Good Job, Brain! - 61: Waking Up is Hard to Do

Episode Date: May 15, 2013

Good morning, brains! Love it or hate it, getting up in the morning is something we have to face every single day. Well, unless...you're a nocturnal mole-person. We gab about juicy trivia and silly histories behind some of our favorite and least favorite parts of the morning ritual: Saturday morning cartoons, extremely hyper morning drink quiz, the dreaded hangover, the morning commute, the worst/best invention of the world - the snooze button, and play a round of "ENERGY DRINK?...Or SHOW ON THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL?" ALSO: bad kids' jokes, and "Element or Drug?" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Hello, family of fascinating followers who are funky fresh. Welcome to Good Job, Brain, your weekly quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. This is episode 61. And of course, I am your humble, host, Karen, and we are your cacophony of quiz-crunchy, cookie cohorts. I'm Colin. I'm Dana. And I'm Chris. Chris is back. I'm back. I'm back. I was back on the little mini episode, but now I'm back for real. So what did you bring us? Nothing.

We want a present. Sorry. We paid your ransom for nothing. And this episode is brought to you by our sponsor, bonobos.com, online store of excellent menswear and maker of some of the best-fitting pants in the world. So Bonobos and Good Job Brain, we have a very special bond together. We both really like puns and riddles. And some people are masters at it and some are not. So, I feel like that was pointed. It is. Because it's about people who are not, isn't it? Yes. I'm going to bring back a segment from before. One of our favorite Tumblr is badkidsjoke.tumbler.com. And it's, it's authored by a guy who moderates kids' jokes at an official kids' jokes website, and a lot of submissions he get are not really good jokes, or they just don't make sense.

I hope the kids don't find it. They're like, oh, I work so hard on this. And then you find it on a bad kid's jokes, Tumblr. They are loved by all, but not because they're good jokes, because they're bad. I'm going to throw some of these out there. Feel free to guess the answer, but you probably will not get that. the answer because they're jokes that don't make sense at all. They're not in secunders.

No, okay. So here we go. What did the fox say to the chick hand in the restaurant? Get off my plate. Not bad. I'm trying to just think like a like a kid. Get on my plate. Oh, okay.

He said, I'm sorry. We don't serve seeds, only chick hands. What? Oh, wait. Because they would have fed the chicken. They're not going to feed the chicken seeds. They're only going to serve the chickens. You know, the joke, a ham sandwich walks into a bar, and the bartender says, I'm sorry, we don't serve food here. Oh, got it, got it.

So they got it wrong or misinterpreted. Okay, here's one. What does naked mean? Where do you even begin? Yeah, this could be. any of a million things. It means so much. What does naked mean?

Anonymous kid. I don't know. Boofs. You know what? I bet that kid laughed for a really long time. One of the thing is, he probably has told this joke to his parents or any other adults, and they crack up laughing.

Oh, yeah. I'm good at writing jokes. I don't know. Boobs. I don't know. Made Karen laugh. Look at her. Oh my gosh

One more What did the doctor Say to the platypus Oh I feel like this is a real I feel like there's something with Yeah There's a problem

Oh put it on my bill You already got my bill Yeah Those are too clever though Those are too clever He said Sir, you are in quite a pickle What?

That's great That's great Good job, kids Good job, brains This is why we need gatekeepers on our nation's children's humor I'm so happy this guy has his job to filter these things

All right, let's jump into our first general trivia segment Pop Quiz Hot Shot I have a random Trivial Pursuit card here and you guys have your barnyard buzzers Here we go Blue Wedge for Geography

Papa Doc and baby doc Duvalier ruled over what Caribbean country from 1957 to 1986. All together now? Altogether. Haley. I thought that's what the answer was. I don't know. Yeah, well, the problem with all together is I was going to throw something out there,

but I don't know what you're thinking. Well, we can all nominate a turn. I'm going to vote Haiti. Yeah, I think that's right. I'm going to say Jamaica. Everybody's so good. I don't think, yeah, I don't think you correctly read if this was going to be an all-together. Orlando buzzers.

Yeah, I miss read that one. What is it? Haiti. Oh, son of it. Haiti. Haiti. Hey, he replied. I know what's talking with me.

Did not know that. All right. Pink Wedge for a pop culture. What superhero practices law as Matt Murdoch? Colin? That would be Daredevil. Yes, Daredevil. Yellow Wedge.

Approximately how long was the Anglo-Zanzibar War called the shortest war in history? Multiple choice. 38 minutes, 5 hours, or 14 hours. Chris. I'll say, I'm going to say, even if it's the shortest war in history, let's say it was 14 hours. Incorrect. Let's do that. The minutes, the A.

38 minutes? Yeah. You are correct. 38 minutes. That seems suspiciously precise to me. Well, they started at 9 o'clock, and then 938. They were like, never mind. Call it.

