The Bizarre Tale of the 1909 Catnip Riot
Ridiculous History
iHeartPodcasts
4.2 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Here's one for the cat lovers: Does your feline friend absolutely love catnip? If you have a cat with the right sensitivities, this stuff completely rocks their world. They'll go nuts for it, rolling around in the stuff, chewing it, drooling in a stupor and so on. In today's episode -- inspired by a listener suggestion -- Ben, Noel and Max dive into the ridiculous story of a get-rich-quick catnip scheme, when a New York peddler down on his luck tried to sell catnip door to door... and caused a full-on cat riot in the process.
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| 0:00.0 | Ridiculous History is a production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show. |
| 0:27.8 | Thank you, as always so much for tuning in. |
| 0:32.6 | Let's hear it for the man, the myth, the legend, Max, uh, the cat slave Williams. |
| 0:37.8 | Oh, he got claws. |
| 0:45.4 | And there is none other than Mr. Noel Brown, a fellow lover of felines. |
| 0:50.6 | Noel, how are you feeling today? |
| 0:52.4 | I'm pretty good, Ben. |
| 0:53.8 | Um, we had a, we had a mind meld offd off mic, and I'm just going to kind of tease it a little bit. |
| 0:59.3 | I was walking around today doing my little morning walk around this pond that is also occupied |
| 1:04.1 | by geese. |
| 1:05.4 | And there is poop everywhere. |
| 1:07.7 | And every time I go, I think goose poop riot. |
| 1:12.9 | Riot! |
| 1:14.8 | Throw back a basket of eggs. |
| 1:16.8 | There you go. We're not talking about goose poop riot today. We're talking about |
| 1:19.9 | catnep riot. My name is Ben Bullen and we are talking about something that is a riot. |
| 1:28.2 | Today's episode is a riot. |
| 1:29.6 | It's not in the way you might assume fellow ridiculous historians. |
| 1:33.1 | We're excited for this one, and I love the way you teased it, Noel. |
| 1:36.3 | We are excited because this comes to us via a listener suggestion from a fellow ridiculous historian. |
| 1:47.2 | Stacey R. over on our Facebook group page, |
| 1:48.6 | Ridiculous historians. |
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