- [Suzi] "Put that in your (beep) fart machines,
you (beep) fart makers!"
(imitates farting)
(orchestral music)
- Hello.
Today, we're talking about Ub Iwerks,
the creator of Mickey Mouse.
So our story starts in 1919, in Kansas City, USA.
Walt Disney was a draftsman, Ub Iwerks was an animator.
Ub goes, "Hey, Walt, what if we were to put
a live-action person into an animated frame?"
"Yes!
That's it!"
They create something called the "Alice Comedies."
But there's no money in it.
Walt, though, is ambitious.
He goes off the California and he goes to the head
of Universal Animation, Charles Mintz.
He was like, "This is amazing!
I can use this.
But the quality has to be as good."
Walt's like, "Ub, get out here, ASAP.
Yo, this is better than being in Kansas City,
'Cause Kansas City is like,
you could, like, give me the deed to the city
and I still wouldn't even stay there."
He drives the seven days to California.
He takes these-
Oh, no.
Let me back up.
At this point, Ub came up with Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
So Oswald does great for Universal,
and Walt goes to Charles Mintz, and he says, "Listen,
we are (beep) killing it.
Time for you to pay us some more money."
And Mintz, Mintz looks at him and he laughs,
(laughs)
"I'm gonna give you less money!"
Mintz goes, "I have signed all of your animators,
and I own Oswald.
He's mine."
Walt Disney vowed from that day,
"Not only
will I ever not own
any character I create,
I will never not own them."
(laughs)
He said to Ub, "Ub, you with me?"
And Ub, yet again, left with Walt Disney.
And Ub said to him, "What are we doing, Walt?"
And Walt's like, "We need a character, Ub.
What do you got?"
"What about a horse?"
"Nope."
"What about a dog?"
"Nope."
(sighs) "What about a cat?"
"No, man!
We got enough cats!
We got Felix the cat, there's a lot of cats out there!
What else you got?"
"What about a mouse?"
Walt's like, "Yeah, let's do that."
But what happened next was all Ub Iwerks, okay?
So Ub locked himself in the studio,
and he churns out 600 to 700 frames a day.
Unheard of.
He did two months of animation in two weeks
and he created a character,
Mickey Mouse.
He sat down and drew that cartoon plain crazy.
Walt loves it, but he goes, "You know what?
We need something bigger."
And Ub was like, "What if we could sync sound to it?
What if we did our next cartoon where
we could see the action happening
in the time with the music?"
And Walt was like, "Yeah.
Let's do sync sound."
So Steambew-
So Steamoa-
So "Steamboat Willie" comes out
and it blows audiences away.
They went, "I can see that mouse whistling!
I can hear the mouse whistling!"
"Oh, my God!
This mouse is whistling along with what his mouth is doing!
That's (beep) sync sound."
There were standing ovations.
Mickey Mouse became an icon overnight.
He was referenced in movies and songs,
and it creates
Disney.
Like, this embellishes their minds to everybody.
They know that this is, like,
the game has changed.
With the added pressures of Mickey doing really well,
Disney, he wanted to oversee every bit of production.
"Hey, you gotta meet this timing sheet
and we gotta be here by then, and productivity."
(speaks gibberish)
Now, at a party in Hollywood, a little kid came up
to Walt Disney, he's like, "Hey, Mr. Walt Disney!
I love Mickey Mouse!
Would you draw me a picture of him?"
Walt's like, "Sure, kid.
I'll draw you a picture of Mickey Mouse."
And he handed the paper to Ub Iwerks, and Ub goes,
"Whoa!
Are you (beep) kidding me?
This is-
What?
No.
I'm out of here."
Where was I?
Ub and...
- Oh, Walt Disney?
- [Derek Miller] And Ub starts Iwerks Animation.
Crazy stuff happened in his cartoons, you know,
girls' dresses would blow off,
and animals would lose limbs, it was anarchy.
But the Hays Commission comes in.
Those are the guys who were starting to put
limitations on what you could and couldn't show.
And they were like, "This is not gonna fly anymore."
So that was the end of Iwerks Animation.
A friend of Ub's is working at Disney Studios, still.
He's like, "Ub's out of work.
You could use him."
Walt agrees to have Ub for lunch.
He says, "Ub, I want you back.
Please come work for me."
And Ub looks at him and he says, "Walt,
I want to come back and work for you.
But I will never work for you in animation.
I want to work for you in photographic effects."
And Walt is like, "Yeah, you're the guy for that.
Come and do that for me!"
He was a rockstar for Walt.
He built stuff so they could do "Marry Poppins,"
the penguin dance, he wins a technical Oscar for that.
