Good Job, Brain! - 41: Celebrity Secretttsssss

Episode Date: December 10, 2012

Unwind with us while we indulge in the guilty pleasure of weird celeb gossip: famous stars with crazy high IQ, why you should not let Prince rent your house, intriguing human body anomalies and the famous people who have them, stage names vs. real names. ALSO: Music Round, eyeball mnemonic, and the BONOBOS SMARTY PANTS LISTENER CHALLENGE! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Hello, classy, sassy molasses, drinking mango lassies. Welcome to Good Job, Brain, your weekly quiz show and off-beat trivia podcast. This is episode 41. And of course, I'm your humble, Karen, and we are your confident conduits for contagious, conflicting conjecture, and condensation? Sure, yeah, given the right weather conditions. But not condescending. No, never condescending.

I'm Colin. I'm Dana. And no Chris this week, sadly, but we do have a special guest who is subbing in, and that is a wine. A nice, big old tumbler wine. This episode is brought to you by the letter wine. All right, let's jump into our general trivia segment. Pop Quiz, hot shot.

And it's just Colin versus Dana Day. Showdown. Here I have a random trivial pursuit card. Here we go. Get your barnyard buzzers ready. Blue Wedge for Geography. What are the only two countries where alligators are found? Whoa.

Well, I know they're found in the U.S. Yes. Because they're in the south. Alligators, the only other country. Geez. Egypt? I don't know. Australia.

Oh, I would think it would be Egypt, too. Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, I guess those are crocodiles. I mean... It is China. Huh. China of the United States. Okay.

I would guess somewhere in Africa and somewhere in maybe South America. You know, we're big rivers. Right, right. Here we go. Pink Wedge for a pop culture. What kind of candy was lost inside an operating room patient in a Seinfeld episode? Oh. That is the junior mint.

Yes. They sewed him up with a junior mint still stuck in his body. Yes. Yellow Wedge. What organization created in the wake of World War I was the precursor to the United Nations? Dana. League of Nations. Correct.

Fell apart because... Politics. Stuff. Things went down. Stuff happens. Yeah. And Purple Wedge. John Liguizamo plays French painter Toulouse L'Otrecht.

In what 2001 Baz Luhrmann film? Moulin Rouge. Correct. Moulin Rouge. Green Wedge for science. The Duckbiltedpus and Echidna are the only two mammals to do what? Ah, lay eggs. Yes, laid eggs.

They look like eggs, but they're not like chicken eggs with a heart shell. It's actually a weird, hard leathery kind of shell, so it's not like you can crack it. It's like a very hard sack. So it takes a lot longer to make an omelette is what you're saying. Yeah. Ew. Ew. All right.

last question orange wedge what craft includes water bomb and blintz bases what

what craft what craft activity water bomb and blint's bases I don't know like war

turns huh I don't know I'm like crafts craft it is origami so be like

techniques I'm bad at origami I really am I'm good at following the instructions I'm not good at

following origami instruction. All right. Good job, Brains. Let's jump into our topic for the week. And I'd like to think we hear a good job, brain, are midbrow. I mean, a lot of the things we're... I'm unibrow. We're a giant unibrow.

Yeah, I agree. Because a lot of things we talk about, you know, are very history-based or sciencey, very academic heavy. So kind of like some high-brow stuff. But at the same time, we also like talk about poop. Yes, yes, yes. So we can run the gamut from fine literature to animal secretions. If we average out, you know, the low brow and the high brow, we're kind of a midbrow.

Yeah. Unibrow. I'll go on. I'll go on with that. Brows all over the place. Yeah. Yeah. So today's episode will be interesting because I'm pretty curious what's going to happen.

We're going to dive into the world of celebrity secrets. Yes. Yeah, It's going to be kind of a grab bag. We've got some, like, little-known celebrity secrets, maybe some gossip and tawdry stuff, and also just some plain crazy. Like any good celebrity gossip rag, I think we'll be a little bit all over here. You need a glass of wine and some trashy celebrity gossip. So usually when we record, we have our own segments.

We kind of know what each other are maybe going to talk about on a really general level. So it's always kind of a surprise on the show when, you know, one of us actually does go on and talk about stuff. That's why my mind's always blown. I don't know any of that stuff beforehand. So this will be interesting. I'm actually going to start, and I want to kind of meet first at the intersection between braininess and celebrities.

It's not judge. Colin, in a previous show, I think in a sports quiz, you mentioned that Gina Davis, after like two years of picking up archery, became like a world-class archer. She was a semi-finalist for the U.S. Olympic squad, yeah. Amazing.

