John Hodgman - Hobo Matters

From the video description: "John Hodgman's PBS documentary, Hobo Matters. If not the most celebrated episode of The American Experience, certainly the most astounding, not only for the number of facts packed into this short episode, but also for the fact that PBS actually produced and dared to air it.

Unfortunately, this chronicle of the Great Depression and the Hobo Wars was quickly erased from history by the powerful Hobo Queen for it revealed too many secrets about the hobo world."

Actually, this is taken from the wonderful and hilarious audiobook version of "The Areas of My Expertise" by John Hodgman, with accompaniment by Jonathan Coulton. If you like your comedy very dry, do check it out.

The audiobook is also the source of the 700 hobos meme from last year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Areas_of_My_Expertise

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