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Hello, perfectly pumped pub

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problem punchers. Welcome

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to Good Job Brain, your weekly quiz show and offbeat

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trivia podcast. This is

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episode 251 and of course I'm

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your humble host, Karen. And along

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with me are our crazily crafty

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cranial cream puffs.

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I'm Colin. And I'm Chris. All

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right. I just want to start today's show with a

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quick shout out to Leslie,

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who now lives in Seattle,

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who we're recording now at like 9.30

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PM, six hours ago, who

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recognized me at the airport

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at SFO. Yes. I

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was at San Francisco for work, for

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a work trip. And we were on the same flight

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back to Seattle. My husband

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FaceTimed me at the airport, showing

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me the dog sleeping. And

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then he says, Hey,

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I gotta go. I'm

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like, you called me. I

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got many more important things to do right now. I mean,

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I gotta go back to watching the dog sleep.

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I hung up the phone. I was like, well, that was weird.

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And the person across from me

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was like, are you Karen? And I go,

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yeah. And

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then she said that she listens to Good Job Brain and

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recognized my voice from that terribly

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embarrassing interaction on

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the phone with my husband. Leslie,

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I am impressed. I mean, I would

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have to be 600% sure that I know the person. I

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mean, just on that short of a sample, I

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mean, there was not a video production that we

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do here.

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Even if it's like a famous

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person, I'm not even sure. We

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were at a restaurant once. We were kids. Literally,

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like Kareem Abdul Jabbar was there. And

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there was like this one was like, do you think that's Kareem

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Abdul Jabbar? It's like, yes, yes. It's

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Kareem Abdul Jabbar. It is Kareem, yeah.

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That's so funny. My husband also spotted

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Kareem Abdul Jabbar once. Well, I guess

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he's easy to spot. Yeah, tall man. Tall

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man. Even in a crowd.

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Oh, man. So yeah, thank you.

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Thank you, Leslie. It was such a fun,

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fun interaction. And Colin, we

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need a update

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on your dice game, on your game. I

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have been so delighted.

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I did. I

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just launched a dice and cards

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game called Bare Bones. I

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have been absolutely delighted. How

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many Good Job Brain listeners have

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gone to our site, given us their

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hard earned money, bought our game. We've

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been packing them up, shipping them out. It's

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really surreal, I

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have to say, like after working on this thing for so

2:56

long to bring it into the world and

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hold it in your hands, it's like having 500 little

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cardboard boxes of babies. Well,

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that's a bad analogy, I guess. But the game is

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going great. Thank you to everybody who has bought

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the game. If any of you would like to check the game out,

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see if you like it, take a look at it. You

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can go to barebonesgame.com.

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their shelves, hopefully playing with

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their families.

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Cool. All right, well, without

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further ado, let's jump. Adieu.

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Adieu. Jump.

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ADO. It's not adieu. Yeah,

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not much. Adieu. It's adieu.

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It's like without further ado. Plus. Yeah,

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yeah, yeah.

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There's the super cut

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of Alex Trebek being Canadian.

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He, you know, with French words, he's very, very respectful.

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Right.

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the French pronunciation. So it's like a super

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cut of him saying genre.

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We say genre. The genre.

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This genre. It's one syllable

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when he does it. I mean, that's the beautiful

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genre.

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It's incredible. All right, pop quiz,

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hot shot. Trivial Pursuit,

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normal version, blue wedge for geography.

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I got a random card. You guys have your barnyard

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buzzers. Let's answer some questions.

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Blue edge for geography.

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Which is the only US state

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capital city with not

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a single McDonald's fast

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food joint? The

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only US state capital

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city. So not only do you have to know

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the state. Right. And

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yeah, let's just go the other direction. There's

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gotta be a McDonald's in Sacramento, Chris. Right?

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All right, so that's one down. Yeah, yeah, good. Let's

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talk about how, what if it

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was Anchorage, Alaska?

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I see, we should go on like, yeah, like Alaska. I

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don't think that's the capital. That's not the

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capital. Yeah, and it's Juno, I'm pretty sure. Yeah, it's Juno.

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Yeah. Juno, Juno. Juno, Juno. It's

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one syllable and Alex Trebek says it.

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It is not,

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it's contiguous. Okay,

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all right. As you guys are

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thinking, I'm quickly doing really quick

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research to see if there's a reason. For a

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notable reason or is it just a random fact? That's

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the thing, it's like, is it just the whole thing where

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they just don't like McDonald's in

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that city? Okay, so this city

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also doesn't have a Burger King. In

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terms of population, 7,500 people. They

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tend to favor local businesses

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over large chains. It

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is on the East Coast.

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Before you throw those glutes out, I was gonna say Montpelier,

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Vermont, but. Yes! Yeah,

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okay. What? Okay. How,

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wow. I mean, I can see local, favoring

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local stuff. Yeah, I didn't know Montpelier

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was that small. Did you say 7,500 people? 100, yeah.

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Wow, okay.

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All right, pink. went for pop culture, which

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bridesmaid who was upstage

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in the film by Rose Byrne was

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herself a serial one upper

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on SNL. So

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circuitous way to say who

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was in the movie bridesmaids in the

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Rose Byrne? Rightness.

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Okay. Okay. Is it is it Kristen Wiig? It

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is Kristen Wiig. Okay. All

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right. What does that mean? Serial

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one upper? I don't what I

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don't understand what they mean by that. This is too clever.

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Yeah, yeah.

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It's like Oh, like cuz her character right

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with the who was like the

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the embellishing character right? Yes. Penelope

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as the annoying Penelope.

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She invented kayaks and

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made a summer home on

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cheaper. Got it. Yeah. Yellow

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Edge, which London department

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store was started by an American

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retailer in 1909. I can name two and it's

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right. Harrods.

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No, the other one. Is

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that Fortnum and Mason? No.

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I guess there's a third

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one.

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Selfridge. Selfridge. Yeah,

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selfridge. I definitely heard of them. Definitely.

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Okay. Found it by an American. Sorry, selfridges.

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It's multiple of them.

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Many ridges. It's like a ruffles chip.

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Purple Wedge, which novel

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by Emma Donahue, narrated

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by five year old boy was made

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into a movie that snagged

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the lead actress in

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Oscar. That

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makes sense. Oh, oh, no, I

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have no idea. Colin.

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It's just the room, right?

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What's the title of this movie? Just

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room. It is just okay. It's

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just not the room. Right. Yeah. It's just room.

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Sorry. Yes. Definitely not to be confused with

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the room. No, just just right. Brie

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Larson. Yeah.

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Yeah, right, right, right. Here we go.

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Green wedge for science. How many people

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does it take to drive an autonomous

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vehicle? That

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was a trick. Chris, please. Zero.

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It is zero. Flavor

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text here, also known as self-driving cars.

8:21

Autonomous cars operate without a driver.

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Last question on this card. Orange

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wedge, sports and leisure.

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Headquartered in, oh God, headquartered

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in Beaverton, Oregon.

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Let's just throw in some guesses now. Headquartered

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in Beaverton, Oregon. Nike

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Corporation. Which athletic company

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was once known as Blue Ribbon

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Sports. Founded

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in 1964, they changed their name to Nike in 1971. All

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right, let's do another card.

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Pop culture two, pop two culture,

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whatever it is. This one I just scanned

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and it looked hard. That's why I feel like doing

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this card might be fun. Okay,

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blue wedge for TV.

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What series follows the exploits

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of Max Guevara in

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a bleak Seattle after an electromagnetic

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pulse fried most of North America's

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electronics?

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I'll

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say that again. What series, so TV

9:17

series, follows the exploits of Max

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Guevara in a bleak Seattle after an

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electromagnetic pulse fried

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most of North America's electronics?

