Ridiculous Stuff We Didn't Get To in 2026, Part One: 60 Minutes and Other Natural Wonders

Ridiculous History is a production of iHeartRadio. Welcome back to the show, fellow ridiculous historians. Thank you, as always, so much for tuning in. Let's hear it for the man who never forgets, our super producer, Mr. Max Williams.

I am like an elephant in many ways.

Max, like an elephant. There it is.

That's Noel Brown. I'm Ben Bullen. And Noel, you and I and Max are very excited because this is a series we get to do Every so often, and the best way to say it is we do so much research, we do so many episodes with our team, and we can't always get to everything.

No, it's true, and this is exactly the kind of episode that builds over time. Yes, yes.

Backstage, folks, we call this our leftovers research. It is all the stuff we didn't get to. Now, it's no secret that we are recording on September 24th, and by the time you hear this, there's a strong possibility that Noel, Max, and yours truly are will be in Bermuda.

Lost at sea.

Battling El Nino.

Yes, yeah, which is not that Nino this year. Well, it's apparently Spanish for the Nino.

Yes, it is.

So this is kind of a clip show format for us here. We are going to introduce you to a lot of concepts that that we didn't originally get to in previous shows.

Well, I will say that is what makes this different than like, say, a Simpsons clip show, which is recycled stuff that you've already seen. You may have heard thematically related material that we're going to talk about today, but you haven't heard these. That's the very nature of this whole exercise.

Yes, and we are working with live fire. We're not sure how it is going to go. But I was thinking, you guys, given that Ridiculous history has been going on since, what, Noel, 2017?

I believe you.

When we signed up for a six-week tour.

It is 2017. Even though I was not on the voyage on that tour quite yet, I can tell you in the archives it started in 2017.

Keeper of the archives. Yeah, yeah.

We're becoming a storied podcast. We're still not as storied as another famous show whose anniversary happens to be today, you guys. Today, September 24th, as we record, is the anniversary of the first episode of 60 Minutes.

Yeah, what an iconic tick, you know, kind of a bummer, though. I mean, if I'm not mistaken, through all these like weird Trumpy media acquisitions, 60 Minutes kind of had their wings clipped a little bit. Yeah, yeah, it's a bummer.

And the show was pretty controversial when it started out. Even the original host were kind of skeptical. If we go to our friends at Britannica, we're going to see the following. Viewers tune in. It's a Tuesday night. It's 10 p.m.

They see.

The first episode of 60 Minutes, there are these two hosts, Harry Reasoner, talk about nominative determinism, and Mike Wallace. They're sitting in a very simple set, the kind of thing you would see on a YouTube podcast today, and they're trying to tell people what the show is. Reasoner says, think of it like a magazine for television.

Well, I guess they did kind of pioneer that format, didn't they?

I think you're right.

Yeah, yeah.

And Reasoner here was very excited about this new endeavor, but his pal Mike Wallace was kind of skeptical. On the first episode, as Reasoner is waxing poetic about magazines for television, Wallace is going, I don't know, man, we'll see.

That's like when my friend told me what Twitter was, and I was like, that'll never work. That makes no sense. Nobody won. That's not enough. That's not enough characters. Exactly.

I was the same way, man. So it's also interesting that a lot of what we associate with 60 Minutes today, that tick, tick, tick that we were talking about, it wasn't there in the beginning. It didn't become a fixture until several episodes later, actually until 1968. Jeez, that old? It's that old, dude.

I mean, I know we just announced the anniversary, but it still kind of blows my mind. I guess it's one of those things that's kind of always been a fixture since we've been alive. And also, I think it was also kind of what marked the end of like fun television. Like in terms of when it came on, you knew there wasn't going to be any more like, you know, full house or whatever it was. That's kind of, that's when the adult time kicked in. That's right.

Yeah, it's a bedtime show. And eventually it got a Sunday night time slot which is prime time that happened in 1975 well and it makes sense.

