Thistle Do Nicely

A Scottish Podcast About Scotland!
It's week two of a listen with Chris 'n Rory!
We're into the concluding episode of our chat about the Scottish origins of the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame.
We also continue our discussion on the MLB's most famous and successful players born in Scotland, including "The Staten Island Scot" Bobby Thomson!
It's another homerun episode from the TDN Lads.
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SOURCES:
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https://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/birthplace.php?loc=Scotland
https://mccormickforthehall.com/about-jim-mccormick
https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/jim-mccormick/
https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/hugh-nicol/
https://www.thesquander.com/mac-macarthur-net-worth-2018-what-baseball-player-worth-28421216
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/macarma01.shtml
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_MacArthur
https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/mike-hopkins/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Hopkins_(baseball)
https://www.azsnakepit.com/2017/1/29/14413136/george-chalmers-scottish-baseball-player
https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/george-chalmers/
https://aberdeenbaseballclub.com/league/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Thomson#The_%22Shot_Heard_'Round_the_World%22https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/bobby-thomson/
https://ripbaseball.com/2019/09/19/obituary-tom-waddell-1958-2019/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcvSdVJhbdc
A Great Day in Cooperstown: The Miraculous and Unlikely Beginning of the Baseball Hall of Fame -Jim Reisler
https://medium.com/@djcinductionguru/i-left-my-heart-in-cooperstown-6c1232b37c50
https://www.si.com/mlb/2017/07/25/hall-fame-cooperstown-casebook-ron-santo
https://www.thedailystar.com/opinion/columns/1937-a-turning-point-year-for-baseball-hall-of-fame/article_40466cec-2

A Scottish Podcast About Scotland!
Part 2 of The Darien Scheme is bananas. Things go for bad to worse for our band of tartan clad adventuring countrymen.
This week we discuss the lack of preparation, Scotland starting a war with Spain and the many, many deaths that resulted from our attempt to start a colony in Panama.
The TDP Clan continues to support the people of Ukraine and encourage our readers to donate to the below charities if you can spare it:
Doctors Without Borders:
https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/what-we-do/news-stories/news/msf-mobilizes-response-ukraine-and-nearby-countries#p1
Unicef:
https://www.unicefusa.org/stories/unicef-children-crossfire-ukraine-crisis
ProjectCure:
https://projectcure.org/
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SOURCES:

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12529876.real-pirates-of-the-caribbean-debate-still-rages-about-an-english-sea-captain-hung-for-piracy-but-was-thomas-green-really-guilty-one-man-thinks-he-has-the-answer/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darien_scheme

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Paterson_(banker)#Career

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_of_Scotland

https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/The-Darien-Scheme/

https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/p/williampaterson.html

https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/library/files/special/exhibns/month/may2005.html

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/founding-darien-colony

https://www.nls.uk/exhibitions/scotland-and-darien/

https://electricscotland.com/history/darien/chapter07.htm

https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/civil_war_revolution/scotland_darien_01.shtml

https://www.natwestgroup.com/heritage/people/william-paterson.html

A Scottish Podcast About Scotland!
This week we're talking about the complicated, but fascinating story of the founder of The Pinkerton National Detective Agency and a man who had a significant impact on American law enforcement: Allan Pinkerton.
Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he moved to America as a humble barrel maker, but quickly became embroiled in the dramas of the Wild West, the Civil War, the outlaw Jesse James and a failed assassination attempt on Abe Lincoln.
Imagine yourself in a smoky office, put your feet up on the desk, take a slug of cheap whisky and let us spin you a tale that will make your grannies whiskers curl.
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CONTACT:
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Email: [email protected]
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Google Voicemail: 4844 TDN POD (484 483-6763)
SOURCES:
https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/p/allanpinkerton.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1861/01/11/archives/the-adams-express-robbery-trial-of-the-alleged-robbers-at.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Warne#Early_detective_work:_1856%E2%80%931861

https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-pinkertons

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkerton_(detective_agency)#Origins

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Pinkerton-National-Detective-Agency

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Pinkerton

https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/allan-pinkerton-4572.php

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Allan-Pinkerton

https://variety.com/2019/gaming/news/red-dead-redemption-2-rockstar-pinkerton-lawsuit-1203108019/

https://law.jrank.org/pages/12271/Pinkerton-Allan-America-s-Scotland-Yard.html

https://www.thedailybeast.com/are-emily-blunt-and-dwayne-the-rock-johnson-making-a-propaganda-film-for-amazon

https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/allan-pinkerton-the-eye-that-never-slept-library/

https://blackthen.com/john-scobell-untold-story-one-union-army-intelligence-officer/

https://www.nps.gov/people/allan-pinkerton.htm

https://www.annmarieackermann.com/kate-warne-first-female-detective/

A Scottish Podcast About Scotland!
It's Christmas time and the Thistle Do Nicely Clan have gathered together to watch the brand new Netflix festive movie A Castle For Christmas. This nonsensical noël nightmare is set in our beloved home country and stars Brooke Shields and Cary Elwes.
We breakdown the crazy plot, the wild accents and the baffling relationship between our 2 lead characters.
So get the Christmas jumpers on, slip into your Rudolph slippers, crack open the tin of shortbread and coorie in with us in front of the fire.
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P.S.
Only a few more days to win a very very limited edition t-shirt from the Thistle Do Nicely Clan. Call in to 4844 TDN POD (484 483-6763) and leave us a voice mail or email in an audio recording of yourself. It can be any old nonsense about Scottishness, the show, or why Scotland is the way it is. Get you entries in by Christmas day this year and our favourite 3 will win a t-shirt! Winners will be announced on the Hogmanay episode.
CONTACT:
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Twitter: @thistledopod
Facebook: www.facebook.com/thistledopod
Email: [email protected]
website & sources: https://www.thistledonicelypod.com/
Google Voicemail: 4844 TDN POD (484 483-6763)
SOURCES:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13070602/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
https://allycarter.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke_Shields

This week we are talking about the humble Scottish origins of the wildly popular video game franchises Lemmings and Grand Theft Auto.
Both games were originally designed and released by the Dundonian company DMA Design (now Rockstar North) who obviously had a penchant for death, destruction and blowing things up.