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Good Job, Brain!

154: To Boldly Go

Good Job, Brain!

Karen Chu

Hobbies, Leisure, Education

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2015

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

By Grabthar's hammer, you shall be avenged with trivia overload about science-fiction. What was the true cultural origin of sci-fi? Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers - the copycat race to space story dominance. NGet fuzzy and cuddly with Dana's sci-fi pet quiz (and some heated discussion about Jabba the Hutt). Are you having a bad day? Could it be because of Mercury is in retrograde? BUT WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?! Chris delivers a brutal deep-cut quiz on Battlestar Galactica cast's other acting gigs, and sci-fi movies you probably didn't know were based on books. ALSO: Iceland facts, dementor wasps 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, Symphony of Simply Sinceer, Cinct Simians.

0:20.0

Welcome to Good Job Rain, your weekly quiz show and Offbeat Trivia Podcast.

0:24.6

This is episode 154 and of course I'm your humble host Karen and we are your Doctors Defeating Daleks and and drawing deductions and defending damsels and daughters from distress.

0:37.6

I'm Colin.

0:38.6

I'm Dana.

0:39.6

And I'm Chris.

0:40.6

And thanks to Julian, who wrote in with that alliteration.

0:44.4

All right, I have some stuff from our mail bag.

0:48.2

Here, we have a over, well not overdue,

0:50.6

but there is a lobe trotter postcard. A late arriving. Yeah, it's from

0:56.2

Edward and Liz and they say, Greetings brains I'm writing from Sunny Rykovic

1:00.9

Iceland where my wife and I are spending our honeymoon.

1:06.0

Oh, I'm not going to read the whole postcard, but it's so good.

1:11.0

There's two of them. Like they sent a part one and a part two and it's filled with stuff including facts about Iceland and I just want to share some facts with you guys here.

1:22.0

One out of ten modern Icelanders will publish a book in their

1:27.6

lifetimes. That sounds pretty high. They are veracious consumers of literature.

1:35.1

The majority of Icelanders believe in elves.

1:40.5

The singer Bjork has said in interviews that Icelandic record companies prefer musicians that believe in elves and that

1:49.6

Construction workers have claimed equipment malfunction in elf territory.

1:54.5

Yeah.

1:55.5

Well, it's easier than saying like, well, I was high on mushrooms and I crash the backhoe.

2:00.6

Yes, some elves.

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