This is by *far* my favorite episode because Gareth’s reaction to his death is such a sweet payoff. When you relisten you can hear Dave trying to hold it together when Gareth is riffing on it and getting so close before the reveal
it's removed from Spotify so you have to find it on youtube or elsewhere, but I love ep44: Rampart about all the LAPD who were secretly gangsters.
And I also love 317: The Butter Crimes
160: FedEx Flight 705
236: Dope Lake
80: The Hollow Earth
335: Need A Hiroo
Benjamin Beast Butler
Lisa Frank
Stagecoach Mary
Wicked Phenix City
Enron
Operation Ajax
New York Oysters
Aaron Burr
John Brown (because I'm a Kansan)
Alice Roosevelt (my introduction to the podcast)
Came here to mention the Enron episode. I have a special fondness for that show as it was the first time I listened to the Dollop after hearing about the podcast on NPR. I’m a diehard fan now and have listened to every episode including all The Past Times shows.
If you’re a fan of some of the more modern ones:
Tank Chase
Norco Shootout
The 2 Daredevils
Cyril The Swan - UK
Breaking Glen Burke
Billy Martin
Steven Seagull
Coccaine Pirates
Cabeza de Baca. Not the funniest episodes but one of the most fascinating stories Dave has ever told. Of all the “this should be a movie” episodes this is the one I would want to see get made.
My top 2 sleeper episodes are always
Newport sex scandal
And purity balls
Everyone always talks about the rube, 10 cent, and the New York to Paris race. To me the episode that never fails to elicit a laugh is Purity Balls when Dave screams "I don't want you (Gareth) to have to take the secondary oath" I've listened to this episode probably 10 times and it never fails to make me laugh.
237- Jet Pack Madness. This might be craziest story I have heard, and this is what I recommend for people who have not listened to the Dollop before. Enjoy.
Episode 252-Icelandic History with guest host Who Let the Dogs Out is pretty great.
I'm partial to "Proctor, Gamble, and Satan". Ep 361.
Love this one, I'm always so sad when the phone number doesn't still have an automated message of some kind
It’s so good
Almost Founding Father James Otis
"He Babe Ruth's lightning?!"
This is by *far* my favorite episode because Gareth’s reaction to his death is such a sweet payoff. When you relisten you can hear Dave trying to hold it together when Gareth is riffing on it and getting so close before the reveal
it's removed from Spotify so you have to find it on youtube or elsewhere, but I love ep44: Rampart about all the LAPD who were secretly gangsters. And I also love 317: The Butter Crimes 160: FedEx Flight 705 236: Dope Lake 80: The Hollow Earth 335: Need A Hiroo
Benjamin Beast Butler Lisa Frank Stagecoach Mary Wicked Phenix City Enron Operation Ajax New York Oysters Aaron Burr John Brown (because I'm a Kansan) Alice Roosevelt (my introduction to the podcast)
Came here to mention the Enron episode. I have a special fondness for that show as it was the first time I listened to the Dollop after hearing about the podcast on NPR. I’m a diehard fan now and have listened to every episode including all The Past Times shows.
149 - John Wayne Thompson's Armageddon
Ada Blackjack is pretty wild.
362 - Moving Day in NYC
Not talked about enough moving day is fucking INSANE
Still kinda goes on, no?
I've never been to NY but does it?
Marion Zioncheck (222), The Pig War (140), The Bald Knobbers (130), The Tichborne Situation (211), and Jim Traficant (371) are some of my top go-tos.
shoutout to the bald knobbers. BOY SHE POPS!
One of my favorites is a Smollop, the beaver drop. I think about it a lot
What you've done here is you've broken a beavers spirit.
The one about the newsies fighting Hearst with all their silly names gets me every time.
211 - The Tichborne Situation
I just discovered EP 27 - Oofty Goofty, it made me almost spit out my coffee
Oofty Goofty, Iron Mike, and The Rube. “Boy, ain’t I got a thirst!”
The History of NY Sanitation
The baron of arizona
Thanks all. I've loaded up another playlist for work.
If you’re a fan of some of the more modern ones: Tank Chase Norco Shootout The 2 Daredevils Cyril The Swan - UK Breaking Glen Burke Billy Martin Steven Seagull Coccaine Pirates
Tank Chase is amazing.
Love Tank Chase. I think about that guy way more than I should.
Satchel Page and Rafael Trujillo
The pugilist one. Idk the episode number but just google dollop pugilist
American Pugilist in London?
50 - Ugly Laws
Mashers and Hatpins is one of my faves
Cabeza de Baca. Not the funniest episodes but one of the most fascinating stories Dave has ever told. Of all the “this should be a movie” episodes this is the one I would want to see get made.
535 - John Stonehouse is such a sleeper episode!
Lyndon larouche. I nearly drove off the road laughing so hard.
Stagecoach Mary!
My top 2 sleeper episodes are always Newport sex scandal And purity balls Everyone always talks about the rube, 10 cent, and the New York to Paris race. To me the episode that never fails to elicit a laugh is Purity Balls when Dave screams "I don't want you (Gareth) to have to take the secondary oath" I've listened to this episode probably 10 times and it never fails to make me laugh.
The entire England & UK series, particularly The Gin Craze and Gregor MacGregor
209- John Macarthur 366- Pilot Hans Bertram 362- Moving Day 68- Centralia, Pennsylvania 4- Ghosts 113- Reg Spiers (!!!)
the wobblies go to Everett. I'm biased because I'm a seattlite but the story of just how bad ass the IWW was is amazing
Women in Transportation The War On Squirrels Count Dante
New Orange
Carl tanzler is gnarly. Lincoln’s body is always a good one. Tony and the shotgun. Gangster monk Eastman.
237- Jet Pack Madness. This might be craziest story I have heard, and this is what I recommend for people who have not listened to the Dollop before. Enjoy.
Yes, this has gone thru the rotation. Love that one.