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Gareth Reynolds
All right, everybody, welcome to the Pastimes 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 Drew Morgan. Thank you for joining us, Drew.
Drew Morgan
Thank you for having me. Hello, fellas.
Gareth Reynolds
We're very. You're now you. Like you said before, we've completed the trifecta. We've had Trey, we've had Corey, who's just a Tasmanian devil to work with. It must be tough for you. He's a problem and now we have you.
Drew Morgan
Yeah, he makes it easier and harder. Yeah, you've had all of the well read guys. Now at this point, Corey is definitely, you know, podcasting or live or improv type stuff. That's definitely his.
Gareth Reynolds
The loosest cannon.
Drew Morgan
He is the loosest cannon. The biggest cannon.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah.
Drew Morgan
Biggest cannons.
Dave Anthony
Trey's more the guy yelling in a truck guy.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah, yeah.
Drew Morgan
Well, they're very good at the Internet and I'm more of a dish best served live. And, you know, I've known that about myself for a while now.
Gareth Reynolds
Well, speaking of which, if people want to see you live, they can go to drew morgan comedy.com. you'll be in Knoxville next month. Next month. And then where else are you going?
Drew Morgan
I'll be in Denver in July. I have a two year old and I've sort of almost two year old. I sort of promised myself to be on the off the road as much as possible, so I'm going to be touring next year. He's almost two and it's. It's great.
Gareth Reynolds
You feel like when the child's three, you can be an absent father. Is that sort of what the.
Drew Morgan
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm gonna go out for cigarettes and come back at the end of this weekend at Chuckle. Yeah, I do think that actually, I do. I mean, like, it's a joke, but like. Yeah, I think if you get the first three years. Right. Right. That's what Gabor mate says.
Dave Anthony
Yeah.
Drew Morgan
He's the smartest man on the Internet.
Gareth Reynolds
I haven't even talked to my dad, so I don't know. Go ahead, Dave. Your dad passed away. What were you gonna say?
Dave Anthony
Now your hat says virginia is for losers.
Gareth Reynolds
Lovers.
Drew Morgan
Losers.
Gareth Reynolds
Losers.
Dave Anthony
Interesting.
Drew Morgan
It's. It's a. Virginia's for lovers. It's a gay hat. It's a rainbow right there. Gay fan gave me that. Had it on at Chick Fil a yesterday. Walked in kind of thinking, wonder if I get any eyes. Wonder If I get any judgments, I did from a gay couple.
Gareth Reynolds
People who.
Drew Morgan
Noticed, they were looking at me like, ally, huh? Why are you buying this chicken? Why are you buying this chicken?
Gareth Reynolds
Let's just not tell each other that. Nobody tattle.
Drew Morgan
No, I think they were looking at me like, I don't think you're gay. Where'd you get that hat?
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah, it is interesting how Chick fil A did people decided was so delicious that they were able to overcome the fact that they were basically like, no gays.
Drew Morgan
Yeah.
Dave Anthony
I'm gonna be honest. Not that delicious.
Drew Morgan
Well, Dave's dumb. I also want to say on top of that, I want to say on top of that, I would argue Gareth, who I'm only exclusively talking to now about this topic. It got better. It was better when it was against the rules.
Gareth Reynolds
Interesting.
Drew Morgan
You know what I mean? Little shame.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah. Oh, yeah. So they didn't actually step up with recipes. It just kind of felt naughtier.
Drew Morgan
Yeah, Right.
Gareth Reynolds
Still the same food. Well, good for you.
Dave Anthony
Do you want to know the only thing I eat from there? The kale salad.
Gareth Reynolds
The kale.
Drew Morgan
I didn't want to know. I thought I might.
Gareth Reynolds
I was like, dave, why'd you do that? Double down.
Drew Morgan
You don't even like the fries. You just hate peanut oil. Is that what it is?
Dave Anthony
I just. Yeah. I don't know. I. Yeah, I just. My kid. My kid loves it, so I take him there, but I just get the kale salad. I enjoy the kale salad. I usually order two and throw it in a bowl.
Drew Morgan
Yeah, we can hear the joy in your voice when you describe how much.
Gareth Reynolds
Well, it's funny because you're only a voice, and the picture you're frozen on is sort of a quizzical. Like, I don't understand how things work.
Drew Morgan
So I don't know why, but I can see him. It's just blurry. Like, I like.
Gareth Reynolds
Oh, see, I just have a picture.
Drew Morgan
So. So I've got a Bigfoot blurred out. You know, I just really enjoy the.
Gareth Reynolds
I think you'd like my experience. It's. It's. I think, better. But listen, we're not here to suck Spectrum's dick and talk about how great they are. And real quick, Drew, your other podcast. You have another podcast, Because I have.
Drew Morgan
A podcast with the hilarious and great Carmen Morales and our good buddy DJ Lewis called Gravy Baby. And the concept there, uh, we call it Good Vibes for Trash People. You've heard of toxic positivity? This is positive toxicity. Our goal is to talk about stuff that Brings us joy, but without any Eat, Pray, love. And I gotta say, last few months been a tough gig go of it.
Gareth Reynolds
Not sure why things seem fine, but.
Drew Morgan
The concept of the idea was like dickhead comedians getting into the space of joy. So it's not just like ephemeral looking white women who whisper. You know what I mean? Yeah.
Gareth Reynolds
Like we show when you're not.
Drew Morgan
Basically, we were all sad and we were like, hey, we want a podcast where we don't end up going into the abyss every week. Let's make ourselves talk about what makes us happy. And since we're all kind of curmudgeony.
Gareth Reynolds
It'S been fun, you know, that's very similar to why we started the pastimes. We were like the dollop. So depressing. But we find a way to make this one depressing as well. It's really a skill. Somehow. It's a little lighter. Well, get ready to jump in the deep, Andrew. You're about to get past timed, so we will start by guessing what year this paper is from. I don't have any idea. I do think you'll go first, and I do think that you'll be closest in the eyes of Dave, who has some mental issues that he sort of has manifested into this part of the show. Nobody really cares for it. It's just strange and whatnot. But why don't you go ahead and guess your true. Go ahead for.
Drew Morgan
Okay. What a dynamite intro to the concept that was.
Gareth Reynolds
Thank you.
Drew Morgan
Thank you, Gareth.
Dave Anthony
You're welcome.
Drew Morgan
No, it's great. We did this because we were sad. It sucks. Dave's nuts. I told him before we started I was going to attack them both. I don't think they believed me.
Dave Anthony
No, we did. We did.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah.
Drew Morgan
I'm gonna. I think it's a little.
Gareth Reynolds
What if you just left?
Drew Morgan
I just froze. I held it. I'm gonna go night. I'm gonna go 19. I think it's. It's a slightly more current. I know you guys go far back sometimes. I'm gonna go 1952.
Gareth Reynolds
That's interesting. I do like it. I like that guess.
Dave Anthony
Do you?
Gareth Reynolds
Shut up. I'm gonna go wrong. 1888.
Dave Anthony
So wrong. It's 1909.
Gareth Reynolds
So.
Dave Anthony
So Gareth. Gareth loses because Drew's in the 19s. And that's told you how. But that was the rules going in, so.
Gareth Reynolds
Told you.
Dave Anthony
Yeah. Congratulations, Drew.
Drew Morgan
Yep.
Gareth Reynolds
You see what I'm talking about, Drew?
Dave Anthony
Today's winner.
Drew Morgan
Yes. I think a Price is Right thing where I went over, so I'm automatically done.
Gareth Reynolds
No, we don't do. Not so crazy now, am I? What are we dealing with?
Dave Anthony
This is the Trenton Evening Times, Trenton, New Jersey, January 21, 1909.
Gareth Reynolds
So they were always doing evenings too, is they? There was that. Because every time we go through these papers, there's not enough. It's so boring. But they were like, it's got to be morning and evening.
Dave Anthony
Yeah, it's very common to do morning and evening papers.
Gareth Reynolds
It's interesting.
Dave Anthony
All the way up until like, 1990 or so. Like, that was a thing.
Gareth Reynolds
Oh, wow.
Drew Morgan
So. So in 1909, Trenton had a morning and an evening paper. That's kind of crazy to me.
Gareth Reynolds
Yes, it's crazy because I don't think right now Trenton would have enough news for a paper.
Dave Anthony
Well, it's. Yeah, that's true. But remember, newspapers is all they had.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah.
Dave Anthony
At all. Like, this is like their cnn.
Gareth Reynolds
All right, well, why don't. At the end of this, we will decide if this evening edition was necessary or not. And I'm gonna. I'm gonna go ahead and guess that it wasn't.
Dave Anthony
Okay. This headline, Flying Hoof.
Gareth Reynolds
Yep. I can already kind of weigh in and say that this wasn't a necessary paper.
