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Good Job, Brain!

104: Fooled Ya

Good Job, Brain!

Karen Chu

Hobbies, Leisure, Education

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2014

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The left-handed burger? Trees that grow spaghetti? Celebrate April Fools' Day with us by learning some of the redonkulous trivia behind pranks and hoaxes. Colin regales us with the history behind iconic novelty gags like the Whoopee Cushion, Joy Buzzer, and the Snake Nut Can. Dana impresses us with the Mechanical Turk hoax, and Chris sets off to find out about the origin of April Fools. Karen emits some facts about fart humor (and an accompanying fart quiz), and are you up for the celebrity death hoax challenge? ALSO: Colin's Takedown, Our Patreon Debut! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast. Wain, Wain, Dain de Wain deWain, Dach Shoutin,

0:15.0

Jayo, Naudai Gua, Meijo R, the Gee Gwenda,

0:21.0

Inshwin Gwanbeu, I'll see me I'll show up to the current. The whole show is is one of the whole show and Karen.

0:24.6

Now, how I will be here is a Colin.

0:27.0

What's a name?

0:27.8

What's she, Chris?

0:28.8

Just kidding.

0:30.3

April full.

0:31.6

It's not in Chinese. The whole show isn't in Chinese.

0:35.0

That would have been really difficult. Even for me. I couldn't even find the Chinese word or the

0:40.2

Mandarin Chinese word for podcasts. Oh.

0:43.0

They just say, they just call it podcast.

0:44.0

Just a lone word.

0:45.0

Yeah.

0:46.0

So I was like, I don't even know how you translate that.

0:48.0

Anyways.

0:49.0

But here's the real intro.

0:50.0

Here we go.

0:51.0

Welcome, Spiffy, speculative, springy, sprightly speedsters.

0:54.3

You are listening to Good Job Brain, your weekly quiz show and Offbeat Trivia Podcast.

0:58.9

This is episode 104.

1:00.9

And of course, I am your humble host Karen and we are your dog gone

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