Gather round your camp fires and listen! To tales of daring, horror and high adventure from the worn pages of our History Book Not a talky Podcast. More like Action Radio! Join the man known only as the Pear Bear, the unflappable Tombo and your new favourite Uncles BobBob & Bilbo. Let us take a questionably queasy trip through the squishy bits of history and myth. Fun for all the family? We don’t know yet... But we promise it’ll be silly, it’ll be fun!
Episodes
Friday Jan 12, 2024
Friday Jan 12, 2024
Happy 2024!
Now that the new year is here...we all deserve a holiday!
So pack your sun cream, chainmail and Song of Roland double cassette!
Cos it’s a Norman holiday!
It’s 999AD and everyone’s least favourite French Vikings on horses are off to see Jerusalem!
Hopefully the journey will stop them being quite so horrible*, certainly once they see the holy city** they’ll no doubt become much nicer! They won’t just get into a scuffle with some Saracens and lay the foundation for the conquest of Italy and the Crusades…***
Join the Silly History Boys in a conjecture heavy adventure across boiling seas and sweltering deserts where we finally learn the origin of
The Salerno Tradition…what’s that you ask?
Erm just listen!
Thanks as ever to ZapSplat
And to Scott Buckley
And to...
You.
*it won’t
**no
***yeah it’s that
Friday Dec 22, 2023
Friday Dec 22, 2023
CRUSAAAAAAAADE!!!!!
The Third Crusade to be precise! Join the Silly Boys as they examine the motivation of all the key players of the Lionheartiest of all the crusades.
Oh alright, it's silly voices, sword noises and facts.
Get amongst it!
Thanks as ever to ZapSplat
And to Scott Buckley
And to...
You.
See you in 2024 dear listener! OKTHANKSBYEEEEEE!
Friday Dec 01, 2023
Friday Dec 01, 2023
Join us as we continue the tale of Richard I 'The Lionheart'... greatest King ever?
Find out this week!
Alright, you won't find out as that's an answer entirely too subjective to tackle in a show with silly voices and sword noises... but the silly voices and sword noises are extra good this week to make up for it.
Thanks for...
Music & SFX ZapSplat
The track Juggernaut by Scott Buckley
The track Medieval Banquet by Shane Ivers at Silverman Sound
The track Pendulum Waltz by Audionautix
Friday Nov 17, 2023
Friday Nov 17, 2023
This week we're taking a look at a King so famous he's on the football clothes - Richard I, The Lionheart!
But how did he become known as 'Couer de Lion' (The Lionheart)?
Join us as we deconstruct the events of the day and provide fresh analysis on the early life of probably the best King to ever have Kinged... or was he?
He wasn't he was terrible.
Also the 'analysis' is just our usual silly voices.
And noises from www.Zapsplat.com
And music from www.Zapsplat.com
But mainly music from Scott Buckley www.scottbuckley.com.au
With thanks to all of you for listening.
Kbye.
Tuesday Oct 31, 2023
Tuesday Oct 31, 2023
Watch out listener! It's Halloween and the passing of the season of the sun has brought a thinning of the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead...
Or it's just people putting on costumes and wandering the neighbourhood begging for sweets...
Either way it's time for another SpOoOoky episode of The Silly History Boys Show!
This week the boys have, once again, left Pear Bear by himself whilst they swan off to perform for actual people. This week's episode gives you a taste of what they've been doing live!
Then Pear Bear reads a poem.
A SpOoOoky poem!
Prepare your backup underpants!!
Friday Oct 20, 2023
Friday Oct 20, 2023
Who are the most famous family in history? The Tudors? The Stuarts? The Osmonds?
No! Wrong! Silly!
Just before 1066 and all that...the Godwin Family were 'god winning' the Dark ages!
Mainly through murder plotting and ACID.
So join the Silliest Boys in history and Tremble at the torrid tale of the house that Earl* built...
right before Anglo Saxon England got 'one in the eye' from William the Conqueror!
