Good Job, Brain! - 92: Pick a Side

Episode Date: December 25, 2013

We're a lot giddier than usual this week as we explore the trivia of things on the side. Chris gets kicky with a sidekick quiz, and Dana's got a list of things that are more famous for their side effects than their intended use. Colin takes us on a lol-lercoaster of ridiculous sideline behavior in sports. Karen dives into the snippy history of the human face profile. Do you know your heads, tails, and the sides of your money? And why are there so many darn chickens crossing the road? ALSO: anniversary gift symbolism, Mashup Music Round! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Hello, animated animals anxiously anticipating android anecdotes and antics. This is Good Job, Brain, your weekly quiz show and off-be trivia podcast. Today's show is episode 92, and of course, I'm your humble host. Karen, and we are your loopy coop of snoops. I'm Colin. I'm Dana. And I'm Chris.

Those were good. Oh, I like your... Take a slow. Chris. After dark. And it's episode 92. We're slowly inching on the road to episode 100. And this is just a reminder for all you listeners.

We still don't really know what we're going to do for our big 100th episode slash two-year anniversary. But we thought it'd be fun if we had the audience. participate so we want audio clips from you record your lovely voice using your computer or your smartphone or your voice recorder and tell us a little bit about why you like good job brain or who you are and interesting anecdotes stuff that happens during pup trivia whatever it is or your dog's barking or purring I don't know oh I guess cat's purring sorry and uh if your dog if your dog is purring let us know send it in we want to know send in the whole dog and you just Email us, the audio files, state your name, and what city you're in, and we might put it in the show for episode 100.

What do you get for your second year anniversary? Do you know? I think it's wood. Toilet paper? First year is, I know, it's paper anniversary. I think second year is wood. That sounds plausible. These are good to know for public quiz.

Yeah. These are good to know if you're married. Oh, I was wrong. What is it? Second year is cotton. Cotton. The fabric of our lives Nice fresh underpants

So for anniversary lists There's a traditional And there's a modern Okay Oh yeah It seems like all the traditional stuff Is kind of The traditional stuff is a little weird

Right It's like more natural Yeah The modern stuff As you can spend more money on it So for first year It's paper traditional Modern is clocks

I don't know why Second accountant time So you can go on below like $500 on a piece of jewelry. Yeah. Second year is traditional cotton and then modern is China. Not the country.

Plates. Some plates. All right. Lower case. Just clarify. Yeah. This is transition from like simpler times to consumerism. Because you're not,

you're not supposed to have any money when you first get married. You're supposed to have like nothing. It's poor. Right. Yeah. Paper. Cotton. Buggers is.

That's number three. It's number three. It's going way back for that one. It's like really, where you reaffirm how close you are with each other. Right, right, right. Yeah, my year three. I made a ring out of boogers. Yep.

Happy anniversary, honey. And you wear it with pride. There are no my boogers and your boogers in your boogers. Oh, my gosh. Sticks. All right. I love that sticks, boogers, the gift sticks around. The love you can't flick away.

Off to a good start, everybody. All right, without further ado, let's jump into our first general trivia segment. Pop quiz, hot shot. Everybody has their barnyard buzzer. I have a random trivia pursuit card from the box. Here we go. Blue Wedge for Geography.

What state contains the helium capital of the world? space city and the live music capital of the world Colin What state Tennessee Incorrect Texas? Because Austin is the live music capital of the world Yep

Okay Amarillo is the helium capital of the world Houston is space city And live music capital world is Austin All right Pink Wedge for pop culture Oh What brand of automobes

Did Oprah Winfrey give to 276 audience members to celebrate her 19th season on TV? Was it Volkswagen? Incorrect. Oh, I don't know. I don't know. That's a good question. You get a car. Right, yeah.

So what was it? Ponniac. Poniac, the G6 specifically. All right, Yellow Wedge. What president was the first to welcome a pope to the White House? Colin This was pretty late Was it

Was it Ronald Reagan? Incorrect But on the Around there In the general area Dana Is it Carter? Yes

Jimmy Carter He welcomed Pope John Paul The Second Visit In 1979 All right Purple Wedge What are the

Million Little Pieces Pictured on the cover of James Frey's bestseller of the same name Colin. I think they're pills, right? Like pharmaceutical pills?

Incorrect. They are, I remember this because it's very colorful. Candy sprinkles, million little pieces. And James Frey, I think we maybe mentioned a little bit about him before. He's a fabulous, right? Turns out this memoir, this book. Oh, that's right. Millian little pieces.

And Oprah got so mad at him. Oprah got really mad. You don't want Oprah mad at you. Is this the Oprah? card because Oprah picked it for one of her book club picks and really skyrocketed the author's career and turns out it was all fake and she made him go on the show yeah it was like he got called to the principal's office she made him go on the show and was really angry and was like why did you you know make all the stuff up no one's seen him since

then green wedge for science oh it was good one what kind of product was advertised in the first ever spam message. It's multiple choice. Yeah. A dating service. Yeah. Diet pill or computer. Colin.

I'm going to guess diet pill. Incorrect. Really? All right. Computer. It is computer. Targeted. It's pretty targeted.

All right. Last question. Orange Wedge. I guess technically it's kind of sporty. Yeah. Sounds about right. What movie starred Denzel Washington and basketball's Ray Allen.

