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Ridiculous History

Ridiculous History Presents: A History of "Adult" Toys, Part 2

Ridiculous History

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.24.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

While it's a taboo subject in the modern day, it turns out people have been improvising ways to pleasure themselves since, well, the dawn of history. In the second part of this week's two-part takeover episode, Ben and Noel join Eli and Diana Banks, real-life spouses and creators of the hit podcast Ridiculous Romance, to discuss the strange, ridiculous (and at-times disturbing) history of sex toys across the planet. Heads-up, this one gets a little raunchy.

Transcript

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0:00.0

My father was a fly star.

0:01.7

It was Spike Beatlemania.

0:03.2

But not here in America.

0:04.7

Dean Reed criticized the American government

0:06.8

from behind the Iron Curtain.

0:08.3

He had lots of enemies.

0:09.8

He'll calm you down, think all that.

0:11.3

He wanted to come back home and then

0:13.4

the unthinkable happened.

0:15.0

Dean Reed died.

0:16.2

Come with me, Ramona Reed,

0:17.8

to learn more about the extraordinary life

0:20.0

and mysterious death of revolutionary.

0:22.7

Listen to Red Elvis, a curiosity audio network podcast

0:25.8

on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast,

0:28.0

or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:30.1

The number one true crime podcast is back.

0:33.9

Let's talk about the crime scenes.

0:35.6

Accused murder, George Wagner faces a judge and jury.

0:39.5

This is legitimately the biggest murder trial

0:42.6

in the state of Ohio history.

0:44.0

I think the defense knows something

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