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Speaker 1: Ridiculous crime. It's a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Elizabeth Oh Zaren.

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Speaker 3: You know I saw you walk in and I was like,

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Speaker 3: oh my god, I've got this question. I want to

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Speaker 3: ask her. Do you mind? Have you got it? A second?

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Speaker 2: Of course?

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Speaker 3: Okay? Do you know it's ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: I do know it's ridiculous.

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Speaker 3: Would you please share?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I think I can do that. You're a smoothie guy, right,

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Speaker 2: you like smoothies.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it sounded weird. You're a smoothie guy.

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Speaker 2: You're a smoothie guy.

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Speaker 3: I know. I do love smoothies.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and so smoothies, there's a there's like Jamba juice.

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Speaker 2: You like john Ba juice.

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Speaker 3: I used to back when it used to be good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not good anymore. What about Smoothie King?

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Speaker 3: I have never actually been there that I can think of.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well that's ridiculous. Going forward to huh, that's what's ridiculous. Okay,

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Speaker 2: So a while back, we got a ton, a ton

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Speaker 2: a ton of messages. This is like last year about

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Speaker 2: something that Skittles did and I don't remember what it was.

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Speaker 3: This is another mash hold on.

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Speaker 2: It's just the messages wouldn't stop. And then a couple

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Speaker 2: like a week or two ago it started up again,

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Speaker 2: but it wasn't about skittles. Oh, It's about the King,

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Speaker 2: and it just we have gotten so many like Carrier

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Speaker 2: pigeon Instagram, email, Yeah, telegraphs. I got like a singing telegram.

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Speaker 2: Nice phenomenal. So anyway, everyone's told us about this, absolutely everyone,

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Speaker 2: which means that this episode will air and then for

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Speaker 2: another three months people will still tell us about it. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: So Smoothie King is teamed up with another brand because honey,

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Speaker 2: we got ourselves a mashup. Oh yeah, although I will say, okay,

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Speaker 2: So friend of the Show regular messager comtruter Mark McCubbin

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Speaker 2: on Instagram, he sent us pictures of screen caps that

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Speaker 2: he took pictures of a TV screen with CNN doing

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Speaker 2: a piece where the Chiron said, Harry Inton breaks down

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Speaker 2: the food collapse that worked and didn't so and he said, like,

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Speaker 2: they're basically stepping on our toes. So aside from that,

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Speaker 2: so we're not the only mash up people in the game.

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Speaker 2: Whether you like it or not, I'm taking you down

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Speaker 2: with the ship anyway. So Smoothie King they teamed up

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Speaker 2: with Hines. You know what they're both food purveyors, and

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Speaker 2: they have a limited addition Ketchup smoothie. I was going

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Speaker 2: to guess ketchup smoothie. So it is a fruit. So

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Speaker 2: this has like a si sorbet, strawberries, raspberries, apple juice,

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Speaker 2: and then a whole lot of ketchup. And so it's

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Speaker 2: like a sweet savory thing. It's got tang to it.

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Speaker 2: It is. There's no artificial colors, thank goodness. But it

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Speaker 2: just looks like you're drinking. You're sucking on a cup

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Speaker 2: of ketchup.

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Speaker 3: I'd rather drink up a cup of actual tang the

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Speaker 3: old juice, fake juice.

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Speaker 2: Allowed to have that.

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Speaker 3: Tried it, but I would rather try that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I had it a couple of times

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Speaker 2: and it was like, oh buddy, either way, it's five

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Speaker 2: dollars and seventy cents if you're into it, paying you

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Speaker 2: for this. Oh there they should, all these people should

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Speaker 2: while supplies last. It's at location Smoothieking locations in Atlanta, right, Chicago, Denver, Miami,

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Speaker 2: and then parts of the Greater New York area and

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Speaker 2: northern New Jersey. There you go and there it is.

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Speaker 2: So if you're in those metro areas, I can get

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Speaker 2: some go chug a lug a ketchup smoothie. There you go,

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Speaker 2: and then crap yourself and hate yourself.

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Speaker 3: I will never understand the appeal of these mashups.

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Speaker 2: I know, and yet I hate.

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Speaker 3: Them and I can't every day.

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Speaker 2: You know what, you know what that is there? Ridiculous.

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Speaker 3: I'll give you that.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 3: Well, I've got something that's ridiculous for you. Yeah, tell me, yeah,

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Speaker 3: you're ready for this? Yes, okay, Well, I know it's

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Speaker 3: about to be one of your favorite times of the year.

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Speaker 3: It's about to be the start of college football season.

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm just like a huge, totally I'm all football.

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Speaker 3: Yeah right, So I gathered up a few of my

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Speaker 3: favorite college football rivalries and the related high jinks that

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Speaker 3: are both criminal and ridiculous. Yes, college football rivalries are intense.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Like we've already covered the outrageous story of

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Speaker 3: where they abducted Rice's mascot, the human Sized Hour and

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Speaker 3: then led to a full on military takeover of a

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Speaker 3: small Texas town. That's a good one. Well, this time, Elizabeth,

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Speaker 3: we have some equally insane college football inspired antics, not one,

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Speaker 3: not two, but three at least, So buckle up, Buttercup.

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Speaker 3: Things are about to get college football.

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Speaker 4: Wow, this is ridiculous Crime A podcast about absurd and

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Speaker 4: outrageous capers, heists, and cons.

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Speaker 3: It's always ninety nine percent murder, three and one hundred

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Speaker 3: percent ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: Yes. I like your sheer blue pants that you're wearing.

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Speaker 3: Thank you. They have a friend of mine made these.

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Speaker 2: They're interesting. They're very airy, very sheer.

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Speaker 3: Yes, you can see a lot of legs.

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Speaker 2: It's daring. You're brave.

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Speaker 3: I'm a fashion icon waiting to happen. Yeah, Elizabeth, I

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Speaker 3: know you lived in South Carolina for a while, which

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Speaker 3: means you know how huge college football is in the South.

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Speaker 3: I think SEC football is second in popularity only to Jesus,

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Speaker 3: So did you ever go to a game while you

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Speaker 3: were living in South Carolina? Do you ever see the

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Speaker 3: Okay, Well I got another question for you. What do

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Speaker 3: you know about Auburn football.

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Speaker 2: That's not South Carolina?

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Speaker 3: No, it's not. There's nothing to do with Carolina. But

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Speaker 3: it's in the SEC. It's Southern football.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a football the.

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Speaker 3: University of Auburn. It's located in Auburn, Alabama, and in Bama,

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Speaker 3: just like in South Carolina where you were. The locals

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Speaker 3: love them some Auburn football. And I thought we started

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Speaker 3: the top and go down from there. Now, Elizabeth, this

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Speaker 3: story happened two centuries ago, two centuries way back in

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Speaker 3: eighteen ninety six. Well, it's two centuries ago.

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Speaker 2: That's not full two centuries.

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Speaker 3: I didn't say that two centuries ago. Twentieth century, nineteenth century.

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Speaker 2: Two centuries ago. I'm thinking like two hundred years ago.

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Speaker 3: Two hundred years ago, that's what I would have said that.

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Speaker 3: But two centuries ago, so November seventh, eighteen ninety six,

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Speaker 3: you would count this as Now, at the time, Auburn

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Speaker 3: had a legendary coach by the name of John Heisman,

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Speaker 3: but the Heisman Trophy, right, yeah, yeah, Now, Heisman was

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Speaker 3: I won't get too far into him, but well, for example,

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Speaker 2: Oh, elevate, elevate.

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Speaker 3: He was. He was quite the character. Now. Before he

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Speaker 3: And while he was a coach there, the team's trainer

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Speaker 3: was a man named Clarence Hemingway. That name sounds familiar,

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Speaker 3: There's good reason. Clarence Hemingway was the father of the

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Speaker 3: world famous writer Ernest Hemingway. A lot of macho energy in.

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Speaker 2: This Oh my god, the testoser right.

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Speaker 3: Anyway, John Heisman's second season at the as the head

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Speaker 3: In his bona fides. Now, the sports writer Fuzzy Woodriff,

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Speaker 2: A per right fuzzy, especially for a sports.

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Speaker 3: would say forty two blue forty blue.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So anyway back to this game back on November seventh,

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Speaker 3: from Georgia, neighboring state, right, but it wasn't the Georgia Bulldogs. Instead,

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Speaker 3: you know that means Mercer only scored two safeties.

