All right, everybody, welcome to the Past Times podcast.

Each week we go through an old newspaper from a random date in history picked out by Dave Anthony.

I'm Gareth Reynolds, and I've never seen it before, and neither is our guest this week.

The great Trey Crowder.

Hi, Trey, welcome back.

Back once again, ready to venture into the past, the olden days of your...

There's no better guides than Dave and I.

Dave and I are, uh, we're kind of wonks.

Yeah, Dave, after all your years of traipsing through the past, like, do you, do you find that

every era is kind of the same or is it actually more horrific at certain times?

Because it always, the past seems like a real horror show to me.

But then other times it's like, well, humans are humans.

You know, things are always bad.

Yeah, I think it's kind of always the same.

I mean, I mean, you have, you have periods bad. Yeah, I think it's kind of always the same. Yeah.

I mean, you have periods where things go up and down.

Like, you know, like we had a great period where everyone was taking vaccines and now they're not going to.

Yeah.

So this will be a down, down one.

Yeah.

Until we call enough of the herd and then we can track on the upswing.

It's going to be awesome.

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