Kevin Hart's Guide to Black History (2019)

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<i>Martin Luther King,
a soldier for peace.</i>

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<i>Jackie Robinson,
a pioneer</i>

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<i>with the courage
to break barriers.</i>

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<i>Tonight, we dig deep
to explore these</i>

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<i>and other inspiring tales
from African American history,</i>

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<i>like George Washington Carver,</i>

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<i>a man who saw endless potential
in the humble peanut.</i>

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<i>Seriously?
You dug deep and you came up</i>

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<i>with the peanut thing again?</i>

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<i>I just read the script, man.</i>

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<i>Well, there's a lot more
to black history than peanuts.</i>

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Here's the thing about black
history... there's so much of it.

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Meaning, there's so much of it,

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I feel like these stories
need to be told

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because it's stuff
that people don't know.

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So what we're doing
is digging into the untold.

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<i>Did you know that in the Civil
War a slave named Robert Smalls</i>

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<i>played a major role
in the Union's victory?</i>

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- Boo-yah!
<i>- And did you know</i>

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<i>that the first black woman
in space,</i>

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<i>the brilliant Mae Jemison,
realized her dreams</i>

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<i>by not taking no for an answer?</i>

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Hello, NASA?

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I'm a black woman who'd like
to become an astronaut.

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<i>Or that, in 1909,
Matthew Henson</i>

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<i>was arguably the first man
to step foot on the North Pole.</i>

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The North Pole!
Baby!

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Top of the world!
It's cold, let's go.

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<i>Well, we're gonna learn
about all those stories</i>

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<i>and a whole lot more
in my Guide to Black History.</i>

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<i>♪ It's </i>Kevin Hart's
Guide to Black History <i>♪</i>

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<i>- ♪ Yeah ♪
- ♪ Black History. ♪</i>

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<i>Oh, Riley.</i>

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What... what
happened in here?

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I threw a plate at the TV.

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Well, was Nick Cannon on it?
Is that why you threw it?

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'Cause Nick is awful.

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No.

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I was watching
<i>12 Years A Slave.</i>

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Oh.

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Oh, this is serious. Okay,
well, I can understand that.

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Wait, wasn't your
little friend here?

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Uh, I wanna say Jake
is his name?

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It's Jeremy.

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Okay, why are you
behind the couch?

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I'd rather not get into it.

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Rather not get into it?

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Riley, what did you
do to Jeffrey?

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I was mad.

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She gave me
a purple nurple.

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- A what?
- I twisted his nipple in anger.

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Riley, we do not touch other
people's nipples in this house

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You know that. This is a nipple
safe zone in this house.

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I was tired
of watching black people

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getting whipped
by white people.

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I understand that.
Slavery was horrible.

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I mean,
it was beyond horrible.

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They treated us
like animals, Dad.

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- I'm aware of that.
- They took our dignity.

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Oh, so now you're trying
to take our popcorn, too?

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Riley, Riley, Riley!

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There's, like, a lot of racial
tension in here right now.

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Are... are you talking
about in this room?

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Are you talking
about the country?

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- Both.
- I'll tell you what.

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Can me and Riley
talk in private?

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- Uh, Jebediah?
- Jeremy.

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Right. Just go
and make yourself at home.

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Come on, come on,
let me talk to you.

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First of all, you don't twist
white people's nipples.

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- That is a way to go to jail.
- But I don't...

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Come on.
All right.

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Riley, I want you
to listen to your dad.

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I know you're upset, okay?

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I mean, I knew about slavery,
but to see it?

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It's so horrible.

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And it's so embarrassing.

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Sweetie, I know that.

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I know how you feel,
but you gotta understand

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that there's so much
more to black history

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than people getting whipped.

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- Yeah?
- Hell, yeah.

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Amazing, inspiring stories
of black people

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who showed unbelievable courage,
intelligence, and creativity

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in the face of all
this horrible stuff.

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There's black heroes everywhere.
Harriet Tubman, five foot even.

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Sammy Davis, Junior,
five foot five.

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Prince, five foot two.

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Why do you keep mentioning
their heights?

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No reason.

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The point is, is that
for every Harriet Tubman

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there's dozens
of unsung heroes

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who never get the credit
they deserve.

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You know what?
Here.

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Take a look at this.

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What are you doing?
What are you doing?

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I think the battery's dead.

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There ain't no batteries.
Gimme this... gimme this.

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It's a book.

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Sweetie, let me tell you about
a man named Henry "Box" Brown.

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See, he was a slave
who escaped by

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mailing himself
to Philadelphia in a box.

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Look at this.
Mm-hmm.

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Here he is right here.

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Wow.
That's crazy.

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Crazy like a box.

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That's a play on words.

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<i>Now, sweetie,
let me put this in perspective.</i>

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<i>Back in the 1850s,
a lot of plantation owners</i>

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<i>liked to say slaves were
happy and well cared for.</i>

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<i>Well, tell that
to the hundred thousand of them</i>

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<i>who risked everything
to escape</i>

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<i>through
the Underground Railroad.</i>

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<i>Now, I know what you're
thinking.</i>

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<i>How did they dig all those
underground train tunnels</i>

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<i>with nobody noticing?</i>

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<i>- Yeah.
- It's a metaphor.</i>

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<i>It wasn't really
a railroad under the ground.</i>

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<i>It was a network of secret
routes and safe houses</i>

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<i>formed in the early 1800s
by abolitionists</i>

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<i>and other escaped slaves,</i>

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<i>like the great
Harriet Tubman,</i>

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<i>who made 13 trips
to the South</i>

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<i>to personally free
over 70 people.</i>

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<i>These brave souls
gave Biblical names</i>

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<i>to landmarks along the way.</i>

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<i>The Ohio River was known
as the River Jordan,</i>

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<i>and Canada
was the Promised Land.</i>

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<i>Yep,
tens of thousands of slaves</i>

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<i>settled in
the Great White North,</i>

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<i>which explains great black
folks like Willie O'Ree</i>

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<i>the first black player
in the NHL,</i>

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<i>and Drake.</i>

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<i>But not all slaves
used the Underground Railroad.</i>

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<i>Some went to incredible,
ingenious lengths to escape.</i>

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<i>Like Henry Brown.</i>

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<i>Henry's wife and daughter were
sold to another slave owner</i>

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<i>and he never saw them again.</i>

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<i>But he turned that heartbreak
into determination</i>

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<i>to be free by any means
necessary.</i>

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All right, 155-pound cigars
bound for Philadelphia.

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Toss it in the wagon.

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I could use a little help, sir.

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That's funny.

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Okay.

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There we go.
Whew.

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Soon those cigars
will be free.

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What? Why?
Is something wrong with them?

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Oh, no, no, no,
they're great cigars.

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Then why would
they be free?

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No, you still
gotta pay for them.

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That's not free.

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What is this,
some sort of scam?

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Forget it.

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<i>Brown had help
from a sympathetic</i>

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<i>white shoemaker
named Samuel Smith.</i>

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Thank you again.

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Hey, you're welcome.

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Hey!
You know I'm in here, right?

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Eh, 238 pounds.

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Bound for Philadelphia.

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It's fine china.
Very fragile.

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Sir, this is the
U.S. Postal Service,

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the finest postal service
in the world.

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I guarantee we will take

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the utmost care
with your package.

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Would you watch it, doofus?

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Let me steer it.

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That was me, sorry.
Come on.

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Come on, move it.

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<i>While he was in the box,
Henry wrote down</i>

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<i>his thoughts
in a journal.</i>

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<i>After 26 grueling hours,</i>

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<i>the crate made it
to Philadelphia.</i>

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<i>Henry made it to a group
of abolitionists,</i>

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<i>and when he stepped
out of the box,</i>

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<i>his first words were...</i>

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How do you do, gentlemen?

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I made it!
I'm finally here.

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Dang, that's pretty slick.

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Ah, I mean, it was okay.
I coulda beat it.

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- Oh, really?
- Are you kiddin'?

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I woulda popped off
a quick joke

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that'd blew Henry's
right out the box.

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<i>Like, for instance,
if I'da said...</i>

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Someone gonna sign for this?

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Guess I'm thinking
outside the box.

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It is <i>crate </i>to be here!

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Now, who kicked me
down the stairs?

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No, seriously,
who did it?

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'Cause they need
to die tonight.

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I am killing.

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I prefer Henry's line.

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It has a certain
understated elegance.

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Oh, come on.

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Those abolitionists
were dying

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in that fake reenactment.

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I know what I like.

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Well, anyway,
Henry's plan worked.

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Okay? He was a free man,
and when word got out,

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you can imagine
what happened.

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<i>Henry "Box" Brown was
the OG crate escape artist.</i>

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<i>That's why
we're talking about him</i>

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<i>and not Otis "Envelope" Evans.</i>

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So, what did "Box" Brown
do after he was free?

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Well, he actually made
a good living

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telling his story on
the lecture circuit in Boston.

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And he got to know
Frederick Douglass,

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who inspired him
to turn his journals

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into a best-selling
autobiography.

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But in 1850, a horrible
federal law was passed

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called
the Fugitive Slave Act,

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which incentivized
bounty hunters

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to capture escaped slaves,
even in free states.

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- What the...?
- See, Henry didn't want

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that threat
hanging over him,

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so he moved to London and,
get this, he actually became

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- a successful magician there.
- I like magic.

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<i>At first, he performed
his escape story in London.</i>

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<i>But he learned magic
so he could exploit</i>

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<i>the showmanship he developed
for new gigs.</i>

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Behold, I've levitated
my beautiful assistant

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Marjorie in mid-air.

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- Do the box thing!
- Yeah!

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Okay, settle down.

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Just let me continue to
do my magical performance.

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Less yap, more box.

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Look, I appreciate
the enthusiasm, guys,

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but me sitting in that box
is not a magic trick.

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Okay?
This is a magic show.

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I'm trying
to give you magic, huh?

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But you're not in the box,
and I don't like that.

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- Yeah!
- Box! Box! Box!

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Fine.

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Can you believe it?

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<i>Henry Brown had
unbelievable courage,</i>

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<i>ingenuity, and talent.</i>

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<i>But a tough crowd
is a tough crowd.</i>

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<i>Maybe that's why Henry's
mentor, Frederick Douglass,</i>

240
00:10:52,860 --> 00:10:54,403
<i>never did magic.</i>

241
00:10:54,487 --> 00:10:57,031
<i>Which brings us to our first
Black History Minute.</i>

242
00:10:57,156 --> 00:10:59,033
<i>While most of us
have heard of Douglass,</i>

243
00:10:59,158 --> 00:11:01,911
<i>there's a lot about his story
that will surprise you.</i>

244
00:11:02,036 --> 00:11:04,163
<i>Born into slavery in Maryland
in 1818,</i>

245
00:11:04,288 --> 00:11:06,666
<i>Frederick Douglass was the most
important African American</i>

246
00:11:06,791 --> 00:11:09,418
<i>abolitionist
and intellectual of his day.</i>

247
00:11:09,543 --> 00:11:12,546
<i>He escaped bondage in Maryland
by disguising himself</i>

248
00:11:12,672 --> 00:11:15,174
<i>as a sailor and boarding
a train for Philadelphia.</i>

249
00:11:15,299 --> 00:11:16,676
<i>Go, birds!</i>

250
00:11:16,801 --> 00:11:18,601
<i>When he got off that train,
he was a free man.</i>

251
00:11:18,636 --> 00:11:20,179
<i>He later wrote
that he lived more</i>

252
00:11:20,304 --> 00:11:21,680
<i>in his first day
as a free man</i>

253
00:11:21,806 --> 00:11:24,058
<i>than in a year
of his slave life.</i>

254
00:11:24,183 --> 00:11:26,060
<i>His first autobiography,</i>

255
00:11:26,185 --> 00:11:27,561
Narrative of the Life

256
00:11:27,686 --> 00:11:29,326
of Frederick Douglass,
An American Slave,"

257
00:11:29,438 --> 00:11:31,941
<i>got rave reviews and became
an immediate bestseller.</i>

258
00:11:32,024 --> 00:11:34,693
<i>It took the world by storm,
pumping new urgency</i>

259
00:11:34,819 --> 00:11:36,695
<i>into the abolitionist movement.</i>

260
00:11:36,821 --> 00:11:38,697
<i>As part of his campaign
to change attitudes</i>

261
00:11:38,823 --> 00:11:39,949
<i>about black people,</i>

262
00:11:40,032 --> 00:11:41,450
<i>he sought out photographers</i>

263
00:11:41,575 --> 00:11:44,203
<i>and sat for more than
160 portraits,</i>

264
00:11:44,328 --> 00:11:46,705
<i>edging out Abe Lincoln
as the most photographed</i>

265
00:11:46,831 --> 00:11:48,833
<i>American of the 19th century.</i>

266
00:11:48,958 --> 00:11:51,335
<i>But he never smiled once
in any of those pictures.</i>

267
00:11:51,460 --> 00:11:53,337
<i>Because he wanted
to counteract the images</i>

268
00:11:53,421 --> 00:11:54,713
<i>of smiling, happy slaves</i>

269
00:11:54,839 --> 00:11:56,966
<i>that were pervasive
at that time.</i>

270
00:11:57,091 --> 00:11:59,844
<i>But I can't help to think
that if he lived to see himself</i>

271
00:11:59,927 --> 00:12:01,971
<i>featured on a Kevin Hart
Netflix special,</i>

272
00:12:02,096 --> 00:12:03,597
<i>he would've been pumped.</i>

273
00:12:05,724 --> 00:12:07,726
Well, I just told you
the amazing story

274
00:12:07,852 --> 00:12:09,478
of Henry "Box" Brown,

275
00:12:09,562 --> 00:12:12,356
complete with a lavishly
produced reenactment.

276
00:12:12,481 --> 00:12:13,858
- Ooh.
- Are you understanding

277
00:12:13,983 --> 00:12:14,984
black history better yet?

278
00:12:15,109 --> 00:12:17,987
Kinda. I mean, I can
relate to injustice.

279
00:12:18,112 --> 00:12:20,239
Like how you gave me
the small bedroom.

280
00:12:20,322 --> 00:12:21,991
Girl, you don't know
how good you got it.

281
00:12:22,074 --> 00:12:23,993
Sweetie, do you know
who Robert Smalls is?

282
00:12:24,076 --> 00:12:25,995
- No.
- No?

283
00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:27,621
Well, you should.

