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Ridiculous History

History's Weirdest Flexes, Part 1

Ridiculous History

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.24.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Do you know anyone who decided to show off in a weird way? While the phrase 'weird flex' may be relatively recent, it turns out that this phenomenon itself 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.

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0:00.0

From the executive producers of Hell and Gone comes a new podcast

0:04.0

investigating the serial murders orchestrated by South African cold leader Cecilia Stein.

0:09.0

She conditioned them to be monsters.

0:11.0

In the world of murderous cults, if Charles Manson is king, Cecilia Stein is queen.

0:17.0

She was telling people the Bible since she was going to kill, but actually she was taking revenge.

0:22.0

Listen to Queen Havoc and her murder cult. On the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:30.0

The True Crime Podcast sacred scandal returns for a second season to investigate a led sexual abuse at Mexico's La Luz del Mundo Mega Church.

0:38.0

Journalist Robert Garza explores survivor stories of pure evil experiences at the hands of a self-proclaimed apostle who is now behind bars.

0:46.0

I remember as a little girl being groomed to be his concubine, that's how I was raised. It is not wrong if you take your clothes off for the apostle.

0:54.0

Listen to sacred scandal on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:01.0

What do a flirtatious gambling double agent in World War II? An opera singer who burned down an unnery to kidnap her lover.

1:09.0

And a pirate queen who walked free with all of her spoils, haven't come in.

1:15.0

They're all real women who were left out of your history books.

1:20.0

You can hear these stories and more on the Womanica Podcast. Check it out on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

1:31.0

Radiculous History is a production of I Heart Radio.

1:34.0

Welcome back to the show folks, this is Radiculous History. My name is Ben.

2:02.0

My name is Nolan, it's not Radiculous Historians. It's not, that's our Facebook group, but hey look at us, we're getting the plugin early.

2:09.0

Yeah, join the Facebook group if you like the show. We always save it for the end. Maybe we'll see a giant spike in activity, a flurry of activity on our Facebook group.

2:17.0

A cavalcade of content, speaking of cavalcades of awesomeness we want to give a shout out to our super producer Casey Pagrum.

2:26.0

There he is, look at him, look at our boy Casey. There he is, the glint in his eyes always.

2:30.0

Oh, we should mention that today's episode is pretty fascinating to us. We started talking with some friends of ours off air about the most petty or strangest flexes in human history.

2:44.0

Ben, you're going to have to, you're going to have to hit me to this lingo here. What is a flex?

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