288: Too Close To Call

Good Job, Brain!

Karen Chu

Leisure, Education, Hobbies

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Whoosh! Trivia and facts about near misses and close calls. Is the ball in or out? Colin serves up some love for the high tech system used to judge tricky tennis calls and predict alternate futures. Chris quizzes us on games that were almost released on the Nintendo Entertainment System, and what's up with those 555 phone numbers you see in movies and TV? Take Karen's close call movie quiz about how your favorite films were almost called something else. ALSO: close elections and tie breakers 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.
0:15.3	Hello, flattering flatfish flatmates riding in flat tops with flat screens. Welcome to Good Job Brain, your
0:22.5	weekly quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. This is episode 288. And of course, I'm your humble
0:28.6	host, Karen, and we are your bionic biomorphs in biodomes watching biologists biopics.
0:37.0	I'm Colin.
0:38.4	And I'm Chris.
0:39.6	I am also hopped on antibiotics.
0:43.0	Because I have strep throat.
0:46.2	Oh.
0:47.6	I sound a little Rod Stewart-ish.
0:50.7	A little bit.
0:51.6	Well, without further ado, let's jump straight into our first general trivia segment.
0:58.0	Pop quiz, hot shot.
1:00.1	I got two cards here.
1:02.2	You know, with...
1:04.0	What?
1:04.3	Sometimes I'm like, have I read?
1:06.4	You know, like these questions seem like I've read them before, but just so everybody knows, listeners, there's a trash can next to me.
1:13.9	Every time I read these, I throw them in the trash.
1:16.7	You should get, Karen, a little card size shredder and just really dramatically shred each one.
1:25.0	Yeah.
1:25.5	And then recycle it responsibly.
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