300: Our 300th Episode!

Summary

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Good Job, Brain! – Episode 300: Our 300th Episode!

Date: October 29, 2025
Hosts: Karen, Colin, Chris
Theme: Celebrating 300 Episodes with Trivia, Community, and Quizzes

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Episode Overview

The milestone 300th episode of Good Job Brain! is a joyful, trivia-packed celebration of the show’s long journey and vibrant community. Hosts Karen, Colin, and Chris reminisce about their time together, share heartfelt listener messages, and deliver a feast of themed quizzes—including pop culture, sports, the number 300, “medicine, wartime, or taxes,” and a retrospective challenge. With classic wit and warmth, they honor their “trivia family” and look back on geeky moments, beloved quiz segments, and reasons for curiosity. Listener call-ins highlight the show’s profound impact on fans’ lives, making this a signature episode for veterans and newcomers alike.

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Key Discussion Points & Segments

1. Celebrating 300 Episodes & Listener Community

• The hosts reflect on the show's evolution—from weekly recordings to season-based releases—emphasizing gratitude for each other and their audience.
• Listener Call-ins: Numerous fans leave messages reminiscing about how Good Job Brain! has been part of major life events, family routines, commutes, and their love for trivia.
• Memorable Moment—“First Organic Listener Encounter”:
  • Colin shares his excitement about being recognized by a fan, Brian, at a local café who spotted his GJB shirt.
  • Chris tells a story about a fan noticing his shirt at a convention, leading to a humorous misunderstanding.
  • Quote (Colin, 03:01): “Don't blow it, don't blow it. Like, you've been waiting years for this... I did kind of the Aw, shucks routine...”

2. Pop Quiz, Hotshot! (Trivial Pursuit Marathon) [06:14–16:21]

• Karen reads Trivial Pursuit cards from three editions: Baby Boomer, Totally 80s, and Entertainment Singles.
• Questions and answers are tackled in a rapid, bantering style, focusing on TV, movies, music, sports, and history.

Notable Trivia Highlights:

• The Monkees TV show was originally intended for The Lovin’ Spoonful.
  • Quote (Colin, 07:21): “Oh, is that the... the Lovin’ Spoonful?”
• The last film of Abbott and Costello: Dance with Me, Henry (1956).
• Rick Allen, Def Leppard’s drummer, continued performing after losing his arm.
• Bull Durham opens with a Yogi Berra quote; Greg Louganis injured himself at the 1988 Olympics.
• Quote (Colin, 13:18): “Oh man, that was Greg Louganis. I cringe thinking about it.”
• TV series remake starring Jessica Alba: Flipper (1995).
• Lars Von Trier's Europa was renamed Zentropa in the U.S.
• The Shining made “Here’s Johnny!” famous.

3. Quiz: Real Movies, Fake Bands [16:56–35:15]

• Colin introduces a music quiz where players identify the movie and the name of fictional bands/acts from clips.
• Quiz Structure: Chronological, from 2025 back to 1977.
• Hosts work together, with Karen as team captain.

Quiz Tracks & Answers (Excerpted):

1. 2025 — K-Pop Demon Hunters, band: The Saja Boys ("Soda Pop")
2. 2016 — Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, act: Conner4Real
   • Quote (Karen, 21:13): “His fake name or the character he plays is Connor... The number four. Real.”
3. 2012 — Pitch Perfect, group: The Barden Bellas
   • Quote (Karen, 22:23): “The movie is Pitch Perfect. The first one. Group performing is the Barden Bellas.”
4. 2010 — Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, band: Sex Bob-omb
   • Quote (Colin, 23:29): “Yeah, okay, it is. You got it. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. What is the band? Sex Bob-omb.”
5. 2001 — Josie and the Pussycats, band: Josie and the Pussycats; boy band: Du Jour
6. 1996 — That Thing You Do!, band: The Wonders (a.k.a. The Oneders)
7. 1994 — Airheads, band: The Lone Rangers
8. 1991 — Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, band: The Wyld Stallyns
9. 1984 — This Is Spinal Tap, song: “Give Me Some Money” by The Thamesmen
   • Quote (Chris, 32:55): “That was the dulcet tones of the Thamesman... the band which would go on to become Spinal Tap.”
10. 1977 — Star Wars, band: Figrin D’an and the Modal Nodes (“Cantina Band”)

• Chris and Karen score a "perfect game," earning Colin’s praise:
  • Quote (Colin, 35:15): “Perfect score. I’m gonna say that is 300 points for 300 episodes. I am so proud of you. You nailed it.”

4. Sports Team Names and Mascots Quiz [37:07–45:06]

• Karen’s “sports but not really sports” quiz focuses on names, wordplay, and facts about U.S. pro teams.

Sample Q&A:

• Teams with multiple Ks in their name: Knicks, Blackhawks, Kraken.
  • Quote (Chris, 38:38): “Oh, the Kraken. Yes.”
• What are the Dodgers dodging? “Trolleys” (originally Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers).
• Which NFL logo faces left? Philadelphia Eagles.
  • Quote (Karen, 40:24): “The birds flying to the left.”
• Three teams named after real people: Cleveland Browns, Chicago Blackhawks (named after a real person "Black Hawk"), Buffalo Bills (Buffalo Bill).
• Teams with the same names across sports: Cardinals, Giants, Jets, Panthers, Kings, Rangers.

5. Number 300 Quiz [48:24–58:57]

• Chris hosts an all-questions-themed-around-300 segment.

Notable Questions:

• 300 comic book author: Frank Miller.
  • Quote (Chris, 49:40): “It’s Frank Miller. Yes, yes, yes.”
• Ninja 300 motorcycle: Kawasaki.
• 300 Entertainment label acts: Mary J. Blige.
• Magnavox Odyssey 300 (1975 pinball) theme: Bowling.
• Gold Coast Indy 300 location: Australia (Queensland).
• Magnavox Odyssey 300 games: Tennis (in addition to Hockey, Smash).
• Apple eMate 300 (1997) ran: Newton OS.
• MLB 300 Win Club latest (Giants, 2009): Randy Johnson.
• Words with three C's (CCC = Roman numeral 300): accuracy, eclectic, focaccia.

6. Quiz: Medicine, Wartime, or Taxes [61:43–76:27]

• Karen’s favorite historical quiz format focuses on invention origins.

Sample Q&A & Insights:

• Shortbread: Taxes (rebranded from “shortcake” to avoid luxury tax in Scotland).
  • Quote (Karen, 64:05): “So to avoid this, they changed the name from shortcakes to short bread. Being like, hey, it’s bread, not a luxury item.”
• Metal detector: Medicine (Thomas Edison tried to find the bullet in President Garfield).
• Brandy: Taxes (distilled to reduce taxable volume).
• Corkscrew: Wartime (originated as a “gun worm” to remove bullets from muskets).
• Synthetic Dye: Medicine (accidentally created while seeking malaria treatment).
• Cheetos: Wartime (born from military cheese powder surplus after WWII).
  • Quote (Karen, 71:33): “The Quartermaster Corps... processed cheese powder... When the war ended, they have tons of it... In 1948, America’s first cheese powder snack. And that was the Cheeto.”
• Braille: Wartime (evolved from “night writing” for silent messages).
• Action Figures: Taxes (mutant/monster figures were taxed less than dolls; Marvel successfully argued superheroes weren’t “human” dolls).

7. Before or After 2012 Retrospective [79:38–88:01]

• Colin runs a “Retro Throwback” quiz: Did these events happen before or after GJB’s 2012 debut?

• Minecraft release: Before (2011)

• Burj Khalifa completed: Before (2009)

• Pope Benedict XVI resignation: After (2013)

• Snapchat launch: Before (2011)

• Taylor Swift wins Grammy for Fearless: Before (2010)

• GTA V release: After (2013)

• Royal Wedding (William & Kate): Before (April 2011)

  • Quote (Colin, 88:01): “I can hardly believe the road we have traveled since 2012. All those events, some after, some before... Thank you for taking that little trip with me.”

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Listener Messages – Community Highlights

Interwoven throughout are heartfelt voice messages from long-time listeners around the world:

• Fans recount coping with stress and life's milestones alongside the podcast.
• The GJB Wikipedia page was listener-created.
• Trivia and knowledge from GJB have united families, brightened road trips, and even appeared at weddings and births.
• “C for celebrating 300 episodes, C for collective cleverness, C for creativity, and C for curiosity.” (Grace, 35:49)
• “You're not just filling time, you're feeling [life].” (Aileen from Dublin, 90:00)
• Listeners submitted quiz questions to the GJB crew (e.g., Name as many jigsaw puzzle brands as possible).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Colin (03:01): “Don't blow it, don't blow it. Like, you've been waiting years for this... I did kind of the Aw, shucks routine...”
• Karen (22:23): “The movie is Pitch Perfect. The first one. Group performing is the Barden Bellas.”
• Chris (32:55): “That was the dulcet tones of the Thamesman... the band which would go on to become Spinal Tap.”
• Colin (35:15): “Perfect score. I’m gonna say that is 300 points for 300 episodes. I am so proud of you. You nailed it.”
• Grace (Listener, 35:49): “C for celebrating 300 episodes...”
• William (Listener, 92:13): “We saw barn quilt squares... an hour into the drive, you mentioned barn quilt squares and we both said 'no way'...”

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Timestamps – Key Segments

• 00:11–01:13 — Listener greetings and 300th ep intro
• 02:45–04:09 — First “organic listener” encounter stories
• 05:48–16:21 — Trivial Pursuit pop quiz marathon
• 16:56–35:15 — Real Movies, Fake Bands music quiz
• 37:07–45:06 — Sports teams word quiz
• 48:24–58:57 — “300” trivia quiz (number-themed)
• 61:43–76:27 — Medicine/Wartime/Taxes origins quiz
• 79:38–88:01 — “Before or After 2012?” retrospective quiz
• Multiple segments — Listener voicemails, life stories

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Tone, Style, and Reflection

Good Job Brain! retains its trademark blend of friendly ribbing, offbeat knowledge, trivia love, and inclusive, nerdy fun. The hosts’ chemistry shines in collaborative quizzes, self-deprecating humor about their “bad” sports knowledge, and deep respect for their community. Listeners’ messages testify to the podcast's unique power to connect, comfort, and inspire curiosity across years and continents.

Final Word:
A celebration not only of trivia, but of friendships—on-air and off—a testament to the power of fun facts to forge resilient, joyful communities.

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Transcript

[Karen]

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.

[Colin]

Please record your greeting after the tone.

