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Let Them Fight: A Comedy History Podcast

Jul 15, 2025

Today we have a fun one for you, dear listeners. Simon Kenton lived one hell of a life, and played a significant role in developing certain parts of America way back in the early days. All thanks to a stupid misunderstanding as a teenager, he wound up becoming one of the most important and successful frontiersmen of his...


Jul 8, 2025

We're going waaaay back today to talk about Alexios I Komnenos, who unlike recent old timey people we've covered, didn't really have a rags to riches story. This Greek asshole had more of a riches to yet more riches tale. Still a dope story though as this dude proves that you don't have to win every single battle,...


Jul 1, 2025

Today we're doing something we haven't done in a while, heading out to the American wild west to talk about some cowboy shit. The cowboy in question today is "Dangerous Dan" Tucker, a man who lived a simple life, as a badass gunslinger. Was he any good? Well, let's just say his nickname might have been an...


Jun 24, 2025

Today we're going way, way back to talk about a man with way too many names, so they just called him Baybars. A Muslim from the Crimean Peninsula, which means he probably looked like one of those Dagestani MMA guys. Makes sense because he was definitely not someone to fuck with. But people did it anyways. Repeatedly!...


Jun 17, 2025

Today we're headed down to ol' Mexico to talk about Jose Gamboa, who despite not looking Chinese at all decided to go by the name El Chino Antrax. Aren't nicknames dumb? Anyways, this dude lived a hell of a life, because while he was active the coke stayed flowing and the bodies stayed dropping. Of course it couldn't...