Oh, that is, he got games. Yes, he got game directed by Spike Lee. Yes. Good job. See, it was kind of sporty. I was not allowed to watch that movie. Oh, yeah. Is this the one where he gets courted by schools for a basketball scholarship?

Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. It was a little racy. Also, bad grammar. He got game. Yeah. He got game. He has game.

He has game. He's got game or he has game. not the game was given to him. Right, right, right. Yeah. It's the passive tone. Right. All right.

Good job, Brains. How I'm supposed to introduce this week's topic? Well, it's kind of a free for all. We picked a theme, and I'm excited to see what everybody did for this theme and kind of what their, I guess, mental direction went. So this week, we're time about things on the side, things that may not be, you know, the star of the show, but definitely vital to, you know, a companion to the star. Here we go.

Pick a side. When you're feeling in the dumps, da be silly chumps. Just purse your lips and whistle. That's the thing. Always look on the bright side of life. Come on. Always look on the bright side of life. Well, this was going to happen.

And I have a quiz about famous sidekicks. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I also found out the etymology of sidekick is, like, unknown. They, yeah, they're not really sure where it came from. That is unknown. They used to say, like, side partner and stuff like that. But, like, at some point, it became side kicker. Huh.

And then it became side kicker. But, like, nobody knows why it became side kicker in the first place. I can see how that make. Or it could be sports related. I don't know. But the idea of the side kick, like Karen has us were her three sidekick. But it also permeates. I figure you're the main superhero.

I'm the host. Right. Yeah, exactly. You're the main motorcycle. We're the sidecars. We're the sidecars around your motorcycle. Three sidecars. That's called a car.

That is just, that's a sedan. So I just have a quiz about sidekicks and literature and comics and movies and all kinds of stuff. So let's see if you figure this out. Now, this is, Colin and I had this question at, uh, at, at, trivia. We got it right. So Colin is disqualified, and I'm disqualified because I'm doing the quiz. I have the answer in front of me. So this is

Karen versus Dana. Who is the sidekick of Don Quixote? Dana buzzed in first. Don Quixote. Oh, it's a poncho somebody. You spoonerized it.

You spoonerized it. It's Sancho Panza. Yes. Sancho Panza. Oh, I was going to say it's horse. No, there was actually a guy. I would say The guy comes above the... Yeah, in the hierarchy. You know, would you say Tonto or Silver is...

Tonto is the Lone Ranger's sidekick. Silver is the Lone Ranger's mount. His trusty seed. Yes, exactly. Right. What is the full first and last name of the sidekick of Frodo? Frodo Bagan's.

The full first and last name. It's Dana again. It's Samwise Gungy, isn't it? I spelled that last name for me. Oh! I watched the movie. I didn't read the book. Samwise Gamji.

Gamji. Samwise Gamji. Yes. Yes, indeed. She was Lucy's sidekick on I Love Lucy. Colin. Ethel Mertz. Yes.

After he ditched his sidekick role, he became the superhero nightwing. Karen. Robin. Well, yeah, technically I guess I would give that to you. Which Robin? What's his actual name? Hold on. Dick Grayson.

Yes, Dick Grayson. All right, there we go. Now, besides Dick Grayson, there have actually been many other Robbins that have served canonically with Batman. What would you say is the biggest difference between Dick Grayson and the Robin who appears in Frank Miller's The Dark Night Returns? Karen. The Frank Miller, quote, Robin is actually a girl.

It is actually a girl, yes. Not a spoiler. Genitalia is the biggest difference. To get various. Chromosome. Different chromosomes. This famous sidekick was played at one time by an actor whose initials are the two highest value Scrabble letters. Sidekicks.

Wait. Can you say it? This famous sidekick, we're naming a sidekick, was once played by an actor whose initials are the two highest value letters in Scrabble. Z and Q. Perrin. Spock. Yes. Zachary Kinto.

Yes. As soon as you said to that. There's a little, you had to make a couple little leaps there, but yes, Spock played by his Akri Kinto. All right. This. A.k.a. my boyfriend. Oh, yeah.

Okay, your former secret boyfriend. Yeah. Now your public boyfriend. This animated sidekick has a Swahili name that means to be foolish, silly, weak-minded, careless, or negligent. Whoa. That is the word for foolish or silly in Swahili is this sidekick. name uh well which ones is it's either timone or pumba which one do you think it is uh got

timon no no it's pumba it's pumba because that's one's more frivolous doesn't yeah you're right timon is one of the only characters in the lion king who does not have a name that is taken from the swahili language is just a random name it's greek apparently so i couldn't have been more wrong uh no well you had the right movie this sidekick's most famous line is probably cover your Oh Colin That's short round It is short round

Oh from Indiana Jones Yeah And the Temple of Dune Had a lot of memorable That's probably the most quoted I said no time for love, Dr. Jones Oh yeah

That's good He didn't say most famous Right Yeah yeah probably his most famous This sidekick was a really good listener But did little else As Tom Hanks buddy in Castaway Collin again. Wilson. Wilson, the volleyball.

