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Ridiculous History

How Louisiana Almost Became a Hippo Ranching Hub

Ridiculous History

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.24.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Nowadays beef, chicken and pork are the most common meats in the US -- but, not so long ago, that could have all changed. Join the guys as they travel back to the early 1900s, when Louisiana congressman Robert Broussard proposed an unorthodox solution to the nation's crippling meat shortage: the introduction of African Hippopotamuses to Gulf Coast swamplands. What convinced Broussard that the world's deadliest land mammal could become America's next culinary craze? Tune in to find out.

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1:50.0

Let's begin today's show with some apparently irrelevant hippo facts that will come into play later in the episode.

2:03.0

Number one, did you know hippos cannot swim and they cannot float?

2:08.0

What? It's true.

2:10.0

So whenever you see a hippo emerge from the murky waters in an adventure-type movie,

2:15.0

they're literally just walking on the bottom of the body of water.

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