The History Pot

We return to Mexico in the 1500s with our guide Castillo as he joins Cortes.  After winning a great battle word spreads far and wide the visitors are a force to be reconned with.  While Cortes demands to see the King, Montezuma has other plans.  He's playing it cautious, while the Catholic church does it's best to scare him away.  Cortes meets possible allies in this very complicated political lan...

We join our chronicler as Cortes begins his expedition. He Finds Spanish slaves, gold, battle, and ladies oh the ladies as his journey begins.  But first he's got to survive the cutthroat politics of the Cuban Colony to navigate his way to this command, a command he must have before he's completely bankrupt and divorced!  Hosted by Dean Jernigan, Deanjernigancomedy.com , Deanjernigancomedy@gmail.c...

We follow the adventures of Bernal Diaz Del Castillo one the men who went into Mexico with Cortes. This episode we find out what happens when Castillo arrives in Panama and faces a plague. Opportunity is soon knocking in Cuba where he joins a company of cavaliers looking to explore (and exploit) the unknow lands of Mexico.  We follow the first two of his 3 trips to this unknown land where he faces...

Hollywood meet Bass Reeves gunman.  We talk about some of Bass's wildest cases and killings in this episode.  We also hear about the murder of trial of Bass after he shoots his cook?  He doesn't take gruff from criminals or his biscuits! Join us as we wrap up the story of the legendary marshal Bass Reeves.  Hosted by Dean Jernigan.  Deanjernigancomedy.com, Deanjernigancomedy@gmailcom.  

We return to Bass Reeves the baddest Marshall in US history.  We see a couple examples of frontier police work; one leaves us feeling some shade one should be a movie. Along the way we see warrants served on the craziest named cast of characters l've seen since Roger Rabbit.  Was a woman murdered because she was a state's witness? Or was it because her daughter had heard enough of her mouth? Maybe...

We are talking the Old West today on the HP!  In particular US Marshalls in Indian Territory and the legendary Bass Reeves.  Runaway slave turned Marshall, he served his time in the most dangerous federal precinct that ever existed.  He not only survived it but he thrived, all time GOAT candidate!  DeanJerniganComedy@gmail.com, Deanjernigancomedy.com        

We are back with Caesar again this week.  We talk his early politics and our guy becomes a war hero!  Caesar hits the law courts like Matlock.....except he loses, so NOT like Matlock.  We got College dreams and pirates bloody pirates in this action packed episode as we travel BACK to ancient Rome.  Deanjernigancomedy@gmail.com, Deanjernigancomedy.com, 

We finish up our adventures with Dr America himself, LtCol Stuart Alexander!  We find out how he solves this little problem without triggering a massive chemical exchange between warring powers.  Along the way he get's into a Facebook battle with Winston Churchill himself, and is warned he might be court martialed.  Kara from the HobbyHoeClub joins us again. You can find Kara where all the OFFICIA...

Kara, the headmistress of the Hobby Hoe Club joins us again as we continue the story of Alexander and the incident at Bari.  In this episode we cover the terrible aftermath of the attack and the mysterious symptoms that require that expert opinion of DR AMERICA!  We also take a short side quest to learn about his formidable girlfriend Bernice "Bunny" Wilber. You can reach the show by emailing Dean...

Host Dean Jernigan welcomes guest Kara Bultman of the Hobby Hoe Club, as he introduces a WWII medical story tied to the origins of chemotherapy, stemming from a poison-gas-related accident the government tried to conceal. The episode sets the scene in Bari, Italy, in 1943 lax blackout conditions and a party atmosphere before a surprise German air raid devastated the harbor, destroyed ships and car...

In episode three of The History Pot, the host finishes the Jugurthine War, framing Rome’s struggle as a “Vietnam”-style guerrilla conflict. Massiva’s bid for Numidia is cut short when Jugurtha has him assassinated in Rome, leading to Jugurtha’s expulsion and renewed war. Spurius Albinus leaves his brother Aulus in command; Aulus disastrously pursues Jugurtha, is trapped, surrenders, and his army i...

Dean Journeagan hosts episode two of The History Pot on the Jugurthine War, a North African conflict in Numidia that helped spark rivalry between Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Sulla. He outlines Numidia’s geography and its famed light cavalry, then traces the royal succession after Massinissa: Micipsa raises his nephew Jugurtha.  Sensing a snake in the grass, he sends Juggurtha to war hopefull...

Comedian and self-proclaimed "not an expert" Dean Jernigan kicks off The History Pod by diving into the fascinating — and often overlooked — early years of Julius Caesar. Before Caesar became one of history's most iconic figures, he was a teenager from Rome's poorest neighborhood, navigating civil wars, political assassinations, and a priest appointment designed to derail him.