[Karen]

Hi, Karen, Colin, and Chris. My name is Danny. I'm calling from Tampa, Florida. I've actually been following the podcast since I was in high school and now I am a PhD candidate and I'm married. It feels very weird to grow up with y', all, but I'm so grateful for all of the lovely and amazing memories that y' all have created with the podcast. And just thank you so much. Good Job Brain. For being a consistent in my life and making me happy when I'm stressed about writing my dissertation. So thank you all so much and happy 300th. Hello, fabulous fans frolicking in frab. Just festivities. Welcome to Good Job Brain, your weekly quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. This is episode 300.

[Chris]

Yay.

[Karen]

And of course, I'm your humble host, Karen, and we are your original orchestra of organisms orating about oranges and ortolans for your orientation.

[Colin]

I'm Colin.

[Chris]

And I'm Chris. Frab. Just.

[Colin]

Nice use of Frab. Just, yeah, jumped out to me as well, Chris. Great Lewis Carroll word there.

[Chris]

It's a jabberwocky. Yeah.

[Karen]

This is why we're friends.

[Colin]

That's exactly right, Karen.

[Karen]

You are listeners listening to our 300th episode. 300.

[Colin]

Yeah. You're the engine that makes it go 300. I can't believe it took us some.

[Karen]

Time to get here. You know, we used to put out the show every single week. I can't believe we used to do that.

[Chris]

Oh, boy.

[Colin]

Yeah, not having kids makes things easier.

[Chris]

Really. Makes it easy to say. Yeah, just all hang out, you know, on Sunday and do nothing other than record and, like, get whole foods and stuff like that.

[Karen]

Oh, yeah, and chipotle order.

[Chris]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Colin]

Maybe your partner knows where you are for 12 to 16 hours. Maybe they don't. It's okay.

[Karen]

You don't have to report back. Then we went on break for a couple of years and then we came back and then we're on a season schedule, but now we're here. 3 00. We're so lucky to have each other in our lives. But also we're even more lucky to have all of you listeners who have supported us through thick and thin. And, Colin, you just had your first, quote, organic listener encounter recently, right?

[Colin]

It took over a decade, Karen. Yes, I, you know, I was wearing some Good Job Brain swag and I was walking, I was getting some coffee. My local Phil's coffee. Barry, a favorite.

[Chris]

The.

[Colin]

The person taking. Taking my order okay, Ask for my name. What do you want? Get my coffee. Oh, my name is Colin.

[Chris]

And.

[Colin]

And the person standing next to the person kind of. Kind of glanced over and looked at my shirt, and he's like, oh, hey, good Job Brain. I love that podcast. And I kind of looked up, I was like, all right, don't blow it. Don't blow it. Like, you've been waiting years for this to happen. You know, this has never happened to me. Like. And I was like, okay, all right, don't go too big, but don't play it too small either, you know? So I did kind of the Aw, shucks routine, you know, I was like, oh, great. Yeah, you know, like, you like it. I'm. I'm Colin.

[Chris]

And.

[Colin]

And the guy. And he looked at me, he's like, oh, my God, I didn't even. Yeah, Colin, you said your name. He's like, oh, that's so weird. He's like, now I recognize your voice. So it turns out this person, his name is Brian. He manages my. My Phil's Shout out. Shout out to you, Brian. He said he's been listening to the show for. For years. He likes to binge listen as he drives down to Southern California to go to Disneyland. I'm like, well, you, sir, are like a prototypical Good Job brainless. Yeah, Yeah, I was. I was probably blushing a little bit. It was great.

[Chris]

Wow.

[Karen]

Disney road trip. Good time. I don't know.

[Chris]

You know, Colin, I actually had a sort of a different situation once. I was at, like, a video game convention that. And I was wearing a Good Job Brain shirt. As I'm, like, walking in the hallway, somebody walked past me and, like, called it out and just like, good job Brain. As we're kind of, like, walking past each other, you know, Good Job Brain. And I thought he meant, like, oh, you're the guy from Good Job Brain. Because. So I'm like. And I'm like, thanks. You know, And. And then I think he, like, tweeted at me, like, later. Oh, I. I didn't even realize that you were Chris from Good Job Brain. Like, I was just calling out that you had a cool shirt that. I like that. I like that podcast, too. And then you said, thanks dawned on him. Only later, like, why would he say he said thanks?

[Colin]

Isn't that strange?

[Chris]

Why would he say that? Unless, you know, and then it's like.

[Karen]

Well, to celebrate our little trivia family and community of listeners and fans, for the past couple months, we've opened up the Good Job Brain hotline. Jazz hands, Hotline where people could leave us voice messages. And we'll be sprinkling some of those throughout this episode. We can't fit all of them into this one episode, but we've listened to all of them. We feel the love. So thank you all. Leading up to this 300th episode, we also want to say thank you to a lot of people who, quote, stopped by.

[Colin]

Absolutely.

[Karen]

On the show, rang our doorbell. So thank you to all those special guests. All right, without further ado, just like any episode of Good Job, Brain, we got trivia. So it's time for our first general trivia segment. Pop quiz, Hot shot. Oh, here I have random Trivial Pursuit cards from different editions. And, you know, it's our 300th episode, so let's do three. We got here. Trivial Pursuit. Totally 80s.

[Colin]

Okay.

[Karen]

Trivial Pursuit, Entertainment, Singles, and of course, Baby Boomer. All right, what do we want to start with? Let's do it. Should we do chronological order? Boom it up. Here we go. Baby Boomer. You guys have your barnyard buzzers ready, blue wedge, for tv? This is interesting. What actual group was the Monkees TV show originally scheduled to star?

[Chris]

Really?

[Karen]

Oh, Chris.

[Chris]

I'm just thinking, like, something in that milieu.

[Colin]

Yeah.

[Chris]

Herman's Hermits.

[Colin]

Okay, I like that guess.

[Chris]

Incorrect, but a very good era.

[Colin]

Appropriate.

[Karen]

I didn't know they thought of someone else originally.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Colin]

Is that a household name, Karen? Is it like it is?

[Karen]

Let me just double check. I've heard of it. And they have a very popular song. Let me just.

[Chris]

Interesting.

[Colin]

Okay, this is interesting.

[Karen]

Oh. Oh, okay.

[Colin]

Okay.

[Karen]

Do you believe in magic?

[Colin]

Oh, is that the. The loving spoonful?

[Karen]

Yes, it's the love.

[Colin]

Wow.

[Chris]

Wow. Really?

[Colin]

That is a great factoid.

[Karen]

Oh, so they were gonna use a real band to play a fake band.

[Colin]

On the show opposed to assembling a fake band that sort of became a real band?

[Chris]

Yeah, basically.

[Karen]

Next question. Pink wedge. What comedy team's last film appearance was 1956's Dance with Me, Henry? Oh, Chris.

[Chris]

The Three Stooges.

[Karen]

Incorrect. Good guess.

[Chris]

Another great guess.

[Colin]

Comedy team. What? Can you give me the year and the title again?

[Karen]

1956. Dance with me, Henry. Wow.

[Colin]

56 last.

[Karen]

Yeah.

[Colin]

All right, Colin, you said last movie together. I'm gonna guess, like, Martin and Lewis because, like, they split up. Maybe that was like, I don't know.

[Karen]

You're close. Give me some more names. You'll get it.

[Chris]

The Marx Brothers. No, Abbott and Costello.

[Karen]

Abbott and Costello.

[Colin]

Good. Okay.

[Karen]

Yellow wedge. Who sang the Battle Hymn of the Republic at Bobby Kennedy's funeral? Oh, I've heard of this name?

[Colin]

Okay, man or woman, that's described as.

[Karen]

Popular American singer known for his smooth vocals and relaxed style.

[Colin]

Wow. Who was it?

[Chris]

Jim Croce?

[Karen]

It is Andy Williams.

[Chris]

Wow.

[Karen]

Okay, Moon River Brown Wedge for Publishing. Whose 1972 book did McGraw Hill wrongfully defend? It's authentic. All right, We've had it checked by an expert.

[Chris]

1972.

[Karen]

So not the book. I need the author. Whose 1972 book did McGraw Hill wrongfully defend?

[Colin]

Wrongfully Authentic.

[Karen]

All right, We've had it checked by an expert, so it must be a scandal. You had a name for it.

[Chris]

You had a fabulous. Yeah, exactly.

[Karen]

Fabulous.

[Chris]

Well, it's not glass. It's not that. It's not that guy. That was the 90s and the tech boom and stuff like that.

[Karen]

It is Clifford Irving.

[Chris]

Oh, I would.

[Colin]

Clifford Irving. They don't tell us the book in the answer. They're just. Oh, man. Frustrating. Frustrating.

[Karen]

All right, Green wedge. What group emerged when the Hollywood Reporter ran an ad? Colon wanted four insane boys aged 17 to 21 to form a group for a TV show? Go for it, Colin.

[Colin]

The monkeys.

[Chris]

It is the Monkeys. Oh, oh, oh, of course, because, well, attribute. You're supposed to be one, asking one question from each card. Muffin. Spoonful fell through when the amorous Forkful is the proposed name of the band.

[Colin]

Oh, man. Might be another domain name. We have to. I might have to get amorous. Might have to do that.

[Chris]

Amorous. Fork load. Fork load. I'm gonna go forkload. I don't want to repeat the full.

[Colin]

Forkload is funnier to say too.

[Chris]

It is, it is. It is. Yeah.

[Karen]

Last question. I'll read really quickly. What group took the last train to Clarksville for their 1966 career starter? Yes, everybody.

[Chris]

The monkeys.

[Karen]

All right, next card. Moving on. Totally 80s. Here we go. Blue wedge for TV. What nickname did Warren Weber answer to on Happy Days?

[Chris]

Ooh. Oh, wow.

[Karen]

Colin.

[Colin]

Warren Weber was potsy.

[Karen]

Yes, Potsy. Potsy. Pink wedge. What Great Dane. Not the dog. What Great. Oh, dang. Okay, you see, this is very misleading. When you read out not a dog. What Great Dane had Sly Stallone and Mark Gastineau's name tattooed on her buttocks? Colin.

[Colin]

That must be Brigitte Nielsen.

[Karen]

Yes, Bridget Nielsen. All right, Yellow wedge. What diplomatic role was filled in the 80s by Donald McHenry, Gene Kirkpatrick, Vernon Walters and Thomas Pickering?

[Chris]

I've heard Gene Kirkpatrick. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. What diplomatic role was filled in the 80s?

[Karen]

Go for it, Chris.

[Chris]

Envoy to the United Nations.

