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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the show, fellow Ridiculous Historians. We are

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Speaker 1: returning with another classic episode for you. Just quick peak

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Speaker 1: behind the curtain. My pal Nola and I made it

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Speaker 1: back from the High Seas while our super producer Max

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Speaker 1: was holding down the fort like a hero, like a

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Speaker 1: war hero of podcasting, and we are still kind of

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Speaker 1: recovering schedule wise, a couple of us caught some travel crid.

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Speaker 1: So while we're resting up and working on new episodes

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Speaker 1: Ridiculous History, we wanted to share a maritime classic episode

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Speaker 1: that Max, I believe you are around for this one

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Speaker 1: right twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 2: No, I didn't come around until twenty twenty one. We

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Speaker 2: still got a while. Lash.

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Speaker 1: Wow, we've been at this for a while, my friend.

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Speaker 1: All right, So here's the pitch. Folks travel back with

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Speaker 1: us toward the end of World War Two. Germany is

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Speaker 1: absolutely wrecking stuff with their submarine technology, and one of

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Speaker 1: their submarines is acknowledged to be by far the most

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Speaker 1: advanced deadliest predator on the seats. However, the same technological

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Speaker 1: breakthroughs that made these subs so effective also and at

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Speaker 1: least one case, led to their demise. And this reminds

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Speaker 1: us of our conversation with the world's premiere underwater explosion expert,

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Speaker 1: doctor Rachel big Spinach Lance. Remember when she told us that,

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Speaker 1: Remember when she told us that people figured out how

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Speaker 1: to make submarines work way before they figured out how

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Speaker 1: people could enter or exit submarines safely.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the Benz is terrifying. I learned that from Radiohead. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I learned what the bends was from the name of

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Speaker 2: the Radiohead album. But yeah, no, that is that's awful.

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Speaker 2: It's like, oh, you can go down, but you can't

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Speaker 2: come back up exactly.

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Speaker 1: So in this classic episode, we hope you join us.

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Speaker 1: This is from twenty nineteen, wherein we discovered the strange

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Speaker 1: story of the U twelve O six and the high

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Speaker 1: tech toilet that led to its doom. Ridiculous History is

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Speaker 1: a production of iHeartRadio. Welcome to the show, Ridiculous Historians,

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Speaker 1: as well as fans of The Hunt for Red October

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Speaker 1: The Thrillers starring Sean Connery.

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Speaker 2: What about das Boots?

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Speaker 1: Boot is more of a classic, I would say, and

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Speaker 1: set a precedent for sure.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Do you know? Do you know directed us Boot

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Speaker 2: Wolfgang Peterson, Kank.

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Speaker 1: Peterson's case that's our super producer, Casey Pegram.

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Speaker 2: He's already on the case. But we have how do

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Speaker 2: we do that?

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Speaker 3: Can we combine this Casey fairy sound effect with the dundun.

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 1: I like the way that it just rolled in with

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Speaker 1: the with the sound effect after you know what?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, who cares? May we double it up? Sure?

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Speaker 3: I don't know, it's already happened. I'm ben, I'm knowl

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Speaker 3: and yeah. Wolfgang Peterson also directed a nightmare Fuel movie

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Speaker 3: from mine, probably many other people's childhoods, the never ending.

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Speaker 1: Story nightmare Fuel really fine, amazing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah it is, but as a kid, it is a

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Speaker 3: very dark, depressing film, like when the horse gets sucked

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Speaker 1: Those were cool, though I still think of what I'm

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Speaker 1: trying to describe various rites of passage to people. I

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Speaker 2: No, it's true.

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Speaker 3: So I think it just traumatized me a little bit

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Speaker 3: an internet trope where it's a screenshot of that scene

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Speaker 1: Speaking of fantastic segues, today's episode is not about the

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Speaker 1: never ending story, but it is related to maritime adventures

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Speaker 1: dost Boot, dust Boot, the Hunt for Red October, which

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Speaker 1: In a previous episode, we explored life on submarines because

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Speaker 1: We are traveling back to April fourteenth, nineteen forty five,

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Speaker 3: Now is that not to harp on dust Boot, because

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Speaker 3: That was one of their most covert and successful ways

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Speaker 1: U boats were quite dangerous, and one of the reasons

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Speaker 1: Its emblem was a white stork on a black shield

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Speaker 1: Right, there was problem operating the previous models of the

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Speaker 1: This thing was complicated, but it was also poorly placed

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Speaker 3: The power the sub when it was submerged, because the

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Speaker 3: And I actually wasn't aware that battery technology was quite

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Speaker 1: That's right, These batteries provided five hundred in sixty kilowatts

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Speaker 1: because diesel electric submarines had a had a larger signature.

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Speaker 3: And Ben, I just want to point out we're getting

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Speaker 1: It is toilet Dashguru dot com. I'm also a fan

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Speaker 1: of war is Boring dot com. Very very good, and

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Speaker 1: I've got a little spoiler alert, a surprise that I'm

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Speaker 1: They're not running into they're not running into any action,

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Speaker 3: I think we've talked about this our sponsorship by Tushi,

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Speaker 3: But man, those things are high tech and incredible life changing.

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Speaker 1: I know, listen to US America. You've got to stop

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Speaker 1: pooping like barbarians.

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Speaker 2: Seriously so.

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Speaker 1: But that's that's actually a fairly accurate comparison because a

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Speaker 1: lot of people were confused by this. And this is

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Speaker 1: when we introduced Captain Carl Adolph Schlitt to the story.

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Speaker 1: He was twenty seven years old and in charge of

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it is. It is so salt. The symbol

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Speaker 1: I'm absolutely sure they knew because they were very well

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Speaker 2: What does that mean? I don't think I know that term.

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Speaker 2: They canner.

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Speaker 1: But he also entered into history, the annals of history,

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Speaker 1: I think they probably He probably wanted to go with

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Speaker 2: Happy New Year's to you, Ben, Happy New Year to you, Casey,

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Speaker 3: And to all a good night. No, it's been it's

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Speaker 1: You know, if I could turn back time, the only

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Speaker 1: At the opening of this episode, because we totally forgot

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Speaker 1: There we go, There we go. It's a reward for

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Speaker 1: We would like to hear. Oh oh, no, I forgot

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Speaker 1: military slang or naval slang phrases. Anything that made you laugh,

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Speaker 2: Let us know.

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Speaker 1: especially like to recommend you check out our Facebook community page,

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Speaker 1: many of whom have some fascinating stories to tell. Have

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Speaker 3: Love the tooth fairy stuff? That seemed to hit a nerve,

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Speaker 3: like in your tooth nerves nerve ending I don't know now,

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Speaker 3: I thought, I really enjoyed that episode a lot. I

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Speaker 3: And when we listen back to these sometimes it feels

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Speaker 2: That's good to hear.

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Speaker 1: Man, that's good to hear.

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Speaker 1: We want to thank our super producer, Casey Pegram, Sure

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Speaker 1: we do. We want to thank Alex Williams, who composed

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Speaker 3: We'd like to thank Gabe Lozier are a wonderful research

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Speaker 3: associate who hipped us to this topic. And I'd like

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Speaker 3: to thank you Rol. It's been a great year, Ben,

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Speaker 3: I thank you as well. It has been a great

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Speaker 3: year and I look forward to many more on Ridiculous History.

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