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

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Speaker 2: It's Elizabeth Dutton, it's Zaren Burnett. See I said that

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Speaker 2: millennial style button. God, that drives me nuts. I know,

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Speaker 2: I don't know why that drives you nuts.

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Speaker 3: Language changes, it does, it changes, and I say things

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Speaker 3: poorly all the time. Yeah, I just like to feel superior.

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Speaker 2: I got a question for you, miss superior. Ridiculous.

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Speaker 3: I do what a story that was contained within an

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Speaker 3: email that we received. It was forwarded onto me. It's

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Speaker 3: not enough for an episode or a shorty, but I'll

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Speaker 3: read the email itself is phenomenal. Okay, So this is

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Speaker 3: from Emily Burdet, Dear Ridiculous Crime Team, Elizabeth Dutton, Zaren Burnett,

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Speaker 3: which ps is spelled correctly.

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Speaker 2: Nice job, Burdett.

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Speaker 3: She did a good job on that one, because you

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Speaker 3: know there are a lot of new spellings of your name.

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Speaker 2: This is true.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's z A R O N is how you

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Speaker 3: spell zeren anyway, Producer d four legged free interns, esteemed

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Speaker 3: guests and judges. I don't know why that just sent

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Speaker 3: me like that. You want to know what's ridiculous? Being

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Speaker 3: pulled over by the cops.

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Speaker 2: On a mule yes, that's good.

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Speaker 3: Start love it already. I've lived most of my life

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Speaker 3: in a small town in western Kentucky and probably no

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Speaker 3: more than around fifteen thousand people, which I don't feel

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Speaker 3: like is a small town, but I guess a small

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Speaker 3: college town pretty sleepy most of the time. So when

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Speaker 3: one of our local kooks got pulled over while riding

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Speaker 3: a mule drunk down one of the main drags, it

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Speaker 3: became part of town more, especially when he tried to

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Speaker 3: evade capture by fleeing on the mule. Yeah, he followed

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Speaker 3: up this barebacked dui with another equally ridiculous and more

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Speaker 3: dangerous crime. Now I need to pause because it's like,

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Speaker 3: legitimately one of the funniest things I've ever heard coming up.

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Speaker 3: Letting loose a rabid raccoon into a bar that he

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Speaker 3: had been banned from.

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Speaker 2: That's just revenge.

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Speaker 3: How do you source a rabbit?

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Speaker 2: Reccoon? Rabbit figured out this one's rat foam around the mouth.

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Speaker 3: Everyone in the bar is safe and without rabies. Promise.

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Speaker 3: It's not a one percenter love that, but it's added

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Speaker 3: significantly to the stories I get to tell about my

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Speaker 3: hometown while I'm away at college. Though he is not

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Speaker 3: a figure to be admired because of his reckless abandon

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Speaker 3: and mistreatment of animals. Cowboy Cody, Yes, is one of

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Speaker 3: the first figures I mentioned when people ask what Western Kentucky.

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Speaker 2: Is like, Well, you gotta hear about cowboy cooking, Cowboy.

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Speaker 3: Good plus the look on his face and as many

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Speaker 3: mugshots never fails to make me giggles. See for yourself.

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Speaker 3: Links blow. We'll have those put up on the Instagram stories.

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Speaker 2: I love Cowboy Code.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for the laughs and always keeping things lights stay ridiculous, y'all. Emily, Emily, Emily,

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Speaker 3: You've made my day week.

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Speaker 2: I wish you could see the grin you generated.

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Speaker 3: Elizabeth the rat When I got to the Rabid Raccoon

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Speaker 3: part is when I just lost my crackers.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I laugh. If I was in that bar,

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Speaker 2: you would have had to knock me off the ceiling

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Speaker 2: because babies, Yeah, fingers deep in the ceiling, clutching at

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Speaker 3: I would just be like time out, everyone. I have

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Speaker 3: so many questions. Do you have raccoons already that you

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Speaker 3: went and got Cody? Or like, were you just you

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Speaker 3: got kicked out of the bar. You're feeling low, You're

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Speaker 3: eighty six and you look over and there's a rab

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Speaker 3: raccoon in a dumpster like drooling. You try and give

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Speaker 3: him a bottle of water. He's like, no, no, I

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Speaker 3: don't do that. Oh he's rabbit.

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Speaker 2: Maybe he was spent like a week or two just

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Speaker 2: constantly on the lookout for a rabid raccoon.

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Speaker 3: Did Cody have rabies and bite the racords?

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Speaker 2: He gave it to the.

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Speaker 3: Sarah and I have so many questions.

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Speaker 2: I can see you know.

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Speaker 3: It is, and therefore, in summary, it's ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: I got one for you.

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Speaker 3: Yes, a second, I have all the seconds in the world.

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Speaker 2: Back down. You ever heard of wig jacking?

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Speaker 3: Wig jacking?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Oh yeah, you're in for a treat. I'm so excited.

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Speaker 2: This is Ridiculous Crime, a podcast about absurd and outrageous capers.

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Speaker 2: Heis and cons It's all weighs ninety nine percent murder

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Speaker 2: free and one percent ridiculous. Oh, Elizabeth, Today's story falls

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Speaker 2: a little bit of a circuitous path. So I'm going

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Speaker 2: to love that. Yeah, I'm just I was reading about crimes,

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Speaker 2: you know, as we do, and this rabbit hole took

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Speaker 2: me to Johannesburg, South Africa, and I wound up reading

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Speaker 2: about wig hole in pre revolutionary France. Wig holes, wig holes,

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Speaker 2: it's a whole thing. So I went from Johannesburg to

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Speaker 2: wig holes in pre revolutionary France. You ever heard of

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Speaker 2: a wig hole?

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Speaker 3: No, that's why I said it with this question to

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Speaker 3: it get more questions.

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Speaker 2: Like I said today, you're in for retreat. Okay, so

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Speaker 2: where do we start. Let me just retrace the steps

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Speaker 2: of my rab Yeah, I know you do. So let's

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Speaker 2: jump on over to Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Speaker 3: Jay Burg some people call it, Yes, that's right.

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Speaker 2: I heard that the scene of today's first crime. There's

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Speaker 2: a Zimbabwean cat named Mutsa Madonco and he was in

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Speaker 2: was moving it, grooving it, doing his thing. Yeah, and

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Speaker 2: then he bounces out of the night club. He hits

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Speaker 2: found he was a target for crime. Ye, Elizabeth, the

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Speaker 2: thief saw my man Mutsa Madonco. They clocked him as

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Speaker 2: having value that he couldn't defend, so they rushed up

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Speaker 2: they pulled out nice watch scissors and told him to

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Speaker 3: Oh no, they sapped his life for us totally.

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Speaker 2: They took it mojo.

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Speaker 2: So, as the BBC reported, when these hairjackers struck, there's

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Speaker 2: little like what folks can do to defend their locks.

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Speaker 2: Like another man who was robbed of his dreads told

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Speaker 2: the BBC quote, I didn't go to the police because

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Speaker 2: I didn't think they could do anything about it. I

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Speaker 2: just don't believe the police would follow up on a

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Speaker 3: These must have been really nice dreads, not rasky like.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. No, these are just like some like real.

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Speaker 3: Like Salon dreads.

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Speaker 2: Be proud of them. Yeah. So, another former dreadlock man,

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Speaker 2: Jack Mesico, said he experienced the same thing. He was

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Speaker 2: they cut off my hair with scissors. I still feel

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Speaker 2: you're wondering why would someone want to steal dreadlocks.

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Speaker 3: Adam durrets to sell them to.

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Speaker 2: Him exactly, so it's not on does he really.

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Speaker 3: Well he used to. Yeah, he looks like, I don't

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Speaker 2: That's either way. I like it whatever.

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Speaker 3: It's my truth right.

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Speaker 2: Now, expression truth. I will support it now if you

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Speaker 2: were wondering, like, you know, like why they want to

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Speaker 2: it's not like a you know, it's just it's pure

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Speaker 2: old fashioned black market fashion. Yeah. Turns out on the

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Speaker 2: streets of joe Burg there are these outdoor salons. They're

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Speaker 2: just they're basically just plastic joe Burg not er. Yeah, Joe,

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Speaker 2: I said, some people say that I think you do

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Speaker 3: I don't know anything. I know nothing about nothing.

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Speaker 2: So imagine like an outdoor salon like on the like

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Speaker 2: You know, they have a treaty the Median the Median Strip.

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Speaker 2: There you go salon in the Median in the Median Strip.

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Speaker 2: You imagine plastic chairs or range right in a row

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Speaker 2: of like three or four and there's like a hair

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Speaker 2: that's where folks get dreadlocks sewn onto their heads.

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Speaker 3: Oh, it's like when people go to sandals and they

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Speaker 3: get the braid or like fabric woven and like feelings.

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Speaker 2: Yes, exactly so, as Jack Mesico said, I used to

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Speaker 2: see people selling dreadlocks on the street, and I didn't

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Speaker 3: Now it takes a long time, oh, Gruss, as you.

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Speaker 2: Well know totally. I've had dreads a few times, and

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Speaker 2: it takes years to get it down to a point

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Speaker 2: onto some stranger's head. Now somebody used to have dreadlocks.

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Speaker 2: I cannot imagine my hair being sewn onto someone else's head.

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Speaker 2: That's just so weird. But these black market hairdressers, they

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Speaker 2: use crochet needles and they sow the dreads onto the air.

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Speaker 3: Just like any other extension.

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Speaker 2: Would you ever wear some mu's dreadlocks on your head.

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't wear anyone else's hair on my head, so.

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Speaker 2: You wouldn't have any of the extensions. Now, no real

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Speaker 3: No, here's the thing, Like, I don't do well with

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Speaker 3: if I had something stitched into my hair, Like I

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Speaker 3: like to be able to scratch my sculle, I don't

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Speaker 3: have to hit it with my open pald. I want

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Speaker 3: to not that I have an itchy scrull. You know

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Speaker 3: what I mean? Though, I just don't like I don't

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know that's just me. Yeah, you get uncomfortable with.

