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Speaker 1: Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Elizabeth does zaren here I am. I know. Hey, do

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Speaker 2: you know what's ridiculous?

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Speaker 3: I do?

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Speaker 2: No, you don't.

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Speaker 3: I do.

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Speaker 2: Prove it?

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Speaker 4: Football.

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Speaker 2: No, it's not. It's not.

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Speaker 3: Like are you How excited are you for the football season?

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Speaker 2: You know how excited I am?

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Speaker 3: You? Like? I came into headquarters the other day and

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Speaker 3: you were sitting there with your little booklet that you

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Speaker 3: got at the checkout stand, the magazine yes, and drawing

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Speaker 3: little hearts around fellow's faces. I want, Yeah, I invite you.

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Speaker 2: I love him. He's going to be one.

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Speaker 3: Is your quarterback? Because you do fantasy football.

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Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying to your fantasy football. So I'm

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Speaker 2: not going to say because people in my fantasy football league.

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Speaker 4: Fun to see, I'll tell you who I had last year.

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Speaker 2: If you honored the years before.

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Speaker 3: Well no, I don't really care about that. Are you

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Speaker 3: interested in Will Levis from the Tennessee Titans familiar?

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 3: Is he your fantasy Fantasy's not?

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Speaker 2: He's good.

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Speaker 3: What do you think he smells like?

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Speaker 2: Probably Rich Mahogany.

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Speaker 4: Well, you know it's interesting going to.

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Speaker 3: He has like a fragrance coming out that one. It's

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Speaker 3: not a man, is just a man with a fragrance.

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Speaker 2: What's the fragrance, Elizabeth?

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Speaker 3: Okay, here's the here's the thing. He's partnering with a company, Helman's.

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Speaker 3: It's going to be a mayonnaise, mayonnaise inspired.

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Speaker 2: Fragrance, Will Mayo.

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Speaker 3: It's it's called will Levis number eight. Okay, and it's

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Speaker 3: a fragrance based on the smell of Hellman's mayonnaise. Why

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Speaker 3: because he's Mayo. Yeah. Well, apparently the thing is like

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Speaker 3: last summer he did this thing where he squeezed Helman's

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Speaker 3: into his coffee. Oh God, And I guess it was

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Speaker 3: like a joke that he didn't actually drink.

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Speaker 2: People Midwest they put butter, so it's not much.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but he was just doing it as like a joke,

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Speaker 3: I guess, like to try and get viral.

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Speaker 4: Okay, and it works.

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Speaker 2: He got the viral.

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Speaker 3: It works because I've never heard of.

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Speaker 2: This man here we're talking about.

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Speaker 3: Well, now he's got a mayonnaise, so he's gonna I

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Speaker 3: don't know if it's how thick. This scent is combines

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Speaker 3: hints of tart lemon, coffee, musk, vanilla, and something the

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Speaker 3: company calls quote mayonnaise accord.

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Speaker 2: God, if you leave this, like if you exprad on

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Speaker 2: yourself and you got in the sun, will it turn

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Speaker 2: like mayonnaise?

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, your whole body turns into like just sickness.

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Speaker 2: Rotten eggs smell.

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Speaker 4: Exactly.

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Speaker 3: He's not allowed to go in the sun now. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: he's a Mayo Mayo boy.

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Speaker 2: Other than he looks like fueling your obsession with these things?

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Speaker 2: Why do these companies do that?

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Speaker 3: I do have to say that, Like when I was

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Speaker 3: reading this one, I was like, is this the last

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Speaker 3: one I ever did?

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Speaker 2: Like, no one's going to buy that.

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Speaker 3: Maybe I feel like this is kind of made me.

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Speaker 2: There's coming up.

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Speaker 3: I'm a little tired of it, Sarah. I see how

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Speaker 3: it feels on your end, like this kind.

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Speaker 2: Of rare has done it. You're like, I hate capitalism

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Speaker 2: and consumerism. Oh my god.

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Speaker 3: And we have so many others like on deck that

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Speaker 3: people so many people sent that there are like a

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Speaker 3: couple others where we've just been inundated, and I'm like,

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Speaker 3: do I really want to talk about this. I'm standing

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Speaker 3: in my truth these days in the television, Yeah, I'm

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Speaker 3: shifting from Summer of Dark Elizabeth to Summer of joyous

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Speaker 3: Elizabeth late summer.

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Speaker 2: How's that going?

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Speaker 3: Doing pretty well?

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Speaker 2: Really?

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Speaker 4: Taking hold listen otcha?

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Speaker 3: You bet well?

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Speaker 2: You got to say, I got some ridiculousness for you.

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Speaker 2: I do, Okay. The seventeen hundreds.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, so ridiculous?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 3: Who saw that coming?

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Speaker 2: There you go, roll credits? So you think that that,

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Speaker 2: you know, the century where America was founded? Right. I

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Speaker 2: don't know about you, but I don't think of a

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Speaker 2: lot of people popping back and forth across the Atlanta

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Speaker 2: like they do now and you know, modern times thanks

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Speaker 2: to airplanes. Right. But it turns out, Elizabeth, if you

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Speaker 2: were willing to beg, borrow and steal, you could really

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Speaker 2: get around in the seventeen hundreds.

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Speaker 3: Really.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's ridiculous Crime A podcast about absurd and outrageous capers,

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Speaker 2: heists and cons Yep, it's always ninety nine percent murder

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Speaker 2: free and ridiculous.

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Speaker 4: Seventeen Elizabeth.

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Speaker 2: I don't think I've ever done a story before the nineteenth.

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Speaker 4: Century, right, Yeah, I don't think you have.

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Speaker 2: You've pretty much cornered the market on so like this week,

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Speaker 2: I was like, Burnette, you gotta find a fun, old

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Speaker 2: timey story you could tell. Elizabeth this is how I

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Speaker 2: talk to myself graded teeth. It's no fun anyway, Sarah.

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Speaker 2: Oh they love me anyway, Saren. Dippity struck, Elizabeth, I

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Speaker 2: found the perfect story for me to dip my toe into.

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Speaker 2: The seventeen hundreds. Nay, yeah, thank you. It's nice. The

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Speaker 2: water's kind of cold and sharp, brisk, one might say,

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Speaker 2: Ready for the story of the King of the Beggars. Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 2: So just right off the top. One thing I noticed

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Speaker 2: when I was researching the story, because I'd like, read

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Speaker 2: this dude's whole book and then read a bunch of

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Speaker 2: other stuff about them just so I could understand, and

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Speaker 2: I found there was all these language that I was

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Speaker 2: like tickled by, basically, like, okay, in a lot of

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Speaker 2: the idioms and sayings we use now, they come from

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Speaker 2: work based metaphors. Right, yeah, you know, so people say, oh,

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Speaker 2: I don't have the bandwidth for that, but that's really

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Speaker 2: it's just a computer thing. That's we work with computers.

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Speaker 2: But in the seventeen hundreds you find all these like

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Speaker 2: livestock and like shipping in navel and whaling metaphors for everything.

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Speaker 3: Cows were the computers of those times.

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Speaker 2: I say this all the time. So like, I'm okay,

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Speaker 2: I'll just give you I found a bunch of sayings

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Speaker 2: I wanted to lay on you, right, So, for instance,

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Speaker 2: like hand me downs and jack in the box were

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Speaker 2: both common sayings in the seventeen hundreds. Okay, hand me downs,

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Speaker 2: I thought that was definitely more recent. Anyway, Somewhere along

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Speaker 2: the line, though, we stopped saying an equally popular phrase

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Speaker 2: of the seventeen hundreds, jacket dandy.

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Speaker 3: Oh like a he's a real jacket and andy.

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Speaker 2: No, it's it's a term for quote, a little guy

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Speaker 2: who's insignificant. Oh yeah, so kind of like a fun insult,

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Speaker 2: like like you know, you got some like guy that

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Speaker 2: you don't like who's like real small minded at your

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Speaker 2: like I don't know your seventeen hundreds coffee shop, and

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Speaker 3: Down at the like this to the old repertoire.

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Speaker 2: So I found a bunch of words I thought you'd enjoy.

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Speaker 2: For instance, barking irons. Barking barking irons. That's an og

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Speaker 2: term for a handgun, because to them, pistols sounded like

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Speaker 2: a barking dog. Yeah that's wild, right, So how about

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Speaker 2: Davis a Daris book title barrel fever, right, yeah, kind

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Speaker 2: of a grim title, because did you know what barrel

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Speaker 2: fever refers to? No, that's the term is for the

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Speaker 2: condition of a man who drinks himself to death, like

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Speaker 2: always got fever. Right, kind of bleak. But anyway, I

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Speaker 2: do I have some fun ones. Okay, what about this

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Speaker 2: one glue pot pot of glue glue pot and he

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Speaker 2: guesses what that means. It refers to a country parson

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Speaker 2: because they would marry couples, they'd sticking together like a

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Speaker 3: Wow, that's a stretch, this stretch, right, But.

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Speaker 2: You know, anyway, how about since we're still somewhat in

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Speaker 2: the summer of dark, Elizabeth was.

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Speaker 3: Over this gluepot walk like you know, we like get

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Speaker 4: Always together, like make them kiss.

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Speaker 3: I try another one.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, you're still in the summer kind of

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Speaker 2: of dark, Elizabeth. Yeah, I've got another seventeen hundred style

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Speaker 4: A hog grubber.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's quote a close fisted, narrow minded, sneaking fellow.

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Speaker 2: Ye how this one a hot merchant? Oh yeah, right?

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Speaker 2: Is that? Is it exactly? Slang for like a pimp

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Speaker 2: or maybe a barkeep or a brewmaster. Nope, it's a

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Speaker 3: Like an Australian breakdown exactly.

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Speaker 2: Okay, last one, Elizabeth, What do you think you would

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Speaker 2: think I would mean if I came up to you

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Speaker 2: and I said, your red rag will never lie still? Hey,

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Speaker 2: it means you're always running your mouth because your tongue

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Speaker 2: red rag red rage. Also your hand that was called

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Speaker 2: a flipper because you know the dolphins and the whales.

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Speaker 2: If you want to say, hey, give us a shake

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Speaker 2: of the hand. In seventeen hundreds American you'd say, tips

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Speaker 2: your flipper or tip us your flipper. Okay, right, wild stuff?

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Speaker 2: Colonial New ingle on Elizabeth, New York and Pennsylvania slang.

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Speaker 3: Hand is faster to say than slipper.

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Speaker 2: It's not efficacy and efficiency. It's about the fun of it.