That Wallace would be skeptical about this new format because his background was in like early like hard news you know he uh anchored the CBS morning show um and did a lot of coverage of the Vietnam war so maybe in his mind this whole magazine format for tv was a little on the soft side um not what it would ultimately become which was pretty hard-hitting expose type material Yeah.

That's a great point because imagine if we're Mike Wallace and we have to do this new thing and we're old school journalists. And if you're Mike, you're going, so what's the point here, Harry? Are we just, we just sit here and hang out?

Well, yeah. And he was also the Highlander and there can only be one. So what's this Reasoner guy doing here? That's what he wanted to know. Chop his head off. Right, right.

And it's strange that they hit the zeitgeist at the perfect time since its origin story, uh, 60 minutes has become as, as you said, Noel, a fixture in so much American culture. And they did really hard hitting interviews and investigations. You know, they, they talked with Coretta Scott King in 1968. They talked with, uh, Bill and Hillary Clinton about those infidelity accusations.

What about her email? Did they talk about those?

They didn't get to emails yet. It was 1992. So they definitely had email, right?

They had to have. Hotmail at the very least. All right.

1971, the computer programmer Ray Tomlinson.

Oh, but they're not kicking it with Ray.

Public popularity was in the 1990s.

Oh, okay. Yep.

So they had emails, but maybe those weren't the focus of the interview.

But according to the Wikipedia page, the first electronical transmission of messages began in the 19th century.

In the 1800s. OK.

There's a telegraph.

And I'm just trying to I was trying to zero in on what I was hitting at with the clipping of the wings. And it largely had to do with. They were at the center of that massive lawsuit that Trump filed against CBS because he accused 60 Minutes of selectively editing an interview with Kamala Harris.

That's right.

Causing– The bribe. Yes. That's exactly right. It was a multi-billion– absolutely spurious multi-billion dollar lawsuit that essentially was one of those kind of– What do they call that? Like a slap suit, more or less? Like it says intended to shut them up. Maybe I'm not using that term exactly right.

No, I think you're pretty, a slap suit is like basically a concept where it's like, we're going to sue you for so much money. It's going to cost you so much money to fight this that it's cheaper for you just to.

And that's what happened. And that is the bribe of it all. And then, of course, that is what led to, I believe, you know, when Trump got reelected, installing somewhat of a, you know, sycophant on the board of the FCC, heading up the FCC and more or less pushed through the acquisition of Paramount Skydancer and all of that stuff.

I love it. I love it.

Getting fired. Right.

Right.

I love the phrase slapshoot. And thank you for teaching me that, because. It's absolutely a legal war of attrition. Well, they're supposed to be illegal. Slapsuits are supposed to be like, you know, they're frivolous. Lawsuits are illegal.

But an amazing episode of last week tonight about slapsuits with John Oliver. Basically, it was right after they got out of a slap suit. They discussed the slap suit. They got thrown out.

Well, and the problem is, you know, of course, when you have someone like Trump, who not only has all of these connections in government, but also has really, you know, indefinitely deep pockets, you really can't stand up to that. And it's hard to enforce these kinds of things. Sadly, with the way our legal system works, anybody can sue anybody for just about anything. Yeah. Yep.

And 60 Minutes had to deal with that pretty often. We know the best quote about 60 Minutes or one that I like from a guy named Scott Pelley, who was a correspondent fired from 60 Minutes, actually. He sums up the program this way. He said, quote, 60 Minutes is known for two things, a ticking clock. stopwatch and hard questions. Just like us, you guys.

We do have that giant grandfather clock we refer to selectively, occasionally. Right.

I can't believe we blew so much of our budget on that one. But again, we only thought we'd be here for six weeks.

Yeah, and I guess that's probably not too far off from how Mike Wallace felt about it when 60 Minutes first launched.

