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, the Monopoly Man, William.

I was thinking something like that. Max, the landlord. Yeah, there we go. Remember the

landlords game? Man, Marvin Gardens.

The original version of Monopoly was

called the Landlords game and it's a

warning, a clarion call and a parable about the

dangers of unfettered capitalism.

Spoiler, that's part of why a monopoly as it stands now is broken.

It's a broken game, and it breaks a lot of families over the holidays.

You're Mr. Noel Brown.

Yes.

You're Van Bolin.

I am from earlier.

And, Noel, this is going to be a fun one for us because we discuss... Yes. Yeah. You're Van Bolin. I am from earlier.

And, Noel, this is going to be a fun one for us because we discussed it a little bit in an episode of our sister show, stuff they don't want you to know.

Maybe the best way to get into it is to talk about real estate.

It's always been kind of a hot, sometimes touchy commodity.

This is an IHeart podcast.

It's hot. Real estate.

You're making any more land, right?

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