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Episodes

TREASURE HUNT REVEALED!

July 27, 2022 10:11 - 4 minutes

In the season finale of X Marks the Spot: The Legend of Forrest Fenn, Cavalry Audio reveals a treasure hunt has been hiding within the nine episode series. Listen to learn more! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Introducing: Awakened Underground

April 06, 2022 09:00 - 2 minutes

The Awakened Underground podcast is an investigative talk show that explores the ancient art of healing yourself with plant medicines and psychedelics. The Awakened Underground is a production of Cavalry Audio, in association with iHeart Radio, created and hosted by filmmaker and Psychedelic thought leader Cody Blue. @AwakenedUnderground See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Introducing: The Pink Moon Murders

February 22, 2022 11:01 - 3 minutes

The Pink Moon Murders is investigative, true crime podcast that delves into the slaughter of eight members of the Rhoden family in rural, Appalachian Ohio in 2016. It was a night that shocked the country with its brutality—and its mystery. Who would commit such horrible crimes? And why? Ohio native David Raterman, a longtime journalist and former author for National Geographic, spent 18 months researching this, interviewing Rhoden survivors and friends as well as hundreds of others in the sma...

Review Episode Number Two: Adriaen Block 1611 to 1614

February 15, 2022 10:00 - 38 minutes

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Bonus Episode: Juan Rodrigues - New York's very first immigrant

February 08, 2022 09:59 - 53 minutes

Bonus Episode: Juan Rodrigues - New York's very first immigrant Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Introducing: Art Fraud

February 04, 2022 11:00 - 2 minutes

An investigative journey through one of the biggest cases of art fraud in US history: The Knoedler Gallery. Written by VANITY FAIR reporter Michael Shnayerson and hosted by Alec Baldwin, ART FRAUD exposes the scandal of dozens of disputed paintings, and over 80 million dollars in profit that led to the stunning collapse of one of the oldest and most revered art galleries in New York City. Presented by Cavalry Audio and iHeartRadio Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodc...

Episode 9 – Onrust: 1614, Hans Jorisz Hontom

February 01, 2022 09:59 - 47 minutes

Juan Rodrigues stays on Manhattan, while in Amsterdam competing merchant companies gather evidence and prepare for litigation. As reconciliation fails, they hasten to send ships out again, this time equipped to set up a small trading post. Back on the Hudson River, competition for the lucrative fur trade becomes fierce, leading to violent clashes. Tempers flare up and a conflagration ensues. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener...

Episode 8 - Free Trade: 1613, Juan Rodrigues

January 25, 2022 10:00 - 51 minutes

Sailing back to Amsterdam, Adriaen Block brought along two sons of a Manhattan sachem as proof of the good relations and the trade that emanated from it. Block understood the art of diplomacy better than others. But that would not be enough to guarantee good relations. Soon trouble sailed through the Narrows, as new competitors followed in Block’s wake. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more ab...

Introducing: The Shadow Girls

January 20, 2022 11:00 - 2 minutes

Secretly, the Green River Killer case haunted Carolyn Ossorio’s childhood and adolescence…growing up near Gary Ridgway's hunting grounds, where he preyed on vulnerable teens and young women, strangling them, stripping their bodies of all earthly possessions and leaving them in the river and green spaces. 49 victims...and yet the first name most think of is, Gary Ridgway. As a little girl, Carolyn never forgot how his victims were portrayed as "bad girls." The message was clear: that's what wo...

Episode 7 - WAMPUM: 1612, Orson & Valentine

January 18, 2022 09:57 - 41 minutes

Adriaen Block reconnoiters the northern seaboard and sets up trading relations with the local Algonquins. This requires him to master the complex concept of trading with wampum. The Europeans think these shell beads are money, but for the Native Americans they have a spiritual meaning. To strengthen the mutual understanding, two native young men travel to the Netherlands as emissaries. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for p...

Episode 7 - Wampum: 1612, Orson Valentine

January 18, 2022 09:57 - 41 minutes

Adriaen Block reconnoiters the northern seaboard and sets up trading relations with the local Algonquins. This requires him to master the complex concept of trading with wampum. The Europeans think these shell beads are money, but for the Native Americans they have a spiritual meaning. To strengthen the mutual understanding, two native young men travel to the Netherlands as emissaries. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Episode 6 - Supercargo: 1611, Adriaen Block

January 11, 2022 10:00 - 47 minutes

Amsterdam merchants send out the experienced Adriaen Block to explore the new continent and trade with its inhabitants, thus kickstarting the colonization of New Amsterdam and, ultimately, New York. Henry Hudson remains obsessed with discovering the Northern passage. On his second voyage to North America, his embattled crew resorts to mutiny. Hudson and his son come to a chilling end. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for pr...

Review Episode Number One: Henry Hudson 1609 to 1611

December 14, 2021 10:00 - 52 minutes

After two voyages of discovery in the service of the English, Henry Hudson is hired in 1609 by the Dutch East India Company to discover the northeastern passage. In this review episode, Chance and Jaap go over the highlights of the previous episodes and answer questions. Do you have a question for our next review episode? Email to [email protected]. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn mo...