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Speaker 3: That game had gone down on Halloween, and now basically

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Speaker 2: Wait, hold on, don't they normally now they like stop it.

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Speaker 2: It's too much of a massacre. You know that.

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Speaker 3: That's like bore at baseball. But go kids baseball where

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Speaker 3: they stop it onto I've seen like they'll switch away.

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Speaker 3: They'll switch away from the game. They will no longer

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Speaker 2: Switch away to blood bath and just let it go.

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Speaker 3: But this, yeah, they just let it go. You'll still

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Speaker 2: Now, what do you mean, I think it's more fun

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Speaker 3: Well, by the way, this ninety six to zero score,

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Speaker 3: it's one of the greatest most lopsided losses in college football.

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Speaker 2: Imagine. So I mean that's like like ninety six is

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Speaker 3: Oh yes, yeah, that's it's a lot of touchdowns. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: now it's like basically you're scoring every time and then

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Speaker 3: So now at this point you better believe Georgia Tech

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Speaker 3: was like Liam Neeson had taken hell bent on handling

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Speaker 3: their business right. They wanted to get back. Trouble for

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Speaker 3: them was coming into this fateful eighteen ninety six game.

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Speaker 3: Georgia Tech. Their team had no coach.

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Speaker 2: Zero, I like, oh, this guy's nothing there.

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Speaker 3: They were like the players would agree on, like what's

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Speaker 2: It was just it was a ghost.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and they're facing the soon to be legend John

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Speaker 3: Heisman and Auburn, right.

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Speaker 2: So Heisman versus nobody.

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Speaker 3: Yes, exactly. No, that's it. It's not looking good for

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Speaker 2: In their pajama pajamas, the cat's pajama.

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Speaker 3: So that's SEC football for you.

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Speaker 3: It wasn't like they were on the losing side and

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Speaker 2: They're punching down. And then they punched down after Yes.

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Speaker 3: And they put to punch the fans. They punched their

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Speaker 2: It's my favorite thing in the world.

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Speaker 2: Okay, wow, great names. Yeah, that was right there.

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Speaker 2: Mike, Yeah, Mike the Tiger.

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Speaker 2: Mike was like, can you just go give me some chili, cheese,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, pawing at his hair. How do I look? I

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Speaker 2: How crazy is it? By the way, just to put

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Speaker 3: But like raccoons are at least kind of like a

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Speaker 2: Well they call them the trash pans, right, and so

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Speaker 2: that's it feels very like I'm gonna hunt quail type thing,

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Speaker 3: So maybe they're thinking we can just get some coons,

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Speaker 2: It feels like I don't think it was a challenge.

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Speaker 3: I don't think they were doing it like, it's not

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Speaker 3: It was the South probably actually, Yeah, so back ton't Mike.

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Speaker 3: And so they decided, what the hell, let's steal it.

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Speaker 2: Now that's exactly what a Bengal tiger needs. December in

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Speaker 3: At some point they stopped to phone a friend at

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Speaker 3: According to Norbert, at one point, the chain failed and

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Speaker 2: Oh no.

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Speaker 3: But they managed to catch up to the runaway tiger cage,

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Speaker 2: They were drinking. They didn't have like trunk driving laws.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 3: When they get to the Tulane campus, students who'd heard

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Speaker 3: They're excited. There's like a lot of like, you know,

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Speaker 3: all right. He's like, no, we can't do that. I

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00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:29,680
Speaker 3: just want to humiliate LSU. Nothing against the tiger. Good

438
00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:31,199
Speaker 3: for you, I thought you'd like to know.

439
00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:32,080
Speaker 2: Now.

440
00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:34,760
Speaker 3: Their plan was to keep the tiger until halftime, and

441
00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:37,320
Speaker 3: then at halftime they drive onto the field with the

442
00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:39,960
Speaker 3: stolen LSU tiger and then they display them like we

443
00:20:40,080 --> 00:20:44,840
Speaker 3: got you, tiger. That was the plan, neck exactly you

444
00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:48,600
Speaker 3: and the bloodshed. This plan gets kaibosh when the dean

445
00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:51,720
Speaker 3: of students heard about the tiger nappers, and he insisted

446
00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:54,840
Speaker 3: that the stolen tiger be taken off campus before something

447
00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:56,840
Speaker 3: bad happened to some of the Tulane students. Yeah, he

448
00:20:56,920 --> 00:20:59,840
Speaker 3: wasn't worried about the LSU's tiger, just the Tulane students.

449
00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:02,359
Speaker 3: So Norbert and Oscar they hop back in the forty

450
00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:05,080
Speaker 3: two Plymouth and they drive the stolen tiger to Oscar's

451
00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:08,240
Speaker 3: house and they parked the tiger and the trailer inside

452
00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:12,040
Speaker 3: his parents' garage. Problem solved Later that same night, in

453
00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:15,280
Speaker 3: the early morning, Oscar's dad heard his hound dogs outside

454
00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:17,359
Speaker 3: Barkin and was about to go out to see what

455
00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:19,200
Speaker 3: the matter was, and said he told his boy, Oscar,

456
00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:21,400
Speaker 3: he go and check the dogs. That's when his son

457
00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:24,160
Speaker 3: told his father that there was a stolen tiger hidden

458
00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:27,040
Speaker 3: in his garage. His father thought about what his son

459
00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:30,040
Speaker 3: just said, and then he asked him, son, you've been drinking.

460
00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:32,919
Speaker 3: I guess you didn't believe his son because he and

461
00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:35,000
Speaker 3: the rest of the family then went out to see

462
00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:36,240
Speaker 3: said stolen tiger.

463
00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:37,119
Speaker 2: I'd want to see it.

464
00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:39,760
Speaker 3: Totally. Sure enough, there was the five hundred pound Bengal

465
00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:44,640
Speaker 3: tiger in their garage. Hound dogs or totally so Meanwhile,

466
00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:47,760
Speaker 3: word spreads on campus and soon enough it's on the radio.

467
00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:50,320
Speaker 3: They're talking about it, like the very early morning hours.

468
00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:52,760
Speaker 3: And so later that same morning, before the game, the

469
00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:55,560
Speaker 3: Nawlins police showed up at Oscar's house to check on

470
00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:59,120
Speaker 3: reports of a stolen Bengal tiger hidden in his family's garage. Yeah,

471
00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:01,280
Speaker 3: and at this point they the police took Oscar down

472
00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:04,080
Speaker 3: to the police station for questioning, but he wasn't arrested

473
00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:07,240
Speaker 3: because you know sec football. He said, we stole less

474
00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:08,960
Speaker 3: use tiger. Good, good on you boys.

475
00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:10,040
Speaker 2: Now.

476
00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:13,840
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, the tiger was eventually returned to LSU, and he

477
00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:16,360
Speaker 3: was there on the sidelines for the game. He made

478
00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:18,960
Speaker 3: a game time. Yeah, he's a bit tired, bit listless

479
00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:21,919
Speaker 3: after his long, strange trip the night before. Yeah, and

480
00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:24,399
Speaker 3: the game ended in a fourteen to fourteen tie.

481
00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:27,040
Speaker 2: Oh and they didn't do overtime.

482
00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:28,359
Speaker 3: They just no, apparently not.

483
00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:29,159
Speaker 2: Is it like soccer.

484
00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:31,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like, oh, that's enough game for today.

485
00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:33,199
Speaker 2: But the tiger's tire, Yeah, Zach, we.

486
00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:35,720
Speaker 3: Go, look at Mike. He's his eyes are barely open.

487
00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:38,600
Speaker 2: He's just growing. Mike drugged the gills for these things.

488
00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:40,960
Speaker 3: So as a result of their tiger napping. Norbert and

489
00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:44,240
Speaker 3: Oscar and the other guys were banned from LSU's campus

490
00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:47,199
Speaker 3: for life. Well, they care totally exactly like I never

491
00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:49,800
Speaker 3: want to go anywhere there. So for Norbert, who lived

492
00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:51,760
Speaker 3: the longest of all the guys, he ended up being

493
00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:55,439
Speaker 3: banned for fifty years until finally, in two thousand and seven,

494
00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:59,680
Speaker 3: he received a letter on LSU stationery, and the letter read,

495
00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:02,119
Speaker 3: and I quote, it has been called our attention that

496
00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:05,200
Speaker 3: you're involved in the famous nineteen fifty tiger napping crime.

