Fast trivia, weird facts, excellent detours.
Good Job, Brain! turns trivia into a quick-moving group hang, with Karen, Colin, and Chris trading clues, guesses, corrections, and side jokes. Recent rounds wander from failed McDonald’s burgers to spa treatments, pests, game shows, computer voices, and centuries-old vulture nests.
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Good Job, Brain! is a trivia-comedy show with the pace of a lively quiz table and the patience to explain why the answer is worth caring about. Karen, Colin, and Chris build episodes from themed rounds, write-down clues, audio clips, word games, and factual detours that land somewhere between pub quiz and group tangent. It moves quickly. The panel guesses out loud, doubles back, catches mistakes, and lets the confusion stay funny when a clue is harder than expected. Recent episodes show the range clearly. A spa-themed round turns microdermabrasion, cryotherapy, and treatment vocabulary into a small comedy of syllable counting and wrong answers. A fast-food history segment uses discontinued McDonald’s burgers to talk about split packaging, low-fat diet culture, and the strange adult marketing of the Arch Deluxe. A pest episode folds current science and animal stories into quizzes about annoying creatures. A game-show special brings in friends and guests for rounds inspired by shows such as Jeopardy!, Beat Shazam, The Crystal Maze, and other competition formats. The show also has a soft spot for language and pop culture. It plays with Swedish titles for Mel Brooks films, movie villains, spoonerisms, AI voices, computer nostalgia, and oddball listener mail. The facts can be wonderfully specific. One standout discussion follows bearded vulture nests in Southern Spain that preserved human-made leather, crossbow pieces, and a centuries-old sandal. That is the show’s sweet spot: a clue that sounds silly at first, then opens a trapdoor into history, science, or design. The tone stays relaxed and lightly dry. It is not trying to sound like a classroom. It is also not a polished game-show machine. The charm is in the human friction: the pause before a guess, the correction that becomes a joke, the side comment that makes the answer easier to remember. For trivia fans, it offers both play-along structure and enough explanation to reward curiosity after the buzzer.
Made for: For trivia players, pub-quiz regulars, word-game fans, and people who enjoy learning odd facts through banter rather than lecture. It also suits comedy listeners who like quick corrections, themed rounds, and playful overthinking.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is the panel chemistry: answers are reached through visible group reasoning, not just host-to-listener question delivery. Its best moments turn tiny facts into miniature stories about culture, science, language, and everyday weirdness.
Part quiz show, part offbeat trivia, and all awesome. We here are nuts about trivia and pub quiz! And we are darn sure there are people out there who share our unusual obsession. Play along and laugh along as Karen, Colin, Dana, and Chris school each other on some of the weirdest and most interesting facts about our funny little world. Do you relish beating your friends at Trivial Pursuit? Do you blab out the answers at the gym when Jeopardy! is on? And don't you just loathe badly worded questions? Gggrraahhh! Then this podcast, fellow trivia nut, is the ultimate mental nutrition for your very big brain. So eat up!
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Good Job, Brain! makes themed trivia memorable by pairing playable questions with comic debate and lively explanations.
Good Job, Brain! turns curiosity into a conversational quiz table, with Karen, Colin, and Chris moving between written-answer rounds, audio identification, themed questions, and the stories behind the solutions.
A spa treatment becomes a 17-letter quiz, and your face suddenly has homework.
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A loose, playful trivia episode connects a marathon China Eastern flight with McDonald's McLean Deluxe and Arch Deluxe history.
Good Job, Brain! uses trivia as permission to wander, opening with the world's longest commercial passenger flight before sliding into the strange afterlife of McDonald's menu experiments.
A spa-themed word quiz turns treatment clues into bagel debate, facial-sanding jokes, and easygoing answer-chasing.
Good Job, Brain! finds its rhythm in spa language that keeps tipping into verbal comedy. Karen, Colin, and Chris start with a squiggle-shaped bagel debate, weighing square holes against round ones, before carrying that same sideways energy into treatment clues.
A penny farewell opens into an offbeat pest quiz with Iceland, film, skunks, and bananas.
The episode starts with the penny's long goodbye, setting more than 230 years of production against the awkward modern math that each coin costs nearly four cents to make.
A villain-themed quiz finds its best twist in bearded vulture nests and the human history preserved there.
Good Job, Brain! uses bad guys as a loose path through villain vocabulary, movie villains, and the stranger turns trivia takes when the panel lets a question run.
A warm game-show hangout, lifted by Colin's vivid Crystal Maze memories and affectionate trivia.
Good Job, Brain! leans into game-show fandom with a loose, affectionate tour of formats, host dreams, and buzzer-ready trivia. Karen and Colin are joined by Sarah Del Vellano, a music teacher and listener, and Warren Grace, a crew PA, giving the episode the feel of a table full…
A movie-and-tech quiz where Her feels newly close to everyday life.
Episode 283 frames computer culture as a relaxed quiz, moving from a Good Job Brain community challenge about shingles and Pringles into movie clips about AI, a digital overlord, and older tech like the Palm Pilot.
Australian trivia with funny wrong answers.
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In episode 304 of Good Job Brain, hosts Karen, Colin, and Chris run a corrections segment addressing prior episode errors—including confirming that Carl Malone's nickname is 'mailman' not 'postman' and that CB radio's 1970s popularity was driven by truckers using it to warn each other about police enforcing the 55mph national speed limit.
In episode 303 of Good Job Brain, hosts Karen, Colin, and Chris open with the news that the U.S.
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Good Job Brain episode 301 centers on game shows, with Karen, Colin, Sarah Del Vellano, and Warren Grace trading trivia from "Jeopardy!," "The Chase," and "Trivial Pursuit." Sarah and Warren introduce the UK quiz show "Impossible," where a correct answer scores one point, a wrong answer scores zero, and an "impossible" answer costs a point.
A comedic quiz show where hosts and guests compete in trivia and share weird facts.
A weekly quiz show where hosts share offbeat trivia and play along with listener-submitted questions, blending humor and obscure facts.
The hosts play a game where listeners submit medical conditions that rhyme with edible items, starting with 'Pringles for shingles'.
The hosts kick off the season finale with a trivia segment using a 1997 Trivial Pursuit card, joined by special guests from Escape This Podcast.