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Man, this sounds

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vaguely familiar. I

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don't know. Okay, the answer is

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Dark Angel. Isn't that

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Jessica Alba? Was that the one? Right,

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okay. And that was produced by

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James Cameron, right? Is that the one? But

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she was the star of that show. I know,

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maybe her name is Max. Or maybe her name is Max.

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It is, her name is Max. Ah,

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there we

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go. There's no way a woman could

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be named Max, Taryn. It's not possible.

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Peak wedge for fad How many

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years is a phone number on the US

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do not call registry off limits

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to telemarketers?

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Huh, I didn't even know this

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was a bit. This was available

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Collin mmm seven Lower

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Chris hazard a guess five

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five. It is five how many years? I don't

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know if it's currently five Okay,

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yellow wedge for buzz what

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world leader according to longtime mistress

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Parasula Lampsos claimed

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his favorite Sinatra tune was strangers

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in the night

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Wow, what one more time? What? Okay.

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Sorry. What world leader world

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leader? Okay. Wow. All right

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long time mistress parasula

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Lampsos Claimed his favorite

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Sinatra tune was strangers in the night. I'll

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tell you before I saw the answer I mean

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my guess was Marcos

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Ferdinand Marcos, yeah Ferdinand Marcos

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because you know as we talked about Singing

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Sinatra in the Philippines and karaoke

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is like a

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big good guess a big

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thing Yeah, good. Yes. Good.

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Yes, but it is not Strangers

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in the night. Okay, go for the Saddam

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Hussein. Yes you are Wow

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Thought I was joking. Okay. All right.

11:26

Good job brain Music

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what country star has been backed

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by the Nash Ramblers spy

11:34

boy and the

11:35

hot band Feel

11:39

like Chris would actually know this. Yeah

11:41

seeing this answer what? Country

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it is a woman Okay,

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Reba McIntyre It is Emmy Lou

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Harris Emmy

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okay, I can't say that Emily Emmy

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Lou Emily Emmy Lou, okay

11:58

green wedge for her move

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What actor plays Frank

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Whitaker who leaves his wife for the other

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man in Far From Heaven?

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Wow, what a deep cut. Okay,

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what actor plays Frank Whitaker

12:12

who leaves his wife for the other man

12:14

in

12:14

Far From Heaven? Wow Damn,

12:18

man. I'm gonna say do not know. Okay,

12:21

I don't know if I know this one I

12:23

think Julianne Moore is the wife

12:25

and Dennis Quaid is

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the husband Is Julianne

12:30

Moore, wow Last

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question sports and games how

12:37

many consecutive tour de France

12:39

did Lance Armstrong win?

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Consecutive I'll

12:45

let Kyle take a stab at this one. Yeah.

12:47

Yeah, it was a lot man. Was it was

12:49

it six? Seven.

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Oh All right.

12:54

Good job brains. Wow, that was it those you

12:56

know for pop culture that was actually a really hard card

12:59

All right Well folks, it's

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our spring season. We are in the full

13:04

flower of spring and you know what that means allergies

13:09

Yeah, I was gonna say I was yeah,

13:11

we're all like just yeah No,

13:14

I what I was gonna say is that means that

13:16

you know Generally what follows spring is

13:18

summer and so that kind of got me thinking

13:21

of like, you know Usually right and so it

13:23

was like oh, why don't we talk about this upcoming

13:25

summer that we're gonna have Let's have a little episode

13:27

about summer

13:29

summer is now so different. Yeah

13:31

now as a parent Not

13:34

now it's not like Oh summer vacation. Yeah, it's like

13:36

Oh God summer vacation They're

13:39

gonna be in the house. What are we gonna do

13:41

with these these people? Yeah, I have to work.

13:43

Yeah

13:44

So

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this week you guys just like DJ

13:48

jazzy Jeff says it's summer

13:51

summer summer time

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Oh So

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I did

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something recently that I have not

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done in a really long time, which is I went to the

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movies.

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I bet I can guess what movie you watched. I

14:16

bet you can guess what movie I watched. What did I

14:18

see in the theaters, Karen? The

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Super Mario Brothers movie, correct. Yes.

14:24

Took the oldest child to the theaters.

14:26

For the first time in like three years.

14:29

Yeah, three years. Two

14:31

of the movies to see the Super Mario Brothers movie

14:33

and it was great. We had fun. He pronounced it.

14:36

It's his favorite movie ever. That's

14:39

recency bias.

14:41

Was it his first time in a theater?

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No, his first time in a theater was we saw

14:47

right before everything closed,

14:49

we saw Onward, the Pixar movie Onward

14:52

in the theater. Oh, I love Onward. Wow.

14:55

That double feature. It was.

14:57

It's exactly. So the only actor he's ever

14:59

seen in the theater is Chris Pratt. And

15:01

got me thinking about while we're doing the summer

15:04

episode. Oh, I shoot something about like

15:06

summer blockbusters because the Super Mario Brothers

15:08

movie was huge. It's the

15:10

biggest movie of the year so far. It's going to make

15:12

a ton of money. It could be the biggest movie

15:14

of the year period. Who knows? It's doing

15:17

incredibly well. So it got me thinking about the

15:19

classic, the summer blockbuster. And

15:21

so I got myself a list of

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the biggest, the number one summer blockbusters

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of every year, you know, going back to the 70s

15:29

and constructed a little quiz around

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them.

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All right. So it's pretty straightforward.

15:34

I'm going to tell you about

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some trivia about a film that

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was a summer blockbuster. And you just have

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to guess, you know, what movie I'm

15:42

talking about. Are

15:43

the constraints just that this movie

15:45

was released? Yeah, it was. It

15:48

was released in the summer. And

15:50

of the year that it came out, it was the biggest

15:53

hit of the summer. Okay. Okay.

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So we'll get you started. Get those barnyard buzzers ready

15:59

to go.

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Cause here it comes, question number one,

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summer blockbuster trivia. All right, question

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one, when composer John Williams

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originally played this film's theme

16:09

song for director Steven Spielberg, Spielberg

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laughed and said, that's funny, John,

16:13

really, but what did you really have in mind?

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Oh, Alan.

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It must be Jaws. It is Jaws.

16:21

Very good. Oh. The

16:23

da da da. It's

16:26

like, this is the theme. This is the main theme of

16:28

their movie. When I was in second grades, this

16:30

must've been 1988, they

16:33

did like reading groups in second grade where

16:36

they assessed all the kids' reading levels and then

16:38

they kind of had one group of kids come in, you know,

16:40

and they like split off from the class, like do reading with

16:42

a teacher. And so the first day they

16:44

did this, they split off the one group and they did

16:46

the thing where they had the kids name their reading

16:48

group, like, you know. Always,

16:52

always a hazard. And so I'm in the third

16:54

group. The third group sits down and we

16:56

find out that the first group of kids

16:58

had come in and they had named their reading

17:00

group Jaws. And

17:04

the second group of kids come

17:06

in and named their reading group

17:08

Jaws 2. And

17:11

thus we were sort of peer pressured

17:14

by one kid into naming our group Jaws

17:16

The Revenge, which

17:19

of course was the recent film that had

17:21

come out, I think the last year.

17:22

Now, none of these kids should have seen this movie,

17:25

not for all, you know, but every, but it's

17:27

like everybody knew all those movies, like

17:29

whether or not you would have seen it. So yes, our reading group was

17:31

called Jaws Revenge.

17:33

Funny you said that because my

17:35

parents took me to the

17:38

third movie. Like the worst

17:40

nightmare being in an aquarium and

17:43

a shark comes and attacks

17:45

the glass tank and pumps

17:47

through the glass. Every time

17:49

I'm in an aquarium,

17:49

that's all I think. Not

17:52

sitting in the front row, not. No, no, no, no, no,

17:54

no, no. Oh my gosh, well, I'm glad I didn't actually see

17:56

the film. Jaws, the first

17:58

summer blockbuster.

