This Dave In History with Dave Jay

Everything you need to know about the history of North Korea, the Kim Dynasty (Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il, and now Kim Jong Un), the Korean War, modern dictatorship, and nothing else! On This Dave In History comedian Dave Jay and a rotating cast of dummies talk history. Don't fact check us. Follow Dave Jay on IG: @davejaycomic Follow Spencer Cavins on IG: @spencercavins Follow Colton Dowling on...

Everything you need to know about Manuel Noriega, the Panama Canal, Iran-Contra, the War on Drugs, and nothing else. Happy Hispanic Heritage Month! On This Dave In History comedian Dave Jay and a rotating cast of dummies talk history. Don't fact check us. Follow Dave Jay on IG: @davejaycomic Follow Spencer Cavins on IG: @spencercavins

Everything you need to know about the Emancipation Proclamation, slavery, the end of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, and nothing else. On This Dave In History comedian Dave Jay and a rotating cast of dummies talk history. Don't fact check us. Follow Dave Jay on IG: @davejaycomic Follow Spencer Cavins on IG: @spencercavins

Everything you need to know about the Puerto Rican sugar industry, the Sugar Trust (Domino Sugar), Charles Herbert Allen, Puerto Rican forced sterilization, Daddy Yankee, and nothing else. The first governor of Puerto Rico (after the island became a US territory) stayed in office just long enough to pass the laws that would allow a US company to exploit the island - then he resigned and founded a...

Richard Nixon was not a crook, but he also wasn't not a crook. This is everything you need to know about Watergate and Richard Nixon. On This Dave In History comedian Dave Jay and a rotating cast of dummies talk history. Don't fact check us. Follow Dave Jay on IG: @davejaycomic Follow Spencer Cavins on IG: @spencercavins

After the Hitler invaded France and took over Paris during WWII the French starting SCHEMING. Coordinating with the Allies the French Resistance whooped up on the Nazis. On This Dave In History comedian Dave Jay and a rotating cast of dummies talk history. Don't fact check us. Follow Dave Jay on IG: @davejaycomic Follow Spencer Cavins on IG: @spencercavins

The history of labor strikes is pretty violent. Dave and Spencer learn you about the coolest moments in organized labor. From the 1981 Air Traffic Controllers strike, to the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike that served as the backdrop for MLK Jr's assasination, and the 1937 Flint Sit-In Strike that turned into the Battle of Running Bulls inside of a GM factory. On This Dave In History c...

Aggies vs Longhorns. To Gig 'em or to Hook 'em, that is the question. The Texas A&M and UT football rivalry has its roots going back as far as WWI. Texas "historian" Dean Stanfield breaks it down for you yankees. On This Dave In History comedian Dave Jay and a rotating cast of dummies talk history. Don't fact check us. Follow Dave Jay on IG: @davejaycomic Follow Dean S...

In 1898 the US whooped up on Spain and basically ended the Spanish global empire giving Cuba its independence, KIND OF. The United States won the Spanish-American War, but Cuba (and Puerto Rico) lost.  On This Dave In History comedian Dave Jay and a rotating cast of dummies talk history. Don't fact check us. Follow Dave Jay on IG: @davejaycomic Follow Dean Stanfield on IG: @deanastanfield

At the end of WWII (August 6, 1945, to be exact) the United States dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. You’ve seen Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, now let two dumb sh*t comedians give you the goods on the first atomic bomb (in a fraction of the runtime and the same amount of CGI). On This Dave In History comedian Dave Jay and a rotating cast of dummies talk history. Don't fact...

On July 28, 1868 the 14th amendment to the constitution of the United States of America was ratified. After the Civil War ended slavery, the former Confederate states were like "Ok, they aren't slaves, BUT THEY AIN'T CITIZENS!", so the 14th amendment fixed that (legally, at least). On This Dave In History comedian Dave Jay and a rotating cast of dummies talk history. Don't...

On July 21, 1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left the moon. It was crazy. Nazi rockets, Russian moon probes, American flags - here are some weird things you didn't know about Apollo 11.  On This Dave In History comedian Dave Jay and a rotating cast of dummies talk history. Don't fact check us. Follow Dave Jay on IG: @davejaycomic Follow Colton Dowling on IG: @coltondowling

The French love two things: s3x and revolution. This ep we talk about the Storming of the Bastille and all the events that led up to the French revolution. King Louis, Marie Antoinette, Versailles, French bread - everything. On This Dave In History comedian Dave Jay and a rotating cast of dummies talk history. Don't fact check us. Follow Dave Jay on IG: @davejaycomic Follow Colton Dowling on...

