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Badass of the Week — 183 episodes

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Catherine de’ Medici: A Throne Full of Knives

2

Hideaki Akaiwa: Honey, I Swam Through a Tsunami

3

Karl von Müller: The Captain Who Humiliated an Empire

4

Brian Chontosh: The Marine Who Ran Out of Guns

5

Semiramis: Queen of War, Mother of Legends

6

Louis-Antoine de Bougainville: Around the World and Into the Guns w/ Ridiculous History

7

George Rogers Clark: The Frozen March That Won the Northwest w/ Ridiculous History

8

Odysseus: Trojan Horses and Terrible Decisions

9

Hector: The Blood-Soaked Shield of Troy

10

Henry Knox: The Cannon King Who Won America’s Independence

11

The Death Match: The Soccer Game That Defied the Nazis

12

Vassili Paleokostas: History’s Wildest Prison Break Artist

13

William Bligh: The Man the Pacific Couldn’t Kill

14

Muhammad Ali: Fighting the Whole World

15

Canute the Great: England’s Viking Nightmare

16

Max Hardberger: The Repo Man of the High Seas

17

The 442nd: The Purple Heart Battalion

18

Hughie Jennings: The Last Baseball Lunatic

19

Babur: The Gunpowder King

20

Roald Amundsen: The Ice-Cold Genius Who Outsmarted Antarctica

21

The Lancaster: Fire, Steel, and Survival at 20,000 Feet

22

Isabella of France: The She-Wolf Who Toppled a King

23

The AC-130: Death From Above (with Special guest Special Missions Aviator Anthony Dyer )

24

The Vasa: Built to Dominate, Designed to Sink

25

Liver-Eating Johnson: The Mountain Man Boogeyman

26

Ishtar: Seduction, Slaughter, and the Underworld Heist

27

El Cid: The Baddest Knight in Spain

28

Kondo Isami: Last Samurai Standing

29

Josephine Baker: The Most Dangerous Woman in Paris

30

George Washington: Ice-Cold and Unkillable

31

Fridtjof Nansen: North of Insanity

32

Olympias: Snakes, Curses, and the Birth of an Empire

33

Marguerite de la Rocque: Alone on the Island of Demons

34

Gilgamesh: Immortal Power, Very Mortal Consequences

35

Butch Cassidy: The West’s Smoothest Criminal

36

Daniel Morgan: 499 Problems, the Crown Ain’t One

37

Petty Officer Robert J Thomas: The Last Bullet Is His.

38

St. Moses the Black: From Outlaw to Saint

39

The Trưng Sisters: When Sisters Ruled an Empire

40

The Taiping Rebellion: The Cult Leader Who Nearly Toppled an Empire

41

Pearl Harbor: The Cook, the Drunks, and the Battleship That Wouldn’t Die

42

Alan Shepard: The Original Space Cowboy

43

Majorian: The Roman Emperor Who Said “Not on My Watch”

44

Staff Sgt. Drew Dennis Dix: Welcome to Hell, I’ll Be Your Tour Guide

45

Guy Fawkes: The Powder, the Plot, and the Punishment

46

Ted Williams: The Slugger Who Became a Fighter

47

Martha Gellhorn: Bylines and Bombshells

48

The Viking Who Invented Dublin and the Saint Who Invented Petty Violence

49

REPLAY -- Milo of Croton: All Muscle, No Chill.

50

Mark Kerr: The Smashing Machine (with special guest Mark Kerr)

51

Xenophon: The March Through Madness

52

Paddy Mayne: When in doubt, just strap a machine gun to it!

53

Baron Frederick von der Trenck: Get in Loser, We’re Escaping Prussia

54

Dr. Hawa Abdi: A Sanctuary in Hell

55

Potemkin: This Ship Runs on Rage, Not Borscht

56

Buried Alive: The 33 Who Refused to Die

57

Nikephoros Phokas: Pale Death of the Saracens

58

Bare-Handed Beastmaster: The Wild Life of Carl Akeley

59

Jack Johnson: The Galveston Giant

60

Rome Vs The Etruscans Part II: Ride or Die

61

Rome VS The Etruscans Part 1: Before the Republic, There Was Blood

62

Abd al-Rahman: Prince of Blood, Lord of the South

63

Banastre Tarleton: The Butcherous British Bastard of the American Revolution

64

Nuno Álvares Pereira: Portugal’s Holy Hammer

65

Crowned & Dangerous: The Legend of Eleanor of Aquitaine

66

Conquistador? Conquista-Dead: Magellan, Lapu Lapu, and the Worst Beach Day Ever

67

Spitfire: Fast, Furious, and In Your Nazi Face

68

Justinian II: Seriously dead this time

69

Justinian II: No nose. No mercy.

70

Admiral Yi: One Man. One Fleet. Zero Mercy

71

Chuck Yeager: One Hand on the Stick, One Finger to Death

72

Handsome Mingyan: Too Fast Too Furious

73

Black Agnes: Throwing Shade, Throwing Rocks and Throwing Down for Scotland.

74

Doc Holliday: Death's Favorite Dentist - Part 2

75

Doc Holliday: Death's Favorite Dentist - Part 1

76

Hell Planet: The Soviet War with Venus

77

April Fools Part 2: Ridiculous History

78

April Fools! Ridiculous History Crossover...

79

Leo Major: Why Send an Army When One Canadian Will Do?

