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Batman, or Bat-Man? A Ridiculously Comical Feud For The Ages
Jul 17, 2025The Dark Knight. The Caped Crusader. The terror of all criminals and ne'er-do-wells in Gotham... that's right, folks: today's episode is all about Batman. As Ben and Noel discover in today's episode, ...
Three Ridiculous Histories of "Bloody Mary"
Jul 16, 2025A frightening children's game. An intensely divisive, boozy drink. A real-life Royal. As Ben and Noel discover in today's episode, "Bloody Mary" alludes to several ridiculous -- and, at times -- distu...
CLASSIC: The Ridiculous Story of the World’s First (Documented) Serial Killer
Jul 12, 2025Locusta of Gaul, also known as Locusta The Poisoner, was one of the most infamous criminals of ancient times. Alternately sponsored and betrayed by the noble class, she committed crimes with impunity ...
A Ridiculous History of "Fad Diets"
Jul 10, 2025Everyone in the developed world knows someone who's tried a 'fad diet' -- these are the so-called miracle practices that promise to help people lose weight and keep it off, through any number of poten...
A Titanic Disaster: That Time An Entire Production Crew Tripped Off Bad Chowder
Jul 08, 2025James Cameron's Titanic was, by all accounts, a blockbuster success. And, like so many other masterpieces, the story of its creation is a tale all its own. In today's episode, Ben and Noel dive deep i...
CLASSIC: Back When the Rich Ate Corpses
Jul 03, 2025Nowadays it's safe to say that cannibalism isn't a widely-accepted practice, but not so long ago it was considered the bleeding edge (get it?) in medicine throughout Western Europe. Join Ben and Noel ...
A Ridiculous History of Sex, with Ross Benes
Jul 01, 2025Heads-up, folks: this is a PG-13 episode. Ben and the legendary guest producer, also Ben, welcome author and journalist Ross Benes for a wide-ranging discussion on the ridiculous ways in which sex has...
CLASSIC: The Mummies of Guanajuato
Jun 28, 2025When the city of Guanajuato instituted a grave tax, they included some harsh penalties for those who couldn't pay -- if you went more than three years without paying the tax on your loved one's restin...
A Ridiculous History of Brain Science, with Jorge Cham
Jun 26, 2025Today, we all generally understand that the brain is responsible for what we call personality and thought -- yet this wasn't always the case. Once humans figured out the brain was more than a weird lu...
Jorge Cham Teaches Us The Universe: Big Bangs and Quantum Hangs
Jun 24, 2025What is the universe? Where did it come from, and what happens to it in the future? Humanity has wrestled with these questions since the dawn of civilization -- and though we've made a lot of progress...