Men Behaving Badly: Tudor Style
Tudors Dynasty & Beyond
RedTop Media / Rebecca Larson
4.4 • 869 Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
What does bad behavior really look like in Tudor England? In this episode, we take a sharp look at the men who pushed ambition, ego, and survival just a little too far.
Charles Brandon turns marriage into strategy, Thomas Seymour spirals after the death of Henry VIII, and John Dudley plays the game for his own gain.
Add in Francis Bryan—who needed papal absolution—and Edmund Howard with his questionable “medicine,” and you’ve got a lineup of men making very bad decisions.
Messy, calculated, and peak Tudor chaos. 👑
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to Off the Record on Tudor's Dynasty and Beyond podcast. |
| 0:12.5 | I'm Rebecca Larson. |
| 0:13.7 | And it's Sunday. |
| 0:16.7 | I feel like I'm not going to sing it today. |
| 0:18.8 | It's Sunday. |
| 0:19.8 | Welcome back. |
| 0:23.7 | Yes. |
| 0:24.3 | It didn't feel right. |
| 0:25.1 | I have to do it again. |
| 0:26.7 | It's Sunday. |
| 0:29.2 | There we go. |
| 0:29.9 | That's better. |
| 0:30.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:31.0 | People are going to get tired of me doing that too. |
| 0:33.4 | They're like, I know what day it is. |
| 0:34.8 | And I don't even listen on Sunday. |
| 0:36.7 | So stop telling us it's Sunday. |
| 0:40.8 | Anyway, it's off the record. |
| 0:43.4 | I am so happy to be joined by my good friend Amy McElroy again. |
| 0:47.2 | And we just love to talk about interesting things in history. |
| 0:52.3 | Yes. |
| 0:52.8 | And last week, we did another marriage edition, and that one was the good, bad, and |
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