Fellow ridiculous historians, we are returning to you with a tale of one of our absolute favorite eccentric founding fathers.

I was going to say leeches.

Oh, very much a lech and a libertine. Yeah, who are we talking about?

Oh, we're talking about old founding father, Benny Franks, Benjamin Franklin to his friends.

Wait, no, Benny Franks to his friends, Benjamin Franklin,

to, you know, the public. Or Danny Benji to his many paramours.

All about the Benjamins, as it turns out. Well, as we found back in 2019, Benjamin Franklin,

very much a Renaissance man, had a lot of, a lot of scientific breakthroughs,

a lot of areas of philosophical interests, but he was definitely a man given to the pleasures of the flesh.

Do you think he would have been in the Epstein files?

I think he absolutely would have been.

I think it's entirely possible.

And something like that.

He was known, as you said, as a lech.

And he was lionized for this because people said, you know,

old Ben is a real pickup artist for his day.

Which is interesting.

I wonder if he leaned into it, which he did.

Because he's not exactly what you might consider, like, a classically good-looking man.

It would just seem that he had the charm and had achieved the levels of power and upward mobility in society to kind of be a bit of a ladies' man, despite his receding hairline and slightly Muppet-like features.

Yeah, his punch is eccentric.

His punch is legendary, Ben.

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