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- Carrie Nation was like,
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alcohol is terrible,
so she smashes this bar up,
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but she be wrong, though,
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'cause this [bleep]
is delicious.
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- They're all in Tennessee!
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I'm Andrew God damn Jackson.
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Get them giggles out!
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Ooh, yeah!
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- The 1960s is
a very tumultuous time.
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So Marsha P. Johnson smashed
that [bleep] against the mirror
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and said,
I got my civil rights!
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[patriotic music]
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♪ ♪
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[rock music]
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♪ ♪
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- Oh, what you're drinking
tastes like poop.
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- Mm?
- Oh, apple poop.
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- [laughing]
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- That's so great.
What is that?
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- Apple poop.
- It tastes like apples.
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- Yeah.
- Hmm.
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I like it.
- That's okay.
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Yours is definitely better.
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- Yeah.
- You know what's crazy?
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I really thought
that was gonna happen.
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I was like,
I'm gonna do like, um--
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what is that,
the, um...
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What's the [bleep] cartoon?
That does it?
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The--the "Lady and the Tramp."
- "Alvin and the Chipmunks."
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"Lady and the Tramp."
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- "Alvin and the Chipmunks."
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All right.
- [laughing]
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- Hello, I'm Amber Ruffin,
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and today,
we're gonna talk about
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the saloon smasher.
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- Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
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- [hiccups]
Our story starts in Kansas!
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Carrie Nation married a man,
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but he dies of alcoholism.
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So, in 1900,
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she prayed for God
to tell her what to do.
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Jesus, let me know
what I can do
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to stop people from drinking.
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God said to her,
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Go to Kiowa, Kansas--
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not Iowa, Carrie--
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and I will stand with you.
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And she did.
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So, she goes to Kiowa, Kansas.
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She brings, like,
bricks and rocks
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to smash up bars.
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And that's when the real
[bleep] went down.
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She was like, I don't want
to strike you, barkeep,
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but I will break up
this den of vice.
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So, the barkeep was like--
- "This den of vice"?
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- "This den of vice."
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The barkeep was like, That--
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this has never happened,
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so I don't know
what you're talking about.
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[slurping]
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Sorry, that was loud.
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You don't know [bleep],
because my husband
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[bleep] died of alcohol.
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P.S., I super hate alcohol.
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So...um,
she smashes this bar up,
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and this is the first time
anyone has ever
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[bleep] freaked out
like a crazy person.
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She smashes up
all that [bleep].
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She's smashing up, um,
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all of his bottles of alcohol.
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Well, it's [bleep] illegal
for him to have it.
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And smashing his fun.
[laughing]
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She smashed everything.
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She comes out of his bar.
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There's a huge crowd,
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because people have never
seen anything like this.
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So everyone's out there going,
Yay!
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We like that that happened!
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And so she gains
a lot of supporters.
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At this point, it's illegal
to sell liquor in Kansas.
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[chuckles]
Those assholes.
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- [laughs]
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- So, Carrie goes
to three other bars,
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smashes their [bleep] up too.
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And then, finally,
the town marshal is like,
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Please stop.
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I'm going to have to
arrest you.
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She goes--she gets arrested.
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She is arrested
for seven weeks.
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So, she gets out of jail.
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Um, she goes to two other
cities in Kansas.
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When she gets to Wichita,
she says,
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Men of Wichita:
this is the right arm of God,
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and I am destined to destroy
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every saloon in your city.
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She goes into
the Carey hotel bar.
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She smashes up
every bottle of alcohol.
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She smashes up every mirror,
every window.
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She smashes it good,
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because Jesus told her to smash,
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and when Jesus say, "Smash,"
she smash.
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She does $3,000
worth of damage.
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Now, during
one of her smashies--
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- Oh, I like the smashies.
- [laughing]
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I wanted her to call it
"Smashies."
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I don't know that she did.
- [laughing]
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- A fan of hers
gives her a hatchet.
