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Speaker 2: Zaren Hey, Elizabeth Dudton. Oh are you doing pretty well?
Speaker 2: How about you? Good? You feel well?
Speaker 3: For asking?
Speaker 2: Oh? My pleasure. You know I'm a curious tech.
Speaker 3: You are listen. Yeah, I have a question for you,
Speaker 3: curious George. Oh sure you know it's ridiculous? Oh yes,
Speaker 3: Oh do you. Mister David Lee Roth, Oh my god,
Speaker 3: he's so beautifully ridiculous.
Speaker 2: I love him. Did you know in two thousand and four,
Speaker 2: David Lee Roth aka Diamond Dave aka mister David Lee
Speaker 2: Roth he went to work in the Bronx as an
Speaker 2: emergency medical technician. I do know that.
Speaker 3: I think I talked about it on Ridiculous History once.
Speaker 2: Oh that's right, I did you do know? You know this?
Speaker 2: Huh well? He called it a perfect job for him.
Speaker 2: I was blown away by this.
Speaker 3: He's amazing.
Speaker 2: I was like, dude, how cool is this? And like
Speaker 2: he was like super excited where he was like talking about.
Speaker 2: Like at one point he would go up to people.
Speaker 2: There they are like lying bloody on the pavement of
Speaker 2: New York City, and David Lee Roth comes up to them,
Speaker 2: grins down at them and goes, you're gonna be okay,
Speaker 2: I mean like that, like that it was like a dream, right,
Speaker 2: and then he actually starts to save them, like not
Speaker 2: just like it's an apparition. He tastes their blood pressure,
Speaker 2: he starts bandaging them. According to Diamond, Davey said, not
Speaker 2: once does anyone recognize me, which is perfect for me.
Speaker 2: So apparently they weren't actually seeing him, which is kind
Speaker 2: of wild, Like you actually had the moment and no
Speaker 2: one recognized that it was David Roth, which is the
Speaker 2: wildest part to me. They missed out on the moment anyway,
Speaker 2: that was ridiculous. Fandex all yeah, yeah, to be saved
Speaker 2: by David Lee Roth and not know it. Yeah, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Ridiculous. That is ridiculous. You want to know what else
Speaker 3: is ridiculous? Oh dude, please getting arrested for trying to
Speaker 3: quit a job.
Speaker 2: I think I've done that.
Speaker 3: This is ridiculous. Crime a podcast about absurd and outrageous capers,
Speaker 3: heists and cons. It's always ninety nine percent murder free
Speaker 3: and one hundred percent ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Damn right zaren yes.
Speaker 3: Close your eyes.
Speaker 2: Fast.
Speaker 3: I'm just kidding you. Like classical music.
Speaker 2: I love classical music.
Speaker 3: Answer the question, sir, I reclaim my time. Well, I
Speaker 3: have a whopper of a show for you today. I
Speaker 3: too like classical music. Thanks for asking.
Speaker 2: Okay, do you like classical music?
Speaker 3: Yes, I do. I just said that these these are
Speaker 3: criming classical composers and musicians that I have for you today.
Speaker 3: Oh can you believe.
Speaker 2: That this is awesome? And this is not like Hector
Speaker 2: Barreleos did some opium. This is like crazy stuff.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, now this is Remember you did the stolen strategy.
Speaker 3: Now this is beyond beyond that, beyond that, your your
Speaker 3: mind will be boggled at the level of crime.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna buckle up, buttercut.
Speaker 3: So yeah you should. Now, we don't have any hardcore
Speaker 3: criminals in this one. What I'm trying to say, we
Speaker 3: don't have arsonists or bank robbers. This is good, clean
Speaker 3: fun Oh nice, just squeaky clean. That's what we're all
Speaker 3: about here, clean Schubert. Oh do you play it? Do
Speaker 3: you play an instrument?
Speaker 4: Zeren?
Speaker 2: Does harmonica count? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I would count a harmonic musical instrument.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, So I play harmonica, but I would say
Speaker 2: I'm no musician.
Speaker 3: Okay, because like from the ages of about eight to twenty.
Speaker 3: I played the cello. That's a big secret. I couldn't
Speaker 3: play good. No, I couldn't play to save my life today,
Speaker 3: I'm guessing. But like I played in this school orchestra
Speaker 3: in high school and it really went with my whole
Speaker 3: Like I have to wear net gear at night, and
Speaker 3: I didn't attend one party in high school. Ye I play, Yeah,
Speaker 3: she'll play cello.
Speaker 2: I leaned in.
Speaker 3: I leaned in.
Speaker 2: I wore he garb too, by the way, just so
Speaker 2: you know, only for six months, but I did wear it.
Speaker 3: Okay, well here I was.
Speaker 2: Leaning it fully adjusted.
Speaker 3: You're well come sharing with Sandford so Schubert, Yes, he
Speaker 3: was one of my favorite composers to play. Oh really,
Speaker 3: and not necessarily to listen to I always, I mean
Speaker 3: in that case, I like favored the tragic stuff in
Speaker 3: a minor case. But boy howdy was he fun to
Speaker 3: play for the strings. Yeah, very bouncy and not as
Speaker 3: technically demanding as some Mozart stuff, but a nice little
Speaker 3: challenge totally. The Schubert that we played didn't relegate the
Speaker 3: cell out to just like long bass notes.
Speaker 2: Is holding the note. Yeah, you play a lot of
Speaker 2: Beethoven too for the Yeah, but.
Speaker 3: We got to shine baby.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Schubert.
Speaker 3: So that's what I'm going to start yelling when I
Speaker 3: stubbed my toe, or maybe if someone sneezes. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm open to anything with that. I'm taking suggestions. Franz Schubert,
Speaker 3: that little darling. He was an Austrian composer born in
Speaker 3: seventeen ninety seven. Oh, I was six years old then.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you were just a sprite a little bit.
Speaker 3: He was in that late Classical early Romantic era.
Speaker 2: Yeah, romance.
Speaker 3: He wrote seven symphonies, lots of good chamber music.
Speaker 2: They brought it.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm trying to say. Do you want to
Speaker 3: hear me? Try and say the name of the suburb
Speaker 3: of Vienna where he grew up. Yes, Okay, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: have to sound say fast him out fort Grund.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry I missed it. Can you say that again?
Speaker 3: Him out fort Grund.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry I missed it. Could you say that one
Speaker 2: more time?
Speaker 3: Hum Ut fort Grooms Schubert. So he was a child prodigy.
Speaker 3: That's always fun. That's fun for the kid.
