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Ridiculous History

CLASSIC: Who are the Hartlepudlian Monkey Hangers?

Ridiculous History

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.34.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Years ago, if you wanted to start a fight in Hartlepool in north eastern England, all you'd have to do is start calling people 'monkey hangers'. But why? Join the guys as they explore how the Napoleonic War, a terrified village and one incredibly unlucky monkey collided -- allegedly -- in one of the most ridiculous events of its time.

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0:00.0

fellow ridiculous historians, we are going abroad in this week's classic episode to

0:07.0

Northeastern England. I'm Ben, you're Noel. And right before we re-listen to this episode

0:14.5

and recorded this, you and I were looking back at our notes and we immediately said, oh, man.

0:22.4

And you said, that's a word.

0:24.8

I did say that's a word.

0:26.5

Folks from Hartpool in northeastern England are apparently referred to as Hartapudlians.

0:33.6

Much like people from Liverpool are referred to as Liverpoolians, much like people from Lilliput are referred to as Lillipusians.

0:41.7

Ben, have you seen the new sort of horror comedy, The Monkey?

0:45.3

I have, yes.

0:46.5

It was fine.

0:47.2

It was a bit Final Destination coded, let's just say.

0:50.6

Yeah, yeah.

0:51.9

Actually, you know what, I'm going to go on a limb to say it wasn't very good.

0:54.5

I was not, you know, it's making a...

0:57.9

You weren't plused?

0:59.9

Yeah, sure.

1:00.8

I was, I was...

1:03.0

Because, you know, I'm kind of like a Larry David character, so about 15 minutes in,

1:08.5

I give every film at least 10, 15 minutes, 15 minutes in.

1:12.2

I thought, man, I'm not getting get a refund on this one.

1:16.1

I bought it on Amazon's.

1:17.8

I paid the price.

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