Episode 5 - Lutherans: 1610, Lambert Van Tweenhuysen

December 07, 2021 10:02 - 41 minutes

Having failed to discover a Northern passage, Henry Hudson does not return to Amsterdam, but lands in England instead. His news of a good fur trade stirs up Amsterdam merchants. Inspired, they prepare to send another ship to North America to try out the trade. Meanwhile, Hudson is hired by the English for another attempt at the Northern passage. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your...

Episode 4 - Obsession: 1609

November 30, 2021 10:00 - 40 minutes

What is driving Henry Hudson? What does he think he is doing? The further north he goes, the more he becomes obsessed to find the elusive Northern passage. But at some point the arctic cold and scarce provisions will take their toll. Is Hudson pushing his exhausted crew just a bit too far? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode 3 - China: 1609, John Hudson

November 23, 2021 10:00 - 53 minutes

"Why did we ever come to North America?," Hudson's crew ask themselves as the search for the northern route to Asia continues. Henry Hudson remains convinced he has got it right and decides to sail up the river. His reluctant crew begins to wonder whether he knows what he is doing. What is the point of fighting with the locals? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

Episode 2 - Soundings: 1609, John Colman

November 16, 2021 10:03 - 37 minutes

As Henry Hudson explores the New York area with the Half Moon, he meets the local indigenous Algonquins. His mixed crew of English and Dutch sailors includes his son, twelve-year old John Hudson, and the junior officer and translator, John Colman. In the course of their encounters with the locals, Colman's life comes to a bloody end. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices....

Episode 1 - De Halve Maen: 1609, Henry Hudson

November 16, 2021 10:00 - 46 minutes

Henry Hudson... If you live in the New York area, you hear his name a lot. We drive his parkway. We pay to cross his bridge. We marvel at his majestic river. But what do we know about HIM? This episode introduces Henry Hudson and his ship, the Half Moon, as he explores Manhattan and the river leading north. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/a...

TRAILER: Island

November 09, 2021 17:54 - 1 minute

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Episode 7 - GOVERNOR 1633-1637 Wouter van Twiller

July 02, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 41.4 MB

When the calm of dawn is broken by a cannon shot from a ship called de Soutbergh entering the bay that clear morning of Apr 16, 1633, the amiable Bastiaen Jansen Crol raised his head off his pillow of straw and reluctantly swallowed the fact that his short-lived term as "Governor" at the southern tip of Manhattan was over. And shuffling his feet upon the slick, wooden deck of that very incoming ship, stood a paunchy 27-year old nervously digesting the daunting beauty of this green and still...

Episode 6 - MINISTER: 1627 to 1632 Dominie Jonas Michaelius

April 22, 2021 02:00 - 1 hour - 45.6 MB

Two years into Walloon Pierre Minuit's administration,  the Directors of the Dutch West India Company take that major leap of finally deciding that "yes" this territory was now worthy of more than just a few krankenbezoekers...that in fact this colony of about 300 souls (and counting) was now worthy of its own ordained minister...but in spite of this major development, the challenges of maintaining a start-up colony, halfway across the globe, while simultaneously trying to pillage and rid th...

Episode 6 PROMO - previewing the upcoming, inimitable Dominie Jonas Michaelius

March 26, 2021 14:00 - 4 minutes - 3.47 MB

Of all the souvenirs you COULD send back to someone from Manhattan -- beaver bones may have never occurred to you...regardless, come along and see what exactly the first Minister of Manhattan may have had in mind when he chose this for his friend, back in 1628... History is cool...and often, quite bizarre. Episode 6  MINISTER: 1627 to 1632 - Dominie Jonas Michaelius -- --coming VERY soon -- this April 2021. Climb aboard.

American_Underdog_February-March2021Promo

March 04, 2021 01:00 - 2 minutes - 1.85 MB

Dames en heren- We are on a short hiatus for Feb & March. And we will have both episodes 6 AND 7 for you in APRIL. In the meantime, I am busy making American Underdog: The Kurt Warner Story - another bit of history, from not quite so long ago.  If you liked Rocky, Rudy or Hoosiers, then you’re going to LOVE this film. And your homework, between now and April is the make sure that you are all caught up on Episodes 1 through 5, so that you’re ready to meet Dominie Jonas Michaelius, Kiliaen...

Episode 5: DEAL 1626 - Pierre Minuit

January 30, 2021 21:00 - 49 minutes - 33.8 MB

 With the influx of the earliest settlers to New Netherland, these Walloon Pilgrims set up primarily at Ft. Orange (today's Albany) per their instructions, while a small Council of delegates huddled precariously with the newly appointed Provisional Director Willem Verhulst on the muddy, windy, untamed southern tip of Manhattan Island.  The Directors of the Dutch West India Company issued an exhaustive catalog of instructions to Verhulst on how to proceed once here. Foremost amongst these ins...