Oh, you brought guns. Oh, no. Oh, that's mine. I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know. I forget what we were fighting about it.

Yeah, I think it's fine. All right. Purple Wedge. Whoa. Debuting in 1990. what live show introduced audiences to the quote ancient art of genital origami is it puppetry of the penis yes yeah they were like Australian right yeah have you never heard of this before what trivial pursuit is this from actual trivial pursuit all right green wedge for science

What symbol did Welsh mathematician Robert Record create in the 1500s? Symbol. Chris. Oh, um, pie. Incorrect. Probably invented by the ancient Greeks. I'm going to go with Greeks on that one. Yeah.

Was it the infinity symbol? Incorrect. Is it square root sign? Incorrect. It is the equal sign. What? He chose two parallel lines because, no two things can be more equal.

That's good. What year was that? 1500s. I wonder what they were using before. Yeah, that's true, huh? No, they never knew what anything added up to. No. All right.

Last question, Orange Wedge. What basketball team did MLB Hall of Fame pitchers Bob Gibson and Fergie Jenkins play for? So I'm putting down my buzzer. What basketball team? You probably can guess it. What basketball team? What basketball team?

The Warriors. Did MLB Hall of Fame pitchers? Bob Gibson. That's not basketball. It's baseball, right? Yeah, exactly. I'm going to... I'll guess.

Is it the Harlem Globetrotters? Yes, it is. The fact that you didn't say NBA team. Yep. Huh, I didn't know that. Bob Gibson played for the Harlem Globetrotters. Well, they were all about marketing and, you know... Exactly.

Getting celebrities. They were on Scooby-Doo a lot of time. They were they sell mysteries. Yeah. Yeah. That's so diverse. All right, good job, Brains. So this week, we're going to talk about something that personally is outside of my comfort zone, but it's something that we face every day.

We're going to talk about getting up in the morning and morning stuff. Wow. Early mornings, make my warnings. What's the point of the alarm that I'm ignoring? It's even raining. I'm not complaining. I'm waking up. It's hard to do so.

I don't know about to bed With no I'm not a morning Take time to drink Like in my morning time to be It's hard to do For no reality waking up his heart to do

I don't know about you guys I'm not a morning person At all I would much rather stay up super late As opposed to get up early Yeah So what I do I don't know if you guys do it too

When I set up my alarm clock I have the fake wake up time Oh yeah Yeah yeah so I've like, okay, I'm going to wake up at 6.30 a.m. That's my first alarm. Yep. And then I set up a second alarm at like 645 and then another alarm at 7. But of course, I like miss all of those. Right, right. But like, well, I'm like one day. One day I will wake up at 6.30. Well, it's also the element of trying to fool your future self, you know. And like you in the morning, you're like, oh, past self was so dumb thinking that you could outsmart me.

There is an app now that actually lets you, you can hit the snoo. button on the alarm, but you have to pay money every time you do it. That's smart. That's smart. Really? And if this is not the case and I just came up with that, please no one make it before I am. There's one that monitors your sleep rhythms and you put the phone in the bed with you and it can tell when you wake up and then when you're just about to wake up, it'll do the alarm.

So it wakes you up at a natural like a... It's like a little more gentle. Yeah. Speak of the devil. And in fact, for me, my alarm clock is like a devil. I don't like getting up. up. I don't, I hate the sound of my alarm clock. I think I'm like a lot of people. I know this is not a unique phenomenon where I habitually will wake up just a couple minutes before the alarm goes off. Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, I don't know exactly what the mechanism is there. But yeah, I mean, I was interested in what, what is the history of alarm clocks? Like, where does this go all the way back? And not surprisingly, there are just an immense, dense history of alarm clocks, all the ancient cultures, the Greeks, the Arabs, the Chinese. I mean, every, every advanced, uh, nobody likes getting up. Nobody.

And clock making and clockwork is a pretty old craft. So, you know, not surprisingly, there are a lot of claims to this is the first. No, this is the first. No, this is the first. But then I was thinking, all right, what is, you know, what's nature's alarm clock? You know, we've all seen countless cartoons and movies. Well, it's funny that you say that. That's right.

There are a lot of stories, you know, particularly attributing to Native American tribes, you know, before a big battle the night before, you would just drink copious amounts of water knowing that, yeah. And it's, it's, it just makes sense. You drink it a lot, a few hours later. It's going to get you up one way or the other. That's one of the worst feelings is like you're in bed and you really need a pee, but you're like, no, I can just sleep through this and you're in this like bad sleep. Oh, it affects my dreams. Yeah, I don't want to get up, but, oh.

So, no, not urine. I was thinking more of the rooster. Yes, the rooster on the farm, the cockadoodle do. We've seen it just countless times. And roosters do actually do this. This is a real thing. Roosters do crow in the morning. And if you're on a farm, it is a pretty reliable way of starting your day.

