Softcore History

Latest Episodes:

Never Let The Truth Get In The Way Of A Good Disney Movie Nov 23, 2021

Show notes

Jared Borislow joins Dan Regester and Rob Fox to talk about the true and horrifying story of real Pocahontas compared to her animated Disney counterpart.

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

Field Of Nightmares Nov 16, 2021

Show notes

The most detestable baseball team in history isn’t the Chicago Black Sox or the Houston Astros. It’s the 1911 Wyoming Penitentiary All-Stars, a baseball team made up of rapists and murderers who were told every time they won a game they would get years off their sentences, or get their death penalties commuted, so long as they made the state officials gambling on them money.

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

Drinking And Driving Killed JFK... Kind Of Nov 09, 2021

Show notes

Listen in as we breakdown the tale of drunken secret service agents, their night before the JFK assassination, and how no one thought it was that big of a deal except for one wet blanket.

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

The Bisexual STD-Riddled Rockstar Poet Nov 02, 2021

Show notes

Lord Byron was a rockstar poet considered to be the first modern celebrity. He gallivanted around the Mediterranean sleeping with any person that crossed his path, drank out of monk skulls, and owned his own zoo of animals.

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

Tweens Are Not to Be Trusted Oct 26, 2021

Show notes

The Salem Witch Trials were pretty much entirely fueled by bored tweens pretending to be possessed by innocent old ladies and poor people.

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

Not Another Gruesome German Murder Oct 19, 2021

Show notes

In another grisly tale from Germany, we dive into the Hinterkaifeck murders, the circumstances surrounding the nightmare, and the possible suspects.

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

The Serial Killing Perverted Vampire With Jessie Wiseman Oct 12, 2021

Show notes

Jessie Wiseman joins the boys to talk about serial killer Peter Kürten --better known as the Vampire of Dusseldorf -- who would drink and lubricated himself with the blood of his victims in 1920s Germany.

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

Cranking Ghosts In Gettysburg Oct 05, 2021

Show notes

Ghosts who aren’t invited to parties. Ghosts who like to watch ladies sleep. Impromptu amputation shows in basements. Gettysburg ghosts have it all. We run through the best ghost stories from America’s most famous battlefield.

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

Colonialism Was Tasty Sep 28, 2021

Show notes

From flavoring food to enlarging your balls, the guys dive into the wonderful history of spices.

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

Soviet Karate Sniper Assassin Sep 21, 2021

Show notes

Alexander "Superkiller" Solonik was a cold-blooded hitman who took out some of the biggest mob bosses in the Soviet Union and 1990s Russia. He was a blackbelt super soldier that escaped prison on several occasions, racked up millions of dollars in contracts, and dated Russian super models and bottle service girls.

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