My name is Joshua Topolsky and I have a new podcast called What Future.

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Welcome back to the show ridiculous historians.

Thank you so much as always for tuning in. Let's get a skirt sound effect or record scratch or something.

Yeah, yeah, that's our one and only super producer, Mr. Max Williams.

They call me Ben, my writer, I Mr. Noel Brown is currently out, but we'll return it later this week.

Max, it's the day after July 4th, so happy 4th of July to all who celebrate. How is your weekend, man?

It was amazing. I just kind of took it really easy, watched a lot of baseball and did not play Elden Ring.

I played a better video game called Scaram.

Now, you know, I love them both, you know, and it was funny because I almost texted you over the weekend because July 4th, you know, a bunch of people celebrated that here in the US.

That's this country's Independence Day and we took a day off. So we have a classic episode coming today, but I thought thematically this lines up pretty, pretty well in a surprising way.

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