer. That's a troll answer. No, it's great. Go try it. For listeners who don't know at Epcot at Walt Disney World in Orlando, there is like a Coca-Cola

Plaza. And the fun part is like you get to have samples like various other Coca-Cola sodas that they own around the world. And Beverly is, is I believe, in an Italian soda. It's like, it's like a, it's bitter. It's like an after-dinner drink sort of thing. Yes. It's like it's bitters. It's bitter. It's bitter. Tannic. I kind of like those. I do. I do kind of like those. I'm curious now. Do you guys remember how when we would play pub quiz at a lot of the pubs and bars, a lot of these places have like wacky and kooky signs and jokey little hands. And, painted sayings on the wall, right?

And I came across a story that tickled me so much because it's like, what if one of those signs like came back to bite the owner somehow? Here's a headline. I saw this reported a few places. There's a headline I want to share with you. Father 99 and son 80 feast on free oysters after cashing in on decades-old restaurant promise.

So here's the story. So this is about a restaurant in Mobile, Alabama, called Winsle's Oyster House. And this place has been there for decades and decades. And apparently the original owner, you know, was this larger than life personality, I guess. And one of the things that he liked to do is he would put up these joky, often hand-painted signs on the walls and things like that. And one of the signs that's been on the walls here at Winsle's Oyster House for decades says, free oysters to any man 80 years old

accompanied by his father and all right so now the Rush family okay dad Jim Rush and his his son Jimmy Rush since since

1972 have been plotting to come back and get their free oysters someday that like decades now in the making. The sign has been there. They would go to this place.

It's a family tradition. They would get the oysters. They saw the sign. And I think, you know, they're like, well, look, we're fairly close in age, right? They're 19 years apart, right? Big Jim was a young dad. So sure enough, just a couple weeks ago, Jimmy Rush turned 80 years old. And he and his dad rolled into Winsel's Oyster House.

They're like, we're here for our free oysters. And they cleaned up. They ate so many oysters. Now, the news coverage, like they got interviewed by multiple news outlets about this. It was just a great, great kind of feel-good fun story. They said that, like, you know, in the years leading up to this, they would call the restaurant periodically, like, do you still have this? Yeah, do you still have this offer? Is it still good?

They're like, has anyone ever claimed this offer? The restaurant says, no, nobody has ever claimed this offer. I saw an article on the CBC. They interviewed the current owner of Wenzels. And he said, you know, you got to remember, this is a long time ago. And people are living a little bit longer compared to when the original owner put the sign up. And he would never in a million years have to honor, yeah, pay off on an 80-year-old man and his dad rolling in to get their free oysters. But they did.

They did. And they're good for it. And I didn't even think about this, you know, once I got past the ha-ha. Can they go there the next day? Can they go there the next day? Karen, exactly right. Could they go there the day after? Could they go there any time that the restaurant said, yep, the restaurant said, yep, keep coming in.

As long as you, as long as your dad's with you, as long as you are here with your 99-year-old father, we will continue to grant you your free oysters. Yeah, it is nice. Yeah, the restaurant, I think, you know, realizing it would be pretty bad, PR maybe not to, not to grant. And how far away from this restaurant do they actually live? Well, so they used, yeah. So they used to live much closer. They now live in Florida.

Apparently, they travel to Winsles after Mardi Gras every year. So it's a bit of a family thing to go there. But yeah, now that they're in Jimmy's 80th year, they might be going a little more frequently. And as a footnote, almost to the story, they note that Jimmy has a younger brother, Carl, who turns 80 next year. And you better believe me that they're. planning to clean up again next year. Like they're having a party there. So, you know, I hope that big Jim

is still around to, at 100 to come in and celebrate his second sense. I know. Speaking of which, you remind me, I was in the legendary Tommy's joint in San Francisco back a few years back, sitting at the bar, eating my plate of,

you know, my half-brow plate of random meat and vegetables. And there was a sign behind the bar. And it was just the letters, the letters i i t y-y-w-y-y-y-a-d ha ha i know this one or behind you know this one yeah well i didn't know this one i was sitting there thinking about it thinking about it i'm like okay i have to be able to solve this and and i and i solved it sorry say it again sure sure sure just the letters on an engraved wooden sign very very visible behind the bar says i i i t y-y-w-w-w-y-w-y-

B-A-D or the letters on the sign. And I'm just thinking about it, thinking about it, thinking about it. And it did dawn on me. I did actually solve the puzzle. Okay, okay. So I'll give it to you. So Karen, you be the, you be me sitting at the bar and you can't figure it out and I'll be the bartender and I come over.

I'm like, hi, I'm the bartender. And you say, hi, bartender. What is the sign I-I-T-Y-W-Y-B-A-D mean? If I tell you, we buy a drink. Ah. Okay, sure, what does it mean? Yeah, exactly. Now, you get into a whole little like who's on first routine with the guy.

Yeah. I'll buy you two drinks. Just tell me. I remember seeing that with my family as a kid. We were out to eat at the legendary Trader Vix. Oh, yes. This is the one down south, I believe. And it was on a cocktail napkin.