Dana, you said that she was in Mensa. Yeah. And so this kind of got me thinking. I was like, oh, who else? Like, what other famous celebrities are also in Mensa that we just don't know about? So, of course, Mensa is a society or a group. Society. Yes, yeah.

A group of people who are, the language is they're the 98 percentile or higher when they place on an IQ test. It's the high IQ society. Exactly. But do you guys know what Mensa means? Oh, I've heard this before. I absolutely have, and I cannot recall. Is it like a, it's a mythological reference of some kind or, oh, gosh, I don't, I can't recall.

Mentalist. I'm just kidding. Evaluation. Is it a Latin phrase? So, yeah, I always thought it was an abbreviation because you see it in all caps. Like an acronym. Yeah, it's not. It sounds Latin.

It's not. It is. It's Latin and it means table. Ah, okay. If you look at the logo, it's a table. Like the M is a little table. And it's supposed to mean like the round table nature of the society and everybody meet up and talk about smart things, I guess. Okay, okay.

So here I have a list of other very smart people. And I'm going to quickly quiz you guys. What actor starred in movies like Salvador and Ghost of Mississippi? He was also the voice of Hades in the Disney movie Hercules and had a fictional school named after him in Family Guy. Oh, is James Woods? Yes, James Woods. He is a rock star. Allegedly, he's reported to have an IQ of 180.

Wow. Yeah, and he went to MIT, very prestigious. Yeah, he's set to be one of the smartest people in the world. I can see that. I mean, I just in the Little Life Cinema interviews, he comes across as strange, but very intelligent man. Yeah. And those are not mutually exclusive. I think they go handed.

Yes, she might be right. And here's another person. This one blew my mind. Okay. She studied piano as a child and performed at Carnegie Hall several times before the age of 15. She is a member of Mensa and has an IQ of 156. She is probably more famously known by her porn career and her stage name reflects her inherited Japanese ancestry. What?

Stage Famous 90s Porn star Tila tequila That's not Tracy Lourge That's not obviously Japanese

Oh I feel like I've heard this Before Asia Carrera Oh Isn't she Tia Carrera's sister That was a rumor That sounds like a

Yeah A pre-internet rumor That is probably a very small subset of Mentsa members And successful porn actors I bet there are more It's true It's true

Here's another name. Adrian Kronauer is also in Mensa, and his name might sound kind of familiar. That's Adrian Kronauer. Yeah, why do I know that? Because his life in Saigon was made into a very popular 1987 movie. He's the real-life DJ that Good Morning Vietnam was based on, the Robin Williams character. That movie actually was Robin Williams' first ever nomination for Best Actors. in the Oscars. Ah. Do you guys know for what role did he actually win in Oscar for? Goodwill Hunting? Yes, Goodwill Hunting for a supporting actor.

And he was actually nominated a couple times as a lead actor, and that was for Dead Poet Society. Mrs. Doubtfire. Flubber. Fisher King, Terry Gilliam. I forgot about that one. Yeah. Tell me what band has a song with these lyrics that I'm going to read out very flatly. All right.

Okay. He needs some cool tunes. Not just any will suffice, but they didn't have ice cube, so he bought vanilla ice. Oh, is it outcast? I mean, not outcast, um, offspring. Offspring. Oh, that's pretty fly for a white guy. So the lead singer of offspring, Dexter Holland, he is unbelievable.

He is an expert in molecular biology, in chemistry, and all that stuff. He was actually a Ph.D candidate in molecular biology at USC, eventually dropped out because of offspring and right right right right and he also has bachelor's and master's degree and also different types of biology as well huh there are also other celebrities that you hear of were very very smart uh dulf lungrin yeah of course ivan drago from rocky and he was talked into being an actor right i think i remember reading that at one point he was like a bodyguard first yeah and then became an actor but before all that he was also an expert in science yeah yeah yeah

yeah yeah yeah uh sasha barron cohen is also very smart Sharon stone allegedly has a a very high IQ and Cindy Crawford as well. Well, Mayam Bialik, right? Has a PhD who is Blossom and is now on Big Bang Theory. I'm sorry, it's not a surprise. No, no. I guess it's not as surprising as finding out

Dexter Holland. No offense, Mr. Holland, yeah. So there you go. Let's start off our celebrity show with some brainy celebrities. Some hidden geniuses. Yeah. All right, well, I want to tell you guys a little story here. It involves many celebrities and what I like about this story is that it's the kind of thing where at the root of it, it's something that could happen to just regular people.