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Carrie is like,
Enough with the bricks.
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Let's get to the real [bleep],
a hatchet.
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So she goes into this bar,
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gets into the bar,
and smashes up
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every bottle of alcohol.
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Every...
[laughing]
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Ev-er-y. Ev-er-y.
So--
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- Everly Cleary?
- Every.
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Is what you should say.
But I'm saying "Ev-er-y."
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That's weird.
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So, she smashes up everything
in the bar.
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And she leaves the bar.
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And she's out talking to
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this huge mass of people,
and it's like,
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Alcohol is terrible.
Don't drink.
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Everyone is like, Whoo,
we're eating this [bleep] up.
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So, she's famous.
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Now she is famous.
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So, she goes around
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the whole United States
of America.
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She tours.
She smashes up bars.
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And she never stops,
and a lot of people
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try to write her off
as a crazy lady
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because she's the only
person saying,
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Hey, maybe alcohol is terrible.
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But she be wrong, though, 'cause
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this [bleep] is delicious.
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[slurping]
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So, she died in 1911.
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And prohibition
was passed in 1919,
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due in large part to her
and her efforts.
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But also, women's rights.
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That was Carrie A.
[bleep] Nation.
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Because she always advocated
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for women's right to vote.
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Thank you for [bleep]
letting me [bleep] vote.
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Lady.
- Amen.
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- Glad you smashed up
these bars.
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- Yeah.
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- Bet it was cool.
I sure like voting.
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[slurping]
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- [bubbling] I've always
been able to vote.
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- [laughing]
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I'm black--I haven't been able
to vote twice.
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[laughter]
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In the name of Carrie A. Nation.
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- Let's smash this [bleep].
- Let's smash.
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- One, two, three.
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[glass shattering]
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- To you, Carrie A. Nation.
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- The original Smash Mouth.
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- All right, so we'll start--
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you look into Tommy's camera.
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- Shut up right now.
Shut up right now.
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- Do it your own way.
- Shut up.
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Shut the [bleep] up.
- Know that I mean--
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- Shut the [bleep] up.
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Hello.
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I'm Kyle Kinane.
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And today, we're gonna talk
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about Andrew Jackson.
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The brawler.
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Start early 1800s.
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America.
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Andrew Jackson's army,
they're in Tennessee.
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He's a--
an accomplished duelist.
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Jackson's like,
I've been a soldier
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and a brawler my whole time.
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I'm a badass dude.
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So, there's a couple brothers
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named Thomas and Jesse Benton.
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They're officers
in Andrew Jackson's army.
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These two brothers, they're
a couple rabble rousers.
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Couple troublemakers.
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Thomas, he's power-hungry.
He wants to make it.
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He just wants--
he--he wants--
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he wants--
he wants it.
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Becomes Jackson's
right-hand man.
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Jackson likes him so much,
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he sends him to D.C.
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Jesse Benton, still in--
still in Tennessee.
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Part of the regiment, gets into
an argument with another--
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another fellow
under Jackson's regime
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by the name of,
uh, William Carroll.
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Some old-timey argument.
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Jabber, jabber, jabber?
Jabber, jabber, jabber.
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No end result.
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Well, we're not gonna
settle this with words.
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All right, let's meet in a
field and shoot at each other.
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Duel!
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- [laughing]
- So...
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It's--it's very inefficient.
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It's very inefficient.
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So, William Carroll
knew he was experienced.
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He's like, So listen, Andy,
do me a solid--
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I'm working under you.
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Can you be on
the ones and twos for me?
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Andrew Dacks--
Andrew Jackson says,
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You know what?
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I'm your second.
Let's go at it.
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[claps]
Duel!
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So, the duel goes down.
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Ten-pace duel.
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Turn, spin, shoot.
Poom!
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Carroll gets
his thumb blown off,
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still gets one off,
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shoots Jesse Benton
in his ass.
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Hilarious shot.
