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🗓️ 10 February 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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This week Dave Anthony picks a paper from a day in history and reads it to co-host Gareth Reynolds and guest, comedian Roy Wood Jr.
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0:00.0 | Well, hey there, dollop listeners. This is Garrett Reynolds. Yes, right. I'm on this show. Anyway, just wanted to give everyone some standup dates. I have coming up. I'll be on the road in March and April March Monday March 13th. I will be at Summit City Comedy and Fort Wayne Indiana March 14th Tuesday Helium Comedy Club in Indianapolis March 15th Louisville. I'll be at the Louisville Comedy Club March 16th. The Columbus Funnybone in Ohio. Dayton, Ohio March 17th. The Friday also at the |
0:30.0 | Funnybone and then the Funnybone in Perry's Burg Saturday March 18th. That's two shows. Then I'll be in Cleveland, Ohio at Holarides on March 19th Comedy Off Broadway in Lexington, Kentucky on Tuesday March 21st. March 22nd. I will be at Helium Comedy Club in St. Louis March 23rd. I'll be at the Comedy Club of Kansas City. That's Thursday March 24th. March 24th. I'll be at the Des Moines Iowa Funnybone March 26th. I'll be in Omaha at the Funnybone. |
1:00.0 | I'll be at the Tacoma Comedy Club in Tacoma, Washington April 13th. I'll be at the Spokane Washington Comedy Club. Then the 14th through the, I guess that just the 14th, I will be at Lasbeth Comedy. I do think there's more shows there. So I think I'll be there April 14th at 15th in Boseman, Montana at Lasbeth Comedy. Go to Gareth Reynolds.com for ticket information and go watch my special England weed on the rest on YouTube. Thank you. |
1:31.0 | Alright everybody, welcome to the Pastimes Podcast. Each week we go through an old newspaper from a random date. History picked up by Dave Anthony. I'm Gareth Reynolds and I've never seen it before and neither is our guest this week. |
1:49.0 | Roy with Jr. |
1:51.0 | Hello. It's very polite. Now how far back are you guys going with past times? Are you like in the library on microfilm printing up shit from 1937? Dave's mainly doing the microfeesh montage from a lot of spy thrillers. |
2:09.0 | We are we can go we can go all the way back to the 1600s with newspapers now and it's all it's all online. All right, they pdf all those shits now and you can get archives. |
2:23.0 | Unless you want a copy of yourself on the back of the New York Daily News that day after the clubs won the World Series in 2016 because then no one can find that goddamn paper. Not even a fucking joke. |
2:34.0 | I'm cool about it though. |
2:39.0 | Dave is that paper? |
2:41.0 | Some of the guests are really personal with the papers. I made the very addition. I was at game seven when the clubs won and I was in the paper and I fucking didn't get back to New York in time. |
2:53.0 | That's fucking crazy. Wow. That is crazy. That's a heartbreaker. It's stupid to be well adult and still be like, oh my pictures, there's people. |
3:02.0 | No, but it's sports. It's different. You're on TV but it's different when it's sports. I was there for them. |
3:09.0 | I helped. Yeah, the happiest day of my life. |
3:17.0 | All right, so today we are going to read the Topeka State Journal from Topeka, Kansas from December 10th, 1910. |
3:28.0 | Oh, wow. Okay. And now I'm just going to randomly pick stories. We'll go through the paper. |
3:35.0 | Page one. Page one. Three blacks were captured after they got to get slick with the fucking shop phone. |
3:43.0 | Sorry. Sorry about that. I'm sorry to bring racing to it. That was wrong with me. |
3:47.0 | No, I mean to be fair. It's a 1910 paper. I mean, it could be in 2020 paper to be honest. |
3:53.0 | You could still to show you. First headline, expensive love affair. |
4:02.0 | SB Simillick. Expensive love affair. SB Simillick didn't get presents back and is fine $10 besides. |
4:12.0 | SB Simillick's love for 16 year old Rosa Gammond cost the man from Canada $11.50 in court Friday afternoon. |
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