The First Road Trip Part 1: The Gumption of Bertha Benz

The BrainFood Show

Cloud10

Documentary, Society & Culture, Education, History

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we discuss the surprisingly long history of the automobile, then move on to discussing what is generally considered the first “modern” car, the Model 3, made by Karl Benz, and how is amazing wife ultimately saved him and the vehicle from obscurity through her extreme audacity and faith in his invention. On [...]

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Brain Food Show. Today we are we are leaving Caesar behind. I think it's time we left
0:07.7	Caesar behind because the last did we end up breaking that one into four episodes.
0:11.5	Four episodes and very popular according to our metrics
0:14.3	so that worked out I guess. Which is great I mean iTunes introduced metrics so we can now
0:19.3	get an idea of what people actually like listening to.
0:23.0	And more popular, more popular than the Teddy Roosevelt, which was still popular,
0:27.0	but seriously, if anyone's not listening to the Teddy Roosevelt, go back and listen to that.
0:30.0	That's an amazing, I thought it was better than the Caesar but you know the
0:33.2	Caesar was good to you know what's really curious I think you know your
0:36.2	podcast good when your friends listen to it unprompted so I think that's a good
0:39.4	sign because my friend was listening to this he was like I was listening to your
0:42.0	podcast man and I I am reading that Teddy Roosevelt book.
0:45.0	Oh really? Yeah, the one where he goes down the river. What was it called?
0:48.0	I don't know something about the Amazon of something.
0:50.0	And he was like, you'll love this book. Read this book.
0:52.7	Yeah.
0:53.7	Okay. I definitely will.
0:54.7	As soon as I've seen the princess bride.
0:55.7	Which is not done.
0:56.7	Which that was a commenter on the forum, I think.
1:00.7	A. Joel.
1:01.9	He's blown away, or she's blown away by the fact that you haven't seen the Princess Bride.
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