And my mom and dad were just scrutinizing and scrutinize it. And they were. It was like, it was just like, I can. could see the waiter just, just, just so, just so happy. He knows it's coming. He sees my dad. Yeah, trying to figure it out. As I recall, there's was maybe slightly, it was like, if I tell you what it means, will you buy me a drink? So it was like, will you buy me a drink? Yes, yes, yes. That's great. Yeah. I heard, I mean, not to turn this into the dad joke hour, but I heard a great dad joke and I have to credit one of my daughters, many, like, YouTube,

shorts that she was watching. Here's the joke. Did you hear they stole the toilet out of the police station? No. No. Yeah, the cops have nothing to go on. Ah. Time to answer some trivia questions.

It's our first general trivia segment, pop quiz, hot shot. And here I have two random trivial pursuit cards. You guys have your. your barnyard buzzers, listeners, play along. Let's answer some questions now. First up, let's do chronological order of genus 2 and genus 4. Let's do 2 first. Here we go, Blue Edge for Geography.

What Southern State put, quote, first in freedom on its license plates? We talk about license plates a lot. We talk about states a lot. Yeah, we did. Yeah, we did. First in freedom. Chris. Virginia.

I was also going to guess Virginia in my head. Incorrect. North Carolina. North Carolina. Next question, here we go. Pink Wedge for Entertainment. How much money? How much money are Dumbo's ears insured for? In the movie?

I think so. Colin? I'm just going to say a million dollars. It is a million dollars. Yellow Wedge for history. What? British landmark was classed by U.S. customs officials as a large antique. Colin.

I'm going to guess that is when they imported London Bridge into Arizona, right? Yeah. Really? The old London Bridge, yes, which is now residing in great state of Arizona. Huh. I didn't know that. Yeah. So the original London Bridge, they shipped it.

Yeah, I believe they, you know, disassembled it. I don't think it was like, yeah. They IKEA it. Yeah, they IKEA did it. Yeah, sort of. Okay, good to know. This is Brown Wedge for Arts in Literature. What hanging art form did Alexander Calder invent?

Colin. The Mobile, as in Mobile, Alabama. The Mobile, Mobile. Not related to the city. Yes. Green Wedge Force. Science of Nature, what color is a painted bunting's head? I don't even know what that's asked.

Must be a bird? Like a painted or an animal, right? Certainly. Let's see. A painted buntings. I don't know. Take a guy at it, Chris. It is a bird.

Oh, it's cute. Okay. Red. Incorrect. I guess that would make it like a target. Hmm. The painted buntings. Blue.

It is blue. Okay. This bird looks like it was painted by a kindergartner. It's like all the colors. All right. Here we go. Last question on this card. Orange Wedge for Sports and Leisure.

How many letter cubes are there in a boggle game? Oh, my God. Not to be confused with Big Boggle. Oh, sure. Oh, okay. Colin, take a guess? 16. It is 16.

Four by four. Big boggle. I was going to guess it was 25. Yeah, it's five. by five. That's big boggle. Big boggle. All right. Next card, genus for blue edge for

people in places. What's the most populous African nation? Ooh. Good question. According to this genus four card. Yeah, let me just double check. Most populous. All right, Colin.

Nigeria. Correct. It's our part and it still is true. Nigeria. Okay, good to know. Based on 2025 estimates, yes, maybe up to 239 million. Number two is Ethiopia at 135 million. But yes, still true, Nigeria. All right, Pink Wedge, Arts and Entertainment.

What 1996 movie title came from a Louisiana prison guards cry as a convict is escorted to his execution? Chris. Dead man walking. Dead man walking. starring Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon, very good yellowed for history. Who was the first female Native American to appear on U.S. currency? Oh, I mean. Chris knows too much.

Yeah, I mean. Right, right? Colin. I'm going to go Joe Bloggs' answer, Sakhajuia. On U.S. currency? Yeah, not necessarily coin. Right, right, right, right. I'll say maybe Pocahontas showed up at some point.

It is Pocahontas. Yeah, Saccojuwea dollar might be more recent. Yeah, it was more salient for me. Does it give any more information? No, but I bet we can look at it. I guess we'll just never know. Unknowable. Pocahontas was the first real woman featured on U.S. paper currency

appearing on the reverse of the $20 national bank note from 1865 to 1869 and again in 1875. It's like a group scene. All right. Purple Wedge for Science in Nature. What barnyard animals fat was the main ingredient in explosives through World War II? Awesome. Okay. Chris?

Chicken. Oh, incorrect. Probably not. Colin? Pig. Pig. Pig. Green wedge for sports and leisure.

What NFL team won the most games? in the 1970s. Wow, 50 years ago. Was it the Pittsburgh Steelers? Incorrect. 49ers. The Dallas Cowboys. Good for them.

Good for them. And then last question, Pop Quiz Hot Shot. This is Wild Card, Orange Wedge. What Herman Melville book did one critic dub, Tragic Comic Bubble and Squeak? I can only name one. Yeah, Chris. Moby Dick or the whale.

