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. Please pardon the slightly Batman-esque tone of my voice

here on the other side of some weather a big shout out to our super producer Mr Max

Williams. I didn't hear for a second time.

The Batman of Podcasting.

Thanks, and you're an old Brown, I'm Ben Boland.

Peep behind the curtain here, we had some, we had some plot twist some shamelanesque shenanigans

this is our second time starting a story that we think is endlessly fascinating and Noel before things

when a little pair shaped you were about to blow everybody's mind with a story

about Rocco's the modern life.

I don't remember how it came up,

I guess it doesn't matter at this point,

but did you guys know that Rocco,

I believe he's a wallaby on the 1990s Nickelodeon children's cartoon was in fact a phone sex operator.

I did not but I know that now because it's the second time we've done this intro.

But also it's a gig economy.

Well, you know, the proof is in the cartoon putting.

If you look at the even, I mean, I remember now it's like, I'm remembering a dream or something, it does play into the plot of the show

but even just in the opening titles of the cartoon you can see Rocco in his job

as a specialty phone operator and on the wall behind it it says hotline and there's a sign on the

wall in his little cubicle it says remember be hot be naughty be courteous, and you can find it online, there's memes about it, but there's subtitles of what he's saying is,

Oh baby, oh baby, oh baby.

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