June 5, 2025 • 15 mins
There's a vital puzzle piece missing as rich nations aim to transform their electricity grids for the AI age: millions of skilled engineers.
On today’s Big Take podcast, Bloomberg’s Akshat Rathi joins host Sarah Holder to break down how labor shortages in the electrification industry are slowing down the green energy transition and what it would take to turn things around. Plus, the one country bucking the trend.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news. Johnty Dealey Williamson used
to work in food manufacturing for a company that makes
the flaky pastry that bakers use for croissants. But over
four years ago he got out of the food industry
and now he's helping make batteries.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
The machinery is very similar, the process are very similar.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Jaunty is thirty three and lives in Birmingham, England, and
he says his job change wasn't that huge of a
pivot because croissant making and battery manufacturing actually have a
lot in common.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Instead of using flour, you are now looking at a
slightly more hazardous substance in slurry that isn't as easy
to gain that tacit knowledge.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
To make a battery, engineers coat a metal plate with
a gloopy liquid that consists of chemicals like cobalts or lithium,
a slurry.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Quoted onto the surface, dried in an just like a
croissant would be baked in an oven, and then folded
into the form factor that you see.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
That's Akshot Rothy, a senior climate reporter here at Bloomberg.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
So you're going through a process of using something like
a dough that is then heated and cooked in an
oven and then packaged and sold to a customer just.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
A lot less butter I guess. Oxshot says that in
Jaunty's role as head of learning and Development at the
UK Battery Industrialization Center, he's been trying to convince more
people that their skills and other jobs like making croissants
are actually really applicable to engineering gigs. Because as the
global demand for electricity rises an investment in electric energy
(01:46):
projects surpasses two trillion dollars, the world needs more workers
who can meet that demand, workers like the ones Jaunty
is training at the battery facility, but Oxshot says there
just aren't enough of them to pull it off.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Almost every source that we spoke to within the whole
ecosystem of electrification had some sort of problem with labor.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I'm Sarah Holder, and this is the big take from
Bloomberg News today on the show, how labor shortages in
the electrification industry are impacting everything from the green energy
transition to the AI revolution and what it would take
to turn things around. Data center builders in the US
(02:37):
are facing delays. German heat pump customers are waiting twice
as long as French customers for installations. UK utilities are
struggling to work through a backlog of solar panel customers.
These are just some of the growing pains of a
rapidly electrifying world, and they all have something in common.
A major global shortfall in labor problem in the US,
(03:01):
where over one hundred thousand new engineer roles created each
year go unfilled. In the UK, twenty percent of engineers
are expected to retire in the next five years, leaving
a million job openings. Japan is looking at a shortfall
of seven hundred thousand engineers by twenty thirty. Okshot Rothi,
who hosts the Zero podcast, has been looking into why
(03:23):
these issues are coming to a head now.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
It's increase in the number of electric cars on the streets.
It's increased in the number of heat pumps being sold
instead of gas or oil furnaces, and it's an increase
in the number of data centers being built to power
artificial intelligence. The combination of these three things is leading
to a level of demand that none of these regions
(03:47):
have seen in three decades.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
An Axshot says, there are any number of complications that
can slow down an electrification project beyond just labor.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Almost anywhere in Europe or America takes between five to
ten years just to be able to get the permission
to build this stuff. So that's number one. Number two
is that the business model of electricity is weird. It's
not like oil and gas, where you have a global
benchmark of some sort and people know when they can
(04:18):
hit profitability or not. Electricity prices vary from minute to minute,
from hour to hour, and the ability to be able
to make money on that electricity isn't always guaranteed. Then
there's a whole host of things that are starting to
become pretty alarming. There's an extreme shortage of transformers, there's
(04:38):
an extreme shortage of electrical cables.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
But it's hard to talk about any of these problems
without coming back to people.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
The people who will be needed to build this stuff,
all the way from construction activity to having engineers that
have PhDs that design this infrastructure.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
While surging demand for electricity project might sound like a
dream for a company in the field, the demand supply
gap is so severe it's actually posing an existential threat.
One example Oxshot told me about is the Swedish battery
company Northvolt.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
North Volt was the bet that Europe was making for
a battery giant. Domestically, a company raised thirteen billion dollars,
It was set to IPO in twenty twenty three at
a valuation of twenty billion dollars, and then it filed
for bankruptcy. Now, any bankruptcy usually is triggered where you
(05:35):
don't have enough money, but if you take a few
steps back, it really started from its difficulty to find
enough workers in the north of Sweden to fill up
the positions it needed to have a battery manufacturing facility.
