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History Go Time!

Somewhere between Dan Carlin and George Carlin, professional comedian and history enthusiast Damian Smith regales with his favourite anecdotes from throughout the annals of time. These stories are fun, exciting, compelling, and quite often actually happened - for as Leo Ferre once said: ”you must believe in ancient history, even if it is not true.” Guaranteed at least 90% truth.

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All Episodes

01:26:19

The Gunpowder Plot II: Treason Season

History Go Time! ·

2025/11/10

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

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01:14:21

The Gunpowder Plot I: Doth Protest Too Much

History Go Time! ·

2025/10/25

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.

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01:07:36

The Curse of the Pharaoh!

History Go Time! ·

2025/09/27

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.

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01:23:20

Smack My Bishop

History Go Time! ·

2025/08/25

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."

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00:55:10

Hernan Cortes and the Troubuchet

History Go Time! ·

2025/07/23

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.

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01:55:01

Reagan Ruined Everything I: Two Bad Neighbors

History Go Time! ·

2025/06/26

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.

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01:30:12

Popeperu

History Go Time! ·

2025/05/24

"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!

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02:07:07

The Great Lie-brary

History Go Time! ·

2025/04/23

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

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00:50:50

The One Who Knocks - Aimo Koivunen

History Go Time! ·

2025/03/26

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.

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00:42:01

Tease & The Nile (No More Paywall)

History Go Time! ·

2025/02/25

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.

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04:04:19

Damo Reacts: Gladiator 2

History Go Time! ·

2025/01/25

You wanted it, be careful what you wish for. Pointing out all of the historical inaccuracies in Gladiator 2 actually took twice as long as Gladiator 2.

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00:49:35

Baby It's Cold Outside (It's actually hot, I'm...

History Go Time! ·

2024/12/24

The song isn't problematic, the interpretation is. Here's why we shouldn't judge the past by the mores of today. I promise this is the last 'people are being wrong on the internet' for a while.

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01:05:29

Debunking The Internet I: Acronyms

History Go Time! ·

2024/12/15

Most of what you read on the internet is false. Not this, of course, but other things. Here's why every time you see 'did you know that word came from an acronym' is always wrong.

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01:18:50

The Zarathustra Film (Damo's Version) Part II

History Go Time! ·

2024/11/17

Cambyses, son of Cyrus, goes a little bit insane. Bardiya, other son of Cyrus, gets eaten by an evil wizard. Darius, future emperor of Persia, finds interesting uses for horses. That's as much as the censors will let me say.

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00:41:54

Batman Begins? The Springheel Jack Story

History Go Time! ·

2024/10/31

I try not to do Halloween but you keep dragging me back in. This one is from the paid archives, now everyone can have a taste. It's about Victorian era crazy, urban legends, the Duke of Wellington, and the origin of the term 'painting the town red.'

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01:25:31

The Zarathustra Film (Damo's Version) Part I

History Go Time! ·

2024/10/22

One of my favourite shows from years ago disappeared off the internet, probably due to wizards. Instead of simply uploading it again, I decided to redo the whole thing from the ground up. Which is possibly why it's two shows now. This is all about the Achaemenid Persian Empire. We look at how advanced they were, how awesome Cyrus was, and somehow once again manage to find a way to disrespect Sparta. It's a talent.

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01:20:36

My Fair Swabbie

History Go Time! ·

2024/09/21

In honour of International Talk Like A Pirate Day we explore why pirates didn't actually sound like that, and also how, technically, every day is Talk Like A Pirate Day

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01:13:15

Jacks Are Wild

History Go Time! ·

2024/08/24

I didn't know why jacks in a deck of cards were jacks. Join me for a tumble down the rabbit hole. The other hour is a bunch of random history stuff you'll probably enjoy, loosely bound by this flimsy conceit.

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00:43:09

Random Crazy Olympic Stuff

History Go Time! ·

2024/07/28

Random trivia from the modern Olympics. Bizarre sports (poodle grooming, pretending to be a corpse), event disruptions (four person pileup, evil leprechaun), and numerous unfortunate things happening to pigeons. Why is it only every four years?

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01:46:55

Apepi Talk - The Hyksos Invasion

History Go Time! ·

2024/06/13

The Second Intermediate Period of Egypt. Or that time when people who weren't Egyptian took over and they don't really like talking about it.

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