The Darién Gap, or: the Real Reason Scotland Lost Its Independence

Ridiculous History

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🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Scotland is a fascinating place, with its own rich culture, cuisine and history. Today, it's part of the United Kingdom -- but this wasn't always the case. Join Ben, Noel and Max as they dive into Scotland's wildly ambitious plan to build a colonial trade empire straddling the Pacific and the Atlantic. At enormous expense, Scotland gambled everything on taming the Darién Gap... and lost.

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0:00.0	Ridiculous History is a production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show,
0:27.8	Ridiculous historians.
0:29.1	Thank you, as always so much for tuning in.
0:31.8	Let's hear it for The Man, the Myth Legend, super producer, Mr. Max Williams.
0:36.3	Hello.
0:37.1	Hello, Max. Who's that wooing over there is that
0:39.9	you no old brown oh you know i like a good woo and to woo you with history and by you i mean
0:47.3	the ridiculous historians at home i think we we all do i am ben bullitt and we And we are following up on a, guys, I don't think any of us have been to Scotland, right?
1:00.4	Not yet.
1:01.5	No, I haven't, but I've seen train spotting and Braveheart.
1:04.8	Does that count?
1:06.3	I mean, you know, yeah.
1:07.5	I've got the full history of Scotland in those two films, past and present.
1:12.0	You're plugged in.
1:13.2	You're plugged in.
1:15.5	Max also has not been to Scotland, but it's currently part of the United Kingdom.
1:22.3	This was not always the case.
1:25.1	In fact, Scotland became a part of the UK as recently as 1707, but it's still a very
1:31.8	different part of the world. You know, it's got its own culture, its own cuisine. Oh, yeah. I thought
1:37.8	of another Scotland movie, the Highlander series. That's like Scotland of the future, but also the past.
1:44.1	It's weird the way those movies work. Yeah, yeah. Do check out like Scotland of the future. But also the past, it's weird the way those movies
1:45.0	work. Yeah, yeah. Do check out the entirety of the franchise before you write to our complaint
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