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Speaker 1: Ridiculous Crime is a production of My Heart Radio. Mr

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Speaker 1: Zarin Burnett. You know, Elizabeth Dutton, what's up? You know

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Speaker 1: it's ridiculous. I do. Actually, there's something called mask lephobia,

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Speaker 1: which isn't the ridiculous part. It's a real fear of masks.

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Speaker 1: But the ridiculous part is that there are people like

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Speaker 1: Dak Prescott, who is a professional football player who suffer

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Speaker 1: from mask lephobia. So he's afraid of the sports mascot

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Speaker 1: on the football field. He's afraid of Mr Cowboy. He's

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Speaker 1: actually said, and I quote, you think that this person

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Speaker 1: in the costume, you don't know what the f he is.

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Speaker 1: He's up to something. Now. My favorite, though, is Noah

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Speaker 1: cinder Guard, the Mets player he was afraid of, literally

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Speaker 1: afraid of Mr Met the giant baseball head. Well yeah, right,

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Speaker 1: so yeah, I think that's ridiculous. That is ridiculous. Well

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Speaker 1: I feel for them. Can you imagine that every day

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Speaker 1: go to work and face your fears. Exactly a lot

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Speaker 1: of us do that. Yeah, it's true, Like if I

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Speaker 1: worked in a snake Jim, you don't. That's all ridiculous,

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Speaker 1: very well done. But something else that's ridiculous hit me with.

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Speaker 1: It is beating the snot out of strangers and rioting

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Speaker 1: over the hattery choice of others. Hattera choice? What do

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Speaker 1: you mean hattery? Hats man? Oh wow, this is really good.

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Speaker 1: This is Ridiculous Crime a podcast about absurd and outrageous capers, heists,

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Speaker 1: and cons. It is always murder free and ridiculous. Zaren

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Speaker 1: You wear a hat pretty much all day every day? Right, yes,

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Speaker 1: thank you for noticing. Tell me a little about what

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Speaker 1: hats you like. I'm a ball cap fan personally, like uh,

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Speaker 1: I like, I used to like snapbacks when I lived

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Speaker 1: in Central California, like in Davis where I grew up,

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Speaker 1: because it's so hot, But now like I like a

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Speaker 1: full wool like you know, baseball fitted And also you

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Speaker 1: know how I'll go with your desert caps if I'm

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Speaker 1: like how hiking or something coming with like you know,

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Speaker 1: with the French foreign legion double flaps down the back,

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Speaker 1: you know, like like the painters cap type. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: painters exactly. I like to painting. I was a house painter.

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Speaker 1: I liked all the various painting caps. In fact, I

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Speaker 1: used to wear a T shirt on my head when

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Speaker 1: I had really long dreadlocks, and I would just tie

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Speaker 1: up the sleeves over my head and I made my

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Speaker 1: own little omarshal reef. That's cute. How about a von

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Speaker 1: Duch hat? Um, I'll take a pass. Well, So have

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Speaker 1: you ever told, had anyone tell you that it's rude

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Speaker 1: for a gentleman to wear his hat indoors? Yeah? Actually,

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Speaker 1: I'm old enough that I crossed pass with some people

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Speaker 1: are much older than me, and they're like, hey, young man,

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Speaker 1: it is rude to where a hat indoors. And they're like,

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Speaker 1: you know my grandfather. So I had to hear it

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Speaker 1: often exactly. Well, you know, like hat rules, fashion rules,

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Speaker 1: they're totally arbitrary, but my family they abided by, at

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Speaker 1: least my mom's side. You like that whole white after

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Speaker 1: Labor Day and like, you know, you don't get church clothes,

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Speaker 1: you don't wear into anywhere other than church, like pants

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Speaker 1: in public, pants and public using indoors those um, like

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Speaker 1: you'd mentioned white after labor Day. I don't own any

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Speaker 1: white clothing. Really, I own zero pieces of white clothing?

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Speaker 1: Is it because you're like staying messy? I didn't want

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Speaker 1: to know every every Pretty much most of what I

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Speaker 1: wear is black and it's I don't know, if it's

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Speaker 1: like it's sort of easy everything matches then of course, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I've heard it's one of the easiest to make it. Also,

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Speaker 1: I wear black on the outside because black is how

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Speaker 1: I feel on the inside. Yeah, you know, kind of

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Speaker 1: bangs hearing you just you just grew bangs over one eye.

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Speaker 1: It's amazing. Do you want a little brush for them?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know how I feel about that. Well,

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Speaker 1: pierce your lip and we'll talk about. Um. I wish

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Speaker 1: I had a vanta black outfit, dark as black. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Like I just want to be avoid something that absorbs light. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And like so I'll be walking down the street and

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Speaker 1: bus stop. I think it's safe to say though, that

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Speaker 1: in terms of fashion, there's totally a pack mentality, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean that's how you get trendy stuff. Everyone follows

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Speaker 1: and like people. I was thinking the other day about how,

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Speaker 1: for a while it was nearly impossible to buy a

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Speaker 1: pair of women's jeans that weren't skinny jeans. You know,

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Speaker 1: now the low rise jeans, Oh good, good. It is

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Speaker 1: not a good look. But then I was thinking about

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Speaker 1: how we always used to joke about mom jeans, right,

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Speaker 1: and then they became fashionable. Well, what if in the

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Speaker 1: eighties moms were mom jeans just because that's all there was.

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Speaker 1: They didn't like them. They're just like, this is all

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Speaker 1: they're making for my example, bottom, not apple apple, Who's

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Speaker 1: gonna who's going to clothe my matronly hips? Um? But

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Speaker 1: you look back and everything is always like, oh, we

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Speaker 1: were so silly and whatever decade, the eighties and the nineties,

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Speaker 1: any decade, so pretty much we've never looked good. You

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Speaker 1: give us enough time, we will realize we look silly.

