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Good Job, Brain!

48: Sports Trivia for Non-Sports People

Good Job, Brain!

Karen Chu

Hobbies, Leisure, Education

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2013

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

SPORTS: you either love it or it makes you groan. Fear not! We SERVE up intriguing sports facts that you will lurve... so heads up! We finally learn why football is called "soccer," the hotly contested origin of tennis, and what sport is awesomely known as "flutterguts." Chris bats a home run sports anagram quiz, Colin tells us the nightmarish tale of being a professional sports accountant, and Dana gives us some "English Pleasure." ALSO: DO DOGS REALLY DREAM?, Puzzle Music Round 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. Welcome superbly super super-super civilized, not superfluous, nor superficial, super-human, and superhero-heroe super-human, and superhero, superfans post-Super Bowl.

0:26.3

This is good job, bringing your weekly quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast.

0:30.4

Today's show is episode 48, and of course I am your humble host Karen and we are your

0:35.8

Seminar of semi-aquatic and semi-sweet semi-pros who semi-talk about

0:41.2

semicolons and seminiferous tubules.

0:44.2

We do talk a lot about it.

0:46.2

I'm Colin.

0:46.8

I'm Dana.

0:47.8

And I'm Chris.

0:48.8

Well, as our constant listeners know, I was out sick last week for the sleeping episode. However, this did not mean that I didn't do my research for the sleeping episode.

0:57.0

And far be it.

0:59.0

Yeah, I definitely do not want to let this go to waste because when I thought about sleeping I was like okay I want to answer a very important question

1:07.4

Do dogs dream we always see it was it was recently like I was sitting at my computer probably thinking about good job brain and I heard like yelps from the other room

1:16.7

You know I heard I heard a little dog Ricky going like

1:19.6

Which are noises that he doesn't make you know and I'm just like oh my God he's oh he's just dreaming he's like on the side his paws are kicking

1:28.5

That's what we say we say. Oh, you know just imagine he's chasing something. Yeah. yeah oh yeah he's chasing rabbits or whatever right yeah yeah so but then again it's like well is that really happening or not there actually is an answer so let's go in

1:42.2

you know typically when I research good job brain

1:44.3

subjects I'm like doing it with the utter dispassionate attitude of a scientist like okay

1:50.1

all right I'm gonna research something and I want to see if it's true or false.

1:53.0

I'll see where the facts take it.

1:55.0

This one I was really pulling forward to be true.

1:58.0

I really, really wanted dogs to dream.

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