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Let Them Fight: A Comedy History Podcast

Oct 28, 2021

Today we'll be giving Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson, the godfather of Harlem, his due. He may have started his life as just a simple country lad, but by the end of his life he was a massive part of the history of New York City, especially Harlem. "Bumpy" lived a bonkers life, from fighting the mob to yelling at magazine...


Oct 26, 2021

It's time for another Civil War guy on the Confederate side. This time we're talking about "Stonewall" Jackson, who was a pretty great soldier, but also a racist that loved slavery so not really a good person. He was also apparently weird as hell and ridiculously over the top with his religion. Anyways, he did a lot of...


Oct 21, 2021

Today we'll be talking about John Brown, a man who was so fervently anti-slavery that at one point even Frederick Douglass was all, "Damn, bro. You're pretty extreme." John Brown is famous for a small paragraph we all had to read one time in our history books in school but they just don't do his whole bonkers...


Oct 19, 2021

In today's episode we went back to our big bag of requested scumnut creators to pull out Earle Leonard Nelson. If you've been listening to us for a while you know what three first names means, an awful garbage monster. And you'd be right. Earle spent his life traveling around the US, and a little bit in Canada, proving...


Oct 14, 2021

Today we'll be traveling to the oft ignored country of Paraguay to talk about a type of person we haven't covered in a while, a dickhead dictator. Alfredo Stroessner did a lot of dirty shit in his days as evil despot of the country, and we're here to tell you about all of it. And what is a South American fascist...