Fin Taylor & Horatio Gould

Fin vs History

Comedy EN ↓ 166 episodes

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

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Fin Taylor & Horatio Gould

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Comedy

Latest episode

Jul 9, 2026

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Episodes

McHaggis Atta and The Hunt For Butcher’s Bin Laden | William Wallace (Part 2) 22.01.2026

Who better to cause England's 9/11 than Scotland's very own Bin Laden? 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 ⁠patreon.com/fintaylor Chapters: 00:00: Battle of Shit Bridge 04:24: Beard to Beard 08:07: Shit time to be a horse 12:46: Belly button...

Which Came First: The Toilet or The Deep Fried Roast Dinner? | William Wallace (Part 1) 19.01.2026

Secure your privacy with Surfshark! Enter coupon FVH for an extra 4 months at https://surfshark.com/fvh     William Wallace: Scotland’s Osama Bin Laden - who was the very tall angry man who incited England's 9/11? William Wallace (Part 1) 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 T...

A Voodoo Schizophrenic Molesting Himself | Papa Doc: Haitian Dictator (Part 2) 15.01.2026

Papa Doc’s back, immortal & bathing with the dead. How did the President for Life die after being reborn as a God?    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  Chapters: 00:00 – A Lesbian and Dicktator  03:19 ...

Don’t Even Talk To Me Before You’ve Picked My Coffee | Papa Doc: Haitian Dictator (Part 1) 12.01.2026

Coffee, Voudou & Lesbians - Haiti or Hackney? How one man went from doctor to dictator armed with nothing but folklore and a lesbian sidekick.   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 ⁠patreon.com/fintaylor 00:00 – Island Gaddafi   04:00 – But f...

Fleshlights to Fleshlights, Dust to Dust (with Joanne McNally!) | The History of Sex Work (Part 2) 08.01.2026

Comic powerhouse Joanne McNally joins us to talk sex work from the Victorian era onwards, and also to act as the Pope’s representative on the Quickshot Launch Masturbator 3000 The History of Sex Work (Part 2/2) 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 Pat...

When Britannia Kink-Shamed The Waves | The History of Sex Work (Part 1) 05.01.2026

For as long as there have been fat ugly men, there have been women who charge to have sex with them. But who knew it was us free-loving, sexually liberated brits who invented all the stigma and shame? 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 ⁠patr...

Pull Yourself Up By Your Buttplugs | Margaret Thatcher & The Falklands (Part 6/6) 02.01.2026

By mummy’s third term she’s so high on her own supply that she thinks teaching kids about homosexuality will give them AIDS and decides taxing people for being poor is a great idea    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  ⁠patreon.com/fintayl...

The National Union of Racist Burnt Toast | Margaret Thatcher & The Falklands (Part 5/6) 01.01.2026

For too long, Britain’s communities had been indulging in a weird fetish for digging burnt toast out the ground whilst blacked up- so having defeated the Argies, Thatcher has a new target in her sights    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 ...

A Duke of Edinburgh Award With Live Ammunition | Margaret Thatcher & The Falklands (Part 4/6) 29.12.2025

Order your Not Today or British PMs T-Shirts at fumblerooskiproductions.com/store The British land on West Falkland and the land war begins, fighting hand-to-hand combat over terrain built for lesbians, until finally, 1800 islanders and half a million sheep are free    The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened.   For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free listening and ear...

The Belgrano was a War Fine | Margaret Thatcher & The Falklands (Part 3/6) 26.12.2025

This episode of Fin vs History is brought to you by Surfshark and Frive.     Secure your privacy with Surfshark! Enter coupon code FVH for an extra 4 months at ⁠https://surfshark.com/fvh   Go to Frive.co.uk/fvh to get 45% off your first box  Thatcher starts performing as a Drag King Winston Churchill and unleashes the British Task Force, armed to the teeth with cutouts of Page 3 Models.   The show...

Our Poor, Innocent Antarctic Model Village | Margaret Thatcher & The Falklands (Part 2/6) 25.12.2025

Mummy’s premiership is on the brink, when a fascist invasion of a Model Village on our very very southern border brings Mags a path to redemption  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  ⁠patreon.com/fintaylor CHAPTERS: 00:00 - WWII (reprise) ...

Smashing The Glass Floor As Well As The Ceiling | Margaret Thatcher & The Falklands (Part 1/6) 22.12.2025

In 1979 Britain had unemployment fever, and then Margaret Mummy Thatcher came along and gave us so much calpol we OD’d. Part 1 of 6   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 ⁠patreon.com/fintaylor CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Mummy’s home    06:53 - Margret...

