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Oi Papatzides // The Swindlers

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This one came up in my feed just yesterday; it is pretty darn fantastic. Be forewarned, it is a long clip.  The first part seems to be a crap game that goes bad, ending in a brawl and a thrown stool that injures a man who will soon be doing some wonderful dancing.  If you have a plane to catch, if you are discretely watching this in your high school physics class, or if you have seen (or participated in) enough crap games gone bad, you can skip this part and start at 1:57 when the scene shifts to the taverna, or you could skip all the way to 2:45 when the band is featured. For fans of wild and inspired Zembetiko dancing, the fun starts at 4:08 when a sailor pays the band and does a fine job spinning and hoofing  (and doing a nice roll) before dusting himself off and nonchalantly sitting down with his friends.  The true highlight of the video is towards the end at 7:58  when our friend who was the recipient of the flying stool gets up and does his bit to upstage the sailor.  This dan