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 Marras 202356min
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 Marras 20231h 2min
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 Loka 20231h 10min
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 Loka 20231h 1min
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 Loka 20231h 1min
St. Olha of Kyiv: Viking Warrior Princess
St. Olha of Kyiv was a Viking Warrior Princess who unleashed a dump truck of bloody vengeance on all who opposed her, cleansed the countryside of her enemies in a sea of unquenchable flames, conquered...
10 Loka 202351min
Teddy Roosevelt (with special guest Greg Jackson)
This week we talk about America's most badass president! Professor Greg Jackson of History That Doesn't Suck joins the show to talk about the rough-riding cowboy, amateur boxer, former NYPD commission...
3 Loka 20231h 2min
George S. Patton: Old Blood and Guts
America's most famous commander from the Second World War, "Old Blood and Guts" was a bombastic leader who fought hard, swore harder, and thought that defending his flanks was for cowards and losers. ...
26 Syys 20231h 5min
