WEBVTT - Dumb and Disorderly: History’s Ridiculous Riots 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:03.400 Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:04.559 --> 0:00:05.360 Elizabeth Dutton. 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:07.960 Nothing, you know it's ridiculous. 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:13.080 Yes, I've been waiting, waiting, waiting to tell you this. Yes, Sweden, 0:00:14.120 --> 0:00:14.880 you know the country. 0:00:15.080 --> 0:00:16.280 Yeah, that's not ridiculous. 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:18.280 No, I know, just give you a second. I'm warming 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:21.080 up for this one because it's my brain. I'm still 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:22.720 trying to rack my like how I had looked this 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:26.640 up to see I thought it was a joke, a scam, 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:28.639 a hoague something. I mean, this can't be real. But 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:30.680 apparently from what I found, there is a website it 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:33.839 seems to be legit. Sweden became the first country to 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:36.640 decide that sex is a sport, so there's now the 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:40.880 Sweetest Sex Federation and they're organizing the first European Sex Championship. 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:43.479 So apparently this will last for several weeks. Just like 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:47.640 the Olympics, participants are allowed to compete six hours a day. 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:51.240 They have forty five minutes to an hour for each match. 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:55.200 There's all sorts of things they'll be judged on, like 0:00:55.240 --> 0:01:00.120 a penetration, endurance, post performance or sorry, pose performance. I 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:02.160 thought it was post anyway, so I looked up the 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:05.560 website right and it's this place, the Sweetest Sex Federation dot. 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:06.440 Com and this is real. 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:07.160 You checked. 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:11.280 As much as I can tell, they have a very like, 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:13.360 seemingly legit website. 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:13.679 I had. 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:16.000 Most of the press has been because it's it just 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:18.680 got announced, so I've not seen The New York Times 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:20.880 is not writing about it, nor is even the Daily News, 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:22.080 which makes me a little worried. 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:24.760 I'm like, wow, one of them should be writing the. 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:28.280 Daily Mail and the Daily So they apparently they say 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:31.600 sex is a sport, and they are really big on 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:34.520 making sure that it's Ah, this is not about men 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:40.040 dominating women's this is this is like teamwork sex. So yeah, 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:42.000 they want to actively change the view of sex. This 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:44.000 is a very sex positive thing. I don't know how 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:46.559 Sex Olympics are going to change the view of sex 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:52.200 because yeah, they let's see, like, for instance, whereas there's 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:55.240 one point I wanted to show you here there was 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:57.040 Oh yeah, they said quote and I thought you'd like 0:01:57.080 --> 0:01:59.920 this with tears in their eyes. S SF can stay 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.040 that none of the one hundred and ninety five countries 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:04.560 in the world have any educational center that would use 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:07.040 tax money to educate people in love and sex, which 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:09.360 is the most peaceful thing in human history. So they've 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:12.320 taken it upon themselves educated people about human sex through 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:15.240 sex games championships. 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:16.680 Sir, Sir, sex is. 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:19.320 Getting known more and more every day, Elizabeth. 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:25.760 It's totally legal, cool. Oh, ridiculous, totally cool, totfully ridiculous, 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:29.079 totally uncool. Uh. Do you know what else is ridiculous? 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:34.920 Airport though, losing it, going absolutely berzonkers berserker over a 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:35.639 hot air balloon. 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:36.720 Oh? I like it. 0:02:56.560 --> 0:03:01.320 This is Ridiculous Crime a podcast about absurd and outrageous capers, heists, 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:04.800 and cons. It's always ninety nine percent murder free and 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:10.200 one ridiculous. I've spoken of riots here before. 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:11.520 Yeah, have you seem to like them? 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:16.040 Do straw hat riot? The clown on firefighter. 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:16.920 Right at the Yeah, the circuit riot. 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:19.760 That was really good. Have you ever been in a riot? 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:22.040 Oh? Girl, you know me. I've been some riots. 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:23.200 Yes, have you liked that. 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:26.160 I've been in riots, but mostly they were political things 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:29.080 that turned into what would be termed riots. And then 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:32.079 I've been in things that started out intentionally, as I guess, 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:35.920 riotous behavior, and the best way to describe it would be, oh, 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:38.000 they're rioting, and if you're rioting. I think you call 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:39.840 that a riot. So I've been in both, you know, 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:43.680 amateur riots and politically professional riots, I guess so, like yeah. 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:45.840 Like damaged destructions, yeah. 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:48.320 Breaking windows stuff. Like I was very young, I didn't 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:51.640 really know the value of things. Like when you're nineteen 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:53.240 and you're going out to make a statement, you think 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:55.160 that this is direct action and you kick the like, 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:57.920 you know, the rear the side mirror off a car. Right, 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:00.760 you're not thinking that, like, that's not really direct action. 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:04.000 That's just you breaking stuff under the proviso of I'm 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:04.920 doing politics. 