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Hello and welcome. I am Josh Whittickham. For today I am the curator of a place of incredible

artefacts and exhibitions, a place that stores the greatest thing on earth. This is my archive

of pop culture. Welcome back to part three of the story of the Chippendales.

Coming up in this episode.

The unlikely founder of this hunk hysteria is an immigrant from Bombay, India,

who came to America, took a look around,

and decided what this country really needed was a male strip tease routine.

They're all kind of like very good looking guys that will be very attractive for our female clientele.

Steve Bannergy ended up making tens of millions of dollars on what he called Chippendale Dancer.

But today Bannergy and his world famous American dream are in serious trouble

as he stands accused of ordering hits on his ex-employees.

I suppose the first thing to get the start of this episode, Susie, is you see why I took

off the bow tie and the cuffs for the second episode.

Yeah, I think it would have seemed at best misplaced, at worst.

Career ending.

Really shitty of you.

Do we dress as a tip of now? It's a dark story, Susie. Mm-ending. Really shitty of you. To be dressed as a Chippendale.

It's a dark story, Susie.

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