497
00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:08,080
Speaker 3: We understand that at the time you were banned from

498
00:23:08,119 --> 00:23:11,359
Speaker 3: the LSU campus while your stunt wreaked havoc on our team.

499
00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:14,080
Speaker 3: We assume by now that you've realized the seriousness of

500
00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:17,639
Speaker 3: your hainous crime. In the spirit of forgiveness, we're absolving

501
00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:20,520
Speaker 3: you of all guilt. We feel that your fifty year

502
00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:23,880
Speaker 3: exile from the LSU campus is sufficient punishment for your

503
00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:27,720
Speaker 3: bad deed. Therefore, you are welcome to visit the LSU campus.

504
00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:31,240
Speaker 2: I love, I love getting banned from somewhere. I wouldn't

505
00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:32,240
Speaker 2: go anywhere exactly.

506
00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:35,119
Speaker 3: It's like I can't come down to the trash place.

507
00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,480
Speaker 3: But Norbert had no desire obviously to set foot on

508
00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:40,920
Speaker 3: the LSU campus, because that's how it is for SEC

509
00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:43,280
Speaker 3: football teams. You're saying, I would never go there. I'd

510
00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:46,560
Speaker 3: rather you know. Yeah, so their loyalty just remun runs

511
00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:49,000
Speaker 3: that deep, ridiculously deep, criminally deep.

512
00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:49,280
Speaker 2: Yes.

513
00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:51,840
Speaker 3: Okay, well, let's spounce out of the SEC and let's

514
00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:54,840
Speaker 3: check in on the first big college football team rivalry

515
00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:57,840
Speaker 3: for the classic, the very first you know, the original

516
00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:01,320
Speaker 3: college football team rivalry, which was Harvard and Yale.

517
00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:03,480
Speaker 2: Oh wow, yes, okay, Now.

518
00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:05,360
Speaker 3: This story may be about Harvard and Yale, but it's

519
00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:06,399
Speaker 3: really about Mit.

520
00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:07,399
Speaker 2: Oh.

521
00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:10,000
Speaker 3: You typically don't think of MIT in college football.

522
00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:10,480
Speaker 2: Not really.

523
00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:12,720
Speaker 3: Some people may even be thinking, do those nerds even

524
00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:13,440
Speaker 3: have a football?

525
00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:15,240
Speaker 2: They do, Yes, yes they.

526
00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:18,880
Speaker 3: Do, Elizabeth. The MIT engineers good for they're not good,

527
00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:21,200
Speaker 3: But that's not important. No, what is important is that,

528
00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:25,240
Speaker 3: I know. What is important, though, is that the kids

529
00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:28,600
Speaker 3: Mit are known for pulling off some epic pranks. Oh sure,

530
00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:30,480
Speaker 3: like a bunch of them. Like, for instance, one time,

531
00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:33,600
Speaker 3: for a prank back in the nineteen thirties, five MIT

532
00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:37,480
Speaker 3: students used thermite bombs to make a point. Thermite, Elizabeth,

533
00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:40,840
Speaker 3: that's the stuff that, unlike jet fuel, can melt steel, beams,

534
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:45,760
Speaker 3: apparently led by the Mary prankster Ken Wadley. He and

535
00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:48,760
Speaker 3: four other MIT students. They created their homemade thermite bomb.

536
00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:51,600
Speaker 3: They found a street car, and then they distracted the motorman,

537
00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:53,880
Speaker 3: the guy driving the street car, and then they set

538
00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:57,120
Speaker 3: off their thermite bombs and they use the superheated chemical

539
00:24:57,560 --> 00:25:01,280
Speaker 3: bomb to weld the street car to the that's how

540
00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:04,040
Speaker 3: hot it burns. It was the steel wheels to the steel.

541
00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:07,760
Speaker 2: Did they provide a manifesto explaining why they did this?

542
00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:10,639
Speaker 3: No, but good on you. We'll get back to that

543
00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:13,520
Speaker 3: point a little bit later about manifestos. By the way,

544
00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:15,840
Speaker 3: that Mary prankster Ken Wadley would go on to become

545
00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:18,760
Speaker 3: a dean at MIT. Oh, anyway, back to the Harvard

546
00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:21,440
Speaker 3: Yale game. In nineteen eighty three, Harvard was facing Yale

547
00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:24,440
Speaker 3: for their big annual rivalry game. It was a foregone

548
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:27,040
Speaker 3: conclusion that the Harvard Crimson would likely win the game.

549
00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:30,159
Speaker 3: Everybody knew that, but some geeks at MIT were dedicated

550
00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:32,600
Speaker 3: to winning the day for themselves with an epic prank.

551
00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:33,640
Speaker 3: They weren't even in the game.

552
00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:35,440
Speaker 2: Oh, They're just like, I'm going to rain on both

553
00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:38,040
Speaker 2: of your prairiers. Exactly, Yes, I love that.

554
00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:40,520
Speaker 3: So a bunch of frat brothers from the Delta Kappa

555
00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:43,760
Speaker 3: Epsilon House, the Deekshuh, they came up with this plan

556
00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:46,480
Speaker 3: to embarrass Harvard. So before the game, they snuck into

557
00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:49,919
Speaker 3: Harvard Stadium not once, not twice, but eight times. Okay,

558
00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:52,719
Speaker 3: why Molta set up their prank? So these nerds had

559
00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:54,760
Speaker 3: it all planned out, I mean, they had blueprints of

560
00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:57,320
Speaker 3: the stadium, they had the schedule of the security guards

561
00:25:57,400 --> 00:25:59,960
Speaker 3: rounds all figured out and cloked. It was a prank

562
00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:02,119
Speaker 3: that was, by the way, the culmination of five years

563
00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:06,119
Speaker 3: of work. What thanks to the MIT Technology Review, we

564
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:09,040
Speaker 3: have an exhaustive account of what went down. Starting in

565
00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:12,439
Speaker 3: nineteen seventy eight, the frad brothers from DKE designed and

566
00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:15,240
Speaker 3: built the first build of the eventual apparatus that they

567
00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:17,760
Speaker 3: would use for their prank. But those frat brothers ended

568
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:20,320
Speaker 3: up graduating before they governed deploy it. And so in

569
00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:24,200
Speaker 3: nineteen eighty two, the other Deeks they learned and about

570
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:26,840
Speaker 3: these OG plans, they decided, We're going to go through

571
00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:27,119
Speaker 3: with it.

572
00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:29,480
Speaker 2: Like this is already so much cooler than like get

573
00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:31,800
Speaker 2: drunk and steal a tiger, if you say so, Like

574
00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:34,040
Speaker 2: the logistics of Oh yeah, I.

575
00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:34,960
Speaker 3: Think you're going to like this.

576
00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:35,560
Speaker 2: I love it so.

577
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:39,560
Speaker 3: According Toady Husaka class of eighty four, the frad Bros

578
00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:42,720
Speaker 3: used a balloon apparatus that their predecessors had designed, and

579
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:45,360
Speaker 3: over the course of their eight trips to the Harvard Stadium,

580
00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:49,000
Speaker 3: they secretly installed it. As who sucked an electrical engineering

581
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:52,359
Speaker 3: major he recalled it, quote, about twenty guys participated. We

582
00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:54,760
Speaker 3: go in at two am with camo paint on and

583
00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:58,480
Speaker 3: lookouts in the stadium towers. I love this, yes, then,

584
00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:01,200
Speaker 3: as he also adds, I found the irrigation control board

585
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,960
Speaker 3: and I wired the apparatus into an empty circuit breaker.

586
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:07,880
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I love this more and more every sentence.

587
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:10,200
Speaker 3: The plan was that when they triggered their apparatus, it

588
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:13,200
Speaker 3: would trigger this enormous black balloon that would emerge from

589
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:16,119
Speaker 3: the Harvard field with a prank message spelled out on

590
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:19,680
Speaker 3: its rubbery skin. Except the nerds messed up a little bit.

