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Our holiday clips show is here.

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Hello,

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chrysalids and chrysalis crisscrossing through

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chrysanthemums while crystallizing crispies about

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chrysums and crispbreads. Welcome to

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Good Job Brain, your weekly

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quiz show and offbeat trivia

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podcast. This is episode

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264 and of course, I'm

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your humble host, Karen, and

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we are your holiday honeys

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hoping for some hoppin' hot

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sauce and holla. I'm

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Colin. And I'm Chris. Today

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is our penultimate

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episode before next

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week's season finale.

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And today is a special

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ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding,

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ding, ding, ding. A special

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holiday greetings to you all from Good

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Job Brain. Wow. It's

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a special holiday gift to you. A

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clip show. Because we're all too

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busy with the holidays. We

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have curated the best

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and the funniest and the most trivia-est

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holiday related clips, segments

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and quizzes from the past library

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of, I don't know, 260 episodes.

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I know people are kind of like roll their eyes at

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clip shows, but we've been doing this for a really long

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time. We should bubble up

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and curate and have these kind of like

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themed anthologies to bring back things that we

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even forgot that we talked about. It's a

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present to us. Us as well.

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Yeah. Without further ado, let's

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jump into our first general trivia

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segment. Pop quiz! Hotshot! Of

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course we're gonna do a fresh one, so

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grab your barnyard buzzers. I got

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a random card here. Let's hope

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it's one of those Christmas ones. It's

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not. It's a Christmas miracle. It

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is not a miracle because it's not

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the Christmas one. This is Forte. I

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love Forte. Here we go. Alright,

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give me that soap question.

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Here we go. What

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30s crooner... That

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would be better. That would be better.

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That would be good-able. Okay,

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who wants soap? Soaps. Which

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soap opera star has

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worked as a movie stuntman

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and has doubled for Billy

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Dee Williams? Oh

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my god. Lando Calrissian. Wow.

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Again, which soap opera star

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has worked as a movie

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stuntman and has doubled for

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Billy Dee Williams? Yeah.

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Oh, we do have a theme

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because what is Billy

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Dee Williams' full legal name,

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guys? You know this. It is

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William December

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Williams. Yes, it is. Chris,

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this was in the show! I

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know, but I remember the theme from the show. William's.

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We had our Christmas miracle. There

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it is. Snuck a December in there.

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I'm clearly stalling because I have no idea. It

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is Eddie Earl Hatch. Eddie

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Earl Hatch. Eddie Earl Hatch. However,

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it also says parentheses Tucker Foster. What?

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Is that a character name? Oh, I see.

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Not his tag name versus William's name. Eddie

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Earl Hatch. Doubling for Billy Dee Williams. Alright,

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Pink Witch for cartoons! Okay. Pink Witch

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for cartoons. Where did Rocket

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Robin Hood and his Merry Men

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live? Rocket Robin Hood?

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Yes, Rocket Robin Hood. Oh. Um...

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A Sherwood planet? Yeah,

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that's good, yeah. I like it,

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I like it. That's better

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than the actual answer, which is... The solar-powered

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asteroid Sherwood Forest.

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Oh man, that's not even a joke! There's

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not even a terrible pun. I was sort

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of onto it. That's way better

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than... Starwood

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Forest even? Something? Come on.

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Starwood Forest. Okay,

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whew, we can do it. We can do it.

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Yellow Edge for space. There's

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a whole category dedicated to space on

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Forte. How fast is

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Warp 1? Call

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it. The speed of light. Correct!

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The speed of light. Parentheses,

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Tucker Foster. Alright.

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Brown wedge for pairs. Who

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starred as Grandpa and Grandma

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Walton? Wait, we have to

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name them both? Yes. No,

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that stinks because I don't know either of them. What

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is this referring to? The Waltons. Is

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that a show? It was a

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very popular show in the 70s.

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Can you even name any? I don't... If

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you said it, I might recognize

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one of them, but there's

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no way. Will Breer and

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Ellen Corby. Nope. Nope.

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Alright. Someone

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out there listening to the show

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knew that and I salute you. Oh

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yeah. I wish you were here. I

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was gonna say I can't even name

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a character on the show The Wall.

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I can name John Boy. Okay, well,

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oh yeah, I mean I can name

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two. Grandma and Grandpa. And

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now apparently John Boy. That's their first names.

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Green Wedge for ads. Where

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is the quote, Valley of

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the Jolly Green Giant? It

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is on the solar powered asteroid

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Green Bean. Is

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it a real place? It is

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a real place. You're

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never gonna get it. California. I don't

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know where. I don't know if it's

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the canning plant or were they

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throwing the beans or their head

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corporate HQ is. It is Lasour,

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Minnesota. Oh, okay. All

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right. No, I mean, I

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that that might be in there because I've heard of

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like the lassour peas. My yeah,

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I don't know. Oh, okay.

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That's something to grab on TV. This

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is like this is harder than Chris's

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hard quiz from last up. Yeah.

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All right. All right. Woo hoo

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hoo. Last question. Orange Wedge

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for fair play. Who

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was the

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1783rd celebrity to be honored

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in Hollywood's Walk of Fame?

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What? Just pull it out of nowhere.

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The 1783rd? 783rd. Oh,

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783. Who

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was the 1783rd celebrity to be honored in

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Hollywood's Walk of Fame? It's

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like if this were a good question, the

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number must clue into something. Right.

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Right. Right. Right.

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Right. Right. Right.

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I mean, I guess they gotta be

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a legend by definition but but then

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what is yeah Chuck

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Connors. Oh my god. Okay, sure.

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The rifleman. Yes. Oh my

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god I

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know who Chuck Connors is. There's just

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such a random answer. There's no whoa.

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What's the connection? Man, okay.

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Okay. He is he is one of

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only 13 athletes in the

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history of American professional sports I've played

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in both Major League Baseball and NBA

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and National basketball So

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see I forgot that we hear we hear baseball

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in football. Yeah. Yeah, but not

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baseball in basketball other

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than Michael Jordan So

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what why why yeah, why I'm strange questions

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kind of a so what and there's like,

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okay. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, yeah for

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sure. I mean, it's right, you know, the

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other thing is these for most of

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these questions, you know at the time This

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is something that you would have

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seen on TV a walk. You

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know what I mean? That you know, the yeah Oh,

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I just saw this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah Just

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shows you how trivia is trivia

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is just like comedy that it's

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like it's it's hide to

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a certain

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yes, and place and

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the further away from it you get But

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that's you know, that's also why when they show like this

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is a test that kids in the 1800s

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had to write right Grade,

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we're just so separated from that

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that we've moved on from having

9:35

that stuff be Common

9:37

knowledge or even things that are even taught to

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children. Yeah. Happy holidays

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everybody So

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let's bring on the holiday cheer

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take us away trivia Santa It

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was the night before Christmas pop

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quizzes await for the true Christmas

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nerds with knowledge so great

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not your usual questions. Oh,

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no my friends these queries

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dig deep Where true experts

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winned? Like

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if you are a Christmas file like this is for you

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inside of Christmas baseball Yeah, inside Christmas baseball.

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All right get ready for these questions I

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mean, I'm just thinking if you have to

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generate enough questions for a whole game Gonna

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be a heap All

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right, get your barnyard buzzers ready

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here we go Man

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all right. All right, okay Category

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is Christmas carols. Okay. All

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right in good King when

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so slow. Yeah. Thank you

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What did the monarch looked out

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on? Good

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King Lance this last looked up on this

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beast of even

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Even Even

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even on the feast of

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yes. Yeah, it's running to

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the lyrics. How do you sing that

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song? Good King? Okay,

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so let's just forget about Category

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good job stocking

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stuffers Who wrote

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the Christmas murder mystery

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star bright a Christmas

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story? Oh Murder

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mystery star bright a Christmas

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story Wow Chris

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agatha crispy incorrect Colin

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no, Ellery Queen incorrect Chris

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dead agatha Chris mush No,

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it is Andrew M

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Greeley well, okay Good

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friend. Yeah deep cut. Alright. Next

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category, holiday traditions. Who

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is credited with the

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1903 creation of Christmas

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Seals? Oh,

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19th? I don't know if

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it's our Seals or like a wack. Like

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a sticker. Could this be the

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president at the time? I think it was. I

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think it was the first president of the...

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McKinley was right around the turn of the

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century. 1903. Oh wait, no. What

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am I thinking of March of

12:34

Dimes? They have

12:36

Christmas Seals. Alright, we gotta come

12:38

up with something here. The 1903... McKinley. The

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McKinley. Incorrect. It is

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Danish Postbuster. Oh my

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god. Einhar Holbul. Oh yeah. Alright.

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Alright. So, who do you play this game with?

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Is it for children? You

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know, this is for the real serious Christmas

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geeks. Yeah. This is the

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biggest addition. I mean, at least one existed in

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order to make this game. Yes. Alright.

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Next category, Christmas movies. In

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a Charlie Brown Christmas, what does

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Lucy want for Christmas? Hmm. Wow,

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Chris. Real estate. Correct. Thank

13:18

you. She's savvy. Alright. Last

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category, North Pole. Hmm. What

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were Donner and Blixson's name

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in the 1823 publication

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of A Visit from St.

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Nicholas? Colin. I'm

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gonna guess Donder and Blitzen. The

13:38

original? Or Dunder and Blitzen? You

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got Dunder, right? Oh, I mean, Mifflin.

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Dunder and Blitzen. Dunder and Blitzen. No,

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it is, yes. Dunder and... It's

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not Blixen. Blixen. Or Blitzen. She was

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asking about Blitzen. No, Blitzen. Oh, wait.

