WEBVTT - How Monopoly Works 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:03.960 Welcome to you Stuff you should Know from house Stuff 0:00:03.960 --> 0:00:12.639 Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:15.960 Josh Clark with Charles W. Chuck Bryant and Jerry Rowland, 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:18.720 which makes this stuff you should know. It's right. I 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:22.640 got on my top hat and cane your monocle monic 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:25.239 to see a monocle. I thought it was not this' 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:28.800 Mr Peanut. Oh yeah, not Mr Monopoly. And I think 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:33.000 Mr Pringle has a monocle too, don't you know, he 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:36.919 says an anostatic. Mr Monopoly doesn't have a monocle. Huh, 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:40.960 I don't think so. Huh. You'd think we'd know. We 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:44.239 do not, But I do know this Mr Monopoly is 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:48.440 a nickname for that man. That's right. His born name 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:53.880 is given name by his parents is rich Uncle Pennybags. 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:57.600 Three names, so uncle would be his middle name. Yeah. 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:00.360 Well he even has a regular name too. Oh not 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:05.880 that I saw. Yeah, it is Um Millburn Pennybags. No. Yeah, 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:08.440 there was a book Um published and this is one 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:11.080 of those after the fact deals called the Monopoly Companion, 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:15.480 and they named all the character characters on the board 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:17.880 Milbourne Penny Bags. And then the jail guy is Jake. 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:21.120 The jailbird and the police officer and go to jail 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:24.640 is I'll bet a tyrus, isn't it? Well, Officer Edgar Mallory, 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:29.319 I really do you just gets that? Yeah, that's pretty funny. 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:33.160 We're talking about Monopoly, by the way. Oh yeah, this 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:38.400 is not about anything else but Monopoly. No. And I 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:42.880 was just remarking to you, sir, how I've never seen 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:46.120 one of our This had more supplemental information than most 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:51.200 shows that we research. Yeah. I can explain why because 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:55.120 this was written. There was a whole suite of UM 0:01:55.320 --> 0:02:00.000 game articles written like um just how to play certain games. 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:03.400 So it kind of came out in this mentality and 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:06.640 of this is the game, and here's how we explain 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:10.280 how to play it, and this article is done. Whereas Monopoly, 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:13.600 it's like this is more like McDonald's or Twinkies or 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:19.440 something like that. It's like a cultural cog. Yeah. I 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:24.799 mean there's so much extra junk history. And I mean 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:30.200 you talk about the different versions, it's ridiculous Milburn Penny pennybags. Yeah. 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:32.280 And like I said, that was a post that he 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:35.720 wasn't originally called that. This is I think Monopoly probably 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:37.480 wanted to sell a little a Little Book or two. 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:40.640 I'm sure they did. Because if one thing we've learned 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:44.680 about Parker Brothers and now has Bro is they love 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:48.959 selling different versions of this game. Yeah, they do. They 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:51.320 like licensing it off a lot of money. They like 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:55.400 making some changes. Here they're releasing a brand new game, 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:58.959 but it's all still the same game and all of it, 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:04.600 Um came from a left wing Quaker intellectual at the 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:11.520 turn of the last century. Yeah it was. I'm saying that, right, Yeah, sure, okay, 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:14.840 let it sounds right. Uh. And it's interesting to me 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:19.240 that the game of Monopoly, which is all about capitalism, 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:25.800 bankrupting or neighbor was stolen. The game was stolen from 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:29.760 a leftist intellectual Quaker. In the original version of the game, 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:32.440 it was to teach against the monopolies and how they 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:35.320 were bad. Right, So let's talk about this monopoly. Actually, 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:39.440 if you trace it back to about the like the 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:43.960 literal beginning of the twentieth century, Um, it's what's considered 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:46.440 a folk game. There were a lot of people playing 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:49.440 versions like this and cities all over the country. But again, 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:55.160 they all shared some pretty common viewpoints. Uh. I guess 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:58.560 you today you would kind of call them socialists, um, 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:01.440 but for the most part they were um followers of 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:05.680 a guy named Henry George. Yeah, he came up with 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:08.560 this thing called Georgism, which was based on some other philosophies. 