Good Job, Brain! - 311: Giving you the Green Light

Episode Date: July 7, 2026

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You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Raising on Grenadine Grenada in Granada. Welcome to Good Job Brain, your weekly quiz show and Offbeat Trivia podcast. This is episode 311, 311, like the band. And of course, I am your humble host, Karen, and we are your verdant verders, voraciously vacuuming viridescent verdos while verifying verdicts about Verdi. I am Colin. And I'm Chris. Let's jump into our first general trivia.

segment pop quiz hot shot oh two cards here two random trivial pursuit cards you guys have your barnyard buzzers let's answer some questions i have ding ding ding trivial pursuit music singles and all music card and everybody's favorite totally 80s nice so in our wheel house let's do let's do totally 80s first here we go buzzers at the ready blue edge for tv Which former Beetle was the original narrator on Thomas the Tank Engine? Oh, Colin. Is that Ringo Star? Yes, Ringo Star.

Yeah. Does everybody know this? Is this common knowledge? What a versatile guy. Yeah, a man of many talents. All right, Pink Wedge. What cartoon character, when finally introduced to China in the 80s, was known as Mi Laoshu? Or...

Oh. Rice rat. Okay. First, go ahead. I have a little, I have a little addendum. Okay, okay, okay. Mickey Mouse? Mickey Mouse, me, and I'll shoot. Yes, when you translate it literally, me is rice, but it's just phonetic name. Right, right, right, right. You know what I mean?

They're not- Nobody would infer meaning out of it. Chinese doesn't have characters that don't have some kind of meaning. Yeah, everything has a meaning. Yellow Wedge, what unwavering world leader was dubbed? the great she elephant and Attila the hen. Wow. This seems kind of mean?

Unwavering. Oh, I see. Okay. What unwavering world leader was dubbed the great she elephant. Oh, oh, okay. Attila the hen. I see. Okay.

They're both gendered terms. Yes, right. Chris. Margaret Thatcher. Margaret Thatcher. Yeah. Iron lady. Iron lady sounds a lot better than these two names.

Yeah. Purple Wedge for music. What Twisted Sister Anthem sneers? You're so condescending. Your gall is never ending. I can only name one Twisted Sister song. And it's that. We're not going to take it.

Oh, really? Oh, okay. Should have just said that. Never leave a blank, I guess. Yeah. Lime Green Wedge for movies, What Father and Son actors played Carl Fox and his son Bud in Wall Street.

Ooh. Oh. Colin. That was Martin Sheen and Charlie Sheen. Yes, correct. For some reason, I was thinking Kirk Douglas. Oh, and Michael. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, another father-son there, right? All right, Orange Wedge, Sports and Leisure. How many scoreless innings did fans endure before Tim Raines finally drove the first run of the 1987 All-Star Game. Oh, man. Deep cut. Is it, you know, give us, give us a lifeline. Is it less than, is it nine or less, Karen, or is it more than nine?

More than nine. Okay. All right. Colin. 12. Oh, it's 12. Yeah. But I did need the hint.

I just, you know, yeah. Thank you. Thank you. What is the ballpark, if you were. All right. Moving along. music singles, here we go, next card. Blue Edge for bands.

What 2000 alternative rock band includes Gwyneth Paltrow's husband as frontman? Ooh, is it outdated card? Oh, right. Colin? She was married to, oh, man, what's it? Chris, Chris, something, the guy from Coldplay, right? I just need the band. Okay, Coldplay.

Cold play. Chris Martin. Chris Martin. There you go. Pink Wedge. What two Bon Jovi songs played acoustically on the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards inspired the popular MTV unplugged series? Oh, nice.

Two songs? Call it. It was one of them, the Dead or Alive, wanted Dead or Alive. Okay, yeah, yeah, I could see them just belting out the acoustic version of that. And like just the biggest Bon Jovi song. Oh, Living on a Prayer? Living on a Prayer. Living on prayer and wanted dinner alive.

Nice. Yes, I did not know that. Yeah, wow, that is a good bit of trivia. On Pluged series. All right, Yellow Wedge. What ex-American Idol and his band won favorite rock song for Home, that's the title, Home, at 2008's People's Choice Awards, Chris, I believe in you. This is on your beat, Chris.

Okay, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Let me read again. What, for American Idol? Ex-American Idol and his band. And his band. One favorite rock song for Home at the 2008 People's Choice Award. Okay. But I mean, it's the name of the person.

It's the name of the band. Oh, it's the name of the band? Yes. But it says what person in his band? And then the answer is the name of a band? Because the band's name is his name. Oh, it's the name of a person. It's not his full name.

Okay. Oh, it's Daughtry. Yes. Okay. Nice. I'm just trying to think. You're just like, like, well, all those, all those hints, all those hints.

