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Alexander Graham Bell
is like, Oh, [bleep],
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invent the telephone?
Yes, please.
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Hold on, hold on.
[gags, spits]
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Ah, it's in my mouth!
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She says... I just made this [bleep]
out of some handkerchiefs.
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All the girls go crazy.
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My boobles are free to roam!
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People came to Edison. They're like,
Hey, look what we can do.
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We can project images on a screen.
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He's like,
Wow. That's amazing.
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I can't believe I invented that.
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[laughs]
That's a great idea.
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[upbeat music]
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Let me get to...
today we're gonna learn
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- about inventions.
- Okay.
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All right, ready?
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Wait! Wait! I'll be there.
Just wait one second.
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Wait, you [bleep]ing prick!
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This week's episode is
about great inventions.
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- Bidet.
- The bidet was invented in 19... [spits]
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It doesn't matter when it's invented,
it's to clean bowls. [laughs]
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[gags, spits]
Ah, it's in my mouth!
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Welcome to "Drunk History."
I'm J.D. Ryznar.
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Today we're gonna tell a story
about the invention of the telephone.
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Our story starts in the 1870s
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with a telegraph
corporation Western Union.
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And Western Union was trying to go like,
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All right, the telegraph is fine,
but, like, what's next?
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So, they're like,
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We're looking for somebody
to, like, invent a way
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to, like, talk your voice
over a wire to some other dude.
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It's a wonderful thing
where you call people's homes
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and... it's a telephone!
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Now, there's a dude
whose name is Elisha...
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pronounced Elijah.
Elisha Gray sold telegraph parts.
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He's like, I invent
little telegraph things.
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Eh, I'm a cute little inventor.
I'm Elisha Gray.
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So Western Union is like,
Elisha Gray, invent the telephone.
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Elisha Gray's like, Great.
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But then Western Union goes
to the public and is like,
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Hey, everybody... everybody in
the world who invents things,
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try to invent the telephone
and we'll buy it from you.
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So this inventor Alexander
Graham Bell is like,
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Oh, [bleep], invent the telephone?
Yes, please.
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[laughs]
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We're doing good.
We're really drunk.
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[both laugh]
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So Alexander Graham Bell gets to work
trying to invent the telephone.
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He's having a hard time.
He can't figure it out.
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Like murp, murp.
It's kinda me talking,
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but I sound like a robot.
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Alexander Graham
Bell's lawyers are like,
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This is a [bleep] telephone.
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You're not doing a good job
at all, Alexander Graham Bell.
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And so his lawyer goes
to the patent clerk
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at the U.S. Patent Office.
Zenas Fisk Wilber.
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It's a weird, old name.
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Zenas rhymes with penis.
That's how I remember it.
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Zenas. [laughs]
Zenas.
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The guy had all sorts of problems.
He was a drunker, like,
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I'm poor and I'm drunk and
I'm depressed, [bleep] it.
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Graham Bell's lawyer said
Listen, you owe us money...
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[groans]
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If anybody submits a
telephone patent, let me know.
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Meanwhile, Elisha Gray is,
like, having the same problems
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Alexander Graham Bell was having,
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he was like Merp, merp, merp.
I'm talking on the phone.
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How can I make this electric current
be smoother on the other end?
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What if I put a little
water in the doodad?
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The water vibrates at
more subtler tones and that
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goes through the wire and
it's clear as silk. Bonanza!
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He goes to the Patent Office
and he files a patent.
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I know how to make the telephone,
and this is how I'm gonna do it.
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So sure enough,
Zenas Fisk Wilber at the Patent Office
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calls Alexander Graham Bell's lawyers.
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Not on the telephone,
'cause it's not invented yet,
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on a telegraph or something.
He's just like
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Hey. Boop boop boop.
Beep beep.
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Somebody just submitted the
patent for the telephone.
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Boop boop boop.
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Alexander Graham Bell goes to
the Patent Office and goes...
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What's up, Zenas Fisk Wilber?
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Um, okay... [clears throat]
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- Jeez.
- Sorry about that.
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- And then he swallowed it.
- Of course I swallow.
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What do you want me to do?
Spit it on the floor?
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Maybe you can give me, uh...
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a little something something
about what's going on
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with this other guy
who filed a patent, huh?
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He's like,
Well, all right, here it is.
