277: It's in the Details

Summary

Good Job, Brain! – Episode 277: It's in the Details

Release Date: November 5, 2024
Hosts: Karen, Colin, Chris
Theme: How tiny details—whether typographical symbols, fine print, or song title quirks—carry big meanings, trip us up, and are fun to quiz about.

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Episode Overview

This episode explores why “the devil’s in the details,” focusing on trivia and quiz questions where small details matter. The hosts dig into typographical symbols, the art of cryptic crossword solving, Guinness World Records for small things, and how subtle trivia can separate the champions from the also-rans. Expect playful banter, meticulous explanations, and a celebration of obscure knowledge.

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Key Segments & Insights

1. Ant Farms, Trivia Friends, and Game Show Shout-Outs (00:41 – 06:50)

• Formicarium: The show kicks off with Karen quizzing the panel on the scientific word for ant farm, “formicarium.”

  "Formicarium is the fancy name for an ant farm." – Karen [01:21]

• Personal Memories: The hosts share tales of raising ants and sea monkeys as kids.
• Shout-outs:
  • Timothy Leung and Neil Fisher appearing on Rob Lowe's trivia show The Floor.
  • Sarah Del Villano, a listener/teacher, appearing on Trivial Pursuit with LeVar Burton.
  • Crossword constructor Amy Lucido’s AV Club crossword legacy and AVCX cryptics.

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2. Cryptic Crossword Live Solve! (06:50 – 11:25)

• Chris leads a cryptic crossword minisegment, explaining the two-part clue structure (straight definition + wordplay).
• Example clue explained:
  • “I must replace half of cilantro in first course” = INTRO
  • “Eeyore’s upset. You hate to see it.” = EYESORE
  • “Very secret store of bread and cheddar shared by word of mouth” = CACHE (homophone of cash, secret store)
• Notable Quote:

  “That’s the cool thing about cryptic crosswords: it’s self-checking...since you have those two definitions, you know for sure what it is.” – Chris [08:00]

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3. Pop Quiz Hotshot: Trivial Pursuit Card (11:25 – 16:27)

• Traditional Trivial Pursuit questions, played at home with “barnyard buzzers.”
• Sample questions:
  • City at the end of the Orient Express? (Istanbul/Constantinople) [12:59]
  • Who’s never played a Marvel superhero as of 2016? (Liam Hemsworth) [13:57]
  • Minnesota’s unique party name (“Democratic-Farmer-Labor” Party) [14:29]
  • Shortest Oscar-winning film title? ("Z") [37:39]

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4. Colin’s “It’s in the Details” – Fine Print & Skimpflation (16:32 – 20:48)

• Mouseprint.org: Resource for misleading fine print and consumer gotchas.
• Skimpflation: Explained via Red Robin’s “juicier” burgers that are fattier but have less protein and are lower quality, an example of companies reducing value instead of quantity or price.

  "They're not changing the price, but you're getting less than you used to." – Colin [18:02]

• Sets the episode's main theme: details that hide more than they reveal.

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5. Karen’s “Small Symbols, Big Meaning” Quiz (21:20 – 30:19)

• Quiz on typographical & Unicode symbols.
• Sample questions and answers:
  • Octothorpe: Another word for the hashtag (“#”) [22:01]
  • Quincunx: Five-dot arrangement, like dice “5” [23:29]
  • @ Symbol: “Commercial at,” originally for “each at” in old accounting [24:57]
  • Therefore / Because ( ∴ / ∵ ): Inverted triangle means “because” [25:54]
  • Manicule: ☞ The pointy hand symbol, often seen in old books and on social media [26:46]
  • P in a Circle (℗): “Phonogram,” denotes sound recording copyright [27:31]
  • Dinkus: *** – Typographical marker for logical breaks in text [30:01]
• Notable Moment:

  “Dinkus denotes a logical break in written work...” – Karen [29:41]

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6. Chris’s Guinness World Records “Smallest Things” Quiz (31:09 – 41:16)

• Quiz on world’s smallest things, reading actual Guinness entries with blanks:
  • Smallest constellation: Crux Australis (“Southern Cross”) [32:44]
  • Smallest glasses: Tiny spectacles put on a housefly [34:10]
  • World’s smallest park: Mill Ends Park in Portland, Oregon (24-inch diameter) [35:39]
  • Shortest Oscar-winning film title: “Z” [37:39]
  • Smallest mammal by body length: Bumblebee bat [36:28]
  • Shortest time as WWE Champion: 45 seconds (Andre the Giant) [38:12]
  • Shortest will: 3 words, “All for Mother.” (“Mother” was the wife) [39:07]
  • Smallest abacus made of molecules [41:00]

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7. Colin’s “Have You Ever Noticed?” Details Quiz (43:52 – 54:30)

• Visual/Pop-Culture Observational Quiz:
  • Porky Pig’s attire: Blue blazer, red bow tie, no pants (no shirt) [45:00]
  • Jupiter’s Great Red Spot: South of the equator [47:46]
  • Statue of Liberty’s crown: 7 rays for seven continents/seas [49:25]
  • Nick Fury’s eye patch: Left eye [50:19]
  • Safari browser icon: Compass needle points northeast [51:52]
  • Canadian flag maple leaf: 11 points [53:04]

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8. Karen’s Music Round: Song Title Punctuation & Spelling (55:57 – 65:43)

• Twist: Identify correct, sometimes oddly punctuated/typed song titles.
• Examples:
  • “867-5309/Jenny” (no parentheses, slash separates number and name; big J in Jenny) [58:18]
  • “MMMBop” (One word, three big Ms, big B, lowercase op) [59:24]
  • “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” (Don't Fear in parentheses, "The Reaper" outside) [61:13]
  • “Tha Crossroads” (T-H-A) [62:32]
  • “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?” (D-A Ya, may appear with or without apostrophes/question mark) [63:47]
  • “California Gurls” (G-U-R-L-S) [65:10]
• Hosts struggle with titles they thought they knew, showing how details can be easily missed.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Chris, on cryptics:

  “That’s the cool thing about cryptic crosswords: it’s self-checking...since you have those two definitions...” [08:00]

• Colin, on Red Robin’s ad copy:

  “They're not changing the price, but you're getting less than you used to.” [18:02]

• Karen, on symbols:

  "In Unicode, it's officially called 5-dot punctuation." [24:28]

• On Porky Pig’s nudity:

  “The jacket with no pants comes off as more naked than if he were just [naked].” – Colin [47:12]

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Useful Timestamps

| Segment | Start | Key Moments | |---------------------------------------------|----------|------------------------------------------------------------| | Formicarium, Ant Farms, Game Show Shout-Outs| 00:41 | Definitions and personal stories | | Cryptic Crossword Live Solve | 06:50 | Three clue explanations; wordplay demo | | Trivial Pursuit Card Quiz | 11:25 | Multiple classic questions, quick back-and-forth | | Fine Print & Skimpflation | 16:32 | Red Robin burger deep dive & consumer trivia | | Typographical Symbols Quiz | 21:20 | Unicode, manicule, quincunx, P-in-a-circle, etc. | | Guinness World Smallest Quiz | 31:09 | Smallest items, shortest will, molecular abacus | | Have You Ever Noticed? (Details Quiz) | 43:52 | Pop culture item detail quiz: Porky Pig, Nick Fury, flags | | Song Title Punctuation & Spelling | 55:57 | Surprising spelling/punctuation in hit songs |

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Episode Tone and Style

• Full of good-natured teasing, self-deprecating humor, and teamwork.
• Genuinely nerdy, deeply accessible, and trivia-obsessive.
• Joyous celebration of focusing on the little things.

