Whatever happened to Ambrose Small?

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Society & Culture

4.3 • 10.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

During the turn of the 19th century, a man named Ambrose Small ran Ontario's theatre scene. A known womanizer, gambler and all-around jerk, Ambrose made a ton of enemies with his business dealings. As the rise of motion pictures posed an existential threat to his industry, Ambrose cashed out, sold his business -- and disappeared. More than a century after the fact, people are still asking: What happened?

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0:00.0	From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events.
0:06.5	You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know.
0:12.0	A production of IHeartRadie. Hello, welcome back to the show.
0:26.2	My name is Matt.
0:27.3	My name is Noel.
0:28.6	They called me, Ben.
0:29.9	We're joined, as always, with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagan.
0:34.4	Most importantly, you are you.
0:36.1	You are here.
0:36.9	That makes this the stuff they don't
0:39.2	want you to know. 2025, as the humans reckon a calendar. Tonight, folks, we're exploring a mystery,
0:46.0	one that may be unfamiliar to many of us here in these still somewhat United States, but
0:53.4	doubtlessly ringing a bell for our Canadian conspiracy
0:57.2	realist.
0:58.4	Oh my gosh.
0:59.3	Had you guys heard of this one before we pitched it internally?
1:02.9	Yeah, I was Roman somewhere around the Gulf of America, gosh, years ago.
1:08.2	Is that like the Gulf of Tonkin?
1:10.1	What is that?
1:11.1	In that it's made up?
1:12.4	Yeah.
1:12.6	Got it.
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