So this is what really fascinated me, though. This is brand new research. I'm talking just in the last couple of months, all right? The researchers in Japan have discovered that roosters, they crow at dawn. It's genetic. It's based on their circadian rhythms. It has nothing to do with them seeing the light and then being triggered by light or, you know, smelling something in the air. So they ran these ingenious experiments.

And so they took some roosters. They observed them in a normal 12-hour light, 12-hour dark cycle for a few days. And then they kept them in a constant 24-hour dark cycle. And sure enough, the roosters would continue to crow at the same time, about a couple hours before they were expecting the dawn to come, even though the light would never come. And sure enough, they settled into about almost exactly a 24-hour cycle. They just knew it's just encoded in the roosters. to do this, that it has nothing to do with light or response to anything like else. They are just programmed to do this on a cycle.

I know roosters crow in the middle of the afternoon, too. Yeah, I mean, it's not an exclusive to dawn scenario. We had a rooster when I was a little kid. Oh, really? Yeah, we incubated, like, eggs in my second grade class, and we had little chickens. They were so cute, and we brought it home, and it turned out to be a rooster. And he would crow the whole day. The whole day, it would just be, he was lonely.

He wanted some lady chickens, is what my parents said. So let's go back to the technology here. So like I say, there's, you know, a long, long, long history of actual clockwork alarm clocks. And particularly in the 1800s, there were some patents granted to adjustable alarm clocks, like kind of what we would think of today, where I can set, you know, wake me up at this exact time. It was not until 1956 that the all-important invention... Snooze! Snooze!

Yes, in 1956. G.E. Telechron came out with the first snooze alarm clock. And it was pretty simple. It would go off. You'd hit the little bar on the top, and it would go off again in a few minutes, pretty much indefinitely. Yeah. Man, that is an invention relying on people's laziness. You know what I mean?

I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing. And so as we talked about at the top of the segment, these ways of sort of dealing with cheating yourself on the snooze time and how to get yourself around it. So one of the inventions that I really love, they came out with this a few years ago. You guys may have seen this. Clocky, have you seen this one? Uh-huh. is the alarm clock that runs away from you. Oh, yeah.

So it's got wheels on the side of it, and it's durable and rugged, so you set it up. So you have to get up. So it goes off, and it gives you one snooze, and then after that, it rolls off your bedstand, and we'll try and roll away from you and, you know, under a couch or something like that. And then once it goes off again, you're stuck. You've got to get up out of bed and go find this thing now. So this clock is really for those people who just, they know they need to have some concrete motivation to get their butts out of bed. I would be so pissed.

You know, I wouldn't start my day on a positive note. Playing hide and seek with a robot. Crawling under the bed to get the line. So I have a short quiz for you guys based around morning, like so the answers may have morning in them. If the question already has word mourning, then it's probably something else. Okay, all right. All right.

First one. This French nursery rhyme includes the line, morning bells are ringing. I don't know. Working backwards is a lot harder than working. Isn't it? Frera jacca. Yes. Dorma, vo.

Morning bells and rings. Oh. The English version. The English version. This is a medieval club-like weapon that included one or more spikes. Chris. Morning star. Yeah.

So which planet reaches its maximum brightness before sunrise, which is the reason why it was referred to by ancient Greeks and Egyptians as the morning star? It's a planet. Huh. Colin. Is it Venus? Yes. Oh. According to the Victorian language of flowers, this flower represents love in vain,

and its seeds were also used as laxatives. Karen. Morning glory. Yes. Who is the Roman goddess of the dawn? Of the dawn. Oh, was that Minerva? No?

Oh, Aurora? Yes. Yes. Yeah. Of course. And do you know the Greek version? When you say it, I will. No, not Artemis.

Series. Eos. Well, she's a Titan. E.O.S. It's a Beautiful Morning is the 1968 hit song by what group? Yes, that's how it goes. That's good. Who does sing that?

Chris. Well, thematically, I wanted to be the OJs. Oh, that would have been. But I'm sure it's. That would have been good. All right. It's the rascals. Ah.

Okay. And finally, this phrase, this famous political phrase, appeared in Ronald Reagan's 1984 political advertisement. You guys are all nodding your heads already. So the commercial was originally called Prouder, Stronger, and Better, but they renamed it this. Chris. It's Morning in America. Yes. I knew Chris would know this. Wait, why did they change it? It was the first line of that commercial, and it really struck a chord.

