The Ridiculous History of Ping Pong
Ridiculous History
iHeartPodcasts
4.2 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Whether you call it table tennis, whiff-whaff or ping pong, there's no denying this fun sport of "tennis for the home" has become a global phenomenon. But where did it come from? In today's episode, Ben, Noel and Max find out.
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| 0:00.0 | Ridiculous History is a production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show, fellow ridiculous historians. |
| 0:29.3 | Thank you, as always so much for tuning in. |
| 0:32.1 | Let's hear a Pong and a PING for our super producer, Mr. Max Williams. |
| 0:37.1 | Max the PING of Pong, the king of Kong, Williams. |
| 0:42.5 | Max, if you were a pizza, you would be a Supreme Pizza. |
| 0:45.7 | And I mean that with my heart. |
| 0:47.6 | Yes. |
| 0:48.4 | Thank you. |
| 0:49.3 | Guys, what constitutes a Supreme Pizza? |
| 0:51.4 | Is it just all the toppings or is, is there agreed upon? |
| 0:55.4 | You know, because not all pizza places have the same topping options. So as Supreme, it kind of seems like a little bit of an innocuous category. |
| 1:03.0 | Yeah, it's kind of in the eye of the beholder because it's sometimes it's the entirety of the restaurant's pantheon of toppings. |
| 1:10.0 | And then other times,'s you know the olive |
| 1:12.5 | the onion the pepper but they'll save the specialty meats i find yeah for sure little note here |
| 1:21.0 | i have not read this yet but according to pizzaplanet dot com which is under their news section they |
| 1:26.3 | have a fascinating history of |
| 1:28.3 | Supreme Pizza. So that just screams ridiculous history feature episode. Well, wasn't Pizza Planet |
| 1:33.8 | the pizza place in the toy story cinematic universe? That I mean that'd be right. You might be right. |
| 1:38.9 | It was totally. Oh, we forgot to introduce ourselves also. I'm Ben Bullitt. |
| 1:43.7 | You know who we are. |
| 1:46.2 | This is the one and only, Noel Brown, who's also our research associate for this episode, |
| 1:51.9 | which has little to nothing to do with pizza, but maybe we'll get there tangentially. |
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