Dave Anthony
This story is very long. Citizens tell of seeing the tracks. Trail leads right up to the houses. And this is all the headlines and sub headlines. Trail leads right up to the houses and then disappears as though he or she or whatever the thing is has taken flight into the realms of space. Now, what were you saying, Gareth?
Gareth Reynolds
I mean, I didn't think we'd start off with Narnia.
Drew Morgan
Damn, what a banger.
Dave Anthony
It's the news.
Gareth Reynolds
Somewhat tracking it. When the footprints go, they're just like. Then it turned into an orb and went to Saturn, most likely.
Drew Morgan
Well, can we get a date other than the year? Is this a Christmas gag?
Dave Anthony
January 21, not a Christmas gag. This is the news in Trenton.
Gareth Reynolds
It's pretty good so far that. What is this? A winged beast?
Dave Anthony
The quote, Flying hoof. So that's the name of this we're tracking. Pegasus is on its or her or his way to Trenton. Scary.
Gareth Reynolds
Very much like the Santa tracker. Just now that we've got the Christmas.
Dave Anthony
Vibe out there, there are evidences that the route selected is more or less circuitous. But the mystery Jersey Devil is surely in this neighborhood.
Gareth Reynolds
All right, now I am lost. So now I'm not.
Dave Anthony
You've never heard of the Jersey Devil?
Gareth Reynolds
I've heard of the Jersey Devils, the hockey team.
Dave Anthony
Okay, but they're based.
Gareth Reynolds
They're.
Dave Anthony
They're named after the Jersey Devil, which is like.
Drew Morgan
Like a what, Like a Mothman type deal?
Dave Anthony
Yes. I mean, it's. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I mean, that's kind of close. Let me look it up. But what's the word for that in South. In South Jersey and Philadelphia folklore in the U. S. The Jersey Devil, also known as the Leeds Devil, is a legendary creature or cryptid, said to inhabit the forest of the pine. Barris of South Jersey is often described as a flying biped with hooves, but there are many variat. And that's what the. That's what the hockey team is named after.
Gareth Reynolds
Well, there you go. Okay.
Drew Morgan
Cryptid. That was the word I was looking for. Okay. 1909 Jersey Devil. I feel like 1909 is too late in the game to be this superstitious on the front page of the paper. This is. This is a rag.
Gareth Reynolds
I agree, I agree. And I also fear how soon it will be before Trump. Like we're. We're talking about it again.
Drew Morgan
Oh, yeah. But. But now, did the CIA exist in 1909? Now we can throw that element into it now. It would be like. I'll tell you what the New Jersey Devil is. It's a knob.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah.
Drew Morgan
You know. Yeah.
Gareth Reynolds
It's Paraguay.
Drew Morgan
Yeah.
Gareth Reynolds
But cryptid is also a little too close to crypto, so. Yeah, don't worry, there's going to be some Cryptid coin. There's a lot of fears, dude.
Drew Morgan
I'd invest in Mothman coin.
Gareth Reynolds
Yep, you're on coinbase. How's moth doing? Moth keeps going down, dude.
Drew Morgan
The. The red eyes could light up when it's doing well.
Gareth Reynolds
That would be enough for me.
Drew Morgan
I'm already in Doge.
Dave Anthony
In fact, the footprints of the wonderful air horse leads Satan and winged dog, as it has been variously described by different persons.
Gareth Reynolds
First article in the paper. Winged dog or Satan Is it?
Drew Morgan
If you saw a wing dog or Satan would be top journalism.
Gareth Reynolds
If you saw it. It feels like this.
Drew Morgan
Okay, but I'm just saying if somebody's like, there's a wing dog, you be like, yeah. Or Satan. I'm. That's fair.
Gareth Reynolds
I'm not knock on that one. If real include for sure.
Dave Anthony
It'S been described by different persons claiming to have actually seen the species are already discoverable at the white City park and last evening its tracks in the rear yard of the home of Harry Climber in Yardville.
Gareth Reynolds
Fake name.
Drew Morgan
They were in a yard in Yardville.
Gareth Reynolds
This is.
Drew Morgan
The whole thing's fake.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah.
Dave Anthony
This didn't help you guys. I can't believe you guys.
Drew Morgan
This is I think Dave wrote this and he got tired at the end. He was like, Yardville, I guess.
Gareth Reynolds
Well, Harry Climber is also another name for Sasquatch.
Dave Anthony
Thank you.
Drew Morgan
That's a good point, actually.
Dave Anthony
Everything's coming together now, you guys. See, so while the hoof seems only.
Gareth Reynolds
Trying to teach you guys.
Dave Anthony
Okay, so while the hoof seems only to be flirting with us, now the residents.
Gareth Reynolds
I love a flirt. When a girl puts her hoof in your crotch. I love a hoof flirt.
Dave Anthony
The residents in the neighborhood of the State Hospital and Cad Wilder park are momentarily expecting its appearance. So people are.
Gareth Reynolds
So. They're waiting.
Dave Anthony
They're waiting. They're out watching. Waiting for the Jersey.
Gareth Reynolds
You'll find the Winged dog and the devil aren't gonna. They don't love crowds.
Dave Anthony
You don't know.
Drew Morgan
Maybe they didn't know that in 1909. Maybe they hadn't learned how private Bigfoot was.
Gareth Reynolds
It's so private.
Dave Anthony
Maybe this turns, Lord. And maybe this turns into the Jersey Devil attacking a crowd and killing great many.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah, I feel like we would have heard of it about it, though.
Drew Morgan
That's the world's first hockey riot.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah.
Dave Anthony
It's not like you heard a lot about the Mothman until the movie came out. You didn't know about it. It killed so many people.
Drew Morgan
I knew about it because I'm from Appalachia. But I understand your point. It's well made. Well taken.
Gareth Reynolds
I think a little too sweet of a reaction, but.
Drew Morgan
All right, Drew.
Dave Anthony
Early this morning came news of a suspicious presence of tracks in the snow at Groveville. William McMoyle, employed at the Trenton offices of the United Revolving Door Company. So they got.
Drew Morgan
Revolving door.
Dave Anthony
I just want to point out that you guys had a bigger reaction to the United Revolving Door Company than the Winged Devil.
Drew Morgan
Yeah, because this sounds way more made up. Dude. That's how up America is right now. A company that makes one thing, and it's in the tie title, that's not a company. Are now called, like, you know, Dark Face or whatever. And what they do is buy up all the houses so he can't afford to live in them anymore. The United Revolving Door. This is a Dick Tracy episode.
Gareth Reynolds
Oh, my God. You're talking about big door, big doors in on this. The Monopoly.
Drew Morgan
Now I know who's behind this. Flying dog.
Gareth Reynolds
A United Revolving Door Company. What do you guys do?
Dave Anthony
We make the. The door goes around.
Gareth Reynolds
We make concrete. Interesting.
Dave Anthony
So William had his attention called to the strange, weird prince and upon investigation, declared that the flying hoof had surely arrived.
Gareth Reynolds
Okay, so let's hear a little more evidence.
Dave Anthony
Not a cloven hoof quote. I recognize the tracks from those reproduced in the papers. So he's like a science guy, is he? Yeah, he's seen the tracks in the newspapers, so he is.
Drew Morgan
So the guy who works for the door company is our hoof expert.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah, that's right. And the where he gets his facts from are from the paper.
Drew Morgan
I don't mind that part.
Gareth Reynolds
I do. When it comes to winged dogs. No. Permission denied. Don't even ask.
Dave Anthony
Co host and the guest hostel.
Gareth Reynolds
No. What? Drew's on your side, first of all. And no to me, it's gonna be hostile. Jesus Christ.
Drew Morgan
By the way, everyone listening? This is why I said I was gonna be hostile, because they were already acting like this. That's the only. That was. That was my motivation. I was like, all right, I'm just gonna attack you both because you keep.
Gareth Reynolds
Acting like this smart. It doesn't seem like you're for lovers, though.
Dave Anthony
And there is no mistaking losers. It's genius for losers. And there is no mistaking them. They took.
Drew Morgan
Sorry.
Dave Anthony
They look to me as if the hoof was that of a young cult, not a cloven hoof as I've heard of its being described. And there are spaces for 100ft or more between the regular steps in the snow, suggesting beyond a doubt that the visitor flies. Science.
Drew Morgan
Damn. You didn't leave any room for it being 100ft long.
Gareth Reynolds
Nope, nope.
Drew Morgan
Didn't.
Gareth Reynolds
Nope. Invisible at 100ft long. No, Just every now and then, he's got to stop. He flies for he's kind of like a duck flight.
Drew Morgan
Like a bound. Yeah.
Dave Anthony
Suggestion is that the Jersey Devil is like a snake. Like a really long serpent creature.
Gareth Reynolds
Who are you talking to? Neither of us are insinuating that with.