[Colin]

Yeah, good guess.

[Karen]

U. S. Ambassador to the United States.

[Chris]

Ambassador to the United.

[Colin]

Yeah, yeah. We knew what you meant. Well done.

[Karen]

Yeah, yeah. Purple wedge for music. What band had a special drum kit built for Rick Allen after he lost his left arm in an auto accident? Colin.

[Colin]

Is that Def Leppard?

[Karen]

Yes, that is Def Leppard. So I'm live. He's drunk.

[Colin]

Did you really?

[Karen]

Yes, yes. Still rocking. Still rocking with one arm. All right. Lime green wedge for movies. What movie opened with the Yogi Berra quote? In baseball, you don't know nothing.

[Chris]

Oh.

[Karen]

Name a couple baseball movies.

[Chris]

Is this totally 80s, totally 80s, totally 80s.

[Karen]

Colin.

[Colin]

I. I think eight men out.

[Karen]

No.

[Chris]

Bull Durham.

[Karen]

Bull Durham.

[Colin]

Oh, nice.

[Karen]

Okay, fantastic movie.

[Colin]

Let's go to Field of Dreams next.

[Chris]

If it wasn't Field of Dreams is too earnest.

[Colin]

It fits Bull Durham better.

[Chris]

You're right.

[Karen]

Both Kevin Costner and a very young Tim Robbins. Awesome, awesome movie. Okay, last question on its 80s card. Orange wedge. Sports and leisure. Who took five stitches in the scalp after smacking his head on the diving board at the 1988 Olympics? Oh, Colin.

[Colin]

I was watching this live or whatever passed for live. Then it was. Oh, man, that was Greg Louganis. And I just. I cringe thinking about it.

[Chris]

Oh, yeah, it was gnarly.

[Karen]

All right, let's move on to our last card here. Trivia. Pursue entertainment. Singles. You think it's easy, but it's actually very hard. Here we go. Blue wedge.

[Colin]

I didn't say I thought it was easy.

[Karen]

What 1995 TV series remake about a dolphin star Jessica Alba. Chris Flipper. It's Flipper. It's Flipper.

[Colin]

I don't remember the show. But remake and dolphin. Yeah.

[Karen]

All right. Pink wedge for music. What Sound Garden frontman wrote and performed the song you know my name for the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale was on a. Karen James Bond music quiz. Colin.

[Colin]

Chris Cornell.

[Karen]

Chris Cornell.

[Chris]

Seattle's own that Soundgarden frontman.

[Karen]

Yes.

[Colin]

Yeah.

[Karen]

Yellow Edge for movies. What? Lars Von Trier film was renamed Zentropa for release in the US Oh, I think it's because other title. There was already a movie called that.

[Chris]

Oh.

[Karen]

Fun time. Lars Von Trier.

[Chris]

Oh, yeah. Always a. Always a good time. Take the kids get.

[Colin]

Pick me up.

[Chris]

I don't. I don't know. Yeah, I mean, it's not. The only one I can think of is but Dancer in the Dark. Right? But I don't. It's not that. That was called that here.

[Karen]

I could only watch that movie once and I was like, I never want to watch this movie ever.

[Chris]

I know. Yeah, yeah. I was shown that film.

[Karen]

All right. It is Europa.

[Colin]

Oh, okay. So the US Name was Zentropa.

[Karen]

Purple wedge. How many balls constitute a walk in softball?

[Colin]

Ooh, softball. That implies that it's different from baseball.

[Chris]

It does. It implies that, Chris. Three. Three balls.

[Karen]

Incorrect.

[Chris]

Dang.

[Colin]

All right, Colin.

[Chris]

Five.

[Karen]

It's four. It's just like normal baseball.

[Chris]

All right. I kill them all.

[Colin]

Totally, totally overthinking this one.

[Karen]

They're trying to trick you.

[Colin]

It's just like they did. They did.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Colin]

They tricked both of us.

[Karen]

All right. That was funny. Green wedge. What poet and essayist wrote the Raven?

[Colin]

Oh, side of things. Yes.

[Karen]

Four balls.

[Chris]

It's Edgar Allan Poe.

[Karen]

Correct. So our last question on this last card for this last bit of pop quiz. Hot shot, wild card, orange wedge. What film based on a Stephen King novel made Jack Nicholson's catchphrase? Here's Johnny Famous.

[Chris]

The Shinning.

[Karen]

The Shinning. The Shining. That didn't feel very satisfying. But we did three cards. Good job, everybody.

[Chris]

Yeah. Yep, yep.

[Karen]

Boomers, 80s and entertainment. What a roller coaster ride. So this week's episode 300. Well, last week we had actually, we kind of moved things around. We had an all quiz last week. This week is kind of an all quiz, but more themed towards celebration. Good job. Brainy stuff. Celebrating milestones. So. So this week it's our good job brain 300. Bonanz.

[Colin]

I will start us off. You know, in the spirit of the 300th celebration. I wanted to set you guys up for success, you know, Right. Sort of like the inverse of me sitting on a quiz about Broadway show tunes, you know, or just very specific video game characters where I'm along for the ride. I figured like, you know, as we've said before, like, you know, seriously a joke. We've said like if we wanted to, we could stump each other 100% of the time. We all have such, such arcane areas of knowledge, but that's not fun. So I decided to go the total opposite direction. I tried to put together a quiz where I'm. I'm not giving you guys softballs necessarily, but I trust that if I cater to your guys interests, I could put together a quiz that, that together, working together, you guys could score perfect score on. All right, so I want you guys to work together on this music quiz. I've tried to put together a pub quiz style. 10 questions, you're going to hear a short clip of music. And the angle of this quiz ties in very nicely with the monkeys, you know, so we heard a lot about the monkeys at the top, which is again, started as a fake band but became a real band. You know, I mean, just because they were assembled, they. They were putting out the songs. I have a quiz called real movies, fake bands. I will play for you a song from a movie. Your guys goal is to tell me what is the movie and what is the name of the band and in the movie, okay. The artist made solo artist or the musical act in the movie. Okay, now some of these cases, it may actually be the actors singing or performing. I don't want the actor's names, I want the name of the in universe in the performing act. All right, we're gonna go in reverse chronological order here. So we're going to start very fresh and move our way back in time. I am trying to set you guys up here. I really trust that if one of you, if one of you doesn't have it, the other one will. So I encourage you to talk it out pub quiz style. Karen, I'm gonna nominate you as team captain. You're gonna give me final answer here. All right. For each of these. All right, I will give you the year of all these movies and start with a movie from this year, 2025. When you are ready, get clip one ready. I better go ahead. I bet you do too, Karen. I bet you do too. Clip number one.

[Karen]

All right.

[Chris]

I've never heard this song before.

[Karen]

Oh, my gosh. The movie is Chris K. Pop Demon Hunters and the band is the demon boy band.

[Colin]

The Saja Boys. You got it. That's right. Saja Boys, Soda Pop. K Pop Demon Hunter singing Soda pop. Yeah. You know, I may award some bonus points here if you want to name the song as well. Yeah, Soda Top. We all know it. We've all heard it. We're all gonna hear it again tomorrow most likely at this point. All right, perfect score so far. Okay, get ready. We're going back to 2016 for this clip. All right, remember, I need the movie and the act. Here we go. Clip number two, bar none.

[Karen]

I am the most humble list. Number one at the top of the humble list.

[Chris]

My apple crumble is by far the most crumblest. But I act like it tastes bad.

[Karen]

The thing about me that's so impressive.

[Colin]

Is how.

[Karen]

You know I've never watched this movie, but I really know. Okay, Even the fake name.

[Colin]

I thought for sure the actor singing.

[Karen]

Rapping is Andy Samberg.

[Colin]

You are correct.

[Karen]

SNL and Lonely Island. And I think his movie was Pop Star.

[Colin]

Yes.

[Karen]

And his fake name or the character he plays is Connor.

[Colin]

The number four Real amazing. You got it, Karen.

[Chris]

Just.

[Colin]

I love. I love.

[Karen]

All I know of the movie.

[Colin]

Hasn't seen the movie. Hasn't seen the movie, but she still got it. Yes. Performing I'm so humble from the movie. The full name pop star. Never stop. Never stopping. Full marks so far, you guys. I'll be. I'll be leaning here when needed. We have a hit movie from 2012. There are lots of songs in this one. I need you to identify the movie and the name of the group performing. Clip number three.

[Karen]

We just want to make the world dance.

[Chris]

Forget about the price tag.

[Karen]

It ain't about the world dance. Forget about the price tag. I know, Chris, okay?

[Chris]

I don't know, so you might as well go for it.

[Karen]

The movie is Pitch Perfect. The first one.

[Colin]

Yes. Yes.

[Karen]

Group performing is the Barden Bellas.

[Colin]

You got it. Not slipping these by you. Yes. Singing their medley in their finals appearance. This is a acapella mashup made by Becca Mitchell. It includes price tag. Don't you forget about me Just the way you are Give me everything Party in the USA Turn the beat around. All of those songs are run through in short order. You got it. Continuing on back in time. We are now at 2010, a movie loaded with music, loaded with action. We got clip number four.

[Chris]

What's. Do you know?

[Karen]

Yeah.

[Chris]

Oh, you do?

[Karen]

Yeah. It's video game adjacent.

[Colin]

It is Video game adjacent.

[Chris]

Is it the Scott Pilgrim?

[Colin]

Yeah. Okay. Okay, it is. You got it. Scott Pilgrim versus the World movie. What is the band? You got it.

[Chris]

No, no, it's Sex Bob omb.

[Karen]

Bombs.

[Colin]

Sex Bob omb.

[Karen]

Yeah, that's what I said.

[Chris]

No, you said the Sex Bob ombs.

[Colin]

Yeah, it's not.

[Chris]

Not a plural one. Yeah.

[Colin]

Yes. In fact, the name of the song, and I truncated it at the beginning, is we are Sex Bob omb.

[Karen]

Not plural.

[Colin]

That's not.

[Karen]

So a little bit of a deep dive trivia that no one asked for. So Brie Larson, a very young Brie Larson, was in the movie. She played Scott Pilgrim's ex. And she has. And so they perform a song called Black Sheep in the movie. And she's great. Brie Larson's a great singer. And then when they released the soundtrack, people are like, I want that song. But the version they had, the song was performed by like a real band and not her. And it took them years and years to get, I don't know, like contracts or licensing or publishing rights. And they finally released the Brie Larson version on, know, Spotify or on the official soundtrack.

