120 - The Past Times with Trae Crowder

Summary

Episode Summary: The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds featuring Trae Crowder

Podcast Information:

• Title: The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds
• Host/Author: All Things Comedy
• Description: Comedians Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds pick a subject from history and examine it.
• Episode: 120 - The Past Times with Trae Crowder
• Release Date: April 11, 2025

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Introduction to "Past Times" and Trae Crowder

The episode kicks off with Dave Anthony announcing their upcoming tour dates (skipped as per instructions) before transitioning into the main content. Gareth Reynolds introduces the "Past Times" segment, where each week they explore an old newspaper from a randomly selected historical date, a selection curated by Dave Anthony.

Gareth Reynolds: "Each week we go through an old newspaper from a random date in history picked out by Dave Anthony."
Timestamp: [00:34]

Trae Crowder joins as the guest, bringing his comedic flair to the discussion. They establish a camaraderie, joking about their "wonky" nature and diving into how different eras compare, especially in terms of societal challenges and human behavior.

Trae Crowder: "Do you find that every era is kind of the same, or is it actually more horrific at certain times?"
Dave Anthony: "I think it's kind of always the same."
Timestamp: [01:35]

Historical Context: The 1920s Americus Times Recorder

The core of the episode revolves around a specific newspaper headline from April 20, 1923, from the Americus Times Recorder in Americus, Georgia. The headline reads: "Jail Sentences handed eight millionaires. Tremendous frauds are alleged." This leads the hosts and Trae to dissect the intricacies of the story, exploring the nature of the frauds and the societal implications of the 1920s.

Dave Anthony: "Jail Sentences handed eight millionaires. Tremendous frauds are alleged."
Timestamp: [07:32]

Pottery Profiteers and Industrial Collusion

The primary focus is on a group known as the Sanitary Potteries Association, who were convicted of conspiracy and restraint of trade. This group was involved in price-fixing operations within the pottery industry, reminiscent of the monopolistic practices of the era's industrial giants like Rockefeller and Vanderbilt.

Dave Anthony: "Pottery profiteers given prison terms and heavy cash fines."
Trae Crowder: "It's like the robber barons, Rockefeller and all, and Vanderbilt and all those dudes, and they were, like, ruthless."
Timestamp: [08:04]

The discussion highlights how even seemingly mundane industries like pottery were not immune to the rampant greed and unethical practices that characterized the Gilded Age. They delve into the absurdity and mundanity of the crimes, making comparisons to modern-day scandals.

Gareth Reynolds: "Pottery mob. Pottery conglomerate."
Timestamp: [08:22]

Aerial Daredevilics: Bugs McGowan's Tragic End

Transitioning from industrial fraud, the conversation shifts to the tragic story of Bugs McGowan, a 21-year-old aerial daredevil. McGowan promised a death-defying stunt at the state fair, involving wing walking and parachute jumping. His final performance ended in disaster when his plane crashed, leading to his untimely death.

Dave Anthony: "Bugs McGowan, nationally known daredevil of the air, says AirDEP America's residents will be given the thrill of a lifetime Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock."
Timestamp: [16:07]

The hosts explore the dangers and thrill of aerial stunts in the 1920s, drawing parallels to modern air shows and the enduring human fascination with daredevil performances. They discuss the societal impact of such events and the inevitable tragedies that often accompany them.

Trae Crowder: "They did have a woman with them actually. Apparently."
Timestamp: [21:19]

Prohibition and Social Liberties

The episode further examines the societal tensions surrounding Prohibition, as seen in another newspaper headline: "Judges rebuke wet banqueters." This reflects the widespread disdain and flouting of the 18th Amendment, which banned the sale of alcohol in the United States.

Dave Anthony: "Judges rebuke wet banqueters. It has come to be so common for some of our best citizens to belittle and ridicule the prohibition amendment."
Timestamp: [44:48]

Gareth Reynolds: "We could get drunk anytime you want. That's awesome. See America."
Timestamp: [46:34]

The hosts discuss the ongoing struggle between "wets" (those who opposed Prohibition) and "drys" (supporters of the law), highlighting the irony and chaos that Prohibition brought to American society. They touch upon the prevalence of bootlegging, the rise of speakeasies, and the eventual societal pushback that rendered the law ineffective.

Local News and Cultural Insights

Returning to the newspaper's content, they explore local news stories such as community events, societal norms, and the quirks of small-town life in the 1920s. One notable story involves a couple dancing for an unprecedented 116 hours, which ends when the woman's brother interrupts the feat.

Dave Anthony: "An Atlanta paper carried a story Sunday to the effect that a Cuthbert couple had danced 116 hours..."
Timestamp: [62:10]

The absurdity of such endurance contests is examined, with the hosts humorously critiquing the notion of dancing non-stop for days. They compare it to modern-day endurance and reality TV shows, drawing parallels between historical spectacles and contemporary entertainment.

Gareth Reynolds: "You can't dance that long. She got to get back to scrubbing the goddamn floors."
Timestamp: [62:53]

Concluding Discussions: Reflection on History and Modern Parallels

As the episode wraps up, Dave, Gareth, and Trae reflect on how historical events and societal norms mirror today's issues. They discuss the evolution of media, the persistence of human folly, and the timeless nature of certain social struggles.

Trae Crowder: "But yeah, we're still getting drunk. We don't give a poison."
Timestamp: [47:19]

Gareth Reynolds: "Everything's a podcast now. But still, it was doing numbers. It was like three 13-year-old boys talking about pizza."
Timestamp: [60:45]

The trio emphasizes the cyclical patterns of history, illustrating that while technology and societal structures evolve, human behavior often remains unchanged. They humorously critique modern advancements and societal changes by comparing them to their historical counterparts.

Dave Anthony: "This is the roaring twenties."
Timestamp: [43:15]

Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Gareth Reynolds: "Each week we go through an old newspaper from a random date in history picked out by Dave Anthony."
  Timestamp: [00:34]

• Trae Crowder: "Do you find that every era is kind of the same, or is it actually more horrific at certain times?"
  Dave Anthony: "I think it's kind of always the same."
  Timestamp: [01:35]

• Dave Anthony: "Jail Sentences handed eight millionaires. Tremendous frauds are alleged."
  Timestamp: [07:32]

• Trae Crowder: "It's like the robber barons, Rockefeller and all, and Vanderbilt and all those dudes, and they were, like, ruthless."
  Dave Anthony: "Pottery mob. Pottery conglomerate."
  Timestamp: [08:22]

• Dave Anthony: "Bugs McGowan, nationally known daredevil of the air, says AirDEP America's residents will be given the thrill of a lifetime Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock."
  Timestamp: [16:07]

• Gareth Reynolds: "We could get drunk anytime you want. That's awesome. See America."
  Timestamp: [46:34]

• Gareth Reynolds: "You can't dance that long. She got to get back to scrubbing the goddamn floors."
  Timestamp: [62:53]

• Trae Crowder: "But yeah, we're still getting drunk. We don't give a poison."
  Timestamp: [47:19]

• Gareth Reynolds: "Everything's a podcast now. But still, it was doing numbers. It was like three 13-year-old boys talking about pizza."
  Timestamp: [60:45]

Conclusion

Episode 120 of The Dollop offers a humorous yet insightful exploration of events from the past, blending historical analysis with contemporary commentary. Through their engaging banter, Dave Anthony, Gareth Reynolds, and Trae Crowder illuminate the absurdities and parallels between the 1920s and today, making history both entertaining and relatable for listeners.

Transcript

[Dave Anthony]

The Dollop is going on tour in June 2025. We will be in Sacramento on June 3rd. We'll be in Boise, Idaho, on June 4th, Spokane on June 5th, Seattle on June 6th, Portland on June 7th, Bend, Oregon on June 8th, and San Francisco on June 10th. Go to the dollop podcast.com to get all our tour links for tickets.

[Gareth Reynolds]

All right, everybody, welcome to the Past Times podcast. Each week we go through an old newspaper from a random date in history picked out by Dave Anthony. I'm Gareth Reynolds, and I've never seen it before. And neither is our guest this week, the great Trey Crowder. Hi, Trey. Welcome back.

[Trey Crowder]

Back once again, ready to venture into the. Into the past. The olden days.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. There's no better guides than Dave and I. Dave and I are. We're kind of wonks.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah. Dave, after all your years of traipsing through the past, like, have you. Like, do you. Do you find that every era is kind of the same, or is it actually more horrific at certain times? Because it always. The past seems like a real horror show to me. But then other times, it's like, well, humans are humans. You know, things are always bad.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. I think it's kind of always the same.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

I mean. I mean, you have. You have periods where things go up and down. Like, you know, like, we had a great period where everyone was taking vaccines, and now they're not gonna. So.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah. So this will be a down, down one.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah.

[Trey Crowder]

Until we call enough of the herd, and then we can that track on the upswing.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. Awesome. It's gonna be great when we eat rfk. Dave, would you swap today for another time, or do you think we're about to enter the worst of it? What do you think? Because it's such.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Adding tech into today is very strange.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. And I. I did a little reading this morning on AI and what they're doing, and you feel. Yeah, I think I would swap it with another time.