Wilson, the volleyball. Harry Potter's sidekicks, Ron and Hermione, get married and cranked out little ginger babies. Name one of them. Karen. Rose. Rose. Yes. You know the other one for a bonus point? Mungo. What? Mungo, Lysley.

Was that you're close. Oh, hold on. One of the twins's names. No. Oh, okay. No. It was Rose and Hugo. Rose and Cuba It's just one letter off It's so close

Yeah This This sidekick's name Is derived from the Russian word For dog Sobaka Oh Chubaka

Yeah I did not know that So George Lucas was inspired to create Chubaka After watching his dog Writing in the passenger seat of his car That's awesome Inspired by dog

Sitting in car seats Finally, John H. Watson is the sidekick of Sherlock Holmes. Whose sidekick is Dr. David Q. Dawson? Is it? God, what's... There's a reason the names are so similar, Dawson versus Watson. Is it Professor Moriarty? It's not Professor Moriarty. No.

Although that would make some sense. There's a little bit of All-Stra universe stuff going on in here. He lives at 22.1B and the Half Baker Street. Terrin. Is it House? No, no. Is it the Great Mouse Detective? It's the Great Mouse Detective.

Basil of Baker Street, the Great Mouse Detective. David Q. Dawson. I feel like, there should be a mouse. Yeah, Mousson. I'm like, what a missed opportunity. We're like trying to punch it up. We're like, that's wrong. That's not the right maybe.

I'm writing history here. That's so cute. Oh, good quiz. Thanks. So I want to ask you guys this. Before the time of cameras, how did people capture their look? They threw a picture of them.

Like portraits and stuff. But portraits take a really long time. You have to stand there. You have to have a painter. It takes a lot of labor. Do you guys know what's the other cheap way to capture a person's likeness? Well, they would do like, wouldn't they do like the shadow projections and like trace them? I know that was a thing, right?

Like to get like just like a silhouette. Yes. So before the time of cameras, people would paint portraits. and, you know, kings and royalty, and you see that all the time. They always have, like, they pose, but they have to stand there for, like, nine hours. But what if regular people like you and me just kind of want our pictures, you know, how do we do that? They went to these silhouette artists. What they do is essentially, and you've seen these before, they're called cameo.

Yeah, yeah. You have skilled people would look at the profile, the side of your face, and cut out the profile on a piece of black paper. Yeah, we had my friend's mom. did this for us, like, back when we were little kids, and they came out pretty well. This is how they would capture someone's resemblance back in the day. You know, regular people who

don't have the money or time to have a master painter, a good one, to paint your likeness, and before a time of cameras, they would have all these shadow or cameo or silhouette artists that would just cut your profile, the side of your face off of a black piece of paper, and you keep that.

And it's very fast. Some of the masters take two minutes. It's up to two minutes just all by eye. Some people don't even trace it. Oh, really? Some people don't even trace. They just start cutting it. Easy enough to just project your shadow and then you trace it out and then you just cut it out.

But maybe some people just like take the paper and they look at your shadow. Or they just look at you maybe if they're really, really, really good. And the reason why they do that your profile, the side of your face is because if you just do it front on, you just look like a head. You know, there's a lot more bone, you know, and feature, you know, more pronounced. on the side, and hence this is basic quote photographs of you or some sort of likeness of you. So let me ask you guys this. Can you identify which specific book this quote is from? And Harry saw something that distracted him completely, the silhouette of an enormous shaggy black dog clearly imprinted against the sky, motionless, in the topmost empty row of seats.

Chris. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Ascombat. Correct. the term silhouette now we use it to describe oh we see a shape of anything like a shape of a dog a shape of a person oh that's the silhouette of the building but specifically back in the day silhouette was the cut paper of your profile it was just that one thing so where did the word silhouette come from the word silhouette derives from the name of mr etienne de silhouette oh no way yes but a person And he was the French finance minister, who in the mid-1700s was forced by France's credit crisis to impose severe economic demands upon the French people. So his name became synonymous with anything that is done cheaply. No way.

Get out. Cheaply. So anything that's kind of cutting corners is cheap. You would call it a silhouette. And hence, these portraits. It's like political satire. It is. These portraits that you cut out is the cheap way of, you know, painting a person.

Wow. Fast and cheap. So we're like, every time we say silhouette, we're like taking a dig at some French politicians. Yep. Yep. Somehow that silhouette stuck. Yeah. But they used to call everything.

That's a silhouette. Cheap soap, silhouette. So when we say we see the silhouette of something, blah, blah, blah, blah. We're speaking like metaphorically. Yes. Yeah. Now. Interesting.

We're comparing it to a piece of cut paper. Mm-hmm. Huh. Very fun. That's cool. Next time you use the word silhouette, just think about it's named after a jerk. He was just doing his job. I know, I know, seriously.

Money was tight. That's what you can get for your first anniversary. You can get a silhouette of your spouse. It's paper. Oh, yeah. That's cute. Yeah. Huh?

A little love tip. Good job, Prane. There you are. It's a little better than the Booker Bing. It's not the first idea. Yeah, we're stepping. it up. Booger silhouette.

Ew. No, a regular one. Take coupage of boogers. We're done with that. We're done with that. We did the book. We're trying to class it up here. Move on.

