Animal Cruelty Was Beer Pong For 1600s Germany

Softcore History

Improv, Comedy, History

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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For about a hundred or so years between the 17th and 18th centuries, a favorite German party pastime was… throwing animals high into the air and then watching them fall, get crippled, and be clubbed and to death or ripped apart by dogs. The animals included rabbits, badgers, boars, wolves, wildcats, and, of course, foxes, as the game was called “Fox Tossing.” And the German nobility LOVED it.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. Get 25% off your subscription or try the app FREE for seven days at Fitbod.me/SOFTCORE.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.
0:17.3	What is up?
0:19.4	Welcome back to softcore history.
0:23.8	I am your host for the week, Rob Fox, joined, as always, by Dan Regester.
0:42.0	Just a normal November day. It's a beautiful November day. Yeah, I'm wearing my beanie. The weather has finally turned here in Austin, Texas. If you want to know what the weather's like outside, just look at Dan. Because it looks like you just got done working some Irish dock or some Boston or Philadelphia dock.
0:42.5	I always go like a full mariner.
0:44.2	Yeah.
0:44.5	It was a gray rainy day.
0:46.7	And you look like you just got done with work on a gray rainy day.
0:49.9	Living in my lighthouse.
0:51.1	Yeah.
0:51.5	Yeah.
0:51.8	Work in the lighthouse.
0:53.5	But no more spooky season.
0:55.2	Too bad, too, because even though this is not a spooky episode today, this might be more horrifying than anything we talked about during spooky month.
1:04.8	That's history, though.
1:05.9	Yeah.
1:07.2	It's mostly a horror fest.
1:09.1	It truly is. A literal shit show yeah it's insane but you know
1:15.7	we're talking um it's usually blood and shit all the way down oh boy this involves a lot of blood
1:21.5	and probably presumably a lot of shit too if i had to guess people poop themselves before they
1:26.5	die or as they die.
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