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

Let's hear it for Max the Young Man, Williams.

And you'll see why that's appropriate for the series.

I know, it's true.

Does that make us the olds, Ben?

Oh, geez.

Well, that's Noel Brown.

They do call me Ben Bullen and Noel.

We've both got a little bit of gray in our hairs.

We do, but not a hair falling out, not a receding hairline to be seen.

Both fabulous heads of hair, the two of us.

That's how it's going to remain.

But what we do have is a pretty rich and layered memory of the past.

Yes, history is a palimpscess, and this is going to be, just so you all know, folks,

this is something we discussed as a series back in a few episodes ago, and we were both,

I think, galvanized by the sheer gravity of our nostalgia

for Saturday mornings. You know, it's the one time where you're growing up and your parents maybe

are not at work, so they're sleeping in, but you're a kid. You wake up in the

morning for a specific appointment of destination television. For sure. And you know what's funny,

Ben? I don't, I did the research for this, and I didn't mention what I actually remember

even a little more in my formative years, which was Sunday

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