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Badass of the Week — 173 episodes

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The Death Match: The Soccer Game That Defied the Nazis

2

Vassili Paleokostas: History’s Wildest Prison Break Artist

3

William Bligh: The Man the Pacific Couldn’t Kill

4

Muhammad Ali: Fighting the Whole World

5

Canute the Great: England’s Viking Nightmare

6

Max Hardberger: The Repo Man of the High Seas

7

The 442nd: The Purple Heart Battalion

8

Hughie Jennings: The Last Baseball Lunatic

9

Babur: The Gunpowder King

10

Roald Amundsen: The Ice-Cold Genius Who Outsmarted Antarctica

11

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

12

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

13

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

14

The Vasa: Built to Dominate, Designed to Sink

15

Liver-Eating Johnson: The Mountain Man Boogeyman

16

Ishtar: Seduction, Slaughter, and the Underworld Heist

17

El Cid: The Baddest Knight in Spain

18

Kondo Isami: Last Samurai Standing

19

Josephine Baker: The Most Dangerous Woman in Paris

20

George Washington: Ice-Cold and Unkillable

21

Fridtjof Nansen: North of Insanity

22

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

23

Marguerite de la Rocque: Alone on the Island of Demons

24

Gilgamesh: Immortal Power, Very Mortal Consequences

25

Butch Cassidy: The West’s Smoothest Criminal

26

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

27

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

28

St. Moses the Black: From Outlaw to Saint

29

The Trưng Sisters: When Sisters Ruled an Empire

30

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

31

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

32

Alan Shepard: The Original Space Cowboy

33

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

34

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

35

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

36

Ted Williams: The Slugger Who Became a Fighter

37

Martha Gellhorn: Bylines and Bombshells

38

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

39

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

40

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

41

Xenophon: The March Through Madness

42

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

43

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

44

Dr. Hawa Abdi: A Sanctuary in Hell

45

Potemkin: This Ship Runs on Rage, Not Borscht

46

Buried Alive: The 33 Who Refused to Die

47

Nikephoros Phokas: Pale Death of the Saracens

48

Bare-Handed Beastmaster: The Wild Life of Carl Akeley

49

Jack Johnson: The Galveston Giant

50

Rome Vs The Etruscans Part II: Ride or Die

51

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

52

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

53

Banastre Tarleton: The Butcherous British Bastard of the American Revolution

54

Nuno Álvares Pereira: Portugal’s Holy Hammer

55

Crowned & Dangerous: The Legend of Eleanor of Aquitaine

56

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

57

Spitfire: Fast, Furious, and In Your Nazi Face

58

Justinian II: Seriously dead this time

59

Justinian II: No nose. No mercy.

60

Admiral Yi: One Man. One Fleet. Zero Mercy

61

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

62

Handsome Mingyan: Too Fast Too Furious

63

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

64

Doc Holliday: Death's Favorite Dentist - Part 2

65

Doc Holliday: Death's Favorite Dentist - Part 1

66

Hell Planet: The Soviet War with Venus

67

April Fools Part 2: Ridiculous History

68

April Fools! Ridiculous History Crossover...

69

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

70

100 EPISODES: Blood, Guts, and Questionable Pronunciations

71

Mickey Rooney: The Star Who Stood with Soldiers

72

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

73

Robert Smalls: The Confederate Ship Heist

74

Erik the Red: The Madman Who Made Greenland a Thing

75

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

76

Winged Hussars: The Armored Angels of War

77

Nancy Wake: The White Mouse Strikes Back

78

Milo of Croton: All Muscle, No Chill

79

Saladin: Crusader Crusher Extraordinaire

80

Odin and the Wild Hunt: A Frosty Feast of Fury

81

Lyle Bouck: Blitzkreig? Not on His Watch

82

Steve Irwin: Crocodile Hunter and Hater of Parrots

83

Agustina de Aragón: The Cannon Queen

84

Colonel Sanders: Fried Chicken’s Founding Father

85

Pine Leaf: Battle-Tested, Legend Approved

86

Spartacus: The Gladiator Who Defied Rome

87

Hannibal: Rome’s Greatest Enemy

88

Bass Reeves: Lawman with a Loaded Reputation

89

Camazotz: The Bat God of Death

90

John Keller: A Category 5 Badass.

