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Join comedians Jacob Trimmer and Tim Groeschel in a mashup of true crime, history, and comedy as they swap stories and make jokes about people throughout time who have lived interesting and violent lives. Get your dose of grindhouse history every Tuesday, because everyone likes violence as long as it's happening to someone else. Feel free to reach out to us with any feedback or comments at letthemfightpodcast@gmail.com, https://www.facebook.com/LTFpodcast, or https://twitter.com/PodcastLTF.
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Well, dear listeners, where do I even start with this one? I guess first off, unless you already know who this is, I assure you that you will not see what is coming next at any point in this story. Because Charles Guiteau was a goddamn crazy person of the highest order. The leaps and mental gymnastics this dude makes throughout his life would make …
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Today we'll be taking a trip back to the golden age of Hollywood to talk about king goon, Eddie Mannix. It turns out even before TMZ became famous as the blood sucking leeches that they are making their money off celebrity gossip, people loved to talk about actors and actresses and their various scandals. So Eddie Mannix made sure that either those…
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Ep. 512 Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly
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Time for another trip in ye olde scumnut time machine. Don't let Johann Tserclaes's fancy dandy boy title fool you, the Count of Tilly really knew how to throw down. Our boy here was a real die hard Catholic, so when the Protestants started trying to do their thing, well, old boy took it real personal and decided that he was going to show them exac…
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This week we'll be sticking around Australia, but John Wayne Glover is nothing like the last Aussie we talked about. Instead of being a badass soldier, he's a massive creep. He got started on his creepin' young, and he ramped way up later in his life. But don't worry, he's not totally irredeemable. Wait no, I said that wrong, yea he's totally irred…
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Today's person of honor is a badass Aussie with a super unfortunate name. When World War 1 kicked off, Albert Jacka was there to get stuck in on behalf of Australia. And boy did he make a name for himself. Then he decided to stick around and just keep up the madness and killing and see just how terrifying he could become to the other side. He saw s…
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We're back with another round of people who were on the wrong side of history, and also giant pieces of shit. Samuel "Champ" Ferguson decided to fight on the side of the Confederacy during the Civil War. But not as a legitimate soldier for the most part, and also not out of any sense of patriotism, or southern pride, or anything that could kinda be…
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Well, dear listeners, Tim done did it again and dropped a big ol' Nazi bomb all over the podcast. Today we're talking about Rudolf Hess, a shitsucker from day one, and boy did he not change his ways as time went on. Though he did get crazier and way more bonkers. I definitely didn't see where this episode was headed, but I enjoyed talking shit on t…
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Today we're bringing you a long, much requested person from the great corrupted city of Chicago, H.H. Holmes. Of course, we can't catch a break here so the technical issues continue and fucked up the sound on this one a bit, hopefully you can bear with us because this story is worth it. We had a lot of fun talking about this murderous conman and ma…
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For the last Thursday episode we're bringing you William "King" Hale, a man so clearly the bad guy in life that he even looks like Judge Doom from Roger Rabbit. Yet for some reason people still let him do his thing and get power and influence. Dumbasses. Anyways, this guy did some truly evil stuff and was responsible for a whole lot of deaths, so g…
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Today we have proof that George Washington wasn't the only genetic freak running around the battlefield during the Revolutionary war. Because Deborah Sampson was out there too, not letting a little thing like the lack of testicles get in the way of her fighting for her country. She may have missed most of the war, but she showed up in the end and p…
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Never thought I'd be saying that today we'll be talking about a badass member of the Coast Guard, but I'm glad to be wrong about that. Douglas Munro was just a regular, genuinely good dude when he saw the writing on the wall and knew the US was gonna be balls deep in some German and Japanese ass soon. So he signed up as a Coastie because he wanted …
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Today we're going way back in history to pre-democracy Greece to talk about Miltiades, a man who didn't take no shit and always got his revenge. He had a pretty good early life due to his dad being a famous badass chariot rider. Then things took a bit of a turn, but he kept pushing on, making his own legacy as the guy who took every opportunity to …
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Today's person of interest is another traitor, I mean, Confederate general. John Bell Hood cut his teeth early in the Civil War being the guy that always attacked hard. Spoiler alert, you don't always want to attack hard. He even inspired a quote from Robert E. Lee himself. Though he probably wasn't very happy about it. As always we had a lot of fu…
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That's right, dear listeners, you recognize that name. We're headed back in time to the no longer existing country of Wallachia to talk about the inspiration for one of the greatest and most classic of the horror monsters. Now our boy Vlad the Impaler, or Vlad Dracula, or however you want to refer to him, got real brutal back in his day. The Impale…
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Today we'll be talking about a dude that got shipped off to Australia after running amok through England. And I'm not one to side with the Brits, but well, Thomas Jeffrey for sure earned himself that transportation sentence. Then he got to Australia and totally calmed down. I'm kidding, he became an even bigger turd and ran around even more amok. S…
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If you can read that name you know what it means, we'll be fucking up a lot of pronunciations today. Hong Xiuquan was a simple man, in that he was incredibly stupid. Then he decided one day that not only was he not actually stupid, he was goddamn divine. So of course he calls for a crusade, or whatever they'd call it in China. And so begins one of …
