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Ridiculous History

Three Ridiculous Histories of "Bloody Mary"

Ridiculous History

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.34.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

A frightening children's game. An intensely divisive, boozy drink. A real-life Royal. As Ben and Noel discover in today's episode, "Bloody Mary" alludes to several ridiculous -- and, at times -- disturbing things.

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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.

0:32.4

Let's hear it for our guest super producer, Dylan the chainsaw Fagan.

0:40.0

Dylan the Texas, no, the Tennessee chainsaw,

0:43.6

gentle massacre, Fagin.

0:45.9

Yeah, what a guy.

0:47.2

Hope his hands on the men's.

0:49.1

And thanks for giving us a hand, by the way, Dylan.

0:54.1

They call me Ben Boland.

0:55.9

That's Noel Brown.

0:57.9

No, I got to tell you, I don't think we've ever talked about this,

1:01.6

even in the days where I would be the kind of person

1:06.6

who would go to one of those boozy mimosa brunches or whatever,

1:10.0

I never got the Bloody Mary. Not for me. No, it's a cold soup, an alcoholic soup. It's a gazpacho with problems. Gaspacho soup. Where's my gazpacho soup? Yeah. It's burning my mouth. Room tip. Not into it. Yeah, I don't know. I've tried to like it in the past and had a sip. I was dating somebody for a long time who was really into him, but didn't go for it. And now I don't really drink too much. So it does seem like a popular go-to hangover cure, which basically just because you're drinking more, it's that hair of the dog situation?

1:45.1

Maybe there's vitamins in the juice, I don't know.

1:47.3

Yeah, and look, I'm not morally opposed to the Bloody Mary.

1:51.3

Do as thou wilt.

1:52.1

There's a lot of creativity in it when you get into the ingredients.

1:56.7

But as we're going to learn in this episode, Bloody Mary has three different kinds of ridiculous history to it going far past the drink.

2:07.3

Three aspects, right?

2:08.9

It's like a holy Trinity kind of situation.

2:13.1

This is an I-Heart podcast.

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