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Ridiculous History

Dr. Seuss Wrote His Most Famous Book On A Bet

Ridiculous History

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, History

4.24.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Nowadays, world-famous children's author Dr. Seuss is one of the most well-known writers on the planet. "Green Eggs and Ham", one of his most successful books, sold over 8 million copies by 2016 -- but would you believe he wrote it based entirely on a bet?

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0:00.0

Welcome to the show ridiculous historians as always thank you for tuning in I am pumped

0:29.9

about today's episode are we going to do it in a box we're going to do it about a fox are we going

0:36.4

to do it while eating some locks are we going to do it in a basement beneath fort knocks well that

0:41.9

sounds like the plot of national treasure right right well uh this is uh this is a show that's

0:48.3

giving us an excuse to talk about I don't know about you my friend but uh one of my favorite authors

0:53.3

when I was growing up is just a wee bend bowling I loved shell silverstein doctor suce and steven king

1:01.2

wow that's explained so much uh you've turned out thanks man hey who are you I'm no it's

1:09.7

stupid to see and I'm gonna do it in a hole uh possibly while eating cereal from a bowl um I'm not

1:18.2

as good at this as as theodore suce geysel that's right that's right you know I we have to also ask

1:25.0

super producer kacy pegrim did you read dr suce as a child kacy absolutely I did yeah what what

1:34.3

was some of your favorite books I'm terrible remembering anything childhood related it kind of all

1:40.3

flew out of my brain at some point but I know I did I know I had the books around uh I could not

1:45.4

tell you titles I would probably be able to identify them if I went and looked at covers online but

1:50.6

that'd be about it the covers are a big giveaway that that's what gets burned into my memory I don't

1:55.0

remember the titles very much either kacy but uh lately I've been kind of exploring them especially

1:59.3

doing this research and it was a real nostalgia blast from the past that's redundant that was good

2:06.1

nostalgia blast and nostalgia blast is already a blast from the past well if it was an nostalgia

2:10.8

blast that happened in the past if you're remembering a time nostalgia blast hit you so like even if

2:16.5

it was just 20 minutes ago it still worked that's a good point thank you for saving me no no I got

2:20.9

asked before we go any further did you have one book by suce that really like stuck out in your brain

2:27.8

I do it was one fish two fish red fish blue fish because I distinctly remember that being the

2:32.2

first thing where I was aware of the fact that I could read oh that's metacognition yeah there

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