And with this, congratulations to the good folks at 60 Minutes. Hold the line if you can. We are moving to a weird episode that we did not too, too long ago, earlier this year. Noel, Max, remember we were talking about this thing outsiders always say about Atlanta. hey guys, why is every street named Peachtree?

You know, and when we did that episode and had that conversation and brought that point up, I think I made the comment that there aren't that many Peachtrees, but I did do some follow-up, and there really are quite a ton of Peachtree streets and Peachtree place and Peachtree. And also, the way Atlanta is laid out is just absurd.

It doesn't really have any connection to the grid system of a city like New York. which might have its own little anomalies here and there, but in general, you can kind of know that certain types of streets run north to south and others run east to west, et cetera. Atlanta, if you look at it from an aerial view, really is just kind of an FU into city planning.

It's yes and if it was street design.

There we go.

That's a quotable for Max. We also– we have to say it. I have to point it out. Every time we talk about Atlanta– Historically, most cities are going to be around navigable water of some sort. Atlanta doesn't really have that. Our rivers, what would be rivers or coastlines have been replaced by train lines, right? And of course, the world's busiest airport.

Terminus is what we were once known as because that's where the rail lines ended or terminated and have a major junction point.

Yeah.

And in our previous episode, we talked about the curious pattern for any city planning and history nerds of Atlanta. You will be driving on the same street and it will suddenly change names. And that is due to institutionalized racism. But remember, we wanted to end that episode on a few ideas. non-racist origin stories about street names in Atlanta with a big thanks to Will Butler and Tiffany Hart at the Atlanta History Center.

Well, yeah, one of my favorite neighborhoods or areas in Atlanta is called Druid Hills. And I just assumed it was named after some weird sect of Druidic cults, you know, that worshipped in the area back in the ancient times. It turns out that's not the case. But also, I will say this that's interesting. In that area, which has a massive Jewish population and community.

And some great delis.

Really great delis. There are also a lot of streets that are named after, like, Christmas stuff.

Yes.

Which is unusual and almost like, is that a joke because of the Jewish community? Like, I really don't know the details behind why that is the case. But I have noticed there are a lot of, like, Not so far as like Jingle Bell's way, but not too far off from that aisle.

Yeah, very close to stuff like Rudolph Avenue. And it's funny because it reminds me of what Max just said a second ago. There's a lot of yes anding when you're a very wealthy real estate developer. You can kind of name the streets whatever you like if you shake the right hands. And this is the story of the developer of Druid Hills, Joel Hurt. That's his last name.

He said he was. OK, so, Noel, this guy visits the area that will be Druid Hills. And he says, you know what this reminds me of? And someone says, what's that, Mr.

Hurt?

And he says, Baltimore, Druid Hills Park, Baltimore. This is exactly like that place.

You know, it reminds me of how things like this remind me of how ultimately arbitrary. And it's all just about who was first to market, you know, who comes up with a name and it just kind of sticks. There is a neighborhood in Queens in New York where I spent a lot of time called Rego Park. And it is named after the construction company that started developing it in the 1920s called the Real Good Construction Company.

Rego Park.

Cool.

Like how the Learning Channel became TLC?

Mm-hmm. The Real Good, Very Good, Not Bad Construction Company.

Now, we do have to admit that the Druid Hills neighborhood of Atlanta, even post-development, does have hills. It has a bunch of picturesque rolling hills. So Joel Hurt sees this and he thinks, this reminds me of Baltimore. And they go, OK, really, sir? And he says, also, this reminds me of the Celts. of Druids and how they would practice their various beliefs in ancient Britain.

Sick.

Okay.

So I wasn't, okay. So there's, you're not that far off.

And, uh, you know, he's the money guy. So the people in the meeting look around and go, yeah, I could see that. I guess I could see that.

I mean, it's as good a name as any.

Yeah. Yeah. And it sounds weird, but we have to remember, uh, that we in Atlanta are also privileged to have an entire neighborhood. built to look like the times of William Shakespeare.

