Ridiculous History
Did San Diego fall victim to a real-life weather manipulating supervillain? What on Earth are Soviet bone records? Each week, longtime friends and veteran podcasters Ben Bowlin and Noel Brown dive into some of the weirdest stories from across the span of human civilization in Ridiculous History, a podcast by HowStuffWorks.
- Website
- https://www.ridiculoushistoryshow.com/podcasts/ridiculous-history.rss
- Description
- 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 HowStuffWorks.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-12-24 19:56
- last episode published
- 2024-12-24 12:00
- publication frequency
- 3.14 days
- Contributors
- HowStuffWorks
- Author Owner
- applepodcast@howstuffworks.com (HowStuffWorks)
- Managing editor
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 837
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- Categories
- Society & Culture Literature History Science & Medicine
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Episodes
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| 2024-12-24 |
The First Recorded Christmas Was The Latest Birthday Party Ever Whether or not you yourself celebrate Christmas, there's no denying it's one of the world's most well'known holidays -- in fact, this commemoration of the birth of Jesus Christ may be the most famous birthday in the Western world. Yet, as Ben, Noel and... |
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| 2024-12-21 | Almost 48 years ago, Pirates pitcher and notorious party animal Dock Ellis pitched a no-hitter while under the influence of LSD. How did this man accomplish one of the rarest feats in baseball history while, by his own admission, tripping balls? Join t... |
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| 2024-12-19 |
Whoops! All Quizster, Part Two: A Ridiculous History of HowStuffWorks Still reeling from a tragic loss in the greatest of games, Ben, Noel and Max square off with Jonathan Strickland AKA The Quizster in one last battle of wits before wiping the slate clean in 2025. Jonathan shares several important announcements, and the... |
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| 2024-12-17 | After going off the grid for the better part of a year, Jonathan Strickland AKA The Quizster returns at the end of 2024, with several bones to pick. As he regales -- and/or tortures -- Ben, Noel and Max with a new quiz and an (apparently) in-depth expl... |
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| 2024-12-14 | On the first listen, Maryland's old state song sounds pretty innocuous. There's the usual lauding of the state, a refrain based on "O Tannenbaum" and so on. Yet the lyrics of this song refer to "Northern scum" and call for out and out war with various ... |
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| 2024-12-12 |
How The (English) Alphabet Became A Thing, Part Two: Each Letter Has A Story How did the English alphabet -- a strange agglomeration of curved and straight-lined symbols -- become a thing? In the second part of this special two-part series, Ben, Noel and Max dive into the messy evolution of modern English, with a special shouto... |
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| 2024-12-10 |
How The (English) Alphabet Became A Thing, Part One: Writing Stuff Down Is A Bonkers Idea Let's be honest: the concept of writing stuff down is both brilliant and insane. Right now, all around the world, countless people are scrawling or typing messages that may last long after the writer has passed from this mortal plane - in a way, readin... |
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| 2024-12-07 |
CLASSIC: The Story of Max, South Africa's Famous, Crime-fighting Gorilla When confronted with a home invasion, Max the gorilla brought international fame to the Johannesburg Zoo and briefly became the city's most famous crime fighter. He received numerous endorsements, and a statue was erected in his honor. But what brought... |
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| 2024-12-05 |
History's Famous Mistranslations, Part Two: Life on Mars, the Cold War, and FARTFULL Did a mistranslation lead to theories of life on Mars? What exactly was Khrsuschev trying to say at that big U.N. meeting? Language is amazing -- and it's also pretty complicated. As a result, translation is often more an art than an exact science, and... |
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| 2024-12-03 | It's easy to look at history and think one idea or another is ridiculous -- but we also have to remember modern civilization has its own vast collection of cartoonish concepts. You know, the sort of stuff we all agreed was "normal" until we really star... |
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