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296: It's All In Your Head
In episode 296 of Good Job Brain, hosts Karen, Colin, and Chris dive into a fun-filled trivia experience as they gear up for their milestone episode 300. Joined by special guest Tyler Hinman, they exp...
296: It's All In Your Head
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Speaker A
You're listening to an Airwave media podcast.
Speaker B
Hello, Pumped up pumpkins, pumpkins, pumpkin ears with a pumpage of pumpernickel. Welcome to Good Job Brain, your weekly quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. This is episode 296. And of course, I'm your humble host, Karen. And we are your triarchy on trial for triangulating Tryptophan triumphantly.
Speaker A
I am Colin.
Speaker C
And I'm Chris.
Speaker B
Woo.
Speaker C
Hello.
Speaker A
This season we made it through another summer.
Speaker C
Incredible.
Speaker B
Hey, if you're a new listener of Good Job Brain, Good Job Brain is a quizzy, fun facts trivia podcast. Colin and Chris and I used to play pub trivia quite passionately for many years. And so the idea of the show is to bring that pub quiz hanging out experience to you. So it's like as if you're sitting with us at the table. We started this podcast, boy, since 2012 and amazing. And in fact, you are catching us at a very interesting point in time because we're about to hit episode 300 very soon.
Speaker A
The road to 300.
Speaker C
I'm not quite sure what this podcast is anymore. This started out as, you know, we would go to pub trivia. We'd have all these conversations and make each other laugh as we're trying to figure out the answers to the trivia questions. We started doing this and if you go back and listen to episode number one, we're not quite sure what this is yet, but it sort of filtered out into everybody, kind of brings in something for the group, whether that's quiz or a word game or. Or just something we learned recently. And hopefully the idea is that you leave here maybe knowing, you know, with a few more little chunks of knowledge rattling around in your head that if you end up on Jeopardy. As like, apparently, like all of you end up be on Jeopardy. Like as far as I can tell, like every single person who listens to this podcast. Yeah, exactly right.
Speaker B
So, yes, we're on the road to 300. And guess what, everybody? We've opened up the Good Job Brain hotline hotline. Yeah, you can call in to a real phone number that has a Rhode Island. Rhode island area code. We'd love to hear your voice, your. Your Good Job Brain stories messages because we're about to hit episode 300. So it's a big celebration. So. So leave us a message and we might share yours on the episode.
Speaker A
I can't wait. I love these.
Speaker B
Don't forget to tell us your first name. And we're calling from. And the number is 401-90-33323. Call now. 401-903-3323.
Speaker A
Please keep the threats to a minimum.
Speaker B
All right, well, without further ado, this is a trivia podcast.
Speaker A
Let's.
Speaker B
Let's jump into our first general trivia segment, Pop Quiz Hotshot.
Speaker C
Uh, what's that? I didn't know we had one of those.
Speaker B
It's the Good job, brain. Doorbell. Oh, I guess someone should open the door.
Speaker C
I'll go get the door. I'll get it. I'll get it. Why, it's our old friend, seven time American Crossword Puzzle tournament champion, Tyler Hinman.
Speaker A
Hey. Hey.
Speaker D
How's it going, everybody?
Speaker B
What are you doing here?
Speaker D
Well, I heard you were approaching episode 300, and I figured I'd pop by, see what's going on.
Speaker A
Come on in.
Speaker C
Yeah, we're just recording an episode of Good Job Rain.
Speaker D
What an amazing coincidence.
Speaker A
Incredible timing.
Speaker D
All right, well, I don't want to interrupt.
Speaker B
Oh, no, no, no. Please stay.
Speaker C
Well, okay.
Speaker D
I suppose I have some time.
Speaker A
Welcome back.
Speaker D
Thank you so much.
Speaker B
Well, Tyler, you're here just in time for our first general trivia segment, Pop Quiz Hot Shot. So here I have a random Trivial Pursuit card game. Card from the board game. And you all have buzzers. Chris is the rooster, Colin is the horse, and Tyler, your buzzer is.
Speaker D
Oh, I prepared this especially for you.
Speaker A
Buzzer. What does that say?
Speaker D
It's just yelling buzzer.
Speaker B
Yelling buzzer.
Speaker C
It's your voice into a buzzer into a buzzer.
Speaker D
It's very meta.
Speaker C
Buzzer. And the sound is him yelling buzzer.
Speaker B
All right, here we go. First question. Blue edge for geography. The Argentine resort town of Ushaya is situated in the middle of what fiery archipelag fire?
Speaker D
Tyler, is that Tierra del Fuego?
Speaker B
Of course.
Speaker D
Would not have had it without that fiery hint.
Speaker A
Yeah.
Speaker B
Southern point of South America. You can actually traverse to Antarctica from there. That's one of the. One of the points. Here we go. Pink wedge for entertainment in the television series Battlestar Galactica.
Speaker C
Nice.
Speaker B
Which one is the mythical 13th colony?
Speaker C
Oh, geez.
Speaker B
Chris, come on.
Speaker C
Earth.
Speaker B
Yes, it's Earth.
Speaker C
All right. Okay.
Speaker B
It's Earth.
Speaker A
It's.
Speaker B
God. We were so into that show.
Speaker C
We were super into that show. Oh, man.
Speaker B
Yellow wedge. In 2016, the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus retired which magnificent performers and ending a 145 year tradition.
Speaker A
What year?
Speaker B
2016, Chris.
Speaker A
Oh, okay.
Speaker C
They retired their elephants.
Speaker B
Yes, Elephants. All right, next question. Not a sports question, but sounds like a sports question. Purple wedge, basketball legend and apparent super nerd Kareem Abdul Jabbar wrote a novel about which occasional Baker street regular. We have some literary nerds here. And one basketball nerd here wrote a.
Speaker A
Novel about which occasional Baker street regular. I mean, is that a. Is.
Speaker B
Go for it, Colin.
Speaker A
Is that. Is that a Holmes reference? I mean, what. What is the.
Speaker B
It's a person.
Speaker A
Okay.
Speaker B
Don't you want to guess? A person?
Speaker A
A real person? No, just a character. A person. Is it. Is it Sherlock Holmes?
Speaker B
Incorrect.
Speaker D
That wouldn't be occasional. I wouldn't think.
Speaker A
Yeah, okay. All right. Right. That was fair. Not occasional.
Speaker C
Right.
Speaker A
I didn't know how cheeky they were being here on this card. Right.
Speaker B
He's occasional, I would say.
Speaker A
Okay.
Speaker C
Oh, yeah.
Speaker A
Okay.
Speaker B
I narrowed it down.
Speaker C
He's occasional. Huh?
Speaker D
I have two things in mind. I could try to.
Speaker C
All right, well, try something.
Speaker A
Have at it.
Speaker C
Something down.
Speaker D
I'll try Moriarty.
Speaker B
No, it is not Moriarty. His nemesis. Sherlock's nemesis who sometimes rings the bell.
Speaker C
Is it Watson?
Speaker B
It is not. It is Sherlock's brother, Mycroft.
Speaker C
Mycroft.
Speaker A
Wow, that's a left field question there.
Speaker B
I wonder what this novel's called. I wonder if it's like, are there good reviews? Let's see. Can someone go on Amazon and see.
