The Butcher of Plainfield Ed Gein

Softcore History

Improv, Comedy, History

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Ed Gein, also known as the Butcher of Plainfield or Plainfield Ghoul, was an American killer and body snatcher who committed unspeakable crimes in Wisconsin in the 1950s. His nightmare farm was filled to the brim with both metaphoric and literal skeletons thanks to severe mommy issues.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. 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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0:23.6	MOYE
0:25.6	Ha-Hoo
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0:28.6	Ha-ha
0:30.6	Ha-h-h ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome in officially to Halloween horror nights.
0:46.4	I'm your host for the week, Dan Rajester, joined as always by Rob Fox.
0:50.7	What's going on?
0:51.7	And we've got a very special guest.
1:11.5	You know him, you love him. He's been on the show many times before. Matthew Cooper. Cooper. Happy to be here. Thanks for having me, dude. It's been a while since I've been on here. Welcome to my couch. It has, but it's... I love the studio set up. I think the couch is an upgrade straight up.
1:12.0	Same here.
1:12.6	No cap.
1:16.3	Like absolute the best version of the set we've had.
1:17.8	We even upgraded the spider webs.
1:23.0	Oh, I thought it was like a ghost ship and those were fishnets.
1:23.9	Could be that as well. Yeah.
1:24.5	Like it was, it's the Mary Celeste.
1:27.4	The netting on the Mary Celeste.
1:28.1	Which we did on Patreon.com slash softcore history. We've officially started Halloween Horn Nights, but this is the first episode for the year on the YouTube. On the main, yeah. On the main. Yeah. Are these spider webs going to stay year round like the last ones or are these ones coming down after? I don't know. I got to see how I feel about it.
1:44.5	I mean, they look pretty good.
1:45.4	They look good.
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