Sweet, sticky, and pointless facts you didn't know you didn't need to know! Join Scott, Simone and Craig for a sugar hit of curious, weird, and hilarious trivia!
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What do you get when you combine a penis park, a poo museum, and an island devoted to adult sexy time (besides Simone’s disappointment)? Well… yet another needlessly pointless and lewd episode of Brain Bubblegum of course! Join Scott, Simone and Craig as we dig into the weird, wild, wonderful, and woolly world of South Korea. So grab some kimchi, turn your fan off just in case, and join us for a…
In this episode, the Brain Bubblegum crew give you the finger. We’re going to flip you off, display the one fingered salute, give you the bird. (I hate it when it does that…) No, we love you all, I promise! But we are going to tell you all about the origins of everyone’s favourite non-verbal passive aggressive insult - the middle finger. And what episode on the bird would be complete without some…
In this episode, the Brain Bubblegum crew look at 10 times the Olympics were insane, hilarious or downright stupid. From the Ancient Olympics, to Paris 2024, we pick over some of the weirder events that have happened at or around the Olympics. Fair warning - there will be olive oil, sweat, blood, hormones, and lots of feathers - some of them a little bit burnt.
Today, we think nothing of grabbing a delicious cheap pineapple from our local supermarket shelves any time the mood strikes us. But go back a few hundred years and you better make sure you have a decent credit limit on that 17th century equivalent of your Black Amex! In this episode, the Brain Bubblegum crew chews over the fascinating origins of pineapples. From an object of wealth and…
Ah, Iceland - the land of fire and ice. And expensive beer, disgusting food, rampant elves, books galore, and babies sleeping outside in sub-zero temperatures. And where there’s a very real danger you might find yourself getting intimate with a relative if you’re not careful! In this episode Scott, Craig and Simone share the 10 coolest facts they learned about Iceland. Despite the weird, it’s…
You might regularly choose to dine at the Golden Arches, but how much do you really know about your favourite fast food restaurant? Simone, Scott and Craig deep fry 10 crispy truth nuggets about McDonalds that will blow your mind! And maybe even make you laugh like a certain corporate clown mascot.
Where do we get our days of the week from? Who named them and who decided their order in the week? And just why did we go with seven days rather than the far more rounded 10 day week? In this ‘gumdrop’ episode, Craig takes you back 4,200 years to where it all began - with those overachieving Babylonians.
Who doesn’t love a good prank? In this episode Simone, Scott and Craig rank the top 10 epic pranks of all time, based on level of commitment, originality, brazenness, humour, whimsicality and lasting impact on culture. How scientific! Or not…
Whether it's a dramatic police shootout, saving a life on the operating table, or the action hero proving that it'll take more than a few bullet wounds to stop justice, Hollywood drama is thrilling to say the least. But if you followed all the medical advice on TV and in movies, you might not live very long. In this episode we bust down 10 of Hollywood's favourite medical plot points which are...…