[Trey Crowder]

Interesting.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Interesting.

[Trey Crowder]

But which one? Like, just. You just go back to the 90s or you.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah, I would go back to, like, the 70s or the 90s.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Would be great to redo the 90s.

[Trey Crowder]

That's what I was thinking.

[Dave Anthony]

The knives were the changer.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You know what I mean?

[Trey Crowder]

They were.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh.

[Dave Anthony]

But we didn't, like, no one cared about anything. Everyone was just partying. Like, it was really the. The most carefree time.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It was really shows that we didn't care.

[Trey Crowder]

Today, very sill. Really tight. You know, it's the attitude era and pro wrestling.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Trey Crowder]

Jagged little Pill slackers and.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah, yeah.

[Trey Crowder]

Yep.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I murdered Dave's dad. Trey, you have a podcast with Corey Ryan Forrester, who's been on the show and played his farts.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah, yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Famously put on airs and that. Which is weird, that. Because he was kind of letting out airs on ours and then.

[Dave Anthony]

Wow.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Trash Daddy, your new special on YouTube, you said it's the most watched special of all time on YouTube.

[Trey Crowder]

All time. Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Crazy.

[Trey Crowder]

Setting records, blazing past all. All who came before me. Yeah. But no, I mean, you know, could be. We're on our way. Gareth, if all of your fans here at the past times go watch it, I think that'll put me over the top.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I can't. We can't know.

[Dave Anthony]

Because you want something terrible. Something terrible. You see this dog back here? Yeah, just farted.

[Trey Crowder]

Nice.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's why we call it Corey.

[Dave Anthony]

It's really bad.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Trey, we're gonna guess the year of this newspaper as we always like to do here at the ptp. You get to guess first, because as I've alluded to before, if you don't, Dave will make sure I lose. It's a whole thing. Dave has some problems. He refuses to seek counsel. He sort of takes it out in these strange ways on the people he loves. And he loves me, but he still sort of is acting out in this way. And my role is to not try to confront it, but to try to kind of work around it. Like a big stone in a beautiful river.

[Trey Crowder]

Okay, well, I don't need to be biting all y'all shit. That's right.

[Dave Anthony]

Is that what you tell yourself to get? That's.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. Yeah. So you're just. Just. Dave, please.

[Dave Anthony]

You're telling yourself that I love you to get through it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Dave. Okay, Trey, go ahead.

[Trey Crowder]

Okay, here's what. All right. I'm just. There's no, like, clues or anything. I can't remember. I just pick a year that I think this newspaper might be from.

[Dave Anthony]

I'm not going to give you a clue. Yeah, I don't think I'm gonna do that. Hey, what. How about. Let me read you part of this headline? Tremendous frauds are alleged. There you go.

[Trey Crowder]

Okay. Frauds.

[Gareth Reynolds]

20. 2019.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah. I was so 1884.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's pretty good. I had someone.

[Dave Anthony]

What do you. What are you getting? Clues.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Someone broke down.

[Dave Anthony]

You don't get. You don't get to.

[Trey Crowder]

Are you Googling tremendous frauds or up.

[Dave Anthony]

This isn't who. This isn't who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Where you'd reach out to Patty.

[Trey Crowder]

Like, you got, like, a Microfiche database on your phone. I'm just.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Someone has messaged me with the inside story, and I can't.

[Dave Anthony]

There is no inside story.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Shut up. That's what a guy who's got an inside story story would say. This is really what I'm gonna guess. Just leave me alone, first of all, both of you.

[Dave Anthony]

Okay. You think this Trey wins?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Two white men ganging up on an English guy.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's a good look for this show.

[Dave Anthony]

It's 1923. Trey wins. Okay.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Wow. This is a first.

[Dave Anthony]

You. What were you doing?

[Trey Crowder]

I've ever won is by default. I think so I'll take it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

1040 a day. You.

[Trey Crowder]

1923.

[Dave Anthony]

It is April 20, 1923, and it is the Americas Americus Times Recorder in Americus, Georgia. I have no idea.

[Trey Crowder]

Americus, Georgia.

[Dave Anthony]

Americus.

[Trey Crowder]

I've never. Never heard of that.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's like. That. Trump will bring that back for sure. Being like. The states that vote for him will be preceded by an American.

[Trey Crowder]

Also. 1923. So everything's cruising along in America. Right.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Talk about the 90s.

[Trey Crowder]

Crush everything. Things.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Boom.

[Trey Crowder]

Boom time. And.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And they're starting to tariff it up a little bit. Starting.

[Trey Crowder]

Women were flapping all over the place.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I love the flap.

[Trey Crowder]

In the twenties. Yeah. Smoking cigarettes at the end of sticks and stuff.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Trey Crowder]

A roaring time. As I.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Everyone was dressed like the penguin. Exactly.

[Trey Crowder]

Exactly. Yeah. No booze, though. Well, not legal. Well, right. Was. That. Was Prohibition happening in 2030?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

Why not? Yeah, why not? We can. Yeah.

[Trey Crowder]

Tough time.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. Prohibition was the 1920s. I mean, I wish I could say I knew where this was, but it's like an. It's like. It looks like it's like an hour south east of Columbus.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Columbus.

[Trey Crowder]

Is it like America plural or.

[Dave Anthony]

It's Americus.

[Trey Crowder]

So, like.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Like, if we swell it, it's like.

[Dave Anthony]

Okay. A M E R I, C U, S. Okay.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's like cusp.

[Dave Anthony]

It is cus. It's the cussing. Americas.

[Trey Crowder]

Americas.

[Dave Anthony]

Americas.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah. I'm from Americas, Georgia. That oddly sounds more Georgian to me, even though it sounds somehow more.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I've been there twice.

[Trey Crowder]

Exotic at the same time. But I don't know why, but it just.

[Dave Anthony]

It's like, directly south of. And so it's like between Atlanta and Tallahassee, basically.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Which is America's paint hotbed.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah, it's a hotbed. That's what they say.

[Trey Crowder]

Cultural hotbed.

[Dave Anthony]

Yep.

[Trey Crowder]

Right there.

[Dave Anthony]

And it's the America's Times Recorder headline, big headline right across the top. Jail Sentences handed eight millionaires. Tremendous frauds.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Whoa.

[Dave Anthony]

Are alleged.

[Trey Crowder]

That doesn't sound like millionaires defrauding people.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, they got there.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's a merit. It's always been a meritocracy.

[Dave Anthony]

What do you guys think the. What do you think the. What area do you think the crimes were done in?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Like, banking, you think?

[Dave Anthony]

Banking fraud?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Speculating.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

What if.

[Trey Crowder]

Stealing people's farms to give to railroads.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Trey Crowder]

Close thing. You guys are close.

[Dave Anthony]

It's. It's pottery.

[Trey Crowder]

Okay.

[Gareth Reynolds]

The other big one.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. Pottery profiteers. Pottery profiteers given prison terms and heavy cash fines.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Dave Anthony]

One convicted of conspiracy must serve 10 months and pay $5,000 fines, too. Of course we get a.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That. That's always where we fuck up. We've been fucking that up for so long. Like, when you hear about, like, what they're doing in China where they're like, yeah, we threw them in the ocean. And then we're like, we're going to fine you a 90th.

[Trey Crowder]

Yep. Yeah. It's like they say, you know, if something. If the punishment for something is a fine, then it's only illegal for poor people. That's how they call it, a fine.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Because they're like, oh, it's not going to affect me. I'll be fine.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. Seven others found guilty and sentenced to serve six months. This is out of New York. Archibald Maddock, president of the Thomas Maddox Sons Company of Trenton, New Jersey. Of course they're from Jersey.

[Trey Crowder]

Those are some good 1920s names.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, they really are.

[Trey Crowder]

Archibald Maddox of Maddox and Sons or whatever.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, the dogs. Obviously.

[Dave Anthony]

Very comfortable. One of the Individuals convicted with 93 Pottery manufacturing corporations for conspiracy and restraint of trade. I didn't.

[Trey Crowder]

How do you even defraud somebody with pots?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Honestly?

[Trey Crowder]

You buy a pot and you get a pot or you don't. Right.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And even if you're even like, a shitty pot, I mean, I would consider most pots to be fairly shitty.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah. Like, I don't. I don't follow. Or were they. Were they trying to. I know this is like towards the end of the Gilded Age, right? So were they trying to lock down, like, a pottery monopoly and, like, screw over, you know, any.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Even then the upside is so small.

[Trey Crowder]

Ruthlessly. Robber bearing their way into the pottery industry or something.

[Dave Anthony]

I'm sure they had a. I'm sure they cornered the pottery market. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sentenced by federal judge Van fleet to serve 10 months in the penitentiary and pay a $5,000 fine. Seven other defendants described by the judge as members of the Sanitary Potteries association. As active participants in its price fixing operations.

[Trey Crowder]

Collusion.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Pottery collusion.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's hard to imagine this pottery ever being this exciting.

[Dave Anthony]

I agree. I mean.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah. I can't believe anyone cared in this country about, you know, price. Well, just any of this, really. Price. Collus, Press fix.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. Pottery mob.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

It's a pottery conglomerate.

