Author: Gene Lyons

What does James Delaney really want? The attempt to break EIC’s monopoly in China-Canada tea trade seems a way to get back at the Company (and getting rich while at it), and it also represents the core of the proposal that Delaney makes to the Crown and to the Americans....

Hi Guys! Absolutely LOVE your podcasts!!!!! I watch the BBC episodes on Saturdays so waiting for your podcasts is nerve racking to say the least. Episode 3 was my favorite but this, episode 4 has taken the lead! With the giant assassin. I felt James was digging his blades into...

Guys! Good podcast but you can drive me nuts when you don’t have all the script information or the historical references for your discussions. Probably not enough time to digest the episode and research all the details in time for your recording. You do make me think about stuff and...

Hello gentlemen this is Joe from Utica again. This is go into tin-foil hat territory. This weeks episode got me asking the question, how do the Americans know about the history of love/incest between James and his sister. Now one possible source ive come up with is that in anticipation...

Hello, Gentleman! I’m glad you guys enjoyed my earlier emails! I wanted to write another one about Nootka Sound’s relationship to the French Revolution, and how James could, ultimately, bring in the Dutch, French, and Spanish to offset the Americans and the British, but I decided to bring in some...

Greetings Fellas! You hooked me with Westworld and now I happily blame you for making me an amateur TV scholar. For most of the same reasons as Gene, Taboo is a show right up my alley, with it’s macabre nature, plot intrigue, and historical setting. I’ll get right to it…...

Hey Duders! Your podcast rules. I don’t really buy the Brace is slowly poisoning James. Any person ever would notice that something is wrong when they start having unprompted hallucinations. People don’t just take acid or drugs and go through the experience like everything is normal. James would know immediately...