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Speaker 1: Then too, we look silly now everybody just looks silly

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Speaker 1: all the time. That's just if you just accept that

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Speaker 1: the hell of fashion exactly where what do you like

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Speaker 1: and what feels good? Yeah? Or just be utilitarian, like

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Speaker 1: I went through a whole phase where it was very

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Speaker 1: North Korean utilitarian. Cheek is North Korean. Everybody like high

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Speaker 1: collar jackets. Now everything's like black or gray or not,

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Speaker 1: and it just does the job. These are pants, Yes,

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Speaker 1: they show no form, drops straight down. Gravity pulls it

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Speaker 1: just I need to cover my my undercarriage and my legs,

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Speaker 1: so let's put these pants. Society insists. Yeah, I know.

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Speaker 1: I didn't really see a lot of people at the

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Speaker 1: time and didn't, but I kind of like that. I

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Speaker 1: like the utilitarian part of it. Why did you stop?

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Speaker 1: Did I because I stopped because I just wanted to

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Speaker 1: live a little wear some real clothes. But what did

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Speaker 1: you get? Like some yellow slacks? No, I would never

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Speaker 1: wear bright colors like that. I bought a more tapered

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Speaker 1: pair of black parts. Well, then I got that table,

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Speaker 1: I got that denim jacket I wear with troublemaker patch

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Speaker 1: like a motorcycle thing. I'm waiting to for like motorcycle

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Speaker 1: gangs to beat me up for wearing what looks like

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Speaker 1: a rocket, to push up on you and ask you

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Speaker 1: why you're trying to claim this part in California, and

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Speaker 1: ask me if I'm doing it for me or for

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Speaker 1: the club. Quite frankly, anyway, I digress. We could wait

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Speaker 1: so things get trendy, and um people can go into

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Speaker 1: a frenzy over those trends. You know, it's not the

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Speaker 1: same as mass hysteria, not like that, you know, there's

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Speaker 1: that dancing plague of eighteen people couldn't stop getting down

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Speaker 1: to the madrigals, dance themselves to death. Come home by

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Speaker 1: troubadors prowling the streets. Hundreds of people dance themselves to death. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the most beautiful things I've ever seen, spinning around and

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Speaker 1: whatever the old Hammerton move I called it. So you

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Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about when I say like mass hysteria,

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Speaker 1: thinking like starter jackets, there is a mass hysteria about

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Speaker 1: that jack for starter jacks going yeah, okay. So also, well,

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Speaker 1: you know, one of my favorite mass hysterias I think

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Speaker 1: on record has to be the Nigerian dick. I'm sorry

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Speaker 1: the winnow, oh I we never discussed it. I can't

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Speaker 1: just drop this in like oh yeah, I remember Nigerian dick.

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Speaker 1: Def know what. So in Nigeria they have these, Like

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Speaker 1: Nigeria is a very passionate place in terms of the

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Speaker 1: cultural engagement to say, with religion or with personal traditions,

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Speaker 1: when people do it, they do it right. So these

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Speaker 1: people who are strong believers, uh, they were convinced by

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Speaker 1: God ordained it right. So they become convinced of this

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Speaker 1: where they left them. But they were convinced that they're

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Speaker 1: not there, and they're showing other people and some of

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Speaker 1: So they're going around showing each other their dicks and

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Speaker 1: then not seeing their dicks and then they get mad,

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Speaker 1: and so what did they do. They go on attack

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Speaker 1: the preacher and then it gets really ugly. So they

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Speaker 1: thought there their penises have been repod yeah, basically, and

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Speaker 1: they insisted that the preacher give them back their dicks.

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Speaker 1: And so they got real mad. They're like, you must

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Speaker 1: give us back their dicks, how dare you? And they

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Speaker 1: went to the they went to the on stabulary and said, look,

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Speaker 1: is like like the last couple of years. It's happened

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Speaker 1: multiple times. You can look this up, look up Mangarian

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Speaker 1: dictus and you have a really raucous laughing time. But

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Speaker 1: I recommend you don't read all of the stories because

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Speaker 1: there's some wicked in Okay, So you just won the

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Speaker 1: mass hysteria story contest. Yes, I'm trying to show it.

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Speaker 1: It would look like you dancing like a medieval guy

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Speaker 1: and you came at me with Nigerian dick. Say you

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Speaker 1: know how to bring that one out? Sorry. So when

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Speaker 1: and that's when we get a straw hat riott pizza. Yes, no, no,

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Speaker 1: like literally straw hats. People gotten fights are all right.

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Speaker 1: So I want you to imagine that you're living in

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Speaker 1: New York City in September of nineteen twenty two. It

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Speaker 1: this bustling metropolis. It's filled with immigrants and seekers and

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Speaker 1: Baby am I painting, I'm there, and newspapers at the

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Speaker 1: time totally full of ads for luxury goods, and you know,

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Speaker 1: fashions evolving as is its want you have women, you

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Speaker 1: know in like the flapper ware because they've left, of

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Speaker 1: course it's behind. And can you see a lot of

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Speaker 1: One item is advertised heavily in September two, and that's

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Speaker 1: men's felt hats. Are we talking like short brand like

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Speaker 1: hunting hats with a a little feather the side, like a

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Speaker 1: like a robin Hood kind of yeah, like the German

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Speaker 1: version of a Robin Hood hat. New I'm not talking

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Speaker 1: about like a like a bowler hat type thing. Oh okay,

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Speaker 1: I got you. Think you're every day walking around Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: I gotta remember the round top dome bowlers and they're felt. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I got you. So they're advertising these really heavily in

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Speaker 1: September two, and that's because September it's a super important

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Speaker 1: day hat wise, Oh the eyes of September when everyone

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Speaker 1: well we're going to get to the stabbins. So September

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Speaker 1: is when men had to retire their summer straw hats

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Speaker 1: the fall in the winter. Everyone just knew this. Yeah. Oh,

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Speaker 1: the newspapers ran a reminders of it. They have like

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Speaker 1: that's like, don't forget a hundred years ago, almost to

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Speaker 1: the year, the newspapers were telling people, change your hat,

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Speaker 1: starts May fifteen, fifteenth rolls around and that's straw hat

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Speaker 1: Day is what they call it. And that's when like

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Speaker 1: then everyone else is just wearing like basic straw boaters

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Speaker 1: They did not take kindly to the delinquents, attempting to

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Speaker 1: always inflatable aliens. The solid ones are too heavy? So sorry,

421
00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:23,480
Speaker 1: like the dumbest thing. That's all right, like a stumbling

422
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:26,760
Speaker 1: blocker through at you. I really want to know why

423
00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:29,000
Speaker 1: inflatable aliens though? Can you get back to me on that.