But, you know, you throw in enough money and fame and crazy, and it just scales fantastically well. I hope it's not a sad. Oh, no, no. It's not sad. And as I say, yeah, there's nothing that scales better than crazy. So have you heard of the pro basketball player named Carlos Boozer? His last name is Boozer? His last name is actually Boozer.

Carlos Boozer. No. It's no. He's not a superstar, but he is absolutely, he's a very solid player. He's been around for a while, and he's played for a few teams, Cleveland and Utah, and these days he plays for Chicago. Like a lot of people with money, NBA stars will have multiple houses. Understandable. You know, they'll usually, or they'll often have a house in whatever city they play for in another house in New York or L.A.

Or, right, or their hometown, right. Early in his career, Carlos Boozer bought this huge deluxe mansion in the Hollywood Hills in L.A. Didn't necessarily spend a lot of time there because he's traveling on the road playing professional basketball. So one day he gets a call from his manager. And his manager basically is like, Carlos, somebody wants to rent your house. And he was kind of reluctant at first. And his manager is like, no, no, no. He wants to offer you a ton of money to rent your house.

Like for a day, for a party? For a period of months, kind of thing. Yeah, subletting. And again, this is not really all that uncommon among wealthy people with big houses. They may rent them out or movies may shoot there or things like that. And this person turned out to be prince, the musician, that prince. that prince, not a royal prince, Prince, the musician. Not a prince, me prince. The purple one himself. He was offering to pay $70,000 a month

for nine or ten months to stay in Carlos Boozer's mansion. So Carlos Boozer was pretty much like, all right, for 70 grand a month, I think we can swing that. And for Prince. And for Prince, right. Now, at this point in the story, you might be thinking, what could possibly go wrong renting your house to Prince for almost a year unsupervised. Colin says something about crazy, but I don't know where that's going to have.

So this was around 2004-2005. Right around this time, Prince had an album that he was working on that was going to be coming out. So Carlos Boozer says, great. Go ahead, rent the house to Prince. Let's flash forward to 2006. And the lease has expired. Prince has moved out.

He was there for the full time that he had agreed to be there. and Carlos Boozer's back in L.A. And he's driving by. He's like, oh, go check out the house. He's driving by. He can't find the house. He's looking.

He goes back and forth three times. The reason he can't recognize his house primarily is because it had been repainted. And this is the first thing that he notices is that there are now big purple stripes all over the outside of his house. And the front gate has been changed to the prince sign. Remember that elaborate symbol that he had for a while? Whoa. You can't do that on a rental. The Prince symbol is also painted on the house.

And also painted on the house in big numbers are 3121. Now, this was the name of the album that Prince had coming out right around this time. So, you know, I mean, in addition to just customizing the house, he's like, hey, why not use it to promote the album? It's a billboard. That's not my house. Oh, and the fountain. Let me tell you about the fountain. He built a fountain.

So, well, so one of the standard features of this house. was it had this kind of elaborate streaming fountain that ran water all the way leading up to the front door as you're approaching. Yeah, really kind of classy and, you know, exorbitant. Very Hollywood Hills Mansion style, yeah. So apparently, instead of the regular kind of bluish, normal water that had been in there, you can of course imagine that Prince had changed it out to purple water. So he's coming out the floor door of his house. There's purple water in his fountain, purple stripes.

So he goes inside. And in short order, he discovered. that not only his prince made the chances on the outside, but inside the house, he has knocked out walls, punched holes in walls to reroute things. Dude, that's just wearing hair color. He's taken out baseboards. He's removed moldings from the top of the house. He changed the downstairs bedroom to a hair salon.

Oh, that's awesome. And, you know, naturally. Wow. And then just the master stroke touch was that he had ripped out all the carpets from the bedrooms and in the master bedroom has all purple prince monogrammed carpet installed in the master bedroom so people know who you are in case you have made it all the way into prince's master bedroom without quite cluming into who he is oh wait a minute you're a blindfolded yeah all right you're probably right it's it's more for the case of you wake up there

Where am I? Purple P.O. Prince. So further, it turns out that as part of a promotion, Prince was holding a private concert at the house. He had this elaborate kind of like Willy Wonka style promotion where there was a purple ticket in copies of the CD. And if you were lucky enough to get the purple ticket, you could attend this private concert at that very mansion. Carlos Boozer has no idea this was going on. No. So this was not what Carlos Boozer had in mind when he agreed to. Francis House to Prince.

