The Unemployed Historian: A Short History of St. Patrick’s Day
He wasn’t Irish, he didn’t chase any snakes and green isn’t even the first color associated with him! So who was St Patrick? Thanks to Jill Bearup (Sursum Ursa) of Stuff You Like for making a special...
View ArticlePilot Season: Wrestling Society X
http://k003.kiwi6.com/hotlink/2u2emp418z/Wrestling_Society_X.mp3 Our road to WrestleMania continues! This week Alan returns and goes in blind to his first wrestling programme in over a decade. It’s...
View ArticlePilot Season: WWF Shotgun Saturday Night
http://k003.kiwi6.com/hotlink/4i6bh2zlt7/WWF_Shotgun_Saturday_Night.mp3 This week we take a look at the debut episode of Shotgun Saturday Night! This was the WWF’s attempt at doing an edgy, late night...
View ArticleThespian Talk – Episode 139 (Hoaxes and Horrors)
Patrick Brogan joins Gomer for talks about a night club posing as a church, a tragic story about baby stealing, Idaho politicians who want to impeach Supreme Court Judges who don’t agree with them, a...
View ArticlePilot Season: Star Trek –“The Cage” (w/ Leon Thomas)
http://k003.kiwi6.com/hotlink/8mdswvnvst/Star_Trek_-_The_Cage_w_Leon_Thomas_.mp3 Leon Thomas of Renegade Cut joins us ahead of the revival of his series Attack of the Trek to talk about the original...
View ArticlePilot Season: Tag Team
http://k003.kiwi6.com/hotlink/kcha752ycx/Tag_Team.mp3 We finish up our month of Wrestling based pilots with Tag Team – where Roddy Piper and Jessie Ventura are a tag team banned from wrestling for not...
View ArticleApril Is The Cruelest Month: The Burial of the Dead
Patrick may be an Unemployed Historian but he also loves the poetry of TS Eliot. In this new series he’s going to do his best to explain The Waste Land by TS Eliot. Starting with the first part The...
View ArticlePilot Season: Pryde of the X-Men
http://k003.kiwi6.com/hotlink/pmsatkkmr4/Pryde_of_the_X-Men.mp3 In 1989 Marvel made a pilot for an X-Men cartoon. In it Professor X invites a 14 year old Kitty Pryde to his mansion, Nightcrawler creeps...
View ArticleApril is The Cruelest Month: Part 2 (A Game of Chess)
This time we discuss people being blind to history, dysfunctional relationships and do terrible cockney accents. Filed under: Contributors, Contributors S-Z, Featured, The Unemployed Historian, Videos
View ArticlePilot Season: Darkman
http://k003.kiwi6.com/hotlink/y01c1plal6/Darkman.mp3 Did you know that Sam Raimi made a movie called Darkman? Well… There was also an attempt at a TV show based on Darkman – and we use the term “TV...
View ArticlePilot Season: The Justice League of America
http://k003.kiwi6.com/hotlink/ks711nwvcq/The_Justice_League_of_America.mp3 Imagine if Friends was about Superheroes and instead of jokes they had documentary style in character interviews. If you can...
View ArticleApril Is The Cruelest Month: Part 3 (The Fire Sermon)
Everything is terrible. Filed under: Contributors, Contributors S-Z, Featured, The Unemployed Historian, Videos
View ArticlePilot Season: Doctor Strange
http://k003.kiwi6.com/hotlink/dy6efjy7ai/Doctor_Strange_.mp3 This week we go back to the 1970s. 1978 to be exact. A time of funk, mustaches and wizards. This week we look at Doctor Strange. Theme:...
View ArticleApril Is the Cruelest Month: Pt. 4 (Death by Water)
Meet Phlebas the Phoenician. Filed under: Contributors, Contributors S-Z, Featured, The Unemployed Historian, Videos
View ArticlePilot Season: Red Dwarf (USA)
http://k003.kiwi6.com/hotlink/f8y92qm2zw/Red_Dwarf_USA_.mp3 In 1992, there was a US version of Red Dwarf. Let’s see how that went… Theme: Hustle by Kevin McLeod (http://incompetech.com) Subscribe: RSS...
View ArticlePilot Season: Days Like These (That 70s Show UK)
http://k003.kiwi6.com/hotlink/e0k99tv1ja/Days_Like_These_That_70s_Show_UK_.mp3 Imagine if you took That 70s Show and transplanted it from suburban Wisconsin to suburban Luton and halved the budget....
