Ridiculous history is a production of I Heart Radio. The Welcome back to the show, ridiculous historians. Thank you as always so much for

tuning in. Let's give a shout out to our super producer Max Jeeves Williams.

I knew you were going to go with Jeeves. It's the best one. Remember ask Jeeves?

Have you guys ever asked Jeeves about anything.

Yeah, I remember I think I asked something stupid and dirty from Ask Jeeves, but that's about it.

Yeah, I remember the time we're thinking this is some sort of novel thing,

but at the end of the day, wasn't asked Gee was just kind of a

subpar search engine for its time it was pretty dope it was but of course you know

search engine technology has its ebbs and flows and for a lot of people in the time that

Ask Jeeves came about there the idea that you would have this electronic butler or concierge kind of familiarized

people with the idea of search engines so I think for that reason it was

pretty successful to stay I'm Ben Bullen you're old an old brown. It is I. And Ben, by the way, just

everyone for the folks listening playing along at home. His nickname in our video

chat platform thinking today is Mr. Belvedere, and I would argue that the Ask Jeeves

quintessential Butler logo or whatever the titular Jeeves very much a

Mr. Belved Deer kind of situation.

Guys, we, this is part of the inspiration for today's episode.

So, peep behind the curtain, this idea, the idea of Butler's as an episode came to us while Noel and our

pal Matt and I were recording another show we do called Stuff They Don't

Want You to Know is a true story. I was kind of a square goody goody as a child and the first time I ever

malingered or called in sick to school. It was to skip. It was nothing was wrong wrong I skipped school and obsessively watched an all day

Mr Belvedere marathon I couldn't tell you what happens on the show it's just I love the theme

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