285: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #57 with Dani Siller & Bill Sunderland

Summary

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Good Job, Brain! – Episode 285: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #57 with Dani Siller & Bill Sunderland

December 31, 2024
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Episode Overview

The season finale of Good Job, Brain! delivers an action-packed “All Quiz Bonanza” episode, marking the 57th installment of their famed grab bag of offbeat and team-based trivia. Regulars Karen, Colin, Dana, and Chris are joined by trivia experts and guest hosts Dani Siller and Bill Sunderland, known for their podcast “Escape This Podcast.” The crew dives into rounds of Trivial Pursuit, inventive custom quizzes, quirky language and animal trivi, patent oddities, and even a live escape-room style puzzle—all while laughing their way through creative, collaborative solutions. The episode finishes with a special music round celebrating Australian artists—in reverse.

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Key Discussion Points & Quiz Rounds

1. Meet the Guests & Trivial Pursuit Warm-Up

00:16–11:36

• Guests Introduced: Dani and Bill, co-hosts of “Escape This Podcast” and world-class trivia enthusiasts.
• Quips about trivia obsessions: Dani is ranked in the World Trivia Organization.
• Trivial Pursuit Round: UK and Australian editions, some questions and answers:
  • Q: Which country didn’t grant its first divorce until 1997?
    A: Republic of Ireland
    [00:55] Chris: “Ireland!”
  • Q: What iconic costume did Raquel Welch wear in “One Million Years BC”?
    A: Fur bikini
    [04:15] Chris: “A leopard fur bikini.”
  • Q: Who was South Africa’s first democratically elected president?
    A: Nelson Mandela
    [04:36] Chris: “Nelson Mandela.”
  • Q: Which acidic kitchen staple can dissolve a pearl?
    A: Vinegar
    [05:35] Dani: “It’s got to be vinegar, right?”
• Cultural quirks of international Trivial Pursuit cards and localizations.

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2. Game & Toy Patents Round (Dani)

12:10–21:23

• Premise: Guess the game based on a real, sometimes overly-general, U.S. patent description.
  • “Game with action producing components” – Mousetrap
    [13:56] Bill: “Is a patent for Mousetrap the board game.”
  • “Strategic pattern building game” – Connect 4
    [15:13] Bill: “Is it Connect 4?”
  • “Icosahedron decimal dice” – D20 / 20-sided die
    [15:46] Karen: “20 sided dice.”
• Surprising facts: Some patents expired; Jenga blocks’ patent once referenced different frictions.
  • “Apparatus for playing a game wherein the players constitute the game pieces” – Twister
• Notable Moment:
  [21:14] Dani, reading the patent: “Entwine his body in a pretzel-like manner around the body of an opponent.”
• Insight: Dani and Karen bond over reading patents for fun.

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3. Archaic English Animal Names Quiz (Karen)

22:12–37:54

• Prompted by a Horse Chestnut Mishap: Karen tells a personal story about trying (and failing) to forage chestnuts—leading to a PSA about horse chestnuts being poisonous, and a segue into old-timey animal names.
• Group guesses animal based on a list of obsolete English names:
  • “Fuzz pig, Dumbledore, Hummerhorn” – Bumblebee
  • “Flitter mouse” – Bat
  • “Natterjack, Pollywog” – Toad/Frog
  • “Mere swine” – Dolphin (sea pig)
    [31:13] Dani explains the German etymology.
  • “Todd” – Fox (as in The Fox and the Hound)
  • “Pissmire” – Ant
  • “Washing bear” – Raccoon
  • “Camelopard” – Giraffe
  • “Essence peddler” – Skunk
  • “Candle fly” – Moth
  • “Coney” – Rabbit
• Linguistic Insight:
  [37:08] Karen: “At some point they needed to standardize [animal names]... If we’re trading three ‘Essence peddlers’ for a ‘mere swine’…”
• Memorable quote:
  [37:46] Bill: “You said it was illegal to kill these dolphins. You didn’t say anything about mere swines!”

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4. Movie “Shared Role” Chain Quiz (Bill)

40:25–54:41

• Concept: Connect two movies by actors who played the same character (not necessarily together).
• Sample Links:
  • Best Exotic Marigold Hotel → Lord of the Rings: Judi Dench (QE1) / Cate Blanchett (QE1).
    [42:49] Dani: “Judi Dench has played Queen Elizabeth... Cate Blanchett has played Queen Elizabeth.”
  • Shutter Island → Fight Club: Mark Ruffalo (Hulk) / Ed Norton (Hulk)
  • Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade → Mamma Mia!: Sean Connery (James Bond) / Pierce Brosnan (James Bond)
  • The Godfather → American Gangster: Marlon Brando (Superman’s Jor-El) → Russell Crowe (Jor-El in Man of Steel)
  • Alien → Hot Fuzz: Ian Holm (Bilbo Baggins) → Martin Freeman (Bilbo Baggins)
  • Remains of the Day → Troy: Anthony Hopkins (Hannibal Lecter) → Brian Cox (Hannibal Lecter)
• Notable Moment:
  [43:07] Bill: “Cate Blanchett played Queen Elizabeth I in ‘Elizabeth’ and Cate Blanchett is in Lord of the Rings.”
• Team brainstorming and process shown—great for trivia fans!

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5. Escape Room Podcast-Style Quiz (Chris)

54:47–71:51

• Classic Escape Room Puzzle: Chris presents a quiz where each correct trivia answer gives an item or word, used in a logic puzzle to “escape” a locked room.
  • Sample answers: He Man, GUI, Hello, Fork, Pink Eye, Eraserhead, Red Herring, Man Eater.
  • Puzzle mechanics: Combining/manipulating answers (e.g., “Man eater” eats “he” from “Hello” and “He Man”, leaving “llo”; combine GUI + llo + tine to create “guillotine”; use “guillotine” on “Eraserhead” to get “eraser” and “head”; erase from “escape” to make “safe”; use “saw” to cut “pine” from “pink eye”, leaving “key”…)
  • Memorable Moments:
    • [66:56] Chris: “You combine the gooey, the llo and the tine and now you have a guillotine.”
    • [68:51] Chris: “You use the wood saw on the pine, sawing away the pine, leaving yourself only a key.”
  • Dani (applauding cleverness): [70:00] “None of mine are as creative as this. That was so good.”
• Meta-Reflection:
  [71:22] Bill (puzzle-writing advice): “The clue was not necessarily in the action, but in the wording of the description of the results.”

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6. Australian Artists Reverse Music Round (Karen)

72:27–83:35

• Theme: Guess the (reversed) song and artist, with bonus trivia for each.
  1. AC/DC – “Back in Black”
     Bonus: Used in opening of 2008’s Iron Man.
  2. Bluey Theme Song
     Bonus: Parental names? Bandit and Chili.
     [75:57] Chris: “Bandit and Healer”—Karen: “Chili is the mom.”
  3. Jet – “Are You Gonna Be My Girl”
     Bonus: Featured in iPod commercials.
  4. The Kid LAROI
     Bonus: Who did he bring out in Melbourne 2022? The Wiggles.
  5. Gotye – “Somebody That I Used to Know”
     Bonus: Featured artist is Kimbra.
  6. Rick Springfield – “Jessie’s Girl”
     Bonus: Number one song in the U.S. when MTV launched (August 1, 1981).
• Highlight on Bandit and Chili’s in-universe jobs.
• Big laughs for The Wiggles as “super special guest.”

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• [12:29] Dani: “What’s a good emotion to get you started writing a quiz? … I thought, anger!”
• [23:44] Karen (after failing at chestnut foraging): “What looks like chestnuts on your street might not be edible chestnuts. They might be poisonous horse chestnuts.”
• [28:40] Bill: “It doesn't feel like we went from one of these (old bee names) to bumblebee. It feels like they're all the same.”
• [53:14] Bill (on double character jumps): “It all kind of got a bit out of hand…but if I come back into another one of these, I'll refine the process and the rules.”
• [65:37] Bill, working out a puzzle step: “Chris, let's do the same thing for Eraserhead… We erase the ‘he’.”
• [75:44] Chris, on the Bluey theme: “I just know that because I know it.”

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [00:16–11:36] – Warm-up and Trivial Pursuit segments
• [12:10–21:23] – Patent Game Quiz
• [22:12–37:54] – Archaic Animal Names Round
• [40:25–54:41] – Movie “Shared Role” Chain Quiz
• [54:47–71:51] – Escape Room Style Podcast Quiz
• [72:27–83:35] – Aussie Reverse Music Quiz
• [83:35–End] – Farewells and guest plugs

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Episode Tone & Takeaways

• The episode is collaborative and filled with supportive, playful ribbing and much laughter.
• The quizzing is consistently creative—infused with trivia insider tips, language history, movie lore, and puzzle design meta-talk.
• The guests (“Escape This Podcast”) bring extra puzzle depth and international flavor.
• Inventiveness in question formats (patent clues, escape rooms, reverse-music) keeps listeners engaged and inspired to play along.
• Reflection on trivia best practices and puzzle-writing enriches the experience for both casual listeners and trivia nerds.

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Further Info

Guests’ plugs:

• Escape This Podcast
• Solve This Murder
• Writing team for Rising of the Golden Idol (video game)

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Transcript

[A]

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.

[B]

Hello, herpetological heralds in herringbone herding hermit crabs. Welcome to Good Job Brain, your weekly quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. This is episode 285, our season finale, and the last episode of 2024. And of course, I'm your humble host, Karen. And we are your elvish elders, elated for elixirs and eleganza.

[C]

I'm Chris.

[D]

I'm Bill.

[A]

Oh, I'm Danny. Oh, we get to be part of it.

[B]

Yay.

[C]

Karen. Before we start, who.

[D]

Who.

[C]

Who are these people? What are they doing here?

[A]

Who are these people?

[B]

Yes.

