Peter the Great: The Rock Star Tsar
Tsar Peter Romanov was a strong leader who overcame difficult odds to seize the throne of Russia, then forge his dominion into a dominant Empire that became a powerful force in European politics for y...
5 Dec 20231h 16min
Mad Jack Churchill
Colonel Jack Churchill was a British military Commando who went into World War II armed with a claymore sword, an English longbow, and a set of bagpipes, and led all his cover special ops operations b...
28 Nov 20231h 9min
Ataturk: The Father of All Turks
The Father of All Turks, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was a revolutionary, a hardcore military commander, a bulwark against Fascism, a reformer, a humanitarian, and a man who worked to rebuild bridges with t...
21 Nov 20231h 2min
How Scarlet Lion Khongor Defeated Khan Iron Head Mangna
If you're not familiar with the mythology of ancient Mongolia, strap in for this one. Pat recounts one of the great stories from the epic Jangar Cycle of heroic myths, a series of bone-crushing sagas ...
14 Nov 202353min
La Maupin and the Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Swordfighting Adventurerers of the French Revolution
If you are in to badass swordfights, debauchery, classical music, big fancy hats, and a couple unlikely heroes face-stabbing their way to success against seemingly-impossible odds, then this is the ep...
7 Nov 20231h
Halloween Special: Vlad the Impaler and Elizabeth Bathory
Ben and Pat are joined on a special Halloween episode by Tani Caesar (Unhinged History) to talk about a couple of infamous (and spoooooky) Eastern European nobles -- Elizabeth Bathory, the terrifying ...
31 Okt 20231h 8min
Zenobia and Amaniraneas: The Queens that defied Rome
Ben and Pat discuss two warrior queens from the fringes of the Roman Empire who stood against impossible odds and defied the Caesars with their military might: Amaniraneas, the Kandake of Sudan, who l...
24 Okt 202358min
Julia Agrippina and Locusta: Poison Pals
Two of Imperial Rome's most infamous women come together for this episode, as Pat and Ben discuss Locusta the Poisoner -- perhaps the most prolific and deadliest assassin of the Ancient World -- and t...
17 Okt 202358min
