Backrow Lessons

After a small delay in our 12th episode, we finally bring together our time up in Scotland with the focus on Henry VIII and his tendencies to screw everything up. It seems that this quality reallys runs fully in his entire extended family!! 

Come with Paul and cohost Nolan as they discuss the differences between super double peace treaties versus the no peace peace treaty, why trying to marry a baby is a bad idea, and how an art exhibit pushed Scottish Crypto-Fascist Patriots to kidnap and hold a fancy desk for ransom 

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This week in our 11th episode, we continue our slight detour on James V of Scotland as we see how he deals with problems on his border and how he feels about witches who betray him!! Don't worry tho, we definitely have not forgotten to include yet another total military disaster into the mix! 

Come with Paul and cohost Nolan as they follow the travels of a Scottish king sending someone to get married for him, why that one aunt at thanksgiving might be the only thing stopping war and the crazy person Paul found who believes she can talk to the people in our stories!!

We will be back each and every tuesday with brand new info, a bundle of fun things to talk about and make fun of!

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This week in the 2nd half of our 10th (still counts right?) episode, we continue our break from the scandalous private life of Henry VIII and look at the other king on the isle of Britain that was being dragged down because of a Tudor! We head north to Scotland and look at the closest neighbor and enemy to the England while examining how one son was so desired by his parents and everyone else, battles and kidnappings happen multiple times before he is even a teenager.

Come with Paul and Nolan as they appreciate their upbringings a bit more than before, wonder why a kid needed an elite squad to go to the park and awesome it would be if you can make your own restraining orders! 

We will be back each and every tuesday with brand new info, a bundle of fun things to talk about, and an ever increasing quality of recording and intro music!

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This week in our 10th episode, we take a break from the scandalous private life of Henry VIII and instead look at the other ways he was a totally incompetent leader! From having too many guns to having too many weddings to printing fake money, we explore the King's immaculate ability to cause chaos for decades after he will die!! From there, we head down south back to Mainland Europe as France and Germany are about to fight again, but first Charles V has to totally shoot himself in the foot and goes a tad bit...overboard one could say!! 

Come with Paul and Nolan as they learn how not to commit forgery, revel in awe of how terrible an emperor could be, and finally as we all learn about the economies of onions and slaves!!

We will be back each and every tuesday with brand new info, a bundle of fun things to talk about, and an ever increasing quality of recording and intro music!

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This week in our 9th episode, we lose our heads over the """trials""" and prompt executions of 5 different people in this episode! From famous last words to what could be considered the worst job reference in recorded history, this week is thick with punishment and sneaky behaviors! 

Come with Paul and cohost Nolan as they try their best to see the fatherly bond between King Henry VIII and the last days before his buddy's impending doom approaches, empathize with the queen, but most of all we try and figure out the hardest question we have ever encounter on the series; what do you bring to the potluck after the public execution? 

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This week in our 8th episode, we follow the 4th fuggin marriage of this Henry guy, and boy is it a wild and fast ride! From odd english courtly traditions to the scheming rivals to the queen, the tale in this episode is a can't miss one! Don't worry though, we make sure to talk about some dogs!

Come with Paul and cohost Nolan as they dress up along with the king and totally embarrass themselves when they talk about a sport where a bull fights an animal and this caused a diplomatic crisis in England, one of the biggest families we have ever seen, and finally and most importantly, about the details of a large 45 year man's wet dreams!

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This week in our 3rd episode, we finish our time spent with Albuquerque in India and the South Pacific! Following a few different Portuguese military leaders we learn the do's and do not's of trying to invade a foreign land! Number one lesson, if you hear rumors of an ambush...believe them!! They might have war elephants

Come with Paul and guest host Nolan as they dive in and talk about the final pieces of the European spice trade, the worst commander in naval history and how awful at speaking other languages Paul truly is!

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This week in our 2nd episode, we get into things by looking at the development of the Portuguese Spice Trade! We talk about from the fall of the last remaining parts of the Roman empire in less than a hundred years europeans were conquering all over the planet! How did it happen? Listen here and you will get an introduction to why!!

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WELCOME TO BACKROW LESSONS!!!!!

This week in our inaugural episode, we look at the earliest found settlement in Australia, find out that Brazil is west of Africa (according to a french man), and explain why the Alligator River is one of the most ironic places in the world!

Come with Paul and cohost Nolan as they dive in and talk about a man on some money and in some operas, the underside of the world and how 3 guys found some uranium!

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Hi there everyone and to all of listeners, Paul and Nolan here! We are uploading this quick semi-bonus update episode to clue everyone in on what the next few weeks and episodes are going to be like as we get more into the podcast!

1. Despite the first few episodes bouncing around in topic we are going to finish up the Tudor kingdom in the coming episodes with Henry's time coming, then his children having some royal fun and then finally finishing the first season with Francis Drake's voyage around the world!! However we need about two weeks to finish our notes for this, so expect a brand new episode in about two weeks from now!

2. In the meantime tho as we research and prepare for the end of season 1, Nolan and I are going to be re-recording our earlier episodes with better mic quality, real music, and Nolan as our cohost for them! The first edition of these re-does (which will be even funnier than the originals) is going up the same day as this update!

We will be back each and every tuesday with brand new info, a bundle of fun things to talk about, and an ever increasing quality of recording and intro music!

Tune back in next week for the following episode of BACKROW LESSONS!!!

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