Dave Anthony
One hoof that drops down.
Drew Morgan
He's just asking me why he. Why I would even bring up the idea that it was 100ft long. I. I don't know. I think for comedic effect, but I'll do that again. My faul.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah, that's right. But again, I think we're picturing more of, like, a millipede or like a caterpillar, just with longer space legs. Because if it was a snake, you would see belly prints.
Dave Anthony
Yeah, okay. See, I like.
Drew Morgan
We're like wiener dog.
Gareth Reynolds
No. Yeah, much like. Yes, exactly. By the way, wiener dog.
Dave Anthony
The absolute worst dog in the world. Absolute worst dog. Whoever's listening to this, whoever's editing this podcast should know that the wiener dog is the worst dog ever. Alex.
Gareth Reynolds
Dave. I don't even think you've seen his license plate. His license plate is. I'm not kidding, Weens.
Dave Anthony
Oh, my God.
Gareth Reynolds
I saw him one day and I was like, no. I saw him one day and I was like, check out that idiot. He was like, that's my car. Jesus Christ.
Drew Morgan
Are you okay when that happens?
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah.
Dave Anthony
He does get very mad when I say how bad of a dog or the wiener dog is.
Drew Morgan
I'm going to be honest. I was going to defend wiener dogs, but now I don't want to be on that side.
Gareth Reynolds
No, you don't want to be on the side of Alex.
Drew Morgan
You know what it's like? It's like, it's. It's literally how I feel about guns. I like. I grew up in the South. I kind of like guns. But then I hear the pro gun people talk and I'm like, well, I'm not going to let anybody know that I feel anything. That those people.
Gareth Reynolds
That's a bit much, isn't it?
Drew Morgan
Yeah. Look at his license plate. It's actually literally the same.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah, I like wiener dogs, but not. I'm not going to enable this, man. Man.
Drew Morgan
Yeah.
Gareth Reynolds
I'm gonna validate this insanity.
Dave Anthony
Seated White City. The following message on a postal explains the appearance of the hoof prints at the White City. Dear Editor, in regard to the curious hoof prints seen in different parts of New Jersey, I thought I would let you know that there are as far up as the White City.
Drew Morgan
Charles, it makes sense that this was happening in the White City.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah, of course. Yep.
Dave Anthony
Charles, Stephanesi and myself, we're going over some muskrat.
Drew Morgan
Traps. Dave, can you read it? Like. Like just. Just after silent films ended, the first talkies. Can you do that kind of voice?
Dave Anthony
I don't know.
Drew Morgan
Me and Charles Musgrave are up in the White City and there was hoofs on the ground, hundred feet apart. Biggest the moon.
Gareth Reynolds
Looking for Musgrave prints. They were following it up. I.
Dave Anthony
Stupid Easy and myself were going over some muskrat traps on Sunday and saw muscle in the snow.
Gareth Reynolds
Muskrat traps.
Drew Morgan
We met a man from the revolving door company.
Dave Anthony
And followed them up.
Gareth Reynolds
He said they were having trouble retaining employees for some reason. He said the whole establishment is like.
Dave Anthony
In and out and followed them up for about a mile and gave it up. My friend saw them again Monday in the White City grounds and followed them again, but had to give it up for a bad job. I have never saw anything like it before. Yours respectfully, Clarence.
Drew Morgan
And this is in the snow, obviously. January, we're in New Jersey.
Dave Anthony
That's right.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah, that's right.
Dave Anthony
I mean otherwise you wouldn't see it. It would just be, you know, right. It grass. Right. In the summertime, you don't see the Jersey Devil Prince.
Drew Morgan
There might be a Martian New Jersey in 1909. I don't know, man. I mean, New York, the city is sinking because they built it on a wetland.
Gareth Reynolds
But.
Drew Morgan
But.
Gareth Reynolds
And they. And there looks like they're going to elect a socialist.
Drew Morgan
Oh, wow.
Gareth Reynolds
Sinking, sinking.
Drew Morgan
Like the cost of rent. Finally.
Gareth Reynolds
Disgusting.
Drew Morgan
I think. I think we can move beyond the notion. Well, maybe not. How do you guys feel about it? This many eyewitnesses and since it's a newspaper, not a situation of the television. Although I don't know. This. This story clearly came out weeks after people have been talking about this. So what do you guys think? Is everyone full of or is this a prank?
Dave Anthony
No, it's, it's. These are dated January 20th and then this one is January 19th. So these are all the past couple of days that people saw.
Gareth Reynolds
I think it's some. Some liars at the top. And then it's really easy to get a bunch of idiots to be like, I seen it too.
Drew Morgan
I agree with that. But I'm wondering if there was ever a hoax or a weird thing that happened that started this. Like was maybe Genesis something interesting.
Dave Anthony
You know, it started as someone seeing the Jersey Devil.
Drew Morgan
That's a good point. I do. Like, let's go back to that opening. Didn't it say something like, this is clearly something that has related to the New Jersey Devil. But it wasn't calling it the New Jersey Devil. Did they already prove that the New Jersey Devil can't fly?
Dave Anthony
They are.
Gareth Reynolds
That's hilarious, by the way. That the devil can't fly. Oh, anyone going east?
Dave Anthony
They're not saying it's not real. They're just saying that kicked him out of heaven.
Drew Morgan
Dude. Like if he could fly, he just would have taken off somewhere. Other than that.
Gareth Reynolds
Hell no. He's in Jersey. Oh God, I miss hell.
Dave Anthony
Riverside story. A correspondent of the Times in Riverside sends the following. This city has joined the South Jersey towns in the. What is it stir for?
Gareth Reynolds
Is this whole thing about this fake?
Dave Anthony
Yeah, we. What do you mean fake? We're trying to. Jesus Christ. Open your mind.
Gareth Reynolds
I am.
Drew Morgan
Podcast and talk about what makes you happy. My God.
Gareth Reynolds
We literally would not know what to do with ourselves.
Dave Anthony
The unknown animal believed by local residents to be a one legged. I told you. I told you.
Gareth Reynolds
Shut the up.
Dave Anthony
He's got one leg with somebody's just a hopper.
Drew Morgan
100Ft hopper.
Dave Anthony
A one legged, one footed bird has been lurking about the city the past 36 hours. Though never seen its tracks are found mainly about small buildings and chicken coops. Okay, so we're narrowing down its habitat.
Drew Morgan
It's a one legged bird that can fly. Okay, here's my question. People who worked for the paper in 1909, do they not know what the a bird track looks like? My son knows what a bird track looks like. If I walk my son out in the woods and I'm like, what the hell's up with this bird track? Every 100ft he's gonna be like, it's a bird, it can fly. He's not gonn like. I don't know. I think it might be the devil, dad.
Dave Anthony
Well, how many of those birds had. Had hooves? That your son?
Drew Morgan
That's what I'm saying. Who the said it was a hoof? If it is a bird? Who looked at a bird track and was like that looks like a hoof?
Dave Anthony
The people of Jersey who know.
Gareth Reynolds
Yep. Seems like you're running out of argument, Dave.
Dave Anthony
Of Joseph. Of Joseph Mans. And next morning he found his pup dog dead.
Drew Morgan
His pup?
Gareth Reynolds
Look, nobody's, nobody's. Nobody's happy. A pup dog's dead. But what does that have to do with the price of eggs?
Drew Morgan
Yeah. Sonic treat.
Dave Anthony
Believing that he was a victim of his testimony in a recent assault scandal, he reported the matter to Justice Ziegler who detailed.
Gareth Reynolds
Imagine reporting this to a judge who.
Dave Anthony
Sent Officer Borton to investigate.
Gareth Reynolds
I'm Officer Borton.
Dave Anthony
Quote, man's declared that Officer Borton shot the devil. Jesus, you're just.
Drew Morgan
Yeah. If this would have happened in the south, we'd have got some sick songs out of it at least.
Gareth Reynolds
Oh yeah.
Dave Anthony
Man's declared the culprit wore small horseshoes on his shoes, the tracks of which he found all about the place, even on the top of the building. Well.
Gareth Reynolds
What?
Drew Morgan
I have a theory.
Gareth Reynolds
That's a lie.
Drew Morgan
No, this is my theory. I trust Borton born's a good man. He's gonna make detective next year.
Gareth Reynolds
I stand with Borton.
Drew Morgan
I think that whatever event caused this bird to lose its leg, it also lost part of its other foot so that it doesn't look like a normal bird track.
Dave Anthony
Interesting. Very interesting theory. I like it.
Gareth Reynolds
Is it?
Dave Anthony
Yep. Later, the justice was Gareth. Yes, it was.
Gareth Reynolds
Christ.
Dave Anthony
None of you little mopey. Later the justice was startled to find similar tracks in his backyard. And he immediately.
Gareth Reynolds
Excuse me.
