The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds - 324 - Denis Kearney - (Live in SF)

Episode Date: April 17, 2018

Comedians Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds examine San Francisco immigrant hater Denis Kearney.  Recorded live at Marines Memorial Theater. SOURCES OFFICIAL DOLLOP MERCH TOUR DATES - BOSTON AND CLEVELAND ADDED!

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Francisco this guy might shit the bed one time but not twice the health of David Anthony! Thank you. Thank you. That was great. What's it like to publicly share food poisoning? I apologize to those people who couldn't make this one. You're listening to the dollop. This is a bilingual American History podcast. Each week I read a story from American history in both Spanish and Czechoslovakian. To my friend Gareth Reynolds. Sure. We're rusty Dave. My name is... No idea what the topic is going to be about. Thank you. My name is Dave Anthony. Dave's Anthony. We'll get it we'll fix it in

post. We'll get that'll be fixed in post. 1846 or 1847. Okay. Or 1848. Nobody nobody knows when when he was born. Okay but there's a ballpark. Yeah they think it's in there. No there's a guy you just cut him open and counted the rings and he was just like okay yeah that's the end right around that area. Dennis Kearney was born. Dennis Cutie? Kearney. Kearney. Oh that person that person just lost their mind. I feel like I'm in for a treat. She just made the face of Dave Anthony food poisoning. This is the face of Dave Anthony food poisoning. What? Holy shit. I didn't know that actually happened. He was born in Ireland. He was the second of seven sons.

Okay. Because this is an episode of the dollop. His father died when he was 11. Right. Good run though. Yep. Good run. So you just did that you just you would just come and die. So guess what happened is his dad dies at 11 guess what he does. But he well he either he takes over he goes to work. Yep he gets a job. Okay yeah so he goes to work he gets a job he takes over the family business of something that's inappropriate for an 11 year old to be doing. Yeah. Yep gets a job. He worked as a cabin boy on a clipper ship. Oh my god. He is a cabin boy. Yeah it becomes a cabin boy on a clipper ship. Okay. Over the years he moved up the

ranks and by 1868. Cabin man. He's cabin first mate. Okay. Is that cabin man? No he's he's he's out of the cabin now. You're never out of the cabin Dave. I've always said that. Cabin sticks with you when you're a boy. Now when the ship arrived in San Francisco Dennis decided to stay. Okay. He's like this is my shit this is my jam right here. Okay. He landed work on a coastal steamer where he was employed for four years until he was accused of deserting the ship when it was in danger. Okay. What is it? Okay. I mean I'm not opposed to what he did. I assume there was a I assume there was like a pirate situation. And what they're just like you left. Yeah

and he was like what if you wanted to stay. He's like no there were people doing bad stuff so. I jumped. Yeah. I'm really a cabin boy still. Very scared. So when they accused him of that he quit. Stays in San Francisco. Marys an Irish immigrant named Mary Ann Leary. They cranked out a daughter. Okay. And they became U.S. citizens. Okay. Great. Yeah. Great. He started a freight hauling business just around the city. Sure. Like a couple of wagons and he just fucking haul shit. What is he now 13 14. Yeah. He is 13 14. Okay. Yeah. That's right. That's how his age works. He's 13 14 15 at this point depending on when you believe he was born. No he's

early. He's like 20. Okay. So they have another son and a daughter by eight no son and so they have one of each. By 1870. For those of you who got attached to that second daughter I am sorry. She got yanked out of there real fast. Yeah. Out by 1877. His business is doing so well that he owned five wagons. Whoa. And he's hauling freight all over the city. He's the fucking freight guy. He lived in the American dream. Right. Yeah. Five wagons. Ooh la la. He's super into the idea of the self made man. Okay. Sure. He praised diligence and quote individual go getterism. Oh my God. Yes. Finally. Finally. Go getterism. And he hated what he considered the laziness of the working man. Oh boy.

What an odd. What an odd phrase. The laziness of the working man. Yeah. Yeah. Almost seems impossible. Well, Dave, let's pull it that thread. He said white workers were overpaid and that they should emulate the work ethic of Chinese immigrants. Okay. I'm worried to pick any sides with what he's saying at this point. I feel like I'm in a dark forest that I don't know. It's quite a quandary. Yeah. I like the first part and then I'm worried again. Yeah. So Chinese immigrants have been flooding into California since gold was discovered in 1848 right or 4746 by 1853. There are over 25,000 Chinese in California. At first they were tolerated by the white man. That's nice. But as you know, as you know,

we wouldn't use the term white man if they weren't about to become intolerant. It is a qualifier at this point. So as their numbers increased, the white guy gets madder and madder. Too many. And now they're having babies. By 1870, there are over 100,000 Chinese in the state. Okay. And I guess there's going to be problems. When the gold rush came to an end, white workers found themselves in competition for Chinese workers for jobs. Is this one call became popular? The Chinese would take lower pay and they became the favorites of employers because of that and therefore the white working class hated the Chinese working class. Oh boy. Oh boy. It'll be fun when this same thing happens, but it'll be

with robots. I'm like, they'll, like who will, who will they blame? Robots came here and took their jobs now. That robot's made in Japan. That's what it will be. Yeah. Yeah. There it is. I can tell. Look at him. Well, this isn't, he's made by Honda, so. Oh, he's a civic boy. So then came the financial panic of 1873, which led to America's first great depression. Okay, good. Capitalism has this really cool cycle. Yeah. It'll be fun to go through it again, though, and be like, it was our turn. One year, maybe. By 1877, there were 16,000 unemployed white laborers in San Francisco. If only bitching could hire them. And everybody knows white people take being unemployed. Great. Hey, you know, we got to blame ourselves.

