Good Job, Brain! - 310: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #62

Episode Date: June 16, 2026

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You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Thinkable Bantam Wave Bander Snatches brandishing bandleers from Bandy Wallup. Welcome to Good Job, Rain, your weekly quiz show and Offbeat Trivia podcast. This is episode 310. And of course, I'm your humble host, Karen. And we are your naturally knavish narrators of knowledge about narwhals. I'm Colin. And I'm Chris.

What do you got about narwhals, Karen? You got anything? They got a horn. Yep. Okay. And their horn. Yes. Is actually a tooth.

Oh. Okay. There we go. Yeah. Yeah. Got the payoff. There's a crazy tooth that busts out. Well, everybody, it's good job brain.

And I got to share something, what I call the good job brain effect. Oh, yeah. A good job brain effect. Love it. It's something that we've discussed or learned about on the show. and now I can't unsee it. I can't unhear it. I cannot uncouple myself from it.

And for this one, it's all thanks to Colin. I cannot not look at license plates now when I'm sitting in the passenger seat. It's almost a plague. So there's obviously a lot of really cool, colorful license plate trivia that we've done on the show, state mottos, state imagery.

Colin, you had a quiz specifically about specialty plates. Yes. Not custom plates where you can like spell funny words with numbers and letters, like specialty government, state sanctioned specialty plates, which is like a different version or a different art. I mean, you know, there's been a proliferation of them too in recent years. And these are very often special interests or environmental causes, you know, universities or historical locations within the state.

and they'll issue a plate that also raises funds for some cause or some organization. And after that quiz, I would see them everywhere. The veil has been lifted. We see so many. It's almost like a game when we're out in the car. Be like, ooh, are we going to see any specialty plates today? That's great. I want to share a news article here from the Seattle Times.

I live in Washington State now. title, Washington drivers drop nearly $6 million on special plates. Yes, recently legislature approved a bunch of new specialty designs. Washington has a lot. There's pickleball. There's, you know, the Seattle Seahawks and there's Cracken, there's Bees. And so they did a data story about the most popular and the least popular specialty plates. Number one for the state of Washington is not a sports team.

It is Washington State University. Not even University of Washington, Washington, Washington State University, by far. 24,000 vehicles. That's really interesting. Versus the least popular is Square Dancer with five. Not five thousand. Five vehicles. All right.

Let's jump in to our first. general trivia segment, pop quiz, hot shot. Let's answer some questions. Chris versus Colin, you guys got your barnyard buzzers here. I have two random Trivial Pursuit cards. We got Genus 4 and R&R singles. Here you go. Let's do genus 4 first.

First question, Blue Wedge. What city is called the Pearl of the Adriatic? Oh, boy. I don't know. I've heard that before, but yeah? I recall the city. I have heard the pearl of the Adriatic. All right.

I get my. Oh my gosh. I'm mixed up. I just know that's terrain. Yeah. This is where like in public quiz we turn to you, Karen. And like you'll draw your little map. Chris.

Athens? No. Oh, close. Kind of. Kind of close. They're all in that area. Yeah. Not in Greece.

It's Venice. Ah. Okay. Okay. of the Adriatic. Okay, file that one away. Pink Wedge for Arts and Entertainment. Whose Gangus Khan did the L.A. Times call

history's most improbable piece of casting unless Mickey Rooney were to play Jesus. Wow, it could be anybody. Colin? Charlton Heston. Close. It really happened. It was John Wayne.

Oh, Mr. Cowboy. John Wayne with some manicured eyebrows and a food and chew beard called the Conqueror with the greatest of cultural sensitivities. Yes.

Yellow Wedge for history what were Texas prisoners able to do legally for the last time on February 28th 1995 last day of February all right Colin vote

no Chris Drink alcohol. You're close. Smoke. Oh, okay. Purple Wedge, Science and Nature, what powered a Philadelphia fire engine

for the last time on New Year's Eve in 1927? Chris. Steam! Incorrect, call it. What was the year again? What was the date? What powered a Philadelphia fire engine for the last? last time.

Was this a woodburning vehicle? Is it one or more horses? It's horses. Horses. Yes. Oh, we're good. Wood fire. Yeah.

Greenwich for sports and leisure. Who earned $32 million of his $36 million, $1993 earnings from endorsements? 1990. Oh, okay. I know. Yeah. Chris.

Oh, I guess. I can take a chance at the sports question. All right. Take a stab at it. 1993. I believe in you, Chris. I believe in you, too. I believe I can fly.

Michael Jordan. Yes. Yes. He plays basketball. Yep. Yeah, I believe. Space jam in there. That's great.

All right. Orange Wedge Wildcard. What occupation has the appropriate anagram moon stareer? Wow. That's good. Astronomer. Astronomer. Astronomer.

Very good. Moonsterer. That's good. I like news. All right. Good job. Next card. R&R singles.

Blue Wedge. Holy crap. Who was the first Latino to be named a World Series MVP in 1971? If you remember precisely in the last segment of the last episode, I had a segment. And I said, if anything comes out of this, I will know who. won the World Series in 1971. That's right. And it was the Pittsburgh Pirates, right?