It's morning time in America. It was an effective campaign, obviously. It shows up in pop culture all the time. Like, now that you've heard it, you probably will start seeing it appearing in different shows and things. Good job, you guys. Wow. Thanks. 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. mornings for some people mean being hungover having had too much to drink the night before and I mean actually for me like hangovers get me out of bed faster because I feel so terrible that I'm just like I can't sleep anymore just get me out of bed so I can start like putting things into my body to maybe kind of like try to erase this and everybody I mean since the dawn of man people have been trying to figure out hangover cures you know what can I do to lessen the pain of this hangover? And one of the methods has been around for a very, very, very long time. Let's listen to this quotation from Athaneus, a Greek writer from the late second century AD. Take the hair, it's well written, of the dog by which you're bitten, work off one wine by his brother and one labor with another.

In Scotland, in all kinds of places around the world, there is a pop. urban legend, an old wife's tale, an old folk cure, that if you are bitten by a dog, what you do is you go and get hairs of the dog that bit you and put those hairs into the wound. And this is all... That is horrible. That is the worst advice ever. Well, the thing is... You might luck out when the hair's already left. And it's not going to cure your rabies.

But, you know, overall, this phenomenon is this idea, this overarching idea of like cures, like of whatever it is that is a problem, you have to go and do exactly that same thing again. More of it. And that is how you will cure it. Right. This never tends to work out. But this was an overarching theory from back when they were really just trying to come up with theories. Oh, I get it.

If you're hungover, you drink more. Right. And so, hair of the dog that bit you, we no longer, I mean, you know, it's funny because we think about, oh, my God, why would I pull hairs out of the dog that bit me and put them into the wound? That's ridiculous. But at the same time, people actually still have this idea of, I'm going to go out and drink more, and that's going to cure the hangover that is left behind in my body. I mean, usually, like, I always heard it was just like a little bit. Like, you don't go out and get blitzed again.

You have one drink, yes. And now some people say, if you drank, you know, Jameson's the night before, you should drink Jameson's in the morning. You should drink exactly what it was you had the night before to counteract the ill effects of a hangover. this is all reasoning by drunk people, I should point out. Because I'm like, fool me once. Same on you. A lot of, yeah, a lot of, when I was reading up on, like, is this actually effective or not? Which, as it turns out, I mean, the answer is probably not.

Like, when you have a second drink in the morning. And, of course, this goes many, many different cultures. I mean, again, people have been doing this for millennia. And what it does is, you know, it starts the same process over again of making you feel good because you're drinking alcohol. And so you forget about like the fact that you're so dehydrated and the fact that your stomach hurts because there's toxins and the fact you have a headache because blood vessels are constricted. You know, you forget about it. It doesn't fix any of those things. And what it does is it delays them into the later part of the day when maybe you're a little bit more awake and can deal with them a little bit better.

Now, this is really interesting. There's a lot of different metaphors that are used in cultures all over because the practice is the same, but sometimes the metaphor is different. Right, right, right. So in Germany, they talk about having a counter beer. A counter beer. I like that. In Japan, the word is Mukai Zakei, which means

welcome drink. In Bulgarian in other languages, they use a metaphor, they say using a nail to dislodge a nail. Now, we know what helps a hangover. You should eat light, easily digested food, and you should drink lots and lots of water.

Extra greasy. See, that's the thing. The greasy food, the search for a cure for hangovers, seems to more of a search for a fun cure or like an excuse to like do bad things to yourself yeah it's amazing none of these cures are ever anything that sounds unpleasant right so the greasy food is actually harder to digest which means it's not it's just it's just more fun to like oh great I'm hung over this is an excuse to eat like three fried eggs and a bunch of bacon my body knows what it wants

and it wants waffles it's jack in the box right now coffee doesn't really really help either. Like, really, like, the best thing... It dehydrates you. Yeah. So, I mean, the best thing to do is drink water. But, yeah, overall, you just need water. Yeah, just water and time.

Let's take a quick break and, uh, let's go back to some bad kids jokes. You guys ready for round two? Oh, man, there's a round two? Oh, my God. I didn't save up my energy for this. All right. What's wrong with you? I'm still emotionally recovering from the first one.

All right. All right. What do you do if a skinny spider comes crawling up your bed. A skinny spider. I'm crawling up your bed. Close your mouth. Feed it and make it fat.

I don't know. It's in all caps, so I'm just going to yell it. Do farts. Oh, my God. Wow, like, he totally threw me off the trail with the skinny detail. I'm like, okay, well, why the spider's skinny for a reason. These jokes are only red herrings. Yes, yes.

do farts not fart do farts do farts do farts all right what's ugly but happy

the cast of good job brain a review podcast presented weekly I think it's going to be something mean and a little too revealing like my grandma

or something like that it's going to be something uncomfortable a frog okay oh yeah because they don't know they don't know

No, I don't know. They have plenty of skinny spiders to you. I'd do farts on you. Actually. All right, last one. Why was the cow's dress wet? She was standing in the mud. Someone dunked her in milk.