17:59

Very very well known as the number

18:02

the first time there was a summer blockbuster movie that was

18:04

just question to 2014 jumping

18:07

ahead in time a little bit 2014 biggest

18:10

summer blockbuster featured among

18:13

others

18:14

John C. Riley

18:16

blend

18:16

close and Benicio del Toro

18:22

Okay, Karen another

18:25

Chris Pratt is a guardians of the galaxy Wow,

18:27

that's a good question among others

18:31

Yes, well-prez yeah, yeah, the cameos.

18:34

Yeah All right

18:36

question three question three the biggest summer

18:38

blockbuster of

18:40

2000 was this sequel Sequel

18:45

which reintroduced its main

18:47

character by showing him doing a bare-handed

18:49

free solo climb up a massive cliff in the Utah desert Oh, all right.

18:52

So Oh, all right.

18:54

So Oh Colin

18:59

Mission

19:01

impossible to Mission

19:04

impossible to okay. Okay,

19:07

not trying to trick you. Okay, it's

19:09

mission impossible to famously by Tom Cruise doing the

19:11

stunt himself I

19:15

Really? Oh, yeah, I know he does

19:17

last on to himself. But like that's free

19:19

climbing is hard Yeah,

19:21

and that was probably done on helicopter like not

19:23

drones yet. I believe so. Yeah I

19:25

think he had a wire

19:28

harness on him that they kind of digitally removed

19:31

He was still doing it Yeah,

19:35

nobody was helping him. Yeah, it is pretty

19:37

wild look to watch it

19:38

Alright question. How about question for

19:41

question

19:41

for the original treatment? For

19:44

this summer blockbuster was titled

19:46

journal of the wills

19:51

Oh Star Wars Star

19:54

Wars. Yeah the the treatment that George

19:56

Lucas sat down originally and started writing up a

19:58

title Journal of the wills

19:59

Here's the first sentence, by the way, from the

20:02

Journal of the Will's treatment that he wrote. You ready?

20:04

Dear Will, no, W-H-I-L-L-S.

20:08

All right, here it is, ready? This is

20:10

the story of Mace Windy, a

20:13

revered Jedi Bendu of

20:15

Ofu-chi, as related to us by

20:17

C.J. Thorpe,

20:19

Hadouan Lerner to the famed Jedi.

20:22

Ha ha ha. Mace Windy.

20:24

Mace Windy, Mace Windy, yeah.

20:28

And the hero of this film was C.J.

20:30

Thorpe. Yes. That was the original name,

20:32

C.J. Thorpe. Hilariously, the sea

20:35

actually stood for Chewie.

20:37

Ah. Chewie

20:39

J. Thorpe. Chewie J. I

20:42

believe it was the J may have been a junior

20:44

also. Chewie Thorpe,

20:47

nice accountant.

20:47

I'm glad in a galaxy far

20:50

away, they still honor the junior,

20:52

senior, same

20:54

name rule. Yes. Yeah, and

20:56

so George Lucas went and got

20:58

that treatment out when he started writing Phantom

21:00

Menace, he went and reread the treatment.

21:02

And so obviously this he saw Mace Windy and kind

21:05

of brought that in. Ha ha ha. I

21:07

love that Mace Windy was kicking around in his head for 35

21:11

years. Decades, decades. Like,

21:14

ah, I can't believe I forgot to use Mace

21:16

Windy.

21:17

Yeah. Question

21:19

five, this summer blockbuster

21:21

about an adorable five year old boy

21:24

debuted on June 6th, 1976.

21:30

Summer blockbuster. That's 676 by

21:32

the way. Karen.

21:37

Is it the Omen? It's the Omen. Yeah.

21:39

It's the Omen. Huge, oh 676. That

21:43

was the day they did previews for

21:45

it in the UK. And

21:48

as when the audiences were in the

21:50

theater in the UK, they saw the movie. And as

21:52

they're in the theater watching it,

21:54

they were putting

21:55

up more posters outside

21:58

the showroom basically that read. Today

22:01

is the sixth day of the sixth month

22:03

of 1976. You

22:05

have been warned. Because

22:08

they didn't say like, oh,

22:11

it's on 6-6-7-6 to get people in. They

22:15

sort of figured people would not notice that

22:17

and then they hit it with them as they left.

22:20

Give you something to say up at night about when you get

22:22

home. Exactly. Question

22:24

six.

22:26

In this summer blockbuster,

22:28

acclaimed Australian actor, Jeffrey

22:31

Rush, played

22:32

a pelican named

22:34

Nigel. Oh man.

22:37

Pelican. Karen.

22:40

It's fighting Nemo. It's fighting Nemo.

22:43

Yeah. There you go. Oh, oh, oh, oh. It

22:48

wasn't Jeffrey Rush dressed up

22:51

like a bird. It was not Jeffrey

22:53

Rush dressed up like a pelican. I

22:55

definitely caught into that. It was probably like a CG

22:58

movie, but yeah. Question seven.

23:01

The biggest summer blockbuster of 1978

23:03

was Grease.

23:07

This is the musical featuring such

23:09

songs as

23:11

Grease. Grease

23:15

hopelessly devoted to you.

23:17

Summer nights and you're the

23:19

one that I want, okay? Grease

23:22

hopelessly devoted to you. Summer

23:24

nights, you're the one that I want.

23:26

Of those four songs, only

23:28

one of them actually appeared in the

23:30

Broadway musical on which

23:33

the movie Grease was based. Oh. Did

23:36

I say it in the songs again? Grease

23:39

hopelessly devoted to you. Summer

23:41

nights, you're the one that I

23:43

want. Only one of them

23:46

was in the room. Only one of those four

23:48

famous Grease songs was actually in the

23:50

musical. Okay. Let's work this

23:52

out. Work it out. I feel like it's

23:54

not gonna be Grease. Grease. Because

23:56

that's like the pop song. It's just

23:59

so pop-y and cinematic.

23:59

Yeah, that's what I feel. Okay, all

24:02

right. Hopelessly Devoted to You

24:05

was like a big pop hit as

24:07

well. And that was like such a Olivia

24:09

Newton John song. Summer Nights

24:12

is such a like here, introduce the characters

24:14

kind of thing. Yeah, let's go Summer Nights. Let's go Summer

24:16

Nights. Okay, let's do Summer Nights. You got it. You figured

24:18

it out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yes. Summer Nights,

24:20

you're absolutely right. Summer Nights does really set

24:23

up a lot and put the plot in motion. But yeah,

24:25

you're the one that I want, the big ending, you know, that

24:27

was added for the movie. Hopelessly

24:29

Devoted to You, I think, carrying you're right on the money that

24:31

was added as Olivia Newton John's big,

24:35

single for the movie. And then Grease, of course, was

24:37

the intro song by Frankie Valli, which

24:39

had nothing. Legal. Nothing

24:41

much to do with the plot. It wasn't even in the, yeah.

24:43

So how did the Broadway musical end?

24:46

It didn't end with that. There's a song

24:48

called All Shook Up, which is very

24:50

kind of similar issue. You're the one that I want, but it's

24:52

not nearly as infectious.

24:55

Yeah, badly. The

24:58

Broadway musical ended badly. It's a weird

25:00

musical. It's much less,

25:02

there's much more of a plot and a through line

25:04

kind of, you know, going through the movie.

25:08

That's what they kind of narrowed it down, you know what

25:10

I mean, to the Danny Sandy story. Whereas in the,

25:12

the Broadway musical is very

25:14

sort of a pastiche. It's like lots and lots of

25:16

things happening. Lots of people getting their

25:18

own solos and things like that. Got it, got

25:20

it, got it, got it.