591
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:23,240
Speaker 3: Their wiring failed. The balloon didn't deploy like they designed,

592
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:25,520
Speaker 3: so one of the deep frapros had to run down

593
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:28,480
Speaker 3: and then finesse his way past the Harvard campus police

594
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:31,280
Speaker 3: and talk his way into the electrical room and then

595
00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:34,399
Speaker 3: hand trigger the device. To do that, he pulled every

596
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:37,320
Speaker 3: single circuit breaker there was and then boom. Eventually, this

597
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:41,640
Speaker 3: desperate move works, as the MIT Technology Review reports it. Quote,

598
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:44,200
Speaker 3: during the second quarter of the Harvard Yale football game

599
00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:46,960
Speaker 3: on November twentieth, nineteen eighty two, a big black balloon

600
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,480
Speaker 3: with MIT written all over it suddenly emerged from the

601
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:52,320
Speaker 3: Harvard Stadium field. The two teams were lined up when

602
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:56,199
Speaker 3: suddenly our attension shifted toward the sideline, remembers MIT Museum

603
00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:59,800
Speaker 3: Science and Technology Curator Deborah Douglas, who was there. That's

604
00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:01,600
Speaker 3: when we saw it. Everyone was trying to make out

605
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:03,639
Speaker 3: what was written on the balloon. Some of the Harvard

606
00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:07,160
Speaker 3: police seemed to draw their guns, and then suddenly it exploded.

607
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:10,760
Speaker 3: So calling the game for the TV audience at home

608
00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:14,680
Speaker 3: was legendary college football broadcaster Brent Musburger. Watching it all

609
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:16,960
Speaker 3: go down, He tells the TV audience at home that

610
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:19,359
Speaker 3: it appears that a bomb is floated down onto Harvard

611
00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:23,000
Speaker 3: Field and exploded, resulting in a three foot crater. Now,

612
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:24,880
Speaker 3: I don't want you to worry about Harvard's field because

613
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:28,080
Speaker 3: I know how you green thumbs are. The groundskeeper sprung

614
00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:30,119
Speaker 3: into action and they were able to repair the grass

615
00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:31,399
Speaker 3: in the field and the game went on.

616
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:34,800
Speaker 2: Wait it did blow a crater three a three foot crater. Yeah.

617
00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:36,399
Speaker 2: When the balloon exploded, it popped.

618
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:39,480
Speaker 3: Yeah. So the Harvard eventually went on to defeat Yale

619
00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:42,600
Speaker 3: forty five to seven. But after the game, no one

620
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 3: was talking about Harvard and their victory. Instead, everyone was

621
00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:48,240
Speaker 3: talking about Mitya. In fact, some of the frat bros

622
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:51,560
Speaker 3: from DKE they held a press conference where they showed

623
00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:55,240
Speaker 3: up drinking beers, budweisers, some of them were pantsless. It

624
00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:58,560
Speaker 3: was oh, now do you say high spirited, and the

625
00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:01,560
Speaker 3: mit frat bros proceeded to explain to the non nerds

626
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 3: what they had done and how it was all actually

627
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:05,560
Speaker 3: just a harmless prank. I know it exploded, but it

628
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:07,880
Speaker 3: was a harmless prank, So it was one deck fratbro

629
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,240
Speaker 3: told the Gathered Press the balloon was quote just free

630
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:13,360
Speaker 3: on It's just what you would get in a refrigerator.

631
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:16,040
Speaker 3: It's harmless, and it's escaping. It's it's an inert gas.

632
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:19,959
Speaker 3: So looking back at their successful prank to embarrass Harvard,

633
00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:22,560
Speaker 3: one of the Deeks later told the Associated Press that

634
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 3: quote the hardest part of the whole project was trying

635
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:29,000
Speaker 3: to scalp tickets to get into the game. Now, if

636
00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 3: you ask me my favorite MIT related stunt, isn't that one?

637
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:35,520
Speaker 3: It's one Remember you think about the manifesto. Well, some

638
00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:38,120
Speaker 3: students one time snuck onto the Harvard campus and they

639
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:41,520
Speaker 3: dressed up the statue of John Harvard as a former

640
00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:46,560
Speaker 3: Harvard student, specifically Ted Kaczinski aka the unifommer eddyk. That's

641
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:51,680
Speaker 3: some super extra dirty five my god. So like, yeah,

642
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:56,200
Speaker 3: possibly a manifesto, I don't know, probably not the shack.

643
00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:58,760
Speaker 3: How about you know, Okay, let's take another break and

644
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 3: see what's what with some advertisements as some sweet sweet ads.

645
00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:06,000
Speaker 3: Don't worry, there's gonna be plenty for everyone. Oh thank

646
00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 3: god back in two and two. We're back, Elizabeth. Yes,

647
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:31,360
Speaker 3: you ready for some more college football craziness. Yes, right,

648
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 3: I saved the best for last.

649
00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:33,920
Speaker 2: Does it involve nerds?

650
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:35,240
Speaker 3: You could say, yes?

651
00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:36,040
Speaker 2: Oh probably not?

652
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:39,040
Speaker 3: Well no kinda. I mean, well, you can tell me

653
00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:42,480
Speaker 3: this one I picked out just for you. Oh, it's

654
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:47,600
Speaker 3: all about the Big Game aka Stanford versus cal h. Yes, Now,

655
00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:50,120
Speaker 3: as you know, cal as in UC Berkeley and Stanford

656
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:53,360
Speaker 3: are each other's oldest rival. Do you want to guess

657
00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:56,640
Speaker 3: the year when Cal first faced Stanford in a rivalry game.

658
00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:02,840
Speaker 2: Let's say was it in the nineteen hundreds?

659
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:03,480
Speaker 3: No?

660
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 2: Oh, okay, so I think the cow was founded in

661
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:10,120
Speaker 2: eighteen sixty eight. If I'm not mistake, that's right to me.

662
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:10,560
Speaker 3: I don't know.

663
00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:15,440
Speaker 2: Let's say eighteen seventy three.

664
00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:16,960
Speaker 3: Eighteen ninety two, Oh, eighteen ninety two.

665
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:20,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, but college football really gets become invented.

666
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 3: In eighteen nineties. You see all a lot of the big.

667
00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 2: First game invented.

668
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:28,520
Speaker 3: This one is eighteen ninety two, and the team manager

669
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:31,920
Speaker 3: for Stanford for that game was a future US president. Oh,

670
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 3: really want to guess which US president led the Stanford

671
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:36,000
Speaker 3: team in eighteen ninety two?

672
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:37,400
Speaker 2: Barack Hussein Obama.

673
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:39,200
Speaker 3: I'll give you a hint. He was the thirty first

674
00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:41,480
Speaker 3: president of the United States. And he is not a

675
00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 3: beloved president Millard Fillmore.

676
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 1: No.

677
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:47,120
Speaker 3: The manager of Stanford's football team in eighteen ninety two

678
00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:48,200
Speaker 3: was Herbert Hoover.

679
00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:49,200
Speaker 2: Oh.

680
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:51,960
Speaker 3: Now, before a crowd of twenty thousand people packed into

681
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:54,560
Speaker 3: the Hate Street Grounds, a field in San Francisco, the

682
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:58,280
Speaker 3: very first big game was played. The stadium held fifteen

683
00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:01,200
Speaker 3: thousand people. Herbert Hoover expected the crowd to be about

684
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:03,960
Speaker 3: ten thousand people, so that's exactly how many tickets he

685
00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:08,479
Speaker 3: printed up. Obviously, he greatly underestimated the demand. Instead, twenty

686
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:10,200
Speaker 3: thousand people filed through.

687
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 2: The gates, turned it into a Hooverville pretty much.

688
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 3: So he got these people overflowing the field, right. So basically, yeah, yes, yeah,

689
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:21,959
Speaker 3: so at what would later be Golden Gate Park at

690
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:25,120
Speaker 3: the top up by Hate Street. And yes, so, after

691
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:27,440
Speaker 3: he ran out of the printed tickets, Herbert Hoover just

692
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 3: stood there at the turnstile collecting coins for people's entry.

693
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:33,840
Speaker 3: He tossed all the proceeds into this big washtub and

694
00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:36,960
Speaker 3: basically you got the idea. The place was a bumping right. So,

695
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:39,200
Speaker 3: after this huge crowd is seated, the stands are packed

696
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:41,800
Speaker 3: to standing room only capacity with all these eager fans,

697
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:44,000
Speaker 3: the team captains, they go out onto the field to

698
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 3: meet with the referee and go over the pregame instructions.

699
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:49,360
Speaker 3: Listen a quick question, Yeah, what's the one thing you

700
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:50,320
Speaker 3: need to play football?

701
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:53,960
Speaker 2: Steroids?

702
00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:54,560
Speaker 3: A football?

