The Terrifying Science of Tiny Subs and D-Day, Part One: The Return of Dr. Rachel "Big Spinach" Lance

Ridiculous History

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History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Years after their initial conversation with the world's foremost expert on underwater explosions, Ben still sings the praises of Dr. Rachel "Big Spinach" Lance. In the first part of this special two-part series, Ben, Noel and Max welcome Dr. Lance back to learn more about the phenomenal -- and, frankly, inspiring -- story of a ragtag crew of rogue scientists who saved submarines ... and, in doing so, saved the Allies during D-Day.

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0:00.0	Ridiculous History is a production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show.
0:28.0	Thank you, as always so much for tuning it.
0:32.5	Let's hear it for our super producer, Max Tiny Subs Williams.
0:37.3	Max, the living large language model Williams.
0:41.7	Yes.
0:42.4	Max, uh, untold story of D-Day Williams.
0:47.1	Max, too tall to fit in a mini-sub, Williams.
0:49.8	Wait a minute.
0:50.3	Who's that chiming in all right?
0:51.9	Ha!
0:52.8	Ha!
0:53.0	Well, that, uh, the person who said, who's that chiming in? right? Ha! Well, that the person who said, who's that
0:56.1	chiming in, that's no brown.
0:58.0	I am Ben. I am Ben Bowlin
1:00.0	in this part of the world, and
1:02.0	you just heard from a
1:04.0	returning expert, a
1:06.0	person who continually
1:07.2	appears on every
1:10.0	single episode we do in the credits.
1:12.6	It is none other than Professor Rachel Big Spinich Lance.
1:20.5	This is an I-Heart podcast.
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