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Ridiculous History

How White America Tried to Destroy Chinese Restaurants

Ridiculous History

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.24.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Today Chinese restaurants serve some of the most popular cuisine in the United States, with more than 41,000 restaurants scattered around the country. Yet in the 1900s these restaurants were so controversial that labor unions, hate groups and even politic

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the show, I'm Ben, I'm Noel.

0:28.4

We are as always joined with our super producer Alex Williams.

0:32.1

Have we introduced Alex to the ridiculous history crowd yet?

0:35.1

Ah yes, everyone Alex Alex everyone.

0:38.7

He doesn't really talk.

0:39.7

He only talks in our ears and head and you know sometimes we get him to turn up the high hats.

0:44.7

And we assure you he's very much real.

0:46.9

He's very much super.

0:48.0

No he's there we're looking at him.

0:49.1

He is a handsome toothed and young man.

0:51.5

Um have you seen the new blade runner moving at Ben?

0:54.8

I have not seen the new blade runner yet Noel.

0:57.2

I saw it last night at like 10 o'clock and I do really badly with falling asleep at late

1:03.0

movies and it's quite long but I will tell you that it moved along at such a it's a very

1:08.0

language movie but it actually has a pretty incredible clip of action and activity that

1:12.9

kind of kept me awake and alert and I enjoyed every second of it.

1:17.8

And it's a it's somewhat of a slow burn right?

1:20.3

I understand that.

1:21.3

Well that's one of the things that I'm having a hard time expressing because it is a slow

1:23.6

burn and it's a very language kind of drony movie.

1:26.5

It's got this amazing score that very much matches what Van Gellis did on the original one

1:32.8

but this time they've got Hun Zimmer doing it and he's doing his very best Van Gellis impersonation.

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