703
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:57,040
Speaker 2: Oh? A football? Yeah, that's a good point.

704
00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:58,920
Speaker 3: Well, that day when the ref asked them for the

705
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:01,480
Speaker 3: football one team and looked the other and said, well,

706
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:03,280
Speaker 3: hand him the ball. The other team captain was like,

707
00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:04,920
Speaker 3: I don't have the ball. I thought you were bringing

708
00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:07,160
Speaker 3: a football. Turns out no one brought a football.

709
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:10,680
Speaker 2: Wait, no, no one brought Herbert.

710
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 3: It is so future. Herbert Hoover, being the leader type

711
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,240
Speaker 3: that he was, had to act quickly. He had someone

712
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:18,680
Speaker 3: climb into a saddle and they took off on horseback.

713
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:20,200
Speaker 3: Why to go procure a.

714
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:21,800
Speaker 2: Football to go to Big Five?

715
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 3: Pretty much, it was like like old year old Big

716
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 3: Five the fan on horseback rode to a local sporting

717
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:29,960
Speaker 3: good store. Once he was there, he was like, one football, please,

718
00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:32,600
Speaker 3: we have the big game going down. So then with

719
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:35,200
Speaker 3: football secure, he hopped back down on.

720
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:36,760
Speaker 2: The Did he buy more than one football?

721
00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:38,920
Speaker 3: Let's hope, right, but I think he only bought one.

722
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 3: I don't know.

723
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 2: Does Herbert give him enough money?

724
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 3: I like to picture him having just one football?

725
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:46,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then he holds it like he's.

726
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:47,120
Speaker 3: A Heisman trophy.

727
00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:48,440
Speaker 2: Yeah.

728
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:50,320
Speaker 3: So he hops back on the horse races back to

729
00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 3: the Hate Street Stadium, which is, you know, as I said,

730
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 3: would be the Golden Gate Field Park, but.

731
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,520
Speaker 2: You know, and then later you know, would be the

732
00:33:57,560 --> 00:33:58,800
Speaker 2: epicenter of the summer flow.

733
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 3: There you go to hate to ask totally Berth of

734
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:03,080
Speaker 3: the hippies and college and the big game at college football.

735
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 2: Isn't that beautiful?

736
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:05,840
Speaker 3: Zero h it full circle right Berkeley.

737
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 2: Berkeley sunrise sunset.

738
00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 3: Anyway, long story short, Stanford beat Cal in that game,

739
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:13,640
Speaker 3: fourteen to ten. That was the score for the very

740
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:17,040
Speaker 3: first big game between Stanford and Cal. After that first

741
00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:19,400
Speaker 3: big game was all set and done, future president Herbert

742
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:21,400
Speaker 3: Hoover counted up the money from the gate and he

743
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:24,160
Speaker 3: found that he'd collected thirty thousand dollars.

744
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:25,560
Speaker 2: Wait in those days.

745
00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:27,960
Speaker 3: Now, that's n ever. I got from Stanford's website, and

746
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:30,600
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure that that's in eighteen ninety two dollars,

747
00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:33,560
Speaker 3: which means they were charging apparently fans a dollar fifty

748
00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:36,239
Speaker 3: a ticket. I looked it up for you, But the

749
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:39,680
Speaker 3: official US inflation calculator only goes back to nineteen thirteen,

750
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:43,080
Speaker 3: when the IRS starts and the Federal Reserve starts. But

751
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:45,520
Speaker 3: according to the Consumer Price Index, which goes back to

752
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:48,279
Speaker 3: eighteen ninety two, a dollar fifty and eighteen ninety two

753
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:51,040
Speaker 3: would be fifty three dollars in twenty twenty five, which

754
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:53,960
Speaker 3: for a college football game in eighteen ninety two seems expensive.

755
00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:54,960
Speaker 2: Yeah.

756
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:56,960
Speaker 3: Either way, the receipts from that first big game were

757
00:34:57,080 --> 00:34:59,239
Speaker 3: enough to pay for the entire next season of college

758
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:02,799
Speaker 3: football or Stanford's football team, and thus marks the start

759
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:05,640
Speaker 3: of the Cal Stanford rivalry. In this is all just

760
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:07,760
Speaker 3: an appetizer for what I really want to tell you about,

761
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:09,640
Speaker 3: because now we need to skip ahead a few years

762
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:13,200
Speaker 3: to eighteen ninety nine. Eighteen nine, Elizabeth, do you know

763
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:14,600
Speaker 3: about the Stanford Axe?

764
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:18,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know about it. It's like that's the like

765
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:21,440
Speaker 2: the trophy basically that goes back and forth. So whoever

766
00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:24,160
Speaker 2: wins the big game gets the act very good.

767
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:26,120
Speaker 3: I didn't know about this. I learned all about it.

768
00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:28,840
Speaker 2: I didn't go to Cal, but everyone and my family

769
00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:33,440
Speaker 2: went to Yeah, and I grew up going to football games. Yeah,

770
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:35,640
Speaker 2: and I'm like, I'm the family disappointment because I went

771
00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 2: to the farm school.

772
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:38,279
Speaker 3: You went to Cal Davis instead.

773
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 2: Of exactly, it's all Cal Berkeley folks, and they are crowded.

774
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:45,480
Speaker 3: Near stare at your Cal Davis.

775
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:47,040
Speaker 2: Okay, well, but I mean if I have to choose

776
00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:49,520
Speaker 2: between Cal and Stanford.

777
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:54,040
Speaker 3: Hello, oh yeah, I'm with you totally now, since you

778
00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:56,480
Speaker 3: already know about the Stanford x I will tell you

779
00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 3: the story of how the acts came to be.

780
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:00,680
Speaker 2: Oh yes, it is enjoy that ridiculous.

781
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:03,480
Speaker 3: The Stanford Axe is a real axe, and it was

782
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:06,680
Speaker 3: a standard issue twelve or fifteen inch lumberjacks axe. I

783
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:09,880
Speaker 3: found varying accounts of its size. Anyway, back in eighteen

784
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:12,800
Speaker 3: ninety nine, at a PEP rally for Stanford, the students

785
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:15,000
Speaker 3: unveiled the axe and used it to fire up the

786
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:17,240
Speaker 3: student body by chopping off the head of a straw

787
00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:19,879
Speaker 3: man that was dressed up in Cal's colors of blue

788
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:22,520
Speaker 3: and gold. Violent right, But not only that, they were

789
00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:25,720
Speaker 3: also yelling the Stanford Axe yell, which is a crazy

790
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:28,560
Speaker 3: Pep song. The Stanford Axe yell has lines like give

791
00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:31,640
Speaker 3: them the axe, axe, the axe where right in the neck?

792
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:35,680
Speaker 3: The neck the neck love yea? I thought you would. Now.

793
00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 3: Can you imagine a bunch of students all yelling that

794
00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:39,920
Speaker 3: to some PEP squad cheerleader as they chopped the head

795
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 3: off a straw man dressed as a cow supporter. I

796
00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:42,600
Speaker 3: thought you could.

797
00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:44,279
Speaker 2: Why do I suddenly have this blood lige?

798
00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:45,920
Speaker 3: I don't know where it's coming from? It say, is

799
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:47,680
Speaker 3: it the winter of dark? Elizabeth, we're getting near.

800
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 2: I think we're in the late summer of blood lust. Apparently,

801
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:53,520
Speaker 2: like I've just I don't know what.

802
00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:54,960
Speaker 3: Happened college football seasons.

803
00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 2: I have them all head up for it.

804
00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:00,640
Speaker 3: See, people say agriculture today is so violent, but you

805
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:04,000
Speaker 3: read left, you don't even know that happens.

806
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:05,840
Speaker 2: It's the violence isn't in the right place.

807
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:09,360
Speaker 3: So anyway, back in eighteen ninety nine, at a Stanford

808
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:13,520
Speaker 3: col baseball game on April fifteenth, the Stanford yell leaders

809
00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:18,600
Speaker 3: that's what they were called, not cheerleaders, yell leaders. They

810
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 3: were doing their thing, leading the student body in a

811
00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:23,960
Speaker 3: rousing rendition of the axe yell. And they used this

812
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:26,800
Speaker 3: real lumberjack axe to chop up some blue and gold

813
00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:30,040
Speaker 3: ribbons whenever Stanford had a good play in the baseball game.

814
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:32,040
Speaker 2: Ribbons exactly.