25:21

Anyway, yeah, Grease, biggest hit of, summer

25:24

blockbuster of 78. Question eight.

25:27

Okay.

25:29

Huh. Big summer blockbuster from

25:31

the 90s. You probably have

25:33

seen it. You've probably heard of it. You've definitely

25:35

heard of it. You've probably seen it,

25:37

but can you name it based on the names

25:40

of its three main characters? Ooh, okay,

25:42

okay. Those names are,

25:45

maybe you can, maybe you can't, I don't know.

25:47

Molly Jensen, Sam

25:50

Wheat, and Oda Mae Brown.

25:54

Oh. Karen.

25:57

That is ghost. That

26:01

is definitely ghost. It was not

26:03

until you got to Oda Mae Brown. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Strong

26:06

performances. Yeah, Oda Mae Brown. Oh my god.

26:09

OK, so the last question for

26:11

you folks. It's the last question. Speaking of,

26:14

we're going to stay on ghosts. Let's talk

26:16

about 1984's biggest

26:18

summer blockbuster, Ghostbusters. Piece

26:22

of trivia that I learned

26:25

while I was making this quiz.

26:28

Ghostbusters, the likeness

26:30

and personality of the ghost

26:32

character, Slimer, were

26:35

actually a deliberate homage to

26:37

this Saturday Night Live comedian.

26:40

Oh.

26:43

Karen. It's got to be John

26:46

Belushi. It is John Belushi.

26:48

Really? Animal House, John

26:50

Belushi kind of. So Slimer was

26:53

based on, you know, John Belushi had passed away in 1982. So

26:56

basically, you know, just before they were making

26:58

this film, very close to Dan Aykroyd and Harold

27:01

Ramis, right? So I mean, they basically based

27:03

Slimer's look

27:05

and his sort of what in his personality

27:07

on John Belushi and his character Bluto from

27:10

Animal House. Whoa, really? Wow. Right.

27:13

Yeah. Go back, take a second

27:15

look at Slimer and his face. And

27:18

there's a little John Belushi in there, basically.

27:21

Wow. I'm going to have to

27:23

watch that one with my daughter. She maybe

27:26

is getting old enough that she might appreciate it. Oh, no.

27:28

It's not super scary.

27:29

The Lembrarians scene is so scary.

27:32

You know what? She's kind of a rock. She

27:34

likes to be scared. She's a kid who likes

27:36

a little bit of thrill. Yeah. If you get through that, just like had that

27:38

first sort of jump scare at the beginning, it's

27:40

not that frightening. Oh, all right. I'm

27:43

going to watch for the Belushi-ness of Slimer,

27:48

a memoir by Colin Bohm. Yeah.

27:51

Guys, if you were to name a drink

27:54

of the summer, like a summertime drink,

27:57

what would it be? Lemonade. Lemonade.

28:00

Yes. Do you actually

28:02

drink lemonade during the summer? When

28:04

I was a kid, for sure, I did more.

28:06

Did you make it at home or do you

28:09

order it? Do you drink it out of

28:11

a can? I remember making

28:13

lemonade

28:13

at home with my dad

28:16

literally one time. One

28:19

time. We

28:22

had actually a lemon tree on our property.

28:25

Not from the concentrate. Not

28:27

the alley, but on the side of the house. It

28:30

didn't put out really robust lemons, but it was one

28:32

of those things one summer, it was super hot.

28:35

I was there and my dad was there and one of his friends was

28:37

over. One of us just said

28:40

casually joking, we should make some lemonade, it's really

28:42

hot. My dad's friend is like, let's make some lemonade. My

28:44

dad's like, yeah, let's make some lemonade. We

28:46

pulled the lemons off and went inside

28:48

and squeezed them up and add the sugar.

28:51

Little back in the end, it was just one of those things like,

28:53

this is not worth the effort. Even

28:56

at eight years

28:57

old, I was so

28:59

much more comfortable 20 minutes ago than I was now,

29:02

even with this lemonade. I'm sweating, I had to go pick

29:04

lemons. Then I just made the

29:06

lemonade and it's not even cold. Yeah.

29:09

A

29:10

couple of episodes ago in our

29:12

Good Morning, Breen episode,

29:14

which was all about morning stuff, I blew

29:17

my own mind and hopefully everybody else's

29:19

minds when I

29:21

looked into why do we

29:23

drink orange juice

29:25

in the morning? Because

29:28

you think it has vitamin C, it's healthy

29:30

for you. It's an ancient tradition.

29:34

Turns out it was an advertising ploy.

29:37

Orange got the morning slot

29:39

and lemons got

29:42

the afternoon lunchtime

29:45

slot. I've always had a question when I came

29:47

to America because I didn't understand it, I just

29:49

made a reasoning for it in my head,

29:52

is the phenomenon of pink

29:54

lemonade.

29:56

What is the difference between

29:58

pink lemonade and normal? lemonade.

30:01

For people who are outside the US, I don't know if

30:03

you guys have pink lemonade as well,

30:05

but it is

30:06

pink lemonade. I

30:08

mean, is it the same? Is it how is it different?

30:11

How do what do you think is the difference?

30:13

As a kid, I was

30:16

always baffled by this as a kid, like

30:18

in my head, I think I just decided

30:20

that like pink lemonade was, I don't

30:22

know, like tartar or more

30:25

tangy or something. But you know, I just convinced

30:27

myself of whatever I needed. Yeah, I can never

30:29

get a straight answer from the grownups. I'll be honest with you.

30:32

Yeah, I don't know if it has a

30:34

different flavor. Because you

30:36

see it in candies too, right? Yeah, pink

30:38

lemonade flavor. And there's lemon flavor.

30:40

Like what's the difference?

30:42

Yeah, in my head, I

30:44

thought it was the

30:46

species of lemon pink and

30:48

flesh, like ruby grapefruit

30:50

or blood orange. And it's just a

30:53

special type of lemon that

30:55

maybe has an extra colorant in

30:58

the fruit. A lot of people think there's like berry

31:00

or cranberry or some sort of like other

31:02

juice added to it. There

31:04

is zero difference. It literally

31:06

is just color pink. Yeah, it makes I

31:08

mean, it makes a lot of sense. Yeah, there are two

31:11

competing origin stories here. Both

31:14

stem from the circus. One is

31:17

a circus worker was making a batch of

31:19

lemonade and dropped a cinnamon

31:21

heart candy. All right, false. Already

31:24

false and any of the origin stories where it's like,

31:26

yeah, no, I don't

31:29

believe it. Yeah.

31:30

The other story is a little

31:33

bit more colorful. Colorful

31:35

and slash groups.

31:37

A circus worker who was making a big batch of

31:39

lemonade. He ran

31:41

out of water. It was too popular.

31:43

It was too hot outside. He needed to make

31:45

more lemonade. So what did

31:47

he do? He took

31:50

a tub of water that

31:52

was used to rinse the

31:54

circus horse riders tights.

31:57

So so so hold on. Let me

31:59

everyone. Okay. The

32:02

circus, there are people who ride horses or do tricks

32:04

on, you know, bareback riding. This

32:07

lady needed to rinse her tights

32:10

and her tights were bright red. And

32:12

so she's washing her tights in this

32:14

laundry water, which then Mr.

32:16

Lemonade used that water

32:20

to make his lemonade, which

32:22

is why the lemonade's pink because the

32:24

water was red from the dye

32:27

from this person's tights after

32:29

she wore them.

32:31

These are the two best stories.

32:33

Yeah. At the risk of contradicting

32:36

myself here, I'm going to have to say of those

32:39

two stories, I think the hard candy dropped in

32:41

is more plausible.

32:42

And the other thing I wanted to share,

32:44

you know, when we think of lemonade,

32:46

we think of like kids selling lemonade, the

32:48

lemonade stand on the sidewalk.