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:10.880 But the idea of it is is that if you 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:14.400 produce something through the through your own labor, your own work, 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:19.000 you own that that should not be taxed. What should 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:23.120 be taxes things that everybody owns. If somebody's taking something 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:26.839 that belongs to everybody, say a parcel of land, technically 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:29.520 the land belongs everybody. Well, that was his notion was 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:32.279 that you shouldn't even be a landowner. Whole concept of 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:34.440 owning land to him was ridiculous. And that's based on 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:36.800 this idea the law of the Commons, which is around 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:40.359 for centuries, if not millennia, and then um, once people 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:42.800 started taking land, He's like, okay, well, if you're gonna 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:45.919 own land, it belongs to everybody, so that should be 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:48.719 taxed and then that tax will be given back to 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:52.640 the community for the greater good. So that's Georgeism, and 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:55.880 that was kind of the philosophy that formed the basis 0:04:55.960 --> 0:05:00.200 of monopoly what was originally called the Landlord's Game, which 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:03.360 is created by a lady named Lizzie Maggie m A 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:09.520 G y m A g I e almost Magpie without 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:13.920 the pe right, uh. And she basically was on her 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:18.880 card and she uh, she came up with this, like 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:22.360 you said, to kind of teach um, so you could 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:26.800 go and be a rich landowner and bankrupt other people 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:30.400 and exploit the poor who need your help, um, who 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:33.160 need a decent place to stay, and you could see 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:37.440 yourself like the evils of capitalism. But she actually came 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:40.919 up with two sets of rules for the same game. 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:43.839 One was where you got as rich as you could 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:47.240 at the expense of everybody else. The other was a 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:51.760 basically the community benefited. And you can kind of see 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:54.599 that today and like these weird things like community chest, 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:57.200 like why would I want to you know, pay into 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:00.160 this pot. I don't care about the commune in the 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:03.480 like now it's a bad thing. In her original version, 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:06.320 it was a good thing, like the community one, and 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:08.760 that was the basis of the whole thing. Yeah, which 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:11.920 is really ironic, it is uh. Yeah, like you said, 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:14.719 she created two versions, and she said, Um. One of 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:16.920 the quotes from her is it is a practical demonstration 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:19.400 of the present system of land grabbing with all its 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:23.320 usual outcomes and consequences. So you know, it's kind of 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:28.280 to teach people lessons. H and she had it stolen 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:34.000 from her. Luckily, Lizzie, Maggie was smart enough to patent 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:37.880 this game. Uh. It became just kind of a trendy thing. Again, 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:41.520 like if you were uh into socialism at the time 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:45.560 and you were on the East Coast, you probably hung 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:48.640 out at a friend's house and and um played this 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:51.600 game at some point in some incarnation or another. Yeah, 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:54.280 