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(00:52): It Happened 30 Years Ago, KQ Edition

(03:18): If They Played in the NFL

(18:02): Copyedit the World

(24:35): Classic Rock Friends

(39:24): Misplaced Foods

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You might be the first person I've met who's very good at grammar and wants to

make friends or very, very well, we're bunch at grammar and wants to That's true.

That's true.

We're very rare.

It is.

No Brains, no light bulbs.

The Little trivia podcast, that's like any other trivia podcast.

Only more so.

I'm Chuck, I'll be one of your hosts today, and I've rounded up

the usual suspects for today's show, starting with super producer Beth.

Hello, Beth.

Hello.

She's played trivia before and she'll play it again.

And of all the trivia joints in all the towns in all the world he walked into

this one from city cast, wind Cities.

Here's looking at Sean McPherson.

Chuck, how you doing?

I'm doing great.

How did you, how did you, how did I, how did you Chuck?

Do you ever feel like I waltz in here and ask factually inaccurate trivia

that you have to defend in our inbox?

And then I take 50% of our currently non-profitable business.

Without barely lifting a finger for anything.

I think you lift a couple of fingers every now and then, but otherwise,

yeah, you pretty much nailed it.

Yeah.

Well, I brought you a little thank you gift.

Oh four leftover questions from KQRS trivia, so I'm throwing a little

trivia before we even get started.

Extra trivia.

That's right.

Alright, so these are questions about things that happened 30 years ago.

1996.

1996.

Alright, Beth, you're involved as well.

Okay.

How old were you in 1996, Beth?

Seven.

Seven years old.

Wow.

Alright.

David Lee Roth got fired from Van Halen in 96.

They hired the singer of Extreme, what is his name?

Oh, Gary Sharon.

There you go.

Hold on.

David Lee Roth got fired from Van Halen in the eighties and then

he went back after Sammy Hagar.

That all happened in 1996.

Three singers of Van Halen in 1996.

Oh, uh, Hagar's fired.

Roth is hired.

Roth is fired.

Sharon is hired.

Oh, unbelievable.

What artist gathered a number of samples for his hit single from 1996?

And the samples came from an educational album titled Sex for Teens, where it's at.

Oh, back.

Mariah Carey spent multiple weeks in 1996.

The number, hold on, can I just pause for a second?

Why is it called Sex for Teens?

Where it's at?

I don't know where, what is it in genitals, like Sex

is where it's at or like.

I don't know.

There's, there's too much location going on in, in that title

for me to be comfortable with.

Okay.

Anyway, carry on.

Mariah Carey spent multiple weeks in 96 at the number one spot on the billboard.

Hot 100 with the song One Sweet Day.

Mm-hmm.

That hit song pairs her with what?

Male Harmony Group out of Philadelphia.

Do you know this one?

Beth?

No.

Boys to Men.

On June 25th, 1996, rapper Sean Carter released his

debut album, reasonable Doubt.

Mm-hmm.

What's his stage name?

You got this one?

Beth, Jay-Z.

Yes.

There you go.

Well done.

There you go.

Check a little extra.

Um, that's for all.

All.

I don't give to this company.

Worth it, man.

Just made up for everything.

I appreciate it.

It's no brains no light bulbs.

A Trivia Mafia podcast.

Are you now ready to play some trivia?

Yes.

This is a round that we've did a, a similar round back when it was hockey

season called if they played in the NHL, where I gave you a bunch of hints and

you had to come up with an NHL team.

Now it is football season, so this round is called if they played in the NFL.

I am gonna name two things, people or things you're gonna tell me

which NFL team they would be in if they played in the NFL number one,

Eric, the Red and Leif Erickson.

The Vikings.

The Vikings.

One point for Sean.

We

number two, ospreys and Schoolas.

The birds Philadelphia Go Birds.

That's what they say.

Those are birds and nobody says those are birds.

Go Birds.

That's what they say.

They do.

Say that for a different team.

The Eagles?

Nope.

I mean they say Go Birds is not they.

They sure do.

It's not for the Eagles.

Nope.

I mean, they do say it for the Eagles.

The Eagles is not the correct answer.

The Mariners, that's not a football team.

Take it away, Beth.

What's the second one?

Stu.

S-K-U-A-S.

When Sean Erroneously said Mariners, it was a hilarious, wrong answer,

but it was also Seahawks incorrect.

Ah, city.

Ah.

Two point haw.

How's that feeling?

Oh, I'm gonna take one away.

We're back to zero for both of you.

Number three, Goliath and Mag The mighty.

The Giants well done and it's one zero to Beth.

Do you guys know where Mag the Mighty is from?

No.

No.

He's a giant in Game of Thrones.

Hmm.

Number four, Cronus and Prometheus Titans.

And we're all tied up one to one.

Number five, Huey p Newton, and Tchaa.

Panthers.

Panthers.

Well done.

Number six, Ethan Hawk and Beyonce.

Texans, Texans and we're all tied up again.

Number seven, Asland and Kimba.

Lions.

Lions.

Number eight.

Francis Drake and Ann Bonnie

Steelers.

No.

Well, that's, that's kind of a pretty funny, wrong answer.

There are two potential correct answers to this one.

Steelers being neither of those.

Yes.

Okay.

If Steelers were s.

Spelled with an A then that I would, I would accept it.

Raiders.

Raiders or Buccaneers?

They're both pirates and number nine, east and West.

Cardinals.

The Cardinals.

Oh, nice.

Nice work, Sean.

Yeah.

Wow.

I feel good.

I'm trying not to sound so surprised, but you failed.

A little surprised.

No brains, no light bulbs from Trivia Mafia.

Today's guest is Mary o Regan.

Mary is a Minnesota based friendship educator and content creator with

a degree in communication studies.

Her mission is to help people improve their social skills, resolve friendship

conflicts, and make friends so they feel less lonely and more socially fulfilled.

She poses daily videos across TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook.

Under the name Mary Teaches Social Skills.

She's AMAs in audience of 385,000 followers with an average of

4 million views per month.

