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Ridiculous History

The Bizarrely Xenophobic Origins of Scotch Tape

Ridiculous History

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.34.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

There's no two ways about it: tape is a pretty handy, amazing thing -- and one we often take for granted. In today's episode, Ben, Noel and Max dive deep into the origin story of Scotch tape, uncovering the weird prejudice behind the name, as well as the journey of the young man who changed the world with his... well, let's call it stick-to-it-iveness.

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know that Osama bin Laden is a guy named Tim? Yeah, we're doing a whole episode on that one. JFK

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Welcome back to the show, Ridiculous historians. Thank you as always so much for tuning in,

2:04.5

quick note before we begin this episode touches on discrimination in a surprising way. We just

2:12.4

want you to be ready for that. Of course, we're going to approach it objectively and with

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