Ridiculous Romance

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Ridiculous Romance

Ridiculous Romance

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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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201 episodes
You Hate To See Us Leave But Love To Watch Us Go

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...

2024-02-29 15:57:32 4166
Queen Victoria’s Spooky Seance for Prince Albert

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...

2023-10-09 07:57:55 4254
Climax Change: Annie Sprinkle, Beth Stephens, and Ecosexuality

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...

2023-09-20 08:14:40 4490
Hoisting Husbands, Colonial Genderbending, & Sex to Save The World: A Ridiculous Goody Bag

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...

2023-08-29 04:50:06 4732
Oppenheimer Pt. 2 PLUS Our Barbenheimer Review

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...

2023-08-06 08:35:12 5292
Trinity Test: The Three Loves of Oppenheimer’s Life Pt.1

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...

2023-08-06 08:25:41 4378
Wined, Dined, & Headlined: Current Copulations Pt. 2

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...

2023-07-19 07:47:17 3910
Give Me Some Headlines: Current Copulations Pt. 1

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...

2023-07-14 06:03:08 4060
Lorrie Morgan's Spicy Hot Husband Count

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...

2023-07-10 04:56:23 4062
Half the Virgins in Paris: Winnaretta Singer’s Little Black Book

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...

2023-06-30 15:03:23 3880
How To Winnaretta Friends and Influence Culture: The Singer Sewer Heiress

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...

2023-06-29 03:54:37 3949
Banjos & Baseball Bats: Mae & Al Capone Pt. 2

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...

2023-06-21 09:10:38 3910
When Syphilis Ran The Mob: The Mae & Al Capone Story

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...

2023-05-26 10:45:51 3898
Reap What You Sew: Isaac M. Singer, His 4 Wives & 26 Kids

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...

2023-05-15 07:42:14 3750
Reddit-ulous Romance: AITA, Baffling Bridesmaids, & Dating Dummies:

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...

2023-05-05 09:57:02 3885
Shi Gets Real: The Seductive Spy Story of M. Butterfly

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...

2023-05-02 15:00:00 3939
Ivan The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Tsar (& His Next 7 Wives)

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'...

2023-04-23 07:31:12 3993
Ivan The Not-So Terrible? The Loving 1st Marriage of Russia's 1st Tsar

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...

2023-04-17 10:05:20 3097
Queen of Hearts: The (Many) Sex Scandals of the Virgin Queen Elizabeth I

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...

2023-04-13 14:57:52 3677
Murder in the Court: Queen Elizabeth, Robert Dudley, & Amy Robsart

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...

2023-04-06 15:00:00 3261
Me & Honey Stealing Money: Craig & Nova’s Lawless Lovefest

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...

2023-04-05 11:54:14 3305
England's Most Married: The Spousal Saga of Ron Sheppard

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!...

2023-03-31 08:58:46 3572
I Would Walk 3,000 Miles: The Epic Jungle Journey of Isabel Godin

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...

2023-03-28 15:00:00 3194
Sexy Poems, Silly Accents, & Savvy Feedback: A Listener Mail Call!

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...

2023-03-24 05:25:24 2543
Whip It Good: The “Cruel-Joy” of Sex With Percy Grainger

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...

2023-03-21 15:00:00 3473
Abracadorable: The Magical Marriage of Adelaide and Alexander Herrmann the Great

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...

2023-03-14 15:00:00 3784
Marital Melees & Sex Subpoenas: The Bizarre History of Divorce

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...

2023-03-08 09:02:11 3035
Love Fests, Penis Parades, & The Sex Myths Behind Them

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...

2023-02-25 09:22:29 3393
Lovers, Artists, Resisters: Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore vs the Nazis

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...

2023-02-22 08:57:30 3580
Crazy Little Bing Called Love: Chatbots Making Threats & Withholding Sex

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...

2023-02-20 03:22:41 3557
Great Scot! Agnes of Dunbar Holds Down the Fort

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...

2023-02-15 06:55:20 2728
An Ode to A Sex Toy & Lament for Limp D**ks: The Bawdy Poems of John Wilmot

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...

2023-02-10 07:08:40 2834
Raunchy Restoration: John Wilmot & the Sexy, Scandalous Poetry of King Charles's Court

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...

2023-02-08 08:14:54 2915
Flightless and Fabulous: The Surprising Science of Gay Penguins

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...

2023-02-03 11:41:30 3221
From Enslaved to En Vogue: How William Dorsey Swann Became The First Drag Queen

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...

2023-02-01 06:05:24 3002
The Wild Adventures of Walter & Aloha Wanderwell

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...

2023-01-26 15:00:00 2685
Must Be Meant To Be: Three Mind Blowing Meet Cutes

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,...

2023-01-24 15:00:00 3182
Weird D*ck Energy: King Ferdinand VII & the Four Marias

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...

2023-01-19 15:00:00 3528
Alex Trebek: The Cursing, Truck Driving, Genius Playboy Bellhop (Who Also Hosted Jeopardy)

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...

2023-01-17 15:00:00 3346
What Is Jeopardy? Merv and Julann Griffin Give Questions To Answers

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...

2023-01-12 15:00:00 3481
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