Mary, you are more famous than any of us.

Welcome to No Brains, no light bulbs.

Well, thank you very much.

I don't know if I'm warranting of that fame, but I try, I watched a

little bit of the videos and it's compelling stuff and And you're

consistent and that is what matters.

Yeah.

Every day.

Wow.

I'm trying, it's kind of The algorithm requires it.

Yeah.

Like you have to, you know, it's part of the deal.

Yeah.

There's always people selling.

They're like, you don't have to post every day.

I'm like, I've seen What happens if you don't post every day?

You have to.

Yep.

It's a machine.

You gotta feed it.

Yeah.

Mary, would you rather be notably excellent at riding horses

or function as well as you currently do on 15% less sleep?

Oh my God.

Uh, horses.

Horses, Chuck's gonna choose sleep.

I usually do.

I don't get enough sleep as it is.

So that means if I have the same amount of sleep I currently get on

my 15% more productive in the world.

Yeah.

I'll take that.

Yeah.

Who needs a horse?

Chuck, you were one of the only people I've ever heard say to me

before that you love sleeping.

It's such an interesting concept.

Me, I'd never heard anybody love sleeping before.

Who doesn't love sleeping?

I don't love sleeping.

I mean, it's just a thing that happens to you.

It's like loving breathing almost.

And I found that fascinating and I'm striving to be like that.

Yeah.

People should strive to be more like me.

That's true.

That's why we asked Mary on today, Mary, you have to choose between sitting near

a fire or sitting near a body of water.

For the rest of your life, not that you'll do that activity a hundred

percent of the rest of your life, but you can only have one of those

activities, which do you choose?

Body water or fire body water?

Absolutely.

Wow.

That's a good question.

I think fire's amazing.

You love staring into a fire.

You can't swim in a fire or go boating on a fire.

Yeah, but does that, does, does that mean you can't go in the water if

you can't sit next to the water?

I think you would have to be blindfolded until you put your feet in the water and

then you could wait a minute because it's, it's only for seeing your body of water.

You're talking about like zoning out and staring off into the distance and hearing.

So Mary, do you wanna change your answer to the right answer?

No.

Okay.

It's still water.

I knew a gal actually who had an apartment in Seattle where she was facing the water.

She was, she couldn't even see land below her.

Like her heart apartment was so high up.

All she saw was water.

She said it was the best quality of life improvement.

Oh, I'm sure, and she highly recommended it to everybody.

I think water is, I think water is the right answer.

You know, there is some kind of, maybe it works for water too, but there's

neuroscience that says that staring into a fire is actually good for your

brain because the flickers move in such a random pattern that you can't

actually predict what's going on.

And so there's.

Whatever part of your brain does the predicting just kind of turns itself

off if you're staring into a fire.

And then that's why people have always just sort of, we sort of evolved to

kind of zone out staring into a fire.

I think it's more activating and staring at water is more relaxing.

Well, maybe that the fire part of your brain is just atrophied.

There you go.

I need to do it a little more.

It's the season right now.

Yeah.

Mary, if you have audaciously set up a new platonic meetup in your

life, you're gonna go meet somebody.

Do you have a venue or venue type you're most likely to choose?

If there isn't like a, oh, we both like record stores or we both want

this like a sort of vanilla choice for an initial friend meetup of

somebody you don't know really yet.

Yeah, I think that going on a walk around a lake.

If the weather is okay, is a great way to do it.

I've made a new friend doing this and it was very successful because you have the

scenery changing around you, so there's different things you can talk about.

You have just a little bit of exercise, so there's kind of energy building,

and you have all this open space in which you can just talk to the person

and get to know them, and if you can keep a conversation going for the

duration of a walk around a lake.

That is a friend, and if the conversation falls short for a

while, you're doing an activity.

Yeah.

So if you just like, oh, don't, just walking.

Don't.

You're just walking.

You're still going.

Yeah.

Have you tried walking around a fire?

No.

Not That would be very bad.

I, I saw you, I saw this recommendation come up in one of your videos

where you were talking about making friends with your neighbors.

And you said like if you run into each other at the mailbox, you

know, offer to go out for a coffee or go for a walk around the lake.

And I was with you all the way up until then.

I was with you all through like, get to know your neighbors.

I'm like, yeah, that sounds great.

And then I heard invite someone for a walk around the lake and

I was like, oh, there's no way.

Why not?

Absolutely not.

What's so wrong with that?

It sounds like such an awkward half an hour spent with somebody.

I don't really know.

I don't know.

That's it's, it's probably a moral failing or personal failing on my part, but I.

Am not gonna be asking any of my neighbors to go for a walk.

The goal is to get to know them and that's when you discover, oh my gosh, I live next

door to somebody who is very fascinating.

Yeah, that's probably true.

Or where you learn that're not you get his sideman, Chuck.

I know exactly who side you're on.

Team Regan

Mary.

You have to bring a side and a dessert to a Thanksgiving gathering

and they have to be amazing.

What are you bringing?

Oof.

Can I just, I don't have to cook it.

Right?

You do.

Really?

Or Or like are you gonna go to the grocery store and pick up a, pick up a salad?

Is that what you're saying?

I'm gonna go to Perkins and I'm gonna get a French silk pie

because it's the best thing you can eat pretty much on this earth.

Okay.

Will you make your side?

No, I don't make food.

Okay.

No, I married somebody who makes that I don't make food.

Well, will your partner make, oh, he'll make Brussels sprouts that are

very good, that have bacon in them.

That's the best Thanksgiving sign.

Yeah, that's not the best.

Thanksgiving.

I mean, there's mashed potatoes, but, uh, brussel SPRs with bacon

is better than mashed potatoes.

You have to mix 'em together.

Get a little corn in there.

Yep.

Oh God.

I'm listening.

And then put it all on top of a piece of French silk pie.

That's disgusting.

I don't wanna walk around a lake with you.

All right, now it's time for trivia.

Mary, we asked you what you wanted to ask questions about, and you

said, I'm terrible at trivia.

