733 - Regan's Colt's - Live

Summary

The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds

Episode 733: Regan’s Colts – Live

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In this episode, comedians Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds dive into the history of Regan’s Colts, a notorious Irish-American gang originating from Chicago’s Canaryville district in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The hosts unpack the evolution of urban gangs, their role in political corruption, labor disputes, and organized crime, all while keeping the trademark Dollop irreverence and humor front-and-center.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Setting the Scene: The Roots of Regan’s Colts

• Time & Place: Chicago’s Canaryville district, adjacent to the infamous Union Stockyards—an area marked by poverty, crime, Irish gangs, and industrial squalor ([02:08]–[03:55]).
• Neighborhood Origins: Name possibly from canaries that fed on stockyard waste or gangs that “acted like canaries.” ([03:37])
• Daily Reality: Squalid conditions; most men had grueling, dangerous jobs in meatpacking ([04:03]).

2. Athletic Clubs and Early Gang Culture

• Athletic Clubs as Gangs: Clubs like Morgan Athletics and Regan’s Athletic & Benevolent Association doubled as criminal organizations ([07:01]–[08:54]).
  • Picnics and annual balls often ended in riots and fights ([08:59]).
  • Quote: “The change in name was decided upon after a picnic given by the club…ended in a riot.” ([08:59])
• Gang Expansion: By 1908, Regan’s Colts numbered roughly 2,000 members ([10:06]).
• Motto: “Hit me and you hit 2,000.” ([10:21])

3. Social Dynamics & Racism

• Demographics: Membership drawn from sons of Irish laborers who saw crime as a better option than factory work ([11:17]).
• Xenophobia and Racism: Colts were violently opposed to Black migrants from the South and new European immigrants.
  • Quote (on the Irish “butcher aristocracy”): “These newcomers were hardly welcomed by the largely native born Irish and Germans who composed the…aristocracy of the packing houses.” ([12:01])

4. From Gangs to Political Power

• Political Muscle: Colts hired out their members to Democratic politicians for election fraud and ballot rigging ([13:39]–[14:00]).
  • “When we dropped into a polling place? Everyone else dropped out.” ([14:39])
• Local Government: Frank Regan became a Cook County Commissioner; gang members entered city and state offices ([16:38]).

5. Notorious Members and Violence

• Gang Personalities: Colorfully named enforcers including Gunner McFadden, Murdering Mike, Harry Madigan, Dynamite Brooks, and more ([19:00]–[20:51]).
  • Yiddles Miller, a racist boxing ref, “once called guys in the KKK n-word lovers.” ([20:15])
• Gang Work: Members acted as “jackbooters” (violent pressuring of news vendors) and “labor sluggers” for unions ([21:52]–[22:52]).

6. Gangs & Unions: Labor Violence

• Union Brawls: Inter-union violence—plumbers versus steam fitters, enforcing strikes by brute force ([23:03]–[25:40]).
• James Regan’s Downfall: Shot a resistant worker, later sentenced for multiple crimes ([26:26]).

7. Corruption, Healthcare & Apologies

• Hospital Scandals: Free care cards distributed to political friends; Regan assaults hospital staff during disputes ([30:24]–[33:15]).
  • Notable apology: “I don’t think it was my fault… I lost my head and I said a lot, lot of things I want to apologize for…” ([34:57])
  • The audience notes the performative nature of apologies then.

8. Downward Spiral: Race Riots & Decline

• 1919 Riots: Colts led racist attacks on Black and immigrant neighborhoods, culminating in violence, arson, and at least 29 deaths ([40:28]–[43:10]).
  • Quote: “They donned blackface and set fire to parts of the Polish and Lithuanian neighborhoods…” ([41:10])
• Generational Divide: Public shame, parents embarrassed and facing community fallout ([45:00]–[46:33]).
• Club Closures: Post-riot, Alderman O’Toole shutters local cabarets and clubs, including the Colts’ clubhouse—though keeps his own open ([48:05]–[48:30]).

9. Prohibition & Organized Crime

• Beer Running: Colts smoothly transition into bootlegging during Prohibition ([56:32]).
  • They were “ready made” for organized crime.
• Link to Capone: Brief, violent clashes with Al Capone’s gang before some members are hired as enforcers ([66:20]).
  • “Killable. What are you going to do?” ([66:55])
• Decline: As bad press stacks (murders, assaults), even Frank Regan eventually disowns the Colts ([59:00]).

10. The Final Acts – Political, Gangland, and Sports Legacy

• Regan’s Later Life: Frank moves into union leadership; becomes head of Meter Readers Union and a major local power broker ([61:31]–[65:59]).
• Gang Fragmentation: Colts reduced by internal feuds and recruitment into Capone’s syndicate (“fractures increased and the violence does too”) ([68:29]).
• The Cardinals Connection: O’Brien’s original football team becomes the Arizona Cardinals ([79:51]).
  • “And today, they’re the Arizona Cardinals.” ([79:54])

11. The Wire Services and the End of the Regans

• James Regan’s Final Chapter: Becomes a major figure in gambling wire services, faces mob threats, tries (and fails) to secure FBI protection, is eventually shot and then poisoned ([71:14]–[78:36]).
  • Aftermath: Sources vanish, justice evaded, death attributed to mob reprisal ([79:06]–[79:54]).

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Notable Quotes and Moments

• On Violence and Old Gang Life:
  “Broken noses and black eyes that were too numerous to count.” ([06:37])
  “You want me to read it as Trump?” – Gareth takes Dave’s academic quote into parody ([11:17])
• On Hospital Assaults:
  “With that, Reagan rushed him and Wachowski made no attempt to strike him. He put up his arms and received a rain of blows…” ([33:22])
• On the Colts’ Dark Turn:
  “After two weeks of rioting, the Illinois State Militia evacuated the south side of Chicago.” ([45:00])
• On the Colts' Inclusion of Jewish Members:
  “As their numbers shrank in the early 1920s, the Colts even started taking in Jewish members.” ([57:23])
• On the Colts’ Reputation:
  “Throughout the 20s. Bad press about beer running, murders and sexual assaults hurt the cult's reputation.” ([59:00])
• Dave’s closing ‘Moral’:
  “Crime wins. Do crime. Because it’s more fun. You may have a shorter life, but it’s a better one.” ([84:41])

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Timeline of Important Segments

• 01:33 – Gareth’s intro; Dave launches the historical story
• 02:40 – 08:54 – Canaryville, the rise of the athletic/gang clubs
• 10:21 – Colts’ motto and gang’s rapid expansion
• 13:39 – Colts’ political muscle and corruption
• 21:52 – 25:40 – Labor sluggers, inter-union violence
• 30:24 – 36:00 – Hospital assaults and ‘classic’ apology
• 40:28 – 46:33 – 1919 race riots and societal backlash
• 56:32 – 66:20 – Prohibition, organized crime, and Capone’s intersection
• 68:29 – 79:54 – Final years: club disbands, legacy survives via gangs and professional sports
• 71:14 – 78:36 – Gambling wire, hit attempts, and the end of the Regans
• 79:51 – 80:10 – The Cardinals football legacy revealed
• 84:41 – Final moral/summary

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Memorable Dollop-Style Banter

• On gang violence:
  A: “Was anybody good at sports back then?”
  B: “It was just Whitey Buchanan versus Pale McGraw.” ([09:56])
• On apology speeches:
  “I don’t think it was my fault… and I said a lot, lot of things I want to apologize for…” ([34:57])
• On Democrat/Republican “flip”:
  “So this is flip time. Gotcha. Fucking maggot tools. Not that it really matters at the end of the day.” ([14:08])
• On ethnic rivalries:
  “Russian Jews and Irish Catholics also bonded over hating the Polish. I get it.” ([58:06])

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Conclusion

Regan’s Colts is a case study in how American urban gangs, ethnic identity, and political corruption intertwined at the dawn of the 20th century. Dave and Gareth cut through the gravity of the subject with signature wit, never losing sight of the ironies (and horrors) of the past.

Final Moral (Dave, [84:41]):
“Crime wins. Do crime. Because it’s more fun. You may have a shorter life, but it’s a better one.”

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Sources Highlighted:

• Andrew Diamond, Chicago on the Make
• Chicago Tribune, Chicago Examiner
• Encyclopedia of American Crime by Carl Sifakis
• World Encyclopedia of Organized Crime by J. Robert Nash

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For fans and new listeners alike, this episode offers grim history, biting satire, and a wild ride through the roots of Chicago’s gangland culture—ending, improbably, with a football trivia twist.

Transcript

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[A]

That was the craziest. That whole run was a nightmare. First of all, Gareth Reynolds, who has no idea what the topic is going to be about. I'm with Dennis Faust. Yeah, I am. That's my guy. I'm all about Faust. Give me a slice of Faust. Does Faust have a podcast?

[B]

I don't know. At one point, he started talking to me and I just walked away.

[A]

I love in this story, you're like, I'm the champion of the reunion. Sounds like you were the worst guy there.

[B]

He everybody, when he left, everyone was like, oh, good, he's gone. March 23rd, 1871.

[A]

I'm into it. Let's go back. Let's retry.

[B]

It's not that great.

[A]

It's not. But honestly, would you rather be looking down the barrel of that or what's coming? Give me that. I'd rather that.

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I think it's gonna be wonderful.

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In a couple of years, it's gonna be real good.

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Frank Reagan was born in Chicago to Matthew and Elizabeth. He was one of six kids. His brother James was 10 years younger and would continue to be 10 years younger throughout their lives.

[A]

What a weird time that was.

[B]

It was when people stayed the same age as difference.

[A]

That's one thing I love about having a brother. I'm getting I'm almost. I'm gonna catch him. Yeah, age wise, I'm gonna get him.

[B]

Yeah, you'll get them.

[A]

I'll get him.

[B]

They lived in the Canaryville district. That's still a thing. One of the toughest neighborhoods in Chicago. Is it still now

[A]

Canaryville?

[B]

Canaryville, yeah. It was right next to the union stockyard. So most of the men worked grueling jobs in meatpacking plants. Very run down area.

[A]

I'm telling you. I'll trade it in a heartbeat.

[B]

It was a rundown area with poorly built shacks, high crime, Irish gangs, urban blights, pollution and corruption. And became called Canaryville. Either because of the Irish gangs that acted like wild canaries.

[A]

What?

[B]

Or because of the many canaries feeding off waste from the stockyards.

[A]

Well, it better be that one. The canaries eating the waste. That. Yeah.

[B]

You still want to live there?

[A]

Well, I probably would. Wouldn't love that part of town.

[B]

That's the nice part of town.

[A]

No, I'm gonna be fucking hanging out here with Stu. Little Stu boy. Yeah, my mate. Yeah. Awesome.

[B]

Why is he English?

[A]

Look at him. That's my mate.

[B]

He's born in Chicago.

[A]

Yeah, that's my fucking man, that is. Yeah. We don't need to walk, we just need to cry. Yeah. Sharing that fucking toilet. Yeah. He goes. I go bing bang bang. Eating the canaries. Oh, that's fucking spot on, that is.

[B]

Maybe you. Yeah, maybe you live there because do you think a kid sitting on stairs is taking a shit?

[A]

Yeah, he's having a. Yeah, you could never at that age, just because they're having a sit, they might be having a shit. Very tiny. He's quite. He's titchy, that one is. He's nice. Yeah, it's nice. You know what he's like? He's like Oliver and I'm like that old weird guy talking about a. First of all.

[B]

No, Fagan, you're definitely an old weird guy.

[A]

Yeah, but I'm like, I'm singing the songs. I'm like, you've got to have a crap inside a bucket.

[B]

He's in Chicago.

[A]

Yeah, I know, but that's what makes this buck. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ah.

[B]

Back to the back to the beautiful. During the late 19th century, the back of the Yards area also became known for youth gangs. Many who were connected to local athletic clubs. Historian Andrew diamond quote, according to one resident, youths from these communities fell thirsted for a fight. And Saturday night turf battles between Canary Villains and Hamburg lads often produced broken noses.

[A]

Tonight we have the Canaries versus the Hamburgers.

[B]

Canary Villains.

[A]

Canary Villains. And Hamburg Lads versus the Hamburger Boys.

[B]

I don't think they had hamburgers back then. But that would have been.

[A]

Not yet. But wait till you see these boys.

[B]

Pretty fucking awesome.

[A]

Pounding each other into patties.

[B]

What?

[A]

We'll be right back. Hey, you're pretty bad on air.

[B]

I was just trying to help out,

[A]

but it's not very good.

[B]

You were saying a lot of words that didn't make sense.

[A]

Hang in there. When we come back for break, which

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we will soon often produce. Broken noses and black eyes that were too numerous to count.

[A]

Probably just because math wasn't a strong suit. There are so many we can't count. There's six. Wow. Check out the human calculator on this guy. Unbelievable.

[B]

By the 20th century, early 20th century, there are over 300 athletic clubs.

[A]

Why do we do it like 20th century? 1900s. How did that start?

[B]

It's just a different number.

[A]

It's very confusing.

[B]

The big number turns. It goes from 99 to 00. And everyone, it's cool.

[A]

We'll be right back. You are blowing this. You are Booth. Blowing it.

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I'm on fire. For the people who are subdued. And they're gonna love it.

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We'll be right back with Dennis Faust.

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I wish you could have seen him. Most operated essentially as gangs. In 1898, Chris O' Brien started Morgan Athletics Club. So they had a gym and a football and baseball teams. They threw annual balls with minstrel shows and.

[A]

Oh my God.

[B]

Good. Make one of your little jokes.

[A]

Ladies and gentlemen, the Prime Minister of Canada.

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And England and Australia and.

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And soon to be America.

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They will probably have a menstrual ball.

[A]

What we did was totally okay. Everybody was laughing. Except for the weird left wing media.

[B]

In 1900, Frank created Reagan's Athletic and Benevolent Association.

[A]

Feels like a tell. You're benevolent.

[B]

The book Homicide says he changed the name from Morgan Athletic Club. Quote, the change in name was decided upon after a picnic given by the club in the old Santa Fe Park. Ended in a riot.

[A]

Hey, the title of that book, one more time.

[B]

It's called Homicide.

[A]

Hey, guy. What?

[B]

Yeah, I might have given a little bit away.

[A]

Okey dokey.

[B]

So they had a picnic and it turned into a riot. And then they had to change the name. That happens.

[A]

That's a fine.

[B]

O' Brien's football team moved to Normal park and became the Racing Normals and then the Racing Cardinals.

[A]

Okay, The Normals is a tell too. We're fine.

[B]

Reagan's club became Reagan's Colts and they had a baseball team. And a boxing club.

[A]

Man.

[B]

Was anybody good at sports back then?

[A]

Well, dude, it was just like Whitey Buchanan versus Pale McGraw.

[B]

In 1902, the Colts had 160 members. And by 1908 they had 2,000.

[A]

And this is just some club that Frank Reagan has started, essentially. Yeah, basically like an athletic y sportsy club for the most part.

[B]

They were one of the biggest and most powerful gangs in the area. And their motto was hit me and you, hit 2000.

[A]

Oh, that's a pretty good motto. I do like that.

[B]

James Reagan helped his brother run the club. James loved crime. Big fan of crime.

[A]

That's a good. That's good.

[B]

Most were the sons of meatpacking and factory workers. The sociologists from the 20s concluded, quote, the sons of Irish laborers in the packing houses and stockyards joined gangs like Reagan's cult because Americanization made them averse to the plodding, seasonal, heavy and odoriferous labor of their parents, beset with the competition of wave upon wave of immigrants who poured into the area and bid for the jobs at lesser wages.

[A]

You want me to read it as Trump? No. So essentially they started going there because of a xenophobia wage.

[B]

Yeah, a little bit of xenophobia, but also the wages are going down, but also the work just was shit. And they're like, I don't want to do that.

[A]

Not from what I could. Yeah.

[B]

Would you rather do that or like join a pretty great. Instead you could go beat people up and. Yeah, you know, beat people up.

[A]

Okay. So it was either this or go fight.

[B]

I mean, kind of. Yeah.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

A lot of gangs were racist, including Reagan's Colts.

[A]

Reagan racist?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Imagine, good sir.