Yeah, not too, too far off from a little burg, not too, too far from here called Helen, Georgia, which weirdly, because of, I think, the Germanophilic nature of one of the founders, is made to look like a little German village. But it has absolutely no connection to real Germans. They do Oktoberfest type stuff there. You can also go tubing there, a lot of rivers and fun little areas where you can do that kind of outdoor activity. But, like, It is absolutely like the Germany part of Epcot. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Where you travel the world through an amusement park. And Helen aside, like Avondale is amazing.

It is. It's a great neighborhood. It's a lovely neighborhood. Yeah, that makes sense, right? Stratford-upon-Avondale, I reckon. That's where it's coming from.

Yeah, and it's also home to the original Waffle House.

Okay. Is that– wait.

That's where the museum is.

That's where the museum is. Like I said, it's technically still Avondale. That's just a little bit up the way. Doesn't look quite as Shakespeare-y once you get out there. But yeah, the actual downtown.

A little more waffle-centric.

That's right. The actual downtown of Avondale is very picturesque in that, again, somewhat Disneyland-ified way.

And we've also got a true crime story related to Atlanta street names.

Yeah, Martin DeFore, who is an early settler, of the Atlanta area, and the namesake for DeFore Avenue and DeFore's Ferry Road was a ferry operator, like the boat. He didn't run magical creatures on the Chattahoochee River. So here, the origin of the street names themselves aren't exactly the mystery in question, but the namesake is definitely at the heart of one. He became a Georgia true crime story when he and his wife were I mean, given 40 whacks. Yeah, they were Lizzie Borden. They were Lizzie Borden. That's got its own questionable provenance, that story. But yeah, in their home in 1879. And to this day, that mystery, murder mystery remains unsolved.

Mm-hmm.

And if we're in a Halloween mood- Which we are. Which we are. It's always Halloween in America, especially nowadays. If we're in a Halloween mood, we would say, campfire story style, some believe Susan Defoe's ghost haunts the building where the house once stood.

Of course she does. Why wouldn't she? Yeah, yeah, but also- What else is she going to do?

Right, right.

What's her dance guard look like? Also, whenever you hear some believe, look for a specific source. We couldn't interview Susan DeFore's ghost.

No, no. I also love the, yeah, anytime. And some say, who are these people? Buckhead Avenue and the neighborhood Buckhead, which is kind of a little bit of a posh region of Atlanta, home of. What is that? What's the fancy mall? There's the fancy mall and the less fancy mall. There's Phipps. Phipps and Lennox. Lennox. Which one's the fancier one? Phipps?

Phipps is the fancier one. But the Lennox food court is streets ahead.

Heard and agreed. The story behind where that name came from comes from the anecdotal tales of a 19th century Atlantan, a farmer by the name of Henry Irby. Not Kirby. Irby.

Just Irby. Just Irby. Story goes, Irby kills a deer, a buck and places the taxidermies and places the head at the front of his tavern.

Was he trying to send a message inside or like on the wall?

Outside. So you could see it. And if you're traveling nearby, you start referring to it as a landmark, kind of like the way. In years past, people would talk about the big chicken sculpture here and there.

Take a left at the severed animal head.

Yes, exactly. And they started to just refer to it in shorthand as Buckhead. And we've got to thank the president of the Buckhead Heritage Society, Wright Mitchell, who verified that. that the story is mostly true.

That's all we need. Mostly he'll do it. Izzy, once again, first to market. Weird dude cut off an animal's head, put it in front of a tavern. Next thing you know, you got a fancy part of town.

It was a different time.

Side note, every time I go get a tattoo done, I drive by the big chicken and it weirds me out. I'm like, oh, yeah, that's a thing that we have here in Atlanta.

The big chicken is just a vintage KFC sign that is a massive chicken with a... mechanical mouth. Yeah.

And it's like, it's very rectangular. You know what I mean? It's not a realistic sculpture.