Speaker 2: And for everyone around. Everybody loves that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he died when he was thirty one.
Speaker 2: Actually, their siblings.
Speaker 3: Oh so good. He died when he was thirty one
Speaker 3: from what was likely mercury poison.
Speaker 2: Is he just like sucking on thermometers?
Speaker 3: Well in the early eighteen hundreds, you know what that meant.
Speaker 3: The man was battling syphless.
Speaker 2: Oh he had a touch of the siff and he
Speaker 2: needed the mercury.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he got around.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Blackbeard did that too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. In fact, he and his pals loved to party.
Speaker 2: I bet it sounds like it.
Speaker 3: They would throw what they called shoe Bertie ads.
Speaker 2: Wait what, he had his own party.
Speaker 3: Name, schubertiads. Real ragers. They were intimate gatherings.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: Like, here's what they did. They all danced, and they
Speaker 3: read poetry and they had political debates.
Speaker 2: That's salon they were leaning in. That's a salon leaning in.
Speaker 3: It's no wonder he had syphilis. I mean, come on,
Speaker 3: they're reading the poetry and the debates. So this gang,
Speaker 3: this bad boy club, this rat pack. They called themselves
Speaker 3: Schubertia den like the men of the Schuberti eyes.
Speaker 2: Why are they on his jock? I don't know.
Speaker 3: So this was after the French Revolution, after the Napoleonic Wars.
Speaker 3: The Austrians they didn't want that stuff.
Speaker 2: Kitchen like the eighteen twenties. I got eighteen thirties. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm guessing because he was born seventeen ninety seven.
Speaker 3: So the Austrian police they were suspicious of such wild
Speaker 3: youthful gathering. Of course, can't have students and artists and intellectuals, you.
Speaker 2: Know, upsets the public.
Speaker 3: Thearon Nerd parties were surveilled. So in eighteen twenty, the
Speaker 3: Austrian secret police pounced. They were like a little kitten
Speaker 3: in the grass, pounced. They arrested Schubert and four friends
Speaker 3: on suspicion of revolutionary activities. Sert yeah they he So
Speaker 3: they arrest him and then Schubert he was reprimanded and
Speaker 3: during the arrest for quote, inveighing against officials with insulting
Speaker 3: and opprobrious language.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, talking foul.
Speaker 3: Yeah he was talking about but they just reprimanded him.
Speaker 3: So to translate the shoebies, you know, he said, first
Speaker 3: off and the click you claim, that's the translation of it.
Speaker 3: He was the tupac to the secret police's junior mafia. Okay,
Speaker 3: following yes, yeah, the cops they were offended, they would
Speaker 3: they let him go.
Speaker 2: Like little Officer Ricky.
Speaker 3: They let him go. But Schubert he had a best
Speaker 3: buddy fellow by the name of Johann Sen, son of
Speaker 3: the freedom fighter Franz Michael Sen.
Speaker 2: Oh, not the freedom fighter Franz ever so Johann.
Speaker 3: He was a writer slash poet. That's just how he
Speaker 3: introduced himself to the syphilitic ladies.
Speaker 2: Ladies.
Speaker 3: He was hardcore. He had a street name. It was
Speaker 3: Bombastis beba durwa Bebderva. I suppose bombastis Bebaderva.
Speaker 2: I don't understand he had a street name.
Speaker 3: I am not making this up.
Speaker 2: That was Oh, that was his street name. I thought
Speaker 2: you were like he came from a street I didn't follow.
Speaker 2: That was his street name.
Speaker 3: He was a weird street It's hard to say bombastis Bebaderva.
Speaker 2: That's too many bees making it up.
Speaker 3: And I have no idea what it means, although I
Speaker 3: think it's kidgeon Latin for loud pompous drunk.
Speaker 2: Yeah, to drink whatever, loud drunk.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So, mister boombastic, thank you.
Speaker 2: Much better street name.
Speaker 3: He popped out of the mouth. They call him Miss
Speaker 3: the Boombastic Okay, so he popped off at the cops
Speaker 3: at the same as Schubert. But then he ended up
Speaker 3: getting imprisoned. I'm guessing probably because they're like your dad's
Speaker 3: spark plug too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you're not a talented.
Speaker 3: Musician, right, So he got imprisoned for fourteen months without charges.
Speaker 3: They're just like you just sit here and think about
Speaker 3: what you've met. So then they let him out, and
Speaker 3: then he was permanently exiled from Vienna. And you know
Speaker 3: he was yelling the same crazy tupac. Sure, so he
Speaker 3: and Schubert never saw each other again. Oh, Schubert didn't
Speaker 3: let that stop him from honoring his friend. He set
Speaker 3: his music to sends poetry, including the famous song I'm
Speaker 3: sure you know it go on Shungazong? Oh he wrote,
Speaker 3: he did. He totally wrote that. Wow, I know it's
Speaker 3: like I always hear you humming it, dude. That song
Speaker 3: bumps Shungazong. That is the story of Schubert's brush with
Speaker 3: the law and his buddy's ridiculous crime. Now onto the
Speaker 3: next Schubert. Dame ethel smythe the most British of names.
Speaker 2: Seriously.
Speaker 3: She was an English composer born in eighteen fifty eight
Speaker 3: and she was part of the women's suffrage movement.
Speaker 2: Okay, she was that vote. Yeah.
Speaker 3: She was the first female composer to be granted a
Speaker 3: Dame hood. Oh what a day, what a most British name.
Speaker 3: So as a female composer, a lady composer, if you will,
Speaker 3: she was pretty much dismissed by the powers. Imagine she
Speaker 3: was always either too much or not enough. Oh, gals,
Speaker 3: I believe a lot of us can relate.
Speaker 2: That's the line of a woman that I understand.
Speaker 3: Too much not enough. So she was wildly talented. Her
Speaker 3: opera called The Wreckers, which like greatest opera name ever,
Speaker 3: The Wreckers, It was later referred to as the most
Speaker 3: important English opera of the time.
Speaker 2: I've never heard of it.
Speaker 3: Me neither, and her works have been and continue to
Speaker 3: be performed around the world to much acclaim.
Speaker 2: About to check her out, Dame smythe She was.
Speaker 3: An outsider, a firebrand. She was once engaged to Asker
Speaker 3: Wilde's brother and at the.
Speaker 2: Age of seven, Bob Wilde.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Bobby Wilde. I think his name, honestly, I don't
Speaker 3: have it in front of you. I think it's Willy Wilde.
