Butterfly Stompers: An Alternative History Podcast
Butterfly Stompers: An Alternative History Podcast
Podcast Description
The alternative history podcast where comedian & history graduate Joe Dehuai takes one hilarious historical vandal back in time to change the course of history! Listen as we delve into bizarre butterfly effects, crazy counterfactuals and weird what if history. Whether our guests give the spacetime continuum a polite nudge or push old father time off a cliff is up to them- How much difference could stomping on a butterfly make? Sit back (in time) and relax as you strap in for obscure facts, improvised historical hijinx, and maybe even a revealing exploration of the vagaries of time...also FUN!
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
Explores themes of historical counterfactuals, variability in the timeline, and comedic interpretations of significant moments. Episodes discuss scenarios like preventing John Lennon’s assassination, a world without Nintendo, and humorous reimaginings of dictators like Napoleon faced with absurd challenges.
What would you do if you could change history? Butterfly Stompers is the hysterical alternative history podcast for history buffs, comedy lovers, and curious minds. Strap in for wild “what if’s”, bizarre butterfly effects, and improvised time-travel chaos! Join comedian & history graduate Joe Dehuai as he takes one hilarious historical vandal on a joyride through twisted timelines. Whether we give the spacetime continuum a polite nudge or push old father time off a cliff is up to them- How much difference could stomping on a butterfly make? Don’t waste any more time – listen now!
What if the hand ball rule was slightly changed meaning Tottenham didn’t go 1-0 down in the first 30 seconds of the 2019 Champions League Final? A lot, it turns out!
Join us as we take special guest historical vandal Stuart Laws, gilet-wearing stand up comic with some of the best show titles in the biz and director of some of the biggest names in UK comedy (including James Acaster & Nish Kumar), on a joyride through alternative history!
Stu completes a committed round of crossbar challenge on a magical football pitch and takes us back to 2019 to reverse the short lived handball rule that marred that year’s Champions League final for his team, Tottenham Hotspur. But while the result of the game still hangs in the balance, Stu’s meddling in space-time has wide reaching historical consequences – from saving the queens life , snapping open tory MPs, and bringing the UK to net zero by 2025, we change everything short of tilting the entire world off its axis. We also discuss Stu’s methods for making medieval peasants “sludge out their butts” (much to VAR referee Stuart Atwells chagrin), as well as providing Hitler with a special screening of Jurassic Park to shape his inquisitive mind.
Historical Vandal: @stuartlawscomedy
Stuart Laws Is That Guy Still Going? Standup Special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeOYMIEXu44&ab_channel=800PoundGorillaMedia
Stuart Laws Has to be Joking – Tickets (Cardiff 23rd May): https://www.jokepit.com/comedy-in/cardiff/stuart-laws-has-to-be-joking/24452
Sissoko handball clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJWRyFwaaBI&ab_channel=FootballWatafak
Timestamps
Intros – 2:50
How do you feel about the past? – 6:30
Complex Series of Events – 9:45
Dirty plates Twitter Thread – 19:15
Intro to Topic – 24:30
Baby Hitler – 35:30
Football Handball Rules – 38:30
Effects of Changing History – 43:15
The Queen Survives – 54:00
5 Minutes Rental Left – 1:04:45
Peasants “Sludging Out Their butts” – 1:07:45
Fading from History – 1:16:15
Actions in the Present to Change the Future – 1:18:20
What if History | Counterfactual History | Alternative History Podcast | Tottenham Hotspur FC | Champions League Final 2019 | Liverpool FC | Liz Truss Unobtainium
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