Death of a Tsar

History Dweebs - A look at True Crime, Murders, Serial Killers and the Darkside of History

Tim Scott

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Title: Death of a Tsar

Notes: Alexander II was a reformer, who freed 40 million Russian serfs. Yet, he was not a universally beloved figure and faced numerous assassination attempts.

Written by: Tim Scott

Hosted by: Brandy Herrmann, Chuck Walters, and Tim Scott

Editor and audio engineer: Thadd Scott

Intro and Outro Music 'Cheeky Chops' by All Good Folks. Uppbeat.io

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0:00.0	I'm I'm going to be able to be. I'm going to be. I'm Hi everyone and welcome to history tweets.
0:35.6	I am Tim.
0:43.3	Welcome to the podcast where we take a lighthearted look at the dark side of history.
0:50.6	The topic for our podcast today is Tsar Alexander II.
0:53.6	Your thoughts on that, Brandy?
0:57.6	Sounds boring. No, because he gets like, um,
1:05.5	he has like a bunch of, uh, assassination attempts. Okay. We let, we are, that'll liven up you day. We love a good assassination attempt. I don't want to say we're a pro assassination,
1:10.4	but we do cover a lot of assassinations in history.
1:14.7	So this is one of them. And he gets, he, and you know, he's such a nice guy. The problem with this is he such a nice guy.
1:26.1	He was like there, I rushes abraham lincoln and
1:30.2	what happened to both of them well it's true it's a cautionary tale brandy don't do anything nice
1:37.2	okay i will remember that word still i don't think brandy's going to be assassinated anytime soon
1:42.6	think she's safe.
1:45.2	Yeah.
1:45.8	Although the colonel, he might catch a bullet at any time to me.
1:49.3	Well, I would like to remind our listeners that we are a comedy podcast.
1:54.2	Sometimes we use adult language.
1:56.2	When I say we, I'm really talking about brandy.
1:59.2	Yes.
2:00.6	And if you find brandy offensive,
2:05.3	then we suggest what we say you do there, Colonel.
2:09.2	Just hit the fucking road, Jack.
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