Speaker A
If this is, like, a well received book on Goodreads? See what they're.
Speaker D
Yeah, Mycroft Jabbar is what I searched for. Yeah, Mike, it's just called Mycroft Homes.
Speaker C
Whoa.
Speaker A
Yeah, it seems.
Speaker D
Seems like people. People like it.
Speaker A
I'm gonna have to check at least one of three part of this out. Yeah, I don't know if I'm gonna commit to a serious. But I'm curious now.
Speaker B
All right. Green wedge for science. What is the name of the lander that tumbled onto the side of a comet in 2014?
Speaker A
Oh, right.
Speaker B
Props to all you. It was yelling this in the car.
Speaker A
Smelling it right now.
Speaker C
You know, I guess I wasn't paying very close attention.
Speaker B
It is filet. Maybe I'm pronouncing correctly. P H I L, A, E. No.
Speaker D
I never would have pulled that.
Speaker A
I was not gonna pull that one. No.
Speaker C
What a. This is a tough card, man.
Speaker A
Yeah.
Speaker B
Interesting. It's interesting. Last question. Orange wedge. Which traditional Hawaiian dish is made with cubes of seasoned raw fish served over a bowl of hot rice? Everybody poke. Okay, okay. All right. Good job, brains. This week's topic was partially inspired by pup trivia. A quick story time. I swear I'll make it short, but it's very, very cute and has a good payoff. So. So be prepared. As I said last season, there's a bar near me that just started doing pub trivia. It's like two blocks walking distance.
Speaker A
This is the cash game, right? Okay.
Speaker B
Cash game. So everybody who participates at the bar has to put in $2, and first place wins the entire cash pot.
Speaker A
I love it. I love this model. Nothing like the feeling of losing money and seeing it go into someone else's pocket across the bar. Really stoke your fire.
Speaker D
Bulletin board material right there.
Speaker B
So we sometimes bring our kids because we have to. We can't leave them at home. And so one night. This round was about dinosaurs. And I'll tell you, I did not grow up as a dinosaur kid. You know, like, kids can, like, recite.
Speaker A
I was a dinosaur kid. I was not. Yeah.
Speaker B
And so there was a question about what dinosaur has a mace, like, tail, like a club tail, and also an armored head.
Speaker A
Oh.
Speaker B
And I was like, I know what that looks like. I've seen it.
Speaker A
Yeah, I could draw it.
Speaker B
I don't know the name, you guys. Picture of you with me. I like to write and draw things. And so I drew a crappy dinosaur with a mace tail and armored head. And I just pointed to my daughter, who's 5, and I was like, hey, Billy, do you know what kind of dinosaur this is? And she looked at it and she goes, oh, it's an Ankylosaurus.
Speaker C
Oh, all right.
Speaker B
Downtown point, me and my husband, we don't. We're like, that sounds like a made up answer. Like, that sounds like a BS answer.
Speaker A
She knows what she's talking about.
Speaker B
We have to put an answer down. And we put the answer down. And then later, we won first place.
Speaker D
What was her cut?
Speaker A
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker B
She gets all of it. Every point counts that one point. How rare is it that she knows something that we both don't know?
Speaker A
Man, What? It's like the trivia milestone here. Like, what a true. Yeah.
Speaker B
Oh, my go. We just. We still talk about it. We're like, this is crazy. Anyways, this is the long winded way of saying that. I was like, oh, we should do something about, like. I was looking at the drawing. I was like, oh, something about, like, tail or heads. I felt like we. We just did a butt episode. So I was like, maybe tail is like, too butt adjacent. So I was like, oh, we should do something about heads. So this week, it's all in your head.
Speaker C
So, Karen, it's funny that you told that trivia anecdote about the. The Ankylosaur, because sometimes with our topics it takes me a little while to figure out what I'm gonna do. You know, there's some, maybe some paths that I go down that are maybe not the right one, but sometimes I see the topic and I'm like, oh, we gotta talk about this. So I, I saw the topic of like in your head for today's show and for whatever reason, something just sort of instantly popped into my head. A piece of trivia that I had learned as a child. And I thought, oh, this is an interesting piece of trivia. I should dig into this. Why haven't we shared this before? There's probably a lot more knowledge about it now than when I was a kid. And it pertains to dinosaur brains.
Speaker A
All right.
Speaker C
Brains of dinosaurs. Now the place I had to start was obviously I had learned this piece of trivia in a video that they showed us on the AV cart in elementary school tv.
Speaker D
That was a great day.
Speaker C
I got to go find that video, you know, so we can start at the very beginning. This is going to be difficult because I had no idea what the video was called and couldn't remember any details about the video except it was a about dinosaurs. And I would have seen it in the mid-1980s. Right.
Speaker A
It was produced no later than whatever year you remember.
Speaker C
88, 89 maybe. Right. Not expecting much, but I had to start somewhere.
Speaker B
I love the hunt.
Speaker C
I, I googled 1980s educational dinosaur video. Fantastic first result. No kidding.
Speaker A
Way.
Speaker D
Come on, I'm feeling lucky.
Speaker C
So the video that we saw was the first thing that comes up was titled Dinosaurs, exclamation point.
Speaker A
Yes.
Speaker C
A fun filled trip back in time. And this video was released in 1987 and it starred as did everything that released in 1987. Fred Savage. Oh, I remember the man, the mythological. Oh, do you man. The concept seat of this video when, as it starts, is that Fred Savage had a school paper due and he couldn't think of a subject to write about. So he falls asleep and he has a dream about a dinosaur rock band.
Speaker B
I love it.
Speaker C
And he wakes up from the dream and he realizes that he should write his paper about dinosaurs. So I do want to start by playing a little bit of the song that the dinosaur rock band is singing in Fred Savage's dream, which I realized having glanced at this for a second, has actually been living in my head rent free for the last 38 years. So here's a little bit of that.
Speaker B
Give me a mess. It's all like mine. Teach me to learn from what I find. You can keep yourself.
Speaker D
It'S like, it's a little Weird Al and a little Journey.
Speaker B
Yes.
Speaker C
Yep. That's really the reason that this video comes up, like, as I think the first result for like, 80s dinosaur education. Because the song, the song is such an earworm. And there's a website called Mesozoic mind.com dedicated to the song. Because I think of a lot of Gen Xers, also possibly elder millennials, who saw this video as kids. The song gets in the brain. You sing the song to yourself, but you're like, where is that song from? Wow. So at any rate, we are here to talk about Mesozoic minds, AKA dinosaur brains, as I said.
Speaker D
So this is a Real Web 1.0 website, by the way.
Speaker C
Oh, very much so, yeah. Go to mesoicmind.com it's. It's quite the site. So it's 1987, 88. We are watching in school this epic direct to video masterpiece, which is again, I'm pretty sure this movie was just played primarily by elementary school teachers who just need everyone to shut up for like 27 minutes and 30 seconds. Halfway through, this video undergoes a bizarre tonal shift because Fred Savage, after the fever dream of the dinosaur singing the song, wakes up, writes his paper and then goes to school. And the video immediately turns into a Will Vinton claymation for the duration of the video. And the reason for this 180 is that the rest of this video is a previously existing claymation short from from 1980 that was called Dinosaur Paste on the end, they needed to pad it out, so they did. Half of it is Fred Savage. And then it ends. And then the report that Fred Savage was writing for school is now told in this claymation video.
