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Ridiculous Crime

I Wanna Be Bootsy, Too!

Ridiculous Crime

iHeartPodcasts

True Crime, Comedy, History

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

They say it's never good to meet your heroes in real life. It's even worse if you meet your hero in real life and it's not really them. This week, E and Z examine tales of the many folks who want to be the original funkateer, Bootsy Collins. Antics and mayhem ensue. But there is only one true Bootsy!

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0:00.0

Have you ever wondered if your pet is lying to you?

0:02.4

Why is my cat not here?

0:03.7

And I go in and she's eating my lunch.

0:05.4

Or if hypnotism is real?

0:07.0

You will use the suggestion in order to enhance your cognitive control.

0:10.6

But what's inside a black hole?

0:12.3

Black holes could be a consequence of the way that we understand the universe.

0:15.6

Well, we have answers for you in the new I-Heart original podcast, Science Stuff. Join me, or Hitcham, as we answer questions

0:22.0

about animals, space, our brains, and our bodies. So give yourself permission to be a science

0:27.0

geek and listen to Science Stuff on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your

0:31.9

podcast. My name is Kyle Tequila, host of the shocking new true crime podcast, Crook County.

0:38.3

I got recruited into the mob when I was 17 years old.

0:41.3

People are dying. Is he doing this every night?

0:44.1

Kenny was a Chicago firefighter who lived a secret double life as a mafia hitman.

0:48.8

I had a wife and I had two children. Nobody knew anything.

0:51.6

He was a freaking crazy man.

0:53.9

He was my father and I had no idea about

0:56.4

any of this until now. Crook County is available now. Listen for free on the IHeart Radio app,

1:02.9

Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Prohibition is synonymous with speak-eas, jazz,

1:10.7

flappers, and of course, failure.

1:13.1

I'm Ed Helms, and on season three of my podcast, Snafu, there's a story I couldn't wait to tell you.

1:18.5

It's about an unlikely duo in the 1920s who tried to warn the public that Prohibition was going to backfire so badly it just might leave thousands dead from poison.

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