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The BrainFood Show

A Restaurant for a Beetle and $100 and a Bike- The Fascinating Stories Behind Four Famous Businesses

The BrainFood Show

Cloud10

Documentary, Society & Culture, Education, History

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The BrainFood Show, we look at the fascinating and sometimes hilarious origins of four of the biggest companies in the world. We also discuss our new podcast format and wrap up the show discussing the Curse of the Colonel and other related bonus facts. If you could do us a huge favor and rate and review [...]

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to, again, right now all of the episode numbers are probably a little bit screwed up.

0:05.2

We don't really know where we are. We're somewhere around episode number six, but we've recently

0:09.2

started splitting the show off, so we have, what do we have? We have the practical off so we have what do we have we have the practical knowledge and we have

0:15.2

what are we calling it like the facts one where like Voltaire rigging the

0:19.3

lottery interesting fact one I think the other episode we will air before this one maybe actually

0:26.3

probably not given that we just recorded it but we had some microphone issues

0:29.4

so we this is way too much information we We're basically splitting it off.

0:33.2

If you're hearing this twice, I apologize.

0:35.4

Basically, our initial idea when we were starting this show was to do like the

0:38.9

variety show side of things where it'd be like, hey, we do a bit of that, we do a bit of

0:42.4

this, but then

0:42.8

people were like it's really different when you guys are talking about

0:45.2

YouTube or interviewing someone compared to when you're talking about Voltaire

0:48.3

rigging the lottery the idea is we are this point forward we're splitting the

0:52.1

show off so we're doing two shows a week.

0:53.8

One is what you're hearing today, which is the Voltaire Riging the Lottery, fun facts thing,

0:59.1

although you're not hearing about Voltaire Rigging the Lottery, that's just the example I always go to. We are talking

1:03.4

about the origins of some really big, the interesting origin stories of some really big

1:08.2

businesses and fun stuff there. Is that about right? Did I kind of encapsulate that well?

1:14.1

Yeah, so for, so everything will be more or less as it was before we were just splitting it

1:18.5

off so like that you'll get all the same content if you liked both you'll get it all

1:21.9

the same thing but now we split off into separate

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