That's a performer. I haven't thought about him in a while. Then, sorry, the band. Yeah. The band. So hold on. When I first read this question, I was like, I thought Philip Phillips sang the song, Home. Okay. So I'm verifying now. Wow. They both have songs called home. Oh, they're different ones. Purple Wedge. What subgenre of electronic dance music originated from Detroit, Michigan in the late

1980s. Colin. Are they looking for house? They're looking for techno. Oh, okay. Techno. All right. Greenwich, what instrument does Sting play?

Colin. Does he play the bass? He plays the bass. Yeah, yeah. All right, last question on this music singles card. What Jane's Addiction Song tells the story of a prostitute dreaming of a better life? Oh, man. Colin?

I think they're looking for Jane says. Correct. It's a really reductive view of that song, but yes. All right. Good job, Brains. Well, I kind of gave it away a little bit in my alliterations this week. In my intro, I had verdant. I had gra, gra, gra.

So this week's topic is green. Green things, green words, whatever. that comes to mind. So this week, we're giving you the green light. All right, I'm going to start us off. This is not an actual green segment, but it's like kind of related to green. But it is something that I feel like I left on a cliffhanger last season. Okay.

And I want to give everybody an update because I'm sure you guys are all very curious. So last season, I got my hands on a grow Michelle banana. Yes. Oh, yes. The original quote banana flavor. Very quick recap. The fake banana flavor that we think is fake from like Laffy Taffey's and stuff. It's actually based on a real banana that just doesn't really exist anymore.

You can't buy it in supermarkets. I got my hands on a pro Michelle, Big Mike, and it was still green when I showed it to you guys. Yeah. I had to wait for it to write. Yeah. So it ties into the theme. So going from green to yellow. So I'm happy to report that it did eventually ripe.

I brought it to work to an apple club. I've mentioned before. We have an apple club at work where we taste different apples and other fruits. And we had a taste test. And you can kind of taste the fake banana flavor. I'll tell you what. You know, bananas taste more like dessert than they do fruit. But I would say the Grove Michelle banana tastes more like a fruit.

I don't know if that makes sense. Okay. It's more like a tropical fruit. Interesting. Okay. It has it's tangy as more of an acidic. fruit. So you definitely though notice the difference. Like if someone

handed this to you, you would be like, oh, what is this? This is not, yeah. It looks like a banana. You eat it in like the texture seems less fluffy like a normal banana. It just feels more like, oh, this is from a tree and from it's a tropical fruit. Maybe closer to the original

banana. The fake banana flavor is a combination of not just eating the banana but I think the scent of the banana peel plays into it. You know how tropical fruits have that. Oh, yeah. Like a funk almost. Yeah, the peel has that,

but also smells sweet like bubble gum. Hmm. But yeah. If you're cutting it up and eating a slice of it, it's going to be different than like if you're holding the banana with the peel still on it, inhaling the peel. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Right under your nose, it's going to hit you. At Apple Club, we also discovered, sorry, to go off a tangent.

We got really nerdy about this. For some reason, we discovered that if you aerate bananas, they taste sweeter. Okay. What do you know? What do you mean by? Yeah, elaborate. Okay. So if you cut bananas into slices and you just put it on a plate and you get and you come back maybe 10 minutes later, that banana will taste sweeter than it did.

So something about the exposure to the oxygen, right? It's something. So that is my update. All right. While on with the show, Colin, what green segment do you have for us today? All right. I'll get us into the show properly green here with a quiz I have put together for you guys called It is easy being green.

And this will be a grab bag quiz. I think you did know it, Chris. Yeah. Someone had to. Someone had to. Might as well be me. Story of my life. Might as well be me.

This will be a buzzing quiz. Why don't you get your buzzers ready? All right. Every question in this quiz will be about something that is either literally green, thematically green, metaphorically green, has the word green in the name, somehow all revolving around green or green things. Okay. In March of this year, the Swarovsky Crystal Company caught the Internet's attention

when it released a $750,5-inch-tallel. crystal figurine of what beloved green character? Karen. Has to be Kermit the Frog. It is not Kermit the Frog. Oh, no. No, no, no, no. Chris, what are you got?

You were tricking her, but I saw this. It was Shrek. It is. No. Yes. Shrek. Hold on. What is the favorite Pixar character?

The world's favorite. Oh, you're just trying to make people mad now, Chris. The world's favorite. favorite green movie ogre. Yes, the, the not just Shrek, but the Shrek series of figurines. He is green, green crystal. It is multicolored crystal. He has 551 facets. I am reading here from official Swarovsky copy, by the way, embark on a whimsical journey to the kingdom of far, far away, et cetera, et cetera. Karen, you can walk into a Swarovski store, plunked down your $750.

And if they're still in stock, you can walk out with a Shrek Soroski crystal figurine to put on your shelf behind you, like while you're having Zoom calls, you know, or whatever, you know, just bring it to work, just drop it on your desk. Just don't say anything. Oh, my gosh. Where they're almost daring you to buy it, right? It's like, oh, so you ironically love Shrek, huh? How much do you ironically love Shrek?