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Speaker 2: You know. It's like British rhyming slang. You got to

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Speaker 2: do a little work to make sense of it, but

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Speaker 2: there's the fun anyway. Yes, New England, New York Pennsylvania slang.

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Speaker 2: Why are we talking about this because our hero today

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Speaker 2: was fluent in the slang of his day. He was

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Speaker 2: a man of the streets Elizabeth. But yet he could

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Speaker 2: also speak Latin and Greek because he was an educated

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Speaker 2: son of a wealthy Englishman. Our hero of the day

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Speaker 2: is called Bamfield more Carew aka the King of the Beggars.

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Speaker 4: Bamfield Bamfi b A M P F y.

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Speaker 2: L d Eield. I'm guessing it's Welsh.

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Speaker 3: You know that, Like somewhere in the country they're doing

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Speaker 3: a gender reveal for a Bamfield right now. A Bamfield

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Speaker 3: Lee Jen, Bamfield bamp Now this dude.

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Speaker 4: Bamfield Jason.

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Speaker 3: I don't know whichever one you want to put.

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Speaker 2: Bamfield mckayley, Yeah, yeah. He writes a book about his

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Speaker 2: life of misadventure. And his book, the one I had

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Speaker 2: to read, is called The Life and Adventures of bamb

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Speaker 2: Field more Carew, published in seventeen forty five. Wow, it

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Speaker 2: was a slog But anyway, my dude, Bamfield Carew because

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Speaker 2: he was born in England, as I said, in July

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Speaker 2: sixteen ninety or possibly sixteen ninety three, definitely sometime between

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Speaker 2: those two days. Because I found a bunch of websites.

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Speaker 2: Like I was saying earlier, that were people trying to

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Speaker 2: kind of like fact checked his book because this guy

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Speaker 2: wrote his own book. Right, We were like, I bet

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Speaker 2: some of this is not true, some of this is exaggeration,

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Speaker 2: some of this is just whole out lies. But you so,

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Speaker 2: he like they had to like track down when was he,

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Speaker 2: uh you know, baptized and when did the church records?

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Speaker 2: And they figured all this stuff out. So he says

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Speaker 2: he was born in sixteen ninety but he was baptized

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Speaker 2: in sixteen ninety one. It's a whole thing. There's other

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Speaker 2: Oh never said any better than by Jane. As for

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Speaker 2: But he still couldn't cottonto being told what to do.

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Speaker 2: Book later on me yars later decades later.

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Speaker 3: Still, you make a solemn keep it.

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Speaker 2: So we met my man Bamfield Moore Carew and last

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Speaker 3: You said that he got a new name. Do we

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Ok, so at least respect there, right right, So

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Speaker 3: Oh like, what's your bucket that we had on that, remember, princess?

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Speaker 2: So that's his popular big A lot of ships were sinking.

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Speaker 3: All right, I need to stop and translate this outfit.

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Speaker 2: Just barefoot on the ground, but got like a leather

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and then of course, yeah, the wool cap not

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Speaker 2: How does he use this gambit? Well, he walks into

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Speaker 2: Now knowing how important sailors and seamen are to their

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Speaker 2: At least he's on the coast. So after he works

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Speaker 2: That's an important part. Sole survivor. Yeah, of course, Bamfield

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Speaker 2: looks up and finds he's in the town of Kingsbury

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00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:02,600
Speaker 2: in Devonshire. Right, He decides his time for a new

435
00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:05,440
Speaker 2: bit because think he's wandered too far inland anyway, He

436
00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:08,680
Speaker 2: becomes a farmer from Kent, a poor man who lost

437
00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:11,120
Speaker 2: his cattle in a flood. Yeah, he has a whole

438
00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:14,880
Speaker 2: new backstory to match, vexing him totally. He's like, quote,

439
00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:18,320
Speaker 2: his habit was now neat but rustic, his hair and

440
00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:21,960
Speaker 2: behavior simple and inoffensive, his speech in the Kentish dialect,

441
00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:27,240
Speaker 2: his countenance dejected, his tail pitiful, wondrous, pitiful, a wife

442
00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:31,719
Speaker 2: and seven helpless infants being partakers of his misfortunes. So

443
00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:34,639
Speaker 2: the wife and the seven kids really helped sell this one.

444
00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,280
Speaker 2: The gullible and the kind hearted hear his tale of woe,

445
00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:39,080
Speaker 2: and they open up their change for as fast as

446
00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:41,280
Speaker 2: they can, and they offer this unfortunate man some coin.

447
00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:44,720
Speaker 2: Right Kentish farmer bit works so well. Bamfield's like, hm,

448
00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:47,679
Speaker 2: I can sock away some serious money if he had socks.

449
00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:50,800
Speaker 2: But you can't keep playing the same too, So eventually

450
00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:52,879
Speaker 2: he has to create a whole new identity. Before people

451
00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:55,879
Speaker 2: were like the same flood buddy. So he notices that

452
00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:58,520
Speaker 2: the Kentish farmer and the wife and seven hungry kids

453
00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:00,320
Speaker 2: a guy who lost his cattle in a flood, earned

454
00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:03,480
Speaker 2: him some extra sympathy, but the shipwrecked sailor also earned

455
00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:06,359
Speaker 2: him trust. He's like, what if the calamity that left

456
00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:09,360
Speaker 2: him helpless? What if the ill fate that brought him

457
00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:12,560
Speaker 2: low and struck him was not flooding, but rather a

458
00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:17,320
Speaker 2: storm that never relented, a storm that rages inside of him.

459
00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:19,560
Speaker 2: So this is when he decides to become a new character.

460
00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:22,680
Speaker 2: He calls himself poor mad Tom, the foul fiend.

461
00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:25,280
Speaker 3: I feel like that would get you less.

462
00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:28,120
Speaker 2: Oh, Elizabeth, you gotta think this. Seventeen hundreds the people

463
00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:31,000
Speaker 2: your bedevil dig You're unfortunate. You got a whole different

464
00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:31,800
Speaker 2: morality here.

465
00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:34,480
Speaker 3: I don't know are they are they casting him out?

466
00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:38,240
Speaker 3: I just I would have gone. He casts himself farm

467
00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:39,240
Speaker 3: was shipwrecked.

468
00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:42,960
Speaker 2: And but see, you're you're thinking too modern. People are

469
00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:45,200
Speaker 2: like they're gonna like everyone else has hard times like

470
00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:47,879
Speaker 2: this is that people are losing children to famine. You

471
00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:50,399
Speaker 2: lose all your your fields to bugs, you know.

472
00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:55,920
Speaker 3: Storm on a barge and then a storm came.

473
00:22:56,800 --> 00:23:01,600
Speaker 2: They they attack my family.

474
00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:02,400
Speaker 3: Yeah exactly.

475
00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:04,199
Speaker 2: But at this point he creates his new look. He

476
00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:07,240
Speaker 2: ditches clothing altogether. He strips down. He becomes a half

477
00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:09,960
Speaker 2: naked crazy man who lives off the land in the

478
00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:14,959
Speaker 2: woods outside the villages. Right, so now he's shoeless, pantsless, shirtless,

479
00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:17,800
Speaker 2: draped in only a dirty old blanket, he lets his

480
00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:20,760
Speaker 2: beard grow out, his hair goes off feral, and he

481
00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:24,640
Speaker 2: becomes poor mad Tom, the foul fiend. Right. So, as

482
00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:26,960
Speaker 2: poor mad Tom, he comes to the conclusion that quote

483
00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:30,960
Speaker 2: the grand and noble maxim of life was and basically

484
00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:33,119
Speaker 2: a very simple truth. And I quote that we are

485
00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:36,520
Speaker 2: not born for ourselves only, but indebted to all mankind

486
00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:39,160
Speaker 2: to be of as great use in service to them

487
00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:43,080
Speaker 2: as our capacities and abilities will enable us to be. So.

488
00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:45,760
Speaker 2: In other words, we may be born alone and dial alone,

489
00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:48,000
Speaker 2: but we live for and through each other.

490
00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:48,360
Speaker 3: Yeah.

491
00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:50,359
Speaker 2: Right, So he gets really into this. Now he wonders

492
00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:52,719
Speaker 2: how can I be of service to others? And in

493
00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:55,400
Speaker 2: other words, what can he bring to this great pot

494
00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:58,480
Speaker 2: luck called life? So Bamfield Crew decides what he can

495
00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:00,679
Speaker 2: offer his fellow man and woman was the chance to

496
00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:04,679
Speaker 2: relieve their guilt by providing him charity. He will bring

497
00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:08,200
Speaker 2: hunger to the pot luck. So, in other words, since

498
00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:11,000
Speaker 2: good Christian people are expected to provide charity, Bamfield to

499
00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,240
Speaker 2: make sure he was there to help them out, help

500
00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:16,119
Speaker 2: them save their souls with acts of charity, a true

501
00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:19,560
Speaker 2: bench right and as a bumb Elizabeth my man, Bamfield

502
00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:22,840
Speaker 2: conducted a street level study of humanity. But really it

503
00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:24,919
Speaker 2: was a view of humanity as seen from below. So

504
00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:27,639
Speaker 2: Bamfield he finds that people showed their true selves to

505
00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:29,879
Speaker 2: someone they believed to be a bum, because who was

506
00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:32,800
Speaker 2: he to judge them? So, as Bamfield put it quote,

507
00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:36,359
Speaker 2: they acted before him without reserve or disguise. Now, this

508
00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:39,000
Speaker 2: view of humanity that he gets, it really begins to

509
00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:41,639
Speaker 2: grade on him. So he doesn't like the side of

510
00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:44,160
Speaker 2: society he sees as a bum. So hoors he put

511
00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:47,879
Speaker 2: in his book he saw in little and plain houses, hospitality,

512
00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:52,480
Speaker 2: charity and compassion, the children of frugality, and found under

513
00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:59,200
Speaker 2: guilded in spacious roofs, littleness, uncharitableness, and in humanity. Now

514
00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:01,280
Speaker 2: I saw the same when I was a delivery driver

515
00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:04,480
Speaker 2: for Chinese food. Big houses usually meant small tip. A

516
00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:06,800
Speaker 2: family living together in an apartment would be the biggest

517
00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:09,480
Speaker 2: tippers i'd see that night. Really no big surprise if

518
00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:11,240
Speaker 2: you thinking about it, because they know what it means

519
00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:13,439
Speaker 2: to work and for what you call your own so

520
00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:14,800
Speaker 2: they're gonna be generous.

521
00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:15,600
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah.