284
00:12:27,746 --> 00:12:31,876
See, in 1839, Robert Smalls
was born a slave,

285
00:12:32,001 --> 00:12:33,878
but he became one
of the most amazing heroes

286
00:12:34,003 --> 00:12:35,629
<i>of the Civil War.</i>

287
00:12:35,713 --> 00:12:37,506
<i>Now, let me give you
a little context.</i>

288
00:12:37,590 --> 00:12:40,259
<i>America had only been
a country for 85 years</i>

289
00:12:40,384 --> 00:12:42,136
<i>when it went
to war against itself.</i>

290
00:12:42,219 --> 00:12:44,513
<i>Why? Well, the reason can be
boiled down to one word:</i>

291
00:12:44,638 --> 00:12:46,265
<i>Slavery.</i>

292
00:12:46,390 --> 00:12:49,768
<i>See, the whole economy of the
South was built on slave labor.</i>

293
00:12:49,894 --> 00:12:51,270
<i>Namely, our ancestors,</i>

294
00:12:51,353 --> 00:12:53,772
<i>who were bought and sold
like livestock.</i>

295
00:12:53,898 --> 00:12:55,649
<i>When Abraham Lincoln
ran for President,</i>

296
00:12:55,774 --> 00:12:58,027
<i>Southern leaders feared his
anti-slavery policy.</i>

297
00:12:58,110 --> 00:13:02,031
<i>He was elected
on November 6th, 1860.</i>

298
00:13:02,114 --> 00:13:04,658
<i>Before he took office
in March of 1861,</i>

299
00:13:04,783 --> 00:13:06,911
<i>seven Southern states
had seceded</i>

300
00:13:07,036 --> 00:13:08,662
<i>and formed a new nation,</i>

301
00:13:08,787 --> 00:13:11,165
<i>the Confederate States
of America.</i>

302
00:13:11,290 --> 00:13:13,167
<i>The Civil War that followed
was by far</i>

303
00:13:13,292 --> 00:13:15,544
<i>the bloodiest conflict
in American history.</i>

304
00:13:15,669 --> 00:13:18,297
<i>Almost one million soldiers
lost their lives,</i>

305
00:13:18,422 --> 00:13:22,176
<i>including 179,000
black soldiers.</i>

306
00:13:22,301 --> 00:13:25,179
<i>These brave men died fighting
for the ultimate cause...</i>

307
00:13:25,304 --> 00:13:27,556
<i>the freedom
of their own people.</i>

308
00:13:27,681 --> 00:13:29,183
<i>But at the beginning
of the war,</i>

309
00:13:29,308 --> 00:13:30,684
<i>the Union wouldn't
let black people</i>

310
00:13:30,809 --> 00:13:32,686
<i>serve in the Armed Forces
at all.</i>

311
00:13:32,770 --> 00:13:34,313
<i>That changed
when Abraham Lincoln</i>

312
00:13:34,438 --> 00:13:36,565
<i>reversed the policy in 1862.</i>

313
00:13:36,649 --> 00:13:39,318
<i>And guess who played a key role
in convincing him to do that?</i>

314
00:13:39,401 --> 00:13:41,070
<i>Robert Smalls.</i>

315
00:13:41,153 --> 00:13:43,572
<i>How did a 22-year-old slave
from South Carolina</i>

316
00:13:43,697 --> 00:13:45,199
<i>meet President Lincoln</i>

317
00:13:45,282 --> 00:13:46,676
<i>and convince him
to let black people</i>

318
00:13:46,700 --> 00:13:48,202
<i>fight for their freedom?</i>

319
00:13:48,327 --> 00:13:50,579
<i>Well, that's a hell of a tale,
so listen up.</i>

320
00:13:50,663 --> 00:13:54,708
<i>Robert Smalls grew up a slave
in Charleston, South Carolina,</i>

321
00:13:54,833 --> 00:13:56,460
<i>where his master
rented him out</i>

322
00:13:56,585 --> 00:13:58,837
<i>to work on a cotton steamer
called the Planter,</i>

323
00:13:58,963 --> 00:14:00,965
<i>where Smalls
became a sail maker</i>

324
00:14:01,090 --> 00:14:03,217
<i>and developed
a love of the sea.</i>

325
00:14:03,342 --> 00:14:05,302
I'm king of the world!

326
00:14:08,472 --> 00:14:10,349
I'm sorry, did I say king?
I meant slave.

327
00:14:10,432 --> 00:14:12,601
I'm slave of the world!

328
00:14:16,981 --> 00:14:18,661
<i>As the South
seceded from the Union,</i>

329
00:14:18,691 --> 00:14:20,359
<i>the Planter was converted
into a gunship.</i>

330
00:14:20,484 --> 00:14:24,613
<i>On April 12th, 1861,
the Confederate Navy</i>

331
00:14:24,738 --> 00:14:26,615
<i>opened fire on Fort Sumter,</i>

332
00:14:26,699 --> 00:14:28,868
<i>which was still held
by the Union Army</i>

333
00:14:28,951 --> 00:14:30,828
<i>and the Civil War began.</i>

334
00:14:33,873 --> 00:14:35,624
<i>By this time Smalls
was so skilled,</i>

335
00:14:35,749 --> 00:14:38,127
<i>he was trusted
to be the wheelman,</i>

336
00:14:38,210 --> 00:14:40,129
<i>A.K.A. the pilot
of the Planter.</i>

337
00:14:42,131 --> 00:14:44,258
<i>He knew Charleston Harbor
better than anyone,</i>

338
00:14:44,383 --> 00:14:46,260
<i>and loved piloting the Planter,</i>

339
00:14:46,385 --> 00:14:48,387
<i>although he wasn't exactly
keen on fighting</i>

340
00:14:48,512 --> 00:14:50,264
<i>to preserve
the Southern way of life.</i>

341
00:14:50,347 --> 00:14:52,266
Fire!

342
00:14:55,603 --> 00:14:57,271
Damnation, we missed!

343
00:14:57,396 --> 00:15:01,025
Whoops!
Hit a manatee. Sorry!

344
00:15:01,108 --> 00:15:03,152
<i>The Planter's captain
was C.J. Relyea...</i>

345
00:15:03,277 --> 00:15:04,278
Smalls!

346
00:15:04,403 --> 00:15:05,603
<i>...who had no idea that Smalls</i>

347
00:15:05,654 --> 00:15:07,156
<i>was hatching
a secret plan.</i>

348
00:15:07,239 --> 00:15:10,409
<i>About 3:00 a.m. on May 13th,
1862,</i>

349
00:15:10,534 --> 00:15:12,161
<i>the Planter was left
unattended,</i>

350
00:15:12,286 --> 00:15:14,288
<i>and Smalls made his move.</i>

351
00:15:14,413 --> 00:15:16,540
<i>Disguising himself
in the captain's clothes,</i>

352
00:15:16,665 --> 00:15:18,792
<i>he steamed away
from the Charleston port.</i>

353
00:15:18,918 --> 00:15:20,419
<i>About an hour and a half later,</i>

354
00:15:20,544 --> 00:15:22,147
<i>he reached the first
Confederate Navy checkpoint</i>

355
00:15:22,171 --> 00:15:23,672
<i>at Fort Sumter.</i>

356
00:15:23,797 --> 00:15:25,424
<i>He'd studied the captain's
body language</i>

357
00:15:25,549 --> 00:15:27,927
<i>and knew the signals the sentry
would be looking for.</i>

358
00:15:28,052 --> 00:15:30,179
Captain Relyea?

359
00:15:30,262 --> 00:15:32,932
What y'all doing out here
at this ungodly hour?

360
00:15:33,057 --> 00:15:35,309
Uh...

361
00:15:36,810 --> 00:15:39,813
What's the matter, skipper?
Cat got your tongue? Hmm?

362
00:15:39,939 --> 00:15:42,441
Here we go.
Ahem.

363
00:15:42,566 --> 00:15:44,818
Greenhorn spoon, I say.

364
00:15:44,944 --> 00:15:47,196
I merely had momentary
mucus nugget

365
00:15:47,279 --> 00:15:49,406
lodged
in my esophageal area.

366
00:15:56,288 --> 00:15:58,082
Well, sorry to hear it, sir.

367
00:15:58,207 --> 00:16:00,834
My throat's been
botherin' me as well.

368
00:16:01,919 --> 00:16:04,213
Can I offer you
a lozenge, sir?

369
00:16:04,296 --> 00:16:06,966
Oh, no,
don't trouble yourself.

370
00:16:07,091 --> 00:16:08,467
Oh, it's no trouble at all.

371
00:16:08,592 --> 00:16:11,971
I'll hop in the dingy,
row it out to you posthaste.

372
00:16:12,096 --> 00:16:14,348
No, no, please,
I insist.

373
00:16:14,473 --> 00:16:16,350
- Cherry flavored.
- Not a fan.

374
00:16:16,475 --> 00:16:18,852
- I got honey lemon, too.
- Blech.

375
00:16:18,978 --> 00:16:21,480
- Mentholyptus?
- Enough.

376
00:16:21,563 --> 00:16:24,233
- But, sir...!
- I hate lozenges, okay?

377
00:16:24,316 --> 00:16:25,859
Good day, sir.

378
00:16:25,985 --> 00:16:28,737
CSS Planter,
cleared for passage.

379
00:16:28,862 --> 00:16:30,489
<i>After he got past
that checkpoint,</i>

380
00:16:30,614 --> 00:16:32,366
<i>he got to step two
of his plan...</i>

381
00:16:32,449 --> 00:16:35,244
<i>a prearranged rendezvous
with a bunch of other slaves</i>

382
00:16:35,369 --> 00:16:38,372
<i>and their families, including
his wife and his son.</i>

383
00:16:42,501 --> 00:16:43,752
Thank you, Captain Relyea.

384
00:16:43,836 --> 00:16:47,464
Captain Relyea?
Son, it's me, your daddy.

385
00:16:50,884 --> 00:16:54,013
Oh, thank you, Daddy!

386
00:16:55,639 --> 00:16:57,266
<i>With the slaves on board,</i>

387
00:16:57,349 --> 00:16:59,393
<i>Smalls got through
three more checkpoints</i>

388
00:16:59,518 --> 00:17:01,020
<i>and then, as dawn broke,</i>

389
00:17:01,145 --> 00:17:03,647
<i>Smalls sailed North
for the Union Naval blockade</i>

390
00:17:03,772 --> 00:17:06,025
<i>just north
of Charleston Harbor.</i>

391
00:17:06,150 --> 00:17:07,651
<i>But when the Union captain</i>

392
00:17:07,776 --> 00:17:10,320
<i>spotted the Confederate gunship
coming at 'em,</i>

393
00:17:10,446 --> 00:17:11,447
<i>he got a little jumpy.</i>

394
00:17:11,572 --> 00:17:12,573
Fire!

395
00:17:23,584 --> 00:17:25,937
What the...? John, I told you,
fly that sheet up the flagpole.

396
00:17:25,961 --> 00:17:27,337
I'm sorry, man.
I'm really diggin'

397
00:17:27,463 --> 00:17:28,714
on this thread count
right now.

398
00:17:28,797 --> 00:17:30,466
Put it up the mast,
you idiot!

399
00:17:30,591 --> 00:17:33,093
Come on, man, I been sleepin'
on burlap all my life!

400
00:17:33,218 --> 00:17:34,720
Now, John!

401
00:17:34,845 --> 00:17:37,723
- I'm naked up under here.
- I don't give a damn.

402
00:17:37,848 --> 00:17:39,725
<i>The Union ships
saw the surrender sign</i>

403
00:17:39,850 --> 00:17:41,101
<i>and held their fire.</i>

404
00:17:41,226 --> 00:17:43,479
<i>Minutes later, the men, women,
and children</i>

405
00:17:43,562 --> 00:17:45,481
<i>on the Planter
were free at last.</i>

406
00:17:45,564 --> 00:17:48,609
Congratulations,
you're all free.

407
00:17:52,571 --> 00:17:53,614
Thank you, sir.

408
00:17:53,739 --> 00:17:55,139
And, in addition
to our own freedom,

409
00:17:55,240 --> 00:17:57,343
I hope that the Planter may
be of some use to Uncle Abe

410
00:17:57,367 --> 00:17:59,745
to help the fight
for those we left behind.

411
00:17:59,870 --> 00:18:00,996
It will.

412
00:18:06,085 --> 00:18:08,128
I love you, Captain Relyea.

413
00:18:12,591 --> 00:18:14,134
Oh, right.

414
00:18:14,259 --> 00:18:16,011
I love you, Daddy.

415
00:18:19,765 --> 00:18:20,891
What's wrong with that kid?

416
00:18:21,016 --> 00:18:22,518
He thought his dad
was someone else

417
00:18:22,601 --> 00:18:24,144
just because
he was wearing a hat?

418
00:18:24,269 --> 00:18:26,021
Hey, listen,
a minimal disguise

419
00:18:26,146 --> 00:18:28,023
can be surprisingly
effective.

420
00:18:28,148 --> 00:18:29,775
Look, watch this.

421
00:18:29,858 --> 00:18:32,027
See this right here?
Clark Kent.

422
00:18:32,152 --> 00:18:33,904
Right?

423
00:18:33,987 --> 00:18:36,031
Superman.
See how that works?

424
00:18:36,115 --> 00:18:38,158
But they're
comic book characters.

425
00:18:38,283 --> 00:18:41,411
Yeah, but what we just saw
was a sketch comedy reenactment.

426
00:18:41,495 --> 00:18:43,789
I think they added the thing
with a hat as a joke.

427
00:18:43,872 --> 00:18:46,166
Oh, I see.

428
00:18:46,250 --> 00:18:47,668
But the basic story
was true.

429
00:18:47,793 --> 00:18:50,420
No, 100%.
Anyway, listen to me.

430
00:18:50,504 --> 00:18:52,273
Robert Smalls' story
just gets better from there.

431
00:18:52,297 --> 00:18:54,299
When he turned that ship
over to the Union,

432
00:18:54,424 --> 00:18:56,301
the government gave him
a reward of $1,500,

433
00:18:56,385 --> 00:18:59,805
which would be about
$35,000 today.

434
00:18:59,930 --> 00:19:01,431
Ooh.

435
00:19:01,515 --> 00:19:04,059
That's one of those new
super fast cameras.

436
00:19:04,143 --> 00:19:06,562
We only have to hold still
for another 12 minutes.

437
00:19:08,147 --> 00:19:09,940
<i>Smalls became
an instant celebrity,</i>

438
00:19:10,023 --> 00:19:11,692
<i>and soon got an invitation</i>

439
00:19:11,817 --> 00:19:13,569
<i>to meet Abraham Lincoln
at the White House</i>

440
00:19:13,652 --> 00:19:15,445
<i>where he made the case
that black people</i>

441
00:19:15,571 --> 00:19:16,947
<i>should be allowed
to fight</i>

442
00:19:17,030 --> 00:19:18,448
<i>in the United States
Armed Forces.</i>

443
00:19:18,574 --> 00:19:20,826
I don't know why Negros
would be motivated

444
00:19:20,909 --> 00:19:23,203
to risk their lives
to fight slavery.

445
00:19:23,328 --> 00:19:26,331
Well, um, with
all due respect, sir...

446
00:19:28,709 --> 00:19:30,460
Man, I totally had you.

447
00:19:30,586 --> 00:19:32,713
<i>Robert Smalls
became a highly decorated</i>

448
00:19:32,838 --> 00:19:34,089
<i>captain in the U.S. Navy,</i>

449
00:19:34,214 --> 00:19:36,341
<i>where he piloted
the USS Planter</i>

450
00:19:36,425 --> 00:19:37,968
<i>to many victorious battles,</i>

451
00:19:38,093 --> 00:19:39,970
<i>including the defense
of Fort Sumter</i>

452
00:19:40,053 --> 00:19:41,597
<i>after the Union retook it.</i>

453
00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:43,432
Fire!

454
00:19:45,559 --> 00:19:46,727
Boo-ya!

455
00:19:46,852 --> 00:19:48,228
<i>After the war,
Smalls became</i>

456
00:19:48,353 --> 00:19:50,105
<i>a successful businessman
in Philadelphia</i>

457
00:19:50,230 --> 00:19:51,732
<i>before moving back
to South Carolina,</i>

458
00:19:51,857 --> 00:19:53,609
<i>where, in 1874,
he got elected</i>

459
00:19:53,734 --> 00:19:56,486
<i>to the United States Congress,
and served five terms.</i>

460
00:19:56,612 --> 00:19:58,238
<i>And here's the best part.</i>

461
00:19:58,363 --> 00:20:00,991
<i>In 1865, he bought
his former master's mansion</i>

462
00:20:01,116 --> 00:20:02,868
<i>and raised his family there.</i>

463
00:20:02,951 --> 00:20:05,370
<i>He even let his master's widow
live in the spare room.</i>

464
00:20:05,495 --> 00:20:06,747
<i>And that's why everyone</i>

465
00:20:06,872 --> 00:20:08,999
<i>should know
about Robert Smalls.</i>

466
00:20:09,124 --> 00:20:12,002
Wow. Why isn't there
a movie about him?

