Mark Kerr: The Smashing Machine (with special guest Mark Kerr)
In the savage early days of MMA, before the bright lights and billion-dollar paydays, there was one man who fought like a force of nature. Mark Kerr wasn’t just a wrestler — he was a six-foot-one, 250...
7 Okt 202555min
Xenophon: The March Through Madness
Xenophon was a philosophy student, a Socratic thinker, and a pampered Athenian aristocrat who signed up for a mercenary road trip into Persia and accidentally became one of the greatest battlefield le...
1 Okt 20251h 6min
Paddy Mayne: When in doubt, just strap a machine gun to it!
Before he was smashing Nazi airfields and punching his way through the deserts of North Africa, Lieutenant Colonel Blair “Paddy” Mayne was an amateur boxing champion, a rugby international, and the ki...
24 Sep 202546min
Baron Frederick von der Trenck: Get in Loser, We’re Escaping Prussia
In today's episode, Ben and Pat dive into the outrageous, swashbuckling life of Baron Frederick von der Trenck -- a Prussian nobleman, cavalry officer, prison escape artist, sword-fighting heartthrob,...
17 Sep 20251h 6min
Dr. Hawa Abdi: A Sanctuary in Hell
In the middle of Somalia’s civil war, when the world was falling apart, Dr. Hawa Abdi started building. On her family’s land outside Mogadishu, she created a hospital, a school, a legal aid clinic, an...
10 Sep 20251h 11min
Potemkin: This Ship Runs on Rage, Not Borscht
In 1905, a Russian battleship crew said “enough.” Starving, abused, and fed up with maggot-ridden meat and brutal officers, the sailors aboard the Potemkin launched one of the most famous mutinies in ...
27 Aug 202545min
Buried Alive: The 33 Who Refused to Die
August 2010. Deep beneath the Atacama Desert, thirty-three Chilean miners are buried alive under thousands of tons of rock—half a mile underground. With only two days of food, no light, and no way out...
20 Aug 202557min
Nikephoros Phokas: Pale Death of the Saracens
In today's episode Ben and Pat are joined by Robin Pierson, host of The History of Byzantium to discuss Nikephoros Phokas was a man who didn’t look like he belonged on a battlefield—balding, pale, wit...
13 Aug 20251h 24min
