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Good Job, Brain!

6: Word Nerds Rejoice!

Good Job, Brain!

Karen Chu

Hobbies, Leisure, Education

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2012

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Crossword champ Tyler Hinman joins us for a fantastic fest fawning over words. We talk about the history and process of constructing crosswords, why Noah Webster is our A-hole of the week, and we introduce you to your new ultimate favorite word of THE FOREVER! ALSO: pop quiz, odd spelling bee, Chris Hansen, movie titles lost in translation, and how to memorize the biological taxonomy order. 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. Hello Cheerery Chipper chums and Chats. Welcome to Good Job, Brand your weekly and humble host Karen and along with me are ready gleeful and gregarious gang of

0:36.3

co-host contestants you flaked out on the last two words I'm running out of it's poetic like it's a group maybe group yeah gregarious group geng

0:47.1

geng gaggle yeah the wheel oh gaggle yeah giggling gaggle of oh now I'm being judged. That's why I'm here. That's hard.

0:55.6

Today we have. I'm Colin. Dana. And also we have an amazing special guest today. You might have seen him on the big screen in the documentary

1:05.2

word play and a five-time champion winner of the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament and

1:11.2

crossword puzzle creator Tyler Hinnman.

1:14.0

Hello, great to be here.

1:15.1

Yay!

1:16.1

The word expert.

1:18.6

Now we actually have a real expert in the house.

1:20.8

It's a bona fide expert.

1:21.9

Burn on Collins.

1:23.0

It's under six letters.

1:30.0

I guess you don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to figure out that the topic of the week is going to be on words and cross words and all of that stuff.

1:38.6

So word nerds rejoice.

1:41.8

But I do have a quick starter question and I came across this via

1:45.1

Twitter actually. So a lot of celebrities they have fan groups and they have names

1:49.8

for their

1:55.0

little monsters.

1:56.0

Which, you know, that seems very fitting.

1:58.0

There's also a Justin Bieber fans are Beliebers.

2:02.0

The Beliebers. The Believers.

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