Speaker 3: I'm not even kidding you. And at the age of
Speaker 3: seventy one, she tried to seduce Virginia Wolf. Oh girls,
Speaker 3: she's all over the p I like it, So back
Speaker 3: to the suffragist movie. In nineteen ten, Smyth joined the WSPU,
Speaker 3: the Women's Social and Political Union, and she even quit
Speaker 3: music for a couple of years in order to join
Speaker 3: their fight to take up arms, but not before penning
Speaker 3: a song called the March of the Women, and she
Speaker 3: took the melody for that from a traditional Italian folk song,
Speaker 3: so it's very browsing. The song became the official anthem
Speaker 3: for the WSPU. It was sung on marches, at meetings,
Speaker 3: and in prisons. Prisons, you say, Elizabeth, tell me more, certainly.
Speaker 2: Elizabeth, I always want to hear more about prisons.
Speaker 3: Smith hung out a lot with the WSPU leader, Emmeline Pankhurst,
Speaker 3: and the.
Speaker 2: Two of them sounds familiar, painkhursed.
Speaker 3: Probably go on, And the two of them knew that
Speaker 3: in order to advance the cause, they were going to
Speaker 3: have to get tough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, maybe a little diolent. It makes some demands.
Speaker 3: Yeah, don't forget this is the era of the anarchists.
Speaker 2: You might have to throw those things.
Speaker 3: I think you're gonna have to. So sometimes you know
Speaker 3: you got to tear it down in order to build
Speaker 3: it up or yes, some such and.
Speaker 2: Not with the master's tools from what I hear.
Speaker 3: Right, So paint Hurst thought that they should start breaking stuff.
Speaker 2: But natural, that's an easy, like first step.
Speaker 3: Let's get a little while right to break. Smythe was like,
Speaker 3: guess what, I want to break things too.
Speaker 2: I got a hammer.
Speaker 3: So Pincurse started telling the suffragettes to throw rocks through
Speaker 3: the windows of any politician against a woman's right to vote.
Speaker 3: You see their house, you bust their windows.
Speaker 2: Break that glass.
Speaker 3: You see a misogynist who doesn't see a woman as
Speaker 3: a human being deserving of respect, Well they don't deserve windows.
Speaker 2: That's that glass thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, mess with f so you get bipped.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So Pinkhurst, she was all about it. Here's one problem.
Speaker 3: She pulled Smyth aside told her there was a problem.
Speaker 3: She didn't know how to throw things. Like literally, yeah,
Speaker 3: She's like, guess what, I can't throw things? So I
Speaker 3: try underhand it total keen Athleen. She's like, no problem,
Speaker 3: I totally know how to throw things, and I have
Speaker 3: a deep desired erect shot. Again, gals, I think some
Speaker 3: of us can roll wait the rage.
Speaker 2: It is real surface.
Speaker 3: So smythe she took pankers out to the forest and
Speaker 3: they threw rocks at trees for practice. Yeah, they practiced.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 3: And they practiced until old girl was chucking stones like
Speaker 3: nobody's business. I like to imagine that the two of
Speaker 3: them got so good that they were embedding stones in
Speaker 3: the bark of trees and they were like successfully hunting.
Speaker 2: Deer like straws and ari the wood.
Speaker 3: They invented modern baseball pitching, and then they invented a
Speaker 3: digital speed gun to clock their throas that were consistently
Speaker 3: north of one hundred and twenty five miles an hour.
Speaker 3: And then they realized how dangerous the technology was for
Speaker 3: this speed gun that they invented, so they buried the
Speaker 3: device in those same woods, and they gave a treasure
Speaker 3: map indicating its location to a young girl. Okay, and
Speaker 3: that young girl grew up to be none other than
Speaker 3: Jennifer Garner, who has guarded the secret ever since. And
Speaker 3: I just like to imagine that Rocks girl, Schubert Rocks
Speaker 3: Rocks So nineteen twelve, Subert rocks. Oh hey, nineteen twelve,
Speaker 3: the women of the WSPU. They got together to go
Speaker 3: on a window smashing campaign. Just lay waste to all
Speaker 3: the windows of the men in power who didn't think
Speaker 3: they should vote.
Speaker 2: One hundred and nine and rocks are cheap.
Speaker 3: Why you just get them anywhere? One hundred and nine
Speaker 3: women got together and they went a shattering. Smyth went
Speaker 3: to the home of Colonel Lewis Harcourt's Secretary of State
Speaker 3: for the colonies.
Speaker 2: Get that glass.
Speaker 3: Why why did she go after the colonies? Well, he said,
Speaker 3: if all women were as beautiful and wise as his
Speaker 3: own wife, they would have already won the right to vote.
Speaker 2: Wow, it doesn't make sense.
Speaker 3: On so many leves, right, But they're like, I don't
Speaker 3: stand for those kind of insults. Attack, yes, and they.
Speaker 2: Throw mess your face up, buddies.
Speaker 3: So of course they were arrested and they did two
Speaker 3: months in Holloway Prison. Nice And it was there that
Speaker 3: the women found strength and distraction in singing the March
Speaker 3: of the Woman.
Speaker 2: I was about to say, they're just sitting there singing
Speaker 2: and rocket. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So the conductor, Thomas Beacham, he went to visit Smythe
Speaker 3: while she was in the clink, and he later recalled
Speaker 3: watching the suffragettes in the inner courtyard of the prison,
Speaker 3: quote marching round it and singing lustily their war chant
Speaker 3: while the composer beaming approbation from an overlooking upper window.
Speaker 3: Beat time and almost bachic frenzy with a toothbrush. She's
Speaker 3: like conducting him with a toothbrush, Like, yeah, ladies. Anyway,
Speaker 3: So Smith, like I said, she did get her recognition.
Speaker 2: She imagine that on day seventeen of singing that song,
Speaker 2: were we still doing this walking out a circle in
Speaker 2: the song? I don't even hear the.
Speaker 3: Words any other one. You can like mess.
Speaker 2: Around, try just something else to mix up the meter.
Speaker 3: So, like I said, she became a Dame Commander of
Speaker 3: the Order of the British Empire debat eight Whoa nineteen
Speaker 3: twenty two. She was also awarded honorary doctorates in music
Speaker 3: from the University of Durham and Oxford. Yeah. So. She
Speaker 3: died in nineteen forty four at the age of eighty six.
Speaker 3: A life well lived. Let's take a break. When we
Speaker 3: come back, I'll have more classical music high jinks for
Speaker 3: you night.
Speaker 2: So I don't make a rock pole Schubert.
Speaker 3: What's up, Sarin, Your name is Saren, Sir Michael Kemp Tippett,
Speaker 3: that's not your name, No, it is not.