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[laughter]
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People are out there going
nut--they're--
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they're like, Well, did you
hear about the duel?
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Jesse Benton's got
an extra asshole.
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[laughing]
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Ah, all right.
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All right.
Get them giggles out.
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Ooh, yeah!
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It--the word gets
all the way back
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to Thomas Benton,
Jesse's Brother's--
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you know, he's over there, D.C.
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He's hearing about this.
He's like, What?
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Where I left, now they're
laughing about my name?
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And it's because Jackson
supported this other guy?
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Now, Thomas Benton, Andrew
Jackson's aide, is furious.
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He's like, This is
Andrew Jackson's fault
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for even allowing this stupid
duel to happen.
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So, he's not gonna
stand for it.
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He heads back to Tennessee
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to restore honor
to his family name.
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Andrew Jackson,
back in Tennessee,
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he's hearing--he's hearing
all this [bleep] talk.
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He's upset about all this.
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I'm Andrew God damn Jackson.
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I'm gonna whip sense
into these Benton brothers.
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Literally, he walks around
for six weeks
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with a bullwhip on his--
on his belt loop.
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Just some real
passo-aggro [bleep].
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[imitates whip cracking]
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You know how whips sound.
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Put in a sound effect.
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Post-production.
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Silent take.
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Post-produc.
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[silent]
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- [laughing]
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Okay, so,
do you remember where you are?
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- They're all in Tennessee!
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Nashville!
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September 4th, 1813.
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The Bentons are holed up
at a hotel.
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00:10:52,386 --> 00:10:55,253
Other end of the strip,
Andrew Jackson--
258
00:10:55,255 --> 00:10:57,255
[claps]
and his good buddy John Coffee.
259
00:10:57,257 --> 00:10:58,356
They're hanging.
260
00:10:58,358 --> 00:11:00,859
They all know
why they're there.
261
00:11:00,861 --> 00:11:02,193
They got beef.
262
00:11:02,195 --> 00:11:04,029
Old-timey beef.
1800s beef.
263
00:11:04,031 --> 00:11:08,466
Andrew Jackson's like,
Hey, John,
264
00:11:08,468 --> 00:11:12,203
your name is indicative
of morning activity,
265
00:11:12,205 --> 00:11:13,338
John Coffee.
266
00:11:13,340 --> 00:11:15,173
Let's go take a morning stroll.
267
00:11:15,175 --> 00:11:17,876
Let's go get my mail
from the post office.
268
00:11:17,878 --> 00:11:21,179
[clears throat] So they take
a little stroll around town--
269
00:11:21,181 --> 00:11:23,882
oh, did it happen to take a
270
00:11:23,884 --> 00:11:27,152
cir--circuit--cir, uh,
roundabout way
271
00:11:27,154 --> 00:11:28,386
in front of the hotel?
272
00:11:28,388 --> 00:11:29,387
Benton brothers posted up,
like,
273
00:11:29,389 --> 00:11:32,323
Yeah, we expected this much.
274
00:11:32,325 --> 00:11:34,359
Andrew Jackson,
he looks at 'em.
275
00:11:34,361 --> 00:11:37,095
Then just says,
"Defend yourselves,
276
00:11:37,097 --> 00:11:38,163
you damned rascals."
277
00:11:38,165 --> 00:11:41,166
[belches]
That was the final moment.
278
00:11:41,168 --> 00:11:42,200
Thomas Benton
goes for the sidearm.
279
00:11:42,202 --> 00:11:45,036
Andrew Jackson
already has it pulled.
280
00:11:45,038 --> 00:11:47,472
So Thomas, he goes
back in the hotel.
281
00:11:47,474 --> 00:11:50,942
Meanwhile, Jesse's
coming around sneakily.
282
00:11:50,944 --> 00:11:51,876
There's Andrew Jackson.
283
00:11:51,878 --> 00:11:54,612
What he doesn't see is Jesse's
coming around a corner.