This fan favorite TV show that aired from 1981 to 1990 was the first Nickelodeon show to feature slime. The first. Chris. You can't do that on television. Correct. That is, you can't do that on television. the originator of the To become not double dare

Which may have Yeah that was Gack Yeah That was and uh or like a milk like substance But no yeah you can't do that at television Was getting slimed That's right Falling from the ceiling when he said I don't know

That's right when you had the the catchphrase Or not catchphrase but the key phrase of I don't know You were setting yourself up to catch a face full of slime That's right the trigger words That's right The slime sort of came out of necessity apparently the producer and showrunner was tired of kids saying

I don't know, you know, in response to sort of the semi-improvisational nature of some of the bits and came up with sort of the rule like, all right, next person to say, I don't know, is going to get slime. Not that they, yeah, I mean, they knew it was coming. They knew it was coming. And it did, and it evolved from there

into the eventually iconic bright green slime. Yeah, yeah. Prior to a popularity boot, that gained strength in the early to mid-2000s. This green vegetable was mostly used in the U.S. for decoration. Karen, on it. Listeners might remember my segment on kale. Yes.

Cale. A lovely garnish. A lovely garnish. A lovely garnish. It holds up. It always got a great color to it. It's a nice dark green. It keeps its shape. You put it on the side of the plate and then you never eat it. One brave person one day decided to eat the kale.

One of the many varieties of kale I learned is called, in fact, ornamental kale. Ornamental kale. Yes, you got your bumpy leaf, you got your sparkly leaf, you got your curly leaf. And then there's ornamental grade kale, right, which is known for having the tough, tough leaves. It is known to be right, not quite as palatable. I learned, you guys, that as late as 2012, the largest purchaser of kale in the United States, what is it? Do you know what, Karen? Pizza Hut.

It was pizza hut. Or their salad bars. Yes. They were buying, Chris, approximately 14,000 pounds of kale that year alone. Nothing to do with making pizza or food. It was decorating the salad bar and hiding the ice. They would cover the ice with it and it would just, you need to keep things cool. It was just decoration.

And then, of course, you know, just four years later, by 2016, you could get a kale salad at McDonald's. It had a real, yes, you could. Yes, it had a real glow up there. I read that it had more calories than a Big Mac. Right out of the Pizza Hut dumpster to your McDonald's side dish. True or false. Oh, no.

True or false. A shamrock and a four-leaf clover are the same thing. Oh, which is it? True or false? You could even both take a bite at this one. Chris. No, I think it's false. It's like the shamrock is the icon versus the actual the plant.

I think shamrock is like Gaelic for just clover. Chris is more or less nailing it here. Yeah, you got it. The answer to the question is false. A shamrock and a four-leaf clover are not, in fact, the same thing. But, yeah, in its most simple definition, a shamrock is a regular three-leafed clover. And it is, of course, widely recognized as a symbol of Ireland and Irish culture. Yeah, it does derive from the Irish word shamrog, which translates to young clover.

And then a four-leaf clover, of course, as it says on the tin, is a clover that has four leaves, not a shamrock. The green giant mascot, not his first name check on Good Job Brain over the years. The green giant mascot, who was introduced in 1928, was introduced specifically to sell what vegetable. Oh, geez. Now, this, if you want a hint, I'll give it to you. I'm guessing. I don't know for sure. Well, I'll tell you, it's not that much of it.

I'll tell you that this vegetable was giant, you know, compared to the traditional varieties on the market at the time. So it was green giant, this type of vegetable. Sure. What if that, just in case that changes your answer, Karen. I thought it was peas. You got it. Chris knows his, Chris knows his veggies.

It was. It was for giant peas. That's right. He came out of the marketing campaign for, a new type of pea, which was the Prince of Wales pea. Nice. Great name, great branding, the Prince of Wales pea. And, you know, first of all, they were giant.

They were huge compared to regular table peas at the time. And they weren't just big. You're going like, you're making like a seven pound bowling ball with your hand. I did. I was holding up like the size of like a burrito. No, I shouldn't mislead you guys. They were big and they were also oblong a little bit. So they weren't, you know, sort of your traditional, more or less spherical pee.

Yeah, they were big, big, big. And so they decided we're going to lean into it. Right. And they came up with the green giant. These were green giant peas. And here is our mascot, the green giant. Again, speaking of glowups, he had a little bit of a glow up over the years. Yeah, he started off.

He was very brutish and kind of, you know, gruff at first, like a caveman. And they prettied him up over the years. Yeah, he's much more charming. He's a good-looking man. Yeah. Yeah. You know, is not going to lie. Is there a Mrs. Green giant?

Last true or false on the quiz. I don't want to have too many of these. True or false. The term ectoplasm was coined for the movie Ghostbusters. So did it exist before the movie? That's the question. Maybe, I don't know. It's a good question.

But I feel like it may have been. Classic. It's a very like simple kind of translation, right? Ghost. Plas. I'm going to say it predates Ghostbusters the movie. Karen is correct. Yes.