Vikings, Saxons, Normans and ACID** Oh and laughs! Lots of Silly Laughs!
An Earldome and a luxury hamper is winging its way to musical science man Scott Buckley
ZapSplat get to marrywhich ever of us has a daughter/Hazmat first for the their sounds effects
For the 78th Time we thank Lord Fast Fingers for the Intro
and you kind listener for buying us a decaff juice on Ko-Fi ...
Come find us on your fave anti-social media for updates on our live shows and general boobery.
RATE and COMMENT leave THREATS on your platform! We're big boys, we can take it.
*He was an Earl, he wasn't called Earl, its a title. Stop being Silly.
** No. Behave.
Friday Oct 06, 2023
Friday Oct 06, 2023
Oh God no! Not another Game of Death of Thrones of Death episode!
Shaddup and take your medicine.
You've had Kings from Ancient Greece shoppin' in Argos
Chinese Rulers on the bog
Holy Roman Emperors doin' scream therapy
But now it's the turn of the French not yet French!
It's the slightly embellished tale of Louis III. Not sure if he had a nickname. Louis the questionably amorous? We just don't know.
For always awesome music a big thanks to Scott Buckley
ZapSplat for some lovely SFX and more music
Lord Fast Fingers for the Intro
and you kind listener for buying us a decaff juice on Ko-Fi ... oh come on! Take the bait will you?!
Come find us on your fave anti-social media for updates on our live shows and general boobery.
Rate and comment on your platform! We're big boys, we can take it.
Friday Sep 22, 2023
Friday Sep 22, 2023
The Silliest boys in history are back! For the LAST INVASION of BRITAIN!
A true tale from Welsh and British history that is so silly, you'll think we made it up!
in the 1797 all roads lead to Fishguard, a small village on the Welsh coast including....
A sinisterly Yorkshire sounding French Convict army
The two biggest idiots in the British army (which 1797 is saying something)
One of Wales's greatest heroines with a shoe shop and a hammer
And A LOT of dodgy Portuguese plonk!
The Battle of Fishguard is one of the oddest/silliest events in history and what better set of idiots to tell you this tale than the Silly History Boys!
Thanks for joining us for Season 5 and thank you to....
ZapSplat for all the zapas plats and other sound effects
Scott Buckley For is his wodner music
Danny Bradley for his brilliant redition of Land of my Fathers
If you enjoyed us why not buy us a coffee or a tea or a hot juice on Ko-Fi
Friday Aug 11, 2023
Friday Aug 11, 2023
In school, remember that far back? Did you ever have that badly dressed man bore the pants off you teaching history?
His vocal monotony rapping his way through our dull backstory? WELL UNLUCKY FOR YOU!
For the sexily well healed sonic powerhouse that is you dear Uncle BobBob is going to take you through the ENTIRE History of England (part1)
Sit back (with your red pen?) and smugly raise the side of your mouth along with SHB's premium Zoom Historian.
You'll learn, you'll laugh, you'll something else beginning with L.
Thanksseeyalaterbyeeeeeee
Friday Jul 28, 2023
Friday Jul 28, 2023
It's another Strange Demise in the unfortunate sphere of The Game of Death of Thrones of Death!
And we're in Rome, in and about Rome, sort of near Rome, ok he's Roman at least! Valentinian The First.
Come hear how he screamed himself to death! (spoilers)
Big thanks to Scott Buckley for some lovely music
ZapSplat for Music, Marching and Bears!
Pay us money to stop on Ko-Fi. WE DARE YOU.
Visit the Socials - Facebook, Insta, Twitter (we're not callin' it X, I mean come on. It's like an awful student film that Bilbo wrote thinking he were proper cuttin' edge)
Friday Jul 14, 2023
Friday Jul 14, 2023
Oh man what's that smell?!
It's the Silly History Boys doing their thing! waitwhat?