815
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 3: I don't even know how you do. I don't know

816
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:35,920
Speaker 3: if they're holding them and chopping through them on the

817
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:40,399
Speaker 3: grass and just chopping sweetish chef on it, I don't know.

818
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:42,480
Speaker 2: And then they see like all the pieces of ribbons

819
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:44,160
Speaker 2: and someone's like, is this a gender reveal?

820
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:47,839
Speaker 3: So after like a bunch of innings of this game,

821
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:50,319
Speaker 3: the cow fans got pissed, right, So what do they

822
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 3: do in the ninth inning? They go over and they

823
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:55,359
Speaker 3: beat up the Stanford yell leaders and they steal the X. Yes,

824
00:37:55,719 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 3: now I should say that this game wasn't going down

825
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:03,080
Speaker 3: in Stanford, or it was on neutral grounds in San Francisco, Okay.

826
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:05,239
Speaker 3: According to newspapers of the day, By the end of

827
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:07,600
Speaker 3: the game, the Cow fans were so pissed they muscled

828
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:09,719
Speaker 3: the acts away from the Stanford yell leaders, which then

829
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:11,759
Speaker 3: led to well, you know what, rather than me tell

830
00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:13,840
Speaker 3: you about it, Elizabeth, I'd like you to close your eyes. Well,

831
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:22,400
Speaker 3: I'd like you to picture it. It's April fifteenth, eighteen

832
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:25,399
Speaker 3: ninety nine, and you, Elizabeth, are in San Francisco. At

833
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:28,239
Speaker 3: the moment, you're at a ballpark, one located at sixteenth

834
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:30,920
Speaker 3: Street in fulsom You happen to be attending a baseball

835
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:34,080
Speaker 3: game between local college rivals Stanford and Cow. The San

836
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:38,040
Speaker 3: Francisco Ballpark is safe, neutral territory, and so far it's

837
00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:40,920
Speaker 3: been a hell of a game. Now, in the ninth inning,

838
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:44,760
Speaker 3: Cal is rallying back after a stunning triple is cracked

839
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 3: off the bat of a cowplayer. A two sport football

840
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:51,120
Speaker 3: and baseball star. The game is nearly tied nine to seven.

841
00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:54,200
Speaker 3: But really you're not so much watching or even attending

842
00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:56,759
Speaker 3: this game, since you are a prop one that's being

843
00:38:56,880 --> 00:38:59,360
Speaker 3: used to taunt the cow students. Because that's right, Elizabeth,

844
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:02,799
Speaker 3: you are this Stanford Ax. You've been busy today, used

845
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:04,960
Speaker 3: to chop up blue and gold ribbons to taunt the

846
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:08,279
Speaker 3: cow students. There is now a simmering rage coming from

847
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:11,239
Speaker 3: the cow bleachers. When this ballgame finally comes to its

848
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:15,360
Speaker 3: stunning clothes, Stanford is the victor. You are triumphantly lifted

849
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:18,279
Speaker 3: up for one final taunt of the cow fans. Then

850
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:20,560
Speaker 3: you were handed over to a pair of Stanford students

851
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:23,920
Speaker 3: called the Guardians of the Ax, to be taken back

852
00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:27,040
Speaker 3: to Palo Alto at the Stanford campus. But before you

853
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:29,600
Speaker 3: make the trip back to Stanford, you hear a hubble

854
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:32,680
Speaker 3: loop begin as nearly a dozen cow students stop the

855
00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:36,600
Speaker 3: Stanford students that are carrying you. Suddenly you're being wrestled

856
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:38,720
Speaker 3: out of the hands of a Stanford student. The angry

857
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:41,040
Speaker 3: cow students rip you out of his hands, and then

858
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:44,279
Speaker 3: things turn truly wild. You feel the tight grip of

859
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 3: a cow fan as he yanked you away from the

860
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,480
Speaker 3: Stanford students' hands, and then you feel the cool breeze

861
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:50,920
Speaker 3: of speed as he goes running off. You can hear

862
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:54,319
Speaker 3: Stanford students shouting as they rally to save you, but

863
00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:57,040
Speaker 3: mostly you just hear the heavy breathing and the pounding

864
00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:59,880
Speaker 3: footsteps of the cow student as he flees the scene.

865
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:02,600
Speaker 3: The cow student sprints all the way to fifteenth Street,

866
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:05,160
Speaker 3: then he heads up a few blocks towards Valencia Street,

867
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:08,520
Speaker 3: but before he can get far, this cow thief is

868
00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:11,120
Speaker 3: caught and tacted by a pair of Stanford students. You

869
00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:14,080
Speaker 3: now switch hands. Now Stanford has you back. However, this

870
00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:17,719
Speaker 3: doesn't last long, as they run back a mere block later,

871
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:21,200
Speaker 3: Cow students catch them and snatch you back. Next, you're

872
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:23,919
Speaker 3: handed over to a cow track star who takes off,

873
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 3: sprinting like the wind. He makes it a few blocks,

874
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:28,920
Speaker 3: where he then hands you off to a second cow student,

875
00:40:29,080 --> 00:40:31,520
Speaker 3: and in order to make a daring getaway, this second

876
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:34,520
Speaker 3: cow student, joined by others, pops into a horse drawn

877
00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:37,600
Speaker 3: wagon and they race off. Wagon wheels crush the gravel

878
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:40,320
Speaker 3: as you hear Stanford students calling out, shouting with blood

879
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:43,160
Speaker 3: pumping anger. You don't know the city well, since you're

880
00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:46,280
Speaker 3: a humble lumberjacks axe, but if you did, you would

881
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:49,959
Speaker 3: know you're headed uphill towards Nobe Street. Stanford students also

882
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,280
Speaker 3: hop into a wagon of their own, and they give chase.

883
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:54,720
Speaker 3: Now it's a high speed wagon chase through the hills

884
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:57,279
Speaker 3: of San Francisco. After a quick left and then a right,

885
00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:00,279
Speaker 3: the cow students in their wagons speed across Market.

886
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:02,000
Speaker 2: Street, the main thoroughfare in the city.

887
00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:04,360
Speaker 3: They make it over to Oak Street a few blocks away.

888
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:07,279
Speaker 3: As the horse drawn wagon navigates the hilly streets of

889
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:10,560
Speaker 3: San Francisco, one of the cow students spots a butcher's shop.

890
00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:13,160
Speaker 3: Soon enough, you feel the fleeing wagon pull to a

891
00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:16,400
Speaker 3: dramatic stop. A cow student hops down runs into the

892
00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:19,040
Speaker 3: butcher's shop. After a quick exchange of words and money,

893
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:22,760
Speaker 3: you feel the butcher saw off your handle. That seems extreme,

894
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:25,280
Speaker 3: but now you're much easier to manage or to hide

895
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:27,520
Speaker 3: with your handle removed. The cow student runs back to

896
00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:30,480
Speaker 3: the wagon. The horses take off again. The getaway wagon

897
00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:33,439
Speaker 3: races downhill on Oak Street. It's a steep street. After

898
00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:36,160
Speaker 3: racing downhill, the getaway wagon heads for Fillmore Street, where

899
00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:38,839
Speaker 3: the wagon makes a hard left turn and speeds along

900
00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:42,640
Speaker 3: in its frantic escape. Fillmore Street is packed with wagons

901
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:45,439
Speaker 3: and other folks on horseback. A few narrow misses later,

902
00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:48,440
Speaker 3: the wagon makes another hard turn and speeds down Washington

903
00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:51,799
Speaker 3: Street until you reach downtown San Francisco. This means even

904
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:55,160
Speaker 3: more chaos of midday traffic. At Powell Street, the getaway

905
00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:58,280
Speaker 3: wagon leans into a hard left turn. Wagon wheels barely

906
00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:00,759
Speaker 3: hold to the street. If you had, you would see

907
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:03,680
Speaker 3: that you're now on Clay Street, racing through the Financial district.

908
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:06,840
Speaker 3: You can hear the distant foghorns of the San Francisco Harbor.

909
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:10,520
Speaker 3: Cow students are jubilant, confident they're gonna make their escape,

910
00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:14,239
Speaker 3: but you hear the shrill whistles of San Francisco police officers.

