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The Past and The Curious: A History Podcast for Kids and Families

Underwear Chronicles Three: Buster Keaton

The Past and The Curious: A History Podcast for Kids and Families

The Past and The Curious History Podcast for Kids

Kids & Family

4.52.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Buster Keaton could take a fall like no one else, and that skill carried him from the Vaudeville stages to the movie screen. He made people laugh, dazzled them with stunts, and fought a fire in his undies.

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0:00.0

Well, hello there, everybody, and welcome back to The Underwear Chronicles.

0:07.7

This is a side project of The Past and the Curious, and my name is Mick Sullivan.

0:12.2

So this is Episode 3 of The Underwear Chronicles.

0:15.3

If you don't know about what these are, it's a lot like an episode of The Past and the

0:19.7

Curious.

0:20.7

However, there's just one story.

0:22.4

It's a little bit longer than a normal story.

0:25.5

And the famous person involved, somehow their underwear, is going to make an appearance

0:30.9

in the story.

0:32.0

So this episode is probably going to sound a little familiar to some of our longtime

0:37.0

listeners.

0:38.0

It's about Buster Keaton, and some of the details of the story, and some a little bit

0:41.8

of the writing is going to be the same as what you've heard in three years ago.

0:47.3

But this is a new version of the story.

0:49.7

It's been rewritten, it's been re-edited, and there's underwear in it.

0:54.5

There wasn't underwear in the last one, I don't think.

0:57.1

But it's a really fun story about one of my favorite actors, filmmakers, comedians of

1:03.8

all time, Buster Keaton and his underwear.

1:09.3

Buster Keaton only went to school one day in his life.

1:13.6

His dad figured some time in the classroom might be good for the boy, so one day he woke

1:18.0

him up early, got him dressed, and sent him on his way.

1:22.2

At the end of the day, the youngster came home with a note from the teacher asking that

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