The Sound of Blue Balls | Beethoven: The Great Composers (Part 2) 18.12.2025

Secure your privacy with Surfshark! Enter coupon code FVH for an extra 4 months at ⁠https://surfshark.com/fvh Ludwig van Beethoven: the thinking incel's composer. How did a smelly, almost certainly autistic virgin come to produce music still listened to today?   The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened.  For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free listening and early acces...

A Fritzlian Slip | Mozart: The Great Composers (Part 1) 15.12.2025

Amadeus Mozart: The child genius, responsible for the some of the greatest music humanity ever produced, as well as what can only be described as an ode to rimming. He was Austrian, after all.   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 ⁠patreon.co...

W.O.P. | The Mafia (Part 2) 11.12.2025

The Mafia (part 2) | W.O.P. Having been smashed by Mussolini, the Mafia rebuild in Prohibiton America, but not before they’ve given the Statue of Liberty a good goosing Tickets for Fin's 2026 Stand-up Tour now onsale fintaylorcomedy.komi.io 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 T...

Natural Born Killers Who Kiss Their Mum On The Mouth | The Mafia (Part 1) 08.12.2025

The Mafia (Part 1) | Natural Born Killers Who Kiss Their Mum On The Mouth What was it about 19th Century Sicily that allowed greasy mummies’ boys to form the most notorious organised crime syndicate in history? Tickets for Fin's 2026 Stand-Up Tour now onsale at fintaylorcomedy.komi.io The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free lis...

Buzzt-a-Nut Aldrin’s Lunar Land Acknowledgement | The Space Race (Part 2) 04.12.2025

With dead dogs and Russian women floating through space, the American Nazis at Nasa start to pull ahead in the contest to land man on the moon- but not before the Zambian Space Programme enters the race.   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....

In Space No One Can Hear You Sieg Heil | The Space Race (Part 1) 01.12.2025

As the 2nd World War drew to a close, the Nazis’ rocket programme would form the basis of Man’s quest to conquer space. But why is this always framed as a race between the USA and the USSR, when Hitler got there first? 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...

Stagecoach W*anker (with James Buckley) | Dick Turpin & Highwaymen (Part 2) 27.11.2025

The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. Brought to you by Peter Christian- for free shipping on high quality British Tailoring this Christmas, go to www.peterchristian.co.uk and enter the code FVH at checkout  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 CH...

Tough on Blackface, Tough on the Causes of Blackface | Dick Turpin & Highwaymen (Part 1) 24.11.2025

The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened.  Secure your privacy with Surfshark! Enter coupon code FVH for an extra 4 months at ⁠⁠https://surfshark.com/fvh 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 CHAPTERS: 00:00 Gautism and Blautism 04:05 Dick Turnip 09:12...

Britain's Shiny New Pacific Toilet | Captain Cook & The First Fleet (Part 2) 20.11.2025

As the American War of Independence kicks off, Britain needs to find a new sewer - and in Hawaii, Captain Cook finally gets Cooked.   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 ⁠patreon.com/fintaylor CHAPTERS: 00:00 He just loves maps  05:58 Himbo I...

Don't Topple Statues, Wedgie Them | Captain Cook & The First Fleet (Part 1) 17.11.2025

How did Captain Cook, the so-called founding father of White Australia and a boring map dweeb with an ugly wife, end up getting cancelled as the symbol of colonialism? Order your Fin Taylor Christmas Crackers at comedycrackers.co.uk 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...

Cult of Zero Personality | Pol Pot (Part 4/4) 13.11.2025

The Regime falls, and yet Pol takes his boys back to the Jungle and carries on as before. Is this the most unsatisfying end to a dictator in history?   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 ⁠patreon.com/fintaylor CHAPTERS: 00:00 No problem 04:5...

xG (Expected Genocide) | Pol Pot (Part 3/4) 10.11.2025

Now in power, the Khmer Rouge get to work eradicating everyone with glasses with a strike rate that is truly Aguero-esque    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 ⁠patreon.com/fintaylor CHAPTERS: 00:00 Jungle Peter Pan 03:54 Year 0 09:57 Cambod...

A Tasting Menu of Napalm | Pol Pot (Part 2/4) 06.11.2025

Cambodia is served a ten course tasting menu of fire from above, before Pol Pot tells an entire city to f*ck off 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 ⁠patreon.com/fintaylor CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Communism is Boring 04:11 - Political Potty  08:05 -...

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