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Speaker 1: Hey there, and welcome to short stuff. I'm josh and

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Speaker 1: there's Chuck and there's Jerry, and this is short stuff.

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Speaker 1: Let's go all right. Emperor Joshua Norton the uh maybe first,

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Speaker 1: It's possible he was the first, but it's actually kind

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Speaker 1: of unlikely if you think about it. Yeah, but it

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Speaker 1: San Francisco was still San Francisco. Yeah. I'd heard of

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Speaker 1: this guy. I didn't know much about him as his

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Speaker 1: news and eccentric, beloved San Franciscan. But when you dig

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Speaker 1: it's pretty great. So he was. He was, Like you said,

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Speaker 1: his name was Joshua Norton. He was born in England.

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Speaker 1: Um and his parents traveled to South Africa to settle

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Speaker 1: there in eighteen twenty. Is part of a settlement scheme. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And by settle I mean show up in interlocal colonized Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I believe for the gold brush. So I guess he

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Speaker 1: pretty wealthy man, pretty quick by eighteen fifty two, within

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Speaker 1: just three years UM of arriving, he was one of

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Speaker 1: But in late December or I guess just late eighteen

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Speaker 1: their rice. It is the San Francisco treat and always

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Speaker 1: has been. Right, they do a little something special to it,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, it's basically rice. So Norton heard that there

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Speaker 1: He bought this entire shipment. However, a bunch of more

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Speaker 1: ships came from Peru in order. Yeah, he didn't know

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Speaker 1: which is why you don't want to put all your

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Speaker 1: eggs in one basket, right, that's right, or all of

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Speaker 1: he kind of dropped out of of San Francisco society.

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Speaker 1: two he re emerged. And when he re emerged, he

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Speaker 1: It would have just been a crackpot who distributed leaflets

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Speaker 1: But the newspapers would also report on what they did too,

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Speaker 1: talk about some of his acclamations and uh and how

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Speaker 1: Emperor Norton. And by the way, in nineteen I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: I didn't quite see how he how he rectified those

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Speaker 1: well they got out because you know, like the police chief.

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Speaker 1: I guess it was like you can't look up Emperor Norton, right.

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Speaker 1: But what's neat Well, there's just a couple of steps.

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Speaker 1: we're gonna have a great funeral procession. And in eighteen

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Speaker 1: like I think sixty thousand people showed up for that one. Amazing, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Francisco at the time. He was clearly smitten with the

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Speaker 1: guy as well. Yeah. He he shows up as the

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Speaker 1: king in Huckleberry Finn. I think that characters named after him.

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Speaker 1: There's no less than three operas and a musical written

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Speaker 1: about him. He's He's beloved. Also, there's a episode of Bonanza.

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Speaker 1: This this is the weird Cherry on Top. I think

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Speaker 1: comitted um and released and he liked. The character's name

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Speaker 1: is Emperor Norton. It just it just so happens that

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Speaker 1: they coincided, you know, the Bonanza timeline and Emperor Norton's

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Speaker 1: I have to see. It's called um well, I don't

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Speaker 1: see it too. I do know that Mark Twain was

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Speaker 1: it was probably he broke I guess. I hope. So

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Speaker 1: there's nobody who could do a Mark Twain like him

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Speaker 1: or Val Kilmer. There's nobody who can do a Mark

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Speaker 1: Twain like Howhold. I got nothing against well that's not true.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that old grudge that time he shoved you

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Speaker 1: into the street. Ye shouldn't have done that. Bal I

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Speaker 1: got nothing else, nothing else over here. I hope you

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