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.
How One Guy Made Europe Fall In Love With Potatoes
62 hours 41 mins; July 27, 2021
Weird Courtship Rituals, Part Two
51 mins; July 22, 2021
Weird Courtship Rituals, Part One
60 hours 20 mins; July 20, 2021
A Brief History of Underwear
62 hours 1 min; July 15, 2021
One Guy Was Certain Telepathic Snails Would Replace Telegraphs
30 mins; July 13, 2021
The Duke of Portland Hated People and Loved Tunnels
43 mins; July 08, 2021
Where do Lemonade Stands Come From?
41 mins; July 06, 2021
Painless Parker and the Dental Circus
48 mins; July 01, 2021
The Rise and Fall of Curative Plane Flights
46 mins; June 29, 2021
That Time People Paid Rent With Eels
48 mins; June 28, 2021
The Miracle of the Gulls: A Cricket War
38 mins; June 22, 2021
A History of Pregnancy Cravings, Part 2: Stereotypes, Superstitions and Science
43 mins; June 17, 2021
A History of Pregnancy Cravings, Part 1: Pickles and Ice Cream
41 mins; June 15, 2021
The Carrington Event, Part II: Attack of the Sun!
22 mins; June 10, 2021
The Carrington Event, Part I: The Sun is Acting Strange
25 mins; June 08, 2021
Loveday: Henry VI's Well-intentioned, Terrible Attempt at Making Peace
50 mins; June 03, 2021
Classic: Why do British lawyers wear wigs?
33 mins; June 01, 2021
That Time Al Capone Ran A Soup Kitchen
33 mins; May 27, 2021
The Phantom Barber of Pascagoula
39 mins; May 25, 2021
Joseph Bonaparte, Cryptid Hunter
54 mins; May 20, 2021
The Mystery of the Devonshire Colic
45 mins; May 18, 2021
The Troubling, Hidden History of Turpentine
60 hours 25 mins; May 13, 2021
A Race Across the World: From New York to Paris in 1908
63 hours 39 mins; May 11, 2021
The Age of the Crakow, Part 2: A Fashion Arms Race, But For Your Feet
31 mins; May 06, 2021
The Age of the Crakow, Part 1: Medieval Europe Went Nuts For Pointy Shoes
33 mins; May 04, 2021
How Pie in the Face Became a Comedy Classic, Part 2: The Fall (of the Pie)
29 mins; April 29, 2021
How Pie in the Face Became a Comedy Classic, Part 1: Rise of the Pie
24 mins; April 27, 2021
The Great Panjandrum: A Hilariously Terrible Idea
28 mins; April 22, 2021
Dr. T. W. Stallings: One Man's Corvid-Hating Quest to Make Oklahoma Literally Eat Crow
42 mins; April 20, 2021
Pineapples In Europe, Part 2: People Literally Rented Pineapples to Impress their Friends
52 mins; April 15, 2021
Pineapples In Europe, Part 1: A Weird, Cartoonishly Expensive Flex
46 mins; April 13, 2021
The Mysterious Dark Day That Terrified New England
33 mins; April 07, 2021
The Windham Frog Fight of 1754
42 mins; April 05, 2021
Ancient Mesopotamian Societies Sacrificed Substitute Kings to Eclipses
35 mins; April 01, 2021
The Mad Gasser of Mattoon, Part 2
45 mins; March 29, 2021
The Mad Gasser of Mattoon, Part 1
26 mins; March 25, 2021
A Currency for Colonies: The Strange Story of "Leprosy Money"
37 mins; March 22, 2021
Wyoming Tales, Part 2: Absaroka, the State That Almost Was
45 mins; March 18, 2021
Wyoming Tales, Part 1: Walking in the Shoes of Big Nose George
39 mins; March 16, 2021
The Rise and Fall of the Flea Circus, Part 2
45 mins; March 11, 2021
The Rise and Fall of the Flea Circus, Part 1
31 mins; March 09, 2021
History's Most Ridiculous (and Deadly) Beauty Trends
56 mins; March 08, 2021
Billy Cottrell, the Tyrant Mayor of Cedar Key, Florida
45 mins; March 04, 2021
The US and the UK Almost Went to War over a Pig
51 mins; March 02, 2021
The 1973 Michigan Pizza Funeral
35 mins; February 25, 2021
Elagabalus The Raunchy, Racy High Priest Who Became a Roman Emperor
53 mins; February 23, 2021
John Wilkins Started a 17th-century Astronaut Program, Part 2: Wilkins (Tries to) Start a Space Program
24 mins; February 18, 2021
John Wilkins Started a 17th-century Astronaut Program, Part 1: Why not aim for the Moon?
