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The Return of Historical Flexes, Part 2: Flexcessiveness · Ridiculous History

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Speaker 1: Ridiculous History is a production of I Heart Radio. Welcome
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Speaker 1: to the show Ridiculous Historians. Thank you as always for
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Speaker 1: tuning in. It's some of your favorite Quentin Quarantino's back
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Speaker 1: at it again. I'm Ben Boland. I'm joined today with
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Speaker 1: my co host Noel Brown and our returning guest host
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Speaker 1: Miles Gray and Jack O'Brien. That's right of the Daily
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Speaker 1: Zeitgeist Fame. This is part two of our episode on
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Speaker 1: weird Historical Flexes. Please do check in with Historical Flexes
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Speaker 1: Part one if, by some tragic miscarriage of justice, you
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Speaker 1: have yet to hear the earlier part of this very
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Speaker 1: special two part series. Most importantly, where would we be
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Speaker 1: without our super producer, Casey Pegram Casey I, I gotta
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Speaker 1: toss it to you. You know you and I ended
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Speaker 1: part one of this episode with you giving sort of
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Speaker 1: a lay of the land of the flexus so far.
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Speaker 1: How are you feeling now that we go into the
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Speaker 1: second half. You know, it's it's a close game. We've
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Speaker 1: been reviewing some of the tape over the break and
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Speaker 1: uh and just you know, just going back and look
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Speaker 1: at some of those close calls with his flexes and uh,
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Speaker 1: We're just gonna see what happens here in the second half,
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Speaker 1: if if they can pull it out or what so,
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Speaker 1: without further ado, Historical Flexes, Part three, Part two, I
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Speaker 1: got one. Uh. This is an oldie, but a goodie.
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Speaker 1: It's a favorite of mine. H Henry Ford, you know,
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Speaker 1: m uh probably yeah. Well you talking about old Hank
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Speaker 1: for up and of the Detroit for it yeah. Uh yeah,
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Speaker 1: a lot of them. Uh. A lot of his work,
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Speaker 1: uh that remains a legacy today is associated with the
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Speaker 1: automobile and anti semitism. Uh. He was super big into
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Speaker 1: both of those things. Uh. Those were sort of the
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Speaker 1: primary loves of his life. He made the Model T,
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Speaker 1: he modernized the assembly line. Uh he was. He was
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Speaker 1: very racist, dude, And and that this has his racism
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Speaker 1: and his expertise in the automobile have very little to
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Speaker 1: do actually with what I think is one of his
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Speaker 1: weirdest flexes, which is that he founded a town in Brazil.
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Speaker 1: You guys may have heard about this. Uh, and in
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Speaker 1: a what I can only describe as a burst of humility,
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Speaker 1: he named it Fordlandia. I'd like to tell you guys
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Speaker 1: a little bit about how this auto magnate and uh,
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Speaker 1: tycoon Uh decided to start a started town in Brazil.
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Speaker 1: So he was trying to master vertical integration, meaning that
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Speaker 1: he said, you know, it's not enough for me to
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Speaker 1: buy stuff from other people and pay them for this
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Speaker 1: stuff and then use that to make a car. I
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Speaker 1: want to own the minds where the metal comes from.
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Speaker 1: I want to own the you know, the cattle that
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Speaker 1: we take the leather from or whatever. And his big
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Speaker 1: thing that he hated was making a car is is
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Speaker 1: and remains a complicated process. He hated not controlling rubber supply.
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Speaker 1: He wanted to like get his hands, get his clutches,
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Speaker 1: if we're if we're going to supervillain, get his mits
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Speaker 1: on these uh, these rubber producers. And he had to
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Speaker 1: play ball with people who had gotten in the game beforehand.
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Speaker 1: And he couldn't create a rubber plantation in the United
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Speaker 1: States because even back then and we had laws in
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Speaker 1: this country that would prevent the kind of backbreaking labor
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Speaker 1: that was common for rubber suppliers. So he says, I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna go to a place where you can grow rubber,
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Speaker 1: someplace with that with the appropriate climate, right and someplace
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Speaker 1: with laws that I can exploit. And so uh nine.