Yes. The answer to the question, therefore, is false. Yes. The term ectoplasm dates to 1894. I was going to say it's like a weird Victorian thing. Yeah. Yeah. They're not describing like what we think is slime or like sticky stuff.

Yeah. Like footprints or dust or gas. Oh, so it's funny that you say that, Karen. Yeah. Yeah, so I mean, yeah, almost 100 years before the classic movie, of course. And it was coined by a man named Charles Rischet. And although he was a physiologist by practice and training, he was also very interested in the paranormal. And so the word that he came up with, ectoplasm, it comes from Greek.

So he took the root for ectose outside and plasma, meaning something formed. And the idea was this is something. that an apparition might manifest into our physical world. And unlike the movie Ghostbusters where someone gets slimed and they're coated with this bright green goo, the idea of what ectoplasm was then was very different. It was described as almost like a fabric. It was like this like light kind of gossamery, gauzy fabric material. And I think you can tell a lot about what people thought it might be by the type of

hoaxes that people were doing at the time. And all of the hoaxes that I read described involving ectoplasm, it ended up being just somebody stuffed some gauze in their mouth and just, you know, produced it as an opportune time or, you know, flash forward almost 100 years. And yeah, they lifted the term, you know, for the movie, certainly safe to say, no doubt whatsoever that that movie did more for the term ectoplasm than Charles Rieshaye did. Really put it on the map. No question.

the way to ecto cooler. Yeah, I mean, yes, exactly. We just recently passed Earth Day, 2026 guys. It was on April 22nd this year, as it always is. Earth Day, of course, a day of action and focus on environmental protection and green ways of living. What year, closest to the mark, what year was the first Earth Day observed? Ooh. Like is a... Although it did have some sort of international origins in the idea. Earth Day, as we know it was, it was an American sort of...

It's like Carter administration. Yeah, when was it? Closest to the mark. I'll take two guesses here. Okay, all right. I think it's older than what we think is. Okay, okay. Okay, no, I'll say the 60s, like, or maybe in 1970.

I'll say 1970. That's what I'm saying. I'll say 1969. I'm going to give you guys both the point. I'm going to give you guys both the point. It was 1970. You guys got it. Yeah, I'm going to credit you

because you were willing to move off your spot, Chris. I moved off my stop because I was thinking like, okay, Summer of Love, 69, Woodstock, like coming out of that. Everybody's back home. They're out of the mud. Maybe they want to keep going with the good vibes, but they don't necessarily want to go back to Woodstocks. Maybe they just have a holiday.

and like plant a tree. That's kind of where I was at. Okay, okay. You certainly zeroed right in on the era. Yes. Yeah, Nixon was president for the, for the record there, Karen. Yes, yes. He planted a tree.

In fact, yeah, April 22nd, 1970, the first Earth day. What is the primary source of income for monks of the Carthusian order? Oh. Karen. Is it they make a certain type of look? core. Maybe. Is that liqueur charreuse?

Yes. Nice. That is correct. You got it. You know your liqueurs, Karen. I was going to say they grew pot. They grew pot. Right.

Hey, you know, you do what you need to keep the monastery running, right? Right. Karen, in fact, is more correct by being correct. Yes, the monks, the monks of the Carthusian order have for many, many, many generations been the only ones who know, the full secret recipe to the liqueur known as chartreuse. And the color chartreuse, a yellowish green, greenish yellow, takes its name from the liqueure chartreuse, not the other way around. That's right.

Much like the early Coca-Cola days, there are only, they say, two monks at any one time who actually know the complete, complete full recipe of, they say, what is it? 130. Yeah, I was just going to say, rumor hasn't. Like 100 something herbs. All that the monks will cop to is that it's, yeah, 130. And they make quite a bit of money from it. They made more than $30 million just as recently as a few years ago.

It is virtually the sole source of income for the order. They've resisted urges to make more even. There was a shortage, I guess, a few years ago. You know, cocktail culture. and, you know, a lot of things really, it was very in demand. And they went to the monks and they're like, you know, you could make more and we could make more money. And the monks are like, no, we're good. We're going to keep making the same amount.

It's fine. Yeah, we're good. All right. Last question. I couldn't do a green related quiz without a Greenland related question. We were just talking about it on a recent show too, Karen. You had a second about country flags, yes, and autonomous region flags, if you will. I have a very simple question for you.

Does not involve the flag? Doesn't even really involve the color green. I just need you to tell me what is the name of Greenland's capital? What is the capital of Greenland? Does this start with a you? I'll give you a hint. It has two consecutive ewes in it. Oh, that's what.

Your brain went to you. Went to use. Chris. Vacuum. I love the way you're thinking. It's like, I'm thinking of, Nauru. Oh, you're so close, Karen. Nuke. It is Nuke. You pulled it out. You pulled it out, Karen. Well done.