Dave Anthony
Six plaster molds. He Made six plaster molds.
Gareth Reynolds
Jesus Christ.
Dave Anthony
The tracks were made in a single yet exact line resembling those of a small pony.
Gareth Reynolds
The plot, I literally. I literally. I can't even track the story I. About the tracking of whatever this is.
Dave Anthony
The plot thickens.
Gareth Reynolds
No, it doesn't.
Dave Anthony
It has no plucking. It is meaty and thick.
Drew Morgan
It's the impression. A common thing in 1909, I guess. It's like how they made their walls. It's just like a strange thing that, like, hey, the depression's coming up, but I can just waste some materials on this pony bird.
Gareth Reynolds
Well, this was back when. This is the Roaring Tens almost. I mean, this is plaster. Everyone had fuck you, plaster at this point.
Dave Anthony
Yeah, it's true.
Gareth Reynolds
The plaster is not where we should be, Hunt. Yeah, well, the plaster. The plaster is. It's. Look, it's an issue, but it's also tracking on top of a building. Now we're just talking about. I mean, it really feels like what we've determined in the paper is that this could be anything.
Dave Anthony
The impressions about half an inch in the Snow were about 2 1/2 inches long and arc 1 1/4 inches wide. All day long, crowds of persons thronged the squire's premises and visited his office to view the molds. A murder could hardly produce more excitement. So people are. This is.
Drew Morgan
That's the standard murder? Yeah, man. 1909 sucked, dude.
Gareth Reynolds
This is exciting, man. Hey, did you hear there was a murder? Let's get the out of here. I don't want to see the devil. Someone got killed.
Drew Morgan
This is almost as fun as the murder last year, man.
Gareth Reynolds
How great is a murder? Pretty good.
Drew Morgan
It's pretty good, dude.
Gareth Reynolds
I love a good murder.
Dave Anthony
Gloucester couple see it. Nelson Evans of that city and his wife Bella have come forward to tell of seeing the strange beast at 2 o' clock in the morning. So they saw it. Gareth, it's been.
Gareth Reynolds
Did they? Did they.
Drew Morgan
What were these people doing out two in the morning? That's not decent.
Dave Anthony
Mr. Evans is a. Is a paper hanger and living on Mercer street in the domain of the Duke of Gloucester. He is in a church. He's a church member.
Gareth Reynolds
Literally. What is happening with everything?
Drew Morgan
Church?
Gareth Reynolds
A royal.
Dave Anthony
So is his wife. They go to church. Garrett.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah. The Duke of Gloucester is a paper hanger.
Drew Morgan
Lives in the quarters of the Duke of Gloucester.
Gareth Reynolds
Correct. God.
Drew Morgan
Which. I gotta be Honest, I thought 1909, we were done with that. I thought that was kind of like the whole point of us, but maybe I'm.
Dave Anthony
No, neither of them Ever even tasted applejack. Ms. Evans tells her strangest words.
Gareth Reynolds
The wrestler. I think he's even tasted apple Jack.
Dave Anthony
I think he's saying that they're on the straight and narrow. They're not applejacking around, you see?
Drew Morgan
Saying they're not drunk. Is that what you're getting?
Dave Anthony
I think so.
Drew Morgan
I think these two have never tasted apple Jack. Never even had a sniff of it. I like that you made apple Jack a guy. Because it would be great if he popped up and argued. That's not true, ma'. Am. You tasted me last year. It was in the summer.
Gareth Reynolds
I was having an affair with applejack. I'm begging a lot of the wives.
Dave Anthony
Okay. Mrs. Evans telling of her strange experience. There was a strange noise in the yard. It sounded like a clatter of pots on a stove, as if somebody was throwing.
Gareth Reynolds
Nobody got their story straight.
Dave Anthony
I poked my elbow into Mr. Evans side and whispered to him. Nels, get up quick. Something is wrong. In the yard, my husband got out of bed and saw something on the shed roof. He called me and I went to the window. Something about two feet high and running around out there on two feet.
Gareth Reynolds
The devil's tiny.
Dave Anthony
At first I was scared and stepped back from the window. But I looked out again and got a good view of it. It made no noise at all until it began flapping its wings. And then it sounded. Seas seize seas. Just like this muffled sound a woodsaw makes when it strikes a rotten place. While I was looking, the animal rose on its wings and flew away. It wasn't a pony, for it walked on two legs. I saw something like arms by its breast, but it was too dark to make out plainly. It wasn't a kangaroo, for it had feathers. I could see that on the side toward the light.
Gareth Reynolds
And.
Dave Anthony
And it had wings and a long neck. Its face was just like the face of a horse.
Gareth Reynolds
Oh, my God.
Dave Anthony
Terrifying.
Drew Morgan
Dude. I realize you guys don't give a about Mothman, but like, literally, this is this big. How Mothman started too.
Gareth Reynolds
Really?
Drew Morgan
People hadn't seen back then. And sometimes there was a new bird. Yeah. Because even. Even in her descriptions, you could tell they have no reference points.
Gareth Reynolds
It probably was a chicken.
Dave Anthony
They don't.
Drew Morgan
They're like, what did it sound like? Pots and pans. That's because that's all that ladies ever own.
Gareth Reynolds
I mean to say it sounded like pots and pants. I know two sounds. My husband and pots and pans. And it wasn't at all. My husband.
Drew Morgan
Sounded like a wood saw. I remember hearing when I'm a Little girl one time.
Gareth Reynolds
We're trying to limit her sounds.
Drew Morgan
Although she did throw kangaroo in there. Where the did that come from?
Dave Anthony
I assume they've seen drawings of kangaroos. Like, that's probably because people are when. If you go to Australia, you're like, what the. Can you start drawing?
Drew Morgan
She's like, it wasn't a kangaroo. We know, lady.
Gareth Reynolds
It had feathers. So it definitely wasn't a kangaroo, if that's what you're thinking.
Drew Morgan
I know what you guys are thinking. It's definitely an Australian marsupial in the middle of the New Jersey winter. But guys, probably it wasn't.
Gareth Reynolds
That's probably where it put all of its pots and pans in its little pouch.
Drew Morgan
Yep. And I. I had an idea. He should join the revolving door company. They could expand pouches, pots, pans and doors.
Gareth Reynolds
I seen him on the roof and he sounded like a bunch of pots and pans on his hind legs. And he was about 2ft tall. I think it was a busboy.
Dave Anthony
Cross River. Two hoof prints found in Philadelphia were. Were inspected.
Gareth Reynolds
God damn paper. Just about this by person who examined.
Dave Anthony
The tracks in Woodbury Gl in Westville. So now someone's looking at all the Gloucester. Gloucester. They said that unquestionably the marks were made by the creature that on the east side of the Delaware is called the Jersey Devil. O plot thickens, Mr. Sorry, Dr. J.F. zindel. No, he's a Mr. Osteopathist living at.
Gareth Reynolds
Whatever 21st osteopath is about to weigh in on the prince.
Dave Anthony
That's right.
Gareth Reynolds
As a doctor, this is definitely a devil.
Dave Anthony
Declared yesterday that he had found the trail in his backyard on the top of his shed and roof of his house.
Gareth Reynolds
Oh, so it's a real shed hopper.
Dave Anthony
It's flop flapping and flying around.
Gareth Reynolds
Flapping and flopping and flying around.2ft tall on its hind legs. Shed hopping, sounding like pots and pans.
Dave Anthony
W.H. cantrell, also in Philadelphia, led some reporters to his backyard. And there are hoof prints on the south side of the house. And run into 100 prank. As if the visitor flew a little way and then began to walk again. Now, quote, now, now I have to talk about this. All the fellows at the office will be laughing at me. But the tracks are there, sure enough. I wager, too, that the thing that made the trail walked on two legs. I noticed the hoof prints on Monday and wondered at it then. Fascinating. It's fascinating.
Gareth Reynolds
Stop talking.
Dave Anthony
Mr. Cantrell's backyard has a high fence around it and the Gate at the alley is always locked. Explain that, Reynolds.
Gareth Reynolds
There's just a whole bunch of. Someone got into the gate.
Dave Anthony
That's your scientific.
Drew Morgan
That was dynamite, Gareth. Just on all of our theories all day long. And that's what you came up with? Bunch of.
Gareth Reynolds
It was a revolving door.
Drew Morgan
There's a revolving gate. That's pretty good.
Gareth Reynolds
It's a revolving gate.
Dave Anthony
Burlington really scared. From Burlington comes a dispatch to the effect that the devil's footprints mystery has become a very real terror to that mystery.
Drew Morgan
I like how the paper just is getting more and more like. And by the way, these things we were speculating now facts and this is.
Gareth Reynolds
In the same paper. It's not like four weeks later that they're like now we're a little more nervous. And later in the paper they're like, we're now convinced after reading the top.
