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is there anything the calls

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out to the true tacky

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soul of america quite

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like a photo ops of an

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elephant acting as a golf

1:00

caddy for the president of the

1:02

united states

1:05

according to the imprint that

1:07

one allison left on miami

1:10

beach and the nation at large

1:12

potentially not oh

1:15

how we americans

1:17

so dearly love a gimmick

1:20

myself very much included

1:23

and nice spectacles have always

1:25

been potent tools to

1:27

get our attention and then

1:30

our cash that our

1:32

last episode we discussed

1:34

the meme florida man

1:36

that makes viral the most ridiculous

1:39

crime headlines and mugshots

1:41

out of the state a

1:43

social media phenomenon that's

1:45

been keeping us entertained since twenty

1:48

thirteen

1:49

but what we haven't explored yeah

1:51

it is another brand of

1:54

florida man a huckster

1:56

the charlotte ten the kind

1:58

of florida man decree

1:59

they'd be unreal alerts

2:02

of the sunshine state as we

2:05

know it today

2:07

during the florida land boom

2:09

of the made nineteen twenties americans

2:12

poured into what was then called

2:15

the last american frontier

2:18

for what would become the twentieth

2:20

centuries gold rush

2:22

florida real estate was

2:25

essentially high stakes

2:27

a beanie babies pokemon

2:29

the cards crypto currency

2:32

a fantasy of potential wealth

2:34

to potent to hopeful

2:37

to let go of until it

2:39

was too late to

2:41

get a sense of how this massive

2:43

chaotic craze was whipped

2:45

up by eccentric american

2:48

business moguls lacking

2:50

in any real moral code will

2:52

follow the antics of one such

2:54

eccentric a true master

2:57

of the gimmick of the super

2:59

at the call

3:01

a man chock full of that

3:03

reckless cannonball confidence

3:06

that powers not only the florida

3:08

man of our means but

3:10

also our country's most

3:13

confounding confidence

3:15

man

3:17

carl fischer whose life

3:19

story is skillfully laid out

3:21

in bubble in the sun the

3:23

florida boom of the nineteen twenties

3:26

and how it brought on the great depression

3:28

by christopher knowlton was

3:30

born in eighteen seventy four

3:32

in greensburg indiana

3:34

with bad eyesight and a

3:37

wayward father both

3:39

of which led him to leaving school

3:41

at twelve to support his family

3:44

during his teenage years coral

3:46

took any job he could get working

3:49

in bookshops selling tobacco

3:51

and peddling newspapers to

3:53

passengers at the indianapolis

3:55

train station already

3:58

known by his friends family

4:00

to be unconventionally crude

4:03

generally sleazy and all

4:05

around pretty gross he was

4:07

said to chew and swallow the but

4:09

of his cigar after he finished

4:11

it mine with his charming

4:14

personality he came up with his

4:16

first gimmicks while selling convenience

4:19

items at a railway staff he

4:21

, size of his potential buyer

4:24

to see if he was a good fit

4:26

before quickly slipping up his

4:29

apron flap to display an

4:31

image of a naked woman

4:34

this early form of subliminal messaging

4:36

seem to work and his sails

4:39

rapidly increased it

4:41

was then that young coral knew

4:44

what he was meant to do on this

4:46

earth cel people's shit

4:48

creatively to become

4:51

an advert hi thing hardest

4:54

you see harald have long been

4:57

a gimmick kind of got already

5:00

a tightrope walker a

5:02

handstand extraordinary

5:05

even able to walk on stilts

5:07

a mythical story size

5:10

and apparently able to beat his

5:12

class made in a footrace wow

5:14

he was running backwards

5:18

carl fisher showed a new

5:20

need for speed early

5:22

on becoming an obsessive

5:24

bicycle racer a card

5:26

carrying member of the indianapolis

5:29

zigzags cycling club soon

5:32

the young entrepreneur opened

5:34

a bicycle repair shop with his brother

