Softcore History
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.
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October 19, 2026 • 71 mins
Today we talk about a modern cryptid story claiming that a large, dark, winged humanoid creature—similar to West Virginia's Mothman—was spotted by workers and residents near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant shortly before the April 26, 1986 disaster.
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October 12, 2026 • 74 mins
It's Nova Scotia, Canada. 1878. An 18-year-old girl named Esther Cox has a traumatic experience. Soon after, a poltergeist starts tormenting her. Dozens of witnesses watch over the course of months as she's stabbed with pins and knives wielded by no one. Matches are lit and dropped to try to burn down her home. A death threat is etched into her wall by an unseen entity, in front of witnesses. This is The Amherst Mystery.
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October 5, 2026 • 86 mins
The unsolved murders of Andrew Borden and his wife Abby Gray in 1892 have become a bit of American myth and legend. Andrew's daughter Lizzie was the only suspect in the vicious hatchet killings in Fall River, Massachusetts but was acquitted after a botched investigation and trial. We talk about the true story that has been romanticized by the media for over a century.
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September 28, 2026 • 89 mins
Host of "The Roman Pattern" Jeremy Ryan Slate joins the show to talk about the parallels he sees between Rome's fall and America's current place in history.
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September 21, 2026 • 53 mins
After a Duke refuses to clearly name an heir on his deathbed, a family feud breaks out in Brittany in the midst of the 100 year war. It all culminated into a tournament between the rivaling factions where a 30 on 30 battle royal took place for no real reason outside of hate for the other side.
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September 14, 2026 • 80 mins
Kyle Bandujo, host of the "From Phenom to Farm" and "Big Screen Sports" podcasts, joins the show to discuss the illiterate Polish immigrant who President Grover Cleveland paid to take his place in the Civil War after our (then future) Commander in Chief was drafted in 1863. The man's name was George Brinski. He took $150 to join in Cleveland's stead and suffice it to say his time during the war, and his life after, were n...
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September 7, 2026 • 57 mins
Constance Fisher was a 20th century mother and paranoid schizophrenic who drowned her three children on two separate occasions. You didn't read that wrong. She repeated the same murder on another set of three kids -- killing six in total -- after she was released from a mental asylum and her husband gave her a second chance at a family.
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August 31, 2026 • 66 mins
One of the most famous stories of the Old Testament is David's slaying of the Philistine giant Goliath. But, that's not even the most impressive thing David did. After taking down Goliath David, at the behest of King Saul, killed and harvested the foreskin of 200(!!!) Philistine soldiers. Somehow they didn't mention this during Sunday school.
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August 24, 2026 • 64 mins
Jack Mandaville joins the show to talk about a forgotten terrorist attack on American soil that helped push the US into war.
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August 16, 2026 • 60 mins
Forget Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy. Forget Jack the Ripper. One serial killer in 16th-century Germany was so prolific and horrifying that he puts all our modern true crime subject matter to shame. Peter Niers confessed to taking the lives of over 500 victims, both while robbing and looting as a bandit and, apparently, for love of the game as well. Not only was Niers a killer, he was also, according to stories at the time, a practi...
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August 9, 2026 • 78 mins
Herbert Hoover is remembered as a total bozo whose term in office is defined by the Great Depression. But, Herbie lived an insanely eventful and rewarding life before and after his time at the White House that included stops in Australia, China, and England.
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August 3, 2026 • 64 mins
Bob Crane was known best for his titular role on the sitcom Hogan’s Heroes. But behind the scenes the man was a s*x addicted freak who filmed nearly every one of his conquests, carried personal p*rn on him at all times, and had nearly nightly gang bangs. And it may have cost him his life.
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July 27, 2026 • 79 mins
Christian VII of Denmark is a relatively unknown monarch from the 1700s, save for one thing — he loved cranking it. The gooning addiction got so bad his advisors had to hide it from King George III of Great Britain so the monarch would allow his sister to marry the Danish king. Christian was also had a pain fetish, a love for watching executions, and grew up being violently beaten by his tutor and ignored by his dad. Fun time...
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July 19, 2026 • 57 mins
In 379 BC, exiled government officials from Thebes devised a plan to retake the city-state from their Spartan captors. It involved a seven man military crew who disguised themselves as high end prostitutes for a winter banquet to assassinate the Spartan governors and military leaders and rally the citizens to fight back.
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July 13, 2026 • 66 mins
Much like the French Revolution as a whole, the event that kicked it all off, the Storming of the Bastille, was a sh*tshow that was in no way about what everyone involved claimed it was about. And, as was tradition during the French Revolution, it resulted in the pointless deaths of innocent people, even more violence, and a narrative that didn't align at all with what actually happened.
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July 6, 2026 • 64 mins
Gouverneur Morris was an American statesman, framer of the Constitution, and one of the most under appreciated Founding Fathers of the United States. He also had a peg leg, loved messing around with married women, became the minister of France during the Reign of Terror where he actively rode for Louis XVI, and helped develop New York City as we know it. He was a total wildcard.
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June 29, 2026 • 63 mins
The most famous architect in American history might have been agenius, but he was also a real piece of sh*t. After his wife refusedto grant him a divorce, Frank Lloyd Wright ran away to Europe withanother married woman. The love affair was one of the biggest socialscandals of the early 20th Century in America. The pair were in love,but the ending was far from happy. In fact, it was insane.
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June 22, 2026 • 68 mins
We cover three of history's worst famous fathers who had very different parenting styles.
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June 15, 2026 • 66 mins
In 1962, World Cup host Chile was set to play Italy in their final group stage match. Both sides needed a win to advance to the knockout stage. What ensued, thanks to a pair of Italian newspaper articles calling host nation Chile "backwards," "illiterate," and "full of prostitutes," was less of a soccer match and more of a blood feud. This is the story of "The Battle of Santiago."
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June 8, 2026 • 53 mins
In 1973, the strangest trade broke out between two New York Yankees teammates. This is the career defining story of both Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich.
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