32:51

And it has become the symbol

32:53

for entrepreneurship. Right?

32:55

Sure. So kids understand how money

32:58

works, started business, open a lemonade

33:00

stand. I don't know any other

33:02

cultures that have that lemonade stand

33:05

symbol. This is such a uniquely

33:07

American thing. And it links to one

33:09

person. And this person, his name is Edward

33:12

Bach. And he's an immigrant

33:14

from the Netherlands, came with his family

33:16

to America, you know, was pretty poor,

33:18

was definitely a hustler. And

33:21

he eventually became a big

33:23

time kind of editor for the ladies'

33:25

home journal. So that's kind of his his

33:27

big claim to fame. After he found success,

33:29

he had an autobiography published,

33:32

and that actually won a Pulitzer

33:34

Award.

33:35

And so a lot of people are reading this highly

33:37

acclaimed book. When he was a kid,

33:41

he sold lemonade on the

33:42

streets. And it was this that

33:45

propelled this narrative. So it is

33:47

sort of uniquely American in its origins.

33:50

Yeah, the American dream. I'm

33:52

so curious if any international listeners,

33:55

if there is something like a

33:57

lemonade stand equivalent in your life.

33:59

Yeah. In your country. Did

34:02

you guys sell lemonade when you were kids? Again,

34:04

it's something I did one time. I did.

34:07

My friend Justin, the

34:09

friend who I created Bare Bones,

34:12

the game

34:12

with. No way. You guys sold lemonade

34:14

together? We did. Once when

34:16

we were kids, it was the middle of summer. And

34:19

again, we were just bored. You know, like

34:21

it's hot. It's like, should we do a lemonade stand?

34:23

Because we had seen it again just in countless

34:26

TV shows, movies, comics, magazines.

34:28

I guess we must have ridden our bikes to

34:30

the store. You guys buy like fresh

34:32

lemons or like? No, I mean, we bought.

34:35

So stupid. We just bought like lemonade

34:38

off the shelf. Oh,

34:40

like pre-made. Yeah. We

34:43

just bought like. So like this was our

34:45

business model was like, all right. Well,

34:48

our business model is no one really cares if it's

34:50

homemade, right? People just want lemonade. Like

34:52

we're just about satisfying the customer

34:55

between the two of us. We couldn't have had more than like five bucks

34:57

or six bucks. So we bought some lemonade, took

34:59

it back. We iced it down and

35:02

like we got our own cups. We definitely supplied

35:04

our own cups and we built a little stand and

35:06

set up and we sold cups

35:08

of our lemonade with ice

35:11

for, I don't know, like a quarter. And like we made,

35:13

I mean, we made money. We made

35:14

a profit. And we're like, oh, it actually worked. It

35:16

worked. I mean, it worked. We

35:20

set up like right on the corner near like

35:22

the city park, just a couple blocks from our house

35:24

and it worked. Yeah. Yeah. So

35:27

you had location. You had that foot traffic. You know, you

35:29

were in the right place for it.

35:30

That's amazing. And now you're and now

35:33

you guys are still trying to get a business going.

35:36

I promise we did not buy this game at the

35:38

store and then sell it to you. No,

35:41

we this one we did.

35:43

We actually created from scratch.

35:45

We've advanced a lot in the decades

35:47

since then. Maybe I did lemonade at

35:49

some point, but it was probably in conjunction

35:52

with us having a

35:54

yard sale or selling it. So

35:56

we market because because I did that

35:59

because I.

35:59

Absolutely. I

36:02

would always be selling stuff at the

36:04

yard sales and flea markets, old toys and

36:06

things like that.

36:07

Wait, as a kid? Yeah,

36:09

then I graduated too. I was buying and selling

36:11

video games

36:13

because we would buy like Atari games

36:15

and stuff like that. Whoa! We'd

36:17

buy them for like five bucks for like

36:20

somebody's entire Atari and all their stuff.

36:22

But then we'd sell games for like a dollar

36:25

or two each at the flea markets

36:27

and stuff like that. Who's we? My brother and I.

36:29

Wow, hustle

36:32

kids. Yeah, oh yeah, totally. Well, our

36:34

parents were selling at the yard sales and flea markets

36:36

as well. So we were all doing it all together.

36:39

Oh, how cute. Oh, that's very cute. That

36:41

really is. Wasn't so cute when

36:43

we bought some ladies video

36:45

games from over one end of the flea

36:47

market, marked them up on a

36:50

table and she came by.

36:53

The look on her face did not suggest that we

36:55

were adorable. I'll tell you that. Oh,

37:02

all right. Let's take a quick break

37:05

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37:30

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37:31

it's getting hot. It's almost summertime.

37:33

We're talking summer. Colin,

37:35

what's next?

37:37

What smells come to mind

37:39

when you guys think of summer? When you just

37:41

close your eyes and just summer? What

37:44

are some of the smells? This is going to be another

37:46

one of those Colin quizzes with the title. It's like

37:49

the title of my quiz is, anybody

37:51

smell that?

37:55

Fiercely taking notes over here.

37:57

Anybody smell.

38:00

That's that smell. What

38:02

smells come to mind in the sense of smell? Yeah,

38:04

summer smell. Coconut sunscreen. Lemonade

38:07

sands. Oh, OK. I

38:09

like coconut. OK. Beach.

38:12

Beach. Salty water. Oh,

38:15

yeah. OK. Smell

38:18

of mown grass. Swimming

38:20

pool. BHP. Chlorine.

38:23

Chlorine. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Karen,

38:26

you and I are locked in. Because

38:29

you've named the two that are for me my

38:32

top two. I close my eyes. It's

38:35

chlorine and sunblock.

38:38

Just that coconut.

38:39

It

38:41

doesn't have to be coconut. But there's just that aroma

38:45

of sunscreen and the chlorine,

38:47

just like a swimming pool. I can

38:49

just

38:50

hear it. I can feel it. I close

38:52

my eyes. And that to me is

38:54

just the smell of summer, the feel

38:56

of summer. I didn't even have a swimming

38:58

pool. We didn't have a residential

39:01

pool at my house. But I did, however, grow

39:03

up in Los Angeles, as you both know, which

39:06

is practically the land of the swimming pool.

39:09

Just a dizzying number of swimming

39:11

pools in LA. I didn't have one, but my

39:13

next door neighbor had a pool. The family

39:15

across the street had a pool. My

39:18

best friend down the block had a pool,

39:20

as did his neighbors, as did that city

39:22

park that I told you we set

39:23

up to sell lemonade two blocks away.

39:26

There was a pool there. Yeah, there are a lot

39:28

of swimming pools in LA. And there

39:30

was something that I always liked.

39:33

I'm going to get a little poetic here for a moment. There's something

39:35

I always like flying into or out of

39:37

LA. I don't know if any of the listeners had this experience

39:39

or you guys too. You look down. You

39:42

look down and see all

39:44

this little swimming pools in LA. Just

39:46

these little, just the flecks of blue,

39:48

blue-green. And you're like, there's so many

39:51

of them. And it's gorgeous

39:53

in a way. Like little blue

39:53

beans. Several years ago,

39:55

I was reading an article in the

39:58

LA Times. What's the title of your book? segment

40:00

was

40:04

just about to get there. Like I'm really

40:07

okay. That was all the cold. Some years

40:10

ago I was reading article at the LA Times or

40:13

probably more accurately on the LA Times website

40:15

since I don't live in LA anymore. And

40:18

this this article is talking about

40:20

a an artist and a researcher

40:22

named Benedict Gross. And

40:25

it was talking

40:25

about how he had had

40:27

the exact same thought that I have

40:29

had many times on the airplane, which

40:32

is, I wonder how many swimming

40:34

pools there are in LA. Oh,

40:38

the name of my segment is how

40:41

many swimming pools are there in LA.

