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#46 - The Past Times with David Farrier

The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds

CHAPTER

Obsession with the Fridge Light

The speakers discuss a man's obsession with the fridge light staying on and a strange incident of disappearing led pencils at a library.

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Speaker 2
One way to go low low low low and off.
Speaker 1
Yeah. Yeah, what a what a story for your wife Yeah horrific. How did he go? Well, he's uh Did you
Speaker 2
did you ever notice he was a slow? No, he always so smart he never Ever wonder why the Ever
Speaker 1
ask you if the fridge alight stays on all the time or if it goes off like little things like that those keep him up at night He
Speaker 2
ever say i'm going to sleep in the fridge to see if that alight it goes off and if it you know nothing like that, okay Yeah
Speaker 1
So this is also from Pittsburgh, okay Where led pencils disappear At desks at one side of the wonderful center of the great reading room of the washington national library With its labyrinth of isn't a library a great reading room. They're just really carving out a very specific Yeah, yeah, okay With its labyrinth of pneumatic tubes endless carriages for books speaking tubes telephones and so forth There are blanks for readers to fill with the title of the book they desire and the name of the author led pencils new And of full length are placed there every morning tied to the desk with twine
Speaker 2
Why is this a
Speaker 1
story what is
Speaker 2
happening? How the Honestly feel I miss something. What was the headline? What's going to happen? About led
Speaker 1
That is where led pencils disappear
Speaker 2
It sounds like
Speaker 1
It's a
Speaker 2
very Yeah, okay, so they're laid out in the library and then I I noticed the lead pencils are
Speaker 1
there. Oh, jesus this guy Hold
Speaker 2
on I will detwines them Okay, no, I'll
Speaker 1
just do it I'll just do it Readers begin to stream in usually within one hour after opening there is not a pencil to be seen Wow I give up said one of the assistant librarians
Speaker 2
Great quote So frustrated so frustrated
Speaker 1
Yeah, I mean she liked the pencils at the end of a rope. She is done Keller might explain it, but I can't of course we can't at times imagine a bit of circumstantial evidence But we wouldn't like to treat our intellectual friends as they do the shoplifters in the bazaars And so the government has to wink at the petty larceny and buy more pencils
Speaker 2
Oh god damn What
Speaker 1
the fuck just happened? I mean, yeah, okay, I get it. I mean you're pissed, but come on We need more money budgeted for pencils It's just I mean it's just this is uh, why would call this not a story? It's uh
Speaker 2
Like when you go to the post office or the bank and you need a pen it's gone and it's not one It's so frustrating. It is. I didn't know this frustration was happening in in libraries back
Speaker 1
I guess it's nice to hear someone care about this theft so much in a way
Speaker 2
so much passion So when you're librarian, what are you passionate about like what does get you fired up? I suppose I feel like I was a lot and they're fine with it like loud talkers And knowing patience they put up with a lot so if someone to be breaking at this one thing. It's got to be serious Yeah, it really is
Speaker 1
This is why they invented the tiny miniature golf pencil I don't think that is that historically? Well, that's what they use. Oh, this is what it led to david you heard Jesus christ don't do
Speaker 2
that again
Speaker 1
Ship wouldn't slide Nope, what I could I could jump I can help with this one. Nope shouldn't next ship wouldn't slide So were they sliding into the water? Wilmington Delaware the attempt to launch the I can't read it I want to say wisser winser winds are line steamship grecian At the harlem and hollings worth shipyards today was a failure The new ship sticking on the waves. Oh wow. So okay, so they're there it's like when they When they launched the ship it like slides down david He's like people's day work was ruined People's days were this day was shot
Speaker 2
They had a plan. She said it was a fear. Oh Put up in this one Oh, it's just way this is when
Speaker 1
you're like, okay, you're too empathetic The guy's still breaking ship pain over the end now hang to it
Speaker 2
bun voyage
Speaker 1
