Let Them Fight: A Comedy History Podcast

Ep. 512 Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly

04 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Time for another trip in ye olde scumnut time machine. Don't let Johann Tserclaes's fancy dandy boy title fool you, the Count of Tilly really knew how...

Ep. 511 John Wayne Glover

28 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week we'll be sticking around Australia, but John Wayne Glover is nothing like the last Aussie we talked about. Instead of being a badass soldier...

Ep. 510 Albert Jacka

21 May 2024

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Today's person of honor is a badass Aussie with a super unfortunate name. When World War 1 kicked off, Albert Jacka was there to get stuck in on behal...

Ep. 509 Samuel "Champ" Ferguson

14 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We're back with another round of people who were on the wrong side of history, and also giant pieces of shit. Samuel "Champ" Ferguson decided to fight...

Ep. 508 Rudolf Hess

07 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Well, dear listeners, Tim done did it again and dropped a big ol' Nazi bomb all over the podcast. Today we're talking about Rudolf Hess, a shitsucker ...

Ep. 507 H.H. Holmes

30 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today we're bringing you a long, much requested person from the great corrupted city of Chicago, H.H. Holmes. Of course, we can't catch a break here s...

Ep. 506 William "King" Hale

25 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For the last Thursday episode we're bringing you William "King" Hale, a man so clearly the bad guy in life that he even looks like Judge Doom from Rog...

Ep. 505 Deborah Sampson

23 Apr 2024

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Today we have proof that George Washington wasn't the only genetic freak running around the battlefield during the Revolutionary war. Because Deborah ...

Ep. 504 Douglas Albert Munro

18 Apr 2024

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Never thought I'd be saying that today we'll be talking about a badass member of the Coast Guard, but I'm glad to be wrong about that. Douglas Munro w...

Ep. 503 Miltiades

16 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today we're going way back in history to pre-democracy Greece to talk about Miltiades, a man who didn't take no shit and always got his revenge. He ha...

Ep. 502 John Bell Hood

11 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today's person of interest is another traitor, I mean, Confederate general. John Bell Hood cut his teeth early in the Civil War being the guy that alw...

Ep. 501 Vlad "The Impaler" Dracula

09 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

That's right, dear listeners, you recognize that name. We're headed back in time to the no longer existing country of Wallachia to talk about the insp...

Ep. 500 Thomas Jeffrey

04 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today we'll be talking about a dude that got shipped off to Australia after running amok through England. And I'm not one to side with the Brits, but ...

Ep. 499 Hong Xiuquan

02 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If you can read that name you know what it means, we'll be fucking up a lot of pronunciations today. Hong Xiuquan was a simple man, in that he was inc...

Ep. 498 Robert the Bruce

28 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On today's episode we're diving in on this badass fucking Scotsman, the Outlaw King, Robert the Bruce. This man wanted nothing more than to kick some ...

Ep. 497 Bridget Rose Dugdale

26 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On today's episode we have a super rich English woman who was smart as hell in school. And also pretty much incompetent at everything she did in the r...

Ep. 496 John Wayne Gacy

21 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We're closing out anniversary week with an episode on a heavily requested scumbag, the Killer Clown himself, John Wayne Gacy. Gacy had a real shitty c...

Ep. 495 Gregory "Pappy" Boyington

19 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What's that in the sky? Is it a bird? A plane? No it's, well actually yea it's a plane. And this bad motherfucker, Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, is flyin...

Ep. 494 John Ashley

14 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On today's episode we'll be talking about the guy that might be the origin of everyone thinking Florida is full of psychopaths. John Ashley had a pret...

Ep. 493 Grace O'Malley

12 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today we're going to Ireland, a land of mostly faerie nonsense, to talk about an actual real badass. The Pirate Queen, Grace O'Malley decided from a v...

Ep. 492 Jerry "Mad Dog" Shriver

07 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today we're talking about a dude who made even special operations dudes and a guy with the Medal of Honor feel kind of nervous. Jerry "Mad Dog" Shrive...

Ep. 491 Oliver Hazard Perry

05 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's time, dear listeners, for another badass on the water. And he did it without Kevin Costner's gross webbed feet and gills. Oliver Hazard Perry gre...

Ep. 490 Ben Thompson

29 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We're headed back to ye olde west to talk about this dapper motherfucker, Ben Thompson. All he wanted to do was gamble and hang out with famous people...

Ep. 489 Doris "Dorie" Miller

27 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today we got one bad seagoing motherfucker for you, dear listeners. Doris Miller was one of many sailors present at Pearl Harbor. And when he looked u...

Ep. 488 Salvatore Riina

22 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome again, dear listeners, as we close out our week of shitbags with a real winner. This Sicilian, Salvatore Riina, comes to us from Italy, obviou...

