WEBVTT - SYSK Selects: How Monopoly Works 0:00:01.280 --> 0:00:04.080 Hey there, everybody, it's me Josh, your old pal, and 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:07.040 for this week's s Y s K Selects, I've chosen 0:00:07.040 --> 0:00:10.399 our classic two thousand and fourteen episode on the Game 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:14.760 of Monopoly. It's a really thorough episode where we explained 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:19.560 everything everything about the game of Monopoly, and I was 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:24.840 apparently on coludes throughout the whole thing. Go figure. Anyway, 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:32.520 enjoy this episode. I think you well. Welcome to Stuff 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:35.120 you Should Know, a production of My Heart Radios How 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:43.840 Stuff Works. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh 0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:47.240 Clark with Charles W. Chuck Bryant and Jerry Rowland, which 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:49.800 makes the Stuff you Should Know. It's right. I got 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:53.040 on the top hat and my cane, your monocle, my 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:55.880 Monica to see a monocle. I thought it was not 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:59.440 as Mr Peanut, Oh yeah, not Mr Monopoly. And I 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:03.840 think Mr Pringle has a monocle too, Devan, No, he 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:07.720 has a nastasy. Mr Monopoly doesn't have a monocle. Huh. 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:11.760 I don't think so. Huh. You'd think we'd know, we 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:15.040 do not, But I do know this. Mr Monopoly is 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:19.280 a nickname for that man. That's right. His born name 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:24.240 is given name by his parents is rich Uncle penny 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:28.440 Bags three names, so uncle would be his middle name. Yeah, 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:31.320 well he even has a regular name too, not that 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:36.679 I saw. Yeah, it is Um Millburn Pennybags. No. Yeah, 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:39.280 there was a book UM published and this is one 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:41.880 of those after the fact deals called the Monopoly Companion, 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:46.320 and they named all the character characters on the board 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:49.400 Milbourne Pennybags. And then the jail guy is Jake, the jailbird, 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:52.760 and the police officer and go to jail is it's 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:55.920 I'll bet it Tyrus, isn't it Officer Edgar Mallory. I knew, 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:00.680 really he just gets that. Yeah, that's pretty funny. We're 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:04.120 talking about Monopoly, by the way. Oh yeah, this is 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:09.360 not about anything else but Monopoly. No. And I was 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:13.960 just remarking to you, sir, how I've never seen one 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:17.480 of our This had more supplemental information than most shows 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:23.239 that we research. Yeah. I can explain why because this 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:26.480 was written. There was a whole suite of UM game 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:30.960 articles written like UM just how to play certain games. 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:34.239 So it kind of came out in this mentality and 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:37.480 of this is the game, and here's how we explain 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:41.120 how to play it, and this article is done. Whereas Monopoly. 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:44.400 It's like this is more like McDonald's or Twinkies or 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:50.280 something like that. It's like a cultural cog. Yeah. I 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:55.600 mean there's so much extra junk history. And I mean 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:59.600 you talk about the different versions, it's ridiculous. Milburne Penny 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:02.240 Penny Banks. Yeah, And like I said, that was a 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:05.200 post that he wasn't originally called that. This is I 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:07.680 think Monopoly probably wanted to sell a little a little 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:10.600 book or two. I'm sure they did, because if one 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:14.000 thing we've learned about Parker Brothers and now has Bro 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:18.800 is they love selling different versions of this game. Yeah, 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:21.680 they do. They like licensing it all a lot of money. 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:25.280 Do they like making some changes here they're releasing a 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:28.560 brand new game, but it's all still the same game 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:33.440 and all of it. Um came from a left wing 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:39.040 Quaker intellectual at the turn of last century. Yeah, it was. 