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It is. So... Yeah. What

13:56

were Donner and Blitzen's name in

13:59

the original? So in the original

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it's Dunder and Blixem. Oh Dunder

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Blixem. Oh, okay Dunder

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and Mythlums. Do you guys want to do another one since it's Christmas

14:11

time? They're

14:14

not that fun, but yes Yeah,

14:18

why not? Okay Christmas carols in

14:20

the 12 days of Christmas. What

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did my true love sent me on the eighth day? Wow

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You buzz first and yeah Because

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I know I'm gonna get this I was just It's

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eight maids of milking. Correct. Thank you.

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Okay stocking stuffers who wrote How

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why there's so many Christmas murder mystery?

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All right, who wrote the Christmas murder

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mystery cat in the golden

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garland? Colin

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Ellery Queen Oh, okay There

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are there Conan Doyle no,

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it is Carol Nelson Douglas

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Who are these people that you just went to

15:02

like half price books and like the quality Christmas?

15:05

I bet whoever created this game has like

15:07

a murder mystery collection. Yeah When

15:10

you got a tight deadline, yeah Holiday

15:13

traditions in Norway when our church

15:16

bells rung to welcome the spirit

15:18

of Christmas Wait

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in one day and what time what

15:22

day and what time and where where

15:25

in Norway? December

15:29

24th at midnight or midnight between

15:31

the 24th and 25th. It

15:33

is on Christmas Eve. Yeah, December 24th You

15:35

have to guess the time Oh,

15:39

but it's not midnight. It's not noon. No,

15:41

it is 5 p.m. Oh

15:43

great. Well, we would have got it eventually. Yeah Yeah

15:47

Maybe we would have been going to the minute. It's

15:49

like that would have been more Yeah,

15:52

all right Christmas movies.

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What do all the murder victims? Dude,

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and what Christmas murders? What

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do all the murder victims in

16:04

don't open till Christmas have in

16:06

common? What do all

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the- Did

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you put- I didn't buzz. I

16:13

just like flinched my buzzer. I'm

16:16

gonna guess they were all Santa Clauses.

16:19

They were all wearing Santa suits. Oh wow. Okay,

16:23

I was gonna guess like the murderer like like

16:25

stuffed candy canes in the victims

16:27

nostrils. As a

16:30

macabre infested calling card. Like a-

16:32

like a moth, but it's a

16:34

candy cane. Right, right, right. Oh,

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that's actually not bad. Alright, last

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question North Pole. From

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a time in England Father Christmas

16:43

delivered presents writing what? Lighting?

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Writing. Writing on a- What

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animal did he- Chris.

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Festeral. No. Oh. No,

16:54

no. Hippogriss. Was

16:57

it a bear? Nope. A horse. Nope,

17:01

it is a white donkey. Oh,

17:03

yeah. Yeah, I feel like that. I

17:05

can feel like- I've seen a picture

17:07

of that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Are

17:10

all donkeys- no donkeys are not white, right? That's

17:12

why it's magical. Oh, yeah, it's a magical white

17:14

donkey. Got it. It's like shadow facts. Shadow

17:17

donkeys. Go

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white donkeys! Deliver

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the presents for me. I'm shocked. It's fair in

17:25

those days. He only had to get- he doesn't

17:28

have the team of eight reindeer here. It's the

17:30

one donkey because he only has to circumnavigate like

17:32

England. Yeah, that's true. He's confined to a very

17:34

small area. Not all over the world. Yeah. He's

17:37

got a solid ground game. That's- Yeah. Alright,

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good job, Reins! Good job

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on our Christmas pop

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quiz. That was pretty hard. A lot

17:46

of people died. That was tough, good job. Yeah,

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lots of murders. Really high body count on that

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quiz. You

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know the song The Twelve Days of

17:55

Christmas? Yes. Right. So what is the

17:57

the twelfth and last day of Christmas?

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Oh, is it Christmas Day?

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No, I don't think it is. I think it continues

18:06

into the new year. Yeah, that was one like I

18:08

remember my house like my mom would kind of tongue-in-cheap

18:10

like oh, we don't need to take the Christmas tree

18:12

down. Oh, right. No. Yeah, your mom was actually correct.

18:16

Actually correct. Actually

18:18

correct that you can keep going

18:20

because people celebrated Christmas starting

18:22

on Christmas Day and then into the new year.

18:25

So I did not know this. I always thought

18:27

the 12 days of Christmas started like 12 days

18:29

prior to Christmas Day. Yeah, how many days of

18:31

Christmas Day? And they were just getting a head

18:33

start or whatever. The 12th day traditionally

18:37

was January 6. That

18:41

supposedly was like the day

18:43

that I think that

18:45

Jesus met the wise men, you know,

18:47

like he was born and then a

18:49

few days later. It's the day of

18:51

the Epiphany. It's like the day that

18:54

Christians were awoken to the fact that

18:56

Jesus was the Son of God, that

18:58

sort of thing. So are you supposed

19:00

to do something on the actual 12th

19:02

day like a special celebration or

19:04

a meal? Yeah, well, there's a Shakespeare play

19:06

about it. The 12th night? 12th night. Oh!

19:09

That's the night of January 5th before 12th day or

19:11

January 6th. What do you do? And so they have

19:14

like 12th night. I don't know, you probably eat a

19:16

bunch of food and get drunk. Like

19:18

every holiday. Whatever. There's

19:21

lords a-leaping. Oh, yeah, exactly. There's 12, what is

19:23

it? 12 drummers. Is it 12? 10 lords a-leaping,

19:25

9 ladies dancing. What

19:29

is it? 12 furiously looking up

19:31

right now. Oh, jeez. We're so embarrassed.

19:36

Oh, drummers drumming. 11

19:39

ladies dancing? No, 9 ladies

19:41

dancing. Piper's piping. Okay.

19:45

Who do the Piper's when they're song? There they are somewhere. You

19:48

got the Piper's and then you have the

19:50

drums and now it's a real party. Yeah,

19:52

yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, you got the

19:54

bass section. The rhythm section. You get all

19:56

these rando birds coming. Tons of birds. They've

19:58

been there a whole couple of years. So interesting

20:00

part about the birds too that I found

20:03

out while I was looking at 12 Days

20:05

of Christmas It's actually not for calling birds,

20:07

which is what everybody sings Yeah, it's it

20:09

was originally it was for collie birds OLLY

20:13

and a collie bird collie is an

20:15

old English word or an old word

20:17

no So

20:20

it's for calling birds no, it's an old

20:22

word meaning black Oh, it's

20:25

blackbirds. Oh, and then because the

20:27

word fell out of favor people kept

20:29

singing it They thought oh, it must

20:31

be calling like, you know bird calls They're just

20:33

singing about regular blackbirds that make no noise or

20:35

go like But

20:40

hold your excitement or there's

20:43

something quite stark for midwinter

20:45

festivities the secret ingredient is

20:47

shark Ha Karl will

20:49

wake you up. It's a fermented affair.

20:52

It made Gordon Ramsay puke. So try

20:54

it if you dare Dana

20:58

you had mentioned earlier ludefisk, which

21:00

is the Scandinavian yeah

21:02

fish covered in lie and and sort

21:04

of semi-fermented I have a sort of

21:06

related dish that I would like to

21:09

talk about that's even one step beyond

21:11

that in terms of craziness This

21:13

is the traditional Icelandic dish of

21:15

ha Karl Ha

21:19

Karl ha ha ha ha

21:22

Karl which is essentially Fermented

21:24

shark, but the process is

21:26

a little nuts. So Ha

21:29

Karl is made with the Greenland shark

21:32

and the way you make the dishes

21:34

you well you catch the Greenland shark

21:36

first So it's Acquire

21:42

Greenland shark take the shark you got it. You

21:44

clean it cut off the head you Bury

21:48

it in a hole in the ground Covered

21:51

up with dirt and then you wait

21:53

two to three months while

21:55

it decomposes and Putrefies, you

21:58

come back you dig it up take

22:00

what's now sort of the

22:03

remains of the putrefied shark

22:05

meat. All the liquids would

22:07

have drained off into this time and have been absorbed

22:09

into the soil. You hang it

22:11

up, you let it dry, and after

22:13

it's dried, it sort of has this

22:15

brownish rind on it. You cut

22:18

off the rind, you chop it

22:20

up into cubes, and then you eat it,

22:22

and that's hakartel. Now here's where it gets

22:24

weird. This is reported to be... This gets

22:26

weird from now. Yeah, that was

22:28

the normal part. That was the normal part

22:30

of this dish. It's reputed to be the

22:33

worst-smelling food on the planet. Oh, I bet.

22:35

We've talked about durian, we've talked about ludafisk.

