Real history isn't boring! A historian with an attitude, a big mouth, and all the juiciest centuries old gossip on who betrayed, beheaded, & hooked up with whom . Meet true players like Ben Franklin and the Duke of Wellington. Celebrate some Iron Age pride with the Sacred Band of Thebes as they crush the Spartan phalanx. Find out what the Freemasons actually did to help plan the American Revolution. From the Stone Age to today's biggest news, Dr. Hans has the inside scoop.
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Masonic Conspiracies Episode 2: How the Freemasons Probably Planned the Boston Tea Party
The masonic history series is a little less sarcastic and cynical. Taken from my own research, this episode explores the evidence linking Boston's Lodge of St. Andrew's Freemasons Lodge with the Boston Tea Party, the event that ultimately sparked the American Revolution.
Conspiracy theorists have claimed for centuries that the Freemasons planned the Boston Tea Party - in this case, they might just be right.
For more on this topic, check out my book, Freemasonry in the Revolutionary Atlantic World. (https://www.amazon.com/Freemasonry-Revolutionary-Atlantic-World-Schwartz/dp/B0DSHBLM3M/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2CECVO8N7FFGD&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.6Xn3rvZXglvpLkKzUFyZOQdW3JgOqY9Tz7RV8CVBX05Kfs1iiXwX7r_CrYWFaHI5.DT3IZuGoTdKFh8WyNeBq47jukW-PQEY91HpHcGw83pM&dib_tag=se&keywords=freemasonry+in+the+revolutionary+atlantic+world&qid=1756584034&sprefix=%2Caps%2C98&sr=8-1)
30 Aug 2025
Masonic history Episode 1: Conspiracy Theories and Connections: The Freemasons & The Sons of Liberty in the American Revolution
The masonic history series is a little less sarcastic and cynical. Taken from my own research, this episode explores the very close connections between colonial American Freemasons and the radical Sons of Liberty who led the American Revolutionary. Was the Revolution a Masonic conspiracy? No. Did Masonic conspiracies alter the course of the American Revolution? It sure seems like it.
30 Aug 2025
Russia's Alcoholism Economy
Forget communism and capitalism, Russia's real economy is all about alcoholism! For centuries, the biggest source of government revenue in Russia has been selling the hard stuff to it's own people. Learn all about why keeping your peasants drunk for 500 years isn't the best way to keep your economy afloat.
This episode is one of the more fun and entertaining ones!
15 Aug 2024
History's Most Badass Deaths Episode 3: Can the Curse of Giles Corey Crush Blackbeard Like the Salem Witch Trials Literally Crushed Him?
In our inaugural History's Most Badass Death Tournament, we pit three of the most legendary die hards: Rasputin, the Mad Monk, Captain Ed "Blackbeard" Teach, and 81 year old Puritan farmer and accused Salem witch Giles Corey against each other in a head - to head competition to determine who really pulled off the manliest death in history. Warning: You'll learn a little about the Russian Revolution, the Golden Age of Piracy, and the Salem Witch Trials along the way.
Cantankerous, violent, and hard to get along with 81 year old Puritan farmer Giles Corey suffered the most brutal execution ever conducted in a (future) Blue State - or any state. When he refused to confess to witchcraft, the powers that be in Salem spent three days of their famous witch trials crushing Corey under a massive pile of stones. His famous last words? "More weight." Legend has it that he cursed Sheriff Corwin and every Salem sheriff, and ever since, every Sheriff of Salem has either died or retired early from a blood or heart disorder, starting with Corwin himself. Find out the truth behind the legend and more importantly, find out who wins Real History with Dr. Hans' Inaugural History's Most Badass Death Tournament!
15 Aug 2024
History's Most Badass Deaths Episode 2: A Screaming Hangover, 5 Gunshots, and 20 to 25 Sword Wounds: Captain Edward "Blackbeard Teach"
In our inaugural History's Most Badass Death Tournament, we pit three of the most legendary die hards: Rasputin, the Mad Monk, Captain Ed "Blackbeard" Teach, and 81 year old Puritan farmer and accused Salem witch Giles Corey against each other in a head - to head competition to determine who really pulled off the manliest death in history. Warning: You'll learn a little about the Russian Revolution, the Golden Age of Piracy, and the Salem Witch Trials along the way.
In my favorite episode of the series, take an epic adventure with the real life pirates of the Caribbean including Teach's buddies Ben Hornigold, Stede Bonnett, and "Black Sam" Bellamy - not to mention seafaring psychokiller Ned Lowe. Blackbeard definitely died the manliest death of any pirate captain, but was all that punishment enough to win the History's Most Badass Death Tournament?
15 Aug 2024
History's Most Badass Deaths Episode 1: The Mystical Christian Alcoholic Sexual Predator Who Called the Russian Revolution: Grigory "Mad Monk" Rasputin
In our inaugural History's Most Badass Death Tournament, we pit three of the most legendary die hards: Rasputin, the Mad Monk, Captain Ed "Blackbeard" Teach, and 81 year old Puritan farmer and accused Salem witch Giles Corey against each other in a head - to head competition to determine who really pulled off the manliest death in history. Warning: You'll learn a little about the Russian Revolution, the Golden Age of Piracy, and the Salem Witch Trials along the way.
Legend has it that Rasputin's aristocratic enemies poisoned, shot, stabbed, slashed, beat, castrated and drowned the Mad Monk, and that he prophesied that his murder would bring on the fall of the Czar's imperial rule. Learn the facts behind the legend.
15 Aug 2024
Why You Should Never Call Your Sports Team the Spartans
Everybody loves the Spartans! Spartan races, Spartan Football, Spartan Youth Hockey, America is all about the Spartans: Those slavery loving, inbreeding, baby leaving on the mountainside, Greek Warriors who missed the Battle of Marathon and eventually got themselves beaten by the Sacred Band - an elite Theban unit composed of 150 committed gay couples- only to be turned into a Roman tourist attraction. Here are a few reasons why you might want to name your next team after some other Greek city state.
15 Aug 2024
Waterloo: How Wellington Stole Napoleon's Girlfriends and the Rothschilds Got Blamed for Every Conspiracy Theory on the Internet
All's fair in love and war, and Arthur "Duke of Wellington" Wellesley crushed Napoleon Bonaparte at both by stealing the Emperor's two favorite mistresses in the months leading into the battle. Meanwhile, Nathan Rothschild and his brothers financed Wellington's army while establishing one of the world's first international financial corporations, only to be blamed for everything from the Holocaust to bad weather by legions tin foil hat, basement dwelling antisemitic conspiracy theorists.
15 Aug 2024
That Time When 4 Sports Concussions Killed 57,000 People
King Henry VIII started out as a star athlete, author, composer, and all around great guy. Four sports related head injuries later, he beheaded two wives, divorced a couple others, and persecuted over 50,000 Catholics and political enemies.
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