CLASSIC: The Nature of Ephemera, with Alex Williams
Ridiculous History
iHeartPodcasts
4.2 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Whether we’re talking yesterday’s newspaper, pamphlets from museums, or even old lottery tickets and straw wrappers, the world is chock full of things that were not meant to last. Today the guys join Alex Williams, the creator of the new podcast Ephemeral, to explore the strange, beautiful, disturbing and tragic stories of things that came and went, from the Collyer brothers to Pizzaria chips.
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| 0:00.0 | Fellow ridiculous historians, this week's classic episode is incredibly special to us. |
| 0:07.9 | Back in 2019, or thereabouts, our good, good friend of the show, a brother-in-arms to all of us, |
| 0:16.7 | a guy named Alex Williams, co-created with his own brother, |
| 0:21.1 | our super producer Max Williams, a show called Ephemer. |
| 0:25.4 | Indeed. |
| 0:26.0 | And on this episode, we talked to Alex, the creator of Ephemoral, |
| 0:33.4 | on the nature of his podcast, which is out there for you to enjoy, |
| 0:38.0 | as well as a story about the Collier brothers. |
| 0:43.4 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:46.4 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:50.1 | Ridiculous history is a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 1:19.6 | Thank you. Ridiculous History is a production of IHeart Radio. Welcome to the show, ridiculous historians. |
| 1:21.5 | Thanks so much for tuning in. |
| 1:23.0 | Peek behind the curtain. |
| 1:25.3 | It is officially summer in Atlanta. |
| 1:30.3 | The humidity and the heat combined to drape the city in soup. |
| 1:36.4 | It feels like walking through soup, so I am very, very glad to be here inside our air condition studio. |
| 1:37.8 | My name is Ben. |
| 1:38.5 | My name is Noel. |
| 1:39.4 | The shipping container is icy cool today. |
| 1:42.4 | And outside, it is sort of, there's this miasma, this sort of funk, this patina of awful, hot, sweaty |
| 1:48.8 | grossness that does kind of envelop the city. |
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