Ep. 232 Sir John Hawkwood

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09/09/21 • 37 min

Let Them Fight: A Comedy History Podcast

Today we have a story that adds more evidence to the fact that Italy sucks militarily (as if we needed more evidence). Sir John Hawkwood was English as fuck, but got a taste for fighting Italians so he decided to keep doing it. He basically terrorized the whole country and really mastered the art of extortion. Even popes paid him to not fuck their shit up. Enjoy!

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Ep. 231 Casimir Pulaski

Today we're taking a trip to the country with the most garbage names per capita, Poland, to talk about a dude that loved killing people from horseback. Casimir Pulaski ran around Europe fighting the Russians every chance he got, and honestly not doing all that well. He was great at drumming up support and training cavalrymen, not so great at the whole leading his troops in battle thing though. But he did come to America and create our cavalry, so at least we can thank him for that. Enjoy!

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Ep. 233 Uday Hussein

Today we have a real fun monster for you, dear listeners. We're talking about Uday Hussein. And if you thought his dad Saddam was bad, well you'd be right. But this guy was also a giant piece of shit. Imagine if you will, all the wonderful personality of a douchey trust fund kid combined with the sadistic streak of an evil dictator, then wrap it up with a nice incest bow and boom, you have an Uday. Enjoy!