Good Job, Brain! - 44: BEST OF 2012

Episode Date: December 31, 2012

The weirdest, the poopiest, the funniest, and the silliest moments of Good Job, Brain! all in one end-of-year episode. We share are favorite quizzes, facts, and histories. That's right, there ain't no shame in having a clips show! Have a happy and brainy new year! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Hello, positively perfect and perky podcast patrons and pals. Welcome to Good Job, Brain, your weekly quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. This is episode 44, and I'm your humble host, Karen. And we are your sassy suspects, sussing out, Sasquatch and Sarsaparilla suspense. What? I'm Colin. I'm Dana.

And I'm Chris. And today is our best of 2012 show. That's our last year. We're doing a clip show. We're here to celebrate and highlight the best, the weirdest, the funniest, and the poopiest moments from Good Job Brain this year. And, you know, we're just four silly pub trivia nerds who are nuts about it. weird facts, secret histories, and trivia nuggets, so we're really glad that we get to share our passion with the world. And before we start the show, I want to quickly thank our listeners

and fans for all of your support and feedback, all of our initial Kickstarter backers from last year who helped make this happen. And of course, special thanks to men's outfiter Bonobos, our main sponsor, awesome clothes by awesome people. You guys at Bonobos truly are good people, and we want to thank you guys for partnering with us and believing in it. us. It's a match maiden pun-loving heaven. And we know we're just a little indie hobby podcast, but all you guys keep us going and we appreciate it so much. So today's show is all about celebrating the greatest 2012 moments of Good Job Brain. We had 43 episodes, this is episode 44, more than 350 different segments. I started counting the questions, like the trivia

questions out? Too many. I don't even have a number. ranging from silly to challenging quizzes, mind-blowing facts, juicy histories and origins about everything from urinals to cheddar cheese to pooping duck robots. And we've enlisted the help of our listeners on Facebook and Twitter to help us curate some of our best moments. And if you're a good job, brain listener, we invite you to travel back in time and laugh with us, laugh at us.

And if you're a new listener, you sure are in for a treat. So we always start the show with our general trivia segment called Pop Quiz Hot Shot. And this is when I choose a random Tribute Pursuit card from a box. And part of the fun is that Trivial Pursuit can be hit or miss. And sometimes it's super easy and sometimes it's super, super, super hard. So here are some of the best and worst questions we ever got. All right, Yellow Wedge. What 18th century invention did its creator claim worked so quickly the subject.

would feel nothing but a refreshing coolness. Lobotomy. Incorrect, but close. That would be the guillotine. Yes, guillotine. I feel minty fresh. Yeah, that was the first ad campaigns for guillotine, yeah.

The refreshing cool maker. How would I want to pay for this? What 1996 hit song was criticized because its lyrics are examples of simple bad luck rather than the literary device described by the song's title. Chris. That would be ironic by Alanis Morris.

Correct. Which I prefer to think is her elaborate meta statement. It is. It's ironic that her song contains no actual examples of irony. She doesn't get enough credit. No, Alanis. So clever. Let's see. Greenwed for Science.

What two by? Bodily fluids, did International Space Station astronauts start converting into drinkable water in 2009? I'm sorry, two bodily fluids? Two. Two bodily fluids? Urine. Correct. Right.

Spit. I was going to guess saliva as well. I was going to guess tears. No. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, sweat. Correct. Oh, sweat. I'm like, all right, okay.

Sweat and urine. What arcade game was in? inspired by a pizza with a slice missing from it. Pac-Man. Yes, it is Pac-Man. That is sort of true. It's sort of true and not true. In recent years, when they asked the creator of Pac-Man, he's like, well, that is what I said, so let's just go ahead and say that that's what it was.

That's no fun. And Pac-Man was originally called Puck-Man. Puck-Man. Yes. Yes. Very fortunate, they change it to Pac. Yes. Puck-Man.

Yes. Test those pop filters. That is, that urban legend is absolutely true. I mean, the American company was like, no, no, no, you have to change it because vandals are going to erase part of the P and change it to a different letter. Buckman. Buckman. Yeah, Buckman. Yeah.

What kind of sandwich is slang for a punch? Uh, a knuckle sandwich. Yes, what a weird question. Why is this in true pursuit? You got to know your English idioms. Yeah. Knuckle sandwich. Or your 19-20s gangster slang.

Blue Wedge Geography. In what country might you enjoy as a delicacy? A corn fungus called Kuitlacoche. Mexico? Correct. And I want to explain this a little bit. This is one of those things. This is on my list of things that you should not Google image search.

Because it's basically a fungus that infects corn. and turns these kernels into like elephant man-ish, giant bumpy kernels and black. It looks like evil corn. Like if there was like a Satan-possessed corn, it would look like this. You're right, it does. Frank Corn Stein. Frankincourt. All right, pop culture, pink wedge.

What superhero shares a name with a popular Black Sabbath song? Iron Man. Correct. That question was so easy, I couldn't even do it. I was like, what? Is it a trick question? Yes. One of my favorite trivia challenges was when we stumbled upon a cache of trivia cards from the 80s.

