Welcome to the dollop. This is a special episode this week. Each week, I, Dave Anthony,

read a story from American history to my friend, Gareth Reynolds. And he's never heard of

it before, but this week it's a little bit different because it's live is taped at

meltdown, the Nerdist Theater and meltdown comics in Los Angeles, California, at the end

of November, at the beginning of December. And we are joined by Patton Oswald, who is

a very funny gentleman, you may have heard of. So please listen to this. It's a really

long one. It's about two hours. Here's the episode with Patton and Gareth.

Ladies and gentlemen and groups of all ages, welcome to the live dollop at meltdown. Here's

your host, Dave Anthony and Gary Reynolds.

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Move style is calling McCoy. He wrote the theme song. You kind of did though. It's not

for fun. Thank you. Thank you. It's actually, it's Gareth. It's actually, it's Gareth. I

appreciate it. I really thank you guys. But I love you. Again, it is actually the name

is Gareth. So just so we're okay. Same page. It's like we got to get there because I don't

know where it's getting lost in translation. It feels like I'm really clear the whole time.

So welcome to the dollop. This is a historical podcast. And each week I read a story to my

friend. Gareth Reynolds. Who has no idea what the topic is. But tonight, I'll be reading

my story to two gentlemen. One of them I like to refer to as the great American gas

bag. Ladies and gentlemen, Pat Noswald. Yeah, girl. There you are, girl. Yeah. All right.

Johnny, why do you get a mic stand in a? Because I'm the one. Oh, okay. Because you just

get to sit there like douchebags making comments and I do all the work. Okay. And then I

fuck up words and people send me mean emails. Oh, the Thanksgiving one. I got a email from

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