522
00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:18,280
Speaker 2: Now, one day, while Bamfield is walking through the world

523
00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:21,040
Speaker 2: on the Bum, he runs in an old school friend.

524
00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:23,199
Speaker 2: The two young men decided, oh, we can make a

525
00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:24,639
Speaker 2: go of it together, and he's like, I need to.

526
00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:26,400
Speaker 2: I'm tired of this whole acting as a bum thing.

527
00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:28,360
Speaker 2: So they decide to go risk it all and try

528
00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:30,479
Speaker 2: their luck in the new world. They plan to go

529
00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:33,359
Speaker 2: run off to the colonies, all sorts of opportunities for

530
00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:36,120
Speaker 2: two free booting young men. At the time, it's early

531
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:38,840
Speaker 2: seventeen hundreds. There is no America, right, that's still some

532
00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,800
Speaker 2: sixty years in the future. At the time, the continent

533
00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:44,120
Speaker 2: is basically a mix of indigenous people who are still

534
00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:47,159
Speaker 2: living on their lands. There's the Spanish claims, there's the

535
00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:50,400
Speaker 2: English colonies, the French trading posts, the Quaker states, and

536
00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:52,919
Speaker 2: some Dutch farmers and fishermen in the New York colony.

537
00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:54,720
Speaker 2: So as well as there are of course the many

538
00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:57,760
Speaker 2: enslaved people who are a newly arrived population and at

539
00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:00,439
Speaker 2: this point fast growing. So Bamfold is by decided to

540
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:04,720
Speaker 2: travel to Newfoundland and what's not yet Canada. Yeah, despite

541
00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:08,240
Speaker 2: the pirates who sail the Spanish main the storms that

542
00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:11,240
Speaker 2: be devil the Atlantic, and they have no prognostications for us.

543
00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:13,919
Speaker 2: You just going out there blind, Yeah, Bamfield makes it

544
00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:16,560
Speaker 2: safely to the colonies. And I love how he records

545
00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:20,000
Speaker 2: the Atlantic crossing in his book and I quote, nothing

546
00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:23,600
Speaker 2: remarkable happened in their passage, which relates to our hero.

547
00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:26,440
Speaker 2: We shall therefore pass it by and land him safe

548
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:33,840
Speaker 2: in Newfoundland. Exactly with some CCC. Both birdsburg birds boom

549
00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:36,120
Speaker 2: back on land. So Elizabeth, we will do the same.

550
00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:38,320
Speaker 2: We will land him safe in Newfoundland. So what does

551
00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:40,439
Speaker 2: he do now that he's in the colonies, Well, he

552
00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:42,560
Speaker 2: hangs out with the fishermen in Newfoundland. That's the big

553
00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:46,240
Speaker 2: business there. So he studies them, their language, their behavior,

554
00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:49,080
Speaker 2: their general way. And then when the seasons change and

555
00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:52,160
Speaker 2: the winds reversed and it's favorable to go back to Europe.

556
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:55,280
Speaker 2: And after he's absorbed enough to create a new identity,

557
00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:58,360
Speaker 2: Bamfield sales back to England and he sails back home

558
00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:00,800
Speaker 2: with an enormous scary dog. Did he picked up in

559
00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:01,439
Speaker 2: the New World?

560
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:02,440
Speaker 3: Yeah?

561
00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:05,959
Speaker 2: Possibly right, And somehow, using his like gypsy secrets, he's

562
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:07,840
Speaker 2: able to render this beast of a dog into a

563
00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:10,600
Speaker 2: gentle creature, at least towards him. Everyone else is still

564
00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:12,760
Speaker 2: terrified of the dog. So when he returns home to

565
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:14,879
Speaker 2: this port, of Dartmouth in England, where it's where he

566
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:17,359
Speaker 2: first sailed from. He meets back up with some local

567
00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:20,320
Speaker 2: gypsies and they celebrate his travels and he earns their

568
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 2: love and respect when he tells him like why he

569
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,520
Speaker 2: had to run away because he's oh, they were coming

570
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:26,879
Speaker 2: for me. I was on the make right, So they're like, oh,

571
00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:29,080
Speaker 2: you ran all the way to the colonies. Ah man,

572
00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:31,480
Speaker 2: They love it right, Yeah, So he has this grand

573
00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:34,280
Speaker 2: old party. They welcome him home with a big gypsy celebration.

574
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:36,520
Speaker 2: Now that he's back home in England, he's got this

575
00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:38,600
Speaker 2: whole new identity. He's like, oh, you guys are gonna

576
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:41,200
Speaker 2: love this. Watch what I come up with. He decides

577
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:43,280
Speaker 2: to use an old gambit, but with a new spin.

578
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:49,159
Speaker 2: He becomes a shipwrecked Newfoundland fisherman. As such, he travels

579
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:51,760
Speaker 2: along the coast and he asks kind hearted strangers for

580
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,159
Speaker 2: some charity, right, And his move is he checks the

581
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:56,520
Speaker 2: papers for a report of a lost ship, and if

582
00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 2: he finds one, Bamfield rolls into town and says, I

583
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:01,760
Speaker 2: was on that ship. It was a dark and stormy

584
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 2: night when the ship first foundered in those storm tossed

585
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:07,560
Speaker 2: seas or whatever. His sad tale of woe is right

586
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:10,160
Speaker 2: now if anyone questions him, now he has a whole

587
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:13,480
Speaker 2: storehouse of facts to call upon and turn any doubter

588
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:16,560
Speaker 2: into a true believer. So get this. The skeptical ones,

589
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:19,080
Speaker 2: once he flips them, and once they start to believe him,

590
00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:21,840
Speaker 2: they become the most generous with their charity to overcome

591
00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:24,520
Speaker 2: their previous debts. They go and they help this poor

592
00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:26,000
Speaker 2: unfortunate shipwrecked seamen.

593
00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:29,080
Speaker 3: Now he didn't go there intending to just like fact

594
00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:30,440
Speaker 3: find and then come back.

595
00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:32,720
Speaker 2: Well, no, he went there yead to kick about, and

596
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:34,480
Speaker 2: then when he found that, he's like, oh, this will

597
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:35,120
Speaker 2: be a great Yeah.

598
00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:38,520
Speaker 3: But he just wasn't obviously like into staying.

599
00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:40,600
Speaker 2: No, he's always on the bump. He's not really looking

600
00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:42,720
Speaker 2: to build anything, make anything, or do anything.

601
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:43,080
Speaker 4: Yeah.

602
00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:44,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it makes it real easy.

603
00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:47,720
Speaker 3: He must have gotten like free passage to go over.

604
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:51,920
Speaker 2: He scams his way onto boats. He lies, he tricks.

605
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:54,160
Speaker 2: Sometimes he will work but then get sick on the boat.

606
00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:56,800
Speaker 2: You know, anything he can to get across. And he

607
00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:59,160
Speaker 2: also travels like I cannot cover all this stuff. He

608
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:01,640
Speaker 2: travels around. You're he goes up to the Nordic countries

609
00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 2: to Denmark, he goes to Scotland and Ireland. He's constantly

610
00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:07,480
Speaker 2: doing this. I'm just gonna kind of stick to He's

611
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:08,880
Speaker 2: a drifter. He's a total drifter.

612
00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:09,280
Speaker 3: Right.

613
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:13,880
Speaker 2: So around this time Bamfield carew is he's caught looking

614
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 2: the wrong direction, right, and the result is he falls

615
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:19,160
Speaker 2: in love yep, which, as you know, is an occupational

616
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:20,240
Speaker 2: hazard for a con man.

617
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 3: Ah.

618
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:23,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, So he's in Newcastle when Love finds them in

619
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:25,760
Speaker 2: their courtship. It does not last long, Elizabeth, because he

620
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:27,480
Speaker 2: meets her, he falls in love, and then they run

621
00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:30,760
Speaker 2: off on a lope. Okay, charming guy. So she though,

622
00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:33,320
Speaker 2: was the daughter of a surgeon, which means she was respectable,

623
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:36,280
Speaker 2: came from privilege like he formerly did. That also means

624
00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:38,760
Speaker 2: he worried that she might reject him for now being

625
00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:41,840
Speaker 2: a full fledged roma. Right. So, as he put it, quote,

626
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:45,240
Speaker 2: our hero tried all love's soft persuasions with his fair

627
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:48,360
Speaker 2: one in an honorable way, and as his person was

628
00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:51,920
Speaker 2: very engaging and his appearance genteel, he did not find

629
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:55,160
Speaker 2: her greatly averse to the proposals, as he was aware

630
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:58,080
Speaker 2: that his being of the community of the Gypsies might

631
00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:02,480
Speaker 2: prejudice her against him. With examination. So Bamfield he is

632
00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:04,760
Speaker 2: in luck though, because while the young pair were first

633
00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 2: to a courting, they take a walk and they happen

634
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:10,160
Speaker 2: to pass the ships like there's a line of ships, right,

635
00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:12,960
Speaker 2: and this ship's captain recognizes them because this guy's been everywhere,

636
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:15,720
Speaker 2: he's been all those both this man calls out to Bamfield,

637
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:19,320
Speaker 2: and the con man writes the ship's captain quote acknowledged

638
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:22,760
Speaker 2: him for his mate. These assertions satisfied the young lady

639
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:25,840
Speaker 2: very well, and she at length consented to exchange the

640
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:28,960
Speaker 2: tender care and love of a parent for that of

641
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:31,640
Speaker 2: a husband. Right, So, if you can believe it, he

642
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:34,240
Speaker 2: truly wins over her heart, or rather he cons over

643
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:37,040
Speaker 2: her heart. But once they're married, they end up staying

644
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:39,760
Speaker 2: together for the next thirty years, so it was true

645
00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:43,320
Speaker 2: or at least some kind of long term. So at

646
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:45,640
Speaker 2: this point Bamfield decides to bring his new wife to

647
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:47,720
Speaker 2: meet his adopted family, which means he has to come

648
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 2: clean and tell her that he's a gypsy. Right, whereas

649
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:53,320
Speaker 2: he put it quote, our hero being no longer able

650
00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:56,000
Speaker 2: to conceal his being a member of the community of

651
00:30:56,040 --> 00:31:00,160
Speaker 2: gypsies after some previous introduction declared it to the young lady,

652
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:02,760
Speaker 2: who was not a little surprised and troubled at it.

