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Operation Iraqi Freedom
Iraq War vet Jack Mandaville joins the show to talk about his experience invading Iraq in 2003 with the 1st Marine Division, what he saw, how he was …
1 year, 1 month ago
Fly Me To The North Pole, Balloon Man
In 1897, Swedish engineer and aeronaut Salomon August Andrée led two other men on a hot air balloon expedition to the North Pole that quickly went in…
1 year, 1 month ago
The Anti-Social Drunks Who Changed American History
What's the most important battle in American history? Gettysburg? D-Day? Saratoga? Nah. It's the Battle of St. Louis, a little-known Revolutionary Wa…
1 year, 1 month ago
When The Pope Went Full Goblin Mode
Pope Benedict IX is often regarded as one of the worst men to take the papal throne. He ascended to the chair of Saint Peter at the age of twenty in …
1 year, 1 month ago
Original History Sketches Episode 1 -- FREE PATREON PREVIEW
Enjoy the original Softcore History sketches "Hole Ball" and "The Diary of Helen Slaggerman" and subscribe to our Patreon -- patreon.com/softcorehist…
1 year, 2 months ago
Rome’s “Real Man” Propaganda Sounds Just Like Ours
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 …
1 year, 2 months ago
Blow Smoke Up Your Ass
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 …
1 year, 2 months ago
The Father Of History
Herodotus was a Greek historian and geographer often regarded as the "Father of History" who detailed the Greco-Persian War and his explorations thro…
1 year, 2 months ago
America's Coolest War Crime
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 a…
1 year, 2 months ago
The Poison King
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 not…
1 year, 3 months ago