Speaker B
Yes, the Savage rapper.
Speaker C
The Savage rapper. And this was. So this, this short that Will Vinton did called Dinosaur is actually really wonderful stop motion clay animation short about the lives of dinosaurs. And at one point in the short, they say this about dinosaurs.
Speaker B
The longest dinosaur measured one third the.
Speaker A
Length of a football field. That ought to keep everybody in the locker room.
Speaker B
When he received a message here, it.
Speaker A
Had to travel all the way to its brain here. Then the message from the brain had to travel all the way back again.
Speaker B
That could take as long as a minute. So the Diplodocus had a sort of.
Speaker A
A helper brain here.
Speaker B
Is this the tail brain?
Speaker D
Wait, I thought we weren't doing butts.
Speaker C
It always comes back to the butt. So the animation is showing a stick of dynamite dropping onto the tail of a diplodocus, I guess. And the Signal travels up the tail to where the brain would be in the head of the dinosaur and the brain gets the signal. And you may have heard in the, in the clip he says it could take over a minute.
Speaker A
Minute.
Speaker C
That's a long time for that signal to travel back from the tail to the brain, then back to the tail. Then the dinosaur can react to it by switching his tail. And then when it says it in a second brain here, it shows a little brain in the dinosaur's body butt. And then it shows a second brain in a human kid's butt just for good measure. So I learned this as a child. Dinosaurs had a second brain.
Speaker B
I remember learning that.
Speaker C
Yeah, sure. And what a good piece of trivia for this show. It's a butt brain. We gotta talk about the butt brain now. Okay, we need to stop for a second. If you out there in podcast land want to believe that dinosaurs had a butt brain, you can stop listening to the podcast right now. You can go watch Dinosaurs A fun Filled trip back in Time with Fred Savage. You can believe that dinosaurs had a butt brain because you can all agree a world where dinosaurs had brain in their ass is better than one where they don't. However, at this time I am legally obligated to inform you that. No, one more thing.
Speaker A
They were lying to us.
Speaker D
We got lied to, Ruined Christmas.
Speaker C
We learned it in school, Karen. It's the only thing I learned in elementary school in the 80s that turned out to not be true. So let's go back and meet the man who told us that dinosaurs had a butt brain.
Speaker D
Let's get him.
Speaker C
It is not Fred Savage, although he's implicated in this. Exactly.
Speaker A
He's got some share of blame. He's not off the hook entirely.
Speaker C
The money. No, the guy's name is Othniel Charles Marsh or O.C. marsh. He was a late 19th century paleontologist and really one of the like most famous paleontologists ever. Very impactful. He did not found the Peabody Museum at Yale University, but he did convince his rich uncle George Peabody to found the Peabody Museum. Pretty much the Peabody Museum now houses a great many dinosaurs and other prehistoric fossils that O.C. marsh dug up on his many expeditions. This is a little off topic, but O.C. marsh and his, one of his prime rival got involved in what are called the Bone wars where the two of them were trying to get. Trying to find as many fossils as they could.
Speaker A
I think I've heard about this.
Speaker C
They were both kind of jerks because if they like found a dinosaur fossil that they couldn't extract because they didn't have the time or manpower, whatever. They would sometimes blow it up or destroy it. So the other guy couldn't get it. Yeah. So at any rate, O.C. marsh did dig up a lot of dinosaur fossils. And O.C. marsh, Karen, your daughter might like to know, named a lot of dinosaurs, such as, like the Brontosaurus, Apatosaurus, Stegosaurus, Triceratops. He came up with all of those. Yeah, some big dinosaurs. Yeah. But he didn't get everything right. And one of the things that he got wrong was when looking at the reconstructed sort of skeleton of a stegosaurus, he saw that the canal in the spine where the spinal cord would have run was very kind of enlarged in the sort of buttle area. There was like a space there. And that space was in fact larger than the cranial cavity where the brain was. And they did think that dinosaurs were stupid because they looked at the brain cavity and they basically were doing some napkin math. Like, well, the brain as a function of the size of the dinosaur is small percentage wise, so they must be stupid. Which scientists now are like that. That would. That's not the case at all. And he was like, oh, well, the head brain is so tiny and there's a big space here that we can't explain. So butt brain must be a butt brain. Obviously. And we're just.
Speaker A
Confidence passes as evidence. Right.
Speaker C
Everybody else is like, yeah, because they're.
Speaker B
Like, you're the expert. Yeah, he's the ones with the bones.
Speaker A
He knows.
Speaker C
And so the idea of the butt brain takes hold and was pretty widely accepted fact, like going into the 20th century. There were. I found a paper from like 1918 with like paleontologists going back and forth about not whether it existed, but what the function was. They're like, well, I think that the butt brain was for eating and procreation. And I think the butt brain was for that, you know, and there. But nobody was. Was challenging the idea that they had a second brain. However, I think that Will Vinton, as he was putting together the dinosaur short, probably got some bad info or outdated info because by. At least by 1987, at least in the newspaper column, I think Colin, you know this the Straight Dope by Cecil Adams. Yeah. In 1987, same year as Dinosaurs with Fred Savage was released, he was like, yeah, scientists now believe truly that the butt brain is just a myth. And so then the question is, what's the point of that big space? Yeah, they don't know yet. Smithsonian magazine in 2012 was looking at this and said, well, it could be like an expanded space for larger nervous system tissue, because when you have limbs that you use more and they're all connecting at a certain point, the nervous system tissue, there might be more tissue there. Like you need more tissue. Also noted something interesting, that some birds, which of course we understand are closely related to dinosaurs, they have a similar expansion in the same area, like a similar sort of cavity, and that's actually used for a store of glycogen. And they're not even sure in the birds what they're not even sure. They're not even know what the birds are using the glycogen for, much less dinosaurs. But okay, there's several theories for what it's. Is it like for energy? Is it for balance? Who knows? But that's kind of what people are thinking right now, that it may have been glycogen storage. Either way, RIP Dinosaur butt brain. Too good to be true.
Speaker D
We hardly knew you.
Speaker C
Bad fact.
Speaker A
It's amazing that air quotes here. Facts like that persist for so long.
Speaker B
I mean, like, nobody corrects. There's no big like, hey, everybody, turns out this is wrong.
Speaker A
We're halfway through this animation. But butt brains, that's. That's what it is. Looking around. Okay, butt brains.
Speaker D
Is this a typo?
Speaker C
I'm not saying it was really EAS easy to be a paleontologist in the, in the, in the 19th century, but it did kind of seem sometimes like, are you independently wealthy? Go dig something up, look at it and make some stuff up about it.
Speaker A
Indeed, many of the early reconstructions, and I'm using the term loosely, right, the early reconstructions of the skeletons were just laughably off. And, you know, people just kind of trying to reconstruct it the best they could. Sort of like vibe based approach to paleontology.
Speaker B
Vibe coding? No, shattered.
Speaker C
Sorry.
Speaker D
I know I had this great fact and then I lost it just in one fell swoop.
Speaker A
If I ever run into Fred Savage, like I was going to get it, you best believe that I am going to hold him to account for this. Yeah.
Speaker B
All right, who's next? Tyler, what do you have for us?
