Every Führer Needs A Fat Best Friend | Hermann Göring & The Luftwaffe (Part 1)
Fin vs History
Fin Taylor & Horatio Gould
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🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This one goes out to down to the middle of a divorce. |
| 0:15.6 | It's Finn versus history and with Horatio Gould. |
| 0:17.8 | Don't be goring. |
| 0:18.6 | And we're talking about Herman Guring. |
| 0:55.8 | It's a Nazi week. Rejoice. Thank the Lord. I'm in my safe space. 1940s Germany. Have a look around. There's a cornucopia of things. What's going on over there? I mean, this is the spin-off side series. Nazis, right? If Hitler's the main show, this is sort of the, what's the Joey spin-off? Oh, yeah. What was the Joe? It was called Joey, wasn't it? This is called Joey. Well, yeah, he would, in the TV show, Gering would have, would be the first one to get a spin-off, probably. I think he's probably the most charismatic Nazi. He's Hitler's fat best friend. |
| 0:56.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:58.0 | Every rom-com needs a fat best friend. |
| 1:01.6 | He's got the most Riz, I think, because of the Nazi hike. |
| 1:02.7 | 100%. 100%. |
| 1:03.6 | He's a glutton, which adds a lot, because the combination of being gluttonous and Nazi. |
| 1:10.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:10.7 | It's another cold, methodical discipline of a lot of Nazis. Not Gurring. Not Gurring. He's like evil and fat. It's glorious. He's, you know, if the Nazis are the seven dwarves, Goering's the happy one. Herman Goering and the Luft Ffafa. This is a three-part series. |
| 1:28.4 | Next episode we'll be doing the Battle of Britain and the Blitz. |
| 1:32.1 | And we'll be joined by Al Murray, an actual historian. |
| 1:35.2 | Well, yeah. |
| 1:35.7 | Terrifying. |
| 1:36.7 | The spirit medium between the two worlds. |
| 1:38.8 | Yes, will the streams cross? |
| 1:40.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:41.3 | But today we're talking about Herman Gurring, the fat Nazi. I never heard him speak, but in my head he sounds like Gunter from the Simpsons. Don't you not have full of chocolate. Oh, don't tick with me all fart. Second only to Adolf Hitler in the hierarchy of Nazi leaders. In the hierarchy of people you admire most. In my ideal dinner party, he's the second person I'm putting down. |
| 2:02.6 | Dream Blunt rotation. |
| 2:15.3 | I think there's probably a photo of your dream blunt rotation. It's just a Nazi high command. Yeah, just get the three of them up. Just get the three of them up. Just get Gurring, Himmler, Hitler and Albert Speer at the Burtt's Garden and go, yeah, That's my five-a-side team, right there. |
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