[Trey Crowder]

Right.

[Dave Anthony]

That's what we're talking about. And people had to pay. Like someone had to go to jail.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah. Pottery conglomerate. Not for me. I prefer my pottery in a barn. All right.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes.

[Trey Crowder]

I'm a Pottery Barn type of guy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, not really.

[Trey Crowder]

I've never been there. Never will.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Trey.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Open yourself up a little bit. Take some lsd. Go to the Pottery Barn. You'll understand.

[Dave Anthony]

I looked up pottery. I just Googled in a couple of the browsers. Pottery conglomerate. And there's nothing there.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So what's happening?

[Dave Anthony]

I don't know. Like, someone cornered these guys. Cornered the. What are we talking about? Like, plates and pots? Are we actually talking about.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's not good when you're this level of confounder. Because Trey and I are not gonna be able to help.

[Trey Crowder]

Well, again, this is like, this era. There was a lot of this type of. In just American industry, period. Right. Because it was like.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Trey Crowder]

When American industry blew up. The way it. You know, this is the era. The robber barons, Rockefeller and all, and Vanderbilt and all those dudes, and they were, like, ruthless and, you know, screwing people over and all that. And it sounds like these guys were just trying to do the pottery version of that. What Rockefeller did for oil, they're trying to do that for the pottery industry.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And then we're gonna shut down all the min. Us.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

I mean, but ceramics and stuff are used in, like, electricity, so this was.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I guess. Yeah. And also probably plumbing and stuff like that.

[Dave Anthony]

But, yeah, all that stuff. It's definitely industrial.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'm picturing, like, a V. Like, the vase is like.

[Dave Anthony]

Well, I think that's what we should all be picturing, just for the sake of the show.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Take him out back and kill him. You mean kill him. Stop.

[Dave Anthony]

Gareth.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Come on.

[Trey Crowder]

Ah, that took me a minute. I. Get out. Because I was thinking about people who do that themselves. Like, throw. Throw. Isn't that what they call it? You throw pots, don't you?

[Dave Anthony]

No, I mean, he's talking about the pigeon. The pigeon shooting thing.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No, Isn't that. What?

[Trey Crowder]

No, no, no, no, no, no. It's. Isn't that what it's called? If you got like. No, you put on A spinny thing. I can ghost like in the movie Ghost. Hippie chicks with no br A in a barn.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I got a shed.

[Dave Anthony]

Let him go. Let him cook that.

[Trey Crowder]

Isn't that called throwing?

[Dave Anthony]

I don't. I've never heard it called throwing, but.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It is picturing a braless Demi Moore.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah, right.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Me ghosting on her.

[Trey Crowder]

I don't know about Demi. It's more of a braless Lori Metcalf usually, I think.

[Dave Anthony]

But in your special you do talk about how you guys up there in your area come up with weird phrases. So maybe this is one of the things that.

[Trey Crowder]

No, not. Well, I mean specific to your. I know we cannot trust any AI thing anymore. But I googled throwing pottery and Google's AI overview says in pottery throwing refers to the process of shaping clay into vessels on a potter's wheel.

[Dave Anthony]

Okay, you're right. Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'll tell you one thing. If I die and I got a braless Demi Moore in front of me and I'm feeling her as she makes class, I'm gonna throw a load on her back.

[Trey Crowder]

There you go. Throwing loads. Throwing the wrong with you ghost loads.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Come on, Dave. Christ, the boys are enjoying themselves. This is why we're the bad boys, David. You either lean in or lean out.

[Dave Anthony]

It's like a ghost sex crime. That's like you're.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You can't. Ghosts are allowed to do you. There's no. No, no, no, they're not.

[Dave Anthony]

There's.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You're not gonna be too ghost me.

[Dave Anthony]

There's tons of movies where the ghost does stuff it's not supposed to do. Like that's almost most ghost movies.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I' I'm doing whatever I like when I'm gone. Sorry ladies.

[Trey Crowder]

I mean you're both right. Ghosts do. They are prone to sexual assault, I think and assault of all kinds. Just as they love that, they love that like sexual assault. Opening and closing cabinets, twisting knobs and like that.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Like they're going to twist my knob.

[Dave Anthony]

Gareth.

[Trey Crowder]

Ghost. But Gareth is also right that they can do it because they're ghost. You know, ghost court me. You're gonna bust them.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'm gonna put my knob in the hand of every sleeping person want.

[Dave Anthony]

All right, so we're going to have to now create a ghost police force. Cuz this is keep. I'll.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'll out of your jurisdiction.

[Dave Anthony]

Except for ghost cops.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You're out of your jurisdiction.

[Trey Crowder]

That actually that exists. That was founded by Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I think ghost cops memories really.

[Dave Anthony]

Well yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Imagine. Imagine being on set of that movie and being like, this is really going to.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah, yeah, really.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I feel like we're checking every box. Yeah, dog.

[Trey Crowder]

It's Men in Black, but for Ghost, it's going to be sweet.

[Dave Anthony]

Is exactly how the guy pitch you to went.

[Trey Crowder]

I guarantee you.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

Air thrillers are. Are promised by Bugs. Well, I mean that what. This could go so many different ways.

[Trey Crowder]

Air thrillers are promised by Bugs.

[Dave Anthony]

So Bugs is in quotations here.

[Trey Crowder]

Oh, this is the twenties. Bugs Malone.

[Dave Anthony]

Yes, it's Bugs McGowan.

[Trey Crowder]

That's his name.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, that's right, boss.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah, exactly.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's exactly how he told me. Don't worry, I got wings. I'll fly us right out of here.

[Dave Anthony]

Bugs McGowan, nationally known daredevil of the air, says AirDEP America's residents will be given the thrill of a lifetime Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock when he promises to perform some of the most daring and death defying feats known to aerial acrobatics.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And a few not so great ones.

[Dave Anthony]

And one where I die.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What's his name?

[Trey Crowder]

Bugs McGowan.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah, Bugs McGowan.

[Trey Crowder]

That's the greatest known nationwide.

[Dave Anthony]

Gareth, are you looking up to see if he died in a plane?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Obviously I'm looking out to see. I'm looking up to find out when he died. I'm hoping it's right.

[Trey Crowder]

Surely he did. There's no way Bugs live to a ripe.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'm hoping it's after this weekend.

[Trey Crowder]

Aerial daredevil, as you know, Air devil, as g said in 1923, that's like, that's. How long have we even had planes?

[Dave Anthony]

No, you're a bad. You're a badass at that. You're a real badass. Do they still do that? Do people still walk out on wings and stuff?

[Trey Crowder]

Oh, I don't know if they do that. I know, but you know, I mean, I know they have air shows where they do tricks and.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah, yeah, people love that. And then it's fun for the kids until the. You go to the one where the crash.

[Trey Crowder]

Fiery crash happens in the crowd yet and everything.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah.

[Trey Crowder]

Burns to death and jet fuel and whatnot.

[Dave Anthony]

Numbers of stunts will be performed with airplanes, says Bugs. Among which will be what is known as wing walking, parachute jumping, hanging from wings, skid in midair and other stunts.

[Trey Crowder]

Wait a minute. So is he. Is he doing both? Like he's flying up there, but then also like, is someone else flying? And Bugs is on the wings doing wacky.

[Dave Anthony]

I think most these guys traded off like one guy would fly, another guy Would walk. I think that they're, like, usually teams.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But you need another guy to die with.

[Trey Crowder]

Well, Bugs is other guys. And getting any shine here, though?

[Dave Anthony]

Like, no, he's not.

[Trey Crowder]

That's true.

[Dave Anthony]

Bugs taking all credit, but the other guys, like, yeah, you go talk to him, Bugs. I don't do press. I'm not getting it up at 8am.

[Trey Crowder]

There could be a woman, like a magician's assistant. Because they didn't, like, count at all back then. I don't think that.

[Dave Anthony]

True.

[Gareth Reynolds]

They were literally sawing them in half. He was like, hold your blood in.

[Trey Crowder]

Right. So if they're. They might also have been, you know, making them stand on the wings of, you know, planes in the sky and.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Throw her in the propeller. Give the people a show.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, I'm learning so much over here.

[Trey Crowder]

Did you find Bugs McGowan?

[Gareth Reynolds]

There's just.

[Dave Anthony]

Is there anything about Bugs?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, keep going and then I'll do a. Where are they now? Or.

[Dave Anthony]

Well, I'm gonna move on. I'm gonna move on to the next story.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay, so he. Bugs, what. What is the date of this paper?

[Dave Anthony]

23, 1923.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay. I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure he. He dies pretty soon after this. Christ. Okay, so on July 4, 1923. Kissed his wife goodbye and headed out to the state fair. Blah, blah, blah. It was four years to the day that he first jumped out of a plane. When his teammate decided to opt out of the stunt that Independence Day, Bugs decided to go it alone. The precarious exploit involved the pilot setting the plane on fire and jumping out at the last possible moment. Smiles beamed from McGowan's face as he took off in front of a waving, cheering crowd. The next line is, when they found Bugs, he was still smiling, sitting in the cockpit, his lifeless hands wrapped around broken lever controls. After his vainly attempt to make yet another good landing, he was laid to rest in Oak Hill Cemetery near Quitman. Which. Obviously something he should have done.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

As his eyes scan the heavens. Yeah. So he was named wizard of the Air by the Miami Herald.

