Good Job, Brain! - 314: Violet! You're Turning Violet, Violet!

Episode Date: September 2, 2026

Here we are, at the end of our rainbow, rolling in the pot of trivia about our final color. So what is violet and how is it different from purple? Attention ravers, haunted house goers, and hotel bed worriers, Karen's got an ultra quiz about ultra violet light! Get sweet with violet mints and facts about PEZ dispensers. Play Chris' word game "Purple Prose" and get our your pistils for a flowery name quiz. 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. Prating, purposeful, purposes, pursuing perplexity. Welcome to Good Job Brain, your weekly quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. This is episode 314. And of course, I'm your humble host, Karen. And we are your pariscial participants parkoring parabolic parabolicly over chicken parmesan. I am Colin. And I am indeed perspiring, as you said.

And I'm Chris, also perspiring. Well, let's start off with our first general trivia segment pop quiz, hot shot. Here I have two random trivia cards and you guys have your barnyard buzzers. And let's answer some questions, listeners, answer along the cards I have for today are Trivial Pursuit 90s and Trivial Pursuit Baby Boomer. Baby Boomer. All right. Take bets on which card will do better.

Let's start with Baby Boomer. First question, Blue Wedger for TV. What did Barney Fife carry in his left shirt pocket? Oh, Colin? I know this because I watch this show and reruns. He carried Barney Fife in his pocket.

He carried the bullets to his gun because he didn't want to have a loaded gun on him. Okay, okay. Who is Barney Fife? Of course, Donnott's on Andy Griffith. Andy Griffith. Yeah.

Oh, okay. Yeah. Wow. Yes, right. What were they looking for? Bullets, is that? Just his bullet. His bullets.

Yeah. His bullet. Yeah. It was because it was like some combination of either he wasn't explicitly allowed or he didn't trust himself even. Right, right, right. Very Barney Fife. Yeah.

All right. Pink Wedge. What Basement Club was found at 10 Matthews Street in Liverpool before being demolished to make way for a railway station. Oh, cool. The Cabern Club? Yeah. The Cavern.

Oh, this is where the Beatles played? That's where the Beatles played a lot. Beatles rock band. That's a venue. There you go. The band that you might know from Beatles rock band. Yep, yep. They were a real band.

Yeah. Yep. Wow, I only knew it as a venue in a video game. Yep. That's funny. All right. Yellow Wedge. What city's World Fair opened its gates to the public on April 21st, 1962. Ooh.

Okay, 62. 62. You'll be able to deduce. Yeah. Oh, okay. All right. Okay. Colin, you buzzed in. Man, 62. There's a thing that was built. Yeah.

Was it Seattle? Was it Seattle and the space needle built for that? There we go. Nice. Okay. All right. You know what? Space Needle? Still very cool. Very cool. It is. It is. I like it. Yeah. Moving on for Gold Wedge. What magazine debuted its Canadian Corner in March 1974 issue. Wow. What magazine debuted its Canadian Corner? Okay. Canadian Corp. Okay. So it's going to be a big American magazine.

Right, right, right. That now has. Okay. What are you got? Playboy. That was my first guest. No, it's not. 1974. I don't. Oh, I mean, okay, Colin, before you say anything.

Okay, okay. Could we be talking about like liquor or something like that, you know, like our Canadian products? No. Okay. But I can see how. Like, why would they? I know the answer. It's easy for me.

Be like, oh, yeah, I can see it. Why specifically do they need a Canadian corner in 1974? I don't know. I was going to just say Readers Digest, but I had no real reasoning. National Lampoon. Oh. National Lampoon. Okay.

Okay. Lots of funny. I feel like I was close. Yeah. Canada too. From those like, yeah, comedy writer circle. Yeah. Fatsly well known for producing a lot of great, you know, comedy stars in that.

Yep, yep, yeah. All right. Green Wedge. How many? inches shorter is little Richard's right leg that is left. Wow, is this common knowledge? Colin.

Two. Incorrect, Chris. I can't be like, how many could it be? You guys were so confident and buzzing in. Three. Always guessed three. It's three. I should have said three.

Colon and action. Well, he's dead more so. Yeah. Orange Wedge. Who wrote the only non-Lennon McCartney song on the Sergeant Pepper album? Colin? Is that Mr. Ringo Starr? I believe it is, right?

It says George Harrison. Oh, really? Oh, well, Ringo. Okay, so Ringo performed with a little help for my friends that you're thinking up, but maybe he didn't write it. Yeah, okay, okay. Yeah, okay, all right, I'll believe it. All right, next card.

You guys did really well. Here we go. Trivial Pursue 90s. Blue Wedge. What rapper was hit with a $10 million defamation suit for saying his mom Debbie was a drug abuser? Colin? I believe that is.

M&M. Marshall Mathers, correct. Pink Wedge. What sitcom spoofed Austin Powers by hiring four-foot-tall Debbie Lee Carrington to play Minnie Meen. Oh. Oh.

No question. The Drew Carey show. Yes, yes. Oh, me, me, me, me, okay, right. Yellow Wedge, who was Bill Clinton's first edition to the Supreme Court? Ooh. Chris? Ginsburg.

Yes. Yeah. Yes, RBG, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Very nice. Purple Wedge. What did Taco Bell announce it would rename the Liberty Bell for an April Fool's Day gag? I do remember this. gag. Okay. Was it like

wordplay, puns? I mean, it's taco bell. Just the taco bell. Yeah, the taco liberty bell. The taco liberty bell. Okay. All right, don't overthink it, Colin. Yeah, it's a weird question. Yeah, yeah, yeah, because all of the answer is in the question. Right, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That seems too easy

just to work salad it. All right, Green Wedge. What one named musician took the stage at Woodstock 99 wearing nothing but his bass. Ooh, Chris. Flea. Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers, famously performing.

