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

Jungle Blair & The Boy Who Di Canio-d Cambodia | Pol Pot (Part 1/4) 03.11.2025

How did a smiley boy who was good at volleying footballs become the monster behind the Cambodian Genocide?   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 Sex Tour Duty 04:57 Ladyman 08:11 The French Get Involved...

BI BAM BINNOBENT BOF BALL BARGES | Caligula (Part 2) 30.10.2025

Caligula makes a miraculous recovery from his deathbed, only to re-emerge madder, bloodier, and Chinese-ier than ever. 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 Caligula Bounces Back 05:07 Boss Bemp and Bordon...

Foreign Accent P*do Syndrome | Caligula (Part 1) 27.10.2025

Secure your privacy with Surfshark! Enter coupon code FVH for an extra 4 months at ⁠⁠⁠⁠surfshark.com/fvh Caligula is infamous as a byword for tyranny, but was it his fault or was someone just pushing the wrong buttons in his head?  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 a...

History Fan TV | Prehistoric Man (Part 2) 23.10.2025

When do humans start farming and why does Graham Hancock think people 60,000 years ago could fly?    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 - Diary of a CEOoga Booga 08:40 - Early Mesolithic Era 15:23 -...

Measuring Skulls When The Women Have Gone To Bed | Prehistoric Man (Part 1) 20.10.2025

Secure your privacy with Surfshark! Enter coupon code FVH for an extra 4 months at ⁠⁠⁠surfshark.com/fvh How did Prehistoric Homo Sapiens win out over Neanderthals, and was it simply because the Neanderthals were autistic?    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 si...

Chandler Bing & The Easy Peelers | Feudal Japan (Part 4) 16.10.2025

How does Matthew Perry end up restoring the emperor of Japan? 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 Tokugawa He Emits Poo 07:11 Role of Daimyo  15:24 The Original Weeb 20:00 Closed Country Policy 28:48 Origin Story...

19th Century Squid Porn | Feudal Japan (Part 3) 13.10.2025

Secure your privacy with Surfshark! Enter coupon code FVH for an extra 4 months at ⁠⁠surfshark.com/fvh As war turns to peace, the Japanese find they have more time to shove anthropods up themselves  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 ⁠patreo...

A Long Back and Sides | Feudal Japan (Part 2) 09.10.2025

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 The Suicidal 60s 04:55 Militant Buddhism 09:52 Siege of Mount Hiei 12:58 Ieyasu's Plea 15:31 Nagashino Killzone 22:25 The Age of the Ninja 27:36 Nobunaga’s...

Men: Talk To Your Mates (and then Behead them) | Feudal Japan (Part 1) 06.10.2025

Secure your privacy with Surfshark! Enter coupon code FVH for an extra 4 months at ⁠⁠surfshark.com/fvh Part 1: Accent fans, rejoice: we’re in feudal Japan, which it turns out was Upside Down land. 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....

Britain needs its Mummy: Jim Callaghan | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979 02.10.2025

It's the finale of our Titanic series on Britain's post-war decline, and we reach Jim Callaghan and the Winter of Discontent. There are rubbish bags and corpses piling up in the streets. Everyone's on strike. Lads; it's time for mummy to come and pick you up. The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened.  For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free listening and early access t...

“Stop Pegging Grandad!”: Harold Wilson (Part 2) | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979 29.09.2025

Harold Wilson's second term, those were the days- when a civil servant could get away with sexually dominating a dementia-ridden prime minister.  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 Secure your privacy with Surfshark! E...

The Man Who Transcended Misogyny : Ted Heath | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979 25.09.2025

Ted Heath was the rudest man to ever be Prime Minster, as well as the fattest, the grumpiest and quite possibly the nonciest.  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 Horatio's shameless plug 01:10 The autoerotic asph...

Seatbelts are Anti-Tittist: Harold Wilson (Part 1) | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979 22.09.2025

The architect of the original woke nonsense, Harold Wilson's first government sees a slew of sacred cows slaughtered.   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 King of Butt Stuff  06:25 What Is Ze Age of Con...

The Worst Prime Minister You’ve Never Heard Of: Alec Douglas-Home | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979 18.09.2025

Alec Douglas-Who? A Prime Minister who was so boring and ineffective he’s too obscure even for pub quizzes, that’s who 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 Enter The GOAT  06:20 Chandeliers to Puppies  13:07 The Ri...

You've Never Had Your Prostate So Enlarged : Harold MacMillan | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979 15.09.2025

Secure your privacy with Surfshark! Enter coupon code FVH for an extra 4 months at ⁠https://surfshark.com/fvh As a sign of how quickly things fall post-Suez, Britain elects its first openly cuck Prime Minister. How ironic, then, that a man who wasn’t getting any gets ousted by a sex scandal.  The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened.  For weekly bonus episodes, ad...

“Show us your Sunday Roast, Love!”: Anthony Eden | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979 11.09.2025

Antony Eden, always the bridesmaid, never the bride - but when he did finally get married he pooed himself at the altar. How much is he to blame for Suez,  Britain’s biggest humiliation on the world stage?  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...

Bin Sniffers, Wicket Keepers, Lily Gilders & Chuff-Slingers: Winston Churchill | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979 08.09.2025

It’s Winston’s difficult second album, how do you follow beating Hitler? You drink brandy for breakfast , cut off some Malaysian heads, and frame all homosexuals as spies, that’s how.  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/fintaylo...

Dropping the N-Bomb on Israel & Palestine: Clement Attlee (Part 2) | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979 04.09.2025

Clement Attlee’s Britain left India like a man with IBS who’d just seen the restaurant’s hygiene rating. Could Clement have done anything differently with Palestine?   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 The Spec...

Britain has a Cuck Dad and a Bitch Mum: Clement Attlee (Part 1) | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979 01.09.2025

Clement Attlee might just be the most boring man to ever hold office. But how did this wet dweeb end up laying the foundations of modern Britain that Mummy Thatcher so readily slaughtered?   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/f...

A Real Country Doesn’t Collapse Over Bananas (with Geoffrey Asmus) | The CIA Under Allen Dulles 28.08.2025

Geoffrey Asmus joins us to talk CIA coups under its most controversial head, Allen Dulles. Was he a sinister puppet master orchestrating coups against democratically elected politicians? Or a man who just loved bananas? 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...

Denying the Holocaust in a Female Body Inspector T-Shirt | The Origins of the CIA 25.08.2025

Grab your best bong and your least stained Female Body Inspector T-Shirt and settle in for a lesson on the truth they don't want you to know about, from invisible ink during the American Revolutionary War of 1776 to back-channeling with Nazi Scientists in Switzerland.  The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened.  For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free listening and earl...

In this House We Say Grace with Horse Cock | Vikings (Part 2) 21.08.2025

The Chemsex Furries head east down the Volga, before Harold Hard-Drive’s end signals the final curtain on the Viking Age 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoi...

The 9th Century #MeToo | Vikings (Part 1) 18.08.2025

How did one of the most violent societies in history end up at IKEA? 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 Aquatic Rape on Sea 05:12 Dan Snowdrome 12:44 Raid on Lindisfarne 19:52 Golden Age of D...

Start The Boats ! | Dunkirk Part 4: Miracle 14.08.2025

It’s the last time this country loved a small boat, as everyone from the Ayatollah to an ex-Titanic officer mucks in to help the boys escape 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 BumFurk 05:07 L...

Boss Baby’s Darkest Hour | Dunkirk Part 3: Cornered 11.08.2025

The British Army is trapped in northern France by the Farty Techno Nazis, but how close did we come to surrender via a back channel with a big bowl of pasta? 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: 00:0...

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