The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds - 283 1/2 - Levi Strauss - read by Ari Shaffir

Episode Date: July 18, 2017

Special guest comedian Ari Shaffir reads the story of Levi Strauss to Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds. Watch Ari's new Netflix special "Double Negative."SOURCESTOUR DATES REDBUBBLE MERCH

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friend. Garrett Reynolds who has no idea what the topic is gonna be about and I don't think that's true. You don't read in Spanish? No I don't think that's never happened and it's a bi-weekly. Okay well I guess not as accurate. Hola. All right that'll that's quite enough. Amigo. Shut up. Silencio. May Gusto basketball? Sure. Absolutely. Silencio is one of those words you can just add an O and it actually is. That's most of my Spanish and I get close with most of it like yeah and we have a guest today. We're doing a special episode. Because our friend Ari Shafir has a Netflix special coming out. Right now. It's out today.

It's out now. It's out today. And the exact date that it's out just to be clear. July 18. July 18. That's today. That is today and it's gonna be different because today Ari is going to read us a story from American history. And we're gonna learn from Ari. I actually prepared. I did some research. I can't believe it. Yeah. You have a computer. Yeah. I got choices for you guys. Yeah. So I went nice and dark. Either way. Okay. I'll do the story of Levi Strauss. Okay. Jeans. Okay. Or the BTK killer. We get to choose. Yeah. I mean I prepared both of them. Oh wow. Or from memory I realized on the way in I can vividly describe the Black Dahlia. Dahlia

Debalito who also tried to have her husband killed. Did she really? Yeah it was great. They caught it on camera. It was great. The Black Dahlia? Yeah. I think they renamed it. I think there was an original Black Dahlia and this was like a 1980s one. Oh like a Coke too. Yeah. Like a gritty reboot of the lady who got cut in half. Right. But a gritty reboot. Right. Yeah. Gritty. Very gritty. Yeah. But reboot is the operative word. I would say Levi Strauss. Yeah. She's Levi Strauss. Yeah. I'm curious about the jeans. Because I know the other ones. Okay. Levi Strauss I don't know anything about it except I like I like to put myself in those fucking pants. Yeah. They're great. Warming up his hands. Yeah. Like the

karate kid. Mr. Miyagi over here. Can I just say one thing about the B.D.K. killer. Yes. I sent a letter to the police. His return address was Bill Thomas Killman. I mean that's a giveaway. Yeah. Wow. What. Where's your. Like your head is in a weird place. Like a return address. Killman. Murderer. It's on Netflix or special on Netflix. It's called Double Negative. Speaking of Killman. Don't touch me. Yeah. I don't think anybody did. What does that mean because he's killing. Yeah. Okay. All right. Sure. I mean that was filmed at Ladyfoot Locker. Locker. No. It was filmed at Ladyfoot Locker. How great would it be to do a special Ladyfoot Locker. I was so worried about being the first to film in a place. No one's filmed

at Ladyfoot Locker. Yeah. I mean even if someone's thinking about Foot Locker to go Ladyfoot Locker. Yeah. So out of the box. Yeah. That really is true. Even if you got to Foot Locker not a lot of people would be like you know what. Would you close out to the public or would you have to deal with people shopping for hats and such. I think you keep people shopping. Oh that's a tough one. I think you keep people shopping for sure. So in case it's someone gets bored or in a joke they're like oh I can use it. Well you don't want to hollywood out. You know let it be real. Could you wear those striped shirts. Yeah. Oh yeah. So there was a Ladyfoot Locker too. Just all Foot Lockers. It's regulation. And

I'd wear the outfit. You wear it. Yeah. Wear the outfit. And if people had questions I'd help them. Right. They just come in and say excuse me. I need some socks with some pom-poms on. Well yeah of course. I'll get back to Facebook in a minute. If you look over there talk to Brad. He's got 10s in the back and I think those will suit you great. Do an audience shot of the wall where it is. Product placement to help pay for it. Great. All right. So the Killman. The BTK killer. So now Levi Strauss. Levi Strauss. Strauss in it. Okay. San Francisco boy. Yes. He moved to San Francisco. Born in Germany. A German Jew. Yeah. Got out way before. He was a German Jew. He got out before the stuff happened. Yeah. I don't think he

saw it coming. Rumored. Alleged. Right. Yeah. We still haven't seen pictures or anything. Yeah. Like oh there's tons. You can just look at it. I'll wait till they become available. I don't think so. Oh wait till I'm going to wait for the book to come out. A lot of those were doctored. Exaggerated the killings. Anyway. German Jew. Levi Strauss. Born in 1826. Okay. In north of Bavaria. Okay. Where BMW was later invented. Sure. Yeah. You seem not as sure about that fact. It doesn't seem like stating. No. It was more you questioned your own sentence. Yeah. I realize now it's definitely later invented. 1826 is pre-car right. Yeah. I think it's pre-car. 1826 they definitely workers are more of a horse situation at that point. Right.

I don't think they invented the horse BMW. They didn't have a BMW horse. Nothing I know. Look at the engineering. He's not believable. He's a head. Yeah. It's a bottom part. Yeah. It's got one horse power. Look at him. One horse power. Or you start embellishing. Three horse power is this one horse. He was named Loeb Strauss when he was born. Because of his ear lobe. Loeb. Is what is that. Is that a common name. Not in Judaism that I know of. It might have been a German common name. Loeb. Okay. Yeah. All right. I wish it was L O B E. Loeb would be easier. Yeah. Right. Might be pronounced Laib. L O E B. Feels like we're getting close to something that Loeb. Laibia. Laibia Strauss. Yeah. His dad died

of tuberculosis when he was 17. Almost everybody. Yeah. Almost everybody back then. Just the normal. Right. TB takes TB killer. Yeah. Take out 90% of people or something. I don't have the exact figures. God. The coughing. That's whooping cough. Is it also TB? TB has got a cough too. No. It's got a more milder cough. I mean from what I know. You've had TB. From watching. What was the name of the movie. Where. Okay. Tombstone. Tombstone. Tombstone. That's what I mostly take my TB facts from. And he coughed a bit. But it was more like a I'm coughing up blood cough. Oh, that doesn't sound. That sounds mild. Like you're like you're like a drowning cough. I picture like a David Telcoff. Who's talking about walls

of phlegm coming down. That's known as a chronic cough. Yeah. Man, it's like you got to stop smoking, man. Oh, why? I'm good. Two years later, his mom, Rebecca and him, they moved to America to join his older brothers. We're already there. They're in New York. Okay. They were established. They were established at a dry goods store. Fuck yeah. Okay. So dry goods. Sure. Yeah. It's dry. It's stuff that's dry as opposed to a wet goods store. Yeah. Well, which they went out of business a lot of the wet goods stores. These are terrible. Constantly hosing shit off. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So dry goods. Yeah. That was 1948. By 1950, he became an expert in the dry goods and salesmanship business. Within two years. 1858 or