A lot of the equipment for that plant was coming
from China and from South Korea. These are really complicated
(05:57):
machines that require people who know how to operate those machines.
They could find some people, but not enough, and because
there's a demand for batteries that was growing, investors were
keen that north would start to make plans for new plants,
and in doing so it really stretched itself and thus
there were cancelations of orders with billions of dollars, and
(06:19):
then it couldn't pay back its debt hoolders and e
menually had to file for bankruptcy. The company declined to
comment on our story, but we did have former employees
who were involved in trying to hire people who said
that this was certainly one issue that contributed to the problem.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
If you don't have the people, you can't make the
thing to sell. Yeah, let's talk about that people problem,
that labor issue. What kinds of jobs are we talking
about here and why are they so hard to fill.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
So in the UK, we spoke to a utility that
builds heat pumps and solar panels and they just don't
have the number of people to install that device. So
it doesn't have to be somebody who's highly skilled who's
gone to university with an engineering degree. It's just somebody
who's able to handle mechanical things, do things like plumbing,
(07:12):
do things like going up to a roof in a
safe manner. When we spoke to data center developers in
the US, they were missing construction workers, people who would
lay down the foundations that would make the floor of
a data center, people who would go out and build
overhead lines that would bring power and huge amounts of
(07:34):
power these days for data centers into the data center.
So a lot of the engineering prowess in Western economies
in the past decade or two decades have gone to
the tech industry because that's where you have a sexy
companies but also higher pay, and so they're having to
go out and figure out how can we meet the
salary of a tech engineer so that we can bring
(07:57):
them in house and do our work instead. But when
it comes to engineers with skills on the grid, you
just require a level of study and experience to be
able to manage something that is so finely tuned and
has such complexity in it. So it really is a
big challenge for the employer to figure out what type
(08:20):
of skill do you train for, what type of skill
do you go and hire for, and perhaps what type
of skill could you poach from another industry by paying
somebody a little more money?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
And across the board, labor shortage is the problem. So
what's the solution that's after the break? Industrialized countries like Japan,
the US, and Germany are struggling to find workers you
(08:55):
can do the labor needed to electrify their economies and
meet energy demand. But there is an outlier. One country
that appears to be bucking this trend entirely is China.
What's happening there.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
So China until recently has had a growing population. That
population has been heavily incentivized to go in the sciences
and engineering because the country was growing, Its manufacturing sector
was growing, its construction sector was growing, its tech sector
was growing, and all that growth meant lots and lots
(09:28):
of people were getting the degrees that would provide the
skills for these industry. Specifically, right now in China, there's
actually been cuts in the tech industry, so many of
the software engineers are now looking for jobs in perhaps
safer industries like the grid industry. State Grid is one
of the biggest employers and it provides a comfortable job
(09:51):
as a state owned company, and it saw last year
four hundred thousand applicants for twenty six thousand jobs. So
it's a place that does not see any shortage of people,
and of course there's no shortage of either goods or technology,
and that's one reason why China is electrifying faster than
(10:12):
any large economy in the world right now.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
What can other countries learn from china strategy.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
That you need to have a whole supply chain of workers,
technology and manufacturing and the right policies to be able
to build the whole electrification industry. You can't just focus
on solving one part of the ecosystem, because without the other,
the whole system doesn't work.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
For countries that don't yet have that supply chain of
workers at home, hiring people with the right skills from
abroad is one option, but the US and many countries
in Europe are leaning into stricter immigration policies, making recruiting
overseas harder.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
When we talk to companies, there's a reluctance to talk
about immigration policies just because of the toxic politics around
immigration right now. Nobody wants to be in the news
and be in the ire of, say the US President
about hiring more immigrants. But that is one thing that
(11:16):
we know has been used by industries in the past.
