S8E12: Superman | Gouverneur Morris & George Reeves

Trashy Divorces

Hemlock Creatives

History, Comedy

4.5 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Get ready for a couple of truly wild rides! First up, Stacie has some hilarious tea on one of America’s lesser-known Founders, Gouverneur Morris. He didn’t just copy edit the US Constitution; he was also such a ladies man that after an accident required the amputation of one of his legs, fellow Founder John Jay expressed that he wished Morris “had lost something else.” Then, Alicia has an old Hollywood tale featuring seduction, mob ties, and ultimately, the suspicious death of Hollywood’s first Superman, TV’s George Reeves. More reading: 10 Reasons Why Gouverneur Morris Was the Oddest Founding Father (history.com) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Trashy divorces.
0:02.0	Hey everybody, another week of trashy divorces. I'm Stacy.
0:07.0	I'm Alicia.
0:08.0	Thanks for coming to join us for this week where we are not Superman.
0:12.0	Life is sort of getting in the way with us this week, so we're pulling out our Superman story.
0:17.3	But sometimes life intervenes. So we have delightful tales that first appeared on Patreon for you this week. We have
0:25.0	delightful tales that first appeared on Patreon for you this week. We do.
0:26.0	And we're going to go one additional week in this season,
0:29.0	because the stories we have coming for you next week are super we're wonderful
0:34.1	bang up excited about it so all that's good pulling a little bit out of the
0:37.8	Patreon vault we're starting this week Stacy with your trashy founding father
0:42.1	this is a sort of forgotten founder but he was a
0:45.6	I had no idea signer of the Constitution and the Articles of Confederation or whatever
0:50.7	Governor Morris of New York and Pennsylvania and France.
0:56.0	Some problematic medical history too.
0:58.0	Yeah, interesting guy.
1:01.0	So I think it makes sense that he is not foremost in our telling of the early days of the republic.
1:07.2	You have somebody a little more modern.
1:09.4	The 20th century Superman, so to speak. I'm bringing you the tale this week of TV
1:16.1	Superman George Reeves and his yeah the O.G. Superman his trashy divorces his
1:22.4	trashy affair his trashy divorces, his trashy affair.
1:24.1	His trashy true crime?
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