Paul Is Dead, Part Two: Welcome to the Walrus

Ridiculous History

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.3 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

After a US-based college student pens a satirical article exploring hippy folklore and the Beatles, mainstream media takes off -- "Is Paul McCartney actually dead?" they ask, in a growing fever pitch. In part two of this series, Ben, Noel and Max explore the continuing saga of the greatest conspiracy theory in all of modern music.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Ridiculous History is a production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show.
0:27.9	Fellow ridiculous historians.
0:29.8	Thank you, as always so much for tuning in.
0:33.1	Let's hear it for the man, the myth, the legend,
0:35.0	our super producer, Mr. Max Williams.
0:39.3	Hazazzle top.
0:41.6	We were talking beforehand, trying to figure out when it is, and I had forgotten this,
0:48.4	on April 20th, 2025 will be four years I've been on ridiculous history.
0:54.2	The first episode I edited with Dr. T.W. Stallings, the one man's Corvitt
0:59.0	hating quest to make Oklahoma literally eat crow.
1:03.3	It didn't, it cut off.
1:04.5	I'd click into it.
1:05.5	But yeah.
1:05.8	We love Corvids here.
1:07.7	We should have brought you some flowers or a cupcake or something.
1:11.1	Congratulations.
1:12.0	Cupcakes?
1:12.9	Or like a basket of crows?
1:14.8	It could be.
1:15.8	I'm sure we could find a way to serve you a cupcake, Max.
1:19.0	Surely there's a condition approved cupcake of summer.
1:22.1	There's actually muffins and stuff.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from iHeartPodcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of iHeartPodcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.