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The Cracked Podcast

11 Little-Known Dumb Details Of Big Historical Events

The Cracked Podcast

Literally Media

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Alex Schmidt is joined by Billy Wayne Davis (Conan, Adult Swim) and Kandice Martellaro (Stan Against Evil, Femmebot PhD) for the silliest minutiae that slipped through the cracks of IMPORTANT HISTORY. Listen for surprisingly wacky elements of World War 2, human spaceflight #1, the Battle of Agincourt, and more events nobody remembers as embarrassing and awkward (even though they should).


Footnotes: https://www.cracked.com/podcast/11-little-known-dumb-details-big-historical-events/

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey there folks, welcome to another episode of the Cracked Podcast.

0:13.9

The podcast all about why being alive is more interesting than people think it is.

0:18.1

My name is Alex Schmidt.

0:19.1

I'm also known as Schmidtie the clam.

0:20.3

I'm also known as Schmidtie the tram.

0:22.0

And I am also also thinking about the Lyndon Baines Johnson Bunghole tape.

0:28.5

That's right.

0:29.5

I mean, you may already know about it because Cracked and other places before Cracked have

0:35.0

covered it extensively.

0:36.9

But in case you don't, I want to share magical audio with you because here is audio of

0:40.6

LBJ in the Oval Office being the president, calling Joe Hagger of the Hagger Pants Company,

0:46.8

which is still a Pants Company and everything.

0:49.5

Here he is making a very specific request.

0:52.5

So yeah, that's LBJ ordering pants while belching frequently and describing his anus

1:17.0

as a Bunghole as if he is Beavis or Bothead or both.

1:21.0

And here's the thing about that.

1:22.0

LBJ was a fascinating and important president.

1:25.6

This phone call does not take away from his efforts to fight poverty or his work on civil

1:29.6

rights or his, you know, mixed record in Vietnam.

1:35.4

That's the big stuff, you know.

1:36.9

But while he was doing all that big stuff, he was also a person.

1:40.5

And he was a person who wanted to use his stature as president to finally get a pair of pants

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