Oh, yes, that's right. That's the title. Good one. Is that it? Yep. Great. Oh, it's that Herbunel. Moby-Dash Dick.

Yep. Good job. Oh, yeah. Oh, there is a hyphen. That's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yep, yep, yep. All right, this week's episode,

inspired by many dinners I had in the past week. I live close to a Panda Express. And I think I speak for most people in this world. The only thing you really want from Panda Express is they're delicious, succulent, crunchy, sticky, best dish on the menu, orange chicken. Who doesn't love orange chicken? It's so good. If you are going to get orange chicken, you should just get it from Panda Express because I feel like I have tried orange chicken at other. Chinese restaurants, you know what I mean?

And I've gone out there, searched the world for it. And even if everything else on the menu at this Chinese restaurant is better than everything else at Panda Express, which is often true. It's like the orange chicken. They absolutely nail it at Panda Express. It's the perfect balance of it doesn't have too much breading on it. The orange sauce that they have is delicious. And it's crunchy.

It stays crunchy. It stays crunchy. What are you going to not order it? I mean, come on. What are my two entries going to be? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Who am I kidding? Just give me double orange chicken.

I know what I want to want to want. Just give me double. Well, if when you get double sometimes, too, they put a little extra in the middle. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. If you get double. The bridge. Right.

So there's a reason to do it. But it's true. They nail every element of what makes orange chicken good orange chicken. So inspired by that, today's topic, we're going to talk about some orangy things. So this week. Aren't you glad I didn't say banana? Okay, I know you guys are not only huge sports fans, but in particular, you cannot get enough anecdotes about 1960s college football.

Am I right? Right, both of you guys? Listeners, they're nodding. They're nodding. So allow me to indulge you with a story about the 1967 Orange Bowl. What is the Orange Bowl? Do you want to take a real quick crack at explaining it? Not a quiz.

I'm just legitimately curious if you know what the orange bowl is. I know there's the Rose Bowl. Uh-huh. Yeah? Which is college football in California. So I would assume Orange Bowl is some sort of college football in Florida. Amazing and perfectly accurate. Yes.

The Orange Bowl is a yearly college football game in Florida and is actually one of the oldest original college bowl games. What is a bowl game? I'm going to give you the 10 second explanation for a non-sports fan here. I don't think I've ever asked myself that. Okay, all right. All you need to know about the bowl games in general is they are high profile end of year games. Okay, okay.

For most of their history, the bowl games were somewhere between regional promotion and a TV event and regional appeal. Why is it called bowl? It's really, right. So the original bowl game was the Rose Bowl game. And the name of it takes its name from the shape of the stadium. It is a bowl stadium. Got it. And a lot of the bowl games also shared the name with the stadium that they played in.

Again, this is not always the case anymore, but it was for a very long time. So, yeah, the Rose Bowl kind of set the template. So, right, the Orange Bowl. In 1967, the Orange Bowl was a solidly big-ticket game. And that year, following the 1966 season, the game featured the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, the number eight team in the country, and the University of Florida Gators, who were pretty good. They had an eight and two record. They had a star quarterback named Steve Spurrier. He won the Heisman trophy that year, a very prestigious award in college football given to the top player.

The interesting part for the purposes of our show. Oh, I know where you're going with this. This year, in the Orange Bowl, the Florida Gators had a not-so-secret weapon, and it was not quarterback Steve Spurrier. It was a somewhat humble lab-created beverage that came to be known as Gatorade, Gatorade, as in the Florida Gators. And you guys may have heard this as well. This is not some crazy trivia fact that Gatorade was named after the Florida Gators

and did come out of the University of Florida appropriate. invented there and it was crafted for the football team. And I knew that. They've incorporated that into their marketing over the years, too, you know, backed by science and, you know, like it makes it feel very believable like this sport drink. But it's all true. It really did come out of a university research lab intended to enhance athletic performance. But so I knew that. But I had no idea until I started looking into this a little bit, how stark a difference this, this fluid made for the team and how big a revolution it was just like in the world of sports period all right so early in the 1965 season one of the florida football assistant coaches uh called on dr robert kade who was a

kidney specialist at the university of florida college of medicine okay and this assistant coach a man named dwayne douglas who played for the gators himself he also played in the nflb professionally this was a football lifer. He went to Dr. Cade and he asked him a few questions. He basically asked him, why do our players lose so much weight during the games? He told Dr. Cade that he himself once lost 18 pounds in a football game. No.

Now, admittedly, football players may be larger than your average. 18 pounds is. 18 pounds. There's a lot. That's nuts. It is nuts. nuts. It is totally nuts. And a related question, how come our players don't have to pee, even if they're drinking water during the game? And they talked for a bit. They realized something

that seems like common sense today, like no duh, but like this was a breakthrough idea then. And that is the players were sweating so much. They were sweating out so much that they could not replenish it with water. It was not possible. They were losing electrolytes like sodium and potassium, and it was putting their systems out of whack. And this is why they were losing weight, mostly to water. It was like 90%, 95% of the weight they were losing was water weight. They were sweating all the fluid out. But they also weren't feeling like at peak performance because their systems were out of whack. So Kate and his team, they asked the head football coach, man named Ray Graves, if they could use some of his team's players as guinea pigs for an experiment on hydration.

