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Softcore History
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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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Why Bastille Day Is Stupid
4d ago01:06:38Tap to summarizeMuch like the French Revolution as a whole, the event that kicked it all off, the Storming of the Bastille, was a sh*tshow that was in no way about what everyone involved claimed it was about. And, as was tradition during the French Revolution, it resulted in the pointless deaths of innocent people, even more violence, and a narrative that didn't align at all with what actually happened. Subscribe to the Softcore History Patreon for hundreds of hours of extra history content including episodes like this, listener voicemails, movie watch-alongs, and weekly bonus episodes. Get 10% off ZIppix Toothpicks with code SOFTCORE at https://zippixtoothpicks.com/discount/SOFTCORE Rob Fox https://www.instagram.com/robfoxthree/ https://twitter.com/RobFoxThree https://www.tiktok.com/@robfoxthree Dan Regester https://www.instagram.com/danregester/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transcribe →The Peg Legged Playboy Who Helped Write The Constitution
2w ago01:04:00Tap to summarizeGouverneur Morris was an American statesman, framer of the Constitution, and one of the most under appreciated Founding Fathers of the United States. He also had a peg leg, loved messing around with married women, became the minister of France during the Reign of Terror where he actively rode for Louis XVI, and helped develop New York City as we know it. He was a total wildcard. Subscribe to the Softcore History Patreon for hundreds of hours of extra history content including episodes like this, listener voicemails, movie watch-alongs, and weekly bonus episodes. Get 10% off ZIppix Toothpicks with code SOFTCORE at https://zippixtoothpicks.com/discount/SOFTCORE Rob Fox https://www.instagram.com/robfoxthree/ https://twitter.com/RobFoxThree https://www.tiktok.com/@robfoxthree Dan Regester https://www.instagram.com/danregester/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transcribe →The Massacre At Frank Lloyd Wright's Love Cottage
3w ago01:03:04Tap to summarizeThe most famous architect in American history might have been agenius, but he was also a real piece of sh*t. After his wife refusedto grant him a divorce, Frank Lloyd Wright ran away to Europe withanother married woman. The love affair was one of the biggest socialscandals of the early 20th Century in America. The pair were in love,but the ending was far from happy. In fact, it was insane. Subscribe to the Softcore History Patreon for hundreds of hours of extra history content including episodes like this, listener voicemails, movie watch-alongs, and weekly bonus episodes. Get 10% off ZIppix Toothpicks with code SOFTCORE at https://zippixtoothpicks.com/discount/SOFTCORE Rob Fox https://www.instagram.com/robfoxthree/ https://twitter.com/RobFoxThree https://www.tiktok.com/@robfoxthree Dan Regester https://www.instagram.com/danregester/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transcribe →History's Bad Dads
4w ago01:08:12Tap to summarizeWe cover three of history's worst famous fathers who had very different parenting styles. Subscribe to the Softcore History Patreon for hundreds of hours of extra history content including episodes like this, listener voicemails, movie watch-alongs, and weekly bonus episodes. Get 10% off ZIppix Toothpicks with code SOFTCORE at https://zippixtoothpicks.com/discount/SOFTCORE Rob Fox https://www.instagram.com/robfoxthree/ https://twitter.com/RobFoxThree https://www.tiktok.com/@robfoxthree Dan Regester https://www.instagram.com/danregester/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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The World Cup's Most Violent Match Ever
Jun 1501:06:10Tap to summarizeIn 1962, World Cup host Chile was set to play Italy in their final group stage match. Both sides needed a win to advance to the knockout stage. What ensued, thanks to a pair of Italian newspaper articles calling host nation Chile "backwards," "illiterate," and "full of prostitutes," was less of a soccer match and more of a blood feud. This is the story of "The Battle of Santiago." Subscribe to the Softcore History Patreon for hundreds of hours of extra history content including episodes like this, listener voicemails, movie watch-alongs, and weekly bonus episodes. Get 10% off ZIppix Toothpicks with code SOFTCORE at https://zippixtoothpicks.com/discount/SOFTCORE Rob Fox https://www.instagram.com/robfoxthree/ https://twitter.com/RobFoxThree https://www.tiktok.com/@robfoxthree Dan Regester https://www.instagram.com/danregester/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Major League Wife Swap
