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Podcast: Ridiculous History
Episode: Weird Ways People Used to Communicate, Part II: Smoke Signals and Bottled Messages
Description: People these days are, for better or worse, increasingly accustomed to living in an area of constant communication. But how did people communicate over long distances before the rise of things like telegraphs, telephones and the internet? In the second part of this week's special two-part episode, guests Bill Whorley and Mark Kendall, the creators of the hit new podcast Ridiculous News, join the guys to talk about some of the weirdest ways people used to communicate in days of yore.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.