Yes. Yes. All right. Roberto Clemente. Yes. Wow. What are the chances? Pretty low.

That's... Again, good job brain effect, right, Karen? I mean... Whoa. Wow. Okay. Pink Wedge, What race car star hit 110 miles per hour

driving the Wiener Mobile at the indie track. Oh man, I wonder what year, yeah. What race car star hit 110 miles per hour driving the Wiener Mobile at the indie track? I don't know, Dale Earnhardt, Jr. There is a junior in this name, but it's not. But it's not that. Okay.

Ricky Bobby. Oh, man. Oh, Al Unserr. Oh, Al Unserr Jr. Okay. Yeah. All right. They've all got video games.

Oh, really? Yeah. Uh, Yellow Wedge. What bistro serving Addie's cookies and Kaya's scones has special seating for dolls? What, what bistro? Oh. Chris. I mean, what, like the American Girl Bistro?

Oh, okay. American Girl Cafe. Well, that's not a bistro. Is it a cafe or a bistro? Come on. Come on. Say your story straight. What's the difference?

It's a brossary, actually. It's a. Bestro is outside. Bistro is a, because they have like different classifications of like, you know, restaurant, you know, of different places to eat in Europe, you know? So it's like, it's not fancy. Like a bistro is like, just like a restaurant, like a regular, go in your casual clothes, eat your food restaurant.

American girl. So is a bistro. Genis, too. Yeah. I would give that one to me. Yes. Yeah, I would do. Purple Wedge.

What fruity malt liquors got Anheiser Bush in trouble for their underage appeal? Ooh. Oh. Never heard of this. Yes. Oh, my gosh. No, I remember these. What was it?

Oh, gosh. I'm so mad with myself when you say it. It's not Zima, right? Like, that was something else. Zima did not appeal to anyone. No, these were like actually fruity. We were adults, but I mean, we were, sorry, we were adults. We were old adults when this happened.

Oh, okay, okay, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, I vaguely remember this, but I couldn't tell you. What was it, Karen? I'm so mad. Spike. Yes, spiked. With the why.

Okay. Spikes. Oh, well, that, of course. Green Wedge, who. What was Martin Luther King's room number at the ill-fated Lorraine Hotel in Memphis? We have had this. Yeah, we have. I think we had the Lorraine Hotel.

I don't think we had. The Lorraine Hotel is 306. That's it. 306. Last question for Popkis Hotchot, Orange Wedge. What's the name of Tori Spelling's hip bed and breakfast north of San Diego? Come on. All right.

Chris. No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no. I have an answer. Okay, okay. I'm sure you have an answer. I do. It's Tori sleeping.

Oh, you know why? Okay, okay, okay. This Tori's Bailey had a reality show running the inn or starting the inn. That's why. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's why you might know this, right? Yes, yes, yes.

And as of 2008, looks like it is no more. Yeah. It is called Chateau LaRue. Okay. Chateau the street. What was the show called? In love. In I and N.

I and in love. I get it. My gosh. Okay. Man. Man. Boy, just a moment in pop culture time there. All right.

Well, this week's episode number 310, 310. Longtime listeners of the show know that usually an episode of Good Job, We have a topic or a theme and we make quizzes and segments all about that theme. But every fifth episode that goes out the door, it's all quiz. We've all prepared our own games and quizzes to stump each other and stump you guys, listeners. So this week, it's our All Quiz Bonanza number 62. I'll start us off here for All Quiz Bonanza. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I was recently in Tempe, Arizona. was my first time there. I don't know if you guys have been there. Oh, that's how you're supposed to pronounce it? Yes, as I like to do whenever I visit a new city, I will, typically on the first night that I'm there, you know, in my hotel bed, I will fire up the Wikipedia page for the city that I am in and I will go to town and just see where the adventure takes me. Oh, my gosh.

So among the things that I learned is, yes, it's Tempe. It's not Tempe. It's not Tempe. And I learned many interesting things about the city, including the origin of the city's name. which inspired me to put together a quiz for you guys all about U.S. city namesakes. Okay. The people, the places, the things that famous,

maybe some less famous U.S. cities are named after, all right? Oh, okay. U.S. cities all over the map. I mean, literally, but also, you know, figuratively speaking, in terms of where they get their names. So I pulled together some of the more interesting to me ones. I hope they are interesting to you. In any case, I think these are all very valuable bits of trivia to file away. So let's do this. I'm very confident because I do the same thing to you.

Oh boy. I fire up the Wikipedia entry from when I travel. I don't do it before I get there. I mean, to be clear, like, it's a thing I do. I love. I'm like, I'm again, laying down that first night of sleep, I'm like, ah, let me learn about the place I just arrived. Yes. Yes. Wow, a high murder rate. Oh, this very hotel, you don't say. All right, right. All right. Let's do this as a write-down quiz.