It's not Cher. Yeah. It's not sting. It's not the edge. Yeah, I mean, it could be a sting, bass player, right. It could be. It could be, but we think about it. Hold on.

Is his name The Edge or Edge? I don't know. I'm not an authority. I'm not an authority. Let's look it up. That's two words. I think it's the edge, right? If I have to put money down

Well, I said it wasn't the edge. I'm just curious. I'll say the edge. I'll say two words, yeah. It's the edge. Okay, all right. It's not a mononym. Oh, known by stage name the edge or simply edge.

He gets seven both ways. Last question here. Chris, you're not allowed to answer this question for Orange Wedge. Colin only. Oh, dear. Okay. Colin, what hip hop Puppy starred in the first PlayStation game to give players credit for just keeping the beat.

Okay. Hip-hop puppy, the rhythm or beat game is, I would be, I'd be ashamed if I didn't say, is this Parapa the rapper? Yes, Parapa the rapper. All right. Good job, Brains. Good job, Colin Parapa the Rapa. I want to bring you guys a piece of news that just happened today as we were recording this in the world of collectible video games, which you talked a little bit about. We have a brand new record, actually totally smashing the record for the most expensive collectible video game ever sold. The previous record was in the sort of like COVID-induced, you know,

sort of like massive price inflation that happened like across all collecting categories. video games included when a copy of Super Mario Brothers, a sealed copy of the first Super Mario Brothers was sold for $2 million. It's the weirdest thing. That one was sold by, it's a fractional investment site called Rally, where basically they say we have this collectible. You can buy shares in the collectible and then sell it. And if somebody offers money for it,

everybody with a share votes if they want to sell it. And so then basically they sold the, game for $2 million and all the people got paid out. But that was the highest recorded sale. Well, Heritage Auctions, they just put up for sale. It's, I don't want to get too into the weeds, but the earliest NES games that came out in 1985, 1986, when the Nintendo Entertainment System first came out, they didn't shrink wrap the games.

And this is probably because they didn't, they don't shrink wrap boxed games in Japan. They never did. But in the U.S., I think they thought, well, we got. got to do something. We can't just have this open box. So they sealed the box. They took a little Nintendo, a little round sticker that had the Nintendo logo on it and they just put it over the flap of the box. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. So if you take it off, it says void underneath it, you know, that's how they sealed them. Not for very long because eventually they were like, we got to shrink wrap these boxes totally up, you know. So these early, early prints, if you think about it as being like the first

printing of a book with the sticker seal are very rare to find in especially in good condition because they were never shrink wrapped which means that the boxes if the box is rubbing up against something even if it's sealed all that kind of stuff right right right so recently somebody in their i think in their attic found that somebody had bought a brand new nes system you know back in the day and they opened up the brand new nes system and there was a sticker sealed copy of Super Mario Brothers inside it. And it had been in the styrofoam the last 40 years. And they sent it into a grading company.

It got graded a 9.6 out of 10, which is just unbelievable for like one of these. And this was the first time that a sticker sealed, very early print of Super Mario Brothers had ever come up for public auction. And it was auctioned today. and it hit $3 million. It nailed, actually just hit $3 million right on the mark. Do we know who bought it? I don't know who bought it.

I don't know if it's a person. I don't know if it's an investment fund. Like, who knows when you start talking about this? I know that Alexis O'Hanian was in on the bidding and was trying to get it because he had said on social media that he tried. But even Alexis was not able. I got outbid. So yeah, it was pretty crazy. But it's really, truly, it's like there's only a few of these that are actually even in sealed

condition at all. And this was the highest graded. So it's like, it's sort of like the action comics number one of video games, basically. Yeah. In that, of course, there's millions of copies of Super Mario Brothers out there because the cartridges themselves are very durable. A lot of people kept the boxes. But to have that first printing actually still, if you're out there, if you're out there,

there and you have Nintendo Entertainment System games like US ones that are sealed with a Nintendo sticker over the flap and you're not in Canada because in Canada they actually did that for a really long time for their games for whatever reason

but you may be sitting on a lot of money so please send them to me thank you but yeah so now if anybody asks highest price of single video game is now $3 million. That is a great trivia night public question. Yeah.

Absolutely. Yep. Ooh, I'm going to talk about collectibles in a little bit. All right. To our topic for this week. This week's topic, we're talking about things that are violet. Wow.

Violent? Things that are violent. Violet. How specific? So this week, Violet, you're turning violet, violet. it. Chris, on our last episode, you talked about how we can pretty much thank Sir Isaac Newton for our classic seven names for the colors of our rainbow, you know, the Roy G. Biv colors.

And, you know, in looking at the names of those colors, of course, some of them are directly named after things in the world. Right. And orange. Right. Ultimately, it comes from the fruit, the orange, very straightforward. As we discussed. Indigo from the dye, right?

Yeah. And violet, in case it wasn't obvious, violet is taken from the flower of the same name, the flower violet, known for just that color, Sir Isaac, you know, smart enough to just go with what works, call it violet. Even before we ended up seemingly purely by chance doing an episode about the color violet,

it was already a fascinating color name to me coming into that, into that segment. Because in my life, I've met people before with the name or the nickname red or the nickname blue of their nicknames. They're not usually their given name, not saying they don't exist. But the other colors are not really commonly used for people's names except for violet. So I was like, ooh, like, you know, this is kind of cool. Violet is like the triple threat. It's, you know, it's the flower name in the real world.

It's the color name, the namesake. And it's a people name. And it got me thinking about other names from flowers in particular. So now I want to encourage you not to say any flower names out loud. They may be on my quiz here. We've already said violet, of course. But I'm sure you will take my word for it that in English, as well as many other languages, there are a great many names for people, usually girls and women, that are directly

taken from flower names. So with that, I have assembled a quiz for you guys. Every question on this quiz will revolve around someone real or maybe fictional. Okay. With a flower name.

