Ridiculous History is a production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show, fellow ridiculous historians.

Thank you, as always so much for tuning in.

Now, let's hear it for our super producer, none other than the man himself, Max Flat Earth Williams.

I'm here, and I'm like Kyrie Irving. I don't believe the Earth is round. Just kidding. No,

the Earth is round. Okay, okay. You know, that's an on-air 180 from all the memes you've been sending me,

though, these many years.

Our colleague, my brother in podcast arms,

Mr. Noel Brown, is on Adventures,

will be returning very soon.

They call me Ben Bolin in various parts of the world and on this show in particular.

Now, we're going to do something a little bit different

today, folks, as Noel is on his various adventures and quest that we can't wait to hear

about very soon, I have made a bit of a covenant off air, and I've asked you, Max Williams, to serve some double duty as a guest co-host here.

So can I get you to confirm on air that you're okay with that?

Yeah.

To be frank, I was kind of tempted to tell you no and make you just do the episode solo, but still just chime in periodically.

Just like once every like 15, 20 minutes with just like random facts, just seeing how awkward that be.

But, you know, I actually have to listen to the episode a couple times through the edit.

And I don't know if I would be able to get through all that cringe.

Well, I am going to choose to appreciate that.

And I did cut my teeth, as you know, over the decade plus now.

I've cut my teeth doing some solo podcasting, respect where it's due.

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