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Good Job, Brain!

181: Good Job, BRAIN!

Good Job, Brain!

Karen Chu

Hobbies, Leisure, Education

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

We want your brains......to be smarter and stronger! This week we found weird trivia stories about our weirdest and most mysterious thinkin' organ. Ever been impressed by someone with a photographic memory? Dana finds out what exactly is photographic memory and now we all want to be memory athletes for the Olympics of memorization. Karen revisits Temple of Doom and tries to pinpoint the real origin of the monkey brains dish and why is it in popular culture so much. And believe it or not, Colin dons his Ripley mustache and shares a brainy story of a remarkable man named Phineas Gage. ALSO: More audio palindromes, Chris' Boston trivia 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 breathing breezy

0:18.0

Breezy brigade of brains breakiating into brilliance this is good job brain your weekly quiz show and

0:24.2

off-beat trivia podcast. Today shows episode 181 and of course I'm your

0:30.0

humble host Karen and we are your branch of babbling braggadocios who brunch on

0:36.1

breadsticks and brandies at Brasseries. I'm Colin. I'm Dana and no

0:42.2

Chris this week he is off in Boston at the Penny Arcade

0:47.3

Expo but he actually recorded something for us we can't keep them down. Yeah. And he specifically told me not

0:56.7

to listen to it first. And so I'm playing this blind. I don't know what it is. So here I'm going to play it and we'll see what it is.

1:05.0

All right.

1:06.0

Hello my fellow good job brainers and hello to you home audience.

1:11.0

I am not present for the recording sessions this week because I am on the east coast of these great United States visiting the Pax East gaming convention in Boston.

1:21.0

But I didn't want to leave you without some trivia, so I would like to tell you about a famous building in downtown Boston.

1:29.0

It's technically called the Berkeley Building, but everyone knows it as the old John Hancock

1:35.3

building since it used to be the offices of the John Hancock Insurance Company.

1:40.4

It's a 26-story office building designed with a vertical column of bright lights in its spire.

1:48.0

This is actually a weather beacon, and the specific pattern of lights tells you about the coming

1:55.8

weather and you can see it for miles around. The beacon can display red and blue

2:00.8

lights either solid or flashing and you can remember what what

2:05.1

pattern means what weather by using the following mnemonic. Steady blue clear view

2:12.3

flashing blue clouds do. Steady Red rain ahead. Flashing Red

2:20.4

Snow instead. Now here's a trivia question. If you were to look up and see the

2:27.2

old Hancock Tower's weather beacon flashing alternating red and blue lights, what would that mean?

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