I'm going to rock this. You know, Karen, you may well rock this. We'll do this as a buzz-in quiz because I'm confident in both you guys knowing the answers to these quizzes. So we'll bring some speed to make a little interesting maybe. I promise you that at least one of the, at least one of the people in this quiz will be named Violet.

All right. But not all of them. But who? But at least one. Get your buzzers ready. Here we go. In October 1997, Violet Palmer made history for the NBA by doing what? For the NBA.

For the NBA. Not the WNBA. The NBA. What was the date? In October 1997, Violet Palmer made history for the NBA by doing what? For the NBA. Not like during a game. Chris.

Well, refereeing? She's the first female referee in the NBA. That's right. Violet Palmer, she was the first female official in an NBA regular season game. That's right. Yeah. And not only that, but the first female official at the top level of any U.S. pro sport. So kind of a double breakthrough. Yeah. And she worked games for a long time. She only retired in 2016. I don't mean to chuckle when I say it, but she retired due to knee issues.

You know, I mean, just like an referee. You absolutely do. You're running up and down, officiating is hard on the body. Yeah, yeah, no doubt. All right. Moving right along. I am a cartoon character, and my first appearance was in a short titled Porky's Romance. Who am I? Oh, you both got it, but I think I heard Karen first. Petunia Pig. Yes, Karen.

I am Petunia Pig. I am Petunia Pig. It was all the way back in 1937 when I met my first appearance. Yeah, I was surprised. she was only in a handful of appearances of the original, you know, Looney Tunes and the Merry Melodies shorts because it makes sense, the more I read about it, like for better for worse, her fate was sort of tied to Porky Pigs fate, right?

Yeah, yeah. And just to, you know, not to put too fine a point on it, petunia pig was Porky Pigs, you know, significant other. So, yeah, as Porky got kind of less famous or settled into sort of a B-roll, or playing off of Bugs and Daffy as Bugs and Daffy kind of took over. It also meant a few opportunities for Petunia to appear at all.

So yeah, she's like one of those characters where she's had a much higher profile life in all the many years of spinoffs and reboots and movies and video games of all of the classic Warner Brothers animation. So there's a girl counterpart for Porky Petunia. There's Lola Bunny

who's the female counterpart of Bugs Bunny. Is there a female counterpart of Daffy Duck? Oh, Karen, I would turn to you if this question came up in trivia. Like Daphneed duck? Oh, it's too close. Too close. It's going to get confused. Girl Daffy Duck.

Okay. So says here Daffy Duck does have a prominent girlfriend and her name is Tina Rousseau, full name. Oh, sure. And she's like a duck. she's not like, she doesn't look that much like him. Okay. All right. All right.

I started my acting career with small roles on TV series like Toast of London and Silent Witness. Oh, and I also starred in the highest grossing film of 2015. Whoa. Chris. It's got to be, well, it doesn't have to be, but maybe it's Daisy Ridley. It is indeed. Okay. Daisy Riddle.

The Toast of London. Yes, Toast of London with Matt Barry on that show. Yes, numerous, numerous TV roles and then some smaller film roles before absolutely breaking out in 2015 as Ray, of course, in the film Star Wars, The Force Awakens. Yes, now you know the rest of the story, yada, yada, yada. Marigold is a classic flower name for girls. A little old-timey, in fact. I almost name my kid. Marigold. So, you know, so Karen Marigold for years never ever broke the top 1,000 most common names

for girls, right, in the U.S. until 2021. It broke into the top 1,000. And it's been gaining steam the last few years, in fact. The namologists kind of point to the Renaissance in the Merigold name. After a British TV show introduced a character with that name in 2014 for the point and the question, what British TV show is credited in 2014 with sparking the Merigold Renaissance. Okay, I think I know. Karen. Oh, okay. I'm guessing.

If Chris goes, I'm guessing. Okay. You should say it, though. Downton Abbey? That is what I was going to say. You're both correct. It is Mountain Abbey. Yeah.

I know nothing about the show, but... I know very little, but I'm like, yeah, I think that's it. I don't know if this is like spoiler territory. What British TV show would spark it all over the world? Yeah. In 2014, yeah. So it started rising, right? I mean, again, the numbers I'm giving you are, you know, U.S.,

but like, you know, fewer than 100 baby girls given the name Marigold in the U.S. in 2014 or 15. And then rising in 2022, it was ranked 826 out of 1,000. Last year in 2025, it was ranked 590 out of a thousand. Yeah, that corresponds to 498 girls, apparently, given the name. That's not a lot. It's not a lot, yeah. No, I'm getting all this data, by the way, from the Social Security Administration.

You can look to stuff up yourself online. Great way to waste some time if you're a huge nerd. I know you are. You all are. Yeah, it's great. Great use of the internet. You can go find, you know, name range. for baby names over the last, as long as they've been keeping this data, basically.

Yeah. Sorry. I have an asterisk here to myself in the notes that before we move on, I would be remiss if I did not mention that, yes, all you downtown Abby fans who are screaming at me on the show, the legend herself, Dame Maggie Smith, portrays a character named Violet. The Dowager Countess herself is Violet. So I want to just get that, you know, clear the air. I'm aware.

I'm aware. Yes, she, we got the violet connection. All right. I am a classic TV character, and though I live in Miami, my heart belongs to my hometown of St. Olaf, Minnesota. Karen.

Oh, but what is her last name? I'm looking for the full name here, if you can provide that. I can back you up, Karen. All right. Tag team in here if you guys need to. You say the first name, I'll say the last name. Rose?

Nyland. Nyland. You got it. Rose, Nylend. Very Scandinavian. Yep, yep, yep. As portrayed on the Golden Girls, the classic TV show by the one, the only, Betty White. All right, bringing it up a little more current here.

Last summer, summer of 2025. Okay. This power ballad from 1998 with a flower-related name made it to the top of the streaming charts, in part due to a TikTok. revival. What song is this? Okay, okay. Okay. Say it all.

