106: Life of the Party

Good Job, Brain!

Karen Chu

Hobbies, Leisure, Education

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2014

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Put on your party hats and loosen up that belt for some cake because we're nerding out about parties this week! Festive facts and celebratory stories about party rituals, inventions and more: Shakespeare Goes to a House Party music quiz, etymology of party words, Dana finds the first examples of party balloons (and it's gross), Karen wants to climb the traditional ham pole of Spain's La Tomatina tomato-throwing festival, and Colin explores the weird ritual of having live birds fly out of pies. ALSO: GJB listener John wrote us an "Um, Actually..." theme song! 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. Ahoi, awesome Alliance of Alert and adorable attendees.
0:21.6	Welcome to Good Job Brain, your weekly quiz show and off-beat trivia
0:24.4	podcast. This is episode 106 and of course I am your humble host Karen and we are
0:30.4	your bumbling but barely beastly bunch of brain buffs.
0:34.7	I'm Colin.
0:35.7	I'm Dana.
0:36.7	And no Chris this week he is in Boston at Pacts, Pacts East the video game convention,
0:42.1	and he already told me that some good job
0:44.4	brain fans already recognized it.
0:46.1	It said hi.
0:47.0	So very, very cool.
0:48.6	Before we start the show, we have a giant correction segment. Um, actually...
0:54.0	Um, actually.
0:57.0	What you said just wasn't true.
1:01.0	Um, actually. Do you mind if I correct you? Because actually, factually, and quite enthusiastically,
1:09.4	I was right, and you were wrong. That's exactly what inspired me to write this um
1:16.5	actually song you were wrong we have a um, actually two episodes ago in our April Fool's episode.
1:26.8	Chris is not here. It was actually his mistake. That's why he's not here.
1:31.5	He talked about some of the famous April Fool's jokes around the world and one of them was from a news segment. It was about the spaghetti farmers and he said it was the Swedish spaghetti farmers but actually it's the Swiss
1:46.0	and none of us caught it no it was kind of embarrassing but at the same time
1:50.9	like when I was fact-checking it when I was editing it I was like
1:53.8	ah it's Swiss but I didn't want to take out the whole segment because it was funny
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