Ridiculous Romance
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Ridiculous Romance
Throughout time and across the globe, from the Stone Age to the Digital Age, people have been having weird, wonderful, and downright absurd relationships. Real life spouses Diana and Eli are here to cover them all in a podcast that’s part history, part comedy, and all ridiculous. Hook up with some o...
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You Hate To See Us Leave But Love To Watch Us Go
You didn’t think we’d totally disappear without a goodbye smooch, did you?? Yes, sadly this is (for now) the last episode of Ridiculous Romance. But w...
Queen Victoria’s Spooky Seance for Prince Albert
RiCRYPTulous Romance returns for a 3rd Halloween Season! When Queen Victoria’s dear husband Prince Albert died, she fell into deep mourning. But when...
Climax Change: Annie Sprinkle, Beth Stephens, and Ecosexuality
When two queer, sex-positive, environmentalist artists meet, of course they’re going to fall for each other and make something truly fascinating. Film...
Hoisting Husbands, Colonial Genderbending, & Sex to Save The World: A Ridiculous Goody Bag
This goody bag is bursting! We finally get to talk about Chris Martin & Gwyneth Paltrow’s conscious uncoupling and somehow get into Rebecca Black’s Fr...
Oppenheimer Pt. 2 PLUS Our Barbenheimer Review
The proverbial fallout of America’s bombs blew back at Robert Oppenheimer as the government pinned any blame on him. But Kitty was there to shield him...
Trinity Test: The Three Loves of Oppenheimer’s Life Pt.1
J. Robert Oppenheimer is getting kilotons of attention right now, but the women in his life didn’t get a lot of screen time in Nolan’s new film. So we...
Wined, Dined, & Headlined: Current Copulations Pt. 2
We finish up our round-up of sex & marriage in the news with some celebrity weddings, a couple of symbolic ceremonies with reptiles & Replikas, & our...
Give Me Some Headlines: Current Copulations Pt. 1
Listeners, you've tagged us in dozens of current headlines and stories about sex and love, and we decided it was time for us to give our *expert* opin...
Lorrie Morgan's Spicy Hot Husband Count
When all a man gets in his divorce is his beloved pickup truck, you know it's a country music story. To be fair, he also got $65k because his ex-wife...
Half the Virgins in Paris: Winnaretta Singer’s Little Black Book
Winnaretta Singer-Polignac wasn’t just shaping culture for generations to come while she was living in Paris and London - she also had quite a few les...
How To Winnaretta Friends and Influence Culture: The Singer Sewer Heiress
Winnaretta Singer inherited her father's massive sewing machine fortune, but she still had to marry an aristocrat to be part of high society. One big...
Banjos & Baseball Bats: Mae & Al Capone Pt. 2
Al Capone took his wife and son to Miami to try and retire, but he ended up continuing his murderous, bootlegging, tax-dodging ways. When he was caugh...
When Syphilis Ran The Mob: The Mae & Al Capone Story
Before Italian-American mobster Al Capone became Public Enemy #1, he fell in love with an Irish girl named Mae, and defied cultural customs by marryin...
Reap What You Sew: Isaac M. Singer, His 4 Wives & 26 Kids
Isaac M. Singer was a struggling actor with an estranged wife, a girlfriend, and 10 kids between the two of them. But his knack for invention helped h...
Reddit-ulous Romance: AITA, Baffling Bridesmaids, & Dating Dummies:
It's high time we checked in on our fellow humans' romances, so once again we turned to the most Ridiculous forum on the web: Reddit. People boldly as...
Shi Gets Real: The Seductive Spy Story of M. Butterfly
Bernard Bouriscot worked in the French Embassy in China in the 1960s, where he befriended a man named Shi Pei Pu. Soon, Shi revealed his biggest secre...
Ivan The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Tsar (& His Next 7 Wives)
After the death of Tsarina Anastasia at the hands of the boyars, Ivan IV was furious. With his 2nd wife, he started the Oprichnina, and one of Russia'...
Ivan The Not-So Terrible? The Loving 1st Marriage of Russia's 1st Tsar
Ivan IV had a grudge against Moscow's nobles ever since they poisoned his mother. So when he was crowned Russia's 1st all-powerful Tsar, he started cu...
Queen of Hearts: The (Many) Sex Scandals of the Virgin Queen Elizabeth I
Queen Elizabeth and Robert Dudley were still super into each other after Amy Robsart died, but marrying would be too scandalous. But despite taking on...
