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Let Them Fight: A Comedy History Podcast

Nov 30, 2021

Today we're talking about badass Filipina, Nieves Fernandez. When the Japanese showed up in the Philippines during WW2 and started taking over and doing all their evil shit, she took the quote, "Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats," to...


Nov 25, 2021

Happy turkey day, dear listeners. After you're done stuffing your face and arguing with your family, kick back and enjoy this episode on badass German, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. I know, I'm as surprised as you that I'm calling a German a badass, but he was pretty dope. The whole colonization of Africa thing was a...


Nov 23, 2021

What can I say about Canadian cult leader Roch Theriault except, ew. When a dude shits on people as punishment and that doesn't even come close to the worst thing about him, there's really no better way to describe him than "gross." He's also a dude whose appearance is way too on the nose for the kind of person he is....


Nov 18, 2021

Welcome back, dear listeners! Today we are talking about a real grade A piece of shit, William Calley. A lot of bad stuff was done over the course of the Vietnam War, and Calley was right at the heart of one of the instances where some bad stuff occurred. He should have just stuck with being an incompetent officer...


Nov 16, 2021

I know most of the time when you think about the Netherlands you don't think about criminals, murder, and crazy kidnapping plots, but that's exactly what we have for you today. Willem Holleeder even had a dumb nickname like so many American criminals. Of course nobody was going to tell him that it was dumb, since he was...