22:37

This dish may actually take the cake for

22:39

the most foul presentation. And part of the

22:42

reason it's so foul has to do with

22:44

the shark itself. So, Greenland shark

22:46

on its own is poisonous. If you eat it fresh,

22:48

it would kill you because it has

22:51

ridiculously high concentrations of urea, which

22:53

is, you know, it's

22:55

what gives urine the ammonia smell. When

22:57

it combines with water, urea turns into

23:00

ammonia smell, a compound called TMAO, which

23:02

is basically what breaks down into rotting

23:04

fish smell. When fish goes bad, you're

23:06

smelling TMAO that has converted. So, the

23:09

Greenland shark is high in both of

23:11

these, so you can't eat it right

23:13

away. Like, there are stories that if

23:15

you eat it fresh, you can vomit

23:18

blood. Oh, my God. So,

23:20

what the fermentation does is it breaks

23:22

down these compounds to make them safer

23:25

to eat. When you eat it, it

23:27

smells like urine. So, here's the

23:29

question. Why even eat it at all? Why even

23:31

eat it at all? You know, there are a

23:33

number of theories that range from, this is just

23:35

a joke to be played on foreigners when they

23:38

come to Iceland. Like, I could

23:40

see getting as far as burying the shark, so you never

23:42

have to think about it again. The

23:44

part three months later where somebody's like, hey,

23:47

Ivan, you remember that shark we buried? You want

23:49

to dig it up and hang it in the

23:51

garage or whatever? This

23:53

is a traditional dish really associated

23:55

with a midwinter festival in Iceland

23:58

called the Thorsoblat, named after Thorso. So

24:00

there is just a bevy of awesome,

24:02

awesome quotes about Hakarl. And

24:05

this dish actually has the distinction of

24:07

it's got the golden trio of celebrity

24:09

chefs. Anthony Bourdain has covered it on

24:11

his show. Andrew Zimmern. Andrew

24:14

Zimmern has covered it on his show.

24:16

Gordon Ramsay tried to eat it. Gordon

24:18

Ramsay famously spit it back up, vomited

24:20

it. Even he couldn't keep it down.

24:23

Anthony Bourdain said it is,

24:25

quote, the single worst, most

24:27

disgusting and terrible tasting thing

24:30

he's ever eaten. And Anthony Bourdain has eaten a

24:32

lot of things. Here's some quotes from

24:34

other people. It's a little like a tuna fish

24:36

sandwich that's been sitting on the bottom of your

24:38

lunch bag for three weeks. It

24:42

resembles a tramp sock soaked in

24:44

urine. It

24:46

tastes like someone pooped in

24:48

your mouth after a bender.

24:57

And every guy I've read, you know, is like

24:59

if you're going to go try this for the

25:01

first time it warns you, be prepared to vomit,

25:03

be prepared to drink heavily, just know what you're

25:05

getting yourself into. The pee you

25:08

can chew. The

25:14

lights may sparkle, a festive

25:16

display, but danger lurks

25:19

if precautions sway. So gather

25:21

round. Let's talk safety

25:23

tonight. For a joyful

25:25

holiday, all merry and bright.

25:30

Yes, it is the holiday

25:32

season. And that means that I

25:34

have, you know, I just want to talk about a gift that

25:37

you should not give to yourself. And that you could

25:39

not just others. Whoa, whoa.

25:41

Yes. So it's

25:43

the holiday season. That means that,

25:46

you know, all around America, hardware

25:48

stores are going to start hanging

25:50

up some festive holiday signage. The

25:53

typical holiday sign that they're going to hang

25:55

up at, you know, Home Depot or Ace

25:57

Hardware is a little illustration of a. that

26:00

people typically want to buy during the

26:02

holiday season and below that product, that

26:04

image, that illustration, is usually written something

26:06

that goes a little bit like this.

26:10

These are not made. These

26:12

should never be made. We will

26:14

not make them. We will not help

26:16

you make one. Okay,

26:19

well, this sign seems to mean business. What

26:22

is this product? Why are people asking for

26:24

it? It is, put

26:26

simply, if you can picture this

26:29

in your head, a male-to-male power

26:31

cord. Both ends

26:33

of the cable are a plug that you plug into the

26:35

wall, and the other end is another plug that you plug

26:37

into the wall. And

26:41

yeah, you cannot buy this at hardware stores,

26:44

but I recently discovered, actually

26:46

around this time last year, that these

26:48

signs showing one of these, saying, get

26:50

out of here if you want one

26:52

of these, go up every

26:55

holiday season because there is a big

26:57

surge in interest for

26:59

them around this

27:01

time. And why is

27:03

that? Well, typically this is

27:06

what happens. You, like Clark

27:08

Griswold, go up onto the roof of

27:10

your home and you hang about 500

27:12

feet of Christmas lights up there, Santa

27:15

and the reindeer and everything. Then

27:18

once that's all stapled in and secure and

27:20

it's not going anywhere and it's really fixed

27:22

to your roof, you climb down the ladder

27:24

that's kind of like precariously leaning up against

27:26

the side of your house with one foot.

27:28

It's really setting the scene. And

27:32

you're finally done, right? You've been up

27:34

on your literal roof this whole time,

27:36

risking your life, and you go over,

27:38

you're going to plug the strand of

27:40

light into the outlet and light the

27:42

pole place up, and you look down

27:45

at your hand and you're

27:47

holding the female end of the cord. The

27:50

whole end. And

27:52

the whole end of the cords. And the

27:54

male end is somewhere up near your chimney,

27:56

like a stapled upgrade. You

27:59

put a man backwards. Oh, they

28:01

get it wrong! That people will do it

28:03

backwards accidentally. And so at this point, if

28:05

you don't really know that much about electricity,

28:07

you think, Oh, sure,

28:09

no problem. I just need an

28:11

adapter. You know, just like

28:13

you need USB to USB micro,

28:15

whatever. No, I just need

28:17

a dongle. I just need a dongle that

28:19

plugs in the mail end and goes in

28:22

here. Then I'll plug the mail end into

28:24

my wall, and then bing, bang, boom, I

28:26

got my adapter. Um, problem solved.

28:28

Actually, no. Actually, no. For like many

28:30

reasons. So, I'm talking about this, by

28:32

the way, because I think some of you guys may

28:34

have seen, I actually tweeted about this last year in

28:36

2020. On

28:39

Twitter, I showed some

28:41

examples of these signs because I could

28:43

find many of them. So I showed

28:45

like four examples of these, we don't

28:47

make this sign. And the

28:50

tweet like kind of went viral that

28:52

year. And then this year with me doing

28:54

nothing, it came back again. You know, like

28:56

it seems like every holiday season, this tweet

28:58

is going to come back on me because

29:01

people are very interested in, you know, in this and the

29:03

fact that this sort of just happens. Oh,

29:06

I just thought to myself, you know what, let me let me bring

29:08

this on because I plugged the show under the tweet, plugged the show.

29:15

That's what you're supposed to do. You're supposed to promote

29:17

your soundcloud, right? And the tweet goes viral. I'm like,

29:19

Oh, I should actually talk about this on Good Job

29:21

Brain. Now, I learned something interesting before we go

29:23

into too much detail here. I learned

29:25

something interesting in the replies to this

29:27

tweet, which is that Christmas lights do

29:29

not necessarily work in other countries the way

29:31

that they that we do them in America

29:33

because we're actually very confused. They're like, what

29:36

do you mean that the female end of

29:38

the Christmas lights? If you're

29:40

a non-American listening to the show right now and you're a

29:42

little confused about this. Yes. Are strands of lights

29:44

that you buy and you put on your house and stuff like that,

29:46

or even you put on your Christmas tree, Christmas

29:49

lights generally have a male plug at one end,

29:51

be plugged into the wall and a female plug

29:53

at the other end. And we

29:55

can daisy chain our strands of lights

29:58

together to cover our gigantic American. houses.

30:00

Now you might think, gee, isn't

30:03

that like dangerous? Like won't that like overload the circuit if

30:05

you did it too many times? And

30:07

the answer is no, because what a lot

30:09

of people don't know is that

30:12

each of those strands of life actually has

30:14

a fuse in it. At

30:16

the female end, there are

30:18

fuses in the strands. So if

30:21

something were to get overloaded, you wouldn't

30:23

overload the whole thing and cause a

30:25

big fire. The fuse would blow. So

30:28

with that in mind, now we get to, well,

30:30

why can't Ace Hardware sell me, you know, a

30:33

male to male power cord? Well, the

30:35

first danger here is basic electrical safety,

30:37

because the reason the plugs are designed

30:39

as they are is that the electricity

30:41

is deep inside your wall. Not

30:44

out, that's why there's no plug sticking

30:46

out from outside your wall. And you

30:49

plug them in the other end. The

30:51

electricity's in there. So you put the

30:53

frongs inside there, then it meets the

30:55

electricity versus it just being out. You

30:58

plug this, you plug one of these things in

31:00

and now the electricity is all outside of the

31:02

wall. And it's just, you know,

31:04

just open and exposed. Because people ask this question

31:06

in terms of why is this dangerous? It's like,

31:09

imagine if you had a taser, but it

31:11

was floppy and always on and ankle

31:16

height in your living room. Yeah,

31:19

exactly. And this is why this is why

31:21

some people very morbidly call this cable a

31:23

suicide cable. It's super dangerous. And

31:25

back to the Christmas lights. Now, okay, so

31:27

let's say that you were really

31:30

super careful. You still shouldn't do this.

31:32

If you were really super careful and

31:34

you plug the, you know, into your

31:36

Christmas lights and plug it into the

31:38

wall. Well, you've now kind of lost

31:40

the protection of all those chains of

31:42

fuses because the fuses are at the

31:44

wrong end of the whole thing. And

31:46

so you don't you just all you

31:48

want to do is it's like this is

31:50

what some of these signs are like, if

31:52

you need this adapter, you put your lights

31:54

up wrong. You don't need this adapter doesn't

31:56

exist. But you need this a big extension

31:58

cord. the other end. Or

32:01

you need to restring your Christmas lights. But if

32:03

you want to get a big extension cord

32:05

and do it that way, you can do that.