40:45

But I know this almost feels like one of those lateral

40:48

thinking challenges, right? Or like the

40:50

the Google interview question. Yeah,

40:53

I'm not so interested in are you

40:55

giving me the correct answer as I am and how would you

40:57

go about solving this problem? So so I'll

40:59

throw it to you guys here as a little fun little exercise.

41:02

Just how would you go about

41:05

counting estimating arriving

41:07

at the number of swimming pools in LA?

41:09

What would you start? I mean, can

41:12

we do research? Let me can we? Yeah,

41:14

let's probably have to

41:17

have a permit to put in a swimming

41:19

pool. That's like an in ground swimming pool.

41:21

So

41:22

I'm guessing you would you can go

41:24

to the government and figure out like

41:26

maybe if they can be able to give you like a percentage,

41:29

or if you were to take, you

41:30

know, a sampling of houses

41:32

to find out which ones had put in pools, you

41:34

know, permit wise, and then figure

41:37

out number of houses and figure out your percentage

41:39

and you can kind of estimate it that way. That's that's

41:42

really good thinking. That was the author

41:44

of the article talked about, you know, that that is in

41:47

fact one way that Benedict

41:49

Gross and he ended up partnering with

41:52

a another sort of postgraduate

41:54

student named Joseph Lee. And

41:56

so they kind of had that thought to well permits, maybe

41:59

look at the number of permits.

41:59

Now, the problem

42:02

is LA is, you know,

42:04

not the oldest city in the country, but it's

42:06

an old city and they've had swimming pools there for

42:08

a long time. Some of which predate

42:11

the modern permitting system. Some of which

42:13

were probably never permitted at all. Some

42:15

of those records may not exist. It may be totally

42:18

spotty. Maybe you could

42:20

look at water bills, right? I mean, you've got a swimming

42:22

pool. Maybe you go talk

42:24

to pool suppliers, pool cleaners, right?

42:27

You do a survey and maybe you kind of just sort of do a

42:29

like a statistical approximation.

42:31

But why not? Why is it the

42:33

jelly bean approach where if you're flying

42:35

down and you're looking down and you map

42:38

out how big greater LA is and you

42:40

have an aerial view, do a little section

42:43

of an aerial view like from an airplane and be

42:45

like, okay, out of

42:47

this block, which has 10 houses,

42:49

eight of them have swimming pools and you kind of multiply

42:52

that, the jelly bean.

42:53

That's a great, exactly.

42:56

Great statistical approach

42:58

method there, Karen. So,

43:00

they kind of ended up sort of on

43:02

that vein. In fact, they went you one better and they

43:04

figured, well, why not just take a big

43:06

picture from above and count them up? Sort

43:09

of audaciously. Oh, really? So, they

43:11

decided we're going to count

43:14

from above using photography

43:17

every pool in the LA

43:19

basin. One by one. In

43:21

the LA basin, the greater LA area. So, yeah. Sure.

43:24

So, what they did is they started by getting two

43:27

sets of satellite photos. I

43:29

mean, they didn't actually go up in the helicopter and take these pictures

43:32

themselves, but they got

43:33

two sets of satellite photos from the government,

43:36

from the National Agriculture Imagery

43:38

Program, and they were two overlaid

43:41

photos. One was a true color composite

43:44

photo. And then the other was, I'm

43:46

sure you guys have seen these in science

43:48

reporting or space or agriculture, what

43:50

they call a false color photograph.

43:53

So a false color photograph is often

43:56

used to highlight or accentuate

43:58

a particular feature of a

43:59

of a piece of terrain or something. So,

44:02

you know, that the color is not real, but

44:04

it helps you sort of visualize how much

44:06

of something is or what the contrast is between

44:08

something. So now again, these are,

44:10

you know, artists, researchers, you

44:12

know, students, maybe you got to work on a budget here. They

44:14

sent them off to a company in India

44:17

that specialized

44:20

in photo shopping,

44:22

elements out of their backgrounds to

44:24

be comped against white backgrounds for things

44:26

like catalogs or, you

44:29

know, photo shoots. So

44:32

trained in pulling things out of the background. So

44:35

they paid $300 and got this massive set of photos here outlined,

44:42

they went through it and they outlined every pool,

44:45

every swimming pool, they went through and outlined them, pulled them against

44:47

the background. They reviewed the company's

44:49

work manually,

44:50

just to kind of double check. Then they sent these results.

44:53

They paid another $350, 350, $350 on Amazon, some

44:59

mechanical Turk. I know you guys are probably pretty

45:01

aware. To basically just a crowdsourcing

45:04

platform to pay people very

45:07

small token amounts of money to verify

45:10

this original team's work of finding,

45:12

you know, you missed a pool or this isn't a

45:14

pool, this is just a blue shed, cleaned

45:17

it up. Again, gross and manually

45:19

check this themselves. Sounds exhausting.

45:20

And of course they're pricing their own labor at zero.

45:23

They got their best estimate

45:26

based on every pool, at least

45:29

visible from above in the LA basin.

45:31

They counted 43,123 swimming pools. Now,

45:38

I mean, you know, it's hard to envision

45:40

that number. So they

45:43

put together sort of the grand

45:45

output of this project was a book,

45:48

a multi-volume set called

45:51

the

45:51

Big Atlas of LA pools.

45:55

And there is one

45:57

copy of this 74.

45:59

volume 6,000 page

46:03

edition that contains

46:05

all of their findings. They overlaid

46:08

on top of this a lot of really interesting

46:10

demographic and statistical breakdowns of

46:13

everything from income level. No surprise.

46:15

It turns out that of the various cities, Beverly

46:18

Hills had the highest per

46:20

capita swimming pools in the region.

46:22

Question.

46:23

Let's say I live in a house that has

46:25

a pool in LA. Would I see my

46:28

pool in this book? If they

46:30

did it correctly, then yes.

46:32

And they would even be able to cross

46:35

reference it with your address

46:37

or, you know, I mean, it's publicly

46:39

accessible data. As they got further

46:42

and further into doing this project, they

46:44

both got a little unnerved by

46:46

how much data was publicly available

46:49

to them to sort of correlate all

46:51

laid up on top of each other. Like once you start layering

46:54

income and voting patterns, and

46:56

it really paints a very rich

46:59

picture of the populations

47:02

around greater Los Angeles. And what's my privacy?

47:03

Yeah, and what's my

47:06

privacy? Yeah. So maybe it is better. There's

47:08

just, you know, one copy of this sitting in

47:11

one of their one of their houses somewhere. But it started

47:14

literally with him on

47:17

an airplane

47:17

flying into LA looking

47:19

at like, Oh my gosh, I wonder how many

47:21

pools there are out there. So now

47:23

just as a little button on this

47:26

segment here, I have a few a few little bit of trivia nuggets

47:28

questions for you guys here, but just close up this article, this

47:30

article in

47:31

the LA Times from 2013. I

47:36

swear this article was written by

47:38

reporter

47:39

Bob Poole.

47:42

Robert. Yeah,

47:45

Robert. So I got three

47:47

trivia questions here for you guys about

47:50

swimming pools that I just

47:52

came across in some form or another. And of course, my research

47:54

here. So here we go.

47:56

Let's make this a write down quiz here, give the pen

47:59

and paper a chance.

47:59

to shine. Question one,

48:02

what western

48:05

US city has the highest

48:08

per capita rate

48:11

of residential pool ownership in the country?

48:14

It is not LA. It is

48:17

not LA. LA has more pools overall,

48:19

but yeah, what this city,

48:22

according to numbers I found in

48:25

pool magazine, yes, this city, 32.7% of the

48:27

residents of this western city. All right.

48:34

Pool enthusiasts monthly. Pool

48:36

enthusiasts monthly. When you

48:38

are ready, answers up.