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:42.720 I'm saying that right, Yeah, sure, Okay, I think it 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:45.960 sounds right. Uh. And it's interesting to me that the 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:51.560 game of Monopoly, which is all about capitalism bankrupting or 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:56.880 neighbor Yeah, was stolen. The game was stolen from a 0:03:57.080 --> 0:04:00.600 leftist intellectual Quaker. In the original version of the game, 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:04.080 it was to teach against monopolies and how they're bad. Right, 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:07.360 so let's talk about this monopoly. Actually, if you trace 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:11.320 it back to about the like the literal beginning of 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:15.480 the twentieth century, Um, it's what's considered a folk game. 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:18.200 There were a lot of people playing versions like this 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:21.080 and cities all over the country. But again, they all 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:26.880 shared some pretty common viewpoints. Uh. I guess you today 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:29.680 you would kind of call them socialists, um, But for 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:32.560 the most part they were um followers of a guy 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:36.479 named Henry George Georgis M. Yeah. He came up with 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:39.400 this thing called Georgism, which was based on some other philosophies. 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:41.720 But the idea of it is is that if you 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:45.200 produce something through the through your own labor, your own work, 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:49.799 you own that that should not be taxed. What should 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:53.920 be taxes things that everybody owns. If somebody's taking something 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:57.599 that belongs to everybody, say a parcel of land, technically 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:00.359 the land belongs everybody. Well, that was his no was 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:02.599 that you shouldn't even be a landowner, Like, the whole 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:04.839 concept of owning land to him was ridiculous. And that's 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:07.120 based on this idea. The law of the commons which 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:10.559 is around for centuries, if not millennia, and then um, 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:13.240 once people started taking land, He's like, okay, well, if 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:16.320 you're gonna own land, it belongs to everybody, so that 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:19.080 should be taxed and then that tax will be given 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:22.560 back to the community for the greater good. So that's 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:25.800 georgeis um. And that was kind of the philosophy that 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:29.520 formed the basis of monopoly what was originally called the 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:32.880 Landlord's Game, which was created by a lady named Lizzie 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:37.240 Maggie m A g Y m A I E m 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:41.760 A G I E almost Magpie without the pa, right, 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:45.000 uh yeah, And she basically that was on her card, 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:49.800 and she, uh, she came up with this, like you 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:53.320 said to kind of teach um, so you could go 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:57.800 and be a rich landowner and bankrupt other people and 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:01.360 exploit the poor who need your help, um, who need 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:04.440 a decent place to stay, and you could see yourself 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:08.440 like the evils of capitalism. But she actually came up 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:12.479 with two sets of rules for the same game. One 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:14.840 was where you got as rich as you could at 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:19.560 the expense of everybody else. The other was a basically 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:22.720 the community benefited. And you can kind of see that 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:25.680 today in like these weird things like community chest, Like 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:29.359 why would I want to, you know, pay into this pot. 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:32.400 I don't care about the community like now it's a 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:35.240 bad thing. In her original version, it was a good thing, 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:38.000 like the community one. And that was the basis of 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:40.880 the whole thing. Yeah, which is really ironic, it is. 