80

100 EPISODES: Blood, Guts, and Questionable Pronunciations

81

Mickey Rooney: The Star Who Stood with Soldiers

82

Oracle of Delphi: Ancient Greece’s Hotline to the Gods

83

Robert Smalls: The Confederate Ship Heist

84

Erik the Red: The Madman Who Made Greenland a Thing

85

Zheng Yi Sao: The Most Ruthless Pirate You Never Heard Of

86

Winged Hussars: The Armored Angels of War

87

Nancy Wake: The White Mouse Strikes Back

88

Milo of Croton: All Muscle, No Chill

89

Saladin: Crusader Crusher Extraordinaire

90

Odin and the Wild Hunt: A Frosty Feast of Fury

91

Lyle Bouck: Blitzkreig? Not on His Watch

92

Steve Irwin: Crocodile Hunter and Hater of Parrots

93

Agustina de Aragón: The Cannon Queen

94

Colonel Sanders: Fried Chicken’s Founding Father

95

Pine Leaf: Battle-Tested, Legend Approved

96

Spartacus: The Gladiator Who Defied Rome

97

Hannibal: Rome’s Greatest Enemy

98

Bass Reeves: Lawman with a Loaded Reputation

99

Camazotz: The Bat God of Death

100

John Keller: A Category 5 Badass.

101

Rasputin: The Mad Monk of Russia

102

Mithradates VI: The Poison King

103

William Wallace, nuff said

104

King Minos: The Tyrant of the Labyrinth

105

Alva Nuñez Cabeza De Vaca: Epic Survival

106

Eddie "Firestorm" Loder

107

Eugene James Bullard: The Black Swallow of Death

108

Captain James Macrae: The Buccaneer's Bane

109

Jim Thorpe: Path Lit By Great Flash of Lightning

110

Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri: The Iron Sheik

111

The Night Witches

112

The Bulgar Slayer

113

Edith Garrud + Mary Church Terrell: Fist Fighting for the right to vote

114

Apollo 11: One Badass Leap for Mankind

115

Ernest Shackleton: Ice Capades Commando

116

Wolf the Quarrelsome

117

John Paul Jones: Admiral of Anarchy

118

Roy Benavidez : Rumble in the Jungle

119

Constitutional Badasses with special guest A.J. Jacobs

120

Handsome Mingyan: The man who stole 10,000 horses

121

Gus March-Philips and the real Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

122

Ten Tsewang: The Sherpa Who Raced to Tell the World Everest Had Been Climbed

123

Ridiculous History: Ben joins Noel and Ben of Ridiculous History

124

REPLAY: La Maupin and the Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Swordfighting Adventurerers of the French Revolution

125

Ignacio Zaragoza: The Hero of Cinco de Mayo

126

Benvenuto Cellini: Maestro of Mischief - with guest Daniele Bolleli

127

King Kamehameha: The Hawaiian Hero

128

Anita Garibaldi - Part II: Brazilian Boogaloo

129

The Badass Brazilian Anita Garibaldi - Part 1

130

Bonus Episode: Damnatio Memoria

131

Medea: The Mythological Maddest Sorceress Queen

132

Australia: Land of Hugh Jackman and Huge-a** crocodiles.

133

Bishnu Shrestha and Gurkhas Gone Wild

134

Bonus Episode: Medieval Tinder + Civil War Linkedin

135

Heinrich Schliemann: The Man Who Discovered Troy

136

Ramesses II: Ramses Harder

137

Henry Johnson and The Harlem Hellfighters

138

Marie Curie: Radioactive and totally rad.

139

Toussaint L’Ouverture: The Haitian Hero

140

SKULD: Viking Zombies vs Bear Berserkers

141

King Naresuan and the Elephant Duel

142

Killer Chick: Kim Campbell and the A-10 Warthog

143

Bonus Episode: Spain and Gain

144

Klondike Joe Boyle: The Kick-ass Canadian

145

Alcibiades: The Biggest Jerk of the Classical Age

146

The Smuggler Librarians of Timbuktu

147

Peter the Great: The Rock Star Tsar

148

Mad Jack Churchill

149

Ataturk: The Father of All Turks

150

How Scarlet Lion Khongor Defeated Khan Iron Head Mangna

151

La Maupin and the Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Swordfighting Adventurerers of the French Revolution

152

Halloween Special: Vlad the Impaler and Elizabeth Bathory

153

Zenobia and Amaniraneas: The Queens that defied Rome

154

Julia Agrippina and Locusta: Poison Pals

155

St. Olha of Kyiv: Viking Warrior Princess

156

Teddy Roosevelt (with special guest Greg Jackson)

157

George S. Patton: Old Blood and Guts

158

Laskarina Bouboulina: Greek Naval Heroine

159

Miyamoto Musashi: Sword Saint of Feudal Japan - Part 2

160

Miyamoto Musashi: Sword Saint of Feudal Japan - Part 1

161

Ikkyu Sojun: Zen Buddhist Party Animal (with special guest Daniele Bolelli of History on Fire)

162

Simo Hayha: The White Death

163

Olaf Crowbone: The Bloodthirsty Viking who Brought Christianity to Norway

164

How to build a Dynasty: Emperor Vespasian

165

Annie Oakley and Stagecoach Mary: Wild West Gunslingers

166

Boudica: The Celtic Warrior Queen

167

Bruce Lee: The Little Dragon

168

Benedict Arnold: America’s Most Infamous Soldier

169

Aaron Burr: The Dueling Vice President

170

The Great Locomotive Chase

171

North Sentinel Island

172

The Amazons and Valkyries

173

The Ghost Camaro of Bosnia

174

Marco Polo - Part 2

175

Marco Polo - Part 1

176

Episode 007 - Christopher Lee and Virginia Hall

177

Galvarino: The Handless Warrior

178

Stanislav Petrov: The man who saved the world from nuclear obliteration.

179

Robert Howard: A one man army.

180

Mary Read and Anne Bonny: Real Pirates of The Caribbean

181

Voytek the Soldier Bear

182

Hercules and The Virginia Hercules

183

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