You Better Listen to the Radio: Operation Ostrich
Ridiculous Crime
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
During WWII, there were lots of ways to contribute to the war effort. One involved sitting at a radio station on Long Island, feeding lies to the Nazis to aid the Allies. Owen House was the secret center of Operation Ostrich, the most intense counterintelligence effort you've never heard of.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. Ridiculous crime is a production of I-Heart Radio. Zarin. Mm-hmm. Elizabeth. Hello. Zarin. Hello, Michelle. I, listen, pal. How are you? I'm doing pretty well. How about you? Good. Good. Do you know what's ridiculous? Oh, man, do I? But I want to preface this. |
| 0:23.8 | This is |
| 0:24.2 | ridiculously cool. Oh, really? Yeah, not like ridiculous like what. Ridiculous like what? Oh, I like this. |
| 0:31.2 | I like this. I like starting things off like that. So we got it this message, right? And the interns sent it to me. |
| 0:37.9 | I thought this was, I just wanted to share it with you. |
| 0:40.5 | So one of our rude dude listeners is cat Josh Murphy from down under, down Aussie Way. |
| 0:47.0 | Oh, yes, this guy. |
| 0:48.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:48.8 | Right? |
| 0:49.1 | So he opened a cafe in Brunswick, Melbourne, Melbourne. |
| 0:53.4 | And he named it after somebody we mentioned in one of our episodes. |
| 0:58.6 | No way. |
| 0:59.2 | The horse, the beautiful Jim Key. |
| 1:01.3 | I'm not sure if you remember Beautiful Jim Key, but it was in the episode, Lady Wanted the Psychic Horse. |
| 1:05.1 | Yes, yes, yes. |
| 1:06.0 | Okay, so as Josh Murphy noted that he was inspired by Beautiful Jim Key and was like, you know, we named |
| 1:14.6 | our spot after it. And I looked up like some write-ups and stuff. And he and his partner, |
| 1:21.1 | they've got this really cool spot. I recommend if you're in Melbourne, go check it out. It is |
| 1:26.2 | apparently in Brunswick on Wilson Avenue. |
| 1:29.4 | Okay. And it's right by Iris the Bakery, if you're familiar with the area. |
| 1:33.8 | Sure, no, but sure. It's described as a light-filled space that's full of character. And yeah, he |
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