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Here's the drawing of, uh...
how he's gonna invent the telephone.
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Alexander Graham Bell copies down
Gray's design and turns it in.
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Meanwhile, Elisha Gray
all of a sudden he hears,
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Hey, everybody in America,
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Alexander Graham Bell just
invented the telephone.
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He's like What? I...
I filed a patent for the telephone!
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How could he do that?
This is... I know...
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I made this telephone.
This is my thing.
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There's a "disputement."
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Everybody's like, who did it first?
Who... Who was first?
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And guess who the Patent
Office put in charge
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of the investigation?
Zenas Fisk Wilber himself.
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And so Alexander Graham
Bell's lawyers were like,
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Listen, let's fricken... just let
Alexander Graham Bell's
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patent come first.
Like, what's up?
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So he's like, Guess what?
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Alexander Graham Bell,
you invented the telephone!
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- You win!
- Whoo-hoo!
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Alexander Graham Bell goes off
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and builds the first telephone
off of Gray's plans.
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Meanwhile, Elisha Gray is
busy fighting it in court.
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I invented the telephone.
It was me!
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This is... This is garbage.
He copied me.
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And even though he
got Ze... Zenas Wilber
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to testify in court, like,
Listen, I took a bunch of money
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from Bell's lawyer so he
could invent the telephone
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and that's the truth.
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Still... Alexander Graham Bell
is so well-known at this point
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that the Supreme Court's like,
Alexander Graham Bell wins
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and he's the inventor
of the telephone forever.
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Well, good work.
[blows raspberry]
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Elisha Gray is like,
Oh, God,
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I guess I didn't invent telephones.
I did, but, like, I lose.
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Anyway, what's his name, um...
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I don't remember his name.
Ugh. What's his name?
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What's the other guy's na... Wilber!
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No. Walt Disney?
No. Telephone.
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[laughs]
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Meanwhile, Alexander Graham Bell
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went on to make 1800s
equivalent of billions
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off the telephone and then was like,
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[groans]
I made the Bell Company.
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I don't... I don't care.
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I don't... I don't gi...
I don't even like telephones.
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I don't even want one in my office.
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That's what a [bleep] snob
Alexander Graham Bell was.
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Meanwhile, who uses the
Alexander Graham Bell
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telephone anymore?
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Nobody!
Except old people...
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and poor people.
[laughs]
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[both laughing]
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All right, let's go.
Let's learn.
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Shh. Are you ready?
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- I'm...
- Don't!
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- Well, I'm...
- Shh!
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- Am I allowed to answer if I'm ready?
- No, you just shush it.
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Hello, everyone.
My name is Paget Brewster.
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No, not everyone.
[gasps]
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- Just hello.
- Hello.
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My name is Paget Brewster
and I'm talking to you...
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- And today.
- Oh, my God.
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[laughs]
You guys ready?
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[laughs]
Are you all done?
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Shut your mouth!
You ready?
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I'll [bleep]ing do it, but shush it.
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Hello, eve... [laughs]
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[laughs]
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Hello. My name is Paget Brewster
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and today we're talking
about Mary Phelps Jacob,
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the inventor of the bra.
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In 1910 women were cinched in
[piano plays]
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to tiny corsets all the time,
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but then there is
a 19-year-old girl...
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Mary Phelps Jacob,
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setting up to go to a debutante ball,
and she is like,
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Uh, I got this beautiful silk dress
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and I have to put this
dumb piece of [bleep] on.
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Stupid corset with whale bone inserts.
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Ugh, it's so goddamn dumb.
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All right, I'm... I'm... I'm...
I'm out. I'm out.
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I can't take this. Marie!
Her maid.
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Marie! Get me two
handkerchiefs, some silk cording,
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ribbons, and a sewing kit.
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She sews together
two handkerchiefs onto herself
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and goes to a ball.
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[epic music]
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All the girls are like,
What is going on with you, girl?
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You look better than
you have ever looked.
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And she says,
Yeah, I just made this [bleep]
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out of some handkerchiefs.
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The girls go crazy!
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And she's like
My boobles are free to roam.
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- And they all say
- I want one.
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- I want one.
- I want one.
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All right, whatever,
I'll make you some.
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I'll make you my new thing, whatever,
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with some handkerchiefs.
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Then she gets a letter in the mail
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from someone she's never met saying,
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"Hey, I'll give you
a dollar to make me a bra."
