The Great Onion Scandal

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2 ай бұрын

Onions are the only agricultural product where commodity futures cannot be traded in the United States. It all has to do with two men in Chicago, and a whole lot of onions.
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@johngregg5735 2 ай бұрын

Onions scandals should not be leeked to the press.

@eileenspamer 2 ай бұрын

@bartsanders1553 2 ай бұрын

Hey kid, beet it with the puns.

@BonnieBlue2A 2 ай бұрын

scandalous would be scallion-esque ?

@CAP198462 2 ай бұрын

Cheese, I’m getting tired of puns. Every comments section is just peppered with them.

@joshuabessire9169 2 ай бұрын

Whey did you ❤️ him THG? You're just egging them on.

@ZeusTheIrritable Ай бұрын

Is it weird that I would rather watch a short documentary about onion futures trading than nearly any network produced TV show?

@katiesiouxlamoureaux7757 Ай бұрын

Nope,I totally agree

@rocarr180 Ай бұрын

❤️🙏

@ambercrombie789 Ай бұрын

No. "Wisdom is known by her children".

@danstevens2204 26 күн бұрын

That’s why we are here 👍🏻

@JonesNate 2 ай бұрын

4:15 -- "But the market for butter spread thin..." Funny guy. -_-

@ouroboris 2 ай бұрын

He definitely has a way with words 😆

@Sniperboy5551 2 ай бұрын

His alliteration is also beautiful, his scripts are like poetry at times

@Russia-bullies 2 ай бұрын

As I spread them thick,I don’t get why the guy is funny.

@garandm1d 2 ай бұрын

... Spread thin... Eggs in one basket...That's why I love the history guy...

@Bbbuddy 2 ай бұрын

So much fun has started with “two guys in Chicago.”

@Metalkatt 2 ай бұрын

It’s A Hundred And Six Miles To Chicago. We Got A Full Tank Of Gas, Half A Pack Of Cigarettes. It's Dark, And We're Wearing Sunglasses

@NoBSRecoverfacts Ай бұрын

Cringe

@ZeusTheIrritable Ай бұрын

@@Metalkatt Hit It.

@nancybaumgartner6774 26 күн бұрын

That, and “Florida man…”

@davidkaplan2745 2 ай бұрын

You rapscallion, you.

@ElementofKindness 2 ай бұрын

_"If making money is a crime, then I'm guilty."_ He didn't make money. He extorted money.

@EddieVBlueIsland Ай бұрын

Only because dishonest people believed him

@paulthiessen6444 Ай бұрын

@@EddieVBlueIslandgreedy people anyways

@bobbsurname3140 Ай бұрын

@@EddieVBlueIslandWere the onion farmers who didnt want their crop to become worthless dishonest?

@AdamBechtol 25 күн бұрын

Good point.

@lisaboban 2 ай бұрын

It takes a real talent to make commodity trading and onion farming into a fascinating story. Well done, sir.

@pilotjoe4010 2 ай бұрын

You could say it has layers…

@lisaboban 2 ай бұрын

@@pilotjoe4010 So many layers ☺️

@Dogdrule 2 ай бұрын

Honestly, Planet Money did an episode on it years back that has stuck with me more than any other in a catalog of many hundreds of episodes. It's a fascinating tale despite seemingly dry elements like commodity trading and futures

@jackmanatee3162 2 ай бұрын

We have an odd, kind of family heirloom. It's a still life painting of onions. The story goes that the painting belonged to a railroad VP in California who loved onions but for whatever reason could not eat them. Apparently the VP was a distant relative of the family. The painting was given to my father when he was a young man working in machining factory in the years before WWII. An odd story? Yes, and I've always doubted it's veracity. However it's a very nice painting. 😄

@drewzero1 2 ай бұрын

That's fascinating! I can't eat onions and neither can my mother. I don't think I've heard of anyone outside my family that reacts to them.

@jaymzx0 2 ай бұрын

I love family stories like this.

@elizabethsohler6516 2 ай бұрын

@@drewzero1 I have a friend who can't eat onions. I believe he has diverticulitis.

@wheressteve 2 ай бұрын

A multi layered family onion painting mystery sounds nice, we're still trying to find out what happened to Dad after he went to the store for cigarettes in 1973.