Let's get out a writing implement and something to write down. You reminded me in the fact that when we stayed in Seattle, there was a 13th floor in the hotel, and we were on it. You were like, they're on the 13th floor. It's like, there's a 13th floor in this hotel. I mean, typically they don't do that, you know? We get in the elevator and the, you know, there's a, you know, there's a 13th floor. guy in the elevator already. It's like, what floor? I'm like 13. It's like, there's a, you're on the 13th floor. Well, nice knowing you. I'm like, yeah. Good luck,

buddy. Like we there's no 13th floor. We met a guy who was going there. What? He died 20 years ago. This very night. Yes. And our work has a floor 13. Well, hotels. People don't want to stay on the 13th floor of a hotel. Okay. Right. I've stayed in some hotels before, maybe a little older ones. Yeah, that didn't have a, yeah. I wonder, hold on. I wonder if they discount it. No, what do you mean? No. They just don't want to do it.

Why would you do that when you could just not have a 13th floor? Why don't they just change the floor numbers on the, like, they do? Oh, okay. No, no, I'm not saying there's like a gap. Yeah, yeah. The elevator just passes through nothing. Full furnish rooms that don't run out. They call the 13th floor, floor 14 and so on.

We clean them every day. Yeah, they changed the, yeah, changing the, sheets every day. That's like that's so wasteful. Yeah. Okay, here we go. We'll start it off here.

I'm going to get right into it. The cities of Tempe, Arizona, and Ithaca, New York are both named after classic places in what modern day country.

I'm going to give you a little lifeline here on this one. Tempe, Arizona, Ithaca, New York, both named after classic places. You don't need to give us clues. Oh, you don't want to warm you up. up here a little bit. Okay. Maybe you. I don't know.

Answers up. You have both said the correct answer. It is Greece. Yes. Ithaca, of course, as you classical literature fans may remember, named after the island of Ithaca, home of Odysseus from Homer's Odyssey. And as for Tempe, I learned, I learned that in the early days of the city, one of the pioneers suggested they named the city after the Vale of Tempe near Mount Olympus in Greece. And the Vale of Tempe is a grand, you know, Gorge Valley area, VALE, the Vale of Tempe. And I learned it was an allusion to a place in Greece.

Hmm. The small, yeah, I'm gonna try and give you guys, you know, not too many softballs, but not too many crazy hard ones here. Here we go. The small town of Elsinore, Utah, under 1,000 residents, takes its name from Cronberg Castle, more famously known as Elsinor in what Shakespeare play. Oh, okay. It's the one that I'm sure happens in a castle, so.

Okay, all right, trust your gut. Karen says Hamlet, Chris says Hamlet. You both got it, that's right, yes. As seen in Hamlet. The person who named the city just really like Shakespeare? So this town, this area in Utah was originally settled by Danish. Oh. Danish origin Mormon converts.

And so, yeah, they were, you know, yeah, slip it in a little reference, right? Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. All right. Moving on to a slightly bigger city here from Elsinor, Utah to Memphis, Tennessee. Memphis, a very lively, fun city. Memphis is named after the ancient capital of what country?

Memphis, Tennessee. And if you know, if you know some of the, yes, the country, the country, modern day country, but it has been, it is a little clue there. It's, it's been around for a while, the ancient capital of what modern day country. If you know anything about some of Memphis landmarks, this might clue you to the answer. All right, answers up. Chris, Chris says Italy. Karen, Karen has the answer with Egypt. Yes, Egypt.

That's right. Yeah, Memphis, the ancient capital there on the Nile. Right. What the Greeks called it, called the city of Memphis, right? And there is a famous pyramid, of course, in Memphis was what I was trying to allude to. Karen didn't need the hint. All right. Likely famous to most Americans as the home of the pro football hall of fame, also called

the birthplace of the end. NFL. I am talking about Canton, Ohio. Canton, Ohio, named after a city in what country? The city now goes by a different name. Okay, okay. If that helps you. I'm going to go on a limb here. Okay, I like it. I like going on limbs.

Chris says China. Karen says Hong Kong. I asked for the country. Oh. Chris, got a Karen, yeah, very close spiritually, right. Yes, it is, I never knew this. I've heard Canton, Ohio.

Cantonese. Yes, I was like, oh my God, Cantonese. This blew my mind. This was a very, Karen, good job, brain, you're blowing my mind moment. Troy, New York, and Troy, Michigan, both owe their name to the classical city of Troy, as in hell enough, as in the Trojan War, etc. In what modern country is the ancient site of Troy? Somewhere close enough to Greece to be fighting in the Trojan War here.

Okay, answers up. Chris, going for Italy again, hoping that Italy's going to hit at some point. Karen has the correct answer with Turkey. Oh, wow. Turkey, Turkey, Turkey, or Turkey. Turkey A yes that is right Karen Karen knows her knows her ancient cities she really does I just

read this I just read Turkey A used to be called Anna I don't know how to pronounce it Anatolian because there's a dog like Anatolian something And I was like what area is that It's like it's turkey yeah Okay keeping in mind this is a quiz about

namesakes What do the towns of Fargo North Dakota Houston, Texas, and Denver, Colorado have in common. Oh, interesting. I'm just going to write it. Denver? Denver, Houston, Fargo.

