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Fin vs History

Heston Blumenthal’s Cannibal Tapas | The Aztecs (Part 1/5)

Fin vs History

Fin Taylor & Horatio Gould

Comedy

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Cannibalism, Human Sacrifice and using skulls as bricks- who were the Aztecs before the pox-laden Spanish arrived? 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 https://www.patreon.com/fintaylor?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:22.5

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0:25.5

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0:29.3

Hey, oh, let's go.

0:30.3

Hey, history sluts, before we get into this week's episode, we've got an announcement.

0:34.6

We're adding a new London date for our October tour.

0:38.2

Finn versus History Live is coming to the Shepherds Bush 02 on Wednesday 29th of October.

0:46.1

This is people finding out about it.

0:49.5

Tickets go live.

0:51.0

When?

0:51.5

Thursday, 12th of June.

0:53.1

If you're a patron, you can access the pre-sale, 11th of June. Double. Hackney Empire sold out in 24 hours. So see this as your warning. Thursday the 12th is 10 a.m. general sale, but the pre-sale for patrons is Wednesday, the 11th of June at 10 a.m. There are also still some tickets available for the Edinburgh Fringe date on the 8th of August and Newcastle on the 12th of October.

1:14.6

But until then, ah!

1:31.7

Welcome back to Finn versus History. As ever I'm joined by Horatio Gould.

1:33.8

Trescia Coco makes me go loco.

1:35.3

And today we are dealing with the Aztecs.

1:39.0

Azteca.

1:39.6

It's the start of an epic series, potentially five episodes.

1:43.5

Wow.

1:44.1

I'll believe that when I see it. Yeah,

1:45.9

if Gaddafi's four and this is five, then something's gone terribly wrong. Something's gone

1:49.0

very wrong. This is a disgrace. The Aztecs, for those who don't know, is the story of how

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