Let Them Fight: A Comedy History Podcast

I'm gonna tip our hand here a little bit and let you know upfront, this episode doesn't have a twist or another shoe dropping. It's just good old fun all the way through. Stagecoach Mary lived a really dope life on the frontier as basically an anomaly of the old west. She was pretty damn awesome, and with the exception of one douchebag bishop who never even met her, I couldn't find anybody that ac...

Today we're covering fame adjacent outlaw, Harvey Logan AKA Kid Curry. Some say he was a murderous psycho, some that he was the victim of circumstance. It's probably somewhere in the middle where he got dealt a bum hand and decided he really loved murdering and stealing after a little while. Also we're still not absolutely certain if he died when the authorities claimed, or many years later while...

Today, dear listeners, we have a very well, interesting, person's story to share. Agrippina the Younger of Rome. She was related to several people you should recognize, and if you don't, well then public school failed you. In either case, this crazy broad caused a lot of death, and apparently the later years of her life were sponsored by Acme. Also special mention for the goofiest failed assassina...

To all our friends up north in America's hat, Canada, don't worry, we haven't forgotten about you. In fact, today's episode is about one of your soldiers, William Barker. Started flying planes in World War 1 and realized very quickly that he loved shooting other planes and blowing stuff up. He was a crazy good pilot and earned a ton of awards. Sure, his story ends tragically. But he also has one o...

Today, dear listeners, we're going to take you to Victorian era England to talk about notorious baby farmer and serial killer, Amelia Dyer. She got started in the baby farming business for the money, and soon ramped up her work for the love of the game. And yes, baby farming is exactly as fucked up as the name would imply. While the exact number of Dyer's victims is unknown, it's entirely possible...

I'm sure you've all been wondering when we're going to go back to Russia, well your prayers have been answered. Today we visit the Motherland to talk about Russian superkiller, Alexander Solonik. Dude bumped off some very dangerous and very powerful Russian criminals. Then repeated that same trick in a bunch of European countries with other criminal organizations. He also really didn't like stayin...

Welcome back, dear listeners! Today we're bringing you epic mustache, and man that dick slapped Nazis and Chinese alike, Lewis Millett. He fought in WW2 and decided that wasn't enough killin', so he shipped off to Korea to fight against the Chinese forces holding a couple important places. I don't want to give anything away, but he learned two things about himself: he loved big guns, and he loved...

Hello again, dear listeners, we're back with another psycho that loved murder! Rodney Alcala's story has more twists than an M. Night Shyamalan movie and boy does it get kind of bonkers. Also, his outside of murder accomplishments are definitely not what you'd expect. Listen in to find it all out, and to hear Tim's smug satisfaction as Jacob rages at both Alcala and the judicial system.

In today's episode we will be going back to the wild west, dear listeners, to talk about Texas John Slaughter. He did all the traditional wild west things. Cattle driving, working as a sheriff in Tombstone, gambling, and shooting people he didn't like. He also collected a couple wives and some kids along the way, some even survived! Also, he super did not like being called Tex. Something to keep i...

Welcome back, dear listeners, and settle in for an episode about a genuinely good dude, who also kicked a metric ton of Nazi ass, Matt Urban. If you've ever played a video game set during WW2, chances are the crazy shit you did was inspired by some of the real shit this guy did. And boy is it a lot. I don't want to give anything away but, this dude earned 29 goddamn medals. Honestly, if his story...

It's time to go back to Mexico, dear listeners, so that we can talk about Juana Barraza. Her life story is pretty much a constant rotation between, "holy shit that's tragic," and events in dire need of being backed by Yakety Sax. One moment she's being abused by damn near everyone in her life, the next she's a clown luchador. Also we all get some insight into just how effective the Mexican police...

Welcome back, dear listeners. We're leaving Chicago behind for a little while to take a look in on a mob hitman in New York, Gregory Scarpa. Dude did some wild shit, and after every atrocity you'll be thinking, "Man, I don't like this guy." Then you find out he also beat a Klansman so bad it changed who he was as a person and you'll think, "Ok, maybe he's not that bad. You gotta break a few people...