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:43.919 Uh yeah, like you said, she created two versions and 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.400 she said, Um, one of the quotes from her is 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:48.640 it is a practical demonstration of the present system of 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:52.560 land grabbing, with all its usual outcomes and consequences. So 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:56.480 you know, it's kind of the teach people lessons. Uh. 0:06:57.360 --> 0:07:03.000 And she had it stolen from her. She luckily, Lizzie 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:06.520 Maggie was smart enough to patent this game. Uh. It 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:09.040 became just kind of a trendy thing. Again, like if 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:13.520 you were into socialism at the time and you were 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:16.760 on the East Coast, you probably hung out at a 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:20.080 friend's house and and um played this game at some 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:23.320 point in some incarnation or another. It was really popular, 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:25.560 like you said, like people made up some of their 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:28.160 own rules, but it was I mean, if you look 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:30.400 at the original Landlords game board, it looks a lot 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:33.440 like the current Monopoly I mean similar at least yeah, 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:37.240 And apparently a lot of the the rules that make 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:40.160 the game a lot more enjoyable to day came from 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:46.280 uh Lizzie's Quaker friends. Like, for example, um, the original 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:52.840 plots of land, we're up for auction for forbid. Quakers 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:56.160 prefer silence, so they just put a fixed price on 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:57.960 a piece of land so there wouldn't be a loud, 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:04.040 obnoxious bidding war. Um. They also um instituted tokens, fun 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:08.360 tokens before they're just boring pawns. Yeah, like household objects, 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:10.400 which you know, that's why the thimble is in there, 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:13.160 and originally the iron Yea, we'll get to those in 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:16.600 a minute, but um, I know it's pretty exciting. Uh. 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:18.960 And then so this thing is being played and h 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:22.760 Lizzie Maggie holds the patent, but she's not exactly like 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:26.920 um cracking down on any kind of infringement. Really. No, Well, 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:29.600 she pitched at the Parker Brothers and they said no, Yeah, 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:31.680 so she just kind of went on doing her own thing. 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:34.719 So there's another lady actually that figures into this UM 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:38.080 lady named Ruth Hoskins, and she was one of the 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:41.280 ones who caught on in the like Philadelphia Atlantic City 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:45.520 area with her Quaker friends. Uh, two of them in particular, 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:49.120 Jessie and Eugene Rayford. Uh. And they are the ones 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:51.439 who changed some of the rules to make it look 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:54.160 more like the monopoly we know. They taught it to 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:58.000 a friend, uh named Todd, and Todd taught it to 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:01.080 his friend named Charles dare Row. And that's where the 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:05.199 story takes a kind of a CD turn. Well, actually 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:11.000 that's where the Parker Brothers official version begins. Ironically things 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:14.319 turned CD. Parker Brothers is like, hey, this is where 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:18.000 our story begins. Yeah. The inventor of Monopoly, Charles Darrow, right, 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:20.760 so he was like a radiator salesman during the depression. 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:23.600 This is the thirties, right, Yeah, I mean it was 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:27.920 ironically again during the Depression, this game really caught hold. 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:32.000 Well I supposedly that's what caught the Parker Brothers attention 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:35.280 was that this guy came to came to him, came 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:39.840 to them to sell him this game which he had stolen. Yeah. 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:41.920 Apparently he didn't innovate it at all. He kind of 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:44.240 just copied it and packaged it right, and said, hey, 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:46.200 what do you think of this? And the Parker Brothers said, 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:47.920 we don't think too much of it, like, how does 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:50.440 the game end? We don't know what's going on here, 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:54.160 so let's just um, you just go your own way. 