And Coach Graves, to his credit, he said, yes. He's like, you can take some guys from the freshman team. You can monkey around with them and see what's going on. And sure enough, they found that the football routines these players were going through just took a ridiculous toll on their bodies. Low blood sugar, electrolytes out of whack, low plasma volume, low blood volume, Not great stuff. Like if you're trying to compete at a high level, especially down in Florida heat in humidity.

Wow. And so up until this point, it was just kind of like, oh, yeah, this is just what happens. Up until this point, it was three things. It was, this is just what happens, just tough it out and have some water. They just didn't know what to do. They were pushing the players so hard. So Kate and his team developed a concoction of water, salt, fructose, which is a sugar. And electrolytes, sodium.

citrate and monopatacetacium phosphates. And by all accounts, it tasted terrible. Just, just awful. Just simply terrible. They hadn't, they had not yet come up with Baja blast. Getting it out. No. No.

Yeah. I mean, that technology just wasn't there yet, Chris. They were, they were, they were, there's the building blocks of the industry. As with so many great invention stories, it was the inventor's spouse to the rest you, Cade's wife Mary suggested, why don't you add some lemon and some sweetener? Maybe you make it taste a little better, kind of more like a lemonade. So they did. According to the official University of Florida story, the first live test of this proto-gatorade, if you will, was in a scrimmage between the freshman team and the varsity B team. All right. So coach still was not

giving them like his A-level players, but he was like, all right, you can run a full-on test. And The B team started out ahead, the varsity B team, but after halftime, the freshman team ran away with it. They just, they kept up. They were scoring and scoring and scoring. They won showing the endurance and energy they needed and not sweating out their vitality. Yeah. So Cade said that Coach Graves came away from this scrimmage game, you know, pretty much sold. He asked, he asked if his team, Cade's team could whip up enough of this special sauce to supply.

to supply the entire team, the varsity team, in a game the next day. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Against Louisiana State, who was, by the way, the favorite, and by the way, it would be over 100 degrees. So they got in the lab. They whipped up as much as they could. They're getting, like, squeezing lemons like by hand. They're making the stuff come together.

Sure enough, Florida won that game. They came from behind to win that game as, you know, the LSU team was, kind of fading toward the end. Yeah, at this point, Cade and his team had like full license to work on perfecting this formula over the coming months, like as a bespoke. Good great project. Yeah, project for the football team. By the start of the 1966 season, the following year, they were stocking the team each game with with their, you know, with their formula. And what had been called up to now Cade's aid and Cades. I was going to say, I was going to say, I was going Knowing what you say, we know what the eventual name was.

And then you told us that the scientists who put it together, that his name was Cade. And I was really hoping that somebody was going to cotton on to that. Along the way, it was sort of referred to internally as Cade's aid and Cades Cola. Oh, okay. By the 66th season, though, it was now internally as well being called Gatorade. I mean, it's just such a great name. It's just named perfectly. So over the course of that 1966 college football season, the Florida Gators indeed developed a reputation as a second half team.

Like as the team that you can't count them out, like they're going to keep coming at you. You know, they're going to find ways to score all the way to the end. Oh, my God. And nobody knew at this point that it was the performance enhancing aid. Right, right. Word was maybe starting to get out over the course of this season. But, you know, it wasn't anywhere near the level of connectivity that college football teams have today. Let's get back to that Orange Bowl game.

All right. Would you guys like to guess who won that game? And in what fashion they won that game? I would say that the Florida Gators won the game and they come from behind victory. You're absolutely correct. That's right. Georgia Tech, although being favored, scored. They scored first.

They put up six points in the first. But then the Florida Gators put up seven in the second quarter. Seven more in the third quarter. 13 points in the fourth quarter. And they won the game, 27 to 12. After the game, as if to tie up the narrative and a very neat little bow here, the Georgia Tech head coach was quoted saying,

we didn't have Gatorade. That made the difference. Oh, wow. Slap it right on the bottle. Right on the bottle. Opposing coach. Right, right. And so this got picked up in the wire,

articles. It got picked up in news coverage. Not long after this, the NFL actually started engaging, yes, started engaging Cade and his team for Gatorade. So Robert Cade, a very smart man, obviously. Patent. Saw the potential as a commercial product for Gatorade in the wider world, like to pro teams and, you know, the consumer market. So he wisely patented the formula to Gatorade. And at first, he offered the rights to the university in exchange for them agreeing to back the product financially. And the university was lukewarm to this idea. They weren't really that interested. No, they were not interested.

And so Kate ended up signing a contract with the Stokely Van Camp. company. They produced Gatorade for a number of years. And it wasn't until the royalties from the sales started hitting significant levels that the university sort of had a change of mind and change of heart. And then all of a sudden they were like, oh, hey, oh, wait a minute. Now, this was sort of developed, you know, under the auspices of, you know, right. All of which is true, all of which is true. Right. Right. So eventually, some years later, they did settle. They negotiated a settlement. where the university would receive 20% of the royalty rights to Gatorade. That's a lot.

