I'm Ben Sawyer. I'm Rivers Langley. And this is the road to now. Summertime edition. I'm back out west. Today I've got to do one of my favorite things that I do when I come out here, which has come over to the Casa Day Rivers Langley. Disgrace land. Disgrace land. And record to be a guest on his podcast, Goods from the Woods.

If you've been listening to the show for a long time, you might know Rivers from a few years ago.

We did a tour guide's history of Los Angeles. Oh yeah. Which was a great episode, basically just like

what does it like? What are the stories people want to tell? If you haven't heard that, I highly

recommend it.

But Rivers is like me. He's one of these guys who was a comic but also loves history. I mean, like, look at his bookshelf right now. It's like Nick Prlstein, Invisible Ridge, Dick Prosting.

Well, I also got Helter Skelter and the autobiography of the American Dream Dusty Roads, baby.

Yeah, so a man of many talents and many interests and just widely knowledgeable. And so his podcast is a comedy podcast. If you want to check it out, I'm appearing on that episode. It'll be airing the 23rd, right? Yeah. So we'll have a link to that. And it's just joking around. We talk about the 1904 Olympics, which, funny enough, Rivers, we had Patreon trivia a couple weeks ago, and I had a question about the 1904 Olympics in that one. Ooh. So I had a question about the guy, Georgia Eiser, who won six medals, three golds at the 1904 Olympics. And I said he managed to win six medals, despite having half as many of this as his competitors. The answer was legs. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because this guy, and so we get into a deep dive in the weirdness of the 1904. You had a wooden leg and won a bunch of gymnastic events. Yes, and that's not even the best part. I mean, the marathon, we tell the story in the episode. So go check that on the goods from the woods.

But today, because, you know, Bob and I are both kind of taking some time off. I'm on vacation. The Ava Brothers album is out. If you haven't checked it out, give it a listen. But I was thinking, I want to air some stuff here that might just be more fun for the summer. I think we're all stressed thought about politics. You know what I'm saying?

Yeah. Yeah. Is there going to be a second debate? I'm like, well, there would have had to be a

first debate for that. Yeah, yeah. Yep. But this is, this story right here. Rivers showed up in my house a while back. Was it like, this is December of 2022, I believe. River shows up and goes, we're going to record episode of his podcast. He's come over. I've set up at the house and he goes, I've got the

craziest story you've ever heard. And along with him comes another Birmingham comic, Nerato Moore. That's right. Norado is hilarious. You might know him as one of the co-hosts of Roy's Job Fair with Roy Wood Jr. Yeah. And the three of us, Rivers just told the story, and And it is not only hilarious, Rivers, it is such a perfect story of the 1820s and the rise

of populist politics and the rise of the spectacle.

And the industrial age, too.

The industrial age and like the types of rebellions that happen, what life is like.

But you only get that after you laugh for like an hour listening to this episode.

And then you realize all the themes that come together in this.

And to me, Rivers, this is like perfection.

Well, thank you.

And so we aired that on his podcast.

And this week, we're going to share an edited down version of that episode about this guy, Sam Patch.

Sam Patch.

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