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Listen-Along Value

Even if you haven’t heard the show, this summary walks you through every round, explains tricky references, and captures the hosts’ playful personalities and sharp trivia minds. You’ll learn about quirky symbols, surprising world records, and famous pop culture details you probably never noticed.

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Transcript

[A]

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Hello, formally formidable foretellers. Welcome to Good Job Brain, your weekly quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. Today's show is episode 277. And of course, I. I'm your humble host, Karen. And we are your formless forerunners formulating formaldehydes in Formicaria.

[B]

I'm Colin.

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And I'm Chris.

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Okay. Formicaria.

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Thank you. Yeah, please.

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Plural.

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A formicarium. Okay, so we have terrarium.

[C]

Okay.

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Aquarium, penguinarium. No, dolphinarium. And formicarium. Any guess on what a formicarium could be? What kind of animal lives in Formicarium?

[C]

Formicarium.

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Formic. From the man, I feel like species.

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Formid.

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Yeah, I've heard.

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I've heard this. This route before. It's not.

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It's not.

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Ants is.

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Is the fancy name for ant farm.

[B]

Ah. Formicarium.

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For material.

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Did you guys have ant farms when you were a kid? Like just that classic little rectangle.

[A]

In Taiwan, we raised silkworms. That was our ant farm thing. So you had an ant farm, did you?

[B]

I did. It was just like. It was like the one, you know, that they would advertise in the back of comic books back then. They may still do it. It's just. It's like a rectangle and it's like green plastic frame on top. They have like four farm features, like a little windmill and a barn and things like that, you know, I mean, like it's virtual husband. Virtually two dimensional.

[C]

Right.

[B]

I remember we would feed them cornflakes. Like, you just crumble up little cornflakes and like, that's what they would eat, you know, I mean, the poor ants, like, they live until the kids kind of get bored of watching the ant farm. But yeah, it was fun for, I don't know, a week or two for me. And missing.

[C]

They're working and they're working and toiling away.

[B]

Yeah. Just for my entertainment, I feel like.

[C]

We did the ant farm maybe for like a hot second there, but I. I know we did. We did sea monkeys. We definitely.

[B]

Oh, yeah, definitely. Definitely.

[C]

I will say this. Brine shrimp. I just looked this up on the Internet. Brine shrimp are known as Artemia.

[A]

Artemia. Oh, like Artemis.

[C]

Yeah. So, I mean, we could. We could go our artemiarium. Artemiarium.

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We'll do some focus group test.

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What we love more than trivia is we love seeing our listeners and friends do cool things. Shout out time. Shout out to some peeps we know who are on this season's trivia show. The Floor by Rob Lowe. We got Timothy Leung and our podcast pal from Triviality, Neil Fisher. Both of those dudes on the floor, don't miss it. The Floor is all about. These trivia nuts have one big expertise.

[B]

Right.

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You're there to, like, defend your turf.

[B]

You have to declare your. Your area. Right.

[A]

What would you guys say is your expertise?

[C]

I mean, obviously I would say, like, oh, video games.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

But I would always be scared to say something like that because then, you know, they're going to put something up there that I don't know is going to be like, oh, he's an idiot.

[B]

Yeah, probably.

[C]

Video games.

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25 years ago, I would have said Star Wars. Honestly, like, I just like the Chris scenario. Like, I would be up there and is like, okay, in this third edition comic side story, what Droid was. I stop right there.

[A]

They're not good.

[B]

No, no. I don't know what I would put. But, Karen, I will tell you. I was just talking with a friend of mine. He and his family and watching the show, they love it. And the one that cracked them up the most was one of the. One of the contestants. His. His area. His. His area of expertise. Specialty. He was smoothies.

[C]

Yeah, I saw that.

[A]

Yes.

[C]

That's great.

[B]

Yeah. I'm like, man, that's either extremely confident or extremely. Just flailing. But.

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Well, the show's also like, visual. Right, Right. There's like a projection screen with a thing behind them. So they're not gonna ask you what's on page 39 of it's true.

[B]

It's true. I know. If I said Star Wars, I would see Chewbacca and Yoda.

[A]

It'll be like Star wars character. And they just get more and more obs. Right.

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Like K Fisto or Fortuna. Right.

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Yeah, Yeah, I. I said my expertise would be Ethan Embry movies.

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All I know is that thing you do. Unfortunately, I probably.

[A]

Probably know more, but Nick Papa Giorgio from. From Vegas Vacation.

[C]

Oh, right, of course.

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And Empire Records and.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Anyways, okay. And then another shout out to. We played Escape Room with her during Sparkle Con. Little listener and music teacher Sarah Del Villano is on Trivial Pursuit, the game show hosted by LeVar Burton.

[B]

Oh, nice. I mean, that just elevates every. Any experience.

[A]

Yeah. Holy moly. And then finally, I want to hype Amy Lucido. We no doubt have pulled our hair out doing her crossword puzzles. Part of avcx. You guys remember the Onion?

[B]

Yeah, absolutely.

[A]

And then do you remember the AV Club, which is part of the. Probably all tried our hand at The AV Club CR Crosswords AVCX now has expanded to include more puzzles, a cryptic trivia as well. So they're doing their big membership subscription drive. And for people who don't know cryptic crosswords, very, very popular in England.

[C]

It's a. It's a crossword puzzle and has clues, but the clues can be divided into a straight definition of the word. And then like a word play that would lead you to that. To that same answer that. But the problem is they're mashed together and you don't know where the straight definition, the standard definition starts and where the wordplay definition starts. And you're trying to figure out essentially where the divide is between those two definitions and then use those two definitions to figure out the correct answer.

[A]

Yeah, wordplay, which involves maybe anagramming, like reversing, taking letters out, adding letters in. So here, let's do a bit of live cryptic crossword solving. Get your pencils.

[B]

I'm gonna climb right up on your back here, Chris.

[C]

No problem.

[B]

We're just gonna ride this one through. Yeah. And I'm gonna say yes. I agree.

[C]

I was literally, before the show went on, just doing Chris, doing.

[B]

Not too proud to admit that Chris is gonna be the driving force here. Here we go.

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Okay, here we go. Here is the clue. I must replace half of cilantro in first course. Five letters. So this word is five letters. I must replace half of cilantro in first course.

[B]

Okay, well, like half. Half of. Okay, so half of the word cilantro. You think, Chris, like C, I, L, A or N, T. I.

[C]

Sure. Oh, yeah. So I must replace. Replace half of cilantro.

[B]

Oh, intro.

[C]

Intro.