Closer to Nook sounds like from the pronunciation guides that I found. Yeah. So Nook, Greenland population, just over 20,000 people, which sounds very small, and it is for a capital city, but that is more than a third of the entire populace of Greenland lives in Nook. Nook is also the Greenlandic word for Cape, like the geographic feature, like Cape of Goodhorn. Cape Town, right, exactly. Cape Hatteras, right. So you see it a lot, I guess, in Greenlandic place names, but that's just by itself for the capital city. Nook. Well done. Pulled it out, Karen. Wow.

You're no greenhorn to trivia, Karen. All right. I have our next green guest here. a very short segment, but something that I came across and I want to share with you, it is the world's most painful plant. Oh. Okay. Yes, it earned the name of the most painful plant. This plant is called the Gimpy Gimpy plant.

No. It sounds so silly and wacky. So Dr. Seuss. Yeah. G-Y-M-P-I-E. Wow. G-M-P-I-E. Guess.

Guess, just take a wild guess where what country or continent is this plant from? Has to be. It has to be. I feel it in my bones. It's Australia. It is Australia. Yeah. Australia.

Never lets you down. The leaves look normal to the naked eye, but the leaves are covered with tiny, tiny, micro hairs. It's kind of similar to what we call stinging nettles. You know, they have these plants with like really fine furrows. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They sting you. That pain, experts have described it as even just brushing against the leaf or the plant.

Just mildly touching it. It's not eating it. It's not like rubbing it in your face. Just even touching it. Quote, like being burned by hot acid and electrocuted at the same time. Oh, my God. That's what botanists are saying. Nice.

And it sheds. In the summertime, it's like, I got to grow a new coat, sheds all these. So you don't even have to touch the plant. If you're close to it and some of the needles end up near your skin on your skin. It's just hit into the air. Oh, my God. Imagine if you breathed it in, it's so unbearably painful. And part of the danger of the plant is that the pain doesn't go away.

You know, you get like stung by a bee and you're like, ouch. And then you're like, you're done for a couple. hours, maybe an allergic reaction, okay. But because the needles are so fine, they can burrow and get stuck in your skin. And it's, it's so fine, you can't tweez them out. So what do you do? You just live with the pain. Oh, my God. Oh, man. You either live with the pain or what they, they say is the proper way to get the needles out is you, you give your, you wax. You take hot wax. Right. Like a Brazilian. Just strip off the layer of. And you strip off.

Can't do it individually because it's like the tweezers are just not going to be. Oh my gosh. There's been just so many Australian tales. There was a guy who had to poop in the woods and wiped his butt with a leaf. And there was a botanist. His name is Ernie Ryder. And he got accidentally whacked in the face on his chest. And it took two years to be finally free of that pain.

Oh, my gosh. God, two years. Like when you were saying like, okay, you just live with the pain, I was thinking like, all right, like a week. No. That's mind boggling. That the plant would even need to have that level of, you know, defense. Well, funny you should say that because though most things do feel pain from the gimpy-gimpy-gimpy, there are a couple animals, native local to Australia where it doesn't even affect them. Right, of course. One of these animals is called a patty melon. Okay. It's a cute name for a cute animal, P-A-D-E-Mellon, M-E-L-O-N. It's not a melon. It is like a miniature little kangaroo, and it eats the Gimpy Gimpy Plant. Not only does it touch it, it eats it. Wow. And it's

totally fine. And then it helps it grow, right? By pooping out the seeds or something. Right. It's like Yol-Soo. Right. So be warned if you're in the rainforest of Eastern Australia. Okay. Don't wipe your butt with any leaves you find. Noted. You know what? Just maybe.

I'm not going to wipe my boat with any leaves at all. Just don't poop. Just don't bring. Rainforest, Eastern Australia. Just don't poop at all. It's just not even worth the risk. Yeah. Yeah.

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Smooth puzzles. Smart trivia. Good job, brain. We're back this week. We're talking about green stuff. So, Chris, what's green? I've got a green-themed music quiz. for everybody. The theme is green. What does that mean? We're going to find out. I'm going to play some

songs for you. Your job is to identify the singer. These songs go all the way back to 1970, the year of the first Earth Day, and all the way up to 2024. As a solving hint, we're going to do these in chronological order, and I'll provide you with the year of the performance. So grab those barnyard buzzers, get ready for a round of music. So we got, we got Karen actually on the soundboard. Maestro, please. Song number one, name the human being singing this song. It's not that easy being green.

Having to spend each day the color of the leaves. Aw. When I think it could be nicer being red, her yellow. gold or something much more colorful like that. Colin, I think, was faster on the draw there. That is Jim Henson in the character of Kermit the Frog. Oh, that's my guess. Jim Henson, yes, who provided the voice for Kermit the Frog singing.

The song is called Being Green, actually. Yeah. Oh, not. Not, it's not easy or it's not that easy being green. No, the title of the song is Being Green. Being Green. But we just wanted the performer, and there you go. All right.

a blast off to 1973 now with song number two. Spockles in the water, stars in the stars. Colin. Is that Mr. Van Morrison? That is Mr. Van Morrison himself. Wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sounds like him, yeah.

