Good Job, Brain! - Fun-Size Mini Show: Live from Chris' Wedding! (And He Doesn't Know Because It's a Surprise)

Episode Date: October 15, 2013

We couldn't record a regular show because it was our co-host Chris' wedding over the weekend. BUT TRIVIA CANNOT BE STOPPED. So we recorded short segments in secret at the wedding reception as a surprise for him. Why are wedding gowns white? Why don't people throw rice at weddings anymore? Where does the word "honeymoon" come from? Laughs were chortled, love was celebrated, and wine was drunk. Lots of wine. Lots. Thanks for letting us share this moment with you guys, listeners. And congrats to Chris and Regina, may their life together be prosperous and brainy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Hello, School of Skone, scoffing, scallywags, and scholars. Welcome to Good Job, Brain, your weekly quiz show and Offbeat Trivia podcast. I'm your humble host, Karen, and we are your mischievous merry-makers making murder. at major marriage milestone. I'm Colin. And I'm Dana. Woo!

As you can probably tell, by the way it sounds, by Dana's Woo. This episode is quite different from our usual show. Our fourth usual co-host, Chris, is here today, but here as in he's like in the same venue, but he's not here here because we're recording on site today at his wedding. That's right. We're coming to you straight.

from the cartoon art museum in San Francisco at Chris's wedding reception. He is running around busy and getting married, and he doesn't know we're secretly taping a guerrilla episode. It was Dana's idea. This is how we cut him out of the royalties. We didn't want to make him work on his wedding day more than he already was. But we also thought it would be funny if we just did this. And it's a nice surprise for him.

So this is definitely a special occasion, celebrating love, happiness, family, and friends, and including you guys, listeners, for all of your support and always welcoming us into your ears every week. We're so happy that we get to share a slice of Chris's Big Day with you. I guess. Which does that sound like that with or without his permission? We all know trivia brings people together,

and learning weird facts can be really fun, so we actually have quick segments today on site about wedding stuff, And we are also going to get slash ambush wedding guests to play some trivia with us, whether they like it or not. So congrats Chris and Regina, and please enjoy. All right, well, in the spirit of combining weddings with our love of trivia, I put together a collection of wedding myths or facts quiz for you guys. So I'm going to start off by trying to psych you out. So all of these things I'm going to mention, some of them may be true,

some of them may be false, but all of them have an element of mystery to them. Okay. All right. So some of these you may have heard before. So I'm going to read these out to you, and you guys tell me true or false. All right. Here we go. First one. True or false, if you're out to sea on a ship, the captain is legally empowered to perform weddings. Oh, I think, yes. True. Yeah.

I think, I don't, that sounds like something in movies. I don't know. It comes up in movies and TV shows. It does. It's a common staple of, this is in fact false. Yes, sea captains are not, in fact, legally allowed to perform weddings. This is an extremely common misconception. No one knows really where it started, but this belief is so common even among sailors that the U.S. Navy regulations specifically forbid captains from performing weddings aboard ships. And the same is true in Britain as well. There are regulations do not perform weddings aboard your ship.

They are not legal. No one really knows where it started, although it may just be something related to the fact that... It's like romantic. Yeah, it's very romantic. And, you know, sailors are kind of always taught, like, hey, the captain is the ultimate authority. And there are certain jurisdictions where they... In international waters, like nobody... Anything goes.

Anything goes. That's right. Yeah. Some jurisdictions, the captains can do things like register births and deaths, you know. So the belief may have come from that. Like they're a notary. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, exactly. But, no, they are not, in fact, allowed to marry you at sea. All right. True or false. throwing rice at weddings is a danger to birds

because eating the dry grains of rice can cause their stomachs to swell and explode. All right, so I've definitely heard that before and I did not look into any more details, so I'll just keep it as true. I'll just say... I think it is a myth or a made-up fact to discourage people from doing it

because it's like really hard to clean it up. You actually are probably close to. closer to the truth. I'm so cynical. This is false. Yes, eating rice does not harm birds. There are no documented reports of this happening, despite many people printing it in advice columns and lifestyle reports of like, don't throw rice at weddings. In fact, the USA Rice Federation has gone on record as stating that eating rice poses no threat to birds. They are engineered to eat grains and rice and very tough things like that. That makes sense. Well, but what if you threw Alka Sulzer at the Brighton Group?

Like, what then? That is actually apparently harmful to birds in the sense you can make them throw up. It won't make them explode, which is another sort of schoolyard myth of you feed Alka Salta to the birds. But no, the experts point out that bird digestive systems, they have gizzards that are specifically designed to break down tough things. Yeah, because they eat some weird stuff. Yeah, exactly. What's race? Yeah, no, so Karen, you're closer to the truth.

