Weird Ways People Used to Communicate, Part II: Smoke Signals and Bottled Messages

Ridiculous History

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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People these days are, for better or worse, increasingly accustomed to living in an area of constant communication. But how did people communicate over long distances before the rise of things like telegraphs, telephones and the internet? In the second part of this week's special two-part episode, guests Bill Whorley and Mark Kendall, the creators of the hit new podcast Ridiculous News, join the guys to talk about some of the weirdest ways people used to communicate in days of yore.

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0:00.0	My father was a fly star.
0:01.7	It was Spike Beatlemania.
0:03.2	But not here in America.
0:04.7	Dean Reed criticized the American government
0:06.8	from behind the Iron Curtain.
0:08.3	He had lots of enemies.
0:09.7	He'll calm you down, think all that.
0:11.3	He wanted to come back home,
0:12.8	and then the unthinkable happened.
0:15.0	Dean Reed died.
0:16.2	Come with me, Ramona Reed,
0:17.8	to learn more about the extraordinary life
0:20.0	and mysterious death of revolutionary.
0:22.7	Listen to Red Elvis, a curiosity audio network podcast
0:25.8	on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast,
0:28.0	or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:58.0	Or wherever you find your favorite shows.
1:00.6	Hi, it's Bethany Frankel.
1:02.1	My time on the Real Housewives of New York
1:04.0	is a few years behind me.
1:05.4	And now I'm ready to put the real back
1:07.4	into the Real Housewives.
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