297: To Market, To Market

Good Job, Brain!

Karen Chu

Leisure, Education, Hobbies

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Attention Brain Mart shoppers, the aisles are now stocked with fresh market trivia! Come spend your fake coins in Karen's worldly quiz about famous marketplaces. Learn about the real origin of the ubiquitous plastic shopping bags. Companies with one-letter stock market symbols, and Chris finally finds out why this little piggy went to the market, but that little piggy stayed home. ALSO: "Spot the Impostor!" 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	Chick-each, check, check, cherish chums and cherubic champions.
0:20.2	Welcome to Good Job, Brain, your weekly quiz show and
0:22.1	Offby Trivia podcast. This is episode 297. And of course, I'm your humble host, Karen, and we are
0:28.5	your mellow fellows reading Othello, eating portobello jello, and emitting bellows like Tom Morello.
0:36.4	Hello, I'm Colin. And I'm Chris. During the break, I heard another good egg corn that I wanted to share with everybody. Beep, be, beep, be. Egg corn watch. If you're just starting to listen to the show today, an egg corn is when somebody says the wrong word, but it sort of makes a weird kind of sense. That's the quick explanation.
0:55.2	Here is the egg corn that I heard that I thought was very good.
0:57.5	If I was, if I'm trying Colin to tell you something and I'm trying to get this across to you,
1:04.3	and I'm talking and talking, but you're just, your mind is closed to this, to this new
1:10.3	information that I am offering you.
1:12.1	And it is as if I am talking to not even a person, not even a brick wall, but I'm just,
1:19.5	I am talking to the person who cares the least about this story that I'm telling,
1:23.9	the grim reaper himself.
1:25.8	I'm telling my story, but it doesn't matter because my words are falling on death's ear. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. That's good. On death's ears, right. Falling on death's ear. Why would death care what you have to say? Why would he care? Why, he would not care at all? He doesn't care about your story. He doesn't need to listen to your advice. Because you might be begging, begging, Depp. Be like, don't take me. It's not my time. Right. He doesn't listen to that. No. Falling on deaf ears is the phrase. D-E-A-F, falling on deaf ears. Yes. Deathsier, though, egg corn decider says, that's an edcorn.
2:03.4	Ding ding, ding, though, egg-corn decider says, that's an egg corn.
2:05.1	Ding-d-ding, ding, ding, ding.
2:08.0	Varuka salt, the good egg battery.
2:09.0	Right.
2:11.2	Well, this is a trivia podcast.
2:15.6	Without further ado, let's jump into our first general trivia segment.
2:16.5	Pop.
2:18.7	Oh, that that the bell?
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