1 00:00:03,399 --> 00:00:11,519 Welcome to you Softcore History. Hello, and welcome back to Softcore History. 2 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:15,599 My name is Jake Goldman and I am joined as always by my two lovely 3 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:22,120 co hosts, the handsome Dan Rojester ooh and the throw a curveball and say 4 00:00:22,199 --> 00:00:26,440 Rob. First being handsome, he is a handsome fellow. Ah, I 5 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:29,719 don't believe you in the hideous Rob. I'm kidding. I mean, I 6 00:00:29,719 --> 00:00:32,600 I think I'm okay looking, but I don't believe that you believe that. 7 00:00:33,719 --> 00:00:37,560 I think you're pretty average. Dan's gonna fade you no matter what. But 8 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:41,320 for the Midwest, you're like a Midwest eight. I'm a Saint Louis nine. 9 00:00:41,399 --> 00:00:44,240 Maybe I was about to see your Lincoln eleven, and I'm like a 10 00:00:44,359 --> 00:00:48,719 Philly twelve. Yeah, that's true. You could be as long as you 11 00:00:48,799 --> 00:00:53,280 maintain your income and employment. You could be in a wheelchair and you're you 12 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:57,679 would be a Philly nine in Philly. You really have like three professional choices. 13 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:03,280 It's bookie, of course, that's number one. Illegal illegal book yeah 14 00:01:03,359 --> 00:01:12,640 right, and then drug dealer illegal illegal, and aspiring professional wrestler legal well 15 00:01:12,719 --> 00:01:18,439 starts kind of illegal. Probably usually starts illegal starts with yeah, yeah, 16 00:01:18,799 --> 00:01:21,439 I think it just starts with street fights. Really, but yeah, we're 17 00:01:21,519 --> 00:01:23,959 a history podcast. We talk about obscure, random stuff. We don't dive 18 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:29,159 too hard into the details in the sources because you know, we let other 19 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:33,239 podcasts see that we're here to entertain. This is for the first time listeners. 20 00:01:33,439 --> 00:01:36,920 Yeah, this isstfully we have you returning. I actually hope all the 21 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:40,200 returning listeners are like, yo, now they tell me what was this all 22 00:01:40,239 --> 00:01:44,519 about? Come out of here? Yeah later if you want to hear more 23 00:01:44,519 --> 00:01:47,359 of this kind of content. We actually have a Patreon channel. It's patreon 24 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:49,840 dot com slash Software History. We offer two extra episodes a week. We 25 00:01:49,879 --> 00:01:53,719 do a call in episode or a voicemail episode if you want to ask your 26 00:01:53,719 --> 00:01:59,400 history questions in a normal episode. Yeah, a normy one where we just 27 00:01:59,519 --> 00:02:06,719 you know, yeah exactly. Um, today we're gonna talk about something really 28 00:02:06,719 --> 00:02:10,199 cool. Guys. It's gonna be really cool if it though it might not 29 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:14,719 be, I wouldn't have played it up. I always like to come in. 30 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:17,080 I like to nag my own topics. Hey, yeah, you don't 31 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:21,360 always at the bar on the ground, so it's easy to clease. It's 32 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:23,960 going to be the most mailed in topic you've ever heard in your life. 33 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:25,680 If you're gonna fucking hate, it's too late. History of Jake, the 34 00:02:25,759 --> 00:02:30,280 History of Me. Born May twentieth, nineteen ninety one in oh Califlorida. 35 00:02:30,479 --> 00:02:35,560 Have been row Regional Hospital off turn off. Yeah, God, no it's 36 00:02:35,599 --> 00:02:39,280 not. It's not about me. We're talking about a moment of mass hysteria, 37 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:46,000 but not in a terrifying way or a weird way more so or not 38 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:47,000 in a terrifying way, I say, but in a weird way and kind 39 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:53,800 of fun, actually fun hysteria. Um. I love hysteria personally, and 40 00:02:54,400 --> 00:03:00,400 I have done an episode about you know, the dancing plague back in the 41 00:03:00,479 --> 00:03:04,000 day that sounds fun but was not. It was like an OG episode. 42 00:03:04,039 --> 00:03:06,759 It was like their second or third one. Recorded it on a tin can. 43 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:09,080 Yes, way of talking to each other through strings. Yeah, it 44 00:03:09,159 --> 00:03:15,159 was actually two cups in a string and then there was a te and listening 45 00:03:15,199 --> 00:03:20,199 to those episodes because it shows how far we've come. We could probably rehash 46 00:03:20,199 --> 00:03:22,879 a lot of them, we have with William Walker, but we did run 47 00:03:22,879 --> 00:03:27,120 it back or whatever. It was good. I was thinking about this though, 48 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:30,719 the dancing plague hysteria, like we always think of it as like, 49 00:03:31,039 --> 00:03:34,039 when I think of the dancing plague, I'm like, oh, there's probably 50 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:36,400 music in my head. There's music playing, and these people are dancing. 51 00:03:36,759 --> 00:03:39,039 It's terrifying because there was no music. I know, they're just like moving, 52 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:46,879 like I refuse to believe that somebody was playing a flute. No, 53 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:50,479 they eventually had to make like a place for them to dance with music so 54 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:52,800 that no one was so freaked out. They're like, at least give him 55 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:54,960 like a stage and some music, because otherwise it's just a homeless man in 56 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:59,479 San Francisco just bopping. Yeah, and no one likes that. That's just 57 00:03:59,599 --> 00:04:01,840 terrifying. But we're not talking about a dancing plague. To I, what 58 00:04:01,919 --> 00:04:05,360 if it was just a silent disco. Silent discos they're creepy if you don't 59 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:08,919 have headphones, they're not even creepy. They're lamb. They are lamb. 60 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:12,360 They're terrible. It's pretty stupid. It'd be a funny place to murder. 61 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:15,480 Some people would go to the silent disco at Bonario while they're other shows that 62 00:04:15,519 --> 00:04:19,279 should be go to alive. End should be you should go to that when 63 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:25,000 everything else is done right like it should be. If there's no other option. 64 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:27,800 Yeah, baby, I'll go to the silent disco, but I'd rather 65 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:29,959 go to sleep. Yeah. I'd rather just go back to the camp side 66 00:04:29,959 --> 00:04:31,800 can get fuck up? Yeah yeah, than to tell out my friends. 67 00:04:31,879 --> 00:04:35,240 Yeah, anything other than the silent disco. You know what, I couldn't 68 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:38,920 tell people. I'd be a shame even if I went. I'd to like 69 00:04:38,959 --> 00:04:41,040 just to see you, just to try it. You know, it's like 70 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:43,920 kissing a guy like you'll you'll try, but you're not gonna tell people you 71 00:04:43,959 --> 00:04:46,839 tried it, right, Yeah, of course I will say though. It 72 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:48,639 was great though, you know, they could have just had you know, 73 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:53,639 like a stereo in a barn instead of the silent disco in the barn or 74 00:04:53,639 --> 00:04:56,120 whatever that thing was. It was like a shed, right. No. 75 00:04:56,279 --> 00:05:00,879 I like to disassociate from everybody that I'm around. You don't need a silent 76 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:02,319 disco to do that. I do it at the gym every day, That's 77 00:05:02,439 --> 00:05:05,319 right. What's up? Well, we're not talking about dancing plague, We're 78 00:05:05,319 --> 00:05:09,680 not talking about a silent disco. We're talking about, um, something a 79 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:14,240 little bit further east in China. Oh okay, Oh, actually I did 80 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:17,600 a mass the Steri episode as well about the Choro panic where all those dudes 81 00:05:17,639 --> 00:05:21,199 thought they're fucking dicks were falling off. Oh yeah, shrinking into that. 82 00:05:21,319 --> 00:05:24,720 Yeah, we kind of love the topic. And I don't think Jake was 83 00:05:24,759 --> 00:05:29,439 here for that. Oh was that? Oh that's right, Gabby filled in. 84 00:05:29,519 --> 00:05:32,560 Yeah, yeah, yeah, but I will say again, off my 85 00:05:32,639 --> 00:05:39,079 block, dude, both of you what China China's mind? Well, you 86 00:05:39,199 --> 00:05:41,759 don't get this one. I'm sorry. I've done the last two China episodes, 87 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:44,720 so I think I'm kind of I'm kind of stealing your game. Well, 88 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:46,800 I'm doing the most recent one, so fuck you. But you're just 89 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:49,519 the fucking ballers from San Andreas attacking my turf. Yeah, and I need 90 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:56,519 to like just kind of interject I'm the Vatos, You're you're pointless. Nobody 91 00:05:56,560 --> 00:06:00,439 cared about the Vatos. Well I was there anyway. During the onset of 92 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:05,439 mass cultural period, the nation was scripped by hysteria. What kind of hysteria, 93 00:06:05,439 --> 00:06:11,720 you might ask, Mango mania, satisfy. It sounds like a kool 94 00:06:11,759 --> 00:06:14,600 Aid flavor fruit wars. It kind of does, doesn't it. It's like 95 00:06:14,639 --> 00:06:16,319 a capris on Mango Mania. I drank a capris on the other day. 96 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:20,959 It kind of just sounds like a flavor of bang energy. And they don't 97 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:26,160 have the rights to a certain brand, so yeah, it was like mango 98 00:06:26,319 --> 00:06:29,839 mania. Yeah, like you know how they do. They don't have the 99 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:34,600 rights to say Skittles flavor, so they say scedaddle, they rainbow poop, 100 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:39,079 like yeah, your unicorn shit, whatever the fuck they called that. Or 101 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:46,399 they can't say Baja blasts, so they're just like Baha refreshment, Glacier drip. 102 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:48,600 They can still name it after Baja California, they just gotta put a 103 00:06:48,639 --> 00:06:54,720 different adjective behind it or whatever the fuck. Yeah, so it's just like 104 00:06:54,800 --> 00:07:00,439 Baha wave yes. So uh. One byproduct of the Cultural Revolution was the 105 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:04,759 formation of various pro mouse student groups known as Red Guards across the country. 