467
00:20:12,085 --> 00:20:13,378
I know, right?

468
00:20:13,503 --> 00:20:15,255
And how come
I'm not starring in it?

469
00:20:15,380 --> 00:20:17,758
'Cause you're too short?

470
00:20:17,841 --> 00:20:20,081
You gotta be honest. These
are good stories, aren't they?

471
00:20:20,135 --> 00:20:22,137
Honestly, they'd make
a really good show, sweetie.

472
00:20:22,221 --> 00:20:24,014
Yeah, remember
that show idea I had,

473
00:20:24,139 --> 00:20:27,267
where you play a taxi driver
in old timey England?

474
00:20:27,392 --> 00:20:28,644
Oh, you mean
<i>Downton Cabbie?</i>

475
00:20:28,727 --> 00:20:30,646
Yeah.
The network loved it.

476
00:20:30,729 --> 00:20:32,207
The Rock is gonna play
the Dowager Countess.

477
00:20:32,231 --> 00:20:33,249
Yeah, it was gonna be huge.

478
00:20:33,273 --> 00:20:34,900
Did you tell 'em
it was my idea?

479
00:20:35,025 --> 00:20:37,277
No, no, no, I wouldn't
do that at all.

480
00:20:37,402 --> 00:20:38,779
'Cause if had did that,

481
00:20:38,862 --> 00:20:40,089
they would've stopped
complimenting me.

482
00:20:40,113 --> 00:20:42,032
So you just had
to hog all the credit?

483
00:20:42,157 --> 00:20:43,408
That's exactly what I did.

484
00:20:43,533 --> 00:20:45,160
That's how
the world works, honey.

485
00:20:45,244 --> 00:20:46,721
See, the famous guy
gets all the credit,

486
00:20:46,745 --> 00:20:48,345
and the people that
actually do the work,

487
00:20:48,413 --> 00:20:49,414
well, they get screwed.

488
00:20:49,498 --> 00:20:51,166
Just like Matthew Henson.

489
00:20:51,250 --> 00:20:52,793
Did you steal
his show idea, too?

490
00:20:52,876 --> 00:20:55,170
No, Matthew Henson
was the first human

491
00:20:55,295 --> 00:20:56,797
to step foot
on the North Pole.

492
00:20:56,880 --> 00:20:58,298
But at the time,
all the credit

493
00:20:58,423 --> 00:21:00,926
went to the famous leader
of the expedition, Robert Peary.

494
00:21:01,051 --> 00:21:04,054
I feel his pain.

495
00:21:04,137 --> 00:21:05,681
<i>In the early 1900s,</i>

496
00:21:05,764 --> 00:21:07,933
<i>all the polar exploring
was locked up by either</i>

497
00:21:08,058 --> 00:21:10,310
<i>rich white dudes
or white dudes bankrolled</i>

498
00:21:10,394 --> 00:21:11,561
<i>by other rich white dudes.</i>

499
00:21:11,687 --> 00:21:13,313
<i>But, let's get real.</i>

500
00:21:13,438 --> 00:21:15,691
<i>These dudes weren't making
these treks by themselves.</i>

501
00:21:15,774 --> 00:21:17,943
<i>Most of the work was being done
by hired assistants,</i>

502
00:21:18,068 --> 00:21:21,822
<i>like the Inuit and all-around
badass Matthew Henson,</i>

503
00:21:21,947 --> 00:21:24,950
<i>the first African American
Arctic explorer.</i>

504
00:21:25,075 --> 00:21:27,202
<i>Henson, you see,
was a master navigator</i>

505
00:21:27,327 --> 00:21:28,954
<i>who spoke fluent Inuit.</i>

506
00:21:29,079 --> 00:21:31,581
<i>He was Robert Peary's
right hand man.</i>

507
00:21:31,665 --> 00:21:33,583
<i>After two failed attempts
trying to be the first</i>

508
00:21:33,709 --> 00:21:35,085
<i>to reach the North Pole,</i>

509
00:21:35,210 --> 00:21:37,963
<i>Peary and his team of Henson
and four Inuits</i>

510
00:21:38,088 --> 00:21:40,966
<i>set out once again in 1909.</i>

511
00:21:41,091 --> 00:21:43,468
<i>But on this expedition,
it was Henson who led the way,</i>

512
00:21:43,552 --> 00:21:46,221
<i>not Peary,
carving the trail on foot,</i>

513
00:21:46,305 --> 00:21:47,848
<i>and in crazy hard conditions.</i>

514
00:21:47,973 --> 00:21:49,850
<i>With a compass going bananas,</i>

515
00:21:49,975 --> 00:21:51,977
<i>Henson led everyone
on the right direction</i>

516
00:21:52,102 --> 00:21:55,230
<i>by reading how the wind
cut the ridges in the snow.</i>

517
00:21:55,314 --> 00:21:56,982
<i>As Henson neared
the North Pole,</i>

518
00:21:57,107 --> 00:21:58,859
<i>Peary was 45 minutes
behind,</i>

519
00:21:58,984 --> 00:22:01,236
<i>stricken ill
and strapped to a dog sled.</i>

520
00:22:07,993 --> 00:22:12,372
This is it!
This is it!

521
00:22:12,456 --> 00:22:15,375
The North Pole! Baby!

522
00:22:15,500 --> 00:22:16,501
Top of the World!

523
00:22:16,585 --> 00:22:17,878
It's cold, let's go.

524
00:22:20,714 --> 00:22:21,882
Oh, that's right.

525
00:22:22,007 --> 00:22:24,134
I guess we gotta
wait for him, huh?

526
00:22:28,263 --> 00:22:29,389
Admiral Peary!

527
00:22:29,473 --> 00:22:32,768
According to my calculations,
this is it!

528
00:22:32,851 --> 00:22:35,270
We did it!

529
00:22:35,395 --> 00:22:38,648
Yes!

530
00:22:47,032 --> 00:22:51,787
Well, I suppose this calls
for celebration.

531
00:22:51,870 --> 00:22:52,913
I shall be the first man

532
00:22:53,038 --> 00:22:55,040
to make some tea
at the North Pole!

533
00:22:55,123 --> 00:22:58,293
No need, sir.
Already took care of it.

534
00:23:00,295 --> 00:23:02,422
Oh. that... well, then.

535
00:23:02,547 --> 00:23:05,926
I will be the first man
at the North Pole to...

536
00:23:06,051 --> 00:23:07,302
enjoy a jelly donut!

537
00:23:07,427 --> 00:23:10,430
Mm-hmm, it's good, sir.
They're really good.

538
00:23:10,555 --> 00:23:11,681
They're tasty.

539
00:23:11,807 --> 00:23:14,309
Well, then,
I will be the first man

540
00:23:14,392 --> 00:23:16,436
to celebrate the majesty
of this occasion

541
00:23:16,561 --> 00:23:20,315
in a sonnet dedicated
to my beautiful wife.

542
00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:23,568
Already done, sir.
She's gonna love it.

543
00:23:23,652 --> 00:23:25,946
I went on and on
about how the snow

544
00:23:26,071 --> 00:23:28,323
evokes her beautiful
milky complexion.

545
00:23:28,406 --> 00:23:31,827
You gonna have some more
children after this.

546
00:23:31,910 --> 00:23:33,578
This is good, damn it.

547
00:23:33,703 --> 00:23:35,580
Well, I try.

548
00:23:35,664 --> 00:23:38,083
<i>Peary wasn't too wild
about Henson getting credit.</i>

549
00:23:38,208 --> 00:23:39,709
<i>So he decided
that maybe he should</i>

550
00:23:39,793 --> 00:23:43,213
<i>double check the calculations.</i>

551
00:23:45,215 --> 00:23:49,344
Wait a minute.
According to my calculations,

552
00:23:49,427 --> 00:23:55,100
the North Pole
is actually right about here!

553
00:23:57,185 --> 00:23:58,603
Yes!
Haha!

554
00:23:58,728 --> 00:24:01,982
I did it! I'm the first man
on the North Pole!

555
00:24:02,107 --> 00:24:03,608
High five, Uta!

556
00:24:03,733 --> 00:24:05,861
Uh, but, sir,
it's too cloudy to even

557
00:24:05,986 --> 00:24:07,612
get an accurate reading
with the sextant.

558
00:24:07,696 --> 00:24:09,215
But, sir, it's too cloudy

559
00:24:09,239 --> 00:24:10,991
to get an accurate reading
with the sextant.

560
00:24:11,116 --> 00:24:12,316
Please, Matthew,

561
00:24:12,367 --> 00:24:13,493
don't be jealous.

562
00:24:13,618 --> 00:24:15,120
When you thought
you got here first,

563
00:24:15,245 --> 00:24:17,622
I could not have been
more happy for you, right, Uta?

564
00:24:20,709 --> 00:24:24,004
This is
about science, not credit.

565
00:24:24,129 --> 00:24:25,881
Mm-mm.

566
00:24:26,006 --> 00:24:28,884
Thank you.
Thank you very much.

567
00:24:28,967 --> 00:24:32,512
I hereby declare
the North Pole, Peary country!

568
00:24:34,764 --> 00:24:37,392
Also, has your family
tried delicious

569
00:24:37,517 --> 00:24:39,269
new Kresnik brand
jelly donuts?

570
00:24:51,781 --> 00:24:53,158
How do we get
the jelly inside?

571
00:24:53,283 --> 00:24:56,286
Oh, that's
a Kresnik secret. Shh.

572
00:24:57,662 --> 00:24:59,414
You see a theme here, Riley?

573
00:24:59,497 --> 00:25:01,041
Yeah. Black people
don't get credit

574
00:25:01,166 --> 00:25:02,167
for their achievements.

575
00:25:02,292 --> 00:25:04,169
Yeah, but maybe now
they will.

576
00:25:04,294 --> 00:25:05,545
See, sometimes
it takes history

577
00:25:05,670 --> 00:25:07,172
time to catch up.

578
00:25:07,297 --> 00:25:09,049
Like the bluesman,
Robert Johnson.

579
00:25:09,174 --> 00:25:10,675
He wasn't even famous
when he died.

580
00:25:10,759 --> 00:25:13,053
He died at the age
27 in 1938.

581
00:25:13,178 --> 00:25:15,430
But now? Now the biggest
rock stars in the world

582
00:25:15,513 --> 00:25:17,432
credit him with laying
the foundation

583
00:25:17,515 --> 00:25:18,808
of rock 'n' roll
guitar playing.

584
00:25:18,934 --> 00:25:22,562
Big deal. I got a high score
in <i>Guitar Hero,</i>

585
00:25:22,687 --> 00:25:24,564
on the intermediate
settings.

586
00:25:24,689 --> 00:25:27,442
That CGI crowd
was loving my licks.

587
00:25:29,569 --> 00:25:32,072
Okay, well, while you were
just pretending to rock out,

588
00:25:32,197 --> 00:25:34,199
Robert Johnson
was doing it for real.

589
00:25:34,324 --> 00:25:36,952
He was the original
guitar god, do you hear me?

590
00:25:37,077 --> 00:25:40,080
Back in the '60s, his record
was studied by icons.

591
00:25:40,205 --> 00:25:43,833
I'm talkin' Jimi Hendrix,
Keith Richards, Jimmy Page.

592
00:25:43,917 --> 00:25:46,086
Eric Clapton
worshipped this man.

593
00:25:46,211 --> 00:25:48,838
- That fat kid from <i>South Park?</i>
- No!

594
00:25:48,964 --> 00:25:51,466
Robert Johnson was
a true rolling stone, honey.

595
00:25:51,549 --> 00:25:53,468
This man took his music
to road houses

596
00:25:53,551 --> 00:25:55,220
and blues clubs
all over the South.

597
00:25:56,846 --> 00:25:59,224
<i>Johnson left behind
just two photographs</i>

598
00:25:59,349 --> 00:26:02,102
<i>and 29 songs when he died
at the young age of 27.</i>

599
00:26:02,227 --> 00:26:04,354
<i>And while his life
is shrouded in mystery,</i>

600
00:26:04,479 --> 00:26:07,857
<i>we know he grew up partly
in Robinsonville, Mississippi,</i>

601
00:26:07,941 --> 00:26:10,485
<i>where another blues
legend, Son House,</i>

602
00:26:10,568 --> 00:26:13,488
<i>saw his talent and encouraged
him to quit sharecropping</i>

603
00:26:13,613 --> 00:26:16,241
<i>and hit the road
as a full-time musician.</i>

604
00:26:16,366 --> 00:26:18,493
<i>His guitar technique
was so out of this world</i>

605
00:26:18,618 --> 00:26:19,869
<i>that some say he got it</i>

606
00:26:19,995 --> 00:26:21,496
<i>by selling his soul
to the devil.</i>

607
00:26:21,621 --> 00:26:24,624
<i>A legend grew about
how he met Lucifer himself</i>

608
00:26:24,749 --> 00:26:28,128
<i>at a crossroad outside
of Clarksdale, Mississippi.</i>

609
00:26:32,257 --> 00:26:35,135
What say you, human?

610
00:26:35,260 --> 00:26:36,886
I want to be the best
blues guitarist

611
00:26:37,012 --> 00:26:38,263
in the Mississippi Delta.

612
00:26:38,388 --> 00:26:39,639
Can you help me?

613
00:26:39,723 --> 00:26:41,266
I and I alone have the power

614
00:26:41,391 --> 00:26:44,769
to make you the best guitar
player that's ever lived.

615
00:26:44,894 --> 00:26:46,646
But you have
to do something for me.

616
00:26:46,771 --> 00:26:48,148
Anything.

617
00:26:48,273 --> 00:26:52,277
Give me your soul
for all eternity.

618
00:26:52,402 --> 00:26:53,778
That sounds fair.

619
00:26:58,241 --> 00:27:01,036
All right, let's get started.
Grab your guitar.

620
00:27:01,161 --> 00:27:04,289
I'm gonna show you
some chords here.

621
00:27:04,414 --> 00:27:06,541
- What do you mean?
- Huh?

622
00:27:06,624 --> 00:27:08,293
You're here
for the lesson, right?

623
00:27:08,418 --> 00:27:10,545
Uh, no.

624
00:27:10,670 --> 00:27:11,921
Oh, my bad.

625
00:27:12,005 --> 00:27:16,176
I thought you came here
because you saw my flyer.

626
00:27:18,553 --> 00:27:21,306
Oh, come on, man,
this ain't fair.

627
00:27:21,431 --> 00:27:23,308
We... we had a deal.

628
00:27:23,433 --> 00:27:25,935
Look, okay, if you take
my lessons

629
00:27:26,019 --> 00:27:29,564
and you put in the practice,
you will improve.

630
00:27:29,689 --> 00:27:34,194
Here, let me show you something
that will blow your mind.

631
00:27:41,451 --> 00:27:44,704
That could be you
in ten years.

632
00:27:44,829 --> 00:27:46,081
You know what?

633
00:27:46,206 --> 00:27:49,084
I think I'm just gonna
keep on teachin' myself.

