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Ironclad IV: Doctor Strangelob Or "How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Embrace Being a Nugget"

Season 1, Ep. 92

You join us for the final episode on Ironclad and boy howdy, is it a doozy. Contains a great, insane speech from Paul Giamatti on top form, and the headline is quite frankly the championship belt of funny deaths, the one that will be the one to beat, probably for all time. Its the Usain Bolt of Funny Deaths. The Muhammad Ali. The Maradona. Its Greatness is peerless, it shall never be surpassed.


Also, some other fun stuff, including some real history towards the end, and we should probably point out here that King John did not die actually in the marshes but made his way through them while gravely ill, finally popping his tyrannical clogs at Newark Castle on October 19th 1216. So now you know that. :)


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