[Colin]

But, ah, that Is a good little sn.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Colin]

Nice. Putting this quiz together, I found myself. I start getting a song and 10 minutes later I find myself just watching the movie for 10 minutes. And so I have to kind of like stop and snap myself back to it. All right, clip number five. All the way back to 2001, this film was somewhat of a bomb on release. It has gained a little bit of cult status in the, you know, 20 something years since then. Clip number five.

[Karen]

Spin around, come back home, you're running out on a line Sometimes feel I'm going out of my mind Stunned here Waiting for anyone to take the time.

[Colin]

Spin around we get further and further away.

[Chris]

Yes.

[Colin]

Yes. Chris.

[Karen]

Chris knows.

[Chris]

Oh, I think so. All right. Is the. Is the title of the movie the same as the name of the band?

[Colin]

It is the title of the movie is the same as the name of the band, Chris.

[Chris]

So therefore critically drubbed at the time, but since re evaluated as a cult classic. And actually, yes, a fantastic film. Josie and the Pussycats.

[Colin]

You got it. You got it. That is Josie and the Pussycats. Yes.

[Karen]

Marker Posey, Spin around. And Alan Cummings.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Colin]

Alan Cumming in it. Yes. A lot of great names in that. That's right.

[Chris]

Again, Karen. It's not Alan Cummings.

[Karen]

Plural.

[Colin]

Yeah, just one of them.

[Chris]

Everything. Everything is plural.

[Colin]

Yeah, the.

[Karen]

The boy band in the movie, I remember, called Du jour. It was like.

[Colin]

You got it right.

[Karen]

It had Seth Green, Donald Faison, I think maybe Breen Meyer.

[Colin]

Yeah, yeah. So the stars, the Josie of the Pussycats, Rachel Lee Cook, Tara Reid, Rosario Dawson. They are in the mix on the songs. They're not like the leads, but their vocals are. Are in the mix. Yeah. Even though they weren't really handling the.

[Karen]

The singing.

[Colin]

Haven't dropped a point so far. Here we go over halfway, all the way back to 1996. We clip number six.

[Chris]

All right, play the clip on that one.

[Colin]

Honestly, I think just the drums at the beginning and.

[Chris]

Yeah, it's the film. Is that thing you do. The band is the one.

[Karen]

The oneators.

[Chris]

I'm sorry, Just Cap and Geech and the shrimp shack shooters.

[Colin]

Yes, yes. A great film set in the 60s about the wonders. The name of the movie right there in the song, that thing you do. It did in fact, as I think we've talked about on the show, it did chart. Yes. It sort of breached containment. It was nominated for a Golden Globe as well as an Academy Award. And it was written by, as I think we may have mentioned, Adam Schlesinger, who is bassist for the Band. Fountains of Wayne. Oh, yeah. Very, very popular. I remember hearing that one on the radio and being like, oh, okay. I guess we're playing songs from movies on radios now.

[Chris]

What is real anymore, though?

[Colin]

Yeah.

[Chris]

You know, now we have reality shows where we. It's sort of conspicuously in view of the world we're gonna make. We're gonna put a band together and they find people and they give them a band and they give them a name. Yeah. It's so artificial and then it works and everybody just sort of buys into it. I mean, the Monkeys. Do we call them a fake band? Are they fake? They don't really feel fake.

[Colin]

Exactly, exactly. The songs are real.

[Chris]

Yep.

[Colin]

All right, heading into the end of the quiz here, 1994. We've got a comedy here. Los Angeles band, 1994, clip seven. Getting tricky here. I'll give you a small hint.

[Karen]

The.

[Chris]

The.

[Colin]

The lead in the movie is actually singing this song.

[Karen]

Yeah, he sounds familiar. That's what I was trying to go for.

[Colin]

He's not known for being a singer.

[Karen]

Oh, God. God. Hold on, hold on. I know this.

[Colin]

It's.

[Karen]

It's the one where they're stuck. I think they went to go get. They want the radio station to play their demo.

[Colin]

Yes. Yes.

[Karen]

As Adam Sandler, Shami Frazier, Airheads.

[Colin]

You got it. All right. What is the name of the band?

[Karen]

It's, like, funny. It's like. It's a funny name. It's not. It's like Spinal Tap, new originals. That kind of.

[Colin]

Yes, yes. That's a good comparison. You've described the plot.

[Chris]

I don't know. I'm sorry, I don't know the name of the band. Yeah.

[Karen]

There are three of the Lone Rangers.

[Colin]

Amazing pole. Karen.

[Chris]

Wow. With an S. With an S. With an S. Finally.

[Colin]

You got it and it counts. That's right. The Lone Rangers. And as is pointed out to them in the movie, they're like, you know, there's three of you. You're not. You're not exactly alone. Yes. Adam Sandler on drums. Steve Buscemi on bass, you know, ostensibly. And Brendan. Brendan Fraser. Not Fraser. Brendan Fraser, yes. Yeah. Lead singer and actually belting it out there. That was degenerated. Great poll. Okay, we have arrived at 1991. There are not a lot of vocals to go by in this clip, but I want you guys to just channel the brief bit you get at the beginning and the overall vibe. All right? 1991, clip 8.

[Karen]

Laws we can say is 1, 2, 1, 2, 3.

[Chris]

Is it a. Is it a. Is this movie A. A sequel.

[Colin]

It is a sequel, Chris.

[Chris]

It is. It's a sequel. I think I. I think I know. The film is the. Would the film be Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey?

[Colin]

Yes.

[Chris]

The Wild Stallions.

[Colin]

Yes, sir. It is. It is the Wild Stallions, the second movie. It is the second movie, yes. Where we see them traveling into the future, then traveling back. So they've had time to practice and become good and giving it to the crowd. They've got. Yes. The Grim Reaper on base. They've got all their friends there. Yes. Wild Stallions with Bill and Ted.

[Chris]

Great.

[Colin]

Great job, you guys. All right, close to the end. Now, clip number nine. We have a groundbreaking 1984 film. We're going to play a clip from a truly catchy pop song. Now, I want to say for this one, there. There is a right answer, and there is an even more right answer.

[Chris]

I will. Yeah, okay. I'm gonna get the most right answer. You know what I need?

[Colin]

Oh, maybe you don't. Do I have to come right, flat out and tell you everything?

[Karen]

Give me some money.

[Chris]

Give me some money I knew exactly what he knew. No problem. Give me some money so the name of the film is. This is Spinal Tap.

[Colin]

Correct.

[Chris]

Now, some sort of poser or wannabe Spinal Tap fan would tell you that that that song was Give Me Some Money performed by Spinal Tap. But they wrong. That was the dulcet tones of the Thamesman 100.

[Colin]

Right. That is the Thamesman with their first single, Give Me Some Money. The band which would go on to become Spinal Tap, well done. I was smiling and thinking of you as I assembled that question.

[Karen]

Wow, that's number nine. What's number ten?

[Colin]

Number ten. A little bit of a twist here. Going all the way back to 1977. Just a few seconds of this one here for you. Clip number 10. All right, what do you got for me? Movie. Let's get the movie out of the way.

[Chris]

Star Wars.

[Karen]

Star Wars.

[Colin]

Okay.

[Karen]

Or New Hope.

[Colin]

Y' all accept that. That's fine.

[Chris]

Yes.

[Colin]

Star Wars. The first one. The 1977.

[Karen]

I know all of the answers and the names because I went as this for one of the Star wars races with Butt Head that I made. I made a butt head.

[Colin]

The Butt Head.

[Chris]

Do you know that? Do you know exactly how it goes?

[Karen]

It's so. So the. There's a main performer.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Karen]

And his name is, like, Figure Dan.

[Colin]

Very, very close Figurine Dan. So close. You're. You're right on top of it. Yep.

[Karen]

The band is called the Modal Nodes.

[Colin]

It yes, that is right. Is the. It is the Cantina Band from the Cantina scene in Star Wars.

[Chris]

Yes.

[Colin]

Which today is now called Fig Rin Dan and the Modal Figrin Dan, who is the. The lead of the band and the modal nodes. That's right. And in the Star wars universe, they are the bith species with the, as you said, kind of the butt looking heads there. Yeah. When that song itself was first released on, you know, various soundtracks back in the 70s and early 80s, it was just listed as Cantina Band. The song itself.

[Karen]

Oh, has a name.

[Colin]

Since it has a name now. Yes. The name of that song is now officially Mad About Me. Mad About Me. Well done, you guys. Perfect score. I'm gonna say that is 300 points for 300 episodes. I am so proud of you. You nailed it.

[Chris]

Did it. Hi.

[Colin]

Good job, brain.

[Chris]

My name is Josiah. I listen in Maryland. Congratulations on 300 episodes. I've been listening since the beginning. I actually created your wikipedia page about 10 years ago and have been struggling to keep up with all the great episodes and content there. But look forward to 300 more. Congratulations. Hey.

[Karen]

Hi there. This is Grace from Muddy Creek Township, Pennsylvania. I want to say congratulations on 300 episodes. What a milestone. I wanted to send a message to.

[Colin]

You, Karen and Colin and Chris to.

[Karen]

Celebrate this incredible achievement. I was thinking of the roman numeral for 300, which would be CCC. C for celebrating 300 episodes of amazing content. C for your collective cleverness in bringing fascinating facts and stories to life. And C for your incredible creativity and making learning so much fun. And one more C, just for good measure, to thank you for helping to instill curiosity in all your listeners. I know Dana is missed, but for the four of you together, you have created something truly special. Here's your 300 more episodes. All right, my turn. Let's completely do a 180. Instead of doing a quiz about stuff that we love and we like to watch and listen, I here have a quiz. Maybe celebrating something we're not too good at. Good job, Rain. We're about pub trivia, and pub trivia is about knowing a lot of different categories. And by far our weakest category is sports. We have only Colin to rely on here. I've made a sports quiz we could all enjoy because it's a sports quiz, but it's not really about sports. All right, all right. It's all about team names and mascots. Very quick quiz.

[Colin]

Okay? Okay.

[Karen]

Feel like you guys should work together. Here we go. Please name me three teams of the big four. U.S. sports league. So MLB, baseball, NFL, American football, NBA basketball, NHL, hockey. So big four leagues. Okay, please name me three teams that have multiple k's in their team name. Wow.

[Colin]

All right. Oh, I got one.

[Chris]

Okay, off the bat, we'll just throw it out there, I guess. Yeah, we got.

[Colin]

We got the Knicks. We got the New York Knicks.

[Chris]

Okay, okay, okay.

[Colin]

Multiple. Multiple K's.