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:06.320 Right, I've been in a riot. 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:09.800 You've been Wait a minute, now, that's surprising. What was 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:11.360 the riot? Was this like you and pets? It was 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:12.880 a bunch of dogs running the streets. 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:17.640 It was right o Colosseum, Metallica. 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:19.560 Oh yes, guns and Roses, this is good day on 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:21.320 the green, Oh my goodness. 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:26.600 And body count opens and then Metallica play, and then 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:29.159 Guns N' Roses. It was two hours before they came 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:31.479 on and everyone lost it and started ripping up the 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:33.400 field and throwing the whole colisseum. 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:35.840 Right, you guys, they had to repair the whole field, 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:37.640 you guys. The fight was epic. 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:39.080 From what I know, people went to this and it 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:40.440 was like it was crazy. 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:43.839 An actual like medieval battle of grass and metal heads. 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:47.040 It's awesome. And there I was that I was. 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:49.120 Who did you take scalps? Do you get anybody? 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:52.800 I just I grabbed turf and I just shoved it 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:55.080 right in people's mouths and put their teeth out. 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:57.000 It was violent. Look what you made doing. 0:04:57.040 --> 0:05:02.240 And I did a dime for it. Yeah, in Susanville, 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:06.000 I have riot for you today, Zarren. It's going to 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:06.960 be a laugh riot. 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:09.279 Oh get ready, We're going. 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:12.480 To take a stroll through histories more ridiculous riots. So 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:14.640 I have a couple for you. Let's start in London, 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:18.800 all right, seventeen forty nine London time. Well, I know 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:23.040 it was a great year. John Montague, the second Duke 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:25.520 of Montague. He was a lot of things, so. 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:26.880 It was a new dukedom at that time. 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:29.479 He was he was the owner of a coal mine, 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:33.760 He was a doctor. He was governor, making patients and 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:38.120 saving patient exactly. He was governor of the islands of 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:41.400 Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent. Oh, and he was a 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:46.919 supporter of orphanages. He financed the education of two black Brits, 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:52.240 Ignacious Sancho and Francis Williams or Sancho, I should probably say, 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:56.640 and Francis williams Ignatius Sancho is a really fascinating fellow. 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:58.440 By the way. He was born on a slave ship 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:02.120 in the Atlantic, sold to slavery and New Granada, sent 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:05.560 to Britain, ran away from where he was sold to 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:08.120 the Montague House and they took him in. They taught 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:10.799 him to read and write. He had his portrait painted 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:13.560 there by Thomas Gainsborough, Oh wow, and was just like 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:17.080 taken under their wing. Eventually he wound up owning his 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:20.120 own business, a grocery shop. He wrote essays and plays 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:23.480 and books and music, and worked as a staunch abolitionist. 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:27.000 He was friends with the famous Shakespearean actor David Garrick, 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:31.599 and who was like the first like theater idol, like 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:35.080 the first time. David Garrick was like at the time 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:36.800 you didn't go. If you go to see a play, 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:38.600 it was because it was that play. But then they 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:40.960 started putting his name above the title of the play. 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:41.360 He had top. 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:43.440 He was like the first star, the first star. 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:50.320 Yeah, he was like before Sarah Burnandra Bullock Boetheart he 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:51.320 was London sweetheart. 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:55.320 Yes. And then Ignatius he could vote because he was 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:57.480 a male property owner, and so he was the first 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:01.200 British African to do so. So this guy that I'm 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:05.560 talking about, John Montague, he supported this guy so interesting, 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:08.520 really really fascinating guy. So he was all these things, 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:13.160 but he was also a practical joker. Okay, and this 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:15.280 is what his mother in law said about him. Quote, 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:18.960 all his talents lie in things only natural in boys 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:22.200 of fifteen years old, and he is about two and fifty. 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:25.200 To get people into his garden and wet them with squirts, 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:27.800 and to invite people to his country houses and put 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:30.440 things in bed to make them itch, and twenty such 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:37.320 pretty fancies as these I erort. 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:38.440 Live. 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:42.080 He's spraying people with garden hoses and putting itching powder 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:44.840 in their sets. Oh yeah, yeah, so this is like 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:49.080 it is like everyday suburban dad stuff, but like in 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:50.480 his position, it was unheard of. 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:52.320 Yeah, everybody's to be arrest. 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:58.240 One time he dunked the political philosopher Montesque in a 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:04.000 tub of cold water as a joke. Zing, Okay, I'll 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:05.640 show you one day. 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:05.960 John. 