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🗓️ 1 October 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Today, Mark Twain is widely thought of as one of America's greatest authors -- but he was also, get this, a terrible investor. Inspired by his father's unfailing (and unsuccessful) efforts to become a business tycoon, Twain spent loads of time and money backing inventions that either didn't work... or were outright scams. In part one of this special two-part series, Ben, Noel and Max explore how Twain's early life experiences set him on this path -- and how he originally had a different pen name. Also, this is our Connecticut series.
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0:00.0 | Ridiculous history is a production of I Heart Radio. The Welcome back to the show fellow ridiculous historians. Thank you as always so much |
0:31.1 | for tuning in. Let's give it up for our super producer Mr Max Williams |
0:35.7 | who is back alive again who who I'm here y'all oh wait it said barely alive a minute ago. You've updated. You've updated your |
0:45.0 | Nam de Zoom. That should be a thing. |
0:48.0 | No, the Zoom. That's a good one. I'm sorry. That hasn't already been coined. I take |
0:52.2 | credit fully right now. |
0:53.4 | No, that's a great one. Yeah, it's on record now. We call that the poor man's patent |
0:57.8 | or the poor man's trademark. We said it publicly. |
1:01.0 | That's Noel Brown. |
1:02.1 | I take that library of Congress patent office whatever. |
1:05.0 | Yeah, that's Noel Brown right there coming in with the hot trademarks. |
1:10.0 | I am Ben Bullen and today folks we are back on our completely self-inflicted mission to make at least one episode about every state in these United States and I looked at the I looked at the files |
1:26.8 | Noel we're doing pretty well. Where are we at guys? How far? How deep are we into these |
1:32.3 | United States? well luckily our pal |
1:34.6 | max has made a handy spreadsheet which is no offense classic max it's called |
1:41.4 | states and I'm a nerd and I'm fine about that. |
1:44.0 | Easy, the formulas and everything. |
1:46.0 | One time I accidentally copied over one |
1:48.0 | and I immediately got an aggressive text. |
1:50.0 | I took a risk modeling class in college and I thought I knew how to use |
1:56.3 | Excel until I took a risk modeling class I also learned that risk modeling is not |
1:59.8 | a easy subject also I've, I've been risky with models in the past. |
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