History Go Time!

The slapstick tragedy that is the Gunpowder Plot, one of the dumbest things that has ever happened.

So it turns out that to talk about the Gunpowder Plot, you need to do over an hour of stuff to lay the groundwork for the Gunpowder Plot. In the beginning...in 1517 Martin Luther staples an essay to a church, leading to millions of deaths for dumb reasons. These are those reasons.

You all know there's no such thing as curses. Sure. You all know there's no such thing as the Curse of the Pharaoh. But you may not know just how brazen the lie is.

It's part of the history podcasting contract that you have to cover this topic eventually, so here you go, the infamous "Murder in the Cathedral."

If you're not familiar with the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire then you're probably not expecting the Guy Ritchie level of dark comedy that actually happened. Or the sheer volume of craziness involved. Whatever level of crazy you're thinking, double it and add 30, like you're doing a fahrenheit conversion.

My favourite episode of The Simpsons is packed with a lot of very niche political references. Here's why it's so funny. Also, it's always worth exploring how everything is Ronald Reagan's fault. Because it is.

"The history of popes is too boring." Is it? A pope goes to war with Germany because he had too much sex, there's a skeleton lawyer, two - TWO - wizards, and a little something called THE JOUST OF WHORES!

Why do people seem to think that the library of Alexandria was the only library in the ancient world?

In 1938 the German pharmaceutical company Temmler patented the drug Pervitin. In 1939 the Germans conquered…a lot of places. These two events may be linked. We do all of that to get to the story of Aimo Koivunen, the Finnish soldier who makes John Belushi look like Jim Belushi.

The infamous story about Horus and Set. You asked for this. I cannot stress enough - you asked for this. This was originally a bonus show for Medicis, but now everyone gets to suffer psychic damage.