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:58.360 So Charles Darrow went off and started selling it at 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:03.160 this Wannamaker's apartment store in Philadelphia without pattenting it right, 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:06.680 and um, the Parker brothers said, you know what, it's 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:09.000 the depression. Can you believe it. We're not going to 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:13.240 have any kind of economic woes like this for another 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:17.760 seventy eighty years. And this guy is selling these things 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:21.440 like hot cakes. You know what, sir, we will buy 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:25.800 your idea from you. And Charles Darrow apparently said, well, 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:30.079 that's great. Give me the money first and then I'll 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:32.640 tell you the second part of the story. And they 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:35.679 gave him a bag of money with a dollar sign 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:38.640 on it, much like the ones that um rich uncle 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:43.319 Penny bags likes. And he said, okay, um, we also 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:45.600 need to buy the patent off from this lady named 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:49.319 Lizzie Maggie. Yeah, which they did. Um, the game was 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:53.040 still stolen. I say, even though that they eventually did 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:56.040 pay her money, but part of the deal was, they said, um, 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:58.079 they they agreed to buy her patent and said, you 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:00.240 know what, we're gonna we'll sell a few of your 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:02.880 other game ideas too. None of those ever went anywhere, 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:05.560 and she was sort of lost to history except for 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:08.480 people who do a little bit of digging. Yeah, and 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:11.640 we actually have a guy named Ralph to thank for 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:15.360 doing that digging initially. We'll talk about him later. Oh yeah, 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:17.360 that's right. Yeah, because he's the one who came up 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:20.559 with the unofficial history and like really tracked it down. Well, 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:22.240 there's a lot of teasers in this one so far. 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:26.840 So Um, the Parker brothers now in the game, and uh, 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:30.840 it becomes a huge hit virtually off the bat. In 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:32.960 the thirties is when they bought it and started really 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:36.880 printing it. Yeah, and the game is based on Atlantic City. Uh, 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:39.280 those are the properties and that's because that was the 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:42.760 area where it became popular. But um, this excellent New 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:45.960 York Times article you sent, uh, what's the name of it, 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:49.280 Monopoly Goes Corporate. Yeah, it was written by what's what's 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:54.160 the lady's name? Mary Pillin. She is a monopoly expert. 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:56.880 There's a lot of those out there, I've learned. She well, 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:59.760 she wrote a lot of the articles you'll find. Oh really, yeah, 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:02.280 she's well. She pointed out that it's interesting that it 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:05.800 mirrored sort of the the cartography of the day in 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:09.319 Atlantic City, like Boardwalk was clearly like a rich area 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:14.080 the Baltic and Mediterranean. The cheapest properties were in African 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:19.880 American neighborhoods. There was a reading railroad that transferred people 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:23.960 between Philly and Atlantic City. And little known fact for 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:27.800 our friends in the gay community, New York Avenue was 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:30.880 one of the earliest gay scenes in the country. So 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:36.720 buy that one up and support support the lb GT community. 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:38.880 That's if you're playing monopoly. Yeah, that's what I would do. 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:41.640 And maybe just you know, don't charge anybody when they land, 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:45.440 just be like, this is the party place exactly. And 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:49.560 Marvin Gardens apparently is misspelled yeah E instead of an 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:51.440 eye or eye instead of an E. Yeah, on the 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:54.800 board it's an eye, right, It's supposed to be an E. Yeah. 