424
00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:31,160
Speaker 1: Can you do some research? I will put that when

425
00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:32,280
Speaker 1: you put a pin in that one, and I'll just

426
00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:36,200
Speaker 1: come okay, thank you. So these kids are making like

427
00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:38,479
Speaker 1: not only are they stealing the hats and running around

428
00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:41,399
Speaker 1: like Lord of the Flies style, all I got the hats,

429
00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:46,480
Speaker 1: they're making huge piles of these hats and using them

430
00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:51,560
Speaker 1: for bonfires. I love it. The kids have gone feral.

431
00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:56,320
Speaker 1: Why isn't anyone whipping the mannaise out of these kids? Why?

432
00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:58,600
Speaker 1: I don't know. And it's not like they didn't beat

433
00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:01,360
Speaker 1: children back then. They were working kids silly. They would

434
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:02,800
Speaker 1: knock the taste out of your mouth for saying the

435
00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:05,200
Speaker 1: wrong world. You hit somebody with a nail and a

436
00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:07,600
Speaker 1: steak also, and it's like, well that's just tradition, and

437
00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:10,840
Speaker 1: it wasn't even like it's okay, it's encouraged. Yeah, exactly,

438
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:13,320
Speaker 1: make a stick for you kids. Please beat these kids.

439
00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:17,800
Speaker 1: So at two eleven Grand Street that is now the

440
00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:23,080
Speaker 1: cam Wo Herbal Dispensary, five hundred destroyed straw hats were

441
00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:25,639
Speaker 1: shoved up in the doorway. It just sounds so violent.

442
00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:29,320
Speaker 1: Shoved up in the doorway, crammed into the crevice of

443
00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:33,080
Speaker 1: the cavity, crammed in the cavity of the doorway. But

444
00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:37,000
Speaker 1: let's take a step back. Five hats. Yeah, that's ridiculous. Yeah,

445
00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:40,640
Speaker 1: they're like taking scalps at this point, they're just like snatching. Yeah,

446
00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:44,120
Speaker 1: it's like it's you know, there's no other word than ridiculous.

447
00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:48,240
Speaker 1: And that's why we're here. Reason for the season. So

448
00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:51,600
Speaker 1: that night, seven men get arrested in the Bowery and

449
00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:54,480
Speaker 1: they're tried at the Men's night Court. You gotta love

450
00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:56,359
Speaker 1: that Men's night Court. I want like a shirt New

451
00:26:56,400 --> 00:27:01,040
Speaker 1: York Men's night Court. I'll make one out of puffy paint,

452
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:05,240
Speaker 1: it's all glitter. I'm gonna make you one out of

453
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:09,040
Speaker 1: one of those mesh football half shirts that usually say

454
00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:11,399
Speaker 1: like Hawaii h yeah, with the stripes and like a

455
00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:14,320
Speaker 1: half shirts and see like my navel. Yeah, and then

456
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 1: I may yeah, I may put some like beaded friends.

457
00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:20,280
Speaker 1: You're in the armpit, like when I raised my arms,

458
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:23,639
Speaker 1: it's just like a trail. Yeah, like like you're an eagle.

459
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:27,080
Speaker 1: To do you want long sleeves on this half shirt

460
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:31,160
Speaker 1: because I think long sleeves. I like it, right, that's

461
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:34,520
Speaker 1: kind of like a fur color. Next, Yeah, and then

462
00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:38,159
Speaker 1: it'll say Men's Night Court on it, and you're going

463
00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:40,439
Speaker 1: to get all the attention that you're really looking for,

464
00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:46,320
Speaker 1: that kind of attention you're looking. So who's the judge

465
00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:49,760
Speaker 1: at Men's Night Court? I don't know. Am I the judge? Yes?

466
00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:55,360
Speaker 1: Do it? Uh? It's Magistrate Peter A. Hatting. Oh, look

467
00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:57,840
Speaker 1: at that Hatting. I can make a dumb joke about that,

468
00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:01,480
Speaker 1: but I'm not. Thank you. So having declared, and look,

469
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:05,320
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it again. And I quote it is

470
00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:09,199
Speaker 1: against the law to smash a man's hat, and he

471
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:12,280
Speaker 1: has a right to wear it in a January snowstorm

472
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:15,080
Speaker 1: if he wishes. I want you to spread this work

473
00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:18,520
Speaker 1: among all who would have smash hats. A man's hat

474
00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:21,640
Speaker 1: is just as much his property and just as much

475
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:24,359
Speaker 1: to be defended as his watch and the courts are

476
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:27,400
Speaker 1: going to enforce the law. And then he was all

477
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:30,919
Speaker 1: hatting out through a law book in the air and

478
00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:35,199
Speaker 1: then disappeared to Poppa Smoke. So no one listened to

479
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:38,000
Speaker 1: the judge. I didn't telling someone anyone listens to. So

480
00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:42,640
Speaker 1: the next day, September, the riots hit their peak riot

481
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:46,400
Speaker 1: and this goes from the battery to the bronx. I

482
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:49,440
Speaker 1: wanna like, I know what that means. I kind of do.

