WEBVTT - SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How Monopoly Works 0:00:01.400 --> 0:00:04.080 Oh boy, it's time for one of my favorite episodes, 0:00:04.120 --> 0:00:07.960 How Monopoly Works. This one was way more interesting than 0:00:08.000 --> 0:00:10.960 I ever understood. There's a lot more to Monopoly, and 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:13.760 just as a little aside, if you think that the 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:17.279 Monopoly man wore a monocle, you're wrong. You're thinking of 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:20.000 mister Peanut. Plus also it makes sense that he would 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:22.000 be warring a monocle. It's a bit of a crime 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:25.959 that he wasn't. At any rate, here's the episode Monopoly. 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:37.840 Welcome to Stuff you Should Know from HowStuffWorks dot com. 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:41.120 Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark with 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:44.360 Charles W. Chuck Bryant and Jerry Rowland, which makes the 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:45.239 Stuff you Should Know. 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:49.559 It's right, got on the top, Pat and my cane monicle, 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:52.720 Monica to see it, Monica, I thought it was Now 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:53.600 it's mister Peanut. 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:57.200 Oh yeah, not mister Monopoly. And I think mister Pringle 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:00.720 has a monocle too, didn't it? Eh No, he just 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:04.560 says An Nustairs. Yeah, mister Monopoly doesn't have a monocle. Huh. 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:05.240 I don't think so. 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:09.440 Huh. You'd think we'd know, we do not, But I 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:13.720 do know this, mister Monopoly is a nickname for that man. 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:14.600 That's right. 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:19.640 His born name is given name by his parents is 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:23.880 rich Uncle penny Bags. Three names, so uncle would be 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:24.600 his middle name. 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:27.320 Yeah. Well he even has a regular name too. 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:28.600 Oh not that I saw. 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:31.720 Yeah, it is Milbourne Pennybags. 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:32.360 No. 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:36.080 Yeah, there was a book published and this is one 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:38.680 of those after the fact deals called the Monopoly Companion, 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:43.120 and they named all the character characters on the board 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:45.479 Melbourne Penny Bags. And then the jail guy is Jake 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:48.240 the jail bird okay, and the police officer and go 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:49.040 to jail. 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:52.320 Is I'll bet a Tyris, isn't it, Officer Edgar Mallory. 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:55.120 I knew. Really you just. 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:58.360 Gets that, huh, Yeah, that's pretty bunny. We're talking about Monopoly, 0:01:58.440 --> 0:01:58.800 by the way. 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:04.800 Oh yeah, yeah, this is not about anything else but Monopoly. 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:08.720 No. And I was just remarking to you, sir, how 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:12.800 I've never seen one of our This had more supplemental 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:15.000 information than most shows that we research. 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:21.079 Yeah. I can explain why because this was written. There 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:25.680 was a whole suite of game articles written, yeah, like 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:28.680 just how to play certain games. So it kind of 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:33.000 came out in this mentality of this is the game 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:35.040 and here's how we explain how to play it, and 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:39.040 this article is done. Whereas Monopoly, it's like this is 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:42.160 more like McDonald's or Twinkies or something like that. It's 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:46.040 like a cultural cog. 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:52.000 Yeah. I mean there's so much extra junk history and 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:54.880 I mean you talk about the different versions, it's ridiculous. 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:57.680 Millburn penny bangs. Yeah. 0:02:58.080 --> 0:02:59.799 And like I said, that was a post that he 0:02:59.919 --> 0:03:03.360 wasn't originally called that. This is I think Monopoly probably 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:05.480 wanted to sell a little little book or two. I'm 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:08.799 sure they did, because if one thing we've learned about 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:14.000 Parker Brothers and now Hasbro is they love selling different 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:14.960 versions of this game. 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:18.080 Yeah, they do. They like licensing it off a lot 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:21.040 of money. They like making some changes here or there, 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:24.720 releasing a brand new game, but it's all still the 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:30.000 same game. And all of it came from a left 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:33.240 wing Quaker intellectual at the turn of the last century, 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:34.320 the Finns Keel. 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:35.840 Yeah it was. 