The First Road Trip Part 2: In Which We Discuss All Things Tangentially Related

The BrainFood Show

Cloud10

Education, History

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we discuss the interesting story of who came up with the unit of measurement called horsepower and why it got applied to engines. We also discuss the late 19th century dominance of the electric car and why and when that changed. Next up we look at the mildly humorous story of who got the first known speeding ticket, as well as the much less humorous story of the first person killed in a car accident. Finally we finish up by talking about a little-known fascinating fact about James Doohan (Scotty from Star Trek). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.6	Hey, I'm Brett Connors.
0:33.9	Host of Advantage Connors.
0:38.1	An ongoing conversation between myself and my pop, tennis legend, Jimmy Connors.
0:42.8	Each week, we talk about the worlds of tennis, golf, gambling, and anything else that pops into our head. We love to interview athletes, comedians, and friends. Listen to new episodes every week
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0:56.4	Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Brain Food podcast.
1:00.5	Today, this is another two-parter.
1:03.2	I can't really say another two-parter because the Caesar one was like four parts.
1:07.6	The Roosevelt one was like three parts.
1:10.4	This is two parts. This is the last that we are
1:12.6	talking about cars and electric cars and the history of cars and all sorts of things. Before you
1:19.0	get into it, should we just do any updates from last time we did an episode? I don't think so.
1:25.1	Let's jump into some reviews, shall we?
1:28.1	There was one here. Someone called, and it took me a while to decipher the name, because their iTunes username is ntn.d.d.3w. addict, and then I realized that's Mountain Dew Addict, which we haven't done that video about Mountain Dew yet, have we? Because I just saw it enter, like, our shared folder. So we have a video coming up about Mountain Dew
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