History facts that will BLOW. YOUR. MIND

Bree's found some facts that will really put history into perspective. Will it blow your mind or will you be more low-key about it like Clint? 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You tapped it, so we're playing it at sim Spree
and Clintons the podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
I know when you guys think of me, you think
history buff. Yeah, it was one of my best.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Subjects at school, was it? Really? No? Sport was my
best subject? History buff? Because it's been ages since I've
been buff. Ain't that the truth?

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Producers that I listen up here, because you guys are
slumped down in your chairs.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
You're a bit distracted.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
But these facts are going to blow your mind, including
everyone else listening. I'm going to blow your guys' minds
this afternoon.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
With a little bit of a history lesson. Okay, well,
we are ready to be blown my permission, Yeah blow me.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
If you don't, you just have to stay ready all
the time. Okay, then you don't have to get ready
to be blowing.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
I've been ready. Okay, good. I'm going to hit you
with a big one to start off.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
When do you guys think Picasso died nineteen sixties?

Speaker 1 (00:59):
The eight Ndred's Good Try.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Picasso died in nineteen seventy three, which means he was living.
He wasn't living when the horse and cart was around.
He actually drove an Audi. Did you guys realize that.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
No, wait I did. There's photos of Picasso.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Yeah, huh oh whatever, get off your high horses, okay.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Nintendo abstract modernist.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Nintendo was founded the same year that Van Go painted
Starry Night.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Did you know that?

Speaker 2 (01:33):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:34):
No, I don't know that.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Wait. And it was also the same year that the
Eiffel Tower finished construction, the year that Nintendo was founded.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
There's like a there was like a they made card
game day. It was found plugging like a video game.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Eighteen eighty nine. Nintendo was founded as a car playing
card company. Did you know that? This one is crazy?

Speaker 1 (02:04):
In France? In France, thank you, Ellen, he's such a
supportive friend. No, no, you are too elitist. We just
don't want to give it to you. We want to.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Be genuinely because you know, when you get asked that
it was really good, anyone can get out of.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
You know what it is.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
My mom was around when, but Casso was around. Found
out last year that dinosaurs were real. Speaking of dinosaurs,
got one about that, I've got one about this.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Dinosaurs. You know.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
The first dinosaur fossil was discovered after ex President George
Washington died, so technically he never knew that dinosaurs existed,
same as.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
Ella was first what the president? Yeah, well know of
United States? Okay, another one. Do you know that in France?

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Were we they were still executing people via guillotine when
the first Star Wars movie came out?

Speaker 1 (03:19):
What No, I did not know that one. I'm going
to give you that one.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
And that was in for people playing along nineteen seventy seven.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Man, you'd be gutted. If you were the last person
to get guillotin you'd be beheaded. He'd be beheaded. Guys,
this is ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Then, and they're like, Okay, after we behead you, we'll consider,
we'll probably stop.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Okay, I've got two more. I've got two more, even
though I've already got you.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
I feel did you know matches were invented after lighters?
Matches were invented?

Speaker 1 (03:53):
That one?

Speaker 2 (03:54):
Is that true? Yeah? I like that too.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Is that true? Lighters were invented before matches. We like that?
Is that true? It's true?

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Though the first practical lighter was invented around eighteen twenty three.
Friction matches were invented in eighteen twenty six, so.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
They used lighters when you had a little pan in
the candle. Yeah, that's crazy.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
A you use the lighter, not matches.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
The lighter was invented first, huh, yeah, you got me. Yeah,
that's good. And the last one Claudia wants to fact
check you, but yeah it's true. Trust me to believe.
I've checked her. And the last one.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
I'm trying to blow the team's mind minds with history facts.
This afternoon. Cleopatra coming at Kamanatsha was born closer to
the iPhone being invented. Oh my gosh, the pyramids being built.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
I didn't know that way. What does she do again? Sorry,
I'm serious. I want to learn.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
Don't make fun of me.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
Clearpetra, tell me what she does. What do you think
she does? I thought she's a star Wars, but that
sounds wrong. That's Princess Layer.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Yeah right, so clear Petra similar sheer flute player.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
I've heard her name. She's a flattist.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
Have you seen Have you seen the movie The Mummy? No,
with Brendan Fraser.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
Mummy. She starred in the Mummy.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
She was in the Mummy, she played, she was alongside
She won the Academy Award alongside Brendan Fraser in the
movie The Mummy.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
I'll just Google it highest paid actress of her generation.
No one had been paid more than clear Petra. Anyway,
she's Egypt. Well done. Yeah she white. So that's where
they filmed The Mummy.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
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Speaker 1 (05:37):
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