Warmest Regards, The Leopard: Betty Grable Extortion Letters
Ridiculous Crime
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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She was America's Sweetheart, a woman whose gorgeous gams kept the antifascist Allied forces going as they won WWII. With talent, humor, beauty, and wit;, Betty Grable was a star. And with stardom comes creeps. And with creeps often comes crime. But if you come for Ms. Grable, you best not miss.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:24.4 | Ridiculous crime is a production of IHeart Radio. And one and a two and hey, Elizabeth! Five, six, seven, eight. What's up? Just working on some chair dancer routines. Oh, I was doing my deep stretches over here. Yeah, that's good. With the leg warmers. Yeah, I like those. Are those pink or would you say more fuchsia? What is that? They're black. Oh, I don't have my glasses on. |
| 0:21.1 | Oh, I like those. Are those pink or would you say morphusha? What is that? |
| 0:22.6 | They're black. |
| 0:35.2 | Oh, I don't have my glasses on. Oh, I thought, you know. So I got a question for you. Yeah. It's about your lovely leg warmers. Do you know what's ridiculous? I certainly do. Do you like baked potatoes? Oh, my God. No, stop it. |
| 0:36.4 | Why do you do this? Maybe I have a fun fact about the history of baked potatoes. |
| 0:39.0 | Okay, let's pretend. |
| 0:40.2 | Elizabeth, I have a fun fact about the history of baked potatoes. |
| 0:38.9 | Okay, let's pretend. Elizabeth, I know a lot about baked potatoes. No, do you like them? Do I like them? Yeah, you like a good baked potato? Yeah, I mean, like if it's like dressed well. I mean, actually, I grew up eating. Oh, it's funny. You should say it that way. I grew up eating a lot of them because my mother gave us a vegetarian diet. |
| 0:55.2 | So we had baked, and she's Irish, a Catholic, so we had baked potatoes like, Funny you should say it that way. I grew up eating a lot of them because my mother gave us a vegetarian diet. |
| 0:55.2 | So we had baked and she's Irish, a Catholic, so we had baked potatoes like twice a week. Sure, sure. So I got to, I know a lot of ways to dress a baked potato. Do you now? But I can also eat it with just butter. To dress a baked potato, you say? You're back to that, huh? No, but you know in the UK they call them a jacket potato |
| 1:10.7 | I did not know that |
| 1:11.8 | And a lot of times they put like corn on it |
| 1:13.5 | You ever seen that? You're back to that, huh? No, but you know, in the U.K., they call them a jacket potato. |
| 1:11.7 | I did not know that. |
| 1:13.5 | And a lot of times they put, like, corn on it. |
| 1:14.4 | You ever seen that? |
| 1:24.0 | Like corn? You've done that? Cut off the cob? Like corn from a corn cob? Do they, like, boil the corn or do something horrendous to it? It's not raw. No, but I mean like, do they turn it into like a mash or something? No, it's just corn on there. |
| 1:25.2 | It put corn on pizza over there, too. |
| 1:26.3 | So like corn kernels, like I'm picturing. |
| 1:28.0 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 1:28.7 | Okay. |
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