32:07

So some of the replies to this tweet said

32:10

something to the effect of, oh, well,

32:12

I actually do use one of those,

32:14

because that's how I plug my generator

32:16

into the house's electrical system. If

32:18

you have a portable backup generator, you can

32:20

plug it into your home using one of

32:23

those cables. And I'm sure

32:25

there's a lot of them actually out there being

32:27

used for that purpose. You have a generator, you

32:29

plug one end in, you plug one end

32:31

in, you put an outlet in your house

32:33

and it quote unquote back feeds, it back

32:36

feeds the electricity backwards into your house. Instead

32:38

of it coming from the power line, you're putting the electricity into your house.

32:41

In your house. Yeah. So

32:43

you can do that. It's

32:45

illegal everywhere in the United States. You can

32:47

do it. And the reason I mean, one

32:49

of the reasons why is because if somebody

32:51

is, let's say the power goes down, right?

32:54

Okay, I'll plug my generator into the wall

32:56

and start sending electricity through my house that

32:58

way. Now, the power

33:00

line guy comes to that goes up in the power

33:02

lines. Well, the power lines are dead. So

33:04

he's going to fix it. Oh, oops,

33:06

you're sending electricity through because

33:08

leaving your house and going

33:11

to the power lines also

33:13

now you zap that guy

33:15

and he dies. So,

33:17

but people are like, oh, well, you know, then

33:19

I'll just I'll shut off the, you know, the

33:21

main breaker. Yeah, okay. Like I guess if you

33:23

do that, but it's like then you have to,

33:25

you know, make sure you do. So

33:28

there is a way to have a backup

33:30

generator for your home, but like it involves

33:32

like what's called a transfer switch, which would

33:34

just takes away all of these, you

33:36

know, sort of uncertainties and dangers and

33:38

things like that. Yeah. And

33:40

so the thing is, you can go if you go to Amazon, you

33:43

can buy a mail to mail power cord. Oh

33:45

my God. I would not. I thought you

33:47

said places don't make them. You so responsible

33:49

places do not make them. But there are

33:51

sellers on Amazon that will sell you a

33:53

lot of stuff that you can't

33:55

buy in a store. I looked at all the reviews for

33:57

it. The first review for the first one that I saw.

34:00

Five out of five stars good for pools. I plug

34:02

one end into my home outlet and I put the

34:04

other end into my pool to kill all the frogs.

34:07

Oh god. You

34:10

kill all the frogs? Oh my god.

34:13

Yes, so the holidays bring a bounty of

34:15

gifts. Let's make sure that one of them

34:17

is not a suicide court. Also important PSA.

34:20

There were so many people who responded to this tweet who were

34:23

like uh, yeah, I worked at

34:25

a hardware store and I constantly had to deal

34:27

with people like yelling at me telling me that

34:29

the exist and that they just know more than

34:31

me. I'm like it could kill you and they're

34:33

like no, no, no, not me, you know, it's

34:36

like yeah I'm

34:39

the electron charmer. I know what I'm right

34:41

right Precisely right

34:43

right. Yeah. Well, so now i'm curious

34:45

chris you alluded to this so I Have

34:48

other countries solved this problem in a

34:50

more sophisticated way than we have And

34:53

yes in a lot of cases if you

34:55

do have strands of lights that connect together

34:57

They just have special proprietary plugs on the

34:59

other side so you can only connect them

35:03

Oh Brands of lights It's

35:06

a lot confusing or they just don't

35:08

have them. Yeah, be careful out there everybody.

35:10

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35:13

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37:26

curious show of strange family

37:28

names from long, long ago.

37:31

Not just aunt and uncle or cousin

37:33

or brother, but monikers lost

37:35

in time, unique like no

37:38

other. Kind

37:40

of following up on what Colin said, you

37:42

lived with your family and your family

37:44

was very important before. It's important now,

37:47

but before everybody was up

37:49

in your grill all the time. So

37:51

there were very specific names, other

37:54

names for members of your family.

37:56

I have a quiz for you guys. cousin

38:00

might sleep in the same bed with you

38:02

or whatever. And like you know who that

38:04

person is. Right. How everybody's related to you

38:06

is important. Yeah, yeah. And so

38:09

that's a little clue for you. I have

38:11

a quiz for you. All right. About family members,

38:13

specific names of family members. I'll read you

38:15

the name or the word for

38:17

the family member and then you guys will write

38:19

down your guess at how

38:21

this person would be related to you. Oh, we're

38:23

gonna try to describe it as best we can.

38:26

Yes. Got it. Okay. First

38:28

one. Who is your

38:30

brother uterine? I

38:38

want to keep your interest. Try another

38:41

uterine. How do you spell that?

38:44

Brother hyphen utrine.

38:49

Is that like P? Not

38:52

brother urine. Okay.

38:55

All right. I

38:58

don't know. Yeah, okay. Okay.

39:02

Chris says twin, Karen says twin brother,

39:04

Colin says you're twin. No.

39:08

It is your half-brother from the same mother.

39:12

Oh, okay. Because I was

39:14

like you're right. Yeah. You're right. Yeah. There's

39:18

a lot of meaning condensed in there. Okay. Got

39:20

it. Okay. All right. I like

39:22

that. Who is your

39:24

avuncle? Spell

39:27

it. Can I have the spelling

39:30

please? Sure. Yes. It is A-V-U-N-C-L-E. Wow.

39:35

What? All

39:41

right. Chris says great

39:43

uncle, Karen says dad's brother,

39:45

Colin says uncle on dad's side. It's

39:48

your mom's brother. Oh,

39:50

yeah. Inverse. We were

39:52

both thinking the same thing. It's like uncle but

39:54

specified. Yeah. Wow. Who is

39:56

your double cousin? Double

40:02

cousin. Double cousin.

40:08

I'm like adding a question mark on all of these. They're

40:12

weird. Collins is great aunt

40:14

slash uncle's grandchild. Karen

40:17

says step sibling. Chris

40:19

says child of two blood relatives.

40:22

Kind of. It's your full

40:24

full cousin. So you share the same

40:27

set of grandparents as your cousin.

40:29

So your sisters married some brothers.

40:32

And then their children are

40:34

double cousins. So your

40:36

actual cousin. Your cousin has the exact

40:38

same grandparents you have. Got it. Like

40:40

a close pair. Your

40:44

sisters married two brothers. Your cousins have

40:46

the same grandchild.

40:49

Your double cousin. You're

40:52

so cousin. You're double cousin. Yeah.

40:57

Collins stop trying to make cousin happen. Who

41:01

is your bell sire? Goodness.

41:05

Your bell. B-E-L-L-S-I-R-E. It's

41:09

B-E-L-S-I-R-E. Oh B-E-L-S-R-E.

41:12

So just one word. One word. These

41:19

words are they're

41:21

obscure, outdated words. Collins

41:29

says your mother's father. Karen says

41:31

aunt and uncle. Married. And

41:35

Chris says your mom's new husband. It

41:40

is your grandfather. Your

41:43

mother's or your father's father. I over

41:45

specified. It's like Belle is

41:47

great or grand. Okay. These

41:50

are great words. Kicking

41:53

our blood. Okay. Sorry.

41:55

What about your old mother? E-L-D-M-O-T-H-E.

42:00

to you all. Colin

42:03

says, grandmother on your mom's side. Karen

42:06

says, grandmother on your dad's side. And

42:08

Chris says, your mom's mom. It

42:11

is. That's

42:13

more of a, you know, escalating the

42:15

insult. Yeah. Your mom's mom,

42:17

double dairy. It is your mother-in-law. Your

42:20

mom. Oh, old mother. Yeah.

42:22

Ooh, okay. Probably don't want to say that

42:24

to her face. No. It

42:26

makes her feel like old mother. Yeah. Oh,

42:30

okay. Still hanging in there, old mother.

42:32

Got it. Oh, old

42:34

mother, so great to see you. Stop calling me

42:36

that. Yeah, it's really like a evil fairy tale.

42:41

It does sound very Cinderella-ish. Yeah,

42:43

yep, yep. Who are

42:45

your nibblings? Oh,

42:48

your nibbling. Your nibbling?

42:51

Nibbling. N-I-B-L-I-N-G-S? Yes.

42:54

Okay. They're

42:56

not the corn left on your plate. Nibblings.

43:02

N-Nibblings. Call

43:04

me. Oh, all right. Everybody says nieces

43:06

and nephews. They are your nieces and

43:09

nephews. All right. Good job. Good job.

43:12

I almost want to end on a high note, but

43:14

there are two more that I got. But

43:16

there's more. There are two more that

43:18

I enjoyed. I like siblings and nibblings.

43:20

Nibbling, yeah. Yeah. I don't know why

43:22

it's so pleasing to say. Yeah, it's really fun. I don't

43:24

know why we stopped saying that one. Yeah. That's

43:27

good. Yes. Who is

43:29

your Benjamin? Oh. Whoa.

43:32

Your Benjamin. Yeah. Like

43:36

Benjamin Franklin, like Benjamin. What's the capital B?

43:38

No. If

43:40

you know about the Bible, that helps. It

43:44

is a biblical reference. Oh. But

43:47

it describes a very specific family member.

43:50

Chris looks pretty confident. Oh, I know. Now

43:52

I know. Yeah, I think I got this.

43:54

Thanks, musical. Oh, okay. All

43:57

right. Colin says older brother. Chris

44:00

says youngest son, Chris says

44:02

your hundredth kid. It's

44:04

your youngest son. Yeah! And if

44:06

you only had a hundredth kid, then it is

44:08

your hundredth kid. If you had a hundred and

44:10

one, that's not right. Okay. You know

44:13

what else is in the amazing text? Color your coat. Yeah, yeah,

44:15

yeah, yeah. I wouldn't have gotten to there, but yeah. Kind

44:17

of last question, it's a double question. If

44:20

something was described as an agnett or

44:22

a cognett, which one's mother's side, which

44:24

one's father's side? Ooh. Agnett and

44:27

agnett. Agnett and agnett. I

44:31

mean, cognett. I just know that like

44:33

agnett is more. Agnett, mom,

44:35

cognett, dad. I agree with Taryn. Yeah, I'm

44:37

going to say agnett, mom, cognett, dad. Flip.