634
00:27:58,343 --> 00:28:01,471
Um, okay,
how did you do that?

635
00:28:01,554 --> 00:28:03,973
Oh, that?
Oh, I can teach you that.

636
00:28:04,057 --> 00:28:05,725
But I'm gonna need
my soul back.

637
00:28:05,850 --> 00:28:07,227
Done deal.

638
00:28:07,352 --> 00:28:08,353
And 20 bucks.

639
00:28:08,478 --> 00:28:09,604
Can you break a 50?

640
00:28:09,729 --> 00:28:11,231
No.

641
00:28:11,356 --> 00:28:13,167
Now, this is the first chord
that I want to show you.

642
00:28:13,191 --> 00:28:14,734
It's a G7.

643
00:28:14,859 --> 00:28:16,986
Hear that?

644
00:28:17,112 --> 00:28:21,366
- Ah, we're making music.
- There you go, there you go.

645
00:28:21,491 --> 00:28:23,993
It's a little,
uh, major-ish for me.

646
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:26,746
- Okay.
- You know any Sabbath songs?

647
00:28:26,871 --> 00:28:28,998
Sabbath like songs
you only play on Sunday?

648
00:28:29,082 --> 00:28:31,000
<i>Well, the one album
he made in Texas</i>

649
00:28:31,084 --> 00:28:33,878
in the late '30s didn't get
wide distribution at the time.

650
00:28:34,003 --> 00:28:36,756
But then it was reissued
in the blues revival

651
00:28:36,881 --> 00:28:39,759
of the early 1960s and it
blew everyone away, honey.

652
00:28:39,884 --> 00:28:41,136
What's an album?

653
00:28:41,219 --> 00:28:42,579
It's like a...
it's like a playlist

654
00:28:42,637 --> 00:28:44,139
that you can
hold in your hand.

655
00:28:44,264 --> 00:28:45,890
Whoa, trippy.

656
00:28:46,015 --> 00:28:47,642
It's made
out of melted wax.

657
00:28:47,767 --> 00:28:49,018
Ew.

658
00:28:49,144 --> 00:28:51,646
But, the moral of the story
is, Robert Johnson

659
00:28:51,730 --> 00:28:53,273
did not give the devil
a purple nurple.

660
00:28:53,398 --> 00:28:56,401
- So Jeremy's the devil?
- Exactly.

661
00:28:56,526 --> 00:28:57,962
Wait, wait a minute.
Wait, wait, wait.

662
00:28:57,986 --> 00:28:59,279
Who's Jeremy?

663
00:28:59,404 --> 00:29:01,156
Oh, you mean little Jericho
in the TV room?

664
00:29:01,281 --> 00:29:03,408
No, no, okay.
Let me clear this up.

665
00:29:03,533 --> 00:29:05,660
Not everyone with nipples
is the devil.

666
00:29:05,744 --> 00:29:06,744
What?

667
00:29:06,746 --> 00:29:08,163
Actually, I'm confused.

668
00:29:08,246 --> 00:29:09,686
Now I'm lost.
Wait a minute, hold on.

669
00:29:09,748 --> 00:29:11,166
Ah, no, I remember.

670
00:29:11,249 --> 00:29:13,169
I got it. Got it, got it,
got it. Got it. Listen.

671
00:29:13,293 --> 00:29:16,171
The point is, you should
feel pride in your heritage.

672
00:29:16,254 --> 00:29:17,672
Robert Johnson's
story proves

673
00:29:17,756 --> 00:29:19,299
that you can achieve
great things.

674
00:29:19,382 --> 00:29:22,177
Yeah, and no one would know
until after I'm dead.

675
00:29:22,260 --> 00:29:24,429
Robert Johnson
and all these other black heroes

676
00:29:24,512 --> 00:29:26,931
came from nothing,
yet they achieved greatness.

677
00:29:27,056 --> 00:29:28,308
And you can, too.

678
00:29:28,433 --> 00:29:30,560
By being born
a musical genius?

679
00:29:30,643 --> 00:29:32,187
No, no, no, no.

680
00:29:32,312 --> 00:29:34,439
By working hard and not
taking "no" for an answer.

681
00:29:34,564 --> 00:29:36,441
- Yuck.
- Like Mae Jemison,

682
00:29:36,566 --> 00:29:38,943
the first black woman
astronaut.

683
00:29:39,068 --> 00:29:41,196
<i>On September 12th, 1992,</i>

684
00:29:41,321 --> 00:29:43,823
<i>Dr. Mae Jemison fulfilled
her lifelong dream</i>

685
00:29:43,948 --> 00:29:46,326
<i>and made history
as the mission specialist</i>

686
00:29:46,409 --> 00:29:47,952
<i>of the space shuttle Endeavor.</i>

687
00:29:48,077 --> 00:29:51,706
<i>Mae Jemison was born in 1956
in Decatur, Alabama.</i>

688
00:29:51,790 --> 00:29:54,209
<i>When she grew up, she proved
to be a brilliant student,</i>

689
00:29:54,334 --> 00:29:56,085
<i>but her teachers
were not so supportive</i>

690
00:29:56,211 --> 00:29:57,837
<i>of her scientific ambitions.</i>

691
00:29:57,962 --> 00:30:00,590
<i>This was back in the early '60s
when boys would stare</i>

692
00:30:00,715 --> 00:30:02,217
<i>towards the periodic table</i>

693
00:30:02,342 --> 00:30:04,969
<i>and girls would stare
towards setting the table.</i>

694
00:30:05,053 --> 00:30:07,972
Do you know why I kept you
after class today?

695
00:30:08,097 --> 00:30:10,225
Because I found this
in your cubby.

696
00:30:10,308 --> 00:30:13,478
My microscope!
I was looking for that, thanks.

697
00:30:15,063 --> 00:30:17,982
Is this a shakedown?

698
00:30:18,066 --> 00:30:19,734
This isn't about money.

699
00:30:19,818 --> 00:30:22,737
I know science seems groovy
and far out,

700
00:30:22,862 --> 00:30:25,865
but it's a dangerous
gateway subject.

701
00:30:25,949 --> 00:30:28,368
Sure, experimenting
with baking soda volcanoes

702
00:30:28,493 --> 00:30:29,869
might seem harmless at first,

703
00:30:29,994 --> 00:30:32,247
but before you know it,
you're floating in outer space

704
00:30:32,330 --> 00:30:35,500
without so much as a kitchen
to bake pies for your man.

705
00:30:37,377 --> 00:30:40,755
And a man without pie
is a grumpy man.

706
00:30:40,839 --> 00:30:43,383
Going to outer space
sounds awesome.

707
00:30:43,508 --> 00:30:45,260
I'd love to do that someday.

708
00:30:45,385 --> 00:30:46,886
No, you wouldn't.

709
00:30:46,970 --> 00:30:48,763
That's just
your lady brain

710
00:30:48,847 --> 00:30:50,515
tricking you
into thinking that.

711
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:52,767
Never trust your own brain.

712
00:30:52,851 --> 00:30:54,394
I sure don't.

713
00:30:54,477 --> 00:30:57,146
Ah, stop telling me
I can be a graphic designer

714
00:30:57,272 --> 00:30:59,023
if I apply myself.

715
00:30:59,107 --> 00:31:00,525
And stop asking
for equal pay.

716
00:31:00,650 --> 00:31:05,280
Oh, just hang in there until the
four o'clock Valium, Cheryl.

717
00:31:05,363 --> 00:31:06,781
Oh. Uh...

718
00:31:06,865 --> 00:31:10,410
Wait, where'd...
where'd you go?

719
00:31:15,665 --> 00:31:17,792
<i>Mae went to Stanford
at the age of 16,</i>

720
00:31:17,876 --> 00:31:19,919
<i>graduated with a degree
in Chemical Engineering.</i>

721
00:31:20,044 --> 00:31:22,171
<i>Then got her medical degree
from Cornell.</i>

722
00:31:22,255 --> 00:31:25,174
<i>She studied modern dance
with Alvin Ailey,</i>

723
00:31:25,258 --> 00:31:27,051
<i>spent two years
in the Peace Corps,</i>

724
00:31:27,176 --> 00:31:29,804
<i>and then, inspired by
Lieutenant Uhura on </i>Star Trek,

725
00:31:29,888 --> 00:31:33,057
<i>she decided to boldly go where
no sister had gone before.</i>

726
00:31:37,437 --> 00:31:39,063
- <i>NASA?</i>
- Hello, NASA?

727
00:31:39,147 --> 00:31:41,190
I'm a black woman who'd like
to become an astronaut.

728
00:31:43,026 --> 00:31:46,821
Hello?
Now, that's messed up.

729
00:31:46,905 --> 00:31:48,323
<i>It wasn't easy,</i>

730
00:31:48,406 --> 00:31:50,450
<i>but Mae refused
to take "no" for an answer.</i>

731
00:31:50,575 --> 00:31:52,076
- <i>NASA.</i>
- Hello, NASA?

732
00:31:52,201 --> 00:31:54,078
<i>Oh, you were serious?</i>

733
00:31:54,203 --> 00:31:57,457
<i>Oh, no, sorry, we're not taking
applications right now.</i>

734
00:31:57,582 --> 00:31:58,958
It's cool.
I'll just call back

735
00:31:59,083 --> 00:32:00,710
every five minutes
until you are.

736
00:32:00,793 --> 00:32:03,338
- <i>Okay.</i>
- Okay.

737
00:32:05,590 --> 00:32:08,092
Think I'm playing games.
I'm gonna be an astronaut.

738
00:32:11,054 --> 00:32:13,723
Not gonna stop me.
I'm on my way. Hmm.

739
00:32:13,848 --> 00:32:15,200
<i>Eventually NASA
gave Mae a shot</i>

740
00:32:15,224 --> 00:32:16,976
<i>and she became an astronaut.</i>

741
00:32:17,060 --> 00:32:20,438
<i>And, in 1992, she became
the first black woman in space.</i>

742
00:32:22,607 --> 00:32:24,734
Well, how'd she top that?
I'm gonna tell you how.

743
00:32:24,817 --> 00:32:26,110
She apologized
to her friend

744
00:32:26,235 --> 00:32:27,463
for giving him
the purple nurple,

745
00:32:27,487 --> 00:32:28,613
and she let
her dad Kevin

746
00:32:28,738 --> 00:32:31,366
watch the football game
in peace.

747
00:32:31,491 --> 00:32:34,994
- Okay, I'll do it.
- Yes, that's my girl.

748
00:32:35,119 --> 00:32:37,121
And it only took an hour
of historical reenactments

749
00:32:37,205 --> 00:32:38,498
to get you to do it.

750
00:32:38,623 --> 00:32:39,999
Go, come on.

751
00:32:40,124 --> 00:32:41,876
Go. Go, go, go, go, go.

752
00:32:42,001 --> 00:32:44,253
Go, go, go.

753
00:32:48,758 --> 00:32:49,884
Oh, my God.
Are you okay?

754
00:32:50,009 --> 00:32:53,763
Oh.

755
00:32:53,846 --> 00:32:55,390
Did John-Jerry hurt you?

756
00:32:55,515 --> 00:32:57,517
Huh?

757
00:32:57,600 --> 00:32:59,644
I'm sorry I gave you
a purple nurple, Jeremy.

758
00:32:59,769 --> 00:33:01,771
You ate the whole bag
of chips?

759
00:33:01,854 --> 00:33:03,147
I understand.

760
00:33:03,231 --> 00:33:05,209
It would've been impractical
to give purple nurples

761
00:33:05,233 --> 00:33:07,652
to everyone throughout
history who deserved one.

762
00:33:07,777 --> 00:33:09,028
Got that.
I got that.

763
00:33:09,112 --> 00:33:11,030
But my question to you is,
did you eat it?

764
00:33:11,155 --> 00:33:14,158
There's nothing left
but chip dust in here.

765
00:33:14,283 --> 00:33:16,160
I-I was mad.
But I see I have

766
00:33:16,285 --> 00:33:17,620
so much
to be proud of.

767
00:33:20,873 --> 00:33:24,168
Hey, hey.
These had ridges.

768
00:33:24,293 --> 00:33:26,170
Dust does not have ridges.

769
00:33:26,254 --> 00:33:27,574
Do you understand
what I'm saying?

770
00:33:27,672 --> 00:33:29,674
I learned a lot
while I was spying on you guys.

771
00:33:29,799 --> 00:33:32,051
Black people have done
so many amazing things.

772
00:33:32,176 --> 00:33:34,929
Yeah, and you just ate
a family-sized bag of 'em.

773
00:33:35,013 --> 00:33:36,180
That's right, honey.

774
00:33:36,305 --> 00:33:38,933
Potato chips were invented
by a black man.

775
00:33:39,058 --> 00:33:41,436
A black man
named George Speck.

776
00:33:41,561 --> 00:33:43,438
Which is unfortunate,
because it reminds me

777
00:33:43,521 --> 00:33:45,815
of what you left me
with... a speck!

778
00:33:45,940 --> 00:33:47,567
A speck of potato chips!

779
00:33:47,692 --> 00:33:50,194
So, are we gonna see
a comedic reenactment

780
00:33:50,319 --> 00:33:52,447
of George Speck creating
the potato chip now?

781
00:33:52,572 --> 00:33:54,824
No.
No, we are not.

782
00:33:54,949 --> 00:33:56,951
We are gonna do it
as a puppet show.

783
00:33:57,035 --> 00:33:59,078
Now, we got budget cuts.
Go sit down.

784
00:33:59,203 --> 00:34:00,705
Now!

785
00:34:04,042 --> 00:34:05,585
George Speck was born in 1824

786
00:34:05,668 --> 00:34:08,963
in the Adirondack Mountains
in upstate New York.

787
00:34:09,047 --> 00:34:12,467
George was part Mohawk
Indian and he loved to hunt.

788
00:34:12,550 --> 00:34:14,844
He also loved to cook
what he hunted.

789
00:34:14,969 --> 00:34:17,555
He became a skilled chef
with a flair for innovating

790
00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:19,932
new, locally sourced dishes.

791
00:34:20,058 --> 00:34:21,458
George developed
his culinary skills

792
00:34:21,559 --> 00:34:23,561
as the head chef
of Cary Moon's Lake House,

793
00:34:23,686 --> 00:34:25,813
a famous restaurant
on the Saratoga Lake,

794
00:34:25,938 --> 00:34:28,566
where the wealthy Manhattanites
went on vacation.

795
00:34:28,691 --> 00:34:29,942
One of his regular customers

796
00:34:30,068 --> 00:34:32,195
was noted rich jerk
Cornelius Vanderbilt.

797
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:35,573
Chef! Get in here this instant.

798
00:34:35,698 --> 00:34:37,325
Legend has it that one day

799
00:34:37,408 --> 00:34:39,327
Vanderbilt kept sending
his French fries back

800
00:34:39,452 --> 00:34:40,888
because he thought
they were too thick.

801
00:34:40,912 --> 00:34:42,205
Still too thick.

802
00:34:42,330 --> 00:34:46,459
That lousy, no-good...

803
00:34:46,584 --> 00:34:47,960
I'll give him thin!

804
00:34:48,086 --> 00:34:49,646
George got so frustrated,

805
00:34:49,670 --> 00:34:51,315
he decided to sabotage
Vanderbilt's potatoes

806
00:34:51,339 --> 00:34:56,094
by slicing them razor thin
and frying them to a crisp.

807
00:34:56,219 --> 00:34:57,845
Delicious!

808
00:34:57,970 --> 00:35:00,348
George Crumb,
you're a genius.