I don't know. Because she was... She can't even read it. She can't. She's paralyzed. Do you want me to read it for you? It was a wet... You do it?

Contest. Sometimes I can't, like, vocalize all caps in. exclamation marks to the desired effect. Why was the cow's dress wet? Because she watched her boobies one hour ago. Oh my God. I don't know.

She watched her boobies one hour ago. Some people just learn some new words. They're really excited. Somebody just learned about boobs. Yeah. I'm really excited to write a joke. Again, these jokes kill at recess. It's all in the delivery. Oh, yeah. It's the way you tell them.

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a good job brain welcome back you're listening to good job brain and this week we're listening to good job brain and this week we're talking about mornings so wake up wake me up before you go go don't leave me hanging on like a yo-yo wake me up before you go I don't want to miss it when you hear that high wake me up Speaking of drinks, I have a pretty meaty quiz for you guys. And some of this stuff is actually inspired by a listener quiz. Listener Jonathan wrote in and wrote us some questions about morning drinks.

The way we're going to do this is you guys have pads of paper in front of you. We're not going to do buzzing. I'm going to write your answers down. This quiz is pretty intense. Wow. Uh-oh. And I'm going to start off with this first question. In February of 2013, a Washington state man bought what was believed to be the most expensive drink in Starbucks history.

This contains 48 shots of espresso, a mocha drizzle, matcha powder, which is that green tea powder, two bananas, protein powder, caramel brulee topping, strawberry, vanilla bean, and caramel drizzle. and Frappuccino chips. Yikes. He called this drink the quadrigino-touple frap. Okay. How much did this redrinkulous beverage cost? Wow. Closest to the answer.

In dollars. All right. All right. Answer is up. Colin says $92. I'd say $28. Dana's 28. Oh, my God.

Chris put 176. You can't get 48 shots of espresso. That was my reasoning. Yeah. like maybe they give them a bulk discount. Oh, I don't know. I don't know. The answer is $47.

Oh, wow. The closest, $47. Oh, I'll go buy one now. That sounds pretty reasonable. And I won't sleep for a month. All right. Number two. This is the 12 ounce challenge.

I'm going to give you a list of drinks. In 12 ounce serving, you have to write the drinks in order from least caffeinated to most caffeinated. Wow. All right. So in 12 ounce amounts. Red Bull. Coke Zero.

Snapple lemon ice tea. Five hour energy. Coldstone creamery mocha ice cream. And Starbucks espresso. And I'll say it again. Red Bull. Coke zero. Snapple lemon ice tea.

Five hour energy. Coldstone creamery, mocha ice cream and Starbucks espresso all 12 ounce from least caffeinated to most okay sorry

Colin what do you have from least to most all right from least to most Coke zero Snapple lemon iced tea five hour energy Starbucks espresso Red Bull and then the Coldstone creamery

crazy mocha beast okay data it's Napel Coke Zero Coldstone, espresso, Red Bull, and then the five-hour. Chris? I said, Coke, Snapple, Coldstone, Red Bull, espresso, five-hour writer. Oh, my God. You are correct.

Yes. So, Coke Zero, Snapple, lemon, iced tea, cold stone cream, rinkery, mocha, ice cream, red bull, Starbucks, espresso, and five-hour energy drink. So just from the least to most, Coke Zero has 35 milligrams of caffeine in 12 ounce. and five-hour energy drink, you need six full little bottles of five-hour energy shots, yeah, to get to 12-ounce. It contains 1,248 milligrams of caffeine. You know, I guess that makes sense because they say that like one-al-cafathers. That's right, that's right.

Good job. Wow. Well, I mean, Coke, Snapple and Coldstone, those are not like, those are not marketed as like these are going to make you, you know, really intensely hyper. Yeah. And so Red Bull espresso, five-hour energy are, so I kind of figured that that was how they perceived. seated up the chain as far as 12 hours. The coalstone was going to be the sneaky one. Like, oh my God, you would never assume that it has this much caffeine.

I still think it's sneaky, though. I mean, like, it's kind of a shock to me that Coke Zero is the least. Cook Zero has less than Diet Coke. It has a little bit. It has less than Diet Coke. If Diet Coke were in this list, it would be Coke Zero, Snapple, Lemon Ice Tea, and then Diet Coke. Oh, wow. Yeah.

All right. Number three. Kettles and pots are the common tools to brew tea in most of the world. but the Russians, Turks, and Iranians tend to use what traditional device? Like, I feel like I've seen it before. People have made it for me before Turkish-style coffee. All right, everybody ready? Answers up.

Colin says press. Dana says strainer thingy. I think we're talking about the same thing. Chris put. What? Trushka dolls. Oh, those nesting dolls? That's not what they're for?

