727- Saloon Owner Billy McGlory

Summary

The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds
Episode: Saloon Owner Billy McGlory (March 31, 2026)
Host: All Things Comedy

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Overview

In this episode of The Dollop, comedians Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds dig into the wild and tumultuous life of William H. “Billy” McGlory, a notorious saloon owner in 19th-century New York City. As always, Dave shares the story—rife with crime, vice, and underworld antics—with Gareth reacting blindly, leading to classic riffing, dark humor, and insightful commentary about corruption, poverty, and the mechanics of vice in Gilded Age America.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Billy McGlory’s Origins and Early Life (Starts ~02:03)

• Born William H. McGrory/McGlory in Manhattan’s infamous Five Points to Irish immigrants, Patrick and Honora.
• Father died when Billy was 8; mother struggled to support family, took in boarders, remarried several times.
• Billy entered a world of petty crime as a teenager, running with pickpockets and thieves, possibly part of a gang in the 4th and 6th Wards.
• Use of multiple aliases, e.g., Gilbert McGlair, "Gilly McGlory" ([04:35]).

Notable banter:
Gareth, riffing on Victorian crime tropes:

“The Oliver fan in me always wanted to be a part of that… hang out with an older man who showed me how to pickpocket… throw our fencing materials in a pile…” ([03:59])

2. First Robbery and Jail Time (04:35–06:15)

• Convicted of first-degree robbery at 16, did 5 years in Sing Sing prison, where he met more criminals.
• Physical description: “Long wavy hair and a ministerial look” ([07:03]).

3. Entry into the Saloon Business—The Burnt Rag (06:51–22:01)

• Post-prison, opens “The Burnt Rag” at 103 Bowery St.—poorly named, “chloroformy,” as Gareth jokes ([06:51]).
• Fires, shifting locations, always at the center of criminal activity.
• Became a den for thieves, sex workers, and the “lower end of society”—just blocks from the police precinct.
• Repeated police raids over liquor law violations and violent incidents.
• Customers would be “plied with booze,” then drugged, robbed, assaulted by bouncers.

Quip:

"If I’m gonna lose money, I want sex." — Gareth ([08:49])

• The Burnt Rag became notorious in police records and press (“Burnt Rag Again” headlines, regular raids, legal troubles).

4. Family and Criminal Entanglements (10:47–15:08)

• Family members involved: half-brother Johnny Thompson (actor), half-sister Honora (married thief Hugh Campbell), sister Maryanne.
• Episodes of family violence, such as the 2 a.m. brawl where Billy knocked out three of his sister’s teeth ([14:24]).

5. Bar Fights, Beatings, and the Downfall of the Burnt Rag (15:20–22:01)

• Example: Billy justifies beating Henry Snyder with a chair as “self-defense”; later, witnesses vanish under suspicious circumstances ([15:20]).
• The bar’s reputation is cemented by press coverage of fights and brutal robberies.
• Notable incident: After a man is beaten and held at a restaurant “maybe to get ransom,” the authorities finally pull the Burnt Rag’s license ([22:01]).
• Classic Dollop riff:

“What are we doing here? Good Lord, where’s the justice? The judge was like, no, that’s insane. That’s not how it works…” — Dave ([22:34])

6. Armory Hall: Notorious New Venue (23:03–36:33)

• Opens “Armory Hall” on Hester St.—becomes one of NYC’s most infamous dives.
• Features: Cancan dancers, boxing matches, “boxes” for sex work, all-night drinking, gay-friendly staff and clientele.
• “Rules”: No robberies inside, but once patrons were tossed outside, all bets were off—robbed naked, everything gone ([24:10]).

Memorable exchange:

“Once outside, they could literally be robbed of everything. And it was very common for them to be stripped naked.” — Dave
“I like that move… makes you not want to fight anything, you know what I mean?” — Gareth ([24:20])

• Gareth, mocking the constant brawling:

“Why would you go there? …I don’t know, they’re robbing people pretty hard here, but at least the girls will do a foot job.” ([26:50])

• National press described the scene as “a beastliness and depravity compared with which no chapter in the world’s history is equal” ([27:35]).

7. Battles with Authorities and the Law (36:33–45:02)

• As reform mayors wage war on vice, McGlory’s political connections (Tammany Hall) stymie closure attempts.
• Finally, under growing pressure and reform laws, McGlory is tried, convicted in 7 minutes ([44:16]), and sentenced to a year hard labor for running a “disorderly house.”
• “Several people testified, including a florist he ordered plants from but never paid…”
• Banned from opening a New York saloon until 1896.

8. Attempts at Respectability and Recurrent Scandals (45:02–54:00)

• Joins the Salvation Army, claims to support temperance, flips positions repeatedly.
• Tries and fails at various “respectable” businesses, continually targeted by the press and public.
• Buys a temperance resort in Syracuse, sparking civic panic. Locals form a “Law and Order League” to stop him ([55:13]).
• Sells property after the venture flops.

9. Later Life and Decline (54:00–62:00)

• Multiple failed attempts to open new establishments; dogged by creditors and legal trouble.
• Eventually found living in poverty; may have died in the Bronx or Orlando; exact date unknown.
• Final years marred by family lawsuits and attempts to seize his mother’s property.

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Notable Quotes & Banter

• “It’s amazing how long we’ve been trying to figure out… why everything’s so crazy… and it’s always just money.”
  — Gareth ([42:38])

• “He’s just changed… Like he’s punching them in the mouth, right? Like they came after him and he’s like, all right, how about I show you how it works?”
  — Dave on McGlory moving the vice operation uptown ([41:26])

• “Welcome to Peto [sic] Island.” — Gareth, shuddering at temperance resorts doubling as child-safe amusement parks ([54:01])

• “He does that to elicit sympathy. And then they still do the evil thing… [like] Elon, Trump… they always posture like they’re going to have a change of heart.” — Gareth ([55:53])

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Timestamps of Key Segments

• 02:03 – Billy’s childhood and entry into crime
• 04:35 – First robbery, aliases, and prison stint
• 06:51 – The Burnt Rag: opening and criminal business model
• 09:44 – Press and police attention
• 13:23 – Family court brawl and violence
• 15:20 – Notable bar fights and suspicious disappearance
• 22:01 – Burnt Rag closed after kidnapping/assaults
• 23:03 – Launch of Armory Hall (“hot joint”) and its infamy
• 27:59 – Description by out-of-town reporters
• 36:33 – Reformers vs. McGlory; his courtroom appearance and conviction
• 41:26 – Buying Hotel Irving, flaunting to the authorities
• 54:00 – The failed Syracuse temperance project & subsequent decline
• 59:38 – Final closure of Elmwood Park and McGlory’s disappearance from public life
• 62:21 – Episode close & hosts’ wrap-up

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Tone and Style

• Irreverent, biting, darkly comic; hosts interweave historical recounting with modern analogies and satirical quips.
• Social commentary about class, corruption, and American moral panics runs throughout.
• The “Van Edition” brings in road-trip asides, adding a low-key, conversational atmosphere.

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Conclusion

The tale of Billy McGlory is a microcosm of vice, survival, and reinvention in Gilded Age New York—a world where criminality and commerce were deeply entwined, and where notoriety brought both fortune and constant scrutiny. Dave and Gareth turn this history into a wild ride through American hypocrisy and the roots of urban infamy, never missing a beat for a joke or a pointed observation.

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Transcript

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[Dave Anthony]

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[Gareth Reynolds]

Reynolds, who has no idea what the topic is going to be about. Also in a van. We're in Steven Seagal.

[Dave Anthony]

And you're enjoying a beverage. It's exciting. We don't have anything else to say. Right?

[Gareth Reynolds]

I mean, we're in a van.

[Dave Anthony]

We're in a van. The tour's about to end. It's all very exciting doing it in the van.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We want to see if we have this technology.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. Let's see how this sounds.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Send your notes to Luke.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. I can't wait to hear your anger. 1850 or 1851.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You're getting a little fudgy on these years now.

[Dave Anthony]

You know, when you get to 1800s, people didn't write stuff down. They were still, like, just using pop.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It was lore.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. It was all mostly verbal.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Interesting.

[Dave Anthony]

William H. McGrory was born in Manhattan's Five Points to Irish immigrant parents Patrick and Honora McGrory.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Honora.

[Dave Anthony]

H O N O R A.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay, you said it, right?

[Dave Anthony]

Honora.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Honora.

[Dave Anthony]

I mean, it's a weird one.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Sure.

[Dave Anthony]

I'd never heard that name before.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And what's his name?

[Dave Anthony]

McCrory. McGrory. McCrory. Rory.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Right.

[Dave Anthony]

As like if you combine McG and Rory.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. Or like if McDonald's made a Scoville sandwich.

[Dave Anthony]

That's right. As expected, Billy's father died when he was around 8.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. As is the way.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. It has to happen for a dollar.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yep.

[Dave Anthony]

After that, his mom, Honora, had to support the family by bringing in borders and psyching through a bunch of marriages.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You know, bringing in Borders. Oh, like people who crash there.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. Billy, meanwhile, got involved in crime.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Nice.

[Dave Anthony]

That's how you do it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's a good start.

[Dave Anthony]

Billy's half brother, Johnny Thompson, was a well known Bowery actor from his father, mother's first marriage.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Dave Anthony]

I don't know how many times she got married, but it's pretty clear she got married a lot.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay. And that's cool.

[Dave Anthony]

No, fine with it. Whatever keeps the Valley.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'm asking about your opinion.

[Dave Anthony]

Cool. As far as societally viewed, probably not, but they're like, they're like the dirt poor and fright points, like nobody cares. So the family had moved to West 16th street after the father died. And Billy starts running with thieves and other petty criminals as a teen. Now, there's no evidence that he was in a gang, but he seems to have been.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He was running with petty criminals.

[Dave Anthony]

He was, he's been part of like a pickpocket thief gang in the 4th and 6th wards. That is the most.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's the way to do it. I agree. I like that. I, I, the Oliver fan in me always wanted to be a part of that. I always wanted to hang out with an older man who showed me how to pickpockets. And we'd come back at the end of the night and we'd just throw our, our fencing materials in a pile and then we'd all hang out.

[Dave Anthony]

How is that any different than this podcast?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Very different. Well, we don't steal. We're paid, we're compensated. Although we did steal the day. Luke did steal a U Haul sound blanket.

[Dave Anthony]

That is true. For the van.

[Gareth Reynolds]

For the van.

[Dave Anthony]

Because they wouldn't sell it to us. At 16 in 1866, Billy was convicted of first degree robbery and he used the alias Gilbert McGlair.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I like it.

[Dave Anthony]

The Times Record quote, all parties implicated in the Adams Express robbery have been arrested. Gilbert McGlare, alias Gilly McGlory.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So he had like an alias for his alias?

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So they were like, we got you, Gilly. We know you both.

[Dave Anthony]

The well known sneaking thief.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes. As opposed to the obtuse thief, the loud thief. I'll be taking some of these items, too. Oh, no.

[Dave Anthony]

The cops, you know, can ever be a sneaking thief.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Luke. Luke could never be a sneaking up. I mean, good Lord, are you kidding me?

[Dave Anthony]

Smash bang.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He would, like, take himself out. They'd be like, he fell into handcuffs Somehow.

[Dave Anthony]

The well known sneaking thief was arrested in this city last Friday night. James Wells was also arrested the same night. They were all taken to Bridgeport and committed. The proof against them is conclusive.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But take. You don't even need to lock them up in Bridgeport. Just go there for an evening. I mean, we were in Bridgeport and oh man, it is tough to go to some of these towns.

[Dave Anthony]

As someone commented on the Patreon page. Why in God's name would you go to Bridgeport?

[Gareth Reynolds]

We didn't know until we went there.

[Dave Anthony]

We didn't.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And it was really. It is not doing well.

[Dave Anthony]

It is not doing well. So Billy gets five years of Sing Sing Prison where he just meets more criminals. Right.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Cool.

[Dave Anthony]

Now, Billy had long wavy hair and was said to have a.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Sounds like somebody used neutrophil.

[Dave Anthony]

Nice. And it was said to have a, quote, ministerial look.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Sounds like someone

[Dave Anthony]

who.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I don't know.

[Dave Anthony]

I lost you trying to think of the guy we did last night.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No, no, I was making another dumb joke. So what's the guy last name was? Joseph. Well done.

[Dave Anthony]

Look at you. Proud of you. Once out, Billy got into the saloon business and he opened a drinking hole called the Burnt Rag.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, God. Jesus. Try a little harder. That just sounds so. Chloroformy. Ah, that is like. It's really not hard to name an establishment.

[Dave Anthony]

No, it's not.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You do like the Tipsy Toad.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. The Burnt Rags. There's nothing appealing about it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

This is the Burnt Rag, the piston coaster. Sharded Cardboard. Hey, you guys want to come down to Sharded Cardboard? Don't order any food.

[Dave Anthony]

It was at 103 Bowery street in the 1870s. So it's a four story building frequented by the lower end of society. Right. The sailors, the tenement. The tenement people, sure. It was just 200ft from police headquarters in the 6th Precinct.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's convenient.

[Dave Anthony]

And quickly became known as a thieves den. So a gathering spot for criminals, sex workers, et cetera.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Sure.

[Dave Anthony]

It was repeatedly raided by police for blatantly violating liquor laws and being, you know, fine with other illegal shit.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What are the liquor laws? Is it There's.

[Dave Anthony]

I'm sure you need a license.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, I see.

[Dave Anthony]

And then probably you can't serve. I mean, not at the time.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Maybe Sundays or something.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah, definitely Sundays. So there's different things. Customers were just plied with booze usually, you know, supplied by the women. The women would be like, hey, you want another drink? That sort of.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I didn't mind if I do.

[Dave Anthony]

Oh, perfect. Yep. And their job is to keep them drinking. And once they're lubed up, they'd be drugged, robbed, assaulted by bouncers, whatever.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, God.

[Dave Anthony]

The women are also sex workers, so they can get your money that way.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Doesn't sound like they need to. That's what that. The whole thing I thought was they were going to get you drunk and then bang you.

[Dave Anthony]

No, I think you have to pay for it. But, like, quite a bit of just taking their money.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I don't like that. If I'm going to get. If I'm going to lose money, I want sex.

[Dave Anthony]

Okay.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. So just if. If the options. Well, no, no, hold on. Let me backtrack, because that's going to hurt my congressional run. Yeah, I'm saying if my options are to lose money, no sex, and same establishment, you know, I'm throwing a little money back into the economy. Sex, and I lose the same amount of money, I'll have the sex one. Okay, thank you.

[Dave Anthony]

But also, they can do both. They can give you the sex and still rob you.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'm better with that one.

[Dave Anthony]

They essentially want all your money.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Sure.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Look, you know, as long as I'm. As long as I'm not. And I don't mind having nothing.

[Dave Anthony]

Okay, that was really upsetting. So sometimes customers just got beat up, you know? Instead, in 1876, the New York New York Times was printing headlines like burnt Rag Again.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Burnt Rag Again.

[Dave Anthony]

Quote, officer Brown of the 29th Precinct on Saturday made a raid at the Notorious Den on 114 West 13th Street. So you'll notice it's moved, occupied by William McGlory. So now he's calling himself McGlory instead of McGrory.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I like that.

[Dave Anthony]

I do, too.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Curious where that takes us.

[Dave Anthony]

Well, remember his alias was Gilly McGlory?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. So now he's just adopted.

[Dave Anthony]

So. Yeah. Yeah, it's a good one. It's pretty close to Billy McGlory.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But when I looked at my, like, stalker's alias list, which she had, there was a lot of, like, stuff where I'm like, oh, so she's been hanging on to that last name for a couple of fakes. She's fallen. Fallen in love with that one

[Dave Anthony]

Willie McGlory, formerly keeper of the Burnt Rag at 50 Bleecker St. 21 arrested. McGlory was held for trial on a thousand dollars bail. So he's. He's moving his saloon around.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Right.

[Dave Anthony]

Billy's family connection also traveled in crime circles. Half sister, Honora. So he's got a sister Sister. Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. Well, it's a Beautiful name. Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

Why would you not keep.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What a great way to honor your mom.

[Dave Anthony]

I mean, I knew when I wrote this that was coming.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No, you didn't.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Admit that it came at the perfect way.

[Dave Anthony]

She married thief Hugh Campbell.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hello, I'm a thief. On his Tinder profile. Thief.

[Dave Anthony]

Hi. By the early 1870s, he had a ruthless reputation amongst cops and journalists. Billy got married on. That's Billy, by the way. Billy got married on January 29, 1877, to an unknown woman.

[Gareth Reynolds]

To a who?

[Dave Anthony]

Unknown woman.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Dave Anthony]

And then in April, he just bailed on her.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, probably why we don't know anything.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. And she tried to prosecute him in court for abandonment. Quote, Ms. McGlory also stated that when she married him, she had $1,000, which she gave him. And besides abusing her shamefully, he had failed to return any part of the money. The judge ordered Billy to pay her six dollars a month in support.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Wow. Six bucks a month.

[Dave Anthony]

He made off like band in that one.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

And now we know why he married her. She had $1,000.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Sure.

[Dave Anthony]

A couple of months later, the Tribune reported that Billy's mom, Honora, another sister, Maryanne, Billy and a guy maybe having an affair with Honora James Tennessee were in court.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, so it really is family. It's a family thing.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. So Honor's husband, the thief, he's in Sing Sing now, huh? And the Daily Herald now says Billy is the owner of Burn Rag Number three.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He's moved the burn and he's. I like how he's never changed the name.

[Dave Anthony]

No, he just changed.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He's like, you got a winner. What are you gonna rag? You're not going to come up with another burnt rag?

[Dave Anthony]

Quote, James Hennessy, barkeeper, was unfortunate to become fascinated with Mrs. Campbell.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay, that's Honora, the ma.

[Dave Anthony]

No, that's the sis. That's the sister.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Dave Anthony]

And heads a row, which brought this family before Judge Morgan. It happened yesterday at 2 o' clock in the morning in front of the McGlory's abode at 354 W. 16th St. Not a terrible area now.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, that. I don't know. The bleaker location. I'm pretty sure I used to do an open mic at. I'm serious. I literally think it was. It was the called the Village Lantern.

[Dave Anthony]

That's funny.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You're not laughing.

[Dave Anthony]

I laughed a little bit and then I stopped. Mr. Sorry. Mrs. McGlory and her son Billy. So the mom and Billy attacked Hennessy and Ms. Campbell when she took his side.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Dave Anthony]

Ms. Mary and McGlory to make things more interesting. Interesting. Attacked her sister Honora. So it's Billy, sister Marianne and mom fighting with Honora and the guy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Wow.

[Dave Anthony]

It was a fight all around. And the worst sufferers were Hennessy, whose head was pretty well battered, and Ms. Campbell, who lost three of her teeth from a blow by her brother. So.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So Hanrah, the sister got. Got the three teeth, knocked out five pills, and Hennessy has a bad head injury.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Which is payback, honestly, because I'll tell you, there's a number of times where I felt like I've had a bad head injury from Hennessy. So it's an interesting parallel.

[Dave Anthony]

The uproar was so great that the 16th Precinct brought a squad of men on the scene and arrested all parties. Judge Morgan fined Billy and his sister honora, who lost three teeth. $10 each.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Dave Anthony]

It's pretty. Yeah, it's pretty good. Although at this time, I would imagine they didn't like. She's probably. Probably now just had no teeth in front.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

You're not going to get those.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No, you don't get those ones.

[Dave Anthony]

Back in September 1878, Henry Snyder was beaten in the burnt rag.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Sure.

[Dave Anthony]

Billy said he had to hit him with a chair in self defense because Snyder pulled a knife.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

He went to Chamber Street Hospital and was told he needed to be transferred to Bellevue because his wounds were so serious. About 10 in the morning, two men came to see him and said they were taking him to Bellevue.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay. To the hospital.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. And then he vanished.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Watching Luke take his eyes off the road to try to find whatever item it is that he's questing for. So, I mean, he's pining for whatever he's looking for. Just another water.

[Dave Anthony]

How many waters have you had today? A lot. What's going on with the water thing?

[Gareth Reynolds]

He's drinking a lot of water because it feels better when he has water in his mouth because he has a toothache.

[Dave Anthony]

Oh, right.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Remember he said that earlier? It was one of the weirdest things I'd heard, but I said, okay.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah, I'm relating to the story a lot. I bet you are. Luke is relating to the story, so now his family's frantically searching for the guy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Right.

[Dave Anthony]

The Tribune quote, the men who called at the hospital were John Thompson, the comedian.

[Gareth Reynolds]

John Thompson, the comedian. Hey, what are we doing here, huh?

[Dave Anthony]

And half brother of McGlory and James Kelly.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's right. Let me do the talking.

[Dave Anthony]

They took Snyder to the Occidental Hotel in the Bowery where he was.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I didn't mean to take him there, but it was a bit of an accident. How are you? I'm a comedian. How are. How is everybody? Hey, we're here to find the truth and not the tooth. Although she lost a few of those. How are you? How is everybody?

[Dave Anthony]

Okay. We didn't really expect a comedian to show up here at 10 in the morning.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, I'll tell you what I didn't expect to be here. Normally, I'm just performing at 10 in the evening.

[Dave Anthony]

Okay.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's when some of my shows are all right. You should come check one out.

[Dave Anthony]

Why are you here? I'm sorry? Why are you here? It's a hotel.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'm not 100%. I'm with them, though, so we're just. We're transporting him to Bellevue.

[Dave Anthony]

Well, why are you at the hotel in the Bowery then?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Why am I at the Bowery? Well, listen, a hotel's better than notel.

[Dave Anthony]

Or is this common?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, yeah, no, here it is. You know what they call it? A hotel. That's when the brothel starts talking. That ho told that's a hotel. And I use that term because it's of the time. In the future, we probably will be much more understanding towards that kind of

[Dave Anthony]

work in the future. You remind me a lot of the comedy of Rob Snyder.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, that's a huge compliment. Rob is very good. Rob is very good. Rob is a very good comedian. He's. You know what I like about Rob? Nobody gave a shit. And then he pretended to be pro life, and now he's huge. He's a good friend. Every time I see Rob Schneider, I wish I was pro death.

[Dave Anthony]

Well, your comedy's kind of pro death.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, my. Wait, come on now.

[Dave Anthony]

So they take him to the Occidental Hotel in the Bower, where he was convinced not to press charges against Billy. When Snyder's family found out where he was, Snyder was quickly moved to Billy's mom's tenement building, which she owns.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Huh.

[Dave Anthony]

Snyder's sister went to the tenement but was not allowed inside. And Snyder lead on the window and said, I'm fine. Billy appeared in court the next day, but Snyder did not make an appearance as a witness. Quote, as he had done out with McGlory's brother to take. As he had gone out with McGlory's brother To take a walk. Okay, why is he a witness here? He went out with the. The charged brother for a little walk.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, that sounds lovely. And your honor, not you. I'm the comedian. I'm having a laugh.

[Dave Anthony]

So, I mean, I always do comedy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We're having a joke.

[Dave Anthony]

I never not do comedy. That's. I'm terrible at this. I'm really bad.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I. I don't think I'm that bad at it.

[Dave Anthony]

Okay. In December 1878, Philip Marks went to Billy's Saloon around 3am and Marks walked up to the bar, pulled out a wad of cash, peeled off a bill, and ordered a drink.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Normal, 3am Was there a closing time?

[Dave Anthony]

No, Kind of stayed open all the time.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Awesome.

[Dave Anthony]

He was then attacked from behind and beaten bloody. Yeah, because you can't pull out a wad of cash.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. It's crazy.

[Dave Anthony]

It's insane.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'm on. I'm on the side of theft.

[Dave Anthony]

This is like a. This is like a suicide in a way.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's crazy.

[Dave Anthony]

So the beating became a big story for some reason. I don't know why, because people are beaten all the time. But this guy got pressed. The New York Daily Herald headline was the Bowery Outrage. Marks pointed out the men who beat him to police and quote, gave their names as Peter Thompson, a song and dance man.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hey.

[Dave Anthony]

And waiter Leroy Peters, who was a deaf mute.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, we're talking about two. I wonder how those guys hung out.

[Dave Anthony]

Oh, Jesus Christ.

[Gareth Reynolds]

One of them won't say a thing. The other one shut the up. I know which one I am. Out of those two.

[Dave Anthony]

He also said Billy was there. So he was also arrested.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Dave Anthony]

And then also arrested was John Flynn, who had apparently taken Marks after he was beaten to a restaurant. That.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Would you. You want to get a shrimp? My friend here will do the scampi.

[Dave Anthony]

I know. Yeah, I was gonna say it's. It's scampi time.

[Gareth Reynolds]

My friend here will do scampi, and I will have the bolognese.

[Dave Anthony]

You know what's nice after a beating is a beautiful, subtle scampi.

[Gareth Reynolds]

There we are. You just wake up into a scampi.

[Dave Anthony]

The restaurant was a 113-1-3.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I don't care.

[Dave Anthony]

And that's where he was held. Maybe. Maybe to try to get more money or for a ransom.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Sure.

[Dave Anthony]

Either way, Flynn was then arrested for kidnapping.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Dave Anthony]

Flynn also happened to be the guy who held the liquor license for the burnt rag.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay, so. So it's like the elevator certificate. It had to be on site.

[Dave Anthony]

Well, I. I don't think. I think McLory didn't want it so he could run it and then not.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, like, keep it out of his name or something.

[Dave Anthony]

So this is the end of the burnt rag. The license is pulled.

[Gareth Reynolds]

God damn it.

[Dave Anthony]

Because you can't do a kidnapping.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Like, sure you can. At the burnt rag.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah, you should be able to do whatever, so. But then there's no charges. There were accusations of coercing a witness. The judge was so concerned about that that he denied Billy and everyone's bail for a long time. And at one point, Billy's lawyer got Mark's doctor's report to show that he had healed. So he said that if he's healed, Billy should get bailed.

[Gareth Reynolds]

This guy got better.

[Dave Anthony]

Hey, why is my guy still being held if this guy's fine now?

[Gareth Reynolds]

The person they almost murdered is out, they should be, too.

[Dave Anthony]

What are we doing here? Good Lord, where's the justice? The judge was like, no, that's insane. That's not how it works. Look at his style.

[Gareth Reynolds]

If they go in, then they should go out together.

[Dave Anthony]

Your Honor, we gave him scampi.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, my God, he's scampi.

[Dave Anthony]

This guy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

This judge keeps acting like this guy didn't get any goddamn scampi.

[Dave Anthony]

So Billy opens up a new.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I can't wait for this name.

[Dave Anthony]

Armory Hall.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay, better, better, better.

[Dave Anthony]

At 158 Hester St. This, he turns into one of the city's most famous joints.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay?

[Dave Anthony]

He has cancan dancers, boxing matches.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Can I love a can.

[Dave Anthony]

And then boxes where the girls would squeeze every penny out of customers by selling overpriced booze and doing. Sure. The sex stuff.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What do you mean?

[Dave Anthony]

They were the handies, suckies, all the things.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, okay. I didn't realize you knew the menu that well.

[Dave Anthony]

Oh, I have the menu at my house, Andy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Suckies, jerkies, vaginas. Okay.

[Dave Anthony]

Assies, footsies. Billy had trusted staffs slash thugs like John Kane and Andy Kelly, who would beat up and throw out anyone who caused trouble. Also didn't cause trouble.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Right.

[Dave Anthony]

They were not to be robbed inside, but once.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Rules are rules.

[Dave Anthony]

But once out on the street, anything is fair game because now they're not in.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So you got to throw them out, then rob them.

[Dave Anthony]

So that's Billy's big rule, right? Once outside, they could literally be robbed of everything. And it was very common for them to be stripped naked.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I like that move. You know, it just kind of makes you not want to fight anything. You know what I mean?

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Like, if you're naked, you're like, shit. Well, I got to figure this out first.

[Dave Anthony]

You just see a guy. You just see a guy walking home naked.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hey, I was the other tonight, I was robbed.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. It was a good night, though.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah, it's a nice place.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Like Having to go into a place and say, they took my money when you're naked is worse. Excuse me. Hold on. I know you're having a good time. They took my money.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. Hey, buddy, your stuff's out.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Can I have a sarsaparilla?

[Dave Anthony]

What are you gonna pay with?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, yeah, they took everything.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's hard to sit on these leathery barstools.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah, you're gonna stick.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. You ever wonder if cats butt holes hit the surface they're sitting on?

[Dave Anthony]

Because I have an answer. I don't.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay, see you later.

[Dave Anthony]

Do they?

[Gareth Reynolds]

See you later.

[Dave Anthony]

Do they?

[Gareth Reynolds]

I will reveal the answer in part two every.

[Dave Anthony]

There's no part two.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay, then. No, they don't.

[Dave Anthony]

How do they not?

[Gareth Reynolds]

God made them. Like a parliament filter. Just a little indentation.

[Dave Anthony]

Is that true?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes, true.

[Dave Anthony]

But it's a 24 hour bottle, so you can always see it. Like in the bottle.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You can always see it.

[Dave Anthony]

Buttles never hidden on a cat.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's really one of the things that's always so strange about our relationship with the animals is the fact that it's like I. I would feel very uncomfortable walking around with hole showing all day. Yeah, but like a dog or a cat, you're like, hey, there we go. Look at that. And then they're so comfortable. They're like, I'm gonna eat my ass for a minute, then we should nap.

[Dave Anthony]

But my dogs are like three times a day. Can I sniff your butthole?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yours?

[Dave Anthony]

No, my nose.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, each other's.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah, each other's butt. Like, they'll walk over and start sniffing. I'm like, you just did that two hours ago.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I know. I'm catching up.

[Dave Anthony]

Same butthole.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'm catching up on him. It's like their version of posting. All right. Ain't got any new thing in there. That's nice. Oh, so you went to the far side of the fence. That's interesting.

[Dave Anthony]

Okay, so Billy's bouncers were mostly criminals that he knew from Five Points who were quote, some of the most expert rough and tumble fighters of the period. Okay, so they strolled through the saloon. They would have pistols showing knives, brass knuckles.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hey, here's a question.

[Dave Anthony]

Why'd you go there? And bludgeons.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Why would you go there?

[Dave Anthony]

I actually went there to get bludgeons.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Why would you? Like what you'd be like, I don't know. They're robbing people pretty hard here, but at least the girls will do a foot job.

[Dave Anthony]

Can I get. Can I get a tequila and then a knife between my third and fourth Rib.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, go outside.

[Dave Anthony]

All right. Army Armory hall makes Billy a fortune. He would. By the time he's done, he would sell for 100,000. So over the time, he hasn't. It's a. A hot joint.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Sure.

[Dave Anthony]

I can't believe I just said hot joint.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I can't believe I allowed you to say it. I was like. But I think you're like in the time. Yeah, you're like, it's a hot joint. It's a lot of hustle and bustle. Oh, you got games as far as the eyes can see, fellas.

[Dave Anthony]

So a visiting. So now reporters from around the country would now go there because it's so notorious just to write about it. So a visiting reporter from the National Enquirer described Armory hall as having, quote, a beastliness and depravity compared with which no chapter in the world's history is equal.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay, so the. The roughest bar of all time.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. It was the spot for thieves, pickpockets, con men, and continued that way for years.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Great to be able to steal your own stuff back after you were robbed.

[Dave Anthony]

It really was.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'm gonna pick his pocket now.

[Dave Anthony]

I'll pick your pocket. There were often bar room brawls. Gang violence would break out in there all the time. From. So when you go from the street, there's two double doors and then you walk down a long 50 foot hallway that is completely painted black and there's no lights.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's cool. So that's what they. Which just. Why would you go to like the worst establishment ever for theft? And you'd walk down a dank, dark hallway where you couldn't see anything. It sounds like going to prison.

[Dave Anthony]

It's insane. So no lights, like I said. And then it opens up into a dance room that could fit 700 people.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You know, part of. It's the age, but I just would hate every part of this.

[Dave Anthony]

Every. There's nothing about this at all.

[Gareth Reynolds]

700 people in a place.

[Dave Anthony]

No.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Would absolutely be the worst thing ever.

[Dave Anthony]

The best place I ever went to, I went to was Speakeasy in San Francisco. And because I was with someone who knew the owner, I went into the front part and it was packed. And then there was a second. You go through a second wall and it's not as packed. And then there's a third room that's behind another wall that is like hardly any movie.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And yet you claim to be a socialist. And that's strange. Once you're given access to the palace, you don't give a shit about anyone, do You.

[Dave Anthony]

And that's where I ran with the big boys.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

Oh, the titans of industry.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No, and it's always so great when I read. I've done a couple of those where you get into the little sneaky room and you're like, I'm in the sneaky room?

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. Oh, this is where the good booze is. Yeah. And the coke and the cocaine and the dance.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I used to go to this guy's bars. He ran a couple bars in LA and a couple in Vegas and he loves to do coke. And then he'd love to have you ask him the entertainment only questions from Trivial Pursuit decks.

[Dave Anthony]

I mean, that's pretty normal.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And so you'd just be there and you just like, say what? He'd be like Marilyn Monroe. And you'd be like, yeah. And you'd be like, it's kind of a one sided relationship. I would love to do something else.

[Dave Anthony]

This is. This is a new version of Trivial Pursuit called Show Off. Trivial Pursuit.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, I have he.

[Dave Anthony]

I got them all memorized.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Luke is on water 9. You can't drink that much water. That's coming from me.

[Dave Anthony]

Have you taken an Advil or anything?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay, okay.

[Dave Anthony]

All right.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Well, I'm worried our diagnosis is out.

[Dave Anthony]

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[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, that's interesting. I didn't know that, Dave.

[Dave Anthony]

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[Dave Anthony]

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[Gareth Reynolds]

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[Dave Anthony]

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[Gareth Reynolds]

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[Gareth Reynolds]

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[Dave Anthony]

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[Gareth Reynolds]

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[Gareth Reynolds]

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[Dave Anthony]

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[Gareth Reynolds]

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[Dave Anthony]

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[Gareth Reynolds]

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[Dave Anthony]

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[Gareth Reynolds]

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[Dave Anthony]

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[Gareth Reynolds]

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[Gareth Reynolds]

Where the jacket, Little Jack.

[Dave Anthony]

We don't call it Jack Shake. There's a lot of stuff that goes on. And there's sucking, there's jacking. I remember there's vagina.

[Gareth Reynolds]

She starts jerking you off. I'm sorry I ordered foot. Oh, sorry. This is for another table.

[Dave Anthony]

Big spending, out of towners knew about it now, and they would come despite the reputation, right? So they could get robbed. But they're like, yay. In the boxes. The ladies entertained and it was called, quote, even more degraded than the hay market, which is like a famous, naughty, dirty spot.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay?

[Dave Anthony]

He also had dudes dressed in women's clothing working as waitresses. And they'd move throughout the crowd singing and dancing. They were, quote, painted like women and had high voices painted like women. And he very much encouraged gay activity amongst all The Patriots this very progressive

[Gareth Reynolds]

in a way, I do think. Or is it just capitalism trumps everything?

[Dave Anthony]

Well, I think capitalism trumps everything, but I also think amongst this class, they're kind of fine with everybody doing everything. Sure, it's the religious and riches that get mad at the. At this. But everyone else is like, hey, Frank's a lady today.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

And they're like, whatever.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Right.

[Dave Anthony]

In January 1879, Billy was indicted for running a disorderly house, which is a brothel.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Dave Anthony]

But he just didn't go to court.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I didn't realize that was an option.

[Dave Anthony]

And he had put down a $500 bail, so he just forfeited the bail and then that was it. That was the end of it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's awesome.

[Dave Anthony]

Nothing else happened. He's like, oh, I just don't go. And it's. You keep the money.

[Gareth Reynolds]

There you go. Yeah, I just didn't want to go.

[Dave Anthony]

It's like getting fined $500 and then you're done.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, right. Although that's gotten worse, obviously. I remember one time I didn't pay like a parking ticket or sub ticket, and when I went to the courthouse, that's the worst. I was like, wait, what? $700?

[Dave Anthony]

It's. It's crazy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Crazy.

[Dave Anthony]

And now, you know, they're putting. They legalize the cameras everywhere. So LA is going to be covered in camera. Yeah, yeah, it's great.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's good because we live in hell.

[Dave Anthony]

Because the poor should pay for everything, not the. Not the wealthy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, right. Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

So he opened. He opened up some other drinking holes like the Windsor plays, all focused on vice, bringing in big crowds, looking for music, gambling and sex. They all have brawls, they have scammers. Staff are getting arrested. In 1885, Billy's brother Michael was convicted of drunken destruction. I couldn't find anything else about this, but that's.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I mean, that is something to be super disorderly proud of.

[Dave Anthony]

Drunken destruction.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, that is. Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

Journalists would go to write about it. Like I said, one described Armory all as close. The most vicious resort he had ever

[Gareth Reynolds]

seen, but they're all dying to go there and write about it. Is Vegasy.

[Dave Anthony]

It's. Yes, it's Vegasy, but they're also like, they want to go there and have the craziest description.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Right.

[Dave Anthony]

Which makes other people want to go there. So it's just feeding on itself.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Right.

[Dave Anthony]

So reform candidate Abram S. Hewitt became mayor in 1887, and he promises to clean up the vice and red light districts. So this would start a long battle, but when authorities Tried to close armory hall in 1889. They ran into problems. Now he is supposed to be connected to Tammany hall, which I'm sure he was.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Right.

[Dave Anthony]

So the next mayor comes in, who's also a reform mayor.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Wait, this is the one mayor didn't do shit.

[Dave Anthony]

Tried to. Couldn't do shit. So the next guy comes in. Hugh. Hugh Grant.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What? Yeah, he's gonna love this place. He was gonna fucking dig this spot a lot. I was just wondering, could I shoot it on your hand?

[Dave Anthony]

But I forgot. Did he get caught with a trans woman?

[Gareth Reynolds]

No, he got caught with a.

[Dave Anthony]

It was a trans woman.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No, it wasn't.

[Dave Anthony]

That was just Murphy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Huh? Yeah, he got caught with a black prostitute named. I can't remember what her name was, but. But, yeah, no, he just. He was in Beverly Hills and he got like. Yeah, he was in Beverly Hills.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah, he got caught. And she was a street. A street walker, or was she.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I think she was just a sex worker. I don't know. I don't know. I feel like.

[Dave Anthony]

You got caught in a car.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, she. Yeah, she went in the car and then the cops were like, ah, there we go. And there was like. You know, she was doing something. This is when he was dating Elizabeth Hurley and everyone's like, oh, I can't believe it. And then he went on the Tonight show and he was like, oh, gosh, my touch has gotten me into another bit of a predicament. Jay Leno was like, hey, what are you gonna do? And then that was the night that Leno started beating Letterman because America is the dumbest place of all time.

[Dave Anthony]

I forgot about that. Yeah. Fuck.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Then we had to deal with Leno.

[Dave Anthony]

Jesus. We really. That was. That was the. Still the darkest time in American history. Leno having the Tonight Show.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And what was it like when cock went inside of her mouth? Just very oj.

[Dave Anthony]

It's gotta be. It's gotta be such a bummer to be getting a hummer from a sex worker on the street. And then the light comes in the window.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, yeah, no, hi. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let me finish.

[Dave Anthony]

Oh, God, I'm a huge actor. What have I done?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, gosh.

[Dave Anthony]

Okay. So he meets with the new mayor, Hugh Grant, and said. Billy says he has been trying to rent out the building that the Armory is in as a church, but he just can't find any tenants.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Look at you. I've been really wanting to convert this money making machine that is renowned throughout the country to a. A place of worship, but I just can't figure it Out. Take anybody to do it, but I'm here.

[Dave Anthony]

So that obviously didn't go over well.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Right.

[Dave Anthony]

A month later, police go to Armory hall and reported that they've seen nothing. Nothing obscene, nothing improper. Quote, not even a can can.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I didn't even see a can can.

[Dave Anthony]

I saw no can cans. Sensing this was going to be a serious problem, Billy sells the building to a furniture manufacturer. Auctions off the bar, the piano, the icebox, and the stage scenery in June 1889. So $100,000 is what he gets.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Dave Anthony]

Which is a crazy amount of money.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Sure.

[Dave Anthony]

He then buys the Hotel Irving, which is a respectable restaurant and boarding house in uptown Manhattan.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Not anymore. Not anymore.

[Dave Anthony]

But then he turns it quickly into an all night saloon and dance hall. And it's right across the street from the New York Academy of Music and very close to Tammany Hall. So he's. He's just gone in to the middle of them.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, he's just changed.

[Dave Anthony]

Like, he's punching him in the mouth, right? Like they came after him and he's like, all right, how about I show you how it works?

[Gareth Reynolds]

They're like, oh, God.

[Dave Anthony]

So complaints just coming in immediately. People are flipping out about the music. There's violence on the street, but the cops are not doing anything.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Imagine.

[Dave Anthony]

But he is now irritating a whole new group of people who have influence. And the New York Herald does this huge expose revealing what a fucking hellhole it is, okay? And the Evening World paper also gets in on the attacks. And so people, they're getting people just fucking riled up. And, and they're now, they're not just going after Billy, but all these types of saloons. They recalled the quote, outlaws of New York, the men who run in defiance of law and order. Resorts where men are nightly robbed of goods and reason, where women are shameless, where crime in its worst and deepest shades is fostered and encouraged.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Isn't it funny that the solution and the issue to all of that is money? It's like, amazing how long we've been trying to figure out why this. Everything's so crazy.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And it's always just money. It's money, money. Everything's money. And you know, it's a really bad idea.

[Dave Anthony]

So now the city passes reforms. So they go after Billy. First, his liquor license is pulled, but he just keeps selling booze without the liquor license.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Sure.

[Dave Anthony]

And then his longtime bartender, Edward Kelly is arrested. And then after that, Billy is arrested as the owner and the prosecutor. Now, because of the laws that have been passed, he just has to prove crimes are happening there that Billy knows. So he shows that Billy just didn't know. But he took part. And Billy came to the trial. So they arrested him. Having the tombs. But he comes to the trial in his, quote, fine brown beaver overcoat and high silk hat.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Now, it. It's interesting because I would think you come in a more meek on something.

[Dave Anthony]

You would think so.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But instead, he dresses like a Bucky's spokesperson.

[Dave Anthony]

Well, he clearly thinks he's untouchable.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Right.

[Dave Anthony]

He's all gonna get away with this, too. So the child.

[Gareth Reynolds]

By the way, you wear a beaver jacket around me. You're very touchable.

[Dave Anthony]

That is a.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That is a fun to pet fabric.

[Dave Anthony]

So the trial's not long. Several people testified, including a florist he ordered plants from but never paid. And then the most damning are all these people he worked with. An investor said he got screwed over. One of the sex workers said she got screwed over.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Don't.

[Dave Anthony]

A bookmaker.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What?

[Dave Anthony]

The jury convicts him in seven minutes.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's cool.

[Dave Anthony]

That's a long time. Literally. Is there enough time to walk into the.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And most of that was dinner orders.

[Dave Anthony]

So Billy sentenced to a year of hard labor at Blackwell's island for running a disorderly establishment. Part of the conviction forced any saloon he owned to be closed, and he bar and barred him from reopening one in New York until 1896.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What year are we in now?

[Dave Anthony]

I think we're. I think it's like 92.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Dave Anthony]

Or it could have been 91, but it's like five years.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Right.

[Dave Anthony]

So while he's in prison, Billy became a member of the Salvation army and said he now supported the temperance movement.

[Gareth Reynolds]

What? Lies?

[Dave Anthony]

No lies. Why would that be lies?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yo. So now I'm a. I'm a member of the Salvation army, and I. Yeah, I think all this terrible debauchery with this. It's the boots, it's the boost, and we got to stop it.

[Dave Anthony]

That's what made me do it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

God, so glad I found you guys.

[Dave Anthony]

But then when he gets out, he said that the. The temperance thing would not actually work because he was a, quote, awful example. Wait, he's saying. He's saying I can't fight for temperance because look at what I've been doing, right? Like this.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You know, now that I'm free, I realize I should be doing what I used to do.

[Dave Anthony]

Just saw an Amish guy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, really? A real one?

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. Down Amish in the wild. It was a little horse carriage trotting along, but the Detroit Free Press quoted him by spelling it Hoffle Hexample. H A W F U L H E G Z A M feely. What kind of accent is that?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hoffle Hexample.

[Dave Anthony]

Is that like a New Yorki waffle?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, maybe a little Hexample doesn't work. No, that's what we're gonna need when we convict Pete Hegseth.

[Dave Anthony]

Oh, that'll never happen.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh.

[Dave Anthony]

If anything, he'll be made emperor. Oh, right after getting out.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I got a good feeling right after getting out.

[Dave Anthony]

He re emerged in New York society and attended a very high, high profile, bare knuckle boxing match between John Sullivan and Patty Ryan at Madison Square Garden. He's just. There, there's. There. There's more. There's more.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We got a bunch of Amish out here now.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah, buggies.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And yeah, for those of you wondering, there are a lot of Amish out here. Oh, we're in Pennsylvania, duh.

[Dave Anthony]

We're. Yeah, we're in Dutch country. We're on Lancaster, probably.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, man.

[Dave Anthony]

So he's just out there openly hobnobbing with cops and politicians and prominent sports figures. Gets a lot of media attention.

[Gareth Reynolds]

All right, I can pay. It's just UFC night.

[Dave Anthony]

What?

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's UFC night?

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. Basically, just like the New York Herald then dubbed him the Vicar General, mocking his flirtation with religious reform.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Right.

[Dave Anthony]

So what's out? The law goes back after him and they serve him to appear for unpaid bills to a liquor distributor, but they can't find him to give him the papers.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That is really one of those great loopholes of being served.

[Dave Anthony]

Did you see the Mr. Pillow guy getting served the other day?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Mr. Pillow is my new favorite name for my pillow guy.

[Dave Anthony]

Mr. Pillow.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Hello, I'm Mr. Pillow. I used to smoke crack and now I've been served. Cpac. Yeah, it was awesome.

[Dave Anthony]

I'm. I'm getting interviewed on television.

[Gareth Reynolds]

On television when he was just on some website.

[Dave Anthony]

The reporter's like, yeah. Oh, no. What is this? What?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, the reporter's like, what? What are you serving it for? He's like, not now. We're talking about the Future of America. Mr. Pillow, you're under arrest. Same with you, Mr. Smarty, and you, Mr.

[Dave Anthony]

Mean. So they can't find him, and they're trying to find him for a long time, and then they find him guilty of contempt for avoiding being served. And then he finally comes to court. Okay, that went on for like a year. So when he gets to court, he's being questioned. He said he went to college for a year, and now Live with his wife in a home.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, I was at college. I just learned how to be a bunch of stuff.

[Dave Anthony]

He said he learned how to be a blacksmith.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Now I'm a blacksmith.

[Dave Anthony]

It's.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I went to blacksmith at college. Who wants a sword?

[Dave Anthony]

And then because they're trying to now find out his financial situation. Right, so you can pay back people. Oh, it's a fire. That's a lame ass fire. California does way better.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's what happens on the Amish. Get a phone.

[Dave Anthony]

So. So he says he lives with his wife in a home he thinks she owns, but he's not sure.

[Gareth Reynolds]

We never talked about it.

[Dave Anthony]

Well, because he never asked her. Because, you know, quote. To tell you the truth, sir, I don't know. I never asked her. It wouldn't be decent seeing she's giving me her goodwill. So he doesn't know how much she makes and what she does for work and if she owns the house.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's unbecoming for couples to talk about.

[Dave Anthony]

Well, that's rude. Why would you ask your wife that? Excuse me, I am a gentleman. He also claimed he had been sick since graduating from the institution at Blackwell's Island.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's a prison, right? The institution graduating from the Evening World

[Dave Anthony]

noted he was now dressed in a moth eaten coat. So that was what you're saying?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. Now he's like the moths took everything too.

[Dave Anthony]

Well, now that he's on trial for to see how much money he has.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He has nothing.

[Dave Anthony]

No, he has nothing.

[Gareth Reynolds]

The moss took it.

[Dave Anthony]

The trial allowed the liquor distributors lawyers

[Gareth Reynolds]

ate some holes in my memory too.

[Dave Anthony]

I don't know what's going.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I don't remember a bunch of stuff.

[Dave Anthony]

The trial allowed the liquor distributors lawyers to bring in witnesses to close to disclose all money he had made over the years. Okay, so the evidence.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's not good.

[Dave Anthony]

The evidence is very against it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

The moss took it.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. I don't know. He still appeared to own the Irving Hotel. Then he suddenly became too ill to go to court. He's like, I'm way too sick to show up to this. Because he's getting hammered.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

So the judge had him arrested. The judge then ordered him to pay the $766. This is all over $766. He sold. He sold the Armory hall for 100,000. This is over 766,000.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I don't know how much my wife makes.

[Dave Anthony]

So he either pays it or goes to jail. By March 8, he hasn't paid it. So it's just a couple weeks. And with interest it's up to 1100 and then suddenly the papers report that Billy's in Denver dying of consumption.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Damn. God, I'm.

[Dave Anthony]

That'll happen.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Got it. Sucks.

[Dave Anthony]

On July 1, 1893, the Evening News headline was quote, Jail for McGlory, the Ex Dive keeper, arrested in his home in Baldwin's Long Island. He had just returned from Denver, where he wasn't dying.

[Gareth Reynolds]

So he went on vacation. Basically, it was like, he's dying.

[Dave Anthony]

He must stay in jail until he pays the judgment. After six weeks in jail, his mother declared. He tried to have his mother declared mentally incompetent to get control of her assets, which included the tenement building.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He's a good kid.

[Dave Anthony]

He is.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He's a good guy.

[Dave Anthony]

Although she might not have been a great mom.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Still,

[Dave Anthony]

in 1896, there were a bunch of towns who suddenly became worried that Billy was going to open a saloon there. So all these towns like a data center. I looked at. Yeah, totally. I looked over the. And there's just all these towns, like Buffalo was freaked out. Rockville. They're all just scared.

[Gareth Reynolds]

You don't want to.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah, yeah. Some bought the land they thought he was eyeing.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That is hilarious.

[Dave Anthony]

Turned it into a park to stop him.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That is what America became beautiful for. Fear of a Billy tavern.

[Dave Anthony]

But there's no indication he was considering it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, that's just if you're like a landowner, you're like, you know, they say Billy's gonna open a tavern over there.

[Dave Anthony]

Oh, God. Get a park going.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, okay. Buy it off me.

[Dave Anthony]

But also like, how do you know that's the plot? So they've been busy.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Exactly. That's what I mean.

[Dave Anthony]

You just could be another one.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He's been looking at this one a lot over here.

[Dave Anthony]

God, we got so many parks.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'm gonna buy Maine. I'm buying Maine.

[Dave Anthony]

So then it was reported Billy had moved to Syracuse with his wife. Some of associates joined him. Billy bought an old temperance resort called Elmwood park, which had previously been home to William Pardee's first class Temperance Resort.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Dave Anthony]

The Temperance resort.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Temperance is just now going to be like a cool bar.

[Dave Anthony]

It's just.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Welcome to Temperance.

[Dave Anthony]

The temperance resort had swan boats on two man made lakes. There was a merry go round and a picnic spot. Quote, it being strictly a temperance resort, parents need not fear to allow their children to go unattended.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Excuse me.

[Dave Anthony]

Hold on.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Sorry there. Mr. Epstein.

[Dave Anthony]

Welcome to Peto Island.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Don't worry, your kids can now hang out here and you don't have to worry about us being drunk.

[Dave Anthony]

Well, this. This is definitely a time when they always tried to. It was the. The whole temperance movement was mostly pushed by people going like, they're leaving, they spend all the money on booze, and the kids are starving.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah. Right.

[Dave Anthony]

So Billy said he would rename it Elmwood Elysium. And the plan is to turn into a hotel, concert hall, boating lake and bar. Okay, so locals are freaking out.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

The Reverend James King called his community to action, warning them of, quote, tufts and hoodlums that would be running loose on the streets of Syracuse.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay. Luke is about to go into water 10 10. So legally drowning on earth.

[Dave Anthony]

He got one. Quote, we must uphold the good reputation of the neighborhood. Protect your homes, your children, and your church and fight in a body to down this great evil which threatens us.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He is a data center.

[Dave Anthony]

I mean, it's really crazy how much they're scared of a bar. Yeah, it's a bar.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

So a meeting was held days later, and a hundred citizens formed a law and order league. And they were really mad at William Pardee for selling the land to a guy who would bring the Five Points to Syracuse. But Billy was so rich, they all knew it would be really hard to stop him. So they try to stop him from getting a liquor license, but he got one. And then they were really mad at the guys, the two guys who gave the liquor license. But still, construction is not starting. And after a year, Billy said, quote, feeling. I'm feeling underappreciated.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

But he. And he says he's putting the property up for sale.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Wrong.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah, you're right. How'd you know?

[Gareth Reynolds]

Because he's playing victim. That's what they do. They're like. They do that to elicit sympathy. And then there's so like, Elon does that all the time, you know? Or they just do this thing where they're like, oh, don't you feel bad for me?

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Trump does it. They all do this, like, woe is me thing, and then they still do the evil thing.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. Right.

[Gareth Reynolds]

They always posture like they're going to have a change of heart.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And then. And then they get headlines out of it, and then people start talking and then they do the shitty thing.

[Dave Anthony]

Right. He told the reporter, quote, the people out there tried and convicted me before they had the least idea of what I was going to do.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I'm going to be a fucking nightmare.

[Dave Anthony]

Here comes hell. He added that if he had started this type of business out west, the towns would be doing everything possible, go there to help it and keep it Going, yeah, right. Go to Denver. And yet Elmwood's Elysium opened a year later.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Doesn't surprise me.

[Dave Anthony]

Reynolds, you saw the future.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I did,

[Dave Anthony]

but it really didn't matter because the whole venture. Oh, wait. So there was no huge concert hall. There was an orchestra in a small theater. There were variety nights with good music, beer and vaudeville acts. No violence, no crime. In August 1897, the Syracuse Standard reported three black women were barred from entering due to their race, which was against New York law. They had passed 12 years before stating businesses had to provide full and equal access.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Okay.

[Dave Anthony]

The three women sued for $500, and then two other women joined the lawsuit. But it really didn't matter because the whole venture was a disaster. The Syracuse Journal called it a, quote, dismal failure. And in 1898, Billy said he was walking away and that he was going to become a Presbyterian minister.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He keeps doing that where he's.

[Dave Anthony]

Because he knows it's with him. It makes him. It enrages them.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yes.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And I think it makes some people be like, he's not a bad guy.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. Yeah, it does.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Book. Yeah, I saw. Dude, I saw this clip of Trump the other day, and he's going. He's just. He's reading off the page, and he's like. And in Corinthians 2, the second Corinthians, best Corinthians.

[Dave Anthony]

She's like, that's Corinthians, the most awesome Corinthians.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Unreal.

[Dave Anthony]

It's. He's so funny because he can just totally picture being like. And then the crib. The best. Corinthians 5, the one I love to read. I read all the time.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, well, they did.

[Dave Anthony]

I read to Melania that interview where

[Gareth Reynolds]

they were like, gee, are you an Old Testament or New Testament guy? He goes, probably new. And then they go, and what's your favorite book? And he goes, I don't. I don't. I actually never say my favorite book. I don't get. And they're like, well, just say what I would. I'm really not gonna do that, Mark. I'm not gonna do that.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah, I don't want to bias anybody.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I think he says, I like them all equally. I like them all equally. They're all really good.

[Dave Anthony]

So he says he's gonna close it. But then on May 25, he returns, hoping to open Elmwood for the summer season that only lasted a month, and he closed Elmwood for good on June 21, 1899, as a combination of his reputation, boycotts a Lot of competing resorts in the area. Sure. On January 7, 1901, the Syracuse Evening Herald reported Billy was, quote, done with Syracuse. Elmwood park was sold after foreclosure at the courthouse.

[Gareth Reynolds]

They did it. They got him out.

[Dave Anthony]

Got him. So Billy leaves town. He now refuses to talk to reporters about it.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Right.

[Dave Anthony]

One wrote that his quote, face is hollowed in as he walks with the feebleness of age.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's not nice.

[Dave Anthony]

He's 51.

[Gareth Reynolds]

He's 51.

[Dave Anthony]

51.

[Gareth Reynolds]

And his head's cave again. His face is gone.

[Dave Anthony]

After New York once again scrutinized his wife's holdings, he said he was leaving the city for the west because, quote of the constant razzle dazzle.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

And yet he persisted on J. On May 30, 1903, he was arrested for operating an unlicensed saloon named the Emerald in the Bronx. At his trial the next day said he said the violation was due to a clerical error in which he applied for a hotel license accidentally instead of a saloon license.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oopsies.

[Dave Anthony]

My bad.

[Gareth Reynolds]

But he. He's. He's worth a shitload, right? I mean, yeah, I understand why you just don't off.

[Dave Anthony]

But he. I think he is spending all his money for sure. Like he's. But. And I think buying. Buying Elmwood and having go bust. I think that cost him a lot.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

So this time he's unable to post the $500 bail and he gets held in Harlem prison. After he was released, he disappears from the public. In 1912, there were rumors he was living in poverty in a modest cottage along the East river at 125th Street. And then he was threatened with eviction by the owner of the property, which was the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Jesus.

[Dave Anthony]

They wanted to build a dock. No one knows when he died. Some say he died in Orlando when he was 77.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Oh, my God. Or what a nightmare.

[Dave Anthony]

Or. Yeah, right. Or it could have been.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Can you imagine that being the last place you have to be the worst. Oh, my God.

[Dave Anthony]

Jesus.

[Gareth Reynolds]

No. Like you'd crawl just to the city limits.

[Dave Anthony]

Or. They said he could have been the William J. McGrory who died at 70 in the Bronx. That was the last name, right? McGregor.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I believe that one.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah, I do too. But his later years were marked by property disputes with family, including trying to declare his mother incompetent again.

[Gareth Reynolds]

That's how I want my last. That's how I want to end it.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Just arguing over land with my family.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah. The last time you want to see your family is in court.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Dave Anthony]

So, yeah, so that was it. That's the story of Bill McGlory.

[Gareth Reynolds]

It's. I mean, I don't know how long this episode was, but if we measure it in. Waters. It was six. Luke Waters. Thoughts on the first Van Dollop, Dave?

[Dave Anthony]

I think it went fine.

[Gareth Reynolds]

I think it's pretty good.

[Dave Anthony]

Yeah, it could be done.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, it can be done.

[Dave Anthony]

We'll see how it sounds.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Yeah, we'll see how it sounds.

[Dave Anthony]

People will complain.

[Gareth Reynolds]

People will complain. But this was done inside of Steven.

[Dave Anthony]

I think people will be upset they couldn't see the Amish people in the fire. Yeah, I get it. Yeah. Facing forward. So for the Amish, you would need one sideways, out the side window. Sources New York Times, New York Tribune, the World Newspaper, Detroit Free Press, syracuse.com thegildedhour.com and the New Yorker.

[Gareth Reynolds]

Thank you, everybody. Love you. Love you a lot.

[Dave Anthony]

You're all good people, except the people who complain.

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