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Speaker 1: In the nineteen twenties. The stuff tails nicely with Flagpole
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Speaker 1: City right right like eight years into the Flagpole Craze,
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Speaker 1: Henry Ford says, I'm inspired by all these people uh
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Speaker 1: sitting on poles. I'm gonna start my own business in Brazil.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna build a town. I'm not gonna mess with
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Speaker 1: Sri Lankan rubber anymore, and I'm gonna make a cheap
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Speaker 1: source of latex. But along the way, I'm going to
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Speaker 1: teach these people that will live in my town about civilization.
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Speaker 1: And this is way before Norman Rockwell. But proselytize what
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Speaker 1: he sees as American culture a k A. Cough cough
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Speaker 1: European American white cough cough hack hack uh culture onto
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Speaker 1: these people. And Uh, first off, you know it's two
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Speaker 1: big loves are are hating Jewish people and building cars.
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Speaker 1: A distant third is that he thinks, uh, no one
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Speaker 1: should engage in activities that he finds sinful. So the
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Speaker 1: residents of this town have toy They work there, and
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Speaker 1: they get paid pretty well, especially for the time and place,
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Speaker 1: but they have to learn to play baseball. Uh. The
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Speaker 1: houses are built in his idealized version of America. Uh,
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Speaker 1: no one can drink or engage in any kind of
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Speaker 1: like local uh intoxicant or recreation or gambling that that
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Speaker 1: he would see as sinful. Uh. He's also you know, like,
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Speaker 1: by the way, I think it's good for you guys
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Speaker 1: to learn about Christian ideology. And so they got to
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Speaker 1: do that too. And he builds a city that has
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Speaker 1: an infrastructure and as modern hospitals, as schools, as generators.
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Speaker 1: It has a sawmill. But the entire thing is this
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Speaker 1: even for him, it's this exercise in hypocrisy. He could
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Speaker 1: have paid just a little bit more to the existing
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Speaker 1: rubber suppliers in Sri Lanka, but instead he threw the
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Speaker 1: equivalent of millions of dollars into this weird vanity project.
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Speaker 1: It's like, imagine the most successful financial terms, the most
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Speaker 1: successful musician who says, you know what, I am like
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Speaker 1: aristocracy of music, but I feel like it's wrong that
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Speaker 1: I have to buy guitars. I should not only uh
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Speaker 1: be in charge of making guitars, but I should make
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Speaker 1: all of the guitars. And I'll get rid of Fender
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Speaker 1: one day. That was his vote of Asia. Did he
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Speaker 1: have a did he have a clever self? Aggrandizing name
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Speaker 1: for the town that I missed that, ben, because surely
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Speaker 1: that would be just the cherry on top of you. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I said at the top is Fordlandia? Yeah, yeah, that
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Speaker 1: I had to go pee real quick. Guys, I'm sorry
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Speaker 1: the full disclosure Fordlandia. That's fantastic. What a dick. Here's
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Speaker 1: the thing, Uh, there was one problem with fort Landia
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Speaker 1: in Henry Ford's mind, in the minds of the people
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Speaker 1: who lived there, there were many problems, as you might imagine.
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Speaker 1: The big problem was that it didn't work. Fordlandia did
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Speaker 1: not produce a new source of rubber. They kept trying
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Speaker 1: to clear the jungle, knocked down the natural world, and
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Speaker 1: an institute a rubber plantation, but they just couldn't get
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Speaker 1: the rubber to grow. Yeah, that was his problem. That's
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Speaker 1: what ended up, uh, leading to him canceling it. He
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Speaker 1: brought in botanist and uh, he was like the botanist
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Speaker 1: is this guy named James are weird? And James are Weird?
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Speaker 1: Was like, okay, you know, I am a botanist, and uh,
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Speaker 1: your plan is cartoonish. First off, it's crazy. Uh. If
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Speaker 1: you want this to happen, Mr Ford, you're gonna have
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Speaker 1: to do a lot of stuff. And then Ford said
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Speaker 1: how much will it cost? And then we are said, uh,
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Speaker 1: it's extravagant. It's gonna cost this much. And then Ford said,
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Speaker 1: no way, that's crazy. My whole thing is not to
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Speaker 1: pay money for this, Like why is my evil plan
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Speaker 1: so complicated? Just because it's so complicated. So eventually we're
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Speaker 1: talking him into like building a second plant, a second
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Speaker 1: rubber plant in Ford's territory, right, and and like Disney
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Speaker 1: when they built the Reedy Creek Improvement District in Florida,
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Speaker 1: Ford is breaking a lot of local laws. So we're
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Speaker 1: eventually leaves the project. He's like, hey, wow, everybody told
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Speaker 1: me you were crazy, and turns out you are so.
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Speaker 1: Uh Now he's stuck with Ford, Landia, Belterra. He continues
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Speaker 1: to support these towns and pour money into this failed
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Speaker 1: rubber front for almost ten years. I know, I'm sure
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Speaker 1: he did. He just to keep from having to admit failure,
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Speaker 1: Like literally, just to keep from having to admit that
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Speaker 1: he was wrong and made a stupid decision. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I don't know about you, guys. I'm not an expert
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Speaker 1: on everything, but I think generally when people name stuff
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Speaker 1: like that after themselves. It's a flag right. Yeah. By
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Speaker 1: the way, just a quick aside, My my last weird
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Speaker 1: flex for from the first episode was that Darwin ate
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Speaker 1: every uh every animal he ever cataloged and Henry Ford.
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Speaker 1: Actually I knew that from an old Cracked article that
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Speaker 1: I edited back in the day. And Henry Ford was
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Speaker 1: on that same list because he wouldn't go to grocery stores.
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Speaker 1: He thought that everything in his yard was edible and
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Speaker 1: would would only eat the weeds out of his garden. Uh.
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Speaker 1: And he often ate sandwiches filled with weeds. That was
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Speaker 1: like his primary form of sustenance. Uh. So like this
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Speaker 1: guy who people look at us like this pioneer was
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Speaker 1: eating weeds sandwiches. Yeah, it's similar to the fordlandia and
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Speaker 1: that he was just like, I don't want to have
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Speaker 1: to pay my money to other people. Well, I've got
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Speaker 1: perfectly good weeds in my backyard. Um, oh my goodness, Henry.
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Speaker 1: Isn't it also just like a megalomaniacle like captain of
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Speaker 1: industry to think that oh, if I like build it,
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Speaker 1: they will come, the rubber will magically grow. I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: put my money into the ostentatious like self aggrandizing kind
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Speaker 1: of golden calf that is Fordlandia and not even think
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Speaker 1: about the reality of what it takes to grow the
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Speaker 1: thing he needs. We've all had bosses were like, just
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Speaker 1: make the thing. Just just do it. It's easy. It'll
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Speaker 1: take you five minutes. What is that a podcast? Just
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Speaker 1: put some mics on and then cut it together and
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Speaker 1: it'll be out tomorrow, right right? You know what I like?
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Speaker 1: I like radio, and I think podcast might be the
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Speaker 1: new radio. Do you to think about that? I just
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Speaker 1: like also like the idea of like Henry Ford, like
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Speaker 1: back at his house, like after you know, like his
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Speaker 1: ninth year of pumping money into this failed thing, and
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Speaker 1: he's just talking to his buddy at his house, just
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Speaker 1: a mouthful of weed. You won't believe it upside down
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Speaker 1: on this thing, right, You're not gonna be is hemorrhaging
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Speaker 1: muddy about Yeah. Yeah, I think about that too. Like Okay,
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Speaker 1: so it's the late nineteen twenties. Shipwreck walks into Henry
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Speaker 1: Ford's house and he's like, Shipwreck, thank you for coming man,
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Speaker 1: help you to uh weed sandwich the uh the fescuees
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Speaker 1: particularly appetizing today. Let's walk past this picture of Stalin.
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Speaker 1: There used to be more people in it. Tell me
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Speaker 1: what do you think of rubber? You know, like, just
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Speaker 1: don't eat the poison oak. I learned that the hard way.