What do they have in common? Answers up. Chris says, named after Italy. No, I'm sorry, Chris says, named after people, and he's got it. Karen says, rich men. Karen is not wrong. Karen's not wrong. She's just more specific than I am.

Yeah, you can probably not named after poor people. That's right. That's right. Yes, named after people. Yes, Houston named after Sam Houston, the legendary figure in Texas history. Denver, Colorado, named after James Denver, who was among other things, the governor of the Kansas territory at the time they founded the city. And Fargo, North Dakota, another one, I can't believe. I can't believe I'm just learning this. That's right.

Named after William Fargo, who among many other things, was the founder of the Wells Fargo Express Company. And the director of the Northern Pacific Railway and on and on and on. Yeah, Fargo. Same guy. Fargo. He's got his name everywhere. Named after people. Speaking of cities named after people, we specifically have a lot of cities in the U.S. named after saints. We have a lot of saint this, Santa this, sand that, especially when you're, you're out west, you see a lot more San cities.

What is the largest U.S. city by population? Oh. That begins with San. San. San. That's right. That begins with a saint name.

Largest by population. By population. What could... I know you can think of several. I mean, okay, I have three in mine, San Antonio, San Jose, and San Diego. Okay. Not San Francisco.

I will tell you it is not San Francisco. Yes. Maybe not too huge a hint there. San Francisco, not that huge a city. Oh. This is the seventh largest city in the U.S. by population. Answers up. It is the great, great city of San Antonio.

Chris Chris has put the correct answer San Antonio Karen you're very close with San Diego though San Diego is number eight like we're talking about the number seven

and number eight city so you're very close no shame in San Diego yeah yeah San Antonio eking out eking out the number seven spot there

just ahead of San Diego if you're curious San Jose clocking it at number 12 12th largest city yeah and then San Francisco I mean look no slouch San Francisco still top 20

but number 17. Another one that you should probably know, the 10th largest city in the United States. This Florida city is named after a former president. Florida, 10th largest city named after president. In the United States. In the United States. Okay.

Answers up. You have both written the correct answer, Jacksonville. Yes. Jacksonville. in the U.S. That kind of blew my mind a little bit. Yeah, 10th largest city in the U.S. University town, too.

Yeah, yeah, over a million people. Yeah, just behind Dallas, just ahead of Fort Worth. Yeah, big city. And indeed, named after the seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson, who was the first military governor of the Florida territory. So he had some connection there. Carlsbad, New Mexico, famous for Carlsbad Caverns National Park.

I learned was early in its history known as Eddie, Eddie New Mexico. It was named after Charles, Charles Eddie, another rich man. With the development of mineral springs that had medicinal properties, they changed the name of the town to Carlsbad after a famous European spa named Carlsbad

in Bohemia. We have had this on the show before. This is knowable and getable in what modern day country is the historical region known as Bohemia. Yeah, so

the original one, Carlsbad with a K, they changed it to a sea to suit American tastes a little bit more perhaps. Oh, God. Bohemia. Go with your gut. Go with your gut.

I know it's in the punch bowl. It's not in my punch bowl. Answers up. Chris has put Bulgaria. I'm sorry. Karen has put Czechia. Yes, I will give you that. Chequia, Czech Republic.

Same place. You got it. Yes. Yes. Bohemia, part of the Czech Republic. Or Chequia, if you prefer. Yes. Yes.

I know that from Rent. Nice. Oh, Rent is based on Lobo M. Where was the Boem? All right. Last one. Last one. Here we go.

The name of this U.S. capital city translates to English as sheltered harbor or protected bay. So it is a U.S. capital city. The name is not an English name. It translates as sheltered harbor or protected. Bay. Wow. Karen is doing the Animaniacs song on her head. I know.

I'm doing capitals, right? Oh, I don't know. All right. Answers up. Chris, with the correct answer, has put Honolulu, Hawaii, and Karen is mad that she did not get it. I was picturing the entire contiguous.

Yep. And you're looking at all the ones that are around. water and then yes ah and it's a bay it is oh it totally is well done and file some stuff away for future rounds yay all right my turn guys i i need you to be on a journey with me and transport back into the days when we were younger let's say maybe mid-20s you know sounds great remember like having the energy to leave the house and go do stuff maybe go I remember like leaving the house at like eight o'clock? Yes.

You leave the house at eight o'clock to go do something. Yeah. Maybe you go to a local bar and club and meet with friends and who are also underpaid, you know, 20-something year olds. And here's the scenario. Maybe it's very relatable. It's Wednesday night, so not a big party night. Your friend calls you or texts you on a flip phone.

And please, hey, please come out with me tonight. my boyfriend's roommate is an aspiring mashup DJ. And he's got a gig tonight at a small club. They got nickel shots. PBR is $4. Please let's go. Come with me and support their budding DJ career. You already know what kind of night this is going to be.

