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A Scottish Podcast About Scotland! This week it is just Chris and Jonny venturing out on their own, together but alone, exploring new things but with no guide to light their path. The boys take a look at some of their favourite bands and songs from home all while taking the p*ss out of Rory. Crank up the volume and put on your dancing shoes for this week's episode of Thistle Do Nicely.  Sláin...

A Scottish Podcast About Scotland! This week, once again, we breakdown the most important news stories to have hit Scotland recently.  A man with extra kidneys. Crisp sandwich recipes from Chris. Job openings on deserted islands for Jonny. Secret Hitler rooms. Is New Zealand in Scotland? All this and much much more on this week's episode of your favourite Scottish nonsense podcast.  Sláinte C...

A Scottish Podcast About Scotland! Part 2 of The Darien Scheme is bananas. Things go for bad to worse for our band of tartan clad adventuring countrymen. This week we discuss the lack of preparation, Scotland starting a war with Spain and the many, many deaths that resulted from our attempt to start a colony in Panama.  The TDP Clan continues to support the people of Ukraine and encourage our read...

A Scottish Podcast About Scotland! We are finally talking about the hugely popular historical sci fi history tv show Outlander. Season 6 just premiered on Starz in the US and so we decided to see what all the fuss was about. Turns out it's mainly about sexy people in kilts having lots and lots of sexy sex, with some pretty extreme violence dropped in every so often. We are joined by long time...

A Scottish Podcast About Scotland! The Darien Scheme is one of those moments in history that we don't learn about in school, despite the fact that it changed the entire course of of Scotland's legacy in the world. Join us for part one of the story of how an entire nation was swindled out of its life savings. We explain the adventures of William Paterson, the tall tales of Welshman Lionel...

A Scottish Podcast About Scotland! Today we have a bit of a mixed bag for you. We talk about 3 of Scotland's weirdest natural landmarks: The Fortingall Yew, The Meikleour Beech Hedges & The Devil's Point (AKA The Devils Penis). Also, is Pontius Pilate Scottish? We crack the case.  Get on your mackintosh and walking boots because we are going on a tour of Scotland's nutty nature....

A Scottish Podcast About Scotland! It's part 2 of our story on the founder of The Pinkerton National Detective Agency: Allan Pinkerton. This week we tell you about Pinkerton's involvement in the Underground Railroad, his epic and deadly rivalry with the outlaw Jesse James and chat a bit about the Pinkerton Agency in pop culture and what they're getting up to these days.  Put on you...

A Scottish Podcast About Scotland! This week we're talking about the complicated, but fascinating story of the founder of The Pinkerton National Detective Agency and a man who had a significant impact on American law enforcement: Allan Pinkerton. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he moved to America as a humble barrel maker, but quickly became embroiled in the dramas of the Wild West, the Civil War,...

A Scottish Podcast About Scotland! This we Rory, Jonny and Chris join David Lawrence on his Scrum of The Earth podcast where we talk to him about Scotland's incredible start to this year's Guinness 6 Nations rugby tournament. Is this Scotland's year? Do we have what it takes to win the Grand Slam? Have we finally metaphorically shaken off the yolk of historical oppressions from our...

A Scottish Podcast About Scotland! Happy Burns Night everyone! This episode was recorded live over Zoom in front of a plethora of adoring, screaming and fanatical readers. Thank you to everyone who was able to attend and join in on the shenanigans. Hopefully we can do this again sometime soon at a time that is more inclusive of our international listeners. As the great man himself says "The b...

A Scottish Podcast About Scotland! It's part two of our exploration into Scottish Culture Shocks. We start off in the toilet and it's all down the pipe from there.  Food, drinking, sports and animals; we issue many warnings about what you're going to see when you make it over to our beautiful but silly land. Remember to join our online Burns Night Live event: Tuesday 25th of January...

A Scottish Podcast About Scotland! Accents Bawbag (insults in general) Choochter (actually spelled teuchter)  Deep Fried Edinburgh Trams Firearms (or lack thereof) Greggs Healthcare (Free) Islands Burns Night Live event: Tuesday 25th of January 8.30pm Eastern Time on Zoom (dial in details TBD) Sláinte CONTACT: Instagram: thistledopod Twitter: @thistledopod Facebook: www.facebook.com/thistledopod E...