That is a lot. That is a lot. In fact, to date, the University of Florida has made hundreds of millions of dollars off of the Gatorade royalties. Wow. Yes. Yes. A cash cow, if you will, at only 20%.

So imagine how much Cade and, you know, his partners went on to make, which is a lot. In those early years, just to bring this all full circle. So Stokely Van Camp, they came out with the product, marketing it, drink of champions, right? The fact that the NFL now had endorsed it, like people were all in on Gatorade. After about a year, the original flavor was not doing so well. They introduced what would be the only two flavors of Gatorade for almost two decades. At the very beginning, it was lemon, lime, and orange, which is just a perfect, way to bring it back to the Orange Bowl coming out party, if you will, of Gator Aid.

When they were first coming up with the official product name to trademark, they were thinking maybe it's Gator-AID, like Gator Aid. Oh, like helping the Gators. Yeah, right. They were basically advised that they could not do that. The Food and Drug Administration told them essentially, if you have aid on the name like that, it implies that it like has some sort of medicinal use, you know, and you're going to need like clinical trials. And they're like, no, we're not interested in that.

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All right, everybody, I have a quiz. When you think of an orange animal, what's the first animal that comes to mind? They've got orange animals? Well, after the orange lobster, I would say tiger. Tigers, yes. Here I have a quiz, famous tigers. Nice. Tiger trivia, some possum tiger trivia. Where's my prop?

Props. She has props. I got props. All right. This is a buzz in quiz. Question one. Hodori, H-O-D-O-R-I, H-O-R-I, which translates to Tiger Boy, debuted in 1988 as the mascot of what? Oh.

1980. There's clues in the question. Hodori It's a Japanese product Or is it Something Oh Which translates to Tiger Boy

Uh huh debuted in 1988 As the mascot of what Hmm maybe it's not Well Chris is fluent in Japanese Yeah he would know Torah It's not Hadori

Right Okay Right 1988 88 Tiger Boy If you're stumped I have a prop here That might help you Okay

I'm gonna bring it to the camera list You can't see it, but someone might be able to describe it. Oh. It is a tiger wearing a hat and also the Olympic rings around his around a snake. 88 was Seoul. Is that right? Yes. Hedori is the mascot, official mascot of the Olympic Games, 1988 in Seoul, Korea.

And why do you have him? Well, I had a version of this growing up as a kid. My grandmother went to Korea during Olympics and then bought me a toy, and I lost it. And then just two days ago, I went through a thrift shop. And I saw this. It's the same exact, the same style. Oh, my God. And I couldn't believe it.

I couldn't. I was like, we're buying this. You're like, I don't care what this cost. It is my childhood. But yes, Hedorey. Tiger Boy is one of the best $200 that I respect. Yeah. And funny enough, my daughter was with me.

She saw it. She's like, wow, I'm going to call you Tiger Boy. And we're like, wow, what a lame name. And then I looked it up and I was like, oh, it translates to Tiger Boy. Wow. All right. Next question. Next famous tiger in 2016.

Disney's live action remake of the Jungle Book, Bill Murray voiced Ballou, Scarlett Johansson voiced cock, his name. Christopher Walken voiced King Louis. And what British actor voiced the Tiger villain, Shire Khan? Um. You might know him better as Stringer Bell. Oh. Colin?

It's Idris Elba. Who is Idris Elba? Correct. Sheer Khan. A tiger. Next question. The children TV show character, Daniel Tiger. is the spiritual successor of whom?

Chris? Mr. Rogers. Mr. Rogers, yes. Debuted three years after Mr. Rogers' Fred Rogers' death. His legacy lives on with Daniel Tiger. Yep. My daughter watched that one for a while when she was that age. When my son was watching Daniel Tiger when he was, yeah, like three years old or whatever,

the lesson that he took from it is that if you sing it in a two-line couplet, it becomes true. because all the episodes of the show and we also had this app that was like about like learning when to you know go to the bathroom like and so it's like if you have to go potty stop and go right away that's also burned into all of our brains by the way because that app

but like there was at one point where I'm just like it's it's time to go to bed you have to turn off the TV now and he goes but if you have trouble watch another video and I'm like I'm like Nope, that's not what the Daniel Tiger sings.

That's not how any of this works. Very, very good try, though. I really appreciated it. All right. Next tiger question. Tony the Tiger famously is the mascot for Frosted Flakes. It turns out we learned from Colin that Tony the Tiger has a whole family. Yeah.

Frosted Flakes are known as what in Europe and in most commonwealth countries? Oh. What is the product name of Frosted Flakes in America? I knew this. Chris. Is it sugar frosted flakes? No. No.

It's shorter. It's a shorter, punchier name. Oh, my gosh. What do they call it? I'm so mad at myself. In Japan, too. Frosties? Frosties.

