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Ridiculous History

Billy Cottrell, the Tyrant Mayor of Cedar Key, Florida

Ridiculous History

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.24.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

The politically-connected, cartoonishly belligerent Billy Cottrell was a terrible Mayor, hated and feared by the locals of Cedar Key, Florida -- and no one was sure what to do. At least, that is, until the Federal government got word of the situation. Tune in to learn how the US President eventually pled with Congress to allow for military intervention.

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0:00.0

On the podcast, Hey Dude, The 90s Called, David Lasher and Christine Taylor, stars of the

0:05.4

cult classic show Hey Dude, bring you back to the days of slip dresses and choker necklaces.

0:11.0

We're gonna use Hey Dude as our jumping off point, but we are going to unpack and dive

0:15.0

back into the decade of the 90s.

0:17.6

We lived it, and now we're calling on all of our friends to come back and relive it.

0:22.4

Listen to Hey Dude, The 90s Called on the iHeartRadio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get

0:27.7

your podcasts.

0:30.3

Ridiculous History is a production of iHeartRadio.

0:57.5

Welcome back to the show Ridiculous Historians.

0:59.9

Thank you so much as always for tuning in.

1:04.0

No before we start today's episode, which is a doozy, I have to say I woke up this morning

1:09.9

as we were about to record and I realized holy smokes, it's March again.

1:14.8

I woke up this morning, it was March again.

1:18.8

Was it kind of like that?

1:19.8

Did you have the blues?

1:20.8

Was it the March?

1:21.8

Oh, that was actually a harmonica situation.

1:25.3

You had going on there, Ben?

1:26.6

I have the dubious superpower to impersonate a harmonica.

1:30.9

I love it.

1:31.9

Yeah, no, it's good.

1:32.9

I think the biter cold of winter may well be behind us, knock on wood, yeah?

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