So needless to say, he is pissed off. I don't know what my reaction would be. I would be like, huh, this is kind of cool. Some of these things I like, some I don't like him. So early in 2006, a lawsuit was filed. And so the reason that a lot of these details are public knowledge is, of course, due to our old friends at the smoking gun, a lot of the papers were revealing these alleged damages. Shortly after the suit was filed, it was withdrawn. And, you know, generally what that means is they came to some sort of settlement.

In fact, that does seem to be exactly what had happened. They're both under non-disclosure, but Boozer told the story to a friend of his, another NBA player, Jay Williams. He said, what had happened was Prince's people kind of said, all right, hey, here's a check for a million dollars. This should cover the damage. We're all cool now, right? And Carlos Buzer was like, yeah, we're cool now. And as I say, so this happened in like 2006. And then in the last couple years, there was a little bit more.

of a happy coda that kind of came out to the story, which is that in that time, Prince and Carlos Buzer have kind of hung out a few times. There's an awesome quote I have from Carlos Buzer here about hanging out with Prince. This is post settlement. This is post settlement. And yeah, and again, like they're, they're strictly speaking not allowed to talk about this because they signed as part of settlement. But this is Carlos Buzer talking about Prince. He's a great dude, very humble, very successful. He lives a good life. I'll put it that way. I'm not a big fan of some of his concerts, he likes to do the butt cheek thing. Not really my

thing. Some of his music is pretty hot, though. My mom and dad grew up in that era. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I like how he's like, he's pretty humble. You know, he put his like monogrammed carpet all

over my house. Yeah, what cream's humble aside? So I would assume all that stuff is gone. Right. So with the million dollars and, you know, at a few times, Carlos Buzer actually does not own the house anymore. So that's the end of the prince.

Because I want to go by and check it out if all the print stuff. All of those changes have been undone, as it were. But so in the course of researching this story, some interesting details have come out about this particular house that I had never known before. So apparently this house has some really interesting history. In 1953, there was a wealthy contractor named Hal Hayes. Sounds like a comic book character with alliteration. Lois Lane. Yes, Hal Hayes.

And by all accounts, he was a total playboy bachelor. Like, I just imagine, like, a real-life Bruce Wayne or Tony Stark. So just this wealthy industrialist. He owned a construction company. And he had this house built for the equivalent of $5 million today. And he just did it up. It was the absolute just bachelor pad of 1953. It had an indoor, outdoor swimming pool, of course.

Yes. It had scotch, bourbon, and champagne faucets. You could turn a faucet and get scotch, right? Which sounds like something that Mr. Burns would have on the same same. It had a television set in an indoor tree. What? I don't understand what that means. It had an underground cave, voice-activated lighting.

Wait! Why do you need a cave in your bachelor pad? Well, I'll get to that in a second. So this is a interesting dude, Hal Hayes. But yeah, I mean, I just want to underscore that. voice activated lighting. This is 1953. So this is some futuristic stuff, right. And apparently

so yes, well, why did he have underground caves and things like that? So, you know, this is the 50s and, you know, it's nuclear fears were rampant. It's a fallout shelter. I think we're going to say murder caves. Hal Hayes in particular had a lot of nuclear fear.

He designed the house. His idea was that it was going to be able to withstand an atomic blast. So the walls were reinforced. He had this idea that in the event of a nuclear attack, he could dive into the pool, decontaminate himself and come out inside, and it's, has an oxygen supply inside. Wow. He had a room with a heavy rug, and I'm quoting from a article at the time, a heavy green

living room rug that climbs up a glass wall at the press of a button. This is from Time magazine. He said, since the rug is so heavy, it stops gamma rays and neutrons as well. Oh, no. And I'm pretty sure it would not actually stop the hammer rays in neutrons. As well. Right. So since the early 60s, the house changed hands a few times.

There's a rumor that Elizabeth Taylor lived there, perhaps. It ultimately ended up in the hands of Carlos Boozer. This whole saga took place. And Carlos Boozer apparently sold it to the founder of Rockstar Energy Drinks. Wow. So Rockstar Energy Drink, that dude is living there. Yeah. Well, this was...

Maybe he changed a fountain, so there's Rockstar. It just sprouts Rockstar. Right, right. This was as of a few years ago, so it may have changed hands again since then. But this house has seen some crazy stories. Let's just suffice it to say. That is, you're right. That is crazy.

