Baby, I Was Born to Run: the Grover Cleveland Bergdoll Story

Ridiculous Crime

iHeartPodcasts

History, Comedy, True Crime

4.5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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When the first World War kicked off, Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, a notorious daredevil and rich kid playboy, decided armed combat wasn't for him. And so, rather than serve, he decided to dodge the draft. He would spend the next two decades begging for a pardon as he evaded justice and the many men sent to capture him.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed Human.
0:21.4	Ridiculous crime is a production of IHeart Radio. And there she is. Here I am. Mrs. Ridiculous Crime. Howdy-Duty's. So I got a question for you, Elizabeth Dutton. Yes, are? Do you know it's ridiculous? I do. It's a mashup. I can tell from your face that I'm not going to like this. is a mile shop.
0:24.0	Esther on Instagram.
0:21.4	Esther. I do. It's a mashup. I can tell from your face that I'm not going to like this. This is a mouth up.
0:24.0	Esther on Instagram.
0:24.9	Esther.
0:35.6	She sent this, and she and I were kind of on the same page with how this is just kind of not all right.
0:38.4	Oh, well, that's, at least that you guys are coming around. Yeah, I saw, I saw like what she had typed in about, you know, the emojis and what interns
0:44.3	emoji did it.
0:46.3	Basically, it was like this, this Instagram reel by, and I think it was originated on TikTok
0:52.8	by this food influencer eats by
0:57.3	nat oh i'm familiar whatever yeah it's i am not the audience for this like she's one of those
1:04.1	ones has those long pointy fake nails and taps them on things and then when she eats things she
1:10.2	puts it right up i don't want to look well you're like really going to town on something. Yeah, I've been sent videos. Yeah, I just can't. I can't with any of that stuff. It's just all garbage. Why are you doing this to me? Everything's garbage. So the garbage that she was slinging was that she had Panda Express with her. Okay. I don't know if I've ever had Panda Express. Really? Yeah. California and you just jumped out. You're just like I've never deigned to have that. I just, it dawned on me when I was watching it. I was like, oh, that looks like Safeway, like grocery store Chinese food. No, it's more like Mall Food Court Chinese food.
1:46.5	It's not even as good as grocery store.
1:48.3	Because I have a soft spot for cheap grocery store Chinese food.
1:51.3	Yeah, no, that's better than Mall Food Court Chinese.
1:53.3	Yeah, so she was like Horfin on some, but what she was pulling out and tapping her nails on
1:57.8	is there's this company, Compartes.
2:00.1	And I think I've talked about them before.
2:02.1	They're frequent flyers on here. Okay. They're, you know, they've done time with me before.
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