Speaker 2: Where do you think he's from Albania?
Speaker 3: Yeah, of course he was an English composer. Was born
Speaker 3: in nineteen oh five. They made him a night in
Speaker 3: nineteen sixties.
Speaker 2: Oh, they gave him the sword.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and from that moment forward he was four to
Speaker 3: wear a chain mail suit, effectively ruining his career since
Speaker 3: it was both noisy and hot full metal. He came
Speaker 3: from a well off family.
Speaker 2: This guy, I'm guessing he said. He was.
Speaker 3: Pretty much all from his mother's side, and so while
Speaker 3: they were fancy folk, they were also pretty subversive. His
Speaker 3: his mom was big in the suffragist movement, just like
Speaker 3: James Smith. The family also pushed for Irish home rule excellent,
Speaker 3: and they were skeptical of organized religion. So they were
Speaker 3: not like their peers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were very out of step sometimes, tipp It.
Speaker 3: He created an anti war masterpiece, A Child of Our Time,
Speaker 3: rub this is your favorite song, right? A Child of
Speaker 3: our time the time, Sir tipp It. He was so
Speaker 3: horrified by the start of World War Two that he
Speaker 3: started writing this oratorio. Newsweek said it was quote something
Speaker 3: Handel might have written had he lived in the age
Speaker 3: of Auschwitz.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So the oratorio, it's about the events leading up
Speaker 3: to Krystal Knock, a violent, deadly, horrific, coordinated attack on
Speaker 3: Jewish citizens in Germany in nineteen thirty eight. So it
Speaker 3: has a three part structure based on Hondel's Messiah. But
Speaker 3: then he used Negro spirituals in place of the traditional
Speaker 3: corals of oratorios, so kind of mixed it all up.
Speaker 3: So Tippett was heartbroken over the inaction of the Allies
Speaker 3: in nineteen thirty eight when they just left Jewish refugees stranded.
Speaker 3: He said, quote, I came to the conclusion that there
Speaker 3: was some kind of terrible mythology involved, that people were
Speaker 3: only willing to release their compassion in a war. So
Speaker 3: he wrote his opus. But that wasn't all. He was
Speaker 3: a conscientious objector and a staunch pacifist, a very unpopular
Speaker 3: position in England.
Speaker 2: Especially during the warriors.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's what we're talking about. Yeah, So orchestras
Speaker 3: they disbanded during the war, cities are being bombed, re
Speaker 3: sources are you know, needed to put towards the war efforts. Sadly,
Speaker 3: young men or some of those resources.
Speaker 2: We need that clarinet read for the war effort.
Speaker 3: Right, So they're fighting a noble cause, to be sure,
Speaker 3: But sir Tippett wasn't with it. Lucky for him, Morley
Speaker 3: College in London was hiring in the middle of the war.
Speaker 3: He got the job of director of music there in
Speaker 3: nineteen forty Wow, which I just can't get my head around.
Speaker 2: We need to keep the spirits of.
Speaker 3: Its facilities had been like pretty much bombed out.
Speaker 2: Are the kids going to college in class?
Speaker 3: I guess between the roads, I don't know. Tippet he
Speaker 3: wasn't dissuaded by the fact that the buildings were gone.
Speaker 3: He wanted to bring back music to the shell of
Speaker 3: a campus, bring music back to the people. So he
Speaker 3: used whatever he could to keep the programs running, and
Speaker 3: in the meantime he finished his work A Child of
Speaker 3: our Time, but there wasn't any place for him to
Speaker 3: perform it. His work had somehow gotten him out of
Speaker 3: military service thus far, but that luck ran out in
Speaker 3: nineteen forty three. So he'd been fighting the draft for years,
Speaker 3: multiple here and panels and appeals, but in June of
Speaker 3: forty three that he was caught and sent off to
Speaker 3: His Majesty's prison Wormwood Scrubs.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's the.
Speaker 3: Best prison name. Prison name, His Majesty's prison, Wormwood Scrubs.
Speaker 2: Is it weird of me to be surprised that the
Speaker 2: British do not honor the conscientious objector and that Americans do?
Speaker 2: Like it just kind of surprises me that they don't
Speaker 2: have that same tradition that we do.
Speaker 3: I don't know, man, at that point, like I know, they're.
Speaker 2: Not really they're like seeing on giving our conscienti's objectives,
Speaker 2: not like something that's easy to get. But in fact
Speaker 2: it sounds easier for an American than a brit I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 3: I guess yeah. He he did two months in Wormwood Scrubs,
Speaker 3: Oh rough, rough, and he didn't have a very good
Speaker 3: run for a while after that. In fifty two, he
Speaker 3: finished what he thought would be his crowning glory, an
Speaker 3: opera called The Midsummer Marriage. Critics saw no glory in this.
Speaker 3: They said his libretto was quote one of the worst
Speaker 3: in the three hundred and fifty year history of opera.
Speaker 2: It was flat, uninspired and made you miss silence. That's harsh,
Speaker 2: real bad.
Speaker 3: In fifty three he debuted his work Fantasia Concertante on
Speaker 3: a theme of Corelli, and that was probably like one
Speaker 3: of his most popular.
Speaker 2: But critics fun Yeah.
Speaker 3: Critics complained about the quote the excessive complexity of the
Speaker 3: contrapuntial writing. There was so much going on that the
Speaker 3: perplexed ear knew not where to turn or fasten itself.
Speaker 2: Or in other words, too many notes.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: He became known as a quote difficult composer, and some
Speaker 3: said his music was quote amateurish and poorly prepared.
Speaker 2: They say that about my music.
Speaker 3: He had I Feel for You Brother the Piano Concerto
Speaker 3: in nineteen fifty five, and it was declared unplayable by
Speaker 3: its scheduled soloist. Why just add one after another? This
Speaker 3: guy's on, he's done time people. He did though he
Speaker 3: lived to be ninety three. Yet another well lived.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean he kind of corrected the ship after a
Speaker 3: while there. So we had some you know, mediocre who
Speaker 3: managed to the ship. But what about someone awesome?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, lay it on me.
Speaker 3: Johann Sebastian Bach. Yeah, named after the lead singer of
Speaker 3: the band Schedule. So for those not in the know.
Speaker 3: He was a German composer and musician born in sixteen
Speaker 3: eighty five. We are quantum leaping all over the timeline.
Speaker 2: I love that, you know me.
Speaker 3: I want to watch the new Quantum Leap show no dud,
Speaker 3: but I don't know if it'll evolve into a hate watch.