44:40

No! I'm going to start trying to use

44:42

as many of those as I can. Definitely. You

44:44

said, enabling. Yeah. For

44:51

decades on end, under

44:53

trees and in stores, Barbie

44:56

has been a top gift that

44:58

children adore. But the

45:00

doll's history can be pretty dramatic

45:03

when her accessories prove to

45:05

be quite problematic. I

45:08

have assembled for you two a

45:10

quiz all about Barbie

45:12

and Barbie accessories. I

45:14

see. Now,

45:16

this is not just about

45:18

Barbie accessories, but I've got

45:21

a special emphasis on misfires

45:23

and recalls and

45:26

other assorted Barbie universe

45:28

controversies. This

45:31

will be a write down quiz. There

45:33

will be points awarded on every

45:35

question, starting with

45:38

the correct answer and then

45:40

to most correct. And then

45:42

if neither of you are particularly close, I

45:44

will award a point to my favorite answer.

45:46

It is anybody's game here. Here we go,

45:49

spanning the years, the decades. Barbie's been around

45:51

for a very long time. I

45:54

learned a lot assembling this quiz. I'm just going

45:56

to say that at the top here. All right,

45:58

here we go. First question. In

46:00

2006, Mattel released

46:03

the Barbie and Tanner

46:05

set. The next year, it

46:08

was recalled from stores

46:10

after complaints about loose

46:12

magnets in the accessories

46:14

for this kit for

46:16

two points. Who

46:19

or what is Tanner

46:21

when Barbie and Tanner?

46:23

And what was the

46:26

magnet powered accessory? In

46:30

what year was this? This was 2006.

46:32

The Barbie

46:35

and Tanner. Who

46:37

or what is Tanner? And what

46:39

was the accessory? Oh

46:44

man. Tanner

46:47

is such an all-purpose name. Do you know what

46:49

I mean? It can be anything. It really could.

46:51

It really could. Were people

46:54

like swallowing them? Because like

46:56

Bucky Balls got recalled. Okay.

46:59

Okay. All right. Answers up. Answers up.

47:02

Karen says Tanner is a

47:05

dog and the accessory is

47:07

a dog collar. Chris says,

47:10

Tanner is a horse and

47:12

accessories were magnetic horseshoes. Barbie

47:15

learns how to shoe a horse. You know what I

47:17

mean? She's pounding the nails in or it's got the

47:20

magnets in. Instead of the Barbie Dreamhouse, it's

47:22

the Barbie Dream Stable. Kind of like

47:24

my little pony stable. That would

47:26

absolutely, man, great, great answers.

47:29

Tanner was in fact, Barbie's

47:31

dog. So point to Karen,

47:34

point to Karen there. And

47:37

the problematic accessory was so, you know,

47:39

it came with a dog and other

47:41

dog related things. Oh my God. It's

47:43

a poop. It was a little magnetic

47:45

poop scooper that Barbie held. And so

47:47

she had a little stick is

47:50

magnetic on the end. And it came

47:52

with little, you know, you're supposed to

47:54

pick up Tanner's tiny little magnetic

47:56

doggy turd basically.

47:59

And parents. Apparently some parents

48:01

said that the magnets could come loose. Not

48:04

clear if anybody actually swallowed them, but yeah,

48:06

that was kind of the concern was hey,

48:08

we cannot have these little... So it is

48:10

a bucky ball sort of situation basically. I

48:12

mean, and if I was a kid, I

48:14

would put a little doggy turds in my

48:16

mouth. Sure. I mean, wouldn't

48:19

you? Yeah, like a little brown ticket. Don't

48:21

put magnets in your mouth, kids. Yeah, please,

48:23

seriously, do not put magnets in your mouth,

48:25

kids. Yeah, it is for real, for real.

48:27

All right. So we'll give two points to

48:30

Karen there for a dog and dog collar.

48:33

All right. In 1992, Mattel

48:38

released Teen Talk

48:41

Barbie. Oh, no. Teen

48:43

Talk Barbie. This was actually...

48:45

This one, you might remember this one. I

48:48

did. Teen Talk Barbie rubbed

48:50

many parents and educators the wrong

48:52

way. For what reason? Why

48:56

did Teen Talk Barbie get

48:58

on the wrong side of authority

49:01

figures when you are ready?

49:04

You emphasized the word rub. Don't

49:08

read too much into it. Chris

49:10

seems pretty confident here. Yes. Yeah,

49:13

this one was in the news. Kind of turned some

49:15

people off. All right, answers up. When

49:17

you are ready, Chris says... Chris

49:21

says, all right, first, top three joke answers

49:23

to this. Number one, spelled

49:25

out all of the ingredients in how

49:27

to make a Molotov cocktail. Number

49:31

two, wish for the reformation of the USSR.

49:34

Number three, I don't

49:36

know. The actual answer is when

49:39

Button was pressed, Barbie said, math

49:42

is tough. What? 100%

49:44

correct. Yes, that's right. Parents,

49:48

teachers, we're really not happy with this.

49:50

I mean, for one reason, you

49:52

don't want to be coming down on math. But for

49:54

two, it also kind of played into the stereotype of

49:57

Barbie and kind of girls in general.

50:00

I'm not being good at math. I love the wrong

50:02

way. Yeah, yeah. Mattel

50:04

actually eventually allowed parents

50:07

to exchange their Barbies, if they

50:09

were not happy with it, for

50:11

a version that did not have

50:13

the math is tough phrase loaded

50:16

on her. Oh, so they did release another

50:18

version, not like exchange it for another Barbie.

50:20

Yeah. Mattel's president at the time,

50:23

she said, in hindsight,

50:26

the phrase math class is tough,

50:28

correct for many students, both male

50:30

and female should not have been

50:32

included. Math

50:35

classes, math class is tough. In

50:39

1961, Barbie was

50:42

gifted a very special accessory

50:44

by the name of Ken. Yeah,

50:47

yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, she

50:49

didn't have a boyfriend for those

50:51

first couple years there. I

50:54

actually I learned as an aside here. I didn't

50:56

know that in the in the Barbie universe. Did

50:58

you know Barbie and Ken broke up for a

51:00

few years there? In

51:02

the early 2000s. Yeah, Barbie and

51:05

Ken broke up and Barbie was, you

51:07

know, rumor, rumor to be kind of

51:09

caught the eye

51:11

of a Australian boogie

51:13

boarder named Blaine in the

51:15

Barbie universe. A lot of drama. Yeah,

51:18

Ken and Barbie, they did eventually get back together a

51:20

few years later. Yeah, of course. I mean, you can't

51:22

say you can't stay away from Ken forever. Yeah, well,

51:24

I mean, she found out that Blaine didn't have genitals

51:27

either. So

51:32

you know, when I was a kid, I

51:34

noticed that they didn't have gels and I

51:36

would draw them in with a good for

51:39

you. Good for you. Fixing with

51:41

what would tell would not. All

51:43

right. So there's a question buried in here

51:45

somewhere, I promise. So here

51:47

here is the question for you guys. All right.

51:50

The original Ken was

51:53

redesigned to address a problematic

51:56

part of his body. OK.

52:00

What part of Ken's body was redesigned

52:02

after the original release of the

52:04

doll? And you're not telling us

52:06

why. I am not telling you why. You

52:09

can speculate on why. If

52:12

you look up a photo of the original Ken,

52:15

let's just say modern day Ken looks a

52:17

lot cooler than original flavor Ken. I'll just

52:20

say it. Okay. Alright, the

52:22

answer is up. Karen

52:24

says they redesigned Ken's

52:26

hair. Chris says

52:28

they redesigned Ken's belly button.

52:30

Oh, that's good, right. They

52:33

had to reveal that he was not a clone. Karen,

52:36

right on the money. It was

52:38

his hair. It was his hair, apparently.

52:40

So you can see this in

52:42

some of the pictures. So Ken, the

52:44

original Ken doll, the hair was

52:46

a separate piece glued

52:48

on top of his head. Alright.

52:51

Oh, okay. And it kind of came off a

52:53

little bit too easy. And Ken would look a

52:55

little kind of scruffy there with his hair head

52:58

pulled off. Was it

53:00

like Barbie where it's like strands of hair? No,

53:03

it kind of looked plastic. It kind of

53:05

looked more like a like a like

53:07

a like a Brillo pad, honestly. So

53:10

they redesigned Ken's hair to basically just be it

53:12

was just molded into his head and they just

53:15

painted it. Yeah, so it didn't didn't come off

53:17

anymore. Yeah. Alright, moving right along

53:19

here to 1975. Now

53:21

of course, beyond Barbie and Ken, the

53:23

the universe started getting bigger and bigger

53:25

with Barbie's friends and you know, family

53:27

members, including Skipper, there

53:30

have been many versions of Skipper over

53:32

the years. 1975

53:35

saw the debut of Growing

53:37

Up Skipper, which

53:40

was rather quickly discontinued

53:43

because of what controversial

53:46

feature? Growing

53:49

Up Skipper not

53:52

available for very long. Feature

53:56

on the doll? Yes. Yes. What?