No.

And I'm, if I had to guess, I would say it's from the sixties just because of the art style. Let's see. All right.

Chicken.

Max, while you're on that, we have got to talk about Ponce de Leon Avenue. This is a legendary road that I live very close by too. It was once a road without a name, which sounds so poetic. It led to the property of a man named John Armistead. And after Atlanta burned down during the U.S. Civil War, an ailing rail worker who had been laying tracks near Armistead's property goes up to the water source, the springs in Georgia, and he drinks from the springs and he says, oh my gosh, I feel so much better. I am cured.

This happens in 1871.

It reminds me of the quote from Monty Python on the Holy Grail. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from a farcical aquatic ceremony involving strange women lying in ponds distributing swords. Like, just the arbitrary nature of all of these stories. Like, I drank from the water and was cured. This is now named after a Spanish conquistador who maybe definitely didn't discover the Fountain of Youth.

Yeah, and as Monty Python points out, women in lakes distributing swords is no basis for a government.

Sure isn't. Apparently, yeah, spurious, magical, mystical waters are at the very least the basis for naming a place.

Yeah, and also we've got to shout out the American entrepreneurial spirit of a guy named Henry Wilson. He's a doctor. He hears about this rail worker story, and he says, arbitrarily dubs these waters, these springs, Ponce de Leon Springs, in honor of the Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de Leon, who obviously was searching for the Fountain of Youth, which is purportedly in Florida, which is also very far away from Ponce de Leon Avenue in Atlanta.

Ooh, Max, we got some big chicken history. I think I was right.

We were close. We were close, Noel, because.

Well, let's have the 60.

Yeah, you said the 60s. It's Johnny Reb's Chick Chuck and Shake. So not quite KFC, but definitely chicken related.

Well, I was just more interested in being right about the year. I assumed it was KFC, but that's incorrect.

It is a KFC now.

It is a KFC now. Okay.

Okay. So it got gentrified. It got Kentuckified. Yeah. So, Max, with the facts, if we can roll the clip. there we go uh max tell us a little bit about the origin of the big chicken and then we'll get back to ponce de leon.

Yeah so i was just digging around and marietta which is the name of the city area that has the big chicken has a wonderful write-up about it but um The Big Chicken was built in 1963 to basically advertise for Johnny Reb's Chick, Chuck, and Shake. That's the name of it. The owner, Stanley Reginald Tubby Davis, which according to the article, he got the name Tubby because he could eat entire tubs of chicken, fried chicken. Yeah, awesome.

He opened the restaurant in 1956, but basically in 63, well, that's when it got finished, he commissioned people to build this five-story tall big chicken to advertise this restaurant of his. And it's still there. And I believe, yeah, it's a KFC now. It's it's an interesting thing. It's one of these things that like people like, oh, yeah, don't you guys have that in Atlanta? It's like, oh, yeah, we do.

Yeah.

I've never been there.

It is sort of a roadside oddity thing that makes some.

It is.

Yeah.

Yeah. It's kind of it's kind of like a giant ball of yarn. But inside of the I mean, it's on the outskirts of it's in the suburbs.

Or a huge Adirondack chair.

Yes, sure.

Yeah.

You're driving by and you see a sign on the interstate that says world's fourth largest frying pan. You maybe don't spend the day there, but it's cool to see it. And also the big chicken is still around. Unlike the taxidermied head of that deer and buckhead, when we get back to Ponce de Leon, we have to tell you those sacred springs that were worshipped by native cultures and then later monetized are still around. They're under the ground.

And in our old office on Ponce de Leon, there is actually a cistern that still takes water. from that underground spring.

It's like a water tower. And I'm mistaken when we first, yeah, cistern, exactly right. But it looks like what you might picture a small indoor water tower. It's in like a upper kind of utility space of the old Sears and Roebuck warehouse building that our office is. were housed in, and we were some of the first folks to occupy that building, which is now called Ponce City Market. And we got like all kinds of tours during the construction process. And we got to take a look at that cistern you're talking about, which was kind of neat.

