4.3 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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House cats are astonishing, fascinating, and at-times frustrating little creatures -- yet they've made a comfortable home with humans, spreading in step with every civilization they join. In today's episode, Ben, Noel and Max explore an intriguing theory that busts more than a few stereotypes: What if Vikings were responsible for spreading cats even farther around the world?
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0:00.0 | Ridiculous History is a production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show, |
0:27.8 | Ridiculous Stories. |
0:28.7 | Thank you so much for tuning in. |
0:31.8 | We've got the energy here. |
0:34.0 | We've got some meows. |
0:35.4 | That's our super producer, Mr. Max Williams. |
0:39.0 | Meow. |
0:42.0 | So you're Noel Brown. I'm Ben Bullitt. Noel, it's safe to say that all three of us enjoy |
0:48.6 | the feline. Enjoy is a strong word. No, I do enjoy a good cat um but they're a little caty it's really the |
0:58.9 | only way to describe them isn't it they just they don't care about us um you found max you found a |
1:04.2 | really great quote from sir winston churchill himself that dogs look up to us cats look down on us |
1:10.3 | and pigs treat us as equals. |
1:12.0 | I'm not sure who this is more insulting to. I think it's the humans that really come out |
1:15.6 | on the losing end of this particular expression. I think he was probably insulting someone |
1:22.0 | at a diplomatic function. Likely. Classic Winston. What was his other quote? |
1:28.0 | You know, someone said, you sir, are drunk. |
1:31.2 | And he said, very well. |
1:33.2 | But tomorrow I'll be sober and you'll still be ugly. |
1:37.4 | Yeah. |
1:38.0 | And or an idiot. |
1:39.6 | It's good. |
1:40.8 | But yeah, like we said, cats are really like catty, cat like not really. They kind of are their own thing, you know? Have you seen the meme where it's like a cat like with like bisected and there's like a weird alien inside steering it? Yeah. And cats also, not to get to brain stuff about it, check out the earlier videos on domestication. Cats are arguably one of the only |
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