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And then she realizes,
Oh, this could be a business.
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So she goes to the Patent Office
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and she said,
Hey, I've made this thing.
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It's a brassiere.
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The Patent Office guy was like,
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Everyone's had boobs
for goddamn forever.
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I understand that you
think you made something,
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but you [bleep]ing didn't.
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And she said No, I did.
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The last piece of [bleep]
patent flattens your tits
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into nothing but one boob.
Do you want one boob?
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And he's like,
I don't... I can't even...
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I don't even know if I can answer this.
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No, you want two [bleep]ing boobs.
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They separate and lift.
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Give me the patent for
the backless brassiere.
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And he says, Yeah, okay, all right.
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I've never seen that.
I will give you a patent.
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Slam. He gives her a patent.
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Oh, God. I'm...
I'm not gonna throw up, but I am...
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I'm pretty...
Gonzo bonzo. [laughs]
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So she opens the Fashion
Form Brassiere Company.
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Meanwhile, she marries
this guy Harry Crosby
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and Harry says, Hey, babe,
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because you're gonna be my wife Crosby,
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I feel like you should have a "C" name.
And so it's like C. Crosby.
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I would really like it if you change
your name to Clitoris. [laughs]
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It's [bleep]ing true.
[laughs]
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And she says
Na... What? No.
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I'm not gonna change
my name to Clitoris.
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And he's like
No, it's with a "Y".
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Still, I'm sorry. I love you, man,
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honey, but... not even with a "Y"
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will I name myself Clitoris.
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- What about Caresse?
- That's better than Clitoris.
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Certainly.
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He says to her Hey, Caresse...
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Car... she's now Caresse.
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You're kinda bored with the bra
business and it's not taking off.
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I'm kinda rich.
Why don't you just let it go?
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She says All right, fine.
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She sells her patent
to the Warner Brothers Corset Company
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for $1,500.
She's like I'm out. I'm good.
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Had fun.
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So, wait. I have to fast-forward.
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- I also have to pee.
- Which one you done do first?
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- No, I have to pee.
- Okay, well, then pee.
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I'm gonna.
[snickers]
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In 1929 the bra took hold.
Everyone bought bras.
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The corset was dead.
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The Warner Brothers Corset Company
makes $15 million
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off of her patent alone.
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- That's a lot of titties.
- I... [chuckles]
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[laughs]
Here's the thing about
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Mary Phelps Jacob.
She never give a [bleep].
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She was like Oh, okay.
I sold the patent.
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Not gonna dwell on it.
I'm gonna open a publishing company
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that publishes every
modern writer known to man.
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Hemingway, James Joyce,
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Henry Miller, Edgar Allen Poe,
uh... uh... there's so many more.
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Someone look it up on an iPhone.
You'll see. [laughs]
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Then was writing pornography
for money!
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And she was great at it.
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And at the end of her life,
someone asked her about, like,
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Hey, uh, you invented something.
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And she said Yeah, yeah.
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My invention...
it wouldn't take the place
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in history of something
like the steamboat,
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but, yeah... I invented the bra.
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The bra is kind of a big [bleep]ing deal.
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No one gives a [bleep]
about a steamboat.
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Do you know anyone
who doesn't have a bra?
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- I do love bras.
- I can see.
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- You have lots of...
- More than steamboats.
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Sorry, bras. [sneezes]
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- I'm allergic.
- You're allergic?
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I'm allergic to bras.
I didn't want to tell you.
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[epic music]
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Both: Stay tuned for more
"Drunk History."
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- Bras! [laughs]
- Ow!
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Have you ever heard that Edison
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- made the movie camera?
- I knew that.
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- Yeah.
- But it was one of those things
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where you got all of these other people
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that are never gonna
get any credit for it.
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I guess you could call
him the first patent troll.
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- Yeah. Yeah.
- You know?
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- That kinda thing.
- Yeah. And I always say,
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every invention that comes
out now, is just one more
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step to making you be all
right if you lost your legs.
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[both laugh]
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- To great inventors.
- To great inventors.
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What are we drinking?
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- Vodka.
- There's a moth.
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- There's so many...
- I wasn't swatting at you.
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No, I know, I have
a moth infestation.
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- I see that. [laughs]
- It's terrible. I got to get a [bleep]ing...
