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Ridiculous History

The Oddly Dark History of Crash Test Dummies (Not The Band)

Ridiculous History

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.34.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

As automobiles took the world by storm, manufacturers quickly realized they needed to make a ton of safety improvements -- and fast. But how could you accurately determine what happened in a car crash, without risking human lives? In today's episode, Ben, Noel and Max dive into the evolution of crash testing... along with the little-known dark side of crash test dummies.

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0:00.0

What would you do if a secret cabal of the most powerful folks in the United States told you hey?

0:05.6

Let's start a coup. Back in the 1930s, a marine named Smetley Butler was all that stood between the US and fascism.

0:13.2

I'm Ben Bullard. I'm Alex Frinch. And I'm Smetley Butler. Join us for this sorted tale of ambition,

0:19.4

treason, and what happens when evil tycoons have too much time on their hands.

0:23.5

Listen to Let's Start A coup on the IHR radio app Apple Podcast or wherever you find your favorite shows.

0:30.0

Did you know Lance Bass is a Russian train astronaut that he went through training in a secret facility

0:36.2

outside Moscow hoping to become the youngest person to go to space? Well, I ought to know because

0:43.9

I'm Lance Bass and I'm hosting a new podcast that tells my crazy story and an even crazier story

0:50.4

about a Russian astronaut who found himself stuck in space with no country to bring him down.

0:56.5

With the Soviet Union collapsing around him, he orbited the Earth for 313 days that changed the world.

1:04.5

Listen to the last Soviet on the IHR radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:12.8

What if I told you that much of the forensic science you see on shows like CSI?

1:18.0

I isn't based on actual science and the wrongly convicted pay a horrific price.

1:26.0

Two disadvantages in a life without parole. My youngest I was incarcerated two days after

1:31.0

her first birthday. Listen to CSI on trial on the IHR radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:39.3

Radiculous History is a production of IHR radio.

1:49.3

Welcome back to the show Radiculous Historians. Thank you as always so much for tuning in.

2:14.0

We're going to do a little bit of an automobile.

2:20.4

Well, yeah. That was my crash car crash mouth sound.

2:26.0

Did you like it? Yeah, I liked it. Also it was like a test of a car crash maybe, right?

2:31.8

Perhaps. Yeah. I'm no dummy and neither are any of you Ben Bolin and then the super producer

2:38.6

Maximus to the maximum at least not yet our super producer, Mr. Max Williams. Yes, still stuck

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