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Speaker 1: Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Elizabeth Dutton.

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Speaker 3: Nothing, you know it's ridiculous.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I've been waiting, waiting, waiting to tell you this. Yes, Sweden,

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Speaker 4: you know the country.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not ridiculous.

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Speaker 4: No, I know, just give you a second. I'm warming

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Speaker 4: up for this one because it's my brain. I'm still

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Speaker 4: trying to rack my like how I had looked this

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Speaker 4: up to see I thought it was a joke, a scam,

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Speaker 4: a hoague something. I mean, this can't be real. But

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Speaker 4: apparently from what I found, there is a website it

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Speaker 4: seems to be legit. Sweden became the first country to

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Speaker 4: decide that sex is a sport, so there's now the

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Speaker 4: Sweetest Sex Federation and they're organizing the first European Sex Championship.

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Speaker 4: So apparently this will last for several weeks. Just like

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Speaker 4: the Olympics, participants are allowed to compete six hours a day.

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Speaker 4: They have forty five minutes to an hour for each match.

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Speaker 4: There's all sorts of things they'll be judged on, like

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Speaker 4: a penetration, endurance, post performance or sorry, pose performance. I

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Speaker 4: thought it was post anyway, so I looked up the

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Speaker 4: website right and it's this place, the Sweetest Sex Federation dot.

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Speaker 3: Com and this is real.

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Speaker 2: You checked.

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Speaker 4: As much as I can tell, they have a very like,

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Speaker 4: seemingly legit website.

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Speaker 2: I had.

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Speaker 4: Most of the press has been because it's it just

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Speaker 4: got announced, so I've not seen The New York Times

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Speaker 4: is not writing about it, nor is even the Daily News,

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Speaker 4: which makes me a little worried.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, wow, one of them should be writing the.

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Speaker 4: Daily Mail and the Daily So they apparently they say

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Speaker 4: sex is a sport, and they are really big on

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Speaker 4: making sure that it's Ah, this is not about men

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Speaker 4: dominating women's this is this is like teamwork sex. So yeah,

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Speaker 4: they want to actively change the view of sex. This

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Speaker 4: is a very sex positive thing. I don't know how

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Speaker 4: Sex Olympics are going to change the view of sex

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Speaker 4: because yeah, they let's see, like, for instance, whereas there's

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Speaker 4: one point I wanted to show you here there was

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, they said quote and I thought you'd like

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Speaker 4: this with tears in their eyes. S SF can stay

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Speaker 4: that none of the one hundred and ninety five countries

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Speaker 4: in the world have any educational center that would use

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Speaker 4: tax money to educate people in love and sex, which

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Speaker 4: is the most peaceful thing in human history. So they've

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Speaker 4: taken it upon themselves educated people about human sex through

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Speaker 4: sex games championships.

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Speaker 3: Sir, Sir, sex is.

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Speaker 2: Getting known more and more every day, Elizabeth.

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Speaker 3: It's totally legal, cool. Oh, ridiculous, totally cool, totfully ridiculous,

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Speaker 3: totally uncool. Uh. Do you know what else is ridiculous?

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Speaker 3: Airport though, losing it, going absolutely berzonkers berserker over a

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Speaker 3: hot air balloon.

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Speaker 2: Oh? I like it.

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Speaker 3: This is Ridiculous Crime a podcast about absurd and outrageous capers, heists,

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Speaker 3: and cons. It's always ninety nine percent murder free and

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Speaker 3: one ridiculous. I've spoken of riots here before.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, have you seem to like them?

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Speaker 3: Do straw hat riot? The clown on firefighter.

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Speaker 2: Right at the Yeah, the circuit riot.

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Speaker 3: That was really good. Have you ever been in a riot?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Girl, you know me. I've been some riots.

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Speaker 3: Yes, have you liked that.

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Speaker 4: I've been in riots, but mostly they were political things

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Speaker 4: that turned into what would be termed riots. And then

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Speaker 4: I've been in things that started out intentionally, as I guess,

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Speaker 4: riotous behavior, and the best way to describe it would be, oh,

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Speaker 4: they're rioting, and if you're rioting. I think you call

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Speaker 4: that a riot. So I've been in both, you know,

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Speaker 4: amateur riots and politically professional riots, I guess so, like yeah.

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Speaker 3: Like damaged destructions, yeah.

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Speaker 4: Breaking windows stuff. Like I was very young, I didn't

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Speaker 4: really know the value of things. Like when you're nineteen

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Speaker 4: and you're going out to make a statement, you think

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Speaker 4: that this is direct action and you kick the like,

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Speaker 4: you're not thinking that, like, that's not really direct action.

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Speaker 4: That's just you breaking stuff under the proviso of I'm

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Speaker 4: doing politics.

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Speaker 3: Right, I've been in a riot.

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Speaker 4: You've been Wait a minute, now, that's surprising. What was

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Speaker 4: the riot? Was this like you and pets? It was

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Speaker 4: a bunch of dogs running the streets.

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Speaker 3: It was right o Colosseum, Metallica.

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Speaker 4: Oh yes, guns and Roses, this is good day on

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Speaker 3: And body count opens and then Metallica play, and then

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Speaker 3: Guns N' Roses. It was two hours before they came

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Speaker 3: on and everyone lost it and started ripping up the

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Speaker 4: Right, you guys, they had to repair the whole field,

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Speaker 4: you guys. The fight was epic.

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Speaker 2: From what I know, people went to this and it

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Speaker 2: was like it was crazy.

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Speaker 4: An actual like medieval battle of grass and metal heads.

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Speaker 3: It's awesome. And there I was that I was.

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Speaker 2: Who did you take scalps? Do you get anybody?

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Speaker 3: I just I grabbed turf and I just shoved it

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Speaker 3: right in people's mouths and put their teeth out.

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Speaker 2: It was violent. Look what you made doing.

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Speaker 3: And I did a dime for it. Yeah, in Susanville,

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Speaker 3: I have riot for you today, Zarren. It's going to

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Speaker 3: be a laugh riot.

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Speaker 2: Oh get ready, We're going.

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Speaker 3: To take a stroll through histories more ridiculous riots. So

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Speaker 3: I have a couple for you. Let's start in London,

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Speaker 3: all right, seventeen forty nine London time. Well, I know

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Speaker 3: it was a great year. John Montague, the second Duke

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Speaker 3: of Montague. He was a lot of things, so.

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Speaker 2: It was a new dukedom at that time.

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Speaker 3: He was he was the owner of a coal mine,

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Speaker 3: He was a doctor. He was governor, making patients and

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Speaker 3: saving patient exactly. He was governor of the islands of

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Speaker 3: Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent. Oh, and he was a

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Speaker 3: Ignacious Sancho and Francis Williams or Sancho, I should probably say,

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Speaker 3: and Francis williams Ignatius Sancho is a really fascinating fellow.