So I was going with the notion of on the side and thinking, you know, kind of out of the mainstream. And I was thinking, how can I get some good sports stories in here? So the answer struck me as sidelines. So I'm going to focus on some instances of activities. or um antics antics let's say sideline antics

in a segment I've also named coaches behaving badly so these are instances where the coaches sounds like a like an okay or us magazine yeah yeah what's going for

something very sensational yeah imagine like big bold pink font with a lot of exclamation points right right right so yeah normally the coaches are not supposed to have direct effect on the field of play

and these are some cases where they're trying to maybe flout the rules a little bit So, like, as a sports fan, sometimes you, sometimes you latch on to a certain athlete or a player, and you really kind of identify with that player. And for me, again, I think I'm not the only one. You show up outside of that player's house and you go through that player's garbage. You know how it is. He's not the only one.

I stay 101 yards away at all time. It's, I am within the letter of the law, Chris. But for me, it's, I think a lot of fans do this, you identify a player who's your same age. and then sort of over the course of their career you're like oh what could I be doing what they're doing you know oh yeah I don't know I may be on the only one but I don't think so so who is this athlete

so for me this athlete was the basketball player Jason Kidd oh yes and there's the added level of that Jason Kidd went to Cal and he was my year so he was a freshman when I was a freshman you guys went to college together yes we were at we attended the same college together I never saw him but

Did you see him play at UC Berkeley? Yeah, absolutely. He had an outstanding collegiate career, left early. He also has a shaved head. He does have a shaved head as he got a little bit older, yes. So I always had sort of a keener interest in his career. You had the Neville Long Bottom. Neville or Harry.

I tell you, what I actually really hurt is that as he got older and playing in the NBA, it's old man, Jason Kidd, still getting it done something. Somehow. And, you know, I'm like, old man. I mean, you know, by professional athlete standards, I suppose. guess. They're really talking to you. And, you know, if he had been no good or faded away from the scene, I might have forgotten about him. But as it turned out, he's really good. One of the greatest point guards ever to play the game, in fact, and had a very long career. He just retired last year from the NBA, finally. And he, in fact, is a head coach now. He is the head coach of the Brooklyn Nets. So

rookie coach, first year. And, you know, so part of this connection to players is, even though it's totally irrational. You kind of feel a little bit of pride when they do something really good, you know, even though like, there's no, there's no big of this. This is all part of white people watch sports. Yeah, that's true. It's vicarious. And conversely, you also

feel a little bit of shame or embarrassment when they do something stupid. What did he do? So a few weeks ago, Jason Kidd did something kind of stupid. So, as I say, he is in his first year coaching the Brooklyn Nets. And as a coach, things are going a little rough for him so far.

Brooklyn Nets are not off to a good start this year, despite high expectations, just not having a good season. So a few weeks ago, they were in a game against the Los Angeles Lakers in the closing seconds of the game. Which is your favorite team, right? Which is my favorite team, yes. Conflicted a little bit? Well, no, you know, I mean, you got your priorities as sports. So they were in the closing seconds of a game against the Lakers. They were down by two points.

One of the Lakers was shooting a free throw. As you know, in basketball, you get a fixed number of timeouts. And so Jason Kidd, they were out of timeouts. The Nets had no more timeouts, and he's just, he's desperate for something to get the momentum back, win the game. So what happens next is there's a commotion on the court, and the refs stop the Lakers player from shooting the free throw because someone spilled a soda on the court. Jason Kidd had spilled a soda, a cup full of soda and ice on the court. Oops. To be more precise, Jason Kidd pretended to spill a cup of soda.

The video replay clearly shows him Mouthing to one of his players hit me And so the player dutifully walks into coach And he makes an exaggerate a spilling potion Oops, there goes my top soda So I want to say he didn't graduate from our college Oh my God Oh now it is

But he didn't graduate from Berkeley? He left early, he left early Like a lot of talented players do Yes No it's exactly the same when you're talking about like his his accomplishments he's like such a good point girl I was like yeah you see berkeley then it's like he threw this soda like oh technically owned disowned I don't separate at first he denied it that he did this intention oh so they

stopped play and so while they were stopping play uh sure enough he iced the free throw shooter he missed the free throw shot and it gave the net's coaching staff time to diagram a play you know They were basically getting a free timeout. He found a way to get a timeout when he was out of timeouts. There has to be a rule that he can't actually do that. Well, yes. In fact, so we really didn't find a way. He found a way temporarily.

The Nets did go on to lose that game, so it didn't even work. He was fined $50,000. Oh, man. By the league. They want to make very clear, we do not. Don't do this, coaches. Come on, please. Wow.

That's why. It's good. Can you just imagine every best book game? It's just like... It's not like hockey where, like, fighting is technically against the rules, but we really want you to punch each other. Like, no, sincerely, don't do that. Really, really don't do it.