106 00:07:04,759 --> 00:07:10,600 In China during the rise of mao oh, it's like Dumbledore's Army, but 107 00:07:10,639 --> 00:07:16,480 for communists, it's very much that it's it's students, a lot of them. 108 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:21,120 Um was a prerequisite for this job. You had to like prove that 109 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:28,160 you could murder a sparrow. You know, they don't talk about that, 110 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:30,639 but you gotta think it was. You gotta think like how how's your shot? 111 00:07:30,879 --> 00:07:34,319 Yeah, and if you can't do it, like that scene in the 112 00:07:34,319 --> 00:07:40,480 Cicario sequel when the little kids like gonna shoot benisil Do Toro in the face, 113 00:07:40,519 --> 00:07:42,360 but he can't do it, and then Guy's like, okay, man, 114 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:45,839 okay, and he takes the gun and then he blows the kid's brains 115 00:07:45,879 --> 00:07:47,879 out, Like if you can't blow if you can't blow the sparrow's brains out, 116 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:51,879 someone fucking murders you and then hands it to the next dude. It's 117 00:07:51,959 --> 00:07:57,079 kind of weird how things mau doesn't like turn out to become such a thing, 118 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:01,120 you know, because we're gonna it's gonna be a He's not a big 119 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:05,600 mango fan, He's not mouth doesn't like fruit. By the way, did 120 00:08:05,639 --> 00:08:11,839 he die of scurvy? No? But on land just yeah zero, he's 121 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:16,360 the only person to ever get it in the woods. Yeah no. Um. 122 00:08:16,399 --> 00:08:20,160 He famously just not like fruit. Apparently. I know that, So 123 00:08:20,279 --> 00:08:24,000 Len's careful fruit that much. Either. I like fruit a lot. I 124 00:08:24,079 --> 00:08:28,720 like berries the most lower sugar, low sugar, high flavor fruit. Bodybuilding 125 00:08:28,759 --> 00:08:33,799 dot Com has really kind of put it in my head that fruit is actually 126 00:08:33,879 --> 00:08:37,240 terrible for you. Fruit is just candy. Yeah, you're eating earth candy 127 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:39,399 like you might a strawberry might as well be like a bag of man I 128 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:46,320 might as well be a Snickers nature Snickers bar, as many dorks call it. 129 00:08:46,399 --> 00:08:48,600 I think, yeah, I think I'll credit dave Off for that. 130 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:52,840 Yeah, yeah, I think I remember him saying a lot, oh, 131 00:08:52,919 --> 00:08:58,639 yes, the Snickers bar of nature. M yeah, um, yeah, 132 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:01,519 I don't know what's what are your top fruits? We actually had this discussion 133 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:07,759 last night where we what's super engaging party? Where you at? It was 134 00:09:07,759 --> 00:09:11,720 a it was a birthday party and there's a bowl of watermelon and people were 135 00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:16,120 just dunking all over watermelon. Ramelon sucks. Ramelon's fine. So Bush was 136 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:18,440 defending it. Bush was like watermelons the top three fruit. That is false. 137 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:22,759 No, that's a lie. It is a It is a situational fruit 138 00:09:22,799 --> 00:09:26,360 at best. Just give me like raspberry blueberry, straw strawberry. Yeah, 139 00:09:26,399 --> 00:09:31,200 I'll go like, yeah, raspberry blueberry. A frozen nanner can go a 140 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:33,279 long way. Actually, do you like? I like bananas? I like 141 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:37,559 mango a lot. Frozen bananas are great for smoothies. Student, But yeah, 142 00:09:37,679 --> 00:09:39,039 watermelon is not in it. Honeydew is not in it. I can 143 00:09:39,039 --> 00:09:43,720 tell. Yeah, Melons are not my favorite candle up with purscutto pretty good, 144 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:46,679 but that's the meat doing the heavy lifting. So one time you came 145 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:52,000 over to our house with your wife and you brought a prescutto wrapped candle ope, 146 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:56,440 And I fucking hate cantleope. It like I had at one time. 147 00:09:56,480 --> 00:09:58,720 It's one of the things you had one time as a kid and you vomited 148 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:01,320 and you can never have it again. Yeah, yeah, I'm that way 149 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:03,080 with candle ope. But I didn't want to be rude, and I just 150 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:05,679 fucking shoved that candle ope in my face. It'd be nice to you, 151 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:09,399 but I was so mad at you. He actually had a scar and incident 152 00:10:09,399 --> 00:10:11,840 when he was thirteen years old. He stuck his dick in a cantlope and 153 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:16,200 got stuck. How to go to the hospital. He imagine not being able 154 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:20,600 to get a candleope. I got trick. I was so it was like 155 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:22,360 American pie. I was like, what does the vagina feel like? They're 156 00:10:22,399 --> 00:10:26,559 like cold and hard and so so I drilled a hole in a candle ope 157 00:10:26,559 --> 00:10:30,679 and fucked it. But then he got stuck, and you know, candle 158 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:33,240 hops known indestructible fruit. Yeah, he had to go to the hospital to 159 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:37,679 get it. Yeah, what happened? His weak, frail, soft hands 160 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:41,360 couldn't break that candle? Ope. I am a soft hands proudly so uh 161 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:46,799 yeah, so like your soft hands. A lot of these kids were soft 162 00:10:46,799 --> 00:10:48,639 hands too. There are a lot of ye like there's communist students. Of 163 00:10:48,679 --> 00:10:54,240 course, that's the softest hand imaginable. Though they shared the mouse ideology, 164 00:10:54,679 --> 00:10:58,879 the Red Guards often had violent in your group rivalries. In nineteen sixty six, 165 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:03,559 Mau had called on the student Red Guards to rebel against reactionary authorities. 166 00:11:03,039 --> 00:11:09,240 His aim was to reshape society by purging it of bourgeoisie elements in traditional ways 167 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:13,360 of thinking. Is this their version of just red dawn? No? No, 168 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:18,080 well if the red part with the red dawn wins, the red dawn 169 00:11:18,159 --> 00:11:22,279 becomes red day and the sun never sets. Yeah. And you know there 170 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:30,360 students right fighting reactionary It's it's all internal. So it's not like someone's coming 171 00:11:30,399 --> 00:11:33,080 from are they fighting in nineteen sixty even the Civil War over? Um, 172 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:35,759 I think there's a power play going. Chen Kai check is yeah, it's 173 00:11:35,799 --> 00:11:41,840 probably a party power play. Yeah, it's not chen Kai check is fucking 174 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:45,080 done. Taiwan is cut off. I think at this they've all run to 175 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:48,000 there at this point, I'm pretty sure. Yeah, you can tell us 176 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:52,080 we're wrong in the comments, Um, you don't, but don't do that. 177 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:54,879 Well, we don't care. You can say it though. Yeah. 178 00:11:54,879 --> 00:11:56,720 But by the summer of nineteen sixty eight, the country had become engulfed in 179 00:11:56,840 --> 00:12:01,080 fighting as Red Guard factions competed for pour So, yes, this is now 180 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:03,559 the power vacuum power struggle at this point. So they're just a bunch of 181 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:07,360 boners trying to see who's in charge. Yeah, who's the lead? It's 182 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:11,320 a sorry him, that's history, Rob. Yeah, it's a bunch of 183 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:15,960 boners trying to se use in charge. It sounds like present day for people 184 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:20,279 trying to people trying to compete to see to see who's the least bourgeois. 185 00:12:20,879 --> 00:12:26,879 Yeah, who's the least bougie? Yeah yeah, m hm hmmm. We 186 00:12:26,919 --> 00:12:31,039 talking about certain group of people, I'm talking about everyone. Yeah, because 187 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:33,279 even like people had it hard, even people that don't care will be like, 188 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:37,919 well, hey I did, I was pretty bit of class. So 189 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:43,399 don't get everything I wanted for Christmas. They deserve everything, Rob, They 190 00:12:43,399 --> 00:12:48,240 deserve the world. But now everybody in Congress as a boner I agree. 191 00:12:48,879 --> 00:12:50,879 Yeah. Uh. In the spring of nineteen sixty eight, a conflict that 192 00:12:50,919 --> 00:12:56,759 came to be known as the Hundred Day War erupted in Singhua University. In 193 00:12:56,840 --> 00:13:03,440 it, two groups of Red Guards, the Shingen Nasha Jinging Shan Core and 194 00:13:03,519 --> 00:13:07,200 the Force at more. Yeah, I'm rooting for the Force. Just expt 195 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:11,399 me for the other ones. You have to say it more but um yeah. 196 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:13,799 But anyway, they were hurtling spears, stones, and sulfuric acid at 197 00:13:13,799 --> 00:13:20,080 each other on the university grounds. Pretty well, who who who's ever been 198 00:13:20,159 --> 00:13:24,039 in a fraternity hasn't gone to their rival for attorney's house and just started throwing 199 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:28,279 spears? Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean I've thrown bricks 200 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:31,720 through windows. We've all thrown things at a building. We shouldn't lit up 201 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:37,759 a house with paintball guns. Ye many times, went downstairs, got every 202 00:13:37,799 --> 00:13:41,919 single empty handle of alcohol I could find and just made it rain glass for 203 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:46,480 an hour into the courtyard. It's like, oh, I thought you did 204 00:13:46,519 --> 00:13:48,440 that to your own house. I know you did to the neighboring house. 205 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:52,080 Yea yeah. It's like, oh, you're gonna throw one. That's cute. 206 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:58,399 Here's one hundred and fifty Jesus. Yeah, have fun anyway, and 207 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:01,360 Joliet to end it right. You gotta be like Truman at the end of 208 00:14:01,399 --> 00:14:05,559 World War two. Yeah, just just drop it. He thought they thought 209 00:14:05,559 --> 00:14:07,960 I always, They thought I only had two. I had one hundred and 210 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:13,519 fifty. Yeah. Yeah um. On July twenty seventh, nineteen sixty eight, 211 00:14:13,559 --> 00:14:16,200 mouse scent thirty thousand Beijing factory workers who came to be known as the 212 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:20,720 Worker This is my favorite name of the entire group. They came to be 213 00:14:20,799 --> 00:14:26,399 known as the Worker Peasant. Mause Doong thought, propaganda team. Nothing for 214 00:14:26,519 --> 00:14:30,320 short, that's the name of the group. Oh really, it's it's the 215 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:33,799 Worker present or the Worker Peasant. Mause Doong thought, propaganda team. I 216 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:37,720 will not call them anything else. That is their name. Sweet yeah. 217 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:41,279 Uh. He brought them in to stop the conflict. Now is in Chinese? 218 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:43,120 Is that like one character? And at work it's actually just a straight 219 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:46,879 line. Yeah, that's a yeah. Just this is a nice little fun 220 00:14:46,919 --> 00:14:50,759 thing. It's a box. It's like a strong, sturdy box. Half 221 00:14:50,759 --> 00:14:56,000 a dozen workers were killed and over seven hundred were wounded. This caused mouth 222 00:14:56,039 --> 00:15:01,320 by the student Falanx. Yes, it was a bloody battle on a college, 223 00:15:01,399 --> 00:15:07,600 university campus. God, I that would be so much fun to watch. 224 00:15:07,279 --> 00:15:13,080 It's just like two students, two student groups murdering each other with spears 225 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:18,360 while you just like drink a beer on your front lawn and enjoy the chaos. 226 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:20,919 I guess. Yeah, just hope they don't cross the street to your 227 00:15:20,919 --> 00:15:24,960 house. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's not so too. It's like 228 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:26,759 all these students are trying to kill each other. Then some factory workers come. 229 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:31,159 They're getting killed. It's like, all, who's the most important? 230 00:15:31,759 --> 00:15:33,919 Who's in charge? Are they trying to But they're trying to be in charge 231 00:15:33,919 --> 00:15:37,799 of the university. They're just trying to be in charge. It's all fighting 232 00:15:37,799 --> 00:15:39,039 formal. It's a gang fight. Yeah, it's a gang fight. They're 233 00:15:39,039 --> 00:15:43,039 trying trying to wrap their boss. Run this block now, well not really, 234 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:46,320 but that's the funniest part about gangs, Like this is our block. 235 00:15:46,519 --> 00:15:48,679 Like well, I mean if they send in the National Guard, it would 236 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:54,120 be not your block in thirty seconds. But yeah, or even just a 237 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:56,799 lot of police. Why that keeps happening. It's it's yeah, it's you. 238 00:15:56,799 --> 00:16:00,720 You don't really own this block. It's like a law man, just 239 00:16:02,559 --> 00:16:04,559 like the Rodney King riots. It's like we own this street. It's like, 240 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:08,279 all right, just play the wire scene where he talks about playing chess. 241 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:11,960 The what the wire scene where he's just describing how to play chess. 242 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:15,360 Oh yeah, you know what I didn't know about the Rodney King ryots. 243 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:18,519 By the way, a ton of those Koreans were vets. Oh dude, 244 00:16:18,519 --> 00:16:22,600 I Koreans. They're the best though. Yeah, that's why they were efficient. 245 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:26,879 Like, don't have a tactical position here on the roof, We're gonna 246 00:16:26,919 --> 00:16:30,879 snipe everyone. Yeah, Like they weren't just like dudes with guns, you 247 00:16:30,919 --> 00:16:34,120 know, like they were trained military members. I think one of the things 248 00:16:34,159 --> 00:16:37,000 that a lot of people don't realize about the Rodney King riots that Rodney King 249 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:41,159 lived. A lot of people forget that. Yeah, he's like, please 250 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:45,519 stop heat. But also, most Koreans that own a store have a gun 251 00:16:45,240 --> 00:16:48,200 as well. They should. Yeah, as well they should. If I 252 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:51,840 own my own business, i'd have a gun. You should. Yeah, 253 00:16:51,919 --> 00:16:55,279 I don't know why. I mean, we do have a shotgun right off 254 00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:59,840 camera there over there. Oh yeah, some fucking woo woo comes in and 255 00:17:00,039 --> 00:17:03,839 as to take us out. Fucking lunatic not ever been a threat, not 256 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:07,279 for our podcast. Okay, well yeah, it's more of a daytime. 257 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:11,839 It's your day job. That's a shoot for the day job. Yeah, 258 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:15,599 I forgot about that. Anyway, all this violence cous mount to officially disband 259 00:17:15,599 --> 00:17:18,720 the Red Guards the next day, in August fifth, nineteen sixty eight. 260 00:17:18,799 --> 00:17:21,559 The Foreign Minister of past hold, I'm sorry. He was like, hey, 261 00:17:21,599 --> 00:17:25,200 guys, cut it out. The spears were a lot. Yeah, 262 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:30,119 we're done. Let's chill. We're cool with the acid keep playing. Oh 263 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:33,759 man, that's actually like that would be my biggest nightmare if I traveled to 264 00:17:34,599 --> 00:17:41,720 another country, specifically Middle Eastern country or North Korea acid attack, Like ya 265 00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:45,640 learn how to read the assassins. They just blow it in your face like 266 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:52,440 Taijii in wrestling. I don't miss. I think it's not powder. I 267 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:56,799 think it's like a jar. It's just acid in a cup. And I 268 00:17:56,920 --> 00:18:00,440 know it's probably in some stupid cup, but I still imagine like a beaker. 269 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:03,160 It's not It might be, I don't know, but it's just like 270 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:07,240 he had to go to a lab. Excuse me, one acid? What's 271 00:18:07,279 --> 00:18:10,119 it for? Throwing out an educated woman? Here you go? Yeah, 272 00:18:10,119 --> 00:18:14,960 well they understand it's the scientist is in Pakistan too. Here this guy doesn't 273 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:18,359 want to lose his job. Yeah. So, speaking of Pakistan on August 274 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:22,799 fifth, nineteen sixty, I'm actually surprised more people at like riots and protests 275 00:18:22,839 --> 00:18:26,559 here don't have acid. It's really nice that they don't. They do throw 276 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:32,759 chemical compounds on people. They throw like a rubber cement or like quick cement 277 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:36,799 on. Um. That's cheeky though, you know, yeah, fucked you 278 00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:38,759 up, But it doesn't melt your half your face off like you're it's just 279 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:42,079 hardest burns. Yeah, hurts a lot. It burns, but it's not 280 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:45,319 like it's not gonna change your life. You're not gonna be disfigured. I 281 00:18:45,359 --> 00:18:48,839 mean, I guess it could like blind you if it gets in your yeah, 282 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:49,640 I mean, if you don't want to it can fuck you up. 283 00:18:49,759 --> 00:18:52,640 Yeah, But like, yeah, it's not like That's the other thing. 284 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:56,799 I'm like, where do these people get this acid? Maybe acid just laying 285 00:18:56,880 --> 00:19:00,599 around? Well, who's laying all these bricks, even the bricks out, 286 00:19:00,279 --> 00:19:03,240 who's doing it? Who's leaving the bricks out? By the way, if 287 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:06,519 you go to home depot, brick costs like a dollar, So bricks are 288 00:19:06,559 --> 00:19:08,279 chief if you want to know how much a paletta brick costs, how many 289 00:19:08,279 --> 00:19:11,440 bricks are in the palette. I kind of just want to buy it, 290 00:19:11,519 --> 00:19:14,839 and in fact, you probably get a discount. It's called bulk. Try 291 00:19:14,839 --> 00:19:17,680 it. It's not very excited. I remember my buddy was like, who 292 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:22,359 funded this? And I was like, I don't any haul trucks like thirty 293 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:26,160 dollars a day just loaded up with brick. It is funny, man, 294 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:30,839 it's not that much. Capitalism kind of helps the brick fund. It's like, 295 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:33,920 oh, if you buy in bulk, if you buy a lot, 296 00:19:33,039 --> 00:19:37,920 consume more. Yeah, you gets you boys, have fun at your ryot 297 00:19:37,599 --> 00:19:40,680 this. We'll be here with the bricks. It's say way like I would 298 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:44,039 buy eggs in high school to egg and the cashier would just be like, 299 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:51,240 Mom, that's yeah. Just shut the fuck up. Just just I have 300 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:52,480 to. I can't not sell this to you. I guess I mean I 301 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:56,039 could, but I'm just gonna give it to you. But fuck you, 302 00:19:56,119 --> 00:19:59,480 fuck you kids, fuck you. Yeah, we were like new dude, 303 00:20:02,039 --> 00:20:03,559 someone should have just beat the shit out of us in line at the store. 304 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:08,720 I agree, teenagers seem to be put in line. Teenagers like a 305 00:20:08,799 --> 00:20:15,559 good ass whooping Okay, I agree, eighteen good age for adult whatever, 306 00:20:15,839 --> 00:20:18,319 Right, you gotta draw a line somewhere, Yeah, for sure, But 307 00:20:19,079 --> 00:20:22,920 I feel like for getting your ass kicked. Like if a teenagers be like 308 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:25,720 a fifteen year old, it's being a real smart ass, and like step 309 00:20:25,759 --> 00:20:27,720 into a grown man man just decides to punch him in the mouth. Yeah, 310 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:30,960 shouldn't get charged for assaulting a minor? No, that's like no, 311 00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:36,720 I'm just many actually, honestly, depending on the judgement the size of the 312 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:40,759 fifteen year old, here's a happy compromise. You can beat up fourteen and 313 00:20:40,799 --> 00:20:42,200 fifteen year olds, but you have to do it two at a time. 314 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:48,000 It's gotta be a handicap match. I think most people would lose that fight. 315 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:52,640 I would agree, Yeah, like most adults would lose that fight. 316 00:20:52,599 --> 00:20:55,200 I'd lose that fight. Yeah, I couldn't take two fifteen year olds? 317 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:57,680 Are you kidding me? I think I got it. I don't think you 318 00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:02,119 do. Depends on the fifteen year old. Yeah, absolutely, I've seen 319 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:04,319 these fifteen year olds these days. I got it. They are smaller than 320 00:21:04,319 --> 00:21:07,720 they used to be unless they're on trend. They might be on trend, 321 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:11,480 but then they still can't fight you don't know who you're drawn. If you 322 00:21:11,839 --> 00:21:15,759 draw two skater kids, you're gonna die. True. Yeah, the skater 323 00:21:15,839 --> 00:21:18,920 kids would terrify me. Yeah, and honestly, even like I'm gonna go 324 00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:22,519 down swinging, but two lacrosse players, you know whatever, probably fuck you 325 00:21:22,599 --> 00:21:27,119 up. Normal running the No fifteen year olds I'm taking too, But I'm 326 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:30,640 saying it's just even it out, making a fair fight not be charged with 327 00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:34,680 assualt of a minor. I it's just like there's a video of some kid 328 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:38,200 just going up to some guy just fuck you, old man, like shoving 329 00:21:38,279 --> 00:21:41,599 him and something like guy just throws him to the ground, and like someone's 330 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:44,200 like, you can't do that. He's a kid. It's like I think 331 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:45,559 he could do it. You're not gonna toss somebody, right, Yeah, 332 00:21:45,559 --> 00:21:48,920 like yeah, the kids pushing him, Yeah, let him throw the kid. 333 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:52,240 That's why I when I see like pushing to me is an entirely separate 334 00:21:52,279 --> 00:21:57,240 thing from other forms of physical contact. That's what he told the police about 335 00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:00,519 his wife. Yeah like, no, no, officer, I pushed her. 336 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:07,680 Yeah, she felt my fist into the knife wall. This damn knife 337 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:11,160 wall she decorates the house. I didn't put it there. Yeah, I 338 00:22:11,519 --> 00:22:12,960 don't know, man. She said she saw it on Pinterest or something. 339 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:18,440 I don't I don't know. I wasn't listening. Yeah, yeah, Well, 340 00:22:18,599 --> 00:22:22,880 and then she crawled in the fireplace to heal, and I was like, 341 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:26,640 you know what, I'm just just is I'm done, Todd. We'll 342 00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:30,359 talk in the morning. It's a little cold. Yeah, and now I 343 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:33,039 don't know. She's a pile of ashes. Weird. Well, on August 344 00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:36,680 her choice, are you saying women don't have agency offers? You're never gonna 345 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:41,799 find out about these mangoes? Here's the one with the twenty minute fucking background 346 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:49,680 story on spear chucking. It's in Chinese in this side. It sets up 347 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:52,920 the story. Alright, alright, but I do. I'm just saying it 348 00:22:53,039 --> 00:22:56,319 was what if it just she never gets back to it. Jake has all 349 00:22:56,319 --> 00:23:00,160 this set up and it's just nope. Not. The joke is that there's 350 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:06,480 no mango talk at all. Well. On August n nineteen sixty eight, 351 00:23:06,599 --> 00:23:11,279 the Foreign Minister of Pakistan visited Mao and gifted him a box of mangoes. 