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Good Job, Brain!

32: Ugh, It's Just a Fad

Good Job, Brain!

Karen Chu

Hobbies, Leisure, Education

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2012

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Still remember how to do the Macarena? We reminisce and discuss the origins of Pogs, singing raisins, ridiculous trend diets, Sanrio, and Hello Kitty. If you think modern fads are nuts, we also talk about the ridiculous crazes from the old-timey days like collecting limes, portable marionettes, and the first 3D movie mania. ALSO: bizarre headlines, and we finally caught Carmin San Mateo and got our music quiz back! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast. Hello Band of Brilliant Bantering Banthas this is good job bringing your weekly

0:21.2

quiz show and off-Vee Trivia Podcast.

0:23.6

Today shows episode 32.

0:25.6

And of course, I'm your humble host, Karen.

0:27.9

And we are your hearty party of Artie and Smarty Farties.

0:31.9

Oh. I'm Colin.

0:34.0

I'm Dana.

0:35.0

I'm Chris. I heartily approve of the Star Wars reference.

0:37.0

Yeah, just for you.

0:39.0

And we got some bizarre headlines to share, huh?

0:41.0

I read a story recently and I thought to myself, my goodness, this

0:44.9

combines so many things that we hear a good job brain love and so I absolutely wanted to share

0:50.0

all of this with you in a segment that we are titling

0:54.7

Honey, I'm telling you you're making me blue that's why I know it's true

1:00.9

Yes, honey, you're making me blue. Beekeepers in the Alsace region of France discovered something very, very strange recently.

1:08.0

Twelve different apieries in this one region, they were collecting up their honey and something turned out to be very wrong.

1:14.8

The honey was coming out colored funny colors like blue and green.

1:18.8

What? And this was very bad and they can't sell it like nobody would actually eat this weird blue colored

1:25.1

I would yeah they said no we can't do anything with this so they had to figure out

1:30.1

what was going on the bees were all producing blue and green honey so they

1:34.5

launched an investigation and they find out that the bees had picked up an

1:38.8

interesting new hobby instead of going out you know to flowers and whatever they were

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