Welcome back to the show, Ridiculous Historians. We have a classic episode for you.

As of current recording, your boy here, Ben Bolin is on the road, Our super producer, Mr Max Williams, has learned a lot about death by

Molting Gold. Yes, I have. Yeah, you have. And our pal, our pal, Noel is out there chasing waterfalls, as TLC would say.

But this is a true story.

This is a, this is a cool one for this classic.

Max, would you agree with this statement in general

human beings are very good at losing things? Yeah we're pretty good at that. I've lost a

number of things on my desk already today and it's not that late in the day.

It's, it's, we're past noon, but it's not that far past noon.

Yeah, we're like barely into the technical afternoon. It's always, you know, Elizabeth

Bishop wrote this amazing poem about the art of losing. Everybody please check it out. It's an absolute banger as far as poetry

goes and it speaks to a universal conundrum. Human beings as a species have this

inborn knack for losing everything from car keys to entire

civilizations. True story, for many, many centuries, the city of Troy was considered to be a made up thing until it was

rediscovered and proven to exist in the 1800s in this classic episode we are traveling to South America and we're going to learn the story of two nations that

Between themselves ended up losing not not their car keys, but an entire waterfall.

In California during the summer of 1975, within the span of 17 days and less than 90 miles, two women did something no other woman

had done before.

Try to assassinate the President of the United States.

When was the protégé of Charles Manson?

26-year-old Lynette Fromm, nicknamed Squeaky.

The other, a middle-aged housewife working undercover for the FBI.

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