352 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:15,599 Did he know? Do you know him? MoU didn't like him like fruit 353 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:18,480 in general? Probably not, didn't He didn't do it. I wouldn't call 354 00:23:18,519 --> 00:23:22,680 it oppo research, I guess, but like there wasn't a staffer that was 355 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:26,039 like, hey, just so you know, Mal likes gold. Yeah, 356 00:23:26,079 --> 00:23:30,839 Mao only likes gold, only eats pork. Yeah, it's not like a 357 00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:33,880 fuck you Mal, I got you a box of mangoes. No. I 358 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:37,720 think it was just like they didn't really have mangoes, and he's like, 359 00:23:37,799 --> 00:23:41,680 we have mangoes here you go. Pakistan does apparently, I don't know. 360 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:44,480 Maybe you don't know where most fruit or maybe you got him from somewhere else. 361 00:23:44,519 --> 00:23:48,480 I don't know. I honestly couldn't tell you anything about Pakistan. Next 362 00:23:48,519 --> 00:23:49,960 to India, I get that, and I would never want to go to 363 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:55,160 India. I would go to India a thousand times before I went to Pakistan 364 00:23:55,319 --> 00:23:59,720 once. Yeah. Probably it's just too crowded, man, that's there's too 365 00:23:59,759 --> 00:24:04,119 many people. Nothing. Nothing is more insane to me than watching videos of 366 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:08,400 trains in India, Like that's just how they operate their lives there, and 367 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:11,680 then you have the police push them in. Yeah. Would I mean like 368 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:15,359 all the people on the roof and they're just like, yeah, we get 369 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:19,440 on the roof of the train. That's what we do. You have you 370 00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:23,480 ever seen traffic patterns in India? No, I'm sure isn't any I wonder, 371 00:24:23,519 --> 00:24:26,519 honestly, I wonder if there's people in Afghanistan trying to cling onto the 372 00:24:26,519 --> 00:24:30,720 plane where just like maybe it's like a train. I don't know. Like 373 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:33,200 the only time I want to be on top of a train is if I 374 00:24:33,319 --> 00:24:37,720 was like an operative and I had to chase another man. I think you've 375 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:41,920 failed spectacularly. Oh if your operation has gone to the roof of a train 376 00:24:42,039 --> 00:24:45,880 one hundred percent, because it's like that whole Archer bit where immediately you get 377 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:48,440 blasted in the eye. Oh yeah, yeah, which just debris. He's 378 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:53,720 like, it's like this the worst that's true. You're gonna die on top 379 00:24:53,759 --> 00:24:57,079 of the train. Yeah. The wind's gonna blow you, yeah, clean 380 00:24:57,119 --> 00:25:02,400 off. So yeah. Mao's given this box of mangoes by the Foreign Minister 381 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:07,119 of Pakistan. Mao decides to give them to the workers stationed at the university. 382 00:25:07,039 --> 00:25:11,039 His refusal to eat the fruit himself because he fucking doesn't like fruit, 383 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:15,880 was not seen as Oh, Mao doesn't like mangoes. It was seen as 384 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:22,039 a personal sacrifice for the benefit of the workers. People people saw him not 385 00:25:22,319 --> 00:25:25,880 partaking in the mango eating. They're like, oh my god, he's not 386 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:27,839 bourgeois. These are so good and he's not eating them. Yeah, man 387 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:32,359 of the people. He's a man of the people. You can have the 388 00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:37,839 mangoes. The workers believe that the mangoes were symbolic of Mao's gratefulness. The 389 00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:42,440 gift of the fruits coincided with the transfer of the cultural Revolution stewardship from China's 390 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:49,920 intelligista or intelligent fuck intelligent intelligent. Okay, I'll say there, you can 391 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:53,240 think it through. Um, that's what I do with my Crown's disease. 392 00:25:53,279 --> 00:25:56,359 Though. If I don't want if I don't want to eat something, yeah, 393 00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:59,960 I'm just like, oh no, obviously my crones and everything, but 394 00:26:00,079 --> 00:26:02,359 like more beans for you. Yeah, you have the cheese, you have 395 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:06,799 it. Yeah, that's actually people don't know. That's what Jesus really did. 396 00:26:06,839 --> 00:26:08,079 When he was handing out all those fish. He was like, what 397 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:11,839 is this cod and then we just gave it to people. Yeah, I 398 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:15,640 don't want this ship waiverless fish. Yeah. We haven't invented deep frying yet, 399 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:19,279 right, you haven't invented spices. Really, Yeah, I think I 400 00:26:19,319 --> 00:26:23,759 think I think the lavant had both. They had frying and didn't have like 401 00:26:23,799 --> 00:26:29,960 a industrial deep fryar. But we probably had pan frying pan frying. I'm 402 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:33,519 sure you know it wasn't. They weren't liberally seasoned in their fish. They 403 00:26:33,519 --> 00:26:37,079 were breading it, that's for sure, which is crazy. They could have 404 00:26:37,519 --> 00:26:40,160 they probably they had the tech for breading. They had everything they needed. 405 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:44,039 They had brett, they had bread, had eggs, oil, eggwash oil. 406 00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:48,240 When was the first thing breaded and fried? That's what it ships on 407 00:26:48,319 --> 00:26:52,440 my episode on it was actually a Maggianos in eighteen hundreds. It's the Ramon's 408 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:56,960 Macaroni girl. And anyway, this was a transfer because he gave all these 409 00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:00,559 mangoes to the workers that he had brought in. It was kind of like 410 00:27:00,599 --> 00:27:04,359 a whoa, he likes the workers more than the students. He gave these 411 00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:08,599 to us. He didn't even need any, so he they thought he preferred 412 00:27:08,599 --> 00:27:11,720 the workers over the students. Yes, because he gave the workers that he 413 00:27:11,759 --> 00:27:17,559 brought in the I'm sorry, yeah, man of the people blew the real 414 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:21,119 rust belt guy because he gets the youth. He gets it because he gave 415 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:26,400 the worker peasant mouse Don fought propaganda team the Mingos. What's funny is if 416 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:30,880 you're from an area where someone is a lot of and you're not one of 417 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:37,119 them, I feel like you're equally likely to fucking hate those people as you 418 00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:41,200 are to like them. Whether it's like, yeah, I grew I grew 419 00:27:41,279 --> 00:27:42,720 up in Cleveland, you know, or I grew up in Pittsburgh, right 420 00:27:42,759 --> 00:27:45,680 like I didn't. But listen, like, oh, I grew up in 421 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:49,039 Pittsburgh, so I'm all about steel workers. But if your dad was like 422 00:27:49,559 --> 00:27:55,079 a fucking bank ceo and you grew up in Pittsburgh, you might think those 423 00:27:55,119 --> 00:28:00,960 fucking rough hands are like annoying and stupid French fries and they're sandwich and getting 424 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:04,759 drunk at Steelers games. Do you think the Rooneyes think the Rooneys like Steelers 425 00:28:04,839 --> 00:28:08,680 fans? Do you think that's who they want? No, I'll give you 426 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:12,000 a great example of that. Anyone that grows up near a fucking military base, 427 00:28:14,559 --> 00:28:18,160 you think, do you think they like that they're flagwavers? No? 428 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:22,759 You mean these guys that are all just torked up and fucking angry, get 429 00:28:22,799 --> 00:28:25,240 drunk in the bars that I go to and fight me. Yeah, No, 430 00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:30,839 I don't like them I could also have another obvious example, South Black 431 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:33,559 Well, Jake. No one lives around black people more than people from the 432 00:28:33,599 --> 00:28:37,960 South. Where they Why are all these nineteen year olds getting married to military 433 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:41,599 guys, then if they don't lack them, military guys aren't beating up the 434 00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:45,680 nineteen year old girls. They're getting Benni's dude, they're getting married. They're 435 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:52,079 getting that Dodge charger on that thirty six percent APR. I mean, how 436 00:28:52,119 --> 00:28:56,640 many people in where's Forthood? Somewhere in Texas? It's I think it's clean 437 00:28:56,839 --> 00:29:02,480 Colleen, Yeah, I mean that's yeah, I guess. I guess the 438 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:06,960 Kaleen teenagers are marrying the only employed people in Kaleen. There's a lot of 439 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:11,599 dead folks. Turn it up around that Forthood. At this point, it's 440 00:29:11,599 --> 00:29:14,880 probably safer to be deployed in Afghanistan than forth Hood. Yeah. I don't 441 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,759 know what's going on over there, but it's not good. Yeah. Anyway, 442 00:29:17,799 --> 00:29:21,079 the mango foreig into the Chinese, a lot of them hadn't had one 443 00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:26,000 yet. Now a symbol of self ascent for the workers, taking their own 444 00:29:26,079 --> 00:29:30,079 destinies into play and being in the forefront of a conversation of national power. 445 00:29:30,319 --> 00:29:34,319 Sure, the uh. I believe the pineapple is in the English royal family's 446 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:41,920 crest that is obviously not native pineapples deserved unreal to kind of to shine the 447 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:47,960 UK. But when when that the current royal family, I think it's came 448 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:52,960 to power. The pineapple was like new to England and was super expensive. 449 00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:56,359 It was it was a wealth status situation. Pineapples are pretty much responsible for 450 00:29:56,400 --> 00:30:02,480 what we did to Hawaii. Yeah, you know hard fruit wars, fruit 451 00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:07,279 wars. Every time you eat a dull banana, you are unwrapping the bones 452 00:30:07,319 --> 00:30:11,880 of a thousand Hawaiians. Yeah, every time you eat a banana, you 453 00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:22,400 are single handedly funding a CI operation. The Central American democratically elected remount of 454 00:30:22,519 --> 00:30:26,440 the amount of shit, the amount of death that fruit is responsible for. 455 00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:32,559 And we've covered it on patreon dot com slash software history anyway, man, 456 00:30:32,599 --> 00:30:36,799 I assume if this helped get Mao into power, fruit just added like fifty 457 00:30:36,839 --> 00:30:41,759 million bodies to the fucking Yeah. Right, here's the thing, Uh, 458 00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:45,960 what's the fruit? You've never eaten? Fruit? I've never would be kind 459 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:51,440 of a ridiculous statement to say. I feel like like I like, oh, 460 00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:55,200 everyone's done it, Okay, you just never got around to it. 461 00:30:55,359 --> 00:31:00,720 I've eaten. I can't think of one. Your dad got them? Damn, 462 00:31:00,799 --> 00:31:04,920 dude, is there one that's on top of your mind? Daniel, 463 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:11,000 I've never eaten a BlackBerry? What you mean, never eat black that's like 464 00:31:11,039 --> 00:31:15,079 you mean like a raw BlackBerry. You've probably had BlackBerry in something. No, 465 00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:18,119 you just never had liked a black marry compop. I've never had a 466 00:31:18,119 --> 00:31:23,839 BlackBerry comp BlackBerry cobbler sorts. No, you're a fruit pie guy. You're 467 00:31:23,839 --> 00:31:27,759 a liar. Why yeah, you you? But you have the pie taste 468 00:31:27,759 --> 00:31:30,240 of a fucking five year old. You're right, like your face. Isn't 469 00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:37,200 your favorite just chocolate pie? No, it's like turtle oh, chocolate chocolates. 