Our Hero Heracles is charged with cleaning out some mucking old stables. Thirty years of filth pooped out by Immortal Cows no less.
If that doesn't have you downloading, we don't know what will!
Big thanks to ZapSplat for music & SFX
Henry from BattleForge Productions for his track Through Fire and War
Lord Fast Fingers for the intro
and YOU for donating on Ko-Fi (ooo we'll get cha one of these days)
please do rate and review
Thursday Jun 29, 2023
Thursday Jun 29, 2023
The Silliest boys in history are in Japan for the 'Revenge of the Forty Seven Ronin'.
The classic and true tale of old Japan...now with silly bits and sword fights!
The Samurai of Asano are dishonoured when their master is teased into poking a civil servant with his Tanto! And sentenced to a gruesome death (don't worry we only used balloons)
They decide that Revenge is dish best served...silly!
Big thanks
to ZapSplat for music & SFX
Lord Fast Fingers for the Intro.
YOU for being so generous on our Ko-Fi page (damn, so close)
Come visit us on our socials @SillyHistoryBoys or @SillyHistoryBoysShow (ooo I've got to check both now, they're so similar!)
Please do Rate & Review and we wills end Ninjas with sweets!
Friday Jun 09, 2023
Friday Jun 09, 2023
No way?! A second Game of Death of Thrones of Death (itsaworkingtitle).
We had so much fun in Argos on our first GOTODOT, that we're back for number two.
Let us away to Ancient China! To meet Duke Jing, the ruler of the State of Jin, and ask "how did he die"?
Yachting Accident?
A Sedentary lifestyle coupled with a Bad Diet? The Silly History Boy ending?
Or maybe it was for a Bet?
There's so many ways!
Big thanks to ZapSplat for music & SFX
Big Scotty Buckley for his track "Legionnaire"
Lord Fast Fingers for the Intro.
YOU for being so generous on our Ko-Fi page (damn, so close)
Come visit us on our socials @SillyHistoryBoys or @SillyHistoryBoysShow (ooo I've got to check both now, they're so similar!)
Please do Rate & Review (we're tired of haranguing strangers at train stations with iPhone's on show)
Friday May 26, 2023
Friday May 26, 2023
Welcome to the Game of Death of Thrones of Death...(itsaworkingtitle).
A clutch of new silly storytelling shows based on a LIVE show we're not even sure works yet! Just like that pirate rollercoaster thing.
Each show we take an Historic Ruler and explore the interesting / fantastical / stupid way that they met their end.
We kick of GODOTOD (itsaworkingtitle) with an ancient Greek King called Pyrrhus of Epirus, and his disastrous trip to Argos*
Big thanks to ZapSplat for sfx and music
Extra big thanks to Scott Buckley for more excellent music
* Argos is a tech-led retailer in the UK and Ireland. Had to google them them to see if any other countries have an Argos. The answer is no, but I did found out they're owned by Sainsbury's**. So there's a lot of local Argos gags...soz.
** Sainsbury's is a supermarket in the UK & Ireland. Had to google them them to see if any other countries have a Sainsbury's. The answer is no, but I did found out they tried to crack (and failed) in Egypt. I suppose it is hard to invade as it's protected by seas at the North and the East and large deserts on the West and the South. Anyway. Soz.
Friday May 12, 2023
Friday May 12, 2023
Its 1857 and there's reports of a beast stalking the East End...surely there can't be...A TIGER IN VICTORIAN LONDON?
A case for…The Police? The RSPCA? The Silly History Boys?*
The boys are on the trail of a tail, what a tale!
Is there really a Tiger on loose in Victorian London? What has it got to with Charles Jamrach and his pet shop where you can buy a leopard and still have change for Greggs?
Find out in this silly but true adventure from the silliest boys in history!
*Surely they’re the least suitable...
