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Welcome to the show Friends and Neighbors. We are going to start today on a very down note,

but we promise we will get to a good note by the end of today's episode. Here's the downside.

World War II was the most dangerous, deadliest military conflict in human history in absolute

terms of people that died. Over 60 million people were killed and that was about 3% of the world

population at the time. That's terrible. That's terrible. But that is the context in which we

find today's very strange story. I'm Ben. You are indeed Ben. And I am a very chilled out

know. I'm very chilled today. Very chilled today. I'm feeling very chill. And I just want to say

props to Robert Evans from behind the bastards who put this phrase in my head,

chock full an Nazis. I love it. Slash it terrifies me. He has used it in the past before.

Has he really? Yeah. He's got a way with words. He wrote for crack.com for a very long time.

Two. I'm a big fan of Robert Evans, but I'm also and I think you can get with me on this one.

I'm also a big fan of super producer Casey Pagrum.

And super producer Casey Pagrum is a huge fan of military history.

Is that true Casey? No, it's not true. Casey out the case.

I'm off the case on this one, guys. Turn it in my badge. No, no, no, no, I'll tell you what you're

going to be on soon. My man is a t-shirt. Oh, it's true. You're going to be wearing a robe

and pounding a gavel and you're going to have a disapproving look on your face. Well, I think,

you know, when we talked about this off air, Casey, you were pretty excited about a law and order

S-type t-shirt. Yeah. If we don't get sued to oblivion for doing it. No, it's fine, man. It's fine.

It's fair use. You can get that shirt when it eventually becomes a thing at tpublic.com slash

ridiculous history. Just putting that out there at the top. Yes, that's true for anyone who

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