5.20- The Sea Wolf

Lord Thomas Cochrane turned out to be the key to Peru. 

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Comments

[Rob]

You're taking "Christmas" off? Is this some new holiday? Based on the date it comes you must be referring to Saturnalia, but using a new name.

[Robert]

is there something wrong with the episode, I cant seem to download it :/

[leo]

let me be a bit rude and say: why do we get TWO (2) special episodes about europeans in a show about south american independence. Sure, they're both kinda important (gregor macgregor not so much really), but i can think of many other south americans much more important than them that are not even mentioned (belgrano for example). I'm a bit annoyed also because there are no podcast about south american history, and when we do get one they dedicate lots of time to europeans. Sorry for this rant, but i needed to say it.

[ArthurLowe]

Just a bit of trivia ....Thomas Cochrane was the inspiration for Patrick O'Brian's series of books about Jack Aubrey, the first of which was Master and Commander which was later turned into a film. Cochrane was a character and probably annoyed his peers then by his hogging of the limelight as much as he does now in a historical context. There are free Kindle books about him and by him available online.

[Holly Martin]

Mike, well I've finally caught up to you in real time. After binging on The History of Rome and devouring all the Revolutions thus far I was at a loss on what to do with all this free time between podcasts. So I've started listening to other casts that you brought up on the show.

I have to say you are, by far, the best storyteller out there. You bring a new voice to history that makes it so easily accessible. I even enjoy listening to your one-off interviews with other podcasters.

But I'm a little disappointed. I haven't caught a single baseball reference or metaphor in any of your recent episodes. Have you gone soft since my beloved Cubs won the World Series? Or am I not paying close enough attention? Don't make me sign up for Twitter just to call you out on this. If you stick something in the next episode I promise to tell all my friends how awesome you are. Oh wait, I've done that already.

Well, you rock. Keep up the great work. Good luck finishing up the book.

[mike]

I am the lizard queen.