[D]

Maybe some people have not seen the other or not listened to the other episodes that we have appeared on. We have a show called Escape this podcast where we have guests. Come on. You have been those guests before to play through audio versions of escape rooms full of puzzles and story and characters and weirdness.

[A]

Beyond that, we're also just big old trivia enthusiasts.

[D]

Danny, where are you ranked in the world trivia organization?

[A]

Don't make me do that. I have a ranking somewhere. I don't scroll down far enough in the list, though. Don't worry.

[C]

Well, you are ranked.

[A]

Yes. Oh, yeah. You just do enough of the quizzes that are technically international quizzes, and some dedicated person out there actually goes through and keeps regular scores of everyone in the world who does them. Next weekend, I think I'm doing national quiz championships.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

Oh, they sound so intense. It's. Yeah. Go to a meeting room at a hotel near the airport, and you spend all day quizzing. That sounds pretty fancy.

[B]

They got good pancakes, usually. And yogurts and little things.

[C]

That's all you really wanted at the airport hotel?

[B]

Yep. All right, well, without further ado, let's jump into our first general truvia segment. Pop quiz Hot shot. Here I have a random truia. Pursuit card. You guys have your barnyard buzzers, slash I have buzzers.

[C]

What do you guys have?

[A]

I've got a goose sound effect.

[D]

I'm just gonna wing it. Don't even worry about it.

[B]

Here we go. Let's answer some questions. Blue Edge for geography. Which country didn't grant its first divorce until 1997, becoming the last country in Europe to allow it?

[C]

Wow.

[B]

Whoa. My eyes are very.

[D]

That wasn't your eyes. That was my buzzer. Is it Switzerland?

[B]

In.

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They took a while to give away everywhere, but.

[C]

All right.

[B]

Everybody gets. Okay.

[C]

All right.

[D]

Ready?

[C]

Don't be offended at me. Ireland.

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It is really.

[C]

Okay. All right. Okay.

[B]

Republic of Ireland.

[C]

Deeply well, it's deeply Catholic.

[A]

I was gonna go Vatican City for similar reasons. Okay, maybe they're. I don't know.

[B]

That's true. What?

[C]

I guess. Is anybody. I'm sorry? Is anybody married in Vatican City?

[A]

Interesting.

[D]

Interesting.

[B]

Oh, oh, oh.

[A]

Google can't be trusted particularly well anymore for the first things that show up on it. But when you Google it, it does. I am seeing you can't divorce in Vatican City.

[C]

Cannot.

[A]

Cannot.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

I don't know, though.

[B]

Ooh. I'm actually.

[A]

This feels like a deep dive topic for another day.

[B]

That's interesting. What you can, you can't do in Vatican City. That sounds like a good song. All right, here we go. Pink wedge.

[D]

Called Vatican City.

[B]

Pink wedge for pop culture. Which iconic costume did Raquel Welch wear for her role as a cave woman in the 1966 film One Million Years BC? I don't understand what. What it's asking for, Chris.

[C]

A leopard fur bikini.

[B]

Yes, I see. I was like, isn't she wearing cave woman clothes? All right, next question. Here we go. Yellow wedge. Who was South Africa's first democratically elected president? Whoa.

[C]

What was that?

[B]

What was was that?

[D]

I found my old buzzer.

[C]

Nelson Mandela.

[B]

It is Nelson Mandela.

[C]

How about that?

[B]

Yeah. Next question. Purple wedge. Which dazzling nighttime art installation of flames on water originated in Providence, Rhode island, in 1994? Chris, you're the only person from New England area.

[C]

How often was the water on fire nighttime art installation?

[A]

I'm not familiar with this one at all.

[C]

Disney's World of Color? I have no idea.

[B]

Water. Fire. One word.

[D]

Water. Fire.

[A]

Okay, all right. They made it guessable.

[C]

They did.

[A]

That's on us.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[D]

What a fire. That's right.

[C]

Exactly.

[B]

Green wedge for Science of Nature. Which acidic kitchen staple can dissolve a pearl.

[C]

Oh, yeah. Okay.

[A]

Danny, it's got to be vinegar, right?

[B]

It's vinegar. But why would you.

[A]

Yeah, just really, really anti Pearl.

[B]

Anti Pearl agenda.

[A]

Get out of here, sea junk.

[B]

All right, here we go. Last question on this card. Orange wedge. In 1969, Judy Shepard Missette launched a dance as fitness revolution known as What? Oh, Bill.

[D]

Would that be Jazzercise?

[B]

Jazz. Jazzercise. Jazzercise. Woo. Good job, brains. And I believe you guys have a special surprise for us.

[D]

I have my own stack of trivia.

[B]

Oh, yes. Australian trivia.

[D]

Australian Trivial Pursuit. It is always on hand. Now, I will say for everybody worrying this is not like Australia themed. It's just made for Australia.

[C]

It's what they sell. Yeah, sure.

[A]

So we're not going to get a Rhode island art Installation question.

[C]

Right, right. Exactly. It's not questions about Australia.

[D]

Localized. Sometimes they'll sneak in. So why don't. Let's have a go. Let's do another card. Here we go. Okay, everybody ready?

[C]

Let's rock and roll.

[B]

I'm the dog. Okay.

[D]

All right, we're Blue Wedge for geography. Papa Doc and Baby Doc Duvalier ruled over what Caribbean country between 1957 and 1986? I think that was Karen.

[B]

Haiti.

[D]

The answer is Haiti. Or Haiti, if you'd like.

[B]

Haiti.

[A]

Oh, I went down a rabbit hole recently of the pronunciations.

[D]

Anyway, pink for entertainment. Which New Zealand band named after a make of car released the albums out of Sight, out of Mind and Smoke and Mirrors? Hmm.

[A]

I only know one New Zealand band.

[C]

Is it named after a car?

[A]

Not a car. That I know.

[D]

Which New Zealand band named after a make of car released the albums out of Sight, out of Mind and Smoke and Mirrors? I don't know if this make of car is a make of car in America.

[C]

Sure. Yeah.

[D]

That's how they get you.

[A]

Interesting.

[C]

Yep, yep, yep.

[A]

Have I heard of this make of car?

[C]

All up to you, Danny.

[D]

Danny, you've never heard of the band? You've heard of the make of car?

[A]

Oh, that's upsetting.

[D]

I'll put you all out of your misery. It's the Datsuns.

[C]

Oh, no, we have Datsuns. We used to.

[D]

Yeah, I think same here. We used to have Datsuns. I don't know if we do anymore. All right, let's go to history. Let's go to yellow history. This one you'll have heard of. Who were the Praetorian Guard?

[B]

Oh, that's it.

[D]

Who were the Praetorian Guardians?

[A]

Oh, how. How do you.

[D]

Praetorian God.

[A]

How do you.

[D]

Praetorian God. Praetorian God.

[A]

I'll start generic.

[C]

That's interesting.

[D]

Yes.

[A]

Danny, they were some Roman dudes who killed a lot of emperors.

[D]

They were. I'll give it to you all at once. Is Roman soldiers.

[A]

Oh, oh, okay.

[D]

Oh, and specifically, they were the elite guard employed to protect the Roman emperors, but they did also kill a couple. All right. The Purple Arts and Literature. What was Mozart's final work?

[B]

Oh, interesting. All right, well, just going by the movie Amadeus, I think you'll do.

[D]

You'll do. Okay. If you're going by the movie, I believe.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

Is it Magic Flute?

[D]

No, it is not Magic Flute.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Yes, Danny, if I'm also going by the play we're dealing with. So Don Giovanni Happens. The Requiem in D Minor it is the Requiem.

[D]

Yes.

[B]

Wow.

[C]

Oh, my gosh.

[A]

Is it D minor?

[D]

I think it's C minor. Ah, this just says Requiem.

[A]

I'll take it.

[D]

We're getting a bit more Australian here, but you will all be fine.

[C]

This is dancing around it.

[D]

This is a buzzer race.

[C]

Okay, okay.

[D]

Which animal is not a marsupial, kangaroo, koala, raccoon, or.

[A]

What was the last one going?

[D]

Wombat? I don't know. I think we can get all together. It's a raccoon.

[B]

It's weird that this question is an Australian.

[D]

Yeah, like what? Like we're not gonna know. Like, that's the raccoon. That animal. That. It does not live here.

[C]

Right, right.

[D]

That weird little guy. And final question. Orange for Sports and Leisure. Which of these Q Sports is oldest? Oh, billiards, pool or snooker?

[B]

I thought.

[C]

I thought it was gonna be like Quidditch, Like Q Sports.

[B]

That starts with Q.

[D]

No, these are Q Sports, not Q Sports. How could you be so confused?

[C]

So what, so what was it? Billiard.

[D]

It was billiard or snooker. Danny, you're buzzing in.

[A]

All right, it's a 1 in 3 chance. I'll take the first shot. Snooker.

[D]

Oh, I'm so sorry. You're a big dumb idiot.

[C]

Oh, dang.

[D]

Oh, I can't believe it. Chris.

[C]

Billiards.

[D]

Billiards. You're the smartest man in the world. It is billions.

[C]

Incredible.

[A]

Billiards would have been. I would have said choice.

[C]

I said snooker. Also by increasing order of obscurity. You know what I mean? Like, everybody plays pool. People used to play billiards. Never heard or I've heard of snooker, but I couldn't tell you in any way. Like, interesting how you play it.

[A]

For me, it's the order. Pool, snooker, billiards. I don't know anything about how to.

[D]

Play billiards, but snooker, they still play on tv. They're like. And he's lining up for the shot.

[A]

Very British.

[C]

Oh, really?

[D]

Very slowly taking a shot up. And there it is. He's pocketed into hole six. I don't know how they. I don't watch.

[A]

The UK trivia scene will have famous snooker players show up as questions.

[D]

They're obsessed with snooker.

