S1E11 - Accidental Brands
Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly
Apostrophe Podcast Network
4.8 • 627 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2012
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
It may surprise you to know that many famous brands were invented completely by accident. They weren't the result of years of research, or painstaking experiments, or scientific brilliance - they were simply stumbled upon by mistake.
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| 0:00.0 | Did you know that if you subscribe to our But Wait, there's more option, you get a bonus story in every episode of Under the Influence. |
| 0:10.4 | But wait, there's more. |
| 0:12.3 | For the price of a cup of coffee every month, you get early access, so you hear every episode a full week before everybody else. |
| 0:19.8 | Plus, you enjoy that episode ad-free. |
| 0:23.0 | Tisk, tisk, and by subscribing, you support our podcast. |
| 0:28.0 | Just go to Apple Podcasts and subscribe to Under the Influences, but wait, there's more. |
| 0:40.3 | From the Under the Influence Digital box set this episode is from Season 1, 2012. |
| 0:48.3 | You're so king in it. |
| 0:53.3 | I go to love it in an instant. |
| 0:55.0 | Your teeth look wider than no, no, no. |
| 1:07.0 | You're not you when you're hungry. |
| 1:11.9 | You're in good hands with us. |
| 1:19.3 | You're under the influence with Terry O'Reilly. |
| 1:32.1 | When I was a kid in the 60s, I loved comic books, |
| 1:36.9 | and along with Batman and Superman, I worshipped another superhero. |
| 1:40.0 | His name was The Flash. |
| 1:42.4 | A scarlet costume ejects from his ring. |
| 1:50.6 | And in a blur of motion, police scientist Barry Allen becomes the flash world's fastest human. |
| 2:00.3 | The flash whose speed enables him to vibrate through solid walls and conquer the barriers of time and space in the pursuit of evildoers. The Flash, Scalance, speech therefore, justice. |
| 2:07.6 | The Flash first appeared back in January of 1940, |
| 2:11.6 | which is considered the Golden Age of Comics, |
| 2:14.6 | from the 1930s to the early 50s. |
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