it was really popular, like you said, like people made 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:56.760 up some of their own rules, but it was if 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:58.920 I mean, if you look at the original Landlords game board, 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:00.960 it looks a lot like the or Monopoly, I mean 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:05.080 similar at least. Yeah, and apparently a lot of the 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:07.839 the rules that make the game a lot more enjoyable 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:14.320 today came from uh Lizzie's quicker friends. Like, for example, um, 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:20.040 the original plots of land we're up for auction for 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:24.600 for bide. Quakers prefer silence, so they just put a 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:26.600 fixed price on the piece of land so there wouldn't 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:30.960 be a loud, obnoxious bidding war. Um. They also um 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:35.840 instituted tokens fun tokens before they were just boring ponds. Yeah, 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:39.040 like household objects, which you know, that's why the fimble 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:41.680 is in there, and originally the iron. We'll get to 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:45.760 those in a minute, but um, it's pretty exciting. Uh. 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:48.800 And then so this thing is being played and Lizzie 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:52.560 Maggie holds the patent, but she's not exactly like um 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:56.240 cracking down on any kind of infringement. Really. Well, she 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:58.800 pitched at the Parker Brothers and they said no, Yeah, 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:00.840 so she just kind of went on doing her own thing. 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:03.960 So there's another lady actually that figures into this um. 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:07.160 The lady named Ruth Hoskins, and she was one of 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:10.200 the ones who caught on in the like Philadelphia, Atlantic 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:13.720 City area with her Quaker friends, uh, two of them 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:17.960 in particular, Jessie and Eugene Rayford. Uh. And they are 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:20.320 the ones who changed some of the rules to make 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:23.120 it look more like the monopoly we know. They taught 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:26.960 it to a friend, uh named Todd, and Todd taught 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:30.160 it to his friend named Charles Darrow. And that's where 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:33.840 the story takes a kind of a ceed turn. Well 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:38.920 actually that's where the Parker Brothers official version begins. Ironically 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:43.640 turned CD Brothers is like, hey, this is where our 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:47.160 story begins. Yeah. The inventor of Monopoly, Charles Darrow A right, 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:49.920 so he was like a radiator salesman during the depression. 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:52.760 This is the thirties, right, Yeah, I mean it was 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:57.440 ironically again during the depression, this game really caught hold. Well, 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:01.360 I supposedly that's what caught the Parker brothers attention was 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:04.600 that this guy came to came to him, came to 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:09.000 them to sell him this game which he had stolen. Yeah. 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:11.120 Apparently he didn't innovate it at all. He kind of 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:13.400 just copied it and packaged it right, and said, hey, 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:15.360 what do you think of this? And the Parker Brothers said, 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:17.079 we don't think too much of it, Like how does 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:19.640 the game end? We don't know what's going on here, 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:23.319 so let's just, um, you just go your own way. 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:27.559 So Charles Darrow went off and started selling it at 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:32.439 this Wannamaker's department store in Philadelphia without pattenting it, right, 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:35.880 and um, the Parker Brothers said, you know what, it's 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:38.199 the depression, can you believe it. We're not going to 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:42.439 have any kind of economic woes like this for another 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:46.960 seventy eighty years. And this guy is selling these things 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:50.880 like hotcakes. You know what, sir, we will buy your 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:56.880 idea from you. And Charles Darrow apparently said, well, that's great. 