809
00:35:00,473 --> 00:35:02,975
Thank you, sir.
But my name is Speck.

810
00:35:03,101 --> 00:35:04,602
Whatever you say, Crumb.

811
00:35:04,685 --> 00:35:06,080
Vanderbilt
got Speck's name wrong

812
00:35:06,104 --> 00:35:07,105
and it stuck.

813
00:35:07,230 --> 00:35:08,606
Later, he opened
his own restaurant

814
00:35:08,689 --> 00:35:10,983
and put a basket of chips
on every table.

815
00:35:11,109 --> 00:35:12,610
Since then,
the potato chip has become

816
00:35:12,735 --> 00:35:15,738
one of the most beloved
snacks in the world.

817
00:35:17,448 --> 00:35:18,991
And that's the story

818
00:35:19,117 --> 00:35:21,369
of the snacks that
you hogged from me.

819
00:35:21,452 --> 00:35:23,371
I left you some trail mix.

820
00:35:23,454 --> 00:35:26,249
I picked out the yogurt chips,
but I left the raisins.

821
00:35:26,374 --> 00:35:29,252
What?

822
00:35:29,335 --> 00:35:30,753
Riley.

823
00:35:30,878 --> 00:35:32,606
Kevin, what're you doing, man?

824
00:35:32,630 --> 00:35:34,132
We missin' the game.

825
00:35:34,257 --> 00:35:36,384
Ooh, anybody gonna eat
those floor raisins?

826
00:35:36,509 --> 00:35:38,010
Mm-mm-mm.

827
00:35:38,136 --> 00:35:39,762
I grew up on dirty raisins.

828
00:35:39,887 --> 00:35:41,139
Stop it.

829
00:35:41,264 --> 00:35:42,741
Man, you don't even know
anything about sports, Rel.

830
00:35:42,765 --> 00:35:44,392
I don't even know why
I'm talking to you.

831
00:35:44,475 --> 00:35:47,270
He's not the undisputed greatest
black athlete of all time.

832
00:35:47,395 --> 00:35:49,206
So you just gonna diss
Meadowlark Lemon like that.

833
00:35:49,230 --> 00:35:52,400
Okay, he could turn
a bucket of water into confetti.

834
00:35:52,483 --> 00:35:53,961
Michael Jordan couldn't
even do that, brother.

835
00:35:53,985 --> 00:35:56,529
The Harlem Globetrotters
do not play real games, Rel.

836
00:35:56,654 --> 00:35:59,157
All I know is,
is that confetti is real, man.

837
00:35:59,282 --> 00:36:00,282
- Okay.
- Look, look,

838
00:36:00,284 --> 00:36:01,343
Meadowlark
had the three Ds.

839
00:36:01,367 --> 00:36:02,410
- He could dunk...
- Yes.

840
00:36:02,535 --> 00:36:03,735
- ...he could dribble...
- Yes.

841
00:36:03,786 --> 00:36:05,413
- ...and do magic.
- I like magic.

842
00:36:05,496 --> 00:36:07,915
Honey, I understand that.
But this is different.

843
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:09,667
Look,
I love Meadowlark Lemon.

844
00:36:09,750 --> 00:36:11,270
I'm not gonna sit up here
and act like I don't.

845
00:36:11,294 --> 00:36:12,670
What I'm saying is that

846
00:36:12,795 --> 00:36:14,648
the man wasn't even
the greatest Globetrotter, Rel!

847
00:36:14,672 --> 00:36:16,424
So, we gotta go
through this again, huh?

848
00:36:16,549 --> 00:36:18,527
- We... I don't wanna go...
- Curly was the sidekick.

849
00:36:18,551 --> 00:36:20,071
- Here we go.
- He was the scrappy dude

850
00:36:20,178 --> 00:36:21,488
- of the Globetrotters.
- You want to talk about

851
00:36:21,512 --> 00:36:23,181
greatest black athletes
of all time?

852
00:36:23,306 --> 00:36:25,183
All right, then why not
talk about Jordan?

853
00:36:25,308 --> 00:36:27,185
Why not talk about Ali?
Joe Louis?

854
00:36:27,310 --> 00:36:29,812
Well, I never saw Joe Louis
do magic before.

855
00:36:29,937 --> 00:36:31,063
Oh, God.

856
00:36:31,189 --> 00:36:32,291
Have you ever seen
Joe Louis do magic?

857
00:36:32,315 --> 00:36:34,442
Okay.

858
00:36:34,525 --> 00:36:36,068
In the 1930s, Joe Louis
pulled off

859
00:36:36,194 --> 00:36:37,820
the greatest magic trick
of all time.

860
00:36:37,945 --> 00:36:39,822
Okay? He was
the first black boxer

861
00:36:39,947 --> 00:36:41,699
to be wildly beloved
by white people

862
00:36:41,782 --> 00:36:43,951
while punching white people
in the face.

863
00:36:44,035 --> 00:36:46,829
That, um... that's
a pretty good trick.

864
00:36:46,913 --> 00:36:48,331
Can't even front.

865
00:36:48,414 --> 00:36:49,707
<i>Some say the Brown Bomber</i>

866
00:36:49,832 --> 00:36:51,209
<i>was the best boxer
who ever lived.</i>

867
00:36:51,334 --> 00:36:53,211
<i>But in 1936,
he got knocked out</i>

868
00:36:53,336 --> 00:36:55,213
<i>by a German bruiser
named Max Schmeling,</i>

869
00:36:55,338 --> 00:36:57,715
<i>who happened
to be Hitler's boy.</i>

870
00:36:57,840 --> 00:36:59,151
<i>Louis is backpedaling,</i>

871
00:36:59,175 --> 00:37:00,593
<i>Schmeling is moving forward,</i>

872
00:37:00,718 --> 00:37:02,529
<i>and Schmeling connects
with the overhead right!</i>

873
00:37:02,553 --> 00:37:04,096
<i>Schmeling misses
with an uppercut</i>

874
00:37:04,222 --> 00:37:05,473
<i>and, oh, another straight.</i>

875
00:37:05,556 --> 00:37:06,950
<i>Louis is down,
Louis is on the canvas!</i>

876
00:37:06,974 --> 00:37:09,852
<i>Ja! Ja, baby!</i>

877
00:37:12,605 --> 00:37:14,607
<i>But his victory dance
didn't last long.</i>

878
00:37:14,732 --> 00:37:17,235
<i>Two months later,
in August of '36,</i>

879
00:37:17,318 --> 00:37:19,111
<i>Hitler presided
over the Berlin Olympics</i>

880
00:37:19,237 --> 00:37:21,239
<i>where Jesse Owens,
another black American,</i>

881
00:37:21,322 --> 00:37:23,366
<i>beat </i>Der Führer's <i>uber-jocks</i>

882
00:37:23,491 --> 00:37:25,368
<i>to win four gold medals
in track.</i>

883
00:37:25,493 --> 00:37:26,970
<i>Owens is
speeding to the finish line,</i>

884
00:37:26,994 --> 00:37:29,747
<i>and Jesse Owens has won!</i>

885
00:37:31,374 --> 00:37:33,000
<i>This made Hitler mad,</i>

886
00:37:33,084 --> 00:37:35,503
<i>of course, a lot of things
made Hitler mad.</i>

887
00:37:54,897 --> 00:37:57,024
<i>Meanwhile, Joe Louis
was coming back strong.</i>

888
00:37:57,108 --> 00:37:59,277
<i>And, a year later, he won
the heavyweight title</i>

889
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:02,530
<i>by knocking out
James Braddock in 1937.</i>

890
00:38:02,655 --> 00:38:04,532
<i>But Joe insisted
no one call him champ</i>

891
00:38:04,657 --> 00:38:07,159
<i>until he defeated the only guy
who ever beat him...</i>

892
00:38:07,243 --> 00:38:08,786
<i>Max Schmeling.</i>

893
00:38:08,911 --> 00:38:10,162
<i>A rematch was set.</i>

894
00:38:10,288 --> 00:38:12,164
Why should I
go into the ring gun-shy

895
00:38:12,290 --> 00:38:14,792
when Schmeling's
two years older

896
00:38:14,875 --> 00:38:17,795
and I'm two years smarter
in boxing?

897
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:19,672
<i>Now for a little context.</i>

898
00:38:19,797 --> 00:38:22,925
<i>In 1938, Germany was trying
to take over the world again.</i>

899
00:38:23,050 --> 00:38:24,802
<i>So, Louis vs. Schmeling II</i>

900
00:38:24,927 --> 00:38:26,804
<i>was more than just
a boxing match.</i>

901
00:38:26,929 --> 00:38:29,181
<i>It was a battle between
democracy and fascism.</i>

902
00:38:29,307 --> 00:38:30,683
<i>Hitler wanted to prove
to the world</i>

903
00:38:30,766 --> 00:38:32,310
<i>that Germany was
good at violence.</i>

904
00:38:32,435 --> 00:38:34,687
<i>The rematch would become
the biggest sporting event</i>

905
00:38:34,770 --> 00:38:36,063
<i>of the 20th century.</i>

906
00:38:36,188 --> 00:38:38,691
<i>70,000 people
jammed into Yankee Stadium</i>

907
00:38:38,816 --> 00:38:40,192
<i>to watch the fight.</i>

908
00:38:40,276 --> 00:38:42,528
<i>70 million listened
on the radio.</i>

909
00:38:52,330 --> 00:38:54,165
<i>Schnell!</i>

910
00:38:58,961 --> 00:39:00,838
<i>An explosive right to the jaw</i>

911
00:39:00,963 --> 00:39:03,341
<i>hurts Max Schmeling.</i>

912
00:39:03,466 --> 00:39:06,844
<i>Joe Louis all over Max
Schmeling here in round one.</i>

913
00:39:06,969 --> 00:39:10,222
<i>Ripping punches to the head.</i>

914
00:39:13,684 --> 00:39:15,728
<i>A crushing right</i>

915
00:39:15,853 --> 00:39:17,730
<i>explodes
on Schmeling's jaw.</i>

916
00:39:17,855 --> 00:39:21,233
<i>It's all over!</i>

917
00:39:24,362 --> 00:39:29,617
<i>The winner,
and still champion, Joe Louis!</i>

918
00:39:31,869 --> 00:39:33,621
<i>By the post-fight press
conference,</i>

919
00:39:33,746 --> 00:39:36,248
<i>Hitler had come up
with a million new excuses</i>

920
00:39:36,332 --> 00:39:37,500
<i>why his boy lost.</i>

921
00:39:46,008 --> 00:39:48,886
Yeah, Jeremy whined like that
after I purple nurpled him.

922
00:39:49,011 --> 00:39:50,513
Well, it hurt
like crazy.

923
00:39:50,596 --> 00:39:52,390
All right, pipe down,
Jeraldo.

924
00:39:52,515 --> 00:39:53,992
Here's what I want
you both to understand.

925
00:39:54,016 --> 00:39:56,519
Joe Louis wasn't just
some black hero.

926
00:39:56,602 --> 00:39:57,895
He was an American hero.

927
00:39:58,020 --> 00:39:59,021
And he joined the Army,

928
00:39:59,146 --> 00:40:00,773
and he even donated
his prize money

929
00:40:00,898 --> 00:40:02,376
to help America
kick some more Nazi butt.

930
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:04,777
Hmm. What happened
to the Schmeling guy?

931
00:40:04,860 --> 00:40:06,028
That's a great question.

932
00:40:06,153 --> 00:40:08,280
Well, it turns out
he wasn't such a bad guy

933
00:40:08,406 --> 00:40:09,657
after all, sweetie.

934
00:40:09,782 --> 00:40:11,718
He saved the lives of
two Jewish boys during the war

935
00:40:11,742 --> 00:40:13,160
by hiding them from the Nazis.

936
00:40:13,285 --> 00:40:15,413
Hmm.

937
00:40:15,538 --> 00:40:17,415
After Hitler snuffed it
in his bunker,

938
00:40:17,498 --> 00:40:19,518
<i>Schmeling and Louis actually
became really good friends.</i>

939
00:40:19,542 --> 00:40:21,544
Can we talk
about Beyoncé now?

940
00:40:21,669 --> 00:40:22,989
She's kind of young
to be history.

941
00:40:23,045 --> 00:40:24,547
But check this out, okay?

942
00:40:24,672 --> 00:40:26,298
There might
not be a Beyoncé

943
00:40:26,424 --> 00:40:27,800
if it weren't
for Josephine Baker.

944
00:40:27,925 --> 00:40:31,303
She was Beyoncé before Beyoncé
back in the 1920s.

945
00:40:31,429 --> 00:40:34,432
She was an original diva.
She was the OD Beyoncé.

946
00:40:34,557 --> 00:40:37,184
Wait a minute.
Beyoncé OD'd?

947
00:40:37,309 --> 00:40:39,687
No!
Listen up, guys.

948
00:40:39,770 --> 00:40:43,941
<i>Josephine Baker was born
in Missouri in 1906.</i>

949
00:40:44,024 --> 00:40:45,317
<i>When she was 15 years old,</i>

950
00:40:45,443 --> 00:40:47,194
<i>the Roaring '20s
were in full swing</i>

951
00:40:47,278 --> 00:40:49,572
<i>and the Harlem Renaissance
was attracting</i>

952
00:40:49,697 --> 00:40:52,700
<i>talented African American
musicians, writers, and artists</i>

953
00:40:52,825 --> 00:40:54,076
<i>from all over the country.</i>

954
00:40:54,201 --> 00:40:55,703
<i>They wanted to move on up</i>

955
00:40:55,786 --> 00:40:57,580
<i>to the deluxe opportunities
in New York City.</i>

956
00:40:57,705 --> 00:40:59,206
<i>Josephine made her way
to Harlem</i>

957
00:40:59,331 --> 00:41:01,459
<i>and landed a job
as a chorus line dancer</i>

958
00:41:01,584 --> 00:41:05,087
<i>in the 1921 Broadway show</i>
Shuffle Along,

959
00:41:05,212 --> 00:41:06,440
<i>which was
the first Broadway show</i>

960
00:41:06,464 --> 00:41:07,840
<i>written by,
directed by,</i>

961
00:41:07,965 --> 00:41:09,592
<i>and starring black people.</i>

962
00:41:09,717 --> 00:41:11,844
<i>Josephine's signature move
in the chorus line</i>

963
00:41:11,969 --> 00:41:14,722
<i>was to get laughs by pretending
to be an incompetent dancer,</i>

964
00:41:14,805 --> 00:41:16,098
<i>and then blowing everybody away</i>

965
00:41:16,223 --> 00:41:17,850
<i>with her expert,
high energy moves.</i>

966
00:41:17,975 --> 00:41:20,352
<i>This musical revue
was a sensation</i>

967
00:41:20,436 --> 00:41:22,104
<i>with audiences of all races,</i>

968
00:41:22,188 --> 00:41:24,231
<i>and music legends
like George Gershwin</i>

969
00:41:24,356 --> 00:41:25,733
<i>sang its praises.</i>

970
00:41:25,816 --> 00:41:27,610
<i>In addition to getting
Josephine noticed,</i>

971
00:41:27,735 --> 00:41:30,488
<i>it launched the careers
of singer Paul Robeson</i>

972
00:41:30,613 --> 00:41:32,364
<i>and composer Eubie Blake.</i>

973
00:41:32,490 --> 00:41:34,410
<i>But while white America
was loving the black art,</i>

