Softcore History

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

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

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

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

Jake, Dan, and Rob explore the different substances that may have altered the course of human history and the leaders who imbibed in them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 ancien...

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

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

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). Learn more about your ad c...

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

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

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

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

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podca...

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

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

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

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

Burning government buildings, a president leaving his wife to go down in flames, and a hurricane tornado that saved the day from our country's oldest foe. Dan, Rob, and Jake cover the capture and arson of Washington D.C. in 1814 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rob, Dan, and Jake break down the history of Saint Olga of Kiev, the first queen of Russia and the woman who introduced Christianity to the country — specifically her year long rampage in which she kept (really easily) tricking the people of the country that assassinated her husband into getting brutally murdered. She isn’t the patron saint of revenge but she should be. Learn more about your ad ch...

Much like the Russian man of mystery himself, this episode gets off the rails quick and refuses to die. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We go deep into the short but jam-packed life of American gangster and minor league shortstop John Dillinger. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tis the season to celebrate fighting off mass extermination. Jake leads Dan and Rob through the ancient Jewish holiday of Purim. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Held in mid-December, Saturnalia is an ancient Roman pagan festival honoring the agricultural god Saturn. It's the source of many traditions we now associate with Christmas but with orgies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ragnar Lothbrok. What's true? What's myth? We break down the demigod of Viking past and his invasion of Paris. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices