History Goon

S.2 Ep. 4 - Samuel Whittemore This time we jump back into the American Revolution to visit a soldier turned Statesmen. He started off as the son of a farmer and became a British soldier and then officer during the Austrian War of Succession and then the French and Indian War. After his warfighting was done, Samuel Whittemore became a low level politician in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts at a p...

S.2 Ep. 3 - Operation Wraith of God Following the events of the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, the Israelis took the fight to anyone they considered an enemy of the state. Members of Black September, the PLO and other assorted terrorist groups would meet some pretty gruesome fates at the hands of Mossad, the Israeli government's most dangerous tool. 

S. 2 Ep.2 : The Munich Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics are being held in Germany for the first time since 1936. There a guy in charge at the time that gave Germany a not so great reputation so, the German government wanted to do everything they could to make this experience feel less… militant than it was in 1936. Unfortunately that meant incredibly lax security measures which was bad news for t...

We are starting Season 2 with a bang. Have you ever gone outside at night and looked up at the vast starfield above you and thought, “Man, I bet so many people have died in space…” Well… Not a ton but more than a handful have met their maker after slipping the bonds of our atmosphere, attempting to go where no man has gone before. The Final Frontier. Anyways, here's a bunch of stories about sp...

Join me from the comfort of my couch (and yours) for a little teaser of things to come in Season 2.

History Goon Ep. 30 - Dallas Stoudenmire We are closing out Season 1 with some Cowboy stuff! And with a name like Dallas Stoudenmire you bet your boots he is gonna do some cowboy lawman stuff. Drunk fist fights. Drunk gunfights. Chasing bad guys… Drunk of course. He was one of the better lawmen that the city of El Paso had seen at the time and he didn’t take s**t from anyone. That is until the Man...

This week we are talking about one of the most notorious and violent broad-daylight robberies in the history of the United States, The North Hollywood Shootout. 2 scumbags with a taste for automatic rifles and trying to cosplay Heat (which I got to watch for research purposes) started off robbing armored cars full of cash but would eventually step up to banks. What happens when 2 guys in homemade...

History Goon Ep. 28 - The Bennington Triangle  Back home. Vermont. This time we are going to visit one of the creepiest places in my little state; The Bennington Triangle. This place has it all: Murders, insanity, a failed town, monsters, man eating rocks, missing people and the formation of the Vermont State Police. Are those things related? You be the judge. Is it strange? Yeah, it absolutely is...

History Goon Ep. 27 - Tanks for the Memories This week, I'm bringing you some of the silliest, scariest and weirdest tanks ever designed. Some of them never saw combat (thankfully) and some did and had varying levels of success. Everything from the Kugelpanzer which was basically the Atlasphere from American Gladiators but with a machinegun, to the Russians being God's silliest gooses and...

We pick up from the last episode right after Cliff “Elvis” Walcott’s Blackhawk, Super 6-1 was shot down by an RPG. The guys on the ground have to scramble to get to the crash site before it’s too late but the militiamen have started blocking roads off and making life difficult for the Rangers and Delta. As they were fighting towards the crash site, Mike Durant in Super 6-4 was shot down. Things ge...

History Goon Ep. 25 - Battle of Mogadishu Pt. 1 - Irene This episode is part 1 of one of the most harrowing 24 hours in US Special Forces history. It all started as a UN Peacekeeping operation to try and feed the starving people of Somalia. Warlords had taken control of the country and started weaponizing hunger and food against their own people. After months of UN forces getting attacked and ambu...

Back to WWII we go! Back to a familiar place (Operation Market Garden) with some people we’re familiar with (the British Paratroopers) but since we’re talking about the Brits during WWII YOU KNOW we’re in for a treat of just… Bonkers stories… Pat Glover is no exception to this rule. He may have been just a Quartermaster for his unit but, he was a badass also. Jumping into Holland for Market Garden...

This guy may be the most badass offering from Poland of all time. Jan Sobieski was born to a Noble family, he travelled Europe with his brother and learned like 75 languages then went home to fight. Not on foot, he’s a cavalry guy… He builds his own unit of Winged Hussars. Giant, metal, winged death machines. This was at a time where the Ottoman Empire was spreading through Europe, a very few woul...