470 00:31:38,119 --> 00:31:41,400 It's like what a baby eats, baby pie. Just go to the 471 00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:47,200 frozen section in the grocery store. Get yourself a frozen pie. Just like 472 00:31:47,519 --> 00:31:51,599 how I know your back putting in a crust. I will willingly say I 473 00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:55,920 have terrible pie taste because you don't even like pecan? Do you like? 474 00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:59,559 Do you know? Actually I like pumpkin too. Oh, but they just 475 00:31:59,599 --> 00:32:01,839 it's just anything fruity like apple pie. I don't know, I don't like 476 00:32:01,839 --> 00:32:05,920 appie. Apple pie is probably pushing it for you. Imagine the fruity level 477 00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:07,680 of pie. Like, that's probably I don't like apple pie. I think 478 00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:15,000 it's fine pie. Chypie is good. Um. The people that are absolute 479 00:32:15,039 --> 00:32:17,799 psychos are the ones with the cheese on the apple pie. Big fan of 480 00:32:17,839 --> 00:32:22,240 the cream, the American cheese. Yeah. Anyway, mango starts mystifying everybody 481 00:32:22,279 --> 00:32:29,039 because they're like oooh, maw ooh, the symbol, this tastes good. 482 00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,160 I mean, wait, it's like it becomes a symbol for a mile, 483 00:32:31,279 --> 00:32:35,160 the same way like the fish was a symbol for Jesus. Christians would do 484 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:38,319 the easy little fish drawing. And yes, obviously, like I said, 485 00:32:38,319 --> 00:32:42,319 the pine apple in the fucking royal family. It's something that people to this 486 00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:45,519 day still talk about with mangoes, and they're like, hey, why don't 487 00:32:45,599 --> 00:32:50,839 kids like mangoes anymore? Don't they know? Like I'm not choking. People 488 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:52,720 get mad about it. Sounds like a Fox News article the kids. It's 489 00:32:52,759 --> 00:32:57,119 a bad sign when the children don't like apple pie. Uh. No one 490 00:32:57,160 --> 00:33:00,920 in northern China at that point knew what mangoes worse. The workers stayed up 491 00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:05,440 all night looking at them, smelling them, caressing, the mangoes and wondering 492 00:33:05,519 --> 00:33:08,880 what the magical fruit was. At the same time, they had received a 493 00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:15,640 high directive from Chairman Mao, seeing that henceforth the working class must exercise leadership 494 00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:17,000 and everything. I guess that kind of makes sense though, Like how many 495 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:22,720 things are orange, Well, mangoes are like green on the outside, greenish, 496 00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:25,839 orangeish, and their orange on the inside. Yes, I don't understand 497 00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:30,920 this at all. I feel like if you took these strange foreign fruits to 498 00:33:31,039 --> 00:33:38,720 like the America's equivalent of confused backwoods people, like they would just ferment it 499 00:33:38,759 --> 00:33:43,559 immediately. Well, first off, some asshole would be I'll try to shit 500 00:33:44,319 --> 00:33:47,559 like take a Bible reportinist you try to reportingis or not? Like, wouldn't 501 00:33:47,599 --> 00:33:52,519 even think fucking twice, Like, they wouldn't be like h or turning a 502 00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:54,319 dip. Yeah. And then and then, like I said, they would 503 00:33:54,319 --> 00:33:59,519 squeeze this juice into my skull cans. They would. They would make fucking 504 00:33:59,559 --> 00:34:00,960 shine out of it. Yeah, they would amount a thousand percent, make 505 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:04,759 moonshine out of it. Yes, they'd be like, what's the sugar content 506 00:34:04,839 --> 00:34:07,480 of this? I can't possibly imagine a redneck like I get, of course, 507 00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:12,719 imagine a redneck being confused. I cannot imagine a redneck being reticent. 508 00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:16,360 No, you know what I mean. I'm sorry, you're talking about the 509 00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:21,360 people that stick their arms into the side of the riverbanks to noodle fish out 510 00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:24,199 of thee. No, it's not happening. We're not holding back. No, 511 00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:28,679 but these guys are like, what is it? Huh? They're correct, 512 00:34:29,079 --> 00:34:30,960 And just the image of a Chinese worker going through a war with a 513 00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:36,440 bunch of university students getting a mango from a guy and then be like, 514 00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:43,000 oh, we're like petting it like that. It tells me how like entrenched 515 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,760 and like how much mind war was going on to in China at the time, 516 00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:51,159 which I wouldn't even do that. If I, let's say tomorrow a 517 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:54,280 fucking stargate is invented, was an alien came down and like gave you a 518 00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:58,119 fruit, yeah, I would at least be like, I crack it open, 519 00:34:58,199 --> 00:35:00,239 you know, or like I we go to an alien planet and there's 520 00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:01,360 fruit, I'd be like, I wouldn't eat it. I'm not insane, 521 00:35:01,679 --> 00:35:04,480 right, but I would. I'd be like, Okay, I think this 522 00:35:04,559 --> 00:35:06,840 is fruit. Let's crack it open and see see what it looks. Like 523 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:13,199 i'd be like a fucking finger around, Like it's not like a fucking snake 524 00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:15,559 thing, like those idiots and Prometheus that like a snake. There's like a 525 00:35:15,639 --> 00:35:20,360 snake and they're just like, oh, yeah, it's an alien snake. 526 00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:22,559 You don't know where the fuck you are in the universe. And you're like, 527 00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:24,920 I think it likes me. No, it doesn't, It never does, 528 00:35:25,079 --> 00:35:28,800 it never will. I wouldn't do that with a snake on Earth. 529 00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:30,920 Yeah, you do with a snake on a fucking alien planet. No, 530 00:35:31,119 --> 00:35:35,440 dum, Yeah, that's just venom. Yeah, Like what's wrong with you? 531 00:35:36,159 --> 00:35:38,079 It was very exciting for these people to be given this kind of recognition 532 00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:42,320 with the Mangoes, I guess for the first time in a long history of 533 00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:45,280 being war fodder for China too, so like they took it as like, 534 00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:47,480 oh, it's like the sock for Dobby. Yeah. The only fruit they've 535 00:35:47,519 --> 00:35:52,400 been eating most of their love in their like family history is grape shot. 536 00:35:52,480 --> 00:36:01,559 Fuck go Chin is a freeman, Dobby, It's what he said. He 537 00:36:01,559 --> 00:36:07,559 said, it's like the Sockford Dobby. The Mangoes like, I'm a freeman. 538 00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:10,920 Yeah is free? Uh. This power shift from the power leaving the 539 00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:15,039 students and going to the workers and peasants. Um offered respite for the anarchy 540 00:36:15,079 --> 00:36:17,599 of the fight too, Like I think a lot of people settled down for 541 00:36:17,639 --> 00:36:21,639 some reason. Probably just a bunch of people got their asses kicked. They're 542 00:36:21,639 --> 00:36:27,639 like, we're tired, they're not soldiers, keep fighting back like crazy to 543 00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:31,519 Some people in Beijing said that they perceived that Mao had finally intervened in the 544 00:36:31,559 --> 00:36:36,920 chaotic random violence and that the mango symbolized the end of the cultural revolution. 545 00:36:37,119 --> 00:36:39,519 But he was literally just like fuck this fruit. He didn't want the fruit. 546 00:36:40,519 --> 00:36:45,559 He caught a box of mangoes, like the glorious butterfly effect. That's 547 00:36:45,559 --> 00:36:52,360 when it's it gets crazier. So Uh. Xen Quie, a worker who 548 00:36:52,559 --> 00:36:57,079 occupied Qing, how says that the arrival of one of Mao's mangoes at his 549 00:36:57,159 --> 00:37:02,239 workplace prompted intense to bait the military representative came a quote him. The military 550 00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:07,159 representative came into our factory with a mango raised in both hands, so like 551 00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:13,039 simba, yeah, in front of the uh. We discussed what to do 552 00:37:13,079 --> 00:37:15,280 with it, whether to split it among us and eat it or preserve it. 553 00:37:15,519 --> 00:37:20,679 We finally decided to preserve it. We found a hospital and we had 554 00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:23,000 them put it in for mal to hide for us. So they treat it 555 00:37:23,039 --> 00:37:28,920 like it's Lenin's body. Yeah, so so the Anians Lennon's body. And 556 00:37:29,159 --> 00:37:37,440 China has this fucking mango yea, Mao's mango, Mao's mango. It's gotta 557 00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:42,360 be up there. That's gotta be a Chinese kool Aid flavor, right, 558 00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:46,639 yeah, mango, Mao Mao mango mal mango, Mango mal mango. Do 559 00:37:46,639 --> 00:37:52,039 you think it's like Florida where they just every other billboard is for oranges. 560 00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:57,360 You got a problem with oranges, bro, Nothing but mango signs. They 561 00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:00,400 are growing them, are they No, they're not growing them. They just 562 00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:05,519 have like the mangoes are like a special thing. It's like it became I 563 00:38:05,559 --> 00:38:07,800 think Mao realized, Oh shit, they like yeah, but they for sure 564 00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:10,159 have like fake shops like North Korea. Right, It's like, oh yeah, 565 00:38:10,159 --> 00:38:14,159 this is us. Look we are doing. This is funny too, 566 00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:19,559 because it's like this is like I assume, like a food of national import 567 00:38:19,679 --> 00:38:24,400 now right, Yeah, it's very so imagine if like imagine of like turkeys 568 00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:28,920 weren't native to North America, but we still have them for Thanksgiving, like 569 00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:32,000 turkey was like the ultimate American family meal. I'm sure. But then they 570 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:36,400 figured out how to grow them. At some point there should be a part 571 00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:37,760 of China where you can grow mangos. But what if it's be amazing if 572 00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:40,639 they were the bird of our enemy. So we're just roasting it. It's 573 00:38:40,639 --> 00:38:45,679 like Russia's bird is the turkeys that would be sick that we should we Yeah, 574 00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:52,679 every our enemies bird. Everything's giving. We have Russian condor. It's 575 00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:58,440 yeah, it stays like shit. Spike birds, yes, spike meals. 