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We haven't done one in a while. It has been a little while, yeah. And today, we're going to learn about the eyeball. Oh. The old eyeball. Imagine, like, traveling centrally through your eyeball. So this mnemonic I made is a handy and simple way to remember the different parts of the eye that a light would encounter on its pathway. Got it.

Here's the list of the actual parts of the eye that it hits in order. So first, it's your cornea, then through your pupil, a lens, retina. optic nerve, and brain. Okay. So, straight shot through. And then my mnemonic is chubby penguins, love rich, oily burgers. Aw. They like to eat oily burgers.

It's a vicious circle. So, all right, so let's recap that. So that's chubby is cornea, penguins, pupil, love lens, rich retina, oily, optic nerve, burgers brain. Yes. Chubby penguins love rich oily burgers. And actually, I know a lot of people are going to be like, well, you excluded some other parts of the eyeball, such as the eyeball body itself and their chambers filled with fluids. Getting a little technical, but guess what? I also made a mnemonic to include those two. So then it would be cornea, acquiesce humor, pupil lens vitreous humor. And vitreous humor is actually your eyeball, the stuff in your eyeball, retina optic nerve

Brain. And then the new mnemonic would be chubby, adorable penguins love very rich oily burgers. So you have a choice of two, whether you've gone super nerdy or just plain nerdy. I like it. There you go. I like it. Oh, and as always, you can find our mnemonics on our website, good job, brain.com. Yep. We got to archive there with all of our pneumonics that we shared on the show. Yep. So go look it up if you're curious. And actually, relatedly, one of the things I love about doing this podcast is getting to know our listeners. And I'm so curious and I love learning about like where they come from or what they do. And no surprise that a good chunk of our listeners are our doctors or med school students or nurses or of different medical fields. They are? That's cool.

A lot of people actually write in with their own very, very complex pneumonics about like the bones of your wrists. Oh, right. I can imagine. And that's, that's a field where. It's all about elaborate little systems where things have to go in a certain order. There are lots of little parts that are all connected. Memorizing pathways. So it's very integral to their field. And I also love reading about body stuff, too. That sounded shady, Karen.

Especially, like, genetic mutations and, like, oddities of the human body is always really cool. Since this is the Celebrity Secrets episode, I wanted to share a list. And let's learn about some weird human body. occurrences and conditions, and the famous celebrities who are affected. And I want to see if you guys can guess what the condition is just by its technical name. It's figure outable. So here go.

And I've actually mentioned this in a previous show, syndactylie. Oh, something with fingers, right? Fingers or toes. Is it like web feet? Is it six fingers? It is webbed. Webbed digits. Okay.

So it can be fingers or toes. When you say webbed toes, it kind of sounds gross. If you've never seen it, you kind of imagine like duck feet. Right. Yeah. Sure. Well, I'm like, oh, they must be good swimmers. When I was a kid, I would always think that.

I'm like, that'd be kind of cool. Yeah. And that's a thing that's pretty easily remedied surgically if you need to, right? Yeah. There are different degrees of webness. And when I say webbed, it's mostly, it's like, say, if two fingers or two toes were kind of grown together with the flesh part. Right. And that's the common currency.

There's actually five stages of syndactylie going from just, you know, two of your toes are kind of joined at the bottom at the stem, not all the way through. And usually this can be fixed with surgery. On the other end of the spectrum, you have somebody like fictional, but the penguin, right? The penguin in a lot of Batman comics or movies where, like, he has kind of like flipper hands. And that's when all his fingers kind of. Where they're severely fused. Yeah, fused together. And here are some celebrities that have web toes.

Huh. Dan Aykroyd, webtoes. Ashton Coocher, also webtoes, and also Battlestar Galactica's Cylon number six, Tricia Helfer. Ha, ha. So here's another condition, see if you can figure it out. It is called Cytus inversus. Okay, Citus, S-I-T-U-S. Mm-hmm.

And other names where are Citis transversis, or opposites. Opposite is. Well, it's something that's upside down from what it should be or inverted or something. Is it like your feet are on the wrong feet? That is something, though, right? That is something. It is a congenital condition in which the placement of some vital organs or maybe one are reversed and mirrored in your body. Oh, so like how almost all of us have our heart on our left side, for example, they might have it on the right side.

Whoa, okay. Is that nuts? I don't know how that... Sychis Inverness. Yeah. I don't know, Colin, if you know, Randy Foy. Sure, sure. NBA player.