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:39.360 I'm saying that right, Yeah, sure, Okay, I. 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:42.640 Think it sounds right. And it's interesting to me that 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:47.080 the game of Monopoly, which is all about capitalism and 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:52.720 bankrupting or neighbor, yeah, was stolen. The game was stolen. 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:55.520 From a leftist intellectual Quaker. 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:57.880 In the original version of the game, it was to 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:00.440 teach against the monopolies and how they're bad. 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:03.320 Right, so let's talk about this monopoly. Actually, if you 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:08.040 trace it back to about the like the literal beginning 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:12.320 of the twentieth century, it's what's considered a folk game. 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:14.960 There were a lot of people playing versions like this 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:17.920 in cities all over the country. But again, they all 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:23.760 shared some pretty common viewpoints. I guess you today you 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:26.880 would kind of call him socialist. But for the most 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:30.799 part they were followers of a guy named Henry George. 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:32.040 Yeah, Georgis. 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:34.520 Yeah, he came up with this thing called Georgism, which 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:37.040 is based on some other philosophies. But the idea of 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:40.720 it is that if you produce something through through your 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:43.960 own labor, your own work, you own that that should 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:47.640 not be taxed. Right, what should be taxes things that 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:51.719 everybody owns. If somebody's taking something that belongs to everybody, 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:55.159 say a parcel of land, yeah, technically the land belongs 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:55.680 to everybody. 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:58.120 Well, that was his notion was that you shouldn't even 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:00.400 be a landowner, Like all concept of a land to 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:01.279 him was ridiculous. 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:03.720 And that's based on this idea, the law of the commons, 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:06.880 which is around for centuries, if not millennia. And then 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:10.040 once people started taking land, he's like, okay, well, if 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:13.039 you're going to own land, it belongs to everybody, so 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:15.400 that should be taxed, yea, and then that tax will 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:17.760 be given back to the community for the greater good. 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:18.279 Yeah. 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:22.480 So that's Georgism, and that was kind of the philosophy 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:26.240 that formed the basis of monopoly what was originally called 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:29.240 the Landlord's Game, which was created by a lady named 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:33.720 Lizzie Maggie A G y M A g I E 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:37.240 M A g I E Yeah, almost Magpie without the 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:41.800 P right, Yeah. And she basically that was on her card. 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:44.159 Yeah. 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:46.839 And she she came up with this, like you said, 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:50.599 to kind of teach, so you could go and be 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:55.440 a rich landowner and bankrupt other people and exploit the 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:59.000 poor who need your help, who need a decent place 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:02.200 to stay, and you could see yourself like the evils 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:07.119 of capitalism. But she actually came up with two sets 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:10.400 of rules for the same game. One was where you 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:12.159 got as rich as you could at the expense of 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:18.000 everybody else. Yeah. The other was a basically the community benefited, 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:20.120 and you can kind of see that today in like 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:23.279 these weird things like community chess, like why would I 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:26.920 want to, you know, pay into this pot. I don't 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:29.719 care about the community, like now it's a bad thing. 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:32.200 In her original version, it was a good thing, like 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:34.880 the community one, and that was the basis of the 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:35.360 whole thing. 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:39.559 Yeah, which is really ironic, it is. Yeah, like you said, 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:42.360 she created two versions, and she said, one of the 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:44.640 quotes from her is it is a practical demonstration of 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:47.359 the present system of land grabbing, with all its usual 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:50.920 outcomes and consequences. So it, you know, it's kind of 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:56.040 to teach people lessons, and she had it stolen from 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:57.280 her she did. 