Episode 5 - DEAL: 1626 Pierre Minuit

January 30, 2021 21:00 - 52 minutes - 36.3 MB

 With the influx of the earliest settlers to New Netherland, these Walloon Pilgrims set up primarily at Ft. Orange (today's Albany) per their instructions, while a small Council of delegates huddled precariously with the newly appointed Provisional Director Willem Verhulst on the muddy, windy, untamed southern tip of Manhattan Island.  The Directors of the Dutch West India Company issued an exhaustive catalog of instructions to Verhulst on how to proceed once here. Foremost amongst these ins...

The podcast ISLAND Season One promo

December 21, 2020 02:00 - 2 minutes - 2.1 MB

In these three minutes we give you the long and the short of the program. Come aboard. History is cool.

Episode 4 - WAMPUM & WALLOONS: 1621-1625 Sarah Rapalje

December 14, 2020 04:00 - 48 minutes - 33.5 MB

In the wake of the assassination of Hendrick Christiaensen, the already wild frontier of Manhattan devolves into a frenzied melee, as the hornet's nest has been kicked.  And just as this experimental trading region starts digressing into a nebulous commercial haze, the twelve years of the Twelve Years Truce is expiring, making the timing just right for a certain Antwerp-born merchant operating in Amsterdam...and a Walloon faction living, working and worshiping in  Leiden.  Flemish business...

Episode 3 - BEVER 1615-1620 Hendrick Christiaensen

November 10, 2020 19:00 - 30 minutes - 21.3 MB

From 1614 until 1619 there was ONE man in charge on Manhattan Island and his name was Hendrick Christiaensen.   And while diplomacy between the intrepid Dutch and the native Algonquins endured for the better part of this decade, eventually the harmony became unhinged.  Was this a result of the resentment that grew in the hearts of the native hosts? Or was it the case of insidious rivalries between competing European cartels?   Whatever the case, one thing is certain -- this furry little ...

Episode 3 - BEVER: 1615-1620 Hendrick Christiaensen

November 10, 2020 19:00 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MB

From 1614 until 1619 there was ONE man in charge on Manhattan Island and his name was Hendrick Christiaensen.   And while diplomacy between the intrepid Dutch and the native Algonquins endured for the better part of this decade, eventually the harmony became unhinged.  Was this a result of the resentment that grew in the hearts of the native hosts? Or was it the case of insidious rivalries between competing European cartels?   Whatever the case, one thing is certain -- this furry little ...

Episode 2 - RESTLESS: 1610-1614 Adriaen Block

October 12, 2020 02:00 - 46 minutes - 32.3 MB

On OCTOBER 11, 1614, as a direct result of the remarkable alliances established by this one man over the past four years, the States General grants exclusive charter to the newly formed "New Netherland Company" for the express purpose of cultivating the emerging fur trade in this uncharted New World that Henry Hudson had left behind. And 406 years later, to the day, on OCTOBER 11, 2020, we are honored to tell you the story of this incredible navigator and businessman who would become the Gr...

Episode 2 - RESTLESS 1610-1614 Adriaen Block

October 12, 2020 02:00 - 46 minutes - 32.3 MB

On OCTOBER 11, 1614, as a direct result of the remarkable alliances established by this one man over the past four years, the States General grants exclusive charter to the newly formed "New Netherland Company" for the express purpose of cultivating the emerging fur trade in this uncharted New World that Henry Hudson had left behind. And 406 years later, to the day, on OCTOBER 11, 2020, we are honored to tell you the story of this incredible navigator and businessman who would become the Gr...

The podcast ISLAND promo

September 21, 2020 01:00 - 4 minutes - 3.1 MB

The podcast ISLAND is a chronological series illustrating the incredible story of the first three-hundred years of the colonization of Manhattan.  1609 to 1909, Hudson to Hearst. And we're coming out of the gate strong with our guests: Jaap Jacobs (PhD), Charles T. Gehring (PhD) and Ms. Indira Varma from Game of Thrones. Coming in October-- RESTLESS: 1610-1614 Adriaen Block (History is cool :) 

Episode 1 - HALVE MAEN: 1609 Henry Hudson

September 13, 2020 17:00 - 37 minutes - 25.5 MB

After being fired by the English Muscovy Company, frustrated and aging explorer Henry Hudson is hired by the Dutch East India Company to find the shortcut to Asia over the top of Russia.  But when pack-ice and an obstreperous, violent crew with a profound language barrier make that impossible, he changes course. Against the instructions of his employers, Hudson sails over 3,000 miles to the then unknown side of the planet, where he navigates up the river that would come to bear his name, and...

Episode_1: HALVE MAEN 1609 Henry Hudson

September 13, 2020 17:00 - 37 minutes - 25.5 MB

After being fired by the English Muscovy Company, frustrated and aging explorer Henry Hudson is hired by the Dutch East India Company to find the shortcut to Asia over the top of Russia.  But when pack-ice and an obstreperous, violent crew with a profound language barrier make that impossible, he changes course. Against the instructions of his employers, Hudson sails over 3,000 miles to the then unknown side of the planet, where he navigates up the river that would come to bear his name, and...