Drew Morgan
Of our paper someone commits a murder soon. So we can stop hearing about this.
Gareth Reynolds
I. I have a bad feeling. This is it. I have a bad feeling. This whole evening edition is just this.
Dave Anthony
And ads has become a very real tailor terror to that vicinity with the discovery that practically no part of the city and surrounding countryside has been immune to visits of the uncanny creature of creatures which have been stirring all over South Jersey. Old men who remember the days when the Leeds devils scared lonely communities of the county believe this terror has returned.
Gareth Reynolds
It took a long time off, but the devil's back.
Drew Morgan
This is a common thing. People were so bored. Man. I'm glad we have smartphones.
Dave Anthony
While black settlements of the area.
Gareth Reynolds
Here we go.
Dave Anthony
Said the mark of those of what they term flying death. Interesting. So the people who are not white have a. Also a description.
Gareth Reynolds
They even agree, right?
Drew Morgan
Yeah. Yeah. I do do like the twist. They're like, that's just death, honey. Like that's all that is. We don't have to compare it to a dog or a kangaroo. Death is here.
Gareth Reynolds
But I also think that they probably were like, you know what if white people are seeing a devil? We've been seeing it for a while too. Let's just agree with them. They're like, you know, we seen a terrible devil. He's got no moral compass and will do anything to punish. And they were like, yep. Right.
Drew Morgan
We saw that.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah, we saw that up in telling us about the devil. Yeah, but white city death.
Drew Morgan
You talk about death.
Gareth Reynolds
Did yours look like a kangaroo but without feathers?
Drew Morgan
Sure, whatever you want me to say.
Gareth Reynolds
Whatever. Whatever gets you out of here fastest.
Dave Anthony
Yeah, undoubtedly. The beast bird that made the tracks were numerous as they vary in different Spots from the size of the horse's hoof, but two. But two inches in diameter. Even the largest, however, lead through fence holes less than two feet high.
Gareth Reynolds
Wow. I love how it has to go through the fence. This. The devil is like, I can almost fit through here.
Dave Anthony
We learned a lot.
Gareth Reynolds
Did we?
Dave Anthony
Yeah, we did. We learned a lot.
Drew Morgan
I feel. I feel very scholarly.
Dave Anthony
I mean, basically, you just took a science course. Yeah, I. Gareth, I need you to believe in science more.
Gareth Reynolds
I am. I am. I am feeling relief that we might be done with this part of the dumbest paper we've so far had.
Drew Morgan
I listened to a couple episodes, and you say that every episode. I don't think that that's a theme. You're like, this paper's stupid.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah.
Dave Anthony
Yeah.
Drew Morgan
They don't know.
Gareth Reynolds
No, I know. And that's stupid to me.
Dave Anthony
Yeah.
Drew Morgan
They're out there bloodletting to get over the blues.
Gareth Reynolds
Also stupid.
Drew Morgan
I agree.
Gareth Reynolds
It is.
Drew Morgan
It is more interesting, though, than, like, you know, whatever's going on in my town right now. I bet if I brought in my town's newspaper right now, you, Gareth, would be like, our papers from back in the day are better.
Gareth Reynolds
I agree. It's not that they're not entertaining, but they are insanely stupid.
Drew Morgan
Yeah. Those go hand in hand a lot in this country. It's good to know that that is might be our culture going back to at least 1909.
Gareth Reynolds
Stupid people.
Drew Morgan
Being verbose is really thinking about how I know I'm biased. I do wish this was in a Southern town just so our voices could have been. But I would. I would have loved to Gone with the Wind.
Gareth Reynolds
I did do a Southern voice earlier. It's a.
Drew Morgan
Well, yeah, it was stupid. And you're prejudice, so that's what you did.
Dave Anthony
That's right.
Drew Morgan
You're like a dumbass. Like Drew.
Gareth Reynolds
Oh, okay. It's Drew's people.
Drew Morgan
Yeah. In New Jersey in 1909. You guys know how famously there were so many Southerners in New Jersey in 1909? I walked around talking to newspaper reports.
Gareth Reynolds
This map was weird back then. Stop. Jersey was basically south.
Drew Morgan
Yeah. And then weighed in on the controversy. The guy they named it after.
Dave Anthony
Have you guys considered not being dipshits?
Gareth Reynolds
Yes. Who thought Dave was going to come to my rescue? Drew.
Drew Morgan
I was going to take away his. His dumbass. You know, his brain. Like, people really hang on to that. Whoever it is, it would be a.
Dave Anthony
Little irritating, right, to live in a place in the country where everyone's just like, this is the voice for dummies. Has that character where they're like, all of a sudden, there's a son.
Drew Morgan
Everyone has that character. I have that.
Gareth Reynolds
That's what's funny about Corey, like, roaming around the forest near his house, like, being like, let me tell y' all why the Republicans have fully shit the bed again. And you're just like, easy, Corey. You're easy now, boy. You don't want to be forest liberalling.
Drew Morgan
Maybe it was just Corey jumping around the woods in New Jersey drunk. Yeah.
Gareth Reynolds
After doing four podcasts.
Drew Morgan
Look like a kangaroo.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah. He's just like, I raised $4,000 for homeless people last night. I don't even remember doing it.
Drew Morgan
I think it was the kangaroo because he kept pulling stuff out of his stomach area and drinking it. Sandwich under his shirt.
Gareth Reynolds
Corey is a kangaroo. The southern kangaroo.
Dave Anthony
Secret marriage of none revealed.
Drew Morgan
Oh, I'm in. I'm so in.
Gareth Reynolds
Oh, that is hot. That's hot.
Dave Anthony
Pope Pius will be asked by Archbishop Miller to grant a special dispensation for Sister Adelia of the St. Francis Hospital Corps, who, in the disguise of a cook's garb, eloped last August with Jacob Walter, who was her patient.
Gareth Reynolds
Oh, wow.
Drew Morgan
Her patient.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah. Yeah.
Drew Morgan
That man knocked out like four fantasies in one night, dude.
Dave Anthony
He did, didn't he?
Gareth Reynolds
He did a one woman orgy tonight. You're a nurse.
Dave Anthony
Oh, now you're a nun. Oh, God. The pub's watching us.
Drew Morgan
That one legged bird flies by. The devil's here too.
Gareth Reynolds
Oh, my God. Mind if I join? That's a lot of feathers.
Drew Morgan
Curious if it lists his ailment in this story.
Dave Anthony
Oh, the enrollment was wrong with my boy. The elopement has just leaked out. Early in the summer, Walter was taken ill and sent to the St. Francis Hospital. So that's it? He's just taken ill? That's what happened back then. You got taken ill?
Drew Morgan
Yeah. Took everything.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah.
Dave Anthony
There's. Sister Adelia attended him. Yeah, sure did. Yeah.
Drew Morgan
Damn.
Dave Anthony
He fell in love with his nurse and his love was returned. Walter left his bed.
Gareth Reynolds
One gotta be. It's gotta be great. Like, it's gonna be crazy when you're like, I think the nun is giving vibes.
Drew Morgan
Yeah.
Gareth Reynolds
Like, you'd have to be like, no way, dude.
Drew Morgan
This dude's game is immaculate.
Gareth Reynolds
It's really amazing to. To be able to like, none pull.
Drew Morgan
None nurse pull.
Gareth Reynolds
None nurse pull. Is shocking.
Drew Morgan
This is against many of her rules.
Gareth Reynolds
You've gotta, like, she has to be making the first move. You can't.
Drew Morgan
Yeah, she's into it. She's into breaking multiple she's eating Chick fil. A chicken in a gay Virginia hat.
Gareth Reynolds
Yes. Yes.
Drew Morgan
She gets it.
Gareth Reynolds
She's off limits.
Dave Anthony
Do you think she gave me a handy?
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah, I think there had to be something.
Drew Morgan
Yeah, she kissed his neck. Then they had to get married because of the law.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah. She was like, I've betrayed the Lord. We're legally married now.
Dave Anthony
Walter left his bed one morning, and Sister Adelia did not go to early mass in the chapel. Instead, she went into the kitchen and exchanged her uniform for the street clothes of one of the cooks. And she and Walter were married by justice of the Peace buddy.
Drew Morgan
She did what? She went into the kitchen and was just like, put on my nun outfit.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah, she just put a chef's hat on. And she was like, now I can escape. They chefs are allowed to leave our nuns.
Dave Anthony
Not allowed.
Drew Morgan
That's a much funnier visual. Thank you for that. But it definitely said traded, which means she just got a cook to give her.
Gareth Reynolds
Excuse me. Would you like to be a nun for the day? And I'll be a cook. Okay.
Drew Morgan
Hell yeah, Dude. See, now I'm making the dumbass southern. But this guy's fun, so I like it. He's got a cigarette hanging out on one lip. Nurse came in here, just got undressed, Dude. She was naked. She's like, give me your clothes. I gotta go marry this guy. I was like, what the am I supposed to do? God wants me to do it.
