The People’s Republic of Jiblablabah | The Rise and Fall of Colonel Gaddafi (Part 2/4)

Fin vs History

Fin Taylor & Horatio Gould

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🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Gaddafi, the illiterate intellectual, the thinking man’s man-who-can’t think, orchestrates perhaps the funniest terrorist attack of all time and formally renames Libya absolute gibberish 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	Welcome back to Finn versus History.
0:14.7	As ever, I'm joined by my brother, Horatio Gould.
0:17.8	My friend, very good.
0:19.0	This is the second part in an epic series about Muammar Gaddafi. The man himself. Fashion icon. Gachiki. Cacheke. As Horatio started, quote it, Muammar Gacheeki. We're entering his cheeky era, would you say? Yeah, this is, yeah, this is cheeky boy. He's a cheeky boy. I am the chicky boy You are the chicky boy He's very naughty
0:39.8	He's a cheeky boy. I am the cheeky boy. You are the cheeky
0:38.3	boy. He's very naughty. He's the naughtiest. I mean, where would you? Because there's a lot of
0:43.7	underhand, it's subterfuge. He is just, I guess he doesn't run a big enough state where it's like
0:50.4	America is going to start a world war. So instead he likes to meddle.
0:55.6	He needs attention.
0:57.6	Yes.
0:58.1	And it's very easy for people to forget about Libya because it's quite an irrelevant country.
1:02.2	Who gives a shit?
1:02.8	Who gives a shit?
1:03.7	Yeah. It's got oil, but there's countries way more oil.
1:07.0	Yeah.
1:07.2	So it is just his force of personality that keeps bringing Libya back into the mainstream. And now Gaddafi's gone. No one talks about Libya anymore. Who cares? What even is it? He is Libya. It's Kane leaving Tottenham. Yes. That's huge. Who cares about Tottenham? Who gives a punch? Yeah, who gives a shit?
1:28.8	Yeah, they've got money.
1:29.2	Yeah.
1:30.3	They've got a stadium, but who cares? Because as bad as Gaddafi is, he has a lot of undeniable star power, right?
1:35.8	He's a list.
1:36.9	I don't think there is a dictator who has grabbed the imagination with so little resources.
1:44.5	Yeah, exactly.
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