284
00:11:54,614 --> 00:11:57,048
Fires off at Jackson--
bang, bang!
285
00:11:57,050 --> 00:12:00,151
Jackson, he gets shot.
Twice.
286
00:12:00,153 --> 00:12:01,052
[dramatic music]
287
00:12:01,054 --> 00:12:02,654
In the wing.
288
00:12:02,656 --> 00:12:05,924
Jackson goes to throw one
off at Thomas.
289
00:12:05,926 --> 00:12:07,058
The gun misfires.
[imitates farting]
290
00:12:07,060 --> 00:12:09,027
And it just farts out
his musket.
291
00:12:09,029 --> 00:12:11,062
Burns a hole in his jacket.
292
00:12:11,064 --> 00:12:13,098
Coffee runs in.
293
00:12:13,100 --> 00:12:16,401
Coffee fires a few shots
at Thomas.
294
00:12:16,403 --> 00:12:18,203
Oh, I'm being shot at?
295
00:12:18,205 --> 00:12:19,938
What's my safest bet?
296
00:12:19,940 --> 00:12:23,341
Let me just roll
down these stairs.
297
00:12:23,343 --> 00:12:26,177
♪ ♪
298
00:12:26,179 --> 00:12:29,114
He did that
to himself voluntarily.
299
00:12:29,116 --> 00:12:31,316
And...
[sets down drink]
300
00:12:31,318 --> 00:12:32,217
♪ ♪
301
00:12:32,219 --> 00:12:36,087
Now, we got another
Andrew Jackson supporter
302
00:12:36,089 --> 00:12:39,958
that just--he jumps in
out of nowhere
303
00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:42,293
Stokely Hayes,
he comes in with a sword.
304
00:12:42,295 --> 00:12:46,064
That's a rule, you don't bring
a knife to a gun fight.
305
00:12:46,066 --> 00:12:48,500
This guy, he goes
to stab Jesse.
306
00:12:48,502 --> 00:12:51,202
The sword breaks
'cause it hits a button.
307
00:12:51,204 --> 00:12:52,137
Twing!
308
00:12:52,139 --> 00:12:54,105
What about a knife?
309
00:12:54,107 --> 00:12:55,406
I'll just stab this guy.
310
00:12:55,408 --> 00:12:58,676
Stokely Hayes tackles Jesse,
311
00:12:58,678 --> 00:13:01,212
and this whole showdown,
312
00:13:01,214 --> 00:13:03,047
it's a catastrophe.
313
00:13:03,049 --> 00:13:04,048
End result?
314
00:13:04,050 --> 00:13:07,418
Andrew Jackson was a president
315
00:13:07,420 --> 00:13:09,053
who had, at some point,
316
00:13:09,055 --> 00:13:12,123
shot at several people
317
00:13:12,125 --> 00:13:15,460
in a non-battlefield situation.
318
00:13:15,462 --> 00:13:16,227
- [laughing]
319
00:13:16,229 --> 00:13:19,430
Keep going. I'll--
- Oh, just keep going?
320
00:13:19,432 --> 00:13:22,267
Oh, tha--I appreciate
your permission.
321
00:13:22,269 --> 00:13:26,404
Where was I?
Oh, crushing that story?
322
00:13:26,406 --> 00:13:29,140
That's where I was?
Crushing that story?
323
00:13:29,142 --> 00:13:31,075
So, it's like 20 years
down the road.
324
00:13:31,077 --> 00:13:34,212
He writes a letter
to Thomas Benton.
325
00:13:34,214 --> 00:13:37,182
Hey, last time I saw you,
326
00:13:37,184 --> 00:13:38,550
I think you left these.
327
00:13:38,552 --> 00:13:40,118
Puts the bullets in a letter,
328
00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:43,521
mails 'em off.
329
00:13:43,523 --> 00:13:46,157
You've had 'em long enough.
You keep 'em.