Friday Apr 28, 2023
Friday Apr 28, 2023
Episode 69 is here and it's a rum soaked, sword swinging, cannon blasting Pirate extravaganza! Join the Silly Boys as they return to the pirate port of Nassau alongside none other than Anne Bonny, amazingly voiced by the incredible Ashling Leyne of Lashing Rain Voiceovers!
Thanks as ever to Zapsplat for SFX and music
To Scott Buckley for his amazing music
To Danny Bradley for his music
To Lord Fast fingers for his music
Basically, if you make music, we will use it. Thanks.
Friday Mar 31, 2023
Friday Mar 31, 2023
The Silliest of Boys connected with history return once more for a classic saga built for flickering campfires!
It’s Beowulf baby!
The monster Grendel is loose in dark age Scandinavia and its up to the gravel voiced Prince of Gertland to leave his Warhammer and deal with him!
But behind every great monster is an overbearing Mother and this time she’s got a big sword!
Thanks to ZapSplat for slime, slicing and splatters! And 344 Audio for even more sound effects !
We are as always indebted to musical science man
Scott Buckley for the tracks Age of Wonder, Hour of the Witch and the Rise
We duffle our dark age tiles to Dan Bradley of Danny Bradley music!
And thump our spears for those nice people at Orchestralis
https://www.orchestralis.net/#/
and of course Lord Fast Fingers for the intro!
Please rate and review us on your chosen podcast platform!
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Friday Mar 17, 2023
Friday Mar 17, 2023
Centaurs! Huge Killer Boars! WINE!!!
The things that get dug up, like a disappointing truffle (what do you mean it's not chocolate?!), when the myth is so very thin!
Join us dear listeners for the fifth instalment (4th Labour) of everyone's fave Demi-God, Heracles!
Big thanks to ZapSplat for breaking glass and driving snow!
Freesound & Fesliyan Studios for a bit and a bat
Scott Buckley for the track Absolution
Battleforge Productions for the track Through Fire and War
and Lord Fast Fingers for the intro!
Please do rate and review.
Check us out on the socials
Or buy us a coffee on KO-FI
Friday Dec 23, 2022
Friday Dec 23, 2022
It's that time of year dear listener! Christmas episoooooooode!!!
For your holiday history fix this year we're telling two tales of different festive traditions that have heavily influenced our annual celebrations...
Join Caesar and Mark Antony as they celebrate Saturnalia, a Roman festival that gave us presents, gambling and drinking whilst wearing silly hats (or a Tuesday at Pear Bear's house) then take a trip to Iceland to meet Gyrla the giant and her Yule lads who are... unusual.
Happy holidays dear listener!
Thanks, as ever, to...
Scott Buckley and his brilliant music
Zapsplat and their awesome zaps, splats and music
Lord Fastfingers for the intro music
And everyone else who has contributed to our silly show this year. We'll be back in 2023! Byeeeeeeee
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
The Silly History Boys are back again to continue the laborious labours of everyone’s fave Demi God…Heracles!
Weary of our hero’s popularity the wicked King and naughty goddess Queen Hera plan to set our hero up for a fall…
He must hunt the fastest thing alive…no not Sonic!
The Golden Hind of Artemis!
Can he catch it? What happens if he does? Will the goddess of the hunt turn him into a dart board?
Find out on a simply epic chase across Ancient Greece, through mountains, deserts and top notch gastro pubs!
Did we mention its silly…cos it is very silly indeed!
Blessing of Zeus for ZapSplat for all their zaps and splats and music
Scott Buckley is assured a place on the Parthenon for all his epic tracks!
Rate and review on your chosen platform platform ‘deer friends’ of history!
Also…do you erm…want to buy us a coffee?
Help support the show with a donation on Kofi below! We’d be ever so grateful and we won’t spend it all on sweets (we will spend ‘some of it’ on sweets)
ko-fi.com/sillyhistoryboys
Friday Nov 18, 2022
Friday Nov 18, 2022
Light that fuse! It's the silly boys (non) Explosive final chapter of The Gunpowder Plot!