He has Citis and Versus and he's a professional athlete. I did not know that. Sweating and playing basketball, like, it ain't no thing. And another person who also has inverted heart is Catherine O'Hara. Huh. Really? Very talented actress, known in Christopher guest mockumentaries. And also the mom in Home Alone.

Yes. Of course. Wow. So when you say, like, she's really got her heart in the right place. She doesn't It's in the BN Oh my goodness That's a bad joke

I'm sorry I'm sorry Catherine O'Hare Panic Claus All right And I have another one here And it's called Distitia

Distia Something displaced Or I don't know I don't know Distia is N eyelash Or several eyelashes That arise from

a weird parts of your eyelid That wouldn't grow eyelashes Yeah Yeah, so extra row of eyelash or they come from like the more inner parts, the corners of your eyes. And the funny thing is only humans and dogs have this happen. But the famous person who has distichia is Elizabeth Taylor.

Ah, ha. It's reported that she has like an extra row of eyelashes. Ah, it's like an unfair advantage. It is. Obviously, it might cause some irritating problems with the eyeball. But for Elizabeth Taylor, it actually kind of worked to our advantage. Yeah. Highlighting her violet eyes even more so.

That's amazing. And lastly, this might be my favorite one. Cavalcade of amazing. Yeah. Like, I'd even know some of these things existed. Yeah. Kind of knew this one existed, but I didn't know that it was a lot of people actually have this. Polyphelia.

Polyphelia. Many. Phelium is like related to skin, isn't it? Close. Is it like? It's usually really. related to the number three, like a third something. Is it, oh, is it third nipple?

Yes, it is. Oh, I know who are. I think I know someone. Doesn't Marky, Mark Wahlberg have this? Yes. I called him Marky Marky, Mark. Yes. I did call him Marky Mark Wahlberg has famously in his Calvin Klein,

modeling photos, he actually has like a little vestigial. It's like a zit. It's not like a fully ariola nipple. Right. When you hear superfluous nipple, you imagine something that's a lot more substantial. Yeah, like an utter, you know, or something. It is not. Tilda Swinton also has a third nipple and Lily Allen.

Oh. British Shantus. Amazing. It's also known as the supernumerary nipple. And I believe in the UK, there was actually a documentary called the Triple Nipple Club. And it kind of talked about the mystery and the history around and the folklore surrounded the third nipple. And back in the day, with the witch hunt, they would burn people with a third nipple thinking that they're witches. Right.

Yeah. I'm a little ashamed to admit that I didn't think of triple nipple until just now. It seems so obvious. I know, in retrospect, it's such an obvious, yeah. Stippled triple nipple. Tipple, triple nipple. So there you go. Amazing.

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Shop now at IKEA.ca. All right, well, speaking of Marky Mark, he is, of course, now far more famous as Mark Wahlberg, but he did start. He broke into public consciousness as Marky Mark. It's so hard for me not to call him Marky Mark sometimes. And I think it's a sign of respect that you can think of him and not snicker every time you call him. Oh, like, oh, Mark and Mark. Yeah, sure, Marky Mark. So that's a great segue into what I want to talk about, which is

stage names and real names. And because this covers all the things we've talked about, about a little bit of secret. Sometimes there's, you know, weird origin stories. If you're like me and you like doing this research on celebrities' real names, like you find out that a lot of them come out of a couple things. Like, either there's some sort of fear of a stigma against a really overtly ethnic sounding name or a foreign name. Or, you find out. Or, you know, It's just something that's something that just roll off the tongue, you know, and it's almost there's a lot of shame caught up. But, you know, don't cry for any of these celebrities because they all worked out okay because

they're in the quiz now. Their whole lives have just been leading up to this moment. So I'm going to have you guys answer a series of trivia questions here. I'm going to try and clue you. And what I'm getting at is you need to tell me the stage name, the name that we know this person by. Oh, you're going to tell us the real name. I'll give you their real name and a couple clues.

So, for example, here's a softball for you guys. Chart-topping singer Stephanie Germanada is better known by what noble stage name? Lady Gaga, too many clues, Colin. Right, that was just to get the mechanic. This is also a critique of your quiz creation. My goodness. All right, okay, we'll see who's laughing at the end of the quiz. I know.

All right. You win, Colin. All right, here we go. We'll start off. This Israeli-born Academy Award-winning actress changed her last name from Herschlag. Karen. Natalie Portman. Read that she was born in Israel.

