Who Wants to Go to The Minstrel Show?

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Who wants to go to the menstrual show?

It's one more thing.

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One more thing.

Before we get to that, I was doing a little research on bimbo

vocation as the story just broke a little bit ago about Christy Knowham's husband who

is into the scene.

The bimbo vocation scene apparently has all the pictures of come out of him in a tight

little top with big giant fake breasts and tiny little shorts.

Reminds me of that weirdo teacher in Canada, although he turned out to be making a statement

I don't know against political correctness, I don't know.

It usually includes large augmented breasts, heavy makeup, blonde hair, form fitting or

revealing clothing and an affect of a ditsy, carefree, sexually available femininity.

So the question I was asking just the way he was dressed, it is a zegay dude, not that

matters.

Well, it matters to his wife probably.

They're in a heterosexual marriage.

But according to chat GPT anyway, the community, the bimbo vocation community is mostly women

and LGBTQ dudes.

I'm sure there are some straight dudes, but it's mostly not, so who knows?

I don't know many straight men that put on lipstick and a little pink tight shorts

since, but he's super into like bimbo-fied women because he wants to be one.

I don't know.

Wow.

Wow.

It sounds like a long therapy session.

I have a feeling Oprah is going to come out of retirement and do an interview with him.

You will cry.

You'll go through an entire box of tissues and explain how he's been hiding this is

or a Diane Sawyer.

She did the one with Bruce Jenner when he came out as Caitlyn Jenner.

Yeah.

So he'll have a good cry, deflate his balloon boobs, free stuff with these tissues, pink shorts

and just like a man, damn it.

Like a man.

Cory Lewandowski will throw his head back and laughter.

Back to the minstrel show, think.

Oh, and one other quick follow up to yesterday's one more thing podcast, which I'm going

to assume if you're listening to this one, you probably listened to yesterday's, which

Joe brought us that author.

What was the guy's name?

Inman.

Oh, yeah.

The Inman tires man.

I did quite a deep dive on that throughout the day yesterday, fascinating stuff.

There's tons and tons of effect.

The audio recorded almost all of it.

So there's audio recordings going over many, many, many decades him and his entire family

every single day forever.

Yeah.

He was absolutely a nut and cruel and selfish and morally indefensible.

But he collected an oral history of the century unlike anything ever heard.

It's one of the most thorough diaries of an every man in the history of the world.

And then he puts a bullet in his added age 63, and that's the end of that.

Yeah.

I actually ordered a 500 plus page edition of that.

I mean, it's, it runs what, what do I say, 25 times as long as the Bible and its entirety.

Uh, who has the time?

You nobody got time for that.

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Anyway, um, um, minstrel shows, uh, fits into, and I mentioned this.

I can't remember what the other one was, but it's USA 250, uh, which is a year long Wall Street

journal series examining America's first 250 years, and they look at different aspects

of American life, uh, for each of their, their articles.

And this one is looking at entertainment in America, from singing Yankee Doodle to streaming

Avengers, that's been an entertainment.

And then they start with, um, uh, the early Republic, it's all about music and fares,

because mass entertainment didn't exist.

The bigger cities like New York and Philadelphia boasted theaters, but for most American families

across 13 newly independent states, public entertainment options generally were limited

to dances, feasts, I tell you what, honey, you go to the dance.

I'll go to the feast.

Haha.

Yes.

That's not a tough call.

And local traveling fares.

This professor of history says you have large scale gatherings of people for harvest days

and feast days in the South court days, also provided entertainment.

Those were the days when the court was in session in a county.

So all the lawyers and judges would come together.

Anybody you had a case that they need to hear or whatever would all come together and

everybody would come together for events like horse racing and rassling on court days.

On a typical day, an American family would be more likely to entertain itself at home

by singing traditional folk songs like Barbara Allen patriotic songs such as Yankee Doodle

or hymns like amazing grace.

Local families would visit each other to talk, make music and play simple games like

cards or checkers.

I can imagine gathering my two sons on a Saturday night.

We're going to sing folk songs and in Altholoric not Barbara Allen again, dad, hey, come

on now.

It's a great song.

Haha.

Meanwhile, back on the plantation, black Americans enslaved were using homemade instruments

such as stringed gourds to produce music with complex rhythms influenced by the African

traditions, which would later develop into blues and jazz.

And they'd like to tell traditional stories like prayer rabbit and anancy tricksters who

provided models for overcoming powerful oppressors.

See where that would resonate.

And by the time we moved into the early 19th century, American families and cities enjoyed

a new entertainment option, public gardens, places of sanctuary built into cities where

you could walk around in a more pastoral setting.

Most of the gardens have stages where shows are put on and people start bringing their

kids.

Just parks, pretty spaces in the midst of the urban grittiness of the 19th century, which

was some damn gritty grittiness.