I think we need to look in the mirror on this one, gentlemen. I really do. Yep. That happened one time in history. That man was stabbed in the throat before he got the word mirror out. He was like, we need to look in there. What's happening? What's happening? What's happening? So churches started feeding thousands of people a day, which had never happened before in California. Naturally, California's capitalists took advantage of this situation by cutting wages and encouraging more Chinese immigration. I got a great idea. Shits about to get weird. So let's make it a little bit weirder. Soon the Chinese dominated workforces on railroads, manufacturing, especially shoemaking, cigar making and broom making. Yeah, you

know, bro, bro. Yeah. That was a time, though, when a broom was really important. Oh, broom was super fun. Yeah, there was no drug doctor or anything you needed. Like, like, oh, that actually works. Look at that. Yeah. Everybody was, everybody was, I don't know, brooming back then. Yeah, from the syphilis out of where every liver, what else going on? They called the Chinese Coolies, which is actually not a bad. I mean, now I'm like, Coolies is kind of cool. That's kind of a cool. Yeah, they call it. Okay. It doesn't have whatever word they pick. You're like, okay, well, it's bad now. I mean, you made it. It's bad. So then the rich American businessmen started sending the low paid Chinese workers across

the country. Now they're not just California. They're like, this is fucking great. We can do this everywhere. So they're putting them on fucking trains and sending them everywhere. Some were sent to strike breakers, which is cool. That's a cool thing. If you're, you take a guy from another country, doesn't speak the language, and then you put them on a train and you send them into a place where people just want to kill them. Right. Tomatoes thrown at him and they're shouting. He's like, what were they saying? He's like, Oh, when they throw tomatoes at you, it's like you're a king. And they were saying, go, go. Yeah. What does fuck you leave mean? Just keep at it, pal. Yeah, good. Have a tomato. That's

what it means. Big business was supported over workers by the government in the courts. If you can imagine what that was like era and oh my God, this time sounds really hard to imagine different boy owners. People loved owners of things. The public loved owners more than workers. I'm glad everybody's changed. I know it's just how does it fuck keep going. So this creates a tinder box and soon there's a railroad strike and then violence exploded across the east in Pittsburgh. Twenty strikers were killed by the military. Well, that's what you get for asking me one more money. Boom. Bitch dare you ask for I want to live and eat fuck you the military. Yeah, we used to that'll come back for sure for sure. Yeah.

The violence had not hit San Francisco, but tensions are very high. Now most of the Marxists were foreign born and at heavy accents. So you get the commies, right? Okay, sure. This turned off all the American born whites who are independent and very patriotic. Sure. In 1877 a group of San Francisco working men called a mass meeting on July 21st to discuss all their resentments. Oh my God, please say booze was not served. Gentlemen, it's time for a resentment meeting. Oh, grumble, grumble, grumble, live it. Because of the rioting back east city officials and employers were very worried. The meeting was scheduled to take place in a vacant lot next to City Hall that was known as the Sandlot. Oh, wait. Yeah,

it's about these kids and James Earl Jones. Yes, yes. Yeah, I know this story. Why was everyone upset when they heard about this? It's a fun story. I know this one. This will be helpful. Now that I can picture the people, it's a lot easier. Yeah. Two men who were advertising the meeting walking around town holding a banner. So they just walked up the street meeting meeting. Are you passed? Come on over. We're all gonna grumble. Come to the Sandlot. It's a resentment meeting. Yeah. It's resentathon. Grumble, grumble. We're having a resentathon. Can we call it a grumble? No. I actually want to talk about that. There'll be no more God save it for the meeting. There we go again. The gavel hasn't

banged. Grumble, grumble. The two, the two banner holding guys were arrested for holding the banner. You're not allowed to do that. Enough of that, buddy. What do you think this is, America? The entire, so when the meeting is happening, the entire San Francisco police force is called to be on duty. The National Guard is assembled in their armories, so they're ready to go. Okay. Good vibe for the vacant lot meeting. Yeah. So they're super worried that the men would gather together and then start attacking Chinese workers, especially this dock that Chinese workers arrived on. James Darcy, an organizer of the working man's party presided over the meeting. That's a socialist party. Okay. I don't know if you

know what that is, but we don't have that anymore. We killed them. Yeah, we're not allowed to have it. No, we have two options and they're good. Thank you for the two options. It's going well. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Why would we need a third? Thank we have to thank you. Thank you people listening on my phone. Yeah. Shit. I mean, we're so fucked. I mean, it's overwhelming. It's like an aunt trying to take a party sub away from a picnic. Yeah. I just can't handle it mentally. Like it's just so the speakers get up and they they denounce capitalism franchises and subsidizing private businesses. Okay. I'm so glad everything's changed. Yeah. I know these are the apparently I was speaking. Yeah. No mention. No mention.

You would be there without question. Oh fuck. Yeah. I'd be back on. Why do we kill him? Hey, this guy's got lava coming out of him. I'm worried about this guy. Oh my God. He's a dragon man. He's a dragon man. He is a dragon man. Hey, Dave, you have too much resentment for the resentment meeting. Oh, there's a double resentment meeting down the street. Yeah. My dad there. It's eight hundred of your dad's. It's real weird. So no mention of the Chinese through all this. They're not. There's no meant. There's no anti Chinese Chinese anything. Okay. Then a crowd of local angry white guys came from a local Democratic Party Club. Great club. There's a lot of dancing, some good rave music, the Democratic Party Club. Yeah,

yeah. No, yeah. And they began and they so they come from the back. So it's a big meeting. They come in the back and they start, they start shouting about the Chinese back there. And the meeting is so big that most people can't hear what's being said at the platform. So everyone just kind of turns around and starts listening to the anti Chinese guys. Oh boy. So the angry white guys start getting everyone's attention at the back of the crowd. And soon the crowd turns into a mob hell bent on taking down the Chinese. Oh, God. So we find cool. So some angry white guys showed up and things got so they they peel off and they storm off and they just are beating Chinese people in the street. That night, 20 Chinese

launderies were destroyed. But then where do you get your clothes? All right, never mind. And you know, you're just fucking yourself. Yeah, eventually, like, boy, we overdid it. We should have left a couple. We got us. Why are we so mad? Do you guys think we should ever just look in the mirror and they destroyed a Chinese plumbing business and the Chinese Methodist mission was stoned? I know that I assume it was made out of stone or were they destroying stones? That feels like they were just throwing stones at stones. That's how it seems to me. You made it bigger. So this is the worst riots that just goes every ever seen. Now, 30 years earlier, a man named William Coleman had helped lead the committees

of vigilance. You remember them? We talked about them at Breeze podcast. They were hanging people and doing all that kind of fun stuff. Yeah. And the committee can conducted secret trials and they lynched men. So after a couple of days of riots, the San Francisco is just keep the anti Chinese riots are just going off. So William Coleman got back to work and raised a group of 4000 men. He didn't want them using guns. So he gave every man pick axe handles pick axe handles. Yeah, just not not the axe. Just just a handle. Yeah, just a handle. Okay. I guess you could buy him separately back then. I guess I don't know. Feels weird. No, I don't want I don't want the the what's hard on the top. We just want

a bunch of handles. I want the bottom part. Jesus Christ. How do you talk to this Chinese guy? He doesn't even speak my fucking language. We want the part that we hit you with the part we hit you with. Yeah. Jesus Christ stuff. That's tough. So this this group 4000 men they're known as the pick handle brigade the pick the pick handle brigade. Yeah, they should be known as the pick shit name brigade. Now they are they are so they're they're going to stop the other white guys from beating up Chinese guys. That's their whole deal. They just want the city to calm down. Now Dennis Kearney was a member of the pick handle brigade. Right. The quote unquote good guys. Yes, right. For now. Yeah, for now. I've just

