Podcast · 134 episodes
Fin vs History, page 5
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 5
A Tasting Menu of Napalm | Pol Pot (Part 2/4)Part 2 of a Pol Pot series (Finn vs. History) covering Saloth Sar’s rise from French-educated intellectual to Khmer Rouge leader, Cambodia’s civil war, and the U.S.6 Nov 2025 · 54 min · 23 chapters
Jungle Blair & The Boy Who Di Canio-d Cambodia | Pol Pot (Part 1/4)Part 1 of a 4-part series on Pol Pot and Cambodia, framed through regional history (Indochina, French rule, WWII occupations, and the First Indochina War) and the early life of Pol Pot (born Saloth…3 Nov 2025 · 59 min · 25 chapters
BI BAM BINNOBENT BOF BALL BARGES | Caligula (Part 2)Part 2 of Finn vs. History’s romp through Caligula’s reign, focusing on his recovery from illness, escalating paranoia and cruelty, sexual predation and forced marriages, rule by fear, and infamous…30 Oct 2025 · 58 min · 27 chapters
Foreign Accent P*do Syndrome | Caligula (Part 1)Ancient Rome’s third emperor, Caligula (Part 1), framed as a “blueprint for tyranny.” The episode covers Rome’s shift from republic to emperors, the reliability of Suetonius as a source, Caligula’s…27 Oct 2025 · 1 h 3 min · 24 chapters
History Fan TV | Prehistoric Man (Part 2)Part 2 of “Prehistoric Man” covering the Mesolithic (~10,000–5,000 BC) and transition toward the Neolithic (~8,000–6,000 BC), including Ice Age retreat, Doggerland/land bridges, early hunter-gatherer…23 Oct 2025 · 54 min · 29 chapters
Measuring Skulls When The Women Have Gone To Bed | Prehistoric Man (Part 1)A comedic, wide-ranging “Prehistoric Man (Part 1)” episode that sketches human evolution from the Paleolithic era’s start (~2.5 million years ago) through early Homo species, then focuses on Homo…20 Oct 2025 · 59 min · 17 chapters
Chandler Bing & The Easy Peelers | Feudal Japan (Part 4)Final installment of a four-part “Feudal Japan” series, covering the Edo period’s stability and control mechanisms (Tokugawa Iemitsu and sankin-kotai), the sakoku “closed country” policy and its…16 Oct 2025 · 54 min · 18 chapters
19th Century Squid Porn | Feudal Japan (Part 3)Part 3 of “Vindas History” on Feudal Japan, focusing on Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s rule (1588–1598), his sword hunt and weapon disarmament, the invasions of Korea (1592 onward), and the transition to…13 Oct 2025 · 1 h 5 min · 30 chapters
A Long Back and Sides | Feudal Japan (Part 2)Feudal Japan in the 1560s–1580s as Oda Nobunaga consolidates power after taking Kyoto (1568), faces coordinated resistance (especially the Ikko-ikki Buddhist militant communities), defeats Takeda…9 Oct 2025 · 53 min · 23 chapters
Men: Talk To Your Mates (and then Behead them) | Feudal Japan (Part 1)Feudal Japan (12th–19th c.), focusing on the Genpei War’s breakdown of centralized rule, samurai culture and Bushido, ritualized suicide (seppuku), the Mongol invasions repelled by “divine wind”…6 Oct 2025 · 59 min · 27 chapters
Britain needs its Mummy: Jim Callaghan | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979The episode (Finn vs. History part 10) covers the transition from Harold Wilson to James Callaghan, focusing on Callaghan’s premiership (1976–1979) and the events leading to Margaret Thatcher’s…2 Oct 2025 · 52 min · 21 chapters
“Stop Pegging Grandad!”: Harold Wilson (Part 2) | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979Harold Wilson’s second term (1974–76), framed as Britain’s “crisis year” amid the three-day week, two general elections in 1974, labour’s tenuous majorities, and Wilson’s paranoia and control…29 Sep 2025 · 1 h 5 min · 31 chapters
The Man Who Transcended Misogyny : Ted Heath | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979A comedic, critical “Finn vs. History” discussion of Edward Heath and the UK’s early-1970s slide: inflation and “managed decline,” union conflict (especially the 1972 miners’ strike), the three-day…25 Sep 2025 · 1 h 8 min · 24 chapters
Seatbelts are Anti-Tittist: Harold Wilson (Part 1) | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979Harold Wilson’s first period as UK Prime Minister (1964), framed as the start of the “swinging 60s” and a wave of social/legal reforms, alongside cultural backlash and foreign-policy tensions…22 Sep 2025 · 56 min · 20 chapters
The Worst Prime Minister You’ve Never Heard Of: Alec Douglas-Home | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979The podcast episode covers Sir Alec Douglas-Home’s short premiership (363 days) and why he’s largely forgotten among post-war British prime ministers, portraying him as an “establishment” patrician…18 Sep 2025 · 47 min · 23 chapters
You've Never Had Your Prostate So Enlarged : Harold MacMillan | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979Harold Macmillan’s premiership (1957–1963), framed through domestic prosperity (“You’ve never had it so good”), decolonization and the push toward Europe, and how sexual/gay-related scandals eroded…15 Sep 2025 · 1 h 4 min · 24 chapters
“Show us your Sunday Roast, Love!”: Anthony Eden | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979Part four of Finn vs. History’s “managed decline” of the British Empire, focusing on Anthony Eden (Prime Minister 1955–1957).11 Sep 2025 · 50 min · 24 chapters
Bin Sniffers, Wicket Keepers, Lily Gilders & Chuff-Slingers: Winston Churchill | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979Part three of Finn vs. History’s post-war British prime ministers series, focusing on Winston Churchill’s second term (1951–1955).8 Sep 2025 · 52 min · 23 chapters
Dropping the N-Bomb on Israel & Palestine: Clement Attlee (Part 2) | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979Part 2 of a Finn vs. History series on Clement Attlee’s postwar Britain, arguing that Britain’s decline and major foreign-policy crises were driven by a “special needs” US relationship, with Britain…4 Sep 2025 · 56 min · 24 chapters
Britain has a Cuck Dad and a Bitch Mum: Clement Attlee (Part 1) | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979Post-war Britain’s shift under Clement Attlee (Labour PM, 1945–1951), framed as a “managed decline” leading toward Thatcher.1 Sep 2025 · 57 min · 17 chapters
A Real Country Doesn’t Collapse Over Bananas (with Geoffrey Asmus) | The CIA Under Allen DullesThe episode argues that the CIA under director Allen Dulles helped engineer Cold War coups and covert operations, using examples like Iran (Operation Ajax), Guatemala (the 1954 coup tied to United…28 Aug 2025 · 1 h 13 min · 30 chapters
Denying the Holocaust in a Female Body Inspector T-Shirt | The Origins of the CIAThe episode traces early U.S. intelligence history as a precursor to the CIA, arguing that modern American spying grew out of Revolutionary War espionage, private detective/militia work (especially…25 Aug 2025 · 1 h 5 min · 24 chapters
In this House We Say Grace with Horse Cock | Vikings (Part 2)Part 2 of a Viking Age series, centered on (1) Ibn Fadlan’s account of a Viking ship burial and human sacrifice, (2) Danish Christianization under Harald Bluetooth and the end of the Viking Age, and…21 Aug 2025 · 54 min · 24 chapters
The 9th Century #MeToo | Vikings (Part 1)The episode covers the start of the Viking Age (especially the 793 Lindisfarne raid), how Vikings were remembered through Christian accounts, and Viking beliefs about honor, fate, Valhalla, and…18 Aug 2025 · 59 min · 27 chapters