Yeah. Not brown-eyed girl. No, that's Van Morrison singing a song titled Being Green. Are all these songs being green? So song number three also is from 1973. Name the singer. The greener of spring. And green can be big for important like a mountain.

You got to. It's really familiar. Karen. Julie Andrew. That is Julie Andrews. Unmistakably, Julie Andrews. Singing a song titled, Be in Creole. Green.

Such a, such a Chris, such a Chris Golder, please. Let's go to a, uh, to a live performance from a, 1974 song. All right. All right. All right. Having to spend each day the color of the leaves.

When I think, I think it will be nicer being red. Or yellow. or gold. Oh, man. What years? 74, you said. It didn't sound like,

my first, my first instinct was like Diana Ross. You know what? I thought of the stop in the name. It sounds like, is that, is the Supremes? I should say,

as a hint, it is Diana Ross. Oh, all right. to stop you right there. Okay. In the name of all of. We're getting credit for our first answer.

Diana Ross. Okay. Singing being green. Gotta be confident. Yes. It was Diana Ross. Yeah, very good. Well, well spotted.

Well spotted. Let's go to 1975, 1975. Oh, God, I was still in the 70s. With another, another singer, name the singer, song number five. Oh, you're talking like a mountain. Oh. Like a tree An extraordinary

Brob Your performance Wow amazing That's so good Karen Ray Charles Ray Charles Yes He just knows a good song

When he hears it That song was Sorry before you That song was titled Be in Green Go on Who wrote Did Jim Henson

Write the song? He he did what song which one the first one or the Ray Charles one he wrote so the song be in greet no it was not it was not written by Jim Henson okay okay I believe it was

written for Kermit the Frog oh yeah yeah yeah I see I see right right that makes sense anyway okay moving on song number six from 1990 whoa big jump jumping ahead big jump okay

I am green and it'll do fine because it's beautiful and I think it's what I really want to be Colin is that Tony Bennett that is not Tony Bennett

that is not Tony Bennett This is and I'm sure you've seen the memes He had diabetes Oh, Wilford Brimley It was Billford Brimley What is he doing singing this song, Chris? You know what? Apparently, he is just a tremendous singer also.

If you listen to it, it's quite good. It's quite good. And in 1990, he put out his album titled, I'm Old Fashioned, which he's like fly fishing on the cover, you know. Wow. Whittling something or another. At that point, he was 37 years old. I mean, famously, he was only 49 years old and he was a little bit of cocoon, right, playing a the brim.

The elderly person on the verge of dying. Right. Right. So I'm approaching the brimley line fast. Wow. But no, that was a song. That was a B and Green was the title of the song. So title or song number seven also from a 1990 solo album, name the, again, this person, better

known to, I'll ask you to name a singer, better known as an actor slash, I think even Broadway performer. Okay. When green is all there is to be. It can make you wonder why. But why wonder, why wonder? I am green and it'll do fine. it's beautiful

Karen not even waiting I think she has it I know he I know he did a cover of the Kermit song Uh huh Uh huh Is this Enigo Montoya

This is Inigo Montoya Mandy Pating Mandi Pettinkin Oh my God I mean he's soft and high pitched Part of the original production of Evita He certainly was In no slouch

Yeah being green Yeah that's title of the song. Let's jump ahead to 1998 song number eight. There's something much more colorful than that. It's not easy being green. It seems you blending with so many other ordinary things. Who's going to buzz in on it, though? Colin, please, please.

Is that Mr. Tony Bennett? That is that finally, finally, Mr. Tony Bennett. It's not the fake Tony Bennett. Yeah. Wilford Brimley was Tony Bennett. Phony Bennett. A real phony Bennett.

Yeah. This is the real Tony Bennett singing, being green. Song number nine, this one comes from the year 2012. Seems to blend in with so many other orders. ordinary things and people tend to pass you over because you're not standing out like flashy sparkles on the water or stars in the sky Karen anything this performer was singing this song for perhaps a reason maybe there was an ironic reason that he was singing this one because he's not green he's not colored green

Is his name green? Is it, was it, was it, Colin? Was it, was it, Celo Green? It was Celo Green. Oh my God. Come on now. I feel unmistakable voice of Cilo Green.

Yes, okay. He is very, he is very, all right. All right. Well, I didn't, I didn't mistake it. No, not at all. Not at all. That was Cilo Green. Wow. Singing about being Cilo Green.

Next to Kermit, who was regular Green, touching duet on the show the voice of the song. Oh, because he was the judge. Yes, indeed, indeed. You finally come to song number 10. This is a performance from the year 2024. Let's have a listen to the final number. Cut of slime and green can be gross and moldy life.

That's true. And green can be smelly like a stinkweed. Or angry like an alligator or sour like a pickle. Yeah. Karen. First note. Really? Really?

Oh, yeah. You hear her voice. Yeah, okay. I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know who the other person is, though. Well, the other person is Oscar the Grand. It sounded like Oscar.