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Speaker 3: By the way. He was born on a slave ship

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Speaker 3: there by Thomas Gainsborough, Oh wow, and was just like

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Speaker 3: and who was like the first like theater idol, like

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Speaker 3: it was because it was that play. But then they

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Speaker 2: He was like the first star, the first star.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he was like before Sarah Burnandra Bullock Boetheart he

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Speaker 3: talking about, John Montague, he supported this guy so interesting,

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Speaker 3: really really fascinating guy. So he was all these things,

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Speaker 3: but he was also a practical joker. Okay, and this

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Speaker 3: is what his mother in law said about him. Quote,

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Speaker 3: all his talents lie in things only natural in boys

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Speaker 3: To get people into his garden and wet them with squirts,

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Speaker 3: He's spraying people with garden hoses and putting itching powder

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Speaker 3: in their sets. Oh yeah, yeah, so this is like

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Speaker 3: it is like everyday suburban dad stuff, but like in

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Speaker 2: Yeah, everybody's to be arrest.

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Speaker 3: One time he dunked the political philosopher Montesque in a

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Speaker 2: John.

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Speaker 3: He's hanging out with some other wealthy nobles, including the

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Speaker 3: Duke of Portland and the Earl of Chesterfield. And he

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I get it.

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Speaker 4: He thought he could get a room full of people

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay.

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Speaker 3: And they all laughed and then like, oh he's look,

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Speaker 3: he's in the bottle. And then these pleaves will surely

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Speaker 5: Let me read you one of itne No, here's the

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Speaker 5: next the sixteenth instant to be seen a person who

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Speaker 3: First, he takes a common walking cane from any of

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Speaker 3: To recap, Doodle, make a cane into any instrument on

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Speaker 3: the planet. He'll then climb into a bottle in front

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Speaker 2: Okay at first first one that's on a present.

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Speaker 4: You can see somebody do that in Harlem, Right, I'm like, Okay,

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Speaker 4: the guy took a staking turned in instrument.

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Speaker 2: I've seen that.

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Speaker 4: But like climent, keep they keep stressing that it's a

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Speaker 4: normal bottle, Like I get hold this with my hand.

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Speaker 4: How is a person like you couldn't fit a cat?

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Speaker 3: Not only once he's in the bottle, he's gonna sing

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Speaker 3: all the inspections continue whatever, and then people can come

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Speaker 3: I know who you are.

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Speaker 4: I'm not getting past the man in the bottle. You

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Speaker 4: can't get a man in.

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Speaker 2: The bottle. So they're not bold or ridiculous.

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Speaker 3: Would you buy a ticket to go see it? No?

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Speaker 2: I would think that person's a liar.

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Speaker 5: I think I would would you for what you're promising me?

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Speaker 3: This show? Me?

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Speaker 2: Okay? So wait, wait a minute.

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Speaker 3: More people were like me than you do you go.

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Speaker 3: They are banning obscene and scandalous material. And so anything

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Speaker 3: And so the serious actors they all decamped for France

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 3: And it wasn't until nineteen sixty eight that the Lord

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Speaker 4: Wait a minute, every play that I know before sixty

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 3: So melodrama and burlesque and then this bottle spectacle. They're

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Speaker 3: The king's second son, the Duke of Cumberland, was up

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Speaker 3: Theaters sold out, every single seat, every box standing room

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Speaker 4: To see a man climb into a bottle man climb

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Speaker 3: We've talked about this before. There wasn't a whole lot

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Speaker 4: Apparently, not even like anything to do. They're like, look,

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Speaker 3: So at seven o'clock the house lights are brought up. Okay,

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Speaker 3: so exciting. Everyone just couldn't wait to see the man

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Speaker 3: and then they started like shouting, bring out the bottle guy. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: we don't have to do who makes himself inexplicably tiny?

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Speaker 3: When people shouted insults, others like stomp their feet and

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Speaker 3: A regular size man, and he no bottle in sight,

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Speaker 3: and he was deeply apologetic.

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Speaker 2: So it's terrible for conning all of you suckers.

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Speaker 3: He told the crowd that if court bottle guy didn't

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I've heard this.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and so now like people are really jeering and

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Speaker 2: Like the box office post ten minutes ago.

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Speaker 3: I got dulled up in my best option for this.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, all my frills and my ruffles.

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Speaker 3: Someone in the pit yelled that if everyone paid double,

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Speaker 2: That's bad, and everything's made of wood.

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Speaker 3: With that chaos, Yeah, the audience is now a mob.

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Speaker 3: They ripped out the seats and the benches. They wrecked shop.

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Speaker 3: People were shouting and screaming for like no reason. Ladies

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Speaker 3: They were denoted Zarah. The building was basically gutted right rye.

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Speaker 3: Everything that could be removed was removed and tossed into

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Speaker 3: flew it like a giant flag. Doing their own indie

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Speaker 3: theater production of Limz climbed up there. Almost immediately, everyone

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Speaker 3: They were sure that he did this. No, he cried,

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Speaker 3: he didn't know anything about it. He knew nothing about

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Speaker 3: nothing in fact. In fact, he said, he warned the

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Speaker 3: looking at Potter. No, he cries, He said that a

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Speaker 2: A man with a mustache.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure that with enough money and no threats of

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 3: So the man in the bottle, or the bottle conjuror

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Speaker 3: The newspapers wrote breathlessly about the bottle Guy's absence and

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Speaker 3: Conjuror from Head to Foot without Equivocation, and the other

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Speaker 3: I like the Head and Foot. One depicts the bonfire

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Speaker 3: little boy in fancy clothes. Soon it someone's tossing a

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Speaker 3: cat on the fire. Oh wow, that's great. And then

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Speaker 3: So there was a bit in one newspaper that said

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Speaker 3: And then he did the trick there and the patron

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Speaker 3: And this story eventually goes to Europe, they find out

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Speaker 2: Now I have one question.

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Speaker 4: M Now, all these people gather and this was I imagine

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Speaker 3: Well, it's like when you see an amazing trailer for

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Speaker 3: it's terrible.

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Speaker 3: It's like you go to the theater and there's no where,

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Speaker 4: Somebody tells me that that movie has been put into

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Speaker 4: a wine bottle cap and someone ran away with it.

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Speaker 2: Yes, okay, got it.

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Speaker 3: When we come back, I have more tales of spontaneous

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Speaker 3: collective behavior. Hello, welcome, Hi, welcome. I think I like

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Speaker 3: old timey riots because they're not only especially ridiculous to

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Speaker 4: Yes, but they also would do things like at Abraham

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Speaker 4: Lincoln when they were showing his body, they turned band

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Speaker 4: that's on the crowd. They're like, look back up, and

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Speaker 3: Yeah. But like these days, when I find a riot,

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Speaker 3: it's usually pretty bloody.