50K drops up. What was funny is, yeah, really, a lot of the coverage in the aftermath focused on how badly he did this, not necessarily that he's cheating. Some of the more veteran coaches are like, oh, you got to be a little more savvy than that. It's kind of like when people fake getting hurt on the court. or whatever they're like oh my god you fouled me he's doing it that way yeah yeah yeah so i have a couple more examples here so i'm i'm gonna round out the big three american sports we got your basketball we got your football so we'll go into football here so you know in football they teach you uh if you're running uh either with the ball trying to score or you're running to intercept another player and you're along the sideline you know they teach you very early on get right up against the sideline as you're running because it's just one fewer direction you need to worry about being tackled you know you only need to worry about the other side of you or directly behind you. And that's true, except

when a coach from the other team sticks out his leg and trips you while you're running on. Sidewise. See, that is super bad conduct. Yes, that is literally overstepping the boundaries of what is acceptable conduct. Wow. Nice literal use of literal.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Good night, everybody. I'm done now. I want to know what happened. In a game in 2010, between the New York Jets and the Miami Dolphins There was a Miami player, Nolan Carroll for the Miami Dolphins was running along the sidelines when one of the coaches on the Jets coaching staff, a strength and conditioning coach, as it turns out, stuck out his knee, kind of just ever so slightly stuck out his knee, clipped Carol's thigh and tripped him. And, you know, at first it wasn't really clear what happened, but again, you look at the video replay. I mean, what I always wonder is like, do they not know?

Yeah, are you not aware that there's like a million cameras on you? Yeah, well, and to be fair, you know, he wasn't the guy with the ball. So maybe he thought he could get away with it. But video replay clearly showed him sticking his knee out and tripping the guy. Sal Alosi, the strength conditioning coach for the Jets. We're having to him. He was fined 25K by the team, suspended for the rest of the year without pay. And then the team, in turn, was fined $100,000 by the league.

Again, this is a safety issue, not to mention. Safety. But also, like, you hear that naughty little voice in your head, and you just got to not do it, you guys. you need to control yourself and be a professional grown-up yeah this story was mentioned a lot recently kind of came back into the news cycle because head coach mike tomlin of the Pittsburgh Steelers did something maybe sort of similar in a game a couple weeks ago he jumped on the field in the path of opposing player coming with the ball and then jumped out of the way at the last second and pretending he didn't know he crossed the sideline he says he didn't know most people

looking at the video kind of called BS on that. Yeah. Yeah. We'll close it out. Baseball. Baseball. Yeah. This is one of my favorite stories. Are there sidelines? There are, you know, there are lines along, the first base and third base line. Foul lines. Yes, right, right. And technically, they call them managers and baseball and not coaches, but I think this still falls under the rubric of coaches behaving badly. Yeah. In a 1999 game between the New York Mets and the Toronto Blue Jays, there was a call at the plate for catcher interference. okay, on Mike Piazza, who was a famous Major League Baseball catcher.

And, you know, it was a tense game. It was the 12th inning, so it had gone in extra innings. A lot was on the line here. So the manager for the Mets started arguing the catcher interference call. Now, the manager for the Mets at the time was Bobby Valentine. And he argued vehemently, perhaps a bit too vehemently.

He probably said what they call the magic words in baseball. You know, well, you can probably imagine. There words I can't repeat here, but, you know, umpires will put up. up with a lot, but if there are certain words, if you say that word, they will eject you. And, you know, as you guys, even as casual sports fans, you know, managers get ejected from baseball. So normally, when you get ejected, you're supposed to go sit in the clubhouse for the remainder

of the game. The whole point, you can't be in the dugout, can't be on the field. So Bobby Valentine left the field to play and, you know, all is normal. A short while later, the TV cameras picked up the side of a mysterious figure in the Mets dugout with a non-Mets cap on and sort of a generic Mets T-shirt. dark sunglasses and a fake mustache. He was in disguise.

He had donned a sheep disguise in the clubhouse and snuck back into the dug out where he was watching the rest of the game. And the announcers are cracking up when they see it. They're like, is that Bobby Valentine comes back in? And again, it was hilarious to watch it, but the league did not find it amusing at all.

It sounds like a Will Ferrell kind of joke. It's a very, it's just a comically bad disguise, but he got away with it. He got back in the dugout, but yeah, they find him thousands of dollars. Oh, so he can get away with it. He was suspended for a couple games, but they won the game, you know? So this is a case where, at least temporarily, the subterviews may have worked. Right. But, yes, the official leave stances, please do not hide your, disguise yourself.

So I just. You look really silly when they catch you. So what I had always wondered hearing the story was like, why was their face? mustache in the clubhouse in the first place. I don't think he, like, ran out to the store. Maybe he planned on doing this at some point. What it turns out is, this makes a lot more sense. You know, sometimes athletes, they put the little stickers under their eye, like, to mimic

the eye black. He took two of those. He made a fake mustache out of the two little eye reflector stickers under his nose. Some awesome, MacGyver, crappiness there. That's awesome. Yes, and that's a Bobby Valentine's story for him. I like that story. He shouldn't have done that.

It's very original. It's not as bad as the other two stories. No. He didn't hurt anybody. He didn't hurt anybody. That's right. That's right. But still.

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Like, say, I guess, Plato, we talked about Plato before, right? It was supposed to be a wallpaper cleaner, but then people... Kids started playing with it and... Yeah, exactly. Yeah. All right. First one. This product was originally a surgical aniseptic and cure for gonorrhea.

Everybody. Listerine. Wow. Yeah. We've talked about that before. All right. Port right on. This medicine was originally intended to help with hypertension, angina, and other symptoms of heart disease.