483
00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:54,480
Speaker 1: But that's a big it's a lot. It's Mayhem. They

484
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:59,240
Speaker 1: are men of Mayhem. The police totally outnumbered, right because

485
00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:01,320
Speaker 1: if we're talking about in front of the cemetery, we

486
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:07,560
Speaker 1: had like a one k of kids, kids with sticks

487
00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:12,080
Speaker 1: and knives. How much for that kila kids? So some

488
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:14,920
Speaker 1: of the smasher boys lined up along the street car tracks.

489
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:18,760
Speaker 1: I'm just calling them smasher boys, like I can picture

490
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 1: them the smasher Boys. It's sort of a weird, like

491
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:22,760
Speaker 1: I'm just taking the steam out of them. Because that's

492
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:24,240
Speaker 1: the other thing. If I went back in time and

493
00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:28,600
Speaker 1: I fought these kids, I would call them the smasher Boys.

494
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:31,360
Speaker 1: Back to give you hack, I'd be like, what's up,

495
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:34,560
Speaker 1: smash your boys? This is dumb what you're and then

496
00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:38,160
Speaker 1: they just beat me. Yeah, I'd be a little worried

497
00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:39,960
Speaker 1: about it. You know, we beat the lady from the

498
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:45,320
Speaker 1: two thousand's um Smasher Boys. They lined up along the

499
00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:47,720
Speaker 1: street car tracks and we're yanking the hats off men

500
00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:51,239
Speaker 1: as they rode by. So it's like you're like, okay, well,

501
00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:53,880
Speaker 1: I don't want to run the gauntlet of these little ruffians.

502
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:55,920
Speaker 1: And at this point, why are the men, after two

503
00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 1: days of rioting not wearing hats or like wearing the

504
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 1: rights you have to wear? Well, first of all, I

505
00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:05,880
Speaker 1: mean it's the fifteenth. By all rights, they should still

506
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:08,160
Speaker 1: be able to have that straw hat, but they have battlum.

507
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 1: I don't care about what they should. We've now transformed

508
00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:13,560
Speaker 1: the only tradition. You can't go out with that hat on.

509
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:17,160
Speaker 1: Why are you not arming yourself with like at least

510
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:19,120
Speaker 1: a heavy wrench. I mean, they're going to be beating

511
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 1: kids or I'm stealing hats. There's no like the kids like,

512
00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:25,239
Speaker 1: hey man, there's no in between. And I think that

513
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:29,360
Speaker 1: if they just went like completely ham on these kids,

514
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:32,400
Speaker 1: that they're expecting people to cower and run. Yeah, no,

515
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:37,320
Speaker 1: kids never see the kick to the chess coming just

516
00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:41,040
Speaker 1: like savoring the image of you in nWo. Like kicking

517
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:43,440
Speaker 1: a kid in the chest and he goes flying into

518
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:46,360
Speaker 1: the road and then like adjusting my suspenders and like

519
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:48,880
Speaker 1: an old timey cars to swerve out of the way

520
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:53,560
Speaker 1: because it's going a whopping twelve. Well, but you know,

521
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:58,240
Speaker 1: speaking speaking of that, um, there's one kid. He was

522
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:00,840
Speaker 1: ten years old. His name is John Sweeney. He was

523
00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:03,760
Speaker 1: doing some of that hat smashing horseplay and he ran

524
00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 1: in front of a car and got hit and broke

525
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:10,280
Speaker 1: his legs. So you know, maybe that was what they

526
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:13,400
Speaker 1: thought happened, but in truth, time traveling Zerin went and

527
00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:17,440
Speaker 1: kicked him in front of who knows who's to say,

528
00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 1: I'm not I So um, they got the spiked sticks

529
00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 1: showing up. When the cops would catch some of them,

530
00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:26,960
Speaker 1: they would just let them go because they're under fifteen,

531
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:29,560
Speaker 1: even though there was a juvenile court back then. There's

532
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:33,840
Speaker 1: one cop, Lieutenant linihan Uh. I have a friend whose

533
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:36,520
Speaker 1: name is Terry Linahan. He lives in Rhode Island. I

534
00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:39,800
Speaker 1: don't know if they're related, but Lieutenant Linahan called their

535
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:44,680
Speaker 1: parents and ordered them to get a good spanking the parents.

536
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:48,280
Speaker 1: The parents the kids. The kids go home and spank

537
00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:51,880
Speaker 1: your parents. It was some freaky times. That's what they

538
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:54,800
Speaker 1: don't want you to know. Um. But a lot of

539
00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 1: young boys were charged with juvenile delinquency and all this.

540
00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:02,400
Speaker 1: There was another cop, detective Serge Brindezzio I like that name. Yeah,

541
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:07,320
Speaker 1: he was attacked at hundred second and third Avenue. They

542
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 1: were attacking he, I guess was like a plane closed detective.

543
00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 1: And so he's walking along. It's right in front of

544
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:17,400
Speaker 1: what is the twenty third precinct today, But I don't

545
00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:20,720
Speaker 1: think that it was there then at that intersection. I

546
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:22,840
Speaker 1: think that that precinct came in when they built the

547
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:27,040
Speaker 1: housing project across the street. Anyway, I digress. So they

548
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:29,120
Speaker 1: come up to the detective and his hat gets thrown

549
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:33,719
Speaker 1: into the street. Wait, waity, precinct. That's where the that's

550
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:35,640
Speaker 1: where the housing project is where the dude had the

551
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:40,720
Speaker 1: tiger in his house, the Washington Carver Project, Carvor Project.

552
00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:45,080
Speaker 1: Well that's it, so right there, that's where this happens. Yeah,

553
00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 1: so look it up anyone who's interested. Yeah, the Tiger

554
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:53,800
Speaker 1: King of Harlem. Yeah. Um. Anyhow so that's where this happens.