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Speaker 2: Which is weird because they had the band's back. Then

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Speaker 3: Down, we're still getting blood a sports.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, No, I totally agree with you. I'm just saying

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Speaker 4: it's weird that the aggressors were. We had better weapons before.

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Speaker 3: Well, I've got a ridiculous riot in eighteen sixty four

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Speaker 3: for you.

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Speaker 2: Oh, good timing right.

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Speaker 3: This one's also from England, which is pure coincidence. It's

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Speaker 3: not analysis of the elements that serve as inherent precursors

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Speaker 2: You're not saying that it's not a thing.

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Speaker 3: Perhaps, No, not at all. There once was a man

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Speaker 2: Coxwell, and boy did his.

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Speaker 3: He said to the world, look at me, Look at me.

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Speaker 3: I'm an aeronaut, like a balloonist. He was big into ballooning. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: not making balloon animals. He rode them loons. What was

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Speaker 3: your inquisitive mind. He led two military balloon companies in

441
00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:37,320
Speaker 3: Germany during the Franco Prussian War. Oh, it was a

442
00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:40,840
Speaker 3: slow attack. Wait, he was very scenic. You said he

443
00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:41,760
Speaker 3: was a romantic story.

444
00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:43,480
Speaker 2: Name was Coxwell? He was English.

445
00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:47,879
Speaker 4: So he was just basically a mercenary, A mercenary balloonist. Yes, okay,

446
00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:48,760
Speaker 4: go on.

447
00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:52,920
Speaker 3: It's like the original draft for the A team. So

448
00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:58,679
Speaker 3: he led the first aerial photography trip in England. He

449
00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:03,840
Speaker 3: founded a magazine called The Balloon. He wrote a book

450
00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:08,080
Speaker 3: called My Life and Balloon Experiences. That's very straightforward. He

451
00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:12,440
Speaker 3: is straightforward. He doesn't like was banned as obscene pornography.

452
00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:13,760
Speaker 2: What was he taking over?

453
00:22:14,359 --> 00:22:16,080
Speaker 3: No, it wasn't and.

454
00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:17,520
Speaker 2: Matthew Brady up there getting close.

455
00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:21,040
Speaker 3: Brady he was also a dentist, and that's great fan

456
00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:26,639
Speaker 3: of so he achieved record altitude and attitude in eighteen

457
00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:29,840
Speaker 3: sixty two. He got to like between twenty nine thousand

458
00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:32,280
Speaker 3: and thirty seven thousand feet. He was his ballpark.

459
00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:35,600
Speaker 4: He's basically competing against Pato Barnes's grandfather. Yes, he's like,

460
00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:37,200
Speaker 4: I'm the balloon the planet man.

461
00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:39,919
Speaker 3: It's actually it's a pretty harrowing tale. He and a

462
00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:44,600
Speaker 3: meteorologist named James Glacier but not spelled like Glacier g

463
00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:50,199
Speaker 3: l A I s ah. He invented the glacier. He

464
00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:53,000
Speaker 3: made the minus factory. They took off in a coal

465
00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:57,399
Speaker 3: gas powered balloon and they got up to thirty seven thousand,

466
00:22:57,960 --> 00:22:59,280
Speaker 3: thirty seven thousand feet.

467
00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:00,760
Speaker 2: That's like jets flo.

468
00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:03,080
Speaker 3: That's like jet. Yeah, that's way. That's ridiculous.

469
00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:06,080
Speaker 2: Like, yes, that is straight. You need cold power to

470
00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:06,320
Speaker 2: get that.

471
00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:08,680
Speaker 3: The air up there, very cold and very thin, yes,

472
00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:09,000
Speaker 3: very thin.

473
00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:09,920
Speaker 2: They're not breathing much.

474
00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:13,280
Speaker 3: It's negative four degrees fahrenheit, negative twenty celsius.

475
00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:15,240
Speaker 2: The cold, I don't know that.

476
00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:19,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, the cold isn't the problem for me. You can

477
00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:21,280
Speaker 4: wrap enough stuff around you, you can get a heat on

478
00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:24,000
Speaker 4: oxy it's just no oxygen. Yeah, that's the part I

479
00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:27,480
Speaker 4: mean we have we need oxygen. Yes, we do need oxygen,

480
00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:28,959
Speaker 4: but how are you managing that? You don't want your

481
00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:30,080
Speaker 4: pilot passing out.

482
00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:35,200
Speaker 3: They're thrilled and they're also dying, So up they go, down, down,

483
00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:38,840
Speaker 3: down go the oxygen levels. Cox Well his hands got

484
00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:42,359
Speaker 3: frozen stiff, and so he used his teeth to release

485
00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:44,520
Speaker 3: a gas valve and lower the pair to the earth.

486
00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:45,240
Speaker 2: Wow.

487
00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:47,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's like that's cold, that's stone cold.

488
00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:49,520
Speaker 2: I'm going to show you how dumb I am is.

489
00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:50,480
Speaker 2: The pair of the basket.

490
00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:54,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, the two of them, the guy the pair okay,

491
00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:54,800
Speaker 3: p A I R.

492
00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:57,240
Speaker 2: Well he's French, of that. Maybe they looks like a pair.

493
00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:02,640
Speaker 2: He was in the gold, the two of them.

494
00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:05,080
Speaker 3: They lowered, the two of them to the earth, the

495
00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:10,119
Speaker 3: two guys. They made it down safely. But Coxwell's balloon

496
00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:12,320
Speaker 3: had to be retired. It was just too worn out.

497
00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:15,639
Speaker 3: Don't worries eron, I'm not. Don't cry. He had a plan.

498
00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:18,800
Speaker 3: He's a man with a plane. He built a new balloon,

499
00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:22,359
Speaker 3: or more precisely, a balloon envelope. So like the actual

500
00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:24,879
Speaker 3: balloon part of it, not the basket. The basket I

501
00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:27,680
Speaker 3: suppose was the same. This one that he built could

502
00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:32,480
Speaker 3: hold ten percent more gas like me. He called it

503
00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:33,640
Speaker 3: the Britannia.

504
00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:35,000
Speaker 2: Oh rule Britannia.

505
00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:37,840
Speaker 3: So the riot. How in the world is this man

506
00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:38,760
Speaker 3: at the center of a riot?

507
00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:41,440
Speaker 2: That's what I'm wondering. But I'm just left over here curious.

508
00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:44,680
Speaker 3: It all went down on July eleventh, eighteen sixty four,

509
00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:48,240
Speaker 3: Victoria Park in Leicester, a city in the East Midlands

510
00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:51,639
Speaker 3: of England. Coxwell had to test drive the new balloon.

