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Ridiculous History

How the Kentucky Derby Became a Thing

Ridiculous History

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.34.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

We’ve all been there, right? You wake up one day, and you say: “You know what? Forget work! It’s so nice outside. I want to put on a fancy hat, watch a bunch of horses run around in a circle, and gamble. Like they do in Europe.” In today's episode, Ben, Noel and Max learn how the volatile, ambitious Colonel Meriwether Lewis Clark Jr. created a little something called the Kentucky Derby.

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0:00.0

Ridiculous History is a production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show.

0:28.1

Fellow ridiculous historians, thank you, as always so much for tuning in.

0:33.1

Let's hear it for our number one horsey boy, the main that just won't quit, our super producer, Mr. Max Williams.

0:41.7

Our main main.

0:42.9

Congratulations, Ben.

0:43.8

You finally, after four and a half years, you hit me with one, I just don't know how to respond on that one.

0:48.5

The main part I can get you on, but the horsey boy, I just got me, bud.

0:53.6

Max is speechless for the first time ever.

0:56.5

Yet, he still speaks.

0:58.5

No, hey, guys, Irma Gert, it's the Kentucky Derby.

1:02.3

Ah, yes, yeah, that is none other than Mr.

1:05.8

Noel Brown.

1:07.8

Noel, do we have a sound cue for you yet?

1:10.8

Can it be that horsey nay, like from insane in the membrane? Ney. Ney. Ney. You know the one. Yeah. For this, it must be. I mean, for all times, I'm cool with that as well. I'm totally. I'm more of a horsey boy than Max, to be fair, Ben. Oh, wow.

1:48.7

I'm just kidding. Oh, wow. I agree completely. And I don't even know what means, but I agree. Nobody does. It's a feel thing, guys. Vives based. We're working out horsey boys. You know what the horse girl phenomenon? That's a thing. There's like a type yes. That's a thing. Shout out Shane Gillisis. Folks, over on this show, they call me Ben Bullen, and we've all been there.

1:53.8

You know, you wake up one day and you say, you know what, forget about work.

1:55.5

It's nice outside.

1:57.7

I want to put on a fancy hat.

2:03.1

I want to maybe drink mint juleps, and I want to watch a bunch of panicked horses run around in a circle.

2:06.3

This is an I-Heart podcast.

2:13.7

The murder of an 18-year-old girl in Graves County, Kentucky, went unsolved for years,

2:20.8

until a local housewife, a journalist, and a handful of girls came forward with a story.

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