555
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:56,239
Speaker 1: That goes down at that intersection. Kid takes his hat,

556
00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:58,880
Speaker 1: throws it into the street. He goes running after the

557
00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 1: smasher boys and each ripped and fell into the gutter.

558
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:06,080
Speaker 1: And he blamed this guy. He was like, jumps up,

559
00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:09,120
Speaker 1: he's like you trip me. Arrest this guy Leo Cohen,

560
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:12,280
Speaker 1: who's thirty four years old. But you're like, what's this

561
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:14,880
Speaker 1: guy doing piling around? This guy really short, he's just

562
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:18,520
Speaker 1: running around like talking to high horse. Yeah, he was

563
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:21,640
Speaker 1: like four ft tall. Um. He gets charged with disorderly

564
00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:25,440
Speaker 1: conduct and then um the magistrate lets him go after

565
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:28,120
Speaker 1: claiming after he's like, no, I'm a special policeman. I

566
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:34,080
Speaker 1: was on assignment. Leo consents whatever. Um. So one guy

567
00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:36,120
Speaker 1: in the in all this Maine takes a stick to

568
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 1: the eye and almost loses his people. Yeah, people wind

569
00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 1: up in the hospital. What is with all this hat madness?

570
00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:46,320
Speaker 1: I have no idea, I mean, other than the humanity,

571
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:49,080
Speaker 1: I have no idea. I want you to keep thinking

572
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:52,000
Speaker 1: about what that must have been like to witness. And

573
00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 1: we've been painting a pretty good picture of what we

574
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:56,720
Speaker 1: would do. But just think about it. If you're just there,

575
00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:58,640
Speaker 1: and when we come back from this break, I'm going

576
00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:01,920
Speaker 1: to tell you about someone who benefitted from the mayhem.

577
00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:26,200
Speaker 1: I'm guessing they sell hats. Yes, the final day of

578
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:30,240
Speaker 1: straw hat season in New York is a real doozy,

579
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 1: let's just put it that way. The smasher boys with

580
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:40,360
Speaker 1: sticks beating men for wearing straw hats and then destroying

581
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:43,520
Speaker 1: said hats and a frenzied mob not something we learned

582
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:45,799
Speaker 1: about in school. Right now, I don't remember that one. Now,

583
00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:49,880
Speaker 1: why is it? What? Where's the straw hat riot movie?

584
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 1: That would actually be afraid movie? Get on it, like

585
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:58,919
Speaker 1: Will Ferrell should make that, And thinking of all these

586
00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:02,920
Speaker 1: like will actor everyone, every actor named Will has to

587
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:08,720
Speaker 1: be in it, Will Smith, will Arnett, Oh you only okay, strictly,

588
00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:12,319
Speaker 1: William H. Macy, everyone named Will okay, William Shatner. I'm

589
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 1: not going to sell the rights unless it's Williams. Who else? Well? Whatever,

590
00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:21,960
Speaker 1: um let it go. So there's this destruction, it's all over.

591
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:28,560
Speaker 1: Everyone's reeling from it except the hatters. I was right, capitalism.

592
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:31,960
Speaker 1: Let's first establish straw hats are cheaper than felt hats.

593
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:36,000
Speaker 1: Summer fast fashion makes sense to me, right, And then

594
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:39,759
Speaker 1: when all these days get their hats ruined, they need replacements.

595
00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:44,359
Speaker 1: Stat oh yeah, otherwise they're gonna get another hat to that. Yeah,

596
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:46,480
Speaker 1: and men just don't go around bareheaded. It's like if

597
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:51,120
Speaker 1: someone ripped oh woman's shirt off, I guess, and they're like,

598
00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:53,239
Speaker 1: I kind of I need a shirt, Like I know

599
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:55,439
Speaker 1: it's after labor day and I shouldn't have been wearing

600
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:59,120
Speaker 1: that white shirt. But now, you know, so bare heads

601
00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:02,960
Speaker 1: and bare breast near equivalence in my mind. Sure, I

602
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 1: don't think that that's how it really was, but I'm

603
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:09,040
Speaker 1: just trying to get my head around. There are children

604
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:11,560
Speaker 1: in the room. Well, it's like how they used to

605
00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:14,400
Speaker 1: have Like it was too tempting for a woman to

606
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:20,000
Speaker 1: show her ankle. So that's like, oh, don't tempt me

607
00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:24,359
Speaker 1: with your full head of hair. Um So, in the

608
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:27,879
Speaker 1: middle of these riots, the hat stores stayed open late.

609
00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:30,600
Speaker 1: Of course, Yeah, so that men have been stripped to

610
00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:34,400
Speaker 1: that headgear, pop right in, pick up the latest felt hat.

611
00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:37,840
Speaker 1: They're like, look, your straw hat just got destroyed. Luckily

612
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:41,000
Speaker 1: I'm open late, and I'm only charging twice the price

613
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:46,960
Speaker 1: for this amazing triloby um So, and the police. The

614
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:48,879
Speaker 1: police were even like, you know a lot of these

615
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:52,439
Speaker 1: riots are taking places nearr hat stores, but I think

616
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:54,359
Speaker 1: there were just like a lot of hat stores back then.

617
00:36:55,800 --> 00:37:00,400
Speaker 1: I'm going to think something different. So it's like the

618
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:04,279
Speaker 1: hat stores were like the mattress stores I'm telling you

619
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:06,799
Speaker 1: that we have today. There's a mattress store everywhere. Now

620
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:08,799
Speaker 1: there's a hat store, and there's a story that needs

621
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:12,560
Speaker 1: to be told in every mattress store exactly. So the

622
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:15,239
Speaker 1: New York Times even gets in on this. They make

623
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:18,680
Speaker 1: the connection in an editorial, but they leaned more on

624
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:22,240
Speaker 1: the idea that the hatters were encouraging that hard September

625
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 1: fifte deadline instead of encouraging smash. They take the reasonable

626
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 1: approach of like right, but it's not so reasonable because

627
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:35,000
Speaker 1: this is what they said in the and I quote.