Gareth Reynolds
Pope Pius doesn't notice. Sister, can we bother you to come into the chapel for a minute? I reckon I probably could figure it out. Come here. All right.
Drew Morgan
I ain't giving those sick dudes hand jobs like that last broad did.
Gareth Reynolds
Easy now, Sister. That's not how a lady talks. All the nuns gather round. We've gotten some word that some of the patients are hitting on some of you. Please, no dipping in the chapel.
Drew Morgan
So. Hell, man, you're the one called a meeting this time of day. Am I supposed to do Pope language, Sister?
Gareth Reynolds
Good Lord.
Drew Morgan
Well, also pass. Where's the at, Dude? What the are we doing in here?
Gareth Reynolds
If much to learn Sister with a beard and a cigarette.
Drew Morgan
Well, what I want to get back to is she did this. I was giving my boy a lot of credit, and he clearly had some game andor was gorgeous. But if she ran into the kitchen and that quickly got some of the. She's the one pulling the gears. You see what I'm saying?
Gareth Reynolds
He.
Dave Anthony
There's got to be tons of nuns who go in when they're super young and they're like, you know what I would like to.
Drew Morgan
Yeah.
Gareth Reynolds
Well, it's also not to make. The man was probably like, get married. Do you want to hang out a little? She was like, it's the only way. We just made out a little bit. And that's a morphine. And she's like, finally, my true calling.
Drew Morgan
You. I don't know. I think growing up in the part of the south that I did, I kind of understand what happens with kids at 19, and they've been waiting to. But God won't let them in their brain. I think as soon as she was like. He was. He was like, yeah, I'll. I'll wear a wedding ring, a hat. I'll wear your clothes. I'll do whatever you want. We can get tattoos. As long as you let me bust, Sister.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then getting married.
Dave Anthony
That was in the card he wrote her. As long as you let me bust, Sister.
Gareth Reynolds
As long as you let me. I didn't know Hallmark made one of these. Long as you let me bust. I. I mean, I would also, like. The justice of the piece was like. And you, Standard cook, take this man to be your. Take this patient. Take this man in his OR scrubs.
Drew Morgan
He's coughing. Yeah. He's just got a hospice in the back.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah. This is a strange ceremony, obviously.
Dave Anthony
After the excitement of the wedding had somewhat subdued, the pair began to think their separation from the church. They began to think of their separation from the Church. They appealed to Father Schmidt of St. Bon. I can't read that. And it was through his intervention that Archbishop Miller has appealed to the Pope to give his consent to a church wedding. Oh, they just want the Pope. Oh, they want to make the wedding. Oh, they want to make.
Gareth Reynolds
They want it to be legit. Yeah, yeah.
Drew Morgan
I still want to be Catholic. I just didn't want to be a nun. That feels fair. It is interesting. This is news.
Gareth Reynolds
Well, a rogue nun that feels, I guess, in small town, like a movie again. Evening news, too. I'm in the evening news, but it's.
Dave Anthony
Like a film you'd see on tv.
Drew Morgan
I guess it's just embarrassing for them. I feel like.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah, yeah.
Drew Morgan
Or maybe they did it themselves. Maybe this is part of the ploy to get back in the church. Maybe they got a PR guy, you know, in their team.
Gareth Reynolds
I like that. The cook still hanging out as a nun this whole time. Yeah, yeah. You know, these wafers could be a little tastier. Quiet, Sister. What do you know about flavor profiles?
Drew Morgan
That's not a wafer. That's an opium pill. That's for the patients. God damn, man.
Gareth Reynolds
He starts getting feelings for one of the patients.
Dave Anthony
Sister. We. We found the actual sister.
Gareth Reynolds
I don't know what you're talking about.
Dave Anthony
Well, she's come forward and said she. She.
Gareth Reynolds
She's alive.
Dave Anthony
The cooks clothes and went off and got married.
Drew Morgan
You mean that lady cook that's always lying on me?
Gareth Reynolds
You mean that vivid lady cook? Who are you gonna believe her? Your hottest nun?
Dave Anthony
Her? Actually, yeah.
Gareth Reynolds
Oh.
Drew Morgan
But we. We need you to stay on. You're the only one who can lift Fat George.
Gareth Reynolds
But you've been so helpful in the crucifix cleaning.
Dave Anthony
Judge, she's a fabricator. Said prisoner to the court. Judge, she's a fabricator. Said Henry Martin to Justice Harris in the central police court this morning. Luring his wife's charges of. Luring? That can't be the right word. Oh. During his wife's charges of non support. Martin.
Gareth Reynolds
I already know who I believe.
Dave Anthony
Yeah. Martin, who was arrested by patrolman Saul in the 2nd District Tuesday, denied every charge made against him. His wife claimed that he had not given her a penny towards support of their eight year old boy for four months. And that he had not even been home in that time. Well, yeah, he's. Yeah, yeah. He's not there.
Gareth Reynolds
See, this is what you're trying to avoid, Drew. But just go live. Disco live.
Dave Anthony
Yep.
Drew Morgan
I don't think I could beat the charges. I mean, I do have a criminal law background. Actually, I used to be an attorney. I think I'd do better than Judge. She's a fabricator. You know, I'd at least like come in with some fake receipts. Like look at this Venmo picture. Judge, I Venmoed this. Look, it says it right there.
Dave Anthony
Four formula, whatever. I feel like you shouldn't say. I. I feel like I Venmoed this.
Drew Morgan
Yeah, I know. That was kind of.
Gareth Reynolds
That's the memo.
Dave Anthony
I feel like the judge wouldn't like that.
Drew Morgan
I think you should leave it to me. You know, one of us went to law school.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah, Dave. He's a ex lawyer.
Dave Anthony
Yeah, but I'm starting to get why he's an ex lawyer as opposed to still lawyer. Does that make sense?
Gareth Reynolds
Wait a minute. This isn't Dave. This is just a cooking a Dave outfit. I knew it.
Dave Anthony
His wife claimed he had not given her a penny towards the support of their 8 year old boy for 4 months.
Gareth Reynolds
That's allowed back then.
Dave Anthony
And they did. Not even at home. She further stated that when he was living with her.
Drew Morgan
Why is he still living at home? Why does he go? Revolving door company.
Gareth Reynolds
Get to the mine. Get to the revolving door. Front lines.
Dave Anthony
When he was living with her, he pawned everything in the house, from her shoes to the silver knives and forks in the drawer. Well, to buy.
Drew Morgan
I'm gonna go on a limb here. Is this guy drunk?
Dave Anthony
To buy alcohol? That's correct.
Gareth Reynolds
Honey, where are the knives? We don't need those.
Dave Anthony
We're drinking it.
Gareth Reynolds
I'm as baffled as you are.
Dave Anthony
You can't cut whiskey.
Gareth Reynolds
Someone. Are you telling me someone got rid of your shoes and your forks? That's crazy. And we're not gonna leave here until we find out where some did it.
Dave Anthony
The woman said that the trouble.
Gareth Reynolds
No knives or forks. I mean, just go into the bar. That'll be 275. How many forks is that?
Drew Morgan
Let me call my manager.
Gareth Reynolds
Here, take four forks and a fifth. I'm gonna be here for a little while.
Drew Morgan
Are these your boys? Forks? Last time you came in here and you gave me your boys.
Gareth Reynolds
No, these are growing fork. These are grown man forks.
Drew Morgan
Okay.
Gareth Reynolds
Here's a couple knives and forks. And then. These are my. These are my heels. These are. These are my heels, too. If I could just have a little bit more whiskey inside of that glass.
Dave Anthony
The woman said that the trouble started in the west, where they went to live about three years ago. And after standing the abuse as long as she could, she came to the city and secured a position. And later they were reunited and lived together for about eight months. Yeah. So why wouldn't you take him back?
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah.
Dave Anthony
Yeah.
Gareth Reynolds
Within eight months, he's. He's hawking your forks.
Dave Anthony
Martin claimed that after the reunion, he worked in the Willets Pottery drawing from that firm for the eight months, about 700 of which he gave his wife the greater share. He showed the court a book with entries of his earnings during his employment in the pottery and also said that his wife had bought a lot at Hart and Morris Avenue with this money.
Gareth Reynolds
Okay.
Drew Morgan
So she brought a Venmo receipt, like I said. Dave.
Dave Anthony
He does. He has a receipt now. That's.
Gareth Reynolds
Do you want to say you're sorry to Drew? Dave.
Dave Anthony
No.
Gareth Reynolds
Dave, what is that? Is that a winged bird? Is that a hoofed bird?
Dave Anthony
I have some Jersey Devils in the house.
Gareth Reynolds
Whoa.
