Ridiculous historians. Thank you as always so much for tuning in. We've got a classic episode on the way to you and

I'm Bebullen join as always with our super producer Max of the Madman Williams as our as our colleague Noel Brown is also on

adventures Max I suppose I can say it now as part of the intro to this. I am actually in Japan as people hear this.

Are you watching the baseball game while eating fried chicken?

Ha ha ha ha! It should be. Through the magic of editing that may well be the case, but we don't know yet

This episode dude it makes me think of you so back in 2018

I can't remember how often I was messing around with Japan at that point but

back in 2018 we got obsessed Noel and I and our our good friend of the show

former producer Casey Pagram we got obsessed with Kentucky

fried chicken in Japan. It's a whole thing we talked about on multiple shows and we may have referred to this episode but it is peak

Ridiculous history and it's something that you know a little bit about because you're an absolute baseball

Encyclopedia on Two Legs.

American Baseball, Major League Baseball,

as I sit here with my Atlanta Braves replica ring

and my really old Atlanta Braves baseball,

but yeah, I mean, very large American exports to Japan,

baseball and fried chicken.

Mm-hmm.

And also superstitions, cursesurses. Drunken Revelry, why did the Hanshin Tigers spend so long laboring

under something called the curse of the kernel. Yes, that kernel, Colonel Sanders.

This is a true story. We can't wait for you to hear it and also by the way Max what

years at baseball from?

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