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Speaker 3: It, like a full face and makeup.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I don't like this. I can feel it floating

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I like to look like the troll that just

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Speaker 3: came out from under the bridge. That's natural.

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Speaker 2: That's that's your natural, that's my natural.

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Speaker 2: I know you care about these things. So I found

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Speaker 2: the cost of stolen.

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Speaker 3: Dr Yeah, I do care about these things.

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Speaker 2: Super cheap shoulder link dreads. You can buy them off

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Speaker 2: the black market and joe Berg for two hundred to

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Speaker 2: two thousand rand depending on quality and length. Okay, now

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Speaker 2: I know you're like, well, Zarin, I don't know how,

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Speaker 2: I know nothing. I got a conversion for you two

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Speaker 2: hundred ran. That's about eleven dollars and twenty five cents

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Speaker 2: stock American. Yeah, two thousand rand is about one hundred

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Speaker 2: and twelve dollars Americas. Between eleven and one hundred and

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Speaker 2: twelve dollars you can get.

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, is that the cost of the hair or

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Speaker 3: hair plus installation?

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Speaker 2: The cost of the hair? I think another installation, Maybe

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Speaker 2: not that twenty bucks.

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Speaker 3: Maybe just get a hot glow wow.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So that brings us to the topic of today,

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Speaker 2: the price of faking it. So where there's dreads are

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Speaker 2: like insane architectural wigs of pre revolutionary seventeen seventies air

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Speaker 2: of France, there are a whole subgenres of crime born

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Speaker 2: of people's desire to have good hair. Oh yeah, genres

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Speaker 2: of crime, Elizabeth, and that is patently ridiculous. That's how

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Speaker 2: the days of King Louis the fourteenth aka the Sun King.

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Speaker 2: That's nuts back then, it is so. Number two, he

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Speaker 3: I would imagine. I mean, if you're thinking of a

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Speaker 3: Well, it's good that he didn't do like bucket hats.

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Speaker 2: Because then like the judges in like London and Hong Kong,

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Speaker 2: They may think they look cute, but it's wild. That's

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Speaker 2: The same thing, totally true.

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Speaker 2: You call them columbos too. In versides the sunking out

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Speaker 5: Two.

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Speaker 2: So, just like the son King of France, that seems

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Speaker 3: Both covering up their using cats exactly.

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Speaker 2: There was one type of wig that was essentially a

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Speaker 2: would hang down, so there was a kind of a delicate,

433
00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:45,440
Speaker 2: mysterious or decorous air. Right, So some of the the

434
00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:48,080
Speaker 2: used like they'd have the dazzle of jewels over the eyes.

435
00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:50,880
Speaker 2: And after that then comes the section that was typically

436
00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:53,800
Speaker 2: curled and piled into the curls. That's what you think.

437
00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:55,880
Speaker 3: That's the one that's like, you know, the higher the hair,

438
00:20:56,040 --> 00:20:56,760
Speaker 3: closer to God.

439
00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:01,400
Speaker 2: Exactly, big like Dallas, Texas have like waterfalls of hair

440
00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:03,800
Speaker 2: now suspended above the pearls and the lace and the

441
00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:06,679
Speaker 2: jewels and the flower section. Right, this is this section

442
00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:09,960
Speaker 2: is structured with wires, and it's called the palisade. Okay,

443
00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:12,640
Speaker 2: So then beyond that there's the structure in the creation

444
00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:15,439
Speaker 2: of the opulence. Then you also have the maintenance of

445
00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:18,320
Speaker 2: how big these things are. These people are spending a

446
00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:21,919
Speaker 2: grip to maintain their palisades, their wires, their jewels, but

447
00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:23,760
Speaker 2: also just you know, to keep it in good standing

448
00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:25,320
Speaker 2: because it would start to stink. Right.

449
00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:26,320
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, so.

450
00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:28,560
Speaker 2: Now you got all kinds of goods and products and

451
00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:32,200
Speaker 2: services dedicated to wig game. You got perfumeas you've got

452
00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:36,880
Speaker 2: these structural people, fumigators. Wig maintenance was a whole other industry, right,

453
00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,919
Speaker 2: because there were creams, oils, soaps you could buy. You

454
00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:41,840
Speaker 2: also could just pay someone to clean your wigs. So

455
00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:44,199
Speaker 2: there's wig cleaners, and then there were brushes and pins

456
00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:47,119
Speaker 2: and barets and curling sticks and crimping irons, and steamers

457
00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:49,560
Speaker 2: and dryers and perfume powders. Is all the stuff you

458
00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:50,200
Speaker 2: can just be buying.

459
00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:54,240
Speaker 3: In order to have them so structured, they must have had,

460
00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:57,560
Speaker 3: you know, glues and pastes and.

461
00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:01,320
Speaker 2: Oh starches, everything and all that will start to go bad. Yeah,

462
00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:03,360
Speaker 2: all right, So if you wanted to get a freshye,

463
00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:05,480
Speaker 2: it would cost you because it was labor intensive. Remember

464
00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:08,560
Speaker 2: these are to create these artorial celebrations of hair. I

465
00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:12,280
Speaker 2: found one quote that said one eighteenth century source stated

466
00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:14,720
Speaker 2: that it took six men six days working from sun

467
00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:16,800
Speaker 2: up to sundown. And then of course there was the

468
00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:19,639
Speaker 2: difficulty and expense of getting the hair itself, which is

469
00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:22,520
Speaker 2: often imported, plus the effort of customizing it to the

470
00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:26,840
Speaker 2: precise specifications of the purchaser's head and tastes. Right, So

471
00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:29,199
Speaker 2: this is why we have the whole industries. Now that

472
00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:31,560
Speaker 2: I've explained to you, all the wealth and the status

473
00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:35,440
Speaker 2: and the energy just floating around on heads next, Elizabeth,

474
00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:37,040
Speaker 2: we're gonna get to the crime and the people who

475
00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:40,000
Speaker 2: yank theseckers. Let's take a little break, chill out with

476
00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:43,280
Speaker 2: a ton of ads, and then it'll be bad with wigjackers.

477
00:22:43,440 --> 00:23:05,440
Speaker 6: Cup run over, Elizabeth.

478
00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:09,280
Speaker 2: Hi, do you know what, chicken? But I forgot to

479
00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:10,359
Speaker 2: tell you about wigg holes?

480
00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:12,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, you did tell tell me about.

481
00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:14,080
Speaker 2: Before we get to wigjackers. I got to tell you

482
00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:16,040
Speaker 2: about wig holes. Do you want to guess what a

483
00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:18,200
Speaker 2: wig hole is? Now that I've told you a little

484
00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:18,719
Speaker 2: bit about it?

485
00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:20,879
Speaker 3: A wig hole like where you put your head in

486
00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:21,840
Speaker 3: the I don't know.

487
00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:24,959
Speaker 2: That's a good guess. That's pretty much it. It's like, well,

488
00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:26,800
Speaker 2: do you know why we call the bathroom the powder.

489
00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:28,920
Speaker 3: Room because you've got to powder your nose.

490
00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:33,960
Speaker 2: To the days of castles and villas inside the royal

491
00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:36,760
Speaker 2: courts of Europe, right in these grand homes, these palatial homes,

492
00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:39,679
Speaker 2: the aristocrats had powder rooms. Yeah, they didn't always have

493
00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:42,880
Speaker 2: indoor plumbing because the Romans. It's set since the Romans,

494
00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:45,000
Speaker 2: like the Roman Empire fell apart, They're like Europeans were

495
00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:46,440
Speaker 2: not committed them.

496
00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:47,679
Speaker 3: They weren't clear on the concept.

497
00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:49,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it wasn't common yet, right, so, but most

498
00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:51,520
Speaker 2: of these folks that they would just do their business

499
00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:54,239
Speaker 2: like outdoors or in an outhouse type situation, or if

500
00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:56,359
Speaker 2: you're really fancy and nice, you would you know, you know,

501
00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:58,639
Speaker 2: use a bedpan or like something like that. Then you

502
00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:02,000
Speaker 2: just toss the content at the window. Yeah, exactly. It

503
00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:05,120
Speaker 2: was a very filthy time. People are just dumping this. Yeah,

504
00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:07,440
Speaker 2: so the super rich they would have a room in

505
00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:09,440
Speaker 2: their homes called the powder room. Well, they didn't have

506
00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:11,840
Speaker 2: a bathroom, they would have a powder room. And then

507
00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:14,280
Speaker 2: so it's obviously the powder rooms not for relieving oneself.

508
00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:17,480
Speaker 2: Well what is it for? Wig upkeep? The room was

509
00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:21,879
Speaker 2: singularly dedicated to sprucing up one's peruka, which is the

510
00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:25,440
Speaker 2: specific term for a powdered wig. Same goes for a

511
00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:27,520
Speaker 2: hair dresser. That's another word that comes from this era

512
00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:30,119
Speaker 2: because to dress the hair was not about cutting it.

513
00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:32,760
Speaker 2: It was about your wig. So our hairdressers is just

514
00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:36,280
Speaker 2: another wig holerver anyway. So there's a problem with the

515
00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:39,800
Speaker 2: palm aides used back in the day to maintain the wigs.

516
00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:43,800
Speaker 2: So palmade back then was a rendered animal fat, right.

517
00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:45,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not petroleum lately.

518
00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:49,880
Speaker 2: No, No, So it's just like you cut some fat back, render.

519
00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:52,920
Speaker 3: It right, you just save your bacon grease from breakfast totally.

520
00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:55,560
Speaker 2: Then you throw in some flowers and you make obviously

521
00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:58,240
Speaker 2: you combined with perfume, and then you sprayed this animal

522
00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:01,160
Speaker 2: fat and perfume on the wig. And that's palm eight.