Everybody? Viagra. This one. This was originally invented as an alternative to morphine addiction and to treat headaches and relieve anxiety. Ah, as an alternative to... Oh, heroin, right? No. It was a tonic, and the inventor also had an addiction to morphine.

Is it Coca-Cola? Yes. Yeah. Got it, got it. That's right. This was originally marketed as Proscar, a drug to treat the benign enlargement of the prostate. Hmm.

Is it Prozac? No. Preparation H? No. As a hint, so prostates are only a moon. And so this is an affliction that often happens to men specifically. Oh. Rogain?

Yeah, it's Propecia. Yeah. Oh, yep. Baldness. Uh-huh. Wait a minute. It would make, so they figured out that bald men or balding men were growing their hair back by taking this pose. And then they were like, oh.

Oh, it's not a topical application. No, it was the, oh, yeah, it was, yeah, it was to, yeah. This thing that's for your butt. They're like, it works. All right, okay, finally, okay, this one is, it was crazy. All right. It was originally marketed as a lady. disinfectant or douche, and it was also one of the leading forms of female birth control from

1930 to 1960. Oh, huh. Okay, it's crazy. It's crazy. Your eyes are crazy. Lady disinfectant and was a form of birth control in the 60s. From the 30s to 60, until the pill got invented. Oh, okay.

It was a thing that people... Listerine. You're kind of close. Ow. What do you think? Apple cider vinegar. No, that's gentle. That's gentle.

Ovalteen. No. It's Lysol. Wow. Wow. Wow. I certainly wouldn't. No.

Like, as a spray? Uh-huh. And they were like, in your marriage, the reason why you're having trouble is because, you know, Lysaw yourself and caused caustic damage. Yeah. Apparently. And women were trying to use it. It was birth control, and they did a study, and it was like 50% effective, maybe. Like, it's 50, 50, whether or not it was going to work.

And it was killing people, and then they figured out that it was actually really good, disinfectant for surfaces. Like, countertops. Not for people. Right. It was a solution in search of a problem. Yeah. Put this in you. We don't know what it is.

Miracle drone. So it had bad side effects on the people, good side effects on the toilet bowl. Right. Yeah, kitchen counter, sure. Wow. Poor grandmas. Anyway. Win some you lose, I don't know.

Wow. Hey guys, why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side? To get to the other side. Yeah, it's true. Famous, famous joke we were all told. Great example of an anti-joke. Yeah.

Right? Because it's like... There's no punchline. The punchline is, the punchline that the joke is on you. Right? Like, you're expecting a pun at the end about chickens and roads and stuff like that. But, no, you just get straight answer. But there's a lot of variations on this, this classic back and forth joke.

So I'll give you guys the opener. And because we love doing this, we all love opening. I say we on the good job brain crew enjoy taking lappy, tapy packages and attempting to guess the answer to the ridiculous riddles. And so I will give you guys the variations on the chicken jokes. These should be guessable or you remember them from school. It'll be one of the two. We'll see about your memories on these jokes. Just a quick note, though.

Go on. I don't think we've ever talked about this on the show. So at Pub Trivia, Us 4, when we go to Pub Trivia, sometimes the Quizmaster has a, usually he has like a bucket of candy. Yeah. And it's our tradition to take every single Laffy Taffy from the bucket. Which have bad kids' jokes, basically, printed.

Yeah, like riddles on them. Yeah. And we would share it with everybody and we'd try to guess the answer. And the kids write the jokes in and they send them in to Laffy Taffy. Presumably their kids. Yeah. Whoever they are, they are not good at writing. And sometimes we think of better answers.

Yeah, exactly. But it is a tradition of our book quiz. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, like, one thing that's not in this quiz is why did the cow cross the road? Because he was going to the movie. that's that's about what's on those laughy-taffy yeah yeah we highly recommend your next dinner party putting out a bowl of laughy taffy and using it as an icebreaker

it works it would yeah okay so let's see if you remember this one why did the turkey cross the road it was Thanksgiving something gobble no no no you're off the mark It's usually You ask why did the chicken cross the road And then you follow it up with why did the turkey

To get to the other side Oh, because the chicken did it first or something Something like that No, it's to prove he wasn't chicken Oh, of course Of course The chicken just didn't Yeah, or alternately because it was the chicken's day off

You have to set that one up Okay, okay, all right, okay We're warming up, we're warming up Why did the dinosaur Cross the road Extraptor? Extinct He wants to want to go extinct. Because chickens are not extinct.

Because chickens hadn't evolved yet. Right. Because there were no chickens yet. Oh, my God. Wow. Okay. This is the one I remember here right now. It was like a revolution.

Way too many times. Why did the turtle cross the road? Maybe this is regional. I know I'm Connecticut and you guys are all California. Why did the turtle cross the road? Because he had shell shock. Oh, close. Interesting.

The traditional end of this joke is to get to the shell station. Oh, that's cute. Yeah, that's good. This is a joke that I kept finding on various joke sites. Why did the chicken cross the playground? To get to the other slide. Whoa, all right. We finally got one.

Nice job. Oh, I didn't mean it that way. Here's one for you. Why did the chicken cross the road roll around in some mud and then cross the road again? Because it's actually a pig. wanted to see the dirty side didn't want anyone to recognize him on the way back because he was a dirty double crosser

I've heard that before I think as a kid why did the chicken cross the Mobius strip to stay on the same side Slow clap from Karen on the movie of Strickick. We're getting towards the end here. I like that one. Why didn't the skeleton cross the road?