48:41

I have been to this city before. I can

48:44

vouch. There's a lot of pools there. Chris

48:46

says, San Diego. Karen

48:49

says, Karen has, Karen wrote

48:52

Phoenix, crossed it out. Started

48:54

to write Scotts, maybe Scottsdale,

48:57

I'm guessing, crossed it out, wrote

48:59

Phoenix again. Karen, I'm so glad you trusted your

49:01

gut. It is Phoenix. Phoenix, Arizona.

49:04

I was just with San Diego, but I

49:06

was like, oh, but they're literally next

49:08

to water. They literally next to the

49:10

beach. So it can't be like a beachy.

49:13

That's a great, great reasoning. Right. It

49:16

makes a lot of sense. Phoenix, just very

49:18

hot, of course, and also rich

49:21

and landlocked. So yeah.

49:24

Basically a third of the residents of Phoenix,

49:26

Arizona own a pool. Numbers

49:30

two, three, and four, however, are all

49:32

in Florida, which is

49:35

Miami, Tampa, Orlando. So

49:37

yeah, maybe the being close to water,

49:39

far from water. All

49:41

of those cities over 25%

49:43

of the residents there, apparently,

49:45

again, according to Pool Magazine. All

49:49

right. Number two, what

49:51

US president ordered construction

49:54

of the current White House swimming

49:57

pool in the 1970s? I'll

50:00

give you a little. I didn't even know there

50:02

was a- There's a rich history of this swimming

50:05

pool, in fact. Do I go

50:07

with the Joe blog? Okay. Against

50:10

the advice of his advisors. His

50:13

advisors all told him, please

50:15

do not do this. But

50:18

he did it. He went ahead and did it.

50:20

All right,

50:21

answers up. Karen has written

50:23

Carter, Jimmy Carter. Chris has

50:25

written Nixon, Richard Nixon. Neither

50:28

of you are correct. It was Ford, dancing

50:30

around. Gerald Ford, yes,

50:33

yeah. I did not know this until reading

50:35

a little bit about, Gerald Ford. He was an avid,

50:37

avid swimmer before becoming president.

50:40

He would swim twice a day, apparently,

50:43

like really early in the morning. And again, at

50:45

the end of the day, after work, it was just, just

50:47

for him, that was how he needed to kind of just keep

50:50

himself, you know,

50:51

mentally aligned and physically happy.

50:55

So he moved into the White House. The

50:58

White House did

51:00

have an indoor swimming pool

51:02

until Richard Nixon

51:05

had it covered over because he didn't particularly,

51:07

yeah. There was an indoor swimming pool for

51:10

many years. Nixon didn't like it at

51:12

all, even though many of his predecessors, you

51:14

know, loved it. Kennedy, notably others.

51:16

So Nixon apparently had it covered over. They turned it

51:18

into, you know, just one of that. I believe

51:20

like the press office or something like that in the White House. And

51:23

so Ford, he was, he was mad that

51:25

there was no swimming pool in the White House anymore. So

51:28

he said, I need, I need a swimming pool built. And

51:30

his advisors were like, they're like, Jerry,

51:33

you kind of- You're not even supposed to be president.

51:36

You're all about like keeping everything on budget,

51:39

but he put his foot down. And so very, very

51:41

pointedly made sure that the public knew

51:43

there were no public funds used to build the pool.

51:46

It was well done through. They solicited

51:48

and got some private donations to

51:51

finance building for his swimming

51:53

pool. And of course it would be, it's

51:55

not like you could take it with him, but it would stay at the White House for

51:57

all future. Is it still there? It is still

51:59

there.

51:59

I've always been remodeled and touched up, but yeah, it's

52:02

still there. All right, quick one here. Last question, last

52:04

question. This is gonna be an estimate

52:06

closest to kind of last trivia question

52:08

of the evening to solve tiebreaker kind of question.

52:11

I have never swim in an

52:13

Olympic sized swimming pool. My wife

52:15

has. A Olympic sized pool

52:18

is 50 meters long, 25 meters

52:20

wide, and

52:23

a minimum, it can fluctuate,

52:26

but a minimum of two meters deep.

52:28

How many gallons

52:30

of water are there in

52:33

an Olympic sized swimming pool?

52:36

And we're gonna do closest to the mark here, 50 meters

52:39

long, 25 meters wide, two

52:42

meters deep. We'll

52:45

see who's. All right, hold on. The numbers

52:47

are swimming around above the people's

52:49

heads here. Two big meters.

52:52

I'm gonna. Do, do, do, do,

52:54

do. Ha ha ha.

52:57

Tip me over and

53:00

pour me out. How many

53:02

gallons? If you wanna give me liters,

53:04

I'll do the conversion, if it's easier for you. Okay,

53:07

Chris has written.

53:09

I said 250,000 gallons. Karen,

53:13

oh, she's, she's got a diagram. This is so

53:15

Karen. Like Karen has actually. The

53:17

one I circled. A visualization. Karen has

53:20

written 225,000. Yeah,

53:23

you're both off by, by,

53:26

I mean, not an order of magnitude, but at least

53:28

double here. The number that I have here in

53:30

front of me says 660,000 gallons of water. Oh.

53:36

660,000 gallons of water. Little

53:39

bit over. How many, how many milk

53:41

jugs is there? Yeah, that's right. That

53:44

would be, well, that would be 660,000 milk jugs, wouldn't

53:47

it, Karen? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All

53:50

right, well, here's to being the least wrong and

53:53

counting swimming pools and cooling off

53:55

in the summer heat. Woo.

53:59

All right. I have our

54:02

last segment and I'm actually happy

54:05

that we're kind of bookending this episode

54:07

this way because Chris started with summer

54:09

movie blockbusters.

54:10

Shadow

54:12

not that he listens to the show, but one of my former

54:15

coworkers that time of summer, every year

54:17

he's just like, all right, what's

54:19

the official song of

54:21

the summer? What

54:23

is what is this year's the jam billboard

54:26

has their own official song

54:28

of the summer with data. It's

54:30

between this day and this day. This is the stream

54:34

play. This is the radio play. And this is

54:36

what's number one. So they take a data

54:38

approach and that's kind of more in the modern

54:40

time. So

54:41

can anyone guess what was billboard

54:44

when it, when they first did official

54:46

song of the summer based on billboard chart

54:48

data in 2010? Can

54:50

anyone hazard a guess? Oh,

54:54

it is by Katy Perry. Oh,

54:56

okay. Um, was it 2010?

54:59

Was that the, the, the California girls

55:01

song? Yes. Okay. Kind

55:03

of cool. Even though they started that project

55:05

in 2010, they started going

55:07

back every year, looking at data

55:10

within the constraints and be like, okay, this was

55:12

the song. This was the song. This was song. And it kind

55:14

of dates pretty far back. And then it got me

55:16

thinking, I was like, Oh, I wonder what was in early,

55:19

early, early song of the summer. Like

55:21

Edison cylinder song of the summer.

55:25

It's really hard to measure what is the song

55:28

of the summer because it really coincides

55:30

with, it coincides with radio.

55:34

Because there is a time where when you buy music,

55:36

it's like sheet music.

55:37

Right. Right. You know, there's no timely,

55:40

there's no like scheduling. Oh, this is

55:42

the summer time. It's

55:45

not until like we have radio and kind

55:47

of music sales that then you can

55:49

say, okay, between this time and this time.

55:51

Yeah. Also, also the the mass culture

55:54

like like tying you all together, you know, like, like,

55:56

like trends and fads. And yeah, so

55:58

I look back, there are a lot of contenders

56:00

for what kind of was named really

56:03

early on Song of the Summer. So I'm

56:06

just gonna share, I'm gonna play here a little

56:08

bit. This is a

56:11

Billy Murray performs in 1907.