The top trivia cards. Oh, no. There were two vintage things in there. There was vintage trivia and vintage gum. I don't know what possessed us, Chris, but I think we decided it would be a good idea to put the gum in our mouths. I think we opened the package up, and I said, let's eat the gum on it. air. And we did. And this is what transpired. Trivia battle game. It's in wax paper. It's right here in front of me. Sealed. And it's from

1984. Yep. Nice. In each pack, there are nine cards, one sticker, and one stick of bubble gum. If my math is right, that means this piece of gum is 28 years old. Yes. Yes. Chris said he was going to eat it, by the way. Well, I said I was going to eat it, but then I thought maybe just the loser should eat the gum. I think the loser seems. Impropriate. The loser has to eat the gun. I do not agree to these terms. Unless I win, and then it's fine. This is sealed. I'm going to open it right now.

Hope you can hear the... And while Karen opens this, I just... I mean, one of the things that really tickles us is not only do we have to try and answer these questions, but we have to remember, this is from a 1984 mindset. So anything about politics or movie hits or things like that, we have to pretend... All right, I'm just going to pick a random one. Okay, okay. All right.

Here we go. I guess they have categories. the red is I guess silver screen here we go oh it's people who played Conan's girlfriend in the first movie what is this referring like Conan the Barbarian I must be Conan the Barbarian well was that uh Grace Jones

Sandall Bergman or Grace's like who wait what Sandal Berkman oh wow all right next question what is Supergirl's name on earth. Oh, these are pretty tough.

These are, these are questions that people in the 1980s would know. I'm going to guess. Is it like Aurora or something? Incorrect. Well, Shiraz, Shira's name is Princess Adora, which meant. It is. What is it? Linda Lee.

No, okay. Did not know that. Again, with the alliterative names for a comic book character, Clark can't. So the orange one is high IQ. Who was the first pilot to fly faster than the speed of sound? Jeez. It's Colin, go for it. I believe that was Chuck Yeager.

I believe so, too. Correct. Captain Charles Yeager. We call him Chuck now. All right. What rock performer had hits with Jeopardy and the breakup song? Oh. I mean, I know the weird Al, but the parody I lost on Jeopardy, but I forget the name of the...

Our Loves in Jeopardy. I cannot retrieve that. No. It is Greg Kinn. Oh, okay. Well, now, having lost, I will eat the gum of shame. All right. It was meant to be.

Are we going to split this? I want to try some. All right, Karen, break it in half. Guys, this gum is 28 years old. At least. I'm just going to, you know, chew it for a little while. It's going to dissolve in your mouth. All right.

That's my guess. A little live show. Well, this is our last episode of Good job, Bray. Wow. It's dissolving in my... I told you. I was going to dissolve. Wow, it kind of just turned into a pace from my mouth.

It's falling apart. That gum is older than most of our listeners. You know, I will give it that the flavor actually was like what I remembered, but it did turn to like wallpaper paste as soon as the moisture hit it. So if I had to say there was a through line or like a recurring theme of our podcast, that would be poo. It would be poop. Or discharges from the anal regions of different animals?

More broad list. Yeah, I think I'll widen the net a little bit. Here are some of our favorite moments of poo talk. Just anything occurring in and around the book. So my researched bizarre expensive food is also related to animals. And this one is called the Kopi-Luac coffee. And this type of coffee, which is known to be the world's most rare, smoothest, most flavorful, most awesomest coffee. This is involved something pooping the coffee.

It does. That's the one. You got it. It's about $300 per pound. And only 500 pounds of these beans are produced each year in Sumatra. Yep, you're right. There is a smallish foraging little tropical raccoon called the palm civet or civet. Sivet.

This little raccoon would look for the Swedish. coffee fruit, or I guess coffee cherries. They would swallow the fruit whole. Right. And the animal in his stomach, they only digested the fleshy fruit part. So the undigested coffee beans pass through the system. And

people collect the beans afterwards. They clean it, of course. They roast and proceed. Naturally. Yes. Proceed your usual coffee roasting ritual. Now, the reason that they take him out of the poop, as opposed to just grabbing off the book. As opposed to just grabbing off the

bush, there's something, like, it changes the chemical composition, right? The little raccoons have this unique enzyme in their GI system. All the fruit is being digested, but these enzymes and acids penetrate through the coffee beans and neutralize the bitter oils in the beans. And it is said that it causes 25 otherwise unreachable flavors in the bean to be released during brewing. So I'm sure there's been... The flavors are poop.

shark so they're not farming it there's just how many raccoons live in the forest yeah so I don't know if they have just a bunch of pet raccoons sort of at bay and be like

feast you guys today is the day here you go guys here's a bunch of newspapers go to your business yeah if they were friends they would just force feet

it would be at Starbucks right now I like little a wrecking newspaper yeah yeah yeah they're giving A little bowl of coffee beans, a little tiny copy of Uncle John's bathroom reader. I'm imagining little tiny reading glasses on his nose. This is just another one of these foods where I'm like, someone had to be the first one.

