1 00:00:00,699 --> 00:00:05,200 The comedy4cast Network. Let's dog ear that for now. 2 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:13,580 Oh hi, Clinton here. Welcome to the Dog Days of Pumpkin Spice Season. 3 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:20,460 Yes, August got away from me because life. So this is my unofficial extension of Dog Days. 4 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:25,280 For more information on that, go to dogdaysofpodcasting.com. 5 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:30,060 I always use Dog Days to give you 31 episodes full of some interesting, 6 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:32,799 yet totally useless, odd news. 7 00:00:33,140 --> 00:00:37,120 And this year, to celebrate the platinum anniversary of comedy4cast, 8 00:00:37,299 --> 00:00:42,940 or PAC for short, I'll end each Dog Days episode with part of a classic comedy4cast 9 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:46,760 episode. So, let's get started with... 10 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:48,740 Odd News PAC! 11 00:00:49,580 --> 00:00:55,060 The sleepy community of Cape May, New Jersey. located along the Jersey coastline, 12 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:57,940 presumably between Cape April and Cape June. 13 00:00:58,220 --> 00:01:03,460 It's America's original seaside resort and boasts that it has the largest concentration 14 00:01:03,460 --> 00:01:06,060 of Victorian architecture in the U.S. 15 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:11,620 It has over 600 Victorian-style buildings. It's all very whimsical and a fun 16 00:01:11,620 --> 00:01:13,000 look back at another time. 17 00:01:13,220 --> 00:01:15,440 Also, I'm guessing it's a ghost hunter's paradise. 18 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:20,060 So it's disheartening that in a location filled with such fanciful things, 19 00:01:20,060 --> 00:01:22,260 a mysterious crime has occurred. 20 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:28,140 It took place at the Ocean Putt Golf, a miniature golf course that gets 4.3 21 00:01:28,140 --> 00:01:30,459 filled-in circles on TripAdvisor. 22 00:01:30,900 --> 00:01:35,860 Sometime in the dead of night, when Victorian-era ghosts come out to play... 23 00:01:36,700 --> 00:01:44,620 Uh, I don't know. Jenga? Can they hold Jenga blocks? Can they yell Jenga? Where was I? Oh, right. 24 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:50,000 Ocean Putt Golf. At 4 a.m., two men broke in by climbing over the fence, 25 00:01:50,180 --> 00:01:54,200 which proves it wasn't ghosts, because if it were Victorian-era ghosts, 26 00:01:54,380 --> 00:01:57,940 they would have just walked through the fence, yet not fallen through the ground 27 00:01:57,940 --> 00:01:59,100 to the center of the earth. 28 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:04,660 Go figure. The two men walked over to one of the cartoon statues that decorated the course. 29 00:02:05,300 --> 00:02:06,960 They grabbed it, shook it back 30 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:10,900 and forth until it came free of its foundation, then spirited it away. 31 00:02:11,220 --> 00:02:15,040 I mean, humaned it away. After all, we've already ruled out ghosts, 32 00:02:15,139 --> 00:02:18,100 right? The statue was found several lots over. 33 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:21,680 Its top hat and one of its hands had been broken off by the thieves. 34 00:02:21,919 --> 00:02:26,880 So far, police are baffled, which means we're left to ask who would have wanted 35 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:32,699 to do this to the statue of humble, lovable, nursery rhyme character Humpty 36 00:02:32,699 --> 00:02:36,840 Dumpty. Well, what are some things we know about Mr. H. Dumpty? 37 00:02:37,100 --> 00:02:41,760 We don't know exactly when the rhyme was written, but we do know that in 1868, 38 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,040 American actor and dancer George L. 39 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:49,040 Fox first performed his very successful pantomime of Humpty Dumpty on Broadway. 40 00:02:49,419 --> 00:02:51,940 In fact, it became his signature character. 41 00:02:54,360 --> 00:03:00,020 This tune to the rhyme was first published in 1870, And in 1871, 42 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:04,820 Humpty appeared in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, cementing the look of 43 00:03:04,820 --> 00:03:11,220 the character as a giant egg with pants, even though the rhyme never mentions he's an egg. 44 00:03:11,950 --> 00:03:17,850 Or that he has pants. Wait a second. When was the Victorian era here in the 45 00:03:17,850 --> 00:03:24,770 U.S.? The 1860s to around 1900. And all those events fit into that time period. 46 00:03:25,110 --> 00:03:29,150 Well, I apologize. I was wrong. Apparently it was ghosts. 