View ArticleThe Unemployed Historian: A Short History Of Same Sex Union
Are different sex unions really “traditional”? Well, that depends on your tradition. Filed under: Articles, Contributors, Contributors S-Z, Featured, News, The Unemployed Historian, Videos
View ArticlePilot Season: Coupling (US)
http://k003.kiwi6.com/hotlink/gtmwbx2bdu/Coupling_US_.mp3 Friends meets Sex and the City in the US adaptation of Stephen Moffat’s Coupling. Plus: One of is us ill and the other is very tired and we...
View ArticlePilot Season: J. “Digger” Doyle
http://k003.kiwi6.com/hotlink/qelvoamdxo/J._Digger_Doyle.mp3 Get out your Hawaiian shirts and overly short shorts! This week we look at the backdoor pilot for J. “Digger” Doyle which is actually an...
View ArticlePilot Season: The Coltons
http://k003.kiwi6.com/hotlink/g1f2j9oaz5/The_Coltons.mp3 This weeks backdoor pilot was episode of MacGuyver with hardly any Richard Dean Anderson but a lot of Froggy the Dog. Tangents include: a brief...
View ArticlePilot Season: The Adventures of Superpup
The Adventures of Superpup by Pilotseason on Mixcloud This week on Pilot Season a bizarre 1950s kids show pilot about a skittish, lazy journalist/dog who named Bark Bent and his alter ego Superpup....
View ArticleThe Unemployed Historian: The Confederate Flag
Flags are symbols of culture and identity but some flags send out the wrong signals. Filed under: Articles, Contributors, Contributors S-Z, Featured, The Unemployed Historian, Videos
View ArticlePilot Season: Lookwell
https://ia801506.us.archive.org/3/items/Lookwell/Lookwell.mp3 Adam West plays Ty Lookwell an actor who may not be a detective, but he played one on TV! And that makes him more than qualified to solve...
View ArticleThe Unemployed Historian Goes To BroCon!
Last weekend we went to BroCon in the University of Limerick. On the bus there we met up with none other than Diamanda Hagan! Here’s a short video about our adventure to Limerick. Filed under: Alan...
View ArticlePilot Season: The Man In the High Castle (W/ Diamanda Hagan)
https://ia601508.us.archive.org/4/items/ManInTheHighCastleEdit/Man%20in%20the%20High%20CastleEdit.mp3 We’re joined by Diamanda Hagan (Channel Awesome) to talk about the Amazon pilot for the Ridley...
View ArticlePilot Season: Naked Jungle
https://ia601500.us.archive.org/19/items/NakedJungle/NakedJungle.mp3 It’s a game show where everyone is naked! Even the host. Especially the host. Theme: Hustle by Kevin McLeod...
View ArticlePilot Season: The Big Bang Theory
https://ia601507.us.archive.org/35/items/TheBBT_201508/TheBBT.mp3 Meet Sheldon, Leonard, Penny, Katie, Raj, Howard and Gilda. We watched the unaired pilot of The Big Bang Theory! Theme: Hustle by Kevin...
View ArticlePilot Season: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
https://ia601502.us.archive.org/32/items/pilotseason-kimmy-schmidt/kimmy.mp3 We are joined by composer, chef, magician and physicist Robert Lucas to talk about Tina Fey’s Netflix’s series Unbreakable...
View ArticlePilot Season: Popetown
https://ia801502.us.archive.org/12/items/Popetown/Popetown.mp3 We take a trip down to Popetown. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Stitcher Click here for the full rankings. UH: Top Five Pope Facts UH: Walk...
View ArticleThe Unemployed Historian: Michael Collins
This past weekend saw the 93rd anniversary the death of Irish revolutionary leader Michael Collins. So, I decided to take a look at Neil Jordan’s film “Michael Collins” again! Also this is...
View ArticlePilot Season: The Amazing Screw-On Head
https://ia801503.us.archive.org/29/items/PSAmazingScrew/AcrewOnHead.mp3 Alan is live from a hotel room as we talk about Sci Fi’s pilot for an animated show based on Mike Mignola’s comic The Amazing...
View ArticlePilot Season: Cop Rock
A musical about LA cops created by Stephen Bochco with music by Randy Newman!? How could this go wrong!? https://ia801506.us.archive.org/6/items/coprock/coprock.mp3 Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Stitcher...
View ArticleThe Unemployed Historian: Rise and Shine!
