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Softcore History

Softcore History

A podcast for the casual fan of history. The Wikipedia reader. The kids who grew up with a dad who watched the same 10 hours of World War II specials on The History Channel. Join Dan Regester, Rob Fox, and a weekly guest as they tastefully insert themselves into the past. The only thing we don’t show is our research.

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All Episodes

78:04

The Pope Blessed Murder In Florence

Softcore History ·

2022/03/01

This week we cover the Pazzi Conspiracy, a plot to assassinate the Medici banking family, and how the Pope kind of OK’d the whole thing.

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77:44

Ancient Egypt Was #AntiWork

Softcore History ·

2022/02/22

Ancient Egypt seems like a long time ago, but this recovered sick leave document from 1250 BC proves that Egyptians were just like us: drunks who hated work and had a rough time when the women in their house were menstruating.

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75:49

The Helen Keller 9/11 Connection With Jessie Wiseman

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2022/02/15

Jessie Wiseman joins the boys as we burn on Helen Keller.Head to PolicyGenius.com to get your free life insurance quotes and see how much you could save.

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68:12

Africa’s Nerd Holocaust

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2022/02/08

We dive into the history of Africa’s most brutal dictator, Macías Nguema. From banning glasses and murdering statisticians to a holiday-themed massacre, this guy does it all.

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71:04

The Media Has Always Sucked With Guest Producer Jack...

Softcore History ·

2022/01/31

Everyone hates the modern media, but when did the modern American media actually form? The invention of cable news? The Yellow Journalism of the late 19th Century? The answer is much older, and it’s all Mexico’s fault. (Sort of. Not really at all, actually.)

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60:58

Snitches Get Meathooks

Softcore History ·

2022/01/25

This week we're talking Lufthansa heist and the dirtbags that inspired the movie "Goodfellas."

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108:22

Did The UNABOMBER Have A Point?

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2022/01/18

No, he did not.Get Honey for FREE at JoinHoney.com/SOFTCORE.Head to policygenius.com to get your free life insurance quotes and see how much you could save.Get $50 off any purchase of $399 or more by using promo code SOFTCORE at Indochino.com.

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76:57

Too German To Live

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2022/01/11

Anti-German sentiment was at an all-time, absolutely bananas high during World War 1. Unfortunately for German immigrant Robert Prager, a local coal mining union used that as an excuse to lynch him just outside St. Louis, Missouri in 1918.

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81:58

Did Socrates Even Lift?

Softcore History ·

2022/01/04

New year, new you. We talk about the history of the most common resolution that generations of people fail each year: physical fitness. From Vikings lifting ship masts to Ancient Greek wrestlers fireman carrying full grown bulls up hills, exercising has always been a never ending journey to personal disappointment.

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88:20

Make Christmas Great Again

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2021/12/21

We go over the best Christmas traditions that have been lost to history including pets gaining the ability to speak human languages at midnight on Christmas Eve, Icelandic trolls who have a thirst for bones, and a Christmas party king called “The Lord of Misrule” who can command all partygoers to get as drunk as he or she desires.

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72:00

Creepy Christmas Tradition Origins

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2021/12/14

From Santa getting his start by paying off prostitutes to Krampus’ weird foot situation and a cat in Iceland that eats kids for being too poor, Christmas traditions have some troubling origins(Carolers most of all).To start comparing quotes and simplify insurance-buying, check out Policygenius: https://policygenius.com/SOFTCORE. Thanks to Policygenius for sponsoring this video!

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83:13

Music: No Poors Allowed

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2021/12/07

The guys cover how audio recordings have changed throughout time, and how the man keeps trying to keep us from stealing tunes.

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87:34

The Gods Must Be Horny

Softcore History ·

2021/11/30

In honor of the Christmas season we break down the most famous virgin births in history from Jesus in the Quran to ancient Egyptian miracle births and multiple babies — including one in the Bible — who popped out of their moms as fully developed men.

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103:25

Never Let The Truth Get In The Way Of A Good Disney...

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2021/11/23

Jared Borislow joins Dan Regester and Rob Fox to talk about the true and horrifying story of real Pocahontas compared to her animated Disney counterpart.

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85:30

Field Of Nightmares

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2021/11/16

The most detestable baseball team in history isn’t the Chicago Black Sox or the Houston Astros. It’s the 1911 Wyoming Penitentiary All-Stars, a baseball team made up of rapists and murderers who were told every time they won a game they would get years off their sentences, or get their death penalties commuted, so long as they made the state officials gambling on them money.

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82:14

Drinking And Driving Killed JFK... Kind Of

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2021/11/09

Listen in as we breakdown the tale of drunken secret service agents, their night before the JFK assassination, and how no one thought it was that big of a deal except for one wet blanket.

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82:14

The Bisexual STD-Riddled Rockstar Poet

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2021/11/02

Lord Byron was a rockstar poet considered to be the first modern celebrity. He gallivanted around the Mediterranean sleeping with any person that crossed his path, drank out of monk skulls, and owned his own zoo of animals.

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83:21

Tweens Are Not to Be Trusted

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2021/10/26

The Salem Witch Trials were pretty much entirely fueled by bored tweens pretending to be possessed by innocent old ladies and poor people.

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92:00

Not Another Gruesome German Murder

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2021/10/19

In another grisly tale from Germany, we dive into the Hinterkaifeck murders, the circumstances surrounding the nightmare, and the possible suspects.

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103:14

The Serial Killing Perverted Vampire With Jessie Wiseman

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2021/10/12

Jessie Wiseman joins the boys to talk about serial killer Peter Kürten --better known as the Vampire of Dusseldorf -- who would drink and lubricated himself with the blood of his victims in 1920s Germany.

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