@wheressteve 2 ай бұрын

Ji.bo.... 9

@skyden24195 2 ай бұрын

So glad The History Guy mentioned, "Trading Places" because that movie immediately came to mind when discussing "future's commodities."

@jburron Ай бұрын

Commodity futures.

@thefoxfireworkshop 9 күн бұрын

And he led us right into it with “pork bellies” and “frozen orange juice.” I love that movie! It's a lot of fun.

@timothysworld1028 2 ай бұрын

The most-accepted Chicago meaning is a word that comes from the Algonquin language: “shikaakwa,” meaning “striped skunk” or “onion.” According to early explorers, the lakes and streams around Chicago were full of wild onions, leeks, and ramps. Appropriate that Chicago played such a huge part in this story.

@topherthe11th23 2 ай бұрын

@timothysworld1028 - Chicago was named by the Spanish after a line in a tragic love-poem wherein the hero realizes that though he loves a certain woman, they can never be together. So he says "You must go, Chica, go" (using "go" instead of "va" because it's in the border-dialect that briefly existed along the river that forms the border between Castile and Sussex).

@Foolish188 2 ай бұрын

Ramps...Oh do I want some ramps right now. Once found a large patch deep in the woods behind our house as a kid. I swore my family to secrecy about the location, but my Mother told several people. A year later they had all been stolen. I will die with the secret of the locations of my current patches.

@johnnixon4085 2 ай бұрын

@Foolish188 I planted 100 bulbs 2 years ago. Last year I tasted a couple leaves. They're just coming up now, but I expect to be able to take enough leaves to make some ramp butter, and to hopefully get some seed to scatter. Hopefully next year I can take a few bulbs.

@tissuepaper9962 2 ай бұрын

@@topherthe11th23 very few questions in etymology can be answered with the unwavering confidence you have put on display in your comment. It's foolish to accept either story as absolute fact, unless you can provide a definitive primary source (which I know you can't).

@topherthe11th23 2 ай бұрын

@@tissuepaper9962 I have a manuscript on parchment, dated 1460. Unfortunately it is in such delicate condition that even merely taking a photograph of it could be detrimental to its preservation. Subjecting it to public examination must remain out of the question for now. This means that the best evidence you can get is my assurance that the manuscript exists, since you can't get any evidence to the contrary. This makes you honor-bound to believe what it says. This is how scholarship works. Best evidence available. (I.e. not "best evidence imaginable" which may not be possible.)

@g3heathen209 2 ай бұрын

Mortimer and Randolph Duke would be proud.

@DavidHBurkart 2 ай бұрын

Wouldn't that actually be Louis and Billy-Ray? Morty and Randy didn't recover from that until the 1990's following a windfall gift from a foreign prince!! 😂😂😂

@user-uo2gn7lc6y 19 күн бұрын

😂 😂 😂

@palehorseman8386 2 ай бұрын

I'm surprised that box office futures was even considered given how infamous Hollywood accounting is.

@skyden24195 2 ай бұрын

That is probably why it was considered, i.e., given how infamous Hollywood accounting is.

@dwbiggly6907 2 ай бұрын

What’s better than French onion soup? Vampires love onions. My cousin vacationed in Transylvania for two weeks and wore a ring of garlic around his neck. The next year he returned to Transylvania but couldn’t find garlic to make a necklace. He made one out of onions. We never saw him again.

@robertsaget6918 Ай бұрын

This happened to my wife but in Spain. The last time I saw her she was walking away with two vampires wearing expensive suits who gave me a plane ticket home.

@mimisor66 28 күн бұрын

He's probably still there, farming onions...😊

@Youser999 2 ай бұрын

I wore an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time... 😂

@NelsonZAPTM 2 ай бұрын

Was it a brown onion? Or one of the white ones that was fashionable at the time?

@danwolf307 2 ай бұрын

Thank you!😂

@emceeboogieboots1608 Ай бұрын

Here it is! Onya Abe 👍

@TTOS69 Ай бұрын

What. The. Fck. Are you from the 1800s??

@PhilWithCoffee Ай бұрын

I was looking for this lol

@noneyabizz8337 2 ай бұрын

Guy turned good later, that's not normally how bad onions work.

@guessundheit6494 2 ай бұрын

And south american drug lords put money into their communities. So what's your point?

@DavidHBurkart 2 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@eldorados_lost_searcher 2 ай бұрын

You could say that he had layers to his personality.

