Ancient Birth Control Was A Little Dicey

Softcore History

Improv, Comedy, History

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2021

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Rob Fox, Dan Regester, and special guest Veronica Ruckh talk about what it was like to get and be pregnant in ancient times, including the birth control plant that was so popular that the Romans banged it into extinction, other birth control theories ancient doctors had like “Just the tip!”, birthing practices such as tying a woman to a ladder and shaking her so the baby would fall out, and ancient pregnancy tests that sound really not fun for the woman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Soft Core History.
0:07.0	What is up?
0:08.0	Welcome to Soft Core History.
0:11.0	I am your host, Rob Fox, so you know we have something
0:15.1	fucking weird and not from the last hundred years this week.
0:18.1	And as always I'm joined by a normal-faced Dan Regester.
0:23.2	Sounds like a subtle dig.
0:25.1	No.
0:26.1	I was just saying your face is normal.
0:27.1	Are you saying I only know about history in the last hundred years?
0:30.4	Oh, no, I'm saying that, yeah, no, I am saying that you and Jake only pick topics from the last like 150 years No, I like my wheelhouse is like 1800s like 16 to 1800s. Yeah, I guess when he it's Jake that's done lots of the like 20th century by he loves conspiracy. Well he tried to do the one he
0:46.6	Pitched it last week. He was like can I do something like 2008? It was just like no
0:51.2	Yeah, no.
0:53.1	We went up to Enron.
0:56.4	Actually, fuck you.
0:57.2	You did an episode on the fucking Texas snowstorm.
0:59.8	Yeah, that's true.
1:01.0	That's called Living inside of history.
1:02.8	We're joined hypocrite.
1:04.1	Yeah, we're joined this week by a special guest.
1:06.6	Jake is out of town celebrating his anniversary
1:10.7	with his wife and dog.
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