Like, you know, like, I believe that it is good coffee. But who someone, you know what would make good coffee, Roger, is if we. The cat poop didn't work out. This was like number nine in a series of animals that they had tried. Like, oh, this is definitely the best one so far. I don't know if it's the best, though. It's like, should we... It's pretty good.

I know, should we move on? Oh. This is one of those stories that I didn't want to be true. I started by going to Snopes and the skeptic sites. I really wanted this one to have been disproven. But it was on Smoking Gun, and I actually found the original newspaper articles as well. So this is the Sherry Anima story. and Sherry Enema

Not a stripper Sherry Anima is a thing I think we went to high school together That's like you to know Sherry Anna to the main stage Oh yeah So this was 2004 And Tammy Warner

She was arrested for administering a A Sherry Anima to her husband That's love also Poor Michael Warner He had a really bad throat ailment Was also an alcoholic His way of getting around

His love of drinking And inability to drink down his throat was administering Sherry Animas. And so he and she one night apparently administered three liters of Sherry. Three leaders. So much. And unfortunately, and perhaps predictably died of alcohol poisoning. And so she was essentially arrested for homicide, for facilitating his death, you know,

knowing that he was an alcoholic, knowing that he had been prohibited from drinking. You know, when you're drinking normally, when you get drunk or pass out, you stop consuming. When you're absorbing alcohol through that method, you pass out. You pass out, but it continues to absorb into your system. Imagine if he wasn't married, and he's just a single dude, and he would have to call up his buddies to ask them to give him a sherry-ed-in-lady. Hey, man, I need a favor. I'm not helping you move again, Michael.

No, I'm not moving. Amazing. Did she go to jail for it? She did not get charged. The charges were dismissed. She was charged, but she was not convicted. The charges were dismissed. They essentially, you know, they found it a little just two.

kind of a gray area that, you know, where do you draw the line? It's actually more of a brown area. Yes, just the final note here, apparently his blood alcohol level was 0.47%, which is six times the level of being considered drunk. Wow. You know, it's Texas. Go beg or stay home. Stay home and give yourself a share of animal.

Do you know what castorium is? It's a substance. And I'm going to say no. You guys don't know what that is. I'm going to guess it's something to do with castor beans. I don't know. Castorium is simply, and I'm going to say this as classy as possible, but these are not classy words. A anal beaver juice.

Oh. What? So castorium is. Is it like all the best things in the world come from the butts of the little notice? It seems like it. So castorium is a substance produced by the glands of a beaver located between the anus and genitals of a beaver. It is FDA approved. And what you use castorium for is to highlight specifically vanilla flavoring and raspberry flavoring.

And so butt juice from a beaver makes raspberry and vanilla flavoring. flavored things taste a lot better. I like the flavor profiles. The synergy of the two flavors. In addition, not only is it approved by the FDA, they don't have to call it castorium or anal beaver juice. They workshoped anal beaver juice. They just did not test.

They sold it in giant cans at Costco and just nobody bought it. So they're officially referenced simply as natural flavoring. That's on everything. So when you're reading the ingredients list. and it says natural flavoring. It could be anal fever juice. I'm going to assume from now on, it doesn't mean that. But it's raspberry vanilla flavor.

It's not even like beef flavor. Like you'd imagine it in a hot dog or something. Yeah, right. It's in the ice cream. Just imagine when you're taking that bite of that delicious raspberry ice cream Sunday. Just fluids expressing themselves mightily like old faithful from, from, from, that mysterious area between the anus and the genitals of a beaver. Again, I wonder how do they discover this?

How, right, right, right. That's true. You know, you know what I think it is. I was down there for something else. You know what? It's like, I was sleeping with my mouth open. And a beaver walked by. With some raspberries.

When sprayed it in, and it just tasted horrible until I ate a raspberry up a nearby tree. And it really, it just made the flavor pot. Yeah, what can I add to this raspberry to make it taste better? Oh, I know. No frills, delivers. Get groceries delivered to your door from No Frills with PC Express. Shop online and get $15 in PC optimum points on your first five orders. Shop now at nofrills.ca. But I do want to talk about a particular mushroom.

And when you think of the kind of quintessential wild mushroom from storybooks and stuff, How would you describe it? What do you picture? Like white stock, the red cap, with the little white dots all over it. Exactly. So that mushroom has a lot of names. There's Fly Amanita and Fly Agaric, basically. The original kind of Super Mario mushroom.

These are poisonous. And they can be deadly. And I think scientists have stated that a fatal dose is about 15 caps. Oh, okay. They need a lot of them. So you can get a whole salad before you back. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What's interesting about this mushroom is it is very popular among reindeer's.

