Ridiculous History is a production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show, fellow ridiculous historians.

Thank you, as always so much for tuning in.

Let's hear it for our super producer, Max, Magnavox Williams.

Boop. Max, theox Williams. Boop.

Max, the Expeditioner Williams.

33, I believe, under his belt.

I think he's the 33rd one.

That is Mr. Newell Brown.

Hello.

They called me Ben Bullen, and we are unrepentant, unapologetic fans of video games, so much so that you can hear our obsession come through and casual conversation on air.

You can also see video game episodes that we have done on various shows in the past, like stuff of genius, what was the first

video game, and of course the legendary podcast project by the Williams Brothers

Ephemeral.

Oh my gosh.

What a classic.

Already a classic, a gem of the podcast world.

Guys, I have been deep in video game nerddom over the past week because a friend of the show, a friend of mine, one of my oldest friends, and a friend of yours, Ben, Peyton, was visiting from New York.

And he's a fellow video game nerd.

And he helped me buff the heck out of two characters and two different games of mine that I had spec.

Way, way, way, way wonkily. One was Monster Hunter Wilds, which I really love, and the other was Eldon Ring, where I

never finished the dang game. I got stuck, and it was apparently because I was doing a faith-based

build, and I was, I had intelligence way maxed out, and it didn't make any sense for the weapons I had.

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