George Washington: Ice-Cold and Unkillable
Wooden teeth? No. Cherry tree? Probably not. Absolute unit of a leader? Undeniably. Ben Thompson welcomes EpicLLOYD from Epic Rap Battles of History for a Presidents’ Day breakdown George Washington ...
16 Feb 1h 13min
Fridtjof Nansen: North of Insanity
Ice. Starvation. Total darkness. And somewhere out there — a polar bear that would very much like to eat you. On this episode, Ben Thompson is joined by producer Andrew Jacobs to break down the life ...
11 Feb 53min
Olympias: Snakes, Curses, and the Birth of an Empire
Empires don’t begin with heroes — they begin with mothers who refuse to lose. Olympias ruled from the shadows using fear, religion, and assassination, making sure history remembered her son as a god ...
4 Feb 1h 3min
Marguerite de la Rocque: Alone on the Island of Demons
In 1542, a teenage French noblewoman is marooned on a frozen island off the coast of Newfoundland - deliberately abandoned by her own family, left with a failing matchlock gun, a handful of supplies, ...
28 Jan 58min
Gilgamesh: Immortal Power, Very Mortal Consequences
Five thousand years before Batman brooded, before Achilles sulked, before Hercules punched a god in the mouth, there was Epic of Gilgamesh - the original badass origin story. Gilgamesh starts as a tyr...
21 Jan 1h 7min
Butch Cassidy: The West’s Smoothest Criminal
Outlaws don’t usually get remembered for being smart—but Butch Cassidy was something different. He robbed banks and trains with minimal bloodshed, outwitted the Pinkertons for years, and built a crimi...
14 Jan 1h 4min
Daniel Morgan: 499 Problems, the Crown Ain’t One
Powdered wigs didn’t win the American Revolution... scarred knuckles did. Host Ben Thompson is joined by David Schmidt, director of The American Revolution with Ken Burns, to tell the story of Daniel...
8 Jan 1h 8min
Petty Officer Robert J Thomas: The Last Bullet Is His.
During a brutal Vietnam firefight that spiraled into a forty-five-minute running battle, Robert J. Thomas was shot, shredded by shrapnel, and left barely able to stand. Instead of evacuating, he crawl...
31 Dec 202552min