It was kind of neat. And also, Noel, you may remember that the folks giving us the tour said to soak it up while we can because we could never visit that part of the building again.

That's right. That's why it was a big deal. Pretty cool.

Yeah, we had to wear hard hats and stuff. It was neat, and it is a natural wonder of Atlanta. Every city has stories to tell. We also wanted to talk about some natural wonders of not just Atlanta, but of the world.

For sure. Sadly, one that, well, we got to see one time and we'll never see again, our natural wonder that we mentioned from Atlanta. This is one that you will never see because it's gone. Yeah.

Yeah. If you travel over to Malta, per the researcher Hesti Bernard Gerber. you are going to hear about something called the Azure Window. It was carved into these limestone cliffs over hundreds and hundreds of years. It withstood all this terrible weather, all these storms while it was around. But on March 8th, 2017, it was pummeled into the sea.

And this is coming from our continuing series on wonders of the ancient world with a big shout out to our research associate for that one, Max Williams.

Are we out of wonders? Are we wondered up?

We got one more, but it's the most daunting one to write about as it's the one that still exists. All the other six are gone. This one's the one that we can still see.

The pyramids of Giza? Yeah.

It's the oldest one. It's the biggest. I mean, it's probably the oldest one.

Are we going to solve how they were built? With aliens?

Absolutely not.

Okay, cool.

That's a really daunting premise you're putting on me. Just figure that one out.

I'm not putting it on you. Just asking a question. But you might have figured it out. I was hoping you'd let us know.

Thank you for complimenting my intelligence and my ingenuity.

And your integrity.

Yes.

And my ego.

And we know that up until 2017, this was a hugely popular tourist spot. for people who visited Malta. As a matter of fact, friend of the show, Josh Clark, spent some time in Malta a few years back, and we've got to ask him if he was able to see this wonder before it collapsed.

Is this the kind of thing that was just sort of, it was only a matter of time because of just natural weathering and such? Yeah, probably.

Yeah, of course. But there were efforts to bring it back, at least one effort that we know of.

Right, and this comes to us from that same source that we named earlier, the renowned architect. I'm just going to read it as they wrote it because it's very well written. Svetozar Andreev. Let's get to the last name better than the first. In collaboration with the designer Elena Britanishkia has created a phenomenal concept for the restoration of this longtime historical landmark in the form of a massive artwork.

The two Russian artists have already submitted the concept Designed to the relevant authorities, the remarkable project has already crept into the hearts of the locals. We refer to it as the heart of Malta.

Pretty beautiful stuff, guys. We've got to get over to Malta at some point for various reasons.

Also, if you want to learn more about Malta, check out our episode about Malta, the tiny and amazing just like the dog.

Is this a micronation?

It is a micronation. They fought a crucial part in World War II.

They sure did because of their location. Also, don't tell them you think it's a micronation.

Fair. I don't think anybody wants to It seems inherently dismissive. The Principality of Sealand likes it. They're okay with it. They're okay with it. Because they're about as micro as it gets, right? Yeah. Yes.

Yeah.

Well, moving on, we're keeping with our natural wonders leftovers. And here's one leftover from the episode on the statue of Zeus. And this is one weird natural wonder that you can see. What a flip.

What a flip indeed. Yes. Folks, we asked ourselves in the research for this one, does anybody know what a devil's post pile is? Max, Noel and I sure did not.

I don't know. That sounds sinister. Maybe anything devil related sounds. I mean, also rules, you know, depending on your perspective.

Sounds like a poop.

I was thinking the same thing, man. I wasn't going to go there.

