Did Osama bin Laden Have A Point? (No.)

Softcore History

Improv, Comedy, History

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2023

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Osama bin Laden’s 2002 “Letter to the American People” recently went viral on TikTok because random Gen Z’ers thought the terrorist architect of 9/11 made some… pretty good points? The actual contents of the letter, however, range from insane to literally fake quotes about Jews attributed to Benjamin Franklin. We break down all the historical inaccuracies and crazy claims in the letter.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

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0:00.0	Welcome to Soft Core History.
0:08.0	What is up?
0:09.0	Welcome back to Soft Core History.
0:11.0	I am your host for the week. Rob Fox, I am your host for the week Rob Fox. I am joined as always by Dan
0:16.4	Rochester and Jake Goldman and today might be the episode that finally gets us canceled from Earth.
0:25.0	From Earth?
0:27.0	From Earth?
0:28.0	Murt, murdered.
0:30.0	Oh. You mean like real life canceled?
0:32.0	Yeah. Not internet canceled. Yeah, yeah.
0:34.7	Oh, if you die in the internet, do you die in real life?
0:38.4	Sometimes. I mean, so we're getting Charlie head bowed.
0:41.6	Heb-dow. Yeah, is it that one? I don't know.
0:44.6	Is that like a- Doesn't matter?
0:46.7	Yeah. No. Your favorite thing, Rob? What? The Mandela effect? Yeah, exactly. You're both right.
0:54.0	You're my timeline. It was this one.
0:56.0	Yeah.
0:57.0	Whoa, whoa, you a funny thing.
0:59.0	I just like, we could just make fun of the Mandela effect constantly.
1:02.0	You just like
1:03.3	you're like claiming like yeah dude we had sex like no we didn't like some hot girl like oh you know what
1:08.7	I'll play the universe is but we banged that might actually get you the thing in this universe though. Yeah, so we did and you loved it in that universe.
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