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Speaker 1: So wait, wait, wait, So there's a reason I brought
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Speaker 1: up that that Stalin portrait. Yes, it's to bring us
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Speaker 1: full circle because Jack, you had said that you had
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Speaker 1: in fact a two part flex on Joseph Stalin himself.
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Speaker 1: The I guess, the brutal sort of proto father of
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Speaker 1: photo shop, which is really gonna ugged me for a while. Also,
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Speaker 1: I mean, what a hotty in his younger days. Though,
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Speaker 1: let's please give it up to young hot Stalnack by
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Speaker 1: the way, really quickly, the Jack before you launched into
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Speaker 1: a very close ties between Stalin and Ford. Both were
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Speaker 1: really into seizing the means of production. Right. So another
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Speaker 1: thing that they had in common is they liked to
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Speaker 1: control the people around them. They liked to be in
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Speaker 1: control of the situation. Uh and Stalin. UH basically hang
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Speaker 1: out with Stalin. Being employed by Stalin talking about bad bosses.
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Speaker 1: Being employed by Stalin was not great. He would have
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Speaker 1: you killed, first of all, which uh is well known.
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Speaker 1: But also he would he would have these dinner parties
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Speaker 1: where he would basically do toasts and make people drink
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Speaker 1: up to thirty shots of vodka. She's and he pretended
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Speaker 1: that he was drinking vodka, but he was actually drinking
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Speaker 1: uh like wine that was like watered down. But he
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Speaker 1: would have these drinking contests between the people who were
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Speaker 1: like directly under him and would just humiliate them just
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Speaker 1: for fun. Like people you see all these different places
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Speaker 1: where people are trying to add like strategy on top
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Speaker 1: of it, but it's really just like he enjoyed humiliating people.
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Speaker 1: He would put over ripe tomatoes on people's seats and
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Speaker 1: like they would sit on it and he would, yeah,
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Speaker 1: the old tomato whoopy cushion. He would empty out his
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Speaker 1: pipe on Kris Jev's head. And as the movie The
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Speaker 1: Death of Stalin kind of suggests, so U Kristjef ends
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Speaker 1: up being taking over for Stalin after he dies. Uh
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Speaker 1: And was the leader during uh you know, some big
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Speaker 1: years in the Cold War, but he kind of remained
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Speaker 1: there because and And wasn't a position to take over
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Speaker 1: power because he was just sort of Stalin's whipping boy.
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Speaker 1: He just was able to take humiliation after humiliation. Um.
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Speaker 1: But these all night drinking sessions. Would they would go
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Speaker 1: until dawn. People would stagger away from the dinner table,
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Speaker 1: go throw up in a potted plant, and then come
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Speaker 1: back to the table because he wouldn't let anybody um
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Speaker 1: And then you would have to go to work and
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Speaker 1: he would he wouldn't allow for anybody to like have
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Speaker 1: any slippage in their performance. What Yeah, yeah, he was
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Speaker 1: just you just went right to it. Um. People soiled
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Speaker 1: their pants. It was just it was basically like Stalin's Russia,
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Speaker 1: and like Stalin's pull up Bureau was essentially like being
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Speaker 1: in a really bad fraternity. Uh. And yeah, it's it's
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Speaker 1: just it's just weird that that's what he chose to
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Speaker 1: do with with his power was make himself look hansom
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Speaker 1: and pictures and humiliate people well and and force people
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Speaker 1: to binge drink like to what end? Like you're not
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Speaker 1: gonna get your best work out of your your employees
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Speaker 1: if you're literally forcing them to match you drink for
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Speaker 1: a drink all night and then not even let them
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Speaker 1: take like a hangover day. You know, I mean, I can't.