Okay. Reindeer's go nuts for these mushrooms. And let me kind of a backtrack a little bit. They're the Sammy people, S-A-M-I, and they're indigenous people from the very, very northern parts of. Yep, Laplands, Sweden, Norway, Finland, very, very cold. The Sammy traditions or the Laugh traditions and believe, are based on a lot of kind of a shamanistic spirituality. And they also have a great working relationship with reindeer

that are also indigenous to those parts of the land. Very hearty animals and very cute. And they're used for dragging carriages, for writing, for everything. Delivering presents. Delivering presents, yes. Way, way, way, way, way, way, way back. There was a tradition where a lot of people noticed that the native reindeer go bonkers over these mushrooms.

Oh. These bright red, white-spotted mushrooms, and these are the flyagaric mushrooms. And the dears even go hunting for them through the snow. Like, they can spot it and they can snow. So the reindeer are drug addicts. Yes. Now, there isn't concrete evidence supporting if the chemical compounds and the mushroom actually affect them. But, you know, there have been reports that they prance a lot more.

Right. They really like Doritos. Or it's like catnip. I mean, it's like they're attracted. to it for some reason. There's something pleasurable. Could be the odor. We don't know.

What can be scientifically proven is that the reindeer urine has drug-like chemical properties. So back in the day, I think I see where this is going on. People drank reindeer pee to get high. And they do. They go into a trance. They have a trip. Wow.

And perhaps even a vision. And it kind of coincides with their. shaman beliefs too and there are also reports that you know after humans who ingest a reindeer urine or affected reindeer urine their urine still has

drug compounds too and the reindeer would then sniff that out and eat the snow where people pee it's a beautiful it's a circle sun the reindeer eat the mushrooms and then we drink their pee and then we pee on the ground and the reindeer

or eat R.P. The circle of life. It's beautiful. In its own way. So now if you were to eat the mushrooms, they would kill you. But so if you want to eat the mushrooms, just filter it through a reindeer first. Yes. It's the reindeer for the rinderella.

That's my takeaway. The reindeer is a drug britta. Yeah. So, in addition to being trivia nerds, we are all word nerds. And occasionally we stretch the boundaries of this show to do some wordplay. and language games and language puzzles, and we even had our good friend Tyler Hinman, five-time National Crossword Puzzled Champion on the show once.

Here is a collection of some of our favorite word-based trivia from this past year. What about you, Tyler? I'm going to bring to you, if you haven't heard it yet. This is Will Schwarz's favorite word. Will Shorts being the Crossword Editor of the New York Times. He always says this is his favorite word. I'm going to pass it on here. The word is Eucalagon.

That's UCA-L-E-G-O-N And that was the name of an elder of Troy Whose house was set ablaze During the Sacking of Troy And now it means The ultra-useful term A neighbor whose house is on fire Oh, sure, sure, sure

Not his house has been set on fire It's more general The conflagration is sufficient So it's the person Yes You're describing the person Who is a neighbor E-Calliga

Yeah, E-Colaga and take me away I have a gross word I found a very awesome word Go on It's changing my life word It's called snarge That has to be a discharge of some kind He was the little character on Thundercats, right?

Snarch Snarf! Snarf! Snarf! Snarf! Yellow snarge right here. Yeah, okay, so snarge is what happens when a plane and a bird come together And not so harmonious terms, I trust.

It's the bird smoothie part. Oh, my God. Oh, dear. So I'm guessing, I'm just going to guess this word was named by pilots. And not by the birds. Well, it was named by people who work in museums and, like, have to prepare the birds for display. Snarch. Now, does this include beaks or no?

Those thrown clear. All of it. All of it. Snafoo and discharge. Snarge. Oh. Oh, that's good. There are many words in English language that end with the letters M-A-N.

So I will describe the superhero, and you will tell me what that superhero is. And, of course, the superhero's name is going to be just a word in the English language that ends up in the letter. That is fine. I think I understand. Now, a lot of these, it's going to be like the letters M-N-N are there because that means it actually does mean man. For example, if I were to say, I'm going to give you the tagline off of this superhero's comic book that I mentioned in my mind. So if I were to say, he'll make your head real. it's spellman

Got it Got it? Okay, all right Okay And of course the answer does not count Unless you say it like Bell man Uh huh

Enthusiasm is part of the correct answer Exactly yes Okay He fights for truth Justice And saving bachelors From how to learn how to use an oven He's

The woman Oh the four men Four men Hey, can you help him find the dining hall? It's... The Freshman. Yes. Oh, that's good.

Okay. His secret power, relaxing on a group of tropical islands owned by the British. Jamaica Man. Oh. Bahaman. No. Oh. That was good.

That was good. K-man. K-man Island. Oh. His eyes shoot beams of sauerkraut. German. What? Beams of sauerkraut? They have special sauerkraut goggles to cover it.

He's three balls of ice cold fury. He's snow. He's snowman. Yes. It's dumb. It's one for. you, 19 for him. He is, of course, the tax man.

Yay! Yes, in spirit of the late, George Harrison. Yes. Oh, that's why Beatles. We're like, what? Oh, my face hurts. So, it's good. This is a pretty popular pub quiz thing.