0:09:57.880 --> 0:09:59.439 Give me the money first and then I'll tell you 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:02.360 the second part of the story. And they gave him 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:05.120 a bag of money with a dollar sign on it, 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:08.880 much like the ones that um rich uncle Penny bags likes, 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:13.080 and he said, okay, um, we also need to buy 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:16.400 the patent off from this lady named Lizzie Maggie. Yeah, 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:20.520 which they did. Um, the game was still stolen, I say, 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:23.560 even though that they eventually did pay her money. But 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:25.880 part of the deal was they said, um, they they 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:27.440 agreed to buy her pattent and said, you know what 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:29.760 we're gonna we'll sell a few of your other game 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:32.360 ideas too. None of those ever went anywhere, and she 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:35.160 was sort of lost to history except for people who 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:38.280 do a little bit of digging. Yeah, and we actually 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:41.320 have a guy named Ralph to thank for doing that 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:45.199 digging initially. We'll talk about him later. Oh yeah, that's right. Yeah, 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:47.400 because he's the one who came up with the unofficial 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:49.959 history and like really tracked it down. Boy, there's a 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:53.120 lot of teasers in this one so far so Um, 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:56.200 the Parker brothers now in the game, and uh, it 0:10:56.320 --> 0:11:00.240 becomes a huge hit virtually off the bat. In the 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:03.160 thirties is when they bought it and started really printing it. Yeah, 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:06.360 and the game is based on Atlantic City. Uh, those 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:08.720 are the properties, and that's because that was the area 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:12.160 where it became popular. But um, this excellent New York 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:15.160 Times article you sent, uh, what's the name of it? 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:18.120 Monopoly Goes Corporate. Yeah, it was written by what's the 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:23.360 what's the lady's name, Mary Pillin. She is a monopoly expert. 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:26.040 There's a lot of those out there, I've learned. She well, 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:28.959 she wrote a lot of the articles you'll find. Oh really, yeah, 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:31.480 she's well. She pointed out that it's interesting that it 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:34.960 mirrored sort of the the cartography of the day in 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:38.480 Atlantic City, like Boardwalk was clearly like a rich area 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:43.280 the Baltic and Mediterranean. The cheapest properties were in African 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:49.040 American neighborhoods. There was a reading railroad that transferred people 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:53.120 between Philly and Atlantic City. And little known fact for 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:57.000 our friends in the gay community, New York Avenue was 0:11:57.040 --> 0:12:00.160 one of the earliest gay scenes in the country. Yeah, oh, 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:05.280 buy that one up and support support the lb GT 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:08.040 community that you're playing monopoly. Yeah, that's what I would do. 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:10.840 And maybe just you know, don't charge anybody when they land, 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:14.560 just be like this is the party place exactly. And 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:18.760 Marvin Gardens apparently is misspelled yeah, E instead of an 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:20.640 eye or eye instead of an E. Yeah, on the 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:24.200 board it's an eye. It's supposed to be an E. Yeah. 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:27.360 There's a lot of Monopoly facts dropping all around us 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:30.520 right now. I know it's raining thimbles. Before we go 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:33.680 any further, though, you want to do a message break, Yes, okay, 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:38.720 we'll be right packed what you want, all right, So 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:41.720 we were just talking about Atlantic City. Um, I guess 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:43.480 it's we can go ahead and point out now that 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:46.800 there are hundreds of versions of Monopoly out there, now, 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:52.120 one for your hometown, probably one for your favorite sports team. 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:55.040 I have personally my version as a Star Wars Monopoly, 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:59.880 which is pretty fun. Um. Yeah, I guess hes pro 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:03.360 is like you've got some money, sure you can license this, 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:06.760 make your Monopoly game. Go ahead. There's a Simpsons Monopoly. 