Ep. 487 Harry Bennett

20 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back, dear listeners. If you don't like Henry Ford, well, you're right. Also, be prepared to think Harry Bennett is an equally shitty person s...

Ep. 486 Anders Lassen

15 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We're closing out this week by sticking around World War 2 to talk about another badass shitkicker who decided (correctly) that Nazis needed killing. ...

Ep. 485 Andree Borrel

13 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today we're talking about a badass broad whose regular boring life got disrupted by the start of World War 2. So she dedicated her life to kicking Naz...

Ep. 484 "Texas Jack" Vermillion and William Whitney Brazelton

08 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today we're bringing you two cowboys for the price of one! Both "Texas Jack" and William Brazelton lived exciting lives full of gunfights, diseases, r...

Ep. 483 Tony Accardo

06 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back, dear listeners! Today we're revisiting Chicago to talk about Tony Accardo. Like most Italian Americans, he was heaviliy involved in crim...

Ep. 482 William S. Harney

01 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This one is a bit confusing, dear listeners. William Harney certainly did some badass shit in his day, but man was he also a gigantic schmuck. And the...

Ep. 481 Joseph Kallinger

30 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Well, dear listeners, we're back to kick off the week with another garbage monster requested by one of you. Joseph Kallinger's story is pretty much aw...

Ep. 480 Alexander Pechersky

25 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We're back with another bad motherfucker from World War 2. Alexander Pechersky was just a simple Russian citizen when the war kicked off, and like eve...

Ep. 479 Bertrand du Guesclin

23 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back, dear listeners. We're going all Marsellus Wallace and getting medieval on this episode to talk about badass knight, and champion of ugly...

Ep. 478 Erwin Rommel

18 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Alright, dear listeners, you've been requesting him for a minute, so here you go. One of the big swinging dicks of Naziland, Erwin Rommel. Regarded as...

Ep. 477 Shamil Basayev

16 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

One man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist. That's what people say anyways. Then again, sometimes people are just both. Like our guy today, ...

Ep. 476 Jake Davison

11 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ugh. This fucking guy. When the best thing you can think of to say about a guy is, "at least he's not as bad as Huckle," you know that dude is a giant...

Ep. 475 Richard Huckle

09 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ugh, I gotta be honest with you, dear listeners. This episode is gonna be rough. I don't know if you can see the picture of this guy, but if you can, ...

Ep. 474 Judy Buenoano

04 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Another shitbird for you today, dear listeners! Judy Buenoano, despite looking like the female Richard Ramirez, somehow kept managing to find men she ...

Ep. 473 James Robert Scott

02 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today's episode is a bit of an oddity. See, we have James Robert Scott, who is kind of a huge piece of shit. Then some real garbage stuff happens and ...

Ep. 472 John Allan Chapman

28 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today we've got the baddest dude the Air Force ever produced. And if you don't think that sounds like much, well homeboy was rocking with the SEALs, a...

Ep. 471 Eric Rudolph

26 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Following the war hero of last week, today we have a guy who couldn't make it in the military. Eric Rudolph was pretty shit at everything in his life ...

Ep. 470 Lafayette Green Pool

21 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We're closing out the week with another bad motherfucker from World War 2, Lafayette Green Pool. This dude took his tank, which admittedly had a prett...

Ep. 469 Herb Baumeister

19 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Who's ready for another dose of that scumnut? Today we have this Indiana based little weenie, Herb Baumeister. He should start setting off alarm bells...

Ep. 468 Tom Molineaux

14 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today we're bringing you a rags to riches story about an old timey bareknuckle boxer, Tom Molineaux. After After whooping enough ass in America to pro...

Ep. 467 Robledo Puch

12 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Well hello there, dear listeners. It's time for a trip down to Argentina to talk about a baby faced little shit by the name of Robledo Puch. And we're...

Ep. 466 Caravaggio

07 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today we're bringing you a badass of Italian origin, dear listeners. I know, I'm as shocked as you are that one exists but here we are. This dude spen...

Ep. 465 Walter Rudolph Walsh

05 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We're bringing you another old badass today, dear listeners. Well, to be fair this dude was a badass when he was young too, he just never stopped bein...

Ep. 464 John Allen Muhammad

30 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The week of two Johns continues today with John Allen Muhammad. A devoted family man and car modification enthusiast who took a young Jamaican immigra...

Ep. 463 John L. Burns

28 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Thank you for joining us today, dear listeners, in another installment of old men be fucking crazy. John L. Burns craved violence, and it just kept se...