I'm pretty happy that we're doing this. It's kind of inspired by our sponsor, Bonobos. And I'm going to call this segment, bunch of bonobos. We here love collective nouns of animals Because they're so weird Some are maybe too good to be true I think a lot of them are very tongue-in-cheek when they were created Poetic too

They're so fun We've shared before in previous episodes A group of cats is actually a clowder of cats And also a unicorn is a blessing of unicorn Though that is a little controversial I still think that one's dumb. I think the better, you know, or like a lot of people love, like, a murder of crows is a great one that a lot of people like. So we all picked a few of our favorites.

I try to look up for bonobos, and there actually was not a collective now for bonobos. So I think the bonobo scientist should decide on one. It's a sex cave. Well, yeah. An orgy of bonobos. That's what it is. It's a colligula of bonobos. So the three I picked are.

Rattlesnakes, jellyfish, and lobsters. Oh. A group of rattlesnakes is called a Roomba. A Roomba of R-R-N-Sakes. Wait, like the vacuum? Like the dance. Oh, a rhomba. A rumba.

A rumba. R-H-U-M-B-A. A-R-H-U-M-B-A. Because they are legally. Yeah, they're a dancing. It's true. Yeah. They're very sensual animal.

Yes, they are, Colin. Sure thing. Why are you backing away, Dana? Yes, snakes are a central animal And a group of jellyfish is called a smack A smack of jellyfish I kind of just imagine like a jellyfish in my face Smacking a view

Yeah, and a lobster A group of lobster is called a risk A risk of lobsters You risk your hand when you put it in a risk of lobsters Could be Some risky bisque Oh, I like that We should make a soup company.

And the story will be called risky business. No, no one won't buy that. It's like, is it contaminated? Who knows? And some risky biscuits. Well, I did some birds. I have an all bird run down here. Birds, they have the best names.

An Eagles. You guys know what a collection of Eagles is? Is a... Patriot. A convocation. Oh, I can imagine. So regal. It is very regal.

A convocation of Eagles. A bunch of Sam the Eagles. like in a room. Yeah, just so proud and just upright somehow. Fescence is a bouquet of pheasants. Ew.

That's sweet. I just imagine like a bunch of dead birds like tied together. With the cellophane wrapping around them. And a ribbon. You better get these in some water right away. But this was my favorite though

for owls, a parliament of owls. Yes, I have heard that. I love that. It just seems so. Because they're wise. Yeah. You just see them kind of sitting there in judgment of you.

I have some cutesy ones, too. A group of leopards is a leap. A leap of leopards. Spiders. A group of spiders. Do you know what that is? A spackle of spiders. A spasm of spiders.

It's a clutter of spiders. But it makes sense, like, if you're cleaning out your garage and you have all that clutter, you move it, and then you find a bunch of spiders, you're like, it's a clutter of spiders. You know, these names are not, by and large, there's no scientific basis. for these names. They're written by poets, you know, they're flowery language that have just just sort of come into common acceptance. Boers is a singular of boars. What? That seems fairly oxymoronic. You'd think. Apparently what some people think it comes from is the French word for boar is songnier. I thought that was a really beautiful poem. Like,

boys don't travel, you know, with others. So it's a singular boar. That's so sad. Yeah, right. A surfeit of skunks. Surf it, which means a surplus. Even one is too many. Exactly. Yes. No, I mean, that's what it is. Wow, lots of great potential t-shirt ideas there.

Book club on Monday. Gym on Tuesday. Date night on Wednesday. Out on the town on Thursday. Quiet night in on Friday. It's good to have a routine. And it's good for your eyes too. Because with regular.

comprehensive eye exams at Specsavers, you'll know just how healthy they are. Visit Spexavers.cavers.cai to book your next eye exam. Iexams provided by independent optometrists. So, of course, a huge part of any trivia challenge is the music. And people love the music, right? People love the music. And I think, I feel like we pride ourselves on our range and our depth of musical knowledge. So we've had some awesome musical challenges, including a, being lucky enough to be introduced to our robotic friend Elvis, the electronic lyric vocalization Interpretation Interfacing System. The electronic lyrical vocal interface system.

Yeah, either way, it spells Elvis. Yeah, either way it spells Elvis, which is really all we cared about. So he is our intentionally low-tech computer voice trying to share some love of music with people. He does his best. Yeah. I want you guys to imagine if all of these. opening lines were songs were read by a computerized AI voice.

So I've put together collection of songs here, opening lines of popular songs. So here, we'll start off with an easy one just to sort of calibrate here. So this popular 90s song. When you were here before, couldn't look you in the eye. You're just like an angel.

Your skin makes me cry. I believe. I believe that was Dana. Creep. Yes, it is creep by radio head. So scary. I know, I know. So, all right, so we'll try to get a little bit more complicated here, but you guys get the angle here.

Yeah. All right, here we go. Next one. Dick, if you will, the picture of you and I engaged in a kiss. The sweat of your body covers me. Can you, my darling, can you picture this? Hi, Dana. When doves cry?