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:58.160 There's a lot of Monopoly facts dropping all around us 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:11.760 right now. I know it's raining symbols. Well, now we're 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:15.240 on the road, driving in your truck. Want to learn 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:19.079 a thing or two from Josh PM Chuck. It's stuff 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:26.240 you should know, all right, All right, So we were 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:29.480 just talking about Atlantic City. Um, I guess it's we 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:31.160 can go ahead and point out now that there are 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:35.160 hundreds of versions of Monopoly out there now, one for 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:39.840 your hometown, probably one for your favorite sports team. I 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:43.320 have personally my version as a Star Wars Monopoly, which 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:48.160 is pretty fun. Um yeah, I guess Hesbro's like, you've 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:52.240 got some money, sure you can license this monopoly game. 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:55.000 Go ahead. There's a Simpsons Monopoly. I haven't played it though, 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:59.679 and not in addition to the um licensed versions that 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:03.080 you can fine like everywhere, they also have like official 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:05.800 versions to like there's a U S version, there's a 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:10.480 UK version, there's um a there's a new version that's 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:13.199 called Monopoly here And now what does that even mean? 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:18.199 Super corporate? Is this the corporate one? Yeah? Okay, it's 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:23.160 uh it's like everything is multiplied by I think a thousand, 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:25.640 so the solar amounts are way higher. Is this one 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:31.920 where they replaced the uh, the railroads are replaced by airports? 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:35.600 Is this one where they replaced corporations for all the property? 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:40.120 So like McDonald's and Sony and yeah, god, who would 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:45.080 want to play that? Some people? Do? You know? Yeah? Yeah? Um, 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:46.400 I mean I'm not a purist because I had the 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:48.160 Star Wars version, but I just it's no fun to 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:52.640 me to play as paramount pictures and right to buy 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:57.720 the McDonald's property. Yeah, that's just me. Um. So there 0:14:57.720 --> 0:14:59.480 are a bunch of different versions, but the one we're 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:02.400 going to talk about, what's just talking about, the the 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:05.960 normal version with the two thousand eight rules. Yeah, and 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:09.400 there's actually coming soon, um later this year. There you 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:12.960 can go online at my Monopoly and you can design 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:15.400 your own board, is that right, and do like your 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:18.280 own neighborhood and then they will make it for you. 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:21.080 And I think it's like fifty bucks or something. Wow, 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:24.200 money bags, you can I'm not gonna do it. Got 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:26.320 the East Lake, but I was. I was talking to 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:31.440 whoever went and got it. Yeah, rich uncle, rich penny bags. 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:35.200 That's what you should have said, rich uncle, penny bag, pennybags. 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:38.360 This sounds not not that wealthy. Well, actually I have 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:41.040 a bag of pennies on me right now. He Forbes 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:46.240 has their silly fictional fifteen list of fictional characters wealth 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:52.720 and he um in two thousand thirteen was number is 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:55.800 uh stars declined to m huh, guess who the first 0:15:56.160 --> 0:16:00.200 the richest fictional character is the Incredible Hulk. No, he 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:04.680 was not rich Scrooge McDuck. Oh yeah, well dude, he 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:09.240 had that gold vault apparently sixty five billion. Uh. Number 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:11.680 two was smiling, which I thought it was kind of 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:16.240 silly smile from like the rings. It's a dragon. I 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:20.000 think I had like a bunch of gold. Uh. Carlisle 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:24.120 Cullen number three, Tony Stark four, Charles Foster Kane number five. 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:29.360 Who's number three? Carlisle Cullen from Twilight? Who's that? He 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:34.440 was the dad vampire dad of the vampire family. Um, 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:36.160 and he's been alive forever, so I guess he just 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:41.680 keeps accumulating. Well. Bruce Wayne Ritchie Rich, Christian Gray Ritchie Rich. 