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Fin vs History

Jungle Blair & The Boy Who Di Canio-d Cambodia | Pol Pot (Part 1/4)

Fin vs History

Fin Taylor & Horatio Gould

Comedy

4.7990 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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How did a smiley boy who was good at volleying footballs become the monster behind the Cambodian Genocide?   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 Chapters; 00:00 Sex Tour Duty 04:57 Ladyman 08:11 The French Get Involved 12:49 God King Monivong 16:50 Trans Swindon 21:09 Jungle Blair 27:41 The First Indochinese War 34:50 Cambodia Gains Independence 40:10 Milked in the Palace 44:27 Rice Farmer with a Scissor Kick 48:04 Pol’s Nailing It 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 joined by Horatio Gould.

0:15.4

Pot corner in a kettle pole. It's the big one. Lads, chuck your colander's down the stairs.

0:54.3

We're going to India China. It's Pol big one. Lad, chuck your colander's down the stairs. We're going to India China. It's Pol Pot Fortnite. Fuck me. Here we go. Out of the gate. Colander down the stairs. You want to see that video? Charlie get the video up just to, otherwise I'm back to a corner here. 20 seconds on the clock and you've gone, dang, thong, ding, that's how to name your Asian baby? How to name your Asian baby? Great stuff. One of my favourite videos. Wow. Not even, normally we bury it a little bit so that people clicking on, you know, they've had a bit of time to acclimatize, but straight out the gate. Lads, get your colanders out, chucking down the stairs, we're in India China. It's a bit of red meat this fortnight. The pigs are eating steak for a fortnight. We're in Pol Pot. It's one of the ones I've been most excited about because I don't really know a lot about him. It's crazy. Apart from the fact that he has the same name as the X-Factor winner. Yes, it's not Paul Potts,

1:14.3

Paul Potts. one of the ones I've been most excited about because I don't really know a lot about him. It's crazy. Apart from the fact that he has the same name as the X Factor winner.

1:13.1

Yes, it's not Paul Potts.

1:14.3

Paul Potts.

1:15.1

We should be very clear.

1:16.5

This is not the history of Paul Potts.

1:18.1

But we will touch on Paul Pot.

1:19.6

He does come into the story.

1:20.7

Because they're both alive at the same time.

1:23.9

Yes.

1:24.5

There's a brief crossover, so we might cut between both their lives. Yes, we should be checking in on what Paul Potts is doing at the same time as Paul Potts. What's Paul Potts doing now? Is he still alive? Has he been tried by the ICC? No, he's 55 years old. He's born in October 1970. So this is around the time the Khmer Rouge. The Khmer Rouge are in the jungle at this point, fighting.

1:59.5

We will be checking in on what Pol Pot is doing. And you know what? Because Pol Pot's not his actual name. Yeah. And he takes the name Pol Pot, I believe, 1970. As Paul Potts is born. Right. That is weird, isn't it? Yeah, something's going on. And we will get to the bottom of it. We will get to the bottom of it. But today we're not really touching much on Paul Pot.

2:02.3

Well, what's fascinating about Pol Pot is that he's a dictator. Yeah. But he's not even really the main character in his story. No. It's quite an enigmatic figure. We don't know a lot about him. It's only two years after he's been in power that he tells the country that he's in power. Yeah. So no one actually knows what he's doing. And if we, you know, we go Gaddafi,

2:32.0

you go Saddam, you go to D. Armine, there's a huge amount of ego and sent it, but he wasn't really like that. No. It wasn't like, it's in the shadows. There's not like, you know, even like Mao, you have huge pictures of Mal. Yeah. There wasn't a cult of personality.

2:34.8

No, it's the opposite.

2:35.8

It was a cult of killing nearly everyone in your country.

2:37.4

I don't know what that. You know, even like Mao, you have huge pictures of Mao. Yeah. There wasn't a cult of personality.

2:34.8

No, it's the opposite. It was a cult of killing nearly everyone in your country. Yeah, I don't know what that is. Cult of zero personality. So we need to start with really Indochina. Yeah. Which is one of, I love Indochina. I love it's called French Indochina. Yeah, it sounds like I named it. Yeah.

2:50.5

India,

2:50.9

Vietnam,

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