How Did Monster Trucks Become a Thing?
Ridiculous History
iHeartPodcasts
4.3 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Even if you're not a fan of cars or racing, you've heard of monster trucks -- they're the huge, modded vehicles famous for committing acts of wanton destruction in arenas and stadiums across the United States. In today's episode, Ben, Noel and Max dive into their strange origin story... along with the rivalries that ensued offstage.
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| 0:00.0 | Just a few miles off the Thailand coast, the island of Kothau looks like a postcard. |
| 0:07.0 | I'd underneath the surface lies something sinister. |
| 0:11.0 | In the last 20 years dozens of tourists have died mysteriously on the island. |
| 0:16.0 | A dark cloud who's come over the island, death, mystery and danger. |
| 0:23.0 | Listen to Death Island every Wednesday on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.0 | Radiculous history is a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 0:54.0 | Welcome back to the show. |
| 0:58.0 | Radiculous historians. |
| 0:59.0 | Let's hear it for our super producer, Mr. Max Sunday Sunday Sunday Williams. |
| 1:05.0 | Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday. |
| 1:10.0 | So I've been your little it's it. |
| 1:14.0 | It may be Sunday while someone's listening to this, but there's never a bad time to check out a monster truck ship. |
| 1:22.0 | Have you ever seen one you guys not in person? |
| 1:25.0 | They do what is it called monster jam here in Atlanta? |
| 1:29.0 | It's a big thing. Very popular event. |
| 1:31.0 | I was invited to go once and I couldn't make it, but I want to go. |
| 1:35.0 | I want to see what is a truck of Soros. |
| 1:37.0 | Is that a thing? |
| 1:38.0 | Truck of Soros is we mentioned this in our previous episode, right? |
| 1:43.0 | Truck of Soros is in the Simpsons. |
| 1:46.0 | It's a truck dinosaur created by Professor Frank. |
| 1:50.0 | Right. And it like blitz shoots fire and stuff. |
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