That would be cool. They don't move tea. It is called a samovar. Oh, okay. I've seen a lot of tea places called samovar. That's right. You could not pull that name out. Okay.

All right. Released in 2006 and pulled from the market just two years later, this coffee-flavored cola product featured twice as much caffeine as its classic cousin. What is the product called? Huh. Wait a minute. Oh, I think I remember this.

Oh. Answers up. Colin says Coke black. Dana says Pepsi AM. Chris says Peppresso. Pepspresso. Pepspresso. Pepspresso.

The espresso flavored Pepsi. It is Coca-Cola black. Oh. Huh. Did not know that. It just sounds absolutely. Absolutely terrible. And black,

black spelled edgy, B-L-A-K. Of course. Yes. What contribution did businessman Chalio Uithaya introduced to the world?

And here's a hint that is a Thai name. Answer is up. Colin says Thai iced tea young. Dana says Thai tea.

Oh, Chris says invented bubble tea. All incorrect. Oh, Oh, what is it? All incorrect. Red Bull. Oh, of course.

Oh, it is. I knew this in Thailand. Huh. We've all heard that Red Bull was inspired by a Thai product, also known as Red Bull in Thai. Actually, there are two different types of drinks. Right, right. The way they sell it there, it's not liquidy and carbonated. It's small, and it's almost like a little shot, like closer to a five-hour energy.

It's kind of like thick and syrupy. So what we know popularly as Red Bull is actually from Austria to Austria. Austrian company. All right, pads down, buzzers up. Wow. There's the last part of my quiz. Wow. On to phase two.

Phase two. This segment is called Energy Drink or Discovery Channel show. I'm going to read you a name and you buzz in and tell me whether if it's a name of an energy drink or a name of a show on Discovery Channel. Okay. This also includes Animal Planet shows as well, too. All right. So here we go. Sparks.

Chris. Energy drink. Correct. It is actually a pre-4-local. It is energy drink plus alcoholic beverage. Sparks. The Devil's Ride. I'll say energy drink.

It is a show on Discovery Channel. It's about a motorcycle club. Of course. Rip it. Dana. Energy drink. Yes, energy drink. marketed as, and this is the tagline, energy fuel at a price you can swallow.

It was actually given to a lot of people in the U.S. Army. Right. Fast and loud. Dana. Show. Yes, show. It's an old car restoration show. Full throttle.

Colin. That's an energy drink. Yes, energy drink. Famous for its quote, no choke mixture. What are the problems that people seem to be having with energy drinks? So actually, for full throttle, they remove the carbonation. So it's easier to down it without the bubbles. Okay, all right.

Shark stimulation. I hope this is a Discovery Channel show. It is a drink. Gross. Gross, but it's wrong with people. Simulation is a terrible word. Shark stimulation. I would watch Shark stimulation.

Yeah, that sounds like a great show and a terrible thing to happen to you. All right. Gold Rush. That's a show. That is a show. And lastly, Beaver Buzz. I hope this is a drink. It is a drink.

It is an energy drink. Beaver Buzz is produced in Canada. No. By a drink company formerly known as Double D beverage company. What are they known as now? Uh, good for you. That's a better name to go with the beaver buds. They don't lack for subtlety.

No. So you wake up in the morning, you may or may not have the hair of the dog that bitch you. You get through your hangover. You slam your sparks or your shark stimulator beverage. Right, shark stimulation. But whatever it is, you're up and you're out of bed. And if you're like most of us, unfortunately, now it's time to go to. work. Yeah. And I know a lot of our listeners

listen to the show during their commute and there may be some listening right now while you are in a carpool. So I'm talking to you guys very quickly about carpooling and... Don't worry. The person next to you is not a crazy axe murder. They're just giggling out loud for a reason. Probably. Probably. I grew up down in L.A. and, you know, there was carpooling as long as I can remember there. And so when I started

looking into the sort of the history of carpooling or what they call HOV, high occupancy vehicle lanes, I just sort of naturally assumed like, oh, this must be a California thing. You know, this must be something that started in L.A., and so I was looking into it. And it wasn't, in fact, the first carpool lane in America anyway was in D.C. Technically speaking, it was in Virginia. But yeah, I mean, the movement really started in the 70s, 80s, just really trying to reduce congestion, get fewer people on the roads. And it started pretty slowly, it sounds like, it was people love their cars. It's hard to sort of encourage people to let someone else drive. So then I was like, okay,

Well, if the first one was not in California, surely the first carpool lane in California must have been somewhere in L.A. And again, I was wrong in my assumption. Oh, where was it? This is great. I love this. The first carpool lane, permanent HOV lane in California was right here in our backyard. It was on the San Francisco, Oakland Bay Bridge. Oh.