19. 1850. Okay. So, okay, two years. So he really, he really figured out dry goods within two years. For sure, man. That's just a normal Jewish thing. And we're experts, we're experts at fucking salesmanship. Yeah. And an excelling of things. These are so dry. You're going to love these. So what is a dry, essentially a dry good is, I think you're, I mean, are we talking about dried foods? No, no, no. I think it means like goods. Good. Okay. Yeah. Like canvases and like, and like chairs. Okay. Maybe parts. Well, the idea that anyone would be selling wet chairs. Well, wouldn't you just call us a stuff store? Store. Maybe a store. Yeah. They had an event in shortening back then. Right. No, they had a roof. So

we're like, we're dry goods. I'm going to talk to this chef's house company about that. Get in touch. Yeah. Yeah. What was exactly that guy comes in with a bunch of old peaches. Where do I put these? Get out of here. And then a huge moment in American history happened when they discovered gold in California. That was a big deal. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Gold gold. They called it gold gold. Right. Yeah. They were in response to the black little Caesar's Beverly Hills. Okay. Right. Yeah. Okay. Gold gold. So the gold gold rush rush. Yeah. Yeah. And yeah. And he he became an American citizen. Okay. One month later, moved out to California. Okay. So everybody was doing. Yeah. He wasn't trying to mine for gold. Okay. He was just

like that looks like there's denim in these hills. Yeah. He's like, everyone's going there so I can go out there and maybe start a dry goods store. Yeah, exactly. He was like, I'm going to sell stuff to these gold miners. Yeah. He's not going to his hands dirty. Those were the guys who made all the money back then. It wasn't the gold miners. The people sell and shit at the gold mine. Yeah. And apparently ever the price was jacked up over the mountains. You couldn't get anything to the price is like five times higher over there. Yeah. It's like for everything for everything. Okay. Wet goods, dry goods, all of it. All the goods. All the cat lukewarm goods, hot goods, hot goods, cold goods,

wet goods, dry goods, prostitution, prostitution, dry prostitution. I wonder how prostitutes cost more out there because it was harder to get them there. I mean, well, yeah, it's a supply and demand. There's a market. Yeah. Yeah. I was in China once. I went into the Great Wall of China. Sure. That is there, right? That is so far. I thought it was. Put it on an accessor. Hold on. Oh, no, there it is. There it is. That is it. Okay. I thought it was that one. Anyway, there's this bottle of water this guy's telling. Let's say for a dollar, it's usually sold for, and he was selling for like three. Right. And that's where they sell the tourists, let's say. Yeah, because yeah. And but it was like in whatever

the yen was. And I was like, fuck that. No way. It's fucking one. You're trying to rob me, like always. And because I'm white, you know, that's normal. Yeah. But he was like, yeah, man, it's one, if you don't have to lug up a case of water up to the fucking Great Wall of China. Okay, that's fair. I was like, yeah. Keep the change. You're terrific. These are wet goods, right? So I assume the prostitutes probably cost more there. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I probably had quite a luxurious life with all those clean gold miners coming after them. Yeah, they love it. Toothless dreamers. Yeah. So he moved. He moved in February 1853. And right then, all the records of his brother stopped. We don't know what happened to them.

That's it. They're out. They died. That does happen. Never again. Never again. Nobody heard about him. Nobody heard how they died. Even at the end when he's rich and famous, no one was like, what happened to Billy? They never sent for them? Nothing. No one knows. It's fucked up. I wonder if they even knew that he was Levi Strauss or that he started the company. He did. He was still there when he changed them to Levi. But he hasn't changed his name to Levi. He did. He changed it 1850. After he became an expert in trade, he was like, you know what? Fuck this lobe shit. He went to Levi. I'm Levi. Lobe's weird. I'm Levi. Yeah. I think he didn't want to sound so German maybe or... Yeah, I think we all

like that. That's still a thing. Yeah. He was like, you know, World War One is coming in 45 years, so it's kind of tense. Yeah. He sensed it. He sensed it. He sensed it. Yeah. The dry war. Yeah. That was a dry war. Price was gouged. Price was gouged. For every thing. Well, he's selling everything now, right? He's got a whole... He's selling everything. Dry wet. He's having trouble. He's actually having trouble. He can make a lot of money on the stuff he is selling, but he's having trouble selling. He is gouging, which is a normal Jewish like... Sure. You can say it. I can't say it. I can not. We're not going to disagree with you, but we can't say it. But yes. Oh my God. Yes. And it was all going

in there. So it was like, it was fine. It's fine. It's like, nobody cares. But he's having trouble. And on one occasion, he couldn't even sell a piece of canvas. You want to sell a piece of canvas? He couldn't sell it. What? Yeah, but why? For making tents. What? Oh, for making tents. Yeah. I thought he was trying to hit like the art demograph. Yeah. I thought he was like, well, no one wants to paint here. Oh, come on. Look at how beautiful it is. It's in an art scene. Look how beautiful it is. I opened a gallery. This gold mining town is lacking in museums. The dreamer on the hill. Yeah. But when they're not gold mining, how will they blow off steam? Yeah. What will they look at? Look at this painting

for an escape. Yeah. So no, none of that. Who's making tents? Maybe he was trying to sell it for too high because everyone needed a tent. You might be right. You might be right. He might have gouged. He might have over gouged. Right. Oh, gee. The slip of gouging. Yeah. You got to take it to them, too. The people who have gold. Have you guys got gold? No. Moving on. Have you guys got gold? Yeah. Hey, you want a tent? I'm gouging. I mean, want a tent? For the price of whatever you have in your pocket, you should do, I guess, how to sell a class because you got it down. You should also name classes. You should teach a name. How to sell a class? Yeah. I got that one. Okay. Oh, I had a name. Yeah, sure.

You're going to be great at telling people what to do classes in. Oh, name classes. Yeah, for sure. You could teach a class on that. You nailed that one. I mean, how could it not go better? Yeah. How much money do you have in your wallet? $14? Oh, I got something for $14 right here. Shocking. You should say that number, sir. Wow. What a coincidence again. Anyway, couldn't sell it, so he just gave it to a tailor. He gave the canvas to a tailor? He gave the canvas to a tailor. Okay. He loaned it to him. Yeah, a tailor he knew. Okay. Who transformed it. This is a huge moment. Ten pairs of trousers. Ten. Wow. Yeah. Did he know that the guy was going to do this or was the guy like, was he like,

you know what? Ten pairs. You know what, Larry? Do your magic. You do you. I'm not going to get in the way of your art form. I know you. I know you see something here that I don't see. We're coming back after like, all right, man, I'm going to need that kid. What the fuck? Are these all pants? What the fuck did you do? Oh my God. Michelangelo had a block of stone. He saw David inside of it. That's right. That's true. And this guy, his other artist saw pants, trousers. Yeah. Thick, thick trousers. With rough canvas. Yeah. Thick trousers. Those must have been nice to wear, too, on those hot days. Look at for gold while canvas chafes your inner thighs. Oh, that's nice. I don't know what color the