54:00

feature with accessory that's right

54:03

yeah yeah maybe maybe the doll did

54:06

something or it was not

54:08

your ordinary skipper all

54:10

right answers up when

54:13

you are ready Chris

54:15

says boobs inflated deflated

54:18

Karen has just written boobs I'm

54:21

gonna give you had both the point on

54:23

that one and

54:25

I'll give Chris a half point here

54:28

maybe this is the first time I'm

54:30

writing boobs like not on a calculator

54:33

growing up skipper was advertised

54:35

as quote two dolls in

54:38

one because you could make

54:40

skipper my god grow from a

54:42

young girl to a teenager in

54:44

seconds and in practice

54:46

how this worked was if you rotated

54:49

her arm her waist

54:51

got longer and her boobs

54:53

bigger yes I I

54:55

am NOT making this up maybe understandably

54:58

again many parents said no this is

55:00

not really appropriate we do not want

55:02

to see growing up skipper perhaps too

55:04

many conversations we're not ready to have

55:06

so yeah growing up skipper

55:09

discontinued if you happen to have one

55:11

on your shelf somewhere probably worth a

55:13

lot of money this sounds like this is

55:15

some really good engineering for

55:17

that time in the toy industry

55:20

you know it's it's really true yeah you

55:22

go back and you read almost any of

55:24

these like action figure and doll lines like

55:26

the GI Joes or the Barbies or you

55:28

know or you know again I alluded to

55:31

the he-man figures later on they had some

55:33

really really good construction and good design yeah

55:35

it was it was serious business Barbie

55:38

herself has had

55:40

many careers over the decades

55:43

you know all these careers just

55:45

so many opportunities for accessories I

55:47

mean she's been everything from an

55:49

astronaut to a doctor to a

55:51

chef in 2010 Barbie became a

55:54

computer engineer in

55:56

fact Mattel released a Barbie

55:58

book entitled Barbie,

56:01

I can be a computer engineer. Now

56:07

again, keeping with the theme

56:09

here, Mattel eventually had to

56:11

discontinue this book. They pulled

56:13

it from stores after complaint.

56:16

Why was the book, Barbie, I can

56:19

be a computer engineer, controversial?

56:22

What caused, again, what rubbed people

56:24

the wrong way? I'm

56:27

just going to say sometimes people,

56:29

companies, you fall into the same

56:31

traps over and over again, you know what I mean? Okay,

56:34

okay, okay. Okay, all

56:37

right. All right, answers up. See

56:39

what we got here. I'm looking forward to see what you guys

56:42

got on this one here. All right, Chris

56:44

says, Barbie

56:46

was shown mishandling classified

56:48

documents. Karen

56:52

has written Sexist Workplace.

56:56

I'm going to give Karen the point there. Oh,

56:58

I'm just guessing. I'm going to give Karen the

57:00

point there. Oh, that's unfortunate. Yeah,

57:02

actually, so the book was actually available

57:04

for a little while here before it

57:06

surfaced on the internet. Of

57:10

course, in the book, talking about

57:12

being a computer engineer, Barbie says,

57:14

quote, I'm only creating

57:17

the design ideas. I'll

57:19

need Steven's and Brian's help to turn it

57:21

into a real game. Oh, no. I feel

57:23

like I heard about this, but oh, that's

57:25

so much worse than I remember. It's

57:27

almost like they're going out of their

57:29

way not to learn the lesson here.

57:31

It's like, come on, this is meant

57:33

to be an empowering toy, or at

57:35

least neutral. We're not

57:37

going backward here. So

57:40

yeah, I mean, again, like they pulled it.

57:42

There was an ebook version on, you

57:45

know, Amazon pulled that one, couldn't buy it

57:47

anymore. Yeah, after the drawing board. They're

57:50

trying. In

57:52

2002, retail

57:55

giant Walmart refused

57:57

to stock. It

57:59

didn't even. reach the recall stage, Walmart

58:02

said we will not sell a Barbie

58:05

set from the happy

58:07

family collection featuring

58:09

Barbie's best friend Midge.

58:12

Alright. Who had been in I

58:14

guess some other collections earlier. Yeah. Yeah.

58:17

Yeah. She had been well established. Why

58:20

were Walmart and many parents, I

58:22

might add, upset with

58:24

this Midge? What did Midge do? What

58:27

was their problem with Midge and the

58:29

happy family collection? It was an idea

58:31

that Mattel thought was good enough to

58:34

make and Walmart thought was

58:36

not good enough to sell and it

58:40

was ultimately discontinued maybe

58:42

in no small part

58:44

because Walmart wouldn't sell

58:46

it. Alright. Answers up.

58:48

Karen says pregnant. Chris

58:50

says Midge was great

58:52

with child. Yes. Yeah. You guys

58:55

both got the right answer there.

58:58

First of all, I want to emphasize Midge was

59:00

married. Her husband, Alan,

59:02

was part of the happy family

59:05

collection in the happy.

59:07

It was mommy and baby and

59:09

Midge was pregnant with a removable

59:12

baby. Yes.

59:15

You could pull the baby

59:17

out of Midge's belly womb

59:19

body and then it was

59:22

an infant and in the

59:24

collection, Barbie was Dr. Barbie. So

59:26

you could take the infant to

59:28

Dr. Barbie, you know, for infant

59:30

checkups. But Walmart and many parents

59:32

felt that Midge looked too young

59:34

to be having a baby

59:36

and they were concerned that it could

59:38

be taken as a depiction of

59:41

teen pregnancy and said we

59:43

are not gonna stock it. We are not gonna

59:45

dance on that line. I see now. I

59:47

thought it was the tiny plastic placenta

59:49

that was in there. I figured that

59:51

was gonna be the thing that was

59:53

in there. The rubber band umbilical cord.

59:56

The magnets on the placenta. Yeah, exactly. Yeah,

59:58

well they would stick to it. the

1:00:00

doggy turds you don't want that right it's

1:00:02

not sanitary okay we're gonna we're gonna wind

1:00:04

the quiz down here i got a couple

1:00:06

here that are uh maybe

1:00:08

not so much about the accessories themselves

1:00:11

but uh i'm gonna give you guys

1:00:13

a chance to do some closest closest

1:00:15

to the mark here kind of questions

1:00:17

all right 2020 was a presidential election

1:00:19

year and not for the first time

1:00:21

barbie ran for president this is going

1:00:24

to be a closest to the mark

1:00:26

question here how many times has

1:00:28

barbie run for president i

1:00:33

will say they do theme it with

1:00:35

presidential election years 2020

1:00:38

was not the first time so at least

1:00:40

two how many times has barbie run

1:00:42

for president all

1:00:48

right chris and karen oh karen

1:00:51

says three times chris

1:00:53

says 10 times

1:00:56

barbie has been on the ticket seven

1:00:59

times since

1:01:01

1992 so point to chris very

1:01:04

tight game here uh the

1:01:06

first yeah so the first time barbie ran for president was 92

1:01:09

perhaps stung by her defeat

1:01:12

she sat out the 96 election but

1:01:15

came back strong uh with a renewed sense

1:01:17

of purpose in 2000 and

1:01:19

has run every four years yeah

1:01:22

since 2000 yeah all right final point

1:01:24

on the line well we'll frame this

1:01:26

last question as kind of a mini

1:01:29

version of one of my favorite personal

1:01:31

segments from good job brain uh brad

1:01:33

pit or lasers the

1:01:35

format of this question is going to be

1:01:37

a which came first all right um

1:01:40

featuring some bonafide american

1:01:43

classics here and i would

1:01:46

say in my opinion barbie's

1:01:48

most glamorous accessory which

1:01:51

came first barbie's

1:01:53

little pink corvette or

1:01:56

the prince single little

1:01:59

red red Did

1:02:03

she have other cars? There

1:02:05

is a rich history of Barbie's

1:02:07

cars. Yeah, over the years she has

1:02:09

had she's had multiple Corvettes. First of

1:02:11

all, she's had a Ferrari. She's had

1:02:13

a Porsche. She's had a Mercedes Benz.

1:02:15

She's had a Jeep. She's got I

1:02:17

mean, yeah, she's Barbie rides in style.

1:02:20

All right, which came first? I

1:02:24

have a little red Corvette trivia which I can tell you after.

1:02:27

Chris has written. Oh,

1:02:29

here we go. Chris has written Barbie pink

1:02:32

Corvette. Karen has written Prince. All

1:02:34

right. I love it. We got the

1:02:36

showdown. Prince's little red Corvette released as

1:02:38

a single in 1983. Taken

1:02:42

from the album 1999, which was released in 1982. Yes.

1:02:50

This is the following year. Yeah. Barbie's

1:02:53

star vet debuted

1:02:55

in 1976. Oh,

1:03:02

OK. 1976 was

1:03:04

Barbie's first Corvette. Oh, so closer than I

1:03:06

thought. I thought that I thought the Corvette

1:03:09

was maybe even earlier, but I guess not.

1:03:11

Yeah, it was closer than I thought. Yeah.

1:03:13

And I should say here, it was strictly

1:03:15

speaking, not pink, pink, pink. It was purple

1:03:17

and pink, but, you know, close enough here.

1:03:19

They are generally pink when they when they

1:03:22

give them to her. All right.

1:03:24

Well, we tied it up there. Chris,

1:03:27

good job. Pulled it out the end.