[B]

Oh. Woo. All right, today's episode. As you know, every episode. Good job, brain. We usually have a topic and then we all make quizzes and segments and research all about that topic. But every fifth episode, we have a grab bag quiz episode. So get ready. Today it's all quiz bonanza number 57.

[A]

I'm happy to go first with this one. And so I decided I wanted to go into a field that we all know and love.

[B]

Games. Yay.

[A]

And you know what I love about games more than anything else? The legal side of producing them and all of the great fun that comes along with that.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

I really honestly, I just thought, what's a good emotion to get you started when you want to be motivated to write a quiz? And I thought, anger. What is something in games that makes me angry? And I thought about the specific games. Shadow of Mordor, are you familiar with that video game?

[B]

Yes.

[A]

And there's a bit of a controversy that left people feeling a little bit salty towards it because Warner Brothers patented an amazing game mechanic that happened in there, stopping other studios from being able to use this mechanic even in places that it would have fit so well. And it just left everyone disappointed. And I decided to look up some game related patents to see who owns what and what is specifically connected to certain games. So going into board games and physical media was a more interesting one for this.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

So what I've got, I have found a few patents online, but I wanted to see if you could pick what game or gaming related device I am talking about when I give you the name of a patent. Some of them, if they're a bit too general, I've also got a little bit of a description, some of the quotes from the patent that might help you get more of a picture in your head and you can buzz in when you think you know these ones. So let's take a look. Number one, game with action producing components.

[B]

Action.

[A]

Quite general, isn't it? Bill, what do you think?

[D]

I just want. I just want to go hard on my first guess. I think a game with action producing components is a patent for Mousetrap the board game.

[A]

Is Mousetrap the board game.

[C]

Oh, fantastic. Wonderful.

[B]

So general, I'll give you.

[D]

So general, I'll give you the quote.

[A]

Yeah. That was amazing. A game comprising a game board, including a track defining a plurality of stations and having a starting point, a plurality of game pieces for movement along said track from station to station. A cage, a support for said cage adapted to maintain it. Keeps going very wordly and specific. But yeah, eventually you can see what it is.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

All right. Number two. Tricky. Strategic pattern building game.

[D]

Pattern building.

[C]

Strategic pattern building pattern.

[B]

Pattern.

[D]

When do I build a pattern?

[A]

I can start reading from the quote. From the descriptive quote. A marker matrix configured to receive playing markers along an insertion edge. Oh, Billy, coming in again.

[D]

Yes. Is it Connect 4?

[A]

It is Connect 4.

[C]

Wow.

[D]

It's all about the insertion edge.

[A]

It really was. I didn't even get up to the horizontal rows and vertical columns part.

[C]

Oh, my gosh.

[D]

I love it.

[A]

Okay, I got. I think this one's a pretty easy one. The description. The description is very much already what the thing is. You just got to give me the common name for it. Icosahedron decimal dice. Karen.

[B]

20 sided dice.

[A]

It is a D20. A 20 sided die.

[D]

You kind of have a patent on a die.

[A]

It is very interesting.

[B]

Get out of this.

[D]

Get that out of my courtroom.

[A]

There are plenty of these things as well that, like, were patents granted once upon a time in the 50s or so, that have since lapsed. I should have mentioned that your outrage may be well placed. It may not.

[D]

I place it well.

[A]

They suggest using this in board games, lotteries, stock market determinations, scientific work, and other applications where random numbers are needed. All right, next one. Oh, boy. We're back to the general game having multiple game activities.

[B]

Game having multiple game activities.

[D]

Game with multiple game activities.

[A]

The game kit includes a game playing surface marked with a plurality of indissia, a plurality of markers for positioning on the indicia of the game playing surface, and a plurality of decks of cards wherein each card bears instructions for a player to carry out an activity.

[D]

I don't know what it feels like. It's like an articulate style game, but you're just giving people things to. Is it like.

[A]

Yes, Bill.

[D]

Is it like cranium?

[A]

This is cranium.

[C]

Okay.

[D]

Oh, there you go.

[A]

You have to do a few different types of creative.

[B]

You have the physical, you have. Yeah, right.

[A]

That's exactly right.

[D]

I was just trying to think, what's a game like that where you don't just do the same thing every time?

[A]

All right. A little bit broader. Now think a little bit of field.

[D]

Okay.

[A]

This one is a premium acquisition game device and method of operating. Premium acquisition game device.

[B]

Premium acquisition.

[D]

I. I think I'm ready to buzz again.

[B]

Oh, go for it.

[A]

Yeah. Bill, what do you reckon?

[D]

Is it like a crane game?

[B]

Is the crane game UFO catcher. Wow.

[D]

Yeah. Yeah.

[A]

UFO capture, right? Yep, yep. It talks about specifically having arms that open and close and a method of operating that arm.

[D]

Does it say in the patent only grabs 10% of the time.

[A]

All right, just a couple more. Die agitating chance device.

[C]

Die agitate. Oh, my God.

[A]

You want that one?

[D]

Is it.

[C]

I know what this is.

[D]

Is it trouble?

[A]

Is that what you think, Chris?

[D]

Or is it.

[C]

Oh, yeah, Pop o matic.

[B]

Troublematic.

[A]

Trouble popping Device of the Game trouble. Absolutely flat span with a snap action portion. The advertising rights itself in this one. All right. This one super easy. You're going to get this one immediately. It'll be a buzzer race. There's just a little bit in the pattern I want to talk about. This is stacking Brick Tower game. Oh, Chris.

[B]

Jenga.

[A]

Absolutely. That's Jenga. I honestly, I haven't played much Jenga. It wasn't one of my childhood ones, but I just wanted to read this quote. Bricks of a variety of different types are provided with each type having different physical characteristics such as shape, size, surface configuration and or coefficient of friction.

[B]

Would that be so, like different surfaces?

[A]

Was that how it started? And it just sort of got planed down over time.

[C]

Well, actually, here's the question. Are the Jenga bricks actually, like, are some of them slightly bigger, slightly smaller, slightly slipperier?

[D]

They seem the same.

[A]

Everyone get out your Jenga sets and just feel them for a while. Tell us the results.

[C]

Come back later when you're done.

[A]

Just two to go. Next one. Again, I think this one's also pretty easy. One game utilizing electric probe, I think that was. Oh, Chris or Karen. Who do you reckon got there?

[B]

I was gonna guess Operation.

[A]

That's absolutely Operation. I learned a lot about how the electrical circuits in that game worked.

[B]

Now that game gave me so much anxiety as a kid.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

I believe that the actual game, Operation, it started out not at all in its current form. It wasn't a human body. It wasn't an operation technically. But the actual gameplay mechanics were still exactly the same. So it got carried on patent wise. And that was the pattern that ended up going sort of with Operation.

[B]

What's his name? He has a name. Chris. You had like a lot of quizzes about like changes. Like Sam.

[C]

I want to say Sam.

[B]

Yeah, right. Cadaver Sam or something. Maybe.

[C]

It'S not Cadaver. He's not dead. Yeah.

[B]

Oh, yeah, he's not dead. You're right.

[D]

He's Cavity Sam. I've just found. Yes, Cavity sand.

[C]

There we go.

[A]

Well, last one. And this was just my favorite, so I had to put it last. Apparatus for playing a game wherein the players constitute the game pieces.

[C]

Twister.

[D]

That's Twister.

[A]

So they got a patent for the Twister mat. As long as humans are the ones playing it, as long as it's people.

[C]

So if I. Okay, so if I get for dogs to play Twister.

[D]

Dog.

[C]

Twister does not infringe on the patent.

[A]

Well, I mean, how knowingly playing the game are the dogs? I Suppose it really depends on the intelligence of the dog.

[B]

They're colorblind.

[C]

Oh, they're really smart dogs.

[A]

The Twister one, it includes the phrase entwine his body in a pretzel like manner around the body of an opponent.

[B]

Sensual.

[C]

Is that the Kama Sutra or the Twister pattern? That's the next quiz. Kama Sutra or Twister pattern.

[D]

I'd love it if the. If, like, the Twister pattern was just, like, entwines his body brackets, not sexually. Like a pretzel around another player in brackets. Non sexual, close brackets.

[A]

It also does advise you that it might be that the person falls because of an awkward position or by being overpowered, strength wise. So I think there's a bit more wrestling in traditional Twister than we think.

[D]

The patent wants you to fight for position.

[A]

Little bit.

[B]

Danny. I didn't think there were people like me who read patents for fun. And I'm so glad I found you and that you're like, I'm gonna read about some board game patents. Yes. That is my ideal Thursday night activity.

[A]

The hardest part was whenever I found a good one, not just yelling it out to Bill immediately.

[B]

Ah. All right, my turn. I'm gonna tell a quick personal story that's tangentially related to my quiz. It's more. It's more like a psa. So I play Pokemon Go. And so I go on walks every day. And I was recently on a walk, and I was hearing this sound. It's like really loud thuds, almost like little bombs going off, you know, sporadically. I was like, what's going on? Turns out it was these trees, and they were dropping nuts, fruit tree things onto the hood of the cars that. That were carved. But they're not like acorns. They're not like, bing, bing, bing, bing. It's like, boom, boom, boom. And then I look down. The sidewalk was covered in chestnuts. I don't know if you guys know what a chestnut from a tree. Like, fresh chest on fresh, fresh chest. I don't know.

[C]

Looks like it's got a spiky covering. Yeah.

[A]

Oh, okay. Gotcha, Gotcha.

[B]

It has a hedgehog spiny rind. As they fall and hit all these cars, they get split open. And I'm looking at the ground. I was like, look at this. It's all chestnuts on the ground. I can. I can be like a forager. So I grabbed all these chestnuts, put in my pockets. I was like, oh, man. I. You know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna roast them. I like, on my walk back, I, like, looked up the recipe to, like, how to roast chestnuts.

[D]

And.