For example, the tech industry, even in Donald Trump's first term,
argued for more h men b visas to bring in
more engineers into the country. And perhaps if this problem
keeps getting more severe, we might see a change in
the wind. But right now it's not like industry is
(11:38):
talking shop on immigration.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Immigration restrictions have put more pressure on companies and education
programs to build out the pipeline of workers themselves, and
Auxtad says there are a few ways to do that.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
So you could start with looking at what's the quickest solution,
and that often tends to be trying to poach people
from another industry. So we heard from people who used
to work in the food industry.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
He's talking about John D. Daley Williamson, who he heard
from earlier.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
It's not too dissimilar to norm manufacturing, just a few
little tweaks that we need to give some knowledge to
people of.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
If you can't poach, then you start to train people
from scratch, where they're given training to install a heat
pump in the house, install a radiator for the heating,
go up on a roof, and employ a solar panel,
and they work with experienced workers alongside so that they
gain the skills to be able to do that themselves
(12:36):
after the two years of training is done.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
But especially in aging economies like Japan and Germany and
the US where many people are on the brink of retiring,
some experts argue that the training process has to start
even earlier.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Then you can go a step further down the chain
where you go to universities or even schools to try
and to impart the importance of education in the science
is in engineering because there are all these job opportunities
available to them, because they are contributing to trying to
solve a problem like climate change or trying to help
(13:10):
their country grow economically at a time of need.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
That kind of messaging is part of a larger strategy
to sell people on these kinds of jobs, and John
d who's training the next generation of battery makers, is
on the front lines of that message.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Johnty talked about how many times he heard that when
the job of an engineer was mentioned, it was seen
as a job that is dirty in the sense that
you have to get oil on your hands and you
are working in a space that would have filed around you.
But he had to tell them, look, battery factories have
(13:46):
some of the cleanest rooms in the world. In fact,
some of the clean rooms are cleaner than hospital operating theaters.
In other cases, we found, for example, in Gievarova, which
makes trunmers, the company used to advertise for jobs that
had the word heavy engineer in it. And the word
(14:07):
heavy engineer was because they played around and moved things
that were heavy, except you didn't have to lift it.
There were machines that lifted it for you, but just
removing the word heavy saw them have more applications from women.
So there are these small perception issues that do matter.
But these are small tweaks that perhaps contribute towards solving
(14:29):
a very big problem.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
But Oxshad says, those perception shifts won't happen overnight.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
It's going to take a while for this signal that
there is a huge demand for people in this industry
to trickle down to the level where students in schools
are thinking their future lies in electrifying the economy rather
than sitting in front of computers and writing code.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Akshat, thank you so much for coming on the show.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
This is the Big Take from Bloomberg News. I'm Sarah Holder.
To get more from The Big Take and unlimited access
to all of Bloomberg dot com, subscribe today at Bloomberg
dot com slash podcast offer. If you liked this episode,
make sure to follow and review The Big Take wherever
you listen to podcasts. It helps people find the show.
Thanks for listening. We'll be back tomorrow.
Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news. Johnty Dealey Williamson used
to work in food manufacturing for a company that makes
the flaky pastry that bakers use for croissants. But over
four years ago he got out of the food industry
and now he's helping make batteries.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
The machinery is very similar, the process are very similar.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Jaunty is thirty three and lives in Birmingham, England, and
he says his job change wasn't that huge of a
pivot because croissant making and battery manufacturing actually have a
lot in common.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Instead of using flour, you are now looking at a
slightly more hazardous substance in slurry that isn't as easy
to gain that tacit knowledge.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
To make a battery, engineers coat a metal plate with
a gloopy liquid that consists of chemicals like cobalts or lithium,
a slurry.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Quoted onto the surface, dried in an just like a
croissant would be baked in an oven, and then folded
into the form factor that you see.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
That's Akshot Rothy, a senior climate reporter here at Bloomberg.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
So you're going through a process of using something like
a dough that is then heated and cooked in an
oven and then packaged and sold to a customer just.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
A lot less butter I guess. Oxshot says that in
Jaunty's role as head of learning and Development at the
UK Battery Industrialization Center, he's been trying to convince more
people that their skills and other jobs like making croissants
are actually really applicable to engineering gigs. Because as the
global demand for electricity rises an investment in electric energy
(01:46):
projects surpasses two trillion dollars, the world needs more workers
who can meet that demand, workers like the ones Jaunty
is training at the battery facility, but Oxshot says there
just aren't enough of them to pull it off.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Almost every source that we spoke to within the whole
ecosystem of electrification had some sort of problem with labor.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I'm Sarah Holder, and this is the big take from
Bloomberg News today on the show, how labor shortages in
the electrification industry are impacting everything from the green energy
transition to the AI revolution and what it would take
to turn things around. Data center builders in the US
(02:37):
are facing delays. German heat pump customers are waiting twice
as long as French customers for installations. UK utilities are
struggling to work through a backlog of solar panel customers.
These are just some of the growing pains of a
rapidly electrifying world, and they all have something in common.
