People Used to Do Very Weird Drugs, Part One: Broomsticks, Sailors and Vikings
Ridiculous History
iHeartPodcasts
4.2 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Today, everyone knows the potential dangers of both illegal and legal drugs. Some are more popular and more widely-accepted than others (shoutout to coffee!), but across time and cultures, it's an open secret that pretty much every civilization was doing one drug or another. Sometimes for ritualistic purposes, sometimes for purported medicinal properties -- and, sometimes, just to party. In the first part of this continuing series, Ben, Noel and Max explore some of the strangest things people of ages past used to get high, including nutmeg, belladonna, henbane and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Ridiculous History is a production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show. |
| 0:27.9 | Thank you, as always so much for tuning in. |
| 0:32.6 | Before we introduce everybody here, our cast of players, |
| 0:36.1 | we want to begin today's series with the following announcement. |
| 0:42.1 | Don't do illegal drugs. |
| 0:44.4 | Dare to dream. |
| 0:45.6 | Wait, that's not how the campaign went. |
| 0:48.0 | Dare to dream of a world without illegal drugs. |
| 0:51.8 | Dare to keep a kid off drugs. |
| 0:54.9 | Dare to give super producer Max Williams a hand. |
| 0:59.4 | Some love would have been a good rhyming opportunity there. |
| 1:03.7 | Ben, what did Dare stand for at the end of the day? |
| 1:05.9 | I always forget. |
| 1:06.8 | Drug abuse resistance education? |
| 1:10.9 | Something close to that. Let's see. Drug abuse, resistance resistance education? Something close to that. |
| 1:12.3 | Let's see. |
| 1:13.5 | Drug abuse resistance education, sure it. |
| 1:16.0 | And man, speaking of the Mandela effect, which nobody was, but I always am, I had this memory |
| 1:21.2 | of a video game, a console cabinet, I'm sorry, a cabinet, not a console, video game |
| 1:25.7 | called NARC. |
| 1:31.8 | From back in the day where you were like a dude killing drug dealers. |
| 1:33.4 | It was like pre-Grant Theft Auto. |
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