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Yes. I must replace. Not me, Karen. I. But like the letter I.

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The letter I must replace.

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Replace half a cilantro. Yep. In the first course. An intro. First course. So it's kind of like that clue checks your answer.

[C]

Exactly. That's the cool thing about cryptic crosswords is that it's self checking. It's that, you know, since you have those two definitions, you know for sure. Sure. What it is. There's also these tricky things where it's like half of cilantro in first course, and you're thinking about, oh, it's like the first course of a meal, but it's not. It's like the first course that you take in college. Yeah, that's a well written clue where it has that kind of trickiness.

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Constructor is Sam Brody.

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Very, very nice one.

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Clean and clever. All right, here's the next clue. Eeyore's Upset. You hate to see it.

[B]

All right.

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Eeyore's upset. Eeyores, you hate to see it.

[B]

Is upset a trigger word here, Chris?

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Yeah, Upset, I believe, is a trigger word here for an anagram. And so probably the word Eeyore is upset or anagrammed E, E, Y, O.

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R, E. Just so everybody knows, Eeyore is the. The stuffed donkey from.

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Yes.

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Spelled E, E, Y, O, R, E. Eeyores, upset. You hate to see it.

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Seven letters, eyesore.

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You hate to say because you want yours in there. Wow, nice job.

[B]

I. I needed you to. To clue me that. Upset as code for anagram.

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Exactly, Exactly. Yeah. You want to watch for words like that. Like bad that it's all gone bad. You know, messy letters up. Yeah, yeah.

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Constructor, Adam Cohen. Last one here. Very secret store of bread and cheddar shared by word of mouth.

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Okay.

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Secret store.

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Okay.

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Of bread and cheddar shared by word of mouth. This is five letters.

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Five letters. Okay, so shared by word of mouth usually indicates a homophone that you're going to say the word. A word meaning cheddar could be cheese or it could be, like, money, you know?

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Okay.

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And then you're going to say it out loud, and it's going to be a homophone of the real answer, which is secret. I don't know what a secret store of bread and cheddar share.

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I mean, they're both. They're both slang for money, right? Bread and cheddar, secret store of.

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Oh, I got it. Okay. So, yes, bread and cheddar are both synonyms for money. Another synonym for money is C, A, S, H, cash. And C, A, C, H, E is a secret store cat, cash. And it's five letters, so it's C, A, C, H, E, cash.

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Very nice.

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Cash. Correct. Constructor Josie Gyles. Woo.

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Nice.

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Good job. Oh, my God. If any of you out there is into this kind of stuff, please. AVCX is doing their membership drive, so treat yourself to some crosswords and some cryptics and more. Thank you, Amy. And thank you, everyone else there. Well, without further ado, let's jump into our first general trivia segment, Pop Quiz Hotshot. No, again, I did not come up with Pop Quiz Hotshot is a quote from the movie Speed before many of.

[B]

Our listeners were born, I'm sure.

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Starring Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves. Dennis Hopper is the villain, and he says that line, I did not make it up. We get a lot of listener mail or messages about, like, oh, my God, I heard Pop Quiz Hotshot somewhere. It's like, no, no, no. We please cannot claim the credit.

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It's from an old movie. Yeah, it's from a classic Hollywood classic.

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Film from the late 1900s.

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1900S. Vintage, pre digital.

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All right, so here I have a random Trivial Pursuit card. Guys, have your barnyard buzzers. Let's answer some questions. Listeners play at home. Just yell them out. Yell the answers out. Here we go. Blue wedge for geography. What city lay at the end of the 1922 mile ride aboard the Orient Express which left Paris Daily in 1889? Oh, what's at the other end?

[B]

Yeah, what a good question.

[C]

That is a good question.

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So we know it's almost 2,000 miles away from Paris.

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Okay.

[B]

Yeah. Colin Man, Cairo.

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Ooh, that is very Agatha. Christy. Incorrect. I'll allow two answers. One is a former name.

[B]

Okay. Okay, helpful. Istanbul.

[C]

Yeah, I was gonna say I was buzzing in properly.

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It's because Karen started doing the little dance. You can't see it, but she's doing a little bop. Yeah. Okay.

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Even old New York.

[B]

Yeah.

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Yes. Constantinople now called Istanbul. All right, Pink wedge for Entertainment as of 2016, which of these actors hasn't played a superhero in a Marvel Comics movie? Whoa. Okay. I like how. Now Trivial pursuit as of 2016. Yeah, they're kind of future proofing this. Okay. Hasn't played superheroes.

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Okay.

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All right. In a Marvel Comics movie. Okay, your list is Ryan Reynolds, Liam Hemsworth or Hugh Jackman. That was Chris.

[C]

Liam Hemsworth.

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Correct. You are correct.

[C]

Yes. A good trick question. Yes. Yep.

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Yes. But his brother was Thor. Here we go. Yellow edge. In which state is the Democratic Party called? The Democratic Farmer Labor Party. Really? Huh. And that's all Dash Democratic, dash Farmer, dash Labor Party.

[C]

Never heard of this one.

[B]

Colin, Minnesota.

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Yes.

[C]

Oh, really?

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Did you know that? Did you or did 1 in 50 chance.

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You know what? Honestly, Karen, there's so many facts kind of just stuck to the back of my head. Something told me to say Minnesota.

[C]

Wow.

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Purple wedge. Which renowned British author dreamed up such characters as Ms. Havisham, Oliver Twist and Tiny Tim? Chris. Color.

[C]

Charles Dickens.

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Yes. Chuck Dickens. Chucky D. Green wedge for science and nature. Which computer company was co founded.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Steve.

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Come on, get out. Get out of here.

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All right, everybody.

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You just.

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I didn't even hear the rest of the words of the question. I just heard Steve. And then, yeah, like. Okay, all right, great.

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Okay. Of course. Okay. With Steve Jobs. Who was the third person?

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Oh, Jobs. Wniac.

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Oh, yeah.

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See Ron Wayne.

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Thank you.

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Ron Wayne. A double. Firsty Ron.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Last question. Orange wedge. What is the distance of the running portion in an Olympic triathlon?

[B]

Man. All right. It can't be as much as a marathon, right, Chris? Could it?

[C]

I cannot imagine. No. And it's got to be.

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Well, I'll tell you, that's Iron Man. Iron man is a. The running portion is a marathon.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Okay. 10 miles, 5 miles.

[B]

I think 10. I'll go with 10. Why not 10?

[A]

What? 10 miles?

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10 miles. Well, it's probably metric. I was just gonna say it's probably metric.

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Okay.

[A]

6.2 miles or a 10k.

[C]

So I am. So I am writer.

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Okay. That's what I said. Yeah.

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Closer. I don't know if you're a writer.

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A writer, yeah.

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Good job, Brains.

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Thanks.

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This week, Colin, our topic.

