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🗓️ 2 October 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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On the first of April in 1957, cameraman Charles de Jaeger's childhood dream came true: Panorama, Britain's most popular news program, aired a segment describing the traditional method of harvesting spaghetti from trees.
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0:00.0 | Picture Miami. Picture its beaches. Picture three radio journalists assassinated in cold blood. |
0:09.2 | This is silenced, the radio murders. |
0:12.4 | You left the body there for reason. It was the calling card. It's like the mafia used to do. |
0:17.2 | The mastermind has never been caught. To find him, we had to go deep into a world of drugs and darkness. |
0:24.4 | And there were these hints of a much bigger conspiracy. |
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0:40.4 | Ridiculous history is a production of iHart Radio. |
1:00.4 | Welcome back to the show, Ridiculous historians. Thank you. As always, so much for tuning in. |
1:12.8 | Or should I say, uh, Cheerio, uh, we hope this message finds you well. Uh, we hope that you are a, |
1:22.2 | a fan of pranks and Italian food. I guess that's our segue. Anyway, I'm Ben. |
1:27.7 | I'm Nolan. Should we say perhaps Ben Spaghetti. Oh, |
1:32.6 | as opposed to cheerio cheerio. It's just spaghetti. Oh, yeah, yeah. |
1:35.9 | Of a cheerio. We were talking off, Mike. I have a bit of a philosophical issue with canned spaghetti. |
1:43.9 | And you chime, Ben, and said that you quite enjoy some of it. And I, I mentioned, how does your metal |
1:50.7 | phobia conflict with that? And you're like, well, no, you beat it out of a bowl. Maybe that's why you've been doing it wrong. |
1:56.8 | I think you're right, Ben. I think I need to revisit canned spaghetti, perhaps, but certainly not my, |
2:02.9 | or I would think most people's preferred method of consuming, uh, this Italian delicacy. Would you |
2:10.4 | at least meet me halfway in that statement? It's easy to make spaghetti from scratch. It's all |
2:16.4 | about the sauce. For me, uh, I think we're specifically talking about the Chef Boyard D products. |
2:22.6 | For me, it's just nostalgia for the Raviole in the can. But I think a lot of us, when we're making |
2:28.4 | spaghetti, we prefer to make our own sauce. That's the secret there. But our super producer, Casey |
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