5:37

and to promote his first grown

5:40

up business venture carl

5:42

created ambitious publicity

5:45

stunts that only and

5:47

unencumbered teenage mind

5:49

could conjure ah

5:51

the road around town on gigantic

5:54

novel p bicycles measuring

5:56

twenty feet high and rode

5:58

a bicycle

5:59

a tight rope stretched across

6:02

a busy street his

6:04

most of willy wonka ask stein's

6:07

he released a thousand helium

6:09

balloons into the sky

6:11

a hundred of them containing a special

6:14

ticket that if return to the shop

6:16

could be redeemed for a brand

6:19

new bicycle most

6:22

unhinged of his bicycle shop

6:24

game x he informed the press

6:26

that he would be throwing a bike off

6:29

the tallest building in the city to

6:31

prove how tough this particular

6:33

model truly was whoever

6:36

return the bike to the shop would be gifted

6:38

a brand new one of the same model

6:41

apparently the cops couldn't get

6:43

to the building and time they were too

6:46

late and the stunt went

6:48

forward with no injuries

6:51

report

6:52

travel this year the roads to romance

6:56

two places you have always wanted to go

6:59

and , you travel go in

7:01

one of the holidays motorcars movie

7:03

or magic carpet carry

7:06

you to the land of your

7:08

heart's desire

7:12

now automobiles became

7:14

the new craze at the beginning of

7:16

the twentieth century coral

7:19

went all in on this new

7:21

innovation completely converting

7:24

his successful bicycle shop

7:26

into a car shop specializing

7:29

in both sales and repairs

7:31

his gimmicks only

7:33

grew an ambition the

7:35

first of these a free imagining

7:38

of an old trick he dropped an

7:40

entire seven seat or car off

7:42

the roof of in indianapolis building

7:45

and then started the car and drove

7:47

it off leaving a cheering crowd

7:49

the amazed by the automobiles

7:52

durability

7:54

in a far grander stunt

7:56

coral actually unfastened

7:59

the basket the hot air balloon

8:01

and attached a starter david

8:03

automobile in it's place after

8:06

removing it's heavy engine he

8:09

actually sat in the driver's

8:11

side and invited his buddies

8:13

the well known balloonist george

8:16

been bow to ride along with

8:18

him and together they flew

8:20

high above the streets of the city

8:23

waving to the gathering crowds

8:25

below

8:26

the coral wasn't done yet after

8:29

a couple hours he drove into the middle

8:31

of town the balloon revealed

8:33

to the crowd as neatly folded

8:36

inside the trunk but

8:38

, starter david he arrived in

8:41

was not a magically weightless

8:43

vehicle by a second

8:45

par with engine in fact

8:48

that had been parked at the landing locations

8:51

nonetheless , due to

8:53

the local newspapers into reporting

8:55

it in the magical way that coral

8:57

had wanted don't

8:59

would also catch the attention of

9:02

his future fifteen

9:04

year old white one of

9:06

the spectators who looked up

9:09

at the thirty five year old salesman

9:11

floating over the city

9:14

surprise jane soon found

9:16

out that this dazzling

9:19

businessman carl fisher

9:21

saw she recalls

9:23

in her memoir when they went on their

9:25

honeymoon by custom bill yacht

9:28

down the mississippi and into new orleans

9:31

he left her as soon as they arrived

9:34

to cruise brothels with his buddies

9:37

and soon after that he started an affair

9:39

with his secretary when poor

9:41

jane confronted quarrel with these

9:43

grievances he simply

9:46

said

9:46

said world while you

9:48

little which i love you i

9:51

wouldn't trade you for to school

9:54

continuing his passion for all

9:56

things speedy in

9:58

nineteen o nine coral

10:00

along with several business colleagues

10:03

invested in the indianapolis

10:05

motor speedway because

10:08

the road had not been properly

10:10

paved by opening day

10:13

the very first car race

10:15

held in the summer was like

10:17

the opening scene in final

10:19

destination for there

10:22

were multiple serious crashes

10:24

a bunch of shit caught on fire numerous

10:27

drivers and audience members

10:29