Speaker 3: Because I saw one ad where dude lands somewhere and says,
Speaker 3: I don't think we're in Kansas anymore. I wanted to
Speaker 3: stick a pencil in my ear.
Speaker 2: I'm just going to go right on the line with
Speaker 2: that one.
Speaker 3: Anyway.
Speaker 2: Boss, Wait, you're gonna not watch TV all this time
Speaker 2: and the first thing you just have to watch.
Speaker 3: You never watched a TV show in my life. I'm
Speaker 3: not sure how I saw this ad. Yeah, I think
Speaker 3: it was trans transmitted to my brain.
Speaker 2: It's probably like on your social media Somewhereyson.
Speaker 3: I'm not online. You're wow, I don't have it.
Speaker 2: Maybe it was projected out of the grass you're always touching.
Speaker 3: I don't have a computer. I just live on the lawn.
Speaker 3: Bach So January seventeen oh three Mack JSB. He got
Speaker 3: a job. Oh job. He was fresh out of music
Speaker 3: school seventeen oh three, ready to take the world by storm.
Speaker 3: He was appointed court musician in the chapel of Duke
Speaker 3: Johann Earnst the Third in weymar.
Speaker 2: Ah Inymar that's republished, Sure it is.
Speaker 3: This wasn't as rat as it sounds, though he had
Speaker 3: lots of like weird odd chores and jobs too. It
Speaker 3: was like light on the music and heavy on the
Speaker 3: other other duties as assigned. But people heard his tinklings
Speaker 3: on the ivories and they were blown away. This guy
Speaker 3: shreds is what they were saying.
Speaker 2: They were like, who is this?
Speaker 3: I have a transcription that I found the German.
Speaker 2: This guy sounds better than the original German.
Speaker 3: A kliin of shreds, very with the consonants constant. Because
Speaker 3: of this, he became the organist at the new church,
Speaker 3: and this involved teaching too, So that gig came with
Speaker 3: a fat paycheck and a giant organ.
Speaker 2: Oh this is what he starts writing all of his stuff.
Speaker 2: That's the big organ.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Bach had a giant organ.
Speaker 2: I heard you talk about.
Speaker 3: He could do much more with it.
Speaker 2: So you going to keep coming?
Speaker 3: No, I'm stopped back. Wasn't always feeling it, though, he
Speaker 3: thought the student choir was bogus, untalented, like they didn't
Speaker 3: reach his level. There was one guy, a guy named
Speaker 3: gazer Bach, and he called gaser boxer box sure, let's
Speaker 3: say that. Uh okay, here's what Bach called him though,
Speaker 3: zipple fogotist, and that translates, apparently in that time to
Speaker 3: weenie bassoon player, which is the sickest of burns.
Speaker 2: Burn.
Speaker 3: So the wienie bassoon player, he wasn't going.
Speaker 2: To take this, I hope not.
Speaker 3: He went after back with a stick. Oh he didn't
Speaker 3: come back with another bad No, he didn't want to
Speaker 3: like Perry back and forth likes like, oh yeah, how
Speaker 3: about this so upside.
Speaker 2: Your head, side your head?
Speaker 3: So Bach like he gets, you know, he gets chased
Speaker 3: with a stick. Bach asked to speak to the manager,
Speaker 3: and the.
Speaker 2: Cops were called.
Speaker 3: So they gave the weenie bassoon player a metaphorical slap
Speaker 3: on the wrist. But then they blamed the victim and
Speaker 3: they told back the coolest jets and be kinder real, like, honestly,
Speaker 3: this wouldn't happen if you wouldn't call people names. Yeah,
Speaker 3: So seventeen oh six, Bach was like, whatever, I got
Speaker 3: an even better job. He gets a job as the
Speaker 3: organist at the Blasiest Church in Muhlhausen, and he was
Speaker 3: now making even more money, had a better setup, had
Speaker 3: a he had a big organ, but he also had
Speaker 3: a better choir. So he left that job though in
Speaker 3: seventeen oh eight and went fast through. Yeah, the millennial
Speaker 3: of seventeen.
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to work on my media.
Speaker 3: I like that.
Speaker 2: That's good.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't know because I'm not online. So Bach he
Speaker 3: goes back to the Viymar. This time is back. He
Speaker 3: wasn't the errand boy. He was the direct director of music.
Speaker 3: No more student musicians. Now he was working with pros.
Speaker 2: Yes, it was.
Speaker 3: It was then that his composing really kicked into overdrive.
Speaker 3: So he's getting better and better. He's surrounded by all
Speaker 3: that talent. He transcribed the works of masters like Vivaldi
Speaker 3: and then incorporated their styles into his. So in the
Speaker 3: spring of seventeen fourteen, he was promoted to concert meis there.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that means a concert master.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's the master baby. It's like a puppet meister,
Speaker 2: but for concerts.
Speaker 3: But his comfort there didn't last. In seventeen seventeen, he
Speaker 3: asked the Duke of Viimar to cut him loose from
Speaker 3: his contract. He wanted the job of kappel Meister. Yeah,
Speaker 3: at the court of Prince Leopold. Now Zarin, do you
Speaker 3: think the Duke of Weimar would accept such a request?
Speaker 2: Done? What I know? But for three months scared.
Speaker 3: I scared myself. I think we're all scared them. But
Speaker 3: for three months Bach continued to nag him, please please, sir,
Speaker 3: I beg of you and coming with tears in my eyes.
Speaker 3: So the Duke was like, if I can't have you,
Speaker 3: nobody can. Which hello red flag. The Duke put him
Speaker 3: in prison, so per the Weimar Court Secretary's minutes. On
Speaker 3: six November seventeen seventeen, Bach, till now concertmeister and half organist,
Speaker 3: was put under arrest in the justice room for obstinately
Speaker 3: demanding his instant dismissal.
Speaker 2: So he asked, like, can I quit? They're like, yeah,
Speaker 2: you can stop doing that, but we got a new
Speaker 2: job for you. Prison.
Speaker 3: It's like no worries though Bach. You know, he could
Speaker 3: keep himself busy. Some men, you know, they go to
Speaker 3: prison and they while away the hours in prison making
Speaker 3: wine in the toilet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, are bigger muscles, right, And.
Speaker 3: Some join gangs and participate in violent racial segregation, meaning
Speaker 3: we know, right books, Oh, isn't that the truth? Some
Speaker 3: of them lure disturbed ladies into being their pen pal.
Speaker 2: This is true.
Speaker 3: Some start podcasts that eventually help them get their sentence commuted.
Speaker 2: That's how my mom met my.