523
00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:03,840
Speaker 2: And the animal fat would eventually turn rancid and it

524
00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:06,320
Speaker 2: would start to smell and then start to attract flies.

525
00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:08,240
Speaker 2: And so you can't be shown up to the bell

526
00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:11,600
Speaker 2: of the bald moment with flies circling your head, right

527
00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:13,879
Speaker 2: you could, you could part of the show. Do you

528
00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:17,840
Speaker 2: want to be like pig Pen from Charlie Brown. But

529
00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:20,439
Speaker 2: to prevent the palm maade from going rancid, powders get

530
00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:24,320
Speaker 2: applied regularly, regularly applied. This this means extra wig maintenance,

531
00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:26,440
Speaker 2: which meant once you're all done and gussied up in

532
00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:28,480
Speaker 2: your get up, you can't be fussing with your your

533
00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:30,520
Speaker 2: head space, so you'd have to have a servant attend

534
00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:32,520
Speaker 2: to it. Yeah, So then the damn thing is you

535
00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:35,040
Speaker 2: got this. Your wig's so enormous your servant would need

536
00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:37,200
Speaker 2: a ladder to reach the top. They can't get up there,

537
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:40,320
Speaker 2: not even with a chair. Thus a wig hole so

538
00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:44,720
Speaker 2: you build a giant wall, you put a chair there. Yes,

539
00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:47,120
Speaker 2: So the truly self conscious they had wig holes built

540
00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:49,520
Speaker 2: in their parlor and you know, also in their ballrooms,

541
00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:52,160
Speaker 2: so they could just like pop over to the wig hole. Yeah,

542
00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:54,600
Speaker 2: tuck their head into this large opening in the wall,

543
00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:56,720
Speaker 2: and then there would be like a secret servant sitting

544
00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:59,840
Speaker 2: back there with the powder and they go powder it up,

545
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:02,960
Speaker 2: fume it up, and they pop back into the Yeah.

546
00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:06,480
Speaker 3: The life of the of the wig hole worker, the.

547
00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:07,320
Speaker 2: Wig hole servant.

548
00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:13,680
Speaker 3: Wait, yeah, it's like a pit crew basically.

549
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:16,240
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, but for just egotism.

550
00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:16,840
Speaker 5: Yeah.

551
00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:20,000
Speaker 2: So at this point, right the seventeen seventies, the height

552
00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:23,240
Speaker 2: of the Bouffont Pompadour, the architectural wig this is popping off.

553
00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:25,880
Speaker 2: Marie Antoinette is literally the queen and the style queen.

554
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:28,040
Speaker 2: So everyone's trying to like impress her at these balls.

555
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:30,560
Speaker 2: So they're wearing the most outrageous wigs you've ever seen.

556
00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:33,320
Speaker 2: This is where we get the battleship constructed on that hair.

557
00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:37,040
Speaker 2: So one I found this one wig Elizabeth. It was

558
00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:40,080
Speaker 2: literally her hair was a frothing ocean. The wig hair

559
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:43,399
Speaker 2: was then powdered blue and shaped to resemble storm tossed

560
00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:46,680
Speaker 2: seas and the top this she puts this the warship

561
00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:49,320
Speaker 2: and so you have like the whole scene, like a

562
00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:52,359
Speaker 2: colored battle scene on top of this woman's head. Amaze,

563
00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:55,080
Speaker 2: like a frigate on top of her wig. So anyway,

564
00:26:55,119 --> 00:26:58,240
Speaker 2: this is this point we have this new ara wig game. Right,

565
00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:00,399
Speaker 2: So women of the court, they're arriving at these balls

566
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:03,119
Speaker 2: wearing these bird cages in their hair, wearing these like

567
00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:07,000
Speaker 2: fantasy scenes. The Duchess of Devonshire from England, she once

568
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:09,280
Speaker 2: wore a whole pastoral scene on top of her head,

569
00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:11,440
Speaker 2: which included sheep and barnyard animals.

570
00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:14,080
Speaker 3: Wait, so what are the do you know what? The

571
00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:16,280
Speaker 3: sheep and the barnyard animals were made of human hair?

572
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:18,160
Speaker 3: So everything human hair?

573
00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:22,880
Speaker 2: Some yeah, exactly. That was the game they played back then.

574
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:24,600
Speaker 2: Is it cake or is it hair? Or is it wigger?

575
00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:25,040
Speaker 2: Is it hair?

576
00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:27,840
Speaker 3: So they're okay, wow, yeah.

577
00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:30,200
Speaker 2: And so there becomes a lucrative black market for human hair,

578
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:33,879
Speaker 2: which also lasted for centuries. So for centuries people in

579
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:38,520
Speaker 2: Europe are like harvesting hair. I found in eighteen sixty three,

580
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:42,000
Speaker 2: eighteen sixty three, mind you, the periodical The Hairdresser Journal

581
00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:45,040
Speaker 2: reported that one hundred tons of real human hair was

582
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:47,680
Speaker 2: sold in the markets of Paris in one calendar year.

583
00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:48,639
Speaker 5: Wow.

584
00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:51,080
Speaker 2: The most valuable, most sought after hair was the long

585
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:53,640
Speaker 2: black locks of the Italian women and the Spanish women.

586
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:56,040
Speaker 2: The Spanish so they was known to be glossy and

587
00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:59,040
Speaker 2: sheen and then also black and a dark brown in color,

588
00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:01,720
Speaker 2: which was than the northern Europeans. So they're like, oh,

589
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:04,359
Speaker 2: it's exotic, right right, So it also is often curly

590
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:06,439
Speaker 2: and loose in texture was such another thing that was

591
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:09,880
Speaker 2: not common. So the hair buyers would travel the back

592
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,399
Speaker 2: roads in the farm country of Italy and Spain looking

593
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:14,919
Speaker 2: for young women and girls, and you can imagine what

594
00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:17,440
Speaker 2: that means. Sometimes they'd offer to buy the hair. Other times,

595
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:21,480
Speaker 2: less scrupulous hair peddlers would kidnap farm kids, shear them

596
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:24,560
Speaker 2: like sheep, and then turn them loose. Oh no, yeah,

597
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:26,919
Speaker 2: the hair was not valuable. The fact there was an

598
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:29,480
Speaker 2: annual tradition I found in Italy called the hair harvest.

599
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:32,880
Speaker 2: Want to take what the guests with the hair harvest was? Yeah,

600
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:36,440
Speaker 2: unlike your fake spaghetti harvest video, this one's real. The

601
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:39,040
Speaker 2: hair harvest of Italy apparently real and in the poor

602
00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 2: and rural villages. Once a year, the farmers would, like

603
00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:44,720
Speaker 2: from in the vineyard like the Vintnors, would gather their

604
00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:46,440
Speaker 2: young women and girls of the village, and then they

605
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:48,160
Speaker 2: would bring them so that way they couldn't be like

606
00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:50,560
Speaker 2: shorn while they were walking to town. They would bring

607
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 2: them to town together and there they would shear all

608
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:55,440
Speaker 2: the girls and they take their hair to market, like

609
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:58,080
Speaker 2: just pounds of hair from all the village.

610
00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:00,719
Speaker 3: Girls, growing that much in a year. They do this

611
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:02,480
Speaker 3: every year. They have to rotate them out.

612
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:04,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's like fallow fields, like you got

613
00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:05,320
Speaker 2: some of the girls.

614
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:07,440
Speaker 3: The girls are like, hey, listen, I'm working on I'm

615
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 3: growing out a really uncomfortable pixie.

616
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:12,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, not this year, next year, maybe the year after.

617
00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:16,320
Speaker 2: I found an eyewitness account quote several girls sheared one

618
00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:18,800
Speaker 2: after the other like sheep, and as many more standing

619
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 2: ready for the shears, with their caps in their hands

620
00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:23,800
Speaker 2: and their long hair combed out and hanging down to

621
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:27,400
Speaker 2: their waists. So this hair harvest. Can you imagine coming

622
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:30,480
Speaker 2: into town every year for your year's crop of hair

623
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:32,520
Speaker 2: shore from your head as a young woman, like is

624
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:33,120
Speaker 2: it my year?

625
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:33,800
Speaker 3: Right?

626
00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:36,960
Speaker 2: So all to say, where does this much obsession and

627
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:40,920
Speaker 2: status seeking and obviously crime. We have real crime. We

628
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:43,920
Speaker 2: have the real robbers, the wigjackers, because with the rich

629
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:46,560
Speaker 2: folks demand this is like, you know, they're showing up

630
00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:48,560
Speaker 2: with like money clutched in their hot little fists. People

631
00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:50,520
Speaker 2: were like, I got hair, Yeah, I can get you

632
00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:54,959
Speaker 2: some hair. So the wigjacker, like the cut purst technology

633
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:58,960
Speaker 2: and times have changed and left behind this once famous criminal.

634
00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:02,160
Speaker 2: The wigjack is no longer known. But for a number

635
00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:05,080
Speaker 2: of centuries, from the sixteen hundreds at least until deep

636
00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:07,520
Speaker 2: into the late eighteen hundreds, and some people would say

637
00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:11,920
Speaker 2: into the early nineteen hundreds, wigjackers were hair raising criminals,

638
00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:15,240
Speaker 2: just constantly doing their thing. Returning once again to the

639
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:17,480
Speaker 2: Hairdresser's Journal from the eighteen sixty three.

640
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:20,160
Speaker 3: Edition, I love that magazine, boss, I.

641
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:22,720
Speaker 2: Know you still subscribe. The black market demand for hair

642
00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:26,040
Speaker 2: was so great that wig theft became commonplace. Like quote,

643
00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:27,880
Speaker 2: even in the present day, it has happened over and

644
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:29,880
Speaker 2: over again that a good crop of hair has been

645
00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:32,640
Speaker 2: laid in wait for and shorn from the trembling victim

646
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:35,320
Speaker 2: who's been only too glad to get free with. But

647
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:38,200
Speaker 2: the loss of their hair well yeah, yeah, So basically

648
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:40,080
Speaker 2: it's like, I didn't lose anything but my hair. Fine,

649
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 2: I'll take it.

