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Speaker 1: Ridiculous History is a production of I Heart Radio. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back to the show Ridiculous Historians. Thank you, as always

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Speaker 1: so much for tuning in. Let's give it up for

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Speaker 1: the man, the myth legend, our own mad genius super producer,

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Speaker 1: Mr Max Williams, and they call me Ben. I would

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Speaker 1: like to introduce one of my personal favorite mad geniuses,

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Speaker 1: the one and only Mr Noel Brown, who me yes you,

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Speaker 1: thanks buddy. You're you're mad. You're a bit of a

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Speaker 1: bit of a mad genius. You're so sort of mad scientist,

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Speaker 1: a nutty professor of of of of fiction and fact.

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Speaker 1: You uh and you served as our exclusive research associate

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Speaker 1: on today's episode, which is I think at the makings

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Speaker 1: of maybe one of those series that we promised to

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Speaker 1: we swear this one has legs leg no suf John Stevens,

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Speaker 1: We're actually gonna do it. I'm gonna say this right now.

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Speaker 1: I am on this case. I have a whole tab

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Speaker 1: in the document dedicated to these Now will we ever

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Speaker 1: look at the tab that that's up to debate? But

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Speaker 1: I have a tab cal there is the Episodes in

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Speaker 1: Perpetuity folks peep behind the ridiculous curtain. Uh. Some time ago,

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Speaker 1: the three of us, who are actual friends in real life,

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Speaker 1: the three of us became enamored with, uh, this idea

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Speaker 1: of inventors who died as a result of their inventions. Now,

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Speaker 1: this is tragic. There is human life lost in every

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Speaker 1: single case. But there's something I don't know, There's something

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Speaker 1: oddly inspiring about it, Like the the ability to invent,

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Speaker 1: of it in the physical world. It's an almost but

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Speaker 1: not entirely human skill. It doesn't always go as planned,

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Speaker 1: and uh speaking, things not always going as planned. I

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Speaker 1: think we thought this would be at first. I don't

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Speaker 1: know about you guys, but at first I thought this

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Speaker 1: would be one and done episode or maybe a two parter.

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Speaker 1: But as we were, as we were diving into the research,

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Speaker 1: direct result of their own and chips you gotta laugh

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Speaker 1: at so yeah, I mean, you gotta give them credit

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Speaker 1: Hulk or whatever. Mobius first name was shot himself up

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Speaker 1: with magic bat juice, you know, to cure his disability,

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Speaker 1: but also you know, transformed him into a bloodsucking creature

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Speaker 1: a bad movie. Just just but you know it happens

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Speaker 1: in real life too. It happens in real life too. Again.

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Speaker 1: You know, the real scientists have tragically had their lives

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Speaker 1: cut short in the search of greatness and sometimes you know,

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Speaker 1: the achievement of greatness, but often sometimes do that is

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Speaker 1: where their story ends until today. I love what a

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Speaker 1: wonderful setup. Yeah, today we are uh, we are asking

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Speaker 1: you to travel with us ridiculous historians through a cavalcade

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Speaker 1: of catastrophes, a listical of tragic ridicule. Uh. It's oddly

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Speaker 1: inspiring perhaps, and we promise we're not going to end

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Speaker 1: on a downer. Note these stories are peak ridiculous history. Uh.

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Speaker 1: This first iteration of what may or may not to

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Speaker 1: this first iteration focuses on people who died trying to fly,

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Speaker 1: And there's a lot of like Far Side Gary Larson

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Speaker 1: Far Side, you should. If you enjoy laughter. If you

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Speaker 1: to the goth albums. But Far Side. Also, why do

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Speaker 1: who wrote an excellent article for How Stuff Works. You

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Speaker 1: Stuff to Blow your Mind. Uh. He will maybe one

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Speaker 1: It makes for a good story, I do. Yeah, one

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Speaker 1: What was he saying, well, we'll give you the German

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Speaker 1: fa mussen gebracht vadden, which which basically translates to sacrifices

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Speaker 1: must be made, which is you know, kind of a

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Speaker 1: theme of this episode in terms of the advancement of humanity.

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Speaker 1: You gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet,

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Speaker 1: and all that you gotta crack a few skulls to

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Speaker 1: to make humans fly. There we are, uh now, of course,

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Speaker 1: the staff of the Auto leland Thal museum will tell

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Speaker 1: an epic declaration. And here we are going to pause folks,

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Speaker 1: just like France on the first deck of the Eiffel Tower.

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Speaker 1: This is the end of part one of our two

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Speaker 1: part series on people who died trying to fly. Thanks

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Speaker 1: as always to our super producer, Mr Max Williams. Indeed

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Speaker 1: thanks to Alice Williams who can post this theme. Christopher

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Speaker 1: Stiotis eaves, Jeff co At both here in spirit, Christopher

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Speaker 1: soon to be here in in the flesh. We promised

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Speaker 1: for ages. Yeah, but I definitely button holed him over

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Speaker 1: back him a good button only. Let's see you next steps.

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