In April 1970, they started the first permanent, dedicated lane for buses and high occupancy vehicles, which I thought was great, like right here locally. So I was wrong on both counts. But then I started thinking about it, it kind of makes sense that they would be more important in tight, small areas, as opposed to down in L.A., which is sprawling and big. And they kind of got off to a slow start, but it was the oil embargo of 1973. For understandable reasons, gas prices went through the roof. You'd show up on your specific day to get your gas. And, yeah, if you were a Tuesday, you know, you couldn't show up on Monday and get your gas. You would show up.

Obviously, this spurred a lot of people carpooling and sharing rides to work. And, you know, today, it's funny. it a lot as incentive for low-emission vehicles as well. You know, we probably know you can get an HOV pass if you have an electric car. My favorite part of the whole carpooling culture is the way people try and game the system and cheat the carpooling system. Fake person. Well, so.

Fake person from the SkyMall catalog. Fake person is, is in fact, a real thing. There are, I can't even give you a specific incidence of the first one because there are people who do this. blow-up dummy, stick it in the, you know, passenger seat. That's if you happen to be lucky in a place where the carpool is two people or more. You know, probably invented by somebody you already had the blow-up dummy, like in the trunk or something. You know, I could really purpose this for another reason. Right, exactly. And I mean, the fines, you know, the fines for violating

the H-O-V lanes are pretty stiff. People have dummies in the cars. A simpler way is just getting a fake version of the H-O-V sticker on the side of the car and read, you know, interviews with highway patrol officers, and they've said, like, some of these, they've just become expert at spotting the fake stickers, you know? They're like, I can just tell. I can just tell when it's a fake sticker. It's like on a car that's obviously not an electric car. Right, right. Well, yeah. Yeah, 1978. Yeah, 1973, Dodge Dart. Yeah. So those are sort of the, the more classic ways of cheating the carpool system. But I came across the story that I wanted to share with you guys that just really, for me, just took the cake in terms of just outright chutzpah in trying to game the

system. So I'm going to read to you and paraphrase a little bit here. This was an article that appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle. Some people will do anything to get out of a traffic ticket. Jonathan Freeman failed to convince a judge after he argued that he was not alone when a CHP officer pulled him over in October while driving in the carpool lane. Instead, Freeman admitted that he had reached onto the passenger's seat and handed the officer papers of incorporation connected to his family's charity foundation. By Freeman's estimation, if corporations are indeed persons, as was first established in 1886, then surely there were two people in his car. And what he's alluding to, of course, is the ruling that corporations can count as people.

So the idea that if a corporation can be persons and people, that therefore these represent people traveling in his car. Now, I'd like you guys to guess whether he was successful and he was not, of course. It's clever. It is clever. It's a smart, sneaky. He said he expected to lose. He was not surprised.

and they ruled against him, but he was trying to find a novel way to challenge the system. So I got to give the guy credit for trying. He's like, no dummies, no stickers. He's saying, here's my corporate incorporation papers. Very clever. I was expecting, like, he had a blow-up doll that's like a pregnant blow-up doll with a blow-up baby in it and be like, oh, yeah. Yeah, it'd be three people.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and plus the corporation. Yeah. Now it's a family of four. I don't think that's a precedent any court wants to set, yes. Okay. So you guys know I love Sporkel, the website that has quizzes that people make. I go there all the time. I go there like on my down time.

They have to start paying you, basically. I'm on there a lot. I like answering the quizzes. They're fun. And I found one. It was Saturday morning cartoon characters by Sarah Bell. She did a really good job making it. And I want to share it with you guys and see how you all do.

So I will name the characters on the show and you tell me what the show is, like lightning round style. All right, first one. Swift Heart, Braveheart, Karen. Care Bears. Yes. Yeah. Of course.

Because Braveheart is the lion, like he's not a bear, I think. All right. Kringor, Ram Man. Masters of the Universe. That's Masters of the Universe. Yes. Splinter, John, Karen. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Yes. Red Butler, Indigo, murky, twink. Oh, no. Colin, Karen. Rainbow Bright? Yes. Oh, that's right. I was like, oh, something.

I'm like color, color team. Color, yeah. Prince Lothor, Sven Holgerson, Princess Allura, Keith Allura. Oh, that's Shira? No. Aurora, not Allura.

Another one, Keith Kogain, or Kugani. Gummy Bears. Nope. No. I know this. This is familiar. What is this? Voltron.

Oh, yes. That's right, that's right. Jerica. GEM and the holograms. Panthro. Everybody. Thunder cats. Snark, snark.

Buttons. Fizzy. Cherry's Jubilee. I really want this to be gummy bears. No. One of these days is going to be gummy bears. Karen. Pound puppies?

No. And then the last one's lickety split. My little pony. Oh. Bumble Lion, Eliru, Rhinokie, Flizard. Oh, bumble lion, bumblein. Oh, my God, oh, my God. Time is up, it is the Wuzzles.

