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Fin vs History

Neville Chamberlain’s Broken Bum | Dunkirk Part 1: Phoney War

Fin vs History

Fin Taylor & Horatio Gould

Comedy

4.7997 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

As war breaks out, the British realise their prime minister has a broken bum, and the first stop on Hitler’s stag is Scandinavia. Norway? Way. The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened.  Secure your privacy with Surfshark! Enter coupon code FVH for an extra 4 months at https://surfshark.com/fvh 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 CHAPTERS: 00:00 Start the Boats 05:11 I am Bonnie Blue 09:41 Chamberlain Gets Cucked 16:18 Churchill in the Wilderness 19:00 Operation Himmler 22:48 Smelly Hairy French Soldiers 29:10 Phoney War 32:55 Norway Invasion Plans 38:30 Operation Wilfred 42:51 Vidkun Quisling 49:46 Chamberlain's Bum Goes 52:19 Churchill The Boozehound 55:26 Nazi Stag Do Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:17.2

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

1:24.1

We'll bum them in the sex clubs. Today, it's the start of Britain's complicated relationship with small boats. It's Dunkirk. The love-hate relationship this country has with the small vessel. Oh, so now you don't want the boat. Oh, I see. Right. Oh, so now we start the boats. That's what they said. This is very much the era of start the boats. Start the boats. When did it become Stop the Boats? Basically, yeah, probably June 1941. Exactly. It was only start the boats for one week in British history. Yeah, this is the week of starting the boats. What beautiful boats they were. A lot of small boats. The boats are fine to arrive if they've been to get British people back. That's the whole point. That's the point. Yeah. If there's any children, any refugees in it, well, stop that. Stop that. No, thank you. We are picking up our series that we started, I don't know when. It was kind of the first proper series we did. Yeah, if you've been listening to this for a while, if you're a patron, you'll know that we started this on the Patreon podcast that we used to do and we did a four-part series on the

2:18.6

Rise of the Nazis.

2:19.5

And then we got to the start of World War II.

2:22.7

I realized we didn't know as much we thought.

2:24.2

We didn't fucking know anything.

2:25.0

It turns out, which even for us, it turns out we had no fucking clue what happened

2:29.2

to the thing that we say we like the most.

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