Speaker D
Well, geez, I just stopped by. I didn't know I'd be on a podcast, but you know. You know, actually, you know, I do have a quiz here and it just so happens to be head related. My goodness, what are the odds?
Speaker C
Wow.
Speaker D
That that worked out super, super lucky for all of us. Okay, so I'll give you a clue to a made up two word phrase in which one word is a Beheadment of the other. As we say in National Puzzlers League parlance, that just means take a word, remove the first letter, the head and get another word. Very simple. Oh, we'll see.
Speaker B
Hold on. Is this a buzzer?
Speaker D
Yeah, I figured we'd do it that way. You may also want to keep a pen and or, you know, paper and a writing implement handy because there is a final metaphrase because I didn't do a meta last time and that I've.
Speaker C
Been losing sleep over it ever since.
Speaker D
So either word may come first. By the way, I kind of tried to make it so they'd be at least semi sensible phrases even if they're not things people actually say.
Speaker B
Just so everybody knows, last season my. I couldn't find my buzzer. I had to use an accordion. Oh, yeah, and then I broke the accordion. But now I have a buzzer thanks to my co worker.
Speaker A
What is it?
Speaker B
Johnny, who's also a good job brain listener.
Speaker D
Oh, that's good.
Speaker A
I wish I thought of that. What a classic sound effect.
Speaker B
All right, so. So our answers are the whole phrase. Okay, okay, got it, got it. Okay.
Speaker D
I mean, I know one word might sort of imply the other if you give the longer word, but let's say the whole thing.
Speaker C
We're buzzing in, we're writing down everything to keep track of it.
Speaker D
I would recommend you write down the answers.
Speaker C
Okay.
Speaker B
Okay.
Speaker D
Okay, so we'll start with numerically traditional number one. Small sparkly bits polluting the street. Oh, all right, Colin, go for it.
Speaker A
Glitter litter.
Speaker D
Glitter litter is correct. Excellent. All right, so you got the taste for it now. All right, second one is draw this line between two countries right now. Rooster.
Speaker C
Border order.
Speaker D
That's a border order. All right, number three. And aromas, gain in altitude. And aromas, gain in altitude. Little whiff of. A whiff of something.
Speaker C
Yeah, yeah. Having trouble. And aromas. Altitude.
Speaker A
Okay. An aroma stand. Okay. A little whiff of something. Odor.
Speaker C
I'm more, I'm more thinking about the gain in altitude now because like, yeah. Rise, lift.
Speaker A
Height, Ascend.
Speaker D
What was that?
Speaker C
Ascend, ascent.
Speaker A
Oh, the scent. Ascent.
Speaker D
Scent.
Speaker A
Ascent. Ascent.
Speaker D
There we go, tough one there. Number four. Defamation of a Hawaiian, for example.
Speaker B
Slander Islander slander.
Speaker D
Yeah, I like that because the S is silent one.
Speaker A
And that's good.
Speaker D
All right, number five. Cliched remark about the equator or one of the tropics.
Speaker A
Okay.
Speaker C
The equator or one of the tropics.
Speaker A
A latitude platitude.
Speaker C
Latitude platitude.
Speaker D
All right, number six, this is stand for a painting of an untrustworthy mammal. Boing.
Speaker B
Weasel. Easel.
Speaker C
A weasel.
Speaker D
Weasel. That one's fun to say. I like that one.
Speaker A
Yeah, it is.
Speaker D
All right, number seven. A brief flirtation with NATO.
Speaker A
Oh, oh. Oh.
Speaker C
That was a lot of people. Same time.
Speaker A
Yeah. Chris.
Speaker C
A alliance dalliance.
Speaker D
An alliance dalliance. Pronunciation changes there, too, so I kind of like that.
Speaker B
Dalliance. So dalliance means like a little.
Speaker D
Yeah, like a little brief dalliance with something kind of. Can be a romantic context sometimes. Number eight. This. This one, I think, is my favorite. Really doesn't look forward to sponsors messages on a podcast.
Speaker B
Really doesn't look forward to Cuckoo dreads.
Speaker C
Re.
Speaker D
Oh, you're so close. You went the wrong direction. Dreads is the shorter word.
Speaker C
Dreads is the shorter. Oh, dreads. Ad reads.
Speaker D
Dreads.
Speaker C
Ad reads.
Speaker A
Oh, wow.
Speaker D
All right.
Speaker C
Wow.
Speaker B
That's funny.
Speaker D
All right, this is number nine. I think three more here. Sadness or disappointment? That comes with a less prestigious job title.
Speaker C
I mean, demotion emotion.
Speaker D
A demotion emotion.
Speaker C
Yeah.
Speaker A
There we go. Yes. Right.
Speaker D
All right, second to last one here. Number 10, a brain teaser. Posed while making pancakes. Rooster.
Speaker C
Griddle riddle.
Speaker D
A griddle riddle.
Speaker A
Griddle. I was thinking flip griddle.
Speaker D
Oh, and finally, something that might make a space rock artificially large.
Speaker B
Space rock.
Speaker C
Okay. All right, I was there. I would just, like, work. Okay. An asteroid steroid.
Speaker D
Asteroid steroid.
Speaker C
There we go.
Speaker D
All right, so you've got your 11 answers there.
Speaker B
All right, let me go down the list. We have glitter border, Ascent, Islander, Platitude, weasel, dalliance, deliance. Ad reads demotion, griddle, and asteroid.
Speaker C
Yep.
Speaker B
L, O, S, S. Lost leaders.
Speaker D
What was that?
Speaker B
Lost leaders.
Speaker D
Lost leaders are the first letters of these shorter words, because, of course, once the loss has taken place, those are the leaders. So there you go. I was. I was scrolling through, like, the possibilities for D, going, like, there's got to be one.
Speaker C
Come on.
Speaker B
Oh, and that was ad reads.
Speaker C
Yeah.
Speaker D
I was like, oh, good, there's one good one.
Speaker A
There's always one. You gotta, like, think of shoehorning. So satisfying when you know you've got it. Yeah.
Speaker D
My first thought was, like, let's. Oh, it's just the letters you take off.
Speaker C
Yeah, I had those all written down. And I was like, well, I don't think it's this. Yeah, you didn't get any further than that. Ah, that's great. That's great.
Speaker D
All right, well done, everybody.
Speaker C
Nice work.
Speaker B
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Speaker C
You'Re listening to Good Job Brain. Smooth Puzzles, Smart Trivia. Good Job Brain.
Speaker B
And we're back. This week we're talking about things in your head and here I have a music quiz. Sometimes that's a fun time. Sometimes it's a not so fun time. We'll see.
Speaker D
This is this is not my strong suit of pub quizzes, so I think.
Speaker B
You three can voltron together and work together. So what I'm going to be doing is I'm going to play a very short clip of popular song and you have to identify the music artist. Could be a band, it could be a one solo act. But, yes, these are all pretty famous performers and artists.
Speaker A
Okay. All right.
Speaker D
See how this goes.
Speaker A
Is there a. Is there a thread or a common theme or.
Speaker D
A theme?
Speaker A
Yeah.
Speaker B
Yes, there is. That was my surprise.
Speaker A
Oh, okay.
Speaker B
Hey, listeners, if you love music round, you're going to nail all of these. All right, here we go. Number one. Let's play clip number one.