canvas was. I don't think at any time back then, they were like, oh, these pants are too rough. They were just like, oh, pants. Oh, sweet pants. Like there is no, except for the really rich guy that was just cruising around in silk pants. Everyone else was like, I just want pants. I just want something to cover my legs. Yeah. I'd probably go for the Donald Duck look then. What? Bottomless. You know, shirt up top, little boat. Oh yeah. Then just shoes and socks, nothing down low. Especially if you've got no dick. Yeah. It's an easy look to have. He does not. That's one thing you're forgetting. He doesn't have a dick. Yeah, no. Although I heard they're doing a gritty reboot. You guys want to see

my dry goods? Yeah. Have you guys ever seen the director's cut of chicken run? No. Graphic sex scenes. Is that right? Graphic. Well, I know the original title was chicken fuck. Maybe that's why they changed it. Yeah. I got to be honest. In this case, the studio is right. I usually take the other side. We'll let you put it on the DVD extras. There's a lot of anal. They show the penetration. People don't say that a lot, but. It's difficult to watch. Kids have questions for sure. It's long. It's long. It's like Fritz the cat, but with chickens. Anyway, pants sold easily. Excuse me. Trousers. Easily sold. Look at these things are thick. It's like being in a tent, but it's just my bottoms. Cover my

legs. It's like putting my dick in a tent. Yeah. So we started making these fucking pants out of out of tent canvas. Okay. Okay. He's cleaning up. So he now he's just buying tent canvas and cranking out pants. He knew how to be a salesman. He had to figure it out when this guy is doing it. This guy's making him and then he's paying the guy. He's probably paying the guy. If it was a tailor, he might have also been a Jew. Yeah. Maybe they knew each other. Right. He's at least paying him for his time. Or maybe he's working for pairs of pants. Could be. Pair every 10. You know, you guys don't see him on board with my theory. No, I wouldn't do it. If I was a guy who made pants, I wouldn't be like,

that's a great idea. You'll give me pants. Yeah. I can already make pants. Yeah, I can make. I can just get fabric. You made the guy sound like an idiot. And in my head, he's great. He's like, yeah, I could take a pair of pants. Sure. He's not just some idiot. He's like, sorry, pants. Hey, lobe. I'm sorry. Hey, Levi. Maybe in return for all this money, we throw in a pair of pants. What do you say? Oh, I don't know. Lobe. Don't call me lobe. That's what my father called me for. God damn it, lobe. My father. He coughed up a lung with TB. He had that wire tombstone cough. And then you fall off a horse. Someone catches you. Wait, what's going on? That's what happens. Okay. The original cut had a yoke behind it.

I don't know what that means. Wait, the original was? Yeah. The original cut of his pants was trousers had a yoke behind it, which made it so you didn't have to wear it with a waist belt. A yoke behind it? Okay. So I think that might have been like it over the top. Yeah, it's like a suspendery situation, but attached to the pants. Okay. So he had no waist belt necessary, which also, it proves our point, they didn't know how to shorten those days to just belt. Right. Or is a yoke something you like pull and tighten? Could be. Maybe up through the shirt, just like hold, like it goes up through your shirt and you just pull it down, which pulls the pants up. Okay. So sort of like you're raising a flag, but

they're your pants. A pulley system. Right now. Right now we're way off and someone is screaming at their phone in their car. Subtailer. That's not what a yoke is. What happened to Loeb? Break me, Loeb. What is a yoke? Okay. So he had yoke pants. I think Aaron's looking up what yoke is. Are you Aaron? Or are you just talking to your wife? No, sorry, Aaron's typing. I'm looking for it, but I'm not seeing it. Okay. It's also something in an egg. Oh, no, that I don't know. Yeah. A yoke. I hadn't heard of this. Yeah. Yeah. It's in the egg. Yeah. They separate the two parts of it. You know the clear part and the yellow

part? I call that the baby yellow. The baby yellow. Yeah. Okay. That is also a yoke. Okay. That's good to know. That's good to know. The baby yellow. Yeah. Yeah. It feels like one of your juice stories. Oh, you know that juice, if you crack an egg, if there is one little drop of blood in it, like if you see a speck just one drop of blood, not kosher. Got to throw that egg out. That's not kosher? Not kosher. And? Why? It's because it was like fertilized and then it's no longer like just like a non-fertilized egg. It's a piece of an animal. Oh, yeah, because you can't mix. Kosher, you can't mix anything, right? Like an egg. No, you can do egg with meat. You can't do egg with meat? Yeah, yeah.

It's just cheese you can't do with meat. Cheese and meat, yeah, can't do it together. Milk and meat. But anyway, also if you crack three eggs into a bowl and they're all good, crack a fourth one, one drop of blood. All of them? All of them? That's it. Give it to the goyam. Give it to the goyam. They'll eat it. They'll eat anything. We sure will. I'm not, I'm not sure I appreciate this. They'll even eat chickens you don't hang upside down before you kill them. Goyams are the mickeys of religion. They'll eat anything. Yeah. Yeah. We had a rule where if you find, this is like an actual case in the Talmud where if you find a piece of meat on the ground outside, which happens a lot outside of a street with 10 restaurants on

it, and nine of them are kosher ones not, are you allowed to eat that piece of meat? We'll see it now. You shouldn't be eating road bacon anyway. Yeah, that was my question always. Oh, you can't eat this. This place isn't kosher. Well, also it's on hair. Yeah, so. Yes. You can't eat it. You can't eat it? Yeah. Okay. I don't think. I've ruled. You've ruled on it? I'm a part of a kosher committee. Oh, Judge Kosh. Yeah. Judge Kosh. Yeah. Judge K for short. Love, David. Okay, so they have yokey pants. Yeah. Okay. It's possible also to put working tools in them and samples of gold in these, in these superimposed pockets they put on. Superimposed pockets. They're like outside. Oh, okay. Outside. Right, okay.