Dave Anthony
Ms. Martin admitted that she owned the lot, but said that her money had bought it. Okay, so she owns property. The woman told the court she's doing.
Gareth Reynolds
Well, and this guy's just a piece of.
Dave Anthony
The woman told the court that she owned four lots in Wilbur that were in her own name. And not a penny in her husband's money had helped pay for them.
Gareth Reynolds
He was definitely at the bar. Trying to trade a lot, though, for like gin.
Drew Morgan
I don't know. I'm. I'm turning a corner here. She's got four lots she's got coming out, my man for even more. How'd you get four lots if he didn't give her any money in 1909?
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah, you see right now. Anyone listening? This is what toxic masculinity.
Dave Anthony
Overseer of the poor Dearden was. The complainant, Ms. Martin having gone before him asking that she have help either from her husband or from the city. And Martin was remanded further until further evidence can be secured.
Drew Morgan
Another woman holding a good man down.
Dave Anthony
That's right. He seems like a fine man.
Gareth Reynolds
I really wish I'd. When I started dating my girlfriend, I just started stealing her forks. Is it too late? What's the cut off. Am I okay to just.
Drew Morgan
It's never too late to start stealing forks.
Gareth Reynolds
Cutlery.
Drew Morgan
As your attorney, I recommend you still forks tonight.
Gareth Reynolds
It just would be so great to just like imagine being in a relationship and started to be like, yeah, there's more forks missing. But God, we're both baffled.
Drew Morgan
And when she takes you to fort court. This won't be admissible because this is a protected by our attorney client privilege.
Gareth Reynolds
Fork court is. Please, please show me for court. Now entering the forecourt.
Dave Anthony
Jack is still in bed. Jack Maureen is still drinking and still visiting the police stations. This time he is taking his meals at the second district. He was arrested this morning on Broad street by Patrolman McGuire for being drunk and disorderly. He will be given a hearing tonight before judge Ruse stop feeding him.
Drew Morgan
Jack's still at it.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah, I think the food is good. I think. I think if. If you're just showing up to. I mean, I think at some point it's like his Jack in the box. Like he would just get hammered and be like, that's where.
Drew Morgan
That's actually where it came from. He kept going into the box. And that's how.
Dave Anthony
Blame mice for this fire. Mice gnawing on matches are supposed to have started the fire which occurred in the cigar store.
Gareth Reynolds
Who is the arson guy?
Drew Morgan
Well, the devil bird guy.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah. Honestly. Well, I could tell you one thing. I'm the guy who's been tracking the devil. The. The hoof devil bird is a hundred percent mouse fire.
Drew Morgan
Listen, I may have done a bad bit earlier being an attorney on Venmo, but my limited time in the criminal Defense world figure out who got the insurance on this case. Mouse arson. I mean, that's. That's wildly, wildly beautiful for someone.
Gareth Reynolds
Tough to prove.
Drew Morgan
It's the only world believed mice can chew on matches and start a fire.
Gareth Reynolds
Tough to disprove.
Drew Morgan
I would own nothing but ashes right now and a big pile of money.
Dave Anthony
The technical name for it is Marson.
Gareth Reynolds
Okay, that's not. No.
Drew Morgan
This goddamn kangaroo hopped in here with a bunch of matches in his pouch.
Gareth Reynolds
I mean literally every animal they saw was like potential criminal.
Drew Morgan
That bird was the devil.
Gareth Reynolds
That bird's the devil. These mice are lighting house fires. I'm paying my lawyer in Forks.
Drew Morgan
And the nuns. The nuns are get giving hand jobs.
Gareth Reynolds
The nuns are cooks and the cooks are jacking off. I don't know what's happening.
Dave Anthony
Mice gnawing on matches are supposed to have started the fire which occurred in the cigar store of Thomas Terrell. It's a cigar store.
Drew Morgan
So.
Dave Anthony
So they left a cigar burden.
Gareth Reynolds
Yes, I agree.
Drew Morgan
It was the same guy, the same drunk do the character Gareth. He's hammered. He's. He started to fight.
Gareth Reynolds
No, you guys are showing up here with a head full of ideas. But let me just put some of them out of your mind right away. This is a hundred percent a mouse issue. You look around here thinking, was I in here smoking cigars drunk? No, I don't even. Was I smoking a little bit. But then let me tell you where this plot got a little bit thicker. All of a sudden when a must came in here and they start. They do it to put on their teeth. Just make sure she get it's like their teeth and babies and they buy the matchbooks. Next thing you know, bing, bang, sulfur. Boom. That's what did it. I'm looking to be alive.
Drew Morgan
I think they did on purpose because we said you can't smoke in here.
Gareth Reynolds
Oh yeah, I saw it kind of putting up that sign that says no mouse smoking. That burned down, but it was up there. You better believe me with that.
Drew Morgan
I seen it and I can read to third grade.
Gareth Reynolds
Hey, you guys didn't see nothing. Here you go. Fork for everybody. Everybody gets a fork. You guys didn't see nothing.
Drew Morgan
The fire marshals like I was gonna arrest him, but he paid me off in a fork. Made me an offer I couldn't refuse.
Gareth Reynolds
Pretty good. Yeah. The cops are just searching his place. They lift up the mattress and it's just all forks. Jesus Christ.
Dave Anthony
Passersby noticed the flames and turn on in an alarm which was responded to by Chief Allen with engines two and Three in truck one. The flames were quickly extinguished. The damage amounted to about 200.
Drew Morgan
Yeah. I did it. I did it and I do it again.
Dave Anthony
Is that Mike's talking.
Drew Morgan
That's right. I do it again. I did it again. That motherfucker told me I can't have a cigar. I'm a grown ass Mike. Mouse.
Gareth Reynolds
That it just. He rips off the mouse costume and it's a nun.
Dave Anthony
Good lord.
Gareth Reynolds
What I'm doing. I'm quite lost. I don't know.
Drew Morgan
$200. Was that back then? That can't be that much. 10 grand.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah. Maybe even less. I don't know. Not worth it.
Dave Anthony
Trend MEN make a TON tub for Taft.
Drew Morgan
A ton tub for Taft.
Dave Anthony
The jl. Yeah, the JL Mott Company just completed a mammoth bathtub for President elect William H. Taft. Mr. Taffle used it during his voyage on the battleship North Carolina from Charleston to Cologne and return. The bathtub is now on an exhibition at the main offices of the Mott company in New York and is 7ft of 1 inch long, 41 inches wide and weighs a ton. It will hold four men. And his large is the large one Taft and is the largest ever manufactured. The Mod company says he was 340.
Gareth Reynolds
Pounds which is big, but so not big.
Dave Anthony
It's not that big.
Gareth Reynolds
Like.
Drew Morgan
Well this is just like the $200. I think it's pretty big in.09.
Dave Anthony
Yeah.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah. What is that in today's weight? Dave?
Drew Morgan
Yeah, I think the tubs were smaller than.
Gareth Reynolds
It's the size of a mouse. I mean to be so big that they make a special tub for you is obviously embarrassing.
Drew Morgan
This is. This is boy math. You've heard of the girl math or whatever like the all that that the kids are talking about. This is boy math.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah.
Drew Morgan
So how many tubs we got to get this lard ass?
Gareth Reynolds
Just so the President could just be like, that's nice. That feels good. You know my hasn't been underwater in a decade. That's so nice.
Drew Morgan
He's going to Cologne. Is that where he was going?
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah. So he wanted to smell good. Yeah.
Dave Anthony
The bathtub is one half as large again as the ordinary bathtub of the most ample proportions. The ordinary bathtub weighs only 400 pounds. The bathtub is to be fitted especially for Mr. Taft's comfort and if he should take a fancy to its pond like dimensions.
Gareth Reynolds
Wow. I mean a fucking pond.
Drew Morgan
This is the first hot tub. My man had a hot tub.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah, he did. Yeah.
Drew Morgan
On a boat to Cologne.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah.
Drew Morgan
Imagine being a dude who got a hot Tub made for your boat to go to Cologne. And then you find out later you weren't even the best William H. In American history. You were a solid like. No, what you did was incredible. We got a guy who beat you though, dude. He played it drunk in a way that we've never seen before.
Gareth Reynolds
I saw my forks.
Dave Anthony
Shameless. There is no reason why it should not be transferred from the North Carol from North Carolina into the White House with other personal baggage of Mr. Taft manufacturer.
Drew Morgan
This company's from North Carolina. And this made the New Jersey paper.
Dave Anthony
That's right. This is probably definitely.
Drew Morgan
This was a look like. I definitely thought this was like local boys made good. Like can you believe they asked our tub makers to get this fat ass his own boat tub? But it's. It's just like this is the news. Interesting.
Gareth Reynolds
This is.
Drew Morgan
I'm not complaining. It's just like that surprised me.
