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Good Job, Brain!

88: Oh Behave!

Good Job, Brain!

Karen Chu

Hobbies, Leisure, Education

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2013

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Chin up, elbows off the table, and stop picking your nose! We explore the world of manners and etiquette this week. Chris quizzes us on the torturous and delightfully wacky rules of table manners. Learn about the Do's and Don'ts of pub trivia, the violent origin of the handshake, and old-timey advice to present thy proper self. Who's got two thumbs and might piss off other cultures? - Colin's public service announcement about common hand gestures that might mean not-so-great things in certain countries. ALSO: Warby Parker EYE-Q quiz, the number 88 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. Welcome fellow frenzied fact fanatic followers and friends. This is good job

0:21.8

bringing your weekly quiz show and off-beat trivia

0:23.7

podcast today shows episode 88 and of course I'm your humble host Karen and we are

0:29.2

your happy snappy stra, yappy chaps.

0:32.6

I'm Colin.

0:33.4

I'm Dana.

0:34.4

And I'm Chris.

0:35.4

I want to note that today's episode is number 88, 88, and as a Chinese person,

0:41.6

that's super lucky.

0:43.0

That's what I hear.

0:44.0

Yes, it's an auspicious number eight.

0:45.8

It means get rich.

0:48.0

All right.

0:49.0

Well, fortune, happiness, all kind of linked together and I have some cool facts about the number eight.

0:58.0

The Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia, famously, the very, very tall buildings, each have 88 floors.

1:05.0

I mean, these are not coincidences.

1:07.0

And this is a real life designed by choice.

1:10.0

I didn't know this, but there are plenty of airline companies any routes to either to

1:14.9

China from China or from Chinese places the flight number is 88 or

1:21.5

something so Air Canada Shanghai to Toronto is AC 88. United Airlines, route from

1:28.1

Beijing to San Francisco is flight U.A. 888. And then Beijing to Newark is like U.A 88.

1:35.0

I wonder if any of them at all have the number four in them, the unlucky number.

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