653
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:06,520
Speaker 2: So she learns, Yeah, while she's left behind everything she

654
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:09,200
Speaker 2: knows to become this wife of a gypsy wanderer who

655
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:12,640
Speaker 2: begs and steals for a living. Naturally, she could be pissed,

656
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 2: but uh Branfield, he has a friend try to calm

657
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:18,120
Speaker 2: his new wife down before anger takes hold. The friend

658
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 2: he acts as this love counselor, and he suggests her

659
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 2: that her new husband comes from a good, upstanding family,

660
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:26,080
Speaker 2: much like herself, but there was no love in his home,

661
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:29,640
Speaker 2: whereas the gypsy family that adopted him was filled with love,

662
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:31,880
Speaker 2: and that love is what mattered most to him. So

663
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:33,880
Speaker 2: the wife is overcome by this. She's like, oh my god,

664
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 2: that's so charming. She goes with it all right, Elizabeth,

665
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:38,120
Speaker 2: She's like, Okay, I guess for gypsies now, well.

666
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:40,680
Speaker 3: I mean is that that might be somewhat true if

667
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 3: he thought he didn't have a familial connection. But the

668
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:45,719
Speaker 3: roma and Roma brought him right in.

669
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 2: They bring him to life in a lot of ways.

670
00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:49,880
Speaker 2: They dust off the cold of his childhood and warm

671
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:52,800
Speaker 2: him up and get his blood gone. So he put

672
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 2: it in his book, and I quote as these suggestions

673
00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 2: entirely satisfied her. The lovers in a few days set

674
00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:01,960
Speaker 2: out for Bath, where they fully solemnize their nuptials with

675
00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 2: great gaiety. So boom, there you go. Now they spend

676
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 2: some time honeymooning the travel around England. The newlyweds enjoy

677
00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:10,720
Speaker 2: a tour through the areas of Somerset and Dorset and

678
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:13,320
Speaker 2: then on to Hampshire or maybe saying he's wrong, I

679
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:14,800
Speaker 2: don't know where they go when they pay a visit

680
00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:17,480
Speaker 2: to Bamfield's uncle, who was living in Dorchester at the time,

681
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 2: now knowing that his nephew is run off and joined

682
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:22,479
Speaker 2: the Gypsies. This is like well known in the family

683
00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:25,080
Speaker 2: and has now returned home with a newlywed, a daughter

684
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:26,960
Speaker 2: of a surgeon. The uncle's like oh. He tries to

685
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:30,200
Speaker 2: persuade Bamfield to leave behind his wandering way, settle down,

686
00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 2: enjoy the gentleman's life. He puts it to him, he'll

687
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:35,160
Speaker 2: help out right now. I gotta say, at this point

688
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:37,960
Speaker 2: this story feels a lot like the Keanu Reeves storyline

689
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:41,040
Speaker 2: from the Gus Van santfilm My Own Private Idaho, which

690
00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:43,440
Speaker 2: is why, as you know is flagrantly based on the

691
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:45,880
Speaker 2: Shakespeare's Prince hal from the Falstaff saga.

692
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:46,080
Speaker 3: Right.

693
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, so here's his rich kid who runs off to

694
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:49,720
Speaker 2: find love in life and he hangs out with the

695
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 2: fallen and forgotten men, some gypsies, and he lives life

696
00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:54,760
Speaker 2: more fully. But then he returns to his previous life

697
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:56,720
Speaker 2: and he becomes this man of privilege and wealth.

698
00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:57,040
Speaker 3: Yeah.

699
00:32:57,080 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 2: Except this is where the parallels in because Bamfield's like, nope,

700
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:01,480
Speaker 2: stay with the gypsies, and he gets his wife to

701
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:02,960
Speaker 2: go with him. They're like, the hell with you, uncle?

702
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:05,920
Speaker 3: So does she get incorporated into the Roman community?

703
00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:10,320
Speaker 2: She's his wife. So, as he records it, though his

704
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 2: uncle made him very lucrative offers for the present and future,

705
00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:18,680
Speaker 2: promises of making him air of all his possessions, Bamfield

706
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:22,080
Speaker 2: was uncorruptible. He's like nope, I'm out. Wow, he rejected

707
00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 2: them all. Yeah. So, because he has a new plan, Elizabeth,

708
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:28,560
Speaker 2: he plans to become a fake Quaker preacher. He's like yeah,

709
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:30,600
Speaker 2: he's like, those guys are ripe with the charity.

710
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:34,000
Speaker 3: So as he writes, he wants to work for a living.

711
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:35,600
Speaker 3: He doesn't want an handed to him.

712
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 2: Exactly, you know this guy, He's like, look, I'm gonna

713
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 2: bum hard. So, as he writes of his new identity

714
00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:44,000
Speaker 2: as an unfortunate man of God quote, he therefore equipped

715
00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:46,800
Speaker 2: himself in a loose black gown, puts on a band,

716
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:50,360
Speaker 2: a large white peruke, and a broad brimmed hat. His

717
00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:54,120
Speaker 2: whole department was agreeable to his dress. His pace was

718
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:58,320
Speaker 2: solemn and slow, his countenance thoughtful and grave, his eyes

719
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:02,120
Speaker 2: turned on the ground, but now and then raised and

720
00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:06,400
Speaker 2: seeming ejaculations to Heaven. In every look and action he

721
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:10,880
Speaker 2: betrayed his want, but at the same time seem overwhelmed

722
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:14,920
Speaker 2: with the shame which modest merit feels when it is

723
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:18,640
Speaker 2: obliged to solicit the cold hand of charity. This behavior

724
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:22,799
Speaker 2: excited the curiosity of many gentlemen clergy to inquire into

725
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:26,279
Speaker 2: the circumstances of his misfortunes. So he looks like this

726
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:28,719
Speaker 2: broken down priest, and all these other priests and gentlemen like, oh,

727
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:31,480
Speaker 2: what's wrong with you? So what happened? So he makes this,

728
00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:34,680
Speaker 2: as he said, compelling fake preacher, and the charity comes

729
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:38,040
Speaker 2: flowing in like water, like manna from Heaven to Elizabeth.

730
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 2: Plus he's able to draw on his education. So anytime

731
00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:44,319
Speaker 2: someone like grows suspicious or doubtful, he tries to test him.

732
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:46,040
Speaker 2: He whips out that Latin a Greek god.

733
00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:51,879
Speaker 3: Oh dang, the speak.

734
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:55,319
Speaker 2: Cave tour over here, So that impresses the layman, right,

735
00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:58,040
Speaker 2: and hanging out milking this charity. Banfield hears about a

736
00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:02,120
Speaker 2: boat that's shipping off to Boston. Sorry I substituted the

737
00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 2: lyrics from the Drop Departed, right, Yeah, No, it turns

738
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:08,640
Speaker 2: out Bamfield to hear's about a boat that's shipping off

739
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 2: to Philadelphia.

740
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:12,240
Speaker 3: So I thought maybe he's going to get a rose tattoo.

741
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:16,720
Speaker 2: Yeah no, unfortunately, no, no, not even like a single

742
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 2: scor Sacy bit into this. But he's heard good things though,

743
00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:22,719
Speaker 2: because these people they know about the Quakers, and they're like, oh,

744
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:24,480
Speaker 2: there's a bunch of Quakers there and they got their

745
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 2: own state now. And he's like, what, In other words,

746
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:30,040
Speaker 2: there's a land of easy marks for a man like Bamfield.

747
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:32,880
Speaker 2: He's like, so that ship for the colonies, when does

748
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:57,759
Speaker 2: it leave? Next stop? The America is Elizabeth? All right,

749
00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:00,760
Speaker 2: Elizabeth sarn Now, I told you head to the Americas.

750
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:03,200
Speaker 2: But before we can travel to the America's Bamfield needs

751
00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 2: to raise some money, right, because he can't just be

752
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:07,400
Speaker 2: eating like Hardtack the whole time. So he comes up

753
00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:09,280
Speaker 2: with a new bit, professional fire chaser.

754
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:10,640
Speaker 3: Now, is he going to bring the missus?

755
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:12,719
Speaker 2: No, he's leaving her behind. He has to travel on

756
00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:14,960
Speaker 2: his own because it's hard to bum with a lady

757
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,440
Speaker 2: and also to protect her on the boat the whole thing.

758
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:19,800
Speaker 2: It's safer to leave her with friends and family, right,

759
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:22,320
Speaker 2: So he comes up with his new bit, professional fire chaser.

760
00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:23,279
Speaker 3: Fire chase.

761
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:26,040
Speaker 2: What is a professional fire chaser? Is there in great questions? Elizabe?

762
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:27,400
Speaker 3: That's a good question, Elizabeth.

763
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:30,440
Speaker 2: So he waits for any news of a terrible fire, right,

764
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:32,520
Speaker 2: and then he rushes out to the town where it occurred.

765
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:35,160
Speaker 2: He asks around, though, like on the edge of town,

766
00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:37,160
Speaker 2: to get the lay of the land, learn some names

767
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:39,360
Speaker 2: to drop. Then he goes into the town of the

768
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:41,040
Speaker 2: burned out area, and he pretends to be one of

769
00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:44,239
Speaker 2: the unfortunate victims. Now, to be more convincing, he'd often

770
00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:46,400
Speaker 2: burn his own clothing. He'd show up wearing like a

771
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:49,760
Speaker 2: freshly singed hat. Sometimes the hat would even still be smoking.

772
00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:51,480
Speaker 2: He would just like pat it down so it would

773
00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:52,320
Speaker 2: still be smoking.

774
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:54,600
Speaker 3: Wait, and so he would like take the identity of

775
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:56,040
Speaker 3: someone who actually perished.

776
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:57,879
Speaker 2: No, no, not parish, but like was in the fire.

777
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:00,720
Speaker 2: And he's like, oh, yes, I was in that firely escape.

778
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:02,439
Speaker 2: I just need a little bit of coin to get

779
00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:09,399
Speaker 2: down to total walks up with a smoking hat.

780
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:10,080
Speaker 4: Well there.

781
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 3: You know, it's any time you have any of those

782
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:17,200
Speaker 3: kind of disasters, scam scammers do come trying to you know,

783
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:20,279
Speaker 3: with their hands out. Everyone wants to give, you know,

784
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:23,240
Speaker 3: you want to like help those who've suffered.