91

Rasputin: The Mad Monk of Russia

92

Mithradates VI: The Poison King

93

William Wallace, nuff said

94

King Minos: The Tyrant of the Labyrinth

95

Alva Nuñez Cabeza De Vaca: Epic Survival

96

Eddie "Firestorm" Loder

97

Eugene James Bullard: The Black Swallow of Death

98

Captain James Macrae: The Buccaneer's Bane

99

Jim Thorpe: Path Lit By Great Flash of Lightning

100

Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri: The Iron Sheik

101

The Night Witches

102

The Bulgar Slayer

103

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

104

Apollo 11: One Badass Leap for Mankind

105

Ernest Shackleton: Ice Capades Commando

106

Wolf the Quarrelsome

107

John Paul Jones: Admiral of Anarchy

108

Roy Benavidez : Rumble in the Jungle

109

Constitutional Badasses with special guest A.J. Jacobs

110

Handsome Mingyan: The man who stole 10,000 horses

111

Gus March-Philips and the real Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

112

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

113

Ridiculous History: Ben joins Noel and Ben of Ridiculous History

114

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

115

Ignacio Zaragoza: The Hero of Cinco de Mayo

116

Benvenuto Cellini: Maestro of Mischief - with guest Daniele Bolleli

117

King Kamehameha: The Hawaiian Hero

118

Anita Garibaldi - Part II: Brazilian Boogaloo

119

The Badass Brazilian Anita Garibaldi - Part 1

120

Bonus Episode: Damnatio Memoria

121

Medea: The Mythological Maddest Sorceress Queen

122

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

123

Bishnu Shrestha and Gurkhas Gone Wild

124

Bonus Episode: Medieval Tinder + Civil War Linkedin

125

Heinrich Schliemann: The Man Who Discovered Troy

126

Ramesses II: Ramses Harder

127

Henry Johnson and The Harlem Hellfighters

128

Marie Curie: Radioactive and totally rad.

129

Toussaint L’Ouverture: The Haitian Hero

130

SKULD: Viking Zombies vs Bear Berserkers

131

King Naresuan and the Elephant Duel

132

Killer Chick: Kim Campbell and the A-10 Warthog

133

Bonus Episode: Spain and Gain

134

Klondike Joe Boyle: The Kick-ass Canadian

135

Alcibiades: The Biggest Jerk of the Classical Age

136

The Smuggler Librarians of Timbuktu

137

Peter the Great: The Rock Star Tsar

138

Mad Jack Churchill

139

Ataturk: The Father of All Turks

140

How Scarlet Lion Khongor Defeated Khan Iron Head Mangna

141

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

142

Halloween Special: Vlad the Impaler and Elizabeth Bathory

143

Zenobia and Amaniraneas: The Queens that defied Rome

144

Julia Agrippina and Locusta: Poison Pals

145

St. Olha of Kyiv: Viking Warrior Princess

146

Teddy Roosevelt (with special guest Greg Jackson)

147

George S. Patton: Old Blood and Guts

148

Laskarina Bouboulina: Greek Naval Heroine

149

Miyamoto Musashi: Sword Saint of Feudal Japan - Part 2

150

Miyamoto Musashi: Sword Saint of Feudal Japan - Part 1

151

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

152

Simo Hayha: The White Death

153

Olaf Crowbone: The Bloodthirsty Viking who Brought Christianity to Norway

154

How to build a Dynasty: Emperor Vespasian

155

Annie Oakley and Stagecoach Mary: Wild West Gunslingers

156

Boudica: The Celtic Warrior Queen

157

Bruce Lee: The Little Dragon

158

Benedict Arnold: America’s Most Infamous Soldier

159

Aaron Burr: The Dueling Vice President

160

The Great Locomotive Chase

161

North Sentinel Island

162

The Amazons and Valkyries

163

The Ghost Camaro of Bosnia

164

Marco Polo - Part 2

165

Marco Polo - Part 1

166

Episode 007 - Christopher Lee and Virginia Hall

167

Galvarino: The Handless Warrior

168

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

169

Robert Howard: A one man army.

170

Mary Read and Anne Bonny: Real Pirates of The Caribbean

171

Voytek the Soldier Bear

172

Hercules and The Virginia Hercules

173

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