The Wright Brothers were Flap-Dodgers | The History of Flight (Part 1/2)

Fin vs History

Fin Taylor & Horatio Gould

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🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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For centuries man thought that simply dressing up like a big owl would be enough to fly. But how come the people who finally cracked it were the most boring men who’ve ever lived? 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. As ever, I'm joined by Horatio Gould.
0:16.5	I'm like a bird. Today, it's the history of Nali Fittado.
0:21.3	It's the history of Nali Faddo.
0:22.2	Do you know the Kurdish version of that song? No. I'm like a Kurd. I only immigrate. Very good. I don't know where my home is. No, they don't have any home. They don't. Saddam. Free Kurdistan, I guess. I don't know enough about it. Saddam was robust against the Kurds.
0:37.4	It was very robust.
0:39.3	It's not, no, today's the history of flight. Which I guess... It's not the flight from Kurdistan to these shores. But Nellifetado does go on the timeline at some point, singing I'm like a bird, right? Yes, that is. That's where we're going to, I think. Yeah, I don't think we should start with it potentially.
0:54.6	No, I don't think.
0:55.4	Or maybe.
0:56.0	Unless we start with Nelly Fittado and work backwards.
0:58.0	Or we do that dramatic thing that history podcasts do where you start with a key moment. You say, how do we get here? I've been thinking that. I've been listening to a lot of history podcasts where they start with sound design. and it's like some sort of audio of like a ship crashing.
1:09.2	Yeah.
1:09.5	And then they start and then I was like, well, should we ever do that?
1:12.3	Yeah.
1:12.8	Yeah.
1:13.3	We're doing that today with Nellie Fetano. some sort of audio of like a ship crashing. Yeah. And then they start and then I was like,
1:11.7	well, should we ever do that?
1:12.5	Yeah. Yeah. We're doing that today with Nelly Fetada. Okay, let's try it. A Puerto Rican woman is on a bonnet of a car. She's got big hoop earrings and you can see a bit of her tissy flesh. Honking Chebs. She's got honking Chibs
1:29.4	And she's scurling away a bit of her titty flesh. Honking Chebs.
1:44.0	She's got honking chabs and she's squirreling away. I think she's, does she wash a car in the video? I'm getting very confused. I don't remember. I think she's under a tree, maybe. Yeah, I don't think I've seen the music video. Is she Puerto Rican? I don't know. You were very bold with that. I don't think she's quite a
1:44.4	vaguely
1:45.8	Hispanic
1:46.3	woman,
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