@BTScriviner 2 ай бұрын

A lot of those robber barons/shady capitalists turn to philanthropy later in life.

@pgtv14 Ай бұрын

Steals a boatload of money and gives (some) of it away to boost his own reputation. Real nice guy he was -_-

@vinnynj78 2 ай бұрын

I love that little nod to Trading Places at the end. On a side note people selling short on major films released in 2023 could have made a fortune.

@inthefade Ай бұрын

Just shorting Disney world have been a good idea

@robertriteman3227 19 күн бұрын

" the butter market had spread thin" such a great slip in line

@constipatedinsincity4424 2 ай бұрын

That last joke has me crying 😢 I don't know why!

@robertriteman3227 19 күн бұрын

" the butter market had spread thin" such a great slip in line

@thetangieman3426 2 ай бұрын

Having grown onions at scale, actively traded commodities futures, and secretly desiring the cheat code to large piles of money this story is one of my all-time favorites, right up there with The Idles of March and the Manhattan Project.

@russcrawford3310 2 ай бұрын

Layers? ... like an ogre? ...

@skyden24195 2 ай бұрын

You know what else has layers? Parfaits. Everyone likes a parfait. Ask anyone if they'd like a parfait. Ain't no one gonna say, "No, I don't want no parfait."

@Maudit_Anglais 2 ай бұрын

Good one !

@Whatsinmygreygarage 2 ай бұрын

Cake! Cake has layers!

@spvillano Ай бұрын

Ogres, onions, you mean smelly and make people cry?

@caturdaynite7217 2 ай бұрын

One year Mom got me an onion for Christmas. I looked right at her and ate it raw. I still like onions and I learned a valuable lesson. Don't make Mama mad.

@peterestrada9420 2 ай бұрын

Since I was a kid, I have eaten onions, like apples, but ☝️covered with Mustard & Black Pepper; Tomatoes, as well🤤😋🤣

@peterestrada9420 2 ай бұрын

Salt & Watermelon 🍉 🧂 is pretty good too🤙😉

@poetryflynn3712 2 ай бұрын

Ever hear of Vidalia onions? Supposedly they're sweet like apples!

@sooz9433 2 ай бұрын

They are! @@poetryflynn3712 The ones that are as big around as softballs but only an inch or so tall are the best ones.

@tygrkhat4087 2 ай бұрын

@@peterestrada9420 My dad did that.

@V.Hansen. 2 ай бұрын

I can’t imagine being a farmer and then stealing from all the other farmers knowing how hard it is to stay afloat. What an actual pos. Makes me sick

@jodyssey9921 2 ай бұрын

Ruthlessness is the most important quality if you want to be rich. That's why rich people are all assholes.

@advicepirate8673 2 ай бұрын

If only the rest of us were willing to give people like that the one time payment in lead that they deserve. But most of us are no better, we have a system wherein mice happily vote for cats in the delusional hope that they will one day become the cat.

@tissuepaper9962 2 ай бұрын

@@jodyssey9921 you have to step on other people's faces to make it up the ladder to wealth. There's a good reason why Jesus told the young rich man to sell all his possessions and give to the poor, and why it is said that a camel can be more easily be drawn through the eye of a needle than can a rich man enter the kingdom of heaven. You can't get rich without screwing people, it's a simple fact.

@DutchBlackMantha 2 ай бұрын

So instead of preventing the same sort of market cornering to be done again, they just made it impossible for 2 very specific products.

@spvillano Ай бұрын

And started an in-joke in the Adams family, where Gomez would comment on the price of pork bellies in multiple episodes.

@handimanjay6642 2 ай бұрын

It brought tears to my eyes at how you peeled this subject, sliced then diced its many layers.

@zyxw2000 29 күн бұрын

And then leeked the information to us.

@MrJamesjustin 2 ай бұрын

"...the market for butter was spread thin"? Ahhaha 😂 Sir, only you could get away with that.

@robertriteman3227 19 күн бұрын

as soon as he said i thought " genius"

@mariabradley5585 2 ай бұрын

Lesson: Don't cry over spilled onions.

@CAMacKenzie 2 ай бұрын

That Vincent Kosuga, he really knew his onions...

@dom1310df Ай бұрын

It brings a tear to my eye that politicians can't put the same effort behind solving real problems as they did to stop trade in onion futures.