[B]

And so I get home and I. And I. I tell my. I was like, I got a surprise. And he's like, oh, what's your surprise? I was like, look at these. And I was like, yeah, I picked up chestnuts off from the ground. I'm gonna roast them. We're gonna eat them. And he's like, so you just picked up, like, garbage from the ground? I was like, yeah, don't worry about it.

[A]

It's all.

[B]

It's all peeled and stuff.

[D]

He's city folk. He doesn't understand.

[B]

I follow the instructions. You soak it in water, and then you make, like, a little cut on the shell, and then you roast them in the oven. Smells great. Open the oven. And I put one in my mouth, and I immediately spat it out because it tasted like poison. It was. It was bitter. It had. The texture was so similar. And I was like, maybe something's wrong with this one. So I ate another one. They're all bad. And I was like, oh, man. Maybe this is, like, bad chestnuts on the ground. Maybe it was on the ground for too long. I don't know. I looked up the recipe to how to roast chestnut, but I didn't really look up. Are these chestnuts?

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Should I roast these chestnuts?

[C]

Is it a chestnut? Oh, no.

[B]

Turns out they are horse chestnuts.

[C]

Okay. Yeah.

[B]

Oh, I've heard of that. Similar to chestnuts, but everywhere you read about them says, they are very poisonous. Do not eat.

[C]

Well.

[D]

That's just rude.

[B]

That makes sense because there's so many on the ground. It's like the animals don't want to go near them. There's no other humans thinking of the same.

[C]

Nobody trying to open these all up, taking them home, being like, oh, he hit the jackpot.

[B]

So big. Psa, everybody. What looks like chestnuts on your. On your street might not be edible chestnuts. They might be poisonous horse chestnuts.

[D]

Hey, I gotta tell you, I'm looking at pictures of chestnuts versus horse chestnuts. They're the same thing. Like this. This is very much a cross your fingers situation.

[C]

Oh, my gosh.

[B]

Anyways, so back to my quiz. Sorry for this tangent. So I mentioned that the chestnut fruit looks like a hedgehog. And after I spat out the horse chestnut, I was like, oh, what a. That's a funny word. Hedgehog is a really funny word. So I looked up other names for hedgehog. I found fuzz pig. These are all former English words. For hedgehog, fuzz pig, hodgin, prickly pig, hedgy boar, turpentine and poachin. And urchin, which until I read that I was like, oh, in order for a sea urchin to exist, there probably was a former urchin that was on land.

[D]

There was a base urchin.

[B]

Yes, the prime urchin.

[C]

That's what it.

[B]

Wow. But now it's a situation where like we just call urchin. Sea urchin is urchin. So this got me thinking about archaic former English names for animals that all have that kind of old timey feel. Old timey construction. You know, like imagine you're a, a gamekeeper, groundsman in English countryside. Sometimes these were, they have like a sing song cutesy quality like hedgehog roly, poly. And then there are some of these names that are matter of fact logic based names like, like dragonfly, fly. That looks kind of like a dragon. Okay, cool. So. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna give you some old retired archaic names of an animal and you all have to try to guess what animal is it? I would say this is a group effort. Talk amongst yourselves.

[C]

Oh, okay.

[B]

What is really interesting is that even though we don't use a lot of these words anymore, you still find like lingering parts in the English language. So this is an example like cob. It's a spider. And this is where cobweb comes from, right? Yes, cobwebs. All right, here we go. First animal, you're gonna give me a group answer. A foggy, a bumbog, a hummerhorn. They're all, they're all words for the same animal.

[A]

Okay. All right, this has got to be onomatopoeic, right? This is a thing that makes a noise.

[D]

A foggy.

[C]

Oh, okay.

[B]

A bumbog.

[D]

A bum.

[B]

Yeah, bumbog.

[D]

Don't like it. Don't like it.

[B]

Hummer, horn, Hummerhorn.

[D]

I feel like I've heard hummerhorn before.

[B]

There's one last one that might give it away. A Dumbledore.

[D]

Yeah, I was gonna say, is it a dumbledore?

[A]

I have heard that one.

[D]

It's a bee, isn't it? Like a honeybee or bumblebee. Yeah, bumblebee is a dumbledore and a hummerhorn.

[B]

A bumblebee. Bumblebee itself also sounds very.

[D]

Yeah, it doesn't feel like we went from one of these two bumblebee. It feels like they're all the same. It's a bumblebee, it's a dumbledore, it's a Hummer horn. It's a Blimbleblam. We'll just stick with Bumblebee. Just stop it. Bumblebee, please.

[B]

All right, next one. A flitter mouse or a flutter mouse.

[A]

I feel comfortable with hummingbird or because of German.

[D]

In German, a bat is a fledermaus.

[C]

Oh, very good. Okay.

[D]

So presumably they literally just taken. It's just when English was German, they were like, we'll just keep.

[A]

By calling it a flitter mouse. We made it just that much more adorable.

[C]

Yep, yep, yep.

[D]

Stadt Einer Maus. No, Nein ist Einer. Play the mouse.

[B]

Correct. Mouse with wings.

[A]

Yay.

[B]

Next one. A glutton. Horny wink.

[C]

No.

[B]

Natterjack Paddock. That's P, A, D, D, O, C, K pad Doc.

[D]

Like haddock, but with a P glutin.

[B]

And a horny wink. Natterjack.

[D]

The. All. These are all words for like a. Like a nun in Austria, I think a flibberty jibbet. A will o' the wisp. A clown.

[A]

To me, they sound like a bird that won't shut up.

[C]

Yeah, the nattering. Right. Like nattering on.

[B]

I'll tell you what, the baby version of this animal, their names include Pollywog and Poliwig.

[C]

Oh.

[D]

Oh, is that making. That's like a toad, right?

[A]

Oh, really?

[D]

Like a Poly world.

[B]

Oh, like Pokemon.

[C]

Right.

[A]

After all the chestnut conversation, I was thinking, oh, just like the Pokemon Chespin and its evolutionary line. I forgot to go back to Pokemon.

[B]

Yes.

[D]

Poly rats.

[B]

Yes.

[D]

And Polywhirls and Polytoads.

[C]

So Natterjack and all that. That's a. That's a frog.

[B]

Yeah, It's a toad. And of course, Pollywog, Poliwig are tadpoles. Here's one, everybody. What is a mere swine?

[D]

Oh, it's a mere swine.

[A]

That's German again. So I. Oh, it is. Well, I know Mearschweinschin and Schin just usually means little at the end, so I'm hoping it's the same thing, or at least a very closely related thing.

[C]

I'm gonna go with whatever you think it is.

[A]

In this case, a Merchweinschen, I believe, is a guinea pig. So those sorts of things. So.

[D]

Oh, it's not.

[A]

It's something different.

[B]

M e R e Swine. Swine.

[A]

If we're going more literally, Schwein is pig near. Not spelled this. Not spelled quite the same way. But is sea or ocean like it is in a few European languages?

[D]

What other sea pigs are like a seal or something? Like A seal could just be a sea pig.

[B]

I was like, that's a sea dog.

[D]

Okay. A walrus. A walrus is a sea pig.

[B]

That's kind of piggish. Yeah, it's dolphin. It's dolphin is a sea pig.

[C]

Is a sea pig.

[D]

Do you think it's because it's got the skin of a pig? I feel like a dolphin has the skin of a pig.

[A]

I feel like.

[D]

You see it?

[B]

It's kind of just like hair.

[D]

Yeah, but not really. Come on, look at those. Look at those pink losers. Like a big, fat, hairless pig. You're like, that's a land dolphin if ever I've seen one.

[B]

Here is another one. Just one word. Todd.

[D]

Todd, Todd.

[B]

To d. Tod Tod from work.

[D]

Todd. What animal would just be a Todd?

[A]

In the Fox and the Hound, the fox is named Todd.

[C]

Okay, okay.

[D]

Ooh, What's a fox?

[B]

Look at that. Isn't that clever?

[D]

I think for everybody who's listening along at home, that's like a masterclass in how you answer trivia questions a hundred percent.

[C]

Absolutely.

[D]

Like, you don't. You don't go, I. Oh, what could Todd be as an animal? You've got no idea. But you find a random cultural reference to be like, wait, I've heard an animal called Todd once somewhere. I've got a hook. That was perfect.

[B]

That was in completely my train of thought too. Copper and Todd, Fox and the Hound.

[A]

I was like, oh, that's amazing.

[B]

Here we go. We have a couple names for this one animal. Emmett. Like the name Emmett.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

Meyer and Piss Meyer.

[C]

Wow.

[B]

And the piss does mean P. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Emmett, Meyer and Pismeyer.

[C]

Wow.

[B]

I was.

[D]

Weirdly, something about the construction of Emmett made me want to go into, like, the weaselly family. It's got weasel energy.

[B]

I will say they use this animal in heraldry, coat of arms, a lot to symbolize hard work.

[C]

Wow.

[A]

Is it may or may not pee a lot?

[B]

Not a beaver. It is an insect. Oh.

[D]

Oh. Like an ant.

[B]

Not only like an ant is an ant really? Emmett Meyer and Piss. Meyer. Meyer. How's ant? They say pee ant. And it's because, like some of the ants, they give off a.

[A]

They can exude.

[D]

Yes.

[B]

And that's where they. They got the name piss Me Ants. Yeah.

[A]

Is that what. There is some slang things, usually slightly oldie things where someone is insulting someone, they will call them a piss ant.

[D]

You're right. That is a thing.

[B]

Oh, my God. Piss. Like, yes, little piss ant.

[D]

That's a thing.

[C]

Well, I'll be. Comes From Old English.

[B]

Comes from. Say that you're an ants. Yeah, I always thought it was pissant.

[D]

Pissant.

[B]

Wow. All right, next one. Here we go. A washing bear. Aw.

[D]

Oh, oh, oh. Is it a. Is it a racking raccoon? Is it a little racking? Is it a raccoon?

[A]

The greatest marsupial of all.

