The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds - 95 - The Past Times with Brian Gallivan

Episode Date: October 10, 2024

Dave Anthony picks a newspaper from a day in history and reads it to co-host Gareth Reynolds. This week they are joined by comedian and writer Brian Gallivan Redbubble Merch...

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Starting point is 00:00:00 So I travel a lot. I mean a lot perhaps too much to some of you, but that's kind of my gig, right? So I'm out there. I'm living out of suitcases or suitcase sometimes if I bring the big boy and I want all the comforts of home That's why I stay at an Airbnb whenever possible recently I had some gigs in Fort Collins, Colorado And I was with my friends and we were shooting some stuff and before we got to the gigs We were like, let's just get an Airbnb and it is just a more comforting existence you have a kitchen you have a yard you know it's communal living it's just a less stressful place more enjoyable experience so when I go on tour you know like I'll be going on tour
Starting point is 00:00:38 in a couple months I always am like well could my place be an Airbnb you know just to have someone watching your place while you're gone and make a little bit of money. And the answer to that is yes, yes, it can be an Airbnb. It's really just as simple as listing your place and letting it earn a little extra cash while you're away. So imagine someone staying at your home in Los Angeles while you're out there exploring the world. Turn your home into an Airbnb.
Starting point is 00:01:02 Give it a shot. You might be surprised at how rewarding it can be. Your home might be worth more than you think. Find out how much at Airbnb.ca slash host. All right, everybody. Welcome to the pastimes podcast. Each week we go through an old newspaper from a random date in history picked out by Dave Anthony I'm Gareth Reynolds, and I've never seen it before and neither is our guest this week Ryan Gallivan hello Brian hi guys Brian
Starting point is 00:01:37 How are you feeling? You said you put a lot of pressure on that. Hi guys. Yeah, there's gonna be a lot more words So don't don't put to be a lot more words. So don't put yourself on a every two words matters sort of pitch count here. Okay. So very quickly, Brian is one of the greatest people I've met through improv. And he, Brian, this is why Brian is a frustrating person to know and be around. And I'm lucky to have some stuff going on.
Starting point is 00:02:07 But for people who maybe have less who Brian moved to L.A. when he was a little bit older and immediately succeeded so quickly and hardcore that everyone was like, what the fuck is going on? He was getting TV shows on the air. He was making pilots. So he now is a very successful writer, producer, and he also just started doing stand up.
Starting point is 00:02:32 And when I heard that I was like, oh yeah, give him a minute and everyone was going. He's amazing at it. So everything he does, he does well. So I have no worries about this podcast. But Brian, you do some shows around town. You were bragging that you've been at Flappers twice. Ooh. Yes. But Brian, you do some shows around town. You were bragging that you've been at Flappers twice. Yes, I'm a big bragger. Do you post your shows on your Instagram? Uncle Bernie Five?
Starting point is 00:02:53 Only if forced to. When they're like, you have to promote this. Okay. So that is you have, you're doing the standup thing right by not wanting to help yourself. But then also you wrote on you're writing on Shrinking. You're a producer on Shrinking, the Apple show that is... Dave will tell you I watch very few scripted shows. It's maddening. And my mother and I watched Shrinking over like three days which she probably probably the second half of three of the episodes was asleep, but that's only because we started them at like seven.
Starting point is 00:03:29 So I'd look over and, but she didn't seem to bother her. She loved it, but the show is great. I've seen Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Brian wrote that. Oh, okay. Brian wrote that. That's Brian's. My partner Mike and I have a friend, Alex Kleiner,
Starting point is 00:03:45 who whenever he's taking a tight turn in traffic, he goes, ooh, honey, I shrunk those kids. Ha ha ha ha. That's it. And then that's, I think that's free for anyone to use. I think that's what we use. Yes. OK, Brian, so listen.
Starting point is 00:04:04 Strap on your history hat because this show gets, go ahead Dave, tell them, this show gets a little. We're the bad boys of comedy. We're the bad boys. Sorry, podcasting. We did 10 years being regular podcasters. Right, and then we shifted to the bad boys.
Starting point is 00:04:18 And then the dollar hit 10 and we kinda went, you know what, let's just lean in. We're the bad boys. Yeah, lean into it, that's who we are. We're very empathetic and deeply understanding to'm not leaning into it. That's who we are. We're very empathetic and deeply understanding to the plight that many have gone through. But also, hey.
Starting point is 00:04:30 Bad boys. We don't mind saying the fuck word, okay? Bad boys. Woo. So buckle up. So Brian, we will start by guessing what year this historical newspaper will be from. Okay.
Starting point is 00:04:43 There's been some gamesmanship. Dave has started, Dave is opposed to me winning this part of the show. I'm not. Even though I consistently win it. I'm rooting for you, I'm rooting for you. But I now from a strategy standpoint have to have the guest guess first.
Starting point is 00:04:59 So what year would you like to guess that this paper's from? We have gone to the 1600s. It's rare. We recently did a 2001 one, which was rare. So that's kind of your spectrum, if you want to take a stab. Uncle Barney 5 on Instagram. Flappers twice in 20. I'm going to say 1982.
Starting point is 00:05:24 Interesting. Interesting. Very interesting, Brian. I'm going to say 1982. Interesting. Interesting. Very interesting, Brian. I'm not. I'm going to say. 1904. Now he's going to say you're closer. Yeah, Brian is very much closer. Brian got super close. The year is 1904. Shut up. So no, is it? When is it? Yeah, Brian wins.
Starting point is 00:05:49 Fuck up. You guess really? I don't know if I've ever hit a hole in one. It's wow. June 16th, 1904. Really? Come on. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:00 And he says you win. Do you see what I'm going through? It's because my presence made you guess better. Not yet. It's more about it's about vibes more than it is. I literally guess the right ear, Dave. Come on. Let's admit this is why. Has that ever happened?
Starting point is 00:06:18 No, I don't think it has. No, come within one or two. Yeah. Before, but never nailed it. Yeah. Yeah. OK, all right, so here we go. Bad Boys, Brian's a bad boy today. Let's strap in Flappers twice in two weeks. Uncle Barty 5, Instagram shrinking.
Starting point is 00:06:34 Season two coming out pretty soon. Great show. My mother and I consumed it in three days. She fell asleep for the second half of three of the episodes, probably because she's a little bit older. All right, here we go. It is June 16, 1904, the Broken Arrow ledger, which is from the from the town of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.
Starting point is 00:06:53 OK, right. Perfect. OK, we're ready. First story will move across the street. OK, so let's just. OK, so let's just. OK, so. Yep. It's going to be what it says. I feel like more stuff was happening in 1904. No, no, no, no, no, no.
Starting point is 00:07:14 We'll do like 1800 ones and it'll be like someone like man had water. And you're like, hey, that was boring. But this 1904, it feels like we had access to more stuff. Yeah, a little bit. OK, G.F. Haskins has leased the space between Garrett's Harness Shop and the drugstore. This is literally about a regular man moving. Hold on. OK.
