The First Joke Ever Recorded, Temple Orgies, And Con Men In Ancient Sumer

Softcore History

Improv, Comedy, History

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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We dive into the first known human civilization of Sumer and find common ground with this ancient group of people who really just wanted to get drunk, fire off some jokes, and vent about their problems in a lion infested Middle East. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Real quick before we get into the episode. Thank you so much for listening. You guys are the best.
0:04.4	Just please go to Spotify or iTunes or podcast or wherever and rate us five stars and leave a review that helps us get more
0:13.8	listeners we really appreciate that Jake Denny me thank you guys so much for
0:18.0	listening and get ready for this week's episode. Welcome to Soft Core History.
0:30.0	What is up?
0:31.0	Welcome to another week of Soft Core history. I am one of your hosts, Rob Fox, and I am joined by the wonderful Jake Goldman.
0:40.6	Hey, you softies. That's what we call our podcast listeners now.
0:44.4	You guys are softies.
0:45.8	That's right.
0:46.8	Yeah, I like that too.
0:47.8	Dan came up with it, I think.
0:49.1	And our third host is the always fine Dan Regester.
0:54.0	And when we're in your closet.
0:55.0	We are back in the closet today.
0:58.0	Yeah, my sister gave me shit for the sound quality of the first two episodes.
1:02.0	Sounds like we were recording on a tin can,
1:04.1	which is fair, since we are recording
1:07.1	on one microphone in the middle of the table.
1:09.1	But yeah, I think this sounds better already.
1:11.0	Yeah, all the clothes absorb the echoes. In case you ever
1:14.7	wanted to know in terms of what Dan ranks of importance for a podcast episode
1:20.8	it is quality of the sound and then just drop a thousand feet below that and it's like
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