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Yes. This one came in a little bit of a circuitous way. I was on the Internet, as I often am, and I don't even remember how I got here, but I ended up on the website mouse print dot org. Now this has. This has nothing to do with Disney, Karen. This is not anything Mickey related. Mouse print.org which is a. Which is run by Consumer World, a public service consumer education site. And what mouse print.org is dedicated to is cataloging many, many, many examples of fine print or misleading consumer statements. The classic example of like you'll see an ad for credit card pre approved in big letters and then like down in the fine print, this is like pending approval, you know, or things like that. Mouse print, it's a great term. I'd never heard of this before and I came across an entry that, that really tickled me. So I'm going to read this to you just very quickly here. It's very short. The title of this post, how Skimpflation works in restaurants. Now, have you guys heard this term? Skimpflation?

[A]

I know, Shrinkflation.

[B]

Yeah, I've heard shrinkflation.

[A]

Guess what?

[B]

Greedflation. Take a guess. Yeah. I'm curious. What would you, what would you guess?

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Skimflation means maybe they don't give you like the free bread that usually is there.

[B]

Oh yeah, yeah.

[C]

They put less on your plate.

[B]

Right.

[C]

That's a. Fewer French fries.

[B]

Exactly. Basic. Basically, it's like they're not changing the price, but. But you're getting less than you used to, right? So here's, here's the post in October last year, Red Robin. Now this is the restaurant chain, Red Robin Burgers. Shakes, fries, that kind of thing.

[C]

Right.

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Red Robin announced an upgrade that it had a quote, new and improved lineup of gourmet burgers that Were quote, juicier and more flavorful. And there's a picture of the ad that Red Robin ran. And in the ad, $10 cheeseburger Tuesdays and it's got a you close up picture of a cheeseburger and says, here are our new thicker juicier burgers. And oh, okay, great. You know, and so people promoting it. One Red Robin regular commented on their burgers in the following post saying they are not as good as they used to be.

[C]

Okay, sure, yeah.

[B]

The skinny here, if you will, haha, is that the chain decided to basically buy cheaper meat for the burgers. And it is cheaper because it is higher fat content, it is not as lean and that is why it is juicier and thicker, because it, it is literally a bulkier piece because of the fat. And then of course, as you cook it, you know, the fat becomes juicier. Right, back to the article. We did a little detective work to compare the current nutritional disclosures for their gourmet cheeseburger with the previous listing from a year before. And sure enough, they have a close up of the actual nutrition information from red Robin of 2022 and October 2023. Okay. Same size burger, the total fat was 47 grams. The total fat of the new burger is 53 grams. The protein of the old burger is 41 grams, and the protein of the new burger is 37. Right. Of course, this is the company honestly saying they are bigger, they are juicier, they are thicker.

[A]

Technically.

[B]

That's right. In the judgment and estimation of mouse print. This is a classic example of shrinkflation. So it got me thinking about one of my favorite sayings, which is the devil's in the details. And when it comes to fine print disclaimers, all of this stuff, as a consumer, you really got to be on your toes sometimes and dig your way into the details. So I thought that's a great topic for the show. Details and what they can maybe hide and maybe not hide and how close we can pay attention to them.

[A]

So this week it's in the details. When I learned that that was our topic, my first thought was to, to look into typography, fonts, typos, misspelling. And I ended up falling into the world of typographical and Unicode symbols.

[C]

Okay, all right.

[A]

We use some of these symbols every day. Maybe there's some symbols that we don't even really see anymore, but it's just weird to think that like these small detailed symbols have their own official names and yeah, it can contain so much specific meaning. And reason for usage. I call this quiz small symbols, big Meaning.

[B]

Oh, that's good.

[A]

So I'll start with a callback from the very early days of Good Job, Brain. We all know what a hashtag is, right? Can you each tell me another name that the hashtag symbol goes by? Yes, officially. Colin. Please, please.

[B]

One of the names is the octothorpe.

[C]

Oh, going right for the octothorpe.

[B]

It's so fun to say.

[C]

The other one is the. The pound sign.

[A]

Correct. Can you keep going? There's a lot of official names.

[C]

The Tic Tac Toe board, the. The Waffle Stomp, the.

[A]

So we have the pound sign, hash mark, hashtag hash, octothorpe, the number sign. That's your kind of common name. The number sign Libro Pondo, which is another kind of fancy pound. In some parts of the country, people call it a hex. Oh, nothing to do with the hex. Color code.

[B]

Oh, I didn't know that.

[A]

People will colloquially call it a sharp.

[B]

Oh, I've heard that.

[C]

Sure.

[B]

Right.

[A]

Like C sharp. Like the. The programming languages, but technically. In fact, the musical notation sharp is a different symbol. Oh, it's angled differently. Next question. If you play board games, chances are high that you will see and encounter a. Let me. Let me say this very clearly. A Quinn Kunks. Quinn kunks. That is spelled Q, U, I, N, C, U, N, X. If you play board games, chances are high that you will see and encounter a Quinn Kunks. Where can you find a Quinn kunks?

[C]

Oh, gosh.

[B]

Okay, well, break it down. All right. Board games, dice.

[A]

What's Quinn kunks? What. What does that, you know, etymology remind you of?

[B]

Five hunks. Five. It's a star.

[C]

I was gonna say, is it like. Is it like an X made up of five dots? Oh.

[B]

Pips on the five on a die.

[C]

Right.

[A]

Arrangement of five things where there's four at each corner and one in the center.

[B]

Ooh, that's a really good one.

[A]

You can also rotate that so it looks like a. A cross, like a plus sign. So you have a dot north, south, east, west, and one in the middle. We see that in dominoes. You're a flag nerd, like me and my daughter and Chris's son. Then you'll see some of quincunx show up in flags, like the shields of the Portugal flag in unicode. It's Unicode 2059, and it's officially called the 5 dot punctuation.

[B]

Right, because they have to have normal descriptive names, too.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Five punctuation. You can type that out, you, quincunx, to your heart's delight. All right, Speaking of Unicode, Unicode 0040 is the sign, the symbol. Before the advent of the Internet and email, what was the symbol used for? And bonus point, what is its now retired name?

[B]

Oh.

[A]

Oh, Colin, go for it.

[B]

Well, I know that it was used like in grocers and retailers for, you know, like pricing this many at this price. I don't know if that was okay. That was okay.

[A]

It's an old invention. So. Ships, logs. Yeah, old grocery logs. Hundreds and hundreds of years ago, it shows up. It's like, okay, three chickens at $2.

[B]

Right, right.

[A]

Called a commercial at. Or a commercial.

[B]

A. Oh, commercial at.

[A]

That's great. All right, next question. In math, people will often use the therefore symbol as a shorthand at the end of the math proof. Qed. And then you'll have the symbol which is like a three dot triangle, like one dot above two dots. Right. Therefore. What does it mean when you turn the therefore sign upside down? So it's a triangle with two dots on top and one dot at the bottom.

[C]

It means. It means therefore. It is not.

[A]

It's related to there.

[C]

Like you're disproving a theory or like.

[A]

Cannot be an upside down therefore is a because.

[B]

Oh, oh, okay.

[A]

Officially called the because.

[B]

It's called the because.

[A]

That's what cry is Unicode. Because. All right, next question. This is a fun one. If you're on social media these days, you will most definitely see the phrase link in comments or click below along with a manicule symbol. Even in some of our own good job, brain branding, you will see a manicule. What is a man? I can't. Some of these words are so tricky to say. Manicule. M A, N, I, C, C, U, L, E. Colin, go for it.

