Podcast · 134 episodes
Fin vs History, page 3
by Fin Taylor & Horatio Gould · English
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. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/fintaylor
All episodes, page 3
Custard’s Last Stand | The Battle of Little Big Horn (Part 3/4)Part 3 (of 4) of “Film vs History” covering the Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876), focusing on how U.S. forces under Custer were outnumbered, miscoordinated, and ultimately destroyed.13 Apr 2026 · 58 min · 26 chapters
The Ballad of Four Eyes, Never Full and Throwing Poo | The Battle of Little Big Horn (Part 2/4)Part 2 of a 4-part series on the Battle of Little Bighorn, focusing on Native American peoples (Sioux/Lakota and Cheyenne), US expansion and removal policies, and the lead-up to 1876 (including…9 Apr 2026 · 53 min · 24 chapters
White Girls Manifest, White Guys Manifesto | The Battle of Little Big Horn (Part 1/4)The episode (Part 1/4) sets up the “Little Bighorn / Custer’s Last Stand” story as a critique of settler-colonial “manifest destiny,” focusing on how the U.S.6 Apr 2026 · 57 min · 23 chapters
Richard The Niro and Salad Cream Pacino | Saladin & The Third Crusade (Part 2)Part 2 of “Saladin & The Third Crusade” covers Richard the Lionheart’s 1190s campaign, the capture of Cyprus, the Siege of Acre (1191), the final assaults, and the Treaty of Jaffa (1192), ending with…2 Apr 2026 · 1 h · 22 chapters
Everybody Hates Raynald | Saladin & The Third Crusade (Part 1)The Third Crusade’s setup and early turning points, focusing on Saladin’s unification of Muslim power, the escalating conflict with the Crusader states, and the actions of the hated crusader Reynald…30 Mar 2026 · 1 h 8 min · 22 chapters
A Dirty Protest Without A Cause (with Vittorio Angelone!) | IRA Hunger Strikes (Part 2)The episode covers the IRA prison protests in Northern Ireland’s Maze Prison (H Blocks) during the early-to-late 1970s and early 1980s, focusing on “special category status” and the escalation from…26 Mar 2026 · 1 h 10 min · 28 chapters
Doing Ramadan in Greenland | IRA Hunger Strikes (Part 1)Finversus History (Part 1) covers the Troubles leading toward the IRA hunger strikes, focusing on British counterinsurgency in Northern Ireland, IRA mainland bombing campaigns, and the…23 Mar 2026 · 59 min · 24 chapters
Panenka-Assassinations and A Mid Range Hotel | Idi Amin (Part 4/4)This episode (Part 4/4) covers Idi Amin’s late-1970s collapse and final years.19 Mar 2026 · 54 min · 25 chapters
Is This Elderly Hostage the J.O.A.T ? | Idi Amin (Part 3/4)Idi Amin’s foreign policy shift (Britain/Israel → Soviet bloc and Arab states), culminating in the 1976 Entebbe Airport hostage crisis and its aftermath.16 Mar 2026 · 54 min · 17 chapters
I Have A Dream (That You Should All F*ck Off) | Idi Amin (Part 2/4)Part 2 of Finn vs. History’s Idi Amin series. It covers how Amin’s rise was enabled by Western anti-communism and Middle East geopolitics, his early international visits (Israel, then London), and…12 Mar 2026 · 1 h 2 min · 31 chapters
A Human Lasagna Left Out In The Sun | Idi Amin (Part 1/4)Finn vs. History (Part 1/4) sets up Idi Amin’s rise by first discussing Uganda’s colonial history under Britain, the artificial borders, and how Buganda’s elite alliance with the British created a…9 Mar 2026 · 1 h 7 min · 24 chapters
A Bad Wicket to Bat First On (with Al Murray!) | The Blitz (Part 3)The German shift to night bombing in September 1940 and how Britain responded during the Blitz—blackouts, shelter systems, evacuations, anti-aircraft defenses, navigation/ruses, and the myth vs…6 Mar 2026 · 1 h 6 min · 33 chapters
