Show overview
Good Job, Brain! has been publishing since 2012, and across the 14 years since has built a catalogue of 314 episodes. That works out to roughly 300 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a fortnightly cadence.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 49 min and 1h 4m — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Leisure show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 1 weeks ago, with 2 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2014, with 51 episodes published. Published by Karen Chu.
From the publisher
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!
Latest Episodes
View all 314 episodes307: We're Back in the Red Again
306: Geology Rocks
305: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #61
Sorry not sorry, Wise Men, because we're bringing the hefty gift of trivia! So let's close this year out with some epic quizzes. Get ready for a full course meal of hilarious fast food fails and flops. Play Karen's double-syllable lightning round word game, and what's the actual difference between "sparkling water" and "soda water"? Come split hairs in a vocabulary quiz that celebrates being picky. Colin's got another fun license plate quiz but this time, it's all about the funky world of odd specialty plates. We wish all of you a brighter 2026! ALSO: longest flights, weird fruits For advertising inquiries, please contact [email protected]! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
304: Spa Day
Slap some cucumber slices on your eyes because it's time for some triviatherapy! ...Do you smell that? What is that signature "spa smell" and what does it have to do with koalas and gold? Take Chris' relaxing quiz about popular and unusual spa treatments. And Colin dispels myths about swimming pools and answers your (eye)burning questions about chlorine. ALSO: this season's "Um, Actually..." roundup For advertising inquiries, please contact [email protected]! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
303: Pest Control
Got porcupines eating your tires? Colin has a non-annoying quiz about annoying animal behavior. Karen takes inspiration from the Gros Michel banana and discovers other long-lost plants wiped out by blight. Take Chris' creepy crawly J! movie challenge, and we're giving these "Bugs on Film" two snaps around cocoon and back. And an UPDATE on a certain animal butt. For advertising inquiries, please contact [email protected]! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
302: Bad Guy
Duh. This one's for all the villains, rapscallions, and hellions! Meet the amazing bone-eating villainous birds who built history-surviving nests. Blockbuster bad guy quiz, and Chris has a green-skinned trivia ode to an enduring witch. Karen's got a villain etymology word challenge, and grab your spoons as we head into a round of TARK SHANK. For advertising inquiries, please contact [email protected]! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
301: Come On Down!
Greetings Taskmasters, Traitors, Survivors, and Game Changers! Will you Press Your Luck when the Price is Right on this Amazing Race? Or will The Mole from The Floor give you The Chase, and put your Trivial Pursuit in Jeopardy!? Game show vets Sara DelVillano and Warren Grace join us for quizzes and segments about game shows AND in the style of game shows: The Crystal Maze, Let's Make a Deal and the Monty Hall problem, the Impossible Quiz, the most successful reality talent show contestants, and finally, a game show for pescatarians. For advertising inquiries, please contact [email protected]! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
300: Our 300th Episode!
Our little pub quiz podcast has reached episode 300! We're celebrating this incredible milestone with a loving spoonful of our signature GJB quizzes along with an amorous forkload of listener messages. Naturally, we got a 300-themed quiz and Karen precariously prepped a puzzle-y round of sports. It's giving Brad Pitt, it's giving lasers - just how well do you remember the year when GJB started? Time to play a fun round of "Medicine, Wartime, or Taxes!?" and rock out with an epic music quiz about fake bands in real movies. For advertising inquiries, please contact [email protected]! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
299: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #60
It's our (early) All Quiz serving you games, berries...and murder? Play a round of "Berry, Bird, or Fish!" Are you a 90s kid who stayed up watching CD compilation ads? Then it's your time to shine in Karen's music round! Biopic quiz, first-person video game challenge, and solve Chris' fake murder with his famous suspects quiz. Featuring Dani Siller and Bill Sunderland from Escape This Podcast! For advertising inquiries, please contact [email protected]! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
298: The Clothes Off Our Backs
Trivia... but make it fashion. Chris struts down the red carpet with his quiz about memorable Met Gala outfits. Colin looks back at some of the weird and holy-crap clothing professions of yesteryear. Help! Karen's wearing too many hats! A lightning round about fashionable animal logos, and can you find the connection in a mystery quiz? For advertising inquiries, please contact [email protected]! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
297: To Market, To Market
Attention Brain Mart shoppers, the aisles are now stocked with fresh market trivia! Come spend your fake coins in Karen's worldly quiz about famous marketplaces. Learn about the real origin of the ubiquitous plastic shopping bags. Companies with one-letter stock market symbols, and Chris finally finds out why this little piggy went to the market, but that little piggy stayed home. ALSO: "Spot the Impostor!" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
296: It's All In Your Head
Heads up! It's the new fall 2025 season, and we're on the road to 300. Remember learning about the dinosaur's "tail brain" in elementary school? Chris investigates the elusive dinosaur butt brain and the mesozoic mind. Karen gets in your face with a mystery music round. Whose heads were on our coins before presidents? And don't lose your head while playing our cryptic word game! --- Thank you to our special guest, Tyler Hinman! --- For advertising inquiries, please contact [email protected]! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
295: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #58
We begin with a sweet story to end this spring/summer 2025 season, then you better hold on to your butts for a wild quizzy ride. Time to play Colin's dictionary game where you try to pinpoint what year trendy words got added to the dictionary. Labubus or Lafufus? Karen's popping all the marts in order to make a quiz about knock-offs, clones, fakes, off-brands, and dupes. I Can't Believe It's Not Trivia! Chris has us doing jazz hands in a Broadway quiz (but the real fun is summarizing musical plots to Colin.) And of course, "Celebrities with Animals in Their Names." See you later this year on OUR ROAD TO 300! THIS. IS. TRIVIA. For advertising inquiries, please contact [email protected]! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
294: Cooking In The Kitchen
Do you smell what the trivia is cooking? Get your brain juices brewing in Karen's quiz about coffee drinks around the world. Play a truly epic game of Family Feud with us as Chris surveys the national ER injury records to find out what exactly are the most dangerous things living in your kitchen. And what's the kitchen without a challenging bowl of trivia cereal? For advertising inquiries, please contact [email protected]! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
293: Down On The Farm
We're Old MacDonalding up in here in our trivia-filled farm! Sure Westeros had The Wall, but in the Americas, we have The Screwworm Shield. And squeal for joy in Chris' kid lit segment. Unusual trademarks and the John Deere company, and take Karen's quiz about ~unusual~ farms. For advertising inquiries, please contact [email protected]! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
292: Vacation Mode
Set your status to OOO because we're going on vacation! Destination: the scenic and plaque-filled paradise, Trivialand. We got planes, trains, and automobiles covered in Colin's travel quiz. And for all you movie buffs, we're heading over to Walley World for Chris' epic National Lampoon's Vacation franchise challenge. Take Karen's celebrity audiobook narrator quiz, and find out why do we even have summer vacation? For advertising inquiries, please contact [email protected]! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
291: The Electric Slide
Zip, zap, zop! Prepare your brain for some shocking trivia about electricity. Are electric eels actually electric? What did people call them before we had a word for electricity? Get charged up with Chris' "Complete The Circuit" word game. Colin gets juiced up by college rock, and learn about landmark moments in electronica with Karen's synthy quiz. For advertising inquiries, please contact [email protected]! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
290: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #58
Get yer fresh-squeezed quizzes! If you got vacation on the mind, then check into Karen's quiz about hotels Can you guess the theme in Chris' epic music round? Volcano vs. Dante's Peak, Antz vs. A Bug's Life, how are there so many twin movies? And we all try to tap into the hive mind in the crowd-favorite game, "One is Easy, Three is Hard." For advertising inquiries, please contact [email protected]! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
289: Bubblicious
Prost! Sláinte! Kanpai! Raise a glass to the bubbly brewskis all around the world in Colin's international beer quiz. Chris chews on the history of bubblegum. Something wicked this way comes... Karen's got a cauldron bubbling with witchy potion trivia. And descend into the watery world of the bathysphere bubble and how people were able to observe deep sea life for the first time in history. For advertising inquiries, please contact [email protected]! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
288: Too Close To Call
Whoosh! Trivia and facts about near misses and close calls. Is the ball in or out? Colin serves up some love for the high tech system used to judge tricky tennis calls and predict alternate futures. Chris quizzes us on games that were almost released on the Nintendo Entertainment System, and what's up with those 555 phone numbers you see in movies and TV? Take Karen's close call movie quiz about how your favorite films were almost called something else. ALSO: close elections and tie breakers For advertising inquiries, please contact [email protected]! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices