John Paul Jones: Sinking British Ships And Invading Russian Lips

Softcore History

Improv, Comedy, History

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Dan, Rob, and Cooper talk about the complicated Scot who is often regarded as the father of the US Navy -- John Paul Jones. From helping the U.S. win independence to fighting Turks in the Black Sea on behalf of Catherine the Great, JPJ lived an action-packed 45 years mostly on water or inside the warm embrace of a European woman. 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.
0:09.6	I am your host for the week, Dan Regester.
0:12.0	Jay Coleman is out. He abandoned us, actually. He said,
0:15.9	I'm kind of tired of this life. I think chasing this podcast dream is irresponsible and childish and he was like I'm just growing up.
0:27.2	So we suspended him for the week.
0:29.5	Yeah, we were like why don't you just get your head out of your ass come back in a week
0:34.4	see what you think
0:35.6	guess it straight yeah
0:37.5	uh... no apparently he's sick again
0:39.0	he thinks he has kovid probably
0:42.1	he is fully vaxed but he says he might have COVID. I don't know if he
0:45.1	want to get tested today or if he's just chugging like dake will at home.
0:48.5	Has he had it before? I don't think he has. He hasn't actually. Him and his wife didn't never get it. So of course
0:56.1	they're clean. That other voice you hear, the regular voice you hear, Rob Fox. We can just get past that. We don't. Yeah won't yeah to ask about you but yeah we brought coop back I'm back thank you for having me on the show yeah yeah you're all thanks thank Jake Jake yeah thank you Jake. Thank you Jake.
1:14.0	You're kind of like our ball pen, our bowl pen guy.
1:17.0	Call you in.
1:18.0	Pinch hitter.
1:19.0	Anytime you need me, I'm here.
1:22.0	So we figured we'd call you in because we're going, you're our military
1:26.1	expert. And that was actually a little bit of a shock to me when I came in today
1:30.5	because I honestly did spend about an hour reading about the base
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