It's just, it's a pain, it's a pain in the butt to clean up, yeah. I guess that's true. exploded pigeons have you seen? None. None. How many exploding pigeons do you want to see? Maybe one. Maybe one. Maybe just one to like know what it looks like. Check out our upcoming Kickstarter to explode pigeons. No. No, no. Just kidding. Just kidding. Just kidding. All right. Last one. True or false. Mariachi music derives its name from the French word marriage, meaning wedding, which dates back to the French occupation of Mexico in the 1860s when such bands commonly were said to perform at weddings.

False. It's so random. I didn't even know Mariachi bands had like an occasion. I'm going to say true. Yeah, it's probably true. This one is false. However, you will still see this fact printed in a lot of trivia collections. Like Snapple lids and stuff.

Yep. I remember learning this one that Mariachi can. came from the French word for marriage. And a lot of people for a long time thought this was true. In recent years, though, historical linguists have found evidence that the word was in use long before the French ever came to Mexico. It's a little bit to spewed exactly what the etymology is.

There's a couple very colorful explanations. It may have come from a festival honoring a virgin named Maria Ache, Maria H. There are some stories. It may have come from an indigenous name for the type of wood. used to build wedding platforms, but whatever the actual explanation, it does not, in fact, come from the French word for marriage.

Got it. All right. So they were all false. All of my little strikes were false. Yes, yes. We couldn't use our usual frequency analysis to trick it. All right. So there you go.

Setting the record straight on some wedding myths. Nice. Hello, we are joined here by Chris Senior Collar and Pamela Culler. Say hello. Hello. Hi there. This is, these are Chris's parents, and we decided to ambush them with some trivia questions. So, Colin, can you get some buzzers for us?

It's right behind you? Absolutely. All right. Your son is a very big video game expert. So we thought we would ask you some questions about video games to see if any of his knowledge has, through osmosis, is somehow, you guys. Like a reverse video game osmosis. Yeah. All right.

Here we go. Number one. How many unique Tetris shapes are there? Five. Incorrect, Pan? Four. Incorrect. There are seven.

You may know them as the square. Seven. Yes. There is the square, the T, the L one side, and the L other side, the S one side, and the S other side. And the bar. All right. Next question. What is the name of Mario's dinosaur-torn?

companion. Yoshi? Yes. Yoshi. Correct. All right, next question. Vice City, Liberty City, and Los Santos are cities in

what video game franchise? Chris? Incorrect. SimCity? Incorrect. Dana, help me here. Not a bad guest. Everybody?

Grand Theft Auto. All right. Can you guys name me just one Sony portable gaming device? PS2. Handheld. Portable. Portable. You probably bought Chris one of these.

Yeah. There are a couple of them. There's PSP, the PSP Go, the Sony Erikson Experia play, and the PSVita. All right. Last question. As of July 2013, it has been estimated that this extremely popular game makes about $633,000 per day. It's a mobile game. Is it Warcraft? Incorrect. Candy Crush.

Yes. That totally sucked. Let's drink up and be merry, and thank you for playing. So today, Chris's new wife, was wearing a beautiful white wedding gown. Why do you guys think brides wear white? Why do you think? Well, I mean, the story they always give, right, is that white represents innocence and purity and Virginia.

Yeah. And like people say, like snide little remarks like, she shouldn't be wearing white. But really, it came from Queen Victoria. Queen Victoria maybe set the fashion for white. Oh, got it. Like the actual color white and before. What was it before?

So before that, there were white wedding gowns, but it was mostly bright colors. Bright colors were more popular probably. probably. And common women usually just wore their best dress, not like a big, fancy. Oh, okay. Like whatever they would wear to church, right? Someday's best. Yeah, I mean, it's practical. It makes sense. Like, if you don't have that much money, why would you buy a really expensive dress that you can never wear anywhere else? So Queen Victoria's wedding, she wore a really beautiful white gown, a big, beautiful white gown

covered in lace. And the reason why she wore it was she was the queen, and she wanted to support British industry and they had a very specific type of lace the best way to show off the gown or the lace is to have like a beautiful white gown and she was she was super in love with her husband Albert like she and Albert commemorated their wedding all the time they had reenactments of their wedding where they were wearing their um wedding clothes in middle age like taking photos in their wedding stuff that is like a really good PR move like i mean you think about royal weddings today it's like what did cape middleston wear oh my god it's sold out the next hour you know exactly true that's exactly why it became popular and then she

wore it all the time like every couple years she'd busted out and wear it so there's that and then like on the sofa and then her she had a lot of children her daughters and her daughter-in-laws wore white ball gowns in honor or in honor of or because she also wear white and it was popular and so it was like oh really rich people could wear white white white was a hard color to achieve in fabric and to keep it really white and pristine until around the turn of the century and then that is around the turn of the century then it became easier for people to bleach fabric and get to white and be able to have

white ball gowns and things yeah because it kind of it's kind of a statement right to be able to say I can wear something white and I don't care how dirty it gets it's easy for me to clean because I've got I've got money and so it wasn't until the 20th century that it became a symbol of virginity but it wasn't that it wasn't really it was kind of a back a backronet or yeah what do you call it? Yeah, when you're retcon. Yeah, it was like retconning, right, right, right.

