Comedy

Fin vs History

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

Latest Episodes:

Don't Topple Statues, Wedgie Them | Captain Cook & The First Fleet (Part 1) Nov 17, 2025

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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?

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CHAPTERS:

00:00 Australia is Marbella

06:59 Not Spending Any More Time On It

13:52 Pastry Chasers

18:43 Cook King

22:46 The Seven Years' War

27:17 The Hydrographer

30:41 A Real Plant Botherer

37:36 Landfall in Tahiti

44:41 Wifebeating Ground Zero

47:50 Raisins, all of them

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Cult of Zero Personality | Pol Pot (Part 4/4) Nov 13, 2025

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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?

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CHAPTERS:

00:00 No problem

04:58 Shutting Up Shop

09:32 Pot calling the kettle Chinese

13:13 The Banality of Anal

18:06 Pol’s Personal life

21:01 70s nostalgia

24:04 Failed embalming (Pol Pong)

30:34 Paul Potts

31:30 What has Charlie Learnt?

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xG (Expected Genocide) | Pol Pot (Part 3/4) Nov 10, 2025

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Now in power, the Khmer Rouge get to work eradicating everyone with glasses with a strike rate that is truly Aguero-esque

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CHAPTERS: 00:00 Jungle Peter Pan 03:54 Year 0 09:57 Cambodia Becomes Hackney 13:46 Your Life is Your Spoon 18:47 Impure Intellectuals 21:34 Agüero of Genocides 23:57 Original Squid Game 31:00 French Cricket Originates Here 37:10 I Was Going Through a Rough Patch 44:16 Pol Pot Emerges

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A Tasting Menu of Napalm | Pol Pot (Part 2/4) Nov 06, 2025

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Cambodia is served a ten course tasting menu of fire from above, before Pol Pot tells an entire city to f*ck off

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CHAPTERS:

00:00 - Communism is Boring
04:11 - Political Potty
08:05 - Pol Gets Cucked
13:44 - I’m a Communist Keep Me In Here
19:11 - Rightwing Military Poo
25:00 - Napalm Set Menu
31:20 - Leader of the FUNK
34:22 - Imagine There’s No Money
38:06 - Lon Nol has a stroke
42:07 - Everyone Out

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Jungle Blair & The Boy Who Di Canio-d Cambodia | Pol Pot (Part 1/4) Nov 03, 2025

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How did a smiley boy who was good at volleying footballs become the monster behind the Cambodian Genocide?

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Chapters;

00:00 Sex Tour Duty

04:57 Ladyman

08:11 The French Get Involved

12:49 God King Monivong

16:50 Trans Swindon

21:09 Jungle Blair

27:41 The First Indochinese War

34:50 Cambodia Gains Independence

40:10 Milked in the Palace

44:27 Rice Farmer with a Scissor Kick

48:04 Pol’s Nailing It

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BI BAM BINNOBENT BOF BALL BARGES | Caligula (Part 2) Oct 30, 2025

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Caligula makes a miraculous recovery from his deathbed, only to re-emerge madder, bloodier, and Chinese-ier than ever.

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CHAPTERS: 00:00 Caligula Bounces Back 05:07 Boss Bemp and Bordon Ramsey 09:10 You’ve Pushed My Incest Button 14:58 Please Just Wipe Me 18:17 Male Bonnie Blue 23:53 Caligula’s Humiliations and Punishments 31:18 Deep Sea Pum 37:03 God of Boners and Pub Snacks 40:40 Toiletbaiting 46:19 Assassination Plot 49:53 Chinese Paedo Lasagne

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Foreign Accent P*do Syndrome | Caligula (Part 1) Oct 27, 2025

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Caligula is infamous as a byword for tyranny, but was it his fault or was someone just pushing the wrong buttons in his head?

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Chapters:

00:00 A Potted History of Rome

06:44 German Thrasher

13:15 Bootykins on Tour

18:25 Germanicus poisoned

22:24 Paedo Island

29:36 OG Epstein Dies

33:15 Caligula’s Honeymoon Period

38:03 Height of Roman Blood Sports

42:38 Emperor in Drag

47:25 Brass Tax

51:31 Caligula’s Chinese Paedo Button

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History Fan TV | Prehistoric Man (Part 2) Oct 23, 2025

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When do humans start farming and why does Graham Hancock think people 60,000 years ago could fly?

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CHAPTERS:

00:00 - Diary of a CEOoga Booga 08:40 - Early Mesolithic Era 15:23 - Göbeklitepe 21:09 - The long Road to Clarkson’s Farm 25:08 - Personal Fat Shamer 30:06 - The Fertile Crescent & Circumcision 34:33 - First Cities 39:07 - Start the Boats 42:52 - End of the Stone Age

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Measuring Skulls When The Women Have Gone To Bed | Prehistoric Man (Part 1) Oct 20, 2025

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How did Prehistoric Homo Sapiens win out over Neanderthals, and was it simply because the Neanderthals were autistic?

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CHAPTERS:

00:00 Ugo history

07:18 - lots of homos

13:44 - homo errectus