A Samurai Walks Into The White House

Ridiculous History

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

History is often taught as a series of discrete, unrelated events -- and that could not be further from the truth. In today's episode, Ben, Noel and Max explore a fascinating Venn diagram of historical events... and learn that, technically, yes! A samurai could have sent something like a fax to President Abraham Lincoln.

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0:00.0	Ridiculous History is a production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show, fellow ridiculous historians.
0:29.4	Thank you, as always so much for tuning in.
0:32.3	Let's hear it for our super producer, Max Kauai Williams.
0:35.8	He's just so cute. Look at him. Look at his little face. Like a button. Yeah. So cute. He's just so cute.
0:38.0	Look at him.
0:38.8	Like a button.
0:39.7	Like a button.
0:41.4	That guy.
0:42.1	Those big old eyes just staring back at you.
0:45.0	That is none other than Mr.
0:47.0	Noel Brown.
0:47.6	They call me Ben Bowlin.
0:49.6	And we all three are huge fans of, as you could imagine, history.
0:55.5	One thing that escapes a lot of people, I think,
0:58.0	especially when we just look at what you learn in your grade school history books,
1:03.2	is that all of the history that you can imagine happened a lot more concurrently
1:13.2	that your history books will have you believe.
1:15.3	Parallel timelines, baby, not parallel universes.
1:18.0	This stuff happened in the same universe
1:19.3	at the same time, just very, very far away.
1:21.7	And we always, from one another.
1:23.1	And we always talk about things like parallel thinking
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