Yes. Frosties. Frosties. It is punchier. Have to have to admit. Yeah. Speaking of college football, there are. five major college football teams that all have tiger mascots. I would say LSU Tigers is probably

the most famous. Can you name me one other? I can. You can? I can. Okay, Chris, go for it. Clemson. Yes. Yeah. We also have Auburn University. Clemson, LSU, Memphis Tigers, and Missouri Tigers. So University of Memphis, University of Missouri. Four of those five schools actually banded together to create a Voltron into a super tiger unit known as Tigers United University Consortium. No. And they're partnering together dedicated to actually saving wild tigers worldwide through research and through conservation, through education. So yes, four of the five tiger universities have banded together. Yes, I was to say they came into a pack,

but tigers aren't really pack animals. So, but anyways, all right, next question. Buzz and if you know the answer, Richard Parker is the name of the tiger from what beloved book? Richard Parker? Actual tiger in the book. An actual tiger.

Colin. Is it life of pie? It is life of pie. Wow. Okay. Good job. Next question in the comic strip, Calvin and Hobbs. Calvin is the boy. Hobbs is the tiger. Yes.

Who are the titular characters named after? Oh, please. Oh, boy. So I give you 50% of the answer. Is John Calvin? John Calvin. Ding, ding, ding. And is it Martin Lewis?

Hobbs. Theodore? Thomas. Thomas. John Calvin, Thomas Hobbes. Philosophers. Next question. One of the most famous songs of the 80s and one of the most famous movie songs in cinematic history is, of course, I have the Tiger by Survivor as featured in Rocky 3.

Sylvester Stallone, the star and director of Rocky 3, had commissioned the song only after what famous British band? and denied him the permission to use one of their sporty rock anthems. Oh, oh. Chris? Queen? It is queen. Sylvester Stallone wanted another one bites the dust. So bad to be used in Rocky 3, and he asked, and they denied him, they said no.

Interesting. And so he went to go, he asked Survivor to write Eye of the Tiger. And turns out I-Tiger became a huge hit. Oh, yeah. It was like the best scenario, right? It became a huge hit on its own right. And it's just indelibly tied with that movie. With sports.

Yeah, yeah. I mean, even today you go to any games, they're going to play Eye of the Tiger. Yeah. Last question here about fictional tigers. The wonderful thing about Tiggers is Tiggers are wonderful things. Their tops are made of what. Their bottoms are made of spring. Oh, my God.

The wonderful thing about Tiggers is Tiggers are wonderful things. Their tops are made out of what? Their bottoms are made of springs. Chris? Rubber? Yes, it is rubber. Okay, okay. Yeah, right in the cadence there.

Good, good job. Good job, Brains. All right, listen, listen. Oh, geez. I worked for a long time on this, and this might, you might solve this very quickly, like proportionate to the time it spent for. me to work this all out, but we're doing it anyway. Might not work, but we're doing it anyway. Live beta testing. Let's try it out. I want you to get your writing implements and something

to write upon. This could be Karen's whiteboard that she sometimes uses or just a pen and a piece of paper. If you're out there in podcast land and you're able, if you're sitting down or if you've got a pen and paper and you want to do some write down with us, go ahead. If you're, if you're not hopefully this will be entertaining for you anyway. I got orange marker. Oh, okay. Oh, style points. You were just back there just like, you know, digging up the whole house.

Okay, so you have your, oh, you have like a, you're an art sketchbook and an orange marker. Yes, yes. Well, that's fantastic for you because what I want you both to do on your piece of paper is I want you to write the word orange, but I want you to write it in a circle, starting with the O at 12, o'clock and then going clockwise the end will be at six o'clock, okay? And leave space between the letters, right

at big and leave space between the letters. All right. Now show me, just to make sure we did this correctly. I'll show you what I have. Looks like this. Yep, yep, yep. Okay, good, good, good. That all looks good. What you have here is the title of this game, which is

a clockwise orange. Now we're going to play clockwise orange. I'm going to give you some clues and the answer to each of these clues is a word that you will be able to find in the circular orange if you insert one more letter into the six spaces between these letters. So imagine that there's six spaces here on the board too. There's a space between the O and the R between the R and the A, et cetera, right? Got it. Six spaces. I'm going to, I'm going to give you a clue, and the answer to that clue is a word that you'll be able to find in this if you put one letter into one of those six spaces. Okay. When you put it in, you're going to leave it in. Okay. Now, when you think, so if just were a piece of a clock, O is 12 o'clock. Yes. If we go clockwise, one o'clock, one o'clock is blank, two o'clock is R, three o'clock is blank, four o'clock is A, five o'clock is blank, six o'clock is N, seven o'clock is blank, eight o'clock is G. 9 o'clock is blank 10 o'clock is e 11 o'clock is blank correct now the words that you can find

they might go clockwise or they might go counterclockwise okay so just know that now here's the here's the thing oh geez okay once a new letter is in the space that letter becomes part of the game so if you're finding where to trying to find the word and you're trying to place in a new letter you have to take the letters that you've already placed into account as well. Okay? All right. So I'll give you, I'll give you the first one. Now, when you think you know the word for this, so people can play along at home, and before

you write anything in, I want you to, I want you to buzz in with your answer. Got it. Okay. So I'll give you the first clue. Word meaning receive or understand. Okay, so they go in the rim. They go in, they have to go into the rim and you read around the rim. So you're not going back and forth and all around or whatever.