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:03.320 Luckily, Lizzy was smart enough to patent this game. It 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:05.880 became just kind of a trendy thing. Again, like if 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:10.320 you were into socialism at the time and you were 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:13.560 on the East Coast, you probably hung out at a 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:17.440 friend's house and played this game at some point in 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:18.880 some incarnation or another. 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:21.680 Yeah, it was really popular, like you said, like people 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:23.680 made up some of their own rules, but it was 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:26.560 I mean, if you look at the original Landlords game board, 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:28.600 it looks a lot like the current monopoly, I mean 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:29.800 similar at least. 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:34.040 Yeah, And apparently a lot of the rules that make 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:38.600 the game a lot more enjoyable today came from Lizzie's 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:44.880 Quaker friends. Like, for example, the original plots of land 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:48.200 were up for auction for a bid. 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:48.600 Yeah. 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:52.560 Yeah, Quakers preferred silence, so they just put a fixed 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:54.280 price on the piece of land so there wouldn't be 0:07:54.320 --> 0:08:00.840 a loud, obnoxious bidding war. They also instituted tokens, fun 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:02.840 tokens before they're just boring pawns. 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:06.320 Yeah, like household objects, which you know, that's why the 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:09.040 thimble is in there, and originally the iron. Yeah, we'll 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:12.280 get to those in a minute, but I know, it's 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:13.000 pretty exciting. 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:17.000 And then so this thing's being played and Lizzie Maggie 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:21.000 holds the patent, but she's not exactly like cracking down 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:23.480 on any kind of infringement really. 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:25.240 No, Well, she pitched it to Parker Brothers and they 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:25.760 said no. 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:28.000 Yeah, so she just kind of went on doing her 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:28.480 own thing. 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:31.960 So there's another lady actually that figures into this, a 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:34.880 lady named Ruth Hoskins, and she was one of the 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:38.440 ones who caught on in the Philadelphia Atlantic City area 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:42.679 with her Quaker friends, two of them in particular, Jesse 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:47.000 and Eugene Rayford, and they are the ones who changed 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:48.600 some of the rules to make it look more like 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:51.520 the monopoly we know. They taught it to a friend 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:56.200 named Todd, and Todd brought it to his friend named 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:59.880 Charles Darrow. And that's where the story takes a kind 0:08:59.920 --> 0:09:00.760 of a CD turn. 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:07.120 Well, actually, that's where the Parker Brothers official version begins. Ironically, Yeah, 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:10.920 things turned CD. The Brothers is like, hey, this is 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:12.040 where our story begins. 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:14.280 Yeah, the inventor of Monopoly, Charles. 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:16.960 Darrow, right, so he was like a radiator salesman during 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:17.560 the depression. 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:22.400 This is the thirties, right, Yeah, I mean it was ironically, again, 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:24.720 during the depression, this game really caught hold. 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:28.720 Well, I supposedly that's what caught the Parker Brothers' attention 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:32.480 was that this guy came to him, came to them 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:36.640 to sell him this game which he had stolen. Yeah. 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:38.760 Apparently he didn't innovate it at all. He kind of 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:41.040 just copied it and packaged it right, and said, hey, 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:41.760 what do you think of this? 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:43.960 And the Parker Brothers said, we don't think too much 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:46.040 of it. Like, how does the game end? We don't 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:49.920 know what's going on here, so it's just you just 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:53.880 go your own way. So Charles Darrow went off and 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:58.400 started selling it at this Wannamaker's department store in Philadelphia. 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:00.160 Yeah, without pattenting it, right. 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:04.239 And the Parker brothers said, you know what, it's the depression. 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:06.880 Can you believe it. We're not going to have any 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:12.160 kind of economic woes like this for another seventy eighty years. 