Ub Iwerks had his hand in every single ride at Disneyland,
creating the special effects.
And Ub died a Disney legend,
So this is a real Disney ending.
Or, as I like to think,
as I like to think, this is an Iwerks ending.
Because he was the man.
To Ub.
- [Derek Waters] Ub.
- What the (beep) kind of name's Ub?
- Hello.
My name is Mark Proksch,
and today we are gonna talk about the Bone Wars.
(wheezes)
A lot of people don't know this.
The first dinosaur wasn't discovered
until the mid-19th century.
This created kind of a new science.
Two of the first paleontologists
were Othneil Marsh and Edward Cope.
Cope discovers this great discovery in new Jersery.
New Jersery.
Not a place.
New Jersey.
The first dinosaur that's nearly complete.
And so, Marsh-
(laughs)
And so, Marsh gets there and they tour around.
It's like, "Hey, Cope.
You're a great guy, love you, thank you so much,
you're awesome."
And then he goes to the owners of this site and says,
"Listen buddies, here's my dollars.
Dollars good in the eye of the federal government.
If you find any more dinosaur bones,
don't send them to Cope, send them to me."
And they do that.
Cope finds out about this and becomes infuriated.
"You were my friend, I let you come see the site,
why would you do that to me?"
Marsh says, "Listen, if I can makes this work for me,
then bully to me.
That's what I'm all abo- (burps)
All about."
And so, Cope then breaks into Marsh's sites
and starts pillaging and stealing.
Marsh finds out about this.
(beep) livid.
"What the eff?
What do you think you're doing, mister man?
You're not-
Why would you-"
And Cope is like, "Listen, this is the game we're playing,
I was here, I found these bones.
Just 'cause you're not here yet
doesn't mean nothing to me."
(groans)
(laughs)
Well, Cope finds this dinosaur and he starts
publishing all this information,
and Marsh gets there and he's like,
"Wow, that's, I mean, that's neat.
Why did you put his head on his ass?
It's supposed to be on the other end, you dingus!"
Marsh takes the head, puts it on the tail,
and it fits perfectly.
And Marsh is like, "Einstein isn't invented yet,
but you're no Einstein."
So Marsh, or no, no, no.
Cope is like, "Screw you.
We are obviously not friends, let the Bone Wars begin."
(both singing dramatic fanfare)
A race breaks out to discover new dinosaur fossils
in Council-
in Como-
Count-
Como Bluff, Wyoming!
So you have these two pits.
It's like, "Hey, this discovery is pretty neat,"
and the other would be like, "Nuh-uh!
This, and this, and this, and this,
can go with this, and this, and this, and this!"
And the other would go, "You wish, tuna fish!
This and that was part of this and that!"
The other would be like, "Cool your jets!"
The two of them discovered over 140 species of dinosaurs!
But they were, like, fighting!
Throwing dirt in each other's pits,
sabotaging their own findings.
Marsh would be like, "Don't let Cope get ahold of these,
blow it up," just so Cope wouldn't find them.
Cope was like, "Don't let Marsh get ahold of these,
blow these up."
This is insane!
They even had a dirt ball fight.
These are two of the people that created paleontology!
They're acting like spoiled little babies!
Put diapers on 'em!
Give 'em a nook!
This went on, then, for 15 years.
And Marsh becomes the head of US paleontology
because he discovered the most bones, and is like,
"All of the fossils collected by Cope belong to the USGS."
That's all Cope had left and Marsh was trying to
take that (beep) away from him.
Cope was like, "Screw you, I'm going to fight you on this."
Cope, it turned out, had been collecting evidence
that Marsh was sabotaging all this science this entire time,
back to New Jersey, to Como Bluffs.
Cope gives the New York Herald
(wheezes)
all of these notes!
I get delightful when I'm drunk.
The New York Herald publicizes all this information
and it ruins Marsh.
(wheezes)
I got it, don't worry, guys.
(laughs)
This war, the Bone Wars, established paleontology.
But these two, they're children!
Cope was like, "You know what?
I hate Marsh so much that when I die,
I want my brain weighed and measured.
I bet my brain is bigger than Othneil Marsh's."
And so when he died, he had his brain cut out.
And then Marsh was like, "Nah, I don't want to do that."
(laughs)
Guys, let's eat!
Let's enjoy a mouthful!
- [Derek] A what?
- Honestly, I want you especially-
- [Derek] You want us to enjoy a what?
- I honestly, especially want camera A to enjoy a mouthful!
- Hello.
I'm Rachel Bloom and today we're gonna talk about
the capture of Adolph Eichmann.
So Israel's established in 1948
and Israel's like, "Okay, we need our own CIA,"
and so they form the Mossad.
