Fin vs History

Fin Taylor & Horatio Gould

For people who like history but don't care what actually happened.

Join comedians Fin Taylor and Horatio Gould as they guess/explain every event in human history, from Neanderthals to 9/11.

Guaranteed to give you an entirely new and incorrect perspective on world events.

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173 episodes
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Jun 30, 2025 · 49 min
The Wright Brothers were Flap-Dodgers | The History of Flight (Part 1/2)
For centuries man thought that simply dressing up like a big owl would be enough to fly. But how come the people who finally cracked it were the most boring men who’ve ever lived? The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free listening and early access to series, become a Truther and sign up to the Patreon https://www.patreon.com/fintaylor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 26, 2025 · 1 hr 4 min
We’re Going to Need A Bigger Urn (with The Grade Cricketer) | The History of The Ashes (Part 2/2)
Aussie podcast giants The Grade Cricketer join us to unpack the history of sport’s greatest rivalry- the Ashes, or as it’s also known: England vs a Criminal England XI Tickets available for The Grade Cricketer live UK shows; https://www.gradecricketer.com/live-shows The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free listening and early access to series, become a Truther and sign up to the Patreon https://www.patreon.com/fintaylor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 23, 2025 · 1 hr 1 min
The Bowler’s Pegging, The Batsman’s Arsehole | The History of Cricket (Part 1/2)
From Oliver Cromwell to Graham Gooch via Slavery and Rorke’s Drift, there is no sport with more historical symbolism than the battle between bat and ball. The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free listening and early access to series, become a Truther and sign up to the Patreon https://www.patreon.com/fintaylor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 20, 2025 · 54 min
A Suckling Biggins | The Aztecs (Part 5/5)
Tenochtitlan is besieged and defeated by the Spanish, and with it goes the Aztec knowledge of how to cook Gay Men - the Wagyu Beef of the Cannibal world The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free listening and early access to series, become a Truther and sign up to the Patreon https://www.patreon.com/fintaylor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 19, 2025 · 48 min
Dark Chocolate is Woke Nonsense | The Aztecs (Part 4/5)
Cortes kills Montezuma, but more importantly could a human impregnate a pig? The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free listening and early access to series, become a Truther and sign up to the Patreon https://www.patreon.com/fintaylor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 16, 2025 · 52 min
Monty’s Mexican Special Needs Zoo | The Aztecs (Part 3/5)
Aztec Emperor Montezuma finally meets the Conquistador Cortes, but finds the Spaniard so weird he considers putting him in his zoo for disabled people The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free listening and early access to series, become a Truther and sign up to the Patreon https://www.patreon.com/fintaylor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 12, 2025 · 59 min
Spanish Sailors Playing Pan Cum Tomate | The Aztecs (Part 2/5)
Hernán Cortés, a horny Spaniard in middle management, sets sail across the Atlantic in search of New World Nookie The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free listening and early access to series, become a Truther and sign up to the Patreon https://www.patreon.com/fintaylor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 9, 2025 · 59 min
Heston Blumenthal’s Cannibal Tapas | The Aztecs (Part 1/5)
Cannibalism, Human Sacrifice and using skulls as bricks- who were the Aztecs before the pox-laden Spanish arrived? The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free listening and early access to series, become a Truther and sign up to the Patreon https://www.patreon.com/fintaylor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 5, 2025 · 46 min
He Died Doing What He Loved (with Daniel Sloss) | The Rise and Fall of Colonel Gaddafi (Part 4/4)
Daniel Sloss is still with us as we unpack the greatest fall from grace a dictator has ever had The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free listening and early access to series, become a Truther and sign up to the Patreon https://www.patreon.com/fintaylor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 2, 2025 · 51 min
It’s Raining Rubber Fists (with Daniel Sloss) | The Rise and Fall of Colonel Gaddafi (Part 3/4)
