Welcomed, Erin, monkeys, cabinet of curiosity is a production of I hurt. Radio and grim and mild our world is full of the unexplainable and of history is in book. All of these amazing tales right there on display just waiting for us to explore, Welcome to the cabinet of curiosities. The how many is often maligned as a lesser form of entertainment when compared with other genres, such as drama the office actor Steve corral once said, I don't think

but comedy and drama as separate genres. It's about trying to make it as truthful, as you can add, to paraphrase the late Edmund gwen, who played santa claus in nineteen forty seven miracle on thirty fourth street dying is easy. Comedy is hard. Stand up, can help us deal with difficult, real world issues by showing them in a more humorous light. Sitcoms often depicted exaggerated but honest scenarios regarding parenting and marriage to show us that we're all going through the same things and just trying to get by parody is perfect for lampooning those at the top and knocking them down a peg or two, and when it comes to parody one man dance above all of them. We are down yank of ec born and downy california. In nineteen fifty nine Alfred matthew, yankee VIC was raised by parents who unwavering we supported him in whatever he did. His father often said the king success is doing for a living. Whatever makes you happy and the young yankee that took that to heart he took his fur.

Accordion lesson on the eve of turning seven after a door to door salesmen stop by offering lessons at a nearby music school. as he got older and was stuck at home with little to do. Yankovic taught himself how to play popular hits of the nineteen seventies, but music was only half the equation. L also had a passion for comedy. Special clique. Parity he'd been quoted as citing the likes of Alan sherman and tom lair as inspirations for him growing up their influences as clear as day on all of his albums, and where did you hear these artists? His parents certainly didn't introduce him to them. Instead, he listened to the comedic styling of doctored, the Minto, who would play all sorts of comedy albums and songs on his syndicated radio show. In fact, in eighteen, seventy six doktor demented came to yank of schools,

talk to the students, after which AL handed him, a cassette tape of himself plain various parities and original songs on the accordion doktor demented played on his programme almost immediately from their vehicles, extorted performing a coffee shops and open mike nights, hauling his accordion up to the stage and blowing everyone's minds, I mean who else would perform the theme from two thousand one: a space odyssey on the accordion for a bunch of college students algonkin it that's? Who his big break, however, came when doktor demented played out homemade recording of my balloon yeah, a parody of the next hit song. My shoe Rona, the next lead singer. Doug figure was so impressed with it. He reached out to capital records and suggested that they put it out as a single from there came another one rides: the bus set, the queen's another one bites the dust eat. It's a parody of Michael Jackson's. Hit beat it and dozens of other clever takes unpopular songs of there.

but one song did more than make people laugh and smiled. It changed the face of television in the nineteen eighties and beyond. It was a send up of the song jeopardy by the gregg kin band titled. I lost jeopardy released in eighteen. Eighty four, the song told the story of how the singer was a contestant on the original adoration of jeopardy, which ran from nineteen sixty four to nineteen. Seventy five and lost to a plumber and an architect both with a phd before Alex tribeca jeopardy, was hosted by art, I mean with Don pardo in the announcers chair. Pardo would go on to be the announcer for Saturday night live from nineteen. Seventy five until his death in two thousand fourteen both fly being and pardo made appearances in the music video for yankees exxon, as did else parents doktor, dementia and gregg kin who wrote and sang the original son I lost on jeopardy, emma hit reaching number eighty one on the: u s, hot one hundred charts, but what we

We didn't know was that merv griffin, the creator of the original jeopardy game, show, was working on something new. His other programme, wheel of fortune had become a smash and he wanted another half Our quiz show to round out the one hour block each evening he had filmed a test pilot with Alex tabak as the host in nineteen. Eighty three, but reactions fell flat. Griffin, however, decided to move forward despite The test audiences said one year later, on june forth of nineteen, eighty four griffin and the rest of the jeopardy crew got together to plan out the show. It was the same day that yankee exxon was released in jeopardy, Had writer made sure that every one in the room hurt it, they initially thought that it was funny and cute but They started hearing it more and more on the radio they got excited, maybe they're really as an audience out. Therefore, a new kind of jeopardy griffin.