Welcome back to another week of historical violence, dear listeners! We're sticking around Chicago again today to talk about Samuel DeStefano, a dude who made the bad guys from all the Saw movies seem reasonable. Except Samuel's game was loaning out money to people, then dreaming about all the ways he was going to punish them for not paying. Sounds like a nice guy right? Well strap in, because tha...

Happy continued apocalypse, dear listeners! We have another Chicago goon from the early 1900s for you today. Whatever the Irish version of a goombah is, a potato maybe? I don't know, micks gonna mick. Anyways, as always we had a lot of fun making fun of people who lived more exciting lives than us. Enjoy the tales of this nicely dressed leprechaun and his life of newspaper wars and booze wars!

Why hello again, dear listeners. Today we have the story of a fun person from the early 1900s, Jack Johnson. He's our second boxer and honestly, we need to cover more because apparently boxers have lives made out of pure, unadulterated insanity. Jack was a simple man, he loved hookers, boxing, and white hookers. He was a man that gave no shits about what he might have to do to get what he wanted,...

Hello, dear listeners! We have another episode for you with our friendly neighborhood shaved Sasquatch, Anthony Davis. And today we're talking about William Burke, a British man who went on to run a very successful business in Scotland. So successful that Simon Pegg even played him in a movie. Don't worry though, you'll still get your biweekly dose of violence because Burke loved turning breathing...

Today we will be going back to Australia, dear listeners, to talk about hitman, and friend of people with terrible nicknames, Christopher Flannery. Also known as Mr. Rent-a-Kill. Yes, that was the real nickname of a real man who killed real people. Also we are joined by comedian, hillbilly Teletubbie, and friend of the show Anthony Davis. We had a lot of fun talking about goofy Australian names an...

Well, dear listeners, we have another escalation in the awful garbage monster competition as we head down to Brazil to cover Marcelo Andrade today. We've had this one sitting in our box of fan suggestions for a couple months now and decided we waited long enough to dump the awfulness that is Andrade on you. His "career" was short lived, but boy did it make a splash. Without giving anything away, t...

Hello again, dear listeners. We're back with our regular scheduled programming today to cover Francisco Pizarro, a Spanish conquistador that loved gold, Jesus, and killing the shit out of Natives in South America. Also another thing, but I don't wanna spoil that. He failed pretty spectacularly quite a few times, but when he won, boy did he win big.

This weekend afforded us a unique opportunity, and we knew that we had to take it. Carlton Leach, who we talked about in episode 77, found our episode about his life and didn't hate it. Then he offered to actually talk to us if we were interested, which well, 100% yes. So we offer you this bonus episode to enjoy because while the sound quality is a little lower than normal as this was done through...

Thank you, dear listeners for sticking around with us long enough for us to hit our 1 year mark. Which is exactly today. We wanted to do something big to celebrate so we're covering Tim's favorite person from any point in history, Ulysses S. Grant. On the off chance you don't know who that is, he led the Union army to victory against the Confederates during the Civil War. And then became the mothe...

A treat today, dear listeners! Carlton Leach has been a person we've wanted to cover for several months now, and we're excited to finally release it for you. Most of his stories were told directly from the man himself, which allows for a unique perspective we normally don't get to cover. He also recounts experiences where things don't go well for him, which is always fun. Enjoy the tales of this s...

We have another fan submitted name to talk about today, dear listeners. The even more unlikable than he should have been, Alferd Packer. Seriously, I couldn't find a single person in this dude's life that didn't hate his guts almost immediately after meeting him. I did however find the single greatest quote from a judge I've found in any court transcript I've seen in my life. Enjoy the madness of...

We're back, dear listeners, sans guest this time. And we're talking about a terrible German who wished he was a terrible Russian, Erich Mielke. We're calling him Milky. This dude goes from pissing off cops to being the worst kind of cop. While being an even more garbagey version of that snitch kid everyone hated in high school in between. This episode has everything, riots, war, and secret police,...

Today we have part two with Derrick Murray for you, dear listeners. This time we're moving away from the heroes and awesome quotes, and stepping right into monster territory. I'm sure if you're listening to this podcast you've heard of Richard Ramirez, The Night Stalker, before. If not, read more. Please. Anyways, this dude was a godawful little goblin of a person, with a grill to match. And boy d...