Cbk Halifax Podcasts

Ever hear a story about some idiot just to find out the story was told wrong and the idiot was actually super awesome? It happens all the time throughout history and Ryan Buckley is here to clear African King Mansa Musa's name. Ryan explains to Colin and Johnny why Mansa Musa became a historical punchline as well as the real story behind one of the most famous pilgrimages of all time.

This week Colin Dunphy tells the story of the first Earl of Buckingham, a politician so inept I feel the need to make an American politics comparison... Johnny Graham and Ryan Buckles try to keep Colin on track as he tells a story about a man who meant nothing but may have changed the world. Now please forgive the shameless hashtags.

Ever wonder where your street names come from? Johnny Graham tells the story of Stairs St. in Halifax Nova Scotia and the long strange journey of the man the street is named after, William Stairs. Join Johnny, Colin Dunphy, and Ryan Buckley for another strange piece of local Canadian History.

Colin Dunphy loves Machiavelli but this week he, along with Ryan Buckley and Jonathan Graham, argues against some of Machiavelli's ideas about the Hundred Years War with all its complex politics and huge number of participants with mental illness. Who will you side with? The man who is called the founder of modern political science or the man who once got hickeys on his forehead from pool goggles?