S1E13 - When Brands Houdini
Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly
Apostrophe Podcast Network
4.8 • 627 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2012
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
This episode is about how major brands in our lives simply vanish. One of magician Harry Houdini's most famous tricks was to make a 5-ton elephant disappear in front of large audiences. Marketing has its own version of that trick.
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| 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. |
| 1:11.6 | You're in good hands with all. |
| 1:19.0 | You're under the influence with Terry O'Reilly. |
| 1:49.1 | Ladies and G, in introducing my original invention, the water torture cell, although there is nothing supernatural about it. |
| 1:52.3 | His name was Harry Houdini. |
| 1:56.6 | He was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1874. |
| 1:59.4 | His birth name was Eric Weiss. |
| 2:05.5 | He sailed to the United States in 1878 with his family and settled in Wisconsin. |
| 2:09.9 | Ten years later, the Weiss family moved to New York City. |
| 2:15.5 | Eric made his public debut at nine years of age as a trapeze artist, |
| 2:19.3 | and showed an early glimpse of his showmanship when he built himself as Eric the Prince of the Air. |
| 2:23.3 | His career as a professional magician began in 1891 at the age of 17. |
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