Why didn't the skeleton cross the road? Because he doesn't have a nervous system. Oh, you're close. No nerves. Yeah. Yeah, he lost his because he didn't have the. He didn't have the guts. Didn't have the guts. Finally, this ridiculous segment, this ridiculous excuse for a segment.

And, of course, a callback to Colin's segment. Why did the chicken run into the basketball court? To cross to the other sideline? Oh, it could be. Run out of the basketball court. Because the referee. Because he slipped from Jason Kidd throwing the soda. Oh, because the referee called for a foul.

Yes. Oh, wow, that's good. That's good. I have one for you guys. Oh, go on. Guess what? What? Chicken butt.

Chicken butt. Good joke. No why. Chicken five. Yeah, that's why. Guess who? Chicken poo. All right.

We devolves. Wow, okay. And we're eight years old. Okay. All right, well, I have a quiz that's maybe a little more highbrow. I don't know. It is, however, an unapologetically American quiz. Okay.

All right. So with that said, I will actually apologize to our non-American listeners. Why? Well, so this quiz is all about the other side of bills and coins. Oh, okay. So, you know. Feel free to just turn it right off. We all know.

No, but we have a music quiz later. Oh, okay. Yeah, stick with us. Stick with us. I think we know. Just fast forward a few more minutes. Listen to me I'm just kidding

Fast forward until Colin stops talking Can I get out my money? No No you're not allowed to check your money So actually what inspired this was At pub quiz last week Chris and I were there We're a little short-handed And we had a question about the state quarters program

So we'll come back to that In a few minutes here We all know who's on the front of a lot of currency So these are questions about what's on the other side Crap Let's try it let's see Here we go. I can see this coming up at pub quiz quite easily.

Yeah, it could be. The reverse side of this coin features from left to right, an olive branch, a torch, and an oak branch. Whoa. Oh, I think that was Dana again. Is that a dime? That is a dime. Yeah. That is the dime has a bunch of twigs.

The intense piece. It's not a lot of real estate. It's true. Yeah. Until 2009, this was the only United States. coin to feature an image of the same person on both sides. This is the penny. Yes.

Because it has the Lincoln Memorial on the reverse, and you can see Lincoln's little head in the Lincoln Memorial. Yeah, if you look up close. I've never noticed his little head in there. It has to be one that's in fairly good condition because it rubs down pretty quickly. But yeah, you can see a little tiny Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial. That's cool. They did change the design on the back of the one cent coin.

It's a bizarre sort of shielding thing. It's a shield now. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, they, I guess, I learned they did run a... It's not even Captain America's shield or something cool. That would have been cool. Right? What paper bill features an image of the White House on the back?

This is a fairly common denomination bill. Karen, $20 bill. It is the $20 bill. Nice. Well done. It's not from the ATM. Yes, it is, yes, the ATM currency here is. Oh, yeah, true.

Yes, in most states. I was trying to find if there was any particular connection between Andrew Jackson and the White House. Yeah. The closest I could find. He was a president. He was a president. He lived there for a while. He was the first president to invite the public to the inauguration ball at the White House.

Huh. Which fit, yes, yes. That way, they just invited anybody who wanted to come. Apparently, it was a disaster. Oh, yeah. Apparently, the public said, sure, we'll come. Yeah, we'll come to your ball. Sounds like just a raucous scene

Never been to a ball before And don't own pants without holes in them But just, sure Routing, turning the field into mud People just trying to catch a glimpse of the president There's a story that they had to bring Tubbs of alcohol outside Just to try and keep people out of the White House

Here, what the heck do you people want? Here's a tub of alcohol for you yokels Animals There are the animals who elected me, president. Jackson was a salt list. He was a populist, and he's like, darn it, I will have the public at my ceremony. It's great. So as I mentioned, this quiz was inspired by the 50 state quarters program, and we get these at pub quiz a lot.

A lot. So for those of you who may not know, in 1999, the U.S. Mint started a 50 state quarters program, where they were releasing five custom design. a year, each one commemorating one of the 50 states, and they released them in the order the states were accepted to the union. Yeah, so Delaware was the first. Each state basically got to decide what design they wanted to submit. The U.S. Mint had to approve them, but it was really up to the states. That's cool. It was kind of cool. And, you know, there was a slightly different process. Sometimes the governor would recommend a short list. Sometimes it was up to just people would call in to a special line or vote online. And what they are is usually some sort of

mix of historical images or famous people from that state or some famous natural landmark, you know, so like New Hampshire was the old man in the rock, right? The old man in the mountain, right? Well, that's good. They didn't do like online voting now or online submission because like cats. Yeah, right. Yeah, well,

you know, they usually, it was, there was some committee that would kind of take suggestion. The cat quarter. I see. There were a few restrictions like, no, it couldn't just be a picture of your state flag. You weren't allowed to have no living people, you know, which is one of the general rules for U.S. currency

as well. And I have to say, you know, some of the state design quarters are really beautiful and nice, and some are frankly, ridiculous. I don't want to name any states here, because I don't want to get any angry emails. We don't make us name it. Some of them are rather ridiculous. But I'm not going to focus

on the ridiculous ones. I'm going to keep this high brow. Now I need to go look up the other things to find the ridiculous ones. All right. Some of them look like we need to fit as many things in as tiny little states as we can, you know. So I have a couple of questions for you. All of that leading up to a couple questions about the state quarters on the backs. All right.