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:16.600 And this guy's selling these things like hotcakes. You know what, sir, 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:21.120 We will buy your idea from you. And Charles Darrow 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:26.280 apparently said, well that's great. Yeah, give me the money 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:27.960 first and then I'll tell you the second part of 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:30.679 the story. Yeah, And they gave him a bag of 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:33.360 money with a dollar sign on it, much like the 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:38.440 ones that rich uncle Pennybags likes, and he said, okay, 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:41.760 we also need to buy the patent off from this 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:43.360 lady named Lizzie Maggie. 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:48.280 Yeah, which they did. The game was still stolen, I say, 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:51.520 even though they eventually did pay her money. But part 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:54.040 of the deal was they said they agreed to buy 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:56.319 her patent and said, you know what, we're gonna We'll 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:58.520 sell a few of your other game ideas too. None 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:00.600 of those ever went anywhere, and he was sort of 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:03.200 lost to history except for people who do a little 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:03.720 bit of digging. 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:07.920 Yeah, and we actually have a guy named Ralph to 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:10.640 thank for doing that digging initially, and we'll talk about 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:11.160 him later. 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:12.600 Oh yeah, that's right. 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:14.400 Yeah, because he's the one who came up with the 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:17.040 unofficial history and like really tracked it down. 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:19.080 Well, there's a lot of teases in this one far. 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:23.840 So the Parker brothers now in the game and it 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:27.840 becomes a huge hit virtually off the bat. In the 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:30.280 thirties is when they bought it and started really printing it. 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:34.000 Yeah, and the game is based on Atlantic City. Those 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:36.360 are the properties, and that's because that was the area 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:40.000 where it became popular. But this excellent New York Times 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:43.320 article you sent what was the name of it, Monopoly 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:43.959 Goes Corporate. 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:46.800 Yeah, it was written by what's what's the lady's name, 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:51.000 Mary Pillan. She is a monopoly expert. 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:53.079 There's a lot of those out there, I've learned. 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:55.559 She well, she wrote a lot of the articles you'll find. 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:57.080 Oh really, yeah, she's good. 0:11:57.240 --> 0:11:59.559 Well, she pointed out that it's interesting that it mirrored 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:02.600 sort of the uh. The cartography of the day in 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:06.120 Atlantic City, like Boardwalk, was clearly like a rich area 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:10.920 the Baltic and Mediterranean. The cheapest properties were in African 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:16.680 American neighborhoods. There was a reading railroad that transferred people 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:20.760 between Philly and Atlantic City. And little known fact for 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:24.599 our friends in the gay community, New York Avenue was 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:27.240 one of the earliest gay scenes in the country. Yeah, 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:33.520 so buy that one up and support support the LBGT community. 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:35.599 That's if you're playing monopoly. Yeah, that's what I would do. 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:38.920 And maybe just you know, don't charge anybody in the Alanta. Yeah, 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:40.520 just be like this is the party place. 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:41.760 That's exactly. 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:44.520 And Marvin Gardens apparently is misspelled. 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:47.280 Yeah, the E instead of an eye or E instead 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:47.520 of an E. 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:50.000 Yeah, on the board it's an I, right, it's supposed 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:50.360 to be an E. 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:51.800 Yeah. 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:55.360 There's a lot of Monopoly facts dropping all around us right. 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:57.240 Now, I know it's raining thimbles. 0:12:57.520 --> 0:12:59.240 Before we go any further, though, you want to do 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:10.800 a message break, Yes, okay, we'll be right pack everyone. 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:18.600 All right, So we were just talking about Atlantic City. 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:21.520 I guess it's we can go ahead and point out 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:24.800 now that there are hundreds of versions of Monopoly out 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:28.760 there now, one for your hometown, probably one for your 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:32.400 favorite sports team. I have. Personally, my version is a 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:35.040 Star Wars Monopoly nice, which is pretty fun. 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:40.079 Nice. Yeah, I guess has Bro's like, you got some money, 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:43.400 sure you can license this, make your own Monopoly game. 