A major global shortfall in labor problem in the US,
(03:01):
where over one hundred thousand new engineer roles created each
year go unfilled. In the UK, twenty percent of engineers
are expected to retire in the next five years, leaving
a million job openings. Japan is looking at a shortfall
of seven hundred thousand engineers by twenty thirty. Okshot Rothi,
who hosts the Zero podcast, has been looking into why
(03:23):
these issues are coming to a head now.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
It's increase in the number of electric cars on the streets.
It's increased in the number of heat pumps being sold
instead of gas or oil furnaces, and it's an increase
in the number of data centers being built to power
artificial intelligence. The combination of these three things is leading
to a level of demand that none of these regions
(03:47):
have seen in three decades.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
An Axshot says, there are any number of complications that
can slow down an electrification project beyond just labor.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Almost anywhere in Europe or America takes between five to
ten years just to be able to get the permission
to build this stuff. So that's number one. Number two
is that the business model of electricity is weird. It's
not like oil and gas, where you have a global
benchmark of some sort and people know when they can
(04:18):
hit profitability or not. Electricity prices vary from minute to minute,
from hour to hour, and the ability to be able
to make money on that electricity isn't always guaranteed. Then
there's a whole host of things that are starting to
become pretty alarming. There's an extreme shortage of transformers, there's
(04:38):
an extreme shortage of electrical cables.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
But it's hard to talk about any of these problems
without coming back to people.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
The people who will be needed to build this stuff,
all the way from construction activity to having engineers that
have PhDs that design this infrastructure.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
While surging demand for electricity project might sound like a
dream for a company in the field, the demand supply
gap is so severe it's actually posing an existential threat.
One example Oxshot told me about is the Swedish battery
company Northvolt.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
North Volt was the bet that Europe was making for
a battery giant. Domestically, a company raised thirteen billion dollars,
It was set to IPO in twenty twenty three at
a valuation of twenty billion dollars, and then it filed
for bankruptcy. Now, any bankruptcy usually is triggered where you
(05:35):
don't have enough money, but if you take a few
steps back, it really started from its difficulty to find
enough workers in the north of Sweden to fill up
the positions it needed to have a battery manufacturing facility.
A lot of the equipment for that plant was coming
from China and from South Korea. These are really complicated
(05:57):
machines that require people who know how to operate those machines.
They could find some people, but not enough, and because
there's a demand for batteries that was growing, investors were
keen that north would start to make plans for new plants,
and in doing so it really stretched itself and thus
there were cancelations of orders with billions of dollars, and
(06:19):
then it couldn't pay back its debt hoolders and e
menually had to file for bankruptcy. The company declined to
comment on our story, but we did have former employees
who were involved in trying to hire people who said
that this was certainly one issue that contributed to the problem.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
If you don't have the people, you can't make the
thing to sell. Yeah, let's talk about that people problem,
that labor issue. What kinds of jobs are we talking
about here and why are they so hard to fill.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
So in the UK, we spoke to a utility that
builds heat pumps and solar panels and they just don't
have the number of people to install that device. So
it doesn't have to be somebody who's highly skilled who's
gone to university with an engineering degree. It's just somebody
who's able to handle mechanical things, do things like plumbing,
(07:12):
do things like going up to a roof in a
safe manner. When we spoke to data center developers in
the US, they were missing construction workers, people who would
lay down the foundations that would make the floor of
a data center, people who would go out and build
overhead lines that would bring power and huge amounts of
(07:34):
power these days for data centers into the data center.
So a lot of the engineering prowess in Western economies
in the past decade or two decades have gone to
the tech industry because that's where you have a sexy
companies but also higher pay, and so they're having to
go out and figure out how can we meet the
salary of a tech engineer so that we can bring
(07:57):
them in house and do our work instead. But when
it comes to engineers with skills on the grid, you
just require a level of study and experience to be
able to manage something that is so finely tuned and
has such complexity in it. So it really is a
big challenge for the employer to figure out what type
(08:20):
of skill do you train for, what type of skill
do you go and hire for, and perhaps what type
of skill could you poach from another industry by paying
somebody a little more money?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
And across the board, labor shortage is the problem. So
what's the solution that's after the break? Industrialized countries like Japan,
the US, and Germany are struggling to find workers you
(08:55):
can do the labor needed to electrify their economies and
meet energy demand. But there is an outlier. One country
that appears to be bucking this trend entirely is China.