got to rationalize it in my head like a Marvel movie. Okay. Right now. And I'm not falling in love with any group at this point. I'm going to treat it like the bachelor. I want to meet the families. I really do. I want to meet the families. I think that's fair. So they managed to stop the mob from burning down the dock that the Chinese came on the pick handle brigade the dock but a lumber mill was set on fire and anyone who tried to put out the lumber mill was beaten up. Finally, there was a giant brutal battle between police, the pick handle brigade and the rioters. Four men were killed and 14 were wounded. Who who's the cops are fighting with the pick handle brigade. Okay, find out. Okay, good. Good

to know. Good. Smaller riots broke out here and there but the pick pick pick. Oh, hello. You know what you want to talk about? The last San Francisco podcast. We're the prick handle brigade. That's different. Sorry, we misunderstood entirely. We will actually get out of here. Good luck with all this. We're after a different fun. So thanks, guys. So three days later, they'd be in the shit out of everybody was riding in the city's calm again. I mean, calm being a relative, sir. I mean, as far as great go. Yeah, need a shower. Now Dennis Kearney had political ambitions and he saw the angry mob as a vehicle. So he applied to become a member of the working man's party. Okay. But he was rejected because

he was well known to have called workers lazy. Okay. Hey, can I join up with you guys? You have been calling us fucking shitheads for I know but it's you guys look cool now. Oh my God. Did you guys get my chocolates feel bad? So Kearney just want to power and he was ready to just toss aside his beliefs in a heartbeat. So he went off and started his own party in August 1877 called the working men's trade and labor union. I mean, good God. So he's got a rival working man's. It's confusing though. What is its name? The the working man's trade and labor union. Okay. The WTLU. Oh, now I get it. What's on my you? This was literally just days after he was part of the the pick handle brigade beating

up working men on the streets. Right. So so he took the he took the position of secretary in the party started not president. You know, I want to be I don't want to be tippy top, but I'll be he held a Sunday meeting in the Sandlot and he had an angry speech that he gave. Okay. He said they needed to quote rest government from the hands of the rich and place it in the hands of the people. Yeah. And read the country of Chinese labor. Hey, that's why a little bit early there, huh? Came in a little early on that one, guys. That's why we always say don't woo until Dave takes a sip. He's not done. Everything's got to catch. Read the fine print. That's what I'm talking about. He hated the Chinese.

Get the car. Get the car. Let's get out of here. I don't. I don't know what just happened. So he goes off. And the press loves it. The press is eating it up. Sure. Good. I'm just go press friends days later. There's a special meeting that's held at Union Hall to debate what to do to help the unemployed. Okay. We don't have those anymore. Right. The Democratic the Democratic Party were now worried they would lose the working man vote. Okay. All these splits that are happening. Right. And that's what matters too. Don't lose people from your party. No matter what the beliefs, just keep them grouped in. We get two. They figured so the Democratic Party has this meeting and they figured that they'd give a couple

speeches and the laborers would come back and be like you guys are awesome. Senator Nate center Philip Roach. It's terrible name. Senator Roach. Yeah. I totally on your side. They turn the lights on in Congress. He was editor of the San Francisco examiner and considered a quote bourbon war horse. What the fuck does that even mean? Means he drank a lot of fucking bourbon is what it means. Just crazy. Yeah. He's just really good at it. Why don't you say an angry alcoholic. He was a bourbon war horse. He's a coked up monkey jacker. You mean the heroin hippo. I'm sorry. I would love to see a coked up monkey jacker. Same. I would pay. I would pay a lot

of money to see that. Well, I know. I do know two guys. Is it a guy that is a guy that jerks off a monkey. Yeah. While he's on cocaine. It's a guy. I'm so fucking high right now. Yeah. Oh my God. Yeah. And I got a lie. Dave in my head. It was that version. The man did not get jacked by the monkeys. The man jacked the monkeys. It's weird. He was roach was slightly against Chinese immigration and very against political corruption. He did his speech and then Dennis Kearney got up and he started his speech off by yelling the Chinese must go. Oh God. And everyone was like fuck. Yeah. I love the stickers. So they go eight fuck and then he told everyone there to buy a rifle. You're in the back like

oh boy can we light him. Can we light him already. I was thinking this would go differently. I like that coke monkey jacker guy. Where's the guy. Where's the guy. We see what the bourbon war horse talks about. This is bad. Yeah. And then he finished by saying all capital should be hung. This guy is really just so confusing. It's like I hate him. I love him. Senator Roach then fled in terror. The lights were on. Yeah. The lights turned on. He went. Has anyone checked under the fridge. No. He's there. I guarantee it. For sure. So now Kearney because the speech starts getting super popular super fast because it would be a great fucking ideas. The Chinese suck. Sure. Capitalists are bullshit and should

be killed and let's all get a gun. Those are just a great platform. That's a great platform. Interesting ingredients. So he held a Sunday meeting at the Sandlot each week. Sandlot is popping. Sandlot is hot. People love it. It's a place to fucking be. There's just some kids in the back. Fuck. Again. Another hate meeting. Yeah. Kids go play stickball somewhere else. I just want to play ball. No. What with the Chinese. All right. I don't know what's happening. Everyone cool down. These kids aren't suggesting they want to play ball with the Chinese. Are you kids. Yeah. There's a get the kids. Kill the kids. Stab the kids. Kill them. He's running. He's rounding second. Get him. Slide slide. No. Don't call out place.

