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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:

19th Century Squid Porn | Feudal Japan (Part 3) Oct 13, 2025

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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.

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Chapters;

00:00 Hideyoshi is baking

6:48 The OG Korean War

14:17 Not My Words

21:02 Edophilia

24:45 #comeonethal

29:03 Dual Nature of Japan

34:53 Cool Japania

41:03 Theatre is too horny

46:35 Golden age of Geisha

52:26 Stick a nappy on em

55:01 Turned on by Loyalty

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A Long Back and Sides | Feudal Japan (Part 2) Oct 09, 2025

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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 Great Unifiers 34:07 Bald Rat Coup 39:37 Prime Minister Yoshi 44:08 Hostage Exchange Alliance

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Men: Talk To Your Mates (and then Behead them) | Feudal Japan (Part 1) Oct 06, 2025

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Part 1: Accent fans, rejoice: we’re in feudal Japan, which it turns out was Upside Down land.

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00:00 Accent Fans Rejoice

06:50 Emperor Teapot

13:47 Mongol Invasions

16:05 Synchronised Seppuku

17:38 Incel Heroes

23:34 Real Mates Chop Their Mate's Head Off

26:52 Wakashudō

34:35 One Long Star Mode

41:07 Goldicocks and the Three Bears

47:24 Nobunaga’s in Charge

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Britain needs its Mummy: Jim Callaghan | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979 Oct 02, 2025

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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.

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0:00 Bombay to Bombay Mix

06:28 Scum Valhalla

11:38 Chesticles 3000

15:19 Nationalise Porn

19:58 Callaghan Invents the Zebra Crossing

23:10 Two Toilets Meet

27:40 Live Laugh Love Pact

28:30 Trans Taylor

32:58 The Winter of Discontent

40:03 Crisis? What Crisis?

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“Stop Pegging Grandad!”: Harold Wilson (Part 2) | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979 Sep 29, 2025

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

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00:00 Live from the toilet

08:25 Pants are fizzing for snooker

13:58 Parliament is hung

16:42 Wilson's dominatrix

22:43 Adolf Bowie

28: 48 When beers were coffee

33:30 The Grumble in the jungle

37:56 The angriest growler

44:68 pEUdo

47:17 Dirty grandpa

54:03 Absolutely knackered

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The Man Who Transcended Misogyny : Ted Heath | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979 Sep 25, 2025

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Ted Heath was the rudest man to ever be Prime Minster, as well as the fattest, the grumpiest and quite possibly the nonciest.

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00:00 Horatio's shameless plug

01:10 The autoerotic asphyxiation of the 70s

09:20 ‘I don’t see women’

12:20 The Bush dynasty

15:59 Eloquent Racism

21:37 Spoilt swot

27:35 Bombing Billy Batty

30:15 Beware of the angry growler

33:33 Thyroid can’t handle the strikes

41:47 Three-day week

54:19 Pedophilia is in Vogue

58:16 The Incredible Sulk

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Seatbelts are Anti-Tittist: Harold Wilson (Part 1) | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979 Sep 22, 2025

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The architect of the original woke nonsense, Harold Wilson's first government sees a slew of sacred cows slaughtered.

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Chapters;

00:00 King of Butt Stuff

06:25 What Is Ze Age of Consent?

10:02 Scholars and Racists

17:15 Barbie Asshole

25:00 BT Tower Will Guide You Home

30:13 Slew of Woke Nonsense

35:05 The Lady Chatterley Affair

39:20 Why am I Hitler?

43:20 Slippery Wilson

48:28 The Creaking Post War Consensus

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The Worst Prime Minister You’ve Never Heard Of: Alec Douglas-Home | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979 Sep 18, 2025

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Alec Douglas-Who? A Prime Minister who was so boring and ineffective he’s too obscure even for pub quizzes, that’s who

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00:00 Enter The GOAT

06:20 Chandeliers to Puppies

13:07 The Right to Fag

19:44 The Last Patrician

24:05 Entirely Encased In Plaster

28:28 Special Relationships

33:28 Terrible On Telly

36:33 At Least Truss Was Memorable

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You've Never Had Your Prostate So Enlarged : Harold MacMillan | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979 Sep 15, 2025

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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.

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Chapters;

00:00 Double Up, Ladies

04:29 You've Never Had It So Good

12:17 Buttery Norks: The End of Deference

15:33 Cuck from Birth

21:29 Snakey Supermac

26:40 Audit of an Empire

31:52 JFK and Harold

34:00 How To Catch a Homo

43:20 Profumo Affair

51:05 Undone by Butt Stuff

56:29 Winds of Change

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“Show us your Sunday Roast, Love!”: Anthony Eden | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979 Sep 11, 2025

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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?

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CHAPTERS: 00:00 A Proper Chap 06:50 Lovely Pair of Top Bollocks 14:15 Who is this hot piece of ass? 18:06 Eden and Hitler 22:46 Eden on Gear 26:28 Suez Crisis 33:14 Macmillan the Snake 38:15 James Bond is a Cuck’s Fantasy 41:04 Eden Truss Relegation Battle

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