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Speaker 1: I bet horrible mistakes were made, you think, well, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: for sure. I just also love I hope he was,
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Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm not that I hope, but I
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Speaker 1: for me to make it funny of my mind. Stalin's
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Speaker 1: loving that stupid ripe tomato bit and he does it
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Speaker 1: like way too much and he's like, oh my god,
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Speaker 1: andre Jadanov, I can't believe you sat on it again,
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Speaker 1: and what's wrong with you? And they'll have to like
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Speaker 1: pretend to love it and he's like, yeah, Joseph, I
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Speaker 1: you got me again. Oh no, I love the idea
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Speaker 1: too of it like being you know, maybe there's some
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Speaker 1: like secret deathbed confession where he's like, I'm not perfect, dude,
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Speaker 1: the world about my tomato bit. But yeah, he would
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Speaker 1: giggle and say, you're like little children. Because the guys
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Speaker 1: would ultimately like fight and they would go out in
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Speaker 1: the garden and like they would have fights and push
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Speaker 1: each other into ponds and basically it was like live
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Speaker 1: action three stooges for Stalin's entertainment. How they must have
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Speaker 1: hated him, you know, yeah, maybe they loved it. Well.
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Speaker 1: Everything was also like there's also like stories like when
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Speaker 1: you got kicked out of the Politburo, like you knew
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Speaker 1: because you would be like, oh, why don't you go
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Speaker 1: to that DOCA that like vacation home. It's like Stan
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Speaker 1: sending you there like take a break real quick, and
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Speaker 1: then you just knew you're like, um, I'm done. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm done, but in the form of a vacation like
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Speaker 1: the dreaded Oh. All of that was dealt with beautifully
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Speaker 1: in the Death of Stalin. If listeners, if you haven't
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Speaker 1: seen that, Um, it does such a great job of like,
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Speaker 1: really it's a satire. It is a deep, dark satire,
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Speaker 1: but it's very funny and it has a lot of
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Speaker 1: those three Stooges elements that you're talking about, Jack, Like,
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Speaker 1: it really is a wonderful kind of piece of physical comedy.
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Speaker 1: But it's also like it gets really historically accurate and
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Speaker 1: really like intense and dark, but it always kind of
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Speaker 1: pulls it back and to go full circle, Jack to
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Speaker 1: your first one. I believe the end credits of Death
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Speaker 1: of Stalin is all like doctored photographs. People are like
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Speaker 1: cut out and like faces are blacked out or erased
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Speaker 1: or whatever. That's the first thing I thought of when
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Speaker 1: when you when you brought that one up. But man,
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Speaker 1: good ones from our boy Stalin. Yeah, I remember, I
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Speaker 1: think I was I kind of did like an early
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Speaker 1: Stalin thing. I remember those uh wait wait wait wait
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Speaker 1: early Stalin photoshop. I was saying, like, you remember, like
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Speaker 1: all the are like the year books we would get
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Speaker 1: in school back in the nineties, like that were just
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Speaker 1: that black and white. You know, monit's like monochromatic print.
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Speaker 1: You know. You could take like a pencil eraser and
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Speaker 1: just full on erase the ink off of it. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and so like you could fully erase just with a
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Speaker 1: racer take people out of the yearbook. I remember we
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Speaker 1: would do that to be like, oh really, sir, watch
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Speaker 1: this from the yearbook. Wow, Wow, it's done so he
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Speaker 1: who controls the past? No, I did it exactly. It's
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Speaker 1: on optics game. It is that book, by the way,
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Speaker 1: that mentioned at the top. One book is called The
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Speaker 1: Commissar Vanishes the Falsification of Photographs and Art installin because
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Speaker 1: apparently art was also not sacro sainct at this time. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I mean another like kind of small weird flex he
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Speaker 1: had was there. There was a recent museum exhibit where
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Speaker 1: it was like all these famous male nudes from the
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Speaker 1: nineteenth century and then they just had Stalin's like graffiti
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Speaker 1: underneath it where he would like write dirty jokes under
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Speaker 1: these male nudes that they had, like, you need to
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Speaker 1: work and not wank. Uh, you idiot, you have forgotten
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Speaker 1: what to do in one where it's a man and
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Speaker 1: a woman and don't sit with a bear. Uh A
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Speaker 1: word on stones, give the boys some pants. So he
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Speaker 1: was just like, it's just amusing himself. He was just
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Speaker 1: a real punchy character. Wasn't the last Riley? He really
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Speaker 1: liked to yuck it up. I can appreciate that, but yeah,
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Speaker 1: what a what a piece of work. I gotta say,
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Speaker 1: blow over blow though. If it's if it's Stalin versus
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Speaker 1: Olga of Kiev, I guess Olga all day on on
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Speaker 1: a one to one Yeah for sure. Yeah. I mean
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Speaker 1: if Olga doesn't have time for overriping tomatoes, she's actually
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Speaker 1: playing four D chess. She's like, Okay, what happened? They
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Speaker 1: killed my husband? Okay, hold on, Okay, I got it.
