What's up everybody welcome to podcast beyond episode 293 on one of your host Greg Miller alongside he only does everything

Rest in peace islanders and

The dark night of news, Andrew go for you miss the secret of Victoria's secret. We didn't miss it. You didn't tell it yet

You're talking about the history. We were talking about secret history before we started recording here

Yeah, I'll tell you a secret history about Victoria's secret tell us the Victoria's secret history

Oh, I know the full story just that we're gonna tell us

The dude who invented it like sold it to somebody for really cheap and then wasn't included when it got like huge like bigger and bigger

He sold for like $500,000 or something and then yeah end up being worth million this story was inspired of course by I was talking about the history of an

Opley video that are like of course that's on Netflix of course

So and it's fascinating because so this guy made the game based on a famous game

You guys probably heard of called the landlord's game that he like kind of modeled after I played that game in New York

He modeled after this game for the landlord's game, which was like a big which was like a big game

Actually created for

Like I think like almost union purposes to show that like landlord's were making too much money off the people whatever

So this this guy made this game called monopoly and then he went to Parker brothers

He was selling it at an apartment store in Philadelphia and he went to Parker Brothers the sell monopoly to them

And they weren't interested in buying it then the game took off in this Philadelphia department store and Parker brothers came back to him

And was like what we want to buy from you now and he said well you can license it for me instead

So this long story short goal far this this family still makes a fortune to this day off of everything monopoly really

And yeah, and that's what we're saying that's rare most people who like have a cool idea they get fucked out of it by

Corporate fat cats like they would have if Parker brothers were smart enough to know that this game was gonna be big

Which they weren't it's like one day I was sitting here and I was eating a bunch of Oreos and I was like

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