Jul 28, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min · 12 segments
In part one of our crossover with Ridiculous History, Ben and Pat join Ben Bowlin and Noel Brown for one of the most insane military road trips of the American Revolution. With roughly 170 exhausted…
Ben BowlinHost
Pat LarishGuestNoel BrownHost
One interesting aspect here is despite a lot of the stereotypes about French culture in the United States, which are kind of inherited from World War II at least, uh despite those stereotypes and those you know kind of fun ribbing at your buddies things that we have in this culture uh you raise an excellent point ben that uh america uh reaching 250 years as he said it wouldn't have happened without french intervention is that correct
So even before they became involved on an open military perspective, they were sending weapons and money and equipment and uniforms.
Legally and illegally, there were guys who were smuggling weapons out of France to help us fight the English.
You've got a lot of French influence even before they joined the war officially.
And that's what we're going to talk about in the next part of this, in the next episode.
So for today, we're going to be kind of in, we're going to kind of be in the continental U.S., current continental U.S.
So anytime there's a French word in our podcast, I usually just stop talking and then she just says the word or we just record her saying it so we can just clip it in there.
One interesting aspect here is despite a lot of the stereotypes about French culture in the United States, which are kind of inherited from World War II at least, uh despite those stereotypes and those you know kind of fun ribbing at your buddies things that we have in this culture uh you raise an excellent point ben that uh america uh reaching 250 years as he said it wouldn't have happened without french intervention is that correct
So even before they became involved on an open military perspective, they were sending weapons and money and equipment and uniforms.
Legally and illegally, there were guys who were smuggling weapons out of France to help us fight the English.
You've got a lot of French influence even before they joined the war officially.
And that's what we're going to talk about in the next part of this, in the next episode.
So for today, we're going to be kind of in, we're going to kind of be in the continental U.S., current continental U.S.
So anytime there's a French word in our podcast, I usually just stop talking and then she just says the word or we just record her saying it so we can just clip it in there.
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