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The BrainFood Show

Lord Minimus- The Renaissance Dueling Dwarf

The BrainFood Show

Cloud10

Education, History

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we start off looking at how “Dick” came to be short for “Richard”. Next up, we have a brief message from one of our favorite and most useful sponsors- Backblaze! Backblaze really is super cheap and takes almost no time or effort to get setup and working. Unlimited automatic backups for your computer for just $6 a month. You never have to worry about losing your photos or files on your computer again. It just works. Get your free trial and help keep this podcast going by using the following link: www.backblaze.com/brainfood Moving on to the main topic, we are looking at the fascinating story of a 17th century dwarf who would go from humble beginnings to being knighted and becoming a Captain of the Horse and member of the Queen of England’s court. On another note, if you could do us a huge favor and rate and review this show in whatever podcasting platform you’re using (including hopefully giving us some feedback related to the new format), we would be extremely grateful. Thanks! (You can also discuss this episode and view references on The BrainFood Show forum here.) Don’t miss future episodes of this podcast, subscribe here: iTunes | Spotify | Google Play Music | Stitcher | RSS/XML You can also find more episodes by going here: The BrainFood Show The post Lord Minimus- The Renaissance Dueling Dwarf appeared first on Today I Found Out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome everybody to an episode of the brain food show. I am one of your co-host,

0:07.6

Simon, trying with me today, Davin. How's it going? It's going great.

0:12.0

It's going great. Good.

0:14.0

I'm off on holiday tomorrow by the way.

0:16.0

I know. With you gone, there's not really a lot for me to do.

0:19.0

There's a couple things more I got to do because I didn't quite get everything done but I'll get those done shortly

0:25.2

Well you could you could enjoy a less intense space at work as well. Yeah that's that's the main thing. I'm still not going to take a day off

0:32.0

but I'll just have more normal.

0:35.1

Of course not. And like I say I go on holiday, I'm going to, you know, there'll be some hours.

0:39.2

I'll squeeze some stuff in. Anyway, this is why we're doing this on Thursday rather than our typical Friday.

0:44.7

I think that was why I wanted to bring that up.

0:47.6

And yes, so although that doesn't really matter because this is a podcast, that's just

0:51.0

for the people who are watching live I suppose if you are listening to this

0:53.7

on podcasts you can also watch it live on YouTube but don't do that rather if you're watching it

0:58.2

live on YouTube subscribe to the podcast because we'd like to grow that yeah and in future go listen there we have a lot of

1:04.5

episodes there so you know you can get caught up. I don't even know how many we have

1:08.2

now but it's a lot it is a lot I think it's like at least like 40 that's cool and they're all pretty long and I don't know I think they're pretty good we get good reviews

1:16.8

we do we're speaking of good reviews is that what you wanted to prompt me into yeah

1:21.7

go speaking of good reviews if you wanted to prompt me into? Yeah, go.

1:23.0

Speaking of good reviews, if you want to leave us a good or bad review, you can do so.

1:27.8

And when we get to a thousand reviews, we're going to give away a $1,000 Amazon gift card. How about that? That's a serious contest. Like I was never a big contest

1:37.0

enter a contest for a grand.

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