Don’t Even Talk To Me Before You’ve Picked My Coffee | Papa Doc: Haitian Dictator (Part 1)

Fin vs History

Fin Taylor & Horatio Gould

Comedy

4.7 • 995 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Coffee, Voudou & Lesbians - Haiti or Hackney? How one man went from doctor to dictator armed with nothing but folklore and a lesbian sidekick. The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free listening and early access to series, become a Truther and sign up to the Patreon ⁠patreon.com/fintaylor 00:00 – Island Gaddafi 04:00 – But first coffee 06:30 – Haiti is in the group of death 09:15 – Voodou revolt 11:20 – Supporting black business 13:25 – The worst people occupy the worst country 16:15 – Papa becomes a Doc 20:05 – Alan Akbar 22:45 – Reads one book and becomes a dictator 23:55 – Voodou sex doll (the 28:24 – 8 man coup 30:48 – Zombie gangsters 34:30 – Madam Adolphe 38:30 – No more Mr Normal guy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Finn versus History. I'm driving by Horatio Gould.
0:16.8	And I'm delighted to say that today and this week we're in the Caribbean. Easy. This is easy. We are in Haiti. Yep. For the... This is Aeland Gaddafi. Here we go. When we started this podcast, you wouldn't have come strong with that. But my word, what a year it's been. Yep. It's been a long year. I've been a long year and we've worn him down.
0:37.7	And now he's just firing West Indian accents off the car.
0:40.3	We're in Haiti for Papadoc.
0:42.3	Yes.
0:42.9	The voodoo dictator.
0:44.5	There we go.
0:45.2	It's lovely stuff this.
0:46.6	If you can't have fun with this, then why you're in the game?
0:48.8	Palm tree Mussolini.
0:50.3	You name it.
0:50.9	Palm tree Mussolini. Plantin Hitler, whatever.
0:55.5	Take your pick.
0:56.1	Take your pick.
1:00.7	We're in Haiti, which is, now, it's a long history before Papadog.
1:05.9	It's a very interesting history, but it has led to, I don't think this is offensive to say, but the worst country on earth.
1:08.1	They would admit it.
1:09.1	I was reading this morning about the 1804 Revolution in Haitish. The first ever country to overthrow slavery. It's a black republic. It used to be the most profitable Connolly. And it's undertort in schools because now it's the shitter's country in the world. Yes. And the obstacles are that are quite bad if you're anti-slavery. Well, yeah.
1:28.5	It's complicated.
1:45.1	I'm not saying. What are you saying? I'm not saying. What are you saying with a big smug? Look at your face. No, I'm just saying, why is it not taught in schools? It's because, you know, the narrative isn't great from an anti-slavery perspective. Overthrow slavery, it's by any metric the shutters place in the world now.
1:47.4	Those are just two facts.
1:45.1	Yeah. rate from an anti-slavery perspective. Overthrow slavery, it's by any metric the shit is place in the world now.
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