First Ladies Who Weren't Wives, Part Two, Part Two: Some Folks Didn't Want The Job
Ridiculous History
iHeartPodcasts
4.3 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Imagine one of your family members attains the highest political position in American history -- your uncle or sibling becomes the President of the United States! And, as Ben, Noel and Max learn in today's episode: many people were called to play the role of First Lady. Turns out: several people genuinely didn't want the job.
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| 0:00.0 | Ridiculous History is a production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show. |
| 0:28.2 | Fellow ridiculous historians. |
| 0:29.8 | Thank you, as always, so much for tuning in. |
| 0:32.7 | That's our super producer. |
| 0:34.5 | Mr. Max, welcome back, Williams. |
| 0:36.7 | Welcome back, welcome back. I love that theme song for that. |
| 0:42.2 | Mr. Cotterre. Yes. Yeah, you nailed it. Who just nailed that? That's Mr. Noel Brown. |
| 0:47.8 | They call me Ben Bullen. This is our continuing series on the first ladies who weren't wives. |
| 0:55.8 | Please check out our previous episodes on this. |
| 0:58.8 | And I'm excited about this one, Noel, |
| 1:01.0 | because as our research associate, Jeff Factor G, Bartlett revealed to us fairly recently in his research, |
| 1:09.4 | there's one first lady who just didn't want the job. |
| 1:15.6 | That's right. |
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