CLASSIC: Did Richard Nixon Unwittingly Smuggle Drugs for Louis Armstrong?

Ridiculous History

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🗓️ 21 September 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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It's become one of the strangest anecdotes in modern American history -- numerous sources will swear to you that, in a last-minute panic before reaching customs, legendary musician Louis Armstrong had Richard Nixon's unwitting assistance smuggling a hefty amount of marijuana through US customs. It's bizarre (and pretty hilarious) if true... but how true is it? Tune in as the guys get to the bottom of this bizarre American fable in this week's Classic episode.

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0:00.0	fellow ridiculous historians.
0:01.9	Welcome to our classic episode for this week.
0:05.9	We like music.
0:07.9	We like presidential history.
0:11.7	Dancing. We also like to do we like dancing.
0:14.8	We like a dance.
0:15.9	That's true.
0:16.9	No, I'm sorry.
0:17.1	I just music and dancing go hand in hand.
0:20.2	Now, there's Max Williams, you're Noel Brown, I'm Ben Buller.
0:26.0	Yeah, yeah.
0:27.0	You were here, and so are you.
0:29.0	Right.
0:30.0	You guys remember Richard Nixon?
0:33.0	Yeah, that guy was a bit of a pill, huh?
0:35.0	Don't think very fondly of him.
0:37.0	Not great.
0:38.0	Actually when I think of him, I think of the terrifying Richard Nixon masks that were worn, believe in the movie point break
0:43.8	who was a Ronald Reagan mask and a Richard Nixon mask that those groovy surfers
0:48.3	used when they were like doing crimes. I only think of Futurama. Also, fair, good, Superior Nixon in Futurama to the actual Nixon, but I tell you though,
0:57.4	when you mentioned music, one thing that comes to mind immediately is old Louis Armstrong,
1:00.9	old Satchmo, blowing that horn with those big old puffy cheeks.
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