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Speaker 1: I got it. Yeah, yeah, haven't come through. I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: burn their city to the ground with pigeons with their
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Speaker 1: own pigeons, right. I gotta ask Casey Pegram a little
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Speaker 1: Casey on the case way in here, which do you
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Speaker 1: think of the ones we discussed on today's weird historical
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Speaker 1: flexes or actually this is the second part. Now, what
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Speaker 1: do you think wins out? Is the weirdest historical flex
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Speaker 1: and and you can you know, you can grade it
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Speaker 1: on weirdness, ferocity, uh, idiocy, whatever you want. What was
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Speaker 1: your favorite or whatever you think? I would say my
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Speaker 1: the weirdest one for me was the flagpole Sitting because
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Speaker 1: I don't know why I've heard that song for years
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Speaker 1: and years. I never really thought of it as something
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Speaker 1: that actually happened in the real world that would have
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Speaker 1: some explanation like that. So that's, uh, that's probably the
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Speaker 1: weirdest one to me. My favorite is definitely just the
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Speaker 1: the wanton flexcessive you know, violence that that occurred in Burning,
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Speaker 1: Burning Everybody to death. Casey has spoken dark Man dark
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Speaker 1: Casey on the case. So that's, uh, that's your favorite.
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Speaker 1: I know you guys colluded, by the way to vote
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Speaker 1: on Flagpole Sitter. Yeah, I see that. I see the
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Speaker 1: game absolutely all right, we hold on, you got some
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Speaker 1: time to whip some votes over here. If you want
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Speaker 1: to taking for next time, we should look into uh
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Speaker 1: phone booth stuffing, which oh yeah, yeah, that's a that's
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Speaker 1: another one that was I think that was the fifties,
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Speaker 1: the more sophisticated. Uh yeah, has time. I agree, guys,
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Speaker 1: this has been a pleasure peat behind the curtain though, Folks,
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Speaker 1: we all came to today's episode with a couple of
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Speaker 1: different historical flexes. So I'll go ahead and ask you
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Speaker 1: guys on the air, would you be willing to return
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Speaker 1: in the future to uh flex a bit more? Wow,
22:53
Speaker 1: way to put me on the spot there, I mean,
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Speaker 1: will there be weed sandwiches? I honestly I want to
23:01
Speaker 1: eat a garden we said, just to know what is
23:05
Speaker 1: going through someone's mind as they're like, yep, this is food,
23:08
Speaker 1: this is but yeah, you know what. Of course we're
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Speaker 1: always we always want to come back, and I think
23:13
Speaker 1: we will pose it to you. Will you come upon
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Speaker 1: the Daily Zeitgeist to be a guest as well? We do?
23:21
Speaker 1: I think it would be I don't know if you
23:22
Speaker 1: guys ever have a have a double guest, but I
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Speaker 1: would love to be on with Ben sometimes. Yeah, we'd
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Speaker 1: love to do that. I mean I think the Internet
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Speaker 1: can handle that. In terms of the technology. Yeah. In
23:34
Speaker 1: terms of the social rama, oh no way, oh boy,
23:39
Speaker 1: you think at e MP just went across the northern Hemisphere. Hey,
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Speaker 1: you guys just mentioned show that our listeners should have
23:48
Speaker 1: already been like to and subscribe to, etcetera, etcetera at all.
23:52
Speaker 1: Uh did I hear you right? The Daily Zeitgeist? Yeah, yeah,
23:56
Speaker 1: the Daily Zeitgeist. That's our daily show, twice daily, twice daily.
