Harry Houdini's War With The Afterlife

Softcore History

Improv, Comedy, History

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Harry Houdini was a Hungarian-American escape artist, illusionist, actor, and aviator who beefed with spirit mediums and psychics throughout the early 20th century. He went from poor immigrant slumming it with his family in Wisconsin to an international superstar traveling the globe and mystifiying audiences with his wife Bess all throughout Europe and the States. 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. Head to FACTORMEALS.com/softcore50 and use code softcore50 to get 50% off. That’s code softcore50 at FACTORMEALS.com/softcore50 to get 50% off! 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	Welcome back to Soft Core History. Welcome back to Soft Core History.
0:10.0	I'm your host for the week.
0:11.0	Dan Regester and I am joined as always by Rob Fox and Jake Goldman.
0:13.8	What is up boys?
0:14.8	Oh, you know, just being chilly, you know.
0:17.4	Did you know, yeah, for the listeners, did you know that our studio doesn't have heating?
0:21.8	The studio is currently 46 inside. Is it really that cold in here?
0:25.2	Yeah. I knew, I fucking knew when I was leaving the house. I was like, okay, I was like putting on like my
0:30.3	peatote and stuff and I was like wait whatever I whatever jacket I put on
0:34.3	I'm gonna need to keep on so I swipped out a lot later on yeah swapped out to my thick
0:38.9	ass yeah it's a once in a lifetime storm that happens every year now.
0:43.4	Yeah. Yeah. Well, this year it's because of El Nino.
0:46.0	I thought it was the polar vortex.
0:48.9	Is that what we are?
0:49.7	It's polar vortex?
0:50.9	Yeah, it's 25 degrees.
0:51.9	Again, it's not that bad. It's magic. Yeah, I would play outside in this weather. We're cheap.
0:56.0	I'm from St. Louis. No, shut up. Shut up. No one cares. I know he's from Philly. No one cares. Isn't there signs behind it actually being colder here and in Florida because of the humidity?
1:04.8	Well with the precipitation. When it gets cold here, like Florida cold's a different cold.
1:09.3	Bites. Like a Florida 50 is still somehow worse than a Philly 20.
1:14.2	I would say once it gets below 50 degrees in Florida,
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