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:08.640 He's hanging out with some other wealthy nobles, including the 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:12.080 Duke of Portland and the Earl of Chesterfield. And he 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:15.160 had an idea. He wanted to make a wager. He 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:17.360 bet that if he put an ad in the paper 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:20.880 that publicized a stage show where a guy climbed into 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:24.000 a court bottle, the place would sell out like a 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:27.559 grown man, like basically like a wine bobble. 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:28.160 Yeah, I get it. 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:30.280 He thought he could get a room full of people 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:31.760 to come in and pay to see a guy climb 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:32.360 into a bottle. 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:33.080 Yeah, okay. 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:38.000 And they all laughed and then like, oh he's look, 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:40.280 he's in the bottle. And then these pleaves will surely 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:40.880 go nuts for this. 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:41.320 Okay. 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:44.840 So they agreed, let's do it. And so they took 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:47.280 out an ad. All right, Actually they took out a 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:47.959 bunch of ads. 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:51.120 Let me read you one of itne No, here's the 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:54.880 ad at the new Theater in the Haymarket on Monday 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:59.040 next the sixteenth instant to be seen a person who 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:02.760 performs the several most surprising things following viz. 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:06.240 First, he takes a common walking cane from any of 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:10.000 the spectators, and thereon plays the music of every instrument 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:14.439 now in use, and likewise sings to surprising perfection. Secondly, 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:17.120 he presents you with a common wine bottle, which any 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:20.480 of the spectators may first examine. This bottle is placed 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:22.440 on a table in the middle of the stage, and he, 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:26.319 without any equivocation, goes into it in sight of all 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:29.360 the spectators and sings in it. During his stay in 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:31.920 the bottle, any person may handle it and see plainly 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:35.160 that it does not exceed a common tavern bottle. Those 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:37.960 on stage or in the boxes may come in masked 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:41.120 habits if agreeable to them, and the performer, if desired, 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:42.520 will inform them who they are. 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:45.840 Okay, all right, I have so recap. 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:49.000 To recap, Doodle, make a cane into any instrument on 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:52.120 the planet. He'll then climb into a bottle in front 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:52.840 of everyone. 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:56.400 Okay at first first one that's on a present. 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:58.720 You can see somebody do that in Harlem, Right, I'm like, Okay, 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:00.520 the guy took a staking turned in instrument. 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:01.400 I've seen that. 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:04.640 But like climent, keep they keep stressing that it's a 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:06.880 normal bottle, Like I get hold this with my hand. 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:10.000 How is a person like you couldn't fit a cat? 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:12.559 Not only once he's in the bottle, he's gonna sing 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:16.680 all the inspections continue whatever, and then people can come 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:19.040 on stage in masks and bottle Man's gonna be like, 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:19.839 I know who you are. 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:22.600 I'm not getting past the man in the bottle. You 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:23.560 can't get a man in. 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:30.680 The bottle. So they're not bold or ridiculous. 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:32.440 Would you buy a ticket to go see it? No? 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:34.040 I would think that person's a liar. 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:38.560 I think I would would you for what you're promising me? 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:39.240 This show? Me? 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:42.160 Okay? So wait, wait a minute. 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:44.120 More people were like me than you do you go. 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:46.160 To a lot of circus side shows? 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:46.400 No? 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:48.400 Have you ever pay to go to a side show? See? 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:49.880 I pay to go to a side show. So out 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:51.439 of the two of us, I'm the real soccer. I'm 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:53.640 a socker I can speak with. This is not good, 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:54.400 sucker bet. 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:56.840 I just I'm so curious. What are they trying to anyway? 0:10:57.320 --> 0:10:57.520 Go on? 0:10:57.679 --> 0:10:59.040 Yes, a lot of people bought tickets. 0:10:59.080 --> 0:10:59.640 I want lizard. 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:04.080 It sold out. Magic shows were really popular back then. 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:06.760 Oh so that was like so they're thinking maybe it's 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:11.400 this illusion, but like complete talk of the town, everybody's 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:13.720 all about this. So the show was a bottle guy 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:16.560 singing bottle guy. The show was that what was what 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:20.120 is now the Theater Royal Haymarket, although the building was 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:22.760 relocated down the street in eighteen twenty one, but it 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:25.880 was built in seventeen twenty It's currently the third oldest 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:29.720 London theater still in use. It originally showcased French plays. 