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47 - Bricklayer Bill

The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds

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The Hobo's Are Fucking Hard to Tell Apart

America was in the middle of an enormous transition as the nation underwent the shift from an agrarian economy to an industrial one. Hobo's were likely to prefer box cars, but they rode anywhere. In 1934, the US Bureau of Transient Affairs estimated there were 1.5 million hobo's riding. The conclusion is that it's really fucking hard to count hobo's. Hard to tell apart. Did you just get here or were you here before? Oh my god. It's like you all have the same hat. Sometimes I wish you guys were just bums. I really do.

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