Ridiculous History

792 Episodes

1. Calvin Coolidge Was Super Weird...and Surprisingly Cool

   Published: 1/19/2024
2. The Ridiculous History of Baseball Caps: How One Hat Traveled the World

   Published: 1/16/2024
3. Breeching: A Weird Historical Obsession with Children's Pants

   Published: 1/11/2024
4. The Salton Sea: How A Little Whoopsie Turned into Ecological Disaster

   Published: 1/9/2024
5. CLASSIC: Digging Up James K Polk (For the Third Time)

   Published: 1/4/2024
6. CLASSIC: The Atomic Whoops: When the US Air Force Bombed South Carolina

   Published: 1/2/2024
7. The History of Soda Pop is So Weird, Part Two: Nostalgia is a Heck of a Drug

   Published: 12/29/2023
8. The History of Soda Pop is So Weird, Part One: The Saga of Spicy Water

   Published: 12/26/2023
9. The Puzzler, Part Two: Waldo, Rubik, and More

   Published: 12/21/2023
10. The Puzzler, Part One: The Crossword Moral Panic

    Published: 12/19/2023
11. Christmas Has A Dark Side: The Krampus Episode

    Published: 12/14/2023
12. A House Divided: Various Times Congress Tried to Beat the Snot Out of Each Other

    Published: 12/12/2023
13. Scientists Who Were Horrifically Persecuted, Part Two: Alan Turing

    Published: 12/7/2023
14. Serious Diseases with Seriously Funny Names, Part Two: Rickets, Brain Fever, and Maple Syrup

    Published: 12/5/2023
15. Serious Diseases with Seriously Funny Names, Part One: Dropsy

    Published: 11/30/2023
16. Oh Man, James Joyce was a Dirty Dude!

    Published: 11/28/2023
17. What's the Deal with Turkey on Thanksgiving?

    Published: 11/23/2023
18. Tammany Hall: America's Early Puppet Masters

    Published: 11/21/2023
19. The Hoover Dam is Ridiculous, Part Two: The Audacity!

    Published: 11/16/2023
20. The Hoover Dam is Ridiculous, Part One: Man Versus Nature

    Published: 11/14/2023