were maimed or killed but

10:32

did this good coral fisher even

10:35

a moment's pause oh hell

10:37

no he quit and he just got

10:39

some other investors to cough up three

10:41

million dollars to fix the track

10:44

and and nineteen eleven eighty

10:46

thousand people would take this

10:48

second ride on those figurative

10:50

titanic which luckily did

10:52

not end in bloody pandemonium

10:55

and instead ended in a yearly

10:58

event known as the indianapolis

11:01

five hundred the

11:03

businessman already

11:05

the decently rich

11:07

would be com fantastically

11:09

bridge when he helped create

11:12

presto light a bike light

11:14

company he sold and nineteen

11:16

eleven raking in five

11:18

point six million dollars

11:21

which would be a hundred and forty

11:23

one million in today's money

11:26

always be eternal horrible

11:28

i pearls next gig

11:31

was to join the lincoln highway

11:33

association to get past

11:35

one of the earliest highway projects

11:38

and interstate spanning from new york

11:40

to san francisco

11:42

the first donated a handsome sum

11:44

of money and then one about

11:46

wining and dining his fellow

11:49

millionaires thomas edison

11:52

former president teddy roosevelt

11:54

and even then president woodrow

11:56

wilson all a pool it

12:02

the highway plans were going through

12:05

because in the last years of

12:07

the nineteen tens america

12:09

was in the midst of a booming post

12:11

world war one economy which

12:13

gave citizens the disposable

12:16

income needed to produce

12:18

the roaring twenties including

12:20

major changes in the work lifestyle

12:23

pensions and paid vacation

12:27

it was the first time said typical

12:29

middle class americans could

12:31

take a the kitchen it

12:34

was also the first time that the common

12:36

man had access to the

12:38

gas powered horse and buggy

12:41

the wonderous but sputtering automobile

12:45

the coral fisher he was a fast moving

12:47

man and he was already bored

12:49

of the whole highway projects when

12:52

he gets out of the midwest and

12:54

found himself standing on the

12:56

edge of the north atlantic sea

12:59

enough hot air of an undeveloped

13:01

swamp land that somehow

13:03

made be optimistic coral

13:06

sea dollar sign his

13:09

wife jane did not see

13:11

dollar signs in this land

13:14

and recalled in her autobiography

13:17

quote mosquitoes black and are

13:19

clothing jungle flies

13:21

as large as horse flies waited

13:23

for our blood other creatures

13:26

that made me shudder were lying

13:28

in wait in the slimy pads

13:30

or on the branches of overhanging

13:33

trees the jungle itself

13:35

was as hot and steamy as a conservatory

13:39

what on earth could coral

13:42

possibly see in this place

13:45

you were her beloved husband responded

13:48

quote

13:48

look honey i'm gonna build a

13:50

city here

13:52

the city like magic

13:54

like romantic places you read and

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dream about but never see

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she responded

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now back to the show, carl

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was not the first eccentric

15:21

businessman to set his sights

15:23

on the florida coast before

15:26

him there was developer john

15:28

collins who first envision

15:30

the land not as a resort destination

15:33

paradise but rather a

15:35

farm of alligator pairs

15:38

or avocados the

15:41

ripe young age of seventy

15:43

john got to work shaping

15:45

his mosquito and crocodile

15:47

infested boggs into

15:49

an expansive functional far

15:53

how did he do it well

15:55

he used the cheap labor

15:57

of local black

15:59

workers

15:59

who came from an area then known

16:02

as a colored town a

16:04

segregated communities that was formed

16:06

in the eighteen nineties made up

16:08

of those working on the construction

16:10

of southern railroads on

16:13

john collins peninsula these

16:15

laborers had to use machetes

16:17

to hack away at the trees brush

16:20

and mangroves before filling

16:22

