What Happened to Ronald McDonald? Part One: Everybody Loves A Clown
Ridiculous History
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4.2 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Today, billions of people across the world recognize McDonald's — it's one of the planet's most well-known brands. Yet, in recent years, McDonald's has also become home to an enduring mystery: What exactly happened to Ronald McDonald? In part one of this two-part series, Ben and Max welcome special guest Jonathan Strickland for an in-depth exploration of Ronald's meteoric rise and fall.
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Joshua Topolsky and I have a new podcast called What Future. |
| 0:04.5 | But I want to tell you that I'm being forced by my producer to record a promo telling you about my show. |
| 0:10.1 | And I'm not trying to force you to listen to it. |
| 0:12.6 | And maybe you're not interested in internet culture and the future of life on planet Earth. |
| 0:18.1 | And why John Carpenter movies are so good. |
| 0:20.6 | You may just want to listen to a podcast about, I don't know, sports or whatever Joe Rogan talks about. |
| 0:26.6 | And that's fine, you know, no judgment. |
| 0:28.4 | But if you like what you're hearing and I know that you do, you can listen to all of what future on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:58.4 | The podcast and that's what you really missed brings you back to the choir room for a gloriously gleeky rewatch of all six masterfully musical seasons of Glee. |
| 1:19.4 | Join cast members Kevin MacKale and Jenna Uschkewitz for never before heard stories from the cast, crew, celebrities and you, the fans from McKinley High to New York City, from the choir room to nationals and from the Super Bowl to a world tour. |
| 1:32.9 | Listen to and that's what you really missed on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:39.4 | Radiculous history is a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 2:07.4 | Welcome back to the show ridiculous historians. Thank you as always so much for tuning in first things first. |
| 2:14.4 | Let's give it up for a one and only super producer, Mr. Max Williams. |
| 2:18.4 | Who you may recognize from earlier appearances as a special guest on ridiculous history and they call me Ben, our ride or die. |
| 2:30.4 | Our brother and arms, Mr. Noel Brown is away, but we'll be returning soon today. |
| 2:37.4 | Max, we are diving into a story that has haunted me and hopefully many other people for for some time now we're not diving into this story alone. |
| 2:50.4 | We're going to talk about a mystery in the world of fast food and to do this we have to be joined with an expert, a very special returning guest, Max. |
| 3:02.4 | We both know him good friend of the show, dear friend of ours, a famous infamous member of the ridiculous history pantheon. |
| 3:09.4 | Folks, let's have a big hand for the one and only Jonathan Strickland. |
| 3:14.4 | There is a little man called Jonathan. There is a little man called Jonathan. |
| 3:24.4 | Although it may sound strange to you, everybody tells him what to do. |
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