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Podcast: Deliver Us Some Evil
Episode: A Vlad Halloween Special Part I: Super Based
Description: Happy Halloween to the D.U.S.E. Nation! For your holiday enjoyment, Eli and Mel bring you the most based of European leaders: Vlad the Impaler! Nothing screams Halloween more than the story of one of the most feared and effective Balkan leaders in all of European history. Vlad Dracula witnessed his father's rise and fall, was held captive by a bunch of Muslims, and eventually took his father's place at the helm of Wallachia, a tiny country smack dab in the middle of Hungary and the Ottoman Empire. Born into the heart of a world in conflict...