909 Episodes

  1. The Salton Sea: How A Little Whoopsie Turned into Ecological Disaster

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 11/14/2023
  18. CLASSIC: Waging War With Hallucinogenic Honey

    Published: 11/9/2023
  19. CLASSIC: Ben Franklin Tried To Reinvent the Alphabet

    Published: 11/7/2023
  20. CLASSIC: When the Puritans Canceled Christmas

    Published: 11/2/2023

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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.