Dave Anthony· Host0:01
You're listening to The Dollop. [cheers] I think I'm still gonna sit like this, though.
Speaker 30:10
[laughs] Like a merman?
Dave Anthony· Host0:13
[laughs] This is an American history podcast where each week I- You're like a Drew Barrymore on The Tonight Show.
Speaker 30:19
[laughs] [laughs] Like, as a six-year-old, like, "Well, I don't know. I guess they told me E.T. was fake."
Dave Anthony· Host0:24
[laughs] [laughs] Each week, I read a story from American history to Guy.
Speaker 30:31
Gareth Reynolds, who has no idea what the topic is going to be about.
Dave Anthony· Host0:34
[cheers] Okay. All right, so I took some liberties, 'cause I've always wanted to do this subject, and part of Kansas City's in Kansas. [cheers] So, so that's why this is about to happen. December 22nd, 1928- [cheers] ... Verne Miller was born in a house his father built near Bog Town, one of the poorest parts of Wichita, Kansas.
Speaker 31:15
Wait, you're telling me Swampsville was shitty?
Dave Anthony· Host1:18
[laughs] Young Verne was best friends with Tony, the family's burro, and he would practice standing on top of Tony's back as Tony walked.

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