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Ridiculous History

Badass of the Week, with Ben Thompson - Part 2: the Battle of Karánsebes

Ridiculous History

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.34.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

As Europe increasingly freaks out about the expansion of the Ottoman Empire, a ragtag crew of guys who ordinarily hate each other band together for common cause and GUESS WHAT -- it goes cartoonishly wrong. In the second part of this two-part series, the guys hang with Ben Thompson, the creator of Badass of the Week, as he breaks down the most ridiculous friendly-fire incident in all of human history. (Also, side note: Ben recorded this on his birthday, and he's still younger than Joseph II.)

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0:00.0

Ridiculous History is a production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show.

0:27.9

Fellow Ridiculous historians.

0:29.4

Thank you, as always so much for tuning it.

0:32.6

Super producer Max Williams.

0:35.3

Noel Brown, Ben Bowling here.

0:37.5

We're in media rests on a crazy story.

0:40.7

It's true.

0:41.7

Let's jump right back into our conversation with Ben from Badass of the Week on one of the most ridiculous self-owns in the history of combat.

0:53.3

In Mississippi, Yazoo Clay keeps secrets.

0:57.1

Seven thousand bodies out there or more.

1:00.9

A forgotten asylum cemetery.

1:02.9

It was my family's mystery.

1:05.3

Shame, guilt, propriety, something keeps it all buried deep until it's not.

1:12.5

I'm Larison Campbell, and this is Under Yazoo Clay.

1:16.5

Listen on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

1:22.0

Hey kids, it's me Kevin Smith.

1:24.0

And it's me, Harley Quinn Smith.

1:25.5

That's my daughter, man, who my wife has always said is just a beardless, dickless version of me. And that's the name of our podcast, beardless dickless me. I'm the old one. I'm the young one. And every week we try to make each other laugh really hard. Sounds innocent, doesn't it? A lot of cussing. A lot of bad language. It's for adults only. Or listen to it with your kid. It could be a family show. We're not quite sure. We're still figuring it out. It's a work in progress.

1:46.6

Listen to beardless s-deckless me on the IHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever.

1:50.7

You get your podcast.

1:52.6

Do you remember what you said the first night I came over here?

1:55.9

Owl goes lower? lower. From Blumhouse TV, IHeart Podcasts, and Ember 20 comes an all-new fictional comedy podcast series.

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