Yes. But you're like, you know what? It beats doing nothing. Right. And you go. And the DJ who is, again, your friend's boyfriend's roommate, is just dropping the absolute worst mashups. And they're thinking they're killing it. Now, this quiz we're about to play is inspired by this scenario, but also by a very super funny DJ guide called Snowdream.

DJ Snowdream. He's on TikTok and on Instagram. Snowdream is a real producer and a real DJ from the UK. But in his content, he takes on this persona, what I call the friends, boyfriend's roommate DJ persona, where like he just plays insanely awful stuff. But he's up there and he's just like, man, this is great. I'm feeling the music. And you're like, oh, crikies. So here, I have six clips of Snowdreams mashups.

Not only do you have to survive the segment listening to them, but for each clip, you have to identify what two. songs are being mashed together. Okay, okay. Let's pretend we're at a club. We're drinking watered down off-brand fireball shots. Sticky floor. There's like a lot of air horns, you know, on his mixing board. And we're just all waiting for the beat to drop.

So here we go. Here is our music quiz. And I need you to identify the two songs in each clip. Bet you guys can work together and figure it out. They're very famous songs. Mashup number one. Was that some earthwind and fire there in the background? Yeah.

Yeah. So it's Earthwind and Fire September, right? But like I don't know the vocals that are. Yeah, I couldn't place the vocals either. Yeah, it has a hard time. Could we get one more? Can we get one more bite at that one? It takes a real.

It does. Yeah. Yeah. To create. To forge something. Yeah. The lyrics were tickling something, but I'm not pulling it. I don't know.

Sorry. Oh, man. People are throwing tomatoes. at you. No. What is it? Through their headphones. It is, yes, you're right.

It's September, Earth, Wind and Fire. And Numb by Linko Park. Oh, big. Yes. The issue is, I have never listened to a Lincoln Park song in my life. There was a period where even if you didn't choose to, you would have heard some of these songs. Oh, sure. I guess involuntarily, maybe I have you.

Yes. All right. Here we go. B-Drop number two. That's a little John Denver, Country Roads. Johnny D. Country Road, take me home, Country Roads. And was that the beat?

Sound like a little Will Smith beat to me? Yeah, not, not, not. Okay. All right. Awesome. Okay. You were right. Yeah.

Woo. Someone could chime in and say, hey, but doesn't getting jinggy with it sample another song called he's the greatest dancer by Sister Sledge. While that is true, the clip that was used there is from getting cheek with it. Because you can hear him say, woo, ha, you know, and breathing noises. Excellent clarification.

All right, all right. Worst mashups of your life at this club, number three. Okay, that is, wow. That's, that's, well, it's junior, senior, move your feet is, is the song. Yes. And is that lit biscuit? Yes. Biscuit rolling.

Rolling. Wow. I have to like have half my brain just focus on the lyrics for the first half of the clip and then like direct my brain to the other. It's funny. You have to do a little switch. Do you know how I know that? Now somebody should be very surprised at this and say, Chris, how would you possibly know? I did not know it until he said, now I know y'all be loving this.

The next thing is like L-A-M-P biscuit is right here or something like that, right? I guess I know that from the Spider-Man comic rewrites, the comedian Jay Pinkerton, who went on to write like Portal, used to do. Right. Slumdog Millionaire. This DJ's got another banger. Be dropped four.

Here it comes. I've been doing just by guy. I gotta be down because I'm moving all. It started out with a kiss and a baby in a break. Wow. Wow. That is pretty good. Imagine if this got played at a club. And like you're like looking at your friends and you're like, is he for real? It's like it's it's done so well like technically like on the level of production that you're like, is this a bit?

Yeah. That's great. So that's of course the sound. The music is from the office, the American version of the office opening credits. Yep. And of course, Mr. side by the killers. Yes. That's very good. I would listen to that. I would listen to that.

All right. Here we go. Beat drop five. The instrumental, but I can't think of what song it's from, but that's, wouldn't it be nice from the Beach Boys, from Pet Sounds? Over. Yeah. Who is that?

Nelly? Who is that? Yeah. Usher. Usher. Poor. That's right. Did it, it sounded me like the Beach Boys was slowed down a little bit or maybe it's just, yeah, a little bit.

Okay, to match the beat. Oh, so good. All right. Last one. Last one. We got to survive tonight. Here we go. Oh, my God.

Man, talk about giving yourself a challenge. That's really fantastic. Yeah. I'm going to make the Seinfeld bopping and bippen on the jazz, you know, bass. work here. Well, I think I was maybe a little early, right? That, that one, that was one question early. That was Nelly. Hot and her with with a little bit of Seinfeld riffing. Incredible. He matches up like we sports commercials, anything. Oh, so amazing. Snowdream music on Instagram. His band camp is a Snowdream Digital where he has volumes of these that you can listen to.

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Good job, brain. It's our all quiz number 62. All right, so spring cleaning. I'm doing some spring cleaning, guys. We still have boxes that we have not opened since we moved here three years ago. Oh, yeah. We all have those boxes of shame. Yeah.