785
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:24,920
Speaker 2: And those who have hands ready to take from those

786
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:28,680
Speaker 2: who are suffering, they're ready. Yeah, totally. So he's exactly

787
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:31,880
Speaker 2: that right. So you know, as I said, basically he

788
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:34,160
Speaker 2: likes to let charity find him or he finds charity,

789
00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:37,000
Speaker 2: either one work for him. So he's often like he's

790
00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:39,400
Speaker 2: making a killing with the fire bit people. At this point,

791
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:41,560
Speaker 2: you have to understand people of the day were terribly

792
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:44,960
Speaker 2: afraid of fire because lightning strikes were still super common

793
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:47,399
Speaker 2: back then, and houses were always burning down every time

794
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:50,320
Speaker 2: there was a storm because lightning would strike until Benjamin

795
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 2: Franklin invented the lightning rod. But that's decades away at

796
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:55,799
Speaker 2: this point. Or you know, a couple decades.

797
00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:57,839
Speaker 3: And we're before fire departments.

798
00:37:57,840 --> 00:37:59,319
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, totally. All this, like all the.

799
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 3: Things, community effort to try and.

800
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:03,840
Speaker 2: Throw water on it, hopefully, go down to the river buckets,

801
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 2: create a bucket line.

802
00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:09,640
Speaker 3: It was pre asbestos. That's only pre asbestos.

803
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:13,600
Speaker 2: And also everything's thatched, and I mean it's just like

804
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:16,800
Speaker 2: they're living in a fire that's yet to burn. Yeah, exactly.

805
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:20,120
Speaker 2: So at this point, fires though, are hard to predict, right,

806
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:23,040
Speaker 2: and there is a difficult calamity to profit from. Because

807
00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:25,879
Speaker 2: so Bamfield returned to his preferred gambit, playing the loan

808
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:28,879
Speaker 2: survivor of a ship. So around this time he gets

809
00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:31,879
Speaker 2: super lucky because he sees a ship actually wreck off

810
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:35,080
Speaker 2: the coast. What does he do, Elizabeth. He strips down,

811
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:37,880
Speaker 2: jumps into the storm tossed season, swims out, and he

812
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:40,640
Speaker 2: gets nice and tired and wet and thrashed about. Then

813
00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:42,600
Speaker 2: he swims up the coast a little piece. Then he

814
00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:44,680
Speaker 2: swims back on to the shore and he says, I'm

815
00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:47,880
Speaker 2: the only lucky survivor from the boat. He's taken in

816
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 2: by the townspeople, given all sorts of charity from all

817
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:53,319
Speaker 2: the kind hearts, all of his lives eventually catch up

818
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 2: to him.

819
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:56,120
Speaker 3: So he's, as it always does, he's caught.

820
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,759
Speaker 2: By local authorities, arrested naturally, this is a shock to

821
00:38:58,800 --> 00:38:59,280
Speaker 2: his system.

822
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:02,279
Speaker 3: I was like, dude, I swear to God, I gave

823
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:05,879
Speaker 3: that guy, Yes, someone eat five coins last month because

824
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:06,919
Speaker 3: his house burned down.

825
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:08,880
Speaker 2: This guy's the most unfortunately.

826
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:11,240
Speaker 3: Also, but he looks exactly like this preacher.

827
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:16,479
Speaker 2: That he came to town. Yeah, early dejected preacher, remember him. Yeah.

828
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:18,440
Speaker 2: So as his lives all catch up to him, he

829
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:22,200
Speaker 2: writes in his book quote, thus suddenly and unexpectedly fell

830
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:25,640
Speaker 2: the mighty Caesar, the master of the world. So he

831
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:28,120
Speaker 2: takes it well. So when he comes before the judge

832
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:30,279
Speaker 2: with the justice rather, he takes one look at his

833
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:32,279
Speaker 2: case and he asks Bamfield where all he's been. The

834
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:34,399
Speaker 2: guy's like, clearly he's traveled, right, So he's like, oh,

835
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:37,120
Speaker 2: tells him all about his many wanderings, only some of

836
00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:40,200
Speaker 2: which we've covered. He tells the judge he's crossed many oceans,

837
00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:48,040
Speaker 2: having traveled to Denmark, Sweden, Muscovie, Trance, Spain, Portugal, Newfoundland, Ireland,

838
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:51,640
Speaker 2: Wales and some parts of Scotland. So the judge is impressed.

839
00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:53,920
Speaker 2: He recommends that Bamfield, like you know, you've kind of

840
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:55,960
Speaker 2: been in only one latitude. Why don't you try a

841
00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:59,239
Speaker 2: warmer climate? So curious, Bamfield asked the judge, what do

842
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:02,000
Speaker 2: you have in mind? The justice suggests that you try

843
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:05,919
Speaker 2: the climate in Maryland, right, and Bamfield's like, oh, I've

844
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:09,360
Speaker 2: been there, and actually they pronounce it Maryland right, And

845
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:11,719
Speaker 2: the judge's trap is sprung. He says, oh, you seem

846
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:15,600
Speaker 2: familiar with Maryland. That makes sense since here's an outstanding

847
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:18,600
Speaker 2: a rest warrant for you in that territory. The con

848
00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:21,919
Speaker 2: man is locked in irons, loaded onto a prisonership, sent

849
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:25,840
Speaker 2: back to the colonies. He's sent to Maryland to stand justice. Importantly,

850
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:27,960
Speaker 2: he's not able to contact his wife or his family.

851
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:31,880
Speaker 2: He now has kids. He's disappeared, shanghaied, his sentence, banished

852
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:35,360
Speaker 2: to the colonies for seven years. He's now an indentured servance.

853
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:40,200
Speaker 3: How did the warrant from Maryland get over there to England.

854
00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:42,479
Speaker 2: It's all under England, it's all under English laws.

855
00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:45,600
Speaker 3: And I'm not saying that I don't think it happened. O. Yes,

856
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:47,879
Speaker 3: I'm marveling at the communication.

857
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:50,440
Speaker 2: Yes, it's what I found in this story. They're constantly

858
00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:53,319
Speaker 2: all the boats they count on for news and then

859
00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 2: they also deliver things like a rest warrant.

860
00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:58,799
Speaker 3: Sure, and you know, any it distributed to the various

861
00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:01,520
Speaker 3: you know, municipal go to it once it gets to

862
00:41:01,719 --> 00:41:03,720
Speaker 3: back to England. That's that's just remarkable.

863
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 2: It is remarkable. Like, yeah, I think people we overlook

864
00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 2: how international the seventeen hundreds were, you know, the First

865
00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:14,000
Speaker 2: World War card in the seventeen hundred. Ye. Anyway, the

866
00:41:14,040 --> 00:41:16,560
Speaker 2: deal with the whole like indentured servitude thing was there

867
00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:18,480
Speaker 2: were planters, you know, the people who were like you know,

868
00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 2: owned the plantations and were the big you know growers

869
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:23,840
Speaker 2: in the Americas or in the colonies. Yeah, they couldn't

870
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:26,279
Speaker 2: get enough cheap labor to make their colonies work. They

871
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:29,319
Speaker 2: were failing left and right. So the slaves are all

872
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:31,919
Speaker 2: at this point not a common presence. They really ramp

873
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:34,840
Speaker 2: up after like seventeen twenties, seventeen thirties, right, But the

874
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:37,720
Speaker 2: seventeen teens and seventeen twenties, the English lords are sending

875
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:41,120
Speaker 2: poor Englishmen, Scots and Irish over on these seven years terms.

876
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:44,160
Speaker 3: Some of my ancestors guys, So I remember I was

877
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:46,400
Speaker 3: bringing it up out of respect for your people steal

878
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:47,920
Speaker 3: a horse, you wind up working.

879
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:50,480
Speaker 2: Oh well then, yeah, I was going to tell you

880
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:52,680
Speaker 2: about it, but you know, I still am Elizabeth. I'd

881
00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:55,120
Speaker 2: like you to close your eyes. I'd like you to

882
00:41:55,200 --> 00:42:00,560
Speaker 2: picture it. Elizabeth. You are a decade at the board's

883
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:03,040
Speaker 2: ship at Anchor in Talbot County. It's on the western

884
00:42:03,080 --> 00:42:05,520
Speaker 2: side of Delaware. If it were built, you'd be able

885
00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:08,720
Speaker 2: to see Washington, DC, but that's still almost a century away.

886
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:11,319
Speaker 2: At the moment, you've just survived the eleven weeks long

887
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:14,240
Speaker 2: trip across the Atlantic, and our boy, are you happy

888
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:16,279
Speaker 2: to be in the colonies. Only you and the crew

889
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:18,560
Speaker 2: of the ship aren't allowed off until after you've sold

890
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:21,959
Speaker 2: off your cargo, which is primarily unfortunate englishmen and women,

891
00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:24,200
Speaker 2: Scots and Irish, all of whom will be sold to

892
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:26,840
Speaker 2: the planters, desperate as they are for cheap labor. The

893
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:29,080
Speaker 2: people are kept in chains. They've been brought up to

894
00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:31,279
Speaker 2: the top deck for inspection by the buyers. The men

895
00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:34,040
Speaker 2: are all freshly shaven, the women are wearing clean dresses,

896
00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:36,760
Speaker 2: their hair brushed. In total, they're about one hundred people

897
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:39,360
Speaker 2: for sale. It's an ugly business, but you were pressed

898
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:41,320
Speaker 2: into service by a press gang, so There's little you

899
00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:43,680
Speaker 2: can do about it as a deckhand, but watch and

900
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:47,360
Speaker 2: be thankful you're not being sold into servitude to the planters.

901
00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:51,200
Speaker 2: There's a large punch bowl of rum and juice. Planters punch,

902
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:53,560
Speaker 2: they'll later call it. As you swab the deck. You

903
00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:55,960
Speaker 2: hear the captain inform the planters of the news of

904
00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:59,000
Speaker 2: the day. He tells them war has been declared against Spain,

905
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:01,160
Speaker 2: and he expects to your own war will be declared

906
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:04,759
Speaker 2: against France. The Jacobite uprising in Scotland has changed the

907
00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:07,560
Speaker 2: complexion of the fight to come. But enough talk of war.

908
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:09,759
Speaker 2: The planters want to know what labor the captain has

909
00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:13,360
Speaker 2: brought them. They hope for carpenters, blacksmith's, tailors and weavers.

