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The Tootsie Pop Indian (Entry 1317.LA0312)

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History, Society & Culture

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

In which an American candy company refuses to honor a longstanding bit of playground lollipop lore, and Ken tries to calculate the homeopathic healing power of Tootsie Rolls. Certificate #33486.

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We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick.

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We are receiving this message.

0:11.0

We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick. We speak to you from our present, which we can only assume is your distant past, the turbulent time that was the early 21st century.

0:21.0

Fearing the great cataclysm that will surely befall our civilization, we began this

0:25.5

monumental reference of strange and obscure human knowledge.

0:28.8

These recordings represent our attempt to compile and preserve wonders and esoterica that would otherwise be lost.

0:35.0

So whether you're listening from an advanced civilization or have just reinvented the technology to decrypt our transmissions,

0:41.0

this is our legacy to you.

0:43.4

This is our time capsule.

0:45.4

This is the omnibus. Oh, You have accessed entry 1317 dot LA0312

1:19.2

certificate number 33486 the Tutsi Pop Indian.

1:26.0

How many licks does it take to get to the Tutsi roll center

1:28.8

of a Tutsi pop?

1:30.5

The world may never know.

1:33.2

Now I should say right from the get-go that there are, there's a lot of writing on this topic

1:39.4

online and uh, and recent writing has gone to great pains to describe the Tutsi Pop character as the Tutsi Pop Native American.

1:51.0

Yeah, the TUPNA. But I think it's clear when you look at the rapper that the

1:56.7

picture is not depicting an actual Native American, but rather a boy, a young, you know, mid-century suburban child wearing his approximation of an

2:11.8

Indian chief costume with a toy boy an arrow, I'm sorry, a toy bow an arrow.

2:17.0

Toy boat, toy boat? A toy boat an arrow.

2:20.0

I don't know if I had ever noticed that that it wasn't an actual

2:25.0

Proud native chief. It's just a dumb kid dressed up.

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