The History of Watermelons

How did a fruit that began as an ancient Egyptian burial canteen — a self-contained water supply buried with pharaohs — end up starting an American military intervention in Panama, getting farmers electrifying their patches with lethal intent, and causing over a hundred and sixty of them to spontaneously explode in rural China? Why did Mark Twain call the watermelon "the king by grace of God over all the fruits of the earth"? And, what does a kinkajou locked in a Florida bathroom have to do with any of this?

Join John and Patrick as they tell the 5,000-year history of the watermelon — from Tutankhamun's tomb to the Watermelon War of 1856, via a prison ship, a poisoned patch, and one very angry nocturnal mammal...

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