TEASER - Lad Company w/ Tom Usher

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4.1 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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#1 footy maniac Tom Usher joins the show to discuss lad culture and the football club fascist recruitment process The book is Among The Thugs by Bill Buford Sorry my mic is all blown out everybody, I’m traveling and forgot to adjust the settings FULL EPISODE patreon.com/poddamnamerica MERCH poddamnamerica.bigcartel.com

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0:00.0	So, like, half of the discussion about this topic is just sociologists looking at this phenomenon and being like, why?
0:08.5	Why was everyone so violent for 30 years?
0:12.0	And there's all these theories about like, oh, it's, it's in England.
0:15.5	And England lost their great empire.
0:18.1	So people must be upset.
0:20.0	They're upset.
0:21.0	The empire's gone.
0:22.2	And there's all these theories around these that none of them,
0:24.9	none of them really seem like they stick out to me.
0:26.9	But my conclusion finishing this book was just like,
0:30.1	okay,
0:30.8	people in England had lead poisoning until like the 1990s.
0:35.9	I was going to bring up lead crime theory.
0:38.5	It explains everything.
0:40.9	I mean,
0:41.1	that's when our crime also dropped off,
0:43.0	completely unrelated to football clubs or political violence that way.
0:47.4	And I mean,
0:48.6	the stuff in here is crazy.
0:49.7	They have this one excerpt.
0:51.2	I'm talking about Among the Thugs again.
0:53.8	He's following this guy around who
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