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Welcome back to the show, Radiculous Historians. As always, thank you so much for tuning in to the show.

Today, this is a weird one and it's going to go a lot of places, no but it's going to start with fun fact.

One of the very few animals on this planet that I actually don't care for.

You know I'm a real, I'm a real softie when it comes to animals in general.

I know you're a real animal lover, Ben, and my name's Noll and I'm an animal-likeer, I don't know the lover.

And I know that in your book that would probably make me something of a sociopath, but I promise I'm a nice person.

I do like animals, I just, you know, there's something I could take or leave.

Well, we can agree on the subject of today's episode for sure.

I mean, the best of us, a super producer, Casey Peckram, probably doesn't even like these animals.

He's on adventures, so he might not have a comment today, but I think it's safe for us to say that all three of us are fairly anti-flee.

The three, yeah, the three of us, me, you and super producer, Casey Peckram.

That's right, but to bury the lead here, we have a fourth today.

Well, actually, it's a third because Casey's on adventures.

So we've been teasing this for an age, but we're finally making good on our promise to bring back to ridiculous history.

I present to you.

Game news, yay.

Oh, hey, thanks guys. Very, very nice welcome back.

I feel good to be here.

I know last time we chatted about cats for a good long while, so it's only fitting, I think, that we talk about another kind of ant.

But another kind of animal often associated with cats today.

Oh, that's right. I didn't even occur to me.

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