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🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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As Axis powers swarm across Europe in the lead-up to D-Day, a small group of scientists refuse to leave their lab, throwing a fair amount of modern ethics out the window (or the sub, if you like) as they race to complete vital experiments in hyperbaric chambers -- the results of which may just change the course of the war. Tune in for part two of this special two-part series, featuring returning guest Dr. Rachel "Big Spinach" Lance, the author of "Chamber Divers: The Untold Story of the D-Day Scientists Who Changed Special Operations Forever."
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| 0:00.0 | Ridiculous History is a production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show, fellow ridiculous historians. |
| 0:29.3 | Thank you, as always so much for tuning in. |
| 0:32.0 | This is part two, two, two, two of a continuing series on tiny subs and D-Day, and I just couldn't be more excited to continue. |
| 0:42.5 | That's my favorite Stone Temple Pilots album, Tiny Subs and D-Day, knowing us tiny music songs from the Vatican GIF shot, which also could be the title of a ridiculous history episode. |
| 0:52.4 | Mm-hmm. Yeah, And I'm Ben Bowling. |
| 0:54.8 | You're Noel Brown. |
| 0:55.7 | We're in media rests with an astonishing story that has everything, a little bit of |
| 1:02.6 | ridiculous crime, some mad science, some skull dougary and classified documents, and, of course, |
| 1:09.8 | the ever-present threat of death. |
| 1:13.0 | Let's jump right in, or dive, I guess. |
| 1:17.2 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 1:21.6 | I just normally do straight stand-up, but this is a bit different. |
| 1:25.4 | What do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? |
| 1:29.6 | Answer, a new podcast called Wisecrack, where a comedian finds himself at the center of a |
| 1:34.8 | chilling true crime story. |
| 1:36.6 | Does anyone know what show they've come to see? |
| 1:39.5 | It's a story. |
| 1:40.7 | It's about the scariest night of my life. |
| 1:42.8 | This is Wisecrack, available now. |
| 1:46.6 | Listen to Wisecrack on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:56.4 | Now with this setup, we have learned about the guy's selfish motives for asking Rachel all these questions. |
| 2:04.9 | We've also learned that, and thank you, Rachel. |
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