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Informative, casual, and a little bit sexy. Unbuttoned History is the raucous history podcast for people who want to learn a bit about yesteryear, but with silly voices and swearing. Hosts Emma, Mike, a second Mike and Caleb guide you through time immemorial and play a few ridiculous games along the way.
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Announcements and a ripping story.
The first episode of 2018 is packed to the gills with content! New updates about the podcast! A Friend departs! Then we talk about the Saints and how they all were manic but that doesn't take anything away from them for 2 hours. Mountains Levitate, Alphabets are invented, Animals are befriended!
In this episode, Captain Mike and Caleb tell you about two Swedes who were assassinated for very different reasons, and by that I mean one was a real mensch and the other was a real wang. We tackle King Gustav III and the General Secretary of the UN Dag Hammarskjöld.
If you love people doing utterly horrendous Scottish Accents, then this is your paradise.
Captain Mike tries to tell us about how the great Byzantine city o Constantinople fought off Crusaders, Latins, The Rus and a khannate or two before the Turks finally defeated them. But Mike Genuine Draft and Caleb are drunk and having too much fun going on tangents about the folly of not trusting Hungarians, being too cheap in regards to cannons, and how the Catholic Crusaders are basically heroin addicts whos teal copper piping from elementary schools.
Your favorite pseudo historians get to revive their first series: Newest Nations, and talk about the brief country of Catalonia. We cover the rise of Catalonian Nationalism, their oppression under Franco, and their efforts to become independence in the 21st century.
This week your favorite pseudo=historians take a look at America's Forgotten War: The Korean War. Where we learn the importance of Geography classes, that tanks versus people is lopsided and that having a billion people means you tip the scales no matter what.
We celebrate the 100th-anniversary of the October Revolution, also known as the Bolshevik Revolution. Fun story, this all actually happened in November because Russia was still using the Julian Calendar.
Capt. Mike attempts to wrap up his long running Ethiopian Epic series, but Mike Genuine Draft and Caleb play the Unbuttoned Drinking game and try to stop him at every turn. This is a sloppy and funny one, historians.
For 21 years Brazil was ruled by a brutal, and oppressive Military Dictatorship that specialized in torture and huge economic expansion for the ruling elites. Learn in this episode how there's only 12 names in 20th century Brazilian politics, how Superman defeated the KKK and why so many South American politicians are Italian.
Captain Mike finally gets to gush about how much he loves US President Theodore Roosevelt to his heart's extent. Caleb has a pretty great recurring bit about Taft getting stuck in bathtubs, and also why having your country actually matter sucks.
The Unbuttoned cast celebrates a huge milestone with some old friends of the show, Terry Torres, Julia Scherer-Hoock and Rebecca Bishop and discuss two very important questions: "Why is history important to you?" and "Why is history important to humankind?" Frivolity ensues.
This week we learn about the one time a super left wing major city decided to make itself it's own country--and how poorly it went. We cover the Paris Commune, Zoo animal Cuisine, Ridiculous Calendars, Red Flags and all the things you shouldn't do when you try to rise up against your national government.
Game of Thrones is wrapping up their penultimate season, and the topic of Royal Incest as abounded. But what of when this happened in our world? This week we talk about the strange practice of Royalty marrying and having children with their own families. From the horrific birth defects of King Tut, to the ravages of having everyone be a Hapsburg.
1A new series begins as we take a look at the horrific natural disaster that shaped San Francisco as we know it: the Massive Earthquake and subsequent fires. Here how the city and some very unlikely inhabitants were able build new, bigger and better after their whole city was wiped off the map.
It's vacation time at our satellite studio at the Bishop wharf, we have friend of the show Julia Scherer-Hoock on to talk about Witches, European and American.
That's right, folks. After a two eyer absence, Terry is back to guest on this episode looking at the differences between written and unwritten constitutions.
In this week's episode we bring back the beloved Atrocity deathmatch series, find out how easy it is to trick Blind Mike, and how bad Original Mike's memory and reading comprehension is.
In this week's episode we learn about how the British being routinely embarrassed pushes them to invent the concentration camp.
Finally we get around to Shaka and the Zulu people in this weeks episode. Learn about the things they don't tell you about Shaka himself, how the desire for making South Africa into Canada nearly destroyed it and how sometime syou can get carried away during the fun of the roads.
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I find your topics interesting only thing you spent the first 11ish minutes talking about anything but, it was like a sports show drivel. I don't mind chat but perhaps not so long next time.
unfortunate but cant get any of podcasts ro play on Castbox. topics looks great but guess it'll be some other pod I'll listen to.... oh well.
Kinda doubt that many of the enslaved were fluent in Arabic.
It’s also worth pointing out that there was no possible way for his raid on the armory to succeed and he dragged his own children into the scheme when some of his coconspirators realized the plan was not viable. The original plan was to send his kids to get the sword, but he used them to demonstrate how confident he was in the plan working. Didn’t help, everybody died. History is cooler when you live where it happened.
John Brown really was batshit insane. I live in Harpers Ferry where the National Park Service has a museum with an entire floor and a movie devoted to his nuttery. While he was in the process of his famous raid on the armory here his nephew and some of his compatriots were on the way to the home of George Washington’s nephew where Washington’s cavalry sword was kept. They were going to steal it and bring it back to Harpers Ferry where it would assure their victory. Didn’t work. Everybody died.
Formalized warfare only works until somebody decides to change the rules. The Flower Wars and the other ways ancient Central and South America obtained people for sacrifice are what led directly to the lesser known cultures siding with the Spanish to destroy their oppressors. They switched up the rules of war and people stopped coming to take sacrifices from them.
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