Ep. 462 Luigi Cadorna

23 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Merry feastmas, dear listeners! If you've been thinking that there hasn't been enough Italian hate on the show, well this is the episode for you. This...

Ep. 461 Omaima Nelson

21 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back, dear listeners! In today's episode we're covering an Egyptian model who had one doozy of a childhood. Now I know that a model doesn't se...

Ep. 460 Henry Wirz

16 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today we'll be getting into the filth, and the grime, and the grub in the tub, to talk about the aptly nicknamed Demon of Andersonville. Henry Wirz st...

Ep. 459 Date Masamune

14 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today we're going back to ye olde Nippon to talk about Date Masamune, which sounds like a bad Japanese relationship show or something, but it's pronou...

Ep. 458 Manfred von Richthofen "The Red Baron"

09 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Up in the air! It's a bird, it's a plane, it's...actually yea it's a plane. And it's a plan of one of those most famous Germans to ever live. Manfred ...

Ep. 457 Walter "Nurget" Stadnick

07 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I know, dear listeners, I know, it's been a long time since we had a biker episode. So here you go, today we'll be talking about Walter "Nurget" Stadn...

Ep. 456 Buddy Cianci

02 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Congratulations on surviving the spooky month, dear listeners! We're starting off the return to normalcy with a dude so fun, you'll forget he's Italia...

Ep. 455 The Phantom of Texarkana

31 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Happy Halloween, beloved scumpanions! We've got another mystery for you today, as we're taking on The Phantom of Texarkana. This masked weirdo, after ...

Ep. 454 Edmund Kemper

26 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Another round of, "You requested him, now you can have him," today with big, dumb ghoul, Edmund Kemper. Yea yea, I know technically he was smart or wh...

Ep. 453 Frank Dux

24 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Well, dear listeners, you wanted this charlatan, and now you got him. Frank Dux was a man of many stories. Many, many fanciful stories. Each somehow m...

Ep. 452 Adolfo Constanzo

19 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For those of you that can see the picture for today's episode, that pretty boy is Adolfo Constanzo, El Padrino, a man who had a totally normal and nat...

Ep. 451 Ernst Rohm

17 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Well, dear listeners, it's that time again. Tim has delivered unto us yet another shitdick Nazi. This one comes with a bit of a twist though, so enjoy...

Ep. 450 Joe Ball

12 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Greetings, dear listeners. We have got an interesting bit of scumnuttery for you today. Joe Ball's life didn't quite go in the direction I expected, b...

Ep. 449 John Christie

10 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today we're talking about another guy who does exactly the kind of stuff you'd assume when you see what his face looks like. John Christie had a real ...

Ep. 448 Robert Bales

05 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The week of darkness continues, dear listeners. You've been asking for scum, so we're bringing you the scum. We're talking about Robert Bales today, a...

Ep. 447 Caligula

03 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome, dear listeners! We're gonna get weird today. You've been requesting him for a minute now, so we're headed back to ye olde Roman times to talk...

Ep. 446 Vernon C. "Verne" Miller

28 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today we're headed to America's heartland, the midwest. AKA, the fattest and most boring part. But while Verne Miller, the man we'll be talking about,...

Ep. 445 Amy Archer-Gilligan and Harold Shipman

26 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode we'll be talking about why you should never trust anyone in the medical field. Amy Archer-Gilligan and Harold Shipman took on differen...

Ep. 444 Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski

21 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We got another Polack for you today, dear listeners, Richard Kuklinski. This one may be familiar to you though. While most of the Polish people in his...

Ep. 443 Mathew Charles Lamb

19 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We got another interesting one for you today, dear listeners. Mathew Charles Lamb is one confusing ass dude. His life starts off going pretty crazy in...

Ep. 442 George Welch and Kenneth Taylor

14 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today we have two young men that just wanted one thing in life, to shoot down the Japanese. George Welch and Kenneth Taylor definitely got their wish,...

Ep. 441 Nestor Ivanovich Makhno

12 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today we're talking about a man who believed the future was in anarchy. But rather than just buy some overpriced wristbands at a Hot Topic and blog ab...

Ep. 440 Herbert Blitzstein

07 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We're keeping the "guys who have been in movies" theme going this week and talking about Herbert Blitzstein. A different kind of nightmare than we usu...

Ep. 439 Desmond Doss

05 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We have a first for you today, dear listeners. A story that starts with "god told me to do it," that doesn't end with a bunch of innocent people weepi...

Ep. 438 William Tecumseh Sherman

31 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today it's time for another hardcore pipe hitting motherfucker from the Civil War, William Tecumseh Sherman. He may have gotten off to a slower start ...