974
00:41:34,492 --> 00:41:36,243
<i>they weren't
respecting the artists.</i>

975
00:41:36,368 --> 00:41:37,995
<i>Black talent had to use
the back door</i>

976
00:41:38,078 --> 00:41:39,747
<i>at the white venues
when they performed.</i>

977
00:41:39,872 --> 00:41:41,749
<i>And even the famous
Cotton Club,</i>

978
00:41:41,832 --> 00:41:43,250
<i>which featured
all-black talent,</i>

979
00:41:43,334 --> 00:41:45,503
<i>had the infamous
brown bag policy.</i>

980
00:41:45,628 --> 00:41:47,379
<i>You could only perform there
if your skin</i>

981
00:41:47,463 --> 00:41:49,256
<i>was lighter
than a brown paper bag.</i>

982
00:41:49,340 --> 00:41:51,509
<i>So when a talent scout
from Paris offered her</i>

983
00:41:51,592 --> 00:41:54,386
<i>a feature role in a show
there, Josephine said yes.</i>

984
00:41:54,512 --> 00:41:56,764
<i>She said she felt liberated
from racism there,</i>

985
00:41:56,889 --> 00:41:58,641
<i>and soon she was a star.</i>

986
00:41:58,766 --> 00:42:00,518
<i>Pablo Picasso was a big fan,</i>

987
00:42:00,643 --> 00:42:02,394
<i>and Ernest Hemingway
called her</i>

988
00:42:02,478 --> 00:42:04,522
<i>the most sensational
woman on Earth.</i>

989
00:42:04,647 --> 00:42:06,774
<i>But her fans didn't know
that she was also a spy</i>

990
00:42:06,857 --> 00:42:09,902
<i>who helped take down the Axis
powers in World War II.</i>

991
00:42:09,985 --> 00:42:12,905
<i>In 1939, she was recruited
by Jacques Abtey,</i>

992
00:42:13,030 --> 00:42:15,533
<i>the head of the French Military
Intelligence Service,</i>

993
00:42:15,658 --> 00:42:18,035
<i>to use her celebrity status
to help gather intel</i>

994
00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:20,663
<i>on the fascist powers
that were threatening Europe.</i>

995
00:42:20,788 --> 00:42:22,790
<i>Josephine jumped at the chance
to help France,</i>

996
00:42:22,915 --> 00:42:24,667
<i>the country
that made her a super star.</i>

997
00:42:24,750 --> 00:42:27,294
<i>But spying is dangerous work.</i>

998
00:42:27,419 --> 00:42:29,046
<i>Josephine was trained
in karate...</i>

999
00:42:29,171 --> 00:42:33,551
Eat foot, Führer!

1000
00:42:33,634 --> 00:42:35,177
<i>...and marksmanship.</i>

1001
00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:44,812
<i>Josephine was now ready
to spy.</i>

1002
00:42:47,773 --> 00:42:49,441
<i>She would mingle
with military officials</i>

1003
00:42:49,567 --> 00:42:51,819
<i>and even heads of state
like Benito Mussolini,</i>

1004
00:42:51,944 --> 00:42:54,071
<i>who was actually
a huge fan of hers.</i>

1005
00:42:58,450 --> 00:43:00,202
<i>She used
her celebrity and charm</i>

1006
00:43:00,327 --> 00:43:03,581
<i>to work them for intel
on the Axis powers' plans.</i>

1007
00:43:03,706 --> 00:43:05,583
I overheard
some Gestapo in the lobby

1008
00:43:05,708 --> 00:43:06,834
discussing troop movements.

1009
00:43:06,917 --> 00:43:09,211
It's all here
in this sheet music.

1010
00:43:09,336 --> 00:43:11,088
<i>Magnifique.</i>

1011
00:43:11,213 --> 00:43:15,217
"Camptown lady sings this song,
doo-dah, doo-dah.

1012
00:43:15,342 --> 00:43:18,470
A camptown race track
five miles long,

1013
00:43:18,596 --> 00:43:20,848
all the doo-dah day."

1014
00:43:20,931 --> 00:43:21,974
Ah, I see.

1015
00:43:22,099 --> 00:43:24,727
So, the camptown lady
is Hitler

1016
00:43:24,810 --> 00:43:29,106
and he plans on invading
France on doo-dah day.

1017
00:43:29,189 --> 00:43:30,482
When is doo-dah day?

1018
00:43:30,566 --> 00:43:31,859
No, those are just lyrics.

1019
00:43:31,984 --> 00:43:33,986
The intel
is in invisible ink.

1020
00:43:34,111 --> 00:43:37,114
Of course.
I totally knew that.

1021
00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:39,491
Did you get any intelligence
on the location

1022
00:43:39,617 --> 00:43:42,369
of Italy's
new munitions factory?

1023
00:43:43,746 --> 00:43:47,374
I'm about to. Hurry, hide.

1024
00:43:48,959 --> 00:43:50,628
<i>Entrez.</i>

1025
00:43:50,753 --> 00:43:52,254
<i>Bonjour!</i>

1026
00:43:52,379 --> 00:43:54,757
Well, if it isn't
<i>Il Duce </i>himself.

1027
00:43:54,882 --> 00:43:57,885
Josephine.

1028
00:43:58,010 --> 00:44:01,013
You were <i>fantastico.</i>

1029
00:44:01,096 --> 00:44:04,141
That banana dance... wow.

1030
00:44:04,224 --> 00:44:06,518
Ooh, why don't you book me
on a tour of Italy?

1031
00:44:06,602 --> 00:44:08,121
You know, I've always
dreamed of performing

1032
00:44:08,145 --> 00:44:10,648
at a brand-new
munitions factory.

1033
00:44:10,731 --> 00:44:12,149
Do you have any of those?

1034
00:44:12,274 --> 00:44:14,526
Well, uh...

1035
00:44:14,652 --> 00:44:15,653
What was that noise?

1036
00:44:15,778 --> 00:44:18,906
Oh-oh!
Just my puppy dog.

1037
00:44:18,989 --> 00:44:21,909
Meow.

1038
00:44:21,992 --> 00:44:25,037
He's a little slow.

1039
00:44:25,162 --> 00:44:27,665
<i>After the war, French
President Charles de Gaulle</i>

1040
00:44:27,748 --> 00:44:29,041
<i>awarded her
the Croix de Guerre,</i>

1041
00:44:29,166 --> 00:44:30,668
<i>the Rosette de la Résistance,</i>

1042
00:44:30,793 --> 00:44:32,670
<i>and the Légion d'honneur,</i>

1043
00:44:32,753 --> 00:44:36,131
<i>which was a fancy way of saying
she was a total badass.</i>

1044
00:44:42,304 --> 00:44:44,556
<i>Over the years,
she adopted 12 children</i>

1045
00:44:44,682 --> 00:44:46,058
<i>from all over the world,</i>

1046
00:44:46,141 --> 00:44:47,935
<i>which she called
the Rainbow Tribe,</i>

1047
00:44:48,018 --> 00:44:50,562
<i>making her
the Angelina Jolie OG.</i>

1048
00:44:50,646 --> 00:44:53,440
<i>After the war, Josephine became
an accomplished vocalist</i>

1049
00:44:53,524 --> 00:44:55,317
<i>and returned to perform
in America,</i>

1050
00:44:55,442 --> 00:44:57,319
<i>where she fought
for racial equality,</i>

1051
00:44:57,403 --> 00:45:00,197
<i>putting pressure on clubs
to desegregate,</i>

1052
00:45:00,322 --> 00:45:01,949
<i>and was the only
female speaker</i>

1053
00:45:02,074 --> 00:45:04,451
<i>at the 1963
March on Washington.</i>

1054
00:45:04,576 --> 00:45:07,830
<i>A.K.A. Martin Luther King's</i>
I Have a Dream <i>speech.</i>

1055
00:45:07,955 --> 00:45:11,208
<i>And then, in 1973,
at the age of 67,</i>

1056
00:45:11,333 --> 00:45:13,961
<i>she made a triumphant return
to Carnegie Hall</i>

1057
00:45:14,086 --> 00:45:15,963
<i>for a series
of sold-out shows.</i>

1058
00:45:16,088 --> 00:45:18,465
<i>See, now, Josephine Baker's
a true hero.</i>

1059
00:45:18,590 --> 00:45:20,217
And I just told you
a story about her,

1060
00:45:20,300 --> 00:45:21,844
which kind of makes me
a hero, too.

1061
00:45:21,927 --> 00:45:26,098
Boy, I shocked myself.

1062
00:45:26,181 --> 00:45:28,976
Here you go, sweetie.

1063
00:45:29,059 --> 00:45:30,227
- Again?
- Yeah.

1064
00:45:30,352 --> 00:45:32,104
- Can I have one?
- No!

1065
00:45:32,229 --> 00:45:34,231
Really, Dad?
Here.

1066
00:45:34,314 --> 00:45:35,482
Thank you.

1067
00:45:35,566 --> 00:45:37,109
I already got 75
in my drawer.

1068
00:45:37,234 --> 00:45:38,485
Frame it.

1069
00:45:39,862 --> 00:45:42,489
<i>Barnstorming aviator
Bessie Coleman</i>

1070
00:45:42,573 --> 00:45:44,491
<i>was a pioneer
with a taste for adventure.</i>

1071
00:45:44,575 --> 00:45:47,369
<i>In 1921, she became the first
African American woman</i>

1072
00:45:47,494 --> 00:45:49,121
<i>to earn a pilot's license.</i>

1073
00:45:49,204 --> 00:45:51,248
<i>The daughter
of a Texas sharecropper,</i>

1074
00:45:51,373 --> 00:45:53,500
<i>she became obsessed
with becoming a pilot</i>

1075
00:45:53,625 --> 00:45:56,503
<i>at age 23, while working in,
of all places,</i>

1076
00:45:56,628 --> 00:45:58,630
<i>her brother's barber shop
in Chicago.</i>

1077
00:45:58,755 --> 00:46:00,132
<i>During manicures all day,</i>

1078
00:46:00,257 --> 00:46:01,758
<i>she overheard exciting tales
of flying</i>

1079
00:46:01,884 --> 00:46:04,761
<i>from World War I pilots
as they got a trim.</i>

1080
00:46:04,845 --> 00:46:06,638
<i>Bessie faced
an uphill battle,</i>

1081
00:46:06,722 --> 00:46:08,241
<i>as none of the pilot schools
in America</i>

1082
00:46:08,265 --> 00:46:09,892
<i>would accept a black woman.</i>

1083
00:46:10,017 --> 00:46:11,768
<i>Undaunted,
she moved to France</i>

1084
00:46:11,852 --> 00:46:14,646
<i>and earned her license from
a prestigious school there.</i>

1085
00:46:14,771 --> 00:46:17,274
<i>Later, Bessie went to Germany
to meet the Fokker.</i>

1086
00:46:17,399 --> 00:46:20,277
<i>Namely, Anthony Fokker,
who ran the most successful</i>

1087
00:46:20,402 --> 00:46:22,779
<i>civil aviation company
of the 1920s.</i>

1088
00:46:22,863 --> 00:46:24,907
<i>There, she was trained
in advanced stunt flying,</i>

1089
00:46:24,990 --> 00:46:26,533
<i>and then returned
to the U.S.,</i>

1090
00:46:26,617 --> 00:46:28,261
<i>where she became
one of the most famous pilots</i>

1091
00:46:28,285 --> 00:46:29,536
<i>on the barnstorming circuit.</i>

1092
00:46:29,661 --> 00:46:31,038
<i>And she fought
for Civil Rights</i>

1093
00:46:31,163 --> 00:46:34,166
<i>by refusing to perform
in segregated air shows,</i>

1094
00:46:34,249 --> 00:46:35,929
<i>Despite having to struggle
against all odds</i>

1095
00:46:36,043 --> 00:46:39,046
<i>to obtain her dream,
she never got discouraged.</i>

1096
00:46:39,129 --> 00:46:41,548
<i>Even though, I heard, she was
always getting pulled over</i>

1097
00:46:41,673 --> 00:46:44,551
<i>by the cops asking
where she got that nice plane.</i>

1098
00:46:44,676 --> 00:46:45,928
Ugh!

1099
00:46:46,053 --> 00:46:48,055
Oh, my God,
they ripped his arm off!

1100
00:46:48,138 --> 00:46:49,932
- Oh.
- This is terrible.

1101
00:46:50,057 --> 00:46:51,577
Man, I got a lot of money
on this game.

1102
00:46:51,683 --> 00:46:53,286
Do you think they could
sew it back up, Kevin?

1103
00:46:53,310 --> 00:46:55,062
I don't know.

1104
00:46:55,145 --> 00:46:56,563
You're asking
the wrong person.

1105
00:46:56,688 --> 00:46:58,941
You need somebody
like Vivien Thomas to do that.

1106
00:46:59,066 --> 00:47:01,568
Let me guess, she was
an African American doctor.

1107
00:47:01,652 --> 00:47:03,946
Uh, no, young lady,
you're wrong.

1108
00:47:04,071 --> 00:47:08,325
He was one of the most brilliant
and respected surgeons ever.

1109
00:47:08,408 --> 00:47:09,701
But he wasn't a doctor.

1110
00:47:09,826 --> 00:47:14,081
In fact, he never even
went to medical school.

1111
00:47:14,164 --> 00:47:16,583
<i>The story starts
all the way back in 1893,</i>

1112
00:47:16,667 --> 00:47:17,960
<i>when, believe it or not,</i>

1113
00:47:18,085 --> 00:47:19,711
<i>heart surgery
was actually pioneered</i>

1114
00:47:19,836 --> 00:47:21,964
<i>by an African American surgeon,</i>

1115
00:47:22,047 --> 00:47:23,966
<i>Dr. Daniel Hale Williams.</i>

1116
00:47:24,091 --> 00:47:25,592
<i>But most people
don't know that.</i>

1117
00:47:25,676 --> 00:47:27,219
<i>Just like black cowboys.</i>

1118
00:47:27,344 --> 00:47:30,722
<i>Early black medical heroes
were largely forgotten,</i>

1119
00:47:30,847 --> 00:47:32,599
<i>and as Jim Crow laws
got worse,</i>

1120
00:47:32,724 --> 00:47:35,602
<i>it got harder and harder
for talented African Americans</i>

1121
00:47:35,727 --> 00:47:37,354
<i>to advance
in the field of medicine.</i>

1122
00:47:37,437 --> 00:47:39,606
<i>By the 1930s,
fewer and fewer blacks</i>

1123
00:47:39,731 --> 00:47:42,734
<i>were getting into predominantly
white medical schools.</i>

1124
00:47:42,859 --> 00:47:46,113
<i>One exception was a kid from
Louisiana named Vivien Thomas.</i>

1125
00:47:46,196 --> 00:47:48,740
<i>He was accepted
to Vanderbilt University,</i>

1126
00:47:48,865 --> 00:47:51,743
<i>but then had to drop out
when the Great Depression hit</i>

1127
00:47:51,868 --> 00:47:53,996
<i>and his family's savings
were wiped out.</i>

1128
00:47:54,121 --> 00:47:56,498
<i>Thomas wound up taking a job
doing carpentry,</i>

1129
00:47:56,623 --> 00:47:59,126
<i>working on campus until
he could save up enough money</i>

1130
00:47:59,209 --> 00:48:00,627
<i>to complete his education.</i>

1131
00:48:00,711 --> 00:48:01,878
<i>That's where he saw
an opening</i>

1132
00:48:02,004 --> 00:48:03,755
<i>for a research
surgical technician,</i>

1133
00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:06,383
<i>and soon found himself
literally on the cutting edge</i>

1134
00:48:06,508 --> 00:48:08,885
<i>of the brave new field
of cardiac surgery.</i>

1135
00:48:09,011 --> 00:48:11,638
<i>Thomas' boss
was Dr. Alfred Blalock,</i>

1136
00:48:11,763 --> 00:48:14,641
<i>who was immediately impressed
by Thomas' remarkable grasp</i>

1137
00:48:14,766 --> 00:48:18,020
<i>of surgical technique
and flair for innovation.</i>

1138
00:48:18,145 --> 00:48:19,521
<i>Soon, this mere technician</i>

1139
00:48:19,605 --> 00:48:21,082
<i>was outshining the doctors
around him.</i>

1140
00:48:21,106 --> 00:48:23,400
<i>Like when he pioneered
a procedure to cure the</i>

1141
00:48:23,525 --> 00:48:28,405
<i>serious pediatric heart defect
known as Blue Baby Syndrome.</i>

1142
00:48:28,530 --> 00:48:31,908
Gentlemen, as you know,
infants with Blue Baby Syndrome,

1143
00:48:31,992 --> 00:48:34,911
have a congenital heart defect
found in the ventricle wall

1144
00:48:35,037 --> 00:48:37,539
and the pulmonary valve
that prevents the full flow

1145
00:48:37,664 --> 00:48:39,791
of blood from the lungs.