William Patrick Hitler (William Stuart-Houston) tried to blackmail his uncle (Adolf Hitler) into giving him a high-ranking job in the Nazi party. When that didn't work, he joined the US Navy during WWII to get back at him. On This Dave In History comedian Dave Jay and a rotating cast of dummies talk history. Don't fact check us. Follow Dave Jay on IG: @davejaycomic Follow Joe Begley on I...

We're talking about the Hitler family tree this week, specifically Hitler's dad. On This Dave In History comedian Dave Jay and a rotating cast of dummies talk history. Don't fact check us. Follow Dave Jay on IG: @davejaycomic Follow Joe Begley on IG: @thejoebegs

Was Malcolm Wallace a killer? Technically, yes. Was he LBJ's personal hitman? Maybe. JFK, RFK, MLK, Malcolm X all died while LBJ was in office. Coincidence?! On This Dave In History comedian Dave Jay and a rotating cast of dummies talk history. Don't fact check us. Follow Dave Jay on IG: @davejaycomic Follow Dean Stanfield on IG: @deanastanfield

Project Paperclip scooped up a bunch of German scientists at the end of WW2, including Wernher Von Braun. He developed the V2 Rocket for Hitler and then for the United States military, but Von Braun REALLY wanted to go to space. He led NASA's development of the Saturn V rocket that sent the Apollo missions to the moon. On This Dave In History comedian Dave Jay and a rotating cast of dummies t...

Was Alexander the Great great? Yes. Was he gay? Pretty much. We're celebrating pride month with Colton Dowling, America's leading gay historian. On This Dave In History comedian Dave Jay and a rotating cast of dummies talk history. Don't fact check us. Follow Dave Jay on IG: @davejaycomic Follow Colton Dowling on IG: @coltondowling

Marquis de Sade was a freak. Born into French nobility, he wrote s*xually explicit novels (Justine, 120 Days of Sodom) and he had an appetite for s*xual violence IRL that landed him (and his man servant) in the Bastille and mental institutions many times. That didn't stop him from being elected to the new government after the French revolution. Also, Napoleon HATED his books. On This Dave In...

In the wake of Hernán Cortés' destruction of the Aztec Empire a doomed Spanish expedition crash lands in Tampa, FL. Cabeza De Vaca then walked across early 1500s America looking for gold and accidentally became a messiah. On This Dave In History comedian Dave Jay and a rotating cast of dummies talk history. Don't fact check us. Follow Dave Jay on IG: @davejaycomic Follow Spencer Cavins o...

Henry VIII wanted Anne Boleyn so bad he separated from the Roman Catholic Church, started the Church of England, and formed the English Royal Navy. When she couldn't produce a male heir for Henry, Anne was beheaded (naturally). Her daughter Elizabeth I would eventually prove that Queens don't need no man. On This Dave In History comedian Dave Jay and a rotating cast of dummies talk histo...

Everybody know that Genghis Khan and the Mongols created the largest empire ever - but not everybody knows WHY. Che Durena teaches JJ Liberman and Dave about the greatest conqueror of all time. On This Dave In History comedian Dave Jay and a rotating cast of dummies talk history. Don't fact check us. Follow Dave Jay on IG: @davejaycomic Follow Che Durena on IG: @chedurena Follow JJ Liberman o...

Cinco de Mayo IS NOT about Mexican independence. Cinco de Mayo commemorates the Battle of Puebla - just one battle in a story involving the Mexican civil war (Reform War), the American civil war, a coup, Napoleon III, Archduke Maximilian, and France's last-ditch effort to colonize the Americas.  On This Dave In History comedian Dave Jay and a rotating cast of dummies talk history. Don't...

Unveiled at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, the ferris wheel was the American answer to the Eiffel Tower, which debuted as the largest man-made structure at the 1889 World's Fair in Paris. George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., a structural engineer from Pittsburgh, came up with the idea to use a big steel wheel as the iconic structure of the fair. Also, HH Holmes was running around killin...

Union Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the 20th Maine Regiment held the Union army's left flank at the Battle of Gettysburg and beat up on some Alabama boys at Little Round Top to secure a victory for the Union. Craig (a native Mainer) tells us all about it. On This Dave In History comedian Dave Jay and a rotating cast of dummies talk history. Don't fact check us. Follow Dave Jay...