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🗓️ 1 June 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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How much would you pay for an egg? Would you kill for one? In today's classic episode, join the guys as they explore the strange story of the Gold Rush, the Common Murre and Farallon Island -- the site of California's Egg War
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0:00.0 | Don't call it a comeback ridiculous historians or wait please do because this is our weekly |
0:05.6 | classics episode. How much would you pay for an egg? |
0:10.1 | Goh, it can't be, can't cost more than what a hundred dollars. |
0:14.0 | It's an egg Michael. What could it be ten bucks? |
0:18.0 | Eggy wags. Remember that? You've seen Clockwork Orange. |
0:21.0 | I always loved it when he talks about eggy wags. It's so cute sounding. And there they are cute little fellas aren't they? Little, you know, very egg-like. |
0:30.0 | What would you call that spherical? Not really. It's really egg-shaped. People refer to stuff as being egg-shaped. |
0:36.4 | Ovial, ovular, which does in and of itself that the etymology of that is egg. ovum, ova, yeah. |
0:46.2 | And so we're asking in this classic episode, how much would you pay for an egg? |
0:50.5 | Also, Max, give me some dramatic music. |
0:55.0 | Dramatic music. |
0:57.0 | Dramatic music. |
0:58.0 | Would you kill for one? |
1:01.0 | Yeah. |
1:02.0 | Some guy said yes. |
1:03.0 | Yeah, I mean, you know, given the option of no eggs, I, yeah, you know, I had a hardboil, I've been, I've been, I've been, |
1:10.0 | finally grown up, man, I like hardboiled eggs now. I think I might try deviling them one of these days I have always been anti deviled eggs |
1:16.8 | because of the both the egg and the Mayo content both of which I have grown to like I I kind of like Mayo now so maybe it's |
1:23.5 | back in a fart smell. Hey listen let's not ruin this I've come so far |
1:27.4 | don't ruin eggy wigs for me. I'm very proud of you. |
1:30.5 | San Francisco's Egg War. It's a thing dude, Eggers. Like not David Eggers, you know, the writer or the filmmaker, there's two Eggers. I always get them confused but yeah it was a thing people risking life |
1:46.2 | and limb to you know basically spelunk hillside you know on the side of these |
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