[Chris]

Wait, does the New York Yankees count? Or do you mean the T, like the.

[Karen]

Just the team.

[Colin]

Okay, okay. Yeah, the Knicks actually have three, Right. Because it's short for Knickerbockers. You gotta get three in there. All right, but that doesn't help us. All right, we need two more. Wow. Okay, so something that starts with. There's, like, the night. The Golden Knights. But that's only one. Oh, this is a good question, Karen. Okay, I'm trying to think. Baseball.

[Karen]

I'll tell you what sport. Both.

[Chris]

Yeah, Teams might be helpful.

[Karen]

NHL, then.

[Chris]

Oh, the next two were part of the NHL. How about the Blackhawks?

[Colin]

Oh, Chris, fantastic. Well done. Chicago Blackhawks. Very nice. Okay. All right. Yeah, you're right. It's got to be a compound word, right? Let's see. The Seattle. Seattle.

[Chris]

Oh, the Kraken.

[Colin]

Oh, the Kraken. Yes.

[Chris]

Is that one?

[Colin]

Yeah.

[Chris]

Three.

[Karen]

Good job.

[Chris]

That was a. That was a word quiz disguised as a sports quiz.

[Colin]

That was good.

[Karen]

Yes, that's the spirit of this quiz and some trivia embedded in here like this. Next question. What are the Dodgers dodging?

[Colin]

They are dodging trolleys because they were originally the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers.

[Karen]

Yes.

[Colin]

Which was something you had to be aware of is don't get creamed by a trolley as you're crossing the street in Brooklyn and then moved 3,000 miles away to the opposite coast.

[Karen]

Yeah. All right, next question. Out of all the NFL American Football team logos, almost all of them are facing straight ahead or they are facing to your right. So if you're looking at it, they're facing to your right hand. You know what is the only one team whose logo faces your left?

[Chris]

Ooh, to the left of the NFL teams.

[Karen]

Yeah.

[Chris]

Yep.

[Colin]

Or the logo faces. So it's like an animal or a mascot or something.

[Karen]

It's an animal.

[Colin]

It's an animal. Okay. All right.

[Karen]

All of them are either, you know, like the cult has a horseshoe and it's, like, centered. Like anybody that's a person or animal usually are either centered or looking to your right.

[Colin]

All right, I'm trying to think. It's not the. It's not the Falcons. The bird is pointing to the right.

[Karen]

There's one out of all of them. There's one.

[Chris]

When you look at all the logos.

[Karen]

You'Re like, that's weird.

[Colin]

It's not the dolphins. The dolphin is swimming to the right.

[Karen]

I need a final answer.

[Colin]

The Ravens close.

[Karen]

It is the Philadelphia Eagle.

[Colin]

The birds flying to the left.

[Karen]

Yep. The only one that looks to that side. I wonder why it's so weird.

[Colin]

Karen, do you know. Do you know what the Dolphins helmet logo is?

[Karen]

Is it not a dolphin?

[Colin]

It's a. It is a dolphin. But historically, the dolphin on the dolphin's helmet had a helmet on. So, like, as. As if the dolphin maybe were, I don't know, part of the team somehow. I don't know how you fit in, but. So the dolphin had a little helmet on the. On the helmet. They took it off. Yeah. A lot of people are sad that they took the helmet off the dolphin. On the helmet.

[Karen]

How would it. Helmet work on a dolphin?

[Colin]

Yeah, it kind of doesn't really work. It's not like he has any head under there.

[Karen]

Yeah, there's no. There's no neck. They're like a sausage.

[Colin]

Yeah.

[Karen]

All right, next question. There are three teams in the major big four sports named after a real individual person. So not a group of people or not a type of person or like a profession, but named after a named, real individual person. Three teams.

[Colin]

Three teams. I believe one of these is the Browns, I think Cleveland. The Cleveland Browns football team. Right. The original owner's last name was Brown.

[Chris]

Right.

[Karen]

I think it was the coach.

[Colin]

Okay. Oh, sorry. Okay.

[Karen]

Yeah. Named after a. A Mr. Brown.

[Colin]

Mr. Brown, singular.

[Karen]

But now.

[Colin]

Yes. Okay. But not the color. Right, okay. All right. Named after a real person, man. Okay.

[Karen]

It's football.

[Colin]

Okay.

[Karen]

And a hockey team.

[Colin]

And a hockey.

[Karen]

And the hockey team was mentioned earlier.

[Colin]

Okay. The Blackhawks. Is the. Is the Blackhawk a member of the Blackhawk Tribe that the team is named after?

[Karen]

Blackhawk is a person named Black Hawk. Chicago Blackhawks.

[Colin]

Hockey. Did not know that. And we got one more, which is a football team. Think of it. Is it a Western team or an Eastern team?

[Karen]

East.

[Colin]

East. Patriots, Giants, Jets?

[Karen]

It is the Buffalo.

[Colin]

Oh, the Buffalo Bills.

[Karen]

Named after Buffalo Bill. Of course not. Not the Hannibal Lecter Buffalo Bill.

[Chris]

Right. Yeah, Right.

[Colin]

Yes. Right, right, right.

[Karen]

All right. Well, Chris, with your keen and astute detective skills.

[Chris]

Yes.

[Karen]

Before the Lakers played for Los Angeles, what city or state did the team play for?

[Colin]

Sending vibes.

[Chris]

Right, right, right. Was it Minneapolis?

[Karen]

Yes. Yeah. Land of a whole bunch of lakes. Land o lakes. Land of a bunch of Lakes. That's why they're called the Lakers. They again, also moved to Los Angeles, where there's maybe not as many lakes. All right, last question here. There are six pairs of teams who share the same name of the big four sports. For example, out of the six, one of them is Cardinals. You have the St. Louis Cardinals playing baseball, and then you have the Arizona Cardinals playing football. What are the five other pairs?

[Chris]

So there's the Giants.

[Karen]

Yes. San Francisco Giants baseball. New York Giants football.

[Colin]

Okay, four more, four more, four more.

[Karen]

New York, we got Jets, Jets, Jets.

[Colin]

Oh, of course. And the Winnipeg, Winnipeg jets hockey team.

[Chris]

Oh, okay, okay.

[Colin]

Hey. All right.

[Karen]

There's a feline animal.

[Colin]

Okay, we got the. The Panthers.

[Karen]

Yes.

[Colin]

Okay.

[Karen]

Carolina Panthers football. Florida Panthers, NHL.

[Colin]

Yeah. Okay.

[Karen]

All right, two more, both from a state you currently live in.

[Chris]

Kings.

[Karen]

Kings, Los Angeles Kings hockey. Sacramento Kings basketball. And the last one, we got the Rangers, New York Rangers hockey.

[Colin]

And then Texas, Texas Rangers baseball.

[Karen]

Six pairs.

[Chris]

Wow.

[Colin]

Six pairs. That's. If you just asked me cold how many, I would not have said six. That's really good trivia, Karen. That's great.

[Chris]

That's great.

[Karen]

All right, good job, everybody. All right, we're gonna take a quick break and we'll be right back.

[Chris]

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We lived in New York, we were.

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[Chris]

And now we listen to it nonstop.

[Colin]

Much to the shrugging of our children sometimes.

[Karen]

But we hope they learn something. We love you. Congrats on 300. Can't wait to listen.

[Colin]

Hey, Good Job Brain.

[Chris]

This is your friend Neville Fogarty from Newport News, Virginia. Congratulations on hitting 300 episodes. Wow. Here's a celebratory cryptic clue for the longtime lobe trotters listening.

[Karen]

A customer snarled for flavoring Agent 9 letters.

[Chris]

Again, that's a customer snarled for flavoring Agent 9 letters. I bet you can figure that out.

[Colin]

Again, congrats. And here's to the next 300.

[Chris]

It is apparently our 300th episode. I don't know if you guys have heard that, but it is episode 300 of Good Job Brain. So I come up with a quiz that is themed around the number 300 because I'm being very literal on this one.

[Karen]

Oh, that's. There's not a lot of things I feel like.

[Chris]

You know what, Karen, you're right. I really had to stretch it out. So let's see how we do. So far, every quiz has been everybody work together to figure this out. So maybe that's just the theme of this episode. So. Oh, you can just work it out together. All right, Trivia. Doing the old school, like putting those brains together and working it out. It worked. That's the glory of. That's why it's pub trivia team and not pub trivia by yourself. So. All right, so that are all themed around the number 300. Okay, first question. The film 300 about the historic battle of Thermopylae, was based on a comic book series by what author?

[Colin]

Oh, okay. That was.

[Chris]

You don't gotta buzz in. You can just work together.

[Colin]

I know you Know it. The Frank Miller.

[Karen]

Miller.

[Chris]

It's Frank Miller. It's Frank Miller. Yes, yes, yes. Okay, let's get a little more difficult. The lightweight Ninja 300 motorbike was introduced in 2012 by what maker?

[Colin]

Oh, the Ninja.

[Chris]

Yes. 300 motorbike.

[Karen]

Oh, Colin, you actually ride bikes?

[Colin]

I mean, there's. I'm just gonna. I mean, I'm not gonna overthink it. I mean, I'm gonna guess it's like Kawasaki or Yamaha maybe. I don't know. Let's say Kawasaki. I mean, I don't know. I'm just. Just taking a guess here.

[Chris]

It's Kawasaki. It is Kawasaki. Nice work. Yes. The Ninja 300 just felt right. Kawasaki. Yeah.

[Karen]

Doesn't it?

[Chris]

It just feels right. Yep. Next question. 300 Entertainment is the music label of young thug Fetty Wap and this singer of Family Affair.

[Karen]

Isn't that Mary J. Blige?

[Chris]

That is Mary J. Blige. I'm not gonna leave you hanging there. Yes. Mary J. Blige. Next question. 300 in quotes, for some reason, is the full name of a 1975 pinball machine themed around what? It is not the Battle of Thermopylae. 300. 300 is the full name of a 1975 pinball machine with what as the theming?

[Karen]

Is it like, what's 300?

[Colin]

I'm trying to think, like, is it after a movie from that year? Is it. Or is it something. Is it a sport maybe? Oh, oh, Bowling. Bowling. Bowling.

[Chris]

It is. Bowling. Bowling themed pinball machine. Nicely spotted.

[Colin]

Bowling was. It was for sure, you know, having a moment, I think, in.

[Chris]

Bowling was in 1975. Absolutely. In fact, if you couldn't. If you couldn't go bowling, could. You could play the pinball machine based on bowling, which you probably would play at a bowling alley. Next question. Taking place from 1991 to 2008, the Gold Coast Indy 300 was an IndyCar racing event taking place on what continent?