Speaker A
I got you. All right.
Speaker D
I. I think I have this one.
Speaker A
Oh, please.
Speaker C
Well, good, because I have nothing.
Speaker D
I think this is Dua Lipa.
Speaker A
Yes, correct.
Speaker B
It is I.
Speaker D
Which I recently put her in a crossroad along with Double ipa, because you can also read. Her name is Dual ipa.
Speaker A
That's good.
Speaker B
Oh, my God. In your brain.
Speaker D
Blessing and a curse.
Speaker A
Yeah. And that was. That song was featured in the. In the. In the Barbie movie, was it?
Speaker B
No, that's the night away.
Speaker A
Oh, okay. All right.
Speaker B
Levitating.
Speaker A
So no theme. I'm just trying to sniff around for the theme here already.
Speaker C
Okay.
Speaker D
I should write this down.
Speaker B
I think let's focus on getting the artist first.
Speaker A
Okay.
Speaker B
And then worry about the theme later. I think getting the artist for some of these songs will be harder, I would say.
Speaker C
Okay.
Speaker B
For. For this crowd. Okay.
Speaker A
Okay.
Speaker B
All right.
Speaker A
All right.
Speaker B
Good job. Here we go. Let's play clip number two.
Speaker A
Hey. Okay. Pretty sure. Pretty sure. I know that one. You guys? Yeah. You with me on this one? I think that. I think that's cool. In the gang. Is it? Is it not?
Speaker C
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker D
That sounds right to me.
Speaker B
It is not cool.
Speaker A
Okay. Oh, man.
Speaker C
Okay. Earth, Wind, and Fire.
Speaker D
That was in my hair as well.
Speaker A
Okay. All right.
Speaker D
Wasn't confident enough.
Speaker A
Good guess. Yep. Yep.
Speaker B
Amazing music video, by the way. Peak, early 80s. Triangle, shoulder pads and keytars and, like, neon. Oh, so good. All right, here we go. Let's play number three.
Speaker A
You see, say the money isn't everything.
Speaker D
Not sure about this one. And by not sure, I mean I don't know at all.
Speaker A
Definitely, Definitely.
Speaker B
Like, Karen grew up with this.
Speaker A
Maybe that's some, like, solid grunge. Post grunge there. Karen sounded me like a little, like.
Speaker D
Puddle of mud or stained or one of those.
Speaker B
This is Silver Chair. Remember that album? It's a white CD cover with a frog on it. Silver Chair.
Speaker A
I. I do remember this album.
Speaker B
Or at least the COVID It's called Tomorrow. And guess What? They were 15 years old when that song.
Speaker C
Wow. What?
Speaker B
Hit. They were 15.
Speaker C
Wow.
Speaker B
And I was like, that's Pretty amazing. My age when I listen to that.
Speaker C
Yeah.
Speaker B
Tomorrow by Silver Chair. All right. Okay, next one. Let's play number four.
Speaker D
Big big fat nothing over here.
Speaker B
I put a key lyric in there. He references another song that he sang.
Speaker C
Okay.
Speaker B
I couldn't play that original song because that song was.
Speaker A
Would be too easy, or I thought it wasn't appropriate.
Speaker C
Should we listen to it again? Yeah.
Speaker B
Yeah, let's listen to it again. All right, let's play number four.
Speaker C
Feel like my head a toxic waste Hit some pretty girls in her. I heard him whispering, talking about. That's that dude that sing right there. Keep listening. I ain't come to talk. Oh, is it. Is it chingy?
Speaker B
It's chingy.
Speaker A
Wow.
Speaker C
Only. Only because it's something. Something singing. Singing right there.
Speaker B
That dude who sings right there.
Speaker C
Yeah.
Speaker A
Okay.
Speaker C
Needed that hint. Needed that hint.
Speaker B
This is a Holiday Inn with Ludicrous and Snoop by Chingy.
Speaker C
Chingy, Chingy, Chingy.
Speaker D
I'm pretty sure it's not chingy. That's all I know.
Speaker A
Y.
Speaker B
Let's move on to song number five.
Speaker D
All right, I think I've got this one.
Speaker B
The cat Box.
Speaker D
I remember that ad.
Speaker B
Oh, my God.
Speaker D
Stop. Lock the cash box. Stop.
Speaker A
The cat box jingles just invade. That is, of course, the Clash.
Speaker D
The Clash.
Speaker B
It is the Clash. All right, let's move on. Doing pretty good. Let's move on to song number six. All right.
Speaker A
Oh, yes. Remember. I remember this one. Yeah, this was. This was a big one. Big one, big hit.
Speaker B
What's the answer, boys?
Speaker D
James Brown, the hardest working man in show business.
Speaker A
Living in America.
Speaker B
Live in America. Do we remember what movie? That song?
Speaker A
Of course. It is seared into my brain that it is part of Rocky. What? Rocky.
Speaker C
Rocky 4.
Speaker A
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker B
All right. Before we play the last song, just want to go down the list of what you guys have achieved. We have Dua, Lipa, Earth, Wind Fire, Silver Chair, Chingy. The Clash, James Brown. And here we're playing the last clip. I just want to say sorry, but not sorry.
Speaker C
All right.
Speaker D
What are you doing to us?
Speaker B
All right, let's play seven.
Speaker D
No idea.
Speaker B
Big hit. This was released this year.
Speaker A
I. I've heard this year.
Speaker B
Everything's gnarly. This song is by the global girl group Cat's Eye.
Speaker C
Okay.
Speaker A
All right. Okay. All right.
Speaker B
From Dream Academy, Netflix show where they're trying to build a worldwide girl group within the the K pop model and training Cat's Eye. A couple hits this year. And that was all right. All right. There is a hidden theme.
Speaker C
Wow.
Speaker B
And looks like Tyler is very excited.
Speaker A
All right. All right.
Speaker C
Well, that's why we brought him here.
Speaker D
Shall I?
Speaker B
Yes, please, Tyler.
Speaker D
All right, goes back to our theme for the episode of Head. If you look, you will find words embedded in each of those artists. And for Duoliba, we have Lip. And then Earthquake and Fire. Hair in Silver Chair.
Speaker C
Very good.
Speaker D
Shin and Chingy Lash in the Clash. James Brow.
Speaker A
And of course, Cat's Eye. Really, really good. All right.
Speaker D
I can keep my puzzlers card well.
Speaker C
Spotted.
Speaker B
On your head, hidden in the artist names.
Speaker A
Really good. I like the chin. The channel. Yeah.
Speaker B
I was considering Bridge. I was gonna put like, oh, yeah, Evie Bridgers. But I was like, might be a little bit. Yeah, too much of a deep cut. And I was like, oh, maybe the theme song to Bridgerton. And I listened to it. I was like, nobody really watches the intro.
Speaker A
Smash mouth. Too easy, right? Yeah. No, for volume two.
Speaker D
For volume two, it's a fertile area. You ever listen to the nostrils? They're fantastic.
Speaker A
When we're on the road to 600. Karen, you can bring this one back.
Speaker B
All right, Good job, Brains. Good job, Tyler.
Speaker A
Thank you so much.
Speaker C
Great.
Speaker E
Steve Cubine and Nan McNamara's podcast From.
Speaker C
Beneath the Hollywood Sign.