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:09.360 I haven't played it though, and not in addition to 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:13.800 the um licensed versions that you can find like everywhere 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:17.000 They also have like official versions to like there's a 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:21.360 U S version, there's a UK version, there's um a, 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:24.880 there's a new version that's called monopoly here and now 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:28.400 what does that even mean? Super corporate? Is this the 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:33.560 corporate one? Yeah? Okay, it's uh, it's like everything is 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:37.160 multiplied by I think a thousand, so the dollar amounts 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:41.800 are way higher. Is this one where they replaced the uh, 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:45.719 the railroads are replaced by airports? Is this one where 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:50.600 they replaced corporations for all the property? So? Yes, like McDonald's, 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:54.760 sony and god, who would want to play that? Some people? Do? 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:58.400 You know? Yeah? H um. I mean I'm not a 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:00.200 purist because I had the Star Wars version, but just 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:04.080 it's no fun to me to play as paramount pictures 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:10.120 and to buy the McDonald's property. Yeah, it's just me. Um. 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:11.920 So there are a bunch of different versions, but the 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:13.880 one we're going to talk about, we'll just talk about 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:18.640 the the normal version with the two thousand eight rules. Yeah, 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:21.960 and there's actually coming soon um later this year. There 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:25.360 you can go online at my Monopoly and you can 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:27.880 design your own board, is that right? And do like 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:31.040 your own neighborhood and then they will make it for you, 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:33.840 and I think it's like fifty bucks or something. Wow, 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:36.640 money bags, you can I'm not gonna do it. You 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:38.640 gonna do the East Lake. But I was. I was 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:43.240 talking to whoever went and got Yeah, rich uncle, rich 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:46.480 penny bags. That's what you should have said, rich uncle, 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:50.320 penny bag, penny bags. This sounds not not that wealthy. Well, 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:52.560 actually I have a bag of pennies on me right now. 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:57.960 He Forbes has their silly fictional fifteen list of fictional 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:01.680 characters wealth and he um in two thousand thirteen was 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:08.200 number is Uh stars declined to m huh, guess who 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:12.600 the first? The richest fictional character is the Incredible Hulk. No, 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:17.240 he was not rich Scrooge McDuck. Oh yeah, well dude, 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:21.640 he had that gold vault apparently sixty five billion. Uh. 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:24.320 Number two was smiling, which I thought it was kind 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:28.880 of silly smile from like the rings. It's the dragon. 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:32.160 I think I had like a bunch of gold. Uh. 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:36.240 Carlisle Cullen number three, Tony Stark four, Charles Foster Kane 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:41.760 number five? Who's number three? Carlisle Cullen from Twilight? Who's that? 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:47.160 He was the dad vampire Dad of the vampire family. Um, 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:48.880 and he's been alive forever, so I guess he just 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:54.400 keeps accumulating. Well, Bruce Wayne Ritchie Rich, Christian Gray Ritchie Rich. 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:56.920 I forgot about him. He's number seven. He had a 0:15:57.000 --> 0:16:02.480 robot made and crazy like a weird scientists friend, didn't 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:08.760 he Sure like a Richie Rich robot of himself. I 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:10.640 think he had that too, But no, it's made. Was 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:14.360 a robot, wasn't it? That was the Jetsons. No, he 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:19.760 had a Uh. I thought Monty Burns at number ten 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:23.040 was pretty good. Oh yeah, that's good, although I would 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:26.320 guess Mr Monopoly would be wealthier than Monty Burns. But 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:30.760 and they put it out each year and it's duma. 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:33.480 Can we just admit that I was thrilled by it. 