[B]

Is. It's the old time pointy hand, right?

[A]

It is the pointy finger.

[B]

The pointy finger.

[A]

Eat at Joe's, the Cheers. Or like, you know the road signs where there's like fingers pointing at different cities. You'll see them in very, very old books, old text. But also like the finger point emojis. You see it all over LinkedIn. Hey, comment below with your hot. Take a manicure.

[B]

Manicule is there. There should be a pedicule which is like a pointing foot, like you're pointing with your toe, right? Yeah.

[A]

Okay, Moving on to Unicode. 2117. If A C in a circle is for copyright, an R in a circle is for register trademark.

[C]

Yes.

[A]

What does P in a circle stand for? Oh, Chris, I Think you know, you probably know this patented. Oh, no. The P in a circle. The penis circle. The P stands for phonogram. No, it is called the sound recording. Copyright.

[C]

No.

[A]

Have you heard of this before?

[B]

No. No.

[A]

Added to the Copyright act of 1976. So let's say a song. A song is being played to the radio. That song has two separate copyrights. One is for the musical composition, so whoever wrote the song, and one is for the sound recording.

[B]

Right, right.

[A]

So that's the P. Circle.

[B]

Interesting. So you'll see this on, like, records and CDs or things like that.

[A]

Yep, yep. So. So it's. Which is a legal term applied to the master recording of. Does have to be music. It can be spoken word sounds, but it is a specific sound recording of that recording. And so even if the same artist performs the same song somewhere else, that would be a different sound recording.

[B]

Interesting.

[A]

The circle P. And speaking of circle letters are called enclosed alphanumerics. You'll see, like, letters and circles. A circle, capital V. You'll see in food labels to denote something as vegan.

[B]

Ah.

[A]

And then relate to that circle, big U in food labels denotes kosher. U stands for Orthodox Union, which is the.

[B]

The.

[A]

The Jewish organization that, like, maintains the kosher certification. Circle big D, Circle big R. Democratic and Republic parties in the U.S. yeah. Oh, yeah. There's a whole family of enclosed alphanumeric circle letters. All right, last question. Here we are. We end with the dinkus. The dinkus. D I, N, K U, S. The dinkus denotes a logical break in written work. So it's kind of like, hey, we're. We're now talking about something else, but we're kind of still in the same chapter or in the same article. We see this online as well. Usually before, like, jumping into an actual interview, they'll have, like, some sort of intro, and they'll have a dinkus. Usually a dinkus is a trio, is a line of. Trio of what symbol spread out horizontally.

[B]

Colin, it's three asterisks, is it not?

[A]

Ding, ding, ding, dingus.

[B]

Dinkus.

[A]

Dinkus.

[B]

That is a really fun word to say.

[A]

Good job, everybody. We got the dinkus. We got the quincunx. We got the manicule, we got the octothorpe.

[B]

I love it. I love that. Knowing our. Our wonderfully nerdy audience, I bet there is somebody out there who knows the symbols just on the unicorn, like, oh, 2441. Yeah, I know that one.

[C]

Yeah. Classic.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

All right, well, I am holding something. It is the recently published Guinness Book of World Records 2025 Gamers Edition. So let's take a look at page 93 in this book. What would you look at that? There's a Guinness World Record for first interactive game documentary, which was awarded to Atari 50 the anniversary celebration. It says in here, unlike your regular Passive Netflix or YouTube experience, Atari 50 the anniversary celebration allows console and PC users the chance to play along with more than 100 games from the company's history. And since I directed the interactive documentary, I think this is pretty cool.

[B]

That is very cool.

[A]

Do you get a real award?

[C]

Yeah. So you order those. You can order the certificates. So we're figuring out now how do we. Yeah, of course it costs money. Of course it costs money, but we can order mods. Hey, thanks.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, we got a Guinness World Record.

[C]

How about that? So this got me thinking about. We always do some kind of Guinness World Record, you know, quiz. And we've just did our episode of the biggest this, the biggest that. And I'm like, oh, the details, of course. So to celebrate this episode, about the little details, Here is a quiz for you guys about Guinness World Records for not the biggest thing, but the smallest thing. So what I'm gonna do for you guys is I'm gonna read out a description that is from the Guinness Records website about. About the. The award about the smallest, whatever it is. But I'm going to blank out the word that identifies what exactly. It is the smallest what. Okay, so you can go ahead and you can buzz in for this one. Okay, so here we go. The smallest blank is Crux Australis, with an area of only 0.116% of the whole sky. Colin.

[B]

The smallest constellation.

[C]

That is the smallest constellation. Crux Australis, AKA the Southern Cross.

[B]

Okay. I was gonna say it's at the Southern Cross.

[A]

Wow. That's the smallest constellation. Yeah.

[C]

1 6% of the whole sky. Little. Little, tiny, little constellation. I don't know where the constellation is gonna hang its. Its. Its black.

[A]

But it's so funny because that constellation is used so much and it's so important in, like, the southern hemisphere.

[B]

Yeah. And as you know, Karen, on so many flags and things like that, Right?

[A]

Flags. And I can't believe it's like. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[B]

That is counterintuitive. That really is.

[C]

Yep. Yep. The smallest pair of blank ever measure. Measure just 2 millimeters wide and were created by the German manufacturing company Micron using laser technology. The blank are so tiny that they had a photograph of a housefly wearing the blank on display.

[A]

Whoa.

[B]

Smallest pair of blank blank ever.

[A]

Karen Pants.

[C]

They did not manage to get a pair of pants pants onto a house fly. Howen glasses. They did manage to get a pair of glasses.

[A]

I was like, but house fly has too many legs. What would it be like three pairs of pants? Or would it be like one pair of six legged pants? Oh, that makes so much sense.

[C]

Oh, ironically with no fly.

[A]

Okay, well wait. So they put the smallest glasses on a housefly.

[C]

They made a pair of glasses that measured just 2 millimeters wide.

[A]

Well, also, don't house flies have like a whole bunch of eyes?

[C]

Look, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know how much it helped. I don't know what would have been more difficult. It's like creating the glasses or sticking them on the fly. The world's smallest blank is mill ends blank on a safety island on Southwest naito Parkway, Portland, Oregon, USA. The blank is a circle of 24 inches diameter. It was designated as a blank for snail races and as a colony for leprechauns.

[A]

Say the whole thing again.

[C]

Sure. The world's smallest blank is mill ends on a safety island on Southwest naito Parkway, Portland, Oregon, USA. The blank is a circle of 24 inches in diameter. It was designated as a blank for snail races and as a colony for leprechauns.

[A]

It could be so many things.

[C]

It could be. Okay, it is a. It is a government designated.

[A]

Karen National Park.

[C]

It is. It's okay. It's. It is a park. It's not a national park. It is, however, a city park. It is a city park. It is an official city park in Portland. A circle of 24 inches in.

[A]

It looks like. It looks like it's like a round flower bed.

