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Ridiculous History

Popeye Changed America, Part One: A Breakout Star

Ridiculous History

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.34.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Nowadays Popeye the Sailor Man is a world-famous icon, represented in almost any form of media you can imagine. Yet this wasn't always the case. In part one of this special two-part episode, Ben, Noel and Max delve into the story of how Popeye started. Tune in to learn a ridiculous, one-off joke character in a comic strip called Thimble Theatre quickly became the most popular draw of the series, launching a media empire that outlived its creator and continues in the modern day.

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0:00.0

Ridiculous history is a production of I Heart Radio. The Welcome back to the show, Ridiculous Historians. Thank you as always so much for

0:31.0

tuning in. That's our own cartooner super producer Mr Max Williams.

0:35.8

Ha ha, kak, kak, kak, kak, kakkak, kakkak, kakkak, kakkak, kakkakkakkah kakkah kakkah kakkah kakkah kakkah kakkah kakkah kah kah kah kah kah kah kahhah kahhahh, that I really love spinach but I can't eat it. Oh no the condition.

0:44.4

Because the condition. He's got the condition.

0:46.4

Complex vegetables. I can't have complex vegetables. I'm so glad that you have approved of us putting that weird Victorian malady term on the condition.

0:57.0

It's just, we knew it was serious when Max just started coughing kind of wearily into a hanky and then a little bit of blood kind of came out, you know?

1:05.7

And you kept, you bought the fainting couch and you keep fainting?

1:09.6

Yeah, it's the vapors.

1:11.0

There's another name for it.

1:12.2

Yeah, yeah, and then I got the tobacco smoke animals.

1:15.0

I started reading J.J's book and I read that I'm like, oh, that's on the fifth page.

1:20.0

Oh, yes, of course, the year of living constitutionally available

1:23.0

any where fine books are sold.

1:24.6

Quick question Max if you can eat spinach where do you derive your super strength from?

1:28.9

Oh he rubs a hint.

1:30.2

Oh, okay.

1:31.2

And the No Barcelona Brown. Okay. I'll take you.

1:43.4

And so as you can probably tell from our from our spinach references and a little bit of some great

1:51.1

catchphrasing here. Today's episode is about Popeye

1:56.0

the sailor. Now what's the first thing you think about when you hear the phrase popeye?

2:00.9

I think of expanding biceps with a giant steam ship tattoo that as it becomes

2:07.5

larger and larger it starts to pump like vapors out into the air you know it

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