Louis-Antoine de Bougainville: Around the World and Into the Guns w/ Ridiculous History
in part two of our crossover with Ridiculous History, Ben and Pat join Ben Bowlin and Noel Brown to follow Louis-Antoine de Bougainville—a mathematician, soldier, explorer, and the first Frenchman to ...
30 Juli 51min
George Rogers Clark: The Frozen March That Won the Northwest w/ Ridiculous History
In part one of our crossover with Ridiculous History, Ben and Pat join Ben Bowlin and Noel Brown for one of the most insane military road trips of the American Revolution. With roughly 170 exhauste...
28 Juli 1h 8min
Odysseus: Trojan Horses and Terrible Decisions
Winning the Trojan War was the easy part. Odysseus helped destroy the most powerful city in the ancient world with a giant wooden horse—and then spent the next ten years getting absolutely wrecked on ...
24 Juli 1h 23min
Hector: The Blood-Soaked Shield of Troy
Getting ready to watch The Odyssey? Well here's the prequel... When Paris steals Helen and brings the armies of Greece crashing down on Troy, it falls to his older brother Hector to clean up the mes...
16 Juli 1h 4min
Henry Knox: The Cannon King Who Won America’s Independence
This Fourth of July, we’re telling the story of one of the greatest American heroes almost nobody remembers. Before he became George Washington’s trusted general and America’s first Secretary of War,...
9 Juli 1h
The Death Match: The Soccer Game That Defied the Nazis
A soccer game so legendary it inspired a Hollywood blockbuster… but did it really happen the way we’ve all heard? During the Nazi occupation of Ukraine, a ragtag team of former professional footballe...
1 Juli 53min
Vassili Paleokostas: History’s Wildest Prison Break Artist
History is full of master thieves, daring outlaws, and legendary escape artists... but few ever combined all three quite like Vassili Paleokostas. A small-town Greek electrician turned folk hero, Pal...
23 Juni 1h 1min
William Bligh: The Man the Pacific Couldn’t Kill
When most people hear the name William Bligh, they think of a tyrant. Thanks to generations of books and movies, the captain of the HMS Bounty has gone down in history as the cruel, power-mad villain ...
18 Juni 1h 27min
