Saint Patrick’s Day is coming up and I thought you might want to know a bit about the man (or at least the myth of the man) behind the holiday. I hope you all have a fun and safe Saint Patrick’s Day! Podcast: Play in new window | Download Share...

As you might imagine since I’m doing an episode on it, Halloween has a lot of British influence upon it. In fact, the name itself comes from Scotland, where All Saint’s Eve (also known as All Hallow’s Eve) was shortened in the 16th century to Halloween. And the name stuck. But as you have probably gathered, originally the day was simply the day before All Saint’s Day (also known as All Hallows or Hallowmas). And this might come as a shock...

So I’m doing a short midweek episode because something’s been irking me. I’ve heard repeatedly from a variety of people that history is a guy thing. And that’s f#*king stupid. I mean, you could say that just on sheer mathematics, 51% of history is a female thing. But that’s not the truth of it. The truth is that history is a human thing. These are everyone’s stories and while there were a ridiculous number of biased primary sources who...

Ok, so we’ve hit 2000 likes on Facebook. So as promised, here’s the bonus episode. We voted for it on, of course, the Facebook site and Druids won. But beware… this is an old episode so there is a lot of “whatnot” in there. So if you’re playing the Whatnot Drinking Game, you might want to use beer… or even near-beer. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Share...

As you might recall, a few months ago I made a challenge. For every thousand likes the Facebook page got, I would release a members only episode to the public. Well, we’re over 1,700 likes right now and I realized something… I never released a members only episode for the first 1,000 likes. So I thought I’d do that right now. Right now over on the members only podcast, in addition to things such as the Anglo Saxon food and drink...

This is a recap episode where we’re going to go over the nearly 1 year of podcasts, since it’s been quite a (nearly) year and I wouldn’t blame you if you have forgotten who Governor Scapula was. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Share...