Yeah. You got to reread it. Yeah. Last summer. This power ballad from 1998 with a flower-related name made it all the way to the top of the streaming charts in part due to a TikTok

revival. What song? What song is this? It was a hit in its own day. I'm going to give it to you. Don't worry. Okay, all right, Chris, take us home here. What do we got? Kiss from a Rose. Oh, I was going to guess that.

It is not. Baby! No. I'm shocked. Well, he already had a rose question. This song was also, it's true. It's true. It is not, however, Kissed Rose.

This is also featured, it was also featured in the Deadpool and Wolverine movie. Oh, maybe it's like a name. Yeah, it has to be a name. A girl's name. Yeah, it does. It does. It was the. number nine song on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100

nominated for the Grammys for record of the year. Number one in Australia and Canada, they made a lot of money. And I don't want the world to see me. Iris? It is. Iris. Who, Karen, he pulled it down. Iris by, of course, by the Goo Goo Dolls. Yeah. Did it. I did it.

Yeah. They're getting a nice little, yeah, royalties bump. I mean, you know, such as it is. Yeah, good for them. Yeah, good for them. Good for them. And I want you to know who I am. All right. Speaking about big money here, I am an actor with a career spanning five decades.

In 1970, I turned down half a million dollars to appear in an AT&T commercial as my character, Ernestine, the telephone operator. Who am I? Oh, Chris, no hesitation. Oh, yeah, no, not at all. No, this is Lily Tomlin. You got it. It is. That's right.

That's right. Lily Tomlin. Yeah, Lily Tomlin. She's an EGT. She's got seven Emmy Awards. She got two Tonys. She got the Grammy. She was nominated for the Ah.

That's right. Yeah. For what? Her nomination was for Nashville, the Altman movie from 1975. Yeah. So she's A.B. ABO all but Oscar Lily Yeah

All right last one Close it out here You guys have I think nailed them all so far I am a singer And although my debut album Be Sweet to me Was only just released Last month

I've performed multiple times With my very famous parent Who am I Oh Karen, no hesitation What do we got? Are we doing flowers or also plants? Flowers. Is this blue ivy Carter?

It is not Blue Ivy Carter. I was sort of thinking the same thing. I'm like, is that town is a flower? Maybe it does. I'm a singer. I'm a singer, and although my debut album, Be Sweet to Me, was only just released last month. I performed multiple times with my very famous parent.

Who am I? Per rent. Give you a hint if you want. Last month, debut album. She's performed live. She's been on some recorded tracks with her father. Well, I just assumed this person would be fairly young to have a debut. She's 20 years old.

20 years old with a rha. Be sweet. All right. I will take you guys over the finish line here. I'm looking for Violet Grohl, the daughter. Oh. I was thinking, is it Dave Roll's daughter? But I have no idea.

I should have just said Violet Grohl. Yeah. Violet girl. Brought it home with a violet. Brought her home with a violet. No violet Beauregard. Yes. Violet Grohl.

Yeah, no Violet Beauregard. I knew, Karen. I mean, it's too easy. There's, what a waste. There's no way I could construct a question around Violet Beauregard and not have you get it. So, yeah. Well, like, what did her father do? Oh, that's true.

I could. You're right. You're right. But we closed out with Violet Grohl. Yeah, that's where we saw. Oh, gosh. He was the car salesman. Yes.

Well done, guys. All right. Well, Colin, thank you for setting me up. Violet the flower. the first thing that came to mind, well, actually the second thing, the first thing I thought of was, of course, Viola Bogart from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

But the second thing that came to mind, violet flavored candies, like old, tiny, for some reason, people in the olden days love flour-flavored candy. I mean, not to say they don't exist now. Yeah. Victorian England love their,

their rose-flavored, violet-flavored, and it was such a common flavor to find, where nowadays it's like, who wants to eat something that tastes like soap? Right. But yes, violet-flavored candies were all the rage, and it's extracted from the violet flowers. And one of the most famous violet candies or confections that just sticks out in my mind is Choward's Violet Mintz. Yes. Or C. Howard, but it pronounced it together, Choward's Violet Mintz. It's almost like a long pack of stick gum, and it's in this purply foil packet. But when you open it, it's not like long pieces of gum. It's like a sleeve of little bricks, little mitt bricks.

Yes. Chalky mitt bricks. Stacked up together. I mean, look, they didn't have nerd clusters back then. They didn't have the technology advancement in candy making. You know, back then it was just like, let's compress some sugar powder. and that's, I guess that's delicious. So that sleeve of stacked mince may feel a little bit more similar to another candy

that we're probably more familiar with within our lifetime, which is Pez. Pez, before you get to play with the dispenser and have the candy come out of its neck, not the mouth, the neck. It is true. Yes. You first have to load it up with the sleeve of Pez that comes in a paper pack and a foil and you open it. It's like a sleeve of mint.

and you stack it and you load it up into the PEZ dispenser. So here I have a segment about PEZ, specifically about collectible PEZ. I know we have some collectors in the house here, hands up, both of you. So a little bit of history of PEZ, which is fascinating. And actually, I have to credit my husband who told me this fact maybe almost a year ago. And I've been trying to like work it into the show, but he was very proud that he's like, oh my God, let me tell you about what I heard. So Pez invented in Austria, still an Austrian company by this guy, Edward Haas, the third.

So Pez mints, like the chalky little brick mints, did exist before the dispenser. Right. And mince those days were packaged more like altruids. Like we're more familiar with like the tin box. Loose. You open it. They're loose. They're like shaky.

They make a lot of noise. but being a super germaphobe, Edward Haas, he didn't like the idea of, you know, offering mints and have other people's gross hands and fingers rummaging through the little tin box, right? He's like, he's super grossed out. He doesn't want to touch other people's in the box.

