Softcore History

The Kingdom of Himyar in modern-day Yemen may have converted to Judaism for political reasons in 380 A.D. but eventually they went harder than anybody to rep their beliefs. And by that we mean they slaughtered a bunch of Christians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jessie Wiseman joins the boys to talk about the lesser known details about the sinking of the Titanic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Frano Selak is the luckiest unlucky person in history. Learn how he survived 7 brushes with horrible, violent death, and what he’s up to today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Newly released Vatican records detail how Hitler used the Catholic Church's abuse to blackmail Pope Pius XII into not being too mean to the Third Reich. Check out our Patreon for even more episodes -- Patreon.com/softcorehistory Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two high-society Austrian noblewomen clashed over flowers and it ended in a topless sword fight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Douglas Mawson ventured to Antarctica, TWICE, but it almost cost him his life. Find out how he almost died getting his literal rocks off in a frozen wasteland. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 1511 the people of Brussels, while suffering through a brutal winter known as "The Winter of Death", took to the streets and expressed their displeasure with the ruling classes and life in general by... sculpting snowmen and making them do wildly inappropriate things with each other. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We discuss the most important women's movement of the last century: the march to smoke cigarettes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The guys talk about the coed killer’s disdain for his mother, his adventures in cat killing, and his unintentional contribution to the field of criminal profiling. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the late 19th Century, one Chicago family found itself living in a house that turned out to be aggressively haunted. But these weren't normal ghosts. These were cool ghosts who loved to party. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A psycho trust fund kid, an aging but talented performer, and Wyatt Earp. Dodge City, Kansas was not a great place to "love" and "be loved"... or just to live in general. There's a reason the saying goes, "Get the hell outta Dodge." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week we talk about RFK and Sirhan Sirhan, the assassin so nice they named him twice. We dive deep into the Robert Kennedy assassination and some of its mysterious circumstances. We’re just asking questions! If you’re interested in a better way to use nicotine, visit https://www. Lucy.co, and be sure to use that promo code SOFTCORE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adc...

The recently discovered ancient city of Karahan Tepe has changed everything -- seriously, everything — we know about human history, and it’s covered in dongs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A group of liquored up traveling clowns and volunteer firefighters go into a Toronto brothel in 1855. Mayhem ensues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week we cover the USS William D Porter. A Naval destroyer that, for better or worse, was so good at destroying that it almost killed FDR… twice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Massachusetts Puritan colonist Hannah Duston was the first woman to ever have a statue erected in her honor in the United States. But was what she did worthy of a monument? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The American Confederacy in Brazil? This week we talk about the southern rebels who took the L in the Civil War and picked up shop to continue their Dixieland Delight in South America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week Jake tries to dunk on Jesus and fails, Rob thinks Six Flags is the same as Disney, and we all learn about the pagan traditions that live on in modern Easter celebrations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Human beings might be at the top of the planet's food chain but we've taken some L's to animals over the years, none worse than what happened to the Japanese soldiers who, near the end of World War II, retreated into the swamps of Burma's Ramree Island and found ancient, bloodthirsty predators waiting for them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This is the story of the FIRST colonization of the Americas, some 13,000ish years ago. Humans arrived here for what turned out to actually be the second time and, like people are wont to do, they killed the other people living here and, more importantly, the giant nightmare monsters that called the Americas home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The guys talk about the golden age of Hollywood's most unusual deaths, including a sketchy accidental fatality on William Randolph Hearst's yacht, a teenaged starlet's older lover's suspicious death, and a famous actress's suicide that was super obviously NOT a suicide. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week we learn about J.R. Brinkley, a shady doctor with even shadier practices that had an election stolen from him, his radio platform stolen, and probably stole some goat balls himself.https://www.patreon.com/softcorehistory Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Breaking down how the Russian invasion of Ukraine is just the latest in a long history of Russia trying to prove that it's way more powerful and important than it really is, from the nation declaring Moscow the "Third Rome" after the fall of Constantinople to its epic fails in the Crimean War and the Russo-Japanese War. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ching Shih was a prostitute who pulled herself up by the stilettos and became one of the most successful pirates in world history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices