The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds - 748 - James Haggerty

Episode Date: August 25, 2026

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What else? Go do Squarespace. Enjoy yourself. Jesus Christ. All right. Let's do it. Did we ever have fun on this podcast? Yeah, man.

Think of the first one. That first one's the one where you're like, like it should be this guy every week. Now it's an eternal chore. Hey. It's really cool how this worked out, huh? Because you've got to, like, prepare it. And I just ate yogurt.

But I think it's time to reflect. No. Oh. On what? Oh, look who comes crawling back to the reflecting pool. This is pretty awkward. Probably just had our separate ways, yeah. You wanted to take the doll or the lop?

How's your solo project going? What's my solo project? Not all of it. What? We're not doing this. Because I just landed a 30-show deal with Paramount. Pan. Like the other guy who does the Yellowstone.

Yeah. You seem like the Taylor Sheridan. All his fucking shows are the same and annoying. By the way. I'll tell you this. The worst writer. I have it on good authority that that person is an awful human. Oh, no, I've heard nothing but bad stories.

Awful. Like, he is a terrible person. Yeah. Yeah. That's cool. Yeah, that's great. But they're always like Ryan Murphy. All these guys who have these empires of shows, they're fucking terrible human beings.

There's got to be a good one. They're terrible human beings. No, there's got to be a good one. There are some good ones. I've heard the guy who does, Oh God, what's his name? Chuck Chuck Lori? I've heard he's very good.

No? Yeah. Is that true? Oh, shit. Well, this person was close with me. I mean, maybe I'm wrong. No, you could be totally right. You know who's great?

Is Mike Royce. Mike Royce is great, yes. Mike Royce. Made a lot of great shows. And nobody has anything to say but nice things about Mike. The sweetest guy. Yeah, yeah.

That's it. Let's start. 1820 or somewhere around there, close to it. Are you okay? 1820 in there. It's in the range of 1820. Don't get all, don't come down again with one of your like, when is he exactly when he's born?

I don't know, man. It's around, yeah, because you're always coming at me with like, but just make him a date. Give me a great. Give me a date. We don't have a fucking date on this guy. December 8th, 1820. They didn't take notes back then. Pretend they'd.

did. What's the matter? You can't fudge history? We don't even live in reality. Make up a date. Thursday. June 6, 18, 20. What is 91820? It's a possible date. Cutting through the fabric of space and time. This is a sag after a podcast.

James Haggerty was born in McCarran's Garden in Philadelphia. Whoa. In the garden? In the garden. In the garden. in the fucking garden it was a dense working class neighborhood near the banks of the Scoot Kill River is that what you say it?

Shoe Kill, Scoot Kill? The idea that you're coming to me with that question is... I guess we should look at it because these fucking people with their goddamn river. To stop listening to the people. They're just annoying. I can't let you in now. Nobody cares about your fucking river. You care. I'll look it up just to see... But you're saying you don't care,

you care, you're looking it up. Let's do it the way it's pronounced. Shoe-E-Shoo-L-Kill. Shooil. How are you spelling? it? It's it's S-C-H-U-Y-L-K-I-L. Oh. Yeah. Skalka. What I should always do is actually play what their pronunciations are. They come up. Scooogle. Scu-l. Skookle. Okay, I can kind of see that. Scoo-le. That's not terrible, considering... But again, remember, you're all worked up to someone who's not here. Oh, no, but

they live in my head. I know. These motherfuckers. But get them out. I wake up sleeping. From a deep seat. I know, but... Screaming the names of towns. You've got to just let them go. The names of... I actually don't care. There have been a couple times at live shows

where I'm like, Dave Mike Kurbstomp that man. That's just good acting. That is a sag after show. Yeah. That's just, I get myself worked up our route, but I really don't give a shit. At some point, people realize

that I don't care about pronouncing names. I really don't care. You seem to care. And people and people's names, I don't give a shit. I really don't. My dad. Do not ever say that again. And then he fucking died.

No, he didn't. Gloriously by being murdered by my employee, Gareth Reynolds. Two. Your dad lives in my crawl space. The more you do, the history is still alive thing, the more you look like a fucking insane killer. He's alive. Like, there's nothing. you're doing right now that does not make you seem like more of a murderer.

What if I told you he was in Machu Picchu? What would he do there? Whatever he wants. Is there a place to buy booze up top? Look, I know you don't want to get into it, but your dad is sober. And he's doing great. Now everybody knows you're lying. Now everyone's like, oh, he's a silver fox.

Anybody who was on, on board is now off board. He's a silver fox. He's dating two 35-year-olds. on the banks of the Shuey Kill River on Arch Street between 18th and 19th, James was one of many kids at a huge, struggling Irish-American family. I mean, that's kind of what Irish-Americans were back then. They were all breeders, shall we say. Stop. They fucking bread.

You know what I mean? The city was hostile to the Irish then. His father, John Haggerty, was a bull. Boss Drayman, which is a teamster who hauled goods with a wagon. Okay. He was a respected man in the local business community called, quote, an honest, upright, and faithful servant. Christ.

You should think about that. I should think about that. Yeah, you should think about trying to be an honest, upright, and faithful servant. I'm not going to. On this show. No, I'm not a servant to you. Permission to treat the coast as honest. Permission denied.

Granted. No, you can't grant it to yourself. Stop it. John expected James to follow in his footsteps or rise above him, right? As you do, as a parent. Yeah, you used to. Yeah, I was just going to say. Now I'm like, I hope you're not eating dog bones.

Well, there was at one point where we're like, yeah, we don't do that anymore. We're going to let them all die in fire. But his childhood made that difficult. The family could not afford a formal education, so he grew up with no education. education. Okay. What he learned, he learned on the rough streets and docks of the Philadelphia waterfront. I think this guy's going to be fine.

But I think we should go back to that. I don't agree. Get rid of education and just be like, learn it on the waterfront. We're pretty much doing that. You'll have a better chance in life. We are now at the point where schools are probably not worth it. Call it waterfronting. Yeah, I guess.

Just go to, yeah. You learn it on the docks, like a fucking man. Honestly. By eight, you're a problem. Pimp? It's getting weird now. You're okay? Yeah, it is.

No, I've never been okay. But Jimmy ended up being an honest young man. See? Because his dad was a good influence. Yeah. He started out as a working man. At 21, he landed a job as a mule driver for the Reading Railroad. That's that kid's show?