So I found a box of things, of good job bringing things that I have not opened for 12 years. Whoa. There are things that were sent to our old, old PO box that I haven't even opened. And, you know, I feel really bad. listeners, I was going through divorce. It was weird. I had to move really quickly. And so these boxes just travel with me. I never got to like open. We have letters that I haven't read. We have like gifts that we haven't opened, including this one dated August 14th, 2014. I love it. I love it. It's like the good job brain mailbox here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's great.

Enclosed our 12 Omaha steaks. And so I'll read a bit here. hear of this letter. Dear Karen, Dana, Colin, and Chris, my family really loves your show. I download your podcast and we listen to your show as my mom drives us to school in the mornings. During Pop Quiz Hot Shot,

we all try to be the first one to answer the questions correctly. If I were on your show, I would want my buzzer to sound like an explosion. And then, do you have a collection of interesting beaver oddities? If so, please add this gift to your collection. sincerely Wyatt Paul

age 14 P.S. Can you please give me a shout out on your next show and let me know if you thought the shirt was funny. Yeah. Sure we can.

Here's your shout out, Wyatt. Wyatt. Oh, there was a shirt. Oh my gosh. We've got on it. Now, this is not the end of the story because I have the address here. And I was like,

Oh, this guy is from Washington State. Oh, this city is not that far from me. Oh, I wonder if I can find this guy online. And I did. And turns out Wyatt Poll, who wrote this letter at age 14 is now 26, follows Good Job Brain on Instagram. Yes. So I messaged him and let me share our exchange here.

Oh my gosh. I said, I deeply apologize that has taken me 12 years to respond back. I was unpacking a box and found a lot of forwarded mail. At the height of Good Job Brown, I was going through a divorce and moving around and I missed this package. I'm super sorry. It took me this long. But I'm very happy to see that you're like an adult doing cool stuff. Wyatt wrote back.

And he's like, I'm told you. LMA OOOO graduated high school and college and a whole pandemic and this is a cool thing to ever happen.

Wow. That's great. They're all grown up. It's it is legitimately emotional and movie. It is, it's like, I'm so glad you're able to find Wyatt. I'm so glad he can see the humor in it.

He got a shout out. And, Got it. Got the shout out. The shirt's great. I'm smelling this shirt right now. It's in the box full of like kind of like good job bringing goodies that we made for our like live shows or like, you know, when we have family meet up. Including I had made.

I had those beaver butt air fresheners we made to give out. Yes. That's like vanilla scented or raspberry scented. Is that what the shirt smells like now? in a box for 12 years with those air fresheners. Oh, yeah. It's only appropriate that you have now made the Beaver T-shirt. The Beaver shirt now smells like vanilla.

That's fantastic. That's truly great. Thank you, Wyatt. Wow. Thank you, Wyatt. Are you going to, now are you going to open any of the other letters, or are you just going to stop there? There's so many.

I have to go through. Okay. All right. I feel like, like, you could just select a random one every now and then, and we open it, yeah. I mean, this is a surprise, but now I'm going to tell you, because I think it's such a good idea. I'm so proud of myself.

Okay. What I'm going to do is I'm going to scan all of our listener mail and stuff. Yeah. And I'm going to make it into a coffee table book. And I'll give Chris you a copy, Colin copy at Dana Cross. Oh, that is a good idea. That is great.

That is a great idea. I would love that. Yeah. That's very sweet. All right. Chris has a game for us. I have a game. I'd like you to take out your writing surface.

Karen, you're not, the phone is not going to work on. this one you're going to need like okay some kind of a piece of paper yeah a nice nice sheet of eight and a half by 11 some kind of printer paper or you know Colin whatever notebook you might be using just give yourself some some room I've got my little half-sized kind of notebook here that's that's fine all right you know room to operate but Karen's Karen's like notes app is not gonna it's not gonna cut it for this one unfortunately here she come back okay all right Karen well we're already on question three you missed a lot

You guys did that last time. Well, we'll just keep doing it. Okay, so Karen, you've got your, you've got your piece of paper. Listeners at home, you can also get yourself a notebook or a piece of paper or something along those very lines. Because what I want you to do is take your nice blank piece of paper. And basically across the lower third of this paper, you're just going to draw an oval. It's a big oval that takes up like the lower third of whatever your surface is, kind of like that. So just give yourself like two thirds on the top of the piece of paper.

Then you have the lower third on the bottom. All right, good. Great. You have drawn the pit. That is the pit. P.I.T. with one T. We have been watching the show The Pit with two T's. The wonderful medical drama sort of following on the success of ER,

Noel Wiley, back again in the emergency department. Well, you know the show, the pit was originally good. to be a continuation of his ER. I think that, yeah, maybe originally they were trying to do that and then they didn't get the rights or whatever it was. So they're like, well, we'll just do something new. So yeah, we, you know, many people around the world have been really enjoying the pit. So this is a word play game for you all that is called the pit, open parentheses,

T, close parentheses. The pit pit pit pit. Here is how it works. I will give you and you should probably write down the first or last. name of a fictional medical care provider on the show The Pit. And then also I will give you the definition of a word. The name that I give you can be anagramed to the word matching that definition with one extra letter.

