267: Large and In Charge

Good Job, Brain!

Karen Chu

Leisure, Education, Hobbies

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast. Hello Funky Fresh fan fascinated by Fascinators
0:19.8	Welcome to Good Job Brain your weekly quiz show and Offbeat Trivia Podcast.
0:24.6	This is episode 267 and of course I'm your humble host Karen and we are your
0:30.8	symphony of simply sincerere Sinked Simians.
0:35.0	I'm Colin.
0:36.0	And I'm Chris.
0:38.0	All right, our first, um, actually, of the season are.
0:42.0	All right. Corrections, all right.
0:44.0	Corrections, clarifications in our, I think, episode 254,
0:51.0	our big road trip episode. I had a quiz about Australian roadside attractions big deal there
0:58.2	Australia loves their novelty roadside attractions and one of the questions I asked involved Ugg, Ugg Boots, Ugg Boots.
1:07.0	Ugg Boots.
1:08.0	And I think that the clue is something like, oh, this is one of Australia's biggest exports. That is incorrect because Ugg of Australia, the
1:19.7	brand where we buy the Ugg boots and the Ugg stores and the Ugg website is not even Australian.
1:27.0	It is owned by a Californian company.
1:31.0	The shoes are made in Asia or somewhere else not Australia that's the point not
1:37.2	Australia and get this the ug boot in Australia is a generic term.
1:45.0	It's like us with COLA.
1:46.8	Got it, got it.
1:48.0	And so one very smart, very clever company is like, okay, well, we're gonna copyright Ugg, and they would go after
1:58.4	anybody who's selling Ugg boots on eBay, on the and was like hey you're violating the copyright
2:05.9	because we own Ugg but Ugg is generic in Australia that's just the style of boot.
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