Empires, Anarchy & Other Notable Moments

Bob Marley Part IV: His Final Years

This is the fourth and final episode in a series which details the life and legacy of Jamaican musician Bob Marley.  It examines the role that soccer played in his life before going into the circumstances that ultimately resulted in his untimely death from cancer.  Marley's love affair with Africa is discussed as he visits Ethiopia, Gabon, and Zimbabwe.
Songs mentioned in this episode
Zimbabwe
Bad Card
Work 
Redemption Song
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Music is licensed through Epidemic Sound

Bob Marley Part III: Marley's Exodus

This is the third of four episodes in a series which details the life and legacy of Jamaican musician Bob Marley.  It picks up with Marley fleeing to London in the aftermath of the assassination attempt.  His longterm affair with Cindy Breakspheare is covered along with music from the Burnin, Exodus, and Kaya albums.
Songs mentioned in this episode
Small Ax
Talking Blues
Ratrace
Time will tell
I shot the sheriff - Clapton and Marley
Waiting in Vain
Jamming
One Love
3 little birds
You gotta walk, don’t look back - Tosh and Jagger
Kaya
I want to love you
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Music is licensed through Epidemic Sound

Bob Marley Part II: His Militant Years

This is the second of four episodes in a series which details the life and legacy of Jamaican musician Bob Marley.  This episode's focus is on the political violence that has plagued Jamaica; culminating in the assassination attempt of Marley at 56 Hope Road and the Smile Jamaica concert two days later.  It also goes in-depth into Marley's Rastafarian faith.
Songs mentioned in this episode
Buffalo Soldier
Banana Splits insanely hooky 1968 song “the Tra-la-la song
Selassie is the Chapel
Bend down low
Freedom Time
Sun is Shining
Concrete Jungle
Rat Race
Positive Vibration
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Expect new shows to drop on Wednesday mornings from September to May.
Music is licensed through Epidemic Sound

Bob Marley Part I: A Blunt, the Bible, and Music; the formation of the Wailers

This is the first of four episodes in a series which details the life and legacy of Jamaican musician Bob Marley.  This first episode sets the stage for the rise of the third world's greatest performer by introducing us to Jamaica's colonial history, Trenchtown's poverty, and Marley's family.  
Songs mentioned in this episode
Judge Not
Do you still love me
Simmer Down
One cup of coffee
Rolling stone (Dylan Cover)
One Love - the Wailing Wailers
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Cleopatra Part VI: The Queen's Gambit

This is the sixth and final episode in a series covering the life of the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra.  Confident in her power, Cleopatra makes a play for the entire Roman Empire by announcing the Donations of Alexandria, a policy which would see her and Antony's children follow them in the east and displace Octavian in the west.  Everything about the plan seemed perfect, but as the Battle of Actium showed 'no battle plan survives contact with the enemy.' 
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Cleopatra Part V: Redeeming the Queen

This is the fifth episode in a series of six which covers the life of the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra.  Today's understanding of Cleopatra is that of a femme fatale, a woman who used her looks to seduce and dominate the globes' two most powerful men of their time.  Such a viewpoint tends to get Cleopatra excluded from the pantheon of history's great leaders.  This episode seeks to turn that understanding upside down by detailing exactly what it was like to be a powerful woman in the male dominate world.  After examining the main charges leveled against her, we'll conclude that the Egyptian Queen is only guilty of being one of the world's greatest rulers.
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Cleopatra Part IV: Seducing Mark Antony

This is the fourth episode in a series of six which covers the life of the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra.  Our main character is called to task for actions undertaken in the aftermath of the Ides of March/Assassination of Julius Caesar.  Rather than supplicating herself before Roman Triumvirate Mark Antony, Cleopatra chooses to arrive in style; resulting in one of history's greatest love stories. 
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Cleopatra Part III: Beware the Ides of March

This is the third episode in a series of six which covers the life of the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra.  After successfully seduced the newly crowned Dictator of Rome, Julius Caesar, Cleopatra leaves the safety of her homeland to travel with her lover to Rome.  There she manages to establish enough positive connections to ensure the safety and security of Egypt.  Unfortunately, she fails to anticipate the infamous ides of March, which would prove to upend all of her well laid plans.  
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Cleopatra Part II: Capturing Caesar

This is the second episode in a series of six which covers the life of the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra.  Finding herself on the outside looking in, Cleopatra, the co-regent of Egypt, decides to embark on a risking alliance with the foreign born Roman Julius Caesar, a man who is dealing with the aftermath of his own lengthy civil war.
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Cleopatra Part I: The Rise of the Ptolemaic Dynasty

This is the first episode in a series of six which covers the life of the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra.  I briefly discuss Alexander the Great's expeditions to Egypt on his unceasing quest to become 'King of Asia.'  Once the Ptolemaic dynasty's place in Egyptian history is established, the podcast turns to the childhood of the woman who would become perhaps the greatest Queen in Egyptian history.  Lastly, the episode reveals to the audience how she ended up being named co-regent upon her father's passing.    
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Expect new shows to drop on Wednesday mornings from September to January.
Music is licensed through Epidemic Sound