The American That Made Hating The Pope Cool

Softcore History

Improv, Comedy, History

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Lewis Charles Levin was a 19th century Jewish American politician, newspaper editor, and conspiracy theorist who believed that Irish immigrants were soldiers of the Catholic Church sent by the Pope to cause division in our nation. He became a congressman for the state of Pennsylvania and was a major voice in the nativist movement.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.
0:15.4	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to SoftCore History.
0:18.2	I'm your host for the week, Dam Jester, joined as always by Robert Fox.
0:21.5	What is going on?
0:23.5	What's up, man?
0:24.6	I got a little angry about history today.
0:26.8	What happened?
0:27.7	Well, you're at some church, not a Catholic one.
0:32.6	And the preacher guy at one point, he is just kind of like an aside.
0:39.3	He was just talking about how great God is and everything.
0:41.2	Fine, sure.
0:42.5	And he goes,
0:43.5	he goes,
0:45.2	I mean, think about God.
0:47.6	Think about a slingshot.
0:48.9	In the hands of a child,
0:50.5	it's a toy.
0:51.2	In the hands of God,
0:52.4	it's a powerful weapon.
0:53.9	And I was like, I was just sitting there and I was like,
0:56.7	do you think that David had a Bart Simpson slingshot?
1:05.5	Yes.
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