He got stabbed because one of his friends said run home. And he thought he met the base. Hypothetical children in a hypothetical situation. Nobody have their hearts officially broken over this. Yeah. We need to be able to kill fake children. Now Dave it's a podcast. Don't make me create a third party. So on September 21st Kearney predicted that within a year San Francisco would have over 20,000 armed workers who would take what they wanted. Cool. That's fun. Right. By October the slogan quote the Chinese must go was everywhere. The working man's party who had not allowed Kearney to join was absorbed by his party. So I'm familiar. Yeah. I like how the good guys always win. The old party had wanted to stop monopolies

through tax policy and Kearney just said they could destroy all of it. So more men were like yeah that's great. Let's destroy it all. More men joined the more they did the more incendiary his speeches became. Of course. Yeah. Wasn't all terrible. He was demanding an eight hour work day and universal education. Okay. Sure. I mean right. Couple nice things but overall I've got notes. But the top of the list is ending Chinese immigration. Right. In his speeches he continually called for hanging Robert Capitalists. Okay. He called Chinese immigrants quote leprous rat eating Chinese slaves. Oh my god. Well it's weird because he's like their slaves but also they eat rats and they're leprous. Quite a picture

like they're not being treated well but they're also eating rodents and their arms are falling off and their arms are falling off. Pretty easy to outwork these lepers I would say shockingly they're still getting more done than us. It's damn lepers. And he said he said the Chinese were robbing white workers of decent employment. This was nicer than most things he said about them obviously week after week he would rage against the corrupt tycoons and their Chinese quote moon eyed lepers boy oh boy wait a minute. Huh. Isn't moon eyed wouldn't that be like a white guy. No I well obviously not every moon is full. My guess is just whoops piece of the. I'm so bad at racial insults that I don't get them. Yeah. I need to wear I'm

sorry I apologize I need to work on my racist insults. No that is the white guy reaction right here like how could that be. Oh I never thought of it like that. I am so sorry for what you have. I apologize. I apologize. I like when I say that in some of the front goes. Trying really hard to like toe the line of I'll explain and rude. He denounced the quote thieving capitalist and lecherous bondholders who would rig the system. Okay. He always ended with what was now his trademark closer the Chinese spring born in the U. S. Oh sorry sorry I've been corrupted. He would end on his catchphrase Chinese must go Chinese must go but he's not a leftist they built a wall. Oh my god. Trump. I made a Trump beer that

was underwhelming. Yeah it's weird they don't seem to like Trump for some odd reason. But still my creative artwork. He's no he's good. He's gonna come around. Yeah. I think once we fire Mueller then we're gonna actually get the real facts and the truth will come out. If you follow me on Instagram you'll see that he did the it's the greatest headline ever is that they the people in the White House keep trying to explain to him how the post office works and and he's he's not understanding it they just keep trying to explain it to him. He's like I don't get it. What do you mean you put stamps on stuff and it goes somewhere. It's like when George Bush went to the grocery store and had no idea what the scanner was.

And how what are you doing with your robot friend. She's like I've never been anywhere that's not rich. So I wouldn't. It's not rich. Oh. Oh people pay for. I don't know. I'm always forgiven. I thought it just came to your house. I thought he manifested. So now Kearney is is is a capitalist. But he believed that the corruption was rigging the system. So he's not as he's not a social. Okay right. He's a capitalist. He just thinks it's rigged. He saw the socialist as the first enemy to take care of quote. You will have to mob these white Sue and pigtail men first. So yeah I guess socialists are white Sue. Although hello compliment. You will have to shoot them down in the street before you begin on the

Chinese. What you always got to kill the socialist first. This is I've got a bad feeling. Which is followers did they chase socialists off the sans lots and destroyed the socialist wooden platform. Jesus Christ. To fucking take that. Yeah. Where are you going to stand now. Nowhere. Let's get lifts. The San Francisco Chronicle became Kearney's mouthpiece backing his speeches and violent rage. Anyone who read that paper would have an entirely different view of the situation in the city. So weird. What will that create. How is this happening. Fair and balanced. I thought this was new. It's actually old. The other papers criticize him and in turn he attacked them quote for reporters of the press. I have great respect.

The reporters of the newspapers are working men like ourselves working for bread and butter. But the villainous serpent like slimy imps of hell that run the newspapers. I have the utmost contempt. Fake fold. Fake fold. At a meeting he announced that bullets would replace ballots. If the condition of the laboring classes were not improved. Oh my god. You know what though. It's a fucking platform. Like at least I know what he stands for. I mean it is like we are. We are teetering on this. What do you mean nothing. Nothing. Keep going. Going to be a good boy. He said San Francisco. We would meet the fate of burning Moscow. The president of his party. So the president of his party is still not in charge.

The president of his party. J. DJ day. That's right everybody on the ones and two. DJ day. We're going to slow it down now. Please welcome to the stage Kearney. Welcome to the stage Kearney. Just up like a secretary. Make it worth his time everybody make it worth his time. He's not up there for himself guys. He's trying to change everything. Let's just get the white people out on the floor. Chinese take a break. DJ day. At night. So they tried to back battle from Kearney's statements but he was just yelled down. Everyone's like no we got to kill people. All right well at least you've got him there. And he was immediately made to resign right there at the Sandlot and then Kearney was elected president. But see what's

great is that it feels like he achieved something by being president now. Sure he could have made himself president early but that was a Cinderella story you just spun there. Much better. Me? I can't believe you guys. Of all the people the guy who created it. And then a more radical agenda was enacted. I was just going to say Dave could it just be a little more radical. Soon working men's clubs began forming all over California. Kearney had a new slogan quote. Judge Lynch is the only judge we want. I think we're all praying for a fair mind a judge named Lynch. Please please Dave. The party managed to sweep San Francisco elections in 1878 and 1879. The Democrats were on the ropes. Now San Francisco is home to insanely

what it's just it's very unique. It's a very unique tale. Yeah different tale. Yeah there's nothing. I'm not worried. Yeah. So so San Francisco is home to insanely wealthy railroad magnets. You had Leland Stanford. Oh I thought you meant actual magnets. Yeah magnets how do they work. Yeah it's like all right a fun little halftime. Leland Stanford Mark Hopkins C.P. Huntington and Charles Crocker. Crocker was hated above all others felt I felt that way and he still is his legacy is alive today. I love his bank though. I love his bank doesn't exist anymore does it. Got bought up by the we have two banks now. Fargo is the best. We just need two of everything. So Crocker was hated above all the others because aside from

his wealth and shipping over many Chinese to build the railroads he had also built a spite fence around a neighbor's house. By now Crocker's spite fence was one of the most popular San Francisco tourist attractions. Hey can we go see the place where the dick did the thing. What's it called. The dick did the thing around the guy. Fuck what's it called. He put it the dick did the big thing around a nice guy in this house. What's it called. So he's literally building a. You remember that episode. Yeah yeah but now we're talking about a guy who's actually literally so now we're literally talking about walls as well in this. Getting a little spicy. I don't know what you mean. We're going to build a

fence around Larry's house. And Larry's paying for it. I didn't do anything. The fuck did I do. Hey Larry listen I think it's important that we just pretend like you're going to pay for it even if you don't pay for it. I'm not going to pay for it. It's between you and me. Now when it's built let's just say maybe pay for it. No I said you'd pay for it a lot. Why would I want it. It's around my fucking house. I understand your side but you got to understand my side. I said you would. That's not a sign. Don't be a dick about this. You should have said that. Are we in the same room. Why am I on the phone. What's going on. Yeah I've been here the whole fucking time. I've been taking the wrong pills. Stick