Mm-hmm.

And I said, that's great because I love it when our guests are terrible at trivia.

And then you said, I want to answer questions about grammar, which that

got me all excited because nobody wants to answer questions about grammar.

So I brought you a question about grammar.

This is called Mary.

Copy edit the world.

Ooh, I'm on.

Yeah.

I'm putting you in charge of copy editing the world.

I'm going to tell you about a grammatical mistake in the world

that actually happened and you need to fix that grammatical mistake.

This is a team challenge.

So Sean is on your team, Beth is on your team.

Uh, most of these are going to come from the world of music 'cause

that's where most grammatical mistakes happen, but not all of them.

All right, copy.

Edit the world number one.

Finish this Bob Dylan lyric and make it grammatically correct.

Blank lady.

Blank blank.

Across my big brass bed.

We're gonna need some commas.

Yep.

Okay.

But I think lie would probably actually be the more appropriate word.

Yes.

The The song is lay lady.

Lay, which is grammatically incorrect.

Should be lie.

Lady Lie.

That's one of the hardest ones.

Lay versus lie is tricky.

I know.

I started to do out with a tricky one and you nailed it.

All right.

Number two.

Did you have that one, Sean?

Yeah.

Yeah.

But I'm just, uh, biting my tongue to not be like, what's wrong with lay?

So, but we don't have time for that.

So I think lie would've been misinterpreted actually, because

it could have been misinterpreted.

Yeah.

Lie that she's lying.

I thought something.

Yeah.

Until you get to lie across my bed.

And then you'd be like, oh, I see what you do.

Right, Mr.

Dylan.

All right.

Number two, finish this Divo lyric.

We're on to good music.

Now finish this devo lyric.

Try to detect it.

It's not too late to,

Ooh.

Do you guys have this?

Can you sing it?

Try to detect it.

It's not too late to whip it.

Good.

Yeah, whip it.

Good.

But there's must be some Now make it grammatically correct.

Ooh.

Whip it.

Well whip it well.

You don't whip it good.

You whip it well.

It's, it's really hard to listen to that song for that reason.

Are you serious?

Yeah.

It pains me, I was about to go whip this.

Good.

My husband does not believe in that rule of grammar, and so he's been

saying things like, oh, I don't feel too good in front of the children.

And I'm like, oh, I was gonna say, do you, do you try to correct your children on it?

Oh, I try, but I'm, I'm doing it when he's not around.

'cause I'll get an evil eye if I correct you too much in front of the kids.

That's great.

My, my only goal as a parent, really my only goal is to have children

who can speak grammatically correct.

And to not be friends with his neighbors.

Yeah.

No lake walking, succeeding on both counts.

All right.

Number three.

In 1989, Rick Moranis starred as a struggling inventor and family man named

Wayne's Zelensky in a Disney movie with an ungrammatical title name that movie

and make it grammatically correct.

Is this musical or is this There's not a musical element.

No.

This one's about a movie, Sean.

Ooh, honey.

He said they were musical.

I'm so sorry.

Rick Moranis eighties movie.

Mm-hmm.

Got Problem child.

I got nothing.

What is it?

Crazy.

S what?

Mad scientist.

Honey.

I shrunk the kids.

Ooh.

Now make it grammatical comma shrank honey.

I shrank the kids honey.

I shrank the kids would be the grammatical way of saying that.

My kids have been saying I could be confused for honey.

I shank the kids.

My kids have been trying to piece through that language right now

too, with, uh, drunk and drank.

Yeah.

But I keep letting them say drunk 'cause it's so cute.

Yeah.

I do let a couple of things fly, like drunk and drank also.

Um, my daughter Ida says comfy instead of comfy.

Oh.

And I really love Comfy.

Yes.

So I let that wide keep it for as long as you can, as long as I can.

The other one is, uh, I got her a hacky sack and she calls it her jabber walkie,

which I have no idea where that came from, but there's no way I'm changing.

I'm correcting that one.

It works.

I have an aside.

Alright.

I went to like a resort in Mexico, like an all inclusive

resort with my then girlfriend.

Um, and we were doing yoga in the morning, like on the beach, and it was amazing.

And this woman doing yoga spoke absolutely perfect English.

Like she was a Spanish speaker, spoke absolutely perfect English.

And then when she says like.

Bring your hands to your chest instead of chest.

She said, astronaut.

And I was like, really?

I am going here every morning.

I woke up my, I can't remember the Spanish word for astronaut, but I think

the word for chest is a sterno like.

Like, oh, okay.

Yeah.

It's just like, oh my gosh.

I remember I'm around a whole bunch of, uh, English speaking Americans.

She says, bring your chest to your hazard.

I go, this is the fucking best yoga class I have ever taken.

And it was not, I mean, you do that at the end of every yoga class.

She did it.

I went like four days.

It was spectacular.

It kind of works metaphorically though, because like your astronaut,

your heart right, is kind of like traveling through space and time.

The galaxies, it's transcending.

Maybe that's what that she felt.

Yeah, this is wonderful.

She meant it.

That's very good.

As you were telling that story, I was like, okay, what's the word gonna be?

And there's no way I would've guessed an astronaut is really,

it's so many syllables, like it's a very different word.

Uh, all right.

Back to music number four, finish this Tom Petty lyric and

make it grammatically correct.

I don't feel you anymore.

You darken my door.

Whatever you are looking for.

Hey.

Ooh, don't come around here more.

Don't, don't.

Around here No more yet.

Oh, anymore.

Oh, yeah.

Don't come around here anymore.

I love that song.

It doesn't.

It's so good.

It doesn't flow quite as well as Don't come around here no more.

Yeah, you gotta kind of be casual sometimes, you know, break the rules.

Oh, sure.

I'm not gonna hold, hold it over Tom's head.

He was doing it very consciously.

I'm sure what he, he knew what he was doing.

Number five.

The second most valuable brand in the world, according to Forbes, has

a name that is a misspelled word, spelled that six letter word correctly.