[Trey Crowder]

He died like that fat old British colonel in the Mummy with Brendan Fraser. Remember that guy?

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's quite a reference.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah. He dies smiling.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Trey Crowder]

One last flight. But bugs was only 21 years old. Dave, what was the date? The exact date of this?

[Gareth Reynolds]

April 20th is April. So he had a few more months.

[Trey Crowder]

But.

[Dave Anthony]

Wait, April.

[Gareth Reynolds]

April 4th.

[Trey Crowder]

But this is an April thing. And he says he's promising to do it in the fe. Like, you know, is it this Sunday?

[Dave Anthony]

Or he's doing it that week in America. Okay.

[Trey Crowder]

All right. So a couple more months left.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. But it's definitely. We're seeing the seeds of his brashness.

[Trey Crowder]

It's so funny that like a trick back then was just like setting the plane on fire while you're in it and then just like abandoning it to crash into like a farm or river or pond or school or whatever.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Not really daredevil as much. I mean, I guess it is kind of, but it's daredevil. It is daredevil, but it's. Well, now I just call it Flying Spirit Air. The pastimes will be right back.

[Dave Anthony]

Okay, we're back.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Go ahead.

[Trey Crowder]

They. They did have a woman with them actually. Apparently.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, it.

[Trey Crowder]

McGowan and the Flying Farmer. McCullen. A.B. mcCullen the Flying Farmer were the main two. And they had a 20 year old female, Mabel Cody, who was the niece of Buffalo Bill Cody. Oh. And it says she was the. She was an instant star. In fact, they were known collectively as Mabel Cody's Flying Circus. So I think maybe she was the episode Bugs. This was like a side hustle for Bugs here. He was doing a. Doing some solo gigs.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, I mean, you know, he was. He was trying to pay the bills that, that. It wasn't like pottery life back then. You had to find us some side hustle. Anyway, he's dead.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah. I mean, well, they're all very dead now.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, but he's dead.

[Trey Crowder]

He's been dead. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Smiling, smiling, smiling. No way. By the way.

[Dave Anthony]

No. 10 slowly starving. Marooned on island. This is out of Minnesota, cold, half exhausted. Three men who for 48 hours battered away through slush, ice and open water, reached mainland here yesterday bearing the news that 10 others, nine men and one woman, are slowly starving on Fox Island, 18 miles from here in Lake Michigan.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's funny because it does. The premise does sound like a Fox reality show.

[Dave Anthony]

That's. That's a good reality island.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Could be a pretty good place to film.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. Drop people on Fox island and see if they live.

[Gareth Reynolds]

They pitch us. They. Fox island is where you pitch a crazy reality show and Fox forces you to actually do it.

[Dave Anthony]

Yes.

[Trey Crowder]

You ever. They. Even at the height of like reality shows, they were doing one where they were like pretending that they were murdering people.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I don't like.

[Trey Crowder]

It was like a murder mystery. And I mean, of course everyone knew they weren't actually. But I'm saying they like, they k. Faked it the whole time.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Right.

[Trey Crowder]

Like these people are actually dying or Whatever you. You can probably inject Joe Millionaire or whatever. I was just gonna say that guy who was, like, secretly poor, which is gross, you know, Or.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Or my big, fat, obnoxious fiance. Like, I knew the guy kind of the guy who was his best friend. And I remember being like, well, this dude's gonna. Is famous forever. That him made.

[Dave Anthony]

As a result of their story, two army airplanes are driving throughout the sky, through the sky from Suffrage airfield to carry food to the Maroon party on Fox Island. They don't say why they're. They don't say why they're there.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Send McGowan.

[Dave Anthony]

Like, it's just like.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's just like, get them.

[Dave Anthony]

It's a. But it's like a given that people are just starving on island. Like, oh, people are starving on an island again. There's no. How did they get there?

[Trey Crowder]

Well, yeah, I mean, people used to just go. Go places and claim women still back. I mean, it's a little late for that. Yeah, for that. But if. But if that island had not yet been claimed, I could see some people being like, let's just go claim that island.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, there was probably a lot of, like, people trying to do that, were claiming things that had already been claimed and thinking, right, theirs, you know, squatters rights.

[Trey Crowder]

18 miles out is. I mean, that's a long way, man. I mean, those lakes, you know, I don't know if you guys know this. There's something else. Well, this is. This is. This is one of the great ones. This isn't one of the 10,000, right?

[Dave Anthony]

You said this is one of the big boys.

[Trey Crowder]

This is not the one, I think, that never gives up or dead. It's superior, I believe, if. Gordon.

[Dave Anthony]

Is that true?

[Trey Crowder]

Is to be.

[Dave Anthony]

Oh, Gordon Lightfoot. Yeah, yeah.

[Trey Crowder]

Bracket. Edmund Fitzgerald. But I think that is the thing they actually say about Lake Superior. She never gives up her dead. Because it's so cold in there that bodies don't. They don't come back. They sink all the way or some.

[Dave Anthony]

Wouldn't it be great if Lake Superior was just waiting and then like. Like 30 years, it. All of a sudden, I'm. One day Oliver. Dead back pops up all the dead.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah, that would be a wild movie. Put that scene in, like, a climate change movie because it's because of the. It's because of the temperature of the water. So, like, if it gets warm enough, all these corpses are just gonna float to the top of Lake Superior.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's. Well, because that's.

[Trey Crowder]

And I think they're kind of permafrost I think they're kind of preserved too, for the same reason.

[Dave Anthony]

Because they're so cold.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah, I like that. Would you could. Yeah, write that. Somebody write that down.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Let's go. Yeah, whatever.

[Trey Crowder]

We break that.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I really like the idea of the people, of the dead bodies frozen. Climate change unfreezes.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And we now have zombie climate change.

[Trey Crowder]

Just.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah, yeah. No, I do, but just not. I like to remember the lyrics. Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It took me a minute.

[Trey Crowder]

That's a good.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I always feel like Gordon Lightfoot is Sting's real name. Like, because his real name's like Gordon something. And I'm like, that is thing.

[Dave Anthony]

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[Gareth Reynolds]

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[Gareth Reynolds]

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[Gareth Reynolds]

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[Dave Anthony]

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[Gareth Reynolds]

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[Dave Anthony]

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[Gareth Reynolds]

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[Dave Anthony]

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[Gareth Reynolds]

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[Gareth Reynolds]

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[Gareth Reynolds]

Ah, love a Piggly Wiggly.

[Trey Crowder]

That's the main grocery store. My wife's hometown of Waynesboro, Tennessee.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Big player in Wisconsin too.

[Dave Anthony]

Big player.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

The ladies Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church are conducting a cake sale at Piggly Wiggly store every. Every Saturday. For the benefit of the society's work. The ladies desire to furnish cakes for Sunday dinners.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's.

[Dave Anthony]

You couldn't. You couldn't do that today. You couldn't sell cakes. They would be like, no, we sell cakes. You think you could sell? Do you think you could sell.

[Trey Crowder]

They let girl Scouts sell cookies and they also sell cookies. But like homemade cakes are.

[Dave Anthony]

That's a different animal.

[Trey Crowder]

Just weird. I mean, but people do. I don't know. People still make shit at home and sell it sometimes, right? They'll see.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. A farmer's market or something, but probably not getting carried in like a main store. The girl Scout comp is pretty good. But I do also think if this were today, you'd find out like someone was putting poop in the cake. You know, it'd be like there'd be a scandal underneath there.

[Trey Crowder]

What is the ladies work? This is. They're fundraising for their work for their church.

[Dave Anthony]

It just says the Ladies Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hey, I've been to the ladies missionaries assignment, Gary.

[Trey Crowder]

Gay conversion camps or something like that. Have you done beating the gay out.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Of people Straight cakes?

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

Have you been to the Ladies Backdoor Society?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, you mean the women of doggy.

[Trey Crowder]

I prefer the Ladies Doggy Style Association. Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's called Dogma style.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's strange that that story is even in here because it's really a very non story. It's just maybe a subtle plug for.

[Trey Crowder]

I don. How this down there in America, sir Amaricus. But I've in my hometown's newspaper in like the. Well, no, they would reprint stories they had from this era before. And the stories would be like Mr. And Mrs. Lemuel Martin rode into town for three days the other day. Like that type of like not just nothing. Yes. They, you know, they visited by cousins from Ohio.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah, there's a lot of that in these type of. I don't. I don't go over those because it's.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Too boring and not funny.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah, but it's, it's all. There's like a. Always a big column. It's like Frank and. And Gina are back for two days.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And you're like my. My uncle who is six, nine in England, lives in a very small, very small town.

[Dave Anthony]

Oh, this is great.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And he like a fairy tale character.

[Trey Crowder]

Like a tiny little English village. He's like.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I remember he would come to.

[Trey Crowder]

Hello, mate.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I need another bowl of soup.

