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Date Fight!

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Episodes

  1. 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!

  2. 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!

  3. 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!

  4. S2 Ep56: 28th March: The Communards v Thomas Clarkson

    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!

  5. S2 Ep56: 27th March: Typhoid Mary v coronavirus

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

  6. 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!

  7. S2 Ep56: 25th March: Percy Bysshe Shelley v John Lennon

    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!

  8. S2 Ep56: 24th March: Richard the Lionheart v Margaret Lindsay Huggins

    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!

  9. 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!

  10. S2 Ep56: 22nd March: Anne Hutchinson v the Massachusetts Bay Company

    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!

  11. 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!

  12. S2 Ep55: 19th March: Robert Mugabe v Glenn Close

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

  13. 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!

  14. S2 Ep54: 18th March: The Tolpuddle Martyrs v The Templars

    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!

  15. 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!

  16. 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!

  17. S2 Ep54: 15th March: Julius Caesar v Penny Lancaster

    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!

  18. S2 Ep54: 14th March: Gilbert & Sullivan v Jack Ruby

    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!

  19. 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!

  20. 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!

  21. S2 Ep54: 11th March: John Barrowman v Elogabalus

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

  22. 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!

  23. S2 Ep54: 9th March: Have our heroes noticed the coronavirus yet?

    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...

  24. S2 Ep53: 8th March: Adam Faith v women

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

  25. S2 Ep53: 7th March: Ronald McDonald v a Pope

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

  26. S2 Ep53: 6th March: Norman Rockwell v female cosmonauts

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

  27. S2 Ep53: 5th March: Henry VII v Rosa Luxemburg

    Natt Tapley & Jake Yapp shout about history!

  28. S2 Ep53: 3rd March: Juan Ponce de Leon v Fatima Whitbread

    THESE EPISODES JUST KEEP GETTING BETTER WITH RELISTENS!

  29. S2 Ep53: 2nd March: Good King Wenceslas v Lembit Opik

    Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley do a Date Fight!

  30. S2 Ep53: 1st March: Charles I v Dominic Cummings

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

  31. S2 Ep52: 28th February: Date Fight Light

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

  32. S2 Ep51: 27th February: It's a whole thing

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

  33. S2 Ep51: 26th February: Who likes the twenty-sixth of things?

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

  34. S2 Ep51: 25th February: Late, but still brilliant

    Natt Tapley & Jake Yapp do Date Fight!

  35. S2 Ep50: 24th February: Steve Jobs v Clement Attlee

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

  36. S2 Ep50: 23rd February: Dick Turpin v Josh Gad

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

  37. S2 Ep50: 22nd February: Steve Buscemi v Dolly the Sheep

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

  38. S2 Ep50: 21st February: Karl Marx v Malcolm X

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

  39. S2 Ep50: 20th February: Lusty toads v Patty Hearst

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

  40. S2 Ep50: 19th February: Copernicus v Seal

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

  41. S2 Ep50: 18th February: Molly Ringwald v John Travolta

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

  42. S2 Ep50: 17th February: Bruno Giordano v Geronimo

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

  43. S2 Ep50: 16th February: Richard Beeching v Ice-T

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

  44. S2 Ep49: 15th February: Valentine's Boxing Day

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

  45. S2 Ep49: 14th February: Happy Valentine's Day!

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

  46. S2 Ep49: 13th February: Beware... Saturday the 13th!

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

  47. S2 Ep49: 11th February: Nelson Mandela v The Robots

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

  48. S2 Ep49: 10th February: Tom v Jerry

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

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