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Get a deep dive on two of the mazes from
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Halloween horrn Nights that's coming up on today's show from
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the haunt Attraction Network. I'm Philip and it's October first,
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which means that our annual Hauntedthon is in full swing,
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where we're counting down to Halloween by celebrating haunted houses
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daily via videos, podcast articles, and more. This is actually
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one of the first podcasts that we're gonna be releasing
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for this year's Hantathon. More on that later. Since this
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podcast is only one part of the Hauntathon, the best
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way to follow everything is by subscribing to our newsletter
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at the link in our show notes. Remember, the best
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way you can support us is by sharing our Hauntathon
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with someone you think.
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We'll enjoy it.
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Today, I'm playing the full Halloween Horror Night's presentation from
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Midsommer Scream for you. Yes, I've been holding on to
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this recording for quite a while because Minsimmer's Green was
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at the very end of July, but we wanted to
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make it fit into the Haunted On, and most of
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the presentation really outlines the details for Texas Chainsaw Masker
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and Universal Monsters mazes. So whether you've been to the
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event already or not, the presentation gives you insights into
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the design and the details that go into the mazes.
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So I don't think it's a problem if you've been
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to it or not. I think actually, for me having
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been to it and listening to it, it really makes
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me remember some details that I looked over as I.
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Was going through the maze.
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So in this presentation, we're going to start right off
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at the beginning, where you hear John Murdy on stage.
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You hear the crowd chanting Berty's name as he comes
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on stage, and then he launches into it. Okay, here
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we go in three two one.
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I'm gonna chante all of your names, just yelling aloud.
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How you guys doing today.
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I'm John Bernie. I'm the credit director, executive producer of Halloween,
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Hornight's Universal Studios, Hollywood. Welcome back to Minsummer Scream. We
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got a lot of stuff to show you guys today.
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But you guys know how this starts, right? Well, no,
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actually it starts like this. Okay, thank you. That's a tradition,
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you know what I mean, you know, seriously, thank you,
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thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. It's the
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fans of Halloween Hornites that fuel our passion for the events,
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that make ourselves and our team want to talk to
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you know, talp ourselves every single year. We appreciate all
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that his support, so thank you so much. And do
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we have in a house? Do we have any team
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members of Halloween Hornites? Anybody scan it? Stand up Snada?
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Thanks that? If not me, if all of these people,
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we want to lose you the head? All right, what
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should we do? No? By the breaking up my thumbs,
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something wicked this way up? So you guys ready for
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announcement right.
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Out of the game here, Yeah, Texas this coming.
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Now, I know what you're thinking. Has Texas Chainsaw Massacre
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ever been featured Halloween Hornet's in the past, Yes, it has.
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What we're gonna take you through today and I'm gonna
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do a deep dive into Texas Chainsaw Massaer the legacy
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of leather. This is an all new experience. I'm gonna
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show you why.
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But first the show with the history lesson, So Texas
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chance On Massacre goes all the way back to the
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very beginning of our era of Halloween Hornites.
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It was one of the first intellectual properties that we
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featured at our events. In two thousand and seven, we
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did Texas Change I'm Asker back in Business. Anybody see this,
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anyone in the crowd around back then, A lot of
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you who saw that original house that it was the
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scariest house that we ever produced. Is that true? Okay?
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So that's the bar, right, that's the bar. We knew
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we had to top ourselves. But we did it into
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two thousand and seven. It actually wasn't based on the
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original Texas Chance I'm Masacer. It was based on the
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two thousand and three remake. So in two thousand and
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eight we did the exact same thing because we did
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that back then, you know, back when I first started
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doing Halloween Hornites. I came from Universal Creative, from doing
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like Ryan It's like Revenge of a Mummy. And then
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we took this and celebrates its twentieth anniversary this year.
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We took my Halloween horn ice, you know, the first years,
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and we're doing it, and we were like, oh cool,
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everybody like that, Let's just do it again. So in
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two thousand and eight we did text Chansaw Masker back
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at Business, exact same house, and then four years went
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by and then In twenty twelve we did Texas Chainsaw Massacer.
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The saw is the law. That's the first house we
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did based on the original nineteen seventy four classic film,
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quick personal story. You see the scene. What's the scene, Yeah,
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the dining room, the dinner table scene. That particular year,
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I brought my father in law and my mother in
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law from Ireland to Halloween Haardites for the first time.
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When we got to the scene, the path goes around
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to the left. My father in law he'd never been
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in a hotted house. He went around to the right
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and he sat down and at the chair and he
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just started chatting up Grandpa and the poor performers, like
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what the hell's going on? And then leather Face came
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running into the room with a chainsaw and my mother
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in law tried to smack it, and I'm like, no, no,
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you can't do this. But in twenty twelve, that's the
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first time we did the original chansaw on Massacre. And
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then twenty sixteen, four years later, you see the trends
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starting to develop here calling you conspiracy theorists in the house,
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we did Texas Chainsaw Massacre Blood Brothers, and this was different.
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We took the idea was we took the first film
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in the second film, and we created our own sequel
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that lived between the first film and the second film.
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And to this day, this house holds the record for
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being the only haunted house ever in the history of America.
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That probably featured the President Jerald Ford in the opening scene.
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And then in twenty and seventeen it's title to Terror.
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We'll we mask up Leather Base, Freddy and Jason. And
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then four years later, in twenty twenty one, we went
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back to the original Texas Chansa on Massacar. Now, I
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mentioned at the beginning that this is all new, this
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is all different. Why did we decide to do Texas
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Chance on Massacer in twenty twenty four the anniversary? This
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is what In twenty twenty four, it is the fiftieth
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anniversary of this historic franchise. Now, maybe you guys love
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Texas Chance on mascar Okay. If I was gonna make
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a Mount Rushmore for horror, which somebody should do, maybe
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one of you one day we'll do this, I would
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put Leather Base for sure as one of the foreheads
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on the Mount Rushmore Horror. That's what this franchise means
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to the whole genre of horror. This is the fiftieth
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anniversary of that historic franchise. So the people that we've
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always dealt with over the years on Texas Chainsaw Massacre,
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they came to me and they pitched me this idea.