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Speaker 1: We'll give you something in the morning, and then we
24:02
Speaker 1: also cover what's trending on the internet, like in that moment,
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Speaker 1: so you get a quick snapshot of what people are
24:07
Speaker 1: talking about online and on the news. Uh, stop on by,
24:11
Speaker 1: you know it's you know, we're here. We're here every
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Speaker 1: day and night and we kens yes. Uh so again,
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Speaker 1: thank you so much, Jack O'Brien, Miles Gray for returning
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Speaker 1: with some historical flexes. We want to know what you
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Speaker 1: all think about that stalin photoshop. That's stalin brush. I
24:31
Speaker 1: say in my notes, I wrote on the back of
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Speaker 1: this electric bill, does it look like a mustache? It
24:36
Speaker 1: looks like the stalin brush and photoshop should be just
24:39
Speaker 1: like a giant mustache, right beautiful? Uh and also, uh
24:44
Speaker 1: shout out to Olga Kiev for doing the most Uh
24:47
Speaker 1: shout out to Shipwreck Flagpole sitter for the nickels and
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Speaker 1: the giggles Uh, and of course shout out to the
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Speaker 1: people who live in fort Landia. I forgot to mention
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Speaker 1: that part. Uh, there are people who still live in
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Speaker 1: the town now with the faint hope that one day
25:03
Speaker 1: the Forward company will return and revitalize it. Tout tout,
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Speaker 1: But hey, do you have thoughts on any of these topics?
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Speaker 1: Do you want to suggest some weird flexes of your own?
25:11
Speaker 1: You can absolutely do that by writing to us at
25:13
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25:16
Speaker 1: us on the usual suspects of social media Instagram, uh, Facebook, Twitter,
25:21
Speaker 1: I think we have a Twitter. Um, we definitely don't
25:23
Speaker 1: have a Pinterest still, but we're working on it. It's
25:25
Speaker 1: been years in the making. You guys aren't gonna believe
25:28
Speaker 1: this vision board when it finally drops. But we're still
25:32
Speaker 1: putting the finishing touches, adding a few little more kind
25:34
Speaker 1: of Lisa Frank little dolphins jumping through rainbow hoops kind
25:38
Speaker 1: of situation. But it's it's it's coming. Yeah, everybody's following
25:42
Speaker 1: the court battle we're currently having with Pinterest. Uh, they're
25:46
Speaker 1: just restricting our vision, you know what I mean. And
25:48
Speaker 1: it's very like, uh, it's a one day at a
25:51
Speaker 1: time kind of thing. But but we'll get there. If
25:54
Speaker 1: you have an historical flex of your own, please, as
25:56
Speaker 1: Noel said, share it, Share it with us, Share it
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26:04
Speaker 1: of it now, so get ready for some weird stuff.
26:07
Speaker 1: And to that end, if you would like to find
26:09
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Speaker 1: You can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien,
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Speaker 1: I'm on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Great g
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Speaker 1: r A. Y oh, you got matching handles for both, Hey,
26:35
Speaker 1: you know you gotta keep them consistent. You know, as
26:37
Speaker 1: a marketing guru they tell you about that you gotta
26:40
Speaker 1: keep it consistent. So obviously, massive thanks to Miles and
26:43
Speaker 1: Jack for joining us today. Huge thanks to super producer
26:46
Speaker 1: Casey Pegram. Christopher Haciota is here in spirit Jonathan Strickland
26:50
Speaker 1: and his alter ego, the Quister. I think we're due
26:52
Speaker 1: for him. To pop in one of these days into
26:54
Speaker 1: our quarantine bunkers. UH fingers crossed that it won't be
26:58
Speaker 1: at anytime soon, but I have I fear that it
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Speaker 1: will or this episode that guy might zoom bombas he's
27:03
Speaker 1: the type I don't appreciate that, and of course, uh
27:06
Speaker 1: no i'd also I never thought i'd say this, but
27:09
Speaker 1: thanks to uh Olga Kiev. Thanks to uh Joseph Stalin,
27:13
Speaker 1: I guess for this story. Uh, thanks to flagpoles and
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Speaker 1: those who sit upon them, and in a weird way,
27:21
Speaker 1: thanks to Henry Ford and Noel Casey. As always, thanks
27:25
Speaker 1: to you, guys, and thanks to even We'll see you
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