They're all the same. Don't need to touch them all. It's like the bread baths. Yeah, just take the one on top. They're all the same. Take the one on top. Yep, yep. I don't know why you're digging.

They don't get better on the mom. They're all the same. Yeah. They're all the same. This fear, his paranoia, inspired the invention of the famous mechanical single tablet dispenser. The first pez dispensers, you know, they looked more like cigarette lighters. They look more like lighters.

It was utilitarian, right? It didn't have a little cartoon head on it. Yeah, it was made out of metal. It's less of a novelty. But then it became obviously like, whoa, wow, we can make this a fun. thing and then the mint or the candy aspect kind of fell behind i watched an interview with christopher bench the vice president for collections at chris you know the strong national museum of play indeed he's the vice president for collections and he told a story during an interview about how pez famously

has not been inducted into the toy hall of fame every year it comes up and every year it comes up and every year gets passed on. Well, once, after another unsuccessful year of inducting Pez into the Toy Hall fame, a very upset, passionate Pez fan mailed a gift to the president of the strong National Museum of Play anonymously. A little box and inside of it was a decapitated Pez horse head. which is a reference to the godfather the godfather

being displeased about the outcome is the objection like to just because it's like it's food and not a toy or like what are the grounds here I don't know what the experts say I don't want to drum you into the that is that is the that is kind of the public consensus

is like well it's not a toy it's like a food dispenser but then again they've inducted like a stick right it's a toy it just so I'm actually on the board for the video game Hall of Fame yes I don't know about how the toy Hall of Fame works but if it's similar to the video game Hall of Fame it's just you know the strong comes up with nominees every year and then they reach out to the people who vote and there's sort of criteria um for longevity you know is this like a flash in the pan I mean obviously the pez dispenser absolutely has a lot of longevity right I mean they've they've been selling them and kids love them for years and years. I'm sure it'll eventually get in there, but I don't know what the other criteria might be. They ask us, you know, to rank a few. Really, the ranking is what's important

because it's sort of numeric, right? And then also they're like, well, describe, you can describe why you think, you know, this deserves to be in the Hall of Fame. But, like, this is, we might use this quote in the press releases or something like that. But really it's just that we have insider knowledge. You do have insider knowledge.

That's true. Yeah. In the form of you. In the form of me. Yeah. What they call the forgotten five. There's just a set of five toys that's coming up and never. And I did.

And by the way, by the way, we were down, we were at a picnic and the kids were playing with sticks. So, you know, the stick absolutely belongs there. Well, these passionate Pez fans, I went to their community website and dug around, you know, like all fan bases, a very cool hole to get sucked into. And I have here some very desirable Pez dispensers that people have been hunting for. Some are absolutely impossible. And like you guys know, a lot of what makes something valuable is because of an error or because it's a special release and because there's just not a lot of them. The scarcity produces the rarity. So the holy grail.

It's not possible that you'd find this in your attic, but just in case, holding a deal of Pez dispenser from 1961. It was a gift because, again, Pez is a company in Austria. JFK went to Austria. Oh. Two donkey dispensers and one elephant dispenser. So it was a gift to him and then also to America for the two-party system. Okay. All right.

So you have the donkey and the elephant. There's only three of them or I mean, there's only one. One elephant. One elephant. It's impossible to casually bump into this. But now you know, it's 1961. It was a gift from Austria to JFK. It's like the Faberget egg of his suspicers.

It's like it's not something that was sold widely. And then during the 1970s, you know, Pez was kind of experimental. They wanted to use rubber, like soft material for the heads. So it's not just like hard plastic. And so they had some prototypes using popular Disney characters. They had the bolts made. They have like a Captain Hook. There's, of course, a Mickey Mouse.

But Disney never okayed the project. So these soft head rubber prototypes have become another design that people have been hunting for. Again, not something that's been sold in public. What was available to the public, Like 1950s space gun dispenser. It's the Pez dispenser, but no, it's a gun. Sure. And you pull the trigger and a Pez mint comes out and you can put it in your mouth.

Stick it in your mouth. Just stick it right in your mouth. It goes for $1,000. Mass produced at least, like getting into the realm of like hard to find. It came with a box. Many made. Okay. People could have purchased them.

If you are interested. in the hunt for collectible PEZ dispensers. Here are two things you might want to look for that will help you on your journey. So for a while, Pez dispensers didn't have feet at the bottom. Nowadays, there's kind of a flat surface so that the PEZ dispenser can stand up.

Yeah, yeah. So those are footed. Back then, they didn't have feet. And so they were wobbly. The company started using the feet in the 1980s. The feetless ones are worth more. That's what you're looking. If you're looking at a box of PEZ dispensers and you have no idea and you're like, are these worth any money?

You're looking for ones without fee. Without fee. And that's all I know. Conveniently, there is patent number and a serial number printed on the side of the actual dispenser. The patent numbers, if you're between this range and this range, it meant that this was produced this year and this year and this year. But moral story is look for no feet. That's my take of PES. I've been clearing out a lot of collectively.

Oh, you have, you have Star Wars ones. I do. And Karen, I can practically not even give those away because they made, they made so many. So many. Yeah. So many. I'm only slightly exaggerating. Yeah.

You buy it because your kid's like, I want this Pes dispenser. And you're like, oh, God. And they eat the candy, they spit it out then. And you're like, you have to hold it with your hand. be like, ah, thanks. Where do I put this? Have you done that? Yeah.

Your kid's like, ew, and they like, spit out. Spin it a while. You'll hold out your hand. Sput it my hand. Yeah. Just do it. Better than on the ground. All right.

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yes yes I have created another word game for everybody based on the theme of Violet which is what we were talking about

in today's episode Violet so I have a list of quotations of quotations of quotations. Some of these are from famous people. Some of them are lines from a television show. Some of the quotations are things I found on the cover of a CD. I don't know. This is sort of a loose grouping of lines. Felines. Famous lines. Not even famous lines. They're quotations.

