107: Shop Til You Drop

Good Job, Brain!

Karen Chu

Hobbies, Leisure, Education

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2014

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Cha-ching! A whole episode about trivia and sizzling facts about shopping?! CHARGE IT. We buzz about the Lincoln shopping secret, 99-cent pricing, how supermarkets trick you into buying more, and where did those WACKY WAVING INFLATABLE ARM FLAILING TUBE MAN things you see infront of retail lots come from?! Get savvy with shopping in the department store quiz, and learn about how the iconic shopping cart came to be. ALSO: Easter eggs, Brainiacs' Book Club Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to good job brain you're and sifting for science and scintillating stuff. You're listening to Good
0:24.4	Job Brain, your weekly quiz show and Offbeat trivia podcast. This is
0:28.2	episode 107 and I am your humble host Karen and we are your excited exclamers excavating excellent eggs.
0:37.0	Because it's Easter.
0:39.0	Oh, okay, okay, okay.
0:40.0	I'm Colin, I'm Dana and I'm Chris. So we sit here recording it is Easter and speaking of Easter
0:46.1	Always makes me think of Easter eggs a friend of mine passed along a tidbit of info to me the other day that I had not realized before.
0:54.1	Do you guys know what the origin is of the term Easter egg as it applies to, you know,
0:57.9	video games or movies or I meaning a hidden bit of information for the
1:02.1	like a hidden reference or information for the hidden reference
1:03.2	or a gem in movies or shows.
1:05.8	Dana?
1:06.9	It's not just like, oh,
1:08.8	Easter egg hunts.
1:09.9	No.
1:10.9	You know, like where was it first used?
1:12.3	Right, right.
1:13.0	Yeah.
1:14.0	How did somebody put two and two together?
1:15.0	Okay. It dates to the Rocky Horror Picture Show, the cult classic horror spoof movie from the 1970s and during the filming of the movie
1:23.8	they were apparently the cast and crew were hiding actual Easter eggs
1:27.8	around the set of the film was kind of just a fun little thing to do on set
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