[C]

King of the marsupials.

[D]

I'm assuming we've all seen the saddest video in the world. Oh my God.

[B]

With the cotton candy.

[A]

Candy.

[D]

You know the raccoon with. With fairy floss. The raccoon with cotton candy Chris?

[C]

No, I think so. I don't think I've seen it.

[D]

He grabs the cotton candy, the. The fairy floss. Cuz he's like, I'm going to eat this. But he's like, I'm a raccoon, I got to wash it first. So he goes to the water, he dips it in and it just dissolves away. And then he lifts it up his hands and goes, what the.

[B]

Where did it go happening?

[D]

Where'd my food go? The saddest little raccoon.

[C]

Washing bear.

[B]

King of the marsupials. What is a camelopard?

[D]

Ah. Oh, I know this one. Camel apart, I've got Chris.

[B]

Can you reason out?

[D]

Everyone just look at Chris.

[B]

Camel opard.

[A]

This one is still the same in Greek.

[C]

Oh, yeah, it's a zebra.

[A]

Not far.

[C]

I. I don't know. What is it? I'm. I'm lost.

[B]

It's a giraffe.

[C]

Okay.

[D]

It's like a camel, but it's got spots like a leopard. And it's big and weird and crazy.

[C]

Right, right.

[B]

Next one. Very poetic. What is an Essence peddler?

[A]

Oh.

[C]

Oh, yeah. Probably a skunk. I would say skunk. Could be.

[D]

My, My potions are too strong for you, traveler.

[B]

What you buying?

[A]

Is it a skunk?

[B]

It's a skunk. How skunk? All right, next one. My mortal enemy. The candle fly.

[C]

The candle fly like a moth because it's attracted to light, you know?

[B]

Yep. It is a moth. Camoufly. Also very, very poetic. And then you got math, math, math.

[C]

Yep.

[B]

Last one. What is a coney?

[C]

Oh, that's a rabbit.

[B]

Yes, it is a rabbit.

[C]

I just know that because I know it. Yeah.

[D]

Is that the origin of Coney Island? Is it Rabbit Island?

[B]

Really? It's Rabbit Island. A lot of coneys. Well, that's Coney Island. Wow. If you know the Latin caniculus. Latin caniculus for rabbit.

[D]

So coney, like bunicula.

[A]

Yeah, right.

[B]

I thought of that immediately. I was like, oh, wait, that's Dragon.

[D]

That doesn't make any sense. That's a whole different pun.

[B]

These names are great. Why did some of these fall out of favor? You know, a lot of these names, they're so regional. Like, so, so regional. So people up north say this, but then they call it this in Cornwall, but they call it this somewhere else. And this is my theory, but I think at some point they needed to standardize due to pressures of tax or, you know, early, like wildlife laws or hunting laws or like commerce or. And then they're like, oh, yeah, we, we gotta all call these the same thing. If we're trading three Essence peddlers for a, for a mere swine, you know, I don't know who's trading.

[D]

You said, you said it was illegal to kill these dolphins. You didn't say anything about these mayor swines.

[B]

Exactly.

[D]

Gotcha.

[B]

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[C]

You're listening to Good Job, Brain. Smooth puzzles, Smart trivia. Good Job, Brain.

[B]

Hey, we're back. And this week, it's an all quiz. Bill, you're up next.

[D]

Yeah. Yes, I am. But this is a movie quiz. It's a movie quiz for all you movie heads out there who love movies. My big thing here was Danny and I did what everybody did through the pandemic and started doing all, like, the daily games online, all of the various, you know, the.

[B]

The wordles.

[D]

Yeah, exactly. All the wordles and. And the offshoots and all that sort of stuff.

[C]

And.

[D]

And this sort of spawned this whole world of daily games in browser. Everybody loves a daily game now. And one of the games that was on our list for a long time that we used to play was movie to movie. I don't know if anyone else ever played movie to movie. It's a very simple concept. It's. It's like the six degrees of Kevin Bacon kind of thing. But it will just give you, like, a starting movie and an ending movie. And you go, well, this movie has Mark Wahlberg. He was in this Transformers with whoever else was in that Transformers movie. That. That person was in a movie with this person, and then that person was in the second movie. And now I've connected the movies by a link of shared cast, right? That was sort of the game. And I thought to myself, I wonder if we can do the same thing, but with a twist. And my twist is, instead of people who have been in, like, movies together, I wanted people who have performed the same role. So they've both played the same character, they both played the same historical figure, they both played the same whatever. And linking movies by actors who. Who share a role rather than share a movie.

[B]

Whoa.

[D]

Okay, the best way to get through this is with an example. So my first question. I've got 10 questions. Question one is the example question. We're going to play it together. Can you get from the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel to Lord of the Rings, the Fellowship of the Ring.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

Using a single character. So what that means is.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

Right.

[D]

There'll be someone from the cast list of Best Exotic Marigold Hotel who in a completely different movie is. Has played a particular character. That character was also played by somebody who is in the cast list of Lord of the Rings, the Fellowship of the Ring.

[A]

Karen, I think you said the right one there. I think Judi Dench is good because she's played a queen.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Lord of the Rings, Cate Blanchett has played Queen Elizabeth. Well, yes, yes.

[D]

So it's quite down. So, yeah. So I would. The answer I have written here is from Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, you have Judi Dench, who played Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love.

[B]

Shakespeare in Love, Yes.

[D]

Cate Blanchett played Queen Elizabeth I in Elizabeth, and Cate Blanchett is in Lord of the Rings.

[B]

Got it.

[D]

Do we see the sort of the format here?

[B]

Yes. Very good. I like this.

[A]

Feels like a good one for a team challenge.

[C]

Okay.

[D]

It is a team challenge. Please work together. You don't have to try and do this yourself.

[C]

Okay.

[D]

Question two. I'm not going to help out this time. Can we do by the same. There's a single character. Jump. Can we go from Shutter island to Fight Club?

[B]

Okay. All right. Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo are in Shutter Island.

[A]

DiCaprio feels like, well, what. Who has he played? Howard Hughes. That seems unlikely.

[B]

Yeah, See, like, for them to play the same. Oh, Hulk.

[A]

It's got a. Oh, you're right. Of course.

[B]

Mark Ruffalo play.

[A]

Played Hulk, as did Edward Norton.

[B]

Wow.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

So this. Okay, good. You got this one without me. Yes. Shutter island has Mark Ruffalo, who played the Hulk in the Avengers. The Hulk was also played by Ed Norton in the Incredible Hulk. And Ed Norton is in Fight Club.

[C]

Okay, nice.

[D]

All right. I think we're all happy here. So question three. Can we go from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

To Mamma Mia.

[B]

Oh, oh, oh, easy.

[A]

Oh, God. Yeah.

[B]

Let's go. Indiana Jones, Last Crusade. Sean Connery, who plays James Bond, was also played by. By Pierce Brosnan, who's in Mamma Mia.

[D]

Yeah. Nice. Most of these, I'm not getting super obscure cast list things. We're doing it sort of live. A lot of these will jump right in. All right, we're gonna. We've got another one. Question 4. Can we get from the movie Long Legs to the even better horror movie Plan 9 from Outer Space?

[B]

Oh, okay. Nic Cage is In Long Legs. That's the only person I can name.

[C]

Oh, I was gonna say, well, Superman. I mean, he did play Nick Cage. Superman for like a half second.

[B]

Christopher, what was the second movie?

[C]

I'm not sure.

[A]

Plan nine From Outer Space.

[C]

How do we get to.

[B]

I don't know that.

[C]

I don't know any actors.

[A]

Was that the one that Bela Lugosi was in? Oh, are we going Vampires?

[B]

Dracula. Because Nick Cage was in that movie with Nicholas Holt, the rem.

[A]

Oh, Renfield, Renfield.

[B]

Renfield. Dracula.

[A]

And then Bela Lugosi is a famous Dracula.

[D]

Yes. So, Nick, Long Legs features Nick Cage, who played Dracula in Renfield. Bela Lugosi played Dracula in the 1931 film Dracula. And he in his last movie was in Plan 9 from outer space, a horrendously bad sci fi movie.

[A]

He died partway through.

[B]

Right.

[D]

Bela Lugosi died partway through. And they replaced him with a man who was 30 years younger, a good foot taller, and then to hide it, he just held a cape in front of his face the entire time he was on screen.

[B]

No. At least they didn't, like, weaken up Bernie's, I suppose.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Desperate blessings.

[D]

You got to count your blessings.

[C]

At the time, there probably weren't a lot of laws preventing that.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[D]

Oh, no. All right. Okay, question five. We would. I would like to take you from a haunting in Venice to Dune Part one.

[A]

There's a lot of people.

[B]

Okay? A lot of people. There's Michelle Yohanti in Venice. So that's Hercule Perot. That's Kenneth Branagh.

[A]

Dune.

[D]

Dune Part one.

[A]

I was gonna say Shalom Wonka. Feels good, doesn't it?

[C]

That's what I was gonna say.

[B]

But who else but God? The Dune cast is a lot, too.

[C]

Because Jason Momoa is in Dune. So, like, okay, Timothee Chalamet. Zendaya, who was in Haunting in Venice.

[B]

Kenneth Branagh. He was Hamlet.

[A]

That's interesting.

[D]

Hamlet is the right track, but is wrong.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

Oh, what does that mean? Different Shakespeare, maybe.

[B]

Much Ado About Nothing.

[D]

It is Kenneth Branagh, okay? It is a Shakespeare role.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

Modern ones. Like what? There was a modern Macbeth one, wasn't it? Tragedy of Macbeth. Who's in that?

[B]

Denzel Washington. Frances McDormand.

[D]

Kenneth Branagh is the. Is the Venice side on the Dune side? We're just going for Timothee Chalamet. Can you think of a shared role between Kenneth Branagh and Timothee Chalamet?

[A]

Oh, no, I don't know enough about Timothee Chalamet.