911
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:17,319
Speaker 3: The officers who've been alerted to the axe left join

912
00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:20,120
Speaker 3: in the chase, with both San Francisco cops and the

913
00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:22,920
Speaker 3: Stanford students in hot pursuit. The cow students race for

914
00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:25,560
Speaker 3: the ferry docks as the cloths of the horses clatter

915
00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:28,359
Speaker 3: against the street. Startled pedestrians leap out of the way

916
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:31,480
Speaker 3: of these galloping horses. Meanwhile, the cow student, who grips

917
00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 3: what's left of you, holds you tight to his body.

918
00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:36,400
Speaker 3: As the getaway wagon heads for the ferry building, located

919
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:39,000
Speaker 3: there at the end of Market, where the city's main

920
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:43,360
Speaker 3: thoroughfare meets the docks. You hear the cow student call whoa,

921
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:45,640
Speaker 3: and the horses come to a hard stop. The cow student,

922
00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:47,920
Speaker 3: gripping you by the axe head, hops down from the

923
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:50,880
Speaker 3: wagon and runs for the ferry building, the cops giving chase.

924
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:54,000
Speaker 3: They can't be far behind. However, there's other trouble because

925
00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:56,120
Speaker 3: at the ferry building there are a wait more San

926
00:42:56,120 --> 00:42:59,279
Speaker 3: Francisco cops, and with them is the president of the

927
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:03,560
Speaker 3: student body from Stanford University. Together they're inspecting every male

928
00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:06,279
Speaker 3: passenger who attempts to board a ferry across the bay

929
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:09,040
Speaker 3: headed back to Berkeley. You hear the cow student, who

930
00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:12,040
Speaker 3: grips you tight under his overcoat, say howdy, what are

931
00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:14,919
Speaker 3: you doing here? A young woman's voice answers. It's clear

932
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:17,640
Speaker 3: from their tone and their exchange they know each other.

933
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:20,000
Speaker 3: The cow student asks the young woman if she'll do

934
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:22,640
Speaker 3: him a favor. You feel him hand what's left of

935
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:25,239
Speaker 3: you over to her, and he asks her to hide you.

936
00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:28,000
Speaker 3: She's only too happy to help. She steaks you up

937
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:30,480
Speaker 3: under her skirt and holds you tight against her bloomers

938
00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:33,560
Speaker 3: for undergarments. Together, they now head to board a faerry

939
00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:36,000
Speaker 3: that will take them back across the bay to Oakland

940
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:38,600
Speaker 3: and not to Berkeley. That's a smart choice. It means

941
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:40,920
Speaker 3: they avoid the police and the president of the student

942
00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:43,640
Speaker 3: body from Stanford who are watching the gangplank for the

943
00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:47,200
Speaker 3: Berkeley Fairy. After tickets are purchased, the two casually board

944
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:49,759
Speaker 3: the Oakland ferry and with a blast of its fog horn,

945
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:52,560
Speaker 3: the boat pulls away from the dock. Oh what a

946
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:53,960
Speaker 3: wild ride for an axe.

947
00:43:54,080 --> 00:43:55,960
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I love it so much.

948
00:43:56,080 --> 00:43:59,319
Speaker 3: So that's how the cow students stole Stanford's axe and

949
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:02,920
Speaker 3: initiated one of the longest rivalries in college football, because

950
00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:05,040
Speaker 3: even though the axe was stolen from a baseball game,

951
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:06,759
Speaker 3: it would go on, as you pointed out, to become

952
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:09,960
Speaker 3: the trophy for the school's annual big game in college football.

953
00:44:10,719 --> 00:44:13,080
Speaker 3: But there's a lot more to the story, Oh Elizabeth,

954
00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:15,760
Speaker 3: what I just told you was true, essentially true, as

955
00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:18,120
Speaker 3: in it all happened. I did dramatize it a bit

956
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:20,239
Speaker 3: because we don't know the exact details of the chase,

957
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:22,239
Speaker 3: but there was a fighter, the axe, the high speed

958
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:24,439
Speaker 3: chase through San Francisco. In fact, there's a hand drawn

959
00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:26,920
Speaker 3: map you can find of that chase and the craze

960
00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:29,600
Speaker 3: path that I just described through the city's busy streets.

961
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:31,920
Speaker 3: And it was all true. About the Ferry building, dodging

962
00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:34,320
Speaker 3: the cops, chopping off the axe handle the president of

963
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:36,800
Speaker 3: the Stanford student body, all that's true. And the Darren

964
00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:39,359
Speaker 3: Cow students sneaking aboard a ferry across the bay and

965
00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:41,760
Speaker 3: make it safely back to the Cow campus with Stanford

966
00:44:41,760 --> 00:44:44,640
Speaker 3: axe also all true. But the last part of the story,

967
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:47,600
Speaker 3: that's where the legend comes in, because according to historians

968
00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:50,319
Speaker 3: who looked into this, the part about the fairy left

969
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:54,239
Speaker 3: out some key details on purpose. So now I'll tell

970
00:44:54,239 --> 00:44:56,719
Speaker 3: you what the Cow and Stanford historians have come to

971
00:44:56,760 --> 00:44:59,320
Speaker 3: say is the true full story of what happened to

972
00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:02,399
Speaker 3: the Stanford acc and how it was taken back to Berkeley. Yeah,

973
00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:07,640
Speaker 3: Carl Who of Stanford and who and Cameron of col

974
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:10,759
Speaker 3: uncovered the actual ending of this crazy chase. When that

975
00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:13,400
Speaker 3: final fleeing Cow student in the getaway wagon, he was

976
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:15,640
Speaker 3: a dude named Clinton Miller. When he got to the

977
00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:19,120
Speaker 3: Ferry building, he met a fellow Cal student named Everett Brown.

978
00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:22,799
Speaker 3: Evertt Brown took the Stanford axe from Clinton Miller, who

979
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:25,640
Speaker 3: must have been exhausted from his crazy wagon chase. And so,

980
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:28,320
Speaker 3: according to the two historians of this wild event, Everett

981
00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:30,640
Speaker 3: Brown pulled like a bugs bunny to get the Stanford

982
00:45:30,640 --> 00:45:32,880
Speaker 3: axe back to cow. And what I mean by that

983
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:35,920
Speaker 3: is well, as Stanford historian Carl who tells it and

984
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:38,800
Speaker 3: I quote, Everett Brown saw the cops waiting as he

985
00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:40,640
Speaker 3: got to the ferry building, so he quickly bought a

986
00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:42,920
Speaker 3: dress from a push cart peddler at the foot of

987
00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:45,880
Speaker 3: Market Street and changed in a nearby alley, and then

988
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:49,320
Speaker 3: he and Clinton Miller walked onto the boat as a couple.

989
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:50,720
Speaker 2: Oh my god.

990
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:52,799
Speaker 3: And that's not all.

991
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:54,040
Speaker 2: That's better than the legend.

992
00:45:54,239 --> 00:45:57,320
Speaker 3: The antics were a major source of embarrassment for Brown's

993
00:45:57,440 --> 00:46:00,400
Speaker 3: rich family, because, as the col historian Cameron Will adds

994
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:03,680
Speaker 3: to the telling and I quote, his mother and grandmother

995
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:06,400
Speaker 3: were horrified when they heard about it. His grandmother was

996
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:09,320
Speaker 3: the wife of the richest man in town, Frederick Delger,

997
00:46:09,440 --> 00:46:12,840
Speaker 3: who owned all of downtown Oakland between Telegraph and Broadway

998
00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:15,600
Speaker 3: from eighth Street to twentieth Street. They were afraid that

999
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:18,920
Speaker 3: the scandal would harm Everetts budding legal career, so Clint

1000
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:21,160
Speaker 3: agreed to take the blame. It wasn't the theft that

1001
00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:23,600
Speaker 3: appalled them so much, it was that he had dressed

1002
00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:24,080
Speaker 3: as a woman.

1003
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:25,880
Speaker 2: Oh God, get over it.

1004
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:28,279
Speaker 3: So either way, those two managed to get to the

1005
00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:31,000
Speaker 3: Stanford ACX safely back to Berkeley. That night, there's a

1006
00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:34,320
Speaker 3: celebration on the campus as the Stanford axes paraded around

1007
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:37,600
Speaker 3: before throngs of cheering Cow students. Right later on is

1008
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:40,680
Speaker 3: secretly stored under a bed at the Kyfi Fratorney House.

