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

Fellow ridiculous historians.

Thank you, as always so much for joining us today.

Let's give a quick shout out to the man, the myth, the legend, our own crampus super producer, Mr. Max Williams.

Woo, you can put me in a mole and cook me in a sauna. A bit of a belshnickle. He always, always whipping kids with reeds.

He's a bit of a crinkling, Chris. No, no, no.

He's a cheerful holiday creature.

None of that holiday darkness resides in our boy, Max.

Right.

And we also want to make space for, of course, the real crampus of our show,

Jonathan Strickland, aka the Quistor, who was not able to appear for this recording

as he is busy trying to ruin the holiday experience of children.

We also didn't invite him.

We likely implied that he could show up, and he said he's busy because there are too many

happy four-year-olds on the planet.

And that's classic Jonathan.

That's classic Noel Brown.

They would call me Ben in parts of the world.

Ben, classic. Ben Prime.

Ben Prime.

Thank you, Noel.

I appreciate that.

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