Saturday Matinee: History This Week
History Daily
History Daily
4.4 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
On today’s Saturday Matinee, we test our knowledge on the origins of Trivial Pursuit.
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| 0:31.1 | InBisner. In business, when you alight upon a good idea and you prove that it's viable, it's popular, it's sustainable, it's profitable. |
| 0:34.7 | After a while, you begin to think, can I expand this idea? |
| 0:37.6 | So Coca-Cola comes out with Diet Coke. |
| 0:40.3 | Dyson is great at making sucking machines, |
| 0:43.6 | so they come out with fantastic blowing machines, hair dryers. |
| 0:47.6 | Rees has taken the peanut butter and chocolate combo in a thousand directions. |
| 0:50.9 | Businesses everywhere are looking for these growth opportunities. |
| 0:53.8 | Podcasting is a business, so I'm looking too. And with the success of |
| 0:55.3 | History Daily, thank you very much, dear listener, I thought, well, what about a history weekly? |
| 1:01.5 | Right? Yeah? Maybe we take an event that happened that same week in history and do a bit of a deeper dive. |
| 1:08.1 | Maybe get some experts on Mike to really dig in and truly understand |
| 1:11.8 | the context and significance. Seems like a good idea. It is a good idea, so good that someone's |
| 1:18.5 | already been doing it for a while now. On today's Saturday matinee, we're bringing you an episode |
| 1:23.6 | from the podcast History This Week, and it's a fun one. Jeopardy legend and now host, Ken Jennings, |
| 1:30.3 | joins in to help tell the story of the origins of Trivial Pursuit. I hope you enjoy. While you're |
| 1:35.8 | listening, be sure to search for and follow History This Week. We put a link in the show notes to make it easy for you. |
| 1:45.7 | History Daily is sponsored by Indeed. |
| 1:48.1 | We've all done it to try to take in all the grocery bags in just one trip, |
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