It's a railroad. Reading Railroad. Did you ever play Monopoly? Mm-hmm. it's in there it's one of the cards you can buy it for like 150 take a look

it's in a train what the fuck was that Louisville Rupert Reading Rainbow it was a hard job that took him along the riverbanks he also opened a saloon so he's doing both jobs at once

sure saloons then were called doggeries of course yep go ahead It wasn't just It wasn't just a place to drink But also as a social and political hub For the immigrant working class

Where allegiances were made And grudges were born Okay, let me tell you what this was A bar There's nothing unique About a highly emotional environment Where people argue about politics and society That's most bars

Most bar's Maybe in Wisconsin, not here in L.A. No, but, most bars you just, like, there's like, you're listening, like, someone's going, like, that's the best thing they got to do. You turn the train upside down. That thing's going to go a lot faster. It's something.

You can't do that. Our tax dollars can't cover that. That's true. Tax dollars can't cover that. Yeah. We've got to send money to other countries to kill people. All right, Rogan. Perplexity, can you bring up?

Sorry. me to pause the show, but perplexity, can you bring up, aren't white people under attack? If you want to see us break down, Theo Vaughan. We still haven't finished. Yeah, if you have on Joe Rogan talking to each other for a good two hours, we're doing a Patreon. And it's the most painful thing I've ever been through. Or, and I gave birth.

Or watch, or watch the RFK interview. That was up there. That was hard. Fuck me. That was really hard. But I'm now writing a JFK, RFK episode. But it's selective. It's not his life.

It's certain things. I mean, you can just do the animal collection. That's what it is. Now I'll eat an owl beak. The episode is called RFK Jr. in animals. No. Yeah. I will literally explode.

We should get, what's his name on that one? Our Italian friend. Our Italian friend. A comedian. who's I always want to call him Giovanna, but it's not his fucking name. He's a fucking comedian.

Oh, John Marco? John Marco. That'd be a good one. That'd be good for him, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Okay, back to this. Before Gareth, I got mad at bars.

For several years, Jimmy worked as both a laborer and a saloon keeper. Philadelphia was a mishmash of rival gangs. Most of them came out of volunteer fire. companies. Mm-hmm. These fire companies, like the killers or the bones.

How do we feel about there being a fire and then a group of guys called the bones show up? Along with a guy's called the killers and then they fight. Who are probably pretty alcohol-y saturated at this point. Hell don't worry, we've got this. The bones have shown up. You get lost to our eyeballs. Falken hell.

They would race to the fires, not just to put them out, but to fight each other for the prestige and plunder of the structure. Help, help, we're burning. The second floor is the only place safe. You need a ladder. Fuck you, Marty! Hold on a second.

We're going to fight a fight. Right here. Right here. All right here. Put them up. Put them up. No. All right.

Here we go. Five rounds, eight minute rounds each. Woo! Other names of gangs, there's 65 or more gangs. I other names of gangs The bleeders The blood tubs

Those are the guys I'm with I'm with the blood tubs Unless It's their blood Then I don't want to be But my assumption is They're filling up tubs of blood With other people's blood

I don't like it The buffers Okay The bugs Interesting The death felters What the fuck Sorry

Fetcher's Oh I was going to say. Holy shit. The death felters. What a mistake I've made with... Sorry about your jackets, guys. I did not hear it correctly.

The death... You hired me to make them. The death... But your name is now the death felchers, not the death fetters. I apologize. That would be great. I would take a death felch. Yeah, I bet you would.

The fliers? The fillers? Flares. The garters. Whoa, close. Uh, the gumballs, those guys are going to get fucking bird. Hey, guys. We should probably work on our name a bit.

What about the candy canes? Where are the, where the, where the, where the, where the, where the chewy hard candy? That's what we are. Where the licorice? That's right. Where do Lollipop Guild? Oh, fuck. We, we represent.

Uh, the hyenas. The killers. I'm going to get this. The Lancers? We got a boil? The neckers. That's right. We'd love to have a kiss.

The pluckers? If you need it, we'll get it to do that here. You've got a bit of a hair on your back. The pots number two? Well, let's talk first of all about the puts number one. They were tough. They didn't bake it. They were not path, but so we came in.

Puts two. The Rangers. Right. The rat. We're the rats. The Reading Hose Club. Right. So, I'll explain what this is.

We like to read the house. Before we put it into the fire hydrant or whatever it is we have back now, we like to give it a good read. That's what we're into. So we read the house. Might be Reading, by the way. The Skinners? That's right. God damn.

Take your fucking flesh off. Yeah, I think them in the blood tubs right now are the two. Very good. I want to see go out of it. The Springers? Sure. The smashers? Well, smash you're right in your fire.

The stingers? Yeah, that fire bad, well the stingers will step it. The stockholders? Yes, we unfortunately are not a fire brigade anymore, but we would like to trade. The tormentors? We will make it so that when you're in the burning building, it'll be awful. The Turks? We are Turkish.

The vampires? We will, we're a lot like the Neckers, except we suck the blood out of your fucking trout. And finally, the Welps. Well, what are you going to do? I said we are. We make fun of you when you're in trouble. We need help. Shut up.

We're in charge. So South Philly is full of gangs because there's a lax police presence in the area. Right. They mark their territory by writing their names in chalk or charcoal across doors and Fences. Stupid. Chalking your name? That just doesn't make sense. What the fuck? There we are. It's easily wiped out. That's our territory. Wait, where to go?

It was. Oh, it rained. Hold on. New territories. It's been a storm. Hey, this used to be for the filchers. We were the dead filters. One gang was the School Kill Rangers who were dominant Irish

power of the South of Philly Waterfront. They controlled the war. coal yards, and shipping that was the soul of the city's commerce. Okay. They would hide out in homes along the river. Hide under homes? Out. Just hide out in homes.

Along the river and come out in the early morning to attack. So you'd be in your home and they'd be hiding. You'd go... You know, they're in their homes. Oh, okay, okay. Or other, you know, people's homes that they know. Right. Okay. Okay.

So the people know they're in their homes. And then they attack ships and Steve Doors on the river. So it's like a land pirate. Sure, right. My favorite. Sometimes they just attack a guy walking a pedestrian. I don't think you're pirates. Kind of piraty.

We're land pirates. And we're the death felchers. Would you boys fuck off? You guys have freaking me out. Yeah, no, bend over. You're freaking me out. We know what we're after. Lift up your treasures.

They would also rob Holmes. Okay, you're right. They were called, quote, a horde of daring wretches and vagabonds. Sure. They're just criminals. Yeah. They're not working. Right.

The Rangers dress in outfits that look like they were from colonial or revolutionary days. This is, like, not that far away. We've got to have a hat. Right? What are we talking, like 1820? It's pretty. It's, uh, no, it's not. I guess we're further along now.

I mean, it's like 50 years. Okay. You know, so that's still weird. That's, but that's like, dressing in 2000 like they did in the 50s, right? Sure. It's a little odd. Right, like a zootsuit.

You have no idea about the zootsuits. How fucking dare you? You ever heard of the Cherry Poppin Daddies? I have. Have you? Yeah, they were essentially, they sexually assaulted young women who were virgins. What? And they were dads.

What? Yeah. It's a terrible name. It's a terrible. old name. Boy, the band? Yeah. I didn't like him.

The original name was the Louis C.Ks. The Chris DeLeos? He's doing good. Yeah, can I be honest? Yeah. I'm not saying we invented calling a piece of shit friend to show, but that's a thing now that happens all this.

Is it really? Are people doing, are people taking our thing? I don't know. I think so. I don't like that. I don't either. Same thing happened with how white I got taken Whatever So they controlled the war

It's car shipping Oh yeah So they'd come out They'd attack ships, pedestrians Seabors, pedestrians Rob Holmes Have outfits That look like they were colonial

Or revolutionary day guys stovepipe like hats A blazer Where's a Lincoln's? A button up shirt Tight vertically striped pants pointed shoes What are they going for?

That's the look. That's the look of what? The gangs or that's the look of the time? That's the gang look. Yeah, right. No, the time is not dressed like that. That's their... They got an outfit.

They got a matching... They got a matching look. Is the Navy going to show up and beat the shit out of them? I hope so. Probably not. I guess actually maybe. They traveled in packs

carrying muskets and other weapons. Okay. The Rangers had first formed after the nativist riots of 1844 led to, oh, what am I saying? It's not the 18, it's not the, this is like 100 years after the revolution. I don't know why. I got mixed up because he was born in 1820.

So now it's like the 1840s or 1850s. The Rangers at first formed after the nativist riots of 1844 led to two Irish Catholic churches and several homes being burned. We've done that episode. The Irish decided to protect themselves at that point. And by the 1850s, Jimmy, Jimmy, James, the guy, this is James Hegarty, had risen to become the leader of the Skull Kill Rangers

leaving his clean, working man passed behind. He also had earned the nickname Wild Jimmy. Better. It came from his fondness for getting into brutal fights when he had liquor in him. Can you imagine? I get it. Can you imagine liking drinking and fighting so much in this time

that you're exceptional? Yeah, because everybody... This guy really fucking fights. Everybody... Everyone's drunk just as a base. Everyone's drunk. Everyone's hammer. Yeah, this is one...

And everyone's fighting. Yes. But there's... You're so known for it. You're like a Tasmanian devil cartoon. Like for somebody to be like, you got your last. You're drunk. Jimmy.

You fought nine men last night. No, I said enough. Poor gives way you to shoot. I'm the opposite. I get very calm. When you're drunk? Yeah. Yeah, you do.

You get like, you get like, you become very, yeah, you do. You get real cheery. People don't know how, like, you will, it took me forever to learn the lesson with you because I always have thought of you as, like, the one, you know, you're my employee in a lot of ways. When we go on the road, you, you know, it's, I'm like, oh, we listen to this guy. And then we, like, go out to a bar and we're hanging out. And then all of a sudden, I'm like, what is it? Like, you'll, you're down to be like, there's an after-hours bar.

I'm like, he's going to, you go until, you go up to like five. Yeah, let's go. Yeah. I'll be like, and it'll be like 1.15. I'll be like, and then the next day it'll be like, I recorded an album last night. What are you talking about? You don't know how to have fun. I don't think I do.

Plus, as your caretaker, you shouldn't be leaving like that. I will leave. Um So It leads to And since you started drinking gin That's when the genie's out of the bottle Used to be like a couple beers

That it's like Dave has three gins in him And he's like That's sell the van And move to Tahoe That's a good idea Although Tahoe is not the place Tau's gonna be fine

Yeah You guys don't need water Do you? Do you need water And electricity That's gonna be a problem I love that a place on a lake is running out of electricity. If only there was a solution to that.

He led raids onto points where armed with weapons they would demand money and food and booze. Okay. Sometimes angry boat, sorry I said points, boats. Sometimes angry boat captains fought back and the ranges would end up wounded and in the hospital. In 1849, the public ledger wrote that U.S. authorities should take over jurisdiction and send naval forces, quote, to disdemeanor. dislodge these land pirates who do not seem to be worthy of the police. So they are called land pirates.

Yeah. Wow. And they're, so now crime is completely out of control and they're like, no one can stop these guys. Yeah, you've got to bring in the Navy. Okay. Sometimes you've got to bring in the Navy, but we usually do it to fight Mexican youths. Right. One member named Olympi Clark.

Go ahead. This is the worst name for a gang member ever. It's just like a cooked piece of spaghetti. Someone fiddled with it. Lippie, get up off the floor. Well, I'm sure he's too. Oh, nothing works. God cursed me with no bones.

Oh, Limpie. Why did we have you join? Oh, let me know if you throw one of them on the ground. I'll soup him to death. How does that work? He just lands on me and he'll. try to... Do you lay on top of him?

It's hard for me to lay on top of it. I can't really do much. Do you like absorbing? Well, try to, but it's really just... It actually hurts me quite a bit. Let's get him, boys. Someone help. Limpie assaulted a well-off society man

named L.P. Ashmead, quote, Colonel Ashmead, accompanied by a lady relative, went out in the afternoon. to sniff some fresh breeze. I've done that. Yeah. I love sniffing some fresh breeze.

That's cocaine. Oh, yeah. There's a good rib. Oh, fuck. By the way, that is now a thing, though, because you're outside in America. There's no fresh outside. There's nothing. On the east.

I'm selling fresh breeze. You want to bump? No. On the east end of the South Street Bridge, a muscular young man made an attack on him. The colonel took out his eyeglasses to secure a full. comprehension of the situation. I'm ready for combat. Just give me a moment.

Oh. There you all. Well, well, well. When the unknown man of muscle grabbed the golden goggles with one hand. And with the other grasp for his gold watch

and chain. It just broke his glasses and robbed him. He just smashed the glasses of the sand. He's probably staring at him like, what are you doing? And then he watches and put on the glasses. He's like, what the fuck? Yeah. They just smash those.

Put up your dukes, bull. Ah, my glasses. My watch. Colonel Ashmead sounded the alarm and asked some 50 loafers who were sunting themselves on the bridge. This is, we have quite a picture now. Pathetic. There's 50 guys just hanging about in the sun. And one guy gets his glasses broken and his watch stolen.

And then he's like, lot help me to aid him in capturing the robber but not a single favorable response was made so they were all like we're loafers dude yeah we're this is what we do we're fully loafing now the rangers also engaged in petty small weird crimes like one kid wrote to the inquirer saying they broke and stole his friend's fishing net and also stole 17 fish they had caught an evening telegraph article said gang member Jim Lynch went on a drunken spree and, quote, amused himself with a large knife and went about doing mischief in a slaughterhouse, stabbing already dead pigs.

Oh, my God. Well, what? That's a Friday. That's some weird shit. That's just a Friday night. Just getting liquored up and being like, yeah, want to go out of the farm and stab the dead pigs? Have you ever heard of Rocky? Yeah.

This is awesome. I mean, maybe he's practicing. Still crazy. Rocky did it. Why you keep bringing up Rocky? Because it's Philadelphia and Rocky. He punched me. Same thing.

Different. Very the same. Different. There were a lot of knife fights back then. Maybe. All right. Go try out the pig, the blade on the pig. All right.

Carcass. It's a dead pig. It's not like he's a live pig. No, it's still crazy. So he's being nice. It's still crazy. While he was wild Jimmy, he still had a peculiar code of honor that was known by both acquaintances and the cops who had to confront him.

Unlike other gang members, he apparently had a quote, reluctance to murder a victim in cold blood. I like warm blood. But during fights, he would often use his heavy pistol not to shoot, but as a blackjack clubbing opponents into submission instead of shooting them. Better. Better. Yeah. But not great. Not great

I'm surprised the knife doesn't make an appearance I mean he's just been You know But he doesn't want to Practice stabbing I mean a A gun to the face still makes you bloody Yeah it's not great

Yeah No No you'd rather him be like a big like You know one glove slaper or something Yeah the one glove slaper guy Which by the way I have been bringing back And I'm doing a lot more of that You're going to get killed

Yeah Well Not the way I do it How do it? The dollop will be right back. His mother's home at the northeast corner of 23rd and Philbert Streets became the gang's headquarters. So they'd gather there, that years they would gather there.

That's where they ran their operations from, which included robbery, protection, brackets, and street fighting. Great. Ah, the old street fight. The clubhouse, yep. Like robbery and protection raggots, yes, street fighting. It's always just incorporated. The Rangers were so powerful that they would rule the waterfront for over 25 years.

It's like Beach Poseidons. What? They're like beach Poseidons. Explain? They ran the waterfront. Poseidon ran the sea. So they're like Beach Poseidons. I thought you were associating with the time that they did it for 25 years.

Oh, that's a Poseidon's. worth of time you mean I was wondering if that's what I'm asking about you. You know 25 years of marriage, the Poseidon. Congrats. When this Civil War started in 1861, he shockingly joined the Union Army.

No one knows why he did. Can I ask you a question? Yeah, go ahead. Why'd they call it the Civil War? I think this could be a clip. Is this, are you going to do Guns and Roses? what's so civil war about

what's so civil about war anyway are you going to do that right now? Never heard that one. It's terrible. Is that off the spaghetti incident? It's off, uh, no. Because that's Limpie's favorite album. It's off the one

uh, it's not spaghetti incident. It's before that. November, the November rain album. Uh, use your illusion too. He does a song called Civil War and at the end in a very

poignant, really amazing moments. Yeah, Why was so civil? No, he doesn't sing it. He says it. That's him talking. Yeah, at the very end of the song is,

what's so civil about war? And you're like, wow, man, that's deep. What's so civil about war? That's my exal rose. Okay, it's not good. It's not good. It's close. I've never done it before.

Not remotely close. What so? No, there's nothing there happening. No, you're getting worse. War? What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Were you going to say something before I?

That is the bit. into the Civil War. Is that what you wanted to get to, the thing you just did? That's just a weird name for it. You and Axel Rocheon hang out and chat. We have. When the Civil War started in 1861, he shockily joined the Union Army, and no one knows why he did, but his timing uniform was brief. And we also don't know why he left the Union Army.

We do not know if he got an honorable discharge or took, quote, French leave. French leave? As it was called. What is that? Where you just take off? A 19th century term for going AWOL. They call the French leave. Way better.

Fucking awesome. And I'm going to go with the French. I'm going to go with the French on this one. And out of here. That's the correct. Yeah. Either way he's out of the, either way he just bailed. And next he turns up in New York City as a bounty jumper.

A bounty jumper. So he was a bounty man? This was a dangerous type of scam that could make you a lot of money. Okay. The government desperately needs soldiers to join up. So a bounty jumper would enlist in a regiment, collect the cash bonus, which is called the bounty,

offered to new recruits, and then immediately desert. So you just keep joining the army. Say it one more time. It's like a French entrance. Say it again. So you would join. The government is paying

bonuses. So you would join. Join up, get the cash, and then bail. Uh-huh. Great. It's not a bad scam. No. You know Army recruitment's up and up now.

That's good because that means the economy. That's a sign of a good economy. Economy's going great. He'd go to another district and then enlisted in another fake name and do it all over again. That's so much easier. Just the best. Now they're going to like make us scan our retinas to fly. He used to just be able to walk around and be like,

My name's Judd Buchanson. One time you're Christalia the next year. Stop. Leave alone, dude. Anyone, Brian Callan. Stop. Anyone doing this needed a net... For those of you new to the show, we're just talking about goats.

Anyone doing this needed a network of accomplices to pull it off, as well as a bunch of fake identities. Doing this brought Jimmy into contact with a new class of professional. criminals. Okay. Move it up. Hell yeah. Garrup. It's Garrette.

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When you go to Quo.com slash doll. That's QUO.com slash dollop. The most fighting he saw during the war was in July 1863 during the New York City draft riots. Okay. For days, the city was consumed by a mob uprising of mostly Irish immigrants and workers protesting the new unfair draft laws. Okay. What was unfair? It didn't.

It didn't just draft the men, but it allowed the rich to buy their way out of it. I mean, you got to make money. Yeah. This is before we invented bones spurs. Or atal cysts. Yeah, or an anal cyst. That would be the best. Trying to get discharged from the Army with the weirdest thing ever.

Yeah. I have a lot of oysters in my asshole. Someone can check. During the chaos of the riots, Haggerty. My prolapse relapsed. That just means it went back in. Yeah, so that's good Good for something

That's good So now you're drafted Yep Shit Oh, back out Whoa During the chaos Get that stick

Put it back in like a pug's eye Jesus crazy You don't put a pug's eye Back in like that Not the way I do it You throw it And the pug holds up It's dead

And if you miss The other eye comes out Stop it During the chaos of the riots Haggerty and the Skullkill Rangers Were called for rea enforcement.

Two of the most powerful gangs, the dead rabbits of the five points, and the pug uglies of Baltimore pushed them to get involved. Look, we're just going to run past the names? You've never heard those, too? Those are classic. I mean, I feel like we've talked about them before. We've talked about the dead rabbits and the pug uglies. Obviously, the pug uglies are the one because they're named after a weird dog.

We just talked about pugs. Yeah. Go ahead. So the Rangers jumped in bringing the muscle and violence of Philadelphia's waterfront to the savagery that tore New York. city apart. The riots went from protests against the draft to full-fledged race

riots as the Irish began attacking black Americans. God, it's just, it's just never stops. No, it's just, at some I mean, it's just, it's some point, it's just, you can't, any time there's a riot,

white people are, black people are like, there we go. Coming our way eventually. There comes. Where are we? Where it gets the government? Now we hate non-white Shit, it happened They had a couple pops

So after the war Jimmy returns to Philadelphia And there, while Jimmy became a professional thief Okay His crew of Skull Kill Rangers Turned into sophisticated burglars and bank robbers And he got into Bare illegal bare knuckle boxing

Oh shit Because most boxing is illegal at that point Okay it was as much about gambling and criminal status as it was about the actual fight. He's fighting, though. Yeah, he's getting in there. Jimmy's profile massively increased as he was involved in a series of spectacular robberies that made him a name with police and an Irish slum folk hero.

He pulled off robberies of the 11th Street and Chestnut Street Banks, the Philadelphia Savings Bank, and led the safe burglary of the Dan Cannon Ironworks. But he's doing this and he's staying in Philly. So he's doing this all in Philly. They just can't connect him to. They can't connect him. Yeah, now he's just moved on, he's moved up from pirate attack.

Right. Hitting guys on bridges. Right. One robbery turned violent when his gang took White's Dental Depot. I mean, sometimes you just see a good... Sometimes you just see a good target. This is going to be a tooth-related thing? I assume it is.

It's got to be. It's a dental. It's got to be a tooth-related. So they've just gone in there and they're like doing a teeth thing. Or maybe they're guys who make dentures. In this year? Yeah, I mean, yeah. I guess, Washington had that.

Yeah, I don't think that would be crazy. Let's look up and see what's here. They must have had teeth problems. in order for them to be pulling off a dental riot or dental robbery. I don't think they're actually, I think they're going for the money. All that fucking sweet. But while you're in there, you want a couple of the novelty toothpaste and free floss. I always forget to not use White Brothers Company moved.

Of course, now it's, I've got to verify that I'm human. Sure. Am I human? Nobody knows. And then it's a PDF I have to download. Okay. Hey, hey everybody. Welcome to the internet.

I remember when the internet was good. There was a small moment. That is so funny. It's just awful. When you're just trying to do like a couple, like one simple thing. One simple thing. And then you're like waiting on a code you never receive. And you're like, I just don't even care.

I don't even want to know anymore. Yeah, but it sounds like it was a, what we, thought like a they made dental implants kind of thing. It would be good to know but we can't because the internet is now a trash, a trash heap. It's fine. Yeah, it's good. It's just fine. So a night watchman was murdered during the robbery.

James was linked to the crime, but he was very reluctant to murder so this very possibly could have been done by one of his gang. Now, that's still kind of murdery. And personally, I don't take to lawyers of others. I don't think you should be... Gabe, get him. I don't think you should be committed of a murderer

if you do, if you're with a guy who murders someone. I don't disagree. But... But I think that's bullshit. What? Like, if you're with a guy and you're just robbing and then he's like, I'm going to shoot this guy in the face. You should not have to go to jail for murder.

No, but I mean, talk about it. tense evening. Oh, great. Way to go. Well, then if I... Now it's a murder. Like, if I'm with you and we go to like Taco Bell and you shoot the bean maker, which you've been known to do,

now I'm wanted for murder. So now I, I'm going on guns blazing. Are you okay? You're not taking me down. They're not, they're not, I'm not going down for the murder you did.

I'm going down in a hail of bullets. What are you talking about? I'm going to kill every mother. fucking bean maker in the fucking state. What are you talking about? What do you mean? You're not, you're not hinged. This is a classic, this is a classic crime situation I'm talking about. I'm going to need you to just go back to the iPad and seriously think about yourself for a little bit. Somebody told me that those beans. Stop. Were powdered. And that's a lie. We're powdered. Yeah. Someone was like, you know,

they talk about beans. Well, where do you think they come from? They're not, they just dry them. They don't powder them. Look, the, I, the, and then they, they're just dried beans that then soak. I guarantee you it's made mostly from rat feces. Now the meat is good there. Sometimes I'll just get a polo-togel meat. And then it's, my friend,

it is diarrhea for weeks. Talk about cyclospor I can't remember that name. Whatever it is. It's hanging out. It's America's new diarrhea disease. Well, you know they just connected the diarrhea all over the lettuce to RFK. That's what's crazy. Do you know, don't look it up.

But do you know about the RFK poop thing? Don't look it up because I'm going to put it in the dollup. The RFK poop thing? Oh, you're going to love it. You're going to fucking love it. Don't anybody look it up. Just listen to it from the dog. It's fucking amazing.

Wait, not where he swims in the poop thing. No. It's very different. That makes you strong. That makes you strong. He's like dunking his grandkey. He's like, let's do washer dryer. Marco!

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I don't even understand that one. So if they beat a cop, then they're like, I'm going to do bail, and then they just don't show up? Yeah, and then the city gets the money. the court gives the money and then they're like I paid my way it's a it's a it's a post bail yes so the court takes the money

yeah it's a bribe the court to leave alone yeah it's a bribery I bet they give someone to the cop too sure um so after he and his accomplice Hugh Murphy were arrested for robbing a store on night street

his luck ran out they had carved a hole in the back door and open back in a minute and open the inside handle okay then went and stole 10,000 worth of silk.

Okay. Like, that's got to be, like, that's got to be a lot of fucking silk. Yeah. But a woman had watched them from her window and knew who they were. Hello, boys. Oh, hello, Marissa.

How are you? Good, just was, uh, carving a hole in the door there. Right, right. Yeah, you see, seen that of you. Yeah. Yeah, he's just carving a bit of a hole in the door. No, you go in and then.

Right, right, quickly, but not for anything. You may as well turn yourself back in because that'll be the end of that. We thought that old here was going to pop his tager through the hole, make a little giggle out of it. What do you got there, silk? You won't. It's that silk you got there?

Silk? Oh, so it is. Oh, yeah. Down it's some silk. Oh, it's a lot of silk. I say an average amount in that Probably a million worms worth Ah

Well We have to kill you now Well I'm up here So Right Uh Doors locked Probably don't have time

To cut a hole All right then All right Bye bye Bye Jimmy Good luck to you All right Going back now.

Fucking cut. Excuse me? What? You watch your fucking mouth up there. You don't talk to me like that. Oh, what do you can do? Jump up and kill me. Well, fucking try to, something like that.

Would you like some silk, darling? No. Would you like to sniff a hole in it or, darling? No. Well, I guess you're going to get away. All right. Bye-bye. Bye.

Oh, fucking him. Uh, when the cops searched Jimmy's rented room, they found all the silk. Jesus Christ. There's a lot of stuff. A lot of fucking so. Holy shit. Well, I did ask them for the noises sheets possible. So I thought that it was something like that. But Jimmy had eyewitnesses who reported seeing him every half hour that night. And Jimmy said a stranger must have come in and put the silk in his room. Well, boys, I want to be taking this crime as seriously as the all are. But let me tell you this.

I've got people who can't for every half hour at a night and what I think is I've been framed by four

by four then what how what fifth one three how did you get framed ah well we think these criminals

are taken out of the silk they probably put it in here to make it look like I've done it yeah it brings me back to why hello oh yes sorry

showing a you was seen by the old lady winder which your accent is hard to do old lady winder where are you from right here because when we started it sounded like you had an accent or something I live in this room

why didn't you see this you put the silkenere aye okay why are you asking me Marta this makes no sense So that didn't work. That was a great excuse that someone had come in and put all the stolen silk in the room.

But that... Boys, I think someone's put silk in here. The judge was tired of their thieving ways. And on December 12th, 1865, the judge sentenced both of them to 10 years in Eastern State Penitentiary. Uh-oh. Now, at this point, Jimmy had built up a large network, not just with other criminals, but also those who held power. Okay. after just eight months in prison he was pardoned by governor andrew curtain

that's where all the silk went the district attorney found the pardon in court uh saying the gut fuck sorry it must be saying the gut fuck uh uh i think he what are you on gutfeld this is the wrong word here okay um so he fought against the pardon in court saying the governor had no the district attorney. So the governor had no right to make such a pardon, but he lost and Jimmy was set free.

Okay. One big reason for the pardon was that Jimmy promised to leave the country if he got out. And true to his word, he fled to Canada. But that shithole was small time, and he needed a big city. And soon he returned to Philadelphia to get back to his life of crime. I like that he can only go to Philly. Go to another city. But it's also like he just goes and touches his toe across the line.

And then he, like, he gets out, he pays the bail and then the charges are gone. Well, Jimmy's gone. Philly can finally get back to normal. He goes, he goes to Canada, puts his foot in and then comes back. Yeah, quick, like, hokey-pokey-pokey. I said I'd go, but not for how long. All right. Four Bach.

But now he's a marked man. He has a very high profile, so the cops want to lock him up for good. And in January 1869, the cops moved into arrest him on several counts of assault with intent to kill. And he resisted. Okay. And during this confrontation, Jimmy shot the arresting officer, and he was arrested. He quickly tried to escape jail, but he was caught. And yet, after all that, he got bail.

Wow. Wow. He killed a cop. That's a different time. I mean, that's crazy. The judge had to give you bail. All right. I'll set bail at $11.

He didn't kill him. He just shot him. Oh, okay. So he was sure to be convicted and get a long sentence, so he fled. Okay. But not to Canada. That shit hole, tiny shit hole. He went to New York. Okay.

So now he's in hiding for a few months, but then decided, you got to go back to Philadelphia. But he's going to surrender. The belief is that hush money was paid to the cop who had been shot, and he declined to press charges. or he changed his testimony. Well, yeah, he was probably paid. So Jimmy goes on trial and is acquitted. Okay. The district attorney is not happy.

Why? And he invoked the old charge of violating his 1865 pardoned by returning from Canada. Canada's like, what the fuck? Yeah. You can just send your criminals here. It's so funny to be like... That's it. Well, it's very funny for Canada to be like, they're sending, they're worse.

But it is amazing to... for them now to be bringing up the fact that it's like, hey, weren't you supposed to get the fuck out of here? Oh, that. Oh, I forgot. Royt. Well, I like Philly. So the judge orders Jimmy, James, sent back to Eastern State Penitentiary

to serve out the rest of his 10-year sentence. But before he could be, he escaped. Okay. Officer William Thomas testified that the prisoner van stopped at the courthouse gate on the side of the court. Quote, immediately a crowd collected and blocked up the passageway

from the street. And when the door of the van was opened and Haggerty leapt out, the crowd parted to let him pass and immediately closed to prevent me from following. Okay. So it's like a cartoon.

You got an Irish offensive line. Someone pushed my hat over my eyes and I was jostled about. All right. To be fair, If you're going to be fucking keystoneing through a mosh pit, what do you expect? I'm blind! I can't see anything!

Oh, my God! Where did he go? Where is he? Another witness said the crowd closed, quote, they engaged in a fight using umbrellas and striking each other so as to prevent his pursuers from following him. This is some Bushleaf shit. So he gets out of the van, the wagon.

He jumps through a crowd. He moses is through. They all close. And then they pull the hat down on the com. And then they start hitting each other with umbrellas. And the cops like, well, that's it. He's gone forever. Officer Thomas finally managed to get through the crowd and saw Jimmy going across the street

into the American Hotel. Another crowd in front does the same thing, letting Jimmy pass through, then blocking the But, okay, I'm assuming he's going out the back door of the hotel. He's not going to a room. Well, yeah, he's just going in and, yeah. So the cop takes a side door in, and inside he learns Jimmy has escaped out through the basement and into a waiting buggy. Very brazen escape, carefully planned. Yeah.

And it cemented his legend as a man who could not be caged. I mean, he did, like, have one real dumb cop. It's truly the dumbest, most cartoony escape. Honestly. You got like Wiley Coyote. All right, I'll get out of the wagon. And then there'll be a bunch of guys here. I'll run through the guys.

Then they'll close. Larry, you grab his hat. Just pull that over his head. And then all the rest of you guys, take out umbrellas and start hitting each other on the head. Hey, do we want to open the escape up to some pitching at all? Like maybe we could tweak it a little bit, you know? It's pretty foolproof.

I go through the crowd. They close up the space Pull the hat down He's blind Now start hitting each other With everyone's hitting each other with umbrellas It's him yeah No no you're hitting each other

Why are we Why are we hitting each other? It's just crazy It's just crazy No you don't hit him You're hitting each other Okay so then where do you go? Now I go across street

Another crowd of guys Right Part I run through Then we beat each other With umbrellas again Up. You do the umbrella thing if you want. Well, we don't want to do it the first time.

We don't want to do the umbrella thing the first time. Well, you're doing it, though. It's just, it's the chaos maker. It's the... Wouldn't it be better to, like, maybe light a small fire? No, what? No. Something like that.

Make some noises. Then they call the fire department. There's a whole... That's more chaos. Yeah, but then another guy's coming and you got to fight them. It's the fire department. You're going to have to fight those guys. Do you mean, I'm worried.

I'm worried. Yeah, we all should be worried. This is a... This is a... Number one, we're just talking about this in jail right now. Then he, like, watches it work? He said, wow, I cannot believe that worked. Oh, my eyes!

So, yeah, so he's a legend. Now he flees to New York. I love how he knows two cities and canals. He's no longer a big name who ran a water fund, but he still held a lot of sway in the criminal world. He was often clashing with. with local criminals in New York. A couple of months after arriving,

he was in Florence's saloon on Broadway and Houston. And famous Bowery boy, Reddy the Blacksmith, was also there. Uh-oh. We've done one on him. Yeah, oh, yeah. The large group of gangsters got shit-faced, and Jimmy and Reddy start arguing. Okay.

And then fighting. And Jimmy picked up a huge glass and smashed it on Reddy's forehead, cutting it severely. It's not, I mean, it's, Okay, good move. That's what you got to do. Reddy also cut...

That guy wasn't... That guy didn't see that coming? I guess not. It's weird to be named Reddy and have no clue. Reddy also cut his left hand badly as he fell, because he fell on the glass. Hey, maybe change your name to not prepared. Quote, there was an immediate stampede of thieves, and Reddy was found by police in an inanimate mass of blood-stained flesh. Is that a way of saying he passed? Because I think it is. No, he's alive. He's alive. He's just

very bloody. He got lots of cuts. Ha ha. No arrest or may, but everyone knows it's Jimmy. A couple of months later, again, in Florence Saloon, a large crowd gathers to discuss where they should hold the Carrigan and Tui fight. Okay. So because of that, it's a bunch of different groups. Right. The two main gangs present were the bears and the monkeys. That was pretty close. I think the problem is there's too many gangs.

There's a lot of gangs. And now they've changed names. Now they're just kind of going with... Animal names. Yeah. Jimmy... I mean, in a regular fight, bears got this.

Well, Jimmy's in the bears. Okay, so that's good. So the bears and the monkeys start arguing, as they do in nature. Oh! A guy named Billy Nelson said something Jimmy didn't like. So Jimmy picked up a Kuwait stand.

A what? Creweet. It's a cruet. It's a, I don't know that is. It's a, I don't pull it up, right? It's like a do, do, do. Let's see what happens this time. Do you know what it is?

It's going to give a, I don't know how to describe it. It's like jars or whatever. It's like a little stand. Oh, okay. With like, I don't know. Like a decanter shelf. Yeah, okay. Yeah, that's good.

So it's like a little bunch of decanter bottles. And he picks up, or was it, he picks up the crew stand and smashed it over Nelson's head, quote, causing the blood to flow in streams. What of blood. So bleeding profusely now, he rushed at Jimmy. Two other guys then jumped in, and a huge brawl began.

as they bit, tore, and choked each other. Great. Nelson pulled a gun and pulled the trigger four times, but the chamber fell out. Chamber fell out? You've seen that in movies where the chamber comes up. Oh, shit. I think that you take it out to reload it, and then maybe at some point it actually comes out completely.

Shit. Some were made where you just take it out. God damn it. Nelson pulled the, sorry, and they continue to fighting, blood is now coming from all of their heads. So they're... They really were bleaters. They're really bleaters.

A large crowd had gathered to look in the door. That'd be me. Yeah, absolutely. Look at these guys. Hell yeah. They were there to discuss where the fight should be held. And then they were like put on the much better fight. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. I was like, oh shit, this is awesome. Some people didn't get it. You guys come down and downtown the bears are fighting the monkeys. So a big crowd looking in attracts the cops As you can see the bears are fighting the monkeys Quote Officer Williams rushed in just in time

To save the parties from murdering each other Williams had to club Nelson After he could not pull him apart Okay Then at the police station Nelson bit Officer Williams severely on the leg On the leg Well he's a monkey

Yeah true at which point, quote, Nelson's head was fearfully battered to a jelly by Haggerty and the police officers club. Now, jelly. No. I don't want a head jelly. If you're unfamiliar with that, that's actually not a term you want to associate with the head. Getting your head beaten into jelly. Yeah.

Did you know that we're all technically jellies? We just had not been liquefied enough, except for that limbless guy earlier or whatever he was. Limpie. In November 1870 Jesus Christ, dude, you turned him into jelly. Sorry about that. Oh, boy. You didn't say stop.

Oh, my God. In November 1870, Get the bread. Jimmy and his friend Billy Tracy were thrown out of a prominent Bowery gambling resort. Can't believe he's still going. Yeah, by the owner Harry Hill. And British, lightweight boxing champion,

Billy Edwards. Now, this is a public humiliation for Billy and he can't let it go. Okay. That winter was exceptionally cold. During the afternoon on January 24th, Jimmy and three buddies, including Billy Tracy, decided to go for a sleigh ride along Harlem Lane, which was a popular route for fancy carriage rides. I mean, he's not having a regular... If this guy doesn't go like, well, you know what, I'm sorry, I've been bitten with Christmas fever.

How about? Let's go to sleigh-ro. Yes, that's what I was going to say. They will turn Santa into jelly. They will be too mad to death. Turning him into jelly. But they stopped frequently for drinks on the carriage ride. Oh. By the time they got to Gem Mesa's Capitol Saloon on 23rd Street, they were, quote,

in an uproarious state of intoxication. Sure. Hammered. Sloons packed. Almost immediately, Jimmy's very drunk group gets into a loud argument, with another group and it escalates and then hands move towards pistols. A local patrolman and a city

hall officer are nearby and they rush in. And the moment the patrolman walked through the door, Jimmy drew his gun and used it as a club brutally pistol whipping the cop and driving him out into the street. Jelly. I think he just didn't know it was coming up behind him and he's going to jelly him.

The dazed officers then run for reinforcing while Jimmy and his crew make a run for it, jumping into their sleigh and hauling ass. It's crazy to do a sleigh escape. This is the best getaway. The sleigh escape. That's crazy. You really can't beat that as an escape. No, you can't.

We got to get the fuck out of here. Yay! Yo, Jimmy, hit the bells. Somehow they managed to avoid being captured that night. early the next morning Jimmy walked into Patrick Egan's saloon on Houston Street He still was buzzed from the night before

I don't know how How do you do that How do you have like an escape from the cops And the next day? Like, let's go somewhere Where should we go Near where we were yesterday? You might not remember

There's a possibility You don't remember What you did last night Me? No Jimmy, you too But you can be so drunk you don't Yeah, that's true

Um His friend Billy Tracy was there as well as a guy named Shang Draper and Reddy the Blacksmith. Oh, boy. So things were still tense from the brawl at Jim Maces the night before, and an argument broke out between Billy Tracy and Shang Draper. Okay. Which was just a continuation of the one the night before.

Sure. Ready the Blacksmith, who was very large and very violent, stepped in to separate them, trying to play the peacemaker, but Jimmy does not like that. He didn't like peacemakers. Yeah, and he confronts Reddy and tells Ready to stay the fuck out of it,

mind his own business. Now, Ready doesn't like being talked to you like that, because he's ready. Right. And now Reddy and Jimmy are loudly arguing. Okay. And according to witnesses, Jimmy, in a drunken rage,

reaches for a heavy glass decanter, he's going to do the same thing. The bar was like, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no. We're not doing the cancers anymore. You did this once to ready. Jesus Christ. So he's going to smash it over Reddy's head like he did before, but Ready

is ready. Nice. And he drew a pistol and fired one shot. Wow, that's an escalation. The bullet went into Jimmy's abdomen. And he crumpled on the floor and was carried to a roomhouse on West Houston Street. A doctor was called.

And the examination revealed the bullet had penult. penetrated his intestines. Oh. Which is almost always, that's the... That's it? Back then, that's... You think... Would modern medicine catch up in the future?

All the poo is going everywhere. Why am I? You're basically infecting. This is poo. My blood's brown, doctor. Yeah, that's... What's happening? That's poo.

Oh, no. You've been shot to the poo place. Oh, God. That's where all the poo is made. Oh, some of it's red, too. Yeah, that's the blood. Blood and poo. Blood and poo.

I think I'm going to pull through We call it plude Stop I think I'm going to pull through I doubt it You're surely dead You're full of poo and blood I really am pooing from a belly

We call it plude in the Medical books Enough Get out Plutie It's fucking weak Writing it down Don't

On the forms No So as Jimmy lays dying, the cops and corner tried to get a statement from him to say who shot him. But he's in horrible pain. He knows he's dying. And he sticks to the code, right? And said he was too drunk to recognize the attacker. I'm not ready to tell you.

He refused to name Reddy the Blacksmith and continue to say he had accidentally shot himself. Whoops. Oops. Right in the pool. I clocked myself right in my poo maker Though Reddy had already turned himself in Claiming it was self-defense He turned himself in

Oh, okay, right And he claimed Jimmy It hit him over the head with a bottle Then pulled the pistol So he said I already got hit before I pulled it He's probably still He's talking about the old bottle Maybe

I mean that's a good enough That's a good enough reason to shoot him You're close to head jelly The Philadelphia paper Philadelphia paper wrote that Jimmy had just beaten a cop with a gun the night before, and quote, the chances of Haggerty's recovering

are slim indeed, and no one who has the least spark of decency in him, and will be sorry to hear that there is another dangerous, less villain. So we're going to be happy that he's dead. Yeah, fuck him. The news of while Jimmy's death sent shockwaves throughout the underworld of New York and Philadelphia,

an inquest was held, drawing many famous criminals to the courtroom. On February 1st, the coroner's jury, concluded that ready the blacksmith had acted in self-defense and he was released on $10,000 bail. Christ. Jimmy's body was taken back to Philadelphia to his mother's home on 23rd and Philbert Street at the old headquarters of the Schuylkill Rangers. The funeral was quite possibly the largest ever held in the city's history.

A massive crowd in the hundreds gathered to pay their respects. Just a massive criminal, some of the very biggest of the smallest. And then he was buried in the Cathedral Cemetery in Philadelphia. left no fortune and had no heirs. So did he make it? Nope. Well, that's tough. No, sorry. Seems like a good guy.

Sources Sheldon, Randall G. Sheldman, Tracy, Sharon, and William Brown, South Philadelphia, Mummer's Memories, and Melrose Diner. Dennis Clark, the Irish in Philadelphia, 10 generations of urban experience. Frank Moss, the American metropolis from Nick Bucker days to present time, the Haggerty Homicide, New York Times, James Haggerty, his funeral in Philadelphia, in New York Times. Is this an Andraski? No, this is me.

Ready again, another deed of bloody by one of our rulers, Evening Telegraph, Philadelphia Inquirer, the Evening Telegraph, Philadelphia Voice. Boom. Bingo. and let's talk about when you can see my movie or come and see me do stand up in the next couple months. This is exciting. So go to gareth-rennalds.com for ticket links and all that to all this stuff. Just scroll down if you want to see my film, Give It Up, and just stay on the tour dates part if you want to see my stand-up.

Let's start with Give It Up the film. If you want to see it, you can see it August 10th in San Diego, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 12th, Denver, August 13th, Chicago, August 20th, New York City, August 23rd, Philly the 24th, Raleigh, August 25th. August 26th, Atlanta, and then Nashville, August 27th. And then if you'd like to see me do stand up, August 13th, 14th, 15th, I'll be in Fort Collins, Colorado at the Comedy Fort. And then in September, you can go see me at the Syracuse Funny Bone on September 17th, Vermont Comedy Club, September 18th and 19th, Albany on September 20th, East Providence, Rhode Island, September 22nd, Stanford, Connecticut, September 24th, New York, New York, September 25th. Massachusetts, September 26th, Boston, September 27th, and then more dates coming soon. So go to garethrethrenolds.com for tickets and information to all this stuff. Come check my movie out, give it up, and come see me on the road, garethrennels.com.

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