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Speaker 1: back to the show, folks. This is Ridiculous History. My

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Speaker 1: to give a shout out to our super producer, Casey Pegram.

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Speaker 1: There he is, Look at him. Look at our boy, Casey,

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Speaker 1: glint in his eye as always. Oh, we should mention

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Speaker 1: that today's episode is pretty fascinating to us. We started

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Speaker 1: talking with some friends of ours off air about the

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Speaker 1: most petty or strangest flexes in human history. Ben, you're

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Speaker 1: gonna have to you're gonna have to hit me to

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Speaker 1: this lingo here? What what is a flex? Ah? Well,

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Speaker 1: who better to explain that than our friends that we

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Speaker 1: actually brought on the air for the episode today. Uh.

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Speaker 1: The host of one of our favorite podcast, the Daily

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Speaker 1: Zeitgeist Yeah, we have Miles and Jack from the Daily

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Speaker 1: Zeitgeist joining us as we speak. Gentlemen. What's up guys, Jack?

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Speaker 1: How are you so? So? These guys, Uh, Miles and

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Speaker 1: Jack are the anchors of our Los Angeles operation. They

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Speaker 1: do a lot of comedy. They have this amazing political

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Speaker 1: comedy show that they do every day of the week. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And they're kind of the the cooler versions of us. So,

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Speaker 1: can you guys explain what a flex is? Um? Yes, flex? Uh.

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Speaker 1: If we go strictly by the Urban Dictionary, definition would

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Speaker 1: be a verb in which someone would show off or

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Speaker 1: gloat in a boastful display. Wow. That was very official, Miles,

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Yeah, so that's what a flexes.

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Speaker 1: How is a flex different than a stunt? Um? I

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Speaker 1: mean it's kind of the same thing. Stunt, you're still

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Speaker 1: kind of showing out as you will, um. But sometimes

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Speaker 1: a flex, you know, it's really about, like you know,

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Speaker 1: I think, coming from flexing your muscles, like showing how

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Speaker 1: off things. I don't know. You nailed it you, thank

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Speaker 1: then the gave way to the weird flex phenomenon, which

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Speaker 1: are just sort of like, uh, you know, just re

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Speaker 1: contextualizing people's quotes or things to be boastful moments. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's really just about showing off, really or yeah, unnecessarily

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Speaker 1: used to say anytime they wanted to make fun of

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Speaker 1: someone for bragging about something weird, they'd be like humble

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Speaker 1: I think they misunderstood. So weird flex is actually an

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Speaker 1: accurate way to make fun of somebody for bragging about

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Speaker 1: something weird, and we're we're happier here weird flex, like,

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Speaker 1: for example, setting the record for eating the largest amount

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Speaker 1: That is a weird flex. Yeah, and then bragging about

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Speaker 1: it and then bragging about it. Well, and since this

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Speaker 1: is a ridiculous history, today we're talking about weird historical flexes.

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Speaker 1: Ben you brought this one to the table. Um, so

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Speaker 1: I think maybe you should start Sure, Yeah, yeah, we're

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Speaker 1: this ridiculous thing that we call human history. So I'm

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Speaker 1: We've all heard of garden gnomes, right, which is already

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Speaker 1: And these guys had a really weird gig. First off,

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Speaker 1: So how's that for nepotism. Let me unpack this just briefly.

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Speaker 1: like how you're supposed to interact with these people. You

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Speaker 1: I was more of a casual Turtles fan So I

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Speaker 1: was more Michael Angelo, just the everybody's first choice when

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Speaker 1: they're young and first getting to know it. Yeah, michel Angelo,

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Speaker 1: he's like a rebel. Yeah, he's a rebel who likes pizza,

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Speaker 1: just like me. I mean, they all love pizza, but

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Speaker 1: I was I liked Michelangelo for the swag, the confidence,

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Speaker 1: Donna Tello guy, Okay, because I like blue. Donna Tello

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Speaker 1: was a smart one, right, didn't Donna Tello Wasn't he

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Speaker 1: the science he guy? Yeah? Donna Tello has inventions. I yeah,

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Speaker 1: and the boast that bosta, which is which is admittedly

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Speaker 1: the most boring of the Ninja Turtle's weapons, and in

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Speaker 1: my opinion, really I think Michael Angelo. The nunchucks are

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Speaker 1: obviously the most fun. He's got two of them. He

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Speaker 1: can swing them around, do all kinds of crazy tricks.

