Date Fight!

Date Fight!

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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.

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500 episodes

56: 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!

14m
Mar 30, 2021
56: 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!

14m
Mar 29, 2021
56: 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!

15m
Mar 28, 2021
56: 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!

12m
Mar 28, 2021
56: 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!

11m
Mar 27, 2021
56: 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!

12m
Mar 26, 2021
56: 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!

12m
Mar 25, 2021
56: 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!

14m
Mar 24, 2021
56: 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!

14m
Mar 23, 2021
56: 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!

18m
Mar 22, 2021
55: 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!

12m
Mar 20, 2021
55: 19th March: Robert Mugabe v Glenn Close

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

10m
Mar 19, 2021
55: 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!

13m
Mar 18, 2021
54: 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!

18m
Mar 18, 2021
54: 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!

18m
Mar 17, 2021
54: 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!

15m
Mar 16, 2021
54: 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!

15m
Mar 15, 2021
54: 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!

14m
Mar 14, 2021
54: 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!

14m
Mar 13, 2021
54: 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!

13m
Mar 12, 2021
54: 11th March: John Barrowman v Elogabalus

* What's the Date Fight news of the day? Find out in today's Date Fight!

17m
Mar 11, 2021
54: 10th March: Robin Thicke v Maud de Lacy

* What happened to Jesus' foreskin when he was resurrected? Should royals go skiing? How do raise money to fight the Scots? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

18m
Mar 10, 2021
54: 9th March: Have our heroes noticed the coronavirus yet?

* You're peering back in time, to a place before the first lockdown. What's it like back there? Find out in today's episode...

16m
Mar 09, 2021
53: 8th March: Adam Faith v women

* Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Zoe Battley talk for your entertainment!

12m
Mar 08, 2021
53: 7th March: Ronald McDonald v a Pope

* What in the holy hell are Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley up to today?

10m
Mar 07, 2021
53: 6th March: Norman Rockwell v female cosmonauts

* Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley screech in each other's faces until they both collapse, exhausted, never to speak again.

10m
Mar 06, 2021
53: 5th March: Henry VII v Rosa Luxemburg

* Natt Tapley & Jake Yapp shout about history!

12m
Mar 05, 2021
53: 4th March: Pennsylvania v Charlie Chaplin

* JY & NT do it date style!

10m
Mar 04, 2021
53: 3rd March: Juan Ponce de Leon v Fatima Whitbread

* THESE EPISODES JUST KEEP GETTING BETTER WITH RELISTENS!

10m
Mar 03, 2021
53: 2nd March: Good King Wenceslas v Lembit Opik

* Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley do a Date Fight!

10m
Mar 02, 2021