[Trey Crowder]

More soup please, if you don't mind.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So. So he. There was an article about how he. His toes were popping out of his shoes. Like when he was. When I was a kid. This. This ages me. When I was a kid, he couldn't find shoes big enough for himself.

[Dave Anthony]

But then.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So that was in the paper. And then he came to Wisconsin and we went to the Nike outlet outlet store in Illinois somewhere and he bought like four pairs of shoes that could fit him. And so when he came back, there was a follow up about now how he found in America the ubiquity of size 18s or whatever he had.

[Trey Crowder]

I know he isn't, but I'm just picturing like such a lumbering oath of a like peasant with a fucking toy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Like covered in tomato seeds from walking through town.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah, right. Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You go back to hell where you've come from.

[Dave Anthony]

I've come to eat your children.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Sorry. I've bashed another roof with me. Full red as. He's just eating mud. There's some good mud over here. I've got a bit of mud over here. My stuff is done. Exactly, exactly.

[Trey Crowder]

I'm picturing your.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, the governor's passed away. I blame him. He was walking near him with his deaf back. He's got his big foot.

[Trey Crowder]

Oh, good.

[Dave Anthony]

Effort is launched to make America's big circus center.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Make America's great again.

[Trey Crowder]

Nice big circus center.

[Dave Anthony]

The America's Chamber of Commerce and Other organizations in Americus have sent invitations to Messrs. Mugavin Bowers and Gavin, proprietors of five large circus circuses, to make America's permanent winter headquarters for one of their circuses. It's called bringing in business.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's called SeaWorld.

[Dave Anthony]

Now.

[Trey Crowder]

Circuses were real big at this time, I think. Yes. Absolute horror shows. What's it? Nightmare Alley or whatever it's called.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes. Yeah.

[Trey Crowder]

Movie. And I got, like, homeless dudes biting the heads off of chickens and like that. Like.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah.

[Trey Crowder]

The tigers emaciated.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, yeah.

[Trey Crowder]

Beat all this. It might get.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah, this is. This is like a mayor or someone going, hey, what if in the winter time we had the most horrible people here?

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

Entertaining us.

[Trey Crowder]

Yes. And dude, the clowns back then. Do you ever see pictures of clowns from the 20s?

[Dave Anthony]

Terrifying.

[Trey Crowder]

What? I refuse to believe that was ever entertaining to anyone, especially children.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, my God.

[Trey Crowder]

Were they designed to horrify people?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Like, why is this hanky got so much blood in it? What is he doing? Well, it's like, I'll see that sometimes would be like driving through the middle of the country, and it'll be a sign for, like, Wild Jacks Kansas City Safari. And you're like, there should not be a giraffe here.

[Trey Crowder]

Right. And sometimes you think that, like, you know, it's a different time. People just didn't give a. Back then. And I guess a lot of people didn't. But then there's like. There's that famous movie, you know, Freaks. Right. It's called, you know what I'm talking about from, like, the 30s, like, from around this time, basically. And it's about a sideshow act at a circus, like a freak show. But it, like, the point of the movie is that it's like, up or whatever. Like it. So people were away. It was very woke. Woke. Woke. Had already. Yeah. Woke. Hollywood added again. 1932.

[Dave Anthony]

Oh, now you're gonna ruin circuses.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah, they already. Yeah, it is what the woke. Woke Police have taken out circuses.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, they took out freaks.

[Trey Crowder]

Freaks had to go.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Remember when you could revel in someone's disability comfortably? Then woke came.

[Trey Crowder]

There was a lady.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Now they got terms and ramps.

[Trey Crowder]

There was a lady in this time who made a lot of money in the freak show circuit by winning a contest for world's ugliest woman. Right.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And.

[Trey Crowder]

And what I immediately thought about with that is that someone came in second place for world's ugliest.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's right.

[Trey Crowder]

And didn't even get the job. You know, it's like, went through all.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That for just like, jam.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah, right. Yeah, exactly. Probably not. Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Probably nothing.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah. Go back to starving in the street.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You know, it's also, I. I do always think that about, like. Like, remember when, like, SeaWorld, when Blackfish came out, like, SeaWorld was getting dinged so hard and you're like, yeah, they're done. And then now they're still there. They're still doing great.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah. I was just in San Diego. We didn't go to SeaWorld, but, I mean, it's still there. Oh, yeah, still there.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Torture.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

Is Marine World still there?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Marine Land in Canada?

[Dave Anthony]

No, there's a Marine World in Vallejo, California.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I don't know.

[Dave Anthony]

Same deal. It was the same company. Yeah, same. Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So cool.

[Dave Anthony]

And where many killer whales and sea life. Vallejo.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's absolutely the natural area.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. A couple hours inland.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, absolutely. No, it's great.

[Trey Crowder]

So did this work, this circus flea?

[Dave Anthony]

Well, let's see. For several years, these circuses have wintered at Pru, Illinois. And the winters there are long and severe.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Spoo.

[Dave Anthony]

Prue.

[Trey Crowder]

America says, boo Pru. Come to where it's warm. Come to where it's warm.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Of where the winter circuses is.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Because they want to open one on Fox Island.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

All the circuses do end up wintering in Florida, as they should.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah. Right.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. The Governor.

[Dave Anthony]

Sometimes it is believed it is possible to persuade Messrs. Mugavin Bowers and Gavin to again come to Americus. Oh, so they've been here before. Climate conditions here are especially favorable to the wintering of menagerie animals. What's a menagerie animal?

[Trey Crowder]

It's like the tigers and the elephants.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Another term for the zoo, Basically, yeah.

[Trey Crowder]

Menagerie is a collection of. Is it specifically animals? You can only.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I think so, yeah.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah, yeah. But they can be made of glass. Famously.

[Dave Anthony]

Yes. Glass animals.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes.

[Dave Anthony]

With several suitable buildings already available on the Aggie College campus, where the Robinson shows wintered several years ago. Oh, so they've done this before. They're trying to get the circus his back.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Sure. Yeah. Right.

[Trey Crowder]

Well, said they wanted to. They wanted them to make it a permanent winter time headquarters.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah, yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's like a residency.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah. What?

[Dave Anthony]

But if you have a. If you're running a college, imagine coming in after the summer and being like, oh, my God, this place is ruined. Like, would you want a bunch of circus people?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes.

[Dave Anthony]

And animals staying in your college?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Dave.

[Trey Crowder]

Careful.

[Dave Anthony]

Freaks. Sorry.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He's all woke again.

[Trey Crowder]

Winter time specifically. So it would be like, over the holidays you come back from Christmas break and there's just elephant everywhere in college.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's like a drunk.

[Trey Crowder]

Drunk clowns. Yeah. Right. Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

Well, yeah, there's. You're. You're. The sheets are smeared with clown makeup and blood.

[Trey Crowder]

I mean, that would be upsetting for sure.

[Dave Anthony]

Clean fine circus. I have never seen a cleaner or finer fine circus.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Sure.

[Dave Anthony]

Yep, those are the best.

[Gareth Reynolds]

One of the clowns just ate tiger poop. Things are fine. He here.

[Dave Anthony]

I've never seen a cleaner or finer circus. And there are America's friends, of whom there are many will be glad to know of the splendid success they are making. Many of us hope it will again be possible to persuade our circus friends to winter. It doesn't say who that is a quote from, but that's a quote from one of the.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You don't need to attribute that with any. That was just kind of societal sentiment, I believe.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah, that's what everybody thinks.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, it's like Newsom's trying to bring like entertainment back here. They. They're. They're just kind of, you know, incentivizing the circus to just have the residency.

[Dave Anthony]

You know what? We should get our circus friends back. Why did they leave? They were sexually assaulting people and just murder.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'm thinking we can put them where the aggies are.

[Trey Crowder]

I think many of them were wanted for murder by the Federal Stop Law Enforcement Agency.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Did you hear the clowns can now chew through bone?

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Didn't that clown eat a whole chick eats the whole. That clown eats old chicken.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah, it's old guy. Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Just watching the clown.

[Trey Crowder]

It's not just the head anymore.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Eat the bones.

[Trey Crowder]

That's the. Yeah, that's the headliner of this circus. Not just. Not just the chicken's head. It's the entire whole raw chicken.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Come watch wrinkles eat an entire chicken.

[Trey Crowder]

People just like eating corn dogs and shit. Watching this like horror show.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Why doesn't the clown blink? I don't think he needs to. Hun.

[Dave Anthony]

This is just a little blurb. One of those little blurbs that happens, happens. Things always could be worse. Wouldn't you have an awful time eating if you had no elbows?

[Trey Crowder]

You know, so there makes you think. Manners.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Nod to manners.

[Dave Anthony]

So they had pot back then?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, there was a magnet.

[Trey Crowder]

Was that like Jack Handy's grandpa working at this newspaper in America? Yeah, yeah, right. It would be harder to eat if you didn't have elbows. Yeah, I guess.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But what the walk into a room and senile grandma's alone looking out the window and just Says that as you slink out.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah. I'm now, like, actually thinking about it because it's elbow, specifically, so you'd still have arms. Right. You just couldn't. Well, see, I'm thinking they're like this. You can't. They're, like, straight all the time.