576 00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:00,880 Uh. The second to bear for Russia, right, I guess it would 577 00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:05,880 be a bear. Ye. And also I've seen people like I've seen YouTube 578 00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:08,360 videos of people barbecuing bear meat. Yeah, people eat bear. I don't 579 00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:12,440 think I have any desire to eat bear. No, it would eat bear. 580 00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:15,039 I would try if it was around. Yeah, I'm not going out 581 00:39:15,039 --> 00:39:17,199 of my way to get it. I want a talented bear, though, 582 00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:22,880 I want like a bear that's riding a motorcycle. Yeah, okay, he 583 00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:25,360 needs to be talented. I think that bear is gonna be a bit emaciated. 584 00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:29,519 I don't think it's gonna have the diet you want. You would think 585 00:39:30,519 --> 00:39:36,480 he should be well fed in Russia and taking care of in the Russian circus 586 00:39:36,599 --> 00:39:39,760 compared to like a normal Russian bear. I would think, you know something 587 00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:45,280 that they're getting, they're monitor monetized bear. You gotta keep them healthy. 588 00:39:45,559 --> 00:39:47,639 I guess yeah, you don't want them, like, because if you got 589 00:39:47,639 --> 00:39:51,440 to train a new bear, that's time out, you know, it's too 590 00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:53,159 much time. Yeah, it's like it's like they would say, like it's 591 00:39:53,159 --> 00:39:57,639 it's more expensive to acquire a new customer or train a new employee than it 592 00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:01,159 is to retain an employee. Same with the bear. It's it's more expensive 593 00:40:01,199 --> 00:40:06,920 to train a new bear than to retain a bear. That's why the magicians 594 00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:09,039 the tigers, they didn't put they didn't put the tiger down, right, 595 00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:13,039 because it's like it's more Oh, they didn't want to put it down. 596 00:40:13,159 --> 00:40:15,079 Yeah. I don't know, and I don't think they did. I think 597 00:40:15,119 --> 00:40:19,920 it would be unfair to the you know, the tiger, the wild animal, 598 00:40:20,159 --> 00:40:22,480 giant feeline. It's like, oh, it's the one time it did 599 00:40:22,519 --> 00:40:27,599 tiger. Shit, you're gonna kill it. Come on, it did tiger 600 00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:30,280 one time. Yeah, but also again, you don't have to train a 601 00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:32,840 new tiger. That's too much time. Yeah, you know this one goes 602 00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:37,159 on past. Yeah. Yeah, the new Tiger's gonna do Tiger stuff way 603 00:40:37,159 --> 00:40:40,239 more than that. They for sure didn't put down um the fucking killer. 604 00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:45,840 Well at sea World, did it kill someone or something? Tentacom or whatever 605 00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:49,480 the fuck his name is. It killed a lot of trainers, a lot. 606 00:40:49,639 --> 00:40:54,400 Yeah, it was it blackfin or blackfish? Yeah, blackish, blackfish, 607 00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:57,840 black or black I don't know. Yeah, but like the main attraction 608 00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:00,519 of sea World for a while. He killed a couple. He had a 609 00:41:00,519 --> 00:41:04,480 body account. He's got a body count. Huh weird. The what was 610 00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:07,760 that whale calling him? What kind of whale killer whale? Oh? Weird? 611 00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:09,519 Weird. Um. Yeah. So the second thing they decided to do 612 00:41:09,599 --> 00:41:13,639 was to make wax mangoes. Wax mangoes, each with a glass cover. 613 00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:16,639 After they made the wax for applicas, they would give one to each of 614 00:41:16,639 --> 00:41:22,039 the revolutionary workers. So it's like they realize that the mangoes we're gonna last 615 00:41:22,039 --> 00:41:24,559 forever. So it's like you need a commemorative me kind of like your hisman. 616 00:41:24,599 --> 00:41:28,800 You know, your school gets one and there's the real one and you 617 00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:30,719 get one. Okay, So like Yeah, at work. There's the real 618 00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:36,119 mango in the fromouta. Which one does the NCAA take. I don't know. 619 00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:42,039 Actually, so what you're saying is that Reggie Bush doesn't have his Highsman, 620 00:41:42,079 --> 00:41:45,719 but USC has Reggie Bush's higman, right do they? I don't know. 621 00:41:45,159 --> 00:41:47,480 That's actually a really good The USC shouldn't be able to have it. 622 00:41:47,559 --> 00:41:51,559 Also, did they just approach Reggie Bush? They go to his house, 623 00:41:51,639 --> 00:41:53,199 knock on the door, but give it back. Take, We're gonna take 624 00:41:53,199 --> 00:41:57,320 that. I also don't understand how then has any point place to do that, 625 00:41:57,360 --> 00:42:00,159 because the nc DOUBLEA doesn't give that trophy, like a search warrant for 626 00:42:00,199 --> 00:42:08,000 Reggie Bush's house. I don't think through his closet. Do you sign a 627 00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:10,719 contract where it's like the Hyping Foundation is like, we take this back at 628 00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:15,800 anytime. Academy Awards has like a weird thing with the Academy Awards where after 629 00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:19,519 the person dies they have to sell it back to the Academy for a dollar 630 00:42:19,639 --> 00:42:22,679 their family does. Yeah, because they got to melt down that award for 631 00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:27,719 more awards. Yeah. Gold is a finite resource. Yeah. In Hollywood 632 00:42:28,039 --> 00:42:32,000 famously doesn't have money. Um, yeah, so workers are expected to hold 633 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:37,320 the sacred fruit solemnly and reverently, and we're admonished if they failed to do 634 00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:40,079 so. So you gotta have some respect for the mango as well. It's 635 00:42:40,079 --> 00:42:45,920 like now a real symbol of national pride because Mau doesn't like me. They 636 00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:47,599 have to hold it reverently though, Yeah, you can't, you can't. 637 00:42:47,679 --> 00:42:52,679 Like last Days is an atheist country, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, 638 00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:55,719 Reggie, they are. Yeah. Yeah, there's no such thing like 639 00:42:57,320 --> 00:43:00,920 I've like further, I've just been coming further and further convinced that, like 640 00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:05,239 there is no such thing as not having a religion. No, you just 641 00:43:05,559 --> 00:43:08,679 you just hold something up higher at a certain point. Yeah, Like there's 642 00:43:08,719 --> 00:43:12,320 something that you're gonna get mad at if people aren't nice about it. It 643 00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:14,920 could be anything. It doesn't even have to be something important. A lot 644 00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:17,760 for a lot of people, it's they replaced them morality with politics. But 645 00:43:19,039 --> 00:43:22,960 honestly a lot of people just take their meaning in life from like being a 646 00:43:23,079 --> 00:43:28,119 Jets fan or something, you know what I mean? Yeah, No, 647 00:43:28,199 --> 00:43:35,360 I mean you way more meaningful really, yes, these days purpose? Yeah. 648 00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:40,039 I grew up around yeah, whatever geographical location. I was born in 649 00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:45,719 the team that plays in the meadowlands across the river. Yeah, in a 650 00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:49,719 different state, or like their kids. A lot of people are creepy about 651 00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:52,920 their kids. That becomes their religion. It's just like their fucking children, 652 00:43:52,239 --> 00:44:00,599 yes, which like they are fucking children. Probably well, pikes, well 653 00:44:00,679 --> 00:44:05,480 if you love it. Speaking of wing wing joo, paying, an employee 654 00:44:05,519 --> 00:44:09,719 at the Beijing number one machine tool plant received a wax replica. The fruit 655 00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:15,960 itself was destined for higher things. The real mango was driven by a worker 656 00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:21,679 representative through a procession of beating drums and people lining the streets from the factory 657 00:44:21,679 --> 00:44:25,199 to the airport. The workers had chartered a plane to fly the single mango 658 00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:32,039 to a factory in chain Hi. This is what why So the fruit is 659 00:44:32,079 --> 00:44:36,840 just this is literally the fruit is ascended. It is no longer fruit. 660 00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:39,880 It is. It is like you know when people get mad about like oh 661 00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:44,679 the flag hit the ground or whatever. Yeah, mango more important than flags. 662 00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:45,840 Yeah, mango kay hit the ground. Yeah, I mean I guess 663 00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:50,199 flags have been flown imagine pretty far. But you're just like it's like a 664 00:44:50,199 --> 00:44:53,639 Curb your Enthusiasm episode like Larry's in China and just eats the sacred mango. 665 00:44:53,679 --> 00:44:58,280 Mango just sitting in a place of reverence. And but for whatever reason, 666 00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:00,280 in the middle of the buffet table, because that's like the center of the 667 00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:07,960 room is the buffet table at the right bompomp boomp boom. Yeah, they 668 00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:14,480 wouldnother table. Mal gave us that. Yeah, yeah, why would you 669 00:45:14,559 --> 00:45:16,679 put it on the food where the food is God? A fucking Chinese Larry 670 00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:22,000 David would be hilarious. They don't live long. Yeah, no, they 671 00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:24,719 don't make it to their seven don't. You don't have fun? Misadventures and 672 00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:29,280 comedies of error is a part of the part one. There's only one wacky 673 00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:35,599 coincidence. Yeah, and it ends in an unmarked grave. Boom boom boom. 674 00:45:37,639 --> 00:45:40,840 And when one of the mangoes began to rot, workers peeled it and 675 00:45:42,039 --> 00:45:46,159 boiled the flesh in a vat of water, which then made the vat holy 676 00:45:46,639 --> 00:45:51,000 and the water inside it holy as well. So yeah, no religion, 677 00:45:51,079 --> 00:45:53,840 right, yeah, no religion in that country. Uh. Then each worker 678 00:45:53,880 --> 00:46:00,400 would take turns sipping a spoonful of the rotten mango flesh water. H MAO 679 00:46:00,599 --> 00:46:04,000 was told about this at this point. I don't even like like crazy Christians, 680 00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:07,239 but I'm like just worship Jesus, just because I can wrap my mind 681 00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:12,719 around that instead of your sacred mango, Like, just do one of the 682 00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:15,519 just do one of the wacky stories. It's already there. Don't make your 683 00:46:15,519 --> 00:46:20,519 own. Don't make your own. That's just non creative. Rob Mao was 684 00:46:20,559 --> 00:46:23,800 told about the rotting mango flesh water, and upon hearing the story, he 685 00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:30,199 laughed out loud. I'm sure it's like what. I'm sure l Ron Hubbard 686 00:46:30,239 --> 00:46:35,639 sat in his office every day and cracking up. Oh my god, you 687 00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:39,079 know, just randomly you're saying. That popped into my head. Uh. 688 00:46:39,199 --> 00:46:45,159 There was a training for like a psychology or a scientology punishment where if you 689 00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:50,320 were being insubordinate, they'd make you like run around a palm tree. That 690 00:46:50,559 --> 00:46:53,199 is now like an ot level. Pay a fuck ton of money to take 691 00:46:53,280 --> 00:47:00,039 the class about running around the palm tree scientology. I while I hate it 692 00:47:00,119 --> 00:47:05,360 and I think it's a terrible thing, I respect it because that shit that 693 00:47:05,559 --> 00:47:08,000 is yes standing, Yeah, that is yes standing all the way to an 694 00:47:08,079 --> 00:47:14,039 insane cult. And they did it perfectly. How are they a top like 695 00:47:14,199 --> 00:47:22,239 twenty employer in Florida? You know about it? Yeah, Clearwater where the 696 00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:27,880 headquarters is. They've got to be legitimately top fifty. There's like no one 697 00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:30,599 at the Clearwater thing. They just have people outside of it. Yeah, 698 00:47:30,599 --> 00:47:32,519 like, but they don't actually have anyone doing anything. They have real recruits, 699 00:47:32,679 --> 00:47:37,159 they're not. Their numbers are fucking dwindling, they are. Yeah, 700 00:47:37,199 --> 00:47:39,880 well Miss Scavenge is kind of taking it down the shitter because, you know 701 00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:44,159 what, insane. Kind of a bad rap right now. Yeah, but 702 00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:47,800 give us some time. Hey, they what back? They are currently in 703 00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:52,639 the phase uh what are They're like fifty sixty years old as a religion, 704 00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:55,679 right, not very old. So they're like I think we talked about one 705 00:47:55,719 --> 00:48:00,159 of the last episode, they're for Christianity. 