[B]

Imagine they hated the. They hated black people moving up from the south. And new European immigrants, meaning the Polish, the Lithuanians, the Italians and European Jews. Diamond quote, these newcomers were hardly welcomed by the largely native born Irish and Germans who composed the, quote, butcher aristocracy. The butcher aristocracy of the packing houses. So that was butcher aristocracy.

[A]

That was butcher aristocracy.

[B]

That's it. That's at work. They're like guys with Top Dog. Yeah, that's it. You're living large.

[A]

Wow. All right. And then a lot of xenophobia and racism.

[B]

And they were long term residents of Bridgeport and Back of the Yards. A description of a packing house, quote, a line of dangling hogs a hundred yards in length, and for every yard there was a man working as if a demon were after him.

[A]

Oh, sweet God.

[B]

And that's how it should be in a factory. You should. I want to see you guys working like there's a fucking demon after that.

[A]

That is true. Don't let Jeff Bezos hear that line, boy. So all you could do was just hog chop all day long, constantly sweating and hog chopping, sweating and just hog chopping away.

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More industrialization meant fewer jobs, less money, harder work. The young men weren't super into working their jobs, those jobs. Spending their lives hauling dead pigs for shit money. The. They were Americans and they wanted the American dream. And they started to see they had other options, Namely, crime. Sweet, sweet crime.

[A]

Isn't that really the American dream? Yeah. At the end of the day, that's what you do.

[B]

Frank hired out his club boys, including his brother James, to local Democratic politicians to commit election fraud, intimidate voters and rig ballots.

[A]

There we go.

[B]

Don't let Elon hear that now.

[A]

Is that when the Democrats were. The Democrats?

[B]

I mean. Yeah. I mean, no, they're the flip.

[A]

Yeah. So this is flip time.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Gotcha. Fucking maggot tools. Not that it really matters at the end of the day.

[B]

Do not ever drink wine like that around me.

[A]

Why? You're my best friend, dad.

[B]

No, you're. No, you're my enemy.

[A]

No. I love you. Hey. No.

[B]

Yes. Stop it.

[A]

Can't

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one member quote when we dropped into a polling place? Everyone else dropped out.

[A]

Okay, pretty good. I'll tell you what, I'd rather that system than them texting me eight times a day. I'd much rather that.

[B]

That's insane, Gareth.

[A]

Democracy died this morning. Can we suck your dick for $4?

[B]

I always get the one that's like, I was born into a welfare situation. As a kid, I joined the army, I learned how to fly a jet, and now I'm a black gay woman, man.

[A]

Can I have $4? They just list it all.

[B]

Can I have a dollar?

[A]

Can I have $4?

[B]

I want a dollar.

[A]

My favorite is when it pops up on YouTube. I'm like, how quickly can I hit the skip ad button? Like, it's like a game where I'm like, let me just. Fuck. It's like, hi, I'm John Ostoff. Now, I know you're sick of here. Skip ad.

[B]

They're doing fine, though. They've got it all figured out.

[A]

No, there's definitely a momentum.

[B]

You can feel it. Democrats have really got it nailed.

[A]

Well, ever since Chuck Schumer went out in the streets and said, we will win, things have been on.

[B]

He's the guy I have most of my faith in right now.

[A]

Absolutely. Once.

[B]

Finally got progressive lenses once.

[A]

Well, that's as progressive as he Gets. Once they put. Once they're able to put an eight foot ladder in his spine, look out. Once they get that neck a foot above his shoulders instead of having it nipple height. Chuck Schumer's quest to slowly suck his own dick continues. I'm slowly headed down to my own cock. Can I have $4 to suck my own d.

[B]

I don't know why you gotta. It's one of our. It's one of our leaders. The club got many candidates into the city council and state legislature. In 1910, Frank was elected to the Cook County Board of Commissioners. So the Colts. Main thing still crime. That's the gang there. Those are the boys.

[A]

Wow. Couldn't you, like, dress differently to hide that you were associated with gangs?

[B]

Why would you do that?

[A]

Cause that just to me is a very obvious tell of like. Yeah, don't worry about it. Crime. What's crime? How do you even spell that? I ain't never even heard of no crime before. And then me and the little kid are hanging out there too. All right. Yeah, don't mind him, my little. You go in, fill the bucket, I'll follow you.

[B]

What the fuck are you talking now? They're going in there to the club to fill a bucket.

[A]

Bank.

[B]

What?

[A]

Bank? Yeah, me and a boy while they take.

[B]

That's a saloon.

[A]

Yeah, but we're around the corner, mate.

[B]

So it has nothing to do with this.

[A]

Well, maybe we're in cahoots or.

[B]

How would you. Why would they be in cahoots with a bank?

[A]

No, no, but back. No, no. He's the distractor, mate. Then I'll go in, sit in the.

[B]

What? Yeah, shit, in the What? What was the word?

[A]

You.

[B]

Yeah, no, the crazy, mangled English word you use.

[A]

Yeah, Then we go in. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And then we make a song like Oliver because I'm the elder. Yeah. You gotta get inside the vault. And if they catch us, say it's not my fault. If you're in the vault, you're all right. Do the code. We'll get in that night. Stay up, little boy. If they ask, we'll say, fuck it. But at the end of the day, we're putting waste in that bucket. That's what we're doing. We're. Yeah.

[B]

Why would you applaud that?

[A]

Yeah, yeah. Two parts of it rhyme. They get it, mate. Yeah, go on then.

[B]

So many people listening for the first time. Just turned it off.

[A]

We don't need them.

[B]

Some colts were Gunner McFadden, who killed a lot of people.

[A]

What? No shit. And also murdering Mike, who was good with a pistol.

[B]

Saloon owner Harry Madigan, who did a lot of kidnappings and assaults during elections.

[A]

Harry Madigan. Sounds like one of those weird sex position jokes. You ever met Harry Madigan?

[B]

What's the position?

[A]

That's where you shave all your pubes off and have sex with it.

[B]

With the pubes. I don't think that's a sex position.

[A]

Yeah, I think. Yeah, you asked.

[B]

I don't. I asked for something completely different.

[A]

We can start the meal from scratch or you can eat what's in front of you.

[B]

Dynamite Brooks, who was a saloon owner who killed people in drunken rages.

[A]

I mean, they all. I'm not going to keep doing them.

[B]

But There was Danny McFall, who was a sheriff even though he'd killed business competitors.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

There was Hitman Stubby McGovern.

[A]

Yeah, don't worry about it.

[B]

There was Yiddles Miller, who was a boxing ref and huge racist. He once called guys in the KKK n word lovers.

[A]

Holy fuck. What can you fucking imagine, by the way? That might be the only way to infiltrate and defeat them. You've just gotta shove em so far, right, they're like, fuck it, I'm fuckin'. I'm Democrat. Y' all love black people. What you do

[B]

now? James Reagan.

[A]

Wait, is this the story of Reagan the breakdancer? Now that I'm seeing the spelling, I

[B]

don't want to do that because I don't want her to sue us.

[A]

What is she, litigious?

[B]

Oh, yeah. Some Australian comedian wrote a play about her and she sued so she couldn't put it on. She's great. Because if you dance like that, for God's sakes, don't have a sense of humor about it. Like, that's the most important thing.

[A]

Can you imagine going out to the Olympics on about to do that and be like, not now. I gotta focus. Then go out there and be like, Come back. People are like, hey. Went pretty good. Yeah. Did you. That was rehearsed? Oh, yeah, meticulously

[B]

so James Reagan was a jackbooter, which. So they used violence to make newsstands carry or buy more newspapers than needed. Now that's how. That's just the newspaper business.

[A]

They walk me through how they would.

[B]

So you hire a guy or a couple of guys to go rob the. No, you're not robbing it. You're going. And you're like, you're gonna fucking sell this paper, you son of a bitch.

[A]

The paper that you're bringing.

[B]

Yeah. And the guy's like, all right, I'LL sell the paper. Just don't hurt me. And if they don't sell the paper, I gotta break. I gotta break it.

[A]

The paper is an actual periodical.

[B]

Hearst paper. Another paper, it actual daily newspapers. Daily newspapers just go there with a lot of papers.

[A]

I love it. You're going to sell the rest of these New York Times. Otherwise it's going to be your life. You understand?