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On today's episode we're diving in on this badass fucking Scotsman, the Outlaw King, Robert the Bruce. This man wanted nothing more than to kick some English ass, but he was smart about it. He bided his time until it was right then well, let's just say there's a reason we're talking about him today. So join us as we talk about his bonkers ass life …
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On today's episode we have a super rich English woman who was smart as hell in school. And also pretty much incompetent at everything she did in the real world. Or inept at best I suppose. But hey, she committed real hard to the causes she believed in so at least there's that? She also thought very highly of her contributions, and you'll get to hea…
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We're closing out anniversary week with an episode on a heavily requested scumbag, the Killer Clown himself, John Wayne Gacy. Gacy had a real shitty childhood, and unlike what a decent person would do, he decided to make this everyone else's problem too. So he ran around just raping and murdering, murdering and raping. Everybody already knows the b…
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What's that in the sky? Is it a bird? A plane? No it's, well actually yea it's a plane. And this bad motherfucker, Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, is flying it. This dude was smart as hell and became a plane engineer, but that wasn't enough for him. He wanted to fly them. And also shoot Japs. So he took every single opportunity he had to do so until it …
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On today's episode we'll be talking about the guy that might be the origin of everyone thinking Florida is full of psychopaths. John Ashley had a pretty unassuming name, the looks of a Bond villain, and a rap sheet that is truly impressive. This swamp dweller just decided one day that he was gonna commit to crime as his personality, and boy did he.…
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Today we're going to Ireland, a land of mostly faerie nonsense, to talk about an actual real badass. The Pirate Queen, Grace O'Malley decided from a very early age that she wasn't going to have a life of regular chick shit. She wanted to sail around and do pirate shit. And fuck with the British of course. But she was smart, she knew when it wasn't …
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Today we're talking about a dude who made even special operations dudes and a guy with the Medal of Honor feel kind of nervous. Jerry "Mad Dog" Shriver tore shit up in Vietnam, but he stayed in country waaaaay too long. While he may not have lived a long life, he damn sure packed more into it than most people could in several life times. Enjoy!…
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It's time, dear listeners, for another badass on the water. And he did it without Kevin Costner's gross webbed feet and gills. Oliver Hazard Perry grew up watching his dad being a bad motherfucker on a ship and decided he wanted to follow in his footsteps, and then one up him. He wound up fighting the British, the terrors of the sea at the time, an…
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We're headed back to ye olde west to talk about this dapper motherfucker, Ben Thompson. All he wanted to do was gamble and hang out with famous people, but dudes just kept having to try him, so he just had to shoot them. Even the juries kept agreeing that he was in the right. And he managed to get that agreement without Buffalo Bills money, Johnny …
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Today we got one bad seagoing motherfucker for you, dear listeners. Doris Miller was one of many sailors present at Pearl Harbor. And when he looked up into the sky and saw it full of planes with their blinkers on he said, "Not today, Japan!" and hopped on a gun and started firing. It's debatable how effective he actually was on said gun, but his b…
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Welcome again, dear listeners, as we close out our week of shitbags with a real winner. This Sicilian, Salvatore Riina, comes to us from Italy, obviously, the land of goofball ass names, a history of failure, and for a specific point in time, more goddamn explosions than a Michael Bay movie. Somebody must have explained the concept of collateral da…
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Welcome back, dear listeners. If you don't like Henry Ford, well, you're right. Also, be prepared to think Harry Bennett is an equally shitty person since well, he was Ford's right hand man. Meaning he was the guy that actually carried out the ideas that Ford had. Since Ford wasn't gonna get his own hands dirty, oh no. So expect plenty of shenaniga…
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We're closing out this week by sticking around World War 2 to talk about another badass shitkicker who decided (correctly) that Nazis needed killing. Anders Lassen decided the rich life wasn't for him and he went a-wandering. Then while wandering, some Nazi shit happened where he used to live, so he tapped into that old viking blood and opted to do…
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Today we're talking about a badass broad whose regular boring life got disrupted by the start of World War 2. So she dedicated her life to kicking Nazi dicks into the dirt. Andree Borrel lived in France when the Nazis invaded, and she didn't take that lying down. She worked against them, then got some training in England and came back to do it even…
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Ep. 484 "Texas Jack" Vermillion and William Whitney Brazelton
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Today we're bringing you two cowboys for the price of one! Both "Texas Jack" and William Brazelton lived exciting lives full of gunfights, diseases, robberies, and some great quotes. Unfortunately only some of it got written down and remembered. So we're packaging them together to bring you a good chunk of wild west shenanigans. Also with some came…
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Welcome back, dear listeners! Today we're revisiting Chicago to talk about Tony Accardo. Like most Italian Americans, he was heaviliy involved in crime. In fact, he may actually be our most successful mob type dude we've ever talked about on this podcast. And sure, he killed some people along the way, but they were also Italian for the most part so…
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This one is a bit confusing, dear listeners. William Harney certainly did some badass shit in his day, but man was he also a gigantic schmuck. And there's the whole collecting famous friends like Pokemon so he can cash in and avoid getting in trouble for all his schmuckery. Luckily for me, ,he does a couple things that were just enough for me to de…
