America's Shady History With Saudi Arabia

Softcore History

Improv, Comedy, History

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

The minute President Roosevelt stepped foot on the USS Quincy to meet with Ibn Saud on the Bitter Lake, he changed the course of America's future in the Middle East. We dive deeper into the complex and often rocky relationship the United States has had with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Subscribe to the Softcore History Patreon for hundreds of hours of extra history content including episodes like this, listener voicemails, movie watch-alongs, and weekly bonus episodes. Eat smart at FactorMeals.com/softcore50off and use code softcore50off to get 50% off your first box, plus Free Breakfast for one year.Rob Foxhttps://www.instagram.com/robfoxthree/ https://twitter.com/RobFoxThree https://www.tiktok.com/@robfoxthree Dan Regesterhttps://www.instagram.com/danregester/ https://twitter.com/dan_regester Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are now listening to Softcore History.
0:15.2	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Softcore History.
0:18.1	I'm your host for the week, Dan Register, joined as always by Robert Fox.
0:20.9	What is going on? How are you? I'm doing all right. I'm doing pretty good today. I got a doozy for you today.
0:28.9	Good topic. Got into a mood. Jake, our former co-host, Jake Goldman. Yeah. Now an oyster farmer.
0:36.8	Yeah, that's a true thing that happened.
0:38.5	He left us to do manual labor.
0:41.6	Work the oyster fields.
0:42.6	Yeah.
0:43.5	He recommended a documentary for me.
0:46.4	Okay.
0:47.1	And I got high on mushrooms on Friday night.
0:49.9	Mm-hmm.
0:50.5	And I watched it.
0:51.5	Perfect.
0:52.1	And it influenced this episode.
0:53.6	It's, I hope it influenced this episode.
0:56.1	I hope it influenced the writing. That's what I really hope the mushrooms influence. Like my Hannibal episode? It's like a real non-linear. Yeah, when we went to watch Oppenheimer and you took mushrooms and then stayed up all night writing an episode on Hannibal. Until six in the morning. Yeah. Yeah. that was such a good experience, going to the bar and then watching Oppenheimer just zooted out of my mind. It was so fun. I just had beers and then went home and fell asleep. I'm glad you had a good time. I had a great time watching movies. One of my favorites. So the documentary was called Bitter Lake by Adam Curtis.
1:28.6	Have you heard about this?
1:29.3	No, no.
1:31.4	This is going to be completely fresh.
1:33.4	So it's a BBC documentary.
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