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Backrow Lessons#2.08 - Less Puritans, More Dudes And Murder! - The Founding of Boston & The Carolina ColonyAhoy maties! How goes it? Paul and Nolan here with a brand new episode of the Backrow Lesson Podcast! Hope you brought your basketball shorts, murder plots, and ski masks for robbing banks. We are going in hot...on the history of America's earliest major cities.
Hope you brought your finest wears, ran into your old college friends and most of checked the date to make sure you got the anniversary wrong, its gonna be another wild and educational episode of the Backrow Lessons Podcast!
Also get excited for the visual co...2022-06-021h 42Backrow Lessons#2.07 - 300 II: Dick Nickel’s Revenge - The Capture of New Netherlands & the New Haven ColonyThis week in episode 7 of season 2, just like the british forces we will be following, we make our presence known loud and proud! How do we do this? Powered by the fuel of history and non-canonical direct to video sequels! Don't understand yet? That's ok, just hop on in and find out!
Come with Paul and Nolan as we learn about the origins of things we all thought we knew, like how and why the Pilgrims came to the new world, the surprise attack that took New York by surprise, and why you should never p...2022-05-121h 31Backrow Lessons#2.06 - Dictator-Head-On-A-Stick (Oliver Cromwell & The Restoration)This week in episode 6 of season 2, things get really crazy when small disagreements over trade lead from all out war to long, drawn-out trials for people that are already long gone. I promise you, it is even weirder and more dumb than you can already believe. And that is even before you even factor in if they got the right people!!
Grab you bird eggs and aim them right at Nolan and Paul as we dive in and connect how 17th century bear wrestlers, hiding in oak trees, and a 450+ year old severed head all play into the story...2022-04-281h 49Backrow Lessons#2.05 - Peach Trees & Beaver Pelts - Kieft’s War & The Fall of New SwedenThis week in episode 5 of season 2, we jump back & forth across the ocean chasing warfare, but for good reason! Enormous amounts of riches and criminal justice hopefully await us on the other side. Tho make sure the captain knows where we are going.
Come with Nolan as we discover such amazing things as what happens when you sell you plot of land to the producer of Law & Order in the 1600's, the largest and most strict leader in all of New Sweden, but most of all find out if 14,000 beaver sink or swim.
...2022-04-141h 40Backrow Lessons#2.04 - Secret Agent Midnight - The Purchase of Manhattan Island & the Founding of the New Sweden ColonyThis week in episode 4 of season 2, we follow the life and times of what very well be the first special agent in the history of America...such a special agent he was named it from birth! How is there a secret agent happening in America when there are barely any colonies there you ask; well listen in to this episode and you will find out what I mean!!
Come with Paul and Nolan as we settle the largest city in the world, meet the locals in the area and make some deals, but most of a...2022-03-101h 29
Backrow Lessons#2.03 - Accidentally Colonization - Jamestown & Henry HudsonThis week in the 3rd episode of season 2, we get back to our roots; terrible failure and awful tragedies! Or at least we are going to find the humor in all of these attempts at changing the world!
Tag along with Paul and Nolan as we find new and interesting foods in the Americas, accidentally claim a set of islands and discover the truth that Jeffery Dahmer might be a time traveler!!
Tune in for each and every episode as we continue this crazy and hilarious journey on BACKROW LESSONS!!!
Check us out o...2022-02-241h 28Backrow Lessons#2.02 - Failing Upwards - The Lost Colony of Roanoke Part 2This week in the 2nd episode of season 2, we continue the tale of the spoooookiest event in the show's history...the Roanoke Colony! Or as we are going to find out, it is a whole lot less scary and a how lot more caused by laziness!
Tag along with Paul and Nolan as we find out who was part of that lost colony and what happened to them, explore the lasting effects of the failed colony and talk about what happens when you take away a dignified man's sweet wine monopoly!!
Tune in for each...2022-02-171h 32Backrow Lessons#2.01 - Get Stranded On Dude Island - The Lost Colony of Roanoke Part 1Welcome back and to Season 2!! This week in our season premier we start things out with a bang and jump right into one of the spooooookiest and most talked about failures in history...the Roanoke Colony! However before we can get down to North Carolina, we have to make our way across the ocean and boy is that is a journey in of itself!
Tag along with Paul and Nolan as we catch loads of fish in many different ways, learn how to use corn to properly perform your new years resolutions and most of all why...2022-02-102h 18Backrow Lessons1. Bonus - The Booty Was Considerable! (Francis Drake‘s Circumnavigation)This week in a super special end of the year BONUS episode we bridge the gap between Season 1 to Season 2 with a story of one man's quest of worldwide destruction...Francis Drake! We follow this bodacious sailor as he faces off against the likes of witches, the spanish and people with big feet!