Oh, I picture him. Yeah, yeah. Bumblebee. Transform. Yes. Dark. Duke, Serpentor. Chris.

G.I. Yes. Penny. Chris. Inspector Gadgett. Yeah. Dr. Peter Vankman. Oh.

Everybody. Ghostbusters. No, the real Ghostbusters. Yeah, the real Ghostbusters. Blinky. Pinky. Pac-Man. Yeah.

Scooter. Scooter. Oh. Muppet babies. Yep. Gadget. Chippendales Rescue Rangers. Yes.

Rescue Rangers. Chippendale. Chippendale. Any danger. All right. Glimmer. Sheerau Princess of Power. Gyro gear loose.

Launchpad McQuack. Duck tails. Yes. Hefty, vanity, gargamel. Brainy. The Smurfs. Good job, you guys. Wow.

Hey. All right. So, actually, some of those were after school cartoons. Still a good quiz. Yes. It's still a good quiz. It still made me happy and enjoy because Saturday mornings were all about the cartoons. All right.

And that's all of our morning talk for today. And Colin, you have a last trivia quiz segment for us? I do. I have a little quizer here. So I love watching commercials for prescription drugs and over-the-counter drugs because, well, like, partly the one part is like, you know, they list all the side effects. Like, that's always fun. Oh, right. But the thing I love about the drugs is that they always, they always, they, they, they, they, they,

they try to find names that make them sound so scientific and technical and yet also not too scary, scary, right. And I couldn't help but notice how many drugs sound like elements. They end in UM or IUM. So in the spirit of that, I'm going to present a quiz for you guys called element or drug. So I'm going to read out to you guys a name. And every one of these is either an element on the periodic table or it is a commercially available drug. Wow.

So this is really a quiz of hell. Well, you know your periodic table. I guess so. Or watch drug commercials. Or watch a lot of drug commercials, right. All right. So here we go. So you guys, for each of these, you guys will let me know, element or drug, and we'll keep score.

All-Thorium. All say element. You are all correct. Yay. Like Thor. Thorium. Thursday. Element Atomic number 90, one of the radioactive ones.

So don't eat any thorium, kids. Okay. Nexium. say drug you are all correct yeah what does it do uh it is a drug primarily for heartburn okay okay yeah diureneum oh now we're getting tough diureneum karen all say drug you are correct it is a drug what is it what is it's a diuretic oh okay so like diarrhea anium oh it's spelled with a y Diarrion. Yeah.

It's a bottle of the Y, but close enough, close enough. Librium. Librium. I could have. Chris says drug. Karen and Dana say element. It is a drug. Oh, darn.

It is an anti-anxiety drug. Oh. Librium. It's like free. We should have some now. Prometrium. Oh. Prometrium.

Mm. I'll say element. You are all incorrect. Prometrium is a drug, usually part of a hormone replacement therapy for women undergoing menopause. Oh, interesting. It sounds so nerdy, like Prometheus. Yeah, right. All right, here we go.

I'll throw you guys a bone here. Prometrium. What did we have just before? That was Prometrium. That was Prometrium. This is Prometheum. You all guess, element, you are all correct. Oh, I wonder if there's.

Trium is drug Thium is C No I think it was more the like mitrial lining I think

is where that one came from Oh Do we get points Or me Oh yes Sorry Chris funds

Promethium Element Atama number 61 I want Everybody to have their points All around Disprosium

Disprosium Dysm Drug Drug You all say drug You are all Incorrect What?

I know This one sounds like a drug Like dis-d discomfort For dyslexia. Disprosium is element number 66. It's one of the rare earth elements, kind of metallic. Disprosium. Disprosium.

For dyslexia. Yes, yeah. It sounds like a drug. All right, no points there. Here we go. And he's getting tricky. Or maybe they're not. Pyridium.

P-Y-R. P-R. P-R-P-R-E-R-E-R. All say element. All incorrect. Oh, my God. There must be one. Perium is a drug, typically prescribed to treat pain associated with urinary tract infections.

Pire, fire, pyrofire. Oh, right. There you go. So it might be an element. The burning and the inflammation. Burning in your pee-pee place. There we go. All right.

All right. All right. All right. All right. Dipentum. Dipentum. Sounds more like a computer. Dana says element.

Chris says drug. Karen says element. It is a drug I thought it was a drug And that's why I was like You thought it was a drug So you Yeah because I was like

Oh my instincts are obviously I was in your head Dipentum is a drug Yes Prescribed for colitis And irritable bowel syndrome What is colla? Oh okay

I was going to be like What is collitis So final tally Chris Chris knows his drugs Yes so And or elements And we'll sell you

Anything you need man I got all the dysprosium you need All right. Good job, guys. We think a lot. That's all about second-guessing. Yeah. Oh, man.

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