The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds 12 - The Past Times with Beth Stelling
Feb 3, 2023
Comedian Beth Stelling joins Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds as they discuss societal expectations, bizarre research on blood detecting smoking, the death of Mr. Henry Van Dyke, drug effects and addictions, and the OxyContin scandal.
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Strange, Sparse Front-Page News
- 1873 local newspapers often ran terse, confusing front-page headlines with almost no context.
- The hosts show how those headlines reflect a different news style and limited reporting resources.
Watching A Pigeon Die Slowly
- Beth recalls watching a pigeon get run over slowly and describes the surreal feeling of witnessing animal deaths in traffic.
- The hosts use the story to riff on pigeon intelligence and pigeon matches.
Brain Work Versus Physical Labor
- 19th-century writers sometimes argued brain work exhausted more than physical labor using shaky stats.
- The hosts point out the class bias: office writers claimed harder work to justify better treatment.