Episodes
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It's spooky season once again, dear Listener, and the Silly Boys are off earning a crust all over the land. Pear Bear and Bob Bob present a pair of ghastly tales to give you the chills.
PREPARE THE BACKUP UNDERPANTS!!!
Thanks to ZapSplat for zips zaps boings and music and thanks Scott Buckley as always for the awesome music.
Happy Halloween!
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Hello Listener you still look jiggered!
Come on luv, you’ve worked hard enough, running round pits school yard crying "Surprise! I'm Richard III" (as your mam downloads all the Heracles episodes).
Its time to cuddle up in bed with your flat cap…and a story!
Continuing our new feature, Bedtime Stories
But don’t worry the screeching and explosions will be back next time.
For now cosy up with…some Forgotten Yorkshire Folk and Fairy Tales;
The Donkey, The Table and The Stick
The Potato and the Pig
and Potter Thompson
Sithee on t'morrow
Stories Sourced from Forgotten Yorkshire Folk and Fairy Tales
Music used with Kind Permission of the Guild of Ambience.
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Hold your horse’s listener, it’s dinnertime! And Heracles is taking us out on a hot date to the Kingdom of Thrace. But wait- are we the appetiser?
On the menu are Wicked Kings, Troubled Gods and Flesh-Eating Horses!
Call ahead for a reservation to avoid disappointment!
A big thanks to ZapSplat for scuffles and tussles.
A heavily reduced Mount Olympus summer ski-lift pass to Scott Buckley for his tracks The Summoning and Titan.
All the veggie porridge Lord Fast Fingers can eat for the intro.
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Pay the ferryman for us? No silly, not Charon, but Ko-Fi
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Another deep dip in the dark ages with the Silliest Boys in history!
...this week we're swimming with Wales!
Join us for battles, betrayal, Brummies and boyos as we begin the tale of...
Gruffydd ap Llewellyn the Last Action King of Wales!
Can squirty young Griff become King of the Britons because a stew told him he would...or will his wicked Uncle, mean Sister and legions of Mercian Brummies blunt his horns?
There only one way to find out...the silly way...tidy!
A cutch for ZapSplat for music and SFX for this tale from the land of song.
Dioch to Scott Buckley for his epic music.
A peck on the cheek from Katherine Jenkins for Lord Fast Fingers for the intro.
Dioch to Dan Bradley of Dan Bradley music and a Sospan of Cuddles for Jen Hewitt Music!
Come scrum down in our socials Insta & FB @SillyHistoryBoys
or buy us some cheese on toast and a SA Dark on Ko-Fi
Listen butt why not give us a rate and review on your chosen platform? You knows it clart!
Thanks all!
SHB
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Hello Listener you look tired!
Come on you’ve worked hard enough today its time to cuddle up in bed with…a story!
A new feature for us silly boys with a little screeching and explosions to lull you to sleep!
But don’t worry the screeching and explosions will be back next time.
For now cosy up with…some Tales from Wales.
The Eagle and the Wren and the Coat of Beards.
See you next time Nos da!
Music used with Kind Permission of the Guild of Ambience.
https://theguildofambience.bandcamp.com/community
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Someone has cut off the hair of the Goddess Sif, and she's super unhappy about it. So unhappy that she's made the Silly Boys all be in the same room to record her saga!
Join us as we venture back to Asgard again, live before ourselves.
It's a tale of origins, of weapons, of stubby handles.
Thanks to www.Zapsplat.com as always for their zips, zaps, boings and whatnot, and to www.scottbuckley.com.au for his awesome music.
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Our hero is struggling with his mental and personal wellbeing as he approaches his 7th labour.
Is Heracles having a mid-labour crisis?
Has he fallen out of Love with Labouring?
Perhaps wrestling a good looking bull will help? We're talking Chris Hemsworth levels of beefcake yo.
Join Heracles as he goes on a bit of a jaunt with daddy Zeus to visit Uncle Poseidon to witness how Minos became King of Crete.
(and perhaps find out how the feared Minotaur came to be)
Such a jam packed show with barely any source material!
A ton of bull puns to ZapSplat for music and SFX
A barn load of bull wordplay to Scott Buckley for his medium well music
A bolt gun of bull puns for Lord Fast Fingers for the intro.
Come wallow in our socials Insta & FB @SillyHistoryBoys
or buy us a steak on Ko-Fi
Please do rate and review :)
Thanks all!
SHB
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OMGosh are we wilfully niche for you this time listener! What starts off as an episode about The Percy Family, turns into a deep dive on Wressle Castle and it's ownership!
Some say this conflict over Wressle Castle starts the feud between the families Percy & Neville; which in turn may have given the Wars of the Roses a big old push in the fight direction.
This episode is ram packed with interesting tidbits listener! Why it has contract law, local and not so local caretakers, and many familiar characters from History.