47 00:03:29,570 --> 00:03:35,210 Victorian-era ghosts who were upset that the statue of Humpty had never had a great fall. 48 00:03:36,670 --> 00:03:38,390 Ghosts are such jerks. 49 00:03:40,210 --> 00:03:46,090 And now, let's celebrate 20 years of Comedy Forecast with this classic clip. 50 00:03:46,350 --> 00:03:52,330 On an episode released in 2014, I had fellow podcaster John Bell read a script 51 00:03:52,330 --> 00:03:57,530 I had written about a certain type of YouTube reaction video. Here's the clip. 52 00:03:58,630 --> 00:04:03,650 We've all seen those YouTube videos of kids reacting to out-of-date technology 53 00:04:03,650 --> 00:04:06,530 like the Walkman and the Rotary Telephone. 54 00:04:06,870 --> 00:04:13,830 Say what? An old-fashioned telephone. A telephone? How does this even work? Aren't they adorable? 55 00:04:14,610 --> 00:04:18,510 And how about the ones where teenagers react to Nirvana? 56 00:04:18,970 --> 00:04:21,930 Did I miss something out of that? Like, am I supposed to be like, 57 00:04:21,990 --> 00:04:25,630 wow, that was so profound? I've never been more confused for a music video in my life. 58 00:04:26,470 --> 00:04:31,330 Adorable. And don't forget elders reacting to the song Selfie. 59 00:04:31,770 --> 00:04:33,830 But first, let me take a selfie. 60 00:04:35,550 --> 00:04:38,730 Selfie, that's a new word. But why stop there? 61 00:04:39,350 --> 00:04:44,610 That's right. We've decided to take this thing to a whole new level with elders 62 00:04:44,610 --> 00:04:47,750 commenting on kids reacting to technology. 63 00:04:48,149 --> 00:04:51,390 Do you know how to use a rotary phone to make a phone? It's a phone, 64 00:04:51,570 --> 00:04:53,210 you dummy. Your dial with it. 65 00:04:53,529 --> 00:04:57,850 Now, Chester, remember your blood pressure. I have no idea how they work. 66 00:04:58,029 --> 00:04:59,630 But they are kind of stupid. 67 00:04:59,950 --> 00:05:05,930 Or how about teens reacting to elders complaining about kids reacting to technology? 68 00:05:05,930 --> 00:05:10,630 Use a rotary phone to make a phone run. It's a phone, you dummy. They're like so bitter. 69 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:14,820 And they dress like the 1800s or something. 70 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:20,860 Yep. We're riding this gravy train all the way to Prophet Province in Cash 71 00:05:20,860 --> 00:05:25,899 County with kids reacting to elders commenting on teens watching kids reacting 72 00:05:25,899 --> 00:05:28,440 to elders complaining about technology. 73 00:05:28,779 --> 00:05:32,339 Phone, you dummy. Why is everyone talking at once? 74 00:05:32,779 --> 00:05:38,399 This is scary. Can I go outside and play? Not yet. Because we just figured out 75 00:05:38,399 --> 00:05:43,040 a new way to milk more Big Buck buckets of money from this digital cow. 76 00:05:43,540 --> 00:05:46,580 Announcing dogs reacting to cat videos. 77 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:53,060 But why can't I go outside and play? Because we need you to be a part of teens 78 00:05:53,060 --> 00:05:57,360 react to kids watching llamas react to dogs watching cat videos. 79 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:03,120 That doesn't even make any sense. It doesn't matter. 80 00:06:03,339 --> 00:06:07,899 There's an audience somewhere out there for them. Oh, how about elders react 81 00:06:07,899 --> 00:06:10,120 to lab rats watching An American Tail? 82 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:16,600 I don't have a clue what they're doing. 83 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:21,100 Neither do we, but we'll keep doing it because you keep watching it. 84 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:24,260 How about sharks react to income tax forms? 85 00:06:24,420 --> 00:06:30,860 Or the square root of 12 reacts to lawn furniture while watching Igneous Rock react to Shakespeare? 86 00:06:33,300 --> 00:06:35,340 Subscribe today! 87 00:06:42,490 --> 00:06:45,390 That about wraps it up for today's Odd News PAC. 88 00:06:45,570 --> 00:06:49,250 But first, a shout-out to the comedy4cast Patreon patrons, 89 00:06:49,610 --> 00:06:54,310 including our producer-level patrons, Paul Barrie from the A Window to the Magic 90 00:06:54,310 --> 00:06:59,490 podcast and Kirby Bartlett-Sloan from the 20-megabyte Doctor Who podcast. 91 00:06:59,930 --> 00:07:04,450 You, too, can support comedy4cast and get episodes before everyone else 92 00:07:04,450 --> 00:07:06,790 for as little as $2 a month. 93 00:07:07,090 --> 00:07:13,230 Just search for comedy4cast, all one word with the number four, on Patreon.com. 94 00:07:13,450 --> 00:07:19,350 Lending their voices in this episode were John Bell, Bonnie Kanderdine, and Nathan Alvord. 95 00:07:19,650 --> 00:07:23,670 Additional voices, as well as script and original music by me, 96 00:07:23,950 --> 00:07:26,390 Clinton Alvord. Copyright 2025. 97 00:07:26,970 --> 00:07:30,610 All rights reserved. Talk to you again next time. But for now, 98 00:07:30,890 --> 00:07:33,790 that's it. We're done, done, done, done, done. Bye-bye.