511
00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:53,919
Speaker 3: He had to work out the kinks and small trips,

512
00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:56,959
Speaker 3: so he took Old Britannia to Victoria Park. The event

513
00:24:57,080 --> 00:25:02,080
Speaker 3: was sponsored by the Foresters Friendly Society, not super Owners. Basically,

514
00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:05,360
Speaker 3: it's a fraternal order of foresters like woods lovers. Yes,

515
00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:09,240
Speaker 3: they sold thirteen tickets to passengers to catch a ride

516
00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:09,959
Speaker 3: in Britannia.

517
00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:11,800
Speaker 2: Oh they're taking up people.

518
00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:16,520
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, people. Fifty thousand people showed up in the park,

519
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,520
Speaker 3: I am telling you, And according to Coxwell, there were

520
00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:23,040
Speaker 3: only eight cops there. Like those are Oakland ratios right there.

521
00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:25,520
Speaker 4: Dude, And the bathrooms where are these people? They didn't

522
00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:26,400
Speaker 4: have porta potties.

523
00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:30,560
Speaker 3: Back then they got trees zarenes. Close your eyes, Oh yeah,

524
00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:33,040
Speaker 3: I want you to picture it. You're an eight year

525
00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:37,600
Speaker 3: old boy. Your parents have taken you down to Victoria

526
00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:40,119
Speaker 3: Park for the summer fete put on by the forest Guys.

527
00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:42,879
Speaker 3: It's mid afternoon. As you make your way to the

528
00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:46,040
Speaker 3: fifteen acre park, your mother has brought a plate of

529
00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:48,600
Speaker 3: her award winning scones to put out at the ladies

530
00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:51,960
Speaker 3: auxiliary table. You helped her make the strawberry jam she's

531
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:54,440
Speaker 3: so proud of. As you approached the green, you hear

532
00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:58,359
Speaker 3: the sounds of that new fangled invention, the comelife. You

533
00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:00,919
Speaker 3: see it on a great wagon pulled by huge white horse.

534
00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:04,119
Speaker 3: You've never heard or seen anything like it before. You

535
00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:06,320
Speaker 3: stand at the cake table, staring in awe at the

536
00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:10,000
Speaker 3: wonderful things on the offer, including a giant hot air

537
00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:14,359
Speaker 3: balloon piloted by none other than Henry Tracy Coxwell, you

538
00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:16,719
Speaker 3: sneak a slice of red currant cake and shove your

539
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:20,240
Speaker 3: way through the crowd. Everyone's gathered around the balloon, murmuring

540
00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:22,920
Speaker 3: about what an incredible feat of science and engineering it is.

541
00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:26,600
Speaker 3: You inch towards the flimsy wooden barricade surrounding that balloon.

542
00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:31,040
Speaker 3: There it stands, in all its majesty. The balloon itself

543
00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:34,360
Speaker 3: was framed in wooden scaffolding. You saw the carpenters off

544
00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:37,000
Speaker 3: to the side, sipping on bottles of lagger. You settle

545
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:39,560
Speaker 3: in at the barricade, eager to see the historic show,

546
00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:43,320
Speaker 3: the inaugural flight of Coxwell's new hot air balloon. The

547
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:46,359
Speaker 3: crowd chatters along until a man loudly clears his throat.

548
00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:51,040
Speaker 3: Hush falls over all of those gathered. I am an aeronaut.

549
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:55,959
Speaker 3: The man yells, I have something shocking, say a woman gas.

550
00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:59,359
Speaker 3: Her friend tells her, wait, not yet, like I said,

551
00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:02,600
Speaker 3: this is you see, this is not a new balloon.

552
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:06,320
Speaker 3: This is not Coxwell's newer and bigger and dubber. No,

553
00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:10,119
Speaker 3: this is an old balloon, use balloon, nothing great, big whop,

554
00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 3: a real snore. The crowd grows angry. What not a

555
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:16,359
Speaker 3: new balloon, just some bold, boring balloon? What kind of

556
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:18,920
Speaker 3: truth is Coxwell trying to play on us? This does

557
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:24,119
Speaker 3: not rule Britannia. Ha hah. The crowd is restless and irritated,

558
00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:26,240
Speaker 3: and they knock down the barricade. You slip out of

559
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:29,119
Speaker 3: the way, just in time, angry adults start demanding that

560
00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:31,200
Speaker 3: even though it's two o'clock and the balloon is scheduled

561
00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:33,600
Speaker 3: to depart at five, Coxwell needs to get off as

562
00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 3: stuff and take it to the sky's right now. You

563
00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:37,560
Speaker 3: know this is going to be a big mess, and

564
00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:40,640
Speaker 3: you are here for it. The thirteen lucky souls who

565
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:42,800
Speaker 3: had tickets for this ride shove their way into the

566
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:46,120
Speaker 3: basket of the balloon. They demanded that Coxwell take off

567
00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:48,720
Speaker 3: and give them the pleasure of floating silently over the city.

568
00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 3: We demand silent pleasure. They hadn't boarded the basket properly, though,

569
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:56,960
Speaker 3: and this scaffolding was still up. Coxwell tried to signal

570
00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:58,960
Speaker 3: the carpenters, but they were all three sheets under the

571
00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:02,800
Speaker 3: yew tree. One of the passengers turned to address the crowd.

572
00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:07,040
Speaker 3: He won't take things up, y'all. He's a chicken, Coxwell,

573
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:09,919
Speaker 3: I'm just making up all these clokes. Cockswell no bit,

574
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:13,320
Speaker 3: and made a very rude gesture and said things unfit

575
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:16,600
Speaker 3: for virtuous ears, that I'm not making up. The crowd

576
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:20,840
Speaker 3: they did not like this. They got irrationally angry. People

577
00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:24,520
Speaker 3: were jostling, Insults were heard, Threats were made five of

578
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:26,680
Speaker 3: the eight cops there made their way to the front

579
00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:28,719
Speaker 3: of the crowd. I guess they got all hepped up too.

580
00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:31,240
Speaker 3: They started pushing back at the people in the scrum.

581
00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:33,120
Speaker 3: One of the cops hit a woman on the head.

582
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 3: She felt on the ground bleeding. It was on like

583
00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:40,480
Speaker 3: you think you're gonna be in a nice lester lady,

584
00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:43,080
Speaker 3: at a perfectly lovely summer fete, and get away with it.

585
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,360
Speaker 3: I might have you think the townsmok are going to

586
00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 3: take this lying down. Think again, Copper. A solitary bottle

587
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:52,600
Speaker 3: flew through the air above everyone's heads, and it was

588
00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:56,080
Speaker 3: a direct hit on the balloon envelope, ripping right through it. Ooh,

589
00:28:56,280 --> 00:29:00,240
Speaker 3: just projectile. The crowd irerupted and scrambled to the scoffing

590
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:03,760
Speaker 3: where they rip the mesh down. Coxwell yelled to the crowd,

591
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 3: that's enough, stop it. You stop this instant. If y'all

592
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:08,600
Speaker 3: don't check yourselves and take a step back, I will

593
00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:11,840
Speaker 3: pass some gas. The crowd looked at him, puzzled. When

594
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:14,240
Speaker 3: I will let the gas out of this balloon and

595
00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 3: no one will go anywhere like, oh, if you don't.

