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Ridiculous Crime

Playin' Possum: Crimes around George Jones

Ridiculous Crime

iHeartPodcasts

History, Comedy, True Crime

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Country star George Jones was a real character, to be certain, often on the edge of the law. But the most ridiculous crimes were the ones that surrounded No Show Jones. Missing recordings, drug runs, and stolen crypto. Throw in an old pickup, a loyal dog, and a broken heart and you'd have a heck of a country song. 

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:38.1

Guaranteed Human. Ridiculous crime is a production of I-Heart Radio. Zarin. Hmm? Zarin. Oh, Elizabeth. To me. Elizabeth's up. Lady host. Hey, what's up, lady host? How are you doing? I'm doing well. Just man hosting over here. Nice. I'm sorry, gentleman hosting. Host maxing. Yeah, total host maxing. With a hammer in my hand, of course. Love it. I love that for you. Do you know what's ridiculous? You just hit your temple, though. Yes. I do. You know, like sometimes you try to explain to somebody about like something you saw online.

1:10.9

In my case, usually it's going to be like a skeet or a tweet or whatever, a post. And I'm like, oh, and they're not one of your friends who are ever online. Sure. And I'm sure you have some of those, right? Yeah. So, and you're trying to, you sound like, you're like, I sound insane, right? Yes. I've now started taking screenshots screenshots so that I can show them, like the post that I want instead of me trying to remember it and then look, finding it. Right, right. So I found one that I wanted to share with you because this reminds me of our conversations about encased meats. And I often want to bring it up whenever we're talking about encased meets. Yes. So. Which is often. It's far more often than my other friends.

1:12.9

Yeah.

1:13.2

Well.

1:13.6

So the post is by C. Joyner.

1:17.1

And it's a classic.

1:18.6

Yeah.

1:18.8

The post says, a sign in the window reads cured meats.

1:22.9

Inside, a salami takes his first steps since the accident.

1:27.3

A prosciutto learns to forgive.

1:31.4

I just absolutely love the IC of a prosciutto learning.

1:36.6

It killed me every time.

1:38.3

The absurdity is...

1:39.4

I just, you know...

1:40.6

I absurd comedy is what is giving me life. Right now. yeah. That keeps me going. Yeah. I was at a bar that was having a birthday for a dog and I was trying to explain to my friend. Yeah, I didn't know the dog, but I was out there at the bar when the party was going down. So I took photos of it, you know, and I was like, oh, yeah, what's the dog's name?

2:02.2

And I'm like, oh, it is pretty big.

2:04.7

I should have seen that.

2:05.4

It's like, happy birthday, lady?

2:06.9

And I was like, oh.

2:08.6

Could have been anybody.

2:09.6

I thought that could have been, yeah, pretty much anyone in here.

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