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Gotta check it out. These mattresses are incredible. We 831 00:56:16,280 --> 00:56:19,760 all love them. But yeah, that's it. Let's get back to the 832 00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:22,039 mangoes. Baby anyway, well one of the mango. Okay, we talked 833 00:56:22,039 --> 00:56:24,760 about that. From the very beginning, the mango gift took on a relic 834 00:56:24,920 --> 00:56:29,360 like quality to be revered and even worshiped. Not only was the mango a 835 00:56:29,440 --> 00:56:36,320 gift from the chairman, it was the Chairman. This association is so transubstantiated. 836 00:56:36,400 --> 00:56:38,440 He transubstantiated into the mango, the mango, Yes, the mangoes, 837 00:56:38,480 --> 00:56:44,840 the holy ghost. Yeah, it's the holy go mango. This association is 838 00:56:44,880 --> 00:56:46,320 reflected in a poem from the period, which I will now read to you. 839 00:56:47,039 --> 00:56:52,480 Seeing that golden mango was as if seeing the great leader, Chairman Mao 840 00:56:52,199 --> 00:56:58,480 standing before the golden mango was just like standing beside Chairman Mao again and again, 841 00:56:58,639 --> 00:57:01,800 touching that golden mango. The golden mango was so warm, again and 842 00:57:01,840 --> 00:57:06,079 again. Smelling the mango, the golden mango was so frank grant. I'm 843 00:57:06,079 --> 00:57:09,239 imagining it sounds way better in Chinese, so it might not. What if 844 00:57:09,239 --> 00:57:14,679 it's just mouth talking about a sack. Look at this mango. Look at 845 00:57:14,679 --> 00:57:19,559 the golden mangoes. Smell the mango so fragrant, it'd be impressed. If 846 00:57:19,639 --> 00:57:22,000 it's scrolled him resembled a mango. I suppose. Well, if you had 847 00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:25,920 a really big sack, Yeah, just two big mangoes. Each mango is 848 00:57:25,920 --> 00:57:31,079 a testicle. Yeah, that's that's problematic. Probably need like severe compression shorts. 849 00:57:32,800 --> 00:57:37,000 Yeah yeah, I mean life would hurt a lot. Your boy's not 850 00:57:37,119 --> 00:57:43,320 running if he's got mango nuts just clapping but squishy, but you're hitting from 851 00:57:43,360 --> 00:57:45,840 behind. Those would like wrap all the way around, hit the clip like 852 00:57:46,639 --> 00:57:55,119 to it certainly. Yeah, yeah, like two wrecking balls that clip yang. 853 00:57:55,599 --> 00:57:59,440 Yeah. Uh. The mango stored the length and breath of the country, 854 00:57:59,440 --> 00:58:01,320 and we're hosting it in a series of secret processions. Red guards had 855 00:58:01,360 --> 00:58:06,800 wrecked temples and shrines, but destroying artifacts it is easier than erasing religious behavior, 856 00:58:07,199 --> 00:58:10,440 and soon the mangoes became the object of a tense devotion. So I 857 00:58:10,519 --> 00:58:15,559 think something that's important here too is because of the cultural revolution, they're like 858 00:58:15,760 --> 00:58:17,880 all of the like things they held in high regard have been flattened and destroyed. 859 00:58:19,239 --> 00:58:22,559 So much like a power vacuum when a leader goes away, you need 860 00:58:22,679 --> 00:58:28,559 something for match, there's a spirituality vacuum. Yeah, and mangoes filtered some 861 00:58:28,719 --> 00:58:30,599 of the thing, man if. Yeah, it's honestly, this is this 862 00:58:30,719 --> 00:58:36,800 is the most ironic possible way to use this. But the devil, you 863 00:58:36,920 --> 00:58:42,119 know, is so much better than the deli. You don't in that situation. 864 00:58:42,400 --> 00:58:45,800 That's what I'm saying, Like, just just keep him Buddhist. Well 865 00:58:45,960 --> 00:58:51,000 yeah, so some of the rituals for The mangoes imitated centuries of Buddhist and 866 00:58:51,119 --> 00:58:53,840 Daoist traditions, and the mangoes were even placed in an altar to which factory 867 00:58:53,880 --> 00:58:58,280 workers would bow in the morning. Yeah, so they just they literally just 868 00:58:58,320 --> 00:59:00,440 swapped out Buddha or whatever dalo the muses, I guess, and they just 869 00:59:00,480 --> 00:59:02,679 put a mango in it. I'm sure. I mean I see people it's 870 00:59:02,880 --> 00:59:06,480 almost like the pagan transplant of stuff too. It's like, well, no, 871 00:59:06,679 --> 00:59:08,239 you still do all the ship. Yeah, she's a thing or even 872 00:59:08,280 --> 00:59:13,119 I mean I see people today who are like, um, I mean you 873 00:59:13,199 --> 00:59:16,079 see people every day on like social media and stuff like that confessing their sins. 874 00:59:16,880 --> 00:59:22,519 Uh yeah and asking for repentance. What's the one that the monk did 875 00:59:22,599 --> 00:59:28,000 in Da Vinci Code self? Oh my god, the amount of self flagelation, 876 00:59:28,320 --> 00:59:31,079 Like just you see that constantly. I mean, that's what the notes 877 00:59:31,679 --> 00:59:36,840 it's figured of self legilation. Yeah, although it would be hilarious. Notes 878 00:59:36,880 --> 00:59:39,039 app is just confessional though. That's if you see a notes app, that's 879 00:59:39,079 --> 00:59:43,159 someone going to confession. Shout to Drew McGary. I think you're just referencing 880 00:59:43,199 --> 00:59:45,880 there. I really am hard. Yeah, forgive me Twitter if drives and 881 00:59:46,360 --> 00:59:51,559 did someone lead with that? Just Gary's entire personality at this point for what 882 00:59:51,960 --> 00:59:57,400 he was like seven years ago, years ago, and then like thirteen years 883 00:59:57,440 --> 01:00:00,800 ago whatever. Yeah, when dead Spin was funny. Yeah, So China 884 01:00:00,840 --> 01:00:04,960 has a long history of symbolic associations with food, which may have encouraged extravagant 885 01:00:04,960 --> 01:00:08,320 interpretations of mouse gift. The mangoes were compared to the mushrooms of immortality and 886 01:00:08,400 --> 01:00:12,719 the longevity peach of Chinese mythology, so there was like a nice shoeman for 887 01:00:12,840 --> 01:00:19,840 that. The longevity peach sounds like the worst I don't even know, like 888 01:00:20,039 --> 01:00:25,280 thing you find in Pokemon or something like. You're just like you're like trying 889 01:00:25,320 --> 01:00:28,920 to get into like your kid's anime. You're like, okay, i'll watch 890 01:00:28,960 --> 01:00:31,039 it with you, and then someone like takes a bite from the longevity peach 891 01:00:31,039 --> 01:00:34,159 and you're just like, I fucking can't do this. Yeah, it's just 892 01:00:34,679 --> 01:00:37,920 it's banal. Yeah, it's I liked your Pokemon reference originally, just like 893 01:00:38,320 --> 01:00:44,039 you have a guy at like one or two HP and he takes the longevity 894 01:00:44,039 --> 01:00:49,440 peach and just rockets back up to Yeah. Right, the fruit was delicious 895 01:00:49,639 --> 01:00:52,960 exclamation point or it's one of those items that actually doesn't do anything like that. 896 01:00:53,039 --> 01:00:58,760 It just says they liked the peach. Yeah, you find the longevity 897 01:00:58,800 --> 01:01:01,199 peach, you give it to your peaka you he's about to die, and 898 01:01:01,320 --> 01:01:04,760 then it does nothing. Yeah, and then they get hit with the next 899 01:01:04,920 --> 01:01:07,159 attack and you're like, wait, yeah, it's just like Pikachu died. 900 01:01:07,199 --> 01:01:13,639 Happy fuck that I just lost the Elite eight or Elite for it um. 901 01:01:13,960 --> 01:01:16,119 The workers surmise that Mau's gift was an act of selflessness, like I said, 902 01:01:16,159 --> 01:01:20,880 in which he sacrificed his longevity for theirs by not eating the mango, 903 01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:22,480 which he did not like. Oh, he would have been immortal, yeah, 904 01:01:22,639 --> 01:01:28,000 if he had just eaten that basket of mangoes. Little did they know 905 01:01:28,079 --> 01:01:30,119 that he disliked fruit, nor were they concerned to learn that Mao was simply 906 01:01:30,199 --> 01:01:35,519 passing on a gift he had already received. There's a tradition in China of 907 01:01:36,159 --> 01:01:38,360 schwan song, or regifting, and maybe regarded as vulgar in the West, 908 01:01:38,400 --> 01:01:42,599 but in China regifting is widely seen as a compliment. I'm sure because of 909 01:01:42,840 --> 01:01:49,519 communism and what do we do well around these parts Indian given that's when you 910 01:01:49,599 --> 01:01:51,920 give something back up yeah, yeah, yeah, that's true. It's not 911 01:01:52,039 --> 01:01:55,840 giving it no Indian giving given his repackaging a gift. No Indian giving is 912 01:01:55,880 --> 01:02:00,159 when you h it's when you it's it's you give something to someone, then 913 01:02:00,159 --> 01:02:01,280 you take it back, then you take it back from them. That's Indian 914 01:02:01,360 --> 01:02:06,239 giving. Oh okay, what is repackage? Which is ironic because we were 915 01:02:06,280 --> 01:02:07,840 the ones that would give things and then take it back. Yeah. No, 916 01:02:08,079 --> 01:02:10,199 they were like, unless that's actually how it was born, and now 917 01:02:10,280 --> 01:02:15,800 people just wrongly think it's racist. No, any it's because we traded them, 918 01:02:15,920 --> 01:02:19,039 like lynd for the land. Yeah, because they were like, you 919 01:02:19,159 --> 01:02:22,400 can't sell land, sure whatever, like, and then they want it back 920 01:02:22,440 --> 01:02:23,480 like wait, wait, wait, hold on, Like when they realize that, 921 01:02:23,639 --> 01:02:27,519 oh you can sell it, we will find a way to conquer it 922 01:02:27,800 --> 01:02:34,079 fought red handed. Wow. I don't think that's what that means, but 923 01:02:34,239 --> 01:02:38,239 I can't be sure. Nobody knows. Yeah. So apparently though it enhances 924 01:02:38,280 --> 01:02:42,239 the status of both the giver and the recipient. This is all just like 925 01:02:44,280 --> 01:02:47,280 this kind of selfless to like pass on your gift to someone else. I 926 01:02:47,360 --> 01:02:52,679 feel like this is a high product of poverty, probably the probably feeling around 927 01:02:52,719 --> 01:02:54,760 it. Yeah, the mango is also proved to be a gift to the 928 01:02:54,840 --> 01:03:00,400 propaganda department of the Communist Party, which quickly manufactured mango themed household them such 929 01:03:00,400 --> 01:03:04,599 as bedsheets, vanity stands, trays, and wash basins, as well as 930 01:03:04,679 --> 01:03:08,400 mango scented soap. And my favorite, really really big at this time were 931 01:03:08,480 --> 01:03:15,320 mango cigarettes. Oh that's great. Clove cigarette. Yeah, honestly, probably 932 01:03:15,400 --> 01:03:17,280 tasted pretty fruity clove cigarette. But I tell you what, when they took 933 01:03:17,320 --> 01:03:22,000 away our mango jewel pods, I felt bad, not because I like the 934 01:03:22,079 --> 01:03:24,800 mango flavor, but because I was not giving my support to mau. Yeah. 935 01:03:24,840 --> 01:03:29,039 You weren't showing Mile the reverence that he needed. Yeah, I want 936 01:03:29,039 --> 01:03:32,880 to breathe in Mao baby. Yeah, as our resident communist on the podcast 937 01:03:34,000 --> 01:03:38,719 That's right, don't forget it, Love Communism. Massive paper machine mangoes appeared 938 01:03:38,760 --> 01:03:43,239 on the central float during the National Day Parade in Beijing in October nineteen sixty 939 01:03:43,280 --> 01:03:46,280 eight. Far away in the Gujo Province, thousands of armed peasants fought over 940 01:03:46,360 --> 01:03:52,760 a black and white photograph of a mango Jesus Christ, a photograph of Amingo. 