them in the phone. People were riding a cable car to the top of Knob Hill to look at and talk about this symbol of capitalist power over a little man quote little man the little man whatever and Dennis Kearney being an entertainer decided to take advantage of this symbol. Although racism was one of the platforms of his party member many members joined due to labor issues than for the politics of hate. So he's you know it's a big it's a big it's a mixed bag. It's a big 10. Some people hate the Chinese or the people are like I just want a job. Knob Hill was not just about the spite fence. It was also a tremendous sign of inequality with all the giant mansions that were up top. OK about 60 feet of the

crest of the hill have been cut off and leveled for buildings. So for now it was open ground and Kearney called a meeting there. Several thousand men came lime barrels were set on fire lighting up the surrounding mansions. That's not good. I don't know. It sounds very Frankenstein. Yeah. What is that lime. I guess lime burns. I didn't. I didn't know that. Now we know. No it's not actual limes. OK. I'm just trying to figure out what the hell I'm picturing. Limes like I didn't know it burned but it's like a like a white. Oh OK. I get you. OK. So it is a night. Yeah it is. I have a nice sort of Frankenstein effect. Yeah. We just want to be surrounded by this. So Krocker hired hundreds of our men who lined

the halls of his mansion ready to defend him in his million dollar art collection. Fucking sure. Absolutely. So it makes just reading that. I'm like well I wish they'd come Dave when you hang it when you get it hung up it's like boys we're saving the art. Yeah. From Kearney's speech at the top of Nob Hill when the Chinese question is settled we can discuss whether we but we. Take two. I don't have his job. When the Chinese question is settled we can discuss whether it would be better to hang shoot or cut the capitalist to pieces. So then so after the the Chinese are gone then you just discuss how do we kill the capitalist. Right. Well you're going to be exhausted from that first part. Quote the central Pacific

railroad men are thieves and will soon feel the power of the working men. When I have thoroughly organized my party we will march through the city and compel the thieves to give up their plunder. I will lead you to city hall clean out the police force hang the prosecuting attorney and burn every book that has a particle of law in it. Hey buddy buddy buddy buddy buddy. Hey that was. We know you're fired up. But come on. Little over the top I think. Some of us don't believe in law. Let's have some rules. We have a skewed perspective but law stop from scratch. You ran Paul. Let me know more reading. Burn every book that has a particle of law in it and then enact new laws for working men.

I will give the central Pacific just three months to discharge their Chinaman. I will give Crocker until November 29th to take down the fence around Young's house and if he doesn't do it I will lead the working men up there and take it down and give Crocker the worst beating with the sticks that a man ever got. Oh my god. That part I'm for. Last part's pretty amazing. I'm totally pro beating up Crocker. Well and also I mean he's saying the worst beating done by sticks so. It's a hell of a beating. He's calling his shots. There's been a lot of stick beating in the history of man. That's a lot of stick beatings. How do you out do it? I mean he's got to get someone to do that. It goes with pickaxes

but no pick on it. Yeah. Well that's why it was a part of the Olympics for years. That's right. Absolutely right. That guy liked it. That guy liked my joke. Kenny taunted a grand jury to indict him and warned that if he were jailed his followers would quote, destroy all the rich hellhounds in California. Cool. Sounds like he's just a lot of fucking chatter. No, no, no. Not at all. Many of Kearney's supporters said his threats should not be taken literally. No, no. Oh my god. Wait, wait. Sorry. Dave, let me just take a step back. I don't think any of us realize people were taking these things as literal thoughts. No, it's a bit. He's doing a, he's just riffing. You don't speak his language. Trust me, he's

going to be fine. Just fine. One said quote, what little things they did say were only used as metaphors. These are, when he says kill the Chinese, it's a metaphor for killing the Chinese. Truly, what is that a metaphor for? Okay. I'm talking about corn production. What? You guys are racist. Whoa. No. But the Chinese were super not interested in this metaphor idea. Yeah. Hey, no. The leaders in Chinatown got together and sent a letter to the mayor explaining that they would protect themselves if attacked. Quote, should a riotous attack be made upon the Chinese quarter, we should have neither the power nor the disposition to restrain our countrymen from defending themselves to the last extremity and selling

their lives as dearly as possible. Fair. They're ready to go. Yeah, fair. Yeah. So taking the mob up to Nob Hill had been a step too far. The city, yeah, now that you're threatening fucking rich people, what are you kidding me? Yeah. Come on, not the four rich guys up there. So the city finally take action on November 3rd. Dennis Kearney was arrested while speaking on a street. The charges talking to others over like a lamp post. There's a difference. He was what is known as chatting up some bros. Okay, sure, sure. So the charges were using incendiary language and inciting a riot. Two other party leaders were arrested the next day. The San Francisco supervisors then met and passed a law against incendiary speech.

Okay, interesting. Nice. In prison, Kearney became much less ferocious. Oh, oh, shocking. Hey. So all the stuff I said, I was like, man, man, man, just totally not into it now. Lay down and lay down. I kind of want to go lay down. Huh? It's not sexual. That's the good news. What's what? Lay down. What? Lay down. What? Lay down. We're going to beat you with a bunch of lay down. We're going to beat you more with a sleeping bag full of soap than anyone's ever been beaten. A sleeping bag? Lay down. How are you going to swing it? Just please lay down and we're going to shove you down and start beating you right now. Just lay down with this sleeping bag full of soap. Yeah. How are you going to pick

it up and swing it at me? There's nine of us and we're going to just do it mercilessly. It's going to take like two. How are all of us put our soap in? I don't think you can do it. We're in the same room again. Hey. Hey. Hi. Says Christ. Sorry, I didn't hear you. My celly. Yep. I don't like retract that. Hello, friend. Boo, Chinese, right? Get this sleeping bag. So on November 3rd, Kearney and the other imprisoned party leaders wrote to the mayor. Okay. Quote. We're sorry. We didn't mean it. I like rich people in Chinese guys now. Quote, we assure you that our anxiety for the peace of society is as deeply seated as well as it welcome be. We have no design against the peace of the city, either present

or future, and we are willing to submit to any wise measure to allay the existing excitement. We do not propose to hold any more out-of-door meetings or to tolerate any further use of incendiary language and sincerely hope that our friends will under all circumstances obey the officers of the law and uphold the peace of the city. I think signed fucking assholes. Quite a tonal shift. We were goofing around. We were goofing around. We were goofing around. We had a couple guys were having a couple goofs and some laughs. Sorry. Geez. When we said that we were going to beat up people, we wouldn't mean violently. My God. When we said Chinese must go, we didn't finish the sentence. We didn't let us finish. Chinese

must go to get ice cream. We will buy them. We were going to buy a bunch of Chinese people ice cream, and that's against the law, not in my country. No. Besides promising to behave better, he also said his speeches had been incorrectly reported in the papers. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That didn't sound familiar. No. The charges against Kearney were then dropped. Okay. Because he apologized a lot? Sort of? After two weeks in jail, Kearney and the other party leaders were released on Thanksgiving Day. My guess is that was not a good call. Oh, it'd be fine. On Thanksgiving Day and the spirit of the holiday. Well, that could be anything. The way we've changed our perspective on it, literally anything can happen now.