Starting point is 00:07:36 And is having a building put in there into which he will move as soon as completed. Wait, so he's... You said this wouldn't be hard. I can't follow this. It's not uncommon to be lost. Feel comfortable being lost. So he is building a building and once it's built, he'll move across the street. No, he's leasing a space, and then he's,
Starting point is 00:08:10 Right. He's gonna have a building put there, and to, that he then has his business in. Either way, can we agree, not much, not the first. Hold on. It better, at some point, he going to need to bang a ghost. This move is made necessary on the part of Mr.
Starting point is 00:08:30 Haskins because Mr. Allen must move the building now occupied by the Casey barber shop from where it is in order to make room for the new brick building. You keep doing this thing where you're acting like a plot is gonna get enjoyable. They are moving, he bought land and there's a building there and the building is being moved to put in a new building. Right.
Starting point is 00:08:57 And you are acting like these are big reveals, but in reality, a guy's just moving. Again, I mean, the headline really didn't say it. No, no. He's moving a building. Yeah, right. Oh, he's fully moving the actual building? Yes. You completely missed the story because you were being so cocky about the... It gets good. This is good. Brian? Yes? This was interesting to me from the get because I was incorrectly picturing a strip mall.
Starting point is 00:09:24 Uh-huh. interesting to me from the get because I was incorrectly picturing a strip mall. And so like there are businesses right now. And I was like, they're gonna put a building in one of the business. Sort of like putting a building in a building place place. Plus the harness, the harnesses grabbed me to I was like, harnesses will grab you harnesses. Yeah. Now will grab you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's bad stuff. Now, I would imagine, don't say that, I would imagine that moving a building in 1904 is much harder than today. Like we'll go on the road and we will see the people moving the houses and be like,
Starting point is 00:09:57 is this necessary? But even then it doesn't seem like it's great. They probably just moved it close by like to another. But how are they doing it? Don't they put it on wheels? This is what I'm saying. This is what I'm saying. This is what I mean.
Starting point is 00:10:11 They put wheels on. They're just like, put this wagon on to hold. Yeah, they put the, they just, and then a horse pulls it. That's probably true. With a fresh harness from the strip mall. Yeah, they just bought the harness. That guy was like, oh, that guy's eyes turned into dollar signs when he's like, y'all need harnesses for a big building? They're like, yeah, we got a guy down the street.
Starting point is 00:10:35 He's like, no, but no. I'm also picturing a guy getting his haircut in the barber shop and he's like, is this safe to do while they're moving the whole barber shop? Hey, wait a minute. I mean, I like that story. I do, too. Yeah. It's, you know, building movement. No, it is.
Starting point is 00:10:55 And that and that actually feels real 1904, what it should be. That's that's a big enough deal. I owe the paper an apology. Our offer withdrawn. We have decided to withdraw the offer, which we have been making during the past three weeks, to furnish a free ticket to one person each from Broken Arrow, Weir, Elam, or Frye to the World's Fair. Our reason for doing so is that there has not been a candidate brought out from either of these points. Our subscription list continues to increase, but no one seems to want to vote for anybody to go to the World's Fair at our expense, hence
Starting point is 00:11:37 the withdrawal." What? That's a paper throwing a tantrum. This paper is a little bitch It really How dare it? I mean it is very like this is like when you're like have an email composed and you're like I shouldn't send it I'll wait until tomorrow, but this actually ended up in the paper like you know what you can all go fuck yourself Honestly, no no no fuck you If you're not gonna vote at all
Starting point is 00:12:05 and you're just gonna make a farce of it, fine, fuck off. Oh, no one's worthy of it? No one? Oh, okay. Oh, sure. You know what? No, no!
Starting point is 00:12:18 And so what were they asking for? It's a ticket to the World's Fair. They wanted, they were like. They need people to vote on like from the subscribers. They want people to basically say this person is worthy of going to the World's Fair. Then they were going to pick a winner. I mean, I would imagine if it's just regular people, you'd be like,
Starting point is 00:12:37 yeah, I don't really give a fuck. Yeah. And they're like, yeah, fine. So it's also doesn't mean that. So it's just a ticket to the World's Fair that doesn't you still have to pay to go there and then get a hotel in which you'll probably be murdered by Holmes. So it's not a great experience, but you got to pay for you stuff to pay for stuff. It's like when they like, hey, you got a free ticket to an opera house in Rome and you're like, oh, that was this is what happened to my mother. She won a trip to Australia for the Sydney Olympics.
Starting point is 00:13:10 And we were like, great. And then it was like, but you know, we're not going to do all of it. So it's like, so it's like you should do this, but you know, you're gonna have to pay like a few thousand dollars to actually do this. Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:13:28 All right. He tore them up. Nice. I do like how their complaint letter to their readers is just wedged in early. Yeah. Like they're like, give them a real story so they keep reading. And then we hit him with the fuck off. I feel like I feel like the headline should have been, you know what you did. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:13:48 Okay, bitch. He tore them up. While waiting for the mail to be distributed, not long since, our attention was attracted by one of the businessmen of the town who had taken some mail from his box, looked it over, and while waiting for more, one of the businessmen of the town who had taken some mail from his box, looked it over, and while waiting for more, he backed up into a corner
Starting point is 00:14:11 and very industriously tore up several envelopes. This is so gossipy. And their contents. This is like a weird woman in an apartment building who's like, keep the cats quiet. That guy's doing weird stuff at the mail area again. And their contents and made a little stack of the pieces in the corner behind him. This is weird.
Starting point is 00:14:33 Where the person who sweeps the office floor might have the pleasure of gathering it up. This is crazy. Sarcasm. Yeah, sarcasm. Yeah, yeah. This is, this paper. It's amazing. I love it.
Starting point is 00:14:46 A building moving sounds all right in the long run. Hey, fuck you. Nobody's going to the World's Fair. We've turned this car around and weird guy ripping his mail up. That'll be annoying. While he was thus enjoying himself, the thought which entered our mind was what would this same man be likely to say were we to enter his place of business and treat him so discourteously? The post office is the place to receive mail and not a public place to tear it up and scatter
Starting point is 00:15:19 it about. It's so fucking sassy. It's it's just it's this. So far, the paper is just like a comment section. Yeah. Yeah. It's just like, you know, that one guy's one guy's comment. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What one of my one of my nieces had a paper when she was a little girl called the Nace Circle News about her street and our family.
Starting point is 00:15:45 And Gareth and I have a friend, Jett, who Mike and I were watching her dog and the dog jumped out the window and escaped while we were watching it. So my niece's article in the paper was like, don't let your dog stay with Brian. And this paper has a very similar tone. It very much is like a family newsletter. Aunt Jean's gone dark again. By the way, that headline is, don't let Uncle Brian watch your dog. It must have been tough to read. It was.
Starting point is 00:16:26 It must have been. Yeah. I didn't see anything. She didn't see me wandering the streets of Laurel Canyon going, honey bear, honey bear. Uncle Brian relentless pursuit of saving dog. Yeah, exactly. I had a cat once and we had it for like a month
Starting point is 00:16:43 and there was a huge windstorm and it like not it literally a branch came down and and knocked the window open like it and and now the cat escapes and then where you were supposed to call the adoption place if the cat got away because i guess they had the little chip record right and I call them and that call. The lady was just like, uh huh. Oh, so a branch did it. Oh, it was the most accusatory. I'm just like, yeah, the branch did it. He goes, yeah, OK.
