Podcast Episodes

Spanish Sailors Playing Pan Cum Tomate | The Aztecs (Part 2/5)

Hernán Cortés, a horny Spaniard in middle management, sets sail across the Atlantic in search of New World Nookie

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

Heston Blumenthal’s Cannibal Tapas | The Aztecs (Part 1/5)

Cannibalism, Human Sacrifice and using skulls as bricks- who were the Aztecs before the pox-laden Spanish arrived?

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

He Died Doing What He Loved (with Daniel Sloss) | The Rise and Fall of Colonel Gaddafi (Part 4/4)

Daniel Sloss is still with us as we unpack the greatest fall from grace a dictator has ever had

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9 months, 4 weeks ago

It’s Raining Rubber Fists (with Daniel Sloss) | The Rise and Fall of Colonel Gaddafi (Part 3/4)

Daniel Sloss joins us to talk Gaddafi in the 80s - including a show trial for toddlers, The Lockerbie disaster, and most heinous of all - a bomb in a…

10 months ago

The People’s Republic of Jiblablabah | The Rise and Fall of Colonel Gaddafi (Part 2/4)

Gaddafi, the illiterate intellectual, the thinking man’s man-who-can’t think, orchestrates perhaps the funniest terrorist attack of all time and form…

10 months ago

Why do Arab Men Smell So Good? | The Rise and Fall of Colonel Gaddafi (Part 1/4)

Is Gaddafi the most mental dictator in history? One thing’s for sure, no tyrant smelled this good

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10 months, 1 week ago

Soggy Biscuit is a White Dominated Sport | The Golden Age of Piracy (Part 2)

The ugliest King there’s ever been dies without an heir, ushering in a golden age of pirates - who leave behind them a legacy of peg-legs, buried tre…

10 months, 1 week ago

You think Fyre Festival was bad… | The Golden Age of Piracy (Part 1)

Who were the real pirates of the Caribbean and more importantly what did they sound like?

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

Look How Good I Am At Drawing Apples | The Renaissance Part 2: Holland

Why is Dutch art so weird?

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

Trust The Italians to Rediscover Porn | The Renaissance Part 1: Italy

If the dark ages were the straightest period in history, then the renaissance is when Europe turned gay, led by - who else - but the Italians

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10 months, 3 weeks ago