What's happening there.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
So China until recently has had a growing population. That
population has been heavily incentivized to go in the sciences
and engineering because the country was growing, Its manufacturing sector
was growing, its construction sector was growing, its tech sector
was growing, and all that growth meant lots and lots
(09:28):
of people were getting the degrees that would provide the
skills for these industry. Specifically, right now in China, there's
actually been cuts in the tech industry, so many of
the software engineers are now looking for jobs in perhaps
safer industries like the grid industry. State Grid is one
of the biggest employers and it provides a comfortable job
(09:51):
as a state owned company, and it saw last year
four hundred thousand applicants for twenty six thousand jobs. So
it's a place that does not see any shortage of people,
and of course there's no shortage of either goods or technology,
and that's one reason why China is electrifying faster than
(10:12):
any large economy in the world right now.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
What can other countries learn from china strategy.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
That you need to have a whole supply chain of workers,
technology and manufacturing and the right policies to be able
to build the whole electrification industry. You can't just focus
on solving one part of the ecosystem, because without the other,
the whole system doesn't work.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
For countries that don't yet have that supply chain of
workers at home, hiring people with the right skills from
abroad is one option, but the US and many countries
in Europe are leaning into stricter immigration policies, making recruiting
overseas harder.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
When we talk to companies, there's a reluctance to talk
about immigration policies just because of the toxic politics around
immigration right now. Nobody wants to be in the news
and be in the ire of, say the US President
about hiring more immigrants. But that is one thing that
(11:16):
we know has been used by industries in the past.
For example, the tech industry, even in Donald Trump's first term,
argued for more h men b visas to bring in
more engineers into the country. And perhaps if this problem
keeps getting more severe, we might see a change in
the wind. But right now it's not like industry is
(11:38):
talking shop on immigration.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Immigration restrictions have put more pressure on companies and education
programs to build out the pipeline of workers themselves, and
Auxtad says there are a few ways to do that.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
So you could start with looking at what's the quickest solution,
and that often tends to be trying to poach people
from another industry. So we heard from people who used
to work in the food industry.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
He's talking about John D. Daley Williamson, who he heard
from earlier.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
It's not too dissimilar to norm manufacturing, just a few
little tweaks that we need to give some knowledge to
people of.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
If you can't poach, then you start to train people
from scratch, where they're given training to install a heat
pump in the house, install a radiator for the heating,
go up on a roof, and employ a solar panel,
and they work with experienced workers alongside so that they
gain the skills to be able to do that themselves
(12:36):
after the two years of training is done.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
But especially in aging economies like Japan and Germany and
the US where many people are on the brink of retiring,
some experts argue that the training process has to start
even earlier.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Then you can go a step further down the chain
where you go to universities or even schools to try
and to impart the importance of education in the science
is in engineering because there are all these job opportunities
available to them, because they are contributing to trying to
solve a problem like climate change or trying to help
(13:10):
their country grow economically at a time of need.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
That kind of messaging is part of a larger strategy
to sell people on these kinds of jobs, and John
d who's training the next generation of battery makers, is
on the front lines of that message.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Johnty talked about how many times he heard that when
the job of an engineer was mentioned, it was seen
as a job that is dirty in the sense that
you have to get oil on your hands and you
are working in a space that would have filed around you.
But he had to tell them, look, battery factories have
(13:46):
some of the cleanest rooms in the world. In fact,
some of the clean rooms are cleaner than hospital operating theaters.
In other cases, we found, for example, in Gievarova, which
makes trunmers, the company used to advertise for jobs that
had the word heavy engineer in it. And the word
(14:07):
heavy engineer was because they played around and moved things
that were heavy, except you didn't have to lift it.
There were machines that lifted it for you, but just
removing the word heavy saw them have more applications from women.
So there are these small perception issues that do matter.
But these are small tweaks that perhaps contribute towards solving
(14:29):
a very big problem.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
But Oxshad says, those perception shifts won't happen overnight.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
It's going to take a while for this signal that
there is a huge demand for people in this industry
to trickle down to the level where students in schools
are thinking their future lies in electrifying the economy rather
than sitting in front of computers and writing code.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Akshat, thank you so much for coming on the show.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
This is the Big Take from Bloomberg News. I'm Sarah Holder.
To get more from The Big Take and unlimited access
to all of Bloomberg dot com, subscribe today at Bloomberg
dot com slash podcast offer. If you liked this episode,
make sure to follow and review The Big Take wherever
you listen to podcasts. It helps people find the show.
Thanks for listening. We'll be back tomorrow.
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
Ridiculous History
History is beautiful, brutal and, often, ridiculous. Join Ben Bowlin and Noel Brown as they dive into some of the weirdest stories from across the span of human civilization in Ridiculous History, a podcast by iHeartRadio.