The Carny Days Of Professional Wrestling

Softcore History

Improv, Comedy, History

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Uncle Lazer joins the show to break down the history of professional wrestling in the United States, from Civil War campsite brawls to the sports entertainment we know and love today.Subscribe to the Softcore History Patreon for hundreds of hours of extra history content including listener history questions, history 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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0:00.0	You are now listening to Softcore History.
0:14.4	Welcome back to SoftCore History. I'm your host for the week, Dan, Regester, joined as always by Ralph Fox.
0:19.1	What up? And we are joined by
0:21.0	the styling,
0:22.7	profiling,
0:24.4	limousine riding,
0:25.7	jet setting,
0:26.9	kiss stealing,
0:28.0	wheeling and dealing,
0:28.8	son of a gun.
0:29.5	I'm having a hard time
0:30.6	keeping these fucking
0:31.4	pterodactals down.
0:32.6	Look at that,
0:33.0	huh?
0:33.5	Uncle Laser.
0:34.5	How we doing,
0:35.0	boys? Uncle Laser How we doing, boys Is that taradactyl leather? Yeah, no, it's extinct in fucking 47.
0:38.6	I, one reason, like a top three reason I have
0:41.5	for cloning extinct animals
0:43.3	is to extract their leather.
0:44.5	Yeah, the boot, they're hides.
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