Entertainment entrepreneurs like PT Barma eventually expanded these gardens to include museums

and theaters or families could do everything from gawking it on usual people.

That's one way to put it or animals to watching performances of fairy tale characters like

Aladdin or Goldilocks.

Let's go laugh at people with birth defects.

In the 1840s, some gardens and theaters began to put on menstrual shows.

In a typical performance family might watch a spoof of a Shakespeare play, performed

in blackface with heavy elements of pantomime, as well as the menstrual line up in which

the performance would get up one by one to sing or tell jokes while the quote unquote

end men at each end of the line cracked side jokes about the performances.

They called the performances, yeah.

Some of the most popular menstrual songs of the year are still sung today like Campton

Races in Osuzana, says this history professor.

The menstrual show was clearly designed to demean African Americans, but it was also a major

form of family entertainment.

They're doing these things to appeal to kids.

Then interestingly, parlor pianos became more affordable in the mid 1800s and a lot of

people bought pianos and the 1860s saw the emergence of board games such as the checkered

game of life, which we talked about the last time we talked about this, which taught

and it became the game of life, which taught children moral lessons by rewarding virtues

like honesty, industry, and ambition while pushing vices like gambling and temperates

or idolists.

Remember the key to that was some of the squares included humiliation, despair, and suicide.

Yikes.

Where are you going else to do?

Yeah.

Then you got the gilded age, your 1880s and 90s, circuses got bigger and bigger.

Companies like Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey offered elephants, sequestrian acts,

clowns and contortionists in a huge big top that could seat thousands.

So that dates back to the 1880s.

Okay, in many places.

Oh, I do enjoy a good contortionist.

In many places, the circus was the biggest business anyone had ever seen.

They're very surprised and modern.

People were excited by seeing something so new.

I'm sure.

And then you'd have your traveling extravaganza's like Buffalo Bill's, Buffalo Bill Cody's

Wild West shows.

We've seen those reenacted in the movies, which I guess were just spectacular.

They would have hundreds of performers reenacting frontier battles.

Well, and then try to imagine that when you haven't seen anything, the slightest bit

entertaining.

Like five years.

Well, now wait a minute.

I was playing the humiliation in suicide, game at home with my friends and singing Barbara

Allen.

I mean, you haven't done anything the least bit out of work and school and raising kids

every day, day after day, week after week, month after month, season after season for

so long.

Yeah.

Anything comes along the town.

It's going to seem pretty exciting.

Well, yeah, but how about hundreds of performers like reenacting the battle a little

big horn?

Both of them shooting blank cities, other stuff like that, oh my God, you lose your mind.

Philadelphia's Centennial Exhibition of 1876 was the first major world's fair to be held

in the US.

It drew nearly 10 million visitors, 20% of the population of the country.

Wow.

Geez.

In 1876, yeah.

And that was right around when Vaudaville began to take off by the 1890s.

Millions of Americans would go out to Vaudaville shows every week, typical Vaudaville show involved

a series of 10 minute acts like stand up comedy, dancing, singing, and juggling.

Vaudaville troops would travel the country by rail, performing its sights from small town

opera houses to urban theaters, seating several thousand people.

Ground floor tickets were about a buck, but you got to adjust for inflation of course.

In the home, a rich family might have one of the new phonographs that played music

stored on wax cylinders, but most families were still making their own music using sheet

music or song books.

They were reading serialized fiction, newspapers, magazines.

That was Charles Dickens, how he came to fame, writing serialized books, kind of think

it up as he went.

And then early 20th century golden age Hollywood, early silent movies, et cetera.

First projected on screen at Vaudaville shows during intermissions.

After a while people were like, that's more entertaining than the show.

Right, right.

And then in the late 20s, sound came to movies and movie attendance grew by 40% almost

immediately.

They were amazed.

They could see the top stars singing and dancing.

They could hear the rat-a-tat of the guns and also made for a tremendous amount of creativity

and movie making.

It's interesting, airborne warfare came along earlier than talky movies.

I mean, maybe that's how obvious in a way because of the technology, but I don't know.

It seems odd to me.

And then, you know, we're much more familiar with the 20th century and how that's changed.

And there's no reason to go through that.

I looked up the lyrics, hit me in Scarlet Town where I was born.

There was a fair maid Dwellyn made every youth cry.

Well, a day her name was Barbara Allen was in the Mary month of May when green buds were

swelling.

Sweet William on his deathbed lay for the love of Barbara Allen and it goes on and on like

that.

Yep.

I can just see me in the song about a hottie and you see me and the kids sitting around

singing that.

I tried that this Saturday night, put away your turn off the TV, put away your video

games.

We're going to sing Barbara Allen.

Got a song for you.

Yeah.

The leaves were, the buds were a swelling.

Kids come on now.

Yeah.

Some respect.

People in the past were so dumb.

Sure.

Sure they were.

Wow.

Well.

I guess that's it.

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