Episode 30: “The Old Order Changes”. (🗳 VOTE BIDEN/HARRIS!)
2020-10-30
“Don’t talk to me about last Thursday!…”
Hello new Unanimous listeners! We hear from our fab (American) friends who have voted for Biden/Harris. Have you?
If you haven’t voted yet, drop off your ballot at a dropbox or vote early in person for Biden/Harris and all the Democrats on the ticket. It’s too late to mail your ballots, Americans. (And we are unanimous in this!).
We learn about Anita Bryant, the 1970s beauty queen-turned hate monger fruit juice spokesperson.
Mr. Lucas gives a smokin’ kiss to a male mannequin. Did anyone else’s childhood toys use “household oil” to make smoke?
Padded bras and frills. The dangers of ironing shirts in the 1970’s.
Peacock talks down to Mrs. Slocombe in a very sassy, Peacockesque way.
What did 1977 London think of when they picture an American? Young Mr. Grace in a cowboy out and 10 gallon hat?
The 17th Century/New York City connection to the American word “boss”.
#Polari: the secret language of gay men. It’s used in the 17th Century puppet show Punch & Judy and borrows words from Italian, Yiddish, the Romani people, and Circus folk. Why did it vanish in the 1960s? Is Mr. Humprhies to blame?!
How RuPaul makes hip vocabulary which is actually recycled Polari! Capt Peacock throws some Polari in the episode with “some strides for the omi with the naff riah” (some trousers for the dude with the gross hair).
London slang uses polari today!
70 year olds’ “casual dress” in 1977.
Mrs. (Betty) Slocombe lets it all hang out.
Mr. Humphries’ Elton John doppelgänger neon green lamé suit!
Peacock’s African hippy dashiki ensemble.
Young Mr. Grace changes heart after his trip to China (with a racist joke to close the episode).
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