Mortimer Snerd

For whatever reason, ventriloquists are experiencing a cultural peak, a moment in the 1970s.

Perhaps it was simply a cresting feeling from years of, uh, ventriloquy performers working Vaudeville stages, and then weirdly enough, they are super popular acts on radio shows, particularly Edgar Bergen, uh, father of Candice Bergen, and his dummies, Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd.

Wait [laughs]

They seem to be the primary beneficiaries of radio fame for a completely visual act.

the bitter experience of the American colonies with fiat money, the resolve of the founding fathers to prohibit the new nation from resorting to paper money without backing, the drafting of the Constitution to that end, the creation of a true American dollar, the prosperity that followed.

In the golden days of radio, on the Edgar Bergen show, the ventriloquist would ask his dummy Mortimer Snurd, quote, how can you be so stupid? And the answer was always the same.

After a moment of deep thought on the part of Mortimer, he would draw his reply, well, it ain't easy.

When we look at the monetary chaos around us today, the evaporating value of the dollar and the collapsing financial institutions, we are compelled to ask, how did we get into this fix? And unfortunately, Mortimer's response would be quite appropriate.

And Odie.

This has been the Black and Snerdy Podcast.

As we always say at the very end, take it easy.

Keep it sleazy.