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 a shout out for the man, the myth, the legend, super producer, Mr. Max Williams.

U-rah.

I'm getting weirder and weirder on the way we say Williams at the end.

We'll accidentally invent a new name for Max at some point.

You're Noel Brown.

I'm Ben Bowling.

We are continuing our series on accidental inventions throughout history with the help of our research associate, Jeff.

And before we really start, as our pal Dylan would say, digging up the root of beggars on this way.

He would say that. It's true.

He does. He does. The weirdest times.

No, you and I decided off air that we were, we weren't just spinning tails and blowing smoke

when we called ourselves an accidental invention.

Before we get into proper accidental inventions in today's episode, we thought we would share with you guys an origin story of ridiculous history, which is itself an accidental invention.

You're listening to an I-Heart podcast.

This week on Dear Chelsea with me, Chelsea Handler, Ed Helms is here.

I, of course, was drawn to the LSD story.

This was all under official government activity.

They built a apartment that had a glass mirror where he could sit there and watch,

and then they would drug

these customers and he was just sort of taking notes and God knows what else behind this double

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