330
00:13:46,159 --> 00:13:47,158
Mails 'em back.
331
00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:50,695
That's...
332
00:13:50,697 --> 00:13:54,232
that's how duels are.
333
00:13:55,167 --> 00:13:58,136
I want to eat.
334
00:13:58,138 --> 00:13:58,770
- Mm-hmm?
335
00:13:58,772 --> 00:14:00,538
- Stay tuned for more
"Drunk History."
336
00:14:00,540 --> 00:14:03,274
- That's nice.
That's really nice.
337
00:14:03,276 --> 00:14:06,044
- [bleep] off.
- Okay.
338
00:14:06,046 --> 00:14:08,046
Sorry.
339
00:14:20,593 --> 00:14:22,126
- To Marsha.
- Yeah.
340
00:14:24,129 --> 00:14:27,165
I'm gonna paint my--
oh, you don't have to chug that.
341
00:14:27,167 --> 00:14:29,234
[laughing]
342
00:14:29,236 --> 00:14:30,401
Did you think I was chugging?
- Yeah, I did.
343
00:14:30,403 --> 00:14:34,706
- Oh, sorry.
- Just kidding.
344
00:14:34,907 --> 00:14:37,542
I'm honestly so happy right now.
345
00:14:37,544 --> 00:14:38,443
- Me too.
346
00:14:38,445 --> 00:14:40,345
- Hi!
Just kidding.
347
00:14:40,347 --> 00:14:43,915
- [laughing]
348
00:14:44,350 --> 00:14:47,318
- Hello, I'm Crissle West,
and today,
349
00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:51,589
we're going to discuss
Marsha P. Johnson.
350
00:14:51,591 --> 00:14:53,324
So, the story begins
351
00:14:53,326 --> 00:14:56,194
in the middle of
New York City,
352
00:14:56,196 --> 00:14:59,464
in the Village,
on Christopher Street,
353
00:14:59,466 --> 00:15:00,899
and back then, you know,
354
00:15:00,901 --> 00:15:03,434
New York had a growing
LGBT population.
355
00:15:03,436 --> 00:15:08,172
So, basically,
the non-straight population
356
00:15:08,174 --> 00:15:10,241
had a bunch of bars and stuff
357
00:15:10,243 --> 00:15:12,243
in Greenwich Village,
and so,
358
00:15:12,245 --> 00:15:14,946
you know, all the queer kids
would go down
359
00:15:14,948 --> 00:15:15,847
to the Village and be like,
360
00:15:15,849 --> 00:15:18,483
We're here to be ourselves.
361
00:15:18,485 --> 00:15:21,719
But these people didn't have
a sense of community.
362
00:15:21,721 --> 00:15:23,521
Like, this was a point in time
363
00:15:23,523 --> 00:15:25,890
where you came out
as being trans,
364
00:15:25,892 --> 00:15:27,458
and you were just
kicked out of the house.
365
00:15:27,460 --> 00:15:28,660
Like, and nobody gave
a [bleep] about you.
366
00:15:28,662 --> 00:15:30,762
And that was kind of
what happened to Marsha.
367
00:15:30,764 --> 00:15:34,499
Like, she was a queer person
growing up in Jersey.
368
00:15:34,501 --> 00:15:37,802
Okay, so she would
get on the train in Jersey,
369
00:15:37,804 --> 00:15:40,371
um, dressed as Malcolm,
which was her birth name,
370
00:15:40,373 --> 00:15:44,242
and then on the way over
from Jersey to New York,
371
00:15:44,244 --> 00:15:45,310
transform into Marsha
with, you know,
372
00:15:45,312 --> 00:15:48,613
beer cans and pop cans,
uh, for rollers.
373
00:15:48,615 --> 00:15:51,215
Just like,
I'm Marsha P. Johnson, bitch,
374
00:15:51,217 --> 00:15:52,884
and if you don't like it,
you go to hell.