650
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:42,320
Speaker 3: It grows back.

651
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:45,480
Speaker 2: This one is like, basically it's a crime that was

652
00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:47,160
Speaker 2: very big in Europe. I will say this much for

653
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:48,920
Speaker 2: the most part when I was looking into it. At

654
00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:51,640
Speaker 2: the time I'm talking about hair, theft for wig makers

655
00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:54,000
Speaker 2: was going down in the States too, right, So, like,

656
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:56,800
Speaker 2: I have a story from Florida from the Jacksonville Weekly

657
00:30:56,840 --> 00:31:00,880
Speaker 2: Sentinel from eighteen sixty nine that talks about after traveling

658
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:05,480
Speaker 2: to Jacksonville from San Francisco, quote, eight newly arrived Chinamen

659
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:08,640
Speaker 2: had their handsome pigtails cut off by hair thieves. H

660
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:10,120
Speaker 2: welcome to Florida.

661
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 3: But Florida's been Floridaing for a while.

662
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:12,840
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.

663
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:16,240
Speaker 3: But the thing is too is that's also like a

664
00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 3: very I would hope that it was just for wig

665
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 3: making and not like it's a way to sort of

666
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:25,680
Speaker 3: emasculate at the time.

667
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,800
Speaker 2: Oh, there would be that, yes, But I think, well,

668
00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 2: I have another story also from Florida, but I think

669
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:32,440
Speaker 2: then carries.

670
00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 3: Forward that this was They can't act like, oh, it's

671
00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:37,560
Speaker 3: the Sunshine laws. That is the reason these stories are like, girl,

672
00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:38,920
Speaker 3: this happened a long time ago.

673
00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 2: This is this is just Florida. This is nineteen thirteen

674
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 2: from The Evening Independent, which is a newspaper out of

675
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:48,240
Speaker 2: Saint Petersburg, Florida and so Tampa, Saint pete In. In addition,

676
00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:51,400
Speaker 2: from September nineteen thirteen, quote, hair thieves have appeared in

677
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:53,520
Speaker 2: the West. They enter homes in the night and cut

678
00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:55,760
Speaker 2: the hair from the heads of sleeping women and children.

679
00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:58,360
Speaker 2: They do not attempt to move their victims, but cut

680
00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:01,240
Speaker 2: only such hair as can be convey de anniately reached without

681
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:04,480
Speaker 2: awakening the sleepers. There seems to be an organized gang

682
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:06,960
Speaker 2: of these thieves. No attempt is made in any other

683
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 2: form of robbery, the thieves leaving even watches and jewelry untouched. Yeah. Now,

684
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:16,880
Speaker 2: as we often do point out, Florida is an easy target.

685
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 2: So let's get back to what I came to talk about.

686
00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:22,480
Speaker 2: Wig trackers in general. In Great Britain they called these

687
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 2: perfumed and powdered wigs periwigs, because they're like, oh, we

688
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:27,320
Speaker 2: don't want to call it peruks. That's what they call

689
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:30,640
Speaker 2: it in France, yea perry wigs. So they were hugely

690
00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:33,800
Speaker 2: they were ornate, opulent, same thing in England. Even Eve

691
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:37,120
Speaker 2: might not imagine the English be like big into this,

692
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:39,640
Speaker 2: but remember they're competing with the French, so they're doing

693
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:41,720
Speaker 2: the same crazy like I've got a bird on my

694
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:44,840
Speaker 2: head too. So at this point, the thing about a

695
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:47,880
Speaker 2: wig is there's the obvious vulnerability. It's not real hair,

696
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 2: which means it's not fully attached to the head of

697
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,320
Speaker 2: the wearer. Yeah, exactly right, Which said, these elaborate headpieces

698
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 2: could be like knocked off the head. You're walking around

699
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:57,760
Speaker 2: with a fortune on your head that just can be

700
00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:00,200
Speaker 2: tipped off. Oh sure, So if a wig's net was

701
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,200
Speaker 2: a little more creative, they could go for fishing for

702
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 2: big wigs. For instance, I read about wigjackers who would

703
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:07,920
Speaker 2: hide above the thoroughfare or on the gates of a

704
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:10,920
Speaker 2: stately home, and then when some impressive and expensive wig

705
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:13,720
Speaker 2: went bobbing by, they'd lower a fishing pole and with

706
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:18,000
Speaker 2: one good yank they'd tug off the headpiece. So these

707
00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 2: hair raising thieves, right, they pull the wig, make their escape,

708
00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:23,880
Speaker 2: and they're off with basically a stolen treasure. Now these

709
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 2: head pieces would have to be sold though, so now

710
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:28,080
Speaker 2: you need a fence, same as with any other goods.

711
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:31,040
Speaker 2: So now we got wig fences out there working right,

712
00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 2: Just try to picture that exactly, like the scalps in there,

713
00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:38,040
Speaker 2: who needs fresh head gear?

714
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:39,280
Speaker 3: I got lace fronts.

715
00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:42,680
Speaker 2: So this is also the wigs could be like anything

716
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:45,600
Speaker 2: like jewelry could be broken apart and sold off as elements,

717
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:47,400
Speaker 2: so the hair could be used for a new wig,

718
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:49,240
Speaker 2: the bobbles and the jewels and the lace could be

719
00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 2: broken off and used for different wigs. So then that's

720
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:53,880
Speaker 2: how the wig makers could buy back certain things and

721
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:55,520
Speaker 2: be like, oh, yes, I just happened to have the

722
00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:57,920
Speaker 2: same lace, I got more of it right, right right.

723
00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:00,000
Speaker 2: And then also they could be sold overseas in the America,

724
00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:01,959
Speaker 2: so he could just take a whole wig and not

725
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:03,800
Speaker 2: have to break it down and just sell to the Americans.

726
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 3: Steal cars here and ship shop them to the east.

727
00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:10,200
Speaker 2: Is exactly. The crimes have not changed the thing. So

728
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:12,080
Speaker 2: there's so many ways to get into wig crime. But

729
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:14,760
Speaker 2: the wigjackers, they're my favorites, and more than the wig

730
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:18,400
Speaker 2: fences or the whigs smugglers or whig distributors, the wigjackers

731
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:21,000
Speaker 2: the ones on the line. Yeah, they had so many

732
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:23,719
Speaker 2: methods to lifting a wig. But rather than me tell

733
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 2: you about that I'd like you to close your eyes

734
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:36,000
Speaker 2: as I'd like you to picture it. The year is

735
00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:40,040
Speaker 2: seventeen seventy six, and you, Elizabeth, are in London. At

736
00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:42,080
Speaker 2: the moment, you are chilling on a bench along a

737
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 2: walkway that wends through a high walled orchard park. Families

738
00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:48,920
Speaker 2: of birds sing from the branches above you. A slight

739
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:53,120
Speaker 2: breeze makes leaves dance. It is a pleasant Saturday summer

740
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:56,120
Speaker 2: afternoon as the day heads on its way towards evening.

741
00:34:56,520 --> 00:34:59,439
Speaker 2: At the moment, you are seated watching the crowd pass by,

742
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:02,920
Speaker 2: not the crowd inside the orchard, but rather the crowd

743
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:05,759
Speaker 2: passing by just outside of it. But due to the

744
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:07,880
Speaker 2: nature of the high wall, all you can see is

745
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:11,440
Speaker 2: the tops of their heads. Mostly it's tasteful chapeaus and

746
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:14,759
Speaker 2: top hats. You admire their construction and gleam, but your

747
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:18,160
Speaker 2: eyes also pass over them without much excitement, because that's

748
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:22,040
Speaker 2: not what you're after. You are clocking the wigs. Next

749
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:25,240
Speaker 2: to you is a dog, your trustee partner. He listlessly pants.

750
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:27,840
Speaker 2: Waiting on the bench next to you is a basket

751
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:30,759
Speaker 2: covered by a tasteful blanket. You hum a little song

752
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:33,359
Speaker 2: to yourself as you wait and then you see it

753
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:36,719
Speaker 2: a highly koift structural affair. It looks to be a

754
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:41,239
Speaker 2: super expensive powdered wig. It's creatively designed to resemble a

755
00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:45,640
Speaker 2: bird taking wing. A smile curls your lips. Then you

756
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:49,239
Speaker 2: let out a whistle. A furry hand shoots out from

757
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:52,560
Speaker 2: the basket. It's not your hairy baby boy, Nope. As

758
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 2: the blanket pushes back out, pops a monkey. The monkey

759
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 2: looks up at you. You nod to the monkey. It

760
00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:00,799
Speaker 2: makes a little monkey sound of understanding. Then you turn

761
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 2: your head and you look in the direction of the

762
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:05,680
Speaker 2: wig bobbing along on the other side of the high wall.

763
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:09,760
Speaker 2: The monkey nods, makes another monkey sound, this time it's agreement.

764
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:12,720
Speaker 2: The monkey takes off, bounds off the bench. She runs

765
00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:15,640
Speaker 2: across the orchard, springs up into a tree, crosses a

766
00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:19,560
Speaker 2: long branch, pops onto the high wall that's around the orchard,

767
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:22,320
Speaker 2: and you watch as your monkey runs along the wall.

768
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:25,359
Speaker 2: When he gets close to the wig, you whistle. Your

769
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:28,120
Speaker 2: trusty dog looks up at you. You give a second

770
00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:31,319
Speaker 2: different whistle, and with that signal, the dog runs off.

771
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:35,000
Speaker 2: Just as you've practiced. The monkey does what she's trained

772
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 2: to do. She runs up, grabs hold of the wig.