While suffering from writers block The Unemployed Historian has a strange dream. Audio Production by R&D Audio.Filed under: Contributors, Contributors M-R, Featured, The Unemployed Historian
View ArticlePilot Season: MINISODE – The Muppets
https://ia601503.us.archive.org/6/items/muppets_201509/muppets.mp3 We take a quick look at the pitch pilot for the new ABC Muppets series which debuts on 22 September 2015. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes |...
View ArticleThe Unemployed Historian: The Elephant Man
Let’s look at life as a 19th century human curiosity and how the man who wrote the book on Joseph Merrick got a few things wrong. Featuring Leon Thomas from Renegade Cut. Filed under: Contributors,...
View ArticlePilot Season: Adventure Time vs Steven Universe
https://ia801505.us.archive.org/11/items/pat_brogan_hotmail_Atsu/atsu.mp3 This week we take on two Tumblr favs in Steven Universe and Adventure Time. We pit their pilots against each other and crown...
View ArticlePilot Season: K9 and Company
https://ia601503.us.archive.org/15/items/K9AndCompany/k9%20and%20company.mp3 This week’s episode has been edited by Alan so you know who to blame for any mistakes, Patrick – for putting him in a place...
View ArticlePilot Season: That 80s Show
https://archive.org/download/That80sShow/That%2080's%20Show.mp3 This week on Pilot Season we find out just what was acceptable in the Eighties in That 80’s Show. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Stitcher...
View ArticlePilot Season: Veronica Mars
https://ia601509.us.archive.org/20/items/VeronicaMars_201511/VeronicaMars.mp3 This week we dive into the introduction to the teen-noir world of Veronica Mars. Fanboy over Darran Norris and one of us...
View ArticlePilot Season: South of Sunset
We’ve gone Flip City this week on Pilot Season. Because we’re taking it to the limit one more time to watch South of Sunset starring Glenn “That Guy From Eagles who isn’t Don Henley That the Makers of...
View ArticlePilot Season: Lucha Underground
https://ia801502.us.archive.org/5/items/pat_brogan_hotmail_LU/LU.mp3 Pilot Season returns for 2016 with LUCHA UNDERGROUND. We watched the pilot episode for the El Rey Network’s acclaimed Lucha Libre...
View ArticlePilot Season: Space Precinct
https://ia601500.us.archive.org/35/items/SpacePrecint/SpacePrecint.mp3 Let’s go to SPACE with Gerry Anderson (THUNDERBIRDS, CAPTAIN SCARLET, SPACE 1999) and his short lived series SPACE PRECINCT....
View ArticleThe Unemployed Historian – The History of Selfies
Season 4 of The Unemployed Historian kicks off by looking what the deal is with selfies. Is this just vain a 21st century thing? Who invented the Selfie stick – and why!? Filed under: Contributors M-R,...
View ArticlePilot Season: House
https://ia601502.us.archive.org/21/items/House_201601/House.mp3 We watched a show where Hugh Laurie is a Doctor who solves medical mysteries. You’ve probably heard of it. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes |...
View ArticlePilot Season: Spaced
https://ia601500.us.archive.org/0/items/spaced_201602/spaced.mp3 We watched Spaced – a 1999 sit-com starring Simon Pegg and directed by Edgar Wright. Ever heard of them? No. Neither have we. They...
View ArticleThe Unemployed Historian – The “Irish Slaves” Meme
A questionable 2008 article has turned into an internet meme that puts forward the idea that Irish people were used as slaves in the Caribbean – But is that really the case? For more information see...
View ArticlePilot Season: Spaced
https://ia601500.us.archive.org/0/items/spaced_201602/spaced.mp3 We watched Spaced – a 1999 sit-com starring Simon Pegg and directed by Edgar Wright. Ever heard of them? No. Neither have we. They...
View ArticleThe Unemployed Historian – The 1916 Rising Was A Failure
The 1916 Rising was a momentous event in Irish History, yet, it was composed of a series of blunders. Filed under: Contributors S-Z, Featured, The Unemployed Historian, Videos
View ArticlePilot Season: Daredevil
https://archive.org/download/Daredevil_201602/Daredevil.mp3 This week on Pilot Season we ask how you can see into our eyes like open doors with Daredevil. Subscribe: RSS | iTunes | Stitcher Also up for...
View ArticlePilot Season: TMNT – The Next Mutation
https://ia801506.us.archive.org/18/items/TMNTTheNextMutation/TMNTTheNextMutation.mp3 Oh Shell, no! We worked up the will to watch this live action TMNT show that was brought to you by the people who...
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