Day Drinkers (Sort of) Helped Stop Cholera in London
Dr. Jon Snow -- no relation to the guy from A Song of Ice and Fire -- was in a pickle. Cholera was ravaging London, particularly in the Soho area, and no one knew how to stop it from spreading like po...
7 Apr 202238min
The Much-Maligned Reign of Swedish Queen Maria Eleonora
We often assume wealth can solve everything, but unfortunately that's not the case -- and there are few better examples of this than the life of Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg, German princess and Quee...
5 Apr 202241min
Weird Ways People Used to Communicate, Part II: Smoke Signals and Bottled Messages
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 te...
31 Mar 202235min
Weird Ways People Used to Communicate, Part I: Only a Pigeon Away
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 te...
29 Mar 202230min
That Time A Dead Guy Won an Olympic Medal
In his heyday, the story goes, Arrhichion of Phigalia was a renowned pankration champion, a brutal sport of the ancient Olympics. But he was getting on in years, and his days at the top seem numbered....
24 Mar 202228min
Julia Barnett Rice Waged an Elitist War on Noise
If you, like the majority of humans alive today, live in a city, you're more than familiar with noise -- sirens, construction, traffic and more. In today's episode, the guys explore how one woman's mi...
23 Mar 202242min
Ridiculous History Presents: A History of "Adult" Toys, Part 2
While it's a taboo subject in the modern day, it turns out people have been improvising ways to pleasure themselves since, well, the dawn of history. In the second part of this week's two-part takeove...
17 Mar 20221h 3min
Ridiculous History Presents: A History of "Adult" Toys, Part 1
While it's a taboo subject in the modern day, it turns out people have been improvising ways to pleasure themselves since, well, the dawn of history. In this week's two-part takeover episode, Ben and ...
15 Mar 202256min
