Special Episode: Borgias and Bolognese Longsword (with Arik Mendelevitz)
Murderhobos: Masculinity Throughout History
Release Date: 08/20/2025
Pirate Arc Q&A Episode!
Murderhobos: Masculinity Throughout History
Adam is joined by Murderhobos producer Tony Williams to answer your questions about PIRATES. Subscribe to the show on Patreon: Make a one-time donation to the show: Submit questions:
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Jean Lafitte Q&A Episode!
Murderhobos: Masculinity Throughout History
Adam is joined by Murderhobos producer Tony Williams to answer your questions about Jean Lafitte. Subscribe to the show on Patreon: Make a one-time donation to the show: Submit questions:
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Jean Lafitte, 1780 - 1823
Murderhobos: Masculinity Throughout History
Today on Murderhobos: Jean Lafitte. A pirate, smuggler, and American hero of the War of 1812. Together with his brother Pierre, he became one of the most popular folk heroes of the American South in the 19th century, a popularity which waned over the course of the century to his relative obscurity today. What can his ambitious diverse criminal career show us about crime, piracy, slavery, and revolution in the age of American expansion? Submit questions to murderhobospodcast@gmail.com or on our Patreon discord by December 2nd 2025. We'll be hosting a year-end Q&A for all of our pirate...
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Blackbeard Q&A Episode!
Murderhobos: Masculinity Throughout History
Adam is joined by Murderhobos producer Tony Williams to answer your questions about Edward Thatch, Teach, Taych, Tack, whatever you wanna call him. Subscribe to the show on Patreon: Make a one-time donation to the show:
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Blackbeard, 1680 - 1718
Murderhobos: Masculinity Throughout History
Today on Murderhobos, Edward Teach, alias Blackbeard. Possibly the most famous pirate in history. Know primarily for his beard and his reputation for brutality and violence, he is in every way the pop culture exemplar of the golden age of piracy But his real life and violent death are a fascinating case study for the reality of piracy, shipboard life, and class conflict in the early decades of the 18th century. Submit questions to murderhobospodcast@gmail.com or on our Patreon discord by November 4th 2025. We'll be hosting a year-end Q&A for all of our pirate episodes too - please...
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Henry Morgan Q&A Episode!
Murderhobos: Masculinity Throughout History
Adam is joined by Murderhobos producer Tony Williams to answer your questions about Henry Morgan: Pirate, Pirate Hunter, and Professional Alcoholic, in that order. The podcast episode Adam talks about with the costumer from Pirates of the Carribean: A clip from Treasure Island (1950), where Robert Newton basically invented the "pirate accent": Subscribe to the show on Patreon: Make a one-time donation to the show:
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Henry Morgan, 1635 - 1688
Murderhobos: Masculinity Throughout History
Today on Murderhobos, Captain Henry Morgan: a Jamacian planter, freebooter, and king of the so-called bretheren of the coast, whose brutal raids on Spanish colonies led to his knighthood and his position as Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica. He was by fortune or chance tied to Jamaica at a critical time in its history, and was in many ways the architect of western colonialism in the Carribean. Plus they named a rum after him. Submit questions to murderhobospodcast@gmail.com or on our Patreon discord by October 7th 2025. Subscribe to the show on Patreon: . Donate to the show at
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Colonel Thomas Monstery Q&A Episode!
Murderhobos: Masculinity Throughout History
The first Q&A episode of Season 2! Adam is joined by Murderhobos producer Tony Williams to answer your questions about Colonel Thomas Monstery. Adam's lecture on fencing in the 19th Century: Subscribe to the show on Patreon: Make a one-time donation to the show:
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Colonel Thomas Monstery, 1824 - 1902
Murderhobos: Masculinity Throughout History
Today on Murderhobos, Colonel Thomas Monstery: master fencer, military adventurer, filbuster, sailor and pulp novellist. What does his fiction have to do with his filibustering, and how does that explore the era of imperialism in which he lived, fought, and especially, wrote? Submit questions to murderhobospodcast@gmail.com by September 9th 2025. Subscribe to the show on Patreon: .
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Murderhobos Season 2 Trailer
Murderhobos: Masculinity Throughout History
We're back! Our second season begins next week, on 9/2.
info_outlineSurprise! We know it's been a while but we're back with a special conversation to prepare you for Season 2, which'll be out before you know it.
This week, a conversation between Adam and fencing instructor and historian Arik Mendelevitz. Arik recently published "Bolognese Longsword for the Modern Practitioner," a book offering an introduction to the beautiful and oft-forgotten tradition of Bolognese longsword fencing of the 16th century.
Adam and Arik talk about the historical context of the system, and go long on one of history's most infamous families: The Borgias.
Arik's website is https://foolofswords.com/
His timeline of the Borgia family is available at https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVLr1V3xc=/
He also has a newsletter you can subscribe to if you're interested in more information about Bolognese longsword, Italian history, or excellent rapier fencing: https://fool-of-swords.
If you'd like to join the Four Openings Rapier Tournament Adam and Arik are talking about this October, you can find information at https://centerlineswordschool.com/events/.