24 episodes

Historicool is a podcast which delves into some of history's interesting figures and events. Your hosts, Matt Nelson and Wayne Bridgman will seek to bring these to life for you, the fascinated listener, with interesting facts and a dose of mischievous humor.

Historicool Wayne & Matt

    • History
    • 4.3 • 6 Ratings

Historicool is a podcast which delves into some of history's interesting figures and events. Your hosts, Matt Nelson and Wayne Bridgman will seek to bring these to life for you, the fascinated listener, with interesting facts and a dose of mischievous humor.

    Historicool Episode 24 - Lawmen of the West

    Historicool Episode 24 - Lawmen of the West

    Historicool is a podcast which delves into some of history's interesting figures and events. Your hosts, Matt Nelson and Wayne Bridgman will seek to bring these to life for you, the fascinated listener, with interesting facts and a dose of mischievous humour. This episode introduces us to the proud and hard rods of justice of the Wild West. Black Bart, the Dalton Gang, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid all were famous for their daring robberies and general lawnessness. They could take entire fortunes from banks that had slightly less security than a modern hot dog stand. And why not? Lawlessness ruled didn't it? Vaults didn't exist, and criminals didn't give a hot dang (a dang is actually worse than a damn). Some pretty tough hobres were neded to bring thse ruthless perps to justice. Let's meet some of them.

    • 1 hr 21 min
    Historicool Episode 23 - Robin Hood

    Historicool Episode 23 - Robin Hood

    Historicool is a podcast which delves into some of history's interesting figures and events. Your hosts, Matt Nelson and Wayne Bridgman will seek to bring these to life for you, the fascinated listener, with interesting facts and a dose of mischievous humour. This episode sees a fascinated Matt probe one of his handsome, rugged male heroes. Robin Hood, the legendary robber of the rich and giverer-to of the poor, has been the star of so many books and movies that he's essentially his own genre! We know he was a man, and we know he inspired myth, but did he really deserve to be a legend?

    • 1 hr 14 min
    Historicool Episode 22 - Cleopatra IV

    Historicool Episode 22 - Cleopatra IV

    Historicool is a podcast which delves into some of history's interesting figures and events. Your hosts, Matt Nelson and Wayne Bridgman will seek to bring these to life for you, the fascinated listener, with interesting facts and a dose of mischievous humour. This episode is part four of our series on the enigmatic Pharoah-ess... Caesar has gone, brutally murdered, but how long will it take cheeky Cleo to move onto the next unsuspecting male target in her insatiable need for power, amongst other things?

    • 1 hr
    Historicool Episode 21 - Cleopatra III

    Historicool Episode 21 - Cleopatra III

    Historicool is a podcast which delves into some of history's interesting figures and events. Your hosts, Matt Nelson and Wayne Bridgman will seek to bring these to life for you, the fascinated listener, with interesting facts and a dose of mischievous humour. This episode is part three of our series on the milk moistened monarch... Caesar and Cleo thought that the world was their oyster. Toga-ther they could rule it! But how long would their dream last?

    • 40 min
    Historicool Episode 20 - Cleopatra II

    Historicool Episode 20 - Cleopatra II

    Historicool is a podcast which delves into some of history's interesting figures and events. Your hosts, Matt Nelson and Wayne Bridgman will seek to bring these to life for you, the fascinated listener, with interesting facts and a dose of mischievous humour. This episode see part two of our series on the milk moistened monarch... Cleopatra VII Philopator (clever girl), known to history simply as Cleopatra, was the last active ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt, briefly survived as pharaoh by her son Caesarion. After her reign, Egypt became a province of the recently established Roman Empire. Typical! But how did Egypt (and indeed Caesar) find itself on such a wild ride?

    • 39 min
    Historicool episode 19 - Cleopatra

    Historicool episode 19 - Cleopatra

    Historicool is a podcast which delves into some of history's interesting figures and events. Your hosts, Matt Nelson and Wayne Bridgman will seek to bring these to life for you, the fascinated listener, with interesting facts and a dose of mischievous humour. This episode opens our series on the most milky of all the monarchs... the mysterious and powerful Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile. Despite ony being a 6 or 7 on the hot or not scale (just look at one of her coins) , Queen Cleo was still renowned for being able to get into the head of any guy she wanted using only her guile. Seduction and manipulation came as easily to her as breathing and it frightened Romans that a woman could out-politician them armed with nothing but a female brain.

    • 49 min

Customer Reviews

4.3 out of 5
6 Ratings

6 Ratings

koko_tsk ,

Great info but terrible sound

I really like the subjects this podcast covers and all the information I get from them. I just really wish they would be better about their mic work and sound engineering. Sometimes they get very loud and are literally screamin into the microphone which make pretty much anything they are saying or doing in audible becuase I'm either scrambling to turn the volume down or pulling my headphones off for fear of hearing loss. The jokes to hosts tell as they are talking about the history are funny enough (an interesting mix of dad jokes and jokes your pervy uncle would tell) but the jokes and "reenactments" have gotten just ridiculous. Againt because of the poor sound balancing half the time it sounds like they are just screaming and making unintelligible sounds and other times its just offensive accents. I honestly didn't mind the reenactments in the first episode or two (maybe cause they were doing British accents so i could actually understand what was being said) but as we've moved on to other parts of the world and other parts of history the re-enactments are so terrible and cacophanous that I just end up skipping through them to get to the next segment.

I gave them 4 stars because I will always be a sucker history podcasts (especial comedic history podcasts) but there is definitely room for improvement.

RanTon ,

Cracks me up every time

Lol

PhDgradStudent ,

Must have more!

I love listening to this podcast while I'm at work. It keeps me ACTUALLY working and I laugh too. This makes my day go by so much faster. I just want more episodes!! :)

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