1009
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:44,319
Speaker 3: And when the Stanford student body heard about this denigration

1010
00:46:44,440 --> 00:46:47,680
Speaker 3: of their axe, a band of thirty Stanford students showed

1011
00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 3: up on the Cow campus to get their axe back.

1012
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:52,759
Speaker 3: They went to the frat house, broke in, tore the

1013
00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:56,040
Speaker 3: place apart looking for their stolen axe. They found no axe.

1014
00:46:56,360 --> 00:46:58,560
Speaker 3: The axe was there hidden in the space behind a

1015
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:00,600
Speaker 3: sliding door. I imagine like in this space where the

1016
00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:03,680
Speaker 3: door slid into either way. They missed it. Defeated again.

1017
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:07,560
Speaker 3: Stanford raiding party left after its night at the frat house.

1018
00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:09,640
Speaker 3: The Stanford ax was later then moved to a bank

1019
00:47:09,719 --> 00:47:12,560
Speaker 3: vault for safekeeping, oh where it stayed for the next

1020
00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:16,319
Speaker 3: few decades, and each year the Cow students would bring

1021
00:47:16,320 --> 00:47:18,920
Speaker 3: the Stanford Axe out of hiding and paraded around at

1022
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:21,360
Speaker 3: the Greek Theater on the col campus for their annual

1023
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:25,640
Speaker 3: pep rally before the big game against Stanford's football team Elizabeth.

1024
00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:29,600
Speaker 3: They did this for thirty years, but then in nineteen thirty,

1025
00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:33,239
Speaker 3: a brave group of Stanford students dubbed the Immortal twenty one,

1026
00:47:33,719 --> 00:47:36,680
Speaker 3: staged as new Raid. They snuck onto the Cow campus

1027
00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:38,480
Speaker 3: on the night of the annual pep rally at the

1028
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:41,520
Speaker 3: Greek Theatre before the big game. The Immortal twenty one.

1029
00:47:41,560 --> 00:47:43,680
Speaker 3: They show up prepared to do whatever it takes to

1030
00:47:43,719 --> 00:47:46,759
Speaker 3: get back the Stanford Axe, as their stolen axe was

1031
00:47:46,760 --> 00:47:48,840
Speaker 3: about to be returned to the bank where it's always

1032
00:47:48,920 --> 00:47:51,520
Speaker 3: kept safe. A few of the Mortal twenty one pretend

1033
00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:54,480
Speaker 3: to be guards of the Stanford Axe from Cow, while

1034
00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:57,480
Speaker 3: others pretended to be newspaper photographers, And so when the

1035
00:47:57,520 --> 00:48:00,760
Speaker 3: Cow student aka the Guardian of the Axe, was about

1036
00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:03,560
Speaker 3: to board the armored car that was going back to

1037
00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:07,600
Speaker 3: the bank, the fake photographers all snapped their their fash

1038
00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:10,640
Speaker 3: bulbs at the same time, temporarily blinding the Guardian of

1039
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:13,080
Speaker 3: the Axe. Then the rest of the Immortal twenty one

1040
00:48:13,200 --> 00:48:15,600
Speaker 3: jumped him, one of the Stanford students put him in

1041
00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:18,120
Speaker 3: choke hold. Another Stanford student grabbed the axe. A third

1042
00:48:18,160 --> 00:48:21,600
Speaker 3: Stanford student threw down a tear gas canister that they'd

1043
00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:25,280
Speaker 3: been given by someone from the San Mateo Sheriff's Department

1044
00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:29,160
Speaker 3: specifically for this purpose. Under the cover of tear gas,

1045
00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:31,359
Speaker 3: most of the rest of the Immortal twenty one run

1046
00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:34,360
Speaker 3: off to three waiting getaway cars, but a few of

1047
00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:38,240
Speaker 3: them remained dressed as phony Cow students, who then helped

1048
00:48:38,239 --> 00:48:40,840
Speaker 3: form a search party and lead the real cow students

1049
00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:41,720
Speaker 3: in the wrong direction.

1050
00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:43,960
Speaker 2: That's smart, nurds, right, I thought you'd like that.

1051
00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:47,880
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, in their getaway cars, the Stanford students drove fast

1052
00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:49,759
Speaker 3: as they could back to the safety their campus in

1053
00:48:49,800 --> 00:48:53,320
Speaker 3: Palo Alto. Returning with their beloved acts, they were greeted

1054
00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:54,280
Speaker 3: as conquering.

1055
00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:59,320
Speaker 2: Heroesridge, so they had to go down and around.

1056
00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:03,600
Speaker 3: So they'd done it wild right, They saved their worried

1057
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:05,560
Speaker 3: though that this might one day lead to some real

1058
00:49:05,640 --> 00:49:08,040
Speaker 3: act of violence other than what we've seen so far.

1059
00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:10,480
Speaker 3: In pursuit of revenge and getting the axe back, the

1060
00:49:10,520 --> 00:49:13,719
Speaker 3: school administrator from cal and Stanford got together, and they're like,

1061
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:17,040
Speaker 3: give us the damn ax. So they seized the Stanford Axe,

1062
00:49:17,040 --> 00:49:19,440
Speaker 3: and to quell in a future incidents, they agreed to

1063
00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:22,080
Speaker 3: make the Stanford X, as you pointed out, the trophy

1064
00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:25,560
Speaker 3: given to the winner of the annual rivalry college football

1065
00:49:25,600 --> 00:49:29,319
Speaker 3: game aka the Big Game, and their annual tradition continues

1066
00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:33,040
Speaker 3: to this day. Oh by the way, PostScript, the guy

1067
00:49:33,040 --> 00:49:35,080
Speaker 3: who bought the dress in the city and dressed up

1068
00:49:35,080 --> 00:49:37,480
Speaker 3: in drag and snuck the axe under the ferry to Berkeley,

1069
00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:40,480
Speaker 3: Everett Brown. He ended up becoming a judge for the

1070
00:49:40,520 --> 00:49:45,399
Speaker 3: Alameda County Superior Court. Not not only that, he also

1071
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:48,279
Speaker 3: went on to become the president of the col Alumni Association.

1072
00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:51,960
Speaker 3: Because clearly the man has school spirits exactly. So what's

1073
00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:53,400
Speaker 3: our ridiculous takeaway here?

1074
00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:57,719
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, I think, like, you know, these these

1075
00:49:57,800 --> 00:50:01,480
Speaker 2: kind of rivalries provide such a good outlet for energy,

1076
00:50:01,719 --> 00:50:07,279
Speaker 2: and uh, you know that's the school spirit. Yeah, And

1077
00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:13,680
Speaker 2: I'm all for any distraction fun antics, yes, And what

1078
00:50:14,120 --> 00:50:15,600
Speaker 2: is your ridiculous takeaway?

1079
00:50:16,040 --> 00:50:18,480
Speaker 3: I love college football and I love that in fact,

1080
00:50:18,520 --> 00:50:21,680
Speaker 3: it's supposed to be like like basically a stand in

1081
00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:24,120
Speaker 3: for war. And then they layered all of this on

1082
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:26,759
Speaker 3: top of a stand in for war. I just love

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Speaker 3: that like they made it. It's just a very human

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Speaker 3: expression to me. I love it. You put it the

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Speaker 3: school spirit. I also love like the lengths that they're

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Speaker 3: willing to go to, Like at any point someone could

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Speaker 3: have fallen on the axe and die, but they're willing

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Speaker 3: to risk that just for the joy of bringing the

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Speaker 3: stories that we tell ourselves, you know the truth. So

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Speaker 3: there you go. Yeah. Are you in the mood for

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Speaker 3: a talkback?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Am?

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Speaker 3: I can you wash us all down with a lovely talkback? O? God?

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Speaker 2: I love you.

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Speaker 5: Hi, Saron Elizabeth and producer Dave. I have something funny

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Speaker 5: and ridiculous to share with you. I just finished listening

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Speaker 5: to the episode title tonight there's going to be a

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Speaker 5: jail break where you referenced Kaiser, so say from the

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Speaker 5: usual suspects. I have a friend who calls me Kaiser,

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Speaker 5: so say. And what's really ridiculous and funny about that

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Speaker 5: is I do actually have cerebel palsy. Draw your own conclusions.

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Speaker 3: We love you too. I love it, and I'd like

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Speaker 3: to believe that you're also known as Guy's just as

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Speaker 3: they kids. You get away with stuff.

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Speaker 2: Raise You've concocted all of these grand lands. That's awesome.

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