The Backstory: History’s craziest trends
Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND
Elvis Duran Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
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🗓️ 26 March 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Why do so many of us have the need to be trendy, to do or say things we think make us look as cool as the people we’re copying? Trends through the ages have included everything from style statements to full-on body modification.
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| 0:00.0 | We all like to feel cool, right? |
| 0:02.0 | But how far are you willing to go to feel like you're part of the popular crowd? |
| 0:07.0 | How about walking around bent in half because it made you look fragile and afflicted, |
| 0:12.0 | or having mismatched heels on your shoes so you'd walk with a limp. |
| 0:16.5 | Don't laugh. Today folks get giant butt implants to look like a Kardashian. |
| 0:21.5 | I'm Patty Steele. Weird trends just to be cool. Next on the backstory. |
| 0:27.0 | In the 1980s and 90s, New York City needed a tough cop like Detective Louis Scarcella. |
| 0:38.6 | Putting bad guys away, there's no feeling like it in the world. |
| 0:42.4 | He was the guy who made sure the work There's no feeling like it in the world. |
| 0:42.5 | He was the guy who made sure the worst killers were brought to justice. |
| 0:47.0 | That's one version. |
| 0:49.0 | This guy is a piece of shit. |
| 0:51.0 | Derek Hamilton was put away from murder by Detective Scarcella. |
| 0:56.0 | In prison, Derek turned himself into the best jailhouse lawyer of his generation. |
| 1:01.0 | And the law was my girlfriend. |
| 1:03.0 | This is my only way of freedom. |
| 1:04.6 | Derek and other convicted murderers. |
| 1:07.1 | Started a law firm behind bars. |
| 1:10.2 | We never knew we had the same cop in the case. |
| 1:15.0 | It's gonna sell her. We gotta show that he's a corrupt cop. |
| 1:17.4 | They can go fuck themselves. |
| 1:21.0 | I'm Steve Fishman and I'm Dax Devlin Ross and this is the burden. |
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