910
00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:16,120
Speaker 2: You watch as a tailor named Griffey is sold to

911
00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:19,160
Speaker 2: two planters. The reason for his indenture, he says, was

912
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:22,560
Speaker 2: that he was too free with his neighbor's sheep. Oh

913
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:25,200
Speaker 2: and his wife betrayed him to the local justice. You

914
00:43:25,239 --> 00:43:27,440
Speaker 2: don't want to know what too friendly with his neighbor's

915
00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:30,560
Speaker 2: sheep means, but you focus instead on a handsome young man, who,

916
00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:33,920
Speaker 2: when asked, says his skilled labor is rat catcher. He

917
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:38,040
Speaker 2: also says he's a mendacant, as as in a traveling beggar,

918
00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:40,520
Speaker 2: you know that term. He also says I'm good with dogs,

919
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:43,720
Speaker 2: so you snickered yourself. You know, he must be messing

920
00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:46,719
Speaker 2: with the planters. The planters, though, are confused, irritated even

921
00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:49,759
Speaker 2: they asked me what the devil are those trades? Now,

922
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:52,240
Speaker 2: the captain assures the planters this young man is merely

923
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:54,319
Speaker 2: having a go, having a laugh, and that he can

924
00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:57,239
Speaker 2: be theirs for his full seven year contract. They can

925
00:43:57,280 --> 00:43:59,719
Speaker 2: teach him not to make such jokes. The planters aren't

926
00:43:59,719 --> 00:44:03,040
Speaker 2: interesting that in buying the contract of a rat catching comedian,

927
00:44:03,239 --> 00:44:05,399
Speaker 2: so they tell the captain they no longer to wish

928
00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:08,759
Speaker 2: to buy such young man. You snicker again, This Bamfield

929
00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:12,120
Speaker 2: character is a laugh, no doubt. Now at this point, Elizabeth,

930
00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:14,440
Speaker 2: my man Bamfield, he is stuck on this prison ship,

931
00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:17,640
Speaker 2: still waiting to be sold into indentured servitude, doing everything

932
00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:20,840
Speaker 2: he can not to be the orphan adopted. And this

933
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:23,680
Speaker 2: is partly why this unfortunate soul works his acts so well.

934
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:25,640
Speaker 2: Is there are plenty of people who are truly in

935
00:44:25,680 --> 00:44:28,040
Speaker 2: desperate times in the colonies. They're willing to take just

936
00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:30,560
Speaker 2: about anybody. So Bamfield has to work hard to not

937
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:34,120
Speaker 2: be anybody right, and he knows he's about to most

938
00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:36,399
Speaker 2: likely join them and become one of the unlucky ones

939
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:38,520
Speaker 2: who are consigned to this life of indentured servitude. Are

940
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:41,400
Speaker 2: basically slavery for seven years. And as you saw, Bamfield

941
00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:44,200
Speaker 2: keeps trying to make himself unattractive as possible. How long

942
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:44,680
Speaker 2: can that life?

943
00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:46,919
Speaker 3: Yeah, he wants to be picked last, but someone's gonna

944
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:47,359
Speaker 3: pick you.

945
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:49,640
Speaker 2: The next day. The Captain's like, let's go ashore and

946
00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:52,239
Speaker 2: see what's what, So he takes Bamfield into town and

947
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:55,680
Speaker 2: walks them around to see if anybody's interested his real roost. Though,

948
00:44:55,840 --> 00:44:58,200
Speaker 2: as I said, find a motivated buyer, he acts like

949
00:44:58,239 --> 00:45:01,000
Speaker 2: he's just stretching their legs. They go to a tavern.

950
00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:03,360
Speaker 2: A scotchman comes in is like, hey, is he for sale?

951
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:06,000
Speaker 2: He tries to buy Bamfield. Another man's like, wait, he's

952
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:08,480
Speaker 2: for sale. So now there's a bidding war between these

953
00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:12,479
Speaker 2: two gentlemen, and a small rum punch bowl gets brought

954
00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:16,160
Speaker 2: out and passed around as the prices are negotiated. Bamfield

955
00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:19,400
Speaker 2: he sees his moment and he just kind of slides away.

956
00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:22,480
Speaker 2: He's still in leg irons, mind you, but he grabs

957
00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:25,160
Speaker 2: a pint of brandy, some biscuit cakes and runs off

958
00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:27,360
Speaker 2: for the woods. All right, now, Elizabeth. He makes it,

959
00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:29,359
Speaker 2: and in the woods he finds new freedom. Well, once

960
00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:32,760
Speaker 2: he's alone in the colonial wilderness, right, he nearly changes

961
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:34,520
Speaker 2: his mind and runs back to the safety of the

962
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:35,879
Speaker 2: village because he's like, wait, what am.

963
00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:38,759
Speaker 4: I doing so dense at this point, totally it is.

964
00:45:38,680 --> 00:45:42,640
Speaker 2: The absolute wilderness and there's everything, bears rolls everything, right, yeah,

965
00:45:42,719 --> 00:45:45,480
Speaker 2: Instead he presses on and goes, I'm headed for England. See,

966
00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:47,360
Speaker 2: I don't know where, but I'm headed for England. So

967
00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:49,640
Speaker 2: that's his plan. It turns out in the colonies, a

968
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:52,080
Speaker 2: man traveling must either be known to locals or have

969
00:45:52,160 --> 00:45:55,400
Speaker 2: a pass to travel the roads, so the byeways and

970
00:45:55,440 --> 00:45:57,640
Speaker 2: also the trapper highways, right, so I don't just think

971
00:45:57,680 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 2: he grows, but any of the trails. Right. So there's also,

972
00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:04,320
Speaker 2: mind you, a five pound reward, and five pounds is

973
00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:06,280
Speaker 2: a lot of money at the time for any man caught,

974
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:08,719
Speaker 2: So the assumption being he must be a runaway running

975
00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:11,560
Speaker 2: away from indentured servitude. So Bamfield is spotted by some

976
00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:15,279
Speaker 2: timberman in the woods aka lumberjacks. They called him right,

977
00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:19,000
Speaker 2: not knowing the custom, he halloos back to them. The

978
00:46:19,040 --> 00:46:21,839
Speaker 2: two parties meet up. The lumberjacks asked Bamfield where he's

979
00:46:21,840 --> 00:46:24,840
Speaker 2: coming from and where he's going. He doesn't have satisfactory answers.

980
00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:27,120
Speaker 2: They're like, oh, well, show us your pass, and he's like, pass, oh,

981
00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:29,200
Speaker 2: I don't have a pass, and so they grab him.

982
00:46:29,239 --> 00:46:30,920
Speaker 2: No pass, and they sit us and arrest him, and

983
00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:32,960
Speaker 2: they take him in for the five pound reward. They

984
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:35,880
Speaker 2: take him to the local justice. Bamfield swears he's no runaway,

985
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:38,600
Speaker 2: he's a sailor. He's shipping off to Boston, right. So

986
00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:41,520
Speaker 2: the local justice like, sure enough you are, son, but

987
00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:44,560
Speaker 2: for now you're going to our jail, right. So Bamfield

988
00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:47,520
Speaker 2: finds a prison to be well peopled, and his ears

989
00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:50,120
Speaker 2: were confused with almost as many dialects as put a

990
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:53,759
Speaker 2: stop to the building of Babbel. So somehow Bamfield is

991
00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:56,440
Speaker 2: once again able to escape captivity, but this time and

992
00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:58,479
Speaker 2: he runs off once again for the woods. He runs

993
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:02,080
Speaker 2: into natives and his tribesmen. They help him remove his

994
00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:03,799
Speaker 2: prison leg irons. They're like, we need to get those

995
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:06,480
Speaker 2: off right, So bamfild he loves the natives. They love him.

996
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:09,000
Speaker 2: He stays with them. Awhile, remember he enjoys hunting, they

997
00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:11,800
Speaker 2: enjoy hunting. They got common interest. So the woods of

998
00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:14,400
Speaker 2: the colonies are filled with game. It's great hunting, right,

999
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:16,919
Speaker 2: And after hunting, they would all relax by the riverside

1000
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:20,200
Speaker 2: and they do something he called be merry together. So

1001
00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:23,360
Speaker 2: that means sipping on rum, singing and dancing. So it

1002
00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:26,160
Speaker 2: doesn't take long for Bamfield to ingratiate himself. He's looking

1003
00:47:26,320 --> 00:47:29,480
Speaker 2: like my gypsy family back home, and specifically, the chief

1004
00:47:29,600 --> 00:47:32,279
Speaker 2: loves him. He's so successful. The chief arranges for him

1005
00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:35,040
Speaker 2: to marry one of the available daughters of the tribe

1006
00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:38,359
Speaker 2: as his wife. Bamfield's like, oh yeah, sure, sure, thanks Chief,

1007
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:40,520
Speaker 2: big honor. Right. Meanwhile, it was like, looks like I

1008
00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:43,400
Speaker 2: need to get out of here. So hunting by the

1009
00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:47,080
Speaker 2: Delaware River. One day after they're making merry together, his

1010
00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:50,120
Speaker 2: host fall asleep, right, and then they're drunken revelry and

1011
00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:52,799
Speaker 2: Bamfield sees his chance once again. What's he do? Elizabeth

1012
00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:56,680
Speaker 2: makes a break for it. He grabs the canoe, though

1013
00:47:56,680 --> 00:47:59,960
Speaker 2: he was entirely untacquainted with the method of managing them.

1014
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:03,560
Speaker 2: He boldly pushed from shore. So he goes off and

1015
00:48:03,560 --> 00:48:05,320
Speaker 2: he figures out how the canoe in the middle of

1016
00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:07,760
Speaker 2: the Delaware River, and as soon as he sees a settlement,

1017
00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:09,680
Speaker 2: he hides his canoe and pretends to be what a

1018
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:11,479
Speaker 2: sailor who's just left his ship.

1019
00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:13,719
Speaker 3: Of course, of course he goes into town.

1020
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:15,880
Speaker 2: He finds a guy who's like, where's the local barber

1021
00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:18,279
Speaker 2: finds The barber asks him to shave his beard because

1022
00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:20,080
Speaker 2: he's got a good bit of growth going now. Yes,

1023
00:48:20,280 --> 00:48:22,120
Speaker 2: so he can return to his ship looking decent and

1024
00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:24,720
Speaker 2: ship ready, and he tells the barber a sob story

1025
00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:28,160
Speaker 2: of being kidnapped sold into servitude. The barber takes pity

1026
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:29,840
Speaker 2: on him, Oh, it's been happening too much here in

1027
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:32,920
Speaker 2: the colonies, shaves his beard for free. Not only that,

1028
00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:36,879
Speaker 2: when he's done shaving Bamfield, the barber pays him gives

1029
00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:38,880
Speaker 2: him a half crown in charity to help him on

1030
00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:41,759
Speaker 2: his way. Son right in Philadelphia, that's where he goes

1031
00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:44,120
Speaker 2: to next up the Delaware, Bamfield goes to the home

1032
00:48:44,120 --> 00:48:46,479
Speaker 2: of the most powerful man in the city and asks

1033
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:49,200
Speaker 2: for charity. The house that belongs to the Proprietor of

1034
00:48:49,239 --> 00:48:52,959
Speaker 2: the Pennsylvania Commonwealth. That's right. He goes to William Penn's house,

1035
00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:55,880
Speaker 2: no way, right up to the door, knock, knock, knock.