Well, no, no. Don't put words in my mouth, Karen. In every one of these quotations, there is a blank. and that blank is going to be filled in with words comprised of the letters, V-I-O-L-E-T. Now, you're not going to reuse them. You're only going to use each of those letters once. Okay. So the trick is to figure out exactly which arrangement of those letters is going to get us to a quote that makes sense and is indeed the correct one. Okay. So we'll do this as a buzz in.

but if you or listeners want to, you know, grab some scratch paper right now to sort of work it out, maybe you guys are going to be fast enough on the draw that you're not even going to need the scratch paper to work this out. But I'm just giving you that ability to do this. I got buzzer in one hand, pen and the other. Yeah, we'll see which one. My brain tells us to go for it first. Yeah. So just to recap, I'm going to give you some quotations.

In each of those quotations, there is a blank. blank and you can fill in that blank with the letters I-L-O-V-E-N-T. Those would be the letters in the word violet to fill in properly that blank. And you have to figure out how that's going to work out for you. And we're calling this one Purple Prose. I love it. Thanks. Okay.

First quotation. Lucille Ball. The secret of staying young is blank, honest. eat slowly and lie about your age. I see. Is it to live? To live. To live.

Anagramming those letters to to live. The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age. The seal ball. Wonderful quote. Love the seal ball. Next quotation. George Washington Carver.

Anything will give up its secrets if you, you blank enough. Colin again. Oh. Love it enough? It's love it. George Washington Carver. Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.

And he loved peanuts and they gave up their secrets to him. They sure did. They sure did. They sure did. All right. Mary Renault, a British writer. It is bitter to lose a friend, blank, before one loses him to death. It is better to...

Colin again. To evil? Yes. It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death. Whoa. That's a pretty hard for quote. I know. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

If I said better, it's not better. It's bitter. It is bitter to lose a friend blank before one loses him to death. Yes, to evil. A character on the animated show, Propopolis. I don't know how blank a threat.

Colin again is running this. I got the two-hand approach. Is it to veil a threat? Yes. I don't know. Instead of veiled threat, I don't know how to veil is threat. Yep.

To veil. To veil. All right. Author unknown. This is a proverb, I think, or some sort of quote, by an unknown author.

Author on No. Forgiveness is the fragrance, the blank sheds on the heel that has crushed it. Forgiveness is the fragrance, the blank sheds on the heel that has crushed it. I don't want to buzz, but I want to buzz. Just do it. I'm staring at this being like, I can't. You're doing great. Is it violet?

It's violet. Forgiveness is the fragrance, the. the violent sheds on this heel that has crushed it. This next one comes from Carmen San Diego. Oh, okay, okay, okay. A horrible rip-off of our O.C. Carmen San Mateo. Carmen San Diego once said, I'm going back, blank island.

Karen. To vile. To vile. I'm going back to Vile Island. Yep. B.I dot L dot. Said on one of the episodes of the show at some point, yes. All right.

This quote is, in fact, the title of a compilation CD that I found on Amazon. From Italy with blank Amo. With blank Amo. A.M.O. Uh-huh. With blank. blank from Italy with

blank Ammo I'm just putting the letters in something that sounds vaguely Italian to the oh Te Ammo Voli

Voli Voli I'm the I will I'll go ahead and tell you it's the title of the CD is

from Italy with love Tiamo Ah, it's Oh Got it, got it Okay, all right Timo Yes

Yes, thing Spanish Tayamo Yeah, exactly Tia Ammo Not Spanish

That's great All right John Stuart Mill A person may cause blank others

not only by his actions but by his inaction Say it again A person may cause blank others, not only by his actions, but by his inaction. Something to others.

Hmm. Then that means it's, we've already anagrams so many. Yeah, vail, uh-huh, uh-huh. May cause live. Oh. Colin. Is it evil to? Yes.

Okay. All right. Yes. I think I got it at the same time. A person may cause evil to others, not only by his actions. I was like, we already had two evil. We didn't have evil too. Sorry.

All right. Okay, two more, two more. This is a Yahoo Finance news headline. I love just the rain. I know. We don't know. It's right. Trump wants Exxon in Venezuela,

but this blank says only tokenization of barrels will make it safe. Okay, Karen. Oil vet. Oil vet. Yeah, oil vet. This oil vet says only tokenization of barrels will make it safe. No comment on whether or not putting oil barrels on the black chain will do much of anything. But that oil vet believes so, yes.

And finally, this next quote is from Deuteronomy chapter 10 verse 8. of the regular Bible. From Yahoo News. Yeah. All right. The quote is, at that time, the Lord set apart the tribe of blank,

carry the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord. At that time, the Lord set apart the tribe of blank, carry the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord. who knows their tribe who knows their

due honor yeah they're tri yeah but I'm just okay what sounds like a biblical

name here mm-hmm Karen what do you got Levi to absolutely yes

at that time the Lord spent apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the Lord

great job Karen well well well my piece of paper it looks like a crazy person like a ransom letter.

And like half the words are evil and vile. Yeah. Question mark. Right. All right. Great job on the old Purple pros. Purple pros. Yes. Nice. In Toronto, every arrival is a

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Find out more at Cadillac Canada.ca. Luxury sales claim based on S&P Global Mobility Canadian New Vehicle Total Registrations for calendar year 2025 for the Cadillac definition of luxury. Well, I have a bone to pick with you, Chris. Because I remember I reminded everybody, he's like, oh, don't forget we're recording this week. Yes, yes. The theme is purple and you're like, a hum. Karen, it's violet.

It's violet. It's not Roy G. Bip, Karen. Roy G. Biv. Yeah, your section was called Purple Pros. I know. Yeah, I'm aware. But there is a technical difference. Let's make that clear.