Why there's Henry Percy (you can call him Harry Hotspur), his son Henry Percy, and who can forget Henry Percy's son, Henry Percy?
You'll laugh with Henry VI, cry with Richard Duke of York, and be slightly weirded out by the Kingmaker himself, Richard Neville Earl of Warwick.
If we could bequeath a wressle castle shaped prezzie to ZapSplat for music and sfx we would!
Big Scotty Buckley get all the roses for his tracks Absolution and Legionnaire
Brian Bolger gets a cinnamon bun from St Albans market for his track Black Mass
and Lord Fast Fingers Rob Tristram gets to keep being our friend.
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Get us on Insta and Facebook - the silly history boys
Please do rate and review! Give five stars if you were confused by this episode! It's how we roll.
LOVE YOU!!!
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Nail the doors shut, barricade the fridge, the Silly History Boys are back…and so are the Vikings!
Rollo and his gang of idiots return laying siege to the mighty city of Paris.
Only two hundred brave souls, a few croissants and quite a lot of hot wax stand between the Viking Horde and the conquest of France…only bickering can stop them…and giant cross bows.
Join the Silliest boys in history for a most irreverent dive into Abbo Cernuus Bella Parisiacæ urbis and discover how Viking Hot Bod Rollo the Walker founded the Duchy of Normandy!
A big pile of tax free Danegeld to ZapSplat for music & SFX
Scott Buckley will be placed in a Longship and set on fire to thank him for his glorious music!
We honour Lord Fast Fingers and his very fast fingers for penning the intro
Hit us up on our Ko-Fi and your place in Valhalla is assured!
Please Rate and Review and Odin's Ravens will fly down from his throne and do the washing up!
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Its the Silly History of England Part two: Return of Jafar!
Swotty Uncle Bob Bob is back for part two of the Silly History of England!
A special 'talky' podcast where everyone's favourite History Pervert attempt to bridge gaps in people's knowledge and explain complicated history...in terms that a silly person can understand.
This week he over stretches himself by trying to get through the Hundred Years War (and the wars of the roses but he does not get there)
A generational dust up between two neighbours who have more in common than they'd care to admit!
Longbows, underpants and well baked saints are the order of the day as one silly boy wrestles with 116 plus years of awfulness!
Tune into our regular show in two weeks time where they'll be just as much talking but way more explosions!
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Mr Ritchie there’s something happening in 9th Century France!
VIKINGS!
There's many a Dane axe to be ground in the story of ROLLO THE WALKER...not to mention FEUDS, people falling in the water and HAIRCUTS worse than DEATH!
Join the exiled ROLLO and his extremely SILLY band of VIKINGS as they travel to FRANCE in search of riches and ADVENTURE...which another way of saying STEALING and murder...we remind you this is still supposed to be a show for families!
It's just that Vikings are horrible!
Next week the siege of Paris, the birth of Normandy and more people going 'ARGH' as they fall in the water await!
A big pile of tax free Danegeld to ZapSplat for music & SFX
Scott Buckley will be placed in a Longship and set on fire to thank him for his glorious music!
We honour Lord Fast Fingers and his very fast fingers for penning the intro
Hit us up on our Ko-Fi and your place in Valhalla is assured!
Please Rate and Review and Odin's Ravens will fly down from his throne and do the washing up!
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Thumping techno, thumping monsters and over flowing toilets!
It's the silliest telling of the labours of Heracles ever!*
This week...the taming of the Stymphalian Birds!
But where has our favourite Demi God been for almost a year?! Rightings wrongs? Being righteous?**
He's not completely sold out has he?***
Join us for the 'unbearable weight of being a Demi god' for vengeful goddesses, killer birds and karma police on the acoustic guitar!
Here's the Kofi!
For anyone who would like to contribute to our labours of love!
Please do rate and review on your chosen platform, it really helps!
Thanks to ZapSplat to Bangs, Boings and Burning SFX.
Thanks to Lord Fast Fingers for the Intro
And to Scott Buckley for his epic tracks
Dan Henig for his track Danger Snow
And to Synthezx - Portfolio for the Terminator Trailer Track!
AND to Jez Hewitt productions for the Legend of Svetlana
* look we're putting it out there, its the silliest version ever! Come at us bro and you can bring your dinner an all!
** he has yeah
***big time man he'll be punching a Towie on celebrity big brother at this rate.
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FIRE! STILL FIRE!
If you thought the first part of our tale was overcooked, then get in on this chewy action!
The Great Fire of London is taking hold!
The Pear Bear is in search of Samuel Pepys and the other Silly Boys!
Mayor Bloodworth is flapping and there is nary a fire-hook to be seen!
Can the boys help this fine old city? Or will their family MegaBus seasonal pass prove a waste?
We'll meet Kings and Dukes, hang with shifty bakers and feel conflicted regarding poor watchmakers.
