The History of Morning Routines, Part Two: All Hail The Toothbrush! And Deodorant!

Ridiculous History

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History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 10 June 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

For most of us -- hopefully! -- dental care is a fundamental piece of the morning routine. There are few things quite as refreshing as starting the day with a fresh, minty smile. Then, of course, deodorant (please)! In the second part of the History of Morning Routines, Ben, Noel and Max give massive thanks to the many inventors of yesteryear who worked tirelessly to create toothbrushes, toothpaste, and deodorant. Along the way, the guys discover some immensely devious marketing, and invent a new insult: "you sweat-ridden child."

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0:00.0	Ridiculous History is a production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show.
0:27.8	Fellow ridiculous historians, thank you, as always so much for tuning in.
0:33.1	Now, a quick bit of housekeeping, you may notice that we had a little classic coming in the place of morning routines part one and part two, right?
0:44.8	And that's just everything's fine.
0:46.7	That's just a little scheduling.
0:48.0	We'd like to kick off our summer break.
0:51.8	Our, what, is taking a Thursday a summer break for us?
0:55.5	I think it is.
0:56.4	I think it is.
0:57.1	Technically, let's intro our super producer, Mr. Max Williams.
1:00.4	That's Mr. Noel Brown.
1:02.6	I am Ben Bowlin previously on Ridiculous History.
1:06.4	In part one, we started talking about just the concept of cleaning yourself up, right?
1:14.4	Exactly.
1:15.0	Look at you, humanity.
1:16.6	Wash yourself.
1:17.6	Washing your ass.
1:18.3	It's important.
1:19.9	We did devote a lot of that episode to some stuff we discussed in the past in terms of the history of soap.
1:25.3	And the impact of soap on that whole idea cannot be
1:28.0	understated. Today, we felt like this was beefy enough in and of itself for a whole episode.
1:33.3	We are moving into oral hygiene.
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