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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.

Date Fight!


    • Mar 30, 2021 LATEST EPISODE
    • daily NEW EPISODES
    • 15m AVG DURATION
    • 515 EPISODES


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    56: 31st March: the Fox Sisters v Erik Prince

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2021 14:03


    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!

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    56: 30th March: Vincent van Gogh v Ronald Reagan

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2021 14:58


    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!

    56: 29th March: Richard of York v Warner Baxter

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2021 15:50


    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!

    56: 28th March: The Communards v Thomas Clarkson

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2021 12:47


    What are the two voices in French comedy? Who wrote 'The Way You Look Tonight'? Who is the most racist Clarkson? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

    56: 27th March: Typhoid Mary v coronavirus

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2021 11:59


    Where was Typhoid Mary born? Who was Typhoid John? And Typhoid Tony? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

    56: 26th March: Geraldine Ferraro v Aesop

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2021 12:17


    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!

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    56: 25th March: Percy Bysshe Shelley v John Lennon

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2021 12:54


    Who changes the sheets after a bed-in? Why are the Beatles awful? Is there a God? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

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    56: 24th March: Richard the Lionheart v Margaret Lindsay Huggins

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2021 14:58


    What were Richard the Lionheart's songs like? What is the Matilda Effect? Are spectroscopes better than children? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

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    56: 23rd March: Adolf Hitler v Emperor Paul I

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2021 14:43


    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!

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    56: 22nd March: Anne Hutchinson v the Massachusetts Bay Company

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2021 18:27


    Who really annoyed Oliver Cromwell? Do we really ned more chick sexers? Has anyone read anything by Louis L'Amour? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

    55: 20th March: Maximinus Thrax v Carl Reiner

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2021 12:07


    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!

    55: 19th March: Robert Mugabe v Glenn Close

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2021 10:07


    Now that's a match up! With Nathaniel Tapley & Jake Yapp!

    55: 21st March: Boris Johnson v Rishi Sunak

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2021 13:15


    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!

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    54: 18th March: The Tolpuddle Martyrs v The Templars

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2021 18:34


    Where is Tolpuddle? How do you get back into a space capsule when your suit is all blown up? What's the best folk song? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

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    54: 17th March: St Patrick v The Sheep

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2021 18:16


    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!

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    54: 16th March: Abraham Lincoln v ghosts

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2021 15:40


    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!

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    54: 15th March: Julius Caesar v Penny Lancaster

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2021 15:40


    Whose story has the most stabbing? Who was the Margrave of Baden-Baden? Who were the Two Fat Ladies? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

    54: 14th March: Gilbert & Sullivan v Jack Ruby

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2021 14:40


    What is the funniest place name? Who was Jack Ruby? Was Tony Benn nice? Jake Yapp and Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

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    54: 13th March: Ronald Reagan v Uranus

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2021 14:20


    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!

    54: 12th March: Gandhi v Graham Coxon

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2021 13:43


    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!

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    54: 11th March: John Barrowman v Elogabalus

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2021 17:42


    What's the Date Fight news of the day? Find out in today's Date Fight!

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    54: 10th March: Robin Thicke v Maud de Lacy

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2021 18:18


    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!

    54: 9th March: Have our heroes noticed the coronavirus yet?

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2021 16:40


    You're peering back in time, to a place before the first lockdown. What's it like back there? Find out in today's episode...

    53: 8th March: Adam Faith v women

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2021 12:54


    Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & Zoe Battley talk for your entertainment!

    53: 7th March: Ronald McDonald v a Pope

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2021 10:41


    What in the holy hell are Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley up to today?

    53: 6th March: Norman Rockwell v female cosmonauts

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2021 10:30


    Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley screech in each other's faces until they both collapse, exhausted, never to speak again.

    53: 5th March: Henry VII v Rosa Luxemburg

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2021 12:11


    Natt Tapley & Jake Yapp shout about history!

    53: 4th March: Pennsylvania v Charlie Chaplin

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2021 10:12


    JY & NT do it date style!

    53: 3rd March: Juan Ponce de Leon v Fatima Whitbread

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2021 10:53


    THESE EPISODES JUST KEEP GETTING BETTER WITH RELISTENS!

    53: 2nd March: Good King Wenceslas v Lembit Opik

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2021 10:19


    Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley do a Date Fight!

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    53: 1st March: Charles I v Dominic Cummings

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2021 9:15


    Wow, this seems like a long time ago! With Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley

    52: 28th February: Date Fight Light

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2021 12:52


    What is a Date Fight Light? Who knows? Well, Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley & now YOU do! Hooray!

    51: 27th February: It's a whole thing

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2021 14:58


    Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley work out what the most important thing to have happened today is in Date Fight!

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    51: 26th February: Who likes the twenty-sixth of things?

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2021 17:12


    Jake Yapp and Natt Tapley fight over the date in Date Fight.

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    51: 25th February: Late, but still brilliant

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2021 17:35


    Natt Tapley & Jake Yapp do Date Fight!

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    50: 24th February: Steve Jobs v Clement Attlee

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2021 18:51


    What happened today? Natt Tapley & Jake Yapp find out in today's Date Fight!

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    50: 23rd February: Dick Turpin v Josh Gad

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2021 18:38


    Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out what happened today in Date Fight!

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    50: 22nd February: Steve Buscemi v Dolly the Sheep

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 22, 2021 16:19


    What happened today? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

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    50: 21st February: Karl Marx v Malcolm X

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2021 19:20


    What happened today? Natt Tapley & Jake Yapp find out in today's Date Fight!

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    50: 20th February: Lusty toads v Patty Hearst

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2021 18:34


    What happened today? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

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    50: 19th February: Copernicus v Seal

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 19, 2021 17:25


    What happened today? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

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    50: 18th February: Molly Ringwald v John Travolta

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2021 13:47


    What happened today? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

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    50: 17th February: Bruno Giordano v Geronimo

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2021 14:13


    What happened today? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

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    50: 16th February: Richard Beeching v Ice-T

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2021 18:59


    Who's your favourite UN Secretary General? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!

    49: 15th February: Valentine's Boxing Day

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2021 13:18


    Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley bimble through some historical nonsense for you!

    49: 14th February: Happy Valentine's Day!

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 14, 2021 14:45


    What did you get us? Is it new Patreon subscribers? Is it? Is it?

    49: 13th February: Beware... Saturday the 13th!

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2021 15:46


    Yes, it's those chaps again. Separating the historical wheat from the aged chaff.

    49: 12th February: USS Macon v Rommel

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2021 19:08


    Phwoar! What a history!

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    49: 11th February: Nelson Mandela v The Robots

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2021 15:11


    Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley work out what the best thing to happen on this day in history was. 

    49: 10th February: Tom v Jerry

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2021 13:47


    Little do these fools know how little time they have before they'll be locked in for a year, the idiots.

    49: 9th February: Joe Pesci v Shergar

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2021 15:47


    Who will win? In case you can't remember from last year...

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