Starting point is 00:17:14 Pretty close. Most. It was the. Am I talking to Dave Branch right now? Is the branch in the room right now with you, sir? Well, keeping with the animal theme. Sure. Oh, rats. There we go. Oh, could go either way, right? Yeah, I think I know the way it's going to go.
Starting point is 00:17:34 The largest rat story thus far in the history of the city comes from the erstwhile, peaceful, quiet home of G.S. Carr on the north side. OK. Keep it. It's great. It's great. Keep it. Great stories.
Starting point is 00:17:51 Yeah. And who's got the best rat story? Yeah. On Thursday of last week, he took the initiatory steps in the matter and succeeded in murdering 24. That's a lot of that's a lot of rats. That's a lot of rats in the house. That's a hefty rat. What's going on in your house if you just killed 24 rats in one go?
Starting point is 00:18:12 Where are we again? Oklahoma? This is in Oklahoma? This is in Oklahoma, yeah. Wow. Is murder a little strong? I don't know, Brian. I mean, it feels like you are the guy who lost the dog. So I don't know.
Starting point is 00:18:26 Maybe you're just kind of animal. I know you're pro animal, but I think you have been hurt. You've been hurt by a scandalous animal headline. So I think you your go to is to defend. Now, when you when you threw the when you threw the steak out the window, did you know the dog would fall? Yeah. What was the plan there? Why did you take the screen out of the branch through the stake out?
Starting point is 00:18:45 Yeah, that's fair. Then on Friday, with the assistance of the neighbors and their dogs, he slew one hundred and eighty two more. Shut up. What the fuck? Twenty four seemed high. He just rounded two hundo. Making a total of 206. What? This guy. That's insane.
Starting point is 00:19:11 In his house. They were all in his house. I know. I think that these are just around. So he kind of took care of his 20 something in his house. And then he was like, this went so well. Let's just try to end it. Yeah, let's go. Let's just try to end it. Yeah, let's go. Let's just try to end rats.
Starting point is 00:19:29 Strange though it may seem, Mr. Carr actually seems proud of this wholesale murder. I do like hanging in there with murder now that you flagged it. I picture him talking to a friend and being like, I don't know. I feel like I found my thing. I don't know. I mean, it's like, look, it's been going pretty good. It's been going pretty good. It's been going pretty good, honestly. That is a lot.
Starting point is 00:19:50 I mean, just imagining, like I bet even the dogs were like, can we take a break? Like, look, we're all for like eating wild varmint, but this is like, I'm full. My teeth hurt from bones. The dog probably ate some of them, right? Definitely. My dog ate a bird the other day. I'm sorry ate some of them, right? Definitely. My dog ate a bird the other day.
Starting point is 00:20:07 I'm sorry? Yeah, the dog ate a bird. How did he eat the bird? He caught it somehow. How? Dogs don't seem. And they just started chomping on it. And it was terrifying.
Starting point is 00:20:17 Digested some? I mean, yeah, some of them went in them. Wow. I looked it up online and people were like, yeah, they do that. Which one, Larry? Pablo. Pablo, that makes sense.
Starting point is 00:20:32 Pablo, yeah, not the one I would expect. I would expect Larry to eat a bird. Larry feels like the bird eater. Here's my niece's latest article. Don't leave your bird with Pablo. The shade times. Okay, this is a very long one. Okay. The clothes.
Starting point is 00:20:56 I don't know what to say about this one. The clothes for the boy. A mother wants the fashion editor to tell her what is suitable for a boy of nine with full instructions for making the cost of materials. Why can't fashion leave the children alone? Oh, wow. OK. That is very crazy. This is like from someone when you know, when you talk to people who don't have any problems in their life and what they're complaining about.
Starting point is 00:21:25 Yeah. Jesus Christ. This feels. Yeah, 100 percent. Yeah. This is an affluent issue. Fashion attacks, my son. When this guy made the paper, everyone was like, Oh, Jesus, Frank's making a paper. Yeah. And I'll tell you what, I'm pretty griped out. Jam the young ladies into straight front corsets, if you will. Keep them thinking about what to wear and how to get it at an age.
Starting point is 00:21:52 Aggressive, aggressive. I don't love the language at an age where they might be playing golf or tennis and doing the supper dishes for mother as a side exercise. But for goodness sake, leave the boys alone. Un-fucking-real to be like, look, again, you got girls. Throw them in a chorus, make them look real pretty.
Starting point is 00:22:12 They go play tennis, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Women, they don't have feelings, they don't have skin. But the boys, the boys! I just picture him trying to raise money for this paper being like, I'm going to cover all the things no one's willing to talk about. Tearing up the mail, fashion attacking children. Revoking offers to the World's Fair.
Starting point is 00:22:34 Slaying rats. No, he probably was like, I was going to do some giveaways. People want to go to the World's Fair? I'm going to help them with that a little bit. You know what I mean? I think that's been a dream of everyone. The clothes question shouldn't approach them until the budding mustache begins to prickle.
Starting point is 00:22:53 Crick. Who? Who is not? Is there an author on this? It's no, there's no names. I understand why. Yeah. We have in mind a boy who will be 10 his next birthday. You couldn't interest him in the subject of clothes. He does not want them. And because he has parents who remember their own youthful days,
Starting point is 00:23:12 he does not have them to any extent. Just at present, his outfit consists of a pair of copper riveted blue overalls and a calico shirt. He is barefoot and has a stone bruise and a sore toe. Okay. Wait, what? What? Bruise? A stone stone, a stone bruise. So like a protrusion? No, he must have or maybe he kicked a stone, you know, accidentally. Oh, right. Okay.
Starting point is 00:23:36 Stub his toe kind of thing. Now, are they framing that outfit as what he should be a lot like what he is wearing? Correct. So, okay, you're not being attacked by fashion. It's like, well, what you probably it's 1904 like Johnny Appleseed, you know, like there's yeah, there's a middle ground here. When you just use Johnny Appleseed as a frame of reference for what people are wearing.
Starting point is 00:23:59 Yes. And I think I got away with it if it wasn't for you rascally. No, but they're saying, look, we know what kids wear. They got weird hats. Overall, the Calico shirt, and they don't like shoes. I mean, it's just until they have a mustache. Let them do it. By the way, my son has an infected toe. Let the boy Johnny Appleseed won Yeah, let the kid Appleseed. This goes on.
Starting point is 00:24:28 So this is the crazy thing is that this goes on for a while. This really is a personal paper. This is a diary. This is well, but it sounds like at the beginning of this, that someone someone actually wrote in asking for fashion advice for a nine year old. So now he's losing his mind. Right, right, right. And it's definitely a he for sure. Look, shove the women in iron vests.
Starting point is 00:24:50 We understand that they don't have bones. Look, drown the women. We're not saying, fuck the women. But the boys, but the boys pre-mustache. So this boy dressed in a fine outfit is your concern and you can't think of one person who deserves to go to the World's Fair! Okay.
Starting point is 00:25:08 I mean, the kid's asking for it. Both contribute to his happiness. He cannot carry water because of the sore toe or bring in... We have departed from the original thesis of fashion complaints. This boy needs a podiatrist. Now look, this boy's dehydrated. He can't carry water. I departed from the original thesis of fashion complaints. This boy needs a podiatrist. Now look, this boy's dehydrated. He can't carry water.
Starting point is 00:25:29 You know, he hurt his toe real bad. Or bring in the garbage bucket because of the stone bruise. Garbage bucket makes me happy. It's not 1904 where I live. Both wounds give him cast with the neighboring boys who are not similarly affected. He is tanned and happy. There isn't a belt or a button to interfere with his use of his lungs or the movement
Starting point is 00:25:54 of any of his muscles. What about your kid's foot? Now look, my son has sepsis, but he's very, very, he's enjoying his life. He's got a beautiful brown tan. He's not like the boys next door who don't have festering wounds. Is the tan brown? No, it's more of a yellow.
Starting point is 00:26:11 It's more of a beautiful gold, I'd say. Right under his eyes, you can really see it. Oh, and it just, it highlights the red eyes. They just. Yeah. I mean, this kid is dead in the yard. Look at him. Yeah. Loving the sun, I mean, this kid is dead in the yard. Look at him. Loving the sun, bathing in it as he does.
Starting point is 00:26:28 This is great. If he wants to go. If he wants to go in swimming, it is possible that he will do so dressed and let his clothes dry on him. No. Okay. Where did, I'm overwhelmed.
Starting point is 00:26:44 He's gonna chafe. He's gonna'm overwhelmed. He's going to say he's going to chase. You're going to chase the idea. Like also, should he be going in what I would consider to be a pond with two open wounds? Probably no. Yeah. And then and then and then he goes in with all his clothes on and land dries. It's right. I mean, he's like living the life of a lizard.
Starting point is 00:27:10 This morning. He wrestled with another boy in the middle of the road. His mother did not have the head did not have heart failure because one of the features of blue overalls is that they cannot be injured and if they could it would not make any difference. This is crazy. Who's? Gareth?
Starting point is 00:27:27 If you don't ever say, Garrett, then try to make a serious point after what was just said. Garrett, if he was wrestling and he didn't have overalls, he's got a shirt that could be torn. It's not chain. What is she talking about? Now, we all know blue overalls are bulletproof. Nobody's here arguing a crazy point.
Starting point is 00:27:47 I also like that the the newspaper man is just the story is here's a here's a story about a letter I received. So it's not the letter. Oh, it's him describing the letter. Yes. Another reaction to one of your fucking letters. Another off camera conversation with no context brought to the film. In the afternoon, he helped dig a robbers cave in the hillside. It was just a make believe robbers cave.
Starting point is 00:28:19 He explained to his mother for bless his heart. He feared that she might distrust his honesty of purpose and expect to see a robber emerge from the hole in the hill. It's crazy. This is like a fever dream. It makes no, it's like one of those creative writing exercises where they're like, keep the pen moving. That's all that matters.
Starting point is 00:28:39 Just keep writing. Or those in-ground stories one word at a time. Yeah, or like a doctor know it all. Yeah. His blue overalls were much of evidence. His blue overalls are also bulletproof. And answered all purposes, the dirt that clung to them dissolved when he was sprinkling the lawn and took a shower bath.
Starting point is 00:29:03 This is just... When at 8 p.m., he went to his room, so tired that he couldn't keep his eyes open. The blue overalls slipped from his brown, straight body. This is crazy. It's now like... Slipped from? Yeah, now it has become...
Starting point is 00:29:19 His rock-hard manhood slipped between my fingers. My stone bruise became darker. There I was releasing my son's wound with my hand. No. And as he fell onto his little white bed, his now I lay me was lost in the dream of more happiness to come. This is insane.
Starting point is 00:29:44 Oh, he's finally getting back come. Madame. This is insane. Oh, he's finally getting back to the lady. This is like you'd find this in a murderer's house. Ah, there you go, this is why he did it. I mean, to him. Madame, for the summer of 1904, we advise blue overalls and plenty of liberty for your boy. Let fashion go hang.
Starting point is 00:30:01 I honestly forgot how this started. Yeah. I feel forgot how this started. That's not how you wrap it up. That's like when you're doing stand up and you're like, you realize you're going to run the light and you have like two minutes left and 30 seconds. And so you're just kind of like, anyway, so it's like the fashion, you know, I mean, keep let kids wear what they want to wear. Thank you guys. You guys have been great. You guys have been unbelievable.
Starting point is 00:30:23 Sorry about the end there. Thank you, flappers guys have been great. You guys have been unbelievable. Sorry about the end there. Thank you Flappers for the second time in a week. Thanks Flappers. That's my second time. There'll be $35 to get a tape of this set. This is actually signed EX. EX? What?
Starting point is 00:30:37 That's not helpful. No, it's not helpful at all. That's worse. I wonder if his story is known. That's like a ransom. Is on the... I feel like the editor is all these people. I agree.
Starting point is 00:30:48 I really think that they're... Is the man who tore the mail. Is the kid. This is the revelation we have at the end of the paper when we're like, it's all him. Killed the rats. That's why he's moving the building. We were getting close to figuring it out.
Starting point is 00:31:01 He is the barber and... He's the barber. He's the barber. And the building. That's that one. That one was upsetting. That was a tough to start. That was tough to start with that. Yeah, tough. Tough, tough, tough. Oh, M. McKenna publisher. So that was so long. They're like what you wrote is a novel in the paper. Hi, I'm Vanessa Bayer and this is my brother Jonah. We're two siblings who love to talk about our childhood and nostalgia and how it shaped us into the people we are today. And we're so excited because all new episodes of our Nostalgic Podcast, How Did We Get
Starting point is 00:31:39 Weird, will be hitting your feeds again starting Monday, October 14th. So get ready for more laughs, more incredible guests, and updates on our dad, aka the first Todd, including a recent run-in he had in our parents' condo community that Vanessa witnessed firsthand. Listen right here at our new home at All Things Comedy. It's gonna be rad. So I travel a lot. I mean, a lot. Perhaps too much to some of you, but that's kind of my gig, right? So I'm out there. I'm living out of suitcases or suitcase sometimes if I bring the big boy and I want all the comforts of home That's why I stay at an Airbnb whenever possible recently I had some gigs in Fort Collins, Colorado
Starting point is 00:32:18 And I was with my friends and we were shooting some stuff and before we got to the gigs We were like, let's just get an Airbnb and it is just a more comforting existence you have a kitchen you have a yard you know it's communal living it's just a less stressful place more enjoyable experience so when I go on tour you know like I'll be going on tour in a couple months I always am like well could my place be an Airbnb you know just to have someone watching your place while you're gone and make a little bit of money and the answer to that is yes, yes it can be an AirBnB. It's really just as simple as listing your place and letting it earn a little extra cash while you're away. So imagine
Starting point is 00:32:56 someone's staying at your home in Los Angeles while you're out there exploring the world. Turn your home into an AirBnB. Give it a shot. You might be surprised at how rewarding it can be. Your home might be worth more than you think. Find out how much at airbnb.ca slash host. This is just, there's a bunch of different things on the topic of the day. This has got to be. I can't even imagine what like flipping headlines look like in this thing.
Starting point is 00:33:22 A chair of humor. It is proposed to have a chair of humor in the University of Wisconsin. The professors don't want all the fun going on behind their backs. I... No idea what just happened. What?
Starting point is 00:33:35 I have no idea what just happened. I'll take a stab. Wisconsin, go ahead. I think, yeah, I think if someone could talk about humor in Wisconsin, I think Me right, okay. Sure Well, I don't love the way you answered that Brian to be quite honest with you It felt like you were kind of placating me, but I will pursue I think that they're saying class clowns Should be moved to a certain spot in the room
Starting point is 00:34:01 So that the teacher doesn't have to keep checking their backs So it's almost like you put the chair at the front of the class. So it almost be like a dunce cap, but maybe a way to be a little a little less. I got moved. I got moved to a chair in the front of the class in the fifth grade. So she made me sit up by the. Yeah, she made me sit up by the board. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying.
Starting point is 00:34:25 It could be the teacher viewing you as like their Andy Richter or Ed McMahon. You know? I've got a Proctor and a Richter. That would be okay. You know what? They're like, just help me with this lesson. I wanna make it a little more entertaining, engaging.
Starting point is 00:34:44 Clark, you're a goofball. Just quick anecd. I want to make it a little more, you know, entertaining, engaging. You're a goofball. Just quick anecdotes a few times during the lesson today. Be great. Worth seeing. It is learned that there is in Central Europe, a musician who wears his hair short and yet can play the violin. Such a progeny should be brought to America. Crazy. Absolutely.
Starting point is 00:35:03 He's just a guy with short hair, plays the violin. And like, how do we get one of those? Well, you can't make one in America. He just being sassy. He's just he's always they'll have long hair. That's what it is. OK. OK. Sorry. Yeah. Yeah. I that's what I thought at first. And then I wondered if they just made it wasn't he was so young.
Starting point is 00:35:23 He didn't have long hair yet. You can have a prodigy could be prodigy? Yeah, yeah, yeah It didn't make me care anymore about no, I don't think you feel particular investment in it either way It's still just one guy went to Europe. I was like, yeah Wow Confirmed. Ridiculous. Uneasy lies the head, says a Boston paper. President Roosevelt, Secretary Hay, and Governor Peabody of Colorado have all been threatened with assassination. Uneasy ties the head that wears the official Toga.
Starting point is 00:36:05 There there is a reason to believe that any head in the Toga might be uncomfortable. It's really getting mired in like. So essentially, this ridiculous run is. People in positions of authority are sleep less easy because people want to kill them. But he had a, he saw Toga and he had a joke. Yeah, he, I'm still not sure what his joke, he's just like, like, Rome. Pretty good paper, huh?
Starting point is 00:36:41 The word choices are making me think, he said to a friend, for this week's issue, I'm going to take a bunch of opium and then just write it as fast as I can. By the end, it's just this gobbledygook. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it is so, even for a small town paper, it's really, yeah, it's it. I mean, it really. Yeah, it really it's like a it's like this is like having a conversation
Starting point is 00:37:08 with someone that you want to stop having it. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, I should probably. Oh, you got another one. OK. This is the comedian who just keeps doing his bits in front of you. And you're like, OK, we're off stage and yeah, the best. That's the best. Have you ever busted someone doing that when you're like, Oh, yeah, I'm I. We've had a guest on here who did that to me once where I went.
Starting point is 00:37:31 It's Brian, where I was like, where I was my niece in that newspaper. It's fucking gold. And now I know it. That's OK, though. You can do that. But what you can't do is do your material like it is that tonight you're not you can't be like, you know So but I saw one time I had a conversation and I was like that guy seems cool My friend was with she was like that's literally a stand-up joke. He does I saw it. It wasn't a stand-up joke that he
Starting point is 00:38:01 He was trying he had been doing it. It's like not only doing it like a bit that was refined. That's really weird. That's really most people would say, like, I actually did this in my act. Yeah, yeah, right. Yeah, I have a joke about this. But like I've had to do that where I've had to like recount a story that I have in my like like I have a joke. My material is very good, and I have a joke about teaching my cat to use the toilet.
Starting point is 00:38:28 And I've had to tell a version of that and almost be like, this is hard to tell it without going into my bits, but this actual reality story, while true, here's the version that's quick. You know? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We're good people. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's all that matters version that's quick. Yeah. Yeah. We're good people. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:38:46 That's all that matters. Morals and habit. A writer in Harper's Bazaar, a woman, of course. Here we go. I don't think I care to read anymore. Put her in a corset and quiet her down. Takes women to task because their morals are a matter of habit while a men's are a matter of principle. What is the what what it is so stupid it is so dumb to be like women do it because they
Starting point is 00:39:20 have to learn it and men I don't know if you've seen how it's been going. Men just are kind creatures. Then this is also a time when I think tons of dudes just said that they were women and wrote, you know, an article. Right. Oh, right. Very common, I think. Right. She admits that in actual living, women's moral habit accomplishes more for her than a man's principles do for him. But again, he read something and now he's responding to it. He read an article and he's replying.
Starting point is 00:39:58 You know what it's like to be a woman like I am. When you're sitting in on a jar to make your whiz, you know what it's like Pooping from your front when it should be your whole back hole. You know what I'm saying trying to tape your boobs that women stuff Your hair itches cuz it's long. You know what I mean? You guys get it. We're all women here. No, we're girls You know how your penis is on the inside, basically. We're women.
Starting point is 00:40:26 And your hair's long, but you can't play the violin? Your hair's long and you can't get a violin under it. You know what I'm saying? Hello? Signed for sure a lady. But if she could combine both principles and habit, she would be grand and complete. By the way, in the overall scheme of things, this is not true, but who gives a fuck?
Starting point is 00:40:52 Who cares? I don't know. Again, he read something and he has to respond to it. He's a reply guy. He can't not respond. Yes, this is, yes. These are like when you like Google something and you're like trying to get an answer and then you find someone writing the like thirstiest, saddest comment. You're like, go outside.
Starting point is 00:41:09 The person, I'll never forget the first time that I saw a bear. Oh boy, this is quite a humdinger. It's like no comments, one like, and you're like, don't encourage them. Men should receive the meat of praise here given for their principles with that unpresumingly humility that most becomes them. Insane. I mean, if I think of men, I think unpresumably humility. Yeah, it's like so strange to just like in any era in America to be like, hey, how about
Starting point is 00:41:42 we give it up for men? Pretty good, right? Principled of creatures. any era in America to be like, hey, how about we give it up for men? Pretty good, right? Principled of creatures. Let's talk, when we're talking about the perfect species, I mean, we are talking white fellas in America. White fellas, yeah. You know what I mean? Pretty good.
Starting point is 00:41:56 Ones who wore overalls as young boys. Ones who had bulletproof overalls that obviously they wore all the time until they laid down at night when it would slip off their little bodies their little creamy frames tasty tasty while we look at the wound filled while they have maggot filled wounds below the team. Miss Burnett is only 16. Uh oh. Oh Jesus Christ.
Starting point is 00:42:24 Not good. Not so red. Although let me say only could save us. Yeah. Yeah. It's helpful. Miss Faye Burnett of Muskogee, who has who was recently appointed chief maid of honor of the Nashville Reunion of the Trans Mississippi Division of the Sons and Daughters of the Nashville reunion of the trans Mississippi
Starting point is 00:42:45 division of the sons and daughters of the Confederacy what the fuck just happened why so the chief maid of honor for the Nashville reunion of the trans Mississippi division of the sons and daughters of the Confederacy. It's so funny to even hear trans and Confederacy near each other. Did you ever in like elementary school, did you, I'm probably too old, but they used to teach us how to diagram a sentence, like the noun and then the verb is like a different line and then there's other lines. Oh, like music almost. Prepositional phrases. Right. The final exam would be this sentence.
Starting point is 00:43:30 Yeah. Oh, absolutely. What's the subject? You're checking all the boxes here, Brad. Good work. She is believed to be the youngest person who has ever held that position. She is only 16 years old. She is the only person who can say the name of the position. She can remember it all. I love the idea of taking a wistful, proud look at like, boy, she's racisming at a really advanced stage. Right, they take you on such a twisty,ney road. You're like, oh maid of honor
Starting point is 00:44:08 By the end you're like she's a grand wizard I'm the president of Asian hate Of transinental Asian hate. Good for her though, that's awesome. That is like when you see the, oh Jesus Christ, what are they called, the family who goes and protests? Oh, the crazy people from, Yeah, the crazy like, yeah. I don't remember their name,
Starting point is 00:44:47 but I know you're talking about, but they would go to funerals and everything. Yeah, they go to like gay people funerals and they would be like, just, I'm so close to remembering. You're wicked and going to hell. But it's like. They do it to soldiers. If you watch documentaries about them,
Starting point is 00:45:00 they'll interview like an 11 year old, and the 11 year old will be like, they'll just be like, so why do you hate black people? And the 11-year-old will be like, well, it's not part of God's plan. You're like, boy, this is just espousing stuff you can hear the dad just saying after 18 Bush lights. And you're like, these are not your thoughts. It's like a 16-year-old being in charge of any Confederacy reunion. I mean, no life experience has brought you to this. It's just pure in your house. They're just like, now let me tell you, why the South will rise again.
Starting point is 00:45:32 OK, Papa. Have I been talking for 20 minutes or am I crazy? It seems like it, yeah. It was a while. You blanked out and you went into this. Did my eyes go? My eyes sometimes go. My eyes will go back into my head sometimes, Brian.
Starting point is 00:45:45 I was like, he might land it. Yeah. I don't know. It feels like if it was like someone jumping on a big X on like some area, I was like adjacent. I live, but didn't win anything. No. Your whole body's one big stone bruised.
Starting point is 00:46:04 That's right. Sometimes podcasting's one big stone, Bruce. Yeah, that's right. Sometimes podcasting is just talking and filling space. Without Westboro Baptist Church. There it is. I was going to say that. Yes. I was going to say that. That's them.
Starting point is 00:46:15 Did I redeem myself in any way or did sort of? No. No. People. People started to listen to that. You guys are good friends. I appreciate it. Curio's sold to bury him in order to secure funds to bury him.
Starting point is 00:46:31 The personal property of the late Levi Collins of Newcastle, Delaware, was sold at auction the other day and a sum was realized to pay for a decent funeral. He doesn't need it. Yeah. You just sell his shit. Yeah. Collins was a bachelor who for 40 years rose daily at dawn and made a tour of the town, picking up what he could find of value in the gutters. Ha ha ha.
Starting point is 00:46:58 OK, so he's gay and he's hooking up in the morning. The whole bachelor, bachelor, scanning the gutters. Boarding your bachelor, yeah, waking up early. Weirdly, he died of AIDS in 1904. Y'all know I'm gonna go look at the gutters again. Are you guys heading down to the gutters today? Why do you keep going there?
Starting point is 00:47:25 No reason. How are your wives? He was seldom known to walk on the sidewalk. Well, that's a good way of putting it, right, Brian? My new code word. I'm pretty sure that guy doesn't walk on the sidewalk. He's walking on, that bitch walks on the double yellow line. Hey, Amy.
Starting point is 00:47:52 In his house were found a number of boxes full of curios, which he had picked up. Among them were bricks from the old tile house built by William Penn and many articles of bric-a-brac from far away countries. So a hoarder. He's a hoarder. Blood plug, dildo, blah, blah. There's a box of lube.
Starting point is 00:48:15 Try to figure it out. Like, what is he making a slide? I don't know. Why did he love the gutters so much? There's like there's a naked guy in the shower. That's strange.'s a naked guy in the shower. It's strange. It's odd environment. Is there a brick still up my butt?
Starting point is 00:48:29 Yeah, there is. Did you fall in the gutter? Have a good day, boys. I figure out the evils of mock gentility. I hate the editorials. I hate the editorials. The evils of mock gentility. I hate the editorials. I hate the editorials. I know, right? They're just students of social conditions are alarmed at the false pride,
Starting point is 00:48:53 which makes young men prefer to be poorly paid clerks rather than well-paid working men. Ugh. That the desire for mock gentility exists is shown by the eagerness with which youths who would be first class mechanics or able farmers rush, but half qualified into the learning professions only to meet disaster. Its more wide reaching effects are to deprive the community
Starting point is 00:49:22 of efficient working men and to multiply useless members of society. He's basically saying too many people are getting degrees. Yes. More mechanics. I my car was broken and there was nobody to fix it. By the way, it is sort of right. Is it not? It is right. At this point, like you would be better to know how to like garden than be like, I made an app.
Starting point is 00:49:47 I, you know, whenever I get something fixed, I'm always like, why didn't I go always refrigerator repair? Always. I mean, truly, like, look at that. An actual skill. And then and also, like, no one's emailing you to do shit like, like, you want your clock. You're like, okay, I'm you to do shit. Like you want your off the clock, you're like, okay, I'm not fixing fridges anymore. There's no.
Starting point is 00:50:08 I have three older brothers and I think my dad should have been like, you're gonna be a mechanic. You're gonna be a plumber. You're gonna be a doctor. You cannot do improv. And I'm like, no, come on. That's a denial.
Starting point is 00:50:22 One of the fundamental rules that I love. Father, it's yes, and I can do improv. No, son of mine. No, it is true. It would be like we, you know, it would be like. But that is one of the things where they talk about when you talk about like home, act or things that they used to teach in school. And I'm always like, man, just one.
Starting point is 00:50:43 Like, I just wish someone was like, here's how you like do this. And you'd be like, just have it. Instead I'm like, I still don't know what the Pythagorean theorem is, but you know, in that time I could have learned how to be a drummer, right? Is that what we're saying? What?
Starting point is 00:51:00 Maybe. Like, you know what I mean? Juggle, juggle. We were waiting for a different word. And the drummer. Yeah. Gymnastics. I like how this editorial is like,
Starting point is 00:51:13 a lot of these guys wanna be clerks and they get there. And it's like, they're like, oh, by the way, I'm a literate. What do I have to do as a clerk? What is clerking? I don't know. Yeah, he's basically saying there's too many. You guys are fucking idiots, so you shouldn't actually try to be an accountant. Right. Numbers are too hard for you.
Starting point is 00:51:34 Right. How to work on the car. Maybe think about wheels like on tires for. Wife number one is loyal. Oh, crikey. Not great. Harv Harv. Hot, hot. Hey, by the way, hot name. That's a great name. Harv Harv Englund, alias Union Lee Simpson, recently indicted at Tulsa for bigamy is out of jail on bond.
Starting point is 00:52:06 Is bigamy. Wow. This is scandalous. Yeah. Uh, he has made peace with his wife, number one, and is now living at the old homestead near Red Fork. So she just went. She was just like, Yeah, right. I get it. Sometimes you marry another person like it happens. So, yeah,. She was just like, Yeah, right. I get it. Sometimes you marry another person. Like it happens.
Starting point is 00:52:27 So yeah, so it isn't Mormonism. It's just that this happened quite a bit back in the day. Right. David, like there was just you would just leave and then like guys are just like, fuck it. I'll do one more. Yeah, I'll go over there. Do that. Yeah. I'd be like, fine. I'll just have a Delaware wife. It's fine. So when seen, he was hoeing cotton on the farm, which he made and owned while living with wife number one. OK.
Starting point is 00:52:51 It is said that this woman interested a number of her neighbors to assist in getting her husband out of jail. And he is reported to have convinced her that he played a smart trick when he disguised himself and courted the daughter of a neighbor under the name of Simpson. This is men are he was a Kentucky capitalist. I can't stay mad at them. They are the poor wife being like, so you think you just married?
Starting point is 00:53:20 Honey, what are you talking about? I didn't marry her because I was what? Babe, I pulled off the crime of the century. What you did? Yeah, honey, now we got to income. Are you kidding me? And I didn't even let her take my name. I was pretending to be another fellow the whole time.
Starting point is 00:53:40 I could join the groundlings. I'm unbelievable. Baby, what are you talking about? Okay, so he I mean, she's pregnant. Why can't commit to the baby? I got to come into the bed. What are you? What?
Starting point is 00:53:57 Not going to bail your husband out of jail. My character doesn't wear Profos. My character doesn't wear Profos. My character doesn't pull out. So she got he gets put in jail for bigamy. She gets the neighbors to help. Probably raising money, right? Right. I'm out of jail. And the thing he had done was seduced a neighbor's daughter using a different name and saying
Starting point is 00:54:23 he was a Kentucky capitalist. So he had this all happened within the neighborhood. Yeah. So she was like raising money and she was like, wait, that's my husband. The Kentucky philanthropist. I know. Now I'm like, was this the one titled, but she's only 16? No, that was a different one because I was. That's what I. Yeah. How old is the daughter? Yeah. No, right. Yeah. Yeah, it's can't be. It's got to be around. I bet. Yeah, I was. That's what I. How old is the daughter? Yeah, no, right?
Starting point is 00:54:45 Yeah, yeah, it's can't be. It's gotta be around. I bet. Yeah, I bet. That's what it is. He was married to Melissa Stubblefield at Supopa on November 1st last year. All right. You're asking for a second wife.
Starting point is 00:55:00 Yeah, with this girl. He lived until he was arrested at Bristow early in May. Such a funny thing to get arrested for, too. Let me check your hands. Yeah, he's got two rings. Come on, downtown. What? Also, the funniest crime to be like, like with your wife, like what officer? What did he do? You're not his only wife, ma'am. What?
Starting point is 00:55:29 And then he's like at the station, he's like, may I what did he do? You're not his only wife ma'am. What? And then he's like at the station he's like, may I have two phone calls? I need to get two women might be coming with bail money just so you know. Am I in prison because I love too much? Shut up in there. I'm sorry I have a heart too big for my body. I couldn't pull out. in there. I'm sorry I have a heart too big for my body. I couldn't pull out. Apologies. And then later just like, there's a third. There's a third one. If you didn't want me to marry another woman, you shouldn't have vented candy. I got married to my cellmate while in here. Jesus Christ, this guy. The cellmate's like, I'm really into it. He's so good. It's a helmet. It's like, I'm really into it.
Starting point is 00:56:05 He's so good. He's a winner. The guy's great. Jumped into a shaft. In there. Honey, you're not going to believe what happened. Galena, this is out of Galena, fancying that she heard the cries of her missing two year old boy.
Starting point is 00:56:33 Miss J.O. Stuhl jumped into an abandoned shaft 80 feet deep and was mortally injured yesterday afternoon. Her clothing caught the sides of the shaft and she was. That's good. So she had a shot. She was rescued by men with ropes. Her skull was fractured and she received several bruises. The child was found at a neighbor's home. Oh my fucking God.
Starting point is 00:56:57 She absolutely did. She just jumped in here. Yeah, this is suicide. She didn't. This is so weird because the Naomi episode I listened to, a woman jumped in a well and it was a similar time period. I feel like ladies were just like, fuck it. And then men couldn't fathom why women wouldn't want to be alive in that time.
Starting point is 00:57:17 They're like, she was looking for a child. They've got corsets, golf, tennis. I don't know what. Yeah. Their husbands are marrying other ones without telling them. I mean, women, this is an era of lady. Boy, she, I mean, it must have been that because the idea of just thinking like your kid's down a shaft and just like, I'll go check.
Starting point is 00:57:40 I'll go, I'll go, I'll go. All right, hopefully he's down there. Woo! He's not. I don't see him. Tell my love. Yeah. He would stay in prison. Is that a Connecticut?
Starting point is 00:58:00 Antonio Sperano, Sperano, Sparano, a life prisoner at the state penitentiary who on Monday last was granted a conditional release by the board of pardons has declined to accept the release. I like, can you do that? I don't know. I think that's probably what they said. They were like, hey, he wants to stay. You're going to have to evict me boys.
Starting point is 00:58:27 Yeah. I choose to stay guilty. Yeah. Yeah. What do you like squatting in prison? Yeah. Yeah. What?
Starting point is 00:58:35 I think like they would have to drag him out and throw them out. Right. Well, it's like Shawshank when Brooks goes on the outside and he can't handle like, yeah, you want to just stay hanging with the boys. But it is kind of embarrassing to not have a reason to be there. And like you'd come back and be like, how'd it go? They pardon me. And I denied it. What are we doing? Peanut. It's kind of like hanging out at high school when you're 19.
Starting point is 00:58:58 Come on. Let's keep it going. I just I just got my best friend. I just want to point out that when you brought up Brooks, you said he wanted to stay hanging with the boys. Oh, poor choice of words. It wasn't great. Oh, I forgot about that. Yeah. The saddest that that's that that part in that movie is so sad
Starting point is 00:59:18 when you're just like Brooks can't handle life. He's like bagging groceries. And then you're like, Brooks, no, hopefully he's just trying to change the light bulb. No, Brooks! His sweet old feet. There's a director's cut where he does just change a light bulb. We'll figure it out in post. We'll make that decision in edit. When informed of the condition of his release, which was that he should return to Italy, he became very much excited and said, quote, I cannot go back to Italy and work for 15 cents a day.
Starting point is 00:59:54 I would rather stay in prison. Dave, you have an Italian quote. Flex the muscle. Show Brian the accent. I cannot go back to Italy and work for 15 cents a day. I would rather stay in the prison. There we go. That's gorgeous. It's spicy meatball.
Starting point is 01:00:11 Yeah, and well, again, not the best part, but. Yeah, but that makes a lot of sense. Yeah, of course you are. Your eyes sort of did a weird thing when you said you were impressed, Brian. But I. And now your mouth is not backing up your... When does it end? I can't do this, that's a crazy question.
Starting point is 01:00:30 Yeah, he will probably return to prison, he will probably return to Italy, sorry. Okay, so he just wanted to stay. That shows you how awesome this country is, Brian. Yeah. You know what I mean? We lock up immigrants and they wanna stay in jail. Well, we used to, well, you know, stop.
Starting point is 01:00:49 Yep. Well, this is anarchist Italy time. This is when the anarchist Italians were coming over and doing things. Speaking of which, arrested for using dynamite. This paper got so much better. It did. It did, yeah.
Starting point is 01:01:07 It's when they started, the local stories are troubling. Yeah. It's when we started going afield. Once he started going like, what's exciting? The paper has been written backwards. Yes, it has. Yes.
Starting point is 01:01:18 Give me the country view, but instead they're like, so there's free dirt next door. People wanna hear my opinions and then the other. So the first half's my manifesto and then we sort of cover the global. Considerable trouble is being experimented. Sorry, considerable trouble is being experienced by the authorities here with people dynamiting the streams for fish. Several people have been arrested and every effort will be made to secure conviction.
Starting point is 01:01:52 And that, again, not not crazy, right? I mean, it crazy. It's just it's crazy. It really it's almost like that. That has been our basic attitude towards every resource was just like, well, it's probably not going to help the stream, but I'll get a bunch of fish if I just throw dynamite in there. Yeah. It's like fracking.
Starting point is 01:02:11 But then and then you're just sitting on the side of the river and fish fly out towards you and you pick them up and eat them. It's like as the Native Americans did. I mean, the Native Americans, the Native Americans must just watching this going, what is this watching? Oh, like, wow. It's just in the Native Americans. The Native Americans must be watching this going, what in the fuck? Like, wow, that's just. In the fuck? Honestly, even for them, what the actual fuck? This is really dumb, but you're in a safe space.
Starting point is 01:02:37 How does the dynamite, you light it. Yeah. And you throw it in the water? I think that the fuse on dynamite, it's like waxy. I think it can get wet. Yeah, I think it can get wet. And again, I know that from the great outdoors. Yeah, go ahead.
Starting point is 01:02:53 You do? Yeah, go ahead. You have to time it. That would be tough timing. It'd be great to have to time it so right when it gets to the top of the water, it blows up. The amount of men who would die.
Starting point is 01:03:02 That'd be amazing. Yeah, a lot of men would die. Again, Native Americans up on a mountain just like, oh, maybe they'll kill themselves. They're getting so close. Right. They might just self genocide if we keep watching. They caught 12 fish and killed 14 men.
Starting point is 01:03:16 So the river no longer works, all the fish are dead, and this guy has enough for two days. Like, USA baby! Woo! All right, last one. Okay. Diet of breadcrumbs fatal. Well, who? Okay.
Starting point is 01:03:34 This is a gluten free person. This is really resonating for me. Camp is that a camp in New Jersey, a Rudolphus Bingham, father of the Prohibition Party in Camden County and one time candidate for governor on the Prohibition ticket is dead in Cooper. See, this is why you have to drink. I don't care what anyone says. Aged 80 years. OK. Several years ago, he began to subsist on a diet of breadcrumbs,
Starting point is 01:04:11 whole corn and wheat, believing it would prolong his life. Nobody stepped in he was like, you know the keys to only You've seen birds right that's too much for me This is also stop it. Why you're doing that thing again. Why? If he would throw the breadcrumbs on the floor and then pick them back. Yeah, he poops like a bunny. That's physicians told him the fair was killing him, but he refused to change it. Well, they were by the way, 80 years old in 1904.
Starting point is 01:04:40 I don't know who was having the last laugh here. It's pretty good. Yeah. Yeah. Also, hey, doctors, dementia. Yeah, that's really true. Maybe there's something else going on. You know, if you eat your fingers, you can live a lot longer. My diet's my own hand.
Starting point is 01:05:02 Our elders are our wisest people. Yeah Well another guy's dynamiting a river. You're like, is there a middle ground to the two? diets we have right now Well Brian to answer your question. Oh Cast and how did you feel you feel good? I had a lot of fun. Okay. All right I was scared. I don't know. I thought I'd be stupid. You're not stupid. No history. But you're you're the best.
Starting point is 01:05:32 Truly, you're the best. So don't forget that. Oh, I love you. What are we? Shut up, Dave. Brian and I talk. I love you. People could find you. Uncle Barney five on Instagram. Yeah. You. Yeah, good luck.
Starting point is 01:05:45 You, oh, you know what? You probably don't even give a fuck about this, but I was in a pilot that Brian made a few years ago. We're still waiting to hear. He was wonderful. He was wonderful. And a number of famous people were in the pilot and recognizable figures.
Starting point is 01:06:02 And one night we go out to dinner and the hostess at the restaurant just goes, Oh my God, are you sassy gay friend? And of all the people who got recognized, it was Brian for these videos. He used to make called sassy gay friend. That's amazing. So fucking funny. Who were the bad people we mentioned earlier?
Starting point is 01:06:22 West Baptist, Westboro Baptist Church. Oh yeah, somebody did a meme with Sassy Gay friend to them back in the day. Oh my God, oh my God, that's great. That's great. You're a standup, watch shrinking. Brian, thank you for joining us on a ride to a historical era that was sad and demented.
Starting point is 01:06:42 And I did guess the year, and I don't think we talked about that enough. Yeah, that's amazing. Thank you. It feels special to be here today. I agree. Today was a very special episode. Not to make it about me but okay the show's over. So stop recording. Some of these days, you'll miss me honey. Some of these days. So I travel a lot, I mean a lot, perhaps too much to some of you, but that's kind of my gig, right?
Starting point is 01:07:16 So I'm out there, I'm living out of suitcases, or suitcase sometimes if I bring the big boy, and I want all the comforts of home. That's why I stay at an Airbnb whenever possible. Recently I had some gigs in Fort Collins, Colorado and I was with my friends and we were shooting some stuff and before we got to the gigs we were like let's just get an Airbnb and it is just a more comforting existence. You have a kitchen, you have a yard, you know it's communal living, it's just a less stressful place more enjoyable experience
Starting point is 01:07:45 So when I go on tour, you know, like I'll be going on tour in a couple months I always am like well could my place be an Airbnb, you know just to have someone watching your place while you're gone and make a little bit of money and The answer to that is yes. Yes. It can be an Airbnb It's really just as simple as listing your place and letting it earn a little extra cash while you're away. So imagine someone staying at your home in Los Angeles while you're out there exploring the world. Turn your home into an Airbnb. Give it a shot.
Starting point is 01:08:13 You might be surprised at how rewarding it can be. Your home might be worth more than you think. Find out how much at airbnb.ca slash host.

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