The Dollop

Mm-hmm.

Covered on The Dollop.

Oh, oh yeah? Uh-

Yeah.

I would listen to a podcast.

I, that's when I really started listening to The Dollop a lot, audiobooks, because when you're feeding the kid, you never know how long it's gonna take for them to go back to sleep either.

So you want something to entertain you so it doesn't feel like that is an eternity.

So have something, some earphones to listen to so that when you're feeding the kid, that time kind of goes by quickly when, you know, you're enjoying it with a good story in your ear.

What were the shows you were into? What were you listening to back then?

Oh, I used to listen to, uh, The Dollop.

What's that?

With, uh, it's a history podcast with, um...

he has serious brain damage from sparring with people.

Podcast, yeah.

The Dollop.

He was gonna type-

His co-host, Chuck Nice, has a fatalistic spin that cracks me up as he witnesses the amazing leaps and bounds science is taking, and then puts his hands in the air asking no one in particular, "How can we be so goddamn intelligent, and at the same time so goddamn dumb?" And then readily asks his own rhetorical question, "Oh yeah, because of greed." Sometimes you need to laugh so you don't scream.

The Dollop.

Now they had a specific episode.

I listened to them.

If you're hands-on, Heat Pump Podcast, With Great Power, and Science Versus.

And if you're business-minded, Suncast, Climate Rising, and Marketplace.

And for comic relief, The Dollop's PG&E episode is fantastic.

They got some other great episodes about other things that you should also listen to.

This is Ben Nadrof Hafree.

A little while ago, as part of my Staten Island summer, I went on a history show called The Dollop.

It's hosted by the comedians Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds, who, it turns out, have both done sets on Staten Island that turned out poorly.

This episode was a comeback special about an extremely niche topic.

When I was reporting The Staten Island Problem, I spent a day on the island with a Revolutionary War historian named Phil Pappas, learning about how Staten Islanders really did not want the American Revolution to happen.

Sadly, that got cut from the show.

But the guys at The Dollop did a deep, deep dive on the topic and came up with an even crazier story, and that's the episode you're about to hear today.

You can listen to more from The Dollop over on their show page.

Thanks for joining us, Gareth.

Make sure you check out the dollop, your YouTube channel.

What's your YouTube channel handle?

Gareth Reynolds TV.

How do you meet the lead singer of Lamb of God?

He's a, he's a fan of The Dollop, and he, like, he...

We s- people started tagging us on social media 'cause he wore, for a whole year, he wore two Dollop shirts, and he just kept rotating them.

[laughs]

Which is so weird anyway.

And I was like, "Man, that's awesome." And he ended up auctioning them off for charity, and the people who bought them for the charity, uh, just did it to be nice.

They were like, "What is The Dollop?" So they didn't even know what the hell the show was.

The better question is what was the charity?

She said, just wanted to share some important information in case you missed it.

This week, the Dollop podcast with Gareth Reynolds from the We're Here to Help did a podcast episode with Ben-Nadav Hafri from the Last Archive podcast.

Make of that what you will.

Your favorite Melbourne ambassador.