Ridiculous History is a production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show.

Fellow ridiculous historians, thank you, as always so much for tuning in.

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Let's hear it for our super producer, Mr. Max Williams.

Beep, beep. Hawk. Max, the, for our super producer, Mr. Max Williams. Beep, hop, honk, honk. Max, the human pit crew, Williams. Max the bootleg Williams. Whoa. Moonshine Williams. Okay. Yeah. I hope these things are going to figure into our story, Ben. Because absolutely never happening. No. I'm Ben Bullitt, Yordell Brow. It's me. We got some big NASCAR energy. I think we're all still fired up from that cage fight at the White House. Yes. No? No? Am I alone in that? I was just watching the weather cheering for rain. I don't know. It's just hilarious. Which cage fight are you guys talking about? I feel like the whole past few years have been a cage fight.

That's true. This is the one in the claw, in the octagon.

Right.

Generated some very surreal photographs, let's just say.

Like for the White House framed by an octagon ring with motocross people leaping in crisscross directions and jets flying overhead.

It's the most delightfully idiocry thing I've ever seen.

Delightfully is the wrong choice of words, but we are not a political podcast,

but we are going to down the line get to talk about some ridiculous history

about the time we're living in currently.

Yes, that is true as long as this show continues.

We have, yeah, we like many Americans, have a lot of opinions and I'd like to think a lot

of self-awareness about the things that make this country so lovable, so endearing,

and so ridiculous.

One of the Internet's new favorite things right now as the World Cup takes place in the U.S.

is seeing Europeans in particular encounter American culture.

There's a German guy.

I'm absolutely in love with because he visited Waffle House.

That's what it was.

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