Speaker A
Mary Aster has been keeping a diary.
Speaker C
Mary writes everything down.
Speaker A
And so this torrid affair with George S. Kaufman is chronicled on a daily.
Speaker C
Basis in great detail. And I pulls out a box and.
Speaker A
Gives McAllister a ring, saying, here's something.
Speaker C
To remember me by.
Speaker A
This article caused Daryl Zanuck to hit the roof. Actress Ruth Roman followed that up with playing a foil to Bette Davis in Beyond the Force. I mean, if you can stand toe to toe with her boy. And she does, because she plays the daughter of the man that Bette Davis kills out on the hunting trip. And it's directed by King, so he's no slouch. How do you go wrong with that?
Speaker C
Yeah, Speaking of the Oscars, talking about.
Speaker A
What I call beginner's luck. It's all about the actors and actresses who won an Oscar on their very first film.
Speaker E
Get your fix of old Hollywood from Steven Ann on the podcast From Beneath the Hollywood Sign.
Speaker B
And we have one last segment. Colin, we're heading to you.
Speaker A
Hey. All right. So I just a couple weeks ago returned from a lovely trip to our nation's capital, Washington, D.C. haven't been there since we were there a couple summers ago for Sporkle Con, which was a big blast. In fact, I stayed at the same hotel. So I was like, you know, showing the family. I was like, oh, here's where we recorded my session, you know. Yeah, that's right. Here's where Reagan got shot, you know, and of course, like my seven and a half year old daughter, you know, really, really keen to find out where President Reagan was shot. It was really high, high on her list of visiting DC So this was her first trip to dc Great opportunity to just do all the touristy stuff. You know, we went to. We went to a lot of places. Went to some of the Smithsonian museums, Washington Monument. We went to the Lincoln Memorial, the.
Speaker B
Reflecting pool at the Lincoln Memorial. Did you see the typo?
Speaker A
I did. As avid listeners might remember, I talked in a previous episode about mistakes literally written in stone. There is in fact a typo in the Lincoln Memorial on the inscriptions in the wall. Luckily, you can turn a stray E into an F. Not too hard. You can kind of. You just fill in that bottom arm on the E. It's not. So while we were there, just laying down all kinds of dad trivia, dad knowledge. Tell my daughter, you know, the Washington Monument, like, you see how, like, the colors change kind of in the stone about a good chunk of the way up. It's because it sat unfinished for a number of years and, you know, trying to drive home to my daughter, like, you know who this is? Like, this is Abraham Lincoln, the President with the tall hat, you know, and so we're fishing in our pocket, pulling out a penny to show her the penny. Like, look, here he is. He's right there. And she was actually like, out of all the things, she was actually a little bit impressed. Like, oh, he's on the coin. But then I impress my wife, I say, you know, it's the only coin where you can see the President on the front and the back. Because if you flip it over on the back of the classic penny, it's a. It's the Lincoln Memorial. And then if you look really closely and if your penny is not too old and weathered and worn down, you can in fact see a tiny little version of the Lincoln Memorial.
Speaker C
Right?
Speaker D
So if you have to win a coin toss, use a penny and call heads and you win every time.
Speaker A
Yes, that's right. Now, this. This very neat bit of trivia is not quite as true as it used to be, because in the last years and decades, they've come out with so many variants and versions of coins, as you guys know. So there have been other examples of coins where the. The President is on the front and the back. There have even been pennies where there's a different Lincoln on the back. But this is a very neat little bit of trivia on just that classic American $0.01 penny design. I apologize to some of our international listeners, but we're going to talk about American coins here for a little bit. And indeed, on our coins, there are heads of dead presidents, for the most part. Not always, but for the most part. And I put together a quiz called don't let it go to your head.
Speaker C
Love it.
Speaker A
Hey, now you guys know probably who's on them. Now I have some questions for you about who was on these coins before the presidents got featured on the coin. All right. Did you know that, in fact, Abraham Lincoln was the first president to be featured on US Coins in circulation? It was just not something that. That we did also, you know, our country's only got a couple hundred years or so of history to. To choose from.
Speaker B
Did it just say the number, like the denomination on the.
Speaker A
Well, it was a variety of things, and we're not going to press too much on that here because that's going to be some of the meat of this qu. The current Lincoln penny in circulation in some form or another since 1909. They issued the Lincoln penny in honor of Lincoln's 100th birthday, or what would have been his 100th birthday. Okay, here's your trivia question, and this is going to be right down. Always take a guess. Never leave it blank. Oh, boy. So, keeping in mind what I just told you, prior to Lincoln, no presidents had been featured on the A coin. What was on the penny? Who or what was on the penny before Abraham Lincoln was featured on the front of it?
Speaker B
Who or what.
Speaker A
Who or what was featured on the penny? And if you don't know, take a guess and we'll see where we go with this.
Speaker B
Like, you're talking like, like a symbol, right? Not like it could be.
Speaker A
Right. It could be a historical figure, could maybe be an allegorical figure. I a. It was a humanoid. I'll give you that.
Speaker D
And I'm going to cross out that answer then.
Speaker A
Okay, I'll give you that one. It was a. A human figure of some kind who or what was on the penny right before Lincoln took over in 1909. Oh, boy. Answers up when you're ready. Karen has written Columbia Lady. Chris has written A Native American. Tyler has written Uncle Sam. I'm sorry, Tyler, not. Not really close on this one, but I'm gonna. I'm gonna give. I'm gonna give Chris and Karen. Yeah, they're at least in the right. In the right place here. It Was it was the goddess Liberty, the allegorical concept of liberty.
Speaker D
I happen to think Uncle Sam is very close to that.
Speaker A
Thank you very much. Wearing a feathered headdress. So as if to present as a Native American. Yes. So I'm gonna give you guys. I'm gonna give. Feeling very generous tonight, Chris and Karen each get a point.
Speaker C
Directly before Abraham Lincoln was called the quote, unquote, Indian Head.
Speaker A
It is called the Indian head, but it's not, as I learned while researching this quiz.
Speaker C
Oh, my.
Speaker A
There is the common name for these coins, and then there is the official depiction that is on these coins, and often they're not the same thing. So. Yes, you are 100% right, Chris. It is called the quote Indian head scent. That was the immediate precursor to the Lincoln penny. It was, in fact meant to depict Liberty.
Speaker B
Okay.
Speaker A
Wearing a feathered headdress to very explicitly allude to. To the Native American history and population of the.
Speaker C
Wow. There's another thing I quote, unquote, knew as a child that I apparently did not do not is not actually a fact.
Speaker A
The whole thing, as you look on it, is kind of a mess. Honestly, from a 20 perspective, the. The subject of. Of the artwork was a woman. All right? And so it was a woman, a white woman posing, wearing a explicitly male feathered headdress in some sort of mishmash of. Of. Of symbols and. And allegories. But yes, the Indian headset right before the Lincoln penny.
Speaker B
Hot mess.
Speaker A
Yeah, hot mess. Wouldn't do it again. All right, moving up into nomination here, from the penny to the nickel. You guys. You guys know who's on the nickel, right? I mean, you all know who's on the nickel. Jefferson, you got the right. You got the right letter. Jefferson. Jefferson. Thank you. I wasn't even gonna make this a question. Tyler's got it.