[C]

Yeah, but it is, but it is technically all by itself, it is a park.

[A]

Wow.

[C]

The smallest blank by body length in the world is kitty's hognosed bat. AKA the bumblebee bat.

[A]

Small.

[C]

Oh, Aaron.

[A]

Mammal it is.

[C]

Mammal.

[A]

Yes.

[C]

Nailed it. Yes. Not the smallest animal, but the smallest mammal by body length in the world is kitty's hog nosed bat. AKA the bumblebee bat.

[A]

Little. Oh, so cute.

[C]

Little tiny bat. Tiny little nipples for fat babies. Drink just a tiny little bit of milk. Okay, moving right along, I want to.

[B]

Just let our listeners know that Chris was about to do the little fingertip tiny milking motion. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly right.

[C]

You got to put on the little tiny little glasses.

[B]

Yeah, you can get squat down on the tiny little stool.

[C]

The shortest title of any blank is Z Parentheses. Algeria, France, 1969. Directed by Costa Gavris. Parentheses. Greece. Karen.

[A]

Film.

[C]

Nope. I need you to be more specific than that. Oh, Holland.

[B]

Documentary.

[C]

Nope.

[A]

Feature film.

[C]

Specific. More specific than that.

[A]

Oscar winning.

[C]

Correct. Because there's a lot of films with one letter title. Yeah. This is the shortest title of any Oscar winning film is the 1969 movie Z. Yes.

[B]

That's great. That's great.

[C]

The shortest time to be Blank is 45 seconds by Andre the Giant on February 5, 1988. Colin.

[B]

The world Wrestling Federation Champion.

[C]

Correct.

[A]

What happened?

[C]

Apparently, he sold his belt to the Million Dollar man immediately after winning it.

[A]

I see.

[C]

So he. Yes, he was WW F at the time. Now, WWE Champion. The shortest time to be WWE Champion is 45 seconds held by Andre.

[B]

Yes.

[C]

The shortest blank contested but subsequently admitted to probate in English law was that in Thorne v. Dickens in 1906. The shortest blank contested but subsequently admitted to probate in English law was that in Thorne v. Dickens in 1906. Colin.

[B]

Like last will and testament.

[C]

Yes. The shortest will, contested but subsequently admitted. It consisted of three words.

[A]

All for.

[C]

Mother, in which mother was not his mother, but his wife.

[B]

Oh, okay, okay.

[C]

So like, I'm father, she's mother.

[B]

Yeah. Right, right.

[C]

And it was, in fact, allowed. The shortest blank are those of Japan, Jordan and San Marino, each with only four lines. Karen.

[A]

National anthem.

[C]

National anthem. Wow. When I was in high school and taking Japanese classes, they taught us the Japanese national anthem backwards.

[A]

What? Because you read it the other way.

[C]

The book of, like, National Anthems of the World had somehow inverted the lines and printed the last line through to the first line. And we learned it that way. So now and then later on, I realize, I wish there was a horrible story in which I was, like, asked to sing the national anthem at a baseball game or something. Right. But anyway, it does only have four lines. It's true. All right, last question. Scientists at the IBM Research Division's Zurich laboratory built in November 1996 a blank with individual molecules as beads with a diameter of less than 1 nanometer. The IB. Karen.

[A]

Abacus.

[C]

It's an abacus. You didn't even need the rest of the question. Yeah, the. The IBM scientists succeeded in forming stable rows of 10 molecules along steps, just one atom high on a copper surface.

[A]

Wow.

[C]

Yep.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

All right, we're gonna take a quick break, and we'll be right back. Hey. This episode is brought to you by IXL Learning, an online learning program that enriches the homeschool curriculum and that offer subjects in science, math, English language arts, social studies, and more entrusted by 15 million students worldwide. Back to School looks different when you're a homeschooling family. Whether you're continuing a rhythm or shaking things up with a brand new curriculum, it's a perfect time for reset. IXL is a simple way to bring structure, confidence and progress to your homeschool routine. If you're listening to this podcast, then you know how the right framing can make any bit of knowledge more memorable and more meaningful. IXL makes it easy to keep learning engaging with interactive content, games, videos, awards and moments of celebration. So make an impact on your child's learning. Get IXL now and Good Job Brain listeners can get an exclusive 20% off IXL membership when they sign up today at ixl.com goodjobbrain visit ixl.com goodjobBrain to get the most effective learning program out there at the best price. This episode is brought to you by Factor. The leaves are falling, the kids are schooling and there's pumpkin in our lattes. That's right, summer's changing in the fall and brings big change into our routine as well. My oldest kid just started kindergarten, so shout out to all the COVID babies who are also starting kindergarten this year. Finding the time to cook can be tough as I'm adjusting to this brand new schedule. That's why I factor in my back pocket but not literally in my back pocket. They're in my fridge. They're chef prepped dietitian approved Meals make it easy to eat healthy no matter how hectic the season gets. So eat [e-mail] goodjob 50 off and use the code good job 50 off to get 50% off your first box plus free breakfast for one year. That's code. Good job 50 off@factor meals.com for 50 off your first box and free breakfast for one year. Get delicious ready to eat meals delivered with Factor offers only. Valid for new Factor customers with code and qualifying auto renewing subscription purchase.

[C]

You're listening to Good Job Brain. Smooth Puzzles, Smart Trivia. Good Job Brain.

[A]

And we're back. Colin, what's your detail?

[B]

My detail? I have a quiz for you called have you ever noticed because you know the kids love Andy Rooney from the old 60 Minutes, right?

[C]

There's.

[B]

There's no, you know, there's no figure hotter in the minds of today's youth and Andy Rooney. I have a quiz. Yes. And it is about the details and descriptions of many common things from pop culture, science, history, things that we all have seen. Sometimes we might even see these things every day and the question is, how closely have you paid attention to these?

[A]

You're so good at making these quizzes.

[B]

Some of these we have talked about on the show before. Some of these have even shown up in pub quiz. So this. This is news you can use here. So let's do this as a write down quiz. So get your writing implements ready.

[A]

Oh, no. Did I use a sharpie on the whiteboard?

[B]

Oh, no.

[A]

Ew. Is this his booger tissues that I'm using? Oh.

[B]

Oh, no.

[A]

Is a mess.

[C]

I'm making it worse.

[A]

I am.

[B]

All right. It's in my raccoon wounds. Okay, you guys ready?

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Okay, here we go. First question. In his most common depiction, what two items of clothing does Porky Pig wear? The Looney Tunes character Porky Pig.

[C]

How.

[A]

How detailed do we have to be?

[B]

I would like the item of clothing and the color, please.

[C]

Oh, geez.

[B]

I'll take what you got. We'll award partial points on this quiz. Porky Pig, what two items of clothing in his most common depiction? Not saying there's an episode. He was an astronaut or something like that. I'm talking about your stock, Porky Pig. And when you are ready, answers up, no idea. Okay. Chris says, red tie, blue hat. Very close. Karen has it correct, though. Blue blazer, red bow tie. That is. That is. And nothing else. No pants, no shirt, no shirt. Yeah. I looked at probably more pictures of Porky Pig in the last 24 hours than in the previous 30 years, and it's 24 years. It's very interesting. So there are some subtle variations. So in the older renderings of Porky Pig, he would occasionally have white gloves on, as a lot of the. As a lot of the characters do.