I get you. Sort of like your pants. You don't have the stuff you, when you turn them inside out, you can see the pants. Like how you wear your jeans and back to the future too. It's accurate, trust me. So later you replace the canvas with denim. Okay. He was like, whatever. And then. That's, do we know why? We don't know why. All the researchers don't know why. We do know why he dyed it blue. Okay. It's obvious according to most places. They always say it's obvious because you can hide in the ocean. Nope. Indigo is the cheapest dye. Really? Yeah. Okay. What are you going to say? Yeah, I'm going to say so. That's why jeans are blue. That's why I'm wearing blue jeans and you're wearing gray. Okay. There's no need

to judge. Goyam pants. Inside pockets. I think it's fine to judge. Judge Kosh says no. Judge Kosh ruled again. I found what the yoke means. Oh, what? Okay. It's instead of your pants being at the waist being straight, they slightly curve up on both sides. Oh, that's in now. It's more for a woman. Yeah, but what is it? How is that? Oh my God, I'm so sorry. He's getting emotional. Why is it emotional? How is that a thing that, why would that make any difference? Yeah, why would that make it easier? It would just fall from higher. It looks like it hangs on easier without a belt. Oh, really? Yeah. Dave Anthony, your questioning eyes will stop you from becoming a millionaire in the 1850s. You'd just be

buying the pants and not making them, Dave. We don't need a yoke. Get that loser out of here. Get him to the gold mines. His pants are down again. I'm still trying to figure out what a dry good story is. Oh, okay. Yeah, what is a dry good story? Yeah, okay. So in the United States, dry goods are products such as textiles, ready to wear clothing, and sundries. Sundries. It's like toothpaste. Consumer goods that are distinct from those carried by a hardware and grocery store. So there, the shit that's not in a hardware and grocery store that is dry. The shit that's not in a hardware store and a grocery store. That's dry. We found a market. We've got an each. If you go to Hecangers, is that still

a grocery store? Is that closed? Hecangers. What are you talking about? Hecangers like a lumber? Is that still around? I don't believe so. Are you thinking of 1974? Home Depot. Home Depot. I'd be like, hey, can you have sundries here? I'd be like, get the fuck out of here. You want to go to Hecangers? Get the hell out of here. Hecangers not around anymore? Is that not national? Is that just near my house? I have no idea what that is. Yeah, I think that's just one store near you. Everywhere's got a Hecangers. What O'Reilly's is in here? O'Reilly. We didn't pay for that. In the mid-1950s, he became a well-known businessman. Old Levi in the city. So he's killing it? He's killing it, but he was modest.

This is like a brand new invention that people are like going Apes shit for. But he's raking it. Only in Cali? Only in California. Only in the Gold Rush area, but making hand over fist in San Francisco on the outskirts. I wonder what happened if a guy got on a train and went back east, they'd be like, what the fuck are you doing? Your pants are blue. Holy shit, what's happening with your underparts? I forgot your belt. The lower half of you is incredible. Oh my god. What is that yoke doing on you? Look at the delightful yoke on you, the way it rides your hips. You don't have to pull those up, do you? Oh, not at all. They just hang on there? Yep. Are they kosher? Absolutely. And look at these pockets. The

pants can't be on kosher. You know, I found these pants on a street where nine restaurants were kosher, one wasn't, so I can't wear them. I shouldn't be wearing these. Hold on, I dropped some meat. Yeah, they never cover why you would eat street meat. No. Well, you're just hungry, number one. But if you're hungry and you go down there, I mean, you gotta make, you're like, do I starve or stay kosher? I mean, if you're going down to where the restaurants are, you gotta be thinking you're going to a restaurant anyway. Yeah. But you're like, well, why go all the way in when I can just eat this meat that's on the ground? Beef. Oh, look, beef. Oh, look, beef. Yeah. Oh, great. One of the most common phrases you

hear on a New Yorker on the street. Oh, looks have just stepped in some lamb. Hello. Are you guys kosher? You're not? God damn it. You wouldn't probably say that. I mean, no, yum shebibbles. Oh, happy Passover. There's meat on the floor. This is a portal out of pensive. I should have said porum. I apologize. Yeah, that'd be way better. Porum's a festive holiday. Anyway, there's a new style of working clothes, the so-called overall suit to the waist was super popular with gold diggers. Okay. However, a new problem. Oh, I knew it. This would be act two. Where do you put your money? Screenplays? Yeah, we've both dabbled. We can do act two. I never really understood the three act structure. Well, you do an introduction

and then something happens and you're off an act two. There's like a little bit of a turn. Act two would probably be when he went to California. I think when he actually made the pants is the beginning act two. Okay. When the guy like, that's when everything started to change. And then you get to a situation that you don't think the hero would overcome? Well, then you get to your midpoint. Yeah. Right? And then you get to your all is lost. Well, this is all is lost. Okay. The new problem was that the weight of the gold carried by the gold diggers started to tear the jeans. Oh, there's too much gold, which is still a thing today. And not enough pant. Yeah, that's very true. Yeah. So, so they're, so,

so they're making enough gold to put in jeans that they're tearing jeans. Yeah. I wouldn't give a fuck about my jeans at that point to be like, I got so much gold that my pants are ripping in half. And I walk around naked holding my fucking gold. Your hat and walk down to the bar and get a drink like you're supposed to. Yeah. Yeah. Throw a piece of gold on the count. That's right. Round for everybody. And then everyone's like, what happened to your pants? You're like, you're goddamn right. What happened to my pants? That's fucking Strauss Jew doesn't make good pants. Let's go buy them. This Jews pants don't hold gold like he said. I spent three golds on this pan. How many gold monies?

Two. A deal. Where's your scale? Scaling money. We're going to need to chip this one. Give me one chicken and change. Okay. Anyway, 1872 Levi received a letter from Jacob Davis. Uh-oh. This Taylor Baltic origin, to whom he was always delivering origin, delivering denim. Okay. Regular customer. Okay. So this guy who's delivering Levi denim? Levi is delivering it to, delivering denim to Jacob Taylor. He's delivering them jeans or just denim? Just denim. Okay. And Davis had this idea. Oh fuck. Is it pants? No. No, Dave. Pants were already done. No. Okay. You remember? Yeah. He was like, hey, Levi, how about we reinforce both pockets and fasteners of the jeans with a horse harness rivet? Well, I

don't even know what that is. You dumb idiot. Here's what a horse harness rivet is. You're standing up. See this? See that little button? Uh-huh. That's the thing. Oh, the little buttons on Levi's have an actual purpose. They're not decorative. Look at this. So they hold the pocket in? Together. They hold the pocket together. Oh, so it's like more, so we got it. We take it up. We're taking it up a notch from thread and we're putting some fucking rivets up in this bitch. Well, I don't know if that is a quote, but now they have. No, no, that's in here. Oh, that is a quote. I'm so sorry, Dave. I'm so sorry. Okay, so now they have a button budget. Oh, no, he's had a pawn this bitch. Oh, okay. See? It's

a nearby quote. I got a little loose. I got a little loose. Okay, so he added the buttons. Yeah, he didn't have the money, though, for the $68 for a patent. Okay. Oh, that's a lot for a backman. Back then, by the way, that seems like a huge amount. Yeah, that's pretty good. He's making tons, right? He's doing well. No, this Jacob Strauss didn't have it. Oh, the other guy didn't have it. $68 seems like a shitload, by the way. Now that I think about it. Back then, that's a shitload of money. Yeah. How much is the patent now? Probably like $150? $200? It's not that much. I can go get one. Yeah, you can get one. I can get one. My friend used to work at the patent office. Want to hear his favorite invention?

