Fin vs History

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 -...

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...

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...

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...

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 -...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...