Softcore History

Softcore History

Author: Softcore History Language: English Episodes: 100
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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.
Episodes
Rome’s “Real Man” Propaganda Sounds Just Like Ours [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:05:46
To fully end the Roman Republic and become Emperor Caesar Augustus, the young, wealthy patrician Octavian needed to get rid of the last man standing in his way: Mark Antony. But how could Octavian turn Rome against the R…
Blow Smoke Up Your Ass [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:05:56
The practice of rectal fumigation was a common medical practice in the 17th and 18th centuries that included tobbaco and smoke enamas to treat bowel obstruction, constipation, and even attempt to resusitate still born ba…
The Father Of History [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:04:57
Herodotus was a Greek historian and geographer often regarded as the "Father of History" who detailed the Greco-Persian War and his explorations throughout the ancient world. Many peers of his time found his works to be…
America's Coolest War Crime [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:14:14
When the United States entered World War 1 no one was quite sure what to expect. What the Germans definitely didn't expect was a bunch of Doughboys armed with Winchester Model 97 pump-action shotguns -- aka Trench Brooms…
The Poison King [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:00:48
Mithridates VI was the King of Pontus from 120 to 63 BC who biohacked his body into immunity from poison, survived being struck by lightning with nothing more than a tiny scar, and became a huge thorn in the side of the…
The Ugly Duckling Had a Trash Personality [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:28:57
Never meet your heroes? How about never try to be friends with your fans. Charles Dickens found this out the hardest way possible when he let his fanboy and fellow famous author Hans Christian Andersen (The Little Mermai…
The Leper King Baldwin [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:33:22
Baldwin IV was King of Jerusalem from 1174 to 1185 and had the crusader state thriving despite constant attacks from outside Muslim forces led by the great Saladin and struggles with his own body turning on him from lepr…
The Vice President Married A Slave? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:12:21
With J.D. Vance winning the Vice Presidency you'll probably hear about his wife Usha Vance being the first non-white Second Lady. This is true, but she is NOT the first non-white woman to be married to a Vice President.…
The Unhinged Life Of Teddy Roosevelt [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:08:08
Teddy Roosevelt was one of the most important U.S. Presidents of the 20th century and a complete lunatic who was always up for an unneccesary challenge. Matt Cooper and Joel Benner join the show to talk about his derange…
The Hungarian Sex Vampire [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:03:18
Béla Kiss is one of the most prolific serial killers you’ve never heard of. He had it all — great looks, his own successful business in tin, a mother that loved him too much — but when he caught his second wife cheating…

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