All right, everybody, welcome to the Past Times 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.

Returning champion.

Beast from the Middle East, James Fritz. I'm the mayor now, dog. Yes, hello, James. Welcome back. Thanks. Good to see you, boys. How are you? I'm okay. How are you? I'm good. I'm excited. It sounded real, right? I'm okay.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It doesn't sound like, you don't sound suicidal.

No, no, you sound like you're secure.

James, you, your album, old man yells crowds.

A crowd.

A crowd.

To play on words.

It's such a funny title. The picture is great. Oh, thanks. You don't know when that's coming out, but that will be coming out. Yeah, it's getting finalized as we speak, so. You mean you're finishing the material? Yeah, it should be ready, adding a bunch of laughs. That's allowed, right? They call that sweetening.

Yeah, I'm not sweeten this baby.

Yeah, you should.

I saw you run it early on, and I would recommend sweetening.

Yeah.

Running into the ground.

Am I the only guy who takes out laughs?

Oh, you get too many?

I get too many, so I think it's a little much, so I'll always take a couple out.

Yeah, I mean, I think, like, we don't pander, so I think, yeah, it doesn't really, it's not

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