Enlightened Rigging of the Lottery + Wheezy Waiter (The BrainFood Show Episode 5)

The BrainFood Show

Cloud10

Documentary, Society & Culture, Education, History

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2018

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

In episode 5 of The BrainFood Show podcast, we discuss the shady, but clever, business dealings of famed enlightenment thinker Voltaire that ultimately allowed him to write with the impunity he is so famous for, where most others of his time and region of the world could not. Next up we talk to famed YouTuber Craig Benzine (better known online [...]

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0:00.0	I should stop by knowing where I'm going.
0:03.0	Voltaire, Wizzy Waiter, plugs.
0:06.0	You don't have to help me with some of these French pronunciation.
0:09.0	I'm going to have to make up. I kind of vaguely remember them from the article,
0:12.0	but... When you say French stuff, even though it still might be wrong, at least sounds convincing,
0:15.8	like to someone who doesn't know, but when I say it, it's very obvious I have no clue how to pronounce
0:20.1	it.
0:21.1	What I do is I just throw on French Jackson.
0:23.0	It works.
0:25.0	Welcome to episode 5.
0:26.0	This week we are talking all about Voltaire and how he became
0:30.0	super rich by essentially rigging the lottery.
0:32.0	This is actually one of my favorite.
0:34.3	I know I say that about a lot of them,
0:35.8	but this is a brilliant story, which I'm really
0:37.8	enjoying getting into a conversation about.
0:40.1	Before we get started, we should do our regular thing.
0:42.2	If you are watching this on YouTube, please, please stop.
0:45.0	I mean, don't stop if you're watching it on YouTube.
0:47.6	But go over to the podcast and get the podcast feed.
0:51.3	Because that helps us out.
0:52.0	This is a podcast we would love
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