[D]

He did this movie with Robert Pattinson. I think it was actually a Netflix movie.

[C]

Oh, geez.

[D]

It was the King. Yes, it was the King where he played Henry V, also played by Kenneth Branagh in the movie Henry V. Just a filmed adaptation of Shakespeare.

[A]

That was a difficulty. Spike.

[B]

Okay, yes. Robert Pattinson played the French. The French prince.

[D]

There was a lot of, like, people really liked the King for its fight choreography because it was quite just. It was just like two guys in armor really, just going at it in the mud.

[A]

I remember this now. It's all coming back.

[D]

All right, question six. Maybe a little bit easier. Okay, we're gonna try and go from Fatal Attraction to Crazy Stupid Love.

[B]

Okay. Glenn Close, Michael Douglas. Crazy Stupid Love. Side we have Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell, Emma Stone, Julianne Moore.

[A]

Oh, oh, oh, oh. Emma Stone with Cruella. And Glenn Close was Cruella.

[B]

Was Cruella De Vil. Yes, yes.

[D]

Fatal Attraction stars Glenn Close, who played Cruella de Vil in 101 Dalmatians live action. Cruella De Vil was also played by Emma Stone in Cruella, who was in Crazy Stupid Love. Wonderful. All right, question seven. We are going from gangsters to gangsters. Can we go from the Godfather to American Gangster?

[A]

Oh, which one's American Gangster? I always get these confused.

[C]

I know.

[B]

I don't know what's in Denzel Washington. Russell Crowe.

[A]

Russell Crowe has played such characters as, like, Zeus and Robin Hood and things like that one.

[C]

Brando, Pacino, James Khan.

[B]

It's gotta be Brando or De Niro. Oh, Jean Valjean.

[A]

Oh, Javert. Rather.

[B]

Oh, Javert. Sorry. Yeah.

[A]

That's an interesting pick. I like that.

[D]

Focusing on Russell Crowe. Good, Great. And on the Godfather side, Marlon. Brandon, where you want to go from.

[B]

I know Superman's dad.

[D]

Superman's. I did not know that Marlon Brando was in the Godfather. He played Jor El in Superman. And in man of Steel, Russell Crowe played Jor El. And Russell Crowe is an American gangster.

[C]

Wow.

[B]

Oh, wow.

[D]

All right.

[B]

I love the difficulty of there.

[D]

There are three. There are three left.

[B]

Okay, okay.

[D]

Eight, nine, ten. Can we go from Alien. Uhhuh. To Hot Fuzz?

[A]

Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt. Is that the right one?

[B]

Yes. He's the chest burster.

[A]

Right. And Ian Holm has.

[B]

Oh, God, he's.

[A]

He feels interesting. He's played Jack the Ripper at one point.

[C]

So Nick Frost and Simon Pegg.

[A]

And is Martin Freeman in that? If Martin Freeman is in Hot Fuzz, it could be a Bilbo Baggins thing.

[B]

Oh.

[D]

With Ian Holm, Alien stars Ian Holm, who played Bilbo Baggins in Lord of the Rings, who is played by Martin Freeman in the Hobbit. And Martin Freeman is in Hot Fuzz. In fact, Martin Freeman is in all of the Cornetto trilogy. So you can go for it. Any. Any of them that you'd like. All right, question nine. This is our last one. Stepper. Can we get from the Remains of the Day, okay, to Troy?

[A]

Okay, so I know who's in Troy. I don't know. Remains of the Day.

[B]

Anthony Hopkins is in Remains of the Day.

[A]

Oh, that's a good poll.

[C]

That's all I can. That's all I can think of.

[B]

So may to be.

[C]

Hannibal Lecter played Hannibal Lecter. Okay.

[B]

Brad Pitt is in Troy. Eric Banner.

[A]

Eric Banner. And Orlando Bloom is Mads Mikkelsen in Troy?

[D]

I don't believe so. And I wouldn't count it, because it's a TV Hannibal.

[A]

Anthony Hopkins does feel like a very good pool for this.

[C]

I mean, there is. There was somebody else who played Hannibal Lecter in films. There were a couple other people who did it, but I. Okay, yeah, yeah.

[A]

Oh, was there a young.

[C]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

But I don't know, because there are prequels all over the place.

[B]

Chris is a Lambie.

[C]

Well, there was a Manhunter. I'm a Lambie. Yes, there was. There was a man. There was a movie Manhunter, which was based on Red Dragon, which is. Somebody else played Hannibal Lecter. But I.

[A]

Right.

[C]

I don't know who it is.

[D]

And then there was the original movie.

[C]

Is that. Is that who it is?

[D]

That's who it is.

[C]

That's who it is. I have no idea what the person's name is.

[A]

All right, who?

[D]

I will say this. This actor did play Agamemnon in Troy, and they are more famous now than they ever have been.

[B]

Oh.

[A]

Brian Cox.

[D]

Brian Cox.

[B]

Succession.

[C]

That's it. You said that. And I'm like, oh, yeah, sure.

[D]

Remains of the Day stars Anthony Hopkins, who played Hannibal Lecter in Science the Lambs in. In Red Dragon.

[C]

That's very funny, because now I think about that movie, I'm like, oh, yeah, it did look like Brian Cox.

[D]

But like, Brian Cox played Hannibal Lecter in Manhunter and then was also Agamemnon in Troy.

[A]

Amazing.

[B]

Wow.

[D]

Who I didn't recognize when I watched, I had a random clip from Troy pop up on, you know, YouTube, the way clips get thrown at you now. And I didn't recognize it was Brian Cox. But all I thought was, oh, man. Whoever play who. Whoever's playing Agamemnon is doing great. Like, that guy's just stealing the scene. And I was like, oh, it's Brian Cox. Look at that. All right, here's the final, final question. It will require two separate character jumps, but they're pretty chill.

[C]

Don't worry.

[D]

Good vibes, I would say.

[A]

And let's do it.

[D]

It's. But it's a chill one. You couldn't. You couldn't ask for a chiller one. You'll get it straight away.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[D]

You get it immediately. Can you get me from Lethal Weapon to the Northman?

[B]

Okay. Mel Gibson.

[A]

Okay. The most obvious one to go from there I would think of would be Mad Max and going to Tom Hardy for some reason.

[B]

Oh, well, Northman is one of the Skarsgard. Alex. Alex Skarsgard.

[A]

I don't know that one. There are so many of them.

[B]

Anya Taylor, Joy was in there. Oh, Furiosa.

[A]

Oh. Is Anya Taylor Joy Furiosa? And yes. Fantastic.

[B]

And then we have Mel Gibson.

[A]

Mad Max is Tom Hardy, who was in that movie with Charlize Theron, who played Furiosa. And therefore we can go Anya Taylor, Joy, Furiosa, who was in the Northman.

[B]

And there you go.

[D]

You've done it. That's a pretty easy two stepper. I was planning to do more of them and it just got confusing as to where you end up movie wise, who they can be. It's all kind of got a bit out of hand. But if I come back into another one of these one day, I'll refine the process and the rules for a two step. There you go. Here's my movie to movie. But it's all about shared roles.

[A]

Beautiful.

[B]

That is great. Good job, Bill. Thank you.

[C]

All right, well, it's an all quiz. So I have written a quiz. I'm gonna have you guys. I know it is a quiz with various questions, so I am gonna. I'll just have you guys buzz in with the answers. However, you should get out your pad and your pen or whatever it is and just keep track of the correct answers. Because there is like a question kind of at the end. I'll ask you to do something with it, right? So when the correct answer is revealed, write that down so that at the end, everybody has the correct answers kind of written down. Okay?

[B]

Yep.

[C]

Great. Got it. Good. Sheesh. Okay. All right, question number one. Here it is. Immediately following his turn as Ivan Drago in Rocky IV, Dolph Lundgren played this 80s action hero, Karen.

[B]

That is he man.

[C]

That is he man.

[A]

Really?

[C]

He man? Yes. In The Masters of the Universe movie. Ivan Drago directly to he Man. Yep, He Man. This method of interacting with a computer sounds a lot stickier than it actually is. Karen, again, paste. Ooh, I like that. No, that wasn't what I was thinking. This type of human machine interaction sounds a lot sloppier and stickier than it actually is.

[D]

The question's getting worse and worse.

[C]

I know.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

The category is three letter acronyms. Three letter acronyms. This method of interacting with a computer. This type of human machine interaction sounds a lot sloppy or stickier and messier than it actually is.

[A]

Wet or mud or something like that.

[C]

Oh, yeah. Oh, no, we good? It's actually a gui. G U I stands for graphical User Interface.

[D]

A gui. A gui, obviously.

[C]

All right, these are not. These, these questions are not focus tested in any way. Focus folks. At all. All right, next question. Alexander Graham Bell wanted to use Ahoy. But fortunately Thomas Edison was there to suggest this instead. Bill.

[D]

Hello.

[C]

Hello. Hello. As a standard greeting for what you say when you pick up the telephone. Alexander Graham Bell wanted it to be Ahoy. Thomas Edison suggested the then sort of new colloquial greeting expression of hello as. How do you answer the phone? Yeah, all right. I'm done. The world's largest one of these is stuck in the ground in Fairview, Oregon. I'm done. The world's largest one of these is stuck in the ground in Fairview, Oregon.

[D]

Pill. Like a pitchfork.

[C]

It's a fork.

[D]

Sorry, you may have heard me cough as I was answering.

[C]

No, no. Is it a fork? It's a fork. Yeah. It's just a fork. It's not a pitchfork. It's just a fork. World's largest.

[D]

Stick a fork in me. I'm done.

[C]

Stick a fork in me.

[D]

I just pictured a farmer being like, that's it. I'm done.

[B]

Gone.

