Losers, Pretenders & Scoundrels

By: Andrew Heaton Andrew Young
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  • Unlicensed historians Andrew Heaton and Andrew Young sort out characters from the Earth's history into categories of failures, fakes, and rascals. Funny but technically informative.
    2021
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Episodes
  • King Zog I: The Chain-smoking Ruler of Albania

    King Zog I: The Chain-smoking Ruler of Albania
    Sep 25 2024

    Zog I of Albania was that country's youngest prime minister, and eventually its king. He chainsmoked a mind-boggling amount of cigarettes every day, and experienced a significant amount of assasination attempts.
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    56 mins
  • The Craziest Governor of Oklahoma: Alfalfa Bill Murray

    The Craziest Governor of Oklahoma: Alfalfa Bill Murray
    Aug 16 2024

    Alfalfa Bill Murray declared martial law over thirty times, and wrote an autobiography so embarassing that his family would steal it out of libraries. After a political defeat, he tried to start a colony in Bolivia, and failed at that, too. And was SUPER racist.
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Gregor MacGregor: Liar King of the Mosquito Coast - Part 2

    Gregor MacGregor: Liar King of the Mosquito Coast - Part 2
    Jul 29 2024

    Gregor MacGregor was a Scotsman who joined revolutionary causes in South America, slowly morphed into a coward, THEN evolved into a fantabulist who tricked hundreds of destitute Scots to starve and die in a fake colony that never existed. And yet, he is buried with honors in Caracas Cathedral as a war hero.
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    39 mins

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