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Well, dear listeners, we're back to kick off the week with another garbage monster requested by one of you. Joseph Kallinger's story is pretty much awful right from the jump. And every time you think, "well that was fucked up, I'm sure it won't get worse," well, guess what happens. And as if being a terrible excuse for a human wasn't enough, he was…
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We're back with another bad motherfucker from World War 2. Alexander Pechersky was just a simple Russian citizen when the war kicked off, and like everyone in the country, he was told, "Hey, you're in the army now." So he stepped up and got busy. Then some things went real bad for him. So again, he stepped up and got busy. Listen in to find out how…
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Welcome back, dear listeners. We're going all Marsellus Wallace and getting medieval on this episode to talk about badass knight, and champion of ugly bastards the world over, Bertrand du Guesclin. This Frenchy ran around during the Hundred Years' War kicking in the teeth of the British, and just generally making himself a nuisance. Unlike some rec…
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Alright, dear listeners, you've been requesting him for a minute, so here you go. One of the big swinging dicks of Naziland, Erwin Rommel. Regarded as one of the best military commanders in history, but was he? And frequently given a pass for being on the side of the Nazis because he himself didn't join the party. Well we're here to talk about his …
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One man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist. That's what people say anyways. Then again, sometimes people are just both. Like our guy today, Shamil Basayev. Sure, fighting against Russia is a good thing. But it's pretty hard for anybody to say he was a good guy after you look at the way he did stuff. Though isn't it refreshing to just have…
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Ugh. This fucking guy. When the best thing you can think of to say about a guy is, "at least he's not as bad as Huckle," you know that dude is a giant piece of shit. And that's the case with today's person, Jake Davison. He went from being a half-retarded whiny piece of shit, to a half-retarded whiny piece of shit that also hurt innocent people. Gr…
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Ugh, I gotta be honest with you, dear listeners. This episode is gonna be rough. I don't know if you can see the picture of this guy, but if you can, well, then you probably know what kinda crimes are gonna be popping up in this episode. The fucking worst. I'll just say, if you had a tough time with Peter Scully, well...So brace yourself as best yo…
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Another shitbird for you today, dear listeners! Judy Buenoano, despite looking like the female Richard Ramirez, somehow kept managing to find men she could use for their money, and get away with it. And quite a few people got killed along the way. Join us as we talk about this broad's life as a garbage person, and of course make fun of her along th…
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Today's episode is a bit of an oddity. See, we have James Robert Scott, who is kind of a huge piece of shit. Then some real garbage stuff happens and everyone just kind of decides, "Hey you, mullethead. You fucking dick. This was your fault!" and blames him. But there is a very strong case that none of it is his fault after all. So you be the judge…
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Today we've got the baddest dude the Air Force ever produced. And if you don't think that sounds like much, well homeboy was rocking with the SEALs, and I doubt you know how to recognize a badass better than they can. John Allan Chapman just wanted to serve his country, but found himself as the go to guy for when the Air Force needed a hard chargin…
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Following the war hero of last week, today we have a guy who couldn't make it in the military. Eric Rudolph was pretty shit at everything in his life really. Then after hanging around with some dipshits for a while he decided the world needed more craters in it. There's plenty of incompetence along the way, both from the police and our person of in…
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We're closing out the week with another bad motherfucker from World War 2, Lafayette Green Pool. This dude took his tank, which admittedly had a pretty weak name, and drove it straight down Nazi throats. We can forgive the name since he more than makes up for it in dead Nazis. Also look out for a couple accidental Jewstradamus moments. Enjoy!…
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Who's ready for another dose of that scumnut? Today we have this Indiana based little weenie, Herb Baumeister. He should start setting off alarm bells in your head pretty much right off the bat in this story. And guess what? Those alarms are all correct. But don't worry, though things get bad and police incompetence rears its ugly head again, it al…
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Today we're bringing you a rags to riches story about an old timey bareknuckle boxer, Tom Molineaux. After After whooping enough ass in America to prove himself, he decided to take a little jaunt across the pond to go beat down some English folk. And of course we got some goofy bullshit slang for you from the British to go along with the change of …
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Well hello there, dear listeners. It's time for a trip down to Argentina to talk about a baby faced little shit by the name of Robledo Puch. And we're pronouncing it "Puke," because fuck him. He got his start doing some petty shit, but boy did he not stay in the petty realm. He decided he wanted to swim in the deep end of the crime pool and turned …
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Today we're bringing you a badass of Italian origin, dear listeners. I know, I'm as shocked as you are that one exists but here we are. This dude spent all his time painting surprisingly good pieces of art, and a few other activities that I don't want to spoil here. But trust me, the violence is definitely there. Just look at the portrait of this d…
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We're bringing you another old badass today, dear listeners. Well, to be fair this dude was a badass when he was young too, he just never stopped being a badass. Walter Rudolph Walsh was basically born to shoot guns, and shoot them better than almost everyone else. Sometimes he did it for competition's sake, and sometimes he did it because somebody…
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