596
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:19,240
Speaker 4: Check yourself, I will wreck myself.

597
00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:21,760
Speaker 3: The crowd goes back to fighting, though, and breaking things

598
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:27,200
Speaker 3: and shouting insults at the famous balloonists. He's frustrated, he's disgusted. Coxwell,

599
00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:28,320
Speaker 3: lets all the gas out.

600
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:28,760
Speaker 2: Oh no.

601
00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:32,400
Speaker 3: When the balloon deflated to the ground, the crowd rushed

602
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:35,680
Speaker 3: it and just tore it to pieces, like cookie Monster

603
00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:38,920
Speaker 3: doing a number on some chips. Ahoid More cops showed

604
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,440
Speaker 3: up and tried to calm the seam. As you can imagine,

605
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:42,520
Speaker 3: they were not successful.

606
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:42,800
Speaker 2: No.

607
00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:45,560
Speaker 3: Once people have been given the promise of a balloon

608
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:49,000
Speaker 3: navigating the majesty of a summer English sky, and that

609
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:50,120
Speaker 3: promise has been broken.

610
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I forget about it. Ah, that's the covenant.

611
00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:54,560
Speaker 3: We all live here. Yeah. So basically all the cops

612
00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 3: could do is prevent Coxwell from being torn limb from limb,

613
00:29:57,600 --> 00:29:59,840
Speaker 3: and the crowd went after him, and they were shouting

614
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:00,920
Speaker 3: and these are quotes.

615
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:04,239
Speaker 2: Rip them up, you gotta rip them up. Knock him

616
00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:05,600
Speaker 2: on the head, you gotta.

617
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:08,840
Speaker 3: Knock oh my favorite, finish him and I got.

618
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:11,440
Speaker 2: Bad lights between like metal lyrics and video video games,

619
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:12,080
Speaker 2: back and forth.

620
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:13,680
Speaker 3: They ripped up his clothes and.

621
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:16,520
Speaker 2: Also he's the I am a famous.

622
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:21,640
Speaker 3: As they ripped up his clothes, they exposed his fleshy

623
00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:24,120
Speaker 3: white buttocks. Oh no, he made a run for it.

624
00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:27,400
Speaker 3: A man ran beside him guiding him. It was a

625
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:28,680
Speaker 3: man named Stone, the town.

626
00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:33,120
Speaker 2: There's a person running next to him. Yeah, run next, I.

627
00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 3: Am Stone, the town clerk. Come with me if you

628
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:38,640
Speaker 3: want to live. And so they hid out at Stone's

629
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:42,880
Speaker 3: house while the riot just like raged outside. The Britannia

630
00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:46,720
Speaker 3: was no more. Everything that wasn't shredded was burned. So

631
00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:49,160
Speaker 3: of course, like you have the wreckage, don't on fire

632
00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:52,640
Speaker 3: everything The interior metal skeleton of the balloon was carried

633
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:55,280
Speaker 3: down the streets of Leicester by the crowd like spoils of.

634
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 2: War, totally trophy for the crowd.

635
00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:59,680
Speaker 3: So cox Well said it was all the cops fault,

636
00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:01,920
Speaker 3: that they didn't have enough officers on duty, and he

637
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:07,959
Speaker 3: also said the foresters were to blame for The London

638
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:11,920
Speaker 3: Review of Politics, Society, Literature, Art and Science said the

639
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 3: crowd was quote a horde of savages, as fierce and

640
00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:18,960
Speaker 3: untamed as south Sea Islanders, and differing very little from

641
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 3: them except for in their habitat, which was at Lester.

642
00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 2: Why you got to drag the islands there, You gotta

643
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:25,160
Speaker 2: do savage on your own.

644
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:27,000
Speaker 3: He had tossed some racism in there out of note.

645
00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I think y'all are savage on your own.

646
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:30,800
Speaker 4: You're going to be laying savage out.

647
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:35,280
Speaker 3: Here, exactly. It's just unnecessary. That was unnecessary l R

648
00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:38,400
Speaker 3: P S l A s. The people of Lester. They

649
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 3: blamed aggressors from Nottingham, why not locals. Locals were referred

650
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 3: to as balloonatics for a while amazing and then, obviously,

651
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:51,959
Speaker 3: with the Britannia out of commission, Coxwell's floating dreams had

652
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:54,560
Speaker 3: to be put on hold. Eventually, he did build an

653
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:57,840
Speaker 3: even bigger balloon than Britannia, but it cost him a

654
00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:00,920
Speaker 3: pretty penny. He applied for a grant from wait for it,

655
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 3: the Foresters Society, but they said they couldn't pay it

656
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:04,960
Speaker 3: out for some time.

657
00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:06,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, you remember that whole thing last time.

658
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:09,960
Speaker 3: So the city of Leicester held a fundraiser and came

659
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:13,280
Speaker 3: up with five hundred pounds for Coxwell. However, a lot

660
00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:16,000
Speaker 3: of Coxwell's peers like thought he kind of shook the

661
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:19,600
Speaker 3: city down for it, and either way he did live

662
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 3: to sail through the air again. Let's take a break

663
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:24,920
Speaker 3: and we come back. I have one more riot for you.

664
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:47,600
Speaker 2: Darren, Elizabeth, Elizabeth.

665
00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:50,640
Speaker 3: I've talked about English, right, Elizabeth, but now it's time

666
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:54,400
Speaker 3: say it again, Elizabeth for some down home Yankee act

667
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:56,920
Speaker 3: of crowds. Yeah, do you like eggnog?

668
00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:00,000
Speaker 4: I mean whatever, I'm not going to drink it into

669
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,360
Speaker 4: a lie, but you'll drink it. I mean, if it's

670
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:05,640
Speaker 4: Christmas time or the holiday season and it's been made

671
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:08,040
Speaker 4: by somebody, it's not like out of the eggnog.

672
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 3: Has come from the sky.

673
00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:10,320
Speaker 2: Well I'm not like, oh, I'm an eggnog purist.

674
00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:12,080
Speaker 4: But if someone's like, oh, I got homemade eggnog, I

675
00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:13,040
Speaker 4: will take a cut.

676
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 3: Right drinking out of it.

677
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:16,160
Speaker 4: But everyone's like, oh, hey, you want this car to eggnog.

678
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:17,959
Speaker 4: I'm like, I don't drink dairy creamer, thank you.

679
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 3: I do. I won't drink it. I'm not into it

680
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:23,280
Speaker 3: at all. Yeah, because I don't get with thick drinks

681
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:26,560
Speaker 3: other than like milkshakes. I like, I cut my juice

682
00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:29,360
Speaker 3: in half with water. I water everything down.