628
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:39,920
Speaker 1: The origin of this law is obscure. Certainly it is

629
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Speaker 1: not based on American meteorology, but reflection justifies at least

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Speaker 1: the suspicion that it originated in the dark machinations of

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Speaker 1: the only class that has interest in its perpetuation. Now,

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Speaker 1: to decode that, I do need to note that many

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Speaker 1: of the hatters in New York at the time were Jewish,

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Speaker 1: and so the statement in the Times is kind of

635
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:08,240
Speaker 1: like this thinly veiled anti Semitic statements. Yeah, the only class,

636
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:11,319
Speaker 1: the only class. So they're like saying that, you know,

637
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:14,400
Speaker 1: they want money and they're they're doing this to to

638
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:18,560
Speaker 1: run it forward. That was their arrows dog whistle, right,

639
00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:22,800
Speaker 1: and that was I mean super common. Unfortunately at the time. Um,

640
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:25,600
Speaker 1: you know, it's unlikely obviously that there was some vast

641
00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:29,280
Speaker 1: Jewish hatter conspiracy. Instead of Jewish space lasers of today,

642
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:34,880
Speaker 1: you had Jewish hat the Soros hats. So the thing is,

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Speaker 1: I mean they mentioned American meteorology, is that the September fifteenth,

644
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:40,680
Speaker 1: you're still in sort of this late summer and a

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Speaker 1: lot of times it would be really hot and you're

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Speaker 1: supposed to put on a wool hat, you know. So

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Speaker 1: I don't whatever, But that was the thing put forward

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Speaker 1: by the New York Times. The hat smashing didn't end

649
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Speaker 1: on that night. In I mean, this is it pops up.

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00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:59,360
Speaker 1: It's not like invidual back to the hits. Although I

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00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:01,640
Speaker 1: will say, you know, in in like looking at all

652
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:05,480
Speaker 1: the newspapers from the time, uh, you find just tons

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00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:09,320
Speaker 1: of stories for like years and years, you know, maybe

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00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:12,080
Speaker 1: up to a decade i'd say around this time beforehand,

655
00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 1: of these little individual fights that would break out about

656
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Speaker 1: straw hats and this constant urging the populace, please do

657
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:22,319
Speaker 1: not grab people straw hats and break them. And I

658
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:24,960
Speaker 1: found it an East Coast papers, but not on the

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Speaker 1: West Coast because West Coast people have more guns and

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00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:33,719
Speaker 1: they seem chiller. No, I just there. They're also didn't

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Speaker 1: seem to be as many ads for straw hats, like

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00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:37,480
Speaker 1: so when you're looking and it didn't seem like I

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Speaker 1: had that you would be wearing out that side of

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Speaker 1: like maybe San Francisco or like Denver. Even in San Francisco,

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Speaker 1: there just weren't the ads for straw hats that you

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Speaker 1: had in back east. Not even the fashion trends are

667
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:49,799
Speaker 1: like the bankers or any of them. They didn't you know,

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00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:54,040
Speaker 1: it's the wild West to frontier town. But yeah, l a,

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Speaker 1: San Francisco, you really didn't. You didn't see it as much.

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00:39:57,160 --> 00:40:00,239
Speaker 1: There were tons of other ads advertising fashion and a

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Speaker 1: lot of like I mentioned at the very beginning about

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Speaker 1: sports suits being like a change in fashion for men,

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Speaker 1: that was a huge thing on the West Coast. I

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Speaker 1: saw that, you know, they would not be going to

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Speaker 1: like those Gabardine traditional suits. They were trying to emphasize

676
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:18,080
Speaker 1: sports suits that just they kind of look like hunting jackets,

677
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:20,959
Speaker 1: you know, like a real light wall but with hunting jackets. Yeah,

678
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Speaker 1: with like a like a band, so that they were

679
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Speaker 1: really pushing that in that time. So you've had this

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Speaker 1: like kind of it wasn't a one off. It happened

681
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Speaker 1: a little bit beforehand, happened a little after. This guy

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Speaker 1: in New York is actually killed trying to fight off

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Speaker 1: a gang who took his hat and smashed it up.

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Speaker 1: What is it in New York too? Yeah? New York

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Speaker 1: City President Calvin Coolidge wears a straw hat when he's

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Speaker 1: walking around Washington, d C. One hot afternoon, and you

687
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:52,359
Speaker 1: know how hot it can get in d C. It's

688
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Speaker 1: swap thanks. Um. So this is like a few days

689
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Speaker 1: after the hat deadline that he did this. So he's

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Speaker 1: asked about it, and Calvin Coolidge tells the press, you know, what,

691
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Speaker 1: summer is not over. I'll say it's over. When I

692
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:10,279
Speaker 1: told he's like, look, it's so hot as blazes out here,

693
00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:12,640
Speaker 1: it's not over. Um. And that whole that made the

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Speaker 1: front page of the New York Times. His little comment

695
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Speaker 1: about that, are you kidding me not? President declares it declares,

696
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Speaker 1: summer is not over. Uh. It's been noted that like

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Speaker 1: sometime between the straw hat riots, sorry, excuse me, May

698
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Speaker 1: I finish? Sometimes it's me and the cherry pop and

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00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:40,120
Speaker 1: daddies will allow you this one. Go on? Are you done? No,

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Speaker 1: I'll wait sometime between the straw hat riots of two

701
00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:52,440
Speaker 1: don't don't you do it? Don't cherry pop and Daddy's

702
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:56,080
Speaker 1: on me um, And that when Calvin Coolidge gives like

703
00:41:56,200 --> 00:42:00,680
Speaker 1: his brazen autumnal hats, sojourn a hat start to go