Murder in the Court: Queen Elizabeth, Robert Dudley, & Amy Robsart
Lord Robert Dudley was besties with his childhood friend, Elizabeth Tudor. After she snagged a promotion to Queen of England, she kept him close and e...
Me & Honey Stealing Money: Craig & Nova’s Lawless Lovefest
Craig Pritchert was going to be a Major League Baseball star before Barry Bonds stole his thunder. So Craig decided he would steal too - from banks! H...
England's Most Married: The Spousal Saga of Ron Sheppard
Ron Sheppard has been married 8 times and engaged even more. He's not a playboy or a polygamist, he just can't seem to date anyone without proposing!...
I Would Walk 3,000 Miles: The Epic Jungle Journey of Isabel Godin
Isabel and Jean Godin were so deeply in love that when distance and politics kept them apart, they waited for each other. But after 20 long years, Isa...
Sexy Poems, Silly Accents, & Savvy Feedback: A Listener Mail Call!
Turns out we have the best fans of ANY podcast out there, and your words deserve to be heard! This time y'all filled in some details from earlier epis...
Whip It Good: The “Cruel-Joy” of Sex With Percy Grainger
Percy Grainger was a talented Australian composer and a complicated guy. He was weirdly close with his mother. He was kind of a big racist. He invente...
Abracadorable: The Magical Marriage of Adelaide and Alexander Herrmann the Great
Alexander Herrmann was already one of the world's greatest magicians in the late 19th century, but his best trick was making British acrobat Adelaide...
Marital Melees & Sex Subpoenas: The Bizarre History of Divorce
As long as marriage has existed, people have been desperate to get out of it. One old German tradition had couples fight to the death for the right to...
Love Fests, Penis Parades, & The Sex Myths Behind Them
From the legend of Baba Dochia trying to freeze out her daughter-in-law, to the Shinto creation myth of Izanami and Izanagi, to the tale of a Japanese...
Lovers, Artists, Resisters: Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore vs the Nazis
Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore were two artists who fell in love at first sight, years before they became them stepsisters! They played with photograph...
Crazy Little Bing Called Love: Chatbots Making Threats & Withholding Sex
Artificial Intelligence is leveling up and once again rocked the worlds of sex and love this week! The new OpenAI powered chatbot from Bing had some s...
Great Scot! Agnes of Dunbar Holds Down the Fort
In medieval times, it was pretty common for a wife to be in charge of home defense when her husband was away. But maybe no wife ever took on that resp...
An Ode to A Sex Toy & Lament for Limp D**ks: The Bawdy Poems of John Wilmot
We've learned about John Wilmot's incredibly libertine life, but it's time to strap in and strap-on for some of his full, filthy, 17th century poems i...
Raunchy Restoration: John Wilmot & the Sexy, Scandalous Poetry of King Charles's Court
John Wilmot was a lusty lord who wrote some of the dirtiest poetry in the Restoration era about everything from dildos to public sex to premature ejac...
Flightless and Fabulous: The Surprising Science of Gay Penguins
Roy & Silo were two male penguins who paired up and raised a chick named Tango in 1999. Since then, biologists have discovered that same-sex activity...
From Enslaved to En Vogue: How William Dorsey Swann Became The First Drag Queen
After William Dorsey Swann was freed from slavery, he found joy in becoming a female impersonator & throwing underground parties he called "drag balls...
The Wild Adventures of Walter & Aloha Wanderwell
What’s in a name? When it comes to Aloha and Walter Wanderwell, their name said it all: they drove across four continents in the 1920s before many pla...
Must Be Meant To Be: Three Mind Blowing Meet Cutes
Maybe a lot of “how did y’all meet” stories are a great time for a nap, but not these three remarkable pairs. Their origin stories defy logic, reason,...
Weird D*ck Energy: King Ferdinand VII & the Four Marias
Ferdinand VII was a bad person, a lousy husband, and has been called the worst king of Spain ever. But the intense political turmoil of the time has b...
Alex Trebek: The Cursing, Truck Driving, Genius Playboy Bellhop (Who Also Hosted Jeopardy)
One of the world’s greatest TV hosts, Alex Trebek, is known for his composure, diction, and knowledge. But it turns out behind that prestigious facade...
What Is Jeopardy? Merv and Julann Griffin Give Questions To Answers
Television History for $500, please! The answer is: This couple revitalized a broken format by developing one of the most popular quiz shows of all ti...