Guy Fawkes

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🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Guy Fawkes (/fɔːks/; 13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606),^[a] also known as Guido Fawkes while fighting for the Spanish, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics involved in the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. He was born and educated in York; his father died when Fawkes was eight years old, after which his mother married a recusant Catholic.

Fawkes converted to Catholicism and left for mainland Europe, where he fought for Catholic Spain in the Eighty Years' War against Protestant Dutch reformers in the Low Countries. He travelled to Spain to seek support for a Catholic rebellion in England without success. He later met Thomas Wintour, with whom he returned to England. Wintour introduced him to Robert Catesby, who planned to assassinate King James I and restore a Catholic monarch to the throne. The plotters leased an undercroft beneath the House of Lords; Fawkes was placed in charge of the gunpowder that they stockpiled there. The authorities were prompted by an anonymous letter to search Westminster Palace during the early hours of 5 November, and they found Fawkes guarding the explosives. He was questioned and tortured over the next few days and confessed to wanting to blow up the House of Lords.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome.
0:23.9	Citation needed, podcast where we choose a subject, read a single article about it on Wikipedia, and pretend we're experts.
0:30.2	Because this is the internet, and that's how it works now.
0:32.7	I'm Heath, and I'll be hosting this discussion of a very important guy.
0:38.0	And I'm joined by a dryye guy, a dry guy, a spy guy, and a kids tempt soy chai guy.
0:46.0	Mr.
0:46.4	Tzu, Tom Marsh and Eli.
0:49.0	Rye humor is still humor, I will point out.
0:53.1	A dry guy is the Shapiro in the room with us right now?
0:57.5	Well, I'm from the north of England.
0:59.3	I've not been dry since our last non-rainy day.
1:02.4	And that was in 1995.
1:04.6	It was Tuesday.
1:06.9	March I've been drinking for a while.
1:08.7	Yeah, and to be fair, that was only because Margaret Thatcher went outside, and it's literally impossible to get her wet.
1:16.3	All right, let's get into it.
1:18.5	Tom, what person, place, thing, concept, phenomenon, or event?
1:22.6	What we're going to be talking about today?
1:24.2	Today, we are going to America explain to Marsh, Guy Fox, and the gunpowder plot.
1:29.9	Excellent. And how does that relate to 9-11? Because they both deserved it, Heath.
1:36.6	This is Christ. What? Tom, 9-11? All right. After 9-11, I don't know if this is any better.
1:45.8	I don't know if this is any better.
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