Diary Of A 16th Century Executioner

Softcore History

Improv, Comedy, History

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Franz Schmidt was a seasoned civil servant killer who hung, decapitated, drowned, burned alive, and crippled criminals' spirits and bodies on the breaking wheel as the head hangman in Nuremberg for 45 years during the Renaissance. He kept a diary detailing all 361 public executions he performed. Subscribe to the Softcore History Patreon for hundreds of hours of extra history content including listener history questions, history movie watch-alongs, and weekly bonus episodes.1stphorm.com/softcorehistory Free shipping on all orders over $75 when you use the link. Go to ghostbed.com/drinkinbros and use code DRINKINBROS for 30% off EVERYTHING (Mattresses, Adjustable Base, and more) -- plus a 101 Night Sleep Trial and Mattresses Made in America Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to Soft Core History.
0:08.0	Welcome back to Soft Core History. Welcome back to Soft Core History.
0:10.0	I'm your host for the week, Dan Rochester.
0:12.0	And I'm joined as always by Jake Goldman in my jacket.
0:14.8	Yeah, wearing daddy's clothes today.
0:17.5	Hell yeah, bro.
0:18.2	Hell yeah, dude, sharing clothes.
0:20.0	I gotta get to the exact same size as you,
0:21.6	so we can just share a closet. I'm impressed to get to the exact same size as you so you can just share a closet.
0:23.0	I'm impressed you were going gray on gray.
0:27.0	Me? Yeah.
0:28.0	No, I'm just wearing black flannel.
0:30.0	But it's mostly gray.
0:31.0	It's black and gray.
0:32.0	It's black and gray. and the pants are also black.
0:34.4	I'm feeling festive. I used to rock that I used to rock that under like a sweater or
0:38.8	sweatshirt to like missoo that similar flannel to mazoo games.
0:42.1	They didn't wear all black. The other voice you hear of course is rock. that similar flannel to me zoo games. Dan's festive.
0:43.0	The other voice you hear of course is Rob Fox.
0:46.0	The pop of color in your life.
0:48.0	Yeah.
0:49.0	Only clothes-wise, the exact opposite in terms of race.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Softcore History, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Softcore History and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.