The Greatest Monkeys In History | From Roman Legions to World Wars and Much More

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  @raoulduke8003 · 2 years ago

  I love how I can get a four-part deep dive on Carthage one second, and the next, it's, "Yo! Check out these monkeys that made history!"

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• AN

  @anaonanaon2174 · 2 years ago

  Gotta love how confidently wrong Tom was about baboons not being monkeys. They do incidentally have tails also.

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• BI

  @BinzerChimbonda · 2 months ago

  An hour spent discussing history's greatest monkeys seems like a worthwhile endeavour ❤

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• JU

  @justinscarred · 2 years ago

  Karl Pilkington would have a field day with this

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• CR

  @craigwarner6156 · 2 years ago

  This is basically intellectual monkey news, pioneered by the inimitable Karl Pilkington. The man would love this. And so do I.

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  @byronclifton8869 · 2 years ago

  Baboons have tails and are monkeys. Lemurs are primates with tails, but they not considered monkeys. Love you guys and keep up the great work!

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• BR

  @brendandoherty6800 · 10 months ago

  Its a crime this ep only has 24k views prob one of my favorite episodes

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• MU

  @Muesli711 · 2 years ago

  Ham, the 1960s astrochimp has to be near the top of the leaderboard

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• LA

  @lauragranger9813 · 1 year ago

  Tom suddenly becomes a Caravaggio at 33min. The spotlight was perfect

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• AI

  @airingcupboard · 2 years ago (edited)

  This show is brilliant. I had a similar idea many many years ago as I collected stories about monkeys and wondered if I should turn it into something (no podcasts then!). Examples like a monkey fully dressed in a little suit was going to take an ocean liner from New York with a friend's a family, but flung himself into the deep as it set off. Another was a gibbon some distant relative of mine picked up in a London market which he kept in an old van and would become very excited if he saw my great aunt. He came a cropper when he invaded a West London cake factory and took great pleasure throwing cakes at passers by, finally being shot by police marksmen. These stories always have these animals in close contact with humans, to the point they are judged to be like us, but somehow always end up dead as a result of that contact. Conversely, we misunderstand they are not little furry people and they just end up being too wild and impossible to contain. It's fun to think about if its the former or the later we are really looking for.

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  @nattdal8 · 3 weeks ago

  Fantastic episode, light, funny and interesting.

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  @SnoopReddogg · 6 months ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbuCusOr3dY&amp;t=2421">40:21</a> on the topic of saluting monkeys, there used to be a fellow in Islamabad &nbsp;back in 2010 who would set up shop near the McDonalds with a &nbsp;pet Monkey that would salute customers and random passers-by for tips as they &nbsp;left the restaurant.<br><br>You could also hire him out for parties along with another bloke who had a goat that was trained to stand on a beer can. &nbsp; &nbsp;Fun times

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