[Dave Anthony]

They're straight. So they're sticks.

[Trey Crowder]

You could not. You know, they're right. This guy is right. It would be very hard to eat without elbow.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We'd have to feed each other. It's like.

[Trey Crowder]

Yes. You'd have to tame up all the time. That's right.

[Dave Anthony]

Or you just put the. You put.

[Trey Crowder]

Put the food in front of you and feed bag. And I often do that anyway. I'm big.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah.

[Trey Crowder]

I like to.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah.

[Trey Crowder]

Feed bag it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, I saw you were drinking something from your magic bullet. It looked like you had a slop.

[Trey Crowder]

That's a. Yeah. Protein shake with some fiber in it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, good. Picturing him on the toilet now.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Can you read the headline one more time of this one, David?

[Dave Anthony]

What? The one that I just did with that thing. There was no headline line.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, what was the. What was this? Can you read it again? Because I. It feels like it's manners based, doesn't it?

[Dave Anthony]

Think. Well, there's no. It's just one of those little tiny blurbs in the paper. Things always could be worse. Wouldn't you have an awful time eating if you had no elbows?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay, I got nothing.

[Trey Crowder]

I think it's just meant to, like, improve people's day or whatever.

[Dave Anthony]

It's like, you know, hey, here's something.

[Trey Crowder]

I think depression is looming, and we're living in a dust bowl, and everybody. Everything's awful and, like, you know, falling apart, and you can't even get drunk about it. But, you know, at least you don't have to eat without elbows. And people are like, thanks for pointing that out, Archibald.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It certainly. Yeah, I think it does. It's. Look, it's. It's fun. It's. It's also, I think the way these papers are constructed, you just. How does this even happen? I think we should have.

[Dave Anthony]

You're high. The guy's high. This is the roaring. This is the roaring twenties.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What would be great would be to buy a fortune cookie company and make those things, the fortunes. Just to be able to be in charge of what you're putting inside there.

[Trey Crowder]

Just like, shower thoughts like that.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, Just stuff where people are like, I don't feel good.

[Dave Anthony]

And then you open up a cookie and there's a little.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No, no, you don't feel good after the cookie.

[Dave Anthony]

Oh, after. Okay.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

You know, you're just like. Well, that made me feel weird and uncomfortable.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, just like Dunkin Donuts throws donuts out so side you can still eat them.

[Trey Crowder]

I got one for you. Sort of. This reminded me just because it has to do with elbows. Sure. It's not exactly the same thing, but, you know, the people that are born blind, they don't see what you see with your eyes closed. They see what you see with your elbow. What do you think about that?

[Dave Anthony]

No, that's right.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Perfect for my fortune cookie business.

[Dave Anthony]

Absolutely perfect. Yeah, exactly.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Is this an lighter?

[Dave Anthony]

Is this an elbow based fortune cookie?

[Gareth Reynolds]

It just became one. It just became one. Because they kind of are elbowy.

[Trey Crowder]

You're right.

[Gareth Reynolds]

They are elbow fortunes. And everything's a. You know, you could get tennis elbow from not playing tennis.

[Trey Crowder]

About that.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You're lucky numbers.

[Trey Crowder]

Think about that.

[Dave Anthony]

So they're still lucky numbers.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, yeah. But they could be weird. Every lucky number is 69.

[Dave Anthony]

Judges rebuke wet banqueters. It has come to be so common for some of our best citizens to belittle and ridicule the prohibition amendment that is that it is not surprising if the new law by many is regarded as a joke. So people are laughing at the fact that you're dumb laws.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah. So is it. So this is saying prohibition is like, it's brand new. It's just happening in 23.

[Dave Anthony]

It's a couple years in, so. Yeah, but there's still. People are still not taking.

[Trey Crowder]

Banqueters are people that are having booze at their banquets or whatever.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah.

[Trey Crowder]

Eschewing the law. Yeah. Right.

[Dave Anthony]

So there's wet. They call people wet and dries, basically.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah. Right.

[Dave Anthony]

Okay. This was illustrated. This was illustrated at the national capital when the Phi Delta Phi, a fraternity of young lawyers.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, man. I mean, I know they're not saying it's a frat, but imagine being in a frat in 1923 with no alcohol.

[Dave Anthony]

That energy, come on.

[Trey Crowder]

Nothing but hazen, you know. Well, there's also hate crimes and stuff that could get us.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Trey Crowder]

Little impromptu lynch mob type.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You'd have to leave 20s because those were.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah, yeah. I think they were fine at the time.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, that was. That's still allowed.

[Trey Crowder]

Well, yeah, yeah. Yep.

[Dave Anthony]

But it is. But you're right, Gary, that is hard to do your sex crimes when you're sober.

[Trey Crowder]

I think that's just.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What are you gonna do? Actually play lacrosse the whole time?

[Trey Crowder]

On topic with this, with all the gay stuff, you can still do but.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, it's not the same.

[Trey Crowder]

You know, it is harder to sexually assault a pledge when you're not drunk. Well, actually sometimes it depends on the.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Person, but we'll figure it out. I'm just saying it's just tougher.

[Trey Crowder]

But on topic to this headline you just read, it seems like people. Everybody was just still drinking. Right. For the most. I know that it was like illegal, but that's like. It was, you know.

[Dave Anthony]

Yes. Yeah.

[Trey Crowder]

Booze was everywhere and people were still getting drunk all the time. That part of why it was such a huge fucking, you know, misfire and. Yeah, yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

Right.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You could. You could get drunk anytime you want. Wanted still.

[Dave Anthony]

Pretty much. Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's awesome.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

See America.

[Dave Anthony]

It's just great. Yeah.

[Trey Crowder]

Might make you go blind because it was made in a radiator by a two hillbilly or whatever.

[Dave Anthony]

Actually, I'm from.

[Trey Crowder]

But like best at that.

[Dave Anthony]

They were. They were poisoning booze like the government was poisoning boo. They killed like over 10,000 people.

[Trey Crowder]

Yep. Well, you know, gotta do what you gotta do. Gotta teach them a lesson somehow.

[Gareth Reynolds]

An RFK back then, that's more poison in the booze. Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

So fraternity. So Phi Delta Phi, a fraternity of young lawyers, sent out invitations to a dinner to be given in honor of Justice George Sutherland, the new Supreme Court judge. Some smart aleck. You know, that's.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I know the title.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. You're not supposed to actually say that. As a newspaper reporter. You're not supposed to call guys smart alecks. But some smart aleck prepared the invitation to be very funny. They spoke of the dry law in the usual flippant and maudlin way. And they indicated that liquor would float freely at the banquet.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Trey Crowder]

So see, but I mean, this is in D.C. it's a celebrated Supreme Court judge. I'm not surprised that they're all just like, you know.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah.

[Trey Crowder]

Flaunting it publicly in front of everybody. Yeah. But yeah, we're still getting drunk. We don't give a poison. All those poor people's liquor. Don't forget to do that. Don't forget to poison the liquor for the regular people. But you know. But it's 17 Bordeaux here for dinner, by the way. Way. Or champagne at this banquet. Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

I mean, basically they were just saying what was going to happen, but everyone's just mad that they put it out there. That's all it is. You're supposed to not say it out loud.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. The invitation. Alling A L I N G A ling. That must be a misprint, right?

[Gareth Reynolds]

A line.

[Dave Anthony]

A lot. Maybe A line with a lot of other rubbish included an inquiry along with.

[Gareth Reynolds]

A lot of other rubbish.

[Trey Crowder]

Oh, along.

[Gareth Reynolds]

There you go.

[Dave Anthony]

Along with a lot of other. The good. You're a good puzzle guy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, we got there together, though. I kind of loosened the jar. I don't know.

[Dave Anthony]

I think he just. He got a jumble and he handled.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He knew it wasn't a line because of what I said. You know what I mean?

[Trey Crowder]

That was super helpful elimination.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, exactly.

[Dave Anthony]

The invitation, along with a lot of other rubbish, included an inquiry as to whether the person who was invited believed in the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Law, inquired if he had a seller or could he get it somewhere else and wanted to know how much much he would bring to the banquet. Okay, so he just. So this guy said there's going to be a lot of booze and then just went on and on.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. To be specific.

[Dave Anthony]

Judge Sutherland and Judge W.P. stafford of the District of Columbia Supreme Court, who was scheduled as Toastmaster, took similar action. So much indignation.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Toastmaster is laughing in the face of Toastmaster.

[Trey Crowder]

Absolutely. Absolutely.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. If you.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'll be the champagne daddy.

[Dave Anthony]

So much indignation was aroused that the affair had to be called off.

[Trey Crowder]

How about that?

[Dave Anthony]

I mean, so the one problem is that they are judges and lawyers. So they're not. That's like the one group it's not.

[Trey Crowder]

Probably supposed to be. How much you want to bet? Bunch of mouthy broads out in the streets. Ruin that for them. Temperance loving. You know, the Temperance Society, it was always seemed like it was always a bunch of Christian ladies. Probably those chicks selling cakes.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Probably the cake with it at the Piggly Wiggly.

[Trey Crowder]

That's probably what they were raising money for, is to try to keep their husbands from getting drunk. Disgusting. Having any fun?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Honestly.

