How The Navy Got Its... Reputation

Softcore History

Improv, Comedy, History

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🗓️ 6 April 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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In 1919, rumors were swirling that a naval base in Newport, Rhode Island, was rife with immoral (gay) behavior. In response, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt commissioned a sting operation. Send fresh, young sailors into the base to honeytrap men into having sex with them. What followed was one of the biggest scandals in U.S. Navy history.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. Download thePrizePicks app today and use code SOFTCORE to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup! That’s code SOFTCORE to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup! PrizePicks. It’s good to be right.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.
0:13.8	What is up?
0:14.7	Welcome back to SoftCore History.
0:16.2	I am your host for the week.
0:17.2	Rob Fox joined as always by Dan Regester.
0:20.4	And we have a very special guest with us today. Alex Bush. What's up, guys? How you doing? Boosh is back. Thank you for having me, guys. Always a pleasure. We love you. We just wanted to have you here, baby. Aw. I love you guys, too. It feels so warm and cozy here. Look, I even cleaned up for you., baby. Oh, I love, I love you guys too. It feels so warm and cozy here. Look,
0:39.6	I even cleaned up for you. I know, man. Got a haircut, trim the beard a bit. I did not trim my
0:45.7	beard. It's out of control. I had somebody threw change at me the other day. I got a haircut
0:52.5	actually because somebody did that to me as well.
0:55.6	Yeah.
0:56.4	Just it was a loaf of bread.
0:58.0	That's, you need this.
0:59.2	That's like old school.
1:00.3	That's old school homeless people's stuff right there.
1:03.5	Loves of bread.
1:04.2	Then somebody asked me for crank.
1:07.2	Crank, not, what's the one that, um, your feet off crocodile no it's fucking uh trank
1:15.1	trank yeah trank okay yeah that's no trank is a shit where like you see people just
1:20.7	folded over like they're standing but they're just like they got it's big and philly but it also
1:25.0	it also it also eats your limbs like it's leprosy but it it gets you lie. That's also Crocodile does that. I remember. Turns you about that on Vice like 10 years ago. Hell yeah. Yeah, not good. That would be a funny thing to do to people. Like it would be like a thing on YouTube or like TikTok that would be funny the first time you saw it and then annoying the next thousand times you saw it. I was just like walking up to like dudes with beard sitting on a
1:47.2	bench somewhere. I mean like here, man. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, hey. Just putting quarters
1:52.5	in their coffees. I saw, speaking of challenges in Trank, I saw a guy online and he's
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