Yes, that's right. And has citizenship there. She does. This London-born pop singer and former MTV staple is the son of a Greek immigrant, as you might guess from his birth name, Georgios Panayotu. Dana. George Michael. It is Georgios Panayotu.

This member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was born Declan McManus, but takes his stage name partly. from another member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Oh, that sounds so familiar that name. Karen. Sid Vicious? No, incorrect. Not close.

Takes his stage name from a very famous rock and roll singer. Karen. Elvis Costello. Elvis Costello, yes. What's his real name? Declan McManus. That sounds like a Harry Potter character. So this is interesting.

I learned Costello, I guess, was his father's stage name when his father was a musician, born to parents of Sri Lankan Tamil descent. Matangi Arul Pragasam has adopted what stage name for her musical career. Dana. M. That is correct, which is, of course, a dual play on MIA and also her name is mine. We're a little sassy tonight. I'm going to Tamil.

Yes. You'll name another sing. This Academy Award-winning actor was born Krishna Banji, but adopted what stage name after fearing he would not be as successful with a foreign name? Those are his words. Karen. Oh, he said that? Yes, he did.

Ben Kingsley. It is Ben Kingsley. I mean, he won for Gandhi. Yes, I mean, perhaps the biggest irony of it all. This legendary American entertainer was born Naftali Nathan Bernbaum and started his career in show business. after dropping out of the fourth grade. Naftali Burnbaum, legendary entertainer.

This was a while ago. Karen? Charlie Chaplin. No, not Charlie Chaplin. You're getting closer. That's going back a little too far. This entertainer performed well into his 90s. Oh, George Burns.

George Burns. Oh, wow. Oh, Burns. Yeah. There are a number of stories about where exactly the name George Burns, from but that also sounds like something from harry potter like a joke shop it does a burn bomb yeah this american film actor changed his last name to avoid the parents of nepotism and adopted the last name of a comic book superhero instead dana nicholas cage can you explain both parts of that what is his real

last name it is coppola he's part of the francis coppola family yes he is the nephew of francis ford Coppola. I know he named his son Colell. Yes, he's a comic booky. Huge comic book nerd. Luke Cage.

That's right, from Luke Cage. He was just basically, he was the one of those heroes where his power was just big and tough. All right. Last one here. Born Reginald Dwight, this award-winning British musician, legally adopted his stage name in 1972, including the middle name Hercules.

So actually, it was our trivia question in our Kickstarter page. More than half a year ago, this was a tricky question. Reginald Dwight is Sir Elton John. Yes. This is one of my favorites. And I know that a lot of you listening will know Reginald Dwight as Elton John. And I really want to include it because of the nugget of Hercules. So this is interesting.

So Elton actually comes from a former bandmate of his, Elton Dean. And the John comes from a blues musician nickname Long John Baldry. And this is not the Hercules from Greek mythology. I have found multiple sources on this. So this is, I believe this. Hercules was the name of the horse. in a popular British TV sitcom Steptoe and Son. So this was his tribute to a horse from a sitcom.

Yes. Sir Elton, Hercules, Horse from a sitcom, John. Nice. You know what? Those were all his influences. Bandmate, the cartoon horse. And then they lose. Sir Elton, Hercules, John.

And I should, again, to point out, one of the, not all the celebrities legally changed their name to their stage names, but he did. Got it. So good job. Some of those that you knew, but hopefully some of the circumstances surrounding them, you did not. So good job, guys. We have our final quiz segment, and this is a music round. Everybody loves a music round.

And it is themed. The theme is pretty easy to figure out. But here we go. I'm going to play short clips of songs, and you have to identify the artist. Buzz in and tell me what artist. Here we go. Number one. Because I got the flow

Where I wrap my I can say Oh my god That's the foo She's awful So all my best of mind And cause a panic Oh

That is The Beastie Boys Correct Beastie Boys Can you identify the song Uh Yes that is Oh my god

Oh my God Five Four Three Three Two One It is root down

Oh that's right It is root down Of course Very famous line Gosh Gosh Wine is a cruel mistress Sometimes

All right Here's another one Oh my God Oh my God Oh my God oh my God Oh my God Oh my God Oh my God

It's everybody's God It's everybody's God Oh oops That is pavement That is pavement And that is Shady Lane. Yes, iconic indie band. Hey, playing all my favorites here.