Will Robert Catesby get that Catholic England he so badly craves? (no)
Will Guido Fawkes be able to get the smell of smoke & meaty carnage out of his clothes? (no need to worry about that Guy - you won't be able to use your hands!)
Will boar hunting be ruined for King James? (I don't know if he even hunted Boar. It was probably Deer or Conspiracy Theories)
The future of England will turn on the contents of this show dear listener.
Musket fire, chops and plops (plus the music!) by those dirty traitors over at ZapSplat
Doug Maxwell's head is on a spike for the use of his track Renaissance Castle
An unmarked grave is on offer for Lord Fast Fingers for the intro music and another lick or two
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Friday Nov 04, 2022
Friday Nov 04, 2022
Never go back when the firework is lit! Unless it's for the second silly part of the Gunpowder plot
When we left our plotters they were but four strong...or was it five? Confusing!
But never fear, the silly boys go full character overload! (And yes, Uncle BobBob still has loads to say)
Covert glances across a crowded ballroom to ZapSplat for "Kerblammos!" and music
Super secret hushed whispers for excellent music from big Scott Buckley
Suspicious letters mail directly to Lord Fast Fingers for intro earworm
Want to buy the Silly Boys a coffee? Why not coffee on Ko-Fi Silly History Boys
(We might spend it on other stuff)
Friday Oct 21, 2022
Friday Oct 21, 2022
Kerblam-OoOoOoOh listener! It's that time again when we on our island celebrate a bunch of folks not getting murdered by celebrating the torture and murder of a Guy by setting an effigy of him on fire! It's not crazy if you get to eat spiced cake I tells ya!
This is first of of Gunpowder three-parter, and you know what? It's quite interesting.
A mug of cider to ZapSplat for music and SFX
A slice of parkin to Doug Maxwell for extra music.
Cheap fireworks a gogo to Lord Fast Fingers for our intro music.
Why not rate and review? Propel us up the podcast charts like a shonky explosive!
Friday Oct 07, 2022
Friday Oct 07, 2022
Silly Me Timbers AGAIN Mates!
Following the following sea that was Henry Avery part one...its Henry Avery part two!
Have the crew of silly pirates bitten off more than they can chew as they try and rob....The Grand Mughal fleet?
How much cannon smoke and people falling in the water will it take to win the wrestle the greatest treasure in history from its rightful owners?
And even if they can get the glitter, will the Pirates live to spend it?
Join those silliest and most salty of Boys for more man hunts, musket smoke and people saying YAAAAARGH!
Drink up me hearties yo ho!
Promotion to official ships DJ to Daniel Bradley Music for his performance of Health to the Company!
An extra ration of rum and a lick of the cat for for ZapSplat for all their zaps and splats and music
Scott Buckley is permitted shore leave in the next port of ill repute for his tootling!
Outrageous plank walking fiddling by Kofi Young
Rate and review on your chosen platform and choirs of Monk Fish will sing your praises for ever more.
Friday Sep 23, 2022
Friday Sep 23, 2022
Silly Me Timber Mates!
The Silly History Buoys are back with another ration of nautical naughtiness!
It’s the scurvy tale of Henry Avery/Every the man they call the ‘Pirate King’
Why do they call him that?
Is it because he has a Las Vegas residency and a penchant for hamburgers? *
Join Avery and his crew of silly pirates on their quest for personal freedom, self determination and lots of money!
The Cape of Death, Vengeful Ghost Ships and Horrible Dutch accents await you on ‘The Pirate Round’ the most lethal sea route in the 17th century!
An extra ration of rum and a lick of the cat for for ZapSplat for all their zaps and splats and music
Scott Buckley is permitted shore leave in the next port of ill repute for his tootling!
Outrageous plank walking fiddling by Kofi Young
Rate and review on your chosen platform and choirs of Monk Fish will sing your praises for ever more.
*No.