Invited weird I'll onto his talk, show to perform it later that summer, after the performance griffin till the end of it, that the success of I lost on jeopardy was partially responsible for the show making to come back and hinted that there might even be a hosting gig in it for him with tongue, firmly planted a cheek course in september of eighteen. Eighty four jeopardy made its triumphant returned to the airwaves without extra back, not weirdo Yankovo as host, and although Mr Tribeca sadly passed away from pancreatic cancer in twenty twenty, the show he help define for almost forty years is still going strong today, as for

You're dal well comedy came easy. Winning on jeopardy, however, was hard sheriff eureka s gregory knew he was headed for dangerous territory where he was unwelcome. And likely to be met with resistance, tensions between the northern and southern states had been escalating for some time and Gregory worried that it would to an boil over into violence. After all, missouri and had recently cross the iowa border and cut down three be trees, rich with honey, and that was practically a declaration of war.

the honey war between iowa in Missouri officially started in eighteen, thirty, nine, but it had routes in a simple surveying assignment from twenty three years earlier, you see when the united states bought the territory from france during the louisiana purchase in eighteen o three. It was the first major addition to the country. The territory was quickly joined by land rustled from it Genus tribes through threats and unfair treaties in the aftermath of the war of eighteen, twelve, the new country finally had the time to define its boundaries. Something of their army. Getting badly beaten by the british for trying to steal british territory in canada. Didn't sit well with the? U s: government, in eighteen, sixteen, they hire john c sullivan to survey the area. Now Sullivan's task was to find the north south boundary of the united states. This would help distinguish what was and wasn't indigenous land. Eventually, it would separate southern states from northern states as well. The line was meant to start at the east bay

of the Missouri river, an end at the rapids of the divine river later missourians wanted to extend their northern border just a touch north. This would give state residents access to rich fertile land full of wild honeybees that had taken up residence in hollow tree trunks called trees. Honey was a hot commodity on the frontier as a sweetener, and these be trees made. land incredibly valuable, but something unusual happen. When J c brown was hired to redo the original line, as it turns out Sullivan hadn't done a very good job of it. The first time the markers seller, and was supposed to place along, the way were nowhere to be found. He said that he had

ended at the domain river rapids when in reality he had stopped at the mississippi river rapids brown worked hard, but given the original materials, it's no surprise that his line was off. It stretched nine to thirteen miles further north than the Sullivan mine. When I was split from wisconsin and eighteen, thirty eight and began campaigning for statehood. The border came into question, although the federal guy meant intervened. Missouri refuse to give up the brown line. Many of the residents of the new territory wanted nothing to do with slaveholding missouri, as they were. Free staters through and through Missouri, however, didn't care and began sending state officials to collect taxes

to make matters worse. In the spring of eighteen, thirty, nine, a farmer from Missouri, cut down three of the valuable bee trees infuriating the islands. He then sold the honey and wax without paying taxes and then legged it to Missouri, which refused to turn him over to iowan officials. Between this and the taxes. It was just too much iowans in the disputed territory contacted their governor, Robert Lucas, in july of eighteen, thirty, nine who issued a proclamation stating that if any missouri officials crossed the Sullivan line, they would be arrested, when drawn the line in the sand. Literally Lucas was quite confident that he wouldn't be ignored, but it seems He underestimated the indignation of the missourians who felt that their dignity and the honor of Missouri still needed to be protected among the

later Missouri governor lilburn bogs issued a proclamation of his own. He said that Missouri should continue to exert control over the lynne. Tension finally came to a head in october that year, when sheriff gregory enter the territory for the second time to collect taxes on behalf of Missouri. He was quickly surrounded by twelve hundred angry residents as well as I was sheriff. Henry half lament, who promptly stood him things quickly, spiral out of control from their by december, both missouri an ira had assembled there militias about a thousand men armed with old flint locks and farming equipment fuelled by whiskey and rage. They marched to the dispute. A territory proudly flying the flag that red death to fuchs pukes being the nickname for anyone from misery. Now I could have ended very badly but fortunately no one, was adequately prepared for winter and although play

the of men had massed at the border. Calmer heads would prevail. Delegations from both sides, mats and traded messages, and most people didn't want an actual fight except the governor. Who weren't even there in the end of the militia from Missouri, was sent home annoyed at the whole ridiculous ordeal to show their displeasure. They strung up two chunks of venison that they had shot earlier and dubbed one. Governor bogs and the other governor lucas, according to them of one delighted militiamen. We fired a few rounds at them until we considered them dead dead, the effigies were then buried with full military honors before the missouri men returned to their camp

Gregory was finally released, but the charges against him wouldn't be dropped. For a few more years, the governors back down and the? U s supreme court decided that the boundary would be set along the original eighteen, sixteen line, which would be reserved aid and corrected it ran about halfway through the disputed territory. It was the perfect compromise in that nobody got exactly what they wanted and everyone was left unhappy and, to top it all off the loss of all those batteries, probably stung. I hope you've enjoyed today's guided tour of the cabinet of curiosities, subscribe for free on apple podcasts or learn more about the show by visiting curiosities, podcast dot com. The show was, created by me Erin monkey in partnership with how stuff works. I make another award winning show called lore witches upon cast a book series and television

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