The coin commemorating this state is the first U.S. coin to include braille writing. What state is this? I forgot. Sorry. I was just going to say Helen Keller. Well, it's Helen Keller state. It is the Helen Keller state. Yes.

She is a native daughter of what state? Is it Illinois? Massachusetts? Is this? Maryland? Alabama. Alabama. Helen Keller, yes, born in Tuscumbia, Alabama.

So it features her on the back, and then the caption is both in traditional text and also in braille. Yeah, and I thought that was a really cool feature and something you couldn't do on a paper bill. Right, right, right. There are coins from three states which feature images of presidents on the back as well as obviously the ones on the front. So for one point, name any of the three states that have presidents. on the back of their special coins. Karen. South Dakota.

Yeah. There you got Rushmore. That's kind of the sort of the tricky one. That's right. South Dakota has a picture of Matt Rushmore. So that's four and one there. There are two more. And so now keep in mind,

remember famous people from that state, famous events that happened in that state, famous landmarks. So we've got the landmark covered. You guys don't take a guess at the other two? Illinois, yes, correct. Dana. Yes, land of Lincoln.

Yes, there's a picture. of a young Abraham Lincoln on the back. The third one is definitely the hardest to guess. The image on the back of the coin is actually a reproduction of a famous painting of an event featuring a president, Chris. Is it Delaware? It is.

However, the state is New Jersey. Oh, oh! Because that scene depicts Washington Crossing the Delaware in the Battle of Trenton. So Trenton, New Jersey. Yes, so they reproduce the famous painting in miniature relief on the back of the coin. All right, well, there you go.

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it's all about the actors and actresses who won an Oscar on their very first film. Get your fix of old Hollywood from Stephen Ann on the podcast from Beneath the Hollywood Sign. All right, you guys, I have our last segment, last quiz, a music quiz for everybody. We haven't done a music quiz in a while, and today's music quiz will be featuring mash-up clips. Oh, okay. Did you make these mash-ups? I did not make these mash-ups. That would have taken me very long.

It would be very easy. It would be like Mary had a little lamb and twink to me a little sorry. It's not a matchup, but you just play them together and boomboxes and stick the microphone in the middle of them. So in music rounds, usually I will play 20 to 30 seconds of a music clip and I need you guys to identify the artist. Okay. So in this case, I need you guys to identify the two artists or maybe you can just identify the song that is in this mashup clip. Okay. That was good.

All right. Ready? Yeah. Not getting any readier. Really? I'm getting ready. It's getting less ready. Well, so I'm getting more ready.

You're getting less ready and Collins not getting any readier. He's staying steady. Yeah. I don't even really remember your name at this point. Kringle? Yeah. Crispin. Crispin, I think.

All right. Let's start off with this one. Shake them off. Shake them off. Shake them off. Don't let. Give me off my head I know I'll be fine

I'm gonna That is Willow Smith Willow Smith and Divo With my hair And with my hair and with it Very good Wow Well, I was not expecting you to know Willis Smith at all.

Yeah, she sort of entered that particular song. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, here's another one. One of my favorites. Dana. Yes, guerrilla's and cake. Girla cake. Never there and never feel good.

Wait, the song is never feel good. Feel gooding. This one is for you, Chris. I put this one just for you. Oh, thanks. There's three songs that are matched together. Thank you, goodness. No one can tell me that I'm doing wrong toady.

Never I see you smiling. No one can tell me that I'm doing wrong to-day. We may have to tag team this one. I mean, it's James Taylor, your smiling face, but then... I thought I heard snippets of the Quincy Jones written... song. I don't know the name, but I know that it was also popular known as the Austin Powers theme song. Yes, also in a ludicrous number in one spot. But that is Sol Bossa Nova.

Oh, yeah. Nancy Jones, which is the Austin Power song. And the other song is Mariah Carey. All right. And here we go. The next one. So it's the Beastie Boys. Yes. And then who does shake it all baby? Oh, it's, well, it's twist and shout, but it's, I mean, it's either the Beatles or the Isley brothers. It is the Beowls. The Beattles.

Beatles, Beatles, Beatles, Beatles, Beastie Boys, and Beatles. This mashup is a whole album of BC Boys. and beetles. No, that's cool. Called the Beastels. Ah, nice. That's good. That seems appropriate

since the Beastie Boys used to sample the Beatles. All right, and last one. It is an artist and also a TV show. Huh. Wow. Up in a pepper.

I'm doing my own thing. You decided to dip here. And I give on a trip with another brother knows me. I'm up for him and he'll be up on me. I'm in an instant. That is Beyonce With the theme song from the Andy Griffith show

Call single ladies in Mayberry That's good That's good That one works I like that one Totally works There I go Good job you guys

Oh aunt B Wasn't she the lady in Andy? Yeah Beyonce Funny That is the masho music round Awesome That was fun

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