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, everyone died. That's true. I mean, that's not a great thing. 11,000 men marched in protest of Chinese laborers and the liberation of their party leaders. Support for the working man's party exploded across California. I was like, because they got arrested, right? Everyone's like, yeah, let's fucking kill the Chinese. Okay, right. They held a convention in January, 1878. Kearney was named as the permanent chairman of the party. Finally, yeah, his dreams coming true that he could have had on day one. The party wrote into its platform, his anti Chinese and anti big business positions and the party targeted elections for the upcoming state constitutional convention to have their demands

written into the state's basic laws, the founding, the founding documents of the state of California right? Yeah. For number one, Chinese must go. It's a different start, but it's a start. Yes, start somewhere. Yeah, rough draft. Yeah, and that's really what it was was a rough draft. Yeah, and it's time for some network notes. Three people got that. But one of them snorted. So that makes it like six. Yeah. During January, Kearney held torchlight rallies and parades now with even more intensity. So he's, he's taking it up a notch from let's kill everybody. Maybe he's just trying to get rid of mosquitoes, Dave. On January 10th, saying the party needed support, not just quote at the ballot box, but at the

bullet box, if necessary, I mean, what is dangerous language, David? It's such a good line. But what does he even mean? The box? What does he even start shooting, motherfucker? So he said, go vote and then get ready to shoot after. Yeah, vote and shoot. What is the plan? No, you can't do both. Yeah, you can vote. Shooting people who are doing the ballot thing on your side. No, you don't shoot the people. You shoot other people who want to vote against your guy. But then just don't show up. You vote, you vote your votes in and then you shoot the guys who are going to come and vote against your guy. Okay, you're right. It is a good plan. Four days later, he yelled at the Chinese would be driven

from the entire country, quote, if it takes the life of every white man in California. Oh, Jesus Christ. And that doesn't make his goal is to make California just totally empty. Yeah, I mean, he's like women. There'll be no Chinese. There'll be no man just women. Yeah. I imagine the the change to history would be fantastic. Instead, we're like, here we go again. Here we go for another dose. So trying to quell the anger, the legislature in Sacramento passed a bill authorizing San Francisco to hire 2000 laborers for three months. So like let's get people some fucking jobs. So these guys calm the fuck down, right? Which is socialism, which is bullshit, right? Yeah, because why would you want to stop this

awesomeness? Yeah. When you could just go out in the street and beat people with handles, right? So they passed the bill and then San Francisco supervisors just ignore it. Interesting with that. Now that's an option. I don't think a lot of us knew that that was the option. No, we're not. No, we're giving you money to hire a guy 2000 for three months. Thank you. We're passing. We're super into tension. Yeah. Yeah. Karen. He led a march on City Hall at the rally. He demanded the mayor give the men quote work or bread. He then threatened to take some bread. Shit, we shouldn't have given him the option. 15 loaves of bread and no movement. He then threatened to take the mob to the docks and quote blow up the Pacific

Steamship Company steamers and docks. And he promised to invade Chinatown and slaughter the residents with firearms and quote infernal machines if they did not handle the Chinese problem. So this feels like the stuff he said in jail was not true. You don't think he meant that stuff? No, now I feel like he didn't mean it. And I totally believed him. I was like, this guy is a changed man. We took him back and we're in the same relationship. Yeah. At a at a Sandlot rally, Kearney urged his followers to bring guns and form military companies. So two companies were formed. And by the way, when you do make these companies, start off a secretary. It's gonna be a fun run. So great. It'll be a fun ride. So great.

You feel like you're achieving something. So two companies are finishing a maze that you made. So two companies are formed, but they're they couldn't get their hands in any weapons. So it's hey, we're ready. The only thing we're running up against is we don't have any weapons. So they just formed a bunch of guys. Yeah, well, we're a group. And if I may, we've been singing. We're pretty good. I don't want to take this in a whole new direction. But some of us are pure naturals at this. Yeah, really good. We can play a couple if you wouldn't mind. Shut up. Yeah behind my baby shit. Once again, William Coleman, right from the vigilante committee responded to the threats.

He organized his pick handle brigade again this time with 6000 grab the handles boys. You guys got your handles around. No, I thought it was really dumb when we did it. So I put a pick on mine. It was so useless. No, it was so useless. Wait a minute, is that a axe handle sell out? Yeah, it's different. The Coleman's fellow rich businessmen were concerned the brigade would not be able to handle the mob this time. So they appealed to the federal government for help. The US Navy sent a man of war but said it was only being sent to protect the mail. I'm finally with Trump. Yeah, we're just here for the mail. You know, everyone's dying. See what happens, but we're just here for the mail. Yeah, no packages.

Just letters. Yeah, just letters. You guys got a really crazy thing going on here. Well, we're going to get these letters that won't matter to your loved ones. Yeah, so so that a Navy man of war arrives and arrives in the bay on January 16th. Kearney and other leaders were again jailed. Okay, but five days later they were acquitted of inciting a riot, right? The state legislature reacted that day by passing an act authorizing the dispersal of riotous mobs and the arrest of incendiary speakers. Okay, nice. So Kearney eases up on his rhetoric and he started using language to mock the censors by saying harmless phrases. For instance, he would say quote, Oh, boy, serving the Chinaman coffee and donuts, which

meant attack their gathering places with fire and guns. What? It's time to serve the Chinese coffee and donuts. All right. What? No, no, no, he's got a point. What's he talking about? Let's go to Chinatown and give him some donuts. No, I don't think this makes sense. Let's go give him some coffee and donuts. I think that's right. Why, but we hate them. Yeah, but we've been rude to him. We've been we've been really big dicks. And I know I like donuts. The one guy who didn't get the memo, he's down there. What are you? What about the coffee donuts plan? Oh, nobody said anything. Kearney's working man's party did well on its first election. It elected several judges and mayors in San Francisco, Oakland and Sacramento.