Yeah. It's a, because all you have to do to get a patent is not infringe on another patent. Right. That's it. Yeah. Right. Or add a clock or wheels to anything that's already done. It's a great system. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. The microwave was a patent, and then the clock microwave was a new patent. No, this guy's getting rich off my shit. Come on. I said clock. The Bible pays off. Denim microwaves. Yeah. Favorite invention was a method of inducing birth through the use of centrifugal force. Oh my God. Again, it does not have to be. So you're spinning the lady around until the baby flies out. You got it? A centrifuge until 5G's rocks a baby out of a womb. Her head's in the middle. There's a net on the

edge of her stirrup. Fuck yeah, there's a net. So it's so at the bottom. Yeah, there's a net. Not a doctor spinning with her. No, no, no. To catch when it comes out. Well, the doctor will get sick. I mean, all right, so there's a net. A nurse, a nurse at least. A nurse. Yeah. The IV. So the lady's getting sick too. The whole thing's a throw-up situation. It's probably not a good way to bring the baby into the world. I mean, she's already not in a great position. She's having a baby. She's already under duress. Yeah, and she's in a centrifuge. Stirruped up. So the baby just flies into the net, and then they stop the centrifuge, and then they go and grab the baby. That was the inventor's idea. It's

a good idea. Yeah. Do you grant, you have to grant a patent for that? It doesn't matter how useful it is or who will buy it. It's just. Yeah, you can just make shit up. Yeah. That's why I'm doing a den of microwave. You can get that in there. Also, it feels like we have some. Disagree. Okay. He's the pie. Yeah. Do you think that inventor was a man or a woman? Hmm. Oh, boy. It's tough to say. My gut's not white guy. My gut's not a white man. If you do say man, I would say that you're thinking you don't think it's possible that a woman would invent something. Okay, here we go. I can't win. I don't care for you. No, I, because of the meat. Why don't you think. Because of the insensitivity.

Why don't you think women are smart? Why don't you think women. Aaron, cut this out. On May 20th, 1873, the patent number 139121 was awarded to Strauss and Davis. Okay. Almost at once, the invention turned into massive profits. The new pocket. So wait, so was Levi a part of this patent, or is it just Strauss? They got together. They got together. Levi and Strauss. Oh, no, Levi Strauss was his name. Loeb Strauss changed to Levi Strauss. Well, who was the other guy that came up? Davis. Oh, Davis. Yeah, Strauss and Davis. Oh, Davis, right. Jacob Davis. Jacob Davis. So Jacob Davis has the idea and Strauss patents it. Yeah, he was, you get the money for the patent. I don't. What do you think?

And you've also got jeans. What do you think? But what's, what's Davis's part of the deal? It's my idea. Is he getting, is he, did they send a contract? They both got, they both got the patent, both of them. It wasn't like Strauss. Okay, so he, he, he, he, he, he, I'll do it, I'll cut you in. Oh, he's fully like, Hey man, I'm not a fucking shyster. Okay. Okay. Full partner. Call me Levi. Yeah. I felt like that's where it was gonna happen. Yeah. The guy who went to the Big Mac got nothing. He was just like. That's because he worked for McDonald's. He's an employee. You don't get shit if you're an employee. Yeah. Should have waited and quit and taken his. Gareth doesn't get anything from this podcast. I

tell him he does. Wait, are you making money on this? No. Okay. See, I was gonna say. Yeah, be scared for a minute. I was like, am I gonna rob? No, you're good, man. I'm not an idiot. No, I was gonna say, by the way, I like your new dig. So you've shown up with nice new clothes, ladies. Thanks. I got a Tesla. Did you see a Tesla? Oh, the Tesla's great. Yeah, it's great. Oh, my Civic has all these motor problems. That's awesome for you. Yeah, thank you. I would love to see you show up in a crown. Gold crown and be like, ah, it's, you know, gotta get yourself from the sun. Scratch off life's been good to daddy. Okay, here's one problem though with these rivets. They were here. They were on the both pockets, back pockets,

and middle to hold it all together. The groin. Right. That's gonna be a problem. Yeah, because cowboys use it. They sat around the campfire. Oh, God. Oh, no. What the fuck are you saying? He's saying that the buttons heat up. Yeah, and they burn their balls. Burn a lot of balls. Oh, my God. The balls really get burned. Yeah. That's a real thing to see if I'm making this up. Yeah, it was a real thing. He really, he was burning balls. Yeah, they're sitting around campfires, man. The metal's hot. How close? I mean, close enough. It's cold on the purry. Yeah. It's not that warm. Where do you get? I don't just, I don't just like make a just split my legs and what do you guys say? We'll crotch first.

Here's a fire and heat up. Oh, that's nice. Oh, the buttons. Yeah. Well, they set Indian Legs after they killed some Indians. They've set Indian Legs in honor of their falling balls. We gotta be sweet to the spirits that we've just taken from this realm. It's crisscross applesauce. Let's sit crisscross applesauce. Is that what they tell kids now? That's what they tell kids now. When they first said it, I was like, well, what is that? And I was like, oh, right. What we were doing was the whole offensive. It's so amazing. I just realized these terms you learned when you were like six and you're just like, Indian Perr awful. What? No. Do you know the rhyme? One, two, three, four, catch a, yeah. Oh, yeah. I don't,

but I don't want to know the answer. Well, it's catch a tiger by his tail, but it wasn't a tiger. People changed it. People changed it. Not good. It's good they changed it. I think so. Yeah. I mean, it's not good that we're doing it. Trump is bringing it back. He wants to bring back all the old nursery rhymes. That's how I'm picking the new FBI picture. So they removed the river from the groin. They're like, this, okay, whatever. If you tear your, if you tear your groin, that's on you, but we don't want anybody burning their dick. If you tear your groin, that's on you. And that's your groin jeans. But that still goes for today. That's still a pants thing. If you buy pants at the gap, they're

like, and please sign this paper. Please sign this waiver. If you tear your groin, it's not on us. You're breaking the chairs while you're sitting. That's nothing to do with us. They also removed the rivets in the back pockets because those started scratching up chairs. Okay. And people were sitting down. Really? Who knew that they had chair etiquette back then with all the problems they have. So now we're in general. So now we're just back to the front pocket. Front pocket. This is just beta testing really. Find out there's a right issue and like, Oh, okay. All right. Yeah. Well, there's scratching chairs. I wonder if they had to pay to replace some chairs. And and Cowboy grinds. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe they

definitely had some lawsuits. You owe me a new chair. Yeah. And and take it up with Jacob. Bring out the scale. Some guy just walks in and throws his ball sack on the counter. Take a look at this. It's burned. I'd like a new one. And then he gets a denim sack. Oh, yeah, as a replacement sack. Yeah, replacement. That's not bad. Where'd you get your balls, Dan? Oh, these Levi at the same time, the firm signature gold thread appeared in the back pockets. Do we have that? Yeah, I know you mean. Yeah. So why? Why was that? Were they just fashion? Is that just a thing? Here's why? Oh, there's a reason. Yeah. It's the secret is in the Levi Strauss factory in San Francisco, which was destroyed by fire in

1906. Right. During the earthquake. So no one knows what that means. That little swoop down and up, you know, no one knows anymore. It's just gone. It's gone. Levi knew. And he didn't tell anybody. Davis knew. He had the records in there. They didn't tell, he didn't tell anybody after it was over. No one knew. It's all gone now. It's over a hundred years ago. Great gene mystery. Great gene. You're listening to great gene mysteries. Hey, we only have one episode. It was massive revolt. Really destroyed the fabric of this country. So we stopped doing it. Anybody guess as to why or is it just gone? I didn't see any even guesses. It doesn't make any sense. It's just like a design. I don't know. All right.

