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. This is part two of the ridiculous history of Ottoman Empire

haremes and this is the part where we do a disclaimer our our go to guy Max the Sultan Williams

our super producer has returned from adventures abroad you were here I've been

Bullin you're an old brown.

Because I. Yeah, we've got a disclaimer here because this episode in particular talks

about some very disturbing things that were normalized practices but they are part of history

and should not be forgotten. And I think we actually offer a couple of good

warnings within the episode itself.

So if this is not something you want to hear about,

you should have every opportunity to hit that 30 second.

I don't think we talk about it for more than,

you know, two or three minutes.

But it is about genital mutilation yeah just just to put it out there and then also you got a promise here as the research associate for this episode I think I did an okay job not just

Talking at length about my dumb little novel are you kidding. I think you mentioned it once and then you like walked it back but I'm excited I read

the first a couple of paragraphs at least I mean and I thought it was beautifully

written frankly I got to be honest that when I was editing part one of this series I was like okay

where's the novel and he didn't talk about the novel and I was well but you linked to

it in the dock and he does talk about it at some point a little bit yeah that's

for but it's really good Ben it's really talk about it at some point a little bit. Yeah, that's for quite excited.

It's really good, Ben.

It's beautifully poetically written.

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