Historicool

Wayne & Matt

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.

  1. Historicool Episode 24 - Lawmen of the West

    05.12.2017

    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 ч. 22 мин.
  2. Historicool Episode 23 - Robin Hood

    18.10.2017

    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 ч. 14 мин.
  3. Historicool Episode 22 - Cleopatra IV

    14.08.2017

    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 ч.
  4. Historicool Episode 21 - Cleopatra III

    18.07.2017

    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 мин.

  5. 08.05.2017

    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?

    40 мин.

  6. 02.04.2017

    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 мин.

  7. 22.01.2017

    Historicool Episode 18 - Heroes

    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 the first in our "Heroes" series. The history books are full of stories of warriors doing things so insanely hardcore that they make Rambo look like a blubbing pacifist. Some of these acts of valour and skill were so impressive that they'd hesitate to put them into a film for fear of killing the realism! Let's meet some of these heroes...

    52 мин.

  8. 09.01.2017

    Historicool episode 17 - Prohibition 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 humor. This episode sees us take are second shot at learning about the Prohibition period in early twentieth century America. The banning of alcohol was to give rise to a new form of organised crime - da gansta! as a certain Al Capone said - "Pwohibition has mwade nothing bwut twouble."

    38 мин.
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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.

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    Wayne & Matt
  • Годы выхода
    2014 - 2017
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