Say It Ain't So, Joe: The 1919 Black Sox Scandal
Ridiculous Crime
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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What does it take to fix the World Series? You'll need players willing to tank the most important games of their careers, a powerful criminal element, and a solid plan. Well, two out of three's not bad. In 1919, a crew of gamblers convinced members of the Chicago White Sox to throw the World Series in order to make a big payday. This was appealing, since their salaries were meager and treatment was dismal. But the plan was weak as creek water, and the whole plot went on to nearly destroy baseball itself.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. Ridiculous Crime is a production of IHeart Radio. And there she is Elizabeth Dutton. There I am. Hey. Zaron Burnett. What's up? How you doing? Good. Long time to see. I'm here. I live here now. Oh, nice. So I just had the weekend. Yeah, I lost the keys to my place. And so I've been, I've been staying here. That's what that smell is. Yeah, sorry about that. No, no, it's nice. It's like a bouquet. It's like, what is that? Like, potpourri? Yeah. That's really nice. I've been eating potpourri. Ran out of groceries. I got a question for you beyond that. Yeah, yeah, go ahead. Do you know what's ridiculous? |
| 0:38.7 | Oh, yeah, I do know what's ridiculous. |
| 0:40.6 | What? Okay, so Desi Segundoo, the third on Instagram. Okay, I like this, the third from one third to another. Yeah, one third to the next, sent us something like, hey, Zarin's going to love slash hate this. and it was |
| 0:52.0 | the vulgar chef |
| 0:53.3 | This account |
| 0:54.2 | on Instagram |
| 0:55.3 | where the guy |
| 0:56.9 | It looks like he |
| 0:58.0 | pure I love slash hate this. And it was the vulgar chef's this account on Instagram where the guy, it looks like he |
| 0:58.0 | pureed hot dogs and put them into a cocking gun. |
| 1:01.5 | And just so he could talk about like laying your cock into buns and then, but he did it. |
| 1:07.0 | And he ate it. |
| 1:07.8 | Parade hot dogs. |
| 1:08.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:09.5 | I got hot dog paste. |
| 1:10.6 | Yeah. And so I was like, this is amazing, but you can't buy it. Oh. Well, thank goodness. So it's just his own private twisted mashup. But then Lindsay Max on Instagram came through with something. Because you like Nutella, right? I do. I love Nutella. Well, Are you about to ruin Nutella? |
| 1:38.6 | There's this company, Maxime Friedrich, teamed up with Louis Vuitton, to offer basically Nutella, a chocolate spread. |
| 1:40.7 | You can get Louis Vuitton chocolate spread. |
| 1:41.6 | Wait, what? |
| 2:03.3 | It's French hazelnuts and blue vanilla from Reunion Island blend in this chocolate spread to create a gourmet journey of delectable smoothness, making each spoonful a moment of delight imbued with childhood memories. Spoonful. It's a very, like, you know, understated jar, but it's got like a little bit of the logo on there. The jar looks very small. Very small. It's 35 euros. One thing that I was interested in finding out is, is it full of palm oil like Nutella? Yeah. No. Roasted hazelnuts, |
| 2:10.5 | hazelnut pieces, Peruvian milk chocolate. But then they don't tell you what else. And it's 39%, 9%, 6%. |
| 2:17.4 | Uh-huh. That's not enough percent. No, it doesn't add else. And it's 39%, 9%, 6%. Uh-huh. |
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