83: Up in the Air

Good Job, Brain!

Karen Chu

Leisure, Education, Hobbies

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2013

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Pooping, peeing, puking, and plummeting - this *uplifting* episode sure got things covered. Rise to the top and touch the sky with trivia, quizzes, and stories about aerial matters: what is believed to be the worst airplane in history, the wondrous nature of bird poop, the hair-raising history of window cleaners, clouds and the atmosphere, and some real a-hole birds. ALSO: Merch store news!, "Double-Double" Quiz, a fantastic "Um, Actually..." 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, captivating cool cats craving for cranial crumbs. Welcome to Good Job Brain bringing your weekly quiz show and op-you trivia
0:24.7	podcast this is episode 83 and I am your humble host Karen and we are your
0:29.2	surly circle of surrogates surfing and surveying for certain cerebral surprises.
0:35.6	Oh, I'm Colin.
0:37.4	I'm Dana and I'm Chris.
0:38.6	Suricates are meerkats.
0:39.8	Oh, okay.
0:41.4	Not surrogate.
0:42.4	Surrogates.
0:43.0	Surrogates. Surrogates.
0:44.0	And we're going to start the show off with our regular correction installment.
0:49.0	Um, actually.
0:51.0	Yes, we have an um, actually. Tom and Nathaniel wrote in, I talked about the mimic
0:56.3	octopus a couple episodes ago. I totally didn't know this. Do you guys know this?
1:00.6	What is the plural form of octopus? agree but only because I feel like I've heard
1:06.4	this before yeah I think it's one of the things where it's not people say octoply but it's not
1:09.7	really octoply because it doesn't come from I don't know something like that what is it so since
1:14.4	octopus the word is from Greek rather than Latin
1:17.4	octopai doesn't make sense because that's a Latin thing not a Greek thing. So the correct form is
1:25.0	octopodes.
1:26.7	Oh, yeah.
1:28.7	Octopodes? Yeah.
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