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:34.760 The theater tradition between England and France's there's a lot 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:37.520 of back and forth to accommodate the various restrictions set 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:39.720 up by the English government over the years. When the 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:42.120 Brits would crack down on theater, the English actors would 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:45.200 head over to France to perform. Then when things eased up, 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:47.280 they'd come back. But they brought with them these incredible 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:50.640 advances in stagecraft, and around this time when they were 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:54.640 coming back, they brought back i'll talk about it, like 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:59.960 melodrama and stuff. So seventeen thirty seven, a little like 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:03.960 more than a decade before bottle Man, the Licensing Act 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:07.280 was introduced and it restricted the content of plays and 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:09.920 so you had to have any script had to be 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:13.240 approved by the Lord Chamberlain before it could be presented. 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:17.440 And so it was done to crack down on political satire. 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:20.520 It all came from one play called The Golden Rump 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:24.240 and so in it and it was like an anonymous play. 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:26.719 There was no you know, playwright name. 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:29.439 So this is post shakes. We're making fun of King James. 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:32.600 Right, and so in the play The Golden Rump, the 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:36.840 Queen gives the king an enema and then so they're like, okay, 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:37.400 that's enough. 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:40.559 One across the line. Across the burnet line. 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:44.680 They are banning obscene and scandalous material. And so anything 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:47.920 you know, criticizing or mocking the crown is going to 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:52.000 be scandalous. They ban it. Theaters got around this licensing 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:54.640 act by putting on dramatic scenes that would be like 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:58.120 separated by musical interludes. So they're not putting on a 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:00.840 full play. They just do it. And it turns it's 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:03.360 basically becomes burlesque and melodrama. 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:06.120 It's like a vaudeville for them in a sense. You're 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:08.000 just getting bits of this, bits of that, maybe a 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:09.520 scene from a very famous pot. 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:11.240 And that was brought over from the continent. It was 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:14.640 very like the influences of French and Italian theater on 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:16.920 English theater at this time. You had, you know, because 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:20.760 of like Comedia d Larte in illianol just making it very. 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:24.719 Over the top stock characters. Yeah, exactly known things you're 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:25.880 charging and playing with. 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:28.600 And so the serious actors they all decamped for France 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:31.320 once more. And it was during the time of the 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:33.960 Licensing Act that the Bottle Show was staged. And the 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:36.720 Licensing Act was dropped in eighteen forty three. 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:37.440 Wow. 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:40.360 And it wasn't until nineteen sixty eight that the Lord 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:42.640 Chamberlain's censorship of plays was ended. 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:47.480 Wait a minute, every play that I know before sixty 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:50.319 eight had to be approved by some chamberlain. 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:50.920 Wow. 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:55.840 So melodrama and burlesque and then this bottle spectacle. They're 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:59.000 generally like entertainment for the masses. But it wasn't just 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:02.160 the hoy PELOI who tickets to see the court bottle trick. 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:05.400 The king's second son, the Duke of Cumberland, was up 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:08.120 in there. I mean it was just like everybody's there. 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:12.360 Theaters sold out, every single seat, every box standing room 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:14.120 was overextended. 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:15.560 To see a man climb into a bottle man climb 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:17.520 into a I'm just going to keep repeating and getting 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:21.320 back to the essential idea that everyone thinks that a 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:23.480 man's going to climb into a wine bottle and sing 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:24.320 a song to them. 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:26.400 We've talked about this before. There wasn't a whole lot 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:26.760 to do. 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:29.960 Apparently, not even like anything to do. They're like, look, 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:31.240 you want to see this dust land. 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:34.200 So at seven o'clock the house lights are brought up. Okay, 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:37.760 so exciting. Everyone just couldn't wait to see the man 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:40.400 shove himself inside a bottle hom telling you, And so 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:44.120 everyone sat there, no music, no opening act, no insult 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:48.120 comic to warm up the crowd. They grow restless. People 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:50.560 murmured to each other, wondering what the hold up could be, 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:53.760 and then they started like shouting, bring out the bottle guy. Yeah, 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:58.040 we don't have to do who makes himself inexplicably tiny? 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:02.640 When people shouted insults, others like stomp their feet and 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:04.600 smash their canes into the ground, so it was like 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:09.600 a we will rock you. Suddenly a man appeared from behind. 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:11.120 The curtain, regular size man. 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:13.480 A regular size man, and he no bottle in sight, 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:15.320 and he was deeply apologetic. 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:17.360 So it's terrible for conning all of you suckers. 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:19.760 He told the crowd that if court bottle guy didn't 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:22.560 show up in fifteen minutes, that the theater would refund 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:23.160 everyone's money. 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:23.800 Yeah, I've heard this. 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:26.960 Yeah, and so now like people are really jeering and 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:29.640 cat calling after he says I'll give him refund. 