Ooh, second one.

Sean is spelling apple in his head right now.

Most valuable, the second most valuable, according to Forbes.

On some of lists, it's the most valuable in the world.

Could it be that it just needs to be capitalized to be Amazon, but

I imagine Amazon is capitalized.

Yeah, I was thinking Amazon too, but that's not spelled wrong.

It's six letters.

Um.

Tesla is not.

This one is now under a parent company with a different name,

but it's Google Alphabet.

Okay.

G Ooh, alphabet.

GLE.

They spelled alphabet wrong, right?

Didn't they put an F instead of a pH or something?

Well, it'd be really hard to make alphabet six letters though.

Yeah, true.

Google must be spelled wrong.

'cause Chuck's looking me in the eye.

Do you know the correct spelling of Google?

Obviously not.

Oh, so it is Google, but Google is, do you know what a Google is?

A large number.

It is a one followed by 100 zeros is a Google, and that is spelled G-O-O-G-O-L.

But the founders of the company did not know that.

So when they registered the website, they just spelled it how they

thought it was spelled G-O-O-G-L-E, and now it's working out for them.

It really did work out for them.

That was smart, and now they're ruining humanity.

Thanks Google.

It's not just them, it's all kinds of other people too.

It's a group effort.

I should, I mean, Google has always been trivia mafia's nemesis.

Right?

It's in our, our slogan is Use your noodle, not your Google.

So, ah, are they aware of this?

They're gonna come after you.

I doubt they pay any attention to us.

It'd be great if they became aware of it.

That'd be a great way to make some, uh, some press.

Yeah.

Pr it's sued by.

Yeah.

Hey, fuck you.

Google, come at me.

You gotta have goals.

Alright, number six.

Uh, do what will I am, could not do in the 2006 song Licious

and spell the word tasty.

Ooh, did he spell it wrong?

You sure did.

T-A-S-E-Y.

T-A-S-T-Y is correct.

He says T to the A to the STEY.

Girl.

You tasty in that song?

Ooh.

Ooh.

Did he improve it?

Maybe he made it better.

Ah, I think Will's doing it is fine too.

That that sounds great.

It is kind of a good song.

I think.

I thought it was a bad song and then as I was writing this, I was

like, lemme just listen to Licious.

It's been a while and yeah.

Kind of a good song.

And it's ma, I mean, it's a JJ Fad ripoff.

It's like not a ton of his music, but it is.

Mm-hmm.

An incredible beat.

I really wish that the Black Eye peas in Fergie would get back

together and go on tour, by the way, that would make my world.

Um, all right, number seven.

Yep.

Number seven.

When it first appeared in Fiddler on the Roof, it was grammatically correct, but

then Gwen Stefani went and interpolated it and got the grammar all wrong.

Please rewrite that Gwen Stefani lyric.

And make it grammatical.

Ooh.

What did she do?

Do you know the song in question?

No, that was originally from Fiddler On the Roof.

Do you know any songs from Fiddler on the Roof?

I, I know the song.

Okay.

Uh, it's, if I.

Were, or if I was a rich girl, I don't r know what the correct was.

That was probably it.

I think that's it.

If I was a rich girl and it, so that's what g Gus Stefani

says be if I were a rich girl.

There you go.

It should have been.

If I were a rich girl.

Nobody follows that rule.

It's probably one of the most abused grammar rules.

Well, um, zero Mostel in Fiddler On the Roof, followed it when he first sang.

If I Were a Rich Man.

All right, next one.

Two more.

Finish this Lady Gaga lyric and make it grammatically correct.

I want your loving and I want your revenge.

You and Mika write a bad romance.

That's what she says.

Make it grammatically correct.

You and I, you and I could write a bad romance.

You know, there's a rule of of thumb with that one where if you say, um,

you and me, if you could take away the you and, and the sentence makes sense,

then it's grad grammatically correct.

Or the i, because you wouldn't wanna say me could write a bad romance, say you

would say, I could write a bad romance.

Yep.

That's how, you know, that might help me in life.

I'm still very bad with that.

It helps a ton.

I like that we're helping.

Is it a way to make friends?

Could be.

If it's a grammar nerd, you might be the first person I've met who's

very good at grammar and wants to make friends or very, very well we're

rare bunch grammar and wants to.

That's true.

That's true.

We're very rare.

I went as the grammar police for Halloween a few years ago.

That was great.

Oh wow.

That's very good.

Shout out to our coworker Brenna from Trivia Mafia, who continued to

always correct my miss, the things I said wrong in meetings, but just

slowly lowered her volume on it.

Aw.

So I'd be like, um, we'll have less prizes.

And she's like, fewer and that's so sweet of her.

Oh, I should have brought one that it was less than fewer.

That's mine.

Bug.

Bear of mine.

Alright, this is the last one.

Finish this doors lyric.

And make it grammatical.

I'm going to love you.

Till the stars fall from the sky for

this is the same rule as the last one.

Actually, you and I, that's what he says because I rhymes with

Sky, but it should be you and me.

You and me.

Here we go.

There you go.

Kind of similar to the last one you made the world grammatical.

Mary.

Do what I can.

Great work.

Thank you.

You're listening to No Brains, no Light Bulbs.

Mary, I believe you also wanted some trivia about Classic Rock.

Bring it on.

But your career is about friends, so I wrote questions

about classic rock friendships.

Awesome.

Here's your first question about a friendship, although a complicated one.

What?

Two Rock British guitar players remained friends even after the

one nicknamed Slow Hand Seduced and Married the Quiet Beatles' wife.

Patty Boyd.

Ooh.

Um, that would be George and Paul.

Well, there's only one Beatle in the equation.

George is the quiet Beatle.

But who is slow hand?

Oh, British rocker.

Nicknamed Bino.

Oh, um, Clapton.

That's correct.

Yeah.

Love them.

He was nicknamed Bino.

He was reading a Bino magazine on the cover of a John Mayo

and the Blues Breakers record.

Mm-hmm.