[B]

Well, he was working for Hearst, so he was a jackbooter for Hearst. He was also a labor slugger for a plumber's union.

[A]

So he works on behalf of the plumbing complex.

[B]

The plumbing. No, he beats people up for the plumbing union.

[A]

Oh, so he's beating. Who is he beating up on behalf of?

[B]

The scabs or if you got a cop or whatever.

[A]

You get out of there, you dirty clogs.

[B]

Exactly.

[A]

Scabs. We like that a little bit.

[B]

And they would fight other unions?

[A]

Oh, they would fight other unions?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Why not? Oh, man. I'll tell you. You know what? We got to bring union backs, like eight reasons. Union on union rumbles, violence. All right, today we're gonna see the plumbers go against the mechanics. The electricians versus the drywallers.

[B]

Well, their competing union was the steamfitters

[A]

union, the seed fitters.

[B]

Steam fitters?

[A]

Steam fitters, yeah. What are they? They're trains. Fit and steam.

[B]

I don't know if they were trains. I mean, there were steam engines.

[A]

Where are they? Fit and steam. We could put a little steam inside of there for you. Let me have the comedy time and then we'll answer the questions. We got it. Don't worry about it. Let me talk to Infogeannie.

[B]

You probably know, don't you? Do you? Yeah. Do you know a steam what?

[A]

Heating.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

A steam fish.

[B]

That's my friend Michael who knows everything.

[A]

You want to do a show? We're like, episode three. I'm like, that's not going to good. Cool. His schedule's crazy. Yeah. Anyway, I'm out of here.

[B]

Okay, so in 1911, James and four other sluggers stormed a building and attacked steam fitters who were refusing to quit work during a strike.

[A]

Now, I'm a little confused as to, because I felt like up until this point, I didn't like James. And then stuff like that. I feel like I kind of like that sort of stuff.

[B]

Yeah, but he's. He's. If you give him money, he'll do whatever. So there's no ideology in this.

[A]

Can you imagine that being a functional way to make a living in this country? It's just an Ideology for hire. The steam fitters are the worst. No, I'm way more into vapor. I like ice, not steam. That's the only way I like my water. That's them saying booyah because they agree.

[B]

You know, they drive around in cars and if their tires are flat, they can't drive.

[A]

So. In 1911, he's also a lot of times in Corollas. I know.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Like, can you imagine joining ice and then them being like, anna, use your car. I got like a baby seat in the back. It's fine.

[B]

So like I said in 1911, Kane's

[A]

in the front seat already. How are ya? Put on the heat warmer. My back hurts.

[B]

Did you the video of him running?

[A]

The greatest thing I've ever seen.

[B]

It's the slowest thing you've ever seen.

[A]

It's the greatest thing ever. From Superman to. My back hurt going over a pole.

[B]

In 1911, James and four others stormed a building and attacked steamfitters who refused to quit working. One was James Rampfler, and he kept at it when they told him to stop, so James shot him in the abdomen.

[A]

Well, yeah, that stops.

[B]

You should have listened. He got up to 14 years on top of a burglary conviction, which was five years. So James is. Yeah, he's away.

[A]

He's off now.

[B]

Frank is president of the club for many years, and the club officers, like, they all love him. And early 1912, Frank had a fight with Commissioner Joseph Mendel over raising salaries. And Mendel ended up in the hospital and had a black eye. But later he laughed about it. Quote, we just got pretty close together.

[A]

That is. That's a toxic relationship. We just got close together. We were just knocking each other's skin a little bit.

[B]

Frank denied it and the two other commissioners backed up. Frank, Frank, quote, it just got pretty interesting.

[A]

Oh, my God, he doesn't love you.

[B]

Later that year, the Chicago examiner reported Frank Mandel and board president Bartson, Board president Barzin, and they argued over a nurse's contract. Barzin accused them of lying in the papers and calling Reagan a, quote, cheap petty thief. Frank, quote, get out, you great. Get out, you great big April fool.

[A]

Yes, Dave. We really should just be going through and like ripping these old, like, bringing those back. What are you talking about? You sound like an April fool.

[B]

Easy does it, goofball Bars and quote, get out. Say, I wouldn't talk with a cheap thief like you, Frank. Shut your mouth, you great big loud mouthed.

[A]

Oh, that's terrible. When that comes out, you're like I said, mouth twice.

[B]

Fuck God damn it.

[A]

Shut your mouth, you big loudmouth or. God damn it. Lip flapper. Too late. Aw.

[B]

Barzin went to grab Frank, but another committee member, quote, caught the President by the coattails until Frank was out of the building. So they hustled them out, but a lot of fights going on.

[A]

I just can't get over you. April fool. Quiet, you April fool. What? What were you gonna say?

[B]

I just wish the LA City Council would fight like this. Tom. Frank conspired to get rid of President Barzin, and the committee charged Barzin with various corruption charges and Frank accused him of election fraud. And he was out.

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On September 7, 1913, a tribute headline read, reagan assaults man at hospital.

[A]

What a great place to do it though, right? Wham.

[B]

There you go. Room for him.

[A]

There you are. He's taking a turn for the worse for some reason. What do you mean? His leg hurts? No, his head got punched. What? Yeah,

[B]

Commissioners ran. So the commissioners are running public hospitals for the poor, and they give free service to those who couldn't pay. But the commissioners gave cards to friends, relatives and donors to get them free health care.

[A]

Better system.

[B]

It is a better system.

[A]

Hands down, better system. Way better. Fucking free healthcare cards. Hello, one Fix me, please. Way better.

[B]

So then they hired hospital investigators to check people's eligibility, and in five days, 136 people were rejected. So then three commissioners got pissed and went down there to see what the fuck was happening. And the investigator who was on duty, Wykowski, said he had made judgment calls on each patient. And Frank called him a Vile name, Ukowski said. You can't call me that.

[A]

Do we know the vile name?

[B]

No, I wouldn't. I couldn't find it. Let's go with cunt.

[A]

That wouldn't be cunt? No. You don't think it would after hearing April Fuck Fool?

[B]

Yeah, they really took it up a notch.

[A]

Can you imagine? You April fool. Shut up. Whoa. What the. Hey, hey, hey. No, no. What? Like the first time you say that word in that time.

[B]

Holy. What the.

[A]

No, Just a hole opens up and the devil emerges. I have to ask you to retract what you've said.

[B]

We're not ready for that down here.

[A]

That escalation is too large. You jumped way too far ahead.

[B]

The Chicago Tribune.

[A]

Your four fingered mitten better,

[B]

you gaping anus. No.

[A]

It's almost worth time traveling just to go back there to drop the C word.

[B]

How dare you, you gaping anus.

[A]

Why, I'll give you a piece of my mind. Shut up, cunt. What the fuck?

[B]

No. The Chicago Tribune, quote, with that, Reagan rushed him and Wachowski made no attempt to strike him. He put up his arms and received a rain of blows on the shoulders and arms. And then when questioned about it, Frank later threw a book at another commissioner and challenged him.

[A]

It's like the right level of, like, violence is matching. Like, it's a fine level. It's not great, but it's like this level of violence is sustainable.

[B]

It is sustainable.

[A]

You know what I mean? Like, I look back, like, ah, that'd be great. When you were just like, you threw a book at someone and you were like, a line's been majorly crossed.

[B]

So Frank was arrested, but the charges were dropped when he apologized.

[A]

Also the best. Say it, boy. I am sorry. You're free to go.

[B]

A paper said Frank had clearly changed in his apology and his apology speech, which was quote, and his apology speech, quote, made one feel an infinite respect for the man. So here's part of the apology speech. Quote, I don't think it was my fault.

[A]

You can tell he means it.

[B]

I don't think it was my fault. And there were a couple of resolutions brought in the other day that worked me up. One after the other was brought and called me a lot of names that I didn't think was right. And in my excitement, I lost my head and I said a lot, lot of things I want to apologize for to the board commissioners, to President McCormick, and mostly of all, my friend Mr. Clooney. That's the guy who threw the book at. I'm very sorry for what happened to Mr. Clooney? Sorry, Coonley. And I think he's the best man that ever lived.

[A]

Jesus Christ, he's perfect in pretty much every way. Like someone put Adonis body on Einstein's brain.

[B]

Mr. Coonley, will you marry me and

[A]

take a better hog?

[B]

I came down here today and met Mr. Coonley and shook hands with him and I told him I thought he was the grandest man that ever lived. I mean that's.

[A]

Yeah, that's how you do it. That's just. I don't. I've never been apologized to on that level. That'd be great looking in your direction.

[B]

It turns out the board president was also sending friends to the hospital. And he blamed his secretary.

[A]

Always.

[B]

Yeah. He got to a letter to the editor, praised Frank's incredible generosity. Quote. On Christmas Eve that well known and popular commissioner Frank Reagan hired an automobile at his own expense to distribute baskets to the poor dude.

[A]

He 100% got a Christmas Carol or whatever. He got visited, but he had Marley. He had three ghosts.

[B]

Sounds like it, right?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

This has been the greatest thing ever done in the stockyards district. Frank Reagan's name will forever be in the homes of the poor people. And some people think that he actually wrote that under a pseudonym or it was a guy who owed him a lot of money who wrote it.

[A]

Right.

[B]

The Frank Reagan. Sorry. The Reagan Club Annual ball was still a huge deal. Thousands of people would go. And in 1915, women's organizations were fighting against liquor, permits for dances and attended. Quote. There was debauchery and drunkenness and all sorts of indecent dancing at two o' clock in the morning. The costumes of the women included baseball uniforms, pajamas, little girl or little boy costumes.

[A]

Not a big woo there, is it?

[B]

The usual vulgarity. Now, a little bit of ddlg.

[A]

What the fuck does that mean?

[B]

It's a submissive Daddy. Daddy Dom. Right.

[A]

Daddy Dom.

[B]

Daddy Dom. Little girl.

[A]

Jesus Christ. Normal. Dropping that acronym. You all know the ddlg. Show him your president's card, Dave. Now wait a minute. So the women were fighting against liquor being permitted there.

[B]

Yeah. And they were upset because.

[A]

Because when men were drunk, they were being.

[B]

Well, no, it's. It's. There's drunkenness, but it's also drunkenness combined with this debauchery of like.

[A]

Right. They want sober debauchery, right?

[B]

I don't think they want any debauchery, but I think they just want.

[A]

Well then they shouldn't wear those revealing baseball uniforms. Va, va, va voom.

[B]

Plus the DDLG that's going on.

[A]

What?

[B]

But there's like.

[A]

I like ddob.

[B]

What's that?

[A]

Daddy Dong, Graham grand. The grandpa. What did I say? I like gpob, Grandpa and old boys.

[B]

So that would be Daddy Dom and old boys.

[A]

I don't want all the pressure of being a dom. Believe me, it sounds good. Until you're in the position, you're just like, you know, let's just get some nachos. I'm exhausted. Do you mind? What? Can we just watch some Hulu? Is that crazy? Let's make a cauliflower pizza and watch some Hulu together. I nodded off. It says, are you still watching?

[B]

Are you talking about Netflix and Chill?

[A]

No, no, no. I'm talking about Hulu and collapse. Way better.

[B]

I think they want to get rid of alcohol because then they know no one will go to the ball.

[A]

Oh, okay.

[B]

Yeah. One person wrote quote, it was horrible about the ball.

[A]

Sounds like it.

[B]

In March 1916, 38 year old Frank got married to Mary omalia, who was 20 years old, which is pretty good for back then.

[A]

That's almost honestly that age reveal I thought was gonna be a lot worse. You left it for the end. I was like, Here we go. 11. No, 20. We'll take it fucking 8.

[B]

He was still paying the Colts clubhouse rent. They were expected to help him when he needed them. In 1918, Republican Mayor Big Bill Thompson won. He got a majority of the black vote, which combined with his anti Catholic views, pissed off the Irish gang.

[A]

Now so fucking hilarious the way that applause was like, wait.

[B]

And so the Irish gangs want revenge. And in early June 1919, the Colts went on a rampage on 54th street between Western Indiana and Pennsylvania railroad tracks, which was the border between the white Irish neighborhood and the black part of town. They broke windows of black owned homes and knocked out the streetlight. There was only one streetlight on the.

[A]

That's it. We've shown them who's boss.

[B]

They donned blackface and set fire to parts of the Polish and Lithuanian neighborhoods to try to get the Polish and Lithuanian to attack.

[A]

I genuinely feel like at the beginning of this story there were like people with Irish descent who were like, fuck yeah. Like let Dave continue. So you were in blackface, beating everyone. Twas a different time

[B]

when was fighting for.

[A]

We didn't know what we was doing at a time.

[B]

Two days later they hit Shields Avenue where nine black families lived on the wrong side of Wentworth Avenue. It wasn't Colts territory, but they wanted to show the other nearby Irish gang the Shielders. How to, quote, run all the N words out. Fucking Irish. It was a race riot. As they shot into black homes, threw rocks and set them on fire and egged other. Irish kinks get involved and egged other.

[A]

I genuinely thought, no, but I wasn't even that it was that they were like, burn down every black person's home. What about the Irish? Toss eggs at them.

[B]

Diamond. Quote. In one instance, a white mob pouring out of a nearby tavern killed a man in an orgy of violence. Stabbing, shooting. And in a gesture that poignantly bespoke the male sporting culture within which this violence erupted, whacking him on the head with billiard cues.

[A]

Sweet. Okay.

[B]

Members of the Game gang were very young. The killers of one guy were said to be around 16. Mobs of Irish gangs chased down black eyes to beat and stun them in front of crowds of onlookers. In the first two days of the riot, there were 29 deaths and 368 injuries.

[A]

Holy shit. Jesus Christ. Oh, my God.

[B]

Way to go, Chicago.

[A]

Yeah, honestly.

[B]

The Colts planned on running a huge area that included the south part of Canaryville to the area around Washington Park. But there was a section in the middle dominated by African Americans. And witnesses heard a Colt tell a black man on the first night, quote, remember, it's the Reagan Colts you're dealing with. We have 2,000 members between Halstead and Cottage Grove and 43rd and 63rd Street. So here.

[A]

Okay, so here's. I'm. I actually don't know some of the.

[B]

Well, 63rd and fucking 43rd, you know.

[A]

Right. Doesn't even go that high, though, does it?

[B]

What the fuck are you talking about?

[A]

Well, I just want to make sure I know exactly where to. So. So, okay, so, but then east, west, what are we talking?

[B]

We're talking Halstead and Cottage. Cottage Grove.

[A]

Oh, Cottage Grove.

[B]

Do you have a fucking walk?

[A]

What does that turn into if you keep going south? What? What is that? Because doesn't that. It's not Cottage Grove the whole way Ave.

[B]

I think probably. Oh, no, the lake name thing.

[A]

No, that's not gonna. The intersections are off.

[B]

Park, Parkland.

[A]

Parkland. No, hold on. Just so I can be very clear, I would just like to be walked through this one more time.

[B]

Holy fucking shit.

[A]

No, no, no. It's important to get this right.

[B]

We've been doing this so long. The riot's almost over.

[A]

That's the idea. So I think you have to keep going.

[B]

What the fuck?

[A]

All right, hold on. Wait. Let's get this proper.

[B]

What?

[A]

What? God. I'll tell you what. We're not so different, if you think about it.

[B]

Yeah, we are.

[A]

Oh.

[B]

So he said, we intend to run this district. Look out. After two weeks of rioting, the Illinois State Militia.

[A]

You know what? This. A story like this, probably five years ago, I'd have been like, whoa. Now I'm like, that's pretty short. That seems like a dream.

[B]

Two weeks after two weeks of rioting, the Illinois State Militia evacuated the south side of Chicago. The rate. How do you evacuate the south side of Chicago? Like, this is fucking crazy. Where'd they go?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I don't know. The race riot led to questions being asked about what was happening to the youth.

[A]

Oh, my God.

[B]

And the athletics club represented a big generational divide. Parents of one Colts member said they were deeply embarrassed by his involvement, especially after he got arrested.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And after they got arrested, I mean, they got arrested because of his actions.

[A]

Right.

[B]

And spoke of trying to keep him away from the clubs.

[A]

They arrested them, the parents.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

See more of that, too.

[B]

Oh, come on off.

[A]

Yeah. Oh, you say that because you have a kid.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

No, I don't know what that little shithead's doing.

[A]

That's what I want. I want more of that. I'll turn you in. Well, definitely the dad. Listen to the dollop. I'm liking a babushka with a picture picnic basket. I believe his podcast is called Dollop. He's always been terrible influence on entire neighborhood. Anyway, I'm off to go buy rye.

[B]

They also felt ashamed when they saw their neighbors and wondered if they would have to move. So it's like.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

So society is shaming them, which is what you're supposed to do.

[A]

Yeah, I agree. Rest the parents and shame them.

[B]

Should shame as many people as you can all the time.

[A]

Well, not. No.

[B]

Constantly shame.

[A]

No, there's some people you don't want to shame. No, there's some people you want to be.

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No. Shame them.

[A]

No. Wrong.

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We're a pro. Shaming podcast.

[A]

No. For the most.

[B]

What the fucking deal is.

[A]

No. They're. No.

[B]

It's that fucking alcoholic. You know what I mean? You can't. You can't do a show without fucking drinking.

[A]

He tell his boy to use baseball bat for crime. He terrible father. If anything. I don't believe he get it up, because I always hear his wife say, please try. Please try right next door. Whole time she's screaming, oh, please, just give me one shot, Please.

[B]

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[B]

Jesus.

[A]

What?

[B]

It's not. It's upsetting. Older people thought Reagan's cults were, quote, a rough and impertinent crowd and very unpopular in their own neighborhood.

[A]

It sounds like they're in a culture.

[B]

Yeah. And after the riot, it became a lot worse to be a cult member. Now, Alderman o'. Toole. Alderman o'. Toole. Alderman o' Toole had all cabarets and clubs in the riot district closed, including the Reagan Colts Club. There'll be no dancing, but o' Toole's club stayed open.

[A]

What's favor? Keep one open. Just so people have an outlet, a place to go. I run off.

[B]

The number of gang members in the closed clubs numbered 7,000.

[A]

Wait, what? Holy shit.

[B]

Some stayed open and dared the cops to raid the Pelican Club, put up a sign that said, quote, come over and arrest us. And no cops did

[A]

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And also we've been through this a bunch on the show. Mint Mobile is the name of the company. We support the wireless a lot. There's no change in the taste of the phone.

[B]

Change that. So.

[A]

No, they haven't because the last. No, it turns out that I'll let other people figure it out when they.

[B]

They just had a new software because they realized it. Give it a lick.

[A]

I will let other people try it first and I will see online if that's true.

[B]

They said in this. They said we need Gareth to try the new.

[A]

May I see the. The ad?

[B]

I was on a call with them. It's not in that. It's not in the.

[A]

I'll bet you that call didn't drop because you use memo.

[B]

It didn't. But go ahead and give it a. Give it a tip.

[A]

I'll give it a lick. But I am a little. If it. If it doesn't taste like mint, that will be a problem.

[B]

No, it should be. It should.

[A]

No, it's chemical. It tastes bad.

[B]

When's the last time you watched that?

[A]

You can't wash phones.

[B]

Oh, okay. So we both love it and we both use it.

[A]

Try your phone.

[B]

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[A]

Finally.

[B]

Gangs of the Back of the Yards district were ready made for beer running and organized crime. There was also a increase in the prominence of the KKK. The Colts are very anti KKK. Not for the racism, but because. Anti ka.

[A]

Because of the fucking outfits.

[B]

It's the outfits. In 1921, they, quote, rallied a crowd of some 3,000 people from the stockyard districts to watch them hang a white sheeted Klansmen in effigy.

[A]

Oh man, the effigy part hurts.

[B]

Many Irish families had moved up socially to nicer suburbs now, which weakened the power of many clubs. As their numbers shrank in the early 1920s, the cults even started taking in Jewish members.

[A]

Wow.

[B]

I mean, for them, that's pretty crazy.

[A]

Yeah. Wow. Who have we become?

[B]

I feel like we're not what we used to be.

[A]

Wow. Time to look in the mirror.

[B]

Jesus Christ.

[A]

What are we?

[B]

The KKK brought the Jews and Catholics closer together. That's nice. Common enemy.

[A]

That is not what we were trying to do.

[B]

Russian Jews and Irish Catholics also bonded over hating the Polish. I get it.

[A]

Also a lovely story.

[B]

That's beautiful. Yeah, that should be like a whole

[A]

and that's why those Polish jokes that we learned as kids carried for so long.

[B]

Those are also true, though.

[A]

It was just. Just forever. It was like when I was like 15, I was like, wait, what just happened?

[B]

We're still doing bullish jokes.

[A]

Yeah. I was like, wait, especially.

[B]

I mean, you guys here at least had like, there was like a large Polish population, but doesn't make it better. I know, but at least you can, like, why would we tell Polish jokes in California?

[A]

Well, in Wisconsin it was. I was like, man, what was he up in that tree raking leaves for in the first place? I was like 9 years old. Like, this is true. What good on them for making submarines. But the doors are an issue.

[B]

Throughout the 20s. Bad press about beer running, murders and sexual assaults hurt the cult's reputation. If you can imagine that being in 1922. Frank was up for re election, but the cults were now so toxic that even he disowned them.

[A]

Wow, that is crazy.

[B]

I never liked them. They were like them.

[A]

It is. I mean, there you do like having a standard. Used to. It's not great, but like, there used to be like, some people, like, I'm walking away. This got too fucking racist or too bad. I'm like, out of here.

[B]

I mean, it took him 20 years, but he did it.

[A]

Yeah, I guess we'll see what happens

[B]

after they caused a race riot.

[A]

Yeah. I'm not saying it's ideal.

[B]

He claimed to be sick of bailing members out of jail every Saturday night, and he cut ties. But the members still admired and were loyal to him. Without his money, the club shut down. But a new funder came forward and reopened it.

[A]

Uh. Oh, this I am nervous about.

[B]

We don't know who that is.

[A]

I know, but there's a vacuum of. Of power and it could go real south real fast. Literally south.

[B]

Frank still lost the election. Now, the club was now often being raided by cops for committing beer running murders. Beer, it was a big thing.

[A]

Yeah, but. Yeah, right. Well, it was like, this is what the crime. Yeah, right. Al Capone or whatever, that guy. Yeah, yeah, Hometown hero.

[B]

He's coming up. The Reagan Athletic Club got an injunction restraining the cops for, quote, promiscuous raiding of the clubhouse.

[A]

Promiscuous. They were fingering the establishment.

[B]

Hey, quit fucking my door, huh?

[A]

Then open it up. Then open it up. Pick that fucking lock.

[B]

But cops still raided because Colts were shooting at cops. They were also still doing election strong arm work. Like they kidnapped an election clerk in 1924. They were arrested and acquitted when the Prosecutor barely made a case and the main witness recanted.

[A]

Okay, I like the kidnapping of the election clerk.

[B]

Now, Frank went back to being a union leader and he was elected head of the newly created Meter Readers Union.

[A]

Oh, fucking. I bet you wish those times were back. What you got now?

[B]

And claimed he would shut a plant down unless their demands were met. The Chicago Tribune headline was. Was Frank Reagan Appears as new Dictator. So the fight started when the company fired eight workers for joining the union. And by noon that day, 70 workers had quit in solidarity. Frank said they couldn't get by on their wages, especially the married ones. The Edison Company said the workers were misled by Frank and had no demands or grievances.

[A]

Fine.

[B]

It's the Frank guy. They're fine. That's it.

[A]

So they were like, we have nothing. We're good.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

They didn't mean anything.

[B]

They don't. They're good. They're good. They also claimed only we demand to

[A]

work longer hours, less water.

[B]

They also claimed only five or six of them are married, and that's their choice. And they get a good, good deal, so shut up.

[A]

Who was that guy?

[B]

It's the Edison Company.

[A]

I know, but they were like. Also, only six of them are married. A lot of us are hanging out. You know what I'm saying? Down to clown trick, the L train to Clown Town. Ready? Eight. Six of them are married, but by the way, they're. And then the rest of us are ready to get crazy.

[B]

Like, down low.

[A]

Whatever you need, brother. Name it, we'll do it. Yeah, we're ready to go.

[B]

Hey, yeah, no, I hear you. I hear you. I'm just not free to party. Interested?

[A]

Hit the showers.

[B]

You hit the showers.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

No.

[A]

All right.

[B]

Not with me.

[A]

We'll do it dirty. Yeah, we'll go to your house, we'll figure it out. Figure one out, everything. Go to your place for a little while.

[B]

What is it?

[A]

I don't know. Do you have a decanter?

[B]

No.

[A]

All right, I'll get you one for your birthday.

[B]

Fuck it. What kind of threat is that?

[A]

I don't. It's not even a threat. I'd like to be a really good friend, maybe more. Not maybe more than that.

[B]

You're a fucking weirdo.

[A]

All right, fine. We could just make it a casual thing.

[B]

I don't want it to be anything. I just want me either.

[A]

One night. Be leave it all out there, and then we figure out what happens in the morning when we go.

[B]

The worst union negotiation I've ever had.

[A]

All right, let's Go back to the beginning.

[B]

I'm just.

[A]

All right, we'll meet and then hang out. If we like each other, we'll talk. This is gonna make waffles in the morning. No. All right, same bed, one night. I'll leave after. All right, I'll stay.

[B]

We want.

[A]

What do you want from me?

[B]

We want our uniforms paid for also.

[A]

All right, we're gonna pay for your uniforms.

[B]

We'll do that workday.

[A]

Yes. And we hang out in a cabin.

[B]

And all I gotta do. All I gotta do is.

[A]

I just gotta.

[B]

Yeah, all I gotta do is you. And then all the guys get.

[A]

Oh, you think I've got. Like that?

[B]

Are you a top?

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Well, so am I.

[A]

Well,

[B]

sorry, boys. I couldn't break him down on the contract.

[A]

He's good boys. He's one of the best we've done ever come into contact with.

[B]

So they. So Edison says they were misled and that they have no demands or grievances. They claim only five or six are married and it's a good deal, so take it and shut up. After two weeks, they did. They won. They got a 10% raise and safer working conditions by 1925. The Chicago Tribune called for Frank, quote, the most powerful man in Chicago due to his political union and organized crime connections.

[A]

Nice.

[B]

Now the Colts start feuding internally because some join opposing beer running gangs during the beer war and they start shooting at each other. The beer war is, you know, it's just prohibition alcohol fighting.

[A]

Yeah. Beautiful.

[B]

So in the late 20s, Reagan's Colts battled Capone's gang. And at one point, Capone's men put a machine gun on a shed behind the club and opened fire. They were trying to kill Dynamite Joe, but Joe dove out a side window instead of crushing them, Capone was impressed by them and started hiring them as enforcers.

[A]

That's. That's so fucking awesome. That is fucking. We need more of that. Shoot Dynamite Joe. He jumped out of window. He survived. Give him a job application.

[B]

Killable. What are you going to do?

[A]

That's awesome.

[B]

He is quite a.

[A]

He's a bit of an April Fools. Stop it. Like, we're literally the worst of the worst right now. But the C word is not cool. I got goosebumps. Don't say that again. That's a horrendous term.

[B]

Capone hated the Irish and competed with a few Irish gangsters, including the o'. Donnells. And one Colts member owned a bar called the Pony Inn. And when Capone heard the o' Donnells were outside, he sent hitmen to take them out. But the O' Donnells were partying with Assistant State's Attorney William McSwiggin. McSwiggin was killed along with two others. The O' Donnell brothers escaped when Capone's boss Torrio, the rum czar was shot

[A]

by Irish gangster Bring Back the Rums Are.

[B]

So Torrio. So when Capone's boss Torrio, the Rums are was shot by Irish gangster o' Banion men, Capone was rushed to the hospital and Frank is in a photo with Torrio's wife.

[A]

Do you have any non Nazi vibe stuff?

[B]

So Frank is in the photo with Torrio's wife who has been visiting her husband at the hospital. And it says Frank owns the hospital. So he's got to be fucking loaded at this point.

[A]

Yeah, right.

[B]

So. So the fractures in the Colts increased and the violence does too. And on August 4, 1927, the last 12 members voted to end Reagan's cult club. And Frank begged people to remember all the good the club had done.

[A]

Wow. Yeah. Really remember it. Remember it fondly.

[B]

Quote, There was a rough element among the members, but there was also a helpful one. Many needy persons can testify to that. At one time, The Colts numbered 3,000. When the US entered the World War 1,100 Reagan Colts enlisted immediately.

[A]

Nice. So the majority didn't.

[B]

Yes, that's right. A third. Once out of prison, James went back into the news game. While boot jacking, he had worked under Mo Annenberg. Mo was now beginning a newspaper empire. And the General News Service was a big source of information about racetrack and other gambling results. And gangsters wanted control and Mo bought in when it went up for sale. He called the service a social good. Quote, if people wager at a racetrack, why should they be deprived of the right to do so away from a track? Yeah.

[A]

A sign of a functioning society.

[B]

How many people can take time off from their jobs to go to a racetrack?

[A]

That's right.

[B]

I bring the racetrack now you can

[A]

do it with an app on your phone. Things are fine. Maybe we did one ad for it. We're sorry. Now we go into a DraftKings ad. Wow. I mean, that's so inconvenient for you to have to do it through something like that. But I get what he was saying. The convenience of being able to gamble from the comfort of your own home is something amazing. We're not saying you have to do it as long as you do it responsibly. That's something that's really important to us here at the Dollop. Bet on every game each week. You could do parlays. One game.

[B]

Oh, you do parlays?

[A]

Oh, my God. Can you ever. And why not combine your fantasy league, put it in something like DraftKings.

[B]

That's a good idea.

[A]

I know you have very little right now as society crumbles, but what if we cut that in half and made things a lot worse for you and gave you the burden of a secret and a nightmare in your pocket every time you go to the bathroom at work? Now you can think about it. It's like a telltale heart, but with money. DraftKings Circle the drain with us.

[B]

All right, so. Right. So James is out of jail, and Mo puts James in charge and starts to expand the wire. So they're taking over other ones across the country. They're using violence and they're buying them out. And soon, the General News Service was the only racetrack and gambling wire service in the US and went goes into Canada, Mexico. And Mo and James squeezed out the other partners and they took control of the whole thing. But the partners brought in Capone, and it looked like a gang war was going to break out over the wire. So they tried to lure James to switch sides. Quote, if you come along with us, we will kill Mo in 24 hours.

[A]

I like the guarantee. I love a guarantee.

[B]

Yeah, 25 hours is great, but Mo got protection in Miami, and then he moved there.

[A]

He's not going to do great there. No, I'm calling it Moami.

[B]

The government eventually got Mo on income tax charges and he went to prison. In 1940, the racing wire was dismantled, but James quickly started the Continental Press Service, and that became the dominating racing wire. The the US Chicago mom wants to buy it, but he's not selling, so they're going to have to kill James. So James told a reporter friend that he expected to be taken out, and he requested FBI protection in return for information about the mob. Despite naming top officials and companies, the FBI concluded they couldn't prosecute any of them, so they withdrew the protection.

[A]

Oh, shit. So he fucking squealed. And they were like, yeah, we don't have a case, so good luck.

[B]

Yeah, thanks for stopping by. That was great.

[A]

But I. I just told you everything that I ever knew. Yeah, but I'm worried about my life now that I done told you everything. They're definitely following me and watching me everywhere I go. Yeah, don't keep saying yeah like that. Yeah, I got one of those cars with the four doors, but the two doors feel like one door when you open them. They're like saloon doors.

[B]

Those are the ones people always get shot through.

[A]

That's what I'm saying. They're really easy for some reason. It gives a maximum space to shoot. So much room.

[B]

I wish it was something we could do for you, kid.

[A]

I know more.

[B]

What?

[A]

I know more.

[B]

Okay, so.

[A]

Oh, boy. I got a bunch of other details.

[B]

Cool. We'll see you later.

[A]

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Want to know what they're feeding their. Want to know what they have for dinner?

[B]

Oh, yeah. Okay.

[A]

I don't know yet. But if I wear a wire, I could probably figure it out.

[B]

That doesn't really help us.

[A]

All right. What about breakfast? What about what they do for exercise?

[B]

We don't need any of that. You told us all their crimes.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Thank you.

[A]

They're working with, uh. They got a, uh. Huh. It's the Chinese.

[B]

The fuck?

[A]

I don't know. They're gonna kill me as soon as I leave.

[B]

I know.

[A]

I know. Can I live here? No. No. Please let me sleep under your desk. I could just go on one of those drawers.

[B]

Not sleeping out of my desk.

[A]

Let me come home with you.

[B]

What are you talking about?

[A]

I live with you.

[B]

No, you won't.

[A]

We'll be best friends.

[B]

We're not best friends.

[A]

Well, that sounds like an argument only two best friends would have.

[B]

The hell out of here.

[A]

You get out of here.

[B]

You oughta.

[A]

Oh, listen to us. We're having another one of us.

[B]

On June 24, 1946, James was driving when a truck pulled alongside. Then the car in front of him stopped. Can you imagine such a bad sign? You like? Ah, here we go.

[A]

And I mean like now, if you drive into Chicago, you're like, this is driving. There's a truck and a car, and I'm not moving. But back then, you were like, oh, I'm about to die.

[B]

James was shot in the arms and leg by a shotgun.

[A]

Interesting choice.

[B]

Who the. How do you miss the torso?

[A]

Oh, no. Now I just. Oh, no.

[B]

It was hard. It shoots a bunch of pellets in a wide array, so all I could get was the arms.

[A]

Don't worry. Me and you, we could go to the alley. We're together. You're exactly what I'm after. It's me from the beginning. You remember?

[B]

No.

[A]

Yeah. No, I think you were the little boy. Yeah.

[B]

There wasn't me at the beginning. It was somebody else.

[A]

Nah. But now that you've got. Now you can't walk.

[B]

First of all, how old are you at this point? You already grown up back then.

[A]

I'm 71. I'm fine. I'm fit.

[B]

You don't sound 71.

[A]

Every morning I've got. I have a banana and that's it.

[B]

What?

[A]

Once a day I have a banana

[B]

when I get a banana A day.

[A]

Yeah. Now you'll come with me.

[B]

No. Now it's worse.

[A]

I've saved our bucket.

[B]

No.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

No.

[A]

Let's combine.

[B]

No.

[A]

Come on.

[B]

Combine. What?

[A]

It might not be too late to become pickpockets again.

[B]

What the fuck are you talking about?

[A]

Like we did when you were a boy. I'm in a lot of debt, you hear? The draft kings, they're gonna take my hands. What?

[B]

Nothing.

[A]

You worried that we've lost a sponsor? Don't worry, DraftKings.

[B]

We already had to turn them down because people get mad at gambling.

[A]

Oh, well, don't you think you're special?

[B]

The only sponsor we have left is the bucket sponsor.

[A]

They're the best, though. Combinations. Buckets.

[B]

So about a month later, James. Oh, wait. So he was in the. He's in the hospital for a little bit.

[A]

So he had a voucher because he

[B]

only got shot in the arms and legs. Yeah. And that. That's an embarrassment to the mob that he's still alive and talking.

[A]

Who shot.

[B]

Who shot him?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Who accused the mob? He said the mob.

[A]

Yeah, but who is just like, yeah, boss, we did it. We got him in the arms and the legs just like you asked.

[B]

No, I said everywhere but the arms and legs.

[A]

Oh, shit. We had a hell of a miscommunication.

[B]

Yeah, we did.

[A]

He's still very much alive and able to do stuff that's not what we wanted. Oh, boy. Next time you probably write it down.

[B]

I literally drew a circle.

[A]

Yeah. A circle of the no hit zone.

[B]

No.

[A]

Oh, here we go. This is another one of our classical miscommunications.

[B]

You're a fucking hitman.

[A]

Oh, come on now. What? Come on.

[B]

You're an April fool.

[A]

You're a real cunt.

[B]

In August, he died from his wounds.

[A]

Wow. They still got him.

[B]

But an autopsy showed he had been poisoned by mercury.

[A]

The planet. Aliens.

[B]

I knew it.

[A]

I knew it.

[B]

The mob had gotten around his 24 hour police detail. And afterwards.

[A]

This is Epsteiny.

[B]

Suddenly, the state's attorney could not find James signed affidavit naming the shooters. It had just vanished. Whoopsie doozy. Frank Reagan died of natural causes the year before on July 4, 1945. Many of Reagan's cults were absorbed into Capone's organization or just faded away. But the descendants of the original colts became Important members of organized crime and. Okay, so do you remember when I brought up the o' Brien's football team to Normal park? And then they became the Racing Cardinals?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And then they became the Chicago Cardinals.

[A]

Oh, no.

[B]

And then they became the St. Louis Cardinals.

[A]

Oh, my God.

[B]

And today they're the Arizona Cardinals,

[A]

who the packers just beat.

[B]

Let's go, Bears. Let's go.

[A]

I can't believe how hard you just pandered, and it didn't even work.

[B]

It didn't work.

[A]

You pander, beard.

[B]

You guys are so.

[A]

That is so bad.

[B]

That's how. That's how long your team.

[A]

That's either.

[B]

That's how long the team's been bad. They're like, I'm not starting to.

[A]

Now you're jumping ship. You just tried. Gotcha.

[B]

He hates the Bears. He makes fun of the Bears all the time. And I go, come on. They're doing good. They're trying. They're a good team. I like what they're made of. And he's like, they're shit. They'll always be shit. Four and two, motherfucker.

[A]

This dude. This is. I'm gonna get this as a highlight and play it for you when we're alone, you pathetic weirdo. For do, baby.

[B]

I've never said anything bad about the Bears, and I never will.

[A]

Four, baby.

[B]

All right. The Bears could be the Cowboys. A ham sandwich could.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Just outscore him. My. My son was like, so, the Bears. Do you remember when the Bears won a Super Bowl? And I was like, yeah, I was in, like, high school or something. Andrew Sources. Andrew Diamond's books, Chicago on the make and Mean Chicago Youths and the Everyday Struggle for Empowerment in the Multiracial City. Take that down a little bit. A lot of newspaper articles. Chicago Xamar, Chicago Tribune, the Inner Ocean, the Chicago Eagle, the Daily Book, the Oakland Post Enquirer, The Encyclopedia of American Crime by Carl Sifakis. Carl, you might want to fix that name.

[A]

Carl's definitely sending an email from the whole Sisyphus family.

[B]

The World Encyclopedia of Organized Crime by Robert Nash. Holy shit. Michael. Michael, how in the. You worked for him.

[A]

Holy what?

[B]

Michael knows everything.

[A]

J. Robert Nash is a crazy. Correction. Excuse me. J. Robert Nash.

[B]

Homicide in Chicago, 1870-1930-1932. That's the website by Northwestern University. And then blogs including the Irish Mob, Chicago Crime Scene, Screen Rant, the Encyclopedia of Chicago History, Crime Magazine, and Wikipedia, the Interocean newspaper.

[A]

Interocean newspaper.

[B]

And then I can't. I gotta look up who sent me the research because I.

[A]

What do you got on that one? Excluding the Atlantic?

[B]

Well, that's. That's not necessary, is it? You're still mad about the bears thing, aren't you?

[A]

Yeah, you really got my ass back

[B]

there,

[A]

Getting down on your knees and then not sucking a dick, you little weirdo. Please, may I? And they were like, no.

[B]

You are so rude. I. I revealed to people how horrible you are about the bears, which is totally unnecessary.

[A]

I said earlier, watching a bear starve was one of the worst things I've ever seen. And yet they show up every Sunday for the same.

[B]

I can't find it.

[A]

I can't find what?

[B]

I can't find it. I can't. I can't get my email here for that.

[A]

No, it's all right.

[B]

All right. Well, it's probably. Yeah, all right, I'm sorry. I'll put it in later.

[A]

It's okay. Well, why don't you just say you're sorry to everybody?

[B]

I'm not sorry about revealing how horrible of a person you are about the bears.

[A]

Come on, we already closed that chapter with J. Robert Nash. That one. Well, what is the. What's the moral here, David? What do you got?

[B]

Crime wins. Do. Do crime. Because it's more fun. You may have a shorter life, but it's a better one.

[A]

And J. Robert Nash, he's on speakerphone and not too happy. All right, everybody, thank you very much for coming. I appreciate it. Thank you. Bye.