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:37.080 We just spent three minutes on it. Yeah, well that's true. Okay, 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:40.360 So Chuckers, you want to talk about the the rules 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:43.880 of the game again? Two rules if you are a 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:48.320 Monopoly purist and like, I'm sorry, this is what we're 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:51.320 going with. Yeah, well, let's talk about the game board itself, 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:54.960 just so if you haven't played it, I'm surprised because 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:58.280 I think like a billion people to play the game. Um, 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:00.520 but if you haven't, when you get your Monopoly game, 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:01.920 you're gonna open it up and you're gonna have a 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:05.719 board with all these different properties in a square. Uh, 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:10.200 you you have two dice twelve they call them tokens. 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:14.720 That's not the right amount either, is it. No, there's eight. Yeah. 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:17.520 I don't understand where they got twelve from unless they're 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:20.439 counting ones that maybe were retired or something like that. 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:22.720 But when you open the box, there's only eight. There, 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:27.480 there's a can we go over, there's a wheelbarrow, Scottie dog, 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:32.719 top hat, a cat which replaced the iron in two 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:38.359 thousand thirteen. There's a big, big to do because Parker 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:42.280 Brothers has Bro was like, we haven't made a lot 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:44.160 of money off of this for a couple of months, 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:46.400 so let's just do something. Well, they let people vote 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:47.960 at least, which is kind of cool, right, but it 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:49.760 was also did you see the other ones that they 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:53.280 were voting for. It's like a robot like Ritchie Rich's 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:57.439 main a guitar. They didn't make the cut though, No, 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:01.200 they got voted out and the cat got voted in. Yeah, 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:03.680 the iron got booted. Yeah, it only got eight percent 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:07.760 of the vote. There's the classic shoe of course or boot, 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:11.080 which is modeled after the nineteen thirties working shoe, and 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:14.119 I think they've kept it the same. Yeah, that's one 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:16.600 of the original ones. The Scottie Dog was not one 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:18.679 of the origins that came in the fifties. Yeah, and 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:21.920 I think that was supposed to be the companion of 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:31.160 uh millburn money Denny bags should be cash bags, fat 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:35.000 stacks stacks bag. There was a cannon which has since 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:40.199 been retired. Yeah, and two militaries, well, the cannon and 0:18:40.280 --> 0:18:45.080 the battleship. Yeah. They were from a failed game called Conflict, 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:46.560 and they were like, well, we got all these pieces, 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:48.920 so let's just throw them in Monopoly for now. It's 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:51.440 pretty smart. But they faced the cannon out because it's 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:55.320 just too overtly violent. Um, it just says with any 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:59.640 without any fanfare or vote or campaign. So probably, yeah, 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:03.200 be my guess. If it's hush hush, yeah, it's probably 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:06.119 kind of violence. There's a conspiracy of foot. There's the 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:09.560 race car. Yeah, every little kid's favorite, which apparently had 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:11.960 a number three on the side for a little while. Yeah. 0:19:11.960 --> 0:19:14.679 I didn't know that they were in hard I guess so, 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:20.800 uh or purse has been retired. The rocking horse was retired, 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:26.560 the lantern was retired. Yeah, I'm doing my best Ben 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:29.600 Bowl impressing. Did you do did you get wheelbarrow in 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:32.119 there yet? I think I know, yes I did. It 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:35.199 was the first one I said, Did you say top hat? Yeah? 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:37.960 That was always my favorite. Actually, I don't remember what 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:40.119 my favorite was. It fit on my pinking and I 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:44.720 used to draw faces. Uh the horse and rider, which 0:19:44.760 --> 0:19:46.720 is retired, which I didn't know. That's one of the 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:50.200 best pieces to me. What you didn't know is retired. 