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:43.840 Go ahead. 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:46.079 There's a Simpsons Monopoly. I haven't played it though. 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:50.960 And now, in addition to the licensed versions that you 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:54.160 can find like everywhere, yeah, they also have like official 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:56.960 versions too, Like there's a US version. Yeah, there's a 0:13:57.080 --> 0:14:02.000 UK version, there's a there's a new version that's called 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:06.200 Monopoly here and now what does that even mean? Super corporate? Oh? 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:07.320 Is this the corporate one? 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:13.560 Yeah? Okay, it's like everything is multiplied by I think 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:16.240 a thousand, so the dollar amounts are way higher. 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:21.120 Is this one where they replaced the the railroads are 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:24.640 replaced by airports? Yeah, it's this one where they replaced 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:28.920 corporations for all the properties. So yes, like McDonald's and 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:31.840 Sony and yeah, god, who would want to play that? 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:33.120 Some people? Do? 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:33.600 You know? 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:36.120 Yeah? Yeah? 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:37.560 I mean I'm not a purist because I had the 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:39.360 Star Wars version, but I just it's no fun to me. 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:45.000 To play as Paramount Pictures and to buy the McDonald's property. 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:49.360 Yeah, it's just me. So there are a bunch of 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:51.360 different versions, but the one we're going to talk about, 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:55.440 we'll just talk about the normal version with the two 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:56.480 thousand and eight rules. 0:14:56.760 --> 0:15:00.320 Yeah, and there's actually coming soon later this year. There 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:03.760 you can go online at my Monopoly and you can 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:06.240 design your own board, is that right, and do like 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:08.920 your own neighborhood. Wow, And then they will make it 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:10.800 for you. And I think it's like one hundred and 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:11.720 fifty bucks or something. 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:13.560 Wow. Money bags you can get. 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:15.480 Oh, I'm not gonna do it. You can't do the 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:16.080 East Lake. 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:18.400 I was talking to whoever went and got it? 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:22.600 Oh sure, yeah, rich uncle, rich penny bags. 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:25.480 That's what you should have said, rich uncle penny bag. 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:29.400 Penny bags just sounds not that wealthy. Well, actually, I 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:31.000 have a bag of pennies on me right now. 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:36.320 He Forbes has their silly fictional fifteen list of fictional 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:41.840 characters wealth, and he in twenty thirteen was number thirteen. 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:45.640 Jeez is Stars declined, some. 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:46.880 Huh, guess who the first. 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:50.360 The richest fictional character is the Incredible Hulk. 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:53.400 No, he was not rich. Scrooge McDuck. 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:56.920 Oh yeah, well dude, he had that gold. 0:15:56.720 --> 0:16:02.120 Vault apparently sixty five billion. Number two was Smaug, which 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:03.080 I thought was kind of silly. 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:05.040 Smaug from like. 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:07.720 One of the rings. It's a dragon, I think I had, 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:11.880 like it was a bunch of gold. Carlisle Cullen number three, 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:15.240 Tony Stark four, Charles Foster Kane number five. 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:16.480 Who is number three? 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:18.760 Carlile Cullen from Twilight? 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:20.320 Who is that? 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:24.200 He was the dad vampire dad of the Vampire family 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:27.200 and he's been alive forever, so I guess he just 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:31.960 keeps accumulating. Well yeah, Bruce Wayne, Richie Rich, Christian. 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:33.680 Gray, Richie Rich. I forgot about him. 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:34.440 He's number seven. 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:38.920 He had a robot made and a crazy like a 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:41.080 weird scientist friend, didn't. 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:46.080 He Sure like a Richie Rich robot of himself. 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:48.880 I think he had that too, But no, it was made. 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:50.560 Was a robot, wasn't it? 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:52.120 That was the Jetsons. 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:53.960 No, he had a too. 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:58.800 I thought Monty Burns at number ten was pretty good. 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:02.560 Oh yeah, that's going, although I would guess mister Monopoly 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:04.560 would be wealthier than Monty Burns. 