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History Is Dank

Tong Wars

History Is Dank

All Things Comedy

Comedy, Education, History

5.0584 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In San Francisco around the turn of the century, not the Y2K crossover...the century prior, there was a series of ongoing battles among rival Tongs on the streets of Chinatown. Imagine Gangs of New York, but with a different set of issues and similar violent methods of resolution. To an outside observer the scene may appear chaotic, but where the brutality was abundant so was the code and order. 

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Sources: wikipedia.org, britannica.com, sfexaminer.com ‘Chinatown Tong Wars’ by Paul Drexler 2016

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0:00.0

Frigin what up, dude.

0:01.1

Strider Wilson, I'm the host of this podcast, that's mine.

0:04.2

Gonna be called History is...

0:06.3

Nice.

0:06.7

...friguing is dank with Strider Wilson.

0:15.1

Dang is from the come.

0:19.0

Frigin what up, dude.

0:22.2

Fired up for another app of history's freaking dang dude

0:23.8

I'm your host strider Wilson

0:24.7

what up dude

0:25.6

we got Aaron on the sticks

0:27.3

dude what up Aaron

0:28.3

what up

0:29.0

chilling dude

0:30.4

just loved hearing about your softball

0:32.3

dub dude

0:33.1

congrats bro

0:34.0

I am a champion

0:36.2

but I also

0:36.9

I come to you as a humble father. I just came from my gym. What is that? Oh, it's a gym for babies. That's fucking cute, dude. That's so cute. Jacked babies in there? Can you tell if there's babies who are going to get jacked? There's some, there was one who was like, oh shit, this guy's legit. He's got legit grip. Yeah. Dude, my buddy Brooks, his kid, I can already tell he's going to be jacked, dude. He's got broad shoulder, like a puppy. Like, when you know when you look at a puppy and it's got big old paws, you just know, you're like, all right, that thing's going to be jacked. Yeah. And you look at this kid, you're like, dude, he's got broad shoulders. He's going to be jacked.

1:13.8

He's lifting up a frigging... Yeah. You just know, you're like, all right, that thing's going to be jacked. Yeah. Dude. And you look at this kid, you're like, dude, he's got broad shoulders.

1:13.1

He's going to be jacked.

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