How Everyone Plays Monopoly Wrong Which Makes It Worse, Where the Game Pieces Came From, Who Really Invented It and Much More

The BrainFood Show

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Documentary, Society & Culture, Education, History

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2019

⏱️ 71 minutes

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In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we start by looking at the interesting story behind where the Monopoly pieces came from. Next we discuss our sponsor, RetailMeNot. Visit http://bit.ly/2BXvyAk to download the free RetailMeNot Genie browser extension today and start saving the easy way. Moving on to the meat of today’s episode, we jump into the truth about [...]

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0:00.0	Welcome to you another episode of the Brain Food Show. I'm Simon over there and by over there.
0:09.0	I mean literally on the other side of the world.
0:12.0	How many thousands of miles away do you think we are?
0:14.0	We should look that up and also like,
0:16.0	are we on opposite sides of the world?
0:18.0	It's got to be pretty close.
0:20.0	No, I mean, maybe we're like a third of a world away.
0:22.0	No, I bet, I bet because that's true I guess because I think I mean I maybe we're like a third of a world away.
0:22.6	No, I bet because I guess because I think I actually think like India
0:27.1	Druven India is probably more exact opposite from you.
0:31.8	Yeah for me I'm exactly opposite Australia. If I left my home now I could be at your
0:37.3	house and I'm assuming your house is the city of Seattle because that's the nearest
0:41.8	city that I could think of.
0:43.4	Sure. It would be 14 hours and 10 minutes according to
0:46.7	according to Google Maps and a distance of it doesn't tell me oh Oh, if I walked?
0:53.3	Sorry, we could not calculate walking directions from Prague to Seattle, Washington.
0:58.3	So what are we talking about in today's episode?
1:04.4	Oh, unless you've got that distance right there in front of me.
1:07.4	I was just looking at that.
1:08.8	No, I do not though, but yeah, yeah, I think you're about right.
1:12.4	Probably about a third to half the world away
1:16.9	That feels right. Yeah if I if I zoom out on the Google Maps real far. Yeah, I reckon I reckon a third. India
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