What do you think? I mean, there's some tie in with gold, you know, people are after gold and there's some sort of gold tie in, perhaps, you know, and we're going to leave us here. Brenton, we're going to leave us. I think it was a Dave's pants are a label for going. That would have been amazing. We're marking all the going. Would you like the the going pants are there? Well, I guess. What are my options? Oh, just a glance. You don't have any buttons near the penis. All right. It's strong reinforced pockets for your manual labor. Oh, great. Okay. Yeah. Well, you get me now. I'll be bookkeeping. Great. I don't even know what a pencil is. A side note, bookkeeper and bookkeeping. Only word in the English

language, with three in a row, double letters. Wow, this guy's dropping some serious knowledge right now. Wait, book. Oh, yeah. Wow. That's crazy. Yeah. Look at this. You haven't told me shit. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. So this has been wordplay with. Welcome to words. Okay. The label 1886 and the label two horses pulling a pair of jeans. Okay. Leather at first. Yeah. Right. All seen that. Yeah. Horses go on each direction. The jeans in the middle with the XX. Yeah. There, which, which represent extra, extra strength, which they changed to 501 later. 501. For no reason. No real reason. 501. The XX was to represent double strength. Yeah. Well, yeah. One more. When do we know what year they changed to 501?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 70s. 501 appeared in 1890. 1886. They had a leather thing with the jeans going XX 501 1894 years later. And they changed that name from XX, which represented the extra extra strength. The 501s are still produced today. They're the original jeans. If you buy a pair of 501s, but same, same style. Hasn't changed. Yeah. They have added a zipper for East coasters. Yeah. Cause they, cause they couldn't figure out the other dicks faster. They couldn't figure out the button fly. Yeah. But the button fly is, I mean, if you have button fly now, you button fly, do you like it better? I don't mind it. They're like, how do you get to your dick? You just rip it. Yeah. But then they start to fucking fall

apart and then they're popping up. Yeah. And then you're like, you got it. It's just that the tie up is worse. Yeah. It's not good. Come on. I got a button. My crotch. Yeah. But there's no real accidents, like painful accidents. Well, unless you're by a campfire. What have you done that? I haven't done that. I haven't. I've never zipped out of my. Oh man. Once. I had one once. You did? Yeah. But not in, not, I'm now much older. I don't do that. I had one once where I thought I was going to have to like call 911. I was like paralyzed. Really? Yeah. Yeah. I, I was amazing. I had to go to work and I was just like, dude, dude, dude. Oh God. Why do they call the zipper teeth? Because it feels like

a bite. I did that with the, the button fly. Much harder. That is much harder. Oh boy. You're gonna have to sharpen one of the buttons and potentially try to slice your dick. I'm not getting out of this one. It is. Okay. In his later years, Levi Strauss is a millionaire. Yeah. Huge back then. Sure. He came philanthropist. Fuck yeah. And an honored citizen of San Francisco. Okay. He sponsored a shelter for Jewish orphans. That's nice. Okay. Dave, I don't think it's time to be a post. Yeah, but why, but why, yeah, why not just all orphans? I don't know, man. Jews have this weird thing of taking care of themselves. Yeah. Jews have a brotherhood. I know, but just take care of all the orphans. I mean, I agree with you.

Why not just have orphans? There are too many, maybe. Okay. Yeah. Well, it seems like he might be racist also, like he doesn't want to take care of the black and the, the way my rabbi said it, because we're not, Jews are not a lot of charge interest to other Jews, but you can charge interest to non-Jews. And the Rashi, the commentator would say, why is that? Do you think non-Jews are worse than them? And they go, no, it's not that it's worse, but Jews are your brothers. So obviously you should charge interest. That's how you make money on money. But to your brother, you can send them the courtesy of going interest free. Wow. Wow. It's got really intense. It's got everything. Yeah. So that's why I'm really,

that's why they don't, that's why the other babies, anyway, that's why the other babies lay in the gutter and die. Yeah. You know about the Crown Heights riots? No. Oh yeah. So this happened the same thing. There was a Jewish, uh, ambulance service in Crown Heights. Okay. Run by Jews, four Jews, whatever. Um, there was a car that hit two kids. Black kid, Jewish kid. No. Yeah. And, you know, 911 is a joke. So they didn't get there for a while. And before they got there, the Jewish ambulance showed up and they picked up the Jewish kid. Oh my God. Off they went. And they left the black kid to die. That's what happened to this. Yeah. It was a good time. Good Lord. And black people, I think they said like,

all right, well, what are we doing wrong? I guess that's fair. And we have to get our own. We hit a black ambulance. We hit a black ambulance. Did not work out. We will leave those Jews. And they're pretty mad. And yeah, that's right. They're mad. I don't know why. I get it. I think if you think about it for a minute, you can see their side. Yeah. Oh yeah. Well, thankfully, it was awful. Thankfully, those days are behind us and not, and everything has changed. No, absolutely. There will be a time when there will be like rich ambulances. Oh, yeah. It's coming. That's what libertarians want. Yeah. Yeah. They want like, do it yourself if you want to do it. Chip in. Yeah. I'm going to do it. Yeah. Rich people will get better

ambulance service. Poor people will get whatever they can afford. It's going to be like the internet. What do you mean? What's they do? What's they get through? Net neutrality. Yeah. Net neutrality. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If you pay for more. Yeah. I'm on the top. I hope they don't have net neutrality. Really? Yeah. I want to be told what I should watch and download and I think corporations should tell me. Oh God, what kind of porn do I get to watch today? That's the that honestly would be the one reason why people wouldn't stand out. Yeah. They'd be like, Oh, I didn't expect this. Okay. All right. Get the picket sign. No way. What is this girl and girl only? No. No. I need deviant shit. Come on. Where

is the snails coming out of a ginus? Well, actually, I don't know if we're rooting for the same thing to be honest. Yeah. The guy with the sign. Let me see snails come out. Ted, don't help us. I think I think you're at the wrong. Come on. Just put no net neutrality. Just put that. No. This is specific. He also funded for non Jews. He established a fund for a new rail line in San Francisco. Oh, hey, hi. That's also going to help him. Yeah. And yeah, yeah, yeah. Sure. Sure. He also funded 28 grants at Berkeley. 28 28 different grants. All right. That's great. University of Berkeley. Yeah. I think later Green Day. Use one of those grants. I believe I did. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. My writing. I just assume

