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Ridiculous crime is a production of IHeart Radio. Zarin. Elizabeth Dunton. Zawin. How are you? I'm doing well. How about you doing? I'm good. I'm good. Yeah. You look all bushy-tailed. I do. I'm very bushy-tailed. Do you want to know it's ridiculous? I do want to know it's ridiculous, but I got something for you that's ridiculous before we get there, Elizabeth.

Okay, this one involves a triangle of intensity, Yoko Ono, Salvador Dali, and John Lennon.

Oh.

Right?

So John Lennon and Yoko, they were on their honeymoon in 69, and they met Salvador Dali in Paris, and they had lunch with him at the Hotel Maurice, all right? And so they were all friendly. They hit it off. They're like, oh, that's cool, right? And, you know, it was such like a kismet connection that Salvador Dali used to keep a photograph of John Lennon

in his closet hanging on a coat hanger.

Okay.

Don't ask me why.

Anyway, the point that I wanted to tell you what, that is the ridiculous part, is that

after John Lennon passed away, Yoko still stayed, you know, somewhat friendly with

Salvador Dali. And she asked him, like, hey, somewhat friendly with Salvador Dali.

And she asked him, like, hey, I really would like to get a hair from your mustache.

And he's like, what?

He's like, I just really want it.

So Dali, he was like, I don't know.

She seems kind of like a witch.

Maybe she's going to do some voodoo stuff on me.

So he didn't want to send one of

his actual hairs because he was worried about her doing like some magic, black magic on him. So he's like, how do I avoid the occult? I know. I'll just send her a blade of grass. So he had an assistant go out and pick a blade of grass and like age it and dry it. And then she's like, yeah, because she had promised him $10,000 for one of his

mustache hairs. And so he sent her a blade of grass in exchange for $10,000. And there you go,

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