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580 - The 1835 New York City Fire

The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds

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The End of Time

Flaming embers are now raining down onto Brooklyn in flatbush burning pieces of silk wool paper and wood. Then the river catches on fire because barrels of turpentine have spilled. People in New Jersey and New Haven, Connecticut can see the skies above New York glowing. They called it sperm because it's a sperm whale. So now sperm is just also catching on fire sperm oil. That's what I call lube.

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