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Speaker 1: But he's got no reach. No, he's got no reach.

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Speaker 1: What do you mean He's got no reach. He's got

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Speaker 1: to reach with the nunchucks. You gotta be really active

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Speaker 1: to well, okay, I'm just my bias is showing. I'm

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Speaker 1: also teamed Donna. Tell You're on team don Tello. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I always like raptured. Actually I misspoke. I meant say Leonardo.

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Speaker 1: Leonardo is the one who wars blue. Oh, that's right,

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Speaker 1: Henna wear blue. Yes, but Donna Tello was still the

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Speaker 1: science guy. Leonardo was sort of the de facto leader. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's like the cyclops of Turtle. That's right, that's right.

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Speaker 1: I was always Michael Angelo. I'm with that, and I

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Speaker 1: was not a casual Turtles fan. I've seen both the

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Speaker 1: original film and the Secret of the Use. I know

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Speaker 1: the Ninja rap by heart, and I had the cassette

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Speaker 1: called Coming Out of Our Shells that was distributed with

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Speaker 1: Domino's pizzas back in the day. Did you did you?

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Speaker 1: Do you remember that Sam Rockwell is in the first

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Speaker 1: Teenage Yes, that's right. Isn't he in the Foot? Isn't

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Speaker 1: he in the Foot Clan? Yeah, he's like the main

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Speaker 1: sort of like forward facing foot guy. He's like he's

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Speaker 1: like Fagan from Oliver. He's like recruiting little street urchin kids. Totally.

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Speaker 1: I forgot that was still stand by that as his

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Speaker 1: greatest work as an act. Oh, absolutely, he agrees, he agrees.

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Speaker 1: I think he has gone on record with that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's that. And then Moon Moon would be number two

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Speaker 1: for meant distant number two. Agreed. But so we we

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Speaker 1: are going to pause for today's episode. We'll be back

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Speaker 1: with the second part of Weirdest Historical Flexes in the meantime,

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Speaker 1: Will will forego our usual This is where you can

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Speaker 1: find us on the internet because we did that at

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Speaker 1: the front. We still have to thank everybody though, Ye. Yes,

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Speaker 1: we want to thank of course our super producer Casey Pegram,

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Speaker 1: Alex Williams who composed our track. Yes, our fabulous research

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Speaker 1: associate Gabe Luzier, our buddy Christopher Hasciots, who is due

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Speaker 1: for an appearance. Actually had lunch with Christopher other day

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Speaker 1: and he really misses us, and he's so happy to

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Speaker 1: see the show doing well. It was in a different

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Speaker 1: city school. I'm really sorry then next time, dude, I

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Speaker 1: am not man, I'm not I'm a sweetheart. But we'd

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Speaker 1: also like to thank our incredible guests who are going

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Speaker 1: to stick around if you would, for part two of

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Speaker 1: this kind of anthology episode on ridicul this history. Yeah. Thanks,

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Speaker 1: so much for coming guys, where can people while they're

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Speaker 1: waiting for this next episode, where can they hear more

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Speaker 1: from you? Miles and Jack? Oh, you can find us

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Speaker 1: world at Ben Bolan on Instagram. So that's that's all

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Speaker 1: for now. Everybody run off. I'm gonna hunt. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: hunt some rodents. We're gonna talk about the turtles and

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Speaker 1: maybe rewatch Secret of the Use, and we'll be back

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