When the blocks were sought away and the vessel started for her plunge into the icy water Miss winser daughter of the president of the company who acted as sponsor for the new liner Broke the traditional bottle of wine and spoke the words. She did do it. The ship. Well, you don't do that that early What is she do
Speaker 2
you I
Speaker 1
think you do it when it's in there No, you do I think you do before it slides down and goes into the water. No way. No way you can't
Speaker 2
How do you get to it? What just like harle the
Speaker 1
boat at port? No, no, it's a port You're not who you
Speaker 2
know, who the fuck
Speaker 1
is that confident that you're like this will be we'll get it in the water Because this never happens. That's why there's a story about it. I don't know The water I don't think you do
Speaker 2
it. I don't think you seem not getting into the water. You slide it out
Speaker 1
Many
Speaker 2
You know what you guys have your laugh have your fun. Okay. I know
Speaker 1
You've created a scenario that doesn't exist like this is a thing But what I'm always work what I'm gonna do and what I love about me is I'm gonna double down That's what makes me american jack so american. Yeah as a matter of fact You don't do
Speaker 2
it till it crashes boom that just happened
Speaker 1
To the great disappointment of everybody however the huge Hulk moved only about 18 inches and then stuck Oh It's an awkward champion that is an awkward moment. That is very awkward moment Yeah, and it an investigation showed that the tallow in the ways had frozen and caked Put it in
Speaker 2
the oven That's a good that's a really good. Yes. There you go
Speaker 1
So the thing to grease it up is not working right? That's not sliding right? um And when the vessels start to move the grease drop from the ways and She rested on the timbers without the tallow. Oh boy A lot of boat stuff you losing me in some boat terms here Jacks were used in an attempt to start the ship again, but every effort failed and after an hour's hard work It was decided to abandon the task. Okay. I'm gonna jump in and just say an hour Not enough time if you're really trying to get a shit every then hour. They're like well. This will never happen It's cold. You're on the water. It's Listen, I don't this ship is sailed In the sense that we're not going to fix it No, wait, that's a ship will not say well. Not say then you used a really bad cliche. I agree. I feel bad about that. Absolutely That's actually what you did is worse than the boat getting stuck We've been out here an hour And I told her to not christen it until it was in the water as we traditionally do We have never done that.
Speaker 2
It's always the way it's been done
Speaker 1
where I'm always doing my family We've always done it that way and my papa said it was a tradition So you're not both
Speaker 2
people you will use the first difficult coal conditions They shouldn't be giving up after an hour. They should be out there for the
Speaker 1
entire day 1899 to be like well, I guess it's a restaurant
Speaker 2
Closure on what happened is it still sitting
Speaker 1
there? What the foul? I'm sure it went in the water at some point like they had to go Things
Speaker 2
are frozen
Speaker 1
Maybe not they might have just turned it into a sushi spot like that one place In the middle of nowhere Where my dad went once and he told me they had a mason sushi. I was like, I was like dad don't eat here
Speaker 2
Don't
Speaker 1
1899 Windsor ship in Delaware I'm looking at it
Speaker 2
I'm looking at the steel frame I'm just heard about this place out at Long Beach, which I want to go to which is like a Oh ship. That's a restaurant. I'm excited. That's
Speaker 1
what I'm talking about. That's the
Speaker 2
one. That's the one Yes, yeah, no, I really want to go I keep hearing about it I love the idea of eating on a sort of a ship that's sort of just out by
Speaker 1
the man David you got it if next time my dad's around you too. I'd love to take him. No amazing I love that they they knew his name. They were like Peter. He was like,
Speaker 2
oh, are you is Who's work? Hey, what's up?
Speaker 1
I was like, how long you been eating here? I don't know about this place. He was
Speaker 2
like, it's so good Oh, it's really cute. I love that to him
Speaker 1
So it was launched in 1900 so it took a few
Speaker 2
days So
Speaker 1
eventually did happen Oh, yeah, then it shipped around for a while. It was uh shipped around's the term. Yeah, did did shipping stuff Uh
Speaker 2
I just
Speaker 1
It's a big ship. It's really it's really very large. What I'm looking at. It's not a jet ski
Speaker 2