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:44.160 I forgot about him. He's number seven. He had a 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:49.440 robot made and a crazy like a weird scientists friend. 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:54.920 Didn't he sure like a Richie rich robot of himself. 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:57.760 I think he had that too, But no, it was made. 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:01.360 Was a robot, wasn't it? It was the Jetsons. No, 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:06.840 he had to Uh. I thought Monty Burns at number 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:10.040 ten was pretty good. Oh yeah, that's going. Although I 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:13.440 would guess Mr Monopoly would be wealthier than Monty Burns. 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:18.000 But and they put it out each year and it's dumb. 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:20.719 Can we just admit that I was thrilled by it. 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:24.320 We just spent three minutes on it. Yeah, well that's true. Okay, 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:27.600 So Chuckers, you want to talk about the the rules 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:31.000 of the game again, two eight rules if you are 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:35.320 a Monopoly purist and like, I'm sorry, that's just what 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:37.840 we're going with. Yeah, well, let's talk about the game 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:41.000 board itself. Just so if you haven't played it, I'm 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:43.760 surprised because I think like a billion people have played 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:47.000 the game. Um, but if you haven't, when you get 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:48.719 your Monopoly game, you're gonna open it up and you're 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:51.159 gonna have a board with all these different properties in 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:56.800 a square. Uh, you have two dice twelve they call 0:17:56.880 --> 0:18:00.240 them tokens. That's not the right amount either, is it. No, 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:03.920 there's eight. Yeah. I don't understand where they got twelve 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:07.040 from unless they're counting ones that maybe were retired or 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:09.160 something like that. But when you open the box, there's 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:12.800 only eight. There, there's a can we go over, there's 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:19.040 a wheelbarrow, Scottie dog, top hat, a cat which replaced 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:23.040 the iron in two thousand thirteen, there's a big, big 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:27.119 two do because Parker Brothers has bro was like, we 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:30.640 haven't made a lot of money off of this for 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:32.840 a couple of months, so let's just do something. Well, 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:35.000 they let people vote at least, which is kind of cool, right, 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:36.720 but it was also did you see the other ones 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:39.720 that they were voting for. It's like a robot, like 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:44.000 Richie Richards a guitar. They didn't they didn't make the 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:47.200 cut though. No, they got voted out and the cat 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:50.320 got voted in. The iron got booted. Yeah, it only 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:53.200 got eight percent of the vote. There's the classic shoe 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:56.800 of course, or boot, which is modeled after a nineteen 0:18:56.840 --> 0:19:01.120 thirties working shoe, and I think they've kept it the same. Yeah, 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:03.520 that's one of the original ones. The Scottie Dog was 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:05.800 not one of the originals that came in the fifties. Yeah, 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:08.840 and I think that was supposed to be the companion 0:19:08.960 --> 0:19:16.160 of uh millburn money. Denny is there right, Denny bags 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:21.359 should be cash bags, fat stacks, stacks. There was a 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:24.679 cannon which has since been retired. Yeah, and if they 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:29.880 thought it was two militaries, well the cannon and the battleship. Yeah, 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:32.520 they were from a failed game called Conflict, and they 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:34.480 were like, well, we got all these pieces, so let's 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:36.760 just throw them in Monopoly for now. Right. It's pretty smart. 