1146
00:48:39,916 --> 00:48:42,669
Now, as a result,
insufficiently oxygenated blood

1147
00:48:42,794 --> 00:48:44,046
flows through the body,

1148
00:48:44,171 --> 00:48:46,298
causing these babies
to appear blue-ish.

1149
00:48:46,423 --> 00:48:50,302
But I believe
I devised a cure.

1150
00:48:50,385 --> 00:48:53,430
Yeah, right.
Like I tell parents,

1151
00:48:53,555 --> 00:48:56,308
there's only one cure
for Blue Baby Syndrome... paint.

1152
00:48:58,435 --> 00:49:00,812
I know, that always
gets a laugh.

1153
00:49:00,937 --> 00:49:02,749
Then I tell them,
"Sorry, you're kid's gonna..."

1154
00:49:02,773 --> 00:49:04,816
"...die," so...

1155
00:49:04,941 --> 00:49:06,193
Well, not anymore.

1156
00:49:06,318 --> 00:49:07,569
I've come up
with a procedure

1157
00:49:07,694 --> 00:49:09,446
that will connect
the subclavian artery

1158
00:49:09,571 --> 00:49:13,950
to the pulmonary artery,
and it works.

1159
00:49:14,034 --> 00:49:16,703
It kinda ruins my joke,

1160
00:49:16,828 --> 00:49:19,956
but I guess we can go
with your idea.

1161
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:21,958
Well, I put
my heart into it, so...

1162
00:49:22,042 --> 00:49:23,710
Uh... no?

1163
00:49:23,794 --> 00:49:25,337
All right, nothing.
Okay.

1164
00:49:25,462 --> 00:49:27,065
<i>Even though he was
a surgical prodigy</i>

1165
00:49:27,089 --> 00:49:29,091
<i>who was teaching his techniques
to the doctors,</i>

1166
00:49:29,174 --> 00:49:31,343
<i>he was still paid
only as a technician.</i>

1167
00:49:31,426 --> 00:49:32,969
<i>News spread quickly
of the innovations</i>

1168
00:49:33,095 --> 00:49:34,721
<i>pioneered by
Thomas and Blalock.</i>

1169
00:49:34,846 --> 00:49:37,599
<i>Or, as they were known
in the press, Blalock.</i>

1170
00:49:37,683 --> 00:49:40,352
<i>Johns Hopkins University
in Baltimore invited Blalock</i>

1171
00:49:40,477 --> 00:49:41,978
<i>to be their
new head of surgery,</i>

1172
00:49:42,062 --> 00:49:44,106
<i>and he knew he needed Thomas
to come with.</i>

1173
00:49:44,231 --> 00:49:46,358
<i>But Baltimore
was pretty segregated then.</i>

1174
00:49:46,483 --> 00:49:48,860
<i>The only black employees
were janitors.</i>

1175
00:49:48,985 --> 00:49:51,238
Listen, Viv, I know
you're disappointed

1176
00:49:51,321 --> 00:49:53,115
you still can't afford
medical school,

1177
00:49:53,240 --> 00:49:55,117
but what does "doctor"
mean, anyway?

1178
00:49:55,242 --> 00:49:56,743
It's just a title.
The point is,

1179
00:49:56,868 --> 00:49:59,996
you're gonna be respected
for your work right here.

1180
00:50:01,623 --> 00:50:04,751
Oh, oh, somebody get a doctor!

1181
00:50:04,835 --> 00:50:06,503
Can I help?

1182
00:50:06,628 --> 00:50:09,005
Yes. Get a mop.

1183
00:50:09,131 --> 00:50:11,258
And find a doctor.

1184
00:50:11,383 --> 00:50:14,261
Oh. And put those back
where you found them.

1185
00:50:14,344 --> 00:50:15,863
I don't know where you
picked those up,

1186
00:50:15,887 --> 00:50:17,639
but that is not for you.

1187
00:50:17,764 --> 00:50:19,015
Oh!

1188
00:50:19,141 --> 00:50:22,394
I can't even believe this.

1189
00:50:22,519 --> 00:50:25,021
I don't think he intends
to get a mop.

1190
00:50:25,105 --> 00:50:26,773
<i>Soon, Dr. Blalock
was performing</i>

1191
00:50:26,898 --> 00:50:29,025
<i>the revolutionary procedures
pioneered by Thomas.</i>

1192
00:50:29,151 --> 00:50:30,902
<i>But even he knew he couldn't
get through it</i>

1193
00:50:30,986 --> 00:50:32,779
<i>without his secret weapon
by his side.</i>

1194
00:50:32,863 --> 00:50:34,781
Today, I will be
among the first

1195
00:50:34,865 --> 00:50:37,784
to operate
on the human heart itself.

1196
00:50:37,909 --> 00:50:40,537
No, please, please, hold
your applause until the end

1197
00:50:40,662 --> 00:50:42,914
in case the patient dies.

1198
00:50:43,039 --> 00:50:44,416
- What?
- Whoa, whoa, oh.

1199
00:50:44,541 --> 00:50:46,543
Uh, more anesthesia.

1200
00:50:46,626 --> 00:50:48,170
And there we go.

1201
00:50:48,253 --> 00:50:51,298
First, I will make
an incision here...

1202
00:50:54,801 --> 00:50:58,805
First, I will make
an incision... here?

1203
00:50:58,930 --> 00:51:01,308
- Mm-hmm.
- Mm, mm.

1204
00:51:01,433 --> 00:51:05,812
Yeah. Now, um,
once we pass the vena cava

1205
00:51:05,937 --> 00:51:08,815
and transect
the pulmonary artery,

1206
00:51:08,940 --> 00:51:10,817
then we proceed to the...

1207
00:51:10,942 --> 00:51:13,945
oh, my gosh,
what is all of that?

1208
00:51:14,070 --> 00:51:15,447
Subclavian artery.

1209
00:51:15,572 --> 00:51:18,700
The... the subclavian artery.

1210
00:51:18,825 --> 00:51:20,577
Now, you want to be careful

1211
00:51:20,702 --> 00:51:22,829
because you don't want
to nick anything.

1212
00:51:22,913 --> 00:51:24,581
Whoa, oh, boy,
that's a mess.

1213
00:51:24,706 --> 00:51:25,933
That's not good,
that's not good.

1214
00:51:25,957 --> 00:51:27,334
- Get... get... yeah.
- Uh...

1215
00:51:27,459 --> 00:51:29,461
Okay, all right.

1216
00:51:29,586 --> 00:51:31,087
Doctor, your hands.

1217
00:51:31,213 --> 00:51:33,089
- What?
- Your gloves have fallen off.

1218
00:51:33,173 --> 00:51:34,400
- Oh, uh...
- Let me get you some new ones.

1219
00:51:34,424 --> 00:51:35,842
Oh, of course, yeah.

1220
00:51:35,967 --> 00:51:37,969
I'll just put that in my mouth.
There we go.

1221
00:51:40,222 --> 00:51:43,475
Just one little pause
for a second.

1222
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:46,102
They're awfully hard
to get on.

1223
00:51:46,186 --> 00:51:48,480
Oh, boy, those babies
are tight.

1224
00:51:48,605 --> 00:51:50,106
Oh, that's
much, much better.

1225
00:51:50,190 --> 00:51:52,984
Whew. Now, let's get
to some cutting.

1226
00:51:53,109 --> 00:51:56,613
Okay, here we go.
And, diving in.

1227
00:51:56,738 --> 00:51:58,365
Now, that's the ticket.

1228
00:51:58,490 --> 00:52:00,867
No, no, please, please.

1229
00:52:00,951 --> 00:52:03,119
Hold your applause,
hold your applause.

1230
00:52:03,245 --> 00:52:05,121
No, you're right,
because this is

1231
00:52:05,247 --> 00:52:07,999
some fine work
my hands are doing.

1232
00:52:08,083 --> 00:52:11,002
Oh, beautiful.
Ew, gross me out.

1233
00:52:11,127 --> 00:52:15,632
I'm crossing
the finish line and, voila.

1234
00:52:15,757 --> 00:52:17,884
I did it.

1235
00:52:17,968 --> 00:52:19,511
Yes, thank you very much.

1236
00:52:19,636 --> 00:52:22,639
And... and to celebrate,
I'd like to have you all over

1237
00:52:22,764 --> 00:52:25,642
for a cocktail party in my
beautiful home tonight.

1238
00:52:25,767 --> 00:52:27,394
Will there be shrimp?

1239
00:52:27,519 --> 00:52:31,147
Oh, boy, that's...
that's a quick recovery.

1240
00:52:31,231 --> 00:52:33,024
How are you?
Very... very good.

1241
00:52:33,149 --> 00:52:35,527
Thank you very much.
This... oh, thank...

1242
00:52:35,652 --> 00:52:37,004
...is he still? Yeah,
he's still with us.

1243
00:52:37,028 --> 00:52:39,281
All right, nicely done.
Nicely done.

1244
00:52:39,364 --> 00:52:41,283
<i>Thomas was soon
teaching his techniques</i>

1245
00:52:41,366 --> 00:52:44,035
<i>to surgical students
at Johns Hopkins.</i>

1246
00:52:44,160 --> 00:52:46,037
<i>But he was still paid
as a technician.</i>

1247
00:52:46,162 --> 00:52:47,914
<i>A fraction
of Blalock's salary.</i>

1248
00:52:47,998 --> 00:52:50,542
<i>So Blalock figured out a way
to help Thomas make ends meet.</i>

1249
00:52:50,667 --> 00:52:54,045
Viv Thomas,
you have a surgical gift.

1250
00:52:54,170 --> 00:52:55,797
Your sutures
are God's own work.

1251
00:52:55,881 --> 00:52:58,550
You could stitch up a wound
before the blood hits the floor,

1252
00:52:58,675 --> 00:52:59,926
but even more importantly,

1253
00:53:00,051 --> 00:53:02,554
you make
one hell of a daiquiri!

1254
00:53:02,637 --> 00:53:06,182
Somebody said "daiquiri."

1255
00:53:06,308 --> 00:53:09,436
Well, thank you, Dr. Blalock.
You're too kind.

1256
00:53:09,519 --> 00:53:11,938
The key is a small incision

1257
00:53:12,063 --> 00:53:13,165
of the midpoint
of the strawberry.

1258
00:53:15,942 --> 00:53:17,694
<i>Yes, instead
of pushing for Thomas</i>

1259
00:53:17,777 --> 00:53:19,070
<i>to get a fair salary,</i>

1260
00:53:19,195 --> 00:53:21,448
<i>Blalock actually hired him
as a bartender</i>

1261
00:53:21,531 --> 00:53:22,699
<i>at his fancy parties.</i>

1262
00:53:22,824 --> 00:53:25,076
You know, Viv,
I just hate the fact

1263
00:53:25,201 --> 00:53:26,804
that I make so much
more money than you do.

1264
00:53:26,828 --> 00:53:30,081
But here's the good news.
My gutters are filthy.

1265
00:53:30,165 --> 00:53:31,458
And I'd throw you
a few bones

1266
00:53:31,541 --> 00:53:32,685
if you got up there
and cleaned them out.

1267
00:53:32,709 --> 00:53:34,210
I think maybe a rat

1268
00:53:34,336 --> 00:53:36,212
mighta croaked up there
or something.

1269
00:53:36,338 --> 00:53:37,938
God only knows
what's up there, you know?

1270
00:53:44,971 --> 00:53:47,474
Viv Thomas. Earth to Viv.

1271
00:53:47,557 --> 00:53:49,100
Earth to Viv.
Come back to me.

1272
00:53:49,225 --> 00:53:51,102
There you are.
There you are.

1273
00:53:51,227 --> 00:53:52,538
So, what do you say?
You climb up there

1274
00:53:52,562 --> 00:53:54,481
and clean them out for me?

1275
00:53:54,564 --> 00:53:55,607
Sure, Dr. Blalock.

1276
00:53:55,732 --> 00:53:59,110
Ah, you are a good man.

1277
00:53:59,235 --> 00:54:00,737
Take off early tonight.

1278
00:54:00,820 --> 00:54:03,490
But, sweetie, despite
suffering the indignities

1279
00:54:03,573 --> 00:54:05,742
of a system that didn't reward
him for his brilliance,

1280
00:54:05,867 --> 00:54:08,620
Vivien Thomas continued
to innovate and train

1281
00:54:08,745 --> 00:54:10,747
many future surgical
department chiefs.

1282
00:54:10,872 --> 00:54:12,749
And, finally,
at the age 66,

1283
00:54:12,874 --> 00:54:16,628
<i>he was awarded an honorary
doctorate from Johns Hopkins,</i>

1284
00:54:16,711 --> 00:54:18,481
<i>and his former students
commissioned a portrait</i>

1285
00:54:18,505 --> 00:54:20,882
<i>to be hung next to
Blalock's in the lobby.</i>

1286
00:54:21,007 --> 00:54:22,759
<i>But what
you gotta think about</i>

1287
00:54:22,884 --> 00:54:24,636
<i>is Thomas' most
important legacy.</i>

1288
00:54:24,761 --> 00:54:26,763
<i>I'm talking about the countless
lives he saved.</i>

1289
00:54:26,888 --> 00:54:28,616
<i>Literally, sweetie.
I'm talking about thousands</i>

1290
00:54:28,640 --> 00:54:31,267
<i>of people who would have
never lived past infancy.</i>

1291
00:54:31,351 --> 00:54:33,895
<i>They all went on to enjoy
long, meaningful lives</i>

1292
00:54:33,979 --> 00:54:37,148
<i>thanks to the efforts
of this man.</i>

1293
00:54:37,273 --> 00:54:38,775
Touchdown!

1294
00:54:38,900 --> 00:54:40,151
Heck, yeah.
Birds take the lead.

1295
00:54:40,276 --> 00:54:42,654
No, no!

1296
00:54:42,737 --> 00:54:43,905
I'm screwed!

1297
00:54:44,030 --> 00:54:45,532
What do you mean
you're screwed?

1298
00:54:45,615 --> 00:54:47,510
And why do you keep looking
at your phone like that, man?

1299
00:54:47,534 --> 00:54:49,494
Look, man, I had a whole
lot of money on the game,

1300
00:54:49,536 --> 00:54:51,256
and now my bookie's
fittin' to come collect.