Yeah. Also green. Also green. Yes, yes, yes. Cynthia Arrivo. It was indeed the transcendent. Cynthia Are you know she's green from Alpaba. That was going to be the hint that she ironically was also seeing this song for a reason

because she too was green in the film, Wicked, colon, a tale of a green lady who found that it was not easy being green. Well, good job, everybody. That was great. That great, great job compiling and researching that one too. Like, that was great Chris quiz. That was good. Once I, I think I started there and realized that there were so many covers from so many

recognizable. I didn't even do Frank Sinatra. I knew there was a synodra. I was bracing myself because I thought that you might put the Sonatra version. Yeah. I didn't even do it. And I'm like, gosh, I've got so much. I didn't need to do old green eyes.

Wow. I just went ahead and everybody else. Broadway knowledge is the key. gift that keeps on giving. I think it truly is, yes. If you don't have a Broadway person on your Pub Quiz team, yeah, you are leaving points on the table. You need a Broadway person. That's true. Yep, yep. Yep. Yay. That was fun. Woo. 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 grownups.

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 about being green, maybe turning green.

So I've been recovering from being sick for a week now. And I haven't gone into the office because I had strep throat. And that's very, very contagious. But yesterday, I finally went into the office. And around like 2 p.m., I was like, you know, I'm in the mood for bubble tea. Something cold, something refreshing, give me some energy of light. me up. So I walked across the street. I swear, this is related to our topic. So I walked across the street. This is my order. Fresh grapefruit, honey tea with coconut jelly, some ice, 30% sweet.

Then it was time to leave the office. And I hopped on the bus. I take the bus. My total bus ride is about like 40 to 50 minutes. In the bus, I'm settled in. I got a seat. I pull out my phone. And I got back reading this heated rivalry fanfic where Shane Hollander starts a hockey podcast after his retirement. Anyways, maybe within five minutes, I was like, oh no, I already was getting motion sickness. I was already feeling car sick. On the bus, you do stop and go. It's rush hour. I'm like hunched over reading little text on my phone.

Yeah, the reading is a trigger for a lot of people. I'm old enough now to know that like once you get that initial car sick nausea, you can't get rid of it until you get off the bus or get out of the car and you're standing on the ground. All you're trying to do is not make it worse. Put my phone down. I'm like, okay, can't read this fanfic anymore. I'm just fighting for my life, trying to get it together. Naja is setting in every time my heart.

heartbeats. I feel it in my skull. My mouth is salivating. Oh, that's that for me, that's the red line. Like when I feel that like I like that's like yeah, the red lights are going off. Oh no. Oh, man. And all I want to do is throw up, but I can't because I'm on the bus. Oh, man. Finally, I get home, rush to the bathroom and I proceeded to barf up that entire grapefruit tea. Oh, wow. And all its glory. And you know what? Grapefruit tastes the same. coming out as it did. Bidirectional. Was it good?

I was sick with something like two days ago and I was like, oh, I'm going to throw up. I'm going to throw up. But I didn't, I hadn't eaten dinner because I wasn't feeling well. But I had some like leftover orange chicken for lunch. This was hours later, you know what I mean? But I threw up and I was like, huh, it doesn't actually taste that bad coming up. That was like a refreshing citrus. Like that wasn't like, you know, harsh.

acidic or anything like that. They should put that on the bottle. They should. It's like, yeah, tastes is good coming up as it does going down. Yeah, I'm tasting it twice. Yeah. I'm a bang for my buck. Yeah.

Obviously, this was a very harrowing adventure, except this happens to me almost on a daily basis. Because I have to commute. Oh, my God. Yeah, okay. I get carsick so easily. Not even just the bus. In a passenger seat of a car on a boat, I've accepted that this is my fate and this is my life.

No matter what kind of moving vehicle, roller coaster, whatever, I tend to get green around the gills. Ah, yes, yes, yes. Green about the gills, green around the gills, turning green. There's that one emoji that's like a face. Yes. There's a barf emoji, but there's, yes. And there's the- It's the pre-bar of emoji.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the whole face is green. So that's what I'm thinking of. So in the spirit of turning green, the subpoed, let's dive in and talk about what causes motion sickness. What's happening to your body? It has been documented throughout the entire human history, through many civilizations.

Whenever people invented and used a moving thing to travel, carts, carriages, rafts, boats, there was motion sickness. There was motion sickness and nausea. In fact, nausea, care to guess the root of the word? Nautical. Yes.

Nause, not nautical. Ship. Ship is in the name. I never, ever, ever put that together until you. Nautical, argonauts, you know, naming, nautilus. Yes, so the gna is ship. Jha is sickness.