Am I using all letters? No. It's a word that you'll be able to find somewhere in this circle. Okay. If you put a letter in, yes. A word meaning to receive or to understand. Okay. Oh, oh.

Karen. Get. It is get. Ah, so you put the T between the E and the O in that case. So go ahead and do that. Got it. Okay. There you go.

All right. Correct. All right. Next. One of the four classical elements. Four classical. Oh. Buzz in?

Is it air? It's air. Oh, I see. I can go counterclockwise. You can go clockwise or counterclockwise, as they said. Yes, yes, yes. It is air. We're going to put an eye between the A and the R, the R and the A.

Put an eye at three o'clock. Okay. First name of a Ghostbuster. Uh, Colin. Egon. Yes. Put in an O at 7 o at 7 o'clock.

Egon Spangler. Mm-hmm. Okay. Two kings, for example. Karen. Pair. Pair. Ah, nice.

Pair. P. He is. at 5 o'clock. Yes. He at 5. Place to sleep. Oh. Karen.

Caught. C at 1 o'clock? Yep. C at 1 o'clock. Nice. Giant monster. Colin. Oger. Oger. Oh, I see.

Put an R at 9 o'clock. All right. Who wants to solve the puzzle. What? That's not, okay. Let's see here. All right, I'm looking at the new letters we added. Uh-huh.

Oh. Karen. Tropic. Tropic. Going around the other way. That's nice. As you can see, it took me a really long time to do it. Yeah.

Probably because I wasn't really sure what I was doing at first. But you're like, I have the word orange and I have a clock because clockwork orange. Uh-huh. Yeah. I can force something here. I can do something with this. I don't know what. A clockwise orange.

I like it. A clockwise orange. I can see how this could be a new kind of puzzle. This could be a, yeah, this could be like a pen and paper or puzzle type thing. Like a highlights magazine. Yep, yep, yep. Wow. And then you, you spelled something with the letters too.

That's hard. That I felt was that I felt was very important. that the two of them be themed. I love it. I love you. You're pioneering new formats here. It's great. Thanks.

Thanks. Thank for, thank for guinea-pigging it. Yes. All right, I got our last segment here. And of course, early in the show I shared about, well,

we all shared our love for orange chicken. So here I have a segment quiz dedicated to orange chicken. Oh, great. Orange chicken developed by Pan Express in 1987. debuted in Hawaii, which is there. Panda Express's first restaurant outside of California.

Oh, really? Yeah. So Panda Express, quick history, Pan Express did exist as an actual Chinese restaurant. It wasn't called Pan Express. And it wasn't until like the 80s where they did branch out and have kind of like this fast food Chinese mall locations. Yeah. Mostly in California. And the first Pan Express that opened outside of California was in,

Hawaii at Alamawana Center in Honolulu. Oh, hey. Yep. 1887. Wow. Actually, earlier versions of orange chicken, it was not like the fried chicken nuggets we know today. It was mostly chopped chicken bits, so it did have bone. Now, here's my question.

Is there actual orange in orange chicken? Wow. this is like when I asked there was pumpkin and pumpkin spice latte. I have certainly had orange chicken at other restaurants in which there are literally orange peels. You know what I mean inside? In that case, there are, is there actual orange in the orange sauce? I think that there is because when we buy it at the, like, when you buy a bottle of Panda Express sauce, like, it says like orange sauce, you know? doesn't say like orange flavored.

You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel like if you're saying, if it's put so simply and it's called like orange chicken, I think that like, yeah, I think there is. Hmm. Just because the way you ask the question, I'm going to say no. There is orange oil in orange chicken, fresh orange oil.

So yes, yes, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It is orange oil from the peels that is in orange chicken. Okay. Pan Express and orange chicken. is what we call American Chinese food. And this is my quiz. Here I have a list of some favorite dishes you might find at a Chinese restaurant or an American Chinese restaurant or at Panda Express.

And you have to tell me, is this American Chinese? Or is this Chinese? Is this something that was invented in America? Or is this something historically came from a Chinese restaurant? of people. All right. All right. Talk it out. Let me know. Maybe there's a wild card in there and it's neither. All right. Here we go. Third option. Third option. Chow main. Chow main, which is noodles. You get that as a main side at Penn Express. Stir fry noodles. Chow main is what do you think? I'm going to say that that dish broadly is a is a historic traditional dish. Chinese Chinese

spoon. Ding-de-d-ding it is. Chau-Main literally translates to stir-fried noodles. Chow-Main. All right. Next one. Crab-Rang-Goon. Crab-Rand-Goon. That is very American. Got to be. Delicious fried, stuffed wanton. Yeah. With cream cheese and imitation crab. I believe that was invented by Trader Vicks. Yes. Cream cheese and imitation crab. Not really a traditionally found in Chinese cuisine. A couple of years ago, we did a Feast of the Seven Fishes and I made Crab Rangoon. Man, it came out great.

