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The Chief Appropriator w/ Emma Gray & Claire Fallon
Scam Goddess
The Problem With Tom Longboat
Tom Longboat was a dispatch runner on the Western front of World War one getting wounded twice and being declared dead on a couple occasions. He became notable through his 1907 win of the Boston Marathon with a record smashing time. This is the point like if anyone gets famous in America, there is like a very strong chance that they're racist just because of who it's.
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Speaker 1
This is the point like if anyone
Speaker 2
gets famous in America, there is like a very strong chance that they're racist just because of who it's. Yeah, if they are white, like it's it's a high likelihood. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1
high likelihood. It's the reason why I can't give up my seat to little old white ladies on a train. I've been feeling bad because I respect my elders, but I'm like, you was probably at a lynch.
Speaker 2
Yeah, you don't want to risk those the odds of giving your seat to someone
Speaker 1
who's like, I don't know. I don't know. That's my scam paranoia. You talked about yours, Claire, my name is like a
Speaker 2
property
Speaker 1
race. That's legit. So Tom Longboat. Oh, Lord. The problem with Tom was that he was a very real person. Yeah, we deduced that who at the time was a dispatch runner on the Western front of World War one getting wounded twice and being declared dead on a couple occasions. So we have a picture of Tom Longboat. The furthest right of the runners. Okay, we saw him a second ago. So Longboat had become notable through his 1907 win of the Boston Marathon with a record smashing time. The real longboat was in the trenches. So he
Speaker 2
had war. He was literally at war and this man was like, it is me a native Olympian. They were like, no, Tom, we
Speaker 1
heard you went to the World War one. Yeah,
Speaker 2
I did. I'm back. I'm back. Don't worry about it. I'm back. I'm
Speaker 1
a real discharge. They were like, you too talented. Honestly, I was running too fast. They were like, the
Speaker 2
war is over here.
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