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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

62:38

The Murdering Elephant That Made Hollywood Happen

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2021/06/01

Jake, Dan, and Rob breakdown the life and trials of Topsy the elephant. Was she a serial killing beast? Or just a victim of circus circumstance? Find out the grizzly details of her death, and their consequences on this week’s episode.

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89:08

The Most Overrated Civilizations In History With Jack...

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2021/05/24

Rob Fox, Dan Regester, and special guest Jack Mandaville discuss the most overrated civilizations in world history.

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81:07

The Comically Bad Assassination Of Franz Ferdinand

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2021/05/18

Dan, Rob, and Jake break down the comedy of errors that somehow resulted into the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and the butterfly effect that has shaped our modern world as a result.

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70:31

P.T. Barnum’s Circus Of Dead Elephants, Boiling...

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2021/05/11

Jake, Dan, and Rob discuss P.T. Barnum’s rise to fame including leasing old slaves, sewing monkeys to fish, and adopting tiny boys from their parents and putting them in the circus.

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89:24

The Time New York City Tried To Kill All Doctors For...

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2021/05/04

Rob Fox, Dan Regester, and Jake Goldman explore the 1788 Doctors’ Riot in New York City, during which the people of New York formed a mob to attack doctors for allegedly grave robbing their deceased loved ones to use for anatomical dissection and other experiments. Once they got into the labs the mob saw… some messed up stuff.

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64:02

The Luckiest Moron To Ever Live

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2021/04/27

Dan, Rob, and Jake discuss the insanely dumb rags to riches story about a man who couldn't stop failing his way to success in Colonial America -- "Lord" Timothy Dexter.

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96:52

Most Of History’s Leaders Were Wasted

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2021/04/20

Jake, Dan, and Rob explore the different substances that may have altered the course of human history and the leaders who imbibed in them.

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88:36

Ancient Birth Control Was A Little Dicey

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2021/04/13

Rob Fox, Dan Regester, and special guest Veronica Ruckh talk about what it was like to get and be pregnant in ancient times, including the birth control plant that was so popular that the Romans banged it into extinction, other birth control theories ancient doctors had like “Just the tip!”, birthing practices such as tying a woman to a ladder and shaking her so the baby would fall out, and ancient pregnancy tests that sound really not fun for the woman.

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83:17

East India Company: Drugs, Pirates, And Corporate...

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2021/04/06

The East India Company helped shape the modern world in the worst possible ways. Dan, Rob, and Jake break down the true "enemy of the human race" that terrorized the globe for over 200 years on an empire's dime.

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48:35

The Countess Who Bathed In Virgin Blood

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2021/03/30

Rob, Dan, and Jake break down the horrifying story of Elizabeth Bathory, the Hungarian Countess who bathed in blood, beat virgins senseless, and could easily take Rob or Dan home after they had a few drinks.

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61:29

The Worst Year In Human History

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2021/03/23

Rob Fox, Dan Regester, and Jake Goldman break down the worst year in human history, a year so bad it makes 2020 look like the Roaring Twenties. We’re talking 536 A.D., when the whole world literally lost most of its food and sunlight for 18 months and most of the world was at war. Then, a few years later, a 200 year Bubonic Plague pandemic hit (and the wars didn’t stop).

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75:56

The Spy Who Sold Soviets Secrets For Stacks And Snatch

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2021/03/16

The boys go deep into the life of CIA mole Aldrich Ames. This giant piece is solely responsible for the most deaths of American field agents and is the ultimate simp who committed treason to pay off his alimony and mistress's shopping hobby.

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66:34

Night Witches vs.

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2021/03/09

Jake, Dan, and Rob discuss the women of the Soviet 588th night bombing regiment. These ladies dropped bombs from the equivalent of wooden RC planes and took out some along the way, all while suffering minimal casualties. Tune in for babes and bombs, stay for Rob defending Hitler.

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63:01

Punting On Black History Month

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2021/03/02

Rob Fox, Dan Regester, and Jake Goldman discuss the Land of Punt, the ultra wealthy ancient African kingdom that Egyptian Pharaohs traded with for gold, super inadvisable pet baboons, perfume, and dwarves.

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84:55

Behind The Lens With The Tuskegee Airmen, Malcolm X,...

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2021/02/23

Gordon Parks went from playing the piano at a Minnesota brothel to becoming the first black director in Hollywood. Dan, Jake, and Rob go through the insanely jam-packed life of the man behind the creation of Blaxploitation and some of the most iconic photographs of the 20th century.

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89:13

Three Heroes Describe Surviving The Texas Freeze

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2021/02/19

Rob, Dan, and Jake break down what it’s like to live through a historic event — the Texas freeze. We break down what happened to us and the people we know this past week in Austin, how awful Texans are at handling weather, how much we want to punch all of our politicians (left and right) in their stupid faces, and if we think Texas learned ANY lessons.

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80:35

The Black Pirate Who Threw A No-No On LSD

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2021/02/09

Jake, Dan, and Rob break down the antics of 70s Pittsburgh Pirate pitcher, Dock Ellis. Between advocating for numerous causes to throwing a no-hitter whacked out on LSD, Dock lived a wild life and led an even more redeeming story in his later years.

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91:23

Enron Was Ahead Of Its Time

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2021/02/02

Enron went from blue chip stock to pennies on the dollar overnight. From cooking the books to shifting their business model several times the rise and fall of this Houston based energy company was an absolute nightmare for its 29,000 employees in 2001.

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77:43

America Used to Think Catholics Were Wizard...

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2021/01/26

With Joe Biden becoming the second Catholic president ever Rob, Dan, and Jake break down the hilariously absurd bigotry that was freely lobbed at Al Smith and JFK, the first two Catholics who ran for president — basically the KKK and Protestant leaders tried to convince America that Catholics were slaves to a wizard king (the Pope) and would betray America.

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80:35

The CIA Has A Bit Of A Drug Problem

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2021/01/19

From shipping a ton of cocaine to spiking the office coffee with LSD, get your tinfoil hats ready as we discuss the wild and (mostly) true cases of the CIA and their antics involving narcotics.

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