the land in to make it suitable

16:24

for farming but some

16:26

of the stamps were so heavy

16:29

that the crew actually had to use

16:31

elephants that john collins

16:34

was somehow able to procure

16:37

the whole thing was a mess

16:40

the bumbling man was way

16:42

out of his league when his

16:44

kids arrive to see what their elderly

16:47

father was up to using

16:49

their future inheritance they

16:51

immediately took control of the project

16:54

envisioning not alligator

16:56

pairs but the atlantic

16:59

city of the south

17:02

the biggest roadblock to this plan

17:05

was the fact that there was no easy

17:07

way for tourists or buyers

17:09

to get to the land of bridge

17:12

needed to be constructed from the peninsula

17:15

to the mainland

17:16

bird i guess building

17:18

an enormous bridge with no

17:20

experience is easier said

17:22

than done and it was quickly

17:24

discovered that conventional wouldn't

17:26

supports wouldn't cut it as

17:29

would eating bugs called ship

17:31

worms began devouring

17:33

the structure a more costly

17:36

route had to be taken involving

17:38

casing the would in concrete

17:41

and seat iron funds

17:43

were quickly depleted and

17:45

the bridge with laughed half

17:47

finished

17:48

it was this stumpy bridge

17:51

that ended up catching the attention

17:53

of the newly arrived carl

17:55

fisher

17:56

after hearing second hand about

17:59

the cones is

17:59

project fisher

18:01

walked over and found john

18:03

collins actually sitting there

18:05

swinging his little legs

18:07

over the edge staring out

18:10

at the expense of the see

18:13

becoming acquainted with john and the rest

18:15

of his family's coral recognized

18:17

that they were working toward the same goals

18:20

and he believed that in this peninsula

18:23

he had found the site for his

18:26

dream city

18:28

harald finance the completion of

18:30

the bridge then the largest

18:32

wooden bridge design for autumn

18:34

the off in the entire world

18:37

in exchange coral asked

18:39

for a two hundred acre parcel

18:41

of land on the south side of

18:43

the peninsula the group agreed

18:46

on a name calling it miami

18:48

beach incorporating it

18:50

as a city a few years later

18:54

carl fischer used his status

18:56

as the father of the first american

18:59

highway to write home and

19:01

convinced the governor of indiana

19:03

to build a new highway

19:05

connecting chicago all the

19:07

way down to miami the

19:10

governor liked the idea and

19:12

he offered to facilitate a meeting

19:14

between the governors of illinois kentucky

19:17

ohio tennessee and georgia

19:19

and as usual corals natural

19:22

promotional skills one the

19:24

day and the governor's all

19:26

agreed to support his plan

19:28

soon after carl would lead

19:30

a fifteen car caravan

19:33

out as indianapolis toward

19:35

miami to scout routes

19:37

for what with now being called the

19:39

dixie highway

19:41

in september nineteen sixteen

19:44

the route with officially opened

19:47

never did the land was actually

19:50

becoming accessible coral

19:52

used his presto bike light

19:54

fortune as well as the money

19:56

of rich investors to finance

19:59

massive hotels exotic

20:01

resort destinations for the wealthy

20:04

and was designed to serve as winter

20:06

homes for the hyper rich

20:09

but miami was still was growth

20:11

swamp at this point but

20:13

would that stop the still unencumbered

20:16

adult parle fisher

20:18

course not

20:20

hot during an exorbitant

20:22

amounts suction dredges

20:24

were used to vacuum up the

20:26

muddy ducky for of the bay

20:29

and then move it to the beach where

20:31

it would cover all the routes and stamps

20:34

left behind from the cut down vegetation

20:37

and also raised the shoreline

20:40

by five entire feet making

20:42

it so that foundations for dogs

20:45

could be bill

20:46

much of this work was completed by

20:48

the black man who came from colored

20:51

town there were jobs

20:53

for the women and children as well

20:55

who were put to work by carl planting

20:58

lawns for his development

21:00

made out of individual sprigs

21:03

of grass that were planted

21:05

all day long now

21:08

do the land was becoming usable

21:11

coral needed to draw rich investors

21:13

and buyers to miami beach

21:16

he immediately drew from the same bag

21:19

of tricks he long been using

21:21

to promote his various businesses

21:24

returning to his original porn

21:27

under the apron stick he

21:29

began promoting miami beach

21:32

using photos of bikini

21:35

clad

21:35

women kluft we'll

21:38

get the prettiest girls and put them in

21:40

them goddamn do tightest and disorders

21:42

bathing suits and know stockings

21:44

or swim susie there we'll have their pictures

21:47

taken and send them all over the goddamn

21:49

country

21:50

the most famous publicity

21:53

stunt the one that truly

21:55

put miami beach on the map

21:58

was likely inspire by

22:00

john collins solutions

22:02

to hauling those heavy trieste

22:05

somehow coral acquired

22:08

coral pair of the baby elephant

22:11

that he named rosie and

22:13

harald junior also

22:15

known as

22:16

maybe karl i'm gonna

22:18

get gonna million dollars worth

22:20

of advertising out of this elephant he

22:23

was quoted was saying no

22:25

baby carl appeared in the odd

22:28

resort advertisement but

22:30

it was

22:30

rosie who became an

22:33

instant celebrity both

22:35

in florida and across the country

22:37

at large

22:39

man wanted to visit

22:41

rosie be elephant and

22:44

they wanted to get a piece of miami

22:46

beach where the sun and

22:49

the market were scorching

22:52

rosie soon began making appearances

22:55

at florida children

22:56

birthday party

22:58

the giving party goers long

23:00

rides

23:01

across the beach

23:03

when a bank in the city was celebrating

23:05

his grand opening rosie

23:08

the elephant was brought to star

23:10

in the press

23:11

greetings

23:12

he entered the bank locked

23:14

up to the counter and ceremoniously

23:17

deposited the first

23:19

shaq she made regular

23:22

appearances on golf courses

23:24

where her famously gentle

23:26

demeanor allowed golfers

23:29

city up and hit golf

23:31

balls off her back

23:33

i see

23:34

the ball

23:35

swimmers at the pool also used

23:37

rosie's back as a diving she

23:41

told passengers and gondola rise

23:43

across the water

23:45

he planted trees see

23:48

photograph she ,

23:50

was perhaps the most photographed

23:52

l a sense of the early twentieth

23:54

century and , mascot

23:59

for people who

23:59

it to start their new idyllic

24:02

lies in the larger than

24:04

life paradise of miami

24:07

beach a for

24:09

a long a fan club was

24:11

established for rosie the

24:13

elephant which included

24:15

admirers from all over

24:18

the country as well as

24:20

the team here at american

24:22

hysteria

24:24

when snow and ice an ear muffs

24:26

rule throughout the frozen north it's

24:28

first got some friends during the summer

24:30

like climate of the sauce having

24:32

some sort of a rice for

24:35

the real had brought as of from in florida

24:37

the rails the roads in the sky was

24:39

moved to miami on the east coast

24:41

it implies only

24:43

it's at this point in the

24:45

middle of the roaring twenties

24:48

that afford a real estate craze

24:50

really took off leading

24:53

to the largest migration

24:55

of americans in the nation's

24:58

history as one new resident

25:00

of the time put it quote

25:02

all of america's gold rushes

25:05

all of her oil boom and

25:07

all her free lance stampedes

25:10

dwindled by comparison with

25:12

the torrent of migration pouring

25:14

into florida in nineteen

25:17

twenty five somewhere around

25:19

two point five million people

25:22

came into the state and

25:24

within three years that number

25:26

became six million with

25:28

about seven thousand moving

25:30

thousand moving day

25:32

the majority of these new citizens

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are a former factory workers are farmers

25:38

who are seeking better opportunities

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in a land hailed as a year round

