Welcome back to the madhouse podcast as we prepare to get medieval on your ass once again.
Scotland, 1304. Bobby Bruce is the star as we follow the rise of the Outlaw King, a bearded maverick who plays by his own rules, with a score or two to settle. King Eddie the unhinged has got a trebuchet that's bigger than any you've seen before and he ain't going to let poor Sir William Elephant surrender before he's tested it out. Well, it serves the silly pachyderm right for waving the flag of war in his trunk!
A ferocious idiot with a pudding bowl haircut annoys everyone and Florence Pugh is given away like a prize on a game show by a bearded man in a cloth hat. The wedding of the year threatens to go off the rails as James Cosmo tries not to singe his beard. The Bishop of Booty makes his disturbing debut.
Kenny got some of the details wrong on the recording, but here is Dan Snow firing a mangonel at Caerphilly Castle into a pond. We do hope the ducks were evacuated to a safe distance before the thing was fired.
Trebuchet Siege Artillery - Battle Castle with Dan Snow
Music by Trabant 33
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