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Date Fight!

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A new podcast for every day of the year, in which we present our most cogent, reasoned, and occasionally shouty arguments to decide what each date should be best remembered for. Every episode features fun historical facts, a vote on the winner, and tearful recriminations.
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Episodes

S2 Ep56: 31st March: the Fox Sisters v Erik Prince

Is there anyone called Fox who isn't terrible? Is it meant to bend like that? Who's that rapping? How much money does it take to buy your own army? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

Mar 30, 202113 minSeason 2Ep. 56

S2 Ep56: 30th March: Vincent van Gogh v Ronald Reagan

What were Ronald Reagan's best (stolen) jokes? Who invented gambling on Native American reservations? Should you cut off your own ear? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

Mar 29, 202113 minSeason 2Ep. 56

S2 Ep56: 29th March: Richard of York v Warner Baxter

I love the way Jake says "Warner Baxter!" Who invented a searchlight and then got a lobotomy? Who should play Edmund of Langley in the film? What is the male gaze? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

Mar 28, 202114 minSeason 2Ep. 56

S2 Ep56: 26th March: Geraldine Ferraro v Aesop

Where would you hide religious text? Did Natt mean Frank Carson? Who knows all the results of all the elections? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

Mar 26, 202111 minSeason 2Ep. 56

S2 Ep56: 23rd March: Adolf Hitler v Emperor Paul I

Who did Hitler make promises to before the Enabling Act? How many times do you have to kill Paul I? What's the best way of robbing a train? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

Mar 23, 202113 minSeason 2Ep. 56

S2 Ep55: 20th March: Maximinus Thrax v Carl Reiner

What happens when you double all the soldiers' wages? What was Walter Raleigh's podcast called? What is a treatise? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

Mar 20, 202111 minSeason 2Ep. 55

S2 Ep55: 21st March: Boris Johnson v Rishi Sunak

In some ways this was where the rot set in. We never really recovered from this. What's gone wrong with Date Fight? Whose balls have been dropped this week? Who recanted his recantation? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

Mar 18, 202112 minSeason 2Ep. 55

S2 Ep54: 17th March: St Patrick v The Sheep

What's the likely cause of death when your sheep all their pop their clogs while standing next to a nerve-agent-testing-facility? Was St Patrick really kidnapped by pirates? What went on in Maori fortified villages? Jake Yapp and Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

Mar 17, 202117 minSeason 2Ep. 54

S2 Ep54: 16th March: Abraham Lincoln v ghosts

How do you make toilet roll spaghetti? What's Natt's ancestor up to today (being dead)? Should you have kings? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

Mar 16, 202114 minSeason 2Ep. 54

S2 Ep54: 13th March: Ronald Reagan v Uranus

Whose anus was Uranus names after? How did a bank holiday save capitalism? Who flew Adolf Hitler to the wrong place? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

Mar 13, 202113 minSeason 2Ep. 54

S2 Ep54: 12th March: Gandhi v Graham Coxon

Who were the Williamites? Who was the best 19th century novelist? Who invented guest-fighting? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

Mar 12, 202112 minSeason 2Ep. 54

S2 Ep54: 10th March: Robin Thicke v Maud de Lacy

What happened to Jesus' foreskin when he was resurrected? Should royals go skiing? How do raise money to fight the Scots? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

Mar 10, 202117 minSeason 2Ep. 54
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