[Trey Crowder]

I don't know.

[Dave Anthony]

Judges and lawyers. Judges and lawyers are not only supposed to live a dignified life themselves and set an example comical, but they are bound to be sick by. They're bound by sacred oath to uphold the Constitution and the laws.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's so funny.

[Dave Anthony]

This episode would be trivial in itself, but it has importance because it reveals what a contempt for the dry laws exists. And it shows to what extremes the enemies of decency will go if they are not rebuked. So it is hilarious. I mean, there's.

[Gareth Reynolds]

To go from that to Brett Kavanaugh is very funny.

[Dave Anthony]

They're fun cops. That's what. That's what they were. Fun cops. It is explained that the references to liquor were intended only as a joke.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, my God, you think we were really going to be drinking. Hide the champagne. Put it in your ass.

[Dave Anthony]

Which is openly wet, says that. Oh, sorry. But even the Washington Post, which is openly wet, says that if any subject should be immune from ill judged humor, which is really, really scurrility, it is the law of the land. They're just saying don't, don't joke about the law.

[Trey Crowder]

But okay, you said the Washington Post is openly wet. So like publications were either. They like publicly were either pro or anti prohibition. Yeah, if you're against it. Yeah. A wet. A wet rag. The Washington Post. Famous wet rag.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah.

[Trey Crowder]

In the twenties.

[Gareth Reynolds]

My new special will be called Openly Wet, by the way.

[Trey Crowder]

Nice.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Just with a martini. Openly wet.

[Dave Anthony]

That's what we should do is I'll get sober and we'll just do a dry, wet podcast.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You'll hate it. You will absolutely hate it. What we should start doing is start advertising at our shows that they're openly wet.

[Dave Anthony]

Yes.

[Gareth Reynolds]

The show's openly wet.

[Dave Anthony]

Leaps into river to escape arrest.

[Trey Crowder]

Classic move.

[Gareth Reynolds]

This is awesome already.

[Trey Crowder]

Classic move.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We don't have jurisdiction over the water.

[Trey Crowder]

I hope there was a waterfall and stand at it for a while and.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Think, look back, you know, last of the Mohican style.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah. And then launch himself off of it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I will find you.

[Trey Crowder]

Probably not. Probably tumbled over a shitty bridge.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Probably wet at the time.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah, probably lovely.

[Dave Anthony]

This is Savannah. Out of Savannah, which is one of the creepier towns I've ever been to.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah. Pretty though. Pretty.

[Dave Anthony]

Very pretty. But it has a. It just has an aura of bad stuff happened here.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah, for sure. Charleston's like that too. They both like, they're like, they're, they're like sort lovely, but also like slavey, you know?

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah, that's right. Yeah.

[Trey Crowder]

Which is unfortunate. Fortunate.

[Gareth Reynolds]

All title for America. Lovely. But slavey.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

An unidentified white man. They. And they also have to do that even at this time. Well, before you get into the story, what color was the guy?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Right.

[Dave Anthony]

An unidentified white man today leaped from a liquor laden automobile into this. Yeah, that's this guy. Yeah. He's partying. Yeah.

[Trey Crowder]

No, he's running it. I mean, he might.

[Dave Anthony]

And partying. I'm hoping partying too. I think you have to be a little drunk to jump out of a car.

[Trey Crowder]

Well, you know, not if the. Not if the fuzz is on your tail.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's just, it's a great image to get yourself to the point where you're like, well, I'm so in this shit. I got to jump in this water.

[Trey Crowder]

Oh, I Wonder is maybe the car stalled or they had him cornered. They were like on the other side of the bridge chasing him. And then cops were on the other side of the bridge.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He just grabbed an arm full of booze.

[Trey Crowder]

What's he going to do, you know?

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah, he leaped from a liquor laden automobile into the Savannah river to escape revenue officers and when lifted from the river and taken into a boat again, jumped into the water and disappeared under the warf.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's what you do.

[Trey Crowder]

So they got him after the first time. Like they had a cop in a boat ready for him to jump in the water. But then when that boat cop got him out of the water, they weren't ready for him to then jump out of the boat into the water again. Like they didn't have a. Should have had a second boat cop.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, that was part of the training going forward. Like now, guys, I know what you're thinking. We got him out of the water, he's in the boat, this case is closed. These guys will jump back in the water. Yeah, they're liquor fish.

[Dave Anthony]

Officers found his automobile at the ferry preparing to cross into South Carolina. J.C. kennedy of Augusta, who was at the ferry apparently waiting for his chauffeur. Her and car claimed the automobile and the liquor and Kennedy was arrested. Well, that's interesting.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He kind of fessed up.

[Dave Anthony]

I don't know if it's the same guy. No, it's a guy who was. Oh no, the chauffeur is the guy who jumped into the water. This is the guy who said he was waiting for the car. This is the guy. This is the guy who's.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I ordered an Uber liquor.

[Dave Anthony]

This is the guy who calls the cops now and he's like, someone stole my weed.

[Trey Crowder]

That's the guy.

[Dave Anthony]

This, this reminds me of the. Back in the day when the south loved like a gator, a Burt Reynolds moonshine runner and they didn't like cops and then they all switched.

[Trey Crowder]

I had a whole bit about that on my f. Like my first album, actually, that it's true because it's like Waven bootlegger. I mean that NASCAR is like one of the biggest sports in the south and it was founded by bootleggers running from the law and like smoking the bandits. Like, you know, the Bandit was the one who hit for people like the Dukes of Hazzard. The whole show was just two, you know, cousin country boys running from the law all the time.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What were they running from?

[Trey Crowder]

Just, you know, good old boys.

[Dave Anthony]

Just two good old boys running from just.

[Trey Crowder]

Just different things.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Just that really was the show was.

[Trey Crowder]

The whole time them running from the. Yeah. Just.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. There was more to it. Like, know they were moonshine runners, but they also had. They. They shot dynamite on arrows, as you would.

[Trey Crowder]

But, yeah, no redneck. Like, when I grew up in my redneck town, like, rednecks hated cops. Like, hated them. Rednecks and cops were like, natural enemies. Yes. And for good reasons on both sides. But like. But now, you know, rednecks are all rocking the, like, thin blue line flag.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Bootleggers to bootleg liquors.

[Trey Crowder]

Absolutely. That's it. Nailed it.

[Dave Anthony]

As. As things. As.

[Trey Crowder]

As the worm book.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

As the worm turns in America, I think the rednecks are about to find out that the cops are once again not their friends. But we all have lessons, and it's.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Time for the liberals to have a taste.

[Dave Anthony]

Radio installed at plane store.

[Gareth Reynolds]

How are you spelling?

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah, that's a good point.

[Dave Anthony]

P L, A, I, N, S. Not the other way around. That would be good. But yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Trey Crowder]

I'd heard it as P L, A, N, E. I did, too.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I think it might be what got McGowan, but that.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah, I was like, the 20s. I doubt they had plane stores yet.

[Dave Anthony]

No, not yet.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Not yet.

[Trey Crowder]

I mean, well, they don't have plane stores now. I don't know what I'm talking. I realized I saw a plane, so I don't have.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Excuse me. Head down to the plane store.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

Roll into a town today and be like, hey, where's your plane store?

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

With a monocle. I'm looking for your plane shop.

[Trey Crowder]

But I still don't. Knowing that it isn't. It's P L, A. I M. It like, it's just like.

[Dave Anthony]

I think. I think it's a town.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Like a general store.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. I think it's a general store in a town. Yeah.

[Trey Crowder]

But okay. Called the plant.

[Dave Anthony]

It's called Plains Pharmacy.

[Trey Crowder]

So plain Pharmacy. All right. Okay.

[Dave Anthony]

Plains Pharmacy has recently installed a radio outfit by Snow Bowers. Bowers also has a radio outfit in his home each evening.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Snow Bowers is the name.

[Trey Crowder]

Snow Bowers is a Tommy Names.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Wow. Yes.

[Trey Crowder]

Well, they like Snow, Bugs and Archibald and all these. Yeah, everybody had a funny name back then.

[Dave Anthony]

I like how Archibald is in there with snow and bugs.

[Trey Crowder]

Well, Archibald pretty good, too. It's a different kind of funny name, but it's still. It's still a very old timey.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's like the wrestling promoter versus the wrestlers, Right? Yes.

[Dave Anthony]

Your name is Trey, right?

[Trey Crowder]

Yes.

[Dave Anthony]

Okay.

[Trey Crowder]

I'm not the third, if that's what? Yeah. Oh, you're just making fun of just my name. That's.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I think he's just coming at you.

[Dave Anthony]

I'm just saying that that's also not a normal name.

[Trey Crowder]

Also not a what?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Trey, don't listen. Dave is. This is what he does.

[Trey Crowder]

Trey's a real name.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Trey's a real name. So is Gareth, even though it's just been changed.

[Dave Anthony]

It's Gary.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, all right, Trey. All right, Trey. All right, Trey.

[Trey Crowder]

I see how it in this country. It's not. Oh, here we go.