I started following Instagram account recently I think tugboat life and it's just tugboats out doing their thing and there is some This is a sexual thing. Shit that happens with tugboats and it's crazy. Oh, yeah Yeah tugboats either doing a really masterful job of guiding a big ship through a port or it's tugboats What happens when they fuck up and when a tugboat sucks up? It's hilarious and shit goes When you've got a giant vessel near land, it's stuff can go so wrong. Yeah, no, there's crazy Yeah, that's not where you want to be tugboat hashtag tugboats on instagram. It's really good
Speaker 1
I just want to keep being like Like one of your relatives and be like that's your next documentary Oh
Speaker 2
Is that gonna be
Speaker 1
hey? You're gonna do a documentary about your tugboats. You know what? You know what? Hey, I you know what? I just want to say you should do it. You should do one of your documents
Speaker 2
Look at him. It's a
Speaker 1
little documentary. My family is It's a race. You should really My egg glattice It's what my family does over here when they're just like that could be a sketch and I'm like
Speaker 2
I don't do sketches. So don't say that to me anymore. Yeah, it's frustrating because you find out It's it's frustrating because they mean well But it's also so frustrating because you understand how little they care about what you do because they just don't understand what you make
Speaker 1
Yeah, how much how much work? You know what I mean? That's like what my family's like that could be a sketch. I'm like, I don't do sketches and also do you have any ID? No, it couldn't be It wouldn't work. I'll
Speaker 2
tell you that right now. You
Speaker 1
know what you're doing It's
Speaker 2
just people being kind so you can't get angry at them. You know, he's got a nod in the middle. Oh, yeah He's
Speaker 1
worried they're gonna listen. They
Speaker 2
won't listen to me. Honestly, this is the same place We don't
Speaker 1
even release these. This is just the way to hang Just to two sad guys David likes closure. So on May 27 1932 the Grecian was broadsided by Savannah Savannah's line city of Chattanooga and sunk
Speaker 2
Oh, what
Speaker 1
are the past years killed?
Speaker 2
Jesus
Speaker 1
Yeah They would be dead now anyway, David. So don't That
Speaker 2
was just a sudden turn at the end of the story. That was just though. Are you reading that?
Speaker 1
I just looked it up. I looked it up. I went to be made Time traveler was like I have an update.
Speaker 2
I went into a boat forum And Some of them got called some of Dave called fascist already in the boat
Speaker 1
They just they've blocked two people and is on a 12 hour suspension in the boat for him. He's been Foreman killed Well, like Astra, Pennsylvania Okay Full men were killed and several others injured by a boiler explosion One mile west of Elizabeth town today. They were employed by Keller and crescent railroad contractors uh, the dead were Donald haldeman bainbridge wit Sherbon west donigal berk. I can't tell what's a city and what's a man. Yeah, no, they're all it's the same You're reading
Speaker 2
it on the bible. Just saw your list This is very what is this again? Yeah
Speaker 1
People will say and oh my god. So this is this is how it ends And an Italian known as tony who was hurled 150 feet Everybody gets a full name and they're like that fucking Italian guy tony He got fucking tossed
Speaker 2
one human cartoon Well, that goddamn it's like all the Italian
Speaker 1
guys dying like a cartoon guy But that fucking Tony just got shot man Tony just went flying I had a flight to the air. He's like meet up 150 feet is so far So far you're like in
Speaker 2
the air. Yeah, well, I'm done now you can feel it. Yeah, that's big. That's a big explosion
Speaker 1
And we all know the Italians flatter furthest Exploded that's what made that that's what made those guys thaw in the dynamite
Speaker 2
so sad
Speaker 1
They went to heaven on their own Oh So good. Uh, oh, this is actually portland is finally Okay, um two young men rode about the harbor in a dowry dory dory This morning shooting or attempting to shoot the numerous and festive goals which helped to clean the harbor of the refuse from ocean liners and fishing vessels pro seagull Publications are far gone. Yeah, they really are How many they killed is not known but the warning voice of a customs official rang out through a megaphone to the lawbreakers and had the desired effect So they're out there. I think until we can go back out and just shoot seagulls And like close to land
Speaker 2
Two people he goes here in America as much as they do in New Zealand.

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