Spontaneous Generation, Part One: Mice and Grain

Ridiculous History

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🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Today the idea sounds silly. Why would anyone think nonliving substances can suddenly generate living things? Yet for much of human history, the concept of spontaneous generation was widely accepted. In the first part of this week's two-part episode, Ben, Noel and Max dive into the ridiculous theory of spontaneous generation.

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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 joining us today.
0:33.4	Turning the frogs gay.
0:34.6	We are absolutely, we are absolutely over the moon
0:38.5	to introduce you to our man, our myth, our legend, our super producer, Mr. Max Williams.
0:45.7	I am here and I am known to spontaneously combust.
0:49.8	Is that what we're talking about today?
0:50.8	No.
0:51.8	Sort of.
0:52.1	No, I'm sorry, I said we're turning the today? No. No.
0:53.0	I'm sorry.
0:54.0	I said we're turning the frogs gap.
0:55.0	Sorry, that was really inappropriate outburst.
0:56.0	I do want to apologize.
0:58.0	It's just the idea of spontaneous generation and the notion that frogs can change sex and all of that stuff.
1:06.0	And it made me think of old Alex Jones.
1:08.0	I wonder how he's doing.
1:10.0	He's not doing well.
1:11.0	Yeah, good to hear. You love to doing well. Good to hear.
1:13.0	You love to see it.
1:14.0	That guy sucks.
1:15.0	Sue, I am going by Ben Boland these days.
1:18.0	You are called Noel Brown.
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