[A]

Does he have hooves?

[B]

He's got human ish hands, but hoof feet. Yeah, yeah, but Chris, I will give you credit that he will on occasion also have a blue cap. But. But he is never. He's never shown as common.

[C]

Did you. You cleared your Internet history, right?

[B]

This was all on incognito.

[C]

Oh, man.

[B]

Believe me. Yeah. I'm gonna get the weirdest targeted ads.

[A]

I'm shocked he's not wearing a shirt or pants. He's just. It's like pink. It's just pink to me.

[B]

To me, the jacket with no pants comes off as more naked than if he were just.

[A]

He is more naked now. Oh, you've ruined everything.

[B]

Next question. If you have a clear night sky and a decent telescope, you can see the great red spot on the planet Jupiter, which, as you may know, is more or less. A giant storm is the Great Red Spot north of Jupiter's equator or south of Jupiter's equator.

[A]

Does that change?

[B]

It does not change. It does not change. Good question. Good question. It changes position, but it does not change the side of the equator that it's on. Karen did the same thing I did. I think you both have it. Correct. You have both put south. Yes. And Karen, even with a little picture there to jog the memory, it is. It is, in fact, 22 degrees south. Confusingly, you will sometimes see photos of it where it is appearing to be in the north. And the reason for this is that many, many astronomical telescopes will invert the image.

[C]

Yes.

[B]

Due to the. Due to the mirroring. Yeah, that's right.

[A]

But it is bother to change it.

[C]

Well, you know, there's no up or down in space.

[B]

Yeah. These are arbitrary north and south distinctions. But, yes, if we were to treat it like our planet, it is in the south. That's right. Got it. I learned that they're not even sure that the red spot we see today is the same red spot that people saw hundreds of years ago. They're just. They're just not sure. And as. As early as the 1600s, there were people making representations of it, but it may be a different red spot or, you know, storm. Storm arrangement. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Gen 2, Gen 3. Okay, moving right along, how many rays are there extending from the Statue of Liberty's crown? Jeez, Chris should know this. Liberty Heads, what are we calling resident Liberty Head?

[C]

I do know this, and I wrote it down, and I got it right, and then I glanced over at that. My windowsill right there. I should have confirmed that I am correct, but I know why also.

[B]

Okay, all right.

[C]

I know. I know why.

[B]

Didn't even occur to me that you might literally have one adjacent to your desk. I should have known.

[A]

What's. Too many spikes?

[B]

I will tell you, Karen. You can see them all from the front. Like there aren't some, like, hiding.

[A]

Hiding in the back.

[B]

Yeah. All right, answers up. Karen says 12. Chris says correctly, Seven.

[C]

Seven, representing the seven seas and the sea. Seven wonders of the World.

[B]

I. I read it as the seven seas and the seven continents. Is the explanation that I.

[C]

Okay, yeah. Okay. That's probably more correct then.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. Marvel comics character Nick Fury.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Memorably portrayed by actor Samuel L. Jackson in many movies, wears an eye patch over which I. Over which I. I will accept a picture. Yeah. It is the same eye in the comic book. Original Nick Fury and Samuel L. Jackson. Oh, I'm sorry, you both have it incorrect. You both answered his right eye. It is in fact over his left eye.

[A]

So if I'm watching it, it's like my right.

[B]

Correct.

[A]

It's a little bit less pirate y. Okay.

[B]

Yeah. Well, you think it's less piratey on one side or the other?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Interesting. Based on my drawing. Okay. All right. Getting. Getting a little more difficult here. The Safari web browser introduced by Apple in 2003, all the way back in 2003 and of course installed on the iPhone since it debuted in 2007. It has an icon of a compass. The Safari Web browser. What direction is the compass needle pointing? Although the design of the icon has changed over the years, the needle has always pointed the same direction. By which I mean the red part of the needle. Like if you, like me, have an iPhone and if you, like me, are on that phone every day. You see, I can't believe.

[A]

Yes, I know how to read part.

[B]

Many times a day.

[C]

It's one of the eight major ones, right?

[B]

Yes, it is one. Yes, it is one of the eight major ones. Yeah. Karen has written northeast. Chris has written southwest. I love. It is in fact northeast.

[C]

Of course. I could see it was oriented, slanted like it was.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. You know, you got, you got the angle right, Chris.

[C]

Like it was 7:05 o'. Clock. You know what I mean? Yeah. What are the hands, you know? Yeah. Where's the red one?

[B]

Let's head north of the border here for a good old Canadian question. We have absolutely had this question in pub quiz before. How many points are there on the maple leaf on the Canadian flag? One of the most recognizable flags in the world?

[A]

Is there a stem?

[B]

There is a stem. I am not counting the stem.

[A]

You're not counting the stem?

[B]

There is a stem. I am not counting the stem. How many points? One of our world's great, great flags, in my opinion.

[C]

Yeah, it's good.

[B]

It's just bold colors, instantly recognizable.

[C]

Has some local flavor to it.

[B]

Yeah. Our Canadian friends writhing in their seats screaming the answer out at the phone. All right, Karen has written 11, Chris has written nine. Karen, you got it. It's the. It's 11. And this is what always trips people up.

[C]

Three, four. It's not three. Three, three.

[B]

No, no, one.

[A]

Three, three, three, one.

[B]

You got it. It's three big leaves in the middle and then the two tiny little points on little ones at the end.

[C]

Those are like. Those are like vestigial, you know, there's like the dew claws.

[A]

That's what makes it look like a, a leaf, then like a duck flipper, right?

[C]

Yeah. It gives it its. It rounds it out.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. I learned that the proposed version of the flag, that leaf did actually have 13 points. So kind of down in the corners, it had two little nubbins. Oh, and two, three, three, three, two. But. Yeah, but the committee felt it made it too hard to read, especially at a distance. It kind of just sort of. Just sort of blotched up together. So, yeah, right before it was officially, officially finalized, they knocked off two of the points and left us with 11. All right, good job, guys.

[A]

Oh, my God. Porky pig.

[B]

Put some pants on that pig.

[A]

Too much pig. Yeah. This episode is brought to you by State Farm. Checking off the boxes on your to do list is a great feeling. And when it comes to checking off coverage, a State Farm agent can help you choose an option that's right for you. Whether you prefer talking in person on the phone or using the award winning app, it's nice knowing you have help finding coverage that best fits your needs. Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there. I have our last quiz. Welcome to our first music round of the season. Usually our music rounds are kind of like the ones you'd see it Pub trivia. It's kind of like Name that Tune. The quizmaster will play a short clip of music and then you'll have to identify the artist. But since we are all about details and the importance of details, today, I've created a special edition music round. So here I have compiled clips of really famous hits. There's even songs that you know and love. But do you really, really, really, really know them, though? Each of these songs feature very specific punctuation, grammar, misspelling, and or detailed stylings in their official song titles.

[C]

Okay, all right.