It is when doves cry, my friends. The sweat of your body covers me. All right, here we go. Here's the next one. Look around. Everywhere you turn is heartache. It's everywhere that you go. You try everything you can to escape the pain of life that you know.

I believe that was Chris He's running Vogue It is Vogue It is Vos I really had to work through the whole thing To get to the chorus It is amazing

Like in isolation The lyrics seems so dark Like some goth song I don't know All right here we go Here's next one You keep saying you got something for me Something you call love

But confess you've been a messin where you shouldn't have been a messin and now someone else is getting all your best That was, these boots are made for walking by Nancy Sinatra I like the way they did the first You've been messing where you shouldn't have been a messin All right last one last one here And I hope this one will be easy

In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey Butane in my veins So I'm out to cut the junkie with the plastic eyeballs spray paint the vegetables dog food stalls with the beef cake panty holes

that was Dana it's a Beck it is it is loser yeah back yes I'll start with creep in with loser ooh I like that good job that was so much fun to be together that was awesome alright time for my quiz and guess what

music round is back yeah by popular demand and there is a theme but you don't have to guess the theme because it will be fairly obvious by the second clip and how this is going to work is I'm going to play five short clips of music and you have to identify the artist who performed the songs. All right. Here we go.

Oh, God. The name of the song is, of course, Papa U-Mao-Mau-M-A-Mau. It is. Is it Surfing Bird? Surf and Bird, yeah. Oh, well, they combined, that's Surf and Bird combined two songs, right? There was a song called Papa U-M-M-A-M-Mau. Yeah, I think you're right.

I think you're right. It was a reference to that, but either way, we're just stalling because none of us is... None of us can think of. Well, who's the artist of Surfingbird? I just think of Peter Griffin. I cannot remember. It is the Trashmen. The Trashman.

That's perfect. Such a one-hit wonder, good trivia song. The Trashman. But I would accept Peter Griffin as well. I'm a family guy. All right. All right, number two. Guilty

Guilty pleasure Isn't that kid rock Yes My name is kid That is a Ba with the ba Ah, of course Do our song clip number three

Ubi-Doo-Doo-Doo-I-Doo-I-O-Dub-Dub-O-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-W-B-B-B-B. Thank you, Karen. It's Roy Orbison. Yes. The song name? Ubi-Dubi. Ubi-Dubi. I think I know the theme.

Things you say when you're having a seizure. Baw with a bar. clip. intentionally delaying, buzzing in so she could pretend like she was, oh, let me think about it. No, there's no shame. Okay, and we have

our fifth song. I believe that is I believe that is Manfred Man's Earth Band. I was thinking Manfred Man, but I didn't know the name of the, if that was the person or the band. Wow. I just, at some trivia contest years ago, that was one of those things where we missed it, and I'm like, all right, I am never missing this one again. And I just, just encoded into my brain. Because you know the song, but.

So, of course, the theme is. Nonsense words. Yeah. Filler, filler words, yeah. Got it. We got it. Bah with the bar. Bupy-duby-du-a-ditty.

La-la. And then we have the segments that are just undefinable and uncategorizable, and we can't lump them all together with any sort of theme whatsoever because they don't have anything to do with poop. There's poop related and there's no poop. Right, right, right. Yeah, exactly. We've done, again, as you said, we've done hundreds upon hundreds of segments,

and at least five of them don't have anything to do with the buttal region. So here's a mixed bag, a potpoury, if you will, of more fun moments from the past year of Good Job Brain. A poo-pery. So I made a quiz called, is it Belgium or not Belgium? Well, I mean, really, anything in the world can be put into one of those two categories. Very logical. Yeah, okay, held up one finger if you think it is Belgium, two fingers if you think it's not.

I think buzzing in on a 50-50 guest quiz. It's a lot. Brussels sprouts. Are they from Belgium or not from Belgium? You all say no, they are. Oh, we all over thought, yeah. That was the easiest question. I thought it was too easy.

I'm glad that I chose this format. Otherwise, it would be a bloodbath. Brussels are actually from Belgium. From Brussels. Yeah. In Belgium. Oh, great. I learned something new every day.

It's good. The Holy Roman Empire was started here by Charlemagne. Belgium or not Belgium? You all say yes? The answer's no. It was Germany. You're in our head now. Belgium or not Belgium?

You are in our head. I'm quadruple guessing myself now. He's like, is it a trick of a trick? If she thinks it's a trick? Yeah. You could say the president of Belgium. And I would say, not Belgium. The most castles per square mile.

Belgium or not Belgium? Karen says not. Colin says yes. Chris says yes, yes. I thought it was going to be like Ireland or Scotland. Yeah, on the board. The coffee filter was invented here. Belgium, not Belgium.

Karen says not. I'm going to say not. I'm going to say Belgium. Chris says yes. Colin says not. It is not. It's Germany. Oh, again.