So ship sickness. Let me ask you guys this. What's your understanding of why we get motion sickness, car sickness? I mean, I think I either thought or was told or both that, you know, it was related to like the inner ear. Your balance gets off and it's your visual input is not matching what your body is telling you. Well, so scientists are still not 100% sure. But we have some solid theories. Remember back in the episode 306.

about rocks. I had a question about otoconia, which is the tiny, tiny crystals. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Inner ear detects motion tells you, tells your brain which way is up. Your inner ear senses balance and motion. What you're describing, Colin,

is the widely accepted theory. It's called sensory conflict theory. Is that you're presented with two different states or perception of motion. Your vision is one thing, and your inner ear is one thing and they're disagreeing on what is happening. When you're in a car,

your vision senses that you're still in a enclosed space. But then your body senses, I'm moving 60 miles per hour on a bumpy terrain. And so those two things don't match up causing the car sickness. And the opposite is true too.

So say like in VR, your vision is sensing a lot of motion and movement, but your inner ear knows that you're not really, moving. And so when the mismatch happens, that's the sensory conflict. And so this is why people tell you to look at the horizon when you're when you're in a car so that your vision and your inner ear can reach some sort of closer agreement in what the motion actually is. That's probably that's the reason why the driver of a car doesn't get car sick because they're looking out on the road. And so what they're seeing is more accurate and in tune with the actual motion that they're

feeling in their inner ear. Yeah, yeah. My wife who gets, who gets car sick in particular and motion sick more broadly. Yeah, like, whenever we would be on a little twisty road or something, she's like, I have to drive. It's the only way to mitigate the car sickness, yeah, to be in the control. It'd be so much worse if she was in the passenger seat, but if she was driving, she could, she could, you know, keep it together. Yeah. Yep, yep. So the Artemis, too, mission happened earlier in April. And imagine what they have to deal with because there's the absence of gravity. Oh, geez, yeah.

They call it space sickness. Astronauts indeed get space sickness. And NASA has very strict and comprehensive prepared protocol on what happens if you puke in space. Once they're in zero G, their sense of motion is so out of whack that they can even hallucinate motion. Like they can feel like they're spinning when they're not even moving. They can feel like their bodies are turning or turned around, but nothing's happening. Oh, weird. So their bodies are like hallucinating.

And it makes sense because their otoconia, their ear crystals can't settle. Like in space, they're floating too. Eventually with more time in that environment, astronauts, their brains starts to downplay the inner ear signals and relies more on vision cues for orientation. Okay, because it can trust it more. But still, it's not a fun time. Okay. So we kind of have an idea of what causes motion sickness, right? Motion sickness happens when our vision and inner ear senses are in conflict with each other.

But why is the effect nausea? Yeah. Yeah. Why is the solution? Let me get rid of all the food in here. Yeah. Why is our body's natural response puking? So we're not, again, we're not.

100% dead on sure, but this is the best theory we got. Your brain thinks you're being poison. Poison. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, there's neurotoxins in your body because your senses are all messed up. It's like, like a poisonous mushroom. The brain comes to the conclusion that you're hallucinating.

You got a foreign substance that's doing damage. You've got to get it out. Yes. And the fastest way, the most effective. way to eject and get that poison out is puking. You know, like pooping still takes days. Right, right, right, yeah. Yeah.

We need a right now solution, body. Yeah, what do we got? It's the only sort of short-term immediate, you know, anti-poison action your body could take. And I'll tell you, after you puke, you do feel better. You do. Chris, on a very early episode of Good Job Brain, you talked about scopolamine, medical patches. that you put on your body and it releases scopolamine and it helps you with nausea. There's dramamine.

Uh-huh. It started out as a potential treatment for hay fever and for allergy and for hives, similar to the Viagra story where it was a medication that was intended for one thing. Yeah. They found out it was really good at this other thing. So supposedly for hay fever, but then they realized that. people who were getting the drug, including like a pregnant woman who had motion sickness and really bad morning sickness said that, wow, this drug made me sick anymore.

I was wondering, yeah, what's the step? Who's the first person? Okay, right. Yeah. They're like, oh, that's interesting. And they did more tests. They did tests on soldiers being shipped at sea. You know, some people had a placebo.

Some people took dramamine before the voyage. Some people took it only when they felt symptoms. And it was very clear that this. drug helped with nausea. And I don't know if you guys seen it in social media. This is a big TikTok craze where people wear these crazy, wacky looking glasses. And the glasses are two perfect circles around your eyes. And in the circle, in the frame of the glasses, they build in a fluid, colored fluid at the half line point. Okay. And so as you move your head, the fluid on Oh, it keeps it level? Yes. It's basically

creating a fake horizon. Yeah. Yeah, sure. That is in your peripheral vision. So it gives you a sense of where the horizon, where the motion actually is. Some people swear by them. Some people are like, it doesn't work for me. So if you're like me who suffer from motion sickness very easily, there's no hope. There's just degrees of bad. There's just knowing that your brain thinks you're being poison. And that's our show. Thank you all for joining me and thank you listeners for listening and hope you learned stuff today about car sickness, about being green, about the Sorvostky Shrek. Yes. Get yours now. Get yours now. You can find us on all major podcast apps and on our website, good job, brain.com. This podcast is part of Airwavemedia podcast network. Visit

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