Historicool

Historicool Episode 24 - Lawmen of the West

December 05, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour - 74.6 MB

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 coul...

Historicool Episode 23 - Robin Hood

October 18, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour - 68 MB

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 ...

Historicool Episode 22 - Cleopatra IV

August 14, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.4 MB

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, a...

Historicool Episode 21 - Cleopatra III

July 18, 2017 00:00 - 40 minutes - 36.7 MB

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?

Historicool Episode 20 - Cleopatra II

May 08, 2017 00:00 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MB

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 ...

Historicool episode 19 - Cleopatra

April 02, 2017 00:00 - 49 minutes - 44.9 MB

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...

Historicool Episode 18 - Heroes

January 22, 2017 00:00 - 52 minutes - 47.9 MB

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 wer...

Historicool episode 17 - Prohibition II

January 09, 2017 00:00 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MB

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 s...

Historicool Episode 16 - Prohibition

January 03, 2017 00:00 - 57 minutes - 52.7 MB

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 makes you want to cry into your beer but denies you the beer to cry into as we look into the furore behind the Prohibition act in early twentieth century America. Can the prohibition of delicious drinkable substances...

Historicool Episode 15 - History of Medicine II

November 05, 2016 00:00 - 1 hour - 98.7 MB

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 brings us a second dose of how medicine has evolved throughout history. So hold onto your hats (and your breakfast) as we take a queasy trip to the disease riddled docs waiting room of the olden days...

Historicool Episode 14 - History of Medicine

September 10, 2016 21:48 - 1 hour - 61.8 MB

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 begins a journey down the passage of medical history. Historical medicine largely consisted of doctors doing things that today would be considered psychopathic crimes. With treatments ranging from cheerily chowing do...

Historicool Episode 13 - Nero Part Deux

August 20, 2016 00:00 - 1 hour - 149 MB

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 is part two of our look at the life and times or emperor Nero. What times he had! Let's just say his lifestyle could not really be described as "Vanilla". Nero has consolidated his power and now embraces his performi...

Historicool Episode 12 - Nero

July 16, 2016 20:44 - 1 hour - 85.3 MB

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. In this episode we meet another Roman emperor - one whose reign was lavish and tyrannical. He killed his mother, persecuted Christians and is said to have "fiddled while Rome burned"! Would you let a 16 year old run the biggest e...

Historicool Episode 11 - Witchcraft

May 23, 2016 19:06 - 1 hour - 75.4 MB

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. In this episode we take a hesitant peek under the functional dress of those women of magic know as...witches! Were they knowledgable healers or barmy old cat loving crones?Or was there something more sinister and perhaps...occult...

Historicool Episode 10 - Billy the Kid

April 08, 2016 17:32 - 1 hour - 76.7 MB

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 looks at the life (and lives taken) and times of the famous fresh faced gunslinger - Billy the Kid.

Historicool Episode 9 - Ancient Special Forces 3

January 15, 2016 14:23 - 1 hour - 144 MB

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 concludes our three part series on Ancient Special Forces. We resume looking at those terrible (as in horrible or dangerous) units so loved by their beneficiaries and hated, nay, feared by their long suffering enemie...

Historicool Episode 8 - Vlad the Impaler

November 01, 2015 00:00 - 1 hour - 103 MB

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 looks at the mysterious and terrible alter ego of Dracula himself, yea, for it is Vlad the Impaler. Tremble. Tremble! Tremble before the barbaric and bloodthirsty deeds of this malevolent monarch. Did this beast ever...

Historicool Episode 7 - Ancient Special Forces 2

September 25, 2015 09:51 - 59 minutes - 54.2 MB

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 continues our analysis of ancient special forces units that used to cause mayhem and terror in the face of their foes... Were Byzantine divers tough frogmen or wet behind the ears? Were war elephants a devastating ba...

Historicool Episode 6 - Ancient Special Forces

July 08, 2015 00:00 - 57 minutes - 52.6 MB

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 begins an analysis of ancient special forces units that used to cause mayham and terror in tha face of their foes... Just how berserk was a Viking beserker? Why did the Germanic Ghost Warriors cause such fear in the...

Historicool Episode 5 - Battle of the Little Big Horn cont.

May 08, 2015 00:00 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MB

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. In the second part of this two-part episode we continue to look at the fate of the dashing general Custer againt his wily foes (the native American tribes) during the period of westward expansion following the end of the civil wa...

Historicool Episode 4 - Battle of the Little Big Horn

March 20, 2015 00:00 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MB

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. In this two-part episode we look at the fate of the dashing general Custer and his wily foes (the native American tribes) during the period of westward expansion following the end of the civil war. So give us a Michegaaan yeeeeel...

Historicool Episode 3 - Caligula

January 04, 2015 00:00 - 51 minutes - 47.4 MB

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. In this episode we talk about a young Caesar (Emperor) who has a reputation of being the most infamous and unhinged Emperor of Rome - which is quite a statement. There are one or two others that might provide some stiff competiti...

Historicool Episode 2 - Highwaymen

November 23, 2014 00:00 - 1 hour - 74.7 MB

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. In this episode we stand to deliver a story to you which delves into the shadowy lives of the mounted brigands who preyed upon unwary (and indeed wary) travellers in the 16th and 17th centuries. Lock your carriage doors and pop a...

Historicool Episode 1 - Blackbeard

September 04, 2014 00:00 - 56 minutes - 77.7 MB

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 meets the most feared Pirate of the Caribbean. Who was this pirate? Why was he so feared? Was it all bluster or was there good cause for his fearsome reputation? Did he really have 14 wives? Is that why he spent so...

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