I thought it was going to be it. I was going to name this quiz, Belgium, France, or Germany? That's a hint for you guys. Because they're all kind of near each other, and they have, it's crossover between those. I like Belgium or not Belgium. Yeah. That's more of a pizzazz. My reasoning on that one was it would be like a French press, so they wouldn't have a filter.

The metric system. Oh, dang. Dang, dang, dang. Collin says yes. I'm going to say yes. There's smart people there. Yes. Yes.

No. It was in France. Where was the metric system? France. Oh, well, that makes sense because that's where the international standards for all the metric. But see, maybe the dude is from Belgium. That's true. Okay, well, how about this?

The communist manifesto was written here. Whoa. Belgium, not Belgium. Colin says no. I'm not a yes, German. Karen says yes. Yeah. Yeah, it was.

Yeah. Because Karl Marx was in exile from Germany and he went to Belgium. Oh. And he met Ingles there. Here's one for Karen, though. Black, yellow, and red flag with horizontal stripes. Germany's flag is horizontal stripes. Yes.

Do you know Belgium's flag? It's the same but vertical stripes. Yes. That's the little trick. Real tricky. Yep, yep, yep. So Germany has the same color, horizontal Belgium, same color vertical. Oh, I like that.

Belgian Waffles. Not Belgium. Yes, Belgium. I say yes. Yes. Yes. Belgian Waffles actually from Belgium.

Woo! I don't know what the scores. You don't know what the scores are? I think it's almost tied for everybody. Yay! You guys equally suck at Belgium. We're all equally poor.

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you get your podcasts. That's Accuweather Daily, wherever you get your podcasts. For me, the action figure line that I was into like you were to Star Wars was He-Man. This started up in 1981, and basically this all actually apparently came about. There's some disputes

because Mattel was negotiating for the rights to make Conan the Barbarian figures. Well, based on the movie. But it fell through. They decided not to. And then, like, a year later, they do He-Man, very similar to Conan the Barbarian. I believe there was, in fact, there was legal action over this. And I think Mattel won because it wasn't, you know, materially, substantially, because there was so much to the He-Man mythos that they kind of came up with.

And they came up with the mythology for He-Man and all of the action figures, really first as action figures. And what they did was they had mini-comics that told stories about He-Man and Skeletor and Tila and Prince Adam and all this kind of stuff and they inserted those mini-comics into the action figure packages. So you got this little comic.

And that's how it told you who these people were, yeah, and what their origin stories were, yeah. The cartoon wasn't even made yet. Now, eventually in 1983, they started making the cartoon. And a cartoon, I mean, that cartoon was to sell action figures. Yeah. Advertised. No doubt about it. Yep, we introduce characters in the cartoon, and the kids like the characters, and then the action figure comes out later.

Oh, you're so smart. And one of the things with Masters of the Universe is that they, I mean, really to save money in the beginning. I mean, it was very much designed to save money in every way possible in terms of reusing molds and reusing body parts. Like, He-Man and his arch nemesis, Skeletor, like, their torso is the same. Their crotch is the same. They have veins on their leg in the same spot. Right. Well, their legs and their arms are different because they had bad guy arms that were claws. And they had bad guy legs that had webbed feet. But then they'd use those same bad guy arms and legs.

And the arms popped off the torso because they're literally assembling them at the factory like pop, pop, just popping the arms on. And they would just be different colors. The legs are attached with rubber bands. Yeah, they just painted different colors. They had figures that were just like there was Beast Man, but then they came out with Moss Man, who was just Beast Man, who was just Beast Man covered. in like green flexed and they would just get away with the most crazy stuff like there was Stinkor who was a skunk

but he was just Murman painted black and then they took Mechenex red armor and painted it orange and put it on Stinkor and I think they gave him a weapon that was a repaint of somebody else's so they made this whole new figure

The whole thing is just mix and match out of old parts I noticed they were always the same size but I didn't realize oh it's because they're made from the same parts It's just kind of hot to punch. Everybody in this universe is exactly the same height. You knew as a kid that they were doing that, you know?

It starts to, that's how you start to get cynical as a kid. It's using biomasters of the universe figure, and you're like, wait a gosh darn minute. I could have made my own. I mean, I was making hybrids. Like, you put the skeletor arms on him, man. Oh, yeah. And actually, well, Stinkor, they actually put like a perfume. I remember.

He actually had an odor to him. He smells like a skunk. He didn't. He smelled like, you know, he smelled like a scratch and sniff sticker of, of, of dubious quality. No, it smelled good. No, it smelled good because, as a kid, you just sit around like, you know, huffing. Huffing stink or. Yeah, because it smells like that.

The Chris Kohler memoirs. Huffing stink or. So, Colin, you prepared a very special comics quiz for all of us and also for the listeners, but especially for Nicole and Josh. Going out to you guys, Josh. All right, comic book quiz, and we're going to do this a little bit differently from a regular quiz. I've given you guys pads here. You're all going to write down your answer. answer and then we're going to score you guys as we go and then there'll be a tie

breaker at the end oh wow this is like real pub trivia I know with comic books this is always tough of too hard not hard enough I think I've tried to get a good balance here of questions for you guys all right so remember don't shout out of buzz in you're going to write down your answers okay here we go specifically what type of radiation was responsible for turning Dr. Bruce Banner into the Incredible Hulk and in the comics they always rendered this type of radiation as green. All right, ready?