And David Ban-Gurion, who's the Prime Minister, is like,
"I'm going to appoint you, Isser Harel,
to be head of Mossad."
And Isser Harel is like, "Awesome.
We're gonna hunt down Nazi war criminals,
'cause there are a lot of Nazis still, like, chilling."
And the guy at the top of their list is Adolf Eichmann,
who literally planned the holocaust.
So Isser Harel is like, "Let's nail
this (beep) mother (beep) to the wall
like a (beep) moose who's been hunted."
Meanwhile, Adolf Eichmann is living in Argentina,
making, like, a new alias.
He's like, "What's an Argentinian-sounding name?
Oh, I know, Ricardo Klement.
Good job, Adolf, I mean Ricardo.
Wink."
However, his kids who were there with him, they're like,
"Well, I'm really attached to Eichmann.
It's in all my yearbooks, I'm just gonna keep it."
So the Eichmann kids are (beep) stupid.
(both laugh)
Okay, so in the 1950's, Eichmann's son, Klaus,
starts dating this very nice girl, Silvia.
She's like, "Daddy, I'm dating, like, the best guy.
His name is Klaus Eichmann."
And he's like, "That's weird."
My dog loves licking her (beep).
My dog licks her vagina more than any dog.
- [Derek] That's cool.
- [Rachel] Anyway, so Silvia's father, Lothar Hermann,
is like, "Huh, Eichmann, Eichmann,
where have I heard that name?"
And so Lothar tips off the Mossad.
And he's like, "My daughter's dating a guy
named Klaus Eichmann.
I feel like this might be Adolf Eichmann.
This might be the son of Adolf Eichmann."
And the Mossad is like, "We need to check this guy out."
And so they send operatives to Argentina,
all of whom are holocaust survivors,
and they're like, "You need to take pictures of Eichmann
to make sure this is Eichmann so that we're not just
capturing some poor Argentinian dude."
- [Derek] Smart.
- Okay, so...
No!
- [Derek] What are you looking for?
- My water went under the couch!
- I got you.
You got it? - Thanks, friend.
So they send a guy who just kind of walks up to him
while he's gardening, and they're like,
"Tell us how you garden," and he's like, "Well,"
and he starts to explain gardening to them.
And the whole time, they have a suitcase
that has a spy camera in it, so they're like,
(imitates camera clicking)
and he's like, "What's that sound?"
And they're like, "Nothing!"
So they send the pictures back to Israel
and the Mossad is like, "Dudes, this is Eichmann!
Let's get him there."
But Harel's like, "Whoa, Argentina's really bad
about extraditing Nazis, they, like,
don't give a shit for some reason.
I don't know why.
I don't know why!
But they're just bad about it,"
And he tells Zvi Aharoni,
"If we're gonna capture Adolf Eichmann,
we're gonna have to, like, full-on kidnap him,
like a kid on a milk carton.
We're gonna have to milk carton Adolf Eichmann."
So, the four operatives,
they go to Argentina.
It's weird to tell a story about Nazis and be so cozy.
Anyway, they park a deserted car to lure Eichmann,
and they're like, "Hey, guys, so to distract ourselves,
we need to come up with a group name.
How about The Kidnapping Friends?"
And one of them's like, "No, I don't...
Okay, if we're gonna come up with names,
now's not the time to do it, but if we're going to,
I think it should be called The Abduction Posse."
And another one's like, "No, no, no, no, listen.
How about, I don't know, The Snatch Squad?"
And they're like, "Snatch Squad!"
And just then, that's when Eichmann walks down the road.
And they're like, "Uh, our car is broken down.
Sike, it's not!"
And they tackle Eichmann, they just, like, full-on
bum-rush Eichmann, and they get him in the car.
And my dog continues to lick her own (beep).
- Oh, good dog.
- [Rachel] So, they bring him to a safe house,
and then they try to question him to make sure
it's Adolf Eichmann living in Germany.
Argentina.
And Eichmann's like, (speaks Spanish).
Like, he's pretending to be Argentinian.
They're just like, "Clearly not.
You are a pasty, white German dude."
And finally, he drops all the shit and he's like,
"All right, I'm Adolf Eichmann.
Can I get a glass of wine?"
And they're like, "Okay, there's a plane
leaving from Buenos Aires to Israel.
How do we sneak Eichmann onto this plane?"
So May 20th, 1960, they sedate Adolf Eichmann,
they dress him up as an El Al Flight attendant,
which is the Israel airline,
and they literally, like, drag him to the airport,
like, full-on "Weekend at Bernie's"-ing
the orchestrator of the worst thing that's ever
happened in their lives, and just being like,
"I'm tired, hello, I'm an El Al flight attendant."
And they're literally carrying him onto the plane.
I mean, like, the story's (beep) insane.
So they get him to Israel, and they put Eichmann on trial,
and he's convicted, and he's hung outside of Tel Aviv.
- [Derek] Wow.
- [Rachel] And the guys who captured him are like,
"Look, far be it for we to celebrate death,
but also, um, (beep) yeah."
- [Derek] (beep) the Nazis!
- [Rachel] (beep) the Nazis, man.
I'm alive, I'm 97% Ashkenazi.
(Derek laughs)
- Hello.
I'm Suzi Barrett, and today we're talking about
John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
The first Dreamers.
- Oh, no.
(glasses clinking) - Oh, yes.
Okay, our story begins in 1972,
in the magical land of New York City.
Greenwich Village, ha-sha-sha!
Everybody hates Vietnam, everybody's making a stink.
And who's at the center of that stink?
John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
They are young lovers creating fuckin' art.
So John and Yoko have been here on a tourist visa,
but suddenly, (imitates explosion)
"You've got denied!"
And they're like, "(stammers) What?"
And their lawyer is like, "You guys have to get hooked up
with Leon Wildes, he is the shit of immigration."
And Leon Wildes comes to meet them,
and he's like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, what do we got here,
what's your case?"
They're like, "We want to stay,
we want to keep making our solo projects
where we scream into a telephone and play a baby backwards."
He's like, "What?
What are you talking about?"
And he's like, "Oh, well, you know, I'm John Lennon
and this is Yoko Ono," and he's like,
"Yeah, what are you talking about?"
- [Derek] He's never heard of them.
- Never heard of them!
- He doesn't know any Beatles songs,
but somehow, he keeps referencing.
- [Suzi] And he's like, "Hey, look, kids.
I don't know who the Bootles are, but look,
I want to hold your hand through this case.
You know what I mean?
I'll work eight days a week to get you to the end of this!"
(Derek laughing)
"She loves you?
Yeah?
Yeah?"
- (laughs) Fuck.
- "So please, please me by letting me take your case.
I'll please you.
It's- (groans)"
(laughs)
(hums)
- You okay?
- Great, I just dumped liquid on my mic by accident.
- It's okay, it's okay.
- Thank you.
All right, so Leon Wildes uses a secret little trick,
the Freedom of Information Act.
Anyone can give a key word to the clerks of Washington
and they return any files, or papers,
or whatever that have that word in it.
So he's like, "a-tippy-tippy-tap, Lennon!
A-doop-a-doop-a-doop, Ono!"
And months, and months, and months later, he's like,
"Well, lookie what we have here!
This letter from Strom Thurmond, the fuckin' asshole
South Carolina Senator to Nixon's Attorney General,
John Mitchell, being like,
'Get rid of this Lennon guy!
He's trying to convince young people
that it's not a good idea to send other young people
to die in Vietnam!
What is up with that?'"
And Leon's like, "Nixon thinks he'll get re-elected
if he deports Nixon!
No.
Nixon thinks he'll get re-elected if he deports Lennon!
Holy shit."
So October 8th, 1975.
John and Yoko are at the Second Circuit Court of Appeals,
getting kicked out of the country.
The gavel's just about to go down and
the doors of the courtroom open!
(imitates farting)
And Leon Wildes is like, "Fuckin' Strom Thurmond
and Richard Nixon had it out for them
simply because they wanted to give peace a chance!"
And they agreed.
"They were already here, they were enjoying their lives,
and we, the court, will not condone selective deportation."
"So put that in your (beep) fart machines,
you (beep) fart-makers!"
(imitates farting)
So they win!
They get to stay back in the USSA!
- [Derek] Hey!
- [Suzi] So this is an important story
because, oh, my God.
Derek.
- Suzi.
- Would you like to travel into the future?
- [Derek] Okay.
- Here, hold this.
This one-and-a-third lime, and...
(sings dramatic theme)
Suddenly, it's 37 years later, June 15th, 2012.
Barack Obama makes the most amazing speech
announcing DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals,
saying, "Uh, anyone who's here, who has been here,
I don't care how you got here, you get to stay here.
We want you here, we love you here, you're here.
The end, bye, Barack Obama."
Meaning, people who are here in America,
who didn't choose to be here,
if you're not causing problems and you're part of
our society already, you get to stay.
And these children are called the Dreamers.
And the fun little accidental tidbit is that
Obama is using John Lennon's case as a precedent.
- As a president.
- Oh, boy.
As a president, he's using it as a precedent.
- Yeah. - Yeah.