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So that might include parentheses in the song title. It might include misspellings. It might include weird symbols, a weird capitalization. So I'm going to play each clip, you're going to identify the song, and then you'll buzz in and see the title out loud, noting any symbols, capitalization, parentheses, typos, etc. So let's, let's, let's, let's do an example. Let's do an example. So all the songs in the actual quiz are songs that you guys will know. My example song is a song that is very, very popular this year. I'm not sure if you two know it, but this is an example. So let's play it.

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Good lord, Someone put me up a double shot of whiskey they know me.

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And Jack Dale's got a history.

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There's a party downtown near fifth Street. Everybody at the bar, get.

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Ooh.

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I have heard this big hit this year.

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So the song by Shaboozi is called. And this is how you would answer a bar song. Parentheses, tipsy, end parentheses.

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Okay.

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They all have a twist. They all have a weird thing in it, even though these are songs that you know and love. So here we go. Song number one. Johnny, I.

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Change.

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Chris, give me the title.

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Yes. I believe the Official title is 8, 6, 7, 5309 parentheses. Jenny, close parentheses.

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Incorrect. Colin, take a stab.

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Oh, no.

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Is. I believe it's the other way around. Isn't it? Isn't it, Jenny, parentheses, 8, 6, 7, 5309, parentheses.

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Incorrect. The official title is 8, 6, 7, dash, 5000, 309, slash. Jenny, Big J. Any. No parentheses.

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Okay.

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All right, man.

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The slash forward slash.

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That's Tommy 2 Tone. Is that right?

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Tommy 2 Tone.

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Okay.

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All right, here we go. Number two. Each get a turn.

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Okay. All right. Sure. All right. Okay. Okay.

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So I mean, I. I understand that this. The. The name of this. This track is. Is the letter M3 times M dash, B, O, P. Okay.

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Okay.

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Is that good?

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My. And then I. I'm. I'm gonna guess no spaces. Mmm.

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B, O, P. Oh, interesting. Okay. Oh, is it like 3 capital M's and then BOP or what? It is 3 capital M's. Capital B, lowercase O, lower. Okay. All right.

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Okay.

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One word. Yes. The song we all know, 90s hit bop by Hanson. It is Big M, big M, big M, big B, small op.

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Oh, okay.

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Bap.

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Yeah, it's one. It's just all in one. You don't. You don't see. Stop. There's. Yeah, there's no dash or anything like that.

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Y, Y, Y.

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So we each had kind of parts of that together.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

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But we're together. I had to hear you say that.

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There was nothing in between before I kind of p. Could picture it, and I'm like. I see.

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Okay, okay.

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All right, good job. Next one. Number three.

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Valentine.

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All right.

[A]

Will Ferrell.

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Yeah.

[B]

Okay. Yeah.

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Damn it, Gene.

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Okay, is this one.

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Is this one. Open parentheses, don't fear. And then, like, close parentheses and then the reaper. Is that what it is?

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That was kind of my man. It's like I'm just totally doubting myself now, right? Yeah.

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Or is it said a funny thing? Because I QA'd this with him. He says he thinks the don't is in the parentheses, so it's Parentheses. Don't.

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Oh, it's about. It's fear the rehear, but it's. Don't. That's like. That's like the title of an Evangelion movie. Why?

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Is it, like, negating?

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Is it don't fear the reaper, open parentheses, more cowbell, close parentheses?

[B]

Yeah, yeah. Is it the reaper parentheses? Don't fear the reaper.

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Don't fear it.

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No, you know what? You guys. Yeah. Just simple. You. You.

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Okay, Your.

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Your first answer. Don't fear in the parentheses and then the reaper. So open friends.

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Okay. So.

[B]

Yeah, all right.

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You just let. You just let us go on and on and on.

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I just want to hear.

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Yeah, creative we can get.

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Yeah, yeah. Normal title casings. But don't fear is in the parentheses by Blue Oyster Culture. All right, here we go. Next question number four.

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I do not know this one. Colin, you're gonna have to.

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Oh, man.

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Bone Thugs and Harmony.

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Yeah, yeah.

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They say crossroads a lot. What is the title?

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What is the title of this one? Oh, my gosh.

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To be honest, I literally thought the song was called Crossroads till Today. I was like, what is it?

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X dash Rhodes.

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The official title song title is the Crossroads. T H, A crossroads.

[C]

Right.

[A]

The Crossroads. The crossroads. All right, here we go. Rolling into penultimate song number five. Two possible answers. Two correct answers for this.

[C]

Oh, interesting. Oh, okay. So my. My immediate thought was, I don't think there's any parentheses, but I think it's. Do ya. Why a think I'm sexy?

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I think it's the same with a question mark. That's. That's what my answer. Do you think I'm sexy question mark?

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All wrong. This is a weird one. Chris, the yacht is Y A.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

Was there something else spelled weird in.

[C]

The song with a three?

[A]

What?

[B]

Or like two X's.

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I'm sexy question mark? D A space. Y, A.

[C]

This is some British thing.

[A]

I think I'm sexy question mark. Or it is also written on the COVID Da apostrophe. Ya apostrophe. Think I'm sexy. No question mark.

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Wow. Okay.

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Die. I think I'm sex.

[C]

He's a 10, but he spells it D A.

[A]

All right, last. Last clip here. Clip number six. Six.

[B]

Okay, okay.

[C]

I think I know. Do you.

[A]

Katy Perry saying this with. With left shark.

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Yes. I think it's. I think that it's. Well, maybe now. Now I'm. Now I'm doubting myself. But it's. It's California spelled like you would spell California, but then the girls is like G, G, U, R, L, Z.

[B]

Or I'LL just to be different. I'll say G, I, R, L, Z. Oh, okay.

[A]

Both are incorrect. It is California spelled normally G, U, R, L, S. Oh.

[C]

We both want there to be a Z, but it's not.

[B]

It's like once you're on the train to incorrect spelling, like you just want to just keep throwing in incorrect letters there. Right?

[A]

Big C. Big G. California girl.

[C]

Like, you know the. The maker of third party video game controllers, Mad cats.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Yeah.

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Not spelled with a K. Oh, but with a Z. But with a Z. Everybody wants there to be a K, but there's no K. It's C, A T, Z, Z.

[A]

That's too much.

[C]

They ch. Exactly. Exactly.

[A]

That is my details in the song title. Tricky quiz.

[B]

Wow, that is tricky. Do we we got like one one out of those, right?

[C]

Like no and no. No Prince songs.

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Nothing compares to you Y.

[C]

When he did that, it was really clever. You know, it was like ho. He was the number two.

[A]

Wow.

[B]

He do that.

[C]

Is that legal? Yeah, exactly.

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That's our show. Thank you all for joining me and thank you listeners for listening in. Hope you learned stuff about the world's smallest things, about Porky Pigs attire, about typography and song titles. You can find us on all major podcast apps and on our website, goodjobbrain.com this podcast is part of Airwave Media podcast network. Visit airwavemedia.com to listen and subscribe to other shows like Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People, Pulse of the Planet, and Mysteries at Midnight. And we'll see you next week.

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