So in previous episodes of Good Job, we did talk about the kind of idea of purple. Purple is a color mixture of red and blue. Like our brain fills in the information and we see purple. Whereas Violet specifically is a

spectral color. It is one wavelength of light that in its own color. It's not red and blue together. It's just its own self. And so purple doesn't really have its own wavelength because it's made out of red and blue. But yes, this is kind of a human problem. The rest of the animal world see things differently and can perceive wavelengths differently. But for humans, purple and violet are very close when that is not the case for a lot of animals. Just want to throw it out there. Violet named after the flower. Another awesome old good job brain segment. Purple comes from the Greek word for murick sea snails because that's where the purple dye, Tyrion purple, royalty purple. That's where the dye used to come from is farmed from these specific sea snails.

great segment great old throwback uh great good job brand segment yes but i am here to talk about violet maybe ultraviolet i have a quiz about black light so black light black light in case you don't know also called uv light there's some other names but you know colloquially we call it black light is a special type of bulb that shines or emits long wave ultraviolet light. It blocks out most of the other visible light and it lets the ultraviolet light pass through. You probably have seen it at a rave, a concert, a glow party, a theme park ride. Haunted house. Where even though the light is on, it's still very dark. It does have like a faint blueish violet color, but certain things glow under this UV light and it's a cool and kind of trippy

effect. You've probably been there before where you're like in a fun house and like, ha ha, oh, it's dark. But your teeth glow and parts of your t-shirt is like super bright. But outside of fun houses and like glow parties, we actually interact with black light quite frequently in our everyday lives. And so here's a quiz about that. All right. This is a write-down quiz. So black light came into prominence. Thanks to the work and research of Robert Williams Woods in the early in 1900s. And early black light was used mostly as a diagnostic tool for which specific branch of medicine. Just think about it.

Okay. Sure. You got this light or this glass. What are you trying to look for? What show? You know, we're not really opening you up to shine a black light into your entrails. I'll read again. Blacklight came into prominence thanks to the work and research of Robert William Woods in the early 1900s. And early Blacklight was used mostly as a diagnostic tool for which specific branch of medicine.

You can also tell me what part of your body or organ or whatever. All right. Answers up. Chris says ophthalmology. Oh. And Colin says, you're right. How would that work in your world? I was just, I like Chris's answer better.

Let me just say that up front. You pee on the black light. I was thinking of, you know, what, what, yeah, what, what, what, what, yeah, what, what shows up. Yeah, that doesn't require cutting you open, you know. Okay, okay. Very good guess that might come up later. But the correct answer is dermatology.

Oh, dermatology. Turn off the lights. shine a light on your skin and certain parts that seem abnormal or glow might indicate that there might be some issues with your skin. It makes sense. Yep. And it's like it's it's absolutely the first thing that you would try is just shine it on yourself. And yeah, it makes sense.

Before we cut anything, before we, before we pee on anything. Yeah, before we pee on anything. Yes. All right. If you grew up as a 80s, 90s. 2000's Mall Kid, then chances are you've been to a Spencer's gift, a hot topic or, you know, a novelty shop. It has a lot of kitschy UV light decor from posters of aliens to lava lamps. You know, you know what I'm talking about, right? Right, right. Totally. Tell me, what is the lava made out of in a lava lamp?

Hmm Okay What is the material of the lava In the lava lamp Whoa Okay Not the clear liquid Yeah yeah

The blobby thing A blobby that goes up and down Not its medium That it blobs in Okay Is it stretch armstrong organs Okay Is it Ubleck

What do you think it's made out of All right Primarily Okay All right I don't know. Well, you got to write something. Oh, I did.

Oh, okay. All right. Soap. Soap. Colin? I put wax. I'll give it to you. Yes, it's paraffin wax.

Paraphrin wax. All right. Speaking of the mall, gel, shalak, and acrylics are examples of the UV photopolymerization process. A service you can pay for at what kind of place. Say it again. Gel, shalak, and acrylics are examples of the UV photopolymerization process, a service you can pay for at what kind of place? I'm pretty sure I got this.

Feeling good. Feeling good. I'm feeling good. Does that sound familiar to you, Chris, gel, acrylic? I mean, I've heard of all those things before. There's specifically a type of process, yeah. Okay. All right.

At what kind of place would you pay for services like that? Chris put. Pottery making. Collin put nail salon. That makes a lot more sense. You are correct. Yes. Gel nails, shillac nails, which is not as common.

We put it on and then they UV light it. Yes. So UV photo pulmarization is a fancy word for curing. curing, UV light curing. I mean, now it's become so advanced and accessible, even though this technology existed since the 80s. Now it's like a lot easier, a lot more advancement. And you stick your finger under the UV light,

and it strengthens the polish and the bond and hardens into a nice, shiny surface and it lasts for a long time. So yeah, gel nails definitely has boomed because of UV. It is one of those technologies that looks and feels so beautiful. It does. Like, oh, just the blue light. And no, now it's changed, you know, state. It's fine.

Yeah. Of course, we see black light features used in security. And we hear it, good job, brain, love all details and secrets and features of currency. Oh, yeah. Most U.S. bills have that vertical security ribbon embedded in the material, which will glow different colors, depending on the denomination. Oh. On which bill, on which bill will it glow pink under UV light, under black light? Huh.

I'll give you a hint. It's not the dollar bill and it's not the $2 bill. Oh, dang it. Dollar bill and $2 bill, they don't have any UV features. Oh, not worth it? Okay. Yeah, yeah. Which one glows pink?

I didn't know they had different colors. There's orange, there's green. I think they had different colors. Okay. Yeah. Okay. All right. Answers up. And I have a reason for this if I'm right.

Colin put $100. Chris put 50. What's your reason? 50. Because 50s look a little pinker than other bills. Huh. When I have 50s. Hmm. Yeah.

