102: The Need for Speed

Good Job, Brain!

Karen Chu

Hobbies, Leisure, Education

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2014

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Turbo charge your ear-holes with our episode about things speedy, fast, and instant. Find out about the weird origin of FedEx (hint: it involved some Las Vegas craziness). And exactly fast are the fastest things in the world? Play our Price-Is-Right speed test, and can you hold on to this FAST word puzzle? Colin captivates us with the wacky and illegal world of coast-to-coast racing. And what actually makes instant noodles instant? ALSO: Carmin San Mateo, Lobetrotter You can be our wingman anytime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast. Hello musical muscular and or mustached munchachos mud skippers and muffins this is good
0:22.3	job bringing your weekly quiziz Show and Offbeat trivia
0:25.1	podcast. Today's show is episode 102 and of course I am your humble host Karen and we are your or raiding orchestra of original organisms orbiting ordilons.
0:38.0	I am Colin.
0:38.8	I'm Dana.
0:39.8	And I'm Chris.
0:41.0	All right, time for our first general trivia segment pop quiz hot shot and I had a random
0:47.0	Trivial Pursuit card and you guys have your barnyard buzzers here we go. Blue Wedge for geography. What 1980 Blondie hit was originally a
0:57.6	Jamaican pop song recorded by the Paragons in 1967.
1:03.0	Hmm, 80 college.
1:05.0	That is, the tide is high.
1:07.0	Yes.
1:08.0	Oh, I wouldn't have gotten that right.
1:09.0	Pink wedge for pop culture.
1:11.0	Cigar entrepreneur Bill Rancic, Rancic, Rancic, Rancic, all right, was the first winner of what TV competition, Chris. The apprentice. Yes, the apprentice.
1:24.0	Yes, the apprentice.
1:25.0	Yellow Edge, what sort of giant sound did Ross Perot claim the United States would hear if NAFTA passed? Oh, Yes, it just said sucking.
1:42.6	Oh, yeah.
1:44.0	What's that giant sucking sound?
1:45.7	What is NAFTA?
1:47.2	North Atlantic federal.
1:49.3	North American free trade agreement.
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