To mean that. But it didn't really. It was just a very, it was what the British royals were wearing. It was beautiful. So it was nothing to do with, no. Purity. At least not in Western culture. That makes sense because I think that I've read, yeah, that I mean, like if there was any

color that represented purity, it would have been blue for a long time, just that it was associated with Virgin Mary and things like that. So that makes sense that it wouldn't have been white, yeah. Now you know, fed all these snapple-lid lies. We got Tyler Hinman guest host. We're doing a speed round. What animal appears on the California State flag? Who is Chris Kohler?

Oh, my God. Why are you even sharing for secret? Oh, it's a bear. Who is Dionysus, the ancient Greek god of wine to the ancient Romans? Uh, one kick-ass dude knows how to have a good time. It is Bacchus. Bacchus. That was my second guess.

What body part did New Zealander Clint Hallam receive in 1998 and lose in 2001? Evander Holyfield's ear. Close. It was hand. No, it was not close at all. All right. The Diego Maradona handball goal in the 1986 World Cup soccer match between Argentina and England is referred to as what? The Hand of God. I knew one.

Yes. Wow. That is amazing. Ladies and gentlemen, Tyler Hinman. It's been a pleasure, folks. So, Chris and Regina and many other newlyweds, what they're going to do after getting married is probably go on their honeymoon. The word honeymoon is so pretty, and it's just, I don't know, it's a weird word. It's sweet. And in Mandarin, in Chinese, it means honeymoon literally.

And it means honeymoon literally in so many languages. Oh, really? In French and Spanish. And the funny thing is, no one knows where it comes from. The Oxford English Dictionary offers no entomology roots. There are a lot of theories out there. One is like, like Dana said, you know, there was an old expression that's first month of marriage is the sweetest. Right, right.

And, you know, month is moon and sweet honey. But my favorite theory, and this is a theory, is that in ancient Babylon traditions, the father of the bride is expected to supply his new son-in-law with a month supply of honey beer slash hardcore alcohol as a gift. So the thought is that they'd be drunk for a whole month of honey beer. and honey beer like mead meat is a fermented honey beverage and uh it's so funny that i thought you were going to say a month supply of honey and i was like how much honey do you get it because what better start to a life together than being drunk for 30 days straight that that was that was the hope so

there you go no no definite route of honeymoon and those are just couple of theories but i like that one i like that yeah yeah let's booze up the couple oh it's cake cutting time. Oh, yeah, kick cutting time. All right, we got to go. We'll be back. Guys, guys, what is going on here? We've been discovered. Huddled in the corner, and every time I try to find you, they're like, oh, they're gone. I'm like, I thought they were my friends. Why are they in the corner?

All right, we got buzzers. Colin brought buzzers to your wedding. We brought buzzards to the wedding. Yeah. I got it. Thank you. Okay. So, we're all going to play Pop Gris Hushin.

Blue Edge for Gia. What three U.S. states start and end with the letter A? Chris. Alabama, Arizona, and... Alaska. Yeah! Those are the three. All right.

Pink Wedge for pop culture. What weapon does Steve Carell's character use to kill a rival reporter in the movie Anchorman? Oh. Oh, man. It's a mace? No. Is it a trident? Yeah.

That's okay. Awesome. Brick killed a man. After running for a U.S. vice president as a Democrat, what senator became an independent in 2006? Whoa, Chris. This is Joseph Lieberman. Yes, man. From your home state.

Man, wedding doesn't stop him is on a roll. Purple Wedge? What European Art Museum has a glass pyramid in its courtyard? Dana. The Louvre. Correct. The Louvre. Designed by.

It's pronounced a louver. It's designed by I.M. Pei. Yes, very good. All right. Greenwed for science. What fruit was once called a Persian apple? Oh. Pomegranate?

Incorrect. I think that's like love apple. A Persian apple. Is it a tomato? No, it is... Pear? It is a famous princess as well. It is peach.

Oh. Peach. Okay. Huh. Wow. That's a fate. It's a fancy apple. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

All right, last question, orange wedge. Very fitting. It is alcohol-themed. What brand of beer is added to champagne to make a black velvet? I got to figure it's Guinness. Correct. Yeah. Wow.

Black. Yeah, yeah. Good job, everybody. Good job, Brains. Last pop quiz, hot shot. Did you have a good night tonight, Chris? I had an amazing, amazing time. Yes.

Aw. Thank you. And now he's known as Mr. Chris Kohler. I used to write Mr. Chris Kohler in the margins of my notebooks. Now you're right over. Now the truth has come true. From the terrifying power of tornadoes to sizzling summer temperatures, Acuweather Daily brings you the top trending weather-related story of the day, seven days a week.

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