Come inside! It's warm. (and why not listen to Fire part 1 if this is your first exposure to us?)
Big thanks to ZapSplat for music & SFX
And to Lord Fast Fingers for the intro
Hit us up on our Ko-Fi if you like what we do :)
Please do Rate and Review - we'll love you for it.
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FIRE! FIRE!
That's right, it gets everywhere, even the school national curriculum! So if you know anyone on KS1, force them to listen to this! They'll cry, they'll resit, they'll learn (?)
They'll learn everything from [INSERT HISTORY FACT HERE] to [DID THAT REALLY HAPPEN MUMMY? HERE]. Oh the fun you'll have!
Join the Silly Boys and a special literary guest as they explore 17th C London.
Thanks to ZapSplat to Bangs, Boings and Burning SFX (and a sliver of music)
Thanks to Lord Fast Fingers for the Intro
And thanks to you listener for donating on our Kofi
(no? we'll get you one of these days)
Please do rate and review on your chosen platform, it really helps!
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The Silly History Boys are on trial...and they plead silly!
This weeks episode puts the 'ARGH' in Courtroom Drama as we are flung screaming into the bubbling cauldron of medieval justice...with Trial by Ordeal.
Water, Fire and Combat are the only to freedom this week via the stories of...
Queen Emma of Normandy's red hot trial by FIRE
The PAINFUL trial by COMBAT between Guy of Steenvord and Iron Herman
And Thomas 'Tom FOOL' Fermor vs the Sweet Shop Owners of Derby. Lets hope they throw the book at him.
The court orders you get in your ears and laugh as much as you learn!
Or else!
The court recognises ZapSplat for their awesome music and SFX and will have them put up in a nice hotel!
Scott Buckley is awarded damages for the use of his epic music in such a silly show.
Lord Fast Fingers is let off with a slap on the wrist for his rendition of the Silly History Boys show theme tune!
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He's back!
Katana's sing and hearts flutter as one of the show's early heroes returns!
Miyamoto Musashi is thirteen going on forty (judging by his voice)
He yearns to be the best swordsman in all Japan but his Father wants him to commit to the family business...
Unfulfilling Saturday jobs and duels to the death are the order of the day in this definitely true retelling of the boy hood of perhaps the most famous Samurai of all...
And what the historical record lacks in detail...the Silly History Boys fill with gags!
Want to give us a (sword) tip? Then hit the link and hit us up :)
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Oh hi there our lovelies.
You looked stressed and/or full of sugar. It must be half term!
That means the Silly Boys aren't here, but babysitting your ungrateful brood of-... little darlings.
The Pear Bear and Bilbo have been at the Jorvik Viking Festival (at least one of them will have broken their hand in sword school) and it gave the us an idea for content.
We've smashed together four Norse Myths (starring all your fave gods) from a cross-over we did last year.
All four tales in one place.
The Mead of Poetry
Thor goes Fishing for the Midgard Serpent
Loki and the Golden Apples
and
Beauty by Baldur
Big thanks to
ZapSplat
Scott Buckley
Danny Bradley
Freshman Sound
For Music and SFX!
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And here we go listener. Closing the Sarcophagus lid on our first (but hopefully not last) Egyptian tale.
Big thanks to the nation of Egypt for being a good sport with all the fun liberties taken with your rich history.
A weighty box of gold talons for ZapSplat for all the music and murder noises.
A bit of the Pyramid of Unas (that Pear Bear chipped off) goes to Lord Fast Fingers for the Intro
Come visit us on our socials! The usual places like Insta and Facebook. Type in The Silly History Boys
If you like what we do then why not tip us on Ko-Fi ? (at the moment it's mainly our good mate Rick. We'll have to start calling him Dad! And he DOES NOT want that)
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Mummy! Mummy! The Man Mummy!
It's Myth time again dear listener!
Let us away to ancient Egypt to hear the suntanned tale of how the first mummy came to be.
We don't actually do that here but we lay all the ground work!
There's sibling, er, lets say Rivalry. Fratricide! And Braiding of Hair! All the things your stuffy history prof wouldn't teach you coz it's just too silly...and dangerous and sexy.
Big thanks to ZapSplat for their awesome music and SFX
The biggest pyramid is reserved for Scott Buckley and his top notch music when he dies
Lord Fast Fingers will be getting his own SIGNED* Panini sticker of former Boro striker Mido. (* by PearBear)
"Do The Battle Of Hastings like you promised"
- Henry Coates (Skegness)
"I'm still waiting on the American Civil War you melts"
- Ed Holdcroft (Kings Lynn)
"Please just stop"
- Our mums (all over)
ALL GREAT TIPS! But if you do want to tip us, come on to our Ko-Fi
and put your money where our mouth is.
Come get us on all the socials and please do rate and review. It would mean the world to us and our mums.
Thaaaaaaannnnnnkkkkssssssss
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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
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