Jun 800:53:50Tap to summarizeIn 1973, the strangest trade broke out between two New York Yankees teammates. This is the career defining story of both Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich. Subscribe to the Softcore History Patreon for hundreds of hours of extra history content including episodes like this, listener voicemails, movie watch-alongs, and weekly bonus episodes. Get 10% off ZIppix Toothpicks with code SOFTCORE at https://zippixtoothpicks.com/discount/SOFTCORE Rob Fox https://www.instagram.com/robfoxthree/ https://twitter.com/RobFoxThree https://www.tiktok.com/@robfoxthree Dan Regester https://www.instagram.com/danregester/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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The Man Who Inspired Saving Private Ryan's Gnarliest Moments
Jun 101:17:16Tap to summarizeStaff Sergeant Ray Lambert hit Dog Green Sector of Omaha Beach with the first wave on D-Day. He was a medic. His job was to save, not kill. But that fact did not prevent him from taking an absolute BEATING on the beach that day. Despite multiple horrific wounds throughout the morning, he never stopped treating wounded soldiers. He might have had the most brutal day of anyone on Omaha Beach who didn't die or lose a limb. Still, he never stopped saving lives. Not even when his own side accidentally tried to drown him. Subscribe to the Softcore History Patreon for hundreds of hours of extra history content including episodes like this, listener voicemails, movie watch-alongs, and weekly bonus episodes. Check out Praesidus Watch Co.'s new A-11 LMUV watch series that commemorates D-Day's 82nd anniversary, made from steel from a real Willys MB. That AND the A-11 Utah Beach series, made with real sand from Utah Beach. -- https://praesidus.com/pages/dday-82 Get 10% off ZIppix Toothpicks with code SOFTCORE at https://zippixtoothpicks.com/discount/SOFTCORE Rob Fox https://www.instagram.com/robfoxthree/ https://twitter.com/RobFoxThree https://www.tiktok.com/@robfoxthree Dan Regester https://www.instagram.com/danregester/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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How The Green Mountain Boys Broke Benedict Arnold
May 2501:03:16Tap to summarizeThe capture of Fort Ticonderoga early in the American Revolution was a crucial, if militarily uneventful, victory early in America's fight for independence. The capture cut British Canada off from the 13 colonies and supplied important heavy artillery to force the British out of Boston. And it was all accomplished by glory hounds Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold, a ragtag group of men more interested in capturing the fort's booze than the fort itself, and what sounds like the worst spy plan in U.S. history. Subscribe to the Softcore History Patreon for hundreds of hours of extra history content including episodes like this, listener voicemails, movie watch-alongs, and weekly bonus episodes. Refresh your everyday with luxury you'll actually use. Head to Quince.com/SOFTCORE for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Now available in Canada, too. Rob Fox https://www.instagram.com/robfoxthree/ https://twitter.com/RobFoxThree https://www.tiktok.com/@robfoxthree Dan Regester https://www.instagram.com/danregester/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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The Time We Almost Nuked The Moon
May 1800:48:11Tap to summarizeAfter the launch of Sputnik, the U.S. needed a response to show they had not fallen behind the Soviets during the Cold War. The Air Force put together a top-secret, very real plan under the name Project A119 to detonate a nuclear bomb on the surface of the moon for the rest of the world to see. Carl Sagan was brought in to do calculations on the blast radius and the Space Race almost went atomic. Subscribe to the Softcore History Patreon for hundreds of hours of extra history content including episodes like this, listener voicemails, movie watch-alongs, and weekly bonus episodes. Refresh your everyday with luxury you'll actually use. Head to Quince.com/SOFTCORE for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Now available in Canada, too. Rob Fox https://www.instagram.com/robfoxthree/ https://twitter.com/RobFoxThree https://www.tiktok.com/@robfoxthree Dan Regester https://www.instagram.com/danregester/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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UFO Files: The Hatfields and McGoblins
May 1101:06:22Tap to summarizeThe recent release of the UFO Files left out arguably the most exciting human vs. extraterrestrial encounter in American history: when a group of backwoods Kentucky rednecks spent an August night in 1955 fighting off a dozen goblin-like aliens with a shotgun and a rifle from inside their humble farmhouse. This is the story of The Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter aka the Hopkinsville Goblins. Subscribe to the Softcore History Patreon for hundreds of hours of extra history content including episodes like this, listener voicemails, movie watch-alongs, and weekly bonus episodes. Refresh your everyday with luxury you'll actually use. Head to Quince.com/SOFTCORE for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Now available in Canada, too. Rob Fox https://www.instagram.com/robfoxthree/ https://twitter.com/RobFoxThree https://www.tiktok.com/@robfoxthree Dan Regester https://www.instagram.com/danregester/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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