56:15

I'd rather two-step than Waltz,

56:17

Bill. I'd

56:20

rather

56:20

two-step than Waltz, Bill. I'd

56:23

rather two-step than eight.

56:27

Waltz sing it fine, Bill, but

56:29

not for mine, Bill. It isn't

56:31

in it with a two-step, a minute for

56:34

there's something about it that's grand,

56:36

Bill. B-O-N-O-B-O-S.

56:40

It's so on the nose. It really sounds

56:42

like something. It's a bio shock and say, yeah. Yeah, to parody.

56:45

To parody. It's, yeah, authentic.

56:48

The

56:48

Song of the Summer, 1907. That's what it sounds like. Wow.

56:54

What was the most recent song of the summer, do you

56:56

think? This was just last year, 2022. What

57:00

was the song of the summer, according to

57:02

the old word? What was last

57:04

summer? What was time? As it

57:06

was by Harry Styles. I

57:13

ran out of time for this, but I was like, wow,

57:16

what if I mash up? I'm not

57:18

a music producer, nor a DJ. I

57:20

was like, oh, maybe I can really quickly

57:22

learn how to mash up

57:23

songs. I take this two-step,

57:26

I'd rather two-step than Waltz Bill

57:28

with Harry Styles. It

57:31

didn't work, guys. I tried. How

57:34

hard can it be to do this? I'll

57:37

just real quick learn how to

57:38

do it. I'll isolate the track. It

57:40

just sounds like playing two things at the same

57:42

time. I'll

57:46

tell you what, it did work. And this

57:48

is our last quiz. What

57:50

I'm going to do is I took some lyric

57:53

snippets of what Billboard defined

57:55

as the official song

57:56

of the summer in the past couple

57:58

of years, decades.

57:59

had a summer blockbuster

58:02

movie trailer voice

58:06

read out the lyrics. Thanks

58:09

to AI. AI voice that sounds like

58:11

the in a world, you know, that kind

58:13

of like summer blockbuster movie trailer

58:16

voice read out lyrics

58:18

of some official songs this summer.

58:21

And then you guys buzz in and tell me

58:24

identify the song and the artist. Okay,

58:27

you're not going to give us a year or anything. We're just just

58:29

lyrics. Okay. All right. Okay.

58:32

All right. Okay.

58:33

So let's hear

58:35

let's play the first clip.

58:37

And this would be summer one

58:40

dot mp3.

58:43

Seems like yesterday we used to rock the show.

58:45

I laced the track you locked the flow

58:48

so far from hanging on the block for dough

58:50

notorious. They got to know that.

58:52

I mean, the notorious, they got to

58:54

know that notorious.

58:57

Is it biggie? I mean, is it? So

59:11

biggie

59:20

like, Colin, we're all counting on you.

59:22

Is that is it? I love when you call

59:24

me Big Papa. So you

59:27

are right that notorious biggie

59:29

is related to this song.

59:32

But there is a reason why. Yeah, if

59:35

he is on the flow, who

59:37

is on the track?

59:40

I'll be missing you. Okay.

59:42

By Puff Daddy, notorious

59:45

big passed away. And this

59:47

is the song tribute to him featuring

59:50

Faith Evans, tourist wife

59:52

at the time, very famously

59:55

sampling a clip from every

59:57

breath

59:58

you take. That's right. the

1:00:00

police. That's right. All right. Okay.

1:00:02

Here we go. Wow. Next

1:00:05

clip, summer two. Why

1:00:08

do birds suddenly appear every time

1:00:10

you are near? Just like me, they long

1:00:12

to be close to you. That's

1:00:17

very good. The carpenters close

1:00:20

to you.

1:00:20

Chris being the stickler with a

1:00:23

parentheses. It is parentheses.

1:00:25

They long to be in parentheses

1:00:28

close to you. Oh, yes. Number 30. This

1:00:30

is number 30. Greatest

1:00:35

summer songs of all time. Next

1:00:38

up, we got summer three.

1:00:40

This

1:00:41

is a great job. This

1:00:43

is a Luis Fonsi daddy Yankee.

1:00:46

Daddy Yankee. Oh, my God. And

1:00:48

then featuring

1:01:02

Justin

1:01:08

Bieber. Okay.

1:01:09

Wow. This is number five.

1:01:11

Number five on all time list. It

1:01:14

has no idea what Spanish is at all.

1:01:16

It's just, yeah. It's

1:01:18

a me trying to just read. Just

1:01:21

phonetically. Yeah, phonetically.

1:01:23

All right. Next

1:01:26

one, summer four.

1:01:30

As a river flows gently to the sea,

1:01:32

darling. So it goes. Some things

1:01:34

were meant to be. Oh, well,

1:01:38

okay. You be 40. Yes.

1:01:42

Parentheses. I can't help.

1:01:47

But it's the one that goes back then.

1:01:50

You be 40s version very

1:01:52

specifically. Not the Elvis

1:01:54

Presley version. Not I associate that

1:01:56

song with like just like hotel

1:01:58

pools. Now, you know what I mean? and it's just like

1:02:01

it's relatively inoffensive. It's

1:02:03

kind of always playing in the background. Like

1:02:05

when I'm in my 20s, like, oh, this club

1:02:07

is playing my jam. Like in my 30s,

1:02:09

like, oh, this this drive time radio station

1:02:12

is playing my jam in my 40s, like, oh, this hotel

1:02:14

pool is playing my jam. You know, it's Walgreens

1:02:17

is playing my jam.

1:02:19

All right. Time for the

1:02:21

next one. Song number five.

1:02:24

I got that devilish flow.

1:02:27

Rock and roll. No Halo. We party

1:02:29

rock. Yeah, that's the crew that I'm repping

1:02:32

on the rise to the top. No lead in our sepal

1:02:34

in.

1:02:35

No lead. The song title

1:02:38

was was in there. Yeah.

1:02:40

Party Rock. Right. It's that

1:02:42

was was that

1:02:45

LMFAO.

1:02:46

Yes. Oh, right.

1:02:48

Whoo. Party rocket. That's

1:02:51

too much.

1:02:53

All right. And finally, before

1:02:55

we play it, I just want to say not only

1:02:58

was this the official song of the summer,

1:03:00

it was Billboard Song

1:03:02

of the Year is won many

1:03:05

awards. And I think it's sitting within

1:03:08

the top 50 of the highest performing

1:03:10

song of all time.

1:03:12

So this is song number six.

1:03:16

Since you've gone, I've been lost without a trace.

1:03:19

I dream at night. I can only see your face.

1:03:22

I look around, but it's you I can't replace.

1:03:24

I feel so cold and I long for your embrace.

1:03:27

I keep crying. Baby, baby, please.

1:03:31

Yes,

1:03:35

please, Chris, please. Every every breath

1:03:38

you take by the police. See

1:03:40

what I did here. I ended with Puff Daddy.

1:03:43

That song famously

1:03:45

sampled the police song. Every breath

1:03:48

you take. Part of the reason for the popularity

1:03:50

is because of the sampling kind of

1:03:53

created more awareness for

1:03:55

this this older police song. I mean, it was it

1:03:57

already performed so well. Yeah. And it's

1:03:59

time.

1:03:59

And then it kind of came it charted again,

1:04:02

right? I mean, yeah Yeah,

1:04:04

yeah, please yeah sample my song is all you want.

1:04:06

I'll take those extra royalty checks. Yeah

1:04:09

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I'd rather two-step than waltz bill

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sung by Billy Murray Edison record I

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Know little lady by the name

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of Anna bail. She was quite as well

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But they knew Rochelle she went

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to all the parties and the dances to as well

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For she was leading lady and the bill

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and here at Queens We are spilling the

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New Orleans voodoo Queen Marie

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