1:03:29

You guys know your Barbie. You know your

1:03:31

dog turds. You know your Corvette. You

1:03:33

know, you know your growing up skipper. And

1:03:38

perhaps you two can someday go

1:03:40

work for Mattel and have a

1:03:42

Barbie accessory that is recalled or

1:03:44

controversial. But

1:03:50

what's this? I smell a

1:03:52

deep fried surprise, not cookies

1:03:54

or cocoa, but breasts and

1:03:56

thighs, golden and crunchy. A Kentucky

1:03:58

seems to be a big deal. compensation a

1:04:01

Christmas tradition that is delightfully

1:04:03

Asian Talk

1:04:07

about meat. I did not

1:04:09

grow up with eating goose ham

1:04:11

beef, whatever I grew up eating

1:04:13

fried chicken for Christmas. Okay, and

1:04:16

this is a very common thing

1:04:18

very common in Japan

1:04:22

Christmas tradition in Japan

1:04:24

and other countries But really mostly from

1:04:26

Japan is you eat not

1:04:28

only fried chicken For

1:04:33

Christmas China is

1:04:35

the second largest market for KFC

1:04:37

and Japan is number three US

1:04:40

is obviously number one So KFC

1:04:42

is a really really strong presence

1:04:44

in Asia and Christmas isn't a

1:04:46

national holiday It's celebrated in the

1:04:48

marketing sense, right? But

1:04:52

like especially the commercial part of

1:04:54

it, yeah Christmas in Japan

1:04:56

is like another Valentine's Day Yeah, like for couples

1:04:58

and you like get a Christmas cake or you

1:05:00

like go out on a date and get dinner

1:05:02

at Christmas only 1%

1:05:05

of the Japanese population is estimated to be

1:05:07

Christian There's

1:05:10

no they're not celebrating the religious aspect of it

1:05:12

Yeah So how did this start?

1:05:15

The legend is when a group of

1:05:17

foreigners or expats or Americans who

1:05:20

were in Japan on Christmas Day Couldn't

1:05:22

find Turkey because there's They

1:05:26

decide to eat fried chicken Of course cool

1:05:28

dead and then that kind of started becoming

1:05:30

things so a lot of foreigners on Christmas

1:05:33

Day would get chicken And then

1:05:35

KFC is like wait a minute

1:05:37

This is an obvious like opportunity

1:05:39

that we should really take advantage

1:05:41

of so the next several years

1:05:43

They really pumped up the marketing

1:05:45

really make it clear. It's Christmas

1:05:47

Christmas equals Kentucky fried chicken

1:05:49

Yeah, this was in

1:05:51

the 70s. It's not a it's

1:05:53

not like, you know recently It's

1:05:55

it's been in people's minds for

1:05:58

like 40 years But,

1:06:00

Kentucky Fried Chicken, or sorry, KFC now, Christmas.

1:06:02

So, you're like a whole generation of people

1:06:04

who grew up knowing nothing but that. Yeah,

1:06:07

exactly. The year when they first

1:06:09

did the marketing campaign, they actually, it

1:06:11

was the bucket of fried chicken and

1:06:13

wine. It was kind of a package. I

1:06:16

see why it's for couples. See how romantic you can

1:06:18

get. You can get alcohol and alcohol at a lot

1:06:21

of Japanese fast food places. Chicken and wine. And

1:06:23

it sold at that time probably

1:06:26

about $10, which is kind of pricey.

1:06:28

And this was in the mid-70s. So

1:06:31

today, if you go to KFC

1:06:34

for the Christmas Chicken Dinner, now

1:06:36

it comes with champagne and Christmas

1:06:38

cake and it's about $40. Worth

1:06:41

it. Probably like a family.

1:06:43

That's awesome. That's all of your

1:06:46

Christmas meal done. You got

1:06:48

your booze, you got your sweets, you got your

1:06:50

chicken. And it's just because there are no traditions

1:06:52

attached to it, it was like this sort of

1:06:54

open, for anybody to rush

1:06:56

in there and make it about them. A

1:06:59

little bit of corporate history behind

1:07:01

KFC in Japan. It was a

1:07:03

joint venture between the American KFC

1:07:05

and Mitsubishi Corporation. Yes. All

1:07:09

successful. When Japan

1:07:11

is so kind of closed off,

1:07:13

you have to partner with a

1:07:16

Japanese company to make your product

1:07:18

a success. Yeah. The

1:07:20

Osaka World Expo in

1:07:22

1970, they debuted a

1:07:25

store, a test store of KFC. At

1:07:28

that time, it was still Kentucky Fried Chicken before the

1:07:30

name change. And

1:07:32

it was obviously really successful because

1:07:34

it was fried chicken. And also,

1:07:36

it was American. It seemed really

1:07:38

American. They have the Colonel, Kentucky,

1:07:41

very homey. Since

1:07:44

it was a hit, they decided, yes, let's go

1:07:46

in and let's open up some stores. So

1:07:48

the funny thing is, the US counterpart

1:07:50

of Kentucky Fried Chicken, they're like, we

1:07:52

should do what has been successful in

1:07:54

the States as you open up KFC

1:07:56

stores in the suburbs. Because

1:07:59

then, you know, if you... They bite for food. It's

1:08:01

an alternative for family dinner. Right.

1:08:04

However, the big cultural difference between the

1:08:06

two cultures at the time is that

1:08:08

America is very car

1:08:10

automobile centric. At

1:08:12

that time, Japan wasn't that

1:08:15

in the, you know, like not a lot of

1:08:17

people would drive out to the suburbs. They'd

1:08:19

take the train or something. Yes. And

1:08:22

even now. Restaurants and things are

1:08:24

clustered around train stations. Yes. And

1:08:26

big department stores. You do all of your

1:08:28

stuff in one trip, kind of. The Japanese

1:08:31

counterparts like, no, we got to hit the

1:08:33

bigger city centers. So

1:08:35

what they did was they did open

1:08:37

some of the suburban stores and they

1:08:39

failed. Yeah. They lost money. Yeah. And

1:08:42

so they're like, okay, you know what, let's listen to

1:08:44

the people who live there. Yeah.

1:08:47

And the reason they're like, oh, the family, we're the

1:08:49

family, we're going to go out to dinner and go

1:08:51

to a family restaurant. That

1:08:54

tradition of taking the whole family out to dinner is

1:08:56

not as much of a thing. KFC now kind of

1:08:58

slots into that, like, students, they just got out of

1:09:00

school, you know, out of high school and they're not

1:09:03

going to go home for dinner for a while.

1:09:05

So they're going to go to KFC and eat

1:09:07

or like, you know, urban young professional. I'm, you

1:09:10

know, I worked really late and I'm going to stop at

1:09:12

KFC before I go home, that kind of thing. And

1:09:15

they do have a lot of fun

1:09:17

with the icon of Colonel Sanders than we

1:09:19

do. It's almost like Hello Kitty in a way. Yeah.

1:09:22

Every or almost every, every one that I've

1:09:24

ever seen, Japanese Kentucky Fried Chicken has a

1:09:28

statue, like this Polly Rosen statue, like

1:09:30

size of Colonel Sanders out in front

1:09:32

of the door, which we don't have

1:09:34

in America. And they would dress them

1:09:36

up for different seasons. Santa hat. Little

1:09:38

Santa hat, a little Halloween costume. It's

1:09:40

a cute character. Whereas here we're kind

1:09:42

of like, oh, it's an old southern

1:09:45

dude. Yeah, it's a mascot. You

1:09:47

know what they call him in Japan,

1:09:49

Colonel Sanders. A lot of people call

1:09:51

him Kentaku. And then

1:09:53

kun is like San, but for like, you know, little

1:09:55

kids or like your pal, like Kentucky pal, Kentucky

1:09:58

pal. Kentucky Bell is an

1:10:00

old band. But if you asked

1:10:03

them, like, what is this guy's name, they would

1:10:05

either say, I don't know, or, oh, you know,

1:10:07

Kentucky Bell. Oh, not Colonel Sanders. They would not

1:10:09

necessarily know that, yeah. You'd have to be deep

1:10:11

into your KFC, or your otaku style. Which,

1:10:14

to be fair, some people probably are. But

1:10:16

yeah, so there you go. I mean, that's... I want

1:10:19

some right now. I want them

1:10:21

to deliver right to the table. It

1:10:27

was the night before Christmas, in a

1:10:30

musical trance. People prepare

1:10:32

themselves for a name-that-tune dance.

1:10:35

Not the jolly old melodies you usually

1:10:37

hear, but sung by a

1:10:40

robot who's quite unenthused, I fear.

1:10:44

In keeping with the holiday

1:10:46

theme, I have invited our

1:10:48

old friend Elvis to join

1:10:51

us. Yay! The electronic lyrical-vocalization

1:10:53

interface system, our

1:10:55

soul-less, sense of music-less

1:10:57

robot voice from the 1980s is here. He

1:11:00

will be speaking opening lines from

1:11:03

songs to you guys. And

1:11:05

this is the holiday episode, so this will be

1:11:07

the non-traditional end-of-year

1:11:10

holiday version of

1:11:12

Elvis. Alright. So

1:11:15

which is just my long-winded way of saying these are not

1:11:17

all Christmas, right? Oh, okay. I was gonna forget. This

1:11:20

is like modern Christmas. Yeah, not everyone celebrates

1:11:22

Christmas, so it's like... Jingle Rock is not

1:11:24

really a carol, but it's Christmas-y. But

1:11:26

they're not all Christmas songs. Okay, gosh, they might be

1:11:29

Harlan Cutter. Yeah, it's a little mix. And these, as

1:11:31

I say, I want to emphasize, non-traditional. Non-traditional. Some

1:11:34

of these may be in the running, may be

1:11:36

becoming classics. I will play the first line of

1:11:38

the song. These are short. Get your

1:11:40

buzzers ready. You guys buzz in. Tell me,

1:11:42

who's the artist for all of these? The

1:11:44

artist, and if you want to show

1:11:46

off and give me extra knowledge about the song, you can.

