Bridge For Sale! - The Irish Charmer
The best con man can sell you anything. A car, a boat, a Nigerian fortune. But what about a bridge connecting Manhattan to Brooklyn? Well, George C. Parker did it. And he kept doing it for forty years...
15 Mar 202239min
The Pirate Queen Who Married Her Kid
The Pirate Life was a tough life for the most hardened of men in the 1700s. But what if you were a woman on the high seas? Zheng Yi Sao was just such a pirate, and arguably one of the most successful ...
8 Mar 202232min
Christina, Lesbian King of Sweden
Christina of Sweden was hard to categorize. Never a servant to gender rules or accepted behavior of monarchs, she only ever had a passing interest in even being on the throne. But she threw one helluv...
1 Mar 202240min
Teenage Popes Make Bad Popes
What makes a good Pope? Certainly not the wisdom of youth. John XII and Benedict IX both found themselves wearing the white hat well before their maturity and managed to make the High See the height o...
15 Feb 202240min
The Most Horribly Inbred Monarch, Ever
Carlos II was terribly inbred! Horribly so. The most quantifiably overbred Hapsburg to date, he was *more* inbred than if a brother and sister married. Unlicensed historians Andrew Heaton and Andrew...
8 Feb 202236min
The Pirate Rabbi
Samuel Palacci (c. 1550 - 1615) was a diplomat, merchant, pirate, and double agent. He worked in the employ of the Sultan of Morocco, then after obtaining a free trade agreement with the Dutch, began ...
3 Feb 202241min
Emperor Norton of San Francisco
The eccentric Joshua Abraham Norton wound up proclaiming himself Emperor of the United States, and Protector of Mexico. While few people ever recognized him as a legit sovereign, he did get to become ...
25 Jan 202243min
The Cranky Noseless Emperor
Justinian II of the Byzantine Empire should have been disqualified from the crown after a usurper cut his nose off. But nope! He climbed back to power anyway over a hill of bloody corpses. Unlicensed ...
18 Jan 202253min