Is this a Colin Quiz or something? All right. Here's one for you, Data. Okay. I've found you finally. You make me want to say, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh my gosh. I've heard it. Neo is it

So I All these people blur together for me They're just the summer mix And I don't remember It's like Neo, Tio Cruz From one of my jams It is Usher I was actually thinking that

But I was not nowhere near confident enough Featuring Will I am Oh Very auto-tuned piece of a The Summer Jams The Summer Jams And what's the song? Do we know the name it's all right we just know usher and will i am all right singing the whole

song that i can't remember here is the next one so this far away from home and oh my god i can't believe it i never been this far away from oh my god i can't believe it i never been this far away from yeah i don't know like so this sounds like a british person like lily allen maybe correct correct Correct. It is. Actually, Mark Ronson featuring Lily Allen, covering a really great song by the Kaiser Chiefs.

And here's the last one. Oh, my God. Becky, look at her bet. It is so big. She looks like one of those rap guys, girlfriends. It's just so big. It's just out there. Perform the whole self.

David doesn't even into Buzz Ann. That is... Sir Olin Mix-A-Lat. Sir, Hercules. Hercules. Sir Mix-a-lot. Sir Mix-a-Lot. Yes.

Baby got back. There we go. What's the theme? All right, we got Beastie Boys, Routdown, Pavement, Shady Lane. Usher, Will I am? If you're paying attention to the lyrics. Lyrics. Oh, do they all say, oh, my God.

Yes. Oh, my God in there. Oh, M-G. or oh my god that's funny we but i think we both use that together at the same time that's good so the expression ohmg we use it now every day almost and it's been validated as an official word and so the expression omg which is the abbreviation of oh my god just in case you didn't know just in case you haven't been near the internet ever first occurred in 1917 wow one nine one seven the year 17

a British lord Lord Fisher coined the term omg it was like OMG this League of Nations meeting

forever OMG Winston this is ridiculous yeah it's ridic so Lord Fisher was an admiral of the British Navy

and in a letter in a documented letter that he wrote to Winston Churchill he used the term oh m g and then in parentheses oh my god with exclamation points and this is i'm going to read i think he misunderstands what an abbreviation is for like if you need to spell out what it is immediately afterward you're doing it wrong no he used it throughout oh okay all right that was on first

reference he's like and then he said this to me ohmg can you believe what the germans are doing well actually so the letter lord fisher wrote to winston churchill confidently talking about how the Brits could easily overpower the Germans at sea. So it was kind of like a bragging, mean girl letter to his, to his pal, Winston Churchill. And here I'm going to quote it. Now that I know that he used OMG, it's so hard not to think of like a valley girl or like a high school valley girl trying to describe. Or I just picture him like texting it out to Winston Churchill. He says, we are five times stronger at sea than our enemies.

And here's a small fleet that we could gobble up in a few minutes playing the great vital sea part of landing an army in the enemy's rear. I hear that a new order of knighthood is on the tapis. OMG! Proendices, oh, my God. Exclamation point of it kind of makes sense that it would sort of come out of a military communique. I mean, they are all about the, just sometimes the forced abbreviations and acronyms. And I like that. That's really good.

1917 so yeah so it has a legitimate pedigree a military pedigree so there we go and we're actually going to end this episode with a special listener challenge and it's the return of the bonobo smarty pants challenge so here I have a poem and it's a puzzle and it might be a little bit tough but our prizes are great so email us what you think the answer is at jb.podcast at gmail.com one answer per person and And we're going to randomly select five winners from the correct pile. And the five lucky winners will win a sweet, good job, brain, swag pack, stickers, cards, and such. Sweet. And our friend at Bonobos is also providing a $50 gift code for the winners as well. Oh, nice. 50 bucks. Those are some fancy pants they have.

Yeah. Oh, M.G, stickers. So very exciting. Lots of prizes. And we're accepting answers until December 17th midnight. So see if you can show off your smart. and solve this riddle. Tell me where I reside.

With Spot and Fido on my side. Seven Peaks might be your guide under a regal hat that gleams with pride. And there we go. So don't forget to email us your answer at jb.podcast at gmail.com. All right. Yeah. That is our show. So thank you guys for joining me.

Thank you, a special guest, Wine, for joining us as well. Thank you guys, listeners, for listening in. Hope you learn a lot about crazy facts about prints and stage names. Do not rent your house to print. If that ever happens and also the origin of OMG, you can find us on Zoom Marketplace, you can find us on iTunes, on Stitcher, and also on our website, which is good job, brain.com. And of course, special thanks to our sponsor, bonobos at bonobos.com. And we'll see you guys next week. Bye.

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