Ep. 437 Craig Price

29 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We have an interesting bit of scumnuttery for you today, dear listeners. Sure there are the usual parts of murder and mayhem and all that, but then ev...

Ep. 436 Owen Roe O'Neill

24 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It's time to take a trip to the fairy tale land of hearts, stars and horseshoes, clovers and blue moons. And also an endless parade of broken rebellio...

Ep. 435 Mithridates the Great

22 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It's been a minute since we went to the times before that Jesus fellow, so we decided today was the day. We're talking about Mithridates, sixth of his...

Ep. 434 Nidal Hasan

17 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Well, dear listeners, we have an interesting one for you today. We're talking about Nidal Hasan, and if that name didn't give away his Palestinian roo...

Ep. 433 Israel Putnam

15 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In shocking news, we have another fun ass dude from the Revolutionary War that got skipped over by all my history teachers. Fuckin' public school. Isr...

Ep. 432 Cassius Marcellus Clay

10 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today we're talking about a true American badass, Cassius Marcellus Clay. No, not that one, just look at the picture. But if you want a guy that took ...

Ep. 431 Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1st Baronet

08 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We're kicking this week off with a bang talking about one badass soldier named Fitzroy Maclean. Now, the British army is full of some of the worst nam...

Ep. 430 Anne Bonny (Guest: Matt Cole)

03 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We're closing out our last episode with Matt Cole before his desert departure with a fun, badass pirate for y'all, dear listeners. Anne Bonny had a pr...

Ep. 429 Dan Bogan (Guest: Matt Cole)

01 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As our Patreon listeners already know, this week we're joined by Matt Cole one last time before he goes off to build himself a chrysalis in the desert...

Ep. 428 Ben Kuroki

27 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today we're talking about another badass in the sky, but not a pilot. Ben Kuroki overcame a shit ton of prejudice to get into the US military during W...

Ep. 427 Rollo of Normandy

25 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today we're heading way back in time to one of the Norse countries. Everybody is kinda split on which one this dude is from, and really if they wanted...

Ep. 426 Elizabeth Bathory

20 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It's time to talk about the only Hungarian anybody has ever heard of, Elizabeth Bathory. And don't worry, this broad is just as awful and heinous as w...

Ep. 425 Luis Garavito

18 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It's time to take a trip down to Colombia, the country known for cocaine and murder. Not to be confused with Columbia the school known for law student...

Ep. 424 Robin Gecht and the Chicago Rippers

13 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

After Tuesday's crimes against humanity episode, we thought it'd be best to do a nice lighthearted episode. Just kidding, it's more nightmares! We're ...

Ep. 423 Lavrentiy Beria

11 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back, dear listeners! It's time for another trip to Russia, and guess what we found? That's right, crimes against humanity, how could you poss...

Ep. 422 Francisco Macias Nguema

06 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Well, dear listeners, to those of you that have demanded more scum, this episode is for you. Francisco Macias Nguema single handedly did more damage t...

Ep. 421 "Roaring" Dan Seavey

04 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today's episode is a fun episode for you, dear listeners. We're headed to the frozen north of the US to talk about "Roaring" Dan Seavey. This man has ...

Ep. 420 GG Allin (Guest: AJ Santos)

29 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We're back, dear listeners, excited to be joined again by AJ Santos for a very special episode. We're talking about the rock and roll terrorist, GG Al...

Ep. 419 Paul Schafer (Guest: AJ Santos)

27 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today we're joined by a great comic and the only Filipino that isn't a nurse or in the Navy, AJ Santos. And Tim brought out some real upsetting shit t...

Ep. 418 Barney Ross

22 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today we're talking about one badass, scrappy little Jew. Barney Ross wasn't the name he was born with, but he made damn sure it was a name that was r...

Ep. 417 Peter Niers and Peter Stumpp

20 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Boy do we have a fun episode for you today, dear listeners. We're off to old timey Germany to talk about a pair of Peters, Niers and Stumpp, respectiv...

Ep. 416 Marcus Wesson

15 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Well, dear listeners, we have a doozy for you today. This episode is kind of like shitting your pants in public. It's sad, gross, and you're gonna thi...

Ep. 415 Gerard John Schaefer

13 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

You're reading that right, dear listeners, three names. And you know what that means. Something scumnut this way comes. I'm not even going to pretend ...

Ep. 414 Akku Yadav (Guest: Tom Goss)

08 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We're closing out our week with Tom Goss strong for you, dear listeners. Specifically those listeners that have been missing the garbage people. Becau...

Ep. 413 Sir Henry Morton Stanley (Guest: Tom Goss)

06 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hello, dear listeners! We are joined again by friend of the show and always a delight, Tom Goss, to talk about famed adventurer and somewhat controver...