34 mins; February 16, 2021
Turtle Soup, Part 2: Rise of the Mock Turtle
24 mins; February 11, 2021
Turtle Soup, Part 1: A Delicacy of Yesteryear
37 mins; February 09, 2021
Stab Yourself to Health and Happiness: The Bizarre Rise of the Lebensweker
46 mins; February 04, 2021
The Hatpin Peril
45 mins; February 02, 2021
It's a Cat's World, Part 2: The Rise of the Cat Show
27 mins; January 28, 2021
It's a Cat's World, Part 1: The Sacred and the Suspicious
33 mins; January 26, 2021
Dan Sickles, American Scoundrel, Part 2: The Civil War
28 mins; January 21, 2021
Dan Sickles, American Scoundrel, Part 1: How to Get Away with Murder
33 mins; January 19, 2021
That Time New York Banned Spitting
52 mins; January 14, 2021
Admiral Byrd and the Polar Dairy
32 mins; January 12, 2021
Weird 21st Century Predictions from Ages Past, Part 2: Your Personal Plane, A World Without Disaster and Retiring on the Moon
50 mins; January 07, 2021
Weird 21st Century Predictions from Ages Past, Part 1: Tesla, Square Tomatoes and Pseudosteak
37 mins; January 05, 2021
The Old Rituals of New Years, Part 2: Neuroscience, Resolutions and the Rick Steves Fan Club
30 mins; December 31, 2020
Holiday Classic: When the Puritans Canceled Christmas
28 mins; December 24, 2020
Holiday Classic: The Strange History of Antarctic Fruitcake
29 mins; December 22, 2020
Goodyear and the Mystery of the Ghost Blimp
39 mins; December 17, 2020
Benito Mussolini was Super into Wearable Milk
41 mins; December 15, 2020
Snowmen as Protest: The Miracle of 1511
29 mins; December 10, 2020
Why are Chimney Sweeps good luck at weddings?
39 mins; December 08, 2020
People Have Been Convinced Robots Will Take Their Jobs For Centuries
43 mins; December 03, 2020
That Time the US was Terrified of Tomatoes
39 mins; December 01, 2020
How the Pandemic Helped (and Hurt) the Struggle for Women's Rights
29 mins; November 26, 2020
How a German Prince Built his own Artificial Volcano
36 mins; November 24, 2020
The Weird Origin of Pink Lemonade, Part 2: The Rise of Clown Pants
27 mins; November 19, 2020
The Weird Origin of Pink Lemonade, Part 1: A Humble Citrus
26 mins; November 17, 2020
An Elephant in the Vatican, Part 2: An Elephant in the Reformation
41 mins; November 12, 2020
An Elephant in the Vatican, Part 1: The Discovery of Hanno
30 mins; November 10, 2020
S T O V E G O B L I N
29 mins; November 05, 2020
The US Didn't Always Have Secret Ballots
48 mins; November 03, 2020
The Case of the Greenbrier Ghost, Part 2: The Court
38 mins; October 29, 2020
Ridiculous History Presents: Criminalia
38 mins; October 28, 2020
The Case of the Greenbrier Ghost, Part 1: An 'Everlasting Faint'
37 mins; October 27, 2020
The Hand of Glory, Part 2: Recipes, Necropants and Toes
17 mins; October 22, 2020
The Hand of Glory, Part 1: A Thief's Theme
32 mins; October 20, 2020
Brooms and Witchcraft, Part 2: Inquisitions and Iniquity
28 mins; October 15, 2020
Brooms and Witchcraft, Part 1: A Killer in the Rye?