773
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:40,360
Speaker 2: With a quick yank, she rips the wig from the

774
00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:44,000
Speaker 2: head of the unseen wealthy woman. There's a scream of surprise.

775
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:46,640
Speaker 2: Then the monkey jumps down from the fence and she

776
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:49,840
Speaker 2: lands on the back of your dog. The monkey looks

777
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:51,879
Speaker 2: like a tiny cowboy on the back of the dog.

778
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:54,520
Speaker 2: With the monkey secure on its back, the dog rears

779
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 2: up like a horse. The monkey holds tight to the

780
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,839
Speaker 2: dog's collar. She grips the stolen wig and her other

781
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:03,680
Speaker 2: tiny monkey paw. The dog's feet returned to the earth,

782
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 2: and the dog scampers off with the monkey wigjacker holding

783
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:09,520
Speaker 2: tight on its back. You watches your dog with your

784
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:13,800
Speaker 2: monkey accomplice race between the folks walking through the orchard. Meanwhile,

785
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:16,799
Speaker 2: you lift yourself up casually from the bench, grab your

786
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:19,319
Speaker 2: basket and walk in the other direction. You and the

787
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:21,239
Speaker 2: monkey and the dog will all meet up back at

788
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:23,959
Speaker 2: your crime layer another day, another wigjacked.

789
00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:25,680
Speaker 3: That's facing.

790
00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:29,839
Speaker 2: So wig snatching monkey and a criminally trained dog, right,

791
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:33,000
Speaker 2: that was fun. Now, how about a fake butcher and

792
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 2: a real boy. Okay, there was a classic wig stealing

793
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:38,840
Speaker 2: scheme that I read a couple times. It involved a

794
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 2: real young boy, baskets blankets and a fake butcher. In

795
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:44,320
Speaker 2: the book At the Sign of the Barber's Poll, published

796
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:46,440
Speaker 2: in nineteen oh four, there's this account of a wig

797
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:50,040
Speaker 2: stealing tactic. The story goes, Imagine like, there's a butcher

798
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:52,720
Speaker 2: walking in the streets of London carrying a butcher's basket

799
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:55,319
Speaker 2: of meats on his shoulder, and the baskets covered by

800
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:57,920
Speaker 2: a sheet like a white sheet and standard fair. You know,

801
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:00,440
Speaker 2: everyone would see this very common. Nobody would look twice.

802
00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:02,560
Speaker 2: And the butcher passes some of the swells that fill

803
00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:04,400
Speaker 2: the streets. Oh, they must be delivering to a very

804
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:06,800
Speaker 2: nice house in the area. Of course, there's a butcher

805
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:09,520
Speaker 2: hand delivering all the meat. And when the butcher draws

806
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:11,799
Speaker 2: close to a man wearing a prominent wig, out from

807
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:15,400
Speaker 2: underneath the blanket that covers the butcher's basket shoots a

808
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 2: boy's hand. The boy's hand takes a firm grip of

809
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:20,120
Speaker 2: the wig and with a twist, pops the wig loose

810
00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:22,440
Speaker 2: of the man's head. The boy then pops up from

811
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:25,560
Speaker 2: the basket, hops down from the butcher's shoulder, and runs off.

812
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:27,759
Speaker 2: And then the butcher tosses the basket and runs in

813
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:28,360
Speaker 2: the other direction.

814
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:33,240
Speaker 3: So you're very elaborate, right, unnecessary.

815
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:36,759
Speaker 2: Take it. The idea is they don't want them to

816
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:38,719
Speaker 2: be suspicious, that they need to get close enough, and

817
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:40,760
Speaker 2: so the proximity part is the issue.

818
00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:43,280
Speaker 3: So you could just be a butcher carrying a basket

819
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:45,800
Speaker 3: and when you come to pass the guys, shove the basket.

820
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:48,480
Speaker 3: Even no, you grab the wig and drop the basket

821
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:48,839
Speaker 3: and run.

822
00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:52,400
Speaker 2: Boy. It's because the boy is likely to get away

823
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:54,680
Speaker 2: and the butcher can get away because you can't chase

824
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:57,759
Speaker 2: two people. You're one person. So what do you go after?

825
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:00,840
Speaker 2: You go after the wig? Right, Yeah, boys got the

826
00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:04,799
Speaker 2: wig boys fast and was gone like huffing and puffing away.

827
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:06,600
Speaker 2: And he's probably gonna fight you because he's a criminal

828
00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:09,040
Speaker 2: and he's trained a boy to heal wig. You're like,

829
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:10,399
Speaker 2: I got no good a thing.

830
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:13,640
Speaker 3: It's just overwhelming. You just stand there with a denuded head.

831
00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:15,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, that you've been wigjacked.

832
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:17,840
Speaker 3: Even totally. We had There was a when I was

833
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:21,760
Speaker 3: in high school. Uh, it was very popular to slick

834
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:24,319
Speaker 3: your hair back and if you didn't have long enough

835
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:27,279
Speaker 3: hair for a ponytail, put the false ponytail on there.

836
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:29,799
Speaker 3: Oh really, like a wig pony chair was a big thing.

837
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:33,360
Speaker 3: And some girl I went to an all girls school.

838
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:37,759
Speaker 3: Some girl irritated another, and the aggrieved party snatched the

839
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:40,640
Speaker 3: ponytail as she walked by her in the hall, and

840
00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:42,879
Speaker 3: she was just left with I mean, she didn't even

841
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:45,799
Speaker 3: have enough to like gather. It was just sleep back here.

842
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:49,600
Speaker 3: And everyone laughed really hard, but then felt really bad

843
00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:50,480
Speaker 3: about laughing.

844
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:52,479
Speaker 2: Yeah, cry and run away.

845
00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:54,520
Speaker 3: Well no she yeah, she was pretty upset, and so

846
00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:58,840
Speaker 3: then everyone got after the wig snatcher, the like, come.

847
00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:01,120
Speaker 2: On, this is his sister, give her back her hair.

848
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:04,839
Speaker 3: Yeah, but oh it looked bad.

849
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:08,960
Speaker 2: Scene. That's how these wigjacks people dresses a.

850
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:10,799
Speaker 3: Butcher and she didn't have a little boy with her.

851
00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:17,680
Speaker 2: Noo, just came down. Well, Elizabeth, le's take a little break,

852
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:20,640
Speaker 2: chill our domes, reset our wig hats, and we back

853
00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:44,680
Speaker 2: up to these warm and delicious ads. We're back, Elizabeth, Oh,

854
00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:46,799
Speaker 2: we are back. Zaren you ready for some more hair

855
00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:47,560
Speaker 2: raising antics?

856
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:50,200
Speaker 3: As many as you got, did you know?

857
00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:53,920
Speaker 2: The etymology of the word robbery comes from the word robes,

858
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:57,720
Speaker 2: as in disrobing our person and stealing their fine clothing,

859
00:40:57,800 --> 00:41:01,440
Speaker 2: especially their robes. In the Middle Ages, that's where we

860
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:04,560
Speaker 2: get the word robbery. Yeah, I learned that doing this research.

861
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 2: I like that robbery and banditry have always been focused

862
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:09,960
Speaker 2: on closed and then later just focused on wigjacking. It

863
00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 2: was just an evolution, is what I'm saying. It started

864
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:14,160
Speaker 2: the robes and they moved to the head. Now I've

865
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:16,200
Speaker 2: got a famous bandit from you from English history who

866
00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:19,120
Speaker 2: apparently was also a wigjacker. His name is Dick Turpin.

867
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:21,839
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you familiar with Dick Turpin. Yeah, so you

868
00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:24,680
Speaker 2: know that one show you like, The Great British Bakeoff. Yes,

869
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:28,080
Speaker 2: there's that one. Presenter looks like Dracula's baby cousin. He's

870
00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:32,600
Speaker 2: a goth British comic actor. Was his name, Noel, Noel

871
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:38,720
Speaker 2: Fielding Coward If you can believe it. That dude recently

872
00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:41,560
Speaker 2: starred in the series where he played Dick Turpin. Really

873
00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:43,600
Speaker 2: he played a high woman. You're like that guy? How

874
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:45,719
Speaker 2: would you cast him? Why would you put him on

875
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:46,120
Speaker 2: the horse?

876
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:46,960
Speaker 3: I don't know.

877
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:49,440
Speaker 2: Apparently it was called The completely made up Adventure of

878
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:51,319
Speaker 2: Dick Turpin. He played the high Women, but I guess

879
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:53,239
Speaker 2: he wasn't super into it because in the middle of

880
00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:55,960
Speaker 2: the production of the second season he just stopped coming

881
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:56,439
Speaker 2: to work.

882
00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:58,399
Speaker 3: Oh he did I love that the.

883
00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:00,560
Speaker 2: Production took a break for the holiday at the end

884
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:02,840
Speaker 2: of twenty twenty four, and when the show returned to

885
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:04,920
Speaker 2: the production to start the year, he's like, remember the

886
00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:06,360
Speaker 2: last time you saw me on the set?

887
00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:10,040
Speaker 3: It was he was upset they didn't have enough sweaters

888
00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:13,480
Speaker 3: with long sleeves. Pull his hands in exactly.

889
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:15,719
Speaker 2: Come on, sir, I was like, So apparently he was like,

890
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:17,240
Speaker 2: I am not Dick Turpin anymore.

891
00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 3: He wasn't into it. Yeah, we're all allowed to change

892
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:21,200
Speaker 3: our minds.

893
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:25,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, contracts be damned. They were like, damn. So they

894
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:29,160
Speaker 2: released the cast and canceled the show. Oh wow, done deal.

895
00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:31,879
Speaker 2: So somehow this result feels very much in the spirit

896
00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:34,759
Speaker 2: of the famous highwaymen, you know, get paid disappear. Hey,

897
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:39,280
Speaker 2: way to go, Dick. So apparently the real Dick Turpin.

898
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:42,600
Speaker 2: Uh wigjacker. The prophets were just too great to ignore.