683
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:30,080
Speaker 2: I thicken everything.

684
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:30,400
Speaker 3: Yeah.

685
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:34,320
Speaker 4: I put in corns, corn stars, whatever I got flower eggnog.

686
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:36,520
Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you about eggnog, go on, please, But

687
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:39,720
Speaker 3: first I want to talk about United States military Academy

688
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:40,720
Speaker 3: aka West Point.

689
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 2: Oh, I know this place. So.

690
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:44,720
Speaker 3: West Point founded in eighteen oh two. It was an

691
00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:48,080
Speaker 3: unruly place from the get go. It was basically just

692
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:51,080
Speaker 3: like a few dilapidated buildings with only ten cadets and

693
00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 3: three teachers. When it first started, it.

694
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:55,360
Speaker 2: Always just had a small cluster of the nineteenth century.

695
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:58,640
Speaker 3: Yeah. There were no real admission standards and the students

696
00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 3: could show up anytime they want throughout the year, so

697
00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 3: there wasn't like a semester structure or anything. And then

698
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:08,319
Speaker 3: in eighteen seventeen, Colonel Sylvanus Thayer, also known as the

699
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:11,239
Speaker 3: father of West Point, was brought in as superintendent.

700
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:12,680
Speaker 2: His name is Forrest Thayer.

701
00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:18,080
Speaker 3: I like it, yeahs Sylvanus. In eighteen sixty two, West

702
00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:22,680
Speaker 3: Point had thirty six faculty members and staff. There were

703
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:29,160
Speaker 3: also four established departments engineering, Mathematics, Military Tactics, and natural Philosophy,

704
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:33,799
Speaker 3: which included like physics, chemistry, life sciences. After the War

705
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:37,080
Speaker 3: of eighteen twelve, Congress just dumped money into the place.

706
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:40,400
Speaker 3: You know, we hadn't done so hot. They wanted to military.

707
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:42,399
Speaker 4: We have our own officer training corps, if you will.

708
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:44,880
Speaker 4: They had to hire mercenaries and Prussians.

709
00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:47,600
Speaker 3: Also like, let's set up like a home camp. And

710
00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 3: that's when Thayer got, you know, put in. He was strict.

711
00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:54,719
Speaker 3: He didn't let the cadets leave campus. They couldn't participate

712
00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:59,360
Speaker 3: in duels and Virginia. Yeah, no cooking in the dorm rooms.

713
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,680
Speaker 3: A lot of these cats came from Virginia too. No

714
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:07,480
Speaker 3: smoking or dipping, no playing cards, no reading novels. A yeah,

715
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:09,400
Speaker 3: they're just like take all the fun out of life.

716
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:14,200
Speaker 3: Cadets were also banned from buying, storing, or drinking alcohol

717
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:18,520
Speaker 3: on campus. Okay, and so drinking off grounds was allowed,

718
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 3: but cadets weren't allowed to leave the academy while enrolled,

719
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 3: So you couldn't. Yeah, so Sayer he was serious about

720
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:30,080
Speaker 3: his liquor band, and so serious that he bought North Tavern,

721
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:32,760
Speaker 3: which was the tavern closest to West Point, and converted

722
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:35,640
Speaker 3: it into a hospital. Who he's just like, I'm going

723
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:40,280
Speaker 3: to take that one out of the equation. They refused

724
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:42,480
Speaker 3: to bend the rules even for the annual tradition of

725
00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:45,280
Speaker 3: drinking alcoholic eggnog during the Christmas holiday.

726
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:47,399
Speaker 4: Yes, which is how I started drinking as a kid

727
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:48,200
Speaker 4: at West Point.

728
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:52,120
Speaker 3: And that's why I'm talking about eggnog. So when the

729
00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:54,920
Speaker 3: cadets learned of this, the group got together and smuggled

730
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:59,320
Speaker 3: liquor from nearby taverns. One of those cadets Jefferson Davis,

731
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:02,400
Speaker 3: the future and only President of the Confederacy.

732
00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:05,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, because this would be about the time league, you.

733
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:09,200
Speaker 3: Know, yeah Davis Well, and Jefferson Davis was already known

734
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:11,439
Speaker 3: as a heavy drinker. Yeah, yeah, he was deep.

735
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:13,640
Speaker 4: Bennett a bunch of the That's what I learned from

736
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:16,160
Speaker 4: this time. That's how I knew that West Point was

737
00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:18,319
Speaker 4: so wild. It is from that era of generals. When

738
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:20,160
Speaker 4: you read their stories. This was a small class, like

739
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:23,120
Speaker 4: forty thirty students, and they'd be like, oh, you're number

740
00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:23,919
Speaker 4: thirty one in a class.

741
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:25,080
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, you're number thirty one in a

742
00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:26,080
Speaker 2: class of forty.

743
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:31,640
Speaker 3: Oh exactly, exactly. So Jefferson Davis was the first student

744
00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:33,960
Speaker 3: ever to be arrested for being a patron at a

745
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:37,240
Speaker 3: nearby tavern. He was caught drinking there by Captain Ethan

746
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:41,240
Speaker 3: Allen Hitchcock. Wow, and Davis was court martialed, but seeing

747
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:44,120
Speaker 3: as how his record was clean otherwise, he was not expelled.

748
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:48,279
Speaker 3: Edgar Allan Poe reportedly spent the majority of his time

749
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 3: is a West Point cadet. At a local tavern, he

750
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:54,360
Speaker 3: said Davis was the sole congenial soul in the entire

751
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:55,480
Speaker 3: god forsaken place.

752
00:36:57,320 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 2: Didn't you get kicked out of west I think he did?

753
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:02,680
Speaker 3: I think he did. In August eighteen twenty six, Davis

754
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:05,480
Speaker 3: was yucking it up at a tavern when he told

755
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 3: he was told that a superior officer was on his

756
00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 3: way there looking for him, Looking for Jefferson Davis. He

757
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:13,920
Speaker 3: sprinted back to campus, but he fell down a sixty

758
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:17,040
Speaker 3: foot ravine on the way, put him in the hospital.

759
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 2: For a while. Ronk falling down a revine.

760
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:19,400
Speaker 3: Fronk falling down a ravine.

761
00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 2: The Jefferson Davis story.

762
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 3: Christmas eighteen twenty six was approaching and the cadets wanted

763
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:30,480
Speaker 3: to celebrate, and celebrating meant booze. William R. Burnley of Alabama,

764
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:34,640
Speaker 3: Alexander J. Center of New York, and Samuel Alexander Roberts

765
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:37,840
Speaker 3: of Alabama went to Martin's tavern to pick up some liquor.

766
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:40,640
Speaker 3: Once the three cadets were back at West Point, they

767
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:44,680
Speaker 3: hid four barrels of whiskey among their personal possessions.