[Karen]

Australia.

[Colin]

Australia.

[Chris]

Australia. All right. In what province of Australia?

[Colin]

Over to you, Karen.

[Karen]

Okay. I'm mapping it out.

[Chris]

This does not count for points.

[Karen]

New South Wales.

[Chris]

No, it's Queensland. That's why I'm glad I didn't ask that. As the. As the actual question. I was just. I was just like, you know what? That sounds a little. Maybe too obscure. Yes. The Gold Coast Indy300, an IndyCar racing event in Australia along the Gold Coast. All right, next question. Released in 1976, the Magnavox Odyssey 300 could play three games. Hockey, Smash and what?

[Colin]

Hockey.

[Karen]

That's the first ever console. Right.

[Chris]

That is a later revision of the Magnavo. Magnavox. Odyssey was 72.

[Karen]

Okay?

[Chris]

The. They did the Odyssey 100, the Odyssey 200 and the Odyssey 300, which could play three games. Hockey, Smash.

[Colin]

Chess or checkers.

[Karen]

That's too hard. Chess is too, too much computing power.

[Colin]

Yeah, you're right.

[Chris]

That is way too much.

[Karen]

Yeah, it's got to be very simple.

[Colin]

Like, like a. I was thinking like board game. Yeah, it's.

[Chris]

It's tennis. Cameron is tennis.

[Colin]

It's tennis.

[Chris]

Everything could play Pong at this point.

[Karen]

Yeah, it's just. You just go back and forth.

[Chris]

Interesting bit of trivia about the Odyssey 300 is that it had a chip that was designed by the company General Instruments, and it was a integrated circuit that just played video games. The video games were all sort of on this chip. And over 200 different companies licensed. They just bought these chips from General Instruments, the Coleco Telstar. There was a hockey. There was an officially licensed Pong machine from atari. The Odyssey 300. Many, many different machines around the world were just the exact same game, same chip, same games. And then it was really just the outer shell of the machine was different. Sticking with electronics, but maybe going a little bit more obscure. The Emate 300. That's of course, lowercase E, capital M ETE. The Emate 300, a laptop computing device released by Apple in 1997, ran what operating system?

[Colin]

Man, I vaguely remember this.

[Karen]

Could it just be Linux? Yeah.

[Colin]

I mean, could it be before they moved over fully to basing the OS on. Yeah, Ran what?

[Karen]

I mean, what would you even call it? Early Apple os? I don't know.

[Colin]

I mean, I mean, it could run. They had some machines that ran Windows. I mean.

[Karen]

Oh, what if it was? That'd be funny if it was, let's say Windows for fun.

[Colin]

I mean, the era is correct. Yeah, all right, sure, that'll be fun to say. Windows.

[Chris]

It is not Windows. I'm sorry. Yeah, it was a laptop computing device. It was low cost, kind of a low power draw laptop that actually ran Newton os. It ran the OS from Apple's PDA Palm Top Devices, but in a laptop form factor.

[Colin]

You are really tickling the deep recesses.

[Chris]

Of my brain with that one.

[Colin]

The Emate.

[Chris]

Oh my gosh, the Emate 300. As of this recording, Wikipedia's list of longest films consists of movies with runtimes of over 300 minutes. Or how many hours you have to get this in the next two seconds.

[Colin]

Five hours.

[Chris]

Five hours. All right, Good job, Colin. Is that the question that was, that was the question. I think, I think originally I was going to be like, whoever Button pauses in first made the last minute decision. It's like, yeah, I think talking amongst each other, you probably get that one. Okay. All right, let's. Let's get a little bit more difficult. One of baseball's most exclusive groups is the 300 win club, reserved for pitchers who rack up a career 300 wins. What pitcher who at the time was pitching for the San Francisco Giants was the latest to join that club on June 4, 2009?

[Colin]

Ooh. No, I mean, he was, he was big for a while. I don't think he had that longevity. 2000, man.

[Chris]

Only four pitchers have joined the 300 win club since the 1990s.

[Karen]

Oh, wow.

[Chris]

So he is the latest person to do it. It was 2009. He was playing at the time for the San Francisco Giants. He is not as associated with the San Francisco Giants as he is with other teams that he has, but he is the latest member of the 300 win club and he, I believe, retired like very shortly after getting 300 wins.

[Karen]

Well, what team did he play for before?

[Chris]

Like, more notably, more famously, he played for the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Seattle Mariners.

[Colin]

Oh, is that Randy, the big unit? The big unit, yeah, the big unit.

[Chris]

Randy Johnson. The. The most recent inductee into the 300 wins club in 2009.

[Colin]

Wow. I totally forgot that he played for.

[Karen]

The Giants and that recently, I guess.

[Chris]

Yep. Yeah.

[Karen]

Wow, that's crazy.

[Chris]

And finally, what do the words accuracy, eclectic, and focaccia have to do with this quiz?

[Colin]

Oh, I know. They have three C's in them. Which is 300, right?

[Chris]

Numeral for 300.

[Colin]

Accuracy. Focaccia.

[Karen]

Focaccia does have three C's.

[Chris]

It does have three C's. Yep, yep, yep. All right, well, we've celebrated the number 300 with my number 300 quiz. Great job. Sorry about the Newton.

[Colin]

Hey, good job, brainiacs. Congratulations on hitting 300 episodes. That is an epic, epic milestone. This, of course, is Jonathan from Los Angeles, the TV executive who tried to develop a game show with y' all way back in the day. Late night talk show meets trivia. Thank you so much for being my ear friends for all these years. I've been ride or die since season one and I hope that this fun train never stops. But speaking of 300, I would be remiss not to throw a piece of trivia out.

[Karen]

Did you know that Brad Pitt was.

[Colin]

Actually Zack Snyder's first choice for King Leonidas? And not Gerard Butler.

[Karen]

I guess the first rule of 300.

[Colin]

Casting is you don't talk about 300 casting s do. Cheers to the next 300.

[Karen]

Sending a lot of love and thank.

[Colin]

You so much for keeping brains everywhere a little smarter. One fact at a time.

[Karen]

Bye.

[Colin]

Hello, Bill from Pennsylvania. Just calling to say congrats and keep going on 300. I can't tell you how many road.

[Chris]

Trips, more morning commutes to work you guys have got me through, how many.

[Colin]

Cool talking points and trivia I can.

[Chris]

Pull out at parties and stuff now thanks to your podcast.

[Colin]

So keep going. Hats off to you. No, actually.

[Karen]

Hi, this is Jamie from Oviedo, Florida. I started listening to Good Job Brain back in 2016 when my now husband and I were dating. We like to take day trips and wanted something we could listen to and enjoy together on the the long drive. Now we keep up that tradition with our kids who have been listening to Good Job Brain their entire lives. I even played episode 131, BiblioTech Discotech in our hospital room the night after I delivered our firstborn. Our kids love the show so much, they always do a little dance in their car seats whenever the theme song plays. Thank you all for creating such a wonderful show that has become a series of touchstones in my family's life. We love listening. All right, I have another quiz in the spirit of Good Job Brain. We joke about this all the time. Some of the our favorite things to talk about facts and quizzes on Good Job Brain are like inventions or where things came from or where their origins are. Secret origins, accidental origins. The longer we do this show, the more we realize that so many things in our world were invented for mainly three big reasons. For medical purposes, for wartime purposes, and for tax purposes. Either trying to avoid tax or trying to get more money. What I'm gonna do in this quiz is I'm gonna give you an invention or an item and you tell me if it had origins in medicine, wartime, or taxes.

[Chris]

Yes.

[Karen]

All right, so for example, Coca Cola. Coca Cola was initially invented to relieve migraines and headaches, right? It was for medicine. This is one of my favorite segments in the history of Kajaburin is the origin of salted caramel. Because for a while, salted caramel was everywhere. The flavor, where did it come from? Turns out it had roots in taxes. In the salt tax in the Brittany region in France. And then duct tape. We talk about duct tape. Duct tape was a wartime invention for ammunition. So I'm gonna give you a name of the thing you guys write down if it's medicine, wartime, or taxes. Here we go. Shortbread.

[Chris]

All right.

[Karen]

Great British Bake off just started. Sometimes they make a. A mean shortbread, just like a Scottish shortbread.

[Chris]

Oh, you're killing me here. It could be anything.

[Karen]

It could. It really could be anything.

[Chris]

Oh, my God. I've. I've erased something. I've scratched out something that I wrote something else that I scratched that out.

[Karen]

I would love to also hear your. Your, Your potential reasoning too.

[Chris]

Sure. Okay. I'm gonna write down. Okay, I gotta. I gotta go with what I'm writing down.

[Karen]

Okay, what do you have down? And what's your fake reasoning or potentially correct reasoning?

[Chris]

Okay. I mean, I'm thinking, okay, this is. This is a sort of a baked good. It's made with shortening, I believe. And so it's like if there were high taxes on butter, then they did this with different ingredients to get around the high taxes. But then I was like, could also be wartime because maybe it transports really easily in their military rucksacks. But I. Eventually I just sort of. I went with taxes. I went with taxes on.

[Colin]

I also went with taxes too, for sort of similar reasons that like, it's. It's a very simple base recipe. Like maybe you had to make do with only certain amount to stay under a certain monetary level or something like that.

[Karen]

You are both correct. Shortbread originated from little tax loophole, I guess. Previously called shortcakes. Originating from Scotland. Went through a name change in the 18th century. The parliament began placing taxes on luxury goods like cakes and biscuits.

[Chris]

Okay.

[Karen]

So to avoid this, they changed the name from shortcakes to short bread. Being like, hey, it's a bread. It's a non luxury item.

[Colin]

Just a work a day bread. We ain't no fancy cake.

[Chris]

Interesting.

[Karen]

It's been an ongoing thing. The EU wanted to classify shortbread as a biscuit, impose whatever taxes a biscuit slash cookie would get, you know. Now shortbread, Scottish shortbread is so tied to the Scottish identity. People in Scotland like really fought hard. Yes, it's a cookie, but it's culturally significant as an. Important as bread to us. And so currently not. Not taxed as a biscuit.

[Colin]

I love how arbitrary so much of this is. It's. It's great. It's great.

[Karen]

All right, next item here. The metal detector. The metal detector had origins in medicine, taxes, taxes, or wartime.

[Colin]

Okay, okay. All right.

[Chris]

Just.

[Colin]

The longer I think about it, the more I just end up going in circles.

[Karen]

I know.