Come with Paul and Nolan as they laugh their way around the world, ponder naval strategy, learn about trucks & chickens, and give yall a taste of what to expect in the upcoming second season!!
We will be back each early next year...2021-12-231h 45Backrow Lessons1.13 Shifting Paradigms, Digging Tunnels (Siege of St. Andrews/Death of Henry VIII) SEASON FINALEThis week in our 13th and final episode of the first season, we bring everything together and culminate it in true Backrow Lessons fashion...a terrible person executes another person and everything gets worse from there! From odd lessons on the roots of golf to debunking oddball theories on how a king died, this episode will not disappoint! All two hours of it will be a fun time filled with off the wall facts!
Come with Paul and Nolan as they learn how easy it was to invade a castle, why being a Scottish Cardinal sounds like...2021-10-282h 15Backrow Lessons1.12 It Was Us Who Returned The Desk (Burning of Edinburgh)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
MUSIC PROVIDED BY...2021-09-281h 30Backrow Lessons1.11 Oh My Spirit (The Life of James V of Scotland)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 s...2021-07-201h 33Backrow Lessons1.10 Part 2 A Tale of Two Kidnappings (The life of James IV & early life of James V of Scotland)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...2021-07-131h 14Backrow Lessons1.10 Part 1 The Army of Onionheads!! [Charles V's Failed Invasion of Algeria & The Great Debasement of England]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...2021-06-0851 minBackrow Lessons1.09 - A Post-Execution Potluck! The Execution of Thomas Cromwell & The Marriage and Execution of Catherine HowardThis 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 o...2021-06-021h 42Backrow Lessons1.08 - Small Pranks, Big ProblemsThis 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...2021-05-181h 36Backrow Lessons1.03 - How Not To Invade a KingdomThis 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!
...2021-04-271h 17Backrow Lessons1.02 - The Sea Lion King of the SeasThis 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!!
Come with Nolan and Paul as they dive in and talk about the battle of lawnmowers, how Columbus (yeah that one) flicked off the king that inspired Machiavelli's famous work and the prequel to the...2021-04-201h 08Backrow Lessons1.01 Shallow Well Charlie's Lost TreasureWELCOME 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!
We will be back each and every tuesday with brand new info...2021-04-131h 32Backrow Lessons1. Update - 4/13 Backrow Lessons Season 1 Update and ClarificationHi 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...2021-04-1303 minBackrow Lessons1.07 - Fugger Has Arrived!This week in our 7th episode, we find ourselves deep in the sauerkraut and wooden shoe filled world of sixteenth century Germany/Holy Roman Empire as we look at Henry's 4th bride to be and the world around her and how a small duchy in Germany spawned a future English queen! We also take a bit of a detour to talk about what might be the single most overlooked person in history! A man and a family with a name for the ages!
Come with Paul and cohost Nolan as they jump right in and talk about...2021-03-301h 27Backrow Lessons1.06 - To Obey and Serve and Get PregnantThis week in our 6th episode, we look at the quick and tragic lives of a pair of queens and how their deaths came to greatly influence major events to come after. We ponder the moral question of what is better, a dude to have a child with a young teenager or full out continental warfare. And finally we talk about our newest and most exciting sponsor...weird hats throughout history!
Come with Paul and guest host Nolan as they dive in and talk about the royal cockfighting pit of the british monarchy, what to gift a...2021-03-231h 07Backrow Lessons1.05 - Its Always Sunny in London (Henry VIII Part 2)This week in our 5th episode, we continue our look at the most insane family life and the utter chaos of the tudors as Henry embarks on for the sole reason of getting some! We finish up Henry VIII's quest for his perfect wife and seeking a male heir to the english throne, only to run into numerous self made problems on the way.
Come with Paul and guest host Nolan as they dive in and talk about the 2nd & 3rd wives of Henry's numerous bridal collection, the most royal spoon in the history of the world...2021-03-161h 13Backrow Lessons1.04 - Every Honeymoon needs a BeheadingThis week in our 4th episode, we start our look at the main subject of the season and the monarchs that ignites the expansion of the English across the world, the Tudors! Well...kinda. Due to the crazy crazy world around us in modern times, this shorter than normal episode will examine the problematic unencumbered father Henry VIII life as he waltzes his way through multiple european diplomatic calamity to meeting his first wife!
Come with Paul and guest host Nolan as they dive in and talk about the English royal white trash lifestyle, the romantic honeymoon...2021-03-091h 08