Baseball is my favorite sport. The Yankees are my LEAST favorite team. Billy Martin is my FAVORITE Yankee. It may be strange to have a favorite person on your least favorite team but, stick with me and you’ll see why I love this guy. He is an All American success story: He grew up poor, worked hard and earned an opportunity to fight other professional athletes in a non-combat sport. He played with...

Have you ever wanted to know what would happen to you in history if you did something silly like: say something about royalty, be a witch, be gay, have a miscarriage? Most of the time it’s horrible. Sometimes it's funny. It’s ALWAYS painful. Wanna hear about people getting tossed out windows? Skin peeled off? Squashed to death by the largest land mammal around? How bout mutilated limbs and eaten a...

History Goon Ep. 20: Fred Burnaby This week we are headed to a couple places we've visited before: England and Africa... Fred Burnaby was born into a family of note. His father was buddies with Dukes and Nobles and higher up in the local Church. Fred was lined up to follow in his fathers footsteps but decided he wanted to live a life of adventure. He would attend college, beat up the locals an...

To piggyback off last week’s episode, on his death, Chief Cornstalk supposedly cursed the land he died on. That land was the spot of Point Pleasant, WV. 190 years later the steel beams of the Silver Bridge that connected Point Pleasant, WV and Gallipolis, OH would twist and break, sending cars plummeting into the icy water below. What’s strange is the events that lead up to this starting in 1967 w...

This week we are headed back to pre-Revolutionary War America for a lesser known war. Chief Cornstalk of the Shawnee was a man of peace. Until he was pushed to violence. The British Government in control of the Colonies had been signing treaties with tribes all over the area of what today is New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky. The problem began when a treaty was sig...

This week we take to the skies to follow the life of a boy fascinated by planes that just so happened to become the most lethal pilot in US history. Dick Bong was born in a small Wisconsin town but would join the Army Air Corp right out of college and take the fight to the Imperial Japanese Army behind the sticks of one of the most interesting planes of WWII, the P-38 Lighting. This quiet, shy, re...

This week we are headed to London. The culture. The history. The scenery. The Iranian Embassy being stormed by a bunch of poorly trained Iranian separatists. These guys have the perfect plan; take hostages and hold them until a bunch of political prisoners are released. Let's start taking some bets. Who would win? 6 poorly armed guys trying to make a political stand or a dozen of the most high...

Danny Greene was born into misfortune. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Mom died right after he was born due to complications of his delivery, Dad was a raging drunk. He would end up bouncing around from living with Dad and Grandpa, to an Orphanage, back to Dad and Step-mom and then back to Grandpa’s. Believe it or not, he was getting into trouble THE ENTIRE TIME this was going on. He did a short s...

This should be a refreshing change from the last couple episodes. We’re off the the Peghamagabow was nobody, well less than nobody to the Canadian Government. He was a First Nations member of the Ojibwe Tribe that decided to volunteer to fight for a country that didn’t like him. He fought through the trenches, survived gas attacks and pulled some real life Metal Gear Solid stuff in No-Mans-Land. H...

This time, we finish up the incredible, horrible tale of the goings on in Leopold’s Congo from last time. We start off with someone calling him out for the terrible things going on, and it is completely ignored. Then other people come forward with news of people being mutilated, and it being completely ignored. Then, some Irish guy creates tires out of rubber, and things get even worse for the Con...

Boy oh boy… If you don’t know who this guy is, first off, lucky you. Second, I’m sorry that I’m about to change that. He was a simple man; all he really wanted was to take over the throne of Belgium from his father and own a colony somewhere that would help his country build its economy. After trying and failing for years to talk Parliament into building a colony somewhere he decided “F**k it. I’l...

This episode holds a special place in my heart for a couple of different reasons. First, it happened in my home state of Vermont, and secondly, I got to spend a couple of hours hanging out with my little brother. We talk about fun trips we took in our childhood, hospital trips with Dad for an axe wound, the beauty of childbirth and even about this one time that a bunch of Confederate soldiers came...