[C]

Outside a food truck plaza, appropriately enough in Fairview, Oregon. The world's largest fork. All right, tell your kids to wash their hands so they don't get conjunctivitis. Commonly called this. Karen probably knows about this. Pink eye, pink eye, pink eye. You don't want to get conjunctivitis, so don't put your hands in gross stuff and then rub your eyeballs or you get conjunctivitis. Commonly known as. The answer is pink eye. This 1977 body horror film film marked the feature length theatrical debut of Twin Peaks creator David Lynch.

[B]

Oh.

[A]

That'S not Cronenberg at all.

[C]

No. This 1977 body horror film marked the feature length theatrical debut of Twin Peaks creator David Lynch. David Lynch's first. How much feature length theatre?

[D]

How much body horror is in Mulholland Drive?

[B]

Not a whole lot, Karen, Is it like sleepwalkers?

[C]

Nope. You're thinking of maybe Firewalk with Me?

[B]

No, no, no.

[D]

Sleepwalk.

[B]

Cat people. Oh, no, that's not.

[C]

In the interest of. In the interest of time, everybody seems to be drawing a blank on this 1977 film. Is Eraserhead. Some people heard of it. There we go.

[D]

I know it. I've never seen it. Didn't know it had body horror. Yeah, I thought it just had a guy with weird hair.

[C]

Yep. Because you've just seen the front of the vhs.

[D]

Yeah, that's it. That's all I've seen.

[C]

With weird hair. That's what this movie's about. This colorful type of heavily smoked or cured fish was said to have been used in the past to create decoy scents for dogs to follow.

[B]

Karen, is that a red herring?

[C]

That's a red herring. Red herring. All right, last question of this quiz. According to Daryl and John, the subject of this 1982 song is, quote, a she cat tamed by the purr of a jaguar. Karen, again.

[B]

Is that man eater?

[C]

It is man eater.

[A]

Makes sense.

[C]

It is man eater.

[B]

She comes.

[D]

So which girl?

[C]

So just to be. So just let me. Let me be sure here, I'm going to hold this up for everybody just to be sure. You have this written down. He man gooey hello for pink eye, eraser head. Red herring and man eater. Is what you have written down, right?

[A]

Yep.

[B]

Yes.

[C]

Okay, congratulations everybody. I say as I quickly step away, leaving the room that we're all in and locking the door behind me.

[D]

Have fun.

[C]

It's only just now that you turn around from the wall opposite the door and notice a message that I wrote on the opposite wall which simply reads escape. That's right. We're all trapped in a room and you have to escape it on a podcast. And the list that you have written down are the objects currently available in your inventory. Get out of the room.

[D]

Now. I know we're talking about patents in gaming, and I believe you are infringing upon our patent.

[C]

Yes, I am. But I am America and you are in Australia. Not viable here.

[A]

Okay, I assume the first thing to do is to step up, step on the red herring, throw it out, get.

[C]

Rid of it is to get rid of the red herring. Okay, you're absolutely correct. The red herring. You look at the red herring and think, oh my gosh, this is gonna be important. And then realize that in fact, it is totally meaningless and you discard the red herring.

[A]

Excellent.

[C]

You can cross it out. You discarded it.

[D]

Don't need it.

[C]

Well done.

[D]

Okay.

[C]

All right, now you're in a room.

[D]

Can we look at the door?

[C]

Oh, yeah, yeah, you can look at the door. It's a pretty normal door. It has a handle on it with like a keyhole in it, and it's locked.

[B]

Anything else in the room other than the message that says escape?

[C]

The room is a really super boring room. And it's just like, it's a square room with like four walls. And on one of the walls is the door you came in on. And you're standing by that door now because you sort of ran up to it when I was leaving. And so now you're all kind of standing by the door. You can see across the other side of the room is written the word escape with like an exclamation point on it. On the wall. On the wall to your left is nothing, and on the wall to your right, there is some kind of object on the wall to your right.

[D]

Ooh, can I look at it with my pink eye?

[C]

You can look at it with your regular eyes if you want to. You walk up to the object on the wall. On closer inspection, it's a saw, like for, like, for cutting wood. Like a typical sort of like, you know, wood saw.

[D]

Interesting. Can we get it off the wall?

[C]

And so you try to yank the wood saw off the wall, figuring, like, this is definitely going to help us get out of the room. Unfortunately, it turns out that the wood saw is attached to the wall via a chain and a combination lock, which is secured with a four letter combination.

[B]

Oh, yep.

[D]

I try. Fork.

[C]

That does not work.

[A]

Fair enough.

[D]

All right.

[A]

If I put the man eater and the he man next to each other, does he man get eaten?

[C]

So the items in your inventory, you're going to use the he man with the man eater?

[A]

Absolutely.

[C]

So you. You hand the he man, which turns out to be a vintage he man action figure, to the man eater. And the man eater gives you a look to suggest that you are some sort of giant idiot. And she says, you expect me to eat without a utensil?

[D]

Oh.

[C]

Wonderful. You give the maneater the fork. The man eater takes the fork and greedily pulls, plunges it into the he man action figure, causing one of the tines of the fork to break off and fall onto the floor. The man eater then proceeds to devour the he man. And in fact, the man eater eats the he and also the man, leaving you with just a hyphen, which you find to be useless, and you discard it.

[B]

Oh. Oh, man. I thought I was a go. How cool. If the hyphen came into play.

[D]

That does mean we can get a low if we need to. An llo. If you're ever looking for an llo, we've got it, because we don't get the man eater to eat the hello.

[A]

Eraser ad.

[D]

Eraser. Eraser ad.

[A]

That's interesting. Can we. Are we just going to be, like, getting rid of things until we're only left with four letters? Are there just going to be ways to cancel them all out with each other?

[D]

Is gui enough of a guy for the man needed to eat it? I would like to try and feed the man eater the gooey to see if he thinks it's a. If she thinks it's a guy, it's a her.

[C]

It's a her. She's a man eater.

[D]

If she thinks it's a guy, she can eat it.

[C]

She. She says, no, this is not a guy. This is. This is a gooey, and hands it right back to you.

[D]

Can we. Can we feed Maneater the hello?

[C]

The man eater takes the hello and. Which is. Which is like just sort of the metaphysical concept of hello, and she pops it into her, you know, sort of monstrous jaws and chews it around a little bit and then sort of picks something out of her teeth and hands it back to you. It is llo because she has eaten the he out of that.

[B]

Got it. Wow.

[D]

Chris, let's do the same thing for Eraser.

[C]

You want to do the same thing? Okay. You give Eraserhead, which is a rare VHS copy of Eraserhead, which is worth, like, $100 on eBay, to the man eater. She regards it and looks at you and says, hey, listen, I could eat your eraser head, and the he would disappear, and you would be left with just an eraser ad, which is just an advertisement for an eraser. And she suggests that this would probably not be helpful for getting us out of the room, so.

[D]

All right.

[C]

She hands it back. The man eater seems fairly sated at this point.

[D]

Okay, nice. We got a low. We got a tine as well.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[C]

You don't have a tine. A tine fell on the floor.

[D]

Oh. I mean, we can get a tine.

[C]

Would you like to?

[D]

Sure.

[B]

Yes.

[C]

Great. You pick up the tine. Now you have a tine.

[A]

Why do we want a tine?

[C]

You can cross out fork and put tine. Because you don't have the fork anymore.

[B]

Something gui make it into a guide. Like if we can get de.

[C]

You can combine items together. If you see items that. That may be able to combine together.

[D]

We have a tine. You do Gwatine.

[A]

Oh, no. Oh, no. The gooey, the llo from hello.

[D]

And the time guillotine.

[C]

Well done, Danny. You combine the gooey, the llo and the tine and now you have a guillotine.

[A]

Oh, no. You've got to chop off the eraser.

[D]

Head and then we'll get eraser.

[C]

You put the eraser head into the guillotine and it removes its head. Now you have an eraser and a head.

[D]

Okay.

[C]

Well done.

[D]

We erase the es from escape and we get a cape.

[C]

So you might want to go look at that word.

[D]

Yeah, sure, let's have a look at it.

[C]

You go ahead and you look at the word on the wall. There's something funny about the word word escape on the wall. Upon closer inspection, you can actually see that some parts of it are written in pen and some parts of it are written in pencil. Unfortunately, right now it's too dark to really be able to pick out which is which.

[A]

Not for us.

[D]

Yeah. We have an eraser.

[C]

You have an eraser erase. So you use the eraser all over the word escape and it ends up erasing the first E. It erases the sea. And just like how American kids vandalized the game Puckman, it erases just a little bit of the P. The word on the wall now reads safe.

[B]

Okay, let's try. Let's try putting in safe in the fall. The combination lock.

[C]

Wonderful. You walk to the combination lock and put in the word safe. The lock opens. You now have a wood saw in your inventory.

[B]

Wood saw. Just saw. Okay.

[C]

Saw, wood saw. I'm just. You don't have to worry about the. The specific version.

[D]

Okay.

[C]

I'm just letting you know I'm. It's for cutting wood.

[D]

Yeah, I. I think I'd like to.

[C]

Oh, yeah. Would you like to try something?

[D]

Yeah, I would. I would like to saw out the wood. Specifically the wood pine.

[C]

Really?

[D]

From pink eye, you think? Leaving us with key.

[B]

Wow.

[C]

What a great idea. You use the wood wood saw on the pine, sawing away the pine, leaving yourself only a key.

[B]

God.

[D]

And then I feed the key to the man eater.

[C]

Yes. Excellent.

[B]

The man eater eats the key, wait for her to poop it out.

[C]

Man related. You have to wait for her to poop the key. And once you do, 24 hours later, the key comes out of the man eater's. Butt and it's back in your inventory.

[D]

All right, well, surely, okay, we know what we're doing, right? We got a key.

[A]

Let's put a key in a lock.

[D]

We got the door keyhole.

[C]

You go to the door, you put the key in the handle and you turn the handle and the door opens. And there is me going like this against the other side of the door and say, oh, yeah. Oh, yes. Congratulations. You escaped my quiz. Well, well done. Great work.