1:11:50

What holiday... What

1:11:52

holiday song is this? Okay. The

1:11:55

moon is right. The spirit's up.

1:11:58

We're here tonight. that's enough

1:12:05

Chris Okay,

1:12:07

a your jerk B.

1:12:09

This is Paul McCartney's simply having

1:12:11

a wonderful Christmas time correct on

1:12:14

both counts Because

1:12:17

because this is because now it's stuck in my head for

1:12:19

the next 24 hours That's

1:12:30

not a Carol. No Paul

1:12:33

McCartney technically Paul McCartney and wings

1:12:36

Yes, yeah, I just saw a headline

1:12:38

just three days ago I think that

1:12:41

the shins you guys know the band

1:12:43

the shins their version of this song

1:12:45

this year dethroned Mariah

1:12:48

Carey as the most played

1:12:50

Christmas song in retail establishments

1:12:52

Wow, yeah, it had been

1:12:54

you know the Mariah Carey

1:12:56

like I want for Christmas

1:12:59

Been raining since what like yeah Wow,

1:13:02

I guess as Americans we were just

1:13:04

ready for something Old

1:13:07

and new yeah All

1:13:09

right next track Who

1:13:11

is the artist of this? non-traditional

1:13:15

holiday song Last

1:13:17

Christmas I gave you my heart, but

1:13:20

the very next day you gave it away

1:13:25

Everyone together Last

1:13:29

Christmas some dispute who wants who wants

1:13:31

to say definitively who is it wham

1:13:34

it is wham yeah last Christmas Alright

1:13:38

next track. What is this one

1:13:40

and we'll excuse Elvis's pronunciation.

1:13:43

Who is this artist? Put

1:13:46

on your yarmulke here comes

1:13:48

on hookah so much fun

1:13:51

to celebrate on hookah I

1:13:55

think everyone had that Adam

1:13:57

Sandler Adam Sandler the

1:13:59

Hanukkah Yes, the

1:14:02

Yarmulke. You

1:14:04

could have tweaked that a little, but I don't think

1:14:06

that's the spirit of it. I know, yeah. All right.

1:14:10

All right, next one. So

1:14:13

this is Christmas, and what have you done?

1:14:16

Another year over, and a new one

1:14:18

just begun. I

1:14:21

don't know if you... This is John

1:14:24

Lennon. This is Christmas. Yes.

1:14:27

Yes, this is John... Is it John Lennon,

1:14:29

or is it the plastic Ono band? It

1:14:31

is. It is John and Yoko. Oh, okay.

1:14:33

So, yes, John Lennon with Yoko Ono. Yes,

1:14:35

that is... Do you know the

1:14:37

full proper name of the song? Oh, yes,

1:14:40

yes, I do. It's Merry Christmas, parentheses,

1:14:42

War is Over. Oh, yes, so close.

1:14:44

It's Happy Christmas. Oh, Happy Christmas. Yes,

1:14:46

War is Over. It is very British.

1:14:48

It is very British. That's right. Happy

1:14:50

Christmas, parentheses, War is Over. All right,

1:14:53

next track. I would say this

1:14:55

one is on its way to becoming a

1:14:57

new classic. Oh, sure. Hmm. Hmm.

1:15:11

Chris. Um, Run DMC.

1:15:14

Yeah. Christmas in Hollis. Yeah.

1:15:17

Wow. Featured prominently in the movie

1:15:19

Die Hard, an oldie bit of goodie. Okay. All

1:15:22

right. So, let's get into the knowledge here, guys.

1:15:24

Again, I think this one has become maybe a

1:15:26

modern classic, but very non-traditional. Who

1:15:28

is this original artist? It

1:15:32

was Christmas Eve, babe. In

1:15:34

the drunk tank, an old man said

1:15:36

to me, we'll see another one. Little

1:15:40

dark. Little dark. Little dark. Yeah,

1:15:43

Chris. Technically, that is The Pogues with

1:15:45

Kirsty McCall, Fairy Tale of New York.

1:15:47

100% correct. Yeah. The

1:15:50

Pogues, right. And who else is going to have a Christmas

1:15:52

song that starts off in the drunk tank? And I'll tell

1:15:54

you, I actually heard a bit of trivia about Shane McGowan,

1:15:56

what he got for Christmas this year, which is a new

1:15:59

set of teeth. James McGovern

1:16:01

has received a full set

1:16:03

of permanent dental implants and

1:16:05

looks about 50 years younger. Not

1:16:09

for Christmas, it is a long

1:16:12

lengthy process of many, many,

1:16:14

many dental disappointments. The

1:16:17

lead singer of the Pogues, who basically

1:16:19

lost all of his teeth due to

1:16:22

some hard, hard, hard living for a

1:16:24

long time. But he has teeth

1:16:26

now. That's a Christmas

1:16:28

miracle. That's a thing you can

1:16:30

get with money. Alright,

1:16:34

last one, last one. This will either

1:16:36

be the most difficult or the easiest.

1:16:39

This is a three-parter. You're going to

1:16:41

tell me. This is from a TV show.

1:16:44

So I need the name of the TV show.

1:16:46

I need the name of the character. And

1:16:49

for the third bonus point, who

1:16:51

is voicing this character? TV

1:16:53

show character voice of the character.

1:16:55

TV show, character voice of

1:16:57

the character, non-traditional holiday

1:17:00

song. I am. Karen,

1:17:15

instantly. That is from the

1:17:17

character Kwanzaa Bot. Correct. From

1:17:19

the show Futurama. Correct. Voiced

1:17:22

by Coolio. Correct. Wow. You

1:17:25

could have written down Kwanzaa Bot. I

1:17:27

know, yeah. I didn't want

1:17:29

to tip my hand to write down Kwanzaa Bot

1:17:31

earlier. Yes, Kwanzaa Bot explaining to the crew what

1:17:34

Kwanzaa is. Alright. Hey!

1:17:43

And that's almost it

1:17:45

for our holiday special.

1:17:48

And listeners, before we leave, Colin,

1:17:50

you want to share some

1:17:52

updates. Yeah,

1:17:54

I, as mentioned on last season

1:17:56

of the show, after several

1:17:58

years, Incubation tested. building, design,

1:18:01

production. Yeah, my game design partner

1:18:03

and I, we have introduced a

1:18:05

game called Bare Bones. It's got

1:18:07

dice, it's got cards, and

1:18:10

we've been having a lot of

1:18:12

fun and have really been humbled

1:18:14

by the support from our Good

1:18:16

Job Brain listener audience. We have

1:18:18

sold many, many copies to Good

1:18:20

Job Brain listeners. Perhaps you, listening

1:18:22

right now, have bought yourself a

1:18:24

copy. And it's been fun

1:18:26

to see sort of as

1:18:28

a proxy of where our listeners are,

1:18:30

where we're sending these copies of the

1:18:32

games. I have to say, surprised at

1:18:34

the distribution. Maybe

1:18:37

no surprise. We

1:18:39

have sold a lot of games

1:18:41

to Canada. Yeah, we really have.

1:18:43

We've sold a lot of games

1:18:45

to Canada. But statewide, Texas, Texas

1:18:47

might be, might be number

1:18:49

two. We sold a lot in California, which,

1:18:51

you know, which would be expected perhaps we

1:18:54

are home base and a lot of our

1:18:56

roots. But Texas man coming through, we

1:18:59

have shipped. Well done, Texas. The

1:19:02

furthest copy of the game we

1:19:04

sent, we sent a game to

1:19:06

Stephanie, I will withhold her last

1:19:08

name, but Stephanie in Norway. Shout

1:19:10

out to you. The absolute

1:19:12

by distance furthest copy of

1:19:14

Bare Bones that has been

1:19:16

sent out into the world.

1:19:19

How many miles is that? How many kilometers

1:19:21

is that? Let's quickly look that up.

1:19:24

Oh, it's a nice, a

1:19:27

pretty round number. It's it's for me, I got

1:19:29

4969 miles, five miles. Yeah, let's

1:19:33

round it out 1000 miles. Yeah, yeah,

1:19:35

I mean, it costs more in shipping

1:19:38

than the base price of the game

1:19:40

itself. So if you are

1:19:42

in Norway, I cannot say it is a

1:19:44

affordable holiday gift. But we appreciate the thought.

1:19:46

We're very proud of the game. We call

1:19:48

it the dice game that thinks it's a

1:19:50

card game. If that sounds fun to you,

1:19:52

go check out at

1:19:54

the bare bones game. That's

1:19:56

B A R E bones,

1:19:59

bare bones. bones game.com

1:20:02

and not RAR bear. Not

1:20:05

RAR. Right. Exactly. What

1:20:07

better way to celebrate togetherness by

1:20:10

rolling dice and yelling at people? Sounds

1:20:13

fun. Sounds great. And

1:20:15

that's our show. Happy holidays,

1:20:17

everyone. Be merry. Be safe.

1:20:20

Thank you all for joining me and

1:20:22

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1:20:25

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1:20:27

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1:20:29

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1:20:52

brain mess. On the

1:20:55

12th day of Christmas, good

1:20:57

job brain gave to me. 12

1:21:01

foreign snacks, 11 literations,

1:21:04

10 Tim Tam

1:21:06

slamming, 9 new

1:21:09

mnemonics, 8 waxed

1:21:11

mustaches, 7 robots

1:21:14

singing, 6 quizzes

1:21:16

quizzing, 5 fever, 4

1:21:19

crazy co-hosts,

1:21:23

3 poop

1:21:27

jokes, 2 acronyms,

1:21:30

and then I'm

1:21:33

actually.