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Speaker 1: out of favor. Wait, Coolidge is a hat influencer. I

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Speaker 1: think he was kind of on the tail end of it,

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00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:11,759
Speaker 1: because what's happening. Yeah, well, what's happening is that this

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00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:17,960
Speaker 1: all starts where many counterculture revolutions begin mhm, at your

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00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 1: mom's house, college campuses, I guess that. And so American

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00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:28,200
Speaker 1: college men just started going bareheaded outdoors in the summer,

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Speaker 1: just as their descendants would grow their hair long in

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00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:36,480
Speaker 1: the sixties and where jenko jeans and the nineties bold statements,

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00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:39,399
Speaker 1: bold flavors. So a lot of the young men said

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00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:41,560
Speaker 1: that they were worried about wearing these straw hats and

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00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:43,759
Speaker 1: warm weather because it might damage their scalp or make

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Speaker 1: their hair fall out. Should I've been worried about skin

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00:42:46,239 --> 00:42:49,399
Speaker 1: cancer worried about vanity? Is all? Well, right, I mean

717
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:51,239
Speaker 1: that's the thing. Actually, the rates did go up after

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Speaker 1: the hats. No, you're totally correct, and so I mean

719
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Speaker 1: they didn't mind wolf fill hat woolf felt hats wolf

720
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:03,120
Speaker 1: hats as much because they provided warmth. But yeah, I

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Speaker 1: don't think they knew about skin cancer at all or

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00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:09,719
Speaker 1: cared um more and more men going cranially nude. That's

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00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:13,000
Speaker 1: the official title of it um. Some felt that they

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00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:15,239
Speaker 1: had a really sporting lifestyle. They had an on the

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00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:18,279
Speaker 1: go lifestyle and just being out in the open air

726
00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:21,800
Speaker 1: and the warm months encouraged that. So so weird because

727
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:23,600
Speaker 1: other people like I come for a lot of people

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00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:26,759
Speaker 1: who worked outdoors, and all of them had very specific

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00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:29,719
Speaker 1: hat choices about what neither the labor they did or

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00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:32,000
Speaker 1: the environment they were in. So hats what I always

731
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:34,480
Speaker 1: think of. You go outside there and a hat, it's funny.

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Speaker 1: I'll be like, no, I'm freeze, I have my hair

733
00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:39,960
Speaker 1: and God commune. I don't like wearing a hat. It's

734
00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:42,440
Speaker 1: not comfortable for me. And I haven't always been good

735
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:46,320
Speaker 1: about that. But like I realized, I gotta protect myself

736
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:49,240
Speaker 1: from the sun. Yeah, I gotta start doing that. Hats

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00:43:49,239 --> 00:43:51,239
Speaker 1: and hoodies, mats or everything I wear or you get

738
00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:55,240
Speaker 1: around if by just not going outside, you'd wear a roof.

739
00:43:57,400 --> 00:44:00,440
Speaker 1: I have like a huge gardener's sun hat for when

740
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:03,279
Speaker 1: I go outside, which is technically a straw hat, right,

741
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:05,320
Speaker 1: not that it's not like these, but it's like a

742
00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:11,480
Speaker 1: Cowboys star I swear to something. Next time I go

743
00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:13,360
Speaker 1: outside and wear that hat, I'm just going to start

744
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:18,160
Speaker 1: wailing on people. I'm gonna defense. I'm gonna what I'm

745
00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:20,440
Speaker 1: gonna do is I'm going to be a disruptor, and

746
00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:22,560
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the concept of the straw hat riot.

747
00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:25,239
Speaker 1: And I'm not destroying straw hats. I'm destroying people who

748
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:30,240
Speaker 1: aren't wearing straw hat straw hat riots. So the peak

749
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:33,800
Speaker 1: for men's hat manufacturing in the United States was nineteen

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00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:36,759
Speaker 1: o three, so it was, you know, already kind of

751
00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:40,080
Speaker 1: on the decline. So by the way, in if you

752
00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:42,520
Speaker 1: watch Cheers and there's like the intro and all the

753
00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:44,879
Speaker 1: dudes have all their hats, and it's like nineteen o three,

754
00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:47,920
Speaker 1: I think when the bar was of course, I have

755
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:50,440
Speaker 1: no idea anyway, and quite frankly, I don't care, but

756
00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:52,840
Speaker 1: going that's what I'm picturing. It is like those shots

757
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:55,520
Speaker 1: of like you know, early New York, early Boston, just

758
00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:58,080
Speaker 1: a ton of people on the bowler hats were talking

759
00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:01,600
Speaker 1: about and I can imagine that was hard, hard turn

760
00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:03,640
Speaker 1: for the hatters of the world. It really was. And

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00:45:03,719 --> 00:45:05,640
Speaker 1: leading up to this, like in the teens in the

762
00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:09,480
Speaker 1: early twenties, there was this fad of guys sending their

763
00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:12,960
Speaker 1: hats on world tours where they would the hat. Yeah,

764
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:15,040
Speaker 1: they'd like box the hat up and send it off

765
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:18,760
Speaker 1: to someone else who would you know, write a letter saying,

766
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:21,239
Speaker 1: you know, greetings from London, and then they'd send the

767
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:23,439
Speaker 1: hat on and it would circle around and come back

768
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:29,080
Speaker 1: to that like Flat Stanley the hat, Flat Staley the hat. Comely. Yeah,

769
00:45:29,239 --> 00:45:31,839
Speaker 1: you gotta keep yourself busy somehow. Yeah, they only had

770
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:36,520
Speaker 1: like radio I guess easily entertained. But so hatlessness was

771
00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:38,759
Speaker 1: becoming a really big issue by the mid twenties, and

772
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:41,680
Speaker 1: then everything really started to fall away in the late forties.

