The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds 162 - The Past Times with Nato Green
Feb 20, 2026
Nato Green, stand-up comedian and political comic known for sharp tour sets, joins to chat about his upcoming album and warm-up shows. They react to a March 1893 newspaper: gossip about high-society photos, praise-for-cocaine passages, a man selling his body for dissection, and bizarre items like igniting telegraph boys and suspended electric car ideas.
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Astor's Scandalous Photo Collection
- Miss William W. Astor's photo collection of beautiful women is described like a scandalous, wealthy-person secret in 1893 Louisiana press.
- Dave Anthony compares it to the modern Epstein files and treats it as revealing about elite behavior.
Cocaine: From Allure To Recognized Harm
- The 1893 article treats cocaine as an alluring, socially accepted narcotic while also warning of rapid addiction and mental decline.
- Hosts map that tension to modern drug marketing and prescription ad-style messaging, exposing how acceptance shifts before harms are visible.
Warn With Vivid, Concrete Side Effects
- Model modern drug warnings like consumer ads to show both appeal and concrete harms, using vivid side-effect examples for clarity.
- Use active, specific imagery when explaining risks to make consequences memorable and discourage misuse.