Oh. Once you determine what that extra letter is, that letter falls into the pit. Into the pit. And you should write it in the pit. Okay. Um, yes. Hold on. Go on.

I don't watch. No problem. Am I? You are not at an advantage or a disadvantage for watching the show or not watching the show. I am simply going to give you a name, somebody's name, and then I'm going to give you the definition of a totally unrelated word. And that name can be anagrammed into that word plus an extra letter. And once you figure out what the extra letter is, drop it into the pit. All right.

Got it. Got it. And once we are, the answers include, I should say, one. hyphenate word. Just throwing that out there. One of the words is a hyphenate. And once we're done, the letters in the pit will anagram to a certain group of people who you might find around the pit. So let's just jump into it. The pit. The first name, you should write all these down because you're going to be, remember, you're going to be anagramming them and removing a letter. So the first name for you is um kwan k-w-o-n cooking vessel so when you get it feel free to buzz in and tell me that you got it

Colin so the cooking vessel would be a walk W-W-O-K and the letter I'm kicking in the pit would be the N correct correct now you got it now you got it okay next name Evans, E-V-A-N-S, glassware. Colin again, fast on the buzzer. Would that be a vase, V-A-S-E, and I'm sending another N to the pit? You are, yes. Okay. Your next name, Langdon, L-A-N-G-D-O-N, actor from Little House on the Prairie.

Oh, gee. Colin. What? Is it Landon, as in Michael Landon, and I'm just dropping the G out of the middle? It is indeed. This one was really easy, if you know. Yes, Michael Landon. No.

So it's just Landon. Okay. And the G, indeed, falls into the pit. All right, here we go. Donahue, D-O-N-A-H-U. a type of collision head on head on with a hyphen

a head on collision so the letter U falls into the pit head on and you all right Heather H-E-A-T-H-E-R a place where families traditionally gather

Karen. A hearth? So you kick the E out. You kick the E into the pit. Yes, a hearth. Peters, P-E-T-E-R-S. To control movement. Colin.

Is that steer and I drop the P in the pit? That is steer and drop the P in the pit. Yes. Shamb. see S-H-A-M-S-I to destroy. Why buzz in if I already know what the pit is? No, you don't. Just let us go, all right?

Okay, okay, okay. Colin. That is smash. Rather than saying I smash, I will send the eye into the pit. Good idea, good idea. The eye goes into the pit. Finally, Samira. S-A-M-I-R-A

A song from West Side Story Karen Maria sending the S into the pit The pit is now full of letters Karen says she already has it You want to let Colin try to figure it out too?

It's Benedict Cumberbatch's favorite animal Penguins Penguins. Penguins. A group of people that you might see around the pit, the Pittsburgh Penguins. Oh. Love it.

I was just like thinking of like an ice landscape. Sure. Right, right, right. Black and yellow camera. Oh my gosh, what a callback to last episode. Oh, man. That's another one of those. Wow.

That took me a really long time to make. Not a very long time to run through on the show. Yeah, I know, I know that the real word puzzle heads out there. No, but that's like a long time to put together. Yeah. Yeah. That was good. That was really good.

It's very much the, I like the NPR Sunday puzzles, you know, that the real shorts ones. You know, those are, that's what I'm trying to get at with these. Glad you enjoyed. Hello, I'm Debra Goldstein hosted the game show The Big Fib, and with me is our sound effects robot Lisa, whose name stands for live in studio audience. And every week, we bring on two grown-ups.

One is an expert, and the other is a liar. And it's the job of a human child to help us figure out who is who, because no one can spot a liar better than a kid. We've had past experts share fascinating facts about volcanoes, sharks, pizza, and more. And we've had some no-good liars

try and trick us with lies about YouTube, Roblox and even underwear lying about underwear. Listen to the big fib on Apple Podcasts or on GZMshows.com and see if you can figure out who's telling the truth and who's telling big fibs. I mean, who lies about underwear? All right. I have our last segment. I think you two know, and I think our listeners know, that I would find things and then become really obsessed about it. To a point where it's all consuming. to a point where I would wake up thinking about this thing,

go to sleep, thinking about the thing, not going to sleep thinking about these things. So here's a quiz about things that have consumed me. This is a buzzin quiz. All right. Get your buzzers ready. Question number one. Rachel Reed, an author from Nova Scotia,

hit mainstream success when what book of hers got turned into a show that recently just won the Peabody Award? Chris Heated rivalry Yes Heated rivalry Good one What clue do you in

Because I know who wrote the book Probably The hockey Romance Yeah There was a point in my life Where I watched the entire season Every day

Like I would have it on And it would just play I mean it's only six episodes Yeah My wife was pretty into it too Yeah. Really? Oh my God.

I wish you told me because then we could talk about it. I've joined discussion groups. Oh. I've read so much fan fiction that has been written. Your browser history is just permanently, permanently just set, right? Oh, they're private text. Yes. It's incognito, though.

