Fellow ridiculous historians we return to you with a classic episode this is a bit of a listical for us

let's get into it do you ever have ideas for a weird invention you know I think I've maybe mentioned on the podcast before they used to have a program that was sponsored by the government the US government called invent America and when I was a kid I participated in that a couple of times and I invented something called the

Bright Night toilet light which was literally just a very simple circuit with a

button wired under the bottom of a traditional toilet seat, that whatever you drop the toilet down,

it would click on so that you wouldn't fall in the toilet.

I believe I received an honorable mention.

But no, that was the end of,

those are the ends of my inventing days.

Every time I call it something, I'm pretty sure it's already a thing

No worries man. I accidentally

Reinvented air conditioning as a kid I did once reinvent the wheel. I've done that many times actually. Yeah, yeah, it's just it's a smart invention.

We're we're talking about some odd stories, some classic ridiculous history here, in particular the story of Simeon Ellerton and Edward

Lee Scallenin.

Oh, can't wait for you to hear it.

It's just talk about...

I'm still on the fence about this one because there's a great argument for committing

to the bit, but then there's also an argument of, hey, maybe don't make

your life about one thing.

Let's roll the audio.

Hi, I'm Molly Conger, host of Weird Little Guys, a new podcast from Cool Zone Media on I-Heart

Radio. I've spent almost a decade researching right-wing extremism, digging into the lives of people

you wouldn't be wrong to call monsters. But if Scooby-Doo taught us one thing, it's that there's a guy under that monster mask.

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