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Why this is what they said. They said, why don't
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you take a multiverse approach to this classic franchise right?
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And I'm went, now, yes, let's do that. That's awesome,
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Let's do a multiverse approach. And then I patent because
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I had no idea how to do that. So what
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did I do? I do what I always do. I
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went back to the film, even though I've seen it
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a million times, I started researching the film, and this
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particular line was the seed for everything I'm going to
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share you right now. There, you know the scene, right,
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he so idyllic. The summer afternoon, there's a group of
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teenagers driving in a van. They're driving through Morto County, Texas,
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and they see this dude in the distance waving and
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jumping up and down, and they decide, what you should
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never do horror movie, don't ever do this in real life.
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They decided, oh, what is that crazy guy? Let's let
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him in our car. Let's give him a ride, and
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he says these lines. My family has always been in meet.
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What's he talking about the slaughterhouse? He says, oh, there was.
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You know, I used to work at the slaughterhouse, and
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my brother did and my grandpa, and I thought to myself,
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you never see that in the original film they talk
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about the slaughterhouse, that you never see it. So what
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we decided to do was to create an alternate timeline.
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This is where it gets real heavy, Okay, so follow me.
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We decided to create an alternate timeline that runs parallel
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to the events of the nineteen seventy four film, but
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that takes place entirely at this location. You've never been
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to the slaughterhouse. Because if I know the Sawyer family
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from Texas James On Massacre, which I do, I know
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that if there's a slaughterhouse that they all used to
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work at has been sent they're abandoned, they're probably doing
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something with it, right, So that meant in research, I
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needed to learn everything I possibly could about slaughterhouses and
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meat productions. So that was the next phase of my research.
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I don't recommend this, by the way, this messed me up.
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I spent hours and hours and hours researching slaughterhouses. In fact,
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this is the first treatment I've ever written that I
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had to put a disclaimer on the cover page, like
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a warning to any of our team members that we're
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going to read this. And if all of you who
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work at Halligan ornez so hear, you know I'm telling
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the truth right right on the front page, big huge letters.
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In fact, most of my research imagery I can't even
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show you. I didn't put it in the deck because
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it's really, really, really awful. So now it's time for
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a slightly longer history lesson than the one we had before.
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It starts with this date, December twenty fifth, eighteen sixty five.
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Does anybody have any idea what that date happen to
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do with anything besides the fact that it's Christmas? Jenniferth
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the Union Stockyard at Chicago opened its doors for the
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first time. So back of before there was this place
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people like to slaughter their animals on the farm, right,
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everything was done locally. But in eighteen sixty five they
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opened this place, the Chicago Stockyards, and they had a
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bunch of trains that came to the same point, so
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they were able to bring all these cattles and pigs
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in and then after a little bit of time. Originally
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it was just a cattle mart, but then this gentleman
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with the crazy sidebirds came along. This is Philip Danforth Armor,
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and what he was the creator or innovator of was
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the assembly line. In fact, before Henry Ford ever builds
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an automobile, he got the idea from this dude, Philip
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Danforth Armor. Do you recognize the name? Anybody as old
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as me? And the house bought dug so I remember hotdogs?
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Can you remember that commercial? We saw this commercial constantly
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when we're kids. This guy built the first mechanized meat
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processing plant after Chicago Stockyards, and he created what is
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known as the disassembly line. So the animals go in
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and then piece by piece by piece by piece by
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piece by piece, they get disassembled. Right now, will The
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Danford Armor was famous for this quote. He said that
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he used everything but the squeal and this is just
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some of the stuff that they made out of everything
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that went into the slaughterhouse, everything from chewing down to
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chess pieces. But like all great industrialists, he had a rival,
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this gentleman who Stavis Franklin Swift he built a slaughterhouse
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and a meat processing plant right next to armors plants.
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But he had another idea. He was the inventor of
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the ice cooled railcar. So now they could use the
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railroad to transport meat all over the country, and that
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changed everything. This is from the night. This is the
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same place. Now is huge. World War two is going on.
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They need to feed all these soldiers. A fueled America's
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obsession with meat, because back in the days before this,
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it was really rare that you ate meat for dinner, right,
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that would be like a treat. But because they have
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the refrigerated train cars, they can transport meat all over
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the country. And you can even see the propaganda posters
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from World War two. They were like meat, it's the
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meal for a healthy defense. Now, this of course led
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to what it always leads to in these situations, environmental disaster.
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So that first picture on the left, that's what they
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call the backyards of the Chicago Stockyards. This is where
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all the employees lived, and that's what they lived in
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industrial waste. You see that guy standing in the middle
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of the river, that's Chicago River. They pumped fifty thousand
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gallons of wastewater from the slaughterhouse into the river every
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single day, and it turned into what they call Bubbly Creek.
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All the noxious fumes in there, they all bubbled to
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the surface of the creek was constantly bubbling, and there
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was so much sludge on the surface of the tree
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that you could literally stand on it. Now, after this,
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you know environmentalists like Upton Sinclair who the famous book
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in the Jungle. He started criticizing everything that was going
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on and brought a lot of attention to it. And
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shortly after that, after World War Two, the freeways were built.
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They changed from a refrigerated rail cars to refrigerated trucks
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that could transport they meet around. It no longer became
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necessary to have a slaughterhouse in a big city like Chicago, right,
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So eventually that led to decline and by the early