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The BrainFood Show

Stealing the Eiffel Tower

The BrainFood Show

Cloud10

Documentary, Society & Culture, Education, History

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Brain Food Show podcast, we discuss that time a man managed to successfully sell the Eiffel Tower… even though he didn’t own it. We also lament the lack of awesome World’s Fairs in modern times only to subsequently discover they are actually still a thing… 😉 And finally we wrap up discussing the fascinating list [...]

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm not sure when I actually have to stop explaining that these episodes are now in this new format

0:06.2

but I'm just going to give people the 30 second overview just in case that you aren't aware

0:10.9

of what's going on. We used to do this as a variety show. We would have the fun

0:14.9

fact section, which we are doing today. We're talking about selling the Eiffel Tower.

0:18.9

And then we would have our practical knowledge section where David and I talk about something

0:22.1

related to business or YouTube or whatever,

0:24.4

these used to be one show. They are now, two separate shows we are publishing on Monday and

0:28.2

on Thursday. This is the fun facts section. We've already decided it comes out on Monday,

0:31.6

so here you are listening to it.

0:33.4

I hope in 30 seconds that really encapsulates what I spent about 10 minutes explaining in previous

0:38.6

episodes. How do you think I did? Yeah that's good. Yeah nothing basically changes on the content overall like if you liked both but yeah now they're just separate episodes for those who like one or the other

0:48.0

Couple of quick announcements before we get into the show today. Let me thank everyone who has reviewed us on whatever platform you listen to your podcasts.

0:55.6

We are doing a competition.

0:57.3

We are aiming for a hundred reviews on iTunes.

1:00.1

That would be awesome when we hit that 100 mark.

1:02.4

We're going to go through people who have reviewed us on iTunes and at random pick someone

1:06.6

to win a hundred dollar or a hundred euro or wait we should probably not give these

1:10.4

away at the actual face value of the currency. It'll be the equivalent

1:13.6

because someone will be like I need a hundred Swiss francs and I don't know I

1:17.3

assume that's a lot of money. So we will give you around that value in your

1:21.2

local currency wherever you reviewed this

1:23.3

podcast on iTunes. We're specifically doing it on iTunes because we're aware

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