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:07.640 But yeah, thirteen and they put it out each year 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:10.400 and it's dumb. Can we just admit that. 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:13.240 I was thrilled by it? Okay, we just spent three 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:13.919 minutes on it. 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:15.000 Yeah, well that's true. 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:17.520 Okay, so Chuckers, Yeah, you want to talk about the 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:21.720 rules of the game again, two thousand and eight rules 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:25.400 if you are a Monopoly purist, and like, I'm sorry, 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:27.120 that's just what we're going with. 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:29.840 Yeah, well, let's talk about the game board itself. Just 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:33.399 so if you haven't played it, I'm surprised because I 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:36.760 think like a billion people have played the game. But 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:39.040 if you haven't, when you get your Monopoly game, you're 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:40.159 going to open it up and you're going to have 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:42.880 a board with all these different properties and a square. 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:49.560 You have two dice twelve they call them tokens. That's 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:51.159 not the right amount either, is it. 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:54.720 No, there's eight. Yeah. I don't understand where they got 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:57.960 twelve from unless they're counting ones that maybe were retired 0:17:58.080 --> 0:17:59.919 or something like that. But when you open the bottom, 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:03.640 there's only eight there. Yeah, there's a can we go over, Sure, 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:08.280 there's a wheelbarrow, a Scottie dog, Yeah, top hat, a 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:12.439 cat which replaced the iron in twenty thirteen. Yeah, there 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:18.119 was a big two do because Parker Bros. Has Bros. Like, 0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:21.480 we haven't made a lot of money off of this 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:23.639 for a couple months, so let's just do something. 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:25.560 Well, they let people vote at least, which is kind 0:18:25.560 --> 0:18:26.200 of cool, right. 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:27.840 But it was also did you see the other ones 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:31.240 that they were voting for, like a robot? Yeah, Richie 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:35.119 Rich's made a guitar, a guitar. They didn't make the 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:38.320 cut though, No, they got voted out and the cat 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:40.600 got voted in. Yeah, the iron got booted. 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:43.520 Yeah, I only got eight percent of the vote. There's 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:47.119 the classic shoe of course, or boot, which is modeled 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:49.920 after a nineteen thirties working shoe, and I think they've 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:50.600 kept it the same. 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:54.480 Yeah, that's one of the original ones. The Scottie Dog 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:56.440 was not one of the originals that came in the fifties. 0:18:56.720 --> 0:18:58.879 Yeah, and I think that was supposed to be the 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:03.120 companion of Millbourn money pinny. 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:03.760 Is that right? 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:10.000 Benny bags, Penny bags should be cash bags, fat stacks, 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:15.200 hatstacks bag. There was a cannon which has since been retired. Yeah, 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:21.000 and the military, well, the cannon and the battleship. Yeah, 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:23.600 they were from a failed game called Conflict and they 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:25.360 were like, well, we got all these pieces. Oh yeah, 0:19:25.440 --> 0:19:26.800 let's just throw them a monopoly for now. 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:27.080 Right. 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:27.919 It's pretty smart. 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:30.120 But they faced the cannon out because it's just too 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:31.000 overtly violent. 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:36.080 It just says with any without any fanfare or vote 0:19:36.560 --> 0:19:39.399 or campaign. So probably, yeah, that'd be my guess. If 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:42.320 it's hush hush, yeah, it's probably because of violence. 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:46.080 There's a conspiracy afoot. There's the race car. Yeah, every 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:48.679 little kid's favorite, which apparently had a number three on 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:49.840 the side for a little while. 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:52.120 Yeah, I didn't know that. Yeah, they Earnhardt. 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:52.879 I guess so. 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:58.520 Uh or purse has been retired. Yeah, the rocking horse 0:19:58.600 --> 0:20:01.640 was retired. Yep, the lantern was retired. 0:20:01.960 --> 0:20:05.720 Oh yeah, I'm doing my best Ben Bull in pressing. 0:20:05.920 --> 0:20:08.400 Did you do did you get wheelbarrow in there yet? 0:20:08.640 --> 0:20:10.680 I think I know, yes I did. It was the 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:12.760 first one I said, could we say top hat? 0:20:13.240 --> 0:20:14.760 Yeah? That was always my favorite. 0:20:14.760 --> 0:20:17.199 Actually I don't remember what my favorite was. 0:20:17.400 --> 0:20:19.000