this is real history to walk out to paradise. That is a first Green Day time. Yeah. Really? Yeah. I think so. It's been Green Day facts with Dave and Gary. And all right. And all right. Aaron on the ones and twos. Yeah. How's your wife? He died September 26 1902 son of a bitch. Never married. Never had kids. Don't know why. Okay. You think a million. Well, he was married to the jeans. He was gay. Maybe he's got a gay guy back in those days. Back in those days. If you're not getting married, it's because you're you're like, well, I could get married and have a fake wife or I'll just be a bachelor gentleman. Yeah. Well, that way you don't have to face it. They married people that didn't like back then. They're

like, well, I'll just do this and there's no gay marriage. You might have been with a boyfriend for forever. Yeah. And he literally was a rich guy who hung out with gold diggers. He could have found today's terms. He could have found a wife. Yeah, for sure. I don't know. It feels like they're all after me for the money. Or maybe you just went to his house. He's just surrounded by Jewish orphans. Oh, yeah. Look at all the boys. I have no time for women with all these boys. With my boys. Hold out your dishes, boys. Porridge time. He was gay, right? That's what I thought too. You know, usually when you go back and look at the people, either they were super weird, but he doesn't sound that weird. If you usually

the super weird ones, but then often it's just because they're like, no, I like dudes and I can't marry dudes. So I'm gonna just cruise. I will tell you that the BTK killer was a Cub Scout leader and not a pastor, but a leader of his Lutheran church. Of course he was. But he wasn't gay. I mean, he had other shit. He had some other stuff going on. He had a kid, right? Desires. Yeah, he had a couple of kids. Yeah, Brandon Killman. You know, there's a BTK scholarship now. That's good. A grant. Actually, I was doing the research for that. I'm like, this is too gruesome. This is not your funny podcast. You're right this way. We off that. Well, you know, things way better, but this was like, this is not

going to be funny in any way. And then and then he splitter head over. Okay. Huh? Why don't you bring up the jeans one? Actually, it is lifetime jeans were only one in California. Really? Only one in California. They never made it over the over the mountains. He was probably selling so many that he was just like, I can only make as many as I can think. I mean, it's like in and out survive for a long time just doing California. Yeah. That's still crazy. Yeah. But it's just different times. There's no advertising. And if there's no railroad yet, yeah, then how are you getting them over? Then you got to put them on a fucking wagon. And also, you're right. It's like now the

transfer of like knowledge is so quick and simple. Whereas then you just see a guy and be like, what the hell are the eyes gone? Yeah. Yeah. We had, I mean, the idea of being famous on the East Coast or West Coast is gone now. If you're famous on the East Coast, you're just famous. Right. I've heard it here on the West Coast. Right. Yeah. But back then people were like, do you hear about jeans? Yeah. Well, no. What? What were they? I don't know. My buddy said so. Were they called? What were they called back then? They weren't called jeans. All right. What were they called? Diggory. Indigo. Diggory. Diggory. Diggory. Diggory. Diggory. Do the word? No, it's didgeridoo. That's it. Didgeridoo? No, that's it. No, that's

the answer. Dungarees. Dungarees. Dungarees. That was the word I'm looking for. Didn't say that ever. They didn't say dungarees in here? No, the three places I looked. That's what they used to call them. I mean, look, he looked three places and there wasn't any. Dungarees. Where did jeans come up? Like I'm always asking that. Yeah, you're the guy who was on top of this whole. So why did they become jeans? I mean, I was a B plus student. So I did B plus research. Yeah, but you went to fashion school. This is better than B plus. I did go to the FIT. Yeah. Are you looking up dungarees? He's looking up dungarees. When did jeans first, the word jeans, what's it, lineology? Is that the word? Mm-hmm. My,

it was a genealogy. It's just another word. Genealogy. Dungarees. Hey, am I the only one reacting to this? Thanks, man. Good job. It's a fabric. Jeans is a fabric? Who knew? Leave us jobs knew. Oh, that's right. Use in England from 1605 to 1615. Yeah. 1605 to 1615? What, jeans? That's what it says. It was a fabric. Oh. But I guess now it's a subset of denim. Well, we have subsets of pants. It typically refers to the most common style of blue denim. So there you go. I'm glad I brought this up. Yeah. Yeah, it's been fun. Anyway, left most of his $6 million to his nephews. Okay. The rest left the terrible needs of both Jewish and Christian organizations. Wait, so his brother's dead then because he has nephews.

Yeah. Oh, right. So he had to have been in touch with them, but we just don't know anything about him. We don't know any of the records. He was hot. Yeah, I guess he wasn't touched. He was not important. Yeah. He's not in the important way. He didn't do shit. He might have felt bad for like I'm rich. My nephews are still selling dry goods like Schmucks in New York. Yeah. Right. How's the textile business coming? Yeah, coming back with his gold filled denim jeans. You know what you guys should have done? Come to California with me when I asked you to. Assholes. All right. Assholes. Do you want a rug? No. Take one of these Jewish orphans. Yeah. In the Great Depression, Levi company, Levi Strauss and company started marketing them across the country as an affordable

and durable article of clothing. Oh, so it's a cheap pant. Once they started with advertising, then it became like a thing. Cheap pant. Okay. These jeans protected people from dirt. And yeah, and they last, they last a fucking while. It's probably the first pants. Easy to wash too. That was another thing. You just run water through them and they're clean. Wow. I've liked them since they got rid of the buttons near the penis. That was an issue for me. That was a problem. That's what I like. I'm such a campfire guy. Everyone who knows me knows me as a campfire guy. Like, are you, how do you? Yeah. Well, then you have guys coming over to the campfire bottomless just like, sorry gentlemen. I've been asking for a buckle to be put in the groin. Full buckle. Full

buckle. And then, and then I want to get really close to that fire. Yeah. You know what I mean? Gonna get that buckle nice and hot. Yeah. Some people have brands on there. So they would like really sear in a, that's what I'm talking about, a letter or something, a scarlet letter and other things. That's right. That's right. Why is it on my taint? They'd be on my balls. I'm not a weirdo. It's hard to find you labeled. There was a wide advertising campaign and after the Second World War, characters of westerns wearing jeans. Oh, that would blow it up. Yeah. All over the world. Way to the Marlboro man comes in. Yeah. Okay. When all over the country, all over the world. That's what happened. East coasters, New Yorkers especially couldn't handle the button flies.

They're like, what is this? Really? What is this? And that's when they start putting the flies on there. Fucking idiots. Yeah. New York City. Yeah, totally. Yeah. It was, uh, no, it was pace. Pace picante sauce. Yeah. New York City. Yep. And then it always, there's always ended horribly. Yeah. It was like four minutes away from a murder. It was always never good. Some guy who brought New York City sauce and was attached to a truck while guys were like, let's kill him. Yeah. Yeah. Come on, guys. I'm alone. I'm just, I'm just enjoying my, I mean, I did break salsa. I'm just enjoying my salsa. We kind of use your salsa if you brought it. Shut up. Shut up and get dragged to death. Put the gun in him.

