CLASSIC: History's Weirdest Flexes, Part Two
Ridiculous History
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4.2 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
While the phrase 'weird flex' may be relatively recent, it turns out that this phenomenon is as old as human civilization. Join the guys with special guests Miles and Jack from The Daily Zeitgeist as they explore some of the strangest (and most petty) flexes in human history in the conclusion of this two-part episode.
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| 0:00.0 | fellow ridiculous historians, we are returning with a dope beat for you to step two. |
| 0:06.2 | Step two. |
| 0:07.0 | Step two. |
| 0:07.9 | Step two. |
| 0:08.5 | Yeah, for sure. |
| 0:09.9 | We are returning with part two of history's weirdest flexes. |
| 0:15.8 | And guys, we had such a great time on this one with our pals Jack and Miles from the Daily Zeitgeist. |
| 0:22.4 | You're certainly familiar with the phrase Weird Flex, but OK, and we go deep down the historical |
| 0:28.3 | rabbit hole of Weird Flexes. You enjoyed Part 1. Now dive right on into Part 2. |
| 0:35.7 | This is an IHeart podcast, Guaranteed Human. on end to part two. And we're back. Thanks for tuning in. Welcome to Part 2 of Weird Historical Flexes, or as we've come to find, perhaps, a cruel historical flexes. I'm Ben. |
| 1:23.1 | I am Noel. |
| 1:24.1 | And that's our super producer, Casey Pegram, who, to our knowledge, has never eaten 20 tortoises. |
| 1:30.9 | We are not venturing into this alone. |
| 1:33.3 | Listeners, you recall from our previous episode, we had two of our favorite fellow podcasters on, |
| 1:38.9 | and they decided to be kind enough to return for the second part of this show. Let's welcome the Daily |
| 1:45.6 | Zykegeist, Miles, and Jack back on the air. Woo-hoo! Hey, whoa. Thanks for having us. Truth be told, |
| 1:52.1 | they didn't really return so much as just stayed in the same place. And we, you know, |
| 1:56.5 | through the magic of podcasts, we didn't have to go anywhere. For a whole week. I'm so thirsty. |
| 2:01.6 | Yeah, we just sat in our seats on pause. Doesn't Robert Evans have some like Mountain Dew that you guys could do? Or Doritos. Oh, no. If we touch his Mountain Dew, we are in, like, we will actually be in harm's way. Okay. So we don't touch, we don't touch Evans' do. Sometimes he sends me out of context text about that. |
| 2:21.1 | And he's like... So we don't touch Evans' due. Sometimes he sends me out of context text about that. |
| 2:21.0 | And he's like, don't touch my Mountain Dew. |
| 2:23.0 | And I didn't know the number at first. |
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