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
Bare-Handed Beastmaster: The Wild Life of Carl Akeley
Carl Akeley was an artist, scientist, inventor, conservationist, and the godfather of modern taxidermy—but don’t let the job title fool you. This dude once fist-fought a full-grown leopard with one ha...
6 Aug 20251h 13min