[Colin]

Y. All right.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Colin]

Colin, I'M I'm saying wartime. It just. It just seemed like late 1800s, early 1900s. You know, you. There's metal in the ground, there's mines, there's explosives. I don't know, maybe.

[Chris]

Too.

[Colin]

It's like covering surplus.

[Karen]

Yeah.

[Colin]

I don't know.

[Chris]

Mines. Looking for mines so you don't step on them. I'm like, yeah. Okay.

[Karen]

Wartime metal detector had origins. Yes. To retrieve a bullet, but not during the wartime. For medicine, medical purposes.

[Chris]

Okay.

[Karen]

Famously. Famously. An early version. One of the first versions of a metal detector was by Thomas Edison himself.

[Colin]

Really?

[Karen]

Why? Because the assassination of President Garfield. No, Garfield was shot.

[Chris]

Oh, right. Yeah.

[Karen]

And he didn't die right away. He died like two months, three months after from the injuries sustained. It's a hot.

[Colin]

It's terrible.

[Karen]

He got shot. And this is 1881, where like doctors.

[Chris]

Didn'T know they were digging around in there with their fingers.

[Karen]

They weren't really washing their hands. They dug the wrong way to find the bullet and then. Which caused bore infection. But Thomas Edison was tasked to invent something to help them find the bullet. This whole time the bullet was still in him. They didn't get the bullet out.

[Colin]

And in body metal detector originally, I.

[Karen]

Mean, it was picking up the springs from the mattress. So it wasn't really. It was unsuccessful. But it did pave way for later more sophisticated metal detectors. Also, Garfield's assassination also gave us another early invention of.

[Colin]

I believe we talked about this on an early show. The early air conditioning. Right. Right. Then they were trying to do their best to keep him comfortable. Right. Oh, yeah.

[Karen]

D.C. was hot. Terrible combination of things. RIP. President Garfield.

[Colin]

Yeah.

[Karen]

All right, next thing here. Brandy. Brandy.

[Colin]

Okay. Okay.

[Karen]

Alcohol beverage. Brandy.

[Colin]

Okay.

[Karen]

Not the song. Brandy.

[Colin]

Not the person. Brandy.

[Karen]

Not the person. Brandy. Colin.

[Colin]

I'm putting tax because I feel like it's to not be treated like other wine or to not be treated somehow and to get into or out of a classic classification.

[Chris]

That was precisely what I was thinking too. Like, we need something that's get you drunk like wine, kind of tastes like it, but is technically not wine. Therefore it's not tax like wine. And that's. That's the thought.

[Karen]

It is tax.

[Chris]

All right.

[Karen]

It is even sneakier. For a while, places were taxing by volume. So it's like, well, we have all this wine. How do we decrease volume so that we don't get attacks as much? And it's like, well, just evaporate the.

[Colin]

Water, just make it more potent. I got an idea.

[Karen]

All right, next item here we have the corkscrew. Speaking of wine, let's open up.

[Colin]

I think I know this one. I think I know.

[Karen]

Open up a bottle with a cork screw.

[Colin]

All right.

[Karen]

Take out the cork.

[Colin]

Is that what you're supposed to do with it?

[Chris]

I wanna. I wanna say it's for, like, medicine. So, like, be like, oh, you got ghosts in your brain. We gotta, like, you know, drill a hole, you know? Yeah.

[Karen]

Ghost in your brain.

[Colin]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We gotta screw them out of there. Yeah. All right. Pretty sure that I have read, and maybe we even talked about this, that it was invented for war, that it was like a soldier's kit kind of thing for opening wine bottles. Probably invented by the French army.

[Chris]

I wrote war. I wrote war. Just feel like that sounds probably right.

[Karen]

You are correct. It is wartime. It is a wartime invention. Corkscrews came from an earlier version of something very similar called a gun worm. And it was, like, early. This is, like, 1600s. It's formed to remove unspent bullets or charges from a musket.

[Colin]

Right, right.

[Karen]

Next item, synthetic dye. Synthetic dye.

[Colin]

Man, this does really ring a bell, too.

[Chris]

Okay.

[Karen]

It's really cool.

[Colin]

All right, Chris.

[Chris]

Well, I put medicine because I'm thinking maybe they were trying to, you know, make some, you know, some kind of medicine, but it ended up just being a color instead of.

[Colin]

Yeah, forget what the first artificial dye was. I feel like we just talked about this. Oh, my God.

[Karen]

It was moving. Moving was the first synthetic dye because someone was trying to work on a synthetic version of quinine.

[Colin]

Malaria.

[Karen]

Yep.

[Chris]

Yep.

[Karen]

Yeah.

[Chris]

To avoid taxes.

[Karen]

All right, Next thing. Cheetos. Cheeto.

[Colin]

Good old.

[Chris]

Oh, wow. Okay.

[Colin]

War, medicine or taxes? Oh, my gosh, man. It could be anything. I could. In my head, I could. I could paint a picture. All right.

[Chris]

It could be anything. You can convince yourself of anything. Anything. Like they were trying to be, like.

[Karen]

The process of puffing corn or packaging.

[Chris]

Like they're trying to develop an erectile dysfunction drug, and they end up. End up. End up being a Cheeto, you know?

[Colin]

Yeah.

[Chris]

I have put taxes.

[Colin]

Oh, man.

[Chris]

I feel like perhaps it's trying to get around taxes on potato chips or something like that.

[Colin]

Okay, okay. I put tax as well, thinking that maybe it's, like, about the ingredients.

[Karen]

A lot of food do fall into the taxes, but not this one. It is war time. War time.

[Colin]

Wartime Cheetos. How. Why the.

[Karen]

The Quartermaster Corps, which is the military storage of all of their food, including processed cheese powder. Big hit. They put that in everything.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Karen]

Then when the war ended, they have tons of it. And so basically the government was selling all the food surplus to different companies, including to Frito Lay. All these different food companies were able to buy from the American government all of this food stuff at cheap, cheap, cheap price.

[Colin]

Right? Hilarious.

[Karen]

And so with the extra cheese powder, in 1948, Frito Company debuted America's first cheese powder snack. And that was the Cheeto.

[Colin]

I love just, just the idea of sort of this top down snack history which is just. All right, people, I don't care what it is, but it's gotta use cheese. Okay. Like I'm gonna come back tomorrow. I need some ideas that use cheese powder.

[Karen]

Also highly recommend. There is a book called Combat ready Kitchen. How the US military shapes the way you eat it is fascinating. I've not finished it, but I did see this in the book. All right, our next invention or thing. Braille. Braille.

[Colin]

Braille, right.

[Karen]

Yes. Language system, tactile system. I also learned that there are a lot of other languages for the visually impaired.

[Chris]

Okay.

[Colin]

Yeah. I've put together a plausible story for medicine.

[Chris]

Oh, I put taxes. I really, I just really want it to be a complex tax avoidance scheme, you know, that somehow worked out good.

[Karen]

Wartime. Wartime. It makes sense. So an earlier version of braille is tactile code. Now it's called night writing.

[Chris]

That makes a lot of sense now.

[Colin]

Yeah, it does.

[Karen]

Instead of braille, which is letter based, it's sound based. And it's so that soldiers can pass these notes throughout the night without light. They can read basically without sight at night. They can feel the pronunciation.

[Colin]

That's very interesting.

[Karen]

And that inspired braille. All right, our last thing here. Action figures. Action figures.

[Chris]

Wow. Huh?

[Karen]

Okay. Figures.

[Colin]

All right.

[Karen]

Okay, Chris.

[Chris]

I put taxes on the last two. I was wrong both times. I'm sticking with it. Taxes. I think it's. There might be something about sort of jointed dolls or mannequins versus toy soldiers or tin soldiers or you know, something along those lines where you're getting around taxes for either the materials or the, the, the, the workmanship or whatever it is.

[Colin]

Okay. Okay. Yeah, I, I put taxes as well because I, I gotta feel like there's a reason monetary. That they moved from, From Right. Other types of dolls and figures to action figures.

[Karen]

In particular, it is taxes. Most toys are produced overseas and imported into America, which means the US can impose import duty tax on all goods. Different things get taxed differently. And so toys resembling humans, aka dolls, taxed at 12% of value. And there is other things that are not human or not dolls, including monsters or robots. Taxed almost half at 6.8% of value. Marvel, who owns the company, the toy company Toy Biz, were getting their X Men figures, their Spider man figures and their Fantastic Four figures taxed as dolls because they're based on humans. Marvel was arguing like actually they're mutants and they're really humans and they have superpowers and hence they're not really human like like a doll. They're more toy like or monster like or mutant like. And let's try to get taxed in the cheaper bucket as toys, non dolls. And they won.

[Colin]

Amazing.

[Karen]

Was like, you're correct, they are mutants and they're not humans and therefore they're not dolls and therefore they don't get tax like dolls.

[Colin]

I love that there's the possibility that X Men issues are being cited as evidence, you know, and it's like, well as you see in issue the court.

[Karen]

Says are not human. Which is funny because that goes against the whole story of X Men. But nowadays there actually is no distinction. No more distinction now. Yeah. And that is my tax medicine or wartime.

[Colin]

I like that. It's a really good three way lens of viewing the world right.

[Karen]

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[Colin]

Hey there, this is Tyler from Alberta, Canada. Specifically a small town called Strathmore that is unimportant. Just wanted to say you are the most consistent podcast I've listened to in all my years. Been with you for so long. Waited through the hiatus. Still going strong with with a number of co workers as well. Listening to the podcast. It's one thing that that really brings me us together at work is trivia. We do a daily movie trivia that I Send out. It's my one night a year I get to go out and hang out with everybody is doing trivia. So you've definitely inspired me from the beginning all the way through. I'm listening through for the third or fourth time. Thank you so much.

[Karen]

Talk to you later.

[Colin]

Bye bye.

[Karen]

Hi Globetrotters. My name is Cassie and I am a middle school teacher from Atlanta. I've been listening from the very beginning of your show back in the day when you guys had a meet up in San Francisco in a live recording. I actually flew out from Atlanta and met y' all in San Francisco in Tokyo.

[Chris]

Little Tokyo.

[Karen]

It was awesome. I've always, always kept trivia close to my heart. As a middle school teacher, I've coached the Academic bowl team, which is Quiz bowl in some places. I call it Jeopardy for Nerdy Adelaide. And now I'm actually a trivia host around town in Atlanta. So thank you for being such an essential part of my trivia and curiosity filled life. This is heather from Arlington, Virginia calling.

[Colin]

To wish you a very happy 300th episode.