Come on. But have you read the books? I've read the books. The whole series? I guess we've gotten to fan fiction. you must have read the book. Did you see, Karen, I'm sure you did. You saw that you can now rent the cabin on Airbnb.

Yes, their price per night is their hockey jersey numbers together. Great, great branding. Right, right. Yes, yes. Thank you, Canada for gifting us this gift. I love it. All right. K-pop group and my paris social friends, BTS,

released their long-awaited albums. started their world tour that I'm going to be going to six times. I was how many times? Yeah, I thought it was at least three or four. Well, one of them I'm bringing a make a wish family. I love it. It's great. New tour after fulfilling their military duty.

So it was a big comeback. Right. Very exciting. How many members are there in BTS? Okay. Chris. Chris. Six.

I think it's four or five, but I'm leaning, I'm leaning more toward four. The answer is seven. Oh, man. Lucky number seven, seven members. I thought I was shooting a little high, you know what I mean? But I thought I felt it was something around there would not have said seven. Seven, would not have said seven. That's a lot.

That's a lot. I think you've got your tight, compact boy group, which is a four. and then you've got just pushing the edge of it, which is a five. And then six is probably too many. I think you've got to stick around new kids on the block size. Five. Well, you know, K-pop, K-pop different system. Sure.

They have three rappers, four vocal dudes. Okay, okay. I'm not going to go through their names, but you bet you're bippy that I know. Oh, I know. And their dog's name. I would not bet against you. I think you probably know the order that they did their military service. I'm sure.

Yeah, no question. I know their birth order. Yeah. Anyways, follow up question. This might come up a trivia. What color is associated with BTS fandom? What color? What one color?

Interesting. If you were to guess a color. Blue? Red. It is, add them together, you get purple. Purple. Purple. Purple.

Well, another thing I was deeply into, we just did our first ever family trip to Disney World, so I fell deep into planning, budgeting, reviewing maps, reading reviews. My favorite Disney World Park is Epcot. In case you don't know, half of the Epcot Park is what you call the World Showcase, where different countries have their own pavilions, kind of like a World's Fair. what country's pavilion had the most recent expansion to include an additional plaza area, an eatery, and a ride based on a Pixar film. What country's pavilion had the most recent expansion? Chris?

Mexico. No. Incorrect. No, no, no, no, no. I was going to guess Mexico, too. most recent expansion, a ride. Right, right, right. To include an additional plaza area, an eatery, and a ride based on a Pixar film.

Oh, you're thinking Coco, huh? Right, right. The answer is France, the Ratatouille ride, which I went on, but I just didn't, I didn't know that that was the latest thing they put in. Yeah. Yeah. Another question about World Showcase. France might have had the most recent expansion, but what was the last country

pavilion to be built there. Huh. Okay. They debuted with a couple of countries and they kind of added on which one was the most recent, the latest full country pavilion. Hmm. 1988. Oh, okay. That's the, okay.

Yeah. They have not, they have not created a new pavilion. Uh, Australia. There is no Australia. Chris, there's also a ride at this place. Oh, is it, um, Norway? It's Norway. Oh, wow.

Norway, which was like not very popular and then Frozen came out. Really interesting history about how these pavilions get built, the relationships with different governments and embassies and how to upkeep and the money. I'm not going to go into it, but that's a great hole to be sucked into. All right. Another thing that consumed me for consecutive days was the Artemis 2 fly by moon voyage. I watched the transmissions. I listened to their wake-up songs.

I cried in the women's bathroom at work regularly that week because I was so overwhelmed with emotions and what they were doing, naming moons after their wife. So I have two questions here. At the time of the mission, Artemis II mission, only about one fourth of the global population was old enough to have witnessed the previous crude mission. to lunar space. What was the name of the last crude lunar mission in one year? Oh, they were talking about it on the coverage too. When was the last time it happened? I'll tell you, I was not old enough to have witnessed the previous crude mission to lunar space.

Yeah. Chris wasn't either. I think I was, even if I was young. Yeah. That's pretty crazy to think, like, a quarter of the world's population was old enough to catch the last mission. Oh, man. Was it in, like, 82, 83? 72.

Oh, okay. All right. Well, I was not alive for that. All right. Okay. Apollo 17, 1972. Wow. But here we are.

We got to experience it or witness it in our lifetimes with Artemis, too. And they did something new, you know, like getting views that we haven't seen. Right. Yeah. Oh, they did a bunch of new stuff. There are a lot of, a lot of first. A lot of first. During one of the transmissions, the world got to see a certain branded food item

just nonchalantly fly by in the cabin. What was it? Colin? This was the Nutella, right? Yes, it was a jar of Nutella. It was kind of just. No gravity. They're doing important.

space work and you just see this Nutella just kind of floating. Talk about product placement. I know. You cannot buy that marketing. That's so crazy. And that's it for my quiz. Just a few things that I was really,

really into recently. A little grab bag from your brain. And that's our show. Thank you all for joining me and thank you listeners for listening in. I hope you learned stuff today about the pit American cities about bad mashups

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