1036
00:48:56,120 --> 00:48:59,719
Speaker 2: Bamfield goes, Butler answers he's in luck. William Penn is

1037
00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:02,240
Speaker 2: just returned from England with his brother in law. No less,

1038
00:49:02,440 --> 00:49:04,879
Speaker 2: Bamfield is invited into the courtyard to wait for him.

1039
00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:07,480
Speaker 2: A moment or so later, William Penn comes out. The

1040
00:49:07,560 --> 00:49:10,400
Speaker 2: number one Quaker joins him, and according to his book quote,

1041
00:49:10,680 --> 00:49:14,400
Speaker 2: soon after out came the Proprietor, very plainly dressed, and

1042
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:18,960
Speaker 2: his brother, Captain Frame in his regimentals. The Proprietor came

1043
00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:21,840
Speaker 2: up to him inquiring who he was and what he

1044
00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:24,560
Speaker 2: wanted with him. So Bamfield hits him with this ad

1045
00:49:24,600 --> 00:49:26,759
Speaker 2: lib sob story right, just makes it all up. He's

1046
00:49:26,760 --> 00:49:28,600
Speaker 2: a poor and fortunate soul, lost the use of his

1047
00:49:28,719 --> 00:49:31,239
Speaker 2: right arm after being wrongfully imprisoned. He just fakes an

1048
00:49:31,239 --> 00:49:34,600
Speaker 2: angry totally. His hope is that he can appeal to

1049
00:49:34,600 --> 00:49:37,440
Speaker 2: William Penn's sense of Quaker charity, which he does. It works.

1050
00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:39,240
Speaker 2: William Penn gives him a single guinea.

1051
00:49:39,760 --> 00:49:41,800
Speaker 4: Wow, there you go, und your way, boy, that's something.

1052
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:43,560
Speaker 2: But he's like, you know, it turns out my brother

1053
00:49:43,560 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 2: in law's going back to England. You can get on

1054
00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:46,840
Speaker 2: the boat with him. So he books some passage on

1055
00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:47,920
Speaker 2: the boat back to England.

1056
00:49:48,120 --> 00:49:48,560
Speaker 4: No way.

1057
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:52,000
Speaker 2: Thus, our hero, after seeing many cities and men, undergoing

1058
00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:55,839
Speaker 2: great hardships and encountering many dangers and difficulties, once more

1059
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:58,560
Speaker 2: set foot on his beloved country. So he makes it

1060
00:49:58,600 --> 00:50:01,200
Speaker 2: back in England. Elizabeth. He he of course still destitute.

1061
00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:02,640
Speaker 2: He's got to go find his wife. He's got to

1062
00:50:02,680 --> 00:50:04,759
Speaker 2: get right with her. He of course, now he's like,

1063
00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:06,080
Speaker 2: I need some money. So what does he do? He

1064
00:50:06,120 --> 00:50:09,879
Speaker 2: pretends to be a Presbyterian parson, using the language he's

1065
00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:12,720
Speaker 2: learned in the Americas, and he poses as a shipwrecked sailor.

1066
00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:14,440
Speaker 2: When that works, he's still playing the classics.

1067
00:50:14,680 --> 00:50:17,480
Speaker 3: He's a shipwrecked present exactly.

1068
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:21,040
Speaker 2: So for some fresh KICKI fund with costumes. Bamfield also

1069
00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:23,520
Speaker 2: poses as a French smuggler, just to mix it up. Yeah,

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00:50:23,560 --> 00:50:25,560
Speaker 2: I like that, And he later he's a turbine clad

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00:50:25,600 --> 00:50:26,240
Speaker 2: Greek sailor.

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00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:28,640
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that Greeks, And of.

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00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:32,239
Speaker 2: Course everyone knows Greeks and Turbans. It's seventeen hundred. What

1074
00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:34,359
Speaker 2: are you gonna do? More charity results though, they're like, oh,

1075
00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:36,839
Speaker 2: here you go, get get out of here. So then

1076
00:50:36,880 --> 00:50:39,040
Speaker 2: he gets caught up again though by the law, and

1077
00:50:39,040 --> 00:50:41,960
Speaker 2: he sent back to Maryland on the same arrest warrant

1078
00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:44,880
Speaker 2: because it's still outstanding. Yeah, now there's a litany of

1079
00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:47,400
Speaker 2: charges that been added to it. So he shipped back

1080
00:50:47,440 --> 00:50:51,399
Speaker 2: to Maryland to stand trial. Somehow, some way, Bamfield makes

1081
00:50:51,560 --> 00:50:54,360
Speaker 2: yet another escape from prison. When he gets there, this

1082
00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:57,880
Speaker 2: time it's a maritime escape. He remembers the Latin phrase

1083
00:50:58,160 --> 00:51:00,520
Speaker 2: luck favors the bowl right and decides to take his

1084
00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:04,160
Speaker 2: chance at freedom just as it grew dark, of slipping

1085
00:51:04,280 --> 00:51:07,280
Speaker 2: nimbly down the ship's side into one of the canoes,

1086
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:11,000
Speaker 2: which he paddled with as much silence and expedition as

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00:51:11,040 --> 00:51:14,560
Speaker 2: possible towards the shore. But he had not gone too

1088
00:51:14,640 --> 00:51:18,239
Speaker 2: far before the noise he made gave the alarm that

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00:51:18,280 --> 00:51:21,640
Speaker 2: one of the prisoners had escaped. All the hands aboard

1090
00:51:21,640 --> 00:51:23,560
Speaker 2: the prison ship were called to deck and search for

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00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:26,760
Speaker 2: this escape con man. Sailors launch after him, and small

1092
00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:30,520
Speaker 2: armada of canoes in a canoe of zone paddling like

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00:51:30,600 --> 00:51:33,000
Speaker 2: all hell, Banfield is able to slip away into the

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00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:36,160
Speaker 2: fog and darkness. He lands the canoe runs off into

1095
00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:39,359
Speaker 2: the woods again. Alone in the colonial woods, he can

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00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:42,600
Speaker 2: hear the sailors searching for him, promising the captain and

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00:51:42,640 --> 00:51:45,280
Speaker 2: the planters that they will have him back aboard ship

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00:51:45,360 --> 00:51:49,120
Speaker 2: by daybreak. They don't. Elizabeth. Instead, he tramps through the woods.

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00:51:49,239 --> 00:51:51,879
Speaker 2: He sleeps in trees in the daytime. I like that

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00:51:51,960 --> 00:51:55,560
Speaker 2: call travels at night. He steals food from houses he

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00:51:55,600 --> 00:51:58,719
Speaker 2: comes across. As he makes his way through the American wilderness.

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00:51:58,760 --> 00:52:01,560
Speaker 2: He finds dairy cows. He melks them and rejoices at

1103
00:52:01,560 --> 00:52:04,200
Speaker 2: the taste of the fresh warm milk. He fills his

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00:52:04,239 --> 00:52:06,319
Speaker 2: hat with milk. It's like felt hat. It's like a

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00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:09,600
Speaker 2: whole scene. On his fifth day on the run, hiding

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00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:12,160
Speaker 2: up in a tree, he hears his pursuers, still chasing

1107
00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:15,120
Speaker 2: after him, pass below, and he's like hah. Now. On

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00:52:15,160 --> 00:52:17,920
Speaker 2: the eighth day, he sees a family heading out with

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00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:20,279
Speaker 2: their dog to tend their tobacco field. So what does

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00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:21,680
Speaker 2: he do? He sneaks into the house and he makes

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00:52:21,719 --> 00:52:26,000
Speaker 2: himself breakfast. He eats jolly cake, a sort of Indian

1112
00:52:26,040 --> 00:52:29,320
Speaker 2: corn bread, and their kidney bean grounds and with some

1113
00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:32,520
Speaker 2: Indian corn. This is his breakfast. Right then he snatches

1114
00:52:32,560 --> 00:52:35,000
Speaker 2: some salt pork and some molasses and he disappears into

1115
00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:37,279
Speaker 2: the woods, good for another few days. What did that

1116
00:52:37,320 --> 00:52:39,200
Speaker 2: family think when they come back home and their salt

1117
00:52:39,239 --> 00:52:44,480
Speaker 2: pork's missing in the field. There's nobody around. It's like anyway,

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00:52:44,640 --> 00:52:49,600
Speaker 2: even if it was me, there was a ghost, total ghost.

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00:52:49,680 --> 00:52:52,160
Speaker 2: It's a ghost anyway. Bamfield keeps it moving. Next he

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00:52:52,200 --> 00:52:54,520
Speaker 2: comes upon the home of a miller. Right now, I'm

1121
00:52:54,560 --> 00:52:57,440
Speaker 2: assuming the mill is like a water fed paddlewheel, right,

1122
00:52:58,120 --> 00:52:59,920
Speaker 2: I just like to picture that could be anything, But anyway,

1123
00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:02,319
Speaker 2: the miller is gone. Only his wife is home. So

1124
00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:04,400
Speaker 2: the miller's wife, she comes out of her house and

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00:53:04,440 --> 00:53:07,200
Speaker 2: Bamfield approaches her and tells her a sob story. He

1126
00:53:07,280 --> 00:53:09,919
Speaker 2: was a prisoner in a Havana, Cuba, although they didn't

1127
00:53:09,960 --> 00:53:11,359
Speaker 2: call it Cube at the time, but Havannah was still

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00:53:11,360 --> 00:53:13,160
Speaker 2: the name, and he'd been released as part of a

1129
00:53:13,200 --> 00:53:18,399
Speaker 2: wartime prisoner exchange. And now he's walking back home, okay, right,

1130
00:53:18,880 --> 00:53:21,239
Speaker 2: because remember the war is going on and England are

1131
00:53:21,239 --> 00:53:23,400
Speaker 2: fighting and Havana is the big like you know, so

1132
00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:25,719
Speaker 2: if you get captured off of a boat on an English ship.