375
00:15:52,886 --> 00:15:55,653
Like, here I am, ho.
What you gonna do?
376
00:15:55,655 --> 00:15:57,655
- Mm-hmm.
- [laughing]
377
00:15:57,657 --> 00:15:59,791
- You have the best
laugh in the world.
378
00:15:59,793 --> 00:16:01,392
I love it.
- Oh, God!
379
00:16:01,394 --> 00:16:02,860
Whoo! Anyways.
- Yeah.
380
00:16:02,862 --> 00:16:05,630
- The 1960s is a very
tumultuous time
381
00:16:05,632 --> 00:16:08,299
for the United States
of America.
382
00:16:08,301 --> 00:16:11,436
Because every minority group
imaginable
383
00:16:11,438 --> 00:16:12,370
is tired of the status quo.
384
00:16:12,372 --> 00:16:15,707
Okay, so there was a group
of officers
385
00:16:15,709 --> 00:16:18,743
in New York City
called the Public Moral Squad,
386
00:16:18,745 --> 00:16:20,578
which is ridiculous,
because when in the [bleep]
387
00:16:20,580 --> 00:16:22,814
have morals been a part
of this God damn city?
388
00:16:22,816 --> 00:16:26,417
Like, the city's trash,
and the Public Moral Squad
389
00:16:26,419 --> 00:16:27,585
took their orders
directly from the mayor.
390
00:16:27,587 --> 00:16:30,488
The mayor was like,
I want you to go shut down
391
00:16:30,490 --> 00:16:32,690
the [bleep] gay bars.
392
00:16:32,692 --> 00:16:34,525
I'm sick of them mother[bleep]
393
00:16:34,527 --> 00:16:36,828
putting they [bleep]
on people's asses,
394
00:16:36,830 --> 00:16:40,398
and it's time to be over.
395
00:16:41,500 --> 00:16:44,836
So, the night at Stonewall,
June 18th--
396
00:16:44,838 --> 00:16:47,538
or 28th.
June 28th.
397
00:16:47,540 --> 00:16:49,474
I know it was one of the 8s.
398
00:16:49,476 --> 00:16:51,442
[laughter]
399
00:16:51,444 --> 00:16:52,543
Oh, God.
400
00:16:52,545 --> 00:16:55,346
So, that night,
401
00:16:55,348 --> 00:16:57,982
Charles Smythe and
Seymour Pine,
402
00:16:57,984 --> 00:17:01,352
they walked into the
Stonewall Inn, and they said,
403
00:17:01,354 --> 00:17:02,453
Hey, bitch!
404
00:17:02,455 --> 00:17:04,288
[clapping]
We here!
405
00:17:04,290 --> 00:17:06,991
And [bleep] is under
mother[bleep] arrest.
406
00:17:06,993 --> 00:17:08,960
Sit your gay ass down,
407
00:17:08,962 --> 00:17:09,627
and wait for us to
408
00:17:09,629 --> 00:17:11,929
verify your mother[bleep] I.D.
409
00:17:11,931 --> 00:17:14,866
with your [bleep]
mother[bleep] genitals!
410
00:17:14,868 --> 00:17:16,034
[crashing]
411
00:17:16,036 --> 00:17:18,302
[laughing]
412
00:17:18,304 --> 00:17:19,370
Sorry, tree.
413
00:17:19,372 --> 00:17:19,837
[laughter]
414
00:17:19,839 --> 00:17:21,606
And the trans girls was like,
Oh, no, bitch.
415
00:17:21,608 --> 00:17:23,441
We didn't ask for this.
416
00:17:23,443 --> 00:17:24,876
And some people were, like,
freaking out,
417
00:17:24,878 --> 00:17:26,444
and trying to, like,
go for the exits,
418
00:17:26,446 --> 00:17:29,447
but the police had barricaded
the whole thing.
419
00:17:29,449 --> 00:17:31,315
And Marsha says,
You know what?