@user-oh2hs6jh5x 2 ай бұрын

Welcome to class. The mid-term has been cancelled. Enjoy the weekend.

@CAP198462 2 ай бұрын

But I spent all night studying for it 😢.

@JeffreyGlover65 2 ай бұрын

@@CAP198462I was gonna cheat off your answers...🤔

@davea6314 2 ай бұрын

@@JeffreyGlover65 You're suspended from school. 😜

@danstotland6386 2 ай бұрын

Gee Thanks!

@narveenaryaputri9759 2 ай бұрын

Chicago MEANS Onion in the Fox and Mesquaki language. They are the same people who named the major river of America the Mississippi, a Fox and Mesquaki word which means Plenty Of Fish.

@joshuabessire9169 2 ай бұрын

I have some apples, would you like to buy them? Yes, please. That's how hard it should be to operate a Business. Also, dueling should be brought back. You might be able to say "buy my onions or else" 1 or 2 times but by number 10 you're surely missing an ear.

@hobbyfarmer62 2 ай бұрын

I have always looked on futures trading as a sort of scam as it just seems to susceptible to stuns like this one.

@Foolish188 2 ай бұрын

A very useful scam. For both farmers who can sell at a guaranteed profit and buyers who can buy at a guaranteed price, eliminating their risk of a higher price. Speculators provide the liquidity for the farmers and buyers.

@spvillano Ай бұрын

Interestingly, just last week, Trump Media filed a complaint with the SEC claiming some mystery party was short selling Truth Social to manipulate the prices of their stock. Totally has to be true, can't be that a company that's losing tons of money has an overinflated stock value... Still, gambling and the stock market, ever a match made in the realm of the afterlife, such gambling working out ever so well in the 1920's.

@ArchFundy 2 ай бұрын

That dude sounds like a pirate to me. ^^

@TheHistoryGuyChannel 2 ай бұрын

The Onion Pirate!

@juliao1255 2 ай бұрын

...After all, don't all good stories have pirates? (Sorry, but someone had to say it.)

@Pygar2 2 ай бұрын

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel This man really knows his onions!

@jonmccormick6805 2 ай бұрын

@@juliao1255 Yes, and I was thinking it too!

@honodle7219 2 ай бұрын

This story brought tears to my eyes.

@robertriteman3227 19 күн бұрын

" the butter market had spread thin" such a great slip in line

@NoahSpurrier 2 ай бұрын

I had a friend who was a chef. I once asked him what’s the most important vegetable. He said onions.

@danktankdragkings7117 2 ай бұрын

as a professional prep cook 100% onion.

@stevenschnepp576 2 ай бұрын

Beyond a shadow of a doubt. Just look at how many recipes are ruined without it, and how few substitutes for it there really are.

@goodun2974 2 ай бұрын

Louisiana cooking relies upon what they call the Trinity: onion, celery and bell pepper.

@wisecoconut5 2 ай бұрын

Totally. I am just an average home cook, but I keep 3 or 4 kinds of onions on hand all the time. Sweet, purple, yellow, leeks ( when available), and green onions. But shallots are great, too.

@tygrkhat4087 2 ай бұрын

When I was a dishwasher, I hated to clean the bowls of French onion soup. I asked the chef why we served it, he said it cost $0.50 to make and we charged $8.50 a bowl.

@pulaski1 2 ай бұрын

I'm not sure if there is a History Guy video to be made, but tobacco is the most valuable crop in the world for which there is no organized market or trading. I was briefly involved some years ago with one the largest tobacco brokers, which bought directly from farmers and sold to tobacco companies around the world. There is a lot more to supplying the different types of tobacco to the cigarette manufacturers than you could possibly imagine!

@topherthe11th23 2 ай бұрын

I'd heard of this but was waiting for an expert to peel back all the layers. Speaking of layers, the infinitely tangled complexities affecting egg-production are the reason the earlier commodity-trading in eggs mentioned from 3:53 to 5:00 died out. Every investor lacked the ability to digest all the layers in the egg-business.

@Wordmama 2 ай бұрын

Now I can't get the smell of rotting onions out of my mind ...

@Linusgump 2 ай бұрын

I was thinking the same thing. 🤮

@alcedob.5850 Ай бұрын

aw heck, got a flashback from 2020 when for like 3 months the only stink I could feel was the stink of rotting onions

@m39fan 2 ай бұрын

Lance is in fine form today.....