And I think that's how he got the, I mean, his nickname's Slow Hand.

Yeah.

But I think it was like, it's either like the Bino album, like, 'cause

there wasn't a name to it or something.

But I think he was briefly nicknamed Bino.

I've been really messing up a lot of facts lately though.

So Janice Joplin and the lead singer of Jefferson Airplane were fast friends,

even though they're so different that people referred to them as Fire and Ice.

What is the name of Jefferson Airplane's lead singer?

Oh gosh, that's a tough one.

This is a team effort, so got you're gonna help with this.

Uh, grace Slick.

That's correct.

Nice.

Good one.

Yeah, that's a great name.

Is that a real name?

That's probably not a real name.

It is.

I think her, well, she married a man named Jerry Slick.

I think The Slick is really her last name though.

Oh, cool.

They divorced.

I didn't know that they were friends.

I know that people often confuse them because their voices were so similar.

I didn't know that they were actually lums.

Janice Joplin's voices.

So much better right than Grace.

But there is that.

There's that Jeffers airplane song that I'm blanking on now,

but everybody always thinks it's Janice Joplin's singing, right?

Yeah.

Oh, surreal Pillow.

No, that's the name of the album.

No.

Oh, go ask Alice.

No, it's great song.

Well, that one.

Nah, somebody To Love.

Don't You Want Some that song it sounds like James Joplin.

It's true.

Before either of them got famous, Neil Young played in a band and

roomed with a future funk star, famous for his hit song, super Freak.

What is that funk star's name?

Rick James.

It's correct.

He is amazing.

He is amazing.

That's a, that's just a great fact.

The fact one of my friends always does that for karaoke

and it lights up the room.

Super freak.

Uh, Rick James, also an evil man.

There's, he's done some terrible things Yeah.

In his life.

We're going outside of classic rock for a while.

The original bassists from Guns N Roses and Nirvana, both hail

from the Pacific Northwest.

And ended up hanging out a lot after both of their bands had plateaued.

Can you name one of them?

So the original basis for Nirvana were Guns N Roses.

And they hung out a lot.

Yeah.

Like in the two thousands, you know, basis.

So Nirvana plateaued by.

Not being a band anymore, that's what you're saying?

Yes.

Okay.

Correct.

Bass are hard to name.

They're like unsung heroes in music.

Oh, that's great.

Yeah.

Preaching to the choir here.

Butter me up Mary basis.

This is how she makes so many friends.

Yeah, that's great.

Um, do you wanna walk around the lake?

Yes, I do.

What do we got?

You got any, do you have a go-to lake?

Free walking around.

I got one of 'em.

I'm trying to think of the, the Guns N Roses bassist.

I should know that I walked around Harriet with a gal.

Oh, we're still friends.

How f How long is that walk?

It's a good three miles.

Yeah.

It was a good walk.

Time-wise.

What is three miles walking?

Uh, it's probably.

An hour.

Yeah, that's too long.

You can't talk for an hour.

Oh, I can talk for an hour to anybody.

Have you heard this podcast question?

224?

Um, but you're already my friend.

I can talk to you just fine.

Uh, we're trying to.

Rework that relationship.

I'm currently friend, we've come to the end of a beautiful friendship.

More lakes.

More lakes.

Gentlemen.

All right.

Um, okay.

Where are we?

Okay, so Chris Novaceck is the bassist of Nirvana and the basis

for Guns N Roses is his name.

Duff.

Duff McKagan.

McKagan.

Oh man.

I just saw them play like three weeks ago.

Oh, you went, you the show.

It was so awesome.

Good.

I heard they're in great shape.

It was in and it's like mostly original members.

Yeah.

Flashes there.

D God, it'd worth it.

Just flash is like a God.

Yeah, it was insane.

I've been at hundreds of rock shows and he was far and away the

best guitarist I have ever seen.

Wow.

People kind of, just because he's slash you just think

that that's why he's famous.

You don't realize that he is an incredible guitar player.

Yeah.

And for three more than three hours, he just shredded const, nons.

That's amazing.

Jack White is a beloved and critically acclaimed rock musician from Detroit.

He's friends with Shaggy two Dope and Violent Jay from a notably not

respected rap duo from Detroit.

What is that rap duo's name?

Ooh.

Not respected?

No.

Oh.

Highly respected by some people.

Highly revered by their fans.

I don't think Respected by anyone.

Yes.

Oh, what you got, Chuck?

Well, their fans are called Juggalos.

Oh, in St.

Clown Posse.

There you go.

Amazing.

I had a friend who used to go to all of their like gatherings,

the gathering of the Juggalo.

He was an interloper amongst the Juggalos.

Oh yeah.

Uh, I don't know if such a thing exists.

Yeah, he's just a juggalo.

Yeah.

If you go to Burning Man, you're a Burning Man person.

Last, he wanted some distance there.

Last question.

Joe Strummer and Bob Weir were reported to have an all night bender at a

rooftop hotel in Philly back in 1984.

What two bands are Joe Strummer and Bob Weir Most Closely

Associated With the Dead.

Yep.

That's for Bob Weir.

You should know this one.

You should.

I know.

It's a band, a British band with two co-leaders, although he's definitely

the emotional heart of the band.

Yep.

Oh, punk band that did a lot of kind of reggae style stuff.

They nicknamed the only band that matters.

Yep.

Ramones?

No, the Clash.

Clash.

Clash.

Ah, yeah.

Nice.

What was their story?

They were friends and they, or they just hung out one night?

Yeah, I was, I was on like the third page of a Quora search at this point.

So it was just like, there could just be like they're walking in a subway

and they're like, they're friends.

Like, what's so cute to imagine?

I would love to be on a fly on the wall in that conversation.

I'd be friends with either of them.

I think if you were a fly the wall, they would've drank you looking

at the photos of this bender, they looked, they both looked pretty rough.

Mary, before we, that's the end of our trivia, but we've asked

you to bring us a fact for our segment that we call Get Fact.

Did it Bump get Fact?

Did you bring us a fact?