420
00:17:31,317 --> 00:17:34,952
Today is not
the mother[bleep] day!
421
00:17:34,954 --> 00:17:37,522
Today is the day that I say no
to this bull[bleep].
422
00:17:37,524 --> 00:17:41,626
Like, y'all are not going
to continue
423
00:17:41,628 --> 00:17:44,028
to run us, to dictate
424
00:17:44,030 --> 00:17:45,797
what our lives should be like.
425
00:17:45,799 --> 00:17:48,633
T-t-to dish--to dic-trate
426
00:17:48,635 --> 00:17:50,635
what our lives
are supposed to be like.
427
00:17:50,637 --> 00:17:53,638
You're not in charge
any [bleep] more.
428
00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:57,075
We're here, and as long as we
have to pay taxes,
429
00:17:57,077 --> 00:17:58,543
you're gonna have to listen to
what the [bleep]
430
00:17:58,545 --> 00:18:01,646
that we have to shay--
we have to sh--
431
00:18:01,648 --> 00:18:02,647
to shay.
432
00:18:02,649 --> 00:18:03,681
To say!
433
00:18:03,683 --> 00:18:07,018
So Marsha P. Johnson
stood the [bleep] up,
434
00:18:07,020 --> 00:18:09,053
and she picked up
a shot glass,
435
00:18:09,055 --> 00:18:11,789
and she smashed that [bleep]
against the mirror and said,
436
00:18:11,791 --> 00:18:13,925
I got my civil rights!
437
00:18:13,927 --> 00:18:17,028
She had had enough that
mother[bleep] day.
438
00:18:17,030 --> 00:18:20,364
So, during the Stonewall riots,
that first night,
439
00:18:20,366 --> 00:18:22,500
all these members
of the gay community
440
00:18:22,502 --> 00:18:23,668
started gathering outside.
441
00:18:23,670 --> 00:18:25,636
Marsha, she's thinking, like,
Oh, my God.
442
00:18:25,638 --> 00:18:26,938
There's so many of, like, us.
443
00:18:26,940 --> 00:18:30,074
There's 500 of this--
444
00:18:30,076 --> 00:18:30,741
of us.
445
00:18:30,743 --> 00:18:33,411
By the time backup showed up
to Christopher Street,
446
00:18:33,413 --> 00:18:34,045
it was way too late.
447
00:18:34,047 --> 00:18:35,680
Some of the rioters
threw rocks and [bleep].
448
00:18:35,682 --> 00:18:37,682
Others found bricks and
[bleep], and they're like,
449
00:18:37,684 --> 00:18:41,486
We're gonna [bleep] it up
by any means necessary.
450
00:18:50,462 --> 00:18:53,030
- [laughing]
451
00:18:53,032 --> 00:18:54,198
Oh, God.
- It was good.
452
00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:57,068
- I told myself I was not
gonna get drunk this time.
453
00:18:57,070 --> 00:18:58,703
I don't know how I thought
that was gonna work.
454
00:18:58,705 --> 00:19:00,605
[laughter]
455
00:19:00,607 --> 00:19:01,005
Okay.
456
00:19:01,007 --> 00:19:03,541
So, the people
at Stonewall that night
457
00:19:03,543 --> 00:19:05,476
realized there's
a community of us.
458
00:19:05,478 --> 00:19:08,646
It's not just 20 of us
on [bleep] Wednesday night
459
00:19:08,648 --> 00:19:10,815
when it's half off--
there's a whole group of us
460
00:19:10,817 --> 00:19:13,184
who are here
in this gay [bleep]
461
00:19:13,186 --> 00:19:14,185
and you're not
going to erase us
462
00:19:14,187 --> 00:19:17,955
from the mother[bleep]
conversation no more.
463
00:19:17,957 --> 00:19:19,724
So, Marsha says, Ultimately,
464
00:19:19,726 --> 00:19:21,692
humanness wins.
- Yes.