899
00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:44,680
Speaker 2: He wasn't big into wig jacking. It was not his

900
00:42:44,719 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 2: primary source of bandit amusement or profits. Yeah, Like, I

901
00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:49,840
Speaker 2: could find no specific incidents I could tell you about this.

902
00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:51,560
Speaker 2: It's like a great story. I just find I'd found

903
00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:54,480
Speaker 2: mention of him being a wigjacker. I read about him.

904
00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:56,920
Speaker 2: I learned about tactics of some of his more prominent

905
00:42:56,960 --> 00:42:59,879
Speaker 2: wigjacking colleagues. Criminal colleague feel like.

906
00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:01,880
Speaker 3: For him it was probably like, oh, ps, I'm going

907
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:02,439
Speaker 3: to take the wig.

908
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:04,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like a humiliating thing. I think for

909
00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:06,319
Speaker 2: some of the people he didn't like. He actually often

910
00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:08,840
Speaker 2: seemed to have very personal reactions to the rich people

911
00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:09,560
Speaker 2: he was robbing.

912
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:12,520
Speaker 3: It was a dirty dude.

913
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:14,399
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, he's not. He's not good from what I read.

914
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:17,880
Speaker 2: So the Highwaymen, right, you know term for bandits, they

915
00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:18,600
Speaker 2: would and.

916
00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:20,480
Speaker 3: A phenomenal supergroup.

917
00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:23,320
Speaker 2: Yes, very true, very very.

918
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:28,000
Speaker 3: I'm like that dog and up it like squirrel. So

919
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:30,520
Speaker 3: I hears highwaymen, I hear words, and it's like I

920
00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:36,360
Speaker 3: have to I'm my sights back into the story.

921
00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:42,480
Speaker 2: Yes, so the I didn't really actually know this or

922
00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:44,120
Speaker 2: imagine it. I mean I kind of heard it, but

923
00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:46,560
Speaker 2: I didn't think about it. And the Wild West Outlaws

924
00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:49,319
Speaker 2: right one hundred years before them in England, you'd find

925
00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:52,080
Speaker 2: the same exact moves. You'd find dudes on morse back

926
00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:54,600
Speaker 2: hiding out in a cave hidden by a thicket or brush.

927
00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:57,319
Speaker 2: When the wagon wheels would go by, they come charging out.

928
00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:00,560
Speaker 2: They were just doing stagecoach robberies. But they were not

929
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:01,239
Speaker 2: calling it back.

930
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:03,560
Speaker 3: Isn't that what Saint Lawrence O'Toole and I was talking

931
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:07,680
Speaker 3: about his relic getting stolen? Like I think it was

932
00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:10,879
Speaker 3: St Lawrence o'tooles, the one who like was gone after

933
00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 3: the highwaymen. Yeah, you know they were.

934
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:16,040
Speaker 2: Terrorible for centuries. They were just you couldn't leave town

935
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:19,040
Speaker 2: without you knew that bandits or highwaymen would get you. Yeah,

936
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:21,719
Speaker 2: So they would ride out on horseback, chase down the

937
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:24,160
Speaker 2: wagon right. Sometimes they would stop the wagon like at

938
00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:28,120
Speaker 2: a gunpoint. Other times the highwaymen known as chiving lace.

939
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:31,279
Speaker 2: Don't know what that means. They would just cut into

940
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:33,600
Speaker 2: the coach, like literally cut into the side of the

941
00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:35,760
Speaker 2: coach while it's rolling, while they're trying to get away,

942
00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:37,640
Speaker 2: and then they would reach into the hole that they

943
00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:39,719
Speaker 2: created and snatch a wig off the head of a

944
00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:40,080
Speaker 2: big wig.

945
00:44:40,160 --> 00:44:41,080
Speaker 3: Wait, that's incredible.

946
00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:44,560
Speaker 2: So if they could manage it, though they preferred, they

947
00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:47,440
Speaker 2: would just snatch the wig off of an open window

948
00:44:47,719 --> 00:44:50,000
Speaker 2: or else. If the curious matter woman stuck their head

949
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:51,520
Speaker 2: out of the coach to see what all the noise

950
00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:54,000
Speaker 2: was about, then that was great game for them.

951
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:57,839
Speaker 3: This is I would love to see, uh for you.

952
00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:00,920
Speaker 3: I would love for you to see this is a

953
00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:04,360
Speaker 3: stunt sequence in a Mission Impossible movie. I say it

954
00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:05,759
Speaker 3: for you because I don't watch.

955
00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:09,400
Speaker 4: Them, but I know you like obsessive kind of like

956
00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:12,040
Speaker 4: it's like a fetish, but I think that, like, I

957
00:45:12,040 --> 00:45:14,160
Speaker 4: would love for you to be able to see that

958
00:45:14,239 --> 00:45:16,439
Speaker 4: and happen with Tom Cruise yank and a wig.

959
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:20,719
Speaker 2: Tom Cruise getting yank either way, Yeah, because probably be

960
00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:23,440
Speaker 2: more accurate because they're known for wearing the masks and

961
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:24,520
Speaker 2: so you've got a wig on top.

962
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:29,120
Speaker 3: I'm putting that, I'm manifesting that for you, Tom, Tom,

963
00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:30,759
Speaker 3: friend of the show Cruise, Come on.

964
00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:33,240
Speaker 2: There was a story I did find out a highwayman

965
00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:36,200
Speaker 2: named John Everett, the author of Fiona McDonald. She wrote

966
00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:39,719
Speaker 2: this great book called Gentlemen, Rogues and Wicked Ladies. Oh yeah,

967
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:42,600
Speaker 2: and she describes some wig heists in her book. And

968
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:46,400
Speaker 2: as McDonald writes, quote, Everett fancied a bob wig that

969
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:48,440
Speaker 2: sat atop the head of a Quaker seated in a

970
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:50,920
Speaker 2: coach with a number of other passengers. Everett pulled it

971
00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:52,960
Speaker 2: off the man's head and swapped it with his own

972
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:56,600
Speaker 2: secondhand tie wig, which he had bought, not stolen, the

973
00:45:56,680 --> 00:45:59,400
Speaker 2: tie wig, which made the man look like a comical devil,

974
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:01,520
Speaker 2: and the rest of the coach party burst out laughing.

975
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:04,400
Speaker 2: The robbery ended with all parties going there's separate ways,

976
00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:07,200
Speaker 2: without any hard feelings, except perhaps for the Quaker.

977
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 3: The Quaker bob wig has evolved into like the Auntie wig. Yes,

978
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:16,000
Speaker 3: so I just imagine that, and like how starkly different

979
00:46:16,040 --> 00:46:20,839
Speaker 3: that is from the big baroque cocoa confections.

980
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:24,279
Speaker 2: But he loved it. He was like, I want this.

981
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:26,440
Speaker 2: This is sporty. That will looks so good with my cheekbones.

982
00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:29,120
Speaker 3: Were busy on the go lives, though, My question is.

983
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:31,320
Speaker 2: How many people like old John Everett here were buying

984
00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:34,720
Speaker 2: and wearing used wigs, Like are there are enough folks

985
00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:37,280
Speaker 2: to buy used wigs? That stolen wigs was a reliable

986
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:40,640
Speaker 2: source of income. Oh sure apparently, because this is like.

987
00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:43,160
Speaker 3: Look at it this way, the number of iPhones that

988
00:46:43,239 --> 00:46:46,400
Speaker 3: get stolen, you think, like are enough people buying hot iPhone?

989
00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:48,960
Speaker 2: Apparently we're just selling them back to Apple you know

990
00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:50,359
Speaker 2: or whoever? What I mean?

991
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:54,640
Speaker 3: Like, like you want some cans, there's like, hey, you.

992
00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:56,520
Speaker 2: Got some We got some goods in here. I'm sure you'd.

993
00:46:56,400 --> 00:47:00,880
Speaker 3: Like, I don't know, I don't know. Apparently there's it's

994
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:04,279
Speaker 3: or it's like junk mail. Oh yeah, people must be

995
00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:09,720
Speaker 3: answering hundred like otherwise they wouldn't they wouldn't waste their money.

996
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:12,160
Speaker 3: So people were buying hot well.

997
00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:14,920
Speaker 2: Also, it's like when I watched movies from this nineteen seventies,

998
00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:18,880
Speaker 2: and people are always stealing hubcaps. It's super common. Apparently

999
00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:21,160
Speaker 2: there was a huge market for used hubcaps in the

1000
00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:24,600
Speaker 2: seventies and like you never see people selling the used tubcaps.

1001
00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:26,520
Speaker 2: You just see them stealing them and then talking about it.

1002
00:47:26,719 --> 00:47:29,160
Speaker 2: But apparently there had to be people going out buying

1003
00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:31,400
Speaker 2: used hubcaps to replace the ones they were stolen.

1004
00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:33,319
Speaker 3: That's when you think, are they taking it to a

1005
00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:34,000
Speaker 3: metal shop?

1006
00:47:34,040 --> 00:47:36,480
Speaker 2: Are they melting it down? But they're mostly like you know,

1007
00:47:36,560 --> 00:47:37,799
Speaker 2: like aluminum, they're not like.

1008
00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:40,440
Speaker 3: You know what I mean. The flea market, Yeah, go to.

1009
00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:43,480
Speaker 2: You will find hubcaps down there.

1010
00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:45,799
Speaker 3: You will find stuff that you think someone stole that.

1011
00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:48,960
Speaker 3: And I'm not sure why, but that is one hundred.

1012
00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:51,080
Speaker 2: Percent's gonna buy it. And I also don't know why.

1013
00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:53,680
Speaker 3: A little saddest or when it's like a workman's tools

1014
00:47:53,719 --> 00:47:55,400
Speaker 3: and you're like, so you tool stole that.

