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Podcast: Ridiculous History
Episode: The History of Morning Routines, Part One: Thank Goodness People Learned to Wash Themselves
Description: Regardless of culture or country, most people have some sort of morning routine. This could be a simple as a shower, a shave and brushing one's teeth -- on the other hand, some morning routines are elaborate affairs requiring an hour or more of careful grooming, mousiturizing, meditation, and more. So where do these rituals come from? In the first part of this two-part episode, Ben, Noel and Max journey to the past to learn that, for a large part of human history, people smelled terrible.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.