Okay. The answer is the $100 bill. The most produced. The one that's the most counterfeited. Yeah. Yeah. If you have a UV light handy and you got some bills, shine them on all.

all of them and see all the different colors. I'm absolutely going to do that. My daughter has like a little, you know, secret agent pen writing kit that comes with a little mini black light. I'm going to do that. Blacklight is also used in special effects and films. One of the most memorable and earlier usage of trippy, glowy effect is from the 1985, 007 film A View to a Kill.

What actor played the villain in that movie? Oh, I know this one. Say it again. Blacklight is also used in special effects in films. One of the most memorable and earlier usage of trippy, glowy UV effect is from the 1985 007 film of U2 A Kill. What actor played the villain in that movie? Oh, my favorite's this one.

Sorry. In my opinion, one of the best. Maybe the best, in my personal opinion. In my personal opinion. Okay. Yeah, I don't know. I can't even venture, I guess. Colin, tell us, give us the answer. I believe it is Mr. Christopher Walken. Mr. Christopher Walken. Scoot's children. Max Zoren.

Max Zoren, correct. Yeah, nice, nice, nice. And Grace Jones is also in that movie. What a time to be alive. Rand Duran did the James Bond song. Yeah, great. You got the black light James Bond intro. Firing on all cylinders. All right. Well, the night is still young, and it's time to head over to a popular nightclub with your friends. Very often door people and bouncers will stamp your hand with UV ink to show valid entry into a club. So if you leave and come back, the bouncer can just shine a black light on your hand to see if you have the stamp. Speaking of bouncer, what is the head bouncer or head of security of a club more commonly called? This term is not as in vogue as it was before.

Oh, okay. Speaking of bouncers, what is the head bouncer or the head security person of a club or a bar commonly called? And there's a good reason they're called this. Okay. Just like if a bouncer people out of a club, what does this person do? Okay. Silly answers. Acceptable. Okay. All right.

I don't know. I do not know. Christopher Walker. Christopher Walker. Oh, okay. I went with, I put the heavy. I don't know. The heavy.

Just didn't want to leave a blank. Yeah. The cooler. Ah. The cooler. The cooler is someone who will come diffuse a situation. Sure. Trying not to use violence, just trying to

keep everybody safe, the cooler, yes. Well, you're at the club. Time for a drink. What generic beverage commonly found behind the bar famously glows blue under UV light. Oh. Because there's a special ingredient. Uh-huh, sure. Yeah, yeah.

In this drink. Uh-huh. And it's not a brand name. Okay. Uh-huh. What generic beverage commonly found behind the bar famously glows blue under UV light? Yes. All right. Answers up. Chris put gin and Colin put tonic water.

Oh, you guys make a great team. The correct answer is tonic water. Oh, wow. It is quinine. Quineine and tonic water does glow, does glow under UV light. I discovered that having a gin and tonic once many, many years ago. At a club where there's black light, you're like, what is this? What am I drinking?

Wow. Yeah, yeah. Well, it helps prevent malaria and it glows. Yeah, which that's what I was worried about when I was at the club when I was in college. Yeah, two of my concerns, yeah. Well, that was a fine night out. Time for bed. True or false, you can use UV light, black light, over a hotel bed to see if there are remnants of bodily fluids.

True or false? You see it in the movie? You see it in TV shows. You're in a hotel room. You shine a light and you're like, wow, what's going on here? You can use UV light over a hotel bed to see if there are remnants of bodily fluids, true or false. Chris put true. Colin put true.

Sad face. Yes, you're correct. It is true. However, this is greatly exaggerated. Okay. Because it's not like you can tell what bodily fluid it is. It could be sweat. It could be spit.

It could be laundry detergent. Could be soap. It could be starch. It could be so many things that could glow under a black light. So if you want to be sure what type of stain or what's on the bed, you need more sophisticated substance analyzing tools to really pinpoint what it is. I love the thought of rolling in on the family vacation and like, you know, one of the parents is doing black light check. No, no, that's not good enough. I brought my, I brought my

spectrometer. Yeah. My test tube set up. This one's for saliva. This one's for blood. This one's, yeah, right. The thing is black light is still handy. You can detect bed bugs. You can detect a lot of bug-like things because a lot of bugs also glow under black light. That's where a lot of people who live in scorpion infested places, they do a black light chat just so that, you know, They're a scorpion. That's my last question, but I want to reiterate, where the weirdos? We're the animals that don't see ultraviolet.

Right, right, sure, yeah. The really cool thing is there have been advances in both camera hardware and software programs that allow scientists to record clips and really approximate how a world is seen by different animals, a 92% accuracy to give like, oh, this is what a bird sees. This is what a bee sees. On an earlier episode of this show, we talked about Claude Monet, the very famous painter. Oh, yeah, the cataracts.

That's right. After he had his natural lens removed on one eye, he could see UV light. And again, just like as an artist and the painter is like, oh, my God, you know, kind of mind-blowing and certainly affected how he painted, painted the world after that. But you're right. We're not made that way by default. And also something I want to make clear. When you're shining a black light on something and it glows, it is glowing because you're

shining the light on it. Does that make sense? Right, right. Like it only glows because of your black light flashlight. It's bouncing the energy. It's bouncing the energy as you're shining it. Yeah. So once you don't have to.

the black light, it doesn't do anything. It's not like a secret message where you're like, oh, it's always there. It's like, no, no, no, it only blows because you're putting the light in, you're putting the energy into excite the electrons. And that is my black light quiz. That was good. That was good. All those escape rooms where you get the black light, you're like, oh, God, I'll just see. They give you the, escape rooms, they give you the smallest blacklight flashlight. And you're just like throwing over this giant map like where is this combination number you're wagging it

UV headway up your just yeah all right let's get down to business here but that'd be like what a prepared person do be like all right I'm just going to fire up my UV headline I brought my own black light and that's our show thank you all for joining me and thank you listeners for listening in hope you learn stuff today about flower names about violet anagrams about black light and about Pez dispensers.

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