I did bring you a fact.

All right, let's hear it.

So I find this very fascinating, but did you know that most mammals over two

pounds urinate for 21 seconds on average?

Like a goat, a human, an elephant?

Proportionately to their body.

They all urinate around 21 seconds if they're emptying their full bladder.

So 21 seconds is like the magic number pretty much, yeah.

For all mammals.

So a, a exactly 400 pound mammal.

Like somebody a little heavier than me and or they, it's all 21 seconds.

So it's not proportionally, it's just 21 seconds of piss.

Well, it's their urethra is the length of their urethra.

Like, if it's really long like a, like an elephant, the, the distance that it

takes for it to travel with gravity, it's gonna be, it's gonna be pushed

down faster, uh, to hit that 21 seconds.

And a mouse, well, it needs to be two pounds, so probably more like a goat.

They would have a shorter one, but it would still be the same distance.

Like proportionate to their body length.

Yeah.

If that makes sense.

And then through like the width of the urethra and the bladder size and all that.

That's great.

21 is the magic number.

It's a magic.

It unites us all.

I think I'm above average.

Yeah.

For my peeing length.

There's some long peas.

I had a friend who, um, she thought that you were really supposed to like force it.

When you go and she didn't know that, you're just supposed

to kind of let it happen.

She was one of those loud ears.

She was really going for it.

Every time I have a friend with a small urethra, famously small

urethra, and he goes just forever.

A famously small urethra among our friend group.

He has every knows who he is and he's listening.

Right now,

we should all know about our friends Urethras.

You go to college, someone you watch, is that on the second lake?

Walk third's.

Really great to get to know you.

Like how wide is your u?

Is this like a, is this a bowling alley or what's, oh my god.

Chuck and Mary.

Yes.

Yes.

Can you correct bad manners without having bad manners yourself?

I think that you can do it privately later.

I don't think it's a good idea to do it right in front

of whoever it's happening to.

You know, like in front of the group.

Mm-hmm.

That would be bad manners to it in front of them.

I corrected Judge.

Bad manners on this podcast.

Oof.

And then we almost cut it.

But, uh, there was like a weekend and we couldn't quite, it was a time where I

was like, I'm during this very section.

Chuck was, oh, I was on my computer.

He was like, I was like, whatcha doing?

He's like, oh, just stuff.

And I was like, Hey.

But I mean, I, I readily admit, first I readily acknowledged that

what you were doing was bad manners.

I readily admit that what I was doing was also bad manners.

So you think in, in contemporary, while someone is.

Acting with bad manners, you cannot correct them without

yourself having bad manners.

Yeah, pretty much.

That's exactly right.

Do you think that means you should never do that, or do you think at

there there's some elements where you go like, Hey, like I'm gonna, I'm

gonna have some bad manners myself.

To, to improve the situation or the manners of the person I'm working with.

I think if you're like totally willing to not have a relationship with that person,

that's necessarily gonna be positive.

Like if it's a stranger in the grocery store and they're being

rude to somebody and you're like, I need to step in and defend this

person, they're being rude to you.

You're not ever gonna try to be that person's friend then.

Yeah, go for it.

Would any of us ever do that?

Sure.

If they were being rude to someone.

To someone, yeah.

Yeah.

Yes.

If they were, well, I mean, let's say the cashier is being very rude

to the person in front of you.

You could absolutely say, Hey, stop talking to her like that.

Yes.

You know, I agree with that.

If like they're clearly associated with each other or like a family

member, then it gets a little weirder.

That's when it has to be.

Sometimes you just have to know when to mind your own business and when not to.

But yeah, I agree.

You do.

Like, especially in Minnesota, we gotta step out of our comfort zone a little.

I think it's fine to kind of set someone a little bit.

Check 'em.

I don't know.

Yeah, I don't think, I don't even think that's necessarily bad manners to do that.

I don't know.

Did you think it was bad manners when I did that?

No.

No.

Well, you have to think about what happens as a result.

The person is gonna feel shame and then what are they gonna do

as a result of feeling shame?

Lash out.

They just might lash.

Yeah.

Chuck's been lashing.

No.

What I saw as a result of that is Chuck doesn't do that anymore.

Oh, so the shame worked for some people, it just shuts them right down.

I spent, I spent a lot of money per week trying to convince a therapist that

my motivating force on life was shame.

She was like, it is not, you had really?

Yeah.

She was like, I, I thought that, I really thought shame

did more in my life than it did.

I think sh she really identified it's pride that there's the, which I, I

find is different, but I was like.

I, I am powered by shame, and that means that when I mess up

something at rehearsal, it'll be right at the performance.

And I wish that some of the people I worked with had some of that same

shame juice and she was like, you don't work this hard for a thing

that barely compensates you, which is like, playing music is not a

big part of my life out of shame.

You, you work hard on this, out of pride, you know, like, and it's mm-hmm.

And I, I think that's a good framing.

I think she was very right about that.

Yeah.

I don't think it, I don't think it was shame, but I wasn't.

I was not did when I, when I sassed you or checked you, however you wanna say it.

Did that induce shame?

I don't think, I don't think it induced shame.

Um, maybe a little You did propose cutting it outta the episode.

Right.

You were like, well, maybe we can get rid.

It doesn't, that doesn't necessarily need to be something that everybody listens

to or finds That's true of this podcast.

Yeah, that's true.

We, we do a, a little bit of an effort to find something that people

will find interesting and Yeah.

Yeah.

There's, I dunno, we don't cut much out, but you don't always

need to peek behind the curtain.

Yeah.

I love behind the curtain, but we like the human moments the best.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's true.

But no shame.

A little shame.

No, I feel like I thought to myself, oh yeah, he is right.

I shouldn't, I should be paying more attention to be more present

in the moment, which is hard to, well, that's what shows that you're

very emotionally intelligent, Chuck.

Extremely emotional.

That's what that shows.

You have no idea his, his issue, his EQ is bad.

Through the roof, through the roof.

I kind of want to walk around the lake with you.