Speaker D
I had to make up for Uncle Sam.
Speaker A
Classic nickel. Currently it shows Thomas Jefferson on the front and for most of our lives. The reverse shows Monticello, of course, Jefferson's long time.
Speaker B
That makes more sense.
Speaker A
Okay, okay, all right. That Design debuted in 1938 and replaced what had been a very famous, very well known design that had been in use since 1913. I got two points here on the board for two points prior to becoming the Jefferson nickel. Who or what. Who or what was on the front of the nickel? The obverse is the term. And what animal was on the reverse? What animal was on. I don't know, this backside. Chris. Chris. Set to writing almost immediately.
Speaker B
Well, because he's a coin nut, I.
Speaker C
Would do As a junior numismatist have a name.
Speaker A
It is not a griffin or a fantastic beast or anything like that. All right, so the front and the back, what do you got? Answers up. All right, Tyler has written buffalo and another buffalo. Chris has written front, Franklin, back a buffalo.
Speaker B
Buffalo.
Speaker A
Karen has written Paul Revere and Brown.
Speaker B
Beauty, the name of his horse.
Speaker A
Oh, that's very nice.
Speaker B
Of course, like, why would they not be together, Right?
Speaker A
Yeah. Why would they separate the buffalo nickel? You got it. Yeah. Tyler. Tyler and Chris at least got one out of the two points. That's right.
Speaker C
The.
Speaker A
The buffalo nickel, named for what's on the reverse, not what's on the.
Speaker C
Right.
Speaker A
Yes, yeah, right. It is an American bison. On the front of this coin was a profile of a Native American. This time, this time at least based on an actual Native American man. Commonly accepted that it is based on. On two well known Native American figures named Iron Tail and Two Moons. But again, not. Not 100 on this one. But that's right. All right. With the. The buffalo nickel replaced by Tommy Jeffs and his. And his estate. His. And his estate. That's right. All right, 1 cent, 5 cent, up to 10. The dime, the dimension. Who's. Who's on the dime, guys?
Speaker C
Fdr, fdr, fdr.
Speaker A
All right, there we go. That's right. Franklin D. Roosevelt. That's right. Appears on the 10 cent piece, the good old dime. This design has been out since 1946. They issued it very soon after Roosevelt died. He died in 1945.
Speaker B
And let's put him on the coin.
Speaker A
That's right. Let's put him on the coin. I never in my life until putting this quiz together, connected the dots like, oh, Roosevelt, March of Dimes. Like, he was the big proponent of March of Dimes. And so when it came time to, like, all right, we gotta put him on the dime, right, guys? Everyone's looking around the room like, oh, yeah, put him on the dime. Of course. Makes sense, right? Because he very famously contracted polio and, you know, supported research for that. So we're not talking about Roosevelt, though. For nearly 30 years before Roosevelt took over. On the front of the dime, the front showed a profile of Liberty, again wearing a cap with wings to represent freedom of thought. Okay. Back then and today, this design took another name because people did not pick up on this allusion to Liberty wearing the freedom of thought cap. They all thought it was depicting the Roman God. By what name? What Roman God did people think was being? Yes, yes, the Roman name.
Speaker C
You had your. Your buffalo nickels. And your.
Speaker A
Your blank dime. That's right, exactly. You got your blank dimes.
Speaker C
You had your Indian Head pennies, which was a lie. You had your buffalo nickels, which was true of the back, and you had your blank dimes, which was a lie again.
Speaker A
All right, Chris, why don't you please give us the answer?
Speaker C
Everybody's got it, but it's mercury. Mercury.
Speaker A
You got it. That's right. The. The Mercury dime again. Another one. I've heard this term before. Oh, the mercury dime, like the buffalo nickel. Nope, it's not Mercury. The. The messenger of the gods. And so the. The wings and the. The helmet and all that. Yeah. All right, we're climbing up the ranks here. We're up to the quarter, the good old quarter, guys. Like, in my mind, this is the stalwart of the US Coin supply. I mean, once you get to the.
Speaker C
Quarter, you're talking about real money. Oh, yeah. Do something with that. Video games, gumball machines. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker A
The current dead president shown on the quarter, of course, is George Washington, our very first one. In case you're just tuning in to American history prior to 1932, who or what appeared on the front of the quarter before we got George Washington's head on?
Speaker B
Yeah, you gotta give me.
Speaker D
Yeah, we get nothing else there.
Speaker A
Nothing else. All right, I will say it's. It's an allegorical figure. I will give you that. It's an allegorical figure and that there was a small amount of scandal, maybe small amount associated with it at first.
Speaker B
Is it a humanoid?
Speaker A
It is a humanoid. Yes, it is a humanoid on the front. You guys are gonna be so mad at me. Except maybe not Chris, who probably knows it.
Speaker C
You know, I mean, I knew it at one point, I'm sure.
Speaker A
And it has a name. It's not as famous as Mercury dime or buffalo nickel, but it does have a name. Just gotta put something down. All right, answers up. Karen has written Lady Liberty. Tyler has written Nike or Nikkei Victory. And Chris has written Walking Liberty. Wow, man. I. You guys, the. The. The quarter is known as the Standing Liberty.
Speaker C
Wow. Yeah.
Speaker A
Yeah, well, that was somewhere.
Speaker C
I was around the. Yeah, got it.
Speaker A
That's right. It is. It is a.
Speaker B
So it's also Lady Liberty. I feel like we don't see a lot of Liberty imagery these days.
Speaker A
It seems like they're like, you're just whistling Dixie. We didn't used to have presidents on our coins. It wasn't a thing. And into the late 1800s and early to mid-1900s, there really was a push to kind of both beautify and sort of class up our coins a little bit. And I think part of it was getting rid of some of the, the allegories maybe. And you know, stop leaning on liberty and eagles and laurel ranches and stuff too much. Yeah. The very first design of the standing Liberty, she's holding a shield and she's got like, you know, the olive branch. And on the very first designs from 1916, she had a bared breast. Okay. This was deemed simply too much for the American public to handle.
Speaker D
Get me my training couch.
Speaker A
Yes. And by 1917 had been reissued and updated with a much more modest layer of chain mail over her bare breast. Yes. No, not a tanky.
Speaker C
Right.
Speaker A
Yeah.
Speaker B
Not that I'm into the, the boobs one, but like, because that was reissued.
Speaker A
One boob, one single mono boob.
Speaker C
Yeah.
Speaker B
Is it worth a lot? Like, if you have it, it's, it's.
Speaker A
Worth more than the later. Than the later types. Yes, for sure.
Speaker C
People have been collecting coins for a very, very long time. People saved a lot of those coins. So I mean, ones in like, extraordinarily good condition are going to be worth a lot more. I mean, coins. Coin collecting is a thing that a kid could get into now. Not that they would because they're all on their iPads, but you know, if they, if they were to, you know. Yeah, right.
Speaker A
Speaking of hoarders, Chris, as we, as we move up to the, to the half dollar.
Speaker C
Yes.
Speaker A
The 50 cent piece, if you will. These are not really in general circulation, but you will see them every now and then, depending on where you are. The half dollar has John F. Kennedy currently on the front. Another case where the redesign was in response to the recent death of a president. The very recent then death of a president because it was issued in 1964. Kennedy, of course, was assassinated in November of 1963.