A Scottish Podcast About Scotland! Part 2 of the Robert Louis Stevenson bonanza! In this ep Rory talks too much about the cultural phenomenon that is RLS's novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Chris educates us on more on the fascinating life of Stevenson, also, Jonny is there. Sláinte CONTACT: Instagram: thistledopod Twitter: @thistledopod Facebook: www.facebook.com/thistledopod Em...

A Scottish Podcast About Scotland! Its the first ep of 2022 and we are kicking off the new year by talking about the literary genius that is Robert Louis Stevenson! In the first part of 2 we chat about his childhood, his family and some of  the first few pieces he published. Get into your reading nook, pull a blanket over yourself and listen to the latest episode of Thistle Do Nicely. Sláinte CONT...

A Scottish Podcast About Scotland! Happy New Year everyone! It's Hogmanay this Friday, so that means booze, food, booze, first footing, more booze and lighting some giant balls on fire! This week we discuss some of our favourite stories from Scotland this year,  we have another iteration of Quizzle Do Nicely & we announce the winners of our grand t-shirt giveaway! Pop a bottle or two, gra...

A Scottish Podcast About Scotland! It's Christmas time and the Thistle Do Nicely Clan have gathered together to watch the brand new Netflix festive movie A Castle For Christmas. This nonsensical noël nightmare is set in our beloved home country and stars Brooke Shields and Cary Elwes. We breakdown the crazy plot, the wild accents and the baffling relationship between our 2 lead characters.  S...

A Scottish Podcast About Scotland! This is part 2 of our 2 part series on this uber-talented icon Annie Lennox! This week we discuss her solo career in the 90s and beyond, her activism and charity work and her reuniting with Dave Shepherd. her solo career is incredible and we just touch on some of the excellent tunes she has graced us with. Also, Rory learns about Goldie Hawn. Sláinte P.S. There i...

A Scottish Podcast About Scotland! This week we talk about the mighty voiced, ethereal beauty and global super-star Annie Lennox. In part 1 of our 2 part series on this uber-talented icon, we discuss where she came from, how she met her band mates and her career as one half of the 80's pop pioneers Eurythmics.  Come on the journey with us as we remember and appreciate just how many great song...

A Scottish Podcast About Scotland! America has the Bald Eagle, Brazil has the Jaguar, Russia has the Brown Bear and Scotland has the Unicorn. That's right, ever since the 1300s Scotland has been obsessed by the big horned horse and this week we tell you why it's not as bonkers as it first seems. Also, you can phone us and leave a voicemail for your favourite amateur nonsense talkers. Jus...

A Scottish Podcast About Scotland! This week we delve into the mystery surrounding the disappearance of James Ducat, Thomas Marshall, and William MacArthur in December 1900 from a lighthouse off the North East coast of Scotland. The three men vanished from the isle of Eilean Mòr with little no evidence of what happened to them. We breakdown the facts from the fiction and get into the theories of w...

A Scottish Podcast About Scotland! This week we breakdown the most important news stories to have hit Scotland recently. Arguably one of the most important and unfortunately useless things to happen in Scotland this year is the gathering of world leaders to discuss climate changes at the COP26 in Glasgow. We discuss Joe Biden and Boris Johnson falling asleep during talks, activists fighting with p...

A Scottish Podcast About Scotland! This week we finish off our discussion on King James the VI of Scotland AKA King James I of Great Britain. We delve more into his involvement in the publishing of the King James Bible and we look at the more salacious side of his life and some of the reasons he may not have been that interested in Queen Anne. We also take a wee moment to discuss his representatio...

A Scottish Podcast About Scotland! This week it's a Chris researched show.....wait, where are you going? No, no, come back! This one is really good, I swear. This one is all about King James, the world renowned basketball player and the first monarch to unite Britain. King James the VI of Scotland, son of Mary Queen of Scots (MQoS) and real bastard to witches and Catholics, made the trip Down...

A Scottish Podcast About Scotland! Spooky Season continues with our 2nd annual collaborative Halloween episode with Owen Innes from the Scottish History Podcast! Once again, the 4 of us gather round the camp fire dressed in out costumes, eating too many sweets while we tell each other most spooky stories! This  we exclusively talk about Scottish Witches, some of the wilder stories about them and l...

A Scottish Podcast About Scotland! It's spooky season and ahead of our upcoming annual Halloween crossover event with Owen from the Scottish History Podcast Jonny and Rory sit down to discuss some of the the creepier stories that are whispered over whisky glasses around scotland. We discuss the terrible tale of the Overtoun Bridge - AKA Dog Suicide Bridge, a place of true unexplained phenomen...