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What is up? Welcome back to SoftCore History. I am your host for the week, Rob Fox, joined as always by Dan Regester.

Thanks for the invite back to your show, Rob. It's always good. Always a pleasure to have you here.

We have a very exciting, if inexplicable show today. For some reason, and I apologize in advance.

We're joined by an expert, which is very odd for this show.

Typically, I like to be the one with the most historical knowledge.

He likes to hold that over me.

Yeah, I like to hold that over everyone, and I'm just getting cucked like crazy today.

We have Alex Petkis. Is that right? That's

right. PhD. PhD from, which you sign all your emails with. I do. Yeah. I would, too. You

don't go doctor? It sounds too much like Dr. Pepper. Okay. Dr. Petkis. Yeah. That makes sense. I still have old students to call me that, but... Dr. Petkis. I never liked it. Yeah. I would feel bad about it. I would feel I had a history teacher in high school who insisted on the doctor. Yeah. Insisted on it. I would, too. I mean, Shaq has a doctor in education. Yeah, it's Dr. Shack. Dr. Diesel, actually. Yeah. Did he, does he have a real one or is it honorary? I think it's real. Okay. An honorary doctorate in education. That would be an achievement. I would feel bad if I actually got the PhD, but if I had an honorary PhD, I would go full doctor. Milk the hell out of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, because at that point, it's just gratuitous in a hilarious way. Well, it's weird because, you know, in grad school, the trend now is like you, the grad students call their professors like Jim or, you know, Sally. You get pretty close with the, with the professor in grad school, right?

Yeah, it's like too close sometimes.

That's what I've heard.

Yeah.

But, and so, you know, when I, when I was becoming a guy on the internet, as I am now, I was, you know, very averse to flashing the whole academic credential thing. But all my friends are like,

dude, you got to milk that. You got to milk that. You absolutely need to milk that, especially because

because you lowered yourself on the internet. Yeah, you, A, you lowered yourself by existing on the

internet. And B, I don't mean this offensively, but you are a very nondescript white guy.

That's right.

So you just showing up on a screen talking, you could just be a guy in a basement.

That's right.

Yeah.

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