1301
00:54:51,287 --> 00:54:52,515
The bookie's
getting a collect...

1302
00:54:52,539 --> 00:54:54,791
you gotta stop
with the gambling problem.

1303
00:54:54,916 --> 00:54:57,168
No, see, you actually the one
with the gamblin' problem.

1304
00:54:57,293 --> 00:54:59,671
I told him I was Kevin Hart.

1305
00:54:59,754 --> 00:55:01,297
You what?

1306
00:55:01,423 --> 00:55:04,050
Yeah, uh, he won't take
no bets from me no more

1307
00:55:04,134 --> 00:55:06,052
'cause I owe him
a whole lot of money.

1308
00:55:06,136 --> 00:55:08,430
- You had to use my name?
- Yeah.

1309
00:55:08,555 --> 00:55:10,557
Okay, all right,
we gotta get ready.

1310
00:55:10,682 --> 00:55:14,185
Um, hmm.
That's right.

1311
00:55:14,310 --> 00:55:16,688
We gotta get ready, just in case
I got to go Willie Tillman.

1312
00:55:16,813 --> 00:55:18,940
Who is that, your crazy
cousin from Compton?

1313
00:55:19,065 --> 00:55:21,443
No, no, it's not,
but that's a good idea, too.

1314
00:55:21,568 --> 00:55:23,570
Willie Tillman
was a Civil War hero

1315
00:55:23,653 --> 00:55:26,072
who went all <i>Die Hard </i>on
a bunch of Confederate pirates.

1316
00:55:26,197 --> 00:55:28,074
America had pirates?

1317
00:55:28,158 --> 00:55:31,077
Well, I mean, they called them
"privateers" at the time.

1318
00:55:31,161 --> 00:55:33,830
See, they captured Union ships
and they'd sell them for money.

1319
00:55:33,913 --> 00:55:35,957
At the start
of the Civil War in 1861,

1320
00:55:36,041 --> 00:55:37,834
<i>the South didn't
have much of a Navy,</i>

1321
00:55:37,917 --> 00:55:40,587
<i>so they supplemented their
forces with these privateers,</i>

1322
00:55:40,712 --> 00:55:43,089
<i>a quasi-legal
kind of pirate.</i>

1323
00:55:43,173 --> 00:55:44,966
<i>Confederate privateers
made a ton of money</i>

1324
00:55:45,091 --> 00:55:47,719
<i>the old-fashioned way,
by stealing it.</i>

1325
00:55:47,802 --> 00:55:49,971
<i>They lurked along shipping
routes in their own vessel,</i>

1326
00:55:50,055 --> 00:55:52,724
<i>then boarded a passing
Northern merchant ship</i>

1327
00:55:52,849 --> 00:55:54,476
<i>and overthrew the crew.</i>

1328
00:55:54,559 --> 00:55:57,228
<i>Next, they sailed the captured
ship to a Southern harbor</i>

1329
00:55:57,353 --> 00:55:59,230
<i>where a special court
approved the seizure.</i>

1330
00:55:59,355 --> 00:56:01,858
<i>The ship and its cargo
were sold at auction,</i>

1331
00:56:01,983 --> 00:56:04,235
<i>and the pirates...
I mean privateers...</i>

1332
00:56:04,360 --> 00:56:05,862
<i>kept most of the booty.</i>

1333
00:56:05,987 --> 00:56:08,067
<i>One of the most successful
of these pilfering vessels</i>

1334
00:56:08,114 --> 00:56:12,994
<i>was a 187-ton former slave ship
called the Jefferson Davis.</i>

1335
00:56:13,119 --> 00:56:14,871
<i>In her first two months
at sea,</i>

1336
00:56:14,954 --> 00:56:17,099
<i>the Jefferson Davis captured
nine different Union ships,</i>

1337
00:56:17,123 --> 00:56:19,501
<i>and business was booming
until they messed</i>

1338
00:56:19,626 --> 00:56:21,002
<i>with the SS Waring.</i>

1339
00:56:21,127 --> 00:56:22,128
<i>After capturing the ship,</i>

1340
00:56:22,253 --> 00:56:23,755
<i>the privateers on board</i>

1341
00:56:23,880 --> 00:56:25,107
<i>were steering
the Waring back home</i>

1342
00:56:25,131 --> 00:56:26,508
<i>to claim their prize.</i>

1343
00:56:26,633 --> 00:56:29,260
<i>But, instead,
they got a bloody surprise.</i>

1344
00:56:29,344 --> 00:56:31,197
<i>Turns out, this was one
of the first recorded instances</i>

1345
00:56:31,221 --> 00:56:33,640
<i>of pulling over
the wrong black guy.</i>

1346
00:56:33,723 --> 00:56:36,142
<i>William Tillman,
a free man from Delaware,</i>

1347
00:56:36,267 --> 00:56:38,144
<i>was the ship cook
and steward.</i>

1348
00:56:38,269 --> 00:56:39,646
<i>And he knew that
if the privateers</i>

1349
00:56:39,771 --> 00:56:41,648
<i>made it back
to the Southern port,</i>

1350
00:56:41,731 --> 00:56:44,150
<i>his future outlook was cloudy
with a chance of chains.</i>

1351
00:56:44,234 --> 00:56:45,902
<i>Willie wasn't
going out like that,</i>

1352
00:56:45,985 --> 00:56:48,154
<i>so he bided his time
looking for an opening.</i>

1353
00:56:48,279 --> 00:56:50,782
<i>The privateer captain
was William Pasteur.</i>

1354
00:56:50,907 --> 00:56:53,034
<i>He kept Tillman on board
so he could continue</i>

1355
00:56:53,159 --> 00:56:54,661
<i>to serve as a cook.</i>

1356
00:56:54,786 --> 00:56:56,538
<i>For nine days,
they sailed south</i>

1357
00:56:56,621 --> 00:56:57,914
<i>into the Confederate
territory.</i>

1358
00:56:59,290 --> 00:57:02,919
Well, to the Confederacy
and the spoils of war.

1359
00:57:03,044 --> 00:57:05,296
Should be in Charleston
by morning.

1360
00:57:05,421 --> 00:57:07,048
And, uh, what shall become

1361
00:57:07,132 --> 00:57:11,177
of our fine cook here,
Master Tillman?

1362
00:57:13,012 --> 00:57:15,181
Oh, I'm sure
such a fine cook

1363
00:57:15,306 --> 00:57:17,809
will fetch
a mighty fine price...

1364
00:57:17,934 --> 00:57:20,311
at slave auction.

1365
00:57:23,940 --> 00:57:26,443
Good one, sir.
That's a good one right there.

1366
00:57:26,526 --> 00:57:27,944
Repeated use
of the word "fine."

1367
00:57:28,069 --> 00:57:33,324
Fine cook, fine price.
You a regular Mark Twain.

1368
00:57:33,450 --> 00:57:35,201
A literary master.
I get it.

1369
00:57:35,326 --> 00:57:37,203
That sure is
hilarious, sir.

1370
00:57:54,345 --> 00:57:57,348
That boy sure does
love wordplay.

1371
00:57:57,474 --> 00:58:01,102
Yes, although technically,
that was just repetition.

1372
00:58:01,227 --> 00:58:02,604
Whatever.

1373
00:58:02,687 --> 00:58:05,231
All I know is he'll be
a slave tomorrow,

1374
00:58:05,315 --> 00:58:08,610
and that's just <i>fine </i>by me.

1375
00:58:24,584 --> 00:58:26,628
<i>That night,
Tillman went clubbing,</i>

1376
00:58:26,753 --> 00:58:28,254
<i>if you know what I mean.</i>

1377
00:58:28,379 --> 00:58:30,632
<i>Less than ten minutes later,
the ship was his.</i>

1378
00:58:32,509 --> 00:58:34,260
Yeah, that's comin' down.

1379
00:58:34,344 --> 00:58:37,889
Now, I, William Tillman,
a free man,

1380
00:58:38,014 --> 00:58:39,766
I'm the captain
of this ship!

1381
00:58:39,849 --> 00:58:43,144
<i>Five days later,
on July 21st, 1861,</i>

1382
00:58:43,269 --> 00:58:45,271
<i>the Waring arrived
in New York Harbor.</i>

1383
00:58:45,396 --> 00:58:47,398
<i>As it happens,
the first major battle</i>

1384
00:58:47,524 --> 00:58:50,902
<i>of the Civil War at Bull Run
happened on this same day,</i>

1385
00:58:50,985 --> 00:58:52,779
<i>and the Union lost in a rout.</i>

1386
00:58:52,904 --> 00:58:56,783
<i>So, news of Tillman's daring
escape came at just the time</i>

1387
00:58:56,866 --> 00:58:59,786
<i>the Northern public needed
a hero to buoy their spirits.</i>

1388
00:58:59,911 --> 00:59:01,287
<i>Tillman became a celebrity</i>

1389
00:59:01,371 --> 00:59:02,539
<i>and performed
at P.T. Barnum's</i>

1390
00:59:02,664 --> 00:59:05,291
<i>American Museum
in Manhattan.</i>

1391
00:59:05,375 --> 00:59:08,044
He's here.

1392
00:59:08,169 --> 00:59:10,672
- Oh, you are dead meat, Kevin.
- Damned if I am.

1393
00:59:10,755 --> 00:59:12,650
You think I'm going down
in front of my baby girl?

1394
00:59:12,674 --> 00:59:15,176
You just watch this.

1395
00:59:19,639 --> 00:59:21,057
Hi, guys!

1396
00:59:21,182 --> 00:59:23,560
- Hi, Dad!
- Hey, Jeremy, hey.

1397
00:59:23,685 --> 00:59:26,437
Ah. So, did you
have fun today?

1398
00:59:26,521 --> 00:59:28,565
Yeah! Mr. Hart
told me a cool story

1399
00:59:28,690 --> 00:59:30,066
about clubbing white people.

1400
00:59:30,149 --> 00:59:32,443
- Well...
- Oh, isn't that wonderful.

1401
00:59:32,569 --> 00:59:34,195
That... okay.

1402
00:59:34,320 --> 00:59:36,322
Yeah, I, uh...
we thought that you were

1403
00:59:36,447 --> 00:59:37,824
little Rel's bookie, so...

1404
00:59:37,949 --> 00:59:40,577
Isn't that funny?

1405
00:59:40,702 --> 00:59:43,079
You know what?
That actually happens a lot.

1406
00:59:43,204 --> 00:59:48,418
Uh, so you guys wanna, maybe,
uh, put down your weapons?

1407
00:59:49,419 --> 00:59:51,337
- Yeah.
- Okay.

1408
00:59:51,462 --> 00:59:53,840
Okay, well, let's get some
ice cream, what do you say?

1409
00:59:53,965 --> 00:59:55,842
Yeah, can we get sprinkles?

1410
00:59:55,925 --> 00:59:59,846
Sure, sounds better
than a club sandwich.

1411
00:59:59,971 --> 01:00:02,849
What'd you say?
What'd he say?

1412
01:00:04,475 --> 01:00:06,978
Club sandwich, got ya.

1413
01:00:07,103 --> 01:00:08,479
He's talkin' about the bat.

1414
01:00:08,605 --> 01:00:10,005
Hey, Kevin,
I'll see you later, man.

1415
01:00:10,106 --> 01:00:11,208
All right,
I'll see you later.

1416
01:00:11,232 --> 01:00:12,859
All right, bye, Riley.

1417
01:00:12,942 --> 01:00:14,986
- See you, guys!
- It's a simple joke,

1418
01:00:15,111 --> 01:00:17,989
but when you think about it,
it makes you laugh 'cause...

1419
01:00:18,114 --> 01:00:19,741
- It's stupid.
- No, it's not.

1420
01:00:19,824 --> 01:00:20,992
It was the timing of it.

1421
01:00:21,117 --> 01:00:22,303
Hey, I really thought
we were about

1422
01:00:22,327 --> 01:00:23,494
to be black history
just now.

1423
01:00:23,620 --> 01:00:25,060
I was scared.
I was a little nervous.

1424
01:00:25,121 --> 01:00:27,248
You already made black
history to me, Daddy.

1425
01:00:27,373 --> 01:00:29,626
What do you mean?
What are you doing?

1426
01:00:29,751 --> 01:00:31,103
'Cause you're
the shortest comedian

1427
01:00:31,127 --> 01:00:32,378
to sell out
Eagles stadium.

1428
01:00:32,462 --> 01:00:33,880
Oh, everybody's
got a joke.

1429
01:00:33,963 --> 01:00:35,882
Okay, I'll take it.
I'll take that.

1430
01:00:35,965 --> 01:00:37,109
I have no problem
with taking that,

1431
01:00:37,133 --> 01:00:38,760
but what about
the stories, honey?

1432
01:00:38,885 --> 01:00:40,325
Do you understand now?
Do you get it,

1433
01:00:40,386 --> 01:00:43,514
that black history was just more
than slavery and oppression?

1434
01:00:43,598 --> 01:00:45,642
I mean, goodness,
you have the innovation,

1435
01:00:45,767 --> 01:00:47,644
you have the brilliance,
the creativity.

1436
01:00:47,727 --> 01:00:49,520
These were the things
that we used

1437
01:00:49,646 --> 01:00:51,648
to challenge
the oppression.

1438
01:00:51,773 --> 01:00:53,524
I mean, God,
when you just think about

1439
01:00:53,650 --> 01:00:55,401
what black history's
done for the culture,

1440
01:00:55,526 --> 01:00:57,153
<i>the whole entire world,</i>

1441
01:00:57,278 --> 01:00:59,530
<i>I mean, the way people talk,
the way they dress.</i>

1442
01:00:59,656 --> 01:01:01,032
<i>The word "cool,"</i>

1443
01:01:01,157 --> 01:01:03,034
<i>all of this stuff
has come from our culture.</i>

1444
01:01:03,159 --> 01:01:05,411
<i>Hell, the whole idea of "cool"</i>

1445
01:01:05,495 --> 01:01:08,039
<i>was invented by black people
100 years ago.</i>

1446
01:01:08,164 --> 01:01:10,792
- Cool.
- I mean, before, the word "cool"

1447
01:01:10,917 --> 01:01:12,669
was used to describe
sweater weather.

1448
01:01:12,794 --> 01:01:15,421
<i>We've come a long way
since Henry "Box" Brown.</i>

1449
01:01:15,505 --> 01:01:17,548
<i>I mean,
thanks to our ancestors,</i>

1450
01:01:17,674 --> 01:01:19,550
<i>Barack Obama didn't
have to mail himself</i>

1451
01:01:19,676 --> 01:01:22,804
<i>to the White House
in a crate.</i>

1452
01:01:22,929 --> 01:01:24,931
Are you proud of your
black history now, Riley?

1453
01:01:25,056 --> 01:01:26,933
Yes, Dad.
Thanks.

1454
01:01:27,016 --> 01:01:28,434
Ha! That's right.

1455
01:01:38,069 --> 01:01:44,325
<i>♪ It's </i>Kevin Hart's
Guide to Black History <i>♪</i>

1456
01:01:44,409 --> 01:01:46,077
<i>- ♪ Yeah ♪
- ♪ Black History ♪</i>

1457
01:01:46,202 --> 01:01:50,081
<i>♪ Ooh, ooh, all right ♪</i>

1458
01:01:50,206 --> 01:01:52,709
<i>♪ Black history ♪</i>

1459
01:01:52,834 --> 01:01:54,210
<i>♪ Ooh-ooh ♪</i>