Speaker 3: That's a shout out to ear Hustle podcast in erl
Speaker 3: on Woods.
Speaker 2: That actually is a good story.
Speaker 3: So some do that. In seventeen hundreds prison Bach wrote
Speaker 3: a book of keyboard exercises called the orgelbuchn oh Waiting.
Speaker 2: In fact, the one that people used. They kept using it.
Speaker 3: It's a prison book.
Speaker 2: Yep, so good it is.
Speaker 3: So he got out on December second.
Speaker 2: Toilet paper.
Speaker 3: Onion skins. He got out on December second, seventeen seventeen.
Speaker 3: Per the Weimar Court secretary quote. On November sixth, the
Speaker 3: concertmaster and court organist Bach was arrested and held at
Speaker 3: the County Magistrate's House of detention for obstinate behavior and
Speaker 3: forcing the question of his dismissal. Finally, on December second,
Speaker 3: he was informed by the court secretary of his unfavorable
Speaker 3: discharge and simultaneously freed from his arrest. So they're like,
Speaker 3: we've arrested you for trying to quit. We're letting you out,
Speaker 3: but ps, you'r fire.
Speaker 2: So you get what you want, But we also got
Speaker 2: what we want.
Speaker 3: Yes, now, fun facts. I don't know if you're aware
Speaker 3: of this, but bach He went on to become one
Speaker 3: of the greatest composers in the history of Western music. WHOA,
Speaker 3: I feel bad for people who are listening to this
Speaker 3: on earphones are just like, yeah, but what does this
Speaker 3: tell us, Daren? It tells us that music programs in
Speaker 3: the prison reduce recidivism. It works.
Speaker 2: We should bring music inside, Zaren.
Speaker 3: Close your ah my god, you keep sneaking. I know,
Speaker 3: and I'm kidding. This one is a false alarm too.
Speaker 3: Let's break through some ads when we come back. I
Speaker 3: got a real doozy for you. Welcome, Elizabeth, Hello, Elizabeth Schuberty,
Speaker 3: Elizabeth there, Elizabeth, Elizabeth, can I Elizabeth?
Speaker 2: Go ahead?
Speaker 3: We've had arrests for political vandalism, draft dodging, nerd partying,
Speaker 3: trying to quit a job. I love all of them. Yes,
Speaker 3: I have two more for you.
Speaker 2: I relate to almost all of them so far.
Speaker 3: Yeah, me too, sure related, So two more?
Speaker 2: Yes? Please.
Speaker 3: There was a man named Ivor Novello. I know you
Speaker 3: love the name Ivor I.
Speaker 2: Do, yes, so it's up there with drogone.
Speaker 3: Yes exactly. He was a Welsh actor, composer, dramatist and singer.
Speaker 3: Born in eighteen ninety three. He wrote the British patriotic
Speaker 3: song Keep the Home Fires Burning in nineteen fourteen, during
Speaker 3: the beginning leading up to World War One. The song
Speaker 3: yeah it was this, you know, the song was in
Speaker 3: that movie Johnny Got His Gun where the characters are
Speaker 3: celebrating a Christmas party, and that's the clip from the
Speaker 3: movie later used at the end of Metallica's music video.
Speaker 2: One There you go. Bring it full circle, you know.
Speaker 3: Full circle, circle of life.
Speaker 2: So i've or.
Speaker 3: He starred in two silent films, The Lodger and Downhill,
Speaker 3: directed by Alfred Hitchcock. He wrote symphonies, he wrote musicals.
Speaker 3: He intimidated Noel Coward. Really yeah Coward said what he
Speaker 3: said quote. I just felt suddenly conscious of the long
Speaker 3: way I had to go before I could break into
Speaker 3: the magic atmosphere in which he moved and breathed with
Speaker 3: such nonchalance.
Speaker 2: Really no Coward wanted to be him, uh huh.
Speaker 3: He was once called the prettiest man in England.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, she wanted to be him and be with him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a little bit of both. So of course he
Speaker 3: drove a Rolls Royce naturally. Naturally so during World War Two,
Speaker 3: petrol gas, as we'll say over on here, was rationed. Yes,
Speaker 3: pretty much everything was rationed, even in the years after
Speaker 3: the war, but gas especially.
Speaker 2: For a long time after almost like a ten years
Speaker 2: almost sometimes I fit into fifteen years for some supplies.
Speaker 2: I couldn't believe you when you hear from those like
Speaker 2: sixties eras rock stars like ye, yeah, Keith Richards will
Speaker 2: tell you about his childhood. Yeah, he's like, yeah, we
Speaker 2: got butter and I was fifteen or whatever exactly.
Speaker 3: So there's no gasoline to be found. But uh, you know,
Speaker 3: gas is a commodity, and that gas that's what kept
Speaker 3: the war. That Sir Michael Kemp Tippett was, you know,
Speaker 3: so despised, that's what kept it running. So in order
Speaker 3: to cruise around in his sweet ride, Ivor applied to
Speaker 3: the Regional Transport Commissioner for a permit.
Speaker 2: No dice, buddy, I'm not saying you get that.
Speaker 3: They're like, we got a war going on, what are
Speaker 3: you even about He's like, okay, listen, you need to
Speaker 3: let me have the gas for my car because it
Speaker 3: will boost morale if people see me tootling.
Speaker 2: People see me, they'll feel Goodah, just.
Speaker 3: Come on, like it will make him so happy. Let
Speaker 3: me toot big note is what they said. So there
Speaker 3: he was at some event, whining about not being able
Speaker 3: to gas up his roles and go for spins. A
Speaker 3: fan named Dora Constable overheard him. She walked up to
Speaker 3: him and looked at his pretty little mouth and said,
Speaker 3: I'm going to try and do what I can to
Speaker 3: get your car on the road. And oh, thank you, Dora.
Speaker 3: You're really a deer. Oh no problem, Ivor, that was
Speaker 3: the conversation. Please so, Dora Deer. She worked for the
Speaker 3: Electrical and General Industrial Trust Limited, and she figured that
Speaker 3: she would transfer the car to her company and apply
Speaker 3: in the company's name for permission to drive on matters
Speaker 3: of national importance. Oh like speeding to a gin soapd soire.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's very impart the effort.
Speaker 3: Yes, so, Ivor, here's her plan and is like, that's awesome.
Speaker 3: Count me. In January sixth, nineteen forty four, a day
Speaker 3: that will live in infamy, he transferred his car to
Speaker 3: the company. Dora wrote a letter on the company's letterhead
Speaker 3: and signed it Grace Walton, the company secretary. So much
Speaker 3: forgery and duplicitous action while our boys are over the fighting.