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- [laughing] Classic...
- It's the worst! [smacks]
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There's a... I don't
want to kill him, though.
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- Why?
- 'Cause they deserve to live.
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There happen to be in the cave
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of a super-advanced monkey species
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that wants nothing
more than to kill them
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just because they don't fit in.
To inventors.
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Thank God for you.
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Let's do this, man.
I feel so drunk.
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[blows]
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Good day.
My name is Duncan Trussell...
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and today we're gonna talk about Edison.
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[laughs]
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[cheerful music]
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This story starts in New Jersey
with Thomas Edison.
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One of the great inventors of the time.
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Known as "The Wizard of Menlo Park."
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He would get poor geniuses,
gather them together,
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and he's like
Just make stuff for me.
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If it's good I'm gonna
say it's mine. Whatever.
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You're gonna make money, so just do it.
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An inventor by the name of Muybridge
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came to New Jersey, shows
this incredible device.
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He managed to take a bunch of pictures
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of a horse running and
spin them on a cylinder
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in a way that gave it animation.
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And Edison's like
You know, great.
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A hor... a horse... running.
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[chuckles] Cool invention
or whatever. Bye.
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And then he's like We
gotta [bleep]ing figure this
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[bleep] out because people are
gonna wanna watch this stuff.
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We gotta start working
on this [bleep]...
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right [bleep]ing now!
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And then in 1893 Edison is like
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I figured out how to do it, guys!
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I can... I can photograph
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and make a movie.
We can make movies now.
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I came up with the very
first camera, the Kinetograph
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and I figured out a way
to look at the strings
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of moving pictures... a Kinetoscope,
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and it's all my idea. My idea!
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He has people... [laughing]
I'm too drunk.
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Why would I take another drink?
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So Edison needed content
for his Kinetoscopes
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and everything he was
putting out was [bleep].
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He's like Let's get
[bleep]ing cats boxing, man,
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and then vaudeville scenes,
people chasing each other.
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Let's film a blacksmith's shop.
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Everyone's gonna wanna see that.
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Right, guys? Right? Right!
And they filmed it.
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People were into it, man.
Freaking out.
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Everyone's like Have you been
to the Kinetoscope parlor?
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Oh, you've got to go.
It's incredible!
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So people came to Edison, they're like
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Hey, look what we can do.
We can project images on the screen.
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He's like Wow. That's amazing.
I can't believe I invented that.
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That's incredible.
I am so [bleep]ing smart!
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Let's patent this [bleep].
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Movies take off. People love it.
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They went to these places
called nickelodeons.
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For a nickel you're in a Greek theatre.
Come on in!
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People would sit in
those theatres and be like
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This is awesome.
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So then Edison creates an industry town
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and everyone comes to Fort Lee
to start making movies
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and Edison squeezes all of them.
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He was like Join me in
what we're gonna call
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The Edison Trust
and all of you assholes
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can join together with me and
we're gonna make it so that
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no other mother[bleep]ers
make movies except us.
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[whispers] Got it?
Write it down in your notebook.
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And everyone's like Great, let's do it.
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I don't want you to sue
me, so I'll just agree
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to whatever you say
because you're super-rich
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- and I just wanna make art. So, great.
- Sounds good.
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They created a monopoly
on all filmmaking.
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There was a... a fellow by
the name of Carl Laemmle.
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He went to one of
Edison's [bleep] shows.
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He's like That is so bad.
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People are paying a nickel
to watch this [bleep]?
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Why don't we try to make our own movies?
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And so Carl Laemmle
starts making movies.
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He creates his own
theatre and Edison's like
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No. No.
I'm sorry, you... what are you doing?
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You're not allowed to... make movies.
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And you're definitely
not allowed to show movies
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on my [bleep]ing
equipment without paying me
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a [bleep]ing licensing fee.
How dare you?
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He sues Laemmle 284 times.
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Laemmle's number one dream,
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I just wanna one day make enough money
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to take my family on
a vacation in Europe.
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And Edison is like
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I'm gonna squash you
like a [bleep]ing bug.
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I'm The Wizard of Menlo Park!
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Take your [bleep]ing family
on a vacation up my ass!
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[laughs]
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00:18:05,052 --> 00:18:07,920
[kisses]
Oh, God, he was just...
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00:18:07,955 --> 00:18:09,787
he was just eating a turd in the yard.