Come on. Let's be honest with each other. It sounds like one of those war crime bathrooms. Yeah, bathroom war crimes. So this was established in 1911, the Devil's Postpile National Monument, unrelated to feces. It is meant to preserve something called the Devil's Postpile Formation. It's the 101-foot-high Rainbow Falls. Now, if you are lucky enough to travel around this great state of ours or this great nation, you can see some amazing waterfalls. We're really close to Amicalola Falls, which is worth a hike if you've got the day.

That's a pretty one. Ruby Falls is another nice one.

Yeah, just over in Tennessee. This site, Devil's Postpile, is pretty rare in geology. It ranks as We're going to sound like nerds here. One of the world's finest examples of columnar basalt.

Yeah. Um, I had to look this up myself because I think none of us are familiar with this term. I did take a geology class in college, but all that is lost on me. We do have some really cool, I actually went here for my geology class in college, uh, rock formations that you can, uh, view um at stone mountain and arabia mountain arabia mountain in particular has got some really cool natural uh geologic formations but a post pile is a natural rock formation made of long vertical polygonal columns um most often hexagonal uh that's created because of lava flows when they um cool and contract and then crack into these very regularly sort of shaped and spaced posts And then over time, erosion, once again, causes

a cliff face often to be created of these columns or a pile of broken posts at the very base. And one of the best known examples of this phenomenon is Devil's Postpile in California.

Yeah, if you want to check it out, just go east of Yosemite, six hours from San Francisco, five and a half from L.A. if you want to triangulate, five and a half from Las Vegas. But because of the work going on in Red's Meadow Road, access to the Devil's Postpile is pretty dicey. I think it has reopened.

So visit if you can and report back. We love natural wonders that you can see because as we discovered in our previous series, there is one natural wonder you can no longer see today.

Oh, no. Say it ain't so, Ben.

I wish it wasn't so, no, but it is the case. This comes to us from the Waimangu Volcanic Valley Rotorua. They say that there was once a dominant feature on the shores of Lake Rotohamana. The pink and white terraces were often called the eighth wonder of the world, but turns out the volcano erupted, which is kind of the pattern of volcanoes, in 1886. and the terraces are no longer with us.

Interesting. I was looking at what Rotorua refers to. It's apparently a city in New Zealand.

Yes, yeah.

And we know that we are surrounded by natural wonders in this wide world of ours. We would love to hear some of your favorites. And I think, guys, we're going to wrap the episode today, but we have so many more Things we didn't get to. What if we do a second episode this week about extra stuff?

Well, that sounds good, given that we're going on the high seas and may never return. We've got to leave the people with something to remember us by.

Yeah, you know, it's like when you leave, when you're about to go on a trip, you want to make sure you eat all the food beforehand. We've got to clear out our really good leftovers beforehand for the chance that both of y'all don't return and only I'm left.

Well, we might all get triangled, okay?

No, I'm above triangles.

We can still podcast from the void.

Yeah, absolutely. And I don't know what kind of bug-out bags you guys are bringing on the ship.

Remember that movie Postcards from the Edge?

Yes.

We can do podcasts from the edge. There we go.

We can only do that with you, fellow ridiculous historians. Thank you so much for tuning in. Big thanks to our super producer, Mr. Max Williams, big, big thanks, of course, to A.J. Bermuda Jacobs, a.k.a. The Puzzler. He hasn't gotten an update on his street name yet. And, of course, a tepid you-know-what-you-did to Jonathan Strickland.

We know what you did last summer. We know you killed that fisherman in cold blood.

We found your galoshes.

And your hook hand. Wait, that means you are the.

I just like to say galoshes.

Galoshes are fun. Big, big thanks to.

The rude dudes of Ridiculous Crime. We hope you enjoyed our exploration of drugs of yesteryear with the one and only Zarin Burnett.

Who else, Noel? Who else? Oh, geez, man. We've got Christopher Asiotis and you have Jeff Coates here in spirit. Didn't we thank Alex Williams who composed this theme?

Ah, yes, we must. This is the slap and bop playing in the background. Thank you so much, folks. Please tune in later this week.

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