509 - Olga of Kyiv's Bloody Revenge Tour

Do Go On

Matt Stewart, Jess Perkins & Dave Warneke

Fact, History, Facts, Comedy

4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 149 minutes

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Summary

When Olga of Kyiv's husband Igor was killed in the year 945, she embarked on one of the wildest revenge tours in history, showing no mercy to the killers. We are joined by pod favourite Michelle Brasier to hear about this wild tale from the Early Middle Ages!

This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 13:13 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).

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Do Go On acknowledges the traditional owners of the land we record on, the Wurundjeri people, in the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders, past and present.

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Olga

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Igor

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kyivan-Rus

https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Primary-Chronicle

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Oleg

Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie

https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/01/saint-buried-people-alive-burned-city-revenge/

https://allthatsinteresting.com/olga-of-kiev

https://www.factinate.com/people/facts-olga-of-kiev/

https://worldhistoryconnected.press.uillinois.edu/7.1/sherman.html by Heidi Sherman

https://museumhack.com/olga-of-kiev/

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/biography/saint-olga by Michael C Paul

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0:00.0	Hello, hello, Dave Warnocky here letting you know that me and the great man, Matt Stewart,
0:04.4	have some stand-up comedy specials coming to the Humdinger YouTube channel, formerly known
0:09.7	as the stupid old channel they've had a recent rebrand.
0:12.3	You can watch and chat along as part of the world premiere on Saturday, July 26, 2025,
0:18.3	or watch any time afterwards.
0:21.0	We both have full-length 50-minute shows to watch for free.
0:24.6	I'm really hoping they will become the first stand-up specials to get one billion views.
0:29.0	So please watch, or we might be very embarrassed with that prediction.
0:33.3	Matt is also touring Australia in August and the United Kingdom in September,
0:37.3	where he's also doing some live.
0:38.4	Who knew it with Matt Stewart podcasts.
0:40.3	So please get along to that.
0:41.6	Details at his website, Matt Stewartcom.com.
0:44.5	And now on with the podcast. Hello and welcome to another episode of Do Go On.
1:05.9	My name is Dave Warnocky, and as always, I'm here with Jess Perkins and Matt Stewart.
1:09.3	Hello.
1:10.0	Hey, how are you doing? Sorry, you couldn't get through. Oh, no.
1:16.9	Is this our answering machine? Yeah, I'm sorry. I haven't really finished the report.
1:22.9	Okay. Okay, you go quiet for five minutes. Finish it off. Okay, well, you, yeah, why don't you guys chat?
1:26.6	Well, we can bring in a third friend to this conversation.
1:29.9	Are we ready for that?
1:31.2	Yeah, bring a third.
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