25:42

summer paradise with the promise

25:45

of a kind of get rich quick energies

25:48

that has always run in the blood

25:50

of our great nation as

25:52

we detail in our episode called

25:55

get rich quick now

25:57

i'm no economist and

25:59

economist really don't i understand how this all works

26:01

but i'll try

26:03

the help kick off the craze

26:06

coral fisher raised the price

26:08

of his own land fi ten

26:10

percent to give the impression

26:13

that it was rising on it's own

26:15

and then he promised his customers

26:18

that each year they would see another

26:20

ten percent increase as

26:22

more and more people became more

26:24

and more interested coral

26:27

and others started selling their

26:29

land not at a fixed price

26:31

but by auction encouraging

26:34

americans through a healthy dose

26:37

of competition to bid

26:39

higher and higher much more

26:41

than they'd be willing to pay under

26:43

less exciting circumstances

26:46

it was not unlike a scene

26:49

from our christmas time battles

26:51

for tickle me elmo for

26:53

hour drive through brawls

26:56

for teeny beanie babies at

26:58

mcdonalds both of which you can

27:00

hear about hear hour episode cold

27:02

toy

27:04

there were small riots in fact

27:06

occurring daily were hopeful

27:09

buyers started to just

27:11

throw their checks as salesmen

27:14

so many that they reportedly had to

27:16

sweep them all up and collect them

27:18

an actual barrels

27:20

but just like beanie babies

27:23

the prices of the land did

27:25

not represent what it

27:27

was actually were most

27:30

of these buyers side

27:32

never set foot in florida

27:35

they had never seen the land and

27:37

so they had to fully trust

27:40

in me under being chaos

27:42

of this brand new market

27:44

but it wasn't really the land said

27:47

mattered it was more a game

27:49

of buying and selling a process

27:51

aided by the adorably named

27:53

find or boys an army

27:56

of mostly teenage boys and girls

27:58

who went in the place the purchasing

28:01

land out of state a

28:03

, was a small down payment

28:06

on a property one that

28:08

was non refundable a

28:10

promissory note saying that

28:12

the rest would be paid within thirty

28:14

days the first down

28:16

payment was paid by the binder boys

28:19

who were never actually planning

28:21

on going through with the full sales

28:23

but would instead sell the land at land

28:25

higher binder passing it along

28:28

well taking along well

28:30

something like that i tried

28:34

despite all the grueling hours

28:36

spent clearing the land none

28:39

of the laborers from colored town

28:41

were allowed to purchase land on the peninsula

28:45

even if they could afford it the

28:47

property developers and the jim crow

28:49

south simply would not allow

28:52

non whites to live in any part

28:54

of miami beach coral fisher

28:57

very much included his

28:59

luxurious flamingo hotel

29:02

would also be restricted to an elite

29:04

few for years after

29:06

fisher open the building it

29:08

enforced a strict policy

29:11

forbidding jewish guests

29:13

his housing developments were all

29:15

strictly segregated as well

29:18

through what was known as the caucasian

29:20

clause which would quote

29:23

that property shall not be sold

29:25

least or rented in any form

29:28

or manner by any title

29:30

either legal or equitable to

29:32

any person or persons other

29:34

than of the caucasian race

29:37

or to any from or corporation

29:39

of which any persons other

29:41

than the caucasian race shall

29:43

be a part or

29:45

stockholder

29:48

after this two year long

29:50

all out caucasian land

29:52

brawl predictably the

29:55

market began to take

29:57

the bubble not unlike beanie

29:59

baby

29:59

is not a my crypto currency

30:02

burst spectacularly and

30:05

show the actual valueless

30:07

ness of the land much of

30:10

which had been purchased sight unseen

30:12

including some of the plots sold

30:15

by the flimflam years of salesman

30:17

that were actually under

30:20

water

30:21

forbes magazine printed an

30:24

alarming article predicting

30:26

the full collapse of the florida real

30:28

estate market and then in

30:30

nineteen twenty six a massive

30:32

hurricane destroyed a bunch

30:34

of miami's premier resort