I'm going to tell you, my first time ever making it, it was fantastic. What is up with a combination of imitation crab and cream cheese? And cream cheese. It just, it works so well. And I did make sure to use imitation crab. Very important. Yep, because it's sweet and then it holds its texture. And that's the thing.

So, yeah, the recipe you use, it's like it's got, it's got, sugar in it, you know what I mean? It's just, it's so... And you dip it in more sugar sauce? And you dip it in more sugar. Yeah. All right. Next on the menu, Kung Pow chicken.

Oh. Kong Pow chicken. I believe that is traditional. I will go, I'll go, yeah. Yes, I'll go China, China. Kung Pow chicken is stir-fried chicken, usually in brown sauce with dry chilies, big dry chilies that are kind of cut up into pieces. Chinese Chinese, traditional Chinese.

Yeah. Do you eat the peppers? You can. You don't have to. It's a little tough. It's a little tough. Yeah, they're like hollow tubes. Yeah.

And usually get some peanuts in there too. All right. You guys are acing it so far. All right. Next on the menu, broccoli beef. Broccoli beef. Very common. Oh, boy.

So now, I mean, I've eaten enough Chinese food to know that, you know, what we call broccoli beef at most places here, Like we have what's American broccoli. So like I'm thinking that this is maybe Karen's little trick here that like, oh, no, it's not because we have American broccoli. I'm going to say not. I'm going to say it's an American invention. Interesting. Colin nailed it.

I personally categorize it as Chinese because there is a dish called broccoli beef. But Colin is right. The broccoli in traditional broccoli beef is Chinese broccoli, which is kind of a different vegetable. Right. It doesn't have like all the flower bits and then in American broccoli beef, very similar sauce, very similar preparation. It just uses Western broccoli, which is the florets with the flowers. All right. Fortune cookie.

I think I think this is maybe Karen's like tricky third grade. Yeah. I think that's a, I thought the fortune cookie was actually a Japanese American adventure. Yeah. I'm with Chris on that one. I think it was invented in America. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Can't get past you guys.

Also mentioned in a very early episode of Good Job Brain. Yes, invented in America. Mm. Next on the menu is lemon chicken. Lemon chicken. Oh, lemon chicken. Getting all these citrus chickens. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Lemon chicken. Oh, man, I remember this one, like, way back as a kid even going to American Chinese restaurants. It's like kind of a clear sauce. Yeah. Right, right, right. And it has like sort of analogs in like other cuisines too, right? Like, you know, like chicken picata, you know what I mean?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm going to, I'll say lemon chicken. I'm going to go Chinese Chinese. I'll ride with you as well on that. Yes, you got it. Lemon chicken is Chinese Chinese. Yeah, funny how orange chicken is not really Chinese. The lemon chicken is.

Next up, a favorite sweet and sour pork. Sweet and sour pork. Oh. Yeah, again, that's so, it's so, it's such an older dish that I feel like it probably has its origins in Chinese cuisine. Yeah, I'm going to, I'm going to say the same thing, but I can see that like they really ramp up the sweetness maybe for American. Yeah, exactly. Like it does sort of seem like American taste. However, probably one of those things where it's like maybe the dish is different, but I'm still going to go with sweet and sour pork being something that originates from like mainland Chinese food.

Me too, me too. You are correct. Sweet and sour pork literally translate to sugar and vinegar pork. Oh, sure. Traditional Chinese. And you know what? Not that different. Not that different.

Next up, egg fu young. Egg fuyang. What is it? It's kind of like an omelet. Yeah. I think this is an American one. I think this is an American one. I'll kind of split here and I'll go, I'll go Chinese, Chinese, traditional Chinese.

It is Chinese, a couple of different omelet items. Yes, egg foyang is Chinese. But the St. Paul sandwich is American Chinese, which is egg fiyang between two slices of bread. and that's called a St. Paul sandwich. Hmm. Oh, one of my favorites, Chinese chicken salad. Chinese chicken salad. Oh, come on.

That just feels so American. I think that was invented by McDonald's. I'll go, well, I don't know. I don't know. Can you describe Chinese chicken salad to us? Yes, has pieces of chicken served cold with shredded veg like cabbage, carrots, usually with peanuts, cilantro, in a kind of a sesame oil sauce tossed together.

It's delicious. It's one of my favorites. I'm going to say American. It is American. American Chinese is invented in Hollywood and a trendy restaurant in the Golden Age of Hollywood. And we have last on the list, General Toast Chicken. Yeah.

American, American. I'm going to go the other way with you. to go the other way and say that I feel like this one does have it have it some roots like like the the dish named after the general and let's say it's got traditional roots I think everything has some kind of roots you know what I mean like it came from somewhere all right all right fundamentally I mean I think the the first time somebody served the dish called general so's chicken that was chicken nuggets that were you know breaded and soft like that was that that is the quintessential I think American Chinese

All right, all right. General Toe, real Chinese person, real general, but General Toe's chicken is American invention. And there you have our American Chinese food feast. I'm so hungry right now. Yeah, I got some leftover orange chicken. All right, and that is our show. Aren't you glad you stuck with us?

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