Ridiculous history is a production of I Heart Radio. The Welcome back to the show, Ridiculous Historians. Thank you as always so much for

tuning in. We are coming to you live from a kind of rainy

overcast day here in our fair metropolis of Atlanta,, and it reminds me of something.

Oh, wait, and that's our super producer, Mr Max Williams.

Hello, I am here.

Yeah, and that's Mr. Noel Brown. I, I too, I am here. Yeah, and that's Mr. Noel Brown.

I, I too, I'm here.

Yeah, I'm Ben Bullen.

I would say I'm about 80% here.

You guys, when I imagine Alcatraz, for some reason in my head, it's always nighttime and there's always a

storm, even though I know that's not true.

So like a rainy day is a perfect alcatraz day for me.

Absolutely I mean you know San Francisco is obviously a bit north of the

sunshiny gleaming toaster vibes that is Los Angeles in Southern California.

So it definitely has a bit more of a haste to it.

But when you get out on that harbor, man, and you hear the barkings of the sea lions and

the squawking of the gulls and then off in the distance just out of sight hiding behind the fog. You can almost see the eerie outline of Alcatraz Island.

Yeah, you know, when we put it that way, it is exactly like when you discover a ruined castle in a mountain in Skyrim.

You know, you get closer, there's the reveal, and then you get the notification.

This, for a lot of us, I think, especially Americans or fans of film were familiar with this

strange place via the world of cinema as we'll learn Alcatraz is still very much a

thing around that you can visit, but I always think of Alcatraz in film as like the bird man of Alcatraz and of course the rock.

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