768
00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:46,320
Speaker 2: Barrels barrels.

769
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:49,719
Speaker 3: So the meanwhile, Cadet TM Lewis of Kentucky managed to

770
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:53,960
Speaker 3: obtain a gallon of rum from Benny's, another tavern, and

771
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:57,200
Speaker 3: still even more cadets were rounding up gallons of brandy, rum,

772
00:37:57,239 --> 00:37:58,000
Speaker 3: whiskey and wine.

773
00:37:58,160 --> 00:37:59,919
Speaker 2: Those are like the local barrels, right.

774
00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:03,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not like a barrel where they're.

775
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:05,000
Speaker 2: Just say they're not rolling it in. Oh that's a

776
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:06,120
Speaker 2: table exactly.

777
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:11,160
Speaker 3: Cadets had been caught before attempting to smuggle alcohol into

778
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:14,840
Speaker 3: West Point, so Thayer held a meeting with fellow officers

779
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:18,080
Speaker 3: to be on alert during the evening Christmas Eve. He

780
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 3: assigned the same officers who always did this job, Captain

781
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:26,640
Speaker 3: Ethan Allen Hitchcock old ch obviously mentioned and Lieutenant William A. Thornton,

782
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:30,800
Speaker 3: and positioned them at the North Barracks Around midnight. Hitchcock

783
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:32,799
Speaker 3: and Thornton decided all was well and went to bed

784
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:39,120
Speaker 3: Chumps midnight four am, Christmas Day, eighteen twenty six, Hitchcock

785
00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:41,640
Speaker 3: woke up to loud noises coming from a few floors

786
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:44,440
Speaker 3: above him. When he went to quote ascertain if there

787
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:47,880
Speaker 3: was any disorder in the barrack, he found thirteen drunken

788
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:51,400
Speaker 3: cadets still drinking in room number five. Just as he

789
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:55,080
Speaker 3: showed up, so did a drunk Jefferson Davis. Davis like

790
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:57,399
Speaker 3: ran in like the kool aid man, shouting, put away

791
00:38:57,440 --> 00:39:00,000
Speaker 3: the growd, Captain Hitchcock is coming, But like Captain Kitchock,

792
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:04,759
Speaker 3: Hitchcock arrested Davis and ordered him to return to his room.

793
00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:09,319
Speaker 3: Davis complied, which saved himself a court martial later. He

794
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:12,120
Speaker 3: then reminded the remaining twelve cadets that any group of

795
00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:15,160
Speaker 3: twelve or more was an illegal assembly. So they're just

796
00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 3: like getting remarks against.

797
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:21,160
Speaker 2: You got twelve people that disciple.

798
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:24,120
Speaker 3: The disciple doesn't. While this was going on, Hitchcock noticed

799
00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:27,000
Speaker 3: like that he heard even more noises coming from somewhere else.

800
00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:30,479
Speaker 3: He cruised over to a neighboring room and discovered three

801
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:33,520
Speaker 3: more drunk cadets, two of whom attempted to hide in

802
00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:37,640
Speaker 3: their beds under blankets like sorry sleeping, what did you sat?

803
00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:39,360
Speaker 2: So they were both Jefferson Davis.

804
00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:43,160
Speaker 3: The third one covered his face with his hat as

805
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:45,520
Speaker 3: a makeshift mass. But you'll never know who I am.

806
00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:46,359
Speaker 2: I'm a coat wreck.

807
00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:49,799
Speaker 3: Kitchcock was like, take off the mask, and then he

808
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:52,680
Speaker 3: headed out to find more drunks. However, the cadets he

809
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:55,960
Speaker 3: had already caught and reprimanded, decided to take his intrusion

810
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 3: as an offense. Like this was like, this was brazen.

811
00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:01,640
Speaker 3: How dare he? So they said to each other, get

812
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:04,520
Speaker 3: your your dirks and bayonets and pistols if you have them,

813
00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:07,479
Speaker 3: because the night is over and Hitchcock will be dead.

814
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:08,640
Speaker 2: We're getting harmed up.

815
00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:12,560
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they kill this man and I'm like, so

816
00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:16,239
Speaker 3: they they go to his room and they like into

817
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:18,480
Speaker 3: where he's living. They start throwing sticks and rocks at

818
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:21,960
Speaker 3: his door and window, like get out here. Meanwhile, Hitchcock's

819
00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:24,680
Speaker 3: buddy Thornton, he was hit on the head with a

820
00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:28,000
Speaker 3: wooden post and threatened by another cadet with a sword. Wow,

821
00:40:29,080 --> 00:40:32,920
Speaker 3: this is what we call toxic masculine. One cadet actually

822
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:36,480
Speaker 3: did fire his pistol at Hitchcock as he tried to

823
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:38,920
Speaker 3: break down a door, but he missed because another cadet

824
00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:41,120
Speaker 3: saw what was about to happen and jostled the would

825
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:45,160
Speaker 3: be shooter, so he missed his show. Someone knocks, someone

826
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:48,040
Speaker 3: knocked his hand, like he's kicking down a door. He's

827
00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:52,359
Speaker 3: like proto dea. At this point, Hitchcock needed backup right,

828
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:56,000
Speaker 3: so he asked a cadet to bring the calm here,

829
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:59,920
Speaker 3: meaning the commandant, the commandant of cadets. The drunk could

830
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:02,640
Speaker 3: dets misheard that and thought that he was calling for

831
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:06,640
Speaker 3: artillery men, and the cadets, for whatever reason, hated the

832
00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:09,960
Speaker 3: artillery men also called the bomb of deers, So they

833
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:13,480
Speaker 3: took this, Yeah, they took this summoning as an insult.

834
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:17,480
Speaker 3: The cadets gathered to take up arms to defend themselves

835
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:21,120
Speaker 3: and the North Barracks from the imagined impending attack from

836
00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:24,840
Speaker 3: the artillery men. Instead, it's just bring the commandant. The

837
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:28,480
Speaker 3: destruction escalated because like, cadets started destroying everything they could

838
00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:29,239
Speaker 3: get their hands on.

839
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:30,239
Speaker 2: They're making a fort.

840
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:34,360
Speaker 3: They would just know. They just started smashing dishes. They're like,

841
00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:34,959
Speaker 3: I know.

842
00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:38,800
Speaker 2: They did that.

843
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:43,000
Speaker 3: They broke chairs, they smashed cabinets, they ripped the banisters

844
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:47,920
Speaker 3: from the stairs, Like why. Then Commandant William Worth showed

845
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:50,600
Speaker 3: up and the cadets started to sober up and calm down.

846
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:55,720
Speaker 3: Realizing no artillery men were coming, The Eggnog Riot was over.