Speaker 2: So the letter, no white poppies for you on white feathers.
Speaker 3: That the Yeah, not for white feathers or the cowardice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've seen the four Feathers movie. White Feathers and
Speaker 2: the white poppies.
Speaker 3: For all the soldiers, the red poppies, red poppies. The
Speaker 3: blood spilled in Flanders feelt look.
Speaker 2: Enthusiast.
Speaker 3: The letter said that the car was a Rolls Royce
Speaker 3: and it would only be used for transport. That was
Speaker 3: absolutely you know, essential, he's an essential worker. Of course,
Speaker 3: go bang your pots at seven pm. You got to
Speaker 3: get to So the license was granted March sixth Nora
Speaker 3: took it over to Ivor and he was quote tremendously elated.
Speaker 2: It would be great if she just sent him a
Speaker 2: note thanks for the car and never talked to him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, transferred it over that would be an even better
Speaker 3: ridiculous nor you missed your chance. So he starts cruising
Speaker 3: all over the place. Tutelands he had his like perfectly
Speaker 3: palmated hair, unflappable in the wind, tuxedo, crispcket square, not
Speaker 3: moving totally. Then he got blabah blah ba busted. Dora
Speaker 3: confessed and when this happened, and then when she served
Speaker 3: a summons and she said, I will not go back
Speaker 3: on my statement and shall plead guilty to it all.
Speaker 3: So she's just fallen on the sword. Yeah, she thought
Speaker 3: she'd put herself out there, but then she also thought
Speaker 3: that IVOR would like swoop in and save her.
Speaker 2: So she's like got groupie thinking, Yeah, but.
Speaker 3: Here's the thing. Iv R only saves Ivor of course.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I are the selfless or way to the selfish.
Speaker 3: When provided with a copy of his statement on the matter,
Speaker 3: Dora said, quote, he is trying to put all the
Speaker 3: blame on me. That is grossly unfair. He was willing
Speaker 3: to do anything crooked so long as he had use
Speaker 3: of the car. Why he knew every move, plan and
Speaker 3: suggestion the whole way through. He agreed to everything and
Speaker 3: knew the company had never used the car. I realized
Speaker 3: that if I could not do something for him with
Speaker 3: regard to the car, I should go far towards losing
Speaker 3: his friendship, which I so deeply valued, Like ma'am, he
Speaker 3: did not deeply value.
Speaker 2: He played your girl.
Speaker 3: So April twenty fourth, nineteen forty I or Novello. He
Speaker 3: went to the court and was sentenced to eight weeks
Speaker 3: in prison. He only served for over misuse of petrol coupons. Wow,
Speaker 3: four weeks he did a month? Yes, apparently though broke
Speaker 3: his spirit and he never recovered from the experience. Huh,
Speaker 3: but I think all boys have gone through much worse.
Speaker 2: Stiff up and limp.
Speaker 3: What Noel Coward, one time admirer than full time hater,
Speaker 3: said quote He's been fighting like a steer to keep
Speaker 3: going as before the war and hasn't done a thing
Speaker 3: for the general effort.
Speaker 2: Not one of his ding's projection is tough. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So then now we're going to wrap it up here. Lastly,
Speaker 3: for you, I have.
Speaker 2: Eric Sadie, Oh not the Eric Sadie.
Speaker 3: French composer and pianist born in eighteen sixty six. Yes,
Speaker 3: I feel like you're going to enjoy this, dude.
Speaker 2: Oh nice.
Speaker 3: He founded his own religion.
Speaker 2: Sadism, called.
Speaker 3: Sorry Igles. Metropolitan doubted his zoo convict to Jesus.
Speaker 2: The Metropolitan Church of Christ, the conductor.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Church of Art whatever. To this day, he's
Speaker 3: the sole convert. He's the only Yeah.
Speaker 2: I started a church. At least I got one convert.
Speaker 3: He had one love of his life, the painter Suzanne Valadon. Okay,
Speaker 3: they had a five month liaison and then she moved
Speaker 3: away and he was heartbroken and that was it no
Speaker 3: more for him.
Speaker 2: One of them. He would only done with women.
Speaker 3: He would only eat things that were white.
Speaker 2: I live with a girl who did that. I thought
Speaker 2: she was kidding. When I heard my bad was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: she's telling me about Nicole's coming up from LA And
Speaker 2: you know, I'm like, what's he like? Well, if she
Speaker 2: only eats white foods, I'm like, that's the first thing
Speaker 2: you're gonna tell me about this.
Speaker 3: I think that's an important thing.
Speaker 4: Determined.
Speaker 3: He said, quote, my only nourishment consists of food that
Speaker 3: is white. I have a good appetite, but never talk
Speaker 3: when eating for fear of strangling myself.
Speaker 2: Okay, he's all the way crazy. Ohyah, he doesn't want
Speaker 2: Probably my.
Speaker 3: Favorite detail, he carried a hammer on him at all
Speaker 3: times for personal protection. Yeah. So if I had a Hammo,
Speaker 3: I'd beat you in the face with it. In nineteen seventeen,
Speaker 3: Ballet russ commissioned a ballet from him. He gave them
Speaker 3: Parade in Paris, performed at the Tiata di Chatellat.
Speaker 2: So what did the French John Henry do for the Russians?
Speaker 3: Well, he synthesized live music, dance, poetry, fashion, set design
Speaker 3: and visual art.
Speaker 2: He basically in movies pretty much just.
Speaker 3: Poet, writer, filmmaker, all around artist. Jean Carteau did the
Speaker 3: libretto Oh Wow, and Pablo Picasso did the set designs.
Speaker 3: So in the program note, he's good instincts on who
Speaker 3: he hires. He's got great friends. The program note was
Speaker 3: written by Guillaume Appollinaire, whoa said Parade in Paris was
Speaker 3: quote a kind of surrealism. I am butchering today. I
Speaker 3: apologized that he did this three years before surrealism became
Speaker 3: an art movement in Paris, so the term was born there.
Speaker 3: In the program Cocto said, I have heard the cries
Speaker 3: of a bayonet charge in Flanders, but it was nothing
Speaker 3: compared to what happened that night at the chatelat As.
Speaker 3: The ballet ended the mounting anger of the audience boiled
Speaker 3: up into an uproar. Coctau also said that people were
Speaker 3: yelling sins bush, dirty Germans at the company, viewers demand
Speaker 3: Viewers demanded that the people involved in parade be sent
Speaker 3: to the front to fight, and then a fistfight broke out.