Before they had like shooting someone in the face, like, I need you to eat this lead. Literally eat it and then you'll die from it. And then when you put this inside of you. Yeah. Boy, this takes forever. Um, interesting fact, Levi Strauss, old lobe, never wore a pair of Levi's himself. Shut the fuck up. Not once. How is that possible? He was a businessman and jeans are for laborers. Wow. Really? Yeah. Really? So there's some classes and bullshit going on here now? Maybe he's like, I don't need durable. Like I'm totally on board and I'm like, what the fuck? Oh, I hate jeans. Not on my knees chiseling. Oh, I hate jeans. I wonder if he thought, because of the way things worked, if, if wealthy people started wearing them, then they might become

for the wealthy instead of for the worker or something. It's just weird that he would be like, well, that's for the poor. I mean, I don't wear a tool belt. Well, not anymore. I mean, you did that act for a couple of years where you are. Hard to get my dick out. That's the problem. I kept looking at a screwdriver on accident. This isn't working. I've got to develop that. That makes me not like him as much. Really? Yeah. I don't think it was classes. I think it was just like, why would I? I kind of get it a little bit. Yeah, I mean, if he's not an actual worker, which is who they're marketed for, I get it a little bit. Don't look at me like that, Dave. I'm not. But it's okay to not like him. I know you

don't like a lot of Jews. So this falls in line with that. I just got to find one reason. At one point, did he ever call him Junes? Oh, maybe he tried. He's probably trying that at one point. Someone's just like, no. In the year 2000, in the small German city of Botenheim, north of Bavaria, in the small blue house where Levi grew up, the museum opened up. Oh, shit. Museum for the most famous trousers in the history of the world. Levi's. The Levi Museum. In his old home. How great is that museum? I have not been there, but now I'm going to go. My brother lives near there. I'm like, hey, let's go check out the Levi Museum. Is that true? He does live in, that goes back and forth between like Zurich and Germany

and Wolf for sure go. I realize now I'm going to go with him. Yeah, yeah. I like small museums. That's a small one. Yeah, well, they just like, you get to walk in, there's just a pair of pants in it and a chest of drawers. It's just a gap. Hey, wait a minute. This is not. What the fuck? Yeah, I'll take them. I'll take them, but this is bullshit. I really expected something else. Just a fucking gap. The oldest known trousers, I'm remembering I didn't write down, are from like 1870. They found in a gold mine in Nevada. Someone had abandoned there. They were holding up with rubber gloves to protect them. Really? They blasted there. The jeans? Yeah. Jesus. They're in the Levi company right now. They're gonna, jeans are gonna outlive mankind.

Yeah. They're durable, man. They're durable, man. I don't fuck around. Well, when you go to the museum, you gotta, you know. Or buy some jeans? Yeah. Is there any, your shop? Yeah, I'm shh fucking earlier. There's a bunch of jeans, man. What do you think? We have jeans. We have jeans. So no button crotch ones? Yeah. No taint buttons? Yeah. Also, something I didn't say, the little tag that says Levi's that red tag. Yeah. It was added to show that they were different from imposters, which started cropping up around the time. Like these have the rivets. Which is true too. Could they not patent jeans? I don't know. I think, is a patent only good for 100 years or something? No, back then it was not even that. It was a really short time. 15, I think, I worked

for a patent law firm. Seven years? I think back then it was seven. You could renew like once or twice and then you're done. Now. Now it's forever. It is forever? No, now you can just keep, you can just keep renewing, you know, you can keep renewing shit and they have little ways to get around it. But like, you know, tons of patents should have run out, but they keep them going, especially companies like Disney and stuff. Right. They pay enough. They're like, how are we just gonna keep going? Like, like with pharmaceutical companies, they'll create a drug and then they'll be like, well, the, oh, the pill is small and orange. And then they'll patent that. And that's why pills are in all these different shapes and colors because they're they patent that shit.

Really? And then it enables them to extend it. And yeah, it's garbage. It's garbage. Really? Well, that was quite an interesting. That was interesting. That was a good one. That was great. That was really good. Yeah. This is the first time we've had someone come on and read one to us. Really? Yeah. How do you normally do it with guests? Well, we know this is the first time we've had a guest on a non-live one. We only, we've only done live ones. But so when you do the live ones, how do you do a lot of live ones too? Dave will read it to me and someone else if you guess. Yeah, you were like, why don't we do it where you prepare? And I was like, all right. Yeah. That's good though, man. That was really great. Yeah. Now

it's a special episode. Yeah. Now it's a very special episode. So plug guy. Speaking of special. Yeah, go ahead. My double special, double negative is on Netflix right now. July 18th. You can watch it in two parts or in one setting, wherever you want to do it. Ari Shafir. Called Children and Adulthood, two different sides of it. Where'd you, where'd you tape it? Shot it in Austin, Texas at Cap City Comedy Club. All right. Built him a new stage because that stuff was so ugly, those pipes. Not a great, yeah. Yeah. I spent a lot of money on like, why are you shooting there? I'm like, I want to shoot there. Like you're spending so much money. That's great. I didn't think of this. Okay, I get it. I'm not smart. We'll go and watch Ari's special on Netflix.

Yeah. I also have a podcast called Ari Shafir's Skeptic Tank. As well as Punch Drunk. As well as Puncher Sports. I filmed here with Aaron and you see my butthole. How many times, Aaron? Many, many times. Oh, Bakers, doesn't it? If not, Bakers doesn't. That's a nice, that's a nice way to put it. Skeptic Tank is not as gross as Punch Drunk. And then, do we have anything else? Just buy our book, United States of Absurdity. Yeah, we'll just leave it with Ari's special. How long did it take you guys to write a book? Well, it's, you know, it's kind of like, it's because it's off of stories that we already did on the podcast, it wasn't, I mean, it wasn't easy because we had to condense them down and then, you know, I mean, in general, a book takes a good amount of work just because

there's a lot of notes and there's a lot of, you know, numbers you got to hit and getting the art and all that shit and researching and tightening them up and trying to make them funny, you know. I saw that. I thought it was so cool that you guys fucking wrote a book. Super weird. It's weird. I gave my mama a copy the other day and I think she was so like, I just never had any idea you would be near writing. You're not smart. Do you understand? You almost failed out of high school. Do you understand my amazement? Your mom's weird sounding. Look at what my stupid boy did. Not one typo. Is it stupid? Oh yeah, that is mom. Oh, you know that word. Someone's in the business. Someone's in the book business. Now she's just becoming a popper. Also, most comics

write books is always like memoirs. Oh yeah. Yeah. When Stan Hope wrote a book, I was like, first, I'm going to start making this joke to everyone who writes a book, but except you guys, because there's always a memorable, like, is it a novel? And he was like, no, it's not a novel. I'm like, oh. All right. Well, great. Well, thanks for coming on. Yeah, thanks for having me. Appreciate it. And Dave, take care. What? Bye-bye. We sign cars. Oh, we sign cars.