Messerschmitts Were Not ULEZ Compliant (with Al Murray!) | The Battle of Britain (Part 2)The Battle of Britain (Part 2), focusing on how Germany tried to knock out the RAF and how Britain’s radar-and-command system (the Dowding system) enabled fighter defense.5 Mar 2026 · 1 h 6 min · 28 chapters
Every Führer Needs A Fat Best Friend | Hermann Göring & The Luftwaffe (Part 1)This episode (Part 1 of “Hermann Göring & the Luftwaffe”) is a comedic, conversational history walkthrough of Hermann Göring’s rise in Nazi Germany, focusing on his personality, background, and early…2 Mar 2026 · 1 h 1 min · 28 chapters
Manic Pixie Dream Goebbels | Sigmund Freud & The Birth of Psychology (Part 2)Part 2 of Fin vs. History’s “birth of psychology” deep dive, centered on Carl Jung’s break with Freud, Jung’s ideas about archetypes and the collective unconscious, and how early psychology was…26 Feb 2026 · 1 h 2 min · 26 chapters
Wearing Your Dad’s Suit To Chat Up Your Mum | Sigmund Freud & The Birth of Psychology (Part 1)A comedic, critical history-of-psychology episode that sets up Freud’s role and traces earlier “mind” theories: humors/temperaments, physiognomy and phrenology, hypnosis/“animal magnetism,” hysteria,…23 Feb 2026 · 1 h 7 min · 26 chapters
Going Dubai with @MarkAnthonyFitness | Cleopatra (Part 2)Part 2 of “Cleopatra” (Finn vs. History) covering the end of ancient Egypt and Cleopatra’s shifting alliances during the Roman power struggle after Caesar’s assassination, through Actium (31 BC), the…19 Feb 2026 · 53 min · 18 chapters
The Ancient World’s Jeremy Kyle | Cleopatra (Part 1)Finverse History episode about Cleopatra (Part 1), framed through Roman sources, the Ptolemaic dynasty’s politics and incest, and Cleopatra’s “political seduction” of Julius Caesar during the siege…16 Feb 2026 · 1 h 1 min · 25 chapters
The Juice gets Juiced (with Red Richardson!) | The People vs O.J. Simpson (Part 4/4)Part 4/4 of The People vs O.J. Simpson focuses on Johnny Cochran’s closing argument, the jury’s quick not-guilty verdict, the immediate public backlash, and O.J.12 Feb 2026 · 59 min · 24 chapters
No N-Word November (with Red Richardson!) | The People vs O.J. Simpson (Part 3/4)Part 3/4 of “The People vs O.J. Simpson” focuses on O.J. Simpson’s Dream Team defense, the trial’s racial dynamics, and key courtroom tactics around DNA/glove evidence and Mark Fuhrman’s use of the…9 Feb 2026 · 1 h 1 min · 21 chapters
L.A.P.D (The Los Angeles Phrenology Department) | The People vs O.J. Simpson (Part 2/4)Part 2 of a podcast series on the O.J. Simpson case, focusing on how the LAPD’s history of racism and brutality shaped the trial’s “trial of the police” framing.5 Feb 2026 · 53 min · 22 chapters
OJ, Nicole, and Ron Place Ron Time | The People vs O.J. Simpson (Part 1/4)Part 1 of a four-part discussion of O.J. Simpson’s life and rise, framed as a modern American story shaped by race, celebrity, and manipulation, leading toward the later murder case.2 Feb 2026 · 58 min · 20 chapters
White Slavery, Victorian ISIS and The Big Bunda Tree | Gordon of Khartoum (Part 2)Part 2 of “Gordon of Khartoum” covers General Charles George Gordon’s time in England, his alleged sexual/pedophilia rumors tied to Victorian “charity,” his anti-slavery work in Equatoria/Sudan, the…29 Jan 2026 · 57 min · 29 chapters
A Non-Offending Homosexual | Gordon of Khartoum (Part 1)Part 1 of a biography/discussion of British officer General Gordon, focusing on his early life and rise through the Crimean War, then his postings in China during the Second Opium War and the Taiping…26 Jan 2026 · 54 min · 29 chapters