@BrilliantDesignOnline 2 ай бұрын

One of your best, definitely top ten. Can you imagine over 1000 gondola cars full of onions? I have ridden in a gondola car full of sweet potatoes. At about 50 feet long, that is about 9.5 miles long.

@tricotdiko1435 2 ай бұрын

I think Chicago means “Smells like onions” in local native tongue.

@Torby4096 2 ай бұрын

Even more, bad smelly onions.

@scotto9591 2 ай бұрын

I really appreciate all the puns you sprinkled throughout this clip. Thank you for all that you do. We learn so much from you😊

@So-CA_NV_AZ82 2 ай бұрын

Hey THG, my first time commenting. Love the Channel, great videos. This was a great video, super informative. I love onions, keep up the great content

@timinwsac 2 ай бұрын

I'm surprised that Vince didn't end up sleeping with the onions.

@BrilliantDesignOnline 2 ай бұрын

Sounds like he made more enemies than profits.

@thefixerofbrokenstuff 2 ай бұрын

My hat is of to you, the king of dad jokes.

@andrewkillham3946 2 ай бұрын

This story brings tears to my eyes

@mellissadalby1402 2 ай бұрын

Mr. Lance, I must say that you MORE THAN earn my devotion to your channel every week. You must be a tireless researcher to document so many stories so well with nary a break. I am truly in awe.

@costrio 2 ай бұрын

Onions with steak and mushrooms?...Yummy! Cue the Susan Christie song, "I Love Onions?"

@edwardschneider2716 2 ай бұрын

Well done. Very interesting topic. Especially as I plant our own onions in 2024

@carguybikeguy 2 ай бұрын

4:23 I am commenting in the middle of the piece to express how delighted and amused I am by your well-placed and accurate puns. Thank you. You remind me of my HS physics teacher. All the dad-joke punny humor one could stomach and I was all there for it. Keep it up!

@rickhobson3211 2 ай бұрын

Fantastic episode! The ending elicited a healthy chuckle! Thank you for all your hard work getting to the root of the issue! You are no dim bulb!

@CheshireTomcat68 2 ай бұрын

Man, this guy sure knows his turnips.

@psivewri Ай бұрын

Take a shot every time there’s a food related pun

@luannnelson547 2 ай бұрын

Here’s a butter and onion related experience for you: I grew up on a dairy farm in Georgia. My father and grandfather farmed together and had about 330 dairy cows. One unfortunate day, the cows broke down a fence and got into a neighbor’s empty field, which was rife with wild onions. Cows LOVE wild onions, but the resulting milk - pee-ew. Three days of milk had to be discarded, until all traces of onion smell were gone. I will never forget the odor and appearance of the curdled milk in the two big tanks, which as I recall held 3,000 and 5,000 gallons respectively. I still cannot eat French onion dip.

@matta5498 2 ай бұрын

Brilliant! Caveat Emptor!

@parrotraiser6541 2 ай бұрын

Shorting has a finite reward, while it has a potentially infinite loss.

@WYO_Dirtbag 2 ай бұрын

Shrek would not approve of what these two guys did to mess up the onion market.

@anonymous7386 2 ай бұрын

Hang on: the Ferris Beuller movie had a running joke referencing "The Sausage King of Chicago" - was that a reference to this guy? I never knew.

@TheHistoryGuyChannel 2 ай бұрын

Chicago has a lot of kings…

@gloriamontgomery6900 2 ай бұрын

It was this guy who killed his wife and put her in a vat of acid in his sausage factory. They found a ring and her false teeth which were enough to identify her

@mrdanforth3744 2 ай бұрын

There was a screwball comedy called The Palm Beach Story that had a character called The Weenie King who made his fortune manufacturing weenies.

@ericmintz8305 2 ай бұрын

When I was in college (between the fall of 1966 and spring of 1970), there was a Great Winter Onion Shortage. The price of onions shot up, then they disappeared from the shelves. You couldn't get one for love nor money. It was a great day in the morning when they returned. Does anyone else remember this?

@RonaldFigura Ай бұрын

@thomasmacdiarmid8251 Ай бұрын

A possible topic for another video - I long ago read in a book that in the 1800s, an investor set about cornering the market for rags used in making paper, but that just as he was completing a major step in the process, wood-pulp paper was made available and the market for rag paper was hopelessly undercut. I have not been able to find further information, and it may be an apocryphal warning story.

@adrianbooth438 2 ай бұрын

But it was the style at the time!

@anthonini66 Ай бұрын

Two of my great passions coming together, onions and scandals.

@guillermorodriguez836 Ай бұрын

14:34 FCOJ but Pork Bellies were also part of the plot when Valentine was tested on when and what price to sell.

@braxtonnelson5375 2 ай бұрын

It's official: The History Guy can make any subject ap-peel-ing, no matter how many layers he has to unwrap.

@chriscunliffe7450 2 ай бұрын

During my studies of Horticulture I stumbled upon the event known as Tulipmania involving the trading of rare tulips in The Netherlands , 400 or so years ago give or take ,some people lost fortunes speculating on the newest fashionable flower bulbs from the middle east

@TheHistoryGuyChannel 2 ай бұрын

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@afigzr Ай бұрын

Thanks for another great video HG

@earllutz2663 2 ай бұрын

Thank you again THG for another history lesson, this time on the onion. I am always impressed with your historical research.

@valeriehowden471 2 ай бұрын

Trading Places is one of my favorite movies.

@JimDean002 Ай бұрын

I'm sure this video is Billy Ray Valentine approved

@werre2 Ай бұрын

Somehow I'm not surprised that this happened in Chicago

@BasicDrumming 2 ай бұрын

I appreciate you and thank you for making content.

@odetomy Ай бұрын

I never knew there was an onion stock market scandal. lol. I a learning so much from these videos. Thank you so much for making these.

@edkeaton 2 ай бұрын

My best friend thought that he was so smart. He said to me that onions were the only food that made you cry...then I threw a coconut at his face! 😂🧅🥥

@saxongreen78 Ай бұрын

The very worst of human nature on display...this kind of evil is the reason the World is such a horrible place.

@AdamBechtol 25 күн бұрын

Mmmm

@johnshinn6274 2 ай бұрын

This is my favorite channel. You’re the best. Have a great day and God bless you.

@williamdavid3933 2 ай бұрын

Per usual I read the title of your episode and go wow how is that going to be interesting and then you go ahead and blow my mind about onions.

@johnfun3394 2 ай бұрын

I always wished I was smarter, never outsmarted anyone in my whole life.

@djay6651 Ай бұрын

I don't which is greater, THG's love of history or making dad jokes.😅

@ProctorsGamble 2 ай бұрын

Another fascinating, well researched and cited story!

@VetsrisAuguste 2 ай бұрын

Every time someone is getting rich, you can guarantee someone somewhere is getting screwed, being exploited or is indentured to make it possible.

@sallythekolcat 14 күн бұрын

Seattle's Pike Place market started when onions went from .10 to 1.0 and the housewives rioted. The public market connected farmers to consumers and skipped grocery price gouging.

@spankduncan1114 2 ай бұрын

What's the difference between an onion and an accordion? No one crys when you cut up an accordion.

@vmitchinson 2 ай бұрын

When I was up north, in the high Artic, people would eat raw spanish onions because they tasted like apples. This happens when you do not eat frest vegetables for a long time.

@helenel4126 Ай бұрын

I'm sure this has been said, but this episode had me weeping.

@johnthiel7422 2 ай бұрын

A whole lot of tears were Shedd

@milosterwheeler2520 2 ай бұрын

All those onions dumped into the Chicago River must have been a interesting story in themselves.

@harryschaefer8563 Ай бұрын

I often traveled with my family on the way to Port Jervis New York, through Pine Island New York, a town known for growing onions, in a broad flat valley of pure black soil. Listening to this episode, I wondered if Pine Island would be mentioned, and was not disappointed. The area is quite beautiful, and it is amazing how black the soil is.

@jdavid50 2 ай бұрын

That was a delightful story. Thanks for sharing it.

@captbad9313 2 ай бұрын

Clever, thank you for the laugh and smile.

@RechtmanDon 2 ай бұрын

One of the best editions!

@athompso99 2 ай бұрын

More puns and bad jokes per square pixel in this episode than any i can remember before!

@Adallace 2 ай бұрын

Reminds me of the great butter and dairy shortage in the northwest and Oregon that involved a bunch of corrupt cops laundering butter through a diner and murdering and stealing products from creameries all around the region like it was cash from a vault. The Dollop did a live episode about that story: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gsujq8eb18u1f40.html