Yeah, I would, I would walk around the lake with you or maybe be a small pond.

Small pond.

Yeah.

Mario Regan, thank you for being with us.

Thank you for bringing a lot of positivity.

Also, you did pretty good at trivia by the bike.

Oh yeah.

Pretty well.

I mean, I did pretty well, probably 30, 30%, 20%, I'll take it.

Uh, me and I could really think you did a, a well job on that one, you and I.

That's right.

Thanks for having me.

This was really fun.

Grammar police are here.

Chuck, my round for you is called misplaced food,

and this round is for you and Beth, I'm very proud of this round Uhoh.

There's one question this round you and your pride that I, yeah, I know.

It really works.

There's one question this round that I think might be the best

question I've ever written.

Ooh.

I think these will take a little while.

Okay.

To get misplaced food, I describe a food famously named after a place or a people.

Okay.

Such as Baked Alaska.

But there's something off about the description that will make you

change the name of the food slightly.

Oh, okay.

Number one,

this creamy stew with diced potatoes always includes bivalve mollusks.

And now also includes a semi-aquatic variety of salamander.

Okay.

So it's, and it's gotta have a place in its name.

Name.

So New England clam chowder, new England.

Wait, what, uh, you said a, a semi-aquatic variety of salamander.

S is now in the Newt to England clam chowder, Newt England.

Nice.

This double thick grilled carbohydrate tends to discriminate

based on one's sex or gender.

Okay, double grilled carbohydrate, double thick, grilled carbohydrate, double thick,

so double thickness, grilled carbohydrate.

Can you think of a grilled carbohydrate?

Beth?

Grilled.

I can't even think of a grilled carbohydrate.

Like a sandwich.

Like a type of bread.

Like a grilled bread.

Sure.

That's super thick.

Oh, oh, so like Chicago deep dish, or It's always grilled.

That's what I'm saying, like I'd like to send this back.

That's not a bread.

You're gonna grill a bread.

So like a grilled cheese sandwich or I think it's just the bread.

Like a non, or like.

Right.

I don't know.

Yeah.

You want the answer?

No.

Okay.

I wanna figure it out.

I'm, I'm stuck on a grilled bread.

Well, what's, maybe the other word will help us.

What was the other part?

It discriminates on sex or gender?

Yep.

Misogynist.

That's correct.

Um, double thick.

What's the sandwich that you It's not a goddamn sandwich.

It's not a sandwich.

It's just, it's just, it's just a piece of bread.

It's just a piece of bread grill that's double thick and it's grill

a good, thick piece of bread.

That's grilled and has a place name in it.

I has to have a place name in it.

I keep forgetting about that.

Where is this place where they're just grilling super thick bread?

Is this something obvious that I'm just missing?

Yes.

Yes.

Gimme a hint.

Um, it's a state name.

Oh, Texas Toast.

Jesus.

Okay.

Sexist toast.

Sexist toast.

Is that the best one you've ever written?

No.

Better than a majority of the question you.

Uh, I don't know.

I don't know about that.

But I mean, Texas Toast doesn't have to be grilled.

The Texas toast is just thick toast.

Right.

And it's also toasted.

It's not grilled.

I think Grilled is where I, I really stumbled there.

And again, you're wrong.

I'd bring, take it up with Wikipedia, um, Texas Toast.

You shouldn't just like put it in a toaster.

It's like, it does have to be like grilled cheese esque,

like for it to be Texas Toast.

Yeah, it makes a gr it makes a great, you know, french toast or

grilled cheese, but I was told it was not a, it was not a sandwich.

Well, yeah, if I can't be like, it makes a great grilled cheese.

Yes, it does make a great grilled cheese.

It is still called Texas Toast, so Texas toast is always grilled.

Is that right?

I mean, Texas Toast should be served grilled.

Does it have anything on it?

I think it's just thick bread.

Double thick bread.

But that's grilled with butter.

Is it always like butter?

Butter?

Usually garlic.

Oh, you're learning about, isn't that garlic bread?

Yeah.

I think I'm just learning about what Texas toast is.

I thought it was just thick bread.

So you think if I said this thick bread tends to discriminate

based on one sex or gender?

Yes.

Then I would've gotten right away.

It would've taking you 15 seconds.

Yes.

Kiss my white ass.

Alright.

Uh.

This popular dessert with a citrus flavor sweetened condensed milk and a meringue

topping, entertains without saying a word.

Okay, so popular.

What's the dessert?

Citrus meringue.

Is this baked Alaska, or no?

You, we can't do that.

'cause that was the example.

Um, is grilled, is there, is it a pie?

Is it like a meringue?

Like a key lime pie?

No.

Oh, is that a Florida key?

Yeah, that is about that.

That is a place.

Um, okay.

Give us a hint.

Is it a state or a country or a city or what is the place name?

It's a section of Florida.

Oh, key lime pie.

Oh, you don't have the answer yet.

Okay.

Entertain without saying a word, is there meringue on a key lime pie.

Key mime pie.

Hey, there we go.

Nice work.

There you go.

We need to make a new Wikipedia for Chuck for the way he

thinks things are Wikipedia.

Wikipedia, that's a really good idea.

Yeah, that's great.

Is there, is there a meringue on a key lime pie?

No, I just, I just made it up.

I think you might have.

Okay.

I'll wait.

Jesus Christ often, often served with whipped cream or meringue.

Okay.

I don't think it's a crucial element.

This is a great round, Sean.

I can't, I can't wait to hear the best question you've written.

We know.

We know that Chuck is powered by pride.

'cause if he's wrong, he's like, well, the question's wrong.

I'm still right.

Um.

It must have made SATs really hard.

Hi, didn't get a 1600 on this.

You do realize that you do the exact same thing when you're answering my questions.

I take a lot more lumps than you.

I go, I got that wrong.

I didn't know that.

I think I say that frequently.

Uh.

I mean, there's just, I, I feel like I'm, there's a bunch of

stuff I'm comfortable not knowing.

Maybe I'm, maybe I'm wrong.