1133
00:53:25,719 --> 00:53:27,360
Speaker 2: They're going to take you to Havana and then so

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00:53:27,440 --> 00:53:30,400
Speaker 2: it makes sense to her a miller's wife. She's like, oh,

1135
00:53:30,440 --> 00:53:32,560
Speaker 2: of course, you've got to walk home. He's like, where

1136
00:53:32,600 --> 00:53:35,040
Speaker 2: are you going? Oh, we have to have the poeme's woods. Right,

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00:53:35,120 --> 00:53:37,680
Speaker 2: So the kindly miller's wife takes pity on him, cares

1138
00:53:37,719 --> 00:53:41,120
Speaker 2: for him, feeds him. Then her husband returns home. He's

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00:53:41,160 --> 00:53:43,600
Speaker 2: a bit suspicious when he finds his wife alone feeding

1140
00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:44,520
Speaker 2: a handsome stranger.

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00:53:44,680 --> 00:53:44,919
Speaker 4: Yeah.

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00:53:45,040 --> 00:53:48,719
Speaker 2: The husband accuses Bamfield of being an irishman. You're an Irishman,

1143
00:53:48,760 --> 00:53:51,680
Speaker 2: aren't you? And I assume that's bad news for the convent.

1144
00:53:51,719 --> 00:53:53,360
Speaker 2: But that's all it says in the book. He's accused

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00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:56,000
Speaker 2: of being an Irishman. So Banfield must have sensed as

1146
00:53:56,080 --> 00:53:57,600
Speaker 2: much that this is bad news. He says, no, no, no,

1147
00:53:57,719 --> 00:53:59,759
Speaker 2: I'm from West England. Right, so he lets him know.

1148
00:54:00,080 --> 00:54:02,680
Speaker 2: The husband satisfied by this, he's like, okay. He gives

1149
00:54:02,719 --> 00:54:05,799
Speaker 2: Bamfield some English money, good English money, and sends him

1150
00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:08,120
Speaker 2: on his way back home. Right. The husband also sends

1151
00:54:08,200 --> 00:54:11,120
Speaker 2: him with a big mug of rum oh right, and

1152
00:54:11,200 --> 00:54:14,800
Speaker 2: Bamfield greedy about everything, he just guzzles the rum. I

1153
00:54:14,840 --> 00:54:16,759
Speaker 2: don't know if the guy made it himself. Whatever, he

1154
00:54:16,800 --> 00:54:19,279
Speaker 2: gets super sick and all. He only makes it as

1155
00:54:19,280 --> 00:54:22,040
Speaker 2: far as the next house, so he guzzled it that

1156
00:54:22,160 --> 00:54:25,319
Speaker 2: quickly he collapses. Yeah, and just like and he's like

1157
00:54:25,440 --> 00:54:28,360
Speaker 2: nursed for three days, half dead and feverish at the

1158
00:54:28,400 --> 00:54:30,480
Speaker 2: neighbor's place. Oh and then it's like, you know, like

1159
00:54:30,520 --> 00:54:32,719
Speaker 2: a mile down the road but still Yeah, it's like

1160
00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:34,520
Speaker 2: right next door, but still.

1161
00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:38,879
Speaker 3: Some development exactly like just like tract home.

1162
00:54:39,200 --> 00:54:41,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, they've got like the light poles, but like a

1163
00:54:41,520 --> 00:54:45,040
Speaker 2: hanging lantern. And so somehow he pulls through it once again,

1164
00:54:45,080 --> 00:54:47,000
Speaker 2: he's back on his way home to England, back to

1165
00:54:47,040 --> 00:54:49,399
Speaker 2: his wife and family, who still have no idea where

1166
00:54:49,400 --> 00:54:50,759
Speaker 2: he is. I think this is part of how he

1167
00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:55,120
Speaker 2: stayed married for thirty years, yes years away. Anyway, Luck

1168
00:54:55,160 --> 00:54:57,960
Speaker 2: does indeed favor the ball to Elizabeth because he's finally

1169
00:54:58,000 --> 00:54:59,680
Speaker 2: able to make it home to England, and as the

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00:54:59,719 --> 00:55:03,080
Speaker 2: story goes, our hero returned home to the place of

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00:55:03,120 --> 00:55:06,160
Speaker 2: his nativity, but finding the air of the town not

1172
00:55:06,360 --> 00:55:09,080
Speaker 2: rightly to agree with him, and the death of some

1173
00:55:09,200 --> 00:55:13,560
Speaker 2: of his relatives rendering his circumstances quite easy, he retired

1174
00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:16,000
Speaker 2: to the West Country so basically, some people older in

1175
00:55:16,080 --> 00:55:18,120
Speaker 2: him died. He now has like a house. He's like,

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00:55:18,200 --> 00:55:19,240
Speaker 2: we're going there, honey.

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00:55:19,360 --> 00:55:19,680
Speaker 3: Yeah.

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00:55:19,719 --> 00:55:23,719
Speaker 2: So Elizabeth, as he puts it, he quote lived in

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00:55:23,760 --> 00:55:27,080
Speaker 2: a manner, becoming a good old English gentleman, respected by

1180
00:55:27,080 --> 00:55:30,120
Speaker 2: his neighbors and beloved by the poor, to whom his

1181
00:55:30,239 --> 00:55:34,160
Speaker 2: doors were ever open. Here he died full of years

1182
00:55:34,480 --> 00:55:39,480
Speaker 2: and honors, regretted by all. Wow. Obviously the co author

1183
00:55:39,600 --> 00:55:43,160
Speaker 2: did the last sentences. The book is his ghost written,

1184
00:55:43,239 --> 00:55:46,200
Speaker 2: so yes, but there you go. What's the ridiculous takeaway here, Elizabeth?

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00:55:46,239 --> 00:55:48,800
Speaker 3: I think it's interesting that he didn't want the family

1186
00:55:48,840 --> 00:55:51,600
Speaker 3: assistance earlier, and I think it's because there were strings

1187
00:55:51,640 --> 00:55:54,840
Speaker 3: attached that he had to behave a certain way. But

1188
00:55:54,920 --> 00:55:57,719
Speaker 3: the moment that it opens up and it's no strings,

1189
00:55:57,760 --> 00:55:58,160
Speaker 3: you just have.

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00:55:58,360 --> 00:56:01,359
Speaker 4: Yeah, he takes us zooms on, stop being on the bum.

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00:56:01,440 --> 00:56:05,479
Speaker 3: People are people are kind and gullible. The takeaway, Jared,

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00:56:05,520 --> 00:56:06,880
Speaker 3: what's your ridiculous takeaway?

1193
00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:12,000
Speaker 2: WHOA wow, Wow, I'm me just sit in this moment.

1194
00:56:11,800 --> 00:56:13,160
Speaker 3: For a second, stand in your truth.

1195
00:56:13,200 --> 00:56:15,120
Speaker 2: Still so nice to have someone know and want to

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00:56:15,160 --> 00:56:17,960
Speaker 2: hear what I have to say in Elizabeth touch, Okay,

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00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:21,080
Speaker 2: my ridiculous takeaway, Elizabeth, thank you so asking so nicely.

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00:56:21,680 --> 00:56:24,680
Speaker 2: Being a bum is hard work, yeah right, I mean,

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00:56:24,800 --> 00:56:26,479
Speaker 2: but also he kind of makes it seem like fun,

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00:56:26,840 --> 00:56:28,680
Speaker 2: So it's a it's like fun hard work, which I

1201
00:56:28,680 --> 00:56:30,480
Speaker 2: think all hard work should be. So there you go.

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00:56:30,640 --> 00:56:32,880
Speaker 4: Being a bomb is a great job, fun hard work.

1203
00:56:33,320 --> 00:56:35,359
Speaker 2: So you're in the mood for a talkback. I love him,

1204
00:56:35,400 --> 00:56:41,720
Speaker 2: Producer D can you favor us with one? Oh, oh

1205
00:56:41,760 --> 00:56:51,560
Speaker 2: my god, I and Elizabeth.

1206
00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:53,600
Speaker 3: It's Grease and Ben from New York City.

1207
00:56:54,040 --> 00:56:56,200
Speaker 2: We just saw a crazy thing on the subway.

1208
00:56:56,280 --> 00:56:58,359
Speaker 3: As you can hear, we're in the second Avenue train

1209
00:56:58,400 --> 00:57:01,839
Speaker 3: station right now. Two girls sitting across from us.

1210
00:57:01,840 --> 00:57:04,080
Speaker 2: We're just like sitting having a ride, and one of

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00:57:04,120 --> 00:57:06,360
Speaker 2: them pulls out a roll of tape and stuck a

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00:57:06,360 --> 00:57:08,080
Speaker 2: piece of tape on the other one's mouth, and then

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00:57:08,160 --> 00:57:10,200
Speaker 2: she proceeded to just start napping on the train with

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00:57:10,239 --> 00:57:15,960
Speaker 2: tape over her mouth. I'm convinced that it's her hypnotic trigger. Oh.

1215
00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:22,640
Speaker 2: I love that it could be to that too.

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00:57:22,960 --> 00:57:25,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's fascinating totally.

1217
00:57:25,680 --> 00:57:27,920
Speaker 3: The things you see on the subway.

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00:57:27,720 --> 00:57:29,800
Speaker 2: Your New York subway man, that's a slice of life.

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00:57:29,840 --> 00:57:32,400
Speaker 2: H That is I used to love that a everytime

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00:57:32,440 --> 00:57:33,919
Speaker 2: I go to New York, I'm an idiot. I act

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00:57:33,920 --> 00:57:35,360
Speaker 2: like a tourist and I just stand in the middle

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00:57:35,360 --> 00:57:36,840
Speaker 2: of the subway and I surf it because it goes

1223
00:57:36,840 --> 00:57:38,880
Speaker 2: all around, like it twists and turns. It's not like

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00:57:38,920 --> 00:57:41,880
Speaker 2: the Bart Trainer. It's mostly straight. It rocks right. So

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00:57:41,920 --> 00:57:43,200
Speaker 2: I sit there and I put my hands up like

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00:57:43,200 --> 00:57:45,320
Speaker 2: I'm surfing the whole train, and I'm like, look, I'm

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00:57:45,320 --> 00:57:47,640
Speaker 2: in New York, baby, I can do whatever I want.

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00:57:47,960 --> 00:57:50,240
Speaker 3: I go and I act like I'm a shipwrecked sailor.

1229
00:57:51,560 --> 00:57:52,360
Speaker 2: You'd be good at that.

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00:57:52,360 --> 00:57:53,040
Speaker 3: I'd be so good.

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00:57:53,600 --> 00:57:56,000
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00:57:56,000 --> 00:57:58,440
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