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00:18:09,822 --> 00:18:11,422
[laughs]
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00:18:14,500 --> 00:18:17,204
Elon Musk, he's doing the
opposite of what Edison did.
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He's giving away his patents
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00:18:19,237 --> 00:18:21,506
and it's no accident
that Elon Musk's company
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is named after the guy that Edison f...
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00:18:23,511 --> 00:18:25,477
metaphorically mouth [bleep]ed.
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00:18:25,512 --> 00:18:31,108
[laughs] Edison was a bastard!
Imagine 284 law sues, man.
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00:18:31,139 --> 00:18:33,485
But Leammle was like [bleep] you!
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I'm gonna keep making these movies.
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00:18:35,757 --> 00:18:38,691
And Edison, faced with true opposition,
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00:18:38,690 --> 00:18:41,928
started sending thugs to
Leammle's movie theatres.
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00:18:41,963 --> 00:18:44,062
People were just sitting
and enjoying movies
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00:18:44,097 --> 00:18:46,832
and all of a sudden
Edison thugs would come
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00:18:46,867 --> 00:18:48,368
crashing through the door and be like
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00:18:48,403 --> 00:18:51,737
[bleep] off! No one's
watching this [bleep]!
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00:18:51,772 --> 00:18:53,872
This is not an Edison film!
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00:18:53,907 --> 00:18:57,377
They would go to the productions,
beat up the [bleep]ing actors,
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00:18:57,412 --> 00:18:59,546
but Laemmle didn't back down.
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00:18:59,545 --> 00:19:01,813
There's three guys
who kept making movies.
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00:19:01,848 --> 00:19:05,651
Laemmle, Fox, and Zukor,
and finally they realized,
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What the [bleep] are
we doing in New Jersey?
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00:19:07,820 --> 00:19:10,857
We're shooting films in New Jersey
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and on a daily basis
getting sued and beaten up.
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00:19:14,593 --> 00:19:16,763
Let's get the [bleep] outta New Jersey.
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00:19:16,798 --> 00:19:18,999
How about we go to
[bleep]ing Los Angeles
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where it's sunny all the time
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00:19:20,935 --> 00:19:23,235
and you don't get your
ass kicked by a dick.
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00:19:23,270 --> 00:19:27,374
That's... [laughs]
That makes great sense. [laughing]
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00:19:27,373 --> 00:19:30,275
That's a great idea.
[laughs]
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00:19:30,310 --> 00:19:31,577
[snorts]
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They headed to L.A.
and those three heroes
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created Universal Studios,
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00:19:37,248 --> 00:19:39,819
Fox, and Paramount.
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00:19:39,820 --> 00:19:42,772
The United States government
recognized that the
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00:19:42,773 --> 00:19:45,725
Edison Trust was a monopoly
and they broke it up.
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00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:49,094
Uh, sorry, Edison,
you can't have control
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00:19:49,129 --> 00:19:52,264
over all film being made in the world.
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00:19:52,299 --> 00:19:54,734
If we let you have your way,
then people would be looking at
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00:19:54,769 --> 00:19:58,638
cats boxing until the
planet blew up, you [bleep].
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00:19:58,673 --> 00:20:01,873
You're trying to ruin your species,
and you don't even realize it,
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00:20:01,908 --> 00:20:04,376
you greedy, reptilian [bleep] bag.
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00:20:04,377 --> 00:20:06,546
Still people are gonna
think you're great, though.
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00:20:06,545 --> 00:20:11,083
No one's gonna know, so...
congratulations, demon.
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00:20:11,118 --> 00:20:13,919
[epic music]
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00:20:13,954 --> 00:20:16,255
I'm not saying inventors
don't... don't deserve to be
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00:20:16,290 --> 00:20:19,524
rewarded for their inventions,
but instead of suing people,
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00:20:19,559 --> 00:20:22,093
you work with them and
then the end result of that
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00:20:22,128 --> 00:20:23,929
is the entire planet wakes up,
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00:20:23,964 --> 00:20:26,099
we experience what's
called the singularity,
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00:20:26,134 --> 00:20:28,434
everybody gets dissolved by nanobots,
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00:20:28,469 --> 00:20:33,171
and we travel through the universe
as infinite beings of love.
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00:20:33,406 --> 00:20:34,707
[laughs]
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