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:53.440 Now I'm just kind of sad. Yeah, and now there 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:56.000 and that stack of money was retired as well, the 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:59.840 sack of money and a purse. Those are a little similar. Yeah. 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:05.840 The cat come on, yeah, cat people, that's exactly right. 0:20:05.880 --> 0:20:09.119 I guarantee that's why they got cat voted in. And 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:11.959 I am a cat person, you know, and even you 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:16.760 think it's stupid. So those are the tokens. Some of 0:20:16.760 --> 0:20:19.000 those tokens that we mentioned you're going to find in 0:20:19.040 --> 0:20:21.560 the two thousand and eight set, and that is your piece. 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:24.680 That is what represents you in the game. Again for 0:20:24.800 --> 0:20:27.680 the three people who have never played Monopoly, right, yeah, 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:31.639 because supposedly, um, at least as far as Hasbro calculates, 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:36.320 over one billion people have played Monopoly, and frankly, I'm 0:20:36.480 --> 0:20:42.280 surprised it's that low. It sounds like an old number. Yeah. Um, okay, 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:45.000 So you've got the box open, you get the board, 0:20:45.040 --> 0:20:47.480 you got two dice, you got the tokens, thirty two 0:20:47.480 --> 0:20:53.520 houses in, twelve hotels, uh, sixteen chance cards, sixteen community 0:20:53.600 --> 0:20:57.480 chest cards. Yeah, a title D card for each property. 0:20:57.520 --> 0:20:59.600 It's got the information on it, like how much it 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:02.480 cost to purchase, how much rent is depending on how 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:04.560 many houses or hotels you have on it? Yeah, what 0:21:04.600 --> 0:21:07.120 the mortgage value is worth, that's right. Um. And then 0:21:07.160 --> 0:21:10.720 you've got your your play money, your monopoly money. Yeah. Man, 0:21:11.080 --> 0:21:13.320 I think that's where it grabs kids because and they 0:21:13.359 --> 0:21:16.040 even pointed out in this article that's. Um, it's kind 0:21:16.040 --> 0:21:19.119 of the first time a lot of kids have money 0:21:19.320 --> 0:21:24.080 to play with. Yeah, especially the Bill wants. Oh man, 0:21:24.160 --> 0:21:29.160 that gold Bill always thought was orange? Is it gold? Uh? Yeah, 0:21:30.160 --> 0:21:35.640 one's definitely golden rod like yellow. What I remember? Yeah, 0:21:35.640 --> 0:21:39.000 I guess gold is the way to go. Uh. See, 0:21:39.040 --> 0:21:41.119 I was a cash hoarder, which is no way to 0:21:41.160 --> 0:21:43.879 win a monopoly I thought it was can't save. No, 0:21:44.040 --> 0:21:47.160 I just just figures for me though, Like you gotta 0:21:47.359 --> 0:21:49.600 spend money to make money. Yeah, I was like, look 0:21:49.640 --> 0:21:52.359 at all this cash that I will soon be paying 0:21:52.359 --> 0:21:54.240 to everyone else. You just keep wandering off from the 0:21:54.280 --> 0:21:57.159 table and try to buy stuff with it did not work. 0:21:57.920 --> 0:22:01.639 So Chuck, you got the board laid out, and if 0:22:01.680 --> 0:22:03.760 you count them, if you're that kind of person, yeah, 0:22:04.000 --> 0:22:07.720 you're gonna find that there's forty squares, that's right. I believe, 0:22:07.840 --> 0:22:11.240 twenty two of which are um no, twenty eight of 0:22:11.280 --> 0:22:14.800 which can be purchased. Yeah, twenty two or properties. You've 0:22:14.840 --> 0:22:19.040 got your your electric company and water works. Yeah, sucker's bet. 0:22:19.359 --> 0:22:22.480 And then you've got the four railroads. Four railroads, So 0:22:22.520 --> 0:22:26.679 that's that's right. There are others that you can't buy. So, 0:22:26.800 --> 0:22:30.240 for example, there's a luxury tax square. Yeah, you gotta 0:22:30.280 --> 0:22:32.000 pay what a hundred dollars when you land on that, 0:22:32.040 --> 0:22:34.280 I believe, so right out of just right out of 0:22:34.280 --> 0:22:37.760 your pocket. If there's an income tax square, yeah, no good. 0:22:37.920 --> 0:22:41.840 There's the go square, which is where you start and 0:22:41.880 --> 0:22:44.960 then when you come back around you collect two hundred dollars, 0:22:45.280 --> 0:22:48.560 which is in monopoly called your salary that's right. I 0:22:48.600 --> 0:22:50.640 never knew that. I didn't either, And there's a lot 0:22:50.640 --> 0:22:53.840 of rules in here. Uh. And then I guess it's 0:22:53.840 --> 0:22:55.439 a good time to point out Monopoly is one of 0:22:55.440 --> 0:22:59.320 those games where house rules are highly encouraged, uh and 0:22:59.400 --> 0:23:01.280 a lot of the of the game, and in fact, 0:23:02.320 --> 0:23:07.560 to make more money, Monopoly this year had are incorporating 0:23:07.680 --> 0:23:10.840 the top house rules as voted on by fans as 0:23:10.920 --> 0:23:14.240 official rules for this one version in a seventy dollar 0:23:14.359 --> 0:23:18.200 hardback book. I don't see why a lot of people 0:23:18.240 --> 0:23:19.959 were in since they were like no one placed by 0:23:19.960 --> 0:23:22.439 the real rules anyway, So why bother packaging it and 0:23:22.440 --> 0:23:24.800 selling it? And they went, I think you just said 0:23:24.800 --> 0:23:28.480 the words sell someone's they sell. There in lies the answer. 0:23:29.440 --> 0:23:33.080 So you've got, oh, there's and so there's forty squares, 0:23:33.160 --> 0:23:35.639 but there's actually forty one places you can go to 0:23:35.800 --> 0:23:39.360 on the board because jail is divided into two squares. 0:23:39.880 --> 0:23:44.400 You got the jail with the jailbird. What's his name, Uh, 0:23:44.520 --> 0:23:49.560