465
00:19:21,694 --> 00:19:25,163
- Ultimately, people win.
- Yeah.
466
00:19:25,165 --> 00:19:27,198
- That night,
and then the next one,
467
00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:29,100
constitute the Stonewall Riots,
468
00:19:29,102 --> 00:19:31,769
and that is what got the whole
469
00:19:31,771 --> 00:19:33,704
gay rights movement in America
470
00:19:33,706 --> 00:19:36,140
started off.
471
00:19:36,142 --> 00:19:37,241
- Like, that gives me chills.
472
00:19:37,243 --> 00:19:40,978
- It's the shot glass heard
around the world.
473
00:19:40,980 --> 00:19:42,847
A few weeks later,
474
00:19:42,849 --> 00:19:45,049
Marsha and her friend Sylvia
475
00:19:45,051 --> 00:19:47,218
formed the Street Transvestite
476
00:19:47,220 --> 00:19:48,853
Act--Reaction Evolution.
477
00:19:48,855 --> 00:19:51,689
Which is not words we--
we would use to gay--
478
00:19:51,691 --> 00:19:54,025
today, obviously,
it would be more like,
479
00:19:54,027 --> 00:19:55,860
Street Trans-vendor.
480
00:19:55,862 --> 00:19:56,794
Transgender, I mean.
481
00:19:56,796 --> 00:19:59,664
Not trans-vinegar, yeah, it's
not like that [bleep].
482
00:19:59,666 --> 00:20:02,567
Basically, Marsha and Sylvia
483
00:20:02,569 --> 00:20:03,868
were out there in the '60s
484
00:20:03,870 --> 00:20:05,570
and '70s just trying to get
485
00:20:05,572 --> 00:20:07,638
these trans kids
a place to live.
486
00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:09,106
She really was a badass.
- Yeah.
487
00:20:09,108 --> 00:20:11,809
- And so brave--like, I would
not have been that brave.
488
00:20:11,811 --> 00:20:12,877
In the '60s and '70s?
489
00:20:12,879 --> 00:20:14,679
I mean, it was bad enough
being black.
490
00:20:14,681 --> 00:20:15,846
- Right.
- But add in a queer identity,
491
00:20:15,848 --> 00:20:19,250
and then a--a queer gender
identity too?
492
00:20:19,252 --> 00:20:21,652
It was a lot.
It was a lot.
493
00:20:21,654 --> 00:20:22,653
And she still faced it.
494
00:20:22,655 --> 00:20:25,256
But truly?
495
00:20:25,258 --> 00:20:26,724
Black people deserve to be
on all this [bleep].
496
00:20:26,726 --> 00:20:28,726
- Mm-hmm.
- Black people and Sacagawea.
497
00:20:28,728 --> 00:20:31,562
Who needs to get off
the God damn coin
498
00:20:31,564 --> 00:20:33,764
and onto some [bleep]
paper money.
499
00:20:33,766 --> 00:20:35,032
[laughter]
500
00:20:35,034 --> 00:20:37,635
Because this our [bleep].
- Yeah.
501
00:20:37,637 --> 00:20:39,637
Bow down.
502
00:20:39,639 --> 00:20:41,806
[patriotic music]
503
00:20:41,808 --> 00:20:49,847
♪ ♪
504
00:21:08,100 --> 00:21:09,967
- Well, no, don't caress me.
- That's a Sublime song.
505
00:21:09,969 --> 00:21:11,702
- Don't test me
on Sublime songs.
506
00:21:11,704 --> 00:21:13,804
The song is called,
"Please Caress Me More."
507
00:21:13,806 --> 00:21:15,706
- Okay.
Sure.
508
00:21:15,708 --> 00:21:17,041
- That's--I don't want
to live it out.
509
00:21:17,043 --> 00:21:17,975
- [laughing]
- Don't live out--
510
00:21:17,977 --> 00:21:18,008
I don't want to live out Sublime
songs on my kitchen floor.