"I Go For You Ma": The Love Triangle of Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, and Adolf Hitler

Ridiculous Crime

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History, Comedy, True Crime

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🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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When World War II broke out, the biggest star in the world planned to sit it out. But as Fate would have it, events conspired to motivate Clark Gable AKA the "King of Hollywood" to enlist and go fight the Nazis. This was a big bummer for his #1 German fan, Der Fuhrer, AKA Adolf Hitler. But just like his wife Carole Lombard had hoped, Clark Gable did go to war against his biggest fan boy.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed Human. Ridiculous crime is a production of IHeart Radio. And I, Elizabeth. Zarin, what's up? Hey, I got a question for you. Yeah. Sit back down. Oh, okay. Yeah, don't go anywhere. I got to know. I thought class dismissed. It's not like one of my normal questions I ask you. It's a good question. Okay. Do you know it's ridiculous?
0:22.9	I do.
0:24.0	I do.
0:24.7	Sure. Class dismissed. It's not like one of my normal questions I ask you. It's a good question. Okay. Do you know it's ridiculous? I do. I do. Share it with me. You like shoes. You like to wear shoes, right? Yes, I'm a fan of footwear. I have too many pairs of shoes. Yeah, I've actually seen that. I had to pair it down because it was out of
0:38.2	control. I think you have more than I've ever seen. Like, I've seen some of your shoes, but I think
0:42.1	you've got way more. Oh, I've got some in the archives that are pretty sweet, but only I get to
0:47.9	see them. But like 10 issues? Are you like a Jordan's guy? I have got a couple of pairs. Yeah,
0:53.9	you've got a couple pairs.
0:55.7	So I was thinking like sneakers are a big deal.
1:00.9	There's a guy who designs them.
1:02.7	I think it's M-A-C-H-E.
1:05.7	He's like, does cool designs.
1:07.8	And I know you like football.
1:08.8	And sometimes they have like, this week we're wearing
1:11.4	shoes that we drew on. Yeah, sponsored cleats. Yeah. And hooray. And I know I'm aware of all these
1:16.4	diseases. They're part of charity. Yeah, exactly. Sure. So, you know, it's like, just going about my
1:22.3	business thinking these things. And then all of a sudden, something dropped. A new shoe dropped? Yes, and the other shoe
1:30.3	dropped. Oh, Elizabeth, stop. You're so good. We were just inundated with messages.
1:36.5	Oh, no. Yep. And so many of them were gleeful. Like, I didn't want to torture Zeran, but here we are.
1:43.6	Thank you for that. Whoever you were, I appreciate that. There were some, too, who were like, Zarin, but here we are. Thank you for that.
1:44.3	Whoever you were, I appreciate that.
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