Date Fight!

Date Fight!

A new podcast for every day of the year, in which we present our most cogent, reasoned, and occasionally shouty arguments to decide what each date should be best remembered for. Every episode features fun historical facts, a vote on the winner, and tearful recriminations. read less

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S2 Ep56: 31st March: the Fox Sisters v Erik Prince

S2 Ep56: 31st March: the Fox Sisters v Erik Prince

Is there anyone called Fox who isn't terrible? Is it meant to bend like that? Who's that rapping? How much money does it take to buy your own army? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

Episodes

S2 Ep56: 31st March: the Fox Sisters v Erik Prince

S2 Ep56: 31st March: the Fox Sisters v Erik Prince

Is there anyone called Fox who isn't terrible? Is it meant to bend like that? Who's that rapping? How much money does it take to buy your own army? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

S2 Ep56: 30th March: Vincent van Gogh v Ronald Reagan

S2 Ep56: 30th March: Vincent van Gogh v Ronald Reagan

What were Ronald Reagan's best (stolen) jokes? Who invented gambling on Native American reservations? Should you cut off your own ear? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

S2 Ep56: 29th March: Richard of York v Warner Baxter

S2 Ep56: 29th March: Richard of York v Warner Baxter

I love the way Jake says "Warner Baxter!" Who invented a searchlight and then got a lobotomy? Who should play Edmund of Langley in the film? What is the male gaze? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

S2 Ep56: 28th March: The Communards v Thomas Clarkson

S2 Ep56: 28th March: The Communards v Thomas Clarkson

What are the two voices in French comedy? Who wrote 'The Way You Look Tonight'? Who is the most racist Clarkson? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

S2 Ep56: 27th March: Typhoid Mary v coronavirus

S2 Ep56: 27th March: Typhoid Mary v coronavirus

Where was Typhoid Mary born? Who was Typhoid John? And Typhoid Tony? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

S2 Ep56: 26th March: Geraldine Ferraro v Aesop

S2 Ep56: 26th March: Geraldine Ferraro v Aesop

Where would you hide religious text? Did Natt mean Frank Carson? Who knows all the results of all the elections? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

S2 Ep56: 25th March: Percy Bysshe Shelley v John Lennon

S2 Ep56: 25th March: Percy Bysshe Shelley v John Lennon

Who changes the sheets after a bed-in? Why are the Beatles awful? Is there a God? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

S2 Ep56: 24th March: Richard the Lionheart v Margaret Lindsay Huggins

S2 Ep56: 24th March: Richard the Lionheart v Margaret Lindsay Huggins

What were Richard the Lionheart's songs like? What is the Matilda Effect? Are spectroscopes better than children? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

S2 Ep56: 23rd March: Adolf Hitler v Emperor Paul I

S2 Ep56: 23rd March: Adolf Hitler v Emperor Paul I

Who did Hitler make promises to before the Enabling Act? How many times do you have to kill Paul I? What's the best way of robbing a train? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

S2 Ep56: 22nd March: Anne Hutchinson v the Massachusetts Bay Company

S2 Ep56: 22nd March: Anne Hutchinson v the Massachusetts Bay Company

Who really annoyed Oliver Cromwell? Do we really ned more chick sexers? Has anyone read anything by Louis L'Amour? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

S2 Ep55: 20th March: Maximinus Thrax v Carl Reiner

S2 Ep55: 20th March: Maximinus Thrax v Carl Reiner

What happens when you double all the soldiers' wages? What was Walter Raleigh's podcast called? What is a treatise? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

S2 Ep55: 19th March: Robert Mugabe v Glenn Close

S2 Ep55: 19th March: Robert Mugabe v Glenn Close

Now that's a match up! With Nathaniel Tapley & Jake Yapp!

S2 Ep55: 21st March: Boris Johnson v Rishi Sunak

S2 Ep55: 21st March: Boris Johnson v Rishi Sunak

In some ways this was where the rot set in. We never really recovered from this. What's gone wrong with Date Fight? Whose balls have been dropped this week? Who recanted his recantation? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

S2 Ep54: 18th March: The Tolpuddle Martyrs v The Templars

S2 Ep54: 18th March: The Tolpuddle Martyrs v The Templars

Where is Tolpuddle? How do you get back into a space capsule when your suit is all blown up? What's the best folk song? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

S2 Ep54: 17th March: St Patrick v The Sheep

S2 Ep54: 17th March: St Patrick v The Sheep

What's the likely cause of death when your sheep all their pop their clogs while standing next to a nerve-agent-testing-facility? Was St Patrick really kidnapped by pirates? What went on in Maori fortified villages? Jake Yapp and Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

S2 Ep54: 16th March: Abraham Lincoln v ghosts

S2 Ep54: 16th March: Abraham Lincoln v ghosts

How do you make toilet roll spaghetti? What's Natt's ancestor up to today (being dead)? Should you have kings? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

S2 Ep54: 15th March: Julius Caesar v Penny Lancaster

S2 Ep54: 15th March: Julius Caesar v Penny Lancaster

Whose story has the most stabbing? Who was the Margrave of Baden-Baden? Who were the Two Fat Ladies? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

S2 Ep54: 14th March: Gilbert & Sullivan v Jack Ruby

S2 Ep54: 14th March: Gilbert & Sullivan v Jack Ruby

What is the funniest place name? Who was Jack Ruby? Was Tony Benn nice? Jake Yapp and Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

S2 Ep54: 13th March: Ronald Reagan v Uranus

S2 Ep54: 13th March: Ronald Reagan v Uranus

Whose anus was Uranus names after? How did a bank holiday save capitalism? Who flew Adolf Hitler to the wrong place? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

S2 Ep54: 12th March: Gandhi v Graham Coxon

S2 Ep54: 12th March: Gandhi v Graham Coxon

Who were the Williamites? Who was the best 19th century novelist? Who invented guest-fighting? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!