94: A Berry Good Episode

Good Job, Brain!

Karen Chu

Hobbies, Leisure, Education

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2014

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Orange you glad we're back for more in 2014? We put fruit facts into the limelight this week and cherry-picked some pretty juicy trivia. Colin gets to the core of fruit name origins, Chris grapples with a hybrid fruit challenge, and Karen puckers up to the miracle fruit. And don't just split yet, Dana's got an a-peeling quiz about bananas. It's a fruit party, so we're all raisin the roof. ALSO: Lynda.com teacher quiz, tweeting sharks 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, Perky, pack of pals, and pachyderms. Welcome to Good Job Brain, your weekly quiz show and off be trivia
0:23.8	podcast this is episode 94 and of course I'm your humble host Karen and we are your
0:29.8	semi serious but silly cerebral surs and sisters.
0:34.0	I'm Colin. I'm Dana.
0:36.0	And I'm Chris.
0:37.0	So here's a crazy headline that I saw and I'm like,
0:40.0	oh, everybody has to know about this.
0:42.0	Yeah, you text messages to us.
0:44.0	I text messages everybody.
0:45.0	I'm like, you guys!
0:47.0	Sharks are tweeting now.
0:50.0	Apparently, so Australia, which is a country and a continent, located far away, they're attaching
0:59.1	transmitters to the sharks that are kind of like near Australian beaches.
1:03.4	If the shark gets too close to the beach,
1:06.6	the transmitter will send out a tweet
1:09.8	to a certain Twitter account.
1:11.8	And it is like, hi hi I am a shark I'm coming to eat you
1:15.8	hashtag shark I don't know what it is you know warning it's what kind of shark on it. It's like the opposite of following a food truck on Twitter.
1:25.0	Yes.
1:26.0	You want the other direction.
1:28.0	Ooh, it would be awesome if it had an Instagram and you can see a picture of yourself.
1:31.0	Like I see you.
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