847
00:41:57,120 --> 00:42:02,400
Speaker 3: It was known as the Eggnog Riot. Point revely Is

848
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 3: sounded cadets from South Barracks, they rise promptly and assemble

849
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:09,759
Speaker 3: a neat discipline. Rose early Christmas morning, so this is

850
00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:12,120
Speaker 3: like two hours after the end of the riot. The

851
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:18,440
Speaker 3: North Barracks cadets, however, came barefoot, cursing, disheveled, still completely drunk.

852
00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:20,719
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's just loose. I've been drunk.

853
00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:25,759
Speaker 3: The officer of the day took one look at the

854
00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:29,280
Speaker 3: group of hungover, still drunk cadets and then just dismissed everybody.

855
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:30,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's like, I don't even want to look at you.

856
00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:33,800
Speaker 3: So nearly a third of the two hundred and sixty

857
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:36,840
Speaker 3: cadets at West Point participated in the Eggnog Riot.

858
00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:40,320
Speaker 4: And three decades later half almost said whatever, half to

859
00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:41,719
Speaker 4: a third of the country said, you know what, we

860
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:44,200
Speaker 4: should take the guy who led the Eggnog riot and

861
00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:47,440
Speaker 4: try to start a new country. He seems like a winner,

862
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:48,919
Speaker 4: that boy.

863
00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:52,959
Speaker 3: So you've got a third of two sixty right. West

864
00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:55,360
Speaker 3: Point was still in its infancy, and if they had

865
00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:58,960
Speaker 3: kicked everyone out, they're gonna really cripple the place. And

866
00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:00,959
Speaker 3: it also would have heard the image it was trying

867
00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:03,600
Speaker 3: to build is that's a place of order, not anarchy.

868
00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:07,600
Speaker 3: So instead they decided to place the worst offenders twenty

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Speaker 3: two in total on house arrest.

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Speaker 2: So now you can't go anywhere.

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Speaker 3: Which was kind of the rule.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was before it was like, what, you can't

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Speaker 2: leave the room.

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Speaker 3: So January twenty sixth, you know, eighteen twenty seven, now

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Speaker 3: court martial proceedings began. Nineteen cadets and one soldier, Jefferson Davis,

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Speaker 3: avoided being court martialed due to his being immediately compliant

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Speaker 3: upon being caught, where he went back to his room

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Speaker 3: and said he was put on house arrest for six weeks.

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Speaker 3: For over a month, a tribunal of professors and soldiers

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Speaker 3: heard the testimony of one hundred and sixty seven witnesses,

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Speaker 3: which included Robert E. Lee.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he would be there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he spoke on the behalf of some of the cadets.

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Speaker 3: The court martials also mentioned in this I not mentioned.

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Speaker 3: The court martials lasted until mid March, and the nineteen

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Speaker 3: cadets were found guilty and sentenced to be dismissed from

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Speaker 3: West Point. However, eight of those were granted clemency and

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Speaker 3: then five more ended up graduating.

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Speaker 4: Anyway, I wonder what Grant was doing, because he's in

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Speaker 4: the same class with Lee, and it's like, you got

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Speaker 4: it was a young drunk, you know, he's like but anyways,

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Speaker 4: the fact that they were all together, it's like something.

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Speaker 3: Fifty three cadets received less severe punishment. So there was

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Speaker 3: just huge numbers nuts. But you know, like as you

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Speaker 3: were saying, there were a there's a pretty good bunch

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Speaker 3: of future traders.

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Speaker 2: Totally crazy number.

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Speaker 3: Jefferson Davis graduated from West Point in eighteen twenty eight,

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Speaker 3: and then when the Southern States tried to secede, he

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Speaker 3: became the president of the Confederate Stats.

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Speaker 2: Imagine Stonewall Jackson might have been in this class too.

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Speaker 3: Could be. Benjamin Humphries was expelled from West Point and

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Speaker 3: he later became the governor of Mississippi and a Confederate

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Speaker 3: Army general. And then Hugh Mercer was expelled, but the

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Speaker 3: sentence was later remitted. He would graduate from West Point

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Speaker 3: become a general for the Confederate Army.

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Speaker 2: So this is just hey, you also.

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Speaker 4: Got that General Granger in the class. He's the one

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Speaker 4: who does the emancipation proclamation for the election, not the

910
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Speaker 4: mancipator population, but certifying the mancipation proclamation for the juneteenth

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Speaker 4: When he goes down a Order three in Galveston. He's

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Speaker 4: there's this area the eighteen late eighteen twenties in West

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Speaker 4: Point is like a lot of American history is coming

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Speaker 4: through those boys.

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Speaker 3: Well, I think a lot of them boys fell down

916
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Speaker 3: ravines and hit their head.

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Speaker 4: They all work together and knew each other. It doesn't

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Speaker 4: really come out in the stories about them. Well here's

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Speaker 4: the thing to make a crazy movie about west Point

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Speaker 4: AH twenty five.

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Speaker 3: Well, here's what happened. It's bizarre, it's wild, but it's

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Speaker 3: also one that's not well known today. Among West Point cadets.

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Speaker 3: A lot of them don't know about that.

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Speaker 2: They don't know they Riot. No, how do they know?

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Speaker 3: This is Sherman Fleek, the West Point Command historian. He said,

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Speaker 3: quote hardly anyone knows about it. If pooled among forty

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Speaker 3: four hundred cadets, three thousand federal employees, fifteen hundred military

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Speaker 3: staff and faculty, I doubt thirty people would know a

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Speaker 3: thing about it. What I'm just doing the Lord's work.

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Speaker 3: Here's the Aaron trying to tell everyone.

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Speaker 2: I'm telling you.

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Speaker 3: So none of the buildings of the Eggnog Riot days

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Speaker 3: remain today.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, imagine they're all Stone or sorry, would not Stone.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the riot did result in a change with the

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Speaker 3: academy's architecture. When new barracks were constructed in the eighteen forties,

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Speaker 3: they included short halways that required cadets to completely exit

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Speaker 3: the building before being able to access any other level.

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Speaker 3: Only one of those buildings still remains. And then this

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Speaker 3: is what Fleek said quote when they built those, they

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Speaker 3: put in a measure of crowd control. It would make

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Speaker 3: it difficult for cadets to get out of hand and

943
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Speaker 3: gather in large number.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Interesting, so so much for all of like the discipline.

946
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Speaker 3: Another important and lasting change. West Point no longer has

947
00:46:27,719 --> 00:46:31,600
Speaker 3: big holiday celebrations, but a party does take the lase. Yeah,

948
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Speaker 3: they really limit alcohol access. But those are my three

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Speaker 3: shorty ridiculous riots for you.

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Speaker 2: That last one was crazy.

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Speaker 3: What's your ridiculous takeaway?

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Speaker 4: It's not that ridiculous, but I think it qualifies at

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Speaker 4: a certain level. Jefferson Davis been a punk, always going

954
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Speaker 4: to be a punk. But you know, once upon ben

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Speaker 4: a punk going to be a punk.

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