63: It's A-MAIZE-ing!

Good Job, Brain!

Karen Chu

Hobbies, Leisure, Education

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2013

⏱️ 45 minutes

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(Let's see how many corn puns we can fit in this episode description) Ah shucks! So many kernels of facts in this husky episode about corn. Let's stalk the whereabouts of this golden plant: from car parts to Doritos, from liquor to Beavis & Butthead. Enter the freaky world of corn reproduction and find out the real reason behind corned beef's name. Smile from ear to ear as we explore the corny universe of pick-up lines. ALSO: Fictional language quiz, and Dana's big game debut! 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, Spiffy, spirited Sparks. Welcome to Good Job Brain, your weekly quiz show and off-beat trivia
0:24.2	podcast. This is episode 63 and of course I'm you're a humble host Karen and we are
0:29.9	your symphony of simply sincere synch simians. I'm Dana. So some of you guys
0:38.2	might know this some of you might not all four of us here good job rain
0:41.8	were in the game industry in some way or the other, and Dana, she is a game designer.
0:49.0	And you have a little bit of announcement to make?
0:52.0	Yes, so the game I've been working on for the past year or so
0:55.8	is called Plants versus zombies adventures.
0:57.8	It's on Facebook.
0:58.5	Yay!
0:59.5	We went launched, so now you can play it on Facebook. It's free you could play for zero dollars.
1:05.1	I know that you came up with some of the punny names in the game.
1:09.7	Can you share some of your favorite ones?
1:12.0	Sure. It's a game about plants that fight
1:14.4	zombies and the plants all have really punny names. In this game you have a town
1:18.8	that you're taken care of and there are trees in your town and they have little
1:21.7	smiley faces and you could click on them to talk to them
1:24.0	and I wanted them to say like
1:25.0	positive encouraging things like have some punny jokes
1:29.0	so one of the positive silly things it says it's like you're barking up the right tree.
1:33.4	Which is so silly. It makes me laugh. It's dumb, okay? But I enjoy it.
1:38.8	These trees are called the pleasant trees.
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