Answers. Dana says gamma. Chris says gamma. Karen says gamma. Correct. Yeah. Gamma radiation. That's right.

In the Batman comics, what is the name of Gotham City's asylum for the criminally insane? That's easy. All right. Karen says Arkham. Dana says Arkham. That is correct.

Arkham Asylum for the criminally insane. Thanks video games. Frequently home to the Joker. So even if you've never read a single issue of Batman, the name Arkham might sound familiar. So tell me, Arkham is inspired by the works of what 20th century author? And think about the kind of place it is, the atmosphere it has. Oh, my God. All right, answers up.

Dana, yes, George Orwell, not a bad guess. Karen says Edgar Allan Poe, not a bad guess, but Chris is correct with HP Lovecraft. Darn it! I should have thought because there was a board game called Arkham Horror. Yes, that's right. Yes, the creator of Cthulhu mythology

and all of it. Yes, a lot of his tales were set in the fictional town of Arkham, Massachusetts. I'm so ashamed of myself. In Iron Man's debut appearance in 1963, protagonist Tony Stark builds his armored suit while imprisoned

in what foreign country? And I'm giving you the year there for a reason. Say the year again. 1963. All right, answers up. Chris says Vietnam. Dana says Russia.

Karen says Iran. Chris is correct. It is Vietnam. Yes, he was the Vietnam War. He was captured there. They did, in fact, later update it to the Gulf War. And the current story, I think, is Afghanistan, where it took place. Over the years, various super-powered animals have made their way into the Superman comic storylines.

So I'm going to give you guys. Five super pets. Only one of them is fake. So you need to tell me which one of these is not real. Okay. Crypto the super dog. Nova, the super bear. Beppo, the super monkey.

Comet the super horse. And streaky, the super cat. All right. Answers up. Karen says bear. Dana says streaky super cat. Chris says Nova the super cat. Super. It is Nova the Super Bear

is made up. I invented that one. Yes. Streaky the Super Cat is real. There were just some really off-the-wall storylines they had. And you can do your own Google research on these various animals. You know, and also I was thinking it was like, well, Superman's like super America and bear is such a Russian

kind of... That's what I was going for. I was trying to mislead you guys. Wow. So he wouldn't have a pet bear because that's un-American at that time. At some point. You guys saw through my ruse. All right. What mansion would you find at 1407 gray malcon lane in westchester new york 1407 gray malcon lane all right answers up karen says wayne manner chris says wayne mansion dana says x-men house dana is correct i will accept

x-men house waymanner being in gotham city that's right i try to give you the extra little clue there, Westchester, yeah. You'd be in the suburbs, maybe. Yeah, he has a house in the handy. He's got a fast car. But yes, I would have accepted Charles Xavier's house, Professor X's Academy for gifted youngsters, X-Men age quarters. Right. Or in this case.

X-Men House. Well done. Well done. Dean Johnson, the X-Men of X-Men House, you're throwing another party. X-Men House! Wonder Woman famously graced the cover of the first issue of what U.S. magazine in July 19

1st issue, July 1972, July 19th, 1st issue, July 172 in 1972, okay. All right, answers up. Dana says Ms. Magazine, Chris says Ms. Magazine. Karen says TV Guide. It is Ms. Magazine. Never even heard of that. Glorious items. Wow.

Famous, feminist, iconic magazine. So speaking of magazines, newspapers figure prominently in the storylines of both Spider-Man and Superman. because both Clark Kent and Peter Parker work at newspapers. We're going to start off here. For one point each, can you tell me the names of either or both of the newspapers in the Spider-Man and Superman worlds in Metropolis and New York City? Yes, all three of you have it correct. It is the Daily Planet in Superman and the Daily Bugle and Spider-Man.

All right, so now don't get too happy with yourselves because for one extra nerd point each, I need to know who are the editors-in-chief of the two newspapers. J.K. Simmons was the actor in Spider-Man. Yes, yes. A fantastic performance by J.K. Simmons in the Spider-Man movies. Okay. We'll start with Dana, who has Perry White and Larry Rogers. Oh, Perry White.

The two answers are Perry. Oh, and Chris has Nothing and Jay Jonah Jamison. So, yes, Jay Jonah Jameson is the Daily Bugle Editor-in-Chief. Perry White is the editor-Chief. Don't call me cheap. And Karen has put Hugh Jass and Hugh Kemp. cares. And I'm throwing all the points away.

Chris does in fact win, for those of you who had money writing on the game. So well done. All right, great. And that's our show. Best of 2012. Hope you guys enjoyed it. Thank you guys for joining me. And thank you guys listeners for listening in.

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