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:32.760 Like the box office post ten minutes ago. 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:34.800 I got dulled up in my best option for this. 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:36.480 Oh yeah, all my frills and my ruffles. 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:38.840 Someone in the pit yelled that if everyone paid double, 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:43.720 he'd crawl into a pint bottle like levity. So fifteen 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:47.760 minutes goes by, no bottle guy. Suddenly someone in one 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:50.160 of the boxes grabbed a lit candle and threw it 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:52.560 on the stage. Oh, they're just irritated. 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:54.000 That's bad, and everything's made of wood. 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:58.320 With that chaos, Yeah, the audience is now a mob. 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:02.000 They ripped out the seats and the benches. They wrecked shop. 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:08.160 People were shouting and screaming for like no reason. Ladies 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:10.880 are shrieking as their partners dragged him towards the exit 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:15.440 and the scramble. People lost their wigs. Yeahs snatched. They 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:19.200 were snatched. They lost their hats, their jackets, their dresses. 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:25.040 They were denoted Zarah. The building was basically gutted right rye. 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:28.720 Everything that could be removed was removed and tossed into 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:35.120 the street and then like seating scenery, costumes, flyers, disgruntled patrons, 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:39.120 and I imagine like excitable bystanders, they created a giant 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:42.520 bonfire out of the materials. So everything is dragged outside 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:45.040 and set on fire. Someone ripped down the curtain and 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:47.720 flew it like a giant flag. Doing their own indie 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:53.840 theater production of Limz climbed up there. Almost immediately, everyone 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:57.600 turned their anger towards Samuel Foot, the manager of the theater. 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:01.400 They were sure that he did this. No, he cried, 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:03.720 he didn't know anything about it. He knew nothing about 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:07.479 nothing in fact. In fact, he said, he warned the 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:10.320 theater's owner, John Potter, that the whole thing seemed fishy, 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:13.800 you think, and it just didn't feel right. So everyone's 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:17.399 looking at Potter. No, he cries, He said that a 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:20.080 strange man had handled all the details. 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:20.680 A man with a mustache. 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:22.800 I'm sure that with enough money and no threats of 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:25.880 censorship from the crowd, Potter would have approved anything. 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:27.399 You know. 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:32.040 So the man in the bottle, or the bottle conjuror 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:35.200 as he was called, was all people were talking about. 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:38.840 The newspapers wrote breathlessly about the bottle Guy's absence and 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:42.280 what that meant. Satirical prints were produced. Among them two 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:46.359 caricatures published within the month. One was called the Bottle 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:50.160 Conjuror from Head to Foot without Equivocation, and the other 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:54.920 one was called English Credulity or You're all bottled. Yeah, 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:58.320 I like the Head and Foot. One depicts the bonfire 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:01.560 in the crowd and has amazing speech bubble captions for 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:05.280 the people watching. No I have lost my head, yelled 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:09.280 someone with no head. This is the best. Oh ah, bitch, 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:13.120 what's all this? Screams? What screams? It looks like a 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:21.879 little boy in fancy clothes. Soon it someone's tossing a 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:24.439 cat on the fire. Oh wow, that's great. And then 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:27.000 up in the balcony there's three members of the aristocracy 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:28.800 sipping from a bottle and watching the whole thing with. 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:30.400 Great amusing, one of them shaving a dog. 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:33.720 So there was a bit in one newspaper that said 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:36.399 that the bottle Conjuror had meant to show up, but 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:38.640 was paid for a private show before the public one. 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:40.640 And then he did the trick there and the patron 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:42.560 corked the bottle and ran away with dud in it. 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:47.360 And this story eventually goes to Europe, they find out 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:50.320 about it, and it was a great way for the 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:52.320 people on the continent to laugh at how dim and 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:54.840 gullible the English were. Oh, thanks so much for the 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:58.320 Age of Enlightenment. So the critic Barbara Benedict, she wrote 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:00.600 a book in two thousand and one called Currie, a 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:04.240 Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry. Yeah, and she stated 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:07.880 that the Bottle Conjurer quote promised to bring literature to life, 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:14.160 to reverse power relations, to incarnate onanism, to make monstrosity, 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:18.560 the transgression of physical boundaries humorous. Instead, he made the 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:21.879 audience fools of their own desire when balked furthermore, this 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:23.679 unleashed desire to turn violent. 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:25.159 Now I have one question. 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:28.800 M Now, all these people gather and this was I imagine 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:31.800 the debut performance for the Bottle Conjure. Yeah, so like 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:34.080 no one has seen the show, so everyone's just hyped 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:36.520 on their imagination. Yes, and everyone's all excited and all 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:37.680