773
00:45:41,719 --> 00:45:48,200
Speaker 1: And there they say hatlessness is next to lawlessness. Yeah, yeah,

774
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:51,080
Speaker 1: like that everyday working man just didn't want to wear

775
00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:53,800
Speaker 1: those kind of hats anymore. I'd always thought it was Kennedy.

776
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:55,640
Speaker 1: They always say that Kennedy is the one who killed

777
00:45:55,640 --> 00:45:57,640
Speaker 1: the hats because he like stopped running Fedora and he

778
00:45:57,680 --> 00:46:00,239
Speaker 1: wouldn't do it, and then American men stopped rand hats.

779
00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:02,720
Speaker 1: I just had always assumed, and you now have corrected

780
00:46:02,719 --> 00:46:05,719
Speaker 1: it the wrong president. It was Calvin Coolidge. But you

781
00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:07,839
Speaker 1: know what, more power to not wearing a straw hat.

782
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:11,960
Speaker 1: It's safer that way, right, So what's your ridiculous takeaway here?

783
00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:16,640
Speaker 1: Anything to keep them kids calm? This is why this

784
00:46:16,719 --> 00:46:19,080
Speaker 1: is what happens when you don't have video games. Yeah, exactly.

785
00:46:19,080 --> 00:46:21,319
Speaker 1: Now I understand why parents want those iPads for their

786
00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:22,960
Speaker 1: kids and they're like, I don't care, take my phone

787
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:25,080
Speaker 1: just to stay calm, and you don't want them out

788
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:30,920
Speaker 1: of stick. I'm I'm totally fascinated by artificial conventions, Like

789
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:34,000
Speaker 1: there's so many traditions that have mutated over time or

790
00:46:34,080 --> 00:46:37,719
Speaker 1: just we're like manufactured for for profit to begin with,

791
00:46:38,080 --> 00:46:40,799
Speaker 1: and we hold them really tightly. But like why we

792
00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:44,840
Speaker 1: love meaning, like why why guys we do? Honestly, I

793
00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:48,520
Speaker 1: think it's it's actually one of our more I don't know,

794
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:51,799
Speaker 1: tender parts is that we hold onto these random things

795
00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:53,680
Speaker 1: that we create and imbue them with all their meaning

796
00:46:53,719 --> 00:46:55,880
Speaker 1: and value and then act like there's somehow outside of

797
00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:58,400
Speaker 1: us and natural because that way it's like really meaningful,

798
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:00,680
Speaker 1: and you know, it's the only way that we can

799
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:03,920
Speaker 1: make ourselves feel special is by externalizing it and then saying, well,

800
00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:05,480
Speaker 1: we have to do this, and really all we're doing

801
00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:07,160
Speaker 1: is just trying to make ourselves feel you know, a

802
00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:09,960
Speaker 1: little something that's very true, good insight. I like that.

803
00:47:10,239 --> 00:47:12,919
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, well done. I think we can also

804
00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:15,800
Speaker 1: kind of speculate on what drove the Smasher boys to

805
00:47:16,040 --> 00:47:20,040
Speaker 1: wreck shop on guys domes, pressing their friends. Well, it's

806
00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:23,600
Speaker 1: this time of prosperity, right, um, But there's also a

807
00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:26,239
Speaker 1: lot of tension under the surface at the time, like

808
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:31,759
Speaker 1: labor issues. You've got kids should be having jobs, damn it. Well,

809
00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:34,239
Speaker 1: it's like so many union issues are coming up then

810
00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:37,440
Speaker 1: and like really fighting for workers rights. Oh no, they

811
00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:39,759
Speaker 1: legitimately were just now like you know, pretty much at

812
00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:41,960
Speaker 1: the beginning of leaving the labor feed market. You know,

813
00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:44,680
Speaker 1: like you have the actual like ordinances about child labors.

814
00:47:44,719 --> 00:47:49,400
Speaker 1: Thank you Mother Jones for that one. There's income disparity,

815
00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:53,759
Speaker 1: always immigration issues, always a lot going on that they're

816
00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:56,880
Speaker 1: coming out of World War One and the flu. This

817
00:47:56,920 --> 00:48:00,719
Speaker 1: sounds very vaguely familiar now. I think that, like you've

818
00:48:00,719 --> 00:48:03,200
Speaker 1: got all these like saying, the stuff just keeps going

819
00:48:03,239 --> 00:48:07,280
Speaker 1: in America. Wait a minute, that you learn from history,

820
00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:10,040
Speaker 1: you know, there's so we got these what I'm calling

821
00:48:10,120 --> 00:48:14,800
Speaker 1: micro motivations. Okay, I like that TM that are at play,

822
00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:17,839
Speaker 1: and it kind of bubbles up to smashing hats. That's

823
00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:20,600
Speaker 1: the symptom, not though, Okay, yeah, the disease. I got you. Yeah,

824
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:24,279
Speaker 1: So what's our We're kind of on track. What's our

825
00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:26,600
Speaker 1: hat smashing? Right now? You don't have to answer that.

826
00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:28,200
Speaker 1: I just want you to think about that. Had to

827
00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:33,200
Speaker 1: take that one home. That's your assignment. But you know why,

828
00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:37,080
Speaker 1: why does it bubble up to hat smashing? People are ridiculous?

829
00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:41,480
Speaker 1: Dang dang dung dang ding ding dang. Don't you nailed

830
00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:43,719
Speaker 1: the girl? So did? Thank you so much? Nothing but

831
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:47,560
Speaker 1: ned on that one. That is it for us today.

832
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Speaker 1: I'm tired of talking about hats man was a good one.

833
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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, no, thank you, no, no, thank

834
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Speaker 1: you all the pleasures online you not Saren can find

835
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Speaker 1: us online at Ridiculous Crime on both Twitter and Instagram.

836
00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:05,799
Speaker 1: Hey man, do you have a tip for us about

837
00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:08,879
Speaker 1: a ridiculous crime that you'd like to hear about? Come

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