When Did We All Start Saying "Bulls*t"?
Ridiculous History
iHeartPodcasts
4.2 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Heads-up, fellow Ridiculous Historians: this is an explicit episode, and maynot be appropriate for all audiences. It's no secret that Ben, Noel and Max are huge fans of etymology -- and there's one word that's mystified them for years. When did the English world fall in love with the term "bullsh*t"? In today's episode, the guys discover this particular curse word has a suprisingly bizarre, murky backstory, and a lot of the proposed origins of bullsh*t are, themselves ... bullsh*t.
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| 0:00.0 | Ridiculous History is a production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show fellow ridiculous historians. |
| 0:29.5 | Thank you, as always so much for tuning in. |
| 0:32.6 | Let's hear it for The Man, The Myth, the Legend, |
| 0:34.4 | our super producer, Mr. Max, the freight train Williams. |
| 0:38.7 | I'm still here in the Bahamas. |
| 0:40.6 | We're all in the Bahamas in our hearts. Max, Bullsnip Williams. |
| 0:45.4 | That's Mr. No-poop Brown. |
| 0:49.5 | They call me... |
| 0:50.4 | The straight poop. |
| 0:51.4 | They call me Ben Bowlin in this part of the world, primarily due to tax purposes. |
| 0:56.8 | And folks, before we get into today's exploration, we have a disclaimer, disclaimer, disclaimer. |
| 1:04.4 | Somebody say this one more time. |
| 1:06.4 | Disclaimer. |
| 1:07.4 | Disclamer. |
| 1:08.4 | Disclaber. |
| 1:09.4 | This episode may not be appropriate for all ridiculous historians. It may be one that you cannot play in the classroom. We were on the fence about whether to include a million bleeps here or just to label it explicit and let it ride. Spoiler, we went for the latter. |
| 1:29.2 | Death by a million bleeps was not something that we wanted to go with. |
| 1:32.5 | Right, right. |
| 1:33.7 | We did it out of, honestly, we did it out of empathy for our dear long-suffering producer, Max. |
| 1:40.0 | The conversation was, yeah, I mean, as long we get some more production time on this one, we can just, I'll believe him all, and both Ben and Noel were like, no, we're not going to, we're not going to. Yeah, no, we're not going to do that to you. Well, there were also philosophical reasons for the choice, you know? Also, I believe that censorship is bullshit. Hey. There's the first one. Oh, the first one. We all kind of agreed or ended up on the same page that bullshit. Hey. First one. Also, first one. |
| 2:01.5 | We all kind of agreed or ended up on the same page that bullshit is a bit of a PG-13 swear. |
| 2:07.8 | Not even sure if it makes an R rating. |
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