Dave Anthony
It's national news.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah, that's big.
Dave Anthony
Manufacturers do not make tap sized bathtubs for the trade. And how to get one that should be of adequate proportions in luxurious white enamel was something of a problem. Problem. From Norfolk, an order for a bathtub Taft size came to New York with instructions to find one. The tub has been found and it'll be ready on the warship for Mr. Taff. Thanks to Trenton labor.
Gareth Reynolds
Dude liked baths. And. And the story is that he got stuck in the bathtub at one point. Right. I mean that was something that happened. So this might be right before this or got fatter.
Dave Anthony
No, it's probably fake. And. And then this story hit the national news and someone ran with it and made it up. Oh, I don't think he actually got stuck. Oh.
Drew Morgan
So people were talking him and then. So then they started doing bathtub stories on him.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah, yeah, it's tough. But again he got his bath. I mean if they're building a specific bathtub that that might be. That's where you're like, you know what? I'm gonna walk a little bit more when my tub is making the news.
Drew Morgan
I guess also, and maybe this is ignorant of me and I apologize if it is. Folks listening. I think weighing 340 back then, that takes some effort.
Dave Anthony
Yeah, probably.
Gareth Reynolds
Well, Drew's about.
Dave Anthony
You know, it's. Well no, it's a time when you're. I mean he could have just been a naturally giant dude, but I think you're allowed. There's not a lot of people that weigh that much back then.
Drew Morgan
It's not like a. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. He was hoarding the food. This isn't like a thyroid problem. The was rich and being a dick. I hope he drowns in the bathtub. You know what?
Gareth Reynolds
What?
Drew Morgan
You, Gareth.
Gareth Reynolds
A lot of turns. Well, you said you came in here to throw some haymakers, Drew, and you surely did. Thank you, the great Drew Morgan, for joining us. People can go to Drew Morgan comedy.com for your dates. Yeah, you. You came in to fight and you fought. You fought. Well, I don't know if anyone's ever won the show, but I think you won the show. Show.
Drew Morgan
God damn. That was my goal.
Gareth Reynolds
Yeah. Better guess than Corey.
Drew Morgan
Hell yeah.
Dave Anthony
Yeah.
Gareth Reynolds
All right, Later, Drew.
Drew Morgan
You, Corey. Both of you. Dave, you're still blurry. Thank you. Fat people in 1909. But not today. Not today, but in 1909. And also nuns.
Gareth Reynolds
Oh, my God. Christ. All right, this has been the past times. We'll be right back with an all new episode. Them. 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 rub.
Podcast Summary: The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds
Episode 134 - The Past Times with Drew Morgan
Release Date: July 18, 2025
In the 134th episode of The Dollop, hosts Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds welcome their guest, Drew Morgan, to the show. Gareth humorously remarks on Drew being the latest addition to their trio of guests, following previous guests Trey and Corey, who each brought their unique personalities to the podcast.
Notable Quote:
Gareth Reynolds (00:04): "I'm Gareth Reynolds and I've never seen it before. And neither is our guest this week, the great Drew Morgan."
Drew shares details about his upcoming comedy tour, including stops in Knoxville and Denver, highlighting his commitment to balancing his career with family life as a father of almost two years old. The banter continues with jokes about being an "absent father" once his child turns three, referencing Dr. Gabor Maté's theories on early childhood importance.
Notable Quote:
Drew Morgan (01:39): "I sort of promised myself to be off the road as much as possible, so I'm going to be touring next year. He's almost two and it's great."
The conversation shifts to Drew's experience wearing a "Virginia's for Losers" hat, a play on the traditional "Virginia is for Lovers" slogan. They discuss the social perceptions and judgments drawn by wearing such a hat at places like Chick-fil-A, leading to humorous speculation about others' thoughts on his attire.
Notable Quote:
Drew Morgan (02:10): "It's a gay hat. It's a rainbow right there. Gay fan gave me that."
Drew introduces his other podcast, Gravy Baby, co-hosted with Carmen Morales and DJ Lewis. The show focuses on exploring joy through a comedic lens, dubbing it "Good Vibes for Trash People," positioning themselves against the backdrop of "toxic positivity." This segment emphasizes the hosts' recurring theme of balancing humor with darker or more serious undertones.
Notable Quote:
Drew Morgan (04:18): "The concept here is 'Good Vibes for Trash People.' Toxic positivity? This is positive toxicity."
The core of the episode revolves around dissecting a January 21, 1909, edition of the Trenton Evening Times, focusing on a sensational headline: "Flying Hoof."
Drew begins by guessing the publication date of the newspaper, settling on 1952, while Dave and Gareth humorously critique the chaotic guesswork. Upon revealing the actual date, the trio delves into the historical context of morning and evening newspapers common until the 1990s.
Notable Quote:
Gareth Reynolds (07:03): "So, they were always doing evenings too, isn't that?"
The hosts explore the newspaper's account of sightings related to the Jersey Devil, a legendary cryptid in South Jersey folklore. They discuss varying descriptions—from winged bipeds with hooves to comparisons with other mythical creatures like the Mothman. The conversation is laced with humor, skepticism, and playful theories about the creature's nature and the credibility of the witnesses.
Notable Quote:
Drew Morgan (10:35): "The Jersey Devil, also known as the Leeds Devil, is a legendary creature or cryptid, said to inhabit the forests of South Jersey."
Continuing with the newspaper's narrative, the discussion shifts to the creation of plaster molds from alleged hoof prints, which drew public fascination and potential hysteria. The hosts humorously critique the seriousness of the investigation, debating whether the accounts are genuine or fabricated for sensationalism.
Notable Quote:
Dave Anthony (16:57): "It's been described by different persons claiming to have actually seen the species..."
An unexpected twist in the newspaper's story reveals a murder linked to the Jersey Devil sightings, prompting the hosts to speculate wildly about the possible connections between the cryptid and criminal activities. The narrative becomes increasingly absurd as they intertwine the mythical with the mundane aspects of early 20th-century life.
Notable Quote:
Gareth Reynolds (27:22): "Did they really have a murder connected to this?"
Beyond the "Flying Hoof" tale, the episode explores other quirky newspaper stories from the same edition, including:
A scandalous story about a nun who disguises herself to elope with her patient, sparking a mix of humor and mock-serious debate about the plausibility and motivations behind such an act in 1909.
Notable Quote:
Gareth Reynolds (40:12): "He did a one woman orgy tonight. You're a nurse."
The narrative shifts to a character named Jack Maureen who faces legal troubles due to alcohol-related misdemeanors, intertwining his antics with the ongoing cryptid mystery, leading to increasingly tangled and humorous discussions about law, order, and societal norms of the time.
Notable Quote:
Dave Anthony (54:50): "Jack's still at it. He will be given a hearing tonight before judge Ruse stop feeding him."
Throughout their analysis, Dave, Gareth, and Drew maintain a steady stream of banter, blending historical examination with contemporary humor. They joke about modern parallels, like cryptocurrency names inspired by cryptids and humorous takes on old-fashioned legal proceedings.
Notable Quote:
Gareth Reynolds (52:18): "You're like a dumbass. Like Drew."
As the episode nears its end, the hosts reflect on the absurdity and entertainment value of historical newspaper stories. They encourage listeners to engage with Drew's current comedy endeavors and tease upcoming episodes, maintaining their signature blend of humor and insightful commentary.
Notable Quote:
Gareth Reynolds (63:00): "You guys didn't see nothing. Here you go. Fork for everybody."
Historical Absurdity: Examining the often bizarre and sensationalist reporting of early 20th-century newspapers, highlighting the contrast between past and present societal concerns.
Folklore vs. Fact: Delving into local legends like the Jersey Devil, the hosts navigate the thin line between myth and potential reality, infused with comedic skepticism.
Humor as a Lens: Utilizing humor to dissect and analyze historical events and societal norms, making history entertaining and relatable.
Humorous Skepticism: The hosts consistently apply a comedic lens to historical accounts, questioning the validity of sensational stories with wit and sarcasm.
Character-Driven Banter: The dynamic between Dave, Gareth, and Drew adds depth to the analysis, with each bringing unique perspectives and humor styles.
Notable Quotes: Throughout the episode, memorable quotes punctuate the discussion, underscoring key points with laughter-inducing lines.
Example of a Notable Quote with Timestamp:
Drew Morgan (22:16): "I'd invest in Mothman coin."
Episode 134 of The Dollop offers a rich blend of historical exploration and comedic interplay, centered around the sensational "Flying Hoof" story from the 1909 Trenton Evening Times. Through humor and insightful banter, Dave, Gareth, and Drew navigate the eccentricities of early newspaper reporting, local folklore, and the timeless human penchant for storytelling. This episode stands as a testament to the hosts' ability to make history both entertaining and thought-provoking for their audience.