[Karen]

As a longtime listener and lobe trotter.

[Colin]

I want to heartily thank you for.

[Karen]

Thousands of hours of laughs and trivia and and Pop Quiz Hotshot and Carmen San Mateo and Beaverbutts. Thank you all of you guys. I hope for hundreds and hundreds of episodes more. My trivia ecosystem would not be the same without you. And we have one last quiz for our episode 300.

[Colin]

Colin episode 300. We are looking back our first, first episode. You guys remember when it was. I know you do, Karen, because you probably look at these dates.

[Karen]

March 12, March. March 18, 2012.

[Colin]

March 2012. March 2012 was our first episode. So we have come up with a lot of quiz formats since then, all of us. Some have showed up multiple times. Some are kind of one and done. One of my personal favorite quiz formats, often imitated, never duplicated, is Brad Pitt or lasers. A quiz format I've done several times where I would give you guys two notable things. People, places, and you got to tell me which one came first. This is not another installment of Brad Pitter Lasers. However, it is similar but retro throwback. It is a retro throwback in that I have built a quiz around our inaugural year of 2020 12. Okay. It's a big year for us. I'm going to give you guys here in a little twist, several notable events or debuts. They all happened within a year or two before 2012 or within a year or two after 2012. You are going to tell me did this Notable event or happening or debut happen before 2012 or after 2012? That's it. All right. You will compete against each other. I will tell you the thing or the event, and you just tell me earlier than 2012 or later than 2012. All right. Okay. The hit game Minecraft.

[Karen]

Oh, my God.

[Colin]

Was Minecraft released prior to 2012 or after 2012? There is scarcely a person under the age of 25 in this country who does not know Minecraft. Answers up. You both said before. You are both correct, yes. Minecraft officially released in November 2011.

[Karen]

Oh, wow. Did you know that for sure, sir?

[Chris]

I knew for sure that it was before 2012. Yeah. Although it was just slightly before the.

[Colin]

Burj Khalifa, which is the world's tallest structure. Was the Burj Khalifa completed before or after 2012?

[Karen]

I have a story.

[Colin]

Oh, my.

[Karen]

I mean, I have my. My way of thinking.

[Colin]

Okay. Chris says after. Karen says before. Before is correct, yes. Burj Khalifa construction completed in 2009.

[Karen]

Well, we started this podcast, and so I remember we use that as our measure of, like, the tallest thing for a while.

[Colin]

That's right. And you, of course, probably know, what building did the Burj Khalifa surpass when.

[Karen]

It became the Taipei 101?

[Colin]

You got it. Taipei 101. I've been there. Have not been to the Burj Khalifa, maybe.

[Chris]

Yeah, I've been to Taipei 101. Yeah. And that is typically tall.

[Colin]

It is really tall.

[Chris]

Disconcertingly tall.

[Colin]

Pope Benedict became the first pope to resign in several hundred years. When did Pope Benedict. Pope Benedict xvi, I should add. When did Pope Benedict XVI resign? Was that before for 2012 or after 2012? The first pope to resign since 1415. Answers up. Maybe you remember what was going on. Okay, all right. Going way back for all of us here. Okay, answers up. Chris says after. Karen says after. You are both correct. Yes, yes. His resignation was February 2013.

[Karen]

He was, like, sick, right?

[Colin]

You know, he.

[Chris]

He.

[Colin]

He was. He was old and weary and. Yeah, not. Not in great health. He. He had finished his run. When did Snapchat launch? Did Snapchat launch prior to 2012? And our great show, our humble show, or after 2012?

[Karen]

Oh, man.

[Colin]

Snapchat.

[Karen]

Feel like that was later.

[Colin]

Oh, all right, all right, we got all the versions here. Karen says after. Chris says before. Chris is correct. Snapchat launched September 2011. Yes. Taylor Swift won the Album of the year award for fearless at the 52nd annual Grammy Awards. Was that before 2012 or after 2012?

[Karen]

Hold on. What year was this? Oh, no.

[Colin]

Okay, you tell me. You tell me.

[Karen]

So. Or at least was her first Grammy win. How old was. She was born in 1989. So even if it was 2012. Let me do some math here.

[Colin]

Calculator Chris has his answer up.

[Karen]

So she would be 23 at 2012. But she has a song called 22. That's okay.

[Colin]

All right, hold on.

[Karen]

Oops. I lost.

[Chris]

I don't have anything that was happening in my life that I can hang this on because I was not actually paying attention, but I feel like it's like she didn't win album of the year, the year that Random Access Memories came out because Daft Punk won and there was something that was red. Yep.

[Colin]

I love it. I love the thought process and the window.

[Chris]

I feel like this would have been maybe even earlier than that. So I'm just going to say.

[Colin]

All right, you have both answered before. You are both correct. Yes. This was in 2010 that she won for album of the year.

[Chris]

Okay.

[Colin]

One of the best selling, longest lasting video games of all time, Grand Theft Auto 5. When was this game released? You can still hop on and play this game tonight if you want to.

[Chris]

You can. Since they delayed Grand Theft Auto 6, you're gonna have to.

[Karen]

Okay. GTA 4 came out probably 2005.

[Colin]

I don't think either of you guys needs any hints, but I can tell you the console if you want.

[Chris]

I know.

[Colin]

Answers up. Chris says after. Karen says before. It was indeed after Grand Theft Auto 5 released September 2013 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

[Chris]

Yep.

[Colin]

Okay, last one. I know you guys are big Royals fans. You can't. Can't get enough of the Royals baseball team. When was the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton? When did that happen? Wall to wall TV coverage. Oh, yeah. I like the way you're thinking. How old are their kids and how long did they wait to have kids? That's right.

[Karen]

Lewis, Charlotte.

[Colin]

Huh? Working from 2012. Are we going earlier or later for the.

[Chris]

I think later.

[Colin]

Okay. You have both said after. You are both incorrect. Yeah, this was older than I thought they were. They were Married on Friday 29th April, 2011. All right. I can hardly believe the road we have traveled since 2012. All those events, some. Some after some. Before we got Grand Theft Auto, we got Taylor Swift, we got tall buildings, you name it. You guys, you guys did very well there. Thank you for taking that little trip with me.

[Karen]

And that is our good job brain 300th show. Thank you all. Oh, actually, another special thank you. Shout out to the real MVPs of good job Brain. I would say our spouses, our partners. A very big thank you to Regina, Betty and Cameron for Friday nights taking care of the house with the kid. It wouldn't be possible without you guys helping us out. Thank you all for joining me and thank you listeners for listening in. Hope you learned stuff today about the year 2012, about 300 about fake bans and about taxes. 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 Spycast, the official podcast of the International Spy Museum, what Should I Read Next? And Triviality. And we'll see you next week.

[Chris]

Bye Bye.

[Colin]

Hi, my name is Nathan. I'm originally from Kentucky, longtime listener, longtime patron on Patreon. I actually started listening to you all in some form or another back in the days of One UP and egm. I was there for the first episode and I have many, many happy memories of listening to Good Job Range, starting with my first generation iPod shuffle. I'm old, I've since gotten married, moved to South America, and I've even been to the salt flats of Uyuni and I thought of you guys. Just wanted to say congratulations on 300 episodes.

[Karen]

I can't speak for everybody else, but.

[Colin]

Good Job Rain has been a consistent source of joy and positivity in a world that feels like that's getting harder and harder to come by. Seeing a notification of a new episode feels like the podcast equivalent of getting.

[Chris]

A shiny Pokemon trading card makes me immediately happy.

[Colin]

And I actively look forward to driving somewhere because I have something fun to listen to along the way. To anyone that's been involved with the production of Good Job Break over the years in any capacity, thank you very, very much for all your hard work.

[Karen]

Hello guys. Aileen Judith Kelly here from Dublin in Ireland. Back in 2012, I had one of those life changing moments. A hit and run accident that left me with four prolapse discs and a fractured coccyx. My probac. My body was strong, but the sciatica pain was relentless. I couldn't sit down or lie down for more than 20 minutes. My solution? I walked and walked six, sometimes eight hours every evening just to tire myself out. And that's when I stumbled upon Good Job Brain. Now I've always loved trivia. It runs in my family. So finding this podcast in 2014 was like striking gold. Suddenly I had a walking companion that was fun smart and gloriously nerdy. Since then, I've been through three back surgeries in 2015, 2018 and 2020. And every single time, Good Job Brain has been my lifeline. This bubbly, brilliant, bright, brainy, bold brick, breezy balance, buoyant, boundless, bedazzled bouquet of besties carried me through pain recovery and countless long walks. So for me, a huge thank you to the whole GJB crew and everyone who support you behind the scenes. Keep those good vibes coming. You're not just filling time, you're feeling lied. I love you guys. Bye.

[Chris]

Hello.

[Colin]

Good Job Brain Trivia Mavens, this is William from Orange County, California and I have a few different things to share after 300 episodes, so buckle up. Firstly, thank you all so much for the amount of time and care you put into Good Job Brain. I know it's an enormous time commitment, so I will echo what others have.

[Karen]

Shared that listening to you brings such.

[Colin]

A great level of joy to my life. Secondly, my brother and I have taken too long road trips. We've listened to you while traveling through 27 US states and it might be no surprise that based on the law of large numbers, we've had several moments of no way when you read a Trivial Pursuit question or tell us a story about something that we just saw or experienced on the trip. But the most memorable because you helped us solve something in the moment was while we were driving through West Virginia in 2018. We were driving through rural areas and we're seeing color colorful square designs on the outside of barns. We didn't have any good cell phone reception to look up what they were.

[Karen]

And didn't really have a good understanding.

[Colin]

Of what to even call it in the search. So an hour into the drive you mentioned barn quilt squares and we both said no way and were blown away to be in the middle of an experience. And thanks to this new trivia knowledge, learned about barn quilt trails. Throughout the rest of the trip, we saw and looked up as many barn quilt trails as we could. So thank you for being with us on our journey through more than half of the country. Next, I didn't realize that I bumped into Karen at a Run Disney event where I first noticed her fun costume and then a few seconds into our chat totally recognized her voice on the podcast. So it was fun telling her about my trivia background and with my hobby as a speed jigsaw puzzler and an event organizers for Orange County Speed Puzzlers in California and that I also serve as the head volunteer judge for the USA Jigsaw Nationals each year.

[Chris]

So lastly, I have a straightforward write.

[Colin]

Down question for you all to answer individually. Based on my hobby, write down the name of as many jigsaw puzzle brands as you can.

[Chris]

Ready, Sam.