The Strange Case of Norton I- Emperor of the United States

History Dweebs - A look at True Crime, Murders, Serial Killers and the Darkside of History

Tim Scott

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2016

⏱️ 111 minutes

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From 1859 until 1880, The U.S. was ruled by the self -proclaimed "Norton I, Emperor of the United States". This is his story.

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0:00.0	I am welcome, everyone, to History Dweeps. I am Tim, and welcome to the show where we take a lighthearted
0:09.7	look at the dark side of history. Our topic today is the emperor, the first emperor of the
0:17.8	United States, Emperor Norton I, the first. We're going to talk about
0:21.7	his reign. Those of you follow history probably have no idea what I'm talking about, but we'll
0:28.3	explain it as we go. In the meantime, let me introduce our panel. We are very happy today because
0:36.3	we have a special guest, a very popular member of our cast who shows up from time to time when he doesn't have anything else to do.
0:45.6	And that is the very talented Casey.
0:49.4	How's it going, Casey?
0:50.3	Going good, Timmy.
0:51.5	It's been a while, and you guys have made some updates in here. You guys are getting a little bit above your raising on me. I don't know what to do with all these new fangled equipment that you got here. We're doing this with our new sound equipment. Yes. Yes. Yes. We finally got it to work. I'm a little intimidated.
1:11.2	I know.
1:13.7	It looks like a real studio, doesn't it?
1:14.4	Yeah, not quite.
1:15.0	Okay.
1:17.2	But there are nice microphones.
1:20.0	So, Casey, what's been going on with you?
1:21.1	Anything interesting?
1:30.1	You know, the women are, you know, on our Facebook page all, you know, want to throw their panties at you and stuff.
1:30.8	Feel free.
1:32.0	Throw away.
1:34.1	Some of them in on the page.
1:35.4	Want to throw their panties as well.
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