Welcome back to Bloomin’ Legends! The podcast where we uncover the wildest, most legendary, and unbelievable true stories from history!

In this episode, Johnny Vaughan and Gavin “The Woodman” Woods enter the dark and brutal world of Vlad the Impaler, the 15th-century Wallachian ruler who defended his land from the Ottomans with shocking cruelty. From forests of impaled enemies to his enduring legacy as the inspiration for Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Vlad’s story is part nightmare, part national heroism.

🩸 Prince of Pain – How Vlad earned his blood-soaked reputation

⚔️ War Against the Ottomans – The ruthless tactics that terrified invaders

🌲 The Forest of the Impaled – His most infamous act of psychological warfare

🦇 From Man to Myth – How Vlad became Dracula, the ultimate monster of legend

At the end of the episode, we decide: Was Vlad a true Bloomin’ Legend? Or just history’s most sadistic ruler?

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Welcome back to Bloomin’ Legends! The podcast where we uncover the wildest, most legendary, and unbelievable true stories from history!

In this episode, Johnny Vaughan and Gavin “The Woodman” Woods go full tilt into the unbelievable wartime adventures of “Mad” Jack Churchill, the British officer who stormed World War II battlefields armed with a longbow, broadsword, and bagpipes. From leading commandos with medieval weapons to escaping Nazi captivity (twice), his story is one of the most eccentric and fearless in military history.

🏹 The Original Action Hero – How Jack’s love of medieval weapons made him famous on the battlefield

⚔️ Swords, Bagpipes & Bravery – The wild raids that cemented his legendary status

🚀 Daring Escapes – How he slipped Nazi hands not once, but twice

🔥 Life After the War – Why Mad Jack never quite stopped being Mad Jack

At the end of the episode, we decide: Was Mad Jack Churchill a true Bloomin’ Legend? Or just Britain’s most eccentric soldier?

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Welcome back to Bloomin’ Legends! The podcast where we uncover the wildest, most legendary, and unbelievable true stories from history!

In this episode, Johnny Vaughan and Gavin "The Woodman" Woods sail down the Nile into the dazzling, dangerous world of Cleopatra VII, the last queen of Egypt. Brilliant, multilingual and ruthlessly strategic, she ruled a crumbling kingdom, charmed Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, and played a high-stakes game with the Roman Empire that would shape history forever.

👑 The Making of a Pharaoh – How Cleopatra fought her siblings, Rome, and tradition to seize Egypt’s throne

💋 Lovers and Power – The truth behind her alliances with Caesar and Antony

⚔️ War with Rome – How her gamble for Egypt’s independence triggered its downfall

🐍 The Myth and the Mystery – From asp bites to Hollywood, how Cleopatra’s legend still endures

At the end of the episode, we decide: Was Cleopatra a true Bloomin’ Legend? Or just the most famous femme fatale in history?

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Welcome back to Bloomin’ Legends! The podcast where we uncover the wildest, most legendary, and unbelievable true stories from history!

In this episode, Johnny Vaughan and Gavin "The Woodman" Woods dive into the bizarre, hilarious and sometimes brilliant life of Timothy Dexter - the self-styled “Lord” from Massachusetts who somehow became rich through a series of “bad” business ideas that all paid off. From selling coal where no one needed it to writing one of history’s strangest books without punctuation, Dexter turned being underestimated into an art form.

💸 From Pauper to Millionaire – How a barely educated tanner’s apprentice became America’s most accidental tycoon

🚢 The Bad Ideas That Worked – Why his coal, whalebone, and warming pan schemes made him a fortune

📚 The World’s Weirdest Book – The punctuation-free masterpiece he forced everyone to read

🏰 Living Like a Lord – The statues, the “death” party, and his reputation as America’s original oddball

At the end of the episode, we decide: Was Timothy Dexter a true Bloomin’ Legend? Or just history’s luckiest (and weirdest) businessman?

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Welcome back to Bloomin’ Legends! The podcast where we uncover the wildest, most legendary, and unbelievable true stories from history!

In this episode, Johnny Vaughan and Gavin "The Woodman" Woods set sail with Bartholomew Roberts, better known as Black Bart, the most successful pirate of the Golden Age. With over 400 ships captured, he outdid even the infamous Blackbeard, rewrote the pirate code, and dressed like a gentleman while striking terror across the Atlantic.

🏴‍☠️ From Reluctant Sailor to Ruthless Pirate – How Bart stumbled into piracy and never looked back

⚓ The Pirate King of the Atlantic – His unbelievable streak of raids and captures

📜 The Pirate Code – The rules that kept his crew loyal (and terrified)

💀 The Final Battle – How Black Bart met his fate and became a legend of the seas

At the end of the episode, we decide: Was Bartholomew Roberts a true Bloomin’ Legend? Or just history’s flashiest outlaw?

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Welcome back to Bloomin’ Legends! The podcast where we uncover the wildest, most legendary, and unbelievable true stories from history!

In this episode, Johnny Vaughan and Gavin "The Woodman" Woods trek into the brutal frontier life of Marie Dorion, the fearless Indigenous woman who joined an expedition across the American wilderness, battled freezing winters, endured devastating loss, and still came out a survivor.

🌲 Life on the Edge – What it meant to be a woman and mother on a deadly frontier journey

❄️ Surviving the Wilderness – How Marie fought starvation, freezing cold, and wild terrain

⚔️ Caught in the Crossfire – The violence and danger that stalked her expedition

🔥 A Legacy of Resilience – Why her story still inspires today as one of the Wild West’s toughest survivors

At the end of the episode, we decide: Was Marie Dorion a true Bloomin’ Legend? Or just a forgotten name in America’s frontier history?

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Welcome back to Bloomin’ Legends! The podcast where we uncover the wildest, most legendary, and unbelievable true stories from history!

In this episode, Johnny Vaughan and Gavin "The Woodman" Woods dive into the bullet-riddled life of Legs Diamond, the Prohibition-era gangster who survived so many assassination attempts that he became known as the man who couldn’t be killed. From bootlegging and bank jobs to his tangled love life and explosive feuds, this is a gangster story for the ages.

💰 From Street Punk to Crime Boss – How Legs climbed the underworld ladder in New York

🔫 The Nine Lives of Legs – The wildest shootouts and miraculous escapes you’ve ever heard

🍸 Prohibition Power Plays – Booze, speakeasies, and betrayal in the Roaring Twenties

⚰️ The Final Hit – How his luck finally ran out… or did it?

At the end of the episode, we decide: Was Legs Diamond a true Bloomin’ Legend? Or just the slipperiest crook in American history?

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Welcome back to Bloomin’ Legends! The podcast where we uncover the wildest, most legendary, and unbelievable true stories from history!

In this episode, Johnny Vaughan and Gavin "The Woodman" Woods unleash the blood-and-sand saga of Spartacus, the enslaved Thracian who fought his way out of the gladiator arena, built an army of tens of thousands of rebels, and sent shockwaves through the Roman Empire.

⚔️ From Slave to Soldier – How Spartacus went from captured Thracian to feared gladiator

🏹 The Great Escape – The daring breakout from the gladiator school at Capua with Kitchen tools

🔥 Rome in Panic – How Spartacus outwitted entire Roman legions again and again

⚰️ The Final Stand – The brutal end that turned him into an eternal symbol of resistance

At the end of the episode, we decide: Was Spartacus a true Bloomin’ Legend? Or just the luckiest gladiator in history?

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Executive Producer: Chris Janes