For the coming state constitution convention, which was to be held in April, the party won more than a third of the delegates. This was obviously a serious problem for business interests. It looked like Kearney and his party were heading towards accomplishing what they had set out to do with their in their platform. So the other parties, the Democrats who are very, very weak. What they do, Dave and the Republicans and many independents formed a block backed by the railroads, industrial and farming interests. The working man's party was able to do nothing as far as reforming the banks, breaking up monopolies or installing an eight hour workday. So the, so they stopped the shit that would be good. Right. The only

thing no way. No, what? Oh my God. The only thing business interests would negotiate on was the Chinese situation. Christ. Christ. It's almost like business or fascist. The convention wrote into the new California constitution, the new California constitution several restrictions against employing Chinese God on the ballots of all the parties at the convention election where the words quote against Chinese. Oh man, what a vibe to be a Chinese person. You're like, cool. This turned. At the same time, Kearney's business opponents started rumors against him amongst his own men. Word spread. He's Chinese. He told me. Yeah, we went out and we got, he is. So

Word spread that Kearney had been bribed by railroad interests and that's why the party did not have much of an effect at the convention. The city's churches also jumped in. Protestant ministers preached against the lack of Christianity that it sees the men of labor. The Catholic Archbishop threatened white working men with fire and brimstone, which concerned Kearney's many Irish followers. The one thing they're worried about. Oh, good Lord. Oh, good Lord. More concerned about what happens after this life. Kearney was briefly removed from his position as chairman. I always wanted to be secretary. But he fought back to save his reputation with his men and he was made chairman again. Thank God. His speeches had now spread

across the United States and even to England and he kept growing in popularity. Now that just means that people are reading his speeches, right? That doesn't mean that like, um, yeah, they're reading them. They're not, they can't hear them. It's not like a guy was like, from the top. Although you never know. There could be a guy that was like, I'm not going to do Dennis Kearney. I am a speech impressionist. This one, ladies and gentlemen, is about the Chinese for score. Sorry, let me go through this again. I think I've got these. I fell on my way over here. I, uh, these are all muddled. I shit the bed. Nope. Sorry. Sorry. As it were. That's, uh, from the future around 2016, 2017, 2018. I've shit the bed. The

speech by David Anthony. Four score and some days ago. I'm sorry. Let's put a pin in this. I need to do something bad. I'm running with my butt cheeks together. There's smoke coming from that man's trousers as he trots to the sideway. I've got a show to do. One man thinks I should do it. He's shitting the bed. So Kearney goes on the road to spread his message around America. He went to Boston, who I'm sure they were like, fuck yeah. I said, hello. Hello. His first speech was a big deal. Quote, thousands in deep. I always fuck up the name of this hall. Oh yeah. Finouli. No. Finouli. It's not an Italian noodle. Fanuel. Fanuel. Yeah. Uh, thousands of deed packed a fanuel hall on August 5th to hear his first speech

and thousands more had to be turned away. Wow. So he's fucking. He actually had the big inauguration. Yeah. Yeah. He's no. But he didn't have the same momentum as in San Francisco where there were far more Chinese laborers. Right. Yeah. He campaigned to be the green backs party vice president candidate. Yeah. Good party. You love it. You love the green backs. They're great. But crowds did not keep turning out to hear him speak. The Boston Journal wrote, quote, the working men of this state are by no means united in welcoming Kearney. Many of them have no sympathy with his anti Chinese policy. They dislike his openly communist principles and will not endure his conceited intolerance. Awesome. That's

time you yelled. It didn't work out. Well, I did it. Yeah. Dave didn't take a sip yet. What are you doing? Could be stepping into another bear trap. Yeah. This will translate this. What the hell's happening? Hey, what do you do the live ones? What did they just do? What did they just do? What did they do? Oh, so mad at the podcast. Oh, the commercials and then a live one. And I listened to all of it. Do less commercials up top. Okay, we'll do them in the middle. Fuck what? And many believed he was dangerous and a threat to democratic society. Really? Yeah. Weird. Harper's Weekly attacked Kearney as barbaric and ignorant. The New York time. Yeah. The New York Times praised authorities for arresting him because

he had been quote kindling the passions of the dangerous classes. Jesus. Shit. That's a much better way of putting what we have going on right now. Yeah. How come we can't bottom line it like that? Wow, that struck a chord. The criticism had an effect and soon Kearney was headed back to the place where his Chinese hate was appreciated San Francisco. He could have written a new hour, but instead he's like, I'm just going back to where I do the material. I just did a hits. The anti Chinese laws his party had put into the state convention were being ruled unconstitutional by the court grounds. But people still loved his anti Chinese message. Yeah. And in 18, what's not to you know, it's just great that

the people were able to hang on to the one thing. Yeah. In 1878, the United States Congress passed a bill to exclude Chinese immigrants from America. So yeah, so his message was popular and politicians listen to the people and so they they voted to make Chinese immigrants. This was the very first racially exclusionary legislation in American history, but not the last baby, but the first. Yeah. And also we've just fudged the numbers prior to that one too. Like yeah. But it was vetoed by President Rutherford B Hayes. Kearney then started attacking Hayes in his speeches and claimed he can make a better president than Hayes by stuffing Andrew Jackson's old clothes with rags. It's a fucking good line. It's a fucking good line.

It's interesting that these guys who hate immigrants always love Andrew Jackson. Yeah. It's so weird. So I'm hoping that he stuffs those clothes full of rags. Yeah, he did. Did it win? Yeah, the one Andrew Jackson's rag clothes. You never heard of the ragman president. Jesus Christ, Dave, get to the story. I thought we were in it. But the working man's party began to split. The socialists did not care for the racism and fiery rhetoric rhetoric of Kearney. The members who were elected to office did not accomplish anything and ended up being just as corrupt as the men they had railed against. That's weird. That is so weird. That's weird. That is so weird. And Dave, I think it's not what's

happening now. Yeah. And instead of buyers remorse, just keep buying. You don't want to experience buyers remorse. Keep going. So do we have Giants fans here? So the Dodgers went ahead five to four in the 14th inning. And then McCutcheon hit a three run home run. So fuck off. I didn't know we did sports. We do sports, too. That's becoming like a morning show. All right, Dave, why don't you walk us through the weather? This is DJ Day. That's right. We're 67 balmy, you guys. We're going to have a human afternoon. We're looking at a good work week. That's right. Come on Friday, Friday, fish fry, DJ Day. Dan, it's going to be really clear out there today. We got no Chinese on the road. All right. That