Maybe someone will go through it, but I just feel like I

often go run back the tape.

Dammit.

I didn't know that.

Which I just, I've never heard you say that.

Um, okay.

Here's the next one.

This mild semi-hard cheese named after a city and county on the

central coast of California is now laced with a free base stimulant.

That is frequently smoked Monterey Crack.

That's correct.

We're going back to bread and I'm, I'm very nervous.

So nervous.

Um, this dish of sliced bread, soaked an egg also provides mechanical

advantage in applying torque.

Oh.

Wrench toast.

Correct.

This popular beef sandwich stuck in a decades long rivalry

between Pat and Gino's is now located on a sloping landscape.

Pat and Gino's is Philly.

So a Philly steak sandwich or whatever, or would it just be a Philly?

And then what is the, the rest of it located on a sloping landscape.

Uh, hilly steak sandwich, hilly cheese steak, everybody

calls it Philly cheese Steak.

Cheese steak.

Yeah, you're right.

Cheese steak.

It'd be a Philly cheese steak sandwich.

All right.

Oh, Jesus, sir.

You got it right.

This jolly good marinated beef dish is joined by a farkle, which is a technical

term for an infection of a hair follicle.

Hmm mm-hmm.

This jolly good marinated beef dish is joined by a farco, which is an infection

of a hair follicle marinated beef.

Jolly good.

Who says jolly good?

Like a, um, someone in England?

Uh, does, does your husband say jolly good?

No.

Um, beef Wellington.

That's a place maybe, right?

I think Wellington is a place that's not the correct answer.

Yeah.

Wellington is a place in New Zealand come up with a marinated beef dish.

Beth Beef Wellington is the thing that came to mind.

Um, what is beef Wellington?

It's like wrapped in.

Dough.

Right.

Um, so it is British or No, it is British.

That's why I said it.

There is actually some possibility that this is named after an

identically named city in Ontario.

But I was saying jolly good too.

Oh, okay.

Okay.

London Broyle.

London Boyle and, nice.

Okay.

I didn't know.

Here's, here's something I didn't know, Sean.

I didn't know that a London broil was marinated.

That is a good way to phrase that.

What is, because before your tongue, before my recent tongue

lashing of you, you would've gone is London broil marinated?

And then you would've typed it and you would've gone, oh my God.

So to go I didn't know that.

As opposed to go I question.

That is a nice, is a nice transition.

Now Chuck is questioning you.

I am still questioning that, but yeah.

Here we go.

Next one made with just four ingredients.

This quick bread is,

Ooh, is this the best one you've ever written?

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Okay.

So it's something that's gonna turn into Yoda.

Yeah.

Um, a quick bread is like a, like a soda bread, a Yoda bread.

Yeah, that's, that's very good.

Irish Yoda bread.

'cause you need a place.

Oh, nice.

That's the best it gets for me.

That's my peak.

I have one more for uh, uh, just for a little come down the deis.

This popular and Herby style of vinaigrette is prepared for a

group of up to a thousand soldiers.

All right, so that's like a legion or a platoon.

And uh, what's an Herby Vinaigrette?

Italian dressing.

Batt.

Italian dressing.

Nice.

I thought that one was great too.

Thank you.

That wasn't even a come down.

I think it's, it's all up from here for, for us both Sean.

I didn't know that.

And now it's time for the homework question.

This is the final question of the show.

If you answer it correctly, at no brains, no light bulbs.com,

you might get a shout out in a future episode.

Today's listener shout out goes to Hugh Gitlin who says he's the captain

of a trivia team called The Aardvarks Hello Aardvarks, and that he looks

forward to the show every week.

Awesome, Hugh.

Thanks for listening.

Hug.

Last week's homework question was, I'm thinking of an actor, take their first

name and remove the first letter, and the result is a type of structure.

Take their last name and remove the first letter.

And now you have a body of water where you might find that type of structure.

Who is the actor?

Sean and Beth, were you able to come up with the correct answer this time?

My husband did.

Hey, and I sent it around, uh, credit to Kelly.

Michelle who got her right, but didn't tell me the answer

and I saw Rachel get it.

She was just thinking it over and she goes, I got it, but I

just, right away she just got it.

No, no.

Like 20 minutes I think.

Oh yeah.

That means it was a good one.

Yeah.

Beth, what did your husband come up with?

Adam Driver.

Adam Driver.

Remove the A and you get damn room with the D and you get River

Damn River listeners at home.

If you got it correct as well, that ding was for you too.

And uh, great work.

What is your husband's name again?

I'm fr.

James.

James.

James.

That's right.

Jolly good.

James.

Here's next week's question.

This one comes from a listener.

Isaac in Edina sent us in a homework question and I thought

it was a pretty good one.

Take a seven letter word for something most of us inherit from our parents.

Add an I in the middle and you get the name of a country.

What is the country?

I'll say that again.

Take a seven letter word for something most of us inherit from our parents.

Add an I in the middle, and then you get the name of a

country, what is that country?

Submit your answer to the homework question at no brains, no light bulbs.com,

and just like that, we've come to the end of another episode.

Thank you for listening to No Brains No Light Bulbs.

This episode was produced by Beth k Gibbs.

Our theme song is by Catfish Blue, the Pride of Pittsfield.

Thank you to the editorial staff at Trivia Mafia for their

help with today's questions.

And thanks again to today's very special guest, Mary o Regan.

If you wanna play live trivia, go to trivia mafia.com

to find a trivia night near you.

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and it is still open for you to qualify for the Tournament of Champions, I

believe, until the 18th of this month.

And this comes out on the 10th.

I believe I got that right.

Uh, you did.

Thank you to all the trivia Mafia teams out there who play with us every week.

My favorite team name this week was a mild amount of Diggity.

Sean, how much Diggity is too much Diggity?

Mm.

Four.

Four.

Yeah.

Correct answer.

If you enjoy this podcast half as much as I, um, enjoy Blackstreet

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Wishing you an awesome weekend, and we'll see you next week.