[Gareth Reynolds]

All right. Okay, okay. All right. I'm gonna call my pop Archibald right now.

[Trey Crowder]

Give a little.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Dave Anthony]

Bowers also has a radio out. I like how they don't call it a radio. They call it. Bowers also has a radio outfit in his home.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I believe that's a suit made of antennas.

[Dave Anthony]

Each evening, numbers visit the drugstore to hear concerts given from distant states.

[Trey Crowder]

That's what they used to do back then.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah, yeah. Go to drugstore to listen to the.

[Trey Crowder]

Around the radio. Listen to Better Texaco Presents. Better.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah.

[Trey Crowder]

The Parky a Carcass Comedy hour or whatever.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, better. I like it. It was better.

[Trey Crowder]

Well, we're going back to that now. It's like, yeah, kind of.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. We'll all be gathered around an iPhone.

[Trey Crowder]

It's all radio. Well, it's all just radio and it's sponsors and all that stuff. It is kind of like.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'll tell you, it's weird being in the business that we're in and then also being online and like scrolling through Instagram and be like, literally everything is a podcast now.

[Trey Crowder]

It's just.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's so weird to watch like three people just be like, well, that's the whole thing. Like, you need to be care and you're just like, what?

[Trey Crowder]

Literally, I saw one the other day and this. It was getting. It was getting passed around and doing numbers because people were like, can you believe this is. It was like making a point about what you were just saying. Everything's a podcast. But still, it was doing numbers. It was like three 13 year old boys talking about pizza.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's crazy.

[Trey Crowder]

What do you like on your pizza? It's just like a cheese. I'm not. I don't know. Pepper. I don't really do pepperoni. It's like. You don't? No, I don't. I'm just regular cheese. It's like, yeah, cheese is great cheese. And that's like literally the whole thing. And they're middle schoolers.

[Gareth Reynolds]

They're middle schoolers. And they're crushing. And I saw the other one I saw was them talking about oatmeal.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And it's really like, it is so up because, you know, we look. I remember, like, seeing, like, younger people in my family be like, wow, they're growing up with phones. It's so weird. It's like. That was weird for sure. Growing up where you're like, I need to feed the algorithm my whole existence. Way fucking weirder.

[Trey Crowder]

Yep, yep, yep.

[Dave Anthony]

Way weirder. All right, last one. This is in two parts.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Dave Anthony]

Story of Cuthbert's record dance a hoax. We have some fools here, but not one big enough to dance 116 Hours. Editor JJ Howell.

[Gareth Reynolds]

This is the Cory Booker of the Two Step.

[Dave Anthony]

Yep. Corey. Editor JJ Howell of the Cuthbert Leader. Writes the Macron Telegraph. So it's an editor writing another paper.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Right?

[Dave Anthony]

It's an editor. One paper writing another paper.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Paper suggesting that this dance was fraudulent.

[Dave Anthony]

Yes.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Fake dance. Wax legs under his pants. He was in a chair.

[Dave Anthony]

An Atlanta paper carried a story Sunday to the effect that a Cuthbert couple had danced 116 hours and some odd minutes when an irate brother of the dancing lady broke up the show by carrying away his sister.

[Trey Crowder]

Sister.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I think we all are on the brother's side. I mean, imagine your sister being out there dancing that long.

[Trey Crowder]

That's entirely too long.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah.

[Trey Crowder]

She got to get back to scrubbing the goddamn floors.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Good Lord.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah, that's exactly. Probably why, man.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

I haven't eaten in 116 hours.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, they're just covered in piss and I'm starving. It's been five days.

[Dave Anthony]

Editor Howell says. News Editor, Telegraph, Macron, Georgia. Dear Sir, I. They didn't have to put in. They already said who it was to. They didn't have to put in the.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I like it.

[Dave Anthony]

Dear sir, I find that a news story has been sent an Atlanta paper regarding someone here breaking their dance endurance record. There is no foundation for. Is simply a joke that has been put over the newspapers. We have some fools here, but not one big enough to dance 116 hours without stopping.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I. I bet in 1923, when there's no booze.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. Yeah. They were people.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Very possible.

[Dave Anthony]

Then he ends it by saying, I think yours, J.J. howell. So he's not really sure, but he's pretty sure.

[Trey Crowder]

So I don't get it. He's just like, is this just a dude who just heard this story? He's like, that is entirely too long for a person to dance.

[Dave Anthony]

Yes.

[Trey Crowder]

It's not within the realm of possibilities.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'm a dancer petition.

[Trey Crowder]

And then. And they publish it. They're like, I don't know, he might be right. This guy's right. Like there's no, like that's. I don't know, asking no evidence gather. You can't like talk to the people involved or anything.

[Gareth Reynolds]

While a man could potentially pull this off, the woman is where the story falls apart.

[Trey Crowder]

She would obviously faint within a matter of hours, as they are want to do in this particular era.

[Gareth Reynolds]

A woman would die after 4, 40 hours.

[Trey Crowder]

Yes. Barely have the vapors within 32 or less.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'm suggesting that the woman this man was dancing with was also a man, making the entire dance null and void.

[Dave Anthony]

But people did dance that long?

[Trey Crowder]

I think 116 hours.

[Dave Anthony]

I looked into Dance Dave.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's over three days.

[Dave Anthony]

I. I looked into dance contest once.

[Trey Crowder]

And I was even more.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I think like it's almost three and a half days.

[Dave Anthony]

I was gonna do a doll up on it. But they did go. Like people legitimately got hurt because they would. Would be up so long.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, that's called calling the herd.

[Trey Crowder]

For what? Like to.

[Dave Anthony]

Cuz you'd win money. Cuz they were desperate for money.

[Trey Crowder]

Okay.

[Dave Anthony]

If you could imagine that in America that's such a.

[Trey Crowder]

It's funny to make dancing like gladiatorial like that people are falling out and breaking their legs and it's like you want to pay your daughter's medical bills. Well then dance.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, it's funny.

[Trey Crowder]

Worthless sack of this country ain't never changed.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And that's what I was just going to say. It's like, it's funny to picture that and be like, that's crazy. And then all. Also remember the videos of like the slap fighting you see now and be.

[Trey Crowder]

Like, yeah, I saw thing the other day. It's like, you remember that meme that was huge for a while of like success kid, the little like toddler. Yes, he looks like that.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Trey Crowder]

I saw a thing the other day. It said success kid made enough money off of his Internet popularity to pay for his father's dialysis or something like, or like cancer. And they're like celebrating it. It's like, that's up.

[Dave Anthony]

It's up up.

[Trey Crowder]

But yeah, so our, our sort of.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Feel good dystopian porn is so amazing when it's like students help raise enough money for teachers cancer treatment. And you're right, this is not good news.

[Dave Anthony]

No, it's bad news. This reminds me of the movie Hands on a Hard Body. Have you guys ever seen.

[Trey Crowder]

Oh, I've not. No. I.

[Dave Anthony]

What's the difference? It's. It's to win it. To win a Toyota truck, a dealership would do a contest where you would put your hand on the. The car and the last person standing would win the car. And so people would just sit there for days.

[Trey Crowder]

I've heard.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, the best. The best part in Hands on our Body is this one guy who's like. His whole thing is he's like, my plan is to just load up on junk food now so I don't have to eat for the whole company. So he eats like Twixes and burritos and he crashes so hard.

[Trey Crowder]

No, this is a documentary you guys are talking about.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, there. There's a documentary and then there's also the one guy who like, is accidentally just like itches his face and they're like, sorry, Clarence, I forgot. Well, Trey, thank you for joining us as always.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah, always a pleasure.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Trash Daddy.

[Dave Anthony]

New special.

[Trey Crowder]

Very funny. Trash.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Always wet.

[Trey Crowder]

Tre.com all that stuff.com your dates.

[Dave Anthony]

Wet comedian.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah, very wet comedian.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Soaking perpetually. Cory's a sopping.

[Trey Crowder]

Yeah. Yes, he's. Yes, he's absolutely soaked at all times.

[Dave Anthony]

Problematic.

[Trey Crowder]

Yes, it is. Yes.

[Gareth Reynolds]

The undryable.

[Trey Crowder]

You'd like to think at some point he would grab a towel, but I don't.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Just a new shirt or something.

[Trey Crowder]

See it happen. But. But yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, thank you, Trey. And Dave is always good. Go screw yourself. Thanks, everybody.

[Dave Anthony]

That's right.

[Trey Crowder]

Bye.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Some of these days you'll miss me, honey. Some of these days. Hey, dollop fans. I know you love the dollop. You love listening to the dollop. Do you want to watch the dollop? You're like, gareth, what are you talking about? By the way, it's not Gary, it's Gareth. Well, we have partnered with Lakeside Animation and we are starting to animate some of our episodes. So if you want to go watch a five parter animation, which is actually like a 22 minute episode or 30 minute episode, I can't remember, of the rube. You can go to LakeSide Animation on YouTube and watch a really awesome animation of the rube. It. It really genuinely kicks ass and we're very proud of it. And the more you share it, the more you give it to people, the more you follow Lakeside, all that stuff, the better chance we have of making a lot more of them. We're already making a second one, so go there and watch the rube.