0:19:36.880 --> 0:19:39.000 But they faced the cannon out because it's just too 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:43.320 overtly violent. Um, it just says with any without any 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:47.320 fanfare or vote or campaign. So probably, yeah, it would 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:50.440 be my guess if it's hush hush, yeah, it's probably 0:19:50.480 --> 0:19:53.359 because of violence. There's a conspiracy of foot. There's the 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:56.840 race car. Yeah, every little kid's favorite, which apparently had 0:19:56.840 --> 0:19:59.200 a number three on the side for a little while. Yeah, 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:01.199 I didn't know that. Yeah, they are in hart I 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:06.720 guess so. Uh, or purse has been retired. Yeah, the 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:11.359 rocking horse was retired. Yep, the lantern was retired. Oh yeah, 0:20:12.800 --> 0:20:15.320 I'm doing my best ben bowling pressing. Did you do 0:20:15.880 --> 0:20:18.320 did you get wheelbarrow in there yet? I think I know, 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:20.359 yes I did. It was the first one I said, 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:24.000 could you say top hat? Yeah? That was always my favorite. Actually, 0:20:24.119 --> 0:20:26.560 I I don't remember what my favorite was. It fit 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:30.720 on my pinking and I used to draw faces. Uh 0:20:30.760 --> 0:20:33.119 the horse and rider which is retired, which I didn't know. 0:20:33.240 --> 0:20:36.439 That's one of the best pieces to me. What you 0:20:36.440 --> 0:20:39.440 didn't know is retired. Now yeah, I'm just kind of sad. Yeah, 0:20:40.000 --> 0:20:42.560 and now there and the sack of money was retired 0:20:42.560 --> 0:20:45.760 as well, the sack of money in a purse. Those 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:49.440 are a little similar. Yeah. The cat come on, yeah, 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:54.880 cat people, that's exactly right. I guarantee that's why they 0:20:55.080 --> 0:20:57.320 got cat voted in. And I am a cat person, 0:20:58.040 --> 0:21:01.560 you know, and even you think it's stupid, exactly. So 0:21:02.000 --> 0:21:05.080 those are the tokens. Some of those tokens that we 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:06.920 mentioned you're going to find in the two thousand and 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:09.159 eight set. Yeah, and that is your piece. That is 0:21:09.200 --> 0:21:12.320 what represents you in the game. Again for the three 0:21:12.359 --> 0:21:16.200 people who have never played Monopoly, right, yeah, because supposedly, um, 0:21:16.920 --> 0:21:20.440 at least as far as Hasbro calculates, over one billion 0:21:20.480 --> 0:21:24.960 people have played Monopoly, and frankly, I'm surprised as that low. 0:21:26.160 --> 0:21:29.760 It sounds like an old number. Yeah. Um, okay, So 0:21:29.840 --> 0:21:32.320 you've got the box open, you get the board, you 0:21:32.400 --> 0:21:35.160 got two dice, you got the tokens, thirty two houses 0:21:35.600 --> 0:21:42.480 in twelve hotels, uh, sixteen chance cards, sixteen community Chess cards. Yeah, 0:21:42.880 --> 0:21:45.240 a title D card for each property. It's got the 0:21:45.280 --> 0:21:47.679 information on it, like how much it costs to purchase 0:21:48.040 --> 0:21:50.399 how much rent is depending on how many houses or 0:21:50.440 --> 0:21:52.560 hotels you have on it, Yeah, what the mortgage value 0:21:52.600 --> 0:21:55.000 is worth, that's right. Um, and then you've got your 0:21:55.320 --> 0:21:58.600 your play money, your monopoly money, which man, I think 0:21:58.600 --> 0:22:01.080 that's where it grabs kids because and they even pointed 0:22:01.119 --> 0:22:03.480 out in this article that's um, it's kind of the 0:22:03.480 --> 0:22:07.720 first time a lot of kids have money to play with. Yeah, 0:22:07.920 --> 0:22:12.720 especially the bill wants. Oh man, that gold bill I 0:22:12.760 --> 0:22:17.720 always thought was orange? Is it gold? Uh? Yeah, one's 0:22:17.720 --> 0:22:22.880 definitely golden rod like yellow. But I remember was, Yeah, 0:22:22.920 --> 0:22:26.280 I guess gold is a way to go. Uh see, 0:22:26.280 --> 0:22:28.399 I was a cash hoarder, which is no way to 0:22:28.400 --> 0:22:31.119 win a monopoly. No. I thought it was can't save. No. 0:22:31.280 --> 0:22:33.800 I just thought that just figures for me though, Like 0:22:34.000 --> 0:22:36.639 you gotta spend money to make money. Yeah, I was like, 0:22:36.680 --> 0:22:39.320 look at all this cash that I will soon be 0:22:39.320 --> 0:22:41.520 paying to everyone else. Just keep wandering off from the 0:22:41.560 --> 0:22:44.399 table and try to buy stuff with it. Did not work. 0:22:45.160 --> 0:22:48.920 So Chuck, you've got the board laid out, and if 0:22:48.920 --> 0:22:51.040 you count them, if you're that kind of person, yeah, 0:22:51.240 --> 0:22:53.639 you're going to find that there's forty squares. That's right. 0:22:54.480 --> 0:22:58.080 I believe twenty two of which are um no, twenty 0:22:58.160 --> 0:23:01.520 eight of which can be purchased. Yeah, twenty two our properties. 0:23:01.880 --> 0:23:05.360 You've got your your electric company and water works. Yeah, 0:23:05.520 --> 0:23:08.920 sucker's bet. And then you've got the four railroads. Four railroads, 0:23:09.560 --> 0:23:13.959 So that's that's right. There are others that you can't buy. So, 0:23:14.040 --> 0:23:17.480 for example, there's a luxury tax square. Yeah, you gotta 0:23:17.520 --> 0:23:19.240 pay what a hundred dollars when you land on that, 0:23:19.320 --> 0:23:21.440 I believe, so just right out of just right out 0:23:21.480 --> 0:23:25.000 of your pocket. There's an income tax square. Yeah, no good. 0:23:25.200 --> 0:23:29.080 There's the go square, which is where you start, and 0:23:29.119 --> 0:23:32.439 then when you come back around you collect two hundred dollars, 0:23:32.520 --> 0:23:35.800 which is in Monopoly called your salary. That's right. I 0:23:35.840 --> 0:23:37.840 never knew that. I didn't either. And there's a lot 0:23:37.920 --> 0:23:41.120 of rules in here. Uh. And then I guess it's 0:23:41.119 --> 0:23:42.679 a good time to point out Monopoly is one of 0:23:42.680 --> 0:23:46.600 those games where house rules are highly encouraged, uh, and 0:23:46.640 --> 0:23:48.560 a lot of the fun of the game, and in fact, 0:23:49.560 --> 0:23:54.840