284: Your Guide to Guides

Good Job, Brain!

Karen Chu

Leisure, Education, Hobbies

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Quizzes and weird facts about guidebooks and guides! Colin drives us through "The Knowledge" - the fascinating and grueling steps of becoming a London cab driver, known to be one of the most difficult exams in the world. How do you like them apples? How we escaped the Red Delicious' flavorless grasp, and the one apple ranking guide to rule them all. Come travel with us from page to page in Chris' quiz about those literary maps you'd find in the beginning of books. From POÄNG to MEATBALLS, can we all make it through Karen's IKEA maze quiz without a meltdown? Also, check out Colin's game, now about to enter its second printing! For advertising inquiries, please contact [email protected] 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.
0:15.6	Ho, ho, ho, homebound homies, honing homework in Hoboken wearing haute couture. Welcome to Good Job Brain, your
0:24.6	weekly quiz show and Offbeat Trivia podcast. This is episode 284 and of course I'm your humble host, Karen,
0:32.1	and we are your yearlings yearning for year-end yearbooks. I am Colin.
0:38.8	And I'm Chris.
0:40.0	We have some hot listener mail.
0:42.5	I think you guys will get a kick out of this.
0:45.0	Jonathan wrote in our Loeb-Trotters fan group, he said,
0:50.5	Just Finish Listening to Title This Episode and the UK title segment from Chris
0:55.8	reminded me of the fact that in Sweden the Mel Brooks film The Producers
1:02.2	some people know it as Broadway show there was an old version in 1967
1:05.7	was released in Sweden titled Springtime for Hitler.
1:12.5	Yeah.
1:13.1	The musical in the musical, I mean in the movie, right.
1:16.7	Yeah, yeah.
1:17.3	So the fake musical in the movie is called Springtime for Hitler.
1:21.4	And they actually marketed and named the movie that.
1:24.9	Interesting.
1:25.6	Jonathan writes, that movie was so popular that subsequent Mel Brooks films all had the
1:32.0	same title format.
1:34.5	So here, can you guess which Mel Brooks movies these are?
1:39.6	Okay, sure.
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