30:37

of final nail final the coffin

30:40

for this epic bloom ending

30:42

quote whatever public enthusiasm

30:45

for florida vacation properties

30:47

and real estate developments that remained

30:50

thousands remained thousands of

30:52

non rich investors

30:55

lost their life savings

31:00

patron saint rose a d l

31:02

ascent continue to be a staple

31:05

of miami beach even

31:07

past it's heyday becoming

31:09

a popular tourist attractions

31:11

and giving rise to children into

31:14

the early nineteen thirties

31:16

some say she had a stint

31:18

in the circus after that

31:21

but either way she made her last

31:23

known public appearance in nineteen

31:26

thirty eight according

31:28

to some sources she died

31:30

shortly after but others

31:33

insist she outlived

31:35

coral fisher himself

31:37

dying himself dying early nineteen

31:40

forty

31:41

this day rosie the elephant

31:44

may get more credit for miami

31:46

beach them both coral fisher

31:48

and john collins recently

31:51

immortalized at canopy

31:53

park which now features

31:55

a rosy the elephants

31:57

playground where children can

31:59

into

31:59

the climbing a structure and

32:02

her

32:04

much of america has been

32:07

masterminded by confident

32:10

flimflam man and their

32:12

cannonball of confidence failure

32:15

never considered never recognized

32:18

unthinkable success always

32:20

just over the horizon boys

32:23

although at the height of his success

32:26

he was worth the equivalent of

32:28

one point one billion dollars

32:30

today by the end of

32:32

his life carl had

32:35

lost everything not

32:37

long before he died a

32:39

former work colleague saw

32:42

what looked like that old dog

32:44

coral fisher loitering

32:46

in a miami beach park

32:49

sitting on a wooden bench

32:51

staring out at the expanse

32:54

of see after the man

32:56

got out of his car and asked coral

32:58

what the hell he was doing he

33:01

told him quote

33:03

good to you in a few words i'm a beggar

33:06

that bro the bottom

33:08

dropped out of the sea and i went with

33:11

you know are promoted miami

33:13

beach here the used to

33:15

make dreams come true

33:17

they do it anymore the

33:20

only a beggar now in

33:23

can't be far away

33:25

so much of the garish america

33:28

we know came from the confident

33:30

visions of confidence man

33:33

but more so it came from

33:35

a labor of those who create

33:37

these ridiculous

33:38

half baked dreams

33:41

the workers so many

33:43

of whom have long been barred

33:45

from enjoying the fruits of their own

33:47

labour our confidence

33:49

man are nothing without their

33:51

confidence without their cash

33:54

because when it fails there

33:57

left stunned by reality

33:59

in here

33:59

why they could fail

34:02

a reality that they'd never before

34:04

contemplated never before

34:06

confronted because rarely

34:09

it appears does america say

34:11

no to rich people's imaginations

34:15

no matter who gets harmed

34:17

in the process

34:19

what do you think that rosie

34:21

b l offense little brother baby

34:24

coral took all this shit

34:26

sitting down nope in

34:28

one shining moment he took his

34:30

owner to task for all the

34:32

sins of his past like

34:34

a frosty ghost rattling

34:37

his chains baby

34:39

coral stood up for his sister

34:42

stood up

34:43

for the workers

34:44

good up for his owners then

34:47

future ex wife jane

34:49

and stood up for all the real

34:51

americans whose life savings

34:54

were conned away by carl

34:56

senior and the other flim flam

34:59

hers of the florida land who

35:02

when trying to impress

35:04

his rich bodies he

35:07

took the elephant out of his pen

35:09

to show him off as

35:12

coral later told the story

35:16

he knocked me down and ran off

35:18

and when i grabbed hold of him by the tail

35:20

to stop him he hit me absorbed

35:22

with his trunk almost broke my ribs

35:25

then i grabbed him by the trunk and he locked

35:28

his trunk or my arm if

35:30

you say got three year old elephant has

35:32

no particular strengthen his trunk you

35:35

should let him wrap it around your arm or leg

35:37

give you jake

35:40

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35:41

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