Our Poor, Innocent Antarctic Model Village | Margaret Thatcher & The Falklands (Part 2/6)

Fin vs History

Fin Taylor & Horatio Gould

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4.7 • 995 Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Mummy’s premiership is on the brink, when a fascist invasion of a Model Village on our very very southern border brings Mags a path to redemption 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 - WWII (reprise) 08:16 - Britain’s Southern border 10:31 - The History of Falklands 14:45 - Argentina’s Daddy issues 18:10 - Permanent DofE 21:20 - Military Junta 27:33 - Giving it the biggun 29:22 - The Whisky General 37:24 - Don’t mess with the British Antarctica Survey 39:35 - Flicked Mummy’s tit 41:43 - Operation Rosario 43:50 - Governor Hunt 46:06 - Radio DJ live streams the invasion 49:03 - Mummy lets the dads loose Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:36.1	Welcome back to Finn versus History.
1:27.5	I'm joined by Horatio Gould. Hello, sir. And we're in our stolen valour phase of the podcast. We're saying we fought in the Falklands. I'm saying we fought in the Falklands. I guess that's the closest, it's the nearest war we, I guess you could say, right, but that's kind of the nearest valorous war we could still valor from really yeah do people you couldn't really get away with Second World War no one's no one's believe you but then I suppose do people people people would come up and shake your hand if you said you've bought in the Falklands yeah it was it was yeah people of a certain age you remember it I don't think for my generation people truly understand the significance of the Falklands and. And there is a huge It's the most significant conflict. It's one of the most important conflicts. Of our life of our, of the of the 20th century. It's a pussy dick shift. It is a pussy dick shift, yes. It's the defining conflict of the 20th century. It's the third world war, really. This is World War three.
1:28.9	Yeah.
1:29.2	It's the battle for the soul of the globe.
1:32.8	Yeah, exactly.
1:33.5	It takes place.
1:34.3	It's good versus evil.
1:35.4	Yeah.
1:35.9	It's one of the most black and white conflicts there is.
1:37.9	And when the British flags are flying over Port Stanley, that place I always think about,
1:42.9	my God, didn't we win? Is there anywhere more British
1:46.7	than the Fortland? East Forkland. Yeah. The most British that Britain ever was,
1:54.7	500 miles off the coast of Argentina. Weirdly, actually, I joke about it, but it's a kind of it's,
1:59.5	because it's a sort of a time capsule of the 50s.
2:02.1	It is so funny.
2:03.2	The Falkland Islands.
2:04.2	Because the people who are there are more British than British people.
2:06.9	It's January.
2:07.8	Because it's Britain without any immigration of any sort.
2:11.2	It's just...
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