1015
00:47:56,120 --> 00:47:58,960
Speaker 2: I have been the workman who's yeah, tools were stolen. Like, yeah,

1016
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:01,839
Speaker 2: we were painting at a nursery on the weekends because

1017
00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:03,360
Speaker 2: you can't be there because the kid's there in the weekdays.

1018
00:48:03,719 --> 00:48:05,000
Speaker 2: So we're painting and we got to air out and

1019
00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:07,239
Speaker 2: we just left our tools outside and these guys was

1020
00:48:07,280 --> 00:48:09,640
Speaker 2: in Compton. They came in and just took everything.

1021
00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:11,680
Speaker 3: It probably at the coliseum.

1022
00:48:12,160 --> 00:48:13,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, I should go down there and look. Now, if

1023
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:16,680
Speaker 2: you were wondering setting all these historical analogs of stolen

1024
00:48:16,719 --> 00:48:20,560
Speaker 2: hubcaps aside, after centuries of wigjacking, how did wig theft

1025
00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:21,279
Speaker 2: come to an end?

1026
00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:23,759
Speaker 3: Did it come to an end?

1027
00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:24,480
Speaker 2: Zero question?

1028
00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:26,800
Speaker 3: Thank you for wanting to think about it?

1029
00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:30,279
Speaker 2: Is I got another thing coming on? There is a

1030
00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:32,400
Speaker 2: prosecution of wig thiefs. By the way, what do you

1031
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:35,439
Speaker 2: think about that? The expression that you have another think

1032
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:37,200
Speaker 2: coming or another thing coming?

1033
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:41,640
Speaker 3: You know, I always thought it was another saying coming,

1034
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:43,640
Speaker 3: but apparently another think.

1035
00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:46,000
Speaker 2: How could another thing that doesn't even make sense to me?

1036
00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:49,000
Speaker 2: But think thing with the g think makes sense because

1037
00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:51,840
Speaker 2: you have basically it's it's a lazy or a creative

1038
00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:55,400
Speaker 2: way of saying you got another thought coming like, well,

1039
00:48:55,440 --> 00:48:55,799
Speaker 2: I got.

1040
00:48:55,760 --> 00:48:57,719
Speaker 3: This one thing that happened to me. Well guess what

1041
00:48:57,920 --> 00:48:59,319
Speaker 3: another thing's about to happen.

1042
00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:00,480
Speaker 2: Oh, that's I heard it.

1043
00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:01,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's interesting.

1044
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:03,759
Speaker 2: I'm not smart. Well noways I had a friend and

1045
00:49:03,920 --> 00:49:07,279
Speaker 2: she's a thing truther. She insists that it's you got

1046
00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:09,880
Speaker 2: another thing coming. That's what I say. I'm always like that,

1047
00:49:10,040 --> 00:49:11,759
Speaker 2: you're gonna really die on this hill.

1048
00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:15,319
Speaker 3: Here's the thing, too, is that I am always right, yes,

1049
00:49:15,560 --> 00:49:18,239
Speaker 3: because when I know, because when i'm wrong, I know

1050
00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:18,839
Speaker 3: i'm wrong.

1051
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:24,960
Speaker 2: Right, So you're always right even you're wrong. You were brilliant, right,

1052
00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:29,000
Speaker 2: thank you. Right. The wig jacking era came to an

1053
00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:32,120
Speaker 2: end because of one prosecution of wig thieves. But this

1054
00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:34,960
Speaker 2: was actually not that common. It's very sporadic. Sometimes wig

1055
00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:36,920
Speaker 2: thieves would be acquitted just because people are like, yeah,

1056
00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:37,720
Speaker 2: you know why, we don't.

1057
00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:38,839
Speaker 3: Get the wig doesn't fit?

1058
00:49:39,160 --> 00:49:40,719
Speaker 2: You must there you go.

1059
00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:41,040
Speaker 5: Now.

1060
00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:43,800
Speaker 2: Other times, though, wig thieves would be hung like horse thieves.

1061
00:49:43,800 --> 00:49:46,160
Speaker 3: Oh dear, yeah, so there was they would be hanged.

1062
00:49:46,800 --> 00:49:49,560
Speaker 2: That was right, Sorry, that thief is hung.

1063
00:49:49,760 --> 00:49:50,520
Speaker 3: You're like wow.

1064
00:49:53,800 --> 00:49:56,680
Speaker 2: There was no fair and consistent basis of prosecutions. My point.

1065
00:49:57,480 --> 00:49:59,440
Speaker 2: Mostly it was seen as a petty crime. Right, So

1066
00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:02,319
Speaker 2: despite the cost of all these wigs and the prominence

1067
00:50:02,360 --> 00:50:05,839
Speaker 2: of the victims, Yeah, it wasn't something that was prosecuted much.

1068
00:50:05,880 --> 00:50:08,839
Speaker 2: In fact, theft that I found was not prosecuted much.

1069
00:50:08,920 --> 00:50:12,560
Speaker 2: In seventeen hundreds in England, only four point three percent

1070
00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:15,480
Speaker 2: of cases of theft went to trial. Yeah, and for

1071
00:50:15,680 --> 00:50:18,279
Speaker 2: that's for all thefts, not just wig jacking. And then

1072
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:20,759
Speaker 2: so this kind of explains like wigjacking so low on

1073
00:50:20,800 --> 00:50:23,120
Speaker 2: the set of priorities if you're only like bringing four

1074
00:50:23,200 --> 00:50:26,480
Speaker 2: percent of cases, right, and then there's a rated prosecution.

1075
00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:29,320
Speaker 2: I found at the court the Old Bailey. Yeah, seventy

1076
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Speaker 2: percent of those cases that were brought to court were

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00:50:32,080 --> 00:50:35,239
Speaker 2: found not guilty. Apparently you can just rob That's why

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Speaker 2: it was a highwayman.

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Speaker 3: It was just like it was like, yeah, high skills,

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Speaker 3: well lacking.

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Speaker 2: It was like, okay, it's like if you aren't going

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00:50:41,480 --> 00:50:45,080
Speaker 2: to chase the thieves, they're just gonna You've incentivized.

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Speaker 3: The whole What are you going to do? Well, actually,

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00:50:46,480 --> 00:50:48,719
Speaker 3: there's not much I can't do, So go ahead, break

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00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:49,560
Speaker 3: everybody's windows.

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00:50:49,719 --> 00:50:53,800
Speaker 2: Like, look, you're not prosecuting, I'm not stopping. So anyway,

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00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:56,440
Speaker 2: this left it to wig makers to offer some protection

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00:50:56,600 --> 00:51:00,759
Speaker 2: for their clients. So they are coming totally exactly it.

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00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:03,319
Speaker 2: They had like it made it near impossible to yank

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00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:05,120
Speaker 2: a wig off a person's head. You'd have to spend

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00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:07,080
Speaker 2: a lot extra. But they would make all these like

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00:51:07,120 --> 00:51:10,880
Speaker 2: elaborate straps or like a draw string system. There was

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00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:13,479
Speaker 2: also I found buckles where they would buckle to the head,

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00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 2: so you got like a double strapping.

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Speaker 3: I bet you they fit me. You could probably gesticulate better.

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00:51:19,520 --> 00:51:21,680
Speaker 2: Truly, you could dance more. You can get your head

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00:51:21,680 --> 00:51:24,560
Speaker 2: and do some bobbing and dipping. So at this point,

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00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:26,279
Speaker 2: once your buckle in, your fake hair to your head

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00:51:26,320 --> 00:51:28,319
Speaker 2: to make sure no one jacks your pompadour, I mean,

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Speaker 2: you've really committed to the last ye. Now. The other

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00:51:30,960 --> 00:51:33,600
Speaker 2: aspect that helped to diminish the incidents of wigjacking was

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00:51:33,640 --> 00:51:38,160
Speaker 2: the American Revolution, but more precisely the French Revolution. Oh yeah,

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00:51:38,400 --> 00:51:40,879
Speaker 2: in France, right, seeing all the pompadours in the head

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00:51:40,920 --> 00:51:42,880
Speaker 2: baskets had a chilling effect on.

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Speaker 3: French republank those.

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00:51:46,920 --> 00:51:49,840
Speaker 2: Exactly, but nobody wanted that because as a reaction to

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00:51:49,880 --> 00:51:52,399
Speaker 2: the French Revolution, the bourgeoisie began to wear their hair

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Speaker 2: natural as a symbol of their natural gifts rather than

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00:51:55,719 --> 00:51:58,840
Speaker 2: the power of the purse. Okay, so they wanted natural beauty,

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00:51:58,880 --> 00:52:00,759
Speaker 2: the one that would you know, I had given what

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00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:03,719
Speaker 2: was what was common as opposed to what was bought

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00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:07,400
Speaker 2: and exploited. So natural hair becomes in line with the

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00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:12,040
Speaker 2: spirit of liberty, egalite fraternity wear. I wear my hair natural.

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Speaker 3: Brother, That's kind of where I hope we're gonna swing.

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00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:17,040
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we always swing, because A going to go

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Speaker 2: back and forth.

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Speaker 3: Because like the kind of powers that be thing right

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00:52:20,239 --> 00:52:25,960
Speaker 3: now of having the alien plastic surgery face and like

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00:52:26,120 --> 00:52:28,520
Speaker 3: the same hair like pumpkin.

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Speaker 2: Get bored of that. Yeah, yeah, you will see that.

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Speaker 2: And I don't think it'll be much more than five

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00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:37,120
Speaker 2: to seven years tops figures. I think much sooner than that.

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Speaker 2: But that's the longest this will go.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Oh, another term I found that I thought would be interested.

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Speaker 5: You.

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Speaker 2: You know, we talk about big choker energy and someone

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00:52:45,880 --> 00:52:48,160
Speaker 2: having big choker energy to refer to a certain type

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00:52:48,200 --> 00:52:51,479
Speaker 2: of person. No, I don't think so. But I learned

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00:52:51,520 --> 00:52:54,440
Speaker 2: that chokers became a thing after the French Revolution. The

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00:52:54,560 --> 00:52:57,439
Speaker 2: necklaces weren't close around the throat, they were colored bright

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00:52:57,560 --> 00:52:59,520
Speaker 2: red and nicknamed guillotine necklaces.

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Speaker 3: This so fits in with big chokers.

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00:53:02,200 --> 00:53:05,080
Speaker 2: Right, totally. So trends at this point clearly had.

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00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:06,320
Speaker 3: Four They will explain it.

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00:53:06,440 --> 00:53:09,239
Speaker 2: Yeah today not today. The idea was that at this

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00:53:09,360 --> 00:53:11,800
Speaker 2: point the common man common women were the new ideals

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00:53:11,840 --> 00:53:13,799
Speaker 2: in France, and so the common man and common women

1139
00:53:13,880 --> 00:53:16,359
Speaker 2: have no use for a ridiculously quapped wig. So then

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00:53:16,480 --> 00:53:19,200
Speaker 2: once the French who set the trends, it's just a

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00:53:19,280 --> 00:53:22,400
Speaker 2: matter of time. Over in America, where trends had always

1142
00:53:22,440 --> 00:53:25,560
Speaker 2: been the thing. After the Revolution, our revolution, wiggs came

1143
00:53:25,600 --> 00:53:28,520
Speaker 2: to be seen as a symbol of the former English sugarlords. Right,

1144
00:53:28,960 --> 00:53:30,720
Speaker 2: so they came to see this like, oh, the shallow

1145
00:53:30,840 --> 00:53:35,120
Speaker 2: symbol of old world vanity, specifically vanity more so than wealth,

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00:53:35,160 --> 00:53:37,680
Speaker 2: which I thought was really interesting. Yeah. Powdered wigs came

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00:53:37,719 --> 00:53:40,400
Speaker 2: to be known as bushes of vanity. Wow, that was

1148
00:53:40,440 --> 00:53:43,400
Speaker 2: their nickname. By the time Andrew Jackson's president in eighteen thirties,

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00:53:43,719 --> 00:53:46,120
Speaker 2: no one in America's rocking a wig anymore, pretty much right.

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00:53:46,239 --> 00:53:47,880
Speaker 2: In fact, to show that they were old school, the

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00:53:47,920 --> 00:53:52,399
Speaker 2: opposition party to Andrew Jackson called themselves the Whig Party. Yeah,

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00:53:52,640 --> 00:53:55,040
Speaker 2: and that lasted for two decades the party right by

1153
00:53:55,080 --> 00:53:57,920
Speaker 2: the Civil War. They're done. But they even saw a

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00:53:57,920 --> 00:53:59,600
Speaker 2: couple of presidents be Wigs. They didn't last long. They

1155
00:53:59,640 --> 00:54:01,600
Speaker 2: had a ten of dying off of real quick. But

1156
00:54:01,680 --> 00:54:03,480
Speaker 2: the party was done by the time of Lincoln, and

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00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:06,960
Speaker 2: the former Whigs became Republicans. Holding to your idea that

1158
00:54:07,200 --> 00:54:10,080
Speaker 2: the maga face with the plastic surgery is very much

1159
00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:12,759
Speaker 2: the same. Like, hey, they were trying to signal back then, Hey,

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00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:15,480
Speaker 2: we're about the Whigs and grandeur and opulents. They were like,

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00:54:15,560 --> 00:54:18,040
Speaker 2: we're America. We're not into that. So back in jolly

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00:54:18,080 --> 00:54:21,360
Speaker 2: old England, though, in seventeen ninety five, as if basically

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00:54:21,400 --> 00:54:24,279
Speaker 2: in response to the French Revolution, the British Prime Minister

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00:54:24,360 --> 00:54:27,040
Speaker 2: at the time, William Pitt He oversaw the creation of

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00:54:27,080 --> 00:54:29,680
Speaker 2: something called the whig powder Tax. So it was a

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00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:32,000
Speaker 2: tax on wig powder, like the stuff to keep your

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00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:34,960
Speaker 2: hair like from steaking and draw and flies. The aim

1168
00:54:35,120 --> 00:54:37,239
Speaker 2: was to impose this harsh tax on wig makers and

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00:54:37,280 --> 00:54:39,759
Speaker 2: wig buyers and so forth. So it ultimately kills the

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00:54:39,800 --> 00:54:43,080
Speaker 2: trend from both sides. Yeah, and mostly only the wealthy

1171
00:54:43,160 --> 00:54:44,960
Speaker 2: then and those in the legal trade, the lawyers and

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00:54:45,040 --> 00:54:46,960
Speaker 2: judges yeah, held the to it, so that way was

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00:54:47,040 --> 00:54:50,000
Speaker 2: now once again a symbol and status signifier, but for

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00:54:50,120 --> 00:54:53,200
Speaker 2: a very specific thing. The wigs of there were then

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Speaker 2: remanded to museums where they quote grew infested, dusty, and tangled.

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Speaker 2: I found that the British National Museum described its own

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00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:03,600
Speaker 2: collection of wigs from this time as quote associated with

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00:55:03,680 --> 00:55:07,440
Speaker 2: an aristocracy opposed to reforms in a bygone era a

1179
00:55:07,520 --> 00:55:09,719
Speaker 2: little bit. Yeah, with that era of the big wig

1180
00:55:09,920 --> 00:55:12,840
Speaker 2: began its slow fade into memory and to be replaced

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00:55:12,880 --> 00:55:15,560
Speaker 2: with the now metaphor. So that's why we still associate

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00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:19,319
Speaker 2: big wigs with the same past excesses. Yeah, just because

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00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:21,320
Speaker 2: they may have taken off their wigs. It's still the

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00:55:21,360 --> 00:55:21,879
Speaker 2: same crowd.

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Speaker 3: It's the truth.

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00:55:22,960 --> 00:55:25,359
Speaker 2: So what's some ridiculous take away here, Elizabeth oh Man?

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Speaker 3: I think go natural, you know, like it just always.

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00:55:31,520 --> 00:55:33,520
Speaker 3: And what's curious is the French. I mean, like you

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00:55:33,640 --> 00:55:37,360
Speaker 3: look at with French fashion, they continue that today of

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00:55:37,640 --> 00:55:41,200
Speaker 3: just like aging naturally and gracefully.

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00:55:40,800 --> 00:55:42,600
Speaker 2: And without surgeries. Yeah.

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00:55:42,719 --> 00:55:45,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, being over there not too long ago, you see,

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00:55:45,520 --> 00:55:50,560
Speaker 3: like people don't have like filler lips and like they

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00:55:50,680 --> 00:55:53,200
Speaker 3: let their hair gray, and it's just interesting.

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00:55:53,480 --> 00:55:56,360
Speaker 2: It's very, very attractive. Actually, I agree.

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00:55:57,280 --> 00:56:00,200
Speaker 3: I find it really refreshing when you see, like the

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00:56:00,320 --> 00:56:04,520
Speaker 3: actresses on television, you haven't done anything, haven't any work done?

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Speaker 2: Rogers me.

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00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:08,160
Speaker 3: Rodgers is a good example in the Bosch series.

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00:56:08,719 --> 00:56:11,279
Speaker 2: She looks fantastic, Like I put those in your terms,

1201
00:56:11,360 --> 00:56:15,319
Speaker 2: like I picked someone for something. I know you've watched sar.

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00:56:15,840 --> 00:56:18,960
Speaker 2: What's your ridiculous takeaway mine, Elizabeth, thank you for asking me.

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00:56:19,040 --> 00:56:23,880
Speaker 2: I'm so happy as a rare instance my Actually, uh,

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00:56:24,400 --> 00:56:27,000
Speaker 2: I don't know. I think it's just basically that the

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00:56:27,320 --> 00:56:29,879
Speaker 2: cutting the hole in the coach to steal the wig

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00:56:30,880 --> 00:56:33,560
Speaker 2: just picturing that I was having I was laughing out

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00:56:33,640 --> 00:56:35,440
Speaker 2: loud when I was reading about wig holes. I just

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00:56:35,560 --> 00:56:38,120
Speaker 2: people just like I got to hit the wig hole.

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00:56:38,560 --> 00:56:40,160
Speaker 2: But then when I got to cutting a hole in

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00:56:40,239 --> 00:56:42,879
Speaker 2: a coach that's rolling along, you got a knife in something,

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00:56:42,960 --> 00:56:44,640
Speaker 2: you're on a horse, you're going up and down. I mean,

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00:56:44,719 --> 00:56:47,440
Speaker 2: that's not easy. That's commitment to the bit. I love that.

1213
00:56:47,560 --> 00:56:49,480
Speaker 2: That's like, what are you an improv actor over here?

1214
00:56:50,480 --> 00:56:52,719
Speaker 2: So you in the mood for a talkback, Elizabeth, watch

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00:56:52,960 --> 00:56:56,320
Speaker 2: all baby, I am producing d if you could favor

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00:56:56,400 --> 00:57:04,080
Speaker 2: us with one? Oh my god, did you see that.

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Speaker 5: I love you. Bye. This is Jack from Australia. I

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Speaker 5: really love your podcast. It's such a good keep up

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Speaker 5: the good luck and I love the funny and ridiculous

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Speaker 5: crimes without the mode. And that's all I happy, Thank you,

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Speaker 5: goodbye bye Jack.

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Speaker 2: If you're okay, blink, I'm guessing he's like under his

1223
00:57:35,200 --> 00:57:37,800
Speaker 2: covers listening to a podcast and he's not supposed to

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Speaker 2: be aware.

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Speaker 3: Jack took a parent's phone, downloaded the iHeart a congratulations

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Speaker 3: job recorded this and then they're gonna and Jack's gonna go. Jack.

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Speaker 3: You're my hero.

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Speaker 2: New friend of the show, Jack, Jack one friend of

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Speaker 2: the show.

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Speaker 3: Love it.

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