The Ridiculous History of Vending Machines

Ridiculous History

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History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Pretty much everyone in the developed world is familiar with vending machines these days -- you see them in all sorts of places, selling all sorts of things. But where did they come from? What's the weirdest stuff sold via vending machine? In today's episode, Ben, Noel and Max explore the surprisingly ancient concept of automated product dispensers.

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0:00.0	Ridiculous History is a production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show.
0:28.1	Ridiculous historians.
0:29.1	Thank you, as always so much for tuning in.
0:32.2	Let's hear it for the man, the myth legend,
0:34.2	our super producer, Mr. Max Williams.
0:38.4	To the top.
0:39.7	Excuse me?
0:41.1	I'm going to...
0:41.4	I don't know.
0:42.4	Zanzibar.
0:43.5	Yeah.
0:44.1	Remember how I started saying Zanzibar?
0:46.1	I said of awesome.
0:47.8	We all just went with it.
0:49.5	I think I stole Hizah from Lauren Vogelbaum actual facts.
0:53.2	Lauren actual facts of Ogle facts. Lauren, actual facts, Vogelbaum.
0:55.2	I think we should bring Zanzbar back to be like, Cahokia.
0:59.0	I sometimes via text say, hazoo!
1:02.4	Exclamation.
1:03.9	Well, we're going to put a quarter in our local podcast vending machine.
1:10.4	That's a ridiculous history.
1:12.7	And hopefully our snack doesn't get stuck and we have to shake that thing because that's
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