was racial traffic. What the hell is this show? DJ Day. What's it becoming? Racial traffic. That's right. This is a weird time, ladies and gentlemen. DJ Day. Racial Saturday. Come on, everybody. Fairgrounds. Come to the Sandlot, guys. I just we're having a big ol' Brotwurst fest. Come on down. Sandlot DJ Day. Mike, one of my old college roommates is here. I'm nice. I thought you noticed. I just I just looked over and I was like, there's Alex. I could have gotten you in. You didn't have to. Could have just fucking shot me a message. He might be here to kill you, Dave. That's how that works. If your old college roommate doesn't give you a heads up and he's in the front row, you're about to be killed. Just

don't say mirror. But you didn't go to school. You were just in a fucking band. I went to school. So you're not really in my college roommate. You were like a weird guy new in college. Hey, why are you attacking him? He showed up to your show, asshole. My college roommate. I mean, I went to college. He was just doing drugs. Oh, no, no, we were all doing drugs. That's probably how we that's probably how we met. So the working man party is splitting the socialists don't like the racism. The members who were elected to office did not accomplish anything. They became corrupt. The working man's party was torn by factional disputes and quickly fell apart starting in 1880. I got a good feeling. The next year

Kearney left the party and it was officially disbanded in 1882. Nice, but they had won their biggest fight. In 1882, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act again. And this time it was signed into law by President Chester Arthur. Chester. Miss. Be haze. And I'm mad at Chester. And Kearney kept traveling and spewing his nonsense. The next decades continued with legislation stopping immigration from Asian countries. He ran up up against Wang Chen Fu in the 1880s. Fu was a very outspoken Chinese American who spent years fighting for Chinese rights in the United States. And he dared Kearney to debate him. But Kearney refused to debate him. Of course, of course, because he only works in 140 characters. Yeah,

do it. Well, could you imagine someone debating Trump? Oh, Dave, we saw it. It was unbelievable. It's the I mean, it is if he had gone away, it would have been great. But I remember he was like walking around in the background like, what is this? I was like, the fuck did nobody talk to you before this? Huh? They told me to stand behind the lady. He's poking the camera again. Is there a man who lives in here? So after Kearney refused to debate, Fu challenged him to a duel. Oh, shit. Dave, I prefer to call it a fool, but continue. When asked what weapons he would prefer, Fu offered Kearney, quote, his choice of chopstick, potatoes or Krupp guns. Wait, what was the last one? Chopsticks, Irish potatoes or Krupp

guns. Okay, so the two men had a please take potatoes. I've been so good God, please make it potatoes. Well, of course they didn't do it, but the two men had a public confrontation in 1887. One newspaper reported, quote, the Mandarin got the better of the San Francisco order in the intellectual contest and drove Kearney from position to position. Nice. In 1898, Kearney vowed to help our northern Canadian neighbors, quote, my next fight will be to get to Canada to pass anti Chinese exclusion law. At present, she is being made the dumping ground for Asiatic pests who are afterwards smuggled into our country. Oh my God. He's a little confident now, which is a real bother. Yeah, I know. He's he feels like he's done

something. Yeah, because he'd go to jail and just say, sorry. And then they're like, good. Though he tried to remain relevant, there just wasn't much else in Kearney's arsenal. Once the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed, there was really no need for him. He went to work to support his family, though he said he could have been elected governor or senator, which he chose not to because, quote, the Chinese question was solved. Yeah, my work is done here. Yeah, I did real good. In 1906, Kearney's home burned down in after the San Francisco earthquake. After the earthquake. That's a great one too. Yeah. Oh, the foundation is rocky. God damn it. It's on fire. Oh shit. San Francisco likes to burn after earthquakes.

Yeah, it's yeah. Good after show. He lost everything. He lost everything and he moved across the beta Alameda. Dave, Dave, please tell me that he goes to make brooms for some Chinese people, please. Later that year, a distant cousin of his died and he was rich and he gave his 1.5 million inheritance to the University of California. Thank God. Oh my God. Everyone. I know everyone was freaked out. I just picture him getting one of those robotic avatar shells where you can just be like, all right, now I got a toy. But Dennis sued saying he had a right to a third and that they were very close. But his cousin had refused to ever admit that he knew Dennis. I wonder why

his health quickly deteriorated after he moved to Alameda. He lost his eyes. He lost his eyes lost his eyesight. Oh God. Most people who moved to Alameda go blind. Yeah. For a minute. I really didn't think you were going to say he lost his eyes like some sort of pug. Where are they? There's one, Olive. Oh, damn it. After losing his eyesight, he wasn't heard from much. In April 25th, 1907, his kidneys failed and he died. It's okay. It's okay. We'll cheer. That's fair. We're going to be a lot of people that were cheering dying soon. Come on. Come on. If Scott Pruitt dies, we're having a party. It is. Yeah, go ahead, sir. A few days later, the LA Times reported Chinese people were

celebrating his death. So hard as they should. Yeah. Yeah. Quote the shouts of more than 200 Chinese gathered at 21st South Clark Street rang throughout the building in celebration of the death of their arch enemy. Many believe he was the biggest obstacle to an open door policy for Chinese. They were wrong. Chinese immigration remained frozen until 1943 when FDR began allowing in 100 per year. Wow. Jesus Christ. It's weird. It's weird. They don't tell you that in the history books. Kierney Street is not named after Dennis Kierney. Were you worried? Were you worried about that? Yeah, I was worried about it when I started doing this too. It is either named after Stephen Watts Kierney, the first military governor of California

under U.S. rule or General Philip Kierney who fought in the Mexican American War and died during the Civil War. So there you go. Holy shit. There you go. I'm starting to think we're racist. I really am. Well, the nice thing is to hear a story like that and realize that we moved past it and and nothing like that would ever happen again in America. It is weird. Yeah. It really is. It's just like the Spider-Man movies. It just keeps getting made every few years. The same fucking way and somehow still makes money. You're like, what the fuck? We just saw this shit. I wonder what it happens. He gets bit by a spider. No, no, don't tell me. No spoilers. But my favorite part of this story is that they had their own Fox News channel. Yeah.

Yeah. No, it just doesn't seem that fucking difficult. The combination of stoking white rage and making sure people don't vote is just going to keep being effective until we get pickaxe handles and take care of some shit. Yeah. We'll have to start our own pickaxe party. Yeah. The pickaxe party. How about a third party that's out of its fucking mind? Yeah. We're the paps. The pickaxe party. Paps? I guess now that I said it, it's a little weak. It might turn off some voters. This is a smear campaign. This is a pack. Thank you very much for coming out, everybody. We appreciate it, truly. Thank you. Oh, yeah. There's still like 40 tickets left for the next show if you want to come to the next one,

about 40. All right. Mother and brother, come over here if you would. Thank you, everybody.