941 01:03:52,880 --> 01:04:01,519 Thousandstograph. Every time I do there's a blood bat but now everybody was 942 01:04:01,599 --> 01:04:06,400 so enthusiastic about not everybody was so enthusiastic about the fruit. Those who expressed 943 01:04:06,440 --> 01:04:13,440 their doubts were severely punished. A village dentist was publicly humiliated and then executed 944 01:04:13,840 --> 01:04:16,960 after comparing a touring mango to a sweet potato. This just makes me think 945 01:04:17,000 --> 01:04:21,920 of that Derek comedy video from way back in the day where they're just like, 946 01:04:23,239 --> 01:04:28,159 whatever you do, don't masturbate to this photo of a basket of fruit, 947 01:04:29,559 --> 01:04:30,519 Like, why would I do that? Why would I ever masturbate to 948 01:04:30,599 --> 01:04:35,719 the this portrait of fruit? And then he's just in the bathroom cranking it. 949 01:04:38,480 --> 01:04:42,840 I really want to re hit that. Note the guy was like fucking 950 01:04:42,840 --> 01:04:47,639 sweet potato. He was publicly humiliated and executed for that. So what is 951 01:04:47,679 --> 01:04:53,360 publicly humiliated? Meaning probably stripped naked, made to walk through the town, 952 01:04:54,000 --> 01:04:56,760 probably had shit thrown. It was probably like that, you know, shame 953 01:04:57,440 --> 01:05:02,880 shame yea yeah, and then U you know he's I assume this dentist had 954 01:05:02,920 --> 01:05:13,760 a family, Yeah, probably not anymore kids. Whatever dentist, he's gonna 955 01:05:13,760 --> 01:05:15,679 marry a dentist. Plenty of people, I don't know. It's a big 956 01:05:15,760 --> 01:05:19,239 country. You don't malign Dennists here. I think it has one of the 957 01:05:19,320 --> 01:05:24,719 highest suicide rates. I think it has a lot of mental issues because of 958 01:05:24,760 --> 01:05:30,599 the pain infliction. I think it's more just mundane or actually, you know, 959 01:05:30,679 --> 01:05:31,440 it probably has to do with being like, hey man, you probably 960 01:05:31,480 --> 01:05:33,599 should take care of those teeth. Like, I would definitely recommend this to 961 01:05:33,679 --> 01:05:40,159 come back. No, I didn't do any of this shit idiot pleading when 962 01:05:40,199 --> 01:05:44,800 you poke them fucking flaws. Yeah, imagine like being an oncologist and no 963 01:05:44,920 --> 01:05:48,639 one gets chemotherapy and then they keep coming back and be like tumors bigger. 964 01:05:49,559 --> 01:05:53,639 Yeah, because like I'm kill myself. I don't. You're clearly not gonna 965 01:05:53,719 --> 01:05:57,360 keep listening to me. It's like literally, actually too. Health is probably 966 01:05:57,400 --> 01:06:00,440 the most important thing you can do, like your mouth, right, because 967 01:06:00,480 --> 01:06:03,840 like it's where everything goes to fuel. You got health, Well, it 968 01:06:03,960 --> 01:06:06,800 starts with your mouth though. Yeah, Like, man, I could take 969 01:06:06,880 --> 01:06:13,800 nutrients through a fucking ivy. I can have a feeding tube. Yeah, 970 01:06:14,000 --> 01:06:17,760 you can just feed yourself out of yours. I want, I want, 971 01:06:18,639 --> 01:06:21,920 and no one agrees with me. You might. Actually, I would love 972 01:06:21,960 --> 01:06:26,199 it for science to just make the perfect like little brick of food that gives 973 01:06:26,280 --> 01:06:30,440 me everything I need to be the perfect me. So you just want the 974 01:06:30,079 --> 01:06:34,000 I want soil it. You want the cricket blocks that they had in snow 975 01:06:34,079 --> 01:06:40,559 Piercer. No, I want the perfect nutrient like I want. I would 976 01:06:40,559 --> 01:06:42,920 hate that. I love food. Food. I like food a lot too, 977 01:06:43,039 --> 01:06:45,840 But like when I'm not eating something I'm really excited about, just give 978 01:06:45,840 --> 01:06:48,119 me the fucking block. It's the protein bar. Yeah, I guess so. 979 01:06:48,360 --> 01:06:51,079 Yeah, I mean you have the block. The block exists. Yeah. 980 01:06:51,239 --> 01:06:54,679 Cool, Okay, I'm gonna go get some blocks after this. If 981 01:06:55,000 --> 01:06:58,039 there's a protein company out there, I wants to sponsor to the podcast Jake 982 01:06:58,039 --> 01:07:00,119 will Eat Your Block. Yeah, go to the block dot com slash softcore 983 01:07:00,360 --> 01:07:05,400 slash Jake Yeah us good, Jake loves Block. The mango fever fizzled out 984 01:07:05,440 --> 01:07:10,440 after eighteen months and soon discarded. Wax replicas were being used as candles during 985 01:07:10,480 --> 01:07:15,679 electrical outages. People just stopped caring. After about eighteen months, soon died 986 01:07:15,760 --> 01:07:18,280 for mangoes, and eighteen months later no one cared anymore. That sounds about 987 01:07:18,360 --> 01:07:20,960 right. I'm sure There's been at least five girls crushed to death at a 988 01:07:21,039 --> 01:07:27,119 Justin Bieber concert. Before you know what I mean. Yeah, and now 989 01:07:27,199 --> 01:07:30,519 he's got like scabies and can't perform or something weird like that. He's got 990 01:07:30,559 --> 01:07:34,599 some bizarre disease. He's just a broken human. But there was a time 991 01:07:35,599 --> 01:07:42,800 when you would willingly die to get to the front row of a Justin Bieber 992 01:07:42,840 --> 01:07:46,639 concert. Yeah, get trampled for it, Yeah, I guess. On 993 01:07:46,800 --> 01:07:50,719 a like visit to Beijing in nineteen seventy four, way, by the way, 994 01:07:50,760 --> 01:07:56,599 also ironic that they're using the mangoes to light their homes when the country 995 01:07:56,639 --> 01:08:00,239 couldn't give them power. Yeah, in a weird way, they're kind of 996 01:08:00,320 --> 01:08:02,079 lighting Mao on fire. Well, he thought, so. Yeah, it's 997 01:08:02,079 --> 01:08:04,840 just like a symbol of the country's greatness that they have to light on fire 998 01:08:04,920 --> 01:08:08,719 to keep their homes lit because the fucking country care. There's a lot of 999 01:08:08,760 --> 01:08:13,039 irony in this episode. Yeah, yeah, great, No, it's mango 1000 01:08:13,159 --> 01:08:18,000 madness really yeah. On a visit to Beijing in nineteen seventy four, Emelda 1001 01:08:18,079 --> 01:08:21,439 Marcos took a case of the Philippine national fruit mangoes as a gift for a 1002 01:08:21,560 --> 01:08:29,199 host, Mao's wife Jiang King, known as Madame Madame Mao, and tried 1003 01:08:29,239 --> 01:08:33,680 to replicate the earlier enthusiasm sending the mangoes to workers. They dutifully held a 1004 01:08:33,720 --> 01:08:38,880 ceremony and gave things, but Jiang King lacked her husband's sense of political timing. 1005 01:08:39,039 --> 01:08:42,159 The following year, as Malay ill with their clear successor in sight, 1006 01:08:42,600 --> 01:08:45,520 she commissioned a new film, Song of the Mango to enhance her credibility to 1007 01:08:45,680 --> 01:08:49,800 succeed her husband, but within a week of its release, Jang was arrested 1008 01:08:49,840 --> 01:08:54,720 in the film was taken out of circulation. Yeah. Yeah, and this 1009 01:08:55,000 --> 01:08:59,680 is actually what is considered the final chapter in mango madness in China. But 1010 01:08:59,800 --> 01:09:02,840 they still do like it's like a throwback where they're like, remember old people 1011 01:09:03,119 --> 01:09:06,920 will talk about mangoes still like it's a fucking thing. Yeah, but it's 1012 01:09:06,960 --> 01:09:10,000 not. It hasn't been for a while. Yeah, But they're like, 1013 01:09:10,159 --> 01:09:15,119 you know, would they find like a mango rita obscene? I don't know, 1014 01:09:15,520 --> 01:09:17,800 they might. It seems weird, like it almost seems like consuming It 1015 01:09:18,920 --> 01:09:23,039 was a no no, yeah, Like what what about like they go to 1016 01:09:23,079 --> 01:09:26,920 Buffalo wild Wings, they go to a mango hob wing love a mango? 1017 01:09:27,000 --> 01:09:30,960 How is that? In support of actually, fuck everything? I just said 1018 01:09:30,359 --> 01:09:38,239 new plan We patriot shame anyone who eats mango hob an arrow wings. Yeah, 1019 01:09:39,520 --> 01:09:43,079 it's like freed and fries. Yeah, yeah, yeah, mango is 1020 01:09:44,000 --> 01:09:48,800 Chinese communist and we will shame anyone who eats it. Don't worry about the 1021 01:09:48,840 --> 01:09:53,359 fact that the Chinese don't even look at irreverently anymore. Yeah they did at 1022 01:09:53,399 --> 01:09:56,680 one point. They did it one, but that was that's mouse spiritual fruit. 1023 01:09:57,079 --> 01:09:59,560 And if you eat mango hob wings, you're a mouse. And just 1024 01:09:59,640 --> 01:10:02,560 because now didn't eat mangoes at all and didn't like them, it still means 1025 01:10:02,640 --> 01:10:10,720 if you eat them, you're a mollist. Yeah. What if not re 1026 01:10:10,880 --> 01:10:15,399 naming it get replaced with another fruit orange, I guess orangebanaro wings. Yeah, 1027 01:10:15,640 --> 01:10:21,079 that doesn't sound Rightoban needs to be as it needs to be an American 1028 01:10:21,159 --> 01:10:25,039 fruit, So orange is actually a pretty good Orange is the one. But 1029 01:10:25,159 --> 01:10:28,000 if you don't want to go orange, which another good American fruit like a 1030 01:10:28,079 --> 01:10:31,079 strawberry. Strawberry, I know, it has to taste terrible. That's the 1031 01:10:31,159 --> 01:10:36,439 point you have to you have to use a must much worse option, banana 1032 01:10:38,079 --> 01:10:41,800 banana hob wings. Yeah, and you have to eat anybody like you're like 1033 01:10:41,840 --> 01:10:45,000 a fucking smiling asshole. Politician like so much. It's just like, but 1034 01:10:45,079 --> 01:10:48,840 it's because you can't like choose a banana. It's just covered in banana cream. 1035 01:10:49,960 --> 01:10:54,279 You have to dip the hobanaro wing in banana ranch. Yeah, it's 1036 01:10:54,319 --> 01:11:00,560 banana ranch. That might actually work. You want to try, because I 1037 01:11:00,600 --> 01:11:03,479 mean people would always I mean, Elvis ate a bunch of banana and mayonnaise 1038 01:11:03,479 --> 01:11:08,640 sandwiches. That's why bananas, the fruit, banana, peanut butter, mayonnaise, 1039 01:11:08,800 --> 01:11:12,520 peanut butter. It's probably all that snuff. I mean, I like 1040 01:11:12,560 --> 01:11:17,319 a good banana's foster. Yeah, school, tennis school, some cocaine pills, 1041 01:11:17,479 --> 01:11:23,960 pills for sure, so many greenies everything. The bread was actually pillbread, 1042 01:11:25,359 --> 01:11:28,239 just flower for the bread. It was ground percose, ground perose. 1043 01:11:28,359 --> 01:11:30,920 Yeah. Yeah, uh that's it Fromanos. Would you guys learn today? 1044 01:11:32,239 --> 01:11:39,199 Um? I learned that China had a very specific religion for eighteen months and 1045 01:11:39,439 --> 01:11:46,720 that was a fraud. Yeah. Why because he uh kind of got a 1046 01:11:46,840 --> 01:11:53,159 lot of clout for giving away a fruit he didn't like. Yeah, he 1047 01:11:53,359 --> 01:11:56,600 basically like, I want this ship here you go for re gifting. Yeah, 1048 01:11:56,600 --> 01:11:59,560 it's a fucking garbage. I think it's pretty easy to answer. The 1049 01:11:59,640 --> 01:12:05,399 next question, but who's Hitler? It's not now what whoever killed the dentist. 1050 01:12:06,760 --> 01:12:10,840 It's like it's the first guy who heard the dentist say that looks like 1051 01:12:10,880 --> 01:12:14,399 a sweet potato and was like, what the fuck did you say? What? 1052 01:12:15,000 --> 01:12:20,199 That guy's Hitler? Just the I think the whole profession of dentistry is 1053 01:12:20,279 --> 01:12:26,439 Hitler dentist or Hitler dan Is in favor of the dentist. Take um. 1054 01:12:27,119 --> 01:12:29,560 I think the thing I learned from all of this is that no matter what 1055 01:12:29,720 --> 01:12:33,680 you do in trying to erase a culture or a history, something will fill 1056 01:12:33,760 --> 01:12:38,439 that void. Yeah, no matter what you do, something feels a void. 1057 01:12:38,560 --> 01:12:41,520 Like, no matter you can't eliminate shit, you're not closing a door. 1058 01:12:41,680 --> 01:12:44,600 You're just cleaning out a room. Yeah, but like you know what 1059 01:12:44,640 --> 01:12:46,399 I mean, Like, but something else is going to go into that room, 1060 01:12:46,680 --> 01:12:49,239 and sometimes it's a fucking mango. Yeah, you're cleaning the room and 1061 01:12:49,279 --> 01:12:54,199 you're throwing it all in the closet. Yeah, Like you're not. You're 1062 01:12:54,239 --> 01:12:58,239 not closing the door. The door never closes. That's not how it works. 1063 01:12:59,000 --> 01:13:01,119 No, like rituals, Yeah, people like things. Yeah, you 1064 01:13:01,159 --> 01:13:06,479 don't end something. Yeah, So that's our story today. I hope you 1065 01:13:06,560 --> 01:13:11,600 enjoyed this mango madness story. UM. Check out our Patreon again at software 1066 01:13:11,640 --> 01:13:15,279 history dotnot that one. At patreon dot com slash software history. You can 1067 01:13:15,399 --> 01:13:19,399 also check out our website, software history dot com. From merch, please 1068 01:13:19,439 --> 01:13:25,840 like and subscribe five stars, Apple, Spotify. Yeah we love you guys. 1069 01:13:26,079 --> 01:13:30,039 Thanks for tuning in, thanks for coming back, and uh, you 1070 01:13:30,159 --> 01:13:30,039 just got solf served.