Hey everyone, welcome to another installment of the summer series we're calling the OFH

Throwbacks.

This week's Throwback episode is one that I've been looking forward to for a long time.

Now I get asked all the time what my favorite episode of Our Fake History has been over

the past five seasons.

Now all these shows are my babies, so I really do love them all.

But if I had to pick, it might be the series on who invented rock and roll.

Now there are other episodes in the canon that might be better executed or funnier or

include some novel research.

But this is the one that I had the most fun researching personally.

I talk about this a lot in the show, but I'm a bit of a music geek.

The history of rock and roll is something I really care about.

And I think you hear it in my voice in these episodes.

The research for these shows also took me into some unexpected places, and I uncovered

songs and artists that were unknown even to me, someone who'd been looking at the history

of rock for most of my life.

So I think there are things in this series that will surprise even dedicated students

of the history of rock and roll.

But despite my love of this series, I was always disappointed in myself for not including

clips of the music I was referencing.

At the time I was really worried I was going to get sued.

Instead I directed listeners to a playlist on YouTube that they could listen along with,

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