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

Thank you, as always, so much for joining us.

We've got none other than the man the myth the legend our super producer mr max

maceole williams joining us true well you're not are you a mass guy you're a you're a

michigan guy you're a michigan guy you're a michigan i'm a mr gander out of michigoo's uh yeah yeah

that's uh mr noll brown over there on the ones and twos. I'm not from anywhere. I don't, I don't claim any, any, a young German boy. Oh, that's true. I am, I was once a young German boy. Um, I am legally required to disclose that I am called Ben Bolin in this part of the world.

And, no, we had a fascinating conversation very many years ago when we were just absolutely fanboying about this crazy guy who is really fascinating,

an author, a podcaster, I would say a thought leader,

and one of the nicest people I've ever met from Massachusetts.

Are you talking about Johnny A's? No, you're not. Not yet. You're not. You're talking about Jake Brennan. There we're. None other that. You guys are too kind. Well, you may have heard Jake Unleash and O'Her earlier when we were talking. That's breaking the fourth wall. Which wall is it? The third wall? It's the fourth wall. It's a fourth wall if you're talking to the audience. That's right. Jake Britton is here with us right now.

Coming to us live and direct. Jake, how you doing? I'm fantastic. I'm stoked to be talking to you guys.

Excited to be talking ridiculous music history, fan of your show,

and anytime I can talk about music with some informed lads, I'm happy. So we're right in my sweet

spot this afternoon. We're nothing, if not informed lads. And as we talked about off Mike, Ben is not

only the king of doors. He's also the king of intros. And he really sets you up beautifully.

Our buddy, Jake, is an incredible podcaster with the disgrace land podcast and various music

documentary podcasts that sort of have a take a true crime fusion with music history approach.

And it's incredible video content that you may have seen go viral on the

interwebs and again also an author so we're super stuck to have you with us jake indeed to talk about

some ridiculous music history this one's a little dark it's one that maybe would also feel right

at home on our sister podcast stuff they don't want you to know because we're talking about

a bit of a history mystery involving a very influential musician by the name of Johnny A's.

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