Speaker 3: This is what Cocta said. Later, an irate female accosted
Speaker 3: me and tried to put my eyes out with a
Speaker 3: hat pin. And then a man said to his wife quote,
Speaker 3: if I'd known this was going to be so silly,
Speaker 3: I'd have brought the children. This is amazing. So the
Speaker 3: whole thing is incredible. Yeah, I already know that I
Speaker 3: was born at the wrong time and possibly the wrong place,
Speaker 3: But these are the sorts of things that drive him
Speaker 3: home for me because I should have been their Zarran
Speaker 3: should have been there, Sadi and friends. Maybe they didn't
Speaker 3: want to be there after all, because they were then
Speaker 3: charged with cultural anarchy.
Speaker 2: Is that a thing?
Speaker 3: Yeah, they were rested and jailed for eight days.
Speaker 2: They had laws against cultural.
Speaker 3: At the time, so they get busted for cultural anarchy.
Speaker 3: Critic Jean Pueg congratulated Sadie after the event. That was amazing.
Speaker 3: I'm so proud of you. Honey, that's what he said.
Speaker 3: But then his review came out and it was another story.
Speaker 2: It did not sing.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Pueg dismissed parade as quote an outrage on French taste,
Speaker 3: and Sadie quote for his lack of wit, skill and inventive.
Speaker 3: So Sadie like he's going to respond to this, he
Speaker 3: has to. Yeah, he started writing Pueg irate and crass postcards.
Speaker 2: Post cards response postcards.
Speaker 3: And since they were postcards that anyone could see, Pueg
Speaker 3: sued Sadie for slander, and on July twelfth, nineteen seventeen,
Speaker 3: they went to court. Zaren close. Oh, I want you
Speaker 3: to picture it. You are a French judge, O la la.
Speaker 3: You are overseeing the case of Jean Puigue versus Eric Sadie.
Speaker 3: These two twits have been going at it and it's
Speaker 3: working your last nerve. You stare out the window and
Speaker 3: you imagine some back playing something lovely. You're lost in
Speaker 3: this reverie until a man clears his throat, how rude.
Speaker 3: It's Pueg's lawyer who now stands and addresses the court.
Speaker 3: In his hand, he has a stack of postcards. If
Speaker 3: it please the court, I would like to read the
Speaker 3: following communications written by Monsieur Eric Sadi to my client,
Speaker 3: go ahead, you tell him. The courtroom falls silent, lawyer.
Speaker 3: Lawyer clears his throat again. Get a cough, drop your bozo,
Speaker 3: you think. Thirty of May nineteen Monkey. Thirtieth of May
Speaker 3: nineteen seventeen to Jean Pueg, Sir and dear friend, what
Speaker 3: I know is that you are an and if I
Speaker 3: dare say so, an unmusical above all, never again offer
Speaker 3: me your dirty hand, Eric Satan. The gallery erupts in
Speaker 3: laughter order order you shout as you bang your gavel. Proceed,
Speaker 3: you say. Third of June nineteen seventeen to Monsieur Jean
Speaker 3: Poueg headflop chief Gords in Turkey. You are not as
Speaker 3: dumb as I thought. Despite your bonehead air and your
Speaker 3: short sightedness, you see things at a great distance, Eric Sadie.
Speaker 3: Small snickers come from the gathered people in the courtroom. Yeah,
Speaker 3: this one isn't as hot as the last. The lawyer
Speaker 3: clears his throat once again and looks you dead in
Speaker 3: the eye. You feel like this one's gonna hurt, This
Speaker 3: one's going to be a heater. Fifth June nineteen seventeen
Speaker 3: to monsieur face Pueg, famous pumpkin and composer for Nitwitz, lousy.
Speaker 3: This is from where I on you with all my force,
Speaker 3: Eric Safi. The gallery goes wild. People are laughing, shouting, whooping.
Speaker 3: You bang your gabble enough order. Phoegg's attorney tells you
Speaker 3: he wants a one year sentence for public defamation. Jean
Speaker 3: Cocteau shoves his chair back and stands and waves his
Speaker 3: cane at the lawyer, yelling urse or at the French equivalent,
Speaker 3: over and over, more chaos. As the cops run in
Speaker 3: and arrest Coctaux. They take him to the back and
Speaker 3: beat him for good measures. Saren, you do not run
Speaker 3: a tight courtroom. That's enough for you. The end oh
Speaker 3: cacto was eventually fined and Sadi was sentenced to a
Speaker 3: week in prison without parole, and then find one hundred
Speaker 3: francs plus one thousand francs in damages to Pueg.
Speaker 2: I like the Picasso was smart enough not to go.
Speaker 3: He's like, I am not touching that at all. So
Speaker 3: Sadie appealed, but the final verdict came out in Puig's favor.
Speaker 3: Princess de Polinac came to Sadie's aid and loaned him
Speaker 3: the funds to cover the fine as well as damages.
Speaker 3: On March fifteenth, nineteen eighteen, his sentence was suspended quote
Speaker 3: on the condition that he showed good conduct and not
Speaker 3: receive any prison sentence for five.
Speaker 2: Years better than going in scent to the front.
Speaker 3: Right, So Sadi maintained good behavior, but he didn't pay
Speaker 3: the damages to Puig. Of course, it looks like he
Speaker 3: just pocketed the cash from the princess, so he wrote
Speaker 3: in October of nineteen eighteen, quote, I have no intention
Speaker 3: of giving one cent to the noble critic who is
Speaker 3: the cause of my judiciary ills, and instead ask for
Speaker 3: permission to use the money for living expenses. And they
Speaker 3: let him do it. They did. They let him do it,
Speaker 3: So man's got to eat. The controversy surrounding the parade
Speaker 3: premiere resulted in a cult following obviously, of course, and
Speaker 3: then turned him into a minor celebrity in the late
Speaker 3: nineteen tens. And thus ends our wild ride through classical
Speaker 3: and groundbreaking composers.
Speaker 2: That was really nice, Thank.
Speaker 3: You, saren Ice. What's your ridiculous takeaway?
Speaker 2: These guys act like my friends like I mean, they're
Speaker 2: just as ridiculous, from Shooter Art all the way down
Speaker 2: to Sadie. I'm like, I could chill with these guys.
Speaker 2: Sound like amazing stories of people I've been with.
Speaker 3: I like them all. I liked every last one of them.
Speaker 2: Those were fun, they didn't involve like hurting a lot
Speaker 2: of people. They didn't really like, you know, con the Queen.
Speaker 3: And some great postcards.
Speaker 2: Great great postcards, great great writing.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's all I have for today. You can find
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