Speaker B
Wow.
Speaker A
Yeah. I learned that at least by the time we had reached, you know, mid century in the 1900s, congressional approval was needed to change any coin design that had been changed within the last 25 years. So this was sort of, the idea was to introduce some stability to the coins. And it's not just changing willy nilly. It had already been changed the half dollar in 1948. So in order to oust the previous occupant and put Kennedy on there, you needed congressional approval and motion to do this. The. The members of Congress were pre. United behind this. It moved very fast. But we're here to talk about the previous occupant from 1948 to 1963. The half dollar featured what Founding father on the front of the coin. And I'll give you a hint if you feel you want it or need it.
Speaker D
I have, like, two points, so let's have it.
Speaker A
All right. I'm gonna wait for Chris to write his down because I feel like he's locked in. All right. On the reverse of this coin was the Liberty Bell. Oh.
Speaker C
Oh.
Speaker D
I shouldn't have taken the hand.
Speaker A
That's what I want to say, you.
Speaker D
Know, that's on me. That's on me. I should have trusted myself.
Speaker A
All right, answers up. Chris was locked in. We know he was committed. Chris has written Ben Franklin. Karen's written Ben Franklin. Tyler's written Benjamin Franklin. You all got it? Yes. Eventually.
Speaker D
One way or the other.
Speaker B
Founding father.
Speaker A
That's right.
Speaker B
If it was a president.
Speaker C
Not a president. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker D
I was thinking Hamilton, a possibility as well.
Speaker C
I think I had. I had one Franklin half dollar as a kid. I remember getting it, you know, the. The. The cardboard coin books. You know what I mean?
Speaker A
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker C
Franklin half dollar.
Speaker A
Oh, yeah. I've never seen one.
Speaker C
Oh. It was not in circulation. I may have asked for it for, like, a Christmas present. It, like, Franklin half dollar. Because I. Because I needed one. Just any one. Yeah.
Speaker B
You know, all these.
Speaker C
Yeah.
Speaker A
Who's laughing now?
Speaker C
Who's laughing now?
Speaker D
It pays off.
Speaker A
And so I mentioned hoarders regarding the half dooll. Because this was so public, the. The lead up to getting Kennedy on the coin, and he was, as you all well know, a beloved figure, that as soon as they came out with the Kennedy half dollars, a lot of people immediately started hoarding them as collectibles. And that is part of. Not the whole story, but that is part of the reason that you didn't tend to see a lot of them in circulation, at least for a few years anyway, because people were kind of sitting on them, seeing if they would, you know, I don't know, skyrocket in value.
Speaker B
Did they?
Speaker D
No, not 51.
Speaker A
Like everything else. You know, there's brief surges and, you know, things settle down over time.
Speaker B
Oh, I know. Colin, with my pallet of Labubus over here.
Speaker A
All right, guys, let's. Let's. Let's rig it in. Let's wrap it up here. The dollar coin dollar. I. I will put the most positive spin possible on this. And I will just say, you know, in our lifetime, we've seen a number of dollar coin innovations, haven't we?
Speaker C
Oh, yeah.
Speaker A
Really? They keep. They keep trying. In seriousness, it is. It is baffling that Just as a nation, we just do not seem to want the dollar coin. You know, I mean like we just, we tried so many times. They tried. We just, we reject it.
Speaker C
We will not give up our dollar bills.
Speaker D
It's like, it's like the reverse of.
Speaker A
The UK totally of really almost any other nation of almost any other country has as their version of the dollar coin.
Speaker B
Isn't it because of vending machines?
Speaker A
That's a big part of it. It is a big part of it, Karen. And if you read, if you, if you dig into the history of it, they always talk about. Yes, there was reluctant in the vending machine industry. And that's true. So in 1979, starting in 1979, for two years they minted Susan B. Anthony dollar coins. This was a big deal. It was a very big deal. In the 1970s it was the first time that a non mythical woman appeared on a US coin for circulation. All right, so not Lady Liberty or, or something like that. They brought it back for a one time revival in 1999 sort of to set up the transition into the Sacagawea dollar. I had totally forgotten this that they brought back the Susan B. Anthony. You will occasionally see some very shiny ones still in circulation now because they're, you know, only 26 years old at this point. All right, to our last question here. When Susan B. Anthony started gracing the dollar coin in 1979, she booted off a president. What 20th century president did Susan B. Anthony boot off of the dollar coin?
Speaker B
20Th century.
Speaker A
Okay, the dollar coin.
Speaker B
What year was this?
Speaker A
This was beginning in 1979. This president had appeared on the dollar coin from 1971 to 1978. So you know, this person was dead by 75, was getting at, had had a bunch of these, I had a bunch of these. You really don't see too many anymore.
Speaker C
Nope, nope.
Speaker A
Very rare. All right, 20th century president dollar coin, 1971 to 1978. Answers up when you're ready. Tyler has written Truman. Karen has written Teddy for Teddy Roosevelt. Chris has written the correct answer of Eisenhower for Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Speaker B
Thought about it.
Speaker C
Man on the big.
Speaker A
They were big. They were so big. One of the reasons any, any history of this coin about why it didn't catch on talks about the fact it was so freaking big. It was, it was an inch and a half diameter. 34th President of the United States from 53 to 61 World War II hero, etc. Etc. Etc.
Speaker B
Played by Robin Williams. Daniel's the butler.
Speaker A
That's nice. All right, good job guys. Don't let it go to your heads. President's Edition. We did not always have presidents as the heads of our coins. Liberty on there a lot. When in doubt, guest Liberty. When in doubt, guest Liberty.
Speaker D
I remember getting silver dollars in elementary school for perfect attendance before. Maybe we shouldn't encourage perfect attendance because people will come to school sick.
Speaker C
Right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. As Chris Kohler, junior numismatist, I was very excited when my fourth grade teacher told us that the student that got the most 1/ hundreds on their spelling tests throughout the year would get a silver dollar and three silver dollars if you were the number one. If you were number two, you'd get two silver dollars. And I'm like, wow, that's. That's quite a. That's quite a reward. Yeah. At end of the year, I was second. Second place. And I'm ready for my two silver dollars and she gives me two Susan B. Anthony dollars because the color was Because. Oh, yeah. Because the color was silver. It's like, Lady, I am 10 years old. What do you think I'm a. What do you think I'm a toddler? Like, what are you trying to pull on me?
Speaker A
Come on.
Speaker C
Wasn't even the worst. Wasn't even the worst thing that she did. Okay.
Speaker B
Oh, my gosh.
Speaker A
Let's just leave that unsaid.
Speaker B
Well, everybody, that's our show reminder. Our good job Brain Road to 300 hotline is open. You can leave us a voicemail. 401-903-3323. Thank you all for joining me and thank you, Tyler. Oh, my pleasure stopping by.
Speaker C
I'm glad it worked out.
Speaker D
What a coincidence.
Speaker B
Well, tell us, Tyler, where can people find you?
Speaker D
I am that puzzle guy on most social media platforms, including a whole bunch that I don't use, but chiefly Blue sky and Twitch. I'll be on there playing various games and occasionally crosswords even, and things like that. And hire me also, if you want a puzzle person.
Speaker B
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Speaker C
Bye bye. Bye.
Speaker D
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