[A]

You know how whenever I write rooms and then we have guests come on and show us their escape rooms and I come out of it going, oh, so good. Why am I so bad at this? None of minor as creative as this. This is what I'm talking about. That was so good.

[C]

Good. Oh, I'm glad you like. Okay, wonderful. I'm glad you like it. Well, I'm making it going like, oh my God, what an idiot. Why am I doing this? I mean, these guys are all professionals.

[B]

Which way did you, what do you.

[C]

Want to talk about?

[B]

The trivia is of part probably, maybe the easy part.

[C]

I, I, I honest to God, at this point I totally forget like what the inciting incident was where I. But then you get, you get one little interaction and then everything kind of spirals from there as far as like, well, then I would have to have this. Oh, then I'd have to have that. I have to have this.

[B]

Yeah, well, because, yeah, the, the, the man eater ate both. He's right.

[D]

Like, yeah.

[C]

Yes. Well, that's, well, he man was there to get you to, to do that first because you didn't actually need anything. She eats it and then she eats both parts. But it shows you that, you know, that's what the behavior is. And so then exactly as Bill started thinking like, oh, but maybe that behavior then transfers over into other things and then that's the stuff that you need. Yes.

[D]

And you know what's, you know, for people listening along, right? You want tips on like how to do escape roomy sort of stuff. The clue was not in necessary necessarily the action, but it was in the wording of the description of the results. Right. If you just said eats the whole word, you've got nothing left. You'd be like, well, there's nothing but the, the use of eats. The man also eats the he. Those are the two things that it eats because those are both men. And then, and it's like, oh, so it can eat the he in words.

[C]

Right?

[D]

So that, that, that way of describing the results is done in a really specific way. So that we understand, like where to catch it, but it still feels like we're solving a puzzle.

[A]

Absolutely.

[D]

When we go, oh, wait a minute, did you say ate the he. That gives me an idea. Even though obviously it's what you're telling us, it feels like we're doing it.

[A]

Well, the same thing went for that describing of a woods at the end and the use of the word wood saw. And we said, oh, just a saw. Yes. Yes. Having the word wood in our heads was vital.

[C]

Yes. Oh, it had to be. It had to be. Yeah. I'm just happy that worked.

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All right, well, let's. Let's end this episode with a music round. Wow, this is an action packed episode. Dare I say I've made a music round in celebration of our Australian friends from the southern hemisphere. We're going a little topsy turvy today. I have prepared clips of popular songs by Australian artists.

[A]

Okay, sure.

[B]

In reverse.

[A]

Okay, fair enough.

[B]

So I have clips of six songs and you need to identify the artist. And for each song, I actually have a little extra trivia question that we can buzz in and answer. So here we go. Identify the music artist, please. Of clip number.

[D]

Hold on, let me put Daddy buzz.

[A]

Well, it was AC DC song I'm still not 100 sure of. Was it Back in Black?

[B]

Yes, it is Back in Black. AC dc. You know, the riff kind of is in a cadence that backwards. You're kind of feeling.

[D]

The fun. The fun fact is, the easiest song to do this for is I'm a Believer because it just goes, which backwards is.

[B]

All right, so actc Back in Black has been used in many movies and TV shows. But one of the most memorable uses was in the opening scene in what 2008 film where the song was played in a CD stereo in a military transportation port.

[A]

Oh, Danny, I know one 2008 movie and that was Iron Man. Is that the movie?

[B]

It is Iron Man. Opening scene of Iron Man. A needle drop is in the movie. They're playing the song that the characters in that movie, they're hearing it too, so that's how it was used. All right, next song. Song number two. Australian. Remember, the theme is Australian.

[D]

Oh, Bill, is that the theme song to Bluey?

[B]

It is in reverse.

[A]

You're right.

[B]

Get the pause.

[D]

That's the poor.

[B]

Or in this case.

[D]

Yeah, that is.

[C]

Wow. Wow.

[B]

Hey, what are Bluey's parents names? Oh, oh, oh, no.

[C]

Chris, Bandit and Healer.

[B]

Incorrect.

[C]

Oh, really? Bandit. And is that their last name?

[A]

Honk, honk.

[B]

Danny. Danny Goose.

[A]

It's Chili. Right?

[C]

Chili.

[B]

Chili is the dad.

[C]

Is the dad.

[B]

Chili is the mom. Who's the Red? Yeah, they have jobs. He. He works in archaeology. He's a digger dog. And Chili works. Works at the airport. She's a customs sniffer. I mean, they don't say. That's what they do, but like, they say where they work and it's.

[D]

What else does the dog doing at the airport?

[B]

Yeah. All right, let's play clip number three. Here we go. Australian bands in reverse.

[C]

All right, here we go.

[B]

I love it so much.

[A]

It just sound French.

[D]

Okay.

[C]

I mean, you know. Yeah. You guys are listening to this on a Saturday morning. I'm listening to this at 11:30 on a Friday night. I just worked the whole week.

[B]

I know. We both have two kids. They're kind of asleep, and we're like.

[D]

All right, Bill, that is. That's Jet, isn't it?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yes.

[D]

Are you gonna be my girl?

[C]

Wow.

[D]

You know, normal, way around is, you know, 1, 2, 3, clapping. How's it gonna be? Because it is. But apparently backwards. As Danny said, it's just a strange European language like that didn't feel like someone talking backwards.

[A]

That was quite all right.

[B]

Well, well. Jet. Yes. Jet's popularity shot up when the song was featured in a multicolor commercial. For what product? Maybe this. I wonder if this is America thing.

[C]

Could have been like the iPhone.

[A]

That was the sort of thing I was wondering.

[B]

It is the ipod. Oh, yeah.

[A]

We gotta go back a few years.

[B]

Of course, the black silhouettes of people with headphones, with earbuds. They're still wired at this point. Dancing to the song. All right, song number four. Please play. This is more of a recent song.

[D]

I think I might just start listening to backwards songs now for fun. But I have no idea who this is.

[A]

All the pieces together and figure out who recently is Australian.

[B]

This is the kid Laroi.

[D]

I've never listened to the kids.

[C]

Well, now you have.

[D]

Yeah, now I have backwards.

[B]

Yeah. But at kid Laroi's. Concert in Melbourne in 2022. He brought out what band as a super special guest musical act and to perform songs like I've Got A Guess.

[D]

I Don't know why.

[B]

I'll put you on. Perform songs like Big Red Car.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Hot Potato and Fruit Salad.

[A]

Why did we know this right away? We've never heard this. Why was the vibe just right?

[D]

Nothing Australian would ever be like. They're a super special guest. Unless it was going to be the Wiggles like everyone else. Be like some guy. Come on, everybody. It's the Wiggles.

[B]

Yes. Kid Laroi. There's a mosh pit in the front and he's just so pumped and he's like, it's the effing wagon.

[D]

I can so picture an entire moss pit. Just like a big red car.

[B]

Dorothy the dinosaur shows up. You know, Henry the Octopus also shows up. They're doing all the dances. All right.

[A]

Feels right.

[B]

I have two more songs. Let's play clip number five.

[D]

That's me buzzing in. The song's over, everybody. That was just me buzzing in. That's. That's Gautier, right? Somebody that I used to know.

[B]

Yes, Gautier. Somebody I used to know.

[A]

I'd forgotten. I thought that's what it sounded like, but I'd forgotten if he was Australian or from New Zealand.

[D]

Ah, even if he's from New Zealand.

[A]

We'Ll claim that counts. We get to claim that. It's in our constitution.

[B]

He is Australian. Dutch, I believe. However, the female voice in this song belongs to a featured artist who's from New Zealand. What is her name?

[A]

Honk, honk.

[B]

She was.

[A]

She was Kimbra, right?

[B]

Correct. It is Kimbra.

[D]

Kimbra the White lion, somebody.

[B]

Ah, Japanese. Simba. Yeah, Simbra. Yes. So.

[C]

Featured featured artist.

[B]

All right, last song. Song number six in this Australian reverse. Music round. Here we go. Oh, Chris. Rick Springfield is Rick Springfield. Jesse's Girl.

[C]

When that one started up, I was just like, I. I just can identify the music here. You know what I mean? Yeah. Well done. The tone riff, the drum. Exactly. Yep, yep.

[B]

Yes. He is Australian. American.

[D]

I don't think I knew that. I don't think I knew he was Australian.

[A]

No, not a clue.

[B]

Jesse's Girl. Big song. Number one in the US at the time. When what launched on August 1, 1981. Big deal. Jesse's Girl was at number one in the US. Song. When what launched on August 1st, 1981.

[C]

Was it Chris Music Television.

[B]

It was used to stand for the first video. You know, video killed the video, killed the radio. Star. And who was the radio star at that time? Number one, it was Rick Springfield.

[C]

Oh, man, he got killed. He got killed by mtv.

[B]

Good job, everybody. That's our show. Thank you, Chris, for joining me. Thank you guys, listeners for listening. But most importantly, thank you, Bill and Danny disagree.

[A]

Thank you too, most of all.

[C]

Yeah, no, thank you guys. Always like a super fun time with you.

[B]

Chris, I think you're, you're MVP this episode. Wow.

[D]

Thanks very. That was great fun.

[C]

Thanks.

[B]

Thanks, Bill and Danny. Where can people find you?

[D]

Yeah, if you want to check out the other things we do. If you liked listening to that escape room and want to hear more, or you can check out our escape room show, Escape this podcast. If you want to hear us try and solve murder mysteries where one of us writes a full murder mystery for the other one to puzzle through and solve, check out solve this Murder. And if you're so obsessed with fun little detective mysteries that you want to play hours and hours of video game content, why don't you wish list Rise of the Golden Idol puzzle game that we were part of the writing team for and we're very proud of. It's a very, very cool game and you should check it out.

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