Ridiculous History is a production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show.

Fellow ridiculous historians, thank you, as always so much for tuning in.

This is a Palookaville episode.

A big thanks to our super producer, Mr. Max Williams. Remember Palookaville episode. A big thanks to our super producer, Mr. Max Williams.

Remember Palookoville?

Yeah.

It was not fancy at all.

It was like a burger, hot dog kind of joints, very, like, kind of monster themed.

They were like, I don't know, like sci-fi horror. It was this place in Avondale State's neighborhood of Atlanta that Ben and I both loved, like, I don't know, like sci-fi horror.

It was this place in Avondale State's neighborhood of Atlanta that Ben and I both loved, like, you know, chili, suck.

It's a basically you go to suck on a chili dog.

Yeah, yeah.

They had great pork burgers.

They had way too many versions of milkshakes and fruity drinks.

That is none other than the legendary Mr. Noel Brown.

Tuzzi.

And that's my friend, Ben, who is not a poluka that I know of.

Oh, we're going to have fun with this one.

It's a super fun episode.

We've got Big Friday Energy, thanks to our research associate, Andrea, who not too long ago was re-watching Pulp Fiction

and fell in love with a word. Now, we're all etymology nerds here, and we've all been in that

situation where a word just catches you and you gotta know everything about it.

...