Daniel Sloss joins us to talk Gaddafi in the 80s - including a show trial for toddlers, The Lockerbie disaster, and most heinous of all - a bomb in a Berlin nightclub. The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free listening and early access to series, become a Truther and sign up to the Patreon https://www.patreon.com/fintaylor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 29, 2025 · 47 min
The People’s Republic of Jiblablabah | The Rise and Fall of Colonel Gaddafi (Part 2/4)
Gaddafi, the illiterate intellectual, the thinking man’s man-who-can’t think, orchestrates perhaps the funniest terrorist attack of all time and formally renames Libya absolute gibberish The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free listening and early access to series, become a Truther and sign up to the Patreon https://www.patreon.com/fintaylor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 26, 2025 · 44 min
Why do Arab Men Smell So Good? | The Rise and Fall of Colonel Gaddafi (Part 1/4)
Is Gaddafi the most mental dictator in history? One thing’s for sure, no tyrant smelled this good The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free listening and early access to series, become a Truther and sign up to the Patreon https://www.patreon.com/fintaylor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 22, 2025 · 52 min
Soggy Biscuit is a White Dominated Sport | The Golden Age of Piracy (Part 2)
The ugliest King there’s ever been dies without an heir, ushering in a golden age of pirates - who leave behind them a legacy of peg-legs, buried treasure and soggy biscuit. The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free listening and early access to series, become a Truther and sign up to the Patreon https://www.patreon.com/fintaylor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 19, 2025 · 54 min
You think Fyre Festival was bad… | The Golden Age of Piracy (Part 1)
Who were the real pirates of the Caribbean and more importantly what did they sound like? The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free listening and early access to series, become a Truther and sign up to the Patreon https://www.patreon.com/fintaylor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 15, 2025 · 37 min
Look How Good I Am At Drawing Apples | The Renaissance Part 2: Holland
Why is Dutch art so weird? The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free listening and early access to series, become a Truther and sign up to the Patreon https://www.patreon.com/fintaylor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 12, 2025 · 49 min
Trust The Italians to Rediscover Porn | The Renaissance Part 1: Italy
If the dark ages were the straightest period in history, then the renaissance is when Europe turned gay, led by - who else - but the Italians The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free listening and early access to series, become a Truther and sign up to the Patreon https://www.patreon.com/fintaylor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 8, 2025 · 41 min
Justice for Naughty Francis Bourgeois | The Eichmann Trial: Jerusalem, 1961 (Part 4/4)
The sesh has officially ended for Adolf Eichmann, as he is put on trial by his wife and kids and forced to reckon with what he did on the Big Nazi Stag Do of 1939-1945 The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free listening and early access to series, become a Truther and sign up to the Patreon https://www.patreon.com/fintaylor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 5, 2025 · 53 min
The Oi-Vey Team | The Eichmann Trial: Mossad Capture (Part 3/4)
Eichmann’s Nazi son starts a forbidden romance with a holocaust survivor’s daughter, but these gold-star crossed lovers end up leading Israeli spies to Adolf’s door The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free listening and early access to series, become a Truther and sign up to the Patreon https://www.patreon.com/fintaylor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 1, 2025 · 53 min
Ricardo The Gaucho Gobbler | The Eichmann Trial : Nazi on the Run (Part 2/4)
While the Nazi High Command are being tried at Nuremberg, Adolf Eichmann has gone to ground, and with the help of the Catholic Church, flees to Argentina to explore his sexuality The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free listening and early access to series, become a Truther and sign up to the Patreon https://www.patreon.com/fintaylor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 28, 2025 · 54 min
My pronouns are He / Himmler | The Eichmann Trial: War Criminal (Part 1/4)
If the Nazis were a Stag Do, Adolf Eichmann was the guy who phones the pub and books the table for 12…but when the sesh ends, Adolf doesn’t want to go home The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free listening and early access to series, become a Truther and sign up to the Patreon https://www.patreon.com/fintaylor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices