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Ridiculous History

The Misadventures of Wade Boggs, Part 2

Ridiculous History

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.34.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Wade Boggs is a legendary, larger-than-life figure in the world of sports -- but one of his strangest achievements has nothing to do with baseball. Join the guys and special guest, Matthew Waxman, the creator of Trickeration, as they delve into the legend of Wade's 107 beer airplane flight... and walk through some very boozy math to discover whether the legend is true.

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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.

0:30.8

I'm Osvalotian. Listen to silenced, the radio murders. On the iHart radio app,

0:36.0

Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:40.4

Ridiculous history is a production of iHart Radio.

1:00.4

Welcome back to the show Ridiculous historians. As always, thank you for tuning in previously on

1:13.6

Ridiculous history. I'm getting out of it. I just wanted to do that voice because I love that kind

1:18.8

of VO and I never I never get to do it, except for weird ads. But you're right. This is something

1:24.6

where we have a slight recap. We dove into an amazing story with our pal Matt Waxman,

1:30.8

the creator of trickeration. You remember this, though? It was Tuesday. Thanks to the magic of

1:36.4

editing. It seems like it was only Tuesday. Wait, it was Tuesday. No, it's true. It was really great.

1:43.5

And it was something that we were maybe just going to throw in as a little bit of in the side

1:47.2

after discussing really such an interesting and divisive character. Again, I came clean early on.

1:52.5

It's not being like a sports guy. But man, do I love a good scandal and a good sex addict story.

1:59.2

And this has got all that stuff, man. And he and that now we're going to add in copious drinking.

2:04.0

We barely even scratched the surface of the man's epic ability to throw back Miller lights.

2:09.2

I think we might have hinted at it very briefly, but that is literally what today's episode is about.

2:13.1

Right. Miller light beer so good you can drink it with your mouth.

2:16.6

Boy did he ever drink it with his whole mouth and his whole heart.

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