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No One Is Competent
by No One Is Competent Podcast
No One Is Competent is the new premier comedy history podcast that is aiming to convince you that everyone who runs the world - the CEOs, the politicians, the generals, the kings - is incompetent, and none of them have ever been any good at their jobs. Every other week we will bring you a hilarious and stunning episode exposing the weakness of everyone who has been called powerful. It’ll be great - we promise.
Episodes
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Episode 60: The Hundred Days
Episode 60: The Hundred Days
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Episode 59: War of the 6th Coalition part 2
Episode 59: War of the 6th Coalition part 2
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Episode 58: War of the 6th Coalition part 1
War of the 6th Coalition Part 1
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Episode 57: Gallipoli
Episode 57: Gallipoli
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Episode 56: The Peninsular War part 2
Episode 56: The Peninsular War part 2
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Episode 55: The First Opium War
Episode 55: The First Opium War
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Episode 54: Napoleon Flees Russia
Episode 54: Napoleon Flees Russia
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Episode 53: Napoleon Invades Russia
Episode 53: Napoleon Invades Russia
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Episode 52: The Voyage of the Damned
Episode 52: The Voyage of the Damned
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Episode 51: War of the Fifth Coalition
Episode 51: War of the Fifth Coalition
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Episode 50: The Bay of Pigs
Episode 50: The Bay of Pigs
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Episode 49: The Cuban Revolution
Episode 49: The Cuban Revolution
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Episode 48: The Peninsular War part 1
Episode 48: The Peninsular War part 1
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Episode 47: Invasion of the River Plate
Episode 47: Invasion of the River Plate
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Episode 46: The Battle of Saratoga
Episode 46: The Battle of Saratoga
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Episode 45: War of the Fourth Coalition
Episode 45: War of the Fourth Coalition
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Episode 44: The Debt Ceiling
Episode 44: The Debt Ceiling
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Episode 43: War of the Third Coalition
Third time's the charm right? Surely Britain n' the gang will take down bad boi France this time? Some corrections: - We mentioned when talking about Trafalgar that at this point in time Gibraltar was not yet a British possession. That is incorrect, Britain captured it during the War of Spanish...
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Episode 42: Emperor Paul
Emperor Paul was not the worst leader in Russian history. He did not get the most people killed or leave his realm in the worst shape, but he was perhaps the most annoying man to ever lead the country, and they killed him for it.
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Episode 41: Crassus
Today we got one of the OG Billionaire L's lined up for you. It involves slave revolts, fire insurance schemes and a Parthian drum core. What more could you ask for?
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Episode 40: Liz Truss
Usually it takes a whole presentation to prove that a ruler did a poor job. One must look at battles lost or economic decline or large trends of their reign before making a judgement, but sometimes, just sometimes, the fact that a ruler was laughably bad is blindingly obvious, like if they only...
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Episode 39: The Haitian Revolution Part 2
In this episode we're taking a look at the struggle of Saint Domingue's revolutionaries that resulted in the eventual collapse of French rule and the conclusion of the most succesful slave revolt in history.
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Episode 38: The Haitian Revolution Part 1
Within the system of France once lied the colony of Saint Domingue, on which existed one of the most demented societies known to man. Today we explain the brittleness of Saint Domingue and how its failure led to the greatest slave revolt in human history, which founded the nation of Haiti.
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Episode 37: All the Presidents (Part 3)
The third and final part of our look at the US presidents.
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Episode 36: All the Presidents (Part 2)
We continue our crusade through presidential mediocrity.
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Episode 35: All the Presidents (Part 1)
Holiday special folks. We're doin all the U.S. presidents, every single one. Sit back, relax and take a drink every time we say "this could be an entire episode", Azalea interrupts Jae or we make a pointless reference you don't understand.
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Episode 34: The Great EVE War
EVE Online is a space-based MMORPG that since 2003 has been host to a dynamic, ever-evolving user-driven world replete with stories of warfare, conquest, and betrayal. In many ways the history of EVE's universe mirrors that of our own, and in any case this is a history worth retelling. On this...
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Episode 33: War of the Second Coalition
Of all the conflicts throughout the Revolutionary and Napoleonic era, perhaps none is more... odd than that of the Second Coalition. From heavily armed academic expeditions to dramatic marches through the Alps, this conflict - and the invasion of Egypt that led into it - had just about…
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Episode 32: Cheating in Baseball
The word "baseball" is one that conjures up an array of different images and thoughts. For many the sport that is acclaimed as the "America's national pastime" is associated with tradition and legacy. Plenty of modern fans however think of the game as a game defined by statistics and models. One...
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Episode 31: Napoleon Ends the Revolution
The relationship between Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Revolution has long been a point of discussion amongst those interested in the history of the Revolution. For the early Marxists Napoleon's rise to power served as a cautionary tale as to how a popular military leader could subvert the...
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Episode 30: Brian Kemp
Governors are an often overlooked part of the American political landscape. One can make a fair argument that the lives of most Americans are more directly influenced by the actions of their governor than those of their president, yet many would struggle to describe their state governor beyond...
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Episode 29: The War of the First Coalition
The War of the First Coalition was fought over a course of 5 years and involved almost all of Europe's great powers. The events of this conflict shaped the course of the French Revolution and set the stage for the future Revolutionary and Napoleonic conflicts. Yet few today know much of this war,...
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Episode 28: The French Revolution
Few events in western history are as well-studied yet commonly misunderstood as the French Revolution. In this episode we hope to clear things up and lay the groundwork for future episodes by covering both the political developments within France from 1789 to 1794 and the military campaigns of…
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Episode 27: Louis XVI
The French Revolution is arguably the most studied event in western historiography alongside the World Wars. Perhaps no other upheaval has had so much of an influence on the way we think about politics and society. Yet the Revolution was not a predestined affair, instead it was the result of both...
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Episode 26: H. L. Hunley
The story of military history is full of brilliant technological innovations. From the recurve bow to the main battle tank, humans have continued to come up with increasingly efficient ways of killing one another. Yet for every great invention there are dozens of duds - technological dead ends,...
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Episode 25: The English Armada
The defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 remains one of the most famous events in naval history, yet the fate of England's equally disastrous attempt at seeking revenge on Spain the year afterwards has largely faded from popular memory. In this episode of "No One is Competent" we'll be covering…
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Episode 24: The Spanish Armada
While history is full of famous battles and campaigns, only a few naval actions have managed to remain widely known long after they took place. The Spanish Armada of 1588 ranks near the top of that select group of events. In England it's cast as a critical moment in the development of the Royal...
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Episode 23: Prohibition
Prohibition is perhaps one of the strangest and most misunderstood episodes in American history. The entire nation turned their back on their most beloved vice - or at least, that's what was supposed to happen. Instead, the 18th Amendment, brought about by intentions both good and bad, led to 13...
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Episode 22: Teutoburg Forest
Rome at the dawn of the first century AD was an empire on the rise. As the civil wars of the late Republican period faded into the past, the new government of Augustus Caesar looked set to assert its will on an ever-growing amount of territory and peoples. Yet in 9 AD the Roman Army suffered a...
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Episode 21: Google Stadia & Cloud Gaming
According to many of Silicon Valley's brightest minds the "cloud" is the future of just about everything. So why not let consumers use it to play console video games, freeing them of the need to actually buy those bulky devices themselves? That certainly was a part of the thought process behind...
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Episode 20: Park Geun-hye
People around the world are used to expecting a certain level of corruption from their leaders. Greed and self-interest are a part of the universal human experience. What most people aren't used to, however, is the idea that the leader of their country may be subservient to a shadowy religious...
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Episode 19: 2000 Presidential Election
America's presidential elections are notoriously byzantine in their complexity, with thousands of counties all counting votes to report to states that then select electors that themselves vote for the president in a process dating back to the late 18th century. In spite of all of this complexity,...
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Episode 18: Reconstruction
We tend to think of big wars as turning points in the history of nations. Battles and campaigns are picked apart at length, and how and why one side wins or loses is subject of much discussion. What comes after these wars, however, is often overlooked. The Civil War is a famous turning point in...
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Episode 17: The Business Plot
Of all the ills to spring up in the aftermath of the first world war, perhaps none were as ruinous as the ideology known as fascism. As political extremism spread throughout Europe like a plague, fascist parties, often with the cooperation of traditional conservative and business interests,...
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Episode 16: Boeing 737 MAX
For over half a century Boeing dominated the commercial aviation industry. Boeing's jet airplanes have carried billions of people in almost every country, and in the process the company built a reputation for safety and solid engineering. It was thus a shock to the world when not one but two of...
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Episode 15: The Fourth Crusade
The year is 1204 AD. Over 800 years after its consecration, the great city of Constantinople, the wealthiest and largest metropolis in all of Europe, lies in ruins. Flames burn through its streets as men in armour pick through its palaces, churches, and even tombs searching for plunder....
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Episode 14: QAnon part 2
Trust the plan. The great awakening. Where we go one, we go all. All of these slogans and more came to represent one of the most conspiratorial and insidious political movements in American political history: QAnon. In the first "No One is Competent" episode on Q, we discussed the conditions that...
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Episode 13: January 6
The US Capitol Building. 175,170 square feet that house the seat of legislative branch of the most powerful nation on Earth. For over two centuries the Capitol has stood as a symbol of American law and governance. For it to be breached and desecrated in a time of peace is almost unimaginable, yet...
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Episode 12: QAnon part 1
Q. A single letter that represents an entire movement, one that unites both the fringes of the far-right militia movement and the most conspiratorial sections of the internet with mainstream conservative sentiment. We could spend ages talking about the many outlandish and ultimately incorrect...
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Episode 11: The Battle of Stalingrad
"Stalingrad." The mere name of the place evokes imagery of violence, death, and grim desperation. From August 1942 through February 1943 over a million soldiers and civilians would be killed, wounded